Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-23
EASTER EGGS,
CALLED IMPURE,
ARE CONF F|SCATED
Said to Be Covered with Tale,
Not Sugar-Vanilla
Seized.

Twelve barrels of candy Easter eggs,
valued at $500, are held by the Federal
authorities, having been 5eized by
United States Deputy Marshal Louis
G. Beekman, acting under orders from
United States District Attorney John
D. Vreeland. The candy was the prop
erty of r. Walsh & Co., and was con-
fiscated Saturday at the warehouse at
$50 Plane street by Marshal Beekman
and United States Pure Food Inspec-
tor Wagner.
Thirty gallons of alleged impure va
nilla extract in the Olympia Candy
Company's store, $50 Broad street,
were also seized, it being alleged that
the vanilla is not pure and is injurious
to the health. The authorities are
planning a vigorous campaign against
impure foods in this district, and it is
stated that several more raids are to
be ade in the near future and a large
quantity of alleged impure stuff seized.
In the foregoing cases samples of the
seized foodstuffs were obtained by In
spector Wagner and sent to Washing
ton for analysis.
In the case of the candy eggs the
analysis is said to have shown that
they were coated with tale instead of
sugar. Tie samples were returned
marked impure" and the seizure of
the consignment followed.
Heide Co. to Fight Case.
"If the Walsh company ever had a
piece of impure candy In its shop it
does not know It," said Manager Wads-
worth, of that firm, today. 1.-THE col
ored eggs which are a cheap confec-
tion about the size of the end of your
thumb, and which sell at six cents a
pound, have been bought by us from
the Henry Heide Candy Company, in
New York, for thirty years. The mo-
ment we learned that the Federal au-
thorities Lad seized the eggs I hurried
to New York and demanded of Mr..
Heide in person If there were any i'm
purity in the stock. He was amazed
when I told him that the Federal folks
said tale had been substituted for sugar
in the glossy soft shell coating of the
eggs, and he declared that he had
never known that such an adulteration
was in his factory. He promised to in
vestigate. and at the same time he as
sured us that the Heide Candy Com
pany would fight the case to prove
both it's own high reputation and the
regulations of the customers who might
suffer from the seizure.
Walsh Candy Pure.
"The Walsh Company never had the
faintest idea tina there were impurities
in the Easter eggs,'" continued Mr.
Wadsworth. wv, buy them from New
York, becausl we have l.o machinery
for doing the pan work. which puts
on the shell of sugar to the soft glucose
centre of the egg. We never heard OF
tale used in this process as a substi-
tute, for tale is a iut the same stuff
that goes into face -powd,' and how il
could be mixed with sugar to form the
coatin. on those eggs we can't see
However, the matter sn't up to us, but
to the people we bought the goods
from. Nobody ever questioned the
quality of our own candy, and our owr
candy consists of everything we sell
except the so-called fancy brands We
had and Still have the utmost conf
dence in the Heide Company, and
when the deputy marshal, Mr.. Beck
man, came around the other day and
asked for the samples of eggs we gave
them to him gladly and asked him tc
take along samples of every other
candy we had in the shop"
The vanilla which was seized is de-
clared by the authorities to be an imi-
tation of pure vanilla.
Michael Couzelas. manager of the
Olympia Candy Company, explained to-
day that the seizure was the result Of
an inspection of the doubtful vanilla
by a New York inspector which the
oo,,,pap1y had invited He said the shin.
ment came to the Olympia Company
from the Manhattan Importing Com
pany, of Cleveland. O., and was labeled
"pure" vanilla. Following the regular
custom of the Olympia Company, sale
the manager, they had asked for an in
spection before the vanilla was paid
for and before any of it had been sold
AS the result of this inspection, the
vanilla was confiscated Couzelas sait
that the Manhattan Importing Com
pany and not the Olympia Company
would be the loser as the result of the
seizure.