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Stuart's Sugar Refinery.
| Name | Stuart's Sugar Refinery. |
| Ortssitz | New York City |
| Straße | Greenwich Street |
| Art des Unternehmens | Zuckerraffinerie |
| Anmerkungen | Lage: Greenwich street, Ecke Chambers street |
| Quellenangaben | [Bishop: History of American manufacturers 3 (1868) 150] |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 1835 |
Die alten, hölzernen Gebäude werden beseitigt, und ein sechsgeschossiger Ziegelbau wird errichtet. |
| 1849 |
Errichtung eines neungeschossigen Gebäudes auf der anderen Hälfte des Blocks, anstoßend an die Greenwich und Reed Streets |
| 1863 |
Die Raffinerie arbeitet nur mit der Hälfte ihrer Kapazität. |
| Produkt |
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Bem. |
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Bem. |
Kommentar |
| raffinierter Zucker |
1868 |
[Bishop: Hist. of Amer. manuf. I (1868)] |
1868 |
[Bishop: Hist. of Amer. manuf. I (1868)] |
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| ZEIT | 1868 |
| THEMA | Firmenbeschreibung |
| TEXT | The Refining of Sugar is the leading manufacture in the city of New York. No other employs so much capital, or yields so large a product. The official return of the Sugar refined in 1860, which we have given in the Table, vast as it is, is little more than one half of the value of the present product of twenty-six Refineries in New York and vicinity, which is estimated to be about 35.000.000 per annum. The history of the business, as a prominent pursuit, is so intimately associated with the enterprise of one or two firms, that, in describing their facilities and processes, we describe those of all the others. Prior to the year 1832, Sugar Refining was conducted on a limited scale; but the process was very imperfect, and the quality of the Sugar, as compared with that now made, was very inferior. During that year, Messrs. R. L. & A. Stuart commenced business, in three wooden buildings, on Greenwich street, corner of Chambers street, where they were the first to suqceed in employing steam in refining; and by the introduction of superior machinery, they were soon enabled to produce a better quality of Sugar than had hitherto been offered to the New York public - some samples of which, exhibited at the Fair of the American Institute in 1834, were the wonder and admiration of other refiners. The capacity of the establishment was then limited to about three thousand pounds per day; but in the year 1835, the old wooden buildings were removed, and a six-story brick building was erected in their stead, by means of which the capacity for refining was increased to twelve thousand pounds per day - about enough to meet the demand at that time, at profitable rates. But with the improved quality of Sugar, and lower prices, consumption increased from year to year, and to meet the growing demand, in 1849, the Messrs. Stuart erected the nine-story building on the other half of the block of land adjoining, on Greenwich and Reed streets, by which their capacity was then so much enlarged as to enable them to refine annually from forty to forty-four millions of pounds of Sugar per year - employing about three hundred men, and producing refined sugar that was sold for 3.000.000 per annum. During the year 1863, this Refinery worked but little more than half its capacity; but the sales of refined Sugar, the prices of raw being about double those of any previous year, amounted to over three millions of dollars. The whole establishment, with all the necessary machinery and appurtenances, occupies a space of one hundred and ten feet on Chambers street, one hundred and sixty-five feet on Greenwich street, and two hundred and seventeen on Reed street; with additional five-story buildings, seventy-five feet front, on the north side of the street last named - the whole having cellars beneath them, and vaults the entire length of their fronts, and extending half way across the first two named streets - while they occupy nearly all the space beneath Reed street, and extend under the building on the opposite side; also occupying, for warehouses, two buildings on the south side of Chambers street. This immense establishment is provided with every variety of machinery for saving human labor. Steam is not only used in the processof refining, but in lifting, hoisting, and pumping, and it requires eight large steam boilers, which consume eight thousand tons of anthracite coal per annum, to furnish the requisite steam for all these purposes. About two hundred thousand gallons of water per day are drawn from the wells beneath the buildings, and fifty thousand in addition taken from the Croton Water Department - making a total consumption of two hundred and fifty thousand gallons of water per day. For efficiency, rather than for purposes of economy, this firm constantly employs workmen in every branch of mechanics required in their business, viz.: coopers, carpenters, machinists, blacksmiths, masons, box makers, painters, etc., and rarely have occasion to call on outside parties for assistance, either for repairs or construction. By this means every thing is kept in a thorough state of repair, and when delays do occur from accident, they are necessarily of short duration. The Sugar is received in hogsheads, boxes, etc., on the first floor, and hoisted by steam to the ninth story, where they are emptied; and the process of cleansing commences by dissolving the Sugar in steam and hot water, and the color extracted from the solution by means of chemical and mechanical agents - when it is passed to vacuum pans heated by steam, and through the subsequent processes by which Sugar is crystallized and refined. |
| QUELLE | [Bishop: History of American manufacturers 3 (1868) 150] |
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