The Morning herald., 1876-01-24
WilmlnstOn Industries.


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, "Wil-
mington Industries, including and specially
the Morocco interests. Its past History" :"
Mr.. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN:--f
stranger coming to our city and stopping
at this House, would ascend to the roof in
early morn and scan 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 screech
of the whistles at 7 o'clock, and the putis
of steam, he would truly say that Viii
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 tau
to see large wholesale houses, and as Will
mington made with her $4,000 inhabitants
in 1873, between % and "a million
dollars worth of goods, ("Mors 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 a. we get
aboard of the cars to 60 to the Nations
Capital and get settled in our seats, we
begin to look around, and as we gaze we
see, built ky the p, w. & B. r. X. Co.
Wilmington, Del; and as we leave there
to 20 to the Crescent City, we see, as be-
fore, built by The Jackson & Sharp Co.,
Wilmington, Del and as 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 floats yeu will find evi.
dences of Wilmington Industries in the
shape of Iron Ships; and if you will &c
to the distant Empire of Brazil, you viii
: find the Steamboats, built by Pusey, Jene'
& Co., Wilmington, DEL, pleughing thei
+ waters, and as you come back stop at tn
= Queen Of the Antilles, and as you hav
o been surfeiting upon tropical fruits yo1
n want something to tone up with, you cal
e for your corn bread, and if you could snl
20 aet peep at the head of the cask, yo
rs would find it marked, Brandywine Mill
II Wilmington, Del, William Lea & Sons
v and as you would not think of leaving th
l. home Of the fragrant weed without havin
10 your smoke, you enter the saloon, and ,
you pick up the box to strike the mattel
b. you meet with an old friend, Swift, Cour
10 ney & Bsscher Co., Wilmington, Del. A
he we cross to the sunny South, we have
p ride throughth the orangegroves, and We mo
he other friends names on carriages -Flagl'
or & Co., Merrick, and McLsar& & Kendall, ar
d. as we go laundering across the plains to Il
m Golden Gate, we awake in the morning
m, the luxurious sleeper; we stretch and '
", observe over head-built by the Harlan
lis Hollinsworth Company or Jackso
at Sharp & Co., and as We feel stiff and 10
Ill from confinement, we get out at the stati,
lis to stretch our limbs and as we look aroul
,r- We see another old friend on the wheels
IN, Lobdell Car Wheel Co., Wilmington, De
ar- and still further we enter in the shan
We store and we pick up the canister and up
"a. it we find DuPonps F. F. F. Rife powd,
IRE Will. Del, and as we get to our hotel
nd San Francisco we want to drop II
we home, we call for paper, and when
get it, our eye catches st. Augustine Mil
re- Wilmington, Delaware, Jessup & Moo
So- This Mr.. President ! give you = slil
led idea where the products go. A dist
Of guished gentleman riding around our c
.ct, once made the remark, that he saw M
Of varied industries on larger Gale in {
his city, than could be seen in the Uni
the States in the same length Of time," ant
ion is true. ".. ...n m
l now come to Morocco o--its past history
TIL have been connected with it for 26 y
pod and have seen many ups and downs in
orr trade. When l first entered 1t, We bt
ed: Il cur logwood and water in a copper,