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astonishingly brief span OF time, and
the town likewise illustrates what
American initiative can do toward
strengthening the thews Of our own
defences in time Of need
Along about last October the Du
Pont Powder Company found itself
swamped with war orders-its exist
ing plants had not the capacity to deal
promptly with its vast orders. amount
ing to something like 500, 600, 900. 1t
was necessary to create a new factory
Of ample size and Ia build and equip II
with all possible speed. Rail and water
transportation facilities were required
and preferably a site somewhere near
a centre OF cotton shipment. II was
, equally important from an economical
angle hat the land should be cheap.
Hopewell and the ne%ighborhood Of
city Point answered admirably-Nor-
folk being one OF our ports drawing
vast quantities of cotton to II by rail
from the South and a place of extern
sive transshipment. Before the deni-
zens OF Hopewell knew 1t the great Du
l . 'AN '"p'h company Htd ihl'liS
bought up an extensive acreage at a
modest price that probably did not
average more than $50 an acre. Now
adjoining land is worth many times
this, and fair sized building lots are
being snapped up by spectators for
prices ranging anywhere from 81 500
TO $4,000 apiece. Indesd, rentals are
bringing TO enterprising
monthly sums varying from 800 to
5000 and more. Where blue jeans sat
isfled In the way of garb las summer
the natives are none too sure now that
Palm Beach cloth Is quite good enough.
The Inhabitants OF Peters burg are
all agog, and some OF that city's best
II not a few OF her worst have mi
grated 10 Hopewell intent upon making
the most of an extraordinary windfall
while supplying the suddenly aug
mented citzenry with all proper and
some questionable things, In its raw
ness Hopewell Is n pretty good repro
duction OF the typical mining town and
Ia wlessn6s SIS after dark is more common
than the keeping Of the peace.
A year ago the place did not number
more than a thousand inhabitants.
To-day the population is quite 30, 900,
and the community Is steadily increas-
ing. Many OF the residents there are
living In veritable shacks or camping
out under canvas, and the widespread
Indifference to sanitary demands in
parts OF the town may bring its har-
vest OF disease and a dire toll before
the summer Is over.
| The Du Pont company has deemed
1t hest completely to barricade its
works and to house the more valuable
members OF its personnel in homes of
its own building. The company al
, ready has put VI 600 cottages of this
sort and others are in course OF cree
ton. They are comfortable and
equipped with modern plumbing. That
the danger of fire may he reduced TO
a minimum they are lighted e~lectri-
cally and the same Energy IL available
for cooking,
These up to date homes can he had
at low rentals, a three or four room
cottage costing the employee any
where from So to $40 n month. Tho
bulk OF the l%aborers. however. are
! Quartered In b~arracklike n story
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agencies have helped materially to
stabilize the water washed crags.
More than that, the Kaiser's Admiral
~ has created an artificial hsrbor-an
ideal place for the shelter Of torpedo
boats and submarines. while heavier
vessels can ride securely in stormy
weather in the nearby roadstead. Up
on the crest of the island. $50 odd feet
above the tide, have been placed an
airship shed. a wireless station of wide
reach. and a formidable array of huge
guns. Indeed. we are credibly In
formed that there are in the neighbour
rood OF $40 powerful weapons
mounted upon the commanding pla-
teau that forms a natural gun plat
form hat adds very materially to the
reach of the rifles and their advantage
over of similar calibre afioat.
The biggest of these gun are shell
tered behind massive walls of steel
and are of a disappearing type de-
veloped by the famous Krupp works.
How well the Germans foresaw
what Heligoland could be made car
he gathered from the following. which
was written a few years before the
island was ceded by England:
with Heligoland in our hands a
French blockade of our coast would
he nj of the question. Battlesh!ps
of to-day are impotent without coal
without a fuel base military opera
lions covering more than eight days
could not be carried out by the French
IL an enemy on Heligoland interfered.
Along our North Sea coast there is
but one point where hostile ships
could recoal with any degree OF safety
even under favorable weather condi-
lions. and that is at the anchorage
! southeast of Heligoland. There the
French actually did do this i'm secret.
but with the consent. though contrary
to international law, of the Englsih-
the anchorage lying within the neutral
zone Of three nautical miles from the
coast.
with the island in our hands,
however. this would he impossible and
a blockade equally impracticable.
Without coaling facilities and minus
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buildings which have also beer put up
by the company. In these too due re-
gard is paid to sanitation; there Is
running water and "A satisfactory
means Of sewage disposal.
II would be useless for any one to
visit Hopewell in the hope of looking
in upon the great powder plant. I'm
less one IL able To get n pass from
headquarters and has n very cOnVinc-
ing reason for asking for ii his wan
derings will he halted promptly at the
factory's gate. The enVcloping bar
rier is of barbed wire ten feet high
and where this runs through woodland
the trees have been cut away on each
side for fifteen feet. Armed guards
watch AT intervals of 200 yards. on
towering posts every sixty feet are
arc lights, and after nightfall this H.
Elimination Is intensified by search
lights placed 80 that they can sweep
the lengths Of the barrier and all of
the approaches. The power house is
filled with arms m an ample supply
OF ammunition for an emergency. In
deed the whole place is in a state of
defence.
Admission to the plant is possible
only by virtue of IA duly countersigned
pass, and the color and style of these
tickets are changed frequently and at
Irregular intervals 80 hat counterfeit
ing would scarcely avail. indeed the
passes are generally issued only from
headquarters in Wilmington. Del, and
the possession Of one greatly limits the
! uiaitpr'q frnaAnpn uln,, u.t,It, IA. ....x.
of the plant at liopcwcli.
Each lahorcr has his prescribed zone
OF activity, and he Is not permitted To-
stray beyond II. He too has u pass
! and must show II upon demand. Do
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HAR PRESSING INTO BRITAINS SIDE

revered grandfather and my father
gave the hammerstroke toward the
foundation Of the new German En-
plre. Now twenty years have gone
by. and I. william H., German En-
peror. King OF Prussia, reincorporate
this island with the German Father
land. without war and without blood
shed. as the las piece OF German
earth. This island Is CHOSEN as a bull
wark in the sea, a protection to 1.-The
German fisheries. a central point for
my ships OF war. a place and harbor
OF safety IN the German Ocean against
an enemies who may dare to show
themselves upon IT,"
Indeed. Germany's enemies would
have a hard time in those waters 40
long as the emblem Of the empire
waves above Heligoland as it sands
to-day after the F'atherland has spent
more than $50. 900. 900 upon II in rear
ing Notifications and making II well
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General map of Heligoland.
acknowledgement port and
lower town.
Photo American rrcss Associate

n pos lille enemy in possession Of
HeliColand? \ foe there could Grip
pie the Fatherland's merchant fleet
with well nigh the same case that the
Danes had done decades before. No
wonder the Kaiser found IL profitable
10 patronize Queen Victoria and to
proclaim his friendship for England
upon every occasion. lie was only
playing Il successful second to the
part which the great Bismarck had
initiated. Bismarck knew that a for
tifed harbor was necessary AT lieliso-
land to guard the approaches to the
kiel Canal by way of the North Sea
He was shrewd enough to let England
think hat British commerce was to
profit equally by that easter route
to the Baltic. He was Furthermore
cunning enough to picture the eN-
pense involved at HeliGoland-an ut
lay which he said Great Britain should
not he expected to bear. Germany
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Mushroom Growth of
Hopewell, Va, Where
Du Points Make Pow.
der, Rivals Mining
Days

map to stick. at least as long
as the European war lasts
and the need of vast guam
titles OF smokeless powder persists.
Hopewell Is a boom town literally and
In fact; literally, because It will add
to the thunder OF the belching guns
on the other side OF the Atlantic, and
In fact. because its present proportions
nd continuing growth are little short
OF amazing. There on the edge Of
the sunny South harmless cotton is
being .metamorphosed over night into
n Of the most potent Of modern
p~ropellants.
Ten months ago Hopewell was an
inconspicuous hamlet on the Norfolk
n Western Railway, and there was
no apparent local promise OF a boom
ever hitting that particular section Of
eastern Virginia. The days OF its
greatest activity. and Hopewell was
not q fact then, were ffty-one years
ago when Gen. Grant planned to cap
ture Petersburg, about fifteen miles
away, az part OF his campaign to re-
duce Richmond, the capital OF the
Confederacy. City Point was then a
centre OF military interest for the
Federal troops, and Hopewe,l Of to-
day lies IN a spur line jutting of into
the purlieus OF that older town. 1t is
Just because 1t is on the outskirts OF
City Point and for that reason away
from the travelled route and yet in
touch by rail and water with the
world beyond that Hopewell was
chosen for its present purpose.
The James River has again assumed
~ City Point an atmosphere akin &c
80 90 far as river traffic Is concerned
because lighters, tugs and a variety
OF other craft are crowding there with
their burdens OF raw materials OF
their well packed and carefully handled
cases OF smokeless powder.
This time Petersburg is not. the
objective, but the mushroom town
centred about the Du Pont plant Il
the magnet. The chemist Is working
wonders there. and from the calm Of
that normally sleepy section OF Vir'
Einia Is flowing a ceaseless supply O
powder capable OF Earring the earth
and wracking the air with the violence
Of thousands OF thunderstorms Thu
story OF H%opeWell Of to-day is OF two
fold interest; It shows what modern
,ndussSsn life can accomplish in al
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would he willing To- do this If the
island were hers, and both nations
should hc joint hcneticidries. This
W 5 as far back as 1883, and the dig
ping OF the Kicl Canal WIS not begun
Until four years later This is only
anothcr example of the farsightod-
meas of the Iron chancellor.
Kaiser Williams fri ndship !"r Eng
land suffered IN time. hu' he man.
aged to dlsscmh'c until iIci!Goland was
coded 10 Germany on July !. 1890. \
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Is MANHATTAN ISLANDi
HE Magazine Of American Ms
torp has called attention 70 4
Atott,,tto, a., Nan, XorL -,,mpU-

HE Magazine Of Anertcdn H"-
tori has called attention 10 a
distinction in New York 0"men-
clature that, despite the authority Z
quotes, every Manhattanese" does NO
know. The magazine cites the TO-
lowing footnote to THE spy 10y James
Fenimore Cooper, and then comments
on II:
Every Manhattanese knows ma
difference between Manhattan ls'ani
and the Island OF Manhattan Ihs
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Green as the land,
Red A. the cliff.
White - the sand;
Such the blazon
or our Holy Land"

Us w
loved Helisoland. But even as
he pictured that green clad
rock In the North Sea he little dreamed
OF the part 1t was likely to play in
international affairs. The climax Is
one for which Emperor William has
prepared with characteristic thor
oughness.
A few days & the Germans cele-
brated the twenty-fifth anniversary
Of H~eliso.and's union with the empire.
Every Englishman. in the light OF the
past twelvemonth. must wonder why
his Government ever dared to part
with that strategic key to the coast
OF Germany. No wonder the Father
land rejoices. and equally must the
proud Mistress OF the-Seas mourn the
diplomatic blunder that made the
change OF dominance possible. Heiigo-
land In the hands Of the Kaiser goes
a long way toward balancing the nu-
merical superiority Of Britannia's
great fleet. In short, hat isolated
rock stands watch and ward over Ger
many's western shore and makes II
next to impossible to bring any Of her
adjacent ports within reach of hostile
shell.
From 1874 to 1914 the flag OF Dem
mark waved over Heligoland. Then
n passed to England. and the King OF
Denmark excused the cession on the
o Of force of circumstances.
otherwise called pressure. SO it re-
manned until 1890, when Lord Sails
bury made the transfer to Germany
IN exchange for more abundant ter
ritory In Africa. Then Germany re-
linquished all claim TO Zanzibar. With
land and Uganda. and many there
were in the Fatherland at the time
who bitterly berated Bismarck for the
deal. That bit OF rock. to their minds.
was mighty poor compensation for
the ices of the spice lands and fruitful
soil OF Africa. Ter years later Eng
lands eyes were opened-she was no
longer dazzled by the tropical album
dance Of the colonies she had ac-
CURED for that unproductive rock.
Had Heligoland then been hers no
price would have sufficed for its sur
render. In that interval the British
had awakened to the Kaiser's pur-
pose. Then they realized the fatal
slip Of the Salisbury Ministry.
Historically. He,igoland Is intl-
mately identified with the birth Of the
German navy. and It was within the
shadow of this rock hat the Prus-
sian fleet received its first baptism Of
IRE. This was so ecent as 1S49.
Prior to that Germany could not boast
q naval force. and the fleet owed its
beginning to interference with Prus-
sia's oversee trade. The shipping
Of Hamburg and Bremen paved the
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little more than a month later. to be
exact. the 10th OF August, the EN-
pcror landed at Heligoiand and took
formal possession Of the stand. Then
he made one Of his characteristic adj
dresses that left no doubt as to the
real intent Of tn" acquisition OF that
"laS. bit of German earth" In this
fashion he spoke:
comrades of the navy. four days
ago ! celebrated the anniversary Of
the Battle of Woerth. al which my
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der daily. and when the whole estab-
lishment is In running order and going
full blast, twenty-four hours a day, the
output will be our times that.
When IL is recalled that the fairly
large establishment which the navy
has al Indian Head. Md, a turn out
annually in the neighborhood of only
. 500, 900 pounds of smokeless powder,
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Some idea of the magnitude of the
plant can be gathered from the fact
that the pumping plant has "A ca
paCity Of 5000, 900 gallons, and of this
volume 1000, 900 are used in the gem
GRAFTON of steam, Curiuusly, the in
take pipe which draws water from the
James River Is led right over the old
wharf huilt by Gen Grant for the
landing uf the troops q half "A century
age, To-day. So 1t Is said. the factory
rs turning u 2O0,0 900 pounds Of pow
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of company police are me at
every turn. On each floor. when leav-
ing AN elevator, the visitor must cN-
plain his prcsence there and the
guardians attitude Ia distinctly lack
ing in hospitality, Thus the chance Of
an intruder doing harm or gaining en-
where he il not wanted are re-
ducod to n minimum by ccaseless vlgi-
lance and the routine that checks the
movements OF every one inside vi tho
enclosure.
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Defeated. But Not Downed.

"Yes." came the answer. "And we
will win. If we lose we will keep on
trying until We do win. Suffrage is a
revolution that has already taken
place. If we lose tonight II is because
people have not realized that the wom-
en- really want the vote, and are willing
to work. work, work until they get It,"
At the Hotel McAlpin there was a
sort of fever Of unrest Not the wild,
noisy scramble Of the crowds outside,
but an undercurrent OF expectancy.
Bulletins white, green and yellow were
distributed IN the lobby and in the
grill at short intervals.
In the mems cafe sat two large, com
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-03
DEMOCRATS WIN
IN MARYLAND
Harrington Defeats Weller
for Governor, Probably
by 5000 Plurality.
ny rcissrtph 70 n, Tribun, J

Ialtimore, Nov. Emerson c. Har-
rington, Democrat. has been elected
Governor Of Maryland, defeating c. +.
Weller, Republican According to re-
turns from about one-third of Balti-
more City and scattering returns from
the counties, the rest Of the state
ticket. Hugh McMullen. Controller OF
the Treasury, and Albert Richie, At
torney General, are elected by plural
tiles larger than that of the head of
the ticket.
Harringtons estimated ri -ality in
Baltimore City is 5000 to 1000, and
he may carry the state by 5000.
The Democrats will continue 20 con-
troll both branches Of the Legislature.
Fourteen of the twenty-seven Senators
were elected to-day, and the returns in
dictate that ten OF them are Democrats
and four Republicans. The Democrats
had only to elect six new Senator'S to
assure them control. The lower House
will probably stand: Democrats, ~;
Republicans, "a.
There are more than $4,000 'oreign
born voters in Baltimore, and two
thirds of these are Germans. Inc
"hyphenated" had the word quietly
raescd down The line by leaders Of the
Independent Union and other German
organizations to vote the Republican
tIc.tt so az TO prevent q Democratic
victory being construed as an indorse-
ment OF the Wilson administration. No
public statements OF their intentions
were made by the Germans.
Some Of tho old German Democrats
who are close 70 the organization stood
by the party and held friends in line,
but hundreds Of others who previously
had voted the Democratic ticket cut IT
to-day.
The suffragists were "a busy as
bees around all the polling places in
Baltimore City to-daf. They button
holed the candidates and the Demo-
cratic and Republican party leaders, in
Guiding "The Kelley" one Of the
Democratic city bosses. and sought
promises Of action by the next Leeisla-
ture 20 refer the question to the popu-
lar vote Kelley assured them with Il
broad smile that he was with them.
Albert Richie. Democratic candidate
for Attorney General. informed the
women that if he could give them the
vote they would have II.
Everywhere they went the suffragists
made good use of the argument that
the men of New York State and of
PENNSYLVANIA were voting on suffrage
to-day.
Don't you men want Maryland
women TO have the same privileges as
those of New York and Pennsylvania ~
And Don't you want your wives,
mothers, sisters and sweethcarts 10 be
your equal ?" they demanded. Usually
there was enthusiastic assent.
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sure. we're voting for you" grinned
one election officer. why, I've told
every man here TO vote Yes for you
That's electioneering. I've committed
crime for you"
you've committed a Joke for u.s."
rt.orted Miss Shinn.
Representative Daniel J. R!ordan
sent Miss Shinn luncheon Of lamb
chops, French fried potatoes. and "all
the delicacies Of the East Sido," as she
expressed II.
"Tammany is going to give you a
Square desl with q big 81" was the
way the captain az 2i2 Eldridge Street
put IL 20 Mrs. Harriet Stanton Batch.
The women needed this promise This
was, indeed. one Of the places where
disorder reigned II was perfectly
eood-natured disorder. and Mrs Blatch
smiled, too, but there was a grim look
in her eyes. perfectly familiar 10 the
reporters who have watched her mar
shall this suffrage campaign through
many disorlerly moments.
In the first place the "atheletic young
man" who handled the ballot box man
aged TO break Il. Inspector Sweeney
came around and had il patched up
with paper over the open side. and Mrs.
Blatch said. "0h. certainly. that was
all right" However. she announced
her Intention Of standing by when the
ballots were counted.
There was a good sired riot when
she produced box OF suffrage buttons.
Small boys swarmed into the polling
place, and big men grabbed for the
buttons over the boys outstretched
arms. Mrs. Batch sank breathless into
a chair in the corner. II she had be-
longed 10 an older generation she
would have tainted.
This is no scene for polling
place." she gasped.
They ordered the button mob out
side, and the policeman tripped over
a half dozen small boys, and sprawled
on the sidewalk. Ii was very I'M
dignihed.
Her Smile Scares Chinese Voter.
Mrs. Alice Duer Miller watched at
Chatham Square where three Chinese
voters were registered.
Everything was very quiet and
polite" she reported TO headquarters.
zone Of the pickets smiled at q
Chinese and ne ran away. but | don't
imagine we need regret his vote"
Our choice incident OF the day. s.
said Mrs. BlAtch, was drunken man
who forgot how TO spell his name. and
skidded across the page with his PEN"
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phllanthropic work unhampered by po-
litical worries.
"For the women who have so bravery
engaged in politics for time that they
might retain permanently the non-par-
tisanship necessary for their best ser
vice TO the state and TO society, we
have unbounded admiration. To them,
10 the voters of Massachusetts,, TO the
newspapers which have given US such
fair treatment in their news columns
and TO all who have helped in the cam
paign we give our heartfelt thanks.
Tired physically from the hard cam
paign they had waged. but grinning In
the face of a two-tO-one defeat, as one
Of them put it, the suffrage party. Aeld
forth at their Boylston Street head
quarters, cheering.
The suffrage campaign in Massachu-
setts will start again next Ihursday.
Just one day of rest the sufragists VIII
allow themselves before they start all
over again.
VIII Renew Fight at Once.
The Legislature for two successive
wears must pass again resolution LOT
The question to be submitted TO popu-
lar vote. so that it may not be until
1917 that women may vote In MaSsa-
chusetts. -, .,
here is another way by which SUI
fragc nav be granted in year. sam
uel W. Mccall, the next Governor IS
pledged TO a constitutional convention
Of which the suffrage question shall be
taken up. He probably will recommend
this in his inaugural address: The Leg
islature has the power 70 call the con
vention. and the question must be sub
mitted to popular vote. SO that II IS
nossible that Massachusetts will vote
again on the suffrage question next
wear. Every candidate for Governor
had declared for suffrage.
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BILL CLEARY'S AIDS
LOSE IN R0CkLAND
Republican Wins Town Clerk
and Sheriff Goes 10 Fusion.
NV Tel,graph 10 The Tribune ]

Haverstraw, Nov. Followers Of
former town clerk BILLY" Cleary,
Democratic boss, who shot his son-in-
law. Eugene Newman, were badly
beaten in the town election in Haver-
straw to-day.
Josiah Felter, one Of the eye
witnesses Of the murder, who was
under indictment. charged with grand
larceny. was defeated Tor reelection
for Supervisor by more than 200
majority by Heman Puriy. Republican,
George Howarth. Republican. running
fof Clc8rv's old job as town clerk. won
By $50. Clarence Gardner, Democrat.
Woman Suffrage, carried one election
district. Eudson-Hurd, Fusion candi-
date for sheriff who promised to
apprehend Cleary, who is wanted for
gand larceny, was elected sheriff Of
Rockland County over Theodore De-
noyelcs, Democrat.
William Hopham Plat and John c.
Taylor, lsion candidates for Supreme
Court justices, carried the county
ovcr the Republican nominees. Severn,
Republican, seems 20 have beaten
Assemb.y man Grimm for reelection.