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James McCreery & Co.
| Name | James McCreery & Co. |
| Ortssitz | New York City |
| Straße | Broadway |
| Art des Unternehmens | Kurzwarenhändler |
| Anmerkungen | Lage um 1884: Broadway und 11th Street. |
| Quellenangaben | [New Yorks great industries (1884) 89] |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 1840 |
Messrs. Ubsdel & Pierson kommen nach New York und beginnt einen kleinen Kurzwarenladen in der Canal Street. |
| 1870 |
Die Firma "Lake & McCreery" wird aufgelöst, und James McCreery wird Seniorpartner. |
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| Kurzwarenhandel |
1884 |
[New Yorks great ind. (1884)] |
1884 |
[New Yorks great ind. (1884)] |
Importers and Dealers in Dry Goods |
| ZEIT | 1884 |
| THEMA | Firmendarstellung |
| TEXT | The fact that New York permanently retains her supremacy at the head of the commerce of the United States, is greatly due to her leading merchants and importers, who have, by their untiring industry and a thorough knowledge of the requirements of the public, enlarged their business and increased their stock in a ratio proportionate to the calls of the vast trade of the continent, until the palatial stores, replete with all foreign and domestic goods, have no counterparts elsewhere, while the well known names of the proprietors is a sufficient guarantee for the excellence of their goods, extent of their stock, and the honorable and liberal manner in which they conduct their business. In the wholesale and retail dry goods trade, the representative house in this city is that of Messrs. James McCreery & Co., whose immense establishment is so advantageously located at the corner of Broadway and 11th Street. Close application to business and a talented appreciation of the wants of the public, combined with honorable dealing and thorough integrity in all transactions, are the basis upon which this firm has built its unrivalled reputation and immense business, their palatial store being a monument to their enterprise, completely stocked as it is with everything of value and artistic beauty in the entire comprehensive field of the dry goods trade. The business was originally founded in 1840, when Messrs. Ubsdel & Pierson came to New York and started a small dry goods store in Canal Street, then the centre of the active trade in the city. They were the first to introduce specialties in the line of bargains, their primary effort in this direction being in the line of prints, offering them in small lots at such greatly reduced prices that the ladies made a run on them, and thoroughly established a permanent and ever-growing reputation that is now a time-honored feature of the trade of this early firm's present successors. The firm of Ubsdel, Pierson & Lake succeeded the original concern, and occupied a much larger store in Broadway, above Grand Street. Then followed the firm of Lake & McCreery, which continued actively developing and enlarging the business until it dissolved in 1870, and Mr. James McCreery became senior member of the house, and, removing with the onward tide of progress, located in their present magnificent and commodious adapted store, it having been specially erected for the purpose. The present firm of James McCreery & Co. is composed of Mr. James McCreery, Mr. Thomas Rosevear, and Mr. J. Crawford McCreery. Their store could not be more centrally or eligibly located, and is an imposing building of modern design, an architectural ornament to Broadway. The premises thus occupied are four stories in height, fronting seventy-five feet on Broadway and running back two hundred and twenty-five feet in depth along llth Street. They thus contain an immense area of floor space, all of which is essentially necessary for the adequate display of their stock and accommodations for their numerous departments. The firm are both importers, wholesalers and retailers of every description of dry goods, and make specialties of the choicest fabrics wherever manufactured all over the world. Their business is fairly divided between the wholesale and retail channels of trade, and is in both divisions a representative concern. The wholesale section is under the management of Mr. Rosevear, whose abilities and Tast practical experience in the best circles of the trade have enabled the house to place this division of the buainess in increasing favor with the dry goods trade generally throughout the United States. The firm is one of the must active and extensive importing houses in the city, and possesses a very possible facility for keeping itself in support with the leading manufacturers ot the Old World, always being the first to secure choice novelties in the finest fabrics of the loom. It keeps fully qualified representatives and buyers in the European markets, while with an agency in Paris, and another in Lyons, the house has unusually good opportunities for the securing of the choicest French silks and velvets, which form such an important item in its trade. The bulk of its business is in the choicest imported goods, and buying as largely as they do, and possessing such extensive facilities, the firm is universally noted for a splendid array of goods, and the lowness of its prices. Under the firm's capable management, the wholesale trade has assumed large proportions, its custom extending to every State of the Union, and it is constantly enlarging at a progressive ratio. The firm have brought into every-day practice a thoroughly efficient system of organization, and which conduces greatly to the successful carrying on of such an immense business. Travelling salesmen are constantly on the road, in order to promptly meet the requirements of all the firm's numerous customers. The retail division of Messrs. James MeCreery & Co. is of equal magnitude. It comprises no less than seventeen different departments, each one under its own competent experienced manager, who is responsible for his stock and force of assistants. Over the whole concern, Mr. James McCreery keeps a personal supervision, that, coupled with his unrivalled experience in the New York dry goods trade, makes both his firm and its goods. such favorites with all discriminating buyers. Polite and competent salesmen and salesladies are here to promptly wait upon every intending customer, while the enormous stock contains everything desirable in the lines of silks, satins, velvets, dress fabrics in all textures and shades, both imported and domestic, laces, ribbons, embroideries, suits and cloaks, white goods, linens, domestic cottons, underwear, gloves, fancy goods, etc., etc. In addition, the firm are proprietors of a large and fully equipped silk factory conveniently located at Clifton, New Jersey, where they manufacture the very finest quality of silk goods, in every way rivalling the choicest imported. The factory is under the superintend-ency of Mr. J. Crawford McCreery and Mr. Robert S. McCreery, gentlemen of ample practical experience and trained business talents, and who keep the product up to the highest standard of excellence. The factory gives employment to as many as four hundred hands, and is one of New Jersey's important industrial interests. The business done by the great house of James McCreery & Co. speaks best for itself. The fame and high reputation ot the firm are also so familiar to the general public that further comment upon our part would be superfluous. Mr. James McCreery, during his lengthy active business career, has won a measure of popularity, confidence, and respect in the mercantile metropolis of the country second to no other member of commercial circles. He enjoys the highest of reputations for exercising sound business principles, and la one of New York's most enterprising, as he is one of her most conservative and successful dry goods merchants and importers. Mr. Thomas Rosevear is an energetic business man, with a lengthy practical connection with the dry goods trade, and possessing superior executive abilities, while he is universally respected by his commercial con-frères for being straightforward and honorable in all his transactions. Mr. J. Crawford MeCreery and Mr. Robert S. McCreery are sons of the senior member of the firm. Such in brief is a review of the rise and progress of this great emporium of trade. Its commercial relations are widespread, its facilities unequalled, its connections the best possible, while its wise guidance has erer be«n noteworthy. The establishment reared by Messrs. James McCreery & Co. is a lasting source of credit to the city, and a monument to their own industry and enterprise. |
| QUELLE | [New Yorks great industries (1884) 89] |
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