The morning call., 1892-07-30

ne steals galons-enougn, IN fact to supply
half his custom.
He is the jobber and small retailer who
serves few hundred customers each day
the man who buys his milk from the dairy
man at four bits can and sells il to his
customers for 10 and IS cents a can, and
wakes rich At the business. lie is the man
who steals half his milk and adulterates the
half he buys
1t is not to be understood that a large
and fiourshing milk business stamps the
owner as an honest man. nor that small
trade pTesuppoSes the contrary. But il is a
fact that many of the jobbers in the milk
business are rogues and thieves
Ihls IS strong Language, but the facts
warrant it.
I'VE lose hundreds of gallons of milk
e e.! year ana many dozen bottles. Ivy the
thieYng depredations of these jobbers, q"
said j. W Harvey TO CALL reporter.
Mr.. Harvey Is the &c eral superinten-
dent Of one If the largest dairy firms
and dealers IN bottled milk in this ety.
I'VE have always been cursed by the
tramp. but his thievng is as nothing COM
pared with that of INSCRIPTIONS men right
in our own business.
IAN outsider would hardly believe The ex-
! tent to which !he big firms are robbed every
| day by these thieying jobbers.
Il have known one of these fellows TO
follow our wagon and steal half of all the
| milk served.
1--WE had good evidence against that fell
low and sent his driver 10 the House of
Correction for four months.
"Of course We are on the watch for these
fellows al tbs time, but As a rule a driver
has about enough 10 do to serve his Gus
toners each morning in due season, with
out watching for these thieves.
"A short time ago our firm offered 4 re-
ward Of $50 for the arrest OF every milk
| thief. The result was that tile policemen
laid for tire tramps A ter paving dozen
or more rewards for the convictions o.
these fellows We stopped the - ss-rs-TTT,--
We We we're EoI stte-gasss cramps. We raD
stand az ~t1e-ssGrin they do Sc long as iba
BIZ thieves are at large. We thought t5e
Offering Of the reward would stimulate tie
police 10 lay for some OF the thiev!ne milk
men, but 1t did not. Their depredations
c9ntinGed as before.
'Some Of these jobbers dont buy more
than half the milk they sell. Tie other
half they steal from the doorstep.
Here is trek that was reported by one
Of our drivers: lady on Howard street
told her mllkman, " DO was a small JObbeT,
that she was ing to stop buying milk from
him because 1t was too much trouble aud
too risky to set out pitcher every night
Il ~ going 10 try the bottled milk. she
said
"'Thafs all right. I'll serve you with
| that brand or any other brand you want,
returned the raScallv jObber.
And sure enough each morning this lady
receives quart bottle Of our milk, for while h
we receive no pay al all.
NOW, that's what call an outrage" said
Mr.. Harvey. But it's not an isolated case !:
! every milkmau in the city who uses bottles
| vii tell you the same thing. We've had it
! happen TO us time aud again.
No; we don't sell our bottled milk TO any
other dealer There's only one way a
dealer can get hold of our bottled milk and
that is to steal II.
VERY frequently one Of our drivers re-
ports having seen few dozen of our bottles
! in some jObber's wagon. And though we are
the only firm in this city that uses bottles
! branded with his letters, you can secure
bottled milk OF that brand from half dozen
different jObbers.
THE contents of those bottles may or may
not be the same as those served from our
wagons. Indeed the chances are that the
customersls getting a very inferior grade Of
milk and blaming our firm for it. So, you
see, we're not only robbed but sIandered. {"
John Walker, superintendent for another
dairy, told about the same story and so did