Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1905-12-30
Il Aims at the Lives, the Health and
the Pockets Of Chicago
Citizens.
Frightful Food Thrown Into This
City While the Government In
spectors Sit Supinely BY.

What kind OF government inspection
have we been getting of late in the
matter of beef, pork and other food
products?
What sinister influence Is at work to
poison the people Of Chicago in the in
terest of corporate monopoly?
IL IL is the Beef Trust. the people
should drive IL out of the State.
In one year the people Of Chicago
would have served on their tables
1.l4i.3l6 pounds of diseased meats.
fish. poultry and vegetables IL 1t were
not for the activity Of the city health
inspectors.
According to the report OF DR..
Charles j. Whalen. Health Commits.
sioner the government inspectors have
been derelict in their work and for
years Chicago markets have been vend-
ing stuff that Is unfit to eat
In one week. ending Nov. Is. this
Is what the city inspectors condemned
and destroyed:
Two hundred and eleven cattle. o.
$50 pounds; III hogs, 126.6G2 pounds;
forty sheep. 1.41O pounds: three calves.
$50 pounds; fourteen quarters Of beef.
G.3SS pounds: total weight, $4,000
pounds.
Condemned and destroyed after pass.
ing government inspection: Fourteen
quarters OF beef. 6.3SS pounds: four
cattle. 1897 pounds: total weight, 1855
pounds.
Inspectors in the "loop district" con.
demned and destroyed 3l,s5O pounds
Of meats. fish, fruits and vegetables.
Three lots Of hams and bacon.
weighing 1925 pounds, were condemn.
ed by the inspector ut the Wholesale
markets before 3 o'clock a. m. This
material had been sent to Chicago
from st. Louis and Omaha, having
been rejected there.
Suit has been entered against eight
markets for violating Of the ordinance
which forbids the hanging or exposing
Of dressed meats on the street.
DR.. whalen sums up the results
achieved by his department from the
time city inspection was resumed as
follows:
Since Aug. the weekly condemna.
tons Of unit food have averaged 1877.
300 pounds Of meats, fish. poultry. ETC.,
and 23,1OO pounds Of fruit and vege.
tables. which, II maintained for the
year, would make an aggregate OF
7.l41.3i8 pounds Of meat. ETC.. and OF
1901 200 pounds Of fruits and vege.
Hohioz cNoJov, ., al n ~ 1ostrovo.V n - s,,,
1t for human food.
The principal causes Of meat con.
demnation were tuberculosis. "lumpy
Jaw" hog cholera, immaturity, and
cancellation: Of fish. "talnt" and stale.
ness, and Of fruit and vegetables, rot.
tenness.
Under date Of Nov. II the chief meat
inspector Mt the Union stock yards re.
ports to the director Of the laboratory
that "as result OF the activity Of the
city meat inspectors In condemnlng.
tanking. and destroying emaciated and
tuberculosis cattle In the coolers
after they had been passed by the gov.
eminent inspectors. the packers IRE nd.
vising shippers not to send such ami.
mails into this market.
The condemned food has been found
not only In the stock yards, but In pri.
vate markets and the big cold-stora &c
warehouses. 1t has been found IN tran
sit from other big meat packing cen,
tors and In rare instances already pre-
pared for the table.
Dr. Whalen says the city has a bic
problem 10 crush out this immoral and
dangerous traffic, and he will resort tc
every legal resource to bring his cru
SADIE to successful end.
How many Congressman have We
who are not controlled by the Beef
Trustg
The Beef Trust has raised the price
of shoes by raising the price of hides
Governor Douglas Of Massachusetts
Is a large manufacturer OF shoes. II,
heads delegation OF the Boot ant
Shoe Manufacturers TO appeal to the
President to remove the duty on hides
so that they will be cheaper. This
country produces more hides than Il
needs 10 shoe its people; but the Beef
Trust controls these hides.
me Betl trust Thlscs tle price Ol
hides.
This raises the price of leather, ant
this In turn
Raises the the price of shoes.
So the Beef Trust Is becoming tht
oppressOr Of the poor In the matter OF
food and ralnent.
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The Beef Trust lnlqulty must cease
To secure more extended food In
spection for Chicago, six OF the prime
movers Of the Consumers League call
ed upon Commissioner of Health VIVA
len. They offered the services Of q
corps OF skilled inspectors. Or. VIVA.
len agreed 10 cooperate with the
league.
While they declare the work they do
Is efficient, the members OF the league
assert more men are needed.
The committee which called on DR..
Wha!en was composed of the follow.
ing: Miss Jane Adams, Mrs. Bryan
Lathrop, Cornelia DE Bey, Harriet
Nanderyaart, Anna Melodies, and Paul