Morning journal and courier., 1883-01-31

ample and of the best quality and served ad- nairably, the refreshment- being done in the rear railways, upper and lower-
 The promenade committee were: T. G. Lawrence, New York, chairman; D. H. Will COX, jr., New Haven, floor manager; A. V. Armour, Chicago, ILL; J. M. Dawson, New York city; J. R. Halsey, jr., Brooklyn HE. Hand, Scranton, Pa; A. Lambert, New York city; E. A. Lawrence, Chicago, Ill.,; W. A. Taylor, Brooklyn, N. Y.
 A New Food Preservative. Some Experiments Which Promise to
 Awaken Public Interest Both at Home
 and Abroad.
 Samuel W. Johnson, Esq, professor of ag- ricultursl chemistry at Yale college, will to- day begin series of experiments, the final results of which seem well calculated to en- list more than a passing notice. Scientific researches, as well as the outcome from such labors, rarely attract absorbing attention from the public at large. The work upon which Prof. Johnson has started will, how ever, scarcely fail to receive that degree of popular attention which it's importance would seem to justify.
 Prof. Johnson intends, during the course of the day, to purchase, in the open market, suitable quantities of beef, pork, mutton, veal, oysters, domestic as well as wild fowl, cream, (absolutely pure) milk, and some fish. The quantities so purchased are expected to be about as much as good sized family would ordinarily require. Care will be taken | that the meats cream, etc, shall be of fair quality.
 Prof. Johnson will give his personal atten- \ tion, as before remarked, to this branch of the proposed operations. He will, however, be accompanied by several other gentlemen \ more or less interested in the results of the \ experiments.
 After the meats, fowl, cream, etc., shall have been thus procured, it is the intention of Prof. Johnson to have them carried to his private laboratory, located in his residence, 54 Trumbull street, where they will be treated. This process of treatment has been described as simplicity psrsonifed. It will consist in dipping or depositing the several meats, etc., into liquid composed of water containing 8 soluble antiseptic, which is known as one of the "Humistoa antiseptics''
 Some of the articles of food thus proposed to be treated will, it is expected, be allowed to remain in this solution for few hours i; whilst others. will simply be immersed and then hung up in the professors laboratory. to which there will be no access for the next thirty days, except by Prof. Johnson himself or in his presence. The professor also pro- poses to keep this laboratory and it's contents subject to temperature-as nearly uniform as may be practicable say about 7O0 to 8O0. Tests of this temperature will be taken twice day.
 The outcome of these experiments can scarcely fail to elicit degree of popular in terest, the scope and extent of which would seem to be almost Hmitless, and for the fol lowing reasons.
 MT. J. Willard Rice, of Boston, a brother
 of ex-Gov. Rice, of Massachusetts, and head
 of the well known firm of Rice, KendeH &
 Co.,, paper dealers, is the president of the
 corporation which owns the patent under
 which these antiseptics are manufactured
 MT Rice, for himself and in behalf of many
 others interested in the matter of preserving
 meats, fowl, cream, fish, etc., by the same
 methods as are today being tried by Prof.
 Johnson, was invited to witness any tests
 which his judgment might suggest, looking
 to that end. The challenge was a bold one | and was, as Mir. Rice himself is said to have
 declared, boldly accepted. Prof. R. F.
 Humiston, who is stopping at the Tontine, is the discoverer of the compound which
 bears his name, and he it was who threw
 down the gauntlet to MT. Rice and his ! friends.
 Prof Humiston declared that his antisep-
 tics would, and had heretofore, done all that ! was claimed for them, viz, preserve meats,
 fish, fowl, oysters, milk, cream, etc., and for a period ranging from three weeks to three months.
 Mr. Rice selected Mr. Edward Burnett as
 his custodian of the meats, etc., after they should have been treated by this process , This was sometime about the middle of last , year. MT. Burnett is the proprietor of the
 celebrated "Deerfoot Farm," located near
 Boston. In addition to an irreproachable private character MT. Burnett enjoys the public distinction of being related to our English minister, MT. Lowell, and also oi being the son of the celebrated Dr. Joseph ! Burnett, of Boston.
 He accordingly was induced to witness the | experiments, take personal charge of the several articles treated with this antiseptic, and to report the results to MT. Rice and his ! \ friends.
 Each and every test proved satisfactory, il is said. In fact MT. Rice became so thor , | oughly convinced of the practical character of the results that company has been or , ganized, to which he has lent his name ane influence, as before stated. Mir. Burnett, it ii ! proper to remark, is understood to have nc personal interest in this whole matter, fur ther than to subserve or carry out the wishes of MT. Rice and his friends. It would, how. ever, seem to be but simple act of justice ! to say that MT. Burnett uses. and has used ! ever since the results obtained by these ex periments at his farm, this antiseptic.
 His friends and business acquaintances af. ) firm that he authorizes the public statement that all his sausages and cream are treated \ by this same antiseptic that was used in the experiments for MT. Rice.
 | The customers or patrons of the Deer. foot Farm" are understood to be willing, and ! do pay two prices for all goods purchased
 there. They may also be expected to de
 mand excellence and quality and no taste of any foreign substances, all of which attri
 butes they doubtless find, unless they are misrepresented.
 Other experiments have also been conduct l ! ed, it is understood, with many of the mosi prominent beef and mutton butchers in and ! near Boston, as well as elsewhere. Our purpose, however, is not to shower
 encomiums upon this article, but to invite
 the public attention to the experiments which will today be begun by Professor Johnson
 The results of his tests might be called cumu. | lative in certain sense.
 It also seems proper to add that whilst the
 company owning this antiseptic entertain no
 doubts as to the ultimate results of Professor
 Johnson's experiments, they have taken this
 final step in demonstrating its utility and
 harmlessness in order that all doubt and cavi may be put at rest. Should Professor John
 son come out publicly in card after thirty
 days, stating the accomplishment of all prom
 ised and expected results, such an endorse. ! ment, from such source, and under such
 circumstances, would seem to be the culmi-
 nation of hopes which the proprietors doubt
 less entertain. It would, at least, lend a
 healthy and scientific appearance to the early popularizing of the method, if nothing more. | We shall note the results, as given from
 time to time by Professor Johnson, and be-
 speak for them 8 careful perusal.
 Funeral of Mrs. Nellie F. Cooley. The funeral of Mrs. Nellie F. Cooley. wife
 of Frank H. Cooley, of Hartford, took place
 on Sunday afternoon at the family residence,
 16 Belden street, Hartford, and was numer-
 ously attended by friends of the deceased.
 The floral tributes were rare and beautiful and were mulch admired. The Foot Guard,