New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-04
Glass in Candy
Brings Arrest
OF 2 Germans
Chocolates Bought by Sailor
in Brooklyn Under
Analysis

"oS " era the epidemic OF glass
IN bread, candy and other cdibles by
arresting German confectioncr and
MS assistant in Brooklyn and begin
ning investigation of several other
cases.
For some time the Federal Food
Board has been worried by the in
creaslng number of complaints from
all parts of greater New Work, and
yesterday matters came to a head.
Edward Waller, ccnfectioner, 167
Myrtle Avenue. Brooklyn, and his
clerk, Henry Willems, both unnatural
lzcd Germans, are i'll Raymond Street
Jail upon the order of United States
Marshal Power, pending analysis of
chocolates said TO have been sold yes
terday by Willcms to William Lewis,
a sailor attached to the receiving ship
New York.
When Lewis bit a chocolate he
struck glass or grit. He reported it
to the Adams Street police station
and Captain Coleman assigned Detec-
tive Neggersmith to the case. After
a brief examination the Federal au-
thorities were called in and the Health
Department notified
Embargo on His Stock
Isadore Merlis, inspector of the food
division of the Health Department,
placed an embargo on all candy in the
store that had come from the Reliable
Candy Company, 634 Broadway, from
whom Waller said he had purchased it.
Waller said the candy was manufact-
ured by concern in Trenton, N. j.
Waller is twenty three years old, a
native Of Freiburg, Germany. He came
to the United States at the age of four
teen and obtained his first. citizenship
papers. Last May he applied for sec
ond papers, but was too late. war hav-
ing been declared. Willems is twenty
years old. and has been in the United
States only four years.
The Federal Food Board announced
last night that Theodore l. Jones,
chairman Of the Brooklyn Food Pro
lection Committee, had acted without
explicit authority from the board in
issuing an order to twenty-five large
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enemies from their employ.
Mr.. Jones nevertheless stated that
his position as chairman of commit
tee OF the food board created to pro-
tect the public gave him such power
He added that the order was being car
ried out willingly by the bakers. 1t
was stated that the Ward company had
discharged two German born employees.
Since the beginning Of the complaints
Of glass found in bread and candy the
food board has been guarded in its an
nouncements, warning the public not to
be alarmed, but, nevertheless, to watch
for glass in bread.
Child Made Ill in Brooklyn
Several of the complaints come from
Brooklyn. Elinor Martin, aged three
1923 East Thirteenth street, Flatbush
is reported to be i'll as the result of
eating bread containing glass. Though
the physician in charge said he was not
certain of the cause, William II. Fla
hcrty, 367 East Twenty-third street, and
Mary B. Whiting, 1879 Seventy first
street, also are reported to have found
elass in bread. Among Manhattan cases
is that of Miss Marinobel Smith, 173
Lexington avenue, who reported to the
Department of Justice yesterday that
she had found glass in a roll served at
a restaurant near her home.
A little girl in the Kings Highway
district is said to be seriously III
through eating bread containing glass
The physician who attended her founc
that her throat was bleeding. Supcrn-
tendent de Woody, of the Department
of Justice, has this case in hand
While public hysteria is probably re
sponsible for many of the reports, the
Federal food board is greatly concerned
over the situation and is pressing its
investigation. Some of the cases have
been found to be bascless, but others
remained unexplained, except on the
theory that glass has been used delib
eratcly.
Two little boys brought half Loaf
into the food boards Office yesterday
afternoon and announced that they hae
been sent by Mrs. Mary D. Stephens, ot
Ala West Fifty-sixth Street. who hae
found glass in the bread. Food boare
officials examined the half loaf ant
found sharp crust, but no glass.
Theodore Marvon, painter, 1885 Thirt
Avenue, took to the East 104th Stree
police station yesterday "chocolatt
nut bar" that appeared to contain pow
dcred and broken glass. He said hi.
two sons had bought two pieces at the
stand of Philip Levitas, 1898 Third Ave
nuc, several nights ago. One of Tho
boys had eaten his piece, but the othe,
had saved his until Tuesday night
when Mrs. Maryon began to eat it.
Lcvitas told Detective Sommers, o.
the Third Branch Bureau, that he
bought the candy from jobber. i
bore no manufacturers name. The boy
who ate the candy suffered no i'll effect