The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-03-23
kChemist Could Get No Beef tx
tract from -Four Pounds.
MANY CHEMICALS WERE USED
But ArmOur'- Chemist Says None WAS
on the Meat Furnished the Army.
The Present Method Of Can
ming Robs Meat of All Its
Nutriment and Leave il
Unit for Food.

'ttliAhO. MditN ---~l me members Oi
The government court of inquiry finished
their abors iu Chicago to-day and left
Tor New York this evening. The tesu-
mony of Governor Theodore Roosevelt
viii there Dee received. after which the
court viii proceed % Governors Island.
The evidence brought out to-day was
largely cumulative bon its character COM
sistug mainly in criticisms of the canned
beef and refrigerated beef from soldiers
who ate DO and watched its effects ln
cuba and Porto Rico.
David Flcishmanu o. bell boy in the
Hotel Morrison told OF visit to the
stock yards in the company OF 900 un-
known man whose purpose he supposed FOB
bc am experiment iu the matter of pre-
serving beef hy chemical treatment
WHAT THE BELLBOY SAW.
IlDshmaun testified 4s follows.
zone day IN June" hc said "a gentle
man in room l31 asked mo If ] would Doe
az leisure 90 go To- the stock yard, with
him ! went ont there with him and had
10 carry two boxes tim or gaivanz'd
iron boxes lie went ont to soo some
man about some meat. Doe told me. We
took The boxes and went to car whore
there Were three 0r four rows of meat.
I'm each OF the boxes there wcrc foui
it black or rather gray-coiored suh- /
stance He put this into perforated trays
made for that purposr. set fire Zoo if and /
placed 30 under tho meat asked him /
what that was done for. and hc said 10 /
was done as am experiment 20 preserve /
the meat. Next day ] was t0 go back /
and get the cans. I asked him whether I
81 was to Kin germs or anything Ike |
that and be- said. 40. simply 90 pre- /
serve the meat I put my finger ON the /
meat and tasted 80 and it burned the end I
of my tongue. Z called attention TO the /
fact that the meat looked rather larger Z
than when We were there before. He
said that was simply au enlargement of
the meat from the ice. There was "a sui
phurous smell In the car and another
odor which ] cannot describe. I took the
cans back TO- the hotel
"l noticed iu one end of the car there was
q card marked. Tampa. Fla. This was az
Armour's packing house There was one
car There was only about two rows ~
beef. tSnk it was halves. ] asked
him who = was. and if ] am not mis-
taken. he told he was Quartermaster.
or quartermaster-gen or something
Ike that.
BEEF WAS BOILED
Dr. T. T. Murdock who was for two |
years president OF the auEi1ary medical |
stan in the Chicago Health Department
and is an analytical chemist. testified that
De had made several examinations of both
canned and refrigeratcd beef dating back
several years. Some time in the latter
part of June. 1SaS. Doe said. SONS canned
meat was brought to him 10 determine
fits character The witness found that the
meat Boo the can was apparently boiled
beef There was in the can quite guam
t.ty of common salt. and also nitrate of
potash. called saltpctre. These preserva-
tivcs. said the witness. must have been
in the can before the boiling was COM
plete. because it had saturated The fibre
of the meat and hardened it.
The character of the meat. in Dr Muir
docks Judgment was largely poor grade.
or rather "a low grade Two of the cans
contained but 60 very small quantity of
muscular tissue which is The nutritious
portion Of The beef
WAS WORTHLESS
The examination was continued 10y The
boiling of thc meat in rct0rt to see how
much beef extract could Doe taken from
fou- pounds of BE-. the amount produced
was so small thar 10 was not pcrcepUble
j. nts NOT even enough to he used as "a
culture medium i'm experiments ion bac-
teaology.
With reference to the examination of
fresh beef fhc witness said chat at three !
different times there were brought to him
piece. of what seemed 90 Doe ordinary !
meat from the markets. which evidently
had been kept for some time presumably l
81 refrigerator
81 found salt in very small quantity"
said rr Murdock "and some of iba
meat was coated with boraric acid In
other specimens f.und thaf I1av had
been coated with "a DreDarstion of saH
cvIic .l.id for prr.af.,.in. th. r,,o.t 9 ,,,,
der.tood tbIs 10 DO refrir.r.,t,r r.,.f
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