Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-08
PAPER MILK CONE
USED IN NEW YORK
Experts IndorSe Device
Keeping Contents Fresh
Five Weeks.
Epccial Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, January 8.-The glass
milk bottle. that symbol for more than
40 wears of breakfast purity and graded
quality. may soon take its place with the
horsehair sofa, the iron reindeer and
other products of the innocent Vic
torian era.
The milk bottle, which has survived
four decades of contact with hard pave
mpnts, areaways of brownstone houses
and dimly lighted hallS-the milk bottle.
which is also the symbol from Chicago
to the Bronx of scent deposit
the milk bottle has been pronounced
passs.
That pronouncement was made yes
tefday afternoon at luncheon of dairy
men, health experts and welfare work
crs. who gathered at the Hotel Blltmore,
uuaffed milk from a cone-Shaped con-
tainer and toasted it as successor to
the glass bottle.
Containers in Use Today.
AS a result when dawn creeps over
the chimneyS today more than 50,oOO
families in Harlem and the Bronx VIII
receive their daily pint or quart of milk
in a container made of parafflned spruce
fiber.
The milk will be delivered in this
fashion at the same cost by the Shef-
field Farm Co. Inc, which is prepared
to discard the glass bottle entirely If
the cardboard substitute meets the ap-
proval of the public. Though the cost
of filling will be less, there will be no
immediate reduction in price to the
public. -,
posit, a change which is expected to
affect no one except amateur collectors
of milk bottles. Those light SleeperS
who are awakened easily at dawn by
the clatter of bottles and the charge
of the milkman stumbling through the
hall may be happier under the new
regime.
Milk Wagon Doom Sounded.
IF the glass bottle goes, it is quite
likely that the old milk wagon will dis
appear. The company which has sup
piled the container is also manufactur-
ing moving milk booth, attached to
the side of a motorcycle, which carries
800 quars of milk, so quarts more than
the average glass load.
The new container, it is argued. can
be opened quite simply by cutting Oft
the narrow end of the cone. This Is
chiId's play, its promoters insist, COM
pared to pushing in a milk bottle cap,
with the attending danger of a milk
bath Instructions are printed on each
container.
The promoter of the new container
is R. r. Reilly. president of the Sealed
Container Corporation, BAT Madison
avenue.
Stays Pure Five Weeks.
Because" he explained, "of the posi-
tive and alright seal and the nature
of the container the milk stays pure.
Milk in sealconeS has been kept fresh
and usuable for five weeks
Dr.. Louis !. Harris. former commits
sioner Of health, told guests at the
luncheon that the container was
safe method of retailing milk. He said
the growth of bacteria would be slower
in the cardboard than in glass. He
hoped. he said that the milk COM
panies would reduce the cost of its
product to the public SO that contain
ers would be within the financial reach
of those who now use loose milk.
Speakers at the luncheon included
Mr.. Reilly. whose father, DR.. Frank w
Reilly, was assistant health commission
er in Chicago when glass milk bottles
were introduced; Bruce Barton and DR..
Harris. Officials of the Sheffield Farm
Co., Borden Farm Product Co. and the
Walker Gordon Milk Co., attended the
luncheon.