The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-03-05

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Lee a sTss. eoti sos. % say;@ sAsa Ma.
s.nlaaaas IS 30 the refrigerator s@es. III
7ass Wrefg soul1 Ike 10 ae corrected
~wl,at are. 81: rspsa .fe wines
..ass pcarasls OF refrsSerater BEEF AZ Sa-
.anaaa wlsne'l1 any complaint The ccn-
S' It's. w s made az JaeksonsiIle~
t%ss1f- Gel Curtis tsaS.a Of Boston wh,
vas attached 10 Gen FSsxassxh Lees %saf
as inspector general % the Severxa army
IT'S SSd n opening that he had a.ruaav
Mission, and had made two very car~fs.a
reports on Ire subject, one by order II
Inspector Genera Breckinrsagss odsh os
@1sca are en- file in the war ssspsart sr,sfst
Ixs SS2ora.ssss 20 tae coxzr1 .ha; taassc re-
ports, being accurately compiled. freus Of
ltcai ssat4a, woa4G be better evidence than
ne could give Oh hand
We MI. OF osursss. caI for yos,r efs.etL
report - the war department. said Co.
i1Asss- Eat. he added. very positively,
yo4F tss-i.naosay before fhs MAR comms~
u.s.
Witness said his experience al Jackson
Sltie mad osea very satisfactory. HE asaa
personally Inspected many cars. fnEl4ng
very few SIDES ~ beef to tne Whole II
~as-a ana exception cons9 he TAXA. OF
TIE CANNED roast ees>s he had uaotsscisslls
iraEshlpped 10 New Orleans i Dssars i
WIS delivered To the army IN jacksonville
lie explained that a large sIiipnen. OF
canned roast beef had arrived al ;y,s..,st,y,-
Vile IN very offensive condition lie
naa picked out offensive snel.lng cases
amounting 10 A 60 pounds and called in
me JacksoAviltc heath Officer. who CON-
dsmnsd i ass public FsaI-sance. thus eiv-
Ing am the right 20 destroy 1t at once IN
lie pubic eseusarory. Armour's agea.
VINO was on the grOaaG asked leave 70
wofa from his arm that * would De very
glad 10 take back the whole shipment and
furnish good beef In It's place. Tais Mas
aone- The beef had been sent 10 Nes CIR
.s~Ils hy Mai. West, the eommSsary. but
there MAS 10 stamp ossleE AJAX .Al..s -. lie
package 10 tel. rs what army ufrscey ire
peeE had basn inspected and accepted. 4.
Was stamped by the bureau OF a.il.nal IT,
dasfry.
Witness had subsequently made inspec-
lions of Texas beef killed in Cuba in the
past few months. reports on which are on
flie IN the war department He had made
chemical analysis and hacteriolog ca. eN-
afniEations OF the canned roast beef made,
IA 1uDss. and had made pcrsyna4 coinD.Ar-
isonS between refrigerator beef native
luHan cattle and Texas cattle Killed In
Cuba, which had and had not been n cold
storage. Ills experiment had been ex-
haustiSe and conducted as fairly as pos
sihie with reference 20 practical eondi-
items. Ills own opinion as that the best
meat our troops could get IN the West
Indies was American cattle killed and
refrigerated in Cuba. as near AS possible
TO the spot where IL was TO be used
sergeant sullivan. OF the Ninth Massa-
chusetts, had been through the Santiago
campaign. and came To the stand full OF
memories Of the canned and refrigerated
beef. The former, he sad, the men barely
tasted The latter he started in To de-
scribe as a strange ard grnesome article,
unlike anything he had ever seen lie said
II had ''deathiy smell" Here he coli
lided with the recorder. who Insisted 81,
having strict definition OF '.deathly
SMELL Witness got as far as saying that
the 'deathiy smell was different from
the smell Of a decomposed body. baF here
the recorder demanded statement Of the
mechanism of decomposition and ii list O.
the gases which would be evolved The
witness therelpon went TO pieces and re-
uuced the whole statement to saying that
the beef was very bad and on tbs he
refused To be shaken.
Tho list of witnesses having been ex-
hausted, the court adjourned until Ii
o'clock Monday.