Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-07-01

made il necessary for the Dupont com
ranv to build a big new IA ctory for turn
inc out high explosives.
TOWNS REPUTATION SPREADING.
began to hear about Hopcwell at
richmond ONLY there they call II Du-
pont. AT the railroad station 1t was
stated that Italians. Greeks, Hungarians.
Poles. Jamaican negroes, representative
of every nationality, almost, under tho
sun. had be,n going to the new town by
the hundreds for the last two months.
Al Petersburg one is greeted with "Au-
to for lIopewell. sir; going right over
Take YOU to Dupont. cap-go over in
the big car and so on. Everybody in
Petersburg and vicinity who WINS a ma
chine is running It as a sort of stage
coach over to the new town. Boys who
don't look to he a day over Is years Old
~eray-haired men and men OF all the
ages between have become iitney drivers,
| and practicable every one of them thinks.
or seems to think, that he is n Nander-
bilt Gun racer. The Is miles Of what used
to be a fairly good pike between Peters
burg and IIopewell Is traversed each way
DN nunlrpuS Ol dUlt0l'iii's "a 49,
might. The result, is that the once good
pike to-day resembles a streak OF dust,
ankle d~eep-after a rain the dust is a
more or less soupy mud-into which had
been dumped hundreds OF wagonloads OF
boulders in assorted sizes. It costs from
Q, cents TO 81 TO ride over from Peters
burg To honeywell. the 25-Cent fare being
for n ride on auto trucks fitted with
5000. - ,,;Xl -.-t-ar ~.
shock absorhcrs. For the trip in a real
auto the fare is - cents per person for
more than two, two or one, 81 each. IF
YOU stay ON the cushions half the time
1t takes about 40 minutes to make the
trip-its because YOU are a heavyweight
or are glued there.
RIG INCREASE IN PAY ROLL.
To-day was pay day at the works, and
slightly more than 1850 men were paid
off. an increase of more than loo since
the last pay day two weeks ago. These
men come from every corner of the globe.
One of the timekeepers employed by tn"
company speaks. reads and writes eight
languages. and he has Use for all of them.
In n group Of fewer than a dozen en-
ployes of the company gathered In a
Petersburg hotel the other night-enGin-
GERS, skilled mechanics and high class
men-one had LANDED from South Africa
less than two months ago. ano'her han
been employed for the last three years
on a railroad project In Alaska. a third
was ius, hack from experimenting con-
crete work in the canal zone a fourth
had spent the last fe" years AT mining
engineering In south America a MIN
b,i ;,,et ron1pleta6 retaliation of an
electric lighting and power plant on a nix
sugar plantation IN 'nna ana DINERS hao
come from other distant parts OF 'he
world And not a man IN the party look
ed to he more nan 4" years od'
They say there is no camping IN me
new town, nut the torn plaNlns carHs
and broken poker chlps lN'ng along me
midway cause one IN WONDER y mis- IS
exactly true. Every other leatnre OF a
raw, new boom town IN Nevada oNIa-
h"iha or other part OF me "est is there
',''n 'ne Sea,'eren s"n.ns VIZ t"" VI
.t.,. ero,, wbicb IN tho ovorira cnr,e
,.o,s of sb-;1 sonrano lauphtar and tho
s.,na -, si,g,,,r ocoor,uorh.d lac DURAN
..t,.. .co.raio, r. r.riuiscer, 80
two uos,e,, bon,r tnvr u.ol ago ibe
- mont, o,,rds drown "a woman off tho
..n,uouv.a rrnrcr,v and demolished ms
FONTS ami shacke thov had ncc,,oled The
woman ai,,rl,. n,ovod over ir,o the edoo
! If ~. woods off +bo .n,nnanv,s lnnd aud
ma, go. uo, ,an, and r,u, thu author
,.io. ~, p,,rco c.orce coYrtv viii b,vo
a., ot,h thfs o,.il mas, sario,s ana
T.. is too ,rde, conditions tb,, exis, ~
Uorowall
Nam, 81 tho mora ser~ious- rirded y,
U,,.von,s rosidont. CIV ,h. toc,r is a,
Itho to, os tic bnou, ripb, nav. aud thu.
"a, vii, begin IN - shor, time "a se,t,o
dnvu ,o is nroner ,evai Rit rhursdo y
saw some nersous nav &c high a c &. N.
ro, ,ot. an tho midway and uroceed ~
once 10 cree, shocts one, goods hovas
and Quo, clo,hing stores most,v r,cb,
nut In iva s+r.., ara vundarod 90 Ma,
verc deceived nr If those ubo ,redicta d
ia prad,al s,hstderca NJ IA. aetna, n,
hoom wore morol,. n~es.inieitc