Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-02-20

| DIR. Blackburn: Yes; and after tina
had gone on for a while 1 thought
that it was sufficient to report to DR.
Babcock, and l did so personally.
reflection on me. His reply was thai
he saw no objection to DR.. Saunders
learning the Was5erman test.
Chairman Carothers: Is there any
thing further?
=, DR.. Blackburn: No, sir; the same
state Of affairs has continued
Governor Blease: Is this state OF
affairs continuing now?
| DR.. Blackburn: So far as I know
1t is, up to date. except in the last
few days, I haven't seen DR.. Cooper
around here.
Chairman Carothers: That COM
plant that you made was made to the
uperintendent-did you consider II
a complaint?
DR.. Blackburn: Yes. sir; told him @
| Chairman Carothers: Went to him
| in the matter Of complaint?
| DR.. Blackburn: Yes, sir. He asked
me why I didn't come to him before.
And I told him that I came to him
then, that was making the complaint
then, because / did not think there
had been enough, previous, up to that
time, but it just kept coming along un-
\ til it finally accumulated. and !
thought it was enough for a COM
plant and made 1t.
Chairman Carothers: Is your equip
mept over there now OF kind that
you can carry on the work OF your or
! fee?
DR.. Blackburn: Yes, sir.
Chairman Carothers: Is 1t because
1t has been recently equipped by you,
or because things were there as you
found them when you first went In
Did you buy new material!
DR.. Blackburn: Yes, sir.
Chairman Carothers: 1t was there
when you went in the office, but dis
appeared?
DR.. Blackburn: Yes, sir.
Chairman Carothers: On that ac-
count YOU have had to buy other stun
and put in your office?
DIR. Blackburn: Yes, sir.
Chairman Carothers: That you
felt it necessary to go into that OIL
| fee?
DIR. Blackburn: Yes, sir.
Chairman Carothers: You could not
do the work that you felt 1t was your
duty to do without the apparatus tna1
was in there when you went IN tnere
DR.. Blackburn: No. sir; you coulo
not do it, because the chemicals were
not there.
Chairman Carothers: But they were
there when you went inf
DR.. Blackburn: NO; saiu In Tue
beginning it was short Of chemicals,
but a good deal Of glassware that was
there when took charge-that disap-
peared. .oo
Chairman Carothers: 1t has since
disanneared. and YOU have had to re-
place it?
DIR. blackburn: Haven't replenished
| It vet, but did have to buy some other
glassware that was short.
DR.. Taylor: Have you any sus-
picion as to how that glass went
who took it?
DR.. blackburn: No. sir; I wasn't
there. .,,.o 4,
In your mind with DIR. Cooper in any
way? .,,,
facts. I am not supposing anything.
1 am simply stating 1acts. l a9n
know who took It out, because dlon
Gee II. / don't think that DR.. Cooper
has been in there except the day you
were in there with him. You remem-
ber the conversation?
DR.. Taylor: I went to DR.. cooper
IL remember Dr. Blackburn salo
something about not knowing where
things were, and 1 went right TO Dr.
Cooper and asked him to make poinI
| of coming up here and showing Dr.
blackburn everything in the labora-
tory, and answering any questions
about the conduct Of 1t that he want
ed. Did he ever come up!
DR.. Blackburn: You came In with
him. i'll,
DR.. Cooper so that DR.. BLACKBURN
could get any details he wanted. Dr.
Blackburn told me he didn't know
much about the laboratory, SO !
brought DIR. Cooper up to give him all
the information there was.
Chairman Carothers: Any other
statement YOU would like to make.
| DR.. Babcock: DR.. Blackburn states
that in one of the earlier interviews
he and 1 had, that I told him there
was no need of the Wasserman reac-
ton. I think the doctor will correct
| that matter. The conversation, as
recall it, was that 1 said, Doctor
this Wasserman reaction Is ne"
thing; l don't suppose you know how
| to do 1t, any more than l do, or mosi
| physicians; it will take you several
months to get the general bearings Oh
this kind of work, and l would sugges'
| that you study the situation, and then
when you find that you are ready, II
you will come to me 1 will be glao
to recommend to the board OF regents
that you go away and equip yourseli
| for this particular form Of patholo.
gical work." Isn't that stateHieh'
correct, sir?
| DIR. Blackburn: You did suggest
that I go away, but If the stenogra-
pher will read my statement there you
will find that is absolutely correct.
| DR.. Babcock: That we didn't neec
the Wasserman reaction?
| DIR. Blackburn: At the present.
| DIR. Babcock: My recollection Is
that l stated that neither you nor l
without special instruction, would DC
| expected to do that, and that
thought you had better get your bear.
ings, and that l thought the boaro
/ of regents would be perfectly willing
| to give you leave and let you go on
and learn that. But I couldn't have
stated that we didn't need 1t, because
we have daily need for it.
DR.. Blackburn: You said at pres
ent.
| DR.. Babcock: / said you couldn',
be expected at the present to kno"
that, but 1 couldn't have stated the
other. When you came home youl
statement was that you were not re-
ceiving a square deal. I told you was
satisfied that no one here-certainly
did not-wished to see that you were
unfairly dealt with, and that woulc
do all l could TO assist you, just as
told in the beginning--that Whatever
your needs were, if you would let me
| know l would supply them. Have al
| those needs been supplied?
| DR.. Blackburn: All which needs!
| DR.. Babcock: All your requests
that need Of material?
| DIR. Blackburn: Yes; they nave
been honored.
| DIR. Babcock: Without exception?
| DR.. Blackburn: 1 don't know tina
there has been an exception.
| DR.. Babcock: Well, so far as wa:
concerned, was there any lack OF
square deal?
| DR.. Blackburn: No, l never
brought you into that at ali. You re-
member that 1 told you that it WASH
anything personal with you.
| Chairman Ca.rothers: AS l under
stand this matter, it is not matter
between Dr. Blackburn and DR.. Bah
cock, but it is a matter between DR.
Saunders and the staff, and all mat
ters leading off from that question arr
not pertinent.