The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-10-16
RISE OF Mr.. WELCOME.
William E. Curtis Discusses Career OF
Former Garden City Man.


William i. Curtis, the famous special
correspondent of The Chicago Record
Herald devotes two columns of yester-
days issue to a detailed account of the
great microbe farm of Henry s. Well
come at London Mr.. Welcome for
merly lived in Garden City,.
Mr. Welcome began his career as
clerk in the drug store of f. A. Poole,
then known as Poole & Geisinger. He
worked in Rochester for little over a
year and has many friends there who
will be glad to learn of his signal sue
cess. From Rochester Mr. Welcome
went to the Philadelphia College of Phar-
macy, and, after graduation, secured a
position with McKesson, Robins & Co.,
Mr. Burroughs, another classmate, held
similar position with the Weyth COM
pany in Philadelphia, and in 1880 these
manufacturing chemists, in New York.
two young men decided to join their
energies and intellects and introduce in
to England American ideas of pharmacy.
They established themselves in London,
prospered from the start and now the
firms reputation is universal. Mr.. Bur
roughs died some years ago, and Mr.
Welcome is the sole owner of the bust
ness.
In his long and interesting account of
the plant, Mr.. Curtis says:
''Henry S. Welcome, AN American
chemist and manufacturer of medicines,
holds the only license ever granted by
the British government for a private
physiological laboratory for experiment
and research. In America no license is
necessary, but over here people are very
particular, and the societies for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals and the
anti-viviscetion organiza lions have secur-
ed the enactment of very rigid laws gov
erning such matters. Mr.. Welcome is a
come & Co., manufacturing chemists,
but his two Laboratories for physiologi-
cal and chemical research are both per-
sonal enterprises unconnected with his
commercial business and intended for the
advancement of science of medicine, the
healing of disease and the prolongation
of life. From his physiological labora-
tory the British government obtains the
greater part of its supplies of serum for
the hospitals of the army and navy and
he ships large quantities to India, Aus
tralia and other British colonists.
The laboratory is a most interesting
place although visit is apt to give
sensitive person the horrors, because
dozen or more chemists are engaged in
manufacturing the most dreadful
diseases known to mankind and expert
menting with remedies for their cure.
They will take you into room in the
cellar, all walled up with bricks and
sealed with two doors, in which even the
air is sterilized, and show you long racks
supporting rows of great bottles, full of
microbes and bacilli of all the contagious
diseases you can think of from cancer
to rheumatism. This room is kept at a
temperature of blood heat and most
mysterious, soul chilling place it is. If
the contents of one of those big bottles
should be scattered ON the ground, the
doctors say, it might do no harm, but if
they were dumped into the reservoir,
all London would be down with an cpl
demic
The experimenter keeps sixty horses,
fifty rabbits, thousand guinea
pigs, donkey, a pair of monkeys and a
lot of dogs and cats for, experimental
purposes"