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FILTH AND DIRT ' ( Horrible Exposure Made in Rennrt in ihp hfoci/lpni 1 |/VI % %V IIIV I I I OIUVIII t AS TO MEAT PACKING. How vood is Prepared tor the Free Born American Citizen?Employes' Feet CIBtl i \ Dirty Shoes Climb into and besmear Meat They Prepare for Shipment. Sometime ago President Roosrvelt appointed Messrs. J. B. Reynolds an1 0. P. Netll to examine the methods In use at the great packing houses in Chicago and elsewhere. lielow we publish some extracts from their report: Too President: As directed by you, v/e investigated the condition* in the principal establishments in Chicago engaged lu the slaughter of cattle, sheep and hogs, and In the prepara tion of dressed meat and meat f od products. Two and a half weeks were spent In the investigation in Chicago, and during this time wo went thrc ugh the principle packing houses in the stock yards district, together with a few of the smaller ones. A day was spent by Mr. lijynolds in New York city In the Investigation statements of conditions and practices in the packing houses, together with atlklavits aud documentary evidence, were otlered us from numerous sources. Most of these were rejected as being far from proving the facts alleged and as being beyond the possibility of vcr iflcation by us. We have made no statement as a fact in tne report here presented that w*s notverlllod by our personal examination. Certain matters which we were unable to verify wbllo in Chicago are htil 1 undor Investigation. Trie following is, therefore, pubmttted as a partial report touch ing upon those practices and conditions which we found most common and not contined to a single house or class of houses. A more detailed report would contain many spec!tic instances of deTeots fouud in particular houses. Before entering the buildings we noted the condition of the yards themselves as stiown in the pavement, pen, viaducts and platforms. The pavement is mostly of brick, the bricas laid with deep grooves between them, which inevitably till with manure and refuse. The pens are generally uu covered, except those for sheep, Mkh? latter are paved and covered. The viaducts and platforms are of wo. d. Calves, sheep and lings that have died en route are. thrown out upon the platforms, where can* are unloaded. On a single platform 011 one occasion we oounted 15 dead lings, 011 the mxt 10 dead hogs. The only excuse given for delay in removal was that so often heard?the expense. buildings. Material.?Tho interior finish of mi st of tho buildings is of wood; the partition walls, supports and rafters are of *ood, uncovered by plaster or cement. The flooring in some instances Is of brief or cement, hut usually of wood. In many of the rooms where water is used freely tlie floors are soaked and slimy. Lighting.?The buildings have been nrmaf.riint.p.r) with Mttl? rpLriiril t\r? oil hu? light or ventilation. The work rut ins as a rule, are very poorly lighted. A few room* at the tup of the buildings are well lighted because they oannot escape the light, but moat of the rooms are so dark a? to make rrt llioial light necessary at all times. Many inside rooms where food 1b prepaiod are without windows, deprived of sunlight and without direct ooramunlooption with the outside air. They may be best described as vaults in which the air rarely changes. Other rooms which open to the outer air a *e so large, the wind >ws so clouded by d.rt ano the w.nia add oeilingsso dark a d dingy vhat natural Jlght only penetrates twenty or tihht.y fret from U e windows, tit us ie^kiog artiltlelal l?g it In| portions of ev^n the.^e outsl e rooms neucs ary. Theee dark and dingy roomr are naturally not kept suitably clean. Ventllatl n.?Systematic vwtllatlon of the work rooms 1h not found In any of the establishments we visited. In a few Instances eiectrio fans mitigate the Btlll ng air, but usnaliy the workers toll without relief in a humid atmi inhe e. heaw wh.u t.ho odors of iottoq decayed meais, stinking oiTal and eulr.nlh. Equipment.?Tbe work tables upon whion tbe m'.at Is bandied, the floor carts on which It is carried ibout and the tubs aud otl er receptacles Into which it is thrown are generally of wood. In all the places visited but a slDgle porcelain-lined receptacle was seen. Tables covered with sheet iron, iron cirts and iron tubs are being in troduoed into the better establish merits, but no establishment visited has as yet abandoned the extensive use of wooden tables and wooden receptacles. These wooden reoeptaoles are frequently found water soaked, only half clea sed, and with meat scraps and grease accumulations adhearlng to their sides and collecting dirt. This is largely true of meat racks and meat oonvevors of every sort, which were in nearly all cases inadequately oleansed, aud grease and meat scrape were found adhering to i - M ill MUSI 1111 ' I \ < V i 'aem, evtu after they had beou wa*h- i d and returned to nervine. c Sanitary Conveniences. ? N jthlng t hows more strikingly the general iu- c inference to matters of oleanllne^s 1 *nd sanitation than do the pilvles for ] oth men and women. The prevail < r,K Pfl 1* mad? by cutting i ff a sec- ( tilon of the work room by a thin wood- ( n partition, rising to within a few et of the celling. These privies 1 usually ventilate Into the work ro< m, < hough a few are f uid wltu a win- i ow opening Into the outer sir. M tny ;re located In the Inside corners of the vork rooms, and thus have no oui- 1 Ide opening whatever. They are fur nttthed with a row of seats, generally without even aide partitions. These roo iis a-e aoune times u-ed sa cloak rooms by the employees. Lunch rooms constructed In the same iiianuer, by boardtag off a section of the work room, often adjoining theprlvks, the odors of which add to the generally Insanitary state of the atmosphere. Abominable as the abovs-named conditions are, the one that atT <_ a most direc tl> and seriously th? cleanllnosg of the food produce Is the frequent absenoc of any lavatory provisions In the privies. Washing sinks are either not furnished a.t all or arc small and dirty. Neither arc towels, soap or toilet paper provided. Men and women return directly from these places to plunge their unwashed hands Into the meat to he converted Into such food products as sausages, drier beef and other compounds. Some of the privies are situated at a long ells tanr? from the work rooms, and men relieve themselves on the killing floors or In a corner of the work rooms. Ilence, In some cases the fumeji of the urine swells the sum of nauseating odors arising from the dlrty-bloi dscaked, rotting wooded floors, fruitful culture beds for the disease germs of men and animals. TKKATMKNT OK M K ATS. Uaoleanllnnss In Handling Products ?An absence of oleanllti'as wan also found everywhere In the handling of meat being prepared for the varl ous n.eat-fo- d products. After killing, carcasses are well washed, and up t< the time thev reach the cooi ng room are handled in a fairly sanitary and cleanly maimer. The parts that leav^ the cooling room for treatment In bulk are also handled with regard to cleanliness, but the parts that, arc sent from the coollug rojm to those departments of the packing houses In which various forms of meat products arc prepared are handled wl th no re gard whatever for cleanliness. In some of the largest establishments sldei? that are sent to what Is known ?s the boning room are thrown In a heap on the 11 cor. The workers climb over these heaps of meat, select the pieces they wish, and frequently throw them down upon the dirty lioor beside their working bench. Kven In cutting the meat upon the bench the work is u.*u ally held pressed against their aprons, and those aprons were as a rule, indescribably til thy. They were made In most cases of leather or cf rough sacking aud bore long accumulated grease and dirt. In only a few places were suitable oilcloth aprons worn Moreover men were seen go cllunb from the tloor and stand, with shoes dirty with the refuse of the U g)rs, on the lables upon which the meat was handled. They wore seen at the lunch hour sitting on the table* on the spot on which the meat product was haudled, and all tilts under tue very eye of the superintendent of the room, show Ing that this was the common practice. Meat soraps were a1^ found being shovelled into receptacles from the tloors where they were left to lie until again shovolled Into barrels or into machines for chopping. These ll .ors, It must be noted, were in most cases damp and soggy, In dark, ill-ventilated rooms and the employees iu uuier ll/nAffi A t nlajnllr^m n /VM .Buv?kuuu \ji uiaauuuwa Ul UU health, expectorated at will upon them. In & word, we saw m3at shovelled from til thy wooden lloois, piled on tables rarely washed, pushed from room to room in rotten box carts, in ill of which processes it was In the way of KatherlDtf dirt, splinters, 11 s>r filth and the cxpectoratlun of tuberculous and oiner d^ease woikers. Wlbrti comment was made to 11 jcr superintendent about *Uuho matters It was always the reply that this meat would afterwards be cooked, and bu.*o this sterii zatlon would prevent auv dauber from Its use. Even this, it may be pointed out In passing, is uot. wholly true. A very coi'slrierabh p irt.lon of the meat so handled Is sent out as smoked products and in the form of sau arch, wbloh are prepared to he eaten without be-in# cot ke.d. A partiouliirl i ulArlriir lnat,Bii?n .-?# ... , r> r> ..wvw.j-w w unoleanlincBH was found In a room where the bust grade of sausage was brdng prepared for (xport. It was made from carefully selected meat, ar>d was being prepared to*b* eaten uncooked, lu tills case the employ*.* c rtcci tne ohopped up m at bcross a room ir, a barrow, the bandies o' which were filthy with gre*ve. The meat was jheu thrown jut up n tables, snd ihe employe climbed upon the tsblo, handled the m?at wit 1 his unwashed bauds, ancle with his dirty apron and trousers lit contact with the meat he w s spreading out, and, after he had tinished his oper&tlrn, again took hold of the dirty haudles of the wheelnarrow, went hack for another load, and repeated this process indefinitely. Inquiry developed the fact that there was no water in this room at all, and the only method the man adopted for cleaning his hands was to rub them against his dirty apron or on his still filthier trousers. As an extreme example of the entire disregard on the part of employ ees of any notion of cleanliness in handling dressed meat, we saw a hog that had just been killed, oleaned, a vasbed and smarted on lis way to the *>ohng room fall from the sliding ral *> a dirty wooden th>or and slide part tf the way into a tilthy men's pnv/. It was picked up by two employees, ?laoed upon a truck, carried into toe joollng room and hung up with other jaroasses, no effort being made to jlean It. Treatment of Moat After Iospeo t.l"n.?The radical dehct In the present system of Inspection is that it does not go far enough. It is confined at present by law to parsing ou the healttifulne?s of animals at the rime of killing ; but the meat that is used tn sausage and lu the various forms of canned pr >duots and other prepared meat foods goes through many pro ceases, in ah of whlca there Is possibility of contamination through insanitary handling, and further danger thr ugh the use of chemicals. During all these pr c sses of preparation there Is no Government inspection and no assurance whatever that ti esrnea' -f< od products are who'esr mo and tit for foi i. ?despite the fao* tt at al. these products, when sent out bear a label seating that, they have been passed upon by Government inspectors. As to the investigation of the alleged us * of dyes, preservatives or oneuilo&ls in the preparation of cured meats, sausages and canned goods we are not yet prepared to report. Wo did look Into the matter of sanitary handling of the meats being prepared for the various food products. Toe results of our observations have already been partly piv<>n. O'.her instances of how products may I e made up and still secure the stamp of Government inspection are hero given. In one well known establishment we came unon fresh meat being shovelled Into barrels, and a regular prop irtlon being added of stale scraps that bad lain on a dirty lloor in the corner of a room for seme days previous. In another establishment, equally well known, a long table was noted oovered with several hundred pcundB of cooked scraps of be* f and other mea?.s. Some >f thes'1 meat Rcraps were dry, leathery and until to be eaten, and in the beep were found pieces of pigskin, and even some bits of rope strands and other rubbish Inquiry evoked the frank admission from the man in charge that tnls was to lie ground up and inert in making ' potted nam." All of these canned products bear labels of which the following is a sample: A HAT TO I Li No ?. Th" contents of this package have been Inspected according to the Act. o Congress of March 3, 18111. QUALITY GUARANTEED. The phraseology of these labels is wholly unwarranted, The Government Inspectors pass only upjii the I healtlifulnuss of the animal at the time of killing. They know nothing of the proo'.Rhus through which the meat has passed since this hupectlon. They do not know whatelsemay have been placed In the cam In addition to "'Inspected meat." As a matter of fact, they kuow nothing about the "contents" of tiie can upon which the packers place the&e labels?do not even know tnat it contains what It purports to contain. The legend, "quality guaranteed," imnftdUtoly following the statement as lo Givernment inspection, Is wholly u> j istitia ble. It deceives and is plaiuly designed to deceive the overage purchaser, who naturally Infers from the laoi 1 that the Government guarantees the contents of tue can to bo what it purports to bs. in auotner establishment piles of sausages and dry, moldy canned meat, admittedly seveial years old, were found, which the superintendent s'.at ed to us would be tanked and converted Into grease. The disposition to be made of this was wholly optional with the superintendents or representatives of the packets, as the Government does not concern Itself with the dis-1 position of meats after they have passed inspection on the killing iloor it m'gut all be. treated with chemi cals, mix d with other meats, turned out in any form of meat product de sired, and yet the packages or recep taoles la which it was to he shipped out to the public would be marked with a lahsl that their coutonta had b?en "Government iu3peottd." It is not allHtf'd here that such use was to I be made of this stuff. The case is pointed out as one showing the glar Ink' opportunity for the misuse of a lp.b?l bearing toe name and the lmplli d gu ?ranty of the United States ijovjvj.ua' nt. Another lusiacoj of abuse In tht u/o of toe lahe.s came to our notlop. In two different cst&tv llRhua*?UL^ creaii stoekh nf nis f.innnri noun* buing ptio througua wash ii.k pioCfw? .,u remove the old labels. T u. ? Atti? r.heu subject to sufllcleut neat to *Oivdi up" the contt.ntu?;o use the phrase of the roon superintendent. After this, fresh labds, with toe Government name on them, were to he plac d upon the cans, and they were to he sent out bearing a'l the evidence of being a freshly put up product. In one of tnese Distances, by the admission of the superlQten dent, the stock thus being relabeled was over two years old. lathe other case the superintendent evaded a statement of how oil the goads were. Charged with Murdor, , I)r. Frank A. llrown, one of the wealthiest planters of Ouchita parish, Louisiana, was lndlctel on Tuesday at Talluiah, Li., on the oharge of murder. It is said he was the leader in the lynohlng of Robert >T. Rogers last week, hiring a special train and bringing the mob tp Talluiah for the purpose. Rogers was in {all for killlug Dr. Brown's brother. It is easier to keep a friend than to rcoover him when lost. SAME OLD STORY.! i Startling Graft Among Employ- \ i ccs of Pennsylvania Road. ( NO BUSINESS J'XEMPT ; i " i Prom the Peculations of the Modern ] Grafter. Many of the Officials of the Big Railroad Company Were Bribed by the Big Coai Companies. The Interstate Commerce Commission, whioh has been investigating the employees of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Pniladelphia for someLime has unearthed many oases of graft among the officers of that gigantic corporation. .Some of the highest ' ffioers were bribed by the big coal companies. Pome of the highest officials of the road are Involved. It seems tnat the modern grafter Is everywhere. He Is not only la the South Carolina dispensary, but In the government service, railroad service and everywhere else. Many cillol&lsof the Pennsylvania Road brazenly admitted that they accepted all the graft that ome their way. One fellow said when mon ey was to be given away he would try to be there to receive it. As a sued men case we present that of Joseph Boyer, of Altoona, chief clerk In the otllce of A. W. Glhbs, superintendent of the motive power, who testified be fore the commission ou Thursday. In its entirety Mr. Boyer's testi mony was a startling character. His stock holding were only a small p rtionof the gifts lie admitted receiving from the coal mining companies. In nls capacity as a purchaser of fuel coal he testified that he had received fr im five c impanie* an allowance of from 'A to 5 cents a ton on coal used by the railroad fox fuel purposes. During a period from tne latter part of 190'A to date he lias received a total of more than $46,000 The companies wnich made him this allowance were the Grail Coa Company, the Clearfield and Gran ton Coal Company, Dunkirk Coal Company and Tuouias lily the Company. Graff Coal Company allowed him tive cents a ton and the Clearfield and Granton C impany gave him a share iu the profits which amounted to not less than four cents a ton. Blythe&nd Company gave hitn three cents a ton. He v* as asked why he discriminated in favor of Blythe and Co He replied Le did not discriminate as the money Ob me to him without solicitation or any effort on his part. He believed that the money had been paid iu the same manner to ins predecessors in otllcj /tiid he hedeved lie was only fo lowing che custom of the dt parCment. "What did you do with the mone) ? ' asked attorney Glasgow. "1 kept it all." "How do you account tor getting it?" 1 imagine somebody had been getting it before me." Answering the miQOt V\w V1 v 1 join >n V1 r 11 in? 4^v.ouiuu ujr i'll i u it a l ^atd that for ihe money lie received from the coal companies be "D d vhat he oould for them." Asked to explain Lids, be said ne distributed the orders for fuel coal among the companies to the Lest advantage. "Did you ever refuse auy monej V ' "Yes." ''Whj ? ' "Well I didn't know the people who offered it." Mr. O ssguw said i e understood that these payments had ceased last Marco. He wanted to know why Mr. Buyer said ne had not inquired the reason, but judged it was because of the Interstate Commerce Commission's investigation. There wi re other interesting developments during Thursday's hearing, which was protracted until (1 o'c'ock Thursday bight. Joseph IC. Aiken, w 10 lias t een chief cierk in the super lntdidont's otbee of the Monongahela divibion of the Pennsylvania railroad, revealed almost an startling evidence as that given by Joseph P. 13 >yer lie fore the omramsiun Wednesday. Oi a salary which he said varied from $30 to $120 per mrntii Aiken had pur* chased stock in dilf ;rent. coal oompan ies amounting to nearly $75,000 II a mitted having received gh*s of cash from coal operators on the P innsylvan la lines and had also reoeived $50 a month for several months from n n.rwn r?*? n / utnrtk S. F. Potter, president of tbeDono hoe Cx>l and (Joke c mpanv, whose operations are located in Westing re land county, charged that the P :nn lylvania railroad had praot<oed gross discrimination in the distribution o 1 cars to hi3 compauy. One car a d i> was his allotment fors ven m n.t ig, he dcolarod. Mr. Qlasgow asked tut? witness if blsonnp&ny was aide to learn the rating of the neighboring mines. "We sent a detective to the Loyal Flanna mine,1' the witness said, "to see how many oars were sent there. They shot at him and he was afraid to go back." The last witness of the day was W. W. Pattersun, a hard Ooal operator, who charged that ho was driven out of the soft coal business In Meridian, W. Va., because discrimination on the part of the Baltimore and Ohio* rail road in the disoribution of oars. lie declared that the operations of the Philllppl Coaly company, of whioh he was president, had a capacity equal to that of the Southern Ooal and Traos portation company, and the Century company combined, but that while both of these oompanles were plentifully supplied with oars his company had never been able to fill any one sootraot. The plant was worth more than $1 000,000 he said, but was sold for 9460,000. Boyer lb only a type of hundreds of others In the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad who have testified before the commission to the fact that they took all the graft that oome their way. Some of these offiolals received over three hundred thousand dollars Bach from the favored oi?al companies, who in turn were always furnished cars to ship their coal, while those companies that did not bribe the officials could not get cars. It was a ca.?? of no pay, no oars. After his testimony was made public Boyer was dismissed from the service of the company by President Oassart, who lias not up to this time taken similar action In regards to his own son who is one of the chief grafters BRAIN LEAKS. Wise Hay Infra by W. M.Manptn In Tb? Commoner, A half truth is a whole lie. Regeneration works from within. A corporation is known by the mer it keeps A man is rich when he has what ha ready needs. Giving a sh rtless man a collar U not philanthropy. Tiie poorest man wo know own> nothing but money. O ily a fool seeks temptation In or der to prove his strength. A lot of men who think they ar< independent are oiBy contrary. The hardest way to earn a living B to hunt for an easy job. The best way to "get even" wltl your enemies is to help your friends. Bad tread is a stumbling block to t. great many men who want to b? Christians. Tae men who see the little thing" and do them are the men who a:oom pllsh great results. We have often wondered during the hot weather If the summer girl are as cool as they look. Too many spend no much time gatting ready that they ruu out of time before they begin. If you put nothing into life you will always meet disappointment h trying to got g inoethiug out t>f It. (Opportunity knocks at every man's door but a lot of men are so busy do Ing a little "knocks" thomselves that they (all to hear opportunity.. Tne man who is determined to d< something for his fellows must make up his mind not to be discouraged by being called "grafter", or t ' schemer". ' We have of e? wondered why the baby just washe 1 and newly dressed in Its finest clothes would rather play with u lump of coal than a nice whlto pcnb.fi. Ij*n*lifcii the lickS Devil. Dlsouislug the dlspormry lnvesfclgauon with the Washington corresp mdent of the State Friday Senator Tillman said It Is virystrange thai the committee forced Mr. Lciwls W 1> i r 1/n? i r\ ? auf 1 f ?? *> - ? - ? 4 ' i ii no i iu i jr a i i?*i tttJH (1 ) IuriiH" or. "Why did they riot rrmk? Mr. l\vrker tell the name of the some-kindof an ottlcial in South Carolina whom Lanahan had employed? 1 am satistled that Lanahan has been guilty of all kinds of brloery and corruption and baa been for some time. What the* ought to do is to make Mr. Parker lump the man. They cannot compel Lanahan to conae do'*n and tosvlfy against Kvans and these fellows, bul they can get him down there if cuey prosecute him. If this man, whoever lie la, has any grit In him and is representing Lanahan In a leg!timareway, as he may have b en doln <, theu he would prosecute Lanahan lor alan der. 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