The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-05-03

Early in the month of February THE
HERALD contained an account of the forma-
tion of a stock company for the manufacture
and sale of patent medicines, styled the Grand
fathers Remedies Company, with offices at
1921 F street northwest. The promoters of
the enterprise were well-known Washington
people, and it was then predicted that the
venture would prove successful one Later
developments have more than fulfilled the
prediction. Arrangements have just been
completed by which the business of manufac-
ture is to commence at once. Several of the
smaller cities of Virginia, Maryland, Pennsyl-
vania, and Delaware have been making strong
bids for the location of the industry, some
of them offering as much as forty thousand
dollars of bonus to secure the prize; but the
fact that permanent quarters have been leased
for term of years in this city would indicate
that the business will be conducted from the
Capital City. The laboratory will be located
in the very large and imposing two-story and
basement structure owned by Mr.. Augustus
Burgdorf, at 2009 Seventh street northwest,
to which place the Offices and headquarters of
the ompany were transferred on Thursday
morning.
Mr.. +. S. Woodford a clerk in the Treasury
Department, is president of the company. To
a HERALD reporter who saw him yesterday
Mr.. Woodford said: ''Yes, sir; the Grand
fathers Remedies Companyis ready for all the
business it can get We have two of the best
medicinal preparations in the market, and
there is every Indication that we shall soon
have all we can do to fill orders. 'Tincture
of Life is wonder in the treatment Of
dyspepsia, kidney and liver diseases, and has
no equal for the relief of those diseases
peculiar to women, and from which more than
one-half of the American women are suffering
to-day. Two bottles of it sent to Minnesota
few years ago led to the sale of nearly six
hundred bottles, without word of advertising,
over the counter of one drug store in small
town, and the druggist writes that he could
have sold twice the quantity if his orders for
goods could have been more promptly filled.
We have some testimonials from prominent
people which will cause a sensation when
published 'Spekslikc' is equallyas valuable
a remedy in the treatment of rheumatism,
neuralgia, headache, and other nervous all
ments, and has proven an efficient cure for
the prevailing epidemic of la grippe These
will be our specialties, though we shall doubt
less put several other equally as valuable
medicines on the market in the course of time.
We are already receiving orders from the re-
tail trade for our goods and have no reason
to doubt the success of the undertaking as
soon as our advertising matter gets out among
the people. That branch of the companys
business is in the hands of an old newspaper
man. who thoroughly understands how to
reach the Masses and 'Tincture of Life and
'Spekslike' will soon become household
words throughout the country. With medi-
cines of such merit, and plenty of energy and
push among the officers and stockholders of
the company, you may rest assured that this
business is going to be pushed to the 'front.'
sis you stock all held by citizens of Wash
ington ?'' was asked
S'Not all of it, replied Mr.. Woodford. ''But
many who were slow to take hold of the enter
prise three months ago are now anxious to
come in and share in its future prosperity
There is yet some some stock for sale, but the
quantity is limited, and all stock in the com
pany is worth one hundred cents on the dollar
The capital stock is one hundred thousand
dollars, and is placed in shares of fifty dollars
each