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THE YEAR 1902 |
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The oil cloth plant of R.H. & B.C. Reeve was acquired by the Farr & Bailey Oil Cloth Company on May 21, 1902. |
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Paul Woodward, a youthful degenerate, confessed to killing, on October 1, 1902, by poison Price Jennings and John H. Coffin, two boys with whom he formed an acquaintance. Woodward was convicted and sentenced to be hung January 7, 1903 . |
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T here was a severe outbreak of smallpox in Camden in January of 1902. A city isolation hospital was put into use. For the month ending January 16, 1902, 74 cases were reported in the city . |
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The shipbuilding firm of Quigley & Dorp, with a plant at Cooper’s Point, was organized in February of 1902. |
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The blizzard which occurred February 17, 1902 paralyzed traffic and was followed a few days later by a sleet storm that broke down wires and plunged the city in darkness. Seven horses were killed by falling wires . |
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In March of 1902 a company was incorporated in Camden to tunnel the Delaware between Camden and Philadelphia. Captain Emmor D. French, of Camden, was one of the incorporators, but nothing ever came of the venture . |
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Comptroller Samuel Hufty reported to City Council on March 26, 1902 the amount expended in the recent smallpox epidemic totaled $20,257.78 . |
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The American Cigar Company’s new factory was opened on March 26, 1902, giving employment to 500 hands. |
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The Nonpareil Cork Company purchased the plant of the old Keystone Chemical Company at the foot of Jefferson Street in March of 1902. This is became the plant of the Armstrong Cork Company, which in 1928 was one of Camden’s large industries . |
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The building of houses on the “Parkside Tract” began in the spring of 1902. This was the beginning of what became known as Camden's Parkside neighborhood. |
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The County Building Committee was appointed March 19, 1902 by the board of Freeholders to prepare plans and supervise the erection of a new Court House. This committee did its work well, and the cornerstone of the present building was laid August 18, 1904 . |
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The work of demolishing the old Carman Mansion at Broadway and Federal Street was begun in July of 1902 to make way for the new store building of George A. Munger, to be used as a department store by Munger and Elmer Ellsworth Long. Munger & Long opened their big department store on April 12, 1904. The building was acquired by Stecker & Company in 1926, and by the J.C. Penney Company in the 1930s . |
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The ordinance providing for the elevation of the tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad on Bridge Avenue was passed April 24, 1902. The houses on the south side of Taylor’s Avenue had been demolished in October of 1901 in preparation for this improvement . |
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Early in April of 1902 the Eastern Telephone & Telegraph Company announced the completion of its cable under the Delaware River, connecting the lines of the Camden subscribers with those of the Keystone Company in Philadelphia . |
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The freight office and freight sheds of the Pennsylvania Railroad on Second Street, between Benson and Berkeley Streets, were used for the first time in May of 1902 . |
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The Loeb & Schoenfeld Company filed articles of incorporation in Camden on May 5, 1902 with a capital of $500,000 . |
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In May of 1902 the Pennsylvania Railroad began to tear down buildings in preparation for the elevation of its tracks in Camden. When this improvement was completed it marked one of the greatest advances in rail transportation in Camden . |
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Real estate in Camden experienced a marked “boom” in May of 1902 . |
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A project was started in July of 1902 to provide homes in Camden for 4000 and more men employed by the New York Shipbuilding Company. At this time most of these men were living outside of the city . |
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Fire destroyed the large building of the Browning Dye Company on Pine Street on August 20, 1902, entailing a loss of $50,000 . |
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The City Water works reservoir at Pavonia was carried away on October 2, 1902. Many thousands of dollars of damage was done to property in the trail of escaping water . |
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Cornerstone of the Convent of the Dominican Sisters of the Perpetual Rosary on Haddon Avenue was laid on October 26, 1902 . |
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In October of 1902 the Security Trust Company, which had been previously created by the consolidation of the Security Trust & Safe Deposit Company and the Real Estate Loan & Trust Company, absorbed the New Jersey Trust & Safe Deposit Company. Francis R. Fithian was the President if the Security Trust Company at that time . |
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Fire at the licorice plant, and adjoining properties in South Camden on November 8, 1902, caused a loss of $1,000,000 . |
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On December 31, 1902 the new coke plant of the South Jersey Gas, Electric, and Traction Company was put into operation. The new plant cost $500,000. This company was pumping natural gas to all towns between Camden and Trenton and to Gloucester City and Woodbury . |
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