The sun., 1901-08-10
Z aDULTERATED COFFEE.
GROCER WHITE FOUND GUILTY
OF VIOLATING OHiO'S PURE
FOOD LAWS.

selling adultcrated coffee. The prose-
eution was based on u package OF Ar
buckles Ariosa coffee.
The State of Ohio, through the Pure
Food Commission, prosecuted White.
The ease was on trial for nearly
month and attracted national atten-
tion.
The manufacturers OF Ariosa ccfee
conducted the defense for Grocer
White. The best attorneys In the
country were retained TO defend him,
but. after short consultation, YER
diet of guilty was returned by the jury.
The State of Ohio considers this big
victory Pure Food Commissioner
Blackburn has been waging Il warfare
on spurious food articles and the de-
partment has been successful.
The complaint Of the State Of Ohio
was that Ariosa coffee was coated with
Il substance which concealed defects in
than it is. The State charged this
coating or glazing was favorable me-
dunn for the propagation of bacteria.
Prof. G. A. kirchmaier, of this city,
a well known chemist, was the princi-
pal witness for the state. He had
made scientific examinations of sam
pies Of Ariosa purchased from Grocer
White in the open market He found
that each Ariosa berry contained an
average Of 800 bacteria. Mr.. Kirch-
maier further testified that other cof-
fees lie examined contained few bacte-
ria or none ut all. lie declared that
The glazed coffee was not n wholesome
food product
Chemist Schmidt, of Cincinnati, cor
roboratcd the testimony of Prof. Kirch-
maier. The State did not present fur
thcr testimony.
The defense through the Arbuckles,
who prepared this glazed coffee, se-
cured some Of the most eminent chem
lists and scientists in the United States
10 give testimony in their behalf. Prof.
IL. ". Wiley, of the United States Ag-
ricutural Department; Prof. Vaughn of
Ann Albor University; l'rofs. Bleile
and Wrbber, of the Ohio State Univer-
sity, were called to defend Ariosa. DIR.
Wiley had made careful examination
Of the method Of manufacturing Ario-
sa. He told of tile 100000 eggs used
BY the Arbuckles yearly in the prepara-
tion Of this glazing. On this point In
cross examination, the States attorney
deftly drew from Him the information
that these eggs might be kept in cold
by the Arbuckles for year or
two AT IA time.
The experts who heard DR.. Wiley's
testimony We're pissed to be able 10
acatch" 50 famous a chemist. The doc
tor ut one point in his testimony ex-
planned very clearly how it is that the
ags put into the coffee pot by the house
wife settles the coffee. He said that
the heat coagulates the egg, and as 1t
sinks to the bottom OF the pot it carries
the fine Particles of coffee with it, and
thus clarifies the drink. 1t is tile act Of
in the coffee pot that does
the work. Later on IN his cross exam
he had to admit that when the
egg was put ON Ariosa coffee ut the
factory it became coagulated, and as
egg cannot be coagulatcd but once, that
the coating on coffee was practically no
value, as settler" when ii reached
tile coffee pot.
Prof. Wiley acknowledged that the
glazing might be II favorable medium
for tire propagation Of bacteria, nj
though he would not testify positively
either way because he was hot bac.
trriologist.
Prof Vaughn, Of Ann Arbor, also n
witness for the Arbuckles, said he
found bacteria on Ariosa coffee.
Prof. ltleile, another witness for the
defense, found any number of lively
bacteria on Ariosa coffee he examined,
and he agreed that glazed coffee surely
was more favorable medium for the
propagation OF bacteria than unglazed
coffee.
l'ure Food Commissioner Blackburn
says: THE State is very much elated
over its victory against this corpora,
tion. We are now considering the al
visibility of informing every grocer ii
the STATE of Ohio that 1t is an infrac
tlon Of the laws to sell Ariosa. and al
tile same time give warning to con
snners that the coffee is an adulterat
cd food article"
The verdict Of the inry in this case /.
Of national Importance because a grea
many other States lave pure food law.
like that Of Ohio, and it is natural t,
suppose that similar action will b,
taken by other Pure Food Commits
sioners to prevent the sale Of glazct
coffees.
WASHING Ma FastiJiop. r,;o.