Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-04-16
FIRST EDITION.
200 p. M.
OUR GOOD CITY.
LippincOtt's Magazine's Second
Article.
A Prospering LabOriHg, Thinking, virtuous Cit,
of the New World.

the second and concluding article on whining
ton and Its Industries the first OF which in the
number for March. attracted such general at
tention. This new paper is perhaps more enter
tanning than the other 1t deals somewhat with
the traditions of the city, and sketches some OF
the prominent figures in its past history.
There are seventeen engrHvings, some of
which are very fine. The view of the old Swedes
Church gives the side of the structure, as seen
from the Railroad and is one of the best pictures
of the venerable church which we have ever
Church, and st Johns Episcopal are given.
The industrial operations, in this issue, are the
Lobdell Gar Wheel Works the Jackson Sharp
at Rockland and the Swift q Courtney Match
Factory. The other illustrations are In the way
of evidences Of civilization, culture, and progress.
There IL beautiful view Of the Opera House
the best, by odds, yet produced. There is fair
one OF the Clayton House also, pictures of the
elegant residences of Job H. Jackson, and Col
H. 8. McComb. Public School No, Is shown by
. good engraving the Soldiers Monument by
another, and there ia faithful and handsome
representation Of the Bringhurst Memorial Foun-
tain. The other two picture of Boughman
Thomas d JOS bookstore, the haunt of Liter
sture, at 'the sign of Shakespeare" and view
of the COMMERCIAL Building, which rather fat
ters its subject but is not half as good as the
structure With which we should like to replace
It.
SKETCHES OF THE OBJECTS
Thus illustrated form part OF the article, and we
find it very difficult to select from the major
portion Of the paper anything which will indi-
cate the temper and style of the whole. The
author mingles with his facts charming vein
of fancy and "reminiscences, telling old stories,
and presenting bright comparisons to bring out
his idea.
The article says, however that, unlike an in
land city, which must grow by its industries
alone,
WILMINGTON Is AN AMERICAN GLASGOW.
-" II her horoscope be not cast Amiss, she will
both make whatever human ingenuity can make
and she will also distribute. Ono of the first
things she intends to do is to tap the stream Of
food fuel and lumber destined for the South,
and now laid up in the winter in Philadelphia by
the closing of the Delaware, and send it to the
Southern consumer by her cheap water trans
port. Connected with this enterprise, will be
the multiplication of her steam colliers, ultimate
ly scattering the clop OF bread-stuffs to the
South Atlantic and Gulf States (if not the East
ern), and coming home with ballast of the var
led iron ores those States abound in. When
Delaware Bay begins to bo whitened with the
sails OF returning coal vessels or lashed with the
wheels Of steam carriers, bringing in the e1ides
and magnetic ores OF North Carolina and the
hematite aRd other varieties of the extreme
South, to mix with the rail-brought ores of in
terror localities, then Wilmington proposes to be
the chosen centre OF industry in cast iron. This
production, it is now well understood, is no long
or carried on most advantageously in the neigh
borhood OF any one great natural deposit OF ore.
The important thing is to be at meeting OF
all varieties of the metal: chemistry then selects
the proportions for mixture. and the best stock
is produced with scarcely any greater expense
than the lowest grade. The stuation at the
head of Delaware Bay is one where every choice
of the ores can be easily swept together by rail
or water. 1t also controls fuel, by both means
OF carriage, from either of the great anthracite
regions-e matter Of special Importance in this
time OF ''strikes" as the operatives of both dis
trinfH rArAlV throw work at the time.
Wilmington thus proposes to obtain its iron At
three dollars per ton less than Pittsburg.
"Thus we see the northernmost Of the slave
State cities leaping up to catch first the advan-
tages OF perfect commercial union under the
new regime. Affiliated with the South, in
spired by the North, we should watch her As
standard and type.
Meantime, her labor problem, as A!!city cram
med with proetarisns, she meets with consum-
mate tranquility. The country about is so
bounteous, is such garden, that the pay OF the
workman represents far higher grade OF SOCIAL
| life than anywhere else in manufacturing re-
giona. Rents 30 far are low, but benetcent
system ia in active operation amongst the work.
| ng-casses which helps man to own his own
| house, and avoid the teasing periodical drain OF
rent.
"Ihis lie the associative system, here in fault
| less operation by which the fragments OF q
large piece of ground paid for by degrees
and cleared of all incumbrance in eight or nine
years by the profit on the contributed moneys,
Thus a workman owning his own home, Aceu-
mulAting comforts aud family, is indissolubly
| tied to the city and its peaceful order.
A PAosPRRING, ,I.ABoRINa, THINKING, vIRTUoUs CITY
OF THE NEW WORLD.
"Here are the indications of prospecting, la
| boring, thinking, virtuons city OF the New
World. We have tried to sketch it both as Oh
/ ty viii h past and = city wiwh future. Conld
| we have selected one for illustration that
would be better or sharper concentration OF
| all that is good IN American life 2"