The Penn's Grove record., 1916-02-25
THE RIGHT
DUPONT DOINGS
What The Powder Officials and Work
men Are Thinking About.

Beginning February 18th last, the
workmen at Carney Point were requir-
ed to have their portrait and number
visible when they entered the gates.
During the past month a dredge has dug
mud about 2 rods from the old bank and
built up the interval so the river bank
will be doubled in width to four rods
wide down to the railroad which runs
over the marsh. Below the railroad
branch and the entrance to Plant /,
the bank is being widened from ten to
fifteen rods near the two mouths of
Boat Creek.
The apartment houses, between the
shell road to Salem and the road to
Georgetown south of the Cove school
house, are completed and some are be-
ing moved into. All those planned east
Of the Georgetown road built in the field
from the shell road to the Barber road.
have been embossed. They have four
and six apartments to the building. Each
apartment has three rooms down stairs
and three rooms and a bathroom on the
second floor. The sides and roofs are
plain pine boards covered with ruberoid.
One brick chimney serves for two apart
ments.
DUPONT school now has 444 pupils on
roll. Joseph NJ. Wright. the supervis-
ing teacher, has to use his office for the
10 pupils in the Sth grade. The first
grade has los pupils and the second
grade 50. One section of the second
grade attends school between s an 1920
O'Clock and the other section attend from
11.45 to 4 o'clock.
Miss Helen NJ. Lewis, of Pownal, VT,
has been teacher of the 18th grade since
the first of the year.
The new pumping station erected dur
ing the past few months south of the
permanent village to give fire pressure
to the water which supplies water to the
several hundred houses is working finely.
The water is now very good for drink
ing purposes.
About 10000 tons of soft coal was
laid in the latter part of fail and early
winter to be in readiness in case of short
age on a strike of the miners. The two
large piles smake prominent black hills
ON the Boat creek meadow. About 300
tons of coal are used every "a hours at
Plant l and about 1000 tons are used
daily at all the plants.
b1lOhE D1NAA1l1E
Powder makers at Gibbstown are talk
ing about a record breaking days work
last week when GA ''~mixings' were made
on Line A in eight hours, which means
the manufacture of $4,000 pounds of dy-
Mantle in the days work. This record
has never been equaled IN 10 hours be-
fore. There are three lines with the
capacity of Line A.
The new plant, being built on the Green
farm, north of the other plant, is near
ing completion.
Gibbstown has never seen so much
activity in the building line. The pow
der company has just completed % new
houses on the east side of the railroad
and all are rented. Twenty more are
to be built when weather permits.
BIG DIVIDENDS
The dupont Company declared another
big dividend last Wednesday, of "a per
cent. of which 10 per cent. is payable in
Anglo French bonds at 50. 1t WAS u
per cent. regular dividend on the new
common and 223 special for the quarter,
to he paid So in cash for each share and
$40 in bonds as stated. The usual /! per
cent quarterly dividend was declared OH
tile Ola COinmO STOCK OF TIE company,
OIL the preferred stock af the old company
and OIL the debenture stock of the new
company. The dividend was pleasing TO
the stockholders but disappointing to the
spectators who expected a dividend Of
500 a share.
DRY HOUSE BURNED
Tile water dry houses OH line A al
Plant 2 were destroyed by fire last We'd
nesday afternoon.
1t is thought the fire WIS caused by
powder coming in contact with q steam
pipe. The our men in the building at
the time got ont safely.
BIG GUN TESTING
A 42-centimetre ll-inch gnu is used in
testing powder at the Carney's Point
plants OF the dupont Powder Co. During
q test on Monday one shot, fired 100 yards,
went through. the target, and its lodging
place is not known. Offices and cars are
provided for the Russian and Italian
inspectors.
The duPout Company has purchased
about z, 1000 acres near Suffolk, Va, on
which it is reported a ssnokeless powder
plant will be erected.