Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-09

which the funeral directors conducted them.
selves in Johnstown, and especially one East.
ern gentleman who came here and worked and
1 labored very hard; and.
Whereas, This is doing the funeral directors
a great injustice and is highly insulting to
certain members, the Eastern gentlemen, and
! in fact the entire profession, be IL therefore,
Resolved, That we here assembled deny all
such statements as great untruths, and hereby
| ceusure and condemn the action as very uT-
| professional and not worthy of our notice.
F. G. BEIEHAUR, Chairman.
Besides passing this resolution, the meet
| ing decided upon action for the future. It
would not do to let the work drop because
| of Mr. Devore's assumption of authority.
Under the call of Mr.. McCFeerY, the work
must be carried on, and carried on under the
management of Mr.. Flannery and irrespect-
i've of the commands or interference of w
II. Devore. Men must be sent back to
Johustown at once. ~
Will Ignore Devore's Authority.
These men must go under Mr.. Flannery's
direction and to take care of the dead. Mr..
Flannery stated that it would be impossible
for him to go himself at once, but the men
could act under his direction. There were
at once many volunteers. The following is
list of the men who will return to their work
in the Johnstown' s'morgue to-day, -
James NJ. Fullerton, John McCurdy, Miller
Brothers & Co.. two men; Vierhille & Kinzer,
two men; Noble Brothers, two men; B. F.
Matthews, two men; John TEexier, two men;
Henry O. Torr, William Slater, two men; John
Mckinney, j. D. Schuf, ]. NJ. Elliot NJ, s.
Ward and DR.. o. Conner.
These men will 60 with instructions to act
independently of Mr.. Devore, to pay no at
tention to his orders and to consider them
selves under the direction of the Chamber
Flannery.
Mr.. FInnneFy's Statement
After the adjournment Chairman James
j. Fiannery, in speaking to a DISPATCH
reporter, said: "The statement as made by
Devore that I induced the men to come
home ? with me, or for the reasons
that he stated, brand as
nnqualifedly false Devore of course was
delegated by the State Board of Health to
take charge Of the dead. That is true. The
Pittsburg undertakers were delegated to 90
to Johnstown to bury these bodies. We
went there, and at once threw off
our coats and went to work. Not so with
Mr.. Devore, however; he acted mainly as
self-constituted reception committee of one.
He made it his business to receive all who
called at the morgue, but did not work
as the others did. 1 want to say
that there was utterly no feeling in
the matter of the men coming home.
are big days with undertakers and livery |
men, and the men came home in order to get |
in readiness for Sunday. There was, as 1 |
say, not the slightest feeling In the |
matter until hDeyore said that I |
brought the men home, and that |
1 felt badly because he had |
superseded me. 1 don't know what object |
he could have in saying so, as il is not true, |
1t is true that we met in Devore's office, /
because there was not enough room in my
Office to accommodate the men. I was
elected Chairman of the Funeral Directors
Relief Committee, and was known and |
as such. Chairman McCreery,
of the Citizens Relief Committee, said that
he did not recognize anyone but me as
the head of the delegation in the ordering
of supplies.
''This trouble will by no means have the
effect of keeping the men back. We are
going back there to work, and are as anx-
ious to go ahead and do good as we were
before this matter came up. Let Devore
attend to his business and we will look out
for ours. He made the same statement
before We left I went to him and asked
him if he said it, and replied that some one
mad told him so.
II never made any motion as though to
light him, but the Irish in me did boil, aud
gave him the lie; but deny emphaticaliy
hat ] was going to fight him, The bodies
will not suffer on account Of this little mat
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