The Detroit times., 1913-09-03
STATE FOOD men
ARE VlCTORSIN
COURT SKlRMlSH
Butcher Kukielka, Whose Shop
is Found in Filthy Shape,
Promises to Plead Guilty
| CREAMERIES PUT UP
LOUD HOWL TO HELME
Protest Against Seizure of
"Yeasty" Cream, Which Often
Makes Poisoned Butter

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| Joseph Kukielka, the butcher who
defed the courts. threatened. to kill
himself il put out Of business, refused
to clean up and wept when State
Food Inspectors Collins and Lincoln
were destroying his putrefying meat
a week ago. was brought before JUS
tice Stein, in police court, Tuesday
morning, and waived examination,
promising to plead guilty In the re-
corders court to maintaining an I'M
sanitary place.
This was the first skirmish the state
inspectors have had in court during
their present campaign. and was an
unqualified victory. Kukielka was
much calmer than on his previous
meeting with the inspectors, promised
to clean up, and was 30 reasonable
that the inspectors will recommend
to the recorder that he let OF with
the minimum fine OF $25.
/ Knkielka's place was the worst Wis
| tied by the inspectors in all their
travels. last week. The sausage lac
tory he maintained at No. 7iS Rio
pelle-st., where he manufactured the
product sold there and also In his oth'
er shops, No. 1926 Dubois-st. and NO.
2S6 Canfield-ave. east, was indescriD-
ably filthy The floor was OF mud, and
hogs, cattle and poultry were living
among the machines. He has prom
| Used to clean up and keep his place
wholesome and sanitary.
| The inspectors are prepared TO
push several other cases against
butchers unless they plead guilty
Restaurants, bakeries. egg COM
pound, and a few other miscellaneous
! foods will be investigated by the In
spectors, this week. Charles II.
| Brownell. OF the state staff, has been
especially assigned to investigate the
sales of oleomargarine and the hao
its of grocers I'm deceiving people
with cheap butter limitations.
Consumers who pay 40 cents a
mound for creamery butter may posi-
! bly, be getting the real thing, but the
| fact that II bears the label OF big
creamery concern, comes In fancy
package and gets fancy price Is no
! guarantee OF its purity. II may nave
been made from the "yeasty cream
such as the pure food inspectors are
condemning all over the state. In
spector G. V. Jones, of Commissions
| Helme's dairy force. was In Detroit
Tuesday morning. returning from a
campaign in Alma, Mich, where the
! Swift interests have an enormous cen
] tralizing plant for the making OF but
| ter and handling produce and meats
I'VE had 10 condemn several hun
dred cans of cream In the Swift
creamery in Alma" said Mr.. Jones,
and Commissioner Helme Is being
besieged by the creamery men to let
up on that phase of the work. A new
law went into effect this summer
which Mr. Helme pushed through the
| legislature last winter, making II pos
, sible to condemn the yeasty cream.
! This is cream shipped a long way and
which gets go hot that IL foams up 10
the top OF the can. II may seem 10
be all right. and II possibly may be all
right. Usually. however. II Is filled
with dangerous bacteria. They cause
the yeasty foam and II there are pto-
maine bacteria In the cream they
have a chance To work on the metal OF
the cans when they get warmed up.
Ptomaine poisoning is possible only
when tho germs have been allowed
to work on metal In a comparatively
high temperature This yeasty cream
makes this possible and the ptomaine
danger has been present in high-pric.