Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-19
GOV. FORT GIVING
WILSON LESSONS
ON COvERNORSH|P
Chief Executive of State Enter
tains Successor at the
Capitol.
ATTENDS CONFERENCE WITH
HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS
Plans for the Inaugural Ball Are
Discussed With Adiutant-
General Sadler.
Especial to the Newark star.l

TRENTON, Dec 19.-Governor- elect
Woodrow Wilson today got the first
practical insight into the chief execu-
tive's duties when, as guest Of Gov
ernor Fort, he is familiarizing himself
with the business of the different State
departments prior to the writing OF
his inaugural address. He attended the
conference of the heads of the various
State organizations to consider their
financial needs for the next fiscal year,
and conferred with Adjutant General
Sadler and Colonel n. Y. DUNCAN, OF
the Second New Jersey Regiment rela-
tive to the inaugural ball at the Tren-
ton armory, January IL.
walks to State House.
DIR. Wilson reached Trenton from
Princeton about 10 o'clock and walked
from Clinton street station toAthe State
House. AS he passed through the busy
crowds in State street not a dozen per-
sons recognized him.
The conference with the institution
heads began as soon as he reached the
State House. Besides the governor and
go, ernor-elect, those present were Ir.
! George B. Wight, Commissioner OF
Charities and Corrections; George o..
Osborne, keeper of the State prison;
Dr. Henry A. Cotton, medical superin-
tendent Of the State Insane Hospital
here; Mrs. Elizabeth v. H. Mansell,
superintendent of the State Home fer
Girls; DR.. Britton d. Evans, medical
Superintendent of the Morris Plains
Insane Asylum; DR.. David F. Weeks,
of this city, head of the Village OF
Epileptics at Stillman; DR.. Frank
Moore, superintendent of the Railway
reformatory; DR. Madeline A. Halo
well, head of the Home for Feeble
Minded Women at yineland; John G.
Kalleen, superintendent of the State
Home for Boys, ct Jamesburg; Captain
John Shields, Superintendent of the
Soldiers Home, at Vineland, and Major
Peter F. Rogers, superintendent of the
Soldiers Home, at kearny.
The purpose of the meeting was to
give the governor an idea OF the needs
of the institutions for the new fiscal
year, beginning November 15, 1911, so
they could be put in practical shape for
presentation 10 Tie LS5iSititdkC.
Governor Fort established the con-
ference early in his term, and today
invited Governor-eleet Wilson in order
that he might meet the institution
heads, and also learn something of
how the institutions are managed.
Each institution in turn had its finan-
cial needs presented. covering not only
the maintenance, but also improve
ments deemed to be necessary, and
each presentation was discussed.
Following the conference Governor
Fort rendered a luncheon in the Senate
dining-room to DR.. Wilson, Vivian NJ.
Lewis, commissioner of banking and in
surance; Adjutant-General Sadler, Sec
retary Leslie r. Fort and others.
The announcement of former Senator
James Smith, jr.. as a candidate to
succeed John Kean at Washington was
discussed at a conference held after
luncheon, at which Senator Osborne,
of Essex, and Assemblyman Joseph 2.
Tumulty, OF Hudson. were present.