Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-05-07

The Du POnt POWQer cOlIlpdHy IL
building at Hopewell in Prince George
county, Va, powder plant which
will, when completed be the largest
one mile west Of City Point on the
world. Hopewell Is on the City Point
branch of the Norfolk and Western
railway, nine miles from Petersburg,
one mile west Of City Point on the
James river, and thirty miles from
Richmond. The Du Pont people own
1900 acres Of land at Hopewell and
have ever 700 acres of 1t enclosed.
They are now working $4,000 men
and 1000 mules, and they are spend
ing morey for all purposes at the rate
of $4,000, 900 a month. They expect
to get the plant completed by early
fall at total cost Of $6,000,000, and
II Is their purpose to devote them
selves mainly to the manufacture or
gun cotton and other forms of high
explosive. Their product will be sent
down the James river for shipment to
Ottawa and from there to various for
eign ports.
Despite the Turkish governments
decision to refuse all correspondents
access to the Dardanelles region, ex-
ception was made in the case of two
Germans and the Associated Press
correspondent, says q Constantinople
dispatch of Wednesday. The party
arrived on the night of May l, while
the town of Dardanelles, after thirty
hours, was still ablaze. Crumpled
walls and houses met their view. Mai
dos was also burned, and Tuesday the
town Of Gallipoli was set ablaze-all
by indirect fire from the Gulf of Saros
with ignition shell directed by captive
balloons and aeroplanes. Incessant
and heavy fighting on the Gallipoli
peninsula has continued from the first
landing of the allied forces, but details
Of the new campaign cannot be told
for military reasons. The straits
thesmelves, so far as known, have not
been seriously attacked since the re-
opening Of the operations, but Tues
day seven ships were seen and heard
off Seddul Bahr, firing intermittently.
Three changes in the lines Of Fed
eral banks as they were drawn by the
reserve bank organization committee
more than a year ago were approved
last Wednesday by the Federal reserve
board. 1t adopted a resolution shift
ing banks in northern New Jersey
from the Philadelphia to the New
York district; banks in Tyler and
Wetzel counties, West Virginia, from
the Richmond to the Cleveland dis
trict, and banks in southern Oklahoma
from the Dallas to the Kansas City
district Action upon the petition Of
Baltimore to be made the reserve city
Of the Fifth district in place of Rich
mond and Of Pittsburgh to be given
the reserve bank now located in Cleve-
land was postponed for future consid-
Grafton. BY the change approved the
Cleveland banks capital Of $12,007,-
3S4 will be increased about $4,000,
while the Richmond bank, with $6,-
303,30 will lose that amount. In it's
resolution the board pointed out that
action on the other petitions was de-
ferred that 1t may secure light on the
new clearing house system and the
extent Of state bank admissions to the
system may operate.
when the proper time comes,
due reparation will be exacted on
their position or their
antecedents- against whom 1t can be
shown that they have violated all the
rules and usages Of civilized warfare"
said Premier Asquith in the house of
commons last Tuesday night during q
debate on the treatment Of British
prisoners by Germany. He added that
careful record of events was being
kept and of evidence which could be
obtained, that proper punishment
might be meted out. The question
had been brought up by Lord Robert
Cecil, who said he received letters
from officers who had been subjected
to special confinement by Germany
because of the supposed treatment ac-
corded German submarine officers by
Great Britain. The British officers
declared that they were locked up
separately in cells IL by 6 feet and
were not allowed to smoke: Andrew
Bonar Law. leader of the opposition,
hoped that the country would no long
er pay any attention to any conven-
ton which would prevent the war
from being brought to an end. 1t was
worth considering, he said, whether
at the risk Of losing all British prop
erty in Germany, they should confis-
cate every German article throughout
the British empire.
In official quarters where the true
situation is known, says a Rome dis
patch, it was stated Wednesday that
the possibility Of an accord between
Italy and Austria never has been so
probable. This fact, it was asserted.
was due to Austria at last realizing
that Italy really was determined to go
to war to obtain territories inhabited
by Italians under Austria when nego-
tiations for their return were begun.
Differences between the two countries
now concern only the extent of the
territories to be turned over, the form
of and the time in which the cession
is to be made. Prince Won Buelow,
the German ambassador, is said to
have declared that if he can induce
Baron Sonnino, the Italian foreign
minister to give up claims on Trieste
and accept its constitution into free
city an agreement between Austria and
Italy might be reached in a relatively
short time. In his interview with
Baron Sonnino last Saturday Prince
Won Buelow discussed the chances still
existing for settlement between Italy
and Austria and the advisability of
Italy leaving nothing undone to at
tempt to avoid the consequences of
war. The ambassador is said to have
declared that it was far from his in
tention to interfere with Italy's inter-
nal affairs or to criticise them but
that he could not help expressing the
opinion that an impression would be
produced both in Austria and Germany
by an announcement that the king and
his ministers would participate in the
which, he said, had been referred to
by the allies as the time for "Italy's
official declaration of war to the CEN
trail empires"
The results of the operation of the
Southern Railway company, for the
months of March 1915 and 1914, and
for the period Of nine months this year
and last year. exclusive of interest,
rentals and other income charges,
were announced by Comptroller A. H.
Plant, last Monday, as follows: Gross
revenues, March, 1915, s5,29O,249;
March. 1914. s6.O64.597: decrease,
s774.34S, or 1917 per cent. Operating
expenses, taxes and uncollectible rail-
way revenue. March. 1915, s4,O36,977;
March, 1914, s4,745,S01; decrease, $7OS,-
42S, or 14.94 per cent Operating in
come, March, 1915, s1,253,272: March,
1914, s1,31S,796: decrease, s65,524, or
4.97 per cent. In addition to the fore
going operating expenses, the company
spent during the month for improve
ments to its roadway and structures,
STAB, 1915. as against 44,599.2S, for
March, 1914, an increase of s49S,566.47.
Corresponding results for the nine
months are as follows: Gross reve-
nue. this year, s47,326,234; last year
s54.095.6l2; decrease, s6,769,37S, or