Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1908-01-18

awe note copy of your letter of
September 2Sth. 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 instruc-
lions to the oleOmargarine department
to cease using any preservativcs II
they are using it,"
%" Armour & Co. have al
ready begun the manufacture IF sau-
sage for Kentucky ut Louisville. while
an agent of Swift 4 Co. states that his
firm have installed a separate de-
partmcnt 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, 19O0.--On
the charge that Armour K Co. have
been selling meat preserved by bOrlc
acid to local consumers State officials
went to Washington today 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. u. Critch-
field, state secretary Of agriculture, to
lay the case before Secretary Wilson
and DR.. II. II. Wiley ut Washington.
The meats alleged to have been
'doctored" were discovered OH Sept. IL
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
net.
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 to Have Injunction Against
Sale OF Sausage Dissolved Refused
Another Plea Falls.
Niles. Mich. Oct. 1O.--fSpecial. J.
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.
talned by state Food Commissioner
Bird on tho grounds that the sausnges
were adulternted In violence Of the
pure food laws.
Judge Coolidge also refused to sus-
tain the temporary injunction obtained
by Armour 4 Co. forbiddlng Bird from
posting certain bulletins showing that
the sausages contained certain adulter.
ants.
The following dispatch published In
the Chicago Record.Hcrald. Oct. 81.
1907, explains itself:
Lincoln, Neb.. Oct. 3O.-WillIam
Huxtable. representing Swift 4 Co.. and
Claude byron, representing Armour h
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.: 80 II
number Of samples of butter. cheese,
liquid eggs, sausage ana potted or GAN
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 Association,
which opened In Chicago Oct. Z, 1907
the committee appointed to ask the gov
eminent to return to the packers meats
rejected and condemned by govern
ment inspectors, made the following
report: mo provision has been made
for the return OF meats to inspected es
adjustments after they have been re-
Jected, hut yOnr committee expects
when this II 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 tC
the packers!
What will the packers do with thi,
condemned meat?
Ship 1t abroad, or sell II to the peo
pie of Chicago?
People are beginning to appreciat,
the enOrmity of the withdrawal OF Chi
cago city inspectors from the big pack
Ing houses.
Does bOric acid cause appendicitis
In the course of an article re.publishe,
from New York paper, In the Chicag
Daily News Of November 3. 1906, w
find the following:
I'm the meantime physicians, as wei
as the public ut large, continue to won
der whether either one of the authOrl
ties just mentioned may find 1t pOssibl
to correct some of the abuses that ar
most frequent, says the New YOrl
Post. The troublesome problem of TIN
use Of bOrlc acid as food preserva
tive, for instance, has Just beel
brought to the attention OF the medica
world once more by the appearance II
| a recent number of the Lancet (IOn