The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-03-23


the government court of inquiry fin.shed
their iahors in Chicago today and left
for New York this evening. The testimony
of Gov. Roosevelt will be revised. after
which the court will proceed To Governors
island. The evidence brought forth today
WAS largely cumulative in Its character.
consisting mainly OF criticisms OF canned
beef and refrigerated beef from soldiers
who ate IL and watched its effects In Cuba
and Porto Rico.
David Fieischsnann. q bell boy In tho
Hotel Morrison, told of a visit to the
stoekyards in company with an unknown
man whose purpose he supposed TO he an
experiment In the matter OF preserving
beef by chemical treatment
W. Z. Marshall the provision specialist.
whose testimony was expected To be SEN
sationai. threw no additional Eight ON the
question, his evidence being principally
the expression of the opinion that canned
beef, as now put on the market. IL totally
uaiit for human food.
Lieut.. l.. J. r. Hartmaa-
Tho court of inquiry examined today
Lieut.. 1. ]. I. Hartman. OF the First
cavalry, who was acting regimenta quar-
termaster whila the regiment Was sta
toned at Lakeland. Fla.
lie testified that refrigerated beef was
received from Armour 4 Co. At nrst Il
was very good. bat In three or four days
1t began to get poorer In quality. In TWO
instances, board of survey rejected the
beef. In one case the witness rejected
whole carload. The stencil was observable
before the car was opened. Witness later
got authority to buy beef In the open
market.
David M. F7efschmann testified he WAS
employed as bell boy at the Hotel Morrt-
son. Chicago, during the month OF Junss
1888.
.rne day I'm June" he said. "a genfle-
man In room l3 asked me IL / would be at
leisure oo 20 10 the stockyards with him.
i went out there with him ana had 70
carry two boxes
"He went out 10 see some man about
the meat. he told me. We took the boxes
ana went to a car where there were three
~, four rows of meat. I'm the boxes wsre
several smaller packages containing light
yrav colnrrd substance. He put this INTO
perforated trays. set fire to II and placed
i, under the meat.
.,He said /, Was done as AN experiment
To preserve the meat
~ put nv finger on the meat and fasteo
\
..There was a sulphurous smell In tho
car and an oder which | cannot describe.
/ took the cans hack TO tho hctei no.
t,eed In one end of the car thero was .
card marked. Tampa. Fla
.srh,a was at Armours packing house.
There was only one car; there we're only
about three rows az beef. think u was
halves 7 asked him who he was. and
am not mistaken He told he WAS
rfe "A - ts<r rH
or something like that He was about
feet 10 inches tail. wore eyeglasses. and
should ts,dae was about e. years of age.
He wore no uniform but dressed in plain
clothes.
II understood from what he said that hs
had some connection with the military
service
Analysis Made of Beef.
Or. f. r. Murdoek. who was for two
years president Of the auxiliary medical
etar In he Chicago health department.
ard Is an analytical chemist. Was the next
witness He stated that he had made sev-
eral examinations of both canned and re-
fyteerafea heef dating hack several years.
fn the latter part ~ Jnne. is~, be said.
SOME canned meat was brought 20 him to
determine its character. He found that
the meat was apparently boiled beef, ft
probably had been boiIsa somew hat be-
fore n was sealed in the can and some.
s.hat after There was In the can quite .
quantity Of common salt and also nitrate
sf potash. called saitpetre. These pre-
ssrvafaxes said the witness. must have
been In the can Isesore the boiling was
complete. Decaus. II had saturated the
fiber os The meat ard hardened IL. In his
report 10 the gentleman who brought him
TIE meat The witness stated that this was
the great objection 20 canned meat. IL
should be cooked without salt In order to
D. nutritious The seasoning should be
placed In IL or on II after the cooking ss
complete TIE character of the meat. IA
fyr Murfock's judgment. was low grade.
Two Of the cans contained tut q very
swsafs quantity of muscular tissaa. which
IL the nutritious portion os tbA beef. Tns
examination ~as continued by the holiinx
nS the aseat fri a resGrt 70 see agw rnucn
b~.f extract could b@ taken from four
pounds Of 81: the amount produced vas 80
ANAL IL was not perceps3ais IL was not
Iiam in experiments In hseserioiogy
Meat Coated with Beraeie Acid.
fresh hs.f. gns xstne8g sa1s that az thrse
different tines sAere usge DTussxht 10 him
pieces uf what seerneA ~ tse ordinary meat
fron the markets. which evidently hA1