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FURNITURES JJ HENRY MULLER
FURNITURE
FURNITURE
JJHENRY MULLER USERSULLE
FURNITURE HOUSE OF J. J. HENRY MULLER, ON SPRINGFIELD AVENUE ...
furnishing all sizes of houses and flats. He was born in Ger- many, but has resided in the United States for the greater part of his life. He is highly esteemed in social and business circles for his strict integrity, and his establishment is a prominent feature of Newark's activity and enterprise. The stock is valued at over $50,000, and fifteen clerks, assistants, etc., are employed.
The large and well-selected stock contained in this house is the just reward of industry, thrift and business morality, and from the start the characteristics of Mr. Muller have been shrewdness, prudence and integrity, combined with honorable dealings with the public.
Just here we may be permitted the interpolation of a fact which has contributed greatly towards Mr. Muller's success as a business man, and that is, he possesses the faculty of being a good buyer. When he goes into the marts of trade to make his purchases, he sees at a glance the goods which will meet the wants of his customers for whom he caters, and the materials which will work up to the best advantage under the skillful manipulation of the artists who handle the tools in his large and commodious factory.
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PETER HASSINGER.
A MONG the multitude of our progressive business men, the masses of whom have done a work which will ever redound to their credit, and whose success will remain an ever- lasting memorial, when they shall have ceased to go in and out among us, few indeed of the number will be credited with the erection of a greater number of memorial tablets, or those which will shine more resplendent, or mark the lines over which they journeyed with more marvels of the outputs of genius, than the subject of this sketch, Peter Hassinger, Esq. Like some of the others who caught the glim- mer of the star of hope hanging in all its tempting beauty in the faraway western sky. and beckoned them on to the new world beyond the sea, and became a lamp to their feet, to guide their footsteps to the fair land of their destiny, so, too, Peter lassinger caught the inspi- ration, which, to his young mind, rode tii- umphant, each glimmering ray beside, and at the age of twenty-five, mature in strength and strong of heart, and with foundations laid deep in truth and honor, no longer able to resist the demands of the good angel of his destiny, he bade adieu to the Fatherland, and followed its beckonings, and when the gates of his beloved birth-place closed behind him, he would have been less than human did not a pang of regret arise in his heart, and mounting to the eye bedew it with unbidden tears when the good-by was said to all that was dear to his young life when shut within the ideal city of his home, old Darmstadt. Peter Hassinger first saw the light of day in the year of 1829, His father was a man whose way lay along the middle walks of life and was engaged in the business of gardening and a seedsman, After giving to Peter the education which the common schools afforded, he apprenticed him to learn the business of machinist and lock- smith, and thus from the age of thirteen, young Hassinger became his own bread-winner. Armed only with his perfected trade and with a determination to dare and do, it was not long after the good ship which brought him over the ocean had
landed him. where the broad way to fortune lay wide open and inviting to such as desire to walk therein. and in which he immedi- ately began his New World journeying.
The way of the young me- chanic lay through New- ark, where the rattle of busy machinery and the clang of hammers was music to his
RESIDENCE OF PETER HASSINGER, ON CLINTON AVENUE,
ears, and the puff of steam and furnace smoke had a charm for his eyes. Instead of waiting for employment to seek him, he sought and soon found with Henry C. Jones, the well-known locksmith of Pennsylvania Railroad Avenue, the place to exercise his peculiar genius and demonstrate his adaptiveness in the field of mechanical arts. Fortune smiled on the young mechanic, and in eight short years he associated with himself the well-known inventor and mechanical genius, C. W. Romer, and together they bought the concern which they conducted till 1870, when they sold out to John Burkhardt, of Louisville, Kentucky.
To such an extent had he prospered, that when the business was adjusted and profits embanked, he felt there was no longer a necessity for a denial of the right of satisfying his daily long- ings for a visit to dear old Darmstadt, a look once again into the face of those he had left behind, when he turned his foot- steps westward and quit the Fatherland. As mutations and changes follow in rapid succession, and our subject realizing the fact that delays are dangerous, inmediately set about the business, and before the year had closed, surounded by his little family, he was en-route for the land of his birth and the scenes of his boyhood and royal young manhood.
The gratification of his longing's to renew his acquaintance with the scenes within and around the " pent-up Utica " of his early life past, did not alone wait upon and urge his crossing the ocean, but two other very laudable purposes he had in view, The first of these was the education of his three sons, which, soon after his arrival, he placed in school where they were constantly kept in attendance until his return to Newark, three years later. This second of these purposes was the visitation of the great art galleries and the study of art, for which, from boyhood, he had had a longing and for which he had sought opportunities for gratifying ; and that he has so done to much purpose, the lover of the beautiful in art has only to visit Mr. Hassinger's capacious and comfortable home on Clinton Avenue. On his return from Europe, after a sojourn of three years, Mr. Hassin- ger went into the building business, and in this line prosperity waited on his every move, and success marked his every venture.
Not alone did Newark feel the touch of his almost magic hand, but great structures for business purposes, elegant villas
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and modest homes, in New York, Orange and East Orange, grew up and turned into money at his command. Many a barren acre he made to bloom in the growth of peoples' homes, and many a man is now the owner of his own domicile through the easy terms on which he could buy from Peter Hassinger. His first real estate move was the purchase of the property on which the immense harness manufacturing estab- lishment of the late Nicholas Demarest & Son now stands.
It is well to remark in passing, that the business arrange- ments with Mr. Romer were always pleasant, and with the sale to the Louisville man, the friendly old business word, " ours." which had been the pass between the two, was never forgotten, and their social relations have ever continued close indeed ; very like brothers have they been. Many of the specimens of Mr. Hassinger's ideal structures may be seen on Broad and Market Streets and many others of Newark's business thoroughfares, as well as in the residental portions of our city, notably Clinton and Belmont Avenues, Alpine and other streets, stand monu- ments of his skill and business foresight.
The old taste for gardening and floriculture had not been allowed to cramp, but on the contrary, had been cultivated, and the same growth and progress is now seen to manifest itself wherever the impress of his genius and master hand is felt. His home at 368 Clinton Avenue, situated in one of the choicest home parts of Newark, can be said, and verily, too, to be within a garden of sweet incensed flowers and plants, and a veritable bower of roses. The great green-houses are filled with delicate plants, ferns and rare exotics, abounding in amazing variety. There, on the home-plot, the master has erected buildings for every variety of purposes to keep every thing about the two or three actes given up to the fruits, plants and flowers, par-excellence, and in marvellous abundance. Ere we close, it must not be forgotten that his home is a bower not unlike Hawthorne's, of Seven Gables, in many of which are hung and stored beautiful works of art which this connisseur has collected, and which, were it not on the border of sacrilege to say it, he almost worships and truly adores. On the walls of his gallery, constructed for the purpose, and on the walls of his parlors and halls, hang gems, many of which are from the pencils of the greatest of ancient and modern painters ; in fact, it can be said that from every nook and corner of his home come whispers of his love for art, and samples are seen which
excellent photo of whom will be noticed on this page. and speaks louder than any- thing we could say. The plant is located in the Wil- son Building, cor. Mechanic and Lawrence streets, and is one of the oldest and best
equipped for the manufact- uring of fine harness orna- ments, letters, monograms, etc. Mr. Kass is an ora- ment maker by trade, and is principally noted in the har- ness market for the fine grade of goods that he is enabled to produce, which are widely known all over the States of the Union, Canada and South American ports, and used on the finest grades of harness, etc., with great satisfaction.
speak praises of his devotion to art and its studies. Every lover of art should see Peter Hassinger's collection of rare paintings, both old and new, and no one can spend a few hours more de- lightfully than among his selections. Among Mr. Hassinger's collection is seen Rombout's celebrated scriptural and historical painting. "The Slaughter of the innocents." This great picture, completed in 1629, by Theodore Rombout, a rival of the skilled painter, Rubens, was (it is said) once in the collec- tion of the Duke of Orleans, who sold it for 10,000 guineas. This picture earned for its owner, before it came into the hands of Mr. Hassinger, by being exhibited in many cities, the munificent sum of $120,000. Another notable picture is the " Decision of Solomon." This great painting, Mr. Hassinger thinks he is thoroughly justified in beliveing, from the evidence he has at hand, is a genuine Rubens. Among the other beautiful and striking paintings in Mr. Hlassinger's collection which the writer had the pleasure of examining, is one by Gilbert Stewart, of the revolutionary patriot, General Knox. It will be remem- bered that Stewart painted the very best portraits extant of George Washington. A " Cleopatra," by the celebrated Guido Reni. The figure is of life-size, and is said to be one of his grandest works. A " Nell Gynne," by Peter Leyly, is a work highly prized by its owner. "Two Cows," by Paul Potter, painted in 1530, is very much admired. Thus we might move on among the rare old works which this lover of true art has gathered. It is to be regretted the real lovers of art among our wealthy people are so few, for had we more like Peter Hassinger, who not alone possesses the love for art, but also possesses the wherewith to cultivate that love, artists need not go begging. That Peter lassinger is eminently a self-made man, goes with- out the saying, and that he deserves all the good things which his own-earned competency can bring, none who know him will deny.
ADAM KAAS.
THE manufacture of gold and silver ornaments for the har- ness and saddlery trade, has, for generations, been a noted industry, largely carried on in this city of workshops. Among the many able and well-known firms, we take pleasure in mentioning the name of Mr. Adam Kaas, who has been identified with the trade for more than half a century, an
11ENKY C. KLEMM.
ADAM KAAS.
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C. DURAND CHAPMAN
M R. Chapman has won a distin- gurshed position in the artist's circle of young American painters. He comes of French Huguenot and Revolu- tionary stock, and is a son of the late Rev. Prof. John L. Chapman, and nephew of Asher B. Durand, the famous landscape painter, ex-president of the National Academy of Design. Mr. Chapman's career began at the National Academy. New York, under Prof. Wilmarth, J. G. Brown. N. A .. and J. Wells Champney, graduating a prize student in 1879 We next find him occupying a studio in the historical old Tenth Street Building, New York, the home of Chase, Brown, De Haas, Guy and many others. His first success, the painting "Come In," was exhibited in 1882 in the National Academy and purchased there by a wealthy art connoisseur for a private col- lection in Boston.
In 1883 we find him m Munich and later in Paris, under the celebrated French masters Fernando Cormon and Benjamin Constante. While there he painted "Mine Ease in Mine Inn, " "Eventide, ""Reverie,"
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" THE WEDDING BONNET."
the latter exhibited in the Paris Salon of 1885. On his return he established a studio in the Globe Building, Newark, where he painted "The Wedding Bonnet," of which an illustration is here given. In iSgo he married Caroline A. F. Holbrook, daughter of the late A. M. Holbrook, Esq., and resides at Elmwood, Irvington, N. J, the old homestead and country seat of the Chapmans for nearly three generations. Mr. Chapman has occu- pied a studio in the Prudential Build- ing since its completion. His talents are versatile-equally strong in black and white, designing and illustrating, water color, pastel and oil, and a most successful instructor.
His paintings are seen at all the principal art exhibitions and are I owned by many prominent art patrons. He delights in quaint interiors with figures, which he fills with a satisfying atmosphere of charming sympathy and truth. " The Reveries of a Bachelor," "In Disgrace," "Close of the Day," "Old Chums" and " Solid Comfort," are some of his important works. He is a member of the Newark Sketch Club, American Art Society and Salma- gundi Club, of New York,
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Mr. Chapman believes in giving his talents and energies to his native State and home. All the success he has won has had its birth here and its influence gladly given for the advancement of art in this city. Interest in art has increased largely in the last ten years in Newark. Art pations are liberal and appreciative, Many exhibitions, ant clubs, and noble works in painting and sculpture have enriched the city and added to its renown. Mr. Chapman hopes to see a fine art gallery established in Newark in the near future, with loan collections and public exhibitions of the best examples of modern art, the influence of which would be of incalulable good to all classes AS BURAND CHAPMAN AND HUIS STUDIO. of society as well as a valuable addition to the city's institutions.
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CHARLES B DUNCAN.
T HERE are but few, if any, names better or more widely known to the people residing in what is commonly designated as the "Ironbound District," situated east of the Pennsylvania Railroad, than that of our fellow-townsman, now under consideration. This public-spirited and enterprising citizen has been identified with everything that has aimed to advance or promote the welfare of the district or its inhabitants during the past half a century. The illustration shown on this page represents his place of business, which is one of the oldest in the neighborhood, and a first-class photo of Mr. Duncan is presented in the illustrations on page 126 of this work. Mr. Duncan is one of the oldest and REXL ESTATE most reliable real estate and insurance brokers in the city and devotes his personal attention to the buying, selling and exchang- ing of property, renting of houses, caring for estates, pro- curing loans on bond and mortgage, placing lines of insurance in the most reliable companies and on the most favorable terms. lle makes a specialty of drawing up and writing deeds, wills and agreements in all their various forms. In connection with this he conducts one of the largest and best equipped news and stationery depots in that section of the city, where everything in the stationery line will be found ; and in addition to this, a large and well-equipped library is maintained for the use of the general public. Mr. Duncan, while being a very busy man, has always found time to act the part of a good citizen, having represented the people of his district in the State Legislature for three successive terms, serving with ability on
CHAS B DUNCAN
DEALER IN
NEWS PAPERS
STATIONERY
REAL ESTATE
OFFICE OF CHARLES B. DUNCAN, CORNER PACIFIC AND ELM STREETS.
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WILLIAM A. BIKD.
several important committees. Ile is prominently identified with the building and loan associations of the city, and is con- nected with numerous patriotic, political, religious, benevolent and social organizations.
C. H. SLAIGHT.
A GREAT and useful work has been commenced by the Park Commissioners toward the embellishment of the city and its suburbs by the conversion of city squares into parks and by the planting of shade trees and shrubbery to beautify them. Of the great benefit that will accrue to the people and of the immensely improved aspect of the whole County of Essex there can be little doubt.
There is another question which requires condsideration -how far will these improve- ments tend toward advancing real estate? There is no doubt but that all property fronting upon or adjoining these parks will continually increase, and investors will constantly be on the lookout for wide-awake agents to handle their bargains.
We here take pleasuse in mentioning the name of Mr. C. H. Slaight, whose office is located at No. 122 Rose- ville Avenue, opposite the Roseville station of D. L. & W. R. R. This enterprising citizen conducts a general real estate and insurance business.
C. H. SLMGHI.
ESSEX COUNTY, N. J., ILLUSTRATED.
H. BUCHLEIN.
O N' the first day of April. 1871, Mr. H. Buchlein associated with himself Mr. Sisserson and pur- chased the business which he owns to-day, from Dodd Brothers. In 1872, Mr. Sisserson withdrew from the partnership, thus leaving Mr. Buchlein sole owner and mana- ger. Thus we see the young man who began work as a journeyman for the Dodd Brothers in 1868. in the short space of five years, becoming sole proprietor another example of success wrought out under the old adage, " Where there's a will there's a way." Mr. Buchlein's resolve thus early made, to conduct a manufacturing business, has been proven over and over again, was no wild venture but was born of an early developed business tact, and he had the push behind to make a success of what is a branch of manufacturing business carried on in the city of Newark, known as the designing and making of seals, stamps, engraving and die sinking for jewelers and ornamental brass work. also for leather and paper embossing, and which probably contains a greater number and variety of industries under a single head than any other known industry. This business in all its varieties is now conducted by Mr. H. Buchlein at 787 Broad Street, corner Market Street, third floor. For such an extensive business as Mr. Buchlein carries on, in all probability he occupies, comparatively speaking, a very small floor space. Mr. Buchlein has now been engaged in business more than a quarter of a century, and elegant specimens of the handiwork which he turns out are seen in all parts of the country and, in fact, wherever stamps are used and 11. BI CHILEIN. embossed paper or leather is manufactured or used the marvellous skill of Mr. Buchlem in the manufacture of dies is exhibited, and whatever comes from his factory are the resultant output of his genius and mechanical skill.
Scarcely a business office of any pretensions at all, but has for a part of its clerks' paraphernalia and its Secretary's outfit the rubber stamps, or indeed, perhaps, where some other kind of stamps are deemed necessary, are made in his establishment. Mr. Buchlein is a marvel in his line and, in fact, his line has no boundaries. His out-spreading genius reaches, we might say, almost everywhere to find material to satisfy its demands.
With such promptness does he meet all the demands upon him, individually or upon his time, that for many years he has been dubbed by those who know him best, " Old Reliable." From all sections of our own country, and from across the water as well, where anything in the way of a marvel is wanted or is called for, the name of citizen Buchlein is the first on the list, and then, almost as quick as thought, when the order is given, the work is very soon complete and ready for use. It is his unswerving honesty and unassailable character which has given to him the high standing which he holds in the business community and which gives him such a high standing in the departments where talent and energy win with so little apparent effort.
County and city official badges are manufactured by Mr. Buchlein from patterns of his own designing. Some of them are gems, indeed, and show plainly that true art has an abiding place in his mind, where it requires but the touch of a button to set the current in motion, with the production of some rare work to be enjoyed by all who look upon and handle. The stencils and brands which he turns out are most attractive and always give the very best satisfaction to buyer, seller and user. The production of rubber office stamps is a branch of his busi- ness which requires much time and capital to carry on, and the resultant outputs are equal if not, indeed. superior to anything produced in any other place in the world. It has not all been play, by any means, for Mr. Buchlein to produce such Satisfactory results, whether you take it from the standpoint of gemius and mechanical skill or whether from results financial. and it is safe to say that often in the busiest seasons the hours of daylight are not long enough to give Mr. Buchlein time and opportunity to work out his plans and to give the tracings of the pencil fair play ; he has often had to follow it fat into night. Should the reader be in need of any article in this line. Mr. Buchlein will be sure to please. KREUGER PIONEER HOME.
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WILLIAM LOGEL.
I T would be difficult to select out of the whole miscellany of Newark's domestic industries, one which has had a more important bearing upon the commercial affairs of the city than the trade in general, family groceries. This important and necessary business stands foremost in line with the many con- mercial enterprises that have contributed to the steady growth and prosperity of the city. In reviewing the many able and honorable names identified with this particular industry, we take pleasure in mentioning that of Mr. William Logel, a faith- ful picture of whom appears in the illustrations shown on this page. The business is located on Springfield Avenue, corner Fifteenth Street, and is one of the neatest and best equipped grocery plants in that section of the city.
Stocked with a large and well-selected line of general family groceries and provisions, including new crop teas, coffees. spices, dried foreign and domestic fruits, hermetically sealed goods of every description-in fact, everything in the line of food supplies known to the trade, all of which are received from first hands, from the best and largest markets in the country, enabling the enterprising proprietor to supply the customers at the lowest, rock-bottom prices. In connection with the grocery business, a well-regulated meat market is a prominent feature of the house, which is very convenient for the people residing in the neighborhood. Polite assistants are in attendance, and free deliveries are made to customers in all parts of the city and its suburbs. Mr. Logel was born in Newark and was educated in the schools of the city, and has been identified with the industries of Newark for nearly half a century.
WILLIAM K. SCHOENIG.
A VISIT through the western section of Newark will con- vince the visitor how rapidly that part of the city is being built up with elegant, useful and substantial business places and residences. In this connection we mention with pleasure the many able architects of this city who are an honor to their profession, among whom stands Mr. William K. Schoenig, a first-class photo of whom is presented on this page. The skilled and talented efforts of this gentleman include many of
WILLIAM LOGEL.
transacted his first deal in this pro- fession in June, 1862, and during the thirty-five years which he has devoted to this calling, few men, if any, will be found with a clearer record. He is rightly characterized as one of the many gentlemen who have chosen the real estate profes- sion, a fact which is demonstrated by his success. Mr. Bird's office is located in the Bolles Building, 729 Broad Street, adjoining the Post Office. He is engaged in a general city and county business, covering the buying, selling and exchanging of 'real estate, securing loans on mortgages and effecting insurance in the most reliable companies. Mr. Bird is thoroughly posted in all of the details of the trade, and as a reliable appraiser of real estate in every section of the city and its suburbs, he stands without a peer.
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