The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23
ORDERED PURE CHEESE,
Dairy Inspector Vanderbilt Exon
crates the Importing
Firm.
Kennard & Co. of Chicago Sold the
Impure Brand for Good
Cheese.

As was stated in former issue of THE
CALL, the name of the firm that has been
shipping filled cheese to this City, and the
name of the persons to whom it was con-
signed, have been withheld from the pub
lie up to date on account of the fact that
Inspector William Vanderbilt wished to
give the local dealers reasonable time in
which to prove their innocence of criminal
intent before giving the full facts for pub
lication. The time expired yesterday, and
true to promise, when seen at the offices of
the State Dairy Bureau, the inspector
made the following statements as regards
the affair:
II have made full investigation of this
tilled-cheese business, and find the facts in
the case to be as follows:
"Messrs. De Bernardo & Co.. well-known
commission merchants on Front street of
this City, wrote to A. A. Kennard & Co.,
commission merchants of Chicago, for quo
tations of full cream cheese, fresh, and for
old cheese of cheaper grade. Kennard &
Co. quoted prices, and De Bernardo & Co.
ordered full cream cheese ana some old
cheese of cheaper grade.
"The cheese was shipped about March
5, accompanied by letter from the firm
stating that they were full cream cheeses,
which contained postscript to the effect
that if they could use any filled cheese
they had some that was nice and fresh
and could quote it at prices that would
leave handsome profit. They added,
however. that they would not ship any
filled cheese without informing the per-
sons to whom it was consigned that it was
filled cheese.
THE shipment arrived, and Messrs. De
Bernardo & Co. sold it off at once to the
retail dealers. April 1 the Dairymen's
Union purchased two of these cheeses for
the State Dairy Bureau. One of them had
no brand, the other was branded New York
State Full Cream Cheese, Stone Greek Fac
tory No. A. g.
1.-THE bureau made microscopic exam
ination of the cheese which tended to
make them think it was impure, and they
Immediately notified the dealers, who
promised that they would sell no more of
it until chemical analysis should con-
cusively demonstrate whether or not the
cheese was filed.
81 then took the samples over to the
State University and had an analysis
made by Professor Hilgard. On April IA
the result of the analysis was sent to the
bureau. 1t showed that both of the cheeses
were filled, but that one of them was more
impure than the other.
"The analysis was at once taken q to
Messrs. De Bernardo & Co., who wired the
Chicago firm that the cheese was filled and
could not be disposed of here. The answer
received was a denial that the cheese was
filled. De Bernardo & Co. said that they
would return the cheese to-Kennard &
Co., and l know that this was done to-day.
"Messrs. De Bernardo & Co. have shown
me the correspondence on the subject from
the first, and, to be just to them, 1 must
say that at no time have they shown a
disposition to violate the law. After
full and impartial investigation, the bu-
reau is of the opinion that they were i'm
posed upon when the cheese was shipped
to them by Kennard & Co., the Chicago
firm"