The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1886-12-31
advertisements
4 CsRRD re TIE PUBLIC

Yiaiting our city, purchased from him bill of
representative to DIS Watson, Battle and VII
lians. At the suggestion of DR.. Watson, this
| salesman consented to send gratuitously TO the
'AsheVille Mission Hospital sample lot oftheir
preparations for use among the patients. On the
9th inst. received from Messrs. r. & c. aletter,
OF which the following is a copy:
NEW YORK, Det z. 1886
Mr. W. E. Felham, AsheYille, N. c.
/ Dear Sir I'VE have sent by freight to your ad-
dress fifty bottles Cod Liver Oil and Milk and five
/ hundred pamphlets. We have also sent in your
/ care, for the Asheville Mission Hospital, some
samples Of our preparations which we would be
uesy no ns 81 the e paid 6g Won on sl Sl
We will remit same by return post.
Yours very truly,
/ RERD- & CARSRItk.
| About the 18th or 10th box marked Asheyille
Mission Hospital, care w. E Pelham, was deliy.
| cred at my store. / had tho box opened and
found 1t contained exactly such articles as are
Intended for the hospital to Dr. Battles Office
and at the same time writing DR.. Battle q note
ne SO desired. Laser i,i the day Dr. Battle. ii
company with Dr.. McGili. cal ed aud thanked
me for sending up the package for the Hospital
asked my asst tant, lfr johnnie carro1f, .oY the
meFnorandum Of the articles in the Hospitsl
took iist,] and gave Ef Hattie the desired MOS
nation. Ten or twelve minutes afterwards Dr.
Battle re-entered my store and enquired for me-
charging me in avery abrupt and excitab.e
manner with having opened box intended for
the Mission Hospital, claimed that he had re-
ceiyed bill of lacen, and that opened their box
and without authority TO do so. The following
Monday morning Goth inst.) called at Dr. Bat
ties ONCE for the purpose Qt- removing from his
mind, Il POS sible, such an erroneous IMPRESSION:
rendered to him one of the go samples" sent,
me, also eEe of the 800 pamphlets containing
special notice Slips for distribution as follows:
ESPECIAL. NoT1cE-A simple p ckagc of Carn-
sicS's Soluble Food, or Of Pepton' 'sed Cod Liver
Oil AID MIX, may he obtainsi free 90 charge by
application at the News Stand i'll Byttery Park
Hosel, W. Z. Pelham, Druggist, AsheTille, n. c.
Dr. Battle refused to speak to me On the sub
ieet, refused the tender of my hanu~-EFEEhen met
him. and repeated the charge, ''you have opened
a box that belonged to the Hospital, which you
ad no right to do" He threw the door wide
ope;1, and with his right arm poinEed TO il or
derei me out. declined to leave his loom ey-
cept in the same spirit in which 1 had entered
1t. that my mission there was fulfilled, and that
with his orders. He took hold of me and Mt
tempted to eject me- this the most violent of his
manV insults 1 submitted 10. l received from
DR.. Battle note und-r date Dec. 25th in which
he acknowledges his error Stating that he mad
received a letter tr IN Messrs. r. & G. exonera-
ting me from his un ind charges, that .the Hos
pital had re eiVed what was intended for it,
without one word OF apology for his unkInd and
unca lied for conduct fowAl ds me D. IS nalIy /
therefore addressed the following note to DR..
Battle:
AsHEv Lis, n. c., Dec 9th, 1885.
IS s.r-Your r: note Of 25th inst was received by
came into my tore Hnd grossly insu ted me-
charging me with having opened box said to
contain medifine. that did not beIHng to me but
| from same what cid not belong to me. aud that
! 1 had 40 right to open the box a. all. The fol-
| lowing Monday morning. the 10Th inst l called
at your o1lee for the purpose OF showing you u
letter had received from Messrs. Reed Il Carn-
rick, which letter anticipated the arrival of the
| box at my store, and was intended to Instruct
me as to its contents and the disposition to make
of same. And which explanation u gentleman
wonld have received from another. but instead
you added insult to injury, and in he presence
| of Dr. McGill and gentleman did not know
Fir you seem to think that iyou can, at your
appropriating to my use what did not belong to
me- but to charitable institution, and attic 1T
| TO damage the profession and business I repre-
sent And IN extenHatioa- Syour uhcalIed for
aud unwsrranIed cuurse JUI write me the aote
| have before me. The statements therein con.
tained are not satisf ctory, and l demand
p ON OF and unconditional apology for the ins lit
you gave me in my store, and repeated four-fold
in your office, t gtther with the dagger-like
thrust you aimed at the business conduct.
S. d. PELHAM.
On the 2sth inst. received the following adj
ditional letter from Messrs. Reed & Carnric in
| full corroboration of all the facts as | stated
them to DR.. Battle and state them here:
New YoRK, Dec. 81 1856.
Mr. D Pelham, Asheville, N. c.:
DEAR SIR We are in receipt of yours of the
24tE inst. We thought our letter would be con
cise and definite enough to meet your wants. but
in reply your last letter received take up the
| one of the 10Th to answer in detail
We did intend that you should open and hand
the contents namely the small box to the Hospi-
tai. The large box was addressed to you. We cx-
| p ected you to open it and take from same tie
samples intended for the Hospital, namely, those
| IN the small 'x. We did not intend that you
| should seud the physicians samples of c. L. o
| NJ. with the 500 pamphlets to the Hospital. Yon
did perfectly right III the premises the Hospital
got exactly what intended for il, and We can
not see how they can take any exceptions to your
conduct.
any more samples would send them with pleas
ure hut that $50 pamphlets and the 50 samples c.
l.. o, d NJ. intended for you and not for them.
| We tiust this viii end the conference. and regret
that we in sending the packages did not forward
/ them under separate addresses and thus ehviate
the possibility of your receiving the slightest an
| Re d & CARSlICT.
1 Having not heard from DR. Battle in reply to my
letter to him: publish these facts IN full and
| detail tn let the public know what manner of nan
this individual is and likewise to prove to the pub
/ lie the falsty of the Vaccinations of this unscru
| pulous man, who attempts to damn young man <
| character by such outrageous charge of theft.
| En- IIssdIH w0nld ike to impress this state
ment am personally friend of this charitable
inst tuition, the Mission Hospital and OF the
christian ladies who are workers therein and that
these four bottles and two cans OF medicine were
gift in part through my influence for the !lospl
| tai; also that am personal money contributor
to the support of this cstimable Institution. The
conduct on the part of DR., Battle, (who has pre-
tossed friendship to me hercofore) is unwarranted
! and for such an unmanly and ungentcmanly
attack upon myself, his social equal, (and dare
/ say by birth and raising his superior,l and for
| which he declines to render an honorable apology
am unwilling 10 let go unpublished, to the intel
ligent public of Ashsyille and the many fisltoIs
within our midst. My own sef-respect VIII nol
permit me to use such language as would prcPeS
characterize Dr. Battles conduct towards me, but
submit afull, frank statement of Il the facts,
Knowing they will carry their own comments to
all intelligent and honorable people.
| SAMUEL ID. PELHAM
1 Ashcvilie, n. C., Dee Goth. 1886