The Hershey Press 1924-05-01

              Employees Meet To
Discuss Pension Plans
: All of us remember the time when "How
Old Is Ann" was a momentous question,
but on Wednesday evening at a factory
representation meeting held by the Her-shey
Chocolate Company for the purpose
of making suggestions fort a pension plan,
complying with the wishes of Mr. M.'S.
Hershey, which plan will be placed into
effect as soon as a satisfactory one can be
formulated, a more perplexing question
was asked to be solved which was "How
old should a man be before he should
retire from his work"? and a still greater
and a still more perplexing' one "How old
should a woman be before she should retire
from work"?
The several hundred men and women
that had gathered in the large lunch room
at the factory discussed these questions
from every standpoint. Some had pro-nounced
opinions, others were rather
uncertain, and a large number were too
timid to put themselves on record. How-ever,
one of the older employees, who is 66
years old, stated that it seems that a man
either wears out or rusts out and as he did
not want to do either one of them, was of
the opinion that 65 years was an age that a
man should consider himself old enough to
retire from his work and let a younger man
take up his burdens. This was seconded
by another of the older men, and a discus-sion
than ensued that was most enlighten-ing.
Some of the men were of the opinion
that at 65 years a man was still young,
others thought that at 70 years a man was
just beginning to feel a trifle old. How-ever,
it was finally decided that 65 years
should be recommended to Mr. Hershey as
being a suitable age that a man should
retire from his work.
The next question to be solved was that
of "What age should a woman retire from
work"? This seemed to be much more
difficultand it required considerable urging
upon the part of the superintendent of the
factory, Mr. A. T. Heilman, who was act-ing
as chairman of the meeting, to get the
employees to express themselves. Some
did arise, but were rather evasive in their
remarks. It was only after one of the
women had expressed herself stating she
thought 45 years was the age when a
woman should retire from work, that the
discussion became spirited , and the men,
for the women wouldn't express themselves
further, in a most considerate manner
raised the age to 55 years, which upon a
vote was carried, but with few voting. One
of the girls after the meeting was over was
heard to state "Who ever heard of a woman
that was 55 years old, you only read about
them after they are dead and see it on
tombstones".
With the age limits settled the length of
service necessary to participate in a pension
was then discussed. Some thought that
10 years was sufficient, others said 15
years, a few 25 years, and the greater
majority, after considerable discussion,
upon a vote, decided that all those who had
been in .the service of the, Company 20
years or more years should be eligible for a
pension.
The next question, and the most import-ant,
was how much pension should be paid
to those who had been placed on the retired
list. A number of the men thought that
$60 should be the minimum, others thought
that this was too low an amount and that
$75 should be the minimum and $150 the
maximum to be paid- monthly. Others
thought that this would place too much of
a burden on the Company and as a result
no additional compensation checks would
be paid if this plan were placed into effect.
Others thought that 2% of the average
monthly pay received during the last ten
years of service prior to the time of retire-ment,
times the number of years employed
would be a satisfactory plan. After further
discussion it was decided to let the amount
of pensions be optional with the Hershey
Chocolate Company and to be thankful for
whatever amount the Company saw fit to
pay.
It was further decided that no contribu-tion
to the pension fund should be required
or be received'from any employee of the
Company.
After deciding that one man and one
woman from the factory should be placed
on the Pension Board, the meeting ad-journed
, with everybody mightily pleased
at the way they had solved these problems,
wondering however, just how Mr. Hershey
will take to their recommendation upon his
return from Cuba.
Clinic Opens With
Baby Show
"A Well Baby Clinic" will be opened on
Thursday afternoon , May 8th, at the
Red Cross rooms, in the Hershey Central
Theatre, second floor, at which time a
baby show will be held, prizes being given
t'o the prettiest baby, the cuteat baby and
the best developed baby. It la urged by
the mothers of Hershey and vicinity to
make every effort to bring their babies to the
Red Cross rooms on that day. Ages of the
babies range from infancy to per-school age
The obj ect of a clinic Is to help mothers
keep children well. Babies and little
children will be weighed and given a thoro
physical examination, and if there are any
de/ecta found, or treatment is needed
mothers will be referred to their own family
physician as no medicines will be given at
the clinic, , '
The dllnic is in charge of Mistt Elizabeth
High, the community nurse,
W. 0. W. Notes
All members of the Woodmen of the
World are requested to be present at the
meeting on Tuesday evening, May 6th,
that will be hold In the Hershey Park Hall,
above the bowling alleys, as Important
business is to be transacted ,
Plans have been formulated to hold an
initiatory o( candidates on May 20th. and
the committee appointed is na follows:
David Sattiiznhn , chairman; Joseph Stew-art
, Hnrry Hnebnkcr, Molvln Deetz,
Edward Miller unci Wm. Zimmerman,
The committed Is clesirloim that all mem-bers
of the uniform rank be present on
Tuesday evening to prepare for the Initia-tory
work necessary for this event.
Paren ts Should Attend
~^4bfD^:At' SiM
May Day is traditionally and peculiarly
a\ children's day and the Hershey Red
Cross has planned to do its part of an out-lined
State-wide May Day program,
endeavoring to establish the first of May as
a day for constructive, concentrated
thought and demonstration in behalf of
community action for the American child.
With this purpose in mind a program
will be held at the Hershey Schools on
Thursday (today); at 2.30 o'clock, consist-ing
of exercises by Miss McKinstry's
Saturday morning girls' gym class; a
demonstration by the Juniors of the Her-shey
Men's Club led by Alex Magrinu and
a number of health songs by the first four
grades of the school.
A cordial invitation is extended to all
parents to attend these exercises at the
school this afternoon.
Out of the mounting disasters that have
overtaken the peoples of the world in
recent years has come a deeper study of the
fundamental factors upon which our
civilization stands. Scientific investiga-tions
and studies of voluntary organiza-tions
by the Children's Bureau, studies of
the war draft , including systematic surveys
have demonstrated that we in America are
far behind what a national conscience
should demand for the public protection of
the well-being of our children.
We have in America upward of thirty-five
million children, the great majority of
whom are the object of the utmost solici-tude
upon the part of their parents, but no
amount of individual solicitude can correct
the dangers to which they are subject in
many communities by failure of communi-ty
safeguards. - With all the enlighten-ment
and all the prosperity of our great
people, we find that in five other nations
there is a lower death rate amongst infants;
we find in sixteen other nations a lower rate
of fatality amongst mothers at childbirth;
the great national draft indicated that
something like eighty per cent, of the men
examined were deficient in some particular
or another. We find in many of our
communities impure sources of water and
impure supplies of milkf-and- uv-many
insufficient consumption of milk; in others
we find inadequate provision for health
ihspectidh and playgrounds; we find ar-chaic
systems and incompetent adminis-tration
of public health in many cities arid
towns: we still have large numbers of
children at work in factories when they
should be in school.
The picture is not all dark. In the last
twenty years the United States' infant
mortality has been reduced by one-half.
In no other nation of the world is there
such solicitude for ill and crippled children.
This shows what can be done. There is no
country where children are held in such
tenderness as in America. Our delinquen-cy
is hot in individual regard but in com-munity
effort that will surround our child-ren
as a whole with such safeguards as to
bring them to healthy maturity...". This is a
problem of maintaining health rather than
curing disease.
Hershey Centra l
Theatre Attractions
On Saturday evening, May 3d, Blanche
Sweet and Pauline Stark will be seen in
"Palace of the Kings", one of the big and
latest releases. As an additional attrac-tion
a Mermaid Comedy, "The Busher",
will be shown.
On Tuesday evening, May 6th, John
Gilbert will be seen, in "A Man's Mate".
As an additional attraction Al. St. John
comedy. "Be Yourself", will be shown.
WEDDED AT ST. JOAN OF ARC
CHURCH
Last Saturday morning at 9 o clock a
pretty wedding was solemnized at St. Joan
of Arc Church, when Miss Laura Gasper, of
53 Areba Avenue, was united in matrimony
to Emilio Givinetti, by Rev. P. J. Phelan.
They were attended by Miss Pearl Gasper,
a sister of the bride and Silvio Andonelle.
of Annville. The bride wore a beautiful
dress of white satin and silk lace and
carried a shower bouquet of white roses.
The bridesmaid wore a dress of peach
colored crepe de chene trimmed in gold
lace and carried bouquet' of pink roses.
Mrs. Givinetti is the daughter of Mrs.
Minnie Gasper of the above address. After
the ceremony a reception was held at the
home of the bride. Guests from Philadel-
Rliia, Harrisburg, Lebanon, Annville,
linersville, Palmyra, Swatara and Hum-melstown
were present.
GIVE FAREWELL DINNER
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Hummel, of 32
Trinidad Avenue, gave a farewell dinner on
Sunday, April 27th, in honor of Mrs.
Martha V. KellholU and son Roy, who will
leave on May 15th for Detroit, and Jerry
Foltz, who leaves on May 12th for Kelly's
flying field, Texas. Those present were:
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Hummel, Mr. and
Mrs. Lester Putt and daughter Geraldine,
Mrs. Martha V. Keilholtz, Jerry Foltz, all
of Hershey, and Mr. and Mrs.' Claire Good
and daughter Esther, of Lancaster,
CAMPING TIME SOON HERE
The camping expedition of the Hershey
Men's Club boys is showing signs of activi-ty
as the time for their annual trip draws
near. The camp will be located this year
either at Pine Grove or along the Schuyl-kill
between Reading and Philadelphia and
preparations are already being made to
give the boys the time of their lives, Fish-
Jng.- hikea, swimming, canoeing and base-ball,
track games ana enmpfircs wi|l keep
the boys engaged from morning till night,
It won't be long till the time will be here,
so boys, start preparing now.
BENEFIT DANCE AT SWATARA
A benefit dance in aid of a widow and
large family will he given by the Italian
Lodge M. S„ of Swatara, on Saturday,
May 3rd, in the Italian I-odgc Hall, at
Swatara Station, Let's nil get behind this
affair for a worthy cause. Admission,
Ladies, 25c. and Gentlemen, 60c,
No Sign Of Thrift
In Saving To Spend
Many people have the idea that they are
saving money when they adopt some
special saving scheme to lay away a sum of
money to buy what they particularly
desire. Saving money to take a vacation,
buy presents, purchase an automobile or
any other article not a necessity to good
living should not be confused with genuine
thrift.
Clothing, food, rent and fuel come under
the head of current expenses and naturally
no money put aside to pay them should
correctly be called savings.
Other expenditures must be made that
are not absolutely necessary but they are
for things one cannot well do without. No
one can live properly who does not intend
to spend a part of his income for charity,
personal advancement, recreation and
social duties.
Thrift means good management in the
arrangement of these expenses with the
added feature of real saving. Real saving
means the putting away of a certain part
of the income for life insurance, payments
on the home, the purchase of good stocks
and bonds or putting it in an interest-bearing
account in some savings bank.
Unless a man makes some provision for
investing a part of his income in some way
that it will be a lasting benefit to hirnand
act as security for the future, he is not
practicing thrift.
SUNDAY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION TO
MEET IN HUMMELSTOWN
The Executive Committee of District
No. 3, Dauphin County Sunday School
Association, will hold its first meeting, of
the new year on Friday evening, May 2, in
Lutheran Parish House, Hummelstown, at
7.45 o'clock
Every district officer should attend with
his or her plans for the coming year, It is
elncwely hoped that the Sunday School
superintendents will give their hearty co-operation,
by attending or sending repre-sentatives,
bo that this year's results may
far surpass any previous years,
On Sunday evening, May 4th, at 7.00
o'clock, members of the Elizabethtown
College faculty, will give a program of
sacred songs in the Church of the Brethren,
east of Hershey, as follows:
"Come Spirit Come", quartet; prayer;
prayer, quartet? "Unto the Hills", quartet ;
hymn, congregation; "Beloved Now",
.quartet ; "O Worship the King", quartet:
^What Did He Do", quartet; 'llave Thine
Own Way", quartet; "Crossing the Bar",
quartet; "For God So Loved1', quartet;
hymn, congregation; "Open the Gates",
quartet; "Nearer My God to Thee", quar-tet;
prayer; offering; "Jesus Shall Reign" quartet. ,
PROGRAM OF SACRED SONGS AT
CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN
Marguerite and sons Harry and Vindson,
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Miller and daugh-ters,
Edna and Edith, and son Clayton
and Millard, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Heisey,
Miss Tola Goodllng. Rev. and Mrs. B. W.
S. Ebersole and children, Esta, Luke and
Mark, William Kieffer, Mr. and Mrs.
Harvey Basehore and children, Kenneth
and Erlatine, William Flanders, Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Stalile and son E. LeRoy
Stable, Mr. and Mrs. Noah Stable, Mr.
and Mrs, Frank Miller, Mrs. Maria Zuver,
Mrs. Emma Deavens and children, Mar-tha,
Ethel and Dorothy and Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Heisey and son Darvin and daugh-ters,
Mildred, Myrtle, Ethel Vera and
Lillian.
A sumptuous wedding dinner was served
at-the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Heisey
on Sunday, April 27th, in honor of their son
Arthur, who was recently married to Miss
Mary Miller. Many beautiful gifts were
received. The guests included: Mr. and
Mrs. Irvin Heisey and daughter Louisa and
sons Raymond and Irwin Jr., Rev. and
Mrs. Harper Snavely, Mr. and Mrs. Paul
Snyder and daughter Alma, Mr. and Mrs.
Harvey Ratteau and daughter Rachel,
Mrs. Gates and daughters Evelyn, Pauline
and Hazel and sons, Wallace, Merle, Paul
Hubert and Daniel, Mrs. Amos Heisey,
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Weiser, Mr. and Mrs.
John Tshudy, Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Tshudy and daughters, Dorothy and
WEDDING RECEPTION FOR MR
AND MRS. HEISEY
American Legion To
Erect Flag Pole
At the regular monthly meeting of Her-shey
Post American Legion last Tuesday
evening several matters of importance
were attended to. Plans are being made
by a committee of Legionnaires of the local
post to erect a suitable Memorial and
present it to the town. The officials of the
Hershey Chocolate Company are co-opera-ting
with the committee. It is the inten-tion
to erect a flag pole, somewhere in
Hershey where a site would be ideal. The
Post decided to accept the invitation of
Rev. M. LeRoy Wuchter to attend Me-morial
Day services on May 25th in the
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church. District
Deputy Commander George C. Neff, of
Harrisburg, spoke to the post members on
different subjects which were of vital
interest to the members. An address was
also given by Rev. Hartranft on "Reminis-ences
of the Northwest Pacific." His
address was well received. On June 22d
the District Convention of the American
Legion will be held in Hershey Park. Card
parties have been discontinued until next
Fall, They have been very successful.
The Post wishes to extend their sincere
thanks to all those who helped to make
them a success.
Arthur Brinser Lands
1% Lb. Tront
Arthur R. Brinser, formerly of Middle-town,
now of Hershey, employed in the
offices of the Hershey Department Store,
is filling "Slim" Wagner's boots, who was
known far and wide as the champion fisher-man
of Hershey.
Since "Slim" has departed for Bellefonte
a number of persevering fishermen, namely,
Roy Lloyd, Roy Sternberger, Wm. Tobias,
Wm. Hibschman and Wm. Ceiling had
endeavored to win "Slim's" crown, but
their luck as usual was against them.
On Tuesday evening Mr. Brinser betook
himself to the Spring Creek, which, by the
way was his first venture since moving to
Hershey, and as a result of his cunning and
skill landed a 17# inch trout, which
weighed 2# pounds, the largest ever
hooked in this picturesque stream for many
a day.
Mr. Brinser now has considerable follow-ing,
and when he tells 'cm how to land 'em,
his words have quite some effect.
Firemen To Hold
Meeting Next Tuesday
On Tue8day evening, May 6th, the Her-shey
Volunteer Fire Co. will hold its regu-lar
monthly business meeting.
There will be several Important matters
that will come up for action, as follows;
Squire Miller will hand in his report
regarding the fire police, in order to determ-ine
whether or not nine men are necessary
to act in that capacity at a fire.
Paul Shoop will have all the details re-garding
firemen's insurance. This is a
•big" issue, and no doubt considerable
oratory will ensue.
Installing additional fire ajarm boxes In
different parts of the. town will also come
up for action.
President Wm: Brinker requests that a
large attendance be present at the May
meeting.
The Hershey Department Store team
will open the season this week when they
meet the Industrial School team in a
practice game. Many stars are in the
store lineup, including Zentmeyer brothers,
Hummer, DeAngclls, Cole, Tfnnoy, Edrls,
Tobias and Traynor, a brother of the
Pittsburgh Nationals star third baseman.
Zentmeyer and McCarty, formerly of the
Lewlstown professionals, wlll| be the Store's
battery with Tobias, former hurlcr of the
Lebanon Golden Bucks in reserve. Any
fast teams such as the different factory
nines, or the State Motor Patrol desiring
this all-star attraction set in touch with
the business manager., J, A, McCarty, of
the Shoe department.
DEPARTMENT STORE TO HAVE
FAST TEAM
Won't You Help to
Protec t Wild Flowers?
"God has lent us the earth for our life.
It is a great entail. It belongs as much to
those who are to come after us as to us, and
we have no right, by anything we do or
neglect, to involve them in any unnecessary
penalties, or to deprive them of the benefit
which was in our power to bequeath."—
Ruskin.
We believe, with the New York State
Conservation Commission that, "in a
great democracy of free people, the pro-tection
of wild life and the preservation of
all other natural resources, which under-lie
national prosperity and happiness, must
depend finally, as does the stability of the
government itself, upon the support and
willing service of every citizen."
Some of our beautiful native plants have
been completely exterminated or are be-coming
very rare and their places being
taken by introduced weeds. This is due
to various causes, but excessive picking
and wanton breaking have contributed
their share, by preventing many of them
from forming seed.
Conditions vary in different localties,
but it is safe to say that the early Spring
flowers, especially those that fade quickly,
should not be picked in large quantities;
particularly anemone, mepatica, dicentra,
erythronium, sanguinaria, aquilegia and
ansaema. Lillies and orchids of all kinds,
lobelias, gentians; epigaea, azalea, kalmia,
rhododendron, rhodora, dogwood, winter-berry
and holly also are becoming rare or
extinct.
Plants that produce edible fruits which
serve as food for the birds such as wild
cherries, elderberries, godwood, sumach,
viburnum, spicebush, bear-berry, shad-bush,
arafia and mulberry should also be
protected or planted.
The following plants are often a nui-sance:
Dandelions, buttercups, wild carrot,
some of the clovers, daisies, both yellow
and white, bouncing-bet, St. John's-wort,
yarrow, tansy, boneset, sun flowers, golden
rod, asters; they are usually abundant in
waste places and along roadsides and may
be gathered in large quantities.
Some of our native plants such as:
Violets, wild geranium, roses, spieraea,
clematis and most of the composites are
often abundant and decorative in masses.
But it is to be remembered that most
garden flowers have been cultivated
because they are good for decorations and
do not soon fade and these should be sub-stituted
for the native plants whenever
possible.
Will you help to protect our native
plants? Will you teach this A. B. C. ?
(A) That what we have picked and
carried away can no longer be enjoyed by
anyone else in the place which they made
beautiful.
(B) That although it is tempting and
easy to pick a place clean of every wild
flower growing there, we shall probably
have a great mam/ withered flowers by the
time we reach home.
(Q That, worst of all, there will not be
enough flowers left in that place to go to
seed and make it beautiful again next year.
Hershey School Notes
Two members of the Senior Class de-livered
orations in the chapel on Wednes-day
morning: Paul Belser spoke on "Gov-ernment
Ownership of Railroads" and
Catherine Miller on "Important Work of
Women."
-• The week of May 4th to 10th is known
as National Music Week. The public
school will observe the week by having
special music every morning at the time of
chapel exercises and the grades will sing at
the Hershey Department Store during the
noon hour. The program will be as follows:
Pupils of the combined Fifth Grades will
sing Monday.
Pupils of the combined Sixth Grades will
sing Wednesday.
Pupils of the combined Seventh Grades
will sing Friday.
In each case the singing will start at
12.30 o'clock. It is hoped that the friends
of the children and music lovers will turn
out to hear the singing.
The Hershey High School Baseball team
will meet the Lititz High School on the
Park Athletic Field on Saturday, May 3d
at 2.30 o'clock. So far the local boys have
not met a defeat and this promises to be a
good game.
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER
MEETING MAY 8
The Woman's Missionary Society and
the Otterbeln Guild of the First United
Brethren Sunday School of Hershey, will
hold a Mother and Dauther meeting in the
church on Thursday evening, May 8th, at
7.30 o'clock.
An interesting and helpful program has
been arranged. Every mother and daugh-ter
is very cordially invited to attend this
service whether you are members or not oi
either of these organizations.
HUMMEL IN SEM1-WINDUP ON
FRIDAY EVENING
Lester Hummel, the former Navy
champion, who lost a technical decision at
a previous show to Willie Patterson, of
Philadelphia, will be a scmi-wlndup at-traction
on Friday evening at the Harris-burg
Chestnut Street Auditorium boxing
show, when he will go up against George
Grant, of Wilkes-Barrc, A largo delega-tion
of Hummel'a admirers will accompany
him to cheer him on to victory.
WEEKLY EVENTS ON PARK FIELD
The Juniors of the Hershey Men's Club
will hold weekly meets on the Park dia-mond
starting Saturday, May 6th. The
respective classes will meet at nine and ten
o'clock at which time baseball and the
usual field events will bo indulged in. On
account of the warm weather these meets
will bo held as above stated instead of on
the gym floor.
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BAKE SALE SATURDAY
The Dlnkonia Bible Class of Holy Trini-ty
Lutheran Church will hold n bake sale at
the Hershov Market House on Saturday
morning, May 3rd, - I
Hershey Power Plant
Incr eases Equipment
Owing to the increased demands for
power a 3500 K* W. turbine is being in-stalled
at the new power-houseb uildingo f
the Hershey Chocolate Company, which
was laid out for 7500 kilowatts, 5900 now
having been installed, with the addition of
the new turbine.
The new power plant was built to satisfy
the rapidly increasing factory require-ments,
as well as to meet the growing
needs of the Hershey Transit Co. and the
town itself. The chocolate factory re-quires,
not alone a considerable amount of
electrical power, but live steam, refrigera-tion,
compressed air and water in large
quantities for many purposes.
This new power house is located on
Spring Creek, the site having been selected
for its advantages as to water supply, coal
delivery and storage, and ashes disposal;
also because it was desirable to keep the
dust and dirt incidental to the handling of
coal and ashes as far away from the manu-facturing
departments as was compatible
with the economical supply of power,
steam and refrigeration to these depart-ments.
As the new power plant is in a conspicu-ous
location and surrounded by lawns and
shrubbery, an effort has been made to give
the building a dignified and pleasing
appearance, as well as to accommodate it
to its intended use. The buff-brick walls
and red-tile floor of the turbine room and
the well-designed lighting system all add to
the appearance of the interior of the build-ing.
The power-house building is approxi-mately
128 ft. wide by 165 ft, long, of steel-frame
monitor-type construction, with
concrete foundation walls, brick curtain
walls, terra-cotta cornice work, concrete
floors and roof, and ventilated steel sash*
A brick wall divides the building longitu-dinally,
separating the boiler room from
the turbine room. Both boiler-room and
turbine-room operating floors are on the
same level and at an elevation of 16 ft.
above the basement floor, which is sub-stantially
at the putside grade. In the
turbine-room basement are located the
condensers and condenser auxiliaries,
water-supply pumps, boiler-feed pumps,
air compresser , concrete switch and bus
structure, etc., while in the boiler-house
basement are the ash-hoppers and ash-!
disposal means. The main boiler flues
also extend through the basement, one of
the flue walls forming the division between
the turbine and boiler room sections. A
steel-plate coal bunker of 700-ton capacity
is suspended from heavy steel columns on
either side of the fireroom space, and from
this bunker the coal is drawn into a weigh-ing
larry and discharged into the stoker
hoppers.
The boiler room of the new plant was
designed to accommodate ten boilers
having 7444 sq. ft. of heating surface each,
set singly and arranged in two rows, with a
common bunker and fireroom space
between them. So far, only five of these
boilers have been installed.
In the turbine room is provided space for
four turbo-generator units, the third of
which is now being installed and equipped
with surface condensers; two 100-ton
refrigerating machines; six water-supply
pumps; two fire pumps, an air compressor,
etc.; besides feed-water heaters, meters,
feed pumps, switchboard, bus and switch
structure, transformers and other station
auxiliaries.
Outside the main power-house building
an intake screen house and a lightning-arrester
house are provided, an on top of
the latter a steel distributing tower is
erected.
A covered passageway, or tunnel, 12-ft.
wide, connects the power-house building
with the manufacturing plant, and through
this tunnel the various steam, exhaust, air
and water-supply lines from the new power
plant are extended.
A concrete track-hopper and crusher-house
is provided between two of the piers
of the coal siding, and in the crusher-house
below the track-hopper are installed the
feeder and the crusher which delivers the
coal.
The coal is fed from the track-hopper to
a single-toll crusher, and is delivered by the
conveyor to storage or into the bunker
above the boilers, as desired. Arrange-ment
is made for reclaiming coal from the
storage pile by the conveyor, which is used
for handling ashes as well as coal, has a
capacity of 60-tona an hour. Ashea and
refuse from the hoppers underneath the
stokers are discharged onto a movable
apron and thence through heavy-bar
gratings to the lower run of the conveyor.
Any clinkers too large to go through the
grating are broken up by hand. The
feeding of the coal to the boilers and the
removal of the ashea is done automatically.
The water supply for the plant is taken
from Spring Crew, across which a low dam
has been built to raise the level of the water
and afford a better supply at the intake
well and screen house. The intake is
protected by a heavy bar screen and the
water that passes through it flows through
a 42-inch cast iron pipe to the boiler-room.
A discharge-water conduit leads to a point
below the dam. To give sufficient water
for the requirements a spraying system
has been installed in the creek adjoining
the, plant, which cools and purines the
water.
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR SOCIETY
TO OBSERVE ANNIVERSARY DAY
In order to observe the 34th anniversary
of the beginning of organized young peoples
work in the United Brethren Church, and
to endeavor to enlist the interest of all
members of the local church, the Christian
Endeavor meeting will be held at 7.30 p. m.
instead of the regular church service. An
earnest endeavor has been made by the
program committee to present a program
that will be interesting and helpful.
A cordial invitation is extended to all;
not only the young people but the older
folks also. Don't forget the time. 7.30.
ALWAYS SHINING BIBLE CLASS TO
MEET TONIGHT
The regular monthly business meeting
of the Always Shining Bible Class of the
First United Brethren Sunday School will
bo held at the homo of Mrs. Raymond G.
llinUlo, 222 Cocoa Avenue, on Thursday
(tonight), A large attendance is urged to
be present,
The DeMoss entertainers that will give
an evening of music, song and. story at the
Hershey Central Theater on Thursday
evening. May 1, under the auspices of the
John Elder Men's Bible Class of Deny
Presbyterian Church, are well known
throughout the United States and Europe,
having given more entertainments, enter-tained
more thousands of people, traveled
more years and in more countries than any
other rnusical family in the world. This
concert'work was started more than fifty
years ago by James M. DeMoss and Eliza-beth
DeMoss, the First United Brethren
missionaries to the Great Northwest. They
are well-known through this section,
having given concerts in Harrisburg, Ann-ville,
Elizabethtown and other nearby
points. This company consists of five
members who play sixteen different instru-ments.
Each member is an artist, and lovers of
good music will be most bountiful enter-tained,
all of their numbers being splendid-ly
rendered, giving a concert of the highest
merit.
Miss Vema Mae Hoover, the reader,
gives both pathetic and humorous readings
and excels in child impersonations.
The tickets for the concert are being
sold by members of the class and other
members of the Sunday School. The
admission charge for adults is 50c, and for
children 12 years and under, 25c.
DeMoss Entertainers
Big Attraction Tonight