The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-06-20
BIG CHANGE ON THE WHARF
LONDON WHARF LEASED BY j.
A. SPRINGER & co.
The Wharf is to Be Rebuilt Right
Away-Messrs. j.. A. Springer q Co.
to Their Coal and Wood
Yard and Will Erect
AND Machinery For The Largest
business of the Kind in the State

One Of the biggest changes to be
made on the wharf in many years is
now on foot. Messrs. ]. A. Springer &.
Co. wholesale and retail dealers in coal,
wood and shingles have leased for a
term Of years from Mr.. D. L. Gore the
London wharf at the foot OF Chestnut
street. and will remove their coal and
wood depot there.
In the mean time Mr. Gore will have
the wharf entirely rebuilt and has
awarded the contract 10 the Diamond
Wrecking Company, Of which Captain
e. D.. Williams is manager. Captain
Williams began work yesterday and
will clear away the debris of old
wharves which were burned a year os
so ago. preparatory TO driving piling
and building new and substantial
wharves. This property is about 200
feet square and is one of the most VAL
liable and elligibly located wharves in
Wilmington.
The wharves will be completed in the
next thirty days and then Messrs.
Springer & Co., will begin to remove
their coal and wood depot there from
its precent location on Water street be-
tween Princess and Chestnut streets.
They will erect a hand some office build
ing on the new wharf and will put in
an up-to-date plant consisting of boil
ers. engines, saws, wood splitting ma
chlnery, bins, and overhead railways
with automatic dumping cars, all to be
run by steam. The bins Will have a
storage capacity for 1000 tons of coal.
and there will be ample facilities on the
wharf for wood and shingles.
The machinery will embrace facilities
that will enable vessel cargoes to be
discharged at the rate of $50 tons a
day. The machinery VIII all he new and
of the most improved order, giving ia
~cilities for conducting the business more
expeditiously and with greater econo-
my. The wharfage facilities will be
more "a twice as commOdiouS as
Messrs. Springer & Cos ola site, and
Mr.. Springer states that it will be the
biggest and best equipped plant of the
kind in the state.
Besides the improved and enlarged ia
cilities of the new plant for handling
coal, wood and shingles, the bins will
have a capacity for 1000 tons of coal.
which the company can CARRY in addi-I
ton to the regular shipping depot at
the Seaboard Air Lin wharves where
they carry 1000 tons in bulk. The
dummy railroad line Dbl the wharf runs
through the centre of the new site and
cars can be loaded with coal and go
direct to interior points at h mini
mum cost.
Messsrs. Springer & Co, have been at
their present location since 1878. twen-I
ty-four years, and wien they novel
away from it Mr.. D. l.. Gore. also the!
owner of that property, will rebuild the
wharves and erect a large warehouse
thereon. The warehouses will be in
front of the wholesale grocery estab-
lishment of the D. l.. Gore Company
and it will be used for storing salt, mo-
lasses and goods in buiA
Captain Williams expects to REBUILD
the London wharves IN thirty days and
Messrs. Springer & Co, will then take
charge and begin the erection of their
new plant. They expect to be doing
business there by September.