Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1909-12-08
WILL HOLD AUTO
RATTLE DESPITE
RESERVATIONS
Directors D~usenberry and Har-
ris Severely Criticised for With
drawing from Babies Home.

In p~hilanthropic and society circles
the resignation of James P. Dusenberry
and Judge Elwood C. Harris from the
board of directors of the Babies Hos
pital because an automobile is to be
raffied off for the benefit of the insti-
tuition is being criticised. Some friends
OF the hospital say the action of Dusen-
berry and Harris was Childish and
absurd and it is called "Puritanicar'
by others.
A oma who is a liberal subscriber
to the Babies Hospital said:
''The best people in Newark have for
years paid for tickets for drawings and
raffies for the benefit of charities. They
will continue to do it, even though
Brothers Dusenberry n Harris
object
Judge Harris said today that the
board of directors of the Babies Hos
pital had accepted the designations of
himself and Mr.. Dusenberry, and that
he had nothing further to say about it.
I'VE don't want to be in the lime
light" said Mr.. Dusenberry, when seen.
eve simply believe we are right. We
can't approve a policy game"
Mrs. w. Campbell Clark, of the board
of managers of the hospital, who pur-
chased the automobile to rattle it at VI
a. ticket in aid of the institution, said,
when she heard that the board of direc-
tors lad accepted the designations OF
hTessrs D~usenberry and Harris by a
unanimous vote and without comment;
"That ends the nonsensical fuss about
the rattle. / conceived the idea Of the
rattle, and / alone will be responsible for
it. The members of the board of direc-
tors had nothing to do with it. Institu-
tons like the Babies Hospital are al
ways supported by certain people whose
names you will also find in connection
with other charitable institutions, and
I thought it would be a good thing to
hold a rattle of this kind to give others
with smaller means a chance to con-
tribute something to a worthy cause.
IF this is such an awful thing as
Judge Harris and Mr.. Dusenberry seem
TO think, 1 only want to say that l am
Just as good a church member for doing
it as / would rave been if l had not
done it. Every church has had its bazaar
or lair to help along the good cause.
If there is need | will do the same
thing again, unless I should make
somebody unhappy by it"
Men who are church members and
men who are not commended Mrs.
Clark's rattle scheme today, and they
said the action of Dusenberry and Har-
ris will cause a great many persons
to buy tickets or chances for the rattle
who would not have noticed it If it had
not heen for the TEMPEST in a teapot"
One of the directors of the hospital
stated that Mrs. Clark and other MEM
bers of the board of managers have
often paid bills of the hospital from
$500 to $1,000 out of their own pocket,
and that without them the hospital
could not have done its great and
charitable work.
At the meeting of the board of di-
rectors in Judge Harris's Office yester-
day afternoon a motion to talk to the
women managers of the institution
about the "a file was defeated. The di-
rectors present were DR.. Charles j.
Kipp, who presided; former State Sem
ator Michael T. Barrett, Frederick FIRE.
linghuysen, DR.. Henry L. Colt. Frank
lin ConkIin, DIR. Edward Staehlin, John
P. Contrell, William H. Halsey, Felix
Fuld, w. Campbell Clark, former Judge
Ellwood c. Harris and James P. Dusen-
berry.