The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-02-04
MEAT YEARS OLD FOUND
In GOLD STORAGE PLANT

New York City.-On condition that
! the name of the guide be withheld,
entrance was gained by a World re-
porter to one of the largest cold stor-
age plants in New York City, and
methods employed to make the public
pay fictitious prices for food were
seen at first hand
All that was revealed by the inves-
tigation holds true, an experienced
employee said, in many cold storage
plants in the greater city. Records
sedulously guarded by the plants
would disclose, it was said, staple
foodstuffs in sufficient quantities to
knock the bottom out of high prices
in New York Immediately, but which
are kept out of the market in order
/ to force the public to pay exorbitant
! prices.
These supplies are canned in the
cold" for from six months to three
! years or more and then released grad
ually during high-priced seasons,
when they are sold as fresh products
at gilt-edge figures.
Some of the articles viewed by the
! reporter were:
$4,000 pounds of halibut placed in
Jl6 pldnC Inree years ago.
Barrels of turkey and geese (num-
Der not given) two years old or more
800 cases of eggs, the remainder OF
5000 cases placed in storage begin
ming last April, purchased at about
! eighteen cents per dozen, and released
during the past two months to be
sold at from forty-eight to fifty-two
cents per dozen as strictly fresh
eggs"
10000 cases of fish (of different
varieties), from one year to three
years old.
5000 barrels Of apples.
100000 pounds of meat held in
storage for seven months.
There has been big call for eggs
recently" the employee said, surveying
the spacious room, which is kept at a
| temperature of thirty-one degrees
throughout the year. The cases in
here reached to the ceiling until a
short time ago. Most of the eggs
came from the West last April and
May and cost the buyer about eigh-
teen cents dozen. He's selling EN-
now for fifty-two cents. You can't
lose on eggs. If they get too old they
are broken up and sold to the bakers
Come along and I'll show you how
| they do it.
He led the way to another room
filled with four-gallon and two-gallon
cans, and in which the temperature
was only few degrees above zero
The larger cans were filled with the
egg yolks and the smaller with the
whites" He said that eggs in some
of the cans were five years old and the
contents came from China
A man who participated in the
tour of inspection and who formerly
worked in cold storage plant told OF
the top of one of these cans being
knocked off in handling. The stencil
he said, was SO overpowering that
workmen refused to handle the can
Eggs in this form are known to the
trade as "eggoline," and are used eX.
tensively in the making of pound cake
and other pastries.
Two huge storerooms filled with
meat which hung in temperature OF
six degrees above zero were next Wis.
tied. Beef, veal, mutton, lamb and
other meats of total weight of 200.
| 900 pounds had been in storage fol
seven months. 1t costs a quarter of 9
cent month for storage charges or
this meat, which is purchased during
the spring and summer at the lowest
wholesale prices and distributed wher
the public is compelled to buy al
famine figures.