New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-10-08

proved No class OF persons, for instance
has shown q greater determination thSl
they 20 conquer in the assault against the
manufacture and sale Of impure 1ood'
Rows and girls are now being scientifically
eouipped 10 detect fraud. They are also
filled with all the glorious enthusiasm OF
youth 10 Danish ohicanery from the face
Of the earth Youth and scientifically
directed energy, No wonder the impure
food purveyors turn as purple as their
"oliye oil" that turns 20 cottonseed oil
when these boys and girls have tested IT,
The booth containing a group Of boys
from the department OF chemistry Of the
College Of the City Of New York seemed
20 attract more attention and inspire more
favorable comment at the Domestic Sci
cDce and Pure Food Exposition. Just held
ir Madison Square Garden than was
aroused 10y all the other exhibitions com
hined.
eddy young women with masses OF
false hair handed 10 the passing throng
tnou-anus OF samples OF food shrilly de-
clared BY countless posters throughout
the Garden 10 be absolutely pure a mill
tary band crashed out cymoalic music
from the second balcony. Everywhere,
from the College Of tie City OF New York
there seemed an air OF light-hearted
cheerfulness. You felt, as you strolled
through the aisles, bordered by attractive
exhibits OF your favorite baking powder
and pancake flour and chill sauce and
am and all the products Of tho dairy,
that this was revised edition Of the
county fair, with canned bacon instead Of
grunting porkers 10 look at, but with all
The charm OF holiday making retained, and
free fee cream to take. perhaps the place
"f the Aomcly bed quilt in your regard.
The boys only were serious, absorbed.
They wore surgeons antiseptic white
coats They were treating with their
chemicals and their retorts food brought
IN them by the public. They have been
taught 10 distinguish good food from bad.
a pathetic proportion Of the food SUBJ
united during the exposition was found
hv these boys 10 be impure. SO much so,
Boo fact. that the word itself was frequent
~ cast out BY them as too weak for the
requirements.
We couldn't get along without cooks, II
Sc said, but worse than that according TO
these youthful chemists of the College OF
the City OF New York, the cooks would be
stumped for the raw materials Of their
trade If anything should happen to the
supply Of coal tar. The rallying cry of the
cook ladies'. confronted with such catas-
trophic actually. would, II is alleged, then
he. Take away our Thursday and Sunday
afternoons off, II We will but leave US,
praise be. our coal tar" salaried pure
food advocate says they couldn't be blamed.
Weddings should be things apart. The
ordinary trials and the great gravity OF
living are things that are sidetracked, as
o rule. until the honeymoon special goes
ny But wedding cake at the recent ex-
position was found 10 contain coal tar IN
such amount that II could be detected by
the direct application Of hydrochloric acid
% the cake itself
The body of q chocolate layer cake was
colored in imitation OF egg color taken
from coal tar. The chocolate layer con-
tainsd no chocolate, but did contain min
eral matter. Strawberry fruit syrup was
discovered 20 owe its beautiful color 10
coal tar. Old port, such as is absorbed at
Newport and elsewhere, had not only coal
tar color but sallcylic acid as well, Pure
,herry red fruit syrup biJshod with a
shame that aroused, however, no pity IN
the chest OF the college chemist when the
result showed that though its glow be as