New-York tribune., 1918-04-09

the declaration of the Committee on
= Public Information that most Of the
cases investigated have proved ground
les and in spite of the New York
Health Departments announcement
that only one sample in 100 submitted
by the police, Federal authorities and
the Food Board was found to contain
glass.
The Food Board issued the following
official statement yesterday:
The Federal Food Board thought
over it's recent public warning for a
long time before giving it out, and
sees no reason now to change it, at
least so far as the territory under
the jurisdiction of the Federal Food
Board for New York is concerned"
The warning referred to. in brief,
was: "Chew all food thoroughly; it may
contain glass"
1t was pointed out at the boards Of
fees that the Washington statement re-
ferred to the situation throughout the
country, and not to New York in par
tlcular. 1t was thought that the stua-
tion in New York was more serious
than anywhere else.
Doubt Widespread Plot
1t was also pointed out that neither
the Food Board nor any other official
body had attributed the epidemic to q
widespread enemy plot, although the
board had backed T. l. Jones, chairman
of the Brooklyn Food Protection Com
mlttee, IN his campaign to oust alien
enemy employees from bakeshops.
Food Administrator Williams had ex-
put in maliciously, but that it was the
work of individuals, not Of an organ
ization.
This view was supported yesterday
by United States Marshal Power, Of
Brooklyn. He thought, however, that
it was being done on very small scale,
the few authenticated cases being ap-
parently an effort to injure some par
ticular baker, as in the Arkansas case
formation referred.
He told also of case that was
obviously accidental, glass from a
broken window in the bakeshop having
fallen into the dough.
GAS for the 'epidemic,'" said Mar
shall Power, "it is pure hysteria. I
have proved to my own satisfaction
that the glass was put in the bread
by the persons who brought it to me,
in the hope Of getting notoriety."
Melville ]. France, Federal District
only one case in which glass was
proved to be present. 1t was candy
case, and the glass was as big as a
grain Of wheat. He refused to specu-
late as to whether it was put there
deliberately or accidentally and as to
/ whether public alarm is justified. The
matter was in the hands of Marshal
Power. he said.
Superintendent De Woody, of the
Department of Justice, would add moth
ing to what he already said-that in
hn ~,
less clumsy poison than glass He
admitted that there might be an odd
case of revenge against baker, but
said he had not encountered one in
his investigation.
The Department of Health, which
last week found only one piece of
glass in hundred samples of food
submitted to it, announced last night
that it had since then examined fifty
more and found no glass at all.
The epidemic now appears to be
more or less confined to Brooklyn,
where Marshal Power is investigating.
and The Bronx, where eleven cases
have caused District Attorney Francis
Martin to summon bakers and millers
for a grand jury investigation. Ho-
boken has had several cases, but Man
haitian very few.
Philip Chevess, aged eleven, son of
Mrs. Rose Chevess, Of 1853 CHRISTOPHER
Street, Brooklyn, is reported to be i'll
as the result of eating bread contain
ing glass. The case has been reported
to the police.
A piece of glass half an inch long
small boy. of 2075 Fulton Street
Brooklyn, while he was eating bread.
his father, Joseph Mulvey, told the
Brooklyn police.