Hill's Wilmington (North Carolina) city directory [1928], Part 1

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Publication date: 1928
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GENERAL INDEX


Abbreviations.


48


Advertising Department. 17


Alphabetical Directory.


49


Associations and Societies.


658


Banks.


663


Business Directory-Classified.


657


Buyers' Guide


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Cemeteries.


669


Chamber of Commerce


524


Churches.


670


City Courts.


129


Fire Department


129


" Officials 129


Police Department


128


Classified Directory


657


Clergymen


673


Clubs.


675


County Court.


141


County Government


140


Elks.


174


Hospitals


695


Index to Advertisers


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Introduction.


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Knights of Columbus


295


Knights of Pythias.


295


Labor Organizations.


297


Masonic Orders


339


Odd Fellows


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Preface


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Schools-Public.


725


Schools and Colleges 726


Street and Avenue Guide and Directory of Householders


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United States Officials.


490


United States Post Office 490


State Government. 464


Woodmen of the World. 530


Young Men's Christian Association 536


Young Women's Christian Association.


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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS


. American Bakeries Co. 22


Atlantic Investment Co ... back cover and 38


Boatwright J H & Son .left side lines and 34


Bradshaw W J & Co. right bottom lines and 30 47


Callihan Pump & Well Co


Capps J W & Co. marginal line back cover and 18


Carolina Printing & Stamp Co. back cover and 41


Cement Products Co


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Christie Robt R .right top lines and


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City Cycle Co left side lines and


City Laundry Co. left side lines and 38


City Optical Co.


left top lines and 40


Crescent Motor Co


Crowell Frank E


Daughtry Automobile Co. left top lines and 21


Davis-Moore Paint Co. front cover and 31


Dixie Dry Cleaners. left side lines and 27 30


Dixie Service Station


Domestic Electric Service Co. left bottom lines and 28


Efird's Department Store left bottom lines and 28


Electric Maintenance Co.


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Farley Clothing Co.


Fidelity Trust & Development Co The left side lines and 41


Finkelstein Chas.


left bottom lines and 37


Foster D R & Co. front stencil and adv on map Giles Clayton & Son. right side lines and 35


Gordon Bros.


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Green & Sadgwar.


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Greenfield Mineral Water Co


right top lines and 46


. Gummer's Shoe Repair


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Harriss & Cowan


left top lines and 43


Hollis & Cantwell.


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Home Savings Bank


back cover and 23


Hotel Wilmington


right bottom lines and 32


Hughes Bros.


right side lines and 19


Hyman Supply Co


marginal line front cover and 39


Ideal Laundry left side lines and 27 Independent Ice Co The. left top lines and 32


Jacobi N Hardware Co. right top lines and 31


Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Co.


marginal line back cover and 36 King-Cowell Motor Co Inc. 22


.right and left bottom lines and 19 21


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Kingoff's right bottom lines and 37 20


Live Oak Service Station


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M & S Transfer & Storage Co right bottom lines and 45


McGirt Wm A right side lines and 43


McGrath & Co. left bottom lines and 40


MacMillan & Marshburn. front cover and 20 45


Martin Whitley E.


Metropolitan Life Insurance Co marginal line back cover and


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Moore-Fonvielle Realty Co front cover and 42


Moore Roger Sons & Co.


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Murray's Transfer Co Inc. marginal line back cover and 3


Nehi Bottling Co left side lines and 25


News-Dispatch Inc Classified Divider


North Carolina Home Building Assn .right bottom lines and 25


Northan's Book & Stationery Store, Inc. marginal line front cover and 25


Northrop Real Estate Agency Inc. . bottom stencil and 43


Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co of Milwaukee, Wis


marginal line front cover and 37


Oleander Development Co


right side lines and 44


Oliver David S


. backbone and 33


Peoples Savings Bank.


left top lines and


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Phelps-Flowers. right side lines and 29


Pioneer Service Station marginal line front cover and 21


Plate Ice Co right top lines and 32 Progressive Building & Loan Assn 26 18


Pullen A M & Co


Raines D G.


left top lines and 19


Reilly James Owen.


.right bottom lines and 35


Roberts Auto Exchange


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Rural Building & Loan Assn right bottom lines and 35


Sanderson Cleaners & Dyers


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Smith Shoe Repair. left side lines and


Spirittine Chemical Co.


left top lines and 27


Swinson C R & Co Inc.


left bottom lines and 30


Taylor Walker


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Thorpe W B & Co Inc.


back cover and 26


Tidewater Power Co


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Todd Walter M.


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28 Way W W & Son 3


Wells Harold W Insurance Agency . right side lines and 35


Wilder H F Real Estate & Insurance Agency . right side lines and 44


Wilmington Grocery Co. .right top lines and 31


Wilmington Ice Cream Co. Street Divider


Wilmington Savings & Trust Co The. left top lines and 23


Wilmington Stamp & Printing Co Street Divider Yates C W Co Inc.


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Yopp Walter E.


right top lines and 29


Yow Bros Upholstery Co.


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Shoe Fixery


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INTRODUCTION


Hill Directory Company, Inc., presents to its subscribers and to the general public this (1928) edition of the Wilmington (City) Di- rectory.


Confidence in the growth of Wilmington, in its wealth, industry and population, as well as in the advancement of its municipal and social activities, will be created as sections of this directory are con- sulted, for truly the directory is a mirror reflecting Wilmington to the world.


The enviable place occupied by Hill Directory Company's directories in offices, stores, libraries and homes throughout our country causes the publishers to forecast the belief that the Wilmington directory will fulfill its mission as a source of authentic information of any and every kind pertaining to our city. With an unrivaled organiza- tion having the courteous and hearty co-operation of the business and professional men and residents, the publishers feel that the result of their labor will meet with the approval of every resident of the city.


POPULATION


The estimated population of Wilmington is 42,930, based on the number of individual names in the alphabetical section of the Direc- tory, with due allowance for women and children, whose names are not included. Territory immediately adjacent, which is part of the city, as far as business and social life are concerned, is included in the Directory.


FOUR MAJOR DEPARTMENTS


The several essential departments are arranged in the following order:


THE BUYERS' GUIDE, pages 17 to 48, printed on tinted paper, con- tains the advertisements of the leading manufacturing, business and professional interests of Wilmington. These pages will be found particularly interesting and instructive to the substantial elements of the city. The advertisements have been carefully grouped by de- partments 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 keen to prime themselves on sources of supply. The city's activities, in many interesting phases, are in- terestingly pictured to reveal what it has in its show window. In an ambitious and progressive community like Wilmington the need of


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INTRODUCTION-Continued


this kind of information readily at hand is very great and frequently pressing. General appreciation of this fact is evidenced by the liberal patronage the City Directory enjoys in the many fields which it serves.


THE ALPHABETICAL LIST OF NAMES of residents, business firms, corporations is included in pages 49 to 536. (A new feature of this section is the inclusion of wives' names in parenthesis following that of the husband.)


THE STREET AND AVENUE GUIDE AND DIRECTORY OF HOUSE- HOLDERS covers pages 537 to 656. In this section the names of the streets and avenues are arranged in alphabetical 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 657 to 736. This department lists the various manufacturing, mercantile and professional 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 Section 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 give emphasis to their desire to broadcast this informa- tion over the country, the publishers have placed copies of this issue of the Directory in Directory Libraries, which are maintained in all the larger cities of the country, where they are readily available for free public reference and serve as perpetual advertisements of Wilming- ton, for business men the country over realize that the City Directory represents the community as it really is.


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The publishers appreciatively acknowledge the patronage of those progressive business and professional men who have expressed their confidence in the City Directory as an advertising medium, with assurance that it will bring a commensurate return.


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WILMINGTON


STATISTICAL INFORMATION Furnished by Chamber of Commerce


Name of City-Wilmington, North Carolina.


Slogan or sub-phrase-"The Only Deep Water Port in North Carolina."


Form of government-Commission form.


Population-1920; 33,372; 1928, 42,382.


Area-41/2 square miles.


Altitude-30 feet.


Assessed valuation-$45,500,000, with $1.20 per $100 valuation. White population is 66 2-3 per cent of above total.


Colored population is 33 1-3 per cent of above total. White population of age: Males, 12,298; females, 12,680.


Number of all males is 20,536, and of all females is 21,846.


Native-born population is 99 7-10 per cent of whole population.


Predominating nationalities in city are American, Irish, German, Italian.


Parks-6, with 225 acres, valued at $150,000.


City's bonded debt is $2,195,900.


Financial-1 commercial bank, 3 trust companies, with total de- posits of $21,499,411.13; resources, $29,000,000, and clearings of $275,000,000 annually. Three savings banks, with $7,214,380.13 total deposits.


Post office receipts of $258,060.44.


Telephones in service-4,575.


Church buildings-35 white, 40 colored.


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Building and construction-Value of building permits, $1,500,000, with 165 new dwelling units constructed this year. Great amount of residential building in suburbs not included.


Real estate-Number of homes, 7,750, with about 75 per cent owned.


Industry-Number of establishments, 125, employing 13,793 men and 5,651 women, paying wages $13,000,000 annually and having products valued at $50,000,000 annually.


Trade Territory (retail) serves 225,000 people within the trading area covering a radius of 75 miles. Jobbing territory serves 400,000 people within a radius of 150 miles.


Hotels-There are 4 hotels, with total of 475 rooms. Newest hotel was built in 1926.


City served by Atlantic Coast Line and Seaboard Air Line Rail- roads.


Amusements-Largest theatre or auditorium seats 1,100 people. There are 4 theatres, with a total seating capacity of 4,400 people.


Hospitals-Number, 4, with 325 beds.


Education-Names of colleges, etc .: Motte Business College, Wilmington Law School. Number of schools, 11, including 1 high school, 2 parochial schools. Number of pupils in public schools, 9,000; in private schools, 1,000. Total of all teachers is 250. Value of all school property, private and public, approximately $1,300,000.


There are 15,671 volumes in the libraries of the city.


City statistics-Total street mileage, 150, with 65 to 75 miles paved, continuing miles under construction or ordered. Miles of gas mains laid, 45; of sewers, 74; electric street railway, 16 miles. Capacity of water works, 8 million gallons; daily average pump of 3,500,000 gallons, with 74 miles of mains and value of plant estimated at $1,500,000. Fire department employs 45 men with following equip- ment : 1 auto, 2 engines, 5 hose and chemical wagons, 5 hook and ladder trucks, 1 fire boat, 1 aerial ladder in 3 station houses. Value of fire department with property is $165,000. Police department has 1 station and 5 pieces of motor equipment; value, $20,000.


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PREFACE


(Furnished by Chamber of Commerce)


A city 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 trans- portation, which gives it low freight rates and permits quick freight movements in great volume.


It is both important as a port and as industrial 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 water channel, up and down which go big ocean steamers, bound for Europe, Latin America and other foreign shores.


Its exportations and importations are large and ever growing, which mark a successful port. As a cotton port it yearly sends forth approximately two hundred thousand 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.


Within the past year or two the population of Wilmington has in- creased in a tremendous way, and it is now a city of about 42,000 population, housed in comfortable homes. To accommodate the in- creasing population not only have individuals built homes, but the citizens formed what is known as the Victory Home Company, with an authorized capital of a million dollars and PAID IN OF $250,000.00 to erect houses, which object has been successfully carried out.


Regardless of conditions the year has already witnessed prepara- tions for big building operations. Among recent enterprises located here are several large new fertilizer factories, a large readi-cut house plant of the Aladdin Company, the Atlantic Refining Company, the Galena Signal Oil Company, the American Molasses Company ; Southland Manufacturing Co., Weller Pickle Co., Wilmington Veneer Corp, Dupont Nitrates Co., W. R. Grace & Company, Nehi Bottling Co., Cobett Crate Co., Mavis Crate Co., and others, thus supple- menting the city's already large number of such industries.


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


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


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From the Middle West the Panama Canal is in more direct com- munication via Wilmington than by any other South Atlantic sea- port, and cargoes to and from Wilmington will not be subject to the dangers of Cape Hatteras.


Wilmington is the center of the greatest vegetable producing dis- trict in the United States. A few years ago no strawberries were raised except for domestic use; now WILMINGTON IS THE CEN- TER OF 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 and Southern Railway, the .Clyde Steamship Line to New York, 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 rainfall is 51.05 inches, aver- age 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 homeseekers.


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


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


One of the largest distributing points south of Baltimore for pro- ducts 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 ware- house space.


In the war had two immense shipyards, properties having been converted into industrial and civil uses. Had the honor of possessing the only Government-owned steel shipyard in South, and first Govern- ment-owned concrete yard in country.


The commerce on the Cape Fear River at and below Wilmington last year averaged approximately 1,000,000 tons, with valuation of more than $67,000,000.


South of Hatteras, thus assuring safety to vessels from Latin America and other countries to the south of the United States, and occupies strategic position of advantage to such countries.


River never has ice, which permits year 'round navigation, and cli- mate is never too cold to make work outdoor as hardship or discomfort.


Has many fertilizer factories, petroleum products terminals, lum- ber plants and a number of fish factories, employing thousands of men.


Has handsomest custom house in the South, the cost of which was more than $700,000.


Next terminal of inland waterway canal, this link being from Beaufont to the Cape Fear River. Board of Engineers has recom- mended extension, work on which will start at once.


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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 ware- houses. This has been offered the State of North Carolina as a location for State-owned terminals and warehouses.


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




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