New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-11
Gorton's Club Split When
President Quits to Start
New Organization.
NEWSPAPER BILL
STARTS REBELLION
Mrs. Oberndorfer Gusts Treas.
urer and Issues War Cry When
He Refuses to Pay.

The Brooklyn Lugenics Society.
founded by the late Or. David Allyn
Gorton, ran against an unseen rock last
evening. The rock was the small. but
concrete sum Of 80 cents. The result
Of its appearance in the course Of the
organization was the resignation o. the
president, Mrs. Nathaniel Oberndor'cT,
on whom DR.. Gordon had conferred the
mantle Of leadership of the society, and
the formation Of a new organization 70
he known as the Eugerics ana Hygiene
Society.
The explosion occurred a. special
meeting Of the board Of directors. Mrs.
Oberndorfer called the meeting a her
home to submit her resignation. In
the letter she read to the board she
gave as the grounds for her action
"disloyalty By certain members of the
society" This disloyalty was the re-
fusal Of the treasurer TO pay her bill
of 1886 out OF the organizations treas
ury fund Of sl2.
or this 1886, SO cents had been spent
for copies of Brooklyn newspaper
containing all interview with Mrs.
Oberndorfer, in which the aims Of the
organization were explained. This eX-
penditure. il is said, was authorized
By the board. The papers were to be
used TO answer inquiries OF prospective
members OF the society. When the
president presented her bill, the treas.
urer, one Of the few men identified
with the organization, refused 10 pay
il because the authorization Of the ex-
penditure was not on the minutes. The
secretary had been Ill and failed TO
enter the authorization to buy the
newspapers. The treasurer finally
agreed 10 pay all OF the bill except 80
cents. The rest OF tho sum was for
stationery and postage.
At this point things grew lively and
Mrs. Oberndorfer read her formal res
ignation.
This meeting is now dismissed" she
said, after she had repeated her in
tention TO desert the standard Of DR..
Gorton. "Al the people here who
won't be blackbslled and who are not
distasteful to the president Of new
society which was formed at a mass
meeting last Saturday, are invited "a
stay for the first meeting of that so
ciety. It won't Kill me if | don't get
my money"
Then she asked the treasurer 20
leave. 81 am speaking now as Mrs
Nathaniel Oberndorfer, not as presi-
dent Of the Brooklyn Eugenics Society
don't want you in my house"
The treasurer LEFT. followed b. Mrs
Gorton, wife of the founder and one
Of its strongest members, being mother
of the famous cugenic twins.
Peace followed the storm. The half
dozen women who remained gathered
in Mrs. Oberndorfer's drawing room
and before her shrine TO DR.. Gorton
"a copy OF one Of his poems and a
faded cluster Of his funeral roses
swore allegiance to his principles and
passed on the constitution and by
laws Of the new and wider-reaching
Eugenics and Hygiene Society.
Mrs. Oberndorfer is slated for
president in the new organization.
She has the support Of several prom
inent physicians and lawyers and will
try to carry the ideas OF DR.. Gorton
on the laws Of health. breeding Of the
human species and child welfare into
larger field than was possible
through the old and purely local
society.