The Nassau Broadway, cor. Bedford Ave., and Capital, Surplus and Undivided Interest ALLOWED ON ACCOUnts and Special Rates on Time Deposits. Authorized to act as Executor, Administrator, Committee, Guardian, and Trustee of Estates and Inviduals or in any other Authorized Fiduciary Capacity. Accounts of Individuals, Business Firms, Corporations, Estates, etc., invited. Travelers' Letters of Credit and Bankers' Money Orders issued. APPLIANCES TO CORRECT DEFORMITIES AND FOR DEAFNESS We maintain an Advisory and Surgical Fitting Department, conducted by Specialists, for the benefit of physicians and surgeons and for the general public. The services of this thoroughly practical and experienced department are absolutely FREE OF CHARGE. Correspondence with those who cannot visit our establishment is given the same careful attention. A. J. DITMAN, 2 Barclay Street, New York Estimates Cheerfully Furnished Telephone, 269 East New York Thomas Krekeler Company GEORGE W. BECKEL, President and General Manager New and Second-hand Lumber and Building Material HOUSE WRECKING contracted for and promptly done by experts. Liberal Prices paid for Old Houses, Lumber and Building Materials. THE STATE BANK, Grand and Norfolk Streets, New York City. MEMBER OF THE NEW YORK CLEARING HOUSE. STRONG AS THE ROCK OF GIBRALTAR. Total Resources at the Close of Business, Dec. 21, 1908, $17,988,068.72 This Bank is a live business organization without any ornamental features but with practical and earnest workers everywhere in command. The small borrower is met, not with dignity and icicles, but with human sympathy on his own level, and this is emphatically a bank for all the people. Recommend a new account to our Brooklyn Branches: BROWNSVILLE BRANCH, Pitkin and Stone Avenues, WM. B. ROTH, Manager. WILLIAMSBURGH BRANCH, Graham Ave. & Varet St. MORRIS MEYERS, Manager. THE BROOKLYN EAGLE ALMANAC. VOLUME XXIV. JANUARY, 1909. No. 1 OF EAGLE LIBRARY THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. ESPITE a general business de Dpression, the year 1908 has been a very prosperous one for the EAGLE. In the month of June, more advertising was carried than in any other New York City newspaper. The EAGLE has kept up the fight for municipal improvements, has fought for the Fourth Ave. Subway, advocated more bridges and tunnels, and exploited by an extensive advertising campaign the desirability of Brooklyn as a residential borough. A new bureau has been opened at 3 Regent Street, London, and this, with the well known office at 53 Rue Cambon, Paris, makes the EAGLE one of the foremost American newspapers in Europe. Tourists are invited to make good use of these offices. The second annual horse parade under the auspices of Aunt Jean's children was the biggest parade of its kind ever given in Brooklyn. Over 800 horses in singles and pairs were entered. The Eagle gave large publicity to the celebration of the opening of the Subway to Brooklyn and the inauguration of Elevated Trains on Williamsburg Bridge. Its Academy of Music Opera Ticket Contest attracted wide attention. A THE EAGLE'S LIGHT AND POWER SUPPLY. LL the artificial light used in the Eagle Building, and the power to run their entire equipment of machinery, including elevators, linotypes and printing presses, is electric, and is supplied by the Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Brooklyn. Prior to the opening of the enlarged Eagle Building in 1904, the machinery had been operated by steam. Then it was decided that for both the old and new plant electric power would be far more convenient and effective, and the change was determined upon. The original plans contemplated the generation of the necessary current by engines and dynamos on the premises, but a further and complete investigation prior to the purchase of dynamos convinced the Eagle that to secure driving energy from Edison mains would be a more advantageous and economical method of operation. Accordingly they entered into a five years' contract with the Edison Company for their exclusive lighting and power service, changed their elevators over from hydraulic to electric, and equipped all their typesetting, printing, stereotyping and book-binding machinery with direct connected electric motors, eliminating steam absolutely, except during the winter months, when it is used at low pressure for heating only. The controlling reason that governed the Eagle in the making of this contract was economy, the management having become thoroughly convinced that they could buy their current supply from the Edison Company cheaper than it was possible to generate it in a plant of their own; but the absolute reliability of the Edison service was also a determining factor, for it can be readily appreciated that in the case of a daily newspaper, whose time of going to press is calculated to a nicety in order to make close connections with an extensive delivery system, any sudden failure or cessation of power, even for a few minutes, would be a very serious contingency, to be most carefully and zealously guarded against. |