The evening world. Newspaper, December 20, 1919, Page 6

COMPLETE STOCK QUOTATIONS FINANCIAL (1S AND A'S of this column is ! | 5 ors in forming judg- | Adame ¥xp. we + % t to the value of securi- | Ad. Rumely ..... 12% % ties in which they are interested. | Au. ttumely pt 1% ” |) Predictions as to how high or | Alntke Juncau 2—% + how low a stock may go will not |All Chaim ...... o 6 = % | be made. Communications must | am. Agr. Chem, , of : igned and give the Am, Bok, Note ., a 41 | of th di ¥4 | am. 1 96% e sender. m, Rt, Su i — Am, Tosch: Mai 124 + % ' Q. Kindly tel! me if there is any} Am Can o us f Value to 1,000 shares of Montana | Am. Car Nay. «+ ie , jBtandard Mining Stock for which $1) (i sumaure ou & | share was paid. These shares | Am, Drug Synd. uh % [have been in my family since Dec. 11,| Am. Mie & Le ah + ; 7 Am, “ ir. AS. | han, Ice 1% — % f 1A. No record of this company | ter in. Gorm, 10% + % tam be found. Look at the stock cér- | Am, Lgoreed 4 + jtificate for the name of the State in| Am. lmomeline os Oh Ldeg % which the company was incorporated |e easy ee— % ‘ap well as the year. Write to the| Am. s. & itet. w.. 90% % Secretary of State of that State, He| Am. soot + 105 108 ’ ¥ | Am. SU, Fri... 40% oe — % may be able to vote Af the com: | ie tal, 98% pt {pany is still in existence. fan, Kohat +. m4 74% 414% ra, ‘ool 5 iat wh+ & H @. When do you think the big | A™: Wool t ne Bok petock tax decision will be handed | jw, Tov, Gecur.... 65% Oy BH — <q down by the Supreme Court? What | Am. Zine 10% 10% + 4 Anaconda. OH OS Jt 40 you believe it wil aes oe im win a se eae the bao As? Associated Oll...e. 110 118 ue +1 ' No one can state positively | Atchison Ry. % en the Supreme Court will hand | arohison Ry pi rT ) Gown a decision in a certain case, | auto Sales Corp... 20 19% «19% Yut the general belief in Wall Street | Auto Sales Com, pt 34% 38 3 1% eeems to be that it is very likely.to} Atiantic Coast Line 02 00% 02 + 1% e next Monday. At, Gut @ W. 1.1%) 174178 : viding the decision is favorable, | ; ‘ 110% 110% + % ‘that is, if the Court decrees that etock | pay w% 0% 41 Adividends are not taxable, speculative | ninety Co. 121% 121% wentiment will be helped. Just what meee te decision will have on sdepends in large part on money con- Jditions and other related market m ny ital ted factors. Booth Fisheries, ..« x a ‘Bo much has been written and said|*v2. Rev, Tra, 13% 18% 13% ‘ag to what the market will do, what | ky. Union Gas. Bo 45) + pie advances are certain to be scored | Butte Cop. & Zino 9% 0% 9% ~~ ‘Ag the decision is favorable, that many | Butte & Superior... 26% 20 26 — Heth, Motons, * » ” % fe © » ple, Wall Street brokers included, |Cadto Cent. O#,. 21% 21 Bt — s 4 % * % % % Beth, Bteel Beth, Stee! B hed 91% 91% OK 14+ we hypnotized themselves into the|Oal. Packing......, 80 70 8 + Welief that by receiving a stock divi- | Gal. Petroleum. .... ‘end they secure so many additional | Oelumet & Ariz... 1 182K 12% — shares the market value of which|Central Lesther,..., 05 04% O41% — emay be added to the market value of | Central Leather Pr. 108% 108% 108% + ‘phares they already have. This be-|(wro De I'asoo,... } lief of course is nonsensical. Ohandier Mat, . | Assume that you own 5,000 sharos| Che. & Ubio, f cy ++ oO% <im a company that has an outstand-|(. M. & St. P.. Hing capital of 600,000 shares. You own | ©, M. & St. P. of fone one-hundredth of the entire ts-' Chi Ro 1 & Pac, tmued stock. Further assume that the |) & L&!. 6p.0, ‘company decides to give each share-) Ohi, Gret West ... sholder an additional share for each | Ohi, & North, Ry,. ashare owned. The outstanding capl- | Chile Copper . ‘ talization would then be 1,000,000 and | Chino Copper ; © Mr. Shareholder would still own one]. ©. 0. & St. L.. fone-hundredth of the outstanding | Cluott Peabody ‘stock and no more. His injerest in Fuel & Iron... ‘the profits of the company and in its jan & Klee... dividend disbursements would not rephophone be increased. Cola cecsee . The chief value attaching to stock | Comol, Gas Co,... dividends is found in the fact that it | Cou, Int.-Cal Minn, adds marketability: Continental Candy, An illustration is furnished by Sub-| Com Products, marine Boat. When thy war began] Crucdje Stel this stock was being kicked aroun4d| Cum Cane Sugar ‘the Curb market at a few dollars per} Cuba Cane Suz. i. hare, Miway in the sensational rise | Con, Textile Gory. which followed the receipt of huge wat | teiawaw & Mud. orer a syndicate of big market op- pen, & Bio Gr orators bought privately thousuuds of | pen, & Mo Gr, pf “shares at 149. Later the stock roxv to] Dome Mina . ‘Then the question of marketabil-| F:nemon fran Fity became annoying. At that high] tmalcwtJohnato {Agure the stock was out of reach of : ithe general public. It was undesirable ‘i; Jas collateral on loans and brokerage | Vamow thouses were reluctant to carry it on] Fux Kuper “margin, Wreeport Texaa . Market sponsors of the issue solved | Gaston Wil, & Wis the problem and gained for tho stock | tieneral Cigar the inuch desired marketability by |Ueneral Bice, Biving stockholders ten new shares |General Motors fet stock for each share held. ‘There- | Gemral Mot pt upon a new fashion was set, Tho |encral Mowre Deb, ‘ Onew stock was quoted at 56, or at | Grodriah the rate of 560 for the old stock. It| Granby Mina... brought within reach of the | Great Nor, Ty. pf, lc, Shortly thereafter it started | Giat Nor, Ore 0M a decline which did not end until|Gray & Davie... it was below 10 per share, or 100 for | Greene Cananea . old stock. Gall States Sto, Llinols Central BH. W. B—Information regarding | lespiration Copper the company is unobtainable in New | Inter are Con. . York. It is suggested th Interboro Con, ot... to the Corporation Trust C Inter, Agri, Corp. . Delaware. They undoubtedly can in- | jut, Harvester . form you whether the company ts still] jot. Mer, im existence and if so where Ite offices | jn are located. There is certainly noth | in more than a sma!! nominal mar- for the first mortenge bonds, BANKING AND FINANCIAL, $t+4++ 18% a0 ++i | ttt +t) t +tt4 + | eeessee 2 ree rer +++) eeere - § a w ts) “Close-Up"’ News and Views 4 Of Filmland and Its People German City Bonds 4% 446% 5% Owing to the extremely low rate of German exchange, inter- est bearing bonds of important German cities can be bought for about }5 of their pre. value. Letter E. W. explains Correspondence invited, By Howard McLellan. N enterprising fim trade jour- A nal cabled to D. W. Gritith when he was finally reported safe in the Bahamas asking him for . A personal message to the trade. Ho Raabe, Glissman &Co. } ]}| rica in this sub-titie fasnion: “We started under happy auspices to take 20 Broad St., N. Y. Risiirenaf RimesmnenT Gh mat ihe we cenes but no pictures.” Phone Rector 1888-8594. One of the property men in the studio where Marjorie Rambeau ix BAVINGS BANKS. working on the sereen version of - © Fortune Teller" was looking in- ee (RVING SAVINGS INSTITUTIQN | tomy ot 4 targe cameo brooen given \ mee ov. & YY. to her by Lawre © Barrett, who Reacts Sik Genk wore it on his Hamlet costume. Miss ybeau noticed “props.” | “Who is that lady?” he asked, In- Gicating the finely chiselled head daiwa “It is Minerva,” roplied the actress. eo y PN ROnCR wt SAVINGS BANK Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank 51 Chambers St., New York The Board of Trustees has deel re! a Semi-Annual Dividend at the rate of Four Per Cent. Per Annum ON ALL DEPOSITS ENTITLED THERETO. DEPOSITS MADE ON OR BE POME JAN. 1OTH, 1920, WILL DRAW INTEREST FROM JAN, 187, 1920, OWN & DALY. Compiro! JOUN J PUTLRYN, Prawigens | | FINANCIAL NEWS AND PRICES =|] wow ao'noustains MISCELLANEOUS. ‘Shares, High, Low, tam. 7 tite, Lom 200 White Fagle . 20% 8% 8K, The Phonograph with the master made horn é * ‘fe Rm spidiipc elias i eo © | Stock trading moved within nar- coy + Te | 6200 Am Mafety Razor . 1% 1% NG, row limits to-day and hile prices Fy > < ‘Oe .. 4M ae Hoare Soh Alaa ot iW 1 th] were generally firm, ey in quo. is backed by our bread two Keystome Tire... 14% + *% J ct mer Honduras . 2 2 a Kacsan Olty South, 16 + M1} 1K i ik 00 American Mines « i i 1 | tations at the end of tM two-hour year guarantee and the repu- Lackawanna Bled, 81% — %| 10 11% 13% 12%] 1000 *Auanta . 2 2 2 | Session were unimportant. = ‘ s Le Naber Tims ARN a ath Rare Cot “i te a1 a7 ar | Transactions totaled only a little tation of this store attained Lathigh Valley 00. 42% ral Asphalt + 1% 1 jt 4 | more than 400,000 shares. The ex- fevers, « 108! — 4% | 700 General vn 368588 | Ba0n a owe ie anos on, nin “tm| hove (8 HG] pected announcement trom President through almost 62 years of ia kk Non 1G +1] Moore ou of. 1% 1% 1%] 1200 *Caled Min 2 92 ag_:| Wilson, telling what he intends to successful merchandising. Martin + 0 Rayém Chem . : Mi Leth Cop 1% 1% 1%] do with the railroads, and When they ~ o a is i thy Dace Sure: 18 + 1%| 600 Mapp beers te tw San] deetoermirriue ast alt gg] will bo returned to’ private control There are five models, priced ia: hasan. wae + Ms) 40 Indian Packing . 21% 21 21 | 800 Cons Cop M. 6% 6 oy] WAS not made and this tended to re- fr $42 50 t $184 00. Miami oo. ee oe 2 + %) 0 Kay Co Ges 1% 2% 9%) 600 Con Virginia “% 8 8% | strict speculative activity. ‘om id 9 evve Midvale Steel 40% 800 Libby MeNell 30 8030 | 900 Cremon Gold | % 3 ig Me dd + W080 Loews Ie ay mule (oS | a ; a a oil issues displayed an Mo, Kan o% + | 6100 Mont Ward Co. 43% 42% 42%) 4500 Divide Eat tt j| imelination to resume the upward Mo, Ie + Ww] 100 Mereer Motors 4% 84% 34%) 400 EI Balrador .. 2% movement which was so violent in y iitee, Foe + %| 2500 Nor Am Paper 4% 4 4 | 1500 mureka ii | yesterd ion, M Petrol lomt. cess pe ut ‘Croesus . 1 y"s le m = Middle Bates Gil. M% + %| 200 Ohio Blower 8% 9% 854) A00 cmarene oly. ae fies Chena | ontered yar toma tg ig | 900 Perteelion ire i @ Ol wea 1 eum which in early dealings moved up Nethmal Aailine .. 8% — %| 500 Republic Tire Mub ..... 4% 4% 4%! 100 Golden Gate bap in ig ik} about 21-2 points, but soon settled e ° a hee. 4 © Rl eevee eee on ok ee onl ee 1313, ag_| back to around last night's close. Herald Square Ine. New York ial ia ts Sepia Ba ih th ie 100 “Geld Kemas 3 8 9 | Foreign exchange rates again fluc- s emcees 82 ee eae Samba ems toe lever Nevada Cond. 66. 19 800 Swift International .... a 6 Me uated in a wild manner. Demand N. ¥, Airvenke.... 111% — %] 150.0. & High Speed Tool. W608 oe ee 5 5 8 | sterling at one time showed an ad- N.Y. @ ON, AL... 27M + | 800. 8, Steam 08) oe oe! a a) ed Sa sti coe 1% 38 1000 seat end 4 4g | ¥ance of about 8 cents to $3.83 1-4, heh a Wao, Oe + Wl Meteo ii irq | 200 Hecla Mining |, 4 ath 34] And later reacted to $3.80 1-2. Northem Pac, «. 61% + wl 100 Warren Bros. ‘ a @ ty Pcl vant, . We te 6 The bank statement furnished a Nova Scotia Steel 78 100 White Mock . +. %) 8% oH) “ %| surprise, It had been generally ex- sheep tea -1% { 1000 *Knox Divide t a 8 Sabon be BOM Uda crerrrcneese #3 18 ta | 60 SMekin Der 63 ts gg | Pected that it would be highly tav- | Gwane tee. + % |! Se one ol “ara 82 ara | 27800 McNamara 43 41 43. |orable and would ghow a large in- ' Pec, Devel, Com.. 11% + y INDEPENDENT O1LA peed Hie thc . 29 «629-29: | crease in reserves and a substantial D I A: M Ni DS | Vacitic Gea.e..see. SOM e 800 Alliance . 16! 16! a lode 53 Be 3 Paatie Te Toss a8 = 4] 1000 auied of Peat | [iB ieee vw BY Va ta (eee une One eee nag ; H Pan-Amer, Petru, . 108 % | 500 Amat Royalty ssscssccee 2 1 | 500 Nipiaing 12% 12% 12% habe xed & reserve Sax ay SKC j Pann, RR... 666s - 40% te] 100 Aritex Ou % 1% | 6200 *Nixon New i We 000 and an increase in loans o: 7645 Venn, Seub, Steel. 94 1 1000 Ansoctated Ott 2 2 | 3000 *North Star . t ? 7 | $46,301,000, Zags 1S Sy bs Peoples Gan. 33 1000 Arkansas Nat Gag...... 46 46 | 100 Onondago (Os eee ——- fae JEWELRY | Vere Marquette... 28% + %] 4000 Belle P m 2%! 500 Ophis Siiver % 1 1% Drv * Nias q Pil. Co, . + %] 1100 Boone ou + a 1% | 1000 *Kex Cons ‘ % 8% 8% DIVIDENDS. \ se. * Tierce Arrow ; -% 0 *Boston Wyoming 08 98 | 1000 *Rochester Mines ‘220 Cosden & Co., reguriar quarterly of | Mane ON ck 1500 Burknett Van Cleave.... 2% 2% | 400 Rope Group .... ww = % | 21-2 per cent. on common stock and n . 3 Pitta, Coal . — % | 18000 Carib Synd “ 5% 200 Seneca Copper . 15% 14% 15%] an extra of 21-2 per cent, in stock on j Pit. &W. Va. + 1% | (00 Cosden & Co, o% 8000 *Silver King Divide u 9 ® peer) | ee ons as $ 6 | 900 coming Pete 3% 800 8o Am P & G 19, 8, |common, payable Feb. 1. Christmas Gifts ’ Prem Steel , + | M9 Dominion ou a4 3% | 300s Sver tend & & «| Northern Pacific Railway, regular G WITHIN REACH OF ALL i Pullman Co + 100 Elk Basin Pet. 1000 Tonopah Belmont 2% 2% «24 | Quarterly $1.75, payable Feb. 1, untae Somes... 1% | 1800 Rrtet Oil a% 2%) 1000 *Tonopah Cash Boy 6% 6% 6%| American Shipbuilding Company, —BUY NOW— 8 Mail Steel Springs oe lle pean ol fr gg | 2100 Tonopah Divide «....+.+ 3% 3% 3K! regular quarterly 13-4 per cent. per Our Stock Is the Most Complete | May COME seers ‘ “ * | 2000 *Tono-Jim B «1 108 is Keasing + % | 2000 Gienroek “ott. ™% 22%] 1000 Tonopah Midway ..... 15 18 15 | f@FFed, payable Feb. 2. On Maiden Lan. Hy ie aor. i | ee eames Ol i a head saatserq ir ial 2% 2% 34] Brier Hill Steel Company, regular S DIAMONDS RANGING 825 TO 81,000 | May lien Meee 1% | 300 Indishoma Ket (ex div) 10% 04! is hee: Bie ee ke eas 18-4 per cent. perferred, On the Most LIPERAL TERMS : Koyal utah N, ¥, + “| 2100 Int Petrol . bad Li 1000 *U 8 Contiaemial a oe payable Jan. 1. Small Weekly or Mopthiy Payments. Ato nana on « A S| s00 wntty cota .. $4 0% 84| Montgomery Want & Co. 51 cents whi, No Red Tape. Strictly Confident ! % A} 4700 Livingston profbebnidh to. erterred stock, payable Jan 13. ns $ apanreat Y | 200 atagne on . ° Bal Miho hb te Fr This is on now preferred which was WE GUARANTEE BEST VALUES Gina Bieft, Men. + %| 400 Maracaibo On. 7 ON ea cae Tk au er exchanged share for share and with IN THE CITY. i oe ce AR) atin mers Ou ar) salle Temes 14 1% 14] te $1.24 paid on old perferred, Dec. CALL OR SEND FOR XMAS CATALOG (™ Gs", 3 Sautliern Bey. toBl Seen ec it 11 | 4000 *verrington eet erty eyeoages aut qustiee Open Evenings Until 9. Ye | ‘Southam Ry of 4 a . *0dd lots, = v9 8 lar H a = ] 600 Midwest Ret ve M63 62202 rate. ‘ ee 7 Ut pealebeker ; = 4] 2125 No am ou. a nonps, Federal Oil Company, initial quar- f CO. 4 Stutz Motor +. 2 rare aed . O% 9% 9% | $000 Allied Packer 6 ™ 1 9 |terly of 2 per cent. and an extra of (s| L& 3 : St. L, & Ban Fran, Serhan toe ree ae | $000 mm Tol 0 22 vim ou on |S Per, cent, on common stock, both ; ores | Le & Boulter, 3 tee On : 2000 Cities Service 1 101 101-1 | Payable Feb. 15, , a ba 4 wuperior Steel « Be Sit lige mead aes: ae KB) 1000 copennagen 6 #3 83 83 | United Verde Extension, regular 35 MAIDEN LANE, SIXTH FLOOR: 13 ba pee nn ss 40 [ler speeyy Tem “OS 5% | 5000 Wet ROT Tr. 71% 71% 11%! quarterly of 50 cents a share, payable } Tose Co. 2m — 1%] 8900 Salt Creek Prod. 4a” a3 43 | 1500 Russian Gov S%s 3 9 a3) Feb. 1. ' one ns ene mee oan oo ae Oe mm ose Ae meme 08 con we sey 6 Texan & Ps 43% + %, 1000 Sequoyan OW * * Thud Are. 2 2100 Simms Pet . Ow 6% ‘Tobacco Prat, 91% 92 + | 1800 Simma Pet rea, oe OM OOM I, + 100 Spencer Pet . w we at) ‘pwin Cay Mapid. entrain Underwood ‘Tye. 3. | 700 Thram % 2h Mh Ui Pecitic — | to Trinty On 5 ee ee, | Union OD v.66 -% 400 Tropica! OU. 19% = 19 19%) tinted Alisy + %| 200 Victoria OU new 1% 1% 1%) Geil Deve +3 | 000 Whelan 1 wl Nath , Un, Me. Ins, Co, . 10% = %| 200 Western states. 1% 1% 1%) fathan Straus publicly accused me as having been an opponent of milk pasteurization Wo, Heras Stores . 9 2 | eee ou ae BN He knows this is not the truth. Here are the ee vgs A Cae eae 3 H = er | In 1902 I built the first successful ization pli i i Ent War U.S. Kewl, & 1. 40 +44] Joseph Jefferson, are appearing to- inthe Siefrield Building er saat oe [past eee plant set up in New York City. That plant was UC, 8, Kubber. pot = {i gether with Mary MeLarcn in “The ; S, treet and Broadway, and it continued in service until a few years ago HO ees ea Forged Bride.’ when it was superseded by more efficient and more modern plants now used by our company. Lian Comer 3% + ML ny > 5a icteent? The work of introducing pasteurization was accomplished in the face of tremendous official and abs Bo 0 phere Women in noon Taree | professional opposition. Physicians denounced i i J bye aed, a +e haa, beon fniuhed, by Pauline Fred. Her teiy BUnerntenden CORA york Hi dele pasteurized milk and Doctor Walter Bensel, former Vanadiug btcel ... 80% — %|]erick—that ts, P ry Superir ent | ew York Health Department, threatened to close up our new plant in Fifty- Wabbam sees She Hee woman, seventh Street if we insisted on pasteurizing our milk. Veeee ae you]. Zasu Pitts has refused to change But we did pasteurize and we did not close up. We stuck to our faith in pasteurized milk and it is West 16) Ue iw ek NON OPAL name because its “zippy, due to this fact more than any other that New York today has a Safe Milk Supply. Went, 20% aS my — 1% | snappy, ye I want to submit to you a letter from Dr. Charles E. North, Secretary National Commission on Milk bog tu arate Nearly all of Staten Island called Standards, the eminent authority on milk sanitation. Wat, HK 18% 218% — 4] On become ha eal ese iy ., This letter, I believe, will settle the question of my attitude towards pasteurization. It effectively Wertingtowse 1 GR SO BY W)C and and all her chums and nails a lie. I am going to nail some others. TAA ak ae her family live there. LOTON HORTON, President, Sheffield Farms Company, New York. Wiljeavrerland pf 0 BU WO — a L we Ben Wilson, one of tho old-timers, Wit Wom sss RLS ay Tak las finishing ia weriat entitled “The THE NORTH PUBLIC HEALTH BUREAU Ml Noman 7505 BA BS ally Tint | Screaming Shadow. ; HUDSON TERMINAL BUILDING eit — | Anita Stewart spends two hours a 30 CHURCH STREET : : : NEW YORK “What company is she with?” he /duy learning to punch the nose of} inquired. her leading man, Colvin Carter, She | is taking lessons from Director Jose, Rumors were flying thick and fast{who writes that Anita has a solid | filmdom thy week, The biggest | punch, but poor aim, nearly all of her producing company in the country blows missing Carter's nose and Yvan reported to be in the throes of | landing either on an eye or his mouth), a shake-up Which included resigna- | tuons from President down, Mme. Olga Petrova says the> screen ix the sixth industry of the ‘Pie sixteen-year-old miss who won | world and she wants It to be the sixth “rane and Fortune" art. efore the war the motion pict the reer kereen contest changed her name from ure industry was the fifth, but w Nitgini: Brown to Virginia Fair, ‘Tofbeenme the first industry and that | make th ooeasion mo .; Upset the nutnbering system, one of her fellow-actors changed his | he from Paar to Warma Set on by a lion, bitten by an ape Screenology. and massaged by an elephant were all in one day's work for Al Santell >—Home stars are glad to au outang {a picture magazine. | -_ HOLY NAMB SOCIETY —Lew | Young women who can answer the|Cody is a Robertson Cole star; was | following description are invited by |born at Waterville. Me, and educated | 3 SEE EE MA ahh weit |at McGill University, Canada, He | las along, strong body, Her head|appeared at the Winter Garden for | ind throat have the massive look of|a time, ‘a’ marble fragment stained to one, yp, w.—Edmond Lowe ts to be} Salil a le Cea: neret {At present he plays the Chinese | sio—eyos gray and wide and 28 secs | Prince opposite Lenore Ulric in “The n expression ns an Untamed poaats. | gson-Daughter.” He is « Californian. Such a young woman will be given ting name of the first picture with the part of Joan in “The Branding |The Mame of the feat petaiven” Iron,” now {8 production, TRULY—Benny Leonard has done e 0) vo scene lread \d Toma Ince, the director who firat|One or two scenes already and will resume after his bout with Dundee, | HAZEL-—Not yet, but soon. recognized the screen ability of Dorothy Dalton, has given up his con- tract with her and she has been signed for a long term by Famous Players, Ince is said to have lost in- terest in Miss Dalton after she ac- cepted the part of Chrysis in “Aphro- dite." Her first Famous Players pic- ture will be Barrie's “Half an Hour," presented on the New York stage in Ww Ks the Close-Up man whether “Susie Haymaker" {s a Jap- anese man or wolnun. He's a real | Jap actor, only he's not Susie Hay- maker, but Sessue Hayakawa, pro-! nounced “Hi-a-kow-ah,"" according to | two well known Celts of the Robert- son Cole publicity forces, A writer Fle tevalles, Russian ballet star, has been signed for the sereen by Goldwyn She ts to appear in "Barth: | Hot water | as 4 peta fi Semane Godowsky, daughter of the FS ETH pint, Lad Thomas Jetfersom, sow of FOR INDIG Sure Relief | NE bound” with Wyndham Standing. ff PP OREO LST CBO LS NS LIDS ON LY LOG i AEGU.S.PAT OFF 7 OF EPIDEMICS CHARLES EB. NORTH, M.D, DIRE: LABORATORY SERVICE. FOOD SUPERVISION On a Paes TRATING TAUGIATORY WORKERS Le & SANITARY INSI BACTERIAL & CHPMICAL MESEARCIES December 11, 1919.9 on the ground that it was ineffective. Those who recom Mr. Loton Horton, President mended pasteurization at all did so only provided the pro- Shefficld Farms Company, New York City cess consisted of heating milk in small glass bottles im Dear Sir: ' mersed in hot water or steam such as the processes used I have been asked whether I would make a state- for infant feeding with home pasteurizers and such a pro ment to you concerning my knowledge of the history of cess as is used by the Nathan Straus Laboratories. the development of the pasteurization of milk in this Through the establishment of the holding method of country and the part yeu personally and your company pasteurization by yourself in the factory of the Sheffield have played in such development. I was present at a Farms Company the pasteurization of milk on a commer meeting in New York during the past month at which one of the speakers publicly stated that you had always been jal scale was first made possible, not only in America, but in other parts of the world, You, to my knowledge, intro- opposed to pasteurization. I know this to be untrue, and duced this method to other large milk dealers in the United in the interests of the truth I am very glad to make to you States and Canada, many of whom visited your factory the following statement: and learned of your methods, and were furnished with My first knowledge of your company was in the year copies of the laboratory tests made of the process. The 1905, when I began the practice of sanitation, and especi result of the establishment of this process by you has been ally milk sanitation, in New York City. At that time I that in practically every large city in America the term became acquainted’ with you and your company, and “pasteurization” has now come to be defined by public found that you were engaged in the pasteurization of milk health authorities in their regulations as one which means by a method known as the “flash” method, and I have per- the use of the holding method, and requires a temperature sonal knowledge that this method was then being used by a of not less than 142 degrees F for a period of 30 minutes, number of milk companies in New York City and in other which is the temperature and time used by you in the first cities, I understood that your company had been pasteur- apparatus which you installed in 1907. iaing milk by this method for several years previous to In the year 1910 when the infant milk depots were first my acquaintance with you. established by the New York Milk Committee you co * In the year 1906 as an employee of the concern with operated with the Committee by furnishing an entire floor which I was connected I established a laboratory in the of your building in 57th Street and all of the facilities neces new building erected by your company in West 57th Street sary for the pasteurization of the milk used in these infant for the bacteriological testing of the milk handled there. depots. This pasteurization was carried out under my per: In that same year I called your attention to the desirability sonal direction, and the milk was bottled, past: urized. of pasteurizing milk by a new method, which has since and distributed from your building. become known as the “holding” method. This method Your position as regurds pasteurization, as 1 ve consists in heating milk to a much lower temperature than personally known it now for a period of fourteen yeors, ha the temperature previously used, and after the milk is always been that of a strong advocate of the use of pusteur heated, holding the same in suitable tanks for a period ized milk, and always an cévinced one in the use of the of 30 minutes, which is the length of time necessary to best methods and practices. destroy all the bacteria which would in any way damage I have had no connection with your laboratories and milk consumers. In the spring of the year 1907 you in have rendered no service to your company since the year stalled in your factory in 57th Street the first machinery 1910, consequently my statements regarding your connec of this new type and began the pasteurization of milk by tion with pasteurization are entirely disinterested, I meke the holding method. The milk which you sold from thi these statements because I feel that many others who have process was then known as ‘Perfectly Pasteurized Milk,” knowledge of the facts must recognize that the state and I was glad to be of assistance to you at that time in ments made that you have ever opposed pasteurization arc writing up the literature which informed the public as to unjust to you and are unjust to your company. The bis the character of this product. tory of the development of pasteurization in this untry From this event dates the development of commercial shows that you have been a pioneer in advocating the use pasteurization of milk by a process which has compelled of this process and in introducing the same to the milk in the respect and confidence of the medical profession and dustry by methods which were practical and efficient the public health authorities. Previous to this time under commercial conditions. mercial pasteurization was condemned by such authorities Yours very truly, CHARLES &., NORTH. SHEFFIELD FARMS COMPANY : 4 New York