Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-08-03
UEEXPEYD[D MONEY
Of DEWEY Day FUND
WILL BE DISTRIBUTED PRO RATA
AMONG THE SUBSCRIBERS BY
MIR. LANCE.
SOME HAVE ALREADY APPLIED
For Their RESPECTIVE. shares-Treas-
urer Lauge Gives His Side of the
Controversy Regarding His Right
to Dispose of the Fund In This
Yanner-The other side of the
Matter.

A controversy over the method of
disposition of the unexpended balance
of the Dewey Day fund has been pre-
cipitated by Treasurer +. H. Lange's
publication of card requesting con-
trihutors to call for twenty per cent
of the sums which they donated. The
total amount of money subscribed was
$2,9S245, and Mr.. LANCE still has s592
which was not expended
Messrs. John Warehouse and Morris
Horkheimer, of the finance committee,
held a meeting and decided to turn
this sum over to the Board of Trade,
believing that the money was subserib-
ed for the public good and should be
directed into such channel Accord
fngly sight draft for the amount was
drawn up and presented to MIR. Lange,
but he declined to pay over the money
Mr.. Langes position. briefly stated,
is that the money was subscribed for
specific purpose, to be expended for
that purpose alone and that the com
mittee, as agents for the subscribers,
have no legal or moral right to divert
the fund, or any portion of ii, to any
other purpose. He holds that If the
money is to be turned over to the Board
Of Trade the subscribers should say so.
Mr.. LANCE was not at all pleased
with the sensational article In the In
telligencer anent the matter, and de-
MES that 1t was impossible to get his
version of the matter Thursday night
He states that he was at his home dur
ing the entire evening. and that no rep
resentative of the Intelligencer called.
Mr.. LANCE laughs at the Intelligen-
GERS hint at an Injunction TO restrain
him from paying the money TO the per-
sons who are entitled to 1t, and dis
proved the assertion that all the con-
tributors TO the Dewey Day fund are
anxious to turn the balance into the
Board of Trade by showing four letters
from firms that made donations, all
asking for their proportion of the unex-
pended balance of the fund.
Mr.. Lange said regarding the mat
ter:
ut is true, as Mr.. John Waterhouse
saws in his interview with the Intelli-
gencer reporter, that the finance COM
mittee of the Dewey Day fund, in the
pel solls of Messrs. Waterhouse and
Horkheimer issued an order to the
Board of Trade Of the city of Wheel
ing for the sum of s5S2 in my hands,
and 1t is also true that / refused to
honor the said order or draft to the
Board of Trade. holding that they as
simply servants of the subscribers OF
the Dewey Day fund and by them ap-
pointed as their finance committee, have
no right to dispose of money or prop
erty without the consent of the owners,
that is to say. the subscribers to the
Dewey Day fund, who are the only
legal persons to dispose of same.
1T is also true that | am not men,
Der of the finance committee. but ap-
pointed by them by consent of the sub
scribers as treasurer. AS such, all
moneys were paid into my hands 1t is
ognize and paid all orders issued by the
finance committee of the Dewey Day
fund that were due and payable, direct
ly contracted for Dewey Day and no
others, for which this money was sub
scribed and solicited.
'It is also true that l hold in my
hands the sum of 1892 being surplus
amount left over from Dewey Day fund,
after all legal and Just claims were
paid and settled, of which surplus the
finance committee of the Dewey Day
fund were informed and have known
ever since closing the accounts. But l
do deny that | ever borrowed that
money from Mr., Waterhouse or Mr..
Horkheimer and promised to pay per
cent interest. Why should l borrow
money that is already in my posses
sion and has no direct owner except
the subscribers to that fund, who are