New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-03-19


about the same as at other times He also
h.,,ed ,,noack the meat returned from the
Army. None Of It bad except az resu''e'
from accidental injury to the cans
In reply to a question from Major Lee ne saio
&, onnaared 70 him that the meat returned from
tho soutb had not been inspected before oeihg
.u,,,rrod tho boxes did not indicate that any
,nspectlon had taken place after the meat had
hoor sbInnod from the packing house originally
Henry NJ. Campbell, an employe OF the can
,,,c denartment said that out Of about SIX
thousand cases packed daily under his inspec-
., an average Of 6fty TO seventy-fve cans
wore rejected or the two carloads returned
from the Army only seventy to eighty cans were
finally rejected after renspection at the pant
The rest was put back in stock
Gerald Miles who worked in the iabel-roo"
o,o had beIped to unpack the returned Army
boef gave practically the same testimony as
Ritchie. Talbot and Campbell as to IT'S conu'-
tion on receipt from the South. Replying TO a
ouos,ion from Major Lee Miles said that the
labels on the meat furnished to the Government
were dated.
T Bowie of the packing department. sau
,bot ont NJ fifty thousand to sixty thousand cans
~ meat Of all kinds there was a daily average
roiection Of from two hundred TO four hundred
and hftv chiefly because of leaky cans. Inc
retacted meat was renspected. the bad going 10
tho refuse tank and the rest into stock. Inc
canned roast beef delivered TO the Goverh'f'e"''
he said was dated May, 1913.
In replv TO a question by Major Lee, the Wit
ness said that the cases containing the meat re-
turned from, the Army did not bear the name OF
tho purchasing officer. The meat was In fair
condition and he believed il had been improp-
erly rejected. 80 ,
& I. Couts a packlng-room employe test'hed
that an average OF twenty cans out OF three
hundred cases were rejected daily because OF de-
fective cans.
IT T. Antoine foreman of Armour's canning
derartment brought into court the records Oh
cans rejected in May and June lS3N. one Io'
Nav IT, read by Recorder Davis. showed that
OF $500 cans Of meat Of all kinds put up 'ha'
dav 239 were rejected because OF leaky cans VI
tor otber minor causes The witness said that
some precaution was exercised IN nllihs NV
Government orders. The meat for the Govern
mont was shipped as soon as canned lie SAN
that frequently the fine leaks in the cans 90 not
develop for three or four days Meat turhiSheu
10 the Government was pu. up IN --pounu
and G-pound cans, and all were dated he WAS
uncertain as 70 the exact dates on which the
carloads returned from lhe amy '
ceived The court requested him TO pro"u'e
documents covering these dates.
The witness presented checking lists giving
the dates Of receipt at Kansas cry OF reJecteu
roast beef or 1893 cans returned from Mop'e
% were found TO be bad. Thirteen OF THESE
were good except that the cans had pecoHie
denied The other fifteen smelled bad ana were
mustv and there were maggots in several
Those cases from Mobile had not been opened
In the South.
The whole number of cans returned from
Jacksonville was 1921 OF this number go
were bad the cans bursted and the contents
much the same as the lot Of spoiled beef from
Mobile The cans from Jacksonville had been
taken from the cases and carelessiy thrown
back into the car. ,.o.s
dsscribed the difference between boiled ana
canned roast beef. stating that they were pr IN
tically the same. adding that none Oh .Ie
boiled beef had been sold to the Government:
tJe was unable to state by whose order the peer
had been returned from the South
r s Hastings. in charge OF the salt meat
dena rtment told of submitting samples OF bacon
80 tho Government officials an emergency
ration. and that only httle OF IL WAS pun
chased. .,, IT.,
I'm introducing this bacon. was anything sara
a hout the mpracticability or unsatisfactory re-
aults Of furnishing canned roast beef Tor south
ern climates or that the beef was not as salts
factory the bacon? MAJOR Lee asheu'
Nothing whatever.
Have Won anv knowledge Of chemicals hav-
irg been used in the preservation or meats-'he
use Of borax anything similar!
NO, sir =, ,-.-
City. $1,000. -. Tor.
The Commission adjourned to meet at Fort
Ieayenworth in the evening ana started lor
that place at 43O p. m.