Identifier: historyofqueensc00newy (find matches)
Title: History of Queens County, New York, with illustrations, portraits, & sketches of prominent families and individuals
Year: 1882 (1880s)
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Subjects: Queens Co., N.Y Queens Co., N.Y
Publisher: New York W.W. Munsell
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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, E. V. Crandall. Theanalyist is Lucius Pitkin. The buildings shown in the illustration, where thebusiness is now conducted, have all been erected by thepresent proprietors, the first plant erected by Walter &:Baumgarten having been entirely removed. The pres-ent buildings cover one block, 200 by 300 feet on oneside of the railroad and on the other side 200 by 240 feet,with a dock frontage on the creek of about 400 feet. Thecapacity of the works at present is the production dailyof about 600 carboys of oil of vitrol, besides muriatic andnitric acid made from sulphuric acid as a base. Thewhiting works produce about 10,000 bbls. annually.Forty thousand pounds of sulphur is burned daily incold weather, but less during the summer months. Thebusiness employs from sixty to seventy-five men steadily.The manufacturers are redeeming several lots now underwater, and contemplate a new dock on the creek, to costfrom $5,000 to $6,000, on which they are to erect copperfurnaces for smelting ore.
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CALVARY CEMETERY—THE VILLAGE OF MASPETH. 379 CALVARY CEMETERY. This cemetery, which is located at Laurel Hill, wasset apart and consecrated in 1848. It is one of the mostaccessible rural cemeteries near New York, and it wouldbe difficult to select a lovelier or fitter spot as a place ofsepulture. The old ground comprised one hundred andten acres, but in 1853 a charter was obtained from theState by the trustees of St. Patricks cathedral, New Yorkcity, for 250 acres; ^165 acres of this are now enclosed.The artesian well in that part of the enclosure calledNew Calvary was sunk in 1879. It is 606 feet deep and6^ inches in diameter, and was bored in white granitefor a large part of its depth. Last year 32,000 personsdied in the city of New York, and of this number 15,500were buried in Calvary. The cemetery keeps one hun-dred and fifty men regularly employed, and two hundredmore are kept at work by the relatives and friends of thedeceased. Here may be found some of the choicest ofmaterial

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