The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1882-08-11
The Worlds EpiIeptie institute.


Correspondence of the Chicago Times, Aug, TO- 1851
While passing through St. Joseph, Mo-, and
having heard great deal about the Worlds
Epileptic Institute located here, concluded
| to pay the celebrated Institution a short visit.
We were met by DR.. Richmond, the proprie-
tor, who has gained a reputation as broad as
the land. He is rather small, yet q prepossess-
ing man, of very afable and gentlemanly
manners, He gave US a hearty welcome, and
took great pains in showing through his
pallatial and mammoth institution. 1t is a
fvestory building, 200xl80 feet with base
ment, and contains over three hundred rooms,
and can accommodate five hundred patients,
and each and every room is furnished in the
most elegant and lavish manner. But we
will begin at the office, which is q large room
furnished with rosewood furniture throughout
In the Office are thousands of photographs of
those who have been benefited by the Nervine.
The walls are elegantly papered, and are pro-
fusely decorated with rich and costly pictures
relieved here and there by busts in stone and
bronze of eminent men of this and other coun-
| tries. In connection with the Institute is q
mammoth printing house and bindery, occu-
pying six or seven large rooms, and score of
presses are kept running night and day turn
ing out work for the Doctor. The Office is oen
of the finest and mcst complete in the west,
and he has the room decorated, carpeted and
| trimmed up with as much care and luxury as
Is HIS own private OLuCc. On the nrSC nOOr OF
| this mammoth building is the DOCTORS private
office, the printing department, bindery, tank
room, packing, bottling and consultation
| rooms, barber shop, drug store, etc., all of
which are fitted up regardless of expense.
The second floor has the hotel Office, dining
billiard and cooking rooms, many guest cham
bers and several parlors. The third and fourth
floors are all rooms, all Of which are furnished
with Brussels carpets and the finest furniture.
The billiard room. has six tables, all of which
are free to the guests of the house and their
friends. The bath room is large and neat, and
is also free to guests. The entire building is
surrounded on the east and south by an els-
CANT five acre park, in which are lovely trees,
beds of rich and rare plants, gravel walks and
drives, delicious arbors, and a most beautiful
summer house. There are also. number of
| fountains that. add wonderfully to the beauty
| of the park, which is truly one OF the most
lovely and attractive in the western country,
and the Institute has no equal for luxury and
comfort in the world. Everything is perfec-
ton and the visitor is at once charmed with
the entire place and its surroundings. An
idea of the immenaity of the doctors business
may be given when we say that on the day
we visited the Institute te showed US to his
express room, and We saw the expressman
take goods labeled to the following places, to
say nothing of hundreds of orders from all
quarters eff America: Lyons, France, Geneva,
Cape Town, Africa; Shanghai, China; Yoko-
hama, Japan; Bombay, India; Melbourne,
Australia. The doctor employs hundreds of
men and women in his Institute in>the several
branches aside from the immense force requir-
cd to conduct the hotel. 1t is worth q visit, ap
DR.. Richmond extends to all cordial iny =
ton to come and see him. He and his Son-
derful medical discovery have given to st.
Joseph good name all over the habitable
globe.