The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-06-20
Raid On a Sausage Factory
Reveals Conditions That
Rival Those Of Chicago
PROPRIETOR TO Be SUED
HE CLAIMS TO HAVE DONE THE
WORK. FOR A SYNDICATE
WHAT THE HEALTH BOARD
FOUND
special to .srhe Jersey city News..)

NEWARK, June 20, 1906-Packing-
town horrors, or worse, have been dis
covered in this city only on a smaller
scale than in Chicago, when Sanitary In
spector Morris Seidb Food and Drug In
spector Otto b. Schaik and Meat Inspec-
tor Daniel Kuhn made a raid on a sau-
sage esta blishment hidden away in the
rear Of factory at "a Jones street. They
found rotten meat, mainly scraps from
butcher shops, alive with maggots, being
treated with chemicals and ground up in
to small ring bolognas for sale to the
people of the city.
The plant was conducted by Harry
Rosenthal, who said he lived at So Strait
ford Place Rosentnal said he did the
work for a little syndicate of butcher
shop keepers from whom he received
commission for his work. He got the
meat used for the bologna from them,
and after grinding it up and stufing it
inNo the sausage castings redelivered it
to them for sale at retail by them 10
their customers. About $50 pounds of the
stuff was seized, together with chemicals
and machinery.
The meat will be destroyed as well as
some of the machinery, while utensils
will be cleaned and sold by the Board of
Health. Rosenthal was not arrested, but
suit will be commenced against him on
number of charges, which will make the
penalties so great, if convicted, that he
will not be likely to find it profitable
again to embark in the business.
Inspector Seidl is assigned to cover the
district in question to prevent violations
of the code of the Board of Health, and
has been so vigilant that he is not be-
loved by those residents who would like
to engage in business that is profitable
though violative of the city ordinance.
In the course of his inspection work a
few days ago he wandered into a butch
er shop at Ga Jones street and to a fac
tory in the rear where leather soles and
heels for shoes are cut out
The rear of the lot runs into the rear
of the property at 80 Beacon street, and
Seidl took the idea into his head to go
through. As he passed through the fac.
tory he noticed smell that was not con-
nected in any way with the cutting of
dry leather, the regular business of the
shop, and investigated. Hidden away at
the rear of the factory, he discovered a
compartment about nine by four feet and
found that the odor emanated from a
mass of dirty, maggotty meat.
The proprietor was not in the place
at the time, but Seidl discovered who he
was and decided to get more. evidence
He reported the matter to Health Off
Ger David D. Chandler, and it was de-
positive evidence of the nature of the
work carried on would be gotten in plen-
ty. Inspector Schalk was directed to
act for the health officer, and he made
an engagement for Seidl and Inspector
Kuhn to meet him yesterday afternoon
at 2 o'clock.
The three went to the place and found
more evidence than they expected, in-
cluding the names of the butchers for
whom Rosenthal did the work. They
seized four baskets of meat as it came
from the butcher shops, two boxes of
spreservaline," saltpetre, potato -four,
pepper, salt and garlic, the grinding ma
chine, castings for the bologne and the
apron worn by Rosenthal at his work.
The only good-looking thing out of the
whole lot were the bolognas. They
were u SASCAAuA AOOhi1AS ANU tAnsAtt WoAAu
tempt the appetite of anybody who cared
for bologna, and the tinge of garlic that
could be detected gave them an appetiz-
ing odor.
The meat as it came from the butch
ers was evidently made up of scraps taxi
en- from the floors Of the shops, as it was
covered with dirt wrapped in old news
apers and thrown into baskets and
boxes. Black dirt or mud still ssuck 70
it.
In the process of manufacture theacus-
| tom was to weigh this meat, dirt and all,
for on the pan-scale which was seized
muddy dirt still stuck to the sides, while
maggots We're crawling around. After
| being weighed the meat was chopped in
the machine. pepper, salt, saltpetre,
| garlic. preseryaline and potato -four be-
| ing added in the process. The condi-
! mcnts aud garlic were p~ favor