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Whitman Avenue, originally called Pear Street, was renamed in memory of Camden's "Good Grey Poet," Walt Whitman. Its addressed section runs east from Mount Ephraim Avenue to Haddon Avenue through the Whitman Park neighborhood.
Louis Street runs between Haddon Avenue and Mount Ephraim Avenue, from Mount Vernon Street south to Sheridan Street. Primarily residential with many corner businesses, it passes Whitman Park and was devastated by the crack epidemic of the 1980s.
Arthur "Gyp" Del Duca went on trial before Judge Austin H. Swackhamer on a charge of operating a disorderly house at 674 Fairview Street, raided twice in 24 hours the previous June, once by bandits and once by police.
A fight between rival gangs at Louis and Sycamore streets in August 1913 drew about fifty participants; several men were held in bail or jailed for disorderly conduct, and Policeman Cornog lost his badge in the melee.