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H. E. SCHWARZ.
THERE are many of our citizens who pursue the occupation of real estate and insurance brokers and who have earned a well-merited reputation for the conscientious and efficient manner in which they handle all interests intrusted in their hands. Prominent among the number is Mr. H. E. Schwarz, whose office is now at 836 Broad street, but was formerly located at 210 Market street. He established the business of real estate and insurance in 1873, at Elizabeth, N. J., and in 1875
JOSEPH LOGEL.
STORE OF JOSEPH LOGEL, SPRINGFIELD AVE., COR. FIFTEENTH ST.
removed it to Newark Mr. Schwarz has a wide range of prac- tical experience and a large and influential acquaintance in business circles. As a real estate broker he has paid special attention to large tracts of lands for building purposes and farms, ard upon his books are full descriptions of the most eligible bargains available in tracts of land to be laid out in building lots as well as farms, in every part of the State of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, etc. Mr. Schwarz, an excellent photo of whom is presented on this page, is a veteran of the late war, having been an officer in one of the Pennsylvania regiments of infantry, and is a member of James A. Garfield Post, No. 4, G. A. R.
MILES F. QUINN.
T THE striking photo of Miles F. Quinn, presented on page 88 of this illustrated souvenir, will be readily recognized by his many friends and admirers, and it is hardly necessary to go into details concerning him or his business qualifications. He conducts a general real estate and insurance business at No. 16 Mulberry street, on the very location where he first beheld the light of day, and devotes his personal attention to the buying, sell- ing and exchanging of prop- erty, writing lines of insur- ance in the most reliable companies, procuring loans on bonds and mortgages, collecting rents and caring for estates. Mr. Quinn is also a commissioner of deeds as well as a notary public for New Jersey and several other states, and possesses a mas- terly knowledge of these duties. His ability and courtesy have won for him the respect of his many clients. H. E. SCHWARZ.
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ESSEX COUNTY, N. J., ILLUSTRATED.
UFACTURER
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HOISTING ENGINES.
FRICTION HOISTING ENGINES!
ASTEAM BOLLERS
6 00 HP
ENGINE
J. S. MUNDY'S HOISTING ENGINE WORKS ON PROSPECTSTREET.
JOSEPH S. MUNDY.
W HILE the firmament which o'erhangs the city of Newark is bespangled with stars, emblematical of the greatness, the grandeur, the skill, the genius, the influence of men, who have made their mark in one of the several particular lines which either may have followed, few have made their own parti- cular orb shine the brighter by the persistent effort and the zealousness with which they have followed it up when once they got it started, than has Joseph S. Mundy.
0 It is not particularly necessary, for the searchers after signs which mark the places all over the city where success has been wrought, to dwell long on the plot of ground on Prospect street, to find where the great buildings are erected in Jonge studied Staehlin & Steiger, after which he graduated from the Architectural department of Cooper Institute, New York City, in 1890. He re- mained with the firm until 1893. when he started in business for himself. Mr. Fred J. Steiger is the son of the late John F. Steiger, of the firm of Staehli & Steiger, under whose personal supervision he engaged in the architectural profession, and has acquired an experience beyond his years. Many handsome and costly residences and commercial buildings have been erected in this city and nearby vicinity under their supervision, among them being the residence of and stables of Edwin Kirch, Esq., the residences of Sidney S. Smith, John F. Murphy and Frank Opdyke, MAURICE 1. JONGE, ARCHITECT. also Jacoby Hall on Broad street.
which are manufactured the output of Joseph S. Mundy's genius, the Mundy Friction Drum Hoisting Engine, now in use all over the world. Joseph S. Mundy was brought up in the country, worked on the farm in the summer and went to school in the winter. In 1866 he came to Newark and apprenticed himself to an engineering firm. In 1871 he began sketching the plans for his famous Friction Drum Hoisting Engine. Since 1870 he has been sole owner of the business.
DE JONGE & STEIGER.
T HE photographs of the gentlemen represented on this page are those of Messrs. De Jonge & Steiger, architects, doing business at No, 224 and 226 Market street. Mr. Maurice De
at the office of
FRED J. STEIGER, ARCHITECT.
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HOOPER & CO.
A RCHITECTURE has flourished since away back in the ages when mankind first quit his nomadic life where the tent was his home, and began the building of dwelling places of wood and stone. Just how much of this science was dis- played in the lines of the Tower of Babel and the great temples scattered through the eastern world, we have little means of divining. But from the time Solomon reigned in Jerusalem it is clearly shown by bible history that this beautiful science of architecture flourished and has left its footprints on every page of history. It is hardly possible that from the genius alone of Hiram, from whose trac- ing board sprang the beautiful ideal of David, the Temple of Solomon, which shone in its richness like a galaxy of stars in the firmanent at night, came with the inspiration of the moment, but rather from the result of his deep study of the thoughts and labors of other scientific men and the garnering by this brilliant student of what they had accomplishe 1 in the ages gone by and flashed on the world from the beautiful lines of the temple as they came in full combinations from his tracing board. So clear, so concise, and with such marvelous perfection they came from his pencil, that no sound of hammer, saw or any other metal tool was necessary to be heard in its erection, every huge stone and cedar stick being prepared in the quarries and on the hill sides from this great architect's working plans. Contemporaneous history gives examples in multitude of the growth of this beautiful science which has left its marks in the ruins of Balbec, the Pyramids, and ruins all along the great river Nile and where dash the cruel waves of the heartless Mediteranian. And so as time moves on to the hours when we reach this grand science in its perfection, as demonstrated in the work of the pencils of the famed Michael Angelo and Raphael and their contemporaries, when the beauty of poetry and the marvels of architecture rose and fell like the waves of the storm disturbed ocean.
Enough of the past. It is not of the men under whose genius the science of architecture grew and prospered with which we
CIGANMANUFACTURER EMERALD SILVER BITS
THE A. OHL MACHINE WORKS.
SCHLEUTERACO TOOL MAKERS
A.SCHLUETER & CO. ENGRAVERS.
AW.WHEATON MACHINISTS & BRASS FINISHER.
C.C. SCOTT PATTERN MAKER .P
WHEATON'S BUILDING.
have to do in our ESSEX COUNTY, N. J., ILLUSTRATED, nor is it of the men who wrought to bring out the fine lines of London's St. Paul or New York's old landmark, Trinity, the men of our era who have been and are to-day engaged in the work of dotting the world over not alone with such mighty examples of their wonderful capabilities as are seen in the Washington and Grant monuments, the Capitol building, where the representa- tives of the nation, the defenders of liberty assemble each year, the great building, which leaped from their plans and flew over thousands of miles of our domain to where towered all along marvels of their exploits, to the banks of Lake Michigan and Jackson Park, to become the mightiest exhibits of the great
GEORGE B. HOOPER.
Centennial fair, each startling the world with their grandeur, their beauty and strength, and all carried away in wonder at the mighty pro- portions of the one Manufacturers Building, covering 32 acres of ground and mounting heavenward nearly five hundred feet, not to say a single word for the Ferris wheel, the engineering feat of the ages. Among these men, architects of Newark city, it is our pleasure to speak in this souvenir work of Hooper & Co., Irvin G. and George B., who have their studios in the Credit System's Building, corner Washington and Market streets, where they are earning fame for themselves and adding to the mighty treasures of architectural art and adorning their profession, in modesty of assumption of the degree of their skill and advancement.
IRVIN G. HOOPER.
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PHILIP J. BOWERS & CO.
THE city of Newark looks to her young men for the steady rise and progress of her industrial interests, and she per- haps could not find two more energetic or competent men in whose hands she might trust a share of the work than Messrs. Philip J. Bowers and Walter H. Gray, general real estate and insurance brokers, of 189-191 Market street. A view of their elegant place of business and life-like photos of the firm, is herewith presented in the illustrations. The business was founded by Mr. Philip J. Bowers, who is a Newarker by birth and education, and who recently associated with himself Mr. Walter H. Gray, who was born and educated in Boston, Mass .. and having considerable experience in the profession, making the present firm, known under the style of Philip J. Bowers & Co. During their short time in real estate transactions they have earned a reputation for being two of the most active young men in their line ; although, prior to their present venture, both of the partners had spent long terms with other houses, where they thoroughly mastered every detail of the intricate business. No greater recommendation could be given them than the record of the fact that just previous to the presidential election in 1896, when the banks and financial institutions of the city were un- willing to advance loans on almost any terms, this young firm were able to place a loan of $43.500, a transaction at that time noticed by the daily press as a deal out of all ordinary considera- tions. This firm conduct a general real estate and insurance brokerage, buying, selling and exchanging every description of property, placing loans on bond and mortgage, handling in- vestment securities and writing lines on insurance in the most reliable companies at the lowest premium rates. The firm have on their books constantly a list of bargains in factory buildings. elegant residences, stores, city lots, and well regulated and improved farms. Philip J. Bowers & Co. make a specialty of procuring loans, in which they have had a phenomenal success and it is said that they have been successful in placing more money on bond and mortgage in a certain period, than any other three firms doing business in the city, a remarkable show- ing for the youngest house in Newark. The firm transacts business through competent agencies in every section of the State, and Mr. Bowers is identified with the real estate depart- ments of one of the largest savings and loan associations in New Jersey, which gives this firm another advantage in this connec-
PHILIP' J. BOWERS.
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HONEY
LOAN
PHILIP J.BOWERS & COM
BOND
BOWERS GREY & CO.
PHILIP J. BOWERS & CO., NO. 189-191 MARKET STREET.
tion. All this activity in no way interferes with these energetic and wide-awake young brokers from giving personal attention to all the details of their insurance department, which would be considered by itself a large and successful business for any firm so recently established. In this department they are ably assisted by our well known fellow-townsman. Mr. E. A. Johnson, who has been connected for many years with several well known and reliable insurance companies, having a thorough knowledge with all the details and methods of fire and accident risks. The firm represents only the leading and most reliable companies in these lines and the countersign of Philip J. Bowers & Co. on a policy is a guarantee that it is correctly drawn and that the terms of the contract will be carried out. The secret of their success in all the branches of this business is due to the energy, activity and precision in all particulars and the most thorough care given to all transactions committed to their care, whether the amount involved is a few dollars or runs into hundreds of thousands. From their present beginning it is easy to predict
for their future a foremost position among the real estate firms of Newark, founded upon strict attention to businesss, un- flagging energy and unvarying integrity. To the efforts and business transactions of men like Messrs. Bowers & Co .. the city is indebted to a great extent for its steady growth and advancement as an industrial centre, and with their ideas imbued by others it would be soon possi- ble to realize a greater Newark, embrac- ing all the territory east and west of the present city limits from and including Jersey City, on the east, to and including the second range of the Orange Mountains
on the west and stopping only at north and south with the cities of Eliza- beth and Paterson. Such a district care- fully filled up with a variety of manufac- turing industries, and useful and attractive homes, would become distinguished as the most advanced and prosperous indus- trial centre in the United States.
WALTER H. GRAY.
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OWEN M'CABE
T THE subject of this sketch, whose excellent photo appears below, is a well known citizen, whose carcer in the struggles of life is worthy of record on the pages of this illustrated souvenir. He was born in Ireland in 1836, and came to this country in his early teens, receiving a limited educa- tion in the schools of this city, after which he was apprenticed to Mr. L. J. Lyons, with whom he learned the trade of steam boiler making. In 1864 he associated with Mr. Samuel Lyons. a son of his former employer, and together they purchased the plant and conducted the business under the firm name of Samuel W. Lyons & Co .. until the death of Mr, Samuel W. Lyons, which occurred in 1866, when the present well known firm of L. J. Lyons & Co. was organized, and has been successfully continued ever since that time. The plant of this firm is located on Commerce street, and occupies all the ground running through to Passaic avenue, and is admirably equipped with all the neces- sary machinery, and appliances for conducting the trade. It is a fact that the firm have made a great deal of noise in the conduct of their business, but this has been done without bluster or show. A large corps of experienced mechanics and skilled workmen are constantly em- ployed in manufacturing steam boilers of all grades and sizes, also in constructing revolving barrels, iron tanks, dryers, etc. The boilers of this firm are located in the churches, schools, institutions, factories and homes of the people all over the Union, and have a reputation for safety and durability as exten- sive as the land they live in. This is another demonstration of what pluck, determination and honesty can accomplish in the struggles of life, combined with attention to business. Mr. McCabe is, strictly speaking. a self-made man, having raised himself steadily to his present position by close attention to busi-
OWEN M'CABE
Etectrotepe
NEWARK ELECTROTYPE FOUNDRY.
ness. He is well known in the industrial circles of this city and is honored for his integrity to business principles. He is a director and treasurer of St. James' Ilospital, located in the eastern section of Newark, N. J.
F. C. EDWARDS.
IN the illustrations presented on this page will be found an excellent and life-like portrait of Mr. F. C. Edwards, the well known broker and negotiator of loans, located in rooms 6-7, at No. 191 Market street. Hle first saw the light of the world in May, 1853, and has always resided in Newark, having attended the public grammar and high schools, graduating from the old Bryant, Stratton and Whitney Business College. Mr Edwards was connected with the old firms of C. Walsh & Son and Weiner & Co., as bookkeeper. He made an early start in business on his own account, at the age of twenty-one, having founded the I hænix Lock Works, which is still mn existence on Halsey street. After ten years he severed his connection with the above concern and took up his present business. He is also the secretary and treasurer of the American Wall Paper and Paint Company, doing business at 255 Market street, which was incorporated in 1895. They are the general agents for the Corey-Heller Company for this sec- tion of the State. Mr. Edwards is well known in business circles as one of the most successful negotiaters of stocks and bonds in this city. He is connected with several of Newark's industries and during his business career has aided many who were financially embarrassed.
F. C EDWARDS
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ESSEX COUNTY, N. J., ILLUSTRATED.
CHARLES WALLER.
of coach, carriage and hearse lamps, with a metal spinning, and gold, silver and nickel plating departments, which ate admir- ably equipped with every improvement known to the trade. Each member having served an apprenticeship to the business, occupies a position in the factory, the duties of which are discharged in an able manner, Mr. Eberhardt being the superinter dent. Mr. Hattel having charge of the lamp making and plating departments, while Mr. Schmidt conducts the spinning department and acts as treasurer of the company, and Mr. Walter is the secretary and man- ager. The plant is com- plete in all its arrange- ments, having a capacity for producing thirty thou- sand pairs of lamps an- nually. The high grade lamps manufactured by this firm are rapidly becoming celebrated for their superior construction, durability, workmanship and finish, and being expert mechanics they are enabled to do their own designing, having produced many new styles which have attracted the attention of the home as well as the export trade. Mr. Walter, the manager, personally attends to the out- business or the old axiom, that " Perseverance Conquers All Things." These four young men, each of whom had studied the art of coach lamp making and had garnered all the facts belonging to the trade, was ready to pull off his coat and roll up bis sleeves and go to work with a will, determined to win in the fight for supremacy. They had to come in contact with the experience of old beads and to meet in the markets of the coun- try such a fierce competition as the increase in the number of producers always beget, and when the young firms win success, as this quartet most assuredly has, the reward comes in the increased demand for their goods and the well deserved and honest commendations which ever follow. To this young firm - has come all this, and so systematic has been the conduct of the affairs of their business, their growth cannot but be com- mensurate with the effort put forth. The lamps from this con- cein show to the world in their real beauty, that there was real GUSTAVE 1 . HATTEI .. mechanical and artistic merit in each member.
NEWARK COACH LAMP MANUFACTURING CO.
T HIE city of Newark is justly noted for the many and various kind of industrial pursuits conducted in her corporate limits, and few cities in the United States are better known princi- pally through the superiority of the manufactured products. In this connection we take pleasure in mentioning an enterprise that is highly commendable, and whose career is worthy of imitation, in these times of rivalry and sharp competition the Newark Coach Lamp Manufacturing Co., whose plant is shown n the illustrations, with life-like photos of the men who com- jose the firm. The industry was commenced in a small way in Arlington street, in July 1891, and during the past six years 1 as been successfully conducted by the original founders, Messrs. Hattel, Schmidt, Eberhardt and Walter, each of whom are GUSTAVE SCHMIDT. practical mechanics and possess a thorough knowledge of the coach lamp industry. The firm manufactures every description side business, being well known on the road and is thoroughly familiar with the carriage builders throughout the entire coun- try. The firm have successfully conducted their business and breasted the hard times of the past three years which will long be remembered as a period that tried men's souls as well as their bank accounts and the years 1894-5-6, will go down in history as a record breaker in the story of panics and indus- trial depression. Such, in brief, is the record which this firm can boast of, LAMP MANUFACTURING CO. composed as it is of four united and determined DACH mechanics, who have demonstrated their ability 1 L to conduct their own busi- L ness and have never per- mitted the business to in- fluence them. These men have set an example in pushing to success an in- dustrial pursuit which others might follow PLANT OF NEWARK COACH LAMP MANUFACTURING CO. with satisfaction. Since they have shown that even in the midst of the gravest of difficulties and throughout all the period of the gravest business and financial depression known in the history of either. these men have apparently never lost sight for a moment of the immense value of close application to
CHARLES F. EBERHARDT.
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DAVID RIPLEY & SONS, TIMBER & LUMBER.
F OR more than half a century there has been conducted in this city an industry which, in extent and usefulness of its production, stands unrivalled. We refer to the steam saw and planing mills plant conducted under the firm name of David Ripley & Sons Timber & Lumber Co., a remarkable and telling photo of which appears in the beautiful illustration presented on this page. The business of this great concern has a convenience of situation surpassed by few, if any, similar industry in any city in the United States. More than half a century of years have passed away since David Ripley, the founder, then a poor and almost friendless boy, came to this city from Green's Farms. in Connecticut, where he was born in 1803. He brought with him little or no cash, but possessed what was far better-an active brain, a healthy physique and a strong right arm, great and mighty factors in the upbuilding of a home and a fortune.
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DAVID RIPLEY & SONS TOMBER & LUMBER
PLANT OF DAVID RIPLEY & SONS TIMBER AND LUMBER CO.
His business foundations were laid firm and deep in the great and lasting principles of the virtues of temperance, fortitude, prudence and justice, and he was never known, during all his long business career, extending over a period of more than fifty years, to deviate or part from them. Early in life he imbibed a strong hatred for the institution of slavery and was always a fearless champion of its abolition. In the latter part of the fifties he brought down on his head not a few maledictions on account of his sentiments in this regard, but his convictions of right were so strong and his inbred love of honor still stronger, that he was never happier or showed up to his neighbors in better form than when withstanding the taunts of the thought- lessness of those who opposed him. He was the founder in
organizing the Clover Street Industrial School, and contributed generously towards the support of the poor children in that section of the city. A marked specialty of the business was the sawing of logs into timber, boards, planks, joists, sills. studding, etc., to order. The trees, being purchased on forest lands in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, were chopped down and rafted on the Delaware and Susquehanna rivers and brought into his own plant via Passaic River and Morris Canal, both of which run past his doors. Many of the logs which were felled in the forests of Georgia and Alabama were sawed into boards and planks in this time-honored mill.
Few industries have, perhaps, done more toward advancing the manufacturing interests of this city than the lumber industry carried on under the well-known name of David Ripley & Sons. Along with their extensive sawing and planing mill, the sons and grandsons who have succeeded the founder have added a
WILLIAM A. RIPIEY.
box plant on a very extensive scale. Thousands of boxes go forth from their works to the great manufacturing establishments engaged in other lines of trade that requires them to ship then product to the marts of trade through- out the country. Besides filling success- fully all the responsibilities attaching to such a large busmess, the present pro- prietors have kept untarnished the badge of good citizenship, Mr. William A. Ripley having served as one of the first police commissioners of this city. and represented his ward in the Board of Chosen Freeholders and his assem-
bly district in the State Legislature with credit to himself and satisfaction to his constituency. Mr. John Wattles Ripley has also filled the responsible office of Alderman, representing the people of his ward with ability. After the death of John Wattles Ripley the new company was incorporated.
CHARLES O RIPLEY.
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