Daily Republican., 1883-07-20
FRIDAY, JULY 20. 1883.
Dur new Railroad and Prosperity.

Oar New 8ailrOad and Prosperity.
When the Baltimore and Philadel.
phia Railroad is completed, Whining
ton will be practically located between
two of the most powerful Railroad cor
porations in existence-the Pennsyl.
vania and the Baltimore and Ohio. Up
to this time the manufacturing indus
tries of the city have been located prin
cipally along the one principal Rail-
road, the Pennsylvania, formerly the
Philadelphia, Wilmington and Balt.
more, and for want of Railroad com
munication, or Oh account of good water
communication along the Christiana
and Brandywine creeks, both Rail-
road and water communication being
on the one side Of the city, the business
interests of the city have gone where
they could be best accommodated. Th
natural tendency has as naturally di-
vided our city into manufacturing and
resident sections. Beginning at the
south and east comes the great manu-
featuring establishments of the Della
ware Car Works, the Jackson & Sharp
car works and shipyards, the Seidel Il
Hastings iron works, Pickles foundry,
Hilles 4 Jones' machine shops, the
Malleable Iron Works, the Lobdell car
wheel and machine shops, the Will
mington Iron Works, .JohnstOn's $ axle
works, the Diamond State Iron Com
pany, the Wilmington Jute Works,
Lees Hour mills, the Arlington cotton
mills, Pusey's cotton mills, the Nc
Cullough Iron Company, the Kenne-
bee Ice Company, Enoch Moore's ship
yards, the Pusey & Jones machine
works and iron ship manufactory, the
Railroad shops, Bush's and Warmers
packet and express enterprises and coal
yards, the Harlan & Hollingsworth car
works and iron ship manufactory, the
Trump Brothers works, and count
less number of coach manufactures,
and morocco and leather manufactures,
sash, door and bind works, coal yards
and other business enterprises which
have always been the pride of Will
mington. These have principally all
been drawn to the only line of Railroad
that may be said to run through the
city, and which gives al outlet in all
directions. After the manufacturing
section is passed, then comes the stores,
the banks and counting houses, offices
aud society rooms, and light manufac-
turing establishments.
Leaving this section we emerge to
the higher grounds stretching to the
east, north and west, and taken up
principally with dwellings, many OF
them of palatial proportions This has
been emphatica}iy the resident section
ofthe city, and we may safely say that
no city in the Union presents a more
handsome building section, or section
Of more picturesque beauty, and above
all other considerations y section more
healthy, This section has mostly been
occupied by not only the owners and
pruprietors of the large stores and mall
ufacturing establishments, but by hun
dreds of the employees Of those indus
tries who are willing to put up with Il
longer walk or the expense Of ride, for
the sake of living in healthy part Of
the city, away from its malaria and iia-
bility to suffer from infectious diseases.
But we are wandering away from our
subjeCt-indeed we most always do,
when We contemplate the future o.
Wilmington prosperity aud greatness,
Our brightest irnaginations of the future
OF Wiln ington, made twenty years ago,
have been more than realized, ard
therefore we feel justified in predicting
greater things in the next decade.
Wilmington railroad period has not
yet been fully developed, but the build
ing of the Baltimore and Philadelphia
line of the Baltimore and Ohio road
will do much to bring about that
development. Its course through
the western and northern SEC
tion Of our city will change larger
part Of it now occupied for residences
into a manufacturing section. The in
rentiOns Ofthe age have taken railroa Is
across mountains hills and rivers, and
through these inventions uc at and
science, a railroad will soon be con
structed through section Ot Whining.
ton where twenty year, ago the most
imaginative mind would not have To-
Gated one. But engineering skill and
the increasing business of the country
have surmounted every obstacle, and IA
railroad through the highlands Of vii
mington is an assured enterprise. With
the building Of the new road, will cont
a new line Of manufacturers, coal ana
lumber yards, everything hat ship
yards. Scott, DUPONT, Lincoln and
Union streets will contribute to make
"a Railroad avenue Of the western
part of the city, and Forty Acres and
McDowellville will become the manu-
featuring centres Of tins new enter
urisp Anot her march inland will he
necessary for those who want to get
away from the noise and hustle of d
busy, manufacturing community. The
highlands and the region Of Mt. Salem
Church will offer retirement for those
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