Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-13
MAKES FINAL STAND IMPURE WATER USED
0rozco Musters Army to Charge Against Meat Packers
Check Advancing FederaIs. by Former Inspector.
BURN BRIDGES IN REAR BAD SANITARY CONDITIONS
Defeated Rebels Take Position the j. W. Burroughs Declares
Trenches at Rellano Laws Were Openly Violated
REFUGEES BOARD BUF0RD BUREAU FAILS TO PREVENT
About Allegations
Status De-
ulture.
Charge Against Meat Packers
by Former Inspector.
BAD SANITARY CONDITIONS
j. w. Burroughs Declares Health
Laws Were Openly Violated.
BUREAU FAILS TO PREVENT
Allegations Against Secretary Will
son and Other Officials of De-
partment of Agriculture.

Water from the Potomac river pro-
nounced impure by the MARYLAND state
board of health and by the city health
officer at Cumberland. Md. was used in
the branch packing house of Swift 4,
Co In that city, with the approval OF
the Department of Agriculture against
the protest of Federal Inspector J. W
Burroughs. according To Mr.. Burroughs'
statement before the House committee
on agricultural expenditures today. He
also denounced packing house conditions
AT Philadelphia as something awful"
In describing his two observations
or packing house conditions at Phila-
oeiphia, covering period of two
tanning worms, scrapple made of bad
meat hog carcasses that emitted an
a"fui stencil and revolving sanitary
conditions"
Advocates Investigation.
Mr.. Burroughs left the government
service March s. 1912. He is now ap-
pearing as witness in support of
Representative Nelson's resolution to
investigate the bureau of animal i'm
dustry and the administration of Sec-
retary Wilson and Solicitor McCabe or
the Department of Agriculture. He
rallied TO safeguard the health of the
people. and bolstered his testimony as
to impure water with documents.
Burroughs said that during a typhoid
fever epidemic he became suspicious of
the water supply at Cumberland and a
sample of the water he sent to the de-
partment at Washington was reported by
A. d. Melvin, chief of the bureau of ami
NAL industry, as free of pollution" Mel
vim instructed Burroughs that IL was
within his power to stop the use of water
in the packing house If he found that
the source of water supply was con-
taminated or polluted by surroundings
Subsequently the water was used and
beef was soaked in 1t for five hours, he
said. although analysis of the water later
showed its impurity.
The city of Cumberland has expended
half million dollars since to better
water conditions, Mr. Burroughs said.
Mr.. Burroughs said that he served for
two years and a half at Cumberland.
Hogs Not Inspected.
. At the Swift & Co. establishment
in Cumberland. he said, he had re-
fused the shipment of twenty-five hogs
which bore no mark OF having been
United States inspected and passed"
Under Instructions from the department
he went to Pittsburgh, the origin of the
shipment, and appeared against Swift a.
Co. He said he had never been ''able TO
find out what became of that case
The packers in Philadelphia violate the
law. he said. 4 part of the law requires
that all portions of the packing house be
open day and night to inspectors. WILL
liam Morland e. Sons denied him admit
tance to the sweet pickle room where
the cure for hams and smoked meats
is prepared, he said. Michener's plant re-
fused him access to the dried beef"
room. This firm has a secret process for
the preparation Of this food.