Baltimore city directory for the year commencing 1912, Part 1

Author: R.L. Polk & Co
Publication date: 1905
Publisher: Baltimore : R.L. Polk & Co.
Number of Pages: 2678

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CITY DIRECTORY'

FOR THE YEAR COMMENCING APRIL 1st.

1912

Containing an Alphabetical List of Business Firms and Private Citizens, a Directory of City Officers, Terms of Court, Churches, Public and Private Schools, Benevolent, Literary and Other Associations, Banks, Incorporated Institutions, Etc. Also a Revised Street and Avenue Guide, Showing Nearest Car Line to Each House, Etc.

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INTRODUCTORY

R. L. Polk & Co.'s Baltimore City Directory for 1912 is herewith presented.

CONTENTS.

The City Directory is more than a list of residents with their occu- pation and addresses ; it is a complete and accurate guide to Baltimore, its people, their government, institutions, organizations and societies, and as a general work of reference gives everything that goes to make up the city. To learn the scope of information given in this Directory, consult the Index to Contents on page 15.

BALTIMORE.

Baltimore, with its population of nearly 700,000, may rank as the seventh city in population, but it ranks higher in the commercial field. Although restricted to 31 1-2 square miles by its corporate limits, its industrial area is nearly as much again, including the suburbs, in which are many large industrial plants and where a large number of Balti- moreans make their homes.

Baltimore leads the world in its copper refining, canning and pre- serving industries. In the manufacture of cotton duck it leads the nation ; it has 17 plants manufacturing fertilizer, producing more than all other cities of the Atlantic coast combined. The tobacco industry produces 18,000,000 pounds of finished product annually. In the manufacture of ready-made clothing, in men's wear and straw hats, it is one of the first cities. It is the largest banana port. It is first in the oyster industry. Over its piers go more than two-thirds of the soft coal used by the railroads and factories of New England. In foreign trade the city ranks third, and fifth in import trade.

WATER AND RAIL.

Baltimore is the ideal Atlantic coast port for general distribution. Closer to the West by 250 miles than any other coast city, Baltimore has the advantages of deep water at its doors and unlimited railroad facilities. The Baltimore and Ohio, Pennsylvania and Western Mary- land railroads have great terminals on the water front, and each has huge piers and elevators with all modern equipment for the quick handling of general merchandise, grain and coal.

These railroads are connected direct with all of the main trunk lines of the country. Two other railroads-the Northern Central, a branch of the Pennsylvania, and the Maryland and Pennsylvania- run from Baltimore into the northern section of Maryland and into attractive trade fields in the State of Pennsylvania.

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Besides the extensive coastwise service of the Merchants and Miners' Transportation Company, which puts Baltimore in direct touch with Newport News, Norfolk, Savannah and Jacksonville, all railroad terminals in the South, and Boston to the North, there are two lines of steamers that ply daily beween Baltimore and Norfolk, connecting at the latter city with the Chesapeake and Ohio, the Southern, the Nor- folk and Western, Atlantic Coast Line, Seaboard Air Line and the Virginia railroads. These connections by water and rail make Balti- more the best distributing point for Northern and Western freight to the rapidly growing South. Besides these connections, there is also the line of the Baltimore and Carolina Steamship Company, which has weekly sailings between Baltimore and ports in North and South Carolina.

In foreign trade Baltimore is a regular port of call for 35 steam- ship lines. It has regular service between English and German ports. In the Chesapeake Bay trade, connecting the city with all of the tide- water towns of Maryland and Virginia, there are three-score of steamers plying regular routes. This service is augmented by more than 10,000 sail and power craft that haul vast quantities of merchan- dise, produce, grain, etc. The coastwise service employs dozens of steamers and barges and several hundred sailing craft, hauling coal, lumber, grain, phosphate rock, etc.

Baltimore is liberal to railroads and to business institutions. On Pratt and other streets in the southern section of the city are steam railroad tracks by which connection with the Pennsylvania and North- ern Central railroads is made at the eastern end of the city, and with the Baltimore and Ohio, Western Maryland, Northern Central and Maryland and Pennsylvania railroads at the western end. The mer- chant or manufacturer who locates adjacent to these tracks finds no difficulty in getting a spur track into his warehouse.

FACTORY SITES.

Through a system of reclaiming water-front land, and at the same time deepening the approach, the city is taking a keen interest in the development of factory sites. It has a factory site commission as one of the municipal departments. This commission has the leasing and selling privilege over a tract of 170 acres on the Patapsco River adja- cent to the city. The commission also has a vast fund of data pertain- ing to factory sites and buildings within the corporate limits, and is authorized to act as agent in the securing of property for industrial purposes.

To encourage small manufacturers, a large Bee-hive building, adjacent to the tracks of the Western Maryland and Pennsylvania railroads, has just been completed. In this structure heat, light, power and space proportionate to the needs may be obtained upon attractive terms.

BALTIMORE DIRECTORY 1912

POWER.

For cheap power no city excels Baltimore. At the very threshold of the great coal regions of Maryland, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, coal is readily obtainable at low freight rates. The electric possibilities are unlimited. Connections have been made with the giant McCall's Ferry generator on the Susquehanna River. The Electric Light and Power Company of Baltimore is doing everything possible for the development of attractive propositions for bettering the service to industrial projects. Already Baltimore has the cheapest rates for electric power of any other city on the Atlantic seaboard.

HARBOR IMPROVEMENTS.

During the past few years Baltimore has expended more than $6,000,000 for the erection of piers in the harbor. These piers are leased at a nominal rental, but with the proviso that the Harbor Board may at any time permit any vessel to load or discharge at them when not in use by the lessee, thus giving shipping facilities to anyone who does not have a leased pier. In connection with this improvement, the city has prepared plans to build more of these piers. The plans call for the extension of the pier system and the building of a water-front street, paved for heavy hauling. The first step in the carrying out of these plans has been made, and the several sections of the work will be completed as conditions demand. The total cost of these improvements will aggregate more than $20,000,000.

FINANCIAL.

As a banking center Baltimore has long been noted as conserva- tive, but this conservatism has kept the financial institutions of the city afloat at ease when other cities have been hard beset by gales of panic. Although admittedly conservative, Baltimore bankers are keen for the development of industries and are willing to do their share.

Few cities, as municipal corporations, have a better financial stand- ing than Baltimore. Although during the past few years loans aggre- gating many millions of dollars have been floated for the building of the gigantic sewerage system, which is attracting the attention of the engineers of the world; for the building of many school houses; for the increase of the fire department and the installation of a high pres- sure service in the business district, which has reduced insurance rates ; the creating of a street over Jones' Falls, another big engineering feat ; for the paving of many miles of streets, every bond offered sold for better than par. Some of the bonds were offered to the citizens in small lots, and the only objection offered was that the allotment was insufficient to meet the demand.

The Government census reports show that Baltimore's govern- mental costs are lower per capita than almost any other large city. To insure fairness at the hands of the public utilities corporations an efficient Public Service Commission stands ever ready to hear the com- plaints of individuals. This Commission has already performed val- uable service in the settlement of questions pertaining to telephone rates, car fare zones, etc.

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A HOME TOWN.

Baltimore is essentially. a home town. The fact that it is a home town is almost a guarantee against labor troubles, because most of the people of the laboring class either own or are buying their own homes. The people are satisfied with their conditions, they have their little homes and it would take a great deal to arouse them. Baltimore employers are uniformly fair in their treatment, and this has brought about a most happy condition. The local Federation of Labor is led by level- headed, thinking men, who, while endeavoring to bring about better conditions for their people, are sensible to the obligations of citizenship.

The laboring population of Baltimore is not centered. One might better say that it is grouped in every section of the city, and especially in those sections adjacent to the manufacturing districts, thus making it easy to procure a high grade of help for any industry.

Baltimore has more lenient building and loan association laws than any other city in the world. It is possible for one to buy a $2,000 home without the outlay of one cent and upon weekly payments of four or five dollars, a small advance over what one would pay for rent for the same property. It is this convenience of purchase that has made Baltimore the great home town it is. Capitalists have engaged in the real estate business on extensive scales, developing hundreds of acres of city and suburban properties by the erection of rows of pretty two and three story houses, equipped with all modern conveniences, and disposing of them to individuals through the building and loan asso- ciation plan.

R. L. POLK & CO., Publishers.

INDEX TO CONTENTS

Page.

ABBREVIATIONS 201

Advertising Club of Baltimore.

2773

Aero Club

442773

Charcoal Club.

.2714

Aged Men's Home

2777

Aged Women's Home.

2777

"Alhambra Club. .

2773

Alto Friendly Society.

.2782

Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite Masons

2792

Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. 2792

Ancient Order of Hibernians. 2791

Anti-Saloon League of Maryland. .2782

Appeal Tax Court

2757

APPENDIX

2753

Appraiser's Office

2753

Architectural Commission.

Ariel Rowing Club ..

2773

Army and Navy Union 2782

Art Commission

2757

Art Galleries.

2763

Arundel Club.

2773

Ashburton Improvement Assn.

2780

Association of Fire Underwriters

2782

Association of Maryland Line 2780

Association of Maryland Pilots. 2780

Athletic Association of Johns

Hop-

kins University.

2782

Athsoc Club. .

2773

Automobile Club of Maryland. 2773

Baltimore Athletic Club. 2774

Baltimore Chamber of Commerce 2776 Baltimore Chapter American Institute 2761

of Bank Clerks ....

2782

Baltimore City

Christian

Endeavor

Union

.2782 Baltimore City Osteopathic Society .. 2782 Baltimore Clearing House Associa-

tion 2763

Baltimore Club

2774

Baltimore Coal Exchange.

2776

Baltimore Country Club .. 2774

Baltimore Drug Exchange 2776

Baltimore Egg Exchange.

2776

Baltimore Federation of Labor 2782

Baltimore Fruit Exchange. .2776

Baltimore Life Underwriters' Asso-

ciation

.2781

Baltimore Orphan Asylum.

2777

Baltimore Oyster Packers'

Assn.

2782

Baltimore Press Club. . 2774

Baltimore Produce Jobbers' Assn.

.2782

Baltimore Reform League.

.2774

Baltimore Retail Druggists' Assn.

.2782

Baltimore Stationers'

Assn

2782

Baltimore Stock Exchange. .2776

Baltimore Typographical Union. .2783

Baltimore Yacht Club.

.2774

Banks

2763 to 2767

Beneficial and Benevolent Societies .. 2780

Beneficial Association of the Mary- land Line, C. S. A. 2781

Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks

2791

Bloomingdale Improvement Assn. .2783

Board of Awards. .2757

Board of Estimates .. .2757

Board of Fire Commissioners 2758

Board of Foreign Missions.

2783

Board of Municipal Engineers.

2758

Board of Park Commissioners

2758

Board of Police Commissioners.

2758

Bookbinders' Board of Trade.

2783

Boys' Home Society ...

2777

Brotherhood of St Andrew .2781

' Builders' Exchange. 2776

BUSINESS DIRECTORY. .2247 Business Men's Association of North- west Baltimore. . .2783

Canned Goods Exchange .2776

Catholic Benevolent Legion of Mary-

land

.2781

Catholic Club.

2774

Cemeteries

2767

Central Business Men's Association ... 2783

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Central Improvement Assn.

2783

Century Road Club of America ..

.2774

Children's Playground Association of

Batlimore

.2753

Churches

Circuit Courts.

2755

Citizens' Improvement Association of Northeast Baltimore.

City Club

2714

City Council

City Engineer

2760

City Government

2757

City Library

2760

City Librarian

2760

City Register

2760

City Surveyor

.2760

Civil Service Reform Association

Maryland

.2783

Clinical Section of Baltimoer City Med-

ical Society.

2783

Clover Club.

.2774

Clubs

.2773 to 2775

Collector

Water

Rents

and

Licenses

.2761

Colonial Sick Benefit Society.

.2783

Colonial Social Club ...

2774

Commissioners for Opening Streets. .. 2761

Commissioners of Finance ..

2761

Commissioners of Street Cleaning.

2761

Commonwealth Club ..

2774

Companions of the Forest of America. 2791 Comptroller

Concord Club.

2774

Confederated Civic Improvement and

Protection

.2783

Assns.

Constables

.2761

Consuls

.2775

Coroners

.2761

Courts

.2756

Credit Men's Assn of Balto City.

2783

Crescent Club.

2774

Custom House.

2753

Daughters of American Revolution .. 2783 .2791

Daughters of Liberty ...

Decorative Art Society of Baltimore. 2783

Democratic Club.

2774

Department of Law.

.2761

Dispensaries

.2776

East Baltimore Business Men's Asso-

ciation

.2784

East End Improvement Association .. 2784

East Baltimore Merchants and Tax-

payers' Assn.

.2784

Edmondson Terraces Improvement As-

sociation

2784

Educational Society of Balto.

.2784

Electrical Commission. 2761

Electrical Contractors' Association of

Maryland

2784

Elementary Teachers' Assn

.2784

Emory Grove Association.

2784

Engineers Corps, U S A.

2753

Engineers' Sewerage Commission. .2762

Enoch Pratt Free Library. 2779

Exchanges and Boards of Trade 2776

Farmers' League of Maryland ..

2784

Federated Charities of Baltimore, Inc.2784

Federated Jewish Charities 2784

Fire Department ...

.2758

Flavoring

Extract

Manufacturers'

Assn of the United States.

.2784

Foreign Commerce Association.

.2784

Florence Crittendon Mission.

2777

Florists'

Exchange. .

2777

Forest Park Improvement Assn. 2784

Forresters of America ...

2791

Franklin Buchanan Camp (U C V) .. 2781

Fraternal Order of Eagles.

2791

Free Public Bath Commission.

2761

Free Summer Excursion Society. .2784

French Benevolent Society. 2781 Friendly Inn Association .. 2777 and 2785 Funeral Directors' Association of Bal-

timore City.

2785

GENERAL DIRECTORY OF

NAMES .

201

Gentlemen's Driving Club.

.2774

German-American Technological Soc.2785

German (Evang) Immigrant House

.2777

and Seaman's Home.

German Orphan Asylum.

.2777

Board of Police Examiners. 2758

Board of Public Improvements. .2758 Board of Public Safety .2758

Board of Public Works. 2755

Board of School Commissioners. 2758

Board of State Aid and Charities .2754

Board of Trade of City of Baltimore. 2776

Engineers' Club ..

2774

2767 to 2773

.2760

2757

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German (R C) Union of Baltimore and Vicinity 2781

German Society of Maryland. .2781

Germania Club .. 2774

Germania Maennerchor. .2774

Govans Protective and Improvement Association 2785

Government of Maryland. 2754

Government of the United States.

2753

tion and Relief of Tuberculosis ... 2786

Maryland Association of Certified Pub-

Grand Army Club of Maryland. 2774

Grand Army of the Republic. 2781

Greater Northwestern Improvement

Association

2785

Maryland

Association

German

Gwynns Falls Improvement Assn. .2785 Masons .2786 Harbor Board. .2761 Maryland Association of Workers for the Blind. . .2786

Harlem Improvement Association of

West Baltimore.

Health

Department ..

2762

Hebrew

Benevolent Society

2781

Hebrew Education Society. 2785

Hebrew Free Burial Association .2785

Hebrew

Hospital and Asylum.

2777 and 2785

Hebrew Ladies' Orphan Aid Society . 2785

Hebrew Ladies' Sewing Society. 2789

Hebrew Orphan Asylum. 2777

Henry Watson Children's Aid Society . 2785

Holman Association ..

2785

Home for Confederate Mothers and Widows 2777

Home for Incurables of Baltimore .. 2777

Home of the Friendless of Baltimore. 2777

Homeopathic Medical and Surgical Club of Balto. 2774

Homestead League and Improvement

Association 2785 the Mechanics Arts .. 2760

Hospital for Consumptives of Mary-

land

.2778

Hospital for the Women of Mary- land

2778 Hospitals, Home, Asylums, Etc. 2777 to 2779

House of Reformation for Colored

Boys 2778

Hydrophobia Treatment. 1581

Improved Order of Heptasophs 2791

Improved Order of Red Men .. 2791

Independent Order of Mechanics. 2791

Independent Order of Odd Fellows .. 2 2791 INDEX TO ADVERTISE-

MENTS .. 18

Indigent Sick Society 2785

Industrial Commission. 2762

Industrial Home for Colored Girls .. 2778

Inspector

Buildings.

2762

Inspectors

of Weights

and

Liquid

Measures

2761

Instructive Visiting Nurses' Assn. . .. 2785

INTRODUCTORY

Isaac R Trimble Camp No 1025 (U C V) 2781

Jail Board. 2762

James R Herbert Camp No 657 (U C V)

2781 Jobbing Confectioners' Association. .. 2785 Jewish Home for Consumptives ... .2778

Johns Hopkins Colored Orphan Asy- lum 2778

Johns Hopkins Graduate Club 2775

Johns Hopkins Hospital and Dispen- sary 2756 and 2757

Judicial Circuits

Junior O U A M. 2792

Juvenile Court. 2757

Kelso Home for Orphan Children 2778 Knights of Honor. 2799

Knights of Pythias. 2.92 Knights of the Golden Eagle. 2792

Knights of the Maccabees. 27.2

Ladies' Branch Bible Society 2746

Lafayette Wheelmen's Club. .

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Baltimore city directory for the year commencing 1912, Part 1

Author: R.L. Polk & Co Publication date: 1905 Publisher: Baltimore : R.L. Polk & Co. Number of Pages: 2678

Author: R.L. Polk & Co
Publication date: 1905
Publisher: Baltimore : R.L. Polk & Co.
Number of Pages: 2678