The Hershey Press 1915-03-11

              Work Resumed This Week and Will
be Pushed Vigorously so That the
Building Will be Ready the
First Part of this Summer
A Splendid Structure
This week work was resumed on the
new home of the Hershey Press at
the northwest corner of Chocolate and
Park Avenues, Ground was broken
last summer and considerable pro-gress
was' made, but the war came
along and operations were suspended
for a few weeks. Then the weather
became unfavorable and so it was de-cided
to postpone the work until the
Spring and then to rush it to comple-tion.
On Monday John Wickersham's ad-vance
force of thirty men under x\l-bert
Craft took hold of the job . with
earnestness and already they have
worked a great change on the corner,
making it one of the busiest places
in the town. Machines are at work
and new machines are being install-ed
and soon the whole equipment will
be assembled and the force will be
increased. With good going the first
part of the big building will be up
within a couple of months.
The new building will m fact be
two great buildings . extending from
Chocolate Avenue to the railroad.
They will have a united front of 331.9
feet along Park Avenue and 90 feet
on Chocolate Avenue. The building
filling the half block towards Choco-late
. Avenue will have three stories.
The building filling the half of the
block towards the railroad will have
four stories. ' The immediate connec-tion
with the railroad makes the
shipping facilities ideal.
The whole big building will be a
modern achievement in steel, con-crete,
brick and glass, with every de-tail
of its construction of first quality.
Excepting the factory it will be the
largest structure in Hershey and in
material and workmanship there will
be nothing better in America.
The future plans of the Hershey
Press and the Hershey Printing Com-pany
' will be duly announced. ' Both
are much cramped in their present
quarters and are • looking < forward
with great expectations to their fu-ture
home, which they expect to make
the most complete printing establish-ment
in the country.
New Home of Hershey Press
On the Way to Completion
Improvement Company Busy
Four Dwellings Ordered and New
Sales Made by General Man-ager
Leithiser
It promises to be the most impoi1-
tant year the Hershey Improvement
Company has known. General Man-ager
James B. Leithiser has many'in-quiries
and is engaged on new enter-prises.
Of course, the tabernacle is
the biggest of these. Work on that
is proceeding satisfactorily and the
present lull is due to waiting for the
steel which is promised for the first
of April.
In the building up of, Hershey into
a community of modern homes the
Improvement Company is doing its
best work. Practically all the numer-ous
dwellings built last year are sold
or rented. This week General Man-ager
Leithiser sold to Miss Estolla
Brossman of Jonestown the dwelling
on the south side at the north corner
of Cocoa Avenue and Aroba street.
Ho also sold to M. Lindemuth the
fifty-eight foot lot on Cocoa Avenue
next to the property of Harry Whit-man.
He concluded arrangements for
the immediate construction of two
double dwellings, four dwellings in
all, on East Aroba street.
Church of the Brethren
Milton Bnnchoro and V. S. Garner
Elected Delegates
Members of the Church of the
Brethren are looking forward to the
Juno conference in Hoi'Hhoy and are
making their preparations for it.
There Rooms to bo no doubt that it j h
going to bo greatest; mooting in the
history of tho church. Thuro will bo
delegates nnd visitors from all parts
of tho world and tho total will roll
close to two hundred thousand.
The" question , What will Ilornhoy
do with thorn ? need not bother any-one.
IIoi'Hhoy is making full prepara-tions
for the entertainment of all who
will oomo, Work on the big tubor-nnclo
Ih proceeding Mitlofuctoi 'lly and
it will 1)0 tho model of ita kind for the
whole country, a mngnlllconb auditor -
ium with every convonluncu.
On Saturday tho Church of the
Brethren hold their Spring Council
oast of Hoi'Hhoy and elected F. 9. Car-per
and Milton Basohoro delegated
to the annual conference to be hold
in June. QaovRa Hanry, llni 'tlmm
Glpo and George ]IolTu'r are the dele-gates
to the District Mooting which
will bo hold at Hllzabotlitown.
is a spectacular Musical flay vynicn
the People of Hershey Will be
Sure to Thoroughly Enjoy. Re-hearsals
Are Now Well Un-der
Way.. Interested
There is a general desire to know
more about Bibi. The rehearsals that
are now going on have whetted the
public curiosity.
Well, the secret is out. Bibi is a
French doll, a very pretty little brun-ette
with a psyche knot, dressed in
red silk and red silk stockings, with
high-heeled slippers,. carrying a
lorgnette with a golden chain, wear-ing
many diamonds and leading a pug
dog that winds up and tiarks, and a
lot of other things that you will see
when she comes to Hershey.
And Bibi is only one of a group of
dolls all of which have thej r frolics
and their romances and with them are
ordinary humans who ' mix up the
story and help to make three acts of
a _spectacular musical play. You will
know the plot when you see it—and
that is quite enough—but you will en-joy
every minute of the performance.
With the twelve characters ' in the
cast and the scores of persons in the
drills, choruses and specialities there
will be a very remarkable presenta-tion
and in order that there may be
not a moment lost spectacular feat-ures
will be added. Five Topsies will
give a song and oldtime hoedown.
Twelve Grecian harp girls will form
lovely tableaux. Eight tennis girls
will play a real game on the stage.
Nine girls will present a ,Spring Fan-tasie
and their costumes will be ela-borate.
Sixteen beautifully dressed
Dresden sheperdesses will disport
themselves gleefully. Twelve Jump-ing
'Rope girls will drill and jump.
And a. dozen faries will trip the light
fantastic toe through mazes of grace.
If it is not the biggest and best
treat Hershey has ever known it will
nofcbe the fault of the members of
the Young Women's Christian Asso-ciation
and the gallants who have en-listed
for the cause.
Bi Bi, The Comedy of Toys
is Full of Fun and Beauty
Hershey Will Be the Flyless Town
When This Lively Campaign is Won
DR. DAWSON'S LECTURE AT THE CENTRAL THEATER
SHOWED HOW CLEVELAND DID IT AND PURSUADED
THE CITIZENS OF HERSHEY TO TAKE UP THE
FIGHT ALONG THE SAME LINES.
Is it possible to make_ Hershey a
flyless town ?
That is the question that is being
asked by everyone in the community.
It can be answered in a practical way.
Cleveland is a city of over 700,000
population much of it ignorant and
foreign and is spread over 51.8 square
miles or 33,152 acres.of area.
Hershey has a population of about
1,200, all of it effective and produc-tive,
and it is spread over an area of
about 1,000 acres.
Cleveland has slums and tenements.
Hershey has neither.
So if Cleveland could banish the
flies there is no reason why the prob-lem
in Hershey should not be easy
and popular.
That is why a Hershey committee
induced Dr.. Jean Dawson to come
here and tell how Cleveland had done
the work. Dr. Dawson is the biolog-ist
of the Cleveland public schools, and
it was. under her direction that two
campaigns against the fly nuisance
were waged in Cleveland. The suc-cess
of them is now famous through-out
the world.
Dr. Dawson's Address
Dr. Dawson is a handsome woman
of imposing appearance and of great
enthusiasm and aliveness. She ar-rived
in Hershey Saturday morning,
saw the town under its mantle of new
snow and inspected the factory She
was much pleased with it all arid
thought the fly problem one which the
people of Hershey might quickly solve
if they united in the work.
Owing to the bad weather , the at-tendance
at the lecture in the Hershey
Central Theater did not fill the audi-torium,
but it was large enough to be
representative of the town and to
organize the movement.
Dr. Dawson was presented by Wil-liam
F. R. Murrie in a happy speech
and was cordially received. In an
interesting, informal way she told of
what Cleveland had done and of the
danger and problems of the fly. When
the fight was started in Cleveland it
was much ridiculed. The idea seem-ed
preposterous. It was a city with
many alleys and tenements, of thou-sands
of stables and small stores, of
multitudes of breeding places for the
flies and it covered an . area , six hun-dred
times that of Hershey.
But the work was .started. The
school children were enlisted and it
was really due t6 therh that the work
was possible. They were equipped
with swatters and they were paid ten
cents a hundred for the overwinter
flies which they killed. A body of
young women trained in practical
biology in college and Normal School
rallied to the cause and every morn-ing
thirty of these inspectors left on
duty from the anti-fly campaign head-quarters.
Dr. Dawson said flies bred in gar-bage
but it was from tho 5,000 horso
stables that fully 90 per cent of tho
flies of the city came. The, big prob-lem
was to get rid of the horso ma-nure
from those stables, and it was
done.
Tho things to do was to kill tho
overwinter flies which are tho mother
flies that lay tho eggs. This war
lasts until about tho middle of April,
Everyone should bo doing it in Her-shoy
now. After tho middle of April
tho problem is to keep the town clean ,
to destroy tho brooding places for
flios and to sot trans outside tho build-ings
so as to catch those that manage
to live.
. A fly does not go more than a half
mile beyond its breeding place unless
blown by a strong wind. Usually, it
stays within its own block. So the
fight is strictly local.
A fly does not breed in the house.
It goes outdoors to lay its eggs. The
duty is to kill the overwinter fly be-fore
it escapes from the house. Every
fly so killed means millions of flies
less in the summer. Dr. Dawson gave
a problem in mathematics to the
young folks. She went over the cal-culations
and showed that one fly, if
all its eggs became flies and all these
flies hatched other flies and so on,
could from the middle of April to the
middle of September be responsible
for enough flies to reach eight and
a third times around the earth. The
fly reaches maturity in ten days or
less. A pound of horse manure will
breed 1,200 flies at a time.
Damage Flies Do
It is impossible to exaggerate the
dangers of the flies. Dr. Dawson
presented many impressive facts on
this point. They are the greatest
spreaders of typhoid fever in the
world. , The house fly should in real-ity
be called "the "typhoid .fly." It is
also the constant spreader of tuber-culosis.
In this it is causing death
and loss to the world that can not
be even estimated. It spreads spinal
meningitis. Of every five children
born in the world one dies before it
is five years old and in most cases the
cause of death reaches it from flies.
No family is safe that permits flies to
touch its food.
Practical Requests
In the Cleveland campaign Dr.
Dawson sent the following to the busi-ness
men and storekeepers :
"As a business man you are doubt-less
aware that the people are keenly
alive' to the fact that flies are danger-ous
when they are allowed to crawl
on food and for this reason people are
seeking .to trade with markets, bake-shops,
restaurants,, groceries ^and
milk-depots that are flyless.
"Will you follow the hints given be-low
and thereby increase your busi-ness
and at the same time help ' to
make Cleveland a safer place in
which to live ?
"1. Will you set traps in your
yard back of your store, so as to
catch the fly on its way from its
breeding place? One man should be
made responsible for the care of the
traps and should keep them baited
with bread and milk, vinegar and
sugar or beer and bread daily. Flies
are thirsty and if the bait is allowed
to dry the trap becomes useless.
"2. Will you start the day with a
flyless store ? Provide your clerk s
with, a "swatter" or an "I Got Him"
fly-catcher and let them feel that you
depend upon each one of them to
keep a flyless store. Perhaps a slight
increase in salary might bo offered to
tho clerical force for success in abol-ishing
the fly; anyway, it will pay
you to bo able to advertise a flyless
store this summer.
"3. Will you fight flios by seeing
that their breeding places are cleaned
at least one a week within a radius of
500 yards about your place of busi-ness
? If for any reason tho pres-ence
of manure and other filth must
bo tolerated in a neighborhood for
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Beautiful Things of Spring
Manager Clark Will Have Them Next
Week at the Hershey Store
Soon thoughts will be turning to
Spring clothes and the outfittings of
the family and the home. There are
many things people want and they
want the latest and best,
Next week they will have the op-portunity
of selections from the finest
the jobbing house of the leading cities
could furnish and all these multitudes
of articles, meeting every need , will
be on exhibition at the Spring Open-ing
of the Hershey Store.
Manager S. D. Clark has outdone
himself in this year's efforts. He has
been spurred to extra endeavor by
the remarkable growth of the Her-shey
Store and by tho increasing in-terest
and patronage of its customers.
Those customers are not only growing
in numbers but are every week repre-senting
a wider area of territory.
It is recognized that the Hershey
Store gives to Lebanon Valley tho
variety and the service of a great
metropolitan establishment and that
tho prices are low and the quality as-sured.
Next week the Spring Opening will
he the bi ggest event in tho Store 's his-tory.
The full details will bo printed
in the Press.
The engagement of Miss Alva E.
Shearer of Harrisburgand C. M, Jones
of Hershey has been announced.
NEW HOME OF THE HERSHEY PRESS AND THE HERSHEY PRINTING COMPANY , WHICH ,
NEXT TO THE FACTORY, WILL HE THE LARGEST BUILDI NG IN HERSHEY. IT FRONTS
90 FEET ON CHOCOLATE AVENUE AND 331.9 FEET ON PARK AVENUE.
It Will be Dr: Stanley L, Krebs' Fam-ous
Sermon on the Trinity, the
Foundation Doctrine of the>
Christian Religion, large
Audience- Expected
While all the addresses and enter-tainments
at the union services Sun-day
afternoons have been successful
beyond expectations there is rea-son
to believe that the famous sermon
of Dr- Stanley L. 'Krebs on "Three
Gods or One" will draw the largest
audience of the year. Dr. Krebs is
one of the exceptional men of the pul-pit
and platform. He. bears the
hearty endorsement of the leading
men- of both hemispheres, such as Sir
William Crookes, Bishop Samuel Fal-lows,
Dr. Newell Dwight Hills and
William Jennings Bryan. In. some
cities he has lectured more than thirty
times, showing his unusual popularity.
Dr. Krebs has traveled on three
continents studying human conditions
and relations and is prominent in edu-cational,
professional, ' business and
musical spheres. He is a member of
the London Society of Arts, American
Academy of Political - and ' Social
Science, Academy of Political Science,
National Geographical Society, Medi-co-
Legal Society, Phi Beta Kappa,
etc. He is the author of books on
political economy and applied psy-chology
that have had a wide circula-tion
here and abroad. He is an
original thinker, a man of magnetic
personality, an awakener of energy
and purpose—handling the great
problems of , individual and national
life of our times.
"His remarkable ' command of lan-guage,
his powers of analysis, the logic
of his reasoning, the scope of his
learning and his keen and trenchant
wit, have brought him fame and
standing. To his ripened intellect
and manifold talents he adds a frank
earnestness and b.roadmindedness
which place him among the very fore-most
in his chosen profession," says a
critic.
His sermon on the Trinity is his
finest achievement. On Sunday there
will be special music. The services
begin promptly at 3. All are wel-come.
Mr. Zwickey's Beautiful Art
Last .Sunday the leader for the day
was Frank B. Snavely. The congre-gational
singing was excellent. ' J.
Lorenzo Zwickey of Detroit delivered
his celebrated lecture on "Art As a
Factor in Life." Mr. Zwickey is pro-fessor
of art in two of the Middle
West colleges and . his interpretation
of nature and of all beauty is on high
lines. He showed the importance of
the development of the child so that
there might come the full apprecia-tion
of the higher things in life. In
his drawings, which were ¦ artistic
and admirable, he appealed always
to the imagination and some of his ef-fects
were unique. An ostrich be-came
a camel and . then a gondola and
a few strokes of his brush turned the
desert into an ocean. While most of
it was entertainment there ran
through his work a serious and com-:
polling purpose and the results was an
afternoon of instruction and delight.
The lecture pleased everyone, There
was a fine audience in spite of the in-clement
weather. Mr, Snavely pre-sided
with his usual grace, '
Best Lecture of the Course
Promised Sunday Afternoon
High School Debate
Members of Senior Class do Well
With a Dull Subject
Tho Literary Society of tho High
School hold a pleasant session and
hold a debate on: "Resolved , that tho
Prochumtion o£ Neutrality of 2 704
was in direct opposition to tho French
Alliance of 1778." Just why it was
necessary to go into a third century
buck to find a question for debate was
a mystery until it was explained that
this question arose from chins dis-cussions
in senior United States His-tory.
So far as they lunrn from their
lessons the school pupils of Dauphin
county do not know that anything un-usual
is going on in HJii ropo or that
tho neutrality proposition is very
much of M . proHont day problem; in
the mldnt of tho most momentous
changes in world history tho schoolH
are silent. It; is an uma/.lng angle of
neutrality, hub bho oducubors have
willed it.
However, tho debate was all right.
Nissloy lmbodon , Herman Sanders
Myrtle Kllno uphold tho ufllrmutlvo
with ability and Hpirit , and liny Kel-ler,
Ruth Landls and Arthur Wagner
worked strenuously to show that tluiy
were wrong, In the decision the af-firmative-
got 2 vofcoH and the nega-tive
1, hut bho general opinion point-ed
to a belief in the nugutivo.
Further debates are being planned ,
challenges having boon Ismied as fol-lows;
Sophomore U. Section versus
Juniors, Fronhnion vorsii H Sophomore
A Section, The winiiorH will clash
liiiov. Tho public Is cordially Invited
bo those ttflHHloiiH. Tho people should
show room Intercut in Hchool work,
Wonderful Growth of Congregatibn in
Two Years. In Spite of Snow,
Last Sunday Was a Banner
Day. Four Fifths of Mem-bers
South of Railroad
Hershey. will soon have to have a
new church—:and it will be a big one.
There is not room in the present
building for the members and Sunday
School scholars of the First Church
of the United Brethren.
The need is immediate and the con-gregation
wants to build. The main
question is location. FOUR FIFTHS
OF THE MEMBERS LIVE ON THE
SOUTH SIDE OF THE RAILROAD.
"The church is now located north of
Spring Creek, which means a long
walk for EIGHTY PER CENT of
those who attend the services. This
fact will probably be the determining
factor in the problem of location, but
so far no site large enough has beeh
found.
When Rev. N. L. Linebaugh came
to the church in the fall of 1912 the
membership was 129, the Sunday
School enrollment 214. Today the
membership is 212 and the Sunday
School enrollment 400. Said a mem-ber,
"Two years ago the church was
enlarged to double its old size, but to-day
it is not large enough to . accom-modate
the public. The ' pressing
need is a modern Bible School build-ing
seating 800, with an auditorium
added, of 500 capacity. The question
of location alone prevents the congre -
gation from building this Spring."
Sunday a Great Day
Although the congregation dates
its ' history from a revival meeting
held here in 1843 under Rev. Simeon
Knoll, last Sunday was the greatest
day ,the church has ever known. In
spite of eight inches of snow, slush
and mud both the main auditorium
and the Sunday School rooms were
filled to overflowing. People came
from Hershey and all the country
around. It was the annual Gathering
Day of the church. This was made
possible by the combined results of
the evangelistic services held during
the past few weeks and the Decision
Day in the Bible School on January
17th. ,
The day began at 9.15 with the reg-ular
session of the ,Bibter~"School.
The report showed that there were
250 present. The Men's Bible Class
had 69 in it, and every chair in their
department was filled. Several other
classes were likewise crowded.
At 10.15 the regular church service
began. The pastor, Rev. N. L. Line-baugh
conducted the services of the
day unassisted. The choir was direct-ed
by Harry Witmeyer of Palmyra,
and rendered "The King of Love my
Shepherd is" in a very effective man-ner.
There was no sermon preached,
because time did not permit.
At this service there were received
into church fellowship, a class of four
boys and four girls, who had studied
the regular Catechetical Instruction
Book for membership. Then there
came to the altar thirty-nine adults;'
these stood two deep at the altar, and
were received as members. Among
these were eighteen of the young men
of Hershey. Another beautiful feat-ure
of the service, was when eighteen
knelt at the altar and were baptised.
Then followed the Communion Service
when 158 came forward , and more
would have come if there had been
room.
In tho evening a pleasing feature
was tho "Booster " choir composed of
the Junior boys and girls. They
thrilled tho audience with their earn-estness
of song. During tho song
service , two of tho Juniors, Misses
Eva Runklo and Ina Carpenter sang
a duet entitled "Ashamed of Jesus,"
which moved all who wore present
This was followed by a bass solo, on-titled
"Open tho Gates of tho City,"
and was rendered by tho choiristor ,
Harry Wibmoyor , by request, At this
service thirteen more united with tho
Church , three wore baptised and 41
communed. Thus tho total for tho
day was, (10 received Into full church
fellowship, 211 baptl/.ed, and 205 com-muiinieuntH.
Big New Church in Hershey
Needed by United Brethren
Poor "Bill" is Gone
After Long »"«1 Useful Service Ho
Died Last Week
"Bill ," tho first horso purchased by
Mr, Hoi'Hhoy eleven years ago at Pal-myra
died after 1)0 years of faith-ful
Horvico , "Hill" appeared to bo a
horse in his prime and when ho died
ho was Htlll frinky, but unable to worU,
ThnmiiH Ulott , under whose care Bill
hud boon during IiIh time In Hershey,
says that "Bill" was one of tho boat
Iioi'hoh he Iiuh over soon and ho was
Horr y to hoc him go, mh he whh n fav-orite
at tho fitablas with all employed
thorp . "Bill" was used hero when the
first excavating whh done at tho Fac-tory,
Later ho worked at tho gar-bage
wagon and Hovoral tlinoa was on
the stage In ' the Park theater In homo
talent plays,