The Penn's Grove record., 1915-04-16
Building Operations Still Rushed
A New Town Blooming AS Quickly
AS Spring Flowers


There are now about $500 men employ
ed by the dupont Powder Company, on
carney Point. About 1900 are in the
manufacturing and clerical department.
ana the remainder on construction work.
The additions to plant No. ! are near
iy completed. Plant No. 2 which, is along
the Pehnsville road, has been largely con-
structed, but it is reported that after one
line OF building are completed they are to
beduplicated.
Several building have been completed
on Deep Water Point for the pickrick
acid plant, but several more are to be
erected.
The residential construction work is be-
ing rushed. The bungalows at the Cove
have been painted and the plumbers are
putting in the heaters, also making gas,
water and sewerage connections The
sewage will be run into the river at the
sluice race.
The alterations and additions to the
Summerill store property and residence
have been made. The plasterers are at
work on the residence side which will
contain Is sleeping rooms besides the
living apartments for the keeper. There
are Ii bed rooms in the store part, be-
sides bath rooms on each floor. The old
store room will be used as a social club
room. The back store room will be the
dining room.
These are expected to be ready for &C.
cupation about the middle of May.
Construction work is being rushed on
the Rlverview bungalows OH the Kidu
farm. Thirty-five are now being rushed
by 200 carpenters and the foundations for
fifteen more are being made. A few have
walls and cellars, but most of them are
built OH concrete piers. The lumber ar
rives all sawed ard fitted for construction
Fifty of them are to be completed by the
contractor i'll sixty days, by May 10th.
Fifty more will be built i'll the BAG k
field next to the meadow, making a hun
dred homes.
Alex. P. Simpson, OF Germantown, lie
superintendent of the construction, John
Bader & Co., of Wilmington, are the COLI
tractors, Robert Scarborough is the car
penter in charge. E. w. Fem, of Rid
ley Park, Pa, is superintendent OF the
concrete work. Edward Rice and John
Lynch, Delaware College men, of Will
mington, are the engineers who stake out
the buildings. c.. R. Dougherty and E. @.
Eldridge are the helpers.
The boarding camp at Plant No. 2, west
OF the Pennsville road is o fully equip
ped and occupied. Col. Weller Slower, #
Wilmington, has command. About 700
mechanics occupy the barracks along the
road and about 1000 Italian labOrers oc-
cupy the barracks ia the field near the
Forked Hickory cross roads.
There are six mess halls for the me-
chanics. Each will seat 200. The twen-
ty sleeping houses will accommodate fifty
men each. They are all supplied by ell
ectric light from the Powder Works.
Since the Italian quarters have been
completed the Borough Pest House and
the Cove School house will be ADAM
doned. Last Sunday the cook kitchen at
the Cove school house caught fire and
part OF the floor and stills were burned
before the fire was put cut.
At present drinking water is procured
from driven wells. The large well on
Willard Layton's farm is supplying 400
gallons a minute. The cedar pipe line
will be completed in a few weeks thru
which drinking water will flow for the
boarding camps, also for the Riverview
Villas, the workmen on Carney Point
and Deep Water Point. A large iron tank
which will hold SO, 900 gallons, is being
erected fifty feet high at RivervIew to give
pressure to the water for the Villas. An
other is being erected OH Deep Water and
another will be erected on Carney Point.