Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-20
PICKLE HORSE MEAT
Pure Food Inspectors Locate
Plant in Operation.
CRITICAL PROBE IS MADE
DR.. Wiley's Men Declare Concern
Uses Diseased Animals.
FIRM DENIES WRONG ACTS
Schwarz Brothers Company of
Kearny, N. j., Says Product Goes
Abroad and Is Healthy.

NEW YORK. September 3-Dr. Har-
vey ". Wiley's inspection force OF the
pure food department made public yester-
day the results of an investigation OF a
New Jersey rendering plant which has
lately combined the business Of preparing
picked horse meat for European con-
sumption with that OF manufacturing
fertilizer and other products from the
carcasses of animals.
Eugene j. Schwarz of the Schwarz
Brothers Company of Kearny, N. j.,
which is the concern named by the fed
eral investigators, made statement last
night that no diseased horses or horses
dead by other means than slaughter were
converted into picked meat for human
consumption, though in this he is not
supported by the reports of the Wiley
men.
The federal inspectors turned the case
over to the New Jersey state board of
health at the last minute. however, be-
cause an Interstate and international ship
ment which would have brought the mat
ter into the jurisdiction of DR.. Wiley's
men was held up and delayed.
The New Jersey state board of health
gave out, the following statement last
night:
culture has turned over to the state
board of health of New Jersey certain
information which leads the board to be-
lieve that Schwarz Brothers Company 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 general of New Jersey
and has requested him to take such
action in the matter as the law provides
Say Firm Was Tipped Off.
According to federal Investigators. the
original plan was for a general roundup
OF horse meat dalers to force them to
live up to the letter OF the law, but the
plan miscarried through a tip, said to
have been given to the Kearny firm by
town official who learned Of the federal
investigation. The Wiley men then
ting a successful case against the kearny
firm.
At Bluemont, Va, last night DR.. Wiley
declared that he considered the kearny
case one Of the most important ever
handled by his men. He has instructed
his inspectors and investigators to hold
themselves in readiness to give every
possible aid to the New Jersey state Of
ficials in their prosecution of the case.
aside from their proof that the meat
other animals that have died otherwise
than by slaughter, my inspectors and the
other persons who have worked on this
investigation have observed some prac-
tees so sensationally repulsive that
hardly can give credence to their ex-
istence," DIR. Wiley added.
Schwarz Brothers Company OF Hear-
ny, admittedly International dealers In
horse meat, is the concern charged with
these offenses by Dr.. Wileys men. This
firm has shipped horse meat abroad abroad
ing to the inspecting detectives of DR..
Wiley's staff, the firm was tipped off
that it was under surveillance and held
up it's next prospective shipment to
dodge the federal authorities
State Health Board Notified.
Baked on that line, the federal pure
food men turned for help to the state
a letter dated September Is. F. l.. Dun
lap, then acting chief of the bureau of
chemistry In the Department of Agri-
culture, informed DR.. r. B. Fitz- Ran
dolph, at Trenton, of the conditions I'M
der which Schwarz Brothers were carry
ing on their business on the Jersey
meadows, which lie inside the limits of the
town of kearny.
The accused firm, through its lawyer,
George l.. Record Of Jersey City. an
nounced last night that it would combat
the charges made by the Wiley men, add
ing that the case was a conspiracy by
the inspectors, urged on by the Compel
itors of the Schwarz firm.
They don't dare offer to arrest any
one on this charge" said Mr.. Record.
in fervid explanation of the status of
the case from the point OF view of his
clients. We're preparing horse meat
for shipment to Europe. and we have
lnin g
to the State Department at Washing
ton and to the pure food bureau and
laid our facts before them. We wanted
United States inspection--asked them
to inspect us-but they said they had
no authority to do so. Then these gov
eminent employees, these inspectors,
poisoned our meat, bribed our en-
ployes and entered into a conspiracy
against us to build up fraudulent
case They were supported by some
of our competitors.
Crosses and double crosses of detec-
tives. inspectors and tipsters abound in
the present brief record OF the case, a S
it was made public yesterday. In the
first place, to get start on the case,
ten Of DR.. Wileys best men were sent
on to New Jersey under instructions to
get as close as possible to the actual
scene Of operations in and around
kearny.
Two Inspectors Get Jobs.
One of them, Albert j. Raynor, did his
part OF the work by getting a job ash
spreader on the dumps adjoining tie
plant of the Schwarz Brothers. Another,
DR.. William II. Callahan, managed after
much scheming to get a job as driver
of the dead horse wagon for the firm,
and showed such willingness to work at
his sordid task that he was eventually
promoted to an inside job, in which he
had abundant opportunity to follow
through and check up the carcasses
brought into the plant by his successor
as dead horse" wagon driver.
Getting these various jobs means that
DR. Wiley's men first had to provide for
other and better jobs for the men they
found at work for the firm when the in
vestigation started, but once their foun-
dation was established they built up their
case rapidly and surely.
Employees of all classes, as well as
minor bosses and the members of the
firm. were Swallowed continuously. and
the investigation disclosed, it was re-
ported yesterday, that horse meat was
being sold, not only abroad. but also in
country and particularly in New