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Hyman Supply Co., Machinery and Mill Supplies
SECURITY NATIONAL BANK
WILMINGTON, N. C.
PHONES 657-668
FRONT AND CHESTNUT
Moore- Fonvielle Realty Co.
REAL ESTATE SALES AND RENTALS 201 PRINCESS STREET
Moore's Insurance Agency
Incorporated Fire Insurance TELEPHONES 97 AND 98
for Economical Transportation
RANEY CHEVROLET
COMPANY
406-8 Princess St
Tels. 715-716
Day and Night Service
E. NORFLEET, President J. B. MOCUMBER, Vion-President
L. T. LANDEN, Secretary-Treasurer
CAROLINA PRINTING AND STAMP CO. PRINTERS
Rubber Stamp Manufacturers Loose Leaf Devices
Wilmington, N. C.
Phone 220
8 Grace Street
ROBT. C. CANTWELL REALTORS
J. H. BOATWRIGHT & SON INC. "66 Years of Service"
J. W. CAPPS & CO
PHONE 2039-W
1313 CASTLE STREET
518 N. 2d ST.
PHONE 2313
LMINGTON COLD STORAGE CORP.
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Wilmington Beverage Company, Inc.
WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTORS
BEERS - WINES -- BEER EQUIPMENT
BLACK EAGLE, PILSNER
BLACK EAGLE, PORTER
WHITE BOCK, LIGHT
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Telephone 168
Castle Hayne Road, Route No. 40-60
North Wilmington
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HILL'S WILMINGTON (NEW HANOVER COUNTY, N. C.) CITY DIRECTORY Vol. 1934 XX
Containing an Alphabetical Directory of Business Concerns and Private Citizens, a Directory of Householders, Occupants of Office Buildings and Other Business 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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The publishers cannot and do not guarantee the cor- rectness of all information furnished them nor the complete absence of errors or 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
Page Abbreviations
36
Alphabetical Directory 37
Apartment Buildings 542
Associations and Clubs-Commercial
542
Banks and Trust Companies 544
Buildings-Office and Public
549
Bus and Coach Lines-Motor 549
Buyers' Guide
17
Cemeteries
549
Chamber of Commerce 429
Churches
550
City Government
429
Classified Business Directory 541
Clergymen
552
· Clubs
554
County Government
298
Fire Department
429
Halls
568
Homes and Asylums
568
Hospitals and Dispensaries
568
Labor Organizations
576
Libraries
579
Newspapers
583
Museums
582
Parks and Playgrounds 587
Police Department
429
Railroads
590
Schools-Public
594
Schools, Colleges and Academies
594
Societies
596
Societies-Benevolent and Fraternal 596
State Government 304
Street and Avenue Guide and Directory of Householders 445
United States Officials
400
United States Post Office
400
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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
Page
Atlantic Finance Co.
left side lines and 30
Baldwin & Futchs Inc.
left side lines
Becker Coal & Builders Supply Co.
3
Belk-Williams "Co Inc
25
Best Tire Co Inc The.
.right side lines
Boatwright J H & Son Inc. front cover and
28
Brittain's Insurance Agency. .right top lines
35
Cantwell Robt C Realtors. front cover and
31
Cape Fear Lumber Co.
Capps J W & Co .. marginal line front cover and
Carney H Gaston.
28
Carolina Printing & Stamp Co.
. front cover
City Laundry Co
left side lines left top lines and 31
Corbett Securities Co The
Crescent Motor Co ..
Davis-Moore Paint Co. marginal line back cover
Efird's Department Store left top lines and
25 34
Farrar Transfer & Storage Warehouse
Firestone Service Stores Inc.
19
Foster-Hill Realty Co.
.left top lines
General Insurance Agency
.right side lines
Godwin's E W Sons.
right side lines
Hanover Iron Works.
left top lines
Hicks Glasgow ..
Hotel Wilmington.
Huggins Geo W Co. right side lines
20
Hyman Supply Co.
left side lines and 22
Independent Ice Co The. . left top lines and
27 27
Jenks Julius D.
Keith Bros Inc
King Adolph L.
26
Kingoff's ..
right top lines and 29
Livingston F E & Co.
.left side lines
MacRae Hugh & Co Inc. .right side lines and McCabe J B & Co. 33 18 20
McConnell & Causey.
McEachern Beverage Co
.right side lines
McGirt Wm A.
right top lines and 33
Meares Insurance Agency. .left top lines
Moore-Fonvielle Realty Co.
Moore Lucy B ...
front cover and 32 25 22
Morris Plan Bank.
Murray's Transfer Co.
34
North-Smith Coal Co. right side lines Orrell's Service Station Street Divider
Peoples Savings Bank & Trust Co. backbone and Pope Andrew M. left side lines and
Raney Chevrolet Co Inc. front cover and Rehder Will.
Reilly James Owen.
Rich's Shoe Repair Parlor
left top lines Roosevelt Gardens
21 29 20 26 32
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18 29 27
Hughes Bros ... marginal line front cover and 31
Ideal Laundry Co ..
Jacobi Hardware Co Inc. right top lines and
right side lines 2
Harbor Island Casino.
left side lines 20
City Optical Co
30 19
Callihan Pump & Well Co.
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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
Rose Ice Company.
Page 27
Sears, Roebuck & Co. .right top lines
Security National Bank .. marginal line front cover and 21
Simon W A Inc .. left side lines and 24
Smith Furniture Co. right side lines and
26 3
Sutton-Council Furniture Co Inc.
Taylor Walker . bottom stencil and
Tide Water Power Co.
.right top lines
Underwood U A Co
Wells Harold W
Wessell Conrad B. left side lines
White Ice Cream Co. right top lines and 24
Wilder H F Real Estate Agency
33
Wilmington Chamber of Commerce
22
Wilmington Cold Storage Corp.
. marginal line front cover and 23
Wilmington Iron Works.
30
Wilmington Merchants Assn.
23
Wilmington Savings & Trust Co The. . left top lines and
22 Wilmington Stamp & Printing Co. .Street Divider
Yopp Walter E Inc. right top lines and 26
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INTRODUCTION
HILL DIRECTORY CO., Inc., publishers of Southeastern Directories, present to subscribers and the general public, this, the 1934 edition of the Wilmington City Directory.
Confidence in the growth of Wilmington's industry, population and wealth, and in the advancement of its civic and social activities, will be maintained 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 rendering the best in Directory service. With an unrivaled organization, and having had the courteous and hearty co- operation of the business and professional men and resi- dents, the publishers feel that the result of their labors will meet with the approval of every user, and that the Wilming- ton Directory will fulfill its mission as a source of authentic information pertaining to the city.
Four Major Departments
The four major departments are arranged in the fol- lowing order :-
THE BUYERS' GUIDE, pages 17 to 36, printed on tinted paper, contains the advertisements of leading manufactur- ing, business and professional interests of Wilmington. The advertisements are indexed under headings descriptive of the business represented. This is reference advertising at its best, and merits a survey by all buyers eager to familiar- ize themselves with sources of supply. In a progressive community like Wilmington, the necessity of having this kind of information immediately available, is obvious. Gen- eral appreciation of this fact is evidenced by the many reference users of this City Directory service.
THE ALPHABETICAL LIST OF NAMES of residents and business and professional concerns is included in pages 37 to 441. This is the only record in existence that aims to show the name, marital status, occupation and address of each adult resident of Wilmington, and the name, official personnel, nature and address of each firm and corporation in the city.
THE DIRECTORY OF HOUSEHOLDERS, INCLUDING STREET AND AVENUE GUIDE, covers pages 445 to 539. In this section the named streets are arranged in alphabetical order, followed by the numbered streets in numerical order; the numbers of the residences and business concerns are arranged in numerical order under the name of each street, and the names of the householders and concerns are placed opposite the numbers. The names of the intersecting streets appear at their respective crossing points on each street.
THE CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY is included in pages 541 to 601. This department lists the names of all business and professional concerns in alphabetical order under appropriate headings. This feature constitutes an invaluable and indispensable catalog of the numerous in- terests of the community. The Directory is the common intermediary between buyer and seller. As such it plays an important part in the daily activities of the commercial
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and professional world. £ More buyers and sellers meet through the Classified Business Directory than through any other medium.
Municipal Publicity
The Directory reflects the achievements and ambitions of the city, depicting in unbiased terms what it has to offer as a place of residence, as a business location, as a port, as a manufacturing 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 Wilmington.
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 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 recogni- tion by those progressive business and professional men who have demonstrated their confidence in the City Direc- tory as an advertising medium, with assurance that it will bring a commensurate return.
HILL DIRECTORY CO., Inc., Publishers.
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 $325,000.
Assessed Valuation-$45,000,000.
Bonded Debt-$3,096,500.
Financial Institutions-2 national banks and 1 state bank and trust company, with total deposits of approxi- mately $7,000,000 (Jan. 1, 1934), and total resources of ap- proximately $8,750,000 (Jan. 1, 1934).
Telephones in Service-4,500.
Churches-70, representing all denominations.
Building and Construction-Value of building permits, approximately $400,000, with 175 new dwelling units con- structed (1933). Wilmington is headquarters for the Ethyl- Dow Chemical Co., which built, in 1933, a three-million- dollar plant to extract bromine from ocean water.
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 1 white weekly and 1 colored weekly.
Hotels-4, with total of 400 rooms.
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, 9,250; 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; sewers, 74; electric street railway, 21. Daily average pump of water works, 3,000,000 gallons; value of plant, $1,250,000. Fire department has 60 men, with 4 stations and 8 pieces of motor equipment. Po- lice department has 42 men, with 1 station and 5 pieces of motor equipment.
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
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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 recently completed 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 Baltimore, 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. Its imports cover a large field in variety and come from practically every quarter of the globe. Wilm- ington ranks as the second largest fertilizer port on the At- lantic Seaboard, and its volume of petroleum products is such that practically seventy-five per cent of the state's con- sumption 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 in- crease of port volume has been evidenced in large tobacco exports and growing imports of sugar.
Regardless of conditions, the past few years have wit- nessed big building operations. Among recent enterprises located here are several large fertilizer factories, the At- lantic Refining Co., the Galena Signal Oil Co., the American Molasses Co., Southland Mfg. Co., Wilmington Veneer Corp., Dupont Nitrates Co., W. R. Grace & Co., Nehi Bottling Co., Corbett Crate Co., Gulf Refining Co., Cities Service Co., Pure Oil Co., National Oil Co., Shell Oil Co. and the North State Creosoting 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 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.
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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; Norfolk, Baltimore & Carolina Line; 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.
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. It had the honor of possessing the only Government- owned steel shipyard in the South, and first Government- owned concrete yard in the country. These yards have been converted into important industrial centers.
The commerce on the Cape Fear River at and below Wilmington last year averaged approximately 1,250,000 tons, with valuation of more than $50,000,000.
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 ad- vantage 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.
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 Co. 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 of- fered the State of North Carolina as a location for State- owned terminals and warehouses, whenever such are neces- sary. Wilmington now has one of the finest and most efficiently operated systems of private terminals at any
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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 manufac- turing 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, machine shops, big fertilizer factories, 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 runs into several million dollars in value annually, and retail merchants do a wide business, as the city is the trading Mecca for a section containing 225,000 population.
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 best beach resorts on the 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 trol- ley service and causeway 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 auto- mobile. The four beaches attract approximately 300,000 visitors every summer.
The Wilmington Chamber of Commerce is alive to the city's great advantages and is always eager to answer all questions and to extend hearty co-operation. Write the Chamber of Commerce for any information desired.
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to patronize those concerns who are in business to stay.
It's human to expect that such busi- ness establishments always stand back of the wares they sell.,
The advertising in this Directory is suggestive of the stability and per- manency of the advertisers.)
Frauds, fakes, get-rich-quicks and other schemers have little use for directory advertising. It lives too long.
The modern City Directory is a business institution., It occupies a place peculiarly its own. It is as necessary to the progress and de- velopment of a city generally as anything naturally would be which deals with such a fundamental av the citizens themselves.
If you are not advertising your busi- ness in the Directory, may we ex- plain how and why it will pay you?
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