. The men of New York: a collection of biographies and portraits of citizens of the Empire state prominent in business, professional, social, and political life during the last decade of the nineteenth century .. . the age of seventeen embarked for himself in themeat and butchering business, and in three yearshad saved money enough to launch out in largerventures. Going to New York at the age of twenty. he served a six months clerkship in an iron store,and then started in the iron l)usiness for himselfThe enterprise was successful from the first, andbecame increasingly important, until at the
. The men of New York: a collection of biographies and portraits of citizens of the Empire state prominent in business, professional, social, and political life during the last decade of the nineteenth century .. . the age of seventeen embarked for himself in themeat and butchering business, and in three yearshad saved money enough to launch out in largerventures. Going to New York at the age of twenty. he served a six months clerkship in an iron store,and then started in the iron l)usiness for himselfThe enterprise was successful from the first, andbecame increasingly important, until at the end oftwenty years Mr. Carpenter was recognized as aprominent manufacturer of new appliances for rail-roads, with specialties in railroad signals and im-proved car tracks. In recent years Mr. Carpenter has been remark-ably successful in promoting various cemetery enter-prises. He has persistently maintained that thebeautiful and cheerful in art and nature should takethe place of funereal gloom in the surroundings ofthe public memorials of the departed. In 1890 hesuccessfully inaugurated Kensico cemetery, destinedto be one of the largest and most beautiful ceme-teries accessible from New York city. Selecting. REESE CAKHEXTER the location with judgment, recognizingits natural adaptation to fine landscape and archi-tectural effects, he foresaw the ultimate physicalbeauty of the developed project, and bent his 44 .I/AW OF .XKir WiRK^MAXJ/ATTAX SECTIOX energies to the enterprise. He is now comptrollerof the Cemetery ; and the ideal, whichwas to him a vivid reality at the start seven yearsago, is being rajjidly actualized. He is also inter-ested in the Forest Lake cemetery at Washington,D. C. ; ill the Druid Ridyie ccmeterv at Baltimore,
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