Print Specifics:
- Type of print:
Electrotype (or a Photo-engraving of a Steel Engraving) - This is a portrait print from a
salvaged book. Has text, unrelated to the illustration, on the back.
- Year of printing: 1895
- Publisher: The New York Tribune
- Condition: 1 (1. Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good - 4. Fair)
- Light age toning of paper, slightly darker along the edges
- Dimensions: 7 x 10
inches, including blank margins around the image. Full borders around the image not shown in the photo. Image dimensions only: 4.5 x 4.5 inches. 1 inch = 2,54 cm.
- Paper weight: 3 (1. Thick - 2. Heavier - 3. Medium heavy - 4. Slightly heavier - 5. Thin)
- Note: Facsimile signature under the image
Basic genealogy information:
- JAMES DANIEL LEARY, ship builder and contractor, was born near Montreal, Canada, Sept. 25, 1837.
- On the Brooklyn water front, under his
skillful direction, piers and bulkheads have grown into existence for
the Havemeyers and Dick & Meyer sugar refineries, The Pennsylvania
Railroad Co., The Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co., Charles
Pratt, The Standard Oil Co., and other concerns, this work aggregating
over $3,000,000. Mr. Leary never fails to give entire satisfaction to
his clients, and, as a rule, finishes his work ahead of the specified
time. His reputation in this respect not only testifies to his driving
energy, his power of organization and effective management of bodies of
men, but continually brings him new contracts. In Long Island City, he
has improved the water fronts of the property owned by Union College,
The Mutual Life Insurance Co., the Hon. Roswell P. Flower, The Barber
Asphalt Paving Co., The New York Terra Cotta Co., The Warren Scharf
Paving Co., John Good (the cordage manufacturer) and B. T. Babbitt (the
soap manufacturer), as well as performed a large amount of construction
work for many other important concerns.
During 1873-82, he engaged extensively in the coal trade, having
secured contracts for supplying all the public schools and charitable
institutions of New York city and all the army posts and navy stations
of New York harbor with coal.
Since 1882, Mr. Leary has been largely occupied with contract work
along the Harlem river. The first considerable task in the improvement
of the water front in that vicinity was from 135th to i38th street for
H. A. Cram, and Third to Fourth avenue for J. H. Cheever. For Morris
& Adams, he improved the river front from 144th to 149th street,
and then secured from John Jacob and William B. Astor, a contract for
continuing these improvements from 149th street as far as Cromwell
creek. Although given three years in which to complete this
undertaking, he ended it in less than a year and a half at a cost of
$928,000. These were all profitable operations. Mr. Leary has lately
been building bulkhead walls, excavating the rocks and dredging the
river, in order to create the United States Harlem River Ship Canal. He
is now constructing the first section of the new Harlem driveway, which
will be completed at an expense of about $850,000 during 1895. The
immediate supervision of the details of the work is entrusted to his
son, Daniel J. Leary, a graduate of Columbia College and a competent
civil and mining engineer. His son has been of great assistance, and
has since 1882 relieved his father of a vast burden of the details of
construction of public works.
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