Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-24


Pennsylvania today introduced a bill to
regulate the storage Of food supplies ir
the District of Columbia. This bill is the
result of the extensive hearings before
the Moore special committee which has
been investigating the food problem in
the District of Columbia.
Provisions Of Bill.
1t provides that:
1T shall be unlawful in the District of
Columbia to keep in any warehouse or
other place Of deposit where compensa-
ton Is required for storage, for a longer
to the sale or distribution thereof as
fresh, any meat. fish, poultry, butter.
eggs, game. or other food supplies: that
all persons, firms or corporations engaged
in storing food supplies shall pay to the
Commissioners Of the District of Col
umbia an annual license fee of $50
Strengthening and packing establish
ments where food supplies are stored, and
storage depots, separate from packing
establishments, but in their ownership
and control. shall be subject to the same
regulation and the payment Of the same
fees as in the case of persons, firms or
corporations storing food supplies for
compensation; but the payment of stor-
age license fee shall not be required of
hotel or boarding house keepers or retail
dealers who obtain food supplies for sale
or distribution from licensed storage
warehouses and do not themselves en-
gage in the storage of food supplies Tor
compensation"
Commissioners to Inspect.
Section two of the measure provides
that the Commissioners of the District
shall keep a record OF all establishments
engaged in the storage Of food supplies.
Shall require all to make return upon the
first Monday of every month of the
quantity Of food supplies then In storage
They shall also inspect each establish
ment at least once month.
All food supplies, the bill provides.
on being received for storage shall be
marked by case, crate, box. bag. carton.
barrel, bottle or other cover or container
so that the date OF entry may be known
to the District inspectors and to in
tending purchasers.
The measure makes it unlawful to take
from any cold storage establishment any
fresh fish or poultry or meat of any kinC
which has been frozen during the storage
period, except In the frozen state, mol
shall 1t be lawful to wash, stain, soak OI
manipulate any fish. poultry or other fooc
product which has been frozen while ir
storage, so that its sale may be effected
as IL 1t had not been frozen; nor shall
season for procuring the same, in any
storage establishment. any fish or game
the use of which is confined by statute OF
custom to q limited season Of the year;
nor to keep in storage any such fish OIL
game procured in the lawful season be-
yond the period of such season; nor shall
any such fish, game or food supplies SO
placed on storage as fresh be carried
over in any storage establishment from
one lawful season to another.
No Ten-Day Eggs.
No eggs that are older than ten days
from the laying shall be. received in any
storage establishment in the District.
under the bill, unless 1t is shown that
such eggs at the time of their being
offered for deposit have been kept from
the time of laying In a temperature Of
below 40 degree Fahrenheit. land no eggs
shall be received for deposit or storage in
any establishment with view to sale
or distribution that have a specific grav-
ity of less than 1O7 at temperature not
to exceed 20 degrees Fahrenheit.
Mr.. Moore said today that this bill en-
bodies the ideas of DR.. Wiley and other
experts. The committee had no time,
he said. to make a report.