The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-10

syrup used in ice cream soda to three
prominent chemists of Chicago. and
had received three, entirely different
analyses. none of them correct. as the
firm knew exactly what was in the
syrup.
Jelly-The committee was given some
interesting information by Mr.. Mad
den about jelly. He stated first that
IS per cent. of the jelly sold in this.
country was of the cheaper variety.
I'VE sell a thirty pound pail of jelly
for 90 to 65 cents a pail. including
packing. This jelly is made from the
juice derived from the skins and cores
of apples. mixed with glucose-there Is
not a particle of sugar in it, but there
is nothing whatever detrimental TO
health. These apple skins and cores
are obtained mostly from New York
and Michigan from the manufacturers
of evaporated apples. Before we get
them they have been dried and press
ed We place them in watts, where they
are boiled in water until reduced to a
pulp. The juice is then extracted and
filtered and mixed with glucose. Be
fore the state pure-foOd laws were en-
acted we sold this jelly without any
additional flavors, as currant' rasp-
berry and other flaVors of jelly. we
also sold ii to retailers in bulk and
furnished them with a variety OF Ia
bells and allowed them to make their
choice of flavors. Under these condi-
tions we sold 1000 pals of this jelly
a day. Now we have to brand 1t i'm
| itation jelly, colored.' and we sell
twenty pals a day"
Mr.. Madden said he did not think
the former condition was right. but
he was also of the opinion that it was
not right to be compelled to label the
product limitation"
| Olive Oil. Representative CoombS or
| California wanted to know how olive
oil was handled on the market, and
Mr. Madden went into details on that
! question also. The lowest grade OF
olive oil sold, he said, was pure cot
ton seed oil. This was now labeled
| salad oil" but before the state pure
| food laws We're enacted it was labeled
olive OIL" but not pure" olive OIL
! Mr. Madden said his firm imported
| pure olive oil from Europe and also
an oil made from seeds which were
obtained from the Orient. With these
| two oils and American cotton seed
oils every brand and every grade OF
olive oil on the market were made. On
| the proportion of pure olive oil used
| depended the quality and price, but.
| he concluded, very little absolutely
i pure olive oil was sold California
| olive oil, Mr.. Madden said, was sold
at a higher price than imported oil,
/
handled by his firm.
Maple Syrup Just what constitutes
the bulk of the maple syrup used in
| this country was another interesting
| revelation made to the committee by
| Mr.. Madden. AS a preliminary. he
| stated that there was not enough pure
| maple syrup made to supply per cent
| of the trade and that IS per cent. of
| this product was a combination of
| a.
| syrup. This combination. Mr.. Mad
den claimed was much more palatable
| than pure maple syrup. The maple of
Ohio, he said. was much mllder IN
| flavor than that of Vermont, and the
| maple of Quebec much more intense
in flavor than that of Vermont. If
either of the latter two syrups were
sold clear, people would not use them,
but would declare that they were
being imposed upon. This fact Mr..
Madden used as an argument against
the Hepburn bill, which he declared
would require the syrup the people
liked and which was the perfection of
the manufacturer art to be branded
compound" or "adulterated" and en-
tirely destroy the trade.
Bureau of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Hepburn asked for the witnesses views
on a proposition to establish a bureau
| of standards in the Agricultural De-
partment, the duty of the bureau to
be the publication of statements as to
what certain foods should be compos-
ed of, for the purpose of educating the
people along these lines.
Mr.. Madden replied that 1t would
tend to create more articles known to
the trade as staples" such as sugar,
certain brands of baking powder, and
soap, which were handled by whole
salers at an actual loss.
Then knowledge breeds compeu-
ton ?" interjected Mr. Hepburn.
YES" answered Mr.. Madden, but
the wholesaler and manufacturer can
not do business on all their goods
without profit, and if the profit now
made on goods not in the staple class
shall be cut off it will only result in
raising prices all along the line"
MIR. Madden declared that 1t was the
earnest desire of dealers to get good
national pure food law, as it was their
belief that the states would legislate
in conformity, or, at least, the arbi-
trary and unwarranted rulings of state
food commissioners would be held up
in the proper light AS it is now, he
declared, the wholesaler was compelled
to nav many fines in different states
for technical violations, and they could
not afford to fight these rulings. as
they would at once be placed under
the odium of fighting pure food laws
In concluding Mr.. Madden stated
that the provisions of the Mann-Cor-
liss bill would meet all requirements
il would prevent the sale of deleterious
articles Of food with confiscation of