Page 24 - Rukert - 100th Anniversary

ABOVE: Cap Rukert is pictured checking bagged cargo as it’s unloaded from a vessel at Jackson’s Wharf.
RIGHT:
An advertisement for the Morgan Line and
a ledger from 1928.
The two customers starred in the ledger were still with Rukert more than 80 years later.
In the summer of 1927, the Morgan Line of the Southern Pacific Steamship Company of New York began organizing weekly sailings to Galveston and Houston and was looking for a new terminal
in Baltimore. After inspecting the new Jackson’s Wharf facility, it entered into an agreement with Cap to handle stevedoring, receiving and delivery of its weekly cargoes. Immediately, Cap hired a young man named James P. (Jimmy) Hickman
to help in the stevedoring and warehouse operations. Around the same time, Cap also established a customhouse brokerage division headed by W. Brand Pindell.
By the fall of 1930, it had become apparent that the waterfront operation and the uptown household warehousing
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