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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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INTRODUCTION
The 1918-19 edition of the Baltimore City Directory is herewith presented. MISCELLANEOUS .- Pages 21 to 63 include a variety of miscella- neous information, embracing the names of Federal and State officials, the city executive, health, police, fire, educational, parks, water-works and other departments, churches, schools (public and private), the postoffice, courts, consulates, hospitals, clubs, associations, fraternal, benevolent organi- zations, etc.
ALPHABETICAL .- The Directory contains 2731 pages. The alphabet- ical directory of names begins at page 251 and ends at page 2238. Names and changes of address received too late for regular insertion are printed on pages 19 and 20.
CLASSIFIED .- The Classified Business Directory is embraced in pages 2241 to 2728.
STREET AND AVENUE GUIDE extends from page 66 to 105.
THE GENERAL INDEX AND INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS will be found on pages 11 to 18.
Every effort has been put forth to produce a Directory that will meet the requirements of business men and the public in general; many new features and valuable innovations have been introduced and no expense has been spared in making the work as accurate and complete as possible.
The information for business houses shows definitely whether the business is carried on by an individual, a co-partnership, corporation or by a foreign house through an agent, all of which is of vital interest to the community.
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BALTIMORE.
THE COMMERCIAL STRATEGIC POINT ON THE ATLANTIC COAST.
It is common knowledge that Baltimore possesses advantages not sur- passed by any city in the country. As a residence city it is more than ordi- narily attractive. Its climate approaches that of Southern California. Its proximity to the markets of the Middle West and South, with exceptionally low freight rates, put it in a position to defy competition. As a place for a varied line of factories it is utterly without rival. It has abundant labor, with strike tendencies at a minimum. It has nearby sources of fuel and raw material. It has a perfect harbor, with deep water, fine channel and modern terminals. It has a combination of railroad systems, with freight rates, West and South, lower than any other Atlantic seaport. It is closer to the east and west coast of South America and the Panama Canal than any Atlantic or Pacific seacoast city. And, finally, in the matter of its physical construction, it has lovely homes, beautiful parks, fine paved streets, splen- did churches, handsome educational institutions, world-famous hospitals and a high standard of culture, decency and morality.
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her people; she is a credit to the American nation. Her many miles of smooth street, her fine filtered water, her model sewer system, her excellent fire department, her improving public schools, her high general average of municipal cleanliness-all tend to make her a city of pronounced desirability.
New York alone excepted, Baltimore has as good hotel accommodations as any city in the country.
The street-car system of Baltimore is probably unsurpassed in America. Its finely equipped cars and a service which railroad men admit to be with- out a peer will afford accommodations to thousands to enjoy trolley rides along the historic Chesapeake Bay and into the picturesque suburbs, with their numerous places of amusement, where summer opera, high-class attractions and fine music can be had at small cost.
THE HARBOR.
. Baltimore may well boast of her beautiful harbor, whose salient features are unsurpassed. The channel leading from Baltimore is 35 feet deep and 600 feet wide. Baltimore is on the Patapsco River, a tributary of Chesa- peake Bay, and is about 150 nautical miles from the Capes, where Chesa- peake Bay enters the Atlantic Ocean, and is 14 miles from the mouth of the Patapsco River. The mean average tide is but 12 inches. There are 6 miles of municipal wharfage front, 32 miles of private wharfage, 10 miles of which are occupied by railroad piers and docks; there are also 1.4 miles of oceanic steamship docks; there are 2 miles of fine terminals controlled by wharf and docks companies; industrial concerns occupy 19 miles of water- front. There are many miles of additional waterfront available at reason- able prices. There are at least 10 feet of water in the immediate environs of Baltimore Harbor. A uniform depth of 35 feet is maintained up to the piers provided for trans-Atlantic steamships. The harbor affords every facility for anchorage and dockage, of loading and unloading, to all manner of craft, from the far-famed Chesapeake Bay oyster pungy to the leviathan Atlantic liner.
RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION.
Baltimore is the home of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Its administra- tive offices are here. Its tracks practically engirdle the city. Its freight facilities are second to none in the country, and it reaches out with connec- tions in every possible direction.
Two of the most important divisions of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com- pany converge in Baltimore and make it easy to ship to any possible point covered by the entire Pennsylvania system. The company maintains division offices and extensive terminals in Baltimore. Its numerous export and domestic elevators, storage warehouses and terminals are of the usual excel- lent type. A number of modern piers afford every facility for the trans- shipment of the company's traffc North, East, South and West.
Baltimore is the main terminus of the Western Maryland Railroad, which is closely affiliated with the great New York Central system.
The Maryland & Pennsylvania Railroad has 78 miles of trackage through the very rich farming country of Baltimore and Harford counties in Mary- land and York county in Pennsylvania.
All railroad and steamboat companies have advantageous traffic arrange- ments with the Atlantic Coast Line and Southern Railway, the Chesapeake & Ohio, the Norfolk & Western and the Seaboard Air Line, making Balti- more the best distributing point in the United States for the large and rap- idly increasing Southern business.
Interurban .- The W., B. & A. Electric R. R. operates between the National Capital and Baltimore and between the State Capital and Balti- more.
The Maryland Electric Railways operates the Annapolis Short Line be- tween Baltimore and the State Capital. Its terminus at Baltimore is Camden Station.
Magnificent factory lots, with both water and railroad connections, are available. They are for sale or lease. There is a free lighterage zone along the waterfront for certain classifications of freight in carload lots, by virtue of which factories and other industries not actually on a railroad line can enjoy the advantages of railroad connections.
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THE BANKS.
Baltimore has numerous banks and trust companies. The financial leaders have caught the step of twentieth-century progress and are ready to do their part in promoting the future development of industrial Baltimore. It has the best and biggest bonding companies in the world.
WHOLESALE BUSINESS.
The business field of Baltimore is broad, because this city is one of the greatest miscellaneous jobbing centres in America. Baltimore has a national reputation for selling more goods for the price paid than almost any other big wholesale market in the United States. Merchants come here because they know, from experience, that this is the place to get the best goods; and they also know that this is the place to get the best goods for the least money.
INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS.
Baltimore has a series of splendid "Industrial" or "Beehive" buildings, where heat, light, power and space in proportion to the large or small needs of any and all kinds of industries can be had on terms and conditions attractive even to the infant enterprises.
ELEVATOR STORAGE CAPACITY.
The splendid outlook for this city in the matter of a very large increase in the volume of trans-Atlantic and South American shipping mean that many additional millions of bushels of grain are certain to come here from the West and Canada for purposes of export. Hence the coming demand for greater elevator service. The total grain-storage capacity of the Balti- more elevators of the three railroad systems operating here is 8,600,000 bushels. This storage capacity is distributed as follows:
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad-3 elevators. 2,750,000 bushels
Pennsylvania Railroad-3 elevators. 3,750,000
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WAREHOUSES.
On the harbor front and elsewhere in the city are located spacious fire- proof storage warehouses having the most up-to-date equipment for loading and unloading elevators, heating and refrigerating plants, etc.
Certain warehouse receipts issued by storage warehouse companies are negotiable through Baltimore banking institutions.
DRY DOCKS AND MARINE RAILWAYS.
A floating dock, 12 marine railways and 3 dry docks, the largest of which is 628 feet long and 125 feet wide, are located at this port.
OCEAN AND COAST LINE STEAMSHIPS AND SAILING CRAFT.
There are 19 steamship lines here regularly engaged in trans-Atlantic and other foreign trade, while many tramp steamers and sailing vessels make Baltimore a rendezvous.
Local companies operate steamers in the Chesapeake Bay and coastwise trade. Hundreds of sailing and motor vessels are owned and operated in the vicinity of this port.
TRADE OF CHESAPEAKE BAY.
There are various lines of modern steamboat service plying between Bal- timore and the numerous ports and private wharves on the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries, as well as between Baltimore and Washington, Norfolk, Richmond and Philadelphia.
About four thousand officially documented vessels are engaged in the Bay traffic, and practically all of them trade at Baltimore.
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INTERESTING ITEMS ABOUT BALTIMORE.
It was in Baltimore that the-
First patent for a locomotive was secured.
First steam engine, for traction purposes, was operated.
First steam vessel entirely of iron was constructed.
First to construct the famous full-rigged ships known as the "Baltimore Clippers."
First iron building was erected.
It was in Baltimore that the --
First American armor plate was made.
First bonding security business was started, and Baltimore is still the leader in that field.
First submarine ever launched, known as "Winans' Cigar Boat," was built.
First Peruvian guano was imported.
First umbrella factory was established, which is still operating.
First plan of dairy lunchrooms, now known all over the country as the "Baltimore Dairy Lunch," was put in operation.
It was in Baltimore that the-
First private bank in America was established.
First electric railroad tunnel in the United States was constructed by the B. & O. R. R. from Camden to Mt. Royal Stations. Conse- quently it was the first to use electric locomotives through tunnel. First city in the Union to erect a monument to Columbus.
First city to introduce a polytechnic school in its public school system. It was in Baltimore that the-
First national bank to keep open day and night began operations.
First trunk-line system in the United States ran from Baltimore to Wheeling, W. Va.
First city to manufacture metallic pens.
First revolving printing press was put in operation.
First steam vessel to cross the Atlantic left this port.
Baltimore was the-
First city in the United States to operate a municipal band, where the band renders popular concerts during the summer at convenient junctions of important streets in various parts of the city.
First city to provide music for street dancing, whereby the young and old, during the summer months, can enjoy dancing on the surface of the specially prepared highways.
First city to inaugurate a municipal symphony orchestra, so operated as to enable music lovers to enjoy the best of music at a nominal cost.
First city to adopt a specially composed municipal song set to specially composed music.
BALTIMORE produced "The Star-Spangled Banner," our national anthem. Francis Scott Key caught the inspiration while watching the bombard- ment of Fort McHenry, September 14, 1814. The first copy of the song was printed in Baltimore and the first musical rendition of the song was in a Baltimore theatre.
BALTIMORE is the first city in which a national convention was held for the nomination of a President and Vice-President. This was in 1831. The following are the successful candidates for the Presidency who have secured their nomination in Baltimore: Jackson, Van Buren, Polk, Taylor, Pierce, Lincoln and Wilson.
BALTIMORE is the shortest roue to Southern Europe and Africa.
BALTIMORE is closer than any other big Atlantic seaport to Cuba, Jamaica and South American cities on the East coast.
BALTIMORE is 470 miles closer than San Francisco to the city of Valpa- raiso, Chile, the chief seaport on the West coast of South America.
BALTIMORE, as a distributing centre, is closer to the South and the Great Middle West than any other Atlantic seaport.
In every commercial community there are organizations of business and professional men whose foremost ambition is to promote the natural advan- tages of the city to their highest stage of development and in advancing the civic ideals of the city. Their mission and aim is to foster legitimate busi- ness enterpirse and to extend the sphere of commercial and social influence;
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they are imbued with a spirit of progress, and their foremost thought is for the prosperity of the civic community. Such organizations are the Mer- chants and Manufacturers' Association and the Chamber of Commerce. Their committees are giving constant attention to important civic affairs, and to their collective effort is due the present advanced position of Balti- more commercially and industrially.
STATISTICAL FACTS ABOUT BALTIMORE
Population, 558,000 (Census of 1910). Estimated for 1919, 700,000.
Area-97 square miles land and water, or 82 1-10 square miles of land only.
Altitude-460 feet (at highest point) above tidewater.
Assessed valuation-$915,433,444.
Bonded debt-$94,209,579.50 gross; $43,613,445.43 (January 1, 1918).
Tax rate-$2.01 (no country tax).
Miles of streets-444; 142 of alleys.
Miles of paving-319; 65 of alleys.
Miles of public sewers-864.
Miles of electric street railways-414.
Gas mains laid-777 miles.
Parks and parkways, number of-65; number of acres, 2,295; value, $7,242,192.
Water-works-Capacity, 4,000,000,000 storage gallons; daily average number of gallons pumped, 98,000,000 (filtered) ; miles of water mains, 845; value of plant, $12,927,000 (owned by city) ; value of mains, $6,700,000.
Fire Department-Number of men, 510; station houses, 40; horses, 97; automobiles, 49; engines, 45; water towers, 2; hook and ladder trucks, 23; fireboats, 2; high-pressure companies, 2; value of buildings and lots, $1,057,- 122; value of apparatus, $2,110,315.
Police Department-Number of men, 1,145; number of stations, 8.
Public Schools-Number of schools, 112; 3 high schools, 1 City College, 1 Polytechnic Institute, 2 teachers' training schools; number of teachers, 2,002; number of pupils, 81,169; value of buildings and lots, $7,284,569.66.
Schools, parochial and diocesan-97.
Schools, miscellaneous-92.
Number of books in public library-346,104.
Postoffice Receipts 1917-$3,338,594.63.
Exports 1917-$377,623,300.
Imports 1917-$29,005,046.
Number of banks and banking houses-61.
Bank clearings 1917-$2,266,071,038.
Number of theatres and vaudeville houses-114.
Number of hospitals-30.
Number of hotels-95, large and small.
Manufacturing-Number of factories, 2,587; number of operatives, 114,- 912; wages paid annually, $168,589,412 (1917) ; values of annual output, $612,047,000 (1917).
The publishers take this opportunity of thanking the Merchants and Manufacturers' Association and the citizens for the valuable assistance ren- dered in the way of furnishing information concerning themselves and their business for this Directory; also the public-spirited and progressive business and professional men for the support given in the way of patronage.
R. L. POLK & CO. OF BALTIMORE, Publishers.
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BALTIMORE DIRECTORY-1918-1919.
INDEX TO CONTENTS
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ABBREVIATIONS 251
Advertising Club of Baltimore. 41
Aged Men's Home. 45
Board of Municipal Engineers 26
Aged Women's Home ..
American Association for Study and
Prevention of Infant Mortality .... 49 American Bar Association. 50
American National Red Cross, Balti- more Chapter
51
Board of Public Works. 23
Board of School Commissioners 26
Board of State Aid and Charities. 22
Board of Trade of City of Baltimore.
41
Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of The Mystic Shrine ..
61
Boy Scouts of America 41
Boys' Home Society.
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