Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-03-08

HIOW III lbHuAANNl ~ |
Clayton House, wilmington has atoned
for her deficiency in falling to provide
enough hotel accommodations in the past,
and now has building which is credit
to the city and an honor 10 the deceased
,tatesman.
4. This Peninsula, the Garden OF the |
Atlantic Coast May this house contribute
to uniting Il Ia more intimate and pleasant
relations with Wilmington. Responded 10 |
by Hon. Joseph P. Comegys, Of Dover
This Peninsula, Mr.. c. said, Is really the |
garden of the Atlantic States. Everything |
can be grown on It, more or less abundant-
ly, and any person can live more eheaply |
between the Delaware and Tn s~peake
Hbays than elsewhere In this country re
claimed that the Peninsula could lruthfully
boast of better natural roads, better soil,
more healthy climate, and better and more
Intelligent people than most other places.
Wilmington Is the national metropolis OF
the Peninsula and he never knew man
who made a purchase here aud went nome
cheated. Wilmington should feel proud
Of her population. The Harlan q Hol-
linesworth Company's ships are on every
sea and he always felt enthusiastic when
approaching this city because those
mighty iron ships In course Of eonstruc.
ilon by that firm met his eyes. The
speaker also referred to the other leading
industries of the city and thought the new
hotel had bern given most excellent
name, and those who had baptised II had
honored themselves because they had
Lopored the illustrious dead. Wilmington
should have an external commerce should
have West India trade. You want
irst-class newspaper press and TO obtain
this you must support and foster II by ex
tending a liberal advertising patronage,
and thus elevate and tone II. You have
plenty Of editorial talent here aud should
see that you have first olaas newspaper
press.
by General Horace Porter, who made a
witty speech and kept the company In a
constant roar Of laughter. AT the close
be paid handsome compliment TO Will
mlngton, and said her manufactures are
known as far as cars run, Us far as ships
s.il and wherever good wares are sold.
0. The Cities Of the Delaware; United
in the historic memories Of the past, undi-
ylded In the great material Interests Of the
present. Responded TO by John O'Byrne,
ESQ, 10 most eloquent and appropriate
little speech. He briefly reviewed the his
tories Of the cities of the Delaware as asso-
ciated with the Revolutionary war, apd
other great events in the past. The Will
mington of to-day, he said, Is not to be
the Wilmington of ten years hence, and
he thought that she would expand and
that the music of the M charles hammer
would soon resound In the neighborhood
Of his rural home. He said that vii.
minRton's car wheels were the means
by which the recently hostile armies OIL
France and Germany were borne to the
battle field, and that our wars now entel
into competition with the European man
ufactures. He concluded by SAYING thai
nothing In Wilmington's future was to b.
apprrhended.
I. The city of Wilmington, present ant
future. Responded to by George. W
Stone, Esq.
Mr.. Stone opened with an allusion I,
WilmingtJn's pruyerbial modesty, whiel
he declared had, in spite OF her advania
ges of locality, climate, &C., prevcnte
the city proclaiming Its owe importance
He believed, however, the time had com
when Wilmington should assert herself
prominent citizen told him one day
declaring he had copied 1t from the Me
hammedan Bible, ale that bloweth NO
his own horn the horn of the same sha
not be blown" He declared that tn
manufacturers were tCo modest t
&c blow their own horn, the lawl ers wer
busy trying TO blow down the old Coui
y House SO that to this dry toast the Gem
- mittec had to come among the merchant
E. for some one to sound Wimlngton's truu
; pet. II was also necessary to find on
' who would say good thing for our cit
!, If he had to stretch point, so that III
ie speaker being the only man in tie Iudi
y rubber business, the Committee were con
If PEELED to call on him to do the work II
I 81, a.. f,,
+ city not too modest to claim for her h,
ist dues, and IL wls'perhaps needle,
Ut , add he was not a native. There Is II
D, better way Of judging the future than b
III The past, and judging Wilmiugton's futui
~ by her past he could predict for her
- brilliant career Looking at her past "
=, find that the ent rprises which have bui
Is, up her prosperity were established by he
oi own people, and were the result of stead
and natural growth from small begii
r. nings. They have made their own capita
G. and not depended on that brought fro
10, the outside. The lessons of this succe
~ arc teaching the rising generation, a
o. the school In which the future guardian
~ Of our interests are receiving their educ
~ ton is a good one. In il they are taug
es enterprise without rccklessnCss, cautil
y without cowardice. Hence, for these re
" sous, he had faith in ourpeoplc. Next in il
us portancc to this Is our location on tide wat
ila at the nearest point inland to the coal al
- iron regions oftPennsylvania, surround
nc by Il rich agricultural and horticultural dl
triCt with twelve miles of wharf front
'el the city limits, and with numerous col
Gu pcting lines of transportation, viii,
enable us to get our products to mark
at the lowest practicable rates. We ha
railway system which Is complete, a
n climate unsurpassed. If arguing fro
these advantages he were to attempt
al, sketch Wilmington Of 1900 he would pictI
lad city of more than a hundred thousa
people with a vast system of manufactor
teT and great stretch Of residences reachi
over the Brandywine lIills,to the 18th wa
ow beyond the 9Th and to the 25th ward viii
~ we now call New Castle, vast city, W
he hoped a republican form ofgoyornme
OH under which population instead of gcog
r.. phical division should be the basis Of
ne, presentation Cloud and long applaus
de when education shall receive the attentl
Ii deserves, aud intelligence and intcgr
'ur- determine the qualifications Of our Il
makers. All this and more lie thOul
1es' might he realized If we will but do
duty. To the young men especially
oSa committed this task of securing for "
minglon great future.
rln- s. Our Railroads Less than five We
have changed Wilmington from v
Zee zee station to a railway centre.
ba' Mr.. Head said The sentiment NJ
which | would have chosen to speal
was Informed had been appiopfia
the by stony, though not hardened, sinl
lex, and | found / was down for railroa
ider Now the truth is that for the past
, Of years l have been daily agitated with r
} be roads, taken them to sleep with
ytOn dreamed of them, woke with them and
i've orally threatened with railroad on
e to brain, and now il had come to this, I
late | must take my toast upon a railrC
the Had the committee called on me for
BAN OratiOn or a poem anything that We
hose have permitted one to roam oil in the
had giOns Of fancy or taste, might have
)ast, some chance to shine amongst the
ners liant lights surrounding us.
not remember bearing gentleman fl
mage Chicago, at the banquet given in Phi
cd delphia on the occasion OF the inaugl
The ton of the National Board of Tr
yem declare that if the people of Chic
IN IN W ere remarkable for one tat above
the Others, It was "eXtreme modesty," al
AIRED then concluded that Wilmington needle
ates, good supply of that self-assertine,
n its reliant, sclf-appreciative, persistent
evil plucky modesty which has made the
come terprise of Chicago famous through
N re- the world.
ONE. The first step toward such reform
lants the establishment of a daily press, rt