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Title: The new New York : a commentary on the place and the people
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Van Dyke, John Charles, 1856-1932 Pennell, Joseph, 1857-1926
Subjects: New York (N.Y.) -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ewhere are announced.The volume of business continues to grow each year at anastounding rate. The exchange itself profits by this.It started in small beginnings, under the blue sky, on thesidewalk. It was not formally known as the ProduceExchange until 1868, and it did not move into its presentmassive building until 1884. Since then its membershiphas increased to several thousands; and its influence upontrade and transportation has become most potent. The Maritime Exchange is closely connected with theProduce Exchange. Its business is to promote the mari-time interests of the city; and those who do business on orwith the sea — agents, shippers, commission merchants,warehousemen, importers, brokers, marine underwriters,wreckers, ship-chandlers — are eligible for member-ship. The exchange keeps records of the arrivals anddepartures of ships, their movements about the world,and their sudden exits by fire and storm. It also keepstables of the imports and exports, regulates and reports
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Pl. 17. — Park Row Building DOWN TOWN 85 upon navigation and lighthouses, and promotes favor-able river and harbor legislation. The Customs Houseand the Post-Office, as well as the newspapers, get muchof the news about the come and go of shipping from thissource. Akin to these exchanges are others dealing with thespecial needs and wants of special industries. TheConsolidated Stock and Petroleum Exchange, amongother things, affords every facility and every informationfor the sale and shipping of petroleum. Each year thesales there run up to something over a billion barrels.The Cotton Exchange on Beaver Street deals in everythingconnected with the cotton industry and the marketing ofthe product. The Builders Exchange has to do with thebuying and selling of all kinds of building supplies suchas cement, brick, stone, and the like; while the MetalExchange on Pearl Street, the Wool Exchange on WestBroadway, the Fruit Exchange on Park Place, theBrewers Exchange on East Fifteenth Street, th

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