. Wilmington up-to-date : the metropolis of North Carolina graphically portrayed . r of the former firm of Divine & Chadbourn. Thushe has been connected with the enterprise for the past seven years andis thoroughlv familiar with the requirements of this market. He is anative of this eitv and was formerlv a civil engineer and was connectedwith the Atlantic Coast Line for eleven years. At the present time heis also a director of the Peoples Savings Bank and several buildingand loan associations and generallv takes an interest in the citys ad-vancement and progress. 44 THE CITY OF WILMINGTON. J.
. Wilmington up-to-date : the metropolis of North Carolina graphically portrayed . r of the former firm of Divine & Chadbourn. Thushe has been connected with the enterprise for the past seven years andis thoroughlv familiar with the requirements of this market. He is anative of this eitv and was formerlv a civil engineer and was connectedwith the Atlantic Coast Line for eleven years. At the present time heis also a director of the Peoples Savings Bank and several buildingand loan associations and generallv takes an interest in the citys ad-vancement and progress. 44 THE CITY OF WILMINGTON. J. A, SPRINGER & CO.,Coal Wood, Etc., Office, 121 North Water Street. The oldest established house in Wilmington engaged in the hand-ling of coal, the most valuable product of natures secret laboratory, isthat of the above firm, which was founded twenty-eight years ago byMr. J. A Springer, the senior member of the present firm, which wasorganized about six years ago. The firm have, at the above addresstheir office, yards and coal pockets for storage, with a wharf These are utilized principally for the retail departments. Their whole-sale trade is transacted from the Seaboard Air Line wharf, where thevhave all conveniences, including a Hunt elevator, and coal is here re-ceived in cargo and car load lots and dispatched to destination. Thehouse has storage capacity available for 10,000 tons of coal, five hun-dred cords of wood and about two or three million shingles. The plantalso includes appliances for cutting and splitting wood for burning, inwhich they transact a large business. The firm are handlers of an-thracite, red and white ash coal of the best quality, which are re-ceived here direct from the mines and sold to the public in quantitiesto suit, invariably well screened, free from all impurities and of fullweight. All orders are promptly filled to satisfaction. Messrs. J. & Co. are also exclusive agents here for the celebrated Poca-hontas steam coal, the
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