Evening journal., 1911-12-22

Owing to the weather conditions I
on McI.day evening. the address pre-
pared by l. Irving Handy for the
turning on of the new lights in Mar
lset street had to be shortened. II had
been the intention Of Mr.. Handy tol
speak on wilmington Long -igo,
and he intended to read extracts from
THE American Gazetteer" published
in Boston, Mass, in 1897.
This volume, which was handed
down to Mr.. Handy by his great
grandfather. contains some interest
ing data concerning the city in those
davs The most remarkable state
mant is that Wilmington was at that
time the most prosperous city in the
conntrv. and Philadelphia received
Ali its staple supplies from Delaware
The account also deals with the
various churches here and the Sap
fist Church spoken of is the one now
standing i'm King street north OF
Tcnth street The records OF TINS
edi6ce show that in 1888 Elder Thom-
oe Anger and Mrs. Anger came here
from PHILADELPHIA and Il was through
hse Efforts tho church was erected IN
17S5. The extract from the Gazetteer
Almost the whole Of the foreign
exnorts of Delaware are from VII
minzton. the trade from TINS suals
40 Philadelphia is great; being .ne
rrrincipal source whence ina. Sity
draws its staple commodity. no .oo ivss
than 265 900 barrels OF hour Svv,-
moo bushels Of wheat. lfOOoV Dusnsls
of Indian corn besides paliess, o",.
naxseed paper, nint IRON, suuu' ,1,. so snnt
cd provisions. etc, are annually sonl
e, ~ ne waters OF the Delaware
ststa of which the Christiana IS pyl
far Tho most productive. and propa-
III, MANY times as much so, as any
- creek or river of Ike magnl-
trSe In the IInion-245,000 barrels OF
oanr and other articles to the amount
80 eco O00 more being exported IRON
th,e creel. of which. TO the Nalue|
cs sboo 600. are manufactured on l's
,orthcrn hanks within two or three|
-,,iloe of navigation Among other
hranches of industry exercised III ana
near Wilmington are cotton manu-
factory; lately. however purh,'
holting cloth mandatory has lately
boen established by an ingenious Hu,
ropean; both OF which have promised
fair to be lasting advantage 10 'ne
country. 80. -
.overal fulling mills, two snuff mills,
onn Sitting. four paper mills, ahu oV
mills for grinding grain an ol ""iO"
are turned by water
.'But though Wilmington ana us
nelghborhood are probably already
the greatest seat Of manufactures I'D
The limited States. yet they are capa-
Nlo of being much improved IN TINS
acsn ,ct. as the country Is hilly ana
ebornds with running water. The
bran iywine alone might with mod
rrate expense when compared with
3he object be brought to the top or
tAo hin upon which Wilmington Is
situated whereby a fall sufficient for
iortv mills I'm addition. to those al
ready built would be obtained. The
heights near Wilmington anord a
number OF agreeable prospects from
some OF which may be seen IN the
town. the adjacent meadows ana Iout
adjoining states. No regular account
of the births and burials has been
kept. but the place is healthy. The
number Of children under l6 Is prob
ably equal to that of any town which
is not more populous and according
1oan accurate account taken the year
1914 there we're upwards of 100 per-
sons above 90 years old. The Logis-
lafure of this state passed an act TO
incorporate a bank IN this town
No College at the Time.
There is no college in this state.
There Is an academy at Newark, in
cOrporated in 1863. The Legislature
during their session in January, 1886
passed an act TO create fund for
the establishment of schools through
the state.
'Wheat is the staple commodity OF
this state This is manufactured into
-four and exported I'm large quanu-
ties. The exports from the port OF
Wilmington. where number OF
square rigged vessels arc owned. for
the year 1855 IN the article of -four
was 20,7S3 barrels, superfne 457 do
common, 256 do, middling, 346 do
The manufacture of -four Is carried
to a higher degree of perfection IN
this state than in others i'm the Union
Besides the well-constructed mills on
Red Clay and White Clay creeks ant
on other streams in different parts
OF the state, the celebrated collection
of mills al Brandywire merit a par
ticular description Here are to bl
seen at one view twelve merchan
mills t(besdes a sawndn) Thes'
mills are three miles from the moutl
of the creek on which they stand
half a mile from Wilmington ant
twenty-seyen miles from Philadelphia
on the post road from the eastern q
the southern flats. They are callel
the Brandywinc mills from the strean
on which they are erected. Thi
stream rises near the Welsh Noun
tains I'm Pennsylvania and after
winding course Of thirty or fort
miles through falls which furnis
Humerous seats. 130 of which ar
already occupied), for every specie
OF water works, empties into Chris
tiana creek near Wilmington.
Flour Mills Busy.
In the fall of 1888 and spring {
1890 there were made at the Brandy
mine mills $4,000 barrels Of supel
fine; 1854 barrels of common: Al
barrels middling. as many Of ship stu
and 1000 barrels c0rnmeal. n
quantity of wheat and corn grouu
from which this -four was made wa