Hill's Wilmington (North Carolina) city directory [1930], Part 1

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Publication date: 1930
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WILMINGTON CITY DIRECTORY (1930)

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represents the City and its institutions in every cor- ner of these United States

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HILL'S WILMINGTON (NORTH CAROLINA)

CITY DIRECTORY Vol. 1930 XVIII

Containing an Alphabetical Directory of Business Concerns and Private Citizens, a Directory of Householders, Occupants of Office Buildings and Business Places, including a Com- plete 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

The information in this Directory is gathered hy an actual canvass and is compiled in a way to insure maximum accuracy.

The publishers cannot and do not guarantee the cor- rectness 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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BOX 386 NORTH CAROLINA

GENERAL INDEX

Page

Abbreviations

Advertising Department

637

Alphabetical Directory

Apartment Buildings 638

Associations and Clubs-Commercial 639

Banks and Trust Companies 642

Buildings-Office and Public

647

Business Directory-Classified

637

Buyers' Guide

Cemeteries

648

Chamber of Commerce

512

Churches

649

City Fire Department

513

City Officials

512

City Police Department

512

Classified Directory

637

Clergymen

652

County Court

360

County Government

359

Homes and Asylums

671

Hospitals and Dispensaries

671

Labor Organizations

677

Libraries

680

Newspapers

685

Parks and Playgrounds

688

Railroads 693

Schools-Public 697

Schools, Colleges and Academies 697

Societies-Benevolent and Fraternal 700

Societies-Miscellaneous 699

Street and Avenue Guide and Directory of Householders 529 United States Officials 478

United States Post Office 479

State Government 367

Young Men's Christian Association 525

Young Women's Christian Association 525

654

Clubs BOX 386

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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS

Allen Wm K

American Bakeries Co left top lines and

Atlantic Investment Co left side lines and

Belk-Williams Co Inc

Blanding's Pressing Club

Boatwright J H & Son left side lines and

Bradshaw W J & Co marginal line, front cover and

Bryant J N

Callihan Pump & Well Co .right side lines and

Cantwell Robt C Realtors right bottom lines and Capps J W & Co .... marginal line, back cover and

Carolina Printing & Stamp Co .left side lines and

Christie Robt R right top lines and

City Cycle Co left side lines and

City Laundry Co

City Optical Co

left top lines and

Cooper Lenox G

left side lines and

Crescent Motor Co

marginal line, back cover and

Davis-Moore Paint Co front cover and

Dixie Dry Cleaners

Efird's Department Store .left bottom lines and

Electric Maintenance Co Inc ... right bottom lines and

Equitable Life Assurance Society .... right bottom lines

Farley-Liberty Clothing Co

Finkelstein's . left top lines and

Foster D R & Co front stencil and

Giavina H Pier

Giles Clayton & Son

right bottom lines and

Gordon Bros .right top lines and

Green & Sadgwar

Hanover Iron Works

Harriss Frank G

left top lines and

Hollingsworth L & Co

.right side lines and

Hollis J R

Home Savings Bank

Hyman Supply Co marginal line, front cover and

Ideal Laundry

Independent Ice Co The left top lines and

Jacobi N Hardware Co right top lines and

Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Co .. .. marginal line,

Jenks J D

King Adolph L

King-Cowell Motor Co Inc

Kingoff's right bottom lines and

LaBoo Dye Works

Live Oak Service Station left top lines and

Lockey's Shoe Fixery

MacMillan S G front cover and

MacRae Hugh & Co right side lines and

Maffitt C D & Co

McCabe J B & Co

McGirt Wm A

.right side lines and

McGrath & Co left bottom lines and McLaughlin's Funeral Parlor

Moore-Fonvielle Realty Co front cover and Moore Wm H

Morris Plan Bank

right side lines and

Murphy Wm Tully

front cover and 40 . backbone and 38 34 22 41 29 19 50 21 48 26 18 47 43 33 46 45 24 43

Page 27 22 42 31 29 39 33 2 51 47 19 45 39 43 41 44 39 21 35 28 31 31

and 40 29 41 45 44 39 44 32 49 47 50

right top lines and back cover and 47 23 left side lines and 42 28 36 35

INDEX TO ADVERTISERS

Page

North Carolina Bank & Trust Co .right bottom lines

North-Smith Coal Co

and 23 30

Northrop Real Estate Agency . bottom stencil and

Oleander Development Co .right side lines and

Orrell & Merritt .. marginal line, back cover and Peoples Savings Bank & Trust Co .... left top lines and Peschau Wm A right bottom lines and

Plate Ice Co

right top lines and

Pope Andrew M .left side lines and

Progressive Building & Loan Assn

Pullen A M & Co

Rehder Will

Reilly James Owen

Robinson & Turner

Roebuck's

Shaw's John H Sons right side lines and

Sloan's Grocery & Market

Smith P R Motor Co

left bottom lines and

Smith Shoe Repair

left side lines and

Spirittine Chemical Co left bottom lines and

Star Dry Cleaning Co .. .marginal line, back cover and Sutton-Council Furniture Co Inc Swinson C R & Co Inc

28 3 34 37

Taylor Walker

top stencil and

Thorpe W B & Co Inc back cover and 27

Tidewater Power Co right top lines and Classified

Divider 31

Underwood U A Co

Way W W & Son

Wells Harold W Insurance Agency

right side lines

and 40

Wilder H F Real Estate & Insurance Agency right

side lines and 48

Wilmington Firestone Service Stores Inc .... marginal

line, front cover and 32

Wilmington Grocery Co right top lines and 35

Wilmington Ice Cream Co

Street Divider 43

Wilmington Iron Works

Wilmington Savings & Trust Co The

left top lines

Wilmington Stamp & Printing Co Street Divider

Wolff Geo O

Yates C W Co Inc .front cover and

and 24

Yopp Walter E right top lines and 33

48 20 24 42 36 41 27 18 32 48 29 34 33 34 22 50

INTRODUCTION

HILL DIRECTORY CO., Inc., publishers of the Wilming- ton City Directory, present to subscribers and the general public, this, the 1930 edition of the Wilmington Directory.

Confidence in the continued 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 directory are consulted, for the directory is a mirror truly reflecting Wilmington to the world.

The enviable position occupied by HILL'S directories in the estimation of the public, has been established by ren- dering the best in directory service. With an unrivaled organization, and having the courteous and hearty cooper- ation 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 Directory will fulfill its mission 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 17 to 52, 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 in- structive to substantial purchasing factors. The adver- tisements have been carefully grouped by departments and are indexed under headings descriptive of the business rep- resented. 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 information immediate- ly available, is very great, and frequently, pressing. Gen- eral 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 526. 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 529 to 633. 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 busi- ness concerns are placed opposite the numbers.

THE CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY is included in pages 637 to 707. This department lists the various manu- facturing, mercantile and professional interests in alpha- betical 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

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it plays no small part in the daily doings of the business world. "More goods are bought and sold through the Classi- fied 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 broad- cast 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 Wilming- ton, for business men, everywhere, realize that the city directory represents a community as it really is.

The Wilmington Directory Library

Through the courtesy of the publishers of the Wilming- ton City Directory, a Directory Library is maintained in the offices of the Wilmington Chamber of Commerce, for free reference by the general public. This is one of nearly 500 Directory Libraries installed in the chief cities of the U. S. and Canada by members of the Association of North Ameri- can Directory Publishers, under whose supervision the sys- tem is operated.

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.

HILL DIRECTORY CO., Inc., Publishers.

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ADE BOUGHT AND SOLD THDOUGH THE CLASSIFIED BUSINESS LISTS OF THE

DIRECTORY THAN

ANY OTHER MEDIUM

ON EARTH

WILMINGTON

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

Statistical Review

Form of Government-Commission.

Population-37,500, local estimate. Native-born, 99.7%.

Area-4.5 square miles.

Altitude-30 feet.

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

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

Assessed Valuation-$45,000,000.

City's Bonded Debt-$3,152,700.

Financial-5 banks, with total deposits of $28,000,000, and clearings of $300,000,000 annually.

Post-office Receipts-$225,000 (last annual report).

Telephones in Service-4,500.

Churches-70, all denominations.

Building and Construction-Value of building permits, approximately $1,000,000, with 300 new dwelling units con- structed (last annual report).

Industry-110 establishments employing 14,000 men and 5,700 women, paying wages of $14,000,000 annually, and having products valued at $50,000,000 annually.

Principal Products-Fertilizer, petroleum products, cot- ton goods and molasses.

Trade-Retail territory serves 225,000 people in a trad- ing area having a radius of 75 miles. Jobbing territory serves 400,000 people within a radius of 150 miles.

Newspapers-2 dailies (morning and evening).

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

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

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

Hospitals-5, with 255 beds.

Education-8 schools, including 2 high. Number of pu- pils in public schools, 7,597; in private, 450. Total number of teachers, 182. Value of all school property, private and public, approximately $1,800,000.

Volumes in Library-18,000.

City Statistics-Total street mileage, 150, with 54 miles paved. Miles of gas mains, 71; of sewers, 74, and of elec- tric street railway, 21. Daily average pump of water works, 3,000,000 gallons, with plant valued at $1,250,000. Fire de- partment employs 60 men, with 1 auto, 1 steamer engine, 5 hose and chemical wagons and 1 hook-and-ladder truck, in 4 station houses. Value of fire department with proper- ty, $160,097.63. Police department has 42 men, with 1 sta- tion 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 gives it low freight rates and permits 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 author- ized a deepening of the channel in the river to thirty feet at mean low water, and is extending the Intra-Coastal Canal from Beaufort to Wilmington.

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.

Within the past year or two the population of Wilming- ton has increased in a tremendous way, and it is now a city of nearly 40,000, housed in comfortable homes. To accommodate the increasing population, not only have in- dividuals 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 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 new fertilizer fac- tories, a large ready-cut house plant of the Aladdin Com- pany, the Atlantic Refining Company, the Galena Signal Oil Company, the American Molasses Company, Southland Man- ufacturing Co., Wilmington Veneer Corp., Dupont Nitrates Co., W. R. Grace & Company, Nehi Bottling Co., Corbett Crate Co., Mavis Crate Co., Coastal Cross-Arm and Conduit Company, National Oil Company, Shell Oil Company, and others, 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

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almost as large as New England. Wilmington is the natural distributing point for North Carolina 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 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 will not be 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 Clyde Steamship Line to New York, Railway Express Agency Inc., and foreign serv- ices.

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 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 reaches the sum of nearly eighteen million 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 late war Wilmington had two immense shipyards, properties having been converted into industrial and civil uses. It had the honor of possessing the only Government- owned steel shipyard in the South, and first Government- 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 United States, this port occupies a strategic position of advantage to such countries.

Cape Fear River never has ice, which permits year- 'round navigation, and climate is never too cold to make outdoor work a hardship or discomfort.

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Wilmington has many fertilizer factories, petroleum products terminals, lumber plants and a number of fish packing plants, employing thousands of men. RTH CAROL

It has the 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 Beaufort to the Cape Fear River. Board of Engineers has recommended extension, work on which was started twelve months ago and will be finished in the fall of 1931. This will provide accommodations for large traffic over a protected inland channel twelve feet deep and ninety feet wide.

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 same 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 despatch of cargo.

With both water and rail transportation, thus affording quick hauls and low freight rates, and near the scenes of raw material, Wilmington is a splendid spot for manufactur- ing 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.

Wilmington has manufacturing plants of many kinds, cotton garments mills, wood and metal works, cement con- cerns, cotton factories, candy factories, ready-cut house plant, modern machine shops, many big fertilizer factories, sawmills, oil stations, etc.

A modern cold storage plant is located here.

The city has many immense fertilizer factories, and two have recently been built.

Leading banking center of state, its banks having total deposits of approximately $28,000,000. Growing steadily all the time.

Jobbing business goes over $80,000,000 annually, and re- tail merchants do a wide business, as the city is the trading mecca for a section containing over 225,000 people.

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

Headquarters of Atlantic Coast Line System, employing locally about twenty-two hundred men and women. Monthly payroll of Coast Line nearly $400,000.

Wonderful all 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.

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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 Calhoun Highway from Athens, Ga., to the ocean at Wilmington, and Federal Routes 17 and 17-I.

Wilmington is a city of fine streets, 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 modern amusements, with best beach resorts on South Atlantic Coast within thirty minutes' ride of the city. Wrightsville Beach, eight miles east of the city, is an island resort of fame and renown. It is connected with the mainland by excellent half-hour trolley service and cause-way to Harbor Island just west of the beach. Carolina Wilmington and Fort Fisher beaches, south of the city, are the only resorts on the North Carolina coast where one can drive directly to the ocean in an automobile. The four beaches attract approximately 300,000 visitors every summer.

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