The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-03-10


To enable the Times to furnish its
regarding the Cuticura remedies,
which are now attaching so much pub
| lie attention, a reporter called yester-
day upon Mr.. Van Schaak, Of Van
Schaak, Stevenson Il Co., wholesale
and retail druggists, corner Lake and
| Dearborn streets, when the following
facts were elected:
R.-Will you oblige the readers of
the Times by answering a few ques.
tions regarding the Cuticura remedies
Mr.. Van S.-Certainly; fire away.
R.-Do they sell well?
Mr.. Van S.-The sale of Cuticura,
Cuticnra Resolvent, aud Cuticura Soap
have been unprecedented.
R.-What reasons do you give for 80
large O sale?
| Mr.. Van ST. give four reasons.
First, they are original and revolution.
airy in their composition and mode of
treatment. Second, they undoubtedly
possess great curative properties.
Third, there are thousands upon thou
sands OF sick and suffering who have
tried and found wanting the usual rem
edies and modes of treatment, and
who are ready to welcome a really
great and successful medicine. Fouth,
the price of them is within the reach
of every invalid.
R.-Are your sales of these medi-
cines through your agents?
Mr.. VanS.-No they are legitimate
to mail orders. We employ no trav-
elers on the road-are fundamentally
opposed to that way of selling goods
the retailer has to stand such expenses,
and such staple goods as these require
no one to force them off.
R.-Do you class them as patent
medicines?
MIR. Van ST. do not. They are
proprietary only SO far as their names
are concerned, these being held as
trademarks.
R.-Can you tell us something about
this firm?
iMr. Van S.-Weeks & Potter are i'm
porters, wholesale druggists and chem
lists, and for twenty-five years have
been the foremost house in the trade
In New England.
R.-lt is popularity supposed that
advertising will sell most anything,
regardless Of merit. IL 1t true?
Mr.. Van 9. No. A remedy falsely
claiming to possess virtues of which Il
is In fact destitute, will surely fail.
No reputable firm and druggists are
the most competent judges-would
think of risking fame and fortune on
any medicine unless 1t had, under the
most trying circumstances, proved It.
self to possess extraordinary medicinal
value. The expense attending the
introduction of such remedies is enor-
nous. A fortune must be spent before
any return can be expected. II, after
wide distribution, they are found to
possess the virtues claimed for them,
those who have been cured will re.
commend them one 10 another, and
thus make them remunerative. When
man backs his statements with lis
own money, you eau generally rely
upon them. This Weeks a. Potter
are doing.
R.-Have they ever before prepared
medicines for popular use2
| Mr.. Van ST. believe not. They
are, like our selves, agents for great
many, but we think these are the first
that they prepare themselves. 1t Is
but once In lifetime that discovery
Is made OF remedy that such firm
as Weeks & Potter are willing to stake
reputation and fortune on.
R.-Are their prospects fiattering,
or otherwise?
Mr.. Van S.-Very fattering. As
said before, the remedies undoubtedly
possess great merit. And besides
they treat blood and skin diseases ac-
cording to new and thoroughly ra-
tional plan, that must take firm hold
on the confidence of those who snffer
from chronic diseases of the blood,
skin and scalp.