Roebling Chap. Newsletter, Vol. 18, No. 2 June 2009
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June 2009 Vol. 18 No. 2 CHAPTER EVENTS tiny spaces to create numerous pasta shapes. Maldari dies have been used in producing such well-known LECTURE: name products as Ronzoni, San Giorgio and Kraft HE ORT OF ANY ORTS Macaroni & Cheese. The Maldari business has received NY: T P M P : the attention of newspapers, NPR and the HISTORY HOBOKEN’S PIECE OF THE PIE CHANNEL. The company website is www.maldari.com. Sunday, June 28, 2009, 4:00 – 5:00. Take the R subway to Prospect Av or the F or R to 4 Av-9 St sta- Hoboken Historical Museum, 1301 Hudson St. tions. Work shoes and protective glasses are suggested. at 13th St., Hoboken, NJ. This event is free for all. Green-Wood Cemetery: ecause of its archipelago form, the Port of New The Industrialists and Inventors BYork and New Jersey was composed of many sepa- rate waterfronts, consisting of some 500 miles of shore- Sunday, September 20, 1:00-3:00. Meet at line. This resulted in the heavy use of local water trans- Green-Wood Cemetery Main Gate, 5th Ave at port, even by the railroads, which evolved into NY 25th St, Brooklyn, NY. Harbor's characteristic “lighterage system" or "water belt reen-Wood cemetery is amongst the greatest ceme- line". This lecture will look at how Hoboken's single Gteries in the world. Many of New York City’s mile of waterfront participated in this system, but in famous and infamous are buried there. Chapter mem- ways that were unique to Hoboken. The lecture will be ber, and VP, Jim Mackin will lead a walking tour that given by RCSIA member and author of several books on pays particular attention to industrialists and inventors the lighterage system, Tom Flagg. This event is co-spon- who are now at rest in Green-Wood. The rich historical, sored with the Hoboken Historical Museum. The muse- cultural and architectural aspects of Green-Wood will um is housed the one remaining building of the also be covered. Many well-known names, some lesser Bethlehem Steel Shipyard on the Hoboken waterfront. known ones, and a few pleasant surprises should make The museum website is: www.hobokenmuseum.org. for an enjoyable foray through one of Brooklyn’s most beautiful and significant places. D. Maldari & Sons, Maker of Take the R-train to the 25th Street station, walk uphill to Green-Wood. Parking and restrooms are avail- Pasta Extrusion Dies able. There will be about one mile of walking with some Friday, July 24, 10:00 – 11:00. Meet at up and down mild hills. Maldari's place of business at 557 3rd Avenue (at 14th Street) in Brooklyn, NY. CHAPTER BUSINESS here will be a tour of D. Maldari & Sons which is Tone of about a half a dozen makers of pasta extru- Board meeting minutes, March 10, 2009 sion dies in the world. The company started in Bari, SUNY, 42nd Street, NYC Italy in the late 1800's and has been in operation in Meeting called to order at 6:40 PM. Brooklyn for 106 years. These specialized dies enable pasta (at pasta and food plants) to be squeezed through n attendance: Lynn Rakos, Jim Mackin, Aron IEisenpress, Kevin Pegram, Tom Flagg, Joe Macasek; Note: Historic Preservation Committee: Mary Habstritt; Special All events are FREE for RCSIA members unless Projects Committee: Gianfranco Archimede; Drew otherwise noted. The fee for non-members is the price of Symposium Co-Chair: Allison Rachleff. membership, $20.00. We hope this will encourage non- members attending our events to join the chapter. 1. Tom Flagg was voted in as 5th trustee. 2. Non-voting Trustees: Joe Macasek has volunteered 1 ROEBLING CHAPTER – SOCIETY FOR INDUSTRIAL ARCHEOLOGY for serve as the NJ representative. A representative National Priorities List which, if added, may impact from NY will be sought. [Since the board meeting, future development along the canal]. Habstritt has Mary Lee Baranger has agreed to serve as the NY also been working on several pier projects in representative. Thank you, Mary Lee!]. Manhattan including South Street Seaport and Piers 3. Treasurer – Pegram distributed the financial status 40 and 57 where promised space for historic ships is of the chapter summarizing our income and expens- decreasing as plans develop. es for the years 2006 – 2009. We are no longer los- 7. Special Projects Committee – The guidelines will ing money with the Drew symposium following reg- be revised and an application form prepared. istration increase. Our dues just went up to $20.00 Mackin motioned that $2000 from the general funds and we have yet to see the impact of that increase. be made available for 2009 to fund Special Projects. Our largest costs are printing and mailing the This was seconded and approved unanimously. The newsletter and our insurance. program will be announced in a future newsletter and on the SIA website’s RCSIA page. 4. Secretary – Eisenpress indicated that we have been As this is a committee of just one, Archimede, maintaining our membership levels. So far there has other committee members are being sought. [Since not been a decrease in renewals despite the dues the board meeting, Dennis Furbush has agreed to increase. He is sending out renewal reminders and serve on the committee. Thank you, Dennis!]. dropping people who have not paid for two years. 8. Nominations Committee – Bierce Riley, Beryl 5. Drew Symposium – Scheduled for Nov 7th. Rachleff Goldberg and Tom Flagg served as the committee for reported that 4 speakers have confirmed. [Since the 2008. Rakos indicated that she will not run again board meeting all speaker slots have been filled]. for 2010 so the search is on for a new board mem- 6. Historic Preservation Committee: Habstritt ber. Rakos will ask Goldberg and Riley if they will reported that there is a lot of activity along the continue to serve on the committee. [Since the Gowanus Canal including proposed rezoning of board meeting, Goldberg and Riley have each agreed neighborhoods adjacent to the canal by The NYC to continue to serve on the committee. Thank you, Department of City Planning. Individual projects on Beryl and Bierce!]. the canal are the Toll Brothers and Whole Foods 9. Tours – Suggested tours include Wolf Dress Forms developments. Habstritt has been undertaking in Englewood, NJ, Maldari & Sons pasta die makers review and providing comment to applicable agen- in Brooklyn, deceased industrialists in Greenwood cies. Of particular concern is the Carroll Street Cemetery, and Brooklyn Navy Yard. Co-sponsoring a Bridge, one of only 2 retractile bridges in NYC and tour w/ Morris County Parks will be followed up on. one of just 4 in the country. She is also working Tom Flagg will be giving a talk in June co-sponsored with the Municipal Art Society on the Gowanus w/ the Hoboken Historical Society. The Centennial rezoning [Since the board meeting the US of several NYC bridges is happening this year and Environmental Protection Agency has proposed next. Rakos asked if anyone wanted to follow up w/ adding the Gowanus to the agency’s Superfund the celebration committees to see if RCSIA could be involved but no one opted to do so. Anyone inter- SAVE THE DATE ested in planning a tour please contact Rakos. TH 10. Newsletter/Website/Email list – Discussion con- 29 Annual tinued about distributing an electronic newsletter. It Drew Symposium on was decided that we will first make a greater effort to collect email addresses from members though an Iudustrial Archeology in the appeal in the newsletter. We can eventually phase New York-New Jersey Area out the printed version except for those members who request a printed copy. The newsletter can be he Roebling Chapter of the Society for made available on a chapter website w/ all members Industrial Archeology’s 29th Annual Drew T receiving an email letting them know when a new Symposium will be held on Saturday, November 7, newsletter has been posted (currently the newsletter 2009 at the Hall of Sciences, Drew University, is available electronically on the RCSIA webpage in Madison, NJ from 9:30 AM to 5 PM. It promises the National SIA website). This brought up a brief to again be a great day of talks on the industrial discussion on “Constant Contact” the system that heritage of the Roebling Chapter region. RCSIA National SIA is using to communicate with mem- members will receive a flyer in the mail this fall. bers. Rakos has been in touch w/ Jay McCauley who 2 June 2009 – Vol. 18 No. 2 ROEBLING CHAPTER – SOCIETY FOR INDUSTRIAL ARCHEOLOGY is the tech person for the national board, and their VP, to see how and if the chapter can piggyback on their system. Also discussed was the feasibility of a chapter website. 11. Old Business 501 (c) 3 status – We have retained a lawyer. Mackin will assist Habstritt on this issue. .com Insurance: D&O – the lawyer retained to do the y 501 (c) 3 work will determine our need for the D&O insurance. National no longer carries it but the need is determined by the state in which an organi- zation is incorporated. RCSIA is incorporated in NJ. chiveofindustr 12. New Business – It was brought up at the RCSIA tesy ar annual meeting that it is unfair that a chapter mem- Cour ber cannot vote for chapter officers unless the mem- The IRT Powerhouse in an engraving from Interborough ber is in good standing in both the RCSIA and the Rapid Transit: The New York Subway, Its Construction National SIA. This is stipulated in the chapter by- and Equipment (New York: Interborough Rapid Transit laws and comes from a requirement in the National Company, 1904).