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Richard M. Montgomery
| Name | Richard M. Montgomery |
| Ortssitz | New York City |
| Straße | Wall Street 106 |
| Art des Unternehmens | Auktionator und Teehändler |
| Quellenangaben | [New Yorks great industries (1884) 142] |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 01.12.1880 |
Gründung in der Water Street |
| 1882 |
Bezug neuer Gebäude |
| Produkt |
ab |
Bem. |
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Bem. |
Kommentar |
| Auktionen |
1884 |
[New Yorks great ind. (1884)] |
1884 |
[New Yorks great ind. (1884)] |
Auctioneer, Trade Sales of Teas |
| Teehandel |
1884 |
[New Yorks great ind. (1884)] |
1884 |
[New Yorks great ind. (1884)] |
Auctioneer, Trade Sales of Teas |
| ZEIT | 1884 |
| THEMA | Firmendarstellung |
| TEXT | The metropolis has long been the recognized centre of the tea trade, and it is here that the greater portion of the country's imports are received. The total of the imports of tea into New York during the year 1883 amounted to the enormous amount of 56,858,562 pounds, which figures will give a faint idea of the importance of the trade in this centre, and the large capital necessarily enlisted. Among the few names which have been permanently identified with the tea trade of New York during the last fifty years, none is more prominent and respected than that of Montgomery. One of the most active and popular members to-day of a specially important branch of the trade is Mr. Richard M. Montgomery, of No. 106 Wall Street, corner of Front, where are the auction salesrooms for the wholesale tea trade, and where he conducts regular weekly sales throughout the season. Mr. Montgomery has had a long and practical experience in the tea business, and founded big present business on December 1, 1880, first locating in Water Street, where he remained two years. In the interim the old buildings on the south-east corner of Wall and Front Streets were torn down to make way for a structure more in keeping with the expansive demands of modern commerce. The site was a historic one in connection with the tea trade, for twenty-five years ago it was there the old tea salesroom, known as the Wall Street salesroom, was located. By special arrangement with Mr. Montgomery the new building was planned and erected with direct reference to his auction sales, and the upper portion of the edifice was devoted to a roomy, well lit and lofty salesroom, specially designed for the purpose, and admirably adapted for the assembling of the trade. The premises are forty by fifty feet in dimensions, with a twenty-four foot ceiling, and every accommodation inclusive of seats, auction-stand and adjoining offices. Mr. Montgomery took possession of these magnificent premises some two years ago, and has since transacted a permanently large and important share of the sales of teas. His weekly sales are attended by the wholesalers' and jobbers' trade generally, as they there have an opportunity to bid directly on the teas as received by our largest importing houses. These sales represent most of the teas that come through the Suez Canal, and the auction room is the most important centre for the fixing of prices in this, the great distributing market of the United States. Mr. Montgomery is a most successful and talented business man and a first-class auctioneer, whose horoughly honorable and legitimate business methods have given him universal popularity and the confidence of the trade. Mr. Montgomery is still in the early prime of life, and was for a time, before commencing in business upon his own account, with his uncle and father, The well known tea brokers. His grandfather came from Belfast to New York in the year 1799, and established himself in business as an importer of Irish staples, such as linen, flax-seed, etc. The Montgomerys have been identified with the tea trade of the metropolis for nearly fifty years past, and Mr. Richard M. Montgomery is a worthy representative of the family, and of the important branch if the trade with which he is identified. As a member of the Importers' and Grocers' Exchange, he is spoken of in he highest terms by his fellow-members as a gentleman of superior abilities, persistent energy, and undeviating integrity, in every respect a credit to the trade and to the great metropolis with whose interests he is so closely con-nected. |
| QUELLE | [New Yorks great industries (1884) 142] |
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