The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-06-02

craftsman and drew All Of working plass and under
amount Of work the upper division OF the Lehigh
canal, between Aaach Chunk and White Haven. He
engaged in constructing for the Lshish C,npany
From ms summer OF 1885 to that OF 1885 George
RED public works at Esston During thus time he
had rented house for himself at Easton and his
Il. August, 1887 George came to the city OF Nov
Yerk His brother Jsseph reeoed here and had cores
ponded with him in reersnse to contract for the Cresoa
wster wsrs George had watched the progress Of this
great work for several years and 1887 he Did for TIRES
jobs and get two OF them, above Tarrytssr He had
two sections in Sleepy Holsw, made by p.
OF Washington Irving When this wsrk was allotted 70
bm, he selected site for the Aeoessary buildings,
sBo then returned to Philsdelphis for his family.
and left them there willis he came to New York
During this time his children Josephine and Mary Alice,
soox.a h.. Sas,;,x W $500, ~ 6.csmber 1887. ana
then commenced tse work ON the Croton. -.
When he removed from Pennsylvania TO New York ms
library had increased to three hundred and ans
eisuIe moments had bountfui supply o. ths most
valuable reading matter
In The fall OF 1880 his brother JOSEPH who had spent
the previous winter Cupa for the benefit OF his heato
died of consumption st The house 0, nus brother
George About th. Tine Ss0se mae AZ b 1,a i ho ans
10 attend his brother, Who oed ten days after Inc
same iali George was attacked with . disease
OF the great public works, and was consssntly
exposed TO ths night air. He lost his voice, eoaa
then.oms the doctors gave him relief and he teld
his wife that he Of one thing that unless he
gave up bufness for time he must die He decided
to to Europe, and in August is4o sailed for Liver
pool IN The packet ship Independence
George landed at Liverpool and visited NJ once the
manufacturing places Thence 10 the Grand leaning.
ton springs, Ksnworth Stafford, and other o~as AMI
then 10 London. He crossed TO Paris Louis Napoleon
then trial. He was in Paris in December, 1910,
when The body OF Napoleon the Grand was brought
there. He renamed in Paris some days in order
to witness the great display. From Paris he
French deputies in in! the vehicle, bat as they
spoke Eng ism, and George did not understand
French, they could only manage to eat and drink TO-
gsther.
From Lyons he went to MarseRes, from hsrseilss to
Genoa, Legborn, Ciyita Veccho and Rome In the
holy City he remained weeks, and thence to Naples
From Naples he returned to Hsrstes Paris, Havre to
Southampton and to London. From London he went
to Antwerp and Brussels and visited the geld OF
loo and back again TO LONDON. In May 1884, he left
for home in the steamship Caledonia via Halifax and
Boston.
lost, and his friends advised him not to go home in
steamer bat he anxious to soc the WORKINGS at
of steamer He had MADE up his mind 10 build steam
and believed that the shortening OF time Of passage
prcportonaly lesseAed the danger.
During his absence abroad his health, no examined
all the principal works especially bridges aod aquedacts
but he founs thas he could obtain idea to apply
to the High Bridge which he was contracting rs as
abroad IN the machinery way and in the adapat on OF
implements to accomplish work.
soon afrsr his return from Europe he paid visit
home 1t the occasion of this visit that little
incident occurred which must have gratsi the feelings
OF George very greatly, As has been said before,
HIS whole soul engaged in that pursuit. he had pur
chased tract after tract of adjoining lands until he
ed 500 But to do this, he had got in debt oy
notes ano mortgages. When George vent nome this
visit he said 10 his father Tel me the amodnt OF all
that you in any shape or way The father did so,
and before George returned back to the city, all his
fathers liabilities were cleared up and the old &c ne
had worry. He died as late as 1883 at the
sge of Sc.
buying all the books relating 60 the place objects OF
interest which he yeted, and brought them home with
hmm fer future references,
In June, 1871, George removed his family from
Tarrytown to New York city and that summer ne closed
house in Hammond street. where he resided two years
He also removed the house which he had occupied at
Tarytcwn TO the end OF the Harlem BRIDGE where it
still stands and In the summer hs resided there until
the final completion Of the High Bridge. He found
great benefit rgm having his house where his work
10 be done.
In ADDITION TO bis other books George had At va.
rous times Accumulated large quantity Of Law books,
especially those OF New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New
York States which he was performing xork--and
made himself familiar with their Is, especially
bearing upon his own interest anu contracts
in this way gained legal knowledge cf higher
than is usually possessed by those gentlemen who sport
a tn sigr, anc sometimes occupy seats in Congress
81 higher places
tue closing no OF tue at TarryJowo, and cona.
sng with the high Bridge. The contract Was made
by Gtorge in para, not n vhoetc much for ths cot
Ter DAM cutting the rock TO such depth; much for
stone arches, paapets, walls, coping in tac taers
about ;or,y different lie ma rhe large sum which it
supposed George LAS made by erecting ths splendid
bridge which has rival in the vorio By the
provemeuts which he made He intro: need steam-yne
pumping done by steam, piles drove, stone raised
&C. The oo mode would have ruined hum, any other
contractor and when the bridge nplsted lS49
George bad uch in perence that he
could have gene to work again aud performed the same
at quarter less than it actually cost him
The year 1912 witness of more extended opera
lions the part OF George. This year ne became in
erehted in the Dry Dock Bank and will not be out of
place here to give narration OF Georges
connection with this institution Previous 20 Georgia.
ep1har no far one I'm nd I'D
and sixteen shares this bank az good Investment
There company chartered for the purpose of
struc,iBg Marine Railway in 1875, with capital Of
hundred thousand dollars with banking privileges.
1t the first railway structsd in
in the vicinity OF the railway aud 10 this purchase OF
land and in tue construction OF the railway they
pended large amount of their capitalize such
tent that IL could not pay dividends on its onal CAPT
tai and it therefore reduced 70 Si2 000 aud the
shares to $50. The Dry DOCK charter was perpetual.
The q ssfdl one and the stoss winch
$50 per SHARE got above par 10 1885 and 1885
Dry Docs Company cost large amount OF money by bad
debts and It obliged TO mortgage the real estate
pary OF Baltimore. All this long before George
had anythpg T. do with the Dry Dock Com pany.
then OF the directors and began TO csk out for
md means 10 meet these Icons. The bank had NO
MONEY The directors went to see Mr. Duer and Morris
10 try ane make arrangenents 70 meet
the indebtneSs Of the bank with its real estate.
Mr. Stebbns, the president of TIE bank, by erder
Of the directors offered TO pay, in real estate, at
' austion, the whole amount Of indebts insss
The offer refused and treated With contempt These
foreign age ces then endeevored TO ruin the
by pacardipg notices bidding teaant~ AMI debtors TO
the Dry Dock Company 10 pay in their indebtcdnsss
stating that the property had changed ntnds-And In
every way possible to dscred the Dry Dock
Company in hopes that the st.ck you'd low that
the foreign agents would get 1t into their hands
the utter Of tne legitimate friends of the bank
They hoped TO force sale of the real etse, that
they cosd buy it at ruin1us sacrifice 70 the bank sud
its stockholters The Dry Dock COMPANY applied 70 the
Court Of Cnsicery 10 restrain by the parties
from such proceedings and in doing set hS whole
transaction from the and in reply
Junction issued restraining such proeeedags In tne
OF these foreign or most Of the stock OF
the Baltimore Trust Company owned in England
they broug the Dry Dock BANK into long lit
CATION followed. The Morrsons CT London, applied
party holding fi7 GOO, ami they admitted by tho
court These then started scheme purchase
majority OF the stock, and got directors George
suspected this, and at once wen. TO WORK aud
bought q ma iorty Of the $500 600 stock himseN The
election on and The old directors elected