The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-06

fensive and would have been cremated
but that it was rescued by the Armours,
who had furnished it. They took it and
overhauled it.
The one instance of sickness believed
to have been caused by the refrigera-
tor beef occurred in a company of the
7th Illinois regiment. Many men had
been made violently sick. 1t was also
noticed that an unusual proportion
of the men thus affected went down
with typhoid fever. 1t was afterward
developed that the cook knew the meat
was tainted before he cooked it. Col
onel Maus was on duty at Havana dur
ing the past winter. He said the meat
supply there had been entirely satisfac-
tory.
DR.. Samuel l.. Currie, lieutenant col
onel of the I'd New Jersey, was in
charge of detail of 109 men to con-
struct range in Jacksonville in June
and July. Often the men We're COM
PEELED to throw away the meat sent
them for dinner. On one occasion there
was especial trouble and the next day
after eating this meat only "a men We're
able to report for duty. He had tested
piece of this meat for salicyclic acid
getting decided reaction. On another
occasion he secured a boracic acid re-
action.
"One popularity of the meat" he
Sdlu, was I1aI kept SO Weli ana
smelled so badly"
When men would throw it up, often
many hours after eating it, it was still
found undecomposed. He had consid-
cred the canned meat unfit for his men
, to eat and had advised them not to
eat il.
DR.. Currie expressed the opinion that
the refrigerator beef had been soaked
in some preservative fluid, containing
coli 1in nai1 hplt 1,n ftary a,-I, ia
his first idea was that the acid had
been injected.
| DR.. Currie said he had discovered
some 10 or II years ago by actual tests
| that Swift & Co. used salicylic acid to
| preserve their meats. Two months ago
| he had made similar test of beef fur
| nished by Armour & Co., at his own
| home in Ellinwood. N. j., and had
| found that II contained salicylic acid.
| Major Lee asked that some of the
men of the rifle range detail. be sum-
| moned before the court. but the court
did not respond to the request.
Major Lee then read the reply of the
court to General Miles request for
summoning of 131 witnesses named by
him. and General Miles reply, asking
that they be placed on record. The
letter to General Miles was written by
Recorder Davis of the court of inquiry.
| 1t was dated yesterday and read as
follows:
Il beg to acknowledge the receipt of
| your favor the Sd instant, inclosing the
final list of witnesses.
II am directed to say that such of
| the persons named as appear from the
statement submitted to be in posses
sion of facts not already covered by
the testimony of witnesses will be sum-
moned to appear with the least posi-
| bic delay"
General Miles reply said in part:
TT is my belief that at least $4,000
| men. and undoubtedly a much greater
| number, will confirm the testimony
that has already been given that por-
ton of the food supplied the army was
unwholesome and unsuitable for use.
l therefore request that the small num-
ber of witnesses Q3D whose names
have just been submitted may be call
ed upon to give their testimony before
| your court"
The general understanding about the
court is that the request will not be
complied with. Henry Rappael, mana
ger 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 100000 pounds OF
canned roast beef. Later in the season
he received more. some coming from
Chicago and some from cities in Eng
land 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 beef sent abroad
had been rejected there, he said:
II know positively that none of it
was rejected. l know this from our
firm in Chicago and from the condition
of the beef"
The meat had been returned to fill
contracts with the government. some
going to the army and some to the ma
wy Altogether about 100000 pounds
had been sold to the army. Mr.. Rap
pael said that the governments pur-
chases were always made on samples
selected generally by himself. These
were inspected, as was also the beet
on delivery. Only three cans of the
entire sale to the army and navy had
been refused, and these had been re-
placed.
| Strike at tho Arsenal.