Middletown transcript., 1873-05-17
The City Of Wilmington.

A correspondent Of tho Baltimore Sun
10 descriptive letter Of recent excursion
By number Of gentlemen from Baltimore.
members Of tho Rehoboth Beach Camp
Meeting Association, to the Camp Ground
a Rshobo,h Beach. thus speaks Of Della
wares metropolis;
Some hours past midnight. the train
rushed into Wilmington. a rafting town
of shops and shipyards. famous even in
Washington's administration, when the
town was but half century old, for its
grist mills, which ground 400, 900 bushels
Of grain annually, aud known now as one
Of tho important manufacturing cities OF
the East. Situated at the confluence Of
the Delaware and BraLdy the latter
stream affords all tho water power il needs
TO turn its series Of capacious aouring
mills. These arc bull: Of stone. in the
old style, with massive walls aud many
tiers Of windows. Vessels ascend in deep
water to unload. and take csrgocs under
their caves. Wilmington has now a pop
ulstion of 40 900. aud almos, the monop-
oily OF the iron shipbuilding interest Of
this country. In it's vicinity are the
largest powder mills in the world. founded
by the Dupont family. Besides there are
immense paper mills. cotton and woolen
mills and machine shops that turn out
quantities Of railway cars aud machinery
Of every description.
Just at the depot the railroad company
has built an ornamental and conmodious
sta,ion-housc and restaurant, at which
every passenger train. no matter of what
hour it passes. stops for refreshments. \
new aud handsome hotel bull, by private
enterprise. in d more retired part Of the
town, has recently been opened Among
the objects of interest 10 stranger is
monument to Cunning Bedford. comman.
der Of the Delaware line during the rcv1.
luton, and an old Swedish church buried
in ivy, and encompasssd with graves,oncs,
and rich in traditions.
He also gives the following description
Of Lewcs, and Rchoboth City:
REHogotn clrr ASp LEwrs.
A mil. from thr camp ground there i
trpct Of several hundred acres, situate
upon the Atlantic aud Rehobo,h bay the
property Of New York company. which
bought here three or more years ago, with
the purpose of founding popular ssasid
resort Their dream Is We, uurcaliIed.
and single hut Enw marks the site of the
promised Rshobuth C,iy Lewes,
named for au English shire town, was sct-
tied in 1898, among the earliest Of the
De'a Tare towns and has now population
of a tholsaud or more Il Is inhabited
caiely i, pilots and sealarng men Fish
ing na;s are hung Up almrst everywhere,
nd down on The scashofa litilc ilotila o.!
fishing boats and ,aiacks lie ut anchor
Iewes is the terminus Of railroad to
harrington. anl it sa,tains \ steamship
line 10 New York around Cape May, which
is jus, opposite, aud fourteen miles distant
Here is the grea, 6rcahwaier, upon which
the government worked for nearly half Il
century. and only completed it in 1869
j, is designed a, rrutoclion 10 which sea.
going vessels between Hampton Roads aud
Highland Light, an extent Of $50 miles
OF coast. can hastea from impending
storms.
In ,iiuo of storm vessels rise up from
every point Of the water line aud stand in
for this friendly hsYcn, until the harbor.
commoiious as it is, is scarcely equal TO
its aeacssities. while the Atlantic hcaycs
against tho breakwater. and sometimes
dashcs spray over IT, On an eminence
overlooking the shore is ba,tcry Of four
guns, planted there during the war Of
1912. Between the town and beach is n
marshy plain, mile in width, aud two
milcs away. an an immense bank Of sand
the lighthouse on Cape Ienlopen looms
up through the mist like great white
rpectre