Evening journal., 1915-08-03

GOA. .469 municipal tax rate. S1.35 per
500; total annual city expenditures,
s1349.691; receipts from taxes on real
property, S1.010,16S; receipts from all
other sources. public service cor
porations municipal enterprises, etc..)
$3.50. .523; no State taxes on real es-
tate; no States taxes on securities;
State laws very favorable to in
dustrials.
Per capita receipts from revenues; /;
property taxes. 1902; other taxes, .13;
special assessments. AS; fines. for
feits. etc, 0S; subcentions. donations,
ETC. so; earnings of general depart
ments rs; highway privileges, rents
and interest. IL earnings of public
service enterprises, S2.S4; total,
s13.54.
(Attention is called to the fact that
only twelve cities in the entire
United States have a lower per-capita
cost of municipal government than
Wilmington,l
Financial.
Three national banks; four trust
companies; one State bank; two saw
ings banks; bank clearings for year
ending March 81. 1915. S91 997. 1926 (;
total bank deposits. March 4. 1915,
! S27 10000: total surplus and un-
divided profits of banking institutions,
March 4, 1915, $5,065.2 2S4.
Industrial.
| One hundred million dollars invest
ed in manufactures; annual PAYROLL
| S000.000
/ Principal products: Glazed kid
( leather, steel and wooden ships, steel
and wooden railroad cars, car repair
ing. iron, steel and brass castings
specialized machinery, vulcanized
fibre machine tools, rubber hose
tobacco, cotton goods and textiles
hosiery, talking machines, paper
soda-pulp. paper and sugar mill ma
chinery. plumbing fixtures and sup
plies, leather betting, refrigeratine
machinery, brick and terra Gotta
paints and chemicals. architectural
woodwork, aluminium castings. struc
tural iron, boilers, car wheels. mar
inc engines, jute, kaolin, explosives
ribbon, valves.
Cheap gas electric power, light and
water for manufacturing purposes
excellent and abundant labor. male
and female; splendid factory sites OF
rail and water
There are also two telephone com
panies; one of the best hotels in thu
United States; 187 passengers trains
daily; 30 churches. all denomina
tions; two daily evening newspapers
one daily morning newspaper; fou
weekly newspapers; one public Ii
brary with S0.26S volumes, annua
home circulation, 262,004
President John j. Satterthwait say
of the new directory;
This classified trade directory o
the members of the Chamber of Com
merce is published with two chic
motives. First, to furnish member
with a complete list of the member
ship so classified and reference
as TO be of actual benefit to local con
sumers and purchasers of goods mad
in Wilmington. Secondly, to suppl
the constant demand for lists q
manufacturers, merchants. exporters
professional men, makers of and deal
ers in particular commodities. etc
such information as is continuousl
sought by outside business concerns
1t is hoped that in addition to maxim
Wilmington products and local bus
ness houses better known at hom,
the directory will be the means of in
creasing local trade and the sale {
Made in Wilmington" article
throughout the United States an
abroad.
The directory is necessarily il
: complete as the first issue woul
/, have to be with the information
hand. The subject matter has bee
condensed and abridged to the abs,
lutte minimum consistent with al
> proximating the results desired"