Arizona republican., 1912-09-20
Wholesale DiSmissalS and designations Follow En- counter With Superin- tendent A. C. Kingsley, Governors Appointee
MATTER OF SCANDAL
 AND OF OVERTIME
Claim Is Made Wages of Lesser Paid Employes Are Cut, While Higher Paid Ones Receive an Increase

Nine employees of the state asylum for the insane either resigned or were dismissed from service on Wednes- day evening following more or less interesting encounters with Dr. A. C. Kingsley, the superintendent. It all came about with the suddenness of the breaking of storm which had been brewing for some time, and in less time than it takesto tell. the employees had severed their connec- ton with the institution and were waiting for settlement of their wage accounts Incidentally for the first time in the history of the insti- tuition. overtime was paid for extra services rendered, over and above the eight hours employment permit ted by recent state law, this over time being figured back to August IT, the date when the eight hour law became effective.
 That this overtime claim was al- lowed came as something of a sur prise. especially when it was taken into consideration that on the morn ing following the publication in The Republican of a story of the resig ration of J. C. McGrath. his demand for overtime and the refusal of Su- perintendent Kingsley to recognize the claim, the head of the institution caused to be circulated among the employees of the asylum a paper in which the signers agreed not to ask for the payment of overtime wages before the beginning of October. While there was no genuine senu- ment among the employees favoring the move, there was general sign ing of the paper. Of those who left the institution on Wednesday evening practically all had signed the paper.
 Four of the nine employees now no longer connected with the asylum were seen yesterday by a reporter for The Republican, and from them story as to the immediate causes leading up to the climax Wednesday evening was gleaned. According to the four. there had been stories of a scandalous nature circulated about the grounds. involving two of the employees. Two other employees had received letters from the Patton asy lum in California which set forth al legged facts in connection with this couple.
 The spreading of these alleged facts did not meet with the approval of the superintendent nor of the couple involved. So acute had the situation become that the man in the case and a fellow emplOye are said to have come to blows in front of the en- ployes' dining hall. It is said that the superintendent and his assistant were obliged to separate the belligerents. And while the af- fair was going on between the two men. the woman in the case set up hairpullng festival, engaging first the man who had attacked the ac- cused employe and then menacing one of the employees of the Woman's wards
 T T. Smith, assistant farmer, w B. Cox, night attendant and B. B. Bryant charge attendant, were promptly called upon the carpet and dismissed before they had Opportuni ty to resign It is said that C. F. Rinehart and Mrs. Minnie L. Girard were also dismissed. Whether they were actually dismissed or whether they resigned is not actually known but they severed their connection with the institution a few minutes after the three other employees had been given their time.
 Charles Gardner, in charge of the laundry; Miss Byrdie Smith, laun- dress and sister of T. T. Smith Robert Saxon, of Nogales, personal appointee of Superintendent Kings ley. and Miss Essye L. Hogue ten dered their resignations the same eve ming
 While the resignations came at this time as a sort of protest against the action of Superintendent Kingsley practically the entire number haG previously stated their intention ot leaving the sarvice soon. Such re strictions had been placed over theil personal affairs, they claim, that life no longer was tolerable at the insti tuition. Incidentally under the guis' of economy, the wages of several haC been cut from $45 a month to $35 This was not so bad had it not beer for the fact that at about the sam' time the salary of the stenographer who claims relationship to GoVerno Hunt; and that of the steward wht is a Nogales friend of the superin tendent and who is also said to bea some relationship to him, eithe by blood or through marriage wer each raised $25 per month The cut ting of the wages of the lesser pail employees saved the state just abou enough money to meet the advance il