Huntsville gazette., 1882-02-25
Correspondence Of the Chicago Times.]
The Worlds Epileptic Institute.


ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, August 10, 1SS1.-While
passing through st. Joseph, and having heard
a great deal about the World s, Epileptic In
stitute located here, l concluded to pay the
celebrated institution short visit We were
met by Dr. Richmond, the proprietor, who has
Gained reputation as broad as the land. He
Is rather small, yet prepossessing man, OF
very affable and gentlemanly manners. lie
gave us hearty welcome, and took great
pains in showing us through his pallatial and
mammoth institution. 1t is five-story build
ing, 2O0x1S0 feet, with basement, and contains
over three hundred rooms, and can accommc-
date five hundred patients, and each and every
room is furnished in the most elegant and Law
ish manner. But we will begin at the Office,
which is a large room furnished with rosewood
furniture throughout. In the office are thou
sands of photographs of those who have been
benefited by the Nervine. The walls are ele-
gantlv papered, and are profusely decorated
with rich and costly pictures, relieved here
and there by busts in stQne and bronze OF
eminent men of this and other countries. In
connection with the Institute is mammoth
printing house and bindery, occupying six or
seven large rooms, and score Of presses are
kept running night and day turning 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 trimmed
I'D with as much care and luxury as is his own
private office. On the first floor OF this man.
moth building is the doctors private office,
the printing department. bindery, tank room,
packing room, bottling room, consultation
room, barber shop, drug store, cigar store,
notion store, etc, all of which are neat and
fitted up regardless of expense The second
floor has the hotel office, dining, billiard and
cooking rooms, many guest chambers, ana
several parlors. The third and fourth fioors
are rooms, all of which are furnished with
Brussels carpets and the finest of furniture.
In fact the entire house is furnished regard
less of expense. 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 that too is free to
guests. The entire building which is nearly
new is surrounded on the east and south by
an elegant five acre park, in which are many
lovely trees, beds of rich and rare plants,
gravel walks and drives, delicious arbors, and
a most beautiful summer house for social
parties etc. There are number OF fountains
that add wonderfully to the beauty OF the
park. 1t is truly one of the most lovely and
beautiful parks in the western country. and
the Institute has no equal for luxury, beauty
and comfort in the world. Everything is per-
fection and the visitor is at once charmed
with the entire place and it's surroundings.
An idea of the immensely OF the doctor S bus1-
ness 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 eXpresSman
take goods labeled to the following places to
say nothing of hundreds of orders from all
quarters Of America: Lyons, France; Geneva,
Switzerland; Madrid, Spain; Brussels, Bel
GUM; Cape Town, Africa; Shanghai, China;
Yokohama, 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 re-
qured to conduct the hotel. 1t is worth a
visit, and Dr. Richmond extends to all a cor
dial welcome to come and see him. He and
his wonderful medical discovery have given to
st. Joseph good name all over the habitabie
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and gas works, is admirably ventilated, and
fire escapes are numerous. The park is pre-
pared to be lighted up with gas, as lamps are
scattered all over it.