I'm estranged from sites I work on, they are so poltical and since "fishing
expeditions" I find out about, i.e., clients invest a bit to see what wall
they might have to jump over in cultural resources, I have trouble with even
gettin a copy of what I submitted, and in fact have no idea a "kill two
birds and get stoned" scenario perhaps. Though I did clear up with Mr.
Gable, historian of Roosevelt family, that the property was not known to be
significantly part of their history. However the block had the Quaker Mayor
of NYC once living on it and other what I think might be significant
history, the first ferry to Brooklyn in the 17th century. Although two
blocks from the river, the orginal waterline was there and the "marshal" of
New Amsterdam, a Mr. Treux near Bestevaers Cripplebush, a swamp never
granted ownership by the Dutch, however it is where the other branch of
Roosevelt family made its fortune, in leather processing, the tanning and
processing of leather, held in patent in the 17th century in the vicinity of
Exchange Place, later US offices of the Pinketon Agency. More money it was
said was made in that vicinity than any where else in the city for many
years as it turned into a leather sales district and sent cobblers into the
various countrysides, shoeing the population, I read by travelling cobblers,
whose awls mended men's soles.

George Myers
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel H. Weiskotten" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 9:43 PM
Subject: Re: Drying racks


> Many thanks to all who have made comments and suggestions for the making
of
> drying racks and screens.  I will keep my head down scrounging for some
> discarded plastic mesh.  I also think I'll save the copper mesh for other
> things, and use up the hundred or so scraps of galvanized woven hardware
> cloth (and a 3 foot square chink of beautiful stainless steel cloth!)
>
> Being in this field from what seems like the days when "plastic" was a
> state of malleability, or a cheap useless material that wasn't good except
> to discard, I have a tendency to shy away from it although I know better
> now that they have the oxidation problem under control.  One of my first
> construction jobs was replacing many many feet of PVC that had degraded to
> the point where it crumbled to shreds under any kind of stress.
>
> I think I'll make the usual bread-rack type gadget, with several kinds of
> screens for holding various types of materials - I can't see the plastic
> mesh holding the 20 pound cast iron plow share.  I'll snip out a chunk of
> the great industrial weight 2 inch mesh I have for separating brick bats
> and rocks out of the sifters.
>
> Shame on George for not following up on the opportunity to teach us about
> "locomotive cloth" which I understand was a fine wire mesh made to stop
the
> sparks coming from the stacks of steam locomotives.
>
> As for plastics, I will forever be one of those people that has more
> library cards than credit cards.  That is an economic necessity of being a
> life-timer in non-profit, not a dislike of plastic.
>