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Earnest Work to Safeguard Public From

Frauds

to Be
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Gets Many Letters and

Keeps Some Upon a

But the peculiar letters which come

Into Dr Wiley are not all from those
who are interested in the whisky ques
tion He gets advice that cheapest of
human commodities from all sorts and
conditions of men and women The no
tice that he was going to start a table
for special food experiments drew hun
dreds of applications and still draws
them One man whose specialty has
hitherto been wild and farm lands
in Wisconsin and the Dakotas wrote as

Funny File
slat in the pure

food war cheating

In spite of the rumors to the of olive oil was received at New York
in the next aeseton of Con- contrary there
been little direct op- labeled Italian whereas the customs
gress if the hopes of Dr Harvey W position on thelute
part of the manufac- omeera have strong suspicions that th
Wiley are realisedOf
turers to the eaaetment of the pure food oil originally canto from Spain
A bill empowering the authorities to laws In the firet place to oppose laws course
is to the dealer advantage
examine and paw upon the purity of that are on the surface only fair and to say it
that the oil is from Italy be-
follows
all domestic foods introduced into the just to the public would be a decided cause oil
that country is sup
I have observed from time to time
States and Territories of this country black eye fqr the man who was trying pcaed to befrom
If
m
world
the
the
best
articles In the newspapers in regard to
comes before the Senate for vote Al to put food stuff on the
r1I t for I
the importer can veil this oil as Italian
your experiments with preservatives for
read t has passed the House If it be- consumption by that rome public Nor oil
his profit will be much larger than
foods by tests upon persons under yoijr
comes a law the chain wilt be oonpiete will these pure food laws materially af-
would be if the oil was put on the
charge and direction and now it occurs
and bcd will be the way of the trans- fect the commerce of the country ex it
flat it a earn
to me that you might wish dome new
gressor For there is a law already in cept in a direction which should com- market as Spanish oil
pie of what is attempted time afterboarders And if so will you kindly
effect which provides for the inspection mend itself to all
time Is there any wonder that some
Inform me under what arrangements I
of suspicious foods imported from for-
The work on the pure foods has been law is necessary to prevent suit hoaxes
would offer myself I am fiftytwo years
eign laude With the proposed interstate along two separate lines chemical ex-
to prevent the cheating of th
young in appear
In good
law to working order the people of the perimentation and the determination of and
I old
ance being taken as perhaps forty or
United States will be assured protection Whit were and what wer not pure foods public
Other practices which have been
so years old The land business has
against manufacturers both European and the framing and carrying throughT
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WITh
are the introduction of adulter-
c
been only a temporary affair with me
and American What a great benefit of the laws which should govern the common
ants to food stuffs and the sale there-
I
the office work in which I have been
and
this wilt br caB only be realised when sale of the foods A great deal of the of
without any mention of the fact
has failed So I would lool
employed
It is known how many hundreds and hard work baa been necessary to or
em
preservative
quantity
the
of
Three times a day the guests of the adulterated according te the desired and
that these adulterants had been added
upon this as a new job
thousands of frauds have been perpe ganise the work of investigation along the
ployed
substitution of foreign matter for Bureau of Chemistry assemble in the amount
A member of the West Side Athletic
trated here by the adulteration and false scientific lines and to perfect the execu- valuable
of
Speaking of the borax experiments and When Dr Wiley pronounced most
constituents and the use of basement of the bureaus headquarters
labeling of foods imported sand manufac tive organization But this is uually
Club
country
in New York who runs better
in
this
whisky
sold
Scotch
upon
the
coloring
The law passed at the at Fourteenth and B Streets southwest of the fffect of such adulterants
tured in this country
writes wrote to Dr Wiley in
he
than
the GlUM with the establishment of any last termmatter
the
water
alcohol
and
raw
creosote
Wiley
In
said
In regard to the where a dining room has been fitted die human system Dr
some tests of tobacco which
regard
to
If all the IDs that flesh is heir to new line of work There hive been Inspection ofof Congress
in
the
dealers
and
predistillers

native
of
Imported
foods has re up They are not loafers even if they the consideration of the action
originate in the stomach a many discouragements at times but the work
Department
of Agriculture made
up
the
their
beverage
threw
great
American
as
such
nature

medical men would have us believe it has progressed and I hope to turn it duced such frauds to a minimum in are getting their dally bread free of servatives of a mineral
proph
read
no
joy
But
It

fur
crowed
and
rememhands
be
present
good
bill
must
give
foods
If
imitaimported
and
charge and they
the
a
borax or boric add it
certainty behooves the great American over to my successor on a firm basis
Reading about the experiments you
every bered that the animal as welt as the et may have honor in hie own land
through we will have the foods tion of
JohnnyontheSpot
people to be more careful what they
Ten or fifteen years ago Dr Wiley son
going to make on tobacco users i
Dr
are
and
prophet

even
a
weather
not
C
morning
hun
In
possesses
country
mineral
well
a
hand
at
oclock the breakfast plant
certain
eat Already they have come to such- used to spend a great deal of his time of this
footsteps
like to be one of your Subjects i
would
in
the
followed
speedily
Wiley
foods
midday
serve
as
IS
ger
real
hour
Luncheon
These
at
conies
minerals
Row the Laws Are Enforced
a pas that many of then Mre en pre in the laboratory gluing the examina-
He put have used tobacco for about ten years
predecessors
illustrious
his
of
of
activity
S3
and
functional
at
dinner
aid
the
in
afternoon
the
and
also
dtgaeted food and havo prehistoric tion of the foods his personal attention
Although Congress has not provided
from It
his foot in it metaphorically speaking and never found any 111 effects training
members of the hygienic table of the various organs
theories about eating only once or twice- But today he does comparatively little tor a special corps of officer to ex- The
when he declared that the greater part i have used It continually while
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by
who
ofhave
te
all
Chemistry
of
the
as
Bureau
it
admitted
it
But
a day
of the actual laboratory work though amine the foods brought into the ficially
sold in this i can run from one to twentyfive miles
must be on time as the examined the subject In a critical way of the American whiskypurer
than the without stopping Could you have me
It has been my ambition to live long he has entire supervision of the work country and those manufactured and food hasnamed
country is no better or
even
preservatives
weighed
by
of
to
that
be
users
they
if
ar
and
the
enough to see the American people as- and makes frequent visits to the work sold in the various States neverthe- lete they get cold meals
brands
run every day and note what effect to-
Scottish
socalled
quantities
limit
the
maximum
in
certain
The

bltlof
86 per cent of the bacco would have on me 1 think I would
sured pure foods said Dr Wiley to a room and test tube in hand helps the less we have small difficulty In discover- fare is made as varied as possible

than
less
Not
individin
reached
is
of
toleration
as
eel
Timor reporter and I hope that a few chemists with their experiments The ing the frauds Instruction has been the men ar kept under observation
in the United States is make an interesting subject I have got
for ual and positive injury done But it is whisky made
Probably an an open challenge to run any amateur
weeks win see its fulfillment For more corps working on the pure food expert given the customs officials to take care such a long time
seMi Dr Wiley
impure
many
if
recognised
not

that
well
Roast
beef
also
beefthan fifteen years I have worked to ac- menu now numbers more than twentv that no impure fools be passed and if steak lamb veal pork chicken
In IfVfje examination of the whole would show Runner in the country a 12 or 24hour
when
used
foods
usual
all
of
the
and
complish this end
five and there are five separate labora there is an suspicion of fraud samples- turkey are among the
proportion adulterated race hoping to hear from you 1 re
meats selected excess produce injurious results The an even greater collecting
samples of main etc n
Doctor Wiley the pure food man at tories in the Bureau of Chemistry which of the foods are brought to us for ex- Fish oysters
produced by over- We are now
disease
many
oases
eggs
of
and
have
tine
to
They are sent either
whom all manner of fun has been poked are used solely for these investigations amination
parts of the
A Poet on Borax
places
Flutter free from eating or by eating improperly pre- whisky made In variousan examination
by the Joke matter is by no means a In addition to these rooms are the the laboratory here or to the sub coloring en the list
make
matter and salt is used BggM pared or poorly cooked foods or by eat country and will
and dinning room which are laboratories in New York and Sun Franmost amusing letters on

of
the
One
exami
joke When he todk up the gauntlet kitchen
for the members of the training cisco Another safeguard we have IB in milk and cream are carefully selaetod ing at unusual times are illustrations of them later Merely a chemical a dry Dr Wileys files came from a Massa-
thrown down by a crowd of greedy para- used
with
doctor
the
added
upon
table of which Dr Wiley is
nation
Upon
from
baste
and
this
inspected
by the authori- of this fact
was on the subject f
the manufacturers and Importers them- ties ofdairies
sites who were making huge fortun
We shall not run an experimen- chusetts sane It
of Columbia
Test Table Again in Operatien
The the further statement that when used in smile
g to the public foods that were
by
along this borax that be tackled the departmentselves You many be sure that if their vegetablesthe ofDistrict
determinations
for
preservatable
quantities
the
small
tal
extremely
season
t
the
are chosen for
We have just begun the table again
I am poet novelist aroheoogiamnot what they seemed he determinedtrade is being cut into by the sale of
regardeda- line
Virgil was I
as
The men are eating adulterated or falsely labeled food the table or If they cannot be had tives in question cannot ba
about
etc
former
to quash their nefarious practices This said Dr Wiley
vegetables
by sterilization as harmful lr founded the principal ar-
How the Rectifiers Take It
ft I have studied long and faithful
work tram bona aside and apart from the specially prepared foods with a view they will not hesitate long before they alone Fruitspreserved
and tea In small gument in favor of the use of the prelarge nmount of purely scientific inves- to learn the effoet of food adulterants bring the matter to the attention of the quantities makecoffee
Dr Wiley made his accusations on soda and borax and this is why I
Since
up
from
the
the
fact
aside
that
the
servatives
rest
of the blll
you I know of the experiment
proper authorities In this way the Gov-
American article there has
tigation which has been carried on by similar to borax
A rotary bltloMare is only foods themselves are kept In a bettar against the from the manufacturers all write to
No we are not feeding them upon ernment and the manufacturer work offare
being tried IR your department and I
I
the doctor as head of the Bureau ot
been a howl
duplicated
every
onco
state
wholesome
more
und

seven
days
deafI expert together to give the public the host that
Chemistry of the Department of Agri- cold storage food exclusively
can help you I can embalm a cadav r
over the country that has nearly
The men at the table are not watchod
If however the question of borax is ened
have
Especially
department
to make experiments with oold storage there is to ue had for the money
as It was done 4000 years ago but I will
the
culture
or spied upon They are simply put decided in favor of its use as H prerectifiers been raised dissolve all the fluids lubricants fits
the
of
voices
In the fifteen years of work we have food but there will be no special table Wlllar1 D Blgelow Dr Wileys chief upon their honor to follow
the

the principal is esthe rules servative of foods

For It is they who In the body leaving only a little of the
The frosen foods assistant has direct charge of the ex- laid down by Dr Wiley and when
covered and are covering all kinds of started for them
tablished that all similar preservatives In a shrill chorus
they may
great part of adulterated muscles and tendons on the bones like
Impunity
while
used
the
bo
foods and drink
with
continued Dr Wiley will be tried on special subjects at periments w latch are now being made leave the table for a period
furnish
of recrea a man might not eat enough preserved whisky
One Indignant party writes
Borax is one form of cued
Tire results of these investigations different times By the way I am not with foods and food adulterations All tion they are required to sign a
paper
if all the othor In these by no means uncertain terms leather
to do him harm
is
a devil boradc acid wurse>
Borax
have been published hi Bulletin Ill making war on cold storage for I con- of the analyses recorded in the various the effect that they have faithfully obto meat
he eats held similar adulterants he I
which when completed will have thir- sider it a great boon to mankind that laboratories are brought to him for ap served these rules One thing that tho foods
I am sorry our country to ruined j
The rectifiers of the country pay Into
be seriously insured
might
nJ
teen parts Lets hope that this com- has been wonderfully perfected in the proval and then put on file The records experimenter Insist upon is that the
the United States Treasury more than bv trusts monopolists and butcher
Public Safeguarded by Labels
begin soou
bination of numbers will bring hard past few years The experiments are are as complete as a carefully ar- men shall not have the blues Every
lMiM hXk annually They do more than n R magnates People
appears
The physician is familiar
that there is any other Industry to support the Gov to eMU things b their right names
luck to the fraudulent dealers We be- only to see how far cold storage can ranged system can make them
with the marked no Itconvincing therefore
force in the argument ernment of the United Stator It will be The poet in him could not help break-
gan with dairy products and are ending be used safely I have some food In present experiments for which a spe- effect the mental attitude has
upon
the
with hard drink And apropos of these view now which has been in cold stor- cial table has been started go Into the bodily health They may be either fa- for the use of small quantities unless- found that your policy Is shortsighted ing out and he added these toversus
Conthe minutest detain Every morsel of vorable or unfavorable Cheerful sur- It can be established that there Is only and Inimical to the Governments inter- which he called An Address
sass hard drinks I would say that I age for two years This wilt be tried food
that the twelve boarders eat Is roundings and good company have a lot n single preservative used In foods ests nd we believe that you have out gress
do not object to the sale of Scotch whis- at the earliest opportunity It appears
grace
carefully weighed before It Is eaton and to do with the good health of ovary that this preservative is used In only- lived your usefulness
ky In thus country nor to the sale of to be in good condition
Of all the devils in this world of
takes tine
of It Its effect upon the man
came from a prominent firm of Perhaps the trwtt
This
domestic whisky either but what I do
been Impossible to make a few foods that It will be consumedhas
It
The work with special tables for note made weight
place
of the eater Is record tho experiments without tolling
insist upon to that what is sold as food experiments is only in Its second health and
the In extremely minute quantities and that whisky men and thore have been others
is a power tar
before dinner boarders what was going on and thus tho foods in which it Is found are con- Those interests have frankly served no- The
whisky shall really be whisky
year It hen proved a valuable addi ed as well Once a day
small
Mjr personal experience with Scotch tion to the experimentation with foods the boarders must strip and weigh avoid all effect that the knowledge sumed at irregular intervals and in tice on Dr Wiley that they will do their Perhaps the boraxflend win beat th m
whisky is rather limited tor I do not Last year when the table first started in I might be embarrassing to have they were eating adulterated food small quantities On the other hand best to separate him from the Govern-
all
drink K When I wa hi Edinburgh I I u ed to do all the marketing myself every morsel of food you oat carefully might have upon them
In order to the logical conclusion which seems tc ment service as soon as may be
weight
any
size
and
hotly
examined
claim
to
as
at
disposal
men
genuine
of
from
our
taking
In
prevent
rectifiers
dislikethe
a
bottle
at
a
the
the trust Judas tries the state
stuff
the
When
data
from
bouffet
the
Furthermore
follow
even saw to the weighing of all the
in which the U that boric acid and equlvalait amount that their product is as good as any
to
other table than this of Dr Wileys to any particular
tfrrhg te bring it to this country for food
on the table
used
was
But
that
was
the
Taking his mtlHone out of water 4
adulterant
should whisky produced
examination and comparison with the now I have given this work to my but here everybody Is treated the same adulterant
has sometimes been placed in a capsule of borax in certain quantities
now
cases
where
the
his
artJele sold here I packed it carefully assistants The executive work of the and big or little appetites are aocomo and
fortune
to
Wiley
those
could
make
given to the men at meal
be restricted
Dr
I see
It Is not public policy
Then they folt a keen relish for all the necessity therefor is clearly manifest by Iftavlng the Government service con High treason
the name that comes
in my valise but that was the lent I bureau occupies nearly all of twelve dated to the satisfaction of all at least

diperiod
them
Three
foods put before
raw of It for my traveling companion or fourteen hours of my day And of In the socalled fore
to be
and where it is demonstrated that other necting himself with a whisky house
drank it all and left only the bottle this at least half of it la taken up in visions are made of each series of ex-
Formaldehyde Tests
of food preservation are not and giving some particular brand his The public Judas will all Lades conmethods
period
fore
namely
the
when
periments
Hut there is no doubt that much of the Interviews
For ho has re-
Sometimes I spend whole It is determined as nearly as possible
trol
Ir the present tests formaldehyde has applicable and that without the use of unqualified Indorsementparts
in the United States
Scotch
of the coun- Behold
and see a Congress without
days listening to arguments of amatuer how much food the body needs to main bet siilwtJiuted for borax It is prob- such a preservative the deleterious ef- ceived letters from alladvice
I gins of alcolio manufactured in say
pure
as
to
themselves
foods
beseeching
by
his
try
the
coal
produced

chemists answering questions of all tain it as its normal weight the preser- ably the most widely used food pre- fects
Peorla
would be whiskies A letter from Gen Lew Wal- The people freeze and they begin t
kinds and being interviewed by news- vative period during which adulterated servative In this country next to borax by reason of decomposition
die
halt XMifMtitrra en the Hip
come lace author of flea Hur said In part
possibly
could
greater
than
paper men
We thing of Hawen and his gallows
food Is allowed the boarders but the These experiments will be of especial far
me
enough
tell
to
good
In
you
be
preservative
Mace the manufacturers are comof
Wont
the
use
high
A very large percentage of the food
interest to the milkman for it is in milk from the

pelled to label all their products truth- frauds which have been nraoeticed upon adulterant is left out The time as- that formaldehyde is principally used minimum quantities
In these case where and of whom I can get some real-
signed to each of theso periods varies
1
bleeding
your
a
In
of
need
am
know exactly what
awake
whisky
I
Congress
rye
fully HOfto
pure
a
as
ly
apparently
follow

the unsuspecting public are those of and the total time of thu experiments There have been vegetables on the mar- It would also
country cans
tlny are getting And this is just what false
of public information and es- supply of the article not for morcha- Congress
matter
preservative
seventy
used
your
tlnys
which
this
you
own
was
In
mean
origin
The
freeze
a
manufacturer
ket
I
in
from
awa
ks
varies
we have been working for so long The or
period
pecially for the protection of the young nlse but to put down in my cellar forto restore hut they have been few an1 far between
halls
dealer will sell goods made in one object of the after
my
of
friends
cow
and
prece-
that
use
own
poople
condition
m
timer will get what he wants what State
his
to
each
true
be
boarder
te
debilitated
the
that
Congress
the
and
sick
aweke
or country as from some other dent to the beginning ot the experimen- So as not to force every man to be a the
I
flit this right of
Is a fair example of a Hood flie
NUT 1
he arise for and what be pays for The
drinker Irrespective of his tastes article of food should be plainly labeled That letter
yean
eeled front tine cheat State or country A case of this kind tal period If there has boon any evil milk food
SO 1A
of thttin dully pouring in
regard
to
in
character
the
i
branded
is used at tho table
and
which
the
physical
a
jjment
todsy
his
change
office
earn
Sato
prevented
the
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