The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-05-02
LESLIE'S CRUSADE
FOR PURE MILK
ENTERTAINING SERIES OF ARTI
Giles SHOWING HOW MOD
ERN METHODS CAME TO
BE ADOPTED.

Forty-eight years ago great men
were arising to meet, master, and
overcome the varied and veKed prob
lens of National, state and local i'm
port. The exfgencies Of those days
called for the services of many 5rainy
men. AT the time written of, Lincoln
and Greeley were deeply intrenched in
the public mind, and no publication
more faithfully portrayed and Illus
trated the now historical events than
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspa-
per.
During the weeks of 1906 just pass
ed, Leslie's Weekly has reproduced
from the valuable old files a number
Of interesting events connected with
this important period in our earlier
history. In the current issue Of the
Weekly a noteworthy reference will
be made to Frank Leslie's personal
work as it was carried on by him in
the summer Of 1858 in his strenuous
crusade against impure and distillery
milk, on which evil some cities are
just beginning to take action.
Frank Leslie was threatened many
times with death and humiliation in
many forms, and his artists and re-
porters, and himself even, were at
tackled on several occasions by male
stable attendants referred to in Les
lies vigorous articles as "Hibernian
Milkmaids"
In this day and age We keenly APP
pTeciate the vital importance Of pure
food, and particularly a pure milk sup
ply, as bread and milk are the most
important articles of food. Too much
credit for the benefits we enjoy in
this respect cannot be given to Leslie
for his effective work, which, so well
begun by him, has been carried on all
these years by his contemporaneous
worker-the originator and inventor
of condensed milk, Gail Borden by
name-the product of whose brain Is
still utilized.
This great humanitarian achieved
marvellous results in the saving Of
hosts of children's lives, and in pro-
noting the general health of New
Workers, by the sale Of his condensed
milk, produced under his scientific
dairy regulations. Fortunately, and
almost providentially, he was ready
to supply the demand in 1858 for pure
milk at a time when Leslie's crusade
had driven the distillery product out
of existence.
Charles Elley Hall, Leslie's general
staff correspondent, writes entertain
ingly of these historical topics in the
modern article. The fund of informa-
ton, the result of personal investiga-
ton by the writer, contained in this
exhaustive illustrated discourse will
doubtless tend to enlighten many leg
islators and citizens Including moth
ers and other opponents of the race
suicide theory, and educate them in
the little-known details Of one of ma
lures great and most valuable indus
tries, as carried on by Gail Bordens
successors.
The inventors early struggles
against failures, and finally, after
much privation and defeat, his sue
cess. as outlined here, make profitable
reading for the ambitious youth Of all
nations. THE high standards" to
quote from Mr.. Halls article, Intro
duced by him among the farmers and
dairymen of the two richest American
grazing spots-New York and Illinois
made possible the production of the
rich and pure fluid milk required all
these years for the making of the fam
Gus Elgin and New York State Outer"