The Sentinel=record., 1911-06-22
TRUST ON
 THE GRILL
POWDER TRUST DISSOLVED BY THE U. s. SUPREME COURT
 OF DELAWARE.
Big Family of Du Fonts Named as Defendants in Dissolution Suit Charged Anti Trust
 Violation.

Wilmington, Delaware, June 21.- The United States Circuit Court for the district of Delaware today handed down decision declaring the alleged powder trust which is dominated by the E. I. Du Pont De Nours Powder Company in campaign in restraint fof interstate commerce in powder and other explosives in violation of section l of the sherman anti trust law; that it attempted to monopoize and has monopolised a part of such commerce in violation of section 2 of the same law and decreeing that the combination shall be enjoned from continuing this violation and that it shall be dissolved.
 The action against the Powder trust was begun by the government m 1907 and was directed against forthy three corporate and individual defendants. The suit as 10 fifteen of the defendants was dismissed because some of the concerns are out of ex- istence or it was not shown that they were part- to the combination.
 In an interluctorv decree, the court fixed October 16, as the date to hear both sides as to the nature of the in- junction to be granted and consider a plan for dissolving the combination "to the end that this court may as- certain and determine on a plan or method of such dissolution which vii, not deprive the defendants of the op- portunity to re-create Out of ee- ments now composing said combina- tion, a new condition which shall be honestly in harmony with and not re- pugnant to the law
 The twenty eight defendants de- clared to be in the illegal combination are the Hazard Powder Company, Laflin and Rand Powder Company, international Smokeless Powder and Chemical Company, Eastern Dynamite Company Fairmont Powder Company, Judson Dynamite and Powder Com pany, Delaware Securities Company, Delaware investment Company, Call Iornia Investment Company, E.. l.. Du Pont de Mours and Company Of Pennsylvania, Du Pont International Powder Company, E. |. Du Pont da Mours Powder Company, E. I. Du Pont de Mours and Company, Thomas Coleman Du Pont, Piette S. Du Pont, Alexis I. Du Pont, Alfred I. Du Pont, Eugene Du Pont, Eugene E. Du Pont, Henry F. Du Pont, Irene Du Pont, Francis |. Du Pont, Victor Du Pont, Ja., Jonathan A. Haskell, Arthur ] Mox Ham, Hami.ston M. Barksdale, Edmond G. BuclSner and Frank L. Connable.
 All the individuals named except Buckner are directors of the Du Pont Companies of which Thomas Coleman Du Pont is president. Buckner is an active director of the International Smokeless Powder and Chemical Company.
 The only members of the Du Pont family mentioned in the suit who is not found to be violating the law | is Henry A. Du Pont, United States Senator from Delaware. The court found that in June. 1906, year be- fore the suit was begun he had re- signed all official positions in the companes and has had neither real nor nominal connection With thelr management since then.
 The decision written by Judge w.
 NJ. Tanning and concurred in by Judges George Gray and Jos. Buffing- ton goes into the history of Interstate commerce in gun powder and explos- lives back as far as 1872 when. the
 government charged, the first trade agreement of manufactures was en- Itered into. It finds that when the lsuit was begun the Du Pont company Iorganized in 1902, controlled in the limited States the trade in:
 Black blasting powder Gf per cent;
 Sal. petre blasting powder 72 pei | cent. black sporting powder 73 pei i. cent, smoleless sporting powder 64
 per cent; smokeless military and ord nance powder. exclusive of what tho
 United States Aovernment itseil made, 100 per cent.
 The court also flAds that the Ds pont company of sAsoR5 and th'
 Fastern Dynamite Company controIl-