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Title: New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men.
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Sprague, John Franklin.
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Publisher: (New York) : New York Recorder
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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eamship lines that con-nect it with the whole world, and the greatest of those isundoubtedly the Anchor Line, which contains forty-fivesplendid vessels, divided up into fleets. Six of these bigsteamers run between New York and Glasgow. It has a tendays service between New York and the Mediterraneanports, a fortnightly service connecting from New York withsteamers from Glasgow and Liverpool to Bombay and American yacht Volunteer so hard for the InternationalYacht Cup, four or five years ago. William Coverly hasbeen identified with the line as agent since 1864, when itwas established in New York, and has been its manager forthe past eighteen years. The first manager was FrancisMacdonald, who after ten years of faithful service died ofconsumption and was succeeded by Mr. Coverly. This linehas a larger number of steamships than any other in theworld. It owns a great shipbuilding yard in Glasgow andhas close business relations with another at Barrow-on-Furness. 24 NEW YORK, THE METROPOLIS.
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l-KI/r MILLS AND SOlNDINC. IIOAKI) KACTORV, ALIRKI) DOLCIK, nciLC.KVILLK, N. Y. NEW YORK, THE METROPOLIS. 25 ALFRED DOLGE. The industrial village of Dolgeville, in the State ofNew York, has of late years aroused much attention, bothin this country and abroad, by reason of the successfulefforts made by its founder, Alfred Dolge, a Cierman-American, to solve the labor problem, in an entirelyoriginal manner. The fact that Mr. Dolge had come tothis country a young man of eighteen, without meansand without even a knowledge of our language, hadbefore he was forty established the largest manufactoriesin the world for felt, felt shoes, sounding boards andother piano material, had surpassed the oldest establish-ments in Europe by the superior quality of his products,for which he had gained the highest awards at the ex-hibitions of Vienna, Paris, and Philadelphia, had beenhonored with many positions of public trust, and gaineda commanding position among the great leaders of theRepublican party,

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