NEW YORK GAS-LIGHT COMPANY.

Office, 157 and 159 Hester street.

Chartered 26th of March, 1823-unlimited in duration.
Capital, $1,000,000.

J. H. Adams, President.

Thomas K. Lees, Secretary.

OFFICERS.

Charles C. Mowton, Manager.
C. L. Everitt, Vice-President.

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, requiring about 130 miles of mains of various sizes, from eighteen-inch to threeinch 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.'

Ofice, corner of Irving place and Fifteenth street.
Chartered, February 26, 1830-Perpetual. Capital, $4,000,000.

Charles Roome, President.

Samuel H. Howard, Secretary.

OFFICERS.

Floyd Smith, Vice President.
Joseph A. Sabatton, Engineer.

George Stancliff-Superintendent of Street Mains and Lamps.
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 millions cubic feet of gas in twenty-four hours; and one station at the foot of Fourteenth street, East river. The Fourteenth street works are now producing four hundred thousand feet of gas per day; when finished, they will contain six large gas-holders and nine hundred retorts, equal to a production of three millions cubic feet of gas in twenty-four hours. The company have 430 miles of street mains; light 30,000 street lamps, and supply gas to over 50,000 stores and dwellings. In 1863, they manufactured 1,900,000,000 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.

Office, corner of Broadway and Forty-second street.

OFFICERS.

Oscar Follikaffer, President.

C. H. Sand, Treasurer and Manager.

Wm. G. Hart, Secretary.

A. J. White, Engineer.

Capital, $2,500,000.

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

nue.

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