Hartford and its points of interest; illustrated from original photographs (1895) (14761538076)

Identifier: hartforditspoint00merc (find matches)
Title: Hartford and its points of interest ; illustrated from original photographs
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Mercantile Illustrating Company (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects: Industries
Publisher: New York : Mercantile Illustrating Co.
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries



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ted by Mr. Fitz Gerald alone andwith even more marked success than had previously attended its career. Mr.Fitz Gerald does an exclusively wholesale and commission business, handlingon a large scale salt, salt fish and canned goods, poultry, game, ConnecticutRiver shad, and Block Island fish, making leading specialties of the latter. Atone time the firm controlled over three-fourths of the Couuecticut River shadcatch; but, owing to the growing scarcity of this once plentiful fish in thesewaters, Mr. Fitz Gerald now gives comparatively little attention to that branchof trade. His business extends throughout New England, three traveling sales-men representing the house on the road. The establishment occupies fivefloors, each 25 x 125 feet iu dimensions, and they are all heavily stocked. Mr-Fitz Gerald has been a member of the Common Council, and at present is amember of the Board of Fire Commissioners, is a 32d Degree Mason, and is atthe head of the Scottish Rite bodies in this city. 1°
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BUILDING OF NATIONAL MACHINE CO. AND THORNE TYPE-SETTING MACHINE CO. FIvORAI, BAZAAR (C. C. Munsell, Proprietor). Cut Flowers,No. 87 Trumbull Street.—The business carried on by Mr. C. C. Munsell, andknown as the Floral Bazaar, at No. 87 Trumbull Street, was established in1890 by him. He is a native of this town and served one year in the Twenty-second Regiment, C. V., is also a member of the Grand Army of the Republic,and is well known not only in this section but among florists and flower loversand gardeners throughout the country, having been in this same kind of busi-ness for the past twenty years. Mr. Munsell is a dealer in cut flowers, makinga specialty of floral designs. Choice seasonable cut flowers can be furnished inpractically any desired quantities at very short notice, together with table,house and church decorations, artistic, appropriate and novel designs forweddings, balls and parties, funeral emblems; and, in short, designs especiallyadapted to any of the innumerable