The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-04-02
Miscellany
Idaho's Pure Food.

The following extracts arc from an
article by Isaac Russell in World 9
Work for March, entitled GLOW Idaho
Got Pure Food -
ries on a swat-the-hy crusade, and
two electric fans play upon the cook
in the diniDg-car kitchen so that the
food may be free from the sweat Of
his toll In that state federal judges
have ordered all the prisoners removed
from certain jails and the bedding IN
the condemned iails burned up to the
Last pillow case, the shame Of main
tanning such a prison being 80 we'll ad
pie tore it down and commenced forth
with to build new one in strict con-
,formity with the best ideas on santa
tion possessed by the voting women
Of the neighborhood.
These are some Of the works of sani-
tary Inspector James Fl. Wallis, who
has also carried now sanitary stand
houses, the big corporations, the can
neries, the slaughter houses, and even
the public schools.
Mr. Wallis first met the problem
of railroad dining cars on a trip from
his homo town-which, on account of
his swat-the-fly crusade there, has
taken on the sobriQuet Of ''Buzzless
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neighboTihg state of Utah.
Tainted chops were served to a
merchant of Glenns Ferry. Idaho. He
was paying a fancy price for them and
up to that moment had never suspected
that tainted meat would be served in
such luxurious surroundings as prevail
on the usual dining car. A newspaper
man, on the same train, told Mr. Wallis.
Mr.. Wallis made no disturbance with
~ h1f ba
There he showed his badge and an
nounced that he intended to make an
inspection. - 90
working in a hot little compartment
without ventilation. Next he noticed
that flies filled the compartment, at.
tracted, doubtless, by the rancid smell
of bad meat, In the ice boxes he found
bad chops, shiny steaks, decaying veg
etables. He asked kindly questions Of
the cook about the reason for it all,
and learned that his particular dining
car was on the home stretch of long
run out Of Ogden. Utah, to Huntington,
Ore. The custom, he found, was to
stock the car in Ogden and not to re-
stock it again until its return. More
than that, there was credit marks for
tho dining car conductor who served his
goods so sparingly that he always car
ried the largest amount of surplus. Mr..
| Wallis took note of the surprising
amount of perspiration on the brow OF
the cook and also Of the frying pans
into which it fell. He made second
| inspection late at night and noticed the
feet of husky negro walters protrud-
ing from blankets laid down over the
dining car tables. Next day he searched
for the blankets and found them
slowed away on shelves in the pantry
| ,bo,-o yacl 0aS nf fond that the cook
had left openl
Now Mr.. Wallis had been q news
paper proprietor and he had learned
how to make a story into Hnews. - He
knew, also, that there was no policeman
so good as the light, properly turned
on. So, In few days he had the news
papers handle the story. Mr.. Wallis
different, in the dining car lockers.
| "But it's perfectly good food pro-
tested the dining car conductor.
"But IL wou1dp t be perfectly good
food by the time il reached passengers
travelling on your road in this state,
replied Mr.. Wallis. "How could IL
be-" he added, "when it is carried on
the cars 80 long, and there is no ven.
tilation in the kitchen and it is bound
/ to be cooked with liberal sprinkling
ISf perspiration!'
- ASiSu the superintendent OF the dining
.cane to Idaho on visit Of
satsApity-anytbiug
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ggest the road
put into its
r. Wallis was
i2Her screen
dining ears
the cook g
bs two of
ow and thus