The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1909-11-12
THE CONFEDERATE HOME.
The Office Of Adjutant Abolished
Mr.. B. F. Day, the Adjutant
Makes Statement.

Makes Statement.
Mr.. B. Frank Day has been in
Newberry for several days. When
it was determined by the legislature
to establish a Confederate Home,
Mr.. Day was elected adjutant of the
home with Mr.. W. D. Starting as
commandant.
There seems not to have been that
hearty cooperation between these
two officials at the home which
might have existed.
Mr.. Day has done faithful work,
and being an old soldier himself took
great interest in making the home
as homelike and comfortable for the
old soldiers, as it was in his power
so to do. He says that when ne was
elected, and when he accepted the
position as adjutant, he was told by
the chairman Of the board that ne
would be expected to take his fam
lily to the home, and that his salary
included board for himself and wife,
and it was his purpose to make the
home home in reality.
When the home was opened, and
before Mr.. Day moved his family the
Commandant informed him that. he,
the Commandant, expected to move
his family to the home. Capt. Day
then decided that it would not be
wise for him to take his family
there also, and for that reason he has
not moved his. family there, but has
continued to discharge his duties as
best he could.
Capt. Day says that there is not
that satisfaction by the inmates with
the conduct Of the home that ought
to exist. For instance, the old SOL
diers who have been chewing tobacco
for all the years during and since the
war, are now not given an allowance
of any: tobacco at all, and have to
provide it from their own resources
or beg it from other people. Even at
the penitentiary the eonvicts who
have contracted the habit Of chew
ing tobacco, are given an allowance
of tobacco. Mr.. Day says that he
has spent considerable money out OF
his own salary in furnishing tobacco
to the inmates of the home.
The board at a recent meeting de-
cided that expenses would have to
be curtailed, and therefore decided
to abolish the Office of adjutant, and
without notice except Of few days,
with no complaint against Capt. Day,
the Office was abolished.
Capt. Day asked the commission to
hold meeting at the home and
make an investigation of the conduct
of the home. This the commission
declined to do. There was a meeting
called, so Capt. Day says, at an Of
flee in the city Of Columbia, which
he did not attend. In letter from
Mr.. Cardwell, chairman Of the board,
to Mr.. Day, it is stated that a notice
Of the meeting was sent to Mr.. Day,
and that the entire board was pres
ent. The letter says: "Your not be-
ing here at the meeting, called at
your request, of course, so tar as you
are concerned, amounted to nothing.
However, the matter Of abolishlng
the office Of adjutant was handled
and the unanimous vote Of the board
confirmed its previous action and the
matter is now closed.
The Herald and News knows moth
ing of the trouble, if there is any
trouble, at the home.
The following letters which were
sent to The chairman Of the commls-
sion by Mr.. Day, have been handed
The Herald and News by Mr.. Day
and are printed.
We understand that there are
about fifty old soldiers in the home,
and the appropriation for their main
tenance is $4,000. It would seem
that this amount ought to be amply
sufficient to maintain comfortably
that number of old soldiers.
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