Excerpt from Illustrated New York: The Metropolis of to-Day, 1888

S: Joralemon, the oldest and most important concern of the kind Ill the United States. The inception of this business dates back to mm. When the firm of Van Orden Co. Was formed, and which dealt generally in groceries and provisions, with a department devoted to gilling and seine twines and fishermen's supplies. In 1817, the busi ness passed into the hands of M r. Hartman Vreeland, who carried it on for upwards of twenty-one years. Eventually in 1838 he formed a copartnership with Mr. D. M. Demarest, under the name and style of Vreeland Co. The next change was in 1817, when Mr. Dema rest formed the existing copartnership with Mr. N. Ll. Joralemon, and which has continued with an honored record of successful en. Deavor during the long intervening period of forty-one years. Mr. Demarest was born in New Jersey, and in 1830 became clerk for the old firm, with which he became permanently identified and materially aided in building up the trade. Which has now become the leading fac tor in its line in this city and country at large. It is an interesting historical fact that his great-great-grandfather came to America in 1656, having been obliged for his religious sake as a persecuted Eu guenot to leave his native land. He first located in New York City but in 1678 finally removed into Bergen Co., N. J., where the old homestead stands, one of the landmarks of the early settlement of that section. Mr. Joralemon was also-born in New Jersey, and is a member of one of the oldest and most influential families of the State. For fully half a century the house has devoted itself wholly to the trade in twines, and is not only the oldest in the line in the United States, but the leader as regards high and uniform quality and complete variety of sizes for all seine, net, and other purposes. The works are situated at Moodus, Conn., known as those of the New York Net and Twine Co. They are spacious and fitted up with the latest improved machinery and appliances, affording employ ment to from eighty to one hundred hands, and turning out an im mense quantity annually of patent and soft-laid seine twines, and netting, seines, pounds, fykes, corks, etc. The firm are also the im porters of the celebrated Fish brand of gilling threads, also Star and Knox's best twines. These goods have ever been recognized as the best, giving that universal satisfaction which insures their use all over the world. The firm's trade is strictly wholesale ano has at tained proportions of the greatest magnitude, covering the entire United States, with an export demand covering South America, the West Indies. Cape of Good Hope, etc., etc. The firm's warehouse is a fine four-story and basement structure, 25x90 in size, and where by far the largest and finest stock of seine twines in the city is carried. Ever exercising the soundest business principles, Messrs. Demarest J oralemon rank among New York's most conservative merchants.

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