Cables, Submarine -- History; Field, Cyrus W. (Cyrus West), 1819-1892; Inventors -- United States -- Biography
PROFIT AND LOSS--DR.
Store expenses $4,580 70
Insurance 123 99
Interest 964 86
Advertising 35 45
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5,705 00
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Net profits for six months $17,088 25
On the 1st of the month they had written:
"Business has been almost entirely suspended for the last week on
account of the great excitement arising from the rebel invasion of
Pennsylvania.... Harrisburg, Baltimore, and Philadelphia are
threatened by Lee."
And on the 15th:
"Since our last letter a most fearful riot has broken out here in
the city; it still continues, and business is almost entirely
suspended."
This was the famous "draft riot" of New York, and it was brought near to
him; his house adjoined that of his brother David Dudley Field, whose
wife wrote:
"My husband just got back in time to save, by prompt and vigorous
action, our property. Our poor servants were terribly alarmed; they
were threatened by incendiaries who warned them to leave the
premises.... Think of one hundred and eighty soldiers sleeping in
our stable, the officers being fed in the basement.... As the
rioters approached our house they were met by a company of soldiers
that Dudley had just sent for; their glittering bayonets and steady
march soon sent them back before they had time to effect their
demoniacal purpose."
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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