The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-04-05
AT THE HOTELS.

the greatest boons TO the meat con-
sumner, as well as a fortune builder for
some prominent milllonaires." said George
T. Baxter, OF Chicago. IL. who ls at the
New Willard. and who is interested in
the packing industry.
I'm 1874. when New York was the great
beef center and West Albany the lead
ing live stock market, good cattle sold
for 6 cents pound on the hoof. and
the dressed beef for more than y eentk
In making every atom Of a carcass count
the scientific slaughterhouse has done
many things to the average steer ana
taken heavy tolls OF him. II has boiled
him. baked him, ground him, lIquefed
him, filtered him, evaporated him, com
pressed him into tablets. run him into
capsules and bottles. and has even placed
him into the pharmacopoeia.
All these things IL has done IA the
utilization of the parts which fer gen
erations went TO waste. The orera-
lions net the people who do 1t asout
$l.f9 per steer. a prominent parker
once told a delegation that if they
would give him the by-products alone.
not including The hide and the butter
fat. he would slaughter their cattle and
make money.
Formerly the only by-products %
which the dressed meat producer pad
any attention were the hide, tallov.
and tongue. The remainder was shee,
waste. When ingenuity saw the op-
portunity, glue works, fertilizer fac
tories, soap-making establishments.
and oil and tallow factories spranp M
along the tanks of the packing houses.
Then the packers took up this work
themselves
Sol. B. Well, Of New Orleans. who Is AZ
the Raleigh and attending the Jewish
convention. in speaking Of health laws Of
the orthodox Jews, said last night that
not only are many animals. as swine.
the hare tribe. beasts OF prey, and various
others which are used for food by both
savages and civilized men, excluded from
the dietary Of the observant Jew by the
laws Of his faith, but also many fowl
chiefly birds Of prey, and all sheIIhsh and
creeping things are forbidden. Some OF
them are probably harmless. but trich-
inosis and other diseases are so often
conveyed by hog meat that American
diplomacy was once put by Germany to q
severe strain over the question Ilobsters
or crabs are always more or less danger
Gus; they frequently cause ptomaine pot
soning, which in some instances proves
fatal; and their habituaI use as food is
probably among the causes OF certain
forms Of chronic diseases Of the liver
heart, and kidneys. Oysters have con-
veyed typhoid fever and other forms Of
sewage infectioi.
Inspection Of milk" added Mr. We'll
is not part Of the Jewish ritual. and
herein modern science and legislation
have distinctly advanced beyond that or
the rabhis-if in their day there was the
same necessity. Neither the Jewish law
nor the law Of modern states provides for
adequate sanitary inspection Of fruits.
cereals, vegetables, and eggs and other
foods that may be in themselves unwhole-
some. as by decay. or by carriers OF con-
tagion- Talmudic foresight is not. how
ever. entirely lacking in this respect.
Thus. berries are 10 be eaten on the day
when picked. lest they become wormv
by keeping over night; prunes are to be
examined for the presence Of larvae. PThe
pure food and drugs law is a reasonable
safeguard against fraud and adulteration
in manufactured products, but it leaves
untouched the larger question The
Jewish law is deficient here also"
Prof. DR.. Eduard Meyer. Of Berlin.
Germany. is al the Shoreham. The
learned Teuton Is almost seven feet tai.
sports dark, long whiskers, which almost
hide his keen light blue eyes. which peer
az the world through steeI-rimmed spec
tacles. He dresses severely plain and
wears the old-fashioned congress CATERS
The erudite savant. whose speciality Is
ancient history. has just finished a lee
ture course AT Harvard University. being
an exchange professor of the Berlin Unit
versity. He was told that the public
would be glad 10 have his views on
American politics; on the tariff; on Tbeo-
dore Roosevelts reception at Berlin: on
the popularity Of Kaiser Wilhelm. on the
discovery of the north pole; on Prof. Hi
prechts flood tablets; on the relations
between Germany and England: on Ameri-
can education; on Mrs. Rorer's cooj,
book; on Halley's. comet: on the fourth
dimension; on the squaring of the Circle
on the rule in Shelly's case, and n,nner-
Gus other equally exciting questions.
Prof. Meyer TO each and every one OF
these questions replied. with a smile. shat
he did not know anything: that he sad
been away from Germany for six months.
that he simply could not answer. no NIT
ter how hard he tried. At last he al
mitted that some of our universities ale
quite good. so to speak, as II were. con-
ma, period, paragraph. Glad I've mt
you. Goodnight. prof"
San Francisco is making every ef-
fort TO secure the Panama Canal Expo
sition, which is to be held in 1915, some
where in the United States. 10 mark the
completion Of that great waterway"
said Robert T. Devlin. United States Dis
trict Attorney Of San Francisco. who was
seen at the New Willard last night.
The Pacific Coast, more than any
other part of the United States, viii be
benefited by the canal. and viii bring
that section OF the country nearer to the
rest of the States and in quicker COM
munieation than it ever has been. AS
II is now. it takes longer TO reach San
Francisco from New York by the water
route than any other part of the world.
practically. San Francisco, from prae-
teal as well as from a sentimental view
point, should have the great exposition.
The sentimental reason is that no other
city in this country has suffered so much
from the elements as that place. Earth
quake and fire have practically swept
the place out Of existence To-day a
new San Fra nr.lsrn has ar4san ~, IA