. Essex county, , illustrated . WORKS OF N. J. DKMAREST & CO., CORNER LAI AVEIIE STREET AM) N. .1. R. R. AVEXUE. N. J. DEMAREST & CO. and saddler) manufacture in Newark, althoughof magnificent proportions and volume, is not at thepresent day, in this respect, equal to the days previous to. during,and a few years after the war. In those palmy days New Yorkcity was the great head centre for merchants from all parts ofthe land, and New-ark its great workshop. The Southernmarkets were the acme of all Northern merchants, the West agood fill-in, but a side issue. Cotton was King. To-day
. Essex county, , illustrated . WORKS OF N. J. DKMAREST & CO., CORNER LAI AVEIIE STREET AM) N. .1. R. R. AVEXUE. N. J. DEMAREST & CO. and saddler) manufacture in Newark, althoughof magnificent proportions and volume, is not at thepresent day, in this respect, equal to the days previous to. during,and a few years after the war. In those palmy days New Yorkcity was the great head centre for merchants from all parts ofthe land, and New-ark its great workshop. The Southernmarkets were the acme of all Northern merchants, the West agood fill-in, but a side issue. Cotton was King. To-day, howchanged ; while the productions in bulk, in the above lines, failseriously to reach former days, still the quality and variety none with. have materially improved, keeping pace with all advanced ideas,that the money value of its productions no doubt exceed thoseof old-fashioned times, and Newatk still maintains its lead andreputation as the great head centre for fine harness and those of its manufacturers whose productions rankin the very hightest order of excellence, may be mentioned thethe firm of N. J. Demarest & Co. The portraits of Mr. N. and son Daniel Demarest, and their factory on NewJersey Railroad Avenue, Lafayette and Bruen Streets are givenherewith. It is with pardonable pride that we are permitted tospeak in words ofcommendation of our many industries, and ofmore pleasure N. J. DEMAREST. (DECE.\SED.) than the manufacture ofharness and saddlery and itshighly respected representa-tives, Messrs. Demarest XCo., who are now amongtlie patriarchs of the businessyet full of that young fire,energy and ambition dies in the good busi-ness man. During theFranco-Prussian war, amo
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