The Phoenix herald., 1882-08-11
The Worlds EpiIeptic Institute

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
 proprietor, whe has gained a reputa-
 tion as broad as the land. He is a
 rather small, yet preposessing man,
 of very affable aud gentleman1y man.
 ners. He gave us hearty welcome
 and took greet pains in show ing US through his palatial and ma mmoth 1 institution. It is five story build l ing, 200X1S0 feet, with basement, and
 contains over three hundred rooms,
 and can accomodate five hundred patients, and each and every
 room is furnished in elegant and lavish manner. But we will begin
 at the office, which is a large room
 punished with rosewood furniture
 throughout. In the office are thou
 san ds of photographs of those who
 have been benefited by the Nervine
 The walls are elegantly papered and are profusely dec orated 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 Insti- tute is a mammoth printing house and bindery, occupying six or seven farge rooms, and score of presses are kept rum ing night and day turn ing out work for the doctor. The | office is one of the finest and most | complete in the West, and he has the | rooms decorated, carpeted, and trim | med up with as much care and lux. ury as is his own private office. On he first floor of this mammoth build ing is the doctors private office, the printing department, bindery, tank room, packing, bottling and consul .ation rooms, barber shop, drug 'tore, etc., all of which are fitted up of expense. The second ioor has the hotel office, dining, bill iard and cooking rooms, many guest chambers and several parlors. The hird and fourth floors are all rooms, Il of which are furnished with Brussels carpets and the finest furni ore. The billiard room has six ta- les, all of which are free to the uests of the house and their friends he bathroom is large and neat and also free to guests. The entire uilding is surrounded on the east nd south by an elegant five acre ark, in which are lovely trees, beds rich and rare plants, gravel walks Id drives, delicious arbors, and a lcst beautiful summer house. There e also nnmber of fountains tEat d wonderfully to the beauty of the lrk, which is truly one of the ost lovely and attractive in the estern country, and the Institute $ no equal for luxury and comfort
 the world. Everything is perfec- on, and the visitor IS at once harmed with the entire place and s surroundings. An idea of the = of the doctors business E y be given when we say that on z day we visited the Institute he owed us to his express room and saw the expressman take goods 'eled to the following places, to 7 nothing of hundreds of orders m all quarters of America Lyons, ance; Geneva, Switzerland; Mad , Spain; Brussels, Belgium; Cape 'rn, Africa; Shanghai, China; Yo- hama, Japan; Bonn bay, India; slbourne, Australia. The doctor ploys hundreds of men and wo- n in his Institute in the several inches, aside from the immense ce required to conduct the hotel. IS worth visit, and Dr. Rich nd extends to all a cordial invita- to come and see him. He and
 wonderful medical discovery e given to St. Joseph a good ne all over the habftable globe cago Times Co