Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-09-07
OLIVER DITSON & CO., Boston



A visit was recently paid to one Of the
growing business establishments Of Lowell
which has sprung up entirely within the past
five years, but which is now increasing with
wonderful rapidly, and the operations and
methods of which are worthy of description
We refer to the Enlistment of c. |, Hood
& Co., where their proprietary medicines
are put up and shipped to various parts Of
the country.
After securing, by continued experiment,
for his regular business, as a pharmacist,
preparation of Sarsaparila which effected
the most wonderful results in certain bad
cases of scrofula and other diseases arising
from impure blood, Mr. Hood found that the
demand for the remedy grew with surprs-
ing rapidity, each case cured giving rise to
new calls for its healing virtues, until from
the manufacture of a few bottles at his
drug store, the demand called for thousands
of gallons, which are sent all over New Eng
land This growth necessitated more com
modiOus quarters for its manufacture The
firm first took a large room in SouthwicE
block. on Prescott street. But even that
was soon outgrown, and now c. l. Hood
& Co occupy the whole of the new
building erected by Judge Crosby on the
bank of the Concord river at the westerly
end of Church street bridge. This building
is three stories high with basement. In
the basement is every convenience for wash
ing the thousands of bottles now used from
month to month, and for storing the supply
kept on hand. The first floor is occupied
as the storage room for finished goods and
shipping room, from which gross after
gross of Sarsaparilla, Tussano, Tooth Pow
der, Olive Ointment and other proprietary
remedies manufactured in the building, are
Dispatched to all parts of the country. The
chief secret of the wonderful growth of the
business, next to the admirable quality and
great value of the remedies, is to be found
in a room filed with advertising matter, in
GLIDING thousands of copies of the famous
Hoods Cook Book, which is now as well
known throughout New England as the
Farmers Almanac. On the second floor is
the business office, where the advertising
and other accounts are kept on the most
approved modern system. In another room
the goods are put up, the Sarsaparilla,
which is the leading article made, being put
into bottles by means of an ingenious
10 hot 10 81 hot
at once with an exactly uniform quantity in
all. Here, too the bottles are corked put
in wrappers and made ready for packing
There is also room by itself where Hoods
Saponaceous Tooth Powder is made and
put up by the hundred dozens at time,
On the upper floor the Sarsaparilla is com
pounded under Mr.. Hoods personal direc.
ton, every tank full being exactly measured
as to its ingredients, and made from the best
and purest material. 1t is then kept for
weeks in immense tanks, of which there are
two containing about $50 gallons each, and
third of the same size is to be put in soon
When perfectly settled and in proper con
dtion it is drawn off by an ingenious ar
rangement which always takes the fluid
from the surface, and is bottled on the floor
below, as above described. There is also
on this floor a private office, where the
pharmaceutical secrets of the establish
ment are worked out.
We have not space to speak more in de-
tail of the manufacture. Besides the Sar
saparlla, Messrs Hood Co, manufacture
Tussano, a cough mixture which has at
tanned ready popularity; Tooth Powder
which is the leading dentrfice in New Eng
land, and sale of which is rapidly growing
Olive Ointment, a remedy which is coming
into general demand; and Hoods Negeia-
BILE Pills, which, like all the rest, have
grown from the limited business Of a l1e'
scrption counter into wide spread nse, as
honest medicines skillfully compounded Of
the purest materials, and which do then
appointed work with certainty and success
Howell Daily Courier. February II.