The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-08-28
Much Fraud About the Al.
legged Java and Mocha.
BRAZIL # u FINISHES IT.
Chicago Facts and Figures that Go to
SHOW How Americans Are
Taken II All the
Time.
(From the Chicago 1nter-occan.)
"Iv1lat ls your best coffee7'
Java and Mocha, madam" replies tn.

= what Ia your pest collee afl
Java and Mocha. madam" replies the
grocer.
Then he wraps up a pound for the ma
tron aud she departs fondly believing that
she has enough Of the percious imnorta-
ton to keep the coffee-drlnking members
OF her family awake for nights and en-
dow them all With heartburn and salloW
But do not be deceived into believing
that the grains Of fragrant coffee which
the grocer holds up for you ~ to snft are
Inc bean. but Ia merely cheap Brazil
Ian substitute according to August q.
Java and Mocha-if It needs such de- Z
fender Of Its virtues--has found charm
plon In Mr. Cans. F'or. years he has
studied the subject OF coffee and now has
come to the conclusion that gigantic
OF the United States.
The nilnble escapades Of the gold-brick
man are crude efforts when compared to
Their plottings have cost the coffee
slipping American people hundreds Of mil
lions OF dollars The gulible public Is
a hs eTSt IS On foo naff
It believes that 1t is drinking Its favored
e SUBSTITUTES DEFY DETECTION.
Java and Mocha taste the same. smell
the same. and look the same as tho
genuine. But more than all these Is an
to Shake Win rage s.' and chat is they
cost the public more. They do not cost
the producer or rstailer as much as the
genuine berry, and the consequence is
that 1t is more profitable to sell the sub
stltute than the genuine.
United States government reports arc
n n;ee by Mr.: Cans to prove that Java and
nSitv n hp ss1rpIkad I'm bo
1gures from these reports prove that there
is more OF the substitute Java and Mocha
sold In Chicago alone every year than
n The eofee %heh Mn Gans has
selected to demonstrat the fraud are as
follows:
T2ta1 81 5i s.! e s5s
From rom Ad en- Arabia. i.ssS%7 S,sssss5
Per capita .consump'tn 1913 1852
Taking the average per capita co ., nd6 aoo
pounds OF coffee are used in Chicago each
year. All Of the genuine Moch coffee
comes from Alden. Arabia, Java and
Mocha is mixed in the proportion Of "a
Of Mocha imported in 1902 made exactly
10, 753,14o pounds OF the mixture in the
country. AS about half the users Of 81
O0O. 900 pounds of coffee in Chicago believe
they had not been deceived all the i'm
portation would have been used here.
Tho immense importation of coffee from
sired rd Mocha Ha IN 1ss7 and 1888 this coffee
sold In Brazil for $50 per bag Of 1S41a
pounds, This year the Same coffee can
be bought for S. per bag, or about 81
Java and Mocha" has not changed and
lis Still passed over the counters at from
80 cents to As cents per pound,
New Workers with dainty tastes an, ana Ia Ia
RSe senuns 9s t and p9 ne'
cous Mocha is gobbled Up fast as II
cafes 81 ;arstocratio hotels. clubs. and
the tables OF dwellers on Fifth Avenue
serve Java and Mocha. When q stranger
goes The wild n Of des dpp
one Of the restaurants. None Of the pre- pre-
rolls III fact 81 The ef.{s &c. pounds Of
coffee Imported from. the Dutch East
indies and the Netherlands but little gets
farther n1and than aab ao so ahe AgG ~ CHI
~ CAGO.
IF. H. IIenrici, manager OF the coffee
department OF Franklin MacVeagh d Co.
told me that there was never more than
5000 bags OF genuine Java and Mocha
coffee in Chicago at one time. says Mt.
Cans, "Ks firm and tho reputable COT
Of Of coffee labeled bogus Java and Mocha
but the retailers who buy this imita ton
drop the bogus and foist It on their GUS
toners as the genuine article" ~. -,
It Is to secure a law against this mis-
representation that Mr.. Cans Is work.
Ing. lie dramatically declares that II
the government will not recognize his
Will hire a hall and start the educa ton
OF the masses He has already aroused
considerable disqu!et among certain cof-
rtr1r, F..r,,xn Il a. Nn
charged chs With duty Of preventing substi-
Ho has written letters to DR., Wiley:
chief. Of the United states bureau OF
addresses to various pure food conven;
lions and he has catechlsed pure food
commissioners for their dissemination to
Last year. on invitation OF Commission
er Jones, OF Illinois, he prepared a paper
FOR this National Association of State
Dairy and Food Departments at Its con-
sioners decided that they were not inter-
ested In coffee or the wrongs of Java and
Mocha. and the paper was referred to a
committee. It took him nine months to
he had notified President J. ". Bailey
OF the association that he would appear
in st. Paul, hire hall adjacent to the
mentine place of this years. convention
and de4lam his views on coffee and his
opinion Of the commissioners.
Ills saper vas returned return, l, with AZ eight 81
OF Lexington, KY, and he was invited to
address tho convention, Jnly Slst was TIE
Justice 10 Java and Mocha 81 ~ cheag g
liberty. Ile did not have Mr.. Cans black
Iut finished the e. hsfons eGIa not IS de-
las. dien,fod costume. and the wrongs Of
Java jay and Mocha have AYE not not been told; Old; . !
be tod for hts ~. nPatrGk Henry a Of s oGf-
annointed Vigilance committee, Once he
ewehns s s smegsns s sd me-
icvua arI found he was entitled to re-
Ward He is worth $1,000 .. but 4 the ,e
he appealed to c haqG l.t pspew
thse en,ys and telegraphed back "Thanks!
- i t tS2e mn hit tw e 1Snd ysars
" ~ sru ,CC,C(7Essrr'L IN POLITICS.
rJe also ran i6r Congress- from the First
1,n,r. VS. ~ Illinois, He WIS too Rood for
Inc tn'I First = and ad'ncent wards ot Chicago,
e er nov he Is so 'isgruntled that ho
hL.u NV ,,, ar vote The First Ward did