Hill's Wilmington (North Carolina) City Directory [1932], Part 1

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Publication date: 1932
Publisher: Hill Directory Co.
Number of Pages: 612

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HILL'S WILMINGTON (NORTH CAROLINA)

CITY DIRECTORY Vol. 1932 XIX

Containing an Alphabetical Directory of Business Concerns and Pri- vate Citizens, a Directory of Householders, Occupants of Office Buildings and Other Business Places, Including a Complete Street and Avenue Guide; also a

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GENERAL INDEX

Abbreviations

Page 40

Advertising Department 41

Alphabetical Directory 17

Apartment Buildings

546

Associations and Clubs-Commercial

546

Banks and Trust Companies 549

Buildings-Office and Public 553

Business Directory-Classified 545

Buyers' Guide

Cemeteries 553

Chamber of Commerce 435

Churches 554

City Fire Department 436

City Officials 435

City Police Department 435

Classified Business Directory

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Clergymen

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Clubs

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County Court

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County Government

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Halls 571

Homes and Asylums 572

Hospitals and Dispensaries 572

Labor Organizations 579

Libraries 582

Newspapers 585

Parks and Playgrounds 589 Railroads 592

Schools-Public 596

Schools, Colleges and Academies

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Societies-Benevolent and Fraternal

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State Government 310

Street and Avenue Guide and Directory of Householders 449

United States Officials 406

United States Post Office 406

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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS

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Atlantic Investment Co. left side lines and 31 Baxley Co The .. marginal line front cover and Belk-Williams Co Inc. 24 23 Boatwright J H & Son Inc front cover and Cantwell Robt C Realtors front cover and 27 32 Capps J W & Co. marginal line back cover and Carney H Gaston 18 30 City Optical Co. left top lines and Davis-Moore Paint Co. front cover and 32 26 24 Efird's Department Store left bottom lines and Electric Maintenance Co. right bottom lines and Farley Clothing Stores. Foster D R & Co .. front stencil and 24 22 32 30 35 .marginal line front cover and left side lines and 31 22 Independent Ice Co The .left top lines and 27 right top lines and . backbone and 26 28 25 Kingoff's .. .right top lines and .right side lines and 30 33 21 33 26 18 33 front cover and 19

Hanover Insurance Agency Inc

Hanover Iron Works

Hyman Supply Co.

Ideal Laundry.

Jacobi N Hardware Co

Jenks Julius D

King Adolph L.

MacRae Hugh & Co Inc.

Maffett C D & Co

Marshall & Twining

Marshburn J E & Sons.

McCabe J B & Co.

Moore-Fonvielle Realty Co.

Morris Plan Bank.

North Carolina Bank & Trust Co.

right bottom lines and 20

Orrell & Merritt Street Divider

P & F Motor Express. left top lines and 25 20 Peoples Savings Bank & Trust Co. left top lines and 27 Plate Ice Co Inc. right top lines and Pope Andrew M left side lines and 31 Raines David G. Raney Chevrolet Co Inc. left top lines and 19 19 25 Rebder Will Reilly James Owen. 34 Simon W A Inc. .right top lines and 23 Smith P R Motor Co .right top lines and Smith's Shoe Repair. . marginal line front cover and 19 36 3 Sutton-Council Furniture Co. 29

Taylor Walker top stencil and

Thorpe W B & Co Inc front cover and 22

Tide Water Power Co. .right top lines

Typewriter Inspection Co. right top lines and 36 Underwood U A Co. Walton A B. bottom stencil and Wells Harold W 23 29 30 23

Wilmington Cold Storage Corp. left top lines and

Wilmington Savings & Trust Co. left top lines and 20

Wilmington Stamp & Printing Co. .Street Divider Yopp Walter E right top lines and

INTRODUCTION

HILL DIRECTORY CO., Inc., publishers of the Wil- mington City Directory, present to subscribers and the gen- eral public, this, the 1932 edition.

Confidence in the growth of Wilmington's industry, population and wealth, and in the advancement of its civic and social activities, will be created as sections of this direc- tory are consulted, for the directory is a mirror truly reflect- ing Wilmington 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 coopera- tion 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 Wilmington Direc- tory will fulfill its mission as a source of authentic informa- tion pertaining to the city.

Four Major Departments

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

THE BUYERS' GUIDE, pages 17 to 40, printed on tinted paper, contains the advertisements of leading manufactur- ing, business and professional interests of Wilmington. These pages will be found particularly interesting and instructive to substantial purchasing factors. The ad- vertisements have been carefully grouped by depart- ments 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 Wilmington, the necessity of having this kind of informa- tion 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 41 to 447. 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 449 to 544. 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 con- cerns are placed opposite the numbers.

THE CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY is included in pages 545 to 603. This department lists the various man- ufacturing, mercantile and professional interests in alpha- betical order under appropriate headings. This feature constitutes an invaluable and indispensable epitome of

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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 busi- ness world. "More goods are bought and sold through the Classified Business Directory than through any other med- ium."

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 available for free public reference, and serve as perpetual and reliable advertisements of Wilmington, for business men, everywhere, realize that the city directory represents a community as it really is.

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

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WILMINGTON

THE ONLY DEEP-WATER PORT OF NORTH CAROLINA (Courtesy Wilmington Chamber of Commerce)

Statistical Review

Form of Government-Commission.

Population-32,270 (1930 U. S. Census report for city proper); 37,500, local estimate at present.

Area-4.5 square miles.

Altitude-30 feet.

Climate-Mean annual temperature, 63 degrees F .; aver- age annual rainfall, 53 inches.

Parks-4, with total of 225 acres, valued at $300,000.

Assessed Valuation-$45,000,000.

Bonded Debt-$3,152,700.

Financial Institutions-3 state banks and trust com- panies, with total deposits of $6,911,000, and resources of $8,549,000 (Dec. 31, 1931). Also another state bank and trust company, a branch of Greensboro.

Telephones in Service-4,500.

Churches-70, representing all denominations.

Building and Construction-Value of building permits, approximately $1,000,000, with 225 new dwelling units con- structed (1931).

Industry-Principal industries: Manufacturing and shipping. 110 establishments, employing normally 14,000 men and 5,700 women, paying wages of $14,000,000 annually, and having products valued at $50,000,000 annually. Prin- cipal manufactured products: Fertilizers, lumber, sugar, to- bacco products, petroleum products, cotton goods and mo- lasses.

Trade Area-Retail area extends 75 miles inland, and contains population of 225,000; wholesale area extends 150 miles inland, and contains population of 400,000.

Newspapers-2 dailies (morning and evening); also 2 weeklies.

Hotels-4, with total of 400 rooms. Newest hotel opened in 1926.

Railroads-3: Atlantic Coast Line; Seaboard Air Line; Wilmington, Brunswick & Southern.

Amusements-4 theatres, with total seating capacity of 4,200 persons.

Hospitals-5, with total of 255 beds.

Education-8 schools, including 2 high. Number of pupils in public schools, 8,750; in private, 450. Number of teachers, 182. Value of school property, public and private, approximately $1,800,000.

City Statistics-Total street mileage, 150, with 54 miles paved. Miles of gas mains, 71; of sewers, 74, and of electric street railway, 21. Daily average pump of water works, 3,- 000,000 gallons, with plant valued at $1,250,000. Fire de- partment has 60 men, with 4 stations and 8 pieces of motor equipment. Police department has 42 men, with 1 station and 5 pieces of motor equipment.

INTRODUCTION

General Review

Wilmington is strategically situated on the Cape Fear River, blessed by nature with a variety of resources and kept up-to-date by the hand of man. It possesses both trunk- line rail and deep-water transportation, which give it low freight rates and permit quick freight movements in great volume.

Wilmington is both important as a port and as an in- dustrial city, while it is the pivotal point for a rich and large agricultural area, and is the trading center for fully 225,000 people, the city being their nearest, as well as largest, market.

As a port, it possesses a fresh-water harbor 28 miles from the bar. Ice is an unknown quantity in the river, which has a deep channel, up and down which go big ocean steamers, bound for Europe, Latin America and other for- eign shores. The Federal Government has recently com- pleted the deepening of the channel in the river to thirty feet at mean low water, as well as the Intra-Coastal Canal from Beaufort to Wilmington, giving connections with Bal- timore, Philadelphia, New York and Boston.

Wilmington's exportations and importations are large and ever-growing, which mark a successful port. As a cot- ton port, it sends forth approximately two hundred thous- and bales per year, and this record is evidently going to be surpassed. Its imports cover a large field in variety and come from practically every quarter of the globe. Wilmington ranks as the second largest fertilizer port on the Atlantic Seaboard, and its volume of petroleum products is such that practically seventy-five per cent of the state's consumption passes through the port. Wilmington also has a tremendous volume of molasses importation, which serves a half dozen States, as well as a large amount of lumber handled in both coast-wise and foreign trade. Recent increase of port vol- ume has been evidenced in large tobacco exports and grow- ing imports of sugar.

Within the past year or two the population of Wilming- ton has increased in a tremendous way, and it is now a city of between 35,000 and 40,000, housed in comfortable homes. To accommodate the increasing population, not only have individuals built homes, but the citizens have formed what is known as the Victory Home Company, with an authorized capital of a million dollars and paid-in capital of $250,000 to erect houses, which object has been successfully carried out.

Regardless of conditions, the year has already witnessed preparations for big building operations. Among recent enterprises located here are several large fertilizer fac- tories, the Atlantic Refining Co., the Galena Signal Oil Co., the American Molasses Co., Southland Manufacturing Co., Wilmington Veneer Corp., Dupont Nitrates Co., W. R. Grace & Co., Nehi Bottling Co., Corbett Crate Co., Mavis Crate Co., National Oil Co., Shell Oil Co. and the North State Creosot- ing Co., thus supplementing the city's already large number of such industries.

Wilmington is the natural gateway of North and South Carolina, intermediate between the whole territory and Richmond.

Wilmington is North Carolina's seaport city, the gate- way of her commerce and trade. North Carolina is a vast state in area, larger than New York or Pennsylvania, and almost as large as New England. Wilmington is the natural

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distributing point for North Carolina and parts of South Carolina and Georgia. Think what it would mean if all New England had only one such distributing seaport, and it will then be realized why Wilmington must grow and is growing to meet the demands of this vast territory whose bountiful natural resources have hardly been touched.

From the Middle West the Panama Canal is in more direct communication via Wilmington than by any other South Atlantic seaport, and cargoes to and from Wilmington are not subject to the dangers of Cape Hatteras.

Wilmington is the center of the greatest vegetable- producing district in the United States. A few years ago no strawberries were raised except for domestic use; now Wilmington is the center of the largest strawberry-raising district in the world. It is the largest lettuce-producing district in the world, and next to the largest peanut market.

Wilmington's outlets by rail and water are the Atlantic Coast Line and Seaboard Air Line systems; Wilmington, Brunswick & Southern Railway; the North Carolina Line, operating the Steamer State Port over the Intra-Coastal Canal; Railway Express Agency, Inc., and foreign services.

Wilmington has a wonderful climate; no extreme heat or extreme cold. Average summer temperature, 78 degrees; average winter temperature, 48 degrees. The normal rain- fall is 53 inches; average annual clear days, 132 (New York, rainfall, 44 inches; clear days, 118; New Orleans, rainfall, 57 inches; clear days, 109). The mild climate and diversified opportunities make this city and section a haven for home- seekers.

The Wilmington district is one of the greatest trucking regions in the United States, and the yield for this early crop is valued at nearly eighteen million dollars annually.

Nearest Atlantic port to the Ohio gateways, and nearer Cincinnati than Charleston by fifteen miles, and Savannah, by thirty miles.

One of the largest distributing points south of Balti- more for products of the Standard Oil Company.

Has immense terminals that can load sixteen ocean- going ships at one time, providing them with over 600,000 square feet of warehouse space.

In the World War Wilmington had two immense ship- yards, properties having been converted into industrial and civil uses. It had the honor of possessing the only Govern- ment-owned steel shipyard in the South, and first Govern- ment-owned concrete yard in the country.

The commerce on the Cape Fear River at and below Wilmington last year averaged approximately 1,250,000 tons, with valuation of more than $82,000,000.

South of Hatteras, thus assuring safety to vessels from Latin America and other countries to the south of the Unit- ed States, this port occupies a strategic position of advan- tage to those countries.

Cape Fear River never has ice, which permits year- 'round navigation, and the climate is never so cold that it makes outdoor work a hardship or discomfort.

Wilmington has many fertilizer factories, petroleum products terminals, lumber plants, and a number of fish- packing plants, with large payrolls. It has the handsomest custom house in the South, costing more than $700,000. This city is the home station of the Coast Guard Cutter Modoc.

INTRODUCTION

Wilmington has become a new and important inland waterway canal terminal since the completion, in the spring of 1932, of the extension from Beaufort to the Cape Fear River. This link provides accommodations for heavy traffic over a protected inland channel twelve feet deep and ninety feet wide, connecting up with points as far north as New York and Boston.

Wilmington has two immense cotton compresses and a marine railway. The steel shipyard operated during the war by the George A. Fuller Company is being converted into an industrial center. The concrete shipyard property is owned by the city and will be developed into municipal wharves and public terminals and warehouses. This has been offered the State of North Carolina as a location for State-owned terminals and warehouses, whenever such are necessary. Wilmington now has one of the finest and most efficiently operated systems of private terminals at any Southern port, and the city's principal stevedoring corpora- tion holds the record for all South Atlantic ports for quick dispatch of cargo.

With both water and rail transportation, thus affording quick hauls and low freight rates, and near the scenes of raw materials, Wilmington is a splendid spot for manufact- uring industries. Two big railroad systems-the Atlantic Coast Line and the Seaboard Air Line-place the city near the great coal fields and the iron-producing zones.

Wilmington has cotton garment mills, wood and metal works, cement concerns, cotton factories, candy factories, ready-cut house plant, machine shops, big fertilizer fac- tories, sawmills, oil stations, etc. A fine cold storage plant is located here.

This is a leading banking center, local banks having total deposits of approximately $7,000,000.

Jobbing business goes over $800,000,000 in value an- nually, and retail merchants do a wide business, as the city is the trading Mecca for a section containing 225,000 popula- tion.

City of big weekly payrolls. Annual payrolls normally $14,000,000, distributed among thousands of employees.

Headquarters of Atlantic Coast Line System, employing locally about two thousand men and women. Monthly pay- roll of Coast Line nearly $400,000.

Wonderful year-'round climate, and a health record praised by the United States Government.

The Wilmington section has crop-growing days to the number of 250, which is the equal of northern Mexico, though with the advantage of an ample and equable rain- fall.

Wilmington is the terminus of six major highways of North Carolina's splendid good roads system, and the city is also an important point on the Atlantic Coastal Highway extending from Portland, Maine, to Miami, Fla .; the Cal- houn Highway from Athens, Ga., to the ocean at Wilming- ton, and Federal Routes 17, 17-I, 74 and 421.

Wilmington is a city of fine streets, fine parks, beautiful homes, great churches and modern schools, in a county netted by good roads, the superior not to be found anywhere. It is a place of up-to-date amusements, with some of the

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Hill's Wilmington (North Carolina) City Directory [1932], Part 1

Author: Hill Directory Company. Publication date: 1932 Publisher: Hill Directory Co. Number of Pages: 612

Author: Hill Directory Company.
Publication date: 1932
Publisher: Hill Directory Co.
Number of Pages: 612