names figured prominently in the trade's early history:
Charles Maguire, of James H. Taylor & Co.; George F. Gilman, organizer
of the Great American Tea Co. and of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea
Co.; H.W. Banks, of Reeve, Case & Banks, afterward of Stanton, Sheldon &
Co., later Sheldon, Banks & Co., and then of H.W. Banks & Co.; Henry
Sheldon, of Stanton, Sheldon & Co., later Sheldon, Banks & Co.; and then
Henry Sheldon & Co.; William McCready, with Small Bros. & Co., later
with H.W. Banks & Co., and then with B.H. Howell, Son & Co., C.R.
Blakeman, with Gross, March & Co., afterward with Wm. Scott's Sons &
Co.; William Scott, of William Scott & Sons, later Wm. Scott's Sons &
Co., including George W. Vanderhoef, who later succeeded to the business
under the name of George W. Vanderhoef & Co.; Christopher and Leander S.
Risley, of C. Risley & Co.; and Charles Naphew, with C. Risley & Co.,
later with Edwin H. Peck & Co.

[Illustration: William Bayne New York

George W. Crossman New York

George Westfeldt New Orleans

Wm. H. Bennett New York

THEIR RACE IS RUN, THEIR COURSE IS DONE]

Another group of old-timers includes: William Newbold, with Ezra Wheeler
& Co., later alone; Augustus Ireland, with Ezra Wheeler & Co.; J.M.
Edwards, of Edwards & Maddux, later of J.M. Edwards & Co.; Frank M.
Anthony, of J.M. Edwards & Co.; H. Clay Maddux, one of the incorporators
of the New York Coffee Exchange, of Edwards & Maddux; Baron Thomsen, of
Thomsen & Co.; Gustave Amsinck, of G. Amsinck & Co.; James N. Jarvie,
with Small Bros. & Co., later of Arbuckle Bros.; John C. Lloyd, of John
C. Lloyd & Co., afterward with Arbuckle Bros.; John Small, of Smalls &
Bacon, later Small Bros. & Co.; Williamson Bacon, of Smalls & Bacon,
afterward of Williamson Bacon & Co.; C.K. Small, of Mackey & Small,
Anson Wales Hard and George Rand, of Hard & Rand; Joseph Purcell, first
of W.J. Porter & Co., and then of Hard & Rand; Henry F. McCreery, with
O'Shaughnessy & Sorley, later of Hard & Rand; William Sorley and John W.
O'Shaughnessy, of O'Shaughnessy & Sorley, Mr. O'Shaughnessy later
forming John W. O'Shaughnessy & Co., and Mr. Sorley going to Hard &
Rand. Mr. Sorley was one of the incorporators of the New York Coffee
Exchange.

[Illustration: 112 FRONT STREET, NEW YORK, IN 1879

A group of old-time green coffee men, including R. C. Stewart, J.D.
Pickslay, Frank Williams, Charles P. Chapin, and Fred P. Gordon]

Special mention should be made o