Hill's Durham (N.C.) city directory [1932], Part 1

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Publication date: 1932
Publisher: Hill Directory Co.
Number of Pages: 604

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GENERAL INDEX

Page

Abbreviations

Alphabetical List of Names

Apartment Buildings

558

Associations and Clubs-Commercial.

558

Banks and Trust Companies

560

Buildings-Office and Public.

563

Buyers' Guide

Cemeteries

564

Churches

564

City Government

151

Classified Business Directory.

557

Clergymen

566

Clubs

567

County Officers

151

Courts

152

Federal Officers

398

Fire Department

151

Halls

578

Homes and Asylums

579 579

Justices of the Peace

584

Labor Organizations

584

Libraries

586

Newspapers

589

Parks and Playgrounds

591 151

Police Department

Post Office

398

Railroads

593

Schools-Public 596

Schools, Colleges and Academies. 596

Societies-Benevolent and Fraternal 598

Street and Avenue Guide. 437

United States Government. 398

307792

Hospitals and Dispensaries

INDEX TO ADVERTISERS

Page

Andrews J A Battery Co.

Bailey Motor Co.

Blacknall R & Son ..

Borden Brick & Tile Co.

.marginal line front cover and

Brown Electric Co.

Brown Ernest C Dr

Budd-Piper Roofing Co.

right side lines and

Carolina Janitor Supply Co.

.right top lines and

Carpenter Motor Co. right side lines and

Clements W Wallace

left top lines and 30 32 .left top lines and 39 36 40 36 49 44 32 46 3

Duke University

Durham Coca Cola Bottling Co. back cover and 35

Durham Dairy Products Inc .. . backbone and 39 Durham Electric Construction Co Inc. right top lines and 40 Durham Loan & Trust Co. . left top lines and Durham Public Service Co .. right top lines and 34 Z 47 Durham Realty & Insurance Co. left top lines and Durham Shoe Rebuilder .marginal line back cover and 50 Fidelity Bank The. .front cover and Five Points Furniture Co 33 41 Globe Jewelry Co Inc 44 Goodyear Service Inc. .right top lines and 31 31

Granite Service Stations

left bottom lines and

Hall-Wynne & Co

. front cover and 41

Harris Dolian .. .right side lines

Haywood & Boone .right bottom lines

Home Savings Bank. right top lines and Horton T J Co. . backbone and 34 47 42

Hotel Malbourne left top lines and

Johnson Motor Co. . marginal line front cover and 31

Kane Geo front cover and 38

Lakewood Dairy.

Latta E J Roofing Co Inc. . bottom stencil and

Lyon W C Co.

Martha Washington The. .right top lines and

May Claude M. front stencil, 45 and

May D C.

. marginal line front cover and

McDonald-DeWitt Ice & Coal Co. back cover and

Modern Electric Co Inc ..

Morris Plan Industrial Bank

Muirhead Wm Construction Co. .top stencil and

Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co.

Nicholson Motor Co Inc.

North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Co. .right side lines and 43

Parker Letter Service

Pearson Conrad O

Perry W P Transfer

Pritchard-Bright & Co

Reeves' American Cafe left top lines and

Rochelle Sidney E .. left side lines and

Rochelle's Battery & Ignition Service.

Scott S T Coal Co.

Southgate T & Son Inc.

Tavern The

Terry Hardy G.

left top lines and 45 44 51 36 48 35 30 37 back cover and 42 48 47 30

U-Drive-It Yourself

Union Plumbing & Heating Co. left side lines and 46 Walker's Auto Laundry. 30 42

Washington Duke Hotel. left top lines and

Young Roofing Co Inc. back cover and 50

left side lines and 39 49 41 48 51 46 37 40 right top lines and 34 38 43 32

INTRODUCTION

HILL DIRECTORY CO., Inc., publishers of the Durham City Direc- tory, present to subscribers and the general public, this, the 1932 edition.

Confidence in the growth of Durham's industry, population and wealth, and in the advancement of its civic and social activities, will be created as sections of this directory are consulted, for the directory is a mirror truly reflecting Durham to the world.

The enviable position occupied by HILL'S directories in the estima- tion of the public, has been established by rendering the best in directory service. With an unrivaled organization, and having the courteous and hearty cooperation of the business and professional men and residents, the publishers feel that the result of their labors will meet with the ap- proval of every user, and that the Durham Directory will fulfill its mis- sion as a source of authentic information pertaining to the city.

Four Major Departments

The several essential departments are arranged in the following order :-

THE BUYERS' GUIDE, pages 29 to 52, printed on tinted paper, con- tains the advertisements of leading manufacturing, business and profes- sional interests of Durham. These pages will be found particularly in- teresting and instructive to substantial purchasing factors. The adver- tisements have been carefully grouped by departments and are indexed under headings descriptive of the business represented. This is reference advertising at its best, and, as such, merits a survey by all buyers eager to familiarize themselves with sources of supply. The city's activities, in many interesting phases, are authentically pictured. In an ambitious and progressive community like Durham, the necessity of having this kind of information immediately available, is very great, and frequently, pressing. General appreciation of this fact is evidenced by the liberal support the city directory enjoys in the many fields which it serves.

THE ALPHABETICAL LIST OF NAMES of residents, business firms and corporations is included in pages 53 to 436. A feature of this section is the inclusion of the wife's name in parentheses following that of the husband.

THE DIRECTORY OF HOUSEHOLDERS, INCLUDING STREET AND AVENUE GUIDE, covers pages 437 to 554. In this section the named streets and avenues are arranged in alphabetical order, followed by the numbered streets in numerical order; the residences and business houses are arranged numerically under the name of each street and avenue, and the names of householders and business concerns are placed opposite the numbers.

THE CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY is included in pages 557 to 602. This department lists the various manufacturing, mercan- tile and professional interests in alphabetical order under appropriate headings. This feature constitutes an invaluable and indispensable epi- tome of the business interests of the community. "The Directory is the common intermediary between Buyer and Seller." As such it plays no small part in the daily doings of the business world. "More goods are bought and sold through the Classified Business Directory than through any other medium."

Municipal Publicity

The directory reflects the achievements and ambitions of the city, depicting in truthful terms what it has to offer as a place of residence, as a business location, as an industrial site and as an educational center. To broadcast this information, the publishers have placed copies of this issue of the directory in Directory Libraries, where they are readily avail- able for free public reference, and serve as perpetual and reliable adver- tisements of Durham, for business men, everywhere, realize that the city directory represents a community as it really is.

The Durham Directory Library

Through the courtesy of the publishers of the Durham City Direc- tory, a Directory Library is maintained in the offices of the Durham Chamber of Commerce, for free reference by the general public. This

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is one of more than 450 Directory Libraries installed in the chief cities of the U. S. and Canada by members of the Association of North American Directory Publishers, under whose supervision the system is operated.

The publishers appreciatively acknowledge the recognition by those progressive business and professional men who have demonstrated their confidence in the city directory as an advertising medium, with assur- ance that it will bring a commensurate return.

HILL DIRECTORY CO., Inc., Publishers.

DURHAM

NOTED TOBACCO AND TEXTILE CENTER (Courtesy Durham Chamber of Commerce)

Statistical Review

Form of Government-Council-manager.

Population-Total, 52,037; males, 24,629; females, 27,408; total colored, 18,717; white males of age, 14,137; white females of age, 15,856 (1930 U. S. Census). Local estimate at present, 54,000. American-born, 99.3%.

Area-12.8 square miles.

Altitude-406 feet.

Climate-Mean annual temperature, 59.6 degrees F .; average annual rainfall, 47.19 inches.

Parks-5, with total of 97 acres, valued at $115,000.

Assessed Valuation-$77,693,213, with $1.40 per $100 tax rate.

Bonded Debt-$9,735,739.12.

Financial Institutions-5 banks, with total deposits of $13,240,095.45, and. total resources of $16,695,463.20 (June-30, 1932). Clearings, $114,- 129,394.03; debits to individual accounts, $289,210,121.59 (calendar year 1931). 5 building and loan associations, with total assets of $2,507,479.65 (Dec. 31, 1931).

Postal Receipts-$232,173.64 (calendar year 1931).

Telephones in Service-5,561.

Churches-72, representing 10 denominations.

Building and Construction-Value of building permits, $711,400 (1931). Real Estate-1,432 transfers made in 1931. 10,343 homes, with about 40% owned by occupants.

Industry-Chief industry of city, manufacturing. 62 manufacturing es- tablishments, employing 6.905 men and 5,133 women, paying wages of $7,800,000 annually, and having products valued at $138,000,000 annually (1931 report). Principal manufactured products: Ciga- rettes, smoking tobacco, hosiery, sheets and pillow cases, ginghams, flour and proprietary medicines.

Trade Area-Retail area has radius of 25 miles, and population of 148,- 000; wholesale area, radius of 50 miles, and population of 508,000. Newspapers-2 dailies and 3 weeklies.

Hotels-8, with total of 800 rooms. Newest hotel opened in 1925.

Railroads-5: Southern, Seaboard Air Line, Norfolk & Western, Durham & Southern and Norfolk Southern.

Highways-U. S. 70 (State 10), U. S. 15 (State 75), U. S. 501 (State 55), and State 91.

Airports-1, privately-owned.

Amusements-Largest auditorium (City Auditorium) seats 1,750 persons. 6 moving-picture theatres, with total seating capacity of 3.286 per- sons. 2 golf courses.

Hospitals-4, with total of 799 beds.

Education-Duke University, Southern Conservatory of Music, Croft Sec- retarial School, and North Carolina College for Negroes. 20 public schools, including 3 senior high and 1 junior high. 1 parochial school. Number of pupils in public schools, 11,303; in parochial, 85. Number of teachers in public schools, 332. Value of public school property, $3,230,000; parochial, $30,000; college, $20,670,000.

Public Libraries-5, with total of 361,698 volumes. Duke University Li- brary contains more than 500,000 volumes.

City Statistics-Total street mileage, 205, with 75 miles paved. Miles of gas mains, 63, and of sewers, 301. Number of water meters, 9,600: light meters, 9,042; gas meters, 2,881. Capacity of water works (mu- nicipal), 9,000,000 gallons; daily average pump, 4,500,000 gallons, with 169.7 miles of mains, and plant valued at $4,800,000. Fire depart- ment has 47 men, with 4 stations and 10 pieces of motor equipment. Value of fire department property, $287,300. Police department has 52 men, with 1 station and 10 pieces of motor equipment.

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History

In April, 1865, at a log cabin known as the Bennett Place, near Dur- ham's Station, there occurred one of the most historic events in the his- tory of our nation. Lee nad surrendered at Appomattox, and the future looked dark indeed for the Southern States. Jefferson Davis and his cabinet had escaped to Greensboro, North Carolina, and there had held fiery debate as to the advisability of continuing the Civil War. Some members of the cabinet favored continuing hostilities at any cost, even though it meant carrying on a guerrilla warfare, while others took the position that the cause of the Confederacy was forever lost and that no good could be accomplished by further bloodshed. Finally it was decided to instruct General Joseph E. Johnston, commander of the Confederate Armies of the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida, to negotiate terms of peace with General William Tecumseh Sherman, commander of the Federal Army which had broken the backbone of the Confederacy by reason of its famous march to the sea. These two generals met at the Bennett Place and signed a tentative peace agreement. This agreement was so favorable to the South that General Grant refused to approve it, but after several days' conference, it was amended to meet General Grant's demands and was signed and approved by the governments of the North and South, and the War Between the States came to a close.

Bennett Memorial

Marking the place of surrender, just four miles from Durham, there has been erected, through the generosity of Mrs. S. T. Morgan, a, beauti- ful monument consisting of two columns, one representing the North and the other the South, joined together by a cross-piece on which is the word Unity. This historic spot is visited each year by thousands of peo- ple as the birthplace of a reunited nation.

The death of the Confederacy gave birth to the city of Durham, and out of the ashes of the hopes of the Southern people has been built a great and beautiful city. In 1865 Durham Station was a small and insig- nificant point on the North Carolina Railroad, inhabited by less than 100 people. There was one lone business enterprise here, a crude and un- important tobacco factory with total assets of less than $2,000, including not only products on hand, but representing also the entire investment and replacement. History and tradition unite in saying that this factory was broken into by Sherman's soldiers and a large part of the stock car- ried away. Tradition further says that the product carried away was so well made and of such quality that when the soldiers returned to the pur- suit of civil life, letters came back to Durham to ascertain if there was more of the product upon the market. To supply this demand, a broken business was rebuilt.

In 1865 Washington Duke, a Confederate soldier, walked from New Bern to his home in Durham, and with the same stout heart which had carried him through the vicissitudes of a lost cause, turned his attention

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to the battle for bread, which was doubtless as cruel and bitter as the war from which he had returned. He built the second factory in Durham, composed of a log cabin 20x30 feet, and with his own hands manufactured a product out of a small supply of tobacco which the Federal soldiers had not found. This he called Pro Bono Publico. The output of this factory was originally four or five hundred pounds, and in 1872 had grown to 125,000 pounds.

In the meantime, W. T. Blackwell had moved to Durham to engage in the tobacco business. He was to the early development of the tobacco industry in Durham what Napoleon was to France, or Caesar to Rome. The Durham Bull got upon the map and in a few brief years his sonorous voice, like the shot at Lexington, was heard around the world. In 1872 the two small tobacco factories had grown into twelve.

View of City Hall

James Buchanan Duke, becoming convinced that it was neither prac- ticable nor profitable to compete with Bull "Durham smoking tobacco, turned the vision of his great genius into the cigarette field, and from that day to the present hour the increasing volume of the tobacco indus- try has become the common property of mankind.

In 1869, on April 10, almost exactly four years after Johnston surren- dered to Sherman, Durham was born. There were less than 258 inhab- itants in the village, and the total municipal revenue was the sum of $357.44. The largest taxpayer paid a sum of $40.62 in taxes. In 1870 there were probably less than 100 wage-earners in industrial pursuits in the town.

The tobacco industry grew at a very rapid rate, using large quantities of bright-leaf tobacco. While much of this type of tobacco was grown around Durham, it was sold at tobacco markets in Richmond and other Virginia cities, and local manufacturers had to pay the cost of transport- ing the tobacco back from Virginia to Durham. This condition made desirable the opening of warehouses for the sale of leaf tobacco in Dur- ham, and resulted in this city becoming one of the largest bright-leaf tobacco markets in the world, now selling from 28 to 30 million pounds each season.

During all this time there were no banks in the town, practically all of the banking being transacted in Raleigh, and on days of big sales at the tobacco warehouses it was necessary to obtain cash from the mer-

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Airplane View Showing East Campus, Duke University, and Part of City of Durham

chants in order to pay the farmer for his product. Such inconveniences could not long continue, and soon two banks were established.

The next step in the industrial and commercial history of the town was the bringing in of additional railway lines. By the co-operation of manufacturers, merchants, and the city and county governments, the Seaboard Air Line, the Southern Railway, and the Norfolk & Western Railway were given access to this market. Later the Norfolk Southern Railroad and the Durham & Southern Railway were added to the rail-

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way lines serving the city, giving a total of five railway companies with seven lines of railroad radiating in every direction.

The town of Durham had now grown into a very prosperous and thriving community, but its citizenship was not satisfied with having purely a commercial and industrial town. The people felt the need of better schools and, in 1885, after a heated political campaign, bonds were voted for public school buildings and a tax levied for maintaining a pub- lic school system. Today Durham has one of the finest public school plants of any city of its size, with physical property valued at more than $3,200,000 and with a personnel of teachers and management which gives it first rating among the cities of North Carolina.

In 1892 Trinity College, now Duke University, was brought to Durham through the philanthropy of Mr. Washington Duke and General Julian S. Carr, Today Duke University has a physical plant worth $20,000,000, 2,656 students, a 456-bed hospital, and ranks among the leading educa- tional institutions of the nation.

View of Hope Valley Country Club

As the tobacco industry grew and prospered, certain persons used some of their dividends in establishing cotton mills, and this industry soon assumed a position of importance in the industrial life of the city, Later hosiery mills were established, until today Durham ranks as the first city of the South in the manufacture of full-fashioned silk hosiery. Other industries were added from time to time, including flour mills, fertilizer plants, iron works, wood-working plants, printing establish- ments, etc., until in 1932 there are engaged in industry 12,038 wage-earn- ers, producing $138,000,000 worth of manufactured products annually. These industries pay into the Federal. treasury approximately $70,000,000 each year. Durham today produces 24 per cent of all the cigarettes made in the United States.

In 1924 a program of civis improvement was undertaken, and al- though it was interrupted by the World War, it has now reached the

View of New Administration Building, North Carolina College for Negroes

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point where Durham has all the conveniences of a modern city, includ- ing complete sewerage, asphalt streets, paved sidewalks, electric power, gas, the latest dial telephone service, Western Union and Postal Telegraph service, American Telephone & Telegraph repeater station, insuring rapid long-distance telephone communication; a fine recreation pro- gram, and a system of water works with an impounding reservoir suffi- cient to care for the needs of a city of 100,000 people.

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Hill's Durham (N.C.) city directory [1932], Part 1

Author: Hill Directory Company. Publication date: 1932 Publisher: Hill Directory Co. Number of Pages: 604

Author: Hill Directory Company.
Publication date: 1932
Publisher: Hill Directory Co.
Number of Pages: 604