Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-26

/ the establishments In paying the health
department officials was to pass them
u small part of their weekly earnings
! each day, ono at n time, in back
room. Large sums of money In a
lump were feared.
In other establishments the money
was placed in the pockets of their
street clothes while hanging in a
| locker.
Schoneweg attempted to show the
slaughterers that by paying bribes In
this manner they took an unnecessary
chance every day. whereas if an or
ganized system were introduced Cal
lahan" (Boyle) could do the collecting
for everybody and split it up on the
outside without incurring risk either
for the slaughterers or the health de-
partment officials.
Finally arrangements were agreed
upon whereby Schoneweg, who had
receive $3.50 a week, while Callahan
and each of the other inspectors were
to receive $75 week.
But, there mustn't be any more
diseased cows or calves of any kind.
Everything must be passed." said the
slaughterers.
1.-The man who makes the daily
health department report of con-
demnations will get a few dollars every
day, and he will continue to make re-
ports the same as before. To make q
showing we will enter ten or twelve
condemnations every day"
When the other inspectors were in
formed of these arrangements they
refused to have anything to do with
them. Many of them were still firmly
convinced that the leak from head
quarters meant that DR.. Schoneweg
was decoy, and they insisted on Il.
continuance of the old system of pay
ments, with no third person involved.
Evidence fully corroborated had al
ready been obtained against each of
the twelve slaughterers. But the COR
roboration of Il third party in connec-
ton with the bribes paid to the health
department officials, who refused to
he decoyed by Schoneweg's arrange
ments, could not be secured.
Director Browns leak had made it
impossible to catch any of his own
men, and acting upon this conviction
Commissioner Wallstein ordered his
staff to close in upon the gang of
slaughterers and let the officials go.
May 26, 1916, one of the slaughter
ers, David Feinberg, while in the act
of passing $3.50 to Callahan (Boyle),
was brought to Commissioner Wall
STEMS office and examined.
At o'clock in the morning Fein-
berg broke down and made a complete
confession. | assisted in his eXami-
nation and a copy of his confession is
in my possession. Thus collapsed the
wholesale graft system of the New
York city health departments meat
inspection service.
The following morning Health Com
missioner DR.. Haven Emerson revoked
the permits of the five slaughterhouses
operated by :. K II. Plaut, Robert
Plaut & Son, Strauss. Schick &; Fein-
berg, II. Braunschweig and II. Bulnick.
The revocation of these permits was
followed within twenty y-four hours by
the arrest of Robert Plaut. Henry
Plaut Samuel Plaut. Arthur Plaut,
Simon Plaut, Robert Plaut, Jr., David
Feinberg, Philip Strauss, Aaron SchiCk,
III. Braunschweig. Harry Farmer and
Fl. Bulnick, proprietors of the slaugh-
terhouSeS.
Eight veterinarians connected with
the health department were dismissed
from service. The tip which had put
them on their guard against Schone-
veg saved them from prosecution.
The farmers of New York State,
through their representatives, had op-
posed all legislation intended to license
country district slauRhterhouses and
to provide for the killing under expert
supervision of the dangerous animals
constantly being culled out Of the
milk producing herds of the country.
one year before, as we have seen,
a bill providing for the control of this
wretched situation has been viciously
killed in committee.
In their ignorance and cupidity the
farmers were laying a curse upon
their own children.
These wholesale arrests were not
comforting. They disclosed the dis
turbing fact that New York's cream
cries and cheese factories were using
in the production of cheese and butter
the milk of animals dying of disease.
They disclosed the fact, that the
tubercular milk of such animals, as
well as ther diseased flesh, is sold raw
in all the cities of the state. as well
as in all the states of the Union.
BURIED IN SOLDIERS UNIFORM
William Bishop. father of Rev.
George Bishop, pastor of the Bush
wick Avenue Methodist Episcopal
Church of Brooklyn, an old man of
four-score years and four, made n dy-
ing request that he be buried in his
soldiers uniform. The request was
granted, and his widow of four score
years and his four devoted children
put his body asleep as a soldier under
the flag and among the flowers till the
reunion on the other side. Mr.. Bishop
enlisted in the Civil War at its begin.
ming. and continued in it, being with
TIE Union forces at AppomattoX. He
carried the colorS in more than twenty
battles, and the Stars and Stripes We're
woven into the very texture of his
soul. What a splendid symbol of the
soldier of the Lord Jesus Christ, with
the Cross as his standard and Christ
his Captain! One of the great moral
soldier heroes on leaving the world
said: 81 have fought q good fight"
The Christian Herald.