The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-03-03

n d. L. Gore Company. Wholesale
grocers. now occupy the extensive new
arehous which they have erect at
III. 119. III and 123 north Water street.
1t is a two story building with outside
walls of brick. and is just across he
street from the company's jobbing
house. lis. III. To- and 124 north Water
street.
The first floor of the warehouse is 65
by 1875 feet in size, and On the north
side OF it is a meat storage that will
contain about four car loads OF salt
meat. The balance of the floor is used
for heavy groceries,. moiasses. salt.
flour. grain, etc.
The second floor is the same size OF
the one below and it will be used as a
general storage. Two elevators with
automatic matches at the second fioof
landings connect it with the first floor.
The elevators are at either end Of the
warehouse and are used to carry goods
from one floor to the other. The two
floors will contain from IS to 100 car
loads OF goods.
On Water street between the compa-
ny's wholesale grocery and the ware
house runs the Atlantic Coast Lines
dummy track and the west end OF the
warehouse is on the river front. There
is ample wharf facilities and while
cars can be loaded and unloaded in
front of the wholesale grocery and the
warehouse. any steamer or vessel that
can come into the port of Wilmington
can lie in six feet OF the west end OF
tho r-a 70 nIrcn and iiSaharOa or taka m
goods with the greatest facility. In
front two railroad cars can be loaded
or unloaded at a time, and the facilities
for the work are unsurpassed.
A substantial steel bridge will span
Water street and reach from the second
story Of the wholesale grocery to the
second story Of the warehouse. From
the grocery establishment a transfer
railway will run across the bridge into
and through the second floor Of the
warehouse. so goods can be easily
transferred from one building to the
other, or be run out to be loaded on
cars or vessels. These facilities will en-
able the company to load or unload cars
and vessels without and drayage what
soever, so that the cost of handling
goods is reduced to the minimum.
In the warehouse there are nearly
5000 square feet of floor space which in
the wholesale grocery the floor space is
$4,000 square feet. Electric call bells
and spaking tubes will connect the two
establishments and add to the facilities
for transacting business
The carries one OF the lafg.
est stocks in the south. n does busi-
ness in North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, Florida and Alabama. Twen-
ty men are employed and three travel
ing statesmen are constantly on the
road, while a large business is done
through brokers in the states named.
Over in the wholesale grocery one
department. is entirely devoted to sta
| pie drugs. and the balance OF the first
! and second floors of the large establish
nnent are used for the tremendous stock
OF groceries. tobacco, cigars and ms
| cellaneous stock.
The company does a very large bust
ness N peanuts and In rear of the store
On the second floors of q large brick
building are the peanut wareronms and
machinery for cleaning, polishing. grad
ing and bagging the nuts. The ma
chinery is run by a twenty horsepower
| electric motor, and this department is
one Of the best equipped in the south.
Having surrounded their business
with the facilities which are mention
ed above the companv will import goods
in cargo lots. a d will make a special
ty of molasses as well.
The Messenger is glad of the oppor-
tunity to note enterprise on the part of
our merchants, and certainly our city
is TO be CONGRATULATED upon having a
jobbing house with the unrivaled facil-
tiles with which the has sur
rounded itself.
The D. L. Gore Company IS incorpor-
ated and the officers are as follows:
Mr.. D. l.. Gore, president; Mr.. L.. B.
Rogers. vice president: Mr. J. c.. Gore.
secretary and treasurer.
81 owe my whole life to Burdock
blood Bittors. Scrofulous sores COW
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