The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-08-20

milk
The food has improved >since the sign
| ing of the petition, although oatmeal
came up twice with dead worms in it
Oscar Whenry came to the institution
in September. 1900, from Mercer county
Pa, before which time he was driving
team. He had not read the petition be-
fore signing. and could not state posi-
lively that there was any writing upon
it when the signing took place. The
corned beef and cabbage were not good
the former being discolored and having a
bad odor, and the latter being poorly
cooked He said that he had frequently
complained to the head dining room man,
and once reported to Supervisor wynn
The witness showed him pan contain
ing twelve reaches. The eggs have al
ways been stale and it is often necessary
to break open several before a good one
is found Only Sunday morning a rotten
egg was found in the dining room.
Mr.. Backes wanted to know if a stale
egg was fit for healthy man to eat,
and the witness said it was not-let alone
a sick person.
The witness named several patients
who had been sick at the tables, but
could not say what made them sick.
He said, in relation to DR.. Jones, that
he did not know of the latter's resigna-
tion at the time of signing the petition.
Mr.. Buchanan wanted to know how
the idea was formed to get up a petit
ton to DIR. Ward. He wanted to know
If it was because they were afraid to
go sfngly that they acted in body, and
-. &A1% oil n ha
had heard of no threats. The witness
thought the coffee was principally com
posed of chicory, but could not state
positively.
In reply of Mr.. Backes's questions, the
witness said that on the Sunday pre-
vious to the signing of the petition he
had left the dinner table hungry. He
said he never drank tea, but had tasted
of it, and found it bitter and too strong.
On the Monday morning following
cold ham and sdiscolored potatoes were
served with other things.
Governor Voorhees, arrived shortly be-
fore noon and took his seat at the table
between Mr.. Andrews and DR.. Baldwin.
Henry Browne was the next witness and
he was the most elderly attendant called
so far. He said that he was quite posi-
tive that the petition was blank when he
signed it. Since learning what the petit
ton contained, he found that its state
ments were overdrawn. The food was
not particularly bad, as he remembered
it, but the potatoes were not very good.
Nearly everything else was very good or
fair, excepting the spots in the potatoes.
The witness then admitted that he had
found the eggs stale, and one rotten one,
but it was only few days ago. 1t was
not reported by the witness to any one,
he trusting to others to see it and reme-
dy the trouble. He had been hall at
tendant the past four years and at the
hospital nearly ten years. The stew
served on Wednesdays he considered i'm
properly cooked, but he never saw any
tainted meat in it; never saw reaches in
potatoes, maggots in ham, worms in oat-
meal nor did he know of any chieory be-
ing used in the coffee. Sour milk had
been noticed once or twice, the quantity
being about two pints out of two gallons
Mr. Backes wanted to know why the
witness signed the blank petition. and
he said he did it because he had been told
that it was an effort to secure better
petition untrue.
J. S. Auker was the next witness
called, and he had not seen anything on
the petition when he signed it, Mr.
Lyons brought it to him in the afternoon,
and was in hurry.
The witness said that the Irish stew
was poor, the meat having bad odor
and not looking good.
Mr. Walker asked the witness about
the cold corned beef, and dwelt upon
tie word "cold" as though it pleased
him to singer long there while the tenn
perature was away up towards the
stars The reply was that the corned
beef was Shiny and offensive to the
smell and taste.
The witness said that the-tea was bad,
Judging by what he had drank at board
ing houses, and this seemed such COM
raete arraignment of that beverage that
no one felt called upon to dispute the
statement He had been connected with
the hospital two years. and in the dining
room six months. during which time he
complained less than six times. The wit
ness believed that the less man report
ed the better he stood with the authori-
ties, Dul COulu give no SpeCiiS pal tiSoiNAS'
except in the case of DR.. Jones. He had
seen nineteen roaches in one pan since
the signing of the petition, but had not
seen any worms in the oatmeal Rotten
eggs had come under his observation
three times in two years.
W. M Faus, another attendant, said
he signed the petition before reading it,
and remembered that it was blank, but
a similar petition was inserted between
the sheets. He has been connected with
the institution five years, and one and
one-half years of which he/nas been a
hall attendant On the day of the signing
of the petition the witness said that most
everything was bad excepting the bread,
which was good. He does not drink
coffee or tea, generally; therefore. could
not state positively as to quality.
Last Thursday the witness saw a bad
egg in one of the dining rooms, and all
of them were stale. He went on to say
that he lived on bread great part of fthe
time, but frequently ate in town. The
witness also said that DR.. Cort had once
poor food, and special effort had been
made to see that the patient in question
got better food after that Mr.. Faus told
Mr.. Backes that he was in entire SYM
pathy with the petition, and knew what
it would contain even though it was not
written out at the time. He added that
Mr.. Browne. a previous witness, was one