Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-05
MISS MCCOY HAS
MORE QUESTIONS
Seventy-three Of Them New
Brunswick Teacher Asks
About Retirement Fund.
Especial to the Newark star.I


JERSEY CITY, Jan. 5.-Miss Julia
A. Minihan, chairman of the special
committee appointed last September
at the convention of the Teachers Re-
tirement Fund to investigate the
management of the fund, has received
from Miss Emma A. Mccoy, a New
Brunswick High School teacher, set
of seventy-three questions relating TO
the investigation, with particular ref
erence to the administration of Miss
Elizabeth A. Allen, secretary, and
Arthur w. Milbury, her assistant.
In the letter accompanying the list
of questions Miss Mccoy states that
the contents of the newspaper clip
pings, through which she received the
report of the committee, were in line
with the tactics employed by the
New Jersey Teachers Retirement
Fund to discredit and ignore any
questions which may present to your
committee" The questions, she says,
were prepared with the aid of other
teachers, 1.-The unorganized," who are
governed by the organized few"
Included in the official list are the
four questions asked by Miss Mccoy
at the Trenton convention, and which
were answered by the committee Sat-
urday. They were: Why did not the
fund maintain its Offices in Trenton
as provided by law? Why are teach
ers continually asked to contribute
toward the Hoboken office mainte-
nance? Did the Myrtle Allen case to
test the constiutionality of the COM
pulsory contribution feature of the
retirement fund originate with the
officers of the fund? Could any one
guarantee the permanency of the
fund?
One of the first questions is a query
as to what becomes of the $4,000 bal
ance of the State appropriation for
the fund management after the State
treasurer's expenses of 800 have
been deducted. Another wants to
know what Miss Allen salary is,
drawing attention to the fact that
the State teachers have been led to
believe that it is $500 a year. whereas
Mr.. Milbury recently declared it to
be $500. The questioner also seeks
information as to the salary of Miss
Aliens nephew. Bert Allenn." and of
Mr. Milbury.
Miss Mccoy also wants to know
by whom Mr. Milbury was created
assistant secretary of the retirement
fund, and asks. WAS the Office of
assistant secretary created to account
for $1,000 of the State appropriation ?"
Continuing, the New Brunswick
and Miss Allen have always Endorsed
civil service principles, but wants to
know why Mr.. Milbury was made
EXEMPT from a civil service test to
become assistant secretary of the
fund. She also draws attention to the
fact that both of these have always
Endorsed equal pay, though Miss
Allen as secretary receives $500 and
Mr.. Milburv as her assistant $4,000,
Miss Mccoy wants to know If Mr..
Milbury receives any percen tages for
ANY printing or for any other work"
done for the fund. and her next ques-
ton is What has been Arthur W.
Milbury's reputation in connection
with other enterprises?"
Miss Mccoy inserts the following
mote:
fPlease do not dodge or temporize
concerning questions forty-seven to
sixty three, inclusive, but answer full
ly, completely and fairly, after a full
investigation of accounts and vouch-
ers, in which investigation the under
signed can kive the names of persons
who can furnish valuable informa-
ton"
Miss Mccoy wants to know if ex-
pert accountants have gone over the
books of the retirement fund bureau,
and If such examinations have been
made she wants to know by whom.
She then goes on to inquire as TO the
Inconsistency" of statements of Miss
Allen at different times. On two oc-
casions Miss Allen wrote that Mr..
Milbury was intimately associated
with the retirement fund. and on an
other, more recent, date, she wrote
that Mr.. Milbury did not have and
never had had any connection with
the fund.