The Hershey Press 1915-01-21

              CHOCOLATE COMPANY'S NEW POWER PLANT WAS
PUT INTO SUCCESSFUL OPERATION THIS WEEK
Cartie at the Right Moment f or the Increased
Business Which Pr omises to Make 1915 the
Greatest Year in the Company's History
This week the new power plant of the Hershey Chocolate
Factory has been put in operation. For almost two weeks
the machinery has been run for testing and smoothness and
it has been found to be all.that was expected. The horse
power is 6,000, more than double the former total. It is the
most modern equipment that could be secured. There is
nothing: finer in any f actory in the world;
The enlarged Hershey. plant now has thirty-five acres of
floor space and is the most complete chocolate factory in ex-istence.
It is the latest word in efficiency . and the scientific
use of the gravity system. One may spend hours and walk
miles through its many rooms and aisles and always there is
something new to see.
The factory is so large and has so many buildings that it
has been difficult to secure a picture that would give an ade-quate
idea of its extent. The one presented this week has
been obtained with great care, but even it does not fully
reach all the parts and structures of this vast assemblage of
stone, cement and steel. A key to the size may be found in
the new smoke stack, which is 200 feet high with 10 feet in-side
diameter.
This plant gives employment to close to 2,000 persons and
the. allied interests which it supports gives employment to
1,000 more. Its products go to all parts of the earth and number
hundreds of millions of articles annual- I „„„„„,„„„„„„,(„„„ „„,„,„„•„,„ „,„„
ly. It uses a half billion pieces of print-ed
matter every year and all of this
printing is done in the factory.
The enlargment of the factory came
at the right moment, for never was its
trade so big as it is today and 1915 will
break the highest records in the history
of the company.
Already more enlargement is going
on and the program of construction in-cludes
a great cocoa -warehouse equip-ped
with flexible elevators.
Finds Hershey Interesting
Expert Tells of its Independent
Power Plant
Sanford Smith devotes several
pages of The Isolated Plant to an
account of Hershey's equipment. He
calls "the town of Hershey an adver-tisement
for altruism and industry,"
and says "it has been touched by the
magic of success," adding, "If such a
phrase could be employed in descrip-tion
of the town of Hershey it might
be called a live monument-^live be-cause
it is a hustling town of three
thousand—a monument because it is
the direct result of the big idea con-ceived
and brought to reality* by M.
S. Hershey." He gives the details of
the new power plant as recently print-ed
in the Hershey Press and then
adds:
The various buildings are heated
by two separate systems. One of
these is a low pressure direct steam
heating system with vacuum return;
the other system is the forced circu-lation
of hot water—th e hot water
being heated by exhaust steam.
Cooling and refrigeration in some
of the buildings is done by direct ex-pansion
coils in bunker rooms and
forced circulation of the cooled air
through ducts into the various build-ings,
for which purpose there are
two 40-ton ammonia compressors,
two 65-ton ammonia compressors,
one Ki4-ton ammonia compressor.
Part of the plant is equipped with
a dehumidifying apparatus which
regulates the humidity, and is also
used as a heating system during the
winter months,
All elevators arc electrically oper-ated
, and throughout the factory elec-tric
curont is used for all power pur-poses,
the machines being driven
either by individual motors, or as
groups of several machines driven by
one common motor ,
Ah fire protection in the factory
there is, in addition to tho chemical
extinguishers with which each and
every room is equipped , u sprinkler
system installed. Also thirty hose
outlets with 100 foot of Underwriters'
ilro hose connected at each outlet are
ready for emergency use. Water is
supplied by gravity at 80 pounds
pressure and it firo main surrounds
tho various buildings. With tho
main arc several Ilro hydrants to
deliver twonty-ono streams at full
pressure of 80 pounds , Ilorshoy is
not a boom town , but starting on tha
solid foundation of tho chocolate fac-tories
is rapidly developing other In-dustries.
Tho town of Horshoy Is an
excellent example of co-operation.
There is a, transit system, a public
park; amusements , swimming pool,
band concerts, <» department store,
hotel , trust company, etc., nil o«Ub»
linked and run on n co-oporativo nys-tom.
Tho inhabitants of Ilorshoy urn
happy, contented and prosperous.
Tho sucoss of tho Horshoy Choco-late
Company and Its community is
duo to nothing more than tho appli-cation
of good business principles,
It was this snmo application of (rood
business principle that caused, M, S,
Horshoy to consistently depend on his
own private power plant for tho en-ergy
fchitfc IcoopH alive tho town, of
Horshoy, Pa., and tho groat chocolate
factories there.
A Delightful Occasion
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Neff Herr En-tertain
Large Five Hundred Party
One of the most beautiful and de-lightful
social events that Hershey
has ever enjoyed was . the Five Hun-dred
Party given by Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Neff Herr at the Hershey Cafe
on the evening of Thursday, January
14. It was the largest function of
the present season and was attended
by guests from Lancaster, Philadel-phia,
Harrisburg, Hershey, Hum-melstown
and other places. The cos-tumes
of the ladies were strikingly
handsome.. .
The affair lasted until the special
car for Hummelstown was called at
half past one. The cards were finish-ed
at about eleven o'clock and then
supper was served. After this there
was dancing which continued to the
close.
The whole cafe was converted into
a scene of lovliness, the main decora-tions
being in the big dining room
which was turned into a picture of
orange and green. The tables seat-ing
, 18 each were arranged in the
four of diamonds, with hollow centers
filled with Southern smilax , aspara-gus
ferns and fern leaves, varied
with California poppies and with or-ange
colored electric bulbs twinkling
in- the masses of green. In the center
of the room was a large mound of
green with a fountain and water-playing
ball and around were cedar
trees. The electric bulbs were all in
orange shades. The handsome prism
candlesticks used for the first time
had exquisite Japanese basket shades,
orange colored. Greens were grace-full
y trailed on all the walls and
streamers of orange ribbons ran
from the middle point of the ceiling
to every part of the room.
The orange and green idea was
carried out very artistically in the fine
supper which was served from 10.30
until past midnight. At each plate were
the place card with California poppies,
a boutonniere of real Japanese or-anges,
and a pretty favor ' of nut-cups
with poppy petals. The first
course wns orange baskets with whip-ped
cream. Following came beef
consomme with dice wafers, turkey
patties with mushrooms, potato balls,
string beans, spiced peaches, celery
hearts and olives stuffed with nuts ,
and orange sherbet , bird's nest salad,
Philadelphia cream cheese and wafers,
orange Icq cream in California poppy
cups, golden loaf cake , cocoanut layer
cake, bonbons and nuts , coffee demi-tasse
and after-dinner mints. Dur-ing
tho supper tho Echomondia orches-tra
behind palms played tho popular
tunes admirably and afterwards this
orchestra supplied tho dunce music,
Tho decorations and tho dinner wore
under tho direction of Caterer E. J.
Krauso.
Those present includ ed tho fol-lowing
:
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. II. Murrio , Mr,
and Mrs. Kwing Cain , Mr . and Mrs,
F. B. Siutvoly, Mr. and Mrs. J. 1$.
LoithlHor , Mr, and Mrs. J, E. Snyder,
Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Horshoy, Mr. iuii|
Mrs. J, R. Kroidor , Mr. and Mrs. J.')'.
Frank Mngoo, Mr. and Mph. C. V.
Gl ynn , Mrs. Boyd , Mr. and Mrs. D. S.
Gruel!', Mr. and Mrs. Ezra F. Hor-shoy,
Mr, and Mrs. J. E. IIills , Mr,
and Mrs. II , G. Mttmmiv , Mr, and Mrs.
Linn II . Hawbockor , Mr , mid Mrs,
Ross AspenHhado , Mr. and Mrs. A. L.
Mover, Miss Margaret Lolthlfior , Miss
Horthft Loibhart , Miss May Horshoy,
W. H. Loibkiohor , L. H. Moekins , J,
H, Suavely, Gaorgo O. Shoaror , Wil-liam
A. Curtis , Robert A. Koilly, C. F.
Suavely, Mi', and Mrs. 8. 0, Steelier,
Mr. and Mrs. P. N. Kasson , Mr, and
Mrs, Allen Walton , Jr., Mr, itiu l Mrs.
Robert Walton , Jr., Mr. and Mrs,
Robert Walton , Sr„ Mr. and Mrs. M,
At the Inauguration
New Governor Makes Local Option
Strong in His Address
Many from Hershey went to Har-risburg
Tuesday and saw Governor
Brumbaugh inaugurated. They en-joyed
the exercises and the parade.
Those who heard , the address were
very favorably impressed. During the
campaign Dr. Brumbaugh spoke in
Hershey and made an excellent im-pression.
Hershey people were interested
mainly in finding out what the new
governor would say on the local op-tion
question. These are the words
of his address: '
"I urge upon you, gentlemen of the
Legislature, the enactment of a Coun-ty
Local Option law. The people of
this Commonwealth have a perfect
ri ght to decide for themselves wheth-er
or not intoxicating liquors shall be
sold in their several counties, This
issue is before you. You must meet
it, and meet it openl y and fairly. I
gave solemn assurance to the people
that I favored such a law. Your
Governor now asks you to join with
him in its enactment. Every consid-eration
of moment favors such pro-cedure.
The sooner wo do so the bet-ter.
Let this vexed question be taken
from partisan control and bo given di-
2'ectly to tho people. They will solve
it better than wo can. Tho selection
of judges in tho several districts
should no longer hinge upon this
question, It has already worked j
harm to tho judiciary and has lesson- j
ed the rcg-itrd ef our people for tho I
integrity and capacity of tho final |
lega l guardians of tho people 's sacred
rights, It is a dominant issue in tho ,
public mind , ¦ Tho party that has giv-en
this groat State its industrial and
educational development hits now tho
sacrod opportunity of giving the State
a groat moral uplift , I trust wo
shall not fail tho people on this is- i
sue. I repent I am unonulvoenbly I
for county local option, " >
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Change in Annual Meetin g
Young Women 's Christian Associa-tion^
Coming AnniverHitry
A ohiuipto has boon made in tho an-nual
mooting of tho Young Women 's
Christian Association announced for
January 2(1,
Tho btiHlnoss mooting of tho Asso-ciation
will ho hold Tuesday evening,
January 2(1, in tho Association 's read-ing
room and not in tho Horshoy Cen-tral
Theater.
In February will come tho third
anniversary of tho AwioeUttlon and
tho foatttro of tho celebration will bo
tho moving pictures of tha Associa-tion
's activities. ¦ Tho rest of tho
program announced last "woqk will
then bo ,carried out, Momlxtrn' of tho
Association will please emphasize this
change so that there will bo no mis-understan
ding. ' ¦
Death of Rev. Menno Hershe y
One of the County's Best Citizens
Passes Away at 76
Rev. Menno F. Hershey died at the
residence of his sister, Miss Precilla
Kulp, at .Palmyra, last Friday. Mr.
Hershey was one of the oldest and
best esteemed citizens of Hershey.
His home was at the corner of Choco-late
and Ceylon Avenues. A few
months ago he moved to his sister's
home in Palmyra because of the fail-ing
health of himself and his wife.
For many years Mr. Hershey con-ducted
a fine farm on the Horse Shoe.
Pike south of. Hershey. He was a
valuable factor in his community
and a representative of the best citi-zenship
of the county. He belonged
to the Reformed Mennonite faith and
for forty years was one of the most
faithful ministers of the church.
Hershey's Meeting House is a part of
the Hershey homestead where Menno
Hershey was born over three quarters
of a century ago. In its burial ground
he was buried on Tuesday in the
presence of a large attendance of re-latives
and ( friends. The funeral,
which was preceded by a short ser-vice
at the residence in Palmyra, was
held at the Meeting House at 11
o'clock. Rey. Jacob Lehman, of Me-chanicsburg,
officiated.
Rev. Mr. Hershey left a widow, two
sisters, Mrs. Precilla Kulp, of Pal-myra,
and Mrs. Jacob Lehman, of
Mechanicsburg, and one son, Omer F.
Hershey, of the law firm of Grain and
Hershey, Baltimore. Mr. Omer Her-shey,
who is one of the, most dis-tinguished
lawyers of the South , was
ill in North Carolina and although he
made every effort to be present at
the funeral his physicians would not
let him attempt the journey.
Rev. Mr. Hershey was popular with
all classes in this section. He was a
man of fine presence, of pleasant so-cial
qualities and of largo interest in
the welfare of his fellow beings. His
death is deeply regretted by all.
Large Sunday Audience
Greets Doctor A. W. Lamar
Another Very Successful Event in the
1 List of Union Services. The Speakers's Strong Address oh
Manhood and Womanhood.
| Speaker Next ' Sunday
¦ What was generally, considered the
most effective . address of the list in
the Sunday Union services was deliv-ered
at Hershey Central Sunday af-ternoon
to an audience that in spite
of very inclement weather nearly fill-ed
the auditorium. The speaker was
Dr. A. "W. Lamar of Georgia and his
theme was "Christ's Vision of a Man."
From the start he gripped his congre-gation
and the interest never -waver-ed.
He filled his talked with
anecdotes, striking passages and
studied flights of eloquence, but
throughout there was the' deep earn-estness
of the oldtime exhorter and
the whole thing- was an appeal for a
better and cleaner life. In fact it
became supplementary to the revival
which has been going' on in Hershey
and at the end Dr. Lamar had all on
their feet promising to aim for a
higher consecration in their lives.
During his address he referred to
the profit sharing systems now being
tried in varied forms by progressive
manufacturers and declared that this
must become the general policy in
America, so that the worker may se-cure
a larger part of the return from
that which he produces.
Rev. Dr. Lamar's address was
more fitting to the day and the pur-pose
of the meeting than any which
has been given. Although entertain-ing
it was not mere entertainment but
was a serious, impressive appeal to
the conscience and spirit. It was a
matter of remark that an address of
this kind was far more acceptable
than the best of the usual lectures
and the elocutionary performances. •
Robert Marquart made an excellent
leader. President Millard was on the
stage. Professor Keboch led the
singing which was very sucessful and
the orchestra under Director Feese
lent its aid. There were two effec-tive
violin solos by Walker Lindsay
of Hummelstown. The ushers for the
day were "William Fidler, Baton
Marks, John Moyer and Victor Ging-rich.
After the address Dr. Larnar was
the guest of an old friend, William
F. R. Murrie, President of the Her-shey
Chocolate Company.
The speaker next Sunday will be
Dr. J. Linwood Eisenberg, of Chester,
Pa. His address, "The .World. Won't
Have It," is said to be one of the
ablest and most interesting efforts of
the platform.
At Hershey Central Theater
Excellent Pictures For Saturday and
Monday Evenings
Next Saturday nigh t one of the
greatest motion picture spectacles in
existence will be presented at the
Hershey Central Theater. It is the
special Universal feature, "Samson,"
produced by J. Farrell MacDonald
and featuring J. Warren Kerrigan.
It is a tremendous affair in six parts
with GOO scenes and 2,000 players.
The admission will be 10 cents. No
one should miss it.
Next Monday night the regular
lyceum course feature will bo the
great lecture on Panama,'showing tho
actual construction of the now won-der
of the world. With it will bo giv-en
the now Rbnfax Musical Motion
Pictures, the singing and dancing
movies, being the reproduction of
vaudeville acts, comic opera numbers ,
choruses and dancing, a great show
in itself.
Fifty-Four Conversions
Success of the Revival at First
U. B. Church
The remarkable succoss of tho re-vival
at First United Brethren Church
continued to tho close of tlio services
lust ni |rht, There wore f)4, conver-sions
in two weeks and this number
may bo increased by ' Inter figures,
Rev, N, L. Linobaugh worked with
groat Konl and his efforts have boon
wonderfully fruitful. Ho wits as-sisted
by an efficient lender of music,
Harry Wltmoyor of Palmyra and by
earnest personal workers.
Lust Sunday was Decision Day in
tho Sunday School; (15 signed cards
to ilvo a more devoted llfa j 1(1 signed
to mil to with tho church; 27 children
signed, Sunday night brought If)
conversions , tho largest number of
any o»o night, Tho revival Is the
grontoHt In tho history of tho local
church ,
In Two of the Three Hershey Has a
Clean Slate But in the Matter of
Cussing it Needs Some Im-provement.
Offen ders Are .
Loud and Obnoxious
Here is the latest from Billy Sun-day
and it fits every town in Penn-sylvania:
"There are three things which will
ruin any town and give it a fcad name.
Open licensed saloons, open stores on
the Sabbath day, and a ' dirty, cuss-ing,
swearing gang of blacklegs on
the street. Let a town be known for
these three things, and th«se alone,
and you could never start a boom half
big enough to get one man there.
"Old men, young men, boys, swear.
What do you cuss for ? It doesn't do
you any good, gains you nothing in
business, society ; it loses you the es-teem
of men. God said more about
cussing than anything. God said,
"Thou shalt not kill,"" "Thou shalt
not steal," "Thou shalt riot bear
false witness," but God said more
about cussing than them all, and they
are still cussing. . - ¦ -• ¦ •• . . .
"Thou shalt not take th« name of
the Lord thy God in vaix, for the
Lord will not hold him guiltless who
taketh his name in vain.'.'
"There isn't a fellow in this crowd
but what would be disgusted if his
wife.or sister would cuss , and hit tho
booze like he does. If she -would, he'd
go whining around a divorce court
for a divorce right away and say he
couldn't live with her. Why, you
dirty dog, she has to live with you.
"I heard of a fellow -whose wife
thought she would show him how he
sounded around the house and give
him a dose of his own medicine. So
one morning he came down and ask-ed
for his breakfast. "WTvy you old
blankety, blanks .blank, bald-headed
blankety, blankety, blanl ! Break-fast!"
He was horrified , but every
time he tried to say anything she
would brin g out a bunch : of lurid
oaths until finally he said. "Wife, if
you'll cut out that cussing I'll never
swear again."
"Out in Iowa there .were some men
standing along a fence when a bunch
of kids came along.. One man stuck
out his foot and tripped one for fun
and the youngster got up, about 5
years of age, and started such a
string of profanity that it would seem
the demons in hell would close their
ears and cry "Enough," The man
staggered back. It was his own son.
He turned to the crowd. '1Boys,!' he
said, "I never knew what an influence
I have been until just now. If any
of you ever hear me cuss again step
up and .knock me down, and when I
come to I'll thank you for it. I never
knew what I was doing to my chil-dren."
"You say, "Bill , I can 't quit cuss-ing,"
You lie. If I was mayor of
this city and had authority to put men
on the corners with double-barreled
shotguns to shoot every one who
cussed, 'you'd see how much cussing
there would be. You would not hear
an oath from one week's end to an-other.
I suppose if the law against
stealing was repealed and placed
against cussing all of yov would start
to steal."
It is not likely that men will be
put on the corners of Hershey with
double-barreled shotguns, but there
is great need that tho men employed
to keep public order should give some
attention to tho few offenders who
are making themselves public nuis-ances
along Chocolate Avenue and in
tho waiting room attached to the
Young Men 's Club. They and their
kind do not belong in Hershey and
they should bo made to move on.
Of the three things that "Billy "
Sunday named Horshoy has neither
saloons nor open stores on Sunday,
but it has a fow loud swearers in pub-lic
places who are offensive to all de-cent
mon and women,
Things That Ruin a Town
Named by Billy Sunday
Seeking Work
All tho cities are struggling with
the unamployod problem and some of
the states are considering measures
for its relief, Horshoy has not
known what it meant; until recently
when tho steadily increasing number
of applications shows that many aiv
Hookin g work in the towns, More
people applied for work at tho Fac-tory
during tho past ton days than
ever before.
L. Nissley, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Earn-est,
Miss Clara Cassel, Mrs. Hertzler,
Miss Clara Walmer, F. W. Pugh,
Robin Marquart, William Gauss, Rus-sell
Stoner, and LeRoy Holler. ; .
Prizes were won as follows:; La-dies'—
First, Mrs. E. M. Hershey; sec-ond,
Mrs. Ezia F. Hershey; third,
Mrs. Linn H. Hawbecker; fourth,
Miss Clara "Walmer; fifth, Mrs. D.
Frank Magee; sixth, Mrs, Peny N.
Kasson ; seventh, Mrs. D. S. Graeff.
Gentlemen's—First, J. B. Leithiser;
second, C. V. Glynn; third, • F. W.
Pugh ; fourth, E. M. Hershey; fifth ,
Wm. Earnest; sixth, L. R. Meekins;
seventh, P. N. Kasson.
Library Has Number of Volumes
About the Puna ma Canal
Tho Horshoy Free Public Library
has received tho latest report of tho
Isthmian Canal Commission, describ-ing
tho work at Panama and tho
clearing away of tho great' slides
which occurred last year, There aro
| 00!) pages of interesting facts and
j figures , and 70 excellent illustrations
I showing tho groa t locks, the Atlanti c
and tho Pacific terminals , Culobra
Cut, tho Gatun dam and otlior parts
of the vast enterprise.
Tho arrival of this book Is timely,
as It enables members of tho Library
to road up on tho subject before tho
lecture Monday evening at tho Hor-shoy
Central Theater.
Other volumes in tho Library which
toll tho story,of Panama in text and
picture s aro :
"America 's Triumph at Panama,"
by It. E. Avery; "Tho Panama Canal ,
What It Is, What it Moans ," by John
Barrett; "Tho Panama (iatoway," by
J. \\, lllshop.
In tho "History of Nations ," Vol-ume
24 , may bo found tho history of
the operations at l'ananin , and the
book untitled "All About Engineer-ing,
" by Gordon 1) , Kn ox, has a chap-tor
on tho canal which appeals es-pecially
to younger renders,
The Library continues to grow in
membership and in circulation , It
will soon ho moved Into larger quar-tern,
An encouraging sign Is the Increase
In tho reading of sorloiiH mid Inform-ing
hooks. Many aro called for. '
Books of Timely Interest
MIhh 'Margaret Loithlnor gave n
rarebit party on Tuesday evening in
honor of hor cousin , MIhh .Ann Sohnof-for
, of Handing, who is spending sov-ornl
days with tho LolthiBors.
Rarebit Part y
On Thursday evening! February
<l, hi tho gymnasium of tho Horshoy
Men 's Club the Horslioy Band will
give a complimentary concert to all
tho members and friends of tho Club,
K general Invitation is extended,
Samuel J. Fooso, the . bandmaster,
promises an elaborate program that
will bo popular and, enjoyable. Tho
hand Is gaining a line reputation In
musical circles for Its concert work.
It }s expected tlutt a largo crowd
will attend.
Complimentary Concert