Introduction
The Ninth Ward Republican Club was open at 536 Broadway from the mid-1930s through at least 1959. The building, located between the Broadway Elementary School and the Labor Temple building at 538 Broadway, is no longer standing.
Notice
Camden Post-Telegram —
NOTICE.
Members of the Ninth Ward Republican Association are requested to meet at the club house, 636 Broadway, at 730 o'clock, to-night, January 25, to proceed to the home of our late member, Dr. W. W. Knowlton, and view his remains.
JAMES GOODWIN, Secretary.
Mrs. Lennox Heads G.O.P. Club
Camden Courier-Post —
Mrs. Lennox Heads G.O.P. Club
Mrs. Caroline M. Lennox was elected president of the Ninth Ward Women’s Republican Association at the January meeting in the clubhouse, 536 Broadway. Others named to office are Mrs. Helen M. Henry, vice president; Mrs. May Platt, corresponding secretary; Mrs. Lillian Robinson, financial secretary, and Mrs. Ada V. Boyd, treasurer.
G.O.P. Rally
Camden Courier-Post —
G. O. P. Rally
Members of the Ninth Ward Republican Association will hold a rally, the men’s and women’s groups jointly, in the headquarters, 536 Broadway, tomorrow night. Candidates for the coming election will speak.
Two Men Jailed in Theft Plot Try to Involve G.O.P. Club Aide
Camden Courier-Post —
Ninth Ward Employe Named by Prisoners in Scheme to Loot Building of Slot Machines; Judge Neutze Discounts Story
An employee of the Ninth Ward Republican Club accused of plotting to steal slot machines from the club at 536 Broadway is two Camden men convicted of robbing him.
Michael Maloni, 25, of 321 South Fourth street, and Dominick Vizionne, 316 North Seventh street, were sentenced to four months in the county jail after Judge Frank F. Neutze told them their story “doesn’t ring true.”
Maloni and Vizionne were arrested on complaint of Jacob Mutzer, 417 Tenth street, employee of the club. He said he was coming out of a restaurant when he was forced into a car.
“They induced me to get into their car and then they drove me to a company,” Mutzer testified. “There they took our keys,” including keys to the club. “I was afraid they might get into the club and clean it out,” he notified police.
Detectives went to the club house, but Vizionne had to appear. They were arrested later.
“Your story is not true,” said Maloni, who insisted: “He told us to take his keys and go to the club and take the slot machines. A man named Farzone waited for us. He said it would look like a robbery. We didn’t have anything to do with it.”
When Neutze sentenced Maloni, he said Maloni’s testimony was untrue. Neutze freed Maloni and Vizionne, thinking they were “looking for a way out,” and imposed sentence.
Louis A. B. Richardson
Camden Courier-Post —
Louis A. B. Richardson, 80, died in his home, 457 Trenton avenue, Wednesday. He was a retired employe of the city water department where he worked 21 years. He was a member of the Ninth Ward Republican club. Born in Camden, he was a lifelong resident. His widow, Dorothea E., survives.
Services will be held at 1 p. m. Saturday in the Murray funeral home, 408 Cooper street, where friends may call Friday night. Burial will be in Harleigh cemetery.
Man Is Killed Here When Keg of Beer Explodes in Club
Camden Courier-Post —
Gay Holiday Party Ends in Tragedy; Bar Damaged
A Christmas party at a city Republican club ended in tragedy Thursday night when a member was injured fatally as a beer keg exploded.
John W. Kmicic, 56, of 912 North Thirty-first street, a machinist of the Pennsylvania Railroad for more than 25 years, died shortly after 1 a. m. in Cooper hospital from injuries received when the barrel exploded. Part of the interior of the first floor barroom at the Ninth Ward Republican club, 536 Broadway, was damaged.
According to Hobart Corson, chief clerk of the city fire department and president of the club, the accident occurred while more than 100 were making merry at a Christmas party on the first and second floors of the clubhouse.
Standing beside Kmicic at the time was his son, Theodore Kmicic, of 105 Park avenue, Gloucester, and H. Allen Wolfe, acting chief of the city electrical bureau.
Wolfe said Kmicic, known by all his acquaintances as a jovial type of person, came to the end of the bar at the rear of the first floor to inspect the keg, which was making a peculiar noise.
Wolfe said Kmicic leaned over the barrel as the blast ripped the barrel open from the bottom, caused a hole to be made in the flooring and tore a piece off the end of the bar. Kmicic, Wolfe said, fell to the floor beside the keg, his face severely battered. A police ambulance removed him to the Cooper hospital, where he died two hours later.
Corson, who was on the second floor at the time of the explosion, said the party was ended immediately.
Although many were showered with beer and flying glasses, no one else was injured.
Coroner Healey was summoned and said County Physician R. Dean Cavalli would perform an autopsy on the body today. When admitted to the hospital the victim was listed as suffering a possible fracture of the skull, fractures of both arms, loss of the left eye and numerous cuts and bruises.
Kmicic lived in an apartment at the Thirty-first street address with Mr. and Mrs. Walter Wychowanec. They formerly lived at Thirteenth street and Keswick avenue in Haddon Heights.
A resident of Camden for 35 years, Kmicic was also a member of the Pennsylvania Railroad YMCA.
Also surviving are his widow, Catherine; a daughter, Mrs. Irene Curtis Gerard, New York City; a grandson; his mother, Anna, in Poland; three sisters, Mrs. Helen Polnar, Camden, and Valeria and Mary, both in Poland, and a brother, Michael, in Poland.
Notice of Application
Camden Courier-Post —
NOTICE OF APPLICATION
Take notice that the Ninth Ward Republican Association has applied to the Municipal Board of Alcoholic Beverage Control of Camden for a Club License for premises situated at 536 Broadway, Camden, N. J.
The names of the officers of this association and the offices they fill respectively are:
Hobart Corson, 417 Carteret st., Camden, N. J., President.
John K. Voll, Vice President, 563 Line st., Camden, N. J.
Harry Weiss, 459 Carteret st., Camden, N. J., Secretary.
William L. Gallagher, 306 Warren ave., Camden, N. J., Treasurer.
The names of the directors of this association are:
Ernest Gibbons, 644 Clinton st., Camden, N. J.
Norvel McHenry, Sr., 421 Chambers ave., Camden, N. J.
Norvel McHenry, Jr., 421 Chambers ave., Camden, N. J.
Peter Ashmen, 567 Benson st., Camden, N. J.
Raymond Dixon, 560 Washington st., Camden, N. J.
Thomas Dickinson, 627 Clinton st., Camden, N. J.
Richard W. Griscom, 431 Chambers ave., Camden, N. J.
James Shissler, 707 Royden st., Camden, N. J.
Lester Beach, 702 Carman st., Camden, N. J.
Objections, if any, should be made immediately in writing to John T. Odorisio, City Clerk of Camden.
(Signed) NINTH WARD REPUBLICAN ASSOCIATION,
536 Broadway,
Camden, N. J. ($24.84)
Ex-City Clerk Found Dead
Philadelphia Inquirer —
A retired city clerk, C. Hobart Corson, 62, of 117 N. 23d st., Camden, was found dead on the second floor of the 9th Ward Republican Club Building on Broadway near Royden st. about 3:15 P. M. Friday.
Camden County Coroner Leroy Wooster said Corson had been dead about two days, apparently from natural causes. He said he would perform an autopsy Saturday.
Corson, who retired two years ago as head clerk to the Camden Fire Chief, was found by another club member, William Gallagher, of 306 Warren ave., who said he checks the building daily. Gallagher said he had visited the building Thursday but had not gone to the second floor.
The only known relative of Corson is a brother, Mahlon, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
C. H. Corson, 62, Found Dead In GOP Club
Camden Courier-Post —
C. Hobart Corson, 62, of 117 N. 23rd st., former president of the Ninth Ward Republican Club, was found dead yesterday on the second floor of the club’s headquarters on Broadway near Royden st.
William L. Gallagher, another member of the club, found the body. Coroner Creran said death was “apparently” due to natural causes but that an autopsy would be performed today.
Corson retired two years ago as head clerk in the Camden Fire Chief’s Office where he had been employed 12 years. He was also a former police court clerk. His father, the late W. Penn Corson, was a former Camden County sheriff.
A brother, Mahlon of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., survives.