Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-05-01
The worlds EpiIeptic institute.
correspondence of the Chicago Times, AT
TO- 1880

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10, 1880.
While passing through st. Joseph, Mo-,
and having heard q great deal about the
Worlds EpileptiC Institute located here,
concluded to pay the celebrated institution
a short visit We were met by DR.. Rich
mond, the proprietor. who has gained
reputation as broad as the land. He is a
rather small, yet prepossessing man, OF very
affable and gentlemanly manners. He gave
us hearty welcome, and took great pains
in showing us through his pallatial and
mammoth institution. 1t is tive'>tory
building, 200XlSO 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. But
we will begin at the office, which is large
room furnished with rosewood furniture
throughout In the Office are thousands OF
photographs those who have been benefited
by the Nervine. 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 a 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 hnest
and most complete in the West, and he has
the rooms decorated, carpeted and trimmed
ND with as much care and luxury as 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 consulta-
ton rooms, barber shop, drug store, ETC.,
all of which are fitted up regardless OF eX-
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 on the east and south by an elegant hye
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 d so number OF
| fountains that add wonderfully to the
beauty of the park, which is truly one OF
| the most lovely and attractive i'll 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 its surroundings. Ar 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 expressman
take packages labeled to the, following
places, to say nothing OF hundreds OF orders
| from all parts of America Lyons, France
Geneva, Switzerland: Madrid, Spain; Brus-
sells. Belgium; Cape Town, Africa Shang-
hal, China; Yokohama, Japan; Bonn bay,
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. 1t is
worth visit, and DR.. Richmond extends
| to all a cordial invitation to come and see
him. He and his wonderful medical dis.
covery have given to st. Joseph a god
name all over the habitable globe.