The herald., 1895-09-15
A REPORTERS OFF DAY
He Runs Up Against a Skeleton
and Other Horrors
Graphic Description Of Some Of the People
and Things to Be Found in
Certain Well Known Broad.
way Building

One of the most enterprising OF the
Los Angeles newspaper reporters gives
the following account of what was to nim
almost fatal:
Going down Broadway the other day
my attention was attracted to the new
building on the northwest corner of
Broadway and, Third street, and determ-
ined 10 make tour of the interior.
approached the marvellous entrance of the
| structure, which | was informed was the
Fred j. Byrne building; boarded the
elevator and was told by the bright and
| goou looking operator that he would
| carry me heavenward by electricity. |
| stopped at the second floor, and found all
| kinds of Offices, those Of doctors FREEDOM
| mating. L called on some of them and
| found them all enjoying their leisure ex
, cept one. who seemed to be studying DR..
TalcUtt's advertisement on Treatment
| for Men Only. and In DR.. Burke's office
| was told by patient in waiting that
| the doctor was engaged.
II again entered the elevator and was
| carried to the third floor, where all pro-
| LESSONS and businesses are represented.
| Finding the door of DR.. Kuns and DR..
johnson open, l entered and found this
dentist, DR.. Kuns, of whom I had heard
so much, forceps in hand extracting teeth
! double quick without pain by the new
elusive right. | stepped into DR.. john
sons office and found HIM deeply en-
| gagged in the perusal of d medical work.
l told him my business, and was inform
ed that he was ethical and di not ad
| vertise; also that he had for four years
| been superintendent of an insane asylum
| in the east, and was now preparing a
work on nervous diseases, in which he
has had a large experience.
II left the doctor to his solemn inves-
LEGATIONS and peeped into Bowen & Hol-
loway's law office, where there came to
my view one of the finest Libraries l had
ever seen. l did not enter on account of
my late experience with one of my ten
| ants, who was a lawyer and three months
in arrears with rent; in presenting my
! bill he told me he was unable to pay it,
when l asked him what | was to do with
| it then. His advice was that | should
give him a legal notice to quit the prem
| Uses. and the next day he sent me bill
| for advice equal to six months rent.
Il walked to the fourth floor and reach
ed Mr. jerks art studio, whe,e l was
treated to the finest display OF art, all
| seen since | got lost in the art building
at this Worlds fair.
Passing on, l reached the Office OF
| DR.. Price. which was so crowded with
patients that thought my chances for
| an interview with the doctor were slim,
SO entered the offices of the English and
| German expert specialists where l found
one of the finest reception rooms it has
/ ever been my pleasure to visit, contain
| ing leather upholstered furniture, fine
carpets and a largo medical library. A
| lady attendant asked me wnat was want
ed, anu stated that the English and Ger
! man expert specialists were all busy with
patients, but when l informed her that
was newspaper man, she handed me
| over to the business manager, who showed
me one of the best equipped laboratories
| | had ever seen, and introduced me to a
German chemist in charge, preparing
| medicine for the patients in waiting.
| He told me of the Investigations they
| were making relative to the cure of con-
| sumption. The German specialist was a
student of Prof. Koch during the time he
thought he had found cure for this
most dreaded of all diseases. which cure
proved unsuccessful; but the student
kept on with the search and will give
| the result to the public as soon as he Is
| sure of having attained the object In
| view. There are several who are now anu
| have been for some time under this treat
ment.
1.-The German Specialist then invited
me into the English specialists operat-
! ing room, where they were performing an
| Notwithstanding large tumor from
the nose, caused by catarrh, and ob,trucr-
ing the breathing. The sight made me
feel squeamish, so l requested the Ger
man specialist to excuse me and we went
to his private office which by the way,
is the best furnished and best equipped
with surgical instruments and appliances
of any that have ever seen.
| zone of the most interesting objects In
! the room, aside from the doctor himself.
was the large microscope on one of the
tables This l was told was Il Ross bnoc
ular microscope, costing 500, aud is the
only one of the.kind on this coast The
| doctor then showed me samples CT sputa
containing tuberculosis, and other inter-
| esting specimens. such as cholera germ.
which he had prepare while in Europe. !:
~ noticed two finely bound books on
| the doctors desk OF which he is the
author-The Private Counsellor and a
| Medical Cyclopaeoia. elegantly iliustrat-
| ed, one book containing 400 pages aud
| the other 100. The doctor Is very, modest
| about Instability as an author and, after
pleasant visit, for he is a very genial
and social man to meet. babe HIM fare
we'll and opened the door to take my de-
| DartIlre, when 10 f! and behold l stared at
| q large skeleton and several other objects
when seemed to me partially dissected
! human subjects.
II grew dizzy at the sight so suddenly
| sprung upon me. felt queer sensation
| around my heart, land was meditating
| that the elevator boy had brought me to
| the place which Beecher claimed did not
| exist instead of to the place where we
! all want to go. when reason left me. The
| specinlist used the old-fashioned remedy
OF cod water, and | was again brought
| to consciousness.
| Then the doctor informed me that | had
| opened the closet door. instead of the
| hall door, and [ had indeed seen the
skeleton in the closet IN this case; and
not only one, for ne is the possessor OF
the finest collection of manikins and
skeletons in this country. In fact, they
are the very ones that received the first
premium at the World $ fair.
"This time l started the right way,
and, being so impressed with the English
and German expert specialists, l asked
the elevator boy about them. He told
me that their patients kept him going
most of the time. One of the lady patti
ents was aboard the elevator at the time,
and she informed me that they mad done
more for her in three weeks treatment
than other specialists had in years.
II have since met several others, and
tLev gave me the following opinions:
"Mr. &. l.. Hess of the Los Angeles
Furniture company: L find them per-
feet gentlemen and the best equipped of
any phylcians | have met. and 1t is a
pleasure to deal with them
cashier of the Broadway bank: They
are perfectly reliable. The German speci-
aIist of the firm is president of bank
sin the east, and large land owner.
'Mr. l.. Mackley: They nave done
wonders for me-.
"Lawyer w. Bacon: L have known
them for the last fifteen years. They
have an erviable reputation in the east,
and are better euulpped than auv insti-