The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-05-19

CharleS A. E. M1Iler. IOrmefly stew ard at Lakeview Home, who enjoys the unique distinction of being almost the only living citizen who ever had a is just a little bit vexed with some things that have been said about him by various gentlemen connected with the Charities Department.
 He especially desires to deny the allegation that he was wasteful in his use of meat. while he was steward. ment that because 400 pounds less meat per week is being used at pNesent, therefore he wasted 400 pounds.
 He also objects to the statement Ahat he supplied himself with clothing bought for the paupers; to the state ment that he left the job because he did not get an increase of $5 more than the Board of Charities was willing to pay him: and to the allegation that it was his duty to weigh thescoaI brought to the home, and that he neglected the duty.
 MT. Miller said. this morning: ''In the matter of that meat, I will sta le that at the time I left the Home there were 290 people to be fed. There are now 230. We would buy some 25O pounds of plate beef per day, or less than one pound for each person. There being 60 persons less to be fed, there should be some 60 pounds of meat less used. or APO less for the week of, seven days. suppose too that anybody who gives inc poor less meat to eat than I did, might use less meat than I did. I am a butcher by trade. I cut my own meat. I believe I was economical. I was buying meat for five cents. They are paying 61s for meat that is no bet ter.
 And in the matter of wearing city clothing" continued MT. Miller, @1et me say that the clothing furnished to the poor is not exactly the kind'I wear. remarkable for fit, and I have always preferred to buy my own clothes of a kind more suited to my station in life
 And as to weighing coal let me tell you, that the coal never was weighed, that it was not my duty to weigh it. I am not even sure that some of tho commissioners desired it to be weighed.
 And as to why left the job; while it may be true that an increase in salary commensurate with the service I performed would have induced me to overlook certain disagreeable fea- lures connected with the position I because I could not endure the atmos- phere of conflict into which the home was preciritated.
 .I suppose that President James J. course he took he doubtless had in mind an organization at the home whose personnel would be in line with his own views. But he might have moved more directly to his end than he did. He tried to induce me, foS instance, to become a candidate against Merle c. Cowles for the position of superintendent. He approached me in directly upon this subject. I refused to see him about it because I thought that his object was to embroil Cowles and me in a. quarrel. and sweep us both out, or that he expected to find in me complacent instrument to carry out his Individual designs upon the institution, whatever they were, or are.
 ''To cut the story short among them they made the Home a place in which a self respecting man couldn't work and remain self respecting.
 TT should think" concluded MT. Mil Ter. "it ought to be evidence that my services were satisfactory that a sal ary increase was offered to me before I resigned"
 Miller is a brother of Former Alder man John Miller. His duties at the Home were numerous. He was the steward, the bookkeeper, the meat cut ter. the lay doctor, the crazy man handler, the undertaken, and the elec- trical man, and had besides some min- or functions to perform.