The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-03-02
HOSPITAL IS EMPTY
PRINCES ENTERPRISE ESTARIJSH-
ED ALL RIGHT, BUT is MAR
RED 1Y A LAWSUIT
DOCTOR BRINGS A SUIT
Odd Complication Arises in Effort of
Titled Railroad Magnate to As
sist Employees Falling
Sick.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 1.-Prince
Andre PoniatOwski has more trouble on
his hands as the result of his efforts to
get the latest modern improvements
along his line, the Sierra Valley railroad
This time it is a suit filed by Attorney
a. H. Ricketts, for DR.. r. w Kent
against the West Side Flume and Lum-
her company, demanding an accounting,
and behind the suit is an interesting tale
of princely diplomacy.
The princes pet enterprise is the Sierra
Valley railroad. To be a success a rail-
road necessarily must have some place
to go to. So he got an hotel and an
opera house at Jimtown, Capt. Nevills,
the mining man, built them.
But the railroad saw Jimtown ONLY to
toot a whistle as it passed along to Car
ters, and Capt. Nevil!s' opera house was
taken apart and carried away and his
Motel left to the mice and spiders and
the green grass grew in his town lots
Has Pet Enterprise.
When the road went on to carriers the
prince saw the need of more improve
ments-at Carriers. Carriers is the home
of the West Side Flume and Lumber
company, Of which Henry J. Crocker is
president, Charles f. Gardner secretary
and the prince an important stakeholder
Carriers is, in fact, nothing but a logging
LOCO men a month are employed The
thing that Carriers really needed in the
princes mind was a fine, up-to-date hos
pital. He pointed out to DR.. r. w Kent,
of Tuoltumne county, the possibilities
and advantages Of such a hospital, and
DR.. Kent was quite taken with the idea.
The prince suggested an attractive plan
The doctor was to build a, hospital. It
was to be his own private enterprise He
was to buy his lumber from the West S de
Flume and Lumber company, and when it
was completed he was to receive from
the West Side Flume and Lumber com
pany the sum of rs cents monthly for
each employe of the company The rs
cents was to be deducted from the wage
of each person employed by the company
and paid over to the doctor, and in re-
turn the doctor was to furnish medical
care, hospital service, board and lodging
to any and every employe of the COM
pany who was sick or injured.
Doctor No Longer Pleased.
AS the number OF employees OF the
company varied from 500 to !, 900 men each
month, this arrangement was satisfactory
to the doctor He went ahead and spent
between $4,000 and $4,000 in building the
hospital and equipping it in the very best
modern fashion. Then he went for the
promised contract After various delays
one was made for year, with clause
stipulating that either party to it could
abrogate it by giving thirty days notice
The contract was made on April q, 1860
On the LIST of October, 1901, DR.. Kent was
notified that the agreement was annulled
and that his services would be dispensed
with on Nov. l.
He had received monthly credits from
the company, but never a statement b14ed
on an exact accounting. He had bought
building materials from the company to
the amount of 81, 1852. He was credited
by the company with ST., 1H.29, so that
when the agreement was annulled the
company figured him in its debt $17I94
AS Carriers is no more than the COM
pany's logging camp, hospital that is
not the companys hospital Is of no more
use there than it would be on the hither
shore where Their is mo more sickness. .