The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-26
"REMINISCENCES OF ROCKIES
TER.
The Falls ofehe Cenesee and So N,
Petch's Fatal Leap-One Of
its Business Houses and
Its great Magnitude.

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Its grea, Magnitude.
The present floods, which are ei her
Devastating or threatening The country n
every direction. are Justly cause Tor a.
p~rehensiou NJ matter whether they
couc suddenly or by slow degrees, they
are, ia either case. great evil anu much
To be dreaded, and We. America will al
WAYS be troubled by these spring over
flows. Probably one OF the most dlsas-
trous that was ever known, occurred in
Rochester. y. Y, about twenty years
ago. The Genesee river, just above the
falls, where Sam Patch made his insl
and fatal leap, became completely block
AIDED by ice, forming an impossible dam.
aud the water coming down the Genesee
river o~veriowed the principal portion o.
the city Of Rochester. This catastrophe
would have been repeated the present
year had not the energy aud foresight OF
the city authorities prevented i. Inc
writer happened 10 be in Rochester At
that time and was greatly interested IN
the manner in which this great catas-
trophe was ayerted. Every few mo
ments, a roar like the peals OF thunder
or the booming OF cannon would be heard
and in order to see this ice blasting pro
cess, the writer went TO the top of the
new Warner building, which overlooks
the Genesee river. From here he was
not only enabled to see the process unln
terruptedly, but also the magnificent
building which has just been completed.
This is unquestionably the finest building
devoted to business and manufacturing
purposes in America, being entirely fire.
proof, eight stories high, ana 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 a 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, neu-
ralgia, rheumatism, dull pains, sore
threats, coughs-all the l,00l 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 crowding US very sharply
for a new remedy
singular, but l had forgotten that
you do not advertise to cure all diseases
from one bottle, as is done generally by
many other medicine men, but | sup
posed 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 rem
edy. Study first taught us thore were
certain powerful elements in Warmers
Safe cure, better known as Warner Safe
Kidney and Liver Cure, that made Won
derful cures in chronic and acute rheuma
tHm, but during our investigation, we
learned of a remarkable cure at a cele-
brated springs, and put experts 10 inves-
tigate 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 principles
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 1t will be
come 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
a great deal. We are enabled to follow
up and perfect, while physicians can
only experiment with their hundred pa
ticnts and hundred diseases. With the
ordinary physician, the code binds him
down, SO that if be makes a discovery, he
is bound to give it to the other physi-
clans, which, of cource, discourages in
~vestlgatl0n, to a great extent. This Is
why the great discoveries III medical
science of late years have been made by
chemists and scientists and not by physi-
clans, and 1t IN a measure accounts for
the great value of our remedies, also for
the remarkable success of all those doc
tors who make a specially of one or two
diseases"
And you tiud that you are curing as
great a number of people as ever before?"
Yes, a far greater number. We never
sold so much of our medicine as now and
never knew of SO many remarkable cures"
The writer departed after the above
interview, but was greatly impressed, not
only by the sincerity of Mr.. Warner, but
by the vastness of all he saw. Mr.. War
ner's medicines are used throughout the
entire length and breadth of the land,
and we doubt not the result they are eff
fectlng are really as wonderful as they are
related IN no.