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Correspondence Terra Cotta Brick Co. to Julius Steinberg, January 18, 1892
Subject
Construction
Architecture
Description
Handwritten correspondence that likely had another page, but is lost. Correspondence responds to Julius Steinberg’s letter and payment of January 14, 1892. Steinberg claimed many discounts and disputed the final price, which Terra Cotta Co. clarifies in this correspondence.
Date
1/18/1892
Format
PDF
Language
English
Type
Document
Identifier
2024.11
Coverage
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States
Traverse City, Grand Traverse, Michigan, United States
Traverse City, Grand Traverse, Michigan, United States
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Terra Cotta Brick Co.,
Manufacturers of
Vitrified Pressed Brick
Plain and Ornamental
Office, Room 46, 161 La Salle Street
J. Petersen, Manager.
Our Vitrified Brick are not equaled as to STRENGTH, NON-POROSITY, HARDNESS, and DENSITY. They CANNOT be SCRATCHED or DEFACED.
Chicago, Jan 18th 1892
Julius Steinberg
Traverse City Mich.
Dear Sir,
Your favor of 14th received with
Check for $41.8, which we hold subject to your order, as we
can not accept it in full settlement of your acct.
We are very much surprised of the claims you are making,
First: the 50￠ deduct are for your cartage, which everyday
changes here in Chicago
Second: Our plain Arch brick are $5.00 pr. 100 above the price
of plain brick, which is $80.00 + 5.00 pr Mille extra for
rockfacing, which is our regular charge
Third: We cannot make any allowances for recutting our
rock face brick, as this is entirely a matter of taste
on your part. We never cut our Rock face any different
from what we sent you and everybody likes them.
The only claim you are entitled to is for recutting 220 brick #129
+ 100#212, but you must remember that we sold you these for brick
at $15.00 per mille below our regular price and dont think that you
ought to make any deduction for recutting. However we
Will allow you $5.oo per Mille for recuttin, which would
be 330 brick $1.65. Our charge for rockfacing a thousand
brick is $5.00 and it is certainly much less labor to cut a
piece off from a brick than to rock face it from 4 sides.
Please remit us the balance of $7.70, which justly due us and we will send you a receipt in full.
Yours truly,
Terra Cotta Brick Co
J Petersen
Manufacturers of
Vitrified Pressed Brick
Plain and Ornamental
Office, Room 46, 161 La Salle Street
J. Petersen, Manager.
Our Vitrified Brick are not equaled as to STRENGTH, NON-POROSITY, HARDNESS, and DENSITY. They CANNOT be SCRATCHED or DEFACED.
Chicago, Jan 18th 1892
Julius Steinberg
Traverse City Mich.
Dear Sir,
Your favor of 14th received with
Check for $41.8, which we hold subject to your order, as we
can not accept it in full settlement of your acct.
We are very much surprised of the claims you are making,
First: the 50￠ deduct are for your cartage, which everyday
changes here in Chicago
Second: Our plain Arch brick are $5.00 pr. 100 above the price
of plain brick, which is $80.00 + 5.00 pr Mille extra for
rockfacing, which is our regular charge
Third: We cannot make any allowances for recutting our
rock face brick, as this is entirely a matter of taste
on your part. We never cut our Rock face any different
from what we sent you and everybody likes them.
The only claim you are entitled to is for recutting 220 brick #129
+ 100#212, but you must remember that we sold you these for brick
at $15.00 per mille below our regular price and dont think that you
ought to make any deduction for recutting. However we
Will allow you $5.oo per Mille for recuttin, which would
be 330 brick $1.65. Our charge for rockfacing a thousand
brick is $5.00 and it is certainly much less labor to cut a
piece off from a brick than to rock face it from 4 sides.
Please remit us the balance of $7.70, which justly due us and we will send you a receipt in full.
Yours truly,
Terra Cotta Brick Co
J Petersen