Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1888-11-08

means q borrowing CITY tth Acoumuiateu
ptiYpte wealth seeks outside Investments
to the value of millions of dollars,
annually, and 1t rates as strong creditor
city.
RAILROADS AND wArKn TRANSPORTATION
LIuEa
As has been previously stated, the rail.
roads csntring In Wilmington are i've IN
number.
/. They arc the ''Philadelphia, Will
rnington & Baltimore railroad, controlled
by the Pennsylsauia Ilailrosd Company,
as part OF its great Trunk Line between
New York and Washington. The fastest
and most elegant trains in America run
on this line; ana all trains, without excep-
tion, include Wilmington as an important
stopping point. Through this line. direct
connection IL made with the Western
Trunk Line Ct the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company.
2 The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Company's Trunk Line FROM Baltimore
to New York via Wilmington aud Pbila-
delphia. This great Trunk Lins, with
full western and southern connections,
has two depotg in Wilmington, one OF
which ia model Of elegance OF oonstiuc-
ton.
8. The WILMINGTON q Northern rail-
road, connecting at Reading, Pa with
the Reading Railroad Company system
and all its northern and western connec.
lions.
& The DsIswars railroad, leased by
the Pennsylvania Rsllroad Company and
run in connection wi b tha trnuk Lire,
of that corporation The Delaware road
with its connection with steamers on
Chesapeake bay, constitutes popular
through line to Norfolk, Va, ANA points
further south. Btalchs1 OF this road
ramify TO important points throughout
Delaware and the eastern shore OF Mary
land
8. The Wilmington 4 Western railroad
purchased by the Baltimore i Ohio
Railroad Company. and oparRted by it rs
part of its great system. These five
roads, with their various functions within
and around the city and iheit far reach
ing connections with all important roads
in the country, give Wilmington unsur-
passed passenger and freight facilities.
The regular daily water transportation
lines are:
/ The Wilmin9ton Steamboat Com
psny, which has fist GLASS passenger and
freight steamers, making several trips
daily between Win ineton, Chester and
philadelphil, and also daily line TO the
Delaware ports o. New Castle, Delaware
City and St.. Augus'ine Pier.
2 Steamers to Pennsgrnve, N j and
to Cape May, form independent lines.
tha k,t -Fn II
barges to Philadelphia, are two in num.
Der, and are private enterprises The
volume OF business done through these
lines ia immense.
4. Sailing vessels connect with points
south, where Wilmington capital 10 iu-
vested in the production OF lumbsr, and
in the porpoise fisheries and other in.
terests.
The two systems Of railroad and water
transportation ore most Intimately con.
nected by COMPLEX system OF tracks ex.
tending 20 the docks; aud throughout the
manufacturing sections, aud all along the
waterfront of the Chfis.iana are count
loss tracks to ell whitves aud manufac.
tories. which place all peiots and all
establishments in thorough system Of
freighting by which handling and trans.
porration are effected at least cost and
with greatest possible expedition.
PRODUCTIVE INDUSTRIES,
The productive industries OF the city
are both staple and special, aud in bene.
tciel variety. Principal manufactures
are iron, morocco and other feathers. car.
riages, railway cars aud iron and wooden
ships. Cotton yarns and fabrics are also
largely pro5rnsi. In tina Manufacture OF
Ruapowd4r pati9r FICTION matches and
peper, Wilmington takes first VI 60.
In other staple and special lines, tns
productions great 10 quantity and varied
in character, as is shown by the classifi
cations and tables inolu6ed in this publi-
cation.
METAL WORKING, PRINCIPALLY IRoN AND
STEEL.
To adequately set forth the metal
working interests of the city would re-,
qaire m re speee than the limits Of ,hit
book will permit.
These interests chiefly relate to sn in
tnite varsity OF products from iron and
steel, hut necessarily iuclui Dc many classei
Of work in other metals, especially cop
per aud brass. There are several mann
moth iron-working establishments, hay,
ing, each, capital of million OF dollar,
or more, and employing men BY the thou.
sands
Within the vast acreage covered by the
ex!ens va plants of these concerns, arc
the appliances for the numerous pro
ceases 0 manufacturing, fron the smelt.
ing OF ores to the production of the flu
ishad artiele, whether 1t be single and
PLAIN Ia character, as bar Of iron, OF
highly complex, rs 1rst.oiasa ocear
steamship rrsdy for sea Every part o.
this snip, as hull, engines, interior wood
work and ali interior fittings, being thu
product otthe contracting concern. snoh
establishments employ mechanics repre-
Gsntin9 many trades, and an immensc
stock Of great variety of metal Is car
riel 10 the several departments. Man,
pages would be required to give even
general 6es3iption of the extent and char
actet Of the plant end WORK OF any On,
Of these establishments
A single corporation conducts an i'm
mense iron ana combined iron aud wood
WORKING business TO the extent that, sine
its orgspiz stiol 50 years ago, IL has bull
neatly 800 iron vessels Of oil dsscrip
tons, and railroad cars OF all sorts by tn
thousands.
haother builds iron ships of all kinds
any desired special machinery, and has
besides, reputation for excelhng Ii
heavy, complex machinery fos vaIist
of manufactures,
A single corporation, the largest of II
kind in America, has capacity for pro
ducing 70O Car wheels per day. Th
mcst critical tests are applied to tue irol
before casting, and after that opsratio
each wheel uads,goes standard tests
and 70 complete the close scrutiny ever
tsnsh wheel made ia broken, to prove til
uniformity Of quali.y. This CONCERN ais
largely manufactures Chilled roils On
titm chiefly MAKES boiiars aud tools 10
boiler makers AID bridge bnilds,s. bu
adds iron buoys and other similar pro