The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-29
REMINGTON PARK
ONE OF GREATEST
POSTS In WORLD
Million Dollars Worth of
Powder Stored Here In
100 Magazines.
CAPT. GINTY MAKES
SYSTEM EFFICIENT
Former Danbury Officer To
Leave After Forming
Great Organization.

Because the Union Metallic Car
| fridge Co. park, which contains near
ly hundred magazines sheItering a
million dollars worth of powder, has
become one of the most important
ammunition posts in the world, OUT
| side the war zone, the management
of the munitions plant has determined
to have soldiers in charge of the en-:
| tire park
| None but ex-soldiers and ex-saiIors
will be employed in the park system,
which has developed into one of the
greatest, if not the greatest in the
country. It has been placed on a
pinnacle of efficiency by Captain E.
G. Ginty. who has had charge of the
park for more than four months
| His work in building UP the sys-
tenn done, Captain Ginty will take up
new duties after Jan. L. fCaptain
Burns International Detective Agency
while in command of his position, and
probably will be transferred by that
agency either to Iion or Nyack, NY,
to a similar position. He said he may
go back to Danbury where he has
cigar business.
The magazine park hereafter will
be in charge of Captain Henderson
Inches, of Major PenfieId's staff, and
will be patrolled by ex-so1diers and
ex-sailors as fast as they can be en-
| p1oyed.
When Captain Ginty first took com
nnand of the park in Bridgeport a
Representative of the Remington-U.
M G. Co. showed him a barn at the
park that was called a guard house.
1t contained a table, a chair and a
sheet of paper.
At that time, there were 40 guards
on duty there, receiving $21o a dav
-7aie
assigned to their magazines and posts
from the barn. Everything there was
conducted in q haphazard manner bv
Incompetent officials.
since that time many important
changes have taken place. TO-DAY
there are more than 200 guards on
duty, and two guard houses 4 mile
apart Both houses are ventilated.
well heated and lighted and contain
more than 200 individual lockers
Each guard has private key to his
locker in which to keep his personal
property. Captain Ginty also request
/ ed higher rate of wages be paid the
guards, which was granted. SO that
guards now receive SO instead of $2.1O
per DAY. All these improvements and
increase of pay were brought about
through the efforts of Captain Ginty.
In the park also. Captain Ginty
claims to have one of the best patrol
by any police military authority,
and it has proved itself to be thorough
land efficient in every respect, and the
Rerhington-U. M. c. Co. is without a,
doubt satisfied with the system and
the services of Captain Ginty.
No trouble of any nature has been
experienced since Ginty has been
there. nor signs of spies or trouble
makers of any kind. Efficiency has
been Captain Ginty's watch word, and
his indefatigab1e efforts, both day ana
night, have. brought about an orgall1-
zation that the Remington-U. NJ C.
Co./shouId feel proud of.
Captain Ginty was sent to the Rem
ington-U. M c. Co. by the Burns De-
tective agency as an experienced man
in organizing patrol systems and judg-
| ing from his work here, he has proven
himself to be fully competent for such
an undertaking
The daily reports that Captain Gfnty
sent to the officials OF the Remington
u NJ. c. Co, regarding the placing of
guards to watch on magazines both
day and night, were novel and inter
| esting, as well as unique in style and
manner of any patrol system ever
adopted. In making these reports out
Captain Ginty used a secret code of his
| own invention which covered every
| portion of the park in detail. These
reports were in forms of figures, sym
bols and hieroglyphics. This was in
| troduced by him in order that the
names of the guards, nor the number
| of the magazines of it's location could
be DESIGNATED If tslese reports were
ever stolen by spies or lost and picked
up by a stranger, they never could be
deciphered by anyone, without the aid
of the code. This system today is in
| valuable to the Remington-U. NJ, G.
Co officials, especially while the war
| Is on and numerous spies are supposed
to be in this city.
Even the famous three and four
platoon system that the police fought
to have established in New York for
a number Of years was instituted by
Captain Ginty since the cold weather
set in, and he improved it by adding
symbols in giving details of squads,
abeentees and excuses, and simplify
ing it.
Many persons living in Bridgeport
have a vague idea of the latitude of
this park and what it contains. It
has developed rapidly in the last six
months, miles and miles of macadam
roads have been built there while
magazine after magazine has been
constructed. It has so progressed to
that extent that it is today one of the
largest, if not the largest park of it's
kind, in this country, well as one
of the most important posts outside
the war zone. It has en- enclosure of
contains nearly a hundred magazines
that hold and represent nearly a mil
| lion dollars worth of powder.
The patrol system Instituted by Cap
tain Ginty in the park will be followed
out by Captain Inches and his neuten-
ants The Remingtou-U. NJ. G. Co
loses an able officer and detective in
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