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THE HINCHLIFFE BREWING AND MALTING COMPANY. -This company was incorporated the first day of May of the present year, the members of it being the same as com- posed the brewing and malting firm known in this city for years as Hinchliffe Brothers ; they are the three sons of the founder of the old Eagle Brewery, who began business in the year 1861. In that year Mr. John Hinchliffe leased the old .. Archie" Graham brewery ; having a practical knowl- edge of brewing he established the business under the title of Hinchliffe & Co. ; he subsequently associated himself
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with Mr. John Shaw, a fellow countryman, and after- wards a leading and popular citizen. The lease having expired Mr Graham recommenced business and the firm of Hlinchliffe & Co established an agency for Cox's then celebrated ales, until they could erect a suitable brewery for themselves. In 1867 the present Eagle ale and porter brewery was built ; they then admitted a new member to the firm, Mr. Thomas B. Penrose, also an Englishman from Yorkshire, an experienced practical brewer and con- ceded to be one of the best brewers in the United States at that time; the firm name was then changed to Shaw, Hinchliffe & Penrose Each member was suited to his par- ticular department and the concern did a thriving and suc- cessful business In 1872 to meet the requirements of their increasing trade and to enable them to insure a con- stant supply of the best malt they erected the extensive malt house which stands in the rear of the property ; it is a massive brick structure 150x75 feet, six stories high, with slated roof; a switch from the New York, Lake Erie & Western Railroad runs into the building where are un- loaded thousands of bushels of barley daily coming from Canada, New York State and western points ; the capacity of this house, which is the only one in this vicinity, is over one hundred and fifty thousand bushels of malt per season ; it is one of the most substantial and best equipped malt houses in the State ; it is supplied with the best well water, free from lime and other objectionable ingredients, and deserves the widespread reputation it has of producing the finest malt. This department is under the efficient man- agement of Mr. Henry Coley, for years maltster at the H. B. Manning malt houses in Buffalo.
In the year 1878 Mr. Penrose retired from the firm, the original parties, Shaw & Hinchliffe, buying out his interests and leaving his pupil, Mr. William F. Hinchliffe, in charge of the brewing department.
In 1SS1 Mr. Shaw was compelled to go abroad for his health, but instead of improving he gradually became worse and died
This left the founder of the business alone and under the firm name of John Hinchliffe he conducted a very success- ful business until his death, September Ist, ISS6, he then being in his sixtieth year ; he was buried at the Holy Sep- ulchre Cemetery, his remains being borne to their last rest- ing place, in compliance with his request, by his oldest and most trusted employees. He had been all through his life a hard working man, strictly honest, conscientious and be- nevolent ; he left two daughters and three sons, his wife having died a few years before ; he was devotedly attached to his family and during the sickness before his death as- signed and deeded all his real and personal property to them ; the brewery property he gave to his sons, John, William F., and James C., who shortly after their father's death began business under the firm name of Hinchliffe Brothers.
These young men, having been trained up by their father in the different departments of malting and brew- ing, were thus properly fitted to continue the business and
began, firmly keeping in view the good business example of their father. Having retained the reputation made by their predecessors up to this for fine ales and porters, their "Original B" especially being noted, and knowing that the demand was increasing for the popular cool lager beer. they resolved to accede to their customers' wishes and add to their already extensive plant a model lager beer brew- ery. With this end in view they consulted the well known firm of Charles Stoll & Son, brewery architects of Brook - lyn, who soon had plans and specifications drawn for the largest brewery of its kind in the city ; with their usual push and energy they immediately began to tear down old buildings and prepare for the new and model ones.
After eight months had gone by they had completed the lager beer brewery which is shown in the engraving as taken from the front elevation of the architect's plans. The storage and brew-house is five stories high, built of brick and iron trimmed with granite from the Mount Adams Granite Co. In the rear is a three-story ice factory in which there is one of the De la Vergne ice machines with a capacity of 65 tons, which besides being capable of refrigerating the entire plant is able to supply a large amount of artificial ice ; it is the most improved machine and is used with the "direct" system. These buildings and two smaller ones constitute the lager beer brewery, which is said to be the heaviest building in the city ; the iron work, of which there is a large amount, was contract- ed by the Watson Machine Works and the Passaic Rolling Mill. The copper work contained inside was also a large contract. being executed by August Roos's Sons, copper- smiths of New York.
The casks, tanks, tubs, &c, which are necessary in a well regulated brewery that the beer may have the proper age, were erected by Smith & Son, of Philadelphia, and J. Schwarzwalder & Sons. of New York ; Mr. David Henry, of Paterson, carpenter and builder, and Mr. Samuel Riley, mason, also of Paterson, have the gratification of looking upon a beautiful structure built largely by their hands.
The capacity of brewing is about 75,000 barrels per year. The brewery is under the direct supervision of the company, which is composed of John Hinchliffe, president ; William F. Hinchliffe, vice president, and James C. Hinchliffe, secretary and treasurer, who own equal shares of stock.
Besides the brewing and malting business they are in- terested in several land companies, and are generally active.
THE PATERSON CONSOLIDATED BREWING COMPANY - During the year ISS9 representatives of an English syndi- cate made overtures to a number of the brewers in Pater- son to purchase their entire establishments for the purpose of forming a stock company and disposing of the stock in England. After long and tedious negotiations the project fell through, but it had not been without fruit. The nego- tiations had brought the brewers closer together and they recognized the benefits to be derived from concerted action among men having an identity of interests. The result was the formation of the Paterson Consolidated Brewing
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Company by the proprietors of four of the largest brewer- ies in the city. The company now owns the breweries formerly under the personal management of Christian and Louis Braun, Sprattler & Mennell, James A. Graham & Co. and the Katz Brothers. These gentlemen now share with each other the enormous advantages to be derived from large purchases, a general surveillance of the busi- ness under one management and the numerous other bene- fits derived by an amalgamation of interests. The officers of the company are the following : Bernard Katz, presi- dent ; Philip Katz, first vice president ; James A Graham, second vice president ; Christian Mennell, treasurer ; Louis F. Braun, secretary ; Christian Braun, general brewer. Following are sketches of the various breweries owned by the consolidated company :-
THE BRAUN BREWERY OF THE PATERSON CONSOLI- DATED BREWING COMPANY. - In 1855 Mr. Christian Braun, father of Messrs. Christian and Louis F. Braun, started a brewery on the corner of Braun and Marshall streets and conducted the business with increasing trade and success until the year 1870, when he leased the busi- ness to Sprattler & Mennel. Mr. Braun died in 1876 and his sons took possession of the business. They were young men of excellent business qualifications, liberal and pleasant, and they soon built up a business second to none in the city. The brewery was increased until they had a structure 75x200, three stories high. equipped with all the latest improved appliances for the production of a superior grade of lager beer ; the capacity of the brewery is 60,000 barrels per year. Every facility and advantage, which long experience and a thorough knowledge of the business could bring to bear, was used. and all the operations of the business were conducted under the immediate supervision of the proprietors, who are experienced and practical brewers. In ISS8 a 25-ton ice machine was put in and this was supplemented after the consolidation had taken place, by a 50-ton ice machine. At present work is in progress for the erection of a new brew house, five stories high, 42x44, built of brick and ornamented with brown stone. A handsome malt tower, having a capacity of ten thousand bushels of malt, will surmount the building which will be one of the finest and most costly in the city. From the ground to the top of the tower is a distance of 1.44 feet. The brewery when completed will have a ca- pacity of 150,000 barrels of beer per annum An engrav- ing of the building as completed is presented on page 181. On the opposite side of the street are the stables where the twenty horses used in the business are housed.
. THE SPRATTLER & MENNELL BREWERY OF THE PAT- ERSON CONSOLIDATED BREWING COMPANY .- Mr. Gustav Sprattler and Mr. Christian Mennell established the brew- ing of lager beer in l'aterson in 1870, having leased the brewery up to that time operated by Mr. Christian Braun. Here they laid the foundations for the splendid trade subse- quently controlled by the house. In 1876 they took pos- session of a new brewery, which they had erected for the purpose and which at that time had a capacity of 8,000
barrels per annum. In the succeeding years enlargements of the plant were made and new buildings erected until the brewery is one of the most complete in all respects in New Jersey, having a capacity of 40,000 barrels per annum. The plant covers an area of 185x200 feet, upon which are erected ice houses, brewery and malt houses, store houses, &c. Itis equipped with all the latest improved machinery and ap- pliances. In ISS7 a 25-ton ice machine was added, being the first of its kind in the city of Paterson. Mr. Sprattler died in October, ISS5, and the business was conducted by his estate and by Mr. Mennell until the consolidation took place in 1890, when the interest of the Sprattler estate was absorb- ed by the company. Owing to the great scarcity of ice the consolidated company concluded to erect an ice plant and for this purpose a brick addition, 50x65, was added to the brewery. In this building was placed a 50-ton ice ma- chine which has produced thirty tons of ice a day for some time, the ice being used by the various brewers, when they stood in need of any in addition to their respective ice plants, and is served to the customers of the consolidated company.
THE GRAHAM BREWERY OF THE PATERSON CONSOLI- DATED BREWING COMPANY .- Among the most experi- enced brewers in the State is Mr. James A. Graham. He was employed in a brewery early in his life and learn- ed the business thoroughly in every department. For nine years he was superintendent of a large brewery in Pater- son and in 1887 he concluded to go into business for him- self. For this purpose he purchased a tract of land lying on Cedar street and running from Straight street to Ramapo avenue. This gave him a very desirable location, being in the centre of the city and adjoining the tracks of the New York, Lake Erie & Western railroad. On this he erected a substantial brewery having all the modern appli- ances and machinery. The building is three stories high, built of brick and has a frontage of 40 feet and a depth of 100 feet. The engine and boiler house is separate from the main building and its dimensions are 25x30 feet. The stable attached to the brewery is 40x60. All that was needed to make the project a success was a supply of pure water and this was obtained by the sinking of an artesian well. A number of very deep wells had been previously sunk in various parts of the city and all had yielded an abundant supply of pure water, so that the sinking of the well was not an experiment. Mr. Graham's business was a success from the start, just what his friends had antici- pated. He had the knowledge, the energy and the neces- sary business qualifications and was in possession of a well equipped brewery. The demand for the product of the brewery at once taxed the resources to their fullest extent and there has not been an idle day at the establishment since it was started. In addition to a large home trade Mr. Graham soon built up a trade outside of the city until his ales and porter are well known throughout this part of the State.
THE BURTON BREWERY OF THE PATERSON CONSOLI- DATED BREWING COMPANY .- No industry has ever met
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with more remarkable success than the industry of Philip and Bernard Katz, who for a number of years conducted the brewing business under the firm name of Katz Broth- ers. It was more by accident than by design that they em- barked in the brewing business but once engaged in it they gave to it all their energy and attention and they soon ranked among the most successful and best known brew- ing firms in the country. They began brewing in July, 1877, on the corner of Godwin and Bridge streets, where their capacity was twenty-five barrels per day. The only difficulty they experienced was that they could not supply the demand for their product. While they were contem- plating the erection of a new brewery or looking for some way in which their establishment could be increased so as to meet all the demands made upon it the Burton brewery was offered for sale. This brewery had been erected only a very few years; it stood on Straight and Governor streets and had been built by the Burton Brewing Com- pany, an organization composed of men of means who, however, had had very little experience in the particular line of business in which they found themselves engaged. Dissensions among the stockholders and other difficulties arose and the company finally resolved to go into liquida- tion. They owned one of the finest breweries in the State ; no expense had been spared in its erection and equipment. but even with all these advantages the business proved a failure and the company was glad to find a purchaser. A wonderful change came over the order of things when Katz Brothers took possession. They thoroughly under- stood the business in which they were engaged and in place of dissensions came perfect unity. Soon even this
large brewery became too small for the demand. It was purchased in ISS2 and since then not a twelvemonth has passed that did not see some material additions and im- provements. Their XXX and Canada Malt Ale and other brands were in such demand wherever they had been in- troduced that the firm soon found it necessary to open stores in New York and other cities and their renown as brewers ceased being provincial or local and became na- tional. From all parts of the United States came orders for Katz Brothers' ales and porters. Having met with this almost phenomenal success in the brewing of ales and por- ter they concluded in ISSS to undertake the brewing of la- ger beer and for this purpose erected a substantial addition- to their already large establishment. Their experience in the brewing of beer was a repetition of their previous ex- perience. From a small beginning in twelve years the Katz Brothers found themselves in possession of a business for which an English syndicate offered a round million of dollars. Their brewery has a frontage of 200 feet on Straight street. 300 feet on Governor street and 300 feet on Harrison street ; it has an annual capacity of 130,000 barrels.
There is one feature which has been remarkably prom- inent in this firm and which has undoubtedly contributed a great deal towards their success and that is the unity in which the two members of the firm act together. They are both active and enterprising but the undertaking of one is always shared by the other. Their purposes are always combined and in the execution of them each takes an equal share. Brotherly affection and unity was never better ex- emplified than in the firm of Katz Brothers. Their mother aged 82, still active and cheerful, resides with them.
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Biographical.
HOWARD T. BELL was born in Stanhope, N. J., on March 26, 1843. His family subsequently re- moved to Branchville, Sussex county, where he enjoyed the advantages of a district school. In 1860 he graduated at the Collegiate Institute in Newton, N. J. Early in his life he showed an inclination for the business of banking and at the age of seventeen he entered the em- ploy of the bank at Hackettstown, N. J. With character- istic energy he devoted himself to the study of the theory as well as the practice of banking, and was rewarded by rapid advancement. In the spring of 1864 he accepted the appointment of teller in the then Bank of Jersey City, now the Second National Bank of Jersey City. In the same year he was elected cashier of the First National Bank of Paterson, which was at that time reorganizing. Ifis practical knowledge of the details of the business made his selection a very fortunate one for the bank. In 1874 he severed his connection with the bank in order to engage in mercantile pursuits in New York city. He con- tinued as one of the directors of the bank, and in ISS2 was elected vice president. In 1883 he again entered the ac- tive service of the bank, resuming the desk and duties he had voluntarily relinquished several years before. During his mercantile career in New York he visited Europe on several occasions on important business connected with the firm of which he was a member. He was chairman of the New Jersey state commission to the Paris Exposition of 187S, and had charge of the arrangements for the ban- quet tendered to General Grant. llis relations with the Commissioner General of the United States were cordial and confidential, he being frequently entrusted with duties connected with the administration of the American section. Mr. Bell is well known as a man of public spirit, always ready and willing to assist in any movement tending to the advancement of Paterson. His services in connection with the erection of the Church of the Redeemer were very valuable ; as one of the Commissioners of Parks he has labored diligently and faithfully. He devotes considerable time to public affairs, in which he is warmly interested, and while always declining public office he is ever willing to aid by his advice and efforts every good cause which may prove of benefit to the people.
DEWITT C. BOLTON was born June 16th, 1848, at Rahway, N. J. At four years of age he removed with his father to the City of Paterson, where he has continued to reside. At an early age he became an employee in a cotton factory. His father was superintendent and had very extensive experience in the manufacture of cotton fab- rics. But young Bolton, not satisfied with the limitations surrounding his position. resolved to enter upon a task at once more congenial to his taste and hopeful for the future. He began to study law. With the superb advantages that most students enjoy, the study of the law is the natural sequence following life at college and preceding life in the world. But with Mr. Bolton, it was different, indeed. His life was not flushed with such roseate tints. He studied law at night for two years and worked in the fac- tory during the day. Finally to the regret of all with whom he daily worked, he gave up his employment to complete his studies in the office of his preceptor, prepar- atory to his application for admission to the bar. At the June term of the Supreme Court, ISSI, he received his license to practice as an attorney-at-law, and three years later at the June term of the same court he was admitted to practice as a counsellor-at-law. Mr. Bolton is a Re- publican, and a very prominent member of his party in the county of Passaic. He served for many years upon the Executive Committee of the county. He was elected an Assemblyman in IS84, and again in 1885. His voice and vote were always with the right. He ranged himself with the people and the promises that he made before election he faithfully kept. He is remembered gratefully by all his old associates in the Assembly, for having injected into many a cold debate the warming influence of his wit.
JOHN J. BROWN was born in New York city in 1817. When he was five years of age his parents removed from New York and settled in Paterson, where his father en- gaged in the grocery business. John J. attended school until he was thirteen years of age, when he became a clerk in a dry goods store. He went to New York in IS34 and effected an engagement as clerk with James La Tourette, at that time a noted manufacturer of furs and cloth caps.
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in whose employ he continued for three years. In this employment he passed the winter of 1836-7 in New Or- leans. When he returned to New York in May, 1837, he found that his employer had failed, having gone down in the great financial storm of that year, which carried with it the United States banks, together with many of the large and small establishments of the day. This failure prevent- ed him from entering into business for himself, as he otherwise would have done, and he accordingly returned to Paterson. He then again found employment as a clerk in a dry goods store and a few years later succeeded to his father's grocery business. He continued the latter until 1844, when he changed his vocation and embarked in the dry goods business. This venture proved a very success- ful one and he continued in it until 1867. At the close of his mercantile career he had a large establishment on Main street, and had built up the most extensive business of the kind in the city. He then devoted his talents to larger projects and became one of the most prominent men of the city. Ilis connection with the First National Bank, with the Savings Institution, with the Cedar Lawn Ceme- tery Company, with the Paterson and Passaic Horse Rail- road Company, and the large share of work which he has done towards making Paterson one of the most flourishing cities in the country are told on other pages. No impor- tant step has ever been taken in the improvement of the city without his valuable advice and assistance. When Paterson was organized Mr. Brown was chosen one of the members of the Board of Aldermen, and he was re-elected to that position while absent in Europe. In 1854 he was elected the first Mayor of the city, but at the expiration of his term he persistently declined a re-election. During
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