MILLS & GIBB, IMPORTERS OF White Goods, Linens, Laces, EMBROIDERIES, &c., 412 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. MILLS & GIBB.-This is a young house, having commenced in April, 1865, immediately after the close of the war. It has grown with great rapidity, and now occupies a leading position. The secret of the success of this house may be stated in two words : "Honesty and Industry." The partners are both young, active men, who superintend their own business, and possess a thorough knowledge of it in all its branches, having been fifteen years foreign buyers for one of the largest houses in this city. B. W. MERRIAM & CO., No. 577 Broadway, N. Y. In a business point of view, forty-five years is a long way to look back, and there are few commercial men who, after reviewing such a period of time, but can learn much that will prove beneficial to their future career. Messrs. B. W. Merriam & Company, who, for energy, ability, and inflexibility of purpose are enrolled among the most favored of the land, commenced the looking-glass business in this city nearly half a century ago, and since that time, wonderful changes have taken place in the trade as well as in the improvements of the metropolis. Their present place of business, in that early day, was in the far-away suburbs of the town; in fact, green fields and pleasant country roads were the rule instead of the exception in that locality. How changed is everything now! The great city stretches miles beyond, and blocks of brick and mortar usurp the domain that then yielded up to flowers and foliage, garden-plats, thrifty "Bouwerys" and occasionally to swamp and morass, or rocky and unproductive hill-sides. The firm of B. W. Merriam & Co. have kept pace with the mutations taking place around them; and they have from time to time added. increased facilities to their manufacturing as well as their mercantile interests. They are extensively known throughout the country as the largest dealers in looking-glasses of any other houses on this continent. The stock kept by them is of the most select kind, and the assortment is very extensive and complete in the lines of pier, mantel, and oval mirrors; photograph and picture frames of every style and finish; lookingglass plates; gilt, rosewood, and every variety of mouldings, gold-leaf, gilder's materials, window cornices, all patterns, gilt and bronze brackets, marble slabs, fancy-gilt center-tables and flower-stands, rustic frames of every device, and in fact the most multifarious descriptions of goods embraced in the several classes of elegant, unique, and attractive in the various departments of their immense trade. The manufacturing department of the house above described is very complete in all its appointments, and they are enabled to turn out the most beautiful styles of goods that can be found anywhere this side of the Atlantic, and which will also bear favorable comparison with the productions of France, Great Britain, or the gorgeous designs of the Orientals. The house of B. W. Merriam & Company have a large manufactory, where immense quantities of lumber are weekly consumed, and every article is manufactured under their especial direction. There are mirrors in the store at 577 BROADWAY that reflect the human form with such perfection, that the divine afflatus, or spiritual presence, seems really embodied for the moment in the insensible glass. Ladies can hold these mirrors up to nature, and realize that all the charms of youth, beauty, and surpassing loveliness will be truthfully and accurately portrayed; likewise the fairest portion of creation may, at least, see their own exterior as faithfully as it can be seen by the multitude who criticise their features. CHEMICALS POWERS & WEIGHTMAN, PHILADELPHIA, AND 60 CEDAR STREET, NEW YORK. THE manufacture of Chemicals in this country may be said to date from the war of 1812. The commercial restrictions which accompanied it caused such a scarcity and dearness of Chemicals that many personsgenerally foreigners, who had been trained to Chemistry and Pharmacy at home-were stimulated to attempt the preparation of the more necessary articles. Among those men was ABRAHAM KUNZI, a Swiss, who had been an apothecary in his own country. He came, early in the century, to Philadelphia, and was employed in the White Lead and Oil Vitrol Works already established there. He finally formed a partnership with JOHN FARR, a young Englishman, who had graduated from one of the best retail drug stores in London. The skill, enterprise, and integrity with which the business of FARR & KUNZI was conducted rendered the firm prosperous, and the circumstances of the times enabled them to lay the foundation of the most extensive Chemical Works in America. The concern, thus founded by FARR & KUNZI, is now owned and conducted by their pupils and successors, the well-known POWERS & WEIGHTMAN, in whose hands it has become one of the largest Chemical Establish. ments in the world. The business of the house extends to the cities and large towns of the whole country, and its reputation is unsurpassed for the purity and beauty of its Chemicals, and for the fairness and liberality of its dealings. At their laboratory, at Ninth and Parish Streets, Phila. delphia, of which an engraving presents a view, they manufacture their staple article, Sulphate of Quinia, with Morphia, Calomel, Chloroform, Strychnia, the Salts of Iron, Mercury, and Iodine, Acetic and Tartaric Acids, and the other standard Chemicals of the United States' Pharmacopoea, together with the important list of Chemicals demanded by the new art of photography. In the suburbs of Philadelpha, at Schuylkill Falls, they have a larger works, where they manufacture the heavy Chemicals used in the arts: Oil of Vitrol, Nitric and Muriatic Acids, Alum, Copperas, Blue Vitrol, Epsom Salts, &c. A few years since, following the inevitable tendency of trade, they opened a house in the metropolis, and the large proportion of the trade which finds its convenient center in New York now supplies itself from their warehouse at No. 60 Cedar Street. |