313 Broadway

[RandallTlachac]

Reviewing the shipping log for 1902, indicates many Parkers were shipped to "M. Hartley Company" located at 313 Broadway, NY. Its interesting to note the this firm was run by Marcellus Hartley, who had a son Marcellus Hartley Dodge, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcellus_Hartley_Dodge,_Sr. , who married a Rockefeller, At the time of his marriage, Dodge was the president and a director of the Union Metallic Cartridge Company, president of the Bridgeport Gun Implement Company, director of the Equitable Trust Company, director of International Banking Company, director of M. Hartley Company, a member of the Lawyers Club of New York City, the Essex County Country Club, and the City of New York Club. Eventually, Dodge became the chairman of Remington Arms Company, taking the place of his maternal grandfather. The Remington Arms and Union Metallic Cartridge factories at Bridgeport, Connecticut were described as the greatest small arms and ammunition plant in the world by the editor of the New York Times in 1916.[3] Cash control of the company was acquired by E.I. du Pont de Nemours Company of Wilmington, Delaware in 1933, but Dodge remained at the head of the business. The connection between Parker Bros. and Hartley probably started in the Civil War and finally culminated in the acquisition by Remington. This location is now the site of a McDonalds!

[Bill Murphy]

I have a coupon book for $2 Big Macs and McFish sandwiches.

[Dave Noreen]

Interesting address. Remington Arms Co. ads in those days list their offices at 313 Broadway, NYC, as does Union Metallic Cartridge Co. H & D Folsom Arms Co. had premisis across the street at 314 Broadway, NYC.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v316/Ansleyone/H%20and%20D%20Folsom%20Arms%20Co/AdMarandApr1905.jpg

Schoverling, Daly & Gales were at 302-304 Broadway, NYC. Von Lengerke & Detmold was at 318 Broadway, NYC. Also, Capt. A.W. Money had his offices for the American E.C & Schultze Powder Company at 318 Broadway, NYC.

What a block to visit back in the day!!

[ed good]

manhatten must have been a wonderful place, when such stores as hartleys, a&f and g&h were all there...

now, hartleys is a brand of marmalade. a&f markets adolescent clothing. and g&h...rather not say.

[RandallTlachac]

These gun "families" were probably all closely connected. Imagine being able to join them at the watering hole at the end of the day.

[Dave Noreen]

From the bio, it doesn't sound like Marcellus Hartley Dodge would have been at the watering hole. His Grandfather was -- "the president of the National Temperance Society"

[RandallTlachac]

Very observant!! Maybe he smoked cigars

[ed good]

as I recall, brooks bros moved into the a&f store on Madison ave....ok, I guess...

g&h name got bought by some guys from jersey...

[Bill Murphy]

I think Griffin and Howe is still a viable and respectable gun merchant. They even do passable gunsmithing. Yes Manhattan was a great place to mess with guns, even into the sixties and early seventies. I don't remember the year that Abercrombie and Fitch had their last liquidation sale, but I remember parking my '72 Suburban in a lot on Times Square when I attended the sale. So A&F actually made it into the seventies. My last trip to Manhattan that included visits to A&F, Griffin and Howe, and Continental Arms was about 1962. All three were going strong at that time. In the twenties, when my Dad was going out into the business world for the first time, his address was "Wall Street", don't remember the exact address. I think he was boarding with relatives who lived at that address.

[edgarspencer]

Does anyone remember the great military surplus stores that used to be on Canal St, Vesey St and Cortland St.? This was all back in the pre-Trade Tower days.

[Jim DiSpagno]

Edgar, as kids growing up in Staten Island, we would save our money, then take the S.I. ferry for 5 cents and buy surplus helmets, napsacks, canteens, Eisenhower jackets and the likes then go home and choose sides and play war in the many wooded area in our neighborhood. We would even buy surplus demilled guns, enfields, springfields and mausers. for $5.00 with welded bolts and carry then down Broadway and Whitehall Street to the ferry and on the #2 Bay Street bus back home. All out in the open and no one ever gave us 9 and 10 year olds a second look. Try that today LOL.

[Thomas L. Benson Sr.]

As far as Mr. Dodge goes my Grandfather always said that if you took someone from the Temperance Society fishing make sure you took two of them otherwise if you took only one he would drink all your Booze. Thomas

[Bill Murphy]

Edgar, if I had known the surplus stores were there, I would have been all over them as a teenager.