Morning journal and courier., 1888-09-26

A. Mammoth Buslness-The Greatest
Depot Off a1lvvay and Electric Equip
memts. and Supplies Either In This
Country I'm the Old WOrld-The
House of the e. 3. Greeley & Co..
New York city.
New Haven will be interested in the fol-
lowing article taken from the New York
Record and Trade Reporter regarding the
great business conducted by "The E. s.
Greeley & Co.," of New York city of which
our honored and highly esteemed townsman,
General E. s. Greeley, lis the head. The BUSH
ness of the house is furnishing railway and
electric supplies, and some idea may be gain
ed of its vast extent from the fact that it not
only does the largest business in railway and
electric supplies in America but the largest
in the world. The firm was founded by the
late L. G. Tillotson and General Greeley in
November, 1855, only few weeks after Gen.
eral Greeley retired from the army Of his
country in which he served so gallantly and
with 10 much deserved honor; and it deals In
telegraph, telephone and electric light sup
plies and railway equipments and supplies.
A still greater future Is evidently before this
house in view of the immense possibilities
and probabilities growing out of the use of
'sThe spirit of modern progress is constant
ly suggesting improvements in our methods
OF transportation and travel, and the rail
way has experienced these changes to a re-
markable degree, SO that it would appear to
be well nigh perfect. Speed, safety and lux
urious appointments have rendered a journey
of many thousand miles as commodious and
luxurious as human ingenuity and foresight
can devise.
To provide for such requirements is the
concern of great houses, where everything
can be found in the line of railway equip
ment and made of the best materials that
can be procured at home or abroad. Such
an establishment is the firm Of THE e. s..
GREELEY 6 Co. of Nos. 5 and Dey street,
New York, who are the SUCCESSORS to the old
established house of L. G. Tillotson 6 Co.,
of which General Greeley was partner from
the commencement of business of this
house.
The house of The E. s. Greeley & Co. is
acknowledged to be the leading concern deal
ing in railway supplies and equipments, and
with unexcelled facilities and ample resources
they transact the largest business in their
line in America, and in the world.
They are manufacturers of railway car
findings, importers of car plushes, dealers in
all varieties of upholstery material, rubber
goods, metals of all kinds, and railway goods
and equipments of every description and
modern design.
Their stock is very comprehensive and inc
cludes many novelties suggested by expert
ence and approved by practical railway men
belonging to the leading trunk lines in this
country and foreign lands. The house trans
acts an immense business which reaches ev-
cry part of the United States as well as other
nationalities.
The individual directors of the corporation
are gentlemen of great energy, remarkable
shrewdness and executive ability, born in and
bred to the business, and are possessed of
those systematic methods that ensure sue
cess, and which in connection with this
house afford most gratifying evidence of cons
tinued prosperity.
1t must not be supposed, however, that
the business of the house Of The E. S. Gree
ley & 20. is limited to that of railway and
steamship supplies.
In the early history of the electric tele-
graph the only patrons of this first practical,
but now widespread application of the cleo
trio current were, the steam railroads, and the
railroad companies looked naturally to their
regular supply houses for the necessary ma
terial for the construction and maintenance
of their telegraph lines.
Thus it is that the electrical supply trade
was early engrafted upon that of the rail-
road.
The same system of intelligent enterprise
and careful nursing was applied to the infant
industry, and as the electric field opened
and broadened the house of Greeley rose to
the occasion, cultivating the growth of the
young giant to its fullest proportions. There
were no opportunities neglected. Whether
the requirements were for that which was
most practical or that which was most scien-
tito, all electrical wants received the ready
attention and fostering care of this CONNER
cial godfather.
To-day among their electric wares is num-
bered everything from the lightning rod to
the magnetic needle.
re -
jectors apply to E. s. Greeley & Co. for their
plant. From the pickaxe and crowbar with
which the crpwbar is first broken, through
series of poles, insulators, wires, batteries
and instruments in their successive order to
the very stationery and Office furniture with
which the service is equipped are supplied by
this house.
Telegraph companies draw their general
supplies herefrom. Here, too, is found the
food that sustains the great and growing in
terests of electric light, not alone in the
United States, Candada and Mexico, but
abroad across the seas. When the huge ex-
port trade of this concern is considered it
can be fairly said that the wire from their
hands girdle the earth, and the glow of their
electric lamps never fades from the sky.
China, Japan, India and Australia, as well as
near at hand countries of Central and South
America avail themselves of the full and
ready handedness of this electric emporium.
With electric locomotion comes an oppor-
tunity for rare instance. What il this
house which in its capacity of caterer to the
wants of railroads took upon themselves the
function of electrical supply manufacturers,
and dealers should in a single generation find
steam 30 far superseded by electricity as to
become the accepted motive power of surface
railroadsi It is promisingl Lathes are
now run and elevators hoisted by the electric
force. Many tramways have already adopted
this occult power, and no intelligent student
of modern progress can afford to openly
laugh at the prediction that within twenty
years we will cross the American continent
by means of the electric current.
Such q contamination would be the COM
p1etion of the circle of contingencies and the
foster infant of half century ago become
an essential element to the operation of the
railway.
So instead of steam locomotives this house
in the near future may be supplying electric
locomotives to the railroads, which event
would merge the two now distinct supply
interests into one homogenity in which the
respective lines would lose their identity.
In among the oil lamps and gas jets of the
coaches the incandesoent globe is forcing its
way. Among the hand and pneumatic
brakes the electric brake is appealing for a
place. Electric door openers and electric
bells stand ready for service on the palace
cars and with the electric motor usurping
the place of steam in hundred other classes
of machinery it seems but step to apply it
to railway locomotion.
so that what might at first seem an incon-
gruity to an observer unacquainted with all
the facts, namely, q large commercial house
like The e. 8. Greedy & Co., catering,to two
such important lines of trade as that of rail
road equipments and electrical supplies is
seen to have had very natural beginning