The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-31
LOTZE REPLIES
 TO E. B. FOOTE Relations Have Always Been Friendly and Agree
 ments Reached.
THEIR TRANSACTIONS.
MT. Foote Never Was Will ing to be a Trustee of
 Boys Club.

Close upon the statement of Edwin Bancroft Foote that his leg had been so badly pulled by the Y. M. c. A. di- rectors and MT. Lotze that it fairly ached, out comes the latter with statement in regard to the matter of the management of the Boys club and his connection with 1t.
 The statement is interesting. although it may not throw much light on the subject under discussion. MT. Lotze admits that he and Mr. Foote could not always see alike, an assertion with which MT. Foote emphatically agrees. In fact, this is one of the few points on which MT. Foote and MT. Lotze agree. MT. Lotze in his statement goes on to say that he and MT. Foote always reached an agreement. This is direct contradiction to MT. Foote's statement that he and MT. Lotze always had diff ferent opinions about the club, and that a decided coolness arose between them.
 Mr Lotzes interesting document fol- lows in full:
 To Editor of the Journal and Courier:
 Referring to the newspaper notices of to-day regarding the disagreement between the Young Mems Christian association and Mir. Edwin Bancroft Foote, permit me to say that have had nothng whatever to do with the attempt to adjust this matter since August, 1906, as it has been in the hands of a special committee of the d. rectors and trustees.
 I have known MT. Foote since 1898 and have had many conferences with him. both here and in New York, re- garding the Young Mems Christian as- sociation as we'll as the Boys club work, our last conference being this afternoon.
 He first became interested in the New Haven association in 1898 by giving $1O0 and subsequently, pledged $25,0OO for the purpose of establishing the Boys club on Chapel street which bears his name. From the time he made his first sub scription until I resigned my position as general secretary kept him inform- ed, through reports and personal in- terviews, of the development of the Boys club.
 The work accomplished so appealed to MT. Foote that he volunteered to give an additional $25,O00 for the pur- pose of providing permanent income for the Edwin Bancroft Foote Boys club. In order that MT. Foote might keep in close touch with the work, at my suggestion he was asked by the trustees on two different occasions to become member of that body, first when he gave the S25O0O for the Boys club and again when he gave the sec- ond $25,000 for the Edwin Bancroft Foote addition. On both of these occa- sions he declined, saying that he was l trying to relieve himself of work rath- 1 CT than take on additional burdens.
 Tn both the directors and trustees meetings 1 repeatedly asked the officers | to make 1t convenient to call on Mr. Foote in his rooms in the association building in order that he might become acquainted with the management. In my conferences with MT. Foote we could not always see alike, but we usu- ally arrived at satisfactory agree ment and we were always perfectly frank with each other,
 l The statement that any attempt was ever made by me to keep MT. Foote from meeting the directors or trustees is evidently made by persons who must know it is false If they are at all in touch with the facts as I have just stated them, and which are matters of record
 Mr. Foote stated to me to-day that the person who made this report to him gave his name in confidence and re- quested that his name be kept secret. prefer to have things done open and above board, and 1t is for this reason that feel called upon to make known these facts, all of which I can verify by correspondence, records and other evidence.
 WILLIAM G. LOTZE.