erastus wiman造句

• Speaking in favor of the bridge were representatives of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and Erastus Wiman.
• Erastus Wiman, who helped organize Staten Island Rapid Transit was directly involved with the resort, and had a station built to provide access.
• Erastus Wiman, dubbed the " Duke of Staten Island, " became one of the most prominent residents of Staten Island after locating his residence in a mansion on the island.
• On June 27, 1883, a meeting of the directors of both companies formally ratified the merger of the two companies under the leadership of Erastus Wiman, who was named president.
• It was later renamed " The Woods of Arden " by owner Erastus Wiman . ( The house in which Olmsted lived still stands at 4515 Hylan Boulevard, near Woods of Arden Road .)
• Prior to the 1886 season, Day and Mutrie sold the Mets to Erastus Wiman who moved the team to cricket grounds on Staten Island in hopes of promoting ferry trade across New York harbor.
• In order to celebrate the sale, there was a dinner by Erastus Wiman and his associates of the Staten Island Rapid Transit Company to the President and Executives of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad on December 16, 1885.
• The stadium, which was built along the lines of a typical horse race track grandstand, was constructed as part of the development of the then-new community of St . George, Staten Island in 1886, by Erastus Wiman.
• The name was derived not from the Charles Leng and William T . Davis, it was only after another prominent businessman, Erastus Wiman, promised to " canonize " him in the town's name that Law agreed to relinquish the land rights for a ferry terminal.
• The proposal to build a railroad bridge over the Arthur Kill existed from at least 1886, when Erastus Wiman, a developer who was founder and president of the Staten Island Railway, persuaded the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to finance a bridge over the Arthur Kill in exchange for use of Wiman's railroad facilities on the island.
• Many years earlier Commodore Vanderbilt planned a scheme for building a central dock on Staten Island, for freighting and distributing passengers, somewhat of a similar plan that was later worked out by Erastus Wiman; but a storm broke up and scattered the timber-work, and the scheme was abandoned, leaving only the stone foundation which is still visible at low tide, near St . George.