The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-11-16

deavoring to carry out the reforms IN
the Administrations Mfp4 Fl tSs 4 HONS WHr1,F
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. The letter from Mrs. Palmer, who has
been q member three years. followed
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2sesRHRGEN AVENUE,
JERSEY CRY HEIGIITS.
My dearsMrs, Beach, beg to ackncwl.
Sds The ssosDs of GprSisl Ss1a letter sssr
dropped. from the Board of Domestic
Control Of the Children's Home. While
a waa aays i te est the adie, fe
me to be present on Friday afternoon.
Yours sincerely.
Nov. H. 1898.
appointed member of the three, having
served but one year. Her letter. which
rsoapitulates some of the trouble be
tween the two boards. was also read
She said
To the President and Members of the
Board of Domestic CONTROL
Dear Ladies and Co-workers-When
received the very vaguely worded notice
daily attend the special meeting to be
held at her home today, was impressed
with feeling of uncertainty as to What
knowledge had already reached me that
our President had received an offlcial
notice from the Board of Trustees, for-
ing ufs,r for the he month months of October
Now, what right had these gentlemen
to thus interfere with our rights m
the holding of this, our regular 1ail
Imagine my shock when the next mail
put me in possession of brIef, very
sparsely worded note from our president
conveying the fact that she had received
a letter from Mrs. Ridgeway, President
informing. her. that Mrs George MI d
Isaac w. Quimby. had not been reap
pointed as members of the Board OF
Domestic Control, with no reason as
signed for this unlocked for' co"aroiy
/ keenly feel that this action on the
part of the Board of Trustees, or a lew
illegal as it is unprecedented, and with
out parallel in the history of the Home.
That this shaft has been thus leyeirelii A
plead guilty to the fact that my con-
slant aim and effort for the past year
has been to bring about some well di,
rected effort to restore harmony, ana
for the good conduct of the Home.
In brief, this constant interference on
the part of some of the members OF the
Board of Trustees to frustrate any anc
ali efforts to bring about any reform on
the part of our Board, has almost en-
gendered a feeling of suspicion and dis
trust among our OWL lIcIlOSiS, AOi
whenever open discussion of questions
occurred purely pertaining to our work
but work which certain members of the
Trustees were unwilling ITO have US pur-
sue it seemed to create a little panic
among US, and although some of our
members agree that the work ought to
be done, emphatically asserted that ii
was useless wasted efforts, because "the
Trustees would never consent to such
changes"
therefore, it would seem as if the
Home, instead of being conducted solely
in the interest of and for the protection
and maintenance of poor outcast chill
dren, is gravitating in part at least into
a place Of comfort for the benefit of an
INDECENT matron.
Fourteen years of best intentioned eff
fort and labor for the Home and its in
terest by one member of our Board, three
years Of charitable help and sympathy
and devotion to its needs by another
seems to have had no weight-or ap-
probation with the Trustees in their re-
cent action-in their uncivil, discourteous
dropping of our names from the Board
No greater insult could have been ofer-
This grievance and wrong requires all
our forbearance, but we hope future in
vestigaion will right the wrong.
Very sincerely yours,
FRANCIS H, QUIMBY,
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