The old merchants of New York City / by Walter Barrett.

pOF NJW YORK CITY.

ed. In selling out I named my price; they accepted,
and I received their notes from six months to two years
for $50,000, the first one $10,000. All were promptly
paid, and I have ever received acts of' real kindness from
both of them. I may speak of the extent of business the
last year I was one of the firm; I took considerable
pains, and made it in round figures $370,000, and doubt
if there was another jobbing house in the U. S. that
sold an equal amount. Corning, of Albany, might have
come and gone greatly over it, but that was not legitmate
hardware; it included his nail factory, shovel factory,
iron works, immense importations of railroad iron, &c.,
&c. This same Erastus Corning and myself were early
acquaintances. I was in a hardware store when a boy, at
Waterford; he was clerk in the hardware store of Philip
Heartt, of Troy, flther of Lewis C. Heartt. They were
both about two years my seniors, but no three in that
section were more intimate. I will now close by saying
I have written this exactly off-handed - will not take
or keep a copy of it. Should you take an interest in
reading it, I shall be pleased.
Yours respectfully,
JACOB S. PLATT

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