Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1912-01-04


not help and encourage this scheme.
would not be allowed to come back.
That was intended for me, as had been
telling some of his fixed committee
1t was a scheme to hide the real cause
OF the SIX MONTHS RULING. and
also to get big advertising to be used
before the next Legislature, and DR..
Lloyd asked the patients to appoint one
OF the committee who was to remain at
Catawba, with the chairman and secre-
tary and treasurer, two weeks to get
this matter started and get the circu-
lars out, and asked the patients to sign
petition to the Board Of Health to al
low these three men to remain at Ca
tawba two weeks. Those men are at Ca
tG'voa noU. Now they are telling the
people in the papers that when these
buildings are finished they will be used
for patients who would otherwise have
to leave the sanatorium at the end of
SIX months, and it would enable them
TO take the treatment six months longer
-ye' tF'ey haze promised these old patients rho
'eJt ne Sartorlum IN august that H,ey could
occupy these partitions inde6nitely, trltich If
H'ey Keep their promise, lrltich Ge,j 0que i,ia
10 get ae's retief association started, and allo,v
u'e old patients 10 come back and remain there
"'de'ua'tety, then of lchdt benefit are these
buildings going to be 10 patients ,cl,o ,riH hare
TO teare hereafter, and lctat riqht has a lSt,Ite
institution TO keep some patients iqdefnitely
ana u'e others hare TO Iedue at the end Of si.r
HlorltltsP
L understand now that they have
taken two Of the pavillions which have
capacity of thirty-two patients and
made infirmaries out of them in which
only bed patients are taken in.
Now DR.. Williams was at Catawba in
May, 1911, and told the patients they
had money enough to build two new pa
villions, and they were going to build
them at once, and offered a reward of
twenty-five dollars to the patient who
would get up the best design and plans
for the new pavillions. Well nothing
more was ever done. In the mean time
DR.. Williams bought a country home
about one-haf mile from the sanato-
rum, and in June the house on this
place was improved and repaired, and
the water piped from a spring on the
mountain into his house, and water
plped across the road from his house to
the sanatorium stables. Mr.. Martin
told patients that he had this work done
IN order to get water to the stable. and
he thought it good scheme, although
there is large bold stream of spring
water running through the stable lot in
one hundred feet of the stable door
furnishing enough water to water all
the stock and wash all the vehicles in
Catawba Valley, and when the State
Board Of Health met in July they pass
ed the six months ruling on account of
the crowded conditions and no money
for buildings, and at the same time
they ordered a new residence to be
built for DR.. Lloyd at once, although
they had spent several hundred dollars
In March, 1911, to build DR.. Loyd an
outdoor sleeping porch for himself and
family on the hotel.
Now if DIR. Williams. DR.. Lovd and
Mr.. Martin had the welfare of the pa-
tlents at heart, why did they not take
this money they had in May and put I'D
two pavillions, or else put up an infirm-
ary to hold about twenty patients.
which would have given them the use
of the two pavillions, they have turned
INTO infirmaries, they could have had
them finished by August lst and no one
would have had to leave Catawba?
They wanted to get rid of some of
the old patients who knew too much.
and the ones they could not depend on.
They kept all the old patients whom
they could control and use in any scheme
they wished to put through.
Now as to he five new buildings put
up In 1910: They claim Gnose pavIiuo,,s
cost THIRTY-TWO HUNDRED DOL
LARS ($S2OO.0O) each. / believe anv
one of these pavillions can be built fo,
EIGHTEEN HUNDRED DOLLARS
(Sl8OO.OO No bids were advertised
for these buildings, and they had an
architect from Richmond on this ioh
about ten months, at a salary of FORTY
DOLLARS ($4O. OO) per week and hoard
They were built on this plan: The sana.
forum paid for everythino-the con.
tractor was paid so much to look afte,
the work; the contractor emploved .
general foreman to do the work for
MIN and the sanatoriun paid his SALARY
also. l think the contractor was at
Catawba three times for about two
hours each time during the nine months
these buildings were under construct
tioD, and after they were finished and
opened to patients on November 26tb
1910, they found that the architect. con,
tractor and general foreman had for
gotten to put fiue in either one one Of
the hve pavillions and assembly hall
IL Is 30 you cannot build a fire in tho
fre place of either of the s;x b,,;,5;.-~-