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Eureka Fire Hose Co.
| Firmenname | Eureka Fire Hose Co. |
| Ortssitz | Jersey City (N.J.) |
| Straße | Arlington Avenue |
| Art des Unternehmens | Schlauchfabrik |
| Anmerkungen | 1875-1882 in New York, zwischen 22nd Street und 2nd Avenue. |
| Quellenangaben | [Jersey City of to-day (1907) 77] Referenzliste Hewes & Phillips |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 1875 |
Gründung (eingetragen) |
| 1882 |
Verlegung der Fabrikation nach Jersey City |
| 1900 |
Eingetragen unter den Gesetzen von New Jersey |
| Produkt |
ab |
Bem. |
bis |
Bem. |
Kommentar |
| Schläuche |
1875 |
gummibeschichtete |
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| ZEIT | 1907 |
| THEMA | Beschreibung |
| TEXT | The Eureka Fire Hose Mfg. Company, with corporate office and factories occupying the Jersey City block bounded by Arlington, Wilkinson and Garfield Avenues and Marcus Street, is the largest manufacturer of fire hose in the world.
It is the oldest manufacturer of rubber-lined cotton hose hose and linen hose in the United States to-day, and manu-
factures a greater variety of those goods than any other manufacturer in the world.
The seamless circular and solid woven multiple cotton fabric rubber-lined hose which this company first produced
in 1875 soon worked a revolution in fire hose production, as such hose in a short time very largely superseded the leather, rubber, and rivetted cotton hose, which prior to the production of the Eureka goods had been used by fire departments, and the ascendency gained at that time by this company's product has been fully maintained until the present time. These products are used not only in the United States and its far off dependencies, Alaska and the Philippine Islands, but are well known and used in Mexico, Cuba, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia.
Prior to 1875 John Van Dussen Reed and B. L. Stowe had made certain inventions in fire hose, and machinery for
producing it, and in that year the Eureka Fire Hose Company was incorporated under the laws of the State of New
York to manufacture hose and kindred products. The first factory was located at Twenty-second Street and Second
Avenue, New York, but in 1882 a building was bought in Brooklyn, and the factory removed to that city. This new
factory soon proved to be of insufficient capacity to accommodate the company's rapidly increasing business, and in
1887 an annex factory was built at the factory's present location in Jersey City. In 1892 necessary extensions of
the Jersey City factory were made, the Brooklyn factory sold, and since that date all manufacturing has been done
in Jersey City, frequent and extensive additions to this Jersey City factory having been made to accommodate the
steadily growing business. The company has splendid facilities for the production of its goods. Its fine factories have a floor area of 150.000 square feet. These factories conform to the most approved plans for factory construction, and are equipped with special and general machinery best adapted for hose manufacturing. They have excellent equipments for winding and twisting cotton and linen yarns; for weaving these yarns into its fabrics;
for the antiseptic treatment of the fabrics ; for rubber-lining its hose, and for casting and finishing its brass and bronze goods ; in fact, they have a perfect and unequalled equipment for the manufacture of rubber-lined cotton and linen fire hose. The principal selling office of the company is at No. 13 Barclay Street, New York, where it has been located for more than thirty years. The officers of the company are : Mr. B. L. Stowe, president. Mr. Stowe from the organization of the company until 1906 had control of the manufacturing department, but retired from such active management in the year named. His connection with the operation of circular weaving began in 1868, and has been continuous during the forty-two years that have since elapsed. Both the company and Mr. Stowe individually are members of the Board of Trade of Jersey City. Mr. Geo. A. Wies, vice-president and treasurer. Mr. Wies assumed the general management of the business in 1906. He began his connection with the company in its early years, and became its treasurer and general selling agent upon the death of Mr. Junius Schenck in 1892. Mr. Isaac B. Markey, another vice-president, has been actively connected with the sale of fire hose longer than any one else now in the trade, and is well known by fire department officials throughout the country. Mr. Newton F. McKeon, who became secretary and general factory manager in 1906, soon demonstrated the efficiency that he had acquired during a long experience in rubber manufacturing. Mr. Frank R. Grady, assistant factory manager, has been connected with the company since 1893, and Mr. Wm. Volz, the assistant secretary, since 1895. The company was incorported under the laws of the State
of New Jersey in 1900, and the letters "Mfg." were later inserted in its name. The United States Circuit Court in 1879 sustained the company's claim to priority of invention in seamless, circular woven, multiple fire hose, and the courts of New Jersey in 1906 established its claim to the exclusive use of the name "Eureka" for hose. In addition to its New York office and its Jersey City factory, the company has branch offices in Boston, Mass.; Chicago, Ill.; Philadelphia, Pa.; Columbus, Ohio; Atlanta, Ga.; Dallas, Texas; Minneapolis, Minn.; Denver, Colo.; Seattle, Wash.; Syracuse, N. Y., and Detroit, Mich. Their products go to all parts of the civilized world, and spread the fame of Jersey City as they go. |
| QUELLE | [Jersey City of to-day (1907) 77] |
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