Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-03

since then which has averaged some
thing like $500 a month for license tees
and mound fees, an income which should
have been more than ample for all pur-
poses. including the charitable work
above mentioned, we are Informed that
the expenditures and expenses nave
been so heavy that at the present tllne
the league has about exhausted the
funds i'm its treasury and is facing a
threatened deficit before the new Ii
cense year opens, June 1. In this re-
gard we desire to state that on certain
Investigations made at the pound 1t has
been ascertained that more men are
employed there than are necessary, and
the same statement, we believe, VIII
also apply to what Is known as the
field work. and that expenses in other
directions have been unnecessarily ex-
travagant Therefore, we do not see
any likelihood of carrying out the hu-
name work originally contemplated.
g. We charge an unbusinesslike ana
unparliamentary-li administration.
We understand that on many calls OF
meetings of the board of directors no
tees would be sent to some of the d1-
rectors, while others would be ignored;
that under the bylaws first adopted the
annual meeting was required to be held
in the month of May, of this year; FOR
some reason these bylaws were dis
tasteful to the president, and she, with
a member of the board of directors, be-
came active in the preparation of the
new bylaws, which fixed the annual
meeting nearly a year hence, or, to be
accurate, to January, 1910, and we are
informed that to procure the passage
of these bylaws a large number OF al
legged members signed the same, but
the secretary states that fourteen
names that signed the bylaws, includ-
ing five members of the board of direct
ors, have not paid dues, which, accord
ing to the bylaws then in force, was a
necessary preliminary to full member
ship.
That many matters of business inn
portance such as large expenditures
and purchases were not in any manner
taken UP with the board of directors
prior to action thereon. That the books
of the organization UP to the time at
which Mrs Waddell, the present sec
rotary was elected were kept in q
most incomprehensible manner; but as
to the new secretary, we desire to COM
mend her business judgment and aeu-
men to the board We further charge
that the meetings of the board have
been conducted in a most unparlla-
mentary manner.
4. one of the features of the work
particularly insisted on by Mrs. Horton
was that of humanity and charity to-
ward the poor. She was the orlsinator
of the dog fund.- established for the
purpose of buying licenses for the dogs
Of those who We're too poor to pay the
license for the keeping of their own pet
animals. And to carry out such work
she gave a lawn fete some two years
ago which netted something like $500
or $1,000, which was turned over to the
S. P. c. A. of this city, to establish an
animal rescue home, except small
fund which was set aside for the pay
ment of such licenses. 1t was from this
source that the Humane Animal league
originated, with the purpose In view or
affording humane treatment to home
less and disabled animals and the ami
mails of the poor That Since the or
ganization and the taking charge or
the animal pound she has insisted on