The Hershey Press 1916-08-17

              MORE BEAUTY ON
HIGH LAND PAR K
Present Summer Has Wonderfully
Developed the Thousands of Trees
and Plants and the Autumn
. Promises to be Beyond All '.'
Previous Seasons
More people have visited Highland
Park this summer than in any other season
and the number increases each week. The
fame of the big hill overlooking Hershey
has spread to other states and thus there
is a procession of automobiles throughout
the day. and frequently many at night,
for'the view of Hershey with its thousands
of electric lights is one well worth see-ing.
Moreover,- there' is a full moon and
the Lebanon Valley bathed in moonlight
is lovely.
This is a -fine time to see the hill, for
the extensive planting is just coming
into its attractive stage of development.
More than 50,000 evergreens were
planted on the hill. They include pines,
hemlocks, spruces and cedars. All are thriv-ing
and while it will require about fifteen
years to bring a pine to a nice size—say 20
feet high—the few years have pushed the
trees far ahead and have given delightful
foliage.
The thousand mountain ash planted
like an orchard are growing rapidly. They
will be big trees in ten years and already
they are sturdy and handsome youngsters.
The triangular spot at the entrance to
the park attracts everyone's attention.
Here is a low mat of the smallest ever-greens
that grow, golden junip ers, Rocky
Mountain pine and dwarf Swiss pine.
By' way of contrast are the native
trees towering forty, fifty and even sixty
feet. The great merit of the landscape
work on the hill is that it has faithfully
preserved the native trees and shrubs.
The woods are cleared as though they were
a park and there are rustic bridges lOver
streams.
The Chinese junipers on the large bank
on the south driveway are much admired.-
There are a hundred of them in a bunch
and they are backed up by two hundred
Virginia blue cedars and a group of 150
clumps of yellow day lilies. Along the
stream close to the bridge is a planting of
white and blue day lilies.
There are 5,000 rose bushes of all
kinds, mainly ramblers and other trailers.
They are doing splendidly and each season
shows what a big part they are to play
in the future of the park . Some of these
are in bloom and there will be more of
them later on.
The plan seeks to give a continuous
performance of floral and plant color
and bloom. The iris and the phlox have
spent their ldvliness for the present
summer, but the golden rod and fall
asters are now in bloom. Another feature
for the late summer and fall tourists is
the groups of winter berries close to the big
planting of pines on the crest of the hill.
The berries arc red, white and black,
hanging in clusters like cherries.
On Sunday the trolley had many pas
sengers for the hill and the machines num
bered hundreds,
FOR THE MOTHERS' CLUB
Will Hold 500, Bridge and Novelty
. Pa rty at Cafe
That excellent organization , the Moth-ers'
Club, which has done so much good
in Hershey, is looking towards the Fall
and Winter with the expectation of en-larging
its work. The active interest and
cooperation of tlie members have been of
the highest usefulness in making condi-tions
for the tots more attractive and their
kindergarten training more efficient. So
there will be need of funds and for that
purpose the Club will hold a combined
500, Bridge and Novelty Party at the
Park Cafe for the benefi t of the Hershey
Public Kindergarten on Friday evening '
August 25, beginning at 7.30 o'clock,
The games will be played from 7,!10
to 10 and there will be dancing from 10 to
11,30. Refreshments will be sold. Here
is an opportunity for a delightfu l evening
and for helping a splendid cause, All ol
Hundley Is expected to he present,
MISS TRACE'S NEW WORK
Will Ret urn to the Phil adelphia
AttBOclntion
Miss Marlha Trace, who 1ms been
executive secretary of the Hershey
Young Woman 's Christian Association
during the punt year , will leave on Sep-tember
first unci will return to the Phil-adelphia
Association where she received
her training previous to coming here,
Shu will he connected with the. Ciorman-lown
organization and will specialize
Jn work among the industrial girls mid
business women.
Miss Mary Burch left for her homo In
WillliiniHport on Tuesday. Slui will vJh-lt
Camp Nepnhwln before entering upon
hur new work, Miss Loub will go with
hnr.
There are sixty-one guests In the Asso-ciation
at the present time,
SITTING ON EDGE
HIGH IN THE AIR
Daredevil Johnny Reynolds Gives
: Remarkable Exhibitions of His
Ability to Imitate the Fly and
to Balance Himself on
Chair and Table Tips
A tow-headed young man balanced him-self
on the tips of a chair on the top of
the Hershey Inn while several thousand
persons on the streets felt the creeps up
and down their spines. Then he took
two chairs and tipped them apart and put
himself above them and swung to and fro
until the more timid of the spectators
turned away. They fully expected to see
the young man drop to the . pavement
in proper shape for the undertaker. In-stead
of that he hopped to an upright
position, flung back his curly locks and
announced that on Thursday—which is
today—he would climb the outside of
the Hershey Press , Building and drag
an assorted lot of furniture with him and
then on the cornice do stunts in the way
of balancing.
This amazing young man climbed into
fame by climbing the Woolworth Building
in New York and the Washington Monu-ment
in Washington and he is now capi-talizing
his peculiar gift by doing strange
and wonderful things on the vaudeville
stage. He is a headliner at the Hershey
Park Theater this week and Monday night
his act in perching at the summit of six
tables and six chairs seemed so perilous
that many of the ladies left the theater.
They did not want to see him killed. But
it all ended happily and Johnny does not
mind swinging on the little edge of noth-ing
any, more than ordinary people do of
walking on a cement pavement.
Reynolds is one of five good attrac-tions
at the theater, this week, the others
being Cliff Howard and Helen Clayton
in remarkably clever skating and danc-ing;
Oliver and Dwyer in excellent
character comedy; the Creighten, Horak
Trio in old-men minstrelry and dancing,
something new and good, and Beltrah
and Beltrah in their musical dairy which
was seen here last summer and which is
as entertaining as ever. With this bill
are excellent moving pictures, the reels
being changed every night.
Bill Next Week
For week beginning Monday, the pro-gram
begins with Lucille Savoy and Com-pany
in the act beautiful , an original
posing novelty with special scenery and
electrical- effects. The Musical Clovers
have a most pleasing musical comedy
offering. Marion Drew, the Novelty Girl
juggles everything. Mark Davis and Mazie
Williams have a novel yodeling comedy
skit. The Duffin , Redcay Troupe will
bring something new to Hershey. There
are not many stages in summer theatres
that can accommodate an'act of this kind ,
Hershey Park Theatre can.
AUGUST A RECORD MONTH
Visitors and Patrons at Restaurants
Ahead , of Previous Years
August has broken all of Hershey's
records. Last week the Grocers' picnic
on Thursday and the double excursions
on the Reading Saturday brought thous-ands.
During the week ten special trains
—some of them with 14 coaches—un-loaded
here and in addition were the many
who came by regular trains and by the
trolleys.
Automobiles a re far ahead of last year.
A typical party came yesterday from
Manhcim. There were 22 cars carrying
105 members of the Business Men 's
League and their friends, all of whom
dined at the Hcrsliey Parle Cafe, saw the
factory and the points of interest and
then continued to the State Capitol,
The restaurants never knew such
business as they have had this summer.
The visitors are spending more money
and are ordering more expensive meals,
The swimming pool shared the general
prosperity and reached a new figure ,
Both on Thursday and Saturday Inst
the visitors came near buying everything
for wile in the Park mid much of what
was available in the town,
FROM MANY STATES
Visitors to Hershey (luring the past
week who went through the factory in-clude
: Max M. Wild , Hartford , Conn,;
Miss Klia Boyer , Deeoteur , Ills,; Junius
B. Wimcr , Wiinhinglon , 1) , C; C. O.
Fnrr , Amsterdam , N, Y. ; Miss Anna
Rcddewny, Parkersburg, W, Vu. ; A, B,
I locker , Klwood , lnd „ Miss Colin C,
Kluvaus, Denver, Colorado; W, II. Moy-rs,
Providence , R. I, ; Mr. and Mrs,
A. L, Brenner , Canton , Ohio ; Miss An-nette
Williamson , New York; .11. Ci ,
Simpler, Wudsworth , Ohio; Mrs, Charles
Wise, Washington , 1) , C; L. B, Hufcr ,
Tnnoytown , Md,| Robert. I.^ Lee, Phil-adelphia
| C. IS. Bowman , Rj ilelgh, N. C;
./, D, Kmiiyn, Hage-iHtotvii, Md , ; ,J, V,
Schwenk, Schuylkill Haven; Hoy. C. B,
Selineder, Shamokln; Ri T, llcmldew,
Pittsburgh ; Mr. mid Mrs. Robert Cun-ning,
Mr, and Mrs, Aug, W. Smith, New-port
News, Va.
The always interesting Lancaster In-telligencer
was more readable than usual
in its issue of Tuesday. On the first page
it had a large cartoon representing Lan-caster
County and outside towns reaching
with trolley lines to get its business.
"Getting Their Hooks on Our Business"
was the caption and the first in the lot
was Hershey.
The Intelligencer said : "Lancaster
county today knows a prosperity unlike
anything recorded in its history. Labor is
fully and profitably employed. The
rich farm lands are.producing many fold
and the prices being secured by the tillers
of the soil are higher than at any time since
the Civil War. Garden Spot of the United
States has a meaning that means addi-tional
prosperity for Lancaster city busi-ness
men and the businessmen of pros-perous
county centres if properl y con-served.
But the fact that Lancaster
county knows a prosperity in staples
that runs far up into the millions of
dollars, is also known beyond the con-fines
of the county and outside cities
are making a bid for Lancaster county
trade."
A New Line to Hershe y .
And of Hershey it says: "In the upper
end of the county, Hershey business men
are grabbing for our business. Already
tapping the extreme north end , they are
back of a new trolley line down through
virgin territory as far as Manheim,
They will then be in. a strategic posi-tion
to compete for the business 'of
the rich fields and prosperous, farmers
of Lancaster ' and having a perfect or-ganization
working with but a single
head and having .the advantage in dis-tance,
the outlook is surely not promis-ing
unless Lancaster city and county
business men get busy ."
Of course the Intelligencer does not
say that the movement for the trolley
from Manheim to Hershey is coming from
that direction because the Lancaster
county people want direct connections
with this town, They are the ones who
proposed it and who are raising the funds
to pay for it.. And Hershey is compli-mented.
Also, it is important to remember that
thousands of Lancaster people have come
to Hershey this summer and more are
coming every day because they find here
conveniences and attractions which cannot
be found at home, And Hershey is always
Kind to see them,
Ah to Hershey capturing part of Lan-caster
county 's trade that is inevitable ,
Already this town' is i\ purchasing center
for Dauphin , Lebanon and Lancaster
counties and Die area of lis trade activity
Is widening every month,
RAYMOND GONGLOFF DROWNElD
The body of Raymond Gonglol'f , Phila-delphia
and Heading railway operator at
Swalnra station , who was drowned In
Swntnra creek Monday afternoon , was
recovered shortly before dark. George
Spire found the body on the bolloni
of the creek a few yards from where III
unfortunate young man went down,
Coroner Jacob IScklnger was culled, and
after an investigation , «>>< ' H"i young
man had been seized with cramps and
drowned before aid reached him,
Raymond Gonglol'f wan 25 years ol
ago find Is survived by a widow and
an infant son, John Hupp Gonglofi*. Ik
was well known and highly respected in
Iiurshoy and for a lime watt night , oporaloi
aUliallorsliey station,
HERSHEY AND LAN CASTER
Paper Thinks this Town is After
Garde n Spot Trade
HERSHEY STORE OUTIN G
Happy Crowd Enjoy a Full Day at
Valley Glon Park
The first annual outing of the Her-sliey
Store Company was held at Volley
Glen Park on Wednesday and was at-tended
by more than 100 employes.
The trip was made in automobiles fur-nished
by the lumber department , Im-plement
department , grocery depart-ment
, S. I> , Clark , Victor N, Gingrich ,
Ira Bacaslow, J, Mark Light and David
Gordon 's large truck.
The start was made at. noon,
The general committee have been at
work for the past few weeks making pre-parations
for the outing. On the com-mi
ttee were R, 1'. Hull , V. N, Gingrich ,
John R, Zoll , Miss Anna Lenta and 11,
J, Patten ,
A baseball game between the Clerks
unci the Mechanics was one of the big
features of the day 's events , Hcl^ar
Neibert headed the Clerks while Cyrus
Carman was in elmi'Ko of the Mechanics.
A full program of sports was arranged
and evtry event went off with a buiiK.
The gatnen Included tug of war, ladies '
football , kicking contest , runnin g races
'for men and ladies, three-legged race,
hobble race for ladles, bag race and swim-ming
contests. . ,
DO NOT LET UP
ON SWATTING
Fly Campaign Should be Waged With
Particular Energy , in These Sum-mer
months. Another Crime
Added to its Long List of
Perils to Public Health
Flies are increasing in Hershey. There
are fewer of them than in any town of
Hershey's size but even one is one too
many. For the first half of the' summer
there were no flies but with the coming of
August they have reached here and unless
they are vigorously fought they will
multiply. All the members of the Fly
Eradication Committee are asked to use
their efforts and influence and all the house-holders
are requested to set their traps
and swat. Clean out of the stables and
yards. Keep the garbage can closed. Do
not allow rubbish to accululate in your
yards.
Carries the Germ
The following is from the highest author-ity
on infantile paralysis, Dr. Simon Flex-ner,
director of the Rockefeller Institute
for Medical Research, and it is the latest
word on the cause of the spread of the
plague. He refers of course to the spread
of infantile paralysis:
"Experiments have been made with bit-ing
flies, bedbugs, mosquitoes and with
lice, Neither mosquitoes nor lice seem able
to take the virus from the blood of in-fected
monkeys or to retain it for a time
in a living state. The ordinary or domestic
fly may become contaminated with the
virus contained in the secretions of the
body and serve as the agent of its trans-portation
to persons and to food with
which it comes into contact. Domestic
flies experimentally contaminated with
the virus remain infective for 48 hours
or longer."
Dr. Dixon on the Fly
Dr. Samuel G. Dixon, Commissioner
of Health , writes this week:
"Reams have been printed about the
danger from the house fly. Despite all
what has been said it is a self evident fact
that people do not understand how real
is the danger from these pests, If they
did a single season would be suflicient to
wipe out the dangerous nuisances. Let
people once understand the part that the
fly plays in the transmission of disease
and they \v|ll look upon anyone who main-tains
ai condition which breeds them as a
public enemy (o be summarily dealt
with,
"Stables with manure piles thai, are
left for weeks, garbage dumps and un-screened
and carelessly constructed out-houses
are the sources of the lly pest,
"We have good reason lo believe that
it lakes a part in the spread of infantile
paralysis, "
NEW BUSINESS INSTITUTE •
Special School In Hnrrlaburg Has
Valu able Fouturoa
Professor James H. Del'iie, who Is a
graduate of Princeton Univer sity, was In
Hershey Interesting local people In the
Young Men 's Business Institute which
Is lo open In I lnrrisburg the first Monday
In September, The new School will be
furnished through the Hershey Store
Company, It. will bo located in the Her-sliey
Building at Front and Market.
street h. The unique work of this new
school In the direct and practical training
of young men for sectarial , ofjico , and
executive work. Each man will have
IiIh own typewriter and his own desk and
he will take the typewriter wilh him
when he completes, his course,
HERSHEY SCHOOL
HIGHLY PRAISED
In a Strong Editorial the North
American Selects it as Type of
Modern Consolidated School
. and Holds it up as an Ex-ample
for the Nation .
In one of the strongest editorials it
Has ever printed the Philadelphia North
American draws a vivid contrast between
two pictures. !
The first is the old-time, weak public
school, uncomfortable, unhealthy and
ugly, which still remains in most rural
sections, including those of the great
state of Pennsylvania. It adds to its
picture these quotations : -
Dr. Thomas D. Wood, of Columbia,
says: . . , '
"The rural school, from the standpoint
of health and general fitness for its im-portant
use, is the worst type of building
in the whole country ; including not only
all types of buildings used for human
beings, but also those used for livestock
and all domestic animals. Rural schools
are, on the average, less adequate for
their use than prisons, asylums, alms-houses,
stables, dairy barns, pigpens,
chicken houses and dog kennels."
, Dr. H. W. Foght, of the United States
bureau of education, says: "4 per cent
of all teachers now at work in rural schools
have had less than eight years of ele-mentary
school preparation; 32 per cent
have had no professional preparation
whatever, and only one-tenth of 1 per
cent report attendance at schools making
a specialty of preparing teachers for rural
schools."
So we seem to have painted a fairly
correct picture of the average one-room
rural school, of which there are more
than 200,000 in this land, attended by
nearly 7,0OO",0OO boys and girls in charge of
teachers who on the average are paid
less than good farmhands.
Now for another picture.
The Hershey School
The best way to see this picture is to
view it as it is. All that is necessary
is a visit to Hershey, Pa., the little city
chocolate has charmed into fame.
"But that isn't a country schoolhouse!"
you exclaim, as you look at the fine big
building and through its spacious rooms,
perfectly lighted, heated and ventilated—
in every way as modern as money, skill
and care for the future of boys and girls
can make it.
"These aren't country school teachers,
either," you'll add, when you have met
and talked with some of the teaching
force..
In the sense that most of the pupils
in this school are farm children , who
until three years ago were taught in
schoolhouses more or less like the one in
the first picture, this is a country school.
But it's one of the new and better kind
of country schools that are springing up
thruout the nation , the consolidated
country school.
This is just what its name implies—
a consolidation into one comfortable,
well-equipped, properly manned school-house
of three or four one-room, uncom-fortable,
poorly equipped , miserably man-ned
, excuses for schoolhouses.
The children who live too far away to
walk arc brought to school each morning
and taken home in the afternoon , for which
the county pays, Aside from its admirable
service as a schoolhouse, the building often
supplies the long-felt need for a com-munity
center,
Consolidation Winning
The consolidated school is making ef-ficient
education easy to get in rural dis-tricts,
And every economist and student
of national needs knows that this is most
necessary.
In a very real sense, as is the rural
school , so is the nation. For the nation 's
chief dependence is Its agriculture , and If
Hie schools provided among its farm lands
are not of the sort lo give needed educa-tion
, some of the children will be moved
to towns and cities where this can be got,
and those who remain behind will suffer
the handicaps entailed by such an in-adequate
system,
The twin result is desertion and dis-integration,
"An ambitious people will go where
education can be had for their children ,"
wrote Frankln K, Lane, secretary of the
in terior , In a recent article on the subject
of rural schools, "There ltv no sense in
taking the charms of country life and the
Independence and dignity of producing
from the soil If the school at command is
no more modern than a wodden plow,"
When this "wooden plow " drives thous-ands
awuy from the farms, sis it has done
within the last two decades,.It is time (or
folks everywhere to begin paying par-ticular
attention to the two pictures
here shown.
Of course, the city man does not feel
the responsibility, but It must be remem-bered
that the city man lain the minority,'
And the country man—the man In the
majority and all slate education olllcials—
must face this (|iie«tIon!
Are our rural schools doing their part
1 . . "
M. S. Hershey Consolidated School of Derry Township, referred, to in article in last column of this
page. The High School will open August 28 and the Grades September 5. The faculty is now complete,
Miss Mildred Thomas of Harr'isburg having been elected to the only vacancy on Monday. Two rooms have
been fitted up for children's lunch rooms; the teachers' rest room has been fully furnished ; a new victrola
has been secured; the surroundings have been greatly improved 1 and there have been other improvements.
The Board hopes to keep it the model consolidated school of the country. There are many visitors every
week. The building costing $120,000 was the gift of M. S: Hershey to the township. ; .
EXPERTS ADMIRE
HERSHEY FARMS
Visit of Some of ^he Most Prominent
Agricultural and Stock Author-ities
of Pennsylvania to Clo-verdale
and the Round
Bar n. Like Hershe y
The following came to Hershey • in
automobiles and made a .tour of inspec-tion
of Hershey farms and dairies: E.
S. Bayard, editor of the National Stock-man,
published at Pittsburg ; M. S.
McDowell, F. P. Weaver and H.H. Hav-ner,
of the Penn State College, arid the
following county agents : F. S. Bucher of
Lancaster, D. K. Sloan of Braddock,
C. F. Preston of Chester, C. S. Adams
of Berks, A. K. Rothenberger of Mont-gomery,
B. D. Gilbert of Lackawana, H.
N. Cobb of Luzerne, R. H. Bell of Ly-coming,
J. R. Mathers of Columbia, A.
L. Hocker of Lehigh, and E. K. Hibsh-man,
in charge of farming at the State
College.
The visitors dined at the Hershey Cafe
and in their machines were escorted by
Mr. Reinhold to Cloverdale where they
spent much time looking at the Holstein
bull and the registered stock. Then they
went to the Round Barn. These expert's
asked many questions and gathered a lot
of first hand information, They lik-ed
what they saw and they admired the
Hershey equipmen t and Mr. Hershey's
plan for a broader land education.
At Cloverdale they were deeply in-terested
in the cattle. At the Round
Barn they took note of the fact that in-stead
of concrete floors there was the use
of asphalt and sawdust and that this was
just as good if not better than brick.
All were much pleased with the good
crops on the Hershey farms. They also
went through the chocolate factory. '
These men were remarkable for their
health and vital interest in things. Their
visit to Hershey was made delightfu l by
their fine spirit and cordiality, If any-one
was seeking proof of the value of
the open life he could have found it in
this party of Pennsylvanis farm experts,
They said they would visit Hershey
again . They left here for Ml, Gretna
and Lancaster.