Bray's Orange and New York Express

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NameBray's Orange and New York Express
OrtssitzOrange (N.J.)
StraßeDay Street
Art des UnternehmensSpedition
AnmerkungenLage: Day Street, near Main Street, Orange, and No. 76 Cortland Street, New York.
Quellenangaben[Industries of New Jersey, Essex County V (1882) 746]




Unternehmensgeschichte

Zeit Ereignis
1865 Gründung




Produkte

Produkt ab Bem. bis Bem. Kommentar
Spediion 1882 [Industries of N.J. (1882)] 1882 [Industries of N.J. (1882)]  




Allgemeines

ZEIT1882
THEMABeschreibung
TEXTAn extensive express business is carried on between Orange and New York. In the former place a special line of goods are manufactured, most of which are sent to New York by Bray's Orange and New York Express, an old established, reliable concern, which has during its existence of seventeen years become popular and met with an unbounded success under the efficient management of the proprietor, Mr. Joseph B. Bray, who has a number of substantial wagons and a stable of the finest draught horses to be seen in Essex County. Regular trips are made each day during the week to New York and a large and extensive business is carried on. Mr. Bray employs only careful and reliable drivers, and goods and packages are called for and delivered in New York or to adjoining cities or any part of the country through his connection with the responsible express and transportation lines. Goods are also forwarded C. O. D., amd prompt returns made, and money and valuables are forwarded by trusty special messengers. Baggage and furniture are also fonvarded and furniture and household goods are packed and boxed for shipment or moved to points in Orange and vicinity or to New York city by the load or by special contract. Mr. Bray has a thorough knowledge of the business he is engaged in and numbers among his patrons the leading manufacturers and business men of Orange and the merchants of New York, who always find their goods are handled carefully and delivered promptly. The movement of furniture and household goods is a special branch of the busiaess, which is always undertaken by careful and experienced workmen. Mr. Joseph B. Bray, the founder and proprietor of this extensive business, was born and brought up in Essex County, where he has always resided and is well known for his public spirit and liberality. He is one of the leading representative men of this section of Essex County, and for a term served the citizens faithfully and well as a member of the Board of Chosen Freeholders. Mr. Bray served three years in the late war, being in the regular service.
QUELLE[Industries of New Jersey, Essex County V (1882) 746]