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The Knickerbocker Ice Co.
| Name | The Knickerbocker Ice Co. |
| Ortssitz | New York City |
| Straße | Canal Street 432 |
| Art des Unternehmens | Eishändler |
| Anmerkungen | Die Hauptverwaltung ist in der Canal Street. Siehe auch in Philadelphia. |
| Quellenangaben | [New Yorks great industries (1884) 320] |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 1831 |
Gründung |
| 1855 |
Eintragung |
| Produkt |
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Kommentar |
| Eis |
1884 |
[New York's great industries (1884)] |
1884 |
[New York's great industries (1884)] |
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| ZEIT | 1884 |
| THEMA | Firmendarstellung |
| TEXT | The Knickerbocker Ice Co. is the largest institution of its kind in the world. Its operations are based upon a cash capital of two millions of dollars. This corporation owns at different points along the Hudson River fifty ice houses, the combined capacity of which reaches the enormous amount of one million two hundred and fifty thousand tons, and this is the only organization which delivers Rockland Lake ice in this market. The company furnishes constant employment to over two thousand men and about one thousand horses, and its roll of employees will be greatly in excess of even this large number during every ice harvesting season. This company was organized in 1855, but their business was established in 1831 [lt. "Valley Cottage"; lt. "N.Y. Great Ind." hat die letzte Ziffer eine runde, unleserliche Form], and down to this date it still remains the leading concern of its kind not only in New York or the United States but also in the civilized world. Its branch offices and depots are located as follows: for New York, foot of Bank Street, North River; foot of West 20th Street. North River; foot of 43rd Street. North River; East 128th Street, Harlem; foot of 92nd Street, East River; foot of 33rd Street and foot of De-lancy Street on same river. For Brooklyn, foot of Smith Street, South Brooklyn: also Amity Street, South Brooklyn; No. 10 Furman Street, South Brooklyn; Kent A venue near Division Avenue, Eastern District; foot of Oak Street, same Distinct, and Coney Island. The main office is connected by telephone as follows: New York, Law 653, Spring 639; Brooklyn, Law 918; Williamsburg, 481. Officers: Robert Maclay, President, Littis O. Reeve, Secretary, Edmund A. Smith, Treasurer. The company do a large export business along the Southern coast, and to the West Indies and points on the South American coast. [New York Herald (1881)]: The Knickerbocker Ice Company does a much larger business than any other, and, perhaps, as much as all the other companies together. The company's principal office, in Canan street, resembles in extent and in the number of desks and persons employed a large banking house. Its capital is $2,000,000. Mr. Maclay is the president. As a corporation it dates its existence from 1855. Some of the same persons who organized it and remained active members had then carried on the business for a long time. Thus the lusiness has grown up from a foundation dating back many years. The company has housed about 1,400,000 tons of ice this season. This is twenty-five percent, or thereabout, more than was ever before cut in one year. The impression is that the total crop housed for the use and trade of New York and Brooklyn will amount to 2,000,000 or over. This includes that which has been cut by all the companies and individuals in the trade, and that which the residents along the Hudson River from Poughkeepsie to Troy have housed. Of the 1,400,000 tons stacked by the Knickerbocker Company, a part has been disposed of already. There has been a large early trade, mostly with the brewers, who store the ice in their own vaults. |
| QUELLE | [New Yorks great industries (1884) 320] |
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