Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-07-29

At can't show you the very worst
conditions said the woman milk IN
| spector to the reporter, as she packed
| her lactometer and the rest Of her par
aphernalia in her bag, preparatory 10
starting out on her rounds. MY dis
| trict, The Bronx, is called the gilt
edged district If you want to see real
| filth YOU must go to the lower East
Side. But I'll take you along Morris
avenue. where there are some little
Italian shops that are pretty bad"
OF the sixteen milk inspectors In
Greater New York three are women.
One is in The Bronx, one has Brook
| lvn district, and one is detailed to IN
spect the shops of men who have asked
for permits.
A milk inspectors day begins while
most people are eating breakfast. me
inspector must be out in time to eaten
the big wagons that deliver milk to
tine retailers. and then. too, the shops
lin the tenement streets sell their milk
out very early.
Some of them have no ice tub, the
dealers relying on disposing of their
stock before ice is needed the In
spector remarked. as she led the re-
porter into delicatessen shop on Nor
ris avenue The smell of the strong
Italian cheese. pervaded everything,
and babies and cats were mixed indis-
eriminately on the floor. frowzy
woman was ladling milk out of can
into customers pail.
"Why, you've no ice." said the in
spector sharply.
me no spika English said the
woman.
well you must be made to UNDER
stand about ice. Get a man to talk"
ordered the inspector.
The woman started out. Then she
changed her mind and faced the in
spector
Lady" she said. impressively,
lady, the chumpa on the wag he no
bringa me ice.''
She seems to command fairly fore
ible English commented the inspector,
laughing. when l meet the .chumpa
who brings her milk I must tell him to
leave her ice. too. or there'll be trou-
ble.' She filled her little tin cylinder
with milk from the can and dipped the
thermometer and the lactometer in it,
Its rich enough she said. "The
lactometeY rides at the ITO mark, but
it's warm The law REQUIRES 1t to be
not over so degrees. I must dump it
on her. SO here goes"
Down the nearest sink went twenty
quarts or SO of milk, and the frowsy
woman in her excitement again forgot
that she mo spilSa English"
Here's model place" said the in
spector, pausing in front of a grocery.
And it was. The milk was in clean
shone The big German who kept the
store grinned affably when the inspec-
tor complimented him.
But l had terrific row with that
man when I first came up here she
went on, after leaving the store.
Had TO call an officer. dumped his
milk. and he was fined s52 and a week
in Jail There's another man along here
who is meek as a lamb now. but he
wasn't so at the start. He's fat Irish
man, and when showed my badge on
my first call he gave me whitening
glance
81 don't approve av women milk
Inspectors said he.
"tNeither do T. 1 said, and if l had
large man to earn my living for me
I'd not be here telling you your milk
cans are dirty-as they are
"tMa'am,' he said, if you hadn't a
petticoat on I'd give you as big lickin'
as you ever had
"He had been sorting over turnips in
a barrel after that first look at nle. You
have to meet such people with their
own weapons. SO said: You suppose
I'd let you lick me? I'm a lightweight,
and if | hadn't a petticoat on I'd knock
you senseless SO quick you wouldn't
know where you We're. Now, take
your head out of that turnip barrel. I'm
not used to talking to mems backs.
He obeyed. He saw that l meant
business. and w had no trouble with
him since"
The law says that milk shall not be
sold in shop out of which. in the
sold in a shop out of which sleeping
room opens. That was the reason why,
in the next shop visited, the woman
looked sorrowful and no milk cans
We're to be seen.
THE man comes, he says, NO. no.
and my nlilk-a-it Is in the street"
said the woman.
Dumped it because. sha hAl. q bed