Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-03-08

the Indians, and against the alum baking
powders The chemist analyzed forty
kinds of baking powders.
The jury were out about half an hour.
They then came in with verdict awarding
Dr. Mott IS, coo, to which the Court made an
additional allowance of $780,
As the public have large interest in the
wholesomeIess of whatever it is called upon
to use as food, the following extracts are in
prominent men as to the injurious effects OF
alum powders:
DIR. Mott: Question-Were you employed
by the United States Government?
Answer was, sir; was employed as
chemist, to analyze all the articles of food
TO express an opinion as to the analysis of
their nealthfulness and purity.
Q.-Please tell the jury the baking powders
you examined while in the employ of the
Government?
would be difficult to remember them
all could refer to my books; examined
twenty-eight powders; was given sixteen at
first.
By the Court-Give your best recollection
Q.-And one of the powders included was
'Dooley's Baking Powder"
A.-Yes, sir.
Q.-And the "Charm? ?"
A-Yes, sir the "Charm" and "Pa.
tapsco."
Q.-The baking powder made by C. E.
Andrews, of Milwaukee-did you analyze
that?
Al did.
found alum?
Al found alum ia Dooley's "Patapsco,n .
Amazon" Lake Side" "Twin Sisters, .
"Superlative," "King,'' "White Lily"
Monarch, IS One Spoon, "Regal. I'm.
perial,' Honest" Economical, Ex-
cellent,' "Chartres," Grants" "Giant"
and the "Queen."
Q.-Now, these powders mentioned in
your communication in the Scientific Amer
icaa-" Dooley's," Standard" ''Patapsco,"
6 Charm"-baking powder manufactured by
G. E., Andrews, of Milwaukee, you stated
you found burnt alum; if you please name
the respective powders that you have ex-
amined-gas it potash or ammonia alum you
found?
Am the "Patapsco, "Charpl," and
in the ..Ardrews" it was ammonia alum.
Q.-What is the gas usually furnished by
baking powders?
A-1he object of baking powders is to
furnish carbonic-acid gas.
Owl you state TO me again what other
gas beside carbonic acid gas is proper to be
evolved by baking powder?
A limited amount of ammonia gas.
Q-I notice in your article that ycu say
starch is proper ingredient to put in q
baking powder?
A.-Starch is a proper Ingredient to pre-
vent decomposition Of baking powders.
Q-Recurling to the question that has
been asked you upon this suit-the result of
these examin atioBs which you have made
&huf oif4rD in farte
compounds, in baking powders such as you
have examined, is isinjurious?
At is my opinion, based upon actual
experiment. upon living animals.
Charles Z. Chandler, called on behalf OF
the plaintiff, being duly sworn, testified as
follows:
Or. Chandler, you reside in the city of
New York?
Al do.
Q-Your business is that of chemist /?
At is.
Q.-You are and have been Professor of
Chemistry in several colleges?
Al have.
Q-Plesse state how long that employ
ment of yourself has been, and with what
colleges you are now connected.
Al am at present Professor of Chemistry
in the Academic Department of Columbia
College; the School of Mines, Columbia
College; the New York College of Physicians
and Surgeons, and the New York College of
Pharmacy.
Q-You are Pre- ident also, of the Board
of Health, are you not?
Al am
On your various employments have you
had frequent occasion TO examine the ques-
ton of the wholesomeness of food and the
beneficial or injurious effects of its ingre-
dents?
Al have.
Q.-I will ask you in regard to the use OF
alum with soda, in baking powder, whether
or not it is neutralized-is there any injurious
constituent of alum left?
A.-There is an injurious constituent left
after the mixture of alum and bicarbonate of
soda.
Q-Withou5 using any nicety of chemical
terms, what is your opinion about the use OF
ammonia alum in baking powder, in COM
bination with bicarbonate of soda and other
ingredients for raising bread, whether in
juri0us or not?
Al think it is DANGEROUS to the diges-
tive organs, and liable to produce serious dis
turbance of the liver of the individual making
use of such powders.
Henry Morton, President of Stevens Insti-
tute, called in behalf of the plaintiff, being
duly sworn, testified as follows:
Q-You are President of Stevens Insti-
tute?
Al am.
chemist.
Al have.
Q.-Have you had occasion to examine the
substances which are used in the composition
of baking powders
Al have.
Odd yeu, some time ago, examine a
sample of Dooley's Baking Powder?
Al did.
Q.-Is that it, sir? Handing CAM
A.-Yes, sir; that is it.
Dwell, what kind of alum did it con-
tain?
At contained potash alum.
Odd you make any extract of that alum
to snow the kind?
Al did. l extracted large quantity OF
it as potash alum, and it is in this bottle
which I have now here Showing bottle); that
is potash alum which came out of the alum
baking powder that was in that can.
Plaintiff s counsel offers said can of Doo
ley's Baking Powder in evidence.
Q-Now, sir, have you made any expert
ment in the bread made from baking powder,
to see whether there was any soluble alumina
in the bread itself?
Al have. took portion of this pow.
der and mixed it with Hour IN the directed
proportions. and baked small loaf with it.
Then | soaked this loaf-the interior part of
it-in cold water and made an extract, in
which I readily detected, by the usual tests,
alurn-that is, alumina in soluble condition.
Q.-Does any baking powder in which any
slumina salts enter, contain alumina, in your
opinion, which can be absorbed in the process
Of digestion Are not such Objectionable
A-They are decidedly Objectionable, il
my opinion.
Q.-Why do you say-from what system oi
reason do you make it tout-that because alum
is injurious alumina is Injurious
AL-Because the injurious effects of alum
ina, when it gets into the stomach and react:
on the organs, are the same. This hydratt
of alumina meets in the stomach the gastric
juices and reacts with them the same IS alum
would. 1t forms. In fact, kind of alum II
the stomach with those acids, and whatever
alum would do it would do.
DR.. Samuel w. johnson, Professor o.
Chemistry il the Scientific School, Yale Col.
lege, heirg duly sworr, testified as follows:
Qs-You have had much to do in the exam
nation Of substances that enter the food anc
the adulteration Of food?
A.-More or less yes, sir.
Q-After the uss of alum with soda, IL
baking powder, in your opinion il thers
any injurious substances left?
Am my opinion there is an injurious
substance left.
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