Camden First, September 1925
Walt Whitman Hotel Edition
Map of Camden, New Jersey
CAMDEN FIRST was published by Camden's Chamber of Commerce in the 1920s. Many of the leading citizens of the era were active members of this group, which was very active in the effort to build the Walt Whitman Hotel. The edition of Camden First reproduced here celebrates the opening of the hotel, which stood on the northeast corner of Broadway and Cooper Streets for over 50 years.
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CAMDEN FIRST
Published Monthly By The CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
CAMDEN, N. J.
WALT WHITMAN HOTEL EDITION
And Now—For Big Steps Forward
With the opening of the Walt Whitman Hotel, Greater Camden's long looked for and confidently assured expansion era is on. The greatest building year in South Jersey with greater Camden in undisputed leadership is self evident on all hands. We congratulate those Hotel Stockholders who this month realize their long cherished dream in the Walt Whitman and as officers and directors of this institution we congratulate ourselves on having essayed a liberal helping hand in making the Walt Whitman possible. May it prove up to all the hopeful successes we predict for it.
BROADWAY TRUST COMPANY
BROADWAY AND WALNUT STREETS
CAMDEN NEW JERSEY
SEPTEMBER, 1925
IN A DREAM I SAW A CITY INVINCIBLE—WALT WHITMAN
Drawings captioned: CAMDEN BRIDGE; HOTEL WALT WHITMAN; Convention Hall.
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STRAUB PATENTED BUILDING BLOCKS
Progress of 59-house operation on Langham Avenue north of Park Boulevard, just three weeks after beginning work. Brick mason contractors, Unit Construction Co. of Atlantic City, Foundations of 12" Straub Block, party walls of 8" Straub Block, outside wall back-up of 4" Straub Blocks.
Just three weeks after the whistle sounded—a remarkable speed record with Straub Blocks
The photograph shows one of the most striking illustrations of the progress that it is possible to make with Straub Building Blocks.
Three things contribute to this exceptional speed of construction—the prompt deliveries always available on orders from the Concrete Specialties Company; the remarkable ease of handling and "buttering" the block, and the large building unit which is revolutionizing the time element in masonry building.
And all this with lower labor costs, low material cost and elimination of the breakage element—truly Straub Blocks offer to builders the ideal material, and to owners an investment of permanent value.
Look for the arrow—it now identifies each original Straub Patented Building Block manufactured by
CONCRETE SPECIALTIES COMPANY
Mt. Ephraim Avenue, Camden, New Jersey Bell Phone, Camden 351
Midway between Ferry Avenue and Collings Avenue. Look for the sign "Entrance to Concrete Specialties Co." on North Side of Pike
PUTTING "GREATER CAMDEN" ON THE AUTOMOBILE MAP
It won't be long until Camden is known internationally as "the home of the World's Greatest Steam Car." Already automotive engineers have pronounced the DELLING to be the greatest advance in automotive construction and design. It is admitted the ultimate in motor cars.
This widespread approval of the DELLING STEAM CAR merely adds greater emphasis to the fact that the public has been waiting for such a car as the DELLING. A car that is easier and safer to drive because it is always under control. The motor is always running in high and its speed is controlled by one finger. Equipped with 4-wheel brakes. Isn't that what you've asked for in a motor car?
Then, think of averaging 14 miles to a gallon of ordinary coal oil. That's what the DELLING STEAM CAR offers. And yet it can be operated on gasoline, without any adjustments, if kerosene cannot be obtained.
In appearance and mechanical perfection the DELLING compares to advantage with the best cars on the market.
And that description of features only touches the high spots.
TAKE A RIDE IN THE DELLING
If you've never had a demonstration of the DELLING STEAM CAR you have a new motoring thrill coming to you. Telephone us and arrange for one now.
DELLING MOTORS COMPANY
White Horse Pike and Park Avenue, West Collingswood, N. J.
Phone Camden 3405
Delling Steam Car
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September, 1925 CAMDEN FIRST 1
BROADWAY and SYCAMORE ST. THE CAMDEN NATIONAL BANK BROADWAY and SYCAMORE ST.
FRANCIS C. HOWELL, President
HERBERT C. FELTON, Vice President
ELIAS DAVIS, Cashier
ORLANDO M. BOWEN, EDMUND D. STAFFORD, WILLIAM K. COOK, Assistant Cashiers
United States Depository
Capital - $100,000.00 Surplus - $500,000.00
Pays FOUR Per Cent on Time Deposits
Open Friday Evenings from 7 to 9 to receive deposits
Safe Deposit Boxes to rent in Burglar Proof Vault, $2.00 and upwards per year
Lighting and Power
Walt Whitman Hotel
Controlled By American Switchboard & Panels
Mfgrs. "Apsco." Engravers Die Steel
American Panel & Switchboard Co., Inc.
Broadway and Everett Street
Camden, N. J.
Bell Phone 5382
COMPLETE
We carry every kind of lumber needed in building. You will save money by buying from us. Orders filled promptly.
"Better Lumber Here"
BUILDING LUMBER
DAVID BAIRD CO.
DELAWARE AVE & PEARL STS.
CAMDEN, N. J.
Bell Phone, 2395-6 Keystone, 3184
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2 CAMDEN FIRST September, 1925
To be responsible for the workmanship and efficiency connected with this most modern heating plant installed by us in the
WALT WHITMAN HOTEL
is indeed a source of pride and we join with all of our fellow citizens in Camden and South Jersey in welcoming this hotel as another great stride in the development of our community.
CAMDEN HEATING CO.
ENGINEERS CONTRACTORS
HEATING VENTILATING
AUTOMATIC SPRINKLER SYSTEMS
COMPLETE MECHANICAL PLANTS OIL BURNING EQUIPMENT
Sole distributors in this territory for Williams OIL-O-MATIC Fuel Oil Burners
8 Market Street Camden, N. J.
When a Pioneer Greets a Pioneer—We Say Welcome To you Hotel Walt Whitman
MILESTONES OF CAMDEN PROGRESS
—Munger and Long Department Store— Opened 1904 —Hotel Walt Whitman— Opened 1925
MUNGER & LONG
Camdens Largest and most Modern Department Store
Broadway and Federal
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SILVERWEAR FOR NEW HOTEL from WALLEN'S
In extending public greetings to the new Walt Whitman Hotel we look upon this great enterprise as one of the achievements of courage that fully merits the new pride in our city that we all feel.
We are also proud of the fact that ALL THE SILVERWARE of the hotel service was provided by this shop, and as you see it and use it, please remember that it is this type of merchandise that has built this business.
Incidentally we also have the contract for supplying the silverware for the new Detention Home and the Tuberculosis Hospital at Blackwood.
"KEEP AN EYE ON THE WINDOW"
WALLEN'S GIFT STORE
405 BROADWAY CAMDEN
Expert Industrial Photography
Broadway Trust Company, Camden, New Jersey
GEO. A. WONFOR
631 MARKET ST., CAMDEN, N. J.
NOTE NEW ADDRESS
Bell Phone, Camden 3510
Laboratory and Photo Gelatine Printing Dept.
205 MICKLE STREET
All ventilation, dust chutes, linen chutes, smoke connections for boilers, radiator cases, ventilator registers and other sheet metal work in the HOTEL WALT WHITMAN were installed by
Strandwitz and Scott, Inc.
537-49 S. Second Street
CAMDEN
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4 CAMDEN FIRST September, 1925
THE AMERICAN HOTELS CORPORATION
OF NEW YORK
ANNOUNCE GRAND OPENING OF
Camden's New Hotel
The Walt Whitman
GEO. D. WORTHINGTON, Managing Director JOHN W. TAYLOR, Resident Manager
WEEK OF SEPTEMBER FOURTEENTH
The Opening Program of Events
Saturday, September 12th, 3 P. M.
Raising of Flag, presented by Abraham Browning Council No. 122, Junior Order, United American Mechanics.
Monday, September 14th, 7 P. M.
Directors final viewing and dinner.
Tuesday, September 15th, 7 P. M.
Architects and builders inspection and dinner.
Wednesday, September 16th, 4 P. M.
Stockholders and citizen salesmen viewing; Buffet Luncheon and unveiling of picture of Walt Whitman 8 P. M.
Thursday, September 17th, 7 P. M.
GRAND OPENING
Friday, September 18th, 7 P. M.
Public Dinner and Dance.
Saturday, September 19th,
Open for business. Dance 9 P. M. to midnight.
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CAMDEN CHAMBER of COMMERCE
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BUILDING CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY
531-533 MARKET STREET
Telephones: Bell 3400 Keystone 24521
Member Chamber of Commerce of the United States
Vol. 2 SEPTEMBER, 1925 No. 9
OFFICERS—1925-'26
RALPH D. BAKER . . . President
HENRY B. COLES . . . First Vice-President
EDW. A. MECHLING . . . Second Vice-President
ELIAS DAVIS . . . Treasurer
ORLANDO M. BOWEN . . . Assistant Treasurer
WM. J. STRANDWITZ . . . National Counsellor
WILLIAM KENNEDY . . . Executive Secretary
OSCAR W. MAGNUSON . . . Assistant Secretary
J. J. RUSTER . . . Traffic Manager
F. M. HORNER . . . Office Secretary and Notary
FREDERICK L. MEAD, C. P. A. . . . Auditor
BOARD OF DIRECTORS—1925-'26
GEORGE C. BAKER; RALPH D. BAKER; VOLNEY BENNETT; HOWLAND W. BOTTOMLEY; HENRY B. COLES; ELIAS DAVIS; BURLEIGH B. DRAPER; HOWARD J. DUDLEY; CARL R. EVERED; JEROME L. HURLEY; DAVID JESTER; FRANK B. MIDDLETON, JR.; HERBERT N. MUNGER; EDW. A. MECHLING; JAMES J. SCOTT; HARRY C. SHARP; W. J. STRANDWITZ, SR.; FRANCIS B. WALLEN, SR.
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL
RALPH D. BAKER, Chairman
HENRY B. COLES; THEODORE KAUSEL; VOLNEY BENNETT; EDW. A. MECHLING; ELIAS DAVIS; EDWIN PEARSON
AUDITING COMMITTEE
HARRY C. SHARP, Chairman
DAVID JESTER; HERBERT N. MUNGER
COMMITTEES—1925-'26
Committee on Committees: ARTHUR E. ARMITAGE, Chairman
Publicity Committee: J. DAVID STERN, Chairman
Airport Committee: J. EDWARD FAGEN, Chairman
Camden Bridge Transit Committee: E. G. C. BLEAKLY, Chairman
Charities' Endorsement Committee: REV. ELWOOD A. HARRAR, Chairman
Industrial Relations: WELLINGTON E. BARTO, Chairman
Retail Merchants' Committee: HARRY P. PELOUZE, Chairman
Monthly Membership Committee: JOHN J. ENGEL, Chairman
Membership Forum Committee: FRANCIS B. WALLEN, SR., Chairman
Membership-Adjustment Committee: BEN ABRAMS, Chairman
Freight and Transportation Committee: A. L. TOWNSEND, Chairman
So. Jersey Exposition (1926): VOLNEY BENNETT, Chairman
CAMDEN FIRST
Official Organ of the Chamber of Commerce of Camden, New Jersey
Entered as second-class matter April 25, 1924, at the Post Office at Camden, New Jersey, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879, by the Chamber of Commerce of Camden, New Jersey.
Published monthly as a distributor of authoritative notices and articles regarding the activities of the Chamber of Commerce of the City of Camden for the educating, enlightening and stimulating of civic workers and all citizens, to the end that Camden may become a bigger, better, greater and more generally known city, and that its great industrial activities and unique and unrivalled possibilities may be heralded far and near.
Articles of timely interest solicited. The Chamber of Commerce does not necessarily subscribe to the views and opinions expressed in articles of contributors nor is it committed to views or opinions expressed editorially.
Published on the 15th of each month.
Subscription price, $1.00 per year.
Advertising rates on Application.
WILLIAM KENNEDY . . . Editor
OSCAR W. MAGNUSON . . . Business Manager
Vol. 2 SEPTEMBER, 1925 No. 9
Special Walt Whitman Edition.
CONTENTS
Title . . . Page
How the Walt Whitman Hotel Came About . . . 8
Opening of Hotel Walt Whitman . . . 6
Walt Whitman "The Good Gray Poet." . . . 9
These are the Men who did the Work . . . 10-11
Fall Meeting of Rotary Club Executives in Camden . . . 12
A Mural Painting of Walt Whitman . . . 13
Editorial . . . 14-15
Jim Scott "Civic Builder" . . . 17
The Common Sense of Regional Planning . . . 21
Birdseye Views from Roof of Walt Whitman . . . 25
36 pages and cover 6000 copies
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6 CAMDEN FIRST September, 1925
Opening of Hotel Walt Whitman Marks Completion of Task Undertaken by 370 Citizen-Salesmen and Beginning of New Era in Camden's Civic Life
Co-operation of Business Men, Through Chamber of Commerce, in Raising $1,250,000 in One Week Made Hostelry Possible. Hotel to be Headquarters of Chamber and Service Clubs
WALT WHITMAN, far-seeing prophet that he was, a great poet of world renown, would indeed be proud of the city he loved—Camden—and the folks whom he knew so well and who knew him, if he could come back and witness the beginning of a new era in Camden's civic life with the opening of the hotel which bears his name.
September 14, 1925—the opening day—will go down in the history of Camden as an unusually memorable one for with the throwing open of the doors of a modern hotel for which 370 Camden business men worked is an achievement of which all are proud—tremendously so.
To the 370 citizen-salesmen belongs a great portion of the credit for this new monument to Camden's progress for it was they who by their diligent work made it possible. They it was who worked a week—February 4. 1924, to February 11,—and raised $1,250,000 in Camden and South Jersey with which to build the hotel.
From early morning until late at night these salesmen worked, going from business office to business office and from home to home selling Camden of the future through the medium of a fine, modern hotel suited to the city's needs.
And they found the Camden folk ready and willing—1941 of them—to invest their money in a project which was then considered Camden's greatest need.
The hotel will be the headquarters of the Camden Chamber of Commerce and the South Jersey Automobile Club, Inc., these organizations occupying space on the mezzanine floor, New Broadway and Lawrence Street corner. The service clubs—Rotary, Kiwanis, Lions, Y's Men—will hold their weekly luncheon meetings and entertainments, from time to time, in the hotel. The Camden Real Estate Board will also hold its meetings in the hotel.
That the Hotel Walt Whitman will be the new centre for Camden and South Jersey around which the social and business life will turn from the opening date on goes without saying, and all are pleased at the prospect.
The opening wedge for the hotel was furnished by Mr. Eldridge R. Johnson, president of the Victor Talking Machine Company. It was Mr. Johnson's wish that the Chamber of Commerce of Camden—the city in which he made his start, the city in which is housed his giant talking machine plant—should have a home of its own, and for that purpose Mr. Johnson announced that he would present the Chamber of Commerce with $100,000.
This gracious gift for Camden's business and civic life was received with general acclaim by the officials of the Chamber of Commerce.
When Le Roy A. Goodwin was elected president of the Camden Chamber of Commerce in April, 1923, and while working out the program of work in which the Chamber should engage during his administration he made the suggestion that Camden's greatest need was a modern hotel.
Accordingly this project was placed on the program and shortly thereafter an Executive Committee of 45 was formed to make a full investigation. Two surveys of Camden were made as to the possibilities for success for a modern hotel. One of these was made by the Hockenbury System of Harrisburg, expert hotel financialists, and the other was made by the United Hotels Company of New York, the parent corporation of the American Hotels Corporation. The latter is operating the hotel.
The survey made by the Hockenbury System recommended a 200-room hotel and the one made by the United Hotels was for a hostelry of more than 260 rooms.
After it was shown that a modern hotel would be successful, based on the experience of such concerns as those which made the survey, Mr. Eldridge R. Johnson was asked if he would be willing to have the Chamber of Commerce invest the $100,000 which he had agreed to present in a project of this kind. Mr. Johnson replied that not only was he willing to do so but that he would invest $50,000 of his own money in the enterprise
Continued on page 22.
MR. ELDRIDGE R. JOHNSON
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The Community Hotel Corp. of Camden, N. J.—owners —A dream realized—The Walt Whitman Hotel— The American Hotels Corp.—operators
HOTEL FOR CAMDEN [drawing legend; architects' credit at the lower right, partly illegible: ...STETTERS & CO. ARCHITECTS & ENGINEERS, NEW YORK CITY]
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8 CAMDEN FIRST September, 1925
How The Walt Whitman Came About—The Story Told Chronologically
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Birds-eye views from the roof of the Walt Whitman Hotel
A view of the Walt Whitman Hotel from the Court House—showing excavation work for new Stanley Theatre to cost around one million dollars and located on Market from Sixth Street (left) to new Broadway on right. A suggestion of the construction work of the new Elks Home to cost $500,000 is seen on the extreme right of the Walt Whitman.
Steel super-structure of the Elks one-half million dollar home is seen in fore-ground! The building beyond topped by the water tower and in course of construction is the new administration building of the R. M. Hollingshead Company—manufacturers of [product name garbled in the scan] products. This addition will cost $600,000.
A view of North Camden from the roof of the Walt Whitman, showing Philadelphia skyline beyond.
Part of structural steel approach to the Camden Bridge showing one of the huge girders about to be swung into place.
Front Street, Camden, looking south showing small part of the immense buildings of the Victor Talking Machine Company.
A close up of the Camden Bridge with the mammoth concrete and granite anchorage taken from the Camden side.
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10 CAMDEN FIRST September, 1925
These Are the Men Who Did the Work!
For one week, from Monday, February 4, 1924, to Monday, February 11, the men whose names appear here engaged in a monster drive to raise $1,250,000 to build a modern hotel for Camden. They gave unstintingly of their time and of their money, too. Citizens generally are glad to accord them a large portion of the credit for the success of the enterprise.
J. David Stern, Chairman, Executive Committee
James J. Scott, General Sales Manager
Charles A. Wolverton, Counsel
Burleigh B. Draper, Treasurer
LeRoy A. Goodwin, President, Chamber of Commerce
William Kennedy, Secretary
Austermuhl, Chas. W.
Baker, Geo. C.
Baird, Jr. David
Baker, Ralph D.
Bennett, Killiam E.
Bennett, Volney
Bottomley, John A.
Burner, Frank W.
Burling, Albert
Coles, H. B.
Cramer, Wayland P.
Engel, John J.
Eno, Harry W.
Frey, Geo. A.
Hadley, Dr. C. F.
Hemingway, Rev. G. H.
Hemphill, Howard B.
Hineline, Frank J.
Hitchner, Frank G.
Hurley, William L.
Jester, David
Johnson, E. R.
Kausel, Theodore
King, Hon. Victor
Magoun H. A.
Middleton, Albert C.
Middleton, Jr. M. F.
Middleton, Frank B. Jr.
Mitchell, R. L.
Munger, Clarence
Pelouze, Geo. R.
Roney N. B. T.
Searle, Wm. A.
Schoenagle, Sig.
Sherwood, Carroll P.
Staats, Walter J.
Staley, H. Raymond
Stevenson, Harry C.
Strandwitz, Wm. J.
Thompson, Elwood
Todd, Leon E.
Whelan, Rev. Thos. J.
Wallen. F. B. Sr.
DIVISION "A"
Major George C. Baker
Team 1
A. D. Ambruster, Captain
E. O. Wolcott, Asst.
Ralph W. Neal, Secy.
Jos. C. Voegtiin
Frank C. Propert
Atlie M. Ward
F. D. Ambruster
Leslie Gardner
W. M. Glebe
Team 2
F. S. Bleakly, Captain
Howard Austermuhl
H. Stokes Lounsberry
E. R. Morehouse
H. K. Partridge
Team 3
Norman B. Stinson, Captain
A. E. Armitage, Asst.
Alien Truscott, Secy.
J. Wesiey Thompson
George W. Whyte
Elmer G. VanName
Edwin R. Sumner
Lyman E. Hall
J. E. Conine
David W. Steel
Joseph Tatnall
Team 4
Antonio DiPaolo, Captain
Antonio Mecca, Asst.
Lawrence J. Costino, Secy.
M. Ferrante
Feliz D'Aloise
Daniel Creato
C. L. Gregorio
Joseph DiMona
Dr. Vincent DelDuca
Ralph Marchione
Team 5
A. W. Stedman, Captain
E. K. Webster, Asst.
John D. F. Morgan, Secy.
R. C. Dukes
Stanley M. Swartley
E. G. Elzey
J. V. VanRoden
J. Charles Winters
Elwood A. Harrar
William A. Regan
W. C. Marshall
DIVISION "B"
Major Theodore Kausel
Team 6
J. J. Engel, Captain
E. C. Earl, Asst.
Raymond Braker, Secy.
Harold W. Bennett
H. J. Wagner
Wm. D. Burch, Jr.
D. C. Irving
Arthur L. Collins
Wm. S. Holmes
L. L. Schroedel
B. M. Elfreth
Charles Hovsepvain
Team 7
Wilson Meyers, Captain.
George Robeson, Asst.
Jamed Perrott, Secy.
Henry S. Peech
J. H. Deacon
F. W. Duckworth
T. J. Daley
Team 8
L. H. Robbinson, Captain
J. Hartley Bowen, Asst.
Orlando M. Bowen, Secy.
Leon Bard
Dr. Wm. J. Deegan
A. R. White
W. E. Cross
Wilbur Sensor
Team 9
Wm. Schoenagle, Captain
Meyer Wessel, Asst.
Joseph Burner, Secy.
L. E. Ulrope
Geo. W. A. Kappel
Lewis Liberman
Dr. Hyman Goldstein
Team 10
Fred Hutchinson, Captain
Wm. C. Davis, Asst.
Milton M. Roach, Secy.
Edw. Seesholtz
J. W. Dunphey
Alan Redfield
Jacob J. Hernfeld
John D. Parke
M. H. Mancill
Herald R. Cole
G. Albert Johnston
Frank S. Van Hart
DIVISION "C"
Major Sig. Schoenagle
Team 11
Edwin Pearson, Captain
Wm. H. Bottger, Asst.
Frederick Hess, Secy.
Frank W. Garrison
F. Herbert Fulton
Emil A. Daniels
Fredk. L. Homan
A. P. Denmead
E. J. Ballinger
Jos. Tweedy
H. B. Newell
Team 12
Harry P. Pelouze, Captain
W. L. Campbell, Asst.
Wm. M. Dilmore
C. C. Heimbach
Wm. Heckenhorn
V. M. Fulton
Mahlon F. Ivins, Jr.
P. B. Young
Ernest B. Evaul
Team 13
Charles W. Russ, Captain
Benj. H. Lackey, Asst.
Walter E. Fogg
W. Frank Creely
Dr. O. W. Saunders
R. S. Hickman, Jr.
Frank H. Schaefer
Robert A. Bansher [?]
Earl T. Jackson
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Team 14
W. L. Tushingham, Captain
Bryson W. Crall, Asst.
E. E. Cunningham, Secy.
C. J. Sheppard
Milton K. Stanley
Arthur R. Gemberling
Joshua C. Haines
Dr. E. B. Rogers
Charles L. Sharp
O. H. Williams
Walter S. Keown
Kennedy L. Brown
Team 15
Jack Weinberg, Captain
Myer Segal, M. D. Asst.
Harry W. Greenberg, Secy.
Bernard Bertman
Edward Silver
Charles Praissman
E. L. Canning
Wm. J. Kelly
Neil Zeidman
E. H. Hoxworth
Samuel J. Goldberg
DIVISION "D"
Major Harry C. Stevenson
Team 16
J. Edward Fagen, Captain
T. Yorke Smith, Asst.
Emil C. Hessert, Jr. Secy.
G. Carr Jessup
W. W. Chalmers
W. W. Sharpley
Oscar N. Hinski
Louis B. Humphreys
Edwin L. Roach
George L. Brown
Edw. Heckenhorn
J. P. McShane
Team 17
J. H. Forsyth, Captain
F. A. Bickert, Secy.
W. E. Barto
Howard F. Lupton
Meyers Baker
Walter T. Gross
Wilmer M. Wheeler
E. K. Pletcher
Fred Geissler
Team 18
J. L. Hurley, Captain
J. L. Shannon, Asst.
John T. O'Brien, Jr. Secy.
H. A. Moran
W. W. Frazer
Harry C. Woods
Joseph Varbalow
Samuel M. Shay
T. H. Boyer
T. C. Tiedeken
John P. O'Brien
B. Abrams
Edw. J. Gorman
Team 19
W. E. Shreve, Captain
E. B. Woodward, Asst.
L. M. Thompson, Secy.
H. A. McIlwain
James D. Lee, Jr.
Geo. A. Moore
H. C. Hutchins
H. G. Foster
Team 20
L. H. Sullivan, Captain
C. M. Kolbe, Asst.
Frank H. Harding, Secy.
Lloyd B. Avis
Leon C. Guest
Ray J. Marple
Benjamin F. Friedman
DIVISION "E"
Major Leon E. Todd
Team 21
E. Heulings Antrim, Captain
Charles J. Layer, Asst.
J. J. Wolfinger
S. P. McCord
Charles H. Lee
N. S. Ireton
Wm. E. Morgenweck
Wm. P. Partenheimer, Jr.
Wm. A. Cobb
Albert J. Weber
George C. Helker
Team 22
S. O. Clemens, Captain
F. A. DeMaris, Jr. Secy.
H. N. Munger
Joseph S. Low
J. Daniel Hoyt
Daniel F. Hahn
Joshua C. Jefferis
H. J. Eichfeld
Albert Ribeiro
Joseph Goetz
Edw. R. Mackey
Walter F. Schneider
Team 23
Geo. P. Dykman, Captain
J. R. Tucker
Raymond S. Porter
J. R. Tucker
Carl R. Evered
Harrold T. Leach
George B. Rider
E. J. Gilbee
Chas. H. Jaep
P. E. Hart
Henry P. Hoff
W. W. McCallum
C. Howard Kensinger
Wm. J. Flemming
Team 24
Barton S. Muir, Captain
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HOWARD J. DUDLEY
1125-27-29 BROADWAY [word cut off in the scan] GREATER CAMDEN
STORE OPEN FRIDAY AND SATURDAY EVENINGS
FORTY NINE YEARS OF SERVICE In This Community
The Pioneer Store on Broadway
Our watchword has always been "Reliability." This reliabilty now reaches to Camden's new hotel, for the Dudley Store was selected to furnish the bedding for this great new enterprise.
Howard J. Dudley
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Fall Meeting of Rotary Club Executives
First Time In Camden—First Conference In New Hotel
On September 20, 21, 22nd at the Walt Whitman, will gather the Presidents, Secretaries and committee chairman of all the Rotary Clubs in the 50th District of Rotary International.
The 50th District is made up of those clubs in Pennsylvania in the counties of Berks, Lehigh, Bucks, Montgomery, Delaware, Philadelphia, Chester and Northampton. New Jersey, that portion South of the Northern boundary of the County of Burlington, and the entire state of Delaware.
Gilbert J. Palen of Philadelphia is the District Governor presiding over this district.
The Camden Rotary Club will be hosts to the executives of this meeting and are preparing to show the visitors that at last Camden is equipped to extend the hospitality she has always wanted to do.
It might be interesting to know the reason for such a gathering of Rotary Club executives.
Rotary is a particularly well organized and smooth running body. At the District Conference in the Spring a district governor is nominated. He is elected at the great convention of Rotary International in June. In August all of the District Governors (fifty-one at the present time) meet in Chicago with the officers, directors, and committee chairman of Rotary International. This is a ten day meeting with every day fully occupied. At this meeting the plans for the coming year's work in Rotary are thoroughly studied and digested. A definite program of work is adopted and each governor goes back to his district to put that program to work. His first step is the calling together of all the presidents and secretaries in his district in a "Fall meeting of club executives." At this meeting the Governor gives to the club presidents and secretaries, the program of work adopted at the council meeting in Chicago.
This is the meeting that will be held in Camden this month. A very full program has been prepared. The Monday session will start promptly at 9 o'clock in the morning. At 12:30 luncheon will be held. Some prominent Rotarian will be the speaker with regular Rotary music and entertainment. Promptly at 2:00 o'clock the afternoon session will start and at 4:30 adjournment and some manner of out door entertainment will be provided, until 7:30 when a banquet and the regular monthly meeting of Camden Rotary will take place. After such a heavy business day, it has been decided to have this evening meeting take a lighter form. A humorous speaker of renown, has been provided and the entertainment features will be by the members of Camden Rotary.
On Tuesday there will be a morning session, a noon luncheon and an afternoon session, which concludes the two day meeting.
The arrangements for this gathering of Rotary Executives has been taken care of by various committees of Camden Rotary.
An executive committee composed of A. W. Stedman, president; Edward A. Mechling, immediate past president; Leriardo J. List, vice president; is arrangnig this important meeting. Jack Booth has been appointed secretary of the meeting.
Edward A. Mechling is general chairman with the following chairmen of committees under him:
Registration committee—J. H. Booth, chairman.
Hotel committee—LeRoy A. Goodwin, chairman.
Reception committee—Arthur E. Armitage, chairman.
Transportation committee—C. C. Heimbach, chairman
Sergeant-at-arms—Samuel P. Riggins.
Entertainment committee—L. J. List, chairman.
Photographer—George A. Wonfor.
GILBERT J. PALEN, District Governor
JACK BOOTH, Sec. Camden Rotary Club
A. W. STEDMAN, Presdent, Camden Rotary Club
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Walt Whitman the "Good Gray Poet"
Whose Name and Fame are Sponsors for Camden's New Community Hotel
Memorial tablet (photograph 3): HERE LIVED THE "GOOD GRAY POET" WALT WHITMAN FROM 1884 TO THE DATE OF HIS DEATH MARCH 26 1892. THIS HOUSE IS NOW OWNED AND DEDICATED BY THE CITY OF CAMDEN TO THE MEMORY OF ITS FAMOUS CITIZEN.
1—Where he lived and died. 2—His living room as he left it. 3—The memorial tablet. 4—Walt Whitman's tomb.
WALT WHITMAN was born May 31st, 1819 at West Hills, Long Island. He came to Camden May 18th, 1873. His first home was at No. 322 Stevens Street. In September of that year he moved to 431 Stevens Street. In 1884 Walt Whitman took up his abode at 330 Mickle Street. So the records show, although the number of the home is now known as 328 Mickle St. Here he lived for 8 years and died March 26th, 1892. He was thus in his 73rd year.
Thousands of people in Camden knew the "Good Gray Poet." They recall that his last illness was of prolonged duration and that some of his friends took it on themselves to raise a fund, which was presented to him. In his later years it had been his dream that he might be laid to rest in a tomb of his own design. The story goes that he spent $4,000 of his testimonial fund on the tomb, the site and design being selected by himself and the tomb built under such directions as his infirmities permitted him to exercise. There he sleeps in beautiful Harleigh Cemetery on Haddon Avenue.
Entering the cemetery through the Haddon Avenue gate and bearing slightly to the left, one has no difficulty in finding the burial place of the "Good Gray Poet."
His last resting place has a romantic situation in a beautiful little ravine that he must have doted over on his frequent visits to the spot. A year or two ago the Mayor and City Council of the City of Camden took possession through purchase of the home in which Walt Whitman spent his latter days and where he died. It is now a shrine and is visited by thousands of Whitman's admirers annually from all over the world.
His personality may soon fade, but many of his poems and writings will live forever.
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EDITORIAL COMMENT
Within the next few weeks—beginning September 28, to be specific—committees of the Chamber of Commerce will meet to resume their activities in the interests of Greater Camden's progress and development. A membership campaign with a 3000 totality as a goal has been determined upon by the Executive Council of the Chamber. As Camdens' interests are so entwined with those of her nearby neighboring boroughs the effort will be for Greater Camden. Cooperative effort of Greater Camden's public-spirited men and women will spell success to any worthy undertaking for civic betterment. Such success is measured only by the way each individual contributes of his thought and effort.
WILL YOU DO YOUR SHARE?
As this page is written, Saturday morning, September 5th, we are in the throes of moving the Chamber offices to the Mezzanine floor of the Hotel Walt Whitman. The old Chamber of Commerce Building, 531 Market Street, where the organization has been housed for the last five years is for sale or lease. It being a Chamber of Commerce Building, and owned by the Chamber of Commerce, and in good substantial repair and located in the heart of Camden's most valuable business section, if sold it will bring at least four times what it cost. Such is the ratio of increase in real estate in Camden's business section in these latter days.
It is our guess, though we are not talking officially, that the individual, or individuals, who through purchase of the property will demolish same and build a structure comparable with those handsome buildings now skyward on all sides and within two blocks of the Chamber Building—will find the latter on the bargain counter. Being for civic betterment and physical community improvement—these are cardinal principles of Chamber of Commerce practice.
On the other hand, if, by any unwelcome twist of fate, the building should fall into the hands of some individual or individuals who intend merely using it "as is" for profit—our horseback opinion is that they'll pay the full market value for it. And that's that.
We regret leaving the old quarters—they suited the purposes of a Chamber of Commerce admirably. They were roomy, airy and unusually convenient and accessible. But the old order changeth and we are pitchforked into the magnificent Walt Whitman Hotel—on the mezzanine floor at that.
As we write these pars we are sensing the activities of the grand opening week.
And what a wonderful week it will be—something doing each night. By far the greatest event of the week will be the stockholders' banquet on Thursday evening, the 17th, when those Tarsighted [sic] citizens—there were 1941 of them who bought stock in the hotel and made it possible—will have the opportunity of viewing the magnificent structure which they have erected and furnished. Though as these lines are penned the finishing touches have to be added the furniture set and the little odds and ends to be arranged—yet everything will be in readiness for the opening.
There is a bridge tolls fight on and we should like to ignore it in these columns, but feel that we cannot. The Chamber recently issued a questionnaire to its membership on this question. The annoying tolls controversy was precipitated by the action of Pennsylvania through its legislature declaring for a free bridge last year. Everybody knows and Pennsylvania knows just as well as New Jersey knows that the Bridge proposition would never have carried when the question was put to the voters of New Jersey, had it not been distinctly understood that the bridge would pay for itself, liquidating its bonds from revenue derived through the use of the bridge. The membership of the Chamber, through the medium of the above mentioned questionnaire, declared itself emphatically against any interruption in the work of constructing the Bridge and having it opened on time, namely, July 4th, 1926. A slight majority in the chamber questionnaire favored a free bridge, but in almost every instance, this vote was qualified by a statement to the effect—"if this can legally and morally be done." A good many newspapers in the Northern end of the State took it for granted that Camden and this neighborhood, "was red hot for a free bridge" There is positively no warrant for this assertion. A straw vote taken by one of our newspapers indicates a huge majority of our people in favor of tolls. We would all like a free bridge but when one makes a bargain, either of a public or a private character, he should stick close by it. The Executive Council of the Chamber, in studying the tabulation of the Chamber's questionnaire, again emphatically reiterated its opposition to any delay being permitted in the finishing of the bridge and expressed the hope that the Federal Courts would take up the question of tolls and settle it.
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EDITORIAL COMMENT
Mr. John W. O'Leary
President of Chamber of Commerce of the United States
Mr. O'Leary is a prominent banker and man-of-affairs of Chicago. He is a past president of the Chicago Association of Commerce. He was elected to the Board of Directors of the National Chamber in May 1923. He succeeds Mr. Richard F. Grant of Cleveland as head of the National Chamber. We have known Mr. O'Leary for a good many years and have his promise that he will be one of our Forum speakers this fall.
And speaking of Forum speakers, the Chamber has been confessedly handicapped hitherto for lack of proper facilities for membership meetings. This handicap is now happily wiped out. The magnificent assembly room on the mezzanine floor of the Hotel Walt Whitman, with a dinner seating capacity around four hundred will be used regularly by the Chamber for Forum Suppers. The first will be held evening of Thursday, October 15th and regularly up to and including May, on the third Thursday of each month.
The Membership Forum Committee, Francis B. Wallen, Sr. Chairman, and with the concurrence of the Executive Council, has planned the success of these Forum gatherings, through the medium of the sale of coupon tickets. The member is asked to purchase a coupon book which carries the eight successively dated tickets and which are good only for the date printed on each coupon ticket. Supper tickets are popularly priced $1.00. The book of eight coupon tickets can be purchased at the beginning of the Forum Supper season at $7.00 per book, thus saving $1.00 to each purchaser.
Speakers of prominence, men of large business affairs and outlook, will be secured for these gatherings. We expect our friend Mr. O'Leary either for the first or the second Forum.
In this issue of CAMDEN FIRST there are many indications given of how Camden is evolving herself into a city of metropolitan proportions. The opening of the Hotel Walt Whitman is admittedly a strong evidence of this. Handsome buildings are going up in the immediate vicinity of the hotel—the new Elks Home, practically adjoining the hotel, (a picture of the construction work is shown elsewhere), is promised to be ready for occupancy in February. Meantime the old building owned by the Elks and located at Broadway and Federal Street, has been vacated and the Lodge is temporarily housed in the Duckworth property recently sold at a handsome price and a little to the west of the hotel site. On Cooper Street, east of the hotel there is being erected a handsome building to cost $600,000.00 by the R. M. Hollingshead Company, as an administration building. One Square south of the hotel and with a frontage on Market, Sixth and Broadway, there is being built a new theatre to cost around $1,000,000 by the Stanley Company of America. Up and down Market Street there are fine new buildings going up. The old Chamber of Commerce Building, 531-533 Market, now vacated by the Chamber, the upper stories still tenanted, is on the market for sale or lease. The Directors of the Chamber will very likely at their next meeting, determine the fate of the building.
The opening of the hotel is opportune in the nth degree. It's something that should have happened years ago, but better late than never. Centering about the hotel we see a new era of civic activity—it'll be the hub of the wheel around which everything will revolve. Besides the Chamber of Commerce on the Mezzanine floor there'll be the new South Jersey Automobile Club, Inc.
A great future is in store for the immediate vicinity of the Hotel Walt Whitman. Gazing into the crystal ball, as it were, we see a great new section of fine stores, apartment houses—high class shops—everything which goes to make up a fine busy section. Virtually next door we have the new home of the Elks—a handsome structure now rising skyward—and there'll be others.
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Welcome and Success To Camden's New
HOTEL WALT WHITMAN
The Entire FLOOR COVERINGS For the Hotel Walt Whitman Were Furnished by HURLEY'S
The Floor Coverings Department at Hurley's
Little Journeys Through The Hurley Store
The Floor Coverings Department is the Second Floor. Here you will find large and varied collections of splendid rugs, arranged along the wall on huge racks, permitting of convenient choosing. Axminsters, Wiltons, Velvets, Tapestry Brussels and other wanted qualities. Also Carpets, Hall Runners, Bath Rugs, Grass Rugs, etc. And the largest display of Linoleum and Pabcolin in South Jersey. Why not make a visit to our Floor Coverings Department real soon?
The Store of Greater Service and Values
About 35 years ago, Wm. L. Hurley established this store in Camden. From a small beginning, backed by progressive ideas and modern merchandising, the Hurley Store is now South Jersey's Greatest Home Furnisher and Clothier. Other Hurley Stores were established, until now there are Seven Hurley Stores in Seven Cities. The savings gained by the immense purchasing power of this large organization are shown by our lower prices for merchandise of the most dependable quality.
We cordially invite you to use the privileges of Camden's Big Trustful Store. You will find the values are attractive in appearance and price consideration, whether your furnishing problems concern your home or your family. Our unexcelled service assures the most complete satisfaction.
Terms of payment to suit your convenience. Pay chas. or monthly charge account, or Club Plan.
Camden's Big Trustful Store HURLEY'S Broadway at Pine Street
Furniture, Floor Coverings, Jewelry, Silverware, Radio Talking Machines and Records
Clothing for every member of the family
Other Hurley Stores at—Trenton: Atlantic City: Bridgeton: Wilmington: Wilkes-Barre: Hazleton.
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Jim Scott, Civic Builder
"For His Monument, Look About You"
To single out anyone as deserving of all of the credit for the great work in building of the Hotel Walt Whitman is impossible; there were so many who gave of their time and wealth of knowledge. But there is one outstanding figure upon whose shoulders rested much of the work he took it upon himself willingly and the opinion is unanimous that to him should rightfully go the applause for a job well done.
Smiling Jim Scott is the man.
We all remember how Jim took hold of the drive for funds as Campaign General. Long will the picture of Jim remain in the mind's eye of those who took part.
As Jim stood on the stage in the old banquet room of the Elk's Home and called for returns, he was the alpha and omega of enthusiasm.
"Ah, that's another floor," shouted Jim as reports were made by the various teams when the daily returns were made.
"We'll soon be at the top floor if this keeps up—let's go. Who'll build the next floor?"
Such were Jim's remarks and we all recall that when the campaign ended on Monday night, February 11th, 1924, Jim couldn't speak above a whisper. His voice was gone, but his enthusiasm was there gleaming and sparkling. "I'm so happy," he declared "I could throw myself away."
He did a mighty fine job, but he wasn't yet through.
Elected to the Board of Directors, Jim was just as diligent and painstaking in his work, and later on he was made treasurer.
Finally when it came time to consider the furnishings President Goodwin selected him as chairman of the furnishing committee, in which post he did herculean work. Thousands of dollars were saved to the stockholders by his "close" buying. He insisted in all cases that while prices must come down the quality must stay 100 per cent.
"Gosh, what a tough purchasing agent" was the remark of more than one salesman after a breezy session.
But Jim got what he wanted at the price he wanted to pay; and what is more he bought the furnishings—everything—through Camden merchants.
Day after day, Jim spent going from place to place to get just the thing he wanted; he worked far into the night—many nights—and we remember on one occasion when he escorted a salesman through the incomplete hotel at 3 o'clock in the morning, carrying a lantern, so that he could point out what was wanted. He got it, too, and not only that but a substantial reduction in the price.
Civic effort and Jim Scott are virtually one and the same. Wherever there's work to be done, he's there.
"For his monument, look about you."
JAMES J. SCOTT
JOHN H. HEATON PIANO CO.
528 MARKET STREET
Furnished the Hotel Walt Whitman with two Superb Pianos an Upright Mahogany, Hallet and Davis and a Satin Finish Kurtzmann Grand
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White Horse Pike, U.S.A.
"The Favorite Motor Road of a Nation"
[The article text on pages 18 and 19 is not readable on the two 150-pixel thumbnails in the mirror. The picture captions of the same pages, read from the full-size photographs, are transcribed in the White Horse Pike section further down this page.]
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[An advertisement of general information from which no immediate results are anticipated expected or especially desired.]
White Horse Pike, U. S. A.
"The Favorite Motor Road of a Nation"
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J. R. TUCKER, 313 Market St., CAMDEN, N. J.
AN INSTITUTION DEVOTED TO REAL ESTATE
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The Common Sense of Regional Planning
The Future of Camden-Philadelphia Metropolitan District.
By HOWARD STRONG, Director, Committee on Regional Planning for the Metropolitan District.
Political subdivisions fall before economic and social advance. Camden, Wilmington and Philadelphia are in separate States, and are of course, independent communities, but they have many interests in common, and many of their problems can be solved only by common attack. Industrial and port development, traffic provision, housing facilities, the problem of land values, living conditions, all these and many more elements of community life are each day coming to be more and more inter-related. The Delaware River has, for more than a hundred years, been sort of a Chinese Wall between Philadelphia and Camden, a Wall having only a few gates through which communication was possible. Rapidly that wall is breaking down. A great new door is to be opened on July 4, 1926. Other gateways in the form of bridges, ferries and tubes will follow, and the unobstructed avenues of the air, will soon make possible communication between the two cities almost as simple as that between West Philadelphia and the Broad Street district.
Camden is making ready for this future. Magnificent approaches to the new bridge, a splendid system of highways, parks, waterways, playgrounds, and other facilities are under way. But if Camden will put herself in the place of other cities located near the center of a great population, and will watch the growth of those cities as communication with the population center has been developed, as for instance, Brooklyn, Jersey City or Newark, she may ask herself whether her planning measures up to the greatness which the future has in store for her.
Will downtown Camden be ready to serve as the throbbing center of a mighty region? Or when this growth comes, will Camden find her business district with the same congestion, the same lack of freedom in movement, the same inefficiency in business service, that are to be found in the center of Philadelphia, New York, Chicago Saint Louis, Boston and the other great cities of the country?
Are the outlying towns, which one day must become a social and economic, if not a political part of Camden itself, even as Merion, Upper Darby, Narberth and Overbrook have an economic identity with Philadelphia, are these towns being prepared for the development which is bound to come upon them? Will they be ready to meet and care for the great decentralization movement, the industrial and suburban development which is taking place around every great population center.
This movement of industry and population away from the centers of our great cities is a most wholesome tendency, giving better living conditions and greater freedom for industrial activity, provided the territory for which it is destined, be adequately prepared for it, before it comes. If on the other hand, this development is allowed to flow upon these smaller centers unprepared, the great center of population, Philadelphia-Camden, will be handicapped by the same sort of unwholesome, inefficient, sordid and unlovely satellites that can be found about Pittsburgh and some other great cities, whose growth has come upon them un-awares.
Every great population center holds a definite responsibility towards the surrounding region, not to super-impose upon that region a definite plan for the future, but to help the region to visualize its own future, to co-operate in making ready for this future, and to develop a common planning program which shall meet the needs of the future as they shall arise. Such a movement does not contemplate annexation, the gradual absorption of the lesser by the great, but the recognition of each lesser community as a separate economic unit, having at the same time an integral part in and interdependence with the interests of a larger economic unit. It is only as the whole region shall combine in a study of its common interests, of the movements of its population, of the highway and transportation provisions which are to be made for the future, of the park and playground, and recreation facilities, of its future housing and industrial needs, and only as it shall seek to solve these problems, by a single program, with a common purpose, that it shall be prepared for the great demands of the future when they shall come.
The Camden Bridge will be the greatest factor in increasing and spreading the population in South Jersey. With this movement will come a centralization of business with its attending traffic problem and public transportation problem. Look about you at the cities of Philadelphia, Newark, and New York and one can envision the future problems of Camden. Before it is too late definite steps should be taken on a program of regional planning not alone by the city of Camden but by and with the cooperation of the adjoining suburban communities.
If the people of Camden and Philadelphia, and the region round about, are to be worthy citizens of a great metropolitan area, they must learn to think in metropolitan terms. They must envision themselves not only as citizens of today, but as carrying a responsibility for, and having a part in molding that greater city of the future.
The writer of this article, Mr. Howard Strong has had many years of Chamber of Commerce experience. For years he was Executive Secretary of the Chamber at Minneapolis, Minnesota and more recently at Rochester, New York. He is a past president of the National Association of Commercial Organization Secretaries and an authority on Chamber of Commerce psychology and practice. He has addressed meetings in Camden—Rotary, Kiwanis etc. and is booked as one of the Chamber of Commerce fall forum speakers. The article printed herewith is the result of an urgent request by the Editor of "Camden First."
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Continued from page 6.
(A complete chronology from the inception of the idea to the completion of the hotel will be found on another page of this issue of Camden First.)
Several meetings were held later, a contract was entered into with the Hockenbury System, they to take charge of the financing drive, and the sales campaign was mapped out. Camden business men were requested to form into teams to carry on the drive, and the fine co-operative spirit of Camden's forward looking men was demonstrated in the fact that everyone asked to serve, served gladly without one cent of compensation and not only that but they invested their own money in the project.
Prior to the drive to raise the $1,250,000 necessary to build the hotel it was incorporated under the laws of the State of New Jersey under the style of the Community Hotel Corporation of Camden, N. J. A contract for the operation of the hotel for a period of 30 years was entered into with the American Hotels Corporation.
The hotel opened just one year, seven months and ten days after the drive for $1,250,000 started.
Never was a drive undertaken in Camden, with the possible exception of war time drives, that created greater enthusiasm among Camden Citizen Salesmen. The need for a new hotel was so obvious that none could possibly entertain a question as to the advisability and urgency of the effort. In common with all other enterprises of moment there were some doubters, but these only served to stimulate greater determination to put the drive over.
We Announce
The opening of The Walt Whitman Flower Shop in the Walt Whitman Hotel.
We extend to you a most cordial invitation to visit us during the opening week of the New Hotel and continuously thereafter.
The Walt Whitman Flower Shop
G. HERBERT WIRTH, Proprietor
The Walt Whitman is heated by a
Webster Vacuum System of Steam Heating
A Camden Product since 1888
WARREN WEBSTER AND COMPANY
Pioneers of the Vacuum System of Steam Heating
17th & Federal Streets 50 U. S. Branches
More Than 34,000 Installations in America's Finer Buildings
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OPENING ANNOUNCEMENT!
You are cordially invited to visit our
COMPLETE MODERN DRUG STORE
to be opened in the New Walt Whitman Hotel
Week of September 14th
WALT WHITMAN PHARMACY
N. E. Corner New Broadway and Cooper Streets
CAMDEN :-: NEW JERSEY
OPENING
Hotel Walt Whitman Barber Shop
Under same management as Bellevue-Stratford
Joseph Pessano & Sons
PROPRIETORS
Exclusive Millinery
HELEN Z. GIBBONS
WALT WHITMAN HOTEL
Personal Attention
Latest Models Moderate Prices
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CONGRATULATIONS
The materials in all building operations are of the utmost importance and we are greatly pleased that the Camden Lime Co. furnished the materials for not only the foundations of the new Walt Whitman Hotel but also for many of the other parts of the building.
We are proud of our part in this great public enterprise and congratulate those in charge as well as the citizens of Camden in having a fine tribute to their Civic pride in the construction of this magnificent building for the use of the public.
Camden Lime Co.
Camden, N. J.
FRANK J. HINELINE, President CHAS. BULKLEY, Vice President
FRANK B. HINELINE, Secretary and Treasurer
OFFICE: 39 S. Sixth Street
YARDS. Penn Street and Cooper River and Federal Street and Cooper River
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A Mural Painting of Walt Whitman for Hotel
Winner of One Thousand Dollar Prize is a Jersey Resident
Some months ago the directors of the Community Hotel Corp. arranged with the Philadelphia Art Alliance for a competition among mural painters for a suitable painting over lounge fire place in the Walt Whitman Hotel. The prize offered was one thousand dollars. Judges representing the Alliance and the Hotel corporation met some weeks ago and selected the winning sketch and awarded the prize to Robert E. Johnston of Leonia, N. j. It was wholly fortuitous that the winner should turn out to be a resident of this state.
A few days after this decision Mr. Johnston came to Camden in response to a telegraphed invitation by President Goodwin.
The 52 artists who submitted sketches in the competition for a prize of $1,000, and the honor of putting their conceptions of Whitman into a permanent form in the city where the poet made his home, included leading painters in all parts of the United States. One sketch came from as 'far away as Los Angeles.
The winning artist is a Canadian, born in Toronto, September 14, 1885. He studied painting with Harvey Dunn of Philadelphia, and with Walter Sickert in London, England. He is a member of the Society of Illustrators and of the Arts and Letters Club of Toronto.
His interests and sympathy for the works of the "Good Gray Poet" are attested by the. graphic panorama he managed to depict with bold strokes in an oil sketch seventeen inches long and thirteen inches high, and which won for him the award. The finished work will be five feet eight inches long and four feet three and one half inches high.
The charm and force of the artistic conception in rich coloring baffles any hurried description in words. The illustration on this page is a poor presentation of the anticipated finished product when such is unveiled as it will be during the opening week of the Walt Whitman.
On the shore of what might be one of the "broad rivers of America," are gathered a varied group of harvesters', workers, lovers, laborers, men, women and children. On the water glimpsed behind them a ship is sailing by. The vari-colored garments of these humans blend luxuriantly into the green of trees flanking a central eminence on which a little above them stands the poet whose love of democracy they typify.
Rising above the green of the trees, the patriarchal head and venerable white beard of Whitman and his black robed shoulders are sharply silhouetted against the sun-gilded towers of what might be his own visioned "city invincible," rising in sublime splendor against the sky in the distant background.
"I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers of America."
That was one of the lines by Walt Whitman that was in the mind of artist Johnston when he conceived the allegorical vision. The artist had some thought of using the above quotation as a suitable word expression for the mural, but later changed his mind in favor of another quotation by Walt Whitman—"In a dream I saw a city invincible."
The handsome mantelpiece of French Colonial design is to be finished in a shade of color that will throw into clear relief in the light of the three main windows on the Broadway side of the hotel the Walt Whitman picture. Under this panel there have been carved on the lower base the words quoted above.
The artist made a personal inspection of the panel prepared for his work and has given the execution of the picture those artistic touches that a fine appreciation of position, light and shade call for. The mural has been received at the hotel and only awaits unveiling and dedication evening of Wednesday September 16th, at which time stockholders and citizen salesman will be given their first viewing of the Hotel Walt Whitman. By instructions of President Goodwin the picture will not be unboxed until that afternoon preparatory to its being unveiled.
CAMDEN FIRST would have liked to show a better and truer half-tone presentation of the mural, but this is obviously impossible without access to the finished product. We should also have liked to have been able to produce a picture of the artist. It is said all artists are more or less temperamental. The only peculiarity that we could find in artist Johnston was his reluctance to having his picture taken. As a matter of fact, he eluded the photographer the day we had the pleasure of talking with him. All admirers of the poet, as well as the hotel owners will have an opportunity of meeting this rising young painter during the hotel opening week. At several of the functions in connection with the opening, Mr. Johnston will be guest of the Community Hotel Corporation.
"In a dream I saw a City Invincible"
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By far one of the most encouraging developments is the fact that all of the stores have been rented—they'll open with the hotel—and if there had been 10 times as many they would all have been taken. There were nine stores to rent and for these there were 56 applicants! We wish the shopkeepers unbounded success and we venture the guess that they'll be amply repaid for their foresight in grasping the opportunity to open in and with the hotel.
The city's service clubs—those organizations which when they are active, such as those are in Camden—mean so much for the growth and prosperity of the city, all will have the Walt Whitman as their headquarters. There'll be Rotary, Kiwanis, Lions, Y's Men's Club and the Real Estate Board—and in addition other organizations which desire to hold meetings from time to time will go to the hotel.
All those service clubs joined hands enthusiastically with the Chamber of Commerce and made the hotel possible in the memorable week's drive from February 4, to the 11th, 1924. We again extend our thanks.
We're mighty, mighty happy and we're looking forward to continued opportunities for real constructive service, drop in and see us.
List your properties with us. Acting as agents for the Community Hotel Corporation we leased all stores in the New Walt Whitman Hotel—
CONSULT WITH US
Kausel & Co
REALTORS
Cor. Haddon & Kaighn Aves
Camden N. J.
Bell Phone Camden 4883
GROWING WITH CAMDEN
You are cordially invited to visit my new store in the Walt Whitman Hotel on opening day Sept. 14th
A complete line of Mens Furnishings, Ladies Hosiery.
Schoble Hats $6, $7 and $8
TIM O'NEILL
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Edw. Preisendanz
Joseph Hale
Dr. A. M. K. Maldeis
Edgar Myers
B. Frank Nyce
A. N. Eagles, Jr.
M. C. Campbell
Stephen Derringer
Henry G. Robinson
Axel Malmstrom
Team 25
Roy R. Stewart, Captain
F. G. Riggins, Asst.
Charles H. Stevens, Secy.
C. B. Edwards
R. W. Janvier, Jr.
Samuel P. Riggins
John H. Gardner, Jr.
John Gilliams
Joseph L. Shackelford
Clarence C. Lind
Russell C. Moore
F. F. Patterson, 3rd.
DIVISION "F"
Major Thomas J. Whelan
Team 26
Lewis T. West, Captain
M. A. Doyle, Asst.
Herbert N. Moffett, Secy.
W. W. Todd
K. E. Smullin
S. N. Miller
Edw. B. Stone, Jr.
Frank Deverrauz
Ralph G. VanHart
Team 27
Harry Ellis, Captain
James N. Downey
Jefferson J. Flanagan
Myron W. Miller
Beale M. Schmucker
James M. Thoirs
W. J. Rodgers
Albert Austermuhl
Max Reihman, Jr.
Team 28
Lee J. Gill, Captain
Rud Preisendanz, Asst.
Lewis A. Lee, Secy.
Joseph A. Connell
J. Leon Mealey
Herbert J. Schoellkopf
A. S. Tallman
Wm. J. Turnbull
F. W. Somers
F. C. Vieser
K. Goldstein
C. A. Frost
Leon J. Cybulski
Peter Gulcz
Edw. Praiss
Edw. Zubrzycki
Adolph Slomick
B. Willinski
Stanley Ciechanowski
Alex Jasienski
Frank Wisniewiski
Frank Urszynski
Rev. M. Lawnicki
Joseph Krawczyk
Wm. Laskowski
Team 29
M. J. Jubanyik, Captain
Frank J. Hineline
Joseph N. Hettel
W. W. Rogers
J. C. Remington, Jr.
Edw. Solomon Miller
John W. Kelly, Jr.
Joseph O'Brien
Charles Stuart Straw
Samuel Gerhart
F. G. Wallen, Jr.
Team 30
J. Spencer Lucas, Captain
Thos. J. Doyle
H. H. Etter
Philip Wilson
E. J. Toussaint
H. Bentley
Wm. C. Coles
John J. Hambrose
CAMDEN COUNTY COURT HOUSE—MARKET, FEDERAL AND BROADWAY Photo by Wonfor
The above very fine picture of the Camden County Court House reveals a building of excellent proportions and construction. Built of Indiana limestone in 1904 at a cost of a little below $800,000 complete, it stands out as a landmark. Though many beautiful buildings have been and are being built in Camden, the Camden County Court House will in all liklihood remain the peer of public and private buildings, both in point of location and architectural beauty until the Camden anchorage of the Camden Bridge is complete.
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Where the Hotel Walt Whitman Now Stands [the scan prints "Stanas"]
We have shown this picture before in CAMDEN FIRST. It "belongs" in this issue. The cut will be carefully preserved for the service of some future historian.
The picture shows that section of Cooper Street rapidly changing with the commercial demands of Camden's new day. Part of the building on the left—the old and very fine home of a later scion of the Cooper family, and at the date of purchase by the hotel corporation and subsequent demolition—part of the Joseph Hussong estate, is now part of new Broadway. Some twenty-one feet of the extreme left of the property was sold to the City by the corporation at cost. The vacant lot slightly to the right, now sustains the west side of the hotel. The building in the center the J. Lynn Truscott building, was a very fine building, quite English in its exterior and interior appointments. The building at the extreme right is the old Hanford property and still stands. The hotel is thus given a frontage of seventy-five feet, with a depth from Cooper to Lawrence, and facing new Broadway, of one hundred fifty feet. The Hanford property (on the extreme right) has been used as offices for the construction enginner and his staff. What will be done with the building is now engaging the minds of the hotel directors. In all likelihood it will be immediately torn down in order to make proper preparation for a duplication of the present size of the WaltWhitman, which is thought to be inevitable within the next two years.
New Construction in Camden Totaling $6,600,000 May Be Seen By Looking North From The Court House Roof
Camden a progressive city?
Well, rather.
If you should choose to go up on the roof of the Camden County Court House, a building which still stands supreme as one of the finest bits of architecture in this part of the great Garden State, situated at Sixth and Market Street, and you should look North you would view the finest bit of progressiveness in a building way which it would be your privilege to see anywhere in the United States.
Casting your eyes slightly to the Northwest you would see the impressive anchorage of the Camden Bridge erected at a cost of $3,250,000.
Turning ever so slightly your gaze would be arrested by the splendid new theatre being erected by the Stanley Company of America, at your very feet, the steel work now rearing itself skyward—a $1,000,000 structure.
Raising your gaze above the top of the highest pinnacle of the new Stanley you'd see the Hotel Walt Whitman, a $1,250,000 project now complete.
Within a few feet of the Hotel Walt Whitman to the East your eyes would stop to take in another wonderful sight—the new Elk's Home being erected at a cost of $500,000.
By switching the eyes ever so little further East you'd see the new building of the R. M. Hollingshead Company, world-famed makers of Whiz products, known by every automobilist. This new addition will cost $600,000.
So by looking in virtually one direction, without changing the position of your feet for a better view, you'd gaze upon a total of $6,600,000 of new construction all within a few city blocks.
Then if you cared to throw your eyes a bit further afield you'd see the work which is being started by the State of New Jersey on new highways—the Bridge Boulevard and the Crescent Boulevard—new traffic arteries to care for the traffic which will come when the new Camden Bridge opens. These are being built at a cost of $6,000,000.
Besides, you'd see new construction—homes, new stores, additions—everything which goes to make up a progressive city—in every direction in which you care to look.
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F. HARTMANN & SONS PRESENT
The Walt Whitman Cigar
A Cigar "That Waits For You" at 212 Stores Where Good Cigars Are Sold
The Walt Whitman Cigar
A pure Havana Filler Cigar
5 Shapes and sizes 10 cents - 2 for 25 cents - 15 cents - 3 for 50 cents
F. Hartmann & Sons
who present to Camden a cigar named after Camden's most famous writer
WALT WHITMAN
Pledge themselves to keep these cigars of such quality that those who come from afar to study at the Whitman Shrine will never find a Product unworthy of the name of the master of the study of self gratification
Touch—feel—light—inhale—smoke—enjoy—relish—palate please—gratify—satisfy
SMOKE HUNGER
With the beautiful curving perfectly formed, artfully Blended-Havana filled rightly curved
WALT WHITMAN CIGAR
Who can read after the Master—Whitman—without—knowing him as one who would select that which gratified—satisfied——pleased.
Who then who loves the Master but who can understand that we who make cigars are trying in our humble way to make a cigar that will to the extent of our craft-skill — knowledge — experience — resources — honor a worthy name?
Only you who have bitten—tasted—lit—inhaled—enjoyed—the aroma fragrance——boquet—quality goodness—Havana—mildness of these Walt Whitman cigars know how we have labored:—studied——worked—blended—re-blended——balanced——combining labor——love and joy of producing the best in these five shapes and sizes in the
WALT WHITMAN CIGAR
F. Hartmann & Sons, Camden, N. J.
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CAMDEN TERMINAL CO.
Operators of Camden Municipal Pier
WAREHOUSE AND OPEN GROUND STORAGE
For Rates Phone Camden 5028
175,000 feet of floor space available for storage with buildings sprinkled, low insurance rates. Store in Camden and eliminate expensive trucking charges.
The Camden Pier is served through the belt line. Warehouses are located at Jefferson & Master St, served by Pennsylvania Railroad. Within easy trucking distance—no congestion or long delays to trucks crossing ferries.
Our long experience in handling imports and exports will convince shippers of our ability to render first-class service at reasonable rates.
Ship from Camden
Use the Camden Pier
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Confession of Faith
"There is a Tide in the Affairs of Men, Which, Taken at the Flood, Leads on to Fortune"
Shakespeare Must have Peered Into the Future and saw Camden of 1930
Shakespearean quotations may seem out of place in a lumber advertisement—
But who ever heard of a lumber man staying AWAY from his business to build that business up?
I am putting most of my time in civic affairs—largely of course in the great South Jersey Exposition.
I am doing it first, as a civic duty—but in the back of my head there is the thought that as I help build Camden my business will grow with Camden!
I see the opportunity to serve Camden—I think the flood tide of Camden's success will come in 1926-27.
So I am devoting time and energy to make the 'Show Windows' of Camden—The South Jersey Industrial Exposition—a great success—
I believe we will have visitors from all over the nation—(yes, world!) come to see Camden's show window.
I believe that as we invite them to our show window they will study the field—
I believe they will cause investments to be made here in increasing amounts—I believe that investments and population will flow here—to make Greater Camden—bigger, stronger financially. So if Camden prospers and my business keeps step—I'll naturally profit—
In other words, I feel that by helping 'the affairs of men' to reach the 'flood' that I will lead my own business on to fortune.
Selfishness is a great motive! Perhaps I'm selfish in helping Camden—but at least when some one says to you—
"Why does Volney Bennett give so much time to civic affairs?"
You can answer—"Well, that's his idea of the way to build his business."
VOLNEY BENNETT
Office of Volney G. Bennett Lumber Company
The House of Quality and Service
Every builder who has used Bennett Lumber will recommend it for its Quality---yet you pay no more for---Quality.
Volney G. Bennett Lumber Co.
Second and Spruce Streets
Camden, N. J.
Bell 69 Keystone 22311
FREDERICK L. MEAD
Certified Public Accountant
Registered Municipal Accountant
Audits---Investigations
Specially, Periodically, or by Continuous Supervision
TEMPLE BUILDING, CAMDEN, N. J.
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The Walt Whitman Hotel is Concrete Evidence of Camden's Growth
THE appointments of this Hotel with its handsome Furniture, its beautiful Draperies and exquisite Interiors are worthy examples of decorative art, in the execution of which the vast facilities of the J. B. Van Sciver Co. played a most important part.
BEHIND this skill we proudly point to our forty-four years of experience without which it would be impossible to reach the manufacturing and decorative heights which have given the Van Sciver Co. a renown throughout the nation.
NO matter what the style of architecture or how plain or artistic the walls, our experts can decorate the room spaces with delightful harmony. Where the architecture and interiors of the Hotel, Home, Club, Hospital, Bank, Office Building, or other Institution are unusual, we design and make the Furniture as well as supply the Furnishings to meet the requirements.
J. B. Van Sciver Co.
CAMDEN, N. J.
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Continued from page 8
Nov. 26, 1924—Structure ten percent built, superstructure past third story and one-third way to roof.
Dec. 23, 1924—Hotel directors, after receiving hundreds of letters with suggestions, honor the wishes of a big majority and decide on "Walt Whitman" as name of Camden's community hotel.
Dec. 27, 1924—Corner stone laid by Mayor King in ceremonies in which prominent clergymen, business men and others take part, with big audience in spite of the chilly weather out of doors.
Jan. 22, 1925—Concrete roof one-third poured in place.
Feb. 2, 1925—Reinforced concrete frame and roof of structure completed.
March 1, 1925—Exterior brick walls completed.
Arpil 1, 1925—Interior partition walls completed.
April 17, 1925—Mayor King turns first shovelful of earth for the cutting through of New Broadway from the Courthouse northward past the Hotel Walt Whitman to the Camden Bridge plaza at Penn Street.
May 1, 1925—John W. Taylor, manager of the Elks clubhouse in Philadelphia, engaged to become resident manager of Hotel Walt Whitman.
May 28, 1925—Hotel directors offer prize of $1,000 to artist submitting best design for mural painting of Walt Whitman for main fireplace in hotel lobby, jury of artists and art critics to decide the winner at the Philadelphia Art Alliance.
June 20, 1925—Exterior shell of building completed with installation of glass, copper and Indiana limestone fronts of stores in first-floor facing both Cooper Street and New Broadway.
June 25, 925—Hotel directors and Elks Club officially turn over to city fifteen feet of their Cooper Street frontages for widening that street in the block they face.
July 1, 1925—Resident Manager John W. Taylor takes official charge of preparations for operation of hotel.
July 25, 1925—From 52 artists' sketches submitted at Philadelphia Art Alliance, that of Robert E. Johnston, of Leonia, N. J., noted magazine illustrator, is chosen by jury of artists and critics. The winner of the $1,000 prize for the most appropriate design is commissioned by the hotel directors to paint the Walt Whitman mural canvas for the place of honor in the hotel lobby.
Aug. 29, 1925—Last of store leases signed by President and Secretary.
Sept. 12, 1925—Raising of flag presented to hotel by Abraham Browning Council No. 122, Junior Order, United American Mechanics.
Sept. 14, 1925—Directors' final viewing of building and dinner.
Sept. 15, 1925—Architects and builders' inspection.
Sept. 16, 1925—Unveiling of Walt Whitman picture at stockholders and citizen-salesmen's viewing.
Sept. 17, 1925—Grand Opening.
Sept. 18, 1925—Public dinner and dance.
Sept. 19, 1925—Open for business; dance 9 P. M. to midnight.
New Plans For Crescent Boulevard [the scan prints "Boulevara"]
Under a new plan the State Highway Commission may extend the Crescent Boulevard to North Woodbury and re-route the bulk of traffic off Broadway from Brooklawn south and north to evade the Park avenue crossing of the West Jersey & Seashore Railroad.
The new plan will also carry the bulk of traffic now choked between Woodbury and Gloucester City each Sunday so as to evade the narrow bridge over Timber Creek between Westville and Brooklawn.
The new plan will be that another bridge will be built over Timber Creek between Brooklawn and Westville.
Under the new plan the Crescent Boulevard would connect with Kings Highway east of Brooklawn and follow that roadway west to Broadway. It would be carried over the swamps on the west side of Broadway under the tracks of the railroad and turn south and follow a new route paralelling the railroad to Park avenue in North Woodbury.
FRENCH'S "Quality First"
PAINTS and VARNISHES Manufacturers
SAMUEL H. FRENCH & CO.
PHILADELPHIA—CAMDEN
Est. 1844 Inc. 1920
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Pithy Pointers from the Nation's Business
A Page of Interesting Exhibits from the Organ of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, September 1925, Issue
THE HARDNESS OF VARNISH
Measurements of the hardness of varnish have been made by the Bureau of Standards on samples received for test in the Bureau's laboratory.
The marked effect of humidity on the measurements was revealed on a very humid day in the laboratory, the bureau reports. To illustrate, a spar varnish with a drying period of two days showed a hardness factor of .333, the relative humidity being 50 per cent. At four days, with a humidity of 60 per cent, the hardness factor was 387. At six days, with a humidity of 80 per cent, the hardness factor was only .240, and seven days, with a humidity of 50 per cent, the hardness factor was .447. The marked decrease in the hardness factor on the sixth day, when the humidity was 80 per cent, is significant.
FOR TESTING BRICK
A portable machine for testing bricks has been designed by Dr. A. H. Stang, of the engineering mechanics section of the Bureau of Standards, and construction is reported virtually completed. The machine will weigh about 40 pounds and is hydraulically operated. The principal dimensions are: height, 16 inches; width, 6 inches; length, 12 inches.
Because of the proposed change in specifications of the American Society for Testing Materials, which will probably eliminate all tests except the cross-bend test, the bureau explains the need for a testing machine is evident. Using the machine designed by Dr. Stang, the Bureau says, an inspector can test bricks on the job and will not need to send specimens to a testing laboratory, thereby avoiding delay in obtaining an indication of the quality of the brick.
A GROWING LIBRARY
A law library which would have been complete, with all of the volumes of American decisions and all of the volumes of American statutes, has recently been Calculated to have contained one hundred years ago about 180 volumes of decisions and 60 volumes of statutes. Today, it is said, a library which would be complete in the same sense would contain 18,500 volumes of decisions and 5,500 volumes of statutes. One hundred years in the future, if the increase during the last century is maintained, such a library would have to contain 1,850,000 volumes of decisions and 550,000 volumes of statutes.
U. S. SHIPPING IN THE DOLDRUMS
Shipbuilding may be in the doldrums around the world, as some folk assert, but the center of these doldrums seems to be in the United States. On June 30 of this year the reports showed that in the United States the merchant tonnage under construction aggregated only 92,000. In England one shipbuilding company at the moment had under construction 60,000 tons and was fitting out or repairing 116,000 tons more. It would appear that, however great the depression of shipbuilding may be elsewhere, the American variety of depression in that industry is unknown.
Nation's Business enjoys a great nation wide and a respectable world wide circulation. There are hundreds of subscribers here in Camden and vicinity. There could well be hundreds more. We find the magazine indispensable. Business men who desire to keep step with the times, welcome Nation's Business every thirty days as a safe, dependable and entertaining councillor. These "Cullings" are from the September issue. Ed.
KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES
Fred Kelly, who writes for "Nation's Business Magazine," talked with Leonard Ayres, the Cleveland statistician, about it.
"The automobile," said Colonel Ayres, "is one of the most highly competitive articles ever sold to the public. If you buy a piano your neighbor's piano doesn't come over and stand alongside of it to show up yours as inferior. But the moment you buy a car you are in com'petition with your neighbor. You are obliged to look at his car across the street and observe that it is better than yours. Immediately you secretly hope to have a better car just as soon as you can afford it— if not even sooner. No matter whether you're at home or, riding about, your car is in competition with others, always ready to be a symbol of your status, you are almost forced into buying a better car than you can afford."
That reminded Colonel Ayers, too, that the big sale of cars during the last season hasn't been due to an increased demand for cars so much as to the fact that all cars more than a year or two old have suddenly become obsolete. The last season has seen a number of new improvements which have made people willing to dispose of old cars while they were still in good working condition.
WHAT PRICE FIRES
The record shows that nearly 15,000 persons were burned to death last year, and more than 1,600 were injured by fire. Of these persons, 80 per cent were dependents—mothers, children, and inmates of state institutions.
With a total of $548,810.639, the property loss was the highest ever recorded for the nation—an average of $1,503,590 a day, or $1,044 for each minute of the year. That property loss of more than half a billion is more than three times the amount of the Chicago fire loss, and more than any other country has ever endured in one year. Ten years before, the property loss was $221,437,000—a figure indicating that the United States is now burning more than $2 where it once burned only one. What will the loss be for 1934?
Fire departments and water supplies are maintained at a cost of another half-billion dollars a year, so that a billion dollars is paid every year to keep fires down and out. If that billion dollars of tribute money were piled up on one side of a road to be paid one dollar at a time on the other side of the road, and if one man began the job, carrying a dollar across the road every minute day and night, the payment would require twenty-seven generations of men, each man living to the age of 70, which means that if the work had been begun twenty-two years after the birth of Christ, it would have been completed just last year. But fire collects a billion dollars from the American people in one year.
That towering pile of dollars would pay for nearly three Panama canals, would pay the salaries of all the teachers and school superintendents in the United States for a year and a half, or would keep the postal service going for nearly two years. Economy and patriotism would be well served could the American people declare "Millions for fire prevention but, not one cent for tribute."
MONEY IN TRIFLES
It sometimes appears that those selling unnecessary articles—goods that people can get along without—fare better than those who deal in necessities. The leading shoe merchant in a thriving city of 40,000 though he has a large investment, and must pay a big rent, has difficulty in showing a clear profit of $10,000 a year. In the outskirts of the same city a man with a little store only about 12 feet square, with a trifling rental, sells soft drinks, cigarettes, candy, ice cream, toy balloons, automobile pennants and similar articles. His entire investment is never $1,000 at any one time and yet he says he is making nearly $1,000 a month. Pretty soft we'd say.
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New Offices for the Chamber and Auto Club
The Chamber of Commerce has moved its offices to the Mezzanine floor of the Hotel Walt Whitman. This is in accord with the spirit of the munificent gift of One Hundred Thousand Dollars by Mr. Eldridge R. Johnson, President of the Victor Talking Machine Company and which gift was by vote of the Chamber directors and with the cordial approval of the donor, invested in the hotel. The Chamber is thus the holder of the largest block of preferred and Common stock in the hotel enterprise.
Offices are convenient of access. A special door and stairway just inside the Broadway entrance to the hotel (left side of said entrance) leads one to the offices. Glazed partitions, providing "openness with privacy" convert available space into rooms for the Traffic Manager, the Assistant Secretary the Executive Secretary as well as a comfortable room for the latters' assistant. Open space for the office manager, telephone operator and other assistants are provided.
A director's room available for committee rooms has also been arranged.
The South Jersey Automobile Club, Inc. has its headquarters adjoining the Chamber offices.
Members of the Chamber as well as members of the Automobile Club are invited to visit these offices at their convenience.
What Our Friends and Contemporaries Say
Another from NEW YORK
"I have received the July issue of CAMDEN FIRST, and though I am putting it in my bag to read on the way home tonight, am glancing it over quickly now, and notice your "prophesy" that "a way will be found to make the bridge toll free". Here's hoping; but I presume the difficulty will be to convince the people of Northern New Jersey that it should be so."
ROBERT BRUCE.
National Highways Association.
July 22nd, 1925.
Business Guide of Camden
For rates in this column, phone Camden 3400
AUTOMOBILE REFINISHING
Collings Carriage Co., Inc.
Front and Arch Streets
Bell Phone. Camden 1600 Keystone. 2119
BANKING - TRUST COMPANY
Broadway Trust Company
Broadway and Walnut Street
Bell phone. Camden 3128, 3129. 3975 Keystone phone, 3109
Parkside Trust Company
Haddon and Kaighn Avenues
Bell Phone, Camden 3610
Victory Trust Company
Third and Pine Streets
Bell Phone, Camden 5078
DYERS AND BLEACHERS
R. H. Comey Camden Company
West Jersey R. R. & Viola Street
Bell Phone, Camden 1545
FORD DELIVERY BODIES
Collings Carriage Co., Inc.
Thorne, Davis and Copewood Streets
Bell Phone, Camden 368 Keystone, 32841
LAMPBLACK, PHOSPHATE PRODUCTS
Wilckes Martin Wilckes Co.
Head of Pine Street, Camden
Bell. Camden 243
LUMBER & MILLWORK & COAL
J. R. Quigley Company
Market Street and West Jersey Railroad
Gloucester. New Jersey
Bell Phone, Gloucester 444. 445
MIRRORS AND AUTO GLASS
Camden Auto Glass Company
2216 Federal Street
Bell Phone. Camden 3489-J
SHIPS, ENGINES, BOILERS
General Engineering Work
Structural Steel Work, etc.
New York Shipbuilding Corporation
Broadway and Fairview Street
Bell Phone, Camden 3000
SYSTEMS OF STEAM HEATING
Warren Webster & Company
17th and Federal Streets
Bell Phone, Camden 4600
WOOL, LEATHER, SHEEP & GOAT SKINS
Max Bernstein & Son
10th and Elm Streets
Bell Phone, Camden 2617, 4197
ELMER DEPUTY
[PHOTO-ENGRAVING, RETOUCHING, ELECTROTYPING; the lettering is overprinted and garbled in the scan] ... N. J. Bell 1250 Keystone 414
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LOOK FOR THE SIGN
The Ben E. Jackson Co. REAL ESTATE 515 MARKET ST. CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY
THAT BRINGS RESULTS IN
REAL ESTATE
MORTGAGES
INSURANCE
FARMS
CONVEYANCING
RENT COLLECTIONS
INTEREST COLLECTIONS
UNUSUAL JERSEY HOMES
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES
CENTRAL CITY PROPERTY
The Ben E. Jackson Co.
PHONE-WRITE-WIRE for A Service that Serves You
Over 24 Millions in Trust Funds
WORDS fail when figures speak in such terms as these. This is especially true when you consider that the funds above represent the confidence which nearly 17 thousand depositors have in
CAMDEN SAFE DEPOSIT & TRUST COMPANY (since 1873)
224 Federal Street Camden, N. J.
Bell, Day 1290-W Bell, Night 3243-J
Keystone, Day 5227-A
Armature Winding Motors and Generators
Coil Making Repair Experts
C. B. EDWARDS ELECTRIC CO.
Electric Light and Power Construction
Complete Plants Installed
130 FEDERAL STREET CAMDEN, N. J.
J. L. Tatem, Principal B. G. H. Leonard, Supt.
J. LEIDY TATEM
Secret Service and Detective Agency
Special yearly contract service
MAIN OFFICE: Temple Building, 415 Market Street
CAMDEN, N. J.
Phone Connections
Member-Camden Chamber of Commerce
[line of display type garbled in the scan]
FACTORIES
Any Size Anywhere
For Sale or to Lease
NEW LISTINGS SOLICITED
Business Established 1890
JAMES F. BAKER CO. REALTORS
924 Broadway, Camden. N. J.
Bell 37-50
Inside Rear Cover
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"In a dream I see a city invincible."—WALT WHITMAN
We felicitate the sponsors, owners and managers of the Walt Whitman Hotel upon its completion.
For Camden another milestone is passed in her "invincible" progress toward the broader concept of a great city.
LEVERING-RIEBEL CO.
INCORPORATED
PRINTERS : PUBLISHERS : BINDERS
CAMDEN, N. J.
Camden Telephones Bell, 3110 Keystone, 3151
Philadelphia Telephones Bell, Market 2794 Keystone, Main 7288
AUDUBON WIRE PRODUCTS for Industrial Uses
FROM the finest mesh for delicate manufacuturing purposes to the coarser weaves for quarry work or wire partitions—Audubon Products include Brass, Phosphor Bronze, Cooper Steel, Galvanized and Tinned Wire Cloth — Window Guards — Machine Guards—Partitions—Stock Room and Elevator Enclosures—Coal and Sand Screens—Sieves and Riddles Factory Baskets, and Wire Specialties.
AUDUBON WIRE CLOTH CO., Inc.
AUDUBON, NEW JERSEY
New York District Sales Office, Wm. L. Buck, 296 Broadway
Lambert & Todd Machine Co.
General Machinists and Engineers
SPECIAL MACHINERY DESIGNED and BUILT
103-119 Arch Street
Camden, New Jersey
The Midget Binder
Should be in Every Office
The MIDGET will bind and fasten papers or light fabrics cloth, straw, braid or lace more securely, in less time, at less cost than clips or pins of any kind.
Inexpensive, simple. One Light pressure on lever binds. Rapid, self-feeding, clog-proof. Materials to be bound always visible. Misplaced staples and damage prevented.
An Acme For Every Purpose
There is one that binds heavy carpet samples or light silks—another to take the place of pins or clips. Whatever your purpose, there is an Acme that will fit it more economically than any other device. Special models made for special requirements. Write for time-saving information.
Dealers Wanted
The Acme Staple Company
1643-1647 HADDON AVE. CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY
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BYRON H. EDWARDS ALFRED GREEN
EDWARDS & GREEN
ARCHITECTS
CAMDEN OFFICE 23-25 Broadway PHILADELPHIA OFFICE 34 So. 17th Street
Apartment Building, 216 Cooper Street, Camden, N. J.
Camden Talmud Torah, Kaighn Avenue, Camden, N. J.
Joseph Hinchman School—6 room addition, Woodland Manor, Delaware Township, Camden County, N. J.
Registered Architects
New Jersey and Pennsylvania
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CAMDEN CHAMBER of COMMERCE
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BUILDING CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY
531-533 MARKET STREET
Telephones: Bell 3400 Keystone 24521
Member Chamber of Commerce of the United States
Vol. 2 SEPTEMBER, 1925 No. 9
OFFICERS—1925-'26
RALPH D. BAKER . . . President
HENRY B. COLES . . . First Vice-President
EDW. A. MECHLING . . . Second Vice-President
ELIAS DAVIS . . . Treasurer
ORLANDO M. BOWEN . . . Assistant Treasurer
WM. J. STRANDWITZ . . . National Counsellor
WILLIAM KENNEDY . . . Executive Secretary
OSCAR W. MAGNUSON . . . Assistant Secretary
J. J. RUSTER . . . Traffic Manager
F. M. HORNER . . . Office Secretary and Notary
FREDERICK L. MEAD, C. P. A. . . . Auditor
BOARD OF DIRECTORS—1925-'26
GEORGE C. BAKER; RALPH D. BAKER; VOLNEY BENNETT; HOWLAND W. BOTTOMLEY; HENRY B. COLES; ELIAS DAVIS; BURLEIGH B. DRAPER; HOWARD J. DUDLEY; CARL R. EVERED; JEROME L. HURLEY; DAVID JESTER; FRANK B. MIDDLETON, JR.; HERBERT N. MUNGER; EDW. A. MECHLING; JAMES J. SCOTT; HARRY C. SHARP; W. J. STRANDWITZ, SR.; FRANCIS B. WALLEN, SR.
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL
RALPH D. BAKER, Chairman
HENRY B. COLES; THEODORE KAUSEL; VOLNEY BENNETT; EDW. A. MECHLING; ELIAS DAVIS; EDWIN PEARSON
AUDITING COMMITTEE
HARRY C. SHARP, Chairman
DAVID JESTER; HERBERT N. MUNGER
COMMITTEES—1925-'26
Committee on Committees: ARTHUR E. ARMITAGE, Chairman
Publicity Committee: J. DAVID STERN, Chairman
Airport Committee: J. EDWARD FAGEN, Chairman
Camden Bridge Transit Committee: E. G. C. BLEAKLY, Chairman
Charities' Endorsement Committee: REV. ELWOOD A. HARRAR, Chairman
Industrial Relations: WELLINGTON E. BARTO, Chairman
Retail Merchants' Committee: HARRY P. PELOUZE, Chairman
Monthly Membership Committee: JOHN J. ENGEL, Chairman
Membership Forum Committee: FRANCIS B. WALLEN, SR., Chairman
Membership-Adjustment Committee: BEN ABRAMS, Chairman
Freight and Transportation Committee: A. L. TOWNSEND, Chairman
So. Jersey Exposition (1926): VOLNEY BENNETT, Chairman
CAMDEN FIRST
Official Organ of the Chamber of Commerce of Camden, New Jersey
Entered as second-class matter April 25, 1924, at the Post Office at Camden, New Jersey, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879, by the Chamber of Commerce of Camden, New Jersey.
Published monthly as a distributor of authoritative notices and articles regarding the activities of the Chamber of Commerce of the City of Camden for the educating, enlightening and stimulating of civic workers and all citizens, to the end that Camden may become a bigger, better, greater and more generally known city, and that its great industrial activities and unique and unrivalled possibilities may be heralded far and near.
Articles of timely interest solicited. The Chamber of Commerce does not necessarily subscribe to the views and opinions expressed in articles of contributors nor is it committed to views or opinions expressed editorially.
Published on the 15th of each month.
Subscription price, $1.00 per year.
Advertising rates on Application.
WILLIAM KENNEDY . . . Editor
OSCAR W. MAGNUSON . . . Business Manager
Vol. 2 SEPTEMBER, 1925 No. 9
Special Walt Whitman Edition.
CONTENTS
Title . . . Page
How the Walt Whitman Hotel Came About . . . 8
Opening of Hotel Walt Whitman . . . 6
Walt Whitman "The Good Gray Poet." . . . 9
These are the Men who did the Work . . . 10-11
Fall Meeting of Rotary Club Executives in Camden . . . 12
A Mural Painting of Walt Whitman . . . 13
Editorial . . . 14-15
Jim Scott "Civic Builder" . . . 17
The Common Sense of Regional Planning . . . 21
Birdseye Views from Roof of Walt Whitman . . . 25
36 pages and cover 6000 copies
Officers — 1925–'26
| Ralph D. Baker | President |
| Henry B. Coles | First Vice-President |
| Edw. A. Mechling | Second Vice-President |
| Elias Davis | Treasurer |
| Orlando M. Bowen | Assistant Treasurer |
| Wm. J. Strandwitz | National Counsellor |
| William Kennedy | Executive Secretary |
| Oscar W. Magnuson | Assistant Secretary |
| J. J. Ruster | Traffic Manager |
| F. M. Horner | Office Secretary and Notary |
| Frederick L. Mead, C.P.A. | Auditor |
Board of Directors — 1925–'26
George C. Baker; Ralph D. Baker; Volney Bennett; Rowland W. Bottomley; Henry B. Coles; Elias Davis; Burleigh B. Draper; Howard J. Dudley; Carl R. Evered; Jerome L. Hurley; David Jester; Frank B. Middleton, Jr.; Herbert N. Munger; Edw. A. Mechling; James J. Scott; Harry C. Sharp; Wm. J. Strandwitz; Francis B. Wallen Sr.
Executive Council
Ralph D. Baker, Chairman; Henry B. Coles; Volney Bennett; Elias Davis; Theodore Kausel; Edw. A. Mechling; Edwin Pearson
Auditing Committee
Harry C. Sharp, Chairman; David Jester; Herbert N. Munger
Committees — 1925–'26
Committee on Committees — Arthur E. Armitage, Chairman
Publicity Committee — J. David Stern, Chairman
Airport Committee — J. Edward Fagen, Chairman
Camden Bridge Transit Committee — E. G. C. Bleakly, Chairman
Charities' Endorsement Committee — Rev. Elwood A. Harrar, Chairman
Industrial Relations — Wellington E. Barto, Chairman
Retail Merchants' Committee — Harry P. Pelouze, Chairman
Monthly Membership Committee — John J. Engel, Chairman
Membership Forum Committee — Francis B. Wallen, Sr., Chairman
Membership-Adjustment Committee — Ben Abrams, Chairman
Freight and Transportation Committee — A. L. Townsend, Chairman
So. Jersey Exposition (1926) — Volney Bennett, Chairman
Publication
William Kennedy … Editor
Oscar W. Magnuson … Business Manager
Vol. 2 — September, 1925 — No. 9 — Special Walt Whitman Edition
Contents
| How the Walt Whitman Hotel Came About | 8 |
| Opening of Hotel Walt Whitman | 6 |
| Walt Whitman "The Good Gray Poet" | 9 |
| These Are the Men Who Did the Work | 10–11 |
| Fall Meeting of Rotary Club Executives in Camden | 12 |
| A Mural Painting of Walt Whitman | 13 |
| Editorial | 14–15 |
| Jim Scott — "Civic Builder" | 17 |
| The Common Sense of Regional Planning | 21 |
| Birdseye Views from Roof of Walt Whitman | 25 |
36 pages and cover — 6,000 copies
Pages 10, 11, and 27 — These Are the Men Who Did the Work!
For one week, from Monday, February 4, 1924, to Monday, February 11, the men whose names appear here engaged in a monster drive to raise $1,250,000 to build a modern hotel for Camden. They gave unstintingly of their time and of their money, too. Citizens generally are glad to accord them a large portion of the credit for the success of the enterprise.
J. David Stern, Chairman, Executive Committee
James J. Scott, General Sales Manager
Charles A. Wolverton, Counsel
Burleigh B. Draper, Treasurer
LeRoy A. Goodwin, President, Chamber of Commerce
William Kennedy, Secretary
Alphabetical List of Supporters
- Austermuhl, Chas. W.
- Baker, Geo. C.
- Baird Jr., David
- Baker, Ralph D.
- Bennett, Killam E.
- Bennett, Volney
- Bottomley, John A.
- Burner, Frank W.
- Burling, Albert
- Coles, H. B.
- Cramer, Wayland P.
- Engel, John J.
- Eno, Harry W.
- Frey, Geo. A.
- Hadley, Dr. C. F.
- Hemingway, Rev. G. H.
- Hemphill, Howard B.
- Hineline, Frank J.
- Hitchner, Frank G.
- Hurley, William L.
- Jester, David
- Johnson, E. R.
- Kausel, Theodore
- King, Hon. Victor
- Magoun, H. A.
- Middleton, Albert C.
- Middleton, M. F. Jr.
- Middleton, Frank B. Jr.
- Mitchell, R. L.
- R.
- Roney, Nelson B. T.
- Searle, Wm. A.
- Schoenagle, Sigmund
- Sherwood, Carroll P.
- Staats, Walter J.
- Staley, H. Raymond
- Stevenson, Harry C.
- Strandwitz, Wm. J.
- Thompson, Elwood
- Todd, Leon E.
- Whelan, Rev. Thos. J.
- Wallen, Francis B. Sr.
Division “A” — Major George C. Baker
Team 1 — A. D. Ambruster, Captain; E. O. Wolcott, Asst.; Ralph W. Neal, Secy.; Jos. C. Voegtlin; Frank C. Propert; Atlie M. Ward; F. D. Ambruster; Leslie Gardner; W. M. Glebe
Team 2 — F. S. Bleakly, Captain; Howard Austermuhl; H. Stokes Lounsberry; E. R. Morehouse; H. K. Partridge
Team 3 — Norman B. Stinson, Captain; A. E. Armitage, Asst.; Allen Truscott, Secy.; J. Wesley Thompson; George W. Whyte; Elmer G. VanName; Edwin R. Sumner; Lyman E. Hall; J. E. Conine; David W. Steel; Joseph Tatnall
Team 4 — Antonio DiPaolo, Captain; Antonio Mecca, Asst.; Lawrence J. Costino, Secy.; M. Ferrante; Feliz D'Aloise; Daniel Creato; C. L. Gregorio; Joseph DiMona; Dr. Vincent Del Duca; Ralph Marchione
Team 5 — A. W. Stedman, Captain; E. K. Webster, Asst.; John D. F. Morgan, Secy.; R. C. Dukes; Stanley M. Swartley; E. G. Elzey; J. V. Van Roden; J. Charles Winters; Elwood A. Harrar; William A. Regan; W. C. Marshall
Division “B” — Major Theodore Kausel
Team 6 — J. J. Engel, Captain; E. C. Earl, Asst.; Raymond Braker, Secy.; Harold W. Bennett; H. J. Wagner; Wm. D. Burch, Jr.; D. C. Irving; Arthur L. Collins; Wm. S. Holmes; L. L. Schroedel; B. M. Elfreth; Charles Hovsepvain
Team 7 — Wilson Meyers, Captain; George Robeson, Asst.; James Perrott, Secy.; Henry S. Peech; J. H. Deacon; F. W. Duckworth; Thomas J. Daley
Team 8 — L. H. Robinson, Captain; J. Hartley Bowen, Asst.; Orlando M. Bowen, Secy.; Leon Bard; Dr. Wm. J. Deegan; A. R. White; W. E. Cross; Wilbur Sensor
Team 9 — Wm. Schoenagle, Captain; Meyer Wessel, Asst.; Joseph Burner, Secy.; L. E. Ulrope; Geo. W. A. Kappel; Lewis Liberman; Dr. Hyman Goldstein
Team 10 — Fred Hutchinson, Captain; Wm. C. Davis, Asst.; Milton M. Roach, Secy.; Edw. Seesholtz; J. W. Dunphey; Alan Redfield; Jacob J. Hernfeld; John D. Parke; M. H. Mancill; Herald R. Cole; G. Albert Johnston; Frank S. Van Hart
Division “C” — Major Sig Schoenagle
Team 11 — Edwin Pearson, Captain; Wm. H. Bottger, Asst.; Frederick Hess, Secy.; Frank W. Garrison; F. Herbert Fulton; Emil A. Daniels; Frederick L. Homan; A. P. Denmead; E. J. Ballinger; Joseph Tweedy; H. B. Newell
Team 12 — Harry P. Pelouze, Captain; W. L. Campbell, Asst.; Wm. M. Dilmore; C. C. Heimbach; Wm. Heckenhorn; V. M. Fulton; Mahlon F. Ivins, Jr.; P. B. Young; Ernest B. Evaul
Team 13 — Charles W. Russ, Captain; Benj. H. Lackey, Asst.; Walter E. Fogg; W. Frank Creely; Dr. Orris W. Saunders; R. S. Hickman, Jr.; Frank H. Schaefer; Robert A. Bansher; Earl T. Jackson
Division “D” — Major Harry C. Stevenson
Team 14 — W. L. Tushingham, Captain; Bryson W. Crall, Asst.; E. E. Cunningham, Secy.; C. J. Sheppard; Milton K. Stanley; Arthur R. Gemberling; Joshua C. Haines; Dr. E. B. Rogers; Charles L. Sharp; O. H. Williams; Walter S. Keown; Kennedy L. Brown
Team 15 — Jack Weinberg, Captain; Myer Segal, M.D., Asst.; Harry W. Greenberg, Secy.; Bernard Bertman; Edward Silver; Charles Praissman; E. L. Canning; Wm. J. Kelly; Neil Zeidman; E. H. Hoxworth; Samuel J. Goldberg
Team 16 — J. Edward Fagen, Captain; T. Yorke Smith, Asst.; Emil C. Hessert, Jr., Secy.; G. Carr Jessup; W. W. Chalmers; W. W. Sharpley; Oscar N. Hinski; Louis B. Humphreys; Edwin L. Roach; George L. Brown; J. P. McShane
Team 17 — Joseph H. Forsyth, Captain; F. A. Bickert, Secy.; W. E. Barto; Howard F. Lupton; Meyers Baker; Walter T. Gross; Wilmer M. Wheeler; E. K. Pletcher; Fred Geissler
Team 18 — J. L. Hurley, Captain; J. L. Shannon, Asst.; John T. O'Brien, Jr., Secy.; H. A. Moran; W. W. Frazer; Harry C. Woods; Joseph Varbalow; Samuel M. Shay; T. H. Boyer; T. C. Tiedeken; John P. O'Brien; B. Abrams; Edw. J. Gorman
Team 19 — W. E. Shreve, Captain; E. B. Woodward, Asst.; L. M. Thompson, Secy.; H. A. Mcllwain; James D. Lee, Jr.; Geo. A. Moore; H. C. Hutchins; H. G. Foster
Team 20 — L. H. Sullivan, Captain; C. M. Kolbe, Asst.; Frank H. Harding, Secy.; Lloyd B. Avis; Leon C. Guest; Ray J. Marple; Benjamin F. Friedman
Division “E” — Major Leon E. Todd
Team 21 — E. Heulings Antrim, Captain; Charles J. Layer, Asst.; J. J. Wolfinger; S. P. McCord; Charles H. Lee; N. S. Ireton; Wm. E. Morgenweck; Wm. P. Partenheimer, Jr.; Wm. A. Cobb; Albert J. Weber; George C. Helker
Team 22 — S. O. Clemens, Captain; F. A. DeMaris, Jr., Secy.; H. N. Munger; Joseph S. Low; J. Daniel Hoyt; Daniel F. Hahn; Joshua C. Jefferis; H. J. Eichfeld; Albert Ribeiro; Joseph Goetz; Edw. R. Mackey; Walter F. Schneider
Team 23 — Geo. P. Dykman, Captain; J. R. Tucker; Raymond S. Porter; Carl R. Evered; Harrold T. Leach; George B. Rider; E. J. Gilbee; Chas. H. Jaep; P. E. Hart; Henry P. Hoff; W. W. McCallum; C. Howard Kensinger; Wm. J. Flemming
Team 24 — Barton S. Muir, Captain (continued on page 27)
Photo from Page 11 of Camden First, September 1925
Page text
HOWARD J. DUDLEY
1125-27-29 BROADWAY IN GREATER CAMDEN
STORE OPEN FRIDAY AND SATURDAY EVENINGS
FORTY NINE YEARS OF SERVICE
In This Community
The Pioneer Store on Broadway
Our watchword has always been "Reliability." This reliabilty now reaches to Camden's new hotel, for the Dudley Store was selected to furnish the bedding for this great new enterprise.
Howard J. Dudley
Continued from Page 11 — Team 24
Team 24 (continued) — Edw. Preisendanz; Joseph Hale; Dr. A. M. K. Maldeis; Edgar Myers; B. Frank Nyce; A. N. Eagles, Jr.; M. C. Campbell; Stephen Derringer; Henry G. Robinson; Axel Malmstrom
Division “F” — Major Thomas J. Whelan
Team 25 — Roy R. Stewart, Captain; F. G. Riggins, Asst.; Charles H. Stevens, Secy.; C. B. Edwards; R. W. Janvier, Jr.; Samuel P. Riggins; John H. Gardner, Jr.; John Gilliams; Joseph L. Shackelford; Clarence C. Lind; Russell C. Moore; F. F. Patterson, 3rd
Team 26 — Lewis T. West, Captain; M. A. Doyle, Asst.; Herbert N. Moffett, Secy.; W. W. Todd; K. E. Smullin; S. N. Miller; Edw. B. Stone, Jr.; Frank Deverrauz; Ralph G. VanHart
Team 27 — Harry Ellis, Captain; James N. Downey; Jefferson J. Flanagan; Myron W. Miller; Beale M. Schmucker; James M. Thoirs; W. J. Rodgers; Albert Austermuhl; Max Reihman, Jr.
Team 28 — Lee J. Gill, Captain; Rudolph Preisendanz, Asst.; Lewis A. Lee, Secy.; Joseph A. Connell; J. Leon Mealey; Herbert J. Schoellkopf; A. S. Tallman; Wm. J. Turnbull; F. W. Somers; Frederick C. Vieser; K. Goldstein; C. A. Frost; Leon J. Cybulski; Peter Gulcz; Edw. Praiss; Edw. Zubrzycki; Adolph Slomick; B. Willinski; Stanley Ciechanowski; Alex Jasienski; Frank Wisniewski; Frank Urszynski; Rev. M. Lawnicki; Joseph Krawczyk; Wm. Laskowski
Team 29 — M. J. Jubanyik, Captain; Frank J. Hineline; Joseph N. Hettel; W. W. Rogers; J. C. Remington, Jr.; Edw. Solomon Miller; John W. Kelly, Jr.; Joseph O'Brien; Charles Stuart Straw; Samuel Gerhart; F. G. Wallen, Jr.
Team 30 — J. Spencer Lucas, Captain; Thos. J. Doyle; H. H. Etter; Philip Wilson; E. J. Toussaint; H. Bentley; Wm. C. Coles; John J. Hambrose
Pages 18 & 19 — White Horse Pike, U.S.A.
“The Favorite Motor Way of a Nation”
The White Horse Pike “Gateway” — Fifteen million automobiles passed through the gateway in 1924. Traffic in 1925 has increased — and when the Camden bridge opens in 1926 traffic on the White Horse Pike will be further increased — experts say, even doubled. J.T. Tucker, Camden Real Estate operator, thought so much of the location that he purchased all the ‘gateway’.
Here's the new entrance to the White Horse Pike and Tucker sees both sides of the roadway lined with automobiles, rows of apartment hotels and theaters. He says that where traffic computation determines value these frontages are decidedly valuable.
The old entrance to the White Horse Pike is probably the best known to the motorists of the Nation who have motored to the shore. Its width and its winding made it inadequate to carry all the traffic — and now it is used as a one way entrance to the Pike. They say the gas station on the corner and those half way up the block set records in gallonage of gasoline.
From a point 360 feet down the Pike one can see the Triangle formed by the old and new pikes. The developer of the gateway will be able to insure harmonious development as Tucker controls both sides of the roadway. It seems as though Mr. Tucker wanted everything ‘just so’ at the famous gateway.
Looking down Haddon Avenue with the new entrance to the Pike in the foreground — and the old entrance in the background — one can visualize the development that will take place here. Whether Tucker develops it or turns it over to others the future of this entrance to the White Horse Pike is assured.
A “neighbor to the gateway” — this service station and salesroom of the Norman G. Wilson Motor Co., Dodge Distributors, proves beyond peradventure the future of business men who locate at the Gateway. When Wilson built here three or four years ago many shook their heads in doubt — today he has one of the most valuable motors and service organizations in South Jersey.