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When embarking on his present career as a real estate and insurance broker, he had the advantage of having received a complete training in the office of James F. Bond, deceased. After thoroughly mastering all the details of the business and having accumulated during the past seventeen years a wide experience, he is now in a position to offer extra facilities to his numerous customers in every section of the city and its suburbs.
LOUIS A FELDER
RESIDENCE OF LOUIS A. FELDER, ON LITTLETON AVE.
CHARLES J. BROWN.
N reviewing the various industries for which the city has - become noted, one will find some difficulty in selecting a profession that affords greater opportunities for profit or a better source of investment than the market of real estate. It is one of the most reliable methods of investment, and at the same time it is a transaction that never loses the power of securing virtue, for although values may fall, it can be but temporary. This branch of business has at all times attracted the attention of many bright and able men, among whom we find at the present time Mr. C. J. Brown, real estate and insurance broker, located at Nos. 727-729 Broad Street, adjoining the new Post Office building, a life-like photo engraving of whom appears among the illustrations in this department of ESSEX COUNTY, N. J., ILLUSTRATED, Mr. Brown devotes his personal at- tention to a general real estate business-buying, selling and exchanging property, attending to the duties of Notary Public, Commissioner of Deeds, negoti- ating loans and writing lines on insurance. Particular attention is given to the collection of rents and the management of estates. Mr. Brown is a Newarker from away back, a man of honor and a worthy representative of the real estate business.
CHARLES J. BROWN.
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ESSEX COUNTY, N. J., ILLUSTRATED
THOMAS H. CONNELLY,
A photo of whom is given in the illustrations, is a resident of the borough of Vailsburgh and a young business man well known in the tea, coffee and spice trade among many families of Essex County. Mr. Connelly makes a specialty of and devotes himself exclusively to selecting, buying and selling the finest grades of Oolong. Japan, Gunpowder, Young Hyson and many other noted brands of teas; Mocha, Java and Rio coffees, and spices of all kinds. Regular weekly deliveries are made by wagon to families, restaurants and hotels throughout the county, and on the most liberal terms. In that special trade he is enabled to offer the public a superior grade of goods which for freshness and flavor are unsurpassed, and wherever his goods hive been given a fair trial, additional orders have resulted therefrom. Mr. Connelly is a Newarker by birth, education and enterprises, and is identified with many charitable. benevolent and social organizations.
WILLIAM F. HAMILTON,
A PHOTO of whom is presented among the Freeholders on page 126, is a well-known and highly respected citizen of Orange, in which city he was born, educated and conducts a general flour and feed business. He is connected with many social, benevolent and political organizations and has ably repre- sented his fellow-citizens in the Assessor's office for three terms -1888-89-90-in the council chamber, in 1891, and in the Board of Freeholders in 1893. His executive ability was recog- nized when he entered the board, by his appointment on import- ant committees, and finally by his election as director. In 1896 he was again re-elected to represent the people of his ward in
BOROUGH HALL, VAILSBURGH.
RESIDENCE OF RICHARD E. COGAN, ON CLINTON AVENUE.
the council. His record in all the various positions in which he has served is noted for his ability. fairness and honesty of purpose in the discharge of public duty.
JOSEPH SMITH SUTPHEN
LIFE-LIFE photo of whom is given in the illustrations A
representing the aldermen of Newark, N. J., on page 141, first saw the light of day at Bedmenster, Somerset County. N. J., in April, 1839. He was educated in the public school of his native village and graduated at Chester Institute. N. J. In 1861 he commenced the study of medicine with his brother, Dr. P. J. Sutphen, at Peapack, N. J. After four years of prepara- tion, including six months of practical service rendered in the Ward United States General Hospital, at that time located in Newark, N. J., he graduated from the University of the City of New York, in 1865. After six years' practice of medicine in his native county he removed to this city and located in the Fifteenth Ward. continuing in his profession in connection with a drug store. In 1878 he was elected to repre- sent his Ward in the Board of Chosen Free- holders and served during the years 1878 79 So. In 1891 he represented his Ward in the Board of Educa- tion, and in 1896 was chosen by the people of his Ward to repre- sent them in the Common Coun- cil. THOMAS H. CONNELLY.
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ESSEX COUNTY, N. J., ILLUSTRATED.
WEST END LAND IMPROVEMENT CO.
REAL estate is so designated as fixed property : and consequently differing from personal or movable property. The simple-minded abori- gines of the Hackensack tribe, who bartered away the grand domain encompassed by the Essex County lines for about two hundred dollars worth of men handise, assorted in small lots of powder, lead, aves, pistols, swords, kettles, barrels of beer, troopers' coats and breeches, knives, hoes, barrels of other liquors, and five thousand feet of wampum. more or less. no doubt thought they were getting full value received, as well as giving the same, but the foresight of the white out-ran that of the red man. and two and one-half centuries since then have proved that tribes of men of either colony may come or go, but real or fixed estate remains for ever.
Eighty thousand acres have been divided up into the villages, towns and cities which now constitute Essex County. Some of these are now very densely populated, so that the land included in the treaty effected in 1666 by the contingent of Connecticut Puritans, encouraged by Governor Carteret, whose claims by royal gift were also offered as concessions so as to secure their title clear to the same, all of which since has been well improved. This area described in the treaty of purchase as all the uplands and meadows, swamps, rivers, brooks, trees, quarries, mines, etc., bounded by the Bay on the east, the Passaic River on the north, the Great Creek in the meadow running to the head of the cove, and bearing back to the westward to the mountain called " Watchung, 8 miles west of the Passayic," remains to-day.
Very appropriate was the name which, in 1667. Rev. Abner Pierson baptized its chief settlement with-" Newark "-for with its suburbs and environs, it has proved to be a true ark for many a family, and established homesteads for millions since descendant and still resident.
As a rule, over all this little more than one hundred square miles, the smile of health and prosperity reigns, and though lacking the length and breadth of territories in the West, it
111. NRY BLOEMECKE, PRESIDENT.
when properly disposed, and es- pecially after our reclamation of the salt meadows now being planned and called for. So we predict that our resident and manufacturing real estate can not seriously decline. We have no malaria-ridden bayous or cyclone-swept prairies, and when the coming day of commercial revival shall indeed arrive, and the wheels of productive Ameri- can industries universally turn, Essex County will be seen and heard in the advancing proces- sion, and stepping to the high music of glad progression in all the arts of peace, and her good credit and economic record will gradually broaden herexchequer. extending through banks, build- ing and loan associations and realiable real estate agents, till every industrious artisan may
RESIDENCE OF ERNEST NAGEL, VAILSBURG.
certainly has a reputation of giving the greatest possible number of spacious, comfortable, suitable and healthful homies to be found anywhere. The soil is of great diversity in character, from rock to rich loam, and the ever-varying altitude of the surface can be equalled nowhere except in New England for dwelling sites and adaptation to close settlement and rail access- ability to the greatest possible number of citizens. This it is in the future, as it has in the past, will contribute to place Essex County and keep her in the very front rank of advancing art and industry ; while also affording within her mountain parks the most perfect suburban retreats for healthful and charming homes. Her manufacturing sites are the best and most numer- ous of any, and most contiguous to the great marts of trade ; vast numbers of these are already occupied by great factories and representing almost every staple industry known, as our pages will show, but there is ample room for as many more
ERNEST NAGEL, MANAGER.
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have his own home, every large manufacturing interest its suitable site not available elsewhere, and this become a model region, miniature of what the true patriot and statesman could wish the nation to be-an industrial republic.
About midsummer of the year 1892, a few well-known young men, perceiving the unusual advantages for the development of that beautiful rolling piece of land then known as the Howell Farm, located on South Orange Avenue, just above the Newark Shooting Park, in that pleasant suburban town of South Orannge, now the thriving Borough of Vailsburgh, combined their wealth and knowledge, and on July 29, 1892, they organized the corpora- tion now known as the West End Land Improvement Company, the subject of this sketch. The first officers of the company were: Mr. Henry J. Bloemecke, Superintendent of the Metro- politan Life Insurance Company at Brooklyn, President ; Mr. Camil P. Nagel, of the firm of Nagel & Kautzman, coal dealers, Vice-President ; Mr. C. W. Heilman, undertaker and liveryman. and at present a Freeholder of Essex County, Treasurer ; and Mr. Ernest Nagel, Secretary. To these gentlemen, in a large measure, is due the company's phenomenal success. They still serve the company in the same capacity, with one excep- tion, Mr. Ernest Nagel having in 1893 been appointed as the company's Manager, at which time Mr. Charles H. Burgesser was elected Secretary.
The company purchased the Howell Farm, which has a front- age of 1,200 feet on South Orange Avenue and consisting of over 700 building lots, and the property was opened to the public on Saturday afternoon. August 20, 1892, by President Henry J. Bloemecke, who, after outlining the company's policy, introduced as the orator of the day, the oldest resident of the borough, the then County Superintendent of the Public Schools, editor of the Newark Item, Dr. M. H. C. Vail, who, after delivering an eloquent address, unfurled and flung to the breeze the American stars and stripes and formally christened the plot Columbian Heights, to the tune of " Hail Columbia," struck up by Voss' full First Regiment band, who were in attendance during the remainder of the afternoon, and discoursed popular and national music.
The property is all restricted for residental purposes only. no building to cost less than $2,000, and all to stand back ten fect from line of street, a very wise precaution as the present appearance of the streets will show. The company has ful- to the interests of his clients, has given complete satisfaction. He is at the service of all intending investors and home seekers.
C. W. HEIL.MAN, TREASURER.
The West End Land Improvement Company is certainly supplying a long- felt want, by assisting persons of moderate means to own their homes, without extortion, on a perfect and sound basis, dealing fairly and honestly with its customers. May success always crown its efforts and serve as an example for others to follow.
The company has a pleasant and conveniently located business office on the first floor of the Niagara Fire Insurance Company building, 766 Broad Street, near Market, where its popular and congenial manager can be consulted every morning. At all other times he can be found at the company's office on "Columbian Heights." In the illustrations are represented life- like photos of the officers.
filled all of the promises then made. They have laid through- out all the streets as handsome an artificial side- walk as ad- orns any property and which, if laid in a continu- ous line would be over four miles long The streets are allgraded and curbed and adorned by fine maple shade trees. A pure water
FAMIL. P. NAGEL, VICE PRESIDENT.
supply has been brought to the property from the Pequannock water sheds by way of Newark and a perfect drainage system established. The first home on the property was begun during the winter of 1892, and was occupied by Mr. Emil Schwieg, its owner, January 1, 1893, just four months after the formal open- ing of the property. Other dwellings followed in rapid succes- sion until at the present time of writing, no less than forty-two residences of as pleasing an architecture and structural stability as will be found in any municipality in the State adorn this beautiful property. The company's terms are very reasonable and of a special character and of unusual advantage to pur- chasers. It assists home builders not only financially but also in an advisory manner which, owing to the vast experience of its individual members in that line. it is fully qualified to do. It has engaged the services of a competent and experienced archi- tect who, owing to the originality of his designs and complete- ness of interior arrangements and details, and close attention
CHARLES II. BURGESSLK, SECRETARY.
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ESSEX COUNTY, N. J., ILLUSTRATED.
A J. GLESS.
C OMPETITION is the real essence of all progress. It is met with in every depart- ment of industry and human activity. It stimu- lates and encourages inventiveness and enter- prise, and enlivens private life as well as business. The steady development of Essex County real estate interests is due, in a large degree, to the honorable and conservative method pursued by the energetic men who have so ably represented this important branch of industry. At no time have they sought to create or inflate values, but rather to retain the market upon the basis of actual worth, as regard an income producing capacity.
There are but few, if any, interests in this industrial contre that are not secondary to that of real estate, and in this connection it will not be out of place to record the promoters of this profession, and in particular, some of those enterprising men who have given to real estate such a helping hand as has the subject of this sketch, Mr. Augustine J. Gless, real estate and insurance broker, located on the southwest corner of Springfield and Belmont Avenues.
This young and enterprising German-American citizen has done much towards extending the material growth of the westerly section of the city of Newark, by his honorable deal- ing and strict attention to business. A general real estate and insurance business is conducted by Mr. Gless, who devotes his personal attention to the buying, selling and exchanging of every description of property, and takes upon himself the entire care of estates ; he negotiates loans on bonds and mortgages, and writes lines of fire and life insurance policies, for all of which he has exceptional facilities. His office, which is presented in the illustration on this page, is admirably fitted up with every
MR. A. J. GLASS.
REAL ESTATE & INSURANCE
CONTINENTAL INS. CO.
OFFICE OF A. J. GLESS, CORNER SPRINGFIELD AND HELMONT AVENUES.
convenience for the accommodation of his numerous clients, and his wide experience and thorough knowledge of the real estate market enables him to transact the business of his clients with promptness and dispatch. A glance at the life-like photo pre- sented on this page, tells the manner of man he is, and speaks louder to the reader of this page than anything the writer could say.
Mr. Gless is rated as one of formost real estate insurance brokers in Essex County, and is a worthy representative of the profession. Among the many able and enterprising men who have chosen this calling, in order to gather the necessities of life from its proceeds, or to build up a fortune, all do not succeed. Many yiekt to its bright allurements, and witnessing the marvelous success won by men of the pattern of A. J. Gless, enter but the portals, wait but a brief time, and then retire.
Had they but learned the way from those on whom dame fortune smiled, they would have heard the same old honest answer, "Commence with a determination to win :" read the motto carefully, " by industry we thrive:" study the self-reli- ance which speaks from every lineament of his countenance, and learn from him how to win in the real estate business.
There is no doubt in the minds of wide-awake business men in regard to the western section of Newark being the locality. that, in the near future, will furnish unsurpassed opportunities for investors, who are continually seeking for the most profitable investments for their funds. That part of the city is now open for solid improvement, and its development, in the near future. will increase more rapidly and become permanent, especially when Clinton Township is annexed to the city and admitted as a new ward, towards creating a " Greater Newark." . The ex- tremes will never run away from the centre of the city, Spring- field and Belmont Avenues being now one of the centres. It was this fact that induced Mr. A. J. Gless to establish his office on that corner. Ilis office hours are usually from y to 1, and again in the late afternoon, during which time he may be found faithfully engaged with the interests of his customers. Mr. Gless takes a great delight in his honored profession, and devotes to all its various details, a continues study, -which has enabled him to become an expert in values. A view of his elegant new residence will be found on the following page.
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ESSEX COUNTY, N. J., ILLUSTRATED
FRANK WISIJOHN.
AMONG the many real estate men who are rapidly gaining prominence, few are making more steady progress than our fellow-townsman, Frank Wisijohn, one of the youngest representa- tives in the business, who began his real estate career under Mr. Thomas J. Gray, in 1882. Mr. Wisijohn occupies very pleasant office rooms, corner Broad and Bank Streets, over the National Newark Banking Co., where he devotes his per- sonal attention to the general real estate and insurance business, in selling, buying, renting and exchanging city and country porperty, procures loans on mortgages, invests money without expense to the lender, and writes lines on insurance. Mr. Wisijohn, whose photo is herewith presented. makes a specialty of collecting rents and caring for estates. on the most reasonable terms. Ile is a Newarker by birth and education, and a worthy representa- tive of the real estate fraternity.
THOMAS J. GRAY.
IN calling the attention of our fellow-citizens to the numerous engravings presented on the pages of ESSEX COUNTY, N. J. ILLUSTRATED, we are justly proud of the life-like photo of our fellow-townsman Thomas J. Gray, who has done much in advancing the growth and prosperity of Newark. Mr. Gray is a worthy representative of the real estate profession, and for more than a quarter of a century has handled large estates. Watching the interests of his clients, and being just and true to all, is what has gained for him the confidence of the public. His appraisements for executors, by order of courts, have never been questioned. Since 1870, he has been so closely identified with values, that we do not wonder that prudent investors, who desire to buy, sell or exchange real estate, or loan money on mortgage, wherein, like a savings bank, security is first to be thought of, frequently remark, " What is Mr. Gray's opinion." That settles it. A good name is like precious ointment.
Mr. Gray's present office in the Clinton Building, is almost within a stone's throw of where he commenced business, in a
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RESIDENCE OF A. J. GLESS, ON HUNTERDON STREET.
modest way, twenty-seven years ago. If knowledge of values of property located anywhere in our city, county or State, are requisites as appraisements of value, coupled with excellent judgement and prudent counsel, the subject of this sketch fully merits all we have said. The business looks to be on the eve of recovery from long depression. Real estate has suffered but is fast coming to the front. Mr. Gray is a gentleman in every sense, and is a worthy representative of the profession.
JAMES MARLATT,
A PHOTO of whom is presented on page 127 of this illus- trated work, was born at Beatyestown, Warren County, this State, January 6. 1840. Coming to this city in 1865, he started in the grocery business with John Robertson, his brother-in-law. In 1872, he purchased the store and property of J. H. Richardson, and continued in the grocery trade until February 1, 1884, when he commenced a wholesale trade in
the prepared flour, feed, grain and hay business, acting as agent in this city for E. H. Larrabee & Co., Chas. H. Paul & Co. and Hetfield & Ducker's crackers and biseuit. Mr. Marlatt represented the citizens of the Tenth Ward in the Board of Education and the Common Coun- cil, and for two terms he represented the people of the Ninth Assembly district in the State Legislature.
Few men indeed have represented the people with a more painstaking care than Mr. Marlatt. None but words of praise fall from the lips of his constituents. The potent results of his well applied legisla- tive and business acumen, will long remain as an example to future generations. Few men are better known in the business com- munity, and his character will re- main an heirloom to his family.
FRANK WISIJOIN.
THOMAS J. GRAY.
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ESSEX COUNTY, N. J., ILLUSTRATED.
BAMBERGER & CO
T THE people of Newark and Essex County can point with pardonable pride to the great estab- lishment of L. Bamberger & Co., "the always busy store," whose place of business is represented in the illustration shown on this page. The house is one of the busiest in its line in the city, its counters being thronged daily by the leaders of fashion. A large number of people find employment with this enter- prising firm, affording some idea of the magnitude of the interests in- volved. Each department is com- plete within itself, under an expert manager, while the employees are noted for their promptness, courtesy and obliging manners, combining with a thorough knowledge of their duties a faculty for anticipating the wants of patrons, laying before them a full variety of textures, pat- terns and shades from which to choose, so that when the excellence of the stock is considered, it is not surprising that rapid sales are made and general satisfaction given to buyers. The firm commands the direct patronage not only of the people of Newark, the Oranges, Belleville, Bloomfield, Montclair, Caldwell, South Orange and Irving- ton and the other surrounding suburbs, but its mail order depart- ment affords a ready means for people from Warren, Union and Sussex Counties to satisfy their wants. Its business increases steadily and the house forms an important and ever-growing factor in the commercial activity of the city. The name and fame of the firm is so familiar to the general public that further comment on our part would be surperfloous. Its connections are widespread and influential both at home and abroad. its facilities for securing the latest designs and novelties for domestic and foreign designs and manufactures are unegalled, while the rare inducements offered to the purchasing public cannot be duplicated elsewhere,
L.BAMBERGER & CO/
BAMBERGER'S BAMBERGER'S
SHIRT
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TOMKE IL WRAP SUL
EMPORIUM OF L. BAMBERGER & CO., ON MARKET STREET.
The firm of L. Bamberger & Company, by their push and enterprise, have retained in this city much of the local trade that heretofore went to New York houses, and it is an unde- mable fact, that this wide-awake house is to-day successfully competing with many large firms in " Greater New York," in the wonderful inducements offered to the public in their line of trade. In these days of close rivalry and competition in business of every description, the really useful men of the city are those who, with a ready hand, are helping to push on the developments of her commercial interests, and aid in fostering those branches of the trade for which the community has
become so noted. The educational industries, in a measure, take care of themselves, but it is the class of enterprises that depends wholly on the industrial perseverance of the wide- awake merchant, that after all tend most widely to the build- ing up of the city's commercial reputation. Prominent among this class of industries, is the dry and fancy goods trade that is so ably represented by L. Bamberger & Co., " the always busy store," and one of the most noted houses in this line of goods in Newark." The firm is located on Market Street, in the busiest part of the city, on the block bounded by Broad and Halsey Streets. The plant is one of the finest structures on the street, and the stock is the largest and best selected in its line of any house in the city. The employees are polite and aim by every means to please the purchasing public.
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