. Wilmington up-to-date : the metropolis of North Carolina graphically portrayed . cilities and con-veniences. This is the rule, to which there are few exceptions. Aconsiderable number of the retail enterprises here, combine an import-ant wholesale business with their retail transactions. 24 THE CITY OF WILMINGTON. The Port of Wilmington* Wilmington is well known among the Southern ports of the At-lantic coast line of North America, achieving a prominent placeas long ago as the beginning of the past century. The calamities ofwar and the enlargement of sea-going vessels, requiring deeper watert
. Wilmington up-to-date : the metropolis of North Carolina graphically portrayed . cilities and con-veniences. This is the rule, to which there are few exceptions. Aconsiderable number of the retail enterprises here, combine an import-ant wholesale business with their retail transactions. 24 THE CITY OF WILMINGTON. The Port of Wilmington* Wilmington is well known among the Southern ports of the At-lantic coast line of North America, achieving a prominent placeas long ago as the beginning of the past century. The calamities ofwar and the enlargement of sea-going vessels, requiring deeper waterthan it could offer, reduced it for a time in importance. But the en-terprise of its merchants and the successful work of the governmenthave completely removed the retraints on its commerce, but there isstill room for deeper water, and there is every reason to hope that thefacilities will be still further enhanced in the near future. The deep-est draft a vessel could draw in ante-bellum days was ten to twelvefeet, now are often unloaded ships at the wharfs up to twenty feet, and. LUTHERAN CHURCH. this without detention, with the result that the annual tonage issteadily increasing. The following figures give some idea of the growth and develop-ment of the shipping interests of the port. In 1898 the tonnage of sea-going American vessels entering and leaving this port was 106,000tons, 62,000 tons of which were steam vessels. Foreign tonnage was84,817 tons, of which 62,000 tons were steam. Total tonage for year,190,012 tons. In 1899, American tonnage 120,000 tons, of which77,000 tons were steam; foreign, 62,476 tons, of which 46,052 weresteam, numbering 27 vessels. Total tonage for 1899, 182,000. In1900 there were 129,000 tons American, 57 steamers, of 70,000 tons;foreign, 36 steam ships, aggregating 61,000 tons. Total tonnage 1900,261 vessels, amounting to 212,385 tons. In 1901, there were 234American vessels of 194,933 tons, of which 113 were steam, aggre-gating 145,150 tons. Fore
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