Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-03-20
BILLS GREW FOR
GRUBB'S TABLE.
Quartermaster Says They
Jumped 7-FoId When Gen.
eral Came to Home.
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heated argument, which ended when
Mr.. Dixon apologized for intimating
that the investigators were attempt-
| ing to grind axes"
Quartermaster on stand
Quartermaster Chandler then took
the stand. He submitted, at the re-
quest of Mr.. Stryl1er three bills for
whiskey delivered at the home as fol-
lows: April IS, 1911 one barrel old
rye whiskey, AIS gallons, at So,
S142.50; October "a, 1911, one barrel
same, AZ gallons $141; April %, 1912,
one barrel same, as gallons S14S This
last bill, Chandler said, was not paid
until January it being held up by
the board of managers.
Then the, quartermaster offered
some bills from the Stone Fish Com
pany. Some of the items, he ad-
mitted, were for the Holsters, about
which much has been said at the
previous sessions,
! WHO got the lobsters?" asked Mr.
Stryker.
HOLSTERS for Onicers.
/. The officers" said the witness.
But / never got any," he hastily
! interposed, although he had said
few moments before that his seat was
at the officers table.
| Other bills shown In evidence were
those of George C. Gross, a Kearny
, grocer, and Swain Bros, dealers in
! milk and cream. These, Chandler add
mitted. were practically all for ex-
+, tras served to the officers
"The veterans never got any
p, cream" he said, in answer to a ques-
ton.
| Questioned further he said that his
duties as commissary, which he was
, supposed to perform by virtue of his
office, were more, or less of a dead
! letter. Last week he said on the
stand that General Grubb, when he
: became superintendent of the home,
had instructed him to keep his hands
! off those things" meaning the pur-
chase of supplies.
Paid by Boards Order.
The witness said that all of the
! bills for extras had been paid by or
| der of the board of managers. He
admitted that the large quantity of
extras ordered was one of the sources
of trouble between General Grub and
the board of managers.
Chandler was unable to explain how
/ it was that whe N Major Peter Rogers
was superintendent of the home
per cent. discount had been allowed
1 by tradesmen furnishing supplies to
! the home, and that the discount Is
not allowed now
Temperature at Home Forty"
Sergeant A. A. Knowles followed
/ Chandler on the stand. He said that
| the temperature of the home in tho
winter time was fair" and not "hor-
ribly uncomfortable. He gave 1t al
his opinion that lack of heat had
nothing to do with several inmates
catching pneumonia. He said inmates
at other veterans homes who visited
the Kearny institution had said that
it was kept warmer and more COM
Portable than the places at which
they stayed
James Purcell. head nurse, who had
| charge of the distribution of whiskey
at the home, said that three barrels
: had been ordered since General Grubb
became superintendent,
We're not using so much since the
general had the operation on his
eyes," he said.
He told of an encounter he had had
with General Grub once when ne
complained that the dishes on the
nurses tables were not over clean
'If you don't like the dishes, get
out" he said the superintendent or
dered, slamming the door in his face.