The evening world. Newspaper, June 11, 1906, Page 12

THE WORLD: bb feiss wieenn MOND A Y EVENING, sv INE 11, 1908) UPTON SINCLAIR TELLS aU ABOUT Bett TRUST HORRORS +} — Fourth Article in Series Which Author ¥ of “The Jungle” is Writing Especially for The Evening W orld, OFFICIAL PARADE GROUND FOR THE USE OF VISITORS. Portion of the President’s Report Dealing With Use of Chemicals and Working Over of Tainted Meat Not Yet Made Public. The Evening World to-day prints the fourth article in the series written exclusively for this newspaper by Upton Sinclair, author of ‘“ The Jungle.” in which he is disclosing how he came to write the book which led to the exposure of Packingtowa horrors, an Heh he obtained his facts. | New York World.) | leht’s report has been! T read in a news- paper despatch that e printing full-page adver ments in the Chi- cago papers, inviting the public to come and see for themselves. I presume that this is the reward which the Chicago newspapers have earned by tl nined efforts to prevent the publication of the truth about Packingtown his bluff about coming out-and seeing for yourself = an old time one; {t the first things that you are told when you Yenture to hint that t be an: § Wrong about the methods of the hat millions itors pnes through there every year and so evil Att! qivenmonceeta LOD VICTOT. FEDERAL INSPECTORS ARE NOT OVERWORKED. 3 was admitted here, however, it had to pass a t In the doorway and felt of the glands in for tube This Government {nspector did not have the manner of a man who wns worked to death; he was apparently not haunted by the fear that the hog might get by him before he had finished his testing. If you were a sociable person he was quite willing to enter {nto conversation with you and to explain to you the deadly nature of ptomaines which were found !n the tubercular pork; and while he was talking with you you could hardly be so ungrateful as to notice that a dozen carcasses were passing him untouched, This inspector wore a blue uniform with bras nd he gave an atmosphere of authority to one of ent inspector, who of vie tld not be concealed ho large packing-houses there ts what you might cai?! losis, practice: | In every one of: an official parade groWid. a place especially fixed up for the reception of} visitors, and provided 4with numerous signs warning the employees to Keep | clean. Uniformed guides are provided, ostensibly to pilot the visitors| around, but in reality to see that they do not depart from the beaten track. | is overything shipshape, and even the Govern-| ani he goes out satisfied that the Beef Tru But let the visitor display a little originality, | Pine scene and, as it wi put the stamp of offte! al approval upon the Yerent direction from the gulde, through one of the | things that were i = iG " t How » to him and ask him—not to step out, | There are prese te for long periods of Disin-! oh, no! s—"Whom are you look-| time, I re as called “Wagoner's ing for? |fectant;” you would account of it was cut from an I ind through all the packing houses,| undertaker’s catalogue. It was said it was “indispensable to every and would that | or! t Sometimes I was under | ft was an osjorizer” of meat, kingmen who were known It called attention to the fact ear an¢ ile there were rooms | ey ft and slimy, or mouldy, WorroleiGee ; and while t y 5 A ES. cor | where they could not take me, and others} green, and stated th h is prep fon would save him all in Forbidden, re I could only stay for a few seconds, 1] the lo \ Secret Places. hp Investigation held at the close of the Spanish War for the enough to set all my nature a pe with hy indignation and disgust. I saw spoiled hams washing the packers and suppressing the truth about the until! I got to be known to the ule meat as good as new butcher had h got During purpose of wh being dl ed with strong chemicals; I saw cold meat and filthy scraps|“embalmed beet’? scandal, man after man of the Beef Trust si ae ying around ready to be dofored up into sausage. I saw meat in the nt upon the stand and swore that they used no chemicals in their busl-/ storeroc poisoned rats lay around, and Mye ones ran ae ICH F RNIS D meat so thick that one could ST WH U HE Ithy nemen, L! i UFF ARMY “EMBALMED BEEF.” Was to be lac ] saw t tored smelling d with blood : is he ever to wipe his face or to clear It was stuff such as this that made the {lled several times as mahy United States the arn beef, besides, had been h water from its full of dye moking takes time, and| re they preserve it with land you eat tt and take a chance] osts money re also th the ag demned } tract to taralat ‘the Unite 1 States Army body's word—it ld keep for seventy-two hours {n a tropical fresh meat ¥ openly in the pack s have been mat y-product foods, and bacon, gerous che investigation this contract could not be given that the seventy-two hour clause » of the ald that not ten per cent was 1 meats first session. all about the pa industry nine- Jadled out to the public by the Beed wat falsehood. T have denied, for| yet any one who works t this is one of the regular customs of every sage being ground over; and the President's { being worked over and relabelled. At the 2 War investigation, recently referred avetree h Congress, every one indictments for &€ only a few ag ‘ “The Condemned Meat Industr, for May. I advise any one who fs curious about this of the National Provisioner, which {s publis w being ver’ old and tainted meat known t Sra work over own knows th I myse Jon saw saw 0 ns of old b | packer: commiss | captain WITH SAUSAGE MEAT. There would be meat stored in great plies {n rooms; and tho water from lea! roofs would drip over {t, and thousands of rats would race about cn It was too dark !n these storage places to see well, but a man could run his hands over these piles of meat and sweep off handfuls of foul dirt. These rats «ere nulsances, and the packers would put polsoned bread out for them; they would die, and then rats, bread and meat would go Into the hoppers together. This !s no fairy story and no joke; the meat would be shovelled into carts, and the man who did the veiling would not trouble to lift out a rat even when he saw one— here were things that went into sausage {n comparison with which a poisoned rat was a tidbit—From “THE JUNGLE.” Ne aE aE Te ap Ls been on duty only elght hours in the day, and the packing-houses h: been killing frequently all day and night! And counting only the car- asses actually passed—the number of them had been go great and the number of tnspectors had been so small that each inspector had been re- julred to pass and certify to @ carcass every half minute during the whole Ume that he was working! The fifth article in the n Thursday's Evening World. CAP'N VOLCHES FOR SCHOOL OF WHALES See "Em? You Bet He Did, and They Seemed to Nigh Fill Up the Ocean. s written by Mr. Sinclair will be published SOUGHT HEIRESES IN MONKEY HOUS Trenchant Count, Here to Marry Wealth, Made a Poor Beginning. Count Romain Ritter von Dotinak!, of d 4, who is here to marry an Amer- SS, Was fined $10 by Magis- in in Yorkville Court today for the monkey-2 at Central The Herr Count was © monkeys, but with i > Weren't botresses. The nob! Further whales that of the big schoot way of the aid that last T y came upon \ sort of whale co jon that took up ntic within th hat for an Monday baci of delinquent humanit t virtwally becalmed or bewhaled. surges about Yorkville penete ines Some Spoutin', Some Asleep. Whales were ever” “Some were spo ing about and others wi the surface. One b re,” maid the 1 the iy a few could be ac 80 away ine short ines aianliere Cap: Extra—Monkeys Didn't Escape. The Shimosa had the usua! ely ex ith a polyglot c @ steerage list of monkeys. 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There are which he and the other cans were opened. | fn with Hamburger steak and ori to be bec of the contents of these cans; and the meat, to give it “a beautiful red-cherry at know, but that they, went to the ‘‘cook- pwould take an expert to distinguish.” There ere va: of sausages, to make any one think that the sausage hb WASTE BARRELS CLEANED ONLY ONCE EVERY YEAR. for the mer with them In the cook-rooms one was left to infer) ; and soldiers, who stated that they hed rs of dead mi sible inside! | He writes mo that he has g-housee, brought from another place Thie meat was 80 charred that portions of it ng off, and yet because the Government inspection BAT There was no place their dinner, and #o they made a pr that was to be ladled into the saus smoked meat, anc! the waste of the plant callar and left there. [ packers enforoed thers were some long time. Among these wa Bvery spring they did tt 4 in old nails and stale water taken out and dumpe 1 to be the whole of this scandalous situation rs have nothing to do with meat after ‘The fact that meat was good t ts good when !t cones to be » into sausage—possibly in an- or in the some packing-house t that a carcass {5 {lar portions fit aut to the public’ c c enusage, the ‘ 1 Wmed foo they would upor r @ it wit er oO! we ed as ng been inspected and # »roved borax and color jt with gel n ‘THE t, when all that the Government had seen JUNGLE.” 5 soun n it Was Killed! 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