The Hershey Press 1914-12-31

              HERSHEY IN 1914i GROWTH OE AN INDUSTRY AND UPBUILDING OF A TOWN
Largest Year In the History of ike Hershey
Chocolate Company. Shipments Break
Records. Scores of New Buildings,
Miles of New Streets and Roads, New
Water Supply, New Trolley Lines, Ten
Thousand Carloads of Freight and
Over One Hundred Thousand Visitors.
In the year of. a colossal war and
of hesitation in business Hershey has
kept straight ahead. In every part
of America the sale of its products
has increased and it successfully en-tered
foreign markets. All its pre-vious
records have been broken.
During the.twelve months it has han-dled
this increase and at the same
time enlarged its plant 40 per cent.
It has been a year of constant con-struction.
Big things have been done.
On this page the main facts of the
year's work have been gathered , but
many important details had to be
omitted. For instance 50,000 trees,
plants and flowers were used in and
around Hershey ; handsome resi-dences
were built by private parties ;
a beautiful.new church was dedicat-ed;
new social activities were begun
and scores of improvements that be-long
to the upbuilding of the model
town were inaugurated , all adding to
the gejieral total—but there is not
space for everything.
Here the effort is to give the lead-ing
figures and to understate rather
than boast of what has been actually
accomplished in this unusual com-munity.
In addition to its material
success it should be borne in mind
that Hershey has no poverty or dis-order
, or nuisances and that the
whole plane of its life is sane, indus-trious
, cheerful , prosperous and ideal-istic.
Hershey will not be twelve years
old until next May. Below are some
of the things it did in its eleventh
year :
ing tho yoni' turned out over a hull!
billion pieces of printed matter iind
iter now printing department put in
operation in October 1h n model. The
moHt important now undertaking in
tho Cocoa Warehouse, a great build-ing
of granite and concrete which
will lio equipped with flexible ele-vators.
It will ho built in 101,15. Ah
the yoiu' closes tho fjiila of tho Nor-shoy
products is tho largest ever
known and tho now equipment will
onablo tho company to handle tho
increasing demands of tho now your.
There him ' navoi' boon a time hIiico
tho plant waH started that it; has not
boon under reconstruction and en-largement.
It now linn floor space
of !)fi ikj i'oh and utilizes tho services
of close to 2,000 portions,
WPIPARP TluH wonlt tho om- Uhhi mXL, ployoH of tho Factory
movod into tho now rooms whoro thoy
found every convenience, Tho wel-fare
work in Ilorshoy in directed to
tho providing of ample quarters with
—made, packed, sealed and marked—
in tho cars for shipment, Thus the
Hershoy plant has achieved absolute
cleanliness. There is nothing like it
in any other chocolate factory. Its
now Cocoa Powder Building is wholly
on those advanced linos and so per-fect
is every detail that tho powder
is protected from oven the possibility
of taint or dirt and is delivered in all
its purity. This now building is tho
last word in clean manufacturing.
During tho year tho chemical labora-tory
lias boon installed and all water
and materials will bo constantly un-der
its watchful care, Tho Hershoy
factory makes ovory thing from the
raw materials to tho finished pro-ducts,
Its printin g department dur-late
Company increased the floor
space of its factory more than 10
acres, doubled its power, added new
departments and made its plant the
most complete cocoa and chocolate
factory in the world. The new con-struction
was accomplished without
interfering with the prompt handling
of the largest output in the company's
history.^ It is the only chocolate con-cern
that has its whole milk supply
in its immediate neighborhood and
during the year it used many million
gallons of milk. It shipped over
three thousand carloads of products
to every state in the United States
and to Canada. It sent several car-goes
to Europe. Its recoi-d day in
shipments was on September 1 when
it sent out 26 carloads in one working
day. Its record receipts came in No-vember
when 22 carloads of cocoa
beans arrived in one morning. In all
respects it was the greatest year the
company has ever known. Its new
efficiency system has eliminated haul-ing
by the scientific use of gravity.
AH stages of manufacture are pro-tected
and tho materials drop from
operation to operation until they land
MEAfTflRV During 1914 th
THI/IUIU Hershey Choco
every modern sanitary protection and
with the best comforts. Beyond that
there are facilities that give the
workers their own choice as to eating
and living. There are four restaur-ants,
a modern Cafe, a quick lunch,
a cafeteria and in season a restaurant
in the Park. At the Young Men's
Club and at the Y. W. C. A. are-rooms
and the Inn has accommodations for
one hundred or more. Modern houses
are built by the company and rented
or sold on easy terms. The resident
population has increased during the
year and there . are many new home-owners.
MTW WftRIf It; has been the busi- ll£n VYUAll est and most result-ful
year in the records of the Hershey
Improvement Company. The new
buildings completed and occupied in-clude
the M. S. Hershey Consolidated
Public School, Hershey Trust Com-pany
and Administration Building
and brick planing mill, all very large
structures.- The following impor-tant
items show the range and value
of the' year's work : Large brick and
tile dwelling, English design, East
Granada street. Large stone dwel-ling,
colonial design, east Granada
street. 2Yz story frame dwelling
south side of Granada Avenue. 2%
story frame dwelling north side of
Granada Avenue. 3 story brick dwel-ling
south side of west Caracas Ave-nue.
2% story double brick dwelling
Cocoa Avenue and Areba Street
northeast corner. 2% story double
dwelling, tile construction, Cocoa Ave-nue
and Areba street, southeast cor-ner.
2% story double brick dwelling
Cocoa Avenue and Areba street,
southwest corner. 2Yz story double
brick dwelling northwest corner Cocoa
Avenue and Areba street. 6 two-story
single brick dwellings, Areba
street. New Hershey Central Thea-ter
seating 800. New Greenhouse,
30 by 150 feet. New bandstand in
the Park. Modern-bungalow and sub-station
of stone for the trolley line,
Remodeled restaurant in the Park,
2 large frame lumber sheds about 35
by 150 each for Hershey Store Com-pany,
Modern Photograph gallery
and parlor for Hershey Store" Com-pany.
Big work of the year included the
completion of the Central Heating
Plant which required the running of
large wrought iron pipes from the
Factory to the center of the town.
Through these the hot water is piped
for the heating of the larger build-ings,
WJlTrn Completed are the two
If H I CIV large concrete reservoirs
on Prospect Heights. They have a
capacity of 1,000,000 gallons. Their
location high above Hershey gives a
water pressure that will throw a
stream over any building in tho town.
Special efforts were made and no ex-pense
was spared to secure a pure and
unfailing supply adequate to all fu-ture
needs. The water was found at
Sand Beach and three miles of 16-inch
cast iron mains wore laid and .1175,000
was spent on filtration plant and
reservoirs. Tho entire factory of the
Hershey Trust Company and .Administration Building. Hcgun August 20,
80 by 100 f eet. Marble and brick on n t^rnuito base. Furnished in mahogany.
Chocolate Company is . surrounded
with 12-inch mains for fire protection.
This same kind of fire protection has
been provided for the lumber yards
and the nest of general buildings in
the West End. There are new fire
hydrants in every part ,of the town.
Water mains have also been laid from
Hershey to' the Industrial School anil
continued in the horseshoe turnpike
to the kindergarten. All of this is
new work and it gives^ Hershey not
only pure water in abundance . but
general protection against fire. .
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pAlirrn In the new power plant is
rUWUV the fundamental note of
the. efficiency of the Hershey factory.
Practically everything is done me-chanically.
There are no carts or
shovelers, no stokers, no noise and
dust and no confusion. The, new
equipment , includes the following:
Four Edgemore water tubular boil-ers,
each pf 410 horse power capacity,
equipped with Foster Superheaters
and Wetzell's Mechanical Stokers,
generating Steam at 180. pounds
pressure with 80 degrees Farenheit
superheat. The gases of combustion
are carried off by an Alphonse Custo-dies
radial brick stack 200 feet, high
and 10 feet inside diameter. The
steam generated will be used partly
to operate the present plant and part-ly
to operate two additional cross
compound Corliss engines of about
1,000 and 2,000 horse
^
power each,
built by Robert Wetherill Company,
of Chester, Pa. Each engine has
mounted on its shaft two dynamos
generating 600 volts D. C. and 2300
volts A. C, three phase 60 cycle, built
by the Croker Wheeler Company, of
Ampere, N. J. The exhaust steam
is carried to surface condensers built
by the C. H. Wheeler Company of
Philadelphia. From these condensers
it is delivered to a Cochrane feed wa-ter
heater and returned to the boilers.
The electric current is being dis-tributed
from two switchboards of
black oil-finished slate built by the
Trumbull Electric Manufacturing
Company, of Plainville, Conn. Ah
electric crane with a capacity of 50
tons travels the length of the engine
room and is used for handling the
heavier parts of the engines.
An additional refrigerating ma-chine
of 160 tons refrigeration ca-pacity,
built by the Frick Company
of Waynesboro, has been installed in
this new plant.
All the equipment referred to here
and the elaborate new equipment for
increased refrigeration are additional
to the old equipment already ' mod-ernized.
The total horse power is
6,000. The new boiler roomJ is three times
the original size and the new engine
room is a superb structure of steel
and cement 125 by 150 feet. Here the
light and ventilation are complete.
It gives one an entirely new idea of a
power plant, for it is most attractive
and it will be as clean as a dining
room. Now in addition to all that
has been described here is the outfit
of oil engines in the southeastern
corner of the factory. They include
six 250 horse power Diesel oil en-gines
built by the Diesel Engine Com-pany
of St Louis. These engines
are equipped with 250 volt D. C. gen-orators
built by the Croker Wheeler
Company of Ampere, N. J. In this
plant we have also two refrigerating
machines of 80 ton refrigeration ca-pacity
each built by tho York Manu-facturing
Company and four air com-pressors
furnishing compressed air
at various pressures, reaching as high
as 000 pounds per square inch.
In all its equipment the Hershoy
plant has tho best that can be secured.
ENGINEERING ^^^ busy men of the engineering corps!
Some of the - things .they have done
are :
The new Elizabethtown and " Deo-date
Railway, extending from -th e
Industrial School to Elizabethtown in
Lancaster county, about 10 miles, and
connecting Hershey with Lancaster,
to which through cars will be run.
This ' road is now one-half completed
and it will be running next April.
Trolley line to Prospect Heights,
2V2 miles. ' '-
Forward work for new belt line
through Park by way of overhead
bridge, trolley parkway and through
.subway now under construction.
Subway for passengers completed
early in the year.
New sidings on Lebanon line.
Sub-station with installation of
high power transmission line, 22,000
volts, for facilitating operation of
electric railways. This is the model
station four miles from Lebanon. The
surrounding land has been laid out
in lots and a new. village will be
erected there. It is a beautiful site
and the sub-station and bungalow
built by the Hershey Company are
very artistic. There are many
visitors to look at them .and the new
plans of the company.
New step-up transformers for hand-ling
the electric current.
Not least important of the year's
work "has been the. burying of many
wires. This will be continued. The
engineers have had a very busy year
in street and road work and in new
planning.
THI7 \TftRF When the Hershey
I flE J l UftL store Company oc-cupied
its present location four years
ago last September it had 8 em-ployees.-
Today it .has 114. For the
year ending this week its business
has been six times larger than it was
during its first year. " Every year has
shown an increase, but 1914 has ex-celled
all not only in gross but in the
percentage of increase and in every
department. It will surprise most
people to know that the largest agri-cultural
implement business carried
on in Pennsylvania is that of the Her-shey
Store Company—and this is only
one of its 28. departments. The Her-shey
store represents organization
and cooperation. Instead of having
many small stores with cheap and in-complete
stocks it was determined to
establish a store that would embrace
everything, maintain high standards,
give quality and service and afford
the wide selection of the best city
merchandizing. In September, 1910,
business was begun in the new store
120 by 120 at Chocolate and Cocoa
Avenues. It prospered. A year later
the second half of the present build-ing
was begun, having the same pro-portions
and fireproof connections; it
now runs the whole length of a city,
block. In the West End large new
buildings were put up for the grow-ing
departments. The Implement
Department outgrew its quarters: a
new three story building was erected.
A new grist mill was built and with
it elevators with a capacity of 10,000
bushels of grain. Then coal bins had
to be put in—more' were added this
year—and they will hold 50 carloads
of coal. Then came the new lumber
yard with millions of feet of lumber
of all kinds and sizes, This year the
new planing mill was completed—a
brick building 60 by 10 0 three stories
high and equipped to do all kinds of
mill work. One of tho biggest de-partments
is that devoted to moat.
It has grown by leaps and bounds. A
modern abattoir was built. Cattle
are bought by tho carload and are
1912. Occu pied July 13, 1914
Modern equipment.
fed up to the Hershey standard for
killing. This equipment is a. nest of
buildings in itself and near at hand
are the stables and the blacksmith
and wheelright shops and other mod-ern
buildings. The Hershey Com-pany
has its own sidings to all these
buildings, so that the unloading and
loading are direct. The. Store main-tains
automobiles and wagons for de-liveries
and gives the same service as
the great city establishments—only
better and quicker. - In its 28 depart-ments
are all things for the table,
home, person and the various needs
of a growing community—everything
from a needle to a threshing machine.
The two new departments added iri
1914 were the Drug Store and the
Photograph Gallery, both modern and
complete.
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DAWIflMr The annual statement
DAlmlftU pf the Hershey Trust
Company will not be available until
after this number of the Press is is-sued,
but from the figures at hand, it
appears that the company has had a
fine year. In July it occupied its
handsome new home which is illus-trated
below. The move attracted
many new depositors, the increase for
the year being almost 500, and it also
had the interesting and valuable ef-fect
of bringing from hiding much
money that was being hoarded by the
foreigners and others in this vicinity.
The deposits increased from $1,365,-
077 to $1,809,902; the surplus and un-divided
profits from $176,593 to $206,-
824, and the total increase in assets
was from $1,708,137 to $2,186,454,
During the year the usual dividend
of 10 per cent, or $12,500, was paid.
In every respect the Hershey Trust
Company has a high and enviable-re-cord.
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Cf ITAAT O Of the year's events
OoflUl/LiJ none was more inter-esting
than the dedication of the M.
S. Hershey Consolidated - Public
School. It drew a notable attendance
of educators. The school is fulfilling
expectations. It has almost 600 pu-pils,
including a kindergarten class.
Its High School is making a record.
Educators and educational gatherings
are coming to Hershey to study the
school as a model. The children's
savings fund started last year has
grown and they now have over
$1,800 in bank.
At the Hershey Industrial School
many improvements- have been made.
A new building has been added with
20 new boys. The school now has 60,
handled in units of 20. There are
plans for its further increase.
? (J, >(• >H ? ?
Ppri fUT Twelve years ago the
rnCl Ull i Philadelphia and Read-ing
Railroad did not wish to give Her-shey
a station on the ground that it
would not pay. This year the com-pany
has handled for this place over
10,000 cars. Hershey is one of the
most profitable points on its line. The
record month was September when
1,036 cars were received and dispatch-?
ed, all carload lots and exclusively
Hershey freight. The increase for
the year has been several thousand
cars.
STREETS AND ROADS JT?
year much work was done in giving
Hershoy modern streets and tho re-sults
are excellent. .Cocoa Avenue
from Chocolate to Areba and all of
Trinidad Avenue to tho Township
road have boon rebuilt. Areba street
has been extended to join Homestead
avenue. On different streets there
have been several miles of asphalting
ifind macadamizing. New roads by
the Round Barn to Sand Beach, 3%
miles, by tho hill to Prospect Heights,
2 miles, from Dorry Church to Ging-rich
school , 2 miles, aro in tho year's
record,
Hershoy is becoming tho center of
tho best roads, A leading citizen , not
n resident of- Horshoy, speaking for
tho Board of Township Supervisors,
made this statement: "M. S. Hershoy
not only cooperated with tho Board
of Supervisors but most generously
contributed and expended from his
own personal account tho aggregate
sum of Thirty-four Thousand , Six
Hundred , Ninty three Dollars and Six
cants ($34 ,0!)!!.0<l). To bo more ex-plicit
, not ono cant of this money was
spout on tho streets and highways of
the town of Hershoy, all of it having
boon expended by him in tho making
of roads in various parts of tho lower
precinct of the Township—-roads that
but a few years ago wore rook «nd
miro and that nt present eon form
with tho requirements of the State
Highway Department.
"Ho has opened to civilization aind
prosperity a irroait deal of country
that had heretofore boon wlldnoss
and hal f deserted farm lands', But
ho lias not ovon stopped at that. It
may bo of interest to some of you to
ho informed of tho fact that ho has
shouldered a bur den which Derry
Township would Ijn vo boon obligated
to pay, in tho sum of $4500' for tho
construction of a State Road from
Swatara Station to Union Deposit,
In plain words, ho has agreed with
the authorities to build that road at
his own individual expense, and, as in
all his other operations, without any
obligation on the part of the township
to him or any other person."
PARIf Hershey Park opened May
l -rllVlY 30 and closed in September.
In that time it had over 100,000 vis-itors.
There were more than 50 spe-cial
trains and hundreds of special
trolleys. The automobiles ran into
the thousands,, from every part of the
country. The record crowd .was 12,-
000. The improvements included the
new band stand, a building on con-crete
columns with ample accommo-dations
for a band of 60. Other im-provements
were checking: booths1, en-larged
kitchen arid cafe, new arti-ficial
• lake, new ornamental bridge,
shoot-the-shutes, rest rooriis, promen-ades
and the planting of many thou-sands
of : shrubs and flowers. At the
theater, which seats 1)500, more than
100 performances -were given by stock
companies to large audiences.. Iri
spite of the crowds there were no ac-cidents
and there was no disorder. In
all respects it was a record summer.
Even after the season closed thou-sands
. came to Hershey Park to en-joy
its autumn beauty. . Important
improvements are in progress for
next year.
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PIVINf 1 ** nas keen Sershey's test
Ul V 111 U year in , giving. The con-tributions
to churches and charities
have been larger than ever before by
at least thirty per cent. ' Hospital
Monday for the benefit of , the Harris-burg
Hospital under the management
of Mrs. M. L. Hershey brought forth
more than a hundred substantial gifts
in money or provisions. For the
Christmas Ship for the war children
of Europe Hershey sent more contri-butions
than any small town in the
United States; Mrs. C. V. Glynn had
supervision. When the call for Bel-gian
relief came Mr. M. S. Hershey
was one of the first to respond. He
sent 50,000 pounds of food—40,000
pounds' of flour, making a carload, and
10,000 pounds of cocoa. Hershey
used 6,000 Red Cross stamps during
Christmas week.
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I IDDADV The Hershey Free Pub-
LIDIVAIU lic Library, founded
1913, is . growing rapidly. On its
shelves are 1227 volumes—about 900
adults' books and 300 juveniles—and
the number of volumes per inhabitant
is exceeded by few public libraries in
the United States. The circulation
during the past year was 7900, an
average of 27 per day. In December
the daily average was 40. Unusually
large was the circulation per volume,
6.4, and per capita, 7.9. The mem-bership
is now 757, 556 having joined
in 1914. Of the total 444 live in Her-shey.
The 1915 plans for the Li-brary
include the opening of a read-ing
room in the Hershey Central
Theater building. This will add
gre.atly to its usefulness. New books
will be obtained from time to time.
The idea is to make the Library a
model of its kind.
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FARIVK The Hershey farms, which
r /ilYlTlrJ total 8,000 acres and are
in 8 townships and three counties,
broke all their best records in 1914.
Their crops were 3,200 tons of hay,
17,000 bushels of wheat, 11,500 bush-els
of oats, 83,000 bushels of corn,
6,000 tons of ensilage, and 1,600 bush-els
of rye. Tho grain yield was so
unprecedented that tho big dancing
pavilion in Hershoy Park had to bo
used for storing. On tho farms aro
between ono and two thousand high-grade
cows and other livestock and
their yield of milk was very large.
Tho policy of improving tho farms
wont on more earnestl y 1;han over and
tho. following is a list of tho more im-portant
work done:
1 now jnodol piggery, 30x108 foot,
1 now model piggery, 16x108 foot.
Now barn at Kindergarten , 40x108
foot , with new house and now dairy.
Those buildings are tho most beauti-ful
farm structures in Dauphin Coun-ty.
Thoy have two silos, 12x82 foot.
Roekridgo schoolhouso , converted in
two buildings. Gingrich's schpol-houso
, converted into two buildings..
Erh farm , barn , Komodolod , house re-built
, with now 2-story addition , 16x32'
foot , and two now silos. Kreldor
farm , barn remodeled , with new addi-tion
to house and " two now silos.
Loose farm, house and barn rebuilt
and now corn barn , 30x60 foot, an(|'
two silos aiddod. A, G. Bomgnrdnor
farmhouse and barn rebuilt. Sntta-zahn
farmhouse rebuilt with now
2-story addition; barn rebuilt and now
silo added. Bait/, farm , buildin gs re-built
, with two now silos 14x10 foot.
Ulrieh farm buildin g rebuilt with ono
now silo, Fritz farm buildings re-built.
Krum farm buildin gs rebuilt.
Grant Domgardnor farm buildings re-built
with now barn and remodeled
houflo. 'B'acnstow farm buildings re-built.
Withers farm buildings re-built,
with addition to tho house and
a now wagon shod, 80x50 foot. Wit-mar
farm buildings rebuilt, with ad-dition
to tlio house 10x32 feet, 8 stor-
(Contlnuod on Pago 4)