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THE MUTUAL MILK AND CREAM CO., producers and wholesale dealers in the finest quality of daily products, have an extensive branch office in the Bronx with main offices at Nos. 322, 324 and 326 East 103d Street. They supply the residents of the Bronx with the pure lacteal fluid to a greater and larger extent than any similar firm in the Greater City. The health of every community is of the greatest importance and one of the first essentials to that end is the purity of the milk and cream which is consumed. The product of the Mutual Milk and Cream Company is gathered from the choicest sections of this part of the country and a rigid inspection is made of all dairies where the milk is taken, sampled and tested before it is shipped to New York City. The company was incorporated in 1898 and handled about 1,300 cans of milk. To-day the output is nearly 3,000 cans. The Bronx branch is situated at Nos. 602-60S East
142d Street, where the company has erected a splendid modern building, and equipped it with every device for the sanitary hand- ling of its milk and cream. She milk and ereain arrives every morning from the Berkshires on the Highland Division of the New Haven & Hartford Railroad and also on the Harlem and Putnam Division of the New York Central. The company employs about 125 men in the city and fully as many more in the country, where the milk and cream is taken. The officers of the company are as follows: Charles Hank, president ; John Krooss, vice-president ; Charles Vanhof, Jr., secretary and treas- urer : J. N. Hannahis, superintendent. The directors: Charles Hank, Charles Vanhof. Jr., J. H. Paul, Val. Geis, R. E. Westcott, J. Krooss. J. N. Mannahs, S. Hopper, H. Arnstein, M. Hallman. M. H. Ullman, The company has recently added another fea- ture to its large business, viz., a sanitary, pastureizing and bottling plant at No. 321 East 102d Street.
Carnegie Library, Alexander Avenue and 140th Street
ALPHONSE W. WEINER
JACOB STAHL, JR
HENRY ROSENBERG
RICHARD FURLONG
CHAPTER XLIV
PROMINENT MEN OF AFFAIRS
Who Have Made Their Mark in the Annals of this Progressive Borough
JOHN CHARLES WALWORTH .- This gentleman is dis- anguished among resicents of the Bronx as the head of the Walworth School. 034-638 East 14gth Street, one of the noted educational institutions of that division of the city. He is presi denit and owner of that establi lin.ent, which is one of the oldest schools of the kind in the United States. This business school has equipped for the little of life many of our best and most successful metropolitan business men. The Walworth School is the largest of its kind in this borough, if not in New York, hav- ing between four and five hundred students yearly. They receive instruction in stenography. typewriting. bookkeeping, penman- ship and other studies, fitting them for the best situations in business offices. Mr. Walworth was born in New York City,
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August 18, 1870. He received his concation in the public schools and in the Willson and Walworth College. On leaving school he adopted teaching as a vocation, and he has been, as we have intimated, highly successful in it. He is the secretary and treasurer of the Commercial School Principals' Association of New York, of which association he was the founder. He is , also chairman of the Committee on Education of the North Side Board of Trade, and one of the governors of the First Ward Republican Club of New Rochelle, in which city, with his family, he resides. He was married. in 1805. to Miss Jessie Viola Mo- sher. They have had three children, Lemoine C. (deceased). Chester A. and Mead.
GEORGE W. BIRD, the energetic and successful proprie- tor of the Bronx Borough Business Institute, located in the haffen Building, over the Dollar Savings Bank, at Third and Willis Avenues and 148th Street, is a man who has gone through the very sort of experience his pupils are likely to encounter, and this is especially fitted to pilot them into business ways He was born September 17, 1870, in the old Ninth Ward . of New York. He is of good old native stock; his great-grand- father fought in the Revolution. Mr. Bird passed through the public schools of the city and attended the College of the City of New York, but was obliged to leave it before completing his course on account of illness. During five years thereafter he held various positions-salesman in a dairy, real estate agent. in- surance agent and so on; but having little taste for these occu- pations he decided to take a course in a business college. He graduated from the New York Business Institute in 1893, and accepted a position with the Liberty Rubber Shoe Co. of New York. Having at the time a strong desire to teach stenography he volunteered his services at night in the school from which ne had graduated, free of charge. This he did for one year and then was employed on salary, in this same school. for both the day and evening sessions. Here he continued five years. In 1900 there was not a business school of any kind above the llarlem River below Yonkers and Mt. Vernon. Mr. Bird sass the need of one and accordingly established himself in the Smith Building, next door to where he now is. He started in a mas; humble way with a single student (and that a free scholarship). one typewriter, one table, six chairs and a small desk. Capital for it being lacking he did but little advertising, substituting foot it a personal canvass. Success gradually attended his efforts The first ycar he graduated 27; the second 36; the third 100, and the fourth 140. The first year he taught typewriting and a r :- hand only, but the second he was obliged to introduce book. keeping to satisfy the demand. His school has been built up more by the recommendation of graduates than through adver tising. It employs only practical teachers. It is endorsed Is leading business men and educators of the Bronx, who gladly employ its graduates. Mr. Bird has never guaranteed posti c.s and makes few promises, endeavoring simply to teach the oughly ; but he has been unable sometimes to supply the demand on him for help. When, in September, 1002, he moved : his present place, a whole floor was fitted up especially for :12 business. The subjects taught are shorthand, typewr.una. office practice, spelling, bookkeeping, penmanship, business corte spondence, arithmetic, rapid calculation and commercial ;ivy an ! mechanical drawing. Mr. Bird is chairman of the Computer on Trade Needs of the North Side Board of Trade. i will. Prospect Avenue M. E. Schurch. He married in the. ... Fannie 1. Lyon. The first year of his venture in the owl his wife worked with humm hand in hand
GEORGE GARDNER ROCKWOOD
CEORGE W. BIRD
EDWARD ROWAN
RUDOLPH E. STOECKEL
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JOSEPH P. LIEBERTZ, formerly Deputy Commissioner of the Department of Street Cleaning, Borough of the Bronx, was born in New York City June 24, 1857. He attended the public schools of the city until the age of 14, when he entered into the employ of the famous jewelry house of Tiffany & Co., where his services were so valuable to the firm. He was in the cashier's department, which position he retained for twenty-six years. A testimonial to his ability, fidelity and unimpeachable integrity was given to him by the firm after he tendered his
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resignation to accept the position of Deputy Commissioner of Street Cleaning in 1898, where he served with strict fidelity until April, 1902. when he accepted his present position with the Knickerbocker Trust Co., at 149th Street and Third Avenue. On March 28, 1875, Mr. Liebertz married Miss Annie Francis Hart, of New York City, the result of this union being seven children, three of whom are deceased. and four living. viz :, Marguerite A., Loretta H., William J .. and James F. Liebertz. The rise and progress of Mr. Liebertz's business career has been marked with wonderful success, owing to the close application that he has always applied to all of the many positions of trust that he has from time to time occupied. Starting in with Tif- fany & Co., as an uncouth lad, he directed his attention to the absolute obedience of orders from his employers, and as he grew up. familiarized himself with all the many intricate details of this great establishment. and to such a successful issue that his abilities and masterly qualifications were so appreciated by the firm, they were only too gratified to reward him with the highest . position of trust in the greatest jewelry firm on this continent. These spurs were won by hard and diligent pursuit and by faith ful performance of all duties required of him. In connection . with his important duties with the Knickerbocker Trust Co., Mr. . Liebertz is Treasurer of the Bronx lee Consumers' Co., Treas- urer of the Sound View Land and Improvement Co, Treas-
urer of the Neptune Bathing Co., and for the past 14 years financial secretary of the well known Schnorer Club of the Bronx. He is a member of St. Augustine's Roman Catholic Church. the Democratic Club of New York City, and the Talla- poosa Club.
HERMAN BOTH, manufacturer of awnings and shades, at 947 and 948 East 16Ist Street, leader in that line in the bor- ough, is a native of Germany. He was born September 25, 1845. For fourteen of his carlier years-during the war and a year or two after it-he led a seafaring life on a sailing vessel, but abandoned that in 1872 and then took up the shade and awning line. He worked at that until 1889 and then started in business on his own account, locating himself at 947 East 16Ist Street and prospering so that in a very short time he was compelled to enlarge his business, which he did by taking for that purpose 948 East 161st Street. Mr. Both is a Democrat. a mem. ber of the Jefferson Club, the Woodstock Pleasure Club, the Schleswig Holstein Club and St. Paul's Lutheran Church. He married April 12, 1872, Miss Elizabeth Muhs and has nine children living. Four sons are engaged with him in the business This is the twenty-ninth year of his residence in the borough.
AUGUSTUS GARIESS, JR., paying teller of the Harlem Savings Bank, and general appraiser of Bronx real estate, was born at Harlem. New York City, on February 25, 1867, residing at Bedford Park, Bronx, and was educated at the public schools in the Bronx. For thirty-seven years he has been a resident of the Bronx, and is widely known and highly respected for his integrity and usefulness as one of the foremost citizens in the borough. Ifis business qualifications are of the highest order and
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are so recognized by the officers of the well known financial insti- tion for which he is the paying teller. In April, 1858, Mr. Garie .. married Miss Barbara Smith, an estimable and highly cultured young lady, and this union has resulted in two children, namely : Angnature and Frederick Gariess. Mr. Gariess is a Demarat : polities, but has never aspired to public office. He is a member of the Lutheran Church, Harlem Lodge, F. and A. M. Syivan Chapter, Constantine Commandery, the Mystic Stemme. Nrt'; Side Board of Trade, and the Schnorer Club.
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ALBERT L. WYMAN
T. GERALD STEARNS IN SEVENTH REGIMENT UNIFORM
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MICHAEL WOHN was born in New York City Angust 6. 1851, where he was educated in the public schools. For the past twenty-three years he has been a resident of Bronx Borough, where he is engaged in the insurance business. Mr. Wohn is a member of Guiding Star Lodge. F. and A. M .. I. O. O. F .. . A. O. W. W., the Schnorer, Arion and Liedertafel Clubs. He was married August 26, 1871, and has four children, viz. : Margaretta, George, John and Frederick, all of whom are living.
JOSEPH CHARLES LEE, a Boniface of the Bronx and a native, was born in Hoffman Street, Fordham, April 19, 1864. He attended the Primary Public School No. 48 at Hoffman Street, Fordham and graduated at Grammar School No. 64 on Webster Avenue, Fordham. He afterwards took a classical course at the College of the City of New York. His profession ints always been that of "Mine Host" and he has catered to the public taste for a great many years, particularly in Fordham, where his hostelry is recognized as one of the most popular of the old but growing centres of the northern part of the Bronx. He is democratic in his political faith and is a member of a large number of organizations, religious, social and political. He is prominently identified with all the orders of the Church of Our Lady of Mercy, Fordham, organizer and captain of the Belmont Bascball Club, the Belmont Social, the Ancient Order of Hiber- nians, the Independent Order of Red Men, the Clan na Gael So- ciety, Tallapoosa Club, Jefferson Club, Seneca Club, A. Murphy Association, P. H. Lennon Association, Liquor Dealers' Union and Navajo Club. On October 12, 1889, he married Mary Jose- phine Cahill, of Ireland, and has an interesting family of five children, namely, Joseph, Patrick Lee, Ernest Vincent, Donald Rossa and John Francis. Percy, another son, died a few years ago.
FREDERICK WILLIAM MCCULLOUGH, the general newspaper distributor in the Borough of the Bronx of all the evening editions of the majority of the afternoon papers of Greater New York, was born in New York City February 21. 1873. After leaving school he worked in a butcher and grocery store for a short period at a very nominal salary. In 1889 he opened a news-stand in the Bronx for the sale of daily papers. Naturally a hustler. it was not long before he had established a iarge patronage of local purchasers, and an exclusive profitable delivery route of both morning and cvening editions. The fo !- lowing year, 1800, he was enterprising enough to make a con- tract with several of the evening paper managers of Greater New York, to take absolute control of the distribution of their editions throughout the Borough of the Bronx. This turned out not to be very easy sailing to young MeCullough, for the great American News Company, that controls all of the various pub- lications of the country, took umbrage at the bold move of Mr. MeCullough, as an invader upon their personal rights, and com- menced proceedings against him, to destroy his rights and privi- leges. They endeavored to control the Bronx distribution of evening editions; the fight was a long and bitter contest. and was met with a firm and resolute determination by young McCul. lough, who finally defeated the wealthy corporation, and is now in full control and absolute master of the distribution of all the . evening editions of the New York papers. Beginning fifteen years ago as a news dealer, supplying papers in a small area of terri- tory, between 133d and 143d Streets from Third Avenue 10 the Sound, it now extends throughout the entire Bronx. Pluck, energy, integrity and a determination to succeed, has been the cul- mination of Mr. Mccullough's success. Unmarried, he has re-
sided with his mother, Mrs. Mary Mccullough, at No. 366 Willis Avenue, for the past fourteen years, a daughter of Wm. Coalter, a well-known merchant of Enniskillen, County Fer managh, Ireland. His father, Wm. G. Mccullough, was a well- known real estate broker of this city, died several years ago, was a son of John McCullough, of Bainbridge, Ireland. Two sisters Rebecca and Ilelen, and one brother, John Scott McCullbagh, constitute the family of this enterprising and progressive young man. He is a Methodist, and a member of the North Side Re publican Club.
RICHARD I'URLONG, of the well known firm of Furlong & Furlong, manufacturers of cornices and skylights in the Bor- ough of the Bronx, was born at Long Island City April 4, 1855 At the age of nine years he came to the Bronx, and was edu. cated at the public schools, and for the past thirty years has leren a resident bere. "Mr. Furlong started in business a very young man, and by his practical methods and indefatigable in- dustry has increased his manufacturing interests to such an ex tent that he stands at the head of the roofing, cornice and sky- light business in the Borough of the Bronx. Ilis facilities for executing large and small contracts arc so complete that he has the entire confidence of the largest builders, construction com- panies and managers of estates throughout Greater New York : his promptness to carry out all contracts made by him, according to specifications and plans, and to furnish the best material em- ployed in roofing, cornice work or skylights, and to execute the same in a workmanlike and mechanical manner, has made for Mr. Furlong a distinguished reputation, and is the prime cause of his rapid success in the business. He was married on June 12, 1892, to Miss Alice C. Turnbull, of Westchester, whose family were among the old settlers of the latter place, and has one child, named Richard Roy. Mr. Furlong has no political affilin- tions, as he is too much engaged attending to the numerous de- tails of his extensive business affairs. He is a member of the Building Trades Employers' organization. the Scliorer Club. the Merry Five. Masonic Order, Lily Lodge. No. 342. F. & A. V .. Ivy Chapter, R. A. M. ; Constantine Con:mandcry. K. T. : Mecca Temple of the A. A. O. M. N. S.
HENRY ROSENBERG, sole owner and proprietor of the Metropolis Theatre, 142d Street and Third Avenue, Borone !: of the Bronx, was born in Westphalia, Germany, September 24. 1853, and came to the United States in 1866. He attended the public schools of Baltimore and is a graduate of Peabody Col- lege of Baltimore. In 1879 he became a clerk for his father, who conducted a large saddlery and harness business, final; was taken into partnership and after his father's death he re- tired from the business in 1889 and came to New York City. where he entered into the theatrical business as treasurer of the Harlem Opera House, and after six months' service became the general manager of Oscar Hammerstein's entire theatrical enter- prises-the Harlem Opera House. Columbus Theatre, now known as Proctor's, the Olympia, now the New York, and the Criter: " Theatre. In the fall of 1899 Mr. Rosenberg concluded to enter into business on his own account and turned huis attention to the Metropolis Theatre in the Bronx, which was bilt it is. and for one year following all of its production were absolute failures as an attraction to the public and it became a hieral drug on the market. Mr. Rosenberg, fully aware of those candet t- leased the they're and opened with "Old Kentucky." n wh le se red the fire hat made during the there's existe. people of the Brows and all the suburban village north of the
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Bronx, realized that a new and inspiring representative of the drama had come amongst them, who was equipped with the genius of a thorough and practical manager who would elevate the profession he advanced and would resurreet the Metropolis Theatre from its lethargy into one of the leading playhouses of the Greater City. In 1900 Mr. Rosenberg purchased the property and has from time to time made a number of valuable and necessary improvements. The theatre proper is situated on 142d Street and Third and Alexander Avenues, with an en- trance on both of the latter avenues, and twenty-four exits leading to the street; besides there are large, commodious and elegantly fitted ball and lodge rooms and underneath the struc- ture is a cloak room, rathskeller and restaurant, a perfect boudoir, a virtual bower of roses, fitted up in a style that for its cuisine and attractiveness is second to no other of the famous rathskellars of Greater New York. From his first opening in "Old Kentucky" his success has been unprecedented. The people of the great borough discovered that. Mr. Rosenberg knew how to.please and entertain them and this generous publie has responded liberally to his untiring efforts to give them continuously the best talent
secretary of the Bruckner Association : a member of the Eusese MeGuire Association, of the Osceola Club, the Elsmere Club. the Eagles, the Elks and the "Gentlemen's Sons." lle married, in 1895. Miss Minnie Buxton. They have three children, Edward. Ilarry and Helen.
PHILIPP HOFFMANN .- In this gentleman we have a type of that solid, sturdy and substantial German element of the population of the Bronx, whose industry and energy has con- dueed so much to the upbuilding and progress of the borough. and from which elass so many of the foremost citizens of the district have come. Mr. Hoffmann is not an official or politi- cian : it is as a business man he is best known. He has been a resident seven years, successfully engaged during that time in the delicatessen line. His place of business is at 746 Tremont Avenue. He was born in Germany January 8, 1860, and re- ceived his schooling there. He came to this country in the year 1886. - He married. May 14. 1886, Miss Mary Schuster. They have two children, a boy and a girl, Emilie and Philipp. He is in short, a representative citizen and business man.
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and the leading order of plays produced on the stage during the regular seasons. His rise and successful progress is the result of his great executive ability. his high order of talent. and the practical and systematic methods he employs in the conduet of his theatrical enterprises. Among the profession he enjoys the same popularity that he does with the people of the Bronx, and he is so highly regarded by the former that it is the general feeling amongst them that he is one of the brightest. successful and most particular stars in the firmament of the managerial theat- rical profession of the Greater City. Mr. Rosenberg was married in 188t to Miss Anna Hammerstein and has three sons, Leo, Walter and Jerome Rosenberg. In politics he is a Democrat and is an active member of St. Cecil Lodge, No. 305, F. and A. M.
EDWARD T. HAUCK, a Bronxite of sixteen years stand- ing, hails originally from the peaceful city of Brotherly Love; in other words, Billy Penn's town, Philadelphia, and there also he attended school. He is proprietor of the cafe at 3012 Third Avenue and 156th Street. He is a Democrat and a live one: is
JOHN P. GARNISS .-- This gentleman has been a reser !! of New York, "off and on," as the saying is, since 1852, a mat- ter of fifty-three years. He has lived continuously in the me- tropolis or its environs forty-three years of that time, and in the Bronx, without change, since 1874. To say that he is well known in the borough seems, under the circumstances, a matter of supererogation : equally so to add that he is a man highly esteemed and respected. Mr. Garniss was born May 28. Ists. in Troy, N. Y. Hle first came to New York City as a bay often in 1852. He removed as a youth then to Hagerstown. 11. then, as now. a place of distinction as an educational center. and attended the Hagerstown Academy until 1850, graduating tait year. He returned to this eity about three years later, and took up his residence in Mt. Vernon soon after. From IS2 :" 1874 he followed the sea. In 18;4. as we have said, be move ! into the Bronx, and established himself in his prosent em that of undertaker and funeral director. Mr. Gian :.. . . publican in politics, but has never held ofice. He is a of the First Presbyterian Church of Tremont, als down the same: a Free Mason of Guiding Stair Lodge No. 38: 49
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Odd Fellow of Morrisania Lodge No. 171; member also of the A. O. U. W .. Tremont Lodge No. 238, and of the Royal Ar- canum at Fordham. Council No. 1412. He married, September 21, 1872, Miss Mary Elizabeth Haight. They have had three chil- dren, two, Louise and May. now dead. and one, Florence A., row Mrs. 11. M. Jackson. living.
JOHN ADAM MOEBUS, undertaker and liveryman, of 698 Courtlandt Avenue, was born in New York City July 31. 1879. He has lived here all his life, is a public school graduate, and supplemented that with a course in Walworth's Business In- stitute. He is a Democrat, but not a politician, confining his ac- tivities instead strictly to business. He is a member of Napthali Lodge, F. and A. M., and of the Harmonie Singing Society. and a member of the Association of Exempt Firemen's Sons of the 23d and 24th Wards. Mr. Moebus married, May 10. 1900, Fredericka Herdt. They have had two children, but both are dead. His business is an old one; he is his father's successor in it.
WILLIAM McELLIGOTT, Manager Bronx and West- chester Agencies, Equitable Life Assurance Society, with offices in Smith Building. 148th Street and Third Avenue, is a man of extensive experience in his line; a live man and a hustler. His business associates know him as a conscientious life insurance underwriter, and a strict manager of agents. He has been living and doing business in the Bronx for ten years or more, and is a member of many clubs and society organizations. To know him is to respect and like himn ..
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