Ancient Eggs, One to Three Years
Esteemed a Great Delicacy
Witnesses Declare Before Court That Frozen Eggs Seiz
ed Three Years Ago By Government Are Whole
some Gotham faces F amihe in Domestic Servants.
NEW YUUK, July -'J That old
.,g(w are really the best and that no
one Hhould , 'orn the delicate hen
rendered by an expert witness in a
ho.iring now fining
on to determine
of frozen eggs
.seized by tha government three years!" campllre and that pine boughs needs
ugo. i ne witness lei-iuieu uiai mr
aged egges were perfectly wholesome
and as evidence told of feeding them
.to his family and workers in his la
boratory without any ill effects. When
the health sharps at the hearing
seemed Incredulous the expert ex
plained that to keep eggs for a few
years is really nothing compared to
the feats of the Chinese, who pre
serve them fur Indefinite periods. He
recalled that when Li Hunk Chang
visited America he brought with him
eggs a hundred years old because
there were none in this country old
erough to suit his palate. While the
eggs have been ripening in storage In
Jersey City the federal courts have
been wrestling with the problem of
their fitness for food. Judge Gross,
of the United Slates district court, de
cided that the government had not
proved its case against the eggs. He
was reversed by the circuit court of
appeals whosn judgment was In turn
set aside thy the supreme court of the
united Males on tno ground mat it
was without Jurisdiction. All that
now stands between the eggs and
the public is the want of an order of
the state board of health releasing
them from storage. As the latest re
nnrtit .hnwthnt th. roM ,rtnr.
on hand In th, Untied States amount i ceased to exist since last year. These j second, muir.med bv tw, lrM blast
to over 87,000 000 dozen, this cae!ar tne agencies which got employ-, rang at the I:r:g-ie enl and two ex
has attracted nsrtlcular attention for nnt for cattle attendants' on the haunt fans at Iselle. Ti. Allchen-
more reasons than one.
Of the many old vacations taken by
New Yorkers the most oddly charac
teriatlc is believed to be a Journey on
which not a bath shall be missed and I has been snipped abroad, anu conse
no "roughing it" shall be endured I fluently the occupation of the cattle
notwithstanding that It will be from I men is gone. The high price of beef
Broadway to Fort McKenzie, the last
port of call on the MacKenxie river,
200 miles within the Arctic circle.
The party will be able to cling to the
luxuries of sleeping cars until a
transfer to a. steamer on the
Athabasca river Is made and will risk
discomfort only at one point where
for a stretch of rapids another trans
fer will be .made to York boats,
which, being open, may call for um
brellas on a rainy day. The major
part of the rier Journey, however,
will be made in steamers of th. fur
trade up and down' the great Mac-
Kenzie for a distance or z.job miles
and this will be only a trifle less
comfortable than on a Fall river
proposed to the astonished safe pa
trons of America's most fastidious
city as a challenge to the deep seated
prejudice against venturing westward,
MR. MERCHANT
"IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE"
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Make the Benefits of
Electricity Yours
Prosperity Rides on
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USE AN ELECTRIC
NIGHT SIGN
out of range of push buttons and the
"Parkling vintage which come forth
In eo - ebbed bottle-. The open ng of
might lurk In the experience and that
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must ne Hit ol uuttu iiisi'-au ui nun
mattresses and springs. The comple- from. The controller, to whom falls
tion of a railroad, the Canadian i the puzzling Job of discovering some
Northern, to the Athabasca at the mram) 0f providing the money, char
post w hich for generations was the u fc
outfitting point for trappers, Atha-1
basca landing made this novelty In vltinB one' particularly In view of
summer tours possible, but it will be j the fact that the margin of revenue
next year before the idea will have j bonds whic h can be Issued this year
percolated far enough for the trip to j.s Qnl about ' 1230.000. Borough
be undertaken In any number. Never
before has it been possible to go
straight from Gotham to a region
promising so great a contrast, not
withstanding that settlement and en
terprise Is pouring into the region to
which the rails were laid.
New York Is rapidly approaching a
famine of domestic servants. Km
ployment agencies llnd it Impossible
to meet the demand for them. It is
not so much because women who are
willing to work as servants are scarce
as it Is that so many of them are in-t
competent. Every employment agii.!wf l1 h('vn n the 12 1-2 mile Rlmp-
cy in New York has more applications
for work from would-be-servants than
It can fill, but there Is not (in agency
In the city that would hot pla e 10J
per cent more servants were the lat
ter competent to fill the places. ne
! 'lass of employment agencies has
transatlantic steamships. Young col- ; mann, Swiss engineer, finds that
lege men who wanted to work their j trains going with this current en
way to Kurope often went as i at'Ie ' counter less resistance than In open
tenders through these agencies. Pincejnlr up to 15 1-2 niljes an hour, but
October last no American live stock
In the United States and the fact tha:
this country has lost the European
cattle export trad? to, Argentina, ex
plain the changed conditions .
Another protest against the modern
wriggling dances is Just making itself
heard. Couriously enough, .however,
It does not come from reformers or
persons whoFe sense of decency is of
fended by the terpischorean acrobat
ics. Instead it e.manates from the
manufacturers of playin? cards, for
so generally have the tango and the
turkey trot succeeded card 'playln?
; that last year showed a very serious
falling off In the card manufa:turing
business. As tthe new dances are
formerly were card devotees the cast
against such dances seema to be t
clear one. What the falling off ac-
j tually amounts to La atwmA tor the
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Old, Are
in New York City
fact that during the last fiscal year
there wag a decrease of 778,231 pack!
of cards manufactured, or nearly for
ty per cent. Whether or not this Is
to be looked upon as another crime to
be laid at the door of the tango and
turkey trot depends largely on the
point of view as to whether the new
dames or the bridge craze are the
less to be desired.
That the granting of Saturday lialf
holidays during July and August to
all of the city employes of New York
who work by the day is going to be a
j mostly plan has already become ap-
jillst where the money to meet tne
cost, estimated at $300,000, la coming
i- t'Miurni .ocmirnj says it will cost
his department at least J20.000 addi
tional, as he will have to employ ex
tra shifts of firemen, engineers and
watchmen. Borough President Miller,
of the Bronx, estimates that It may
cost him as much as $30,000. The
extra cost for the entire city will
probably fee In the nlghborhood of
$300,000.
KKSISTANCE OF AIR.
The effects of air resistance are
Ion tunnel, where en etxcfcntioii.illy
high amount of energy le .required
for running the electric tra'r,. The
tunnelwhich is 15 feet wide and
18 high, with a sect'ooul area jf 2i0
square 'feet ms a ventilating cur-
.rent of J.oJ cubic ..v. of sir per
1 at higher speed or In opposite dlrec.
tion the resistance Is much greater
than outside. Coasting ty gravity
down the 7 per 1,000 maximum grad
ient, a train -ewn thougn going with
the current can not exceed 35 miles
an hour, on acount of the braking
by the air.
A New Jersey man, according to a
decision of the state supreme court,
must pay damages for the death of
his neighbor's cow. which broke
through- the fence of a garden and
ate enough green corn to cause Its
death. The farmer who lost the
. green ctr.i was liable to damages.
j the court decided, because the fence
: -should have been so constructed that
the neighbor's cow could not have
broken through
Journal of Paris, the consumption of
coffee In the different countries of
the world varlea In lnverae ratio to
the Import duty.
SUNDAY CITIZEN, JULY 27, 1913.
Gil ill VETS
ED RALLY IN
Undaunted By Inability to
Be Present at Gettysburg
Beunion. -
LONDON FLIES
AMERICAN FLAG
Very Prominently Displayed
. On Fourth News Of
London.
LOXDON, July 2. While, the
Grand Army of the Republic WoJ)
holding Its annual reunion at Gettys
burg there was a little gathering of
veterans of the CIvtl war In Ber
mondeey, a suburti of London, and so
far as enthusiasm wan; this celebra
tion compared favorably with many a
larger one n America.
There wi- iilnt ty-thrf venterani
present, headed by one ot the oldest
living survivors of tha triifcgl's,
George Munroe, a sprightly old man
of 104 years, who nrvd In the Con
federate navy throughout the war.
Munroe took part In the parade
through the streets of Bermondsey,
and stayed on during the speechm&k
lng, luncheon and reception, and at
the end he was as lively as many
of his youngef comrade. He still
walks very erect for a man of even
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uie-ui twa ii wtu tn.) jean iiu
ia.Kea uueie.iu.K.y - incidents
of his service In the navy and could
remember many of the dates.
This
reunion Is now an annual af -
fair, and It attracts a great deal of
attention In Bermondsey, Each year
some pirom'nent American resident In
London delivers the oration. This
year the lot fell to R. Newton Oane,
an American Lawyer.
Outside America there was prob
ably no city that flew the American
flag so prominently on the Fourth
of July as did London. Arriving at
Marble Axon on the way to the city
on the morning of Independence day
and looking down Oxford street one
might have been forgiven for believ
ing for a moment that he was on the
other side of the Atlantic. From
flag staffs of the tilg department
stores that line the street from Just
below Hyde park to the city bound
ary, Immense American flags were
flying, while many of the smaller .es
tablishments also showed the Ameri
can colors. In the hotel and ship
ping districts the presence of the
siih ana
tlceable.
This too Jurt after there had been
numerous letters In the paper pro-
ENGLISH II
teUg arainst th eoiw)olltm -
Department of Agriculture Has Not
Standards
ture of the decorations that were
put up for the visit of President
Polnoare of France. London never
does very well In the matter of decor
atlona, and those which did service
during the visit of the French presi
dent looked an though they were the
remains of many previous festive oo-
caslons. It was not o much this,
however, that the writers of the let
ter objected to as tha presence of
flags of all nations, not only on pri
vate buildings, tiut In the decorations
put up by the municipal authorities.
Down one Htreet there were so many
American rings that one writer sug
gested that they must have been sav
ed since the day of Colonel Roose
velt's visit to the city.
The time It
takes to circle the((.omn, under Its Jurisdiction In In-
giooe is to De measuraoiy recucea ss terstate commerce must comply. The
a result of a conference of steamship , department haa established no abso
and railroad companies to be held atul9 standards. It certainly has not
Mowow the end of July. This will
be done by bringing Into the regular
passenger service the new Japanese
railways in Korea In connection with
a fast line of steamships to Japan.
Passengers by the Trans-Siberian
railway will, under this arrangement,
travel through by rail to Fusan and
thence by steamship to Shlmoncwtekl,
a much shorter route than by way
of tho South Manchurlan railway tol,oluU,,y lu afftty Thls nalur8 ()f th(
Peking or the all-Uuselan route
through Vladlvostock. The Japanese,
Canadian and other steamship lines
are expected to speed up communi
cations for passengers across the Pa
ct flo.
The great drawbiyk to thto route
for passengers wishing to see th
country Is that they win miss the
most Interesting part of China, that
In the vicinity nf the Oreat Wall and
Peking.
Flogging Is the pealty for trafflo-
lng In women in London, and since It
was decided to Inflict this punishment
most of the White Wavers of London
have fled the city. Now It ha been
-'.derided to apply dogging as a
cor-
reitive nuasure for this offense In
,h() crown c0on,,, and rnda ftn(
. d are !)ecltJ-
, ,h. .,. riAna. h whol
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eral ordinance. The powers of. the
protectors of Chinese Immigrants and
I the police are to be Increased, and
the penal piovwlons of the ordinance
are to be made very severe. The In
dian government also will Introduce
legislation on tho "social evil" and
the White Plave traffic during the
next session of the imperial council.
That there Is need of this Is ahown
in the report of Sir P.eglnald Crad-
ilock, member of the home affairs
council, who says that the traffic Ic
the provinces In minor girls Is on the
i Increase.
Professor Hochenegg, an eminent
Austrian lurgeon, has declared It at
his opinion that women are not ad
apted to the work of medical prac
tltloners.
In addressing the Austrian women's
association recently the profeasor
highly praised the work of women a
nurses, and deplored the fact that the
rfrfranmnffir-or
waa arr.1v unjtrlnr to thlLt tit do-
mf.gtle aervsnts. He said hi opinion
(Oontrnued cm Pare Plfteesv)
for Inspection of
Is Simply Working to Educate the Dairymen to Produce
And Ship Clean Milk to Their Customers Outlines
Policy to the Dairymen of the United States.
WASHINGTON, D. C July 26.
The department of agriculture today
Issued the following statement out
lining Ita policy In dealing with the
milk situation In the United States.
"It Is erroneously supposed that
the department of agriculture haa es
tablished absolute standards and
bacterial counts to which all milk
and will not establish any rule de
claring that milk containing less than
a certain number of bacteria, per cu
bic centimeter Is good milk. Under
such a standard, milk containing less
than a certain number of typhoid or
tubercle bacilli would automatically
be passed, as coming up to standard.
A simple count of the bacteria Ii not
In Itself sufficient to determine ab-
bacteria as well as their num'ber also
must If possible be considered. The
presence of only a few disease pro
ducing baaterla might maka the milk
dangerous, while several thousand
harmless bacteria could be present
without necessarily Indicating that
that the milk was unsafe. Tha pres
ence of even a few colon bacilli Is
presumptive evidence that cow ma-;
nure has been allowed to get Into the
milk between the cow and the con
sumer. Similarly a high count of the
kinds of bacteria that normally are
present In milk Indicates that the
milk, la dirty, or that It has not been
heM at low temperature or that It la
old.
"The department In Its milk activi
ties Is carrying on an extensive cam
paign of education to help dairymen
prod u -e and market good clean milk.
This work 1s carried on principally by
the dairy division of the bureau of
animal Industry. ; This division exer
cises no policing function. It haa no
power under the law to seize milk or
to prosecute milk dealers. Its work
Is purely educational. Thla division
Issue many educational bulletins
baaed upon Its experiment In the
economical production of clean milk.
It supplies farmer with these bul
letlng and also sends men Into the
field to show milk producer how to
make change within their mean
which will raise the quality of their
milk and also Increase their profit.
These demonstrator have helped
milk producer who supply over 100
cities. In each city, these demonstra
tors co-operated with th local health
authorities, not to help ttem secure
evidence or bring prosecution, but to
Improve the local system of Inspec
tion whereby, the Inspector can aid
the milk producer of the territory to
issTBrlnc their tntlk1 up tw the- u1iywii
standard without being called upon
to make excessive expenditure.
"With the Inspector, tha dmon-
tralora visit th tixx Imam
i3
Set
Milk of Country,1
friend of tha farmer, They mas
show him that certain cow In till
herd do not yield enough milk to pay
for their feed. Or the demonstrator!
may point out certain change In
feeding which will greatly Increasa
the yield. They help th farmer build
n Inexpensive milk house, and show
Mm how a window or two or a water
proof floor for hla barn, or a llttl
whitewash or mor frequent cleaning
will actually Increase his profit
Where desired, they explain method
of pasteurization and shipping and
handling of milk. Through thl bu
reau, the department supplies tuber
culin for testing herds. These dem
onstrators have no power to comp
the farmer to follow their advice
they merely try to how him thai
thejie measure are for hi own good.,
Thoy do not and cannot require th
farmer to pasteurise hi milk. Wher
they find a herd that I not tested for
tuberculosis, or milk toeing produced
In an unclean way, they advise that
th milk be pasteurized, using any
one of a number of competing ma
ohlne or a home-made pasteurizer.
At a result of thl work, thousand
of former have Introduced new and
sanitary method of producing ang
hipping milk not because they Were
forced to do so, but because they saw
tha Justice of protecting their con
sumers and found that they lost lesg
milk and made greater prollts by foU
lowing th specialists' advice.
"The dairy division advises the pas
teurization of milk unknown or of
doubtful purity because in large
measure It protects the consumer
from danger that might be Incurred
by using such milk In the raw tsta,
Pasteurization Is not recommended
a a substitute for sanitary precau
tions but as an additional safe-guarfl
where the Inspection Is not sufficient
to guarantee the purity of the milk. -
"The dairy division also 1 conduct
lng an extensive campaign among
consumer, In the first plae, It is
trying t4 convince them that It cost
more to produce clean wholeaoma
milk than to produce dirty and dan
gerous milk. In the second place, H
aim to show the householder how t
keep ml lit after It haa been delivered
by the milkman. Clean milk. If air
lowed to become warm, if kept In utu
clean vessels, or If exposed to the
dust of room or left within reach ol
file, quickly deteriorate and may be
come dangerous.
"Whatever power tha department
haa to compel milk dealers to product
safe, clean milk come to It from tha
food and drugs act Under thla aot,
tha department haa power to request
the department of justice to order
prosecution or seizure only in th
case of milk that enter interstate
eotmre."-Trth worlt; the depart
ment doe not set up standards, but
accepts tr sundard ef the city Into
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