New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . ric, and American Gynsecological Societies. Hewas one of the original members of Troop A, N. Y. S. Mi-litia. He is also a member of the University Club. was married in 1890 to Miss Elenor Taylor, a younglady prominent in New York society, and daughter of anold Massachusetts family. ISRAEL J. MERRITT. Captain Israel J. Merritt was born in New York City onthe 23d of August, 1829. He has been engaged in thewrecking business since 1844. Captain Merritt broughtinto his business an inventive genius, together with energyan
New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . ric, and American Gynsecological Societies. Hewas one of the original members of Troop A, N. Y. S. Mi-litia. He is also a member of the University Club. was married in 1890 to Miss Elenor Taylor, a younglady prominent in New York society, and daughter of anold Massachusetts family. ISRAEL J. MERRITT. Captain Israel J. Merritt was born in New York City onthe 23d of August, 1829. He has been engaged in thewrecking business since 1844. Captain Merritt broughtinto his business an inventive genius, together with energyand push. He invented pontoons for raising vessels, andthere has been no improvement since in this line. The warinterfered somewhat with his life work. He rendered serviceduring that eventful period under Assistant Secretary has received letters for saving life at sea. In 1880 he estab-lished the Merritt Wrecking Organization, of which he andhis son, Mr. I. J. Merritt, Jr., are the sole owners. It is thelargest and most successful house in the world engaged in. ISR.\EL J. MERRITT. the wrecking business. Besides their main offices at 49 WallStreet, New York, and a large storehouse and docks at Staple-ton, Staten Island, they have offices, storehouses and docksat Norfolk, Va., and are permanently stationed there. Theyown a fleet of steamers, sailing vessels, and pontoons, spe-cially built, rigged, and fitted out, regardless of cost, for thework. They have thirty steam pumps and boilers, all por-tal)le, capable of throwing from twenty to seventy barrelsof water each per minute; twenty manila cables, fourteento twenty inches in circumference, each 207 fathoms long ;twenty-six large wrecking anchors, and all tools for handlingwrecked cargoes. They do nearly all the heavy wreckingon the Atlantic coast, and have saved the most difficult 214 JVEW YORIt, THE METROPOLIS. cases known. Captain Merritt, who can justly claim thehonor of being the pioneer wrecker, served thirty-five year
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