Woods' Baltimore city directory (1873), Part 1

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BALTIMORE COAL TAR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, 68 8 Charles Street, GRAVEL ROOFING AND CELLAR PAVING.

GEGAN BRO'S & ALLMAND, 73 AND 75 8-020 2 EDWARD T. DIE19 3 FIRE LIFE & MARINE INSURANCE, 80 05 - 3

WM. KNABE & CO. Piano Fortes and Organs, WAREROOMS :

No. 350 W. BALTIMORE STREET,

VETAW STREET.

New York Life Insurance Co GEO. L. RICHARDSON. Cen'1 Agent for Maryland. PURELY MUTUAL DIVIDENDS ANNUALLY OFFICE, No. 28 South Street, FIRE INSURANCE PLACED IN FIRST-CLASS COMPANIES.

FIRE INSURANCE ! ROYAL JINSURANCE CO. CAPITAL 10,000,000. J. J. JACKSON. Gen'l Agent, No. 8 SOUTH STREET.

GEO. B. COALE & MORRIS, Wice & Marine Jusurune No. 58 EXCHANGE PLACE

HARTFORD FILE INAURANCE CO HOME INSURANCE CO .. NOW York, - OBYD BRITISH ADD MERCANTILE IN3. CO., AN 0414,005.000 MERCIANTH MUTUAL MARINE INSURANCE CO., OF 9.LIM9.

MALTO BUILDING

WOODWARD BROTHERS FIRE, LIFE AND MARINE INSURANCE.

FIRE INSURANCE!

J. G. PROUD & SONS, 21 SOUTH STREET.

INCORPORATED

ÆTNA

CASH CAPITAL $3.000,000 00

1819.

ASSETS

CO.

Losses Paid iu 53 Years.

$5,500,000 00

HART FORD, CONN.

$35,000,000 00

They all represent with full power the following Companies.

National Fire Ins. Co. of Hartford, Assets

742,166 08

Springfield Fire Ins. Co. of Mass .. 66 1,070,742 01

Germania New York, Assets 1.303,101 25

BALTIMORE RETORT FIRE BRICK WORKS.

GEO. C. HICKS & CO. Office, No. 4 S. Holliday St MANUFACTORY, LOCUST POINT, Clay Retorts for Gas Works, SUGAR REFINERIES, &c. TILES OF ALL SHAPES AND SIZES. FIRE PROOF BRICK OF ALL PATTERNS Fire Mortar, Ground Fire Clay, FIRE CEMENT. STOTE LININGS, Vitrified Steam-pressed Drain and Sewer Pipe,

INSURANCE

JAMES BATES, PATENTEE OF THE

SAFETY ELEVATOR

AND

LABOR-SAVING Machine

Patented April 18th, 1871.

For Warehouses, Factories, Stores, Hotels, Hospitals and every place where Merchandise, &c., is trans- ferred from one story to another, There are hundreds of them op- erating in different cities and towns. Send for circulars containing names, and price list.

JAMESDATES DENF S

IRON

JIB

FOUNDRY

BEST AND

CHEAPEST HOISTING

Machine,

ON STRICTLY

Scientific Principles

FOR

Warehouses.

JAS. BATES, Iron Foundry, COR. PRATT & PRESIDENT STS., BALT.

FIREMEN'S INSURANCE COMPANY

OF BALTIMORE. N. E. Cor. South & Second-sts.

This Company. Established nearly Half a Century, BACKED BY A LARGE CASH CAPITAL, INSURES WAREHOUSES and CONTENTS, DWELLINGS and FURNITURE, VESSELS and CARGOES, FACTORIES and MACHIN- ERY, MILLS, LUMBER, MERCHANDISE,

And all kinds of Goods subject to I oss or Damage by FIRE, in both Town and Country, on the most Favorable Terms.

Board of Directors :

Augustus J Albert, Frederick Achey,

James M Anderson. Samuel Hart, F. W. Bennett.

Herman J. Reitz,

John M Galt,

Henry R. Louderiuan,

James M. Jackson.

George J. Appold,

Jos. James Taylor,

Caleb Parks,

Thomas J. Wilson.

Joshua Dryden,

John G. Reaney, Austin Jenkins,

George Franck,

John T. C'ullimore.

George W. Flack, Mendes 1. Cohen,

James Lucas,

Win. H Stran.

William H. Brown, Gustavus Nicholson.

Hugh Bolton,

J. Alex. Shriver.

HENRY P. DUHURST, President.

J. MARSHALL WINCHESTER, Secretary.

BALTIMORE & OHIO R.R.

THE GREAT NATIONAL THROUGH ROUTE For all Points of the NORTHWEST WEST AND SOUTHWEST

Via BENWOOD and COLUMBUS, And CINCINNATI, and via PARKERSBURG and CINCINNATI, For CHICAGO, LOUISVILLE, ST. LOUIS, MEMPHIS. NEW ORLEANS, &c., &c.

BALTO. & OHIO R. R. EXPRESS FREIGHT LINE.

KA Bills of Lading by this Line, WITHOUT CHANGE OF CARS, 10 prominent points, will be furnished at the LOWEST RATES, at all Eastern Cities, to all Western, Southwestern und Northwestern Cities, including points on the Pacific Coast-Time prompt, and all claims promptly adjusted. For Rates and all other information, apply at

FREIGHT OFFICE, Camden Station, Baltimore.

William Simms.

1. G. Ramsay, James Myer.

Thomas W. Levering,

No. 5 N. SCHROEDER ST., BALTIMORE, MD.

MANUFACTURERS OF

Page's Inprobed Epatent portable

Circular

Mills

STATIONARY AND PORTABLE ENGINES AND BOILERS.

ALSO, GANG, MULAY AND SASH SAW MILLS; FLOUR MILL MACHINERY ; GRIST MILLS; TIMBER WHEELS; LATH AND SLAB MACHINERY; SAW GUMMERS; HORSE POWERS; SHAFTING, PULLEYS, &c.

Dealers in Henry Disston's, R. Hoe & Co's, and Emer- son's Patent Solid and Inserted Tooth Saw, and Mill Supplies generally.

Manufacturers' Agents for Low's, Evarts', and Drakes' Patent Shingle Machines, and every description of Wood Working Machinery.

DY Catalogue and Prices furnished on application. May The Red Line of City Cars, going west, pass within a few steps of our Establishment.

J.M.EHLERS ENG

ADVERTISEMENTS.

WM. J. COCHRAN.

E. W. ROBINSON.

BALTIMORE

CAR WHEEL CO.

CAR

BALTO

NOV 3 ra

HEEL

1568

COCHRAN'S

CORNER Essex and Concord Sts., Canton, BALTIMORE, MD.

MANUFACTURERS OF .

CAR WHEELS OF ALL KINDS AND SIZES,

Annealed by Cochran's Patent Annealing Process, warranted free from strain, and equal in tenacity and uniformity of chill to any Wheels made.

Wheels & Fitting guaranteed against Defects. CITY OFFICE,

172 W. PRATT ST., BALTIMORE.

NOAH WALKER. S. HAMILTON CAUGHEY. N. W. CAUGHEY.

Noth Walker

NOAH WALKER&CO.

NOAH WALKER&CO. |

CLOTH

TORSCH. SC. .

WASHINGTON BUILDINGS.

& 167 W. Baltimore St.

165

ADVERTISEMENTS.

BALTIMORE & SOUTHERN

team

ransportation

BALTIMORE TO WILMINGTON, N. C.

Composed of the following Steamships:

BOLIVAR, - Capt. Wm. Evans. LUCILLE, - Capt. D. J. Price.

R. CLYDE, - D. C. Childs. JAS. A. GARY, " Henry L. Hall.

SAILING FROM BALTIMORE EVERY FIVE DAYS, Connecting with the

GREAT ATLANTIC COAST LINE.

Through Bills Lading given to all points in North and South Carolina, and to points in Georgia and Alabama.

Freight received daily and properly cared for on Wharf and in Warehouse. Insurance effected in Good Companies at Low Rates.

The attention of Shippers is called to the LOW RATES, QUICK TIME, and great facilities offered by this Route. No Charges at Wilmington, and losses promptly paid.

For Through Rates, Classifications, Bills Lading and other information, Apply to ANDREWS & CO., General Agents,

Or to 73 Smith's Wharf. BALTIMORE

A. D. CAZAUX, Agent, WILMINGTON, N. C.

JAMES B. ANDREW'S,

AGENT

SAVANNAH STEAMERS,

73 Smith's Wharf & Foot of Long Dock, BALTIMORE.

ADVERTISEMENTS.

GAEHLE'S

tan

Manufacturing

OF THE CITY OF BALTIMORE, MD,

CHARTERED MARCH 29, 1864.

Gold

Medal.

Nos. 15, 17 and 19 N. EUTAW STREET.

THIS Company having been organized and chartered in April, 1864, in conjunction with the well known firm of GAEHLE & CO., as a Joint Stock Company, composed exclusively of practical Piano Makers, who have held prominent positions for many years, in some of the best Piano Forte Establishments in this coun- try and Europe, and having now one of the largest and most successful manufactories in operation, are able to furnish an instrument which,for durability and elegance of workmanship, volume and sweetness of tone, can find no > uperior.

In consequence of their organization, the Company is enabled to sell at lower prices than any other fac- tory in the country, giving at the same time a guarantee for five years, and the usual privilege of exchange.

Repairing and Tuning promptly attended to.

19The public is respectfully invited to give us a call before purchasing elsewhere.

WILLIAM WILKENS.

H. H. GRAUE.

WILLIAM WILKENS & CO. STEAM

Curled Hair

MANUFACTORY, 3002 W. PRATT STREET, DEPOT, NEW YORK, 217 PEARL STREET. BALTIMORE, MD,

DEALERS IN BRISTLES,

VARNISH, SPRINGS, TWINE, HAIR-CLOTH, BED-LACES, COWHIDES, GLUE, SAND PAPER, &c.

HA Constantly on hand the best qualities of PURE CURLED HORSE AND CAT- TLE HAIR; MIXED AND HOG HAIR.

All orders received through the Post Office or Agent will be promptly at- tended to. The highest prices paid for Cattle and Horse Tails and Hog Hair.

ADVERTISEMENTS.

BUY ONLY

THE GENUINE.

FAIRBANKS

STANDARD SCALES,

Weigh-Lock, R. R. Track, Depot, Hay, Coal, Dormant, Warehouse, Platform, Counter, Union, Family, Butchers', Druggists', Jewelers' and Bank Scales.

RECEIVED THE FIRST

PREMIUMS.

Two Medals.

JOD NO

FAIRBANKS

SCALES

PARIS

AT THE GREAT

PARIS

EXPOSITION.

And also Best Alarm Double Locking Money Drawers. FAIRBANKS & CO., 166 W. BALTIMORE ST.

MONUMENT IRON WORKS ! DENMEAD & SON, Cor. North & Monument Sts., Baltimore, MANUFACTURERS OF STATIONARY & PORTABLE Engines & Boilers, ALL SIZES, Also,

MACHINERY, FOR SAW AND FLOUR MILLS, Mines, Iron Furnaces, Portable Corn and Wheat Mills, Bark Mills, Extract Works, BRIDGES, SHAFTING, PULLEYS, &c.

PISINTEGRATORS FOR BONES. FERTILIZERS, PRES. & c.

ADVERTISEMENTS.

Through Fast Passenger & Freight Line

The POWHATAN STEAMBOAT CO.

Steamers Leave Pier No. 2, Light-St. Wharf, Daily, at 4 o'clock, P. M. For Richmond,

VIA RICHMOND & YORK RIVER RAIL ROAD MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS and FRIDAYS,

FOR CITY POINT, PETERSBURG & RICHMOND, VIA JAMES RIVER,

TUESDAY, THURSDAY and SATURDAY.

Connecting with the PETERSBURG AND WELDON R. R., AT PETERSBURG and RICHMOND AND DANVILLE R. R., and CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO R. R .. and the JAMES RIVER AND KANAWHA CANAL, at Richmond, FOR ALL POINTS SOUTH.

All Freight reaches Richmond on the Day after leaving here.

For information apply to R. FOSTER, Agent. Office 90 Light Street Whf.

J. H. PARKS,

Engraner an

UNION BANK

ROOM

BLOCK.

No. 3.

SOUTH-EAST CORNER OF

Charles and Fayette Streets, BALTIMORE, MD.

JO VIEWS OF BUILDINGS, MACHINERY, &c.

ADVERTISEMENTS.

WM. REISINGER.

JOHN C. REISINGER

WM. REISINGER & SON, Dealers in all kinds of NEW and SECOND HAND

Furniture, Stoves,

HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS, PAPER STOCK, METALS, &c. Nos. 1 and 3 Portland and 49 Columbia Sts. BALTIMORE.

Branch Store -- Cor. Church and Greene Streets, Annapolis, Md.

JACOB WEAVER UNDERTAKER IN GENERAL

COFFIN WARE-ROOMS NOS 4 & 6 DRUID HILL AVENUE, NEAR EUTAW ST., BALTIMORE, MD.

TAYLOR'S CORPSE PRESERVER.

Patented July 5, '70. Manufactured and for sale by JACOB WEAVER, 4 and 6 Druid Hill Ave. BALTIMORE, MD.

BUCKSKIN GLOVES & GAUNTLETS. Yarns, Hosiery, Gents' Furnishing Goods. &c., WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.

JACOB KNIPP, Jr. No. 33 NORTH HOWARD STREET, Between Fayette and Lexington, Lovejoy's Old Stand, BALTIMORE, MD.

MY DEALER IN UNDERSHIRTS AND DRAWERS, FOR GENTLEMEN'S, LADIES' AND CHILDREN'S WEAR.

Umbrellas, Canes, Neck Ties, Collars, Suspenders. Handkerchiefs, Worsteds, Canvass, Bows, Scarfs, Ma- chine Silk, Spool Cotton, Threads, Needles, Pins, Wool Jackets, Gum Cloth, Fancy Soaps, Corsets, Notions, &c., &c., &c.

JNO. H. HASKELL, 33 S. EUTAW STREET, BALTIMORE, MANUFACTURER OF Cotton and Wool Machine Cards, LEATHER BELTING AND HOSE, ALSO, A GENERAL SUPPLY OF MANUFACTURERS' ARTICLES ON HAND. Orders for Cotton and Wool Machinery Promptly Filled.

ADVERTISEMENTS.

Chas. H. Daiger. Jas. V. Daiger.

Edwd. Daiger. CHAS. H. DAIGER & BROS.

ommission

Merchants,

FOR THE SALE OF Oysters, Grain, Fruit and Produce, No. 4 Hollingsworth St. BALTIMORE, MD.

MARYLAND BRITANNIA AND GOLD & SILVER PLATE WORKS,

ESTABLISHED 1850.

WILLIAM HOLMES, SALES ROOM. 205 W. BALTIMORE ST. Plating & Wholesale Room, 12 Bank Lane: Factory, 50 & 52 N. Holliday St. BALTIMORE, MD.

THE ONLY BILL POSTERS AND DISTRIBUTERS IN BALTIMORE, A. T. HOUCK & CO.

SUCCESSORS TO J. W. HARPER & Co.

Jarvis Building Basement, No. 12 North Street. JEG We have over 300 Bill Boards on the principal corners in the city, and on all the Walls and Fences.

NOVELTY WORKS.

WM. JAS. MURRAY.

JAS. MURRAY. JAS. MURRAY & SON.

Engineers Machinists,

BOILER MAKERS AND MILLWRIGHTS, Manufacturers of FLOUR, GRIST AND GUANO MILLS, both Portable and Stationary. Also, CIRCULAR, SINGLE, and GANG SAW MILLS. All other Machinery and Models made to order.

Nos. 40, 42 and 44 York-st. near Light, BALTIMORE, MD. BLACKSMITHING in all its branches. REPAIRING promptly attended to.

ADVERTISEMENTS.

BOYD & RICKETTS, SUCCESSORS TO JOHN BOYD, DEALERS IN

Malt & Hops,

MALT HOUSE, OFFICE, -

FOOT OF EUTAW STREET, 14 S. GAY STREET,

BARLEY MALT, RYE MALT and HOPS as required by Brewers. Bakers and Distillers, constantly on hand.

Fire & Marine Insurance!

PHENIX, of Brooklyn, ALPS, of Erie,

$1.900,000 360,000 436.033

ALLEMANNIA, Cleveland, O. - MECHANICS & TRADERS. N. Y. 500,000

J. A. RIGBY, Agent, No. 26 SECOND STREET. BALTIMORE, MD.

RAU & JUNGHEIN,

Manufacturers

of all kinds of

SHOW CASES and SASH,

Silver Plated & German Silver, also Wooden Cases of every description. 62₺ W. BALTIMORE ST., City Guards' Armory, BALTIMORE. or Keep constantly on hand and make to order all of the above named articles. Counters and Store Fixtures made to order. Country Merchants are particularly invited to call and examine our Stock. Glasses, all sizes, inserted in Bow Windows and Show Cases. Orders promptly executed at short notice.

P. M. HOLBROOK & SONS, Contractors for all kinds of Stone Paving, Brick Paving, Furnishing and Setting Curbstones aud Building of Sewers, RESIDENCE AND OFFICE 283 N. CAROLINE STREET, OPPOSITE MADISON SQUARE. BALTIMORE.

ADVERTISEMENTS.

JOHN H. WEAVER'S IMPROVED

Patent Burial Case,

Designed

Manufactured

AND' No. 22 West Fayette Street, Baltimore.

MANUFACTURERS OF

FIRST

GOLD

PREMIUM

MEDAL.

Grand & Square Pianos, Nos. 5 & 7 S. Eutaw St. Opposite Concordia Opera House.

FIRST BASE CIGAR STORE, E. MILLS, Proprietor, No. 150 W. FAYETTE STREET. Opposite Ford's Opera House.

ALWAYS ON HAND

Fine Cigars, Tobacco,

AND

SMOKERS' ARTICLES GENERALLY.

P. E. COWMAN, Practical Electrotyper, No, 114 W. BALTIMORE STREET, Opposite "Sun Office."

ADVERTISEMENTS.

Merchants,

AND

Manufacturers

BUSINESS MEN,

SUBSCRIBE at once T

THE NATIONAL

Bonded Coffection

ureau,

Which makes Collections in all parts 1 OF THE UNITED STATES,

Through Bonded Agents,

AND INSURES

Prompt Attention and Immediate return.

W. H. BAKER,

Supervisor Southern Department,

OFFICE. 19 South Street.

BALTIMORE, MD.

JACALL OR SEND FOR CIRCULAR!

Constitutions for

Book and JOB, Neatly executed.

JAMES YOUNG, Established 1836,

Printing required by

Promptly done.

Printer

114 WEST BALTIMORE STREET,

Orders from

BALTIMORE!

Especial attention En Private Worhi

For Societies.

Quickly filled.

MAGISTRATES' BLANKS always on hand ; also, PRINTED TO ORDER.

WOODS'S

BALTIMORE CITY

DIRECTORY,

CONTAINING A CORRECTED

Engraved Map of the City,

A BUSINESS DIRECTORY,

A STREET DIRECTORY,

And an Appendix of much Useful Information.

1400

1873.

BALTIMORE: PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY JOHN W. WOODS, No. 12 SOUTH STREET, Over Farmers and Planters Bank.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy three, by John W Woods, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington

1. Ras

CORRECTIONS, ADDITIONS, ALTERATIONS

AND NAMES TOO LATE FOR INSERTION IN THEIR PROPER PLACES

Albrecht & Schroeder, leaf tobacco, 18 German Alden Fruit Preserving Co. 1 n Holliday Aldine The, J. A. C. Jenningham, agent, 13 s Holliday

Allen Rev. Ethan, 168 Linden av Baker G. Alexander, real estate and money broker. 23 Lexington, dw 194 Saratoga Blake & Rouzie, com. merchts, 119 Hanover Brendel Graves S., telegraphist, 211 Hanover BRISCOE DAVID S., attorney, 32} St. Paul, dw 13 Franklin

Burgess Theodore H. clerk, 21 s Exeter Castle S. A. & Co.(S. A. Castle, H. S. Magrane, R. E. Hitchcock ) manufrs, com. merchts, and wholes. notions, over 17 German Dengler John, helper, 348 Light

Dorsey John R. flour and com. mercht. 59 g Calvert and 59 Cheapside, dw 35 Conway Garner Dr. Henry G. 62 n Greene Hall Wm. A. clerk, 189 n Bond King Joseph, 88 Cathedral

Maryland Wrought Iron Venitian Blind Manu- facturing Co. 22 w Fayette

Mason James D. (J.D.M.& Co. )328 Madison av Meyero Andro, barber and manufr. corn, bun- ion and tetter wash, 93 Druid Hall Morton George S. 236 Lańvale

OTTO & GARRISON BROS.(Louis Otto, Geo. W. and Stephen Garrison ) manufrs. cabinet and room mouldings, and picture and look- ing glass frames, 416 Cross

PREFACE.

The Publisher of the BALTIMORE CITY DIRECTORY has been for many years making an effort to induce the City Council to pass an ordinance for the Re- numbering of the Houses in the City of Baltimore upon the Decimal System ; having made, in the past ten years, three unsuccessful efforts before the Council at considerable expense; and the City Authorities having also made, in the last three years, many unsuccessful attempts to correct and renumber the houses upon the present or consecutive plan, under the ordinance of '71, which allowed only correcting or replacing numbers (not renumbering a whole street) that had fallen off or been destroyed : from which attempts the num- bering has been made far more confused and unintelligible. A former officer of the City came to the conclusion that it was impossible to get the work done right without renumbering each street from the beginning.

Now, under these adverse circumstances, the Publisher of the Directory, believing that every house owner had a right to demand of the City an accu- rate and duly established number for his house, and, in order that it should be done at the lowest rate, and in a uniform and handsome manner, the city, therefore, should have it done and pay for it, because it could be done thus at least 50 per cent. cheaper than by individuals. The taking of the names for the Directory and the numbering of the houses being so closely connected and dependent on each other; and, "What is everybody's business is nobody's business," that he determined, in order to make his Directory a success, to undertake the difficult task of not only enlisting public opinion in favor of the adoption of the Decimal System, but also of inducing the Council to pass an ordinance to carry it out. All that has been accomplished. He sent eight or nine thousand of his "Reasons for Renumbering the Houses" broadcast over the City, following them up with the annexed petition :

To the Honorable the City Council of Baltimore:

The undersigned, publisher of the Baltimore City Directory for the last twenty years, respectfully represents to your honorable body, that in canvass- ing for the Directories during that time, he has been cognizant of the fact that the present mode of numbering the houses is very defective, and that the many efforts to renumber or correct the same within the last year, by the City Au- thorities, have clearly demonstrated the inefficiency of the consecutive system. The consequences now are, that the numbers in nearly every street in the city are in a confused condition.

Now, what is the remedy to relieve our whole community of the harassments and perplexities growing out of this plan of numbering the houses? We an- swer, it is the tried and efficient Decimal System: this has been adopted in Philadelphia, Washington, Richmond and St. Louis; from those cities there has not come up a single complaint. That it has worked well they all agree. Whatever they can do in those cities, we of Baltimore certainly can accomplish. Very few objections can be made to the Decimal System : its advantages are

PREFACE.

many. it .s simple, efficient and permanent, and when change becomes neces- sary, (b !he erection of additional buildings in a square,) it will never extend beyond the square wherein it originates. In the elongation of streets it re- quires ouly a continuation of the numbers.

To meet the objection urged by a few business men-the removal of estab- lished numbers-the old numbers also might remain up for some time; the new offi 1. 1 numbers are so different from the old, that they will be distin- guished ly from each other. This has been done in St. Louis to the satis- faction of the business community.

The undersigned has been for a number of years informing himself as to the merits of ile Decimal System. The publishing of the City Directory, also, he thinks, has further qualified him for the task of accomplishing this work in a correct d satisfactory manner. If your honorable body should think proper to place this trust in his hands, he pledges himself to give his personal atten- tion to an the details necessary for the perfecting of the Decimal System as a whole, and at such low rates as will be barely remunerative. And your peti- tioner w i ever pray, &c. JOHN W. WOODS.

He tl " employed several men to call on the citizens for their signatures, and succeeded in obtaining 2,850 of the active business persons-the property holders, consequently taxpayers, of the city ; not five in a hundred declining to sign 11 ; and not more than eight or ten, all told, refusing to do so. We firmly believe that the signers in favor of it would not have objected to the city paying $12,000 for renumbering the houses, there being about 50,000 houses and 150,000 handsome silver plated figures. The city to pay twenty- five cents per house, for a hovel or a palace. The vote in favor of the bill in the First Branch was 16 to 3; in the Second Branch, 7 to 2. His Honor the Mayor retord it: thus repudiating the 2,850 signatures and the vote of more than two-thirds of the Council.

We hope it will not be considered presumption or captiousness to call atten- tion to some of his objections to the bill. His Honor says: "The system is, doubtless, effective in Philadelphia, where the streets cross each other at right angles; where they are equidistant the one from the other, and run either north and south, or east and west, and nearly every one of which passes through the entire length or width of the city." These are bold assertions, and, we think, cannot be sustained by the facts. Ridge road runs diagonally across the city, passing from near the Delaware to Laurel Hill, on to Manayunk; also, Turner's lane, Tavern road, Germantown road, Frankford road, Poplar street, . and several adjacent ones, not parallel with the principal streets; in the 16th ward nearly all curved. So much for the city proper. If the Schuylkill is crossed. there are but few streets at right angles. Germantown streets are not at right angles with the city proper. Along the Delaware, in the 18th and 19th wards there are no right angles with the city streets. Frankford is a labyrinth. Yet all these streets and suburban towns are numbered decimally, and are far more difficult to number than the streets of Baltimore. His Honor seems not to have known that not only Philadelphia, but also Washington. Richmond, St. Louis and Wilmington, Del., are numbered with the Decimal System. Wilmington, little more than a village, with 30,000 population, looks to the future for a permanent enumeration, and yet Baltimore, with her 350,- 000, is thwarted in her landable desire to have her houses numbered correctly,

His Honor is rather unfortunate in finding a street between two given points that the Decimal System will fail to work through. He says, "on the north

PREFACE.

side of East Baltimore street there is not a single wide or principal thoroughfare between Exeter street and Central avenue; on the south side of it there is but one street (Lloyd,) and that is but two short blocks in length." [If there was but one it could be numbered decimally.] "Now, on the south side, will the particular decimal figure commence at Exeter street, terminate at Lloyd, and from thence take up another decimal figure terminating at Central avenue, or will the decimal commence at Exeter street and terminate at Central avenue?" The Decimal System requires a street to run through and not to terminate at the street it reaches. For instance: Baltimore street going west from Charles street reaches Liberty street before the decimal number 100 is exhausted, and regardless of Hanover or Sharp streets. There are thirty-eight houses to be numbered on the north side of Baltimore street from Charles to Liberty. · From Exeter street to Central avenue, on the south side of Baltimore street, there are thirty-six houses to be numbered, leaving fourteen numbers for the unoccupied spaces; on the north side of Baltimore street there are twenty-six houses to be numbered, leaving twenty-four numbers for unoccupied spaces.

It is not necessary to say more than merely to state these facts. There are four or five squares in the city that have some twelve or fifteen more houses in the square, in the aggregate, than the decimal system provides for ; but owners of houses, all their lives, have been using fractions of } and } numbers on their houses, and should be willing to tolerate the use of some fifteen frac- tions in fifty thousand houses, for the establishing of the most perfect system that was ever devised for the numbering of the houses in a large city.

His Honor, in stating his objections to the bill relative to the opening of Lexington street, has not stated them as distinctly as we could have desired ; the elongation of Lexington street has become a law, but not an accomplished fact ; consequently, the imaginary altering of all the numbers from Fayette street to the terminus of Gay street is a fiction. The street having been sur- veyed, each opening could have been defined, and the numbering of the houses could have been fixed accordingly, at the crossings of each square; to take down all the decimal numbers on each square to the terminus of Gay street, would be no greater disaster than to take down all the consecutive numbers on German street to Fremont, as they cannot be corrected in any other way ; there being three squares now of duplicated numbers at the beginning of that street.

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Woods' Baltimore city directory (1873), Part 1

Author: Publication date: 1873 Publisher: Baltimore, Md : John W. Woods Number of Pages: 946

Author:
Publication date: 1873
Publisher: Baltimore, Md : John W. Woods
Number of Pages: 946