Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-04-03


hard time
Are you going to resign he was
asked
"Resignv' He stiffened and his
goatee fairly quivered with rage. 81
should say not! I'm going to stay
here as superintendent, and when /
say thing l mean it,"
The report of the investigating
committee was made to the Legisla-
ture last night It was pointed out
that the probe had not been COM
pleted because of the serious illness
of Senator Barber, the chairman, and
because there had been no recesses of
the Legislature in which to continue
the hearings.
The committee advised the dropping
of the bill to GUST the board of man.
ayers of the home, which has already
been passed by the House. This bill,
it was asserted, was drawn at the in
stance of General Grub after there
had been friction between him and
the other members of the board over
increased expenditures.
In the report, General Grubb is
found guilty Of the following;
characterization.
Increasing number of employees.
Charging personal cablegrams and
kilograms to home account.
Buying three barrels of whiskey for
his own use at $421.50.
Purchasing many table delicaeies.
Buying uniforms and curtains.
Running home more extensively
than his predecessor.
Former Congressman r. Wayne
Parker, president of the board of
managers of the home, is in Trenton
today, so that it was impossible to
obtain a statement from him. The
legislative inquiry was started after
he had made charges of gross extrav-
agance against General Grub.
Expenses Increased Under Grubb.
The report of the committee fol-
lows in part
THE investigation of the accounts
of the home shows that the receipts
for the fiscal year ending October 81
1912. were SLOT, SCI IS; that the amount
paid out was $107 003.S4. 1t appears,
however, that the total expenses were
$114, 301.70. This shows an excess of
expenses over receipts for this year
of $6,740.54.
1T further appears that in the years
1908, 1909, 1910 and 1911 the appropria-
tions made for the support of this
home were not only sufficient, but that
a considerable amount of these APP
propria tons was unused in each year.
Table Supplies Increase.
at appears from the testimony that
General e. Burd Grubb became the
SUPERINTENDENT of the home in the
expenses of the home commenced to
increase SHORTLY thereafter.
1.-The committee has no doubt but
that the large increase in the num-
Der of employees of the home under
General Grubb's management was
Officers of the home
testified that the work to be done
had not substantially increased.
ct is also apparent from the evil
dence that the superintendent seems
to have considered that the mainten-
ance allowed him as a part of his
included a number of
charges which should have been paid
from his personal funds. These in
clude charges for the use of long dis
lance telephone Tor private and per-
sonal purposes. as well as charges
for private and personal cablegrams
and kilograms.
Whiskey for Own Use.
This committee also finds as a
fact, from the testimony, that the
purchased, at the
States expense. for his own use,
three barrels of whiskey at a total
cost of $42150. which whiskey was
used by him at his home on the
grounds; that he supplied his table
at the States expense with the most
expensive delicacies purchased at re-
tail. An analysis of expenses for ex-
ira delicacies purchased for the table
of the superintendent and officers of
the institution shows that the item
of expense for delicacies and extra
food for the superintendent and Of
ficers alone increased from $342.60 for
the fiscal year ending October 81,
1911, to $2,914.37 for the fiscal year
ending October 81, 1912. 1t also APP
pears that the superintendent pur-
chased uniforms for himself at the
states expense, and, without con-
sulting with the board of managers
or the executive committee, provided
curtains for his residence OF an ex-
pense exceeding $500.
"When the board of managers dis
covered the purchase of the whiskey