Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-10-30

and stems from the peeling tables, and
the surplus juice from the filling ma
chimes, all Of which may be allowed
TO stand during the day and be rune
through the cyclone In the evening
Al the end Of the season the frosted
and half-ripe fruit nay be used. Part
OF his material cannot be considered
Sound fruit as contemplated by the
food and drugs act. rhe pulp Ia put
up in barrels preserved, and allowed
20 stand possibly in the sun. until a
sufficient quantity la accumulated for
shipment. Old ketchup barrels may
be used and be- none too clean. A. Il
result Il Is not uncommon 10 see an
inch or more Of pulp I'm the bottom
OF a car at the end of shipment. caused
by the blowing out Of the barrel heads
from fermentation. The sanitary con-
dition Of the factory may be poor, the
handling OF the goods be unclean, the
spices be the refuse from the spice
houses, the sugar be OF the cheapest
grade. and the bottles only rinsed or
be used without eve hat ~precaution.
The ketchup is q connection so heavily
spiced with hot spices that the tomato
navor is lost and might as well be any
thing else. The color is normally dirty
brown"
PERSONAL INVESTIGATION.
The divergence between DR.. Longs
report that benzoate of soda cannot be
used to conceal inferiority and DIT. Bit
ting's statement Of conditions as he
found them. Is so wide N startling
that the writer undertook a personal
investigation. He found conditions pre-
ciseiy as described by DR.. Biting. The
process Of making pulp begins with
fl. Yaallpw nr the gnvnaf.ag ThaHr ~
placed In wire baskets and plunged
into boiling water to loosen the skins.
The "peelers" are given "A bucke OF
the steamed tomatoes. With their left
hand they squeeze the tomato 10 re
move the skin while with their right
they cut out the core. green
and rotten parts. When the to-
mato Is trimmed" Il is tossed
into a bucket which goes 10 the filling
machine. The waste is thrown INTO a
bucket on the floor, together with any
tomatoes too rotten or O green FOR
canning. This material, which is sure
ly garbage. Is gathered up, run through
a cyclone TO reduce Il TO a pulp n to
remove the skins and such hard parts
as win not squash mp, stewed to he
proper consistency and run into bar
rels.
UNsPEAKABLE CONDITIONS.
II is then preserved with bonzoate OF
soda and shipped to ketchup manufac-
turers The amount OF benzOate Of soda
used depends. the writer was Informed,
on the season and the point OF destina-
ton. hot weather requiring that moro
OF the preseryatiye be used. He was
also Informed that the stun would keep
indefinitely and could be worked up
into ketchup through the winter The
writer was forcibly impressed with the
labor conditions. Men, women % chill
dren, Of all ages, whites, blacks and
Poles, were employed, and as tho gar
bage passing through their hands was
destined TO eventually find lis way 20
the table IN ketchup preserved with
benzoate OF soda, an Investigation into
the quarters FOR living and eating was
made. AZ the largest factory we visit
ed. where a hundred or more barrels
were sitting ln the sun waiting for their
load Of pulp, we found some 70 90 100
Poles. men. women and children. housed
in "A long shed divided into seven or
eight compartments. Each compart-
ment contained an enclosed sleeping
room and a partially enclosed place to
eat The cooking was done I'm the
fields. along with tho family washing.
The only toilet facilities provided con-
sisted OF "a small clubhouse. Flies visit
ed the camp and pulp factory Impair
TALLY. A number ~ photographs were
taken Of this camp which rs situated
right In a town ~ several thousand in-
habltants Photographs were also taken
OF "a number of other camps, the coudl-
ton OF which a. intolerahlc, AZ we'll
as OF carts hauling glrbaRe. work.
mon and women and others show ,ug
tba conditions found. An especially
eood ono shows "a young Polish work
rirl ln rubber boots and leather apron.
covered with NTH
Prom the results ~ hts invcstiga
ton. which wore most carefully made
and during which boz Waf accompanied
bV IA competent witness, tho writer a
prepared Co. state th9t fhere "a h. mo-
question that bcnzoatc OF soda BE- used
to conceal iufcrlorty,' and that pr.
billings report ON the Same is fully
justified a.. ,,ou