Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-28
CLERIC D|NED At
STATE HOME TABLE
Rev. Mr.. ChoIIer's Action Sur
prises Miss Conover, Trustee
of Girls Institution.
Especial to the Newark start

Potter Conover, one of the trustees
of the State Home for Girls. was
much surprised yesterday afternoon
when she learned that Rev. C. II.
Chollar, moral instructor at the home,
occasionally took his meals with the
girls In the assembly room. The fact
that he dined with the inmates was
brought out by the Fielder commit
tee investigating the management of
the institution.
DO you really talk to the girls ?"
was her query, and upon being in
formed such was the case Miss Con-
over said such a thing was unheard
of and was not known to her as a
trustee.
You don't see any objection 2"
asked Robert M. williams, one of the
probers.
NO" was Miss Conover's reply.
But she thought it unusual to permit
the girls this privilege when the rules
of the institution command strict
silence at meals. Mrs. Mansell, the
superintendent, called Miss Conover
to order by remarking that the latter
was letting her Imagination run away
with the subject.
DR.. Chollar said his talks to the
girls at meals were purely for the
purpose of encouraging the girls to
try to do better and improve their
condition.
Mrs. Anna Park, matron of the
main building, was the next witness,
and said the organization work of the
home maintained its high standard
without change in the past five years.
Respectful and cheerful obedience is
the rule at the institution, she said
Miss F. L. Merritt matron of Will
son cottage, where the youngest in
mates are cared for, said the separa-
ton of the young from the older
inmates worked advantageously.
The probing committee went into
the protection afforded against fire in
the several buildings at the home.
Mrs. Mansell said watchguards are
employed in each building to look for
such emergencies. Mrs. 7. w. Robin
son, matron of the Stokes Cottage
for Colored Girls, said fire drills were
about to be taught to the inmates of
that cottage Miss Minerva Meyer,
matron of the Voorhees, cottage, who
has been at the home for fourteen
years, said the home was receiving a
mentally inferior class of girls than
heretofore. Miss Augusta Schling-
held, storekeeper at the institution,
deplorad the lack of facilities to
foods.
Miss Conover Immediately wanted
to know what become of the $500
appropriation by the last Legislature
to extend the storeroom facilities.
Commissioner Byers answered the
question by saying the appropriation
was insufficient for the kind of ex
tension he would approve and the ap
preparation lapsed.
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Commissioner Byers, >emphatically
denied the affidavit submitted by
Herbert M. Bailey early in the after
noon, alleging Amelia RumliS had
been i'll treated at the home Miss
Reeves has conducted a personal in
vestigation of the case and said she
visited sisters of the girl in question
In Jersey City. The story told by Miss
Reeves to the committee was that the
sisters of Amelia Rumlis had dis
torted opinions concerning the hap
penings at the State Home for Girls,
and the stories told by the sisters
were increasingly lurid as they were
related Miss Weeks, another assist
ant in the Charities and Corrections
Department, who made personal in
vestigations of girls now indentured
from the State home, said she found
the girls well satisfied as well as their
m1SlTeSSeS. bOlH tApcIIS Sdlu the IN
dentured girls expressed confidence in
Miss Dullard, the chief parole Off
Ger of the home. who had done so
much to change their lives.
Theodore Gottlieb, of Newark, rose
to challenge the expert opinions of the
Charities and Corrections Department
assistants in reference to Miss Dull
lard.
you are not trying to make things
worse?" asked Prober williams of
by these good reports?"
last night. Commissioner Byers then
next Friday,
The probe brought to light the re-
fusal of State Comptroller Edward ].
Edwards to approve the payment, in
the January schedule of expenses at
the home, an item of $50 for two sets
of the compiled statutes of New Jer
sey. James Baker, one of the mem
bers of the board of trustees and
treasurer of the institution, today
made public a letter from the comp
troller in which the latter official
turns down the expense bill.
The comptroller's reason for refus-
ing to pass this item is that one of
the sets was delivered to Miss Har-
riet M. Spinning, of Orange, at her
home. Miss Spinning is president of
the board of trustees of the home and
asked for the present probe into the
institutions workings.
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