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Merchants' Refrigerating Company
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| Name | Merchants' Refrigerating Company |
| Ortssitz | Jersey City (N.J.) |
| Straße | First Street |
| Art des Unternehmens | Kühlhaus |
| Anmerkungen | Lage im Häuserblock, der durch die First, Second, Warren und Provost Streets begrenzt wird. |
| Quellenangaben | [Jersey City of to-day (1907) 103] |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 1901 |
Gründung |
| Produkt |
ab |
Bem. |
bis |
Bem. |
Kommentar |
| Kühlhausbetrieb |
1902 |
Beginn |
1909 |
bekannt |
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| ZEIT | um 1907 |
| THEMA | Beschreibung |
| TEXT | The enterprise was a success from the start, although the house provided an additional 3,500,000 cubic feet of cold
storage and freezing capacity for the metropolitan market. The warehouse and plant occupies the entire block bounded
by First, Second, Warren and Provost Streets, Jersey City, and the company owns another block adjoining to provide
for future additions when necessary. Its chief business is cold storage and refrigeration, and the principal articles stored are butter, eggs, cheese, poultry, meats and fruits. The officers are: William Wills, president; James E. Nichols, vice-president; James Wills, secretary and treasurer; Frank A. Home, assistant secretary, William
R. Foster, manager, and William Wills, James Wills, James E. Nichols, William Brinkerhoff, F. W. Woolworth, Warren
Cruikshank and George G. DeLacy, directors. The corporation is a member of the Board of Trade of Jersey City. The Jersey City warehouses are of steel, concrete and brick construction, and have terminal railroad connections with the Pennsylvania Railroad and switching arrangements with all other roads. The company is closely affiliated with
the Merchants' Refrigerating Company of 161 Chambers Street and 35 North Moore Street, New York City, another successful concern in the same line, operating warehouses in New York with 4,000,000 cubic feet of cold storage space. On the north side of the Jersey City warehouse are track facilities for unloading ten cars at a time, and it is no unusual thing to see them tested to their full capacity. The contents of the cars are unloaded on small trucks and transferred into the warehouse directly. Twenty-eight cars have been unloaded in one day, and not a day passes when half that amount is not cared for. The produce is carried to various parts of the massive warehouse by eleven spacious elevators, which are at work the major portion of the day. There are twenty-eight rooms, each 70 x 200 feet in size, giving a total floor area of 392,000 square feet, and it takes 2,5000 carloads to completely fill them. Each room is capable of holding 30,000 tubs of butter or 30,000 cases of eggs, both of which products are kept for many months in these warehouses before they are put on the market. The rooms are all kept at a temperature below zero, which totally precludes the possibility of any deterioration or decomposition. In conjunction with the cold storage warehouse the Merchants' Refrigerating Company operates a mammoth ice plant, which allows for the manufacture of one hundred tons of ice a day, made from filtered water. The company furnishes employment to over a hundred hands, and is recognized as one of the leading commercial corporations in the city, having located here on account of the exceptional transportation facilities. This location was not decided upon in haste, but only after a careful study of the situation and a comparison with several other sites that had been presented for consideration. So firmly was the company convinced of the wisdom of its selection that although it had no intention of constructing
but one building for several years, it purchased two complete blocks of ground, and is now prepared for the addition at any time of another warehouse building of the same size and character as the present plant. At the rate that the
business is now increasing, this addition will soon become a necessity, and it is said that plans have already been prepared for its construction. The officers of the company are as enthusiastic in singing the praises of Jersey City as are the oldest residents, and have great faith in the city's future The establishing of plants of this nature in Jersey City means much for the future commercial prosperity of the city, and is an evidence of its great desirability as a warehouse centre. It is only a question of a few years when much of the lower portion of the city north of the Pennsylvania Railroad will be given up to plants of this character. |
| QUELLE | [Jersey City of to-day (1907) 103] |
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