The Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Brooklyn, New York • Page 15

THE BROOKLYN' DATLY "EW YORK1. SATURDAY. MAY 53. ft OTTO HUBER BREWERY iSiS MESEROLE STREET fvU From Bush wick Ave. to Waterbury St.

Borough of Brooklyn I turps of the big wholesale grocery store. Harry Balfe, referred to above as ROOM FOR EXPANSION ALONG JAMAICA BAY HIGHEST PAID MAN IN GROCERY TRADE Commissioner Williams Praises the Celebration discovering President Pierson, is vice president of Austin Nichols and Its general manager. He is consid through the ship Uke wlldtire, and the Lascar crew was terror stricken lest the beast make his ernpe. The British crew of tho vessel soon took the situation in hand, and made the. animal secure.

When It was found that, "Blacky," as he was called, had eaten away the lower fastening of two of the steel bars and was about to escape, a double line of Joists were ered the best salesman and the finest director of salesmen in the grocery sieged with orders ror piers for new lines and enlargement of accommodations for old ones. With the limited appropriation nt their command it Is Impossible to meet the neods of the glowing commerce of tho port. There Is an Immediate need of tho two long piers that would be afforded by the proposed new dry dock, between Thlr-ty-Ofth nnd Thirty-ninth streets. Also for llio building of city plnrs between Twenty-eighth und Thirty-first streets. There Is ulso a demand for the early construction of the proposed long piers on the waterfront hetwoen Klfty-seventh and streets.

The completion of these would vastly In- CMSLIC AC PI VICC COMMISSION roMTHt wmr oibthicv Crowing Need for Dockage Room Will Be Met by Department. Lewis E. Pierson, Head of Austin Nichols Con Has $100,000 Income, business. Balfe is quoted as saying that his men could sell hot sand to a sheik If they wanted to, but they did not want to, "because," he said, "the next time they visited the oasis the desert chief would fill them full of old-fashioned handmade bullets they make In those regions. The relation nur men try to sustain to their customers Is sort of half way between irnei mm VO WILLIAM nailed on the front of the cage, thus preventing any more danger.

When the animals were shipped from the other side, the officers of the ship were Instructed to shoot any animals that got their wife and the family Bible." loose, and while the men were masuus the beasts more socure officers stood R0CKAWAY SHOALS DREDGED. WAS TRAINED AS A BANKER. nearby with drawn revolvers reaciy io Mr, Balfe has been a long time witn this house. That he has proved to be a splendid manager Is shown by the fact of the steady progress of the house to the front In the wholesale grocery line. Besides being Tice president and general manager, he is also chairman of the board of man- Harry Balfe, General manager, shoot to kill in case oi neroasaj.

BIG MAIL ORDER HOUSE HERE Gravesend Bay Will Also Provide Pier Facilities When Present Accommodations Fail. Showed Generalship in Picking Out President for Firm, I The man receiving the largest sal Montgomery Ward Co. Recent Arrival in Brooklyn. ary in the wholesale grocery business is undoubtedly Lewis E. Pierson, head of Austin Nichols who are One of the latest additions to Brook CsL4.CtJuC jhsCtsuvtlf.

f.UCZCutJ- UttZeJi. Urr fiJ-t tuu (UjtQyuu erecting a new concrete and steel lyn's great mercantile establishments Great as are to be the domnnds made upon the Port of New York for terminal facilities for the big ships, canal barges, steamboats engaged In coaling trade nnd In Inland waters and railroads upon the completion of the Panama and Krie canals, they can all be fully met at the Brooklyn water and It only needs an enlightened liberal and progressive policy to provide In warehouse at Kent avenue and North Is the mall order bouse of Montgomery creaso the capacity of tho port for big ships and supply nil needs of the big liners for some time to come. When In the progress of the enormous future growth of the port this limit of capacity Is overtaken there I a two-mile stretch In Gravesend Bay available with a moderate amount of dredging for twenty-live or more plors, where all tho big liners of the world today could be uccummo dateil only a block and half from the Hay Ridge, Bath Beach I- lines and the subway lines could be extended to a location near tho land end of the piers. Passengers landing from ships could be carried to the heart of Manhnttan in thirty minutes. It takes a far longer time to go from the lmperutur'a docks to Hamburg and from Tilbury docks to the hotel district of London and from the Liverpool docks tu the hotels.

The grtitest Held for the future expansion of Brooklyn's commerce Is along the waterfront of Jamaica Bay, the Improvement cf which Is being cor rieil out Jointly by tho Federal of Third street, which will Ward the second largest estab lishment of the kind In existence. have 1,400.000 square feet of floor space, and be ready for occupancy by This house is located at Imlay and Bowne streets, in the vicinity of the the nrra on September 1 next. Mr. Pierson is a resident of Brook advance ample facilities of the best modern equipment for all future neeils Hamilton avenue ferry, occupying one of the new reinforced concrete wane houses of tho New Tork Pock Com of the port. The Increasing popularity of Brook lyh as a terminal Is shown by tho avid UV pany.

The firm began business here In August of last year and It has Just taken 80,000 square feet of additional floor space, and it Is reported that the firm is looking for a site upon which is to erect a building for its own use exclusively. r. lty with which the now city pier nt tho foot of Thirty-third street wns taken up by the largest steamship lino in the world, the Hamburg-American, as soon as it wns completed und provided with tho best known modern equipment known for bundling trallic. Already twelve big ships sail regularly The Brooklyn branch of this firm dons a business of hot ween six and eight million dollars a year and employs some eight hundred people. UjU.c S- THE MONTGOMERY WARD BUILDING.

eminent, ami the City of New York, Tho Government has already dredged tho shoals of the outer channel at Uixkanav Inlet, no I luil they have a minimum of sixteen feet of water. Tins Is to continued until eventually It will bo thirty feet In depth and l.r.oo feet In width. The contract tor the tlrst section of the main channel is Just completed for a distance of uhout two miles running north from liarren Island to the entrance to Mill itnsln. This channel Is Mm feet wide and eighteen feet deep. The dredyeil material was plneed behind a bulkhead and extends back nearly l.ooo feet nd has created for the.

city Hhout aires of new shore front land from six to ten feet above tide water. This will furnish excel. ant consolidations In the working force of the big grocery house, all looking to a more economical and elli-cient administration of the business. Mr. PlerHon addressed himself to the solution of the stupendous problem of reducing the cost of carting ami HARRY whit my srisroma nandiing of goons.

When he took and one of the largest holders of (he stock of the corporation. The up the mutter the stock of Austin! ed men In the wholesale grocery business In Manhattan. The streets were getting more and more congested with trallic every day. Something radical had to be done. Halfe saw that a man with a great head was required to do it.

It thus came about that President Pierson of the Irving National Hank received an offer to double his salary and a bonus of stock In the grocery house, which would make his Income $100,1100 for many years to come. After a thorough Investigation of the wholesale food business, with careful consideration of Its needs and opportunities, he accepted the olTer. Mr, Pierson made a big bank of a little one when lie was president of Nichols I n. was stored In nlno different warehouses. The labor of moving this merchandise was enormous ami wns greatly complicated by the crowded condition of the streets.

When the new Brooklyn store Is com-! pleted and occupied, all the business of the llrm will be done under one roof. business ha doubled in the past Ave years. Thirty years ago Austin Nichols Co. was the largest wholesale moeery house In the business. It has required pluck, grit, brains and resourcefulness maintain the concern In that position.

Mr. Balfe's specialty is picking out good salesmen to work for him. He is snld to have once bought out a grocery house for $700,000 for the purpose of securing one of the men who was In Its employ. This In line v.iih his outbidding a national bank for the services of Its president Mr. pierson.

The two men are now doing lent manufacturing sues for the future. It is intended to innnei this tlrst section of tlie n. ihiinnel ulili Mill lliisin and build a dock at Avenue IT Mid Flutbiisli avenue that will lie of gient servire to the Flatbusli nnd Flat, binds sections of the ntv. The cit)'a plan calls for the continuation of the main channel around the west unit northerly sid" of the buy with basins lit proper intervals, until It reaches Cornell Pasm, where It Is expectwt the Hurk'e i 'anal system of the Ktate will connect with the bay via an aril, Hi lal waterway or canal from Flush, In Hay. The State KtiKineer has heca tE.pie.re SON Hie Irving National, and his remark-lalile abilities In the banking Una led I to his election to the presidency of the Amerlenn Bankers Association.

It which Is rapidly rising at North Third and Fourth streets and Kent avenue. Brooklyn, is Mr. Pierson's answer to the puzzle. By means of It he expects greatly to reduce the cost of handling groceries and to lessening the cost to the public. Kour tracks, accommodating sixty-eight freight cars lyn, believes in the future of this par was natural to expect mat me same originality, the same talent for the conservation of energy and of material which achieved such remarkable suc probably the best team work that Is being done by the president and his flrt assistant In any corporation In this country.

Mr. Balfe is also a rest- cess In the banking business should tat one time; a system of removing the be exerted for the achievement of Douy or a loaueu truck, swing the goods Into the warehouse by means of dent of Brooklyn and a thorough be- a oerricK, ana placing: another load never in iui luiurr. i making th" purvey for this canal un der the nuih.iiity of the law passed by the legislature If the Slate authorl-' ties earrv out the recommendations of the Canal Terminal 'omintssion as in-I corporiited In the referendum lull and I approved by the people, a large unit still greater mercantile triumphs In the broader field upon which he decided to enter. The president of Austin Nichols A Co. Is a young man, only just past 40 years of age.

He la clean-cut, ab from this pier and Its capacity will soon be reached. In the same way the city pier at Thirty-first street was taken by the Fabre Line, which hus LASCAR CREW IN TERROR. commodious Ituruc i anal terminal will ticular section of the Greater City, and has been the most Important factor In the locating of this gigantic new store on the waterfront In the very heart of the Kastern District, which, when completed, will give, employment to from 2.200 to 2,500 persons. Mr. riersnn wns brought up In the hanking business.

He began with the Hanover National at ealarv of J2.400 a year. This little bank grew rapidly Into a big one, with 1'lprxon na Its president. Then llnrry Balfe, general manager of Austin Nichols arrived upon th scene and told Mr. rierson that he wuk Juki Die man ho wanted for the presidency of hid company. Balfe Is a man of quick perceptions and he saw that Pierson whs the man MkUed for by conditions that confront- Fully So per rent, of the employees reside in Brooklyn, although the ferry to Manhattan Is In the Immediate vicinity of the store.

The Brooklyn branch of the concern serves customers In the Atlantlo coast States from Maine to Florida. There are other branches of the firm In Chicago, Kansas City, Fort Worth. Texas, and Portland, Oregon. The total number of persons employed by the concern Is 8.000. All the orders for already sublet enough to other lines to constructed on the bay for tho ex get Its own rent free.

port business of the ennui, especially tor the grain business and Krain elevators. Ampin facilities will be creat ed also for bundling coal, lumber, brick. of goods upon the running gear, are some of the features of this great new warehouse. Then there is the instantaneous duplication, by wire, In the Brooklyn warehouse, of orders written in the salesroom which Is to be retained In Manhattan; the swimming bath and the restaurant, supervise.) by a first-class chef, and for the accommodation of clerks and salesmen, and In addition a great auditorium for various meetings of the staff when President Pierson wants to inspire them with some of his own energy, mag-ootlsm and enthusiasm, art other fe- Before Bush Pier No. 8 wns completed It was taken by the Amerlenn- solutely free from all fuss and feath-i trs, and Is the most accessible man at 1 the head of a great mercantile concern anywhere In this country.

His jotllce in the present establishment of the firm, at 61 Hudson street, Manhattan. Is right In the midst of the hum of business, and there Is no i ground glass oiv screen of any kind to separate him from the general working force. I After effecting a number of import llawnlian nnd that company is iniiiu Black Leopard Almost Gnawed Its Way to Freedom, When It came time to remove the wild animals from the steamship Ka-blnga, which arrived early In the week from Calcutta, It was found that one of tho black leopards had almost gnawed Its way from the cage In which it was shipped. The news spread lime, lenient. Iron and other luilky urn, 1 terlnls that will be needed in bulldlns I the ari'liouscs, factories and other structures tlt.it will eventually cover 1 1 he vast urea of upland and land unde I witter to le tilled jj goods come by mall.

Part of the goods ln ,..,.) fine ships especially adapt-are sent by rnrsl free delivery of the: i( for )hn i.nnama to the Pu-postal service part by parcel Lur(, the Hawaiian group, w'o Year. old. The city official, are continually be.