The Hershey Press 1914-07-09

              Remarkable Gathering in Hershey
Park Spend a Happy Day With-out
a Single Mishap or Un-pleasant
Incident. Fine
Fireworks ,
Never before was there such com-petition
among the- towns and cities
of Lebanon Valley and vicinity for
crowds on the Fourth of July as
there was this yean All kinds of
attractions and all-day programs with
everything from street parades to.
races were offered,, and it is gratify-ing
to know that general success
marked the rivalry; So far as the
reports indicate everybody was both
satisfied and gratified.
Hershey's only extra appeal was in
the way of fireworks. Its* advantages
and facilities as an every-day recrea-tion
resort of the highest type were
depended upon to bring those who
might select it by choice. Hershey
Park is the same all the time. Its at-tractions
are permament and safe.
They were established for the family.
So women and children may come to
Hershey Park knowing that, they will
be as safe as in their own homes, that
they will have a wide range of amuse-ments
and that they will get the best
of everything, with no charge at all
for many things and with no over-charge
for what they may want to "
buy.
And so they came. From the early
trolleys men and "boys descended
carrying large and heavy baskets, and
their mothers, sisters, sweethearts,
little brothers, cousins, aunts, grand-parents
and other relatives and
friends followed along. As the day
progressed the processions increased.
From railway arid trolley, by auto-mobile
and in big trucks filled with
seats for excursion parties • and in
carriages and . wagons the early
. scores rah into hundreds and the hun-dreds
into thousands and before the
day closed there were over twelve
thousand people on the grounds.
Some estimates went as high as fif-,
teen thousand. "
It was a day of family picnics.
Every table in the park was occupied
and to see one of these tables piled
high with good things from the home
was to witness a sight worth seeing
and to realize what suggestion can
do to stimulate hunger. It is doubt-ful
that if in any park such a variety
and abundance of family food was
ever displayed. And the sauce of the
family feast was universal good hum-or.
Everybody seemed happy.
In the meanwhile much was going
on. The children made for the Zoo
and dragged their parents and others
with them. Frantz Zinner answered
so many questions that befoi'e the day
was over he looked like an interroga-tion
point. Boats on the creek and
lake were busy all the time, The
big swimming pool—with water clear
as crystal—was a favorite place. The
carrousel was going incessantly and
there was continuous . dancing in two
large pavilions, with ample room even
on this big day, The restaurant in
Hershey Park, and the cafe and, the
quick lunch in Hershey fed thous-ands.
Professor Feese and his band had
fine audiences at all the concerts of
the day. The Gardner-Vincent play-ers
played to standing room both at
the matinee and in the evening. The
two baseball games drew record
crowds. And at night the magnificent
display of fireworks—Pain 's best—
was witnessed by many thousands , in-cluding
an unusually large attend-ance
of parties in automobiles.
And this groat crowd .camo, stayed
a whole day and wont homo without
an accident or an unpleasant incident
of any kind. It was Horshoy Pork's
best Fourth.
Twelve Thousand People
Make a Record Fourth
At the Industri al School
There has boon installed in the
school n gymnasium equipment con-sisting
of mats, dumb holla , wnnds ,
bean bags, drill guns , basket ball and
goals, basa ball and bats, volley balls
and not and horiz ontal bar and vault-ing
polo.
In the vory near future the me-chanical
department will bo moved to
now quarters and will then consist of
the following department : wood-working,
metal spinning, foundry,
tin-smith , blacksmith , electrical ,
brick-lnylng and masonry, also a
plumbing department.
The following wore rocont visitors
at tho school ; Mr. and Mrs, Jackson ,
Now Yorlc i ltov, Di\ Fisher , Lebanon ;
Rav. Mv. (ilmor, Argontl/io Republic;
Prof , 1) . L. M. Halter and wife , liar-,
rlsmirg; Mr, and Mrs, M. S, Harshey,
MIhh Mabel Carpenter , Miss Mabel
Llnglo , Corn Llpglo, Viola Boyer,
Hdna Carpenter , , Vandotta Goopor ,
Kntio l/oob, Edith Cooper, Hilda
Christ , I'lfllo Cooper , Mary Huron ,
Erjlfch llabookor , Abagail Gordon ,
Tneio Bowman, Mary Hotter, 13, .T,
' KriiHHH , Oscar lloscow, Horshoy|
Misses Kuthryn Witman nnd Virginia
Witm an, Swatarn; Miss Kathryn
Carm an, Derry Church and Mrs.
Jlurch and childr en, WMIanwport.
Hershey's New Public School Building
Will be a Standard for the Nation
SPLENDID STRUCTURE OF LANCASTER BRICK ON A NATIVE
LIMESTONE BASE, WITH EVERY MODERN FACILITY
AND CONVENIENCE. SPACIOUS HALLS AND
PERFECT CLASSROOMS.
main middle body 75 feet wide. It
will open in September with 600 pu-pils;
it has room for 850. It is of
Lancaster brick On a light blue native
limestone base. It has two high
stories and a basement, but the base-ment
is so elevated and so finished
that it is practically a three story
structure. Most of a city block is oc-cupied
and the whole effect is im-pressive.
Several times Hershey's
present population could be seated in
the various rooms and halls, so one
quickly gathers the impression that
the new building projects well into
the future, but extensive as it is,
there is provision for more , growth
and at hand are several acres that
for the present • will be devoted . to
playgrounds and an athletic field.
But you cannot get away from the
bigness of the building and every-thing
connected with it.
An Unusual Basement
So let us look within. There' are
three entrances, and the steps are
granite. We begin at the western
end and enter the basement, which
in view of its high ceilings and fine
rooms and careful finish far surpasses
our usual conception of the name.
Here is the ' girls' lunch room with
hot and cold water and a gas range
and with conveniences modern to the
last detail and thoroughly sanitary.
Then see the playroom where the
girls may spend tho recess periods
when the weather is bad. There is
still another room which the girls
may play in or which may be con-verted
to manual training later.
Doors shut off the girls' part of the
basement from the boys' quarters.
You pass by tho engine rooms with
their splendid machinery and are soon
in the gymnasium. This is as attrac-tive
as tho gymnasium of tho most
expensive private club. It is ideally
solid and trustworthy, with sIko and
light and all tho merits. Further
on we find playrooms corresponding;
to those set aside for tho girls, so
that tho boys will also have full pro-vision
for stormy and inclement days.
Hero in the basement wo may study
out tho vory complete heating nnd
ventilating system, Tho air in every
room is lcopt absolutely pure ,
Thermostats prevent overheating and
if there bo any trouble there is a
telephone from tho supervising prin-cipal's
ofileo to tho engine room, As
we look around wo notice tho wide
use of onainol brick in the basement,
It Is vory attractive,
In successful development m Her-shey
is an educational undertaking of
national importance. The idea of
combining small, weak public schools
into a larger and better school has
long been the dream of progressive
educators and the plan has been tried
with gratifying results in various
states, particularly in the West, but
it has remained for Hershey to do
the thing in a big way and to estab-lish
a standard for the nation.
The M. S. Hershey' Consolidated
Public School of Derry Township will
be completed and occupied this year.
It is a magnificent building equipped
with every convenience and facility
for the health, growth and training
of the children , for it embodies the
idea that the boys and girls must be
made stronger and better during the
hours in which they are being edu-cated.
This building" is larger than
the capitols of many states and it
gives to the pupils all the advantages
of scientific architecture, with free
tuition, free books, and, to those who
live at a distance, fre e transportation.
Progressive Directors
In Hershey's first days there was a
little red school house occupying
the site of what is now the southeast
corner of Chocolate and Cocoa Ave-nues.
It was replaced by a blue lime-stone
building that seemed ample for
all contingencies. But Hershey is the
home of ideas that have a way of
growing into big actualities. In
Derry Township, in which Hershey is
located , were a number of small
schools, each good of its kind , but
limited and inadequate. Why not
bring them together in a school that
would be larger and more worth
while? Fortunately Derry Township
has a fine school board—A. B. Shenk,
president; D. M. Hershey, vice-presi-dent;
A. W. Snavely, secretary;
Christian Meckloy, treasurer, and H.
M. Witman, In full sympathy with
anything making for finer results was
M. S. Horshoy, and so tho new project
was gradually evolved and perfected ,
Mr. Hershey aiding financially as
well as personally. Seven small
schools are closed and will bo con-solidated
into tho school at Horshoy—
Knowledge Hill , 2 miles distant;
Lnndis , 8 miles; Rock Ridge, 2 miles;
Gingrich , J.V6 miles; Foreman , 1%
miles; Palmyra, 2 miles and Wnlton-villo
Advanced , 5 miles, Tho pupils
of throe of thoso schools wore trans-ported
to and from Horshoy daily
durin g tho last term at less expense
than tho support of tho schools under
tho old plan. There was tho usual
opposition to a progressive change,
but tho value of the now arrangement
was soon demonstrated, At lower
cost to tho taxpayers tho children had
educational advantages that wara im-measurably
superior and so the op-position
faded away. Now tho par-ents
are delighted, What it moans to
tho children Is beyond any possible
estimate.
Fine Hulls mul Classrooms
Wide stops bring us to tho first
floor and the impression is delight: at
tho spacious hall—it Is over lfiO foot
long and VI foot broad and high pitch,
erl, Architecturally this is as flno
no anything in Horshoy, It is
worth looking at from every angle.
On this first floor tho four corners
are four classrooms , probabl y the
/Jnoflt classrooms In the world. Only
superlatives can describe their sl/,«,
light and beauty. Thoy aro 2JM by
IJ2.4 and each is lighted by (I double
windows, So perfect aro thoy that
you exclaim tho moment; you enter,
Moreover your admiration grows m
you examine detailh. Even the black-boards
have a superiority of tho|r
own, Tho windows aro weather-stripped,
Tho Indirect heating and
ventilation keeps tho air uniform ly
pure, All corners are metal fnood.
And there lire other things that show
the intimate care that has boon lay-
Mi- H. Horsliciy's Offer
So splendidly did tho now plan
work that Mr. Horshoy made tho
suhool board a munificent offer, Ho
would erect tho moot modern school
building that could ho constructe d
and give it In oven trade for tho o)d
building and lot. The board accept-ed
and the result is tho M, 9- Horshoy
Consolidated Public School of Dorry
Township.
This school has a noble front of
820 feet wltli wings , at each end run-ning
back 100 foot , and, with tho
ished upon the work. In a corner is
the bookroom—a bookrocm for each
of these classrooms. It upsets your
old. ideas about book rooms with dark
shelves and musty smells, for here
y.ouMind only sweetness and light, a
full window and order and commodi-ousness.
Adjoining is the cloak room
with the hat shelves. Now in these
details we see the note of the whole
plan, for the . umbrella stands are' of
chestnut lined with copper and the hat
shelves are of chestntit. Perfect
wood was called for in the specifica-tions
and thus we understand why the
whole thing is so attractive. No
aristocratic hotel has finer equipment;
it may ee more gilded but could not
be better. The same plan obtains in
the corners of the second floor, with
perhaps a little advantage in the way
of daylight, because of the superior
elevation'.
Everything the Best
In the body of the building the ar-rangement
of the two floors vary. On
the first, four classrooms—one. 24,6 by
24.6, one 26.5 by 26.5 by 28, one 26.5
by 33 and one 24.6 by 24.6—fill the
¦front. In the rear are two class
rooms of generous size and between
.then* is the handsome office of the su-pervising
principal, who has at his
elbow, call bells to every class room
and a telephone. There is also a
store room on this floor. On all
floors are toilets, fire apparatus,
drinking fountains and small halls.
The electric light fixture s are fine in
quality and artistic. Gas. is also pro-vided
for. The handware .is notica-blv
handsome.
Hi£h School's Ideal Home
On the second floor we reach the
show room of the building. It is the
High School that fills the middle front ,
a superb room as large as an assem-bly
hall. Here is perfect lighting
through fine windows and two sky-lights
and here are 1C8 American
steel adjustiblc desks and chairs.
The dimensions of the room are 68,3
by 83 and it is the largest in the
school. One might use a great many
adjectives without doing it justice,
for in addition to its general grace
and impressivenoss it has every kind
of equipment that a large school room
could possess.
Special Equipment for Science
Crossing tho broad hall we enter
tho Science Department. Hero are
ascending seats like thoso one sees
in a clinical room. It is a now thing
in a public school, but tho ascending
seats are not tho only novelty, for in
addition to tho usual equipment aro
facilities for tho storeopticon to il-lustrate
science nnd nature, There
is a domonstating table of latest do-sign
, loo, and not only Is thoro hot and
cold water but rain water for tho
scientific work. Moreover it is a gem
of a room.
Fifty Attractive Rooms
It is not likel y any boy or girl will
bo taken ill in such a model building ,
but iY one should , thava Is n room
ready—a room of excellent sIko and
with all facilities handy. Wo hnvo
not yet exhausted the building , for
thoro aro rooms for other purposes,
for tlio kindergarten for instance , but
wo have boon in about fifty rooms
ranging from tho little but engaging
book room to the High School and wo
have walked tho, bettor part of a
nillo. Wo bring away tho Impression
of high white walls and long, fine
halls , finished In chestnut , a picture
of beauty and cheerfulness , and thoro
aro memorial) - of choutmrt cases nnd
redwood shelves, of stairways In
wrought Iron and chestnut finish and
skyli ghts of wire glass with Pan-coast
ventilators and especially of
beautiful maple /loom, and above tho
splendid ¦ building rises the spruce
/lag polo, Tho archi tect of tho build-ing
Is 0, HmWi n Urban , of Lancaster,
nnd tho builders aro tho Tltsj ol Con-struction
Company of tho same city,
It has been fortunate that Mr. Ke-boch,
the supervising principal, has
been present" to watch every develop-ment
of the new school. He has been
largely responsible for the success of
the school in the old building and he
will install it in its new quarters.
The/full staff of teachers will be as
follows : P. D. Keboch, supervising
principal and professor . of mathe-matics
and agriculture ; Harry S.
Everett, science and history; Marie
H. Johnson, Latin and German; Mabel
R. Brown, supervisor of drawing and
teacher of English in the High
School; Blanche M. Wingert, super-visor
of music and teacher of Eng-lish
; 8th year, Arthur P. Hocker; 7th
year, Ira Shenk; 6th year, Sara Fore-man;
5th year, Mary Rose ; 4th year,
Edna Erb; 3rd year, May Moyer;
2nd year, Mabel Hoffman ; 1st year,
Carrie Dressier and May B. Hershey.
Modern Methods in Teaching
Professor Keboch and his staff are
strickly modern in their methods.
They teach by facts, articles, speci-mens
and . examples more . than by
books. For. instance their agricul-ture
is not merely theoretical. The
pupils study the soil and the seed
and do grafting and planting. There
is a remarkable equipment of-, the
main items in the animal, vegetable
and mineral kingdoms and their
manufactured products and deriva-tives.
The pupils see and handle the
real things and learn more and better
than by merely studying printed
pages. It is no exaggeration to say
the boys and girl s in the Hershey
School have an advantage of fully
three years over pupils under the old-fashioned
system.
Successful Savings Department
A year ago Secretary , Snavely, of
the board , and professor Keboch sug-gested
that a saving bank be attach-ed
to the school. It was tried out
with excellent results. In the morn-ing
session on Monday the pupils
give their deposits to their teachers
who deliver them to the supervising
principal , by whom they are tabula-ted
and deposited in the Horshoy
Trust Company. Any amount from
one cent upward is received by tho
teacher, When the deposits reach
$5 tho interest begins, For the past
year the savings ran over a thousand
dollars. Each pupil has a regular do-posit
book and regular deposit slips,
This is one of tho unique features of
a vory remarkable school and it il-lustrates
tho largo vision and prac-tical
sonso and enterprise that con-trol
Its management.
News of the Y. W. C, A.
Tho various clubs of tho Hershoy
Y. W. C. A, will send tho following
girls to camp Nopahwin hold at
Caton , Pa,, from July 18th to Aug,
1st, Wuh-Wah-Tay-Soo camp fire ,
Miss Ottio Eniorieh and Emma Was-nor;
Ayuda , Anna Suteliffo and Lll-lla
Grosh. Mif w Mary Buveh, Mian
Mary Loob and Miss Elizabeth Ileum
will also spoixl a wook at tho camp,
The Athletic association of the Y,
W. C. A„ swill hold their regular
monthly business mooting on Friday
evening at 7 o'clock, Arrangements
aro to bo made at thin mooting for
a watermelon foast, walks for tho
month of July and a special hike to
Lebanon.
Tho Y, W. C. A. board of directors
have appointed Miss Mabel Nlsslcy as
a delegate to tho Eastern City Con-ference
of tho Young Women 's
Christian Association to bo hold at
Silver Ray on Lake Goorga, Now
York , from July 21st to HO.
The Tooya Camp Fire girls will oc-cupy
a stall In tho Jlorshoy market
on Saturday July 11th. Homo made
cakes, pies and biscuits will bo sold.
This money •will ,bo uaod by the girls
to go camping a week at Stovordale
during tho month of August.
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Hershey Fire Department
Gets Check From Swatara
Citizens Send Appreciation of its
Work in Saving Property in the :
Recent Tire. Names of the
Contributors. Company 's
Meeting':.. ¦" -
At the stated meeting of the Her-shey
Volunteer Fire Co: held Tues-day
evening;, a -lettei was read from
citizens of Swatara - recognizing the
services of the Company at the fire
which destroyed Curry's Mill, May
30, and enclosing . check - for $46.50.
Included in this ..amount is the pay
for extra service performed by Chief
Conrad and five men amounting to
$18.00. It was voted at this meeting
to , cover the. balance of $28.50 into
the treasury and the Secretary was
directed to make suitable acknowl-edgement
to the donors. The letter
was as follows:
"We were visited on the night of
May 30th with, fire, -which destroyed
the flour, feed and grain house owned
by John B„ Curry Estate and . which
endangered the town. Our property
was saved by the fire engines of Her-shey
and Hummelstown.
"We wish to show our gratitude to
the above companies ,by contributing
the amounts Set opposite our names,
but we feeling our ' debt to them can-not
be paid in money for the noble
work they did."
The contributors were as follows:
Geo. H. Seller, $5.00, John B. Curry,
Est, $18.00, F. S. Witman, $5.00, H.
M. Witman, $5.00, S. M. Emerich,
$1.00, H. P. Boyer, ?5.00,- Paul Miller,
$1.00, A. W. Stauffer, $10.00, James
Shaeffer, $6.00, A.- Buchignani, $5.00,
Clayton Gish, $2.0O, Walter T. Brad-ley,
$10.00, J. H. Balsbaugh, $3.00,
Francis Cassel, $1.00, Daniel Boyer,
$3.00, Josiah Foreman, $5.00. Total,
$85.00.
The fire bills of the two companies
were $28 and the balance of $57 was
divided.
The Hershey Fire Department has
a membership of 150. 'There was ¦ a
good attendance on Tuesday night.
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Busy Days in Hershey
Construction and Enlargement Go-ing
on in Every Part of the Town
Many, kinds of construction and
enlargement are in progress in Her-shey.
The improvements at the fac-tory
are very extensive and are be-ing
pushed with great vigor. When
completed they will make this plant
the largest chocolate factory in the
world.
^Wofk is being rushed on new resi-dences,
as there is not enough hous-ing
room in the town for its growing
population.
The new Lutheran Church is almost
ready for occupation. „
W. L. DuBois, of Buffalo, N. Y.,
has been engaged by the Hershey
Chocolate Company as a chemist to
start the operation of the new sugar
refining plant . at the factory. Mr.
DuBois arrived in town on Tuesday
and immediately entered upon his
duties, He was formerly employed
with the United States department of
agriculture. .
In order to provide a schedule of
cars from Lebanon to Hershey every
fifteen minutes, the Hershey Transit
Company last week finished the work
on five turnouts on their lino between
hero and Lebanon.
A now two-color Miehlo printing
press w*is installed , in tho printing
department at tho Horshoy Choco-late
Company thin week.
A gasoline la-wn-mower was used
on the lawns at tho. Horshey mansion
grounds for tho first time this wook.
Tho machine has a blade 36 inches
wide and has a two horse power en-gine.
Big Chance For Bar gains
Beginning todiiy—July 9—tho Hor-shoy
Department Store will hold its
regular July clearance sale, Caro
must be taken not to regard this as
tho ordinary bargain sale, It is dif-ferent
, for It Is a real moving of
good goods at vory low prices Sug-gestions
of tho very remarkable bar-gains
offered will bo found on page
five, This groat store carries only
dependable goods, It has built up
its reputation on quality and service ,
and Its prices are always reasonable.
Consequently whom It has a clearance
sale and mark's down Its prices so as
to move Its , surplus stocks It gives
buyers unusual opportunities, Arti-cles
of ! dross :tor man and women,
household necessities , seasonable
Items from every department will bo
found in tho list.
The M. S. Hershey Consolidated Public School of Derry Township will occupy its new $100,000 buildi ng in September next.
It is one of the handsomest in the United States.
William Price, of Derry Church
whil e walking from Palmyra homo
on tho tracks of tho railroad was run
down by an engine. Ho was taken
to tho Good Snmarltan Hospital at
Lebanon.
Struck by Train