The morning journal-courier., 1908-03-19
GETTING ANALYSES Mothers Club is Ardently Pur- suing the Elusive Pill
 Sample.
DISTRIBUTION HELD UP
Mrs. Herz Explains That Since the Agitation the Makers Have
 Been Wary.

The city has been awaiting with un- abated interest the long-promised sec ond hearing of the aldermanic ordi- nance committee upon the vital ques- tion; Pills or no pills The pillars of the Mothers Club are now hard at work gathering evidence a-plenty for the coming fight at the city hall, in comparison with which the first skir- mish of fortnight ago. when the mat ter was given its preliminary airing, will sink into insigniflcance. Mrs. Herz stated yesterday that the num- Der of pills being distributed since the agitation has been few
 Alderman Frank Kenna, the chair man of the ordinance committee, said last night that he expected the second hearing would come in about ten days or two weeks. He said he personally was in favor of the idea of passing an ordinance prohibiting manufacturers from distributing samples of pills at door-steps, but he was quite sure that to do so would be to curtail consider ably the business field of number of large concerns about the country What New Haven did in the matter would be sure to bear weight with other cities.
 Mir. Kenna said he thought that the Mothers Club had good cause. but he was not sure that if had been wise in the way the club had presented its case to the ordinance committee. He said his suggestion to the club would be that it hire a competent lawyer who would cover the case thoroughly and convincingly in all of its aspects. He said he understood the club of la dies is at present having analyses made of samples left at doorsteps. He said that as soon as these were ready the committee would call the last hear ing as it promised to do,
 Mrs. Leo. M Herz, who Is president of the Mothers Club. was seen at her home last evening Yes" she said. I've are now having pr. E. H. Jenkins of the agricultural station make some analyses of samples for us. Dr. Jen- kins of the Connecticut Agricultural Station you know
 Asked how many sampes the doc tor had, Mrs. Herz admitted that he had but one You see the manufac- tation the Mothers Club has started and they have stopped the distribution of samples in New Haven through their local agents. We ladies had bushel baskets full of samples month ago, but we burned them. took Ave sam pes to pr. Jenkins. Two of them were teas. Children wouldn't eat them any way, you know, so we thought there was no need of his making an analysis Ono was a liniment. There wasn't much danger about that for the cork was in very tight. One was a cathartic. pr. Jenkins said the very label on the front of that was enough to condemn it. The label read: Very active cathar- tic and. as the doctor explained, mo- body wants their children taking active cathartics on the street no matter what is in them. The fifth was cough medi- cine--cough drops I believe. These we left with Dr Jenkins to be analysed"
 And how soon will the analysis be ready, Mrs. Herz?" she was asked
 Well, you see do not know exact ly, because Dr. Jenkins is not used to therapeutic examinations. Mrs. Herz was assured that there were many doc tors and chemists In the city, then that were used 10 that kind of work and that. in that case, their determina- tlons might be of much greater weight with the committee. She said she did not know of a better man to go to.
 Mrs. Herz said that this one analysis was not the only one that the Mothers Club expected to bring before the com mittee. She explained that she had written to various organizations simi- lar in scope to the Mothers Club all over the State Some of these were To- cated in Hartford, Middletown, Rock vile, Bridgeport. West Haven and East Haven. From these societies she said she hoped to get samples similar to those she had before but threw away Dut Wnlcn SHP ndu ho uDuDt WeTt DtltS distributed elsewhere than in New Ha- ven.
 Could you prove that these samples were similar ones to those that have been distributed in New Haven, Mrs. Herz?" she was asked.
 Most surely. It would be only nat ural that the same patent medicine samples have been distributed in all the cities and large towns of the State, The fact that they are not now being distributed in New Haven doesn't change the situation at all Just as soon as this agitation blows over you can rest assured that the men with the bags of samples over their backs will be out on the streets again with their pills and medicines.
 Mrs. Herz did not know whether the Mothers Club would hire lawyer to present it's cause at the next hearing or not.