REPORT DEPUTY STATE SEALER OF WEfGHTS & MEASURES. I4I 



they are trying to clean things up, trying to have the food pro- 

 tected from flies and from dirt. They are going into restau- 

 rants, bakeries, hotels and other places where food is manu- 

 factured and used for the table and trying to get them into 

 better shape. They are going into the stores and looking after 

 the display of fruits and candies and the various articles for 

 sale, and trying to have them kept under the proper conditions 

 so they may be healthful. This department bespeaks your good 

 will in this matter. It is a very important one. We are reach- 

 ing out and touching every individual in this state, and you 

 recognize the fact that it is a delicate matter. We are liable 

 to run into trouble and it is for that reason that I speak of this 

 today. I trust that you sealersi will work with us, that you will 

 assist us. The inspectors when they go around in your town 

 no doubt will get in touch with you. I believe they have been 

 instructed to get in touch with the sealers of the towns and I 

 hope you will assist them in their work, — that you will explain 

 to the grocerymen they might meet the requirements of this law 

 and the desirability of its being enforced for the protection of 

 the people of the state. 



Hon. Chas B. Woolley. 



It gives me great pleasure to come here to the State of Maine, 

 the home of the greatest statesmen that this world ever pro- 

 duced. I might mention the names of Thomas B. Reed, James 

 G. Blaine and others that I can recollect, whose Hves and mem- 

 ories are cherished in vour hearts and will live until time is no 

 more. 



I presume that you expect to hear something relative to the 

 procedure of testing and collaborating scales in Boston. We 

 have what I believe is one of the best departments in the coun- 

 try. I might say, however, that prior to 1907 the department 

 of weights and measures was in a deplorable condition. About 

 that time we had a commissioner appointed in the State of 

 Massachusetts, and then the department began to do the work 

 that was expected of them ; and today I am happy to say, and 

 I believe it is true, that no other city in this country has a 

 better department, that serves the public better or more effi- 

 ciently than the department of Boston, or the department of 

 Massachusetts. I am sorry that our Commissioner is unable 



