Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-05-21
CHICAGO TO Be SHAKEN UP
All Because a Health Officer Was Not Tod
Of Coffee,
IL was Passed by the New York OF.
hcials, Sold 20 the People, and Has
Been Used by This Time.

Chicago, May 21-In regard to the
sensational statement made by Michael
c. Murphy, president of the board Of
health Of New York, that the cargo Of
coffee brought from the bubonic plague
infected port Of Santos, Brazil, by the
steamship Taylor last autumn was Sc
cretly sent 20 Chicago, where It was
consumed, the Record today prints.
w. +. Mclaughlin, Chicago importer
and rooster OF coffee, owned and re-
ceived $500 bags OF the cargo which
was supposed TO be infected His mills
IN this city are kept going chiefly with
coffee from Brazil, and most OF IT, like
the guaranteed consignment Of last
November, comes green to be roasted
and packed IN his mill He said THE
ship j. w. Taylor from the port Of
Santos, Brazil, arrived off New York
In November. The New York health
officials promptly guaranteed the YES
sci because one passenger had died ana
two had some suspicious malady Ii
was never fully determined whether the
sailors were suffering from bubonic
plague, yellow fever or some other dis
ease, but the cargo Of about 10000 bags
of coffee was unloaded onto lighters,
while the passengers went into quaran-
tine and the ship was fumIgated
THE Arbuckle company got 20 600 bags
Of the cargo directly into their mills In
New York, where Il was roasted and
distributed like any other coffee, Our
consignment and that for other r0asters
could not be roasted there for the rea-
son that we had no r0asters Ia New
York Therefore, by direction of the
health authorities &c was placed on
lighters and left exposed 10 the sun
and air OF New York harbor for about
eight or nine weeks The bags We're
turned over every day until finally the
health officers passed on II and 10 was
shipped 20 Us. our 1900 bags were
roasted as soon as we got them and
before the middle OF last January that
coffee was all packed and sold II has
been drunk by this time I guess.
Roasting destroys all germ he and
makes the berry healthy and clean"
Health Commissioner \. r. Reynolds
announced last night that he would
thoroughly Investigate the matter and
would shake things up an along the
line II he found that the city had been
Imposed on and subjected to danger.
He said
Il mean to ask the health department
Of New York why IT allowed a ship
load OF infection 20 be dumped upon
Chicago without saying a word 10 me
about IT, Mr. Mclaughlin is also 10 be-
asked 70 tell why he shipped the coffee
In here. ] heard OF the vessel az the
time Il arrived. but I received the lm-
preston that every grain OF the coffee
was 90 be burned II ! fnd the case 90
be as now stated / viii take stems thai
will convince these people that we are
not 20 be so imposed on q second time
THE New York health department
has always been considered careful and
reliable. II Il is at fault ] hardly think
the head officials are informed OF the
facts ! cannot believe that they would
willingly and knowingly subject mil
lions Of people 20 a plague. / viii be-
gin % search for the details tomorrow"