[Newspaper]
Publication: The Trenton Evening Times
Trenton, NJ, United States
p. 5, col. 1
RECEIVER WALKER
Counselor Edwin Robert Walker
Was Today Named to Close
Eagle Pottery Affairs.
WAS ONCE A MONEY MAKER
In the Halcyon Days of the Pottery
Business the Eagle Was a Veritable
Mint — Mountford and Burroughs
Owned It — Mr. Walker Must
Furnish $30,000 Bonds.
Counsellor Edwin Robert Walker was this morning appointed receiver of the Eagle Pottery Company by Vice Chancellor Reed. Besides the real estate, which is mortgaged, the assets consist of about $2,500 of accounts to be collected, and some $20,000 or $25,000 of goods to be sold, and perhaps some little manufacturing will have to be done to work up the raw material on hand.
Mr. Walker is required to give bond in the sum of $30,000 before entering upon the discharge of his duties.
It will be remembered that this is the old Burroughs and Mountfoud pottery, which passed through the hands of a receiver some years ago.
In the halcyon of the pottery business of Trenton, this plant was a great money maker in the hands of the veteran potter, Elijah Mountford, and his genial partner, Joseph Burroughs.
A receiver in this instance was applied for some three weeks ago by John B. Reilly, of Philadelphia, the president of the company, through John H. Backes, of this city.
