New Law For Butchers

There is little in the outward appearance of a New York butcher shop nowadays to indícate the nature of the business carried on within, says the World. This is in consequence of the rigid enforcement by the pólice of a law passed during the late session of the Legislature, prohibiting, under a severe penalty of from $100 to $500, the exposure in front or within a store of fish, game and poultry. Strictly construed, this would require all meats and provisions to be kept in the ice boxes and only brought out as called for. The pólice are under instructions, however, to permit a reasonaule exposure of goods within the store, but the lavish decoration of the exterior with quarters of beef, carcasses f sheep, lambs, calves and pigs and long lines of jhickens and turkeys, so large a feature af Second, Third, Seveath, Eighth, Ninth and Tenth avenue markets, is a thing of the past. A thousand dollar's worth of stock on the outside was not an uncommon thjng. Many butchers kept the show unimpaired until the meat and poultry were nearly in the condition that called for condemnation and confiscation. The health authorities were behind the passage of the new law. lts er.forcenient meets with no oppositlon from the better class of butchers, who only insist upon its being impartially observed. With housewives It is an espeeially popular measure.