Milford chronicle., 1930-11-14

porous undertakings in the country
The skillful utilization of by-pro
ducts was developed and the sue
J cessor company became the creates
l manufacturer of substitutes for lea
ther, ivory and shell products.
In 1921 Mr.. DUPONT was appointed
United States Senator by Governor
William D. Denney to serve unit
the next election. The appointment
was made following the resignation
of Josiah o. Wolcott, who became
Chancellor of the State. In 1922 .hE
was candidate for reelection tC
both the long and short terms but
was defeated by Thomas F. Bayard
His defeat was ascribed to a fight
within the Republican party. In the
following election, however, he con-
sented to be a candidate to the Sen
ate, and was elected by a big ma
jority.
Many Activities
Mr.. DUPONT was active in numer-
Gus affairs. He had been national
committeeman from Delaware. was
chairman of the State committee of
/ the Republican party for a time,
was urged to become a candidate
for Vice-President on the Republi-
can ticket and received a number OF
votes in the Republican National
Convention for President. At one
time he was head of the Wilmington
electric light and railway company.
He was a director of the Empire
Trust Company of New York, the
National Surety Company and di-
rector of Union National Bank. He
was a member of the Corporation of
the Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nolOgy to which he had given sever
al millions of dollars. He was al
ways deeply interested in that insti-
tuition and his fine private yacht
was named Tech, in honor Of his al
ma mater.
He was a member of the Ameri-
can Society of Mechanical Engi-I
neers. the Engineering Association
of the South, the American Acad-
emy of Political and Architects
Club, the American Society of Min
ing Engineers, and the following
clubs:
Rittenhouse and Sonthern, of
Philadelphia; the Metropolitan, of
Washington; Metropolitan, Lawyers,
Manhattan and the New York Yacht
Club, of New York; the Wilmington
Club and Wilmington Country club,
of Wilmington. General duPOnt's
New York Office is at the Equitable |
Building, 120 Broadway.
General dupont had been a MEM
ber of several governors staffs,
whereby he received his title. He
was a deputy police commissioner
of New York City. He was an tn
thusiasric yachtsmau.
Selected Essentials
One of the prominent business
men associated with Mr.. duPont's.
later WORK has said of him that he
has the faculty fo;' selecting essen
tials, that he never loads up his
mind with unnecessary details but
having gOt a. the fundamentals of
anything, which he does quickly. he
begins Immediately to work out
their application to something spe-
cific and practical. He has used ev-
erything he has learned in his life.
An interesting illustration of this
faculty is given in Mr.. duPOnt's
DWn words as part of his presenta-
Lion speech when he turned over to
The people of Delaware a four mil
lion dollar concrete highway which
ne has given his native State. He de-
scribes his earliest experience in
'oad building as follows: \
Among the first jobs had, was
hat of assistant engineer of coal
nine in a small town in western h
Kentucky. This mine sold and de- |
ivered all the coal consumed in the !
own. AS it was new town, there {
we're no roads. Frequently in the {
winter and spring, it would take
our mules to deliver half ton of
.oal to the residents of the town. 1t (
vas part of my duties to look after l
he teams of the company and lay \
Dut the work for them. Near the q
nine there was a very bad hole that [
ould not be avoided and one day d
n the early spring, there were more
oal orders than usual. Early in the c
morning one of the teams, and / q
hink it was the first load, got stuck
n this mud hole. The second load n
ot stuck. On the next load, l put {
ONE poles and blocks with which C
D pry the wagons out of the hole. s
fter doing this for perhaps two or Il
lree hours, it suddenly occurred to f,
lie that it would be more economic Il
al to fix the hole than to continue s.
fling wagons out of it. The next t,
Dad of coal that came along got
tuck too. l put this load (worth in E
lose days, $1.25 per ton, delivered) is
ito the hole. We had no more trou- A
lie with that hole all winter, and / o.
Dund that wherever the company's it
'ams had to go through mud holes Il
)ntinually it was cheaper to repair al
lie road and save the strain on wag- HtC
rs, breaking of harness and single 81
ees, beating of the mules and also al
I've the drivers from using words ii
lat are not taught in Sunday al
,hool, than it was to go through If
e mud holes. h,
Tells OF Coal Mining W
I'm those days the coal that went
rough a three-quarter inch screen
as carried away in carts and .es
lmped until there were acres and dc
res of what then was called slacy of
low called pea coaD, spread H
Ound the mining district. But by er
Itting an extra cart on, found 1 tie
uld dump the slack on the roads an