Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-03-03
NEWS.LEADER CLAIMS
IT'S INDICATED
Declares inspection Of Bakeries Fails
to Sustain CIinedinst's Report
Made Months Ago.

RICHMOND. VA. March :.-Thr
News-Leadcr this afternoon says:
Some months ago The News Leader
r-iu,ed a story which came from John
r. Clinedinst. the deputy labor com
missioner which told OF tn" r"hd''
tions in som. OF the bakeries OF the
State. Mr.. Clinednst said they were
particularly bad in Underwater Flr-
rinia declaring that in certain bak-
cries in those cities horses and dogs
were kept iii the same apartment
where the bread was made. also III
one case he told Of the discovery OF
a diseased man with sores on his arms
mixing dough for bread.
When he was called on to tell the
Norfolk grand jury about what he
knew or had seen or had toid. how
ever he made IA denial that carried
conviction to the Norfolk grand jury
which had taken up the matter.
Mr.. Clinedins; told the Norfolk
grand jury that their condition tine
bakeries of the city of NorfOlk) Is
better than in other sections OF the
State" That is quoted from the re-
port of the grand jury to the court
In fact. Mr.. Clinedinst. after having
given out the story gave the Nor
folk bakeries a clean bill of health
The grand jury charged The News
!.eader's reporter Robert r. Goden'
with "reckless and sensational jour
nalism." and dismissed the whole
matter with that stigma cast on ihe
News Leader
Unfortunately for Mr.. Ciinedinst
and for the special Norfolk grand
Jury and fortunately for Mr.. Golden
and The News Leader. the purefoOd
department of the State. which began
operations on JuTe | of last year. TOOK
NJ it's work promptly and began pay.
ing attention 10 the duties assigned
il. The inspectors OF the department.
took up the bakeries of the State. ana
a report has E"en made and printed.
The showing is not one that can De
said tn he a credit to the State. ana
strange as it may appear. Norfolk Is
not given the clean bill Of health that
Mr.. CIineiinst gave il before the Nor
folk grand jury. Mr.. Clinedlnst. IL
should be stated. repudiated the en-
tire story told by him to the reporter
of The News Leader.
Commissioner Saunders has made
his renort as Of December last. hut
It is lust out from the press. Mr.
Clinedinst made his report following
an inspection in March Of last year
The purc-food department got to work
some four months later and the pos
sible Deficiencies found by Mr.. Cline
dinst NAV have been corrected. Ii
will be seen that the inspectors IN
the pure-food department made two
visits 10 each place. and that wnie
in some quarters conditions nave
been changed in some others thay
have not improved, and NAV be the
object Of other visits and orders to
comply with the laws or get busy.
A further substantiation of The
News Leader report may |" added the
report OF Labor Commissioner Doher'
" the superior Of Mr.. Clinedinst. ami
who made up his report from state
ments submitted by Mr.. Clinedinst
Mr.. Dchcrtv Jscd expressions along
This line: FILTHY to the last degree.
"A menace to public health. "A
nuisance" breeding places Of dis
case. FILTHY rags and Understandable
filth around tho place. but MT. Doher.
IL. knowing where the places were.
failed to tell their lOcation-du" to
provision of the law which forbade
his making II public. This makes
the report OF the commissioner worth
less as a matter Of information to the
general public. and while Mr.. Doher'
{, asd and Mr.. Clincdinst may kBo"
where the good or had bake shops arc
10 be found. the general pubic nave
not the least idea Of where they are,
and they NAV bc getting bread from
the fIthicst places in the state.
Below Is what Mr. Saunders reports:
Richmond.
T. HrUwn Baking Company. sol
Wcs; Rrnah street First visit good ,
last visit. good
/, Hrumm Raking Company. SIG
Fast Marshall strcrtFirs, g:sit. good
last visit. good
Nov york Bakery. 40 West Broad
street First visit good: last visit.
good.
NJ. T,rCxx, I,-vifpiO 1914 Fast