The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1867-07-12


Illustrated by some statements made in
a recent report upon the manufuctur-
ing resources of Buffalo. 1t first mem
tons the success of Mr.. Loveridge, the
inventor of the Wahoo Bitters. An
other instance is that OF Mr.. Swain,
a poor Philadelphia bookbinder He
had kind of sore on his leg which
troubled him very much. One day rs
he was running over the pages of q
book he was binding his eye came
across a recipe for making syrup
which was said would cure scrofula,
kings evil, and other diseases of the
blood. He copied it, got some of the
materials at the drug shop, took the
medicines and i'll time WIS cured. He
then made some for his friends and
acquaintance, and finally left his bin
der's counter and entered upon the
manufacture of "Swaim's panacea." 1t
began TO sell, and finally its fame
spread wherever civilization had gone,
and i'll some parts where thepeope DO
not enjoy that blessing to this day
He paid enormously for advertising,
and after many years he built blocks
of stores and splendid mansions in
Philadelphia, where they appear in all
magnificent proportions, the pride Of
the city and a monument to the mem
DRY and enterprise of a patent-mcdi-
cine man. He died and left his heirs
a million or more
DR. David Jayne died in Philadel-
phia a few days ago, leaving $4,000
600 He commenced about thirty
five years since, as poor as he could
be, III putting up round of what he
called "familymedicines, such as san
alive pills, carminatiyesbalsam, worm
medicine, expcctorant, and score of
other curative preparations. Phila
delphia is dotted with towering struc-
lures erected by him He had great
taste for the tall and massive order Of
architecture. His residence stands on
Chestnut street. near the Schuykill
bridge The edifice is of pure marble,
and Is the most exquisite mansion in
Philadelphia
DIR. Schenck was a Philadelphian -
He put up syrup for curing CON
sumption, and ut one time kept a
small Office IN Courtlandt street, New
York. For many years it was uphill
work to make the medicine take but
by dint of persistent advertising he
weathered the storm, and has come
out all right The Doctor owns a
large farm on the New York and Phil
adelphia Railroad in New Jersey. The
station named after him is at that
point where travellers see as they go
by-"ConsumptioI Can be Cured. -
He is probably worth his hundreds Of
thousands by this time, all made from
the sale Of a patent medicine. There
are scores of others in Philadelphia,
whose names escape us at this mo-
ment, who have realized large for
tunes and built for themselves splen-
did mansions III that city out of the
same line business.
1t may be thirty-fve years ago that
DR.. Benjamin Blandreth made his de-
butte III New York as n vender of pills.
1t was alleged, at the time, that he
procured his recipe from an old man
that 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 n sufficient sum to put
short advertisement in the San. AS
the pills began to sell he increased
the manufacture and establishing
agencies, III all cases leaving them
with booksellers, never allowing drug
gists to sell them as his agents. After
a while he found the druggists were
selling more than he was manufac-
turing, and which an investigation
proved that they were an imitation
article. This gave him a good chance
to caution the public against counter
feits. In time he opened a central
Office in Broadway, above Warren
street, which for long time remained
his principal Office. At length he
made terms with the druggists, and
the pills became regular article on
the price list of wholesale houses. AT
terwadrs a site was purchased at Yon-
kers, where a factory was built, which
supplied tho demand. A sloop carri-
cd load of hogsheads of pin boxes
up, and brought load of pills in box
es back. The Doctor probably owns
a steamboat to do his carrying bust
ness now. We have no means of est
mating his riches. The Brandreth
House, corner of Broadway and Canal
street, is owned by him, and we pre-
sumo he owns whole squares of other
real estate in that city.
DIR. Ayers, of Lowell, came very near
running all his relatives after he start
ed his pills, sarsparilla and cherry pee
toral, 1t was IA tedious time he Lad
in fighting advertising bills and other
expenses He spent what little he
had, borrowed all his relatives had, till
finally the medicines began to make
eturns, and from that time, some
wenty years, he has been making
money. Ho owns paper mill, where
he makes peculiar paper which he
claims is not easily eounterfeited, in
which DO wraps his various prepare
tons People who estimate his wealth
run him into millions. At one time
bo ,,-oo a bo - mt e,ul n heaVv stock