Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-03-23
The Worlds Epleptic Institute.

While passing through st. Joseph,
and having heard great deal about the
World Epleptic Institute located here,
concluded to pay the celebrated insti-
tute short visit. We were met by DIR.
Richmend, the proprietor, who has gain
ed reputation as broad as the land.
He is rather small, yet prepossessing
man, Of very affable and gentlemanly
manners. He gave us a hearty well
come, and took great pains in showing
us through his pallatial and mammoth
institute. 1t is a five story building,
200xl80 feet, with basement, and con-
tains over three hundred rooms, and
can accommodate five hundred patients
and each and every room is furnishC d
in most elegant and lavish manner
But we will begin at the office, which is
a large room furnished with rosewood
furniture throughout. In the office are
thousands of photographs of those who
have been benefited by the Neryine
The walls are elegantly papered, and
are profusely decorated with rich and
costly pictures, relieved here and there
10y busts in stone and bronze Of eminent
men of this and other countries. In
connection with tie Institute is a mann
moth printing house and bindery, occu-
plying six or seven large rooms, and q
score of presses are kept running night
and day turning out work for the doc
tor. 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 luxury
as is his own private office. On the
first floor of the mammoth building is
the doctors private Office, the printing
department, bindery, tank room, pack
ing, bottling and consultation 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 sever
al parlors The third and fourth floors
are all rooms. and of which are fur
nished 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 build
ing is surrounded on the east and south
by an elegant five acre park, il which
are lovely trees, beds Of rich and rare
plants, gravel walks and drives, deli
Cious arbOrs, and most beautiful sum-
mer house. There are also number
of fountains that add wonderfully to the
beauty Of the park, which is truly one
of the most lovely and attractive in the
western 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. An
idea of the immensely of the doctor S
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 goods
labeled to the following places, to say
nothing of the hundreds of orders from
all quarters of America: Lyons, France;
Geneva, Switzerland; Madrid, Spain;
Brussels, Belgium; Cape Town. Africa;
Shanghai. China; Yokohama, Japan;
Bombay, India; Melbourne, Australia,
The doctor employs hundreds of men
and women in his Institute in the sew
eral branches, aside from the immense
force it requires to conduct the hotel II
is worth visit, and DR. Richmond ex-
tends TO all cordial invitation to come
and see him He and his wonderful
medical discovery have given TO St.
Joseph good name all over the habita-
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