Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 275, 11 August 1909 — Page 3

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A SMOOTH SCHEME IS BEING WORKED Cheap Restaurant and Hotel Keepers Dodging Pure Food Law. DIFFICULT TO STOP IT VIOLATORS BUY GOOD BRANDS OF CATSUP, THEN THEY REFILL THE BOTTLES WITH THE CHEAPER BRANDS. Indianapolis, Aug. 11. The state board of health has 'got onto" a mooth scheme that is being worked by some of the restaurant keepers and also tome of the keepers of the cheap hotels in the state, in order to get around the pure food law. Nearly everywhere the inspectors go they find this scheme being worked, and it is hard to get at to stop It. The pure food law prohibits the use of any kind of preservative in tomato catsup except a very small amount of benzoate of soda. This is limited to one-tenth of one per cent, and if a manufacturer uses more than that percentage of benzoate of soda he is liable to prosecution for violation of the pure food law. Having Big Sale. It is well known that some of the leading brands of tomato catsup contain no benzoate of soda or any other preservative, and since this has become j known these brands are having an , enormous sale. When you sit at a; CREATING A SENSATION ALL OVER THE COUNTRY. ftoot Juice Is Making Many Remarkable Cures, .,, Quite & sensation is being created in raauy cities of the country by the reiuarkable Koot Juice discovery. The great remedy is making- many remarkable cures in every direction. Many local testimonials were published in this paj?r until it became useless as so many people of this city were cured by it. It has certainly proved a wonderful remedy for the stomach; liver, kidneys end blood. Many who suffered for year with indigestion, rheumatism and kidney complaints after taking a few bottles of the wonderful health-giving Juice have been restored to perfect health. It is also proving to be a wonderful nerve feeding, strength-giving tonle for 'weak, nervous people. It is sold for $1 a bottle or three bottles for $2.50. They wilt tell you all about ttJ

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table nowadays you will notice people pick up a tomato catsup bottle and examine the name of the maker and the brand. Restaurant keepers have learned this too. They have found the customers examining the bottles. The higher grades of tomato catsup cost a little more than the preserved - kinds, . 30 many of the restaurant keepers have adopted the plan of buying a first sup ply of the unpreserved catsup in bottles, and when the bottles are about half emptied they All them up with catsup made of the cheaper materials and preserved with benzoate of soda. This refilling process is continued as long as the label on the bottle remains in a presentable condition and retains the appearance of a compara tively new bottle. The average customer takes it for granted that the contents of the catsup bottle are just what the label says they are and goes ahead and eats the stuff. What Scheme Is. This is the scheme that has been discovered by the state inspectors in various parts of the state. Instances of this kind have come to light in South Bend, Fort Wayne, Richmond and several other places. The difficulty about the whole thing is that the Inspector every time he finds a case of. this kind must send a sample of the catsup to the state laboratory to be analyzed, and this takes a long time before a prosecution can be started. Every time a restaurant keeper practices this deception he not only imposes on his customers by serving them with inferior food, but he violates the pure food laws as well and is liable to a heavy fine. Some of the catsup manufacturers, the ones who use preservatives In their goods, generally use rotten and inferior tomatoes in making their catsup. This li Itself is a violation of the law. The makers use benzoate of soda or some other species of preservative to prevent further decay of the contents and then by the liberal use of salt and spices the flavor of the catsup is made to appear pretty good and the consumer does not know that he is being buncoed. Has Made Analyses. The state laboratory has made many analyses of samples of tomato catsup produced by numerous manufacturers, and if the results were published and fully understood by the people these brands would be driven off the market. H. EX Barnard, state food and drug commissioner, insists that the use of preservatives in tomato catsup is wholly unnecessary, provided the manufacturer uses the right quality of material in the making of the catsup. The action of the crooked restaurant keepers, however, who refill the high grade bottles with low grade goods is causing the health department some anxiety, and a plan is being formed to put a stop to the practice. Each female oyster lays from 16 000.000 to UO.000.000 eggs a year, of which only about one in each 2,000,-

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SMALL PAY START SCORNED BY BOYS Frank Clouds, Milton Young Man, Makes Interesting Investigation. LACKING IN FORESIGHT AFTER CAREFUL STUDY OF YOUNG AMERICANS THE DEDUCTIONS HE MAKES ARE NOT ENTIRELY FLATTERING. Frank Clouds, a well known Milton young man, who has charge of the free employment bureau of the state statistician's office, Indianapolis, is making a study of the young American who has a desire to be a wage earner, and his deductions are not at all flattering to the future of the youngster of fifteen or sixteen years, who has no prospects except what his two hands are able to make for him. "The average boy of that age who comes in here," said Mr. Clouds, "is possessed of the idea that he ought to be making good wages from the start. Most of them have had no experience whatever in any regular line of work. One came in the other day who had just turned fifteen years, he said, and he wanted a job. He had no one depending on him for support. I had a call from a machine shop for a willing boy who desired to learn the machinist's trade, and I sent the caller to the shop. He returned in a short time, with the declaration that the place paid only $4 a week, and that he didn't propose to work, for that. ' Seek Jobs. Without Development, "I tried to . make him understand that although he could get only that amount at this time, the company was undertaking to train him to operate a machine so that in time he could be earning as much as that every day, but he wouldn't listen, and left here to look for a Job on his own account. He was of the type of boys of that age who come in here and wish jobs that will pay from $9 to $12 a week and who never stop to think that the jobs will be paying them the same wages twenty years from now if they stay with them. It is no wonder to me that our list of applications from

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common laborers is growing so rapidly. "Men in desperate need of work are among the callers at the office. I had a caller early this week who declared that he would not try to keep up the fight longer than Thursday of this week. He was a millwright, he said, and was not able to find any employment in his line. I told htm he ought to be able to handle some structural steel jobs we had. but he thought not. I sent him to a mill where they wanted a man, but he returned and informed me that the mill had just been sold, and that after a day's work, he had been discharged to make way for the new menwho came in with the new owner. '"Thursday's my limit, he said as he left the office. 'If something doesn't come by that time it will be all up with me." HIGH WAGE CITIES. Chioago Holds the Lead In Most of th Building Trades. While Chicago labor is perhaps the best paid of any community anywhere, it has always been accepted as a well established fact that American workmen generally receive better wages per hour than those of any other country among the civilized nations. There has been, however, a very general impression that the eastern cities of New York. Philadelphia and Boston were more generous in the matter of wage schedules and tba worklngmen in New York were the best paid of any in the country. The Chicago bureau of labor statistics offers some figure; which In a measure change the aspect of the prevailing impression. In twenty-one of the forty-six selected principal trades the bureau shows that the highest hour scale is paid in Chicago, New York city. Philadelphia, Boston. Cleveland. Pittsburg and Buffalo and that, moreover. Chicago leads among the hour class of workers. Chicago Maotype operators, for Instance, get an average of almost 72 cents per hour, which is the highest average paid to any body of craftsmen. On the other band, Baltimore enjoys the dubious distinction of paying about the smallest wage of any of the cities enumerated 8 cents per hoar to br women tobacco stemmers. equivalent to 64 cents for an eight honr day. In New York city the brick layers, however, get 8 cents per hour more than the bricklayers of Chicago, and the carpenters get 4 cents more in New York, bat in the other building trades Chicago leads. Cabinetmakers, upholsterers, varnlshers. etc.. are the best paid in Boston. Municipal street laborers are also better paid at the Hub than elsewhere. Brooklyn Eagle. IS VISITING HERE. Mr. D. C. Evans, of Columbus, Ohio, who for three years has been confined to his house with an affection of the spinal cord, is visiting his brother, Mr. John A. Evans. Mr. Evans -was formerly a resident of this dty. " "

FLED III NIGHTIES Northern Michigan Hotel, a Frame Structure, Burns To the Ground. WAS FILLED WITH GUESTS Mackinac Island, Mich., Aug. 11 Hessel house in Hessel, Mich., at the entrance of Les Cheneaux islands, was destroyed by fire early yesterday morning. Between fifty and sixty guests were registered there. The fire originated in the laundry and was discovered by Miss Nellie Muray, of St. Ignace, who rang the alarm. She was about the only one to save her entire belongings. Most of the guests escaped with only their night clothes. Many of the resortera were from the states of the middle south. Several were residents of Cincinnati. The sought shelter at various other summer hotels in the vicinity, disappear

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entitled to Q2.) per V the rate everyone. ing so quickly that their names were not learned. Correspondents who sought to interview them later met with ao success. As the hotel register was destroyed also all property of the guests, there was no way of Identifying them. There were no fatalities and as far as known no one was Injured. The Hessel house was a large frame structure built several years ago, and was so dry it furnished the best of food for flames. The summer resort's fire protection is so inadequate that there was not the least chance of saving the building and after the guests were out it was abandoned. It was valued at $15,000. Hessel Is reached by steamer from Mackinac. HISER WILL BEE Prof. W. S. Hiser of the manual training department of the local school system has notified Superintendent T. A. Mott that he will take charge of his department again this year. Mr. Hiser had several offers from other schools but decided to turn them down in favor of the local proposition. irate far ca

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Muncie Is waging a crusade against the speeding of lnterurban cars' through the city. Policemen are holding stop watches on the cars and several arrests have followed. It is claimed the traction cars have been running through the streets without respect for city ordinances. The police are trying to break op the practice. A SupposaMe Case. This story Is being told on a Kansas lawyer. The lawyer was arguing a case before a judge, and. desiring to 11 lustrate by supposing a case, be did so as fellows: We will suppose, your honor, that year honor wero to steal a herse "No, ao. aer interrupted the Judge. "Not at all; not at all, sir. Tain't a supposable case, sir." "Very well, begging your honor's pardsn." said the eager lawyer, with more seal than prudence. "Very well, then, supposing that I should steal a horse "Ah. yes. yes. said the judge, -that is a Tory different thing very different, Mr. X. Proceed, sir. Kansas City JonrnsL

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