Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-12-14
MORE WAREHOUSES;
NEEDED TO DEVEVOP
WHOLESALE TRADE
Necessity Pointed Out at Meet
ing Of Wilmington Jobbing
House Men.
TRANSPORTATION SEEMS
TO BE SECONDARY

Xavs and means for increasing trade
n Wilmington from q wholesale point ot
vicv wrrc discussed Yesterday afternoon
~ i meeting of the Wholesale Section Of
the Chamber of Commerce, IN the du
pont building The section, newly or
ganized "a made up az wholesale dealers
hcrc William y Mullen is chairman,
4 committee on trade and transport
.,ou Was selected Yesterday 20 nvcSta-
gat, and secure data with definite m
formation rs To how present trans
portatInn arrangements affect Whining
Ton dealers in their relation ~ the penn-
sula. The committee IS made up ot John
4 Rocker. chairman, Charles g. I've, ,.
u. Finkelstein, William ID Hannigan and
George r. Booker
Mr. Mullen discussed tho great need
~ An orean,zed transportation corps. AT
the present tune, he SAID. an important
motor transportation organization from
baltimore IS in operation and with routes
snrcadInr into our area Thus means that
the motors VIII hc placed IN commission
with terminals AZ various points ~ gnes
So far AS 70 include transportation hN
motor from Baltimore 70 the terminal
and lnsurlng equal trade on the return
trip
i, was pointed ont that tho rates hy
truck although higher than freight charges,
have proved more tempting 70 some OF the
4 r7lraI retailers and the consumer Is wiling
70 pay this difference IN preference e
pavluC for the hauling from the raIlroad
( station to tho place of final delivery
/ These latter charges, It IS sand, are cXccp-
tionally high
/ For the purpose of iuauglIratIng 2 reg,i-
+ lar trucking service IN tins area, whole
sale dealers and commission merchants
+ IN Fast Fourth street viii be asked 70 CO
Operate with the Chamber Of Commerce
in their endeavor 10 bring tins trade e
Wilmington.
At the time Of the new municipal whar
project last spring, commission mer
chants were asked 10 attend a meeting II
i the Chamber Of Commerce rooms. n
+ which II was planned 10 map out some
suitable manner IL which 10 utilize the
/ new wharf However, the commission
merchants seemed uninterested and the
/ attendance at the meeting was small
/ Most OF these dealers prefer trading anc
buying in Philadelphia and Baltimore, u
/ Is SAID
WAREHOUSE SPACE LACKING.
/ Charles Bye, ddressing the whole
salers. said Prom a commercial stand
point Wilmington has a distribution
advantage over either Baltimore or Phil
adelphia and ! think dealers of this cit,
should capitalize on this. The reason VIII,
I Wilmington Is not the commercial cente
II ought To be Is because We have no com
merical warehouses The commission
merchants and the consumer wont get
show il the trade is diverted from TIN
CITY. Personally | think Wilmington
should be a business centre for a radius O
so miles Mr. Bye stated that Reading
Pa, and other towns in the anthracite re-
gion could be reached / 2 hours sooner from
this city than from Phil adelphia. How
ever, he continued, these men wOul
rather 20 10 Philadelph phia II markc
were opened here, this trade would com
TO Wilmington Wilmington has no
the facilities 10 accommodate shipment
from the West and for this reason we pa
81 oents more on each barrel Of -four tina
We ought not TO pay.
Continuing the discussion on the ware
house question: Mr. Mullen said: "a
present ] have more applications than
can handle and each day am asked fo
warehouse space. In Philadelphia 2
warehouses are being used and two NOR
are being built Therefore, Philadelphia
getting the trade because WilmingtO
lacks the housing facilities"