Introduction
Rose Street is a small street that runs parallel to Mount Ephraim Avenue, from 1156 Sycamore Street south to Everett Street.
1100 Block of Rose Street — Occupants
City directory records, 1910s–1928.
1133 Rose Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1923–1928 | Charles Romanowski & Family |
| 1923–1928 | Joseph Romanowski |
1146 Rose Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1923 | Anthony Garbacka |
1163 Rose Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1910s–1920s | Andrew Mroczkowski Family |
| 1910s–1920s | Frank Mroczkowski |
| 1923 | No listing in directory |
| 1923 | No Listing |
Related: 2 Boys Nabbed Here for Carrying Pistols — 1133 Rose Street, Camden Courier-Post, February 16, 1928.
2 Boys Nabbed Here for Carrying Pistols
Camden Courier-Post —
First arrested on suspicion when found loitering along Bridge Entrance road at 2 o’clock this morning, two boys were held by police and charged with carrying concealed deadly weapons.
They gave their names as Joseph Leconey, 16 years old, of 1178 Sycamore street, and Joseph Romenowski, 18 years old, of 1138 Rose street.
Detectives Walter Smith and Joseph Carponi [sic] found a .38 calibre revolver suspended on shoestrings and hanging down under the clothing of each of the boys. They said they noticed the boys loitering near the store of Sears-Roebuck Company.
1300 Block of Rose Street — Occupants
City directory records, 1929–1989.
1310 Rose Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| c.1931 | Josiah Sage (Camden firefighter) |
1312 Rose Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| — | No information available |
1313 Rose Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| — | No information available |
1314 Rose Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| — | No information available |
1315 Rose Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| — | No information available |
1316 Rose Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| — | No information available |
1317 Rose Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| — | No information available |
1318 Rose Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| — | No information available |
1319 Rose Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| — | No information available |
1320 Rose Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| — | No information available |
1321 Rose Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1929–1947 | John Wylupek & Family |
| 1929–1947 | John & Catherine Cichocki Wylupek |
| 1929–1947 | William (Bronislaw) Wylupek |
| 1929–1947 | Walter Wylupek |
1322 Rose Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1926–1947 | Harry Andruszko (Quality Meats) |
| 1947–1968 | Marion's Market (Marion Majkszak & Family) |
| 1947–1968 | Marion & Olga Majkszak |
| 1947–1968 | David M. Majkszak |
| 1947–1968 | Dennis Majkszak |
| 1987–1989 | Pearl Williams |
1323 Rose Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| — | No information available |
1325 Rose Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| — | No information available |
Related: Josiah Sage — 1310 Rose Street, Camden Courier-Post, May 9, 1931.
Related: Man Freed in Attack as Father’s Defender — 1321 Rose Street, Camden Courier-Post, December 22, 1932.
Related: H. Androski — Quality Meats, 1322 Rose Street — Camden Courier-Post, March 26, 1931.
Josiah Sage
Camden Courier-Post —
Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Monday at the home of Mrs. Hannah Peters, 816 Chestnut street, for her brother, Josiah Sage, 64, for 31 years a Camden fireman, who died early yesterday. Sage, who resided at 1310 Rose street, is also survived by four sons. For the past two years he had been engineer with Engine Company No. 5, Twenty-seventh and Federal streets. During his long career as a fireman he was hurt several times.
Man Freed in Attack as Father’s Defender
Camden Courier-Post —
Charged with beating two youths who attacked his father with stones, Salvatore Garvano, 24, of 937 South Ninth street, was dismissed by Judge Samuel M. Shay in criminal court yesterday.
Garvano, a banana vendor, was arrested Aug. 23, on complaint of Dorsey Robinsan, 14, colored, of 411 State street.
The boy alleged that Garvano and his father, Tony, 59, of the Ninth street address, attacked him without cause. The Garvanos testified they caught Dorsey and another boy stealing fruit from a wagon and that the boys hurled stones when the older man remonstrated with them.
A second case in which father and son were charged with assault was dismissed when Judge Shay released Stanley Sandswo, 52, and his son, Charles, 13. The father was charged with attacking 14-year-old Bronislaw Wyennek, of 1321 Rose street, after the latter had engaged in a fish fight. The quarrel took place July 8.
H. Androski — Quality Meats, 1322 Rose Street
Camden Courier-Post —
H. Androski — Quality Meats, 1322 Rose St., Camden, N. J. Harry Andruszko operated a bar at this address from 1935 to summer of 1938.
1400 Block of Rose Street — Occupants
City directory records, 1910s–1995.
1400 Rose Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| — | Rose Cafe |
| 1969 | Augie's Beef & Ale |
1402 Rose Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1910s–1930s | Ignatius & Jennie Raczkowski |
| 1910s–1930s | Anna Raczkowski |
1404 Rose Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| — | No information available |
1406 Rose Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| — | No information available |
1409 Rose Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| — | No information available |
1410 Rose Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| — | No information available |
1412 Rose Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| — | No information available |
1438 Rose Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| — | No information available |
1440 Rose Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| — | No information available |
1442 Rose Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1995 | Percival 'Poppy' Smith |
1444 Rose Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| — | No information available |
1446 Rose Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| — | No information available |
1448 Rose Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1940–1969 | Wardach's Tavern |
| 1940–1969 | Joseph Wardach |
| 1940–1969 | Hank Wardach |
1456 Rose Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| — | No information available |
1458 Rose Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| — | No information available |
1487 Rose Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| — | No information available |
1489 Rose Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| — | No information available |
1491 Rose Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| — | No information available |
1493 Rose Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| — | No information available |
1496 Rose Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| — | No information available |
1497 Rose Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| — | No information available |
Related: ‘Suspicious’ Fire Kills Man — 1442 Rose Street, Camden Courier-Post, July 15, 1995.
‘Suspicious’ Fire Kills Man
Camden Courier-Post —
By BRUCE ANDERSON, Courier-Post Staff
CAMDEN — An elderly man died Friday in a house fire that officials are labeling suspicious.
Percival “Poppy” Smith, 71, was found lying on the floor next to the bed in the front upstairs bedroom of his home at 1442 Rose St., officials said. Neighbors reported he had lived in the house for several years.
“It could be a fire bombing,” said Acting Camden County Prosecutor Joseph Audino. “All the damage was through the front of the home.”
“Ace” Jackson, a boarder in the home, desperately attempted to save Smith, said a woman who lived nearby.
“He was trying to break down the door and crying, ‘Poppy, Poppy,’” said Venus Harris of Atlantic Avenue. “Then there was a fiery explosion that burned his face and he had to give up. So I went to get help.”
Harris called 9-1-1 at 2:44 p.m., said 3rd Battalion Chief Joseph Gallagher. Three minutes later, Gallagher said, his unit arrived to fight the blaze.
“The fire was out in 10 minutes so the hot weather wasn’t a big problem,” Gallagher added. “But the whole first floor and part of the second floor were totally burned. The fire also spread to the porch of 1444 Rose Street, where nobody was home.”
Smith was pronounced dead at 4:40 p.m., said Audino. As his body was brought out three minutes later, Jackson’s brown mixed-breed dog, Missy, walked forlornly back and forth in front of the house.
Audino said an autopsy would be performed today or Sunday, but that preliminary indications were that Smith died “as a result of the fire.”
Smith lived in the home with his niece, Anita Harper, Jackson, and George Taylor, Audino said. It was not known whether anyone else besides Smith was in the house when the fire started.
The whereabouts of Jackson on Friday night were unclear.
Police are checking a report that residents of the Smith home were recently involved in an argument with another resident. “It’s under investigation,” Audino said.
One neighbor, who did not want to be identified, said some men “broke the windows on the first floor at least three times in the last few months.”
Another bystander said a woman had tried to move into the house recently and, when she was refused, “threatened to burn it down.”
In Cafe Holdup
Camden Courier-Post —
Police Search All Night for Thugs Who Took $1000
Camden police today arrested three men in connection with an armed holdup yesterday of a Camden saloon.
Police worked through the night on the case. They broke off the investigation for a short rest at 6 o’clock this morning, however, and were to continue it later.
The saloon, Briggs Cafe at Lansdowne avenue and Louis street, was robbed of about $1000 at 3.05 p. m. yesterday by two neatly dressed, armed bandits.
Shortly afterward the bandits took a watch, $20 in cash and the automobile of two men who pursued them.
Truck Driver Quizzed
Booked on “suspicion” at 5.30 o’clock this morning at Camden police headquarters was Angelino J. Martelli, 22, a truck driver, whose home at 1173 Lansdowne avenue, is near the Briggs Cafe. Police explained he is being held for further questioning.
At 5.45 a. m. two other men were booked as material witnesses in the case. They are Charles Beyer, 23, an electrical worker, 727 South Eighth street, and Dominic Maone, 24, a salesman, 405 South Fifth street.
Detective Capt. Koerner took charge of the investigation late yesterday, and, with Detective Sgt. Trout and Detective Cahill, [sic] Sgt. Trout and Detectives Cahill and Schultz, worked through the night.
2 Women Held at Bay
The saloon owner, Mrs. Mary Derengowski, 52, and her daughter, Mrs. Stella Briggs, 34, reported the bandits held them at bay with pistols while they rifled a cash drawer and cash register.
Mrs. Briggs was upstairs painting when the robbers entered the saloon.
Mrs. Derengowski was in a back room when she heard the door bell.
As she approached the bar to serve two men standing there, she noticed they had drawn pistols.
Warned to ‘Keep Quiet’
“Keep quiet,” one told her, “and you won’t get hurt.”
She told police, however, she screamed as one of the gunmen forced her into the back room.
Attracted by the screams, Mrs. Briggs ran downstairs and was confronted by a gunman who ordered her in the back room with her mother.
At that point, the women said, the bandit holding them at bay became nervous. He ran over to his partner in the barroom and told him to hurry and take the money.
Mrs. Derengowski slipped through a side door into Louis street and screamed for help.
Victims Chase Them
The bandits fled down Lansdowne avenue toward Rose street with the women chasing them.
Joseph J. Lesniewski, 28, of 1179 Lansdowne avenue, took up the chase and was gaining on the thugs when he noticed an automobile driven by William Szmborski, 40, of 1165 Kenwood avenue, moving in the same direction.
Lesniewski leaped on the running board, told Szmborski of the holdup and persuaded him to follow the fugitives down Rose street to a point near Mechanic street, where the car drew abreast of the bandits.
Szmborski stopped the car and Lesniewski leaped from the running board just as the bandits turned their guns upon him and ordered him back to the machine. They forced Lesniewski into the car and climbed in behind him.
The bandits forced Lesniewski to surrender $20 in cash and his wrist watch, then ordered the driver to “get going.”
Drive Off In Car
Szmborski drove to Louis street near Mt. Vernon, where the bandits ordered their pursuers from the car and drove it away.
Radio car Patrolmen James Caputi and William Prucella were notified and took up the hunt. The car was found abandoned at Second and Clinton streets.
A short time after the holdup, Police Sgt. John V. Wilkie recovered an abandoned machine which he said apparently was to be used as a “get-away” car.
The auto, a green sedan with the key in the ignition lock, was found in the 1200 block of Lansdowne avenue.
Neighbors told Wilkie they saw three men drive up in the car shortly before the hold-up. Two, who Wilkie said fitted descriptions of the robbers, left the car and walked toward the saloon. The third remained at the wheel.
Third Man Escapes
Wilkie said when the bandits fled from the bar they apparently became confused and ran west on Lansdowne avenue, instead of east toward the car. The third man abandoned the car and fled on foot.
Mrs. Derengowski told police the cash drawer contained about $1000 to cash checks.
One bandit wore a panama hat pulled low over his forehead and a black jacket. The women said the second thug had a mustache and wore an Army jacket and pants.
Navy Vet Sought
The automobile abandoned near the scene was registered in the name of Joseph A. Gimello, 20, of 325 Washington street. Wilkie declared Gimello’s parents said he had not returned home and admitted he owned the machine.
They said the youth enlisted in the navy when he was 17, served three years and was discharged recently. However, according to Wilkie, the parents stated his entire attitude had changed and they feared he was suffering from a mental condition.
An alarm has been broadcast to hold Gimello for questioning in connection with the holdup.
Ash Can Girl 'Out' Again; Parents Held
Camden Courier-Post —
Dad Who Took Her Rejoins Mother; Anna Loses Home
Anna Rickowska — 11-year-old child who lived for two weeks in an ash can has been driven from home again.
But Anna, profiting in a measure from her experience of only three days ago, will not sleep in an ash can this time.
She told her plight to Mrs. Louise F. Walsh, secretary of the Camden County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Anna’s mother and father are under arrest and will face the child today in police court.
It was only three days ago that Judge Pancoast placed Anna in her father’s care. Her mother, he declared, was unfit to care for her. The child had accused her of being a habitual drunkard.
And Anna was pleased by the decision. Her eyes glistening, her blond tresses tumbling about her head, she joyfully walked from the courtroom with her dad — the man who promised to be good to her.
Anna soon was disillusioned. The father and mother, who had been estranged, took up their lives together again. The girl was taken back to the home at 1401 Rose Street, the home she had been ordered from more than two weeks before.
Things became even worse than before. In her story to Mrs. Walsh last night, Anna declared that added to the abuse of a drunken mother was that of her father, Ignatius.
And finally, on Wednesday night, her parents beat her and threw her from the house.
She went to the home of an aunt, Mrs. Minnie Blake, of 1213 Lansdowne Avenue, who cared for her until last night when she again sought out her benefactor of a few days ago.
According to Sergeant John Garrity and Patrolman Edward Suski, the child’s parents had been drinking last night.
Anna remained at the home of the aunt until today and Judge Pancoast will make another decision as to who shall have her custody.