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MEssRs. ED1roRs: / hope the gentlemen
who, as butchers, supply our Centre market,
will receive, in the right spirit, small sug-
gestion which presume to offer them. Dur
ing short business walk, the other day, re-
sorted, for momenlary shelter from the op-
pressive heat of the sun, and to try to catch
mouthful OF cool air, to the shade Of the mar
ket-house, the doors and gates Of which per-
ceived stood open, for the purpose Of ventiat-
ing, cleansing, &C. 1t not being market day,
and the place therefore entirely vacant, the real
condition of the interior, and especially Of that
portion Of it where have regularly seen the
choicest meats exposed for sale, could not but
attract my notice; and as compared its re-
markably uninviting appearance with that Of
similar departments of most OF our northern
markets, really wondered at its inferiority,
and puzzled myself to imagine what kind of
policy, or what extreme or mistaken economy,
could possibly have produced it. Less money,
perhaps, than has been expended on the gaudy
and generally well executed, though think
unmeaning, picturesque signs which seem in
tended to adorn the roof Of the butchers place
of business, would procure stalls Of marble, or
other suitable stone, on which, especially in
these sultry mornings, their meats would APP
pear to much better advantage, and far more
ftfully, than on thin cloth, white and clean
though it be-, which serves only to conceal
(and hardly that) the actual filthiness of the
blocks Of wood, almost spongy with absorbed
putrid grease, beneath it.


Let some of the otherwise enterprising
butchers who attend this market take the hint,
thus respectfully given, and be shortly seen
substituting clean, cool, polished marble, for
their present unsightly stalls of wood, offen-
sive to both the sight and the smell, and if
their increased prosperity, surely consequent
upon the change, shall not convince them that
the outlay was true policy, can only say that
my observation, not very limited, in other cities,
has led me into great error. There is now,
too, would remind them, bill before our
city councils, providing for the introduction of
water into the market-house, with which to
cleanse and purify it generally; which bill
will, doubtless, become law.


Let the two very needful improvements,
then, go together; let both city and individu.