The Hershey Press 1914-10-22

              While Other Places Cry Hard Times
Hershey Forges Ahead. Factory
Running to Capacity. Many New
Buildings. New Trolley
Line. Wires Underground
In some other places and sections
there is much shutting down of plants
and much curtailment of employment,
but in Hershey there is unusual ac-tivity.
The big factory is going at
full capacity with every likelihood of
the demand continuing. The . force is
hard at work filling orders.
The improvements in the factory
. which will increase the floor space to
35 acres are being pushed and fine
progress is being made. Most of the
work is done. The new power room
is nearing completion. It is one of
the finest and most impressive power
rooms in the world. It has all the
latest notes in efficiency and one of
the most splendid equipments in
America.
The enlarged printing department
' in the factory is complete and is
equipped with new machines and is
running merrily—a model plant turn-ing
out an enormous product.
Outside the factory the work is ex-
• tensive.
The huge pipes from Spring Creek-to
the Factory are now in the deep
trenches?*
, The million gallon reservoirs on
Prospect Heights are ready for ser-vice
and the rest of the work on the
new water supply is being done.
The task of reducing the overhead
wires in Hershey is being performed.
The new conduit over the railroad
bridge has been finished and a new
cable along Spring Creek Avenue will
take the place of many wires and will
lead to the removal of some of the
telegraph poles and many of the
cross-beams on poles that will have
to remain for the electric lights. This
work means a very distinct improve-ment
to the town.
There are nearly a score of new
residences, more than half of them
nearing completion. These houses
are modern and are of brick or stone
and they mean an investment of
many thousands of dallors.
Town improvements include the fin-ishing
of the new theater, the build-ing
of the new subway, the street
work and other matters.
The new building at the Hershey
Industrial School will be finished
soon. It will add accommodations
for twenty more boys and will be a
perfect home for 'them.
More than a dozen farm buildings,
silos and other structures are either
under way or practically completed.
The big new barn and farm hose and
dairy near the Industrial Home make
an architectural picture that has been
greatly admired. Another fine
achievement in practical architecture
is the new buildings for the power
station for the trolley line this side
of Lebanon. All this is Hershey .
work.
Fine progress is being made on the
new trolley line into Lancaster coun- .
ty. All other parts of the Hershey
Transit System are being kept up to
date. The company has been a large
purchaser of rails and poles.
Big Work Going on Steadily
In All Hershey Enterprises
Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus Goodman gave (
a largo dinner on Sunday at thoir
homo ' to thoir children , grandchil-dren
and greatgrandchildren. The
din nor 1H hold twice each year and on
each occasion nil tho children return
homo to pay their respects, Those
present on Sunday were : Mr. and
Mrs. John II. Gordon , Mr. and Mrs.
...IrvIn AungHt and family, Mrs Char-les
Hess and family, Mr. and Mrs.
Oscar Spnncnko and family, all of
Horsjioy and Mr. and Mrs. David
linlmor and family, Mr. and Mrs.
Brandt Lehman and family, Mrs.
Catharine Goodman and Mrs, George
Mnrbargor and son Stanley of Pal-myra,
A Family Dinner |
Principal Kcbock Returns Thanks to
Mr. Murrio and Others
Mr. F. D. Kobock, Principal of tho
M. S. Horshoy Consolidated School
of Dorry Township, writes to tho
Press:
"We wish to express our sincere
gratitude for tho very beautiful oil
painting of the father of our country,
Washington. The picture is a most
excellent adornment of tho High .
School room. Thank you, Mr. Murrio.
"Wo are indebted also to Mr. Harry
Huverstick for tho very handsome
bouquet brought on tho day of dedi-cation.
Wo appreciate tho flowers
before death—Thank you.
"Tho very generous action of tho
P. O. S. of A. No. 705 Washington
Camp in presenting two very largo
flags to our schools is to bo highly
complimented, 'Forever float that
standard sheet ,' is practiced as well
as preached."
Gifts For the Hershey School
Joseph Auchonbach of Palmyra,
formerly employed for a number of
years at tho Dorry Church railroad
crossing as watchman, although un-able
to follow his duties with tho rail-road
company for tho past ' few
months owing to 111 health , has taken
up tho work of embroidering. Ills
work Is remarkable and ho finds
ready sale for all his pieces.
Knitting After Flagging
Since tho opening of tho squirrel
season one week ago, tho taxidermist
Fruntz Zinnor has mounted two lino
specimens of this animal. Harry
Fasnacht of Campbolltown while
hunting in.tho hills beyond that place
was. fortunate in bagging a pure
snow •white squirrel which ho brought
to Mr. Zinnor and had mounted. The
animal has white oyos with pink
pupils and is a trifle larger than tho
common rod squirrel. Another fine
specimen of tho squirrel was that
brought to Mr. /Inner by Miss
ltrightbill of Palmyra. This Is a
gray squirrel but has tho si/.o of al-most
two ordinary gray squirrels,
Rare Squirrels Mounted
Director Feese Will Produce a Drama
and a Comic Opera
Director Samuel J. Feese is a very
busy man these days. Ho ' is superin-tending
tho rehearsals of "Claim 96"
which will bo produced for tho bene-fit
of tho Hershey Baseball Club with
many of tho members of the club in
the cast. Tho men show fine ability
and great interest and Mr. Feese has
been rehearsing them diligently. A
very entertaining performance is
promised.
After the play Mr. Feese will pro-ceed
to produce tho musical comedy,
"High Jinks." This will be another
event of tho winter and it will bo well
done. Mr. Feese is working hard to
develop the talent of tho town.
Plays For Hershey Talent
Winner Will be Given Season Ticket
For the New Theater in Hershey
Hershey will soon have a new thea-ter.
It will be in the center of the
town at the most convenient point for
all the people of the place and for '
those who come by train or trolley.
It is only a block from the railroad
station and it is directly in front of
the point where the trolleys stop.
In the new name this central loca-tion
should be emphasized. It may
seem easy to mention a name that
would carry the idea without any
trouble whatever, but suppose you try
it. The right name for the right
thing is a real difficulty. Hershey
has the right thing in its new thea-ter
in the center of the community,
and now it wants the right name for
the right thing.
It is understood, of course, that the
new theater is entirely separate and
distinct from the Hershey Park Thea-ter,
which is located on the other side
of the railroad in Hershey Park. The
new theater is the eastern part of the
old . school building- with an addition ,
the whole having a seating capacity
of 700 and all the facilities and com-forts
of an attractive modern audi-torium.
It has everything but its
new name. And to the one first send-ing
the name that suits there will be
awarded a season ticket good for all
performances from the opening of
the theater until the close in the
spring or summer. Address: Man-ager,
Theater, Hershey, Pa.
A Prize For a Name
Speeches Will be Delivered by For-mer
Treasurer William H. Berry
and by H. B. Sassaman of Mid- —*
dletown. Music by the Her-shey
Band. Large Crowd
As the campaign draws to a close
Hershey is to be a center of interest.
The Democrats have arranged for a
mass-meeting which is expected to
draw a large attendance. It will be
held next Wednesday evening in front
of the Men's Club, or if the weather
should not be favorable for outdoor
speaking it will be transferred to the
theater in the Park.
The speakers will be William H.
Berry, formerly treasurer of the
state and H. B. Sassaman of Middle-
•town. Mr Berry is one of the most
experienced and most interesting
campaigners in Pennsylvania. He
holds his audience and he knows his
theme. Mr. Sassaman is also well
known to many in this part of the
country and he will be cordially re-ceived.
The Hershey Band under Director
Samuel J. Feese will be a feature of
the meeting. The idea is to have
an oldtime rally with plenty of music
and enthusiasm.
Democrats Will Hold Meeting
In Hershey Wednesday Night
Opening Attraction Will be Dr. An-drew
Johnson is a Brilliant Lec-ture.
He is One of the Force-ful
Orators of the Plat-form.
A Fine Course
Tomorrow evening Dr. Andrew
Johnson will open the entertainment
course Of the Men's Club. He comes
to Hershey as one of the conspicous
successes of the lecture platform. An
evening of oratory, wisdom, arid in-spiration
is promised, and a large at-tendance
is expected to greet him
and enjoy his message. His own life
is a promise of the good things he
has to say, "He is a master of'.the
platform with the largest fund of
good stories I have ever heard," says
a Chautauqua expert. Dr. Johnson's
lecture will be "Eli and Dennis,"
wherein he presents the science of
living. It is full of humor and
pathos. On Sunday he will speak on
"Prophets and Gourds.
Dr. Johnson, born 1874, in Tennes-see,
was left a homeless orphan at
the age of twelve. He worked as a
printer's "devil" and slept in a livery
stable. When seventeen he determin-ed
to go to college. When he arrived
at the University of Tennessee he had
boundless ambition—and two cents.
He later graduated from the Georgia
Robinson Christian College near the
top of his class, and for two years
held the chair of Ancient History and
Classics in this college.
He worked at the Agricultural De-partment
of. the University, arose at
three o'clock every morning^ ; milked
cows, drove the milk wagon; to the
city, spent' from eight in the morn-ing
'till four in the evening- in class
rooms, returned to his work on the
"farm," and thus forced his way
through a great university.
He has held some of the best
churches of his denomination, includ-ing
the Dunham Christian Church of
Cleveland. He has been before the
public for seventeen years as minis-ter,
evangelist and lecturer. He has
lectured hundreds of times and never
had an adverse report. He is a capi-tal
story teller and his wit and humor
are of the spontaneous kind that
startles and convulses.
The other entertainments of the
course are :
Monday, Nov. 23, 1914, Olympia
Ladies' Quartette.
Monday, 'Dec. 21, Dr. C. C. Mitchell.
Monday, Jan. 4, 1915, Marion Bal-lou
Fisk
Monday, Jan. 25, 1915, The Pana-ma
Pacific Exposition.'
Thursday, Feb. 11, 1915, Cecilian
Concert.
Season tickets are only 50 cents
with single tickets at 15 cents. The
lectures and entertainments will be
held in the Hershey Men's Gymnas-ium
until the new auditorium is com-pleted.
Men's Club Entertainments
Begin Tomorrow Evening
In Hunting Trip in Clearfield County
He Gets Nine Fine Pheasants
One of the enthusiastic gunners of
Hershey is Ezra F. Hershey, treasur-er
of tho Hershey Chocolate Com-pany.
"Ho is oven more successful in
hunting than ho is in fishing, which_ is
saying about all that can bo said.
Last week ho took tho two hundred
mile trip to Clearfield county to seek
game in one of tho wildest parts of
Pennsylvania. Ho was fortunate in
finding pheasants and lin bagging
nine handsome specimonsV Tho pheas-ant
is a swift, and skillful flier and it
requires unusual marksmanship to.
got it. Mr. Hershey returned on
Monday, delighted with his trip.
Ezra Hershey's Success
Mr. and Mrs. Milton Slossor wore
tendered a kitchen shower on Monday j
evening at thoir homo in Spring i
Crook ' avenue. A number of thoir I
friends from Palmyra enmo to Her- ;
shoy in two automobiles and gave tho ¦
newly wedded couple a complete sur- !
prise. Games and music helped to
pass a pleasant evening and a lunch- |
eon was served. Mr. and Mrs, Slos- j
sor received many flno presents. ,
Thoso in tho party wore: Misses j
Elizabeth and Catharine Mumma, :
Carrie Runklo , Minnie Gingrich , Car-rie
Gingrich , Olive Miller , Minnie
Quickloy, Emma Sharp, Mrs. Harry
T. Miller , Mrs. . Goorgo Rudolph , j
David Roam and Alvln Roam, |
A Fine Kind of Shower
On Monday Mrs. J. B. P,alntor , re-siding
on Spring Crook avenue, took
from her garden a flno lot of groon
string boans. A crop of boaiiH of
this kind and with tho pods well filled
is unusual for so lato in tho season.
Several other persons residing in that
neighborhood have bean stalks in
blossom. Mrs. D. B. Eshloman has
raised a flno lot of largo poppers
which sho took from tho vinos on
Monday.
i
Unusual Fall Crops
The now Borough Lockup, at Pal-myra
, was opened to tho public Mon-day
for tho first time. It Is located
at tho west end of tho Citizen 's Firo
' Company's Hall. Nigh Constable
Amos B. Horst will bo tho manager.
Palmyra Has a Lockup
S. P. Bacostow of Dorry Church
has broken ground on Cocoa avonuo
near Aroba street for tho erection
of a double brick dwelling house. A,
M. Shalfnor of Hanovordalo has re-ceived
tho contract and his force of
men are already at work on tho build-ing.
Tho homo will bo equipped
with all modern conveniences.
Mr. Bacastow's House
The girls of tho Young Women's
Christian Association had their Oc-tober
chestnut party last Saturday.
They used tho Horshoy Auto Truck
specially equipped with park seats.
They wont over tho fi rst mountain to
Manlto Gap, leaving Hershey at one
o'clock and reaching tho Gap at half
past two. They spent an hour and a
half in tho woods and gathered many
butternuts, some chestnuts and a few
pawpaws. They reached homo at <$
p. m. Eighteen made tho trip.
October Chestnut Party
Many hunters from this place and
vicinity have spent sometime in tho
surrounding hills and mountains
since tho opening of tho squirrel and
bird season last Thursday. From
all reports tho game is plentiful and
successful Nlinrod s returned with
flno bags of game. Among them'
wore: Calvin Llnglo, 11 squirrels;
•John Diellm , (I squirrels ; Ewing Cain
and P. N. Kasson, 4 squirrels and 2
pheasants; Emmotto Pago, 1 pheas-ant
and . Clayton Nornhpld , (I squir-rels
and 1 pheasant.
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Fine Hunting in the Hills
Hershey Ladies Busy to- Add Their
Share for the War Orphans of Eu-rope.
List of Desirable Arti-cles.
Those Who Are Di-recting
the Work
Under the leadership ' of Mrs.
Charles V. Glynn the movement in
Hershey to contribute to the Christ-mas
Ship for the war orphans of Eu-rope
has become one of the most
popular causes of the year. Iti ap-peals
to everyone, and work is bfeing
rushed in order that Hershey's A:on-tribution
may be as large as possible.
All the churches, the Young Wom-en's
Christian Association and the
other organizations of the town are
cooperating. Of the churches Mrs.
Mumma represents the Lutheran,
Mrs. Bacastow the Presbyterian and
Mrs. Linebaugh the United BreMiren.
The schools will also take part. At
the Hershey Store a discount of ten
per cent will be given on any
and all articles to go on the ship and
this includes material to be used in
the making of gifts. These pur-chases
must be made on order of
Mrs. Glynn or of the representatives
of the churches.
Money is acceptable from anyone
who cannot sew. The following is a
list of desirable articles :
Mittens, sweaters, mufflers, coats
suits, dresses, shoes, caps, gloves,
stockings, underwear, handkerchiefs,
blankets, household linen, sheets, pil-low
cases, towels, baby clothes, toys,
picture books, writing materials.
The schools have been asked to
make any contributions they see fit.
Anyone who desires to contribute
and who may not be reached through
these channels "will please send their
donations to Mrs. Glynn or to the
Young . Women's Christian Associa-tion.
The boxes and barrels will be
closed Saturday.
Mrs. Glynn received the following
letter from the Managing Director of
the Child Federation: "The Child
Federation has accepted, with pleas-ure,,
the carrying out, for Philadel-phia
and Pennsylvania, of the details
of the "CHRISTMAS SHIP," to be
filled with presents for the war or-phans
in Europe.
"The task of delivering gdods to
the various countries in Europe is
going to be a complicated one. Of
course, admission to England will be
easy. Bordeaux will be the port of
entry for France. Belgium will not
present much of a problem. Ger-many,
probably, will be served by
Rotterdam. Russia, Austria and Ser-via
present questions.
"We are at present negotiating
with the Swedish and Norwegian
Ministers to carry the goods free,
across their country, from Bergen
and the Finnish frontier. Trieste
may have to be the port for Austria,
and the Adriatic is full of mines.
Solinika is the only port of entry for
Servia, and negotiations with the
Greek government for transportation
of goods free from that port are un-der
way.
"The reason for stating the fore-going
is this, that the ship will have
to sail much earlier than we intend-ed,
and all goods must be in Phila-delphia
not later than October 28th ,
and as much earlier as it is conveni-ent
for yo.u to arrange.
"We would suggest that tho con-tributor
attach a cord or slip of pa-per
with name and address, to each
article contributed , in order that the
recipients in a foreign country may
know whoso warm heart and good
will contributed to their comfort."
Tho officers of the Child Federation
are Edward W. Bok, president; Sam-uel
McClintock Hamill, M. D., vice-president;
Albert Cross, managing
director; Albert P. Gerhard , treasur-er;
Howard Childs Carpenter , M. D.,
secretary. _,,
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Gifts of the Christmas Ship
Must be in by Noon Saturday
Will be Under the Direction of Moth-er's
Club and Will be Conducted by
Groups of Young People. You
Will be Tagged and You Will
be Expected to Pay:
• Look out-for next Saturday.
Hershey will have a tag day. It
means you. And you will have to pay
for your tag. Whatever you give
will go for the benefit of the Kinder-garten.
It will afford everyone a fine
opportunity to help this splendid en-terprise.
Hershey is most fortunate
to have a real kindergarten and popu-lar
support will , make it better in
every way.
President Butler, of Columbia Uni-versity,
says that any child that does
have the training of the kindergar-ten
starts with a handicap in life. It
is of genuine importance. Mr. M. S.
Hershey is deeply interested in the
work. . ^^
Back of the kindergarten is the
Mother's Club, whose officers are,
president Mrs. D. Frank Magee; vice-president,
Mrs. Ezra F. Hershey;
secretary, Mrs. Lawrence Edwards;
treasurer, Mrs. George Eppley. .
The patronesses are the officers and
Mrs. S. D. Clark, and Mrs. M. L. Her-shey,
and under them will be groups
of girls to sell the tags. Mrs. Eppley
will have' charge of the girls in her
section; Mrs. Edwards in her section
and Mrs. M. L. Hershey in Derry.
There will be another station in the
Young Women's Christian Associa-tion.
Prizes will be given to those who
sell the most tags. ' Following will
be a social to all who take part.
Any amount will be acceptable.
You get tagged—and you pay accord-ing
to^your ability.
You may get tagged as often as
you want—with a contribution for
every tag.
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Next Saturday in Hershey
is Kindergarten Tag Day
Ceaseless Bands That do the Work of
Many Men and do it Much Better. ^
They Handle Tens of Thou-sands
of Packages a Day
Safely and Smoothly
In most large factories a familiar
sight is to. see hundreds and .often
thousands of men and boys or women
and girls carryin g packages from one
point to another. It makes a fine pic-ture
for illustration purposes but to
the student of efficiency it means an
enormous loss in time, money and re-sults**.
There are no such sights in the
most complete chocolate factory in
the world—which, of course, means
the Hershey plant. There are many
hundreds of millions of handlings con-stantly
under way in the 35 acres of
floor space of this wonderful estab-lishment
but it is done by mechan-isms
specially contrived and built for
the Hershey Company. One of the
most spectacular and at the same
tim<T*one of the gentlest and quietest
is the conveyor system for the trans-ferring
of the packages and boxes
of chocolate from department to de-partment
and finally to the place
where they are packed in cars for
shipment to the jobbers. Here the
tide of chocolate boxes flows endless-ly.
There are streams of them, each
going to its destination as easily as
water runs down hill.
Not only is there a gain in the time
and efficiency by this great conveyor
system which represents the best in
its way that human ingenuity has
ever contrived but there is a very
distinct achievement for cleanliness.
In fact the Hershey products . from
the original raw materials to the
finished state are subject to no laws
of chance but are insured all along
the way. Instead of human hands
doing the handling the work is per-formed
by machinery under sanitary
conditions that are noted for their
completeness. The conveyors are al-ways
among the things that call forth
special admiration from the visitors
to the Hershey factory.
One of the Fine Efficiency
Points of the Hershey Plant
Keystone Comedies Monday, Wednes-day
and Saturday Evenings
An important change in the bill at
the Hershey Park Theater is that
performances will be given only on
Monday, Wednesday and Saturday
evenings. This will continue until
the new theater at the corner of
Chocolate and Cocoa Aenues is open-ed.
.
On each of the three evenings a
Keystone comedy will, be. presented.
The first of these comedies was tried
Monday night and the audience was
delighted. It had many good laughs
and the applause was unusual.
These comedies are produced by
arrangement with the Mutual Film
Company whose comedies are ac-knowledged
to be the best on the
market. The cost of these films is
much larger than those that have
been shown heretofore but they are
well worth the difference. They af-ford
an evening's entertainment of
real value.
On tho coming Saturday evening
there will, be five reels of now pic-tures
including a Keystone Comedy.
The vaudeville act will bo by Roy
Adams who is well known to moving
pictures patrons and who has played
in every town east of Pittsburg.
Last Monday evening tho artists
wore Professor Linsey and Miss Es-ther
Hummel. They gained several
rounds of applause. Professor Lin-soy's
violin playing was greatly en-joyed.
Three Nights a Week
More Than a Hundred Enjoy theFirst
Evening in the Hershey Pavilion
Success from the start marked the
plan for a popular dancing class in
the Park pavilion. The proposition
was that skilled instruction would be
given and that no extra charge would
be made beyond the admission prices
—fifteen and twenty-five cents.
For the opening class the attend-ance
was over a hundred and the eve-ning
was among the most pleasant
ever spent in the town, this, too, in
spite of the fact that the weather was
very inclement.
Professor E. .C. Neagley of Har-risburg
was the teacher and he did
his work with great satisfaction. The
teaching was frorA 8.30' to 9.30 and
then tho floor was given over to danc-ing.
In this there was general par-ticipation
and tho occasion was al-together
enjoyable.
During tho evening Professor Sam
Alios gave four exhibition dances,
tho one stop, tho hesitation, tho fox
trot and tho Argentine tango. The
management will enlarge tho music
if the popularity of the classes con-tinues.
Dancing Class Popular
Fighting of tho most desperate
character continues along tho battle
linos in Franco and to ¦ the cast of
Germany. Both sides announce suc-cesses
from day to^ day but there is
no big result. Tho battles aro still
going on and tho armies are en-trenching
as though thoy expected
to remain during the winter. Ger-many
has most of Belgium. There
aro secondary engagements on tho
sea with losses of small shi ps and
torpedo craft. It is announced that
tho Zeppelins aro preparing for an
attack on London. Tho city is being
kept in darkness for fear of this vis-itation.
' In South Africa tho rebel-lion
has boon broken up. Japan is
winning viptorios in tho fur East and
is taking control of Gorman islands
in tho Pacific. Gorman officials say
thoy have In tho field between 5,000,-
000 and (1,000,000 men and that thoy
aro in flno shape for tho war, with
enough food and with business al-most
normal. Tho nations of tho
Allies . aro purchasing enormous
quantities of supplies from America. •
Progress of the War Implement Department Making Large
Sales in Lebanon Valley
The Implement Department of tho
Hershey Store has sold more ma-chinery
this fall than in any other
season. Tho heavy corn crop is re-sponsible
for many of tho sales. Re-cently
tho sales have included gaso-line
engines of from ono to twenty
horse power with occasional calls for
higher power, up to 50. There is al-so
a demand for tho Now Holland
Engine from ono to live horse power.
Many corn and fodder cutters have
been sold. Tho sale of manure
spreaders lias increased and in tho
past year 99 of thorn have boon plac-ed.
Many feed mills have also boon
sold.
Those sales have boon in a radius
of twenty flvo miles of Horshoy,
mainly In Dauphin and Lebanon coun-ties
and with some sales in Lancaster.
Thoy indicate tho rapid increase of
modern farming methods in this
region.
Buying More Machinery