Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-12-07

SeptelnUer SStn, saying tnut AI1nOur
Il Co.'S Oleo was found to contain bo.
racic acid. and you have reported the
same to the commemorative attorney.
beg to say that we have given instruc.
tions to the oleomargarlne department
TO cease using any preservatives IL
they are using it,"
go" Armour & Co. have al.
ready begun the manufacture Of sau.
sage for Kentucky at Louisville. while
an agent of Swift 4 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, 1OO6.-On
the charge that Armour 4 Co. have
been selling meat preserved by boric
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 cOnipany's
agents, sent his assistant. Oliver d.
Schick. accompanied by n. B. Critch.
field, state secretary Of agriculture. to
lay the case before Secretary Wilson
ana DIR. II. II. Wiley at Washington.
The meats alleged to have been
"doctored" were discovered OH Sept. II
and as the pure food net became opera.
tive on Sept. Commissioner Warren
declares the company IL liable under
the federal laws for violation Of this
act.
The following appeared on the sec.
ond page Of part I. Of the Chicago
Sunday Tribune Of October 20, 1907.
1t speaks for itself:
RULING OF MICHIGAN JUDGE
BLOW TO ARMOUR COMPANY.
Petition to Have Injunction Against
Sale Of Sausage Dissolved Refused
Another Plea Fails.
Niles. Mlch., Oct. 10.-lSpccial.l- J.
Judge Coolidge to.dny refused to grant
the petition made by Armour & Co. to
have the injunction forbidding the com.
parry from selling sausage In Michigan
dissolved. The injunction was oh.
talncd by State Food Commissioner
Bird on the grounds that tho sausagcs
were ndultcratcd In violence Of the
pure food laws
Judge Coolidge also refused to sus.
tain the temporary injunction obtained
by Armour 4 Co. forbldding Bird from
posting certain bulletins showing that
the sausagcs contained certain adultcr-
arts.
The following dispatch published IN
tho Chicago Record. Herald. Oct. 81,
1907. explains itself:
Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 3O.-Wililam
Huxtnble. representing Swift & Co., and
Claude byron, representing Armour n
Co.. were to-day hound over to tho dis.
trlct court on the 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.: s n
number OF samples Of butter. cheese,
liquid eggs. sausage ana potted or can.
ned meats ana other canned foods have
been found to be preserved with borlc
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
crninent to return to the packers meats
rejected and condemned by govern.
ment inspectors, made the following
report: "No provision has been made
for the return Of meats to inspected es-
Establishments after they have been re-
jccted, but your committee expects,
when this IL fully considered by the de.
partment, relief will be granted"
In other words, meats condemned
because OF cancer, tuberculosis, lumpy-
Jaw ana the like will be returned to
the packers!
What will the packers do with this
condemned meat?
Ship 1t abroad. or sell It to the peO.
pie of Chicago?
People are beginning to appreciate
the enormlty Of the withdrawal of Chi.
cago city inspectors from the big pack
ing houses.
~S
Does borlc acid cause appendicitis?
In the course OF an article re-publlshed
from New York paper, In the Chicago
Daily News of November 3, 1906, we
find the following:
I'm the meantime physicians, as well
as the public'at large, continue to won-
der whether either one Of the authOri.
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 bOrlc acid as 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 (LOn.
dom of an article In which such an
authority as DR.. Reginald Harrison,
| mast vice nresident and Hunterian nrO-