The Portland daily press., 1901-02-21

ing ahont It only in a general way. Mr..
Haskell has 50 mixed things mp IN tnis
statement OF his that be gives wrong
impression regarding the income Of the
lnstitutlon. The harrington viii In It's
original bsquest gave the Innrmary one
thsrd Of the residue OF the estate, and ~
the oodioii the donor Intended 20 give an
other third OF the residue Of the estate IN
trust as he had given the other In my
opinion, but the terms OF thnt cooloii
were such hat there was question
whether he really intended to give tne
one. third outright or In trust as ne nAd
given the first The Institution receiver
an income something like i've thousand
dollars believe, from the fret third OF
the residue Of this estate. The other third
amounting to some ninety odd thousand
dollars was paid TO the treasurer OF tne
infirmary and by him turned over to
speciaI trustse, MIR. Larrabee, who In
turn invested the amount In the stock OF
the CORPORATION. The treasurer holos
the special trustees notes for this amount
ana the special trus tee has the stock Oh
the corporation. This institution has to
pay the dividends on the stock ana tns
special trustee the interest on the notes.
90 that one offsets the other and there is
no income derived from this second third
of tins estate as Mr.. Haskell intimates 10
ths case.
"Thsn another point IN this attaek'
said DIR. Holt, "in which Mr.. Haskell is
wrong and does injustice to the insti tu-
ton is In the pro rata board OF tns
patients The expense of running tne IN
Urinary is divided up pro rata among The
patisnts and evidently Mr.. Haskell has
figured 1t down TO months and weeks. He
does not take into account the TACT that
the expense Of heating, lighting ana tne
taxes on the stores under the lnnrmary
are all figured into the expenses Of the In
stitution, though they have nothing 70
do with the board Of the patients. Inls
makes the pro rata expense very muon
larger than II really Is.
iMr. Haskell does not figure In our
out patients when he comes to talk ABOUT
the number OF free cases we treat at the
Inrrmary. Last year we treated over lsoO
out patients free.
LAS to his charges that the institution
has been used to swell my private prac-
tice, any well informed man Will treat
this as absurd. 1 might treat many
patients coming to me from ths clinics at
the Inflrmary, but II do l know MOTH
ing about 1t. / certainly have given no
orders at the Infirmary to have patients
sent TO me ana l don't believe they are
sent to me any more than they are to
other specialists. Did you ever know o'
layman to take up q row between
doctors unless he had been urged to &c
so by the doctorsY 1t Ia not natural tha'
Iayman should do this and doubtless
Mr.. Haskell knows for whom he is work
ing as well as do.
"Re1ardiug the case referred to OF the
treatment OF the boy mentioned by MIR
HASKELL in his speech l knew nothing
about the matter. The boy was not
| uatient OF mine at that time and l was
| not Informed regarding this case until
the house doctor came here one afternoon
/ and said ne had been threatened with ar
rest II he did not resign. told the docto
from what found out about the case ths
/ would not resign II were In bis piac
/ until the matter had been investigated
| This doctor is q young man and q kin'
man. and 1 do not think that either he o
any other person connected with the In
stitution ever punished the boy or hur
MIN. 1 know that they frequently pu
the boys to- bed as punishment, but the
1 I'D IN, M hnrt him
This young house doctor happened .
have offered to him at this time plac
in the Marine hospital service and as i
was a better place he took It and resigne
from the Infrmary. AS to the osne
charges made about the boy they are toe
absurd to disc uss."
DIR. Holt told the newspaper man tina
he was not endeavoring TO answer any
MIR, Haskells charges in this talk, bu
had only sought to point out few OF tn
false statements and conclusions arrived
at and TO show the absurdity of this at
tack
~ want to say again. said DR.. Holt
"thAt MIR. Haskell had plenty OF oppor
tunity to get at the real facts had
sought to do SO. A class mate oil his con
nected with the Intirmary had loni
talk with him the other day and toll
him all about the lntlrmary. Couidn'
Mr. Haskell believe what this class mat
told him regarding the institution II b
could believe any onef No, MIR. Haske
did not want to get at the facts. He too
this way of injnring the institution an
no matter what is said in defense OF 1t
of any person connected with 1t this ur
Just attack win be an injury which car
, not be overcome Doubtless that la th
object which MIR. Haskell's supporter
are aiming at"
AGAINST NAVAL STATIONS.