The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-06-09
Calumet District Cities on
Lake Michigan Will soon
Have to Expend Fifty Million
for Disposal of Sewage.
STATE FOOD INSPECTOR
DISCOVERS VIOLATIONS
Northern indiana Grocers Sell
ing Short Weight Butter
and FIour-The State Will
Prosecute.
palladium Specially


water chemist for the state board Of
health has gone to Valparaiso to estab-
lish water laboratory for the Valpa-
raise Water Company. The company
has been having some trouble with it's
water supply and it wishes to find out
where the trouble lies. In order to do
this it appealed to the state. board of
health and the board decided to send
Mr.. Brewster to that city to establish
a laboratory in which tests may be
made.
From Valparaiso Mr.. Brewster will
60 to Hammond where the most seri-
GUS water situation in the state is pre-
sented. Mr.. Brewster was in the Cal
umet region nearly all of last summer
with temporary laboratory for the
purpose of making observations and
analyses of the water and sewage con-
ditions. This year he will take up the
work where he left off last fall, and
he will undertake to collect data in re-
gard to the whole Calumet river stu
alton, including the amount of sewage
that goes into the river and its tribu-
taries, the flow. etc.
Question Needs Attention.
II. f. Barnard, state food and drug
commissioner and chief chemist for
the board of health has direct general
supervision over the work which Mr.
Brewster is doing. He believes the
situation in the Calumet region is one
which the people of that section of the
state will have to solve before very
many years.
IF the people of Hammond, Gary.
East Chicago, Whiting and the rest of
the Lake county cities would quit fight
Ing among themselves over annexation
and the name of the consolidated city
they would have more time to pay at
tention to the water and sanitary sit
uation." he said Conditions are bad
and sooner or later they must be met
and overcome. | have no doubt but that
II will cost S50,OOO,OOO to correct the
conditions in the Calumet region, but
the people seem to be in favor of spend
ing the money to do it. The cities ap-
pear to be putting themselves in shape
to start the great work at no distant
date"
There is no other section of the state
in which the sanitary situation is so
great a problem as it is in the Calumet
region.
Short.weisht Butter.
Mr.. Barnard is after another mat
ter, also, in the northern part OF the
state, bat it is Of a different character.
1t is q case of crookedness. He Is
after the short weight dealers who sell
batter. He saws the inspectors OF the
state Board of Health have found in
several places where dealers were do
ing this. 1t is especially true of dairy
butter, he says. Some of the inspec-
tors purchased samples at many OF the
stores in the northern Indiana cities.
In each instance they purchased half
pound, and when the butter was
weighed it was found to be from one
ounce to two ounces short in weight.
In stead of weighing eight ounces, he
says, they weighed six. six and half,
six and threelauarters and seven ounc-
es In other places the package OF
butter weighed eight ounces gross.
with the package, when it should have
weighed eight ounces net, without the
package.
MI. IpoI Hui u iuSti uSeSu 'hS ihSP~>s
ors to prosecute the short weight but
ter dealers wherever they found them
He says on inspector called on the po-
lice judge in one place and laid the
matter before him, and the judge re-
fused to have anything to do with the
case, for the reason that he used to be
in business himself. Then the inspec-
tor went to a couple Of justices Of the
peace. he says. and they would not
take the cases. But Mr.. Barnerd says
the inspectors will so right ahead and
show up the dealers in all places
where they may be found selling short
weight.
Flour Swindle, Also.
Short weight -four is another article
of which the inspectors find much in
the stores throughout the state. Where
an eighth barrel bag should weigh 241s
pounds gross, or even less, some Of the
bags running as low as 90 pounds. The
inspectors are on the lookout for this
short-weiSht -four. and wherever they
find Ii they require the dealer to in
crease the weight and bring it up to
the required amount.
Some days ago an inspector found
a lot of short-weight -four in a grocery
store at Linton. He required the deal.