, 1879-02-23
Or Shall We Drive Slow Death
from Our Breakfast.
Tables?
Shall tho Cupidity Of Unstrupulous blen Continue
FrishtFully to lengthea Our Bills Of
Mortality, or Shall We Heed
the Kords Of Hen Of
Stientef -''
The Suns Life and Health
Investigation Still Further
Pursued.

o.a1ca Is enormous. MANY mul1ons OF dollar:
are invested in 1t. Mr. Hoagland, President o1
! the ROYAL Baking-Powder COMPANY of this citv
! SAYS:
itI
| 49,. eauno' ~ 1n1o ueta'!s' ou1 we sell many
millions OF pounds Of baking powder every year.
We arc by large odds the most extensive man.
ufacturcrs in the business. hut outsI1e ~ mr.
| ,non,,fao+,r,, t,a-o 49, Das - W. w.
1'A"oin.to'S lusfe ate A''ao"s more sou. Hc
| senu millions OF cans year to every part OF the
] civilized world. We shipped large consig
ment to Yokohama last week.
Renorter-1o1p +nonr o+hox h.,.;.
oornna,,;os .ra +,aas =, 49,. o"A11 po"uel %
eonpa"1ea a'e tnete III ln's CITY anu IN the
United statess
Mr.. Hoagland laughed long and loudly.
there arc several thousand in Mi. WIN eveTv
town and village in the United States has its
own manufartory OF bnkinr.nowder Sometimes M
several in the same town. in addition tn 1hc
oaking-poyders ordered from ns auG the othcr
bakuS-nowtier comnanies ri, this citv me -
the ost proc sources Of f js th;s G
Village Manufacture of baxinr-no,ydcr for many
OF these bnkinp-nowder cou3nsnies are rnscr,;.
pulons manufacturers Of alum bakinr-powders.
which are sold in bulk-that is, not canned. and
to buy baking-powdcr in bulk. For nv nart.
am in favor Of establishing chemical anaiyss
bureaus and boards of health in every State in
tie Union, whose business it shall be to exam
iue, test, and analyze, free Of cost to the
purchaser. every article Of food thut is made.
That is the onlr way to nut stop to the evil.
As It fs now. aIy grocer can sell n hakne.nowf3er
or anv other article ia bulk without any name
or label attached, and call it under the name OF
anv reputable brand. and thereby make a LARGER
profit than on the standard goods. Dr.. Mott.
the Government chemist. in lis review Of the
subject in the Scientific american, advises the
public to avoid purchasing bakinr-po,glers as
sold loose or in bulk, as he found by ANALYSIS OF
many SAMPLES that the worst af}u1tcratfons nre
practiced in this form. The label and trade
mark of q well-knowu and responsible mauufac-
turer, he adds, is the best protection the nubljc
can have.
ss / will give you an Instance of this kind of
deceptfop. Not Ionp aro We sent one Of o1r
po:7ders in bulk we're being sold uuder the nnme
Of ROYAL. In Chicago our agent employed
detective, and went into every grocery. street
by street, and asked each one whether be sold
swered 'tYes, ;" and when he asked whether they
would sell him the same powder in bulk, each
grocer as promptly rcsponded t.Yes u to that.
too Our agens bought in bulk in this way
what they sold to him and others as Royal
Bakne-Powder as many as 500 pounds from
different groccrs. And OF the 1000 and up-
ward grocers in Chicago over half we're selling
4 baking-powder as ROYAL, while they all knew,
just as well as We do ourselves, that we never
sell the Royal Baking Powder in auy form ex-
C2DE III Cans containing from one TO i've DIQOQ3
each, and each eau bearing our label md trade
mark. What is true Of Chicago is true also OF
every other place visited bV our agent.n
Reportcr-This would appear to be an imposi-
tfou on the innocent purchasers as we'll as an
injury to yourselves. Have You any redress?
hir Hoasland- have already given in
structtous to Our agents in Chicago to collect
evidence Of such deception, aud, ut the proper
time, will take the necessary legal measures to
protect both ourselves aud the people.
-.
work like q charm among the negroes aud the
sspoor whites,'' who are forced to economize to
q degree that makes the two or three pennies
less in the price Of pound q matter OF financial
importance. When our agents warned some Of
the rrocers in Louisiana and Mississippi Of the
natur. of the alum baking g-powders, they did
not hesitate to say "What do We care? The :.
negroes do not know any better, and re must
mako our money" This shows the necessity
for chemical analysis bureaus and honest boards
Of health: But, since they are not yet estab-
lisned, it is the duty Of the press to aid pur-
chasers in exercising intelligent discrimination
in buying, and at the same time to urge the es-
tablishment br legislation OF competent boards
Of health and bureaus OF chemical analysis.
Reportcr-How long have baking powders
Mr.. Hoag!and-About fifteen years. We we're
the pioneers in the business believe. Thirty
fiye years ago, perhaps, it was discovered that
pearl ash, or. saeratus, and, afterwards bicar-
u.
dough or batter Of buckwheat ur other flour in !
conjunction with sour milk But as this means |
Of making biscuit or cakes was subject to manv
accidents on account OF the uncertain and irTcg-
ular degree Of acidity OF the milk used, it was |
suggested that if cream Of tartar or tartaric |
acid could be combined in powder in precisely |
the proper quantities to form the requisite chem
ical combination ron ntalnlng neither too much
acid nor TOO much soda, it would make an inyal-
uabc cooking compound. After much expert
mcuting the present form Of cream OF tartar
and bicarbonate of soda powder was found to be
lust the thing ucrded. The use Of such baking
powders, though com paratiyely unknown fifteen
years AFRO: has become OF universal use in Amer
cau families 1t forms the principal or staple
[rayen of American breads, Just as malt yeast
1oes OF Europcan
Renorter-Iiaye YOU ever used alum in your
boI;inr -nowders iu the nlacc of cream of tartar}
Wr. Eoapland-Ncycr. We have from the /
irst discovery that alum was used opposed it on |
he. rrnund of certain knowlctlre on our nart
hat Il was Injurious.
Renorter-fIow was the discovery first made |
INIT alum conld he used instead OF cream Of
a~tnr in ma2-nr hotinr. .nowtter9
hIr Honolani- ln NOT know. but we. the
2nyaj EaEiny-powder COMPANY. made tie dis
.nEerv tllnt il was used for that purpose about
".n ,oars noo. W. made the discovery thronvf,
~ analys;s of certain chean baEnv-now1crs on
he market by our own chemist When the
Initell States Government advertised, two