Indianapolis, Indiana city directory, 1921, Part 1

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The volume herewith presented to patrons constitutes the 1921 edition of the INDIANAPOLIS CITY DIRECTORY. It has been compiled with great care after a thorough enumeration of the citizens and manifold business interests and activities of the municipality, and presents as complete and accurate a work as is possible to be produced, having in view the great volume of information and statistical data assembled for compilation. This result could not be achieved without the unrivalled organization and efficient and modern methods of the publishers. The high standard established in previous editions has been fully maintained. The Directory has kept pace with the uniform progress of the city and is steadily devoted to the advancement of all its vital interests.

The statistical review which follows this Introduction is espe- cially noteworthy as clearly visualizing the greatness of the city in its civic, social, commercial and industrial aspects.

In the present volume all of the essential features which have proven so satisfactory to our patrons in previous issues have been retained and amplified and improvements added as suggested by experience, in order to add to the value and usefulness of the Directory thus fully meeting the requirements of patrons; the approbation and continued patronage accorded the work are constant incentives to better service.

The Directory contains a valuable fund of information concern- ing State, County and City Executives, Banks Asylums, Hospitals, and Homes, Building, Loan and Savings Associations, Cemeteries, Charity Organizations, Churches, Clubs, College Corelie. Courts, Federal Officers, Foreign Consular Corps, Inence C.

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POPULATION OF GREATER INDIANAPILIS 325,890.

The Federal census of 1920 credited Indianapolis with a population . of 314,194, an increase over.1910 of 80,544 or 34.46 per cent .; but the enumeration for the census of 1920 was taken many months prior to the publication of this Directory and it was confined to the corporation limits, while the enumeration for this Directory extended over a large area of adjacent suburban territory, the residents of which are allied to Indianapolis by social and business interests and intimately con- nected in every relation except governmental.

In this issue of the Directory there are listed 130,356 individual names ; a conservative estimate of the population is obtained by multi- plying the number of names by 21/2, to allow for the names of married women and children which have not been included in the enumeration. This gives Greater Indianapolis a population of 325,890.

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INDIANAPOLIS

DISTINCTIONS WHICH GIVE THE CITY SUPREMACY AS A MODERN PROGRES- SIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY, FURNISHED AND COMPILED BY INDIANAPOLIS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

Indianapolis is 55 miles from the center of population of the United States.

It is in the geographical center of manufacturing of the United States.

It is in population, transportation facilities and volume of business transacted, the largest inland city, not on a navigable stream, in the United States.

It has a population of 326,762, 82% of which are native born (white); and 2,000,000 people live within 100 miles of the city.

It is the capital of Indiana and in the geographical center of the state with rail- road or electric railway connections with every part of the state.

It has an area of 42 square miles.

It has 17 steam railroads connecting all the cities in the central west. Freight shipments can be made through the Springfield and Peoria gateways thus avoiding the St. Louis or Chicago congested districts. Direct connections are also made with New York, Boston, Washington, Philadelphia and all other eastern cities.

The thirteen electric interurban lines radiating from Indianapolis comprise one of the most extensive systems in the United States. The terminal building. train sheds, tracks and freight houses are valued at $1,316,151. From this station approximately; 20,888 passengers arrive and depart daily. The total number of passengers arriving and departing during the year 1920 was 7,645,120. Passenger cars made 127,827 round trips and freight cars 18,369 round trips.

Indianapolis has 161 miles of city electric car lines operating over double tracks, with 5c fare.

More cities of 30,000 population and over can be reached in a night's ride from Indianapolis than from any other city in the United States, embracing a zone including Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee, Toledo, Cleveland, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Columbus, Cin- cinnati, Louisville, Chattanooga, Knoxville, Memphis, St. Louis, Peoria, Springfield, etc.

Every one of the seventeen railroads entering Indianapolis is served by a belt rail- road, fourteen miles in length, which surrounds the city and gives every industrial plant ready access to each radiating line. The industrial sites along the "Belt" are, therefore, very desirable.

The various railroad freight terminals in Indianapolis lie so near together that they might almost be regarded as joint terminals. The two principal freight houses are less than a block apart; and the two most remote are separated by only ten blocks. All freight stations are within easy reach of the wholesale district.

Indianapolis has three direct steam railroads to the coal fields of Indiana.

It has two steam roads direct to the stone quarries of southern Indiana.

Indianapolis is pre-eminently an industrial city because of its geographical loca- tion in relation to the general market, because of its exceptional shipping facilities, abundance of labor, the excellence of its labor conditions, and the nearness of the fuel supply.

It had 292.44 miles of permanently improved streets January 1, 1921.

It has 429 miles of sewers.

Indianapolis has five public auditoriums with combined seating capacity of 12,000 which are available for state and national conventions. Tomlinson Hall, the gift of Mr. Daniel Tomlinson, alone will seat 3,500 people. It is owned and maintained by the city.

Indianapolis has 70,000 families, 65% of whom own their homes. It has the repu- tation of a home-owning city. Building permits issued in 1920 showed a valuation of $15,284,119.00.

According to the latest government report, there are 124,000 wage earners in In- dianapolis establishments.

Indianapolis has several very large industrial buildings for small manufacturing concerns, which supply space, power and other facilities at reasonable cost.

The city enjoys an exceptionally low rate for electric power. The rate ranges, in general, from three cents per k. w. energy charge for the first 250 k. w.'s to one cent per k. w., with a demand charge of $3.00 or less per k. w. per month.

It has artificial gas at 90 cents a thousand feet. This is one of the lowest rates for artificial gas of any city in the United States.

Electric light and heat are furnished in Indianapolis by competing companies at minimum rates. The city has a low street car fare as compared with a majority of American cities. Pure water is furnished in Indianapolis at a remarkably low rate.

It has 450 miles of water mains, and 30,000,000 gallons of water is used each day. The water supply is abundant and pure. No other city surpasses Indianapolis in the excellence of its water. The value of the company's properties is $12,500,000.00.

A larger stock of iron and steel is carried in Indianapolis than is carried in any other city in the Central West outside of Chicago.

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An excellent grade of steam coal, yielding an average of 12,382 B. T. U. per pound, is obtained from the Indiana coal fields at an average haul of only 90 miles. The freight to Indianapolis on this coal is $1.26 a ton.

Indianapolis is the commercial center of an agricultural territory of great wealth. Within 100 miles of Indianapolis farm crops were produced in 1920 to the value of $500,000,000. Live stock within the same area was worth $275,000,000.00. Total farm property lying within 200 miles of Indianapolis amounts to at least $10,000,000,000.

Indianapolis is the seat of the following state institutions: Indiana State Fair, Indiana Institute for the Blind, Indiana School for the Deaf, School of Medicine of Indiana University, Indiana University Extension Center, the Indiana Girls' School, the Indiana Woman's Prison and the Central Hospital for the Insane.

The Central Library building, erected at a cost of $510,000.00, is a model in' charm and equipment. It contains 224,965 volumes, and 758,378 books were borrowed during the past year. In addition to the main building, there are 15 branches, one of which is devoted to business and industrial interests exclusively, and 38 other distributing agencies. The state also maintains a library in the State House.

Indianapolis has a Y. M. C. A. building, erected by the public at a cost of $250,- 000.00; a Y. W. C. A. building which the public provided at a cost of $140,000.00; and it recently completed a colored Y. M. C. A. building at a cost of $100,000.00.

It has 73 public schools and three public high school buildings, valued at $5,511,- 608.00. Thirty-three of these schools are equipped for manual training and domestic science. Seventeen hundred teachers are necessary to carry on the work of edu- cation.

There are 17 Catholic parochial grade schools, with an enrollment of 5,288 pupils and two academies for young women, and three Catholic high schools for boys. The enrollment for the academies and high schools is 265 pupils. Value of school build- ings, about $600,000.00.

Talmud Torah is a religious school to stimulate the study of Jewish religion, history and ethics. Pupils attend this school at hours after attending the public schools.

The Lutheran Church conducts five parochial grade schools.

In the John Herron Art Institute the city has one of the noted art museums of the United States.

Indianapolis has 25 parks, well distributed throughout the city, with an area of 1901.6 acres, valued at $4,680,938.00. A boulevard system connecting these parks encircles the city. There are two golf courses and many public tennis courts.

It has 221 churches of all denominations and a membership and affiliated attend- ance of nearly 120,000 people.

The Country and Athletic Clubs of Indianapolis testify to the wholesomeness of Indianapolis living. The more prominent clubs of this character are the Country Club, the Highland Golf Club, the Indianapolis Tennis Association, the Hawthorne Tennis Club, the Nature Study Club, the Independent Athletic Club and the Indian- apolis Athletic Club.

Educational facilities in Indianapolis are unsurpassed. In addition to state and city schools, Indianapolis has Butler College, Indiana Central University, the College of Missions, Indiana Dental College, Indiana Law School, Indiana Veterinary College, Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts, Indianapolis College of Pharmacy, Art Association of Indianapolis, Boys' Preparatory School, St. Agnes Academy, Tudor Hall (girls'), St. John's Academy, Teachers' College, Metropolitan School of Music, Normal College of the North American Gymnastic Union and seven business schools.

Social clubs which have their own buildings include such as The Columbia Club, Marion Club, Knights of Columbus, The Athenaeum, Women's Departmental Club, the Indiana Democratic Club, the University Club, the Indianapolis Club, and the Academy of Music. Others are: Rotary Club, Kiwanis Club, Altrusa Club, Optimist Club, American Club, Indianapolis Athletic Club, and the Advertising Club of Indian- apolis.

The Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce occupies its own building at 28 South Meridian street. Its membership includes about 4000 of the more prominent business and professional individuals and firms of the city. In addition to its general civic and industrial work, it maintains the following departments. Freight and Traffic, Industrial Research, Wholesale Trade, Return Loads, Governmental Research, Foreign Trade, Motion Picture Exchange Managers and Publicity.

Other business organizations are: Board of Trade, which has its own building; Merchants' Association, Employers' Association, Business Men's Association, Central Indiana Purchasing Agents' Association, Credit Men's Association, Employment Man- agers' Association, Retail Coal Dealers' Association, East Washington Street Mer- chants' Association and West Washington Street Merchants' Association, and the Bet- ter Business Bureau.

Hospitals of the city are: City Hospital, Deaconess Hospital, Joseph Eastman Hospital, Robert W. Long Hospital, Methodist Episcopal Hospital, St. Francis Hos- pital and St. Vincent's Hospital. In addition there are a number of private and spe- cial hospitals and sanitariums.

The Marmon, Stutz, Lafayette, Duesenberg, National, Premier, Cole, H. C. S. and Monroe automobiles are manufactured in Indianapolis. The Ford Company has a large assembling plant here. Indianapolis has long been known as "The Quality Car City." It is the second city in the production of automobiles.

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Indianapolis has one of the greatest motor speedways in the United States. It was the first large speedway built in the United States and annually conducts the premier American auto racing events. Drivers from all over the world compete.

The U. S. Post Office and Federal Building is valued at $5,301,973. Post Office receipts for the year 1920 were $2,812,593.00.

The total assessed valuation of Greater Indianapolis, January 1, 1920, was $608,- 326,470.00-based on from 50 to 60 per cent of true value. Tax rate, $2.42 on each $100.00.

The municipal bonded indebtedness is $5,143,500.00.

Indianapolis is the home of ex-Vice-President Thos. R. Marshall, of the late Vice- President Chas. W. Fairbanks, the late James Whitcomb Riley, and the late Benjamin Harrison; of Booth Tarkington and Meredith Nicholson.

Indianapolis has 55 motion picture houses and 6 play houses. The best theatrical and moving picture attractions are shown. The larger houses are the Shubert Murat, English, Keith's, Circle, Lyric, Rialto and Loew's State.

The Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument in Indianapolis is recognized as one of the finest pieces of art in the United States.

Indianapolis has thirty-three modern office buildings, six to 16 stories high.

Fort Benjamin Harrison is one of the largest United States army posts in the country.

Indianapolis is represented in the American Association of baseball, and won the pennant in 1917.

Indianapolis has one of the largest city market houses in the Middle West, which supplies the city with the best products of the country.

It is abundantly supplied with apartment houses. In the down-town district there are forty apartment houses, which have a total of 4,650 rooms.

Indianapolis' principal industry from the value of product, is slaughtering and meat packing. Among the packing companies are Kingan & Co., Armour & Company, Indianapolis Abattoir Company, Brown Brothers, Worm & Co., Hilgemeier & Brothers, Meier Packing Co., Wheeler Dressed Beef Co., Crescent Packing Co., United Butchers, Inc., Riverview Packing Co., Swift Co., Moore & Co.

Receipts of live stock worth $225,000,000 and an output of finished products from its packing houses worth $95,000,000 assert Indianapolis' supremacy in the live stock world.

Indianapolis' live stock receipts come directly from the fields. The money paid for these shipments goes directly to the farmers of the Indianapolis trade territory, while the larger part of the output goes to distant lands, bringing new money into the community at all times.

The Indianapolis market has the distinction of being the largest "drive in" market of the United States. More cattle and hogs are taken in by this market than come other than by railroad, because of the gigantic motor truck traffic that has been built up.

Other markets are denied this economic and efficient transportation because they lack the splendid system of hard roads which radiate to every point of the intensive trade territory of Indianapolis.

Last year, nearly 1,000,000 head of live stock, a little less than one third of the total receipts, came by motor truck.

Hogs received by the Indianapolis market in 1920 numbered 2,896,894. There were 597,097 head of cattle, 135,841 head of sheep and 8,814 head of horses and, mules.

Packing houses pay more than $8,000,000 to 5,500 employes.

The stock yards employ 250 people, exclusive of the 19 commission houses with their employes.

Indianapolis ranks second among the nineteen corn markets of the United States. Receipts of this cereal are 20,687,400 bushels annually.

Indianapolis converts more than 5,000,000 bushels of corn annually in its millš and kindred factories. This has made possible large industries in the city, giving employment to a great many people.

Wheat and oats are also factors in Indianapolis industrial life. Annually the city takes in 4,000,000 bushels of wheat, and absorbs more than a fourth of this intake. Oats receipts are more than 17,000,000 bushels every year.

The value of the grain, as handled through the Board of Trade is estimated as between $70,000,000 and $75,000,000.

Indianapolis is admirably situated for manufacturing.

Raw materials are immediately at hand, cheap fuel is in close proximity and easily accessible, and railroads afford national and international distribution quickly and economically.

Central location to the consuming world means much and fair and adequate labor supply helps to establish Indianapolis as an ideal manufacturing city.

Indianapolis' manufacturing output is valued at $500,000,000 conservatively esti- mated.

Concerns with manufacturing activities number 1,200 and employ 69,169 people.

More than 800 different articles are manufactured in Indianapolis.

However, the Industries and industrial output are built around seven principal activities-automobile and accessory manufacturing, packing, furniture, veneer, foun- dry and machine work, milling and printing and publishing, chemicals and pharma- ceuticals.

The automobile industry employs a working force of 11,000 with an annual pay roll of $2,000,000. The annual output, normally, is approximately $95,000,000.

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Foundry and milling rank next in volume, aggregating $8,000,000. Furniture volume is more than $7,000,000-veneer facories more than $3,000,000. Printing and publishing volume is estimated at $5,000,000.

Manufacturing is reflected heavily in the business transactions of Indianapolis, which last year aggregated $5,000,000,000.

The financial institutions which made possible this gigantic business comprise 31 banks and trust companies.

Six national banks and four trust companies are members of the clearing house and report their clearings and transactions. These ten organizations piled up the enormous total of five billion dollars.

According to reports of the state insurance department, Indianapolis life insur- ance companies have insurance in force amounting to $382,027,733. The fire insurance companies have risks amounting to $240,593,331.

Thirty-eight insurance companies have home offices in Indianapolis. Eight of these are legal reserve life companies, nine are fire insurance companies, twelve are accident and health companies, seven reciprocal companies, one marine company and one fraternal.

Indiana was a pioneer in insurance regulation. The state was among the first to demand the reserve and approval of securities. In the Statehouse today lies $36,600,000 deposited by Indianapolis' home companies with an additional $15,000,000 or $16,000,000 from other Indiana concerns.

Indianapolis is noted for the high ethical qualities of her merchants, a fact at- tested by the award for two successive years of the Truth Trophy of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World.

The Better Business Bureau, protecting customers and merchants alike, was established by Indianapolis merchants on the principle that justified confidence is the only sound basis for successful business building.

More than 250 wholesale houses in the city annually distribute merchandise worth $175,000,000.

One thousand, one hundred salesman for wholesale houses comb the richest agri- cultural territory in the world.

More than $21,000,000 worth of foods are distributed from Indianapolis annually. Dry goods volume is $19,000,000. Hardware is well over $20,000,000; electrical supplies, $10,000,000. Auto accessories are more than $20,000,000 and drugs $7,000,000.

Indianapolis' jobbing world is made up of 44 dealing in agricultural implements, 49 handling automobile accessories, more than 30 dealing in builders' supplies, twenty wholesale confectioners, fifty-five distributors of electrical apparatus, twenty grocers, 70 lumber dealers, 14 flour dealers, 25 fruit dealers, 40 or more merchandise brokers and many more.

Retail establishments in the city annually transact a volume of business ap- proaching $250,000,000.

Indianapolis has more than 2300 retail stores, employing 12,000 people.

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Insurance

Additions and Removals 96

Interurban Lines 87

Advertising Department

Labor Organizations

Asylums, Hospitals, Etc 62

Legal Blue Book

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Indianapolis, Indiana city directory, 1921, Part 1

Author: Publication date: 1855 Publisher: Polk Number of Pages: 2152

Author:
Publication date: 1855
Publisher: Polk
Number of Pages: 2152