The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-12-16
POISON" WILEY
.SCARES GUESTS
Tells BanqueterS of the HOr-
rorS of the Foods That
Are Served.
TESTS OF FOOD LAWS
WILEY THINKS THE STATUTE
NOW ON BOOKS WILL NOT BE
TON.
Publishers Press.J


Chicago. Dec. 15.-Dr. Harvey w.
Wiley, chief of the federal bureau of
chemistry and head of the famous
poison squad" sat at the banquet ia.
BILE Of the Auditorium last night and
glanced about apprehensively when
Health Commissioner Charles J.
Whalen declared that despite the eff
forts of his department there was still
grounds for belief that all food pre-
sented as pure did not deserve that
adjective.
When DIR. Whalen began to describe
the different ruses adopted by the
merchants of Chicago and to name the
coloring matter and other deleterious
substances put into food DR.. Wiley
glanced at his plate in alarm and, as
he said later, began to think he was
being subjected to a test like that Civ.
en- his squad. But when told that the
Atlas club, whose guest he was, had
made special preparations for a
pure food evening and that every
thing on the banquet board would pass
muster before any chemist the man
who has charge of the experiments
which brought about the pure food law
looked relieved.
DR.. Wiley, DR.. Whalen, DIR. Thomas
]. Bryan, state analyst for the state
food commission, and Paul Pierce
were the speakers of the evening and
addressed 300 members of the club.
Chicago Food Not Perfect.
All the speakers took the new pure
food law for their topic, DrS. Whalen
and Bryan discussing it's operation in
Chicago and Illinois, Mr.. Pierce tell
ing of it's effect upon the advertising
business, while DR.. Wiley contented
himself with short review of the
efforts made to secure IT'S enactment
and then ending with several witty
illusions to the advertising business,
in which all the members of the club
are interested.
That although Chicago has made
great strides toward lettering it's food
in this respect was the statement OF
DR.. Whalen, who enumerated the
different frauds his inspectors had un-
earthed.
mo city is doing more as regards
the examination of it's products than
Chicago he said, "but still there is
much to be complained of and eradi
Gated before we can say that every
thing we eat is just what 1t is pur
ported to be. My inspectors find tho.
rs per cent of the smoked fish Offered
for sale in the city has never been
smoked at all, but has been dipped
in dyes, the dissecated eggs are still
with us, the deadly coloring in food
stuffs is to be found here and there
There are still men who use acids
when they make sausage.
I'm place OF real butter you nave
process butter. You find chicory
for coffee, lard made out OF cotton oil
and 80 per cent of the soda water OF
the city is colored with injurious arti |
fetal matter"
BIames Consumers.
81 blame the consumers for this coz
dition of affairs" he continued, 'be
cause they have insisted upon cheaper |
products. In all our work we have |
found that the adulterated milk wa. |
more harmful to the people general |
y than the other abuses, but the de
this evil out"
DR.. Whalen then advocated the pas
sage of the cold storage ordinance
which is till pending before the coun. |
ell. as means to the final end of do
ing away with all pure food abuses in
the city.