Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-01-09
THE cUTICURA REMEDIES.

Some Facts Regarding Them-Who Makes
Them and achat is thought Of them by the
Drug Trade-Interuieao ofa Times Re
porter NTH Peter Pan Setback, Esq.
[FrOm the Chieqgo Times
To enable the Times to furnish its read
ers with some reliable information regard
ing the Cuticura remedies. which are now
attracting so much public attention, re-
porter called yesterday upon Mr.. Peter
Van Schaak, of Van Schaak, Stevenson &
Co., wholesale and retail druggists, cor
ner Lake and Dearborn streets, when the
following facts were elected:
R.-Will you oblige the readers of the
Times by answering few questions re-
garding the Cuticura remedies?
Mr.. Van S.-Certainly; S. fire away.
R.-Do they sell we'll?
Mr.. Van S.-The sale of the Cuticura,
Cuticura Resolvent and Cuticura Soap
have been unprecedented.
R.-What reason do you give for so
large sale?
Mr.. Van 81 give four reasons. First
they are original and revolutionary in
their composition and mode of treatment.
Second, they undoubtedly possess great
curative properties. Third, there are
thousands upon thousands of sick and
suffering who have tried and found want
ing the usual remedies and modes oftreat-
ment, and who are ready to welcome
f,,l
Fourth, the price of them is within the
reach of every invalid.
R.-Are your large sales of these medi-
cines through your agents?
Mr.. Van S.-No; they are legitimate
mail orders. We employ no travellers 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 medi-
cines?
Mr.. Van ST. do not. They are pro-
prietary only so far as their names are
concerned, these being held as trade
marks.
R.-Can you tell US something about
this firm?
Mr.. Van S.-Weeks & Potter are inn
porters, wholesale druggists and chem
lists, and for twenty-five years have been
the foremost house in the trade in New
England.
u &c
vertising will sell most anything, regard
less of merit. Is it true?
Mr.. Van S.-No. A remedy falsely
claiming to possess virtues of which it is
in fact destitute, will surely fail. No re-
putable firm-and druggists are the most
competent judges-would think of risking
fame and fortune on any medicine unless
| it had, under the most trying circum-
stances, proved itself to contain extraor-
binary medicinal value. The expense at
tending the introduction of such remedies
is enormous. A fortune must be spent
before any return can be expected. If,
after wide distribution, they are found
to possess the merits claimed for them,
tnOSe VINO nave Deen cureQ VIII FecOn-
mend them one to another, and thus make
them remunerative. When a man backs
his statements with his own money, you
may generally rely upon them. This
Weeks & Potter are doing.
R.-Have they ever before prepared
medibines for popular use?
Mr. Van ST. believe not. They are,
like ourselves, agents for great many,
but we think these are the first that they
prepare themselves 1t is but once in a
| lifetime that a discovery is made OF
remedy that such firm as Weeks & Pot
ter are willing to stake reputation and
fortune on.
R.-Are their prospects fattering, or
| otherwise?
Mr. Van S.-Very fattering. As
said before, the remedies undoubtedly
possess great merit. And besides they
treat blood and skin diseases according to
new and thoroughly rational plan, that
must take a firm hold on the confidence
of those who suffer from chronic diseas, s
of the blood, skin and scalp.