Twelfth Annual Report of the Bureau of Statistics and Information of Maryland. 1903. Thomas A. Smith, Chief. (Volume 1904) online

City

Elora Pleasure Club of Baltimore City

vSchwiiul Quarry Co. of Baltimore City, payuieut of
capital slock

Miller's Mirror Plate Works of Baltimore City,
agreement as to preferred stock

Eta Chapter of Phi Sigma Kappa

The Maryland Fencing Club of Baltimore City

Second Spiritual Church of Baltimore City

The Friday Social Club of Baltimore City

The City Spring Independent Association of Balti-
more City

The Royal Pleasure Social of Baltimore City

The Mutual Benefit Society of Baltimore City

The Jewish Library Association of Baltimore City ..

Nicoll Enamel Paint Co., paid up stock ._

Northeast Baltimore Business Men's Association ...

Gibbs Preserving Co., payment of capital stock

Gibbs Preserving Co., payment of capital stock —
amendment to charter in reference to business...

Dietrick & Harvey Machine Co., amendment to
charter, increase Board of Directors from 4 to 5 .

Holy Temple of Peirce street

Henry D. Mentzel Co., amendment changing name
to Bond & Mentzel Paper Co

The Hebrew Colonial Association of Maryland

The Aged People's Outing Association of Maryland

Rosalet Pleasure Socials of East Baltimore

Baltimore Medical College, amendment to charter..

The Murbach & Leusch Co., amendment, chang-
ing name to The Murbach Co

People's Republican Protective Association

The Twenty-first Ward Democratic Club

Maryland Development Co., amendment to charter

Relief Fund Spring Garden Conclave No. 345, Im-
proved Order Heptasophs

Mardela Springs Mineral Water Co., agreement as
to preferred stock

Operative Stone Mason's Union

Wm. Knabe Manufacturing Co., amendment, in-
crease of directors from 4 to 5

The Fifth Ward Democratic Association

Shiloh Free Baptist Church

Hubbard Furnace and Steam Heating Co., amend-
ment changing name to Alva Hubbard Heat-
ing Co

Schivaben Dadies' Society of Baltimore City No. i..

Kloister Social Club

Dr. Winco Kudiokos Society of Baltimore City

Security Fire InsuranceCo., payment of capital stock



Date of
Incorporation.



April
April



April 6

April 6
April 6
April 13
April 13
April 15

April 27
April 30
May I
May 6
May 7
May II
May 13

May 14

May 14
May 14

May 16
May 20
ISlay 20
May 22
May 23

May 28
June 8
June 8
June II

June 13

June 13
June 16

June 16
June 17
June 19



June 23
June 24
June 26
June 27
June 29



STATISTICS AND INI-'OKM ATION.



295



NEW INCORPORAT.ONS AND AMHNnUHNrS—ConHnued
Name



Date of
Incorporation.



Ferrell-Kellain Drug Co., payment of capital stock

Roselet Pleasure Club

Toussaint ^'Overture Association

Universal Spiritualists' Church

The Camden Club

Lord-Mott Co., payment of capital stock

Poole Engineering and Machine Co., payment of
capital stock

The Keystone Lodge No. 30, Grand United Order
of Seven Wise Men

Dental Department of the Baltimore Medical Col-
lege, amendment to charter, increase of directors
from 5 to 12

Wabash Council No. 73, Junior Order United
American Mechanics

Supreme Lodge of the Ladies' Auxiliar}' to the
Shield of Honor

The Pussviller Friendly Society

Galilee Baptist Chnrch

The Fifteenth W^ard Democratic Precinct Organi-
zation

The Fayette Social and Literary Club

Munder Bros. Co., amendment changing name to
Munder-Thomsen Co

The Young Men's Beneficial Association

Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church

Maryland Bakers' Union

B'nai Abraham Lodge No. 52, I. O. A

The Alumnee Association of the Union Protestant
Infirmary Training School for Nurses

Twentieth Ward Democratic Association

The Colored Charity Organization

The Ringgold-Rheinhardt Co., Cumberland, Md.,
amendment to charter, increase of directors from
5 to 12

Marine Railway Machine and Boiler Works, paid
up stock

The Women's Home and Foreign Missionary So-
ciety of the Maryland Synod, General Synod
Lutheran Church

The Daughters of America Funeral Benefit Asso-
ciation of the United States of North America,
amendment changing name to The America
Funeral Benefit Association of Baltimore

The Bokel-McKenny Co., amendment changing
name to J. A. Bokel Co

Knights of Pythias Permanent Improvement Ass'u.

Martha Washington Lodge No. i. Ladies of the
Shield of Honor

The Cushing Co., amendment to charter, increase
of directors from 5 to 7



July 2
July 7
July 7
July II

July U

July 14
July 24
July 30

August 4

August 7

August 15
August 20
August 31

September i
September 2

September 2
September 4
September 8
September 9
September 14

September 18
September 19
September 21

September 21
September 25

September 25



September 30

October i
October 2

October 12

October 15



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NEW INCORPORATIONS AND AMENDMENTS— a>«//««.?fl'.



Name.



D. Levy & Sons Co., paid up stock

Twentieth Century Athletic and Literary Club

The Hebrew Colonial Association of Maryland,
amendment to charter in reference to business ...

The Robert Padgett, Jr., Democratic Association of
the Seventh Ward

The National Grand Tabernacle of Galileans of
Baltimore, amendment changing name to the
National Grand Tabernacle of Grand United
Order of Galilean Fishermen of the United States

Iroquois Club

The Great Southern Band

Independent Musicial Union No. 3

Hiawatha Pleasure Club

The Premier Social Club

Royal Democratic Club

The Independent Paperhangers' Union

The Hebrew Immigration Protective Association...

Consumers' Brewing Co., surrender of charter

Kamentz Podolsp Relief Association

First Spiritual Church, amendment to charter

Baltimore and Ohio Concert Band

The Torsch & Minks Badge Co., amendment
changing name to Torsch & Franz Badge Co

Road Drivers' Association

The Miltou Democratic Association of the Sixth
Ward

Bohemian Democratic Club of the Eighth Ward

The Wabash Club

The Companv A Club of the Fifth Regiment,
I. M. N. G '

The South Baltimore Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat
Charit}' Hospital

The Supreme Lodge of the Brotherhood of Sig-
nalmen

The Nurses Alumnae Association of the University
of ."Maryland

The Second Presbyterian Church, amendment to
charter

The Baltimore Athletic Club, amendment to char-
ter, increasing directors from 9 to 12

Liberty Brass Works, agreement of preferred stock

Risley Dredging Co., payment of capital stock

Kodinoh Hazionith

St. Mark's Methodist Episcopal Church of Forest
Park

The Iner-Seal Athletic Co



Date of
Incorporation.



October 16
October 20

October 20

October 21



October 22
October 23
October 24
October 24
October 28
October 30
November 2
November 2
November 2
November 10
November 12
November 13
November 14

November 16
November 23

November 23
November 24
November 30

December i

December 3

December 10

December 14

December 15

December 17
December 24
December 24
December 24

December 29
December 31



STATIS'liCS AM; I NI-'ORM A'I'IO.N. 297



RECAPITULATION.



Total number of all Incorporation Recorrls in the State... 527

Total number of Incorporation Records in the Counties ... 167
Total number of Records in Baltimore City with capital

stock 173

Old Companies in Baltimore Increasing Capital 24

Old Companies in Baltimore Decreasing Capital 3

Building and Loan Associations and Land Companies in

Baltimore 25

New Corporations in Baltimore without Capital Stock 129



Capital Stock of New Incorporations in the Counties $ 9,434,250

Capital Stock of New Incorporations in Baltimore City 4,343,839

Total Increase of Capital Stock of Corporations in Balti-
more City 720,900

Total Decrease of Capital Stock of Corporations

in Baltimore City $180,100

Capital Stock of Building Associations and Land Com-
panies of Baltimore City 5,644,500

Total 120,143,489



ANNUAL CONVr:NTION

OK Tlllv

Association of Officials of Biireaos of Labor Statistics.



The Nineteenth Annual Convention of the officials of the
various State Bureaus of Labor was held in Washington,
April 28 to May 2, and was fully attended not only by the offi-
cials of the States, but by representatives of the National
Census Bureau, now a branch of the Department of Commerce
and Labor.

The session was opened by Hon. Carroll D. Wright, the
President, and an excellent address was made by Hon. S.
N. D. North, Chief of the Census Bureau, as well as many
others.

Plans were formulated and practically agreed on for the
co-operation of the various State Bureaus with the Census
Bureau for future work, particularly with reference to the
census of manufactures to be taken in the coming year. As
very few of the States have enacted laws enabling the State
Bureaus to secure full information from the manufacturers,
and the National laws providing that the Census Bureau can
enforce answers, the co-operation of the two forces will
undoubtedly result in more accurate and fuller detail than
could otherwise be obtained.

Reports were made from each State, and the session of the
Convention was both instructive and entertaining.

The visitors were entertained liberally in Washington, and
with the consent and assistance of Governor John Walter
Smith, the officials from all over the country were invited bj'
the chief of the Maryland Bureau to spend the day in Baltimore
and see the great advancement this city was making in its
manufactures and shipping industry.



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A special car was kindly tendered by the Pennsylvania Rail-
road to convey the party from Washington to Baltimore, and
through the courtesy of the United Railways and Electric
Company, the visitors were taken over the city. Governor
John Walter Smith tendered the use of the State Steamer
"McLane," and a trip down the bay to inspect the harbor and
the Maryland Steel Works was made.

The program of the day was fully enjoyed, and the adver-
tisement of Baltimore, thus secured, was ample.

Hon. Thos. A. Smith, Chief of the Bureau, prepared an
excellent program for the day, upon which was inscribed the
following incidents :

1776 — General Washington invested with dictatorial powers.

1784 — First balloon ascension in the United States.

1784 — First Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States organ-
ized in Baltimore.

1784 — Baltimore was the first city to print calico, weave silk and refine
sugar in the United States.

1790 — Rev. John Carroll consecrated first Catholic Bishop of the
United States.

1810 — First metallic writing pens manufactured in the United States.

1814 — "Star Spangled Banner" written by Francis Scott Key in Bal-
timore.

1815 — Cornerstone of the first monument erected to the memory of
George Washington.

1816 — First gaslight company in the United States organized.

1819 — First lodge of Odd Fellows in the United States organized by
Thomas Wildey.

1827 — Baltimore & Ohio Railroad organized, the first railroad company
in the United States.

1828 — Ross Winans invented the "outside bearings" for railroad car-
riages.

1828 — First American patent for locomotive granted to William
Howard, of Baltimore.

1829 — ^The first silk ribbon made from American silk made in Baltimore.

1830 — Peter Cooper made first trip in steam car from Baltimore to
Ellicott City — 13 miles in 57 minutes.

1838 — First regular steam vessel to cross the Atlantic direct from
United States steamed from Baltimore — Packet "City of
Kingston," Captain Crame.



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1837-1838 — First wholly iron steamboats built in Baltimore.

1844 — First recording telegraph line established by Professor Morse
between Washington and Baltimore. First experiment
made April 9.

1846 — First Presidential message transmitted by telegraph to the Bal-
timore Sun.

1851 — First iron building in the country erected — the Baltimore Sun
building.

1853 — First Hoe revolving cylinder press in the United States intro-
duced in the Sun office.

1861 — First blood of Civil War shed in Baltimore.

1862 — Armor plate for the first monitor rolled in Baltimore.

1867 — Order of Knights of Pythias e.stablished in Baltimore.

1880 — Baltimore was the first city to use electricity on street cars.

1895 — The first electric locomotive put in use on the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad.

1897 — Steel dry dock for United States Government built at Sparrows
Point by the Maryland Steel Company.

1903 — Largest dry dock in the world contracted for with the Maryland
Steel Company.



RECENT LABOR LAWS.



We have heretofore published what are generally known as
the Labor Laws of the State; therefore, see no good reason
for republishing- the same until they have been properly
collated and inserted in the Code; but we herewith submit the
three laws which are most pertinent, if properly enforced, to
the welfare of the masses engaged in industrial pursuits.
These three are the Compulsory School Attendance Law,
what is known as the Child Labor Law and the Sweat Shop
Law.

It is possible that the present Legislature may be asked to
amend these in some way, and it is well to have them easily
accessible to the members and the public generally:

CHAPTER 269.

AN ACT to amend Article 77 of the Code of Public General Laws,
title "Public Education," by adding fifteen sections, under the
new sub-title "School Attendance," to follow Section 123, and to
be numbered as Sections 124, 125, 126, 127, 128,129, 130, 131, 132,
133. 134, 135. 136, 137 and 138, respectively.

Section i. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the following sections be and they are hereby added to Article 77
of the Code of Public General Laws, title "Public Education," under
the new sub-title "School Attendance," to follow Section 123, and to
t)e numbered and designated as 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131,
132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137 and 138, respectively.

124. Every child between eight and twelve years of age shall attend
some day school regularly as defined in Section 131 of this sub-title
during the entire period of each year the public day schools in the city
or county in which such child resides are in session, unless it can be
shown that the child is elsewhere receiving regularly thorough in-
struction during said period in the studies usually taught in the said
public schools to children of the same age; provided, that the super-
intendent or principal of any school, or person or persons duly
authorized by such superintendent or principal, may excuse cases o^
necessary absence among its enrolled pupils; and provided, further'
that the provisions of the section shall not apply to a child whose



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meutal or physical condition is snch as to render its instruction, as
above described, inexpedient or impracticable. Every person having
under his control a child between eight and twelve years of age shall
cause such child to attend school or receive instructions as required by
this section. Children over twelve years of age and under the age of
sixteen years, and every person having under his control such a child,
shall be subject to the requirements of this section, unless such chil-
dren are regularly and lawfully employed to labor at home or else-
where.

125. Any person who has a child under his control and who fails to
comply with any of tlie provisions of the preceding section, shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and be fined not exceeding five
dollars for each offense.

126. Any person who induces or attempts to induce any child to ab-
sent himself unlawfully from school, or employs or harbors while
school is in session any child absent unlawfully from school, shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and be fined not more than fifty
dollars.

127. The Board of School Commissioners of Baltimore City and the
several Boards of County School Commissioners shall appoint, and may
remove at pleasure, persons to be known as "Attendance Officers."
The number to be appointed for the City of Baltimore shall not exceed
twelve, and the number for any county shall not exceed three.
Their compensation shall be fixed and paid by the County Commis-
sioners of the respective counties, or the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore City, as the case mny be.

128. It shall be the duty of each attendance ofiicer, and he shall
have full power, within the city or county for which he may be ap-
pointed, to arrest without warrant any child between eight and six-
teen years of age found away from his home and who is a truant from
school, or who fails to attend school in accordance with the provisions
of this sub-title. He shall forthwith deliver a child so arrested either to
the custody of a person in parental relation to the child or of the
teacher from whose school such child is then, a truant, but if the child
be a habitual or incorrigible truant, he shall bring him before a justice
of the peace for commitment by him to a parental school, as pro-
vided for in the next section, or to some other institution to which
disorderly children may be committed. The attendance officer shall
promptly report every such arrest, and the disposition made by him
of the child so arrested, to the School Commissioners of the said city
or county, respectively, or to such person or persons as they may
direct.

129. The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore and the several Boards
of County Commissioners may establish schools to be known as parental
schools, for children between eight and sixteen years of age, who are



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habitually truants from school or from instruction. They may also
provide for the confinement, maintenance ami instruction of such
children in such schools for such period and under such rules an<l
regulations as they may prescribe, not excee<ling the remainder of the
school year. Justices of the peace may commit such children to such
parental schools, but no person convicted of any crime, or of any
offense other than truancy, shall be committed thereto.

130. It shall be the duty of the Police Commissioners of IJaltimore
city, at the same time that the census of legal voters in said city is
taken under their direction, as provided by vSection 17 of Article 33 of
the Code of Public General Laws, also to cause to be made by the
members of the force under their control, annually, a separate
record of the full name, age, color and sex of every child between six
and sixteen years of age in each precinct of the said city, and the
place where and the year and month when such children last attended
school, together with the name and address of the parents, guardians
or persons in parental relation, and of employers of such children,
which record shall be furnished by said Police Commissioners to the
Board of School Commissioners of Baltimore City; whosoever has
under his control a child between said ages and withholds information
in his possession from any oflficer demanding it, relating to the items
aforesaid, or makes any false statement in regard to the same, shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and be fined not more than twenty
dollars.

131. It shall be the duty of the principal or head teacher of every
public or private school in this State to report immediately to the
School Commissioners of the county where such school is located, or
of Baltimore City, if located therein, or to an attendance officer or
other official designated by such commissioners, the name of all chil-
dren enrolled in his or her school, who have been absent or irregular
in attendance three days, or their equivalent, without lawful excuse,
within a period of eight consecutive weeks.

132. No proprietor or owner of an}' mill or factory in this State,
other than establishments for manufacturing canned goods, or man-
ager, agent, foreman or other person in charge thereof, shall employ
or retain in employment, in any such mill or factory, any person
or persons under sixteen years of age, unless he procures at the time
of such employment or retention in emploj'uient, and keeps on file
and accessible to the attendance officers of the city or county where
such minor is employed, a certificate of the principal or head teacher
of the school which such child last attended, stating that such child
is more than twelve years of age, and a like certificate of the parent
or guardian, or other person having control of such child; but the
first named certificate need not be procured if such child has not
attended school in this State. He shall require such certificates, shall



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keep them in liis place of business during the time the child is in his
employment, and shall show the same, during business hours, to any
attendance oflficer who may demand to see them, or either of them;
and for each failure to comply with any of the provisions of this sec-
tion he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be fined not
exceeding one hundred dollars. Whoever continues to employ any
such child under sixteen years of age in violation of this section,
after being notified of such violation by an attendance ofiicer, shall,
for every day thereafter that such unlawful employment continues,
be fined not less than five or more than twenty dollars, in addition to
other penalties prescribed by this section for such offenses. A failure
to produce, on demand, to an attendance oflBcer any certificate required
in this section, shall be prima facie evidence that the child, who is
or should have been mentioned in the said certificate, is thus unlaw-
fully employed.

133. It shall be the duty of every parent, guardian or other person
having control of a child under sixteen years of age, and of every prin-
cipal and head teacher of said school where such child last attended,
to furnish every employer of such child the certificates required by
the preceding section. Such certificates, if insubstantial conformity
with the requirements of that section, shall be prima facie evidence
of the facts required to be certified to as therein provided.

134 Any parent or guardian or other person having control of a
child, or principal or head teacher, who shall make any wilfully false
statement respecting any of the facts required to be certified to as
provided in Sections 132 and 133 of this sub-title, shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be fined not more than I50, or to
be imprisoned not more than thirty days, or suffer both fine and
Imprisonment, in the discretion of the Court.

135. No person shall employ any minor over twelve and less than
sixteen years of age, and no parent, guardian or other person having
control of a child, shall permit to be employed or retained in employ-
ment any such minor under his control, if the said minor cannot read
at sight and write legibly simple sentences in the English language,
while a public evening school is maintained in the city or election
district or precinct in which such minor resides, unless
such a minor is a regular attendant at an evening or
other school; provided, that upon presentation by such minor
of a certificate signed by a regular practicing physician, and
satisfactory to such officer or officers as the School Commissioners
for the county or city may designate, showing that the physical
condition of such minor would render such attendance, in addition to
daily labor, prejudicial to health, said oflScer or officers so designated
may issue a permit authorizing the employment of such minor for
such period and upon such conditions as said ofl&cer or officers so desig-
nated as aforesaid may determine. Any person who employs or



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retains in employment a minor in violation of the provisions of this
section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and be fined for
each offence not more than $ino, which fines shall be paid to the
vSchool Commissioners for use in supporting evening schools in such
city or county. Any parent, guardian or other person having control
of a child, who permits to be employed any minor under his control
in violation of the provisions of this section, shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor and be fined not more than |2o, which fines shall
be also paid to the School Commissioners for use in supporting even-
ing schools in such city and county.

136. In any city or county where attendance officers may have been
appointed it shall be the duty of the School Commissioners to desig-
nate an attendance officer, who shall once or more frequently in every
year examine into the situation of the children employed in such
mills and factories in said city or county, and to ascertain whether all
the provisions of this sub-title are duly observed and report all viola-