Evening journal., 1919-03-05

vember IL, 1918, brought about an al
most immediate cwtailmcnt of the
activities of i. l. du Pont de Nemours
and Company, and the few remaining
weeks of the wear 1918 were sufficient
TO eliminate almost completely all muni-
ton business The magnitude and rapid
itv of this reduction is well IL
ustrated in the shrinkage in number Of
employees at munition plants, of whom
on November lth there were S5,63S en-
gagged on war orders. while on December
27th 2SlOl only remained on the pay
rolls. Officers Of the company cncourag
cd the departments at Washington 20
cancel all contracts quickly in order to
save material and labor in producing un.
necessary explosNes-H SO happens that
orders for the wear 1918 were practically
completed Little will be done on con.
tracts covering the first six months Of
1919 and no profit will be derived from
the ncompleted portion thereof. The
contracts cancelled amounted 10 about
S260,0Oo,0O0
The company now returns 10 10. com
mcrcial business consisting of lines of
manufacture of previous years supple
mcnted bv others TO be dealt with later
in this report.
The reconstruction period and the
future of the company has received CON
tinuous thought and attention even dur
ing the very first year of the war Tn
certainty as TO outcome of the latter. in
point of time and as to the position of
the company at the close of hostilfics
has made 10 heretofore impossible TO
forecast the future with certainty, but
today many doubts have cleared away.
Al a. D.. IL
better picture of our war activities and
of the company's present position. a re-
view Of recent years may not be inoppor-
tune.
From 1915 TO 1915 the gross capital /
employed bv the company has increased 4
from Ss3,432,0O0 10 s3Os.Sl6.0O0 or 27O 1
per cent. In addition there has been
distributed TO stockholders lI0.0S3.00 |
making a total increase during the war
period of S366307 900. The resulting
gross business has amounted 10 81 ,0t0.-
100000, including the cost Of construction
work.
Providing SO much capital. without the
sale of securities and building up the
management of this large business in
SO brief a time, has called for uncensing
and exacting attention of the entire force
OF employees of the company. Their ZEAL
industry and efficiency, their cooperative
spirit, their loyalty to the company and
To the Nation is uneXcelled and is count
ed the most satisfactory part of their
successful accomplishment
Construction costing S220,00OOO0 has
been executed by our own engineering
department, numbering at times $4,000
men. This organization was built m
from a nucleus of about 500 EMPLOYED i'm
that department during the six months
prior to the war. The construction work
involved much that is peculiar TO the
explosives business for which designs.
fhyouts, etc, nearly all. were prepared
by our own men, being unobtainahle
elsewhere. Though the larger part of
the undertaking has been of this strictly
/ehnical nature, the supplementary
(Nork Of ordinary engineering construc-
ton may give better idea Of the mag.
nitude of the whole. thus: I
The Power Houses of the factories il
at full capacity require the continu- p
Gus development of COCOON bo;Ier r,
horse power {,
The pumping stations have a capac. n
ity of 305,000,000 gallons per dav ex 3,
ceeding the combined daily water con.
sumption of the cities of PHILADELPHIA si
and Boston. Al
The Filtration Plants filter and nd
purify li5OOO,OO0 gallons of water nor va
ll.sy' To degree satisfactory for domes
'ic as wel as for manufacturing use. th
Inc Refrigeration Apparatus has su
'aPaclty OF 9,35O000 pounds of loo nor pe
city of Chicago. VI '"o n
@aiiioad Classification Yards, capable a
~ hanahng 1000 ears az one time bavc "a
peen lald out and are in operation 1,
Ono hundred miles of standard r,u. :,
ioau and two hundred and eigbt r,iics l;
ii'iies oi narrow gauge railroad have y
been constructed.
lhe enclosing of the plants required n
over 100 miles of fencing.
arrangements have been made fortI
storage Of 100000 tons of coal. pro. .
vision deemed advisable for daily con. !
sumption OF l0700 tons. I,
The factories have handled I,330Ooo !
VOO pounds of cottons, of 2.660.OOO bales ,
Production OF nitric acid. $3.50. 600 zoo I,
pounds required the handling of 2,Sl2,- ,
100000 pounds OF nitrate of soda
lhe Sulphuric Acid Plants have pro-
'uced 2,oOOOOOO00 pounds of acid, re-
lulring 922,OOOO00 pounds of sulphur.
me factories have handled l6,50O.O0O ,
alons of alcohol, of which S6.600.O00 :
aiions haYe been consumed and the ,
aIance recovered for reuse ,
Individual dwellings to the number of !
llsO have been built These. together !
18th the accompanying hotels, boarding /,
buses, women's dormitories and bunk =
uses are capable of housing $4,000 :
rsons. All of these DWELLINGS are y
'hted and furnished with purified .
lter from the companyis plants and Il
connected to modern sewage svs- n
ms In addition 10 these dwellings. =,
e Engineering Department has built 10
community buildings, such as those M
house the Young Mems Christian ,y,
'soeistion and Young Womenis Chris n,
an Association, cafeteriss, school hs
'uses, lodge halls, post-offices. drug na
80 banks and railroad stations, a Ia,
cal of 1850 buildings, costing with loi
e necessary streets, sidewalks. fire. of
oeectlon, etc, about $37 100000 DO.
-rba e~,;iit con
,.,as IN nlhtary powder factories con. At
'auseed by Z. ]. du Pont de Nemo,irs & or,
,,9,lipany and its subsidiary N, po.,t ~
~ \ ( 'neenng Company, cover qO25 acrcs ''"1 n
,,,;i. tuate miles,, equal TO tu;co a.
na,s.p area Of the citv of yv;i,,,i,,.,' oui
~. incidentally the;, - tlol
.,s uouplc the assessed ,,sl - mo
ooo eoo oon. Their annual canses.s. u VII VIZ bus
,soV pounds OF explosiI.s - $685. rev
-. 9un Gent to extend g. ~ car the
~ sew York IN cont;n,,s'' patti dot
At the height Of the Won, i,'uVus .Ss line. cor
1c@fly expenditures was thr.a ldte OF cor
tIedt as that OF the constr,,ct,,. .''iies As