River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-03-27
"reminiscences Of Rochester.
The Falls of the Gsnesee "a Sam Patch's
Fatal Leap-One Gifts Business Houses
and its Great MAGNITUDE


The present floods, which are either
devastating or threatening the country
in every direction are justly cause for
apprehension. No matter whether they
come suddenly or by slow degrees,
they are, in either case, great evil
and much to be dreaded, and yet
America will always be troubled by
these spring overfows. Probably one
of the most disastrous that was ever
known, occurred In Rochester, n. Y,
about twenty years ago. The Genesee
river, just above the falls, where Sam
Patch made his fatal leap, became COM
pletely blockaded by ice, forming an
impossible dam, and the water coming
down the Genesee river overfowed
the principal portion of the city of Roeh-
ester This catastrophe would have
been repeated the present year had not
the energy and foresight of the city
authorities prevented it, The writer
happened to be in Rochester at that
time and was greatly interested in the
manner in which this great catastrophe
was averted. Every few moments. a roar
like the peals of thunder or the booming
of cannon would be heard, and in order
to see this ice blasting process, the wri-
ter went to the top of the new Warner
building, which overlooks the Genesee
river. From here he was not only en-
abled to see the process uninterruptedly,
but also the magnificent building which
has just been completed. This is UNI
questionably the finest building devoted
to business and manufacturing purposes
in America, being entirely fireproof,
eight stories high, and containing over
four and a quarter acres of flooring.
Mr.. Warner treated your correspondent
very courteously, and in the course of
the conversation said:
"We are doing tremendous business
and are far behind in our orders. This
is the season of the year when people,
no matter how strong their constitution
may be, feel, more or less the pain
and indisposition, the headaches, colds,
neuralgia, rheumatism, dull pains,
sore throats, coughs-all the 1,001 ills
that flesh is heir to come this time of
the year, if at all. 1t is natural,
therefore, that we should be very
busy. This is specially true of our
Safe Rheumatic Cure, and it is crowd
ing us very sharply for new remedy"
Singular, but | had forgotten that
you do not advertise to cure all diseases
from one bottle, as is done generally by
pose Warmers Safe Cure was for the
cure of rheumatism"
"And so it has been until our remedy
which was especially for rheumatism
and neuralgia, was introduced. We
have been three years perfecting this
new remedy. Study first taught us
there were certain powerful elements in
Warmers Safe cure, better known as
Warmers Safe Kidney and Liver Cure,
that made wonderful cures in chronic
and acute rheumatism, but during our
investigation, we learned of remark
able cure at celebrated springs, and
put experts to investigate and found
that the springs did not contain any
valuable properties, but the course of
treatment that was being given there
was performing all the benefit. BY
carefully combining the active princi-
pies of this remedy with our Safe cure,
we have produced our Safe Rheumatic
Cure, and the cures it is effecting are
simply wonderful, and [ do not doubt it
will become as popular as our Safe
Cure.
you seem to talk freely in regard to
your remedies and appear to have no
secrets, Mr.. Warner"
None whatever. The physician with
his hundred calls and one hundred dis
eases, is necessarily compelled to guess
at great deal. We are enabled to fol-
low up and perfect, while physicians
can only experiment with their hundred
patients and hundred diseases. With
the ordinary physician, the code binds
him down, so that if he makes dis
covery he is bound to give it to the other
physicians, which, of course, discour-
ages investigation, to a great extent,
this is why the great discoveries in med
ical science of late years have been
made by chemists and scienti is and not
BY physicians, and it in a measure ac-
counts for the great value of our rene
dies, also for the remarkable success of
all those doctors who make speciality
of one or two diseases"
"And you find that you are curing as
great a number of people as ever be-
fore?"
Eyes, q far greater number. We
never sold so much of our medicine as
now and never knew of so many re-
markable cures"
The writer departed after the above
interview, but was greatly impressed,
not only by the sincerity of Mr.. War
ner, but by the vastness of all he saw.
Mr.. Warmers medicines are used
throughout the entire length and
breadth of the land, and we doubt not
the result they are effecting are really
as wonderful as they are related to be.
Aliens Iron Tonic Bitters invigorate the Liver
All genuine bear the signature of ]. 2. Allen,
Druggist st Paul, MINI.