The Hershey Press 1916-03-30

              FLO WER SHOW
BIGGEST YET
There Will be Over Twenty Thousand
Pla nts and Many of Them Will .
be Rare and Beautiful. Her-shey's
Exhibit to Break All
Previous Records. Come
The Hershey Spring Flower Show -will
be held in the Hershey conservatories
beginning Sunday, April 9, and continuing
to Sunday, April 16, inclusive.
In size and in beauty .the show will be
far beyoud anything of the kind ever seen
in'the Lebanon'Valley.
On both Sundays of the Show will be
concerts by the Hershey Band. Admission
to everything, including the concerts,
is free and a cordial inyitation is extended
to the public. It is.expected that the at-tendance
will run far into the thousands
and that people will come from all points
of Lebanon Valley and from many of the
cities. .
There never was such interest in flowers
as there is this year. The unprecedented
success of the show in Philadelphia this
week has increased the attention of the
public to an extraordinary degree and in
Southern Pennsylvania the most beautiful
flowers in America are grown. Mr. M. S.
Hershey has made the beaiitifkatiori of
the model town his special study and thus
from all parts of the world have been gath-ered
the choicest treasures. They include
many new prizes acquired this year. All
will be shown to the public without cost
of any kind. . It is a pleasure to have the
people come.
The visitor will start in the big con-servatory
in Park Avenue where all the
large tropical plants are housed. Here
will be seen choice palms, great rubber
plants, dracaenas, aspidistras, ferns, be-gonias,
and others, numbering many
thousands. Later in the season these plants
will be moved into the tubs and beds of
the Mansion grounds. Another feature
in this conservatory is a big tankful of
alligators; also .a miniature pond full of
gold fish. Everyone will be particularly in-terested
in the tree-with the large ponder-rosa
lemons. It will be like a visit to the
tropics.
The Spring Show
Next the visitor will go to the main
conservatory in the Hershey Zoo, the
building in which will be the fine Easter
display, together with two houses full of
geraniums, coleus, and all manner of bed-ding
plants, more than 10,OCX) in number
and in every color under the sun. In the
big round building the spring flowers will
be found , in the shape of a wonderful
Dutch garden , laid off in beds together
with boxwood and bay trees, there will be
#000 tulips, 500 hyacinths, 2,000 daffo-dils,
together with hundreds of splendid
Easter lilies in pots, azaleas, rhododen-drons,
lilacs, deutzias, hydrangias, prim-roses,
cinerarias, Roman hyacinths, tiger
lilies, and a remarkable crimson rambler
rose on a trellis in full bloom. Here, too,
will be seen a miniature Japanese gard en,
containing summer houses, people, birds,
flower beds—a real novelty, The parrots,
canaries'and other birds of the Zoo will be
here and an attraction for the children will
be a nest of three young canaries in a cage,
They will see the mother feed the younp;
ones. The ceilings will be trimmed with
huge baskets of flowers.
At High Point
A walk of five minutes will take the
visitor to the conservatory at High Point ,
which will be well worth the while not
only on account of the flowers but also to
sec the swan, geese and chicks on the
lakes, In this conservatory will be more
tropical plants—a room filled with them-atic!
n house filled with carnations , white
lilies and geraniums; another house filled
with all kinds of crotons , dracienas, fancy
leave colons, alternant hern with beauti-ful
foliage, 1,800 pots of this , and a mis-cellaneous
collection of specimens not seen
in the usual conservatory, This is one of
the prettiest houses in the state,
The Zoo and the Band
Then the visitor will mnke the return
trip by way of the new Zoo, where lie
will find new animals and handsome new
buildings and then to the Park Theater
where the Hershey Hand will play from 2
to 5 each Sunday afternoon.
Thousands are expected to come by the
Hershey Trolley lines from Lancaster ,
Elis-nbethlown , Lebanon , Palmyra , lliini -
melslown, lliirriHbur g and other points ,
There will be hundreds of automobiles
and lliese will find abundant, room In Her-shey
Park, a mlmilo 's walk from the con-servatory
and tin* theater , The llimliey
Cafe will be open all day Sunday until
8 p, ni „ and llui Quick Lunch will be open
Sandfly from 12 !<> ' H !'¦ ni„ ' so that , there
will be ample accommodations for IlioHo
Who wish to (lino In Ilei'Kliey ,
All the I'oiisoivatorles will lie open on
Sunday, April 0 «n<l 1<> from noon to 0
p, m, On weekdays they will lie open all
day from H a, m, All are welcome,
STONE FOR THE BOULEVARD
Fanners are busy IimiIIuk stone for the
extension of the boulevard to Siuicl Bench
Bridge, Tills boulevard is Hie model road
of Dauphin county,
HUGE SUMS FOR
CHEWI NG GUM
In One Year the Imports Amounted
to -Almost Seven Million Pounds
Gum is Made Fro m Chicle
From Central and South
America. The Trees
The chewing-gum habit has cost the
American people for chicle alone nearly
$35,000,000 in the last ten years, or al-most
five times as much as we paid Russia
for Alaska, according to figures furnished
by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic
Commerce, of the Department of Com-merce.
Normally our annual imports of
chicle amount to 7,000,000 pounds, for
which we pay about $2,500,000 in the
countries of origin and to which must- be
added customs duties in our o-wn ports of
about $750,000.
Imports of chicje gum during the fiscal
year 1915 were as follows : From Mexico,
2,197,000 pounds; from Canada, 2,181,000
pounds; from British Honduras, 1,139,000
pounds; from Venezuela, 952,000 p'ounds;
from the Central American republics,
26,00'0 pounds; from all other countries,
5,000- pounds. Chicle is not produced in
Canada, but large quantities from other
British possessions are handled through
the Dominion. In 1913 the total imports
of the gum amounted to 13,759,000 pounds
and that is the record importation for
any one year. In 1915 the total was 6,500,-
000 pounds.
Chicle is the dried milky juice of the
sapodilla tree, which is one of a large
family of tropical trees known as bully-trees.
Some of the gum is used as a sub-stitute
for gutta percha, but the bulk of
it is used in the manufacture of chewing
gum.
A BEAUTIFUL SUNDAY
Sunday was the finest day of the year
so far. The sun was shining and the air
was balmy. Automobiles came out and
quite a number of persons dined at the
Hershey Cafe. The Quick Lunch also did
an increased business. There were over a
hundred callers at the Round Barn and
an incident of the day was the opening of
the tourists' room where many enjoyed
Hershey rnilk.. The more vigorous tramp-ed
to the top of Highland Park. The Her-shey
Transit Company carried more pas-sengers
than usual. There were visitors at
the Zoo, the Mansion grounds and Her-shey
Park. All the church services of the
day drew large congregations.
GETTING READY FOR SPRING
11ns is the time of Spring movings.
Quite a number arc taking place in this
section this week and there tiro newcomers
on some of the Hershey farms.
FIFTY YEARS MARRIED
Mr. ,and Mrs. Lewis Smith and family,
James A. Smith and family with their
guests Mrs. D. R. Frehn. Abraham Smith,
LeRoy Smith and Mr. and Mrs. Heltel
and family of Philadelphia were at Sher-mansdale,
Perry county recently to at-tend
the 50th wedding anniversary of
the Smith's parents, Mr. and Mrs. James
K. Smith. All but one of the children were
home to celebrate the occasion and it was
one of the happiest events of their lives.
That Mr. and Mrs. Smith are in perfect
health added much to the enjoyment of
the affair ,
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One of.the three conservatories in which the Spring Flower Show will be held from
April 9 to 16 inclusive, Over 20,000 flowers and pUints will hq shown, Concerts Sunday
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MR. SNAVELY AT
GR0-M0RE FARMS
Popular Veteran of Hershey Goes, in
for the Real Thing in Farming
Will Retain His Interest in
the Town. Other Changes ¦
of the \Veek. Others
. Among the important changes in prop-erties
this week were: F. B. Snavely and
family from their home in East Hershey
to the James Fox property, known as the
FoxCroft farm near Hummelstown. Mr.
Snavely's newly acquired farms will be
known as the Gro More farms. Mr. Fox
and his family have taken possession of
the Overcash farm, near his former resi-dence,
vacated, by John Longenecker who
has removed to Vian. The Snavely resi-dence
in Hershey will be occupied by Mr.
Reinhold and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Snavely have been resi-dents
of Hershey since the time the town
was founded and have been very popular.
Mr. Snavely has , been showing others
how to farm and has built up many of the
Hershey properties. He assumes charge
of the present farms so that he may put
in operation personally the knowledge
and methods which have been so pro-ductive.
While this takes him and his
family out of immediate residence in
Hershey they will retain their interest
in the town and its society.
LUTHERAN CHURCH GROWING
Increase of It's Sunday School and of
Its Membership is Constant
At his first service after his election to
the pastorate Rev. Joun I. Meek had the
pleasure of telling a large congregation at
the Lutheran Church last St inday that the
Sunday School that morning numbered
128. However, he was not satisfied , for
he said the number should be made 150,
and after that 200 will be easy. The fast
growth of the Lutheran church is orte of
die live facts of the community.
Mr. Meek came up from the theolog-ical
seminary for the sermon Sunday and
it was probably the best he has delivered
in Hershey. It was a vivid and ' earnest
plea for1 real ministration and service
and in this he sounded the keynote of
what he hopes to do in this" town—to
minister and to help others. It was an in-terpretation
of the spirit which animates
the remarkable growth of the local church.
The congregation filled the church and
included people from all parts of Hershey
and the surrounding country. The choir
did excellent work.
GOOD ENTERTAINMENT
The four young ladies known as the
Beverl y Entertainers smiled their way
into the hearts of Hershey before they
crossed the stage last Friday night and the
story after that was an hour and a half
of enjoyment and applause. It was first-class
entertainment , clean , clever, cap-tivating
and wholly meritorious, and was a
fitting climax to the lyceum course of the
Young Men's Club. Excellent moving
pictures were shown after the performance.
OWNS NINET Y SHARES
Jacob M. Gingrich of this place at-tended
the sale of bank stocks at Lebanon
Saturday last, Mr. Gingrich purchased
ten shares of Lebanon National Bank
stock at $160 per share. His sister Miss
Annie Gingrich also purchased six shares.
Mr. Gingrich has now ninety shares,
GOOD MILK IS
A GREA T FOOD
Elmer Klippinger 's Recipe for Health
and Happine ss. Quart of Milk
equal to Fourteen Ounces of
Beef Steak. Value of Sour '
Milk. Stud y Economy
.Elmer Klippinger, who manages the
Hershey dairies on the north side, be-lieves
the Hershey. milk is the best in
America and that the Hershey people
ought to drink more of it. Thus he sings
its praises and he starts off with his tri-bute
to mush and milk:
"If is a great pity that the good old
habit of eating plenty of mush and milk
has fallen into disrepute. What grand old
men and women were grown on mush and
milk diet. If our dietarian or dining room
masters would coin an' unpronounceable
French name for this excellent combi-nation
dish, and thus induce the masses
to eat in abundance, their action would be
a benefit to humanity.
"The food expert says a quart of milk
is equal to 14 ounces of beef steak and the
medical expert prescribes milk when you
cannot digest any other food . Milk is
very easy of digestion and a complete
food in that it contains a correct balance
of protein , energy and minerals. Furth-ermore
milk enters into harmonious and
beneficial combinat ;ri with many other
foo'ds and greatly in: re'res their value.
If the consumption of milk were increased
the cost of living could be materially re-duced
and health conserved , at the same
time.
Cream and butter should enter large-ly
into our dietary because of their cheap-ness
and digestibility. No other standard
food is as digestible as pure butter, save
sugar alone. Ice cream is sometimes con-sidered
a luxury, yet is a very nourishing
food in every sense of the term: Milk
that has turned sour has simply been
acted on by the lactic acid ferments,
natural to all cow's milk, and -while the
milk has lost a little of its sugar, the sour-ing
has increased its digestibility. Butter-milk
and sour milk are -very digestible
and cooling and soothing to the digestive
tract.
"When you buy. milk, always remember
that a quart of milk is worth practically
as much as the average pound of beef
and you will soon see the economy of
using milk."
CLUB WORK PROGRESSING
Busy Times at. the Youhjj Woman 's
Christian Association
April eleventh is the date for the Spring
Cantata to be given by the Y. W. C. A.
Glee Club. Miss Canan has been doing
fine work and the concert promises to be
a very delightful event.
The Club work *s progressing in a most
encouraging way. Since the Jubilee the
Up-To-Date Club have taken in ten new
m nbers and li) are pledged to the On-ward
Club.
The Ayuda Club held their regular
nonthly meeting this week and began the
study of Christian Standards in Action
and an Industrial Girls Ideals,
The Banner Club will hold a food sale
at market on Saturday April 1st. Pro-ceeds
will be devoted to the purchase of
dresses for the Pageant of the Sunshine
Club,
The Sunshine Club will entertain the
girls in the factory today noon with folks
games and gymnasium work,
CHOCOLATE ON
BATTLE FRONT
Pennsylvania Takes Lead in Manu-facture
and Supplies Rations to
Europe. Public Led ger Gives
New Figures ; About the
Industry. The Growth
Pennsylvania leads in coal, steel and
iron, armor plat e,. rifles—arid chocolate.
The Swiss mountaineer, waving his hat as
he scales a peak with almost perpendicu-lar
sides, is hardly an accurate symbol of
the chocolate industry as it exists today.
In three cases out of five, perhaps more,
it should be a staid gentleman in Quaker
"garb or the descendant of a Mennonite
pictured. For Pennsylvania is now THE
chocolate-manufacturing centre and Penn-sylvania
chocolate is helping feed the
armies of Europe, said the Public Ledger
this week.
For chocolate is, in a way, a war baby.
In 1914 there was but $19,000,000 worth
of crude cocoa imported into this country,
while in 1915 the total had risen to more
than $31,000,000, an increase of more than
63 per cent. This year the percentage of
increase bids fair to be even higher, and it
is Pennsylvania which is leading all the
States in the manufacture and export of
cocoa products.
In the past decade the consumption of
chocolate and cocoa in the United States
has much more than doubled. This coun-try
is the world's largest consumer. Offi-cial
statistics are not up to date, but from
unofficial facts gathered it is evident that
Pennsylvania leads in contributing to this
great total. In the decade previous to
1909, the market value of its products in-creased
fourfold , and during the past six
years the growth has been even more
rapid, as made evident by the greater
number of concerns engaged in' the in-dustry
and by the expansion of their fac-tories.
. Pennsylvania Cocoa at the Front
Pennsylvania manufacturers today have
the largest volume of business in their
history. So rushed are their factories that
not one is able to keep up with its orders.
In the European trenches a favorite ra-tion
is Pennsylvania-made chocolate, the
popular beverage Pennsylvania-made
cocoa, -and until the scarcity of ocean car-riers
restricted its exportation this choc-olate
and cocoa was 'being sent all over
the world. The domestic demand, how-ever,
is more than large enough to take
up the surplus, so the increase continues.
Philadelphia is the scene of much ac-tivity
in the chocolate industry. Several
concerns are adding to their equipments,
and one of them is erecting a new build-ing
as an extension of its present large
plant. In Pittsburgh the chocolate factor-ies
are increasing their facilities by the
construction of new warehouses and the
installation of more machines.
The rich farms of Lancaster and its
neighboring counties make this region the
greatest in Pennsylvania for the manufac-ture
of milk chocolate and cocoa,products.
The largest chocolate and cocao indus-try
in the State, and said to be the most
complete in the world , is at Hershey,
Dauphin County. Within the past 18
months the Hershey Company has added
10 modern stone and cement buildings,
which bring its total floor space to 35
acres. Its own distribution system covers
North America and foreign countries ,
This concern is the world' s largest user
of almonds; it requires 75,000 quarts of
milk daily; it has its own sugar refinery;
recently it received a 200-carload shipment
of raw sugar from Cuba, and of one of its
scores of products over 100,000,000 pieces
are .sold annually. Other Pennsylvania
chocolate concerns are thriving im never
before.
The following is the statement of the
Chief of the Bureau of Statistics unci In-formation
of the State Department of
Labor mid Industry; "With reference to
statistics on tlie chocolate industry, we
have taken from the report of the Com-missioner
of Labor and Industry, now in
the hands of the printer , the following
data which may be of interest to you:
" 'Total employes, 2257 ; total wages
paid , !|>l ,14fi ,100; total capital invested ,
$4,0:tH,H()(); dayn in operation , 2f)() ; value
of product , $12,850,800.'
"Tills dalu covers reports received for
the your 1914 fro m companies operating in
the State of Pennsylvania. "
Cocoa and chocolate were Ami, manu-factured
In the United Slates at Dor-chester
, Mass,, where the industry estab-lished
in 1705 has continued until this
day. Mill withi n I ho last 10 or 15 yearn
Pennsylvania lias taken the lend as a
chocolate manufacturing State , Within
IB years the capital invested has leaped
from $800,000 to $4,033,000, an increase
of 500 pur rent, In 1R99 wages amount-ing'
to $40,000 were paid to 123 employes,
and In 1014 the 2257 workers received
$l ,htr>,100, Truly amazing is the in-cramo
in the market value of the product ,
In 1K99 Uiitt wim $!,089,000i in 1904, $2,-
134,(100! In 11)09, $4,B'll ,000-so fur i\
four-fold growth but in the five yearn
horn 1909 to "1914 the production In-crease
three-fol d again , to $12,850,000,
and last year it mounted Rtlli hiRlicr.
REV. LINEBAUGH
WANTS PROGRESS
In Two Vigorous Sermons He Calls
Upon His People to Build for the
Future and' to Cooperate for
the Benefit of Their
Children. Regre ts
In two vigorous sermons on Sunday
Rev. N. L. Linebaugh caHed upon the
people of the First United Brethren
Church to pull together and build, the
new church in Hershey. The plans for
this church were announced last year and
there was general gratification that a
new structure was to rise at the western
limits of Hershey on Chocolate Avenue,
but it seems that recently opposition to
the project has arisen among some of
the members of the official board and that
this opposition has become active.
A; year ago the Sunday School held a
big meeting and as a result a nest egg of
over $600 for the building fund was gath-ered
and deposited.. The tentative plans
for the new church and parsonage con-templated
an expenditure of $50,000 or
$60,000. Since Mr. Linebaugh has been
pastor the membership of the church has
more than doubled and the past year has
been especially successful. >
So far as the official board prevails
the new plans are said to be in abeyance,
but Rev. Mr. Linebaugh is "a fighting
parson" and so he has taken the question
to the congregation. At both services
Sunday the church was filled. In the morn-ing
the theme was "The Christianand The
Evangel," and the preacher dwelt elo-quently
upon the necessity of church sup-port
and church progress. He denounced
the spirit that seeks to curb the man who
wants to do things and go ahead. He
pleaded with his people to be up and doing
and he declared it was their duty to build
the new church.
At the evening service he spoke on re-sponsibility
for the future. He dwelt upon
the life of Hezekiah, the king who became
content to let matters drift in his time,
caring not for the fate of his sons so long
as things were peaceful and prosperous in
his own reign. Here was the selfishness that
sacrificed the interests of the coming gen-erations
when every obligation of duty de-manded
that the king should protect and
safeguard his kingdom. Mr. Linebaugh
developed the thought and called upon his.
congregation to look to the future and pro-vide
adequately for the spiritual welfare
of their church and their children . It was
their responsibility and they could not
escape it and he declared the time to face
the question was now. He >varned them
that they must do this or surrender their
leadership in the community. He spoke
with great earnestness and it was one of
the most impressive sermons he has de-livered
since he became pastor of the
church.
A Service of Music
The evening was also notable for its
music. II. G. .Witmeycr led for the last
time, as he has resigned to take charge
of part of the music at the .church in Pal-myra
. Miss Viola Uoyer was at the piano
and her skill added greatly to the success
of the program. After hymns and prayer
the choir sang the anthem , "The King of
Love, My Shepard Is," Miss Mary
Painter sang "Plains of- Peace" very effect-ively,
Little Misses Ruth Runkle and Ina
Ca penter delig hted everyone by their
chut , "Youth Is a Happy Spring, " Mr.
Wi' moyer sang "O, Sacred Head ," with
force and beauty, The choir Rave "Gloria
In Excelsis" successfully , Rev. Mr. Line-baugh
in a happy speech told of t '"c work
Mr. Witmeycr had done and of I h e'eep
regret lie felt at losing him from. He- I'ey,
a feeling shared by the whole congrega-tion,
A new choir leader will be selected
next week and Mrs. Runkle will have
charge In the meanwhile.
MOVING PICTURE PROGRAM
Saturday, April 1—The White Sister,
Six reels filmed by the IJssnnny Company,
Stal ling Richard C. Travels,
Monday, April 3—A Little Brother of
the Rich, Five acts starrinn Ilobnrl Bos-worth.,
Wednesday, April 0-Salomy Jane. One
of the western plays, sinning Beatrice
Micheleiia.
Thurwlay, April (i—Education of Mr,
Pipp, sinning Dlgby Bell, This play
ought to be parlicularly mood, It has
neither barrooms, dope dens, gambling
joints or society affinities.
JUNIOR BIBLE CLASS
The junior s of the Lutheran Church
met at Iho residence of K, L, Domgaidncr.
Those present were ; Charles Copp, Har-old
Cain , Melville Kiefl'er, Marv in Kloffer ,
Howard Page, Joseph Hills , William Lelth-iser,
John Henry Domgnrdncr , Mark
Shelley, Theodore Lieb, Leo Plumador,
and William A, Ilouseworth , the teacher.
After prayer by Mr, Bomgardncr ithere
were recitations by Lee Plumador , read-ing
by Master Biicker and short speeches,
after which refreshments were aerved.'
The next meeting will be nt . William B.
Leltlilse r'H residence, and then the name
of the clasfl will be decided upon.