The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-06-27
SUIT OYER S.P. G. A. REPORT?
DIRECTORS NAY GO TO COt RT
TO GET 4 CORY.
Another Report Likely to He Given Out
soon, but Not the One That Ia wanted
charges Of Extravaganza Made From
Quarters outside the Haines Society.

The charges made by Col. Joel B. Erhardt'
vice. presdent of the American Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
against the methods OF the society's presi-
dent John p. Haines, were read with
interest yesterday. not only by people who
have Leen complaining for years OF the
society's work under the present admins
tration, but by those who have been fighting
to have the society's peculiar monopoly
taken from it.
Perhaps the charges We're interesting to
President Haines. Efforts were made
Yesterday afternoon to find him and ask
him why the report on the finances OF the
society was suppressed and also whether
it was true that, as one Of his friends said
he had signed Il release for $50, 600. covering
five years salary at $1,000 Il year MIR.
Hanes could not he found at his office,
where it was said that he could not lie
interviewed elsewhere.
SO far as the statement Of James Grant
Wilson that any manager or member OF
the society could have seen the report is
concerned, Col. Erhardt repeated yesterday
that he had asked to see it and Mr.. Haines
refused to let him have it. And Mr.. Err
hardt is a vce-president OF the society.
Not many eyes saw that report. and the
persons who have seen it have 50 far re-
fused to say what it contained.
1t is possible that some of the officers
and members of the society who want to
see it's affairs carried on in q way that IN
not open to suspicion will ask the courts
to compel President Haines and his coterie
to show the report.
"1hat's the only way to get at it." said
an officer yesterday. Il shall not be sur
public soon, but it will be a report that is
being prepared DOW, not the report that
has been hidden"
In an address made this year to the Leg
islature DR.. Stillman. president of the Mo-
hawk and Hudson River Humane Society,
Albany, declares that the A. s. p. c. A. lis
apparently the most extravagantly man
ged and the least effective for the amount
of money, expended of any known society
of its kind.
1888. it prosecuted 1925 cases and was main
tanned for the year at a cost of s22,979. 1t
has never prosecuted 40 many cases since,
and apparently never was conducted so
economically since. The comparatively
small animal society in Jersey City pros
ecuted 5e7 cases in 1903, its work costing
$l2.s72. The American society arrested
and prosecuted 5s7 cases during the same
period and spent large part OF the re-
ceipts, which were Sla8 ,045.'
State have not enjoyed the rule of Presi-
dent Hanes. President Arnold Of the
Ossning branch wrote last April
Il. an. aa.isfnd that it is USELESS IN at
tempt to do humane work as branch of
the American Society for the Prevention
Of Cruelty to Animals while the said society
is governed by President John p. Haines,
who is not lover of animals and is doing
all in his power to hinder cur work and
break UP our society
Another letter which was included in
DR.. Stillmans complaint to the Legis-
lature was written by Miss Blanch B. Men,
bert. a member of the Columbia County
Humane Committee. She says the COM
mttee tried to secure help from the Ameri-
can society and failed. 1t was obliged
to go for aid to the Mohawk and Hudson
society. Miss Membert concluded:
If Mr.. Haines would devote as much
of his energies to making his own society
more effective as he devotes to thwarting
and impeding humane work he would
find his society less criticized and HIM
self more respected
Supporters of President Haines say
that these are the criticisms of rivals, hut
they are from people who are working
hard for the humane treatment Of animals
The New York members Of his society
are understood. however, to have more
immediate interest in the charges made
from inside the society.