Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-03-03


story OF the voyage OF the Yale TO Porto
Rico agreed substantially with that of
Lieutenant Taylor-the tomatoes being
bad, the canned meat worse. and bacon
being Issued, without any facilities to
cook II. So far as he knew the ten Off
GERS complained 10 their colonel, but no.
thing came OF IL. On shore the men COM
plained OF The canned roast meat, but
they were I'm the habit Of kicking, and
witness paid little attention 10 it TILL
going Into the interior with six men on
detached duty. the party took two-thirds
or their meat ration In canned roast
beef, and had 10 throw IL all away
Quartermaster-Serge NJ. w. Lith-
bridge, of the Second New York. whose
service had all been In the United States.
said his experience with the refrigerated
beef had been quite satisfactory.
OF tho canned beef he had handled
about LOO pounds. Only about 400 pounds
Of this was ever used. 4 large quantity
was condemned by a board Of survey.
and Of large number Of apparently per-
feet cans he had personally opened about
one I'm FIVE was absolutely putrid. while
none Of II was wholesome and tit TO use.
CONTRADICTION OF WALTERS.
Lieutenant John s. SeWell. Of the regl-
lar army. who served as major of the
First Volunteer Engineers. and who was
aboard the transport that carried Cla-
renee walters to Porto Rico. testified that
there was 10 canned roast beef aboard
the transport to his knowledge There
was canned corn beef I'm cans such as
were described by Walters as containing
canned roast beef. He recollectcd Wal
ters, but the latter never had complained
10 him of the ration or Of his treatment
while in the service. on the contrary
Walters said he had been very well
treated.
Private Stubblebine. OF the Seventy-frst
New York. said he had been made sick
three times by eating canned roast beef.
and thereafter avoided il as much as he
could. He was shown some Of the fresh
ly-opcned cans OF beef on the table. and
said the meat was I'm a general way like
what he had seen i'm Cuba but was some
what better or the refrigerated beef
nearly all that he saw was tainted.
ONCE WAS ENOUGH.
Guy 2. Vistnski. OF the First Volunteer
Engineers. had been three months I'm
Porto Rico. and had only eaten canned
roast beef once II made him sick. There
WAS one brand Of canned c0rned beef that
also made the men IN. but another brand
they could eat. They only got a little of
this sort
r. G. Miller. of Rochester. a machlnist
by trade, and a private OF the Eighth
Ohio Regiment, had had large experience
with canned roast beef while camped I'm
Cuba HIS testimony was clearer and
more assured than that Of most OF the
enlisted men. About one-third OF the
canned roast beef was M for use. and
the rest was condemned. One-half the
refrigerated beef had to be- buried. and
Of the rest very little could be said 10 be
good. The men were hungry and ate il.
WITNESS TO "'HEAUCALIZING."
DR. Maxwell Christine, Of Pennsylvania.
the witness who was supposed to have
seen the chemical preparation OF meat
IN the packing-house Of Swift & Co. i'm
Omaha. testified that while i'm Omaha last
year he had been through the slaughter
house Of the Swift firm. and had seen
man with "a canula on the end Of "a fexi-
be tube. showing Il into sections Of meat
and injecting them with fluid. lie did not
know at the time what the fluid was. or
whether the meat being treated was corn
ed beef pork. or refrigerated beef He
paid little attention 10 the matter al the
time. but when the discussion over "em-
b llmed beef" arose he deemed II his duty
10 write 10 General Miles. telling him
what he had seen. lie did not say i'm his
letter that IL was "beer' which was be-
ing injected. but said merely that il was
meat" lie had regarded this cOmmu-
nication as confidential. but 70 had gotten
out. and brought him a great many let
ters. Among others was "a letter from q
man i'm New York, signing himself
"Wentz." and asking II Dr. Christine
knew that the injection process me- had
was the regular way Of corn
ing beef and hams. as the injection was
picking fluid, and reduced the period Of
pickling the meat by several weeks.