Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York, for the Years ...

ELECTED SEPTEMBER, 1867-TERM WILL EXPIRE SEPTEMBER, 1869.

Board of Commissioners for Licensing Sailors' Boarding-houses or Hotels in the cities of New York and Brooklyn-In behalf of the Chamber of Commerce, George F. Chester.

All nominations for membership of this corporation must be made in writing, accompanied by a statement of the occupation and qualifications of the candidate, and be addressed to the Executive Committee for consideration.

When reported upon by the committee, at the next regular meeting of the Chamber, the candidate is balloted for, and if five or more negatives appear against any candidate, he can not be admitted a member, nor be again proposed until after the expiration of one year from the time of such rejection.

No persons can be admitted members of this corporation but merchants and those whose avocations are directly connected with the trade and commerce of the country, and who are residents of this or contiguous States.

Blank forms, for nomination of members, may be obtained on application at the Chamber.

Nominations must be sent in before the close of the month, to insure election at the meeting following.

New Nork Gas-light Company,

(CHARTERED MARCH 26, 1823; UNLIMITED IN DURATION-CAPITAL, $1,000,000,)
Office, Nos. 157 and 159 Hester street.

OFFICERS.

J. H. Adams, President.

C. L. Everett, Vice-President.

Charles C. Mowton, Manager.

Thomas K. Lees, Secretary.

The pipes have been laid in all of the streets of the district south of Grand street, under its contract with the Corporation of the city, requir

ing about one hundred and thirty miles of mains of various sizes, from eighteen-inch to three-inch diameter.

The works are situated on Twenty-first and Twenty-second streets, from First avenue to East river, with buildings and suitable apparatus for manufacturing, washing, purifying, and distributing the gas. There are now in operation six large telescope gas-holders at that station.

Manhattan Gas-light Company,

(CHARTERED FEBRUARY 26, 1830; PERPETUAL-CAPITAL, $4,000,000,)
Office, corner of Irving place and Fifteenth street.

OFFICERS.

Charles Roome, President.
Floyd Smith, Vice-President.
Samuel H. Howard, Secretary.

Joseph A. Sabatton, Engineer.

George Stancliff, Superintendent of Street Mains and Lumps.
Thomas Marsh, Chief Inspector.

Walter Roome, Superintendent of Gas-works in Eighteenth street.
William Combe, Superintendent of Gas-works in Fourteenth street.

This Company supplies that portion of the city which lies north of Grand street. South of Thirty-fourth street they have two stations or works; one at the foot of Eighteenth street, near the North river, containing six large gas-holders and six hundred retorts, and capable of supplying two million cubic feet of gas in twenty-four hours; and one station at the foot of Fourteenth street, East river, which contains six large gas-holders and nine hundred retorts, equal to a production of three million cubic feet of gas in twenty-four hours. The Company have nearly five hundred miles of street mains; light thirty thousand street lamps, and supply gas to over fifty thousand stores and dwellings. In 1863, they manufac tured one thousand nine hundred million feet of gas.

Harlem Gas-light Company.

INCORPORATED FEBRUARY 8, 1855-CAPITAL

$600,000.

Offices, corner First avenue and One Hundred and Eleventh street; also No. 76 Nassau street. Works located between First avenue and Harlem river and One Hundred and Tenth and One Hundred and Eleventh streets. Burr Wakeman, President.

Henry P. McGown, Secretary and Treasurer.

Metropolitan Gas-light Company,

(CAPITAL, $2,500,000,)

Office, corner of Broadway and Forty-second street.

OFFICERS.

Oscar Follikaffer, President.

C. H. Sand, Treasurer and Manager.

William G. Hart, Secretary.

A. J. White, Engineer.

The works are situated in West Forty-second street and Eleventh

avenue.

This Company supplies gas from Thirty-fourth to Seventy-ninth street.