Connecticut western news., 1899-08-17
H.M. ADAMS UNDER A CLOUD.

| Chargss Of Iahumsnity Against Him. Investigation 10 be Made Tomor.
 TOW.
 Henry M. Adams, superintendent oi
 the Hartford County Home for children
 at Warehouse Point, has come into un.
 pleasant prominence through the news.
 papers this past week MT Adams vent from Canaan, where he had been prin. cipa of the High school, to Warehouse
 Point over three years ago. MT Adams
 vas the first principal of the High School here and filled an engagement of five years, He then went away and after an absence of about five years WAS recalled to Canaan where he acted as principal for five years more. At the end of that time the school authorities deemed . change advisable but MT Adams resided here another year after relinquishing the school. doing news paper eorresp Jndence and pursuing the duties of tax collector to which he he'd been elected. At Warehouse Point ss here, he WAS a member of the Congrega- tional Church and prominent in G. A. R. matters.
 Anumber of complaints of his man. agement had been made by letters to the Hartford Post and they cent . re- porter to investigate. From his ac- counts VIC learn that about three weeks ago formal complaint of MT Adams management was made to the county commissioners and testimony given charging cruelty to children who are inmates of the Warehouse Point Home, an economy in its management that ap- brooches penurity, lack of proper care for sick children and even improper conduct toward the older girls in the institution. Inmates and employees at the Home have given damaging testi. mony. and the Warehouse Point people have been disturbed for the past two years but have tried in vain to have mat ters bettered, but claiming that nothing could be done as County Commissioners Dewey Is an uncle of Mrs Adams Among the allegations which Superin- tendent Adams admits is that he ducked . boy's head in pail of water. that he rubbed another boys fase in the ashes, and that he chained some of the three year old children to benches in the yard to keep them from running out of bounds He denies all the other charges, some of which are that he poor. ly fed the children. that he vas cruel in punishment, that he bought nine quarts of milk day for % children and dilut- ed it with water, that he WAS neglectful of the sick children; and he says that the charges of improper conduct are without foundation as the girls are many of them low minded and liau-
 MT Adams has requested the board of management to make a searching inves- tigation of all allegations against the Home since he took charle of it The board of management consists of the county commissioner, Messrs Devey, Potter and Hathaway. Dr E. K. Root of the State Board of Health. and Miss Mary Hall of the State Board of Chari- ties.
 The board had an informal consulta- ton Monday afternoon and decided to visit the Home, and hold an investiga- ton on Friday morning At 10 o'clock at the Home at Warehouse Point
 Among the persons making charges are Town Representative E. Morton Granger and Dr c. E Porter, who was phys at the Home until April l. Representative Granger Is accused by MT Adams of having inspired the charges because of spite due to trouble in the last town election.
 .a kAn nh >f spite. said MT Granger, when spoken to about the matter, Had I been &C., tuated by that feeling I would have had MT Adams out of his position a month after I was elected. I have appeared against him before the county commis- sioners, but it was because did not think him . fit man to have the care of children, having learned that there was some trouble during his work as . school teacher becal se of alleged cruelty to those whom he tsnghk Plenty of csuss for investigation has been given, and tbe have made to the commis- sioners will be backed up with proofs, coming from men who have worked at the Home"
 Dr Porter has made statements to the commissioners that ill children are kept in the same dornitory with we'll ones, and that . policy of not sending for . physician except in extreme cases has been adopted. He said:
 ''I do not care to enter into details just no~, but the things I have told have given plenty of cause for Investi- gation At the Home parsimony has been carried to an extreme. to the detri- ment of the inmates, whom the county expects shall be cared for we'll"
 These charges and any others that may be preferred will be inquired into in . thorough manner by the investigat- ing board. who are determined that the truth shall be known.