New-York tribune., 1910-12-02
WANTS INSPECTOR TO GO.
FosdCk. Reporting on Use OF
Bad Eggs, to Probe Deeply.
TRADE IN RIOTS AND SPOTS
Investigation of Food Inspection
and of Meat Traffic Here
to Come Next.

In report to Mayor tJayDoIf StioFAlio
that an extensive business in the sale %
bakeries of unsound eggs. known TO lhs
trade as riots" and spots" has been con-
Quoted in this city in violation OF the law
Commissioner of Accounts Fosdick recon-
mended yesterday the dismissal OF hugh
H. Masterson, an inspector in the bureau
of food inspection of the Health Depart
ment.
He furthermore suggests that the sus-
pension of Bayard c. Fuller. head of the
bureau. and of Philip Holz, inspector, be
continued pending a further investigation
II is the intention of the Commissioner or
Accounts to go fully into all phases Of food
inspection in the city He will next take
up the sale of tainted meats. as ne has IN
formation leading to the belief that there
are several dealers in the city who make
a business of buying unsound meat ano
reseIling it for food.
In the check book of Bernard kochman,
a dealer in ''rots' and spots, at No. ~
Duane street. Commissioner Fosdick says
he found stubs Indicating that check Tor
SIS and another for $50 had been given 10
Masterson. The dealer. the report says
said ne had loaned the money to Master
son. but had not been repaid
The report further says that the head
of the Steel-Dra.ke Baking Company oI
No % WaIlabout Market, Brooklyn, tesli-
fed that in the spring Of 1909 AFTER suit
against him by the bureau of food inspec-
+;o, had haen withdrawn, he had paid
Afasterson. S25 in cash. although the latter
had demanded 5000. A dealer in Browns
Vile testified that he had agreed TO pay
Masterson SO month during the con-
tinuance of his business of selling 'rots
and spots for food.
Commissioner Fosdick, speaking OF a re-
mort of the Bureau of Chemistry, IN Wasn-
tnrton. advance sheets Of which he had op-
tanned. says:
The reports of the United states nlspec- PEE
tors are particularly severe in Jheir S9h-
6arnuariOn of the conditions under "I1CA N4
egg hreaking is carried on in this city. NO
factories we're found. saEs u1e IT, con- -
speaking of New York. that We're con
Quoted under sanitary condltlons. IL te zle+
mort further states: The 1na1oiitS VI So ~.
eggs used for bakers trade are proksh o ouI
IN New York City, and the worst condll1ons
seen in the entire INSPECTION We're oDstLEeu
there It appeared that nearly every liiiils
was used for the bakers trade ~.
The responsibility for this condiunI. Iite i
e-,istence of which has been amply
sustained by our inrestesi0f ga of the Bureau
OF Food Inspection of the Health DepdIIt- =
Tnent The law gives them ample power ~
ascertain the same facts Whlch Were "a "a 1Ii a.
erad nv rs in our Investigation. ana II is
a bsllr-d TO suppose that they alone WeIe @
ignorant when the United States lnspect92IIs 2I 5
and the entire egg market were InIiy
ongnizan- of The facts Herman LIND
United States inspector OF foodS 1oT I5ls IiE7
district testified that he had repGareuls y
called this condition to the attenlloh "a
chief Inspector Fuller OF the ROOD bureau
Mr. Lind said he had called the attention
oe NJ Fuller TO these conditions at least
= dozen times in the last year. but ne al
wavs had some excuse.
In opening his report Commissioner Fos-
6icl outlines the trade conditions regard
ing the various qualities of eggs He says
that a spot is an egg in which deconpo-
sitfon has commenced, while rot IS one
that is entirely decompOsed- SUCH eggs
have a legitimate use in tanning leather
hIt he calls attention TO the high prices
maid by many dealers for such eggs. show
ing that they could not be sold prohtably
for tanning PURPOSES, Eggs shipped TO
tanneries and bakeries are generally broken
cut of the shell and sold by the pound TO
bakeries in thirty pound cans and to tan
neries in barrels Roughly speaking, a
dozen eggs break TO the pound
! Commissioner Fosdick says that irme-
/ diately prior to his investigation rots
and spots" were bringing in this market
/ from s. % to s. a case Of thirty dozen, or
/ from 8 to Il cents d pound. and that the
only outlet admitting of any profit would
/ be for food purposes
The report says that Bernard kochmar
/ testified that on June L, 1910, he entered
/ into a contract with Philadelphia firm to
! buy all their 'rots'' and spots at 81 % a.
case. Mr.. Kochman." the report says.
admitted under examination that the eggs
we're broken and put into cans and sold 70
/ bakers after the worst ones had been can
died out
! Mr. Kochman's books. according to Com
missioner Fosdicks reports, contain the
names of several bakers to whom ''rots'
and spots" were sold for use in food.