The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-11-28
FOOD INSPECTOR HERE.
Meat Markets Of the City Have
a Call From Pure Food De-
partment Wednesday
GETS SAMPLES AT ALL SHOPS
Inspector Scott Reports That Kenosha
Markets Are In Fair Condition
But That Some of Them
Could be More Sanitary

w. f. Scott, of Madison, Deputy
Food commissioner of the state came
to Kenosha on Wednesday to make a
general investigation of the meat
markets in the city and as result
some of the meat men are on the anxi-
Gus seat. No arrests were made by
the inspector on Wednesday, but more
than a score of packages of meat pur-
chased in Kenosha shops were sent to
the state laboratory at Madison for
examination and if the samples are
found to contain anything forbidden
by the pure food laws the men will be
promptly arrested. Inspector Scott
has just completed the work of clean
ing up the markets in Milwaukee and
as result of the Investigations which
he made there, many of the market
men were arrested and forced to pay
heavy fines. The Kenosha market
men did not know of the presence of
the inspector in the city until after he
had completed the rounds of the shops
and then they began to compare notes
and discovered that it was little un-
usual that the same man should go to
ali the shops and purchase chopped
meats and sausages. Mr.. Scott stated
Wednesday ght that he did not over
look a meat shop in Kenosha, but
that he got samples of some sort from
every one of them. He admitted that
some of the meat he purchased looked
a little suspicious, but he was unwil-
ling to say that there would be any
arrests until after the samples had
been examined in the state depart
ment at Madison.
1t will probably be a couple of weeks
before these chemical tests can be
made and if the samples are shown to
contain any of the forbidden chemicals
the inspector will hurry back to Ke
nosha to prosecute the man who sold
the samp plies. Should the meats pass
the muster of the state department.
the result of the test will not be
known until the next report of the
department is issued.
In speaking of his tour about the
city Wednesday night Inspector
Scott said: 81 found most of the mar
kets in Kenosha in fairly good con-
dition and none of them was what
would cali real bad. 1t would not be
amiss, however, for some of the mar
ket men to keep their places in a
more sanitary condition and keep
their meat in better condition. may
have something more to say along
this line when make another visit
to the city. Today l got many
samples of meats and sausages of
different kinds and later I will give
more attention to inspecting the
shops. The department has been Civ
ing particular attention to the sale of
chopped meats which have been
treated with preservatives. We have
found in many places that the meat
market men have taken their refuse
meats, some of them decaying, and
converted them into Hamburg steak.
Before this Cong1omeration is offered
for sale it is treated with solution
of sulphurus acid which not only
brings back the original color or the
meat but which removes the odor.
Hundreds of pounds of this sort of
meat had been sold in Milwaukee be-
fore we made our tour of inspection
there. This meat is usually pre-
pared the night before and pla ced on
a platter where it's high color will
attract the attention of buyers on the
following morning. 1t is pretty
good plan to watch the man cut the
the chopped beef and then the pur-
chaser will know what is in it's
Nearly ali of the leading market
men of the city when seen Thursday
morning declared that they had no
thing in their shops which is for
hidden by the pure food laws.