Identifier: historynewyorksw00norc (find matches)
Title: A history of the New York Swamp
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Norcross, Frank W
Subjects: Leather industry and trade -- New York (State) New York Tanning New York (N.Y.) -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Chiswick Press
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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edenberg, Weinheim, Germany, for wax and patent calfskins. They are still exclusive importers of these goods. In 1890, with partners in Chicago;, they established the Lambeau Leather Company. Mr. Binger was president. This company was absorbed by the American Hide and Leather Company. They own a tannery in Baltimore, where they produce oak calfskins. They have built up an export trade in leather and are enterprising and still looking for additional fields for conquest in the leather trade. E. A. Smith & Bro. were the largest manufacturers of their time. They owned the property southeast corner of Spruce and William streets and manufactured in Philadelphia. They retired some years ago, but Martin V. B. Smith, the junior partner, still deals in kid and morocco. THE UNITED STATES LEATHER COMPANY- This great corporation owes its existence to the efforts of a few leading tanners of sole leather, who, tired of the competition in their business, conceived and carried through the idea of incorpora-
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HON. MARK HOYT. SECOND PRESIDENT OF UNITED STATES LEATHER CO. THE UNITED STATES LEATHER COMPANY. i8i ting their tanneries and running them in a partnership. It is hard to say who originated the idea, but it was a grand and comprehensive one, and the most intelligent and largest tanners in America labored for months, and indeed years, to perfect and materialize it. The company was incorporated under the laws of the State of New Jersey, to manufacture and sell leather, lumber and belting, and to own the necessary property to do such business. The incorporation dates from Feb. 25th, 1893, and terminates Feb. 25th, 1943, a period of fifty years. The projectors worked daily at their office in New York to arrange the business of the corporation. Leather in tanneries and stores had to be valued on an equable basis. Bark lands were surveyed, and bark piles measured. By a certificate of increase the capital stock was raised August 1st, 1895, from $120,000,000 to $128,-000,000. All this was distribut

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