An Explanation by Mrs. Dotzel

New York, 1895

Mrs. Dotzel, of Willow street, says she is the person who was referred to anonymously in the complaint which a tax-payer made against the Overseer of the Poor in the last issue of THE FARMER. She says she owns the house in which she lives, as the complaint says, but that the house is mortgaged, and she is too old to go out to work, so she is obliged to seek assistance from the Overseer of the Poor. Mrs. Dotzel's daughter, Mrs. Pearsall, says she is living with her mother because she is separated from her husband. He pays a weekly stipend for her support to the Overseer of the Poor, and she gets the money from the Overseer at his office every Monday morning. Mrs. Pearsall wants it distinctly understood that the Overseer does not call at the house to see her, but to see her mother.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, N.Y., Jan. 11, 1895, p. 1.