New-York tribune., 1881-03-27
rnREE STATE INQUIRIES.

: ,,rrrprNr VIEWS OF oLEoMARGARINE.
Z 2ssp.-,xr.yIny - or THE INVESTIGATION BY THE
4 4 cs " 80 e.,pyy cosfMTTRE oS PcBIic HEALTH-
arRMAx's poMEsTrc INFERENCE.
e srsa Assembly Committee on Public
80 s.,med ifs Investigation into the traffic In oleo-
.srue and adulterated batter and cheese yesterday
~ anfter ana Cheese Exchange Many OF inc ceaiets
:, .,,ter aud cheese the city were present Carlos a
y = "a recalled and testified In part as follows: II
that oeo,nargarine OIL Is produced with 20
- Z ,en,yerature tat 1t would no. destroy any germs
1te,se which the fat might contain II Is the feeling
s.s "a that lard from dseasei hogs viii communicate
sssa ~ a. sease hive travelled IN the West and learn
farmer there when he sees symptoms OF disease in
os sells it 10 dealer. and the dealer
pds 1t 10 market, so that IL Ia killed before u mas
-. - .e OF the melady. II iarded and oleoDar
1900 ,nter must be sold. 1t should be done under
,sosa would head the act AN act to promote the
ru sale Of adulteraed butter. and might leave out
4 he FIRST 10 lawful"
waiter Carr dealer In butter aHd cheese for twenty
.isbt years. said that the quality Of American but
er had been steadily rising until year or eighteen
,eooths ago. whom the manufacture Of oleomarg1rtne
si.ed fuspoions Of American butter in the foreign
markets Not personin 100 wao ate oleomargarine
spswit 10 be such IL sold at wholesale at l8 to 20
,rts and retailers obliged to sellit at large ad
40 "a not excite the suspicious of buyers He
snougat legislation most emphatcay needed 20 regu
ate the III oeoaargsrne 80 that consumers would
know when they bought it
John A. Smith, butter dealer OF No. 297 Washington
4, testified: III sell oleomargarine SUCH and thiak
II fresher than butter that has been stored for q
ttme have asked many grocers who buy OF me
how they sell is and they say as butter have asked
many customers and friends who all they never buy
IT know wingly.'
Thomas FL Newman, Of MacKensie, Newman Co., Of
No 90 warrenst said that the sale of oeomarga:ins as
butter deprecisted the price Of tue genuine article 33s
per He Thought inat 10 color oleomargarIne dier
e.tIy from butter would remedy the matter.
The next witness called excited much merriment He
Truton o. generous proportions with Senevolent @
sehei Of No 759 Etghth.ave., and said;
Apout week aso MY laughter come to see me- She
pought some pp,er 10 de Powery petween P.oome and
ny Ss ssse it. As and she Isy so0t and
dase IT, aud 1t dasted me splendidy. But my wife, she
{ asS sp m sDs ds pa You mass be-
tagep, said cut daste it again, and uGhi We could
Where have you kept it siueei"
"OuIside on der widow sill"
Did you buy any OF this butterP
eyes; iirst my laughter pought some' snd den my
Dete vas dicket on de pntter shust say Fresh h
ssy az 1a H sos,er nd he AnS
ber's' He he sel ffe hundert pUunts OF it Ven
se % send nd me npe Ana out dot @aa
who eel the putter. snd all ap0ut ~:
most VI those present called oleomargarine, although
some ssid 1t was s'larded" butter.
q w. Hoyt, dea0r IN oleomargarine oil In Broad-st,
said be alwsys article under the lawful brand
He thought lard butter more dangerous counterfeit
than oeomargarine.
r. B. Thnr6er testified that the firm of II. K. & F. b.
Tiurber Co. the exclusive agent OF the CONNER
cial Manufacturing Company. probably the largest
makers OF oeomargarine IN the country. The firm sold
ali the colnpany's product including oil, stearne and
taIow. The 0leomargarine largely bought by Rro
GERS and for export and also shipped 10 manufacturing
towns all over the country. The packages marked
with stencil and ismpbiack he admitted that CON
surners probably bought the article butter. they
could not distinguish IL.
James WILSON vice-presdeut and managing director OF
the Commercial Manufacturing Company. which has It's
factory 1.-THE largest the ctyl at Forty
eehthst and the North River, then the mode of
manufacturing oeomargatne Alter several other wit
neeses had been examined Messrs. FenDer Hayes aud
Roberts were appointed subcommittee 70 connue the
investigation next Monday