Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-12-28

1--WE note copy Of your letter Of
September 18th, saying that Armour
4 Co.'S ole0 was found to contain bO.
raclc acid, and you have reported the
same to the commonwealth attorney.
Beg to say that we have given instruc-
tiOns to the oleomargarlne department
to cease using any preservatives II
they are using IT,"
~ Armour 4 Co. have al.
ready begun the manufacture Of sau.
sage for Kentucky at Louisville, while
an agent Of Swift & Co. states that his
firm have installed separate de.
partment In the Chicago plant In or.
der to make sausage without boracic
acid FOR KENTUCKY AND PENN.
SYLvAN1A."
The following Associated Press dis.
patch appeared In the Chicago daily
papers Of October ~, 1906:
Philadelphia, Pa, Oct. II, 10O0.-On
the charge that Armour 4 Co. have
been selling meat preserved by borlc
acid to local consumers State officials
went to Washington to-day to urge
action by the federal authorities.
State Dairy and Food Commissioner
Warren, who caused warrants to be
issued for several, Of the company's
agents, sent his assistant, Oliver d.
Schlck, accompanied by N. b. Critch.
field, State secretary Of agriculture, to
lay the case before Secretary Wilson
and DR.. II. II. Wiley at Washington.
The meats alleged to have been
"doctored' were discovered on Sept. II
and 40 the pure food net became opera.
tive on Sept. Commissioner Warren
declares the company Ii liable under
the federal laws for violation Of this
act.
The following appeared on the sec.
ond page Of part 1, Of the Chicago
Sunday Tribune Of October 20. 1907.
It speaks for itself:
RULING OF MICHIGAN JUDGE
BLOW TO ARMOUR COMPANY.
Petition to Have Injunction Against
Sale Of Sausage Dissolved Refused
Another Plea Falls.
Niles, Mich. Oct. 10.-tSpeciai. =
Judge Coolidge to-day refused to grant
the petition made by Armour 4 Co. to
have the Injunction forbidding the com.
pary from selling sausage In Michigan
dissolved. Tho injunction was oh.
tained BY State Food Commissioner
Bird on the grounds that the sausages
were adulterated In violence Of the
pure food laws.
Judge Coolidge also refused to sus.
tain the temporary injunction obtained
BY Armour 4 Co. forbidding Bird from
posting certain bulletins showing that
the sausages contained certain adultcr.
ants.
The following dispatch published In
the Chicago Record.Herald, Oct. 81.
1907, explains itself:
Lincoln. Neb., Oct. 3O.-William
Huxtable, representing Swift 4 Co.. and
Claude byron, representing Armour 4
Co., were to-day hound over to tho dis.
trict court on tho charge of violating
the pure food law by selling unbranded
meats The Cudahy company agreed to
abide BY the decision In the cases Of the
other two concerns
Chicago Health Department annual
report, 1907. page o.: " a
number Of samples Of butter. cheese,
liquid eEgs, sausage and pottcd or can.
ned meats and other canned foods have
been found to be preserved with bOric
acid during the past year."
During the annual convention of the
American Meat Packers Association
which opened in Chicago Oct. Z, 1907,
the committee appointed to ask the gov.
ernment to return to the packers meats
rejected and condemned by govern.
ment inspectors, made the following
report: mo provision has been made
for the return Of meats to inspected ca.
Establishments after they have been re-
jected, but your committee expects.
when this is fully considered by the de.
partment, relief will be granted"
In other words, meats condemned
because OF cancer. tuberculosis, lumpy-
jaw and the like will be returned to
tho packers!
What will the packers do with this
condemned meat?
Ship It abroad, or sell It to the peo-
pie OF Chicago?
People are beginning to appreciate
the enormIty Of the withdrawal of Chi.
cago city inspectors from the big pack.
Ing houses.
Does bOric acid cause appendicitis?
In the course Of an article re-published
from a New York paper. In the Chicago
Daily News Of November 8, 1909, we
find the following:
I'm the meantime physicians, as we'll
as the public ut large, continue to won.
der whether either one OF the auth0ri.
ties just mentioned may find 1t possible
to correct some of the abuses that are
most frequent, says the New York
Post. The troublesome problem of the
use Of boric acid AZ a food preserva.
tive. for instance, has Just been
brought to the attention Of the medical
world once more by the appearance In
a recent number OF the Lancet lion.
dOn) OF an article In which such an
authority as DIR. Reginald Harrison,