Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-06-14

terested in the sale of milk and also
 took up the charge preferred against
 r. H. Carroll, the garbage contractor,
 for alleged violation of his agreement
 with the city. The other members of
 the board present were Dr Mcdonald,
 w. s. Jones, F. E. Stanley. The
 health officer, Dr Kilmartin, Sanitary
 Inspector Callahan and Milk Inspector Eundin were also in attendance. M
 To accommodate the milk dealers,
 who had come In from all parts of the
 town and some from other places, the
 milk matter was taken up first. Chair
 man Rodman read the rules regulating
 the sale of milk in New York and said
 that 50 far as he knew the regulations
 here would be substantially the same.
 The board, he said didn't want to be
 arbitrary and desired to get opinions
 from dealers before deciding upon
 anything.
 w. J. Munson of Watertown saw no objection to regulations read by the
 chair with the exception of the refer
 ence to the exclusion from the market
 of skinned milk. He didn't see why
 there should be any objection to this
 provided 1t should be sold as such.
 MT Munson said there was much more
 danger of imposition in the sale of
 milk from which part only of the
 cream had been removed than from
 the ekimmed milk. Dr Rodman agreed
 with MT Munson and in all probability
 the law as agreed upon here will read that way.
 Hans Rasmussen said the trouble
 with some of the milk that comes into
 Waterbury is that the farmers don't
 take care of 1t. and it is little better
 than slop when it reaches the milk
 men. Then again many sell milk in
 stores who havn't fit place for It.
 They keep 1t uncovered with dip
 per in. that does not get one good
 washing in a week. Mir Rasmussen
 suggested that the product of the
 Holstein COW be made the standard
 60 that people who have herds of that
 breed would not have to get rid of them in an effort to come up to the standard of Jerseys. Alderneys and others which give milk containing more butter fat and solids than that of the Holstein.. The standard at present is about F per cent. solids and Mfr Rasmussen wanted to know if a person owned cows that gave milk which raised the standard far above that If he could reduce and be within the law so long as 1t did not come be- low the standard fixed by the board. To this Chairman Rodman replied in the negative. the end in view being
 to remove every foreign body from the. milk.
 Speaking a second time W. J. Nun
 son said he should prefer to see a
 standard of three per cent, butter fat than less. because he believed 1t can
 be maintained without any hardship
 to milkmen.
 This concluded the hearing on the
 milk question and then Mir Carrolrs
 case was called. Many expected that 1t
 would be interesting. but 1t didn't turn
 out that way. There appeared to he
 something back of 1t other than the
 good of the public and 1t would seem
 that the board took it that way so that
 the thing didn't amount to much. Commissioner Mcdonald, evidently regarding the contractor as the under dogmasked the witnesses come very pertinent questions. and Mir Carroll himself was not anyway bashful
 about making few inquiries of them either.
 Mrs M Rudge. one of the parties
 who filed the complaint. was the first
 witness called. She owns farm at
 Frost's bridge which is rented to F.
 W. Angle. His house Is located nenr
 a place where two men who work for
 MT Carroll. haul garbage and feed it
 to hogs. She saw the stuff. In an. swer to questions from Dr Mcdonald
 Mrs Rudge admitted that when she lived on the premises herself they kept
 pirr and fed them on garbage which
 her husband collected in Waterbury
 Dr McDonald wanted to know If her husband had license to do such work. Mrs Rudge was not aware thai
 he had and didn't suppose 1t was nc cessary. Commissioner Mcdonald
 acted as if he felt like saying that h was a wonder why the garbage de livered onto her farm could havf annoyed nobody while what was taken sorne distance away and dumped IT the lots created such an unpleasant odor. but he contented himself by Tn duleing in a smile and then leaned
 hack in his chair while Chairman Rodman thanked Mrs Rudge for being so kind as to attend the meeting. Mir Angle. the other complainant
 then came forward. His evidence wal a corroboration of what Mrs Rudg had said. He didn't know where tn garbage came from except that It wal delivered there in a city team.
 Ferdinand wolfY claimed that garbag is being carted from the crematory al " most every day and frequently the ol' wagon in which 1t is hauled stands II front of his door so that he gets tn full benefit of the odor. He said h. WAS no particular friend of Mir Rigne, and that nobody asked him to call in. George H. Ford said the tenant in house which he has charge over ha been using garbage. and he had to tel him to let up on 1t or he would hay 10 move. This trouble had existed fo over a year. He didn't know why h hadn't complained before except fha no hearing of this kind was called. Say. inquired Contractor Carroll looking the postmaster squarely in tn face. .-ain't you a particular friend O RigneyT
 The question phased NIT Ford am for a time he didn't know what to say Finally be replied that he was no nor os a friend to him than to many others That's all right" answered M Carroll. but ain't you the man whor ho s.fectef fo rrurpepnt him on tha