The Portland daily press., 1889-06-12
a PRESS REPORTERS ESCAPE.
How He Was Made to Sample All
Kinds of Medicine,
And After Doing so Declared Them
to be Very Nice.

The genial city messenger had no news for
the PRESS man yesterday morning. but new
ertheless he said he would show where he
could get big item" That man who is so
familiar to people who frequent the city
building, conducted the reporter through the
corridor to room formerly occupied by the
public library. Passing the common council
chamber the sign of the maine Medical As
ISOLATION" was noticed ON one of the doors
and this accounted for the remarkable con-
gregation in the old library rooms Of the pale
face medicine vendors. There were mum
Der of them there unpacking their medicines
and placing them on tables for exhibition in
manner to catch the eye of the doctors
from the country, the village doctors and the
doctors from the city who have come from
all parts of the State to attend the annual
convention of the society whose sign has al
ready had reference. Wholesale druggists
in New York, in Boston, Salem, Lynn and
other places, besides our own houses are
represented here by gentlemen capable of ex-
pounding the merits of the particular medi-
cal preparation or preparations that their
several houses maks speciality, the RENE
tleman who accosted the reporter as he EN- :
tered the building now introduced him to
some OF these medicine men and then left
him to what came very near being his miser-
able destruction. No sooner had he gone
than the man who Is there to introduce a
certain brand of matted milk quickly pre-
pared glass and insisted that the reporter
must drink it. He did so and declared ii
very nice, and was about to turn round
when the gentleman with fine brand of malt
extracts thrust q glass of the beverage into
the poor scribes hand and begged him drink,
urged him drink, which he did and declared
| it to be very nice. worthy OF notice in the
morning paper. That settled it, that notice was
sufficient. Oh, yes, and the PRESS man was
very cordially invited to take away with him
bottle or two of the extracts which he was
preparing to do. when the "hygienic wine''
agent took him by the arm and led him a
short distance away to show his display of
crack" hygenic wines" at the same time say
ing word for "our Wines"
Did the reporter take drink of it? Yes,
he was obliged to, he couldn't get away until
he did, and for the sake of getting away he
took draught and declared it to be very
nice. Even while he was wiping his lips a
voice said, kindly allow me to call your at
tention to our fluid extract of beef a perfect
ly pure beef juice; have glass 1T is good for
your stomach"
But" said the reporter, aye just
"Take 1t man. it is just as represented" and
he did and declared it very nice. The situa-
tion was fast becoming really serious one.
The reporter BEGAN to think it was about
time to disappear from that medicine room.
and was medtating the best course to pur-
sue to get even with the genial city messen-
ger who got him into the situation. Before
you go | want you to try a little of our theo-
br0ma brain food, green ginger and Quinine
Wines said the enterprising agent of those
preparations. Another beef tea man, COM
pound syrup man and others, so many others
appeared that 1t became imperative for the
fREss man to make break for life which
ne did. 1t was absolutely impossible for
MIN TO do this, however, before tasting sew
eral other preparations and declaring them
to be very nice. That is the first medicine
exhibition the reporter ever got into, and If
experience teaches anything it In all proba-
bility will be the last In this connection it
may be well to mention the fine exhibit of
the Portland wholesale druggists. John w.
Perkins & Co. have fine exhibition of phar-
maceutical preparations on exhibition and
also lot OF rare plants, seeds. etc. from
which medicine is made. The jaborandi and
nux vomica seeds are among their exhibit
Cook, Everett & Pennell have fine line of
medicines prepared By their chemist Mr.. N.
c; Earl. They have good exhibit of ginger
wine and pepsin. Mr.. II. l.. Watts repre-
ssents Geo. G. Frye, who has on exhibition a
fine line of pharmaceutical preparations of
his own manufacture. The Portland drug
gisrs are capable of making as fine an exhf-
bit as any such firms in the country Their
medicines have the reputation of being first
class .rs glsasty