Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-11
ASYLUM DOCTORS
FIGHT To RETAIN
OVERLOOK JOBS
Ousted Physicians Will Not Sub
NIT to FreehOlders' Request
Without Contest.

Drs. Robert Bolton and Henry D.. Nc
Cormick, first and second assistant
physicians at the Essex ounty Hos
pital for the Insane, whose designations
were asked at the regular monthly
meeting of the Board of F~reeholders
yesterday afternoon, do not intend to
give up their positions without a fight. ;
DIR. Mccormick said, after Yesterdays
meeting. that he had retained Judge
Thomas j. Lintott as counsel, and will
Acontest h right of the board to re-
move him. DR.. Bolton will also retail
counsel and make the freeholders prove
discharges against him before they dis
miss him.
Both the doctors claim that there are
no proofs of incompetence or neglect
against them. Il will not submit to
such arbitrary action" said DR.. McCor-
mick, and will require hat proof of
neglect or incompetency be produced
before / relinquish my post. Incident
ally,~I might say that the true inside
nature of the situation has not been
made public, but if occasion demands, l
viii not hesitate to bring it out"
DR.. Mccormick also said that he had
heard the rumor that man of the
nurses and attendants at the asylum
would go on a strike, If he n DR.. Boil
ton were ousted, but he did not care to
discuss the matter. except to say he
would be sorry to see any nurses or at
PENDANTS leave If the board be success
full in displacing me-"
The designations of the two physicians
were asked for after a brief but heated
debate on the floor of the meeting room,
Freeholders Gottlieb and Alderman, of
the hospital committee, taking the
| principal part.
AS told in yesterdays STAR, the hos
pital committee were agreed ON all
parts of its report concerning affairs at
Overlook, except the clause providing
that the designations of Drs. Bolton and
Mccormick be requested to take effect
May /. In favor of this clause were
F%reeholders Anthem, Gottlieb and Peck,
as well as Director Ougheltree. OPP
posed to it were Chairman Haskell, of
the committee, and Messrs. Ward and
Alderman. AS a result, two reports
were submitted to the board. The
minority report was read first and after
some heated talk a vote was called for
that resulted in a tie, IA to IA. Director
| Ougheltree broke the tie by voting
| against the minority report.
+ The majority report calling for the
| designations of the two physicians was
then taken up and adopted by a vote of
Is to 10.
Hospital affairs were not the only
subject that stirred up things at yes
terday's meeting. The ewark Board
| Of Trade came in for a couple of raps
| for structures made against the condi-
ton of the Plank road. Freebooter
| Richard F.. Malta said he considered
| the action of the Board of Trade i'll
advised, as at this time of the year the
Plank road was in its worst possible
| condition, and that in the pictures
shown, the Board of Trade had selected
bad spots. Malta declared that he
| could pick out good spots that would
| give the idea that the road was in per-
| feet condition. 1t was decided to put
! four additional plank layers at work on
the road, making a gang of sixteen now
at work repairing the roadway.
The cost of the audit of the books at
the Overlook asylum was $4,312.55.
The hospital committee was allowed an
| additional appropriation of $1,000, in
addition to $500 already granted for
the audit, and the bill Of Leonard H.
| Conant. the expert, ordered paid.
Notice was ordered sent to Judges Jay
! Ten Eyck and Thomas A. Davis and
Sheriff William Harrigan that the
house of detention is ready for occu-
pancy and that prisoners be sent
there at any time.
In a protest from Cedar>Grove resi-
| dents against the retention Of Frank
Adubato as farm superintendent at
Overlook, the declaration that he was
not a practical farmer brought a de-
Tense from Freebooter Malta, who Sc
cured the appointment of Adubato.
Malta declared that Adubato would
make good in the position, and asked
hat he be given time to prove that ne
was capable of filing the position.