Hill's Durham (North Carolina) City Directory [1933], Part 1

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Publication date: 1933
Publisher: Hill Directory Co.
Number of Pages: 662

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DURHAM CITY-COUNTY LIBRARY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA

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DURHAM CITY DIRECTORY (1933)

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DURHAM

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(1933) HILL DIRECTORY CO.'S

HILL'S

DURHAM (DOOR CESTY(NORTH CAROLINA)

CITY DIRECTORY VOL. 1933 XXII.

CONTAINING AN ALPHABETICAL DIRECTORY OF BUSINESS CONCERNS AND PRIVATE CITIZENS, A DIRECTORY OF HOUSEHOLDERS, OCCUPANTS OF OFFICE BUILDINGS AND OTHER BUSI- NESS PLACES, INCLUDING A COMPLETE STREET AND AVENUE GUIDE; ALSO

A BUYERS' GUIDE

AND A COMPLETE

CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY For detailed contents see General Index

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PUBLISHERS' NOTE

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The publishers cannot and do not guarantee the correctness of all information furnished them nor the complete absence of errors and omissions, hence no responsibility for same can be or is assumed.

The publishers earnestly request the bringing to their attention of any inaccuracy so that it may be corrected in the next edition of the directory.

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GENERAL INDEX

Abbreviations

Page 46

Alphabetical List of Names 47

Apartment Buildings. 599

Associations and Clubs-Commercial 600

Banks and Trust Companies. 602

Buildings-Office and Public. 605

Buyers' Guide

Cemeteries

606

Churches.

607

City Government.

155

Classified Business Directory

599

Clergymen 608

610

County Officers

155

Federal Officers

434

Fire Department

155

Halls

621

Homes and Asylums.

621

Hospitals and Dispensaries

622

Justices of the Peace.

626

Labor Organizations 626

Libraries 628

Newspapers.

631

Parks and Playgrounds 633

Police Department 155

Post Office 434

Railroads

636

Schools-Public. 638

Schools, Colleges and Academies 638

Societies- Benevolent and Fraternal 640

Street and Avenue Guide. 479

United States Government. 434

/203 -105

Clubs

Courts. 156

INDEX TO ADVERTISERS

Alexander Motor Co

Ashlin B D & Co

Bache J S & Co.

right top lines

Bagwell-Small Plumbing & Heating

Co Inc.

Bell V E & Sons. left top lines Borden Brick & Tile Co,

marginal line front cover and 34

Carolina Finance Co

Carolina Glass Co.

Carpenter's Inc ... right side lines and

Citizens Realty & Ins Co .... left top lines

Crazy Water Crystals Co.

Depositors National Bank of Dur- ham right top lines and 29

Duke University.

Durham Beverage Co. 34

Durham. Coca-Cola Bottling Co, back cover and 33

Durham Dairy Products Inc,

backbone and 36

Durham Drug Co. .. left top lines and 36

Durham Electric Construction Co

Inc ... marginal line front cover and 37

Durham Industrial Bank. 30

Durham Loan & Trust Co, left top lines and 29

Durham Public Service Co,

right top lines and

Durham Realty & Insurance Co, left top lines and 43

Fidelity Bank The. . . front cover and

Five Points Furniture Co.

Globe Jewelry Co Inc

Granite Service Stations.

Hall-Wynne & Co Inc, front cover and 38 Harris Realty & Insurance Co,

marginal line back cover Hatwood Electric Shoe Shop 44 Haywood & Boone ..... right bottom lines Home Savings Bank, right top lines and 32

Hotel Gas & Storage Inc.

Hotel Malbourne ... left top lines and

Johnson Motor Co, marginal line front cover and 27 Johnson Service Station. 27 Jolnay Laboratories 44 Jones H F Cabinet & Millwork Co, 41 marginal line back cover and Jordan Motor Rebuilding Co, right side lines

Kane Geo W. front cover and 35 Lakewood Dairy ... left side lines and 36 Latta E J Roofing Co Inc, bottom stencil and 43

Main Street Garage

Markham J C & Sons

left top lines

May Claude M .. front stencil, 42 and 44

May D C.

backbone

Modern Electric Co Inc

Morris Plan Industrial Bank,

right top lines and

Muirhead Wm Construction Co,

top stencil and

Newport Lumber Co.

Nicholson Motor Co Inc.

North Carolina Mutual Life Ins Co, right side lines and 40

Parker Letter Service ..... right side lines

Pritchard-Bright & Co Inc

Reeves' American Inn.

Rochelle Sidney E. . left side lines and

Rochelle's Battery & Ignition Service,

left side lines

Rogers Drug Co

Scoville A K Co .. . right top lines and 26

Security Life & Trust Co.

Shaw Paint & Wall Paper Co Inc.

Smith W H Mrs Beauty Shoppe ....

Southgate J & Son Inc, marginal line back cover

Thompson & Cannady ..

.. right top lines

U-Drive-It-Yourself Inc.

University Motors Inc.

Washington Duke Hotel,

left top lines and

Young Roofing Co Inc,

back cover and 44

INTRODUCTION

HILL DIRECTORY CO., INC., publishers of the Durham City Direc- tory, present to subscribers and the general public this, the 1933 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 estimation of the public has been established by rendering the best in directory service. With an unrivaled organization, and having the courteous and hearty co- operation of the business and professional men and residents, the publishers feel that the result of their labors will meet with the approval of every user, and that the Durham Directory will fulfill its mission as a source of au- thentic information pertaining to the city.

FOUR MAJOR DEPARTMENTS

The several essential departments are arranged in the following order :

The Buyers' Guide, pages 25 to 46, printed on tinted paper, contains the advertisements of leading manufacturing, business and professional in- terests of Durham. These pages will be found particularly interesting and instructive to substantial purchasing factors. The advertisements 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 them- selves 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 di- rectory enjoys in the many fields which it serves.

The Alphabetical List of Names of residents, business firms and corporations is included in pages 47 to 478. 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 479 to 598. 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.

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The Classified Business Directory is included in pages 599 to 646. This department lists the various manufacturing, mercantile and pro- fessional interests in alphabetical order under appropriate headings. This feature constitutes an invaluable and indispensable epitome 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, de- picting 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 available for free public reference, and serve as perpetual and reliable advertisements 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 Directory a Directory Library is maintained in the offices of the Durham Chamber of Commerce for free reference by the general public. This is one of more than 425 Directory Libraries installed in the chief cities of the United States 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 pro- gressive business and professional men who have demonstrated their con- fidence in the city directory as an advertising medium, with assurance 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

Name of city-Durham, North Carolina.

Slogan or sub-phrase-"Durham, a Center of Industry and Education."

Form of government-Council-Manager.

How incorporated-City.

Population-1930 U. S. Census report, 52,037; local estimate at present, 56,000. White population of age-Males, 14,137; females, 15,856. Total colored popula- tiom, 18,717. Total number of males in city, 24,629; females, 27,408. American-born population is 99.3% of the whole.

Area-12.8 square miles.

Altitude-406 feet above sea level.

Climate-Mean annual temperature, 59.6 degrees F; average annual rainfall (or precipitation), 47.19 inches.

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

Assessed valuation-$63,000,000, with $1.64 per $100 tax rate.

Bonded debt-$9,329,956.51.

Financial institutions-6 banks, with total deposits of $16,003,758.22 on June 30, 1933; total resources of $19,518,549.51 on June 30, 1933. 4 building and loan asso- ciations, with total assets of $1,956,611.07 on June 30, 1933.

Postal receipts-$245,041.88 for year ending December 31, 1932.

Telephones in service-5,100.

Churches-Number, 77, representing 10 denominations.

Building and construction-Number of building permits issued, 151, valued at $385,985.00, with 116 new dwelling units constructed in 1932; 85 permits issued first six months of 1933, valued at $533,315.00.

Real estate-Number of transfers, 1,274 in 1932. Number of homes (each apart- ment considered a home), 10,459, with about 40% owned by occupants.

Industry-Chief industries of the city and surrounding territory-Manufacturing. Number of manufacturing establishments, 77, employing 7,105 men and 5,433 women, paying wages of $12,000,000 annually, and having products valued at $166,098,702 annually as per report covering the year 1932. Principal manufactured products, cigarettes, 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 (based on 1930 U. S. Census figures). Wholesale area has radius of 50 miles and population of 508,000 (based on 1930 U. S. Census figures).

Newspapers-Daily, 2; daily and Sunday, 1; weekly, 3.

Hotels-Number, 9, with total of 800 rooms. Newest hotel opened in 1925.

Railroads-City served by 5 railroads, as follows: Southern Railway, Seaboard Air Line, Norfolk and Western, Durham and Southern, and Norfolk Southern.

Highways-The following highways run through or to the city : Federal No. 70 (State No. 10); Federal No. 15 (State No. 75); Federal No. 501 (State No. 55); and State No. 91.

Airports-Number, 1.

Amusements-Largest auditorium in city seats 1,750 persons; 6 moving picture theatres, with total seating capacity of 3,286 persons. Number of golf courses in or near the city, 2.

Hospitals-Number, 4, with total of 799 beds.

Education-Names of chief institutions of higher learning: Duke University, South- ern Conservatory of Music, Durham College of Commerce, Croft Secretarial School, Carolina Commercial College, and North Carolina College for Negroes. Number of public schools, 20, including 3 senior high schools and 1 junior high school. Num- ber of parochial schools, 1. Number of pupils in public schools, 11,612; in parochial schools, 85. Number of teachers in public schools, 334; in parochial schools, 4. Value of public school property, $3,230,000; parochial school property, $30,000; college property, $20,670,000.

Public libraries-Number, including branches, 5, with total of 361,698 volumes. Duke libraries have over 300,000 volumes.

City statistics-Total street mileage, 205, with 75 miles paved. Miles of gas mains, 63; of sewers (storm and sanitary), 301. Number of water meters, 9,600; light meters,

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8,981; gas meters, 2,775, Capacity of water works (municipal), 9,000,000 gallons, with daily average pump of 4,500,000 gallons, 169.7 miles of mains, and plant valued at $4,800,000. Fire department has 47 paid men, with 2 autos, 5 engines, 1 aerial ladder truck and 2 hook and ladder trucks, in 4 station houses. Value of fire depart- ment real estate and equipment, $287,300. Police department has 52 men, with 1 station and 10 pieces of motor equipment. Value of police department real estate and equipment, $15,581.61.

HISTORY

In April, 1865, at a log cabin known as the Bennett Place, near Durham's Station, there occurred one of the most historic events in the history of our nation. Lee had 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

BENNETT MEMORIAL

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.

Marking the place of surrender, just four miles from Durham, there has been erected, through the generosity of Mrs. S. T. Morgan, a beautiful 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 people 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 insignificant point on the North Carolina Railroad, inhabited by less than 100 people. There was one lone business enterprise here, a crude and unimportant tobacco factory with total assets of less than $2,000, including not only products on hand, but representing also the entire investment and

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replacement. History and tradition unite in saying that this factory was broken into by Sherman's soldiers and a large part of the stock carried away. Tradition further says that the product carried away was so well made and of such quality that when the soldiers returned to the pursuit of civil life, letters came back to Durham to ascer- tain 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 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.

James Buchanan Duke, becoming convinced that it was neither practicable 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 in- creasing volume of the tobacco industry has become the common property of mankind.

In 1869, on April 10, almost exactly four years after Johnston surrendered to Sher- man, Durham was born. There were less than 258 inhabitants 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 indus- trial 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

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AIRPLANE VIEW SHOWING EAST CAMPUS, DUKE UNIVERSITY, AND PART OF CITY OF DURHAM

sold at tobacco markets in Richmond and other Virginia cities, and local manufacturers had to pay the cost of transporting the tobacco back from Virginia to Durham. This condition made desirable the opening of warehouses for the sale of leaf tobacco in Durham, 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 bank- ing being transacted in Raleigh, and on days of big sales at the tobacco warehouses it was necessary to obtain cash from the merchants 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 bring- ing 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 railway lines serving the city, giving a total of five railway companies with seven lines radiating in every direction.

The town of Durham had now grown into a very prosperous and thriving com- munity, 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 public 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,- 230,000 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, 2,842 students, a 456-bed hospital, and ranks among the leading educational institutions of the nation.

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 establishments,

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etc., until in 1933 there are engaged in industry 12,538 wage-earners, producing $166,- 098,702 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 1914 a program of civic improvement was undertaken, and although it was interrupted by the World War, it has now reached the point where Durham has all the conveniences of a modern city, including 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 program, and a system of water works with an impounding reservoir sufficient to care for the needs of a city of 100,000 people.

Any story about Durham would be incomplete without mention of the notable con- tribution which the Negro race has made to the industrial, commercial and civic de- velopment of the community. The progress the race has made here has been truly amazing. Under the leadership of E. R. Merrick, and later, C. C. Spaulding and

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their associates, Durham's colored people have established industries, insurance com- panies, banks and other commercial businesses which would be creditable to any city. The labor which they furnish the city's industrial plants is intelligent and dependable. The high type of leaders among the colored people here has made Durham a con- spicuous outpost in the advancement of Negro civilization.

One of the finest things about the founders of Durham is that material prosperity merely opened to them avenues of service to mankind. It has been said that more philanthropists have been produced in Durham than in any other city of the South. Watts Hospital, of 210 beds, was a gift to the city and county by Mr. George W. Watts. Lincoln Hospital, of 108 beds, is largely the gift of Mr. Benjamin N. Duke. Duke University is a living memorial to Mr. Washington Duke and his two sons, Benjamin N. Duke and James Buchanan Duke. Other philanthropists have remembered the city from time to time in ways which help in making Durham a good place in which to live and work.

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Hill's Durham (North Carolina) City Directory [1933], Part 1

Author: Hill Directory Company. Publication date: 1933 Publisher: Hill Directory Co. Number of Pages: 662

Author: Hill Directory Company.
Publication date: 1933
Publisher: Hill Directory Co.
Number of Pages: 662