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61 MIDDLE ST. GLOUCESTER, MASS.
E ANN SAVINGS BANK 1846 - 1948
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POLK'S GLOUCESTER (ESSEX COUNTY, MASS.)
CITY DIRECTORY
VOL. 1948-49 XXXIX
INCLUDING ROCKPORT
Containing an Alphabetical Directory of Business Concerns and Pri- vate Citizens, a Directory of Householders, Occupants of Office Buildings and Other Business Places, Including a Complete Street and Avenue Guide and Much Information of a Miscellaneous Character ; also a
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GENERAL INDEX
PAGE
PAGE
Abbreviations
24
Harbor Masters
16, 371
Aldermen
15
Alphabetical Section .25, 373
Homes
272
Index to Advertisements
4
Association of North American Directory
Publishers
.56 Buyers' Guide
Libraries
18, 276, 421
Associations & Clubs-Commercial. . 254, 418
Medical Examiner
18
Board of Health
16, 370
Military
19
Miscellaneous Information
.8, 370
Buildings-Public & Office
.259, 418
Park Commissioners 16, 371
Parks
22
Cape Ann Light Station 372
Cemeteries
260, 418
Police Departments .17, 371
Population
12
Churches
261, 419
City Government
15
City Offices 16
City Statistics 20
Classified Business Directory 253, 417
Registrars of Deeds
18
Clubs
262, 419
Registrars of Voters
16, 370
Rockport Classified Business Directory . . 417
Rockport General Directory 373
Rockport Street & House Directory 425
Rockport Town Officers 370
School Department
17, 371
Sheriff
18
Societies
.285, 423
State Guard
19
Statistical Review
8
Straitsmouth Light Station 372
Street Directory of Gloucester 293
Gloucester General Directory 25
Gloucester Statistics
20
Gloucester Street & House Directory .
293
Water Commissioners
16, 370
Halls and Public Buildings
259, 418
Wharves
289
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Fire Alarm Signal Boxes .16, 371
Fire Departments 16, 371
Gloucester Classified Business Directory 253
19
District Attorney
18
District Court
18
Drives
22
18
County Officers
18
Courts
18
Custom House
Public Health Service
19
Railroad Passenger Stations
282,
422
Chamber of Commerce
102
Post Offices
19, 372
Probate Court 18
Constables 17, 370
County Commissioners
Holidays
19
Assessors 16, 370
Labor Organizations 275
Board of Public Welfare
.16, 370
Buyers' Guide
.opp 252
Points of Interest 21
Street Directory of Rockport. 425
Superintendents, Inspectors, &c 16
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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
PAGE NUMBERS BELOW REFER TO THE BUYERS' GUIDE SECTION, THE YELLOW PAGES
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Allied Finance Service Inc 39
Andrews LE-Ferron Co
left top corner cards and 49
Art Jewelry Co Inc. . left bottom lines and 38
Babson, Elwell & Davis Inc back cover and
33
Barton A J & Son Inc
left top corner cards and 43
Bass Rocks Coal & Oil Co
left top corner cards, X and 47
Bernstein Evelyn L . 38
Brown William G Company
left bottom lines and 15
23
right top corner cards and
49
Cape Ann Anchor & Forge Co
Cape Ann Fisheries Inc left top corner cards and 21
right bottom lines and
17
12
back cover and 29
Greely James C .... right top lines and 25 Gronblad Albert A. . left bottom lines and 13 Hall Bros . .left bottom lines and 14
Harris D F & Sons Inc right bottom lines and 6
5 Hiltz Robert C right top corner cards and Hotel Gloucester
left top corner cards and Y and 30
51 John Alden-Griffin Co right bottom lines and 13
Johnson John A Inc front cover and 34 Lothrop L D Sons left top corner cards and
21 Mahoney G Everett Inc right top corner cards and 37 Metropolitan Ice Company right top lines and 53 Milne's Ice & Oil Service
47
Cunningham & Kerr .. left top lines and 36
Cunningham Paint Co Inc .
right top corner cards and 49
Davis Bros Fisheries Co Inc right bottom lines and 18 Davis Clarence O 14 right top corner cards and Davis Frank E Fish Co 18 Davis Taxi Service
right bottom lines and B Dodge C Furniture Co 28
Dunrite Tile Flooring Co left bottom lines and 21 Fabet Corporation. . left bottom lines and 19 Faulk Bros ...... left bottom lines and A Favazza Salvatore J
left and right top corner cards and 37
Fernwood Garage .. left bottom lines and 5 Frost D O Co .... right bottom lines and 12 G M I Laundry . . left top corner cards and 39 Gloucester Coal & Lumber Co . right top lines and
40 Gloucester Co-operative Bank right top lines and 9 Gloucester Daily Times and Cape Ann
insert at Rockport Section
Gorton-Pew Fisheries Co left top lines and 18 Granite Savings Bank . . left top lines and 10 Gray Charles J & Sons Inc
Cape Ann Manufacturing Co left top corner cards and Cape Ann Motors Inc. . right bottom lines Cape Ann National Bank
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back cover, right top lines and Cape Ann Savings Bank
7
8
front cover, right top lines and 32
Chick George P & Son. . left top lines and Chisholm John Fisheries Co
42
36
Colonial Rest Home
30
right bottom corner cards and Commercial Marine Co
right top corner cards, back cover and 20
Cooney Sail Co Inc .. ribbon book mark and 52
Cooper-Bessemer Corp The right bottom lines and 17 Corliss Bros Inc 44
Mitchell's Taxi Service left top corner cards and Z Morendo & Son Motor Sales back cover and 2
Nally Oil Co .right top lines and 46 National House Furnishing Co . front cover and 26
Nauss L B & Sons Inc .. back bone, front, top and bottom stencils and 41 Noble E G Inc .. left top corner cards and 50
North Shore Automobile Co
left top corner cards and 6
44
front cover, right top lines and Carr G Elliott . . left top corner cards and Cher Ami Ice Cream Store
left and right bottom lines and 21 and Clancey W H
left top lines and
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Burgess Elmer F Inc .. left top lines and Butman A Carl 38 Advertiser . left top lines and 45 Cameron C Floyd Gloucester National Bank of Gloucester. . 9 Gloucester Safe Deposit and Trust Co ..
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North Shore Furniture Co Inc left bottom lines and 28 Parkhurst Marine Railway Co .. Smith J Raymond Inc 42 Smith L E Plumbing & Heating Co right top lines and 42 Parks Brothers .. right top corner cards and 16 Somers James V Co Inc left top corner cards and 39
Sears, Roebuck & Co right bottom lines and 15
left top corner cards and 50
Perkins & Corliss Inc right bottom lines and 4 Steele & Abbott Co . back cover and 48
Pike W S Funeral Service
front cover, right top lines and 24
Pratt Charles R .left top corner cards and 14 11
Purdy Albert H Reed George A' & Son 22
Reed's Roy Garage
right top corner cards and
5
Rockport National Bank left top lines and 10
back cover, right bottom lines and 3
Tognazzi Bros .... left bottom lines and 43
Rocky Neck Marine Railways Division. . Tompkins C F Co .front cover and 27 42 West End Taxi front cover and 54 left and right bottom lines and 21 and Rogers Louis A .. left bottom lines and 51 Young Men's Christian Association 12
Steele Carroll K .front cover and 35 Sunnyside Bakery
right top corner cards and 6
Tavern The . back cover and 31
Ted's Cycle Shop right top corner cards and 11 Thanos William J. left and right bottom lines and
C Thurston George W Inc
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INTRODUCTION
R. L. POLK & CO., publishers of more than 800 city, county, state and national Directories, present to subscribers and the general public, this, the 1948-49 edition of the Gloucester City Directory, including Rock- port.
Confidence in the growth of Gloucester's and Rockport's industry and wealth, and in the advancement of their civic and social activities, will be maintained as sections of this Directory are consulted, for the Directory is a mirror truly reflecting Gloucester and Rockport to the world.
The enviable position occupied by R. L. POLK & CO.'S Directories in the estimation of the public throughout the country, has been estab- lished by rendering the best in Directory service. With an unrivaled organization, and having had the courteous and hearty co-operation of the business and professional men and residents, the publishers feel that the result of their labors will meet with the approval of every user, and that the Gloucester and Rockport Directory will fulfill its mission as a source of authentic information pertaining to the cities.
Five Major Departments The five major departments are arranged in the following order :-
THE MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT, on white paper, pages 8 to 22 for Gloucester and 345 to 348 for Rockport, presents lists of city, county, state and federal officials, post office information, schools and institutions, with officers, courts holding sessions in the city, population tables, statistical review, and manufacturing, trade and civic surveys.
THE ALPHABETICAL LIST OF NAMES of residents and business and professional concerns, on white paper, is included in pages 25 to 252 for Gloucester and 373 to 416 for Rockport. This is the only record in existence that aims to show the name, marital status, occupation and address of each adult resident of Gloucester and Rockport, and the name, official personnel, nature and address of each firm and corpora- tion in the city.
THE BUYERS' GUIDE beginning opposite page 252, printed on tinted paper in a separate series of pages from 1 to 56, contains the advertisements of leading banking, manufacturing, business and profes- sional interests of Gloucester and Rockport. The advertisements are indexed under headings descriptive of the business represented. This is reference advertising at its best, and merits a survey by all buyers eager to familiarize themselves with sources of supply. In a great com- mercial and industrial center like Gloucester, the necessity of having this kind of information immediately available is obvious. General appreciation of this fact is evidenced by the many reference users of this City Directory service.
THE CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY is included in pages 253 to 291 for Gloucester and 417 to 424 for Rockport, on yellow paper. This department lists the names of all business and professional con- cerns in alphabetical order under appropriate headings. This feature constitutes an invaluable and indispensable catalog of the numerous in- terests of the community. The Directory is the common intermediary between buyer and seller. As such it plays an important part in the daily activities of the commercial and professional world. More buyers and sellers meet through the Classified Business Directory than through any other medium.
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THE DIRECTORY OF HOUSEHOLDERS, INCLUDING STREET AND AVENUE GUIDE, on pink paper, covers pages 293 to 368 for Gloucester and 425 to 444 for Rockport. In this section the names of the streets are arranged in alphabetical order; the numbers of the residences and business concerns are arranged in numerical order under the name of each street, and the names of the householders and concerns are placed opposite the numbers. The names of the intersecting streets appear at their respective crossing points on each street. Special features of this section are the designation of tenant-owned homes and the designation of homes and places of business having telephones.
Municipal Publicity
The Directory reflects the achievements and ambitions of the city, depicting in unbiased terms what it has to offer as a place of residence, as a business location, as a manufacturing site and as an educational center. To broadcast this information, the publishers have placed copies of this issue of the Directory in Directory Libraries, where they are readily available for free public reference, and serve as perpetual and reliable advertisements of Gloucester and Rockport.
The Gloucester Directory Library
Through the courtesy of the publishers of the Gloucester City Di- rectory, a Directory Library is maintained in the Chamber of Commerce, for free reference by the general public. This is one of more than 500 Directory Libraries installed in the chief cities of the U. S. and Canada by members of the Association of North American Directory Publishers, under whose supervision the system is operated.
The publishers appreciatively acknowledge the recognition by those progressive and professinal men who have demonstrated their confi- dence in the City Directory as an advertising medium, with assurance that it will bring a commensurate return.
R. L. POLK & CO., Publishers
GLOUCESTER
" The Fish City"
(Courtesy Gloucester Chamber of Commerce)
Statistical Review
Form of Government: Commission com-
posed of Mayor and four Aldermen.
Normal Population: 24,862 (State Census 1945).
Summer Population: 40,000 estimated. Area: Thirty-six square miles. Altitude: Fifty-seven feet. Assessed Valuation : Personal $3,966,575.00 (1947) ; Real Estate $35,926,250.00 (1947) ; Automobile $814,130 (1947) ; Vessels $4,252,705 with $53.00 tax per $1,000. White Population: 24,862. Colored Population: None. Native Born Population: 85 percent of whole population.
Predominating Nationalities in City: Native American, Italian, Portuguese, Finnish, English.
Parks and Playgrounds: Eleven with 700 acres.
City's Bonded Debt: $1,459,500,00 (May 31, 1948)
Financial: Two National banks, One Trust Company, with total deposits of $18,601,766. 80, resources $20,080,461.90. One savings bank with total deposits of $10,029,143.08, resources $11,139,500.78. One co-operative bank with total resources of $4,655,792.44. Post Office Receipts: $180,000.00.
Telephones in Service: 8459.
Church Buildings: Twenty-three.
Trade: Territory (Retail) serves 40,000 peo- ple within the trading area covering a ra- dius of thirteen miles.
Hotels: There is one commercial hotel open all year, with total of twenty-seven rooms; also fifteen hotels which operate only in the summer months.
City Served By: Boston & Maine railroad. Amusements: There are two theatres, with a total seating capacity of 2,132 people. Hospital : One with eighty-five beds, fifteen bassinets.
Education. Number of schools, 17, including 1 high school, 1 parochial school. Number of pupils in public schools 3,539. Total of all teachers is 160. Value of all school property, private and public, approximately $1,963,441.
Libraries. There are about 36,000 volumes in the library of the city.
City Statistics: Total street mileage two hundred eighty, with one hundred twenty miles paved, seventy miles semi-public, gravel, oiled; and ninety miles unim- proved. Miles of gas mains laid, fifty-nine, of sewers, nineteen and one-half miles main lines (approx). Capacity of water works (municipal) 716,176,000 gallons, daily average pump of 2,523,000 gallons (1947) with 104.2 miles of mains and value of plant estimated at $3,361,290.34. New distributing reservoir has been built at Bond's Hill, with a 6,000,000 gallon capacity in place of old 3,000,000 gallon capacity.
Fire Department. Employs 92 men includ- ing a chief, three deputy chiefs, a motor supervisor, 5 permanent captains, 56 per- manent men, 26 callmen, with the following equipment: 5 pumping engines (combina- tion), 3 ladder trucks, 1 hose wagon, 1 com- bination hose and water truck, 1 squad wagon, a chief's car and 4 auxiliary pump- ers. There are five fire stations. Value of fire department property $290,000.
City Electrician: Has two cars in service. Police Department: Has 35 regular men, 28 patrolmen and 7 superior officers and 9 re- serve men with 1 station and 10 pieces of motor equipment and 1 police boat. 4 pieces of apparatus and the police boat are equipped with two-way radios.
GEOGRAPHY
Gloucester is located about thirty miles northeast of Boston, Massachusetts. The orig- inal town of Gloucester occupied the whole northern promontory of Massachusetts Bay, known as Cape Ann and was bounded on the north by Ipswich Bay, on the east by the Atlantic Ocean, on the south by Massachu- setts Bay and on the west by the towns of Manchester, Essex and Ipswich.
Cape Ann is divided into two nearly equal sections by the Annisquam River, an arm of the sea extending from Ipswich Bay about four miles towards and into Gloucester Har- bor. Gloucester of today retains practically its same boundaries and includes the follow- ing districts: Magnolia, Annisquam, River- dale, West Gloucester, East Gloucester, Bay
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View and Lanesville. The northeastern por- tion of the Cape, however, which was in- cluded in the territory of the original town of Gloucester, is separated into what is known as the town of Rockport, the extreme end being known as Pigeon Cove.
The principal harbor is on the south side of the city and is formed by Eastern Point -- a strip of unequal width extending in a south- westerly direction about three miles-a rock bound coast that defies the violence of surg- ing waves dashing almost constantly against it, and affording within a safe shelter and anchorage for a large fleet.
The surface of the town is uneven; and its peculiar character strikes every beholder at first sight with astonishment. Bald, rocky hills, bold and precipitous ledges of rock, with acres of bowlders of various sizes, in many places scattered thickly over the sur- face, combine to present a rare scene of naked ruggedness. The small tracts and patches of clear land, by which this view of barrenness is occasionally relieved, are cov- ered with a strong and fertile soil, suited to the growth of most of our New England agri- cultural products.
The rocks of Cape Ann are granite, of a beautiful, dark color and are easily wrought into blocks of any needed size. Quarries formerly operated in different localities, sev- eral at Rockport, at the lower extremity of the Cape; others at Lanesville and at Bay View-suburban districts of Gloucester prop- er. The products of these quarries in the form of monuments, decorative ornamenta- tions, paving blocks, etc. have been shipped to every part of the world.
In all, Cape Ann is picturesque. It is truly typical of the rock bound coast of our north- ern Atlantic States. A drive around the shore road from which an open view of the ocean is afforded practically throughout the entire route, presents a picture of rugged rocks dashed over with spray, these interposed with as many as forty beaches of various sizes around the entire Cape. The drives around Cape Ann are pretty. The inland roads through wooded sections of hard-wood growth give a touch of country life in sharp contrast to the rugged scenery along the shore.
HISTORY
From the time of the early explorers Gloucester, Mass., has occupied a large place in the history of New England and the na- tion. It is claimed that the Norsemen in 1001 skirted the New England Coast, which they called New Vineland and landed here. It has also been said that they called the place "Kroasnes", the Cape of the Cross; that they were attacked by the Indians, their chieftain, Thorwald, being killed and buried on shore. In 1605, as authentically recorded, Cham- plain, on a voyage of exploration and discov- ery sailed about the cape which he named CAPE AUX ISLES.
The next year in early September he founded what is now Eastern Point and came to anchor in the inner harbor between Five
and Ten Pound Islands-so named for the sums for which they were purchased from the Indians in Colonial times. Champlain was charmed with the place and made a pro- longed stay. His name for it was singularly appropiate, "Le Beau Port", the Beautiful Harbor.
After Champlain's departure came Captain John Smith and Miles Standish with his com- pany of followers. The honor of making the first settlement, however, which was also the first permanent settlement in Massachusetts Bay, belongs to the Dorchester Colony, a company formed by the Rev. John White, a Puritan minister, rector of StPeter's church of Dorchester, England. His colony sailed for and reached what is now Gloucester in 1623, not, as had been supposed, for the purpose of escaping religious persecution. Its real ob- ject was the pursuit of the fisheries which had been successfully carried on off the New England Coast since 1606. The site of the first settlement was at Stage Fort, now a public reservation known as "Stage Fort Park", where their landing is suitably com- memorated with a bronze tablet which bears an inscription telling the story of their orig- inal landing.
In 1624 Roger Conant was appointed Gov- ernor and the Colony attracted much atten- tion. Its interests were concerned entirely in fishing and farming. The fisheries were successfully pursued and good catches sent to Balboa, Spain, but the arable land of the Cape was exceedingly limited. This latter fact resulted in the agricultural part of the colony moving to Salem. Those remaining, however, were joined by others from time to time, among them being a colony from Ply- mouth in 1630. In 1632 the first church was built and services held. In 1639, the General Court was asked to incorporate the town. A charter was granted in 1642, the town taking the name of Gloucester from the ca- thedral city in England, whence many of the early settlers came.
The history of Gloucester is entwined with events of national importance. It tells us the story of the expedition against Louisburg, the Gibraltar of America,-how these men, in a craft commanded by Captain Sanders an in a land company under Captain Byles, gave splendid service in reducing that stronghold; they were with Wolfe at Quebec and were in the foreground when the flag of France was lowered for the last time on the American Continent. In the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, in the Spanish American War and in the World War, the call to arms has ever been answered by the population of this fish- ing city. Their services have been rendered on land and sea and they have left behind a record of which any community may well be proud.
FISHERIES
Destiny ordained that Gloucester should be the first and greatest fishing port in the New World. Back as far as 1602, that daring navi- gator, GOSNOLD, found that codfish were plenty in Massachusetts Bay and for twenty years before a permanent settlement was made here, the fisheries were pursued off this coast with profit. Destiny also took a hand when the Dorchester Company set out from
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England in 1623 to engage in a fishing trip and also to found a permanent colony. The ancient records tell us that the expedition had no definite place in view for settlement and that arriving late in the season at the fishing grounds on the Maine coast, finding the fishing poor and in hopes of making up a full fare, the voyage was continued to Massa- chusetts Bay. Our first colonists, therefore, were fishermen and the first business of the place was fishing.
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