St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-02-18
THE HEALTH
EXHIBIT TRAIN
Large Crowds Visit the Car
and Inspect It's Clinic.
Diaries, Butcher Shops, Res
taurants, Inspected.
Bakeries and Other Business
Also looked Into.
Joseph Schuyler Rates Sec
ond Dairy in the State.

The Health Exhibit Train has
come and gone. That the lessons
learned have been of great benefit
to our community is shown by the
common discussion of health mat
ters upon the streets and by the
interest manifested by the very large
crowds that attended the lectures,
different hours being set aside for
school children, the general public
and the colored people, and the at
tendance being good on all three oc
casions.
Aside from the regular committees
appointed by the town council, the
Women's Progressive Union and the
School Improvement League there
was a large crowd at the depot to
meet the train. DR.. Hyde was the
first one encountered on the train
by the committees in search of the
officials, who conducted them to DR..
Bowling, who introduced them to
Miss Morris, instructor in home and
school hygiene, and Miss Fannie B.
Nelken, press correspondent. Every
body seemed very busy with type
writer's and manuscripts and the
atmosphere was not encouraging for
trivalities. In fact, when DR.. Dowl-
ing was asked IL the committee could
be of any service to him, he express
ed a desire to be undisturbed for
the evening, stating that he had
much to do, but would be at the dis
posal of the committee in the morn
ing for the inspection of dairies,
slaughter pens or other places.
Mr.. ]. Louis Smith kindly placed
his machine at the disposal of the
committee and the new Buick motor
of Mr.. Wallace Poole was also Sc
cured and the tour of inspection was
begun, the party consisting OF DR..
Oscar Bowling, DR.. j. S. Hyde, E. j.
Frederick, P. j. Lacroix, ]. Louis
Smith, d. H. Mason, E. Wales and
Wallace Poole. 1t was about 10
O'Clock when the party started on
the trip, but it was found that DR..
Dowling had slipped out quietly
about 5 o'clock in the morning and
had already inspected the meat
markets, returants and baker shops,
and caught some of them mapping.
They were somewhat crestfallen to
hear their shortings made public at
the lecture in the evening.
The first place visited was the
dairy of Mr.. Jos. Schuyler, about
four and half miles north of Gov
ington. This dairy made the high
est score OF any thus far inspected
In the State, with the exception OF
one-the West Bros, of Hammond,
who scored 80 points. Mr.. Schnyder's
score was 70. He was complimented
by DR.. Bowling and shown where ne
could by adopting improved utensils
and making some slight changes
bring up his score up to the highest
The party were invited to the
house by Mrs. Schuyler where re-
freshments were partaken of. DR.
Bowling neither drinks nor smokes
and thereby missed some excellent
cherry bounce of Mrs. Schnyder's
own making. None of the Other
dairies inspected scored as high al
this one, the next highest being tha
of Mr.. Louis HeintZ, who scored ol
The others visited were, H. Bougere
Mrs. Jean Labat, J. A. Bascale, JAKE
Ziegler, Sid Anderson, +. Estrade
The average for all the dairies In
The inspection of slaughter pen
spected was As a.
was not nearly so satisfactory as tha
of the dairies, and it is probabl
that at a future visit these place
will receive further notice. untor
tunately before these inspection
were completed rain set in. 1t l
worthy of note that notwithstandln
the rain DR.. Bowling insisted on IN
specting one of these pens, and tn
ground being too soft for the aut
to travel on he made the trip alon
and afoot and came back soakln
wet.
The school children from the pull
lie school and from the convent, an
also from Vaudeville and the Abit
nuhlic schools attended lecture
! O'Clock D. m. at Cantrelle Hall, an
also visited the Exhibit Car in d.
tachments until all had been throug
if. There were about dozen pupl
from Vaudeville, accompanied .
Mr.. Pounds, Miss Pinckney and Mls
Thoms. teachers. There were fort
from Abita Springs, accompanied o
prof. and Mrs. Wright, Miss Berth
Mutti and Miss Bailey. In all thel
were five hundred pupils VINO a
tended the lecture and VISITED tf
car. The lecture to. the colored pc,
pie was also well attended at "a
p. m.
The lecture in the evening WI
attended by old and young alike, an
many of the dairymen were presen
in anticipation OF the illustrate
pictures showing how a dairy shou
properly be run. Mr.. Dowling ope 9,
cd his remarks by reference to Il
first chapter of Genesis: Let the
be light, and there was light I
said he was pleased to see so MAJ
present because he thought that Wh
they would see and hear might
of benefit to them. He said that Y
were very fortunate in having plen
of pure water. He remempert
when much of the drinking water