Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-10-06
A NEW HOTEL FOR WILMINGTON.

Next month, great Exhibition of Southern
products is to be held at Atlanta, Georgia, and
the occasion will undoubtedly gather together
thousands of people. They will come to and
appreciate not only the articles displayed in the
Fair, but the beauties of Atlanta, Its advantages
of situation, its Inducements in the way of trade.
and the productions of it's industry. They will
spend in Atlanta an average of ten to twenty
dollars each, and not only as an advertisement
of whatever there il to be admired or desired i'll
that city, but In their actual expenditures this
will be a truly profitable enterprise.
Now last spring, our own Board of Trade had
plan on foot for holding an exhibition in
Wilmington, of the industrial productions of our
people. 1t had been talked of, previously, and,
like many other excellent enterprises, was orig
nally proposed in tho WILMINaToN DAILY COM
MERcIAL. II was, at this time, warmly approved
by many of our leading manufacturers, who ell
tered heartily into the idea and agreed that il
was entirely practicable to make a valuable and
attractive exhibition. But, when the scheme
was thus generally endorsed and ready to
set on foot, a difficulty arose: Why invite
to Wilmington large number of people
when we have no sufficient or creditable hote
to accommodate them? Where could five hun
dred strangers be satisfactorily lodged, in Wi
mington9 The difficulty was not only serious
but it was conclusive. We have no hotel; w
can have no Exhibition.
Now at Atlanta, they not only have severa
very good hotels, but new one, just tinished,o O
the most crcditable description and on the mos
extensive scale. 1t is called the II. l. Kimba
House, and has first-class accommodations for
great number of guests. Its erection make
Atlanta Independent, in the event Of being vsite
by a large number of people, on whatever occi
sion they may come.
But how about ourselves? What shall we do
We see but one easy avenue out of our dilemm'
We have one large capitalist, born among III
engaged in one of our leading branches of maj
ufacture residing among us; and whose nan
and reputation, extended by a hundred compr
hensive and sagacious enterprises, are identiiie
with Wilmington, though spreading, now, {
widely as the Continent. He has the means
provide for Wilmington such hotel as II.
hmball has built in Atlanta, raising such moi
ument to his liberality and enterprise as W
challenge and command respect We refer,
course, to Colonel Henry s. McComb. We CT
On our townsman to look into this subject.
good hotel in Wilmington will pay. But even
1t did not return five per cent, what pleasu
would be, Qhus it seems to us,) what sour
Of genuine qualification, to have provided fol
large and growing city, the future Manufactr
ing-metropoa of the Atlantic States, place
public entertainment, where visitors from all t
world would rejoice in his liberal provision
Their comfort and pleasure. good hotel L
only advertises the city where it is located, /
the liberal mind and enterprising spirit that {
signed it. Nothing is more sure certificate
broad and sagacious man.
Shall We not have such hotel in Wilmingto
We will do our part toward it-and at once.
name it, in advance, as it should be, when co
pleted, The MoCoMB HOUSE.