Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-03-08
POWDER TOWN BOASTS
OF BROADWAY LIFE
Night Has Been Turned Into
Day at Wilmington, Del.
Workers Happy.

Workers Happy.
Wilmington. Del.-Dollars look like
dimes to the workers Of Wilmington
just now, when everybody is enjoying a
prosperity undreamed OF before the
warning European nations began pay
ing a dollar a pound for powder and
equally unheard of prices for other me-
cessit!es.
az, of Death Valley and Goa
vi ohnny may have had more none
,iihgton population, but they certain
~ QUO not spend it more freely. The
hurrah spirit is i'm the air and every
BODY breathes it.
There is no night in Wilmington"
SAID a city official. THE mills and
powder plants are going "a hours a
Gay. n when one shift OF men IS
WORKING or sleeping the other is play
ing. IT Is a continuous performance.
Night Life Like Broadway.
The cocktail hour varies. II NAV be
from 6 to z O'Clock in the morning or
from midnight to / o'clock. depending
upon what shift the men arc working.
regular meal hours have been forgot
zen. Every time an engine whistle
pioWs or he onk OF an automobile
norm is heard cooks begin putting food
"OASSs OcAsGNIus Iil3L a STlII IL
qulttlng work. All domestic arrange
menus nave been knocked sky high be-
cause OF the irregular hours that are
Delng kept. This applies to business
houses as we'll. Now it is almost as
easy TO buy articles. in the. stores at
any hour as it was between . and s
o'clock In the day. for the merchants
nave had to adapt themselves to the
hours kept by their customers.
has nothing on Market
street. night or day, and the crowds
stay longer Oh Market street than they
90 on Broadway. because every eight
hours tnere is A new pleasure seeking
aght to dawn in front II the restau-
rants picture theaters and other places
OF recreation n r~efreshment.
turning night into day has a new
and visular meaning to the people of
wilmington, who before the arrival of
.ne rush war orders thought they were
burning INC candle at both ends and In
the middle. If they were not at home
ana III bed before IL o'clock. Before
inc boom struck Wilmington the milk
man was about the only person astir
alter IL o'clock, exccpt occasionally a
belated citizen who had attended a de-
layed lodge meeting or been .sittinc
UP with Il sick friend"
Spending? Should Say Yes!"
Bnt it is different now. Weekly pay
rolls are the rule, and with three
shifts OF men working in powder
plants, steel mills and elsewhere, pref
W nearly every day is a pay day
somewhere. With increased wages.
shorter hours. overtime and war bo-
muses. earners believe that n little
play is Tecessady to. prevent track
soreness and staleness.
Inc natives are eating alligator pears
and buying automobiles. Helena,
Butte. Anaconda and ever Creole had
nothing on Wilmington. which will
soon be boasting of the number of men
VINO wear silk hats and patent leather
| shoes.
money: Well. should
say, Yes! said a cigar store man at one
OF the main night corners. why the
people are buying cigarets in patches
OF 100 instead of in boxes of 10. That's
going some. We're all getting to he
wholesalers since money got SO easy"
Inc cloth top shoe is as common as
dinner pals and wrist watches are
being worn in daylight. Jitney buses
are more plentiful, than street cars
and nobody walks. Manicures have
firmly established themselves and the
smell OF burning money Keeps the fire.
men under constant treatment for
neuritis.
Less than u year ago some Of the
present silk shirted workmen were
standing in line ut soup stations;
charitable ORGANIZATIONS were appeal
ing for funds and the city seriously
considered a bono issue to improve the
streets in order to give work to the
unemployed. But that was last win
ter. II soup is distributed now It must
be guaranteed turtle.
Those War Orders,
Just when THONGS were at their very
worst along came the war orders. The
Du Points received bids for more DOW
der than they could supply in 10 years.
To fill even approximately their orders.
plants were added to; then came steel
orders and shrapnel orders, until to-
day every Dc dismantled plant in town
has been patched up and is turning
out death prescriptions In some form.
up as by magic at Carney Point. across
in New Jersey. and the demand for Ia
Dor was SO great that men were sent
out to search the states over to Sc
cure men. This Is the powder head
quarters of the world. II was fmpos.
sible TO house the powder plant work.
ers and they slept in tents and shacks.
as in The days Of the mining camps.
The Du Points great plant stretches
posite the city. Formerly one ferry
boat made a few trips a day: now two
ferry boats make trips every hour from
early in the morning until midnieht.
and wharves are being Quilt for two
more ferry lines. In addition the Du
Points have a small steam boat and a
big tug to aid in getting their work
men to their plant.
But work is not the only thing
Speculation was never wilder In a
/ IL Ia a game nl3ved with chorl. i,,%