Polk's Baltimore city directory : containing an alphabetical list of business firms and private citizens, 1922, Part 3

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

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DRY DOCKS AND MARINE RAILWAYS

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

EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES AND ACTIVITIES

As an educational center Balti- more 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 estab- lished the first Biological Labora- tory and here experimental psy- chology was born. It has led the way for twenty-five years in medical science. Its diploma ranks today with that of any university of the world. Some of the world's most eminent specialists are associated with the institution. There are many other hospitals, 52 all told, 13 of them leaders.

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

POLICE DEPARTMENT

This department, efficiently or- ganized, numbers, all told, 1,359, 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 motor- cycle police, motor patrol wagons and a harbor patrol equipped with the police boat "Lannan." The af- fairs of the department are adminis- tered by a Commissioner of Police appointed 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.

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FIRE PREVENTION :

Not only is the general fire-fight- ing service of an excellent and up- to-date class; but the city, in its main business section, is furnished with a very efficient high pressure service.

STREET PAVEMENTS

Baltimore, once the premier cob- blestone city of the country, has shifted position since 1912 from the foot of the class of well-paved cities and now leads Washington, Phila- delphia, Chicago and New York. It had been the plan of the Paving Commission to banish the cobble- stone by 1923. But its estimates for the recent loans were cut more than half and the cobblestone will remain in Baltimore for several more years. Since 1912 the cobblestones have been reduced from 5,500,000 square yards to 1,500,000. An average of about 712,500 square yards of cob- blestones have been replaced yearly since 1912 with sheet asphalt or other modern paving. Last year the Paving Commission asked for $7,- 000,000 for paving the old city and old Annex and got $3,000,000; it asked for $8,000,000 for paving the new Annex and got $3,500,000. At the beginning of this year Baltimore stood seventh among the 16 largest American cities in the amount of improved pavement per capita; it stood fifth in the amount of im- proved pavement per square yard. Washington stood fourteenth in the per capita comparison and thir- teenth in the per square yard com- parison. New York was sixteenth in per capita.

HOMES

In the matter of its physical con- struction, Baltimore has lovely homes, beautiful parks, splendid churches, handsome educational in- stitutions, world-famous hospitals and a high standard of culture. de- cency and morality.

Baltimore's suburban develop- ment is concededly the most pictur- esque and attractive of any city in the United States. It presents more variety and more artistic possibili- ties than other big cities in America. Living by the laboring class is far above the average city. Neat homes, instead of tenement-house living, is the rule here. And 60 per cent of the houses are owned.

HIGHWAYS

Baltimore has spent millions of dollars in the work of bringing her highways up to the most modern state of excellence in the matter of smoothness and durability, thereby multiplying all the advantages re- sulting from good streets.

The surrounding country offers an unusually attractive and varied scenery through which to enjoy de- lightful automobile rides-and over perfect roads.

WATER SUPPLY

Baltimore derives its water supply from a 2,000,000,000-gallon capacity reservoir at Loch Raven in the Gun- powder River Valley, a few miles northeast of the city. From Loch Raven the water is pumped to the filtration plant at Lake Montebello in the northeastern part of Balti- more. This plant, which is one of the largest in the country, is of the mechanical filter style. After filtra- tion the water is treated with chlor- ine as a further precaution. The city water rate is 65 cents per 1,000 cubic feet. Pressure ranges from 45 pounds to 110 pounds per square inch in the city mains, with an additional high- pressure system for fire protection in the business section.

Many Baltimore industries obtain their water from artesian wells on their own property, as excellent water comparatively free from scale-forming substances can be se- cured with little lifting. About $25,000,000 is already invested in the water works system and $15,- 000,000 additional has been provided for extensions.

SEWERAGE SYSTEM BEST IN COUNTRY

Baltimore's sewerage system is said to be the finest in the country and has cost the city $23,500,000, and when entirely completed will cover 1,100 miles of sewers. The system was not developed gradually, but was an entirely new undertak- ing, embracing two divisions, the sanitary sewers and the storm water drains. The staff of the chief en- gineer was organized January 1, 1906; active field work started Janu- ary 15, 1906; actual construction be- gan October 2, 1906. The system comprises many miles of sewers and

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drains ranging from the six-inch house connections to a great outfall sewer 29 feet in diameter.

SHIPPING BY TRUCKS

In addition to the excellent rail- road service provided by the Balti- more & Ohio, the Pennsylvania, the Western Maryland, the Washington, Baltimore & Annapolis, the Mary- land & Pennsylvania Railroad sys- tems, Baltimore is meshed in with Maryland's nationally famous good roads system. These roads radiate in directions which lead right into the finest imaginable jobbing terri- tories. The perfection of the roads makes possible the linking up of Baltimore, through the operation of automobile trucks, with hundreds of good buying towns which otherwise would be inaccessible. The trucks give Baltimore a commanding ad- vantage over her rivals. Besides the railroads and trucks, all parts nearly of the State of Maryland and large portions of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida are served by direct and frequent boat service from Balti- more.

FUEL

Baltimore is almost in the very heart of the Maryland, Pennsylvania and West Virginia coal fields. Freight costs for hauling coal give us definite competitive advantages. Besides, there is purchasable from our cluster of oil establshments, an abundance of fuel oil at reasonable prices. Coke is made within fifteen miles of the city.

BUNKER AND CARGO COAL CAN BE QUICKLY LOADED

The coal record of the port of Baltimore stands unrivaled. The largest and best equipped pier for the loading of coal cargoes in the world, installed by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and located at Curtis Bay, a branch of Baltimore Harbor, has established a record of 3,684 tons loaded into a vessel in one hour. The total coal loading capacity of the port is estimated at 80,000 tons in ten hours. The Pennsylvania Railroad and the Western Maryland are also equipped with modern coal-loading machin- ery.

LABOR

Labor is plentiful. It is wide- ranged in its experience. The sources of supply are satisfactory. Strikes are so inconsequential as to be almost negligible. The foreign elements here are mostly of the bet- ter grade with a ready tendency towards American standards. The ground-rent system enables the la- borer to buy his own home on easy terms; for which reason a very large proportion of Baltimore laborers are home-owners. They are taxpayers. They are fixed units in the com- munity. As a consequence they are steady and contented and not easily swayed by senseless agitation. The city is not committed to the closed- shop. Female help is available in large numbers. Unskilled help is plentiful.

RAW MATERIAL

No city is better located to secure advantageously its raw material. There are fine water connections with the Southern States along the Atlantic Coast. These are suffi- ciently near to make lumber, cotton, naval stores and all the miscel- laneous raw materials of that sec- tion readily accessible at low trans- portation costs. Moreover, the rail connections with that section are excellent, with freight rates favor- ably affected by water competition. In reaching forth into Pennsylvania, Ohio and other States of the Middle West-Baltimore enjoys a pro- nounced differential which enables her to secure her raw material from those sections promptly and at costs below any Atlantic Coast competi- tion. Baltimore is extraordinarily well located when it comes to trans- porting raw material from Central America, South America or Europe. A fine harbor, a fine channel, cheap terminal costs, swift movements of cargoes-all, together, make pos- sible the landing in Baltimore of raw material at costs that defy com- petition on the part of any big At- lantic seaboard city : Petroleum comes from Mexico and from the Southwest; dolomites and lime- stones are very close; copper smelt- ing on a large scale is here; steel, tin and black sheets are part of the city's output.

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PORT IN WHICH SHIPS CAN BE OPERATED MOST CHEAPLY .

Exports and imports pass through the port without congestion or de- lay and with lower costs than is the case in

New York. The turn around of steamers costs less in this port than in New York, recent com- parisons showing an average saving of more than $4,000 per vessel each time for similar ships and cargoes in favor of Baltimore, and even this does not take into consideration provisioning in this port, nor the more rapid turn around of vessels with the financial saving that this implies.

The absence of dockage assess- ments and wharfage charges on freight brought to port by rail, the free delivery of less-than-carload shipments paying a small minimum rail charge to any point in the har- bor, are advantages which should influence operators in assigning ves- sels and exporters and importers in routing shipments.

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 sq. ft .; covered pier space of 1,409,126 sq. ft .; open pier space of 998,104 sq. ft .; and a terminal storage capacity of 1,909,920 sq. ft .- 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 com- panies or others interested in for- eign trade operations.

Baltimore's facilities for the hand- ling of bulk grain cargoes consist of 7. modern elevators with a total ca- pacity of 10,000,000 bushels, the port having in the new 5,000,000 bushel elevator of the Pennsylvania Rail- road the largest plant of its kind in existence. A record was recently established by the Western Mary- land Railway when 200,000 bushels of rye, of which 64,000 bushels were in bags, were loaded in 48 hours. The Western Maryland will add to its total storage capacity.

RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT ADVANTAGEOUS

The industrial and commercial advantages of Baltimore are happily supplemented by its residence facili- ties. There are many cities which claim the title "City of Homes," but none of them with more justice than does the Maryland metropolis. Tene- ments are practically unknown; Baltimore is a city of individual dwellings. There are, of course, many apartments houses in the city and its environs and every year sees a substantial addition to their num- ber, but Baltimore does not possess the same distinction in the construc- tion of multi-family abodes as it does in the erection of private dwellings.

Of late years these houses have been, broadly speaking, of two class- es, the suburban dwelling, ranging from a modest cottage to a really palatial residence, and the two-story brick dwelling. The three-story house in rows that was for years the standard domicile in Baltimore is very seldom built now.

RAILROAD TRANSPORATION

Baltimore is the home of the Bal- timore & Ohio Railroad. Its ad- ministrative offices are here. Its tracks practically encircle the city. Its freight facilities are second to none in the country, and it reaches out with connections in every pos- sible direction.

Two of the most important divi- sions of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company converge in Baltimore and make it easy to ship to any possible point covered by the entire Penn- sylvania system. The company maintains division offices and exten- sive terminals in Baltimore. Its numerous export and domestic ele- vators, storage warehouses and ter- minals are of the usual excellent type. A number of modern piers afford every facility for the trans- shipment of the company's traffic 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 Hartford counties in Maryland and York county in Pennsylvania.

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MANY SHIP LINES TO THE WORLD'S LEADING PORTS

The port is served by many regu- lar steamship line services coul- trolled by companies which operate a large number of steamers to more than 100 foreign ports. In addition to these overseas line vessels, the port is served by coastwise steam- ship lines regularly trading between Baltimore and the principal ports on our Atlantic and Pacific seaboards. These overseas and coastwise steam- ship services, transporting general cargoes of miscellaneous freight, together with the large number of tramp steamers and industrial car- riers of bulk cargoes of ore, oil, sul- phur, fertilizers, coal, grain, etc., constantly trading to and from the port, constitute the entire shipping activities of Baltimore.

POWER

Electric power is available, being derived from a big hydraulic plant on the Susquehanna River and transmitted to customers through the Consolidated Gas & Electric Company, which is under the super- vision of the Public Service Commis- sion. The rates for electricity are below those of any city on the At- lantic Seabord.

STREET RAILWAY SERVICE

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

NEW SUGAR REFINERY

With the completion in the near future of the new $8,000,000 sugar refinery of the American Sugar Re- fining Company on Locust Point, the building of which has progressed steadily during 1921, Baltimore will not only have a notable increase in her port facilities, but will be in a stronger position than ever before in trade with West Indies. After a painstaking survey of the various cities on the Atlantic Coast, it was decided that Baltimore offered the best advantages for the establish- ment of a modern refinery that will be the equal, if not the superior, of any in the world, in its location and equipment.

TAX EXEMPTIONS:

Neither the City nor State levies any tax on the machinery, stocks on hand or raw material of manufac- turers.

POPULATION

Baltimore's population, according to the official Federal census for 1920, was 733,926, showing a gain of 175,441 since the census of 1910, or an increase of over 31 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 percentage of gain was 65.2.

The figures for the past eight de- cades 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 733,- 926.

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT THE "MONUMENTAL CITY" SOME THING THAT BAL- TIMORE DID FIRST

It was in Baltimore that the-

First national bank to keep open day and night began operation. First trunk-line system in the United States ran from Balti- more 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.

It was in Baltimore that the-

First private bank in America was established.

First electric railroad tunnel in the United States was construc- ted by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad from Camden to Mount Royal Stations. Consequently 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 polytech- nic school in its public school system.

It was in Baltimore that the-

First patent for a locomotive was secured.

First steam engine for traction purposes was operated.

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First steam vessel entirely of iron was constructed.

First to construct the famous full-rigged ships known as the "Baltimore Clippers."

First dental college in the world to be established.

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 impor- ted

First umbrella factory was estab- lished, which is still operating. First plan of dairy lunchrooms, now known all over the country as the "Baltimore Dairy Lunch," was put in operation.

BALTIMORE is the nearest port to the center of population of the United States, to the leading wheat and corn fields of the country and to the large steel field of the Pitts- burgh district.

BALTIMORE has a big series of overseas steamship lines reaching by direct sailings nearly a hun- dred leading ports located in all parts of the world.

BALTIMORE is closer to Buffalo than New York City is; that Bal- timore's freight rate to Pittsburgh and the Middle West is lower than New York's; that Baltimore can ship on an equal freight rate with New York as far North as Roches- ter and as far Northwest as Syra- cuse.

BALTIMORE is about 1,369 miles closer than San Francisco is to the Panama Canal and is 470 miles closer than San Francisco is to Valparaiso.

BALTIMORE has the best hotel ac- commodations of any city in the country, New York alone ex- cepted.

BALTIMORE is the greatest fertili- zer manufacturing city in the United States.

BALTIMORE makes more piston rings than any other city in this great country.

BALTIMORE'S industrial district includes the largest steel mill on tidewater of any city in the world.

BALTIMORE manufacturers pro- duce thousands of different com- modities equal to the best in the country.

BALTIMORE'S canning output ex- ceeds in value that of New York; the canning industry of Maryland is only topped by the State of California.

BALTIMORE'S dock facilities per- mit loading of 100 ocean-going craft at one time.

BALTIMORE has over forty over- seas steamship companies reach- ing all parts of the world, and others seeking accommodations.

BALTIMORE is ranked as one of leading candy manufacturing cities of the United State.

BALTIMORE is listed as one of the leading shipbuilding and repair centers of the country.

BALTIMORE has over 150,000 em- ployees engaged in the operations in miscellaneous factories.

BALTIMORE enjoys an average freight rate to and from the Middle West of about 60 cents per net ton less than the rate to New York.

BALTIMORE'S freight storage ca- pacity totals 1,909,920 square feet. BALTIMORE has general storage and pier space aggregating 2,- 926-266 square feet and ground storage capacity for 14,118 cars.

BALTIMORE produced "The Star- Spangled Banner," our national anthem. Francis Scott Key caught the inspiration while

of watching the bombardment

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 Presi- dent 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 route to Southern Europe and Africa.

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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 Valparaiso, Chile, the chief sea- port on the West coast of South America.

BALTIMORE as a distributing cen- ter is closer to the South and the great Middle West than any other Atlantic seaport.

BALTIMORE stands seventh in the major group of leading American industrial cities, in the number of manufacturing establishments.

BALTIMORE in the enormous amount of clothing manufactured · has third place in the industry in the United States.

BALTIMORE produces more straw hats than the State of Massachu- setts, which is a hat center.

BALTIMORE manufactures more shirts than the whole of any State except New York and Pennsyl- vania.

BALTIMORE'S output of tinware fabrication is almost equal to the combined product of New York, Illinois and Pennsylvania.

BALTIMORE ranks so high in the manufacture of hats and caps that the combined output of three other important States hardly ex- ceeds the city's production.

BALTIMORE has the greatest coal- loading pier in the world, with a loading capacity of 54,000 in 10 hours.

BALTIMORE has 1,202-211 square feet of municipally owned and leased pier space.

BALTIMORE is one of the few im- portant industrial centers in the United States which allows ex- emption from taxation to manu- facturers on tools, equipment, warehouse stocks, goods in pro- cess of manufacture, finished products and all bills receivable.

BALTIMORE has 53 banks, 23 li- braries, 52 hospitals, 244 educa- tional institutions and about 1,900 factories in the city's cor- porate limits.

BALTIMORE is one of the limited number of seaport cities that has a 35-foot channel leading right up to its docks.

BALTIMORE is called the "gastro- nomic center of the country" and is recognized as the greatest food market in the world. It is so situ- ated that all kinds of food are pro- curable in season at prices rang- ing substantially below the aver- age figures in other cities. It is the home of the best oysters, the best terrapin and the best wild duck in America, besides being surrounded by the finest trucking belt in the whole country.

BALTIMORE exports more corn, oats and rye than any other port in the United States except New York. It ranks fourth in the shipment of wheat and third in the shipment of barley. It ex- ports more wheat than Montreal, the great grain shipping port of Canada. During 1915 Baltimore shipped more grain of all kinds by 25,000,000 bushels than Phila- delphia and Boston together.

BALTIMORE has the biggest and best bonding companies in the world.

BALTIMORE has hundreds of miles of improved streets, a modern sewer system, filtered water and fire fighting services, which are being constantly improved.

BALTIMORE'S metropolitan district contains the biggest steel plant in the United States on tidewater, the Bethlehem Steel Corporation's plant at Sparrows Point.

BALTIMORE is the great fertilizer manufacturing city in the United States and contains the largest sulphuric acid plant in the world.

BALTIMORE has one of the largest olive oil manufacturing plants and the largest olive oil ware- house in the world.

BALTIMORE has the cheapest rates for electricity of any city on the Atlantic seaboard.

BALTIMORE is noted for the fact that it has fewer tenements than any other large city in the coun- try, and that the majority of its people own their homes.

BALTIMORE as is known the "Monumental City" and the "Con- vention City." Many national conventions, political and other- wise, have been held in Baltimore. Several Presidents £ have been nominated in this city.

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BALTIMORE is the home of the Johns Hopkins Hospital and med- ical school, which are known the world over. It also contains the Walters Art Gallery, the Peabody Conservatory of Music, Goucher College and the Polytechnic In- stitute, and is the birthplace of the Vocational School.

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Polk's Baltimore city directory : containing an alphabetical list of business firms and private citizens, 1922, Part 3

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