Milford chronicle., 1952-04-25
Dupont Company To
Observe Birthday
Continued from first pags)

the dedication of a marker on the
site of the first plant, are the focal
point of Observances by the Du
POnt Company.
About 5000 spectatOrs-repre-
sentatives from the II plants and
Wilmington offices, retired en-
ployees, members of the du Pont
family, and guests-will be on hand
for the program. Thousands of
men and women at Du POnt plants,
laboratories and sales offices, as
we'll as their families and friends,
across the country can hear the
program which will be broadcast
over a national network.
In the course of the program on
the Bandywine, wfOrd II.
Greenewalt, president of the Du
POnt Company, and Henry B. du
POnt, vice-president and member of
the Executive Committee. will
speak, while Walter S. Carpenter,
Jr., former president and now
chairman of the board, will dedi-
cate a marker formed by one of
two huge millstOnes ordered from
France by the founder of the COM
pany in 1901. The stone weighs
about seven tons, and it's function,
by the application of water power,
was to grind the ingredients of
black pOwder-sulfur, charcoal and
saltpeter. Bronze plaques designed
and executed by DOmenicO MOrtel-
Tito, Wilmington sculptor, will be
mounted upon the stone, which in
turn will rest upon a granite base
The story of Du Points growth
will be told in a book, "Du POnt-
The Autobiography of an American
Enterprise" to be published about
the first of July The theme of the
volume is the parallel development
of the Du POnt Company and the
nation over a century and a half.
Largely pictorial. with many illus
trations in color, the book will re-
late the cOmpany's activities and
operations to broad economic and
social developments in the United
States.
One feature of the book will be a
map, The Mills on the Brandy
wine" drawn especially for the oc-
casiOn by Frank SchOonOver, nat
ionally known Wilmington artist
and illustrator
The site of the July 18 program
is on the property of Mrs. Francis
B. Crowinshield, a direct descend
ant of Eleuthere Irenee du POnt,
founder of the company. She lives
in the house that he began build
ing in 1902, and into which he and
his wife. Sophie, and their children,
moved in 1903.
The ground floor of Mrs. Crown
inshield's home, as we'll as the
cOmpany's first office building, and
the small stone house where the
founder and his wife lived during
their first summer in Delaware,
will be open to visitors Immediately
preceding the anniversary cere-
monies.
Spectators will sit in a natural
amphitheatre facing the Brandy
wine. Trees and shrubs that would
have blocked the audiences view
Of the proceedings have been trans
planted as part of a landscaping
program begun last year and now
nearly completed. The drive along
the Brandywine anu site of the old
mills will be open to the public.
for several weeks following the
.tromony.
The ceremony is being held one
day in advance of the actual ami
versary date. as it was on July 10,
1902, that E. l. du POnt arrived on
the Brandywine TO being cOnstruc-
tion of his first mill. The shift was
made to avoid conflict with week
end plans of those attending the
ceremony.
William A. Hart, director of the
Du Pont Advertising Department
and chairman of the anniversary
committee, explained that the occa-
sion marks the dynamics growth of
small mill filling the single,
though paramount, need Of young
nation for blasting and gun powder,
into an organization employing 87,-
600 and women, owned by 138,OOC
stockholders, and selling thousands
Of chemical products to more than
$4,000 customers, and buying from
more than 10000 suppliers.
"The great majority of Du Points
customers and supDliers are small
businesses" Mr.. Hart said, land
the relationship between them and
Du Pont is illustrative of the essen.
tial partnership between large and
small companies, with each doing
what it can do best, that has made
the American economy the envy
even of its enemies"