Evening star., 1912-07-21
GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS
DUMPING UNcIEAN RA1SlES
1Nro A GARAAGE.WAGoN 4

eggs that were bad and which yet found
their way into the food OF the people.
This was more complicated in the man.
ner in which it was worked out by the in
Spectors.
It is not generally known that there
is an extensive industry in eggs out OF
the she'll There are desiccated eggs,
which means that they are dried up.
Then there is the egg material that is
kept and therefore may be perfectly good
material is the separated portions of
whites and yolks, placed in cans tubs
and kept refrigerated. This material
may result from the opening Of good eggs
may be properly prepared and properly
kept and therefore may be perfectly good
for food purposes. A large per cent of
bakeries buy their eggs in this condI-
ton instead of in the shell. They are
easier transported and easier kept.
In a certain central west city
large dealer who maintained a high-class
establishment that handled eggs prepared
in this way. He did stupendous busi-
ness and had waxed wealthy. incidentally
he had been under suspicion several
occasions, and had been in danger of
prosecution. Because Of this he assum
ed to have been offended by the pure
food inspectors and refused them admis
sion into his establishment.
Now, there is another purpose to which
eggs may be put besides being used as
food. Their yolks are used in tanning
fine kid gloves. They may be used for
this purpose when they are far gone
that they might no longer be legitimately
used for food. In city not far distant
from that in which the large egg dealer
operated there was :econd man who
purported to deal only in eggs as tanning
material. This man bought large guam
titles of questionable eggs at reduced
prices and supposedly converted them
into this tanning material.
The large dealer never bought anything
but high-class eggs. There seemed no
reason, therefore. why his product should
not be all that was expected of it, The
inspectors were able to examine the eggs
he received and knew them to be good
They were also able TO get access to the
material he sold and knew some of that
to be bad. They were long puzzled to de-
termine wherein lay the solution of this
seemingly needless sale of decayed ma
terial. Accidentally they stumbled upon
the fact that the second man. who sup
posedly used bad eggs for tanning pur-
poses. was selling less of this material
than would have been provided by the
quantity of eggs that he was buying. This
led to the suspicion that ne was selling
these bad eggs as food. The inspectors
Searcned 1drtner ana discovered that the
prices he was paying for these questioned
eggs were higher than would have been
warranted by the market price of the
tanning material.
Being thus convinced that there was
strong possibility that these two dealers
were working In collusion the pure food
detectives laid about them for a method
of shadowing an egg in its supposed
progress through these two establish
ments and 20 the ultimate consumer The
task was made doubly difficult because of
the enInity and suspicion in which both
establishments held the inspectors and
their consequent exclusion from them.
These detectives are mostly educated
men. many of them being college gradu-
ates and some OF them chemists of great
skill. They know a lot about analysis
and reactions. Science is being made to
solve many a riddle since such men have
taken up the business OF sleuthing. In
this case 1t served to identify eggs that
were first seen In the shell and which re-