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Title: The industries of New Orleans, her rank, resources, advantages, trade, commerce and manufactures, conditions of the past, present and future, representative industrial institutions, historical, descriptive, and statistical
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Morrison, Andrew
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Publisher: New Orleans, J. M. Elstner & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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showing its importance. It employs from sixty toseventy-five men, is three stories high, and lOO feet by 250 feet in extent. Its specialtiesare crackers and confectionery, in which lines it has facilities of the very first order.It is a great house in all respects. The Industries of New Orleans. 95 EDWARDS & HAUBTMAN. Manufacturers of Sugar Making Machinery and Apparatus: 22 to 32 Front and 21 to 31 Delta streets, A history of the industrial establishments of this city and State could not be writ-ten without conspicuous mention of this one. The name of Daniel Edwards, the fa-ther of one of the partners and founder of the works, is identified with manufacturingin New Orleans as a prominent pioneer of that line. He began business in the year1S46 and was succeeded by his son, James D. Edwards about twelve or thirteen yearsago. About six yeai-s ago the marvelous development of the trade compelled an addi-tion to the management, and Leon F. Haubtman, who had been the superintendent of
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theworks for twenty years, was admitted to partnership. While the greater part ofthefirms trade is with this immediate section, it is not altogether confined thereto, butextends to Texas, Florida and other distant States, and as far abroad as South America,In the construction and repair of steamboat machinery these shops have always beenregarded as expert, and of sugar making apparatus they have made a special study. Theworks cover probably the largest premises of any similar concern in the South, occupy-ing as they do a space of 150x150 at the junction of Delta and Front streets. Sixty 96 The Industries of New Orleans. skilled workmen are the average number of employes, but in the busy season so mani-as 200 and more are frequently on the pay rolls. The following material ^vhen stainped with this firms name is preferred to all oth-ers: All kinds of Distilling Apparatus; Vacuum Pans; Hepworths Centifugals Mixers;Steam and Doctor Engines; Steam Pumps; Steam Trains; Cylinder and Flue Boi

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