Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-07-09
TO HAVE A "HeAL1HeRIEs.s
A Company Formed in New York to Look
After the Food offered for Sale.

A Company Formed in New York to Look
After the Food offered for Sale.
New York is TO have "healtheries." 1t
& to be modelled after the London health
cries, and is to exercise just about the same
general influence, its -oiectors say. over
the public health. Naen Il is in good
working order it will keep New York in
formed concerning what it ought to eat, II
1t has any partiality for pure food. 1t is
already incorporated, aRd Offices have been
selected near the Fifth Avenue hotel.
The scheme 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 so 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, 6. F.
Bussing is treasurer and business man
ager, and Edward Ralph is the secretary.
The prospectus of the company promises
lot of good things, Mr.. De Frece paTticu-
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. 1t in
tends, its circulars say, to illustrate and
explain. both by practical exposition and
publication, all manner of food and drink,
as well as generally investigating all such
appliances and methods as 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 in this particular he may
desire"
1t 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 net
profit of $4,000, and this company believes
that it can do quite as well as this, if not
better, with it's annual exhibitions. Thus
the expenses of the venture will be paid,
the surplus being devoted to the erection
of 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 will be a board of chemists, com
posed of three of the most widely known
chemists of this city. All analyses will be
made by them, and the reports of the COM
pany will be signed by them. In this way
the corporation will act as sort of sup
Elemental board of health, the chief ad-
vantage of it being that it will devote all
of its time and energy in single direction
In addition to all of these good things
this company will publish either 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 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 benefcent institution, mas
much as it is an assurance to the public
that its health is being looked after, so far
as food is concerned, but it will act also rs
a dispenser Of charity.-New York Herald.