Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-04
MILK INSPECTOR
ROUTED BY WOMAN
TEST OF LACTEAL FLUID POST.
PoNED
AS Result Of serImmase erooer's wife
ls Confined to Bed With Nerv-
business and Grocer Is Look
ing for Revenge

This is a story about spilled milk.
No one Is crying, but Benjamin Berres,
n groceryman, swears vengeance, Milk
Inspector Young threatens to get even,
grocery at 1904 West Washington
street is closed today and Mrs. Berres
is sick in bed, all because Mrs. Berres
spilled quart of milk.
1t happened in this ways Young went
into the Berres grocery Tuesday after
noon, according to Berres and said;
MY good woman, / want q quart of
milk"
Mrs. Berries was only too glad to
make the sale, but she was determined
to charge 20 cents for 1t and the bottle.
Thereupon Mr.. Young produced q little
tin dinner bucket and said he could
carry the liquid in that and she need
not. play the keys of the cash register
for more than 10 cents.
AS Mrs. Berries ground out two dings,
which means cents twice, Young casu-
ally remarked that he was a milk i'm
spector.
Inspector Routed
Six weeks before Mrs Berries, who
conducts the grocery in her husbands
absence, had had an experience with
the health department which was not
to her liking. She sold milk in bulk
then. The first customer who came got
all the cream because she forgot to
shake the can, and the last customer,
who happened to be the milk inspector,
got skinned milk. The city chemist
found deficiency in butter fat in the
sample and Mrs. Berres was arrested.
She thought It was because she was ac-
cused of thinning the milk with little
tar I1fI I,o nd n1 fo
carry the case to some place other than
the supreme court before he would pay
a cent, in fines. and Prosecutor Beebe
was stumped and refused to prosecute.
The appearance of the milk inspector
therefore aroused Mrs. Berres' ire. 81
wouldn't trust you across this coun-
ter" she snapped, reaching for the
bucket which Young had pressed to his
bosom, in order to protect it from her
attack The short, sharp scrimmage
resulted in a victory for Mrs. Berres
and the retreat of the milk Inspector.
Prosecutor Refuses Assistance
He promised that he would secure her
arrest on the charge Of resisting an
officer. He would go right to Beebe,
and the way Beebe would get her would
be caution, he said.
Mrs. Berres forestaled him by the
use of the telephone. She made an en-
gagement with the prosecutor and was
at the police station almost as soon as
Young There the battle was waged
again, with Beebe as the arbiter. After
an hour of fierce attacks, repulses,
counter attacks and Withdrawals on
both sides, ,Beebe declined to do any
| thing. n1 -.s
Young and George Hood, chief milk
| inspector, left the station vowing that
they would get Mrs. Berres, and a close
watch would be kept upon her.
Mrs. Berres, having won her fight,
went home and to bed. She has been
there ever since, suffering from an at
tack of nervousness, and the grocery
store has been closed as consequence.
But the wrath of Mr.. Berres grows
with each passing hour. He appeared
at the health office yesterday morning
to tell the force what he thought of it,
what he thought of Young and Hood
and all the rest.
Grocer Kicks to Chemist
He is an honest appearing Swede who
asserts that he has never done a
wrong thing since he came to America
from the old country twenty years ago.
II wouldn't water a pint of milk if
could sell it for one hundred dollars"
he asserted hotly while City Chemist
Miller was attempting to soothe his in
jured feelings. mo milk inspector gets
milk from my shop unless in a sealed
package, and then want a sample
from the same package. They say they
will get me; they put water in the milk
after it leaves my shop, and then get
arrested and Jailed Not much they
don't!"