Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1906-07-07
REPORT FAVORS
PACKING FIRMS
CHICAGO BUSINESS MEN SAY
INDUSTRIES ARE CLEAN.
EXPERTS WERE ALONG
Companies Improving the Conditions
From Year to Year, According
to the Commercial Committee.

to the Commercial Committee
Chicago, July G.-The report of the
Joint committee of the Chicago com
mercal association and the illinois
Manufacturers association, appoint
ed to investigate the packing indus
tries of Chicago, together with a re-
port Of the experts who accompanied
them, was made public today.
The committe says: "That board
of experts of character employed,
with professional ideals and guided
by an aesthetic sense, which embodies
something of necessity and something
of luxury. should find the product
"whoIesome," the yards generally
clean y and the Inspection "etlicient'
seems to your committee to cover the
situation
"As a result of this investigation,
we ourselves have no heSitancy in
stating that meat products at the
yards are wholesome and proper
food
1--WE find that the companies have
been improving conditions and the
products from wear to year that inn
provements are constantly being in
stalled and that this will continue,
and We believe that conditions and
surroundings at the plants are care
fully protecting the quality Of the
products.
The experts who accompanied the
committee were; DR.. W. A. Evans,
professor of pathology, university of
Illinois; DR. Macmillan lerzog, the
late pathoIogiSt of the bureau of sci
ence, Manila; DR.. n. p. Reynolds,
patholog to Phippic institute, Phila-
deIphia; Prof. A. T. Peters. Y. b.,
university of Nebraska. and Prof.
NJ, +, Reynolds, Y. S., university of
Minnesota.
All are eminent specialists, Their
investigation occupied two weeks,
during which time they made thor
ough study of the conditions in the
stock yards and packing houses as
they could possibly make within that
time.
They say that part of most of the
plants are up to date yet in each of
these there are some sections that are
indif'erentIy good aud in most Of
them some things that they do not
approve Of.
The committee can cite no better
evidence of the truth of this state
ment than that the very improve
mentS are under way everywhere,
These betterments relate in some
places to minor things and in others
they mean the complete rebuilding of
old plants. Generally speaking, the
more recently built plants are the
best, and most of the adverse criti-
ci,m has had its origin in conditions
at the old buildings, which have been
added to and adapted to expanding
business. Yet when the committee
comes to an a1alytical criticism they
find that part of it is based upon
principles that are known aud part Of
it upon an aesthetic and popular de
mand that food products shall be pro-
duccd, in places conforming to Ger
tain somewhat vague ideas.
Aesthetic sense embodies something
Of necessity and something Of lux
ury in regard 10 the latter of which
there may be great deal of misln-
formation
Nowhere j, there greater vague
ness and less definite information
than in regard 20 prescryaliyes. Even
scientists differ on this subject Your
committee has investigated by in
quiry by search By analysis to deter
mine where prcseryatives were used.
The report then give, the preser-
vatives used but does not discuss the
question of harmfulness from preser-
vatives used on the one hand, nor
supposedly increased dangers result
ing from the use of unpreserved pro-
ducts on the other. II especially com
mends these questions for further
scientific inquiry.
The investigation Of the rcgua-
tion, of the United States and the
city of Chicago for the inspection Of
meats. the committee SAYS. was con
ducted by Drs. lIeukioen. Herzog and
Evans, a. representing the Chicago
Medical J,cietv. who had especial
counsel of DIS. Ravenal, Peters and
eynolds. These gentlemen wrote to
number of scientists. and the com
mittee embodied in their report the
reply of Prof William II. Welch. of
Johns b. Hopkins university. of Bal
timore. who said:
ain yipy of tine absence of any