Batavia Daily News Feb. 5, 1898 Mr. Maybee All right Ex-Poormaster Griffis's Opinion of His Labors Syracuse Man Has found Good Homes for Three Batavia Children at Compaaratively Small Expense-Placed on Child in a Good Home in This Village "From what I know personally about the Rev. W. Jarvis Maybee of Syracuse, State Superintendent of the National Children's Home Society, and his methods of work" said ex-Poormaster Griffis of Batavia, "I believe him to be all right and consider that the work which he is doing is a grand one. Many boys and girls have good homes and are being properly educated today, who woud be living in filth and squalor with immoral surroundings but for Mr. Maybee's efforts in their behalf. To be sure he asks for and received compensation for such services, but it is no more than he is entitled to. He is a laborer who is worth of his hire in the fullest sense of the expression. "Two years ago last summer, as Poormaster of Batavia, I engaged Mr. Maybee to find homes for the two Palmer children of Batavia, a boy and a girl, aged between four and seven years, whose mother had deserted them and whose father was unable to support them. I know that he placed them in very desirable homes. I paid him $50 for placing the two children and it was the cheapest thing for the town that could have been done. Another case was where Mrs. Stevens, a deserted wife, died, leaving an infant. Mr. Maybee took the child and found a home for it and made no charge whatever for the service. "I know that when Mr. Maybee took children he invariably informed the relatives they would be given no information whatever in regard to the whereabouts of the children after they had been placed in homes and I think that it is perfectly proper. People who adopt children don't want relatives following them. Mr. Maybee always makes it a point to find homes for children in families that are able to support them and where the suroundings will be entirely satisfactory." Syracuse papers say that in his statement in regard to where he had placed certain children Mr. Maybee said that he found a desireable home for Edith or Hazel Vader in Batavia. Hazel Vader, who was then 2 1/2 years of age, was adopted on Oct. 21, 1895, by Letter-Carrier Ira Howe. She was delivered into his custody by James H. Meaghler, Superintendent of the Poor in Syracuse, who stated that she had been deserted by her parents and had been a charge on the city of Syracuse for two years. SYRACUSE Feb. 5-Grace Lamphere, the 12 year old daughter of Herbert Lamphere of Herkimer, was restored to her father yesterday. Two years ago the Rev. W. Jarvis Maybee of this city took the girl from her father, agreeing to find a good home for her. Mr. Maybee took heer into his own family as a servant, it is claimed and has not allowed her to go to school.