The Hershey Press 1914-07-30

              Improvements far advanced in the
plant of the Hershey Chocolate Com-pany
will make it the most complete
chocolate factory in the world. It
has long held the leadership but its
new facilities, power arid equipment
will put it in a class by. itself and
make comparisons unavailing. The
statenient may be carried further.
The enlarged factory will be a tri-umph
of industrial efficiency that will
be unique. '
These improvements include the
new sugar room, the new cocoa
powder, building, the new engine and
boiler room, the new- rest room .and
the new printing office. Altogether
they will add to the factory seven
acres of floor space. The cost in
building alone is $385,000. This is
exclusive of equipment which will
run far into the hundreds of thou-sands
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IMPORTANT . IMPROVEMENTS MAKE IT .UNEQUALLED IN
EQUIPMENT AND EFFICIENCY. WONDERFUL USE
OF THE GRAVITY SYSTEM. FINE ROOMS
FOR EMPLOYEES.
' ¦' Why Hershey Leads
Hershey's preeminence in the choco7
late industry begins with its milk
supply. It is in the midst of the
greatest milk region of the world and
this milk flows directly to the factory
in trains, trolleys and wagons that
empty their loads into its milk house.
All Hershey products are made from
real milk—from the hest , milk They
are not made from milk powder.
Herein will be found the fundamental
superiority of the Hershey chocolates.
Any expert who compares other
chocolates either ,by taste or analysis
with Hershey chocolates quickly finds
the difference. The Hershey factory
is the only chocolate concern that has
its- whole milk supply in its immediate
neighborhood.
Making Gravity Do the Work .
Then comes the manufacturing.
Here completeness and efficiency are
scientifically combined. So complete
is the factory that everything is done
in the great nest of buildings, includ-ing
• printing, the making of boxes
and tin • cans and -the many details
that in other places' are brought from
the outside. This completeness cuts
the corners and enables larger value
to be put into the product. Efficiency
follows. In the making of chocolate
there_ are, broadly speaking, six oper-ations.
To haul materials from point
to point over thirty-five acres of
space would mean an expense of
thousands of dollars a day. In the
Hershey plant there is no hauling or
carting or any of the old familiar
methods. By a wonderful use of the
gravity system the materials drop
from operation to operation until they
land—made, sealed and marked—in
000,000 counter pads, 1,000,000 coat-ing,
wrappers, 1,700,000 special labels,
3,000,000 little seals, and many other
lots of various sizes numbering all
told several millions. Thus the total
went close towards a half billion
pieces of printed matter, and the new
equipment of. eight Meihle presses,
four embossing machines and three
large cutting machines will take care
of a much larger product. The new
press room is 100 by 125, with high
ceilings and deep cement floors and
there are three other rooms for stock
and finished work. AH the machines
are electric drive. - . I n the printing
plant also the policy of completeness
is followed. For example the plant
makes its own silver ink, of which it
uses large quantities.
Wonderful Engine Room
Perhaps the most . impressive part
of the improvements is the new en-gine
and boiler room. It is a* great
space of solid building - and abundant
light. Here two' immense compound
engines of the Eobert Wetherill type
arid other machinery for power and
for cooling are being installed. It
rheans an addition to of 2,200 horse
power to the plant and tie increase
of all'the power to over 6,000. Every-thing
here is of the riipst modern con-struction,
with new features for the
Hershey factory.
With the additions . the Hershey
factory will have a floor space of
thirty-five acres and will utilize the
services of close to two thousand per-sons.'
If there has been depression in
other parts,, of the country no sign of
it can be found in the Hershey Fac-tory.
Here it, is a summer of in-tense
activity and the new improve-ments
mean.a great increase in the
company's business.
the cars ready for shipment. There
is nothing like it in any other choco-late
factory in the world.
~~ A Very Complete Plant
With this idea in mind one may
readily appreciate the value and
significance of the now Cocoa Powd-er
Building. It is a great structure
of four stories as strongl y built as a
fort. Here tho making of the cocoa
powder will start on the top floor.
Tho whole thing will bo done—th e
powder will bo made, tho cans and
boxes will bo manufactured; filled ,
labeled and packed and will bo deliv-ered
all ready for shipment on the
lower door, or if you choso to follow
thorn further you will find thorn in
tho cars. So perfect is every stage
of nil these operations that the pow-der
is protected from oven tho possi-bility
of dirt or taint and is delivered
in all its purity. This now building
is tho last word in clean manufnetur-
Comfort For Employees
In tho largest addition thoro will
bo a variety of interests. Part of the
clerical force will be moved over to
tho second floor and the balance of
this floor will uo dovotod to lunch
and rest rooms for tho employees.
Those rooms will bo bountifully fitted
up and will bo tho finest of fcholr kind
in America, Thoy will contribute
greatly to tho comfort and happiness
of the employees , especially during
tho noon hour, On» half of tho first
floor of this build ing will bo used for
lockers for males , and females and
will also contain |;lio offices of tho
superintendents unci others. Tho oth-er
half! will bo dovotod to tho printing
plant ami already now presses lira bo-ing
placed,
Great Printing Outniit
To know the amount of printing
done In tho Hoi'Hlioy factory in a yonr
is to realize tli(i extent off tho- busi-ness;
Last year tho output included
100,000,000 chocolate bar labels, 5,-
2715,000 cocoa labels, 0,400,000 box
labels, 110,000,000 pout; c:«rds, 181,.
000,000 small wrappers , 21,000,000
inspection slips , 10,000,000 almond
labels, 2,000,000 advertising slips, -V
Hershey Chocolate Factory Is Now
t^ Complete in the World
No Summer Dullness There
Large Congregations and Pull Classes
Do Not Mind the Weather
Last Sunday was one of' the hottest
days of the year and ordinarily one
would expect to find the church pews
empty, but the First United Brethren
Church of Hershey does not allow the
weather to inter-fere with its growth.
In the early morning there were 237
in the Sunday School, practically fill-ing
the auditorium and the men's
class had a record ^attendance of 45.
S. D. Clark presided and delivered an
appropriate address which was list-ened
to with close interest, and the
singing led by Dr. M. L. Hershey was
spirited and fine. Rev. Mr. Line-baugh's
sermon was on the atonement
and was an able presentation , logical,
convincing and eloquent , In the even-ing
an innovation was tried. The
chairs were moved outdoors and Mr.
Linebaugh preached from tho church
steps. A congregation of 130 as-sembled
and greatly enjoyed the ser-vices
in the open.
Middletown in Hershe y
Took n Holiday and Came by Special
Trains to Enjoy Itself Here
Last Thursday all Middlotown took
a holiday and came to Hershey, It
closed Its places of business and its
homos and most of its population
joined tho annual union Sunday
School picnic. For tho special trains
1400 tickets wore sold; many wore
sold on tho regular trains, and hun-dreds
camo by trolley and automobile.
Tho total attendance exceeded two
thousand,
Tho • Middlotown visitors had a
groat outing. Thoy kept all tho
amusements busy; their band furnish-ed
excellent music; tholr Union Hobo
Company gave vory interesting and
difficult drills and tholr huso ball club
capped tho climax by taking tho day's
gnmo from tho Horshoy team, Tho
Middlotown pooplo rooted in groat
form and all told it was a strenuous
and a vociferous day. Tho Middle-town
papers speak of tho trip to,IIor-
Hhoy iir a flno success,
Walked in His Sleep
Ah tho rflfliill ; of n night full on
Monday lasl:, Uornard Trestle, agad
JO yours, of this place , Is suffering
from n fracture of his right wrist and
n slight Injury of tho ankle. Tho
young lad was In a trance and while
walking in his sloop foil out of tho
third Htory window at his homo on
Trlnldnd avenue, Dr. Hordnor , re-duced
tho fracture.
Summer is a Busy Time
at the Industrial School
Boys Are Receiving Practical Lessons
in Agriculture and Other Work.
The Crowded Program For the
Month of August. Essays
On Apple Pies .
At the Industrial School the boys
have reached the age for practical
work and the Seniors have been help-ing
in. the harvesting and haymaking,
thus getting their first ... lessons in
agriculture. : They have worked with
great spirit and hayj?. enjoyed their
experience. Then there has been the
painting of the gymnasium, school
rooms and mechanical shops which
has interested them. -For August the
program will be full, so that they will
have scarcely an idle hour the whole
month. The schedule, includes the
following: On Monday of each week
there, will be a "Composition Hike"
to some town or place of interest.
There will be prizes for the best three
compositions written . of each hike,
first: the B. A. P. prize, second:, S. A.
P. prize, third : N. A. P. prize. (B. A.
P.—big apple pie. S. A. P.—small ap-ple
pie. N. A. P.—-no apple pie.)
, On Tuesday will be "Drill Day"
when the forty boys will be taught
military and fancy .tactic drills.
On Wednesday "Audubon Trip," the
purpose , being nature study. The
motto for the day is, "A bird in .the
bush is worth two in' the hand." The
following baggage will be taken on
these-walk's; field glasses, cameras,
reference books, note books and eat-ables.
Thursday, gym drills and exercises.
Friday, baseball day. .
Saturday, swimming lessons.
These plans are for the afternoons
only, as the boys will dp their usual
work in the forenoons.
Miss Euth Behmi of [ Carlisle, Pa.,
has been elected primary teacher;
Miss Behm is an experienced teacher
and comes well recommended. In the
school work the Pennsylvania State
course of study as to grading and
curriculum will be closely followed.
Corn Fourteen Feet High
George Dressier of Farm 1 Sends in
Tall Samples
. Eanged along the east side of the
Hershey Press office are five stalks of
corn , some of them with two ears
each. They are fourteen feet high
and they are fine, big and solid. They
come from Hershey Farm number 1
which adjoins the Park and they show
what kind of cultivation George
Dressier is accohiplishing with his
crop this year.
These stalks are a bit higher than
the average but the whole field of
65 acres will average over ten feet.
It is one of the finest fields in the
state. If any farmer can beat it the
Press would like to print his name
and the facts about his crop,
Readin g Likes Hershey
Thousands of its People Among the
Visitors Here This Summer
Some of the largest excursions
visiting Hershey this summer are
from Reading and thoy are remark-able
not only for their size but also
for the live interest the visitors take
in their- outings. Tho ride by special
train from Reading to Hershey is
only about on hour and so tho excur-sionists
may have a full day for thoir
enjoyment. Tho largest picnic 6f the
present week was that of St. Luke's
Lutheran Church of Reading. Its
long special , train was crowded and
tho visitors took in all tho attractions
of tho Park,
Gerberich Family Reunion
The Seventh Biennial Reunion of
tho Gorborich Family will bo hold in
Mrs. Maggie Mador 's Grove, near
Harper's, East Hanover Township,
Lebanon County, Thursday, August
lfl , 1014. Part of tho forenoon will
bo dovotod to Roll Call from Andrew
Gorborich , who settled in Philadel-phia
in 17B4, Tho officers of tho
Gorborich Family tiro president , Wm,
Gorborich ; vlco president , Edwin G-,
Gorborich ; treasurer , Harrison J,
Gorborich ; musician , Edwin T. Gov.
borloh; all of Harper 's, East Hanover
Township; nonrotary, IT, L, Gorborich ,
M, D„ of Lebanon. This reunion will
also mark tho KIOlli , anniversary of
tho arrival of tho Gorborich family
In America,
A New Stop For Swatara
Train known as No, 2 leaving Hnr-risnurg
at (J.JB a, in. has boon (foiled-ulo'd
to stop at Swatara to take on
and loava off passengers and will ap.
pour on the now time tabic which h
Issued In the oarly f all as a fla g stop,
Hershey s Handsome New Church
Began as Bible School in 1909
REMARKABLE GROWTH OF THE CONGREGATION UNDER
THE PASTORATE OF REVEREND FREDERICK C.
.KRAPF. A BEAUTIFUL EDIFICE.
Holy Trinity Lutheran Chucch which will be dedicated on Sunday
Beginning as a Bible School on
February 7, 1909, the Lutheran con-gregation
of Hershey will on next'
Sunday dedicate the new Holy Trini-ty
Church at the corner of Cocoa and
Granada Avenues. It is a beautiful
edifice, graceful in its architecture
and. artistic in its interior finishings.
It is of local limestone along Gothic
lines. It is 70 ' by 35 feet and it
seats about 200. It is part of a
building which when' completed will
be cruciform in shape and will hav;e a
capacity of 400 or more. The cost of
the present structure with equipment
is about $9,000. ¦ « .
The congregation was organized on
August 7, 1911 by the Rev. C. K. Feg-ley
Who was stationed in Hershey as
a field missionary. On February 27,
1911, Rev. Frederick C, Krapf was
called to the pastorate and under his
able and zealous ministration the con-gregation
lias increased until it now
owns and occupies its new home. In
the meanwhile the services were held
first in the P. O. S. of A. Hall and
later in the Assembly Room of the
Men's Club. The charter was grant-ed
by Judge George Kunkel on April
15, 1912. In location and in all its
circumstances and appointments the
now church is greatly favored. Tho
architects are Hauer and Mowero and
tho building was under the supervis-ion
of William II. Turb y. Ground
was broken on Trinity Sunday, May
19, 1913 and the corner atone was,
laid on Sunday, September 21, 1913,
Pastor Krapf has been most fortu-nate
in securing for the various ser-vices
of the week some of the best
preachers of th© state. The sermon
Sunday morning will -he. by Rev.
George W. Sandt, editor-in-chief ' of
The Lutheran and representative of
many lines of church activity. Pro-fessor
F. D. Keboch will sing Van <ie
Water's "The Good Shepherd." There
will be a fine choir,
The service of dedication proper
will be held at 3 p. m. The order for
such occasions wilt be used in full.
The sermons will be by Rev. T. 33.
Schmank, D. D., of Lebanon, Presi-dent
of the General Council of jtlie
Lutheran Church in North America,
and Dr. Sandt. Assisting Pastor
Krapf will be several prominent
clergymen. The choir of Palm
Church, Palmyra, will assist the Holy
Trinity choir. Prof. Keboch and
Miss Pauline Clark will sing Howe's
"In the Cross of Christ I Glory."
At the festival vespers at 7 o'clock
the addresses will be by Rev. H. B.
Richard s and Rev. H. K. Lantz. At
the vespers Tuesday Rev. J. E. Wh.it-teker
will preach, and Thursday Rev.
G. W. Genszler and. Mr. W. M. Mearig
will , make addresses. Friday night's
(Services will be tho fourth anniver-sary
of the organization of the con-gregation
and Rev. Mr. Fegioy, who
organized it, and Hon. G. H, Moyor, a
member of ,tho committee who or-ganized
the Bible School, will speak.
It will bo a week of vory unusual in-terest
and a large attendance at all
the services is expected.
From Hayfield to Zoo
Frank Hare Contributes flue Speci-mens
of Mephitis MophiUca
It is Frantz dinner 's ambition to
got into tho Zoo sas many specimens
of the cnrnovoroB as ho can. His
prize is the young lioness, one of tho
most beautiful of her genus, and she
is growing splendidly. But thoro are
many other carnivo res and Frank
Hare found four flno young ones when
ho was cutting hay on 'Horshoy farm
number , IB-. Of course those wore
not lions but thoy belonged to the
samo big family, although only tho
size of kittens. Thoy wore black with
identical white spots, Their coats
wore of long, lino hair and thoy had
rich bushy tailn. Thoy wore very at-tractive
and looked us though thoy
would make delightful pots, but for
reasons host known to himself Frank
Hare took thoni up very tenderly , lift-ing
thorn carefully by tholr abundant
tail s, an d putting thorn in confinement
a safe distance from the house, Aft-erwards
thoy wore tahon to tho Koo
and tho same caution was exorcised
both by Hai'o im<\ dinner, Those who
may not recognize the animal by this
description are informed that; it Is the
well-known American mopliltlno
mustolold carnivore , Or to bo a bit
more explicit , It Is th o Mephitis
mophltlca , And everybody knows
wh at that Is, ,
On farm 111 also a number of tho
same nnlmals have boon caught re-cently,
Storm in Lancaster
Large Damage to Property and Crops
and Travel Interrupted
Tho storm last Saturday afternoon
did its worst damage in Lancaster
county, including a largo bank barn
destroyed by lightning, groat trooe
uprooted , tobacco and corn fields ruin-ed
by hail , wind and water and othoi
losses amounting to thousands of clol-lars,
At a point near Lobnta, on the
May town and' B«i abridge turnpike ,
there was a cluclburst. Lanes wore
filled almost to the top rail, which
overflowed In tolmcco collars, filled
barnyards and caused the run which
passes through Rowonna to bo higher
than tho oldest resident romombors,
Tho hall shredded the tobacco and
corn In a number of places, and in
ono field one of the crops -was
ruined by tho hall , and tho other "wns
not touchod,
• Lightning damage was confined to
ono spot, and struck tho barn on tho
John II. Shank farm , on the rond
loading to Mnytowiy near Lobata. A
mule which was In the stable perished
In tho flames, The horses woro out,
A largo wagon, seed drill , flluwMar,
two corn shollorfi , harness ,, farming
tools, sevonty-flvo bushels of corn,
which was only bought a, fow days
ago, all the soaflon 's crops of hay,
straw and oats, the latter .only being
put In tho barn on Friday, woro de-stroyed
by tho (lames. Many wires
wore down and travel was interrupted,
It will Celebrate the Two Hundred
and Fifth Anniversary of the Ar-rival
in America and Will be
' Held in Hershey Park On
August 27
The ninth annual reunion of the
Hershey Family ' to celebrate the
205th anniversary of the arrival in
America will be held -in Hershey Park
on Thursday, August 27. So large
is the promised attendance : that this
note is added to the invitation which
has been sent out : "The Entertain-ment
. Committee . invites all coming
from Dauphim and adjacent counties
to bring >ample lunch baskets, as a
great many firom a distance are ex-pected."
• The invitation is general
to all interested in the reunion. The
day's program is as follows:
Reception by committee, 10.00 a.
m.; Husic; Business meeting and
election of. officers, President Milton
S. HCershey, Presiding, 10.30\ a. m.;
Prayer, Rev. Harvey S. Hersheyt
Landisville, Ta.; Dinner, 12.00m.;
Music, Hersh«y Glee Club; Opening
address, 2.00 p. m., Mr. Milton S. Her-shey,
Hershey, Pa.; Music; Family
records, Hon. W. L. Hershey, Mari-etta,
Pa.; Address, Rev. E.. Meister,
D. D., Lancaster, Pa.; Two minutes
silent prayer.-
The present officers are: President,
Milton S. Hershey, Hershey; vice-presidents:
A"bram L. Hershey, Silver
Springs, Dr. E. R. Hershey, Lancas-ter,
iev. Scott F. Hershey, New Cas-tle,
J. S. Hei'shey, Lancaster, A. H.
Hersshey, Mo-uhtville, J., F. Hershey,
Menkes Mill, York Co.,, B. H.: Her-sheyy
Manheim, Samuel Hershey,
2405 Spruce Street, Philadelphia;
secretaries: E, K. Hershey, Ephrata;
Mrs. B. H. Hershey, . Manheim; treas-user,
H. K. Hershey, Lancaster; his-torian,
Hon. "W. L. Hershey, Marietta,
who is also Author of Family Re-cords.
The committee of arrangements is
conrposed of the following: Milton S.
Hershey, Hershey, Dauphin county,
Pa.; T. H. Eershey, Sporting Hill;
Elarn Hershey, Lancaster; B. F.. Her-shey,
Lancaster; J. S.. Hershey, Lan-caster;
Benjamin F. Hiestand, Mari-etta
; Abrarn L. Hershey, Silver
Springs ; Jacob E. Hershey, Mount-ville*;
Ella Hershey, Lancaster; Jbsiah
Hershey, Gap; Andrew H. Hershey,
Mountyille; Joseph Hersche, Appen-zell,,
Switzerland; Addison S. Her-shey,
Lancaster; H. F. Hershey, Har-risbiirg;
H. L. Hershey, Harrisburg;
John F. Hershey, Menges Mill; "Wash-ington
L. Hershey, Marietta; A, Her-shey,-
Spring Forge; D. M. Hershey,
Lan caster; Jerre Hershey, Vincennes,
Indiana, Andrew H. Hershey, Lancas-ter;
P.. O. Hawbecker, Chambersburg;
Benjamin J. Hershey, Gap ; Mrs.
Amelia Hersche, Appenzell , Switzei--
land,
T"he committee of . entertainment is,
Mrs, Fanny Hershey, Chairlady, Sil-ver
Springs ; Mrs. J. Hershey, Gap;
Mrs, S. Hershey, Marietta; Mrs. A.
Groff , Lancaster; Mrs. E. Hershey,
Greenville, 6hio; Miss' C. Meyers,
Lancaster; Miss S, A. Hershey, Wilk-insburg;
Miss G. Hershey, Philadel-phia;
Miss B, Hershey Greiner , Mus-catine,
Iowa ; Dr. A. Roichsteiner, Ap-pen
zell, Switzerland; Miss E. Her-shey,
Lancaster; Mrs. Mira Hershey,
Los Angeles , Cnl; Elam M. Hershey,
Gap; B. F. Hershey, Lancaster; J, S.
Hershey, Lancaster ; A. Trego Short-zor
, M. IX, Baltimore, Md.; C, E.
Hoi'shoy, Owassa, Mich.; A. Hershey,
Goj 'donvillo; E. Hershey, M. D., Den-ver,
Col.; Mrs. Theresa Hersche Tan-ner,
Apponz<ill , Switzerland,
,Th o day following tho celebration
in Horshoy will bo spent visiting
the burial places of the Hershey an-cestors.
Tho reunion will bo one of the big
gatherings of tho year. Tho invita-tion
which lias boon issued is a fine-ly
executed program with tho Hor-shoy
cout-of-arms in four colors.
Death of Mr. Coppenhaver
JIarry Coppenhaver of Lebanon ,
former sheriff , died on Saturday at
the ago of G5. Although ho had boon
ill nix montlis and in bod olovon weeks
tho end wan sudden , and unexpected.
Mr, Copponhavor was born in Hock-oravlllo
, Dauphin county, and was by
trade a painter. Ho began business at
Campbolltown. Ton years ago ho
wan elected sheriff and after his term
oxylrod ho continued active business
In Lebanon whore ho was considered
ono of tho inost export sign and lot-tor
painters in tho state, Mr. Oop-poj
ihavor wns a man of lino qualities
ami was very popular. Thirty years,
ago h o mnn'lod Miss 1311naboth Blngn-mnn
, who stirvlvos, with tho following
children, llqrvy Oopponhflvor of Hor-shoyi
and Mrs. Qraco , wife of K. S.
Swope, of Tontli and Ellanboth
stt'oots , Robert , Florence and Carl, of
Lebanon. A sister, IVtrs. Harr y Wag-no
T, of Woidman stroot/ Lebanon, al-so
survives, 'Pho funeral was hold
Tuesday with interment at the Re-formed
cornotory at Campbolltown.
Ninth Annual Reunion
of tie Hershey Family