Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-10
TAG DAY PLANS
POSTPONED BY
MRS. PLUMMER
Criticism Causes Promoters of
Affair to Change to
Later Date.
SECRETARY MACDOUGALL,
OF CHARITIES. OBJECTS
Says Local Organizations Re-
frain from Recourse to Tag
Day Methods.

In consideration of the fact that her
proposed tag day caused more excite
ment than the occasion seemed to war
rant. Mrs Claire P. Plummer decided
late this afternoon to postpone the
proposition indefinitely
"rn set no date just now" said Mrs.
Plummer but will be in a position to
make a statement concerning 1t later"
Furthermore, Mrs. Plummer declared
that her suit for defamation of char
acter against Mrs. Leon Sutton, Of
Jersey City, who opposed the Issuance
of a permit for the tag day, would De
inaugurated at once and pressed to a
speedy conclusion Mrs. Plummer was
in consultation with her attorney
Judge Queen. of Jersey City, this morn
ing. and tho papers in the suit are to
be filed at once.
As to Associated Charities.
In. referring to the opposition OF Ar
thur w. MacDougall. secretary of the
Bureau of Associated Charities In this
city, Mrs Plummer waxed sarcastic.
1T is we'll known fact she declared.
that S. per cent of the money collect
ed by the Bureau OF Associated Chari-
ties goes to pay the salaries or the Of
ficials and the running expenses, and
those persons who are objects Of
charity get the remaining 80 per cent.
Now every cent raised in Newark
tomorrow goes to the Bide-a-Wee
Home, which gets also the bulk of my
private income Mr.. MacDougall need
not worry about the nickels we get In
Newark, since they are those he would
never get anyway, so he is deprived Of
nothing"
Secretary MacDougall was quoted as
saying that there were but two New
arkers among the thirty-four invalids
in the Bide-a- Wee Home and that
there was no good reason why Newark
should contribute to such charity.
particularly as money was needed by
many Newark charities. He is alleged
to have said also that he would pre-
vent Mrs. Plummer's tag day If possi-
ble In a signed statement today Mr..
MacDougall goes on record as being Bit
terly opposed to Mrs. Plummer's meth
DDS of raising money. His communica-
ton follows:
Mr. MacDougaIrs Protest.
ITO the Editor of the Evening STAR:
in behalf of the organization which
1 represent, l wish to make a public
protest against the "tag-day." which.
we understand, the Bide-a-Wee Home.
of Atlantic City, N. J., proposes to hold
in Newark on Saturday, March IL.
THE grounds for this protest are
that the 'tag-day' method Of raising
and exceedingly harmful to the chill
dren who are made use of. For this
reason it has been abandoned as q
money y-raising method by most of the
charities in the various cities of the
country. One of our best-known local
charities, the Babies Hospital, needing
funds badly, undertook to raise them
by this method. Before beginning,
however they made inquiries and fin
ally voluntarily abandoned the project
for the above reasons.
I'm the present instance an outside
charity, without consultation with any
local organization, as far as we can
learn, proposes to step in and make
use of a method which our own local
charities are not willing to adopt
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