Indianapolis, Indiana city directory, 1922, Part 1

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INTRODUCTION

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The 1922 edition of the INDIANAPOLIS CITY DIRECTORY is here- with presented to patrons. The volume embodies the sixty-eighth issue of the publication, and constitutes a complete, modern Directory, fully com- mensurate in style, make-up and information with the Directories of the larger cities of the country. The Directory has ever kept pace with the uniform growth and progress of the city and expansion of its manifold interests and activities and is steadily devoted to the advancement of all that is vital in the commercial, social and industrial life of the munici- pality.

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 concerning State, County and City Executives, Banks, Asylums, Hospitals and Homes, Building Loan and Savings Associations, Cemeteries, Charity Organiza- tions, Churches, Clubs, College Societies, Courts, Federal Officers, Foreign Consular Corps, Insurance Companies, Labor Organizations, Libraries, Newspapers and Periodicals, Medical and Dental Colleges, Miscellaneous Organizations, Musical Societies, Post Office Data, Public Buildings and Halls, Parks, Public and Private Schools, Railways, Secret Societies, etc.

An invaluable feature of the Directory is the Buyers' Guide, printed on tinted paper and containing the advertisements of prominent and pro- gressive business men and concerns, arranged by classification appropriate to the nature of the business pursued-"The Directory is the common in- termediary between the Buyer and Seller."

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

POPULATION OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS

As in previous years the Directory canvass was not confined to the actual city limits but embraced all adjacent suburban territory, the resi- dents of which are to all intents and purposes a part of the social, com- mercial and industrial life of Indianapolis; their residents are dependent upon the city for their prosperity, and they enjoy the civic advantages offered by it, since most of the residents have their business interests and activities therein and are intimately connected with it in every relation except governmental.

In this issue of the Directory there are listed 134,104 individual names; a conservative estimate of the population is obtained by multiply- ing the number of names by 23, 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 335,260.

A complete library including directories of all the principal cities is maintained in our offices, 112-114 East Maryland Street, for the con- venience and free use of our patrons. For the benefit of our advertisers and as a means of advertising the City and its business interests, copies of this edition of the Indianapolis City Directory will be placed on file in the Directory Libraries in all of the larger cities throughout the country.

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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 335,260, 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 43.5 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 18,632 passengers arrive and depart daily. The total number of passengers arriving and departing during the year 1921 was 6,800,823. Passenger cars made 128,319 round trips and freight cars 20,452 round trips.

Indianapolis has 162.54 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 320.54 miles of permanently improved streets January 1, 1922.

It has 429 miles of sewers.

Indianapolis has six public auditoriums with combined seating capacity of 22,000 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. Cadle Tabernacle, erected principally for religious purposes but available for other public and civic gatherings, has a seating capacity of 10,000.

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 1921 showed a valuation of $19,500,000.00.

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.

INDIANAPOLIS

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 270,000 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 a colored Y. M. C. A. building at a cost of $100,000.00

It has 74 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 education.

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, his- tory 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 encir- cles 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, Riverside Golf Club, South Grove Golf Club, the Indian- apolis Tennis Association, the Hawthorne Tennis Club, the Nature Study Club, the Hoosier Athletic Club and the Indianapolis 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 Associa- tion 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, Amer- ican Club, Indianapolis Athletic Club, Advertising Club of Indianapolis, Lions Club, Service Club, Traffic Club and Woman's Literary Club.

The Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce occupies its own building at 28 South Meridian street. Its membership includes about 4,000 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, Civic Affairs, Retail Trade, Junior Chamber of Commerce, Foreign Trade, Publicity and Membership.

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 Merchants' Association and West Washington Street Merchants' Association, and the Better Busi- ness 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 special hospitals and sanitariums.

The Marmon, Stutz, Lafayette, Deusenberg, National, Premier, Cole, H. C. S., Monroe, Frontenac and Alena Steam Truck 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.

INDIANAPOLIS

Indianapolis has the greatest motor speedway in the world. 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 1921 were $2,912,361.62.

The total assessed valuation of Greater Indianapolis, January 1, 1920, was $608,- 326,470.00-based on from 50% to 60% of true value. Tax rate $2.32 on each $100.00.

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

Indianapolis is the home of ex-Vice-President Thos. R. Marshail, 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, 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-four modern office buildings, six' to sixteen 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, 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 $104,805,746.00 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 $4,384,320.00 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 mills and kindred factories. This has made possible large industries in the city, giving employ- ment 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.

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Indianapolis, Indiana city directory, 1922, Part 1

Author: Publication date: 1855 Publisher: Polk Number of Pages: 2176

Author:
Publication date: 1855
Publisher: Polk
Number of Pages: 2176