Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-04-09
COMMISSIONERS SALE
OF VALUABLE ~
MANUFACTURING PLANT,
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tered on the 7th day OF! Ntarcn,slS ~
in The chancery cause of Central Met
al and Supply Company, VS.. Emerson
Engine Company, Incorporated, ct ais,
and R. D. Weaver and r. Fl. Gofss-
borough VS. Victor Lee Emerson. ct
ais. consolidated, pending in the Cir
cult Court of the City of Alexandria,
Virginia, we vii! offer for sale at.pub.-
lie auction, in front. of the Royal
street entrance to the Market Build
ing, in the City Of Alexandria, Va,
on 49,
SATl RDAY, APRIL IS, 1914,
at u O'clocl, NJ, the following de-
scribcd real and personal property:
1st: All that lot of ground with
the buildings and improvements there
on, on the south side of Duke street
AMI east side of Potomac Strand, in
the City of Alexandria, Virginia,
bounde. as follows:-
Beginning at the intersection Of the
south side Of Duke street with the east
side of Potomac Strand and running
thence eastwardly with Duke street
into the Potomac River; thence re-
turning to the point Of beginning and
running southwardly with the east
side of Potomac Strand one hundred
and forty-fve (145) feet, seven (7)
inches, more or less to the north line
of the lot of ground conveyed by the
Haskn Wood Vulcanizing Company
to the Real Estate Improvement Com
pany of Baltimore, by Iced dssed
June 9, 1894, and recorded in Deed
Book SO, page 1913, of the land records
of the City of Alexandria, Virginia;
thence eastwardly parallel to Duke
street into said river; thence north to
connect with the first line, being
known and described as the 'Pioneer
Mills" property, together with ali
rights, appurtenances, riparian rights
easements and privileges to the same
belonging, or in any wise appertain-
ing, subject, however, to a right OF
way through a ten foot alley over
said property, conveyed to the Real
Estate Improvement Company OF
Baltimore by the Haskin Wood Vul-
canizing Company, by ieed dated
June 9th, 1894. Being the same prop
erty which was conveyed to the said
Emerson Engine Company, Incorpor-
ated, by the Bryant Fertilizer Com
pany, a corporation incorporated I'M
Ter the laws of Virginia, by deed Cat
ed December 10Th, 1910, and duly re-
.orded amongst the land records of the
City of Alexandria, Virginia, in Dee:
Book GO, page 4O1.
End. First: All that lot of ground
with the building thereon used as a
foursry, situated on the north side of
Duke street, and west side Of Union
street, and fronting on Duke street
seventy (7G) feet, and on Union street,
thirty (30) feet, the back lines being
The same length respectively as the
corresponding front lines, and binding
IN an alley eighteen feet, nine inches
vide, am running north from Duke
street, with the right of way over
said alley.
Second: All that lot Of ground
with the buildings and improvements
.hereoa, beginning on the north side
If Duke street, lightweight 1881 feet,
line (9) inches, west Of Union street,
IN the west line Of an alley eighteen
'eet, nine inches wide; thence running
vest on Duke street nine co. feet,
light (S) inches, slNorc or less, to the
east line Of a lot of GROUND conveyed
% Ernest Mills by deed recorded
amongst the land records Of the City
If Alexandra, Virginia, in Liber 81,
page 326, to which reference is hero
~ made; thence with the line of the
said conveyance to Ernest Mills,
northwardly parallel to said alley,
seventy-two (72) feet; thence west
wardly i'll a line parallel to Duke
street seven (D feet, four (4) inches;
hence northwardly parallel with said
alley, thirty-nine 500 feet; thence
westward!y parallel to Duke street
twenty-three (23) feet; thence leaving
The lines of the said Ernest Mills
northwar3ly parallel to said alley,
thirty-seven (37) feet, more or less,
to the south line Of an alley thirty
500 feet wide, leading from Union
street to Lee street; thence eastward
" along the line of said thirty foot
alley, forty (40) feet, more or less,
to the west line of said eighteen feet.
nine inches alley; an; thence south
wardly along the line of said last men
toned alley to Duke street and the
point of beginning.
Third: All the lot of ground i'm
proved by building used as ma
chine shop, beginning at the inter
section of the south side O.
Duke street with the west
side Of Potomac Strand, and running
thence southwardly with the west side
of said Potomac Stran: one hundred
(lOO) feet to the north line of an alley
twenty (20) feet wide, which extends
with the width westwardly from said
Strand distance Of ninety-three (93}
feet; thence northwardly with the
north line Of said alley sixty-two (62)
feet; thence north parallel with the
first lire one hundre! 1OO) feet to
Duke street; and thence east on
Duke street siXty-two (62) feet to the
point OF beginning, with the right of
way over and the use Of said Strand
am alley in common with others en-
titled thereto.
Also the following personal prop
erty: