. The Pharmaceutical era. ehave been but three managers since it was Otto died in 179(1, and was succeeded by Dr. EverettFreytag. Simon Rau. the present manager, becameapprenticed to Dr. Freytag in 1830, and succeeded to theownership of the store in 1S40. He is now seventy-nineyears of age, still hale and hearty, and attending tohis duties in the store. Mr. Rau has associated with him his son and nephew,Eugene A. and Robert Rau, aged, , forty-eight and lifty-two. The business is a flourishing one,and is conducted in a modern building with the most im-proved applian
. The Pharmaceutical era. ehave been but three managers since it was Otto died in 179(1, and was succeeded by Dr. EverettFreytag. Simon Rau. the present manager, becameapprenticed to Dr. Freytag in 1830, and succeeded to theownership of the store in 1S40. He is now seventy-nineyears of age, still hale and hearty, and attending tohis duties in the store. Mr. Rau has associated with him his son and nephew,Eugene A. and Robert Rau, aged, , forty-eight and lifty-two. The business is a flourishing one,and is conducted in a modern building with the most im-proved appliances. It is said to be a storehouse of his-torical information, as the three proprietors personallyobserved many matters of the greatest historical im- portance in tbis country. \Va8hiugtoti ami LafnyettCwere visitors at the settlement, and Mr. Rails own per-sonal rec(dlecti(in takes in everything of interest in thisc(Uintry since before the .Mexican War. He has seencomnurcial revidiition broiighl to piiss by the subslitu-. tion of the railroad for the canal and the wagon road intransportation, and the tehgrajdi and siiecial deliveryfor the old stage coach jiostal service. # * « A good siiecimen of the antebellum drug store is to beseen at the corner of Delancey and Market streets. NewYork, conducted by Louis F. Roediger. It was foundedin !4 by a >Ir. Winzcr. The house, a .substantialbrick of uncertain anticinily. hail been used as adwelling before that. The interior of the pharmacy hasbeen entirely refurnished and ino<lernized. but the exte-riiu is as it was in the beginning and is .severely,idain. -Market street was an aristocratic thoroughfarein those days and the store has always been Ilomann. who was proprictiu- in the fifties, put in thefirst .soda water apparatus seiu in that neighborhoo<i,and nnide a great deal of out of it. He used togather in a half bushel of shin-plasters a day. anil was .ic-cnstoined to soak them in
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