The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27
BY FRANCIS l.. LISMAN

S l.. LISMAN
 ihitched to a live wire. and his dreams never die. they are too big to die. and they all come true.
 He dreamed of a powder company thar would represent the entire world. and nine years ago he went back to Whining ton from Louisville. Ky. whither his fa- ther. Edermann duPont, had moved and took up the powder making lead of his ancestors in spite of the fact that he had always been a mining engineer and cor poration organizer.
 The Dream Is Now Fact Before that time he dreamed that he could make street railway companies success, and he made millions of dollars making them a success. This he did with the late Tom Johnson Of Cleveland. He dreamed that he could lead in politics, 50 he became the successful leader of Deia- ware and licked Addicks repeatedly.
 Road Next Achievement
 Finally he dreamed of this great roan proposition. and he is making it. Just as levery other thing his mind has evolved.
 I went to Wilmington to go over t,i- road with MT. duPont and 10 get con- c!se idea of what was taking place. hut I found him such an interesting character that I could not resist the temptation to enter that subject as well.
 l I was welcomed to 8 trip over the route as one interested in forwarding he good roads movement and went to the duPont building in Wilmington 10 make the final arrangements with Mir duPont. He was as busy as q man could be. In the frony office sat a half dozen men. One of them I recognized as barber from I'hiladel- phia, who winked at me and said he was not going to shave the general '1f you mean skin him. like most bar bers do," seid a portly man of political appearance. you had better go to col lege awhile"
 delphan, into the powder makers office end was surprised and title embarrassed 1 because I thought I was intruding, or was getting the secretary "in bad" l,y going in too soon. l discovered my mistake. for the general and his visitor were talking over something in French with a surpris- | ing iuency. When the matter was at tended to I introduced myself and re- marked on the unusual character of the preceding interview.
 1 Do look like q man who 1unkad in French when he was In collese?" he asked me in return.
 l I said he did not
 l Well, I didn't"
 Hundreds Seeking Interview | There must have been hundred men in his private office in two and a half hours. besides the throng of clerks and secre- taries from different departments of the lduPcnt company. The door opens softly and a man enters. Another door opens and one goes out. satisfied as they all are on leaving his office. The telephone rings ard another engagement or another mat tier Is arranged. A signal bell rings: the cao +a. {., lthe procession moves on without interrup- tion. To tell the truth. the procession $ lso big on a day before the general goes 'dcwn the state" for s few days on the road that if it were an incident of the streets of a small town if would be a crowd.
 Under the lawr of Delaware and ihe lspecial act Of the Delaware general ns- sembly General duPont will be forced to organize corporation for the constrlc- ton of the road and 1t will most likely be named after the corporation, which will be directed and financed entirely by Mir duPont. Throughout the promotion of the proposition the general has expressed tho ldesire to name the road the Delawar. road. but at the same time his friends and lthe friends of the project have called the road the duPont road and 1t is likely that lthis name will stick to it as long as 1t ex- ists, and it will be a road for centuries.
 MT. duPont has decided to name the lcorporation either the Delaware Boule- ward company or the Coleman ,iuPont Road company Though the work on the road is now progressing. the company has not been perfected, but will be per- fected as soon as all of the rights of way have been secured along the entire length
 Choosing Lower Route The builder of the road prefers the route Heading from Claymont. Del, along the Pennsyvania border. through Whining lton. Dover, Harrington. Georgetown, Frankfort to selbyville, on the Maryland border. The survey through these points has been completed and all but three or -four miles of the right Of way purchased Tor given. But it Is this short distance that is holding up part of the work ,ern- lporarly and may finally turn the road iasidc from the course from Harrington and lead it through Seaford and on down to DeInar, which would tap the western hall of the state instead of the eastern half.
 By the act of the legislature General lduPont was empowered to secure the right Iof way for a 3o-foot road. with the priv lilege of granting franchises fpr an inter- urban line. Thougt he had >omprehen-