The daily gazette., 1876-01-24
Wilmington Industries.

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The following able address was delivered
by Mr.. John G.. Baker, at the Banquet OF
the Morocco Manufacturers National TX
change, held at the Clayton House, on the
18th inst, in response to the toast, " VIII
mington Industries, including and specially
the Morocco interests. Its past History
Mr.. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN:-li
a stranger coming to our city and stopping
at this House, would ascend to the roof Ill
early morn and sean the city, beginning
out here, and then turning around until
we meet again and note the smoke ascend
ing from the chimnies, and hear the scrcech
of tine whistles at o'clock, and the pulls
of steam, he would truly say that Will
mington is busy Hive of lndustries-at
the same time as YOU scan the horizon you
will note that we have five or six miles of
wharf front, and you will observe great
lack of shipping and as you walk up and
down our principal business Streets you fail
TO see large wholesale houses, and az Will
mington made with her 81, 600 inhabitants
in 1878, between 23 and "a million
dollars worth of goods, ("More per
capita than any other manufacturing town
in the United States, not accepting the
towns of the old Bay State,") you ask me
wnat becomes of the goods. Come with
me to the Empire City, and as we get
aboard of the cars to go to the Nations
Capital, and get settled in our seats, we
begin to look around, and as we gaze we
see, built kv the F., w. & B. r. +. Co.
Wilmington, Del; and as we leave there
to go to the Crescent City, we see, as be-
fore, built by The Jackson & Sharp Co.,
Wilmington, Del and rs we walk down
on the levee, we board steamer, and in
looking around you see the name of The
Harlan & Hollingsworth Co., Wilmington,
Del, builders, and ON almost every sea
wherever our flag float. you will find evi-
dences of Wilmington Industries in the
shape Of Iron Ships and if you will go
to the distant Empire Of Brazil, you will
find the Steamboats, built by Pusey Jones
~ Co., Wilmington, Del, ploughing their
waters, and rs you come back stop at the
Queen of the Antilles, and as you have
been surfeiting upon tropical fruits you
want something to tone up with, you call
for your corn bread, and if you could only
get peep at the head OF the cask, you
would find il marked, Brandywine Mills.
Wilmington, Del, William Lea a. Sons
and as You would not think Of leaving the
home OF the fragrant weed without having
your smoke, you enter the saloon, and as
you pick up the box to strike the match,
you meet with an old friend, Swift, Court
ney q Beecher Co., Wilmington, Del. As
we cross to the sunny South, we have
ride through the orange groves, and we meet
other friends names on carriages-Flaglor
u Co., Merrick, and Mel ear Il Kendall, and
as we go laundering across the plains to the
Golden Gate, we awake in the morning in
the luxurious sleeper, We stretch and we
observe over head-built by the Harlan &
Hollinsworth Company or Jackson,
Sharp & Co., and as we feel stiff and sore
from confinement, we get out at the station
to stretch our limbs and as we look around
we see another old friend on the wheels
Lobdell Car Wheel Co., Wilmington, Del.
and still further we enter in the shanty
store and we pick up the clnister and apor,
it we find DuFonts +. T. r. Rifle powder
Viii. Del, and a we get to our hotel in
San Francisco we want to drop line
home, We call tors paper, and when we
get it, our eve catches st. Augustine Mills,
Wilmington, Delaware, .Jessup Il Moore.
This Mr.. President | give YOU slight
idea where the products 60 A distin-
guished gentleman riding around our city
once made the remark, that he saw more
varied industries on larger Gale in our
city, than could be seen in the United
States in the same length of time" and il
il true.
now come to Morooco--its past history
| have been come cted with it for % wear.
and have seen many ups and downs in the
trade. When | first entered it, we boiler
our logwood and water in copper, and
he man; who would have talked of using
Il steam engine in his works would have
be en- thought crazy. But the competitions
of trade and scarcity of labor produced by
the war, made us seek for labor-saving
machinery, and as the result, we have the
OFT Lennex seating machines, the differ
ent kinds of glazing and granting machines,
Baker & Walters sewing machines,
millingmachi hines, etc. And are we going
to stop nerc? say no. For the spirit of
progress is still ripe among us. would
propose n Wilmington ard her
industries;
May the clouds that have settled over
her and them in common with all our
country be dispelled by the sun Of prosper
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