, 1876-06-04
LUNCHERS, BEWARE.
Cases Of Poisoning from Eating
Pressed Corned Beef.
A Certain Smith Seems to Be the Put
ter-Up Of the Obnoxious Article.

"a tEltAlu Gul1Lll locilS ~ Ot kU6 ( Af
ter-Up Of the Obnoxious Article.
Devastation Wrought In Board
ing-House and Laundry.
Corned beef Is considered good article u
daily diet Served up with cabbage, or cold,
for lunch, or in the historic hash, It's claims to
respect cannot be ignored. Lately this sub
stantial article Of food has been boiled anG
pressed BY packers, and in this manner being
ready prepared for immediate table use, It ha.
become very popular whcn cold meats arc need
ed, especially In summer. The manner OF put
ting up this article has varied with the packers.
Some of tlc+.4 wrapped the packages for awhileiz
simple tin-soll, which poisoned the meat, and
produced sal effects upon the consumers.
When this was discovered cloth VAS used for
first wrapper and tin-foi rolled over that.
Recently, however, in the East large nun.
Der of people have been suddenly rendered sert
ously Ill from eating this pressed co1ucd beef
aud in New York and Boston
LARGE LOTS or IT WE'RE SEIZED
because It Tas considered unwholesome: Cu'
scrupulous dealers in meat have found In ths
popularity Of the pressed corncd beef agrandup
| poTtunty to rid themselves OF tainted stuff, anc
| have thus aided materially In furnishing bust
ness for entcrprising physicians. Lately til:
pressed meat has produced an unhealthy COIN
| motion in this city. It yesterday came to the
| ears Of TRIBUNE reporter that several families
| on the West Side had been made very Ill from
eating pressed corned beef. he started cut ir
quest Of information on tue subject, and CLEANED
| Friday morning the family OF Arr: c. R. Hast
ings, residing at No. 69o West Madison strcct
purchased 8 small piece Of pressed eor1:rj
beef from the st9re Of Msssrs. Bushan,
i'u': Of It for her her husband's lanch. 1t noon tbs
family, consisting Of Mrs Hastings, Mrs: Burns,
Of Laeon, q lady on : yisit to Mrs. Hastings
two gentlemen named French and Lewis, sal
down to lunch They all partook Of tho corncd
beef, as did the hired girl.
In about two hours
MRS. BURNS AND MRS HASTINGS WERE TAXA
SUDDENLY ILL,
with something very much resembling cholera
morbus, the vomiting being very violent The
two young ladies and the hired girl were also
tensI tered the ie"'i household! sch ar: French, whe
is drug clerk had eaten but
little Of the meat, and he too WIS taken with
vomiting, but managed to keep on his feet.
Mr.: Hastings was telcgraphed to by bis family,
| and DR.. Damon was sent for, and he, at once
| said the sickness had been caused by cutting the
| pressed corned beef The cause he assigned for
the illness WIS because tho meat was pressed
aud covered while stcanling hct, which pro
duced gus that spoiled the meat and made 1t
unfit for food. Tic store OF
| AEssRs. BUCHANAN BROS.
WAS visited They had sold the meat inuoccnt1y,
| and, consequently no blame could possibly be
| attached to them, and they felt very blue over
the poisoned mcat had becu cut and eaten v:s
examined By The TRIBUNE cage. It looked
healthy and natural. The smell Was fresh, but
looking clossls in the eentrc, tue reporter
hiatt her II pfY d
grcenish black, much the color OF ycrdigris
produced by boiling tn u copper kettle. The
Messrs. Buchanan stated that they LaA puI.
chased the meat from local drummer nalnt1
m mbcr Of ths Smith family, whosc Christian
name as place At tS e: 1os I VEST dsdises s.1set @
He is careful not to pat his name on his cosned-
tricks would get him into trouble in that way.
Il Is said Of Smith {but no crclcncc can be ut
tachcd to the story that he has recently
/ BOUGHT DISEASED CATTLE
them and cornel the beef, and placed it in
pressed packages. Certain it Is that Smith has
caused much sickness, md his packing deserves
to be condemned: The people Ut ehouse OF air
bals azansis She are was as vey e9o III @ But her
symptoms arc not OF dangerous character.
Mrs Hastings was quit. weak, but able to be
about, as were the Young ladies md the ser
want.
There were other parties who pa1took Of this
corned beef, including the family Of
Mr.. sH1PxAy,
who live on Warren avenue. They we're MI
nude sick, but none OF them scrioualy-
printer named Duncan was made very Ill BY par.
. taking Of this food, but recovered the same day:
The symptoms Of all were alike, being veg
violent attack OF vomiting and purging.
At Vincent's st. Elmo Laundry, No. 1ot
South Dcsplatnes street, are employed three
t mi nr,sh
,rha 'ros;5o - NJ f7 Twentr-fonrtE strcef
Thursday last they went to j groeery-store
near By and purchased some OF this pressed
sornea1egi, also 39iaea tom me4e PIE r,a "as
ia5spa h5nl. s,r.,5u ..11..i-a5 b"~s1 e~@.'
AAe 4Te rRFe,y ow r.
=. o, c,ro1, asnaa;a1i,. w. a+a varv boar+;1,
a. ~ HVon ro,eonnms stnT H,if an ton1 later ~
h-oa o' 1ris a.a-e sa-jaus1v ri an, aoor a,ter
ward T sarah was considered to be in a dangerous
condition. Dr.. William ". Bradley, Of No. 1ss
~ H., ,.-ror,raS IT, 1,1nnss nrod,rca ~