Pennsylvania Avenue ran west from 17 South 8th Street between Carman and Federal Streets for a half a block, ending at the rear of 10 Fogarty Avenue. The street was dilapidated by the 1920s. By the spring of 1932 there was only one occupied house, and by the end of World War II there were no buildings standing.
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Pennsylvania Avenue, 1906
700 Block of Pennsylvania Avenue — 1906 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map.
Samuel Curriden, Camden Fire Department. Family residence at 752 Pennsylvania Avenue, Camden, 1882.
Robert Downey Cave-In
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Robert Downey, aged 56 years, of 1056 Pennsylvania avenue, Camden, came near losing his life by a cave-in of a trench in which he was working yesterday, at Newton avenue and Royden street. At the first warning Downey, who was fifteen feet below the surface, attempted to get out, but he was buried in the earth up to his neck. Fellow workmen rescued him and sent him to Cooper Hospital. He will recover.
Man Jailed as Gambler After Fight in House
Camden Courier-Post —
Arrested on a warrant charging he permitted gambling in his home, William Lloyd, 38, 756 Pennsylvania avenue, was fined $25 in police court yesterday.
Lloyd’s arrest followed a hearing the previous day, when Robert Lee, 29, 226 North Eleventh street, was sentenced to two months in the county jail because he struck Charles Scott, 20 South Eighth street, on the head with a meat cleaver, after an argument over a gambling game at Lloyd’s home.
Mrs. Mary Emma Phillips
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Mrs. Mary Emma Phillips, aged 24 years, of 763 Pennsylvania avenue, Camden, who disappeared while on a trip to Washington Park last Saturday, has not yet been heard from. Her mother told Chief of Police Foster yesterday she is under the impression that her daughter met with foul play.
Homeless Colored Man Is Injured in Collapse of 2 Abandoned Houses
Camden Courier-Post —
Two abandoned brick dwellings on Pennsylvania avenue above Tenth Street weakened by the removal of wooden framework and the recent storm, collapsed last night, injuring a homeless colored man who had sought refuge in one of them.
The house was a twin structure and had been untenanted for some time. Only one house in the row of ten houses on the street is occupied. The building came tumbling down with a crash at 10:55 PM. A telephone call to police headquarters brought Motorcycle Policemen Thomas Kauffman and Frank Evans to the scene.
Screams issued from the debris and the two policemen dug into the bricks, finally reaching the man. He gave his name at Cooper Hospital as Harry O’Neill, 60, no address. He was treated for bruises of the body and cuts of the face and body. He said he sought shelter for the night on the first floor of one of the houses.
The Tenth Street Gang
Camden Daily Telegram —
They Tear out the Home of a German Resident.
Warrants were issued on Thursday for the arrest of Harriet Smith, Howard and Gus Smith, Frank Miles, Gilbert Bolton and William Fogarty, on a charge of disorderly conduct and raising a riot.
The complaint was made by Frank Skalla, of 745 Pennsylvania avenue, and J. Freeman, the owner of the house. Skalla, a respectable German, who has been married but a short time, states that he was having a party last Saturday night, when a number of young men, among whom were the defendants, and who belong to what is known as the “Tenth Street Gang.”
Armed with bats and other weapons, they forced their way into the house by banging in the door. They commenced breaking and smashing things up generally. They defaced the house and injured the furniture, stole a quarter of beer, and Mr. S. Kella [sic] was struck on the head with a lamp. Howard Smith, William Fogarty and Gilbert Bolton, three of the men connected with the racket, were brought before Recorder Braker this morning and were fined. The other defendants failed to put in an appearance, but will probably be brought up for a hearing on Monday.
