New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-16
CHARITY EXPERTS
TOLD OF IN PROBE
Service List Ignored for
Kingsbury's 46 High
Priced Examiners.
BOSTON WOMAN GETS
$500 TO TEACH THEM
prendergast Defends as Econ
omv Taking S42,72O from Food
Account to Pay Them.

Tho appointment Of forty-six add
-, cvaminers for the Department
7, charities on an urgent" request
-, commissioner Kingsbury and the
.a,ropria,ion by the Board of Esti-
IT, and Apportionment of S42,72O to
-, them were dealt with yesterday
che investigation Of the Municipal
r,,1 Service Commission by the State
o;,a Service Commission. The APP
.ointments we're not made from the
civil service list.
controller Prendergast testified to
IL. transfer Of the money from the
s,.d account (S5O,OOO) of the Charities
n.,,y,ment. and said it will have to
4. returned 20 that account before
n.,smber 81. 1t was done, he said, at
,i, direction for the purpose Of max
u, the appointments and for economy.
'eomn,issioner KinESbury's request
"a also the transfer of the money were
~sde last June, Mr.. Prendergast
added. ,r,.,to..
..forrinc 10 a report made under Mr..
p,o,6srCast's supervision by Robert
. WcIntvre. chief statistician of the
Bnrsau of Municipal Investigate and
Statistics, asked;
sDid YOU know that the position OF
.,sminer OF charitable institutions,
.irbt of them at S2,400, was not estab-
ii.bed until November 1O?'
Il know nothing whatever except
chat is in the report" replied the Con-
roller. Il took the statements as they
anne 10 me. but so far as able made
inquiry that every fact stated IN the
report was the fact.
The Controller said that no reports
we're made TO the budget committee
He could not say whether they were
made in writing or orally, because ne
iid not sit In the hearings on the
Charities Department budget.
The Controller was not asked any
hing as 10 the testimony that en-
nloves in the Bureau of Standards had
contributed TO a campaign fund for his
election in 1918.
CITY Chamberlain Bruere addressed
me hearing in defence of the appoint
nsnt 10 high salaried positions of ex-
perts TO the exclusion of civil service
candidates. He said he did not know
81 any violation Of the law in such APP
oointments. He was willing, he SAID,
10 show the state commission that the
present Municipal Civil Service Com
mission. while introducing important
changes, had saved the city money and
accomplished much Improvement.
Or. Henry Moskowitz declared that
+ the local commission had appointed
examiners from the eligible list the
Charities Department could not nave
made good a promise to the city 70
save several thousand dollars a year.
It was brought out that the three
local commissioners had been divided
IN opinion. Alexander Keogh, who was
carried over from the last commission,
voted against ignoring the eligible list,
while Dr.. Moskowitz and Darwin James
voted in favor Of doing so.
81 was never in doubt as 70 the
egality Of the appointment OF the
forty-six special examiners DR.. Mos
sowitz said. 81 consider It civil ser
vice problem. end the work would have
gone on much better if it had not been
Interrupted at this time.
Evidence was given that Miss Ida
May Cannon, of Boston, was appointed
AZ 500 a week 10 give the forty-slX
new appointees six weeks social SER
vice training