The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-11-23
The Forlorn Hope all Ready to March on City Hall!
SAFE MINERAL WATERS.
Many Analyses Prove American
Waters Superior to Foreign.

Roger F. scannell OF Boston is a practical
|. manufacturing chemist of high standing. He
was the manufacturing chemist in the large
and well-known drug house Of DIR. Samuel II.
Woods on fremont street, Boston, for eleven
years. DIR. Woods had the contract for the
medicinal supplies furnished TO the New En-
gland division Of the army and navy during
the late war. After the death OF the late DR..
Woods, Mr.. Scanrell. about % years ago,
started in business for himself, and has since
been engaged in the manufacture OF nne min
eral waters. extracts, perfumes, etc. He has,
since then, supplied the leading hospitals,
druggists. families, clubs. hotels, etc. Of Bos-
ton, and all other cities Of Massachusetts
with his fine mineral waters, and has received
for his goods the highest recommendations,
copies of a few of which appear in another
-PsFt-ef this
In 1877 no became involved in litigation with
the A~polinaris Company, Limited, ofLondon,
whose mandatory IL at Neuenahr, in the
valley Of the Abr. Germany. This controversy
created n great sensation all over tho country
at the time. MIR. Scannell proved beyond a
doubt that the Apollinaris Water IS a manu-
featured article. and not a natural product.
He was sent twice IN 1851 to Germany by the
United States government as an expert to
examine the various European springs whose
waters were exported to this country. lie
has shown conclusively by the analyses and
tests made by the leading professors OF the
universities Of this country that the Mallow
Spa and other mineral waters that he manu-
features are superior in quality, and more
beneficial 10 the human system, than the
Apollinaris or other imported waters.
These analyses were made by such eminent
men as Professors Woods and Hills of Har'
ward College: the late Professor Nichols Of the
Massachusetts, Institute Of Technology Pro-
lessor Samuel Cabot OF Boston Whose father
and grandfather were among the highest pro-
fessional men Of the country Professors
-Terrey and Eaton of the State Assay Office OF
New York, and other eminent professors too
numerous TO mention. The trial at Boston
created quite a stir in legal circles at the
time, when the late Hon. Roscoe Conkling OF
New York with his law partner, Roland Cox
of New York with his law partner, and War
rem a. Brandeis of Boston were engaged as
counsel by thelApollinaris Company, and the
late General Benjamin Il. Butler, George D..
Shattuck, Hon. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
(now judge of the Supreme Court and Will
lam AT Munro appeared for Mr.. scannell.
The case.Iasted sevcral,days ibut no final de
cision was rendered, and 10 is now In the
United States Circuit Court awaiting trial.
Mr.. Scannell has in his establishment at
Boston and in Providence the most improved
machinery that is used in the business-all OK
his own invention. and protected by paterts.
He has sold some of the patent rights OF the
said machinery to.the..A American Soda Four-
tain Company Of New Jersey.
The pubic can safely rely on tho mineral
waters manufactured by Mr.. scannell with
this improved machinery.
Ho owns one OF the purcst springs in the
vicinity of Boston the Hillside Mineral
spring-and also uses at his Providence plant
the purcst and finest water drawn from the
vein which flows through Prospect Hill ana
supplies the ancient Roger Williams spring.
Mr.. scannell has always bad the patronage
OF the leading physicians OF B~ostonsand vicin-
ity, rs his waters have been In constant use
at the Massachusetts General Hospital. and
he expects "A liberal patronage from the lead
ing physicians of Providence.
His mineral waters can be found In the
principal drug stores OF Providence.