The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-07-02
Of England Rejoice at Unfav-
orable Criticism Of American
Houses and Use Same to
Boom Their Product.
AMERICAN GOODS
v TABOoED ABROAD
Unsanltary Condltioss in English
Slaughter Houses Exposed
whaling Industry Collapse.
By e. c. Snyder.

Washington. D. c.. July 2.-Mr.
Charles A. Gibson, clerk to the house
committee on agriculture, returned on
Monday last from trip to England.
Mr.. Gibson landed in Liverpool on the
day that the Neill- Reynolds report on
the Chicago packing houses was pub
lished and he says that the English
papers (even including the one time
conservative London Times) were
filled with all sorts of sensational re-
ports as to the alleged unsanitary
conditions in every American packing
house.
.'The English meat packers (though
really packers of American grown
meat in most cases) were prompt to
seize the opportunity" said Mr.. Glib
son today, "and they are working upon
the prejudices of the people for all
they are worth. In Liverpool the re-
tail stores or shops display placards
in which attention is conspicuously
called to the alleged fact that mo
American meats are sold here Cir
culars are distributed everywhere an
nouncing the points of alleged super
iority of English packed goods over
those put up in this country and yet
the killing floors of the places where
cattle are killed across the river from
Liverpool are in the most filthy and
unsanitary state. The killing floors
are paved with cobble stones with
wide spaces between them. The offal,
hides, paunches, stomachs, horns, feet
and manure are all thrown to the
ground and the flesh from the heads
fis removed there. l asked the fore
man how these places are cleaned up
and he said: No killing is permitted
on Friday-on that day the dock board
takes charge and the floors are washed
out That's the difference between
an American slaughter house and an
English concern. The Chicago. Kan
sas City and other packing plants III
this country are scrubbed out twice
daily. But Friday is wash day" for
Liverpool, and only brooms, shovels,
etc, are used on other days. Candor
impels me to say, however, that the
pens where live cattle are kept are
beyond reproach and have no SUPER
iors, SO far as my knowledge and
experience goes.
England Is awakfng to the neces-
sity Of looking into the sanitary condi-
tions of her own packing establish
ments," continued Mr.. Gibson.
Throughout the United Kingdom
smelling committees are at work at
the present time. and they have plenty
to smell. English newspapers, doctors
and sanitary officials have" already
shown up a .frightful state of affairs
existing even in the highest grade
hotels and restaurants of London and
other large cities-saying that nothing
is wasted even the scraps left on the
plates of the guests of these high
class(O establishments doing further
duty on new customers under different
(and of course, fresh) titles. Horses
too old for work are slaughtered by
the thousand and are converted into
sausage and canned meats, even the
muscular portions of whales are thus
treated
Whales? Have you not been telling
stories to the mariners during your
voyage?"
Il am simply quoting English auth
Ority.. The Manchester Mail of June
5th-the very day Of the publication
Of the Neill report-published col
umn article under the caption The
Newfoundland Whaling Collapse
Here is portion of the article:
in the history Of modern Industrial
enterprise no collapse has been more
remarkable, even though on small
scale, than that of the whaling indus
try in Newfoundland. Inaugurated in
1896 it shortly attained enormous mag
nitude,. but is now in the throes Of
dissolution.
Modern whaling, as practiced in
Newfoundland, represents the chase of
the rOrQual, or racer whale, the speed
lest of all the tribe of oetaceans. and
one which hitherto could be. pursued
because of its alertness and speed.