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Pine Street

Streets of Camden, NJ
Page Contents

Introduction

Pine Street is one of Camden’s “tree” streets, and is the only one to cross Haddon Avenue.

Phil Cohen

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Intersection of South 2nd Street & Pine Street

J. Giordano & Brother at 2nd and Pine, Camden Courier-Post 1930–1932

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Not checked against a scan. The following items on this page are transcribed from site copies or printed books whose scans are not in the scan mirror, or are captions for photographs with no printed text; their wording has not been verified against the printed page:

  • 2 Boys Nearly Drown as Dog Rescue Fails — Camden Courier-Post — January 24, 1928 (no scan of the story exists; the crop is two portraits without print)
  • Jealousy Seen as Motive for Bombing Dairy — Camden Evening Courier — October 11, 1928
  • Fatal fire truck crash is blamed on their sirens — Camden Courier-Post — August 18, 1975
  • Moore in Camden Speech Demands Fairness at Polls — Camden Courier-Post — October 29, 1931

Hurry-Up Court Gamblers Fined

Camden Courier —

Hurry-Up Court Gamblers Fined - Camden Courier, May 13, 1918

The gamblers who were arrested at Second and Pine streets by Policeman Herbert Anderson and sent to City Hall in the “hurry-up” were playing cards openly when rounded up. They were: Mazzonio Spuria, 66[?] South Third street; Alexander Stortino, 3[?]2 Line street; Peter Perin, 247 Division street; Frederick Corbindone, 651 South Third street; Luigi Capelli, [?]2[?] Line street; Di Angelo Carlo, 412 Mt. Vernon street, and Antonio Bombiaso, 2[?]0 Walnut street. Each paid a fine of $10 in police court this morning.

200 Block of Pine Street

200 Block of Pine Street

203 Pine Street

203 Pine Street — 200 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1932William Epps
1933Louis Scott

211 Pine Street

211 Pine Street — 200 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1912Andrews S. Heiser

212 Pine Street

212 Pine Street — 200 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1928Mrs. Elizabeth Anderson
1928Joseph Austin
1928Stephen Buxton

213 Pine Street

213 Pine Street — 200 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1927Addie Johnson

214 Pine Street

214 Pine Street — 200 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1912–1913Annie Handy
1931William Smith

215 Pine Street

215 Pine Street — 200 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1933–1953Cosimo Cianci

217 Pine Street

217 Pine Street — 200 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1914–1915Michael Gilletto

219–223 Pine Street

219–223 Pine Street — 200 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1929Little Rock Baptist Church
1947Faith Holy Temple
1960s–2005El Bethel Church of Christ
2014–2017Bible Church of God

220 Pine Street

220 Pine Street — 200 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
WWI Private Angelo Mucci

224 Pine Street

224 Pine Street — 200 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1932Albert Chambers

226 Pine Street

226 Pine Street — 200 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
WWII Private Anthony C. Ferri

231 Pine Street

231 Pine Street — 200 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1906John Cleary
1906Frank Conola

232 Pine Street

232 Pine Street — 200 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1920s–1930 Louis 'Blackie' Bottino

235 Pine Street

235 Pine Street — 200 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1901 Joseph T. Daley & Family
1901Joseph T. & Emma Daley
1901Walter J. Daley

236 Pine Street

236 Pine Street — 200 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1880–1888William J. Mines
1933Joseph Doio

237 Pine Street

237 Pine Street — 200 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1887–1888John Foster's Saloon
1890–1891Charles Mayer's Saloon
1932Rafael Pettito

239 Pine Street

239 Pine Street — 200 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
WWII Technician Fifth Class Robert L. Hudson

245 Pine Street

245 Pine Street — 200 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1933Michael DiOrio

246 Pine Street

246 Pine Street — 200 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1906 Joseph & Theodosia Conaghy / Eagle Ice & Coal Company
1914James A. Conaghy
1940s–1950sThe Coccia Family

248 Pine Street

248 Pine Street — 200 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1878–1879 Wilson Bromley
1880 John P. Long
1911Annie R. Smith
1930Alphonso Ezzi & Family
1930Alphonso & Nicoletta Ezzi
1930WIlliam Ezzi
1930Alber Ezzi
1930James Ezzi
1930Arthur Ezzi
1930Santina Ezzi
1930Julia Ezzi
1930Mary Ezzi
1930Anna Ezzi
1930Adaleine Ezzi
1930Pauline Ezzi
1930DOloroes Ezzi
1930Monica Ezzi
WWII Staff Sergeant Francesconi Ezzi

249 Pine Street

249 Pine Street — 200 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1902–1903 Joseph T. Daley & Family
1902–1903Joseph T. & Emma Daley
1902–1903Walter J. Daley
1938Nicholas Dentino
1968Rev. Cora Page

250 Pine Street

250 Pine Street — 200 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1869 Thomas Allibone
1870s–1890sJames Foster
1870s John Foster

252 Pine Street

252 Pine Street — 200 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1940Photograph — March 1940
2011Vacant

253 Pine Street

253 Pine Street — 200 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1905Joseph Benny

254 Pine Street

254 Pine Street — 200 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1900s–1910s Frank Viggiano
2011Vacant

255 Pine Street

255 Pine Street — 200 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1869William J. Mines
1885 James Hunt & Family
1885James & Mary Hunt
1885 George H. Hunt
1885 Eli Morgan Hunt
1885 Theodosia Hunt Conaghy

256 Pine Street

256 Pine Street — 200 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1884 Edward Jubb

257 Pine Street

257 Pine Street — 200 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1884 William Deith
1894 William Bogia (Camden Fire Dept.)

258 Pine Street

258 Pine Street — 200 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1893–1894 William H. Doughten

259 Pine Street

259 Pine Street — 200 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1872–1879William J. Mines

260 Pine Street (256–264 Pine Street)

260 Pine Street (256–264 Pine Street) — 200 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
c.1900s South Jersey Bottling Company (storeroom)

264 Pine Street (256–266 Pine Street)

264 Pine Street (256–266 Pine Street) — 200 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1910s–1930s Frank Viggiano
1923–1981 Cipriano Moles Family / C. Moles & Son (South Jersey Bottling Co.)

265 Pine Street

265 Pine Street — 200 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1860s–1897 Christopher J. Mines Jr. & Family
1860s–1897Christopher J. & Mary Cavanaugh Mines
1860s–1897 Dr. Marcus K. Mines
1860s–1897 Benjamin Cavanaugh
1860s–1897 Jospeh Cavanaugh
1900s–1930 Antonio DiPaolo
1931Joseph Harris
mid-late 1940sSeven Brothers Cafe
late 1940s–late 1970s Vasco's Cafe
1878–1893John Cavanaugh
1878–1893Joseph Cavanaugh

266 Pine Street

266 Pine Street — 200 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1923–1981 Cipriano Moles Family / South Jersey Bottling Company
1923–1981The Cipriano Moles Family
219–223 Pine Street — Little Rock Baptist Church / El Bethel Church of Christ, 2012

219–223 Pine Street — Little Rock Baptist Church (1929), Faith Holy Temple (1947), El Bethel Church of Christ (1960s–2005), Bible Church of God (2014–2017). Photo, 2012.

252–254 Pine Street, December 2011

252–254 Pine Street, December 2011.

Volunteer Firemen Worked 14 Years To Pay Off $5000 Debt on Engine

Camden Courier-Post —

Volunteer Firemen Worked 14 Years To Pay Off $5000 Debt on Engine - Camden Courier-Post, October 9, 1936 Volunteer Firemen Worked 14 Years To Pay Off $5000 Debt on Engine - Camden Courier-Post, October 9, 1936 Volunteer Firemen Worked 14 Years To Pay Off $5000 Debt on Engine - Camden Courier-Post, October 9, 1936 Volunteer Firemen Worked 14 Years To Pay Off $5000 Debt on Engine - Camden Courier-Post, October 9, 1936 Volunteer Firemen Worked 14 Years To Pay Off $5000 Debt on Engine - Camden Courier-Post, October 9, 1936 Volunteer Firemen Worked 14 Years To Pay Off $5000 Debt on Engine - Camden Courier-Post, October 9, 1936 Volunteer Firemen Worked 14 Years To Pay Off $5000 Debt on Engine - Camden Courier-Post, October 9, 1936 Volunteer Firemen Worked 14 Years To Pay Off $5000 Debt on Engine - Camden Courier-Post, October 9, 1936 Volunteer Firemen Worked 14 Years To Pay Off $5000 Debt on Engine - Camden Courier-Post, October 9, 1936 Volunteer Firemen Worked 14 Years To Pay Off $5000 Debt on Engine - Camden Courier-Post, October 9, 1936 Volunteer Firemen Worked 14 Years To Pay Off $5000 Debt on Engine - Camden Courier-Post, October 9, 1936

Above is shown a photo of fire headquarters, Fifth and Arch streets, before it was remodeled to provide sleeping quarters for each fireman. The photo was taken in the Gay 90’s. A hook and ladder truck was housed in a building to the north of it. The main building contained horse-drawn apparatus. The stables were in the rear. Note the tower from which hose was suspended to dry after a fire.

Answered No Alarms but Paid Dues and Staged Benefits

BITTER RIVALRY HAMPERED MEN

This is the third installment of a history of fire fighting in Camden from 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 conjunction with Fire Prevention Week, sponsored by the Camden County Fire Chiefs’ Association and the Camden Fire Department. Yesterday’s installment told of the purchase of the first steam pumper by Weccacoe in 1864.

By FRANK SHERIDAN

The New Jersey Fire Company was organized May 1, 1851, and on July 21 that year obtained the fire apparatus formerly owned by the Mohawk company. The organizers of the company were James Carr, Samuel Adams, Thomas Butcher, Aaron Giles, John Wood, David H. Sparks, William Garwood, E. B. Turner, William Woodruff, Henry Coombs, Adam Newman and Caleb Clark. Coombs was elected president and Sparks secretary.

Frank Sheridan

The fire apparatus was housed in a stable at Broadway and Spruce street for a time. Better quarters were obtained later on Walnut street near Fourth. The New Jersey Company then purchased a lot on Chestnut street near Fourth street and erected a two-story brick building.

The company was incorporated in 1854 and disbanded in 1866. Its other presidents in succession were Carr, John Crowley, Joshua L. Melvin, Samuel Hickman, John Warrington, Jeremiah Brannon, Richard C. Mason and C. De Grasse Hogan.

A second Fairmount Fire Company was organized in 1854 and City Council gave the company the old Fairmount apparatus. The firemen rented a one-story frame building on Pine street near Third. The structure had been vacated by the Shiffler Hose Company.

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Organizers were William C. Figner, president; William J. Miller, secretary; Frederick Breyer, treasurer; William H. Hawkins, John W. Hoey, Henry A. Breyer, and Alfred H. Breyer. Additional members enrolled were George W. Watson, Anthony R. Joline, Thomas Francis, John L. Ames, George W. Howard, William F. Colbert, Francis Fullerton, John S. Ross, Joshua Spencer, Lawrence Breyer, William H. Lane and James Scout.

Incorporated in 1853

The company was incorporated on February 17, 1853. The name was changed to United States Fire Company, No. 5, on February 10, 1854. Scout was elected president and George Deal, secretary.

New fire apparatus was purchased by the reorganized company. A lot was acquired and a two-story frame house was erected at 239 Pine street. The company continued at the fire house until it disbanded with other volunteer companies in 1869.

The Weccacoe Hose Company, No. 2, was organized on March 15, 1858, and housed with Weccacoe Fire Company on Arch street between Fifth and Sixth streets, for two years. In 1860 the company moved to a stable at Hudson street and Bridge avenue. Later the firemen moved to De La Cour’s labratory [sic], Front street near Arch. In 1863 the company bought ground on Benson street above Fifth costing $450 and built a two-story brick building costing $2200.

The organizers were Allan Ward, Edward T. James, Edward J. Steer, John W. Garwood, George W. Thomas, Simeon H. Pine, Thomas C. Barret, Thomas Ellis, and John Thornton. Thomas D. Laverty was elected president; Ward, vice president; James, secretary, and Steer, treasurer.

Steam Engine Purchased

The company was incorporated on February 2, 1860. A steam fire engine was purchased in 1868 at a cost of $5800. The company proposed to pay off the debt by subscription, but agitation for a paid department prevented collection of the money. When the company went out of service in 1869 to be succeeded by a paid department the members decided not to disband and remained intact to pay off its indebtedness of $5000 remaining to sustain the honor of the company.

The firemen met at regular periods, paid dues and carried on for 14 years to wipe out the debt. On September 8, 1883, the company met, voted to pay the last claim of $14.25 and adjourned rather than disband. During the 14 years the company answered no alarms but held entertainments and benefits to raise funds to pay off its indebtedness.

The volunteer firemen were prompt, daring and efficient but each company was independent and misdirection frequently resulted in loss of property. This led to agitation for a fire department under complete control of the city, which had maintained indirect jurisdiction over the volunteers.

City Council passed an ordinance in 1866 to reorganize the system and provided for appointment of a fire marshal with approval of the companies. James W. Ayers, of Weccacoe Engine Company, was elected marshal for a term of two years. He was succeeded by Wesley P. Murray, of Weccacoe Hose Company, in 1868.

2 Fire Districts Formed

Both men were good organizers and popular but the rivalry between companies and insubordination re- [cut off at the crop edge]

Policy Sentencing

Camden Post —

Policy Sentencing - Camden Post, May 24, 1895 Policy Sentencing - Camden Post, May 24, 1895

Walter Garwood, Harriett Smith, William Parker and Washington Ketline, were then called up for sentence for policy writing.

Harry S. Scovel plead for leniency in the cases of Garwood, Parker and Mrs. Smith.

Garwood, he said, had never before been convicted. Neither had Parker. In the latter’s case the jury disagreed and Parker then plead guilty. In the case of Harriet Smith Mr. Scovel said that though she had previously been convicted she was a widow depending entirely on her own efforts for her support. She had plead non vult contendre [sic] and as Mr. Scovel thought a woman ought to go to State Prison only on serious crimes he plead for mercy for his client.

The Court was by no means inclined to be lenient, however.

Judge Vroom sentenced Garwood and Ketline to one year each at hard labor and $100 fine, while Mrs. Smith and Parker were each sentenced to one year in State Prison.

In sentencing the defendants, Judge Vroom said, the Court had decided to break up policy dealing in this city.

Lawyer J. J. Crandall, for Washington Ketline, then came before the court with a writ of error. Pending the writ the court decided to hold Ketline in $1000 bail.

Joseph Swing, who said he owned the house No. 509 Taylor avenue, valued at $1000 and upon which there is a $[?]00 mortgage, and John Cochran, who swore he owned property at 243 Pine street, appeared as bondsmen, but the court refused to accept them.

Lawyer Crandall said he had another in reserve, but he had not appeared with the other bondsman when court adjourned.

Man Held for Jury On Forgery Charge

Camden Courier-Post —

Man Held for Jury On Forgery Charge - Camden Courier-Post, January 12, 1953

Charged with two counts of forgery, Joseph S. Parker, 28, of Pine st., near 2nd, was held today without bail for grand jury action by Municipal Court Judge Dzick.

Detective Harry Kyler accused Parker of forging and passing a $65 check on Cosmo Cianci, 215 Pine st., on Dec. 29 and a $91 check at a South Camden bank on Jan. 5.

Parker, who pleaded not guilty but did not testify, was committed to the county jail.

Want Liquor Men Put on the Rack

Philadelphia Inquirer —

Want Liquor Men Put on the Rack - Philadelphia Inquirer, April 14, 1900

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.

Underworld Life Exposed as Hall Is Given Grilling

Camden Courier —

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Denounced and flayed as a “moral degenerate,” Policeman Ira Hall was summarily dismissed by the police committee of City Council last night following the most sensational hearing in the history of that body.

Resignations of Detective George Murry and Policemen Tony Latorre and William Draper, also were accepted before the hearing adjourned. Councilman J. Hartley Bowen, who presided, declared that “on their face the resignations appeared as an admission from the men of their guilt.” None of the three who tendered their resignations were present at the hearing.

The four men have been charged by City Solicitor Bleakly with responsibility for “shocking” vice conditions found in recent investigations made by federal agents and city officials in the Third and Fifth wards.

Committee’s Resolution

Just before the close of the hearing, shortly after 10 o’clock, Councilman Enos Dellmuth, of the Ninth ward, introduced a resolution urging a continuation of the vice probe by city officials and requesting that Solicitor Bleakly present to Prosecutor Wolverton “all evidence of a criminal nature” against the four accused.

His resolution, which the committee unanimously adopted, follows:

“Resolved that the city solicitor present to the prosecutor of the pleas all evidence of a criminal nature against officers George Murry, Ira Hall, William Draper and Tony Latorre in order that indictments may be secured against said officers, if the evidence justifies the same, and so that the ends of justice may be furthered and the community protected against a repetition of the evil conditions brought to light in the investigation, as far as it has gone.

“And be it further resolved that the investigation of vice conditions in the city be continued by the officials in charge of the recent investigation.”

Among those who attended the hearing besides Solicitor Bleakly and [?] were Frank S. Van Hart, president of Council, Chief of Police Gravenor, Assistant Chief Hyde and members of the police committee, including Councilmen Bowen, Dellmuth, Von Nieda, Bantivoglio, Corea, Dobbins, Dudley, Kelly and Payne. Each member of the committee took a personal interest in the proceedings and [?] question after question at the defendant and witnesses.

Spectators Jam Room

Spectators, among whom were several women welfare workers, filled every bit of space in police court, where the hearing was conducted. Expressions of disgust could be seen on many faces as revelations of the depravity that exists in the tenderloin district were made. Husky policemen, who by virtue of their duties one would expect to be accustomed to stories of immoral practices, almost blushed when they heard the startling accusations.

Hall seemed to have been assuming an attitude of defiance as indicated by accusations he directed at his superiors. He explained he had no lawyer and was entitled to all the privileges of a witness under such circumstances. He sat most of the time in a chair opposite the witness stand.

Hall’s Plea in Defense

“Why should I—one man—be held responsible for the vice that has been existing in the Fifth Ward for years?” Hall fairly shouted after he had taken the witness stand in his own defense.

“Doesn’t the captain of the district know that such conditions have existed in the ward and that there are disorderly houses there?” he continued. “What has been the matter with the men who have patrolled the beat near Second and Pine streets for years?”

He added dramatically as he faced the committeemen and the spectators: “If I had interfered I would have been before the police committee before this.”

Hall’s sarcastic remarks roused the ire of the city solicitors and the Councilmen and before he left the stand he refuted many of the allegations he made. He appeared “lost” many times when called upon to answer questions relative to remarks he uttered.

Acquitted of Robbery

Hall appeared before the committee for the express purpose of clearing himself of a charge of having been connected with the robbery of $250 from a soldier in a house that was conducted by Minnie Draper, underworld character, at 229 Pine street.

He also denied having aided the Draper woman to flee from Camden to Palmyra when she had been informed the “cops” were on her trail.

Hall was acquitted of the “robbery” charge. Solicitor Bleakly and Mr. West, his assistant, declared the evidence insufficient against Hall in the specification of the charges against the policeman.

The specifications against Hall read:

“That on or about January 2, 1921, at the premises at 229 Pine street, kept as a disorderly house by Jessie Smith, a soldier named Ernest Brown, was robbed of $250 with the connivance, aid and assistance of Ira Hall, in the presence of Minnie Draper, and that the said Minnie Draper was warned by Hall, then a police officer of the City of Camden, to get out of the house, ‘the cops are coming.’

“That when Officer Fisher went after Minnie Draper, on the charge of robbery, the woman told the officer to go and get a warrant, and, while he was in the process of getting a warrant, Police Officer Hall with one ‘Baby’ Paradise, now under charge of selling dope illegally, came and took Minnie Draper from Camden to Palmyra and concealed her there, well knowing that a warrant was out for her arrest.”

West Conducts Investigation.

Men frowned in disgust and women in the courtroom lowered their heads when shocking accusations against the policeman, a married man, were made. Hall seemed to glory in the condemnations of the attorneys and councilmen and even went as far as to declare “very few men can say their lives are clean.”

In one particular instance, Solicitor West, who conducted the greater part of the examination of witnesses, showed Hall several “familiar” letters the defendant wrote “Miss Alice E. [?]iske, of Atlantic City,” a white woman, according to Mr. West. Hall did not hesitate to admit he wrote the letters and that the woman named was a “friend” of his.

He denied, however, that he frequented disorderly houses near his “beat” and that he joined in “Dope” parties and other revelries of denizens of the underworld. He did admit that he was a “very intimate” friend of Jessie Smith, 229 Pine street, an underworld character who was brought from the county jail to appear as a witness at the hearing.

Hall said he only visited the alleged disorderly houses when he had a warrant to serve and when he was called to the place to quell any disturbance.

Smith Girl on Stand.

Hall admitted a charge that he had recommended Jessie Smith to an installment merchant when she made purchases to furnish a home. He vigorously denied he knew the furniture was to be used in partly equipping an alleged disorderly house said to have been operated by the Smith woman.

Upon examination, he declared he had often recommended persons to the same dealer but would never recommend anyone who was buying the furniture for disorderly house purposes.

When the Smith girl, colored, was called to the stand she testified the house she conducted at 229 Pine street was equipped with furniture purchased by her on the installment plan. She declared, upon examination, that Hall “signed” for her when she made the purchases, for which she paid $1[?] down.

The witness testified that she and Hall had been on “very intimate terms” and for a time had been known as “man and wife.” She declared she was under the impression her “friend” was a single man. She said the officer visited her frequently up until the past summer and on one or two occasions remained at her home during the night.

Hall There Night of Robbery

Solicitor West asked her if she had [?]ailed the robbery of $250 from a soldier last year in the house conducted by Minnie Draper, a colored girl 17 years old. She answered she [?] and said she recalled a soldier telling her he had been robbed of $250 the night of the alleged occurrence.

“Was Mr. Hall there on the night of the robbery?”

“Yes.”

In reply to questions from Mr. West, the witness declared Hall had been in the house “before and after” the alleged robbery.

“Was Mr. Hall in uniform?”

“No,” the witness replied.

Warned Her of Raid

[?] told [?] to put the soldier [?] that I should beat it” as the place was about to be raided.

“When the officers came there later he told them to put the ‘slightly’ intoxicated soldier out of the house.

“Did Mr. Hall say anything to Minnie Draper?”

“Yes, he told her to beat it, too.”

“Did Policeman Fisher come to the house the morning the robbery occurred?”

“Yes.”

“Did he have a warrant?”

The witness replied in the negative.

“Did Mr. Hall ever stay all night at 229 Pine street while you were there?”

“No.”

“Part of the night?”

“No.”

Went to Newark Once

The witness explained later that Hall had been at her home, 666 South Second street, all night on one occasion when she lived at that address.

“After one of the times you were released from the county jail, did you leave Camden?”

“Yes, I went to Newark.”

“Did you receive any communications from Mr. Hall while you were in Newark?” Solicitor West asked.

“Yes, several.”

She said, in answer to further questions, that Hall had informed her in the letters the matter involving the $250 was “all right and you don’t have to come back.”

He said also in the letter, continued the witness, he had “it fixed for Minnie Draper, too.” The witness said she still has letters she received from Hall, but she had not brought them to the hearing.

Hal [sic] was then granted permission to ask the witness questions.

“On the night of the alleged robbery,” he asked the witness, “did I come into your house?”

Denies Hall’s Questioning

“You did,” answered the woman in a positive tone.

“Didn’t I tell you that if you didn’t take that soldier out of the place that I would get the military police to take him out?” Hall asked.

“No, you didn’t.”

“Wasn’t I in my uniform the night of the alleged robbery?”

“No, you were in your citizen’s clothes that night.”

“That’s all,” Hall said to the witness.

It happened to be “all” as far as the witness was concerned because she was then excused from the stand by Mr. West.

Minnie Draper, the girl referred to in the charges against Hall, was brought from an outer room and asked to take the stand. She testified the robbery of the soldier was a little “before Easter” last year, and that Hall was there the evening it occurred.

Said “Cops” Surrounded House

“Hall told me to get out that night after the soldier had been robbed,” Minnie testified. “After the robbery occurred he told me ‘cops’ were surrounding the house and I should get out as fast as I could.”

She testified, upon being further examined by Mr. West, that Hall met her about two o’clock the night of the robbery and “went as far as Twenty-sixth street in a machine driven by Babe Paradise,” now under heavy bail on a charge of being a drug peddler. She said Hall alighted from the automobile at Twenty-sixth street and Paradise took her the rest of the way to Palmyra, where she remained, she said, from April until July.

She testified that on one occasion Hall visited a house where she was staying while she and other women were “enjoying a coke party.” She said that on another occasion she saw Hall and Jessie Smith in a room together acting in a “very familiar manner.”

Admits She Got Stolen Cash

She also testified that Detective Murry was given $50 to “squash” the robbery case, which, it has been alleged, involved Hall, herself and the Smith woman.

“Did you get any of the $250 stolen from the soldier?” Mr. West asked the witness.

“Yes. I know I got my part,” she answered. “The remainder went to Jessie Smith, but I suppose Mr. Hall got his share.”

“Was Mr. Hall in uniform when he gave you the caution to get out of the house the night of the robbery?”

“No,” the woman answered.

Chief Accuses Four Officers in Vice Probe

Camden Post-Telegram —

Chief Accuses Four Officers in Vice Probe - Camden Post-Telegram, January 4, 1922 Chief Accuses Four Officers in Vice Probe - Camden Post-Telegram, January 4, 1922 Chief Accuses Four Officers in Vice Probe - Camden Post-Telegram, January 4, 1922 Chief Accuses Four Officers in Vice Probe - Camden Post-Telegram, January 4, 1922 Chief Accuses Four Officers in Vice Probe - Camden Post-Telegram, January 4, 1922 Chief Accuses Four Officers in Vice Probe - Camden Post-Telegram, January 4, 1922 Chief Accuses Four Officers in Vice Probe - Camden Post-Telegram, January 4, 1922 Chief Accuses Four Officers in Vice Probe - Camden Post-Telegram, January 4, 1922 Chief Accuses Four Officers in Vice Probe - Camden Post-Telegram, January 4, 1922 Chief Accuses Four Officers in Vice Probe - Camden Post-Telegram, January 4, 1922 Chief Accuses Four Officers in Vice Probe - Camden Post-Telegram, January 4, 1922

Detective George Murray and Policemen Hall, Draper and Latorre Cited on Serious Allegations

Alleges Sleuth Gave Protection

Serious charges were made to-day by Chief Gravenor against City Detective George Murray and Policemen Ira Hall, William Draper and Tony Latorre as a result of the inquiry made into vice conditions by City Counsel Bleakly. Each is accused of unbecoming conduct, violations of the rules and neglect of duty.

Murray is charged with accepting money from disorderly house proprietors, of “tipping” off persons accused of crime, of “winking at” sales of dope, and of other irregularities.

Copies of the charges were served on the accused officers to-day, and Wednesday evening, January 11, was fixed as a date for a hearing by the Police Committee.

Bleakly’s Caustic Comment

In filing the charges with the Police Committee, City Counsel Bleakly attaches a memorandum in which he makes caustic comment as follows:

“The publicity heretofore given prior to the charges being preferred has, as I have stated before, interfered somewhat with the investigation. Such work should always be done secretly and without the offenders being put on guard.

“We have had the greatest difficulty in securing witnesses. Some have been, we are sure, spirited away. The mouths of others have been suddenly closed. Other sources of information which we might have used have been closed up. Of course, we cannot possibly ascertain what means or methods were used to choke off their witnesses. All we know is that the thing was done.

“The government agents, when they obtained their evidence, were not working under any such handicap. They worked secretly and, of course, the ordinary sources of information were open to them. As I have stated in my previous report, we could not use the evidence they secured because we had not gotten it ourselves at first hand. When, however, we proceeded to secure some of this evidence we found the avenues closed. Notwithstanding this handicap, however, we have obtained sufficient evidence on which to base a number of very serious charges as will appear from the complaints filed.

“The most serious charges, as it will appear, are those made against Detective George Murray. From the statements which I have secured it would seem that this officer has been exerting himself as a protector instead of a [?] and criminals. If the facts elicited are true, Detective Murray, instead of protecting the good name and citizens of [?] the city as he was paid to do has been accepting pay from citizens of the underworld to protect them in their evil practices.

“The other officers are implicated in serious offenses, but the different charges in their particular cases do not seem to be so numerous as in the case of Detective Murray. He seems to have acted as a sort of clearing house or go-between for all sorts of violations of the law. I have not attempted to run out all the clues and rumors which have been brought to my attention during this investigation. This was impossible during the short time alloted to me to make this investigation. I have eliminated all rumors which have been founded on hearsay or insufficient evidence. In fact, the charges preferred are all based on the evidence of at least two witnesses to the overt act or acts complained of.

“In performing this work I have had brought to my attention many complaints which upon investigation were not sufficient, in my opinion, to justify the preferring of charges against any officer. If all these rumors are true, it might be possible that a number of other persons other than the officers against whom charges have been preferred have been guilty of criminal acts. The investigation, however, of such matters is for the grand jury and the prosecution thereof is solely within the province of the Prosecutor of the Pleas. This duty is not imposed on the legal department of the city. This department is concerned in civil rather than criminal matters.

“Where, however, criminal acts are charged not as crimes, but as grounds for removal of any city official, the prosecution of such charges devolves on this department, and in accordance with our duty in such case this department has had preferred the charges above mentioned and will be ready to prosecute the same at a meeting of the committee, if one shall be held on the evening of Wednesday, January 11, 1922.

“After conference with your chairman, we have had notices served on the officers accused and advised them to be present and ready to proceed with these hearings on that date.

“Permit me to say that in the course of this investigation we have had the full and hearty co-operation of the chief and assistant chief of police and also that of Mr. Wolverton, County Prosecutor, to whose aid much credit is due for the facts elicited.”

Three Others Accused.

Conduct unbecoming an officer, violation of the rules of the department and neglect of duty are the charges made by Chief of Police Gravenor against Policemen Ira Hall, William Draper and Tony Latorre.

The specific charge mentioned in the affidavit concerning Hall sets forth that Hall was implicated in the robbing of a soldier, Ernest Brown, of $250 by Jessie Smith in an alleged disorderly house kept by her at 229 Pine street; that Hall warned a Minnie Draper, who got a share of the stolen money, that “the cops were coming;” that Hall aided in getting the Draper woman out of Camden and hiding her in Palmyra to avoid arrest; that Hall, while a policeman, “consorted with and had dealings, criminal and otherwise,” with Jessie Smith, and that he frequented disorderly houses.

The charges against Draper are that he frequented disorderly houses, that he raided a poker game at 327 Line street, December 11, 1920, arrested four men and later left them go, but retained $50 taken in the raid; that Draper jumped out of the front window at the house of Hazel Boyer, 66[?] South Second street, December 29, 1921. The Boyer woman was arrested by city detectives and policemen at that time and it is alleged that Draper, a married man, was occupying a second-story room with a woman. Draper ran into the house next door and was found there, the affidavit says.

Payment of a $50 Liberty Bond and $15 “costs” for protection from arrest of Nazzarano DeVechies fo[?], participating in a crap game is a charge in the affidavit against Latorre.

It is also alleged that Latorre also took money also from Joseph Fanin[?], another crap player, and that he told Paolo Genovese, loser of the Liberty Bond in the game, that the bond had been cashed and divided and that he gave Genovese $[?]0 as his “share.” The affidavit also says that Latorre allowed a trunk containing liquor to be carried into a garage, ordered an employe of the garage owner to leave and that later Latorre offered Harry K[?]ox, owner of the garage, money to drop a complaint against him for going into the garage. Frequenting disorderly houses is also charged against Latorre.

2 Boys Nearly Drown as Dog Rescue Fails

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2 Boys Nearly Drown as Dog Rescue Fails - Camden Courier-Post, January 24, 1928

One Swims in Icy Creek to Take Rope From Shore

“Aw gee it wasn’t nothing.” That was the way William Watkins, 13 years old, 1025 Princess Avenue, who is shown above, expressed today his rescue of Richard Richardson, 9 years old, 1028 Princess Avenue, pictured below. Richard was attempting to save a marooned puppy in a tributary of Cooper River when he fell into the icy water.

Death in the icy water of a Cooper River tributary was the fate that almost overtook a 9-year-old Camden schoolboy who late yesterday risked his life to save a shivering little stray puppy he discovered floating down the stream on a block of ice.

Few epics of the sea have the elements of adventure and heroism that are woven into this story.

Richard Richardson, 9 years old, 1028 Princess Avenue, was the outstanding hero. He spent 39 minutes clinging to pieces of ice and debris in the stream after his attempt to save the puppy had failed. Today he was in Cooper hospital suffering from extreme exposure.

But young Richard wasn’t the only hero of the day. There were four of his playmates with him when he tried to rescue the animal in distress. This little “supporting cast” came in for its share of glory. When Richard slipped into the water all of them showed “grown-up” presence of mind and to them goes credit for saving their companion’s life.

Playing After School

Robert Perrit, 15 years old, 1062 Princess Avenue; Howard Hadleman, 10 years old, 1040 Princess Avenue; William Kline, 12 years old, 1041 Princess Avenue; and William Watkins, 13 years old, 1025 Princess Avenue, were playing with the Richardson boy at the foot of Pine Street after school.

Parallel with Pine Street, running from the end of the roadway to the Baird Avenue bridge, there is a stream 30 feet wide, which was dredged out when the course of Cooper River was changed several years ago. A swift current is formed by the overflow of the river.

It was beginning to grow dark when the youngsters were attracted to the stream by the yelps of a dog. They ran to the bank and found a forlorn looking puppy floating away on a piece of ice that had broken from the shore. Although he was the youngest of the group, his love of animals is the greatest and so it was young Mr. Richardson who decided that Fido, as they called him, should be rescued.

The fearless little boy walked out into the center of the stream, stepping from one block of ice to another in the fashion of Simon Legree in that blood-curdling melodrama, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.”

Just Misses Dog

While the four on shore shouted a warning, Richard, within reach of the dog, slipped into the water.

Instead of being frightened into confusion, the little quartet was electrified into action. Hadleman and Watkins remained on shore futilely attempting to get to the boy who was splashing around in the water, while Kline and Perrit ran 100 yards to the plant of the Taylor White Extracting Company.

There they told the story of what had happened as calmly as they could to John Simpkins, of Mt. Ephraim Avenue and Spruce Street, and Morton Ashton, 100 Evergreen Avenue, Woodlynne.

The two men grabbed several planks and a coil of rope, and followed the youthful pair back to the water’s edge.

Richard was still paddling about in the stream, clinging to pieces of ice that slipped from his grasp almost as soon as he touched them. It was obvious that he was almost exhausted.

Simpkins and Ashton tied a rope onto the Watkins boy’s waist, set him afloat on a large plank and gave him an end of another rope to tie to Richard. The plan was a good one, but it almost failed, for just as William had paddled him out to where Richard was struggling, almost 20 feet from the south bank, he fell from his improvised raft. Just as the boy he fought to rescue had fallen into the water within inches of the puppy.

Bravely Gives Rope

But William was determined to show the grit that had been displayed by Richard. Without a single shout for help or a cry of distress, he struggled on a few feet more and handed the almost exhausted boy the end of the rope.

Simpkins and Ashton then pulled the pair to shore.

At the offices of the Taylor White Company, the pair was undressed and rubbed dry. W. E. Shore, 1425 Ormond Avenue, took Richard to Cooper Hospital, while the other four, praise for their heroism unsung, disappeared.

It is a story to rival the rescue tales of many a seafaring gentleman, but it has two strange bits of anti-climax.

Before Robert and Howard and William and young Watkins went home, they returned to the bank of the stream; the dog had vanished, apparently to the bottom.

And half an hour later, William Watkins, his clothes soaked and his face covered with mud, received a spanking for getting home late for dinner.

4 Held for Grand Jury After Gambling Raid

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4 Held for Grand Jury After Gambling Raid - Camden Courier-Post, February 22, 1938

The plea of four men that they were only listening to a radio broadcast Saturday on War Admiral’s latest turf triumph failed to prevent their being held yesterday for grand jury action when arraigned in police court.

Judge Gene R. Mariano held Dominick Di Pilla, 40, of 433 Broadway, in $1000 bail as the owner of an alleged gambling house and three companions in bail of $500 each as material witnesses. The latter are Nicholas Dentina, 20, of 249 Pine street; Anthony Di Pilla, 38, of 512 Benson street, and Edward Bock, 26, of 219 Cooper avenue, Woodlynne.

They were arrested late Saturday when a squad of police, headed by Detective Thomas Murphy, raided the Broadway address and seized horse racing sheets and other evidence.

Teacher’s ‘Hunch’ O. K. as Pupil Takes $6

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Teacher’s ‘Hunch’ O. K. as Pupil Takes $6 - Camden Courier-Post, June 2, 1932 Teacher’s ‘Hunch’ O. K. as Pupil Takes $6 - Camden Courier-Post, June 2, 1932 Teacher’s ‘Hunch’ O. K. as Pupil Takes $6 - Camden Courier-Post, June 2, 1932

Rafael Petito, 10, of 237 Pine street, started out to have a good time with $6 belonging to his teacher, but wound up in the Detention Home because the teacher proved to be a good detective. Yesterday Police Judge Pancoast sent him back to the Detention Home after hearing the teacher, Jane Baker, 203 East Clinton avenue, Oaklyn, tell how she found Rafael in a movie theatre Tuesday night.

The boy is a pupil in Miss Baker’s class at the Central School, Fourth and Washington streets, and didn’t return for the afternoon session Tuesday. Miss Baker’s $6 was in a purse in her desk which she missed at noon. Miss Baker had a “hunch” her pupil might be located in a movie show and sure enough that’s where Petito was found. She turned him over to the police.

Woman Held for Jury After Fatal Stabbing

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Woman Held for Jury After Fatal Stabbing - Camden Courier-Post, June 15, 1932

Declaring she was “just playing with a knife” when Rudolph Spicer, 28, colored, of 146 Walnut street, was stabbed to death Sunday night in her home, Mrs. Emma Pollard, 32, of 1065 Ivins street, was held without bail for the grand jury yesterday on a murder charge.

Police Judge Garfield Pancoast also held without bail, as a material witness, William Epps, 44, colored, of 203 Pine street, at the request of Detective Edward Mills. Mills said Epps was present when Spicer was stabbed in the chest.

Four Men Arrested in Shooting Threat

Camden Courier-Post —

Four Men Arrested in Shooting Threat - Camden Courier-Post, October 11, 1933

Four men were arrested last night as the result of an alleged threat to shoot one of them.

Michael Di Orio, 30, of 245 Pine street, was held in $1000 bail on a charge of threatening to kill George Hettrick, 23, of 905 Moore street, who was held in $500 bail as a material witness to the case. Others held as witnesses are Ralph Di Servio, 21, of 307 Pine street, and James Liccketto, 24, of 640 South Third street.

Hettrick, according to Sergt. Gustav Koerner, said Di Orio threatened to “give him the works” while he was attending a party Monday night. The others were with the accused, Hettrick said. Detectives Walter Smith, John Trout and Marshall Thompson nabbed the trio at a restaurant and said Hettrick identified them at police headquarters.

Jealousy Seen as Motive for Bombing Dairy

Camden Evening Courier —

Police Seeking Mysterious Stranger in Terrific Downtown Blast

Milk Plant Damaged; Nearby Homes Rocked

Crudely Made Explosive Placed in Trench Beneath Steps

With the owners and the police attributing jealousy of business success as the only plausible motive for the bombing last night of the plant of the Sanitary Milk Dairies Company, at 311 Division Street, search was started today for a tall, heavyset man, with mixed blue suit, as the bomber.

City detectives mingled among the throngs of men, women and children who today viewed the damage caused by the bomb — a crude, home-made time device — which, in exploding, rocked the neighborhood, shattered window panes, doors, fences and the exteriors of nearby properties. Machinery in the Coccia plant was damaged by the concussion and by parts of bomb shrapnel, which pierced or bent it.

Mrs. Angelina Coccia, mother of the Coccia brothers, her daughter, Theresa Coccia, 14, and Mrs. Mary De Luzzio, 59, of 317 Division Street, were in the kitchen of the Coccia home when the bomb exploded. The dairy is at the rear of the home of Primo Coccia, one of the owners. His brothers — partners in the business — are Paul Coccia, 242 Pine Street; Adam Coccia, 346 Cherry Street, and Matthew Coccia, 941 South Third Street.

Saw Mysterious Stranger

Mrs. Coccia cannot speak English, but through her son, Matthew Coccia, it was learned today that, before the explosion, she had seen a man passing the kitchen window.

“The man walked down the alley at the side of the house,” Mrs. Coccia told her son in Italian. “He was a heavy-set man and tall; I thought he was a customer who had come for milk. People often come at night to buy milk, and I did not think it strange about the man.

“But then I waited for him to knock at the back door, as customers usually do,” she continued.

“When he did not knock, I wondered what he might be up to, and I was just ready to leave the kitchen to see where he went when I heard the explosion. I did not know what happened after that, I was so nervous, I didn’t even see the man leave the way he came. But he was the one who set the bomb. Of that I am sure.”

Dog Vainly Warns

The Coccias have a big Italian Bulldog chained to a gasoline tank at the rear of their home. The dog barked continually last night to warn the Coccias; they were so used to his barks, they said today, that they thought he had been growling at a customer, as he sometimes does late at night.

Mrs. Coccia said she was unable to give a detailed description of the man she saw last night because an electric bulb in the alleyway was not lit. It was the first time the alley was in darkness at night, Matthew Coccia said, and this the bomber apparently took into consideration in seeking to go about his diabolical tasks without possible detection.

Coccia said boys living in the neighborhood saw the man enter an automobile, with lights out, immediately after the explosion shook the neighborhood. The car, they said, had been parked near the Coccia home with its front and rear lights out.

Detective Fiore Troncone, who is investigating the bombing, informed Coccia today that he had received a description of the automobile from Coccia’s neighbors. They said they had seen the driver put on the lights at Fourth and Division Street as he turned the corner to go north in his escape.

Rev. John S. Hackett, pastor of the Wiley M.E. Church, Third and Berkley Streets, who was among those viewing the damage done by the bomb, said he saw the man acting nervously at Third and Pine Street last night, immediately after the explosion. His description of the man tallied with that given by Mrs. Coccia.

“I was waiting for the first edition of the Morning Post to arrive at the store at that corner,” Mr. Hackett said today, “when my attention was attracted to this man. He seemed to be very nervous about something. He was fairly tall and heavy-set and wore a mixed blue suit, with light coloring.

“When the papers arrived and I bought a copy, he seemed to be very anxious to see what was on the front page. I did not know about the bomb until I read the paper, but it occurred to me later that perhaps this man was acting suspiciously and was eager to see what damage had been caused. I’m sorry now I didn’t question him. But I can give police a good description of him.”

The Coccias said the only reason they could see for the bombing was jealousy of their business success by a person with a deranged mind.

“We had no enemies,” Matthew Coccia said, “and we never fought with anybody. I cannot understand it. It must have been jealousy at the way we were getting along.”

Coccia said no threatening letters had been received. He insisted that there was no reason why the “Blackhand” should desire to ruin Primo Coccia’s home or their business.

Neighbors Called Police and Firemen

Detectives found a firemen’s shovel near where the stone steps to the dairy had been. They believed it had been used to dig a trench under the steps in which to insert the bomb.

Primo Coccia, who had been to the theatre, came home five minutes after the explosion. He found a throng in front and dazedly pushed through until his mother hysterically screamed the news to him.

The bomb burst in the dairy door and sprayed big pieces of the iron pipe along the side of the house and into the room, where it caused most of the damage to the machinery.

Fifteen windows of the Coccia house were shattered and police believe the foundations at the rear may have been weakened.

The worst damage to neighboring buildings was to the rear of the Seven Brothers Bakery, owned by the Canzanese Brothers, 318–322 Pine Street, which backs against the dairy. Twenty windows of the bakery were crushed in, the door was riddled with small pieces of the pipe and the rear was peppered with the “shrapnel.”

Mario Manarefi, 912 South Fourth Street, a bookkeeper in the bakery, was at his home nearby. He ran to the street and looked several minutes for the bombers before he joined the crowd.

Joseph Scotthouse, 317 Division Street, ran to the yard at the rear of his home to find the fence had been peppered with tiny pieces of the pipe, some of which had torn into his kitchen through windows and doors.

Six windows of the home of Sabatino Di Paolo, 321 Division Street, were broken. Fragments of the pipe were found on the floor of rooms on the second floor of his house, he told police.

A police cordon was thrown around the neighborhood by Chief of Police Stehr, who took personal charge of the investigation.

Police from every district in the city were rushed to the scene and patrols were dispatched to be prepared for any eventuality.

The neighborhood was searched carefully and every resident was questioned, but no one was able to give any clue which might lead police to the bombers.

Squads of detectives and police patrolled the neighborhood for hours after the explosion, seeking objects which might have been dropped by the bombers.

Vice Squad Raids Nine Disorderly Houses

Camden Courier-Post —

Vice Squad Raids Nine Disorderly Houses - Camden Courier-Post, February 7, 1927

Starting at midnight Saturday the vice squad and other police raided nine alleged colored disorderly houses in South Camden.

The biggest raid was made at the home of Walter Edgerton, colored, 1088 Ivins street. Edgerton, a former prize fighter known many years ago as the “Kentucky Rosebud,” was held in $500 bail as the proprietor of the place. Twelve men, all said to have been rolling dice, were arrested. Several of the players had scrambled for doors and windows, but nobody escaped.

Others whose places were raided and who were held in $500 bail each as principals are Ruth Smith, 714 Locust street; Unity Hall, 318 Joint alley; Addie Johnson, 213 Pine street; Mamie Booker, 703 Baxter street; Miriam Robinson, 312 Division street; John and Mary Walker, 1133 South Second street; June Loftus, 822 Locust street, and Ethel Davis, 821 Locust street. All are colored.

300 Block of Pine Street

300 Block of Pine Street

301 Pine Street

301 Pine Street — 300 Block of Pine Street
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1896–1906 William H. Doughten

306 Pine Street

306 Pine Street — 300 Block of Pine Street
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1871–1872 William Cox

308–322 Pine Street

308–322 Pine Street — 300 Block of Pine Street
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October 28, 1936Street view photograph

309 Pine Street

309 Pine Street — 300 Block of Pine Street
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WWII Private Nathaniel Keyes

310 Pine Street

310 Pine Street — 300 Block of Pine Street
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1932Cosmo Caprice

312 Pine Street

312 Pine Street — 300 Block of Pine Street
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1930 Carl V. Ceciro & Family
1930Carl V. & Margaret L. Ceciro
1930Philomena Ceciro
1930Carolina Ceciro
1930Rosemary Ceciro
1930Lucy Ceciro
1930Antoinetta Ceciro
1930Margarete Ceciro
1930Carl D. Ceciro

313 Pine Street

313 Pine Street — 300 Block of Pine Street
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1927–1954Lawrence 'Larry' Parisi & Family
1927–1954Lawrence & Domenica "Maggie" Parisi
1927–1954George Parisi
1927–1954Charles Parisi

316 Pine Street

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1921Nicholas Sapenzo

316–322 Pine Street

316–322 Pine Street — 300 Block of Pine Street
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1910–late 1930s Seven Brothers Bakery
1947Camden Millwork Company Warehouse

317 Pine Street

317 Pine Street — 300 Block of Pine Street
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1863–1874Augustus M. Crissey & Family (printer)
1901–1904 George Owens Addison & Family
1901–1904George & Emma V. Garwood Addison
1901–1904Catherine "Kate" Addison
1901–1904George O. Addison Jr.
1901–1904Ella Addison
1901–1904Mary Elizabeth Addison
1901–1904Matilda Addison
1901–1904John T. Addison

317–325 Pine Street

317–325 Pine Street — 300 Block of Pine Street
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1930s–1960s Marchisello Brothers Inc.

319 Pine Street

319 Pine Street — 300 Block of Pine Street
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1961Marchisello Brothers Inc.Veterans Boxing Association Ring No. 6, 1961 Banquet Program Ad
1955Christian Welfare Institute

321 Pine Street

321 Pine Street — 300 Block of Pine Street
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1933Guilio & Philomena Marcozzi

324 Pine Street

324 Pine Street — 300 Block of Pine Street
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1860s–1870sFrederick Schilpp
1876–1880s Jacob Schiller

326 Pine Street

326 Pine Street — 300 Block of Pine Street
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1890s–1898 Wilson Bromley
1957Carmine Campanella & Family

327–335 Pine Street

327–335 Pine Street — 300 Block of Pine Street
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1955Camden Millwork

328 Pine Street

328 Pine Street — 300 Block of Pine Street
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1877–1878 Boston Corbett

329 Pine Street

329 Pine Street — 300 Block of Pine Street
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1902William D. Ridgway

331 Pine Street

331 Pine Street — 300 Block of Pine Street
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1930s–1960sMarchisello Brothers garage

334 Pine Street

334 Pine Street — 300 Block of Pine Street
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1900David Williams

335 Pine Street

335 Pine Street — 300 Block of Pine Street
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1886Peter Engle & Family

336 Pine Street

336 Pine Street — 300 Block of Pine Street
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1878 William M. Butts

337–345 Pine Street

337–345 Pine Street — 300 Block of Pine Street
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1914Benjamin H. Ogden (wagon builder)
1914Benjamin H. Ogden
1923–1928B.F. Ogden & Company (auto body)
1923–1928B.F. Ogden & Company
1947Joseph V. Burgo & Sons (scrap glass)
1947Joseph V. Burgo & Sons
1969337- Henry's Open Door Garage
1969337 Williamson's Garage
1973343 Burgo Broken Glass Dealer
1973343 Burgo Scrap Glass Dealer

340 Pine Street

340 Pine Street — 300 Block of Pine Street
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1950–2002 Jesthroe Hunt Sr.

343 Pine Street

343 Pine Street — 300 Block of Pine Street
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1886George Hunsinger
1900s–1920sBenjamin H. Ogden & Family (wagon builder)
1900s–1920sBenjamin H. & Rhoda Ogden
1900s–1920sBenjamin F. Ogden
1900s–1920sFlora Ogden
1900s–1920sEva Ogden
1900s–1920sMorris Ogden
1900s–1920sClara Ogden

345 Pine Street

345 Pine Street — 300 Block of Pine Street
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1880s–1890s John Foster

351 Pine Street

351 Pine Street — 300 Block of Pine Street
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1917–1956Michael (Michele) Burgo & Family
1917–1956Michael & Rose Burgo
1917–1956Angeline Burgo
1917–1956Rocco Burgo
1917–1956Frank Burgo
1917–1956John Burgo
1917–1956Antoinetta Burgo
1917–1956Mary E. Burgo
1936–1956Joseph Gentlesk & Family (Camden Fire Dept.)
1936–1956Joseph & Angeline Burgo Gentlesk
1936–1956Rosemarie Gentlesk
1936–1956Anne Gentlesk
1936–1956Antoinette Gentlesk

353 Pine Street

353 Pine Street — 300 Block of Pine Street
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Anthony M. Lario
Frank M. Lario Sr.

355 Pine Street

355 Pine Street — 300 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1933Matthew & Adele Adinolfi
1967 E. Ragone / Union of Brotherly Love social club
1967E. Ragone
300 block of Pine Street — Sanborn Fire Insurance Map

300 block of Pine Street — Sanborn Fire Insurance Map.

319 Pine Street — 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone Yellow Pages ad

319 Pine Street, 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone Yellow Pages ad.

MARCHISELLO BROS INC

SCRAP IRON

We Buy & Sell

IRON AND METAL
PAPER MILL SUPPLIES
RAGS & NEWSPAPERS

319 Pine Cam . . . . . . . . . . WOodlawn 3-2040

327 Pine Street — 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone Yellow Pages ad

327 Pine Street, 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone Yellow Pages ad.

[CAM]DEN MILLWORK—DIVISION OF
[?] DI MEDIO & SONS INC

[3]27 Pine Cam . . . . . . . . . . EMersn 5-0280

330 Pine Street, August 2011 338 Pine Street, August 2011 340–342 Pine Street, August 2011 342 Pine Street, August 2011

330–342 Pine Street, August 2011.

Bakery Introduces New Kind of Bread

Camden Courier-Post —

Bakery Introduces New Kind of Bread - Camden Courier-Post, October 28, 1936 Bakery Introduces New Kind of Bread - Camden Courier-Post, October 28, 1936

No Fat or Lard Used in Italian Loaf By Camden Firm

A new loaf of Italian style bread has been introduced on the market by the Seven Brothers Baking Co., 322 Pine street. The new loaf, known as “Tasty-Crust,” differs in shape from the old style round loaf, is sliced ready for use and wrapped in oiled paper with open celophane [sic] window for customer inspection.

Tasty-Crust, according to Vincent Canzanese, head of the firm, is made from selected wheat high in protein content and contains vitamin “D” which is beneficial in building strong bones and red blood cells, according to Canzanese.

“No fat or lard is used in the baking, which is done by the slow process in hearthen ovens to caramelize the natural sugar of the flour,” said Canzanese. “It avoids overweight and is good for the muscles and teeth. To build gums and teeth strong, it is necessary for them to have the exercise afforded by chewing. Children like the ‘crunchy’ crust and its delicious flavor.

“Experienced bakers give minute attention to the mixing process which produces a fine texture that is ideal for toasting.

Tasty-Crust bread is delivered direct to homes eveery [sic] day by a fleet of 18 trucks that cover a large portion of South Jersey.

The bakery was originally opened here in 1910 by an uncle of the present management. During his years in the baking business he had carefully instructed his nephews in the art he had mastered. In 1916, the seven Canzanese brothers took over the business and chose Vincent as manager. Year after year they have improved their establishment and enlarged their scope. They recently installed complete new baking equipment of the type shown for the first time at the bakers convention this year in Atlantic City. In addition to Tasty-Crust, the bakery supplies several other type of breads, buns, rolls.

2 Runaway Horses Imperil Children

Camden Courier-Post —

2 Runaway Horses Imperil Children - Camden Courier-Post, May 17, 1934 2 Runaway Horses Imperil Children - Camden Courier-Post, May 17, 1934

Gallopers Stage Impromptu Race in South Camden Traffic

Scores of children on their way to school were endangered yesterday when two horses hitched to a bakery wagon ran away in South Camden streets, ignoring red traffic lights and shouts of pedestrians and motorists.

A horse hitched to a wagon of the Seven Brothers Bakery, 322 Pine street, broke loose from its wagon at Third and Berkley streets when it was frightened by a truck, according to Joseph Cirelli, Second and Washington streets, the wagon driver. The animal raced east in Berkley street to West street, where it collided with an automobile. Despite numerous cuts and bruises, the horse continued its dash eastward.

At the headquarters of Freihofer Bakery Company, Fifth and Berkley streets, where several bakery wagons were being loaded, the runaway animal frightened the horses of the company, and one bolted.

Both horses crossed Broadway, demoralizing traffic and sending scores of children running in all directions to escape the menace of flying hoofs and a careening wagon.

At the railroad tracks, the bakery wagon and one horse was [sic] captured.

The other horse turned north in Sixth street, pursued by Motorcycle Policeman William Thorn.

Thorn overtook the horse and brought it to a stop at Sixth and Stevens streets, opposite Cooper Hospital. The animal was taken to the city stables at Federal street and Admiral Wilson boulevard, where it was later claimed by the driver.

A Girl’s Sad Death

Philadelphia Inquirer —

A Girl’s Sad Death - Philadelphia Inquirer, September 27, 1886

The body of a young girl was discovered on Saturday at Undertaker Ramsey’s, No. 531 Diamond street, and by order of the authorities was taken back to Camden whence it had been brought, to No. 335 Pine street, the house of Mrs. Engle, who was arrested and given a hearing before Mayor Pratt the same evening, when Dr. J. G. Stanton testified that he had been called to attend the deceased, whose name was Kate Gutenkunst, and who died of peritonitis. Dr. Formad’s testimony and that of County Physician Gross showed that the case was one of malpractice. The accused was held on that charge. The body was sent back to the undertaker’s.

Two Hurt in Car Collision

Camden Courier-Post —

Two Hurt in Car Collision - Camden Courier-Post, June 13, 1932

A man and woman were injured Saturday night in a collision of automobiles at Twenty-seventh street and River avenue.

Cosmio Caprice, 21, of 310 Pine street, was treated at Cooper Hospital for cuts of the left arm. Maria Fanelli, 22, of 210 Clinton street, a passenger in his car, suffered bruises of the head. The Caprice car collided with another driven by Louis A. Betz, 37, of 1221 Du Pont street.

Camden Fire Alarms

Camden Courier-Post —

Camden Fire Alarms - Camden Courier-Post, February 15, 1956

Midnight Monday Until Midnight Tuesday

10.50 a. m., 2nd and Beckett sts., grass.

12.52 p. m., 2709 Federal st., grass.

1.40 p. m., 31st and Pleasant sts., grass.

4.35 p. m., 1245 Mechanic st., rubbish.

6.29 p. m., 322 Pine st., part of flooring and joists.

400 Block of Pine Street

400 Block of Pine Street

406 Pine Street

406 Pine Street — 400 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1938–1939Sixth Ward Italian Democrat Club
1939Sixth Ward Italian Democrat Club

409 Pine Street (407–409 Pine Street)

409 Pine Street (407–409 Pine Street) — 400 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
current Camden Fire Department Engine Company Number 1

410 Pine Street

410 Pine Street — 400 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1894 Thomas Eastlack & Family

411 Pine Street

411 Pine Street — 400 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1878–1880 Edmund Shaw & Family
1878–1880Edmund & Susanna Shaw
1881–1884 George S. Hunt & Family
1881–1884George & Clara Cook Hunt
1881–1884Walter Hunt
1881–1884David Hunt
1881–1884 John A.S. Hunt

412 Pine Street

412 Pine Street — 400 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1940–1943Alphonso Ezzi & Family
1940–1943Alphonso & Nicoletta Ezzi
1940–1943 Francesconi Ezzi
1940–1943WIlliam Ezzi
1940–1943Alber Ezzi
1940–1943James Ezzi
1940–1943Arthur Ezzi
1940–1943Santina Ezzi
1940–1943Julia Ezzi
1940–1943Mary Ezzi
1940–1943Anna Ezzi
1940–1943Adaleine Ezzi
1940–1943Pauline Ezzi
1940–1943DOloroes Ezzi
1940–1943Monica Ezzi

412–414 Pine Street

412–414 Pine Street — 400 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1950s–1960s Valeriani Bottling Company

413 Pine Street

413 Pine Street — 400 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1880s–1890s Richard Outwater
1933Samuel Ranier

415 Pine Street

415 Pine Street — 400 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1906 W. Elwood Campbell

416 Pine Street

416 Pine Street — 400 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1877 James Hunt & Family
1877James & Mary Hunt
1877 George H. Hunt
1877 Eli Morgan Hunt
1877 Theodosia Hunt Conaghy
1877–1888 George S. Hunt & Family
1877–1888George & Clara Cook Hunt
1877–1888Walter Hunt
1877–1888David Hunt
1877–1888 John A.S. Hunt

417 Pine Street

417 Pine Street — 400 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1890–1892 George S. Hunt & Family
1890–1892George & Clara Cook Hunt
1890–1892Walter Hunt
1890–1892David Hunt
1890–1892 John A.S. Hunt
1895–1897 Thomas Eastlack & Family

419 Pine Street

419 Pine Street — 400 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1911 Nicholas Romaine
1931Roland Scott

421 Pine Street

421 Pine Street — 400 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1899 William E. Laird

424 Pine Street (420–424 Pine Street)

424 Pine Street (420–424 Pine Street) — 400 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1955Neri's Motor Service

425 Pine Street

425 Pine Street — 400 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1938Mrs. Beatrice Di Giuseppe

426 Pine Street

426 Pine Street — 400 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1889Maggie Morris

431 Pine Street

431 Pine Street — 400 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1890s–1906 John H. Eastlack Family
1890s–1906John H. & Annie Eastlack
1890s–1906Ralph Eastlack
1890s–1906 Walter D. Eastlack

432 Pine Street

432 Pine Street — 400 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1900Thomas Verlander

434 Pine Street

434 Pine Street — 400 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1890–1894 Thomas Croker
1967Nicholas Macrina

435 Pine Street

435 Pine Street — 400 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1870s–1880s Ferdinand F. Sell
1870s–1890s J. Wesley Sell
1890s–1900sJoseph Horner Family
1906–1920sJohn J. Luce Family
1912 John F. Giles (Titanic connection)
1912 John F. Giles

437 Pine Street

437 Pine Street — 400 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1890–1891 George Veatch
1890–1891 Laura Veatch
1890s–1900sJohn J. Luce Family
1912 John F. Giles

441 Pine Street

441 Pine Street — 400 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1891Harry Migrantz (Ogden Base Ball Club manager)

441–443 Pine Street

441–443 Pine Street — 400 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1929–1930Frank J. Ciliberti Sr. & Family
1942–1947Dr. Frank J. Ciliberti Jr. (office)

442 Pine Street

442 Pine Street — 400 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1914Alesio Di Orazio
1920Calogero Pirrottta / Ralph Guaglianone / George M. Lewis
1920Census Sheet
1931 Carl V. Ceciro
1931Carl V. & Margaret L. Ceciro
1931Philomena Ceciro
1931Carolina Ceciro
1931Rosemary Ceciro
1931Lucy Ceciro
1931Antoinetta Ceciro
1931Margarete Ceciro
1931Carl D. Ceciro

444 Pine Street

444 Pine Street — 400 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1906No building

446 Pine Street

446 Pine Street — 400 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1938Harry Girard
400 block of Pine Street — Philadelphia Inquirer, February 1, 1903

400 block of Pine Street. Philadelphia Inquirer, February 1, 1903.

•• Eugene Lutz, of Glassboro, was committed to the county jail yesterday by Recorder Stackhouse, on the charge of robbing a slot meter of $3 in quarters, at 400 Pine street, Camden, where he was formerly employed as a bartender.

Board of Education Visiting Committees, Grand Army of the Republic, Military Companies and Camden Fire Department

Chew’s Camden City Directory — 1872

Miscellaneous Record: Board of Education visiting committees, Grand Army of the Republic officers, military companies and the Camden Fire Department roster, 1872 directory, printed pages 194 and 195

Colored, Third District—Messrs. McDowell, Moore, Fewsmith.

Liberty, Fourth District—Messrs. Kennedy, De La Cour, McDowell.

Centreville, Fifth District--Litzenburg, England, Ridge.

GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC.

GRAND ENCAMPMENT OF NEW JERSEY.

G. C., Richard H. Lee, Camden.

S. V. C., Samuel J. Hopkins, Morristown.

J. V. C., Ira W. Corey Trenton.

A. A. G., Joseph C. Lee, Camden.

A. Q. G., William M. Palmer, Camden.

A. S. G., G. W. Terriberry, M. D. Paterson,

Chaplain, R. W. Martin, Elizabeth.

Council of Administration, Jas F. Rusling, Trenton; Wm. Ward, Newark; Geo. M. Joy, Toms’ River; Chas. F. Hopkins, Boonton; R. B. Seymour, Jersey City.

Delegates to National Encampment, Wm. Ward, Newark; Jos. C. Nicholls, Camden.

Alternates, Wilson S. Smith, Elizabeth; Samuel Curtis, Manahawkin.

POST NO. 6.

P. C., John H. Austin, M. D.

S. V. C., Wm. T. Mead.

J. V. C., A. E. Lovell.

Surgeon, James A. Armstrong, M. D.

Officer of the Day, Benjamin Carlin.

Officer of the Guard, James V. Gibson.

Quartermaster, Edmund May.

Adjutant, Benjamin H. Connelly.

Chaplain, J. Louden.

Quartermaster Sargeant, Alexander Lynch.

Trustees, Thomas M. K. Lee, Jr., Joseph C Nicholls, Jos. B. Fox.

Delegates, Samuel M. Gaul, Edmund May, Wm. T. Mead.

FIELD OFFICERS, SIXTH REGIMENT NATIONAL GUARDS.

Colonel—James M. Scovel.

Lieut.-Colonel—William Hempsing.

Major—Richard H. Lee.

STAFF OFFICERS.

Acting Adjutant—Edward Furlong.

Quartermaster—William M. Palmer.

Paymaster—Richard Wilkins.

Surgeon—H. Genet Taylor.

Assistant Surgeon—J. B. Mulford.

Chaplain—Rev. W. H. Jeffreys.

MILITARY COMPANIES.

Company B, National Guards, New Jersey State Militia, meets at Armory, Front and Market; open every evening.

Company C, Sixth Regiment, New Jersey State Militia, meets at Armory, Front and Market street, on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday evenings.

Company D, National Guards, New Jersey State Militia, meets at West and Clinton street.

Company E, National Guards, New Jersey State Militia, meets at Weccacoe Engine House; open every evening.

Battery B, National Guards, New Jersey State Militia, meets at Weccacoe Hose House, Benson street above Fifth.

CAMDEN FIRE DEPARTMENT.

The affairs of this Department are now controlled by a Board of Fire Commissioners, consisting of Thomas A. Wilson, President, John Read, Jehu Osler, Jonathan Kirkbride, Rudolphus Bingham.

Two second class Amoskeag Engines, two 2 wheel hose carts, one 4 wheel hose carriage and one hook and ladder truck constitutes the apparatus of the city.

No. 1 engine and hose cart is located at No. 409 Pine street, first fire district; No. 2, engine, cart and extra carriage and hook and ladder truck, located at Fifth and Plum street, in the second fire district. The apparatus and company in the first district is under the immediate charge of William J. Mines, Assistant Marshal; and those of the second district is under the immediate charge of William Shearman, Assistant Marshal, while the Chief Fire Marshal, Robert S. Bender, has a general supervisory care of the entire Department.

Members of the Department are as follows: engineer of No. 1, Reuben G. Turner; driver, George Libeck; stoker, Thomas McLaughlin. Extra men—No. 1, Benjamin Cavanaugh; No. 2, William Deiths; No. 3, George Hornuff; No. 4, Stephen Thomas; No. 5, Edward H. Mead; No. 6, Charles H. Hart; No. 7, George B. Hart; No. 8, Alexander Peacock; No. 9, Samuel S. Buzine; No. 10 William Cox.

Engineer of No. 2, William Osler; driver, Jacob W. Kellum; stoker, Henry Grosscup. Extra men—No. 11, Isaac Middleton; No. 12, Andrew Rabeau; No. 13 Edward Cline; No. 14, William Davis; No. 15, Joseph Neice; No. 16, J. Kelley Brown; No. 17, William Allcott; No. 18 Jacob App; No. 19, William H. Schwaab; No. 20, William Henry McKeen.

Tillerman of hook and ladder Company, Edward J. Dodamead; driver, ——. Extra men—No. 21 Charles M. Baldwin; No. 22, Edward Shaw; No. 23, Josiah Davis; No. 24, William C. Lee; No. 25, James M. Lane; No. 26, James Cassidy; No. 27, Edward T. James; No. 28, Thomas W. McCowan; No. 29, Charles Elfreth; No. 30, Theodore Verlander

His New Wife Found Him Out

Philadelphia Inquirer —

His New Wife Found Him Out - Philadelphia Inquirer, May 13, 1889

A Bride of Two Weeks Discovers That Her Husband Is a Bigamist.

It has just been eleven months ago since Lewis K. Robinson, a real estate agent of Philadelphia, became acquainted with pretty Maggie Morris, of 426 Pine street, who has seen twenty-three blooming summers. To-day Lewis languishes in the city jail on the charge of bigamy. Their acquaintance ripened into friendship and from that to love, and on the second day of the present month they were married by the Rev. Isaac Bagley, of the Tabernacle Baptist Church.

Friday Mrs. Robinson No. 2 became aware of the fact that her gay lord had another wife living in Philadelphia. Saturday she confirmed the information and the result was that when Robinson returned to his Camden home that evening he was arrested by Policeman Streeper, of the Sixth ward. Robinson, when seen in his cell by an Inquirer reporter last night, first denied being previously married, but afterward admitted it and said he was expecting a divorce every day.

Raiders Seize 4 Women 5 Men and Homebrew

Camden Courier-Post —

Raiders Seize 4 Women 5 Men and Homebrew - Camden Courier-Post, June 18, 1932

Four women, five men and 500 bottles of homebrew were seized last night when police raided an alleged speakeasy at 1067 Thurman street.

Marie Fort, 34, of that address, was held as the proprietress. The following were released in cash security as material witnesses: Helen Furhan, 29, of 300 Jersey avenue, Gloucester; Dora Gallagher, 24, of 723 North American street, Philadelphia; Betty Anderson, 19, of 5947 Trinity place, Philadelphia; George Powell, 23, of 546 Division street; Harry Wilson, 24, of 413 Pine street, Audubon; Edward Mellon, 25, of 316 Elm street; George Devon, 34, of 504 Walnut street, and George Philip, 29, of 1100 South Third street.

The radiers [sic] were Lieut. Herbert Anderson, Sergt. Edward Carroll, Detective William Wheland and Acting Detective William Schultz.

Checked and Double-Checked

Camden Courier-Post —

Checked and Double-Checked - Camden Courier-Post, February 19, 1938

By JIMINY

THE week’s prize story, as it is being told around the courthouse, concerns the new “bingo” numbers racket in which a half dozen or more suspects were arrested. Prosecutor Orlando was questioning the prisoners when there came this repartee:

PROSECUTOR: “What’s the matter with you? Don’t you read the papers? Didn’t you read where we had banned bingo?”

PRISONER: “Yeah, I read that—but I thought you meant churches!”

* * *

Alleviating the daily burden of digesting news comes an occasional missive like this:

“Dear Sir:

“I am writing you to request a part time job writing column consisting of notes obtained from bartenders and waiters who work in cafes or inns and who advertise in the Courier-Post. I am married, 28 years old, have one child and good reference. If interested, call —— or write.

“B. R. McLaughlin.”

If there were such a job, it wouldn’t be open.

* * *

THE plan of David Baird to throw Harry Ecky out of his job for Bill Lehman is a shining example of how the Camden county Republican party is disintegrating because one man refuses to substitute gas-electric buses for horsecars. . . . The appointment of Harry Ecky was one of the few creditible [sic] appointments the Gentleman Farmer has had a hand in for some years. . . . Ecky is not only a straight, efficient registrar; he is a credit to his party, a popular man in North Camden and, until this political assassination, has been a loyal Baird follower in the face of endless adverse criticism. . . . The fact that Baird hopes to dump one of his most loyal workers merely to make room for his headquarters errand boy, doesn’t sit well with the uptown Republicans. . . . It is a good break for the New Deal Republicans, for such a flagrant case of double-cross brings sharply to the understanding of Old Guard Republicans why the New Deal Republicans seceded and struck out for themselves. . . . You can safely bet that regardless of whether Baird is successful in ousting Ecky, the First ward will henceforth be New Deal. . . .

One of the surprising features of yesterday’s recall election at Wildwood was the fact that William “Dutch” Kinsler was very active as a district leader. . . . For the Democrats. . . . “Dutch” was a guard at the Camden county jail for many years. . . . And was a vehement Bairdite. . . .

Social Notes: Prosecutor Sam Orlando is Florida-bound. . . . Al Woodruff is back from the West Indies. . . . Mrs. Emma Hyland and Mrs. Marie (Kelley) Verdiglione visited Gov. Moore at Trenton on Wednesday. . . .

In recent weeks we have been enjoying a joust with the editor (?) of a weakly paper and very probably he has been enjoying it too from behind the eight ball. . . Now, a political chameleon who issues a throw-away folder in the suburbs, is trying to muscle in to draw some comment from us. . . We can’t joust there, being under a handicap, as we cleave to facts and truth. . . Whereas no such restriction hinders or worries the suburban pensman. . . That can be attested by the fact that the Camden County Grand Jury once preseented [sic] him with a diploma. . . In recognition of his expertness. . . At criminal libel. . . He pleaded non vult (guilty) to the indictment, throwing himself upon the mercy of the court. . . The grand jury’s too busy these days with bingo and bagatelle.

Out in one of the suburbs the ABC agents are investigating a councilman who is a bartender in one of the taprooms in his community, which they say is illegal, since the governing body of which he is a member is also the issuing authority for liquor licensees. . . The taproom recently was told to close on time. . . It must be Spring . . . Mrs. Roy Lehman, of Lucaston, writes in this year’s first letter about having seen a robin. . . And some boys were playing marbles under the bridge around Third street the other day.

Some more social notes: Corporal Sol Polkowitz, of the Malaga state police barracks, is on a 36-day leave in order to tour England, France, Germany, Switzerland, Czecho-Slovakia and Roumania. . . Is Chief John Branin about to leave Delaware township? . . . Mrs. Kathryn Sheeran’s friends threw her a surprise birthday party the other night. . . Walter Fallon, who told us, wouldn’t say what birthday.

Charley Humes and Chinny Weber will battle it out for last place in the ping-pong league tonight. . . Mrs. Beatrice Di Guiseppe, of 425 Pine street, has a dracena plant which has just burst into rare bloom. . . She got it seven years ago from Pasquale Iannuzzi . . . One of the staff found an old photograph near Broadway and Federal, and it may have some sentimental value for the loser. . . On the back are some notations, among them this: “Don’t you think Robert James some boy—don’t you think you could love your little grandson”. . . It is torn in half, though, and maybe that’s a story in itself. . . Aside to Mrs. M. R. of Gloucester: Have you heard favorable word from the Westville authorities?

500 Block of Pine Street

500 Block of Pine Street

500–506 Pine Street

500–506 Pine Street — 500 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1878–1929Wildey Hall
1906–1914Edmund J. Alff Real Estate Office
1906–1914Edmund J. Alff
1930s–1940s Harry Pinsky & Son Company (furniture warehouse)

502 Pine Street

502 Pine Street — 500 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1906–1914Edmund J. Alff (real estate)

505 Pine Street

505 Pine Street — 500 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1890 William Leonard Hurley
1947–1971Albert J. Gruber & Family
1947–1971 Albert J. & Mary V. Wright Gruber
1947–1971Marie Gruber
1947–1971Kathryn Gruber
1947–1971Thomas Gruber

508 Pine Street

508 Pine Street — 500 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1885–1888 George S. Hunt & Family (saloon)
1885–1888George & Clara Cook Hunt
1885–1888Walter Hunt
1885–1888David Hunt
1885–1888 John A.S. Hunt
1952Gone

511 Pine Street

511 Pine Street — 500 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1914Edmund J. Alff
1942 Frank Viggiano

513 Pine Street

513 Pine Street — 500 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1933Florence Ricot

515 Pine Street

515 Pine Street — 500 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1928 George W. Kleaver Sr.

516 Pine Street

516 Pine Street — 500 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1890–1916Turn Hall (aka Turner Hall)
1924No Listing

523 Pine Street

523 Pine Street — 500 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1930 Alfred R. White

523–527 Pine Street

523–527 Pine Street — 500 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1920s–1950sGene's Pharmacy (also listed as 527 Pine Street)

525 Pine Street

525 Pine Street — 500 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1950s–1970sDr. Dewey Ragone (dentist) & Dr. Lawrence Ragone (optometrist)

548 Pine Street

548 Pine Street — 500 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1880s Robert Ashenfelter & Family
1924–1960sPaul George Family
1924–1960s Nicholas George
WWII Sergeant Frank J. George
1924–1960sWilliam George
1924–1960sJosephine George

554 Pine Street

554 Pine Street — 500 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1887–1888 Edward F. Allen

557 Pine Street

557 Pine Street — 500 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924–1931 William H. Tatem Sr. & Family (Captain, Camden Fire Department)
1924–1931William H. & Sarah Tatem
1924–1931William H. Tatem Jr.
1924–1931Edwin Tatem

558 Pine Street

558 Pine Street — 500 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1870s–late 1880sJames & Margaret McCracken Family
1870s–1900s William Jobes & Family
1870s–1900sWilliam & Emily McCracken Jobes
1870s–1900sCharles McCracken
1870s–1900sJeannette McCracken
1870s–1900s James McCracken Jr.

560 Pine Street

560 Pine Street — 500 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1894–1920 William Wynn & Family
1894–1920William & Sarah Wynn
1894–1920Alice Wynn
1894–1920Anna May Wynn

561 Pine Street

561 Pine Street — 500 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1880 Alfred L. Sayers
1907–1917George Kruck & Family
1907–1917George & Carolina Kruck
1907–1917Ervin Kruck
1907–1917Reta Kruck
1907–1917Walter Kruck

564 Pine Street

564 Pine Street — 500 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1953Mrs. Dollie Santone

565 Pine Street

565 Pine Street — 500 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1920s–1930sHarold Olson Family
1947Anthony Iapalucci
1947Anthonty Iapalucci

568 Pine Street

568 Pine Street — 500 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1905–1906George Kruck & Family
1905–1906George & Carolina Kruck
1905–1906Irvin Kruck
1905–1906Rita Kruck
1947Orazio Tete & Family
—Orazio & Anna Tete
1947Joseph Tete
1953–1970Pietro Ragone & Family

569 Pine Street

569 Pine Street — 500 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1879 Edward H. Mead

574 Pine Street

574 Pine Street — 500 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕ Source ↕
1938 Irvin Berlin
1955Oreste Meo (cleaning & dyeing)1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone

575 Pine Street

575 Pine Street — 500 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1878–1880 Christian Tenner & Family
1878–1880Christian & Mary Tenner
1878–1880Lydia Tenner
1878–1880Mary Tenner
1878–1880George Tenner

576 Pine Street

576 Pine Street — 500 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕ Source ↕
1955The Arthur Door Inc. (overhead doors)1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone

577 Pine Street

577 Pine Street — 500 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1880–1910s Isaac Middleton & Family
1880–1910sIsaac & Esther Middleton
1880–1910sEvaline Middleton
1880–1910sAnna Middleton
1924–1927Mrs. Wilhelmina Hennessey & Family
1924–1927 George Calvin "Cal" Hennessey Jr.
1947–1969 Clair H. 'Red' Graham

580 Pine Street

580 Pine Street — 500 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1930s–1943 Clair H. 'Red' Graham

582 Pine Street

582 Pine Street — 500 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1887–1889Ridgway Bakley & Family
1887–1889Ridgway & Clara Bakley
1887–1889David Bakley
1887–1889Lewis Bakley
1887–1889 Ralph Bakley
1889–1940Frederick Schaaf & Family
1889–1940Frederick & Caroline Schaaf
1889–1940William Schaaf
1889–1940Edna Schaaf
1889–1940Elsie Schaaf
1889–1940Carl Schaaf
1889–1940Walter Schaaf

585 Pine Street

585 Pine Street — 500 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1888–1894 W. Elwood Campbell

587–589 Pine Street

587–589 Pine Street — 500 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
various Pine Street Tavern
various Nora's Cafe
variousSteve's Tavern
various Vince & Fred's Tavern
various Dreamer's Lounge

589 Pine Street

589 Pine Street — 500 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕ Source ↕
1961Steve's TavernVeterans Boxing Association Ring No. 6, 1961 Banquet Program Ad

Sarah S. Kelly House — 217 Pine Street (renumbered 501)

Sarah S. Kelly House — 217 Pine Street (renumbered 501) — 500 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1910Sarah S. Kelly
500–527 Pine Street — 1906 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map

500–527 Pine Street — Sanborn Fire Insurance Map, 1906.

Fist Duel Aboard Bus Brings Pair $25 Fines

Camden Courier-Post —

Fist Duel Aboard Bus Brings Pair $25 Fines - Camden Courier-Post, December 17, 1934

A fist fight in a Public Service bus on the Williamstown-Blackwood line early Saturday proved expensive for two amateur gladiators.

Humbert Mauro, 34, of 552 Pine street, and Bud Smith, 28, of 702 Carman street, were fined $25 each by Judge J. Harry Switzer in police court after being taken from the bus at Broadway and Federal street.

Nelson Gant, of Cross Keys, the bus driver, testified he picked up the two men in front of a roadhouse near Gloucester Heights. During their fistic duel, he declared, they broke a window and interfered with other passengers.

Removal

Camden Post-Telegram —

Removal - Camden Post-Telegram, August 16, 1920

We Announce the Removal of Our Office From 502 PINE STREET

TO 422 BROADWAY

Edmund J. Alff

REAL ESTATE and INSURANCE

Established 1901 Bell Phone 833

“ “ 1720

Special Notice

Camden Post-Telegram —

Special Notice - Camden Post-Telegram, August 8, 1918

A special meeting of the certificate holders of the Turnhalle Baufond Gesellschaft, of Camden, N. J., will be held at Turner Hall, 516 Pine street, Camden, N. J., on Thursday, August 15th, 1918, at 8.30 o’clock p. m., for the purpose of authorizing the sale of the property known as Turner Hall, located at 516 to 522 Pine street, Camden, N. J.

ANTHONY J. OBERST, Secretary,

809 South Fifth St., Camden, N. J.

Fire Truck-Auto Collision Breaks Store Windows

Camden Courier-Post —

Fire Truck-Auto Collision Breaks Store Windows - Camden Courier-Post, November 6, 1953 Fire Truck-Auto Collision Breaks Store Windows - Camden Courier-Post, November 6, 1953 Fire Truck-Auto Collision Breaks Store Windows - Camden Courier-Post, November 6, 1953

Car Mounts Sidewalk After Crash at Broadway, Stevens

An automobile was driven onto the sidewalk and broke two windows of a store at Broadway and Stevens st. today after colliding with a fire engine returning from a false alarm.

Leonard Chasey, 19, of 1437 S. 9th st., was proceeding west on Stevens st., when his car was in collision with the truck of Engine Co. No. 2 proceeding north on Broadway. The engine was operated by Hoseman Carl Wirtz, 29, of 1421 Norris st.

The impact of the crash sent Chasey’s car onto the sidewalk on the southwest corner and broke the windows of Rolans Clothing Store.

Treated at Hospital

Chasey suffered minor bruises and was treated at Cooper Hospital. Riding with Wirtz on the engine at the time was Capt. George Boone. They were uninjured.

Joseph J. Shapiro, manager of the clothing store, estimated damage at $200. He said windows on the Stevens st. and Broadway sides of the store were broken.

Boone said the engine was returning to its station at 5th and Arch sts. at the time of the crash. He said a telephone operator had called the police and fire board in the electrical bureau, and reported a fire at 516 Pine st. He said that when they arrived at the scene there was no fire.

Fire in Gloucester

Boone said that while the firemen were en route to Pine st., another call was received at the electrical bureau stating that there had been a mistake and the fire was at 516 Powell st., Gloucester.

The Gloucester fire was in the home of Robert Lewis and had been caused by a defective oil burner. The fire was quickly extinguished by Gloucester firemen.

—Courier-Post Photo

ACCIDENT SCENE at Broadway and Stevens st., is shown shortly after the car above, operated by Leonard Chasey, 19, of 1437 S. 9th st., collided with a fire engine returning from a false alarm.

600 Block of Pine Street

600 Block of Pine Street

600 Pine Street

600 Pine Street — 600 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1934 Mary Angelo

601 Pine Street

601 Pine Street — 600 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1930–1955Pietro Ragone (grocery)
1930–1955Pietro Ragone
1959–1967Linda DeLuca
1969P&S Meats
1971John DeMarco
1975Philip Livecchi

604 Pine Street

604 Pine Street — 600 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1919–1923Mrs. Kate L. Epright & Family
1919–1923Mary Brisbin
1919–1923Anna Brisbin
1919–1923Frank McFarland

608 Pine Street

608 Pine Street — 600 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1960sWilfred B. & Helen V. Potts

610 Pine Street

610 Pine Street — 600 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1947Wilfred B. & Helen V. Potts
1957–1972 Joseph F. Ernst & Family
1957–1972Joseph F. & Ella Buzine Ernst
1957–1972Jesse Hastings Ernst
1957–1972Raydie "Rae" Ernst

612 Pine Street

612 Pine Street — 600 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1914–1957 Joseph F. Ernst & Family
1914–1957Joseph F. & Ella Buzine Ernst
1914–1957Jesse Hastings Ernst
1914–1957Raydie Ernst

614 Pine Street

614 Pine Street — 600 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1896–1898 James H. Reeve & Family
1928–1940David Babnew & Family

615 Pine Street

615 Pine Street — 600 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1874–1890Charles S. Archer & Family
1874–1890Charles S. & Charlotte Archer
1874–1890Samuel M. Archer
1874–1890Harry C. Archer
1874–1890Benjamin F. Archer
1891–1905Charles S. Archer & Family

618 Pine Street

618 Pine Street — 600 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1876 Edward H. Mead
1878James McCracken Sr. & Family
1878James & Margaret McCracken
1878 James McCracken Jr.
1878Charles McCracken
1878Jeannette McCracken
1878Emily McCracken
1878 William Jobes & Family
1934–1940sThomas B. FitzGerald & Family
1934–1940sMary Ellen Fitzgerald
1934–1940sFitzGerald & Family Thomas &

620 Pine Street

620 Pine Street — 600 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1900s Charles S. Zeigler
1906George Denny
1920s–1930sWilliam Sturm
1933 Naomi Sturm Hampton
1953Adriano F. DiDomenico

622 Pine Street

622 Pine Street — 600 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1914–1917Thomas Bundick & Family
1914–1917Thomas & Emma Bundick

624 Pine Street

624 Pine Street — 600 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1902–1912 Alfred Hayden & Family (Camden Fire Department)
1902–1912Charles Ellis & Kate Hayden
1924Alvin Koenig
1924Bertha Koenig
1924 "boy" the Collie Dog
1950 Joseph T. Johnson & Family (Camden Fire Department)
1950Joseph T. & Emma E. Johnson

625 Pine Street

625 Pine Street — 600 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1909 Horace B. Parker Jr. & Family
1909Horace B. & Gertrude Parker
1909Lillian Parker
1909Margaret Parker
1909Horace B. Parker III

627 Pine Street

627 Pine Street — 600 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1900s–early 1970sNeutze Print Shop

628 Pine Street

628 Pine Street — 600 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1905–1906George Kruck & Family
1905–1906George & Carolina Kruck
1905–1906Irvin Kruck
1905–1906Rita Kruck
WWI Private First Class Harold S. McLean

635 Pine Street

635 Pine Street — 600 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1900 Christian Tenner & Family
1900Christian & Mary Tenner
1900Lydia tenner
1900Mary Tenner
1900George Tenner
1900Benjamin Tenner
various Byron P. Cobb

637 Pine Street

637 Pine Street — 600 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1906 Frank S. Albright
1941James Lloyd

638 Pine Street

638 Pine Street — 600 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1912Samuel Berger & Family
1912Edith Berger
1940Harry F. Laxton & Family
1940Harry F. & Jennie W. Laxton

640 Pine Street

640 Pine Street — 600 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕ Source ↕
1895John Kleinfelder & Family
1895John & Julia Kleinfelder
1895Julia Kleinfelder
1895Helen Kleinfelder
1895 Harry Kleinfelder
1910s–1930s McKenna's Tavern
1955–1990sGene's Pharmacy (E.L. Kleinfeld)1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone

641 Pine Street

641 Pine Street — 600 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
WWI Private Harry C. Wagner

Stewart Says Laxity on Vice Will Be Probed

Camden Evening Courier —

Stewart Says Laxity on Vice Will Be Probed - Camden Evening Courier, September 4, 1934 Stewart Says Laxity on Vice Will Be Probed - Camden Evening Courier, September 4, 1934 Stewart Says Laxity on Vice Will Be Probed - Camden Evening Courier, September 4, 1934 Stewart Says Laxity on Vice Will Be Probed - Camden Evening Courier, September 4, 1934 Stewart Says Laxity on Vice Will Be Probed - Camden Evening Courier, September 4, 1934 Stewart Says Laxity on Vice Will Be Probed - Camden Evening Courier, September 4, 1934 Stewart Says Laxity on Vice Will Be Probed - Camden Evening Courier, September 4, 1934 Stewart Says Laxity on Vice Will Be Probed - Camden Evening Courier, September 4, 1934 Stewart Says Laxity on Vice Will Be Probed - Camden Evening Courier, September 4, 1934

Pushes Inquiry in Killing With Chief Colsey Lending Co-operation

WHOLESALE CHANGES LIKELY IN DEPARTMENT

Chief Executive Refers to Official Who Scored Lashing of Cops

A wholesale shakeup of police officials, patrolmen and detectives in the Camden police department is expected to follow the slaying of District Detective William T. Feitz, in a South Camden disorderly house.

That was indicated strongly today by Mayor Roy R. Stewart, director of the department of public safety, after his return from a weekend vacation at Ocean City.

“I intend to get at the bottom of this matter and punish the guilty person or persons,” Mayor Stewart declared upon his arrival at city hall.

“There is something wrong in the police department when no action is taken against a disorderly house which I ordered closed on numerous occasions.

Blames Police

“If the police in the department had followed my instructions we wouldn’t have a dead detective as a consequence of their laxity.

“Chief Colsey and myself are going into the investigation very thooughly [sic] to find out who was responsible for failing to close this place.”

Questioned as to whether the killing of Detective Feitz would bring shifts in district commanders, sergeants, patrolmen and detectives, Mayor Stewart said:

“Yes—anything can happen—for I’m not satisfied with the actions of the department.”

Mayor Stewart also disclosed that since his charge of laxity against the police department, he has been criticized by at least one city official—whose name he would not make public.

“I’ve been told that as head of the department of public safety I shouldn’t make such a statement as I did yesterday because of the effect it would have on the morale of the police department.

Will Shield None

“Well, I want it to be known that I am not guilty of shielding anyone in the operation of this disorderly house. I have a right to protect anyone in the department who is not involved in this violation of my orders and that is what I intend to do in my investigation.”

Mayor Stewart’s first move when he reached his offices was to call Chief Colsey into conference to discuss the events leading up to the death of Detective Feitz early Sunday in the disorderly house allegedly operated by Mrs. Emma Heisler, 38, at 243 Sycamore street.

Later, he announced, he would confer with the district and detective lieutenants and sergeants to find out why his orders issued a number of times to close up Mrs. Heisler’s establishment, were not carried out. The conference, Mayor Stewart indicated, would take place this afternoon.

To Quiz Demoted Pair

Two district detectives who were demoted and returned to beats a few days before Detective Feitz was killed, who covered the neighborhood of Second and Sycamore streets, are also to be grilled by Mayor Stewart. One of the detectives, according to police, is a relative of Mrs. Heisler.

While Mayor Stewart and Chief Colsey were conferring, police and detectives still were engaged in running down clues to the identity of the slayers of the detective who was shot when he walked in on a holdup of 20 persons in the disorderly house.

Three bandits who shot Feitz then rushed out the door and directly past District Detective Joseph H. Leonhardt who was bending over Feitz’s body which had hurtled through the front door and dropped down the steps to the street.

The two detectives in a police radio car had been trailing a suspicious car containing the bandits for some time prior to the shooting [text between crops not shown]

Colsey Speaks Freely

Chief Colsey unlike Detective Lieutenant Ward who has persistently refused to talk to newspapermen or give them any information, spoke freely about the police investigation of Feitz’s death.

“I feel confident that within a few days we will have the killer or killers of Feitz under arrest,” Chief Colsey said.

He admitted that all of the suspects arrested here, in Philadelphia and Atlantic City to date had not been identified as members of the bandit mob.

A suspect who was arrested last night by Chief Colsey and a detective in cruising about the city was released after being questioned.

Another suspect arrested early today was still being held by the police, who refused to reveal his identity. Chief Colsey stated that he did not think the man was involved in the killing of Feitz.

8 Still Held

However, four men and four women are being held in cells at police headquarters as material witnesses.

Only seven are listed on the police blotter, the name of Mrs. Heisler being omitted. The others are Thomas Bonelli, 27, of 207 Walnut street; Cornelius Murphy, 50, of 239 Sycamore street, said by police to have been the doorman of Mrs. Heisler’s establishment; Edward Grapatin, 32, of 246 Kaighn avenue; Joseph McKenna, 31, of 1404 Broadway; Edith Miller, 28, colored, of 205 Sycamore street, and Edna Butler, 33, colored, of 1122 South Second street, domestics in Mrs. Heisler’s place; Catherine Lougheed, 32, of 626 Pine street, an alleged inmate.

Released after being held as material witnesses were Edward Gorba, 20, and his brother, Henry, 19, of 17 North Twenty-first street; Frank Adams, 21, of 938 Atlantic avenue, and Joseph McDonald, 20, of 1605 South Ninth street. All were released in their own recognizance to appear tomorrow.

All of the persons taken into custody after the shooting, were in the disorderly house at the time, police said.

Police disclosed that Ed Gorba was the only eye-witness to the killing who was proving of any value in remembering the description of the killers or in attempting to identify suspects arrested.

Recluse Kills Self After Worry Over Age and Infirmities

Camden Courier-Post —

Recluse Kills Self After Worry Over Age and Infirmities - Camden Courier-Post, December 21, 1932

Daughter Discovers Body; Lived Alone 35 Years After Wife Died

WANTED TO DIE THERE

Apparently despondent because of his age and infirmities, Edward Babnew, 73, committed suicide by inhaling gas in the bedroom of his home at 294 Chestnut street. He had been dead several days when his body was discovered last night, Benjamin R. Denny said.

His body was found by a daughter, Mrs. Katherine Paul, of 223 Evergreen avenue, Woodynne [sic], when she came to visit him. He had been living alone since the death of his wife about 35 years ago and had refused the invitations of his children to live with them.

Mrs. Paul found the house dark and summoned Sergeant Frank Crawford and Detective Joseph Carpani, who broke open the back door. The odor of gas led them to a bedroom upstairs where they found Babnew lying on the bed, a rubber hose leading from his mouth to the gas jet. He had carefully tied the hose in such a manner that the flow would be uninterrupted. Atop a clock was a note giving Mrs. Paul’s name and address but containing no message. The clock had stopped at 7.07 o’clock.

According to Mrs. Paul her father often expressed the wish to die in his own home. Babnew is survived by two other daughters, Mrs. Mary Wood, of 9502 Westfield avenue, Pennsauken, and Mrs. Elizabeth Stow, of Merchantville, and two sons, Raymond, of Gloucester Heights, and David, of 614 Pine street.

Police Honor Comrade

Philadelphia Inquirer —

Police Honor Comrade - Philadelphia Inquirer, March 18, 1917

Headed by Chief Gravenor, Camden’s police force yesterday paid its last respect to Philip Knauff, a policeman, who died of pneumonia Wednesday. The funeral was held at the home of Knauff’s sister, Mrs. Thomas Budick, of 622 Pine street. The services were in charge of Rev. William P. Valiant, pastor of the Kaighn Avenue M. E. Church and interment was made at Evergreen Cemetery. The pallbearers, all fellow policemen, included Harry Vliet, John Sheeran, Albert Cornog, Clarence Boyer, William Briant and Detective David Hunt.

Fatal fire truck crash is blamed on their sirens

Camden Courier-Post —

By TONY DAVIS
Courier-Post Staff

A Camden fire official said he believes Saturday’s collision of two fire trucks that killed one person and injured 14 others was caused by the inability of the drivers to hear each other’s vehicle over their own sirens.

However, Acting First Battalion Chief Joseph Anderson stressed that he was only “theorizing” and that a full investigation of the crash would begin today. The two trucks, Engines One and Eight, collided at 6th and Pine Streets at about 5:15 pm, Saturday, Anderson said.

The impact of the crash sent Engine Eight, which was heading north on 6th Street, into the Livecchi grocery store while Engine One, which was heading east on Pine Street, stopped safely about one block north on 6th Street, Anderson said.

The two vehicles were en route to the scene of a minor fire in a vacant house about two blocks from the scene of the collision. Anderson said another truck was called to extinguish the blaze.

Dead was 65-year-old Wilkins Tisdale, of 583 Line Street, Camden, according to Blair M. Murphy, an investigator for the Camden County Medical Examiner’s office. Murphy said the causes of death were internal injuries and a severed arm.

Tisdale, a retired construction worker who had just walked out of the grocery store, was pinned for 90 minutes under a large freezer in the store, Anderson said.

Juanita Dorsey, 34, 704 Pine Street Camden, who had been standing inside the store, was pinned under the freezer when it was hit by the truck, Anderson said. The woman was listed in satisfactory condition in Cooper Hospital with back injuries.

Richard Sorenson, a hoseman for Engine Eight, was in critical condition at Cooper with a punctured lung, broken ribs and a broken nose, right shoulder and right arm.

Paul Delfing, driver of Engine One, and James Peterson, driver of Engine Eight, were both pinned inside the cabs of their vehicles for 20 minutes, and later treated and released from Cooper for head and facial injuries, Anderson said.

Sorenson and five other firemen on the two trucks were all thrown from them by the crash. The other firemen injured were Joseph Chelhowski, captain of Engine Eight, who was in satisfactory condition in West Jersey Hospital, Northern Division with ankle injuries and bruises.

Albert Collum, captain of Engine One, who was in stable condition at Cooper with a concussion, a broken finger, contusions and bruises.

William Smith, a hoseman for Engine Eight, who was being held for observation at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital with head and facial cuts and bruises.

John Asher, a hoseman for Engine One, and Paul Capazola, a hoseman for Engine Eight, who were treated and released from Cooper for cuts and bruises.

Five other persons were injured, none seriously, in the crash. One, Leonard Medford, of 611 Line Street, Camden, was in satisfactory condition at Cooper Hospital with leg injuries. The others were all treated and released from Cooper and Lourdes hospitals.

Anderson said the diesel engines of the two trucks both received “extensive” damage and that he did not know if the eight-year-old trucks, which he said usually last 15 years, could be used again.

Chief Edward V. Michalak said the department has pressed two of its older, auxiliary pumpers into service to keep the city’s nine engine companies and three ladder companies at full strength.

Michalak said, however, that the two trucks damaged were among the newest the City owned.

Although he would put no dollar estimate on the damages, he said they were “excessive” and that it would not be known until at least Tuesday whether they could be repaired.

The city will not be receiving any new fire trucks until next April, when delivery of four pumpers is expected.

Although the city has experienced fire truck mishaps before, the chief, a 33-year veteran of the force, said this was the most serious.

He would not comment on the cause of the accident pending completion of the department’s investigation.

700 Block of Pine Street

700 Block of Pine Street

700 Pine Street

700 Pine Street — 700 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕ Source ↕
1920s–1947C.P. Mohrfeld, Inc. (coal)1928 Purple & Gold Yearbook Ad
1947Jacob E. Brown Auto Parking

701 Pine Street

701 Pine Street — 700 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1946–1947Gene's Pharmacy (Eugene L. Kleinfeld)
1946–1947Gene's Pharmacy

704 Pine Street

704 Pine Street — 700 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1975 Juanita Dorsey

711–717 Pine Street

711–717 Pine Street — 700 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1931Acme Grocery
1935–1937Second Battalion, Naval Militia of N.J.

711–753 Pine Street

711–753 Pine Street — 700 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1938Acme Grocery (opened February 17, 1938)
1980sVacant - Razed 1990s

735 Pine Street

735 Pine Street — 700 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1899Alexander Hand

740 Pine Street

740 Pine Street — 700 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1947Kaplan & Zubrin Warehouse

750 Pine Street

750 Pine Street — 700 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1906William H. Morton
1932Frank Carroll & William Carroll

753 Pine Street

753 Pine Street — 700 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1951Jacqueline Fisher

762 Pine Street

762 Pine Street — 700 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1938Floyd Warren

763 Pine Street

763 Pine Street — 700 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1942–1949James L. Johnson Sr.
1942–1949Raymond L. Johnson

767 Pine Street

767 Pine Street — 700 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1906Richard Lee

768 Pine Street

768 Pine Street — 700 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1890Elmer Cox & Family
1890Elmer & Lena Cox
1899Leven Garrison

772 Pine Street

772 Pine Street — 700 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1910 John H. Carmany & Family
1910John & Sallie Carmany
1910Bertha Carmany
1910 John H. Carmany Jr.
1910Harry J. Carmany
various Dr. Howard E. Primas Sr.

774 Pine Street

774 Pine Street — 700 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1892–1937Elmer Cox & Family (hardware business)
1892–1937Elmer & Lena Cox
1892–1937Ernest Cox
1892–1937Omar Cox
1892–1937Samuel Cox
1892–1937Mary Cox
1892–1937Marvin Cox

775 Pine Street

775 Pine Street — 700 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1906Herbert Johnson

781 Pine Street

781 Pine Street — 700 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1929–1930sJohn Morton & Family
various Robert A. Morton

787 Pine Street

787 Pine Street — 700 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1906W. Taylor Wright (notary public)
1906W. Taylor Wright
1927Fred Neubaum (confectionary)
1927Fred Neubaum
700 Pine Street — Camden High School Program, 1928

700 Pine Street — Camden High School program, 1928. C.P. Mohrfeld, Inc.

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Think the Block Is 'Hoodooed'

Camden Post-Telegram —

The news as reported 101 years ago is quite different than what we know in our time. To judge people of a different time and place by our standards has an element of conceit… and there is a bit of intellectual dishonesty in it, I think. Suffice to say that although the geographical place may be the same, the times and culture of 1903 and 2004 are quite different.

In any event, the purpose of reprinting this article is not to make an ethnic put down, but rather to illustrate what was going on at the time… and to post a few names in case any genealogically inclined people stumble across this. As Freud said, “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.”

Phil Cohen

Superstitious Negroes Declare Row of Pine Street Houses is Under a Spell.

FOUR PERSONS SERIOUSLY ILL

Superstitious colored people have come to the conclusion that a block of houses on Pine Street between Seventh and Eighth Streets, is “hoodooed.” On three consecutive Tuesdays neighbors in adjoining houses have been taken to Cooper Hospital suffering from different afflictions and this morning another house in the row was placed under quarantine owing to a case of diphtheria.

Two weeks ago yesterday Samuel Burk, colored, of 773 Pine Street, was afflicted with appendicitis and had to be taken to Cooper Hospital.

On Tuesday of last week Lyman Johnson, colored, of 775 Pine Street was sent to the hospital suffering from typhoid fever. Then the negroes of the neighborhood began to whisper that there was a “spell” on the houses.

Their fears of a hoodoo gained ground when James Oliver, colored, of 771 Pine Street was injured yesterday by a cable breaking at the licorice plant at the foot of Jefferson Avenue, causing a compound fracture of one of his legs and necessitating him joining his two neighbors at Cooper Hospital.

When they saw a yellow sign tacked on the door of the house at 786 Pine Street this morning by the Board of Health the colored folks declared that all doubts of the row being “hoodooed” were settled. Solomon Satherwaite lives in this house and his 11-year old daughter, Edna, has diphtheria. About two months ago Satherwaite’s wife, who was the mother of sixteen children, died after giving birth to a child.

John H. Carmany Dead in Camden

Philadelphia Inquirer —

John H. Carmany Dead in Camden - Philadelphia Inquirer, December 17, 1910 John H. Carmany Dead in Camden - Philadelphia Inquirer, December 17, 1910 John H. Carmany Dead in Camden - Philadelphia Inquirer, December 17, 1910 John H. Carmany Dead in Camden - Philadelphia Inquirer, December 17, 1910 John H. Carmany Dead in Camden - Philadelphia Inquirer, December 17, 1910

Was a Prominent Member of City Council and Well-Known in Industrial and Lodge Circles

Death yesterday made another call on Camden’s official family. Councilman John Carmany expired at his home, 772 Pine street, after a three weeks’ siege with Bright’s disease. As a member of the Water Committee of City Council, Mr. Carmany was intimately associated with Chief Robert Hollingsworth, whose death occurred just a week ago yesterday. He had served seven years in the city law-making body and there yet remained another year of his fourth consecutive term as one of the representatives of the Seventh ward. Before being elected to Council, Mr. Carmany was a member of the Board of Education for several years, and in both capacities he was attentive and painstaking.

Succeeding his father in the ownership of the Wissahickon Dye Works, at Eighth and Cherry streets, Mr. Carmany two years ago moved his plant to a new building he erected at Eleventh and Pine streets. He was also engaged as a cotton broker on quite an extensive scale. Born in Lebanon county, Pa., 51 years ago, Mr. Carmany came to Camden at the age of 14 and had since resided there. He was a member of Philadelphia Lodge No. 9, F. and A. M.; Camden Elks, Moose, Seventh Ward Republican Club and Camp No. 50, P. O. S. of A., of Roxborough, Pa. He is survived by a widow and three children, one of whom is Mrs. Howard Justice.

President of City Council Hewitt last night named Messrs. Broome, Gordon, Read, Francis, De Unger and Kensinger as a committee to make arrangements for the city officials to attend the funeral, which takes place on Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock. The committee held a meeting at the City Hall last night.

JOHN H. CARMANY

Prominent member of Camden City Council who died yesterday

800 Block of Pine Street

800 Block of Pine Street

800 Pine Street

800 Pine Street — 800 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1927–1928E.J. Stevenson, Tailor

801 Pine Street

801 Pine Street — 800 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1905W. Taylor Wright
1905W. Taylor Weight

802 Pine Street

802 Pine Street — 800 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1879–1880 Thomas Eastlack

803 Pine Street

803 Pine Street — 800 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1936William Peterson

804 Pine Street

804 Pine Street — 800 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1878 Thomas Eastlack

806 Pine Street

806 Pine Street — 800 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1901–1909Matthew Acker & Family
1901–1909Matthew & Anna Acker

810 Pine Street

810 Pine Street — 800 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1927 Joseph Murray & Family
1927 Joseph A. Murray

811 Pine Street

811 Pine Street — 800 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1947–1980s Leroy Hatchett & Family
1947–1980sLeroy & Hazel Hatchett

812 Pine Street

812 Pine Street — 800 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1913Francis Diefenthaler
2011Gone

813 Pine Street

813 Pine Street — 800 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
2011Gone

817 Pine Street

817 Pine Street — 800 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1918 Harry Goodman & Family
1918Harry & Emma Goodman
2011Gone

820 Pine Street

820 Pine Street — 800 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1938Miss Libby Hubbs

821–825 Pine Street

821–825 Pine Street — 800 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
currentJesse W. Starr Elementary School (converted to apartments)

822 Pine Street

822 Pine Street — 800 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1886Fred Schleef

834 Pine Street

834 Pine Street — 800 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
2013Vacant

836 Pine Street

836 Pine Street — 800 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
2013Occupied

838 Pine Street

838 Pine Street — 800 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
2013Vacant

840 Pine Street

840 Pine Street — 800 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
2013Vacant

842 Pine Street

842 Pine Street — 800 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
2011Gone

844 Pine Street

844 Pine Street — 800 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
2011Gone

845 Pine Street

845 Pine Street — 800 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
2011Gone

847 Pine Street

847 Pine Street — 800 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1941Three Brothers Markets (George W. Wagner, Owner)

890 Pine Street

890 Pine Street — 800 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1931 Alice Nary

Jottings from South Camden

Camden Daily Courier —

Jottings from South Camden - Camden Daily Courier, December 24, 1906

Budget of Chat from the Lower Section of the City

PERSONAL NOTES OF INTEREST

George Staib, of 1308 Broadway, who recently underwent a delicate operation, is recovering in the Jefferson Hospital.

The William M. Dilmore Club will hold its annual election of officers on Thursday night at its headquarters, Fourth and Kaighn avenue.

The business men of Eighth street, between Line and Kaighn avenue, have donated $50, which will be used as prizes for the New Year associations which pass that way.

Thursday night the Fireside New Year Association will parade over the following route to advertise its ball, which takes place Friday night at Turner Hall: Form on Kaighn avenue, right r[?]ting on Third, to Pine, to Second, to Chestnut, to Front, to Kaighn avenue, to Broadway, to Federal, to Second, to State, to Fourth, to Market, to Second, to Federal, to Haddon avenue, to Benson, to Sixth, to Kaighn avenue, to Broadway, to Walnut, to Fifth, to Spruce, to Fourth, to Kaighn avenue.

Eli Hunt, son of Constable James Hunt, is home to spend the holidays with his parents. He is a member of the crew of the battleship Texas.

Mr. and Mrs. Albert James yesterday had a Christmas family reunion at their home on Broadway. About forty persons participated in the event, which was pronounced by all as an occasion long to be remembered.

Mrs. Matthew Acker, of 806 Pine street, is recovering from an illness of several days.

William Daly, of the battleship Virginia, is home on a furlough for the Christmas holidays.

Kaighn avenue and Broadway business men say they never had such a rush as that of Saturday night. Everyone seemed to be anxious to lay in a store of food and gifts. All sorts of stores were, in many instances, almost depleted of stock. This morning there was comparatively little poultry to be had. Christmas trees and greens had disappeared, too, for on Saturday everything in this line was toted off by men, women and children. All of which shows this era of prosperity is being enjoyed to the limit.

900 Block of Pine Street

900 Block of Pine Street

907 Pine Street

907 Pine Street — 900 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1922Daniel McCarty
1956Susan Harvey

912 Pine Street

912 Pine Street — 900 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1921–1927James J. Powers

917 Pine Street

917 Pine Street — 900 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1947Shelton & Son Coal (Ralph K. Shelton & Ralph K. Shelton Jr.)
1955Steiner's Heating Service

918 Pine Street

918 Pine Street — 900 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1919–1922 August G. 'Gus' Pfleiderer
1950Stacy Ingram

950 Pine Street

950 Pine Street — 900 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1941Leah G. Townsend

954 Pine Street

954 Pine Street — 900 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1938Charles Baden & Family

956 Pine Street

956 Pine Street — 900 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1923–1943 George W. Frost

964 Pine Street

964 Pine Street — 900 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1928Charles H. King (Camden Aero Club)
1940sRobison's Typewriter & Cash Register Repair
917 Pine Street — Steiner's Heating Service, 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone Yellow Pages ad

917 Pine Street — Steiner’s Heating Service. New Jersey Bell Telephone Yellow Pages ad, 1955.

917 PINE ST. • CAMDEN

"DEPENDABLE SERVICE FOR OVER 25 YEARS"

STEINER'S HEATING SERVICE

24 Hour Service

HEATING and AIR CONDITIONING CONTRACTORS

Oil Burners — Gas Heating

✓ Sales ✓ Service ✓ Conversions

• SHEET METAL WORK • CUSTOM MADE DUCT WORK

WOodlawn 4-0703

If No Answer Call MErchantville 8-6388

956 Pine Street — George W. Frost, Camden Courier-Post January 25, 1930

956 Pine Street — George W. Frost. Camden Courier-Post, January 25, 1930.

964 Pine Street — Camden Aero Club, 1928

964 Pine Street — Camden Aero Club, 1928. Charles H. King.

Aero

To the Editor of The Evening Courier,

Sir:—This letter is for the benefit of those aviation enthusiasts who have never heard of the Camden Aero Club and what it is doing.

The writer would like to hear from any one interested who would like to connect with a club of this kind.

CHAS. H. KING,
Secretary, Camden Aero Club,
964 Pine Street.

7 Camden Women Pass State Tests

Camden Courier-Post —

7 Camden Women Pass State Tests - Camden Courier-Post, July 25, 1941

Helen M. Redfield Tops List for Welfare Bureau Post Here

Courier-Post Bureau

Trenton, July 24.—Helen M. Redfield, 624 Royden street, Camden, scored first out of a list of seven women who passed the examination for information clerk in the Camden Welfare Department, the State Civil Service Commission has announced.

The others who qualified in the order of their passing were:

Irene Norwitz, 228 North Tenth street; Margaret Biocco, 1215 Morton street; Agnes R. Brown, 720 South Eighth street; Leah G. Townsend, 950 Pine street; Margaret P. Carter, 825 Kaighn avenue, and Deborah Schuck, 1012 Division street, all of Camden.

The job pays between $660 and $990 per year.

The Civil Service Commission [cut off at the crop edge]

Hospital Cases

Camden Courier-Post —

Hospital Cases - Camden Courier-Post, May 21, 1956

WEST JERSEY

Alfred Fabiano, 26, of 2614 Manall ave., Pennsauken, cut fingers.

Nathaniel Winthers, 45, of 823 Sycamore st., cut hand.

Julia Williams, 6, of 688 Hazelton ct., cuts over eye.

Rochelle Rivera, 3, of 643 Locust st., cut forehead.

Ronald De Pasquale, 8, of Central ave., Glendora, cut forehead.

COOPER

Susan Harvey, 3, of 907 Pine st., cut scalp.

Rosie Ross, 79, of 312 Cherry st., dog bite of arm.

Clarence Chapman, 65, of 739 Kaighns ave., cut head.

Leroy Freedman Jr., 7, of 952 Linden st., cut over eye.

Karen Mathis, 5, of 169 Frazer ave., Collingswood, cut face.

So. Camden Man Fined In New Year’s Raid

Camden Courier-Post —

So. Camden Man Fined In New Year’s Raid - Camden Courier-Post, January 4, 1950

Louis Bumbrey, 56, of 906 South Eighth street, was fined $100 today for maintaining a disorderly house and then sent to county jail on a charge of possessing several gallons of untaxed alcohol.

Bumbrey was committed to prison by Police Judge Di Mona to await grand jury action.

Bumbrey was arrested during a raid Jan. 1 at a bootblack parlor, 725 Kaighn avenue. Six other men, who police said, were buying a pint of alcohol for $1, were released until wanted.

Court records listed them as John Spence, 29, of 909 Cherry street; Stacy Ingram, 31, of 918 Pine street; Percy Briscoe, 53, of 810 South Eighth street; Fletcher Mc Burrow, 32, of 824 Chestnut street; and George Kee, 24, of 181 Branch Village.

Nine New Police From Nine Wards

Camden Daily Courier —

Nine New Police From Nine Wards - Camden Daily Courier, July 6, 1922

Mayor Van Hart Swears In New Recruits—5 More To Join

Nine men, representing as many wards, were sworn in as members of the police department by Mayor Van Hart today. Five more men, residents of the five remaining wards, will be named within the next few days.

The new appointments are being made to augment the number of traffic men and for additional police protection in the wards. The new policemen are as follows:

Frank Murray, 817 Kimber street, Second ward; Edward C. Hahn, 938 North Fifth street, Tenth ward; Walter Christy, 2203 Howell street, Eleventh ward; Albert Yost, 3101 Waldorf avenue, Twelfth ward; Frank Pintozzi, 321 Cherry street, Fifth ward; John McTaggart, former fireman, 461 Lansdowne avenue, Sixth ward; Frank Sattler, 1268 Jackson street, Thirteenth ward; Walter Larson, 829 Sylvan street, Fourteenth ward; August Pfleiderer, 918 Pine street, Seventh ward.

1000 Block of Pine Street

1000 Block of Pine Street

1021 Pine Street

1021 Pine Street — 1000 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕ Source ↕
1900s–early 1970s Park Storage (Charles S. Zeigler) 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone
1900Samuel & Mary Wright
1900James McCue
1900Joseph Ryan

1025 Pine Street

1025 Pine Street — 1000 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1900Mrs. Mary Bennett & Family

1027 Pine Street

1027 Pine Street — 1000 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1900Joseph Miller & Family
1902–1903Mrs. Josephine Bolaychayken
1902–1903Charles Kustus
WWI Private Anthony Martin

1033 Pine Street

1033 Pine Street — 1000 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1899 Thomas Eastlack & Family

1041 Pine Street

1041 Pine Street — 1000 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1909–1911 Edward Simpson & Family
1909–1911Edward & Sarah Simpson
1909–1911Walter Simpson
1909–1911William Simpson
1909–1911Howard Simpson
1953Nicholas Gates

1043 Pine Street

1043 Pine Street — 1000 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1900 Thomas Eastlack & Family
1933Mary Walsh
1900Mrs. Sarah Dennis & Family
1900Edward Dennis
1900Margaret Dennis
1900Thomas Dennis

1045 Pine Street

1045 Pine Street — 1000 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1898–1902 Edward Simpson & Family
1898–1902Edward & Sarah Simpson
1898–1902Walter Simpson
1898–1902William Simpson

1051 Pine Street

1051 Pine Street — 1000 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1906Jenny Bradley

1055 Pine Street

1055 Pine Street — 1000 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1933Elic Denbo (Army Commission)

1062 Pine Street

1062 Pine Street — 1000 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1904George Beach

1065 Pine Street

1065 Pine Street — 1000 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1920s–1950s Camden Convention Hall
1027 Pine Street — Philadelphia Inquirer, December 30, 1902

1027 Pine Street. Philadelphia Inquirer, December 30, 1902.

•• Charles Kustus, of 1027 Pine street, was committed to the Camden County Jail by Justice Wright, yesterday, without bail, on a charge of attempted felonious assault on Mrs. Josephine Bolaychayken, of 1021 Pine street.

Camden’s Scarred Patriots

Philadelphia Inquirer —

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

Fourth Marked by Absence of Serious Accidents

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Last night splendid pyrotechnical displays were given.

1100 Block of Pine Street

1100 Block of Pine Street

1103 Pine Street

1103 Pine Street — 1100 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1903–1908 Edward Simpson & Family
1903–1908Edward & Sarah Simpson
1903–1908Walter Simpson
1903–1908William Simpson
1903–1908Howard Simpson
1955Mrs. Elizabeth Guerrini

1105 Pine Street

1105 Pine Street — 1100 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1917–1920 Thomas Cheeseman Jr. & Family (Camden Police Department)
1917–1920Thomas & Emma Cheeseman
1917–1920Thomas Cheeseman III
1917–1920Vinetta Cheeseman
1917–1920Lillian Cheeseman
1917–1920Margaret Cheeseman

1109 Pine Street

1109 Pine Street — 1100 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1904Austin Foster
1904Thomas Melton

1119 Pine Street

1119 Pine Street — 1100 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1898 Thomas Eastlack & Family
1899Ellen Pinkerton
1901–1908 Epworth Mission
1904Thomas Sherman
1119 Pine Street — Epworth Mission, Philadelphia Inquirer, November 23, 1899

1119 Pine Street — Epworth Mission. Philadelphia Inquirer, November 23, 1899.

OVER IN CAMDEN

Ellen Pinkerton, aged 6[?] years, of 1119 Pine street, was reported to the police yesterday as missing.

1200 Block of Pine Street

No addresses recorded for this block.

1300 Block of Pine Street

1300 Block of Pine Street

1300 Pine Street

1300 Pine Street — 1300 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1920s–1947South Jersey Warehouse Co.
South Jersey Warehouse Co. advertisement

South Jersey Warehouse Co. advertisement.

Merchandise Storage—Distributing Hauling

South Jersey's Leading Warehouse

Bell 928 Keystone 32321

We own and operate 100,000 square feet of floor space for merchandise storage—railroad sidings for 12 cars—Two acres of land adjoining—Fleet of five 6-ton motor units for hauling and distributing.

Our growth is the result of SERVICE—The type we are now rendering many of the largest nationally-known manufacturers and wholesalers—and which we are ready to extend to many others, for our facilities are equal to any demands of merchandise warehousing.

We visioned CAMDEN right. Being strategically located for warehousing and distributing due to less freight and traffic

South Jersey Warehouse Co.

Office and Warehouses—1300 Pine Street
CAMDEN, N. J.

1300 Pine Street — South Jersey Warehouse Co., March 12, 1930

1300 Pine Street — South Jersey Warehouse Co., 1920s–1947. Camden Courier-Post ad, March 12, 1930.

South Jersey Warehouse Co.

LET US SOLVE YOUR
WAREHOUSING AND
HAULING PROBLEMS

1300 PINE STHEET [sic] Both Phones

1400 Block of Pine Street

1400 Block of Pine Street

1400 Pine Street

1400 Pine Street — 1400 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕ Source ↕
1930s–1947 E.R. Morehouse Co., Inc.
1955National Heating & Building Supply Co.1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone

1433 Pine Street

1433 Pine Street — 1400 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1947–1955Camden Lime Co.

1445 Pine Street

1445 Pine Street — 1400 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924–1929Wilckes Martin Company
1400 Pine Street — National Heating & Building Supply Co., 1955 New Jersey Bell Yellow Pages ads

1400 Pine Street — National Heating & Building Supply Co. New Jersey Bell Telephone Yellow Pages ads, 1955.

ATLANTIC FURNACE OIL DEALER

DO-IT-YOURSELF HEADQUARTERS

EVERYTHING FOR THE HOME INSIDE & OUT

WHOLESALE RETAIL

Free Delivery 25 Miles

• Cement • Sand • Stone • Flagstone
• Lumber • Millwork • Plywood • Shingles
• Hardware • Paint • Glass • Nails
• Roofing • Wallboards • Steel & Aluminum Windows • Pipe
• Plaster • Flues • Lathing • Precast Lintels
• Ceiling Tile • Waterproofing • Insulation

OPEN Friday Nights
SUNDAY 9 AM TO 1 PM

NATIONAL HEATING & BUILDING SUPPLY CO

WOodlawn 4-6100

OTHER LOCATION
1041 MAGNOLIA AV (Off Park Blvd.)

1400 PINE ST. CAMDEN
CAMDEN

1400 Pine Street, November 5, 1973

1400 Pine Street, November 5, 1973.

1433 Pine Street — Camden Lime Co., c.1930

1433 Pine Street — Camden Lime Co., 1947–1955. Photo, c.1930.

1500 Block of Pine Street

1500 Block of Pine Street

1500 Pine Street

1500 Pine Street — 1500 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
c.1900–1956Taylor White Extracting Company

1501 Pine Street

1501 Pine Street — 1500 Block of Pine Street
Year ↕ Name ↕
1947–1955Monsanto Chemical Co.
1500 Pine Street — Taylor White Extracting Company, June 2011 1500 Pine Street — Taylor White Extracting Company, June 2011 1500 Pine Street — Taylor White Extracting Company, June 2011 1500 Pine Street — Taylor White Extracting Company, June 2011 1500 Pine Street — Taylor White Extracting Company, June 2011 1500 Pine Street — Taylor White Extracting Company, June 2011

1500 Pine Street — Taylor White Extracting Company, c.1900–1956. Photos, June 2011.

1501 Pine Street — Monsanto Chemical Co., January 31, 1976

1501 Pine Street — Monsanto Chemical Co., 1947–1955. Photo, January 31, 1976.

Direction Stanley Company of America

Camden Courier-Post —

Direction Stanley Company of America - Camden Courier-Post, January 24, 1928 Direction Stanley Company of America - Camden Courier-Post, January 24, 1928

STANLEY

Theatre Beautiful

First S. Jersey Showing

Noon to 11 P.M.

B’way & Market

ADOLPHE MENJOU

Serenade

On the STAGE

HELENA MARSH

Metropolitan Opera Co.

COMEDY SMITHS MODISTE SHOP

Stanley News

Va[?]! King of Sports

OVERTURE MORNING NOON & NIGHT

TOWERS

A CAMDEN INSTITUTION

Broadway & Pine

Keith Vaudeville

Stanley Photoplays

5 BIG KEITH ACTS

Headed by the Big Time Feature Act

BOBBY O’NEIL & CO.

In a miniature musical comedy in live scenes

GRAPE-JUICE

Extra Attraction—First South Jersey Screening. Feature Photoplay.

SILK LEGS

Extra! Extra!

TONIGHT IS GUEST NIGHT

Loads of Fun for All.

TOWERS

A CAMDEN INSTITUTION

Broadway & Pine

Keith Vaudeville

Stanley Photoplays

SPECIAL EXTRA ATTRACTION TOMORROW, WEDNESDAY, THURS., FRI., SAT.

Camden’s Most Beautiful Girl

WITH HER LATEST

SPORT MODEL FORD CAR

Guess Who She is and Receive a Free Gift

FORD CAR—COURTESY OF CRAMER & MYERS INC., FORD AGENCY, 780 WRIGHT AVE.

GRAND

Continuous Noon to 11 P. M.

Broadway and Mickle; First South Jersey Screening.

OLIVE BORDEN

In a story of a girl who was indiscreet.

“Come to My House”

COMEDY “A FOOL AND HIS MONEY”

TRAVELOGUE KINOGRAMS

Early Donor in Aluminum Drive Hopes ‘Gift’ Will Be Sent to Hitler

Camden Courier-Post —

Early Donor in Aluminum Drive Hopes ‘Gift’ Will Be Sent to Hitler - Camden Courier-Post, July 22, 1941 Early Donor in Aluminum Drive Hopes ‘Gift’ Will Be Sent to Hitler - Camden Courier-Post, July 22, 1941, part 2 Early Donor in Aluminum Drive Hopes ‘Gift’ Will Be Sent to Hitler - Camden Courier-Post, July 22, 1941, part 3 Early Donor in Aluminum Drive Hopes ‘Gift’ Will Be Sent to Hitler - Camden Courier-Post, July 22, 1941, part 4 Early Donor in Aluminum Drive Hopes ‘Gift’ Will Be Sent to Hitler - Camden Courier-Post, July 22, 1941, part 5

Campaign Opens Here with Distribution of Pamphlets on Details; Metal Collection Listed for Thursday at Nine City Centers

Editorial: “Pans and Patriots” appears on page eight.

Hitler’s anti-Semitic nation may receive a “gift” in the near future from a South Camden Jewish resident, but the Fuehrer will not send back a “thank you” note.

The gift may attain the form of aluminum bomber parts.

Last night the city opened its drive for old aluminum from homes for use in national defense work. Only pamphlets giving details about the canvass were distributed with the old pots, discarded pans and other outmoded aluminum utensils to be collected Thursday.

However, not to be late in handing in his donation, the South Camden Jew of German birth, who remains unidentified, walked into headquarters of Engine Company No. 8 at Sixth street and Kaighn avenue, his arms laden with old aluminum.

“Here, I want to give this aluminum to you now and not wait until Thursday,” the donor told firemen. “These pots and pans came from Germany with me many years ago, and now I want the United States to make something out of them to send back to that (several words censored) Hitler.”

Seized Cooker in Gifts

A Boy Scout’s pint-size cooking pan was taken into police headquarters by Norwood Greene, a Secret Service Agent, who said the utensil was confiscated in a counterfeit raid a short time ago at Wilmington, Del.

Greene was instructed by a superior to turn the pan over to the Camden aluminum drive. In doing so the agent had to request a receipt signed in triplicate from police headquarters since that is the required procedure in disposing of any seized articles by the Secret Service.

Beginning at 7 p. m. approximately 300 Boy Scouts, veterans and volunteers, began their systematic house-to-house canvass delivering the pamphlets explaining the drive and requesting contributions. The same workers will return Thursday to pick up whatever aluminum the householders care to give.

Anyone may take his contributed articles to any one of the collection centers. From the nine centers the aluminum will be taken to Fifth and Arch streets where a large wire enclosed bin has been constructed.

Mayor Heads Group

Mayor George E. Brunner heads the campaign as honorary chairman and William C. Schriver is general chairman. Heading a group of World War veterans engaged in the effort is Edward J. Quinlan. The veterans laid out the nine districts of the city for the collections. The Scouts are directed in the drive by Scout Commissioner Thomas Norris.

Schriver reported last night when the workers called at many homes the housewives had already collected the old utensils and had them ready for collection piled in boxes. The workers told the residents, however, the donations would not be collected until Thursday.

The nationwide appeal for gifts of aluminum will end July 29. Similar drive plans have been made in every community in the county. In many municipalities, property owners have donated the use of vacant buildings as collection centers.

The Camden city districts, and those in charge of collection, are:

First district, firehouse, Fourth and Pine streets, Leo G. Stephans.

Second district, fire headquarters, Fifth and Arch, Sgt. Ray Smith and Fred Vogel.

Third district, Engine Company No. 3, 1800 Broadway, Eugene Conlin.

Fourth district, Engine Company No. 6, Front and Linden, Samuel Shapiro.

Fifth district, Engine Company No. 7, 1115 Kaighn, James H. O’Brien.

Sixth district, Engine Company No. 8, Sixth and Kaighn, Albert C. Becker.

Seventh district, Engine Company No. 9, Twenty-seventh and Federal, Roy C. Adams.

Eighth district, Engine Company No. 10, Ninth and Morgan, Burnell S. Hartman.

Ninth district, Engine Company No. 11, Twenty-seventh and Hayes, Michael Mungioli.

Mrs. Carrie R. Bean, past department president of the Veterans of Foreign Wars auxiliary, and Mrs. Anne D. Spooner, president-elect of the Camden County American Legion auxiliaries, have appealed to members of all county auxiliary posts of both organizations to assist in collections.

4 Cops, 4 Firemen, Widow of One Win City Pensions

Camden Courier-Post —

4 Cops, 4 Firemen, Widow of One Win City Pensions - Camden Courier-Post, July 7, 1950 4 Cops, 4 Firemen, Widow of One Win City Pensions - Camden Courier-Post, July 7, 1950 4 Cops, 4 Firemen, Widow of One Win City Pensions - Camden Courier-Post, July 7, 1950 4 Cops, 4 Firemen, Widow of One Win City Pensions - Camden Courier-Post, July 7, 1950 4 Cops, 4 Firemen, Widow of One Win City Pensions - Camden Courier-Post, July 7, 1950 4 Cops, 4 Firemen, Widow of One Win City Pensions - Camden Courier-Post, July 7, 1950

Johnson, Garrity, Crawford, Stahl Retire Aug. 31

Four police officers and four firemen applied for pensions under the mandatory 65-year-old retirement law today.

The applications, all approved by the police-firemen pension board, are in line with Commissioner Aaron’s order in December, 1948, advising chiefs of the respective services that state law requires retirement of all personnel who have reached 65.

Police officers to be pensioned are Detective Capt. Samuel E. Johnson, 71, Capt. John T. Garrity, 65, Detective Frank Crawford, 69, and Patrolman Harry Stahl, 68.

Fire department members include Deputy Chief Clarence Madden, 67, and Firemen John Prucella, 75; Spencer Smith Sr., 68, and Frank L’Esperance, 66.

The eight men will retire Aug. 31, with each receiving one-half of the average annual salary of the last three years.

Also approved today was an application for a widow’s pension by Mrs. Carrie Bean, 1103 North Twenty-sixth street. Her husband, Patrolman Howard Bean, died June 8, eight days after being pensioned. She will receive $1000 annually.

Captain Johnson, of 211 Elm street, is considered the dean of the police department, having served 40 years.

Johnson, who will receive $2019 annually, was appointed in April, 1910, and was made a detective 10 years later. He was elevated to sergeant in November, 1928, and to lieutenant in 1930. One year after he was cited in 1942 by former Public Safety Director Mary Kobus, Johnson was raised to captain. He served as acting police chief from December, 1947, to December, 1949.

Captain Garrity will receive $1601 annually. He served as commander in each of the three city districts. Garrity was appointed in January, 1920; made sergeant July, 1930; lieutenant in 1940, and captain on June 30, 1944. He lives at 2515 Morgan boulevard.

Following a “pep” meeting with city detectives Thursday, Aaron announced he had transferred Captain Garrity to his office for “special assignments.” Sgt. William Schultz was named acting captain to head the third police district to replace Garrity.

Crawford, of 578 Chestnut street, will draw $1501. He was named to the force in 1912 and resigned eight years later. In 1931 he was reinstated and received a promotion to detective status in 1942. He was cited by former Chief John Golden.

Stahl Appointed in 1917

Stahl lives at 1513 Baird avenue. After his appointment in 1917, he saw service in most departments of the bureau. He will receive an annual pension of $1401.

Chief Madden, 2760 Mickle street, is serving as fire commander for the second fire district at Twenty-seventh and Federal streets. He was appointed July 1, 1910 and assigned to Engine Co. 5, Fifth and Arch streets.

In 1922 he was raised to lieutenant, and six years later became senior captain. Madden was named battalion chief Nov. 21, 1944 and deputy chief on Dec. 16, 1949.

Madden will receive about $2000, with the others drawing approximately $1358 annually.

Prucella, 919 Penn street, was sworn in on Nov. 1, 1911 and joined Engine Co. 5. Since 1933 he has been serving at No. 6 Engine Co., Front and Linden streets.

Smith was appointed May 1, 1914 and assigned to No. 1 Engine Co., Fourth and Pine streets. He has been attached to No. 10 Engine Co., Ninth street and Morgan boulevard, since 1920.

Frank L’Esperance, 604 Clinton street, is also a member of No. 10 Engine Co., where he has been attached since 1938. He was appointed June 6, 1918 and served with No. 5 and No. 3 engine companies.

Fireman Is Suspended for Being Intoxicated

Camden Daily Courier —

Fireman Is Suspended for Being Intoxicated - Camden Daily Courier, July 8, 1924

Roscoe Tribbett, a hoseman attached to Engine company No. one, Fourth and Pine streets, was suspended this morning following a charge of being drunk and disorderly while on duty, preferred by Captain W. Scott Franklin.

Tribbett, who lives at 1190 Penn street, was summoned to appear at Commissioner Hitchner’s office, City Hall, this morning, for a hearing. A committee composed of John W. Kelly, Chief of Electrical Bureau, acting in Commissioner Hitchner’s absence, Chief Marshall, Captain Franklin, and Assistant City Counsellor Frank Neutze.

Tribbett was ordered suspended to await action upon the return of Commissioner Hitchner, who is ill.

Bail Is Denied Roxie Allen in Robbery of 15 in Craps Game

Camden Evening Courier —

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Three Pals of Camden Boxer Also Jailed at Shore for Grand Jury

QUARTET IDENTIFIED BY POOLROOM OWNER

Limp Betrays Fighter at Landisville—Says He Did Not Aid Holdup

Identified as four of the five bandits who held up and robbed 15 men at a craps game in a Landisville poolroom yesterday, Roxie Allen, well-known South Jersey boxer, and three other South Camden youths are under arrest today.

The suspects, charged with obtaining money and watches worth $175, are Rocco Auletto, Allen’s real name, 21, of 318 Spruce street; Carmen Passarella, 26, of 1227 Broadway; Salvatore Passalacqua, 20, of 339 Clinton street, and Rocco De Corda, 23, of 221 Spruce street.

Two of the suspects, Passarella and Passalacqua, have made a full confession, according to Captain William J. Carter, Troop “A” commander, of the Hammonton State Police barracks.

Allen and De Corda have denied implication in the holdup. The welterweight pugilist admitted that he drove the holdup car but remained behind the wheel during the robbing, unaware of the intentions of his companions.

A fifth man, said to be colored, is being sought in Camden by the State Police and Camden detectives.

All four captives, arrested in this city and positively identified by the proprietor of the robbed place as well as by some of the victims, were held without bail pending action by the Atlantic county grand jury on charges of weapons. They were arraigned before Justice of the Peace Peter Capizola, of Buena. Prior to that, they were “booked” at the Atlantic county jail in Mays Landing, and then photographed and fingerprinted at the Malaga state police barracks. They are now in the jail at Mays Landing.

Allen’s Limp Seen, Claim

All four were recognized by the proprietor, Nicholas Yennitti, owner of “Poppy’s Place,” it is alleged. Yennitti said he knew the three white men who entered unmasked, and recognized Allen in the automobile after seeing him limp when he got out. Allen did not enter the place, nor could Yennitti see whether Allen had a gun.

It was at 2.10 p. m. yesterday that four men, three carrying revolvers and the other a sawed-off shotgun, ran into the poolroom and commanded the patrons to put up their hands. The 15 men inside were lined against a wall and their pockets were looted. The money on the table was picked up by one of the bandits. The total cash stolen amounted to only $75, while the watches and rings taken from the victims were worth about $100.

Captain Carter and other investigators heard reports that if the holdup had been staged 10 minutes later, a richer reward would have fallen into the hands of the bandits. The rumors were to the effect that the “banker” for the place arrived there from Atlantic City 10 minutes after the holdup, with two or three thousand dollars.

Nicholas Dandrea and Yennitti recognized the three white men, and then saw Allen, they said, in the car outside. Allen and Passarella had been in the place Saturday afternoon, the former losing about $15 at pool, according to Yennitti.

The license numbers of the car were observed by several of the victims, and the affair was reported to the state police. Troopers George Probert and Howard Maliff of the Malaga barracks, and Wilfred Dube, state police plainclothesman, were assigned to the investigation. They immediately sped to Camden, where they obtained the aid of Detective Theodore Guthrie.

Allen and Passarella were arrested last evening by the troopers and Guthrie. Passalacqua was arrested at his home last night by Sergeant Rox Saponare, of the Camden detective bureau. De Corda was arrested 4 a. m. today on suspicion and was later identified.

Holdup Car Found

The holdup car was found at Third and Pine streets today and was impounded by the Camden police for Atlantic county authorities. It bore the license plates C25899, but this license was issued, according to the state motor vehicle bureau at Trenton, to Harry Whaland, 1424 Mt. Ephraim avenue, Camden. An investigation proved that the tags had been stolen from Whaland’s car yesterday. Moreover, Whaland had a car different in make than the one impounded.

In his confession, Passarella declared that the seized car was his and that it was used in the holdup. The plates, he is said to have confessed, were stolen from Whaland.

However, a checkup at the Trenton bureau revealed that the license number C22859, issued for the car claimed by Passarella, had been issued to a Frank Passarella, of 327 Washington street, Camden.

Passarella, the man under arrest, is a nephew of Frank Passarella, also known as Passeralli, 31, of 212 Catherine street, Philadelphia, one of the two Atco National Bank bandits who were convicted here last month and received heavy jail sentences.

Louis Bottina, 20, of 1440 South Fourth street, was also arrested last night on suspicion, but was released when he proved an alibi and when the victims could not identify him.

The limp which betrayed Allen was the result of a bullet wound inflicted on him August 2 by Charles Areni, 699 Central avenue, who later was convicted and sent to state’s prison.

Roxie Allen Held As One of Gang in Dice Game Holdup

Camden Morning Post —

Roxie Allen Held As One of Gang in Dice Game Holdup - Camden Morning Post, December 8, 1930 Roxie Allen Held As One of Gang in Dice Game Holdup - Camden Morning Post, December 8, 1930 Roxie Allen Held As One of Gang in Dice Game Holdup - Camden Morning Post, December 8, 1930 Roxie Allen Held As One of Gang in Dice Game Holdup - Camden Morning Post, December 8, 1930 Roxie Allen Held As One of Gang in Dice Game Holdup - Camden Morning Post, December 8, 1930 Roxie Allen Held As One of Gang in Dice Game Holdup - Camden Morning Post, December 8, 1930

Pugilist and Pal Identified As 2 of 4 Bandits in Landisville Robbery

Bandit Suspect

PLAYERS LINED UP, RELIEVED OF $200

Robbers Flee in Stolen Car With Crippled Man at Wheel

Roxie Allen, Camden’s famed welterweight boxer, and one of his pals were arrested last night and identified, according to police, as two of four men who held up a craps game early yesterday at Landisville. Loot is said to have totaled between $150 and $200.

Allen, whose real name is Auletto, and Carmen Passarella, 26, of 1227 Broadway, were arrested by City Detective Theodore Guthrie and Wilfred Dube and George Probert, state police investigators.

Nicholas Dandrea and Nicholas Yennitti, both of Landisville, identified Allen and Passarella at police headquarters. Police said Yennitti is the proprietor of the pool room in which the holdup was staged. It is known as “Poppy’s Place.”

A dozen men were backed to the wall when the four bandits entered.

One carried a sawed-off shotgun while the other three brandished revolvers.

One of the bandits was crippled in both legs, according to the victims. They picked up the money laying on the table and then rifled the pockets of the players.

As they fled the license number of their automobile was taken and turned over to Malaga state police. A check-up revealed the car had been stolen from the garage of Harry Whaland, real estate dealer, 1424 Mt. Ephraim avenue. The license tags had been stolen from a disabled automobile of A. Baer, 611 Kaighn avenue. The state police declare the crippled man was driving the car.

Allen was recognized in the poolroom as the Camden boxer by the sportsmen gathered for the game, according to state police. Allen walks with a limp as a result of being shot August 2 at Third and Pine streets by Charles Areni, 699 Central avenue. Areni was found guilty in Criminal Court October 15.

Allen and Passarella were taken to state police headquarters at Hammonton for further questioning. They will be turned over eventually to Cumberland county authorities.

Dube said charges of robbery and carrying deadly weapons will be lodged against the accused.

Allen gave his age as 21 and his address as 318 Spruce street. At one time he was rated as one of the best welterweights in the country. He and Passarella have been close friends for years.

Two additional suspects were arrested by Camden police on information received from Hammonton state police. Louis Bottina, 20, of 1440 South Fourth street, was arrested by Patrolman Joseph Lack at Broadway and Kaighn avenue.

Salvatore Passalacqua, 20, of 339 Clinton street, was arrested at his home by Detective Sergeant Rox Saponare.

Both men were arrested on suspicion and are being detained until today when an attempt will be made to identify them as the second pair of the four bandits.

When Newspapermen asked Guthrie what Allen said when he was arrested, Guthrie declared Allen had made no statement. A similar question at Hammonton state police headquarters brought forth a reply from Trooper Dube that “I am not making any statements right now, I am still working on the investigation. Don’t bother me for a couple of hours.”

ROXIE ALLEN

Camden welterweight contender who is accused of being one of four “hoodlums” who staged a holdup early yesterday on a craps game in a Landisville pool room. Allen, according to police, was identified last night by the proprietor of the place and one of the players as the “cripple” who drove the bandit car.

Two Men Shot in a Race Riot in Camden

Philadelphia Inquirer —

Two Men Shot in a Race Riot in Camden - Philadelphia Inquirer, July 6, 1897 Two Men Shot in a Race Riot in Camden - Philadelphia Inquirer, July 6, 1897 Two Men Shot in a Race Riot in Camden - Philadelphia Inquirer, July 6, 1897 Two Men Shot in a Race Riot in Camden - Philadelphia Inquirer, July 6, 1897

Both Victims Are Colored and One Is Probably Fatally Wounded.

POLICE USED PISTOLS

They Were Fired at When They Tried to Arrest the Fighters. “Crap” Game Started the Trouble.

In a race riot between white and colored men in South Camden last evening two colored men were shot. One of the two is seriously injured. When the police appeared upon the scene the white men turned their pistols against the officers, and their fire was returned. Arrests were made, however, without loss of life.

The night force were reporting at police headquarters for roll call at 6 o’clock last evening, when word was received that a race riot was in progress in the Seventh ward. Policemen Sayrs, George Anderson, Butts and Sage, the Seventh ward detail, were hastily dispatched to the scene.

They found a fierce fight in progress between a number of white and colored men, in which the former were using revolvers and the latter razors and clubs. As soon as they caught sight of the policemen the white men scattered.

Policeman Sayrs chased Thomas Glenn down Seventh street, near Walnut. The fugitive suddenly turned and fired his revolver at the officer. Policeman Sayrs dodged behind a freight car on Seventh street and emptied his revolver at Glenn. Howard Ever came to the officer’s assistance and Policemen Hyde and McClung joined in the chase. Glenn was finally captured in a house in which he had taken refuge.

One of the other fugitives fired at Policeman Butts, and that officer returned the fire, but neither was wounded.

The officers foun [sic] that Harry Cooper, of 706 Pine street, had been shot in the knee, and James Carter, of 332 Joint alley, had been shot in the stomach and hip during the riot. Both men are colored. They were sent to the Cooper Hospital. Carter is in a critical condition, as it is thought the bullet pierced his bladder. An operation will be necessary.

The officers arrested Henry Peters, son of Policeman Peters; John McDonald, Frank Whitaker and Thomas Glenn as the supposed assailants of the colored men. The prisoners claim that the fight started in the morning over a game of “crap,” and that the colored men left and returned in the evening with re-enforcements to “do up” the white men.

When searched at the City Hall Peters had a revolver and ball cartridges in his pocket. McDonald had a pair of brass knuckles. The police found a revolver at the scene of the fight.

Lester Store Razed By $100,000 Fire

Camden Courier-Post —

Lester Store Razed By $100,000 Fire - Camden Courier-Post, March 16, 1942 Lester Store Razed By $100,000 Fire - Camden Courier-Post, March 16, 1942 Lester Store Razed By $100,000 Fire - Camden Courier-Post, March 16, 1942 Lester Store Razed By $100,000 Fire - Camden Courier-Post, March 16, 1942 Lester Store Razed By $100,000 Fire - Camden Courier-Post, March 16, 1942 Lester Store Razed By $100,000 Fire - Camden Courier-Post, March 16, 1942 Lester Store Razed By $100,000 Fire - Camden Courier-Post, March 16, 1942 Lester Store Razed By $100,000 Fire - Camden Courier-Post, March 16, 1942

Flames on Broadway Are Subdued After Seven-Hour Battle

The clothing and jewelry store of S. Lester, at 713 Broadway, was destroyed by fire of undetermined origin following an explosion late Saturday night.

Eight companies fought the two-alarm fire for seven hours and succeeded in saving adjoining buildings in the block which were threatened by the roaring flames. An invalid woman was carried to safety. Two other persons fled to the street. One fireman was injured.

Damage was estimated at $100,000 by A. Lee Newman, manager. S. Lester, proprietor, returned from Florida yesterday to learn of the misfortune.

Fire Chief John H. Lennox today said the cause of the fire probably never will be known.

“All we know is that it started on the first floor,” Chief Lennox said. “The basement was all right so it was not the heating system that caused it.

“The store was closed at 10.25 p. m. What happened between then and 11.24, when the first alarm came in, we’ll probably never know, except that there was an explosion. So aflame was the building when firemen arrived that it was impossible to trace the fire’s origin.”

Three Explosions

The fire started in the building at 11.18 p.m., the time being fixed by an automatic alarm system. Sheets of flame shot through the first and second floor windows just as the audience was leaving the last show of the Towers Theatre across the street.

Alarms were turned in by three persons. A boy ran into the drug store of Theodore Ellis, at Broadway and Pine street; a pedestrian ran to the firehouse of Engine Company No. 1, at Fourth and Pine streets, and an alarm was sounded by an employe of a private watchman service summoned by breaking of an electric circuit by the explosion.

Engine Co. 1, 2 and 8 and Truck Co. No. 1 answered the first alarm under Acting Deputy Fire Chief William Van Pfefferle, who turned in the second alarm, bringing Engine Co. 3, 6 and 7 and Truck Co. No. 2, together with Fire Chief Lennox and Police Chief George Frost.

Part of the roof fell in shortly after 2 a.m., according to the report of Acting Battalion Chief Laurence Newton.

It was 6.30 a.m. yesterday before the last of the firemen pulled away. During the seven hours traffic was routed off Broadway. Southbound traffic was sent down Fifth street, northbound traffic up Sixth street, diversion points being Royden and Spruce streets.

Some damage was done to the roof and smoke and water did other damage to the Gray Hat Shop at 717 Broadway. Carl Schwartz and his wife, Fay, proprietor of the hat shop, were forced to flee from their apartment above their store.

Mrs. Catherine Burrichter, an invalid living in a two-story house at 711 Broadway, was carried out by firemen. The roof of the Burrichter home was slightly damaged by fire, while smoke and water poured through the house.

Hoseman Stephan Szwack, 37, of 1234 Dayton street, attached to Engine Co. No. 8, suffered a cut on the left hand while fighting the fire. He was treated at West Jersey Hospital.

Crowds were attracted to the scene by the explosions and the flames.

Lester was met in Philadelphia by Newman as he returned from Florida yesterday, and told what had happened.

To Open Temporary Store

Lester said a temporary store will be opened within a few days while a new store is being built. Collection records and account books were saved by their steel containers, Lester explained, and were moved to the office of Dr. Benjamin W. Kauffman at 706 Broadway.

“I am glad the explosions and fire did not occur until after 11 o’clock,” Lester said. “At that time the store was closed, so no customers or employees could be injured.”

Lester had been in business at 713 Broadway since 1935. His first Broadway store was opened at 936 Broadway in 1928.

The proprietor immediately took charge of salvaging unharmed merchandise, moving of records, search for a temporary store location and outlining plans for a new building with an architect.

“We shall start at once to construct the finest store in South Jersey,” Lester said. “Our temporary store will be open with new merchandise for the Easter season.”

Camden Notes

Philadelphia Inquirer —

Camden Notes - Philadelphia Inquirer, May 8, 1888

Harry Mellon and Joseph Stratton, were arrested by Policeman Peters, of the Seventh ward, yesterday afternoon on the charge of having stabbed Joseph Loague [sic], near the City Hall on Sunday night.

At a meeting of the Camden Board of Education held last night, Treasurer Rex made the following reports: Received, $31,131 88; paid out, $25 674 46; balance, $5457.43. Superintendent Bergen reported a daily attendance of 67[?][?].

The stable of ex Freeholder Gordon, at Second and Pine streets, was damaged by fire yesterday to the extent of $600. Origin unknown. Fully insured.

Personal Notices

Camden Post-Telegram —

Personal Notices - Camden Post-Telegram, August 9, 1921

Mrs. John Hunt and children, George and Ruth, of 1009 South Sixth street, are spending the month of August with Mrs. Hunt’s mother in Atlantic City.

Fireman Benny Waters [sic], of No. 1 engine house, Fourth and Pine streets, leaves to-day for a vacation at the seashore.

William Taylor and Captain Lennox, both of No. 8 Engine Company, are spending their vacation at Atlantic City.

Injured Fireman in Restless Night

Camden Post-Telegram —

Injured Fireman in Restless Night - Camden Post-Telegram, May 20, 1910

Arthur Wingate Greatly Weakened After Long Period of Sleeplessness.

FEAR BROKEN RIB PENETRATED LUNG

Arthur Wingate, the driver of the combination chemical and hose wagon at Fire Headquarters, Fifth and Arch streets, who was injured by the team crashing into an iron column of the elevated railroad at Haddon avenue and Line street, yesterday afternoon, passed a restless night at Cooper Hospital, and this morning his condition was not satisfying to the doctors.

Besides suffering from a couple of fractured left ribs and severe lacerations of the scalp he also sustained an exhausting internal shock.

It is also feared that one of the broken ribs penetrated a lung, but an X-ray examination will have to be made to determine that. If such is proven to be the case the wounded fireman’s chances of recovery would be dimmed.

The apparatus was on its way out Haddon avenue to slight fire at the farm house of William Butler, colored, at the head of Pine street, at the time it met with disaster.

There was a trolley car standing under the elevated railroad at Line street and it was while turning out of the tracks at full speed that the team of strapping gray horses crashed into one of the four iron columns of the structure at that point.

Driver Wingate was hurled from his seat a distance of about twenty feet, laiding [sic] on his head on the hard earth bleeding and unconscious. Firemen John Lutz, Harry Selby and John Lennox, who were on the back of the wagon, were thrown to the ground by the force of the collision, but escaped injury.

One of the gray horses drawing the apparatus and known as “Nig” was almost instantly killed when it dashed into the pillar; the other steed swerving to one side escaped meeting a similar fate. Outside of the pole of the wagon being snapped off and the dashboard twisted the apparatus was not badly damaged.

Wingate was rushed to Cooper Hospital in an auto canvassing for funds for the Homeopathic Hospital, and placed in a private ward for treatment.

Fire Captain Is Promoted

Camden Courier-Post —

Fire Captain Is Promoted - Camden Courier-Post, April 30, 1964

CAPT. HAROLD H. PIKE

Camden Fire Capt. Harold H. Pike today was promoted to district fire chief. He was sworn by City Clerk Odorisio at ceremonies in the City Hall office of Public Safety Director Kaufmman [sic].

Pike of Engine Co. 1, 4th and Pine sts., is 38 and lives at 939 N. 31st st. Appointed as a ladderman in November, 1950, he was made a captain in 1961. Kauffman, Fire Chief Edward R. MacDowell and acting Deputy Chief Edward Michalak witnessed the swearing-in ceremony.

Camden Justly Proud of Splendid Fire Department

Philadelphia Inquirer —

Camden Justly Proud of Splendid Fire Department - Philadelphia Inquirer, November 7, 1909 Camden Justly Proud of Splendid Fire Department - Philadelphia Inquirer, November 7, 1909 Camden Justly Proud of Splendid Fire Department - Philadelphia Inquirer, November 7, 1909 Camden Justly Proud of Splendid Fire Department - Philadelphia Inquirer, November 7, 1909

HEADQUARTERS OF CAMDEN FIRE DEPARTMENT

Change From Volunteer to Paid “Laddies” Will Be Appropriately Celebrated Next Wednesday

It is probably unknown to the average citizen that Camden had a paid Fire Department some years before Philadelphia. It is just forty years since the gallant volunteer fire-fighters went out of service. To be exact, it was September 2, 1869, that Camden City Council provided to pay its firemen, and on December 10 of the same year they went into service. This event is to be fittingly celebrated next Wednesday in a demonstration in which the business men of the city, as well as the municipal departments, will participate.

It was not until March 15, 1810, that Camden boasted of even a volunteer fire company, and it was on that date that the Perseverance Fire Company was organized. In 1834 there were two such organizations which had been increased to six by 1851. For the most part these distinct aggregations of fire-fighters did not get along very well together and controversies were frequent.

SAMUEL S. ELFRETH

Chief of the Camden Fire Department

Companies Reorganized

City Council felt itself called upon to reorganize these companies in 1866 by ordinance, and some semblance of system was inaugurated by electing James Ayers marshal, followed by Wesley P. Murray. But while the companies did gallant service, it was thought best to have a department under the control of the city and that the firemen should receive some compensation for their services.

It was in consequence of this that Council on September 2, 1869, adopted the ordinance providing for the appointment of five fire commissioners, marshal and two assistants. The commissioners included Messrs. Harbert, Kirkbride, Perks, Bingham and Daubman. William Abels was appointed the first marshal, with William W. Mines as assistant in the First district at Fourth and Pine streets, and William H. Sherman, assistant in the Second district at Fifth and Arch streets.

Bender Made Chief

Abels was succeeded in 1871 by Robert Bender, who gave place to Henry Serault. In 1876 Bender was again placed in charge but was soon displaced by Claudius W. Bradshaw, afterwards Mayor of the city. Then Samuel S. Elfreth, the present chief, was placed in charge. He remained until 1881, when Daniel Carter was made chief. Three years later Elfreth was once more in charge. In 1887 Bender was given the office which he retained until 1890, when Chief Elfreth succeeded him and has since remained in that position.

As presently constituted, the department includes Chief Elfreth, First Assistant Samuel S. Buzine, Second Assistant George P. Cox and Third Assistant Walter Browning, beside captains, lieutenants, engineers and others to the total of one hundred efficient men who have repeatedly proved their value in saving valuable proptrty [sic].

Department Well Equippd [sic]

As to the aparatus [sic], there are six fire engines, six combination hose and chemical wagons, two hose carriages, one aerial hook and ladder, one chemical engine, beside other necessary vehicles, some of which are held in reserve.

There are thirty-nine horses distributed in the nine houses. The headquarters are located at Fifth and Arch streets, which is thoroughly modern in all of its equipments.

Under Chief Elfreth, who has been in the service nearly forty years, the department has been brought to such a high standard of efficiency that the Underwriters’ Association recently paid special attention to it by decreasing insurance rates fifteen per cent. Councils’ Fire Commissioners, of which Councilman Harry R. Read is chairman, has also done much to make the department the success it is at present.

Moore in Camden Speech Demands Fairness at Polls

Camden Courier-Post —

Towers Theatre Packed at Climax of All-Day Invasion Here

TOURS SMALLER TOWNS

Editorial: “Mr. Harry Moore’s Great Exposé That Exposes Nothing” appears on page 16.

By RANSLOE BOONE

Demanding a fair election and protection to Democratic voters, A. Harry Moore was greeted here last night by the largest crowd to gather at a Democratic meeting in Camden’s recent history.

The Democratic candidate for governor brought to a climax an all-day speaking tour of Camden county with a mass meeting which overflowed the Towers Theatre, Broadway and Pine street. At least 3500 persons crowded the theatre to its doors and more than 1000 others, unable to get in, heard the speakers’ words through amplifiers over the sidewalks.

Assails Justice Lloyd

Moore criticized Supreme Court Justice Frank T. Lloyd, for his refusal last week to order state police into Camden to protect the interests of the Democrats.

“The court has not given me that assurance. Instead, the court delivered from the bench a fine speech for my opponent.”

The Democratic candidate had promised in an earlier speech here September 8, to name names of those he charged had resorted to illegal practices at the polls. He made no mention of them last night except to say he had given the names in affidavits filed with Justice Lloyd.

Earlier in the evening the Democratic standard-bearer addressed more than 250 at a combined meeting of Merchantville, Delaware Township and Pennsauken Township voters at Merchantville Hall, 15 West Maple Avenue, Merchantville, and to 1200 at Gloucester city hall.

Lauds Courier-Post Fairness

In an address at noon to employees of the RCA Victor and Campbell Soup companies, Moore, without naming his Republican opponent, declared:

“Come on with your millions,” he added without mentioning the name of his Republican opponent, “and with the editors you have bought and paid for, and next Tuesday I’ll crash through to the governor’s chair!”

“When I speak of the editors who have been bought and paid for, I’m not in anyway referring to the local newspapers— the Morning Post and the Evening Courier. Both of these papers have been fair to me in handling the news of the campaign.”

Moore’s address at the Towers Theatre follows:

Cites Request for Trooper

“Evidence is on file with the justice of the Supreme Court here showing clearly that extraordinary means must be taken by me to protect my interests on election day in certain parts of the City of Camden. When I spoke here the last time, I referred to conditions that existed in the Eighth and Fifth wards, conditions that made it impossible for opponents of Republican candidates to receive the protection that the laws provide for all candidates for office.

“I promise at that time that the names of certain individuals who resort to illegal practices at the polls would be made public. This has been done. The names have been given to the justice of the Supreme Court here.

“Though my counsel, I have appealed to the justice of the Supreme Court for assurance that he would use the power of his high judicial office to give my interests the protection of the law of New Jersey in those sections where I am compelled to believe my interests are in jeopardy. Filed with the court are 40 affidavits showing what has happened in the Fifth and Eighth wards in the past, and what I have every reason to believe will be repeated this year unless checked beforehand.

Ridicules Supreme Court

“The court has not given me that assurance. Instead, the court delivered from the bench a fine speech for my opponent. The court insisted on emphasizing that the City of Camden and the County of Camden were no more capable of election law violations than any other city or county in the state.

“Now, I have no criticism to make of the people of Camden city or Camden county. Certainly the great majority of the people here are law abiding. I never said they weren’t. But the court was given evidence of the strong-arm and illegal methods used at the polls in the Fifth and Eighth wards in the City of Camden, evidence submitted by persons who witnessed the stuffing of ballot box and by other persons who were victims of intimidation and beating by gangsters.

“Am I not entitled to the protection that I seek? What are courts for, if not to see that justice is done and the law respected?

Hits at Baldwin and Cops

“Can I depend on the prosecutor of Camden county to see that the law is not violated on election day, when the prosecutor has appeared as counsel for my opponent in these matters, and is out campaigning for him?

“Can I look to the police for protection when the affidavits now on file with the justice of the Supreme Court show that the policemen on duty at the polling places where these law violations occurred closed their eyes to what was going on, some leaving the polling place at the approach of bullies in the Eighth ward, and others actually assisting in the assaults made upon voters and election officers?

“The justice said that Camden county has been cleaned up. Two years ago he told the grand jury here that conditions were rotten and charged the grand jury to do its full duty. Granting that Camden now is free of all the things Justice Lloyd said existed here two years ago, credit for the change must go to Justice Lloyd.

“If then, a word from the court accomplished that much, why won’t a word from him now, about what habitually happens in the Fifth and Eighth wards, on election day— occurrences that everyone is familiar with— put a stop to that?

Appeals to Fairness

“I want the same protection here that my opponent will have in my county on election day. Guarding his interests at the polls in Hudson will be a Republican prosecutor and a Republican bureau of elections, Mr. Baird will have at every polling place in Hudson county, in addition to the regular challengers and watchers, two Republican deputies from the Bureau of Elections, paid not by the Republican party, but by the taxpayers of Hudson county.

“It is costing our people $100,000 a year to maintain this Republican election bureau with its investigators and deputies.

“The records disclose that 19 names are registered from the saloon owned by the Republican leader of the Fifth ward, and those names, together with the name of the saloon owner and the address of the saloon, have been submitted to the court. In addition, there are at least 1000 names on the Camden city registry lists that do not belong there. That evidence is also in Justice Lloyd’s possession.

Threatens Vote Crooks Here

“These 19 names we know for a positive fact are illegally on the registry books. They are the remainder of the 4000 illegal registrants that were discovered during an investigation. Three thousand have been stricken from the registry lists by the Common Pleas Court here, and but for the expiration of the statutory time limit they all would have been stricken.

“However, despite the refusal of the court to assure me of the protection to which I am entitled, I want the people to know that every safeguard will be thrown around their ballots. Even without the support of the law enforcement agencies of this city and county the polls will be properly protected next Tuesday. The next time I come to Camden it will be as the governor of New Jersey, and I promise now that it will be a sad day for the law violators and recreant officials, from the highest down. They will answer to me for whatever frauds occur next Tuesday.

“I pledge to you that the law will be respected, that the ballot box stuffers will be put where they belong, that the reign of terror of the gangsters will end, and end speedily; that the machinery of government will be returned to the people, that the ballot will be cast by the people of South Jersey in accordance with their own desires— unhampered and unafraid.

Pledges Jury Reform

“The question of jury reform no doubt is of particular interest to the people of Camden. I believe that one of the main reasons why hand-picked and political juries are possible is the present method of selecting jury commissioners.

“Instead of improving on the original method of having the jury commissioners for each county appointed by the chancellor, the present administration at Trenton threw the procedure completely into politics by placing the appointment of these officials in the hands of the governor.

“I advocate that jury commissioners be appointed by the justice of the Supreme Court in the respective counties. In addition, I favor life tenure for justices of the Supreme Court. The latter reform would completely remove the Supreme Court from politics.

“That much accomplished, the justice of the Supreme Court becomes the only proper officer to select jury commissioners.”

Nowrey Presides

The Camden mass meeting was opened by former Mayor Joseph E. Nowrey, who presided. District Court Judge Myron Ernst, of Jersey City, predicting Hudson County would give Moore 100,000 majority, paid tribute to Mayor Frank Hague, of Jersey City, Democratic state leader.

“We love and respect Mayor Hague,” he declared. “He never has been a boss, as the Republicans charge, but he gives the people value, dollar for dollar.”

He declared the election of Moore would be a “beacon signal making possible the election of a Democratic president of the United States.”

Other speakers included Gene Mariano and E. George Aaron, Camden attorneys; Harvey Rothberg, Trenton, organizer of the A. Harry Moore Veterans’ League; James Baker, former president of the State Board of Taxation; Edward Hart, Jersey City corporation counsel, and the three Democratic candidates for Assembly, Vincent de P. Costello, William C. French, Jr., and Frederick Stanton.

Entrance of Moore was the signal for a deafening ovation. Stamping, whistling and cheering broke out spontaneously as the Democratic candidate stepped on the platform. He was forced to wait several minutes before he could silence his supporters and open his address.

Addresses RCA and Soup Workers

Moore opened his Camden county tour with an open-air address to more than 700 employees of RCA Victor and Campbell Soup Companies at Second and Market streets at noon.

“I want to see that every poor boy and girl in the state has a chance equal to the rich,” he declared, describing how he himself had started as a poor boy and went to work when he was 13 years old.

“You are my kind of people and I am going to represent you. You are the laboring class and the American Federation of Labor has endorsed me. Labor organizations are with me everywhere.

“There is a demand for a change.

A Republican came to me the other day and said, ‘I’m a Republican and I’m going to vote for you. You can’t be worse than what we’ve had.’ I smiled and said, ‘It’s true I can’t be worse, but I hope to be better and I will be.’”

Hits ‘Hoover Prosperity’

Moore attacked what he termed the “Hoover promises of prosperity.”

“Where is the job for every man that he promised, where the chicken at every table and the automobile for every workingman that we were to have under Hoover prosperity?” he asked.

“I ask, where are those evidences of prosperity that were promised? I represent you. I’m going to represent you. I want, and you want, the government taken out of the hands of a boss.”

Moore’s remarks were greeted with cheers and applause, interrupted occasionally with cries “We want Moore” and “atta boy, Harry.”

Skirmishes Black Horse Pike

The Democratic candidate was the guest of Harry A. Maloney, state committeeman, at luncheon at his home in Bellmawr, from where the party resumed its tour.

Moore visited the New York Shipbuilding Company at 2 p. m., and greeted many workers.

Five other open-air meetings followed at Mt. Ephraim, at Runnemede at 3.20 p. m., at the Blackwood Bank at 3.45 p. m., at Clementon Democratic headquarters at 4:15 p. m. and at the Atco station at 4:45 p. m. More than 2300 heard the candidate at these meetings.

He attacked Baird’s state and national record at a mass meeting at 5:30 p. m. at the headquarters of the Independent A. Harry Moore Club, Haddon and Lees avenues, Collingswood. More than 300 crowded into the hall while many more heard the address outside through amplifiers.

Moore’s cause was aided by two prominent Collingswood Republicans when the Democratic candidate spoke in that borough. Both Mayor Joseph H. Van Meter and Thomas M. Jack, former mayor and former sheriff greeted Moore on his arrival in Collingswood and attended the meeting there. Van Meter also was present later at the Camden meeting.

“David Baird was responsible for passage of the Public Service paving bill which relieved the company, of which he was a director, of the expense of paving between and beside its tracks. He saved the company $3,000,000 a year, placing the burden on the taxpayers.

Commends Woodruff

“When this measure came up during my term as governor, I vetoed it.

“At that time Senator Albert S. Woodruff, whom I consider a most honest and upright man, refused to favor the measure as demanded by Baird.

‘I represent the people, not you,’ Woodruff told Baird, and I admire Woodruff as a man who can be a man, not a mouse.

“Baird then answered Woodruff: ‘You’ll vote to override the veto or you won’t go back to the Senate.’ Woodruff refused, and he was defeated at the next primary.

“When he was a member of the United States Senate, David Baird answered only 193 out of 454 roll calls, being absent for 261 of them, and yet now he promises to be a full-time governor if he is elected. He failed to appear at the 1930 special session of Congress, yet he collected his stipend just the same.”

Moore attacked Baird’s failure to vote on the Mexican immigration bill which affected southern labor, declaring: “He could not make up his mind how to vote.”

During the last three years, when David Baird was boss of the state, it cost $96,000,000 to run the government, $24,000,000 more than when I was governor. Baird, as boss of the legislature, increased the burden of taxation. All he wants is more power to build up his political organization.”

Moore spoke along the same lines at Merchantville and Gloucester.

100 Friends Honor Director Abbott At Birthday Fete

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100 Friends Honor Director Abbott At Birthday Fete - Camden Courier-Post, June 2, 1950 100 Friends Honor Director Abbott At Birthday Fete - Camden Courier-Post, June 2, 1950

Public Works Director Abbott had a birthday Thursday and more than 100 of his friends and associates helped him celebrate it at a surprise dinner.

In response to praise for his accomplishments, Abbott attributed much of his success to support of those “on the other side of the tracks,” as he phrased it. Abbott lauded his fifth ward neighbors for having supported him since his first election in 1939.

Anthony M. Lario, city prosecutor, was toastmaster at the affair held in Vasco’s, Third and Pine streets. Among those who spoke as friends of Abbott were former Freeholder Thomas C. Schneider; former Prosecutor Gene R. Mariano; Alfred A. Zimmerman, president of Camden Council 10, New Jersey Civil Service Association; Detectives Harry Tracy and Joseph Mardino, Police Sergeant Anthony Skolski, Richard Troncone, Michael Tomasetti, Daniel Galasso and Frank H. Ryan, Courier-Post editor.

Among other guests were Mrs. Lena Rago, who serves on the Democratic county committee with Abbott representing the fifth ward; Mrs. Abbott, Joseph Webster, Camden restaurateur; Ventorino Fransecconi, deputy health director; former Deputy Sheriff Dominick Lombardo and Water Superintendent Edward Sheehan. Professor Gerald Fitzgibbon, widely-known hypnotist, entertained.

Director Abbott Celebrates Birthday at Vasco’s

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Director Abbott Celebrates Birthday at Vasco’s - Camden Courier-Post, June 2, 1950 Director Abbott Celebrates Birthday at Vasco’s - Camden Courier-Post, June 2, 1950

CAMDEN PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR ABBOTT had his day Thursday. It was his birthday and more than 100 friends helped him celebrate it at a party at Vascos’, Third and Pine streets. Left to right, front row, are Mrs. Lena Rago, Democratic Committeewoman of the fifth ward; Abbott, and Mrs. Abbott; standing, former Prosecutor Gene R. Mariano, Anthony M. Lario, city prosecutor, and Dominick Lombardo, former deputy sheriff.

Six Hurt by Falling Walls

Philadelphia Inquirer —

Six Hurt by Falling Walls - Philadelphia Inquirer, July 30, 1904

Caught Under a Shower of Bricks and Taken to Hospital

Six workmen were hurt by falling walls at Park’s storage warehouse, Haddon avenue, near Pine street, Camden, yesterday. The walls were weakened by the severe storm of the night before, and the contractor ordered the men to pull them down. They were at work on the third story when the walls collapsed, and all were precipitated to the ground floor.

Those injured were Austin Foster, 22 years, 110[?] Pine street; Lee Sears, 39 years, 602 Cherry street; William Chambers, 22 years, 919 South Ninth street; Thomas Sherman, 28 years, 1119 Pine street; George Beach, 1062 Pine street; Thomas Melton, 110[?] Pine street.

Sergeant of Police Hyde, who lives nearby, sent in an emergency call, and the men were sent to Cooper Hospital. After examinations it was found that with the exception of slight cuts and bruises all escaped serious injury. After their wounds were dressed all were sent home.

Gunning at Indian Mills

Camden Daily Courier —

Gunning at Indian Mills - Camden Daily Courier, November 16, 1921

Following the old trails of the Indians through Indian Mills over the frontier in Burlington county, Lieutenant Scott Franklin and that veteran fireman Fritz Miller of the Pine street engine company, have been gunning. Reports say they have bagged much game, not including a tin rooster weather vane Fritz took for a wild duck bound for Barnegat.

James McTaggart, Policeman, Dies

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James McTaggart, Policeman, Dies - Camden Courier-Post, February 9, 1949

Policeman James McTaggart, 54, of 3135 Waldorf avenue, died yesterday in West Jersey hospital, where he was taken Feb. 6 for an operation.

He was a brother of the late Policeman John McTaggart, who worked a beat on Broadway from Pine street to Kaighn avenue and who annually conducted the “Night in Ireland.”

James McTaggart, a veteran of War I, was appointed to the police force March 18, 1927. For a time he served in the mounted squad. At the time of his death and for about 12 years he had been assigned to the Third police district in East Camden.

Surviving are his widow, Josephine; three sons, John, Camden, and Joseph and Francis, both at home, and a brother, Hugh, an employe of the Camden city highway department; two sisters, Miss Mary and Esther McTaggart, both of Camden, and his mother, Mrs. Mary McTaggart, of Camden.

Fire Pumper Crashes Into Camden Office

Philadelphia Inquirer —

Fire Pumper Crashes Into Camden Office - Philadelphia Inquirer, January 6, 1964 Fire Pumper Crashes Into Camden Office - Philadelphia Inquirer, January 6, 1964

A fire engine crashed through the front of an automobile insurance office in Camden on Saturday, cracking the entire brick face of the three-story building and leaving it in danger of collapse.

All traffic was halted in the area of Broadway and Pine sts. in fear the rumble of buses and trucks would bring the building down. The fire engine was left inside the bulk glass front of the Basin & Basin Insurance Co. office for nearly three hours until city workers could shore up the building so the vehicle could be removed safely.

COLLIDES WITH AUTO

The apparatus, a pumper of Engine 1, 4th and Pine sts., was responding to a mattress fire at 434 S. 6th st. at 2:30 P.M. when it collided with an automobile.

Both vehicles mounted the curb at the southeast corner of the downtown intersection.

Mrs. Maria Gruber, 74, of 505 Pine st., who was walking by the building was brushed by the fire engine and knocked to the sidewalk, where she was showered with glass from the smashed window and door. She was admitted to West Jersey Hospital with fractures of the right ankle and lower right leg and cuts of the face and legs.

FIREMAN INJURED

Fireman Isaac Muns, 36, of 717 State st., driver of the pumper, suffered a fractured right foot and leg cuts and was admitted to Cooper Hospital. Fireman George Dixon, 31, of 1554 Ormand ave., Camden, who was riding on the pumper, was treated at the same hospital for cuts of the right leg and right hand and then released.

Two young people in the automobile also were treated for injuries at Cooper Hospital. They were Charles Wilson, 24, of 407 Monmouth st., Gloucester City, N. J., and Janet Mayhew, 17, of 210 Mercer st., also of Gloucester city. Both received head cuts and the girl suffered a back injury.

Raymond McClintock, 25, of 530 Lester Terrace, Camden, a Camden Public Works Department employe, was treated at the Cooper Hospital for lacerations of the neck and left hand.

He was assisting in the placing of shoring to brace the building against collapse after the crash when struck by a piece of glass that fell from one of the shattered windows.

CROWD GATHERS

Owen Ribble, manager of the insurance office, said he worked there alone Saturday afternoon and left just 15 minutes before the accident occurred. He returned to the scene after police summoned him from his home at 340 Coles ave., Cherry Hill.

Police moved back a crowd of several hundred persons who gathered at the intersection. Then they cordoned off Broadway at Spruce and Line sts., a block north and south of Pine, and barricaded Pine st. at 5th and 6th, a block east and west of Broadway.

William H. Harker, Camden city director of public works, reached the scene at 4 P. M. and immediately declared the building condemned.

The Fire Department’s heavy-duty rescue squad built heavy lumber supports against the building and cautiously removed the fire engine at 5:20 P. M.

Fire Engine Supports Damaged Building

Philadelphia Inquirer —

Fire Engine Supports Damaged Building - Philadelphia Inquirer, January 6, 1964

Camden fire engine supports building at Broadway and Pine sts. after pumper rammed office front following collision with automobile. Impact cracked walls, leaving building in danger of collapse.

Half Hidden

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Half Hidden - Camden Courier-Post, January 6, 1964 Half Hidden - Camden Courier-Post, January 6, 1964

HALF HIDDEN after plunging into building at Pine st. and Broadway following collision with a car, a fire engine acts as a support for the shaken structure. Six persons were injured, one seriously, when the engine ran out of control after the crash.

Six Injured in Crash Of Fire Truck, Auto

Camden Courier-Post —

Six Injured in Crash Of Fire Truck, Auto - Camden Courier-Post, January 6, 1964

A city fireman and five other persons were injured Saturday when a fire engine collided with a car at Broadway and Pine st. and then plunged into an insurance office on the corner, according to police.

Admitted to Cooper Hospital with severe cuts was Fireman Isaac Muns, 36, of 710 State rd., identified by police as the driver of the engine. His condition was listed as serious. George Dixon, 31, of 1554 Ormond ave., the other fireman riding the engine, was treated at the hospital for cuts.

Mrs. Maria Gruber, 74, of 505 Pine st., who police said was standing on the corner waiting for a bus when the accident happened, was admitted to West Jersey Hospital with multiple fractures of the right leg.

Others Treated

Also treated at Cooper Hospital for multiple injuries were Charles Wilson, 24, of 407 Monmouth st., Gloucester City, identified as the driver of the car, and his passenger, Janet Mayhew, 17, of 210 Mercer st., Gloucester.

Workmen began shoring up the front of the building occupied by the Basin and Basin Agency Inc., automobile insurers, as fears were expressed the building might collapse from the impact if the engine were moved. Raymond McClintock, a city employe, of 530 Lester ter., sustained a cut that required four stitches in his neck when a piece of glass fell from the second floor while the shoring operation was underway.

Agency Was Closed

The agency was closed when the engine plunged into the three-story brick office building on the southeast corner.

Police said it had not been determined whether Mrs. Gruber was hurt by falling debris or by the engine itself as it jumped over the curb.

The engine was responding to an alarm sounded for a minor fire at 434 S. 6th st. It was confined to one room of a private house.

Fireman Joseph Ware Dies

Philadelphia Inquirer —

Fireman Joseph Ware Dies - Philadelphia Inquirer, July 22, 1914

As a result of being struck in the face by an automobile crank on June 6, Fireman Joseph Ware, son of Policeman James Ware, died yesterday at his home at 170[?] Fillmore street, Camden. He is survived by a wife and a young child. Ware was a member of No. 1 Engine Company and he operated the battalion chief’s auto. After going to a fire at Locust and Pine streets he was cranking the machine when the handle slipped and he was struck in the face. The facial bones were crushed.

Autoist Held in Bail on Girl’s Charges

Camden Courier-Post —

Autoist Held in Bail on Girl’s Charges - Camden Courier-Post, July 24, 1941

Charged with assault and battery on a 14-year-old girl, Albert Meloni, 20, of 4462 Burwood avenue, Pennsauken, was held in $500 bail for the grand jury yesterday at a hearing before Judge Mariano in Camden police court.

The girl testified she recognized Meloni as the man who halted his auto on Pine street Tuesday afternoon and tried to induce her to ride with him. He followed her across a vacant lot, she said, but fled at the approach of a boy on a bicycle. Meloni was arrested after the girl gave police the license number of the automobile.

Over in Camden

Philadelphia Inquirer —

Over in Camden - Philadelphia Inquirer, August 12, 1891

* Miss Cora Severn, of Fourth and Pine, had her arm severely scalded yesterday.

* The valuable family plate owned by the late Miss Eleanor Browning was left to Mrs. Samuel Bergen.

* Charged with stealing a boat, Thomas Grove and David McAnthy, of Gloucester City, were held for trial.

* The congregation of Tabernacle Methodist Church contribute $300 a month toward paying off the church debt.

* George Meyers, who has been wanted for a week for assaulting Samuel Roach, was locked up in the city jail yesterday.

* Charged with assaulting William Malson, a two-year-old boy, William White, alias “Barfoot Bill,” Camden’s dog catcher, was landed behind the county jail bars last night.

* Friends of Julius Spoore, the Swiss picnicker, who was prostrated by the heat at Stockton Park and died in the Cooper Hospital, claimed the body yesterday. He lived at 813 Shallow street, Philadelphia.

* County Physician Iszard has ordered Coroner Tomlinson, of Gloucester, to hold an inquest in the case of John Kirk, the young Philadelphian drowned on Sunday at the mouth of Timber creek, after a row in a boat.

* The failure of his counsel to get a writ of habeas corpus, induced saloonkeeper William Gallagher, of 106 Kaighn avenue, convicted of Sunday selling, to pay his $50 fine yesterday and secure his release from the county jail.

* The Rev. J. Livingston Allen, pastor of the Kaighn Avenue Methodist Church, celebrated the silver anniversary of his marriage last night at 1229 Hyde Park. Representatives of four generations on Mrs. Allen’s side were present.

* The will of William T. Read, a real estate broker, which was filed yesterday, leaves his estate, said to be worth $100,000, to his widow and son, except these legacies: Linde Baptist Church, $500; Mary Campbell, $2,000; John Campbell, $1,000.

* Efforts to save the arm of Lincoln Prutzman, a Pennsylvania Railroad brakeman, whose elbow was crushed last Wednesday while coupling cars, have proved unavailing, and the Cooper Hospital surgeons will amputate the injured member to-day.

* Thomas Guthridge, who was run down at the Mount Vernon street crossing, wants $10,000 damages from the West Jersey Railroad Company for personal injuries. The suit was commenced yesterday, and also a suit for $500 by the executors of A. T. Davis’s estate, for a wagon smashed in the accident.

* Over-confidence in human nature cost Curtis Truitt, a colored farm hand employed by Robert Jones, of Mount Ephraim, the price of a load of truck yesterday. Truitt allowed 18-year-old John Hansom, of 817 Clark street, to drive his team, while he slept, on his return from the Philadelphia market. Hansom picked Truitt’s pocket and escaped.

Walton and Miller Appointed Policemen

Philadelphia Inquirer —

Walton and Miller Appointed Policemen - Philadelphia Inquirer, July 1, 1886

John Harris, a deck hand on the excursion steamer Republic, attempted suicide on Tuesday night by jumping from one of the Federal street ferry boats as it lay in the dock. He was taken in charge by Policeman Streoper.

The resignations of Policemen Abraham Bradshaw and William Jones take effect to-day. Harry Miller and Thomas Walton have been appointed as their successors.

George Hunsingor, residing at No. 34[?] Pine Street, Camden, was yesterday held in $200 ball [sic] for assault and battery on his wife.

Raid Rhone Ordered Costs Barman $100

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Raid Rhone Ordered Costs Barman $100 - Camden Evening Courier, December 8, 1930 Raid Rhone Ordered Costs Barman $100 - Camden Evening Courier, December 8, 1930 Raid Rhone Ordered Costs Barman $100 - Camden Evening Courier, December 8, 1930

Spruce Street Saloon Visited by Cop for Violation of Sunday Curfew

Arrested in a raid ordered by Dr. David S. Rhone, director of public safety, Daniel McGettigan, 60, was fined $100 in police court today.

McGettigan said he was bartender of a saloon at 783 Spruce street, raided last night, after Dr. Rhone found it open in violation of the “Sunday-closing” order.

Police Judge Pancoast ordered a warrant issued for the arrest of a man named “John McCauley,” of Pine street, after McGettigan said McCauley owned the place.

Two other men arrested in the raid, which was made shortly before midnight Sunday night, failed to appear in court and forfeited $10 security each. They gave their names and addresses last night as Jack Sands, 31, of 915 Spring Garden street, and Harry Hertsch, 47, of 5400 North Fairhill street, both of Philadelphia.

Policeman William Kiker said he was on his way to Second District police headquarters at 11:35 a. m. to start work on the midnight to 8 a. m. shift when he met Dr. Rhone at Ninth and Cherry streets.

“Dr. Rhone told me the saloon at 783 Spruce street was open and told me to close it,” Kiker related. “I saw 20 persons drinking in the back room. When I went to the telephone in the saloon to call headquarters for a patrol wagon I found the phone out of order. I had to go to Eighth and Walnut streets to telephone and when I returned all had fled except Sands and Hertsch. I found McGettigan in bed upstairs.”

McGettigan testified he hadn’t felt well yesterday and went to bed at 2 p. m.

Two automobiles found outside the place were impounded by the police. One bore the Pennsylvania license 23U38 and is said by the police to belong to William Walker, 901 North Moss street, Philadelphia. The other, with Pennsylvania license number B717 belongs to McCauley, according to Kiker. Kiker said he saw McCauley jump out of it and run after the raid.

Charge, Murder to Italian Now on Sea

Philadelphia Inquirer —

Charge, Murder to Italian Now on Sea - Philadelphia Inquirer, December 25, 1912 Charge, Murder to Italian Now on Sea - Philadelphia Inquirer, December 25, 1912

Camden Police Believe Man Sailing for His Home Killed William Gallagher

Sailing on the high seas to what he presumably thinks is safety in his native province of Italy, Ilario Di Antonio, alleged to be the murderer of William Gallagher, who was stabbed to death in Camden a couple of weeks ago, is being awaited by the authorities, who will place him under arrest as soon as he lands. Chief of Police Gravenor, of Camden, yesterday communicated with Italian Consul Felece Ronce at Trenton, and word was at once forwarded to the Province Di Ascoli, Italy, Di Antonio’s home.

With virtually nothing upon which to work, the case was assigned Detectives Schregler and Troncone. Gallagher was stabbed to death early Sunday morning of December 8 at Locust and Pine streets. He was found bleeding to death and succumbed to his injuries shortly after being admitted to the Cooper Hospital. Through Troncone, who is the Italian detective in Camden, it was learned that Giuseppe Azzari, of 204 Beckett street, knew something about the crime. He was placed under arrest yesterday, and as a result Antonio Da Andea, of 9[?]5 Locust street, was also apprehended. They both broke down and told the facts in the tragedy.

According to their stories, the alleged slayer of Gallagher took exception to an insulting remark Gallagher had made concerning a woman. Words followed and then the stabbing. Di Antonio, according to his compatriots, stabbing Gallagher through the heart with a stiletto As soon as possible Di Antonio took ship for his home.

The alleged murderer lived in an Italian tenement house at Third and Line streets, next to the place where Agostine Toscane was stabbed to death by Giuseppe Diane on October 1. The latter is a fugitive.

Fireman Gets Hearing Tomorrow for Drinking

Camden Daily Courier —

Fireman Gets Hearing Tomorrow for Drinking - Camden Daily Courier, May 4, 1925

Capt. W. Scott Franklin, of Fire Engine House No. 1, Fourth and Pine streets, will be given a hearing before Commissioner Hitchner tomorrow on charges of being intoxicated while on duty.

Franklin was suspended last week on charges that he had become intoxicated while making inspections on Broadway for the fire department.

Hurley Based Success in Life and in Business on Square Deal to All

Camden Courier-Post —

Hurley Based Success in Life and in Business on Square Deal to All - Camden Courier-Post, April 23, 1928 Hurley Based Success in Life and in Business on Square Deal to All - Camden Courier-Post, April 23, 1928 Hurley Based Success in Life and in Business on Square Deal to All - Camden Courier-Post, April 23, 1928 Hurley Based Success in Life and in Business on Square Deal to All - Camden Courier-Post, April 23, 1928 Hurley Based Success in Life and in Business on Square Deal to All - Camden Courier-Post, April 23, 1928 Hurley Based Success in Life and in Business on Square Deal to All - Camden Courier-Post, April 23, 1928 Hurley Based Success in Life and in Business on Square Deal to All - Camden Courier-Post, April 23, 1928 Hurley Based Success in Life and in Business on Square Deal to All - Camden Courier-Post, April 23, 1928 Hurley Based Success in Life and in Business on Square Deal to All - Camden Courier-Post, April 23, 1928 Hurley Based Success in Life and in Business on Square Deal to All - Camden Courier-Post, April 23, 1928 Hurley Based Success in Life and in Business on Square Deal to All - Camden Courier-Post, April 23, 1928 Hurley Based Success in Life and in Business on Square Deal to All - Camden Courier-Post, April 23, 1928 Hurley Based Success in Life and in Business on Square Deal to All - Camden Courier-Post, April 23, 1928 Hurley Based Success in Life and in Business on Square Deal to All - Camden Courier-Post, April 23, 1928 Hurley Based Success in Life and in Business on Square Deal to All - Camden Courier-Post, April 23, 1928 Hurley Based Success in Life and in Business on Square Deal to All - Camden Courier-Post, April 23, 1928 Hurley Based Success in Life and in Business on Square Deal to All - Camden Courier-Post, April 23, 1928 Hurley Based Success in Life and in Business on Square Deal to All - Camden Courier-Post, April 23, 1928 Hurley Based Success in Life and in Business on Square Deal to All - Camden Courier-Post, April 23, 1928 Hurley Based Success in Life and in Business on Square Deal to All - Camden Courier-Post, April 23, 1928 Hurley Based Success in Life and in Business on Square Deal to All - Camden Courier-Post, April 23, 1928 Hurley Based Success in Life and in Business on Square Deal to All - Camden Courier-Post, April 23, 1928 Hurley Based Success in Life and in Business on Square Deal to All - Camden Courier-Post, April 23, 1928 Hurley Based Success in Life and in Business on Square Deal to All - Camden Courier-Post, April 23, 1928 Hurley Based Success in Life and in Business on Square Deal to All - Camden Courier-Post, April 23, 1928 Hurley Based Success in Life and in Business on Square Deal to All - Camden Courier-Post, April 23, 1928

By BEN COURTER

Nearly two score years ago an earnest young man called together a handful of employees in a small store at Fifth and Pine streets.

“Boys, see that door?” he said to them.

“Well, if by any chance I should be called upon to resort to unscrupulous methods in the conduct of this business that door will be closed and this enterprise will end. Square dealing is to be the principle on which we will do business, square dealing to everybody.”

That young man was William Leonard Hurley, then but 27 years old and virile, visioning a great business which he purposed to develop. It was the pronouncement of what then was nothing less than an ideal, for it was in a period when there was a tendency to take advantage of the unsuspecting to sell inferior goods at exorbitant prices. Many operated under what was known in the trade as the “borax system,” which resulted in the public looking askance at installment buying for the home.

Based on that determination to cultivate public confidence in his own business, Hurley built slowly but securely, his small enterprise into “the big trustful store,” with branches in half a dozen cities.

It was a determination that made him a kindred spirit, in later years, with Theodore Roosevelt whose guest the Rough Rider was to become in the midst of a political campaign that stirred the country from coast to coast. It was the straight-forward characteristic that likewise prompted his subsequent activities in the interest of Camden, that was to be a factor in throwing off the provincial spirit and entering the civic stride so pronounced in the advent of the Camden bridge and the extension of Broadway. In both these he was a strenuous advocate of civic expansion, scientifically planned.

Hurley Not Born With a ‘Silver Spoon’

When Hurley was born in Chester county, Pa., 65 years ago, it was not with a “silver spoon in his mouth.” His father, William Hurley, was a railroad man, an honest, hard-working father, who, in times which were hard enough for the bread-winner, struggled to keep his family in the necessities of life.

The son, William, obtained the rudiments of education under great difficulties, for schools were scarce and far between in the sparse settlement where his boyhood was spent. It was a school of hard knocks, an environment that evidenced the difficult problem the poorer class had in obtaining the bare necessities of life. It was the experience of those early years that William L. Hurley never forgot, for afterward, when success had come, he never was deaf to an appeal from those “pulling hard against the stream.”

At the age of 12 he obtained his first job on a farm in his native Chester county. Farming in those days was hard, strenuous work, seemingly never ending labor to the boy, even then strong and possessing much of the splendid physique of later years.

“I worked from four in the morning until after dark,” Hurley once said, in a reminiscent way. “The farmer usually woke me in the morning by pounding his cane on the floor.

“My duties? Well, they included milking ten cows, feeding chickens and pigs, cleaning the horses, husking corn and doing odd chores. The farmer paid me $4 a month and board.

“In those days boys worked just as hard as grown folks. It was no cinch and when darkness came I couldn’t run fast enough to the farmhouse and to bed. I was dead tired and the bed brought supreme happiness to me. Sleeping was about the only fun I had.”

So the years went on with the hard work on the farm. The future held no great promise. The railroad was more alluring. Since his father was a railroader, young Hurley decided to try that field.

Railroading in 80’s No ‘Automatic’ Job

Back in the 80’s railroading was a far different proposition than it is now. There was none of the automatic brakes and couplings and numberless other inventions that have made it comparatively a safe job today. The old-fashioned coupling pin, for instance, was the abomination of the brakeman. What it did to Hurley he carried to his dying day in the loss of the end of one of his middle fingers.

Not only did he act as brakeman but also as fireman. As he stoked the pulsing engine he dreamed of the day when he might take the throttle. It seemed a wonderful career then, but fate had other things in store for him. He sensed it when he concluded to better his wage of $1.[?]0 a day and get “something on the side.” That was by selling sewing machines at night, often after he had worked hard on drilling freights or stoking the engine through the day.

But this selling of sewing machines impressed young Hurley that perhaps after all there was something else in life other than guiding a great locomotive over the rails. At any rate he concluded to try it out and this in 1888, the year of the “great Blizzard” in this section, he obtained a job with Edward Gately & Co. in Philadelphia as canvasser. It was not long before he had two assistants who acted as collectors, one of whom, Harry F. Jones, was to become his partner in the Atlantic City store many years later.

Gately was a wealthy man who had made his money mostly in the installment business, one who ever had an eye open for the promising young men in his organization. It was his custom to give them a chance and take them into partnership, opening stores in various cities. Young Hurley was one of these promising young men. In 1890 the business of Gately & Hurley was started. To be exact it was on February 1 of that year that a small store was opened, the corner store under old Wildey Hall at Fifth and Pine streets. It was there that he was inspired to tell his then small force of his square dealing policy.

Worked Long Hours to Make Store Success

Young Hurley worked like a Trojan. None in the ranks put in longer hours than he, sometimes 18 or 20 before he was willing to call it a day.

Not only did he direct his force in garnering business, but he went out on the street, often with rugs across his shoulders, to obtain patronage. Many recall the stalwart, earnest young man and his breezy manner which seldom failed to bring result.

Nor was Hurley, in the flush of subsequent success, averse to recalling those strenuous days, usually with a chuckle and remembrance of old timers who had stood staunch and strong with his organization through the intervening years.

Four years later the business had grown to such proportions that he concluded another location was needed. That was after all the stores under Wildey Hall had been occupied. In 1894 the Gately & Hurley store was opened at Broadway and Pine streets. It was then 33 by 90 feet.

When Hurley impressed Gately with the necessity for expanding and having a real store he prepared plans for a four-story structure. Camden then was filled with the “can’t be dones.” Toone & Hollinshed at Broadway and Kaighn avenue was the biggest place on that thoroughfare. Mrs. Varney’s place was on Kaighn avenue, the store of E. V. Story at Sycamore street, Hughes Brothers at Walnut street, Fuhrman Brothers at Chestnut and a few notion places here and there. But the Hurley enterprise seemed so outlandish that one day as George Leathwhite, then Camden’s leading plumber, was looking over the building operation a prominent business man of the period asked.

“Who is the damn fool building this place?”

Nor was he mollified in the least when informed it was “Bill” Hurley. It was regarded altogether a foolhardy undertaking, one that would spell certain disaster. It was pointed out there was nothing just like it on Broadway and that there was nothing to warrant such an outlay.

As a matter of fact that pessimistic note eventually reached Gately. He had some misgivings and Hurley’s four-story building was kept down to three. Just two months after the store had been finished it was necessary to find warehousing room by renting the old bakery of William Kairer at Line and West street. Incidentally, it may be of interest to recall it was Kairer the baker, who had been shot and killed by a burglar in 1893. Theodore Lambert was hanged in the old county jail for that murder.

In 1900 Hurley bought the Gately interests, giving him exclusive ownership, and the business continued to grow making more additions necessary. The old Field properties, two and a half story bricks, were bought, torn down and the store extended.

In 1903 a store was established at Wilkes-Barre with Daniel Loughran as Hurley’s partner. Three years later Henry J. Tobin was made his partner in another store at Trenton. Then in 1912 John J. Powell was commissioned to open the Hurley-Powell store at Wilmington. Harry F. Jones, Hurley’s collector in the very early days opened the Hurley-Jones store at Atlantic City in 1915. Five years later another Hurley store started business at Bridgeton. And in 1923 the home store was remodeled and in the meantime, old Turner Hall, where many a gay night was had by the old timers in masked balls and other festivities, was converted into a warehouse with other structures doing like service. Hurley has long since been recognized as one of South Jersey’s merchant princes.

Roosevelt Given Support in Bull Moose Campaign

Although he never consented to leave the helm of his great business enterprises, save later in life when he spent part of the winters at Hilton Head or occasionally went abroad, Mr. Hurley found time to take an active interest in the affairs of Camden. He did not seek political preferment but for more than 30 years he sought the best that might come with [blacked out]n progressive government. He ever desired to see Camden forge ahead in business in a civic way. Frequently he chafed over a tendency on the part of the political powers to let things drift along. He had no particular objection to the Republican organization as it was constituted under the late Senator David Baird, but he did believe with all possible sincerity that if the progressive spirit could be injected into it much would be accomplished, things that were left to very, very slow evolution.

It was therefore quite in keeping with that tendency that he aligned himself with the late Cooper B. Hatch in the late 90’s when the Committee of 100 was born with the Courier then under S. Conrad Ott as city editor being a potent factor in the victory. It was then that Hurley gave financial and moral aid to the movement with Hatch as the leader and with Lewis H. Moorman, [blacked out], C. Kramer and others many of whom have long since gone fostering the cause. [blacked out] its purpose perhaps although within a few years it had passed with the usual disintegration of independent movements.

When Colonel Roosevelt formed the Bull Moose party and became the Presidential candidate in 1912 with William H. Taft and Woodrow Wilson in the field, Mr. Hurley was an earnest active advocate of the Rough Rider. In fact he was one of the delegates to the Bull Moose convention that nominated Roosevelt.

In the midst of that truly hectic campaign when Wilson, Taft and Roosevelt visited Camden, Wilson’s meeting was enthusiastic enough to please any Democrat. Taft’s was a frost and hardly more than a fringe, mostly office holders greeted him, but Roosevelt’s was what the Colonel himself called a “rip snorter.”

Teddy Was Guest at Home of Hurley During Visit Here

Hurley was his host on that occasion, a hot summer night, itself suggestive of the extremely hot campaign. These meetings were held at the Third Regiment armory, no other building then being available. One may yet recall very vividly the entrance of the Colonel, Mr. Hurley and the Camden Bull Moose leaders. The great drill hall was literally jammed, with yelling enthusiasts even hanging from the top girders. Just as he arrived a terrific thunder storm broke loose, the reverberation, the vivid flashes lost in the roar of the crowd.

“Where’s your hat, Teddy?” someone yelled.

And the Colonel tossed his old black slouch hat in the ring while Hurley led the cheer that followed, a cheer that seemingly tested the strength of the expansive roof. Roosevelt had been a guest at the Hurley home at West Collingswood where the leaders, the rank and file of the Bull Moosers met him. It was one gala night and Mr. Hurley was in the zenith of his glory.

None was more disappointed when Colonel Roosevelt failed at the November election, for Mr. Hurley felt that the country needed the hero of San Juan Hill particularly at that time. He sincerely mourned the Colonel’s passing, but to the very last cherished his memory, regarding him as the Great American.

Backed Non-Partisan Move, Aided Opening of Broadway

As has been indicated, Mr. Hurley had no particular feeling against the Republican organization, but he was certain that Camden was on the threshold of big things and that there should be an awakening. There appeared to be no intention of getting out of the rut so far as the political powers were concerned and with the assurance of the bridge he regarded it necessary to be alive to the opportunities certain to come. There had been talk of certain outlets from the bridge which did not meet the situation in his judgment. For one thing, he was impressed with the extension of Broadway.

For more years than one might recall, Broadway had been Camden’s principal street. Many regarded it as the city’s most important business thoroughfare. Mr. Hurley early realized that to extend it to where the bridge plaza would eventually be located was a real civic essential, but the city administration did not consider the financial outlay that would be involved justified in the extension.

That was one of the factors that resulted in the Non-Partisan movement of 1922, of Mr. Hurley’s advocacy of its cause, of his financial and moral support. He was one of the leaders in the civic revolution that first brought the victory for commission form of government and later that ushered the Non-Partisan candidates into office.

It was the realization of a cherished dream when the new administration bought property that assured Broadway’s extension to the bridge plaza. It justified his prediction that it would be like giving a new blood stream to the city, for the Walt Whitman Hotel, the Wilson Building and others rapidly rising about Broadway and Cooper streets prove it beyond all doubt.

Camden Bridge Proposition Given Approval by Hurley

Mr. Hurley not only gave his every influence toward the Camden bridge proposition in the days when it was regarded more or less a joke, but he worked assiduously to crystalize [sic] sentiment so that the century-old dream would be a dream no longer. New Jersey did its part when Walter Edge was governor, but there was plenty of backing and filling on the part of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania. There were many discouraging epochs, even after a joint commission had been created, but Mr. Hurley was among those who refused to give up hope. What was subsequently accomplished was due mainly to men of his faith, of his courage, of his energy.

After its completion the necessity for a second span was impressed upon him. Shortly after the Camden bridge was opened to the public he advocated another from Market street, Gloucester to Pattison avenue, Philadelphia. Since other sites have been suggested. A joint commission has been named to make preliminary surveys but has been at loggerheads over a proposal to build a span from Red Bank to League Island. Mr. Hurley regarded his suggestion as far more feasible and he supported it by arguments that were hard to answer.

Throughout his career Mr. Hurley had been an earnest advocate of co-operation among business interests of the city. For many years there was the Board of Trade rather an innocuous organization, usually attended by half a dozen men and voiceless so far as influence went. He concluded a rejuvenation was necessary, consented to act as president and speeded it up with the late Louis T. Derousse as secretary. Later Charles M. Curry held that position and until the present Chamber of Commerce was formed under a campaign directed by the American City Bureau. Mr. Hurley or his subordinates had given it every possible aid to make it a factor in the community.

Assessment Commissioner Was Only Political Post

Aside from his principal business, Mr. Hurley was associated for many years with the late William J. Lorigan in building homes. Their first extensive operation was the construction of two rows of dwellings in Princeton avenue. Others were constructed in various parts of Camden and the development of the district about Twenty-seventh and Federal streets was largely due to the firm. After the elder Lorigan’s death he was succeeded by his son, William H. Lorigan, who has been associated with Mr. Hurley.

While he sought no political honors, Mr. Hurley did once accept for a few years a position. It was during the Committee of 100 regime when he became a commissioner of assessment. He [?] served for many years as a delegate to the Atlantic Deeper Waterways Convention. He took a keen interest in that organization and in the work of actually having an inland waterway along the eastern seaboard. It is slowly developing with the possibility of becoming an actuality a few years hence, mainly through the effort of men of Mr. Hurley’s caliber.

When he came to Camden Mr. Hurley first resided on Stevens street, then at [?] Pine and from 1894 to 19[?]9 at 7[?]8 Broadway. In the latter year he bought the estate on White Horse pike at West Collingswood that had been used as a sanitarium. The building was virtually reconstructed, the grounds were laid out in beautiful shrubbery and there were already fine nut trees which made it a show place. He called it Dungarvan, after the county in Ireland where his father was born.

It was there at his palatial home, with the beautiful surroundings that Mr. Hurley delighted in acting the role of host, of gathering about him old friends and harking back to the times that were.

Unspoiled Good Will Befriended All in Need

Old friends cherish the memory of one outstanding characteristic of “Bill” Hurley. Increasing fortune never “spoiled” him. He remained democratic until the end, and those who had known him through the years called him “Bill” just as they had done in the days when he was forging ahead in spite of the “can’t-be-dones.”

Nor did he ever forget an old customer. It might be an old, old woman upon whom fortune had consistently refused to shine but who made her little purchases at his store. None was too lowly for him to give his personal attention under such circumstances. There was ever a real grip of the hand that spoke sincerity.

It was quite natural that he enjoyed hunting and fishing. For many years his summer home was at Sea Isle City, where his family went through the vacation period each year. There he never failed to go out to sea or to try his luck off the pier, usually with an old friend. Catching the piscatorial beauties, particularly a channel bass or a drum, was regarded with almost the same satisfaction as putting over a big business deal.

Over a dozen years ago he bought the island at Hilton Head, off the coast of South Carolina and 30 miles from Savannah. While he enjoyed all the comforts of civilization, the surroundings were kept in their primitive simplicity. Nothing delighted him more than taking an old friend along to the island estate and showing the guest the time of his life.

Men like Hurley do much that is unheralded to alleviate the suffering of the world. Creed or color meant nothing to him if aid were needed. What he gave in that respect no one knows. Those long associated with him declare it was sufficient to make happy a small army in adversity.

Aided Worthy Causes Regardless of Creeds

Charitable organizations, religious or otherwise, enjoyed his bounty. No one was aware of such aid unless it happened to be in a “campaign” to raise a specified sum. It was Hurley very often who started things going by way of a liberal contribution. It mattered not whether the cause was for Protestant, Catholic or Jew—just so it was worth while. When the vicious pogroms were sweeping Russia he was one of the most generous contributors to the Camden funds for the sufferers. In the flu epidemic of 1918 he was among the leaders who aided the stricken, who gave many a family a lift over rough places.

During the war he was active in every Liberty Loan drive, in every movement that aided ultimate victory. He was chairman of the Knights of Columbus drive, he was a potent factor in the United War Workers’ campaign, in the Red Cross and kindred movements. He took great interest in the boys who “went over there” for his own son, Jerome, was in the service.

Surely in glancing over Camden’s history in the past two-score years not an instance conducive to the city’s development may be cited without finding William L. Hurley’s name connected with it some way, some how. He was so much a part of its warp and woof that the civic fabric bears indelibly the impress of his personality.

Walter J. Beer

St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book — 1943

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Phone, Camden 4448

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3rd and Pine Streets

Camden, N. J.

Phone, Camden 1235

Distributors of Pepsi-Cola to the Retail Trade

N. Y. Fur Factory

St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book — 1943

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We Buy and Sell

Iron and Metal Paper Mill Supplies

Rags—Bundles—Newspapers

We Also Buy Junk Cars

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Phone, Camden 2040

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BROADWAY AND LIBERTY

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We Deliver

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902 FERRY AVENUE

Camden, N. J.

Call, Camden 1279

Phone, Camden 9809

JOHN’S DINER

Good Coffee

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Fairview, Camden, N. J.

Bell, Cam. 10378

BETTY’S CAFE

1633 MT. EPHRAIM AVE.

MUSIC AND DANCING FRIDAY AND SATURDAY

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St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book — 1943

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Cigars and Cigarettes

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Bowl for Health

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Best Wishes from

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N.W. Cor. MARKET AT NINTH STREET

Camden

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3406 FEDERAL STREET

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Important!

Camden Daily Courier —

Important! - Camden Daily Courier, April 17, 1922

We Are Now at Our

NEW LOCATION

Southeast Corner

Fifth and Pine Sts.

With a Full Line of

ELECTRICAL GOODS

Wholesale and Retail

(Formerly at 930 Broadway)

Bornstein Electric Co.

Towers

Camden Courier-Post —

Towers - Camden Courier-Post, February 1942

BROADWAY AT PINE ST.

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West Street Boy Injured

Camden Courier-Post —

West Street Boy Injured - Camden Courier-Post, November 16, 1931

Albert Mickilli, 12, of 530 West street, was cut on the face and hands last night when struck by an automobile as he darted from behind a parked car at Newton avenue near Pine street. The driver, Wilfred P. Jarvis, 21, of 706 Carman street, took the boy to Cooper Hospital. Jarvis was released in his own recognizance.

First City Fire House Located at 5th and Arch

Camden Courier-Post —

First City Fire House Located at 5th and Arch - Camden Courier-Post, October 10, 1936 First City Fire House Located at 5th and Arch - Camden Courier-Post, October 10, 1936 First City Fire House Located at 5th and Arch - Camden Courier-Post, October 10, 1936 First City Fire House Located at 5th and Arch - Camden Courier-Post, October 10, 1936 First City Fire House Located at 5th and Arch - Camden Courier-Post, October 10, 1936 First City Fire House Located at 5th and Arch - Camden Courier-Post, October 10, 1936

Hosemen, Tillermen and Laddermen Paid $50 Monthly While Call Men Received $75 a Year; Steam Engine Held for Emergency

This is the fourth 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 conjunction with Fire Prevention Week, which is being sponsored by the Camden County Fire Chiefs Association and the Camden Fire Department. Yesterday’s installment told of the disbanding of volunteer companies and city council creating a paid department in 1869.

By FRANK SHERIDAN

The Camden Hook and Ladder Company, No. 1, was organized in 1869 as a unit of the paid fire department with headquarters at the northwest corner of Fifth and Arch streets, and was connected with Camden Steam Fire Engine Company, No. 2. The hook and ladder and engine companies occupied adjoining buildings.

The company was equipped 50 years with a ladder truck 45 feet long and nine other ladders, one an extension of 63 feet in length, one battering ram, two fire extinguishers, four buckets, two axes, four pitchforks, one crowbar and four lamps.

The members of the Camden Hook and Ladder Company, No. 1, in 1886, when the last history of the department was written, were Amedy Middleton, tillerman; Benjamin L. Kellum, driver; Thomas Walton, and John W. Toy, laddermen; William Doughten, Peter S. Gray, John Gray and Charles A. Todd, callmen.

The Camden Steam Fire Engine Company, No. 1, was organized in 1869 and stationed at Fourth and Pine streets, where Engine Company, No. 1, still is housed. The company was equipped with one second class steam fire engine made by the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company, Manchester, New Hampshire; one hose cart, manufactured by the Silsby Company, Seneca Falls, N. Y.; three horses and 1600 feet of hose.

The members of the company in 1886 were John A. Stockton, foreman; G. Rudolph Tenner, engineer; William Deno, driver; William W. Laird, stoker; Wilson Bromley and Jacob F. Nessen, hosemen; William Deith, Andrew Miller, William Bogia and W. Elwood Campbell, callmen.

Stockton became chief of the department in 1914.

Organized in 1869

The Camden Steam Fire Engine Company, No. 2, was organized in 1869 and located at the paid fire headquarters at Fifth and Arch streets. The ground floor had two connections with the hook and ladder company.

In 1886 the department consisted of one chief engineer, an assistant, 18 regular men and 12 call men. The regular men devoted full time to the service while the call men could go about their regular occupations.

Engineers received $60 monthly, hosemen, tillermen and laddermen $50 monthly. The call men received $75 a year.

In 1886 the fire department owned three steam fire engines, two hose-carriages, one hook an [sic] ladder truck, nine horses, 3200 feet of hose, 21 fire alarm boxes with 12 miles of wires, a connecting electric battery, with 80 one-gallon jars to create power for long distance alarms, striking gongs lighting gas jets, unhitching horse apparatus and stopping clocks.

The department now has 162 men including a chief, two deputy chiefs, two battalion chiefs and a senior and junior captain for each of the 13 companies.

Held for Emergency

The engine company was equipped in 1886 with a second class Amoskeag apparatus, one hose carriage and a supply wagon. A Gould steam fire engine was held for emergency. On the second floor was a large reception room, a battery room and 13 beds.

The roster of the company in 1886 included Samuel S. Elfreth, chief engineer; Samuel S. Buzine, assistant chief engineer; Jacob W. Kellum, extra engineer; Harry C. Grossup, foreman; William Morris, engineer; C. B. Harvey, driver of engine; Frank Turner, stoker; Charles Robinson and Isaac Shreves, hosemen; James Carey, Logan Bates, William Lyons and Howard Currie, callmen.

The early chiefs of the paid department were William Ables, Robert S. Bender, two terms; Cladius [sic] W. Bradshaw, mayor from 1880 to 1886; Henry F. Surault, Samuel S. Elfreth, Daniel A. Carter. These chiefs served for the duration of the terms of the fire committees of city council. This system was changed later and Elfreth was named permanent chief. Buzine was deputy chief under Elfreth.

(Tomorrow’s installment will describe a sudden succession of chiefs brought about by the resignation of Elfreth and the death of Charles Worthington, who was fatally injured in a fall from a roof at a fire.)

Special Sale

Camden Post-Telegram —

Special Sale - Camden Post-Telegram, August 21, 1918

Contents of Turner Hall, Pine street, Camden, for sale, cheap, consisting of 2 pool tables, recently recovered; 2 pianos, lot of chairs, tables, bar fixtures, lot of lumber and numerous other articles. Apply at once to Anthony J. Oberst, 809 S. Fifth street, Camden, N. J. (27)

Police Chase and Capture Thieves

Philadelphia Inquirer —

Police Chase and Capture Thieves - Philadelphia Inquirer, August 26, 1893 Police Chase and Capture Thieves - Philadelphia Inquirer, August 26, 1893 Police Chase and Capture Thieves - Philadelphia Inquirer, August 26, 1893 Police Chase and Capture Thieves - Philadelphia Inquirer, August 26, 1893

Two Men Caught Robbing the Store of Their Employers in Camden.

Another Business Place Entered and the Safe Rifled.

Camden Merchants Organizing for Self-Protection—Wreckage Strews the New Jersey Coast—Explosion on a Ferryboat—Jersey Jottings.

The boldness of the thieves who have been plying their vocation lately in Camden led to the arrest of two of them early yesterday morning while robbing a store. Another business place was also entered, and the safe was broken open and rifled.

Policemen Lee and O’Brien followed two men down Second street about 3 o’clock, and saw them disappear in the shadow of R. T. Robinson & Co.’s packing house at Second and Pine streets. Some time afterward the men re-appeared. One had a tub of lard on his back and the other carried a bag of hams and smoked meat.

They dropped the plunder when the officers gave chase, and after a hot pursuit, in which the officers fired several times at the thieves, they were captured.

The prisoners were recognized as Andrew Borden and Jacob Sanders, employes of Robinson & Co. Police Justice Paul committed them in default of $800 bail each.

The meat and provision store of Samuel K. Hires, at 310 Kaighn avenue, was entered by burglars early yesterday morning. The outer doors of the safe were found unlocked, and the inner doors were forced open by the thieves, who secured about $100 in currency and postage stamps. A large amount of money had been taken home by the cashier, Mr. Hires, who was absent, having the combination of the safe.

The burglars stood in the glare of an electric street light in the front of the store when they rifled the drawers of the safe.

Louis Konig, a storekeeper of 426 Kaighn avenue, claims to have had two visits from men who tried to rob him, but he drove them off with a revolver.

The Hebrew storekeepers and merchants of Camden will meet to-morrow at 305 Kaighn avenue to organize for self-protection against thieves and marauders who have made them especially the objects of their attack lately.

Body of Infant Found

Philadelphia Inquirer —

Body of Infant Found - Philadelphia Inquirer, December 12, 1913

Passing Turner Hall, Pine street below Broadway, Policeman Kleaver found a small bundle yesterday morning. On opening it he found the body of a new born male infant. Coroner Bentley sent the body to the Morgue and Detective Brothers is investigating.

Hold Boys for Rifling Mail

Philadelphia Inquirer —

Hold Boys for Rifling Mail - Philadelphia Inquirer, October 21, 1915

Arrested as they were leaving school, William Shafer, aged 12, of 533 South Fifth street, and George Hickman, aged 12, of 462 Royden street, admitted to Detective Brothers, the latter says, that it was they who had rifled the mail box at Broadway and Pine street, Camden, Monday night, when two packages containing jewelry amounting to $102 were stolen. The boys were committed to jail by Recorder Stackhouse pending a hearing before U. S. Commissioner Joline. The packages were mailed by Lewis Nelson, a jeweler.

South Jersey Bottling Company

Camden Courier-Post —

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Hot Flashes

Fire Watch Magazine — Summer 1977

Hot Flashes - Fire Watch Magazine, Summer 1977 Hot Flashes - Fire Watch Magazine, Summer 1977 Hot Flashes - Fire Watch Magazine, Summer 1977 Hot Flashes - Fire Watch Magazine, Summer 1977 Hot Flashes - Fire Watch Magazine, Summer 1977 Hot Flashes - Fire Watch Magazine, Summer 1977

Member on far right, operates initial line in an attempt to prevent fire from extending across common doorway into severely exposed adjacent property, while larger attack lines are stretched and readied for service. Fire involved all four floors of vacant corner property at 604 N. 3rd Street, North Camden on May 6, 1977 and was confined to original fire building. A 2nd Alarm for Box 1213 was required to control this stubborn blaze. Photo by R. Frett

Camera catches an example of “teamwork personified” as Engineman stretches in from right, while Truckman in background “forces the door”. Fire involved ground floor of vacant store front property at Broadway and Clinton Streets on May 22, 1977 and was brought under control by first alarm units. Box 2312 was transmitted for this South Camden worker. Photo by J. Marini

Fr. Bendy, Ladder 1, does an excellent job of venting front bay windows as Enginemen in doorway on far left, prepare to “push in”. Action occurred at Box 8101, transmitted for this fire located at 529 S. 3rd Street, South Camden on May 16, 1977. Fire was “knocked down” by first alarm units. Photo by J. Marini

Engine 2 completes fire escape stretch and prepares to operate at third floor rear of occupied apartment building, as heavy smoke billows out of cockloft and windows on top floor. Fire occurred at 425 Stevens Street, South Camden, on April 9, 1977 and went to an “all hands” before being controlled. Box 2323 was transmitted for this fire. Photo by J. Marini

Member frantically rushes in the performance of his duties, as Engine 1 “opens up” on a “hot one” at all hands-Box 2421, transmitted on May 22, 1977 for this blaze located at 235 Pine Street, South Camden. Fire totally involved two vacant dwellings before being controlled. Photo by J. Marini

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