The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1901-08-11
ADULTERATED COFFEE.
GROCER WHITE FOUND GUILTY
OF VIOLATING OHlO'S PURE
FOOD LAWS.

| scientific Erperts-Presenceo of Bac-
tsris.
ToLEDo, o., Aug. 3.-The jury in Judge
Meck's court in this city has found
James White a local grocer guilty OF
selling aduterated coffee. The prose.
cution was based on n package OF Ar.
buckles Ariosa coffee.
The State Of Ohio, through shc Pure
Food Commission, prosecuted White
The case was on trial for nearly q
month and attracted national atten.
ton.
The manufacturers Of Ariosa coffee
conducted the defense for Grocer
White. The best attorneys in the
country were retained TO defend him.
but, after a short consultation, a yer.
dict Of guilty was returned by the jury
The State OF Ohio considers this a big
victory. Pure Food Commissioner
Blackburn has been waging warfare
on spurious food articles and the de
partmcnt has been successful.
The complaint Of the State Of Ohio
was that Ariosa coffee was coated with
n substance which concealed defects in
the coffee and made it appear better
than II Is. The State charged this
coating or glazing was favorable me
dium for the propagation Of bacteria.
Prof g. a. Kirchmaier, Of this city,
a well known chemist, was the prnci-
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 300 bacteria. Mr.. Kirch-
maier further testified that other cof-
fees he examined contained few bacte-
ria or none at all. He declared that
the glazed coffee was not a wholesome
food product.
Chemist Schmidt, of Cincinnati. cor
roborated the testimony of Prof. kirch-
maier The State did not present fur
ther testimony.
The defense through the Arbuckles.
who prepared this glazed coffee, Sc
cured some OF the most eminent chem
lists and scientists i'm the United States
TO give testimony I'm their behalf. Prof
III. w. Wiley, OF the United states Ag-
ricultural Department.; Prof. Vaughn Of
and Webber, of the Ohio State Univer-
Silly, were called to defend Ariosa. DIR.
Wiley had made n careful examination
of the method II manufacturing Ario-
sa. He told Of the 19,OOO,0 600 eggs used
by the Arbuckles yearly In the prepara-
tlon 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
storage by the Arbuckles for year or
two at n time.
The experts who heard DR.. Wileys
testimony were pleased to be able TO
catch" so famous n chemist. The doe
tor at one point in his testimony ex-
planned very clearly how II is that the
egg put into the coffee pot by the house
wife settles the coffee. lie said that
the heat coagulates the egg and as il
sinks 10 the bottom Of the pot II carries
the fine particles of coffee with il, and
thus clarifies the drink. 1t Is the act Of
coagulation i'm the coffee pot that does
the work. Later on in his cross exam
lnation, he had TO admit that when the
egg was put on Ariosa coffee at the
factory 1t became coagulated. and as
egg cannot be coagulated but once, that
the coating on coffee was practically no
value, as settler" when 1t reached
the coffee pot.
Prof Wiley acknowledged that the
glasn might be favorable medium
for the propagation OF bacteria, al
though he would not testify positively
either way because he was not bac-
teriologlst.
witness for the Arbuckles, said he
found bacteria on Arosa coffee,
Prof. Belle, another witness for the
defense, found any number Of lively
bacteria on Ariosa coffee he examined
and he agreed that glazed coffee surely
was a more favorable medium for the
propagation Of bacteria than unglazed
coffee.
Pure Food Commissioner Blackburn
says: "rhe State is very much elated
over its victory against this corpora.
tion. We are now considering the ad-
visibility Of informing every grocer in
the State of Ohio that It Is an infrac-
tion OF the laws to sell Ariosa, and at
the same time give warning TO con-
sumers that the coffee is an adulterat-
ed food article
The verdict of the jury in this case is
OF national Importance because great
many other States have pure food laws
like that OF Ohio, and it is natural to
suppose that similar action will be
taken by other Pure Food Commits
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coifees.
Wnshington's Fastidious Kinsmnn.
Lawrence, earl Of Ferrers. distant
relative of George Washington, had a
] most tVrannicol tamnar and ono dox, In