Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-27
CITY DADS INSPECT DIARIES
Truthful Tale Of the Way the In.
specting Was Done.
FATHERS" IS BETTER
Overseers OF the Metropolis Fiji Their
Pockets with small Bottles Of
Cream from the Davies
visited.


The newest form Of junket and the ons
most popular at present with the city
officials is the dairy inspection tour. Like
all other junkeungs, Il is taken for an
obviously good cause and has the advRn-
tage of being no drain upon the city treas
ury and of small damage TO anybody but
the much inspected farmers.
Tuesday afternoon several serious
minded village fathers, who were called on
the way back the 'pliage fathers" ac-
companied by newspaper reporters and
few extra attaches Of the city hall, who
were thrown in to fin up the second auto
mobile, started out to do the west side es,
Establishments.
The trip was not taken as q Joke. We
hasten to say this for fear truthful and
uneIaggerated account OF II might lead
TO that opinion. The counoilmen we're
courteous and kind to the dsirymen and,
pried into their familiar premises With
charitable and we'll meaning soiioitude.
dairy inspector proper was along whose1
business It was to see that diaries which
had materially improved were the ones
visited, and ne had no difficulty in prov
ing that recently there has been a great
advance in sanitary conditions.
This was especially easy. as after the
first dairy was visited the word was
passed along the line by telephone and the
dairymRn would be found clad in a boiled
shirt and his new shoes, carefully putting
the first brushful OF whitewash on his
barn. Since the one brushfuI would never
have been put there Il the inspection had
not been made, that much good was done
anyway.
Officials Are ResourcefuI.
But after an hour or so OF tramplnE
around in a farm yard discoursing IKE a
civil engineer upon the relative merits OF
cement and tile drains, the necessity Of
screens in the winter time and heated
barns in the summer, inspecting, that is,
more inspecting becomes somewhat mo-
notonous.
But city officials are resourcefui and the
trimmings that were put on tho remainder
Of the tour were marvelfously successful
At first II was necessary only to ask
for a drink OF cream to get H. but Sppe-
tites grew with the advance. Merely for
the sake Of proving that he did not sus-
pect that the milk was typhoid laden, one
official lifted a half pint Of cream and
sneaked It into his automobile. As the car
sped on he produced this proudly and
thought to create a sensation with his
AloubllAul pIuNlbluu LOI Nih lAlnllg DIGAh-
fast But instead OF that they called him
a piker,
Everybody else had at least a pint OF
the richest yellow cream, and one had
pocket fulf Of eggs. From that time on II
was systematized and the passengers in
one car did the inspection by examination
and steered the owner around into the
back barnyard while the other party did
the inspection by test and rifled the milk
house icebox. Some city bred camp fol-
lower who heard that raw eggs were
good, broke a tooth on a china egg, and
then frightened the rest of the party by
throwing il into their midst
The adventures, hairbreadth escapes and
thrilling episodes that the pillage fathers
went through with, were as exciting as a
council meeting a windy night InV-
tations to go on these trips are now the
chief political favors that are being dis
tributed in the city hall.