The Hershey Press 1915-01-28

              Distribution Will Reach Over Eighty
Per Cent ,of all,the Employes of
. the Factory. A Thousand and
Fifty Persons in the List.
Value of the Policy
In ten days the employees of the
Hershey Chocolate Company will be
notified that they will receive a bonus
of twenty per cent on their wages or
salaries for the past year. The
money will, .be^distributed in about
two weeks.
The fortunate ones include 1050
persons, from the office boys to the
executive officers. It is the largest
number in the history of the company
due to the fact that it lias been the
greatest year the company has
known.
The bonus policy . has two main
purposes,. interest in the welfare of
the individuals and the desire to
build up an exceptional force of regu-lar
and reliable workers. When the
bonus experiment was first tried only
twenty per cent of the . employees
could meet the condition of six
months' previous service. This year
the eligible list goes above eighty
per cent.
Hershey Chocolate Company
Gives Bonus of 20 Per Cent
Live School Notes
These Are Busy Days in. Local Edu-cational
Circles
F. D. Keboch, Principal of Derry
Township Schools, will deliver an
address at Middletown Institute on the
subject "The Immediate Needs of
Teachers."
During the meeting of the School
Directors of Dauphin County in Her-shey
on February 12 and 13, charts
made under the direction of Miss
Marie H. Johnson, will be on exhibi-tion
in the M. S. Hershey School.
These charts will shdw the practical
importance of Latin.
The Hershey Store Company is
placing dark shades in the demon-stration
room in the M. S. Hershey
School Building. This will enable
the use of the lantern during the day
in the teaching of the sciences.
An extensive Literary' pro'gram is
under preparation by the committee
of the local High School. The full
program will appear in next week's
issue of the Press.
School Director A. B. Shenk visited
the schools last Monday. Mr. Shenk
is the president of the Board and
takes great interest in school work.
Others have the same keen inter-est
in school visitation but find it very
difficult to leave their daily tasks.
Miss Carrie Dressier teacher of
one of Primary school s, who was
ill for three days last week, reported
on duty Monday morning.
Inspector Koch's Visit
High School Inspector C. D. Koch
made his annual visit to the local
High School. It will be interesting
to know that the High school ranks
in the first grade for last year's work.
If the first class, how much better
work can be done in the best equip-ped
school of its kind in the State ?
A high school of the first class ad-mits
you into college without condi-tion,
providing you take the regular
course while in the high school. It
will save hundred of dollars to the boy
or girl who expects to attend a high -
er institution of learning. The Di-ploma
from the Hershey High school
is accepted and full credit is given for
the work completed.
Derry Township Teachers
Tuesday evening, February 2, the
regular monthly mooting of the twen-ty
teachers of Derry Township will be
hold in the high school room at 7.05
p. in. The foljowing program will be
rendered : Vocal Duet—Russel Clark
and Harold Martin: Drill , Parts of
Speech , Sara Foreman, Teacher. The
clans will bo taken from Miss Fore-man
's school, The sentences to bo
used will bo given by the teachers,
"Prescription of Disciplinary Ac-tivities,"
"Tho Disciplinary Process,"
and "Tho Spirit of tho School" will
bo discussed from tho regular text
for Pedagogical study. " Principal
Keboch will bo tho teacher and will
'direct tho discussions. If you wish
to spend n profitable evening, visit
ono of tho mooting.
Birthday Party
A double birthday celebration was
hold at tho homo of Mr. and Mrs, II,
M. Koonoy on Sunday In honor of
Mrs. Koonoy and hor son Clinton. A
dinner was served to tho following
guests: Charles Zontmoyor of Harris-burg;
Miss Ruth Soudors of Lebanon ,
and Miss Carrie Lofctormnn , Mr. and
Mm. Henry Zontmoyor of Ilorshoy,
Camp Fire Girls
Tho Camp Flro Girl s aro gottliiK two short; sketches which will bo pr"eP-sented
at the Horshoy Central Then-tor,
tho proceeds being for summer
camps.
Built of Steel and Hollow Tile it Will
Seat 5,000 People and Will Con-
. tain all Modern Conveniences
Including Four Big Com-mittee
Rooms; Choir
An army of men are busy on the
new Hershey tabernacle and more
will be added as the work proceeds.
It. will require strenuous effort to have
this largest of all the single buildings
in Hershey for the coming of the 50,-
000 host of the Church of the Breth-ren
in June, but the task will be com-pleted
in time and the great auditor-ium
will be ready.
The tabernacle will be a ' compre-hensive
convention equipment perma-ment
and modern in all its details.
The main auditorium will be 2€2
feet .6 inches over all and 155 feet 6
inches in width with a height of 71
feet. It will seat 5,000 and almost
twice that number could be crowded
into its area.
There will be four committee rooms
15 by .25 feet, fully equipped for their
purposes.
The main entrance will be 62 feet
wide.
The stage will be 13 feet deep and
60 feet long. .
There will be 18 doors, each six feet
wide.
The choir loft, 14 feet wide and 86
feet long, will seat 250 persons.
On the second floor will be dwelling
apartments, consisting of 3 bed rooms,
dining room, living room, kitchen and
bath.
The whole building will be con-structed
of steel and hollow tile,
plastered on the outside. All of "the
latest improvements will be installed.
The preliminary work is well ad-vanced
and the ' concrete foundation
will be begun about February 1st.
It will be the most complete con-vention
auditorium in the country,
Hershey's New Tabernacle
Will be Mammoth Structure
Killed at the New Subway
While Walking on the Track
Another Death to the List of Those
Who Disregarded the Rules of the
Railway Company. Victim Was
Returning to His Home in
Derry When Run Down
Matto Guetano, a foreigner employ-ed
by the Reading Railroad Company
at this place under section loss
Charles Stuckey, was run over and
instantly killed by the Lebanon
shifting engine No. 838 at the new
subway at this place on Sunday eve-ning.
Guetano had worked at Swatara.
Station during the day and was re-turning
to his shanty at Derry Church
when the accident happened. It is
thought that he was walking on the
west bound track and stepped out of
the way of the passenger train pass-ing
through here at 7.25, and was
run down by the shifter. His hody
which was horribly mangled was
brought to Hershey by train No. 820
where it was identified by Mr.
Stuckey. The body was later taken
to Karmany's undertaking establish-ment
in Hummelstown where an in-quest
was hold.
He is survived by a wife and two
children living in the old country and
several relatives at this place and
Philadelphia,
This is another sad illustration of
the fact that practically all the rail-road
accidents in this vicinity in re-cent
years have been duo to walking
on tho tracks. All tho deaths on the
railway have come from that cause.
Tho railroads of tho country are mak-ing
valiant efforts to stop what they
call trespass and laws against it have
boon passed, Most of tho fatalities
on all American railroads are those of
track walkers.
Foster -Bradle y
The marriage of Miss Helen T.
Bradley, daughter of Colonel and Mrs.
Walter Trogo Bradley, to Colonel
Samuel Davis Foster, of Pittsburg,
took place at 7 o'clock Monday night
at tho homo of tho bride 's pa rants ,
1602 North 15th street, Philadelphia.
Tho Rev. Dr. Wlliam II. Main offlclut-od.
Tho bride was attended by Mrs.
Eugene Franklin O'Conor, of Brook-lyn
, as matron of honor, and by MIhh
Elizabeth Bait/, and MIhh Loo
Garthwaito an flower girls. Colonel
Andrew Borgor, of Pittsburg, was
host man. A largo reception follow-ed
tho ceremony.
After tholr wedding trip, Colonel
and Mrs. Foster will bo at homo at
21 South Front street, Ilarrlsburg,
whore thoy will rocoivo after March 1.
New Summer House
A largo rustic summer house Is be-ing
erected at the summer residence
of Walter T,. Bradley at Swatara
Station. Aaron Slosaor of this place
is the mechanic In charge of tho work.
But Instead of. Supplying Ammunition
it is Sending Food. Germans
Called the Chocolate Soldiers.
Switzerland's Drastic . Ac-tion.
America's Part .
Within the past two months much
cocoa and chocolate has gone from
Hershey on foreign . orders. -In most
cases the ultimate destinations are
not known until the facts drift in by
mail.
But from letters that have been re-ceived
it is known that Hershey pro-ducts
are being' consumed in the arm-ies
of all the big nations, including
Russia. How they reach Great
Britain and France is easy, because
navigation is open. There are sev-eral
routes to Russia. How they .get
to Germany is the problem that could
be* explained only by the agents who
buy the goods and pay cold " cash
therefor.
Germany is a great consumer of
chocolate and cocoa. It used to lead
all nations and it is only second be-cause
of the marvelous growth of the
industry in the United States—for
here the consumption and production
have been doubled since the town of
Hershey was founded.
"We call the Germans the Choco-late
Soldiers," writes a soldier from
the front, "because they appear to
be always eating chocolate. When
they attack us or are attached, when
they are wounded or sick, by night
and day, it's all the same. We have
found some of their dead with cakes
of chocolate between their fingers.
During one of our Christmas arm-istices
,one of the German soldiers
told me that the chocolate ration had
been recommended by scientists as a
convenient and exceedingly nutritious
food, and had sustained them very
well in some of their long marches
where other foods were not availa-ble."
The Swiss Take Action
This week the following cablegram
was received :
"Berne, Switzerland, Jan. 25.—The
federal council has adopted a decree
prohibiting the export of chocolate,
vinegar, manufactured India rubber
and electric cables. Swiss chocolate
has been exported in large quantities,
both to France and Germany, and
there is danger there will be none left
for home consumption."
This means a new drain on the
organization best equipped to handle
the new foreign demand without af-fecting
its full service to its domestic
trade. These are the busiest days the
Hershey Chocolate Company has ever
known.
Hershey Playing a Part
In Euro pe's Great War
Lebanon High School Scores
Capable Performance of "She Stoops
Conquer" Much Enjoyed
The Lebanon High School players
gave an interesting performance of
"She Stoops to Conquer" at the Her-shey
Central Theater and pleased a
large audience. All in the cast did
well. Among them were the follow-ing:
Misses Mary Karnaugh, Jennie
McGowan, Helen Schaak and Miriam
Yoder and Messrs. Clement Scott,
Donald Behney, Raymond Kline,
Robert Boughter, Paul Kirchoff , Peter
Gamber, Earl Albert , Luther Longe-necker,
Russel Hartman and John
Hcilman.
Officers Elected
Handsome Growth of Holy Trinity
Sunday School
Tho following officers -wore elected
last Sunday by tho Bible School As-sociation
of Holy Trinity Lutheran
church: Pastor F. C. Krapf ,.Superin-tendent;
Dr. II, G. Mumma , Assistant
Superintendent; Norman Z. Stable,
Secretary; Mrs. Anna Maulfair ,
Treasurer; Dnniol B. Yost, Librarian;
Miss Mary Maulfair ana Mrs. J. Ed-ward
Fields, organists,
Tho secretary 's report showed an
enrollment in good standing of 110,
nn increase over tho previous year of
!17 per cent, Thoro was an increase
in tho average attendance of 8(1 per
cent.
The sixth anniversary of the Biblo
School will bo observed on February
7th. Special features will mark tho
session of tho school to bo hold on
that day at 0.15 in tho morning, which
will bo announced later. At the An-niversary
Day Vespers at 7.150 o'clock
tho work of the Biblo School will bo
considered . Tho school Itsolf will bo
given a part In this service ,
Brakeman 's Foot Amputated
William Kopo, of Hunimolstown , a
brukoimm In tho Rutherford yards of
tho Philadelphia and Heading rail-way,
foil from a car tout woolc while
at work and was seriously hurt, Ho
was taken to tho Ilarrlsburg hospital
whoro liirt foot was omputatod.
Association Will Hold its Midwinter
Session Here and_ an Interesting
Program Has Been Prepared.
Strong Local Committee
is .Now at Work
One of the most important and most
interesting occasions of the winter
will be the midwinter session of the
Dauphin County School Directors' As-sociation
which .will meet for two
days in Hershey in February. The
main work of the arrangements falls
upon A. W. Snavely, secretary of the
Derry Township Board, but he is
ably assisted by a committee con-sisting
of W. F. JR. Murrie, chairman,
Prank B. Snavely, Ezra F. Hershey,
James B. Millard and S. D. Clark. All
of the arrangements have not been
completed but the sessions will be on
Friday and Saturday, February 12
and 13; most of the 200 members of
the Association are expected, and the
following will be the main program:
Friday 1.30 p. m.
Invocation . . . . .; Rev. Geo. S. Rentz
Music—"The Violet Loves a Sun-ny
Bank" High School Chorus
Blanche P. Wingert, Director
Address of Welcome ...— .....
Wm. F. R. Murrie
President of Chocolate Company
Response.., .President of Association
Music—"Where Are You Going
to?"........High School Chorus
Address—"The Country School"
E. M. Rapp
Supt. of Berks County Schools
Music—"Oft In the Stilly Night"
High School Chorus
Address—Consolidation of Schools
Cost. Results.*. .A. W. Snavely
Secretary of Derry Township Board
Round Table
Friday Evening 8.00 p. m.
Music—Hershey Orchestra .....
S. J. Feese, Director
Invocation Rev. N. L. Linebaugh
Vocal Solo—"I Fear No Foe" ...
F. D. Keboch
Address . . . . . . . . . . . . M. S. Hershey
Music—Mixed Chorus
Blanche P. Wingert, Director
Address—Illustrated—A Crusade
For Better Country Schools
E. M. Rapp
Superintendent of Berks County
Motion Pictures—
"Hershey Scenes and Schools."
Music—Hershey Orchestra... .March
Adjournment
Saturday 8.30 a. m.
Music—Primary Schools Hershey
Address—School Accounting and
. School Reports. .Reed B. Teitrick
Department State Superintendent
Vocal Solo Master Lewis Cassady
Report of State Convention Delegates
Report of Committees
Round Table
In Dauphin county are 39 school
districts with 400 teachers and 11,000
pupils.
Dauphin School Directors
Meet in Hershey Next Month
The Association's Play
Will be the Most Ambitious Effort in
its History
"Bibi, the Comedy of Toys," will be
the play of the Y. W. C. A. as its
spring star performance. This is a
new copyrighted work of great ,value
that has carried off honors wherever
presented. As the cost is largo and
as it is one of the most ambitions ef-forts
of the association thoro should
be awakened general community in-terest
in it and this should show it-self
in a record sale of seats.
Rehearsals under Miss Burch will
start about tho first of February. Tho
cast calls for many young women,
young men and childre n , so that tho
available taloiit of tho town will bo
drawn into requisition. There aro
twolvo principal characters and tho
fipocials will require any number from
1)0 to 200. Tho cooperation of all is
Invited.
The Young Men's 500 Club
At tho regular weekly mooting of
tho Young Men 's B00 Club hold Tues-day
evening at Horshoy Cafe, the fol-lowing
officers wore elected for tho
ensuing term: Mr, Bennett , presi-dent;
Mr, Roiloy, vice president; N. A.
Dovonoy, treasurer; and Ira Mumma,
secretary; entertainment committee,
Mr, Krauso, chairman , Mr. Jones and
Mr, Soilonborger. Tho club has a
membership of 20 and Is in a flourish-ing
condition , After tho business
mooting card s wore played «n<| re-freshments
wore served. It was de-cided
to hold tho next mootlii R Wed-nesday
ovoning.
Panama in Reality
A regular number in tho Ilorshoy
Men's Club lycoum course tho laaturo
on Panama and tho San Francisco
Fair Monday night delighted a fine
audience and won warm applause.
Tho Club's course this season is giv-ing
groat satisfaction. All of the
numbers have boon excellent and some
of tho best nro to come.
Stirring Address by Dr. J. Linwood
Eisenberg of Chester at the Union
Meeting Sunday Afternoon.
Fine Singing by the Men's
. Chorus. Large Audience
Another big audience assembled for
the union services , at the Hershey
Central Theater Sunday afternoon at
three o'clock. It included many from
the neighboring towns, quite a num-ber
from distant points and the lead-ing
people of Hershey. Mr. M. S;
Hershey, who first advocated these
union meetings for Sunday after-noons,
was present and was greatly
impressed by the address and the
cordial cooperation of the congrega-tion.
Harry S. Moyer was the leader
of the day. President Millard was on
the stage. Rev. George S. Rentz
asked the invocation and pronounced
the benediction. The orchestra was
present and the congregational singl-ing
under Professor Keboch was ad-mirable.
The musical feature of the
day was the first appearance of the
Men's Chorus with W. L. Dubois di-rector.
The chorus gave two num-bers
and both were beautifully rend-ered.
Nothing better has been .heard
since' the meetings began; Steps are
being taken to have the Men's Chorus
and the Glee Club of the Young
Women's Christian Association com-bine
in joint numbers for an early
meeting. This would be sure to
crowd the theater. The ushers for
the day welcomed everyone with
smiling courtesy and gave an air of
hospitality to the afternoon. The
ushers were, Frank B. Saylor, Fred
S. W. Klinger, John C. Moyer and
Leo Marks.
In presenting the speaker Mr. Moy-er
expressed cordial appreciation of
the value of the Sunday afternoon
meetings and suggested that those
present tell their friends and thus
spread the good by increasing the at-tendance.
Dr. J. Linwood Eisenberg, the
speaker of the. day, is superintendent
of the public schools of Chester, Pa.,
and enjoys a large reputation both in
educational and lecture work. He
has many young men under him and
so it was natural his appeal should be
mainly to young- men. His theme
came from a sentence of Roosevelt's
speech to the Rough Riders in which
he said they must not think of resting
on their past performances, for "the
¦world won't have it."
Every day the world demands the
best that is in a man. He cannot be
idle today because he did a good day's
work yesterday. There is no ' such
thing as resting on laurels. The para-mount
law of nature was that a pow-er
misused or unusued became use-less.
The mystic who said he would
not raise his arm for twenty \ years
found that when he did want to raise
it all power had gone; the arm hung
limp and useless. So it was with all
the qualities of a man. They must be
used well in order to increase; if not
used at all tho power will depart.
There was, said the speaker, too
much dawdling with work, too much
of the feeling that the employer might
get more than he paid for. In a case
of this kind he always got less, for
the worker who holds back cheats
himself and his job. Let everyone
put a dollar of work in the dollar of
Pay-
There was a high spiritual appeal
in Dr. Eisenberg's address and hp
told tho story of the talents with ex-cellent-
effect.
Dr. Eisenberg comes from tho
Church of the Brethren and ho ex-pects
to attend tho big annual confer-ence
that is to bo hold in Ilorshoy
next Juno.
Next Sunday 's Speaker
Next Sunday afternoon thoro will
bo a novelty at tho union service, The
subject will bo "Sermons From
Charles Dickons," and tho interpreter
will bo William S. Battis of Chicago.
Ho has appeared before tho loading
ChautnuquuH and ho comes with fine
credentials from other places , Many
years experience in tho platform en-abled
Mr. Battis to develop a reper-toire
from tho works of Charles
Dickons. Mr. Battis has dramatized
several of tho groat humorist's novels
and pi'OHonts thorn in monologue,
without costumes, but with nil tho in-terest,
situation and action of a real
drama, Mr. Battis does not road
from tho book , but presents It In dra-matic
form, ouch character real and
distinct. Ho has a voice of groat
range and flexibility.
You Cannot Live on the Past;
The World Won't Have It
The Talkin g Pictures
Don't mfas tho Ronfax talking mo-tion
pictures at tho Hershey Central
Thoator on Saturday ovoning. Those
picture s had boon advertised for last
Monday evening but owfng to tho
Panama pictures thoy wore hold oyer
for Saturday evening. Tho regular
price of lulmlHslon 10 cents will bo
charged. The show will start at tho
usual hour 8 o'clock.
Town's Oldest Organization a Social
Factor and it Also Did Good Work
at Fires. Keeps its Old Room
But Has New Place for its
( Apparatus. History
Very soon after the /founding of
Hershey .the jieed of protection
against fire was manifest and a build-ing
was built and apparatus purchas-ed
in 1905. A company was organiz-ed
September 1 of that year to take
charge of the apparatus. The first
officers of the Company were, F. B.
Snavely, President, A. W. Snavely,
Vice President, Samuel H. Tool, Sec-retary
and Treasurer, and Charles V.
Glynn, chief. January 17, 1907 ap-plication
was made for a Charter un-der
the laws of the State. This appli-cation
bears 73 names comprising
nearly ,all -the active , citizens of the
small town at that time. Pursuant to
this application a charter was . grant-ed
by the Court of Common Pleas of
Dauphin County, . February 18, 1907
to Milton S. Hershey,. F. B. . Snavely,
Samuel H. Tool, Charles V. Glynn,
George J; Eppley and their succes-sors
as "The Hershey Volunteer Fire
Company." The purposes of the cor-poration
as set forth in the order of
the court are "the maintenance and
support of fire engines, hook and lad-der,
hose and other apparatus, suita-ble
and appropriate for the ex-tinguishing
of fires in Hershey, Penn-sylvania,
and vicinity." The Direct-ors
named in the charter are H. W.
Zentmeyer, John H. Moyer and Wm.
H. Lebkicher.
After incorporation it became de-sirable
that .the house and apparatus
should be owned or leased by the
Company. Accordingly the appara-tus
was leased by Mr. Hershey to the
Company at a yearly rental of $1.00
and the building for a similar sum.
A bell was placed on the building by
the company in 1910.
During the first years of the com-pany's
existence many musical, dra-matic
and other entertainments were
given.' Hershey was then small and
the Fire Company was the social cen-ter,
in fact was the only organization
of a social nature in the town. Its
membership included all the promi-nent
men of Hershey. As the town
grew and other organizations came
into existence this feature of the
Company's life became somewhat
changed and while the interest of
Hershey's .citizens has not fagged,
other calls on the time of the mem-bers
have caused a decrease in the
number of social gatherings.
In order to make room for needed
improvements in the center of the
town the company's apparatus has
recently been moved into the new
building erected for it on Caracas
Avenue but the company still occu-pies
the hall of the old building. Here
are a fine pool table, daily and week-ly
papers and magazines and facili-ties
for games of various kinds. The
appreciation is shown by the nightly
gathering of members.
The Company's energies have not
all been devoted to the social side of
their organization but on the few oc-casions
when their services as fire
fighters have been needed they have
acquitted themselves well, notably at
the fire in Mr. Drinker's house at mid-night
of tho extremely cold night of
February 8, 1912 and tho fire at the
Hershey Laundry June 20, 1912 when
tho prompt work of the firemen un-doubtedly
prevented tho destruction
of the whole plant.
Tho Company has boon called out
of town severa l times. Tho most im-portant
of those occasions were calls
from Union Deposit in 1908 when de-struction
of the entire village was
threatened , and tho burning of Cur-ry
's mill at Swatara Station May 30,
1914. On both those occasions tho
company responded ' promptly but
lack of water supply hampered their
efforts. Nevertheless they did good
work and in both cases their services
was appreciated by tho residents of
tho afflicted villages.
Tho present organization of tho
company is, Prosidgnt , William C.
Brinkor; Vice President , Aldus Wirth ;
Treasurer, George J, iOpploy; Secre-tary,
I-I, A. Nowton; Chief , John P.
Conrad ; Assistant Chief , Hess Bigloy;
Trustees, J. B. MoKissIck , J. E. Hills
and 1). M. Horshoy , Tho company has
about 120 members.
Snug in its New Quarters is
The Hershey Fire Company
Y. W. C. A. Basketball
Basketball games aro being arrang-ed
botwoon two teams of tho Y. W. 0.
A. and tho public will bo invited to at-tend
, tho admission bolnir only ton
cents. The dates of games and namos
of players will bo announced later.
Owing to tho small response tho
special train to the "Billy" Sunday
service in Philadelphia will not bo
run. Horshoy was all rifrhfc , but tho
other towns wore Indifferent.
No Special for "Billy" Sunday