Evening journal., 1910-12-23
RIVER FRONT
FOR The CITY
Suggestion That Bulkhead be
Finished and 10 Away
With HOId-upS

Editor Of THE EVENING JOUR
NAL: Presuming that THE EVEN
ING JOURNAL is interested in the
CONNER cial progress of the city and
that what It publishes is always an
incentive to the promotion OF the
same / send herewith a blue print of
a rough sketch giving a birds eye
view of Wilmington on the Delaware
river. which outlines some of the
beautiful suburban environs and parks
together with some of the principal
avenues, streets and manufacturing
works, also the present and prospec-
tive transportation facilities that SO
TO make the city an ideal residential
and business centre.
Wilmington with deep water har-
Dor on the Delaware only a few miles
north of the bay, where navigation Is
open the year round, should soon be-
come an important and busy Atlantic
seaport as it would then have all the
advantages that such "a port offers
for the city's future industrial aud
commercial progress
There will be a great impetus TO
commerce on the Atlantic seaboard
when tho Panama Canal is opened
J
/ II has not been many decades ago
since we commenced TO realize that
on the vast American continent south
of tho Isthmus there has been for
over three centuries cultured and
refined civilization and beautiful cities
with an extensive European trade.
Tho extent and value of this trade
aud the advantage of the Panama
Canal in developing and diverting
more Of IL TO the United States Is out
lined In a special report recently is
sued by the Bureau of Latin-Amorican
Republics in Washington, which in
part says:
"The commerce of South America
is increasing with amazing strides
and the trade with the United States
Is growing rapidly. The opening of
the Panama Canal will lead TO great
material development OF the whole
Pacific coast reaching from Mexico to
Chile, which will rival that which
took place on the west coast of tho
United States after the completion OF
the ns-contineutal railroads.
The statement for the year 1909
shows that the twenty republics south
OF the United States bought aud sold
IN trade with the rest of the world
products valued at the enormous total
Of S2,127.3 .30l 900. of this amount the
United States totaled nearly $500 900, =
600. and the average for the years
1907. 1908 aud 1909 was S53S.509 600
A decade ago. the average was less
than half that
Wilmington must have aided very
much In the increased average for tho
three years mentioned i'm this report
by the many shiploads of dynamite and
powder sent 10 Panama and by ;he
large shipments of machinery, railroad
and street ears consigned to cities II
Argentina aud Brazil
Some of these shipments, however
were not made by vessels direct fron
this city. but had to be sent TO othe
ports and loaded on ships flying for
eign flags and which again emphasis
the need Of harbor facilities on th'
Delaware, as well as a morchan
marine
Tho United States has only abou
eleven steamships engaged in its sea
going trade, while it pays alien ship
ping companies $300,000,000 annually
for transporting the nations oceaI
business.
The Panama Canal will also place
the Atlantic coast states in close
touch with the Philippines and th'
Asiatic countries across the Pacific.
China with her almost unnumbere,
millions Of people has been slumber
ing for centuries, but is now awaken
ing and is being modernized along tn
same lines as Japan and the dens
populations of these two countries
overlooking into the vast and, as Sc
/ undeveloped territories of Manchurii
and Eastern Siberia will have tn
effect of opening up new channels o
trade with the Western Hemisphere.
This. together with the unprecedent
ed material and industrial progress Il