Pearl Street

Pearl Street runs east from the Delaware River between Birch Streets, and at one time extended all the way out to North 12th Street. Much of Pearl Street over the years has been razed to make way for the Ben Franklin Bridge, Rutgers, the toll plaza, and related projects.

Southwest Corner: 1885–1906 Saloon at 423 North Front Street

Southeast Corner: 1885–1977 Saloon at 100 Pearl Street

Northeast Corner: 1885 Dwelling at 504 North Front Street; 1906 Store at 502 North Front Street

Most properties on the north side of the 100 block of Pearl Street were taken when the Delaware River Bridge (later renamed the Ben Franklin Bridge) was built in the mid-1920s.

U. S. Marshall Bernard J. Tracy last night arrested Martin J. Corbert, 23, of 122 Pearl Street, Camden, in connection with the theft of a .45 caliber automatic pistol from the 157th Field Artillery Armory on Wright Avenue at Ninth street. He was lodged in Camden city jail for a hearing before U. S. Commissioner Wynn Armstrong this morning.

As the result of a Federal Bureau of Investigation probe. Carl Weber, 21, of 815 Birch Street, was arrested two weeks ago, charged with larceny of government property and was held in Federal custody. According to Camden police, Weber implicated Corbert.

All properties on the north side of the 200 block of Pearl Street were taken in 1924 when the Delaware River Bridge (later renamed the Ben Franklin Bridge) was built.

The entire 300 block of Pearl Street was taken in 1924 when the Delaware River Bridge (later renamed the Ben Franklin Bridge) was built.

All properties on the south side of the 400 block of Pearl Street were taken in 1924 when the Delaware River Bridge (later renamed the Ben Franklin Bridge) was built.

Can someone explain how the corner of 5th and Pearl can be on BOTH north and south sides of the Ben Franklin Bridge?

Addresses 510 to 540 Pearl Street.

Addresses 622 to 646 Pearl Street.

A.L. Gardner was born in 1897. He was from New Jersey originally, moved to Philadelphia in the later part of the 20’s and then to Western Maryland around 1933.

— Ashley Hammond, April 2020

Addresses 700 to 743 Pearl Street.

738 Pearl Street — Camden Daily Telegram, October 9, 1895 — Real Estate Investment Company (W.A. Davis, Harry W. Boureau, George Zollers)

Harry Crothers, 45, of 705 Pearl Street, told Police Judge Lewis Liberman he was sitting peacefully in a taproom at Seventh and Birch streets when John Albert Waite, of 318 Point Street, walked in.

“The next thing I knew he hit me on the nose,” Crothers testified. “I attempted to find out the reason for the unexpected attack and he hit me in the mouth.

“Then I got angry and socked him four times.”

Waite appeared in court with a fractured nose, two discolored eyes and puffed lips.

Motorcycle Patrolman James Wilson, who was called to quell the disturbance, said Crothers was charged with assault and battery and Waite was a material witness.

“I was drunk— I don’t remember what happened,” Waite mumbled. “I want to withdraw the charge.” The court complied and they walked out arm-in-arm.

Three persons were injured in an automobile crash at Admiral Wilson and Baird Boulevards yesterday when a machine driven by a Camden man was in collision with an automobile driven by a Bridgeton man.

The most seriously injured was John Kaus, Jr., 19, of 1738 Tioga Street. He suffered a severed tendon of the right hand. Walter Connell, of 27 Marlton Avenue, driver of one machine, was cut about the head.

Anthony Batani, of Bridgeton, driver of the other car, was cut about the hands. J. R. Boston, of 718 Pearl Street, took all the injured to West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital.

Addresses 800 to 848 Pearl Street.

Mrs. Bessie A. Gaunt, of 4115 Westfield Avenue, yesterday appeared in police court and charged her husband, Emerson Gaunt, 32, of 840 Pearl Street, and Mrs. Nellie Olsen, 33, of 408 North Seventh Street, with misconduct.

The Gaunts have been estranged for some four years. Mrs. Gaunt told Police Judge Pancoast she had been keeping her husband under surveillance of late and on May 15, followed him to the Olsen home. Mrs. Gaunt said she parked her car near the house and saw her husband enter.

Detective John Trout and Walter Smith arrested both Gaunt and Mrs. Olsen in the latter’s house at 8 p. m. on May 30.

Judge Pancoast held Gaunt and Mrs. Olsen in $500 bail each for the grand jury.

Addresses 900 to 944 Pearl Street.

Two men arrested on charges of being drunk and disorderly were sent to jail yesterday by Police Judge Garfield Pancoast.

Frank Waite, 35, of 916 Pearl Street, was arrested at Eighth and Pearl Streets Tuesday night by Patrolman George Nicktern, after Nicktern said he asked Waite to leave the neighborhood because of a woman living in the vicinity being critically ill. Waite was given a 30-day sentence.

Ralph Foller, 33, of Oakland, California, was arrested at Fifth and Arch streets last night by Patrolman Joseph Dennett, and was given 10 days in jail.

Reveal Rum Source or Else, is New Rule of Police Court

2 Wilkie Nabbed Are Among First ‘Victims’

Unless they tell where they bought it, drinkers of bootleg liquor arrested by Camden police henceforth will receive the full penalty of $200 fine or 90 days in jail, Police Judge Lewis Liberman decided yesterday.

The new policy of getting to the bootleg seller through the bootleg drinker was announced by Judge Liberman when he imposed maximum sentences on two men arrested by Acting Detective John V. Wilkie at Eighth and Cooper streets last night.

The men were Albert Waite, 29, of 916 Pearl Street, and John Barrett, 34, of 237 North Eighth Street. In the latter’s pocket, Wilkie said he found a half pint of “white mule.”

Barrett refused to tell Wilkie where he brought it, so in a pre-hearing conference with Judge Liberman and Court Clerk Edward Smith, it was decided to give Waite and Barrett, originally arrested as just drunk and disorderly, a trial on the more serious charge of possessing illicit liquor. If Barrett gets a change of heart and names the seller, his sentence later will be suspended, said the judge.

“This is a fine idea to make the purchasers of illegal whiskey tell where they got the stuff,” said the judge. “There will be mighty few willing to pay $200 or spend three months in jail rather than tell on a speakeasy.”

Although he offered to exile himself forever from Camden, Francis White, 36, of 916 Pearl Street, must spend the next 30 days here in jail for repeating an old offense.

White, termed a “habitual drunk” by City Prosecutor John H. Reiners, Jr., because of his frequent appearances in police court, was arrested near the Haddon Avenue armory on Saturday. He had been released from jail on January 26.

“I’m willing to leave Camden for good and to go to Philadelphia,” White pleaded, but Police Judge Lewis Liberman rejected his offer and sentenced him to jail.

Boys and Young Men, However, Are Asked to Carry Bathing Suits on Next Visit To Cooper River

Fourteen boys and young men arrested as nude bathers Thursday as the sequel to a city commission meeting, were freed yesterday by Judge Garfield Pancoast with the advice that they wear bathing suits when swimming.

The nude bathers were apprehended in Cooper River in the vicinity of Tenth and Pearl Streets after Frank J. Hartmann, Jr., secretary of the New Jersey Congress of Civic Associations and of the North Camden Civic Association, complained at the commission meeting Thursday that shocking conditions exist among the male bathers in the river, causing women in the neighborhood to protest.

With two of the youthful bathers excused because they had to attend the final classes of the term in school, Police Judge Garfield Pancoast suspended sentence on the others at a hearing yesterday after advising them to wear bathing suits when swimming again. The boys had been released in their own recognizance after their arrest late Thursday by John Taylor, a policeman, who was sent to the bathing spot by Acting Chief Golden.

Pancoast Sarcastic

Taylor, under questioning of the court, testified that the nearest house to where the youths swam was a block away, and that while there were boathouses across the creek, he did not know whether they are occupied. The boys themselves testified that no women pass the “swimming hole,” which, they said, is three blocks from State Street and almost two squares from Tenth street.

After Taylor informed the court he did not know who made the complaint to Mayor Stewart, Pancoast said the complainant “is probably the same man who, at the age of these boys, did nothing in the Summer but read the New Testament.”

“He probably is the same man who never went swimming when the temperature went up to 92 degrees,” the court commented, “and is probably the same man who does not know that the cost to the taxpayers for every arrest in the city averages $3.87.”

Appeals to Boys

“I have nothing to say to you boys, but appeal to you to take a bathing suit with you the next time you go swimming, because someone might be passing who does not like to see your nude figure.”

The bathers: Leslie Bayne, 26, of 503 Royden Street; Harvey Howell, 16, of 429 Washington Street; John Grady, 19, of 578 Benson Street; Roscoe Davis, 15, of 253 North Eleventh Street; James Evans, 15, of 601 North Second Street; William Dempsey, 12, of 1030 Lawrence Street; Albert MacFarland, 13, of 1112 Federal Street; Roland Garber, 15, of 537 Birch Street; Edgar Grundlock, 14, of 318 North Tenth Street; Frank Garwood, 13, of 717 Bailey Street; Eugene Dodelin, 13, of 309 Cole Street; Ralph Skill, 13, of 512 North Seventh Street; Robert Rudd, 15, of 642 Linwood Street, and Richard Evans, 14, of 601 North Second Street.

Rudd and Garwood were the boys excused by Judge Pancoast from appearing in court so they would not lose credit for being absent from school.