Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-08
GARvEN ASsA|LS
STORAGE ABUSES
THAT RAISE PRICES
HudsOnP Prosecutor Urges Bill to-
Regulate Preservation of
F0Odstuffs.
[From a star correspondent.I


TRENTON, March s.-Prosecutor
Garven, of Hudson county. fiayed the
beef trust and cold storage companies
at the hearing on the James bill before
the House committee on labor and in
dustry late yesterday afternoon. He
asked hat the bill be favorably res
ported.
Supporting the bill with Prosecutors
Garven were DIR. Herman G.. Lohmann,
of Jersey City, an analytical expert;
DIR. Raymond b. Fitz Randolph, of the
State Board of Health; DIR. Henry w.
Spence. of Jersey City, and Assembly,
man James.
BY a variety of arguments they ems
deavored to impress upon the commit
tee the feasibility of reporting the bill
fayorably. They were aided consider
ably by Assemblyman Walter E. Edge.
of Atlantic City, and Assemblyman
John f. Matthews, of Hunterdon.
Against the bill were President I, A.
Adams, OF the Union Terminal Cold
Storage Company, of Jersey City; Har-
ry Dowie, president of the National
Poultry and Game Association, and
president of the National League of
Commission Merchants; F. A. Horne.
treasurer of the Merchants Refrigerat-
ing Company, of Jersey City, the
largest cold storage plant in the East
ern States; Samuel Nagle, a wholesale
butcher of Jersey City; j. w. Balm, OF
the Wilkinson-Gaddi Company, New
ark; S. Thorne, jr., of the Polar Refrig-
Grating Company, Newark, and Robert
A. Adams, treasurer and general man.
ager of the Union Terminal Cold Stor-
age Company, of Jersey City.
Following the denunciation of the
cold storage of food for long periods by
the Hudson prosecutor and a number
of. other prominent men, the opponents
submitted briefs which consumed sew
I eral hours in the reading. L. A. Adams
said that his company is made up OF
New Jersey residents and taxpayers
who spent $4,000 a year in the main
tenance and operation of their plant in
Jersey City. Mr.. Dowie predicted dire
things if restrictive State law were
passed. He urged that the business be-
left to national regulation.
The Hudson county prosecutor said:
ut is possible by the use of cold
storage methods to control the marketl
Of fo~odstuffs, such as eggs, poultry
and meats. Such cold storage PROD
ucts impairs health. Both subjects
seriously require careful attention. On
the part of the Legislature. =
TN one county alone it has been
discovered that at least 200, 000, 900 eggs
are stored away annually; thousands
of pounds of poultry and at least
1000, 900 pounds of meats. The eggs
are gathered usually by large concerns
during the. months of April and May
in each year and placed in cold storage
to be used around the first of the
following year. When eggs are plenti-
full they are kept from the market
and put in cold storage. Consequently
the price is kept up. So with meats
and poultry.
Nov, how can these matters be corr
rected? In the first place, I would
suggest that this bill should also apply
to the owners of goods placed in cold
storage, as we'll as the cold storage
people. Secondly, that food products.
especially meats and poultry. should be
inspected before the same are placed in
cold storage and the time the
Strengthening of poultry and the placing
of same in cold storage be limited to
not over twenty-four hours, as bac-
terial growth is rapidly taking place
during that period. Third, and the time
in which food products may remain in
cold storage should be less than six
months, with a proviso that where, in
the opinion of the State Board OF
Health, such foodstuff will remain
Wholesome beyond the time specified
in the act the same may remain therein
for such length of time as the said
board will permit; and, fourth, that all
persons who sell eggs, meats and poui"
try should label the same as cold stor-
age goods"