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Erie Street

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Erie Street

ERIE STREET in North Camden runs from Beach Avenue to 9th Street. Streets that cross or crossed Erie Street include Delaware Avenue, Point, Front, Segal, as well as the numbered streets, 2nd through 9th.

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Intersection of Beach Street & Erie Street

Named to Look After Refreshments

Camden Daily Courier —

Charles N. Ackley, 52 Erie Street, 1903

52 Erie Street — 1902–1903 — Charles N. Ackley. On December 31, 1903 Charles N. Ackley married Mary K. Bogan.

58 Erie Street, 1950

Hit-Run Car Fells 2 Girl Students

Two Camden Catholic High school pupils were injured Monday night, one seriously, when they were struck by a hit-run car at Broadway and Market street.

Patsy Nickturn, 15, of 938 Haddon Avenue, is in the accident ward of Cooper hospital, suffering from a possible skull fracture and a right hip injury. She is a niece of Patrolman George Nickturn. X-ray photos were taken.

Barbara Smallberger, 16, of 58 Erie street, was treated at the hospital for injuries to the left arm and released. Janet Palekas, 16, of 522 North Fifth Street, a companion of the two girls, was not hit by the car.

The three girls had returned from St. Agnes hospital in Philadelphia where they visited a classmate, Joanne St. John, of 517 Taylor avenue, who recently underwent an appendectomy. Miss Smallberger and Miss Palekas are juniors at the high school, while Miss Nickturn is a sophomore.

58 Erie Street, 1955

Benner-Smallberger

The wedding of Miss Eileen Barbara Smallberger, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John V. Smallberger, of 58 Erie st., to Lt. Robert Theodore Benner, USAF, son of Mrs. Theodore R. Benner, of Ocean City, and the late Mr. Benner, took place Saturday morning, Jan. 29, in the chapel at Harlingen Air Force Base, Tex. Capt. A. C. Hopping, chaplain, USAF, officiated at the 10 o’clock nuptial Mass.

A reception followed. Lieutenant Benner and his bride are now residing at 222 Tyler ave., Harlingen.

The bridegroom, who is stationed at Harlingen Air Force Base, attended St. Louis University.

58 Erie Street, 1966

James E. Broderick

JAMES E. BRODERICK. James E. Broderick, 55, of 58 Erie Street, died yesterday in Cooper Hospital. A lifelong resident of Camden, he was a sheetmetal mechanic for New York Shipbuilding Corporation for 18 years.

Surviving are his wife, Juanita; a daughter, Miss Irene Broderick, and a son, James Jr., both at home, and a sister.

Services will be Monday at 11 a.m. in the Schetter Funeral Home, 304 Marlton Pike, Cherry Hill, where friends may call Sunday night. Burial will be in Harleigh Cemetery.

60 Erie Street, 1887

‘Squire Schmitz last night committed George B. Anderson, living at No. 60 Erie street, to the county jail in default of $300 ball [sic] for a trial on Saturday on the charge of failing to support his wife.

65 Erie Street, 1955 NJ Bell Yellow Pages Ad for John H. Mathis Company

65 Erie Street — John H. Mathis Company (shipyard). 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone Yellow Pages Ad.

Ship Builders

MATHIS JOHN H CO
SHIP REPAIRS
NEW CONSTRUCTION
STEEL WOOD
OUR Marine Railway OWN
Point & Erie Camden....WOodlawn 4-9045

72 Erie Street, McNeely & Company, 1928

72 Erie Street — McNeely & Company (glazed kid / patent leather works), 1928.

McNEELY & COMPANY
MANUFACTURERS OF
GLAZED KID
BLACK AND COLORS
72 Erie Street Camden, N. J.

Charles T. Humes Jr.

90 Erie Street — 1890 — Charles T. Humes Sr. & Family. Charles T. Humes Jr. (left)

98 Erie Street, 1885

John Welsh, of Front and Erie streets, was held in $200 bail by Justice Schmitre yesterday for cruelty, in beating Howard Steer, a lad, with a pair of ice tongs.

Unit Block of Erie Street — Occupants

Addresses from 34 to 98 Erie Street.

34 Erie Street

34 Erie Street — Unit Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1888–1893 John S. Smith & Family
1888–1893John S. & Rebecca Price Smith
1888–1893Fitzhugh Lee Smith
1905Louis Ederle (saloon)

52 Erie Street

52 Erie Street — Unit Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1902–1903Charles N. Ackley

58 Erie Street

58 Erie Street — Unit Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1943–1955John V. Smallberger & Family
1943–1955John V. & Rose Smallberger
1943–1955Ellen Barbara Smallberger
1955–1959 Robert R. Rowan Jr.
1966James E. Broderick & Family
1966James E. & Juanita Broderick
1966Irene Broderick
1966James Broderick Jr.

60 Erie Street

60 Erie Street — Unit Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1885–1887 George B. Anderson

65 Erie Street

65 Erie Street — Unit Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1947Quigley Shipyard Inc.
1900s–1960s John H. Mathis Company (shipyard)

72 Erie Street

72 Erie Street — Unit Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1858–1971 John R. Evans & Company (leather factory)
1928McNeely & Company (glazed kid works)

86 Erie Street

86 Erie Street — Unit Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1950Mrs. Mary Gaylord & Family
1950John E. Gaylord
Korean War Seaman First Class John E. Gaylord

90 Erie Street

90 Erie Street — Unit Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1890Charles T. Humes Sr. & Family
1890Charles T. & Mary Humes
1890 Charles T. Humes Jr.
1890George Humes
1929James E. Kesler

92 Erie Street

92 Erie Street — Unit Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1917Alexander Read

94 Erie Street

94 Erie Street — Unit Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1929–1930Mrs. Ellen Knox & Family
1929–1930 Archie Knox
1929–1930Edith Knox

98 Erie Street

98 Erie Street — Unit Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1885John Welsh
1930 William J. 'Shooey' Bonner (speakeasy)
1930Harry Elder

Named to Look After Refreshments

Camden Daily Courier —

Named to Look After Refreshments - Camden Daily Courier, April 20, 1905

At a meeting of the Excise Board last night, Peter Morgan was granted a license to dispense wet goods at 210 Market street, and Louis Ederle to do likewise at 34 Erie street. These retail transfers were granted: Thomas Tracy, 601 North Front street, to Frederick Speck; John Thompson, 1075 South Second street, to George Sheer; Peter F. Morgan, 800 Fern street, to John Graham; Harry B. Middleton, deceased, 551 South Third street, to Elizabeth Middleton, his widow.

Brass Stolen From Armour Boat

Philadelphia Inquirer —

Brass Stolen From Armour Boat - Philadelphia Inquirer, January 24, 1917

Charged with purloining valuable brass fittings from the palatial houseboat Chieftain, launched Monday at the Mathis shipyard for Mr. Armour, of Chicago, Joseph Ford, 31 years old, of 941 Point street, and Nicholas Parson, 49 years old, of 511 North Second street, were committed to jail by Recorder Stackhouse in Camden yesterday in default of bail. Alexander Read, 39 years old, of 92 Erie street, similarly accused, was unable to be arraigned because of illness. The men are said to have been employed in the yard and the material was taken while the $85,000 craft was being constructed.

Fence That Hampered Firemen

Camden Courier-Post —

Fence That Hampered Firemen - Camden Courier-Post, February 24, 1928 Fence That Hampered Firemen - Camden Courier-Post, February 24, 1928

The upper view shows the fence at the end of Segal Street, above Erie Street, which firemen say hampered them during yesterday’s big fire which caused $225,000 damage. The insert shows how a fireplug was blocked. The lower sketch is a bird’s eye view of where the fences are located in relation to the big blaze. Officials of several plants destroyed by fire say they will demand from city officials an explanation as to why the fence was built.

2 Firms to Demand City Begin Probe of Fence as Aid in Fire

Camden Courier-Post —

2 Firms to Demand City Begin Probe of Fence as Aid in Fire - Camden Courier-Post, February 24, 1928 2 Firms to Demand City Begin Probe of Fence as Aid in Fire - Camden Courier-Post, February 24, 1928 2 Firms to Demand City Begin Probe of Fence as Aid in Fire - Camden Courier-Post, February 24, 1928 2 Firms to Demand City Begin Probe of Fence as Aid in Fire - Camden Courier-Post, February 24, 1928

Structure Across Alley Caused Heavier Loss at Factory Blaze, Officials Say

GATES FOUND BOLTED

Officials of two North Camden industrial plants that were wiped out by fire yesterday morning, announced today they would demand a thorough investigation by the building inspectors and highway department as to why a ten foot fence was allowed to be built across Segal street and a wide alley adjoining their property on Erie street. They claim that if the fence had not been erected Camden firemen would have been able to check the blaze which caused $225,000 damage.

Officials who will demand an investigation are Vincent P. Dougherty, vice president of the Allied Metal Stamping Company, whose loss was $75,000, and C. E. Perrin, head of the Philadelphia Metal Stamping Company, who suffered a $50,000 loss in the blaze.

“I intended to ask Mayor Price to start a probe that will not end in a whitewash,” Dougherty said. “The fences were constructed of heavy planking by the John R. Evans and Company. It is my impression that when the company sought permission to erect these fences they were informed gates must be placed there in case of fire. Gates were installed in the fence leading into the alley but some time ago the gates were bolted and carboys of acids and other chemicals were placed against the fence.

Fence Near Fireplug

“The fence cutting off Segal street is right against a fire plug and this hampered the firemen in their work. If the firemen had been able to use this plug at once the fire loss would not have been so great.”

“The erection of these fences was an outrage. I don’t know who gave the Evans company permission to build them, but I want to find out why they were allowed to be built,” Perrin said.

Firemen said they believed the fence contained a gate, but when they arrived at the blaze they found the gates bolted. Fire Chief Nichols said the fence compelled the firemen to lay 900 feet of hose where if they had been able to get through the fence at once they would have been required to lay only 100 feet to reach the blaze.

Engineer Defends Action

Charles Jones, chief engineer of the Evans plant, said the company was within its rights in constructing the wooden fence as it was built on the Evans property.

“We bought property on Segal street about nine years ago,” Evans said. Segal street was never a through street and when we bought the property we tore down the buildings and moved the dead end further south.

The city, after we made the purchase, removed water and gas mains and if they left a fire plug up against our fence that is the fault of the city. The properties were bought and torn down about nine years ago.”

Fire Chief Nichols said today had there been a gate on the two fences the fire loss would have been greatly cut down. George W. Johnson, building inspector said the matter had not been brought to his attention as yet.

Letter to the Editor of The Evening Courier

Camden Courier-Post —

Letter to the Editor of The Evening Courier - Camden Courier-Post, February 29, 1928 Letter to the Editor of The Evening Courier - Camden Courier-Post, February 29, 1928

To the Editor of The Evening Courier.

Sir:—In Monday’s issue I noticed a letter, “Some Whys Suggested By the Fire in Erie Street,” which I will endeavor to answer in the sequence in which they were asked.

“Why is a corporation allowed to dead end a street?”

This I suppose applies to Segal street, at the river end of which next to the leather plant is a high board fence and against which is a fireplug with outlet facing towards Erie street. Rilett’s shipyard previous to the leather plant’s purchase of the same had the same condition existing, and when the new plant was built the city cut the water main and moved the fireplug up the street outside of the new owner’s line. This has existed for years, and cannot now be criticised. So far as maintaining a passageway or alley there, none ever existed either during Segal’s building and ownership of the old match factory, ammonia plant and ice plant on this site or the old Rilett ship repair yard, and as the leather plant bought 10 houses, five on each side of Segal street at that end, they are entirely within their rights to erect a fence there and store anything on their own property they see fit.

As for the driveway running down by the burnt buildings, there never was an outlet at the river end, only a gate for a man to pass through when going from Rilett’s shipyard to the blacksmith’s shop on the other side for the work he did for the shipyard, all of which property is included in the present site of the leather plant.

“Why are fire towers outlet to streets locked at all times?”

The law distinctly says that fire tower doors must be open to exit from the inside and to prevent people from entering from the outside. A special lock is used which allows the doors to be opened from the inside but locked against the outside entrance of same. No other kind of lock is used as in the states of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and New York the fire marshals and safety inspectors are on the job too much to allow any monkey business with fire tower exits.

In answer to third question, I would say that the fire department has the right to burst open any thing or place necessary to gain entrance, but as the fire was outside the building, which was amply protected by fire walls, they probably did not think it necessary.

As far as the fire equipment going bad at such times this can be expected especially when conditions exist as outlined by the last part of “A Taxpayer’s” letter, to which this is an answer.

J. T. L.

John R. Evans & Company advertisement

Camden Courier-Post —

72 Erie Street, John R. Evans & Company

John R. Evans & Company — Manufacturers of the Standard Brands: Ruby Black Glazed Kid, Maximus Patent Leather, Peerless and Peacock Brands of fancy-colored Kid, all for Women’s and Men’s Fine Shoes.

72 Erie Street — 1858–1971 — John R. Evans & Company (leather factory)

Intersection of Point Street & Erie Street

Point & Erie Streets, 1872, John R. Haslett

Point & Erie Streets — John R. Haslett. 1872 Camden City Directory

J. R. Haslett,
SHIP, HOUSE & SIGN
PAINTER,
Point Street, Cooper's Point, Camden N. J.
Orders received for all work connected with PAINTING,
and executed with Neatness and Dispatch.

Northeast Corner, Point & Erie Streets, Benjamin Cooper House, 1936

Northeast Corner, Point & Erie Streets — 1734–2012 — Benjamin Cooper House. Photograph from 1936. Severely damaged by fire, November 22, 2012.

Benjamin Cooper House at Point & Erie Streets

Northeast Corner, Point & Erie Streets — Benjamin Cooper House

John H. Mathis Shipyard, Point & Erie Streets, c.1906

Northeast Corner, Point & Erie Streets — 1906–1960s — John H. Mathis Shipyard

Camden Ship Repair fire, Point & Erie Streets

Northeast Corner, Point & Erie Streets — 1960s–1970s — Camden Ship Repair

Erie Street between Point Street and North Front Street, 1980

Erie Street between Point Street & North Front Street — 1980

Intersection of Howard Street & Erie Street

Looking south towards York Street from Erie Street, April 1, 2004

Looking south towards York Street from Erie Street — April 1, 2004

100 Block of Erie Street

107-111 Erie Street, D.A. Wedmore Company, 1915

107–111 Erie Street — D.A. Wedmore Company, 1915.

Beams Iron and Wire Guards Angles
Fire Escapes Stair Work

D. A. Wedmore Co.
MANUFACTURERS OF ALL CLASSES OF
Builders' Iron and Supplies
ANYTHING IN WIRE
107-111 Erie Street Camden, N. J.

Reinforcement for Concrete Work
Automatic Wire Work Wire Shelving Milk Bottle Carriers

107-111 Erie Street, Metallic Paint Corporation, 1954

Mrs. Edna F. Breisacher

MRS. EDNA F. BREISACHER. Mrs. Edna F. Breisacher, 57, of 107 Erie st., died Friday at Glen Gardner after a long illness. She was the wife of William A. Breisacher, head of the Camden Chemical Corp.

A native of Oreland, Pa., Mrs. Breisacher had lived in Merchantville for 20 years prior to moving to Camden recently.

Besides her husband, she leaves two sons, William A. Jr., of Pennsauken, and Theodore, of Camden, and two daughters, Mrs. Catherine King, of Orangeburg, N. Y., and Miss Margaret Breisacher, of Camden.

Services will be held Tuesday at 1 p. m. at the Stephenson Funeral Home, 33 W. Maple ave., Merchantville, where friends may call Monday evening. Burial will be in the National Cemetery at Beverly.

107-111 Erie Street, Walter F. Motson & Company, 1966

Thieves also were active in two other areas of the city during the night. Ptl. Arthur Lewandoski said power tools including six electric drills valued at $482 were stolen from Walter Motson and Company, 107 Erie Street. He said they also took an undetermined quantity of tools from Thomas C. Van Osten Co. at the same address.

107-111 Erie Street fire, November 26, 1977

107–111 Erie Street — 1977 — wrecked by fire on November 26, 1977

109 Erie Street, 1955 NJ Bell Yellow Pages Ad

109 Erie Street — United Lithographing Company. 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone Yellow Pages Ad.

UNITED LITHOGRAPHING CO.
Lithographers Printers
QUALITY

Printed Advertising in Color
We Specialize in
PRINTING ON CARDBOARD
From 3 Ply To 18 Ply
EMerson 5-8791
109 ERIE ST.
CAMDEN

110 Erie Street, S.P. Feather & Company, 1890

Silk Mill Burned Out Again

The artificial silk yarn mill of S. P. Feaghers & Company at 110 Erie street, was burned out, for the second time in three weeks, last evening. The loss will amount to $10,000. The fire was caused by spontaneous combustion in the engine room. In the former fire all the machinery was destroyed. This had been replaced and the mill was to have started up this morning.

110 Erie Street, Sheet Metal Service Co., 1955 NJ Bell Ad (part 2)

110 Erie Street — Sheet Metal Service Co. 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone Yellow Pages Ad (second of two).

Sheet Metal Service CO.
FABRICATORS & ERECTORS OF
STEEL - STAINLESS STEEL - ALUMINUM
FOR
MARINE AND INDUSTRIAL PURPOSES
150 TON POWER PRESS BRAKE - 10 FT. LONG
1/4" CAP. POWER SQUARING SHEAR - 10 FT. LONG
CONTOUR SHEARING 3/16" CAPACITY
GUARDS - TANKS - STRUCTURALS
ELECTRIC - ACETYLENE - HELIARC WELDING
WOodlawn 4-7166
110 ERIE ST. CAMDEN, N. J.

110 Erie Street, Sheet Metal Service Co., 1955 NJ Bell Ad (part 1)

110 Erie Street — Sheet Metal Service Co. 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone Yellow Pages Ad (first of two).

SHEET METAL SERVICE CO
ANYTHING IN SHEET METAL FOR INDUSTRY.
— STAINLESS STEEL —
1/4" PLATE X 10 FT SHEARING
3/16" CONTOUR SHEARING
150 TON POWER PRESS BRAKE
BLOWER - EXHAUST and VENTILATING SYSTEMS.
SHEET METAL FABRICATION and ERECTION.
GUARDS - Factory Maintenance - WELDING
WOodlawn 4-7166
110 ERIE ST. CAMDEN

113-115 Erie Street, Wm. MacIntosh Lithographers, 1932

113–115 Erie Street — 1932 — Wm. MacIntosh Lithographers. March 2014. Top Row: Slim, Reds, Tommy Bowers, Ducky, Lou Priestly, Wogie Laphan. Middle Row: Willie Martz, Inky Anderson, Frank Sheppard, Jake Martz, Peff, Larry Campbell. Bottom Row: Jimmy Knox, Hans, Freeman Trimmer, Ray Caldwell, Tom Anderson, Sam Priestly.

128 Erie Street, Raymond Bolli & Family, 1935

17-Year Bride Makes Plea For Return of Her Mother

Would Know Parent Who Left Camden Home 15 Years Ago

HAS OLD PICTURE AS ONLY GUIDE

Treasuring a photograph as her only memento of her mother, a North Camden bride, 17, yesterday appealed to the Courier-Post to help her locate her parent, missing from her since she was 22 months old.

“I was an infant when my mother left,” said Mrs. Josephine Falcone Bolli, the wife of Raymond Bolli, of 128 Erie street. “I don’t remember her, I was so young then. But at home I have her photograph, and if I saw her I would know her from that.”

The young woman did not even know her mother’s first name when she asked the police to assist her. She found it in searching deeds at the courthouse, showing her father, Michael Falcone, and her mother, Carrie, joint owners of a dwelling at 240 Milton street.

“My mother and father are separated,” Mrs. Bolli said. “I believe my father knows where she is. I told the police that he would not give me any information about mother’s whereabouts. And I want so badly to know. I want my mother. Every girl does, and here I do not even know her or where she is.

“They tell me, and her photograph shows me, that mother is a wonderful woman. If mother only knows how much I want to see her, how much I want her to live with me and my husband, I’m sure she would come to me at once. I am her baby, her only child.”

Mrs. Bolli became a bride last November.

128 Erie Street newspaper clipping, August 31, 1935

128 Erie Street — Mrs. Josephine F. Bolli. Camden Courier-Post, August 31, 1935.

17-Year Bride Makes Plea For Return of Her Mother

Would Know Parent Who Left Camden Home 15 Years Ago

HAS OLD PICTURE AS ONLY GUIDE

Treasuring a photograph as her only memento of her mother, a North Camden bride, 17, yesterday appealed to the Courier-Post to help her locate her parent, missing from her since she was 22 months old.

"I was an infant when my mother left," said Mrs. Josephine Falcone Bolli, the wife of Raymond Bolli, of 128 Erie street. "I don't remember her, I was so young then. But at home I have her photograph, and if I saw her I would know her from that."

The young woman did not even know her mother's first name when she asked the police to assist her. She found it in searching deeds at the courthouse, showing her father, Michael Falcone, and her mother, Carrie, joint owners of a dwelling at 240 Milton street.

"My mother and father are separated," Mrs. Bolli said. "I believe my father knows where she is. I told the police that he would not give me any information about mother's whereabouts. And I want so badly to know. I want my mother. Every girl does, and here I do not even know her or where she is.

"They tell me, and her photograph shows me, that mother is a wonderful woman. If mother only knows how much I want to see her, how much I want her to live with me and my husband, I'm sure she would come to me at once. I am her baby, her only child."

Mrs. Bolli became a bride last November.

100 Block of Erie Street — Occupants

Addresses from 107 to 128 Erie Street.

107–111 Erie Street

107–111 Erie Street — 100 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1915D.A. Wedmore Company
1917Lindholm Metal Stamping Company
1933Philadelphia Metal Stamping Company
1947–1954Metallic Paint Corporation / Camden Chemical Corporation
1947–1954William A. Briesacher & Family
1966–1972Walter F. Motson & Company (cabinet manufacturing)
1977Vacant — wrecked by fire November 26, 1977

109 Erie Street

109 Erie Street — 100 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1933–1966Charles C. Van Osten / Van Osten Pattern Company
1953MacIntosh Litho Company
1953–1955United Lithographing Company
1966Theodore C. Van Osten

110 Erie Street

110 Erie Street — 100 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕ Source ↕
1890–1926S.P. Feather & Company (artificial silk)
1955Sheet Metal Service Co.1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone Yellow Pages Ad

113–115 Erie Street

113–115 Erie Street — 100 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1932Wm. MacIntosh Lithographers

114 Erie Street

114 Erie Street — 100 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1908–1909Camden Metal Company
1908–1909 Horace L. Brewer, President

120 Erie Street

120 Erie Street — 100 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1929Joseph Ragen

128 Erie Street

128 Erie Street — 100 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1898–1901 George B. Anderson
1929 John S. Anderson & Family
1929John S. & Agnes Anderson
1929Henry Anderson — Agnes Anderson — John S. Anderson Jr.
1930Robert Sweeten & Family
1935Raymond Bolli & Family
1935Raymond & Josephine Falcone Bolli

$225,000 Fire Ruins 5 Uptown Plants

Camden Courier-Post —

$225,000 Fire Ruins 5 Uptown Plants - Camden Courier-Post, February 22, 1928 $225,000 Fire Ruins 5 Uptown Plants - Camden Courier-Post, February 22, 1928 $225,000 Fire Ruins 5 Uptown Plants - Camden Courier-Post, February 22, 1928 $225,000 Fire Ruins 5 Uptown Plants - Camden Courier-Post, February 22, 1928 $225,000 Fire Ruins 5 Uptown Plants - Camden Courier-Post, February 22, 1928 $225,000 Fire Ruins 5 Uptown Plants - Camden Courier-Post, February 22, 1928 $225,000 Fire Ruins 5 Uptown Plants - Camden Courier-Post, February 22, 1928 $225,000 Fire Ruins 5 Uptown Plants - Camden Courier-Post, February 22, 1928 $225,000 Fire Ruins 5 Uptown Plants - Camden Courier-Post, February 22, 1928 $225,000 Fire Ruins 5 Uptown Plants - Camden Courier-Post, February 22, 1928 $225,000 Fire Ruins 5 Uptown Plants - Camden Courier-Post, February 22, 1928 $225,000 Fire Ruins 5 Uptown Plants - Camden Courier-Post, February 22, 1928

How Flames Gutted Big Industrial Building

Residents Flee as Flames Rage in Big Building

Factory of Evans Leather Co. Saved by Valiant Work of Firemen

Apparatus Is Disabled; Debris Buried Fire Plug

Metal Stamping Firm, Textile Concern Heavy Losers; Pattern Shop Saved

Taken shortly after daylight today, this photograph shows firemen still pouring water on the ruins of the Varoma building on Erie street from the roof of the Evans Leather Company building adjoining. Five industries were wiped out in the blaze which caused damage estimated at $225,000.

Sweeping through the Varoma Building on Erie street and driving 80 persons from their homes, a spectacular fire early today wrecked the quarters of five industrial concerns and caused damage estimated at $225,000.

Responding to three alarms, every piece of fire apparatus in the city, with the exception of the “cover-up” companies, fought the blaze for hours.

Handicapped by the location of fire-plugs and the breakdown of several pieces of apparatus, the firemen prevented the flames from spreading to the huge building of the Evans Leather Company, which forms an “L” on two sides of the burned structure.

Twenty dwellings on the east side of Segal street, separated from the Varoma building only by a narrow alley, were also saved after their occupants had fled to the street.

Fire Chief Thomas Nicholas announced later today, after the flames had been brought under control, that he would begin a rigid investigation into the blocking of Segal street by a high board fence and the piling of refuse around a fireplug at the head of the street.

The wrecked building is owned by the Varoma Corporation of which Thomas Van Osten, of Palmyra, is president; William MacIntosh, 3[?]7 Vine street, vice president; Alfred Van Osten, of Palmyra, secretary, and David B. Robinson, of West Collingswood.

Building Loss $50,000

MacIntosh today estimated the damage to the building alone at $50,000. He is also president of the MacIntosh Printing and Lithographing Company, of which James J. Stinson, of Merchantville is secretary. Damage estimated at $10,000 resulted from the fire in the quarters of that concern.

The other industries, all located in the big brick building, which suffered in the blaze, with official estimate of the damage to each, are as follows:

Blue and Gray Textile Company, of which T. A. Carr, of 302 Porter road, Fairview, is president, $30,000.

Allied Metal Stamping Company, of which Joseph A. Skublicki, of 115 State street, is president, and William Daugherty, vice president, $75,000.

James A. MacMillan & Co., manufacturing chemists, headed by James MacMillan, of 809 North Third street, $10,000.

Philadelphia Metal Stamping Company, of which firm Clement A. and Mrs. Florence Perrin, of Collingswood, and Edwin L. Seabrook, of 566 Benson street, are members, $50,000.

Other Concerns Escape

The fire was discovered at 5.35 o’clock by a watchman who sounded the first alarm. The flames had started, from causes as yet undetermined, in that portion of the building occupied by the Blue & Gray Textile Company. The building, which housed nine separate industries, covered an area 100 by 300 feet. Part of it was one story in height and another part two stories. Four of the industries in the two-story section of the building escaped serious damage. They are Kruse & Slattery, tool-makers; the Camden Hardware Manufacturing Company, the Wolf Company, manufacturers of advertising novelties; the Thomas C. Van Osten pattern-makers, headed b[illegible]dent of the concern w[illegible] building.

The structure, at 105-107 Erie street, extends back almost to Segal street and has a frontage covering most of the block on Erie street between Second and Burns streets.

Arrivnig [sic] in response to the watchman’s alarm, Chief Nicholas visioned the danger of repetition of the fire nine years ago when buildings at the same location were wiped out by flames. He immediately sounded the second and third alarms, bringing almost every piece of apparatus in the city to the scene.

Carr, president of the textile company, estimated the loss there at $30,000, stating that a large shipment of intricate machinery from Germany had arrived only a few days ago. The concern was anticipating removal, in a short time, to larger quarters at Ninth and State streets, Carr added.

From the two large rooms occupied by the Blue & Gray textile firm, the flames swung over to the quarters of the Allied Metal Stamping Company. Daugherty, the vice-president of this concern, said his company was filling a large order for electric switch-boxes and had been working at capacity for several weeks. Switch-boxes valued at $40,000 were destroyed by the fire, with machinery and other equipment valued by Daugherty at an additional $35,000.

Blasts Add to Perils

Moving northward, the flames next struck the MacMillan plant, where chemicals are manufactured for paints and drug companies. Here the flames reached a number of containers of chemicals and, for a time, the blaze was punctuated by a series of explosions. Here, firemen risked imminent peril to their lives by carrying other containers of chemicals out of reach of the flames.

Still continuing northward; the fire next reached the MacIntosh lithographing plant and spread through the cutting and shipping rooms, causing damage estimated at $10,000 before firemen succeeded in dragging two lines of hose into this section of the building and driving back the flames.

The Philadelphia Metal Supply Company went next as the fire swept eastward. In this plant, metal cornices and valuable hand-made dies were destroyed at a loss estimated by Perrin, a member of the firm, at $50,000. Arriving at the scene, apparatus from Engine Companies No. 1 and No. 7 developed boiler trouble and were unable to work. Firemen were further handicapped by the fact that the Evans Leather Company has blocked off Segal street at the north end by a high board fence. A fireplug at this point was also blocked by a pile of chemical containers, declared to have been placed there by the leather company.

Declaring that he could have attached at least four more hose lines had this plug not been blocked, Chief Nicholas announced that he would conduct an investigation. He said also that the leather company had failed to place gates in the Segal street fence, as city officials required them to do when permission was given for erection of the barrier.

Hose lines were taken to the flat roof of the Evans company, high above the burning building, and water poured onto the flames from this altitude. Hundreds of persons were attracted to the scene by the spectacular nature of the fire, which was visible from the Camden bridge and for miles around. A police detail led by Chief James E. Tatem and Inspector Lewis Etehr [sic] kept the crowds in check.

Firemen escaped injury while fighting the flames at their height, but while they were still pouring streams of water onto the ruins shortly before noon today, the first casualty occurred. Emanuel Kane, of 703 North Third street, a fireman attached to Engine Company No. 6, was struck on the head and knocked down by a 12-foot length of steel bar, six inches thick, which pinned him under it as he fell. Companions ran to his aid, lifted the bar from him and revived him. Hospital treatment was not necessary.

Eight other firemen narrowly escaped serious injury a few minutes later when a section of the east wall fell. The eight men were standing under the wall when one of them saw it totter. They dashed from the spot just in time to avoid being buried by the falling debris. Three of these firemen were from Engine Company No. 1 at Fifth and Arch streets; three from No. 4, Fourth and Vine streets, and two from No. 2 Company, Front and Linden streets.

Jack Sperry, an Evening Courier photographer, was walking along the roof of a part of the burned building when he fell through a portion of it which had been burned from beneath. Pinned at his arm-pits, he was dragged out. He got his picture.

While carrying a hose line into the [illegible] structure, Firemen Harry Lee [illegible] David Ellis were knocked down when a [illegible]pling blew off the hose but [illegible] hurt.

[illegible] wild confusion was [illegible] street when members [illegible] whose homes were threatened by the flames, rushed to the street, many of them clad only in night clothing. Carrying screaming children with them, occupants of the dwellings also dashed out with furniture and personal belongings which they piled in the street. Cellars of the score of houses on Segal street were flooded by water from the firehoses, which was knee-deep amid the ruins.

Families whose homes were menaced and who were driven from the dwellings were those of Paul Warner, 1002 Segal street; Frank Bosco, 1004; Giles Beebe, 1006; Howard Pratt, 1008; Mrs. Mary Sweeten, 1010; Charles Randall, 1012; Harry Burr, 1014; John Sweeten, 1016; Leona Moore, 1018; Dora Annastasio, 1020; John Hamilton, 1024; Abe Granis, 1026; George Stewart, 1028; Arthur Wilkins, 1032; Charles Stutzenburg, 1034; George Wilson, 1036; George Bowers, 1040, and A. W. Dickinson, 1042 Segal street.

The fire today was the fourth big blaze that has occurred on the site. The first was in 1867, when a roller mill and nail factory were destroyed.

In the second, in 1908, flames destroyed the morocco plant of R. H. Evans Company.

In 1919, with the temperature at the zero point, firemen were again called out to fight another disastrous blaze in the Evans plant that had been rebuilt.

Ronald C. Archer Burglary Sentence

Camden Courier-Post —

109 Erie Street, Van Osten Pattern Company, 1953

Judge Dzick imposed a three months suspended sentence on an 18-year-old youth after one of his burglary victims testified she would be willing to forget the matter if the boy had learned a lesson.

The sentence was against Ronald C. Archer, 319 Linden st., who pleaded guilty to breaking into a building at 109 Erie st. last week and ransacking offices of the United Lithograph Co., the Van Osten Pattern Co. and the MacIntosh Litho Co.

Detective Harry Tracy said two juveniles accompanied Archer. One has been turned over to juvenile authorities and the second has left home, he said. Archer was arrested by Patrolmen David Kelly and Louis Prucella on information they received while on patrol in North Camden.

The plea of clemency was made by Mrs. Alfretta Warner, 232 Byron st., secretary of United Lithograph. A check writer taken in the burglary was recovered by police and returned to the owner.

109 Erie Street — 1953 — MacIntosh Litho Company — 1933–1966 Van Osten Pattern Company — 1953–1955 United Lithographing Company. Camden Courier-Post, November 23, 1953. Benjamin Dzick — Harry Tracy — David Kelly — Louis Prucella — Alfretta Warner — Linden Street — Byron Street

Intersection of North 2nd Street & Erie Street

The Hamilton Ice Manufacturing Co., North 2nd & Erie Streets, 1906-1915

Harry G. McDougal, Sec'y. and Treas.

THE HAMILTON
Ice Manufacturing Co.

SECOND and ERIE STREETS
Near Vine Street Ferry

Camden, N. J.

1906 Sanborn Map, North 2nd Street & Erie Street

1906 Sanborn Map — North 2nd Street & Erie Street

Seven Injured in Camden

Philadelphia Inquirer —

1462 Belleview Avenue, 1932 newspaper clipping

SEVEN INJURED IN CAMDEN

In the earlier accident in Camden the automobile in which the injured were riding was dragged more than 75 yards by the shifting engine.

The more seriously injured in this accident are Albert Blair, 17, of 1144 N. 24th st., Camden, fractured skull; Robert Sharp, 16, of 1651 Alabama rd., Camden, fractured skull, and Joseph Godfrey, 10, of 208 Bailey st., Camden, mascot of the baseball team of which six other occupants of the car were members.

Those less seriously injured were: Donald Gondolf, 17, of 1462 Belleview ave., Camden, driver of the machine, lacerated face; Alphonso Burdulis, 19, of 207 Erie st., Camden, concussion of the brain; Samuel Cohen, 16, of 840 State st., Camden, lacerated head, and Richard Miller, 12, 1173 Princess ave., Camden, minor lacerations of hands.

All of the injured with the exception of Gondolf, Cohen and Miller are in Cooper Hospital.

All of the boyes except Godfrey are members of the Camden Athletics, a team in the Camden Minor Baseball League, and had gone to a baseball field at 36th st. and River road for a twilight game in the car driven by Gondolf, and owned by his father, Augustus.

Rain halted the game, and the sedan, with its seven occupants, had left the ball field only a few moments before the accident.

1462 Belleview Avenue — 1932 — Alphonso Burdalis. Philadelphia Inquirer, August 18, 1932. Robert Sharp — Alabama Road — Joseph Godfrey — Bailey Street — Donald Gondolf — Belleview Avenue — Alphonso Burdulis — Erie Street — Samuel Cohen — State Street — Richard Miller — Princess Avenue — Joseph Blair — North 24th Street Related: Alabama Road, Bailey Street, Belleview Avenue, State Street, Princess Avenue, North 24th Street.

211 Erie Street, Dorothy Frech, 1938

Injured as 2 Autos Collide Near Airport on Wilson Boulevard

Five persons were injured early today in the head-on crash of two automobiles on Admiral Wilson boulevard near airport circle. Witnesses reported one car was leaving a roadside cafe while the driver of the other car was heading for it.

Most seriously injured was Miss Dorothy Frech, 20, 211 Erie street, Camden. Herbert P. Sparks, 19, 18 Ashton avenue, Swedesboro, escaped with cuts and bruises.

John T. Ryan, 25, 2000 Oakmont avenue, Upper Darby, driver of one car, was cut on the head and hands while a passenger in his machine, Miss Frances Legg, 21, 109 Old Lancaster road, Bala-Cynwyd, received a possibly fractured right leg. Her mother, Mrs. H. G. Legg, of the same address, was injured on the legs.

213 Erie Street, John T. Campbell Jr., 1954

213 Erie Street — 1947–1954 — John T. Campbell Jr. (electrician)

The other robbery was reported by John Campbell Jr. He told police that while he was absent from his home 213 Erie st., between 8.30 p. m. Saturday and 12.30 a. m. Sunday, someone stole a metal box from a china closet. He said the box contained $194 in bills in two envelopes and $19 in bills, plus $16 in change in a bag.

214 Erie Street, Harry S. Lane, 1927

Mrs. Jennie Russell

Funeral services for Mrs. Jennie Russell, widow of Walter C. Russell, who died Tuesday, after an illness of 12 weeks, will be held 2.30 p. m. Saturday from the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Harry S. Lane, 214 Erie street. Burial will be in Arlington Cemetery. The deceased is survived by two sisters, two daughters, two grandsons, one granddaughter, and four great-granddaughters.

227 Erie Street, Mrs. Anna L. Lamb, 1941 227 Erie Street, 1940 directory entry

LAMB—On July 23, 1941, Anna L., widow of Abel Lamb (nee Wilt), age 81 years. Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral on Saturday, at 8 a. m., from the funeral home of Joseph H. Murray & Son, 408 Cooper St., Camden. High Mass at the Church of the Holy Name at 9 o’clock. Friends may call Friday evening.

200 Block of Erie Street — Occupants

Addresses from 201 to 245 Erie Street.

201 Erie Street

201 Erie Street — 200 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1929–1937Philip Buxbaum & Family (grocery)
1929–1937Philip & Bertha Buxbaum
1937Walt Whitman Stores / Buxbaum Management
2010Von Morris Corporation (manufacturing)

203 Erie Street

203 Erie Street — 200 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1929–1947Joseph Burzanski & Family (shoe repair)
1929–1947Joseph & Victoria Burzanski
1943Mrs. Mary Burzanski (widow of John Burzanski)

207 Erie Street

207 Erie Street — 200 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1890 Nicolaus H. Brandt

208 Erie Street

208 Erie Street — 200 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1929–1952Adam Kalvinski & Family
1929–1952Adam & Helen M. Kalvinski
1929–1952Monica Kalvinski

211 Erie Street

211 Erie Street — 200 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1938Dorothy Frech

213 Erie Street

213 Erie Street — 200 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1947–1954 John T. Campbell Jr. & Family (electrician)
1947–1954John T. & Henrietta J. Campbell

214 Erie Street

214 Erie Street — 200 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1874–1882 George W. Himelspark
1927Harry S. Lane & Family

217 Erie Street

217 Erie Street — 200 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1933August Hasher

220 Erie Street

220 Erie Street — 200 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1890 George B. Anderson

227 Erie Street

227 Erie Street — 200 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1940–1941Mrs. Anna L. Lamb
1985 Orville Goldsboro Jr.

229 Erie Street

229 Erie Street — 200 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1931 Harry F. McConnell
1931Mrs. Teresa McConnell

231 Erie Street

231 Erie Street — 200 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1967Richard Singleton & Family
1967Sandra Lavern Singleton

235 Erie Street

235 Erie Street — 200 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1934 Frank Martz

245 Erie Street

245 Erie Street — 200 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1935 Brady's Cafe
1947International Fur & Leather Workers Union Local 206 CIO

Man Held in Threat as Woman Faints

Camden Courier-Post —

Landlord, Seeking Rent, Denies He Intended to Shoot Tenant

Residents along the 900 block on Howard Street were thrown into a turmoil at 9:15 a.m. yesterday by a reported shooting, after a woman, screaming for help, ran from her home and fainted on the street.

The police arrested Charles Bensley, 73, of 936 Howard Street, charged with threatening to kill Mrs. Anna Morgan, 55, of 934 Howard Street, and carrying concealed deadly weapons.

A few minutes later Police Judge Pancoast held Bensley without bail for the grand jury. He admitted having the pistol at the hearing, but had denied possession of the weapon when first arrested.

“Were you going to shoot her?” the court asked.

“No,” Bensley replied, “I don’t know what made me do this, I think I’m half-crazy. I own the house and wanted to collect the rent or make her move.”

When Motorcycle Patrolmen Russell Young and George Getley arrived in front of Bensley’s home, 100 neighbors were crowding the street outside.

Bensley, they said, eluded them and ran out the front door after pretending to make for the back. He was grabbed by August Hasher, 41, of 217 Erie Street, a bystander.

Meanwhile, a motorist had taken the unconscious Mrs. Morgan to Cooper Hospital when she fainted in front of her home. She was questioned at the hospital by Detectives Clifford Del Rossi and George Zeitz.

The detectives quoted Mrs. Morgan as saying that Bensley, who owns the house in which she lives, came into her home this morning to talk about rent which was two months overdue.

“He asked me,” she said, “if I had received a court notice to move, and I said I had, but was waiting for an eviction notice.

“Then he said, ‘Well, I’m going to take the law in my own hands’, and with that he pulled out a pistol and began brandishing it. I ran out the front door calling for help and then I fainted. That’s all I remember.”

Bensley admitted asking Mrs. Morgan to move out. The police found a 38-caliber revolver and a box of bullets hidden behind a rafter in the cellar of his home, they said.

Intersection of North 3rd Street & Erie Street

Three Men Held Without Bail in Tavern Holdup

Camden Courier-Post —

Three Men Held Without Bail in Tavern Holdup - Camden Courier-Post, January 12, 1953 Three Men Held Without Bail in Tavern Holdup - Camden Courier-Post, January 12, 1953

Trio Nabbed at Shore Identified by Victim Of $2000 Theft Here

Three men suspected of the $2000 robbery of a Camden woman tavern owner last Friday were held without bail for further hearing by Judge Dzick today.

Dzick acted in compliance with a request by Detectives Marshall Thompson and George Ellis, who said the investigation was not complete. The three were arrested Sunday in Atlantic City.

Booked on charges of armed robbery were Stanley Slagle, 22, of 1408 Broadway; James J. Lenahan, 24, of 1734 Broadway, and Robert Sharp, 26, of 19 N. Johnson blvd., Gloucester.

Identified as Boxer

Slagle was identified as a middleweight boxer, who started to fight last fall and appeared twice at a Philadelphia club.

Arrested at 2 a. m. Sunday the men were returned to Camden, where they were identified by Miss Mary Lynch, 44, who operates Lynch’s Cafe at 3rd and Erie sts. Charles Clark, 33, of 538 N. Front st., a patron who was slugged on the head with a blackjack, was able to identify Lenahan and Sharp as participating in the daylight holdup, according to Detective Capt. Thomas Murphy.

Murphy said the men will be included in a police lineup Tuesday at 8 p. m. so that other victims of holdups in the area during the past year may view the suspects.

Atlantic City police said Patrolmen Adelmo Fidelli and Edward Shaw, acting on information from Camden detectives, nabbed Lenahan in the Nomad Club.

Fifteen minutes later, other officers took Sharp and Slagle into custody in the Jockey Club.

Shore police said they had been notified Camden authorities in a raid on an apartment in Camden had learned from a girl-friend of one of the men that she was to meet them in Atlantic City.

Some Money Recovered

Murphy said $600 of the stolen money was recovered on the men, in addition to $125 discovered in the apartment in the 1700 block on Broadway.

The detective captain said Detectives George Ellis and Marshall Thompson, who along with Detectives Harry Tracey and Sgt. William Kelly returned the suspects from the shore, had spent 43 hours without sleep on the trail of the bandits.

Murphy said the key to the capture was a license number obtained by Patrolman Oliver Morgan from an automobile seen near the scene of the holdup.

Car Was Stolen

The car, Murphy said, had been stolen from John J. Hegar, 640 Federal st., a certified public accountant, who was unaware of the theft until after the car was recovered Saturday on 7th st., between Liberty st. and Kaighn ave.

Later Saturday, Murphy related, Detective Harry Kyler and Detective Sgt. Vincent Conley obtained information linking Lenahan to the job and, still later, the apartment in Camden was raided.

Discovered in the apartment, Murphy said, were a .45-calibre automatic and the cash, found hidden under a chair cushion.

Murphy said Lenahan and Sharp, under questioning Sunday night in Camden, admitted their part in the holdup. Slagle, however, denied knowledge of the crime, Murphy added.

Discarded Weapons

Reconstructing the holdup and the trail of the gunmen, Murphy named Sharp as driver of the getaway car and said the men drove around the city and then later threw a shotgun and blackjack from the car.

The men went to Philadelphia, Murphy continued, where they purchased new clothes and wrist watches and other accessories and agreed to meet in Atlantic City.

Murphy said all have police records, Lenahan having been paroled in July from state prison after serving a term for grand larceny in Atlantic City. Sharp was released from state prison last year after serving a term for larceny of an automobile in Camden County and Slagle was released from the prison where he was sent for robbery, Murphy said.

300 Block of Erie Street

301 Erie Street, Mrs. Ella Polt, 1954

POLT—On October 7, 1954, Ella, widow of George Polt, of 301 Erie St., Camden, N. J., age 67 years. Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral on Saturday at 8 a. m., at the Murray Funeral Home, 408 Cooper St., Camden, N. J. High Mass of Requiem 9 a. m. at the Holy Name R. C. Church. Interment at Calvary Cemetery. Friends may call Friday evening.

303 Erie Street, 2005 303 Erie Street, 2005 (view 2)

303 Erie Street — Photograph taken May 19, 2005

Oliver H. Morgan

310 Erie Street — 1947 — Oliver H. Morgan & Family

314 Erie Street, 1942

Rebecca Manning Rites Tomorrow

Services will be held today at 3 p. m. for Mrs. Rebecca Manning, 88, in the funeral home of Joseph H. Murray and Son, 408 Cooper street. Burial will be in New Camden cemetery.

Mrs. Manning, a resident of Camden for 60 years and of North Camden for 50 years, died Sunday after an illness of nine months. She lived at 314 Erie street. Mrs. Manning was born in Smyrna, Del., May 23, 1854. She was the widow of Benjamin F. Manning, a ship carpenter who was employed by Mathis Shipyard. He died 22 years ago.

She was a member of the WCTU of the North Baptist church. She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Ada VanMater, of Pennsauken township, and Mrs. William Schumacker, of Haddonfield; four sons, Herbert Manning, Benjamin F. Manning, a sergeant-at-arms in the Camden district court; John Manning and William Manning; 12 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

316 Erie Street, Harry Wood & Family, 1941

Socials

Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss Flora Virginia Goodall, daughter of Mr. John Becker, of 914 North Sixth Street, and the late Mrs. Becker, to Mr. William Leonard Wood, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wood, of 316 Erie street.

320 Erie Street, 2006

320 Erie Street — Photograph taken August 16, 2006

325 Erie Street, 1931

White Not Resident of 325 Erie Street

In a statement he requested the Courier-Post newspapers to publish, Harry R. Janice, of 325 Erie street, denied yesterday that Norman White, 24, arrested recently on charges of driving while intoxicated, lives at that address.

White, when arrested November 8, told the police he lived at 325 Erie street. His address was printed as such in reports of his being held in default of payment of fine by Police Judge Pancoast in traffic court last Thursday night.

“Mr. Norman White might have lived at 325 Erie street but he does not live here now,” Janice said. “I do not know him.”

339 Erie Street, Beatrice Chowell, 1932

Three men and two Camden women were hurt slightly in a collision of two automobiles at Broad street and Belfield avenue, Philadelphia yesterday.

The drivers, William G. Gilbert, 35, Spruce street near Forty-third, and Francis Schuelder, 22, Audubon, were arrested.

The other persons, riding in Schuelder’s car, were John R. Foley, 3113 North Franklin street, Philadelphia; Beatrice Choweel, 339 Erie street, Camden, and Mary Peard, 1892 River avenue, Camden. All were treated for lacerations at the Jewish Hospital.

341 Erie Street, 2005 341 Erie Street, 2006

341 Erie Street — Photographs taken 2005–2006

343 and 345 Erie Street, January 23, 2012

343 & 345 Erie Street — Photograph taken January 23, 2012

300 Block of Erie Street — Occupants

Addresses from 301 to 345 Erie Street.

301 Erie Street

301 Erie Street — 300 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1919–1920James H. Grey
1920–1942William Redlus & Family (grocery)
1920–1942William & Anna Redlus
1920–1942Henry Redlus — Mildred Redlus — David Redlus
1954Mrs. Ella Polt
1956–1959 Oliver Morgan & Family
1956–1959Oliver & Anna Morgan

310 Erie Street

310 Erie Street — 300 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1936Oscar Bendler
1947 Oliver H. Morgan & Family
1947Oliver & Anna Morgan

314 Erie Street

314 Erie Street — 300 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1942Mrs. Rebecca Manning
1942Benjamin Manning

316 Erie Street

316 Erie Street — 300 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1940–1941Harry Wood & Family
1940–1941Harry & Anna Wood
1940–1941Mary Wood — Harry Wood Jr. — William Leonard Wood
1940–1941Roy Wood — Frederick Wood — Anna M. Wood
1940–1941Grace Wood — Frank Wood — Richard Wood

323 Erie Street

323 Erie Street — 300 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1938Margaret Cramer

325 Erie Street

325 Erie Street — 300 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1931Harry R. Janice

330 Erie Street

330 Erie Street — 300 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1923 Frances Margaret Harris

339 Erie Street

339 Erie Street — 300 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1929–1930 Elwood P. Martz
1932Beatrice Chowell
1938Carl Barker

343 Erie Street

343 Erie Street — 300 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1952Carlton Loudon Sr. & Family
1952Carlton & Marguerite (Marge) Loudon
1952Carol Loudon — John Loudon — Carlton Loudon Jr.

345 Erie Street

345 Erie Street — 300 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1947–1949Herbert Good & Family
1947–1949Herbert & Annie Good
1947–1949Dwight Good — Ethel M. Good — Edith Good
1947–1949Mary C. Good — Madaline Good — George Good — Andley C. Good

Cigar Store Raided by ‘Secret 6’ Squad

Camden Courier-Post —

Alleged Proprietor is Held in $500 Bail for Police Court Hearing

Raiders of the “Secret 6” of the Camden police department yesterday arrested Oscar Bendler, 40, as the alleged proprietor of a cigar store at 217 Market Street, where they reported they seized horse racing sheets, three phones and $114.

Bendler, who gave his address as 310 Erie Street, is charged with violating the city ordinance prohibiting gambling and is held in $500 bail for a police court hearing today.

The raid on Bendler’s place was made after the police squad had searched five other small shops and found only legitimate business being conducted.

Two of the shops were located on the Market Street ferry walk, two on Market Street between Second and Third Street and on Federal Street between Second and Third Street.

Fine-combing of establishments were it is suspected the gambling gentry may flourish was ordered by Police Chief Arthur Colsey. The picked squad of men who operated as members of Colsey’s “Secret Six” yesterday were Detective Sergeant Clifford Del Rossi, Sergeant Walter Rowand, Detectives Benjamin Simon and Joseph Mardino.

Hospital Cases

Camden Courier-Post —

Cooper

Lewis Raupp, 53, 833 North 6th Street, dog bite of right index finger — Anna Veroline, 34, 318 Walnut Street, sprained ankle — Albert Passarella, 15, 433 Spruce Street, sprained ankle — Thomas J. Owens, 35, 420 Taylor Ave., bruised wrist and knee — Joseph Manfredi, 14, 335 Chestnut Street, infected palm — Margaret Cramer, 9, 323 Erie Street, infected finger — Laurence Wiggle, 5, 505 South 6th Street, cut hand — Joseph Carbone, 18, 336 Walnut Street, cut chin — Thomas DiRenzo, 13, 522 Clinton St., splinter in left foot — Cecelia Homan, 32, 511 Ray Avenue, foreign body in eye — Mary DiVincenzo, 10, 311 Beckett St., foreign body in eye

West Jersey

Theresa Marolda, 59, 1713 South 4th Street, cut finger — Benjamin Druasowictz, 34, 1282 Van Hook St., cut finger — Charles Mangold, 52, 3 North 4th Street, cut finger — Stanley Kaminski, 25, 1119 Liberty Street, cut hand — Marie Birsch, 15, 697 Van Hook St., foreign particle in eye — Willard Dickson, 3, 1739 Railroad Ave., puncture wound of thigh

One of Pair in Theft Sent to State Prison

Camden Courier-Post —

One man was sentenced to state prison for 1-1/2 to four years on a larceny charge by Judge Clifford A. Baldwin in Special Sessions Court yesterday, and another man was committed for 60 days to the county jail.

The prison sentence was imposed on Carl Barker, of 339 Erie Street, who, with Adolph Lemm, Jr., of 221 Burns street, was charged with the larceny of paint worth $371 from a store at 510 Federal street on January 1. Lemm pleaded not guilty. Barker pleaded not guilty.

4 children killed, 2 other persons injured in Camden fire

Philadelphia Inquirer —

4 children killed, 2 other persons injured in Camden fire - Philadelphia Inquirer, December 2, 1980

By Jack Severson Inquirer Staff Writer

CAMDEN — Four children were killed and two persons were injured early yesterday when a fire swept through a brick rowhouse in a low-income neighborhood here just north of the Benjamin Franklin Bridge.

The two-alarm fire at 328 Erie St. broke out shortly before 6 a.m., killing Tanya Adams, 11, and her three brothers, Andre, 10, Steven, 9, and Tyhe, 8.

The children’s mother, Merel Hall, 27, and her husband, Robert Hall, 21, escaped the blaze by crawling out a second-floor bedroom window onto the roof of the front porch. Hall fell from the roof, sustaining a broken wrist and ankle. Both were admitted to Cooper Medical Center for treatment of smoke inhalation and other injuries.

The cause of the fire was not immediately known.

Mrs. Hall’s brother, Leroy Adams, attempted to rescue the children, but was thwarted by smoke and flames.

Firefighters found the bodies of Tanya, Steven and Tyhe in the middle bedroom on the second floor. Andre’s body was found near the only window in the rear bedroom of the three-bedroom home.

“I heard a scream and I peeped out the window and I saw them on the roof,” Adams, 32, who lives across the street from the Hall house, said yesterday.

“I ran downstairs and across the street and went up the pole (a column supporting the porch roof) and onto the roof. Merel said the kids were inside, so I went in the window — inside the front bedroom. I couldn’t go no further because of the smoke; I couldn’t breathe. So I went back outside and got a breath and tried to go back in.

“But when I tried to go back the second time, the flames broke through the bedroom door,” he said.

By that time, according to neighbors, firefighters had arrived at the scene and were hosing down the front of the building, one of 12 homes in a block-long row anchored at each end by boarded-up houses.

“I got here about 6:30, and there were three guys here with fire hoses,” said Elmer Chandler, 27, Mrs. Hall’s brother-in-law. Chandler, of East Camden, had been alerted by a phone call from the home of Mrs. Hall’s mother, Hallie Adams, 50, who also lives across the street from her daughter.

“Leroy was on the roof, and he was yelling, ‘There are kids in there!’” Chandler said. “The firemen said, ‘Kids in there? We didn’t know that.’”

At that point, according to neighbors and other witnesses, the front of the house, including the porch roof, was nearly engulfed in flames and entry was impossible.

Firefighters were able to confine the blaze to the Hall home. The two houses adjacent to it sustained only minor damage, and there were no injuries to the occupants.

The fire was first reported by a telephone call from a neighbor “at about 6 a.m.,” according to fire officials. The first alarm was sounded at 6:16, followed by a second alarm at 6:23. The fire was declared under control at 6:45.

As neighbors and relatives milled about the street outside the Hall home yesterday afternoon, investigators from the Camden fire marshal’s office and the arson unit of the Camden County prosecutor’s office sifted through the building’s charred interior, searching for clues to the cause of the blaze.

“The place was pretty well gutted,” Fire Marshal Harold H. Pike said. “It’s going to be tough (finding the cause), but we’re just going to keep digging.”

Across the street, family members gathered on the front porch of Hallie Adams’ house, awaiting her return from Cooper Medical Center, where she had been treated for what a hospital spokesman called “anxiety” and released. Also treated was Mrs. Adams’ daughter, Monica, 17, who sustained smoke inhalation.

“It must have happened awfully fast,” said Carl Adams, 32, another brother of Mrs. Hall, who had been called to the scene from his home in Chester.

“Those kids were sensitive to fire,” he said, staring into the black cavity that was once a living room. “They knew about fire. It must have burned awfully quick for them not to get out.”

Source of fire obscure

Camden Courier-Post —

Source of fire obscure - Camden Courier-Post, December 2, 1980 Source of fire obscure - Camden Courier-Post, December 2, 1980 Source of fire obscure - Camden Courier-Post, December 2, 1980

Courier-Post photography by Bob Bartosz

Firefighters wind up their battle yesterday against a morning blaze that killed four children in their home on Erie Street in North Camden.

By LAUREL REID GRAVETT Of the Courier-Post

CAMDEN — The intense heat of a fire that killed four children here yesterday caused so much damage to their Erie Street row home that authorities are having trouble determining the cause of the blaze.

“It was hot in there. And when it’s that hot, everything looks like it was the cause,” Camden Fire Marshal Harold Pike said yesterday. “This thing was so darn hot, it looked like the whole first floor started the fire.”

A fireman at the scene said he found a melted soda bottle in the kitchen on the first floor of the two-story home at 328 Erie St. in the city’s North Camden section. The fireman said it would have required temperatures of about 1,000 degrees to melt the bottle.

Pike said investigators do not suspect arson at this point. He also said authorities do not believe the fire was electrical in origin or that it was caused by careless smoking. Investigators have been told no one in the house smoked cigarettes, he said.

“We believe it was an accidental fire,” Pike said. “And we’re trying to find out what that accident was. It’s gutted down to the floor and it’s going to be very difficult.”

The 6 a.m. fire took the lives of Tanya Adams, 11; Andre Adams, 10; Steven Adams, 9, and Tyhe Adams, 8.

The children’s mother, Merel Hall, and her husband, Robert, who were in an upstairs front bedroom, managed to escape through a window. But the children were trapped in their rooms.

The bodies of the three boys were found huddled in a closet in their bedroom in the upstairs middle section of the home. Authorities said the boys apparently fled to the closet in fear. Tanya’s body was found on the floor by a window in her upstairs rear bedroom.

Assistant Camden County Prosecutor Dennis Wixsted said autopsies, conducted yesterday by county medical examiner William T. Read, showed the children died of asphyxiation from smoke inhalation. Wixsted, who was present at the autopsies, said the children also sustained some burns.

Mrs. Hall’s brother, LeRoy Adams, who lives across the street from the Halls, said he tried to enter the second floor to rescue the children but was driven back by the smoke and flames.

Adams said he was awakened at about 6 a.m. by Mrs. Hall’s screams. He said he ran to his bedroom window and saw his sister standing on the porch roof, screaming, “Somebody please help me! My kids are still in there!”

Adams said he dressed quickly, ran outside and scrambled onto the roof to help his sister and her husband. His sister was able to climb down and her husband fell to the sidewalk, Adams said.

The Halls were taken to Cooper Medical Center, Camden, where both were admitted for treatment.

A hospital spokeswoman said Mrs. Hall, 27, was suffering from multiple trauma but was in satisfactory condition today. Hall, 21, was in fair condition with a broken wrist and broken ankle.

Hallie Adams, 50, Mrs. Hall’s mother, was released from the hospital after treatment for anxiety, the spokeswoman said. Monica Adams, 17, Mrs. Hall’s sister, was treated for smoke inhalation and later released. Both women also lived across the street from the Halls.

Grief-stricken relatives watched in horror as, one by one, the covered bodies of the children were removed from the home and placed into two white station wagons bearing the seal of the Camden County medical examiner’s office.

One woman who had been standing in front of the gutted home ran screaming and crying to a house across the street when firemen carried the first body out on a stretcher. A neighbor said the woman was one of the children’s aunts.

Another woman, identified by neighbors as the children’s grandmother, was supported by a young man and woman as she walked from the Hall’s home and moaned, “Oh, my Lord!”

Pike said the fire was reported at 6:16 a.m. A second alarm went out seven minutes later. The fire was under control by 6:45 and was extinguished by 8 a.m., he said.

Pike said the home had no smoke or heat detectors and that the walls were made of thin paneling, “which generates huge amounts of heat.”

“The path of the fire as it moved upstairs was such that anyone in the middle and rear bedrooms, where the children were found, would have been the first to be trapped,” Pike said.

At the scene, fireman Anthony Dowidowicz said children should be taught in school or by their parents that it is dangerous to hide in the midst of a fire.

“The worst thing to do is to hide in a closet or under a bed,” he said. “Firemen don’t know where you are. And that doesn’t make it any easier.”

“Panic is something you can’t control,” Pike said. “Most children do panic and attempt to hide. You can’t legislate panic.”

However, authorities said the home was filled with such intense flames that no rescue was possible.

Pike said Mr. and Mrs. Hall were too distraught yesterday to provide any information or clues as to what might have started the fire.

The fire also spread to the upper floors of the two rowhomes on either side of the Hall home. The homes were occupied, but the residents escaped without injury, Pike said.

The fire was being investigated by Pike’s office, the Camden County fire marshal’s office, Camden police and the county prosecutor’s office. Law enforcement agencies routinely are called in on fire cases involving death, authorities said.

Intersection of North 4th Street & Erie Street

North 4th Street & Erie Street sign, Knox Gelatine, 2012

Northeast Corner of North 4th Street & Erie Street — Knox Gelatine

Southwest Corner of Erie Street & North 4th Street, October 24, 2011

Southwest Corner of Erie Street & North 4th Street — October 24, 2011

Southwest Corner of Erie Street & North 4th Street, January 23, 2012

Southwest Corner of Erie Street & North 4th Street — January 23, 2012

Northwest Corner of Erie Street & North 4th Street, January 23, 2012

Northwest Corner of Erie Street & North 4th Street — January 23, 2012

View northeast from corner of Erie Street & North 4th Street, circa 1944

View northeast from the corner of Erie Street & North 4th Street — circa 1944

Erie Street neighbors who decorated houses, circa 1944, Clara Wilson of 431 Erie Street

Erie Street neighbors who decorated the houses — Standing, 6th from left: Clara Wilson of 431 Erie Street — circa 1944

Northeast view from corner of Erie Street & North 4th Street, January 23, 2012

View northeast from the corner of Erie Street & North 4th Street — January 23, 2012

Southeast Corner of Erie Street & North 4th Street, January 23, 2012

Southeast Corner of Erie Street & North 4th Street — January 23, 2012

400 Block of Erie Street

416 Erie Street: Johnny Engel enlists — Camden Post-Telegram, December 1917

North Camden boys are responding to the colors. Those who enlisted yesterday include Fred Bihn, of 211 Vine street; Johnny Engel, 416 Erie street; Wayne Gardner, of 618 State street; Lewis B. Todd, of 518 York street; Jas. E. Murray, of 817 Kimber street; Harry Burke, of 710 North Sixth street; Dick Callahan, 319 North Sixth street, and Fireman William Walton, of 520 Bailey street. Walton was located at No. 1 Truck Company. Lewis Todd is the son of Policeman Todd, and Mr. Engel is quitting a fine position at the Castle Kid Company to enlist.

415 to 433 Erie Street, World War II

415 to 433 Erie Street — World War II

419 & 421 Erie Street, World War II

419 & 421 Erie Street — World War II

422 Erie Street, Harry R. Bitler & Family, 1966

Harry R. Bitler, 80, of 422 Erie Street, Camden, died yesterday in the home of his son, Robert, of 39 Lindis Fame Avenue, Westmont.

He was a retired carpenter.

Also surviving are his wife, Mary; five daughters, Mrs. Betty Stout of Pennsauken, Mrs. Ida May Brown, Mrs. Gloria Marshall, and Mrs. Harriet Negri of Camden, and Mrs. Lois Kautrakas of Newport, R.I.; four sons, Harold and George of California, Charles and Marshall of Camden; two brothers, and 19 grandchildren.

Services will be Wednesday at 10 a.m. in the Leroy P. Wooster Funeral Home, White Horse Pike, Atco, where friends may call tomorrow night. Burial will be in Bethel Memorial Park, Pennsauken.

Clara Thomas Wilson of 431 Erie Street, circa 1944

431 Erie Street — Clara Thomas Wilson — circa 1944

400 Block of Erie Street — Occupants

Addresses from 410 to 433 Erie Street.

410 Erie Street

410 Erie Street — 400 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1930Arthur B. Sullivan & Family
1930Arthur B. & Martha Sullivan
1930Arthur T. Sullivan — Dorothy E. Sullivan — Grace E. Sullivan — Martha J. Sullivan

415 Erie Street

415 Erie Street — 400 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1890–1892Charles Emenecker
1930Howard Bittner

416 Erie Street

416 Erie Street — 400 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1890William T. Comerford Sr. & Family
1890William T. & Ida Comerford Sr.
1890 William T. Comerford Jr.
1917–1924Mrs. Philippine Engel & Family
1917–1924Emil Engel Jr.
1917–1924John Jacob Engel
1917–1924Lillian Engel
1917–1924Bertha Engel — Francis Engel — Marie Engel — Henry Engel

418 Erie Street

418 Erie Street — 400 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1927William W. Phenegar & Family
1927 William W. Phenegar Jr.
1927William W. & Marie Phenegar
1927Alice Phenegar — Marie Phenegar
WWII Technician Fifth Class William W. Pheneger Jr.

422 Erie Street

422 Erie Street — 400 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1943–1966Harry R. Bitler & Family
1943–1966Harry R. & Mary Bitler
1943–1966Betty Bitler Stout
1943–1966Ida May Bitler Brown
1943–1966Gloria Bitler Marshall
1943–1966Harriet Bitler Negri
1943–1966Lois Bitler Lautrakas
1943–1966Harold Bitler
1943–1966Charles Bitler
1943–1966George Bitler
1943–1966Marshall Bitler

425 Erie Street

425 Erie Street — 400 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1900James Hopkins & Family
1900James & Margaret Hopkins
1900 William Hopkins
1900John Hopkins — James Hopkins Jr. — Katherine Hopkins
1900Marie Hopkins — Julia Hopkins — Joseph Hopkins — Margaret Hopkins — Cecelia Hopkins

431 Erie Street

431 Erie Street — 400 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1915 John Dickinson
late 1930s–1947Arthur K. Wilson & Family
1947George E.W. & Daisy Wilson
late 1930s–1947Arthur K. & Clara Thomas Wilson
late 1930s–1947George E.W. Wilson

433 Erie Street

433 Erie Street — 400 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1894William T. Comerford & Family
1894William & Ida Comerford
1894Theodore Comerford — Charles Comerford — Howard Comerford
1894 William T. Comerford Jr.
1894Blanche Comerford — Paul Comerford — Pauline Comerford — George Comerford

Sunday Raids on 2 Saloons Trap Owners

Camden Courier-Post —

Sunday Raids on 2 Saloons Trap Owners - Camden Courier-Post, August 26, 1935 Sunday Raids on 2 Saloons Trap Owners - Camden Courier-Post, August 26, 1935 Sunday Raids on 2 Saloons Trap Owners - Camden Courier-Post, August 26, 1935 Sunday Raids on 2 Saloons Trap Owners - Camden Courier-Post, August 26, 1935

Nine Drinkers Nabbed as Witnesses as Police Continue War

THREE WOMEN ARRESTED IN NORTH CAMDEN PLACE

Continuing their drive against alleged violators of the Sunday closing ordinance, police yesterday raided two cafes and arrested the proprietors and nine patrons.

The drive was widened Saturday at the direction of Chief of Police Arthur Colsey to include investigation that minors were being sold alcoholic beverages in saloons and taprooms here.

In Sunday raids a week ago three saloon owners were arrested. Two were fined and one of them obtained a continuance of his hearing on the charges.

The first raid yesterday was made by Police Lieut. George Frost and Detective Marshall Thompson on a saloon at 939 North Third street.

Clem Bridgeman, 36, was arrested as the owner, while Mrs. Mary Frank, 64, who lives in an apartment over the taproom, was named by him as his partner. She was released in $10 bail, with bail for Bridgeman set at $500 for a hearing in police court today.

Frost said he found six customers sitting at tables in the saloon with drinks in front of them.

The customers were held in $10 bail each as material witnesses. They said they were Miss Monica Aument, 23, of 1493 Kenwood avenue; an unidentified woman, who, Frost said, was too intoxicated to talk; Albert Moyer, 53, of 419 Erie street; Charles Luers, 30, of 10 York street; Charles Sevcik, 45, of 225 Milton street; Ernest Ridge, 42, of 619 Cedar street, and Archibald Knox, 25, of 97 North street.

In the second place, at 773 Central avenue, Detectives Frank Wilmont and Joseph Schultz arrested the licensee, Louis Bruten, 58, colored, of that address; Eugene Clark, 43, of 907 Ferry avenue, and William Clark, 41, and Davis Ray, 34, both of New York City. Bruten was released in $500 bail and the patrons in $10 for hearings today.

In Camden Police Court Saturday the hearing of John Lynch, 32, former Camden policeman and proprietor of a saloon at 201 Cooper street, was continued by Judge Lewis Liberman until Wednesday on application of City Prosecutor John H. Reiners.

Lynch is charged with violating Section 422 of the city ordinance in allowing disorderly persons to congregate on his premises and is at liberty in $500 bail.

Cafe Owner Fined for Sunday Sales

Camden Courier-Post —

Cafe Owner Fined for Sunday Sales - Camden Courier-Post, August 27, 1935 Cafe Owner Fined for Sunday Sales - Camden Courier-Post, August 27, 1935 Cafe Owner Fined for Sunday Sales - Camden Courier-Post, August 27, 1935

South Camden Saloonkeeper Granted Continuance of Hearing After Raid

A North Camden saloonkeeper was fined $50 with the alternative of serving 50 days in Camden County jail yesterday by Police Judge Lewis Liberman as police continued the drive against Sunday sales.

The saloonkeeper is Clement Bridgeman, 36, of 939 North Third street.

Louis Bruten, 58, colored, who operates a saloon at 773 Central avenue, was arrested for illegal Sunday sales of alcoholic beverages. He was granted a continuance yesterday by Judge Liberman until September 3. Bruten told the court he wanted to obtain the services of an attorney.

Meanwhile Camden police under orders of Chief Arthur Colsey were continuing their investigation opened last Saturday into reports that minors were being sold liquor in various sections of the city. It was reported proprietors of a number of liquor establishments would be ordered to appear before Chief Colsey today for questioning. The probe resulted from facts uncovered by Patrolman John V. Wilkie with the arrest of a runaway Maple Shade girl last week.

It was reported the State Department of Alcohol Beverage Control had detailed several investigators to Camden to conduct a separate inquiry into the matter of selling liquor to minors. At Newark, Deputy Commissioner Garrett in charge of law enforcement said he knew nothing of the report.

Bridgeman entered a plea of not guilty to a charge of violating Section 5 of the Camden city ordinance covering the sale of liquor on Sunday.

Lieutenant Frost presented as evidence 13 glasses, all of which contained beer, which he said were seized when he and Thompson followed a customer into Bridgeman’s establishment Sunday afternoon.

Five men and two women were in the place, Lieutenant Frost testified, three of the men standing up against the bar and two men and the women along with Bridgeman were seated in the backroom.

Bridgeman protested he sold no beer, giving away to all who were in his place because they were friends of his. Mrs. Mary Frank, 64, who resides in an apartment above the saloon and said she was a half-owner of the establishment, was also arrested by the raiders.

Seven of the eight persons arrested in addition to Bridgeman, appeared in police court yesterday. They were charged with disorderly conduct and being material witnesses. The missing person, Ernest Ridge, 42, of 619 Cedar street, forfeited $10 security which he posted.

The others who were discharged with 30-day suspended sentences included: Mrs. Frank, Miss Monica Aument, 23, of 1493 Kenwood avenue; Mrs. Marie Fisher, 41, of 1031 Segal street; Albert Moyer, 53, of 419 Erie street; Charles Luers, 30, of 10 York street; Charles Sevcik, 45, of 225 Milton street and Archibald Knox, 25, of 97 North street.

In finding Bridgeman guilty, Judge Liberman declared the saloonkeeper had no authority to sell or even give beer away to his friends in a taproom on Sunday.

2 Camden Firefighters Hurt in Two-alarmer

Philadelphia Inquirer —

By John Way Jennings, Inquirer Staff Writer

Two Camden firefighters were injured yesterday when a fire they were battling in a rowhouse blew back in their direction. The rowhouse blaze spread to a nearby church and two homes. No other injuries were reported. The two-alarm blaze heavily damaged the house.

Arson investigators said they were trying to determine whether a 5-year-old boy playing with matches on the second floor of the home, at 430 North Erie St., started the fire.

The injured firefighters were Joel Bain, 36, a nine-year veteran, and Bryan Emenecker, 30, a firefighter for three years.

Intersection of North 5th Street & Erie Street

Northwest Corner, North 5th Street & Erie Street, November 4, 2011

Northwest Corner — Photograph taken November 4, 2011

Northeast Corner, North 5th Street & Erie Street, 501-503, 505, 507 Erie Street, November 4, 2011

Northeast Corner — 501–503, 505 & 507 Erie Street — Photograph taken November 4, 2011

Southeast Corner, North 5th Street & Erie Street, November 4, 2011

Southeast Corner — Photograph taken November 4, 2011

Southwest Corner, North 5th Street & Erie Street, November 4, 2011

Southwest Corner — Photograph taken November 4, 2011. Southeast Corner: 1929 Fidelity Corporation of NJ — 1929 Troth Trucking & Warehouse Co.

500 Block of Erie Street

501-503 Erie Street, 2011

501–503 Erie Street — 1933 S.M. Rosenberg (grocery) — 1943–1954 William Redlus (grocery) — 1957 Mel’s Food Market (grocery) — 2010 Erie Street Mini-Market (grocery). Photograph taken November 4, 2011.

501-503 Erie Street, William Redlus, 1954

GROCERY STORE—Sacrifice, little money needed. Must sell. 501 Erie Street, Camden.

501-503, 505 & 507 Erie Street, 2006

501–503, 505 & 507 Erie Street — Photograph taken in 2006

501-503 Erie Street, William Reddus & Family, 1946

Erie Street Grocer Beaten and Robbed

Greeted by ‘Polite’ Thug Outside Store; $100 Taken From Box

It cost a North Camden grocer $100 and a severe headache to receive “personal greetings” early today when he opened his store for the day’s business.

The grocer, William Reddus, 56, of 501 Erie street, arrived at the store about 5:30 a. m. and heard a cheery “good morning.” Turning around, he faced a gun and blackjack held by a husky thug.

Reddus was forced to the rear of his store by the gunman, who hit the grocer four times on the head with the blackjack, then walked to the rear of a counter where he picked up the grocer’s cash box containing the money and fled.

Reddus found the gun and blackjack on the floor a few minutes later. The gun was a “toy” but the blackjack was real. At Cooper hospital four stitches were taken in his scalp.

The grocer told Detective Crawford he believed the thug had “cased” the store for several days.

505 & 507 Erie Street, 2011

505 & 507 Erie Street — Photograph taken November 4, 2011

527 Erie Street, 2010

527 Erie Street — Photo from 2010

528 Erie Street, Wade Locke family, World War I Draft Registration Card, September 12, 1918
World War I draft registration card for Wade Leconey Locke, 528 Erie Street, Camden, New Jersey. Signed September 12, 1918.
528 Erie Street newspaper clipping, June 18, 1922

Wade Locke and his wife, Mrs. Regina B. Locke, of 528 Erie street, are suing the Public Service Railway Company for $25,000.

Mrs. Locke and her daughter Martha were injured in falling from a trolley car. They claim that the accident was due to premature starting of the car. Mrs. Locke asks for $10,000 for personal injuries, and her husband asks $15,000 for loss of services and expenses in caring for his wife, daughter and baby born after the accident, which occurred two years ago.

545 Erie Street, Randolph Barlow & Family, 1931
Funeral services will be held at 11 a. m. today for Mrs. Mary A. Barlow, 74, of 545 Erie street, long a resident of North Camden, who died Friday. Mrs. Barlow is survived by her husband, Randolph; three sons, Ernest, John and James Barlow; three daughters, Mrs. Edna Kestner, Mrs. Amanda Worthington and Myrtle Barlow, seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
546 Erie Street, Walter Reinheimer, Philadelphia Inquirer, January 15, 1922
Alleging that he had a narrow escape from decapitation when his automobile ran into a wire stretched across the Deerfield road between Elmer and Bridgeton, Walter Reinheimer, of 546 Erie street, Camden, yesterday began suit against the Tri-State Construction Company to recover $15,000 damages.
549 Erie Street, William Cameron Ross & Family, 1956

William C. Ross, of 549 Erie st., died Monday in Cooper Hospital.

He was a member of Trimble Lodge 117, FAM; Excelsior Consistory, Collingswood, and Cyrene Commandery 7, Knights Templar.

Surviving are a sister, Mrs. William G. Hinderer, of Haddonfield; a niece, and two nephews.

Services will be held Thursday at 11 a. m. in the Charles W. Hiskey Funeral Home, 423 Cooper st., where friends may call tonight. Burial will be private.

500 Block of Erie Street — Occupants

Addresses from 501 to 552 Erie Street.

501–503 Erie Street

501–503 Erie Street — 500 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1933S.M. Rosenberg (grocery)
1943–1954William Redlus & Family (grocery)
1943–1954William & Anna Redlus — Mildred Redlus
1957Mel's Food Market (grocery)
2010Erie Street Mini-Market (grocery)

509 Erie Street

509 Erie Street — 500 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1909–1914 Horace L. Brewer & Family
1909–1914Horace L. & Grace E. Brewer
1909–1914Olive Brewer

525 Erie Street

525 Erie Street — 500 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1910 Charles P. 'Charley' Smith & Family
1910Charles P. & Gertrude Kirkbride Smith
1910George B. Smith — Charles P. Smith Jr. — Gertrude Smith

528 Erie Street

528 Erie Street — 500 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1918–1922Wade Leconey Locke & Family
1918–1922Wade & B. Regina McDonough Locke
1918–1922Regina V. Locke — Margaret W. Locke — Sarah E. Locke
1918–1922Catherine M. Locke — Estelle Ann Locke — Martha Mary Locke — Francis Wade Locke

532 Erie Street

532 Erie Street — 500 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1916–1920E.W. Howell (builder & carpenter)

542 Erie Street

542 Erie Street — 500 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1932John Adams

545 Erie Street

545 Erie Street — 500 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1931Randolph Barlow & Family
1931Randolph & Mary A. Barlow
1931Ernest Barlow — John Barlow — James Barlow
1931Edna Barlow — Amanda Barlow — Myrtle Barlow

546 Erie Street

546 Erie Street — 500 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1922Walter Reinheimer
1929–1947Charles Reinheimer
1932Marshall Reinheimer

549 Erie Street

549 Erie Street — 500 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1918–1956William Cameron Ross & Family
1918–1956William C. & Mattie E. Ross

552 Erie Street

552 Erie Street — 500 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1904–1912Emile Doerschner & Family
1904–1912Emile & Bertha Doerschner
1904–1912 Howard E. Doerschner
1904–1912Preston Doerschner

Blair Indicted by Grand Jury for Threat to Blow Up Home

Camden Courier-Post —

Blair Indicted by Grand Jury for Threat to Blow Up Home - Camden Courier-Post, June 16, 1932 Blair Indicted by Grand Jury for Threat to Blow Up Home - Camden Courier-Post, June 16, 1932

Boxer Must Stand Trial With Pal on Pennsauken Man’s Charge

DRY RAIDERS CLEARED IN COOK’S GRILL CASE

Two Agents and 4 Truckmen Absolved of Mischief in Bar-Wrecking Episode

The April grand jury yesterday returned a true bill against Mickey Blair, Camden pugilist, on a charge of threatening to kill a Pennsauken man by bombing his home.

It was the first time Blair has ever been indicted, although his police record shows he has been arrested 10 times for various offenses.

In addition the grand jury “no billed” a malicious mischief charge made by Basil Cook, owner of Cook’s Grill, 939 South Fifth street, against two prohibition agents and four employes of a trucking firm who tore out the bar and fixtures of the cafe in a raid several weeks ago.

Dismissal of the charges against the federal men and their collaborators had been forecast by Prosecutor Clifford A. Baldwin. The agents are Nelson Snedecor, 38, of 138 North Tenth street, Allentown, N. J.; and John J. Stokes, 41, of 6100 North Seventeenth street, Philadelphia, both of the Philadelphia prohibition office.

Controversy Ends

The Grand Jury’s action, taken in a first partial presentment made to Justice Frank T. Lloyd while Judge Samuel M. Shay was busy in Criminal Court, officially concludes a case that attracted wide attention and brought stormy conferences between Prohibition Administrator John D. Pennington, Mayor Roy R. Stewart and United States Attorney Philip Forman.

Police Judge Garfield Pancoast, who issued the warrant for the agents’ arrest, freed them on their own recognizance at the request of federal authorities. Cook contended the agents unlawfully destroyed his property after leaving the place following a raid, and entering it again without a warrant. The agents said they stayed in the hotel all night following the raid, excepting for the time they were forcefully taken out by police.

The workman [sic] are Floyd E. Slamp, 20, of 148 Marne avenue, Haddonfield, son of the secretary and treasurer of the Troth Warehouse and Trucking Company, Fifth and Byron streets; Robert McKee, 45, of 4837 Duffield street, Philadelphia; John Shrom, 19, of Moorisville, Pa., and John Adams, 20, of 542 Erie street.

Pal Accused With Blair

Blair, whose true name is Michael Tenerelli, was indicted on charges made by Calvin Bell, 45, of 7349 Remington avenue, Pennsauken. Thomas Bonelli was indicted with Tenerelli on the same charge. Tenerelli is 23 and lives at 833 South Fourth street. Bonelli is also 23 and lives at 270 Walnut street. Bell, who is colored, had them held in $2500 bail each by Police Recorder George W. Yost, of Pennsauken, last May 6. Bell charged they threatened to bomb his home unless he paid them $100 to make good for 100 gallons of liquor they allegedly purchased from one of his sons and found it worthless. The defendants were arrested in Bell’s home.

Tenerelli and Bonelli were released on bail a week ago in connection with the alleged holdup of Mrs. Barbara Lehman in her cigar store at 1209 Arctic avenue, Atlantic City. Although Tenerelli has figured in police records since he was 12 this is the first indictment to be returned against him, police say.

Other indictments returned yesterday are:

Desertion and non-support: John Councellor, John Morgan, Joseph Casini, Raymond Sykes, August Remler, Thomas Early, Isadore Kramer, Martin O’Toole, Harry Gallagher, William Johnson, Charles Krown, Curtis Myers, Clarence Brinning, George Price, William Slaughter, Grover C. Bennett.

Breaking, entering and larceny: Elisha and Anna Coleman, Theodore Ruteski and Anton Zakrewski, Patrick Williams and Louis Thomas, Henry Parzewicz, Tony Renczykowski and Stanley Kidzierski.

Robbery—John Duboski, John H. Linicky; assault and battery—John Barr, Louigi Celeni, Fred D. Coleman, Benjamin Wallace, Zack McGriff, John Collins, Max Platkin, Joseph Panacola, Albert Pickering, Adolph Smith, Millard Wallace.

Larceny and receiving stolen goods—Warren Cormulewicz, Harold Wolf, William Mitchell, Stanley Kramer and Frank Gymuszuk.

Possession of liquor—Herman Fleisher, Gene Geffner, David Gold.

Statutory charge—Robert J. Sutters.

Man Hurt, Driver Held

Camden Courier-Post —

Man Hurt, Driver Held - Camden Courier-Post, June 13, 1932

One man was injured and another arrested in an automobile collision Saturday night at Second and Penn streets.

George Cassidy, 34, of 216 Sycamore street, suffered cuts of the head, lip and wrist when hit by a car driven by Marshall Reinheimer, 28, of 546 Erie street. Reinheimer is said to have struck a parked car of Burt Tutnell, 35 Cedarcroft avenue, Audubon.

Reinheimer was arrested by Patrolmen Raymond Stark and Walter Patton when he failed to show a registration card. He was also charged with reckless driving. Although Dr. Garnett Summerill, police surgeon, pronounced him intoxicated the police did not press that charge against him.

Motorist Fined $10 for Hitting Cop’s Car

Camden Courier-Post —

Motorist Fined $10 for Hitting Cop’s Car - Camden Courier-Post, June 17, 1932

A $10 fine for one motorist and dismissal for another on reckless driving charges furnished the denouement in traffic court last night to two automobile accidents.

Marshall Reinheimer, 28, of 546 Erie street, was dismissed when Burton Tunnel, of 36 Cedarcroft avenue, whose car was struck by Reinheimer’s car, testified damages in the case had been adjusted amicably.

Fiore Tiziana, 27, of 308 Cherry street, whose atomobile [sic] struck the machine of Patrolman Nathan Wine, at Broadway and Everett street, was fined $10. Twenty-two motorists forfeited cash security.

Intersection of North 6th Street & Erie Street

600 Block of Erie Street

Houses in the 600 Block of Erie Street as seen from Pyne Poynt Park, 1937

Houses in the 600 Block of Erie Street as seen from Pyne Poynt Park. Photo was taken in 1937 probably at the time of the July 4th Parade. From left to right: Ethel __________, Dorothy Reed, Clara Reed

Carroll P. Sherwood, 614 Erie Street, 1947

614 Erie Street — 1947 — Carroll P. Sherwood

630 Erie Street, Edward W. Williams, 1948

Edward W. “Big Ed” Williams, 54, proprietor of a cafe at Sixth and Pearl streets, died yesterday in Philadelphia Naval hospital after an illness of a week.

Born in Ashland, he resided in Camden many years. He was a veteran of War I, serving overseas with Battery A, 335th Field Artillery.

He lived with a sister, Margaret E. Williams, at 630 Erie street. He was a member of Camden lodge 293 of Elks and the New Jersey Licensed Beverage Association.

Also surviving are five other sisters, Mrs. Russell Bakley, Camden; Mrs. J. S. Kirkbride, Merchantville; Mrs. Roy Ackey, Philadelphia; Mrs. Estelle Williams, Atlantic City, and Mrs. Edward Wilson, Barrington, and three brothers, Alfred, Haddonfield; Herbert, Roxborough, and Harry, Camden.

Services will be held Friday at 1 p.m. in the funeral home of Joseph H. Murray & Son, 408 Cooper Street. Burial will be in Arlington cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home tomorrow night.

600 Block of Erie Street — Occupants

Addresses from 600 to 648 Erie Street.

600 Erie Street

600 Erie Street — 600 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
2010North Camden Community Center

612 Erie Street

612 Erie Street — 600 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1914–1930William E. Adams & Family
1914–1930William & Lillian Adams
1914–1930 John Robert Adams (WW1)
1930–1947George B. Collins

614 Erie Street

614 Erie Street — 600 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
WWI John Robert Adams
1947 Carroll P. Sherwood

616 Erie Street

616 Erie Street — 600 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1930Charles W. Woods
1947–1949Alfred A. Knorpp & Family
1947–1949Alfred A. & Alta Knorpp
1947–1949Ada Knorpp

618 Erie Street

618 Erie Street — 600 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1930Nathan Fletcher
1947Charles E. Roach

620 Erie Street

620 Erie Street — 600 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1947Mrs. Catherine E. Cooper

622 Erie Street

622 Erie Street — 600 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1930–1947Mrs. Pauline A. Carty

624 Erie Street

624 Erie Street — 600 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1930Thomas Sink

630 Erie Street

630 Erie Street — 600 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1930Samuel Strawbridge
1847–1948 Edward W. Williams
1947–1948Margaret E. Williams
1947Emmanuel G. Poulos

632 Erie Street

632 Erie Street — 600 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1930William Wiesler
1947Samuel S. Norcross III

634 Erie Street

634 Erie Street — 600 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1930Mary Plant
1947Arthur B. Sullivan

636 Erie Street

636 Erie Street — 600 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1930Harry R. Hunt
1947Herman A. Hassell

638 Erie Street

638 Erie Street — 600 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1930–1947Stephen J. Bentley

640 Erie Street

640 Erie Street — 600 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1930–1947William A. Davis

642 Erie Street

642 Erie Street — 600 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1930–1947Joseph E. Onion

644 Erie Street

644 Erie Street — 600 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1947William Seeley
1947Ada K. Park

646 Erie Street

646 Erie Street — 600 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1930Edward Wood
1947Wesleyan Methodist Church office

648 Erie Street

648 Erie Street — 600 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1947Wesleyan Methodist Church
2010–2012Mt. Carmel Holy Church

3 Hurt in Collision

Camden Courier-Post —

3 Hurt in Collision - Camden Courier-Post, November 15, 1949

Two women and a child were injured this afternoon when two cars collided at Sixth and Pine streets. Mrs. Alta Knorpp, 36, of 616 Erie street, suffered an injured shoulder and ankle. Her daughter, Ada, 2, was bruised. They were in the car driven by Mrs. Knorpp’s husband, Alfred. The other car was driven by Carl P. Deyhle Jr., of 1594 Collings road. Mrs. Rose Deyhl suffered injuries to the right knee. All were treated at Cooper hospital.

Camden Boy Drowns Off Pyne Poynt

Camden Courier-Post —

Camden Boy Drowns Off Pyne Poynt - Camden Courier-Post, May 11, 1962 Camden Boy Drowns Off Pyne Poynt - Camden Courier-Post, May 11, 1962 Camden Boy Drowns Off Pyne Poynt - Camden Courier-Post, May 11, 1962

—Courier-Post Photo by Bob Bartosz

DRAGGING OPERATIONS go on as Gary Auxer, 10, of 517 N. 9th st., directs Rescue Squad 1’s boat to the spot in Delaware River where he last saw Eugene Thornton, 9, of 539 Birch st. At the oars is Winfield Myers and handling the grappling hooks is John Kolessar, both of Engine Company 6.

Mystery shrouds the drowning Thursday of Eugene Thornton, 9. [sic] of 539 Birch st.

Shortly before 6 p.m., Eugene fell or was pushed into the Delaware River, according to eyewitness accounts, as he and an unidentified companion were playing on the pilings between N. 7th and N. 8th sts.

Det. Nicholas Pavlak of the juvenile bureau said police are looking for a companion who was with the drowned boy.

Boys Push Each Other

Pavlak said one account he received from eyewitnesses is that three boys were “horsing around” and pushing each other on the brink of the pilings. He said the water at this point is between 4 and 6 feet deep.

Pavlak said one boy, according to eyewitnesses, pushed Thornton and he fell into the water. He said it was “horseplay which resulted in tragedy.”

Pavlak said police will continue their efforts today to locate the boy who did the pushing.

Grappling hooks operated by the boat team of James Smith of Rescue Squad 1 and John Kolessar of Engine Company 6 hauled Eugene’s lifeless form to the surface at 7:20 p.m.

Men from both units, under the direction of Captain Albert Weller, had been dragging the river between Pyne Poynt and Petty’s Island for more than an hour before the body was recovered.

Identified By Mother

Young Thornton was pronounced dead on arrival at Cooper Hospital shortly after 7:30 p.m. by Dr. Gerald E. Vanston.

The victim’s identity remained undetermined until about 9 o’clock, when Thornton’s mother, Emma, accompanied by her 10-year-old son, Albert, tearfully identified her son’s body at the hospital.

Mrs. Thornton told Pavlak that Eugene, Albert and her eight-year-old daughter, Diane had gone to the playgrounds around Pyne Poynt Junior High School at about 5 o’clock.

Albert told the detective that he and his sister had remained on the swings, while Eugene and another boy had gone off to play at the river’s edge.

Worker Reports Incident

Shortly before 6 p.m., William Passwater of 3225 Mount Ephraim ave., a WCAM employe, reported the drowning, according to Ptl. Peter Yecco and James Anderson.

Passwater told police that a Negro boy had run screaming to the radio station’s Pyne Poynt transmitter station, yelling that someone was drowning.

Gary Auxer, 10, of 517 N. 9th st., told Yecco and Anderson that he and some friends had witnessed the incident.

Gary said he had gone to water’s edge to warn Eugene and his friend. When he reached the scene, Auxer said, he heard Eugene’s friend, a Negro boy about 12, challenging Eugene to go in the water.

“It ain’t deep. It’s low tide,” the older boy said, according to Gary.

Then, when it seemed Eugene was not going to jump in the river, the older boy pushed him in, Gary said.

Youth Frightened

After the older boy reached for Eugene in the water and failed, he became frightened and ran off, Auxer told police.

Gary, a fifth-grader at Sewell School, said he tried to grab Eugene several times unsuccessfully. A friend of Auxer’s, John Barry Kelley, 9. [sic] of 642 Erie st., a third grader at Holy Name School, said he grabbed Eugene’s hand but the drowning boy let go.

Some 200 spectators lined the Delaware’s banks to watch the dragging operations.

Besides his mother; his brother, Albert, and sister, Diane, Eugene, a student at Cooper School, is survived by his father, Albert, a Pennsylvania Railroad employe; two brothers, Jacob, 5, and Carl, 2; and two sisters, Geraldine, 5, and Cynthia, 1.

Intersection of North 7th Street & Erie Street

Southwest Corner, North 7th Street & Erie Street, March 13, 2012

Southwest Corner — March 13, 2012

700 Block of Erie Street

Intersection of North 8th Street & Erie Street

800 Block of Erie Street

Pyne Poynt Junior High School, 1957 dedication plaque

800 Erie Street — 1957–present — Pyne Poynt Junior High School

PYNE POYNT
JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
ERECTED 1957
BY THE
BOARD OF EDUCATION
CITY OF CAMDEN
CAMDEN COUNTY NEW JERSEY

SAMUEL T. FRENCH JR., PRESIDENT HARRY R. JANICE, VICE-PRESIDENT
J. MAXWELL GRIFFIN JOHN J. HORN
MAY A. JONES VICTOR LEVINSON
ELURIA MILLIKEN JOHN T. ODORISIO
EUGENE E. WALES

BUILDING COMMITTEE
EUGENE E. WALES, CO-CHAIRMAN HARRY R. JANICE, CO-CHAIRMAN
J. MAXWELL GRIFFIN MERRIL HALLOWELL
JOHN J. HORN MAY A. JONES
JOHN T. ODORISIO

ANTHONY R. CATRAMBONE, SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS

JOSEPH C. RAGONE, SECRETARY EDWARD F. POOLE, PURCHASING AGENT ALFRED R. PIERCE, SOLICITOR

HON. GEORGE E. BRUNNER, MAYOR
CUSTODIAN OF SCHOOL MONEYS

EDWARDS & GREEN
ARCHITECTS & ENGINEERS

COSTANZA CONTRACTING COMPANY
GENERAL CONTRACTOR

800 Block of Erie Street — Occupants

Erie Street at North 8th Street.

800 Erie Street

800 Erie Street — 800 Block of Erie Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1957–present Pyne Poynt Junior High School

Intersection of North 9th Street & Erie Street

5 Juveniles Arrested in Plant Blaze

Camden Courier-Post —

5 Juveniles Arrested in Plant Blaze - Camden Courier-Post, December 22, 1971 5 Juveniles Arrested in Plant Blaze - Camden Courier-Post, December 22, 1971

N. Camden Boys

Five North Camden boys are in the Camden County Children’s Shelter at Lakeland following their arrests yesterday in connection with Sunday’s general-alarm fire at a vacant leather tanning plant at Second and Erie Streets.

The boys, between the ages of 11 and 14, all live in the vicinity of the waterfront plant, police said.

Three of the juveniles are charged with malicious burning; two, with trespassing.

Face Judge Malandra

They will be arraigned before Camden County Juvenile Court Judge Angelo D. Malandra.

Camden Police Lt. John Giletto, head of the juvenile division, said the boys told police they and other juveniles had been using the former John R. Evans Co. plant as a clubhouse.

They said they panicked and fled when a fire they started in the building Sunday got out of control, Giletto said.

Possibly $200,000

The building’s owner, Thomas Greiff, president of Greiff Trucking Co. of Brooklyn, N.Y., placed his loss at between $100,000 and $200,000, according to City Fire Marshal Harold Pike.

Greiff said there was no insurance on the building, Pike said.

Fireman Thomas DiBiaso, 36, who was injured fighting the blaze, was in fair condition in Cooper Hospital.

Four Firemen Suffer Hurts In Collision

Camden Courier-Post —

Four Firemen Suffer Hurts In Collision - Camden Courier-Post, December 30, 1957 Four Firemen Suffer Hurts In Collision - Camden Courier-Post, December 30, 1957 Four Firemen Suffer Hurts In Collision - Camden Courier-Post, December 30, 1957

Four Camden firemen were among persons injured over the weekend in motor vehicle accidents on South Jersey roads.

The firemen were injured when their engine collided with a tractor-trailer at 2nd and Market sts. Saturday about 4.30 p. m. while they were on their way to answer an alarm which was false.

Admitted to Cooper Hospital with arm, hip and knee injuries was Orville Goldsboro, 33, of 1730 S. 9th st.

Released after treatment were August Johnson, 39, of 916½ Chestnut st., who suffered multiple bruises; Reginald Laws, 36, of 1453 Bradley ave., chest and back injuries, and Capt. Raymond Amos, 52, of 825 Washington st., leg injuries.

Intersection Crash

According to police, the fire apparatus, operated by James Clinton, was traveling north on 2nd st. and collided at the intersection with the tractor-trailer, driven by James E. Tarburton Jr., 32, of St. John’s dr., Wilmington, Dela. The impact of the crash tossed the firemen off the rear step of the fire truck, which was forced over a curb and along a sidewalk for about 35 feet. The vehicle sideswiped two parked cars and knocked down a parking meter.

Tarburton was charged with failure to yield the right of way to a fire apparatus. The false alarm was turned in from a box at Poynt [sic] and Erie sts.

Fire-Fence Probe Refused by City

Camden Courier-Post —

Fire-Fence Probe Refused by City - Camden Courier-Post, February 25, 1928 Fire-Fence Probe Refused by City - Camden Courier-Post, February 25, 1928

Officials Declare They Have No Jurisdiction in Factory Blaze Controversy

City officials declared today they would make no investigation into the erection of two large fences which firemen say hampered them in fighting the $225,000 fire at the Varoma Building, Second and Erie streets, early Thursday morning.

The fence, erected by the John R. Evans & Company, cuts off Segal street and prevented the firemen from entering an alley from Front street which would have enabled them, they said, to fight the fire from the rear.

Bernard Gallagher, fire marshal, said there was sufficient water without the firemen using the blocked fire plug on Segal street.

“It required only 150 feet more of hose to circle the yard and this was attached so quickly the Segal street plug was not necessary. We are not planning any investigation,” he said.

Vincent P. Dougherty, vice president of the Allied Metal Stamping Company, whose firm suffered a $75,000 loss, and C. E. Perrin, head of the Philadelphia Metal Stamping Company, which lost $50,000 in the blaze, yesterday asked Mayor Price to order an investigation.

George W. Johnson, building inspector, said today the city had no authority or jurisdiction in the matter.

“The fence was built on the Evans property and no authority is necessary from the city for the erection of a fence,” he said. “There is no regulation I know of requiring gates to be placed in a private fence.”

Woman Shot 10 Times By No. Camden Suitor Spurned for 3 Years

Camden Courier-Post —

Victim Is Near Death; Admirer Gives Up Self

Emil Mascher, 46, Empties Gun 3 Times at Florence Gottwald, 26

Angered Over Return of Xmas Candy Gift

WPA Worker Opens Fire as RCA Employee Returns Home in Auto

Shot 10 times last night by a suitor she had spurned for months, Florence Gottwald, 26, of 1036 Segal Street, lay near death in Cooper Hospital today while her assailant, Emil Mascher, 46, awaited a police court hearing in a city jail cell. Mascher, with a reputation of being a quiet, unassuming man in his neighborhood, emptied a revolver at Miss Gottwald in front of her home. Ignoring her screams for mercy as she lay on the sidewalk, he twice reloaded his weapon and emptied it at her. Then he calmly walked to the corner of Front and Erie streets and waited until police arrived and arrested him.

Gift of Candy Returned

Police said Mascher brooded over the fact that Miss Gottwald refused his advances of friendship. The accused man said he tried to get her to marry him for three years. Yesterday she returned, unopened, his Christmas gift of a five-pound box of candy.

The shooting occurred as Miss Gottwald was alighting from the automobile of a friend who had brought her home. As she stepped to the sidewalk, Mascher walked from the shadows and without warning opened fire. “Don’t, please don’t,” the girl screamed as she fell to the street. Ignoring her plea, Mascher recharged his revolver, emptied it again at her. Again he refilled the chamber. There was no plea for mercy as he emptied it the third time. She lay on the walk unconscious.

Little Chance to Live

Rushed to Cooper Hospital in a police patrol, it was found 10 bullets struck the girl. Attendants said there was “one chance in a thousand” she would survive. Her condition became critical at 1:30 a.m., and she was placed in an oxygen tent. One bullet pierced her body, entering the right breast. Another struck her in the abdomen. Three lodged in her left wrist, one in her left palm. Two bullets entered the right forearm, another the right shoulder.

As he emptied the revolver the last time, Mascher, a WPA worker living at 1004 Segal Street, tossed the gun aside and walked to Front and Erie streets, where police found him. “I loved her,” Mascher told them. “I loved her madly but she never paid any attention to me. For three years I tried to get her to marry me, but she wouldn’t have anything to do with me. I don’t know why I did this.”

After questioning Mascher at headquarters, detectives took him to the hospital and into the operating room where surgeons prepared for an operation in an attempt to save Miss Gottwald’s life. “That’s the man,” the girl said. “Let me kiss her, please,” Mascher begged Detectives Clarence Arthur, James McLaughlin, and Leon Feltz. “Take him away,” the girl begged in a voice barely audible.

Mascher, who has lived alone since the death of his mother three weeks ago, told detectives he brooded “all day” over Miss Gottwald’s rejection of his attentions. The return of his Christmas present, a five-pound box of candy, he said, was the “final blow.” He said he visited relatives in Philadelphia and returned home. He learned Miss Gottwald was away from home for the evening. He said he sat in a room from which he could observe her return. He saw her step from the car of Donald Osmund, 23, of 2904 Carman Street, whose wife, Gertrude, and Miss Gottwald are intimate friends. She had spent the evening with them. With them was Osmund’s seven-year-old nephew, Vincent Macrina, of 542 North 7th Street. “I don’t know what happened then,” Mascher told detectives.

Fired Without Warning

Osmund, however, said he saw Mascher come from the shadow of the Gottwald home and with no warning began firing at the girl. Mascher was 20 feet or less away when he fired the first shots, Osmund said, and kept walking toward Miss Gottwald as he fired. When the girl fell to the ground, Osmund said, Mascher reloaded the revolver and walked a few feet closer to her. The last shots were fired, Osmund said, as she lay unconscious. Osmund said the first shots “paralyzed” him and he was fearful Mascher would fire at him and his nephew. He said he “finally managed” to get his car started, drove a few blocks and called police.

Neighbors Call Police

Neighbors had summoned police. Feltz and McLaughlin were first to arrive in a police car. About the same time as the patrol wagon of the First District arrived. The crew placed the girl, whose clothing was saturated with blood, in the patrol wagon and proceeded to the hospital. Staff physicians ordered an operation as a last resort to save her life.

Miss Gottwald, an attractive brunette, is employed as a radio tester by the RCA Manufacturing Co., Inc. She lives with her mother, Mrs. Catherine Gottwald. Though she heard the shooting, the mother did not know her daughter was the victim until notified by police. She collapsed but was revived and insisted on being taken to the hospital. She was allowed to see her daughter for a moment and then was led to a seat outside the operating room.

After taking Mascher to the hospital, detectives returned him to police headquarters for further questioning in which County Detective Chief Lawrence T. Doran took part. According to Doran, there were three other witnesses of the shooting. They are Wilson Peiffer, 32, of 1040 Segal Street, and two small girls, Grace Kelly, 10, of 1016 Segal Street and Alberta Bosco, 13, of 1014 Segal Street. Peiffer told detectives he was asleep when aroused by a shot. He said he ran to the window of his bedroom and saw Mascher firing at Miss Gottwald. The girls said they, too, were aroused from sleep and from their bedroom windows saw the shooting.

Miss Gottwald was employed at the RCA plant for nine years and is widely known as an amateur impersonator. She appeared in that role a number of times with the Holy Name Minstrels and won several prizes in contests for amateurs, several of them at Convention Hall.

Camden’s Scarred Patriots

Philadelphia Inquirer —

Camden’s Scarred Patriots - Philadelphia Inquirer, July 5, 1904

Fourth Marked by Absence of Serious Accidents

All Camden entered into the spirit of the Fourth of July yesterday. One noticeable feature of the day was the absence of serious accidents. Not a Fourth of July victim was treated at the Homeopathic Hospital, while at the Cooper Hospital but eight were admitted, as follows:

Albert Owens, aged 24 years, of 227 Mechanic street; powder burns of the back.

Charles Haines, aged 54 years, of 110 Birch street; burned hands.

Joseph Simons, aged 47 years, of 1113 Locust street; contusions of the eyelid.

Russell Hutchins, aged 11 years, of 557 Royden street, gunshot wound of right leg.

William Fabor, aged 14 years, of 226 Washington street; blank cartridge wound of right hand.

Florence McGann, aged 33 years, of 226 Erie street; powder burns of hands.

Samuel Ross, aged 14 years, of 5 North Third street; face burned.

Frank Kupp, aged 14 years, of 1043 Pine street; burned hands.

Yesterday afternoon flag raising and christening ceremonies were held at the new apartment house at Sixth and Mickle streets. At Pyne Point Park exercises appropriate to the day were observed. They consisted of singing, music, reading of the Declaration of Independence by F. Wayland Potter and addresses by Rev. F. A. De Maris, of the State Street M. E. Church; Mayor Joseph E. Nowrey, and ex-Assemblyman Joseph M. Engard.

Last night splendid pyrotechnical displays were given.

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