The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-11-29
Helmbold. the GOOD Better, Best.

One of the most noticeable establishments on
Broadway, New York. is that of Helmbold, the
chemist. just step above the main entrance of
the Metropolitan Hotel. Two large windows.
| lighted by gas iuminators, glisten and CLEAN
with brightly colored vases and many tinted jars
of curious shape. Back of each window is splen-
| did bronze stand, ceiling high, with branching
arms, bearing various vessels filed with herbs,
| and spices and seeds from far-off shores In
front, under an ornamental canopy of iron work
OF strange design, hang two glass mortars, which
serve as shades for the gas jets that light the
marble floor beneath. On entering the door you
see on either hand long ranges of ornamented
shelves, and counters, and showcases, with
wealth of precious perfumes and other delicate
things thereon and therein, aud above the upper
shelves bright signs in golden letters on ground of
glass, setting forth the names and virtues of the
druggists special compounds.
On your left, as you enter, are the soda foun.
tains, and within a step or two a series of other
fountains, from which are drawn at any hour of
the day or night such mineral waters as your sys.
TEN may need. Here yoC may drink in its purity
the pungent Kissingen, the salty Vichy, the
tasteless Katalysine from Gettysburg, the soothing
setzer or the waters of Saratoga or Missisouoi.
lQo8e
tains OF health you reach the prescription depart.
ment, snug, cozy apartment, which might well
serve Lily or Sidrophel for midnight study. or
make the heart OF any old alchemist glad with it's
quiet and comfort. Here are compounded all the
prescriptions ordered by physicians for the cure
OF their patients. All day and all night the clerks
are at work, and the quantity of sure cures here
mace up, the number of lives saved by the medi.
cines here concocted, it would be difficult to
reckon.
Next we come to the ladies' parlor, furnished
elegantly, the floor covered with thick green
carpet, soft to the touch and grateful to the eve
under the light of the bright gas jets above. In
the center of this apartment stands beautiful
show case, dodecahedron in shape, filed with a
variety of articles made for use and for ornament
On either side stands the statue of negro slave.
holding In one hand a sslver filed with business
cards, in the other q tall vase containing some
precious ointment or some priceless beautiier.
whose virtues are best known to those whom fate
and time have forced to use them.
Beyond the ladies' parlor is the counting room.
neat and compact nest of fre.proof safes and
decks and chairs, where the heavy business of
the great establishment is transacted. and ALL the
affairs Of the house are regulated and kept in or.
der.
Here. too, is the advertising department. in
which five clerks are constantly engaged in exam.
lining the columns of the thousands of journals
through which the great Helmbold communicates
with the world at large Each clerk has his range
OF papers, and when the mails come in these ara |
properly assorted and examined, and q record
made OF the service rendered by the printer ON |
such and such date. On one side OF this room |
are the newspaper shelves, all carefully labeled
ana IN these are kept for the month or the week |
as the case may be, the different Journals with |
which Helmbold does business.
Conunuing your journey toward the west, von |
come to two little boxes, one on each side of the |
room, in one of which Helmbold holds court. This |
is most tastefuly furnished office; and the other
that OF the chief clerk, is like unto IL.
Now you enter the wholesale departman, ,vh;oh
you find filed with boxes and cases. ALI bsar;nn
the nome of the man who prepared THAR contants
and all labeled for points on the eartb,s snrr.oa :.
lar distant from New York as they are from eaot
other. Here are five cases for a planter n p..-u
and there score for druggist In Amst.,dor,
In TINS corner you see dozen more which viii
be sent by the next steamer to San Francisco. and
In that, still another dozen -.-.kcd FOR Valparaiso
Hard BY ia. vast pile Of slmsnscs. 10 0oo oil
'oio' 70 De mailed or expressed TO-DAY ~ n..-,-
svery state in the Union. These are in EogIi.h
mere are also German almanacs. and Spanish
And FRENCH which will in few days be resd ans
pioneered over by farof sufferers to whom ,,.,1
Anglo-saxon is unknown. -'" pam
Down in the basement are the chemca, vo,..
mere are prepared large proportion of the 49,
lies wnlcn have made Helmbod famous. Rv
ne greater part however, are made at HE ,ab
'tanily at work. ~ Hanos con-
mere are 20 clerks on duty at Helmbo,a,.
n' n'gnt' and the front door is never olsssd Jay