Warren Webster & Co.
The building has been boarded up and empty for decades, the company long gone, and a brand name that was once a standard in its line is now all but forgotten. In its day, Warren Webster & Company provided heating systems for plants, factories, and large buildings all over the country. Warren Webster & Co. developed systems and controls that made it possible to provide continuous, comfortable, and economical steam heat to large buildings. To wit, if you are in a building built in the first part of the 20th century, there is a strong probability that there are or were Warren Webster components inside.
Warren Webster founded his business in Philadelphia in 1888. He brought his firm to Camden five years later. A large factory was built at Point and Pearl Streets. After World War I a larger plant was built at 17th & Federal Street in East Camden when it was determined that the original plant lay in the path of the soon to be constructed Delaware River Bridge.
Warren Webster passed away in December of 1938, during the 50th year of his firm’s existence. His son, Warren Webster Jr. then headed the company. Sadly, grandson Warren Webster III, a graduate of West Point, was killed in action while serving in Korea in February of 1953. The company was still open in Camden as late as 1959, but by 1970 Warren Webster & Company was no longer listed in the Camden County telephone directory.
Warren Webster Jr. wrote The Life and Times of Warren Webster, a biography of his father, of which a limited edition was published, in 1942.
Warren Webster and His Factory on Federal Street, 1888
Warren Webster and his factory on Federal Street, 1888.
Warren Webster's First Factory at 491 N. 3rd Street, 1888
Warren Webster’s first factory at 491 N. 3rd Street, 1888.
Warren Webster
Warren Webster.
The Warren Webster Company, 1909 Factory — Point & Pearl Street
The Warren Webster Company, 1909 factory at Point & Pearl Street. This site was one of the tracts that was taken for use as the New Jersey end of the Delaware River Bridge in the early 1920s.
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HEATING SYSTEMS
HOME OFFICE AND WORKS CAMDEN, N. J.
Specialists in the Economical Use of Exhaust Steam
Pre-1920 Advertising for Warren Webster & Co.
(advertisement) — pre-1920
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HEATING by EXHAUST STEAM, WITHOUT BACK PRESSURE, By the VACUUM SYSTEM.
ADVANTAGES.
1st.—Can be attached to existing plants at little expense.
2d.—Effects greatest efficiency from the heating surface by the removal of the water and air, preventing water hammer and stagnant circulation.
3d.—Saves coal by removal of back pressure from engines; water of condensation, etc.
PATENTED.
We are owners of the patent, and have equipped the largest plants in the United States.
Over 500 now in use.
Will visit your plant and tell you how much we can benefit you, if you so desire.
SPECIALISTS in examining steam plants where increased efficiency and greater economy is desired in heating feed water for steam boilers; also warming buildings by the utilization of exhaust steam without back pressure upon the engine, irrespective of present heaters or methods employed.
WARREN WEBSTER & CO. Exhaust Steam Specialists.
39 Courtland Street, N. Y. 1502 Monadnock Bldg., Chicago.
MAIN OFFICE & WORKS: Point & Elm Streets, CAMDEN, N. J.
Buy New Site for Plant
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Forced to vacate its factory at Point and Pearl streets to make way for the new bridge, Warren Webster & Co. yesterday acquired a three-acre tract at Sixteenth and Federal streets as a site for a new plant. The company makes heating specialties and power plant equipment, and has been located at Point and Pearl streets for thirty years.
The Warren Webster Company Factory, 17th & Federal Street, 1924
The Warren Webster Company factory, 17th & Federal Street, 1924.
The Webster Moderator
The Webster Moderator.
Y.M.C.A. Jolted Twice; Freihofers Set Record; Hurley Surprises
Camden Courier-Post —
With the end of the first-half race in the Industrial bowling tournament only one week off, Victor went into a tie for first place by sweeping all three games from Woodbury while Freihofer’s spanked Y.M.C.A pacesetters twice. Hurley Company took three from Warren Webster in the other match.
Freihofer’s set a new league record by rolling 928 in the third game. Krupp’s total score was 602 pins, an average better than 200. His high mark was 221. Miller, a teammate, rolled 203. Moyer, of Victor, twice rolled 202, while Simmons turned in a 210 for Warren Webster.
League Standing
Camden Courier-Post —
W., L., P.C.
Y. M. C. A. — 25, 14, .641
Victor — 25, 14, .641
Warren Webster — 20, 19, .512
Woodbury — 18, 21, .461
Freihofer — 17, 22, .435
Hurley — 12, 27, .307
VICTOR
1st, 2nd, 3rd game
Morris — 177, 194, 170
Fox — 132, —, —
Hampton — —, 169, 159
Saviot — 149, —, 170
Stille — —, 182, 154
Gibbs — 192, 146, —
Moyer — 168, 202, 202
Totals — 818, 893, 855
WOODBURY
1st, 2nd, 3rd game
A. Renner — 107, 120, 125
E. Renner — 168, 151, 163
Wakeman — 134, 160, 106
Shryock — 180, 128, 142
H. Renner — 163, 139, 151
Handicap — 63, 60, 51
Totals — 815, 758, 738
Y. M. C. A.
1st, 2nd, 3rd game
Gilbert — 160, 200, 155
Moore — 127, 152, 154
Sullivan — 160, 135, 114
Layton — 180, 154, 189
Cusick — 165, 172, 179
Totals — 792, 813, 789
FREIHOFER’S
1st, 2nd, 3rd game
Neider — 148, 137, 159
Chambers — 166, 137, 157
Carter — 163, 130, 188
Miller — 178, 159, 203
Krupp — 182, 199, 221
Handicap — 16, 16, 16
Totals — 853, 778, 944
WARREN WEBSTER
1st, 2nd, 3rd game
Snyder — 168, 172, 170
Janvier — 145, 131, 151
Eshleman — 138, 166, 129
Filson — 142, 147, 154
Simmons — 171, 210, 144
Totals — 764, 826, 748
HURLEY
1st, 2nd, 3rd game
W. Atkinson — 139, 132, 162
Heppard — 124, 155, 138
Wilson — 99, —, —
Doyle — —, 144, 152
Welzel — 171, 167, 155
Keneman — 167, 152, 119
Handicap — 90, 78, 78
Totals — 790, 828, 804
Websters Return From Florida
Camden Courier-Post —
Mr. and Mrs. Warren Webster, formerly of this city, have returned from their estate in Pass-a-Grille, Fla., where they have been spending the Winter and are spending some time at the Warwick, Philadelphia.
Camden Firm's Products Linked to Building Industry Throughout U.S.
Camden Courier-Post —
Newly Developed Devices Keep Firm Busy in Depression
More Than 70,000 New Buildings Equipped With Concern’s Systems
Cuts Fuel Expenses
Of the thousands of people who daily pass the plant of Warren Webster & Co. at Seventeenth and Federal streets, it is probable that few have any very definite idea of the products and service of the company to the building industry throughout the United States and Canada and in several foreign countries.
Established in 1888, the firm’s products and services are known to the heating trade and to the architectural and engineering profession as “Webster Systems of Steam Heating.”
Essentially, these are systems of steam circulation. What the company manufactures are the devices or specialties which facilitate the circulation of steam and its use as a heating medium. These specialties are combined in heating installations under the guidance of the company’s sales engineering staff, located in each of 60 of the largest cities in the country.
The company’s products divide roughly into three groups (1) specialties of which the most important item is the thermostatic trap (2) heating system controls for larger buildings and (3) Webster System Radiation.
These Webster products are installed by the heating trade in new buildings and are also extensively used in the modernization of heating systems in existing buildings. More than 70,000 new buildings have been equipped with Webster Systems of Steam Heating in the many years of the company’s existence, in general, the largest and most prominent buildings throughout the country.
While the supply of equipment to new buildings formed the major part of the concern’s business prior to 1929, even at that time modernization was a substantial and important part of the company’s business, the equipment being so designed that as improvements became available they would be furnished to owners who had previously used Webster equipment and owners would purchase these improvements because they meant lower fuel costs and better heating service.
Personnel Kept Busy
This large group of installations, together with the splendid group of newly developed products was of great value to the company in enabling it to keep its personnel employed during the depression when new building ceased and modernization became the important market.
During the period of 1931, ‘32 and ‘33 the firm’s sales organization was retained and occupied in making surveys of several thousand large buildings to determine ways and means of reducing fuel expense. Due to the development of the Webster Moderator System which supplies “control-by-the-weather,” it was possible to go into almost seven buildings out of every 10 and find that a saving of approximately 25 percent could be effected by applying this new development. Not only did the company finance the making of these surveys but where it found a saving possible it offered to supply its equipment and to accept payment out of the savings as made, thus combining financing of the equipment with a guarantee of its performance. Several hundred buildings have been thus modernized including among them New York Evening Post Building and the Bellevue Stratford and Warwick Hotels in Philadelphia.
Economizes Steam
The ability of the Webster Moderator System to economize steam has also led to its adoption in connection with a number of low cost slum elimination projects and Webster Moderator Systems are installed in the Juniata Housing Project, Philadelphia and are being installed in the Techwood and University Housing Projects in Atlanta.
While the Webster Moderator System and Webster Heating Specialties are generally applicable to larger buildings, the company’s newest product, Webster System Radiation, is particularly designed for the requirements of the finer residences. Webster System Radiation combines in a single structure a lightweight heating element like an automobile radiator with the radiator supply valve and an orifice to scientifically balance distribution, a radiator trap and a metal enclosure. This unit is installed in the wall and the only parts visible are the inlet and outlet grilles and the handle for steam shutoff. Although introduced at the depth of the depression Webster System Radiation has already been manufactured and installed in more than 400 residences and other buildings.
The company’s plant is operating regularly with a factory and home office staff of approximately 250 employees. More than 185 additional persons are engaged in the work of the company’s 60 branches.
The company’s business for 1935 showed a definite improvement over that for 1934 and the company reports that 1936 has thus far shown a material improvement in turn over 1935.
Warren Webster, founder of the company, is its president and general manager; Warren Webster, Jr., a son, is vice president and treasurer, and E. Kessler Webster, a nephew, is secretary and assistant general manager.
Founder of Industry Observes 50th Year as Active President
Camden Courier-Post —
Warren Webster at 75 Still Takes Keen Interest in Manufacture of Steam Heating Appliances; Got $4 Weekly on First Job
By GORDON MACKAY
Sang James Russell Lowell many years ago: “What is so rare as a day in June”—and Warren Webster, president of Warren Webster and Company, a Camden industry known around the civilized globe, agrees heartily with the poet.
For it was in the month of brides, roses and graduates, some 50 years ago, a golden span in Warren Webster’s life, when a spruce, alert and ambitious youth of 25 decided to found the firm that bears his name today.
While the start in Philadelphia was modest enough, Warren Webster became president of his own company. He has held that office ever since, a golden triumph in a business whose 50th anniversary is celebrated fittingly and rejoicingly by the firm and its employes.
Today at 75, Warren Webster is not content to rest on his laurels won, one of them being the reputation as “one of the greatest salesmen in America.” He still takes a keen, personal interest in the vast industrial enterprise, of which he has been the only president for 50 years.
His sons, Warren Webster, Jr., and E. Kessler Webster, assume some of the cares of the industrial empire, which swings into every country on the face of the earth, where the natives like steam heating in the Winter and have a building that requires the quality of Webster appliances.
The vast business which has grown under the able hand and deft management of Warren Webster is a big family. This is said in no maudlin, mawkish attempt at a compliment, but is the unvarnished truth, as a scrutiny of the employes’ roster will well disclose.
One week before the thunder of Gettysburg’s guns sounded the doom of Lee and the downfall of the Confederacy, Warren Webster was born in the Tioga section of Philadelphia. When the boy was six his family moved to Woodbury. It was there that Warren Webster went to school. Naturally the county seat of Gloucester county counts Warren Webster among her notable sons.
When Warren was 13 the Centennial Exposition was held in Philadelphia. The youngster naturally visited this centenary of the United States. One of the exhibits that Switzerland sent was a cottage, typical of the homes that nestle at the foot of the Alps.
At the close of the exposition some Philadelphian purchased the cottage brought from Switzerland and moved it to become the Philadelphian’s Summer home at Ocean City. Thirty-two years ago Warren Webster bought that cottage he had envied as a boy, and now occupies the dwelling as his own Summer home.
Young Webster entered the Peirce Business College in Philadelphia to obtain a commercial training. He was graduated from that institution on April 23, 1881. Like countless of his successors today Warren looked around for a job. He spotted an advertisement in the newspaper, where an office boy could work for $4 a week for the N. G. Taylor Company, whose business was at 303 Branch street, Philadelphia.
Young Webster got the job, started work copying letters, running errands, doing all the usual chores that fell to officeboys in those days. The nimble, agile mind of young Webster, a mentality harnessed to natural instinct for business, got him a jump of $8 a week in his salary pronto.
For, the youngster was the chap who discovered a wrinkle whereby the firm could save considerable money, by adopting a system that young Mr. Webster suggested. Warren Webster didn’t remain long at $12 a week, either. The American Oxide Bronze Company, a commercial enterprise no longer extant, wanted this budding commercial genius.
This firm offered the young business prodigy $15 a week to go on the road as a salesman. There was a 5 percent commission thrown in as extra inducement. It was this that drew young Webster to the bronze corporation. All the while that the young salesman was on the road, however, desire gnawed at his satisfaction, he wanted to be his own boss, to run his own plant.
Warren Webster had $500 saved by this time, so he decided to take the plunge. Fifty-four years ago young Mr. Webster, then just entering his majority, also entered business, selling Babbitt metal, afterwards brass heads.
You just couldn’t keep success away from the acquisitive fingers of Warren Webster. He balanced the books after a year in business, found he had paid everything and netted $673 profits. Not enough to make him a plutocrat, but sufficient to prove to young Mr. Webster that he could make money as a business man.
Expansion was always a keynote of the Webster system. He went into ventilators and in 1888 obtained some patents for the use of steam exhaust for feedwater heaters. The first one operated successfully, the second manufactured came to Camden, and was installed in the plant of the Esterbrook Pen Company here.
Saving in coal for 30 days soon demonstrated the economy, value and service of this new gadget, and young Mr. Webster decided to concentrate on his new enterprise. He sold the ventilators which he held to Merchant and Evans, of Philadelphia, a firm which has also had a long career and life in industry.
The modest factory in Philadelphia proved too small for the expansion of this new industry. When vacuum heating came into vogue, and Webster became interested in this new manufactur, the business expanded so rapidly as to become a vast major enterprise. Forty-five years ago Webster sold his patent to a steam economizer and vacuum principle to Eugene Mauler, of Antwerp, Belgium.
The proceeds from this sale to the Belgian manufacturer were sufficient for young Webster to erect his own real plant. To the gain of this city, Webster built in Camden. His original plant in 1893 was at Point and Elm streets. Later the plant moved to Federal street where the tremendous industry is housed at the present time.
While exact figures are not at hand, the impression at the factory is that Warren Webster heating equipments have been placed in 75,000 buildings throughout the world. You can find them in a greenhouse in Massachusetts and a bank in Santiago, Chile.
They can be found in a school in New York, and the Royal York Hotel in Toronto, Canada, the largest hotel in all the vast British Empire.
Webster heating systems are in the Empire State Building in New York and the Chrysler Building in the Manhattan metropolis also. Westfield Acres, the Federal housing project in Camden, is heated by the Webster system, so is every building in the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind.
The new Waldorf-Astoria in New York City has the system, and the magnificent Palmer House in Chicago, too. Quite a romantic tale exists about the installation of the system in the latter hostelry. Potter Palmer, who owned the Palmer House, which is shown in every moving picture that deals with Chicago in the swashbuckling days that apparently have gone forever, was one of the fathers of the Windy City.
The original Palmer House in Chicago was famed around the world when it was erected, back before the Civil War. Its rooms were heated by stoves, 700 of them to be exact. In 1895 the stoves were dismantled. Webster heat supplanted the old fat-bellied heaters of the earlier era. When the new hostelry supplanted the old, Webster’s heating was installed in the new hotel.
Newspaper homes, such as the New York Post, are included among the Webster clients. The Statler, United, and American hotel chains, the latter including Camden’s own Walt Whitman, use Webster heat. The great terminals in Chicago and Cleveland are heated by Webster, so is the Banco Central de Chile in Santiago.
One of the spots where Webster heat warms its users is Coffeyville, Kansas, where the Missouri Pacific freight shed is included in the Webster “jobs.” That spot should interest others than the industrially-inclined, for it is the birthplace of Walter Johnson, the great baseball pitcher. It also is the place where the notorious Dalton Boys, the bandit gang and bank robbers, tried their last bank-looting job.
Coffeyville citizens, warned that the attempt would be made, armed themselves, waited in ambush for the bandits, opened fire upon the marauders. In the pitched battle that followed three or four bandits were slain, others taken prisoner, and the notorious Dalton Boys gang was broken up forever.
Reams could be written about the romantic side of this seemingly prosaic industry. After all, however, the greatest tribute that could be paid to the industry and its founder is that Warren Webster has been president of the company that he organized 50 years ago, every day of its existence.
The smoothness with which the plant and the offices work and move is not only a tribute to the founder and his sons, but also to the loyalty, service and value of the 250 employes who earn their bread working for Warren Webster and Company.
Warren Webster passed away on December 21, 1938.
Warren Webster Jr.
Camden Courier-Post —
Warren Webster Jr., 1903–1997
Warren Webster Jr. took the reins as president of Warren Webster & Co. after his father’s passing. The company played an active role in armaments production during and after World War II.
Rotarians Have ‘Good Time,’ Even to Milking of Cows
Camden Courier-Post —
Everything from airplane flights to cow-milking contests was on the program enjoyed by 250 members of Camden Rotary Club and their guests at the club’s annual Field Day at Woodcrest Country Club yesterday.
The club members were guests of Wesley D. Goldthorpe, director of the country club during the afternoon and evening.
The members enjoyed short hops in the plane of Warren Webster, Jr., of Haddonfield and were thrilled by a parachute jump made by Roy C. Adams. Both are members of Rotary.
All sorts of athletic events were held including golf and baseball. The cow milking contest was won by George C. Moore, former manager of the Supplee-Wills-Jones Company. Other contestants included Joshua C. Haines, register of deeds; Volney Bennett, Elias Davis, Edward Mechling and Dr. Leon N. Neulen, superintendent of Camden schools.
The barrel rolling contest was won by Samuel A. Riggins.
A steeplechase race on horses furnished by Walter Levering was won by William T. Read, former state senator, president-elect of the Rotary Club. Paul H. Engle is retiring president.
Dinner under a large tent on the grounds was followed by a musical entertainment. A vocal quartet was composed of James Clancy, Walter Weidler, Fred Veiser and Len Lizst. Charles Janney was chairman of the entertainment committee.
C. of C. Names Group on National Recovery
Camden Courier-Post —
An Industrial Recovery Act Committee of the Camden County Chamber of Commerce was appointed yesterday.
A.C. Held was named chairman of the committee and immediately called a meeting for tomorrow, at 12:15 in Hotel Walt Whitman.
Other members of the committee include J.W. Burnison, Clinton L. Bardo, Harry A. Kelleher, Warren Webster, Jr., Harry C. Stevenson; T. David Stern, B. H. Hudson, Charles Wagner, A. W. Stedman, Stanley Cramer, and Loyal D. Odhner.
A study of the national recovery act passed by Congress for President Roosevelt is to be made by the committee to determine what action should be taken by Camden manufacturers and merchants toward price and wage recovery.
C. of C. Announces Expanded Program
Camden Courier-Post —
Manufacturers’ Committee Takes New Offices, Lists Plans on New Activity
Announcement of an office location, program and personnel of the Manufacturers’ Committee of the Camden County Chamber of Commerce was made yesterday by Harry A. Kelleher, chairman of the committee. The committee has taken an office at 1012 Broadway–Stevens Building, 300 Broadway, and Howard Rhoades has been placed in charge of its activities as executive secretary.
Besides Kelleher the committee comprises Warren Webster, Jr., secretary-treasurer; L. J. List, Ralph Vasso, Charles W. Wagner; Stanley S. Cramer and Thomas L. Vanderslice. The committee subscribes to the thought that the welfare of Camden community is bound up in the welfare of its industries, and will seek to demonstrate this thought in various ways.
Rhoades, who has had a wide publicity experience, was invited to Camden by the local committee to survey the local field, and report what might be done here to promote co-operation between industry and the community. He made a survey and report which were accepted by the committee, and the program begins at once.
Work will be carried on along four general lines. The committee will from time to time evolve new and helpful local projects which will aid a better understanding of the principle that the welfare and prosperity of industry and the community are so closely allied as to be identical. Industry’s story will be told through the newspapers and radio.
The importance of industry will be called to the attention of the public through the schools, churches, social groups, and through the manufacturing plants. The committee will endorse and support community activities of worthwhile and constructive nature.
One of the committee’s first functions will be to give co-operation and support to the coming South Jersey Tercentenary Exposition, scheduled for Convention Hall, Camden, April 4–9. Kelleher is a member of the Exposition Executive Committee.
Donations Mount in U.S.O. Campaign
Camden Courier-Post —
Camden Drive Brings $14,575 to Recreation Fund For Service Men
Contributions to the United Service Organizations continued to flow in yesterday.
The money will be used for recreational programs for men in the armed forces of the nation through clubs, which are being established adjacent to army and navy cantonments.
Total receipts as announced by Ralph Vasso, chairman of the volunteer gift committee, were $14,575.58. The goal set up for Camden in the nationwide appeal for contributions is $21,000.
Funds are being sent by mail, and delivered in person to headquarters of the U.S.O. in the Camden County Chamber of Commerce offices, Sixth and Penn Streets. Sidney P. McCord, city comptroller, is treasurer of the committee.
Yesterday’s contributors are: Louis Seitchik, $50; employees of Louis Seitchik, $125; Camden County Girl Scouts, $5; Alice B. Eaton, $3; Mrs. T. T. Eaton, $2; Dealers Liquor Company, additional $5; Minters Distributors, $10; John W. Whitecar, $10; Loyal Order of Moose, $10; General Chemical Company, $25; house-to-house collection, Parkside section, $7.35; collections by cans in motion picture theatres, $21.65; Sam Slutsky, $5. Bishop Bartholomew J. Eustace, $50; Father J. P. Fallon, $5; Camden Section National Council of Jewish Women, $10; Camden Realtors, $51; James Scarduzio, $1; John A. Neff, $5; additional from employees of MacAndrews and Forbes, $43.40; office employees of Warren Webster and Company, $24.54; factory employees of Warren Webster and Company, $55.06; Gustav Schwoeri, Jr., $2; Monsanto Chemical Company employees, $51.25; Budget Plan Corporation, $10.
The Warren Webster Company Factory, 17th & Federal Street, Late 1940s
The Warren Webster Company factory, 17th & Federal Street, late 1940s.
Working With Webster — 1940s Employee Handbook
Working With Webster (Warren Webster & Company employee handbook) — 1940s
Working With Webster
Warren Webster & Company Established 1888 Camden, New Jersey
The Company was established in 1888 by Warren Webster, continuing under his leadership until his death in 1938 when his son, Warren Webster, Jr., became President.
The first notable product was the Webster Feed Water Heater, a device which recovered waste heat from exhaust steam. This was followed by the Webster Vacuum Steam Heating System which extended the use of exhaust and low pressure steam for heating large buildings. The Webster Radiator Trap was the principal of a number of products developed in this connection.
In the late nineteen twenties the trademarked Webster Moderator System of Steam Heating was developed. Using orifices, outdoor thermostat and pressure difference control, this Webster development provided for the first time continuous comfortable heating with steam for large buildings, eliminating expensive and intermittent overheating.
Webster System Radiators were introduced in 1932, providing for the first time a light weight convector radiator with a steel casing containing a copper tube and aluminum fin heating element with the radiator valve and trap built in. This development offered greater heat output for the space required and reduced the amount of steamfitting required on the job.
Webster Baseboard Heating and Webster Convectors were both introduced in the period after the close of World War II, serving as the basis for the Company’s entry into hot water heating and permitting a marked expansion of the business into the residential heating field.
ID Badge of William Bennett Harrison Sr.
ID badge of William Bennett Harrison Sr.
Webster Plant Gets Big Army Contract
Camden Courier-Post —
Washington, July 25.—The Warren Webster Company, of Camden, was awarded a contract today by the War Department for manufacture of $320,000 worth of electrical power boosters.
Three other New Jersey firms were given contracts. They are National Pneumatic Company, Rahway, $362,800 for boosters; Essex Specialty Company, Berkley Heights, $237,137 for aircraft signals, and Hercules Powder Company, Parlin, $223,300, for acid.
$320,000 U. S. Work for Warren Webster
Camden Courier-Post —
Washington, July 27.—The War Department has announced the following contract awards: Warren Webster Company, Camden, boosters, $320,000; Hercules Powder Company, Inc., Parlin, acid, $223,300.
There’s A System About Being Comfortable
Camden Courier-Post —
And ten chances to one you’ll find it’s a System of Steam Heating manufactured here in Camden by Webster’s.
Thousands of industries, office buildings, hospitals, schools and homes know the Webster Systems of comfort. Webster Heating Equipment serves all of America, most of the civilized world.
And this equipment is being installed in hundreds of practical new buildings today.
WARREN WEBSTER & COMPANY
CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY
First Lieutenant Warren Webster III
First Lieutenant Warren Webster III was born in Camden, N.J. on December 1, 1927. His grandfather, Warren Webster Sr., was the founder and President of the Warren Webster Company, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of steam heating equipment, with a large factory on Federal Street in Camden, N.J. His father, Warren Webster Jr., played a significant role in the factory as well.
Warren Webster III was a 1950 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point. First Lieutenant Webster was a member of the 17th Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division. He was Killed in Action while fighting the enemy in North Korea on February 21, 1953. For his leadership and valor, First Lieutenant Webster was awarded the Silver Star, the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart.
Inside the Federal Street Plant, 1960
Frank P. Yocolano, of 1157 Princess Avenue in the Parkside section of Camden, worked for the Warren Webster Company as a shear operator. This picture, taken in 1960, is courtesy of his son, Pat Yocolano.