AN HOUR WITH PROFESSOR HOLLOWAY.

Southland Times, Issue 1158, 3 November 1869, Page 3

AN HOUR WITH PROFESSOR HOLLOW AY.

Mb Editob, — Everybody has heard of Holloway's Pillsand Ointment, but everybody has not visited Holloway's new establishment, in Oxford-street, London. Apart from any efficacy there may be attached to Hofloway's Pills or Ointment, the success of Holloway himself is in a great measure to be attributed to advertising in the press of nearly the whole world. Should any doubt exist in the mind of business men that advertising is of much avail, the newspaper canvasser could find no better text than pointing the dubious to view with wonder the accumulated wealth and business of Professor Holloway, whose likeness, in a neat frame, now lies on the table before me. The Professor is a man of years ; and in spite of his earnest business activity, and his constant energy of character in distributing his pills over the whole globe, he has stood the wear and tear of life well. Tall and robust, Professor Holloway possesses & shrewd, business-like countenance ; he is a man who earnestly believes in the principle be espouses. Having occasion last week to walk into Holloway's leviathan establishment, I commented upon the wonderful business that was being carried on there, when, at the request of the Professor, I was favored with the opportunity of being escorted through all the departments of his house, which may be described as palatial ; it is at a corner of New Oxford-street, and stands six Btoreys high. Placing your foot on a marble step, you enter what at the first moment would appear a branch establishment of the Bank of England, in such a place as Liverpool or Manchester. Marble pillars support the beams, and the desks are of solid mahogany and brass. Here between thirty and forty clerks are busily engaged in correspondence, &c, many of the letters being written in French, Italian, G-erman, and Arabic. The methodical way in which the business is carried on is as pleasing as it is remarkable. As the most complete establishment in the world for newspaper files and proper checking, according to the Times, Holloway's stands pre-eminent. The cashier is stationed at a high desk at the end of the office, and has before him drawers with | layers of gold and silver, precisely similar to those in front of cashiers in banking firms. Tour accounts being duly checked, the money is uncerem oniously paid ; and your business being conducted with despatch, you leave accordingly. On the first floor there were something like a hundred young girls placing the pills in boxes, and this department is presided over by a number of lady overseers. On the same floor I observed the label-fixers, and further on two ladies who are engaged in looking over all the papers, to see that the advertisements are properly inserted ; there were two, because one revises the work of the other. Ascending to the next floor you enter the stationery and printing departments. Here are all the small and large bills so well known to the public eye, judiciously arranged, while in another room they are directed for the different agents, to every town and village in the kingdom that boastß of a druggist's Bhop. On the next floor you enter the news rooms, where are kept, bound in file, all the foreign and colonial papers. "1 suppose you do a large trade in Australia ?" I remarked to the gentleman who showed me over the premises " One would think," said he, " from the enormous consumption of our pills in Australia and elsewhere, that the people lived on them." This newspaper file room is a model place, and to me, as you may suppose, afforded intense interest. Upstairs again, and you enter the immense store rooms, where thousands if not millions of boxes of pills and ointment are to be seen arranged in immense racks and cases. This number, I was told, was replenished from week to week. We then descended the magnificent staircase, and passed the Professor's suite of rooms. Passing by the chief office I found myself with the guide in the basement. Here are the immense packingrooms for the despatch of the medicines to the home and foreign markets. Immediately underneath a portion of Ox-ford-street is made the wonderful secret medicine. But i must not forget the pillmaking room, where there is a machine continually at work for making the pills ; | lumps of pill-mass are put in at the top, and at the bottom they roll out by thousands, the orthodox weight and shape ; so that from that machine, and from the hands of those dapper little men who superintend it, come all the wonderful pills of Holloway, who prescribes for — and, Bhall I add, allays the physical pains, of — the whole world! — Tours truly, Antiquabian. — Sussex Herald, June 12, 1869.