Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-06-07
Conditions in Packing
Houses are Detailed.
BY AN ATTORNEY.
Horrors of PaCkingtOwn are Shown
UP in a Vivid Manner Germs
of Disease Grow Strong.

New Yorkshire first light on
the exact tenor of the Neill-R -Rey-
nolds report. impatiently awaited by
congress and every meat eater of this
country and a great part of Europe,
is given by report given to the pub
lie Thursday by Thomas II. Mckee,
the attorney sent to Chicago to visit
the places in Packingtown depicted in
Upton Sinclair's novel THE Jungle"
Mckee was sent to Chicago by the
publishers of the novel. and it was
contingent upon his report whether
the book should appear. The report
which he made to the publishers has
been approved in its essential fea-
lures by Commissioners Neill and
Reynolds. The Mckee report is re-
plete with revolving details. The at
torney says that pigs afflicted with
cholera and tuberculosis were chopped
up for lard; that the conditions which
existed in the departments for sausage
making were anything but sanitary,
while those in the canning rooms
We're disgustingly dirty; that the stock
yards are oyerrun with rats; that the
men in the packing houses have
deathly pallor and that there is an en-
tire disregard of sanitation and oTdi-
nary cleanliness. McKee's report says:
"At the plant | saw six hogs hung
in line which had been condemned. A
truck loaded with chopped up con-
demned hogs was in my presence. |
followed it. 1t was placed in one of
the tanks from which lard comes. Of
the six condemned hogs, two were af-
will cIy
red as blood and the legs scabbed.
Three were marked tubercular. The
sixth had an ulcer on it's side.
Il then looked over the sausage
making department, which lacked very
much of being in a sanitary condition.
On the men were none of the white
caps and aprons shown in the packers
pictures. The department where beef
is cooked for canning is extremely
dirty The walls, pillars and ceilings
are dingy with accumulated spatter-
ings of years. 1t is a region where
germ kingdoms wax strong from gen
GRAFTON to generation"
Washington, d. c. - Representa-
tive Crumpacker, of Indiana, introduc-
ed bill Thursday as a substitute for
the Beveridge meat inspection amend
ment placed on the agricultural bill in
the senate. The bill defines the au-
thority which may be vested in the
secretary of agriculture and limits the
authority so as not to conflict with the
police powers of the state. In accom-.
pishing the adequate inspection with
this restriction. provision is made
whereby the secretary of agriculture
may accept the inspection of state in
spectors as to the sanitary condition
of packing houses.
Where opposition is made on the
part of the packers, which would make
the state inspection inadequate, the
secretary of agriculture is authorized
to stop all meat products at state
lines and make thorough inspection
When the state inspection is accepted
by the secretary this federal inspec.
tiOn in transit will not be made Ger
tain labels TO denote the character of
the state inspection are provided for
use.
Edward Cudahy, of the Cudahy
Packing Co, Of Omaha, Neb., has writ
ten the Nebraska delegation in CON
gress protesting against the Beveridge
amendment. He objects to the prOvi-
sion compelling the packers to pay for
the inspection and complains that the
bill is too drastic in every particular.