Daily Republican., 1883-07-19
The Flu, ure OF Wilmington.

The Future OF Wilmington.
The future of Wilmington is full Of
premise, and it is not ex xtravagant to
predict thaI with our present growth
and prosperity the population OF thi'
city will, ere the next census is taken,
exceed one hundred thousand. When
The last census was taken in 1850 the
population was but a tritie over forty
housand, and now although bnt three
years have passed, it is estimated at
nearly fifty thousand. Last year over
six hundred buildings were erected and
this year it is probable the mum Der
will reao eight hundred, which, ac
cording to the difference in population,
is greater than the number erected in
Philadelphia. The city is spreading i'll
every direction, and places that few
years ago were truck patches are now
covered with handsome dwellings. The
marshes on the South Side are heing re-
claimed, and before many years will
become habitable through system of
under drainage. When this is once ac-
complished, Wilmington will grow to-
ward the river, and already we have
the earnest in the new pier built by the
Wilmington Il Northern Railroad Com
pany, and at which the steamer Repub
lie stopped for the first time on satur'
day, that the day is not far distant
when the river front will be lined with
wharves at which ocean steamers will
find it more economical to stop, especi-
ally during the winter, than to proceed
to Philadelphia. The opposite side of
the city will have great Impetus to i'm
provement and growth in the new
Baltimore Il Philadelphia Railroad, in
the construction of which men are al
ready employed.
Trees are being felled and uneven
places graded on both sides of the Bran
dywine, and near the site of the new
bridge which will cross that stream
! the contractor has already erected a
building for his Office Near the Mid
die Depot Of the City Passenger Rail
way Company large depot with
round house and work shops will be
erected, and this of itself will be the
means not only of drawing other busi-
ness to the locality, but will furnish
hundreds of men with employment,
who will need dwelling houses near
their work. In "A few years all the
northern and western part of the city
will be built up, streets opened and
graded, with school houses and c"urch-
es built
The industrial establishments will
continue to increase their productions
and furnish employment for more men,
and this in turn must necessarily cause
an increase in all kinds of business.
Already we find that men on Market
and Other streets are enlarging their
places of business to meet the increased
demand, and stores which ten years ago
were considered large enough for many
years to come, have to be torn out and
rebuilt, to accommodate the increasing
trade. The productions Of our indus
trial establishments, which have for
years amounted to tens oi thousands of
dollars for every day in the year, are
steadily increasing, and the day is
rapidly drawing near when they will
exceed one hundred thousand dollars
each working day in the year. There
are many causes which are leading to
this result, prominent among which is
the superiority of our productions over
those of many other places. If Rail
road Company needs more passenger
ears they know that Jackson a. Sharp
have taken the prize whenever they
have entered into competition with the
o'her car manufactures of the United
States. If their business has increased
to such an extent that more freight cars
are necessary, Bowers & Dure will
naturally recur to them as a firm that
constructed the most substantial work
for many of the principal companies in
The United States. If Steam boat
Company needs a new steamer, where
can their wants be better supplied than
at Harlan Il Hollingsworth'so their
vessels have never fallen apart, and
samples of them can be seen in every
p rt of the world. SO too in all other
business, and men find it to their ad.
vantage to come to this city 10 make
their purchases. Our merchants can and
do sell as cheap as those Of the larger
cities, and any one can satisfy him
self on this point by visiting Phila-
delphia, pricing the goods there and |
comparing them with the prices of the
same quality Of goods in this city
Another Thing that tends to our pros
perity is the excellent markets no
place in the country can boast Of better,
and it is IA refreshing sight to stroll
through them at this season of the year.
Everything is fresh and NICE and we
know that we are dealing with the pro-
ducers, and getting everything as cheap
as it is possible to get it elsewhere.
There are many other things that will
occur to every mind which are tendin z