Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1891-06-05
Te HAve 4 -HEALrHERIEs.9
A Company Formed in New York to Loo
After the Food offered for Sale.

A Company Formed in New York to Lock
After the Food offered for Sale.
New York is to have a 'healtheFies." II
is to be modelled after the London health
cries, and is to exercise just about the same
general influence its projectors say, over
the public health. When it is in good
working order it will keep New York in
formed concerning what it ought to eat, 4
It has any partiality for pure food. It il
already incorporated, and offices have beeE
selected near the Fifth Avenue hotel.
The schene is an outcome OF the food ex
hibition at the LenOx Lyceum. In fact
the company is headed by the same gentle
men who made that enterprise 50 glorious
a success as the greatest free luncheon the
world has ever seen. That energetic fair
promoter and manager, A. B. De Frece, Is
the president and general manager, g. +.
Busting is treasurer and business man
ager, and Edward Ralph is the secretary
The prospectus of the company promises a
lot Of good things. Mr.. De Frece partieu-
larly being emphatic in his declarations Of
the immense benefits the public is to de-
rive from it.
The American Healtheries company in
tend as the chief end Of its existence to es-
tablish and maintain just such exhibitions
on this side of the ocean as have proved
such great successes in England. It in
tends, its circulars say, to illustrate and
explain, both by practical exposition and
publication, all manner Of food and drink,
as we'll as generally investigating all such
appliances and methods rs may be in the
line OF health and comfort. By exact
chemical and microscopical analysis the
company will ascertain and make public
the true condition of the food and drink
offered TO the public, and will inform the
individual consumer upon application Of
any information ia this particular he may
desire"
It Is expected by the incOrpOratOrs Of the
company that they will not have to charge
for the information they have occasion to
give out. The food exhibition gave a net
profit Of so, 900, and this company believes
that it can do quite as well as this, il not
better, with its annual exhibitions. Thus
the expenses Of the venture will be paid,
the surplus being devoted to the erection
of a building that may be used as the per
mAnent home of the company.
Besides the board of management, whose
members have been already mentioned,
there viii be a board of chemists, com
posed Of three of the most widely known
chemists Of this city. All analyses will b
made by them, and the reports Of the com
pany will be signed by them. In this way
the corporation will act as a sort Of sup
Elemental board of health, the chief adj
vantage Of it being that it will devote-all
Of its time and energy in a single direction.
In addition to all of these good things
this company will publish either a weekly
or monthly periodical, in which will be
given announcements of the new food in
the market, with carefully prepared analY-
ses OF their composition, and warnings or
advice to the public. The income of the
"Healtheries." after its expenses have been
paid, its building fund given a certain per
centage and so on, will be distributed to
some worthy charity.
Thus, say the gentlemen at the head Of
the enterprise, the ''Healtheries" will be in
every sense a beneficent institution, mas
much as it is an assurance to the public
that its health is being looked after, 50 far
as food is concerned, but it will act also as
a dispenser of charity.-New York Heziid.