Polk's Baltimore city directory : containing an alphabetical list of business firms and private citizens, 1922, Part 2

Author: R.L. Polk & Co
Publication date: 1922
Publisher: Baltimore : R.L. Polk & Co.
Number of Pages: 2300

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The several essential departments of the work are compiled in the order following:

The MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT, covering pages 25 and 52, embraces data concerning the city executive, health, police, fire, edu- cational, parks, water works and other departments, Federal and State officials, churches, schools (public and private), the post offices, courts, consulates, clubs, hospitals, associations, fraternal and benevolent or- ganizations, etc.

The STREET AND AVENUE GUIDE is contained in pages 58 to 92.

The BUYERS' GUIDE. This is a new feature in this Directory and occupies pages 93 to 272, printed on tinted paper. In the Guide will be found classified according to lines of business and the professions at- tractive 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 company 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 Classifid Business Directory. "The Directory is the Common Intermediary between Buyer and Seller."

The ALPHABETICAL LIST OF NAMES of citizens, firms, corpor- ations, institutions, and full information respecting them, is included in pages 273 to 1984. Information concerning names and changes of addresses received too late for proper arrangement are printed on page 19.

The CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY, occupies pages 1985 to 2274, and exhibits the various manufacturing mercantile and profes- sional names compiled under headings appropriate to the class of in- dustry or profession followed.

The INDEX TO CONTENTS and INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS will be found on pages 19 and 22.

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AN OUTLINE OF THE ORIGIN AND GROWTH OF BALTIMORE WITH A SUMMARY OF ITS PRESENT CONDITIONS AND ADVANTAGES

In 1607 the first permanent settle- ment was made in Virginia by the English. In 1624 King James I. ar- bitrarily deprived the Virginia Com- pany of its charter and made Vir- ginia a royal province; and in 1632 gave to one of his secretaries, Sir George Calvert, absolute proprietary rights to a portion of it which in- cluded not only what is now Mary- land but the whole State of Dela- ware and a large part of Pennsylva- nia.

Sir George Calvert, after obtain- ing this concession, never set foot again in America; but after his death the grant was confirmed to his son, Cecilius Calvert, the first lord proprietary of Maryland. He, how- ever, never took up his residence in Maryland, but sent his brother, Leonard Calvert, with colonists to St. Mary's, where a government was established in which absolute relig- ious toleration was included.

All the rivers that empty into the Chesapeake Bay had been explored by John Smith in 1608, including the Patapsco, at the head of which in course of time grew a little village called Baltimore, in honor of the first lord proprietary. Sir George Calvert was made a peer with the title of Baron Baltimore in 1625.

This little place was not very im- portant at first; in 1729 Baltimore Town was laid out and in 1768 be- came the county town; in 1797 the population was about twenty thou- sand, the town was incorporated and the first Mayor, James Calhoun, elected. In 1870 it was made a port of entry. The excellence of its geo- graphical situation and its harbor, however, soon caused Baltimore to outstrip in size and in commercial importance the other towns of the State, although Annapolis, the seat of the State government, for a long time remained the social capital. and is today, with its beautiful and dignified old residences, probably the best surviving example of an old colonial town in America.

From such small beginnings grew the modern Baltimore, one of the important cities of the world, with a population of over three-quarters of a million, an area of 92 square miles, a taxable basis of more than one bil- lion dollars and bank resources of over four hundred millions.

Baltimore is located on the Pa- tapsco river a tributary of the fa- mous Chesapeake 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 ad- vantages for trade, beauty, pleasure and water sports. No city is better blessed with all the elements for de- lightful living. Baltimore is less than 40 miles from Washington, the Nation's capitol.

It possesses advantages not sur- passed by any city in the country. 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 abso- lutely without a rival.

MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT

The city officials are distinctly sympathetic to industrial develop- ment. The same spirit which now stimulates Baltimoreans generally in favor of manufacturing enter- prises has extended itself into every department of the municipal service.

BANKS

The rapid progress of Baltimore, as a manufacturing center, has de- veloped financial institutions in the city commensurate with the de- mands of each growing industrial period. Hundreds of millions of in-

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dustrially invested capital have flowed into Baltimore within the past eight years; and in order to meet the big needs, bank consolida- tions and expansions have followed as an imperative consequence. Balti- more's recognized position as one of the country's greatest manufactur- ing cities has caused the banks and trust companies to specialize on in- dustrial financing. Coincidently, there has come into being a larger local predisposition to invest in in- dustrial securities. The following figures are taken from reports to Polk's Bankers Encyclopedia as of September, 1922: Number of banks in city-National 13, State banks and Trust Companies 25, Savings Banks 15, Private 108, Federal Re- serve Bank 1. Banking figures: Cap- ital $25,763,000, surplus $45,172,000, deposits $416,254,000, loans $339,- 366,000.

CLIMATE

Baltimore health conditions are good because of favorable climatic conditions. The swings of tempera- ture 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 grow- ing season, or about 200 days be- tween 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. Meteorologists and agri- culturists agree that in sections without irrigation the annual pre- cipitation should usually fall be- tween 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 striking climatic fea- ture. It equals or exceeds 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.

BUILDING

Baltimore operations in Baltimore during 1921 broke all records, ac- cording to the valuation of building permits as given in applications at the Appeal Tax Court and the Build- ing Inspector's Office of the City Hall.

Permits aggregating in value $36,- 833,910 were applied for during 1921. This is an increase of more than $600,000 over the figures of 1920, which totaled $36,027,020. It tops the figures of 1919, which were $26,768,884, by close to $10,000,000, and is more than five times as great as the total building operations of 1918, which amounted to $6,464,255.

During 1921 17,933 building per- mits of all kinds were applied for at the Building Inspector's office. In the home building line two-story dwellings figured to the greatest ex- tent. There were 1,064 permits ap- plied for for two-story dwellings to be erected at a cost of $4,639,600. Application was made for 844 per- mits for frame dwellings to cost $4,420,800.

There were applications for 2,051 garages to cost $1,884,190; addi- tions, 1,968, to cost $3,298,344; al- terations, 11,817, to cost $4,364,070, and miscellaneous permits number- ing 76, to cost $6,955,506. There were applications for factories and warehouses, apartment houses and schools which have been included in the total figures for the year.

BALTIMORE HARBOR DEVELOP- MENTS

During 1921 considerable progress was made in the development of fa- cilities of the Port of Baltimore.

A comprehensive development plan calculated to treble the berth- ing capacity of Baltimore harbor and to provide for the normal growth of the port during the next twenty years has been undertaken by the Port Development Commis- sion.

This plan includes the improve- ment of existing municipal piers to make them serviceable for coast- wise carriers; improvement of pri- vately owned piers to make them serviceable for ocean vessels; the construction of a large cold storage warehouse adjacent to the water front; construction of an ocean ter- minal with piers, warehouses, grain elevator, and free port facilities at

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McComas street on the south side of Locust Point; the development of what is now waste land at the mouth of the Patapsco River into a modern ocean terminal with piers and ware- houses; the development of the Can- ton side of the harbor; improvement and extension of the Harbor Belt Line R. R .; construction of an outer belt line railway and unification of the control and operation of the port.

It is believed that this plan, when finally completed, will allow for every possible development neces- sary to the growth of the Port of Baltimore for a long period, and will, when constructed, give Balti- more facilities surpassed by no other port in the United States.

The first unit of this plan will be the construction of a number of piers with railroad yards and ware- houses adjacent thereto on the city property at McComas street on the

south side of Locust , Point. The Western Maryland Railway, whose Port Covington terminal is immedi- ately adjacent to the McComas street property, has already made formal application to the Port Development Commision for two piers and it is understood that construction of these will be started very shortly. It is also possible that construction may start soon on a new 4,000,000 bushel grain elevator to be erected by the Port Development Commis- sion to be leased to private parties.

Among other developments in the facilities of the port of Baltimore during 1921 may be mentioned the erection by the Western Maryland Railway of a modern export coal pier. This pier was completed in the early summer and has proved of marked success. The loading ca- pacity of the pier is estimated at about 20,000 tons in 10 hours.

A further item of interest in re- gard to new construction during 1921 in Baltimore was the comple- tion by the Western Maryland Rail- way at its Port Covington terminal of an additional 1,000,000 bushel unit to its export grain elevators at the port of Baltimore nearly 10,- 000,000 bushels. It is understood the Western Maryland Railway contem- plates further additions from time to time as its business warrants.

The harbor is Baltimore's great- est asset. Land-locked, with a maxi- mum tide of fifteen inches only, and

a 35-foot channel to the Atlantic Ocean, it is served by three trunk lines, two belt railways connecting them, grain elevators with 10,000,- 000 bushels capacity, 47 railroad and municipal piers, four ore piers, coal piers with a capacity of 10,000 tons an hour, the largest drydock on the Atlantic coast and six others, rail- road yard capacity for 15,000 and ground storage for 14,000 freight cars. There are 52 regular steam- ship liner services operating steam- ers to more than 100 foreign ports.

GEOGRAPHICAL ADVANTAGE

Baltimore is nearer the center of population of the United States than Philadelphia, New York or Boston. It is nearer the centers of the great- est proportion of improved farm lands which are located, in order of rank, in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois, Iowa and Missouri; nearer the leading corn states (Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Missouri, Nebraska and Ohio), and nearer the centers of largest wheat production in the Western and Middle Western States. Baltimore is closely connected by short distance rail routes with the chemical plants of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Ohio; also with the pig iron and steel centers in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, New York and Indiana. It is also connected with the important centers of the following industries: Electrical machinery in New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey; cars and car repair parts in Pennsylva- nia, Illinois and Ohio; carriages and wagons in Ohio, Indiana and Illi- nois; automobiles in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and New York, as well as with the coal mining centers in Pennsylvania, Illinois, West Vir- ginia, Ohio and Indiana. In fact, ac- cording to the United States census of 1910, 43.6 per cent of the products manufactured in this country are lo- cated in states which are directly connected with Baltimore by shorter rail routes than other ports.

FREIGHT RATES

Baltimore is wonderfully situated in the matter of freight rates, whether it be to bring raw material in or to send finished products out. The city is midway of the Atlantic Coast-reaching effectually to the South and North. Being on the in- ward bend of the Atlantic Coast, the city stands inland on a meridian of

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longitude further west than Boston, New York or Philadelphia. This happy middle location on the coast and westward location (west of her chief Atlantic rivals) gives her lower freights to many of the best markets, by reason of shorter dis- tance alone. Baltimore, in freight rates, can compete with New York City as far east as Syracuse. It can compete with Philadelphia as far east as Scranton. When it comes to the Middle West (beginning at Al- toona, Pennsylvania), or with the South in its entirety, Baltimore can beat New York and Philadelphia by a very substantial freight difference.

MANUFACTURING CENTER

The city is a big and important in- dustrial center. Its industries are varied. General distress seldom af- flicts 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 evi- denced by the following list of lead- ing industries. This list includes those lines which are notably active here in large measure:

Iron and Steel in various forms; Car Wheels; Rails; Ship-building and Repairs; Clothing-including Men's and Boys' and General Under- wear; Middy Blouses and Pajamas; Women's Garments; Tin and Sheet Iron Products ; Black Sheets; Canned Goods, including Meats, Vegetables and Sea Foods; Tin Cans; Chemicals and Acids; includ- ing Fertilizers; Sugar Refining; Slaughtering and Meat Packing; Tobacco; Straw Hats, Hats and Caps; Cotton Duck and Print Goods; Enameled Ware; Shirts and Over- alls; Ladies' Apparel; Millinery and Lace Goods; Copper-Smelting; Cop- per Pigs, Rods, Sheets, Tubes; Oil Refining; Olive Oil Refining; Com- mercial Alcohol; Umbrellas; Drugs and Preparations; Licorice; Paints and Varnishes; Bakery Products; Candy and Confectionery; Mill Work; Hardwoods; Machinery; Spices; Structural Iron; Paving and Roofing Material; Shoes; Bricks; Belting; Harness and Saddlery; Boxes (wood and paper) and Bar- rels Furniture; Talking Machine Cabinets; Bottles and Glassware; Cotton and Burlap Bags; Ice Cream Products; Stone and Monument Work; Mattress and Spring Beds; Aeroplane Propellers; Veneering.

MANUFACTURERS ORGANIZED AMONG THEMSELVES

In order to produce. effective co- operation among kindred industries themselves, the Merchants and Man- ufacturers Association has organ- ized and is operating, as one of its functions, group meetings and con- structive planning among the fol- lowing nineteen groups:

Food and Kindred Products; Mis- cellaneous Textiles and Products; Clothing (Men and Women's); Mis- cellaneous Wearing Apparel; Mil- linery and Laces; Iron and Steel and Their Products; Lumber and Its Manufactures; Leather and Its Fin- ished Products; Paper and Printing; Beverages; Chemicals and Allied Products; Fertilizers and Heavy Chemicals; Stone and Glass Prod- ucts; Metal Products (Other than Iron and Steel); Tobacco Manufac- turers; Vehicles for Land Transpor- tation; Ship-building; Miscellane- ous (This is subdivided).

FACTORY SITES

Good land, well-located, can be procured at fair prices. There are factory sites of sufficient variance in character and location to suit the needs of any industry; on rail, on water, on both or on neither. Manu- facturing in Baltimore is not con- gested into any one district. It is scattered. All sections carry a sub- stantial proportion. This spreading out of industries has made possible the development of conveniently dis- tributed labor residential districts. Labor is thus enabled to live close to its place of work.

ORGANIZED BODIES WORKING TO PROMOTE FOREIGN TRADE

The Merchants and Manufactur- ers Association, which is the largest business and civic body in the city, is an active factor in helping to pro- mote and upbuild foreign trade. This Association has specially constituted departments which engage in this work in divers ways. Moreover, the Association is in direct working re- lations with those particular agen- cies which are specializing in export and import matters and in the ex- pansion of Baltimore's overseas trade. This is true as to shipping as well as to cargo movements.

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FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS SPE- CIALIZING ON FOREIGN TRADING

The financial institutions of Balti- more and other money centers are fully cognizant of Baltimore's pres- ent important status in foreign trade operations and they clearly foresee the inevitable big expansion in that trade which is already mani- festing itself. In order to take ad- vantage of the foreign trade activi- ties, local institutions are putting in foreign trade departments under the direction of experienced foreign trade financiers.

GROUP OF AGGRESSIVE FREIGHT FORWARDERS

The rapid growth of Baltimore's foreign trade, since the Great War, has attracted to the city some of the biggest, most skilled and most suc- cessfully experienced freight for- warders in the United States. These houses not only know all the requirements and intricacies of the business; but they are prompt, effi- cient and dependable in their serv- ice.

RECOGNIZED JOBBING CENTER

Baltimore has long been recog- nized as one of the biggest and most satisfactory wholesale and jobbing markets in the country. Its jobbing houses are of a miscellaneous 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 guid- ance of the Merchants & Manufac- turers Association, which has a practice of paying the traveling costs to merchants who buy a stipu- lated total of goods in this city, a vast jobbing trade has been devel- oped and is in the constant and en- couraging increase. Baltimore's job- bing houses are classed as among the best and most reliable in the United States.

SUCCESSFUL RETAIL CITY

The retail trade in Baltimore is in especially healthy condition. There is a spirit of co-operation among merchants, inspired and led by the Retail Bureau of the Merchants & Manufacturers Association. The city has a large number of big depart- ment stores and an exceptionally fine list of "specialty" shops from which purchasers can satisfy their

wants at prices which compare more than favorably with the average price level of other cities. Baltimore is the magnet of a large number of "shoppers" from Washington, lower Pennsylvania, Delaware, West Vir- ginia, Virginia and the Carolinas. A fine variety of wares, plus the abil- ity to make quick and dependable deliveries, make the city a very de- sirable market.

A GREAT LUMBER TERMINAL

The 75-acre plant of the Weyer- hauser Timber Company of Seattle, located on the Fairfield section of the harbor near Curtis Bay, is rap- idly approaching completion. This property, one of the outstanding fea- tures of the port, is the most modern and best equipped lumber terminal in the country. During the past year, with the yard still incomplete, the company handled about 15,000,000 feet of Western timber for distribu- tion throughout the East and Mid- dle West.

The Weyerhauser Timber Com- pany, realizing the fact that the East will be dependent on the West for its supply of lumber in the fu- ture, decided to develop in Baltimore its wholesale distributing yard, tak- ing advantage of the city's strategic position in regard to the chief mar- kets of the Middle West, and of the cheaper water transportation via the Panama Canal as compared with all-rail shipments from Seattle. It is the intention to carry at this point a large stock of lumber, the volume aggregating from 45,000,000 to 75,- 000,000 feet of well assorted stock, suitable for all purposes.

BALTIMORE MARKETS ARE A REAL INSTITUTION

The markets of Baltimore are a nationally famous institution. There are 10 of these markets owned and controlled by the city. The Lexing- ton 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. Baltimore may eas- ily claim the distinction of being the original market city.

EXCEPTIONALLY FINE PARK SYSTEM

Baltimore's splendid park system,

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connected by an expansive system of handsome 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 influ- ence.

LIGHT AND POWER SERVICE

Hydro-electric power at Holtwood (formerly McCalls Ferry, Pa.) on the Susquehanna River, 40 miles from Baltimore, an ultimate 120,- 000-horsepower capacity plant, serv- ing 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 electric- ity is transmitted to Baltimore, 40 miles away, on a double transmis- sion line. This power is distributed by the Consolidated Gas Electric Light and Power Company.

BEE HIVE INDUSTRIAL BUILD- INGS

Baltimore has developed a series of fine industrial buildings, in which a wide variety of manufacturing oper- ations is housed, and where the operations are conducted under wonderfully favorable conditions. Floor area, large and small, is avail- able. The features of these build- ings are: close proximity to trans- portation; heat, light and power furnished; splendid buildings, solid in their structure and within walk- ing distance of labor residential sections.

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 pur- poses 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.

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Polk's Baltimore city directory : containing an alphabetical list of business firms and private citizens, 1922, Part 2

Author: R.L. Polk & Co Publication date: 1922 Publisher: Baltimore : R.L. Polk & Co. Number of Pages: 2300

Author: R.L. Polk & Co
Publication date: 1922
Publisher: Baltimore : R.L. Polk & Co.
Number of Pages: 2300