The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-08-10

User user IN hh Sn1 1 SOn1CTy, anu MS Advertisements,
apounding In good Sc, ,se and nerfect sincerity.
-. .,,.f.iy. worth his hundreds OF thou.
prrsoSPs1llSs IN PSilsdelpb.a he 1tSS owns large
farm on the New York and Philadelphia Rail
rsau, some si1teSn miles out OF Philadelpnhla,,
part OF the country. The station named after
him Is at that point where travellers see IN
cured. y The beautiful SCENERY, tastefuiiy laid
out ground, and well cultivated fields. make IT
a pleasing object OF interest to the weary
traveller in the long journey from Washington
10 New York There are scores of others In
Philadelphia whose names escape as at this
moment, who have realized large fortunes and
built for themselves splendid mansions In that
city out of the same line of business.
II may be thirty-fve years ago that DR.. Ben
jamin Brandeth made his debut in New York
as vender OF pills; 1t was alleged at the time
that he procured his recipe from an old man
who either came over with him in the ship from
England, or that he became acquainted with
him in New York. 1t makes no matter which
When he first started in Hudson street, he was
too poor to advertise, and for some time sold
his pills by the single box, until he acquired
sufficient sum to put q short advertisement in
the Sun. AS the pills began to SELL h increased
the manufacture and establishment of agencies,
In all cases leaving them with booksellers.
never allowing druggists to sell them as his
agents. After while he found the druggists
were selling more than he was manufacturing,
and an investigation proved that they
were an imitation article. This gave him
a good chance to caution the public
trail Office in Broadway, above Warren street,
which for long time remained his principal
Office. At length he made terms with the drug
gists, and the pills became a regular article on
the price list Of wholesale houses. Afterwards
q site was purchased at Yonkers, where a fac
tory was built, which supplied the demand. A
sloop carried a load of hOgsheads of pill-boxes
up, and brought a load of pills In boxes back.
his carrying business now. We have no means
OF estimating his riches. The Brandreth House,
@ % OF BdoaaWay t ana fanS street Is owned
OF other real estate in New York.
DR.. Aver, of Lowell, came very near ruinin e
all his relatives after he started his pills. sarsa-
parilla, and cherry pectoral. II was tedious
time he had in fighting advertising bills and
other expenses. He spent what little he had,
and borrowed all his relatives had, till finally
the medicines began to make returns and from
that time, some twenty years, he has been
making money. He owns paper mill, where
not easily counterfeited, in which he wraps his
wealth run him into millions. At one time he
was. If he is not still, heavy stockholder in
the New York tribune Association. Such men
are apt to leave their imprint, even If they
made theirmoney in the manufacture OF patent
medicines.
William b. Mofatt was a silk merchant in
New York. Besides being bankrupt, his
health had become very much impaired
from overwork and trouble of one kind or an
other. In his extremity he conceived the idea
of making a pill and bitters. They cured his
infirmities, and made a millionaire of him in
less than twenty years. Persons familiar with
New York can tell the number of magnificent
stores he owned on Broadway and other parts
of the city. He died some years ago, but the
pills and bitters didn't. The heirs carry on the
business as usual.
Perry Davis. the pain-kller man; Donald
Kennedy, proprietor of the Great Medical Dis
covery-who has refused one hundred thousand
dollars for his right; Seth w. Fowle, who bought
Wistar's Balsam of Wild Cherry from Isaac
Butts, OF Rochester; Demas Barnes, of New
York, the largest patent medicine depot in
America; Hostetter, Helmbold, the Mexican
Mustang Liniment man, and a thousand others
in the United States whom we have not time to
mention, can count their hundreds of thou
sands, all made In the patent medicine
trade. Isaac Butts, of Rochester, sold the right
to manufacture w istars 3 Balsam of Wild Cherry
in the Eastern States to Seth w. Fowle, OF Bos-
ton, for $4,000, and put the greater part of the
money in telegraph stock, which stock accumu-
he had in the Rochester Union, he has retired
with about million and a half a richer II not
happier man. Rows of stores and blocks of
land owned by him in Rochester attest the
truth Of what we write. Isaac commenced by
selling Sherman's lozenges and Peters pills on
commission. Patent medicines have made him
q princely fortune.