Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-03-23
WIND-UP At CHICAGO.
The Army Beef Court Leaves
for New York City,
GOV. ROOSEVELT TO TESTIFY
The Court Will Then Proceed to
Governors Island.
MORE "EMBhLMING" EVIDENCE


CfrL~AGO March The members or
the government court OF inquiry finished
tbeir lshors in chicago to-day, and left
for &.v York this evening. The tcsu-
nouv Of Governor Theodore Roosevelt
VIII there bee received, after which the
court will proceed 20 Governors Island.
The evidence brought forth to-day was
largely cumulative i'm its character. con-
ssting mainly OF criticisms Of the canned
r.er and refrigerated beef from soldiers
who etc IL and watched it's effects in cuba
aud Porto Rico.
David Fleischmann. a bell-boy in the
Hotel Morrison. told of a visit TO the
e,ock-vards I'm the company Of am un-
known man whose purpose he supposed
to be am experiment I'm the matter of pre-
.eving beef boy chemical treatment.
llelschmann testified as follows:
cone day I'm june" he said, "a gentle
mon fin Room la asked me if ! would be
at leisure 10 go 10 the stock-yards with
him. I went out there with him, and had
- carry two boxes-tin or galvanized
iron boxes. lie went out 20 see some
man about some meat. he told me. We
took the boxes and went 10 car where
there were three or four rows OF meat. In
each of the boxes there were four small
pacxaees containing as l recall it,
black. or rather a light-gray-colored SUD
stance. He put this into perforated trays
made for the purpose, set fire TO l'' ana
placed il under the meat
EXPERIMENTAL EMBALMING.
81 asked him what that was done for
and ho said it was done as an experiment
-l preserve the meat. Next day l Was 10
r, back and get the cans. ! asked him
.ther it vas TO kin germs or anything
... that. and De said No; simply TO pre-
.r.e The meat ! put my finger on the
r.t and tasted it, and it burned the end
af ma tongue. I called attention 10 the
t..+ that tho meat looked rather larger
than when We were there before. lie sdNu
that was simply an enlargement OF the
,neat from the ice. There was sulphur
GUS smell in the car. ana anothtr ouot
which ] cannot describe. j took the cans
b1cl, 20 the hotel. / noticed in one end OF
the car there was a card marked tampa
Fa.' This was at Armour's packing
nouse. There was one car. There were
,ulv about two rows of beef. ! think II
WAS halves. asked the man who he was
and. If am not mistaken, he told me ne
WAS "a ouartermaster. or a quartermaster-
general. or something like that
LITTLE NUTRITION LEFT
dr. T.. E. Murdock. who has was for
.vo years president of the auxiliary medi-
gI staff i'm the Chicago Health Depart
mont. and is an analytical chemist lesu-
r,l that ne had made several eAoinlhd- %
lions OF both canned and refrigerated
t.,f dating back several years. some
time I'm the latter part of June. 1898 ne
.l some canned meat was brought TO
linn for its character TO be determined
wh. witness found that the meat in the
d.. was apparently boiled beef There
,,.s fu the can quite a quantity OF com
mon salt. and also nitrate or potash,
called saltpetrc. These preservatiVes' sald
-f, Witness. must have been in the can
before the boiling was complete because
80 had saturated the fibre OF the meat ana
hardened IT, The character or the meat
i Dr. Murdocks judgment, was IaIseil
nuDr-ersdo or rather lOw-grade. TWO OF
-h. cans contained bat a very small guam
r.tv OF muscular tissue. which IS the hu-
trtrous portion OF the beef
The examination was continued by the
boiling of the meat In Il retort TO see
how much beef extract could be taken
from four pounds Of IL. and the amount
produced was $50 small that it was not
porcepubic. 10 was not even enough 10
be used as culture meulum lh expert
mcnts ln bacteriology.
ACIDS IN FRESH BEEF.
With reference to the examination OF
fresh beef. the witness said that al thIee
'Ii.4lre,t times there were brought 10 him
,,i,..e ~ what seemed to be ordinary
neat from the markets. which evidently
had been kept for some lllhe' pieS"i''''''
in "a refrigerator
"l found salt i'm very small quanutles'
,afl Ur AIurdock. "and some or the mea'
w. coated with boracic acid' al
o,n.r spe-imcns i found that they ha'
1e.n coated with a preparation OF sahcy H'
a.l ar preserving the meat uhuer'
-fo.o taIs 90 be refrigerated Deei. louig
b.ra.e acids fra two experiments ".0
faNryl. .0id iu one. These eXperimeil' 1, :
were uaa. about the middle OF june l0'0'
H0HsEFIESH SOLD AS BEEF.
"Iayc yol ever found horsefesh put vi
!n cans and sold on the market mere !"
Chicago"
"Not put up I'm cans. but have had
samples brought 60 me purporuhs 70 ~
fresh beef from the market ana haF'
found some Of these samples TO be horse-
flesh. instead of beef. J had no means Oh
knowing whence they came. An inN"7t-
cation with that result once led Inc
Health Department 20 suppress an estaD-
D. .hroont in the outskirts Of Chicago
REFRIGERATED BEEF KILLED MEN
William g. Griffin, acting sergeant
major. Second Battalion. Second Illinois
Volunteers. testified that al Jack
ronvllle the refrigerated beef had TO be
frequently rejected. II looked good, but
when cut opcn IL had peculiar odor. a
fauseous stencil. On one occasion a
freeh-beef stew was served and imme-
dttelv thereafter the entire company was
.akcn violently sick. For two weeks
srerward. thirty-scyen men ont OF the
comuany were The maximum number ilt
tor duty Within six weeks three men
G.ea. and although the records show they
died from fever the witnesses said he
know that the sickness from this meat
Was what KILLED them.
BITTER COMPLAINTS.
Dr. John c. Burne. of Chicago, who wss
assistant surgeon OF the Second Illinois
Volunteers while the regiment was at
Jacksonville. stated that he had con-
oemned the refrigerated beer seVerai
times before II left the wagon which
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