The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-03-05
Pastor Boguslavsky
 Makes A Statement
Arrangement With Contractor Was Made For Benefit
 of His Church

Rev. Father Boguzlavsky, pastor Of Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church of the Holy Ghost, explains his .relations with his parishioners relative to commission agreed upon with the contractor. as follows:
 On February .26th. 1912, an article appeared in the local papers, stating that there had been clandestine agreement entered into between me as pastor of the Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church of the Holy Ghost. and one K. c. Jasonis, who was se- cured as the contractor to remodel the church; and in answering the same would state as follows:
 That about year ago was trans ferred to the Russian Greek Orthodox Catholic Church of the Holy Ghost To- cated at the corner of Hallett and Jane streets, in this city. When took charge of the church the size of the same was inadequate for the de- mands of the congregation, and 1t was decided by a voice of the congrega- tion to remodel the old structure, whereby it's seating capacity would be enlarged and thereby made more com- modious than the old structure. As pastor of the church a vast amount of responsibility of supervising the re- modelling fell upon my shoulders, as is customary in church work, and thus | | sidered it my duty towards my con- gregation; as when I came to Bridge port it was with determination to better the condition of my people and their church, as a man who wears the cloth should do. The first step to take was the securing of a contractor, such as would give satisfaction, both as to workmanship and price, and as a result one K c. Jasonis was se- cured to do the work, and it was a greed and understood between me as rastor and the contractor, but not clandestiuely but openly and in the presence of witnesses, namely s. Drachevsky and the Rev. M. Pap'av- sky, the latter, who was my teacher, that he, K. z. Jasonis, was to pay me $500 by way Of cOmmiss:On; and at that time it was understood that the omission was to inure to my church, and this can be verified by the Rev. M. Paplavsky, who was present at that time and has made affidavit to ferrcd to Winnipeg, Canada. And un- der that agreement I received $90. which have turned over to my church as was my intention as mani fested by my agreement with the con- tractor. The trustees of my church called a special meeting on the 27th of October last, at h'ch meeting I was not present, nor did have any knowledge of the same being held to ascertain from the contractor the true nature of the situation: and after they hsd held the meeting they forwarded their report to the Bishop, which was to the effect that this agreement was a secret one between me and the con- tractor and that in consideration Of him paying to me the commission. that was to refrain from seeing that he. the contractor, carried out his contract according to the plans and specified tions, which he, the said contractor, denies that he so testified to before said meeting Of the board Of trustees; and to prove that the same is untrue and not we'll founded is evidenced by my conduct, which Is demonstrated by nv actions towards said contractor in that I refused to accept certain work hecause the same was not done ac- cording to specifications; and to fur ther prove that this agreement be- tween me and the said contractor was moi secret and for my own behoof, but to inure to the church, have retained counsel to institute action against the said contractor for the balance due to me bv way of commission agreed upon on behalf of my church.
 Respectfully,
 REV. A. A. BOGUZLAvSKY.