Show BABIES NURSE SATS SAYS MATRON GOUGED HER HERAT HERT HERAT AT T ORPHANS HOME Clash of Authority in on Is Aired at Special l Meeting of Board of Directors Dir Versions of the Row as Given by Interested Persons P I At a regular meeting of the board of directors of the State Street orphans home yesterday it developed that a special special cial of or the board had Men boon held heldon on Saturday to inquire into some very vcr unpleasant and regrettable occurrences o at atthe attile atthe the tile home which resulted in the sudden rudden resignation at 1030 1039 Friday even een evenIng evenIng Ing of Miss Louise Winters inters babies nurse at the home The accusation was made mad that thai Mrs Irs M I Gaul matron at the home during an altercatiOn with the nurse had butt struck the latter while Miss Winters was trying to call up Dr Thomas rhomas G on the telephone to inform him of the death of a baby haby bab Inmate Inquiries conducted yesterday developed the In Information Information information formation that things had been going on o for very eIO at the home some tinie Mrs Gaul stated lait Ill evening that there was positively no JH truth In the story that she Miss Winters Site SIlo said ald The whole trouble originated because Miss Winters refused to recognize my au authority authority In the home As matron of or this institution I must insist upon having haing mj my m authority recognized here I did not hit hither hither hither her but I J did lId Insist upon having my orders obeyed by or her The position I occupy is a very ery hard one at the best and it 13 IS iI made harder by tion of the help generally White While Miss Winters Vint rs was here she disorganized the help all aU over the place and made trou trouble trouble troubie ble bie for me among the directors One of the directors dite tors called at the home Friday Frida and there was Kas as more trouble for me on her tier account Saturday when the U dime di ec tors tore held a special meeting fane me ne just would not countenance my mO authority and to cap the t climax she site packed her grip and left the home homo at 1030 Fri orl Friday Fridy day dy night flight with ith the children all on my ray lands hands The story that I 1 struck her is false Miss Winters after leaving le the home went back to the Y Yo W Yo C A boarding home She was asked regarding he her trouble rouble with Mrs Gaul last I It evening and very reluctantly told her Iter side of or the story She said Bald BaldI saidI I 1 would rather not say O anything about the matter for I 1 regret that any trouble occurred 1 I went to the home only four tour weeks ago ao and was warned be before before fore rori I wont went that I could not possibly stand It to tC stay sta there very ery long I 1 found things in tn much worse orse condition than I had lad anticipated The place was not at atall atall all clenn S Unsanitary you mean man Unsanitary yes s very bad bath very verr dirty dirt positively po ly filthy ruthy One baby babO was ill I got there with There were five fhe cases ca eS while I was there and one om baby lied died of oC the disease dlease I cannot be blamed tor or the little ones death The doctor ab olvea me rue from Crom any blame in the case The poor baby bab had a complication of troubles The trouble came to a focus when I started to 10 call callIP callup up IP tho the doctor to him of or the death leath I was nas told by bO Mrs Irs Gaul that It was vas as out of or my m line lino to talk with the doc doe docor doctor tor or but she seemed not disposed to call him ilm up so I insisted IllS Isted upon using the tele for that purpose As I be believed It my duty to do so If U she did not attend to it Well Veil when she saw I was going to use the tho telephone she became positively frantic frantl She lost all control of herself hersel and ind she struck me and scratched mo mG moThe meThe The marks of or her finger nails arc are on my ray lands hands now She seemed positively razy I You quit at t a rather late hour Friday night Yes but It is la not true that there were any sick babies when I 1 left I just had hado to o leave I did not want to I 1 wanted to toI I stay sta and had resolved to stay to stick It U out until there was a meeting of the board boar of directors but I found it Impossible sible fible I was never treated anywhere by b anyone anOne so IO inconsiderately Inconsiderate as by Mrs Irs Gaul although I endeavored not to cross her in any nn way ao but to please her She was absolutely insulting to me nearly near all the time I was a perfect stranger In Inthe Inthe Inthe the city when I accepted the place and took the position against advice of friend I sincerely regret what has hap happened happEned happened but it was something I could not avoid Mrs irs Gaul is more like a female jailer than she he is t like a matron matr n at the institution Miss Winters said sahl she regretted any an publicity in the matter and had said as little as possible about the affair except when called upon to tell her story stor before the board of or directors on Saturday when Dr Odell Odeli confirmed the part of her story relating to her hel unsuccessful attempt to get him hint on the telephone and she exhibited exhibIted exhibited her scratched hands to the members m of the board present The housekeeper at the T Y W t C Co A boarding home told the reporter that she had advised Miss Winters Vinte against going to the orphans home We Ve p told her she said just what was to happen and how hard the place would be for her We ie considered her tier a very o brave little Hale woman to at attempt tempt the work after the warnings she had received Mrs Rachel Miller president of r tHe tee beard of or directors last lat evening stated that she did not lt care to be Interviewed concerning the affair The publicity will not do the institution Institution tion any good she said It Is most re to regrettable regrettable that a matron and a nurse of such an Institution as ours would so Sl lower themselves as to indulge In such an unla row The least said about it the betler |