Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-09-20

WHO, diIeI pTedhlnS lulo lue HIiH > u
there
Eugene j. Schwarz and Health In
spector Albert e. Geissler, of Kearny,
were closeted together with George l..
Record in his office for hours today.
That Mr.. Record will be arrested to-
day for his connection with the start
ling and highly dramatic charges to
be prosecuted against the Schwarz
Bros Company was persistently ru-
mored.
Says Arrest would BE Interesting.
When asked by an Evening STAR
reporter e he knew of this, Mr.. Record
said:
Il don't know anything about it.
Certai iy it would make 1t very in
teresti if they did have me ar
rested"
Health Inspector Geissler is charged
by the Federal detectives with having
betrayed the secret of the investiga-
ton to the Schwarz firm. He was at
Mr.. Records office today. as Mr..
Record stated, to go over the amazing
case in detail.
The governments complaint against
Schwarz is, in brief, that they have
converted the carcasses of horses into
meat for human use in the Kearny
meadows under the most unsanitary
conditions. Many of the horses which
they advertised for at 81 each are al
legged to have been used by them in
preparing meat that was shipped to
Holland. Some of this, the detectives
of DR.. Harvey w. Wiley. who directed
the investigation, state, probably found
its way back to this country in the
form of What are known as "hot dogs"
or frankfGrters
The stp,y of the four months in
vestigation, involving the detective
work of men who toiled as laborers
for 50 cents a day and lived in expen
sive New York hotels, rivals the wild
est chapters of The Jungle"
The Schwarz firm, in it's plant on the
Kearny meadows, renders fat and ex-
ports tallow. According to their frank
admission they also exported horse
meat to Holland.
The specific charges against the COM
pany, as made in a letter sent by Act
ing Chief Dunlap, of the bureau of
chemistry of the United States depart
ment of agriculture, to the head of New
Jerseys pure food department, were
that thirty-one watts, more or less, now
stored in their picking room contain
meat that in part is from animals that
have died otherwise than by slaugh-
ter!
The State Board of Health has nOti-
fed the attorney-general to take ac-
ton against the Schwarz Bros Com
pany
The papers in three suits against the
firm are being prepared by the attor-
ney-general.
When seen by an Evening STAR re-
porter today Eugene J. Schwarz said
that he had nothing whatever to say.
but referred to his attorney, George L.
Record.
Because an interstate and interna-
tiona shipment, which would have
brought the matter directly within the
jurisdiction of DR.. Wiley's men, was
held up so that it seemed improbable
that it would be made, the Federal in
spectors turned the case over to the
New Jersey State Board of Health at
the last minute.
The State board promptly issued the
Following statement:
agriculture has turned over to the State
Board of Health of New Jersey certain
information which leads the board to
believe that Schwarz Brothers's Com
pany. of Kearny, have been guilty Of
violation of the food and drug act and
the slaughter house license act Of this
State. and the board has turned this
information over to the attorney-gen-
eral of New Jersey, and have requested
him to take such action in the matter
as the law provides"
When their plan of making gen.
eral roundup of .horse-meat dealers, 10
force them to live up to the letter OF
the law, niscarried through tip, said
to have been given to the Schwarz
Bros Company by Health Inspector
Albert e. Geissler, of Kearny, the
Federal investigators quickly turned
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