The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-08-28
Drainage Canal Laborers in Chica-
go Given 1t in Place of Beef
FROM DISEASED ANIMALS.
Foreign Consuls Enter Objections
With Health Officials.
CAUSE AN EPIDEMIC.
Another Evidence of Progressive
Civilization.
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(OulCdRO IlmoS-Heralu.)
Horse meat has been and is being
sold on the drainage channel to labor
ers. This meat has come from dis
eased and broken down animals unfit
for further labor, and purchasable by
the men engaged in the nefarious
traffic at from $3.50 to 81 per horse.
This scandalous sale Of foul meat to
unwitting men employed on the chan
mel has been done without the knowl-
edge Of the sanitary inspector of the
channel, DR.. Martin, who said the
sale of horse meat on the channel had
never come to his knowledge.
So serious has the situation become,
both as to the use OF this meat on the
channel and the expectation OF large
quantities of it as canned goods to
foreign countries, that complaint was
made by foreign consuls yesterday to
DR.. f. w. Reilly. Of the city health
department. The promise was given
them that so far as lay i'm its power
the health department. would seek to
destroy the traffic. The city health
department cannot interfere with the
use of the meat on the drainage chan
mel, but the state board of health can,
unless DR.. Martin takes the matter in
hand. Should he fail to do this before
the state board of health acts the
drainage board can call on DR.. Martin
to them why this meat is to be per-
mitted to be used on the channel.
Charles Henrotin, consul for Bel
gium, and DR.. f. Bopp, vice consul for
Germany, were the two foreign repre-
sentatives who, called on DR.. Reilly
yesterday. They laid before him the
facts which they had collected in re-
gard to the canning of horse meat at
Summit; also on the Archer roads, ust
outside of the city limits, and also at
Milwaukee avenue and Division
street, for expectation to the nations
of Europe. Gabrielle Veillehomme,
consul for France. has also been in
correspondence with DR.. Reilly in re-
gard to the shipment of this-v stuff
to his country. He has called on the
authorities to act, with the intima-
tiOn that if they did not his govern
menu would take steps which. mi ght
seriously affect the legitimate ship
ments of dressed and canned meat
from this country.
ITS USE LONG SUSPECTED.
Use of horseflesh on the channels
even by the contractors, who have had
the feeding of the 5000 laborers en-
ployed there, has long been suspected.
Early this spring direct charges we're
made that in the boarding camps Of
Christie & Low. Smith & Eastman
and the commissary maintained in
fourteen Of the camps by Henry
Stubbs, the contractor, horseflesh was
being served in lieu of beef.
A careful and secret investigation
was instituted at this this time by
the authorities, with the view of
proving these charges. Not the
slightest evidence was found that
either of the contractors or Stubbs
had ever handled a. pound of horse
flesh. On the contrary Stubbs was
able to show bills from the great
packing houses Of Chicago for all of
the meat used in his commissaries
and the two contractors implicated
demonstrated that they used nothing
| but beef. Even if they had purchased
horsefiesh no charge could have been