Middletown transcript., 1891-09-17
Middletown as an Industrial Centre.

Located midway between the tide
waters Of the Delaware and Chesa-
peake bays, upon the ridge or "back
bonen of this Peninsula, this town
offers advantages both natural and ar
tificial for locating mechanical indus
tries that are rarely equaled and GER
tainly not excelled at any point in the
six thousand square miles embraced
within the State of Delaware and
Eastern Shore Counties of Maryland
and Virginia.
Our location is high above sea level,
drainage good, healthfulness proverb-
ial for excellence, surrounded by the
finest agricultural lands producing all
that enters into the requisite food for
mankind. Our churches are we'll at
tended by respectful, attentive hearers;
our public schools unsurpassed by any
in the State for efficient teachers and
most excellent executive discipline
and courses Of study most thorough,
as is always attested by the rank of
our scholars who enter so called s'class-
ical " institutions, and the large num-
Der of teachers who have graduated at
our Academy. Our railroad facilities,
now good, will be improved in the
near future by the construction Of the
spur to tide water at Odessa, and pos
sibly the further extension of the
same road westward to Warwick, Nd.
through which place it is thought a
road will soon be built by the Balti-
more & Philadelphia r. R. Co., thus
making this town accessible by rail
from all points.
The successful efforts of our Board
of Trade in securing the attention of
the influential house Of Young, Smyth,
Field & Co., of Philadelphia, and their
subsequent determination to establish
factory here for the manufacture Of |
shirts, under and overwear, gives the
assurance Of the advantages Of our
town over even larger places in New
Jersey, Pennsylvania and the Peninsu-
la. There is no reason why dozen or
more kindred industries shall not Sc
lect Middletown for their manufacture
ing sites and while we commend the
!ab0rs of our Board of Trade and sin
cerely congratulate the town upon the
success that has 50 far attended their
efforts, yet let US not be content
with the present, but unitedly strive
10 make our town an important manu-
'acturing centre, and if we acquaint
capitalists of our desire there can be
No such word as fail" Let our
,itizens, as they meet business men
rom home, speak of our town, being
lighted by electricity, watered by an
bundant supply of pure water, pro-
ected by most efficient Hose, Hook
nd Ladder Company of Veteran
fire Kings" who believe that 4" When
uty calls tits honor to obey" and do {
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Our streets are graded, sidewalks of a
ubstsntial brick and not a vacant
yelling, but capitalists ready to build
3 fast as demanded for newcomers, q
slegraph, telephone, eight mails daily 1
except Sunday Twelve or more pas v
snger trains, excellent public roads D
'ading in every direction, a dozen c
ores, two national banks, building D
nd loan association, board Of trade. Il
'wn commissioners ever on duty. In j
word live, energetic town that will b
'mpare favorably or convenience and Sc
lvantages enumerated, with any Il
her place for the location of hosiery K
lifting, woolen and cotton, and fruit W
cking or preserving, -
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