Download or read book New York Custom House Classic Reprint written by United States House of Representatives and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from New York Custom-House This makes up the so as to correspond technically with Mr. Smythe's oft-reiterated asseverations that he was not to have a dollar of it. This show ing, however, left him sole almoner of the political fund. The Miller 85 Conger arrangement fell through, as was commonly supposed, in consequence of their inability to bond suitable warehouses for doing general order business. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book New York Custom House written by United States Congress and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from New York Custom-House: June 15, 1864 Various other minor corroborating circumstances appear in the testimony taken, to which, however, the committee will not specially advert, believing they have, in this presentation and summary of the bond business, nothing extenuated nor set down aught in malice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Finishing and Furnishing the New Custom House New York written by Richard W. Thompson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-16 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Finishing and Furnishing the New Custom-House, New York: August 25, 1842; Report On the loth November, 1840, (c, ) Hoyt wrote again to the Secretary. He said I suggest that you ask Congress for an appropriation to pur chase furniture for the building, &c.; and gave it as his opinion that it; would require from five to seven thousand dollars, in addition to the furniture we now have that could be used, to fit up all the rooms. Mr. Frazee is of opinion that a larger sum would be required than I have named, and his judgment probably is better than mine in that mat ter. He thinks none of the old furniture is fit to be used, but I differ in opinion with him on that question. In reply to this letter, Mr. Woodbury, on the 13th of November, (d, ) said that he would be happy to submit the matter to the consideration of the appropriate committee at the meeting of Congress. He required, however, that, in the mean time, Mr. Frazee should furnish the Depart ment with a detailed estimate of the amount of money required for the object stated, to be laid before the committee. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Civil Service Reform in the New York Custom House Classic Reprint written by Willard Brown and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Civil-Service Reform in the New York Custom-House Mr. John M. Comstock, Deputy Naval Officer and Recording Secretary of the Board of Examiners in the New York Custom House, says As an experiment the competitive examinations have been eminently successful. We have had only local exami ners we have had the benefit of no perfected system we have been hampered in our action; yet the improvements in couse quence of the examinations have astonished us. The new clerks are abler men than those who were appointed under the old regime; they are more ambitious to rise, and their example has acted as a leaven to increase the efficiency of the whole depart ment. The new system has made the officers more efficient and manly, and has raised the moral tone of the whole force. I do not wish it to be inferred that excellent men have not entered the service under the old system but it is certain that the entrance of such men must be regarded as the result of accident. At present there are public servants in the custom-house, with salaries amounting to per annum. Of these, with salaries amounting to are appointed on competi tive examinations. In the remaining are comprised the col lector, deputy collectors, naval officer, deputy naval officers, sur veyor, appraisers, engineers, ushers, laborers, etc. The following is the list of officers who were under the examination rules in October, 1880. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Custom House Justice and Haviland China Classic Reprint written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-17 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Custom House Justice and Haviland China The fact that Paris prices are only 15% above Limoges prices, while Paris expenses are 26vz% above Limoges expenses, is certainly a proof that our Limoges prices are high, and I confess my surprise that the Board should have been willing to make use of the frankness and sincerity of my letter to Mr. Clayton to raise them still higher. As Haviland co. Of New York cannot pay duties on prices above those at which they actually buy their china, and at which their competitors pay their purchases, they can continue to buy from Haviland Co. Of Limoges, only on condition that the latter will cease to sell in Europe. Haviland co. Of Limoges have, therefore, given up their Paris store, and ceased to sell outside of the United States. The Paris expenses of Haviland Co. Of Limoges no longer existing, duties on these expenses can no longer be charged to Haviland co. Of New York. Everybody in our trade and in the Custom House knows that Paris is not a wholesale market for china tableware, and this is proved by the fact that no Paris invoice of a wholesale purchase of such ware has been entered at the Custom House. The only china sold at wholesale in Paris is sold by travelers from Limoges, who stop at an hotel with their trunks Of samples and take orders at the Li moges prices. On the other hand, the Custom House knows that all the invoices of china tableware purchased at wholesale are from Limoges. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book New York the Wonder City Classic Reprint written by Manhattan Post Card Publishing Company and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-28 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from New York, the Wonder City United states custom house: Located at the foot of Broadway facing Bowling Green. On this site stood Fort Amsterdam in the 17th Century. Various branches of the government are housed here. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Port of New York 1893 4 written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-01-25 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Port of New York, 1893-4: A Souvenir of the New York Custom House and Index of the Imports and Shipping Facilities of This Port The collection of duties at this Port in the first year beginning Aug. 5, 1789, was The amount of duties collected in the fiscal year 1851 was $31. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Three Bedrooms in Manhattan written by Georges Simenon and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2011-11-23 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An actor, recently divorced, at loose ends in New York; a woman, no less lonely, perhaps even more desperate than the man: they meet by chance in an all-night diner and are drawn to each other on the spot. Roaming the city streets, hitting its late-night dives, dropping another coin into yet another jukebox, these two lost souls struggle to understand what it is that has brought them, almost in spite of themselves, together. They are driven—from moment to moment, from bedroom to bedroom—to improvise the most unexpected of love stories, a tale of suspense where risk alone offers salvation. Georges Simenon was the most popular and prolific of the twentieth century’s great novelists. Three Bedrooms in Manhattan—closely based on the story of his own meeting with his second wife—is his most passionate and revealing work.

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Download or read book The Story of a New York House Classic Reprint written by H. C. Bunner and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-17 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Story of a New York House Green into Broadway, where Mr. Dolph kept on bowing, for half the town was out, taking the fresh morning for marketing and all man ner of shopping. Everybody knew Jacob Dolph afar off by his blue coat with the silver buttons, his nankeen waistcoat, and his red checked Indian silk neckcloth. He made it a sort of uniform. Captain Beare had brought him a bolt of nankeen and a silk kerchief every year since 1793, when Mr. Dolph gave him credit for the timber of which the Ursa Minor was built. And everybody seemed willing to make ac quaintance with young Jacob's London-made kerseymere breeches, of a bright canary color, and with his lavender silk coat, and with his little chapeau de Paris. Indeed, young Jacob was quite the most prominent moving spec tacle on Broadway, until they came to John Street, and saw something rolling down the street that quite cut the yellow kerseymeres out of all popular attention. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Dark City written by Leander Richardson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Dark City: Or Customs of the Cockneys Anybody can tell that by the rigid way in which the custom-house officials go through his trunks when he arrives. One good square experience of the English cus toms' service usually satisfies any American with the Way we do things in New York. The ordinary free and enlightened citizen of the United States generally raves in sorrow and in anger after he has passed through the Barge Office, but he gains a meek and lowly admiration for even that concern when he has once tackled the Liverpool examination-bureau. He goes to England prepared to pass along unchallenged, because he has heard all his life of the blessings of British free trade and the curses of American protection. But he recovers from that expectation. Moreover, his recovery is sudden. Likewise it is disagreeable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury Transmitting in Response to Senate Resolution of February 14 1889 Copies of Testimony Relative to Frauds in New York Custom House Classic Reprint written by Hugh S. Thompson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-28 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Letter From the Secretary of the Treasury, Transmitting, in Response to Senate Resolution of February 14, 1889, Copies of Testimony Relative to Frauds in New York Custom-House Wanted: Letter of Appraiser Hay authorizing examiners to do as well as they can in sampling mark by mark. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Lucky Jim written by Kingsley Amis and published by Viking. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Lucky Jim' is the tale of university lecturer Jim Dixon who has to navigate the stumbling blocks of life at a red brick university, as he attempts to climb the social ladder to a moderately successful future.

Download or read book The New York Stories of Edith Wharton written by Edith Wharton and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2011-08-17 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These 20 short stories and novellas offer an exquisite portrait of Old New York, spanning from the Civil War through the Gilded Age (New York Times). “Edith Wharton . . . remains one of the most potent names in the literature of New York.” —New York Times Edith Wharton wrote about New York as only a native can. Her Manhattan is a city of well-appointed drawing rooms, hansoms and broughams, all-night cotillions, and resplendent Fifth Avenue flats. Bishops’ nieces mingle with bachelor industrialists; respectable wives turn into excellent mistresses. All are governed by a code of behavior as rigid as it is precarious. What fascinates Wharton are the points of weakness in the structure of Old New York: the artists and writers at its fringes, the free-love advocates testing its limits, widows and divorcées struggling to hold their own. The New York Stories of Edith Wharton gathers twenty stories of the city, written over the course of Wharton’s career. From her first published story, “Mrs. Manstey’s View,” to one of her last and most celebrated, “Roman Fever,” this new collection charts the growth of an American master and enriches our understanding of the central themes of her work, among them the meaning of marriage, the struggle for artistic integrity, the bonds between parent and child, and the plight of the aged. Illuminated by Roxana Robinson’s introduction, these stories showcase Wharton’s astonishing insight into the turbulent inner lives of the men and women caught up in a rapidly changing society.

Download or read book New York Fashions Classic Reprint written by National Cloak And Suit Company and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from New York Fashions Order Blanks in the front of this Catalogue. Fourth carefully fill out the Order Blank, enclose your remittance and mail them to us. As we conduct a mail-order business. We receive orders by mail only. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Dirty Snow written by Georges Simenon and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2011-11-23 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteen-year-old Frank Friedmaier lives in a country under occupation. Most people struggle to get by; Frank takes it easy in his mother’s whorehouse, which caters to members of the occupying forces. But Frank is restless. He is a pimp, a thug, a petty thief, and, as Dirty Snow opens, he has just killed his first man. Through the unrelenting darkness and cold of an endless winter, Frank will pursue abjection until at last there is nowhere to go. Hans Koning has described Dirty Snow as “one of the very few novels to come out of German-occupied France that gets it exactly right.” In a study of the criminal mind that is comparable to Jim Thompson’s The Killer Inside Me, Simenon maps a no man’s land of the spirit in which human nature is driven to destruction—and redemption, perhaps, as well—by forces beyond its control.

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