The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-04-13
The worlds Epileptic Institute.

Correspondence of the Chicago Times, Aug. 10,
While passing through st. Joseph, Mis-
souri,, and having heard great deal
about the Worlds Epileptic Institute To-
Gated here, concluded to pay the cele-
brated institute a short visit. We were
met by DIR. Richmond, the proprietor,
who has gained a reputt tion as broad as
the land. He is a'rather small, yet pre-
possessing man, of very affable and gen.
tlemanly manners. He gave us hearty
welcome, and took great pains in show
ing us through his palatial and mann
moth institution. 1t is five-story build
ing, 200 by $50 feet, with basement, and
contains over three hundred rooms, and
can accommodate five hundred pa
tients, and each and every room
Is furnished in the most ele-
CANT and lavish manner. But we will
begin at the office, which is large room
furnished with rosewood furniture
throughout. In theSoffice are thousands
of photographs OF those who have been
benefited by the Nervine. The walls are
elegantly papered, and are profusely
decorated with rich and costly pictures,
relieved here and there by busts In stone
and bronze of eminent men of this and
other countries. In connection with the
institute is a mammoth printing house
and bindery, occupying six or seven large
rooms, and n score of presses are kept
running night and day, turning out work
for tn doctor. The Office is one of the
finest and most complete in the west, and
he has the rooms decorated, carpeted and
trimmed up with as much care and lux
ury as is his own private office. On the
first floor of this mammoth building is
the Doctors private office, the printing
department, binCery, tank room, pack
ing. bOttling and consultation rooms. bar
Der 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 chambers 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
to guests. The entire building
is surrounded on the east and south by
an elegant 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 a number OF fountains
that add wonderfully to the beauty OF
the park, which is truly one of the most
lovely and a tractive in the western
q Il
luxury and comfort in the world. Every
thing is perfection, and the visitor is at
once charmed with the entire place and
its surroundings. An idea of the i'm
mensity of the DOCTORS business may be
given when we say that on the day we
visited the Institute, he showed us to
his express room, and we saw the ex-
pressman take goods labeled TO the fol-
lowing places, to say nothing Of hundreds
of orders from all quarters of America
Lyons, France Geneva, Switzerland
Madrid, Spain Brussels, Belgium Cape
Town. Aries: Shanghai, China; Yoke
hama, Japan; Bombay, India; Melbourne,
Australia. The doctor EMPLOYS hundreds
of men and women in his institute In the
several branches. aside from the i'm
mense force required to conduct the
hotel. 1t is worth visit, and DR.. Rich
mond extends to all cordial invitation
to come and see him. He and bis won
deriuI medieol discovery have given TO
st. Joseph a good name all over the habit
table globe. marzotI.