The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1916-04-04

The plant. of course. Is a perma
Hency and does not depend on the wal
Tor continuance. but 1t was the wal
which brought It into being.
There were $500 people wor4Sing in
the U. M. G. plant when the war broke
cut. Before the end Of the year there
win be 10000, so that the two plants
sogether will be employing $4,000 per-
sons. BY that time the munitions
plant will have a capacity many times
that Of the United States government.
The Remington Arms company ccle-
brates Its centenary this year. In
1876, just 100 years ago, Ellphalet
Remington made with his own hands
the first rife andtfounded the business.
He made II for his own use. His IA
ther had refused to buy one for him.
and Remington collected scrap Iron.
welded It into a gun barrel and walked
fifteen miles to Utica to have II rihed.
IL was such good one that his neigh
bors invited him to make similar ones
for them, and before long his forge
was gun factory. At that time all
gun barrels were imported from Eu-
rope, and there were no real gun fac
tories I'm America. so that Remington
founded a brand new American indus
try.
Mr.. Dodge and His co-workers.
Marcellus Hartley Dodge Is the sole
proprietor. and II was he as a young
man of thirty-two-who looks like a
youth of twenty-one-who waved the
magic wand over the swamp lands Of
Bridgeport and created almost over
night one Of the greatest manufactur
ing plants in the country and contr
button for the military preparedness
of the United States that Is OF meal
culable value. Mr.. Dodge Is an en-
thusiast over the great enterprise OF
which he is the head. His mother
died in his infancy. and he was
brought up In the home of his GRANDPA
Their. Marcellus Hartley. the owner OF
ffic Remington Arms and the ". NJ. G.
II was from Mr.. Hartley that be re-
ceived both his home training and
business training. and he lived with
the business and in It's atmosphere and
fmbibed his gIandfather's feeling to
ward II until he came 10 have sel'i-
ment for 4 not less than second 10
that of his family. Mr.. Hartley's feel
fng toward II was bis. Mr. Hartley
died In the traces ~ d board meeting
Jan. 8. 1902. at the age OF seyenty-ive.
and the grandson felt commissioned
not only to carry 1t on. but TO carry it
on worthily. 1t has been his dream 10
enlarge the great enterprise his grand
father founded. the apple Of the eye TO
both of them.
In April, 1914, Mr.. Dodge associated
Samuel II. Pryor with himself in his
business Mr.. Pryor had been vice
president OF the simmons Hardware
company Of st. Louis and president Of
fhe Southern Car Wheel Company. He
y man OF great energy. vlgor and
business ability, and the two men have
Wsrised together like hand In glove.
Mr.. Pryor is man of fifty, and Mr..
Dodge is not yet thirty-two.
Mr.. Dodge was I'm Germany when
the war broke out. and he made his
wny from there to Paris and then to
london. He saw the situation and
drew his conclusions. When lie re-
turned TO this country he determined
on the great venture and had the cour-
age to go ahead with II without wait
Ing for any country to place an order
Nr. Dodge was In peculiarly fortu-
nate position to embark on such ca
recr, for lie was entirely unfettered.
Mr.. Dodge OWNS all the stock In the
Remington Arms and the u. NJ. G.
There were no stockholders TO consult.
40 fears to assuagc or yield to and no
arguments to make to anybody abont
the danger or hope that might lie In
taking big chance.
With characteristic dash and energy
Mr. Dodge took the hazard of ordering
she machinery before any orders for
arms had been received by them. Or
ders were In prospect. but none had
been given. IT was n chance worth
taking. FOR somebody had to Jump in
aud give the first order for machinery
n anybody was TO take advantage OF
fhc European situation to create new
Industry, for the United States was
shirt OF It,
There Is In this country limited
sapacity for such machinery. The
erection OF buildings was the easiest
and simplest part OF the work. TO get
Mold OF men who understand the maxi
ing of military rifles and ammunition
N nof so easy.
There are few army officers in the
country who understand the making of
MINIS and munitions. and Mr.. Dodge
and Mr.. Pryor went about the tnsk of
obtaining their services. This was at
ssie very beginning. and by November
fttst Of these officers were ont Of the
army and in their employ.
Yet so few were the men IN the
Enited Stntcs who understood the
nuking Of military arms and mum.
sons that II was necessary to import
sxne, ana q number Of high priced
nen have been brought over from
1Brcadx II IS commonly thought that
> mar who knows how to make sport
1x'nfIes can use HIS experience IN the
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