The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-01-05
CARY STREET WILL
BE CLEANED UP
Food Supplies Exposed to Dust,
Germs and Filth of Streets
and Cutters.
TAKE ALL MEATS INSIDE
Producers and Transportation
Companies Blaned-How
Bad Eggs Smell.
TAKE ALL MEATS

Unclean and unsanltary. conditions
surrounding the handling of human
food OH Cary Street and nearby
thoroughfarcs in the commission mer-
chant district, will be rcmedicd
through the cooperation of tho bust
ness houses and the State and city Of
metals. according to promises made
yesterday. The whole matter was dis
cussed at meeting held yesterday in
the courtroom of the Supreme Court
of Appeals
The merchants were present at tho
request of L. -. Jones. IN inspector for
the state Dairy anu Food Department
Mr. Jones said he hai noted some very
unsatisfactory conditions in the COM
mission district which were in viola
ton Of the law. but which ne preferred
TO see corrected by the voluntary ac-
tion of the men responsible. He real
iHed that they were but the result or
custom and Of carle3snoss, nni hoped
he would not DC obliged 10 invoke the
law and cause arrests and prosccut-
ions.
Meats Of various kinds, he said were
lett exposed to dust ana germs ami
the offal of the street HoyS were left
lying on the Sidewalks and in the gut
ters The same was truc of dressed
rabbits and fowls In sonIc cases the
dust was so thick that in, pcction of
the article was well nigh Impossible.
thus defeating even the purpose for
which the articles are cvposcd-to at
tract custom.
1t was suggested by Mr. Jones thai
showcases be provided for the DIS
play OF food products % various kinds
At all events, he wanted all sorts OF
articles designed FOR hinln corSnmp-
non TO be kept Oft Cary Street and
taken inside the places of business
State Food Commissioner w D..
saunders addressed tho merchants
briefly. He said that this was part of
a general movement to surround tho
food supply OF the iicoplc with improv-
ed conditions. He thought II might
be possible 10 have "a cooperative cold
storage plant, IN which most OF the
meat could be kcpt
y general discussion was engaged in
by the merchants. Some OF them said
the cost of installing and running a
cold storage plant would be too great
Others snid that the public docs not
like cold storage meats, and will not
pay as good Il price for them One
explained tina, the skin OF a turkey,
for instance, cracks after being in
cold storage, thereby revealing
the fact Mr.. Saunders, however
called attention TO the fact that an
Identical result would follow a similar
cliunSc of outside Il npcraturc.
Producers were roundly denounced
FOR sending in unclcan food, while cX-
press companies We're said 10 add 10
the trouble. 1t was suggested that
tic latter be required not to take
meats impropcrly shipped. but Mr.
Saunders said they Gre carriers ,and
could not be so handled. Dolcfui pic
lures of hogs on which chickens had
then dumped into the mud In the gut
they had been preceded by fish. and
the nuaInped into the mud In the gut
ter by the drivers We're drawn.
Tales About Bind DSRs,
No chemical compound, said tile
merchants, has ever been discovered
To destroy the odor OF 4 bad egg
These articles are said to cplode
when laid the floor. and to per.
fumc an entire block, making every
food article within reach smell OF
them. a merchant rctold the tale Of
TWO barrels of spoiled eggs. which the
Street Department would not haul
away. and which the Health Depart
ment could not touch, and yet which
lie was ordered to get out of his place.
But Mr.. Jones brought all of them
back TO the real OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
up their business houses Then one
said that 1t was not fair 10 single
out Richmond for this, whereupon
Mr. Saunders told him that conditions
in Lynchburg are ten times better
than here, and thht Roano. c. Dnnville
and Petersburg are FAR in advance of
J;ichmond IN cleanliness In handling
food in wholesale houses.
$50 they nil agreed they could do
just as we'll by keeping meats and
game inside their places OF business
and asked that the State and City
iicalth Departments give them advice,
which Mr.. Jones said lo would take
pleasure I'm doing