Prosperous Manufacturers Boost Exports Despite Overall Decline
Reports for the first eleven months show a $15 million rise in exports of domestic manufactured goods while total exports fell by about $15 million. The census 1900 figures highlight shifts in clothing and cotton mills, with growth in the South and notable changes in New York Massachusetts and Illinois, plus gains in lumber and agricultural implements production.
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New York
Massachusetts
Ilinois
Michigan
Indiana
Wisconsin
Pennsylvania
Ohio
New-York
Jersecy
Pennerlvania
California
Iron and Steel Trade Shows Surging Home Demand
Exports for eleven months of 1900 totaled 119,614,848 dollars and 94,091,987 dollars for 1901, while imports through November rose to 36,766,961 dollars from 18,267,677 dollars. The surge in domestic consumption drives steel girders and railroad upgrades. Pig iron output climbs toward 18 million tons in 1902 and steel production nears 15 to 18 million tons. Archer Brown notes peak prosperity despite the need to import to meet demand, with future gains expected though rail and fuel constraints limit supply. Prices rise 30 to 60 percent, while competition remains open.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
New York
Archer Brown
Archer Brown & Co
Europe
Buih
Wisconsin Tops Nation in Lumber Output Says Census Bulletin
Wisconsin leads the United States in lumber production for the census year, with 1900 showing a value around 57 million dollars. The report notes strong growth across Southern states and lists year 1890 to 1900 changes for Alabama Arkansas Florida Georgia Kentucky Louisiana Mississippi Missouri North Carolina South Carolina Tennessee Texas Virginia West Virginia and other states with varied gains.
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New England
Central States
Middle States
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Maryland
South
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Alabama
Coon United States
New—Paghend States
Maine
Vermont
Massachuset
Rhode Island
Connecticut
Poon Song Sa
New-Jersey
Virginia
North Carol
Mississippi
Arkansas
Western States
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Wisconsin
Iowa
Union
Michigan
Florida
Kentucky
Louisiana
Missouri
Tennessee
Texas
West Virginia
Aliformia
Serroes
Massachusetts
Minnesota
New Hampshi
Weve
Oregon
Penneylvania
Washington
Cail
ORDOR
Best Machine Tools Sign of American Industrial Lead
The article traces how American machine tools and iron working equipment surged ahead of European rivals. It notes high labor costs driving labor saving devices, widespread American invention, and exports of heavy machinery to England, Italy, and Russia. German copying of American designs is cited, yet U.S. firms retain market dominance abroad.
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England
America
Italy
Russia
Europe
New York
Liverpool
Hamburg
Birmingham
Manchester
Berlin
Chemnitz
Rise of American Machinery Makers Through Protection and Innovation
The article traces the growth of the U S iron machinery industry from protective duties that shielded early development to a self reliant market. It notes the shift to manufacturing under lot production, standardization, and cost control enabling exports while foreign competition grows wary of tariffs and U S firms expand abroad.
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London
Paris
Berlin
American Machine Tool Makers Invest in Berlin Expansion
The article notes U S manufacturers building works in Berlin with about two million dollars invested. Berlin produces exact duplicates of their products to cut freight and duty costs. It discusses the potential edge from American versus foreign workers, and a trend of consolidation and specialization in machinery trade boosting overall strength.
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Atlantic
United States
Berlin
Post-election rebound boosts machine tool demand
The machine tool sector and many others stagnated before the election as orders lagged. After the election, new business picked up and has been steadier than in prior months, signaling stronger and sustained demand for machines and related work.
Hecla Iron Works Promotes Superior Architectural Iron Work
Hecla Iron Works, successor to Poulson & Eger since 1876, claims leadership in ornate iron and bronze work for buildings and parks. The firm highlights finishes like electroplate bronze and Bower-Barff oxide, notes durable, low-cost qualities, and lists its Brooklyn showrooms and plant facilities in detail.
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Hecla Iron Works
America
New York
Poulson & Eger
The
Coniyuimy
North Tenth
Eleventh
Twelfth Sts
Wytheave
Berry St
Brooklyn
New York City
Richer Browne and Donald Iron and Bronze Work Leaders
The firm Richer, Browne & Donald, based at Borden and Long Island City, is a premier maker of architectural iron, brass, and bronze work. Their products include stairways, elevator enclosures, marquees, lamps, doors, grilles, and bank rails finished in electroplated and duplex finishes. They supply to major buildings and many hotels and residences, with notable projects across New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Washington.
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Ipal
Browne & Donald
Borden
Prince
Iheview Aves
Long Island City
Hanover Bank
Macy
Wall Street Exchange
Batterick
Speyer
Bank Montreal
Palmer’s Bank
Pittsburg
Commonwealth Bank
Philadelphia
Riges National Bank
Washington
New York Life Insurance Company
Manhattan Life Insurance Company
Waldorf-Astoria
Richey, Browne & Donald
A. S. Richer
R. B. Browne
E. F. Shepard
Scarboro
McComb
Dobb's Ferry
W. D. Sloane
Fifty-second-st
Fifth-ave
Carbon Steel Company Dominates Domestic Steel Market
The Carbon Steel Company based at Cortlandt Street New York with Pittsburg works leads in supplying high grade steel for war vessels and other key uses. Officers include M Raymond president and E J Brinner vice president. Directors include J W Anderson J M Raymond NCA Hemphill Frank Howland and James Kilduff. Strong demand reflects its quality and capabilities.
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Carbon Steel Company
Cortlandt St
New York City
Pittsburg
Penn
The
Co. M. Raymond
E. J. Brinner
J. W. Anderson
I. J. Brinner
W. S. Gurnee
Abendroth & Root Manufacturing Company Overview
Among New Yorks oldest industrial firms, Abendroth and Root operates from Newburg with offices and works. It manufactures water tube boilers, spiral pipe, heavy riveted work, heavy machinery and special tools. The business was established in 1867.
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New- York
Abendroth & Root Manufacturing Company
Newburg
Niles Tool Works expands with allied firms worldwide
Niles-Bement-Pond Company forms a broad association with Bement, Niles & Co., Pond Machine Tool Company, and Pratt & Whitney Company. The group operates through agents in European capitals as well as Japan, South Africa, Australia and South America, with a New York head office. A Berlin plant duplicates machines to cut freight and duty costs.
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Niles-Bement-Pond Company
United States
Niles Tool Works Company
Hamilton
Ohio
Bement, Niles & Co
Philadelphia
Pond Machine Tool Company
Plainfield
N. J
Pratt & Whitney Company
Hartford
New York City
United
Berlin
Archer Brown and Rogers establish iron firm with nationwide reach
In 1880 Archer Brown left newspaper work and, with W A Rogers, founded Rogers Brown Co in Cincinnati dealers in pig iron. The firm later opened branches in St Louis Chicago New York and other cities. In 1895 Brown moved to New York to direct eastern affairs. The firm now handles about one third of US iron sales.
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Archer Brown
W. A. Rogers
Rogers, Brown & Co
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Chicago
New York
Mr. Brown
United States
Bruce and Cook Metals Dealers in New York
Bruce and Cook operate from No 186 to 199 Water street and Nos 248 and 256 Pearl street in New York as dealers in metals including tin plate sheet iron sheet zinc pig tin copper lead spelter and related goods.
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Bruce & Cook
Water-st
Pearl-st. New-York
New York and Boston firms represent English steel makers
B M Jones and Company of New York and Boston confine their business to representing Taylor Brothers and Samuel Osborn. The Taylor staybolt iron is praised for great economy backed by railroad company letters. Osborn’s Musket’s Special Steel, the original air hardening steel, is in high demand and short supply.
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B. M. Jones & Co
Liberty St
New York
Devonshire St
Boston
Taylor Bros. & Co
Leeds
Samuel Osborn & Co
Sheffield
England
Taylor
Manhattan Brass Company Plant and Operations Highlighted
The Manhattan Brass Company site at 332 East Twenty eighth Street comprises two five story buildings producing architectural brass and bronze work from raw zinc and copper. The furnaces fuse metals and the plant uses up to date methods to create a wide range of brass products. Ninety percent of students lamps in the country are manufactured in a dedicated department at this plant.
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Manhattan Brass Company
East Twenty Eighth St
A Leading Brass and Lamp Works Announces Diverse Arts
The firm highlights a vast lamp department with gas portables and antique to modern designs. It notes a large fire seed department for irons and stands, monthly kerosene lamp burners output of 1 250 000, and a unique art and modelling division. The company employs about eight hundred and leads in its specialized manufacture.
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Fire Seeds
Snd
Brass Co
Batterson and Eisele Marble and Mosaic Masters of New York
Batterson & Eisele, the largest and oldest marble and mosaic firm in the United States, located at 431 Eleventh Ave New York. The incorporated company with $200000 capital employs about five hundred artisans and has done work for the Equitable Life building the New York Stock Exchange the Breakers and Vanderbilt's Biltmore among others. Officers include John Eisele president L P Druck secretary and H R Wright treasurer.
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United States
Batterson & Esse
Eleventh-ave
Thirty-ifth and
Thirty-sixth Sts
Ormond
A. L. Faushere & Co
Batterson
Manhattan Marble Company
Locustave
Prudential Life Insurance Company
Newark
N. J
Vanderbilt
Biltmore
Breakers
Greater New York
John Eisele
L. P. Druck
H. R. Wright
Thomas Dimond Builder in Building Materials Trade
Thomas Dimond of 2 West Thirty third Street has built a substantial business in manufacturing all kinds of work used in buildings. Established in 1 and 2.
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Thomas Dimond
Thirty-third St
Townsend Downey Shipbuilding Company Details
The Townsend Downey Shipbuilding and Repair Company, with offices at 12 Broadway and shipyard at Shooter Island, Richmond, operates in ship engine building boiler making and vessel construction for government and merchant services and yachts. Officers include Wallace Downer president Samuel Q Brown vice president James A Townsend secretary and John H Cuthbert treasurer.
Gas Engine and Power Company Ant Charles L Seabury & C Consolidated
The above mentioned consolidated firms are among the largest concerns engaged in the building of steel and wooden vessels, steam yachts and naphtha launches. The works are at Heights, N.
Wilson and Griffin Sailmakers Prestige in Yachting
Wilson and Griffin at 7 South Street, famed sailmakers, secure yacht contracts for the Kaiser's Meteor and for all America's Cup defending vessels. The firm is noted for its long standing reputation and racing sail specialty highlighted by the christening of the Meteor by Miss Alice Roosevelt.
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Wilson & Griffin
Wilsorm & Griffin
Southst
Mathe
Alice Roosevelt
Cary Smith Designs Racing Yacht Meteor for Emperor William
A. Cary Smith of Smith & Barney naval architects at 35 Nassau Street designed the Meteor as well as Emperor William's racing yacht and other noted vessels.
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A. Cary Smith
Smith & Barney, Naval Architects
Nassau At
Ball and Wood Company Designers of Automatic Seam Engines
The Ball and Wood Company, famed nationwide for automatic seam engines used in electric and power applications, was founded in 1891. Thomas C. Wood serves as president with Charles R. Vincent as vice-president and Angeon Greenwood Jr. as secretary. Their New York office is at 1 Liberty Street and the works at Elizabethport New Jersey display models and specimens.
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Ball & Wood Company
Thomas C. Wood
Charles R. Vincent
Angeon Greenwood, Jr
New York
No. 1
Liberty St
Elizabethport
N. J
Krajewski Pesant Co Expands With Hatton System Maker
The Krajewski Pesant Co, succeeding the 1899 firm at Krajewski, Pesant & Co, has incorporated with 350000 capital. Based at 32 Broadway New York, it runs large works in Brooklyn and Regla Havana Cuba. It manufactures sugar cane machinery and is sole maker of Hatton's automatic defecation system with Alfonso Pesant as president and Jose A. Pesant as secretary.
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Krajewski, Pesant Company
Krajewski, Pesant & Co
Krajewski-Pesant Co
No. 32
Broadway
New York
Brooklyn
Regla
Havana
Cuba
Hatton
Alfonso Pesant
G. A. Stonder
Albert Grossman
Jose A. Pesant
Eaton Cole Burnham Firm Lets Largest Brass Goods Plant
The Eaton Cole & Burnham company runs one of the country’s largest plants for iron and brass goods used in steam, sale and water pipes, thread insinery reels for steam and fitters. New York office at 253 Broadway. Officers: G Burnham president, William E president, Edward H Cole treasurer, Edward F Cole acting treasurer, William H Douglas secretary.
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Eaton, Cole & Burnham
New York
Broadway
G. Burnham
William E
Edwardh. Cole
Edward F. Cole
William H. Douglas
United States Cast Iron Pipe Foundry Co Formed
United States Cast Iron Pipe Foundry Co formed to manufacture and sell cast iron water and gas pipe fittings and castings. Incorporated in 189 with authorized capital of 320,000,000. Offices at 100 Broadway New York City. Directors include Samuel Thomas Colgate Hoyt George B. Hayes and others.
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United States Cast Iron Pipe Foundry Co
George B. Hayes
George J. Long
A. F. Callahan
B. F. Haughtoon
Samuel Thomas
Colgate Hoyt
A. C. Overholt
C. E. Burke
E.R. Thomas
B. F. Overholt
A. N i. ¥ E. Fuller
P. J. Goodhart
David Giles
W. T. C. Carpenter
Broadway
New York City
Robert C Fisher & Co marble firm in New York history
Robert C Fisher & Co pioneers in foreign and domestic marbles since 1830. The firm, successors to Fisher and Bird, runs vast marble works at East Houston Street employing 400 plus, with projects from the Washington Monument in Paris to the Cooper Union front and many New York landmarks.
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Robert ¢. Fisher
Houston St
New York City
Washington Monument
Paris
Peter Cooper
Cooper Union
New York
Robert
New Union Club
Fifth-ave
Thirty-first-st
Columbia College
Boston Public Library
New-York
Fertig Phelps Marble Company Established in 19th Century
The Figge Tig Faves Marble Company, founded in 1% era, operates from No. 31 West Twentieth Street, signaling its long standing presence in the marble industry.
Fire Alarm Telegraph O Company Worldwide Reach
Gamewell Fire Alarm Telegraph O operates for over forty years with New York offices at 1 Barclay Street and branches in San Francisco Chicago Atlanta Richmond Indi Utica N Y Baltimore and Boston supplying fire alarm and signal apparatus to principal cities in the United States Great Britain Germany and the world for robust public safety systems.
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Gamewell Fire Alarm Telegraph
New-York
Barclay
John Whitley Prominent Chimney Expert in Demand
John Whitley, famed chimney expert and inventor, and his Whitley automatic ventilating apparatus for cooking odors, draws wide attention. His operation spreads across multiple locations including Fulton Street, Concord Street, and Liberty Street in Brooklyn, with ongoing salesrooms and workshops showcasing his innovations.
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John Whitley
Fulton St
Concord St
Liberty St
Brooklym
Whitley
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Batterson & Eisele
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