The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-06
is HAINES GOING TO RESIGNq
SPECIAL MEETING CALLED TO
HEAR FROM HIM THURSDAY.
NTO He Held Just an Hour Before Regular
Meeting. nj which Charges Against
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President JOculaf-Impudent Agent.
1t became known yesterday that a special
meeting Of the board Of managers Of the
s.. P. G. A. has been called for $50 p M.
on Thursday, an hour before the regular
meeting Of the board, to receive a commune
cation from John p. Haines, the president
Of the society. In view Of the pressure
upon Mr.. Haines III was rumored that the
communica ton would be his resignation.
No confirmation Of the rumor could be
obtained. Mr.. Haines was asked by a
SUN reporter yesterday afternoon II he
intended to resign. He was jooulsr In his
manner ana finally said:
This isn't your office. Really you must
have got into the wrong place. Your wig
wan is downtown. don't know anything
at all about what you have come to see me
about. Nothing whatever, Nothing
Then Mr.. Haines disa ppeared.
At the regular meeting Of the board,
following the special meeting on Thursday,
In accordance with the bylaw adopted
recently that the board alone shall hear
complai nts against the management Of the
society and shall act on them at once,
formal charges will be presented. against
Mr.. Haines and a demand will be mace
THAI the board shall ask him to resign or
else remove him. Those who are opposing
Mr.. Haines in the society said yesterday
that they could not guess what the commu-
n~ication from Mr.. Haines to a special meet
ing could be unless 1t was a resignation
or some proposition which would be virtu-
H. Il.1z H. 80 Lta N,pA In tho
society.
The Outsiders" who are trying to drive
Haines from his place. and who work under
the name Of the s. P. C. A. Reform Asso-
citation, made a new move yesterday by
sending formal notice to certain membe Is
Of the board of managers OF the s. r. Z. A.
that they had secured the signatures, OF
more than 600 persons requesting that they
be allo we'd to investigate the society,
The reform association is headed by
Arthur Turnure, who last week tried to get
the Acknowledgement in Albany to order
such an investigation and failed BECAUSE,
as Acknowledgement Mayer decided, there
was assuran nee that the society would re-
form itself from the inside. Mr.. Mayer
quoted a letter to that effect from Gen.
Charles F. Roe, one Of the board OF man
ayers.
The reform association sent copies Of the
blank signed by the 600 and more persons
to John Mason Knox, treasurer OF the 81 r.
c. A.; to Frederic R. Coudert, who pre-
sided at the last annual meeting, and to
Col. Joel B. Erhardt. The letter was signed
by Mr. Turnure as president Of the reform
association. and by w. o. Stillman, presi-
dent of the National Humane Society;
David H. Cochran, president of the Vivi-
section Reform Society; Cardinal Gibbons
and Rabbi SamueLSchulman of Temple
Bethel. 1t was addressed to the vice
presidents and the executive committee.
This is the chief paragraph:
We have now formally to request that you
give, by a resolution voted by your board and
duly spread upon your official minutes, full
power TO make an examination OF the books,
records and finances of the A. s. p. C. A,
including the right to call for the production
OF all papers of the A. s. p. C, A. and the inter-
rogation of all employees. And we have TO
express the hope that you will reply to this
communication on or before March 10, 1909.
In speaking of the letter Mr.. Turnure
said:
"Our society has been agitating this
reform purposely from the outside for about
two years. We hold that the s.. p. c. A.
is a semi-public society in that it receives
public money, and that therefore the public
has a right 10 know what IL is doing. We
rave felt that we were in a better position
to get the facts as to the mismana cement
Of the society by demanding them from the
outside because of public interest.
Some Of the most ardent reformers in
the society have been members only a few
months and really have no more right than
we to ask for information. Any one can
join the society by. paying IS. By remain;
ing outside the ranks we thought we would
ave a freer hand and just as strong a,
cause as by going into it. Our cry Is and
has been: 'Haines must goV
To further the movement to get Haines
out, the reform association has called a
meeting OF it's members to be held in the
banquet room Of the Waldorf Astoria
tomorrow evening. Reports will be made
Of the progress Of the wal on Haines, and
it is possible that a public meeting will be
arranged for unless Haines resigns from
his office.
One Of the .anti-Haines faction told
yesterday of another instance OF neglect
by the s. p. c. A. management. A New
foundland dog strayei into q vacant lot
next TO a rich mans house uptown. The
PEOPLE in the house noticed that the dog
was sick, and sent the butler to it with milk
and other food. Then they telephoned to
the s. P. C. A. No agent was sent around
for forty-eight hours. The man who then
appeared said:
AHf you thought enough of this dog to
feed him, why didn't you take him into your
house?"
The answer was:
"We had no means OF lifting a $50 pound
animal over a high board fence, and we
thought it was your business TO care for
him.
The dog died.