Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1884 — REMINISCENCES OF ROCHESTER. [ARTICLE]

REMINISCENCES OF ROCHESTER.

The Falls of the Geacaee and Sam Patch’s Fatal Leap—One of Ita Badness Homes and Its Great Magnitude. The present floods, whieh are either devastating or threatening the country in every direction, are justly cause for apprehension. No matter whether they come suddenly or by slow degrees, they are, in either case, a great evil and much to be dreaded, and yet America will always be troubled by these spring overflows. Probably one of the most disastrous that was ever known occurred in Rochester, N. Y., about twenty years ago. The Genesee River, just above the salts, where Sam Patch made his final and fatal leap, became completely blockaded by Ice, forming an impassable dam, and the water coming down the Genesee River overflowed the principal portion of the city of Rochester. This catastrophe would have been repeated the present year had not the energy and forsight of the city authorities prevented it.' The writer happened to be in Rochester at that time and was greatly interested iu the manner in which this great catastrophe was averted. Every ie .v moments, a roar like the peals of thunder or the booming of cannon would be heard, and in order to see this ice blasting process the writer went to the top of the new Warner Building, which overlooks the Genesee River. From here he was not only enabled to see the process uninterruptedly, but also the magnificent building which has just been completed. This Is unquestionably the finest building devoted to business and manufacturing purposes In America, being’ entirely fireproof, eight stories high, and containing over four and a quarter acres offlooring. Mr. Warper treated your correspondent very courteously, and in the course of the conversation said: “ We are doing a tremendous fiusiness, and are far behind in our orders. This is the season of the year when people, no matter how strong their constitution may be, feel, more or less, the pain and indisposition, the headaches, colds, neuralgia, rheumatism, dull pains, sore throats, coughs—all the I.OUI ills that flesh is heir to, come this time of year, if at all.' It is natural, therefore, that we should be very busy. This Is specially true of our Safe Rheumatic Cure, and it is crowding us very sharply for a new remedy.” “ Singular, but I had forgotten that you do not advertise to cure all diseases from one bottle, as is done generally by many other medicine men, but i supposed Warner's Safe Cure was for the cure of rheumatism.” “And so it has been until our remedy, which was especially for rheumatism and neuralgia, was introduced. We have been three years perfecting this new remedy. Study first taught us there were certain powerful elements In Waiter’s Safe Cure, better known as Warner's base Kidney and Liver Cure, that made wonderful cures in chronic and acute rheumatism, but during our investigation we learned of a remarkable cure at a celebrated springs, and put experts to investigate and found that the springs did not contain any valuable properties, but the course of treatment that was being given there was performing all the benefit. By carefully combining the active principles of this remedy with our Safe Cure, wo have produced our Safe Rheumatic Cure, and the cures It Is affecting arc simply wonderful, and 1 do not doubt it will beeome as popular as our Safe Cure.” “You seem to talk freely in regard to your remedies, and appear to have no secrets, Mr. Warner.” “None whatever. The physician, with his hundred calls and one hundred diseases, is necessarily compelled to guess at a great deal. We arc enabled to follow up and perfect, while physicians can only experiment with their hundred patients and hundred diseases. With the ordinary physician, the code binds him down, so that if he makes a discovery, he is bound to give it to the other physicians, which, of course, discourages investigation, to a great extent This is why the great iscovei lea in medieal science of late years have been made by chemists and scientists and not by physicians, and it in a measure accounts for the great value of our romedies, also for the remarkable success of aU those doctors who make a specialty of one or two diseases.” “And you flnd’that you are curing as great & number of people as ever before/” “Yes, a far greater number. We never sold so much of our medicine as now, and never knew of so many remarkable cures.” The writer departed after the above interview, but was greaOy impressed, not only by the sincerityof Mr. Warner, but by the vastness of all he saw. Mr. Warner's medicines are used throughout the entire length and breadth of the land, and we doubt not the results they are effecting arc really as wonderful as they arc related to be. There’s a silence of grief, there’s a silence of hatred, there’s a silence of dread—of these men may speak, and these they can describe; but the silence of our happiness, who can describe that?— W. 11. Jj. Murray.