Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1854-04-07
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The Maritime States Interested IN Hospital an VII
mington-Tonnoge Of the United Sates-Tonnage
Built an the United States-Limited Tonnage Own-
ed and Built IN Wllming ton- Tonnage cleared
from the United &ates-Ihe small number of Sea-
men belon ging to Wilming Representatives IN
Congress, North, Soulh, and Vest, should aid us IN
securing Hospital Unjust discrimination an favor
Of Boatmen-1he surplus alone of the Marine Hos
pitdl fund to be appropriated tn establishing Hos
pit0ls.
Messrs. EDITORS We having endeavored to show
the interest which all the commercial towns of our
State, and of the South, have in the establishment of
a Hospital in the Port of Wilmington, we would now
add that it is directly connected also with the mari
time interests of other States and especially of Maine
Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, and Mary
land. This will appear from the following estimates
of the tonnage the United States, and from the
fact that large portion of the vessels and American
seamen in our commerce are from those States. The
aggregate amount of the tonnage of the United
States, on the Goth June, 1852, 4,138,44O tons
Total tonnage in steam navi cation 648,240. The
total amount of tonnage belonging TO all the inland
towns of the West 1930S5. The residue is connect
ted with the sea-board States of America. New
York owns 1,134,83I tons; Massachusetts 767 74O; ;
Maine 692, 8O6; Pennsylvania, 3Ol 1922 MARYLAND
206, 243. These five States have 3,1O3,34 tons
North Carolina has only 5O,622. While Whining
ton has only 1858 TONS permanently registered and
enrolled of which 1888 tons are employed in steam
navigation, and the residue is jointly owned with
tuOSe same CtdleS IneTe is less tonnage owned IN
Wilmington than in of the other ports, even of
own State.
This is owing mainly to the fact that large part
of the capital of Wilmington has been absorbed in
those Internal improvements which, while enrching
herself, have infused life and energy throughout
the State. The disproportion exists in the ton
mage also built in the United States
Amount of tonnage built in the United States DUR
ing the year ending 10th June, 1858, 351, 493 tons
BY Maine l10,O47; New York 1902; Massachu-
sets 48,OO1; Pennsylvania 81 .22O; Maryland 49,
1853; all the inland towns ofthe West 80, 666 North
Carolina 1928; Wilmington only 474 tons Of &c.
63l tons which entered the port of Wilmington, the
lst quarter of the present year, ending Goth March,
there were from New York Is, lat tons; West Indies
1902 Philadelphia 1921; Boston 1868 BaIt
more 902, &c. There is also large number of YES
sells sailing under coasng license, belonging princi
pally TO the above named States yet are not subject
to entry at our Custom House, and therefore not in
cluded in this report We have no mems of ascer-
tanning the number of seamen of those States, and
the proportion of them that connected with our
commerce. We may form opinion, however, from
the amount of tonnage owned, their seamen and ton
mage in foreign commerce, and from the above state
ment. The American and foreign tonnage which
cleared from the United States, for the year ending
30th June 1852. 1925 vessels, 5,27S 165 IONS
and 465 mon