Evening journal., 1894-07-11
THE PULLMAN PLANT.
Wilmington Enterprise and
Location Favorable to It.
WHY IT WOULD BE ADVANTAGEOUS
The Industrial improvement Company
Sends an Invitation to the Great Palace
Car Manufacturers Inducements which
Are worth Careful Confederation.

Are worth Careful Confederation.
Colonization in this country, although |
the experiment has been made a number /
Of times under seemingly most favorable |
circumstT nces, has never proved a
startling success, and no one IL aware |
Of that fac5 more taan George M. Pull |
mau. In whose vast shops In the city
which bears his name the troubles which
are now disturbing the entire country
originated For several years Mr. Pull
man has been painfully aware Of this
fact and it is claimed by those who are
in position to know that he Is has been
anxious to shift the colonization burden
from his shoulders and adopt other and
more advantageous plans
The present strike, while II will result
in severe loss to him and his associates
in the Pullman Palace Car Company,
will prove solution OF this question,
aud II Is not too much TO say that in the
| future the business of the mammoth
concern will be. TO greater extent, car
ried on in other cities. Believing that
this result will follow the settlement Of
the present labor difficulty and with a
view to the improvement and building
up Of Wilmington, the Industrial I'm
provement Company yesterday, sent the
| following letter TO the second vice.
president OF the Pullman Company:
| "DEAR SH' AS president OF the Indus
trial improvement Company, OF Whining
ton, / would respectfully ask you TO look
over the field with view Of enlarging
your plant here
I'VE have no Anarchists here, have
plenty Of room and central location
Most Of the mechanics here own their
own houses, thus making them perma-
nent citizens We have little or no
floating population.
while you have had much trouble
elsewhere our men in your Wilmington
shops have continued steadily at their
work.
81 believe there was never known to
be a labor riot In Wilmington.
"Hoplng you will give the matter your
attention, | am very respectfully,
"WnLIAM LAwTON"
The plant Of the Pullman Company in
this city is located just across the
Eleventh street bridge, on the banks of
the Brandywine and directly on the
main line Of the Philadelphia, VIII
mington and Baltimore road. There are
about thirty acres In the plant OF which
probably twenty acres are not built
|
can employ 900 hands and does employ
on an average 500, who are paid good
wages, averaging all through from $5C
to $50 month Of twenty-six days.
I Many of these workmen own their owr
: houses and are cOutented and happy, al
though on several occasions attempts
J., have been made TO embrol them IN labor
+. troubles they have refused to be led ant
; have remained loyal to their employers
I believing 1t to their advantage 20 do so
. With this record the Pullman Company
e Is thoroughly conversant, and this Is ons
OF the strong points which are adduced
. by the Industrial Company as an induce
}. ment for the enlarge nent Of the present
0 plant. There Is ample room on the twenty
+ acres unocoupied for the erection Of
the buildings, and should there moi
be- more land, Immediately adjoining the
J. present plant, could be had for nominal
sum, which would be free from tax fol
y ten years,
d AS an industrial and Commercial
centre WILMINGTON has few superiorl
q and in its facilities for receipt and ship
d ment Of raw and finished material, q
cannot be surpassed. Located on three
/. railroad trunk lines, the Pennsylvania
o the Baltimore and Ohio and the VIII
d mington and Northern, lying on a streau
q accessible for sailing and steam vessels
and but few miles from the Delawarl
IA river, it combines the advantages Of al
y inland and a seaboard city. During the
II past decade its population has increased
d 45 per cent. and its manufactures haT
g shown a like increase
le Enterprlsing, Il can show twelve mile
al Of electric street railways, large electric
ID light and power plants, sixteen morocco
he factories, seventeen carriage works
ID three paper mills, powder mile fou
d ship building yards, four car building
shops twenty-seven iron works, thre
cotton factories, three hard fibre works
. q glass factory four marine railways
ID two flour mills and a score Of other an
,d smaller industries.
r It is q city of homes and there are fel
s. II any instances to be found where eve
ID the oommonest laborer does not have
he hone TO himself aud at a rental far NOR
" moderate than in any ci north or west
IN IL has superb educational faoilitie!
,'s and It's twenty six schools cannot
re- surpassed in cities much its superior /
Sc population. In fact, our city offers VI
paralleled advantages for the looation.c
any manufacturing industries, an
especially the enlargement OF the Pull
at man plant now here.
in The land adjoining the property no
IN owned by the Pullman Company wi
Sc have to be filed in, It is true, but th
re would be q matter of comparative
He small cost, and would be more tha
ne covered by the exemption from taxation
ell Over $4,000 was expended during Il
past year on banks and dykes, and Il
land is now as thoroughly protecte
from the inroads Of the river as is Il
90 kingdom Of Holland. Less than six fe
sst from the surface is found q hard bed
e. white gravel, which would furnish
re foundation bed for the heaviest Of bull
SITS ings.
ia Should there be any enlargement
he the works, accommodations for worl
bv men and their families would Of courl
be necessary There is ample room 4
the eastern part OF the city for all q
families added to our population, al
rio owners Of property in the near vlcini
= of the works have expressed their wi
M ingness to at once erect small and col
~ Portable houses, which they will rent
He figures which will be as low as can
ion found In any city.
an These are the inducements offered