Chambers Brothers Co. Machinery, - International Bookbinder. v.3 1902.

Hexamer General Surveys, Volume 7

Chambers Brothers & Co. Machine Works & Foundry Plate 576 1872

Joseph Hart - Playmates See Boy Six, 6, Killed on PRR Bridge

Inquirer 20 Feb 1955

A 6-year-old boy, playing with his dog, was killed by a passenger train on the Pennsylvania Railroad bridge over Frankford ave., south of Sedgely, yesterday within sight of three horror-stricken playmates, Joseph Hart, of 1929 E. Buckius st., was struck by the Washington bound train as he played with his pet, Snooky, near the west side of the bridge. The dog was along the side when his master was run down. He was taken home by the friends of the dead boy. While three neighborhood playmates watched, Joseph started across the span. He walked near the iron guard rail adjoining the outside track as the dog scampered along at his heels.

STARTS RUNNING BACK 

Patricia Eldrich, 9, of 1900 Buckius st., and her two brothers, Charles. 8, and Frank, 6, told police the boy suddenly turned around and started running back. They watched in horror as the train rounded a curve and bore down on the boy and his dog. The train struck Joseph and hurtled his body a dozen feet to an adjoining track. The train operator, T. H. Van Horn, 60, of Belleville, N. J., told police his view was obscured by buildings as he came around the curve. He said he applied his emergency brakes the moment he saw the child and came to a stop at nearby Frankford Junction. 

HEARING TUESDAY 

Van Horn was allowed to continue his run after about a 15-minute delay when railroad officials assured police he would appear at a hearing Tuesday. Frank Buck, a railroad detective, said the engineer blew the train whistle and put on emergency brakes about five passenger car lengths from the boy, but was unable to stop in time. The train was traveling about 50 miles an hour. Joseph, a first-grade student at St. Joan of Arc School, was the only child of Robert and Helen Hart. The mother is employed as a packer by C. L. Meyers & Co., cotton yarns, 2d and Somerset sts. Detectives said the boy apparently was trapped between the track and the iron rail.

John and Christian Ziegenthaler - 1911 Buckius St. - Florists / Nursery Men - Frankford Schulverein

 

1910 Bromley Map

John Ziegenthaler - Born Germany 1843-1916

Christian Ziegenthaler - Born Germany 1845-1938

Inquirer 10 Nov 1916

The American Florist Company's directory of florists, 1902.

Max Riebenach Esq., Comptroller of the Pennsylvania Railroad's House - SE 34th St. and Powelton Ave - Scientific American Jan 1891 - Present

A RESIDENCE ON POWELTON AVENUE, PHILADELPHIA.

We present on page 9 plates of a residence, erected for M. Riebenack, Esq., on Powelton Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa., from plans prepared by Thomas P. Lonsdale, architect, of same city. Dimensions: Front 47 ft., side 73, exclusive of piazza. Height of ceilings: Cellar 8 ft., first story 11 ft., second 10 ft, third 9 ft. The exterior walls are built of Chester county marble, trim med with buff Indiana limestone. The masonry is laid broken range, lock split and cement pointed in joints.

The roof is of Vermont red slate, with copper cornices, gutters, hip and ridge coverings. The reception and drawing rooms are trimmed with mahogany; hall. staircase, dining and breakfast rooms with quartered white oak; and rear hall, pantries and kitchen with ash. Hall and dining room have ceiling beams and paneled wainscoting, the former containing a grand staircase with carved newels, which is lighted by stained glass windows. Vestibule has a tiled floor. Other rooms have hardwood floors. Fire places have tiled hearths, Mexican onyx facings and elegant carved mantels with beveled plate mirrors. Kitchen is wainscoted and fitted up in the best manner with range, sink, dressers, etc. Second floor contains library, three bedrooms, and bathrooms, all trimmed with cherry, mahogany finish. Bathrooms have tiled floors and wainscoting, fixtures of the latest sanitary patterns, without casings, trimmed with nickeled fittings. Third floor trimmed with quartered sycamore, natural color, contains billiard room, servants' bedrooms and bath, with a private staircase to first floor. Cellar, under whole of house, contains laundry, furnace room and all necessary apartments. Cost, $30,000 complete. -

Our engraving was made direct from a photograph of the building taken specially for the SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN.

Broad and Poplar Streets - 1892 - Public Ledger 13 Dec 1921

 

Old Horticulture Hall South Broad Street - pre 1881- Public Ledger17 Dec 1921

 

Delaware Ave and Race Street - pre 1890 - Public Ledger 22 Dec 1921

 

Broad and Sansom - early 1860s - Public Ledger 8 Apr 1922

 

!0th And Girard NW - 1890 - Public Ledger 18 July 1922

 

City Hall Tower - 1885 - Public Ledger 5 Jan 1922

 

Washington and Delaware Aves - Public Ledger 8 June 1921

 

Foot Of York Street - 1892 - Public Ledger 20 Dec 1921

 

Rev. Norris M. Jones (N. M. Jones) - 1869

Curious tale of the Rector of St. Bartholomew's P.E.Church at 8th and York Sts., Rev. N. M Jones, sold out from under him at a Sheriff's sale for back taxes, to the RC AD and became the RC St. Edward the Confessor Church. Sold because of a loophole or the P.E. Diocese of Pennsylvania getting rid of a terribly debt ridden parish due to mismanagement of its board of elders? Rev. Norris M. Jones in his last rectorship of the Free Church of St. John's in Kensington, then listed as being on Frankford Road, funeral at the Old St. John's P.E. Church at N. American and Brown Sts. I suspect he is buried under the parking lot behind that old church, now an ethnic church. (clipping The Daily Evening Telegraph 18 June 1869)