Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-05-20
POISONOUS CANDY.
Rock-andRye Drops Filled With TuseI OIL
Sold to Children.

Rock-and-Rye Drops Filled with Tusel OIL
sold to Children.
Ten drops Of this candy will intoxi-
cate a child. There is enough fusel
oil in that tin box full of candy to poi
son three men. and Yet that stuff was
sold to children attending the Thir-
teenth street grammar school for
months as pure .rock-and-rye' drops.
had the manufacturers arrested and
heavily fined for making sixty pounds
of this candy"
The speaker was Cyrus Edison, Chief
Sanitary Inspector. who sat st his desk
in the office of the Board of Health
the other day. He was surrounded by
bottles and cans containing various
samples Of adulterated food. The tin
box contained ten pounds of rock-and-
rye candy drops, adulteratcd with fusei
oil. deadly poison.
.'Dr. Elbridge +. Gerry. president OF
the Society for the Prevention of CRU
city to Children. made complaint to me
about this candy" continued DIR. Ed
son. He opened the box, and strong
smell OF fusel oil was emitted. Ii was
sickening. mo decent man will
make even pure rock-and-rye candies.
They only give children a appetite for
liquor. and the artificial flavors are ac-
tually poisonous. Fusel oil is that
property contained in bad whisky
which makes it bad. IL has little COM
mercial value. Confectioners often
buy rock and rye flavor. believing they
are getting oil Of coriander. They ge;
instead mixture Of fusel and corian-
der oils. have seized two more cases
OF the poisoned candy. and have ar
rested the other two manufacturers.
One of the men displayed this placard
in his store: Ny Goods Are Free
from Fusei Oil
DO | think there is much impure
candy made now? No. You can not
buy bad candy in New York Will
except cocoanut cOnfcctions-I won I
answer for people who eat cocoanut
candy. There l. no more unwbole-
some candy made. The manufacturers
buy partly decomppsed nuts, cut out
the rotten portions and grind up the
rest. II i impossible for one part If
cocoanut TO be bad and the rest good.
The nut is an air-;igh; globe. and the
meat Is porous. Ii spot becomes
putrid inside. the milk must be con-
tamina;ed. and If so the whole. But
after the nut has been ground up and
doctored with chocolate and other fa-
vors, chemical analysis will not detect
the impure cocoannt. The cocoannt
patties or cakes sold at Italian street
stands are absolutely poisonous.
Three years ago the Board a
Health seized go. 60 worth Of impure
confectionery. That frightened the
confecriOners. and We have kept watch
Of them ever since. People would
hardly believe that the yellow used
few years ago for coloring candies sss
ehroms;e Of lead; tia; the red Yas a
preparation Of nercurioIs Termilion;
that the green was arsenical green.
and all the coiors mineral poisons
The ornaments made for Christmas
trees-dogs. fruits. birds. wreaihs. let
ters Of the alphabet. etc.-wer. half
sugar and half mineral poison And
still the cOnfectiOners complained
loudly because We seized them. They
said they were not made 20 b. eaten
only for ornaments Yet via, child
doesn't eat thsfn2
Here il case containing twelve
different eoiored samples 4 candy ab-
so!utely pure Every tn. j. made
with vegetable color. perfectly harm
less The ease came from Germany
three years ago and now ali the candy
makers IN the city use these vegetable
dyes They cost httie more. be: are
pure. Vegetable co3Orz fade in the
sun, while mineral coiors remain fast
Confecfioasr- cianza that tier are los
ing al their wholesale trade. Fbsla-
deiphiz. Bsltinsre and Buffalo candy
makers are getting he Western bos:-
ness. beczrse the health authorities in
their cities are 10; - srrSc: - se are
here. French ciDe enters extensively
Isto Americas esniie.-resl veIiox
animal cement; Il Il clean. II made
properly. bat who wants 10 e., CINE,
lee-crcan and charlotte ra<s<- are
stulterred with il. ard u,edieine cap
sslss ard pill coztinzs are also made
Of French glus- Co-n<rcias Eeia-sse.
or grape sugar. Is pzr- Il the acid usei
IN cxfrzc;isg Is from the oOrs 10 thor
oczhiy vxs5ed or II can DC eAsliy
adrlsera;et. bat the principal harm
fun ite Use q II the eoioriaz matter
sdded IN makisg ices and Ike 6<6cs-
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