The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-04-06

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! carefully protected in the warehouses
| One consignment of canned beef was very
offensive and would have been crematec
but that it was rescued by the Armours
| who had furnished it. They took it and
| overhauled it. The one instance Of sick
| ness believed to have been caused by the
| refrigerator beef occurred in company
| of the Seventh Illinois regiment Many
men had been made violently sick, the
| gastro-intestinal organs being especially
affected It was also noticed that an IN
usual proportion of the men thus affected
went down with typhoid fever. 1t was
afterwards developed that the cook knew
| the meat was tainted before he cooked
| it. Colonel Maus was on duty at Havana
during the past winter. He said the meat
supply there had been entirely satisfac-
! tor.
| DR.. Samuel A. Currie, lieutenant colone
of the Second New Jersey, was in charge
of a detail of 100 men to construct rife
| range at Jacksonville in June and July.
! Often the men were compelled to throw
| away the meat sent them for dinner On
one occasion there was especial trouble
and the next day after eating this meat
twenty-four men were unable to report
for duty. He had tested a piece of this
| meat for salicylic acid, getting decided
reaction. On another occasion he secured
a boracic acid reaction.
zone popularity of the meat he said,
was that it kept so well and smelt so
badly
When men would throw it up, often
many hours after eating, it was still found
undecomposed. He had considered the
canned meat unfit for his men to eat and
had advised them not to eat it. DR..
Currie expressed the opinion that the re-
frigerator beef had been soaked in some
preservative fluid, containing salicylic acid,
but he afterwards said his first idea had
been that the acid had been injected. DR..
Currie said he had discovered some ten
or twelve years ago, by actual tests that
Swift & Co. had used saicylc acid to
preserve their meats. Two months ago
he had made a similar test of beef fur
nished by Armour e Co, at his own home
in Englewood n. J., and had found that
it contained salicylic acid.
Major Lee asked that some of the men
of the rifle range detail be summoned be-
spond to the requtst. Major Lee then read
the reply Of the court to General Miles
request for the summoning of 131 wit
nesses named by him, and General Miles
reply asking that they be placed in the
record. The letter to General Miles was
written by Recorder Davis of the court
of inquiry. It was dated yesterday and
read as follows:
ST beg to acknowledge the receipt Of
your favor of the Sd inst. enclosing the
final list Of witnesses. I am directed to
say that such of the persons named as
appear, from the statement submitted, to
be in possession of facts not already COW
cred by the testimony of witnesses, will
be summoned to appear with the least
possible delay"
General Miles reply said in part:
at is my belief that at least $500 men,
and undoubtedly a much greater number,
would confirm the testimony that has
already been given, that a portion of the
food supplied the army was unwholesome
and unsuitable for use. I therefore re-
quest that the small number Of witnesses
Q3D whose names have just been submit
ted, may be called upon to give their tes-
timony before your court"
The general understanding about the
court is that the Request will not be COM
piled with.
Henry Raphael, manager for Armour &
Co., in New York. who had been called
at the instance of General Miles to testify
said that last May he had in stock 10000
pounds of canned roast beef. Later in the
season he received more some coming
from Chicago and some from cities in
England. The beef from abroad had been
there from one to two years. This he
had turned over to Colonel Woodruff on
the dock. Asked if any of the meat sent
abroad had been rejected there, he said:
81 know positively that none of it was
rejected. I know this from our firm in
Chicago and from the condition of the
beef"
The meat had been returned to fill con-
tracts with the government, some going
TO the army and some TO the navy. Alto
gether about 10000 pounds had been sold
to the army. Nj Raphael said the gov
ernment's purchases were always made
on samples, selected generally by himself.
These were inspected. as also was the
beef on delivery. Only three cans of the
entire sale TO the army and navy had been
refused, and these had been replaced.
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