Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-11-09

Murray raided four big ice cream
factories, found they used coloring
chemicals, gelatin, and a "glue-like"
substance in manufacturing the pro-
duct and forthwith destroyed tons of
the cream. He discovered tallow in
cheese, rancid oleomargarin oil in
cheese seized several tons of "reproc-
essed" butter, and condemned thous-
ands of bottles Of fake" flavoring ex-
tracts.
At the stockyards, in a single raid,
Murray contiscated $4,000 pounds of
picked hams which had been passed
by government inspectors. and which
was worth $1,000. On the same day
confscated $4,000 pounds of chickens.
The rest Of the chickens of the same
grade-25O,000 pounds in all = was
shipped east because of fear Murray
would confiscate 1t, and now is sup
posed to be Chicken with hot biscuit,
or choice chicken croquettes, accord
ing to Murray. The cold-storage scam
dial is one Of the biggest yet unearthed,
poultry from one to three or more
years old having been found on the
market by Commissioner Whalen. the
city council is about to pass an ordin-
ance-if unexpected opposition does
not develop-providing $30O year
license fee for cold-storage houses, re-
curing that time limit be tlxeu on
the storage of all eggs. meat, ETC., ana
providing for continual city inspection
of the goods in the coolers. Inc
first measure introduced was fought
by the packers and cold-storage hrms
and temporarily defeated.
Like Murray is SOL Van Praag.
Murray is head Of the food inspectors.
Van Praag is chief of the restaurant
inspectors. He, too, was one OF the old
school democratic politicians whose
name spelt power and votes in the First
ward many years ago. But Van Praas
fell upon evil days, politically and mn
ancially. Last spring he was found
working on the~Lake Front city dump
at 1926 a day-he had when powerful
given away jobs worth five times the
money, and in his palmy days he spent
$4,000 year.
But. in his low state. Van Praag did
not nope or sulk. AS foreman of
gang of italian laborers he did so we'll
that he attracted the attention of the
city hall and was given his present po-
sition. In it he has also accomplished
marvels In enforcing cleanliness in
restaurants and hotels. One thousand
restaurants have cleaned up" suffi-
GENTLY to secure the city licenses re-
quired by recent legislation of the
council Soiled aprons, greasy dish
cloths, dirty napery, ETC.. are disap-
pearing rapidly, for in places where
they do not disappear permanently the
license does not remain long. (Four
hundred restaurants were Inspected,
but not given licenses.)
Some Of the places are becoming
white palaces" said Van Praag.
believe more calcimine, whitewash and
paint have been sold TO restaurants In
the last two weeks than in any two
years previously since the Worlds
Fair. We are cleaning; out all kinds OF
filth. We generally go into restau-
rant just after the rush of a meal. 1t
Isl while the dishes are being washed
and the places cleaned up that we
can best Judge OF the cleanliness. A
such condition that descriptions
would be revolving"
In a single week Murray and Van
Praag, with their mer, destroyed more
than $4,000 pounds of foodstuffs in the
downtown district alone, and this-at
that period-was not an unusual weeks
work. At the Union Stockyards a
week later more than 250,000 pounds
of meats were condemned. Seventy tive
fruit stores We're raided in one week,
with wholesale groceries, five candy
factories, three evaporated egg con-
Germs, three baking powder factories,
ten ice cream factories and thirty bak-
cries.
All this because three city officials,
filled with vigilance and energy, are
enforcing the law without fear or IA
vor, backed by an aroused public opin-
ion. Above Murray and Van Praag is
DR.. Charles j. Whalen, the new and
aggressive commissioner of health. In
the last eight months, 5,O51,262 pounds
of foodstuffs unfit for human consump-
ton have been condemned, against
79S.74S pounds in a corresponding Pc
riod of last year.