The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-08-30
STATE FOOD men
IN BREAK WITH
LOCAL OFFICERS
Claim Latter Tried To Call on
Inspectors in Crusade Against
Rotten Meat
KITCHENS OF BOATS AND
TRAINS LOOKED INTO
More Blue VitrOl Peas and Put
rid Chicken and Steak Are
Condemned

Cooperation between the state III
spectors, who are earring on 'isor
ous campaign against dirty outcnei
shops and food adulteration geheraii'
and the local meat inspectors nave
come 10 an end and relations are
severely strained.
The crisis came THURSDAY evening
when one OF the lccai inspectors ahu
Henry Collins. one OF Commissioned
Helmes men, Quarreled over dinca.
ties said to have been thrown In the
way or the state workers. Inspector
Collins and Lincoln both SAID FRIDAY
that local inspectors were trying u
discourage them and had asked them
not TO make the campaign so vigorous
and not to advertise il too much.
Commissioner Helme was In l.ans
ing, Friday, but before he left ne
warned his nen not TO put TOO much
faith In local systems OF inspection
In spectors who work for loca
boards and are responsible 10 loca
officers are nearly always sure to have
friends and political connections
which must be protected and they are
very much hampered in their work.
he said.
The local and state inspectors ex
changed some sharp comments or
each others work when the campaign
began but for 4 few days this web
Leo Taube, local meat inspector. TOOK
the state men around In his automo
= HOY uFf1l
separately.
The state has only about ~ mer
to cover the whole territory" said In
spector Collins, Friday. This In
cludes inspectors for every kind Of
food and dairy work, and all the EN-
ployes In the clerical Offices and the
laboratories. too. The city health
board In It's laboratories and all de
partments has over 100 employees, and
has only the city territory TO watch
yet the state department, under
Commissioner Helme, has made more
successful prosecutions for violation
OF the food laws since the first Of the
year than the city health department
In years and the conditions we have
been uncovering shows something Ii
wrong somewhere"
Boats and trains were visited by the
inspectors. Friday morning, and the
only thing discovered that was radi
cally wrong, was few cans OF blue
vitriol peas on the diner OF Gin
cinnati Hamilton Il Dayton line from
Cincinnati.
The kitchens, ice boxes and store
rooms of the City Of Mackinac II. ant
the City of Detroit III. were found In
excellent condition.
The dining room In the Michigan
Central station. run as a private con
cession, was clean and wholesome
The dining cars and the commissary
storeroom Of the Michigan Contra
railroad were described by Inspector
Lincoln as the first places he had
been since he came to Detroit that
made him hungry. They were clear
and the food was all OF the most ex
pensive variety.
The superintendent of dining cars
explained that the Michigan Contra
loses about $4,000 a year on its din
ing cars. Each car carries a crew Of
ten men and serves about 100 meals 9
day at an average price OF 80 cents
each.
The restaurant and lunch room In
the Union station. owned by the
Union News Co., was not without
fault and the employees were dis
courteous to the inspectors. In thu
Ice box here Inspector Lincoln con
demned a putrid cold storage chicken
and some bad steak.
The commissary room Of the Wa
bash in the Union station was In goot
shape and the dining car inspected
was passed as satisfactory.
The chef Of the c.. II. and d. din
ing car was warned by Inspector Lin
coin that no blue vitriol peas could b.
brought into Michigan since the fed
eral law prohibited them in interstate
commerce. The can confiscated b!
the inspector was of Belgian manufac
ture, and was labeled, 'Colored will
sulphate OF copper"
The chef, Forrest Allen. remarked
when the inspector pulled some must.
cans from the store shelves In tn,
car: i've been expecting for loni
time we'd be held up for using thos,
copper peas"
He was told 10 warn the purchas
ing agents OF the road not to try Il
ship them In here.
In the butcher shop OF F. b. Weber
10. Sal Dix-ave.. Inspectors Lincoll
and Rake confiscated 1000 pounds O
putrid meat. Thursday afternoon. Tn,
meat was OF all varieties and wa
hanging in the ice box as II intende,
for sale. II was dosed with kerosene
In the same shop canned goods, pro
cess butter, and other foods wer,
found In bad condition. The clerk II
charge insisted that the owner wa
Ill and that things had been negIecte,
recently.
The Michigan Beef Co.'S slaughter
house on the Dix-rd. was found II
good condition with floors and recep
tacles washed frequently to avoi,
contamination. The markets o
George Witt. No. TIA Dix-ave., ant
Fred T. Hunt. No. 1879 Dix-ave., wer,
also sanitary, although in the Hun
market the scales were made to favo
the shop by a paper covering over tn,
glass. The bakeries OF F.. b. Woods
No. us Dix-ave.. and A. Bauer. No
678 Dix-ave., were clean and whole
some,