Introduction
Rambles Through Old Highways and Byways of West Jersey — Charles S. Boyer — Camden County Historical Society, 1967
In 1820 the road known as “Ferry Road,” present-day Ferry Avenue, was opened from the southerly end of Front Street in Kaighnton, the settlement at Kaighn Avenue and the Delaware River, across the lands of Joseph Kaighn and Isaac Mickle to the center of the road leading from Woodbury to the Ferries which we know today as Broadway, and was at first called “the straight road to Woodbury” or the “Branch Road.” In 1832 it was extended to the Mount Ephraim pike (Mount Ephraim Avenue), the extension on one of the early maps being designated “The Road to the Race Track” while on Sanders’ map of 1855 it is named “The Kaighn’s Point Road.” The first part of this road was four rods wide, while the extension of 1832 was only laid out two rods in width. At Mount Ephraim Avenue the extension met a road which passed the Charles Cooper plantation (Woodlynne), and was commonly known as the “Cooper Road.”
In 1859 Ferry Avenue was taken over and improved by the Stockton and Newton Turnpike Company and converted into a toll road with toll-gates at Mount Ephraim Avenue and the White Horse Pike. The incorporators of the turnpike were closely allied with the Kaighn’s Point Ferry and its operation was based on its serving as a “feeder” for the ferry company. The name is distinctive of the part of the county through which the road ran; Stockton being then the local name for the part of the present city west of Evergreen Cemetery, being the present Jackson Street and Ferry Avenue, while east of Mount Ephraim Avenue the road passed through what was then Newton Township. The company abandoned its charter about 1875 and the highway known today as Ferry Avenue reverted to the city.
Edited by Phillip Cohen in the interest of clarity to present-day readers, July 2003.
1400 Block of Ferry Avenue — Occupants
City directory records, 1895–2011.
1423 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1936 | Bilson Auto Body Company |
| 1936 | Walter T. Bilson |
| 1938–1939 | Century Transit Company (Nick Fiorentino, Manager) |
| 1947–1962 | Majestic Wine & Spirits, Inc. |
| 1991 | Lectronic Research Laboratories |
| 1991 | Fire Watch Magazine |
1431 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1895 | Matthias Rutter |
1434–1438 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1929 | No Listing |
| 1930s–1970s | Ogden Auto Body |
1437 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Vacant |
1450 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1927–1928 | Groff Coal Company |
| 1960s–1980s | Clarkson Laboratories (chemical plant) |
| 1980s–1990s | Phil Franchi Demolition |
| 1990s–2011 | Johnson Fun Factory & Truc Tire Service |
1455 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Thomas Ryan — Used Trucks |
| 1980s–2011 | Jock's Truck Repair Inc. (Joaquin Arroliga) |
1460 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1938–1955 | Ace Iron & Metal Company |
| 1947 | New Jersey Steel Company |
1466 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1980s–2011 | R. Fanelle's Sons |
1467 Ferry Avenue (approx.)
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1894–1904 | Fries-Breslin Company — Carpet Manufacturing Mill |
| 1905–1906 | Ruins of Fries-Breslin Company mill (destroyed by fire, October 1904) |
1484 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| –2003 | Strober-Haddonfield Group Inc. (closed 2003) |
1499 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1927–1928 | Groff Coal Company |
| 1947 | Halden-Kelly Coal Company, Inc. |
Auto Painting and Body Repair Work
Camden Courier-Post —
New Process—Fast Service
BILSON AUTO BODY CO
Walter T. Bilson, Prop.
Formerly with Collings Carriage Co.
Ferry and Atlantic Avenues
Phone Camden 6361
Century Transit Company
Century Transit Company, 1423 Ferry Avenue, 1938–1939. Nick Fiorentino, Manager. January 27, 1939 banquet program advertisement.
Phone, Camden 6716
CENTURY TRANSIT CO.
BUSSES
For Hire
NICK FIORENTINO, Mgr.
1423
FERRY AVENUE
Majestic Wine & Spirits, Inc.
MAJESTIC WINE & SPIRITS INC — For Fast Delivery Service. Call WOodlawn 4-2010. Camden, N. J. 1423 Ferry Av. 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone Directory Yellow Pages advertisement.
Majestic Wine & Spirits, Inc., 1423 Ferry Avenue, 1947–1962. Camden Courier-Post, April 24, 1962 (Theodore Primas).
Lectronic Research Laboratories
Lectronic Research Laboratories, 1423 Ferry Avenue. Fire Watch Magazine advertisement, 1991.
Lectronic Research Laboratories
1423 Ferry Avenue
Camden, NJ
541-4200
License Changes In Camden.
Philadelphia Inquirer —
The Camden City Excise Board last night passed a resolution that all licenses which remained unpaid for on Monday should be revoked. Retail licenses were granted Henry Felden, 634 North Sixth street; Samuel Fenner, 625 Ferry avenue, and William F. Sands, Haddon avenue and Line street. The applications of John Ross, West and Clinton streets and Herman Meier, 825 Market street, which had been refused at a previous meeting, were reconsidered and granted. Gustav Schwoeri was granted a wholesale license at 707 Chestnut street. William Brown’s license at 400 Jasper street was transferred to James P. Croker.
Matthias Rutter Found Dead
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Seventy-eight-year-old Matthias Rutter was found dead in bed at 1131 Ferry avenue yesterday. Three strokes of paralysis within a year had rendered him helpless, and it is presumed that a fourth stroke caused his death.
Ogden Auto Body
Ogden Auto Body, 1434–1440 Ferry Avenue, 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone Directory Yellow Pages advertisement.
OGDEN AUTO BODY
BODY & FENDERS REPAIRED [?]
WRECKS REBUILT - PAINTING [?]
INSURANCE WORK
1434 Ferry Av Camden....EMerson 5-[?]
Drink-Sellers Arraigned
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Efforts to Stop Violations of the Sunday Law in Camden.
The Camden police are keeping up their efforts to suppress Sunday liquor selling. The following saloon keepers appeared before Mayor Westcott, of Camden, yesterday, and pleaded not guilty: F. A. Shuster, of Front street and Kaighn avenue; Tim. Clayton, of Third and Mechanic streets; James Croker, of Fourth and Jasper streets; F. Joseph Rouk, of Eighth street and Ferry avenue; John Murschell, of Broadway and Jefferson street, and Gottlieb Jung, of Ferry avenue and Jackson street.
Warrants have also been issued for Adam T. Davis, Jr., of Second street and Kaighn avenue, and Mary [?]ang, of Fillmore and Jackson streets, on similar charges. Davis is seriously ill and was unable to be present yesterday.
Chief of Police Dodd is the complainant in all the cases. The saloon keepers will be given a hearing next Friday.
Slot Machine Arrests
Philadelphia Inquirer —
The Camden police yesterday arrested Joseph Dole, Broadway and Atlantic avenue; Joseph Hyde, Sixth and Jackson streets; Adam T. Davis, Second street and Kaighn avenue, and A. B. C. Smith, Broadway and Ferry avenue. They will have a hearing before Recorder Nowrey to-day on the charge of having slot gambling machines in their business places. The machines were confiscated.
Want Liquor Men Put on the Rack
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Camden County Law and Order League Hints That Political Pull Saves Offenders
The Camden County Law and Order League is endeavoring to bring to punishment the saloon and tavern keepers who escaped indictment in the recent round up of liquor sellers charged with violating the law. The September and December grand juries indicted 168 liquor dealers out of 216 against whom complaints were filed by the League, and it was currently reported that strong personal and political influences were exercised in behalf of the forty-eight who escaped. Yesterday the League renewed its complaints against the forty-eight “immunes” and sent a communication to the grand jury as follows:
“We presented before the two preceding grand juries the names of about 216 persons charged with about 1200 specific violations of law, including the selling of liquor on Sundays, the having of slot machines and other gambling devices and the keeping of disorderly houses. Of the persons thus charged 168 have been presented to the court for trial, forty-eight were not thus presented, although some of them were known to be old offenders and had committed more offenses than some of those who were presented. To be more particular, while some were presented against whom there were three or four counts, others were not presented, although there were against them as high as twelve, thirteen and fourteen counts, and these, supported by the same evidence precisely as had been accepted in the examination of the cases presented for trial.
HINT AT UNDUE INFLUENCE.
“We cannot account for this, because we refuse to believe that there is one law for one offender and another law for another offender, when the offense is precisely the same; and because we are loth to believe the current rumor that purely political influences had to do with the results of the inquiries. We believe most deeply that the court proceedings must be kept above suspicion and that in their integrity is the safeguarding of the interests of the people. Hence we appeal to your honorable body to make the most searching investigation of our charges in order that the law may be maintained and the really guilty be brought to just account.
“We entreat this the more because in addition to the evidence before presented we have other witnesses who were not heard then and witnesses whose testimony is of much importance in arriving at a just conclusion as to the matters to be inquired into.”
The communication is signed by Rev. John Handley, D. D., president, and Rev. S. H. Hann, secretary of the League. The grand jury sent a formal acknowledgement of the receipt of the communication.
The league supplied the grand jury with a list of the names, places and charges against the accused liquor sellers, whose names are as follows:
SALOONKEEPERS ACCUSED.
CAMDEN CITY.—P. J. Boyle, 1011 Broadway; Philip Berger, Seventh and Clinton; N. N. Chew, 1016 South Fourth; James Croker, 400 Jasper; John Dugan, 100 Pearl; George Doerfuss, River road and Main street; George Dillmore, Fourth and Kaighn avenue; “Doc” Eisner, 3000 Federal; Pat Flood, 640 Pine; William Gallagher, 106 Kaighn avenue; Jesse Grant, 109 Kaighn avenue; West Jersey Hotel, Henry Hussing, 623 Pearl; John Hoosey, Front and Cooper; John J. Keefe, 28 Haddon avenue; P. J. Kelly, 643 North Front; Arthur Lloyd, Sixth and Royden; John McGowan, Tenth and Division; Ed Mulligan, 22 South Eighth; William Moffert, South Third; Frank Norton, 951 Ferry avenue; Z. Heithamer, Day and Federal; William F. Sand, Haddon avenue and Line; A. Schraden, Fourth and Spruce; J. Schramm, Cooper and Cleveland avenues; Jacob Selser, 1186 Kaighn avenue; Thomas Tracey, Twentieth and Federal; Jacob Walz, 33 Union; Frank Wilson, 909 South Fourth; Daniel J. Woods, 108 Kaighn avenue.
Of these thirty Camden saloonkeepers, seventeen have pleaded guilty before Recorder Nowrey for violating the city excise ordinance by selling on Sundays. Some paid the fine of $50, while others escaped punishment, the Supreme Court setting aside the excise ordinance.
The keepers of inns and taverns who are charged with selling on Sundays are Bowman H. Bates, Waterford township; William R. S. Buckingham, Centre township; E. T. Crowley, Winslow township; George C. Stratton, E. B. Davis and Louis Ederle, Gloucester township; Harry Foell, Waterford township; James J. Foster, Centre township; James J. Keating, proprietor of the Red Mill, where a pool room was formerly in operation; Charles H. McCully, Winslow township; Caroline Slemmer, Chesilhurst; William Snyder, Waterford township; A. H. Tiffen, Pensauken township; B. F. C. Rothwell, and Charles H. Wood, Winslow township; F. W. Weldemann, Pensauken township.
Ogden's Super Duper Sports Car
Camden Courier-Post —
Fifty years experience in the auto body building trade went into this Super Duper Four Passenger Sports Car exhibited by Fausto Michilli, owner of the Ogden Auto Body, 1434-40 Ferry Ave., Camden. Mr. Michilli, who put years into the building of his pride and “masterpiece,” used the chassis of a ’41 truck and worked up from there. The vehicle is registered by the state as a ’41 Chevrolet Sports Car. Now 68, Mr. Michilli received most of his basic knowledge and experience in Italy where he was employed in Rome. Coming to this country in 1911, he settled in Niagara Falls, then opened his first business in 1919 at 337-339 Pine Street, Camden. Known first as the Ogden Wagon Works, the business became Ogden Auto Body in 1930 at its present location. The business is now operated by his son, Albert Michilli.
OGDEN AUTO BODY
1434-40 FERRY AVE., CAMDEN, N. J.
PHONE EMerson 5-4651
The “Super Duper Sports Car” built by Fausto Michilli of Ogden Auto Body, 1434-40 Ferry Ave., Camden, is built on a ’41 Chevrolet chassis and body. It has a three-speed transmission with an extra low first gear for hill climbing. The body is all metal and is 5½ inches lower than original Chevrolet. Power is transmitted by a chain drive to the rear wheels. The car will do 75 miles per hour and gets 35 to 40 miles per gallon of gas.
OGDEN AUTO BODY — 1434-40 Ferry Ave., Camden. Builders of the “Super Duper Sports Car.” Fausto Michilli, Prop. Complete Auto Body Work — Painting — Glass.
Phil Franchi Demolition
Phil Franchi Demolition, 1450 Ferry Avenue, 1980s–1990s.
Phil Franchi Demolition
Equipment & Wrecking Demolition Contractor
1450 Ferry Avenue
Camden, NJ 08101
547-9453
The Most Modern Coal Yard in the World Is Located in Camden
Camden Courier-Post —
THE Groff Coal Co.
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL COAL DEALERS
FERRY AND JACKSON STS.
Bell 6029 Keystone 39011
ASK YOUR DEALER FOR GROFF COAL
1499 Ferry Avenue (Ferry and Jackson Streets), 1927–1928.
R. Fanelle's Sons
R. Fanelle’s Sons, 1466 Ferry Avenue, 1980s–2011.
CONTAINERS • SCRAP IRON • METALS
R F Sons
CAMDEN, NJ
Ace Iron & Metal Company
Camden Courier-Post —
ACE IRON & METAL CO.
SCRAP IRON, METALS AND RAGS
Bought at Highest Prices
Ferry Ave. at Lansdowne Ave., Camden
Phone: Camden 3-5037
Ace Iron & Metal Company, 1460 Ferry Avenue at Lansdowne Avenue, 1938–1955. Camden Courier-Post, February 24, 1938 and 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone Directory Yellow Pages advertisement.
Daring Work of Footpads
Camden Post-Telegram —
Ruins of the Fries-Breslin mill, near 1467 Ferry Avenue. Camden Post-Telegram, July 25, 1905.
DARING WORK OF FOOTPADS
Virginian Held Up and Robbed of Considerable Money on Ferry Avenue.
TWO SUSPECTS LANDED IN JAIL
A Virginian was held up and robbed of a considerable sum of money in front of the ruins of the Fries-Breslin rug mill on Ferry avenue about 2 o'clock this afternoon.
The case was reported to the authorities and Detective Moffett and Policeman Fitzsimmons were assigned to the case.
Later two men, supposed to be the highwaymen, were arrested by Moffett and Fitzsimmons as they were about boarding a Broadway trolley car.
They were locked up in the City Hall and will have a hearing to-morrow.
The prisoners gave the names of Harry L. McDonald and Robert Hamilton, of this city. A gold watch and $5 in money was found on them.
The man beaten, robbed and thrown in a ditch was Joseph Welsh, of Sparta, Va.
1600 Block of Ferry Avenue — Occupants
City directory records, 1881–2013.
1610 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Clinton E. Smith |
1616 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1884–1890 | Joshua Woolford |
| 1896–1904 | William Obermann's Saloon (William & Tekla Obermann) |
1618 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1885–1890 | Joseph Bevans |
| 1896 to 1904 | William & Tekla Obermann |
| 1896 to 1904 | Frank A. Obermann |
| 1908–1916 | Michael Maloney |
| 1937 | Trucker's Tavern (Joseph Novack) |
| 1947 | John W. Fallon |
| 1953 | Levi M. Jones |
1620 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947–1952 | John J. McNutt |
1622 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| late 1800s–late 1940s | Peter J. Samkovitch (aka Pete Samko) |
1624 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | William Washington |
1626 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Charles M. Torcher |
1631 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1957 | Auto fire (June 3, 1957) |
1632 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Mrs. Jean DiMartinis |
1634 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1920s–1930s | William E. Farr |
| 1947 | Charles Farr |
1636 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Philip Saponaro |
1640 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1905 | Thomas Whalen & Family |
| 1947 | Mrs. Edna Miller |
1642 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1887–1894 | William H. Arrison & Family — Cigars |
| 1887–1894 | William & Mary Arrison |
| 1887–1894 | Mary Arrison |
| 1947 | Joseph Burmarch |
1645 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1983–2013 | Camden County Municipal Utilities Authority |
1646 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Albert Blackshear |
1656 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Michael Mulholland |
1658 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | John W. James — Trucking |
1660 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Lula Carter |
1662 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1890 | Pries Singer |
| 1947 | Fred Hagel |
1665 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Vacant |
1666 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1881–1888 | William H. Smith & Family |
| 1881–1888 | William H. & Martha J. Rulon Smith |
| 1881–1888 | William H. Smith Jr. |
1676 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1928 | James Draper; Harry Benzuk (Jackson Street) |
| 1928 | James Draper |
1680 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1890–1916 | William H. Smith & Family |
| 1890–1916 | William H. & Martha J. Rulon Smith |
| 1890–1916 | William H. Smith Jr. |
| 1890–1916 | Harry L. Clements |
| 1890–1916 | Minnie Clements |
| 1890–1916 | William H. Clements |
| 1947 | Gone |
Joseph Beavens Committed to County Prison
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Joseph Beavens, of the Eighth ward, for assaulting his wife, was committed to the county prison by Justice Laird yesterday.
Levi Jones — Death Notice
Camden Courier-Post —
Levi M. Jones, formerly of 1618 Ferry Avenue. Camden Courier-Post, September 7, 1967.
JONES
On Sept. 6, 1967, Levi, formerly of 1618 Ferry Ave., Camden, N.J. Due notice of the funeral will be given by David F. Harrigan Funeral Home, 1451 Broadway, Camden, N.J.
1620–1634 Ferry Avenue — Photographs, 2011
1620, 1630, 1632, and 1634 Ferry Avenue. Photographs taken June 30, 2011.
Camden Fire Alarms
Camden Courier-Post —
Camden Fire Alarms, Camden Courier-Post, June 3, 1957. Includes an auto fire at 1631 Ferry Avenue at 2:08 a.m.
Camden Fire Alarms
Midnight Saturday to Midnight Sunday
2.08 a. m., front of 1631 Ferry ave., auto.
2.54 a. m., 6th and Lawrence sts., trash.
3.59 p. m., 7th st. and Atlantic ave., grass.
11.16 p. m., 428 Benson st., no fire, attempted arson.
Mrs. Isabella B. Farr
Camden Courier-Post —
MRS. ISABELLA B. FARR — Funeral services will be held at 3 p. m. tomorrow for Mrs. Isabella B. Farr, 47, of 1634 Ferry Avenue. She was the wife of William E. Farr.
Body of Thomas Whalen Found
Camden Daily Courier —
Thomas Whalen, 27, of 1640 Ferry Avenue. Camden Daily Courier, July 6, 1905.
BODY OF THOMAS WHALEN FOUND
The police department received a telegram last night in which it was stated that the body of Thomas Whalen, who was drowned off Chester Island last Sunday a week, had been recovered. William Green, a fisherman, discovered the corpse floating in the river. Arrangements were at once made to have the body shipped to this city.
Whalen was twenty-seven years old, and lived with his wife and one year old child at 1640 Ferry avenue. He was a member of the Camden Pleasure Club and went down the river on the yacht Little John Sunday, June 25th. When off Chester Island he and several others went in bathing. Unable to swim he went beyond his depth and drowned, despite heroic efforts to rescue him.
1664 Ferry Avenue — Photographs, 2011
1664 Ferry Avenue. Photographs taken June 30, 2011.
Society for the Prevention and Relief of Poverty — Pries Singer
Philadelphia Inquirer —
The family of Pries Singer, 1662 Ferry Avenue. Philadelphia Inquirer, December 28, 1890.
Secretary Smith, of the Society for the Prevention and Relief of Poverty, has been notified of the extreme poverty of the family of Pries Singer, living at 1662 Ferry avenue. Singer is ill and without the necessaries of life. The secretary will endeavor to relieve him.
Complainant in Theft Held on Rum Charge
Camden Courier-Post —
A complaining witness was held in $500 bail for the grand jury in police court yesterday when a man he had arrested for stealing his car testified he had bought whisky from him.
Henry Benzuk, 32, 502 Jackson street, charged James Draper, 36, 1676 Ferry avenue, with stealing his new automobile. Draper denied stealing the car and said Benzuk had loaned it to him. He testified he bought liquor from Benzuk. Despite the fact that Draper did not wish to make complaint, Benzuk was held.
Benzuk Held on Liquor Charge After Reporting Theft
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Harry Benzuk of Jackson street, Camden, who reported to the police that he had been robbed of $15 by James Draper, of 1676 Ferry avenue, found himself in an awkward predicament yesterday, when, after Draper had been arrested on a larceny charge, the officer who made the arrest found a pint bottle of liquor in Benzuk’s possession.
Benzuk was held in $300 bail for court on a liquor charge. Draper was held in $300 bail for court on the larceny charge.
Lad Drowned in Shallow Water / William H. Clements
Philadelphia Inquirer —
The funeral of William C. Clements, 12 years old, who was drowned last Saturday in the Delaware River, took place yesterday from his grandparents’ residence, at 1680 Ferry avenue.
While bathing with some companions at the foot of Jefferson avenue, Camden, yesterday afternoon, William Clements, 13 years old, was drowned in the Delaware River. He was seized with cramps, and sank to the bottom without the other lads seeing him. He was not missed until one of the other boys came in contact with his body while making a dive. The remains were brought ashore, and Coroner Robinson took charge of the case. The water was so shallow where the drowning occurred that the lad could stand on the bottom with his head near the surface.
CLEMENTS —Suddenly, on June 23, 1900, William H., son of Rebecca C. and the late Louis H Clements, aged 12 years and 4 months. Funeral on Tuesday afternoon, June 26, at 2 o’clock, from his grandparents’ residence, William H. Smith, No. 1680 Ferry avenue, Camden N. J. Interment at Evergreen Cemetery.
LAD DROWNED IN SHALLOW WATER — William Clements, 13, son of Rebecca C. and the late Louis H. Clements, drowned at the foot of Jefferson avenue. He had been visiting at the home of his grandparents, William H. Smith, No. 1680 Ferry avenue. Philadelphia Inquirer, June 24, 1900.
CLEMENTS — Suddenly, on June 23, 1900, William H., son of Rebecca C. and the late Louis H Clements, aged 12 years and 4 months. Funeral from grandparents’ residence, William H. Smith, No. 1680 Ferry avenue. Philadelphia Inquirer, June 26, 1900.
William H. Clements funeral notice, Philadelphia Inquirer, June 27, 1900.
1700 Block of Ferry Avenue — Occupants
City directory records, 1878–1990s.
1700 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Mrs. Theresa Schneider |
1701 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947–1990s | Triangle Tavern (John J. Flacco, proprietor) |
| 1947 | John J. Flacco |
1703 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Vacant |
1705 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Raymond C. Kortman |
1707 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Joseph Stalter |
1709 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1896 | William H. Corson |
| 1947 | William Valiant |
1711 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1906 | Nicholas Blank |
| 1947 | Joseph Police |
1713 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Charles Mitchell |
1714 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1906–1920 | William H. Corson |
1715 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | George W. Schoeneman |
1716 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1916–1960s | Joseph K. Wright & Family — Stationary Engineer at Camden Forge |
| 1916–1960s | Joseph & Mary Nolen Wright |
| 1916–1960s | Joseph Wright |
| 1916–1960s | Vincent Wright |
| 1916–1960s | Jerome Wright |
| 1916–1960s | John Wright |
| 1916–1960s | Katherine Nolen (sister-in-law) |
| 1969 | No Phone Listing |
1717 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1938 | Mrs. Phoebe Shultz (widow of Theodore Shultz) |
| 1938 | Mrs. Phoebe Shultz |
| 1947 | Mrs. Marie Aveni |
1718 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1891–1900 | Elwood Bunting & Family |
| 1947 | Edward A. Hook |
1719 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1940s– | Sacred Heart Mission |
1720 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1887–1889 | John P. Prucella Family (John B. 'Shorty' Prucella) |
| 1947 | Joseph P. Lowery |
1721 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Felix Hetz |
1722 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1909–1912 | Leopold Mesarsick & Family |
| 1909–1912 | Leopold & Sabina Mesarsick |
| 1909–1912 | Mary Mesarsick |
| 1909–1912 | Ethel Mesarsick |
| 1909–1912 | Elsie Mesarsick |
| 1909–1912 | William Mesarsick- Laura Mesarsick |
| 1909–1912 | Charles Mesarsick |
| 1909–1912 | Joseph Mesarsick |
| 1933–1941 | William Hunter & Family |
| 1933–1941 | William & Mary Hunter |
| 1933–1941 | Parker Hunter |
| 1933–1941 | Frances Hunter |
| 1933–1941 | Margaret Hunter |
| 1933–1941 | Anna Hunter Anthony |
| 1933–1941 | Edna Hunter |
| 1933–1941 | May Hunter Schultze |
| 1933–1941 | William Hunter Jr. |
| 1933–1941 | Russell Hunter |
| 1933–1941 | May Hunter |
| 1947 | William Braaksma & Family |
| 1947 | William & Eleanora Braaksma |
| 1947 | William Braaksma Jr. |
| 1947 | Eleanora Braaksma |
| 1947 | Henry Braaksma |
| 1947 | Cornelia Braaksma |
1723 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Peter J. Kuss |
1724 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Peter Naurath |
1725 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Robert Stokes |
1726 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1920s–1940s | George & Effie Reed |
1729 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1914 | Judson K. Fish |
| 1940s– | Sacred Heart Convent |
1730 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1933 | Charles Fry |
| 1947 | William J. Mason |
1732 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Daniel Krinich |
1734 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1878–1880 | John A. Ewing |
1736 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1890–1891 | John P. Prucella Family |
| 1890–1891 | John B. "Shorty" Prucella |
1738 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | John J. Hangenbucher |
1739 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Thomas Hannon |
1740 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | James M. Aaide; Pasquale DiGiacomo |
| 1947 | James M. Aaide |
| 1947 | Pasquale DiGiacomo |
1741 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1873– | Church of the Sacred Heart |
| — | Roman Catholic Church |
1742 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 2000s | Heart of Camden Inc. |
1744 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | James Jones |
1754 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1919 | Austin McDermott |
Triangle Tavern
Triangle Tavern, 1701 Ferry Avenue, 1947–1990s. John J. Flacco, proprietor (1947).
Triangle Tavern advertisement, Veterans Boxing Association Ring No. 6 banquet program, 1961.
COMPLIMENTS OF
Triangle Tavern
1701 Ferry Avenue
Camden, New Jersey
Legal Notices
Camden Courier-Post —
NOTICE OF APPLICATION
Take notice that application has been made to the Municipal Board of Alcoholic Beverage Control of the City of Camden, to transfer to John D. Palazzese, trading as Triangle Tavern for premises located at 1701 Ferry Avenue, Camden, New Jersey, the Plenary Retail Consumption License #C-142, heretofore issued to Triangle Tavern Inc., trading as Triangle Tavern for premises located at 1701 Ferry Avenue, Camden, New Jersey.
Objections, if any, should be made immediately in writing to John T. Odorisio, Clerk of the City of Camden, New Jersey.
(Signed) JOHN D. PALAZZESE, 429 Emerald Street, Camden 4, New Jersey. ($13.44)
Adam Gremmen and Nicholas Blank — Blood Poisoning
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Adam Gremmen Jr., 1713 South 4th Street, and Nicholas Blank, 1711 Ferry Avenue. Philadelphia Inquirer, July 29, 1906.
Adam Gremmen, Jr., of 1713 South Fourth street, is suffering from blood poisoning. He scratched the back of his hand and wiped the blood with a piece of waste. A few days later his hand and arm were swollen twice their natural size and an operation had to be performed. His condition is serious. Nicholas Blank, of 1711 Ferry avenue, is also suffering from the same disease, caused by not caring for a wound received while operating a grinding machine.
Man, 69, Is Killed by Hit-Runners
Camden Courier-Post —
Joseph Wright, 69, of 1716 Ferry Avenue. Camden Courier-Post, October 11, 1949.
MAN, 69, IS KILLED, ANOTHER INJURED BY HIT-RUNNERS
Camden Victim Hurled 60 Feet by Impact; Was on Vacation
Three hit-run accidents in the city early today caused the death of a 69-year-old Camden man, injury to a Philadelphian and damage to a parked car.
Joseph Wright, 1716 Ferry avenue, was struck as he alighted from a bus and attempted to cross Broadway at Van Hook street. He died a few minutes after being taken to West Jersey hospital.
Mrs. Phoebe Shultz — Obituary
Camden Courier-Post —
Mrs. Phoebe Shultz, 1717 Ferry Avenue. Camden Courier-Post, February 24, 1938.
MRS. PHOEBE SHULTZ
Mrs. Phoebe Shultz, who lived in Camden for 60 years, died at her home, 1717 Ferry avenue, Tuesday. She was the widow of Theodore Shultz. She is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Mary McIlvain, and Mrs. Sarah Burk, both of Camden. Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 11 a. m. in the Schroeder Funeral Home, 715 Cooper street. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery.
Elwood Bunting Family, 1718 Ferry Avenue
Elwood Bunting & Family, 1718 Ferry Avenue, 1891–1900. Elwood & Maud Bunting; William Jacob Bunting, Walter M. Bunting, Raymond James Bunting.
1722 Ferry Avenue — World War II
1722 Ferry Avenue. William Braaksma & Family (1947); William Hunter (1941).
CARVING KNIFE SLIPS, COOK CUTS HIS HAND
William Hunter, 29, a short order cook at the Ellisburg diner, was treated for cuts of the right hand last night caused when a carving knife slipped from his grasp and he made a grab for it.
Hunter, who lives at 1722 Ferry avenue, Camden, was taken to West Jersey Hospital by Delaware township police.
Staff Sergeant William Braaksma Jr., 1722 Ferry Avenue.
Intersection of Broadway & Ferry Avenue
Southeast corner of Broadway & Ferry Avenue — South Camden Trust Building, 1926–2013.
Southwest corner {1801 Broadway} — 1875–early 1890s: Dr. John W. Donges, Dr. Clarence Donges, Ralph W.E. Donges.
West side — Church of the Sacred Heart, Roman Catholic Church.
Church of Sacred Heart,
Broadway and Ferry Avenue. Camden, N. J.
60-84
500 Block of Ferry Avenue — 1927
500 Block of Ferry Avenue, south side from Broadway, 1927.
500 Block of Ferry Avenue — Occupants
City directory records, 1906–2011.
507 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1932 | Augustus 'Gus' Rollo |
509 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1919 | S. Simkovitz — Shoe Repairing |
| 1931 | Eighth Ward Democratic Club |
| 1938 | Ralph Springer |
| 1947 | Ferry Electric Signs; Frank Hafbauer |
| 1947 | Ferry Electric Signs |
| 1947 | Frank Hafbauer |
511 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1919 | Economy Shoe Store |
| 1947 | Wanda Beauty Shop |
| 1947–1970s | Nicholas DiCiano & Family (Nicholas & Frances DiCiano; Charles, Domenic, Joseph, Phillip, Albert, Louis, Anna, Anthony, Rose DiCiano) |
512–514 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1906 | Plumbing business |
| 1919–1920 | Thomas J. Marvin — Shaving, Haircutting, Massage |
| 1921–1927 | Dominick Lorusso & Family — barber (Dominick & Josephine Lorusso) |
| 1926 | Marvin's Hall |
| 1938–1939 | Eighth Ward Democratic Club |
| 1938 | Eight Ward Democratic Club |
| 1947 | Gone |
513 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1933 | Mary Kelly; Martin Goldberg |
| 1933 | Mary Kelly |
| 1933 | Martin Goldberg |
| 1947 | Anthony Salvatore |
| 1950s–1974 | Richard & Olga Murray; Patti Murray |
518 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1906 | No information available |
520 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ | Source ↕ |
|---|---|---|
| 1955–1956 | Tom's Cleaners | 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone |
521 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1931 | Regular Eighth Ward Republican Club |
| 1938–1939 | Eighth Ward Roosevelt Italian Democrat Club |
| 1947 | Frank Maiese |
522 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1906 | No information available |
524 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1906 | No information available |
526 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1907–1913 | Thomas N. Leeson — grocer |
555 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947–1956 | Camden Auto Painting Company |
| 1959 | Gone |
556 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1894–1895 | Samuel D. Cox — policeman |
| 1894–1895 | Samuel D. Cox |
| 1947–1954 | Mrs. Caroline Jankowska Gotz |
558 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Anthony Gambino |
559 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1911–1929 | J. Brown's Dry Goods (Morris & Jessie Brown) |
| 1947 | James Alessi — barber |
| 1947 | James Alessi |
560 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Michael Gowanich |
561 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Vacant |
562 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1920s–1938 | Charles & Charlotte Peoples |
| 1947 | William Ewing |
563 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Jere Collins |
564 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1931–1932 | Michael & Mary Narducci; Frank Narducci |
| 1947 | Mrs. Angelina Rago |
| 1931–1932 | Michael Narducci & Family |
566 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Michael Gioia |
567 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | William Bates |
568 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Leo Castaldi |
569 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Mrs. Mary Buandonna |
570 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Biagio DiMarco |
571 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1924 | Harry Brown |
| 1947 | William Garwood |
| 1955–1961 | Massimo & Mary DeMarco; Lisa DeMarco LaRocca, Lando DeMarco, Ercolino DeMarco |
| 1955–1961 | Massimo DeMarco & Family |
572 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Joseph Ciararich |
Gloucester Man Held, Admits Taking Auto
Camden Courier-Post —
Augustus Rollo, 19, of 507 Ferry avenue, Gloucester, admitted in Gloucester police court yesterday before Recorder Oliver J. Stetser that he was the driver of the automobile which Monday night failed to halt until fired upon by a Gloucester policeman.
Rollo confessed that he took the car from the garage of Carl Dolenti, 20, of Camden. Later, he said, he picked up Edward Trottman, 25, of 704 Sylvan street, Camden, and Walter Voitovick, of 1428 Broadway, Camden. He said he escaped when the others were arrested.
Trottman and Voitovick accused Dolenti of being the driver.
Rollo was turned over to Camden detectives. Camden Courier-Post, June 17, 1932.
509 Ferry Avenue — 1919
509 Ferry Avenue, 1919 city directory. S. Simkovitz — Shoe Repairing.
S. SIMKOVITZ
First-class Shoe Repairing
507 Ferry Ave., Camden, N. J.
All Work Guaranteed
Birthday Party Given for Mrs. Anna Olsen
Camden Courier-Post —
A birthday party was held Tuesday night in honor of Mrs. Anna Olsen, of 1811 Broadway, by the Eighth Ward Roosevelt Democratic Club auxiliary at 521 Ferry avenue.
Talks were given by Mrs. Katherine Corbett, president; Edmund H. Olsen, husband of Mrs. Olsen; Custer Brelsford, John J. Hainsworth and Mrs. Olsen.
Among those who attended the party were Mrs. Elmira Schoeneman, Mrs. Mary Gifford, Mrs. J. Hainsworth, Mrs. Sarah Higgins, Mrs. Rose Mascio, Miss Emily Olsen, Miss Edna Olsen, Mrs. Katherine Kurtz, Mrs. Etta Smith, Mrs. Emma Percival, Mrs. Margaret Finelli, Mrs. Beryl Hoffbauer, Mrs. Stella Lochinic, Miss Dolly Higgins, Miss Rose Pierce, Mrs. Geraldine Olsen, Mrs. Grace Maise, Mrs. Margaret McLoughlin, Mrs. Margaret Lloyd, Mrs. Barrett, Mrs. Mildred Titus, James Hainsworth, Joseph Bollinghoff and John Mascio. Camden Courier-Post, February 24, 1938.
Another Baby Eats Pills — May Lose Life
Camden Courier-Post —
Frank Narducci, 2, of 564 Ferry avenue, is in West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital as a result of taking tablets containing a powerful drug from a garment of his mother, Mrs. Mary Narducci.
The mother told physicians the child took the tablets while she slept. The boy is the youngest of seven children. Doctors say his condition is serious. Camden Courier-Post, June 3, 1932.
Harry Brown, 571 Ferry Avenue — 1924
Harry Brown, 571 Ferry Avenue, 1924.
Left (Latin letters):
Herry Brown
571 Ferry Ave
Camden
N. J.
Right (Cyrillic, address repeated):
Камден
Г. Броуну
571 Ферри Аве
[the lines below, giving the sender and district, are not legible]
55124
Postmark: НОВОУКРАИНКА ХЕРС[?], 5 I 24.
Registered label: 52.
Massimo DeMarco Family, 571 Ferry Avenue
Camden Courier-Post —
Massimo Di Marco
Massimo Di Marco, 77, of 571 Ferry ave., died Monday at Cooper Hospital. A resident of Camden for 40 years, he owned and operated a shoe repair business.
Surviving are his wife, Mary; a daughter, Mrs. Lisa LaRocco of West Collingswood; a son, Lando, of Camden; a brother, Ercolino of Camden, and four grandchildren. Camden Courier-Post, August 16, 1961. Photo of 571 Ferry Avenue, November 2011.
Camden Auto Painting Company — 555 Ferry Avenue
Camden Auto Painting Company, 555 Ferry Avenue, 1947–1956. 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone Directory Yellow Pages advertisement.
CAMDEN AUTO PAINTING CO
BODY & FENDER WORK
COLLISION WORK
PAINTING A SPECIALTY
555 Ferry Av Camden...WOodlawn 3-95[?]
Gold watch stolen from Policeman Samuel Cox
Philadelphia Inquirer —
A $60 gold watch was stolen yesterday from a vest belonging to Policeman Samuel Cox, which he left hanging in his mother-in-law’s yard. Samuel D. Cox, policeman, 556 Ferry Avenue, 1894–1895. Philadelphia Inquirer, June 29, 1895.
Also: Mrs. Caroline Jankowska Gotz, 556 Ferry Avenue. Camden Courier-Post, July 3, 1954.
J. Brown's Dry Goods — 559 Ferry Avenue
J. Brown’s Dry Goods, 559 Ferry Avenue, 1911–1929. Morris & Jessie Brown, proprietors.
COMPLIMENTS OF
J. Brown's Dry Goods
Ladies and Gents Furnishings
[?] GOODS
559 Ferry Ave., Camden, N. J.
559 Ferry Avenue. Photograph, 1920, and photographs taken July 2012.
600 Block of Ferry Avenue — 1970s Photographs
1970s photographs from the 600 Block of Ferry Avenue. Mary Bellangee of 607 Ferry Avenue with daughters Paula and Barbara Bellangee.
Silver Door — 601 Ferry Avenue
Silver Door, 601 Ferry Avenue, 1990. Formerly Frank’s Cafe (1939–1967) and Happy’s Cafe (1978–1985). February 2003 photograph.
600 Block of Ferry Avenue — Occupants
City directory records, 1878–2012.
600 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Michael Del Rossi — Candy Store; Edmund A. Walsh (upstairs) |
| 2012 | Gone |
| — | Built after 1906 |
601 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1896–1921 | William Mullin's saloon |
| 1939–1967 | Frank's Cafe (Frank Corado) |
| 1939–1967 | Frank's Cafe |
| 1939–1967 | Frank Corado |
| 1978–1985 | Happy's Cafe |
| 1990s | Silver Door Cafe |
| 1990 | Silver Door Cafe |
| 2012 | Gone |
602–604 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| — | Built after 1906 |
602 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Frank A. Moss |
| 2012 | Gone |
604 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Vacant |
| 2012 | Gone |
605 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Vacant |
| 2012 | Gone |
606 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1915 | Guarantee Realty Company (Harry Varbalow, Samuel Varbalow) |
| 1947 | Mrs. Jennie Russian; Edward J. Yakakcki |
| 1947 | Mrs. Jennie Russian |
| 1947 | Edward J. Yakakcki |
| 2012 | Gone |
607 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1900–1907 | Joseph J. Heppard Sr. & Family |
| 1900–1907 | Joseph J. & Rebecca Green Smack Heppard Sr. |
| 1900–1907 | Joseph J. Heppard Jr. |
| 1900–1907 | Franklin A. Heppard |
| 1908–1919 | Joseph J. Heppard Sr. & Family |
| 1974–1976 | Mary Bellangee & Family |
| 1974–1976 | Mary Jo Bellangee |
| 1974–1976 | Paula Bellangee |
| 1974–1976 | Barbara Bellangee |
608 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1919 | Harry Dubin |
| 1940s | Bezich Brothers Music Store |
| 2012 | Gone |
| 1940s | Sergeant Stanley Bezich |
609 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1942 | Frank J. Willoth & Family |
| 1942 | Frank & Martha Willoth |
| 1942 | Thomas Willoth |
| 1947 | Dominic L. Albano |
| 2012 | Gone |
610 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Chester Karney |
| 2012 | Gone |
611 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1919 | P. Punzo — shoe repair |
| 1947 | Massini DiMarco — shoe repair; Alex Volcanis |
| 1947 | Massini DiMarco |
| 1947 | Alex Volcanis |
| 2012 | Gone |
612 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1914–1919 | Ferry Avenue Palace — movie theater |
| 1914–1919 | Ferry Avenue Palace |
| 1923 | Camden Auto Painting Co. |
| 1935–1955 | Russian Workers Mutual Aid Society (social club) |
| 2012 | Gone |
613 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1894 | John Hart |
| 1947 | Anthony Joy |
| 2012 | Gone |
615 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Vacant |
| 1962 | Gone |
617 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1908–1919 | Joseph J. Heppard Sr. & Family |
| 1908–1919 | Joseph J. & Rebecca Green Smack Heppard Sr. |
| 1908–1919 | Joseph J. Heppard Jr. |
| 1947 | Vacant |
| 1962 | Gone |
619 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1909–1929 | J. Bassevitch |
| 1947–1969 | Yugoslav Workers Club, Federation No. 78 (Frank Bakota, Michael Slipcevish, Mark Kauroto, Anton Bilich, Stephen Rabar) |
| 1970–1972 | Eighth Ward Progressive Republican Club |
| 1972–1980s | Tee's Cafe |
621 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Fritz Hess |
622 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1919–1947 | Mrs. Josephine Trano — Grocery |
623 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1920–1927 | Stephen & Irene Andruk — grocery |
| 1947 | Thomas Bezich — Grocery |
624 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1925 | Michael Koukolski |
| 1947 | John Billings |
625 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1911–1913 | Kolman Goldstein & Family |
| 1914–1916 | Andrew Miller & Family — saloon |
| 1917s–1924 | William Plevinsky — saloon |
| 1924–1947 | Harry & Matilda 'Tillie' Stridick; Stella, Walter, Benjamin Stridick |
| 1924–1947 | Harry Stridick & Family |
| 1924–1947 | Stella Stridick |
| 1924–1947 | Walter Stridick |
626 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1940 | Edwin S. & Lillian May Dieser Wirtz; Ronald, Robert, Nancy Wirtz |
| 1947 | John J. Odenwalt |
628 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Charles F. Hobbs |
629 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ | Source ↕ |
|---|---|---|
| 1926–1933 | Michael Brown & Family | |
| 1926–1933 | Samuel Brown | |
| 1933–1934 | Michael Kryza — bar | |
| 1935–1937 | Robert Gartland — bar | |
| 1938 | Joseph L. Novack — bar | |
| 1940–1941 | Eugene Zalewski — bar | |
| 1945–1950 | Central Cafe | |
| 1951–1954 | Helen's Central Cafe (Samuel Wasiluk) | |
| 1953 | Enrico & Helen Tiziani | |
| 1954–1959 | Cindy's Central Cafe | |
| 1961 | Cindy's Bar (Samuel Berelman) | |
| 1961–1972 | Payton's Place (Samuel Berelman, Raymond & Joan Payton) | 1967 Advertisement |
| 1973–1975 | Velvet Lounge (Samuel Berelman, Raymond & John L. Payton) | |
| 1953 | Enrico Tiziani |
631 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1924 | Anthony Haday — grocery |
| 1924 | Anthony Haday |
634 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1914 | Mrs. Mary Cericola (widow of Raphael Cericola); Joseph Cericola — laborer |
| 1914 | Joseph Cericola |
636 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Frank Palma — Barber |
639 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ | Source ↕ |
|---|---|---|
| 1926 | Salvatore & Chinappi Family (Albert, Pasquale Chinappi) | |
| 1926 | Pasqaule Chinappi | Camden High School Purple & Gold Yearbook, 1926 |
| 1926 | Mr. and Mrs. Salvatore Chinappi | |
| 1926 | Albert Chinappi |
640 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1910 | Stephen Haday (Stefan Chadic) |
| 1910 | Stephen Haday |
642 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1908 | Annie Gotschalk |
643 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1919 | National Talking Machine Company (John Marsich, Manager) |
| 1947 | Andrew Nikituk — Grocery |
644 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1906–1910 | William & Mary Anderson; John S., Hazel, Charles Anderson |
| 1923 | Teodor & Anna Hordeckei |
| 1955 | Margaret J. Land |
| 1906–1910 | William Anderson & Family |
| 1906–1910 | John S. Anderson |
| 1906–1910 | Hazel Anderson |
| 1906–1910 | Madeline Anderson |
| 1906–1910 | Kate Anderson |
| 1906–1910 | Lester R. Anderson |
| 1923 | Teodor Hordeckei & Family |
645 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1914–1960s | Alex & Anna Bermes Prokopic; Olga, Stephania, Michael, Helen Prokopic |
| 1947 | Secondhand Furniture |
| 1914–1960s | Alex Prokopic Family |
| 1914–1960s | Olga Prokopic |
| 1914–1960s | Stephania Prokopic |
| 1914–1960s | Michael Prokopic |
| 1914–1960s | George Prokopic |
| 1914–1960s | Clara Prokopic |
647 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1890 | Lewis A. Buzine |
649 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1924 | George Willingmyre — junk |
| 1924 | George Willingmyre |
| 1947 | Tony Larsen — Pool Room; S&C Bargain Store — Candy & Dry Goods |
| 1947 | S&C Bargain Store |
650 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| — | William & Dora Venella |
652 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1895 | Christopher Young |
653 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1940s–early 1950s | Ackerle's Bakery |
654 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1896–1915 | Mrs. Martha Moore & Family |
| 1896–1915 | Oliver Moore |
| 1896–1915 | Thomas Moore |
| 1896–1915 | Ella Moore |
| 1896–1915 | John Moore |
| 1919 | Archie, Thorp & Loute — Used Cars |
658 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1933 | Mrs. Margaret Marsden |
659 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1919 | F.P. Marion — First Class Shaving Parlor |
| 1947 | Vacant |
660 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Steven Volzen |
661 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1932 | Frank Marvin — barber shop |
| 1947 | Charles Miller |
662 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1910s–1920s | John & Lillian Campbell |
| 1947 | Ignatz Pakulis |
663 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1910s–1920s | Louis Romaine & Family |
| 1947 | Mrs. Mary Quinton |
664 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Alex Kudelich — Paperhanger |
| 1947 | Alex Kudelich |
665 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1920 | Stephen Haday |
| 1947 | Anthony Miguell |
667 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1919 | Majestic Coal & Ice Company (C. Thomas, Proprietor) |
667–669 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Joseph & Rose Sacchetti — Grocery |
| 1947 | Joseph & Rose Sacchetti |
671–673 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1881–1910 | Daniel Kelly's Saloon |
| 1919–1921 | John Asbert — Saloon |
| 1930s–1950s | Knast Cafe (Felix C. Knast) |
675 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1913–1924 | William J. Kelly — Plumbing & Heating |
| 1920s–1967 | Stephen Haday — grocery |
| 1924 | Bateson Specialties — Plumbing & Heating Supplies |
| 1924 | Bateson Specialties |
679 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1930–1942 | Michael Yatzus |
680 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1895 | Thornton Lightcap |
682 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1933–1934 | William Antinuk |
683 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1923 | Maurice DiNicolo — police |
| 1928–1943 | John & Caroline Jankowski Gotz; Blanche, Mamie, Lena, Helen, Jose Gotz |
| 1928–1943 | John Gotz & Family |
| 1928–1943 | Blanche Gotz |
| 1928–1943 | Mamie Gotz |
| 1928–1943 | Lena Gotz |
| 1928–1943 | Helen Gotz |
| 1928–1943 | Joseph Gotz |
| 1928–1943 | Edward Gotz |
| 1928–1943 | Michael Ellis (brother-in-law) |
684 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1880–1900 | William C. Woodfall — Teamster |
685 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1923 | Ignatius Zabecki — meats |
| 1924–1971 | John & Annie Hadyniak — Tailor (Olga, John, Catherine Hadyniak) |
| 1924–1971 | John Hadyniak & Family |
| 1924–1971 | Olga Hadyniak |
690 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1898–1905 | Mrs. Sarah Bartlett & Family (widow of William Bartlett; Samuel R., George, William J. Bartlett) |
| 1898–1905 | Samuel R. Bartlett |
| 1898–1905 | George Bartlett |
| 1898–1905 | William J. Bartlett |
| 1930–1942 | Nicholas Hetz |
| 1941 | Michael Hetz |
692 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1885–1893 | John H. & Mary Ann Hart |
694 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Harry's Esso Station |
695 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | No information available |
697 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1878–1893 | Benjamin H. Thomas & Family (policeman) |
| 1878–1893 | Benjamin & Rebecca Thomas |
| 1894–1904 | Isaac C. Shute & Family — policeman |
| 1947–1955 | Varsity Barber Shop |
| 1955 | Varsity Barber Shop |
698 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | No information available |
Slain Man’s Father Held on Charge of Assault
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Accused by Edward Farr, one of the men who is alleged to have participated in the killing of his son, Charles Sturgis, aged [?]2 years, of 632 Ferry avenue, was held in $500 bail by Justice McClong, in Camden yesterday, for a further hearing today before Recorder Stackhouse, in Camden. Sturgis is charged with assault and battery and is said to have grown out of Farr’s attempt to speak to Sturgis.
Farr and his brother Samuel, were implicated in the killing of Sturgis’ son about a year ago, but they escaped with a light fine and short imprisonment.
Mary Bellangee, 607 Ferry Avenue
Camden Courier-Post —
Bellangee
On April 11, 1976, Mary of 607 Ferry Ave., Camden. Age 42 years. Survived by three daughters, Mary Jo, Paula and Barbara at home; one brother, Lewis T. Lewis of Camden. Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral services on Thursday, 11 a.m., at the DALEY FUNERAL HOME, 60 S. 27th St., Camden. Interment New Camden Cemetery. Friends may call Thursday morning after 10 a.m. Camden Courier-Post, April 4, 1976.
Being Out of Work Led Boy to Suicide
Camden Post-Telegram —
Mother of Franklin A. Heppard Horrified to Find Son Hanging from Rafter.
Despondent because he lost his position is the cause assigned for Franklin A. Heppard, aged 17 years, of 607 Ferry avenue, committing suicide yesterday by hanging himself. The youth got out of work about a week ago. Since then he had tried to induce his father to buy a farm, where he said he would have something to do to feed the pigs and chickens. Camden Post-Telegram, July 25, 1905.
608 Ferry Avenue — Bezich Brothers Music Store
608 Ferry Avenue — Harry Dubin (1919); Bezich Brothers Music Store (1940s).
HARRY DUBIN
Sample Shoes
RUBBERS AND BOOTS
for the Entire Family
608 Ferry Ave., Camden
Sergeant Stanley Bezich, World War II.
609 Ferry Avenue — Frank & Martha Willoth (1942).
REGISTRATION CARD (Men born on or after April 28, 1877 and on or before February 16, 1897)
SERIAL NUMBER: U 1669 [?]
1. NAME (Print): FRANK JOSEPH WILLOTH
2. PLACE OF RESIDENCE (Print): 609 Ferry Avenue, CAMDEN, CAMDEN, N. J.
[The place of residence given on the line above will determine local board jurisdiction; line 2 of registration certificate will be identical.]
3. MAILING ADDRESS: SAME
4. TELEPHONE: NONE
5. AGE IN YEARS: 46; DATE OF BIRTH: Apr. 23, 1896
6. PLACE OF BIRTH: Lancaster, Pa.
7. NAME AND ADDRESS OF PERSON WHO WILL ALWAYS KNOW YOUR ADDRESS: MARTHA WILLOTH, SAME ADDRESS
8. EMPLOYER'S NAME AND ADDRESS: McGarvin
9. PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT OR BUSINESS: Magnolia, New Jersey
I affirm that I have verified above answers and that they are true.
Frank Joseph Willoth (signature)
D. S. S. Form 1 (Revised 4-1-42)
Ferry Avenue Palace Theater — 612 Ferry Avenue
Those who have followed the pictures of The Perils of Pauline at the People’s Theatre the same will now be shown at the Ferry Avenue Palace. Camden Post-Telegram, December 11, 1914.
612 Ferry Avenue — Ferry Avenue Palace movie theater, 1914–1919. Camden Auto Painting Co. (1923). Russian Workers Mutual Aid Society social club, 1935–1955.
Yugoslav Workers Club — 619 Ferry Avenue
J. Bassevitch — Dry Goods and Notions — Ladies’ and Gent’s Furnishings — 619 Ferry Ave., Camden. 1919 city directory.
619 Ferry Avenue — J. Bassevitch (1909–1929); Yugoslav Workers Club Federation of Yugoslav Workers Club Inc. No. 78 (1947–1969); Eighth Ward Progressive Republican Club (1970–1972); Tee’s Cafe (1972–1980s). Camden Courier-Post, June 12, 1972.
Isadore Poplowski (Suicide Identified)
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Isadore Poplowski (Suicide Identified)
Buried on Thursday in New Camden cemetery, the body of Isadore Poplowski, a suicide, was exhumed yesterday and identified by Clayton Stormfeltz, of 1243 Van Hook street, as the man who stabbed him in the abdomen last Friday night. Polpawski was 35 years old, and lived at 1825 Salem street. His body was found hanging to the limb of a tree at Oaklyn on Tuesday night, and it is the belief of Detective Charles Whaland that he ended his life on the night of the stabbing in fear that he had killed his victim. When the body was found it was in a badly decomposed state, and had been hanging to the tree for several days.
Stormfeltz was stabbed while conversing with friends in a store at 623 Ferry avenue. Not until after the body of Poplawski was buried were the police advised that the suicide was the man for whom they were looking.
Stormfeltz is a foreman at a factory where Poplawski was formerly employed. Police say there was no provocation for the stabbing. Poplowski drawing the knife and lunging at Stormfeltz as he passed from the store. The injury inflicted was slight.
Concrete Block Falls Off Truck and Hits Man
Camden Courier —
A pedestrian suffered a possible broken leg this morning when he was hit by a concrete block that fell from a truck.
The victim is Michael Koukolski, 45 years old, 624 Ferry avenue. He was crossing Ferry avenue in front of his home as a large truck, loaded down with concrete blocks, passed. According to police reports, the truck struck a rut in the pavement, and one of the heavy blocks was jolted off, striking Koukolski’s left leg. The man was taken to Cooper Hospital, where physicians said his leg may be fractured. Camden Courier, May 23, 1925.
625 Ferry Avenue — Saloon History
WM. PLEVINSKY — Saloon — 625 Ferry Ave., Camden — POTH’S BEER. 1919 city directory.
625 Ferry Avenue — Kolman Goldstein & Family (1911–1913); Andrew Miller & Family, saloon (1914–1916); William Plevinsky Saloon (1917–1924); Harry Stridick & Family (1924–1947). Philadelphia Inquirer, May 23, 1915.
Enrico Tiziani, 629 Ferry Avenue
629 Ferry Avenue — Enrico & Helen Tiziani (1953). Tiziani death certificate.
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, BUREAU OF VITAL STATISTICS
CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
File No. 47729[?]
1. Place of death: County Philadelphia; City Philadelphia; length of stay 3 days; U. S. Naval Hospital.
Legal residence: State New Jersey; city Camden; street address 629 Ferry Ave.
3. Name of deceased: Enrico James Tiziani. 4. Date of death: May 14, 1953.
5. Sex: Male. 6. Color: Cauc. 7. Married. 8. Date of birth: Jan. 1, 1915. 9. Age: 38.
Birthplace: New Jersey. Citizen of what country: USA.
13. Father's name: John Tiziani. 14. Mother's maiden name: Josephine [?].
Was deceased ever in armed forces: Yes.
17. Informant's own signature: Helen [?] Tiziani, 629 Ferry Ave., Camden, N. J.
18. Cause of death: Recurrent diaphragmatic hernia with complete gastric obstruction. Other significant conditions: Paraplegia (gunshot injury spine T-10) 8 years; severe liver damage; severe kidney damage.
Date of operation: 5-11-53. Major findings of operation: Recurrent paraesophageal diaphragmatic hernia.
Certified by the attending physician at the U. S. Naval Hospital; date of burial 15 May 1953.
Funeral director: Earl B. Hull, 811 Cooper St., Camden, N. J.
Payton’s Place, Samuel Berelman, Raymond Payton & Joan Payton (1961–1972). Payton’s Place 1967 advertisement.
PAYTON'S PLACE
629 FERRY AVE. CAMDEN, N. J.
Starting TUESDAY, October 25th And Every TUESDAY There After A Swinging Ladies Nite. Beautiful Gift For The FOX'S SPECIAL GIFT To The Lucky FOX Of The Nite, Party Time Is Every Day. BABY JANE EVERY NITE.
FLASH WILSON, Manager and Party Timer 963-9277
Annie Gotschalk fractures collar bone
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Mrs. Annie Gotschalk, 32 years old, of 642 Ferry avenue, fractured her collar bone in a fall downstairs last night. She was taken to the Cooper Hospital. Philadelphia Inquirer, November 24, 1908.
Marriage Licenses
Camden Courier-Post —
CAMDEN
Charles Williams, 23, of 2415 N. 30th st., Philadelphia, and Margaret J. Land, 18, of 644 Ferry ave.
William G. Bell, 27, of 1522 N. 15th st., Philadelphia, and Laura Mae Sheppard, 25, of 1125 Marion st.
Lawrence L. Lines, 26, of 3240 N. Gransbock st., and Evelyn D. Rodgers, 21, of 1333 E. Carey st., both of Philadelphia.
David D. Thompson, 23, of 1253 N. 15th st., and Lillian Connor, 32, of 1321 W. Thompson st., both of Philadelphia.
Raymond E. Sullivan, 49, of 206 S. 35th st., and Fay Brown, 44, of 505 S. 44th st., Philadelphia.
Alex Prokopic Family — 645 Ferry Avenue
Alex & Anna Bermes Prokopic, 645 Ferry Avenue, 1914–1960s. Olga Prokopic, Stephania Prokopic, Michael Prokopic, Helen Prokopic.
Christopher Young, 652 Ferry Avenue
Camden Daily-Telegram —
Christopher Young, 682 Ferry Avenue. Camden Daily-Telegram, February 26, 1895.
Obituary Notes.
Christopher Young, aged 67 years, of No. 682 Ferry avenue, died of paralysis, at his home yesterday afternoon.
The funeal of Thomas Gordon, who died on Thursday last, took place from his late residence, No. 807 South Second street, this afternoon and interment was made in the Evergreen cemetery.
Hold-Up Victim Is Growing Weaker
Camden Daily Courier — January–
Oliver Moore, who was brutally assaulted and robbed by negroes, on Chrismas [sic] night, is still in a serious condition. In fact, his condition is said to now be more alarming than at any time since the assault, his brother Thomas stating to-day that Oliver has grown weaker and that an abscess has formed in the under jaw.
The Grand Jury to-day heard evidence against William Green, Ernest Bruden, Daniel Sands and Raymond Byers, who are charged with assaulting Moore.
The assaulted victim is not a resident of this city. He lives at Annapolis, Md., and came here to visit his parents, at whose home, 654 Ferry avenue, he is now confined to bed. Camden Daily Courier, January 1905 and Camden Post-Telegram, January 4, 1905.
Janitor Is Stricken in Downtown Club
Camden Courier-Post —
Stricken with a cerebral hemorrhage early yesterday at a South Camden club, where he was janitor, John McCue, 78, is in West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital in a critical condition.
The aged man was discovered by Frank Marvin, who conducts a barber shop adjacent to the club at 661 Ferry avenue. He entered the place when McCue failed to put in an appearance today as was his usual custom.
Marvin called the Second district police, who took the man to the hospital. Camden Courier-Post, June 2, 1932.
Knast Cafe — 671–673 Ferry Avenue
Camden Courier-Post —
NOTICE OF APPLICATION — Take notice that Felix C. Knast, trading as Knast’s Cafe, has applied to the Municipal Board of Alcoholic Beverage Control of Camden for a Plenary Retail Consumption License for premises situated at 671–673 Ferry Ave., Camden, N. J. Objections, if any, should be made immediately in writing to Clay W. Reesman, City Clerk of Camden. (Signed) FELIX KNAST, 671–673 Ferry Avenue, Camden, N. J. Camden Courier-Post, May 24, 1946.
Knast Cafe, 671–673 Ferry Avenue, 1930s–1950s. Felix C. Knast, proprietor. Formerly Daniel Kelly’s Saloon (1881–1910) and John Asbert Saloon (1919–1921).
William J. Kelly Plumbing & Heating — 675 Ferry Avenue
William J. Kelly Plumbing & Heating, 675 Ferry Avenue, 1913–1924. Advertisement, 1913.
WILLIAM J. KELLY
PLUMBING AND HEATING
675 FERRY AVENUE :: CAMDEN, N. J.
William J. Kelly Plumbing & Heating, 675 Ferry Avenue. Advertisement, 1913.
WILLIAM J. KELLY
Plumbing and Heating
675 FERRY AVENUE CAMDEN, N. J.
Nicholas Haday & Stephen Haday Grocery — 675 Ferry Avenue
Camden Courier-Post —
Portrait of Nicholas Haday, son of Stephen Haday, proprietor of the grocery at 675 Ferry Avenue, 1920s–1967. Camden Courier-Post, August 3, 1943.
The caption beneath the portrait. Camden Courier-Post, August 3, 1943.
Nicholas Haday, son of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Haday, of 675 Ferry avenue, also is stationed at the Great Lakes Training station. He is a graduate of Camden County Vocational school.
Trolley Wrecks a Dog Cart
Philadelphia Inquirer —
While driving across the tracks of the Camden Electric Railroad, near Collingswood, on Thursday night, John Atkinson, of 2015 Miller street, and Thornton Leightcap, of 680 Ferry avenue, Camden, were struck by a trolley car. Their dog cart was completely demolished, but the occupants escaped with slight injuries. Philadelphia Inquirer, June 29, 1895.
2 Get 30-Day Terms for Stealing Coal
Camden Courier-Post —
Two men were sentenced to 20 days each in police court yesterday on charges of stealing coal from the Cooper Point yards of the Pennsylvania railroad.
The men who gave their names as Lorenzo Taggart, 43, no home, Frank Mitchell, 27, of 49 North street, were arrested by Detectives Sergeant John Snyder and George Baitzel, of the railroad police department. The men said they were preparing to sell the coal.
William Antinuk, 13, of 682 Ferry avenue, is being held pending investigation of the theft of six coils of copper wire from a freight car on the Pennsylvania—Reading Seashore lines, near Van Hook street.
George Smith, a railroad detective, said he captured the boy as two companions fled from the car. Smith said the boy related that the loot was sold to a South Camden man whom the police are seeking.
John Hadyniak Family — 685 Ferry Avenue
John & Annie Hadyniak, tailor, 685 Ferry Avenue, 1924–1971. Olga Hadyniak, John Hadyniak, Catherine Hadyniak.
John H. Hart, 692 Ferry Avenue
Philadelphia Inquirer —
HART. — On the morning of April 20, 1885, Mary Ann, wife of John H. Hart, aged 68 years. The relatives and friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend the funeral services, on Wednesday afternoon, May 1, at 1 o’clock, at her husband’s residence, No. 692 Ferry avenue, Camden, N. J. Interment at Old Camden Cemetery. Philadelphia Inquirer, April 1885.
Lewis A. Buzine — 647 Ferry Avenue
Lewis A. Buzine, 647 Ferry Avenue (1890) and 727 Ferry Avenue (1888).
Intersection of Webster Street & Ferry Avenue
Looking east on Webster Street from Ferry Avenue, June 30, 2011.
700 Block of Ferry Avenue — 1931
Ferry Avenue looking west toward 8th Street, 1931.
700 Block of Ferry Avenue — Occupants
City directory records, 1888–2005.
701 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | John P. Bereska — Grocery |
707 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 2005 | Roosevelt Manor (fire, February 5, 2005) |
715 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1919 | Nick Fizzano — Grocery |
| 1947 | Samuel Sherman — Grocery |
720 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | William Curley — Ice |
721 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1934 | Edward Judd |
| 1947 | Daniel Gray |
723 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1930s–1947 | Mrs. Theresa Di Lello — Candy Store |
727 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1888 | Lewis A. Buzine |
731 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1954 | Edward & Willa Gibbs |
| 1954 | Edward Gibbs & Family |
| 1954 | Irvin Gibbs |
| 1954 | Dorothy Ann Gibbs |
| 1954 | Vanessa Gibbs |
736 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1880–1900 | William C. Woodfall — Teamster |
751 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1890–1906 | F. Joseph Rouh — Saloon; L. Najulis — Saloon |
| 1914–1933 | Veronica Jacabauskas & Family |
| 1933–1970s | Anderson Tavern |
752 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1932 | American Stores — Grocery (F.M. Willis, Manager) |
753 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1914–1916 | F. Joseph Rouh & Family |
| 1914–1916 | F. Joseph & Madeline Rouh |
| 1914–1916 | Frank J. Rouh |
| 1914–1916 | Madeline Rouh Thomas |
| 1914–1916 | James Thomas (son-in-law) |
| 1918–1919 | F.W. Schmidt — Plumbing |
| 1947 | John F. Bevans — Grocery |
755 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1905 | Charles E.A. Schmid & Family |
| 1905 | Charles & Josephine Rouh Schmid |
| 1947 | Isaac Johnson; Lester A. Muse — Restaurant |
| 1947 | Isaac Johnson |
| 1947 | Lester A. Muse |
761 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1901–1921 | Angelo Romaine; Nicholas Romaine |
| 1952 | Edward Tyler; Isaac Jackson |
767 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | West Barber Shop |
| 1956 | Mrs. Carrie Clark |
768 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Rev. Clarence B. Miles |
| 2004 | Ferry Avenue United Methodist Church |
770 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Ferry Avenue Methodist Church |
773 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1919 | Brahen Brothers |
| 1947 | Adams & Knight — Tailors |
Mrs. Theresa Di Lello Candy Store — 723 Ferry Avenue
Mrs. Theresa Di Lello — Candy Store, 723 Ferry Avenue, 1930s–1947. Photograph, 1951.
Promoted Firemen Take Posts Today
Camden Courier-Post —
Lennox Deputy Chief; Eight Others Elevated as Captains Here
A new deputy chief, a battalion chief and eight new senior and junior captains will assume their posts today in the fire department. The men were promoted yesterday afternoon, along with the announcement of eleven new appointments of firemen, who will go into service April 15.
The new deputy chief, John H. Lennox, now is second in command when his platoon is on duty. He was acting deputy since the naming of Thomas Nicholas as chief two years ago.
The new battalion chief is Rollo Jones. Jones succeeds George B. Wade, who retired January 1.
Junior captains advanced to senior captains, with salaries increased to $2,400, are William H. Harring, Truck Company No. 1, Clarence Madden, Engine Company No. 6, and George Hunt, Engine Company No. 7. The new junior captains advanced from the ranks, with new salaries of $2,280 a year, are David Ellis, driver for Chief Nicholas for nine years, George Saunders, hoseman of Engine Company No. 9; Eli Hunt, driver of Engine Company No. 3, and William Van Pfefferle, hoseman, Engine Company No. 1.
All the promotions were from the civil service eligible list. The captains will be assigned tomorrow.
The new firemen, also civil service eligibles, will start with salaries of $1,500. Each year of service brings an increase, until five years in the department pays $2040 annually. The new men are Thomas F. Gibbons, Byron M. Davis, John S. Anderson, William H. Toy, Leo J. Tompkins, Horace T. Molan, Lawrence Bolton, George W. Garner, Felix E. Bendzyn, Harry H. Hess and Charles Jones.
Chief Lennox is one of the most popular firefighters in the organization. “Chappie” is the nickname by which he has been known for years. He was appointed a fireman January 1, 1908. He was promoted to a captainship October 1, 1915, and was assigned to Engine Company No. 8.
His promotion to deputy chief gives the department two men in that standing, one in command of each platoon on duty. His new salary will be $2,8[8]0 a year. He will be stationed at headquarters, Fifth and Arch streets. He lives at 633 Clinton street. William W. Patterson is the other deputy chief.
Battalion Chief Jones will receive $2,520 a year. He has been in command of Engine Company No. 9, Twenty-seventh and Federal streets. He will be sent to command Engine Company No. 3, Broadway and Ferry avenue.
He was a former senior captain of Engine Company No. 4. For a number of years he was an instructor in fire school methods of life saving. He lives at 536 York street.
Club Endorsement Denied in 8th Ward
Camden Courier-Post —
Action Rescinded Due to Choice of Running Mates, Candidate Says
Denial was made yesterday by three Eighth ward candidates, Walter Sekula, William Tansky, Jr., and Mrs. Theresa Maloney Die [sic] Lello, that their opponents have the endorsement of two political clubs.
Sekula is candidate for re-election as freeholder; Tansky is a candidate for Republican county committeeman, and Mrs. Di Lello is running with them for county committeewoman.
All three are “Regular Organization Republican” candidates, and announce their endorsement by the Baird-Baker faction.
Opposing them are Mrs. Mamie F. Piraine, for committeewoman; Dr. Oris W. Saunders, for freeholder, and Edmund A. Welsh [sic], for committeeman. Their designation is “Regular Republican.”
The Regular Organization Republican candidates deny their rivals have the support of the Eighth Ward Republican Club, 1718 Broadway, and the William Jones Republican Club, 707 Ferry avenue.
“Mrs. Piraine,” said Tansky, “was endorsed by the Eighth Ward Republican Club with the understanding she would run with two other candidates. After secret meetings, she picked up two candidates who were not members of the club, Walsh and Dr. Saunders.
“As a result, the club held a special meeting and rescinded its motion endorsing Mrs. Piraine.”
“Dr. Saunders cannot rightfully claim affiliation as a Regular Republican by virtue of his candidacy in 1927 on a Non-Partisan ticket,” Tansky said.
Tansky has served in the United States Army and Navy with three overseas enlistments. He has resided 24 years in the Eighth ward, is married and has two children. He is a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Post No. 980.
Sekula has been in the trucking business for 15 years at 1635 South Sixth street, while Mrs. Di Lello conducts a confectionery store at Kossuth street and Ferry avenue. She was born and reared in the Eighth
Boys Find Charred Body in Fire Ruins
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Dead Man’s Companion in Hospital Suffering From Burns
Special to The Inquirer.
One man was burned to death and another was burned about the hands and legs when the explosion of a lamp caused a fire in a barn which had been fitted up as a temporary dwelling in the rear of 751 Ferry avenue, Camden, early yesterday morning. Michael Errieski, 45 years old, the dead man, was ordered to the Morgue by Coroner Rhone, while Stephen Shumluski, 50 years old, the other occupant of the place, was taken to the Homeopathic Hospital. Two boys looking over the ruins discovered the charred body of Errieski two hours after the fire was extinguished.
The flames spread to the home of Ludwig Nijidis, a saloonkeeper at 751 Ferry avenue, causing a loss of about $500, while the homes of Frederick Smith, 755 Ferry avenue, and Mrs. S. J. Rouh, widow of the late Justice of the Peace Rouh, were damaged to the extent of about $300 each. Smith also lost the contents of a plumbing shop. At a time it was believed a horse belonging to Smith had been lost in the fire. Policeman Karl Quinton proved himself a hero by throwing a blanket over the animal’s head and dragging the horse to the street. He also aroused the family of Smith in the nick of time. The home of Mrs. Jennie Stevenson, 1848 Kossuth street, just north of where the fire started, was entirely gutted, causing a loss of about $1,500 to the 2½-story frame structure. Most of the loss is covered by insurance.
Camden Boy Missing Since Saturday
Camden Courier-Post —
A state police message was sent Sunday in a search for Irvin Gibbs, 7, of 731 Ferry ave., reported missing since 10:30 a.m. Saturday when he left his home on an errand for his mother, Willa.
His disappearance was reported to Camden police 2:30 p.m. Saturday.
The boy is a pupil at Sumner School. His father, Edward, is a Campbell Soup Co. employe.
He has two sisters, Dorothy Ann, 8, and Vanessa, 15 months.
When last seen the boy was wearing a brown leather jacket, blue dungarees with red plaid trimming, a red shirt and black cowboy boots. He wore no hat and was described as having a bald spot. Camden Courier-Post, January 3, 1955.
Anderson Tavern — 751–852 Ferry Avenue
Anderson Tavern, Ferry Avenue. Established at 751 Ferry Avenue (1933–1970s) before relocating to 852 Ferry Avenue (1952–1973). Known later as Vic’s Cafe.
F. Joseph Rouh
Camden Post-Telegram —
F. JOSEPH ROUH.
F. Joseph Rouh & Family — 753 Ferry Avenue
A 1916 notice about F. Joseph Rouh and his family at 753 Ferry Avenue.
THOMAS.—Suddenly, on Sept. 11th, 1916, Madeline, widow of James Thomas and daughter of the late F. Joseph and Madeline Rouh, aged 47 years.
The relatives and friends of the family, also Linden Star Lodge, No. 16, Shepherds of Bethlehem, are invited to attend the funeral, on Thursday afternoon, Sept. 14th, at 3 o'clock, from the residence of Mrs. F. Joseph Rouh, 753 Ferry av., Camden, N. J. Interment at Evergreen Cemetery. Remains may be viewed Wednesday evening. (12)
Josephine Schmidt thanks
Camden Daily Courier — February–
Mrs. Josephine M. Schmidt, of 755 Ferry avenue, daughter of, [sic] 'Squire F. J. Rouh, wishes to return her thanks to the many friends who remembered her so substantially during her recent bereavement, caused by the death of her husband, Charles E. A. Schmidt. She wishes especially to thank the members of the Crescent Yacht Club for their beautiful floral tributes. Camden Daily Courier, February 18, 1905 and March 29, 1905.
Man Stabbed in Row, Condition Critical
Camden Courier-Post —
Edward Tyler, 37, of 761 Ferry ave., was in critical condition today in West Jersey Hospital, after he was stabbed Sunday with a table knife.
Police said Isaac Jackson, 59, same address, inflicted the wound Sunday night during a quarrel over ownership of some copper piping.
Detectives William O’Brien and John Houston said the quarrel led from the kitchen of the home to the backyard where Tyler is alleged to have wrenched a bough from a tree and felled Jackson. The latter, detectives charge, pulled the knife and stabbed as Tyler started another swing with the branch. The weapon was not found. Camden Courier-Post, June 23, 1952.
Mrs. Carrie Clark obituary
Camden Courier-Post —
Mrs. Carrie Clark
Mrs. Carrie Clark, 60, of 767 Ferry ave., died Monday in Cooper Hospital. She was born in Coatesville, Pa., and had lived in Camden 45 years.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Beatrice Moore and Mrs. Eva Hunter, of Camden, and three grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held Saturday at 10 a. m. in the Tenth Street Baptist Church, where friends may call Friday night. Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Park, Delair. Camden Courier-Post, January 16, 1956.
Ferry Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church — 770 Ferry Avenue
Ferry Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, 770 Ferry Avenue, established 1888. Photograph taken July 14, 2006.
800 Block of Ferry Avenue — Occupants
City directory records, 1898–1977.
807 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1898–1900 | Angelo Romaine; Nicholas Romaine |
| 1933 | Lloyd Thomas |
823 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1930 | Mrs. Louisa Barnes |
827 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1926 | E.J. Clarke |
| 1936 | J. Maxwell Griffin |
| 1947 | Wick's Confectionary |
852 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1952–1973 | Anderson Tavern (aka Vic's Cafe) |
| 1973–1977 | Carl & Eddie's Tavern |
878 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1906 | Florence Clinton |
| 1959 | Joseph Ostrov |
882 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ | Source ↕ |
|---|---|---|
| 1955 | Sye's One Hour Cleaners | 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone |
884 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1921–1940 | Isaac Krichev & Family — Grocery |
| 1922–1940 | Isaac & Anna Krichev |
| 1922–1940 | Louis Krichev |
| 1922–1940 | Max Krichev |
| 1947 | Norman's Grocery (Norman Lambersky) |
Mrs. Louisa Barnes, 823 Ferry Avenue
Camden Courier-Post —
Mrs. Louisa Barnes
Funeral services will be held at 1 p. m. Wednesday for Mrs. Louisa Barnes, 823 Ferry avenue, who died yesterday. Services will also take place at 2 p. m. in Ferry Avenue M. E. Church and burial will be in Mt. Peace Cemetery. Mrs. Barnes was the widow of Allen Barnes. Camden Courier-Post, December 6, 1930.
Box of Ashes Forces Firemen to Make Run
Camden Post-Telegram —
A box of hot ashes in the rear of the real estate office of E. J. Clarke, 827 Ferry avenue, caused an alarm of fire late yesterday afternoon.
The ashes were taken from a stove and placed in a corner. In a short time, the box was in flames. Firemen were called and extinguished the blaze before much damage was done. Camden Post-Telegram, February 9, 1926.
Brass Cafe — 1067 Ferry Avenue
Brass Cafe (also known as Brass Tavern), 1067 Ferry Avenue, 1921–1977. Fabian Brass & Family. Formerly Jacob Heiseger tavern (1918–1921). February 2003 photograph.
Notice of Application — Vic’s Cafe / Anderson Tavern
Camden Courier-Post — 1952 & 1972
Anderson Tavern (aka Vic’s Cafe), 852 Ferry Avenue, 1952–1973. Camden Courier-Post, July 17, 1952.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION
Take notice that application has been made to the Municipal Board of Alcoholic Beverage Control of Camden, N. J., to transfer to Victor G. Anderson, trading as Vic's Cafe, for premises situated at 751 Ferry Ave., Camden, N. J. (plans and specifications are on file with Secretary Mae A. Jones, 2909 Berkley St., Camden, N. J.) the Plenary Retail Consumption License Number C-15, heretofore issued to Victor G. Anderson, trading as Vic's Cafe, for premises situated at 852 Ferry Ave., Camden, N. J.
Objection, if any, should be made immediately in writing to Mary K. MacClennan, Deputy City Clerk of Camden, N. J.
(Signed) VICTOR G. ANDERSON
751 Ferry Ave. Camden, N. J.
Matthew Anderson, father of Victor Anderson of 852 Ferry Avenue. Camden Courier-Post, February 17, 1972. The tavern later became Carl & Eddie’s Tavern (1973–1977).
ANDERSON
(Andriauskas) Feb. 15, 1972 Matthew age 90 years. Husband of the late Mary. Beloved father of Victor, Of 852 Ferry Ave., Camden, William of Burlington, N.J. & Alexander of Birmingham, Alabama. He is survived by 6 grandchildren & 18 great-grandchildren. Relatives and friends are invited to the funeral Saturday 8:30 a.m., Zembruski Funeral Home, 1643 Mt. Ephraim Ave., Camden. Mass of the Resurrection Sacred Heart Church 9:30 a.m. Mass Cards would be greatly appreciated by the family. Interment New St. Mary's Cem. Friends may call Friday eve.
Man with wooden leg found asleep in home
Philadelphia Inquirer —
When Florence Clinton, aged 16 years, of 878 Ferry avenue, awoke yesterday she found a man with a wooden leg asleep on the floor and snoring loudly. She screamed for help and her father and brother came to her aid and turned the man over to a policeman. When arraigned before Recorder Stackhouse he said he was John Lavin. He claimed that he drank too much and that a friend took him into the house. Recorder Stackhouse committed him to the county jail in default of $500 bail on a charge of breaking and entering with intent to steal. Philadelphia Inquirer, May 20, 1906.
Isaac Krichev Grocery — 884 Ferry Avenue
Camden Courier-Post —
Woman casting a vote in the Official Ballot Box for the Courier Post Popularity Election, 884 Ferry Avenue, Camden Courier-Post, 1932. Isaac Krichev & Family grocery, 884 Ferry Avenue, 1921–1940. Isaac & Anna Krichev; Louis Krichev; Max Krichev. Later: Norman’s Grocery (Norman Lambersky, 1947).
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900 Block of Ferry Avenue — Occupants
City directory records, 1896–2004.
902 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| early 1900s | Biron Bottling Company |
| 1947 | Ferry Avenue Liquor Store |
| 1980s–2004 | Liquor Bank |
905 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1896 | James Henderson & Family |
| 1896 | Camden Post-Telegram |
914 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Eugene Aumaitre — Real Estate |
918 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1910 | Walter W. Carter |
921 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1903–1906 | Joseph Leonard |
922 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Nicholas Klarich — Candy Store |
| 1953–1967 | Shelton's Variety Store (John Shelton) |
951 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1915–1925 | Morris Polivnick — Saloon |
| 1926–1928 | Edythe Polivnick |
| 1926 | Vacant |
| 1928 | Edythe Polivnick |
960 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1938 | John Jacobs |
| mid-1940s–1960s | J. Maxwell Griffin |
| 1941 | Anna Amber |
962 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1914–1917 | Walter W. Carter |
968 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1918–1942 | Frank Ness — Grocery |
| 1942 | Frank Ness |
| 1947 | Benjamin Stone — Grocery |
| 1947 | Benjamin Stone |
972 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1900s–1922 | Nathan Thornton — Policeman |
| 1900s–1924 | Haney Miller |
| 1929 | William Givens |
973 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1922 | Helen Miller |
974 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1914 | Mrs. Elizabeth Clinton |
978 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| late 1920s | Charles Yatzus |
983 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1919–1930s | Frank Ness — Grocery; Joseph Ness |
| 1919–1930s | Frank Ness |
| 1933 | Joseph Ness |
| 1947 | Gone |
Biron Bottling Company — 902 Ferry Avenue
Biron Bottling Company, 902 Ferry Avenue, early 1900s. Later: Ferry Avenue Liquor Store (1947) and Liquor Bank (1980s–2004).
Camden News Notes — Joseph Leonard arrested
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Joseph Leonard, Ninth and Ferry Avenue. Philadelphia Inquirer, January 31, 1903.
CAMDEN NEWS NOTES
Judge Joline yesterday allowed the final accounting of the estate of the late Rev. Dr. J. B. Graw.
The F. S. McPherson Company, to manufacture drugs, filed articles of incorporation at the County Clerk's office. The corporators are Frank S. McPherson, Sigmund Scocnagle and H. F. Stockwell, all Camden people.
Joseph Leonard was arrested last night by Policeman Pooley on a charge of writing policy. Leonard lives at Ninth and Ferry avenue, Camden, where Police Captain Stanley captured a policy outfit some days ago.
The Waterford Township Committee yesterday deposited with County Clerk Patterson $5, which had been awarded to Mrs. Emma Menard for damages. She refused to take the sum.
County Collector M. F. Ivins yesterday received from J. Willard Morgan, State Comptroller, a communication in which he was informed that Camden county's quota for State school purposes will be $75,226.32. The quota would be $115,732.80, but the State made an appropriation of $40,506.48, leaving the balance for the county to raise.
900–983 Ferry Avenue — Photographs, 2011
960 Ferry Avenue — J. Maxwell Griffin (mid-1940s–1960s). Photograph taken June 11, 2011.
1000 Block of Ferry Avenue — Occupants
City directory records, 1890–1977.
1000 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1930s–1941 | Graziosa Gas Station; Frank Ballerino |
1001 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1890s–1900s | Nathan Thornton |
1003 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1916–1951 | Alfred Trusty & Family |
| 1916–1951 | Alfred & Mary Trusty |
1005 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1891–1909 | Albert Batten & Family — Policeman |
| 1891–1909 | Albert & Rachel Batten |
1009 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Progressive Democrat Club of the Eighth Ward |
1046 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1898 | Frank Melton |
| 1948 | Alfred Taylor |
1051 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1890–1898 | Mrs. Jane Chambers & Family — Boarding House; Francis D. Chambers Sr. & Family |
| 1890–1898 | Francis D. Chambers Sr. & Family |
| 1890–1898 | Francis D. & Lizzie Chambers |
| 1890–1898 | Francis D. Chambers Jr. |
1067 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1918–1921 | Jacob Heiseger — Tavern |
| 1921–1977 | Brass Cafe (aka Brass Tavern |
| 1921–1977 | Fabian Brass & Family |
| 1921–1977 | Fabian & Helen Brass |
| 1921–1977 | Emma Brass |
| 1921–1977 | Charles Brass |
| 1921–1977 | Bernice Brass (not in photo) |
Mrs. Mary Trusty obituary
Camden Courier-Post —
Mrs. Mary Trusty
Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Trusty, 66, will be held today in the Ferry Avenue Methodist Church. The Rev. D. S. Quillen, of Philadelphia, a former pastor of the church, and the Rev. J. A. Fassett, will officiate. Burial will be in Mt. Peace cemetery, Lawnside. Mrs. Trusty, who lived at 1003 Ferry avenue for 35 years, died Friday in the Cooper hospital. She was a native of Cambridge, Md. Surviving are her husband, Alfred, and several nephews and nieces, including Joel White, a Camden policeman. Camden Courier-Post, September 26, 1951.
1001–1005 Ferry Avenue — 1973 Photograph
1001–1003–1005 Ferry Avenue, June 19, 1973. Photograph courtesy of Bob Bartosz.
Progressive Democrat Club of the Eighth Ward — 1009 Ferry Avenue
Progressive Democrat Club of the Eighth Ward, 1009 Ferry Avenue, 1947. Photographs taken October 2003.
1100 Block of Ferry Avenue — Occupants
City directory records, 1970s–2004.
1100 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1970s–2004 | Pulini Incorporated — Seafood |
1200 Block of Ferry Avenue — Occupants
City directory records.
1200 Ferry Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 2000s | Camden International Commodities, Inc. |
Ferry Avenue PATCO Station
2000 Ferry Avenue as seen from the platform of the Ferry Avenue PATCO High Speed Line Station. Mulford Street intersection at Ferry Avenue, July 20, 2011.
Over in Camden.
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Articles of incorporation were filed yesterday by the American Metal Edge Box Company.
The police were notified yesterday that William Ilgenfritz, 14 years old, of 1121 Mickle street, was missing.
Jacob N. Wise, 65 years old, fell from a step at Delaware and Market streets yesterday and broke his hip. He was taken to the Cooper Hospital.
A number of church people have filed a remonstrance with the excise Commission against granting a liquor license to Charles Gorden, of Ninth street and Ferry avenue.
Mrs. Victor Kline, of 526 Vine street, discovered a burglar in the house early Tuesday morning, but the thief fled at her approach, leaving a lot of clothing and silverware which he had bundled up, ready to take away.
Charles E. Wilson was committed by Recorder Mowrey [sic] last night, charged with stealing two overcoats from the Camden Turning Mill, at Front and Arch streets. He was captured at the Federal Street Ferry by Policemen [sic] Hartman.
Bessie Hughes was held by Justice Schmitz yesterday for a further hearing on a charge of stealing household goods from the boarding house of Mrs. Marshall, at 121 Market street. Some of the missing goods were found at the defendant’s home.
Among the latest victims of the grip in Camden are Mayor Hatch, Chief of Police Foster, City Clerk Harry Kramer, former City Counsel J. Willard Morgan, Charles R. Baron, New Jersey editor of the Philadelphia Record, and Policemen George Cooper, Harry Miller, James Ware and George Anderson.
5 Firemen Hurt in Traffic Crash
Camden Courier-Post —
Truck Rams Apparatus Speeding to Blaze in Yorkship Square
Five city firemen are in West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital today suffering from injuries when their apparatus collided with a truck at Ninth street and Ferry avenue while they were racing to a Yorkship square fire late yesterday.
All are attached to Engine Company No. 8. They are:
Captain Charles Erickson, 43, of 579 Line street; bruises of the left leg and left hip.
Wallace Phifer, 37, of 1215 Atlantic avenue; possible fractured vertebrae.
Adam Mead, 32, of 1634 Sheridan street; admitted for observation.
Herbert Baxter, 45, of 320 Liberty street; cuts over the left eye and face, bruises on both knees.
Edward Menzis, 36, of 2402 Berwick street; possible fractured skull and cut over the right eye.
Fire Damage $5000
The fire to which they were hurrying damaged the apartment and drug store of V. I. Chestnut, 1200 Yorkship Square. The blaze was confined to the apartment upstairs, but water and smoke caused damage to the store and fixtures. Total loss was estimated at $5000.
The truck which hit the combination fire apparatus was operated by Joseph Scheurer, 22, of 1859 East Ontario street, Philadelphia, and owned by the Stores Realty Company, of 424 North Nineteenth street, Philadelphia.
Failed to Hear Siren
The fire truck driven by Phifer was speeding south on Ninth street while the machine driven by Scheurer was proceeding west on Ferry avenue. Scheurer said he did not hear the siren until he reached the intersection and that it was then too late to stop. The fire engine was turned around by the impact and the five occupants thrown to the street. Both trucks were damaged.
Scheurer was arrested by Detective Joseph Caputi and held in $1000 bail pending a hearing.
A short circuit in an electric heater caused the blaze in the Chestnut apartment. The fire was discovered by Marvin Chestnut, 8, who called to his father downstairs. It was extinguished with little difficulty.
Camden News Notes
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Judge Joline yesterday allowed the final accounting of the estate of the late Rev. Dr. J. B. Graw.
The F. S. McPherson Company, to manufacture drugs, filed articles of incorporation at the County Clerk’s office. The corporators are Frank S. McPherson, Sigmund Sceonagle [sic] and H. F. Stockwell, all Camden people.
Joseph Leonard was arrested last night by Policeman Pooley on a charge of writing policy. Leonard lives at Ninth and Ferry avenue, Camden, where Police Captain Stanley captured a policy outfit some days ago.
The Waterford Township Committee yesterday deposited with County Clerk Patterson $3, which had been awarded to Mrs. Emma Menard for damages. She refused to take the sum.
County Collector M. F. Ivins yesterday received from J. Willard Morgan, State Comptroller, a communication in which he was informed that Camden county’s quota for State school purposes will be $75,226.32. The quota would be $115,732.80, but the State made an appropriation of $40,506.48, leaving the balance for the county to raise.
Burglary Victims Recover $4360 In Stolen Goods
Camden Courier-Post —
Display at City Hall Rivals Oriental Bazaar In Variety Shown
Loot valued at $4360 by detectives was returned to its owners in detective headquarters in city hall Tuesday night.
Headquarters resembled an Oriental bazaar as the stolen articles were spread over seven tables, two large desks, and hung on clothing racks.
Detectives are holding George Wilmer, 30, of 521 Liberty street, a parolee, whom they suspect of being Camden’s daytime “phantom burglar” who has been plaguing the department for the last three months. To date police say they have charged Wilmer with 29 counts of breaking and entering and two counts of attempting to break and enter.
Captain of Detectives Thomas Murphy said that Tuesday night’s display was only a portion of the loot and that police believe Wilmer pawned a quantity of the goods in Philadelphia. They also suspect he sold some to secondhand and antique dealers, Murphy said.
The display that met the claimants when they went to headquarters looked like a mail order catalog come to life. There were women’s dresses, men’s suits and top coats, several types of radios, an oil space heater, binoculars, cameras; costume jewelry, empty wallets and even a clothes chest with the clothing still in it.
Missing from the collection were two parakeets which detectives returned to their owner Thursday because—unlike the other items—the birds had to be fed.
Assisting Capt. Murphy in the identification and return of the stolen items were: Detective Sergeants Earl Quinton, William Neal, William Kelly and Clifford Carr, and Detectives William O’Brien, John Huston, August Pfleiderer, George Ellis and Marshall Thompson.
Crowd Views Articles
According to Capt. Murphy the claimants, their addresses, the stolen objects and their estimated value are:
Mrs. Waid Young, 526 Washington street, electric sewing machine, woman’s jewelry, $358; Miss Catherine Sparks, 110 South Fourth street, table model radio, $19; Mrs. Ethel Kelly, 1068 Princess avenue, jewelry, $155; Mrs. Leo Jekel, 548 Haddon avenue, table model radio, portable typewriter, woman’s ring, $85; William Snyder, 1304 Park boulevard, table model radio, $55; Milfred Layser, 416 Chambers avenue, carpenter’s tools, a dress coat, $175; James Glennon, 802 Mt. Ephraim avenue, jewelry, $300; Mrs. Williams Cogswell, 914 Linden street, clothing and jewelry, $1242.50.
Mrs. Lena Bruns, 772 Line street, metal clothes chest with clothes, tool chest, jewelry, $125; Mrs. Anna Halliwell, 870 Haddon avenue, foreign money, no value given; Mrs. Martha Oehlert, 643 Mt. Vernon street, oil space heater, jewelry, $138; Mrs. William J. McCaffrey, 1030 Spruce street, antique clock, $400; Mrs. Lillian Simons, 412 Taylor avenue, clothing and jewelry, $20.
Veteran Boxers’ association, 868 Mt. Ephraim avenue, record player, amplifier and recorder, $100; John McNutt, 1620 Ferry avenue, jewelry and clothing, $300; Romeo Simonelli, 404 Haddon avenue, men’s and women’s clothing, $94; Mrs. Theresa Auletto, 929 South Third street, jewels, $405; Mrs. Vera Doughton, 1023 South Sixth street, table model radio, $16; Emidio Giorgi, 1353 Princess avenue, clarinet and man’s suit, $125.
Camden
Philadelphia Inquirer —
General Sewell, wife and daughter, are now in Rome.
Harrison H. Voorhees, of this city, has been appointed solicitor for Holly Beach, Cape May county.
The Grocers’ Association sent James R. Carson delegate to the convention of the National Grocers’ Association, which met in New York on Wednesday.
After half century of long and faithful service as superintendent of the Camden and Philadelphia Ferry Company, Captain Andrew B. Frazee will retire May 1 to a well-deserved and richly earned rest.
William C. Dayton and family will spend the summer at Cape May.
Martin J. O’Brien was married on Wednesday by Father O’Brien, of Kellyville, Pa., to Miss Maggie Longworth, of Third and Royden streets. Nuptian [sic] mass was celebrated at the Church of the Immaculate Conception. Andrew Lyons was best man and Miss Cecelia O’Brien, a sister of the groom, bridesmaid. The ushers were Messrs. Martin Coyne, Secretary John M. Kelly, Francis Xavier O’Brien and ex-Assemblyman O’Brien.
Charles Livingstone, of Ferry avenue and Fillmore streets, entertained a number of friends at his home Tuesday evening.
Lieutenant John Foster has been acting as Chief of Police during the time that Chief Dodd was attending the Grand Lodge of the Legion of the Red Cross.
Postmaster Paul is able to attend to business after a protracted illness.
Howland Croft, senior member of the firm of Howland Croft Sons & Co., started on Thursday for California.
Oliver M. Smith and Mary A. Gregory were united in marriage at the home of the bride’s parents, Third and Mickle streets, by Rev. J. B. Graw, Wednesday night.
2 Seized in Thefts From Freight Cars
Camden Courier-Post —
Companion Held for Failure to Obey Criminal Registration Act
Two men, arrested for breaking into and robbing boxcars in Camden, will be arraigned today before Police Judge Lewis Liberman, as will a third man arrested at the same time charged with failing to comply with a city ordinance requiring criminals to register with police.
Clyde Thomas, 23, of 117 New street, Philadelphia, and Daniel Paulk, 21, 1828 Salem street, both Negroes, were picked up in the city freight yards by Sergt. Joseph Tully and George Smith, railroad detectives, and turned over to Detective Gus Fortune at headquarters.
Fortune said both admitted breaking the seal on a car on the Van Hook street cutoff on September 15 and stealing two mattresses valued at $60 and selling them to a second-hand store for $6 and taking a 700-bale of rags from a car yesterday worth $21.
Arrested with them was Lucius Robinson, 21, 983 Ferry avenue, who has failed to register with police, Fortune declared.
Railroad Car Looters Get Stiff Jail Terms
Camden Courier-Post —
Police Judge Lewis Liberman yesterday handed out two of the stiffest terms since he went on the bench when he sentenced two thieves to a total of one year each in jail.
The prisoners are Daniel Paulk, 21, of 1828 Salem street, and Clyde Thomas, 23, of 117 New street, Philadelphia. After their arrest by railroad detectives for loitering, they admitted stealing and selling two bundles of mattresses and several bales of rags from a railroad freight car on Van Hook street near Seventh, Sept. 17.
Judge Liberman sentenced them to six months on each count, the sentences to run consecutively.
Lucius Robinson, 21, of 903 Ferry avenue, arrested with Paulk and Thomas, was exonerated of the thefts, but despite a record of 18 arrests he had not listed himself with the bureau of criminal registration and was sentenced to six months for that.
Detective Gus Fortune, who obtained the confessions from Paulk and Thomas, said he will arrest the person who purchased the stolen goods from them.
Man, Robbed, Left in Road By Kidnappers
Camden Courier-Post —
Byron P. Cobb Beaten by Autoists; Roll of $4700 Taken
Byron P. Cobb, 62, the “Sun Doctor,” was kidnapped by three men early yesterday, beaten and robbed of $4700 before being tossed from a moving automobile in Farnham Park.
Detectives found him in a sub-conscious condition laying in the middle of River Drive, after a motorist had heard his moans and notified police.
Three South Camden youths, arrested for a motor violation at about the time Cobb was found, later were identified by the awning manufacturer as the ones who kidnapped and robbed him. They are Primo Fioravanti, 20, of 435 Division Street; Anthony Scanalvilli, 20, of 326 Division Street, and John Piliere, 19, of 1130 South 3rd Street.
All are being held on charges of kidnapping, atrocious assault and battery and highway robbery. They will be given a hearing today in police court. Later a charge of larceny of an automobile was placed against them.
Cobb, who for many years operated an awning manufacturing shop at Fifth and Royden Streets, told police he met the three who robbed him in a restaurant near Broadway and Kaighn Avenue. He said he bought them food and in return they offered to take him to his home in their automobile. This was shortly before 2 a.m.
He said two of the men were dressed in brown suits and the third wore a “greenish blue suit.” All wore light hats.
As soon as he entered the machine, Cobb told Detectives George Zeitz and Leon Branch, who found him in the park, someone hit him over the head.
Two of the men then went through his clothing and took the $4700 from his pockets. He told police that he drew the money from his bank yesterday and intended to pay off a mortgage on a property today.
The men held Cobb, he told police, until they reached Farnham Park, where he was tossed out of the machine as the driver slowed up.
A few minutes after 2 a. m., William P. Tyler, of 1493 Greenwood Avenue, driving past the park, heard someone shout “murder” several times. He hurried to a telephone and called police headquarters.
Found In Roadway
Detectives Zeitz and Branch searched the section where Tyler had heard the shouts. Then they drove down through River Drive, where they discovered Cobb lying in the middle of the roadway.
The injured man was taken to Cooper Hospital where he was revived, and then to detective headquarters.
Meanwhile Motorcycle Patrolmen George Getley and Earl Stopfer stopped a car at Mt. Ephraim and Ferry Avenues, which had aroused their suspicions as it sped down Mt. Ephraim Avenue.
Piliere was driving the machine and could not produce either a registration card or driver’s license. He said he had borrowed the car from a man he knew as “Pete.”
The car was claimed yesterday by Pietro Tocco, 35, of 717 South Fourth Street. He told Zeitz and Branch the car had been stolen from in front of his home “sometime around 2 a. m.” yesterday.
Piliere and his pals were taken to police headquarters where the former was booked on a motor-vehicle charge. When police found two pieces of rubber hose in the rear of the machine, all three were taken to detective headquarters.
There Cobb identified them as the three who had robbed him. He pointed out Fioravanti, the only one with a previous police record, as the man who hit him on the head.
Police held all three without bail for the hearing before Judge Pancoast.
At the Cobb home yesterday, Mrs. Byron P. Cobb said she knew nothing about the holdup. She said Cobb “appeared to have a headache when he got up,” but failed to mention anything was wrong and left the house before her return from church.
All of the suspects deny the robbery. They said they took a friend to his home in Woodlynne and were en route to their homes in Camden when arrested.
Piliere told Detectives Zeitz and Branch that he “borrowed the car from his uncle,” whom he only knew as “Pete.”
400 Housing Units To Be Added Near Present Projects
Camden Courier-Post —
Four hundred low-rent dwellings, half the number allocated to the city by the U. S. Public Housing Administration, will be constructed this year on land near the four presently owned projects, Joseph J. McComb, chairman of the Camden Housing Authority, announced Sunday night.
Several factors entered into the decision of housing authority to construct the homes on available land, McComb said. First, he declared, the city will receive revenue in lieu of taxes from unimproved ground yielding little or no taxes, based on 10 percent of shelter rentals, less utilities.
The four projects now operated by the authority are: Westfield Acres, Thirty-first street and Westfield avenue, 514 units, cost $3,250,000, opened 1938; Clement T. Branch Village, Ninth street and Ferry avenue, 279 units, cost $1,416,000, opened 1941; William Stanley Ablett Village, River road and State street, 306 units, cost $1,722,000, open in 1943, and Chelton Terrace, Bulson and Phillips streets, 200 units, cost $800,000, open 1944.
No Added Utilities Needed
McComb also explained that at present, the city receives only three and one-half percent in lieu of taxes from Westfield Acres, Branch Village and Ablett Village. The return from Chelton Terrace is equivalent to full taxes. Only the new projects, allocated under the Housing Act of 1949, will yield the 10 percent return, McComb pointed out.
No new schools will be needed and no new police, fire, health, electricity or gas utilities will be required to service the homes for low-income families, McComb declared.
“The city of Camden will not be compelled or obligated to spend money for additional municipal utilities because they are already provided in the respective four sections of the city where these homes will be built,” McComb said.
To Make Test Borings
The housing authority last week gave the new program the green light when it voted to enter into a contract with William T. Harker & Associates, Inc., Camden, to make test borings, soundings and to do other work on the sites connected with the preliminary survey to be financed by part of a $50,000 advance loan from the PHA for architectural and engineering services.
Under a PHA regulation, construction of the 800 dwellings will be spaced over a two-year period with the additional 400 units being earmarked for next year.
Several weeks ago McComb, following an inspection tour, announced sufficient land would be available as sites for the dwellings. He reemphasized that assurance Sunday but added that if it is found additional ground is needed, no inflated or speculative prices will be paid for it, whether acquired through purchase or condemnation proceedings specified by law.
Over in Camden
Philadelphia Inquirer —
The will of Isaac V. Brown, of Berlin, was admitted to probate yesterday by Surrogate West.
A big crowd of Camden Elks will go to Trenton to-day to participate in the annual clam bake of Trenton Lodge, B. P. O. Elks.
Recorder Nowrey held Samuel Suders in $500 bail yesterday, charged with larceny as bailee of $5 from John J. Jordan.
Frank Melton, 28 years old, of 1048 Ferry avenue, was overcome by heat yesterday while at work in Farr & Bailey’s oil cloth works. He was taken to the Cooper Hospital.
While fishing at the head of Third street yesterday Fred George Gregory, 6 years old, of 212 Byron street, fell in the Delaware River and was drowned.
The body of an unknown man, about 38 years old, and weighing 170 pounds, was found yesterday in the Delaware River at the foot of Bulson street. The body was taken to the Morgue where it awaits identification.
Death Beneath Piano Classed as Accident
Camden Courier-Post —
Detectives yesterday turned over to Coroner Ernest Larossa a report that the death of Mrs. Effie Reed, 45, of 1726 Ferry avenue, who was crushed beneath a piano Tuesday, was “entirely accidental.”
Coroner Larossa requested “a complete investigation” when the woman was taken to the West Jersey Hospital and found to have a crushed head. He said he ordered the probe when police told him that Mrs. Reed and her daughter, Regina, 24, attempted to commit suicide Dec. 1.
Detectives Harry Klyer [sic] and Joseph Carpani, who made the investigation, said the piano was “extremely top-heavy” and could “easily be toppled over by the push of a hand.” It was the theory of the detectives that Mrs. Reed had moved the piano from the wall so she could use a vacuum cleaner. They expressed the belief that the piano toppled over while she was pulling it back to its original position. Dr. Larossa conducted an autopsy Tuesday and issued a certificate of accidental death yesterday.
City Policeman Drowns in Lake at Blackwood
Camden Courier-Post —
Body of Joseph S. [sic] Ward Found Near Upset Canoe
OFFICIALS START PROBE IN DEATH MYSTERY
Tragedy Comes as Climax to Outing by Social Club
JOSEPH G. WARD
An intensive investigation into the mysterious drowning of Joseph G. Ward, a Camden motorcycle policeman, was opened today by Police Chief William Ritter, of Gloucester township, following the recovery of Ward’s body in Blackwood lake.
Ward drowned when a canoe he occupied overturned. He was 34, attached to the Second Police District, and lived at 1572 Louis street. The body was found by searchers led by Chief Ritter and Lieutenant Ralph Bakley, of the Camden police, after an all-night search.
Ward’s father, Joseph Ward, Sr., who has been seriously ill, collapsed when informed of his son’s death. He operates a cafe on Mt. Ephraim avenue near Decatur street. The drowning victim’s mother also is reported to be ill. The tragedy has aggravated her condition.
The drowning is a tragic aftermath of an outing yesterday of the Moonlight Social Club, which rented a clubhouse at Blackwood two months ago. With Ward on the outing were Clifford Del Rossi, a driver of the Second District police patrol; Theodore “Dorie” Guthrie, Second District detective, and other members of the Camden police department whose names have not been learned.
Chief Ritter reported today having only meager clues as to the circumstances of the drowning. Ward is believed to have been in the canoe alone. Coroner Melvin Cain is expected to conduct an autopsy today or tomorrow.
Chief Ritter said there is no suspicion of foul play, as Ward’s body was unmarked. It was recovered at [?]:30 a. m. by William [sic] McGrath, a city detective, who had been diving for it with George Hess, near the clubhouse of the Moonlight Social Club.
The overturned canoe was found last night in the lake by girls who also have a clubhouse at Blackwood. Police Chief Ritter, with Peter English and Walter Wilkie, all of Blackwood, began grappling immediately for the body.
Ward is believed by Chief Ritter to have drowned when the canoe upset. Whether he had a companion or companions in the boat is not known, but Ritter reported today that he found four hats in the rear of Ward’s automobile parked near the lake.
Auto Window Broken
In addition to finding the four hats, Ritter also discovered that the left rear window had been broken. How the glass was smashed, Ritter would not venture to say, pending completion of his investigation.
The upset canoe was found opposite the summer home of Sheriff E. Frank Pine which borders the lake on the Camden county side. North of Pine’s place is the social club’s headquarters. The girls’ club is on the Gloucester county side.
Ward was a brother of Urquhart Ward, superintendent of Camden sewage disposal plants and Thirteenth Ward Republican county committeeman, and Robert Ward, a Third District detective. He was appointed to the force in 1925. He was married but had been separated from his wife.
Ward, it was learned today, left Camden yesterday at 4:30 p. m. with Del Rossi and Guthrie. They were expected back at midnight.
Ward had stopped for Del Rossi at the latter’s home, 417 Winslow street, and the two then went to Guthrie’s home on Ferry avenue near Eighth street.
Reaching Blackwood, Ward parked his car near the lake and after exchanging greetings with members of the social club, informed Del Rossi that he was going out into the lake in a canoe.
Del Rossi said today that he did not go into the canoe with Ward, having informed him that he wanted to get some sleep. Del Rossi said he waited a half hour for Ward to return from canoeing, but Ward failed to appear and Del Rossi reported for work at midnight, when he learned his companion on the trip was missing.
Exonerated In Scandal
The drowning victim was one of the central figures in a police scandal in 1927. Suspended from the force February 23 of that year on charges of extortion, he was exonerated by the State Civil Service Commission after a hearing and returned to duty in the Second District the following July 2.
Ward had been accused with Policeman John Smith and a pensioned former officer, Maurice Mensch, of an attempt to “shake down” Michael Matthews, a storekeeper, 60, of 801 Florence street. He denied the charges against him, including an accusation that he had spoken disrespectfully about the then Mayor King with a remark that “King is no good.”
Matthews had told former Police Chief James E. Tatem that Ward and Smith had entered the store and introduced Mensch as “the biggest prohibition guy in the country and a great friend of President Coolidge.” They had agreed to “forget” charges of violating the dry law, which otherwise would be made, if Matthews would pass them $100, the storekeeper had charged.
Several witnesses for Ward attacked the story related by Matthews, and Ward himself insisted at the hearings that he had not said anything to Matthews about raid or money. His testimony was corroborated by Smith and others.
Since his reinstatement after being cleared of the charges, Ward proved to be a very efficient officer, according to Captain Arthur Colsey, stationed at headquarters. Other police officials also spoke well of the policeman.
Sunday Raids on 2 Saloons Trap Owners
Camden Courier-Post —
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.
Relatives Discover Victim on Floor; Probe Is Ordered
Camden Courier-Post —
Wife of School Janitor Failed in Suicide Try 2 Weeks Ago
CERTIFICATE WITHHELD
A South Camden woman who, police said, attempted suicide two weeks ago, was found crushed to death beneath a piano in her home shortly before noon yesterday.
She was Mrs. Effie Reed, 45, of 1726 Ferry avenue. Her husband, Charles Reed, is employed as a janitor at the Camden High School.
After questioning members of the family and examining the piano, which weighs move [sic] than 1500 pounds, Detectives Joseph Carpani and Harry Kyler said they were convinced the woman’s death was accidental.
A report to that effect, they said, will be made to Coroner Ernest Larossa, who withheld a death certificate until the accident theory was established.
Carpani said the piano was “extremely top-heavy” and that it could “easily be toppled over by the push of the hand.”
Moving of Piano Explained
It was the theory of the detectives, supported by questioning the family, that Mrs. Reed had moved the instrument from against its customary position so she could use a vacuum cleaner on the portion of a rug it covered.
After she had moved it about eight feet, it is believed it fell back and pinned her to the floor. She was killed instantly, in the opinion of Doctor Larossa.
She was found by her daughter, Regina, 18. The latter, who has been ill, said she heard a crash and coming down from her second floor bedroom, saw her mother pinned under the piano.
Screams of the daughter attracted a neighbor, William Hunter, of 1722 Ferry avenue, and his wife, Mary. They, with the aid of an unidentified milkman struggled for 15 minutes to lift the piano sufficiently for Mrs. Reed’s body to be extricated.
During the struggle, Mrs. Hunter lost her grip on the instrument and her hand was mangled so badly that part of a finger had to be amputated at West Jersey Hospital.
Police took the body of Mrs. Reed to the West Jersey Hospital morgue where Dr. Larossa said an autopsy would be made later today.
Accident, Family Says
Carpani said that when he and Kyler first went to the home they were told by Reed and his daughter, Regina, to “get out, it was all an accident.”
“We don’t want anything in the newspapers,” Reed was quoted as saying. “We have had enough notoriety.”
It was evident he referred to the alleged attempted suicide of his wife and daughter December 28 when they were found unconscious in the kitchen of the home and the jets of a gas stove open.
They were revived and on January 4, they were arraigned in police court on attempted suicide charges. The complaints were ordered filed by Police Judge Gene R. Mariano, however, after Mrs. Reed admitted she had written two suicide notes.
The first policemen to reach the Reed home today were Sgt. John Garrity and Patrolman Louis Prucella, sent there in a radio car after an unidentified man called headquarters and shouted: “Send a patrol wagon to 1726 Ferry avenue. There’s something wrong there,” and hung up.
Five to 15 Years for Gunman Who Shot Policemen
Camden Courier-Post —
Man Convicted of Wounding Detective Guthrie and John P. Brazier
DENIED PAIR OF CHARGES
Another “gunman” came to grief in the criminal court this morning when Judge Kates imposed sentences of from five to 15 years on Frank Harris, colored, 22 years old, Nineteenth and Lombard streets, Philadelphia.
Harris, who recently was released fro ma [sic] hospital where three bullets were extracted from his body, was found guilty of atrocious assault and attempting to kill Special Officer Officer [sic] John P. Brazier and atrocious asault [sic] on District Detective Theodore Guthrie.
Judge Kates imposed a sentence of from four to twelve years on the Brazier charge and from one to three years on the Guthrie charge.
Brazier and Guthrie had narrow escapes from death as a result of Harris’ gun-play.
Brazier, who is a private watchman in the vicinity of Fourth and Beckett streets, was waylaid by Harris on November 7. When he refused to obey the bandit’s command to hand over his money, Harris shot the watchman in the chest and ran away.
Policeman Shaw told of the shooting of Harris and the arrest of three other colored men in the Kaighn avenue ferryhouse on the evening of November 21.
Guthrie and Shaw had gone to the ferryhouse to head off three colored bandits who had robbed a grocery store at Tenth and Ferry avenue.
There were four colored men in the waiting room when the officers arrived. Besides Harries [sic], there were Frank Williams, Nineteenth and Lombard streets; Arthur Rae, 1915 Lombard street, and Gilbert Stanley, 1839 Lombard street, all of Philadelphia.
Guthrie grappled with Harris. In the scuffle the detective slipped and fell to the floor.
“He fired two shots at me while down,” testified Guthrie “and but for Officer Shaw he would have fired more.”
Shaw said he fired four times, and that three of the bullets struck Harris, but that the latter did not go down until the fourth shot.
Harris pleaded no [sic] guilty to both charges, and denied knowing any of the men who were arrested with him.
George Barag, who conducts a grocery store at 1850 South Tenth street, identified the men as having come in his store under the pretense of making a purchase on the night the store at Tenth and Ferry avenue was robbed. Stacy Threadgill, 1864 South Tenth street, who was in Barag’s store at the time, also identified the prisoners.
E. Wesley Goldthorpe was appointed by the court to defend Harris, and Assistant Prosecutor Charles S. Straw presented the facts for the state.
Scarduzio Jailed by Orlando After Gun Play in Restaurant
Camden Courier-Post —
Action Follows Police Failure to Report On Shooting
PROBE ORDERED BY MRS. KOBUS
Nick Scarduzio, 39, former Summer policeman, was held last night without bail for grand jury action on a charge of atrocious assault and battery and intent to kill as a sequel to a gun-play row at 3 a. m. Saturday in a South Camden restaurant.
Scarduzio was taken into custody by County Detective Wilfred Dube on orders of Prosecutor Samuel P. Orlando.
Investigation of police failure to report immediately the shooting affray was promised by Commissioner Mary W. Kobus, director of public safety.
“I wasn’t apprised of this case until 4.30 o’clock yesterday,” Mrs. Kobus said. “Ordinarily our policemen aren’t required to report little barroom brawls. This is different. I intend to investigate thoroughly. I shall interview these policemen this afternoon and until I have talked with them, I will await developments.”
Brother Slain December 24th
Scarduzio was a brother of Andrew Scarduzio, Eighth ward political worker, who was fatally shot in a Bellmawr taproom on December 24 during a brawl in which the brothers sought to eject three men who demanded entry to the place at 5.30 a. m. after the cafe had been closed for the night. Andrew was employed as the cafe handyman.
Arrested by Dube on “information received,” Nick Scarduzio, who lives at 419 Webster street, and who has had numerous encounters with police, allegedly went berserk when requested by a patron of Mike Patsourakas’ restaurant at 1806 Broadway to refrain from profanity in the presence of several women diners.
Lawrence T. Doran, chief of county detectives, said he obtained statements of several witnesses.
Doran said he learned Scarduzio entered the restaurant after visiting a nearby taproom and was in a “disagreeable mood.”
Taking a place at the counter, Scarduzio became loud, Doran said he learned, and was accosted by Robert Wolfe, 32, of 1128 Langham avenue, another diner.
Wolfe requested Scarduzio to calm down, witnesses told Doran, whereupon Scarduzio reached across the counter and seized a knife with which he threatened Wolfe and later picked up a heavy sugar bowl and hurled it, striking Wolfe on the head.
Wolfe raised his hands in defense, Doran quoted the witnesses, and Scarduzio whipped out a gun and fired two shots. His aim was diverted when Patsourakas grabbed his arm and Wolfe dashed toward the rest of the place as the other diners scattered.
More Shots Fired
Scarduzio attempted to follow Wolfe, according to Doran, and the fleeing man hid behind a box in a rear room. Scarduzio raced past him into an alleyway where, the detective chief said, he saw another figure and fired two more shots. Wolfe later was taken to Cooper Hospital where three stitches were used to close the wound caused by the sugar bowl.
Doran said three city policemen arrived later at the scene, but that subsequent investigation revealed no account of the incident was on city police records. No report was made to the city detective bureau.
Orlando ordered the county detective bureau to investigate the case and Scarduzio’s arrest followed. Doran also related that the weapon which was taken from Scarduzio by Patsourakas and “broken” was later taken over by city police.
Chief of Police Ralph Bakley, who was taking reports from the three city officers, said there was nothing said by them about taking the gun from the restaurant owner. He will question them on that phase of the case later today, he said.
Was Special Officer
Scarduzio was employed last month by Commissioner Kobus as a special officer making a check on all-day parkers in the city business section. Doran said he learned the man is no longer employed by the city.
The city police report, made yesterday afternoon, according to Mrs. Kobus, follows:
“I have to report that about 3 a. m. Saturday, Jan. 20, we were cruising in scout car south on Broadway. We were stopped by a young man at Broadway and Ferry avenue. He told us there had been a fight in a restaurant located two doors south of Ferry avenue on the east side of Broadway. Officer (Oliver) Morgan and I entered the restaurant and we saw all the patrons sitting down. We asked if there had been any trouble and they said there had been a fight but that it was all over. So we left the place after we searched all persons in the place for a gun, not finding any. ‘One man had been hit on the head with a sugar bowl.’ He refused to make any charge and also refused to go to a hospital.”
The report was signed by Carl Fredericks and Oliver Morgan. Policeman Paul Jackson, the foot patrolman on that beat, made a similar report, Bakley said.
23 Homeless After $300,000 Fire Destroys City Block in Camden
Camden Courier-Post —
C. B. Coles Mill Damaged and 7 Houses Burn
Six Overcome by Smoke, Two Sisters Saved From Dwelling
ALL BEREFT OF HOMES TO BE CARED FOR BY CITY
Firemen Called at 4 A. M. as Flames Burst From Smouldering Ruins
Fire Climaxes Troubles of Kaighn Point Widow
Yesterday’s disastrous fire was the climax to a series of tragedies which have visited Mrs. Margaret Dolson, of 1226 Knight street, during the last five months. Her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Craig, 73, died about five months ago. A short time later, Mrs. Dolson’s husband, Robert, died, leaving her with three sons and a nephew. After that, a small fire broke out in her home and damaged some furniture.
Because of some difficulty with the insurance company over collecting money for damage, she allowed her fire insurance on her furniture to lapse and thus was fully unprotected when—
Yesterday the Kaighn’s Point fire razed the house, which she rented, and all of her personal effects were destroyed, leaving her with nothing. Through the kindness of friends, she and her brood have shelter and food today.
Camden’s most devastating conflagration in 18 years swept over an entire city block at Kaighn Point yesterday afternoon and left in its blackened wake damage unofficially estimated at $300,000.
Again at 4 a.m. today, fire broke out in the still smouldering ruins. A fire company from Sixth street and Kaighn avenue responded to the alarm and promptly extinguished the new blaze, leaving a guard there to immediately sound an alarm at any sign of another outbreak.
Yesterday’s hungry flames, fanned by a tricky, high wind, took the following toll:
Seven homes at Nos. 1218, 1226, 1228, 1230 and 1232 Knight street, and Nos. 1208 and 1210 South Front street.
Twenty-three persons, including eight children, eight women and seven men, were left homeless.
Six persons were overcome by smoke or injured by flying debris.
Three warehouses, an office building and a large shed owned by the C. B. Coles and Sons Lumber Company on the east side of Front street at Mechanic, were destroyed or damaged. The factory and warehouses on the west side of front street were untouched by the flames and were in operation today.
Eight automobile [sic] were completely destroyed and at least five others damaged.
A large garage housing a motorboat at 1215 Knight street, owned by George Tucker, was razed.
The stables of Charles Voll at 1216 Knight street were destroyed after 15 horses had been led to safety. Voll, a produce dealer at Second and Kaighn, also owned one of the houses destroyed and two automobile [sic] which were demolished.
Area Affected
The area affected by the fire was bounded by Kaighn avenue, Front, Second and Mechanic streets. However, the fire wreaked the worst damage on Front and Knights [sic] streets. Knight is a small street running south from Kaighn to Mechanic, parallel to Front and Second streets.
Not since the fire which destroyed the same lumber yard and the old Kaighn’s Point ferry on Jan. 3, 1915, has the city experienced such a destructive fire. Scarcely had smoke been sighted an an [sic] alarm sounded, then the flames were racing through the lumber yard. A shifting wind sent the fire scurrying in several directions so quickly that tenants of the houses which caught fire had very little opportunity to save any of their household effects.
A general alarm was sounded for the first time in years, bringing to the scene every available piece of fire apparatus, while Philadelphia fire boats stood by to render aid should the flames spread to the new $3,000,000 Reading Terminal less than a half block away.
Today, firemen were endeavoring to determine the origin of the fire, but the care of the homeless was the city’s major problem.
Those left without homes and even a change of clothing were sheltered by neighbors or relatives last night, but Dr. A. L. Stone, city relief administrator, was planning to give aid to them today.
One of the homeless women, Mrs. Marion Richards, of 1218 Knight street, went to Dr. Stone for aid at 10 a. m. today. As she was walking through the first floor at City Hall, she collapsed. Nurses from Dr. Stone’s offices revived her.
Ruins Searched by Homeless
Several of those whose homes were razed were searching in the ruins today for some of their valuables. They and firemen were the only ones permitted in the stricken area, which police had roped off. Additional patrolmen were on duty to prevent scavengers from robbing the debris of any valuables that may have been buried there.
Henry C. Coles, president of the lumber company, stated that his firm’s property was damaged to the extent of about $200,000. The entire lumber company property on the east side of Front street was either destroyed or made untenable by fire and water. However, he said the factory was in operation today, and as no trucks were damaged, the firm was conducting its usual business.
A horse known throughout the neighborhood as “Old Bob,” was burned to death in the lumber yard.
Of the houses burned, Voll owned the 1218 Knight street property; the Reading Railroad owned the house at 1226 Knight street, while the others were owned by John Bircher, of Bellmawr.
In addition to the places actually damaged, many other properties were in danger from ever-shifting winds and virtual clouds of sparks. Windows on other properties cracked from the heat, and streams of water were played on properties across the street from the burning area.
40 Lines of Hose
Chief John H. Lennox called every fire company and every fireman on duty. Every available policeman was called to handle the thousands of spectators.
Civilians aided the firemen. Employes of the lumber plant manned hose and the company’s turbines churned tons of water into the blaze. At one time the fire companies were pouring water from 40 lines of hose.
Water Chief James H. Long and his assistant, Harry Hertline, responded to the fire alarms and found plenty of water. The companies were pumping from 20-inch high pressure mains, with auxiliary wells on Ferry avenue and on Kaighn avenue.
Intense heat kept firemen a half a square from the blaze at times. They slowly struggled through blinding and suffocating smoke and when the blaze was under control two hours after it was discovered the firemen had managed to confine it to a city block.
Woman Discovers It
The first alarm was at 3 p. m., shortly after Mrs. Joseph Novack, whose husband is the proprietor of a cafe at 1208 South Front street, ran into the street, screaming “Fire!”
E. H. Stewart, general secretary of the Atlantic City Railroad Y. M. C. A., across the street at Front and Atlantic avenue, sent in the first alarm and later rescued two women.
Stewart said the wind was blowing from the east at the time and the Y. M. C. A., the planing mills of the Coles Company and the Camden Terminal Storage Company’s seven-story warehouse, at Front and Mechanic streets, were in danger.
But the wind suddenly shifted from east to west and a light breeze from the river carried the flames toward a row of five frame houses on Knight street, between Front and Second.
These two-story houses were enveloped in flames in a few minutes. So fast did the fire travel that little was saved. One family was absent, but the four others fled for their lives.
Clowns Save Cripple
Several members of the Camden Clown Club, a veteran New Year shooters’ organization, ran to the home of James Shay, 1228 Knight street, and one of them, Albert George, carried Shay’s invalid stepdaughter, Alice Williams, 25, from the blazing house. The girl, an infantile paralysis victim, was sitting helpless in a wheel chair when the flames ignited the home.
With her mother, Mrs. Alice Shay, and stepbrother, William Shay, 14, she watched the flames crumble the home in which they had lived 20 years.
Other members of the clown club—Stanley Berthelot, Henry Small and James Rice—carried brand new furniture of William Haines, 1232 Knight street, to safety.
Stewart carried two aged sisters, Mrs. Anna Parker and Mrs. Mary Numbers, from their blazing home at 1210 South Front street, next to the Novack cafe.
Twelve automobiles on a parking lot of Mrs. Parker and Mrs. Numbers on the south side of their home were either destroyed or damaged. Civilians were able to get six of them to safety after they had been partially damaged. The others were buried as walls collapsed.
Crumbling walls endangered 30 firemen on Front street at 5 p. m. About that time a ladder against a Coles garage slipped and Fireman William Hopkins, 39, of 730 Cedar street, attached to Engine Company No. 2, was thrown to the sidewalk. He suffered sprained ankles and was removed to Cooper Hospital.
Felix Benzyn, 33, of 926 Howe street, attached to Company No. 7, suffered burns of the face and hands and was taken to West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital.
First Aid Crews Sent
Dennis Block, 3, of 1123 South Second street, suffered burns of the right arm and left leg when he wandered too near the flames. He was taken to the West Jersey Hospital for treatment.
Cooper and West Jersey Hospitals sent ambulances with doctors and nurses who treated several firemen for cuts, burns and minor injuries. All of the city ambulances were on duty.
Camden and Philadelphia Second Alarmers served cool drinks to the firemen and police.
Several charitable organizations, including Wiley Mission, offered to house those left without homes.
Trainman Faints in Fright
Fully 20 trainmen were asleep on the second floor of the Y. M. C. A. Building when the fire broke out. Stewart awakened them. C. E. Wells, one of the trainmen, collapsed when he was suddenly awakened to see the conflagration so near. He was revived by doctors from West Jersey Hospital ambulance.
Firemen were hampered by the explosion of gasoline tanks of automobiles trapped in the parking yard of Mrs. Parker and her sister.
A horse in the lumber company’s stable just north of the Novack place perished.
The fire was at the main entrance of the $3,000,000 Reading terminal, which for a while was in danger. It was impossible to get vehicles into the ferry house. All cars coming from Philadelphia were forced to park at the entrance until the flames were under control.
The railroad kept several locomotives standing by at the terminal to remove coaches if necessary. The company lost several hundred coaches in the 1915 fire.
Larger Powers for Fire Chief
Camden Post-Telegram —
Commissioner Staley Contemplates Making Him Chief Marshal
LIEUTENANT HAINES SUCCEEDS CHAMBERS
Announcement was made to-day by Commissioner of Public Safety Staley of the promotion of Lieutenant Harry Haines to the rank of senior captain, to succeed the late Captain William Chambers.
The Commissioner also contemplates designating Fire Chief Peter B. Carter chief fire marshal of the city. Mr. Staley says the promotion will give Chief Carter authority to order the destruction of dilapidated buildings which constitute a fire hazard. He states Camden has a number of old shacks which should be destroyed by the fire authorities.
Captain Haines is the oldest lieutenant in the line of continuous service in the city department. He was appointed a hoseman in 1896. He made an average of 89.37 in the recent aptitude tests conducted by Chief Shaughnessy, of the Philadelphia Civil Service Commission. He was one of thirteen lieutenants who took the examination.
Lieutenant William J. Rose was a close second with an average of 89.27. Scott Franklin was third with an average of 80.
Captain Haines has been attached to Hook and Ladder Company No. 2. His promotion transfers him to command Engine Company No. 3, at Brodway [sic], below Ferry avenue. All of the other lieutenants who took the examination with Captain Haines have been promoted to junior captains.
Found Wounded on Sidewalk at Kaighn Point
Camden Evening Courier —
Seals Lips as Police Seek to Learn Identity of Assailant
EIGHT UNDER ARREST IN SUSPECT ROUNDUP
Surgeons at Hospital Find Four Jagged Bullet Holes in Body
Victim of the gang feud—he denounced on his death bed, Joseph “Mose” Flannery, 26, picturesque Eighth ward political worker, was dying today in West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital.
Mortally wounded, his body riddled with bullets, Flannery was shot some time shortly before 4 a. m. today as he stood on the sidewalk outside a saloon at Front and Kaighn avenue.
Four or five men, grouped closely about the prone body of the political worker, hailed a truck which took Flannery to the hospital at 4.15.
Eight men had been arrested by police, seven charged with being a material witness, and the other being held at police headquarters “on suspicion.”
They were James L. Hawkins, 37, declared by police to be proprietor of the saloon at 101 Kaighn avenue; Walter Novak, 22, 442 Jackson street; Russell Sage, 25, of 407 Mechanic street; Joseph Novak, 34, of 508 Jackson street; Eugene Murphy, 51, of 101 Kaighn avenue; “Cuzzy” Scarduzio, 27, who gave police no home address, and Joseph Moll, 25, of 101 Kaighn avenue, all held as material witnesses; and Patrick Driscoll, 25, of 1225 South Third street, held “on suspicion.”
Cause of Shooting Unknown
Despite a far-reaching investigation, Flannery’s assailant or assailants, the details of the shooting, and its cause remained undetermined this noon. Every available county and city detective was engaged in the probe as Camden gangland’s victim hovered between life and death in the hospital.
Realizing doctors had given him but a few hours to live, Flannery continued to maintain his silence concerning how he was shot, and which he had adopted when he was carried into the hospital on a stretcher.
“My lips are sealed and if I don’t live to get the fellows who did this my gang will get them,” he told physicians when placed on the operating table at 4:30 a. m.
At 9 o’clock this morning, the doctors had given up hope for his recovery, but Flannery still was alive at 2.30 this afternoon.
South Camden virtually buzzed with rumors to the effect that Flannery’s fate was the result of a war in the bootleg ring; that it was the aftermath of a feud over slot machines; that it was a case of “women,” and that it could be linked up with the shooting in January of Joseph Cimini, by Joseph Devon, known as “Polack Joe.”
At Loss for Motive
Police were at a loss to name the motive. Acting Assistant Prosecutor Samuel P. Orlando, in charge of the investigation, said the probe had not reached the point where anyone person could be accused of shooting Flannery, or where the gun fire could be traced to anything but a “gang feud.”
“Mose” Flannery had been shot. He probably would die. That much was known. The rumors naturally followed for Flannery was well-known, not only in the close-mouthed circle in which he moved, but throughout the city as well.
“Mose” Flannery is one of the most picturesque figures in Camden’s political “gangland.” For several years he has been a slot machine distributor in Camden and Philadelphia.
When “Polack Joe” Devon shot and killed Joseph Cimini, Philadelphia gambler in the Sixth Ward Republican Club early in the morning of January 14, last, Flannery was arrested as a material witness. It was disclosed by police that Flannery and Cimini had gone into the club together a few minutes before Devon’s gun pumped death into Cimini’s body after the Philadelphian had quarrelled with Devon.
Flannery was considered the most important of the material witnesses connected with the Cimini murder. Sage, arrested on suspicion this morning in connection with the felling of Flannery, was another “important” witness in the Sixth Ward Club shooting affair.
James Bonner, who was mysteriously shot several months ago, was questioned today by detectives but was not held. Walter Selby, a taxicab driver, also was taken before Chief of Detectives Golden and County Detective Chief Doran, but he too was released after being closeted with the officials for more than an hour.
Sage Ordered Held
After questioning Sage, Acting Assistant Prosecutor Orlando ordered that the man be held.
In the meantime, Flannery lay on a hospital cot, propped up on his side, his pain deadened by opiates. He mumbled incoherently to members of his family grouped about him. At times he lapsed into a state of unconsciousness.
The doomed political worker early today had asked for a priest. Rev. Father John J. Henry went to the hospital. “Joe,” he said, “you’re dying. You’d better give police a statement.”
Flannery was said by doctors to have replied he would tell nothing, that if he lived, “he’d settle,” and that if he died, “my gang will take care of that.”
After a session in which more than a dozen men were questioned, Captain Golden and Detective Chief Doran shortly before noon went to the scene of the shooting. They found evidence that a scuffle in the saloon at Front and Kaighn avenue had preceded the shooting.
Tables had been overturned. Glasses had been broken. Forty cents in change was found on a table beside a picture of a small baby. There was an empty glass on one table, another glass half-filled with beer on the bar.
Bullets Meant for Novak?
It was reported that police had been informed by one of those they questioned that the bullets which ripped their way through Flannery’s body had been meant for Walter Novak who they said had been standing at “Mose’s” side at the time of the shooting. The police officials refused to confirm that rumor. Novak had told them, Capt. Golden said, he was not with Flannery at the time. Later Novak admitted to being on the corner near the saloon, police said.
Police recalled that Novak was arrested several months ago in the alleged theft of a slot machine from the store of Louis Schectman, in Broadway near Line street. Novak was apprehended after a wild chase through South Camden streets.
Schectman at first told police Novak was one of two men who entered his store, and at the point of a gun, robbed him of a nickel slot machine. Testifying in a hearing in police court several days later, Schectman said he hadn’t kept a slot machine in his store, and that two men unknown to him stole a box of cigars and escaped in an automobile.
As far as could be learned by an Evening Courier representative, the case against Novak never was settled.
The bullets were fired from a “pump” gun and were of .32 calibre. According to Detective Thomas Cheeseman, they could have been fired only from a gun of the type common to gangsters who “shoot to kill.” Cheeseman said a “pump” gun was designed to hold nine shells or “wads,” as they are commonly known. The leaden bullet is surrounded by a coating of asbestos, which breaks from the lead upon the firing of the gun and allows the lead to enter its target.
Police were following every clue which developed, no matter how scanty. Detectives combed the Front street and Kaighn avenue neighborhood, it was learned, in an effort to discover the haunts of the gang known by police to center in that part of the city.
Chief of Police Lewis W. Stehr was asked if police would act against the owners of the habitats of the “Front and Kaighn avenue” gang or if a routine investigation into the shooting of Flannery would be conducted. Chief Stehr said the usual investigation was being made and would continue.
While members of the political worker’s family talked with Flannery, and while investigation of the shooting by county detectives and police was under way, doctors said the man who lives at 346 Jackson street, couldn’t “live out the day.”
Flannery had a bullet wound two inches in diameter in his back. Another bullet had pierced his abdomen, and he had been shot in both elbows, physicians said. Doctors said the bullets were two inches long and three-quarters of an inch in diameter.
It was shortly after 4 a. m. when Charles Foulk, of 219 Point street, driver of The Courier-Post delivery truck, was hailed by a group of men standing on a corner at Front street and Kaighn avenue.
“Have you got time to take a man to the hospital?” one of the group asked Foulk, according to the story he told Captain John Golden, chief of city detectives.
Flannery was lifted into the rear of the truck, two men jumped on the running board and the run for West Jersey Hospital began.
Walter Wartman, of 315 North Second street, another Courier-Post employe, who had assisted in the delivery of Morning Posts at the Reading Ferries, was with Foulk.
Foulk said one of the men jumped from the truck when it reached Mt. Ephraim and Atlantic avenues. The other went into the hospital, whispered a few words to Flannery, and then raced out the main entrance.
Mose’s Companion Escapes
Mrs. Edward McGrath, supervisor of nurses, called Policeman Frank Malec who for several days has been guarding a man known as “Two-Gun” Kelly, and Malec gave chase to the unknown companion of Flannery. Malec saw the man disappear on Mt. Ephraim avenue, but couldn’t find him in a search of the neighborhood.
In the meantime, City Detective William Boettcher, who had been working the morning shift, had notified Assistant Prosecutor Samuel P. Orlando; Lawrence T. Doran, chief of Camden county detectives; Capt. Golden, and had called City Detectives George Ward, Louis Shaw, Thomas Cheesman [sic] and Howard Pike to investigate the shooting.
Boettcher said Flannery refused to “talk.” “You are a policeman and I’m no friend of the police. I’ll never tell,” Flannery told the officer, Boettcher declared.
Later Flannery told physicians, “I have learned my lesson and hope this will be an example to other young men.”
Witness in Cimini Shooting
Flannery was held as a material witness in the fatal shooting of Joseph Cimini, 31, in the Sixth Ward Republican Club, early in the morning of January 14.—Joseph Devon, known as “Polack Joe” fired the shot that killed Cimini. Devon was arrested but the case never came to trial.
Devon now is at liberty on bail and is under indictment for manslaughter in connection with Cimini’s death. Flannery also was released under bail.
While police continued their investigation, Flannery, still determined to refuse information to detectives and doctors, was surrounded by his wife, his 4-year-old son, his mother and father, and his 19-year-old brother James. Calling “Jim” to his side, Flannery, according to physicians, said, “I want you to promise me you’ll never get mixed up in these gang wars.” “Jim” promised, Detective Boettcher said.
Novak Under Suspicion
In their search for the “mysterious” companion of Flannery on the ride to the hospital, police pointed a suspicioning finger at Walter Novak who they had held “on suspicion.”
According to information given them by Foulk, the truck driver, Flannery, during the ride from Front and Kaighn avenue to the hospital, whispered, “Where are you taking me, Walt?” He was told the hospital was the truck’s destination, Foulk told police.
Detectives said Novak might have been the “Walt” to whom Flannery spoke. Novak said he was 22, was a “salesman” and lived at 442 Jackson street.
Taken by Strategy
Scarduzio’s arrest resulted from a piece of strategy on the part of Chief of County Detectives Doran. Doran with several members of his staff and city detectives were in the bar-room of the saloon at 101 Kaighn avenue when the telephone rang before noon.
Doran picked up the receiver and the party on the other end asked if Joseph Moll, son of former Policeman Frank Moll, was there.
Figuring that the persons might be some one who could help the authorities unravel the mystery, Doran answered:
“Yes, this is Joe Moll.”
“Well, I want to see you right away,” continued the other party.
“Will you come right down to 674 Fairview street. I want to see you,” finished the unidentified speaker who then hung up.
Doran with Captain of Detectives Golden hurried down to the address given and there found Scarduzio in the home of Garfield Del Duca.
Scarduzio, it is said, was more surprised to see the authorities than they were to find him as Chief Doran had been searching for “Cuzzie” for several hours.
He said he had nothing to do with the shooting of Flannery. Limping when the detectives escorted him from the house, Scarduzio was first taken to West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital to discover whether or not he was suffering from any bullet wounds in the legs.
Scarduzio Not Shot
Doctors later said Scarduzio had not been shot and the man who had been surprised at the Del Duca home was taken to police headquarters.
He “knew nothing about the shooting,” Scarduzio told Captain Golden and County Detective Chief Doran. There were stains, possibly bloodstains, on Scarduzio’s trousers, the police said. “Cuzzy,” as he is known in police circles, wore a clean white shirt, and that fact sent detectives from headquarters on another tangent in their investigation.
Scarduzio was asked where he had left a “bloody shirt” he was reported to have been wearing early today. According to police, he denied his shirt was bloody, and refused to give them any information.
City Detectives David Hunt, Samuel Johnson, and Walter Smith were dispatched on the “side” investigation.
Detective Thomas Cheesman [sic], of the city hall staff, also holds two warrants for the arrest of Scarduzio in connection with the holdup of a saloon in Gloucester several weeks ago and the theft of an automobile.
Moll was arrested while sleeping in a room over the saloon near Front and Kaighn avenue. He was arrested by Chief Doran, Captain Golden and Detective Ray Sapanore. Moll has been in police toils several times recently, the last time in connection with the mysterious shooting of Bonner near the spot where Flannery fell.
Woman Describes Auto
The movements of an automobile bearing Pennsylvania license and containing several men whom she said ran out of the saloon near Front and Kaighn avenue an hour after Flannery was shot, were described to police officials late this morning by Mrs. Mary Brown, who lives near the saloon.
She was questioned at detective headquarters after she had reported seeing the car drive onto the Spruce street pier, four men alight and board a motorboat which set off across the Delaware river in the direction of Philadelphia.
According to Mrs. Brown, the driver of the “mysterious” automobile turned the car about and raced north on Front street.
A city-wide man-hunt had been made for Joseph “Cuzzie” Scarduzio, detectives said after the “surprise arrest” on Fairview street. Police had heard rumors Scarduzio, known by them to be a “pal” of Flannery, had been standing by “Mose” when he was “given the works” by the yet unknown gunman or gunmen. They had heard, detectives announced, that Scarduzio, coatless and hatless, had been seen leaving the scene of the shooting, his clothes spattered with blood from the wounds of his friend.
Camden detectives said they doubted if Philadelphia gangsters were responsible, believing, they announced, that the shooting was local to the Camden gang center they knew existed.
City Detective Walter Smith shortly after noon brought a South Camden bartender into police headquarters for questioning.
The man said he was Frank Smith, and tended bar in a saloon in the 1800 block on Broadway, near Ferry avenue, and said he had overheard three men telephone for a taxicab to take them to Front street and Kaighn avenue. Smith placed the time after midnight, according to police, and detectives doubted if the three men were connected with the Flannery “case.” Smith was not held by police.
Warrant Out for Slayer of Mose Flannery
Camden Evening Courier —
City Detective Chief Declares Murderer is Known to His Men
2500 MOURN AT FUNERAL OF GANGLAND VICTIM
Arrest of ‘Trigger Man’ at Any Moment Expected by Authorities
This afternoon detectives were searching the haunts of gangdom in South Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania for the man who shot down the Eighth Ward political leader at Kaighn avenue and Front street Tuesday morning.
“We know who killed Flannery,” announced Captain John Golden, head of the Camden city detective bureau. “Detectives have warrants for his arrest on a charge of murder, and I expect his arrest at any moment.”
Golden refused to reveal the identity of the slayer, nor would he say whether the murderer was a Camden or Philadelphia man. However, he admitted that the murderer was not among those men he had questioned thus far.
2500 at Requiem Rites
Kin and friends accorded “Mose” . . . in death . . . one of the finest tributes they could give him this morning.
Heads bowed in sorrow, relatives and a few intimate friends of the murdered political worker attended services in a Broadway undertaking establishment. Crowds of curious milled about the streets, outside.
With Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church filled with 1500, and more than 1000 persons unable to enter, solemn high requiem mass was said over the body.
All that remained of “Mose” Flannery reposed on a white bier in front of the altar on which he served as a boy for three years.
In the church vestibule, and outside on the streets, detectives and patrolmen sauntered through the crowds. They were there to preserve order. They had dropped their work, temporarily, in the search for Flannery’s slayer, they said. They were there to see the murder victim respected by those who mourned his death.
The black walnut casket which contained the body and which was heaped high with flowers, was carried from the undertaking establishment of Frank J. Leonard, 1451 Broadway, at 9.15.
Buddies As Pallbearers
The pall-bearers, all “buddies” of the “Mose” they admired and respected, were Fred Corbett, Raymond Kirk, Martin Murray, Thomas Murray, Walter Quinton, and Joseph Derr.
As she walked from the undertaking establishment to the automobile which was to take her to the church, Mrs. Joseph Flannery (nee Anna M. Boggs), from whom “Mose” had separated, was prostrated with grief. It was necessary for Francis, one of “Mose’s” older brothers, to assist her across the sidewalk and into one of the family cars.
The first automobile in the funeral procession to the church at Broadway and Ferry avenue carried the floral tributes which had been sent from relatives, “pals,” and former political associates of the victim of last Tuesday’s murder.
Then followed the hearse, the casket almost covered by sprays of blooms, wreaths and other floral pieces.
The father and mother, James and Joseph Flannery were in the first “family” car with their daughter-in-law and the four-year-old, blonde-haired son of the dead man.
A younger brother, James—it was he who promised “Mose” never to enter gang feuds—sat beside his elder brother John, and his sisters Elizabeth... (Continued on Page Eight)
Scene at ‘Mose’ Flannery’s Funeral Today
Camden Evening Courier —
Showing a small part of the crowd which surrounded Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church, Broadway and Ferry avenue, this morning when the body of Joseph “Mose” Flannery, murdered last Tuesday, was being borne into the church by six “pals” of the Eighth Ward political worker. Relatives of the murder victim, heads bowed in grief, are seen about to enter the church, where solemn high requiem mass was said over the body.
Fireman Caught When Wall Falls, Saved
Philadelphia Inquirer —
His Chief Has Narrow Escape at Blaze Destroying Camden Plant
One fireman was hurt, and Chief Peter B. Carter and several other members of the Camden department narrowly escaped injury by the collapse of a portion of the building while fighting flames which destroyed the old Murphy oilcloth plant at Ferry avenue and Mechanic street, yesterday afternoon. Warned by the cries of onlookers when the roof started to tumble outward the firemen fled. All got safely away with the exception of George Hollins, of No. 1 Truck Company. He was caught under a section of the roof and smoldering timbers. Fellow-firemen quickly extricated him and sent him to the Homeopathic Hospital, where he was treated for shock and lacerations of the scalp. A piece of burning plank struck Chief Carter’s helmet, but he escaped injury.
The Murphy building was burned to the ground with a loss of $10,000. It was a two-story frame structure, 75 by 22 feet. It had not been used for the making of oilcloth for several years, and did not contain any machinery. A fertilizer concern last used the building, which had been vacant for several months. The structure was owned by the Peter J. Murphy estate. Chief Carter suspects that the fire was started by boys or vagrants.
A Philadelphia fireboat went over to the Camden side to help if its services were needed, as for a time it was feared that the flames might spread to Danehower’s grocery warehouse and the Waterall paint plant. However, the flames were confined to the Murphy plant, which is a smouldering mass of ruins.
Hollins, the injured fireman, was hurt in a like manner three years ago, his right arm being badly torn. During the influenza epidemic, in the fall of 1918, his daughter died from the malady.
Man Blames Cop as Home Wrecker
Camden Courier —
Accused of Beating 2 Women After Fighting Way Into House
A policeman, whose name is withheld, was blamed for breaking up the home of Michael Brown, 25 years, 65[?] Ferry avenue, in police court this morning.
Brown was given a hearing and was charged of assault and battery, one preferred by his wife Louise, and the other by Bertha Chamberlin, 6[?]0 Central avenue. He was accused of attacking the two women Sunday night in the home of F. L. Gold[?], where Mrs. Chamberlin is employed as a housekeeper.
Brown’s defense was that he forced his way into the house because he had reason to believe that his wife was there with a police officer, for whom she left him two weeks ago. Both women exhibited bruises on their bodies, alleged to have been inflicted by Brown, and Mrs. Brown collapsed while testifying and had to be revived. Brown asserted he had been informed that the unnamed police officer was with his wife and that he had seen him in the house before he entered. He said Mrs. Chamberlin tried to delay him at the door while the officer slipped out a rear window. He claimed to have witnesses to substantiate this.
Judge Cleary held Brown in $150 bail for court on each charge. He was allowed to sign his own bail bond. He left with the intention of swearing out a warrant for Mrs. Chamberlin on a charge of keeping a disorderly house.
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BETTY’S CAFE
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Fell Off the Ladder.
Camden Post —
William James, brother of Firemen Albert James, while working on a house on Ferry avenue below Broadway this morning, fell from a ladder and broke his wrist. He went to his home, where surgical attention was given.
Mrs. James Found Dead in Bed.
Camden Post —
Mrs. William James, mother of Fireman Albert James, of No. 3 Engine House, was found dead in bed this morning at her home on Ferry avenue near Fillmore street. Mrs. James was about as usual yesterday and seemed bright and cheerful. This morning she failed to come down stairs and upon going to her room her husband found her lying on the bed dead. Coroner Lippincott gave a certificate of death due to heart failure.
Gang of Cracksmen Dynamite Two Safes
Camden Post-Telegram —
Office of the City Line Lumber Company Was This Morning the Scene of Operations by Robbers for the Second Time Within a Month.
Took Trouble for Nothing
For the second time in a month, the office of the City Line Brick and Lumber Company, at Ferry avenue and White Horse pike, was visited by safe blowers this morning.
Shortly after 2 o’clock dwellers a block away from the office were awakened by the noise of two explosions. No one could learn the cause, and they retired again to their beds.
This morning the boy who opens the office of the company found everything topsy turvy and both safes damaged, one utterly wrecked and the other battered, but still holding its contents.
There are two rooms in the office, which is a one-story frame building, and in the rear room was a large safe. This the burglars succeeded in opening but found nothing to reward them. The smaller safe withstood the explosion and was intact save for the hole about the knob.
Both doors of the large safe were blown off and the floor of the safe torn. How the building escaped destruction from the force of the explosion is a mystery.
A pick and a chisel were left by the visitors. These are clues that will hardly lead to the capture of the burglars, and the company has little hope of the police finding them.
Money was the object of the visit for nothing was taken from the building. In the small safe was a small amount of money. Since the attempt a month ago, to blow open a safe in the same office no money of any account has been kept there.
When informed of the safe blowing Chief of Police Gravenor detailed Detective John Painter to look it up, but no clue could be obtained as to the perpetrators outside of the fact that the somewhat distant neighbors had been aroused from sleep by the roar of the explosion, and saw two men running down the railroad tracks.
Detective Painter made an examination of the wrecked safe and found that dynamite had been used in blowing open the safe. No plunder was obtained.
Won’t Forgive Elopers
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Hotelkeeper Presses Suit Against Man Who Married Daughter
There is nothing like forgiveness for Joseph Cooper and his young bride, who was Miss Mary Miller, daughter of Andrew Miller, a hotelkeeper, of Seventh and Ferry avenue, Camden. The case pending against Cooper, in which Miller demands $10,000 damages for deception of his daughter, will be tried in the Circuit Court, according to counsel
The girl ran away with Cooper while he was bartender for her father, and notwithstanding the young man was already married, it is alleged. She returned when the suit was instituted. On Tuesday she went with Cooper to Elkton, where they were married. They have a small child
Marriage May Block $10,000 Damage Suit
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Defendant Elopes to Elkton With Daughter of Man Who Brought Action for Betrayal
It is more than likely that the $10,000 damage suit of Andrew Miller, a hotelman of Seventh street and Ferry avenue, Camden, against Joseph Cooper, a former bartender, for the betrayal of the plaintiff’s daughter, Mary, will not be tried before Circuit Court Judge Lloyd today, as had been scheduled. Cooper and Miss Miller quietly stole away on Tuesday and were married at Elkton, Md., by Rev. George P. Jones.
This marks the culmination of an assortment of incidents extending over the past three years. In August, 1913, Cooper married Mary Stiefenski and they lived together until he secured a position as bartender for Miller. Almost at once a friendship developed between Miss Miller and Cooper. It ended in their disappearance on August 6, 1914. Nothing was heard from them for nearly a year, when it was learned they had been at Providence, R. I. Cooper was taken into custody when he made a flying trip to Camden. The girl was taken to Camden, and with her an infant that had been born while they were at Providence.
As a result of this, Cooper was arraigned before the Recorder, but Miller withdrew a misdemeanor charge. Then Mrs. Cooper began divorce proceedings and also a damage suit against Miller for alienation of her husband’s affections. She charged that he was responsible for the attachment between his daughter and her recent husband. A verdict for $1500 was given the wife, who also obtained a divorce decree last March After that Miller began a suit against Cooper, and it was set down for today.
Cooper, his young wife and baby now are living happily in South Camden.
Motorization of Camden Fire Department Completed Under Chief P. B. Carter in 1915
Camden Courier-Post —
Above is shown a photo of part of the Camden Fire Department after it was motorized. The above companies are stationed at Fire Headquarters, Fifth and Arch streets.
This is the fifth installment of a history of fire fighting in Camden from the time of the formation of the first volunteer company in 1810 to 1936. It is the first complete history of the fire department written since 1886 and links the old volunteers with the new paid motorized department. It is being published in the interest [sic] with Fire Prevention Week, which was sponsored last week by the Camden County Fire Chiefs Association and the Camden Fire Department. Saturday’s installment told of the formation of the paid fire department.
Samuel S. Elfreth was reappointed for several terms as chief by the fire committee of city council before he was made permanent head of the department.
After more than 30 years of service he retired in October 13, 1913, and was succeeded by Charles Worthington, captain of Engine Compony [sic] No. 6, on November 1, 1913. Worthington was killed in a fall from a roof on May 14, 1914, and was succeeded by Deputy Chief John A. Stockton. Stockton retired the following year and was succeeded by Peter B. Carter on October 1, 1915.
Under Carter the motorization of the department was completed. Carter was injured in a fall from a roof when fire destroyed the interior of State Street Methodist Episcopal Church. He retired on a pension on March 31, 1926, to become chief of the Collingswood Fire Department. He remained as Collingswood’s chief until August 29, 1927, when he resigned. He was succeeded as chief of the Camden department by the late Thomas J. Nicholas. Nicholas retired in November, 1932, and was succeeded by John H. Lennox, who was named acting chief by former Mayor Roy R. Stewart on December 1, 1932. He was sworn in as a full-fledged chief on October 1, 1934.
Lennox Heads Department
Lennox is now chief. The deputy chiefs are William R. Harring and Walter A. Mertz and the battalion chiefs, Charles Erickson and Rollo R. Jones. Bernard J. Gallagher is fire marshal, James A. Howell, chief of the electrical bureau, and James H. Long, chief of the water department.
Deputy chiefs were known as assistant chiefs until the two-platoon system was inaugurated in Camden on January 1, 1921, under fromer [sic] Mayor Charles H. Ellis.
Company commanders were at first called foremen. Later they were named lieutenants. When the two-platoon system was adopted, requiring the men to be on duty one-half day instead of 24 hours the ranks of senior and junior captain were created.
The present equipment of the department includes two pieces of apparatus at Engine Companies No. 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, and 9 and one piece at Nos. 10 and 11. The department also has four hook and ladder trucks. Three of these are aerial trucks stationed at Nos. 1, 2 and 4. Company No. 3 has a city service truck. The department also has a supply wagon, four chief cars and a coffee service wagon for third alarms.
Fire headquarters is now maintained at Fifth and Arch streets and the Electrical Bureau is in modern offices on the eighth floor of the new city hall. Engine Company No. 2 is housed with Truck Company No. 1, at headquarters.
The other companies are housed as follows: Engine Company, No. 1, Fourth and Pine streets; Engine Company No. 3, Broadway and Ferry avenue; Engine Company No. 6, Front and Linden streets; Engine Company No. 7, Kaighn avenue above Mt. Ephraim avenue; Engine Company No. 8, and Truck Company No. 2, Sixth street and Kaighn avenue; Engine Company No. 9, and Truck Company No. 3, Twenty-seventh and Federal streets; Engine Company No. 10, and Truck Company, No. 4, Ninth street and Morgan boulevard; Engine Company No. 11, Twenty-seventh street and Hayes avenue.
Engine Company No. 4, Fourth and Vine streets, was abolished in 1932 for economy reasons. Engine Company No. 5, Federal street and Cooper river, was closed with the building of the Federal street viaduct in 1926.
Company Commanders
Company commanders at present are: Engine Company, No. 1, Acting Senior Captain Harry Wagner, Jr., Acting Junior Captain Joseph Gentlesk; Engine Company, No. 2, Acting Senior Captain Rocco Fanelli Acting Captain Edward Ellender; Engine Company, No. 3, Senior Captain Leonard Megee, Junior Captain Eli Hunt; Engine Company, No. 6, Acting Senior Captain George Salnders, Junior Captain George Townsend; Engine Company No. 7, Senior Captain William F. Rose, Junior Captain Henry Zook; Engine Company No. 8, Senior Captain Lawrence Newton, Junior Captain Alvin Thompson; Engine Company No. 9, Senior Captain Daniel Smith, Junior Captain Howard Glick; Engine Company No. 10, Acting Senior Captain Jarrett Zanders, Acting Junior Captain Maurice O’Brien; Engine Company, No. 11, Senior Captain Charles Watkins, Junior Captain Herman Kreher.
Truck Company No. 1, (hook and ladder), Senior Captain William Van Pfeferle, Acting Junior Captain William Judge; Truck Company, No. 2, Acting Senior Captain James Young, Acting Junior Captain Frank Oberman; Truck Company No. 3, Senior Captain Clarence Madden, Acting Junior Captain David Humphreys; Truck Company No. 4, Senior Captain Mordecai Clark, Acting Junior Captain William Scholl.
The coffee wagon was presented to the department by Mrs. Laura Frey, widow of former City Treasurer George A. Frey, on July 20, 1930. The wagon was presented at the request of Frey. It is a modern kitchen on wheels, according to Chief Lennox.
The pumpers of Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 6 have pumping capacity of 1000 gallons per minute. Companies 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 can pump 750 gallons a minute. Nos. 9, 10 and 11 have three-in-one chemical, hose and pumping units. Companies No. 1 and 6 have booster tanks with 100 gallon capacity, replacing chemical, with three-quarter-inch rubber hose.
City Council authorized the motorization of the Camden Fire Department on January 1, 1913. The first motor car was assigned to Chief Elfreth. The motorization was completed under Chief Carter. Camden was one of the first cities in the country to motorize its department and was so equipped before Philadelphia began to use the modern equipment with powerful pumpers.
When the fire department was motorized City Council retained two of the steam pumpers, having them mounted on tractors. After a survey of the city’s fire, water and police equipment and building codes in 1932 by the National Board of Fire Underwriters a recommendation was made that this apparatus be replaced by more modern motor driven and operated equipment. This was done two years ago while former Mayor Roy R. Stewart was director of public safety.
Six Killed at Fire
Six men have been killed in the line of duty fighting fires. The worst catastrophe was at a fire which destroyed the old Fifth Regiment Armory at West and Mickle streets on March 16, 1905. The fire broke out at 5.55 p. m. William Jobes, Engine Company, No. 1; George Shields and William Hillman, Truck Company, No. 2, were trapped in a room in the building and were killed.
Chief Worthington was killed in a fall from a roof while directing the fighting of a fire at Delaware avenue and George street on May 14, 1914.
Capt. Martin Carrigan, of Engine Company, No. 2, was killed directing a fight against a fire which wrecked the interior of the Morris Handle department store at 427 and 429 Kaighn avenue on January 18, 1922.
Hoseman John J. Reilly was killed on January 19, 1925, when a fire extinguisher exploded while fighting a fire at 924 North Second street.
Two Camden firemen were crippled as a result of being caught under a falling wall while battling a fire at the Enterprise Wall Paper plant at Collingswood on January 6, 1915. Injured with them was a Westmont fireman and former Judge John B. Kates, of the Collingswood department, then a member of the General Assembly of New Jersey. The late Battalion Chief George B. Wade and the late William E. Laird, a hoseman, were caught under the falling debris and were in the West Jersey Hospital several weeks. Kates, Wade and Laird suffered crushed limbs.
(Tomorrow’s installment will tell of the most serious fires in the history of the city.)