The Hershey Press 1916-09-14

              13 TOLL GATES
WITH IN 35 MILES
And the Charge of $1.02 for Running
Over a Bad Road Makes the Mo-torist
Say Unpleasant Things
';. Work to be Done on the
Wm. Penn Highway
All Hershey roads are free, There
are no tolls of any sort. Visitors are
always' welcome.' These highways have
been built mainly at the expense of the
founder of the town and they have helped
much to give Hershey its reputation.
But unfortunately some of the approach-es
to Hershey aire not free. And worse
luck they are parts of the new William
Penn High-way. The inspection party
which motored over the whole route
from Philadelphia to Pittsburg finished
their journey and they had much to say
about the toll gates between Reading and
Harrisburg. . This is part of their account
as given in the Public Ledger:
"The two automobiles carrying mem-bers
of the association and newspaper
men left Philadelphia and . officially in-spected
the route to , Pittsburgh. The
tourists found the roads in excellent
condition. There are only about fifteen
miles of roads on which the motorists suf-fered
from "thank-you-marms" and sore
backs. Most of the "back-breakers"
will be repaired by this time next' year,
and then the motorist will have ai almost
hill-less road from Philadelphia , to the
western State line.
'The only real obstacle which is placed
in the way of motorists and farmers,:is the
excessive toll rates from ReadingTcTHaF
risburg. The Berks-Dauphin Tun: pike
Company controls this stretch of highway
and makes the most of its authority.
Thirteen toll gates within thirty-five miles
is the record of this turnpike. The motor-ist
is compelled to pay $1.02 for the priv-ilege
of running his car over this privately
controlled" highway. The i^ad .of this
company, which was in exceedingly bad
shape last spring, :has been repaired to
some extent, but that does not make
the motorists and farmers feel differently
toward the turnpike concern. That $1.02
hurts. The William Penn Highway As-sociation
will make an effort to put all
tollroads on the route but of business.
"Most of the roads on the route of the
William Penn Highway are owned or
controlled by the State and counties. The
State roads are kept in good shape, as are
most of the country roads. It is noticed
that the very bad roads were found
mostly in the districts controlled by
boroughs and towns. There were hillocks
and bumps galore, and if one said anything
to the town officials they would grow very
indignant and aver that their roads were
the best this side of. Pittsburgh. The
William Penn Highway will "not be a
"complete" road in every meaning of
the word until the boroughs wake up to
the sense of the responsibility and keep
their sections of the great across-State
highway in good repair.
"According to officials of thp highway
association, it will cost approximately
$3,000,000 to complete the roads along the
route. Most of this will be taken from
the State Treasury, although not a small
portion will come from the counties and
boroughs,
"Figures from the State Department
of Agriculture show that in 1915 $499,760,-
129 worth of farms in the counties through
which the road passes produced val-ued
at $84,625,352. In these countries
there arc 58,713 farms, There are nearly
6500 automobiles owned by farmers in
these fifteen . counties.
"Then there arc the scenic beauties of
•the road , For a person who likes moun-tain
scenery central Pennsylvania along
the Penn route cannot be surpassed in the
East, A well-graded concrete road runs
along the Blue Juniata at the Lcwistown
Narrows, The winding river through the
gap in the mountains is very beautiful ,
The farm s and villages arc picturesque,
and in the towns along the line hotel
accomodations are excellent" ,
ANOTHER CHANGE' IN DATES
Herahey High School Opens Septem-ber
29j Grades October 2
Still another change has been made
in the dates for the opening of the public
schools in this section, The High School
of the M, S, Hershey Consolidated School
of Dcrry Township will open September
29 and the Grades will begin October 2,
The appearance of Infantile paralysis in
vnrioiiH parts of the State caused thu
Board of Health to issue n general order
postponing the opening of all school s,
This postponement was duly extended
but. It now thought there will bo no fu r-ther
extensions, The cool weather Is
reducing the number of cases of infantile
[winilyHlfl, There l»m not been a cum in
or nour Iicnhuy.
NEW TROLLEY LINE
Thu survey on thu now trolley lino from
Mimholm to Hershey is proceeding rapid-ly
unci llyu miles have been covered
The people along thu route ' take deep
int erest In thu work,
TONS OF' TIN
USED IN HER SHEY
Fact ory Uses ' More Tin Foil Than
Any Plant in the United States
¦•' Much Tin Used in the Making
of Cans. Something About
Rise of Tin Industry
The Hershey Chocolate Factory uses
several tons of tin daily. It uses more
tin foil than, any other plant in America
and it makes millions of tin cans for its
products.
Practically all the tin is American-made
; so, there is a strong direct interest
in the rise of the tin industry . No in-dustry
is more cited to show the advan-tages
of the protective tariff which is the
leading issue in the present political
campaign.
The McKmley Tariff on tinplate
went into effect July 1, 1891.
In the last six months of 1891, the total
production of tin and terhe plates in
the United States amounted to only
2,236,443 pounds, while for the full year
1891 the imports of tinplate amounted
to 1,036,489,074 pounds valued at $35,-
746,920.
In 1899, after eight years of Protection,
the imports of tinplate had fallen to 108,-
484,826 pounds and the value of these
imports had fallen to $2,613,564—a de-crease
of more than a billion pounds and
more than $33,000,000 in value; The dif-ference
was made up by the domestic
production.
The rapid progress of tinplate produc-tion
in the United States, following the
enactment' of the McKinley Tariff of
1890, is shown in the following official
figures:
Year Pounds
1902 819,840,000,
1912 .; '. . . ' 2,157,055,000 1914 2,085,980,000
With this ; enormous increase in the
domestic production of tinplate was the
employment of 100,000 men.
The price of tinplate fell steadily and
rapidly as the result of the develope-ment
of that industry under the Pro-tective
Tariff. The McKinley rate was
two and two-tenths cents a pound.
In the Wilson-Gorman Tariff of 1894, the
duty was reduced to one and two-tenths
cents, and in the Dingley Tariff of 1897,
the rate was increased to one and one-half
cents a pound .
Quoting from the chapter on the Amer-ican
iron and steel industry, in "The In-dustrial
Development of Nations," con-tributed
by the late James M. Swank, a
world-recognized authority on iron and
steel statistics, it is found that:
"The price of tin plates at Liverpool
from 1863 to 1892 was often above $5 per
box of 108 pounds, occasionally above
$6 and $7 per box, and once, in 1872, the
price rose to $10. Sometimes, through
trade wars, prices fell -to $4 and even to
$3. But ten years later at a time the
price was above $5. These prices, it
must be remembered, were in Liverpool,
to which , if the tin plates were exported
to this' country, would be added freight
and duty and other charges."
In 1880 the price at New York was
316.75. In no year, says Mr. Swank , from
1878 to 1891, did the price of coke tin-plates
at New York fall below $4,30 per
box, while the price was several years
above $5, and in two ,years above $6 per
box, But when it became apparent to
the foreign manufacturers that our tin-plate
industry had come to stay, their
price was red uced in 1895 a full dollar per
box, falling below $4,
Today practically all of the tinplate
used in American houses and in the
canning industry (except for export) is
produced by American labor, Besides
this, American tinplate finds sale in other
parts of the world.
LIVE PARTY FROM POTTSVILLE
One of the busiest and most attractive
parties of the year was the automobile
excursion of the Merchants' Association
of l'oUsville who arrived in a score of
cars yesterday morning. They spent
only ah hour in Hershey, but. in that
time they saw the factory, toured the
park and the town and drank milk at
the round barn, Many of them were
friendtt of J, B, Leithlsur and ho met
and welcomed them, They loft for
Rending nt 10.00 o'clock but most of
them said they would return to Hershey
and spend more time here,
PEACH SOCIAL
A peach wicinl will be held at the homo
of Mr, and Mrs. 10. L, Bomgnrdner ,
Cocoa avenue, on Friday evening, Sep-tember
If}, til 7 o'clock , under the auspices
of the Ladles' Aid Society of tho Holy
Trinity Lutheran church. Ice cream,
col'feo, cukes, and punches and cream will
be on sale, .
MEN'S BIBLE CLASS
Thu regular mooting of thu John Elder
Men 's Bible clnss of, (ho Deny Presby-terian
church was hold at the homo o(
H. V. Owen, Jr „ Mondnv uvenlng.
FARM EDUCATION
ORDER OF DAY
Great interest is in the Better Train-ing
. of Those Who Depend Upon
the Land for* Their Incomes.
The Importance of Better
Production Methods .
Those who are keeping track of the very
important developments taking place
in this ' vicinity know that one of the
big items of the Hershey program is
the idea of making the land give a larger
support to those living upon it. The
details are being worked out and their
announcement will be made in due
season, but in the ,meanwhile the interest
in the matter is increasing. What Is
being done elsewhere is indicated in
the new prospectus sent to the Hershey
Press by Dr. Sparks of the Pennsylvania
State. College, giving special information
on the winter courses in agriculture and
home economics -which begin December
6 next, The courses are in the School
of Agriculture. ~
The work of the Pennsylvania State;
School of Agriculture is of special value
to those who depend upon the land for
income. '
There are three phases to the work
of this school-—namely, instruction of
resident students, research or experimental
work, and extension service, which car-ries
the results of research to the people
throughout the State.
The equipment, used for the instruction-al
and experimental purposes consists
of 1,250 acres of farm land owned and
controlled by the college; 38 horses and
mules; 150, beef cattle; 81 milk cows;
172 sheep; 140 hogs; and 1000 chickens.
The agricultural building, the dairy
building, the horticultural building, th«
stock judging pavilion, new dairy ban?
and the greenhouses provide classrobnis
and laboratories. ,
The college maintains four-year courses
in agriculture leading to a. degree, fo>r
those who are prepared tolake up such
work. A two-year course, in agriculture
is also offered for those not prepared
and not able to prepare for a longer
course, but who intend to make farm-ing
their life work.
A Winter Course
A profitable agriculture depends upon
the application* of scientific principles to
production and marketing. During, the
past two or three decades there has been
an accumulation, by the experiment
stations and other scientific institutions,
of scientific data which have a very
practical application to farm methods..
The experimental equipmen t of the
college is designed for the service of all
persons interested in agriculture. There
are large numbers of men and women wlio
cannot spend four or even two years in
college, but who find it possible to devote
the1 winter rnonths to association and
study with others engaged in practical
agriculture, in creamery work and in
hornekeeping, To meet these needs,
a practical twelve-week course is offered.
MOTHERS' CLUB MEETING
The Mothers' Club held a very suc-cessful
meeting in the kindergarten
room of the Consolidated School on
Tuesday evening. Plans were outlined
for the season's work and the kinder-garten
will be made more interesting
than ever this fall and winter. Mrs.
Ezra F, Hershey, the president, presided,
and Mrs. Lawrence Edwards was secre-tary.
It was reported that a good sum
wan realized by the recent party, but
the club will still need funds to carry out
its program for the little folks, Tlirec
new members were added to tho list
and the following officers were elected;
President , Mrs, Ezra F. Hershey; vice
president , Mrs. W. L. Dubois; secretary,
Mrs. Lawrence Edwards; treasurer, Mrs,
J. E, Fields; assistant treasurer, Ivlrs,
L, P. Williams; directors , all the alcove
ofliccro and Mrs, Al. Wlrth , Mrs, D, F,
Miigce, Mrs, Whittle find Mrs. Shay,
The members are:
Mrs, D. Frank Miinee, Mrs. A. W.
Snnvely, Mrs, George Dccherl, Mrs,
George Suavely Rent/,, Mrs. Ezra F.
Mershey, Mrs. Lawrence Edwards, Mrs.
Ewing Cain , Mrs, J, Edward Field ,
Mrs, John Shay, Mrs, Phoebe Whittle ,
Mrs, Aldus Wirth , Mm. Wilbur L. Duj?
fools , Mrs, Edwin M, Hershey, Mrs.
I-I , G. Miimma , Mrs, Thomas L. Mc-
I lcl'fuy, Mrs, Slaccy E. Peters, Mrs.
George Kppley, Mrs, Joseph 11, Mills,
Mrs, Samuel D. Clink , Mrs. Iru B.
Smith, Mrs. Nowton Bossier, Mrs, Oscar
C-nlebneh, Mrs. L. I1, Williams , Mrs.
LinnN. llawbucker, Mrs. 11, C, Kcinhold ,
Mrs. Rohrer Suavely,
MRS. SNAVELY'S ACCIDENT
There Is much sympathy for Mrs.
Frank B, Suavluy, who met with a pain-ful
accident wlillu gelling off of a street
car this wuok', An ankl e ligament was
sprained and while tho inju ry Is not
dangerous it will be some ,- tlmo
before she fully recovers from it,
More of them This Year Tha n Ever
Before. Experts . Pronounced the
Hershey Animals Among the
Best in the United States
Beautiful "Pheasants
More persons have visited the Hershey
Free Zoo since, last spring than in any
year since it has been open to the public.
This is the largest private zoo in the
State and one Of the largest in the
United States, and travellers are .always
surprised to find so extensive a collection
in a town of Hershey's size. Experts
within the past week, men who make a
study . of menageries and collections,
pronounced the Hershey birds and an-imals
to be exceptionally fine in breed
and condition and said the accomodations
were admirable. -
All the time improvements are being
made. The hogs, wolves and foxes have
been moved from the old cages east of
the Y. W. C. A. to the new building over
Spring Creek and the old cages have been
taken away. There is much new land-scaping
and grass growing, ¦ so that the
whole . zoo equipment is practically a
new proposition.
Additions are new pheasants, including
the following varieties, golden, silver,
rirignecked, Reeves', and last but not
least the Lady Amherst,/which . Frantz
Zinner says is one of the'mbst beautiful
of all pheasants. And there are 9 young
pheasants. There are ant eaters and tvro
white ferrets. •: . •
As usual the most attractive point is
the monkey house and the . six monkeys
are ceaseless in their antics, but there is
much interest in the five bears and in
Mimmie, the lioness, who grows hand-somer
every season.
Summer Visitors
During the summer thousands of
children rode the ponies which added
¦wonderfully to the joys of the Park
season. Every day Frantz Zinner told
the boys who attended the ponies that
if they did their work well and stayed on
their jobs he would give them a picnic.
They kept their part of the bargain and
at last Saturday Frantz made good
his promise. He says it was the greatest
picnic ever held and that he had the
best time in all his life. It began at 8
in the. morning and lasted until after 6.
Those who went were Samuel Zimmer-man,
Frank Ederis, Theodore Ederis,
Harry Fasnacht, Harry McKinne, John
Shay and Miss Louisa Shay who was the
waitress for the gentlemen jockies. On
seven ponies the Happy youngsters went
to Bindagles Church and the fun began
at once. Coming and going all day
were people of the country whQTnade an
uninvited but welcome audience.
^
In the
horse race Sammy Zimmerman was
first, Frank Ederis second and Theodore
Ederis third. In the running race Sam-my
Zimmerman was first with Frank
Ederis second. •' There was a fishing con-test,
but no fish nibbled and so the prizes
had to be divided equally.
KILLED ON THE ROAD
Last Thursday night an automobile
run by Clarence L. Bates of Lebanon
killed George Donahue a mile east .of
Hummelstown. The car did not stop
and the whole case was heartless. Bates,
a married man, was joy riding with a young
woman and her parents, to whom he had
represented himself as being single,
He was caught through the evidence of
the young woman. He is now in prison
at Harrisburg. Among the witnesses
were Lawrence E, Brouse and Charles
Longcneckcr, motorman and conductor
of the Hershey car which passed the
automobile, The case aroused great
indignation.
BIG SEASON FOR
ZOO VISI TORS ¦ . • V —- - ;
THESE FLOWERS ARE NOW IN THEIR FULL BEAUTY
Part of the Plan for More Beauty in
Hershey Next Year. There Will
be a Big Extension of the Park
Garden. New Fountain
in Park Conservatory
Ten thousand coleus have been put
in for stock from which cuttings will be
taken on March 1, 1917. • This prepar-ation
shows how extensively plans are
under way for the greater beautification
of Hershey next year.
Coleus plays a big part in Hershey's
color schemes. The shrub is a native
of Asia and Africa and the varieties here
are derived from the' perennial found in
Java. Nothing is finer than its exqusite
leaf coloring. The brilliant and variegated
foliage makes possible the superb bed
and border effects found in Hershey
and the success achieved means a much
larger use of the plant next year. Coleus
are" easily propagated by cuttings of
the .new growth planted in small pots
in moderate heat. By striking the
cuttings early in the Spring bushy and
compact plants are secured. '
The autumn flowers are coming on.
In the Mansion Greenhouse are 800
chrysanthemums that promise to be the
finest ever seen in Hershey.
.The Japanese "Ester lily bulbs for the
Easter flower- show have been received
and the tulips and other bulbs are ordered
from¦ • Booshop,. Holland. The expecta-tion
is that the Easter show will surpass
that of 1916. Over . 10,000 plants and
blooms will be shown and there will be
some novelties. .
Have you seen the new fountain in the
Park Conservatory? It is a surprise
made and placed by James Putt and it
is .an excellent piece of work. It will
contain all the big gold nsh now at the
fountain at High Point. Some of these
fish have grown to great size .and they
have a new family of -2,000 youngsters
that will be distributed among the various
fountains.
An important extension of the Park
gardens is scheduled for next year and
for this much planting will be done this
fall and winter.
GOOD MUSIC COMING
Hershey Glee CIul p Resumes Activ-ities
for the Season
Monday evening, under the director-ship
of W. L. Dubois, the Glee Club of
the Men's Club held its initial meeting
of the season with the following last year
members present: G. A. Roberts, J. W.
Seitzinger, R. H. Sattazahn, E. L. Bom-gardner,
C. L. Bare, Dr. J. L. Zimmer-man,
Wm. C. Brinker, Charles Peiffer ,
W. L. Dubois, E. J. Krause, J. W. Al-len.
Only several of last year members
were lost during the summer, and with
many prospective members in view this
is expected to be the most successful
year.
Anyone desiring to become identified
with the Glee Club, should apply at the
Men's Club.
All meetings will be held Monday
evenings, at 8 o'clock.
CYRUS MARKS A SOLDIER
Cyrus Marks of Hershey has joined
the United States Army and is at the
present time at the Mt.' Gretna camp,
"Whltey," as he is better known to his
friends, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. George
Marks, who have been residents of
Hershey for some time, He is a member
oftho'artillcry. On his visit to Hershey
over Sunday and Monday, he expressed
himself as being very well pleased with
tho soldier life. His company will move
to the border just as soon as the quaran-tine
is lifted for infantile paralysis,
TEN THOUSAND
COLEUS PLANTED
Rev. John Irwin Meek tp be Installed
as Pastor • of the Palmyra-Her-shey
Parish . Members of '
Trinity Lutheran of Her-shey
to Attend
On Sunday morning, at 10.30 o clock
Rev. John Irwin Meek will be installed
at Palm Evangelical Lutheran Church,
corner, of Railroad and Cherry streets,
Palmyra, as pastor of:- the1 Palmyra-
Hershey Parish. Rev. I. Chantry Hof-fman,
an uncle of Rev. Meek, of the
Evangelical Lutheran Church of the
Nativity, Philadelphia, and Vice Pres-ident
of the Board of English Home Mis^
sions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
in North America^ will preach and deliver
the charge to the congregation.
Rev. H. K. Lantz, pastor of St. John's
Evangelical Lutheran Congregation at
Shiremanstown, Pa., and President of
the Lancaster Conference, will also
preach1 and deliver the charge to the
pastor.
A combined choir : of Holy Trinity
Lutheran Church of Hershey and Palm
Evangelical Lutheran church of Palmyra,
under the leadership of Mrs. Daniel
Graeff, will render a special anthem.
Miss Myrtle Turby of Palmyra will
sing a solo.
The Hershey congregation will leave
in a body on the 10.00 o'clock car for
Palmyra and a cordial invitation is ex-tended
to all to accompany them.
The evening service' will be held at
Hershey at 7.30 P. M. when Rev.. I. C.
Hoffman will preach. Hereafter all ev-ening
services will be held at 7.30 P. M.
instead of at 7.00 P. M.
HERSHEY PARK CLOSED
Had Most Successful Season During
Past Summer
Hershey Park is always open, but
officially it is now closed. The restaurant
serves no meals and there are no Sunday
concerts, But the zoo is always open
and so is the park itself, and never was
its beauty greater than at present. At
the Park Dance Hall the dances will
continue every Wednesday and Saturday
evening until further notice.
Many visitors come, especially in
automobiles and they dine either at the
Hershey Cafe or the Quick Lunch, both
of which arc on the main street of the
town.
CORN ROAST ON THE HILL
Young men of tho general offices of
the Hershey Chocolate Company to the
number of 25 held a big corn roast on
Prospect Heights near the reservoir on
Tuesday evening. It was one of the
most wonderfu l nights on tho hill this
year and the party thoroughly enjoyed
the roast.
INSTALLATION NEXT SUNDAY