New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-11-17

home interests a condition of things never pos
sble all the years that my office was at my resi-
dcnce When l go home at night now, it Is to a
thorough and complete rest and change of thought.
OF course II my services urgently needed in
the night / give them. but practically am Tree
man when | leave the Office
"Do your uptown patients come TO you mere!
Eyes they do: and I can that many of them
prefer IT, II is more impersonal to come to an
office in this busy hive than to go to doctor
house Then | have patients coming TO me from
Staten Island Jersey Brooklyn; all the ways OF
travel converge here. and it is far more convenient
for them than to have to take tedious ana time
consuming journey uptown.
''Of cot rse" he went on. lin the matter OF acute
emergency cases It would be better If there were
more physicians located in the business districts
Many men down here are an hours journey '"o
hours three hours. from their homes Nheh any
sudden indspos!tion attacks them Outlines VALUABLE
time is lost on account OF the distance from
physician / consider these densely pepuateu DUST
ness streets a fine field for doctors wanting to es-
tablish themselves.
"Often when I am much occupied with inn
portant cases I have to drop everything ana go ~
the assistance OF some business man suuue",s
taken ill., whose friends are nonplussed what TO 10
for him. ..Ao.
"a banker in Wall Street taken Ill the o'hei
dav Three calls came for me before | could leave
His liver the trouble but IT was an aS Sor him
tack and would have made serious Hlhsss io -.
mad it not been possible to obtain medical aid d.
Another time I summoned because a n az
,ias stricken on the pavement with cro"uoT,,
gazers surging about him. 1t Is often an o3 aueTn
that requires only simple remedies ana coii,V ,h
sense treatment but II he had to lie there on tne
pavement in that condition long he would Goh ,h
pneumonia Prompt attention Is more esse"''"' ''''
These doctors Offices frequented by women a1 ana
fitted up with the luxurious essentials tnaI %
seem Indispensable where the softer sex are con,
their setting Of trade financial transactions and
the stern environments OF coinh ere omca ,la
M d haa mo here g amid these piles of brick and mortar
all given over to the money,changer,ss. laughed
dainty appointments Of the dentists office.
niated." returned his benefactor. We don, have
the chance to put out any signs, any sided teeth h
The advertisement Just half Of these business mems
lives spent right here at our doors l ber TO ou
here than to give up an evening to an uptown den.
st the major part Of sunday W ro are h on the
out letter. on the unobtruslve directory Of a big
5uiding But when a man needs a dentists SER
vices very much he finds out his way to the healer
'"Women? DO We attend many women? Well
just a few. Numerous firms on the various floors
fifteen or typewrters, photographers and the
like. Were typewriter, French word. Il would
be declined to be feminine. for nearly all type,
writers women. They have teeth that ache and
break off and become uncomfortable. just Ike the
lords OF the world, consequently they consult us
II hung out my shngle uptown wnen hrst set
up in a digniled residence street. where. after ,
o'clock in the morning. the tread OF man was sell
RULED The air was fine; my office new and at
tractve. but could not be content Just with nice
environments and no patients. waited some
months. and took infinite pains to please the few
who came, and to make out their bills with pre-
else exactness But few came. and friend sug-
costing that TO go where the wheels Of trade
were wh.rrlng and take the chance would be bet
ter than to eat my heart out In deferred eXpecta-
lions I made the trial. | moved down here. That
move the tide taken at the flood with me-
7 doing well and my success here has some
how made me valuable to my uptown nelghbors
who before held aloOf."
In Chicago dentists and doctors both long ago
took their stand in the big business offices In the
downtown districts The movement mas Just begun
IN New-Yo.k. but II Will come 10 be popular and
sffica room for these purposes VII be In demand.