Baltimore city directory for the year commencing 1921, Part 1

Author: R.L. Polk & Co
Publication date: 1905
Publisher: Baltimore : R.L. Polk & Co.
Number of Pages: 2560

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INTRODUCTION

The 1921 edition of the Baltimore City Directory is herewith presented.

The several features of the work which have given such satisfaction to patrons in former issues, have been retained, while several have been amplified and im- proved, as suggested by experience.

The statistics presented in this Introduction are impressive as indicating the wealth, industry and culture of the city and of the territory of which Baltimore is the center.

The several essential departments of the work are compiled in the order fol- lowing :

The MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT, covering pages 22 to 23, em- braces data concerning the city executive, health, police, fire, educational, parks water works and other departments, Federal and State officials, churches, schools (public and private), the post offices, courts, consulates, clubs, hospitals, associa- tions, fraternal and benevolent organizations, etc.

The STREET AND AVENUE GUIDE is contained in pages 59 to 92. ,

The BUYERS' GUIDE. This is a new feature in this Directory and occupies pages 93 to 284, printed on tined paper. In the Guide will be found classified according to lines of business and the professions attractive display advertisements and business cards of those engaged in the various industries and professions. If those making use of the information contained in the Buyers' Guide would only state the source of their information every business man in the city would soon come to a realization of the importance of his business or that of his firm or com- pany not only having proper representation in the Buyers' Guide, but also of being properly registered under all headings covering his lines of business in the Classi- fied Business Directory. "The Directory is the Common Intermediary between Buyer and Seller."

The ALPHABETICAL LIST OF NAMES of citizens, firms, corporations, institutions, and full information respecting them, is included in pages 285 to 2220. Information concerning names and changes of addresses received too late for proper arrangement are printed on page 19.

The CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY, occupies pages 2221 to 2545, and exhibits the various manufacturing mercantile and professional names compiled under headings appropriate to the class of industry or profession followed.

The INDEX TO CONTENTS and INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS will be found on pages 20 and 21.

BALTIMORE

A CITY OF UNSURPASSED ADVANTAGES AND OPPORTUNITIES; A LEADING INDUSTRIAL, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL CENTER.

Baltimore is located on the Patapsco river a tributary of the famous Chesa- peake Bay and midway of the Atlantic Coast; on a meridian of longitude west of New York and Philadelphia ; in a zone of moderate climatic changes ; close enough to the North to absorb its enterprising way; close enough to the South to be part and parcel of the best phases of its life. It is a seaport city with wonderful inland transportation connections and abundant water advantages for trade, beauty, pleas- ure and water sports. No city is better blessed with all the elements for delightful living. Baltimore is less than 40 miles from Washington the Nation's capital.

It possesses advantages not surpassed by any city in the country. Its climate approaches that of Southern California. Its proximity to the markets of the Mid- dle 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 absolutely without

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a rival. It has abundant labor, with strike tendencies at a minimum. It has nearby sources of fuel and raw material. It has a splendid and spacious 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, in the matter of its physical construc- tion, it has lovely homes, beautiful parks, fine paved streets, splendid churches, ex- cellent educational institutions, world-famous hospitals and a high standard of cul- ture and morality.

Since the disastrous fire of 1904 over $200,000,000 have been expended in con- struction of substantial business blocks and "skyscrapers." Baltimore is a credit to her citizenry and to the American nation. Its many miles of smooth streets, its fine filtered water, its model sewer system, its excellent fire department, its modern public schools, its high general average of municipal cleanliness-all tend to make it a city of pronounced wholesomeness and desirability.

It is generally admitted that Baltimore has one of the best and most efficient street car services in the United States. The mileage is widespread ; the cars are commodious and comfortable; the schedules are convenient ; the speed is fast ; the free transfers are generous and the management is excellent.

BANKING FACILITIES OF THE CITY

Baltimore is amply provided with banking facilities to care for its new and expanding industries. A summary of statements issued January 1, 1921, by fifty- seven Baltimore banks and trust companies (exclusive of the private banking firms) shows aggregate resources of $482,455,000 and deposits amounting to $466,- 000,000. In these figures are included fifteen mutual savings banks with deposits totaling nearly $118,000,000 and representing about 260,000 open accounts on this same date. In addition to the savings banks and to the savings departments of other banks, there are over 600 building and loan associations, complete statistics about which are unavailable.

Bank clearings indicate, perhaps, better than any other one general figure, the volume of business carried on in a city, and the increases from year to year gauge even more effectively the city's growth. With this in mind it is interesting to note that in 1920 Baltimore was the eleventh City of the country in bank clearings with a total of $4,896,046,571. No other large industrial city during the last two years has shown as great an increase. 1

Baltimore's steady gains in bank resources and clearings for the past six years are shown as follows :

Date

Total resources

Bank Clearings

Year

Jan. 1, 1916

$334,369,000

$1,833,648,997

1915

Jan. 1, 1917

360,071,000

2,206,338,952

1916

Jan. 1, 1918

401,830,000

2,266,071,013

1917

Jan. 1, 1919

428,889,000

3,355,602,544

1918

Jan. 1, 1920

522,783,000

4,343,446,572

1919

Jan. 1, 192I

482,455,000

4,896,046,381

1920

THE CHESAPEAKE BAY

Baltimore and the State of Maryland have in the Chesapeake Bay, one of the best, if not the best, medium for advertising, as they are known throughout the West from the products of the Chesapeake. It has been called the "Mother of Waters" and its tides are most remarkable.

The distance from the capes at the mouth of the Bay to Betterton, Kent County. at the mouth of the Sassafras River, is about 158 miles, and when it is high tide at the capes it is also high tide near Betterton, with one low tide betwen them. When it is low tide at each place, one high tide is found midway between them. .

It is the world's finest inland sea and it yields more food than any body of water of its size in the world. It is a bay that is growing richer all the time. Daily the tides bring down tons of soil from the miles of rivers and creeks and the changes are continuous. Thus the Chesapeake tides are full of nutriment for the vast life that is found under its surface, and that becomes food for the millions of America.

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FIRE PROTECTION SYSTEM

High-pressure pipe line extends over an area of 170 acres, completed in 1912, at a cost of $1,000,000. The last published record gives 226 hydrants, 40 hose and engines companies, 19 hook-and-ladder companies, two fire boats, two water towers, two auto hose companies for high-pressure pipe line service and 862 men. The high-pressure system is able to throw powerful streams over the highest buildings in the city.

The Department generally is considered to be one of the finest in the country.

GRAIN ELEVATOR 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 Baltimore elevators of the three railroad systems operating here is 10,000,000 bushels.

THE HARBOR

Baltimore possesses one of the finest harbors in the United States, with large anchorage areas. The harbor is well protected against storms and is never closed except during brief periods of exceptionally cold weather. It is a harbor with a wonderfully fine record as to the small number of accidents.

The harbor proper lies about 150 nautical miles from the Capes, where the Chesapeake Bay enters the Atlantic Ocean. It is 14 miles from the mouth of the Patapsco River, where the Bay and the river meet, to the center of the city. Pass- ing up the Patapsco one enters a commodious land-locked harbor, dredged to 35 feet, which is exceeded by only six other ports in the world. It has a mean tidal range of only 14 inches. The ship channel leading to the harbor is 600 feet wide and 35 feet deep.

Baltimore has spent $21,000,000 on her harbor, which has an up-to-date dock system and water deep enough to accommodate the largest ships in the world. At the last session of the Legislature an enabling act was passed permitting the city to float a loan of $52,500,000 to make the harbor what it should be in order to handle Baltimore's fast growing trade, and at the election in November, 1920, the people practically unanimously approved an ordinance to float $12,500,000 of this loan at once.

There are 6 miles of municipal wharfage front, 32 miles of private wharfage, I0 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 dock companies; industrial concerns occupy 19 miles of water front. There are many miles of additional water front available at reasonable prices.

INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS, OR "BEEHIVES"

An interesting feature of Baltimore's development is its two great industrial buildings, where space is rented and heat, light and power supplied to a great number of manufacturers. Each of these structures is a manufacturing city in itself. The larger one covers an entire block. The service can be had on terms and conditions attractive even to infant enterprises.

JOBBING AND WHOLESALE MARKET

Baltimore has long been recognized as one of the largest and most satisfactory wholesale and jobbing markets in the country. Its jobbing houses are of a miscel- laneous type, and the method of doing business in Baltimore has always assured to buyers a maximum of results for a minimum of costs.

Under the guidance of the Merchants and Manufacturers' Association, which has a practice of paying the traveling costs to merchants who buy a stipulated total of goods in this city, a vast jobbing trade has been developed and is on the constant and encouraging increase.

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Last year the Chesapeake supplied 4,666,211 bushels of oysters, an increase of a million bushels over the previous year. The Bay is the most extensive and prolific oyster territory in the world. It has 640,000 acres of rich oyster bottoms. In the season 50 to 60 cars of oysters a day are sent inland, besides the oysters the Bay supplies crabs, terrapin and fish in great variety.

With a ship canal at its head and its other canals leading south to the Gulf of Mexico, the Chesapeake is entering a new feature as a great highway of trade. Soon it will have the largest steel mill and the greatest ship yards in the world. Today more than 6,000 boats float upon its surface and you might put in it the State of Rhode Island without disturbing navigation.

There are various lines of modern steamboat service plying between Balti- more and the numerous ports and private wharves on the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries, as well as between Baltimore and Washington, Norfolk, Rich- mond and Philadelphia.

Over four thousand officially documented vessels are engaged in the Bay traf- fic, and practically all of them trade at Baltimore.

CLIMATE

Baltimore's health conditions are good because of favorable climatic condi- tions. The swings of temperature are neither wide nor disturbing. The mean annual temperature is 55.3 degrees; spring, 53-3; summer, 75.1; autumn, 57.5; winter, 35.0. The summers of Maryland are warm, and hence similar to those in other good agricultural sections of the United States. The winters are milder than in most of the Northern States, and this gives an unusually long growing season, or about 200 days between the last killing frost of spring and the first killing frost of autumn, around Baltimore.

Baltimore has an average annual precipitation of 42.68 inches, which about represents the State average, as compared to 31.5 inches in Iowa, 36.5 in Illinois, 39 in Missouri and 38 in Ohio. Meterologists and agriculturists agree that in sec- tions without irrigation the annual precipitation should usually fall between 25 and 50 inches for the best results; also that precipitation must be well distributed through the crop season, as in Maryland.

"Winter sunshine" in Baltimore is an especially climatic feature. It equals or exceeds the winter sunshine of most Northern sections of the United States, and is about double that of many sections of the Lake Region. The annual sunshine at Baltimore is 58 per cent of the possible amount.

DRY DOCKS AND MARINE RAILWAYS

A floating dock, twelve marine railways and three dry docks, the largest of which is 628 feet long and 125 feet wide, are located at this port.

EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES AND ACTIVITIES

As an educational center Baltimore possesses no slight claim to distinction. Were the city the site of the Johns Hopkins University alone its fame would be established. The post graduate departments of the Hopkins are known the world over, and the Medical School and hospital are renowned in European centers as they are in the United States. The Johns Hopkins established the first Biological Laboratory and here experimental psychology was born. It has led the way for twenty-five years in medical science. Its diploma ranks today with that of any university in the world. Some of the world's most eminent specialists are asso- ciated with the institution. There are many other hospitals, 52 all told, 13 of them are leaders.

The University of Maryland is located here and is the oldest medical college in the United States. It has a Law Department. The Baltimore College of Dental Surgery is the oldest of its kind in the world. The city has 243 educational insti- tutions in all. The public school system is a model one.

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Baltimore's jobbing houses are classed as among the best and most reliable in the United States.

The annual value of the jobbing business, exclusive of the commission busi- ness, is more than $250,000,000. There are more than 1,000 wholesale and jobbing houses in Baltimore.

LIGHT AND POWER SERVICE

Hydro-electric power at Holtwood (formerly McCalls Ferry, Pa.) on the Sus- quehanna River, 40 miles from Baltimore, an ultimate 120,000-horsepower capac- ity plant, serving with light and power an area of 270 square miles, Baltimore the local point. From the great hydro-electric plant of the Pennsylvania Water and Power Company electricity is transmitted to Baltimore, 40 miles away, on a double transmission line. This power is distributed by the Consolidated Gas Electric Light and Power Company.

MANUFACTURING CENTER

Baltimore is a big and important industrial center. Its industries are varied. General distress seldom afflicts its people. Manufacturing is so miscellaneous in its character that depression in any one line does not spread itself far afield. This wide diversity of manufacturing is evidenced by the following list of leading in- dustries. This list includes those lines which are notably active here in large measure :

Iron and steel in various forms, steel rails, car wheels, shipbuilding, clothing, including men's and boys' clothing and general underwear, tin and sheet iron prod- ucts, black sheets, canned goods, including meats, vegetables and sea food, tin cans, chemicals and acids, including fertilizers, sugar refining, slaughtering and meat packing, tobacco, hats and caps, cotton duck and print goods, enameled ware, shirts and overalls, ladies' apparel, millinery and lace goods, copper smelting, copper pigs, rods, sheets, tubes, oil refining, olive oil refining, commercial alcohol, umbrellas, drugs and preparations, licorice, paints and varnishes, bakery products, candy and confectionery, hardwoods, machinery, spices, structural iron, shoes, bricks, belting, harness and saddlery, furniture, talking machine cabinets, bottles and glassware, cotton and burlap bags, stone and monument works, mattress and spring beds, aeroplane propellers, veneering, etc.

With more than 150,000 operatives engaged in industrial work, the output of the factories (including over 2,000 different articles) approximates a billion dol- lars a year.

Manufacturers realize that Baltimore's strategical position for railroad distri- bution, her nearness to raw material centers, her easy access to the sources of fuel and her wonderful facilities for overseas trade give her an industrial advantage which no American city can surpass.

There are in Baltimore over 2,600 manufacturing plants.

BALTIMORE MARKETS ARE A REAL INSTITUTION

The markets of Baltimore are a nationally famous institution. There are IO of these markets owned and controlled by the city. The Lexington Market is the most famous, and until a few years ago was unique not only in the cities of the United States but in the cities of the world. The most modern is Centre Market, constructed after the fire of 1904 at a cost of over $500,000, and extends for three blocks. There are two halls, one used by the night classes of the Maryland In- stitute, and another over the produce section capable of seating 2,500 persons. The fish market of Centre is the most complete in the world.

Baltimore may easily claim the distinction of being the original market city.

EXCEPTIONALLY FINE PARK SYSTEM

Baltimore's splendid park system, connected by an expansive system of hand- some boulevards, is second to none in the United States. Druid Hill Park is both big and beautiful. Patterson Park is a great athletic center. Gwynn's Falls Park presents a rugged scenery suggestive of the presence of rocks and mountains. All the sports thrive. One of the best municipal golf courses in the East is at Clifton Park. Playgrounds are plentiful and helpful in their influence.

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PIERS AND WAREHOUSES

Baltimore harbor comprises 127 miles of deep water frontage, 45 miles of which are developed with water-front warehouse space of 1,081,775 square feet, covered pier space of 1,409,126 square feet, open pier space of 998,104 square feet and a terminal storage capacity of 1,909,920 square feet, together with the most modern accommodations for the handling of grain, coal, oil, sulphur, fertilizer and other specialized shipments.

The municipal government is equipped to finance the construction of up-to- date piers, with the latest machinery and facilities, and to offer the same for lease to shipping companies or others interested in foreign trade operations.

Baltimore's facilities for the handling of bulk grain cargoes consist of seven modern elevators with a total capacity of 10,000,000 bushels, the port having in the new 5,000,000-bushel elevator of the Pennsylvania Railroad the largest plant of its kind in existence.

POLICE DEPARTMENT

This department, efficiently organized, number, all told, 1, 185, several of whom are policewomen. One of the most valuable "arms" is the "Traffic Squad," made up of specially picked men, and stationed at the street intersections which are most crowded. The department also includes mounted and motorcycle police, motor patrol wagons and a harbor patrol equipped with the police boat "Lannan." The affairs of the department are administered by a Commissioner of Police ap- pointed by the Governor.

The control of the department is in the hands of the State, though the money for its maintenance and operation is supplied by the city.

POPULATION

Baltimore's population, according to the official Federal census for 1920, is 734,205, showing a gain of 175,710 since the census of 1910, or an increase of 31.46 per cent. This is a larger percentage of gain than has been shown in the last 100 years with the exception of the period between 1840 and 1850, when the percent- age of gain was 65.2.

The figures for the past eight decades show as follows: 1850, 169,054; 1860, 212,418; 1870, 267,354; 1880, 332,313; 1890, 434,439 ; 1900, 508,957; 1910, 558,485, and 1920, 734,205.

PORT ACTIVITIES

The trade of the port can best be displayed by comparative statistics of the United States Department of Commerce showing the extent and volume of the overseas trade of the port of Baltimore.

1915.

Imports. $24,882,898

Exports. $131,978,498

1916.

27,808,916

180,703,374

1917.

43,962,790

374,044,12I

1918

29,115,693

336,079,033

1919.

38,900,438

353,713,139

1920.

55,884,508

338,909,088

Entrances.

Clearances.

Vessels.

Tons.

Vessels.

Tons.

1915

990

2,043,259

1,082

2,162,597

1916

1,14I

2,528,162

1,147

2,417,517

1917.

1,130

2,665,279

1,102

2,406,769

1918.

698

1,797,57I

626

1,575,730

1919.

789

1,984,099

1,086

2,634,925

The port collections for 1920 were $2,081,101.31 as against $1,247,012 for 1919.

PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS

In the election of November 2, 1920, the citizens, now composed of both males and females as voters, voted for loans amounting to $51,750,000, divided ito four separate items : The public improvement loan, $26,000,000; the water supply loan, $15,000,000; the port development loan, $10,000,000, and the municipal hos- pital loan, $750,000. These loans were carried by an overwhelming majority.

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Baltimore city directory for the year commencing 1921, Part 1

Author: R.L. Polk & Co Publication date: 1905 Publisher: Baltimore : R.L. Polk & Co. Number of Pages: 2560

Author: R.L. Polk & Co
Publication date: 1905
Publisher: Baltimore : R.L. Polk & Co.
Number of Pages: 2560