The Hershey Press 1915-03-04

              Saturday Night the War on the Fly
Begins at Hershey Centra l Theater
IF YOU READ THESE FACTS ABOUT WHAT WAS DONE IN
CLEVELAND YOU WILL GET AN IDEA OF THE REMARK-ABLE
STORY WHICH DR. DAWSON WILL TELL IN
WORD AND PICTURE. ALL ASKED TO ATTEND.
On Saturday . night the big mass
meeting .. to begin . the campaign
against the fly and to make Hershey
a flyless town will be held in Hershey
Central Theater and it is asked that
every man, woman and child of Her-shey
be present if possible. It is your
fight for health and comfort. It means
less disease and more of everything
worth while, for a flyless town in ad-dition
to being the best place as' a
residence always enjoys a rise in its
real estate values. Other good peo-ple
are looking for such a place as a
home.
The Hershey policy is to attack a
problem in the most practical way
and the lecture on this fly fight will
be by Dr. Dawson, who conducted the
campaigns for two years in Cleveland
and who accomplished results that
were simply wonderful. All the
methods, forms and benefits of the
two years will be presented, to the
people of Hershey by Dr. Dawson.
Be sure that you be present and don't
forget that the date is. next Saturday
night, March 6, the place the Hershey
Central Theater and the hour 8 p. m.
All the seats are free and none will
be reserved.
Following the meeting a townwide
organization will be formed under
William F. R. Murrie, President of
the • Hershey Chocolate Company.
Those who know Mr. Murrie's genius
in organization and his energy and
magnetism know that the organiza-tion
will be a live one from the start
and that it will do the work. The
idea is to have Mr. Murrie direct the
fight through committees which he
will appoint.
Dr. Dawson tells of the Cleveland
work in a most interesting way and
those who have any doubts as to its
value should study the facts.
How Cleveland Did It
"For the past two years a campaign
has been waged to put Cleveland on
the map as a flyless city. The work
has moved forward with vigor," says
Dr. Dawson. "The Cleveland public
have been stimulated to do battle
against the fly from March to Janu-j
ary, with the results that they have
held the fly in. check to a marked de-gree.
The methods of attack have
been three-fold, i. e., killing the over-wintering
fly before it has a- chance to
breed ; trapping and poisoning those
that have escaped and are breeding in
the city; ridding the city' of the or-ganic
filth in which flies can breed.
"In the previous campaign, the city
fought flies by the first two methods
alone. The second year of our cam-paign
we determined to go deeper and
strike at the roots of the fly nuisance
by cleaning away the fly 's breeding
places, and thus effectually ridding
the city forever of the greatest carri-er
of disease known to medical sci-ence,
that the work of the campaign
of 1913 was continued into midwinter,
when frost and snow made the pub-lic
forget the pests that infect the
summer months.
Increased Confidence
"With a year's experience to draw
upon , we started the campaign, with
added hope and not a little assurance,
for wo had gained unmistakable
ground, Thanks to a number of
forces nt work, wo have changed a
scoffing, skeptical public , who thought
that you might as well try to stop the
wind from blowing us to try to rid a
community of flics , into one that be-lieves'
at least that there is something
in it.
"The fly docs its deadly work of
carrying disease gowns to food so
stealthily that man has boon wholly
unsuspecting , Even wnon ho does
loarn the truth , it is difficult to be-lieve
the treachery of an animal that
has lived for centuries in such inti-mate
relationship with mankind,
Had man boon loss trusting, the re-peated
accounts of the association of
flios with plagues and pestilence re-corded
in the Bible might have oauHod
him to learn the truth lonn before ho
did.
"One man, who has spent nearly a
half century In tlio Cleveland mark-ets,
confessed that it gave him a
genuine shock when ho firflt hoard (if
our Intentions to rid the city of flies.
'I thought the idea wan wild enough
to have originated in the Nowburgh
asylum, I couldn 't imagine a sum-mer
without flies. Hut I want to
apologize.
' "When I saw how well the traps
worked and how tlioy reduced the
number of flies in our market, I wont
to work in earnest, and now there is
no olonnor market in the city.' It
was true, This same man added: 'I
was brought up In the country, and I
could not believe that flies breed In
stable refuse, untill I kept some ma-nure
in a closed box for n few days
and actually saw the flies hatching
and crawling up. with their wings so
wet that it was some time before they
could fly. I am satisfied now,' he
added, 'and you need never worry
about any flies breeding about our
stables,'
Heading Them Off
"The previous year the killing of
the over-wintering or mother fly had
been so successful in noticeably re-ducing
the fly population that it was
unanimously agreed to repeat the
winter campaign. The distribution of
200,000 swatters among the schools
of the city, together with the offer of
ten cents a hundred for . all flies
brought to the Anti-fly Headquarters
in the city hall, served to put a bounty
on the head of every fly that ventured
from its hiding place. Boys spent
their ' leisure hours in the most likely
places for flies, while little girls car-ried
their swatters back and forth to
school, so as to be ready for an un-wary
fly that might cross their path.
The presence of a fly in a school-room
caused so much excitement that work
had to be suspended until the fly was
dispatched. To avoid undue distur-bance,
one teacher made the rule that
the first child who saw a fly should
leave his seat and get the swatter
without attracting unnecessary atten-tion.
In all about $500 was spent, repre-senting
a catch of fifty thousand
mother flies which, had they lived to
lay eggs, would have filled the city
with a plague of insects.
Think of This Picture
"It is a fact that a few flies seem
many to the Cleveland jeopl e,. but a
sensitive public is one of the best as-sets
in a fight to eliminate this insect.
The day that we- can produce a public
with sufficient imagination to picture
the flight of a fly, as it emerges from
the filth from which, it breeds to
tubercular sputum in street and alley,
thence to contaminate the food in
restaurant, bake-shop, or grocery-store
with its germ^Jaclen feet, that
day, and no sooner, will the fly-in-fested
shop close its doors from lack
of patronage.
"About every two weeks during the
summer women were sent to the
lunch-rooms, and to stores retailing
food to gain an idea of the effort that
was being put forth to keep the peo-ple's
food from contamination. The
young women estimated the number
of flies in each place of business and
learned the methods, if any, that were
being used' to fight the flies. For in-stance,
August 13th, 1,138 groceries,
meat markets, candy shops, restau-rants,
and miscellaneous food stores
were inspected. Of these, 131 were
free from flies, 487 had less than ten
flies , 514 had more than ten , and less
than fifty, and 6 had many. These
results are due largely to the general
reduction of flies in the city and not
to the employment of the more mod-ern
methods of catching (lies in traps.
Indeed , few merchants were employ-ing
methods other than their fathers
had employed before them. This is
remarkable in that a few minutes
spent in baiting a trap, placed on the
outside of a store, would save hours
of a man 's time, and then , too, get the
flies before they could enter and con-taminate
the food.
"No census of tjho flyless homos
was taken. It is safe to say, however,
that had there been , the percentage of
flyless homos would have far outnum-bered
the proportion of (lylosa stores,
Children 's Good Work
"Children took naturally to the
work of cleaning their school district ,
for oven boys and girls like to fool
that their work is important. When
conditions wore mot wi th which" they
could not cope, a plea for help writ-ton
in a childish hand-writing and
sent to the Street Gloaming Depart-ment
was sure to bring assistance,
whenever it wns posslblo. Before the
close of the school you r streets wore
cleaned , alloys and vncnnt lots ceased
to bo dumping grounds, for filth , and
the rubbish from buck yards gave
way to gardens of flowers and
vogo tables,"
Hero wo have an Intimation of the
remarkably Intere sting and valuable
story which Dr. Dawson will toll to
the llorshoy audience on Saturday
night , It will bo at the Ilorshcy Con-trill
Theater at 8 p. m. and all seats
are Jfroo. Come early, There will lie
many pictures.
Mothers ' Meetin g
Tho Mothers of the kindergarten
will hold their regular monthly.moot -
ing at tho kindergarten on Tuesday
evening, March 0. All are invited to
attend and this includes those who
iivo Interested In kindergarten work,
Modern Individual - Accommodations
For Twelve Hundred and Sixty
Men and Women. No Equip-ment
Like it Anywhere in
the World. The Lockers
In many respects the most com-plete
chocolate factory is unique, but
in its new rest rooms there is an es-pecial
excellence that has no equal in
any manufacturing plant in the world.
The best of all has been gone over
and much has been added and so the
result is complete.
In the first place the rooms are of
noble size. There are four of them,
each a hundred feet deep and more
than a hundred feet wide. The walls
are of stone; the pillars and the
floors and the finish are in concrete
and the furniture is mainly metal and
glass. There is not enough wood in
the acres of space for a good bonfire,
and all the connecting stairways—
broad and handsome they are—are in
concrete and iron. It would be im-possible
to make a building ,more fire-proof.
On the first floor are the lockers,
the toilet appurtenances and the
lounging rooms, 630 lockers for men
and 630 for women.. Each person has
a locker, a metal closet nearly five
feet high ingeniously fitted with shelf
and hooks, so that the belongings may
easily stored, and to this there is a
key. These lockers are the latest de-signs
of the American Company, N. J.
The toilet arrangements are of the
finest, being in metal and porcelain.
All the washing conveniences are
spotlessly white. There is a full
equipment of fountain drinking cups
with a plentiful supply of filtered
•water. ' .
In these rooms on the first'floor ta-bles
will be placed and during the
noon, hour the men and women in
their respective quarters will play
games and make up parties or spend
their time in discussions. On this
first floor the men will be permitted
to smoke.
The second story is the show place.
Here the two huge rooms of the men
and women meet at a white-enclosed
well of ample proportions, with wide
counters of glass. From this square
will be served hot chocolate, coffee
and soup. In the rooms are scores
of new glass-covered tables, and the
whole appearance is that of a great
modern restaurant with accommoda-tions
for over twelve hundred persons
and with such generous spaces that
there is no idea of crowding. In fact
there is abundance room for social
purposes and for groups who will
gather to exchange greetings during
the rest hour.
Practically all the color in these
rooms is white but there . are broad
bands of yellow on the pillars that
give a touch of variety and relief.
Abundant light streams through many
windows and in the summer there
¦will be a way of keeping the tempera-ture
at a comfortable degree.
In all these rooms the cleanliness
is not only general but radiant , and
scientific ventilation keeps the air
pure and sweet.
In no industrial plant anywhere
have the employes such complete fa-cilities
as have those of the Hershey
Chocolate Company and it is natural
that they should take a, particular
pride in doing all they personally can
to keep them always In prime condi-tion.
Beautiful New Rest Rooms
of the Chocolate Company
Rehearsals For Bi Bi
All tho Hundred and Forty-Seven
Characters Assigned
Tho efforts of tho members of tho
Toung Women's Christian Associa-tion
are concentrated at present in
the rehearsals for Hi Hi , and it is go-ing
to bo quite tho most elaborate and
spectacular performance soon in Her-shey.
The twelve main characters
are in able hands, Fifty girls aro
learning their parts in the spectacles
and eighty-five children aro practic-ing
drills and marches, Tho perform-ance
will .take place April 10.
All children taking part in the play
])i Hi aro requested to bo present at
tho time given below: Paper Dolls
at tho Y. W. C A, Saturday morning
ait 10.30; Fairies at tho Y. W, C. A.
gymnasium on Saturday morning at
})„'}() and tho Jumplii ff-Kopo girls on
Monday afternoon nt 3,30, Those
hours will romain tho same until
April Kith when tho play will bo glv-ou.
All parents are urged to see that
their children attend those rehearsals.
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A Fine Modern Road
The now road from Sand Beach con-nect
ing with tho road loading Into
lloi'Hhoy is almost completed and it
In one of the best In the State. < It has
boon built ; at tho expense of Mr, M.
S. llorshoy and Is one of tho finest
Iflfts ho has made to tho people of
Dauphin county. It Is expected that
it vory largo ijrafllc will use It, It is
a little over two miles long.
Large Audience at Hershey Central
Theater Enjoys One of the Most
Delightful Programs of the
Winter. All Were Good and
Many Were Excellent
Always ' popular in Hershey the
Men's Glee Club of Lebanon
Valley College received a warm
welcome at the Hershey Central
Theater last Saturday night' and
presented a varied program so
effectively that every number
was applauded and the encores
were so numerous that the perform-ance
was extended to two and a half
hours. Everybody was delighted and
the final, applause told the visitors
that Hershey would like to see them
again and that it would always have
its best welcome for them. ¦
There were 20 in the party and in
evening dress they presented a strik-ing-
picture of robust and attractive
young manhood. They brought with
them the spirit of their college and
communicated it to the audience and
thus there was a community of fun
and interest throughout the evening.
The first number was Moir-Robin-sore's
Sanctus and it brought out the
heavy artillery of the club, showing
large voice volume and the ability to
attack large things. Following came
Sidney Homer's Requiem, sympa-thetically
and beautifully sung by
Mr. Eichelberger. The elocutionary
artist was Mr. Jamison; First he
gave Kipling's Gunga Din and did it
excellently and later he acted and re-cited
"Pro and Con," a pleasant
conceit. • "Since Pa Has Bought a
Limousine," with good melody and
humor, was capitally rendered by the
quartette, and Mr. Long and the full
strength of the club scored in the
" Song of the Camp."
Mr. Whitman, the violinist in knick-erbockers,
was remarkable. He show-ed
real genius. His renditions includ-ed
difficult works of Saint-Saens,
Massanet, Kreisler and others and he
was enthusiastically applauded and
encored. He has an exquisitely deli-cate
touch and with his natural de-velopment
in strength and sureness
he will become an unusual artist. "On
the Eoad to Mandelay" by Mr. Bender
and the club concluded the first part
of the program and then came mov-ing
pictures for fifteen minutes;
Part second opened with Hahn's
"My. Neighbor's Garden," well done
by the club. In this part was given
the sketch, "A Telegram From Dad,"
in which seven members did some ex-cellent
comedy work. The theme was
a mix-up in a college room., The star
was Mr. Eichelberger as "Mrs. James
Rush." It was an almost perfect im-personation
acted with great natural-ness
and with the true spirit of come-dy.
. "She" wore a red dress loud
enough to call out the whole fire de-partment
and never once did "she"
trip over the skirts. Next in merit
was Mr. Ernst's work as the village
chief of police, but all did well and
credit belonged to Messrs Jarnison,
Stengle, Long, Berry, and J. A. Long.
The gem of the evening was Mr.
Bender's rendition of "A Serenade"
by Harris. It was admirably done
and it won loud applause. Mr. Race
was not able to be present and so his
solo was omitted , but all the other
numbers wore given and tho conclud-ing
choruses by tho club ended a con-ceit
that will be long remembered by
all who had the good fortune to bo
present.
Fine Concert by Glee Club
of Lebanon Valley College
At the Industrial School
Hoys Deeply Interested in the Impor -
tant Work Iking Done
A. now boy was admitted this wook,
making tho total BI. There nro ac-commodations
for (10 and others will
lie added gradually, To bo n member
of this school is to bo among the elect,
for tho boys have to moot high re-quirements.
The result is the vory
.remarkable average .of health , con-duct
and progress. The llorshoy boys
aire well; they aro full of- spirit and
thoy have plenty of mischief but thoy
hehavo themselves, and their advance-ment
in their 'work and studios is un-excelled
anywhere.
Their work during tho present win-ter
lias boon larger In quantity and
hotter in quality thai ovor before , but
al ready thoy aro looking towards tho
Spring and thoy aro at present inter-ostod
In the plan to plant many ovor-gnums
near some of tho buildings,
Superintendent Coponhavor has taken
up those plnnH with his more udvanc-
«d hoys and thoy are enthusiastic
over the problems of landscape adorn-ment.
Head Clurdonor Harry Hnvor-
Htlclc is also lending his experience
and assistance.
Few roUlIzo that gradually thoro Is
holng evolved nt tho llorshoy Indus-trial
. School tho model homo of its
hind In thq world. It is not all being
done at onco or according to a hard
unil fast plan , but Is bolng developed ,
and It Is astonishing how much Mr.
Coponhavor and his boys aro improv-ing
tho best ideas of tho exports.
Hershey Baseball Club in Central
League; Robin Marquart Manager
JOINT MEETING OF COMMITTEES OF HERSHEY MEN'S
CLUB A TURNING POINT IN THE HISTORY OF THE
GAME IN THIS TOWN. NOW THERE WILL BE A
. FINE SEASON WITH PLENTY OF REAL GAMES.
It will be the greatest and finest
baseball season Hershey has ever
known,
Arrangements to that . end have
been made and the details are being
perfected. Hershey is how- a mem-ber
of . the Central Pennsylvania
League "which comprises these six
towns:
HERSHEY
HARRISBURG i
STEELTON
MIDDLETOWN
HIGHSPIRE
NEW CUMBERLAND , .
The season will open May 1 and
continue to September 18. So far 25
games have been scheduled. On
Decoration Day and on July 4 two
games will be played by the clubs.
Extra games will be added.
This League came through last
year with financial success. With the
addition of Hershey and Harrisburg
it will be greatly strengthened and
the game will be on a solid liasis.
To that end Hershey is taking no
chances ; it has determined to do the
thing in the best possible way and to
make 1915' the banner year in sport.
So the club will, be put beyond any
financial worries and will be in con-dition
to concentrate all its thoughts
and efforts on playing ball.
Local Committees Meet
Tuesday night, the executive com-mittee
and the athletic committee of
the Hershey Men's Club held a joint
meeting with President James Millard
presiding/ The following members
were present:
Executive committee: James W.
Millard, J. E. Hills, Dr. H. 'G. Mum-ma,
D. S, Graeff , George Hench and
J. M. Brandau.
Athletic committee: S. D. Clark,
George E. Copenhaver, Br. H. G.
Mum.ma, Walter Leibfried, L. B.
Shoap and F. B. Say lor.
Mr. Millard told of the visit of him-self,
J. M, Brandau, Dr. H, G, Mumma,
L. B. Shoap and Frank B. Saylor as
a committee representing Hershey at
the meeting of the Central Pennsyl-vania
League at Steelton on the 18th
of February and of Hershey's applica-tion
for membership which had been
received with great enthusiasm and
promptly accepted. At the same time
the league was extended so as to take
in Harrisburg also and he was de-lighted
to report that tho whole plan
had gone through with flying colors
and that the future of baseball in Her-shey
was assured. The league was
very glad to have Hershey take one
of the additional franchises and Her-shey
was fortunate to get in such
good company,
Manager Elected
Mr. Millard's report was received
with much favor and the . interchange
of views united in the opinion that
now was the time to make baseball a
permanent institution in Hershey and
to put the whole game beyond any
chance operation. First a good .man-ager
was wanted and the man was
found in Robin Marquart who was
elected unanimously. Mr. Marquart
is one of the most efficient and most
popular men in Hershey. He has
been in Y. M. C. A. work all; his life;
he knows athletics and athletic man-agement
and he is a 99th degree base-ball
fan. He came to Hershey four
years ago from Wooster College, O.
All the local players like him and the
choice was the most fortunate that
could be made.
Players and Grounds
All the old players of last year will
be given a chance on the new team.
Already there are many new appli-cants.
Several crack college players
will be herei This season the whole
management will be on a high plane'.
The players will receive proper train-ing
and compensation and the game
will be keyed up to efficiency and re-sponsibility.
The result will be not a
few good contests with a few good
clubs " that might be scheduled as in
past seasons but a regular series run-ning
through the whole summer.
The Central Pennsylvania League
was successful last year and it is
planning for . larger things in 1915.
All its towns are profitable and thus
the support of first-class clubs is an
easy proposition. Hershey will meet
these requirements and one of the de-cisions
of Tuesday night's meeting
was to get behind the club , the solid
support and sentiment of the public.
To that end a booster campaign will
soon be started.
Already work on the new grass dia-mond
in the Park athletic field has
been begun. It is the greatest im-provement
that has been made since
the field was constructed and it will
give Hershey one of the finest ball
grounds in the country.
New Program to Absolutely Isolate
Germany and Austria
The blfr war has entered its 8th
month with Germany still fighting
outside Its own boundaries, On tho
Eastern front Germany and Austria
have now 2,080,000 troops ; on the
western .front the Germans have 1,-
880,000. The Allies have more, so
that the total number of troops in tho
field is lnrgely in excess of eigh t mil-lions',
a number so gigantic that it is
without comparison in tho world's his-tory.
This week Premier Aisqulth stated
in Parliament that tho war Is costing
IjiT.fiOO^OO daily to tho Allies alone
and that this sum will soon bo in-creased
to 1)58,500,000 daily. The cost
to Germany, Austria and Turkey may
not ho so great, but tho total cost to
all tho fighters is between $12,000,000
and $15,000,000 daily. Tho most
drastic policy was announced by Groat
Britain this wook. It is in reply to
Germany 's effort to put a war zone
around that country by submarines.
Tho Intention of Great fcJiitain and
Franco Is to absolutely isolate Ger-many
hixI Austria; to cut off from
thorn commodities of ovory sort, as
well us to prevent them from export-ing
any poods whatsoever. Not only
will trade bo stopped In any com-modity
with Germany or Austria , but
Britain ulso will stop exports to
neutral European countries of any
goods intended for re-exportation to
Goj 'Hinny or Austria, This Is tho re-ply
of the Allies to tho Gorman war-faro
of Hiibmarinos against ' private
shipping , For the loss than a dozen
small ships which tho Qormnns have
sunk in this warfare thoy have won
eomploto isolation.
Tho Teutons must lltfUt the war
henceforth on what thoy linvo, Thoy
will ho allowed neither to liny nor to
soil. Every ounce of An|do-Froneh
sea po-wor is to bo thrown , into this
programme, with which the Alllos
hope to bring the struggle to a speedy
end. Every ship found on tho high
seas having on board either goods de-stined
for Germany _ or Austria or
owned by 'citizens of 'those States will
bo solKod ' by the British mid French
war sh ips.
Pro gress of the War Archaeolo gy and the Bible
Unusually Interesting Lecture Sunday
Afternoon
Frederick B. Wright of Washington
held a largo audience for much over
an hour Sunday afternoon by a re-markably
interesting series of photo-graphs
and an illuminating talk .on
archaeology and the Bible. It was
one of the most informing lectures
ever heard in Hershey, It was in the
highest degree useful because it made
tho Bible more real. One gassed upon
writings , buildings , records five and
six thousand years old and saw cities
that had boon dug fifty foot or more
from the ground. The buried had
been ' brought to lig-lit to show tho
realities of what wo have long boon
rending in tho Bible It was also
shown that many of tho things wo
call modern wore in use by the
ancients thousands of years ago.
Again tho union services Sunday
afternoon proved their usefulness
and popularity. Paul M. Gingrich
was tho lender for tho day. Tho con-gregational
singing was excellent.
Thoro will bo another illustrated
lecture next Sunday. It will bo "Art
as a Factor of Life," by J, Lorenzo
Zwiclcoy, of Detroit , Mich. Ho comes
woll endorsed as one of. tho worth-while
ontortulnoi'H of the platform.
Ills program is tulle ami pictures with
plenty of humor , The mooting be-gins
at ,'i p, in, All aro invited,
A New Monkey
Among the latest arrivals at tho
lloi'Hhoy Zoo Is a female giant
Khosiis monkey which was purchased
by Brunt/, /Inner In Harrisburg last
woolc, The now monkey is vory tamo
and affords much amusement for tho
children.
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A brief meeting of the Dlakonia or-ganised
Adult class pf. Holy Trinity
Lutheran , Church will bo Hold to-night
at 7,110 o'clock, preceding tho evening
service. All of tho members have
boon requested to ho present.
Diakonia Meets Tonight