The San Francisco call., 1895-10-12
AFTER DOCKERY'S SCALP,
Milk Dealers Combine to
Oppose His Actions as
Milk Inspector.
ALL SORTS OF CHARGES MADE
Suits Filed Against Him, but He
Calmly Goes Ahead With His
Purifying Work.

Milk Inspector Dockery is stirring up
lots of trouble, and those most interested
are wondering on whose shoulders it will
fall. Since his appointment last week he
has destroyed scores of gallons of so-called
| adulterated milk. Yesterday he had four
teen men arrested for selling the stuff.
He has pocket stuffed fall of warrants.
Among the names on the list are those of
Superintendent Joseph King of the Inter
national Hotel; Joseph Regli and Frank
Muther, proprietors of the Brooklyn Dairy;
Joseph and Frank Furrar, proprietors of
the Eureka Dairy, and William lille, pro-
| prietor of the San Francisco Cream Depot.
The milkmen have formed a combina-
ton ito do up Dockery," as his friends
| say. They are going to attack him from a
legal point first. They have engaged At
torney John Flournoy to attack Dockery's
| appointment to the office of Milk lnspec
tor. Flournoy has just filed his final
charges against Dockery with the Board of
| Health. He sets forth that Dockery,
when appointed, chad no qualifications as
| Milk Inspector other than such as might
have been possessed by any other man
! who had for some years been engaged as
! an insurance solicitor and for some months
as the keeper of restaurant; and that be
has not, since his appointment, by investi-
cation, analysis or study, gained any in
| formation or knowledge sufficient to quail
| ify him to act as an inspector of milk"
The complaint says, further, that Dock
cry 'maliciously destroyed thirty gallons
of pure, fresh, unadulterated milk in an
| Eddy-street restaurant.
''At the time of the confiscation of such
milk, says the complaint, j. z. Dockery
was so much under the influence of his
newly acquired power and other stimu-
lants that he was not able to command
I and intelligently use even the little knowl-
edge concerning milk which he may have
| then possessed"
The milk dealers have asked the Board
of Health for an investigation, for the dis
charge of the Inspector and for the ap-
pointment of some better qualified person.
| Besides this investigation the milk deal
ers are harassing Dockery with a number
| of suits at law. Suit has been brought for
the thirty gallons of milk destroyed on
| Eddy street, and for number OF gallons
of pure, frst-class milk" dumped over
board along the water front.
| Outside of these antagonists Dockery is
going to have fight on his hands when he
tries to collect the salary for the place of
Milk Inspector. sThe Supervisors, when
petitioned by the Board of Health, fatty
| refused to set aside any money for such ap-
pointee. The Board of Health went ahead,
| just the same, and appointed Dockery to
the Office.
DOCkery mas lOIS VI UeGcTnl ludGIOH dIlu
declares he is not going to let a combina-
ton of milk-dealers deter him from doing
his duty. He believes he will get his
salary all right out OF the emergency fund
In addition to the warrants sworn out
against the milkmen already mentioned,
l.. ]. Ewell, who owns big dairy
lust across the line in San Mateo County
was arrested yesterday and charged with
selling aduiterated and impure milk. Mr..
| Ewell gave bonds for his appearance in
court next Monday.
The milkmen gave voice and vote to
their views on the subject of pure and i'm
| pure milk inspection and Inspectors, in a
meeting attended by more than 100 pro-
ducers, yesterday afternoon, at the Milk
mems Union headquarters on Eddy street.
Many of them disagreed with Inspector
Dockery as to the percentage OF cream
| requisite to purity. The Inspector in
| formed the meeting that milk must pro-
duce 1015 per cent cream in order to come
within the demand for purity. But the
milkmen said they prided themselves on
producing a milk that would show IA per
cent cream.
1t was the voice of the meeting that
only pure milk should be sold as pure, that
the skinned variety should be so labeled,
and that half-and-half should be only what
the name implied-one part pure and one
part skimmed-and that there should be
only two parts in the whole.
The meeting expressed unanimous de-
sire, by vote, for the presence of an in
spector in their midst, but they wanted
that official to inspect the milk they sold
to customers and not that which fhey
claimed some of the restaurants used for
the purpose OF weakening bad coffee, being
itself weakened with bad water or other
added mixtures. They expressed in their
speeches the opinion that if proper rules
were enforced to govern the actions of the
inspector, compelling milkmen to sci! only
pure milk SKINNED milk and "half-and-
half" the office of Inspector would be
made useful to patrons and confer bene-
fit upon the milkmen.
The following committee was appointed
TO meet the Board OF Health in consulta-
tion upon the subject: Messrs. Vermeil,
Sheath, Taber, Sartori and Lowe.