Evening journal., 1913-05-01
"WAR SCARE"
SAYS BUCKNER
dupont Official Sees No
Special Significance In
JnpS' Land Purchase
DUPONTS NOT WORRIED
OVER THE SITUATION

Pierre S. DUPONT. treasurer OF the
DUPONT Company. was greatly sur
prised at the story published in a
New York paper to the effect that
agents Of the japanese Government
oad acquired 1900 acres OF land
around the plant OF the company al
Haskell. ~ J. Mr. DUPONT said tnat
he put little faith IN the story and
even If so he could see no reason for
alarm. as ordnance powder for the
government was manufactured at
lther plants of the company and that
shou d the Japanese desire TO blow
lp the plant that they would not
adopt the means OF purchasing 1900
acres OF land surrounding It. He
said that be thought the whole mat
ter vas = huge joke.
Ordnance powder for the United
States Government is manufactured
az the Haskell plant aud also at the
-arnfrs Point and Repauno, n. j..
plants Of the company. OF the three
plants tLat at Carneys Point is the
largest To fact Il Is the largest in
the world and has a capacity oi over
,9.0uo 1unds OF powder per day.
The Repaun0 plant has a daily ca
pacity OF about 1000 pounds and the
total of all three plants Is about 25..
200 pounds per day. The government
Itself is nov making great quantities
of powder and even II the Haskell
plant should be destroyed here
would be no great scarcity Of the ex-
plcsi,e for the government
Colonel H. c. Buckner, vice-presi-
dent OF the powder company, said he
could see no ultcrior motive In the
purchase of the land by the Japanese
and that he thought Il was merely a
coincidence Discussing the matter
Yesterday afternoon Colonel Buck
uer aid:
when the story was published this
morning on this matter. Harry r.
Brovl. chief OF the Smokeless depart
partment Of the DUPONT company and
head OF all the smokeless plants,
come to my Office and said he knew all
about the purchase OF the land
around Haskell by Japanese syn
dicatc. He did not even regard n
as Of sufficient Importance to formal
~ report It to the company Neither
have the higher officials questioned
him since the publication We do
not attach any Importance TO the af-
fair and are not concerned in the
least.
III the Japanese or any other peo.
pie had contemplated crippling our
government In time OF war. they
would not have gone 10 Haskell
New Jersey Il Is true that all IN,
smokclcss powder bought by the gov
ernment is purchased from us, but
nur largest smokeless plant, the lar.
gcst in the world in fact. is located
at Carncy's Point ~ j., opposite here
We have three smokcloss works
Carncy's Point Haskell and Parlin
\. j. The Haskell and parlin plants
each manufacture about 5000 poun1.
day as against $4,000 pounds pei
diem made at Camcy's Point.
Had there been any ultcrior mo.
tive in buying land around smoke.
less plant. the one at Carney's Point
would naturally have been selected
The government also makes smoke.
less powder for the navy at Indian
Head. Maryland. and for the army
al Dover. New Jersey. Tho govern.
ment officials claim to be able tC
manufacture from 5000 to 7.0Ol
pounds of smokeless powder daily al
their own works or ono-half OF oui
iotal capacity"
Colonel Buckner dismissed IN,
whole proposition as war scar,
that will not stand water IL is alb
surd on its face" He said that SHOULD
there he a war. the government woul,
first of all surround the powder
plants with soldiers and would keel
everybody az distance no matter
who owned the surrounding land.
"The only Japanese I have seer
hereabouts is valet I'm the service
Of one OF my neighbors. and he Il
peaceful. indeed said Colone
Buckner when asked II he had hear,
OF Japanese being seen about any o
the DUPONT plants.
L. III \ \ non tts..ta