Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-03-20
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The W0elA's EptIeptie Instatase.
Corrsspoodeaoe Of tho Chicago nmes, Aux
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While passing through st. joseph. Mo-,
| and having heard q great deal about the
Worlds Epileptic Institute located here, I
concluded 70 pay the celebrated institution
q short visit We were met BY Dr. Rich
mond, the proprietor. who. has gained q
reputation IS broad As the land. He Is .
rather small, yetprepossessing man. of very
affable and gentlemAnly manners. He gave
US hearty welcome, and took great pains
in showing Us through his pallatiA and
mammoth institution. IL Is q fivestory
building, 200xl80 feet, with basement, 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. Bat
we Will begin at the Office, which is q large
room furnished with rosewood furniture
throughout. In the Office are thousands Of
photographs those who have been benefited
by the Neryine. The walls are elegantly
papered, and are profusely decorated
with rich and costly pictures, re
lieved here and there by busts in stone and
bronze of eminent men of this and other
countries. In connection with the Institute
is mammoth printing house and bindery,
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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, csrpeted and trimmed
up with as much care and luxury IS is his
own private Office. On the first floor of this
mammoth building is the doctors private
office, the printing department, bindery,
tank room, packing, bottling and consults-
ton rooms, barber shop, drug store. ETC.,
all of which are fitted up regardless Of eK-
pense. 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 and neat. and is also free
to guests. The entire building is surround
ed OH 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 most beautiful
summer house. There are also number OF
fountains that add wonderfully 10 the
beauty oi the park, which is truly one OF
the most lovely and attractive in the west.
ern country, and the institute has no equal
for luxury and comfort in the world.
Everything is perfection, and the visitor is
at once charmed with the entire place
and It's surroundings. Ar idea of the i'm
nensfty 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 expressman
take packages labeled to the following
places, to say nothing OF hundreds OF orders
from all parts OF America: Lyons, France 4;
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sells Belgium; Cape Town, Africa; Shang-
hal, China; Yokohama, Japan; bombay,
India: Melbourne, Australia. The doc.
tor employs hundreds of men and
women in his institute in the sew
eral branches, aside from the immense
force required TO conduct the hotel. Ii is
worth visit. and DR.. Richmond extends
to all cordial invitation to come and see
him. He and his wonderful medical dis
covery have given To st. Joseph good
name all over the habitablc globe.