The Hershey Press 1915-03-18

              This Summer it Will be Possible to
Make the Round Trip by Different
Routes. Work on the New
Lines Far Advanced and Be-ing
Pushed. New Cars
Overhead construction on the Deo-date
and Elizabethtown road began this
week and the work will now go on
with dispatch so that the line may be
inaugurated as early in the summer
as possible. It is hoped to have it
running when the great conference is
held in Hershey in June. Two* new
cars have arrived and they are now
in the barn at Hershey. More are on
the way. ' - .¦ '.- '
The Deodate and Elizabethtown line
is the latest extension of the Hershey
system and it means . not only the
opening up of Lancaster county to
Hershey but the giving of new op-portunities
for trolley travel. At the
same time this new line is being fin-ished
work is being rushed on a new
line from Lebanon to Ephfata and the
following announcement is made this
week: .
Ninety per cent of the work on the
electrifying of the Ephrata & Leb-anon
Street Railway Company lines
operating between Lebanon and
Ephrata has been completed and a
force of more than 100 men are rush-ing
to completion the remainder of
the work. Manager F. C. Hornstein
stated that , the company expects to
run its first electric car under the
overhead system on or about April . 1.
There have been 200 miles of copper-wire
stretched in order to electrify
the road . and insure its operation.
These wires extend from McCall's
Ferry Dam to the local line.
In a few months, therefore, the
traveller from Hershey may select
one" of two trolley routes to Phila-delphia
or he may use one going and
one returning. From Hershey he
may go to Lancaster by way of Eliza-bethtown
and from Lancaster by way
of Downingtown and West Chester
to Philadelphia. Or, from Hershey
he may go to Lebanon on the Hershey
Line; then by way of the new. line to
Ephrata and then to Reading and
from Reading over the trolley that
runs by Pottstown and Norristown to
Philadelphia.
Those who want to see a beautiful
country will take this round trip dur-ing
the coming summer.
Hershey to Philadelphia
Two Ways by Trolley Lines
Saint Patrick s Day
There Was Plenty of Green Displayed
in Hershey Yesterday
For a St. Patrick's Day yesterday
was windy but too mild to be Irish
and everything in this neighborhood
was as peaceful as a Monday picnic,
but the spirit of the anniversary was
in the air and there was plenty of
green in the town. Very early in the
morning some good Irishman climbed
the concrete tower at Chocolate and
Park avenues and put a green flag
on the topmost pinnacle and all day
long this emblem of the Emerald Isle
waved proudly over all of Hershey.
Glorious Ireland , sword and ,song
Gird and crown thee.
Many men wore green neckties and
many of the girls had dashes of green
in their dresses.
They Include Big New Dining Room
With Modern Kitchen and Refrig-erator,
Cement Toilets, Enlarg-ed
Bath House, New Shoot-the-
Chute? and Sleds
More improvements are being made
in Hershey Park than in any season
for years and they are all substantial.
Builder Putt has been busy on them
for more than a. month.
The handsome stone entrance from
Park Avenue is completed. It takes
.the place of the old wood steps and is
a fine piece of work.
The outside platform around the
front of the theater has been remov-ed
and Cement entrances with iron
railings are being erected. The south
path leading to Spring Creek will be
r¦ egraded . and modernized. At the north end of the main danc-ing
pavilion the store house has been
entirely refitted. The floor has been
removed and in its place is a new
floor of cement with cement sides that
will make it moistproof.
The photograph gallery has a new
porch of generous proportions that
adds much to the attractiveness of
the building. It extends across the
full front.
The old toilets are being removed
and . cement is being substituted for
wood. The new equipment is modern
and sanitary and " is planned to meet
the requirements of the future.
• The old dining hall in the park
utility building is the scene of the
most elaborate changes. A new
kitchen 25 by 40 feet is the main im-provement.
To it is added a large
refrigerator room ample for the sup-plies
for a small 'army of people.
There are four- modern ranges and
there will be a large dishwashing
equipment. The serving tables run
almost the length of the room and are
entirely new and are equipped, with
drawers and small pantries. The ar-rangement
is for the prompt and
swift serving of food to the hundreds
who can be accommodated in the din-ing
room adjoining. There is much
use of cement around this building to
take the place, of the old wood sup-ports
and coverings.
For the Park service out of doors
many new benches and tables have
been made by Mr. Putt. These are
completed.
Across Spring Creek workmen are
busy on the new Shoot-the-chutes and
Builder Putt says he will match it
again any in America. It will be ele-vated
five feet and' it will have all the
new angles and protections for speed
and safety. For this Mr. Putt has
built 40 new sleds in which he takes
special pride.
One of the important improvements
is the new bath house. It has been
extended at both ends and it is now
over 80 feet, with facilities that
will more than double its - accomoda-tions.
Hershey Park Improvements
Are Nearing Completion
Good Pictures at the Central
Belter Keels Have Drawn Much Lar-ger
Audiences
The prompt result of better pictures
at the Hershey Centra l Theater has
been much larger audiences. Last
Saturday night the crowd broke the
winter 's record and even on Monday
night there, was a big turn-out.
For Saturday night the manage-ment
has secured "Fire and Sword,"
called "the biggest and moHt intense
spectacle over photographed." It
shows ton acres of flumes and a thou-sand
pooplo take part in the story.
There are six reels. For Monday and
Wednesday nights superior attrac-tions
have also been booked,
Birthda y Party
Mi- , and Mrs. Roy Lloyd gave a Nt.
PnlrUik ' s party last Friday evening at
their homo in Spring Crook avenue In
honor of their son Howard who cele-brated
his third birthday, Tlio dec-orations
worn green and white and
worn very pretty, Muaical selections
and games wore the features of tho
evening'*) entertainment. A luncheon
was Horvod. The guests present wore
Mr, and Mrs. Hurry Parker, Mr. and
Mr s, Hurry Koonoy and family, and
Mr. Dwoor of Lancaster.
To Make Hershey the Flyless Town
The Flies Mast be Killed at Once
NEED OF IMMEDIATE ACTION URGED BY BIG COMMITTEE
AT ITS MEETINGS. COOPERATION OF WOMEN AND
CHILDREN IS SOUGHT. ATTENTION IS DIRECTED
TO THE FLY CATECHISM ON PAGE THREE.
This week is a busy one for the fly
fighters. The big committee of forty
appointed last week is being rilled out
and at its meeting it began the de-tailed
organization of the movement.
This meeting was held last night in
the Fire Department's Rooms. The
important thing is to secure the full
and prompt cooperation of the women
and children. Action to tMs end has
been begun. While it is being car-ried
- into effect everyone is asked to
swat every fly in sight and to seek
the overwinter flies in the house and
kill them. Don't delay.. Do it now!
• In order to know what it means to
get rid of the overwinter flies read
the Fly Catechism on Page 3 of this
issue of the Press.
At the called meeting Thursday
evening the following general execu-tive
committee was selected to take
charge of the Fly Eradication Cam-paign:
W. F. R. Murrie, chairman
C. V. Glynn, vice-chairman.
L. R. Meekins, 2nd vice-chairman.
Ezra F. Hershey, treasurer.
W.'L. Dubois, secretary.
Dr. M. L. Hershey.
J..B. Leithiser.
D. Frank Magee.
John Alwine.
J. M. Brandau.
S. D. Clark.
Harry Haverstiek.
S. H. Garman. .
Rev. N. L. Linebaugh.
Rev. George S. Rentz
Rev. F. C. Krapf.
F. D. Kebochi . .
W. B. Leithiser.
A. T. Heilman..
Frantz Zinner^
E.. R. Mays.
Christ Maulfair.
E. J. Krause.
David Gordon.
J. C. Hess. '
Dr. F. -G. Wirt.
E. M. Hershey.
Jacob Page
George Copenhaver
E. R. McLaury.
Jsrael Moyer.
Harry Imbqden.
Edward B. Cassady
George J. Eppley.
James W. Millard .
Frank B. Snavely.
H: I. Miller.
Samuel Bacastow.
Be Sure to Read the Fly Catechism on Page Three Stron g For Local Option
Hershey People Sign Petition to Gov-ernor
Brumbaugh
A petition to Governor Brumbaugh
for the passage of a local option bill
and supporting the measure strongly
has been signed by many of the citi-zens
of Hershey. It was circulated
by H. S. Moyer and was received with
general favor.
All over the State the local option
enthusiasm has steadily increased.
A remarkable evidence of it was in the
Billy Sunday meeting last Sunday.
In the midst of his sermon on "The
Devil's Boomerangs," he stirred 15,000
strong men to a mighty demonstra-tion.
.
"I can walk by an open saloon with-out
a struggle," Sunday°cried, swing-ing
both clenched fists above his head.
"But my neighbor can't maybe, and
that's why Governor Brumbaugh is
making such a fight for local option.
Oh, men, we had a great fight at
Gettysburg, but . the fight going on
now at Harrisburg of purity against
the saloons, breweries and drunken-ness
makes Gettysburg look like a
blot on the map."
Here Sunday had to stop. His
audience developed suddenly every as-pect
of a howling mob. Never has a
tabernacle crowd in the whole ten
weeks out-stripped that show of en-thusiasm,
either in spirit or volume.
"Th e saloon ," Sunday resumed
vehemently, inspired apparently by
that tumultous evidence of his hear-ers'
ap"pTobatioh , "is the hotbed of
political corruption. It is the incu-bator
of poverty and crime , and tho
spawn of all the drunken , whisky-soaked
, rag-tag, bobtailed , plug-ugly,
riff- raff God-forsalcen human wrecks
in the world. Get busy, men! Push
the saloon ddwn where it belongs—in
hell ! If we could got tho preachers
to stop preaching about the Now Jeru-salem
and start after the God-for-saken
, Christ-hating, purity-sco rning,
virtue-stealing whisky gang, we'd be
doing something worth while for God
and tho world," This brought forth
another storm of applause.
At a great temperance mooting In
Philadelphia Monday night 15,000
hoard Secretary Bryan and 12,000
signed tho pledge, \t was called "tho
biggest abstinence rally in history. "
Hundreds, of saloons have boon put
out of business in Pennsylvania this
year and nioro ai'o being closed every
day,
Dr. Stanley Krebs the Star
at Record Audience of Year
Attraction Was His Serrhon on the
Foundation of the Christian. Re-ligion.
A Brilliant Discourse;
""' . ¦ Tribute to Hershey. Oberam-mergau
Pictures
Dr. Stanley LeFevre Krebs came,
spoke and conquered. He had been
heralded as the bright praticular star
of the Men's Club's brilliant course
and he confronted the difficult task of
living up to a big advertisement. The
audience filled the lower floor of Her-shey
Central Theater and overflowed
into the galleries, the largest and
most representative of the year, in-cluding
almost everyone in Hershey
and scores from - the neighboring
towns, so large in fact that ¦ flash-lights
of it were taken to show the
crowning success of the season's lec-tures
and entertainments.
John E. Snyder, Esq., presided and
read the scripture lesson. Rev. N. L.
Linebaugh asked the invocation;
Fred Clark sang; the orchestra
gave two numbers and the congrega-tional
singing was even better than
usual and was led by Mr. Keboch.
President Millard and Secretary
Brandau managed the details. While
Chairman Snyder, was making the
graceful introduction Di*. Krebs arose
and began pouring water from the
pitcher. By the time he reached his
fourth glass the whole audience was
laughing heartily and the speaker
joined in the good humor.
This afternoon ," he said, "I have
had a good look at Hershey and be-lieve
me, you have one of the dandiest
towns in America. I have just been
twice across the country, going to.
the coast through the northern tier
of states, then down through Califor-nia
and back through the South by
way of Florida whence I have come to
stop with you a' little just bef6re I re-turn
to Philadelphia. Arid in all that
journey I have seen nothing better
than your town. It is a peach."
While the audience was laughing he
added more compliments about Her-shey's
cleanliness, its attractive homes
and its other advantages which made
it unique.
It would be as easy to report an
aurora borealis as_ to put- in type an
adequate idea of the lecture of Dr.
Krebs on "Three Gods or One." It
was a swift, scintillant, everchanging
succession of history, archaeology,
philosophy, humor and direct appeal,
and the compelling thing about it was
the speaker's personality. He is a
genius of the platform with a rare
ability to take the most involved prob-lems
and translate them so that all
see. From a score of angles he show-ed
, and developed the idea of the
trinity as seen in all creation, life and
progress. He spoke for over an hour
and a half and at the end many
crowded around him to express their
congratulations. In the audience
were former members of his congre-gation
in Reading. He referred only
once to the war and caused much mer-r
riment by saying that as his father
was German and his mother French
he had a hard time keeping on good
terms with himself. Secretary Bryan
called Dr. Krebs "an educator , an
entertainer , and inspiration." He
fulfilled expectations in Hershey.
Pictures Next Sunday
Next Sunday Arthur K. Peck of
Boston will give his illustrated lec-ture
showing "Village Life in Oboram-mcrgau
and the Passion Play." Dr.
Peck has had fifteen years ' experi-ence
on tho platform and his lecture
is accounted one of the most interest-ing
of the courso. Tho meeting be-gins
promptly at !5, All are invited,
More Going to Church
An Increased Sunday attendance at
all tho churches and . a larger partici-pation
in tho week-day services
are noticeable in Ilorshoy. More
pooplo are going to church than over
before and all tho churches have nioro
members than In tho past, In most
of America is a marked growth in
religious interest and In Hershey it
is n matter of general comment. Somo
attribute a part oC It to tho enthusi-asm
engendered by the work of Billy
Sunday, but the most of it is duo to
tho fact that tho pooplo aro doing
more serious thinking and also to tho
excel lent work of tho local clergymen.
If Your Child is Missing
If any youthful member of your
family should , bo missing call up
Frantz Zlnnor and tho lost will bo
found. It Is all on account of. tho
now ponlon , Tho children aro (jjoing
era/.y over thorn and some aro ovon
running away from homo to hoo them.
It has boon particularly ho this week,
for Front/, has boon exorcising.the
ponlon and he has lot it bo known
that ho has ordered a beautiful now
pony cart and six lovoly saddles and
that when they coma every boy and
girl may have a rldo,
In the construct ion of tho now sub-way
in East Hoi'slioy It was nocos-sary
to make sharp curves in both
tracks of tho Philadelphia and Rend-ing
Railroad. For severa l months
all trains have had to slow down un-til
thoy passod this point. On Mon-day
tho tracks wore straightened and
thoro is no longer any slackening of
speed. Tho subway Is well townrdH
completion,
Railroad Curves Removed
Excepting the factory smokestacks
the highest thing in Ilorshoy now is
the scaffolding for the concrete work
on the now1 homo of tho Ilorshoy
Press at tho corner of Chocolate and
Park Avenues, Tho force of mon
has been increased and the work
shows a remarkable change in tho
week that has elapsed since it was
resumed. Very rapidly a transforma-tion
is being wrought on this corner,
Thoro is groat interest in the con-struction.
Going Up
TI10 WOUdlllg Ol. MI'S , HKIIIQ m,
Koonoy of this place and Edward A,
Hoffman of Palmyra took place at
Reading last Thursday morning. Mr,
Hoffman is a stock dealer and has re-sided
at Palmyra for a number of
years. ' Both aro widely known
through this section of tho county,
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Head the Fly Catechism on Patfe 8.
Hoffman-Keeney
All previous records for "hikers "
In this vicinity wore broken on Sun-day
when M, S. May walked from
Ilorshoy to Reading a distance of 45
miles in twelve hours. This time in-cludes
several stops for rest and food.
Edwin Schwonk started with May
and on ' reaching Myerstown gave out
and returne d homo by trolley. They
left Horshoy shortly after !1 o'clock
on Sunday morning and it was about
tho same timo that afternoon when
May arrived in the city of Reading.
Ho ret,tiriiod by train on tlio Reading,
reaching this place at 7,25 Sunday
even ing.
H. S. May's Record Hike
She Presents the Suffrage Cause to
the People of Hershey. Four Mil-lion
Women Now Vote in the
Equal Suffrage States. More
States to be Added to List •
On the eve of the success of the
cause in the legislature of Pennsyl-vania
Hershey had the pleasure of lis-tening
to a remarkably able and in-teresting
speech on equal suffrage de-livered
by one of the brilliant "women
Dauphin county has produced, Miss
Dorothy MacAlarney, now one of the
leading orators in the suffrage cause.
She predicted the result that came
on Monday evening of this week when
the Senate by a vote of 37 to 11 gave
final approval to the resolution pro-posing
the equal suffrage amendment
to the constitution. The fight goes
to the people and a warm campaign
will be waged throughout Pennsyl.-
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they have been successful in combat-ting
the social evil; in all equal suf-frage
states women teachers and
women in public service get the same
pay as men; in equal suffrage states
the mother is the equal guardian over
the children with the husband and in
most of them there are pensions for
widowed destitute mothers; in equal
suffrage states women have full con-trol
over their property and earnings;
Norway, Finland, Iceland, Australia,
New Zealang and the I,sle of Man have
given full suffrage to women; equal
suffrage when once given has never
been taken away, but has been ex-tended.
The Present Fights
In the near future the suffragists
expect to add five leading American
states to the suffrage list, including
Pennsylvania. Miss MacAlarney had
spoken in various sections of Pennsyl-vania
and had found the people alive
to the issue. She was sure th ey would
vote for it overwhelmingly.
Miss MacAlarney replied to ques-tions,
one of the most interesting of
which was in reference to the militant
movement in England. She had been
in the midst of it and was sorry to
say it was the most disastrous thing
that could, have happened to the
cause. It was fortunate for mili-tancy
that the war came when it did.
She did not endorse such methods.
vania.
There were numerous happenings
in Hershey Friday evening and the
people were much divided. Unfortu-nately,
too, there was not time to
sufficiently advertise the suffrage
meeting and comparatively few knew
that it was to be held, So, there was
not a large audience to greet Miss
MacAlarney and thus most of the
people of Hershey missed what was
one of the real treats of tho winter,
For, Miss MacAlarney is not only
a charming woman but a very unusu-al
orator. In the flow and quality of
her speech , in the ran ge and prompt-ness
of her information and in her
hold on her audience alio easily out-distanced
any speaker hoard in Ilor-shoy
this season. Her success was
greatly enjoyed by persons who know
hoi' parents, for she is from Harris-burg
and although her work has tak-en
her far afield she is deeply loyal to
Dauphin county and sho camo back to
holp in the suffrage light with all her
lively enthusiasm. Ah ono who had
boon in tho conflict in other states and
who had investigated suffrage in Eu-rope
she spoke with authority and en-livened
her address with constant ex-periences
and clover interpolations.
The Spread of Suffrage
Among tho facts sho presented
wore those: About four million wom-en
In tho United States have full po-litical
rights; in nine Statos—Wyom-ing,
Colorado, Utah , Idaho, Washing-ton
, California , Kansas, Arizona and
Oregon—and in Alaska territory,
women have full suffrage on exactly
the em mo terms as monj in Illinois
women can vote for all municipal
officers , for presidential electors and
for some county and some state offi-cers
; In nineteen status women can
voto on school questions, and In five
stales, on taxation and bonding propo-sitions
; in the male Htiffrugo utafcoH
only about sixty to sixty-live per cent
of tho mon voto, whereas In tlio equal
suffrage states from seventy to nlno-l,
y per cent of tho worn on vote; the
legislatures of tho two oldest HiilVrixgo
stales—Colorado and Wyoming—-have
formally adopted resolutions declar-ing
woman suffrage to bo nn unqual i-fied
success; tho Interparliamentary
Union has declared thai; Colorado has
tho most advanced lows of any state
or country In tho world for tho pro-tection
of women and children |
wliorovor women have got tho voto
She was in France when the war
broke out and her description of the
scenes brought teai-s to the eyes of
her audience. She said if women'had
the suffrage tho war in Europe would
not have happened and it was a sting-ing
injustice that those who had to
bear the brunt of war had nothing to
say in the politics that caused it.
Literature of suffrage was distri-buted
and many signed petitions.
Miss Alice Elder arranged tho meet-ing,
Miss MacAlarney .received much
social attention and praised Hershey,
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Miss MacAlarne y's Fine Plea
For Women of Pennsylvania
Enjoy a Pleasant Smoker at tho Her-shey
Cafe
Tho Young Men 's 500 Club hold a
Social and Smoker at tho ¦ Ilorshoy
Cafe on Wednesday evening of last
week, It proved a groat success. Tho
following members and friends wore
present: 13. J. Krause , I. G, Mumma ,
G. Hubs , II. Shoap, E. C. Buohl , N. A.
Dovonoy, W. Curtis , Dr. Morgan,
Dr. Schmidt , A. W. Myor , M. S. May,
E. Schwonk , I. Mease, R, A Riley, J.
Black , J. Sollonborgor , W. Sattazahn ,
C. Jones and R, Soiber. Prizes wore
awarded as follows: Firs t, R, A. Rijoy;
Second , Dr. Schmidt; Third , II. Shoap;
fourth , N. A. Dovonoy and Consola-tion
, W, Curtis. At a seasonable hour
a lino lunchoon was sorvotl to which
all did ample justice ,
Young Men's 500 Club
tho change at tho ilorshoy Post-office
took place on Monday, March
15, Mr. Herbert A. Newton turned
over tho affairs to Mr. (ioorgo J. Ep-ploy
and many callers congratulated
both gentleman—Mr. Newton on his
service and Mr, Epploy on his ap-pointment
and tho favor with which
it had boon received. For the pres-ent
thoro aro no further changes in
tho office.
Postmaster Eppley Steps In
There Will be Twelve Numbers and
the Soloists Will be Miss Bertha
Wingert of Carlisle and Mr.
Paul E. Dubois of . New
York. Date is March 25
Great interest is being taken in the
coming concert of the Glee Club of
the Young Women's Christian Asso-ciation
and the Men's Chorus of :the
Hershey Men's Glubl The men will
have 15 in their chorus and the ladies
22. • ¦ .
There will be twelve numbers on
the program and the music will be
ambitious and fine. Two of the num-bers
will be by the full strength of
the two choruses and each club will
give three numbers. •
Miss Blanche Wingert,- who has
been so successful with her work as
musical director of the Consolidated
Schools, will direct the Glee Club and
Mr. W. L. Dubois, to whose leader-ship
the organization of the Men's
Chorus is due, will direct the men.
Both are skilled musicians.
The soloists will be Paul E. Dubois
and Miss Bertha E. Wingert. Mr.
Dubois is the tenor soloist and choir
director of Union Theological Semi-nary,
New York, and Miss Wingert
is in charge of the music of the Car-lisle
schools. Miss Wingert is a con-tralto.
On Sunday afternoon the Men's
Chorus will sing at the union service
in the Hershey Central Theater.
Unusual Concert is Promised
by the Combined Choruses
ino (Jump in re uins onjoyou a
suppur which thoy cooked themselves.
Mvorbody survived and tho doctor 's
services wore not noodod. The Girls
aro going to make this year their ban-ner
season. Now that thoy have add-ed
cooking to tholr other qualifications
they aro prepared for every emer-gency
and they can camp and hike as
long and as far as thoy please.
Camp Fire Girls
Girls In tho Spring Fnnlusio , the
Topsy Drill and the Dresden Shop-ardoHHOH
have all made perfect record s
In tho HI Bl rehearsals which are now
going on with groat goal and activity.
Everything points to an unique per-formance
full of delight, Ono of tho
Intent Ideas Is to distribute cards In
tho audience for a voto on tho most
popular feature.
Bi Bi Rehea rsals