Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1908-04-25

September 18th. saying that Armour
4 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 lnstruc.
lions to the oleOmargarine department
to cease using any preservatives II
they are using it."
"s - Armour & 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 I'm the Chicago plant In or.
der to make sausage without boraclc
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, 1008.-On
the charge that Armour Il 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 cOmpany'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
and DR.. II. II. Wiley at Washington.
The meats alleged to have been
"doctOred" were discovered on-Sept. II
and as 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 !, Of the Chicago
Sunday Tribune Of October 20. 1907.
1t speaks for itself:
RULING OF MICHIGAN JUDGE
BLOW TO ARMOUR COMPANY.
Petition e Have Injunction Against
Sale Of Sausage Dissolved Refused
Another Plea Falls.
Niles, Mich, Oct. 1D--tspeclal. =
Judge Coolidge to-day refused to grant
the petition made by Armour 4 Co. to
have the Injunction forbldding the com.
pnny from selling sausage In Michigan
dissolved. The injunction was oh.
tained by State Food Commissioned
Bird ON the grounds that the sausages
were aduitcrated In violence Of the
pure food laws.
Judge Coolidge also refused to sus.
thin the temporary injunction obtained
by Armour 4 Co. forbidding Bird from
posting certain bulletins showing that
the sausages contained certain adulter.
ants.
The following dispatch published in
the Chicago Rerord.iiernld, 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 the 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.: q" a
number Of samples of butter, cheese,
liquid eggs, sausage ana potted 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 Associa ton.
which opened In Chicago Oct. Z, 1907,
the committee appointed to ask the gov.
eminent to return to the y" .,,no,s
rejected and r..iemuea' BY govern.
hIent Inspectors, made the following
report. mo provision has been made
10y t,e return Of meats 10 inspected ca
ADJUSTMENTS after the 8 have been re-
'ected, but your co, amlt.ee expects
when this IL fully CO. .s,.isaed nv the de
partment' relief vii | he granted"
, IN other words !. meats condemne,
tau, ~ c"hcer Tuberculosis, lumpy
t IN, n "nu .he ~ y will be returned t
conaa,",a m"i ne packers do with thi
Ship 1t al nnon M ..u :. o. .,. M,
pie Of CHI ,,""s ' VI o" " :" INC p''
People "Hso!
tho on"r. 1re beginning to appreciat
co.o 81, Siiry of the withdrawal of Chi
In. ~ . inspectors from the big pacl
7, Shhs bOric acid cause appendicitis
, tile course Of an article re-publishe
.Aom a New York paper, In the Chicaa
cNiiy News Of November 8, 1909, "
lffind the following:
'Tn the meantime physicians, a. we
: las the public at large. continue to VOL
: Der whether either one of the author
I ties Just mentioned may find 1t possib
!, to correct some Of the abuses that al
= most frequent, says the New Yor
? Post. The troublesome problem OF Il
: use Of b0ric acid 40 q food preserv'
D tive, for instance, has just bee
e brought to the attention Of the medic,
q world once more by the appearance