Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-12-24

Manuiacturers Merchants and Business
Men.
The commercial and trade prospects
81 Wilmington are as bright to-day, es-
pecially so far as the staple established
businesses of this community are con-
cerned, as they ever were in our records.
In the factories and the shops there
were intervals during the past year due
10 various causes when business was at
low ebb. But as rule trade for the
past year in all the various branches has
swept along successfully and the citi-
Gems of the Diamond State have lust
reason for pride in the onward progress
ct their metropolis.
The beautiful and substantial steel
steamships of the Harlan s. Hollings-
worth Company carry cargoes Of
American products from New York and
distribute them along the ports Of the
Caribbean sea, the West Indies and
South America. Still others of larger
build creep around the Horn and plough
their silent way 10000 miles to the sub
Arctic waters of San Juan de Fuca.
The interior of the southern continent
is pierced along the thousands of miles
of its nayigable waters by the river
steamers built by the Pusey & Jones
Company. The finest steam and sailing
yachts of the world are Of Wilmington
handiwork. Our railway cars cross the
Brooklyn bridge and the Cordilleras, the
backbone of the continent, thousands OF
feet above the Level of the sea. Cuban
planters, Chicago manufacturers and
southern cotton growers gaze with
wonder and admiration at the splendid
effectiveness OF our sugar mill, cotton
and paper machinery. The cars manu-
featured by the jackson u Sharp Com
pany are almost every fortnight sent to
Central and South America. Our
patent leather manufactures always
command premium in the London
market. The Cobb yulcanito wire is
tho best In the world for electric pur-
poses. The product of tie Diamond
State Company is constantly crossing
the Mexican border. IheWilliam Lea Is
Sons Company's Hour, from the old his
toric Brandywine Mills, has found favor
i'll continental Europe, and the prospects
are that that product may soon rival in
international politics the proud position
recently held by the "Ameriean hog"
The metallic life-boats of Thomas Drein
" Sons glisten in their white sides in
the treaty ports of the China seas and
coquette With the fresh waves of
Michigan and Superior. The railroad
car and truck wheels of the Lobdell
? Car Wheel Company roll along the iron
tracks from the Atlantic to the Pacific
and in almost every part of the civilized
world. The bridge structures of the
Edge Moor Iron Company compete sue
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island continent of the southern seas.
But the list is almost interlninable. In
fact the citizen OF Wilmington nav well
tlatter himself with, as Paul Of Tarsus
did, OF being 50 citizen Of no mean
city"
| In regard to the more public matters
!of the city, its municipal or depart
mental government, Wilmington has
reason TO congratulate itself fer the
accomplishment during the past year Of
more than one significantly progressive
movement.
CHEERFUL BUSINESS OUTLOOK.
AS regards business, this year has
been fairlyrgood. Mechanics have not
been kept constantly employed but there
are lew Who can complain. LII this city
many cars have been constructed durif3s-
the year and q vessels have been built.
The aggregate cost Of the latter K al
least S3000,000. During the week d
representative Of TIE GAZETTE felt
INC pulse Of trade, and appended will b
found the opinions of prominent bust.
ness men respecting the outlook for
business IN Wilmington next year.
Job II. jackson, president of the
Jackson Y sharp Company, said: "The
outlook for carbuilding in the near
future is good. The crops Of the coun-
try have been large and the trangnofta-
ton companies have been making
money. These companies have been
economizing closely for a year or TIVE,
and they will spend their surplus earn
ings for needed equipment. This and
the demand which will be made by the
Worlds Fair, for which the transporta-
ton companies are preparing, will, in
my opinion, make the carbuilding bust
ness good. l believe the next two Of
three years will be prosperous. Slip.
building, owing to the exceedingly low
freights, is very dull. There ii 10 in
ducement to make Investments in Sail
ing vessels. Through the general pros.
perlty Of the country shipbuiIding, |
thank, will come up too
Willard :. Pyle, secretary Of the G. 81
j. lyle Company, manufacturers Of
patent leather, saidi "WG'ye had Ill the
work we could handle this year and va
Will run at full capacity next Year,
George G. Lobdell, Jr., secretary and
treasurer Of the Lobdell Car Wheel
Company, suid I've viii be busy dur.
ing the remainder Of the winter but
prices will be low What VIII lie i'll
condition Of our business beyond That
time cannot say"
l.. A. Bower, yice-presidcnt Of the
Diamond State Iron Company. said,
Iron men are hopeful. We expect a
big year Judging from tile general
outlook next year will be prdsperous.',
J. Parke Postles, president II lie
American Leather Company, said "The
morocco business If not brisk now, but
it will be better after the first Of the
year. December Is always dull month,
Towards the first Of the year our eus.
toners take account If stock ana buy
little. Crops have been coed and tho
general feeling is that the trade cannot
help being healthy next year.
A. K. Jones, treasurer u the Hilles &
Jones Company, maohinists, said:
There are Indications Of fair season. !,
A representative of the McCnllouqh
Iron Company said; Business has been
fair this year and next year il viii be
better. a busy year ID Indicated.
Robert !. Baird Of Charles Baird 81
Company, morocco manufacturers, pre-
.dicted q prosperous year.
William 4. Crosby, Of TIE dry goods
firm Of Crosby q Hill, said "The crops
nave been large and the country + ID
excellent condition. The rctai trade