. Wilmington up-to-date : the metropolis of North Carolina graphically portrayed . yield abundantand choice food supplies. Fish, oysters and other products of the riverand sea are plentifully obtained only just without the citys limits,and, with no important exception, nearly every class of food is asabundant and as cheap as in any other part of the United States. Wilmington today bids fair to go ahead rapidly and it must neces-sarialy share in the growing prosperity and advancement of the natural resources were at no time better supplemented by its ac- 32 THE CITY OF WILMINGTON. qui


. Wilmington up-to-date : the metropolis of North Carolina graphically portrayed . yield abundantand choice food supplies. Fish, oysters and other products of the riverand sea are plentifully obtained only just without the citys limits,and, with no important exception, nearly every class of food is asabundant and as cheap as in any other part of the United States. Wilmington today bids fair to go ahead rapidly and it must neces-sarialy share in the growing prosperity and advancement of the natural resources were at no time better supplemented by its ac- 32 THE CITY OF WILMINGTON. quired advantages than they are today, and the opportunities to inaug-urate new undertakings and obtain homes, occupation and content-ment are here open to all. The city is the center of intellectual vigor,with a past full of interest, a present full of earnestness, and a futurefull of promise. Wilmington presents many attractions to the tourist,the patriot and the statesman, the business man and the wage earner,and more important than all to that most practical of philanthropist,. MR. WM. H. SPRUNTS RESIDENCE. the enterprising business man and home seeker, looking for a locationin which to establish a productive industry. The time should not befar distant when the 25,000 population of Wilmington shall be doubled,and perhaps tripled, and when of the entire Atlantic South coast citiesshe shall be among the first of its important centers of production anddistribution.


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