Pilot lore; from sail to steam . of them are repairedand reconditioned in the shipyards here. This Company also maintains a fleet of about thirty (30) largefloating derricks, five (5) derrick propellers, also harbor tugs, mostof which are located in the Port of New York. These derricks arecapable of lifting from 75 to 250 tons, and the derricks Monarchand Colossus are the largest and most powerful of their kind in ex-existence. The main office of the Company is located in New York City at17 Battery Place with branches at Norfolk, Va.; Philadelphia, Pa.;Baltimore, Md.; Key West, Fla., and Kings
Pilot lore; from sail to steam . of them are repairedand reconditioned in the shipyards here. This Company also maintains a fleet of about thirty (30) largefloating derricks, five (5) derrick propellers, also harbor tugs, mostof which are located in the Port of New York. These derricks arecapable of lifting from 75 to 250 tons, and the derricks Monarchand Colossus are the largest and most powerful of their kind in ex-existence. The main office of the Company is located in New York City at17 Battery Place with branches at Norfolk, Va.; Philadelphia, Pa.;Baltimore, Md.; Key West, Fla., and Kingston, Jamaica, B. W. I. — 306 -s a- a- 5 o n ti ft- t^ s 5* — ?>« ^ o ^^« s „. © «J S- 6sTO v ft- o PS -?s s. w led d vorld 0 ps 2 3 o V. TO ha O i—.^ T! * c~* i—i 3- TOo a* w a ^ pa PS h-1 -+. a H to^: H ft*§ 8= to J* 3 to n -^. to TO -s K ft- ? > ?a ~ ST > 51 TO fs 0 C-*l i—i 5* SXj < TO w e- ^tj so a -* ai .* o ^ 3 to « 6s _. WHITLOCK CORDAGE COMPANY IN THE year 1825, at Elizabethport, N. J., Sidney B. Whitlockfounded the business which has since developed into the Whit-lock Cordage Company, manufacturers of Manila and Sisal ropeand twine. Thus it will be seen that for nearly a hundred years theWhitlock family has been making rope for sailors. When the Elizabethport plant was destroyed by fire in the earlynineties, a new company was formed by Mr. W. P. Whitlock. Itwas not until 1905, however, after the present modern plant hadbeen completed at Jersey City, that his associates finally persuadedMr. Whitlock that they had at last perfected the rope which hewas willing to have marketed under his own name. He realized that,to succeed, such a brand must not only be as good as the very bestof those with which it must compete, but also a little better. The result is Whitlock Manila, a rope well known to sailormen,wherever American ships plow the seven seas. The present up-to-date, thoroughly equipped factory in Je
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