Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-11-06
COMMISSIONERS DIG UP
OLD LAW WHICH WILL
BE USED AS CLUB
PROTEST DEFEATED
MiLkMEN LOSE POINT WHEN
DELEGATION FROM CIVIC DE-,
pARTMENT INSISTS on REGu-
lATlON OF LACTEAl SUPPLY.

Ottawa babies viii be provided
with better milk in the future follow
ing the campaign started by the OF
tawa Womans club last week for
more sanitary dairy product-. Last
night at the meetiag Of the city coun-
oil, five pages Of city ordinances, pro
viding Tor sanitary milk, a milk in
spector. and that only milk Of Ger
tain grade, IN regard To buttertat. et".,
should be sold in Ottawa Violation
Of each statute OF this ordinance Is
punishable by fine
To Collect License Fees.
II also developed that the same or
dinances passed in 1906, required
each milk man to pay $40 annual
license for each wagon he operates,
and people not having wagons, but
selling milk to their neishbors were
requested to pay 81 o. license Ac'
c3rding to City Clerk W. W. Curtis.
none OF the Ottawa dealers have pad
their milk licenses for the pa It year
A few paid them in 1917 and up to
three years ago, all of the milkmen,
paid the fees regularly.
Al the provisions Of these ordi-
nances will be enforced in the IN
ture
DIG Up Old Law.
The laws were dug up by City At
torley Glenn Wecse. following the
campaign started by the Ottawa
" ouar's club last week. for more
sanitary milk Representatives OF tAe
club, Mrs. Gus Knuessl. the president,
Mrs John Edgcomb, the president u
the Civics department; Mrs. c. T..
Pow ers. Mrs. George Glenn. Mrs o.
to 4 .Hetzner Mrs + Morris anI
Mrs. W f Carr. were in attondanc"
a, tn. meeting having been told that
th4 milkmon. were going to ille It
rctit'ol of protest against the move
started by the women.
Or. Pike Favors Bottles.
IN. W II Pike, the ,.ty health )t-
ficer spoke for the miikmen, stating
that the manner in which tn" Ottawa
dailvu,en delivered 'heIr wares h11
becu brought to his attention several
times during the pa t few years He
agreed with the ladies that the meth
cd of delivering milk in bottles was
the best method. II carried out proper.
". but stated that in the homes where
the bottles needed most care. they re
ceived the least and that the Otta-
wa dairvmen did not have the proper
facilities for caring tor and sterlljzing
their bottles He went on to explain
that It was easier for the dairymen
than
several hundred bottles. and that it
was less expensive He admitted that
there was dsadvantage in the dis
triDurion of cream by the method of
delivering the milk in cans
He declared that the only way 10
get sanitary Inspection OF milk was
to 80 into the source That the inn.
portan thing in the inspection OF
milk. was the examination for bactor-
ia, end that the city had no method
or equipment for making such tests
He admitted that a new milk ordi.
nanc, was needed in Ottawa, that
the old one was passed fifteen years
aso and was oaly filling the re
ourt nlcnts Of that day. And sug
gcAted that the analysis for bacteria
he made in the Illinois Valley hospit
a. laboratory.
He spoke of pastouri2ing the milk
and discouraged that method, as nam
people do not care for the taste OF
milk that has been pasteurized. He
returned to the subject Of the peti
tion rresenteV from the WomanS
club and declared that that was chief
ly to have the milk bottled and that
the milkmen could not afford to put
III aterilizers.
Mrs. Edscomb Spokeswoman.
Mrs. Edgcomh spoke for the club
saving that she did not understand
why the Ottawa dairymen could no
provide themselves with the nCCes
sary equipment for carrying on thci
business She mentioned the fac
that In Chicago and the larger cities
where there were many poor rcopl,
the milk was bottled, and that /
they recognized the fact that bottIint
milk was the best method, she did no
see why the Ottawa people could no
have sanitary delivery.
The mayor then explained that tn
city had an ordinance calling for san