The Hershey Press 1915-01-07

              People of the United States
Will Drink More Cocoa
Business of the Hershey Company
Promises to Far Excell its High
Record of Last Year. Sixty
Five Cars of Material on
>¦ the Siding at One Time
On one morning this week there
we're 65 cars on the Hershey sidings
all loaded with material for the Her-shey
Factory and its allied interests.
This is one .of many solid indications
that although 1914 made a record
never before touched 1915 is going to
beat it. •
Since Hershey was established the
consumption of cocoa and chocolate
in the United States has more than
doubled and the increase is larger now
than it ever was. The health experts
are showing that tea and coffee are
stimulants only and that they do not
agree with many classes of people,
while cocoa is a health drink, full of
food value and excellent for the
nerves as well as for the body. This
new, teaching is having a very wide
effect and is creating a much larger
market for cocoa. Furthermore there
is a general inquiry, into sources and
manufacturing methods, arid thus
comes the growing popularity of the
Hershey products made of the very
best materials in the most complete
and cleanest food plant in the world.
Use of the Gravit y System
Others Following the Example of the
Hershey Chocolate Company
One of the striking features of the
Hershey Chocolate Company's great
factory •is the use of gravity system.
This company was one ' of the very
first to use it effectively, but the idea
is being extended and the following
article from the Literary Digest is
worth reading:
Great business concerns are now
allowing the . earth's attraction to
move their goods for them, from one
department to another, -whenever this
is possible. In other words, boxes
and parcels are allowed to slide down
inclines or spirals from a higher story
or loft to a lower one. Gravity, we
are told by a writer in Industrial En-gineering
(New York, November), is
the cheapest motive-power in the
world, and, whenever possible, mate-rial
should be handled by its means.
This dictates an arrangement of
buildings which will take the fullest
advantage of the use of gravity in
the transfer of finished and semi-fin-ished
material from one department
to the next. He goes on:
"The ideal arrangement in such a
factory is to have the raw material
delivered to the top floor and the first
manufacturing process carried on
there. The final and intermediate
manufacturing processes should be
located upon the lower floors , with
the shipping-room and finished store-rooms
on the ground floor, Material
in process may then bo transferred
from one department to the next and
to the finished storeroom or shipping-room
by. means of chutes. This ar-rangement
eliminates all expense for
motive-power, upkeep, and repair of
conveyors, belts, and other transpor-tation
devices.
"The spiral gravity conveyor are
made to fill the demand for a method
of transferring material from one ele-vation
to another with a minimum of
expense and space required for the
transferring medium. This conveyor
consists of a helix formed of stool
plates neatly flitted together to give
a smooth surface over which goods
in process of transference will slide
easily and smoothly. The pitch of
the helix is such as to insure that any
material placed upon it will slide
downward to the outlet rapidly and
yet at n rate of speed which will not
bo detrimental either to tho goods
themselves or to any material or
package with which thoy may come
in contract during their descent.
Stool sides confine tho material on the
conveyor to tho surface of tho helix.
Those sides, also being closely fitted
and smooth, offer no obstruction to
tho rapid and easy passage of mate-rial."
Those conveyors, wo are told , are
built in two typos, the open and clos-ed,
Access to a conveyor of tho open
typo may bo had at any point in its
length. Tho closed typo is built
around a central stem within a stool
tubular shell. Tho open typo is host
adapted to handling heavy, bulky
merchandise such as largo boxes, bar-rels,
factory products, etc. Tho clos-ed
typo finds its widest field in the
handling of small articles and pack-ages,
as in department stores. To
quote again:
"This typo of conveyor possesses
considerable flexibility in tho arrange-ments
possible , Thus in tho closed
typo, the throe helices may bo ar-ranged
to deliver to throo different
floors , each one either receiving goods
at all tho floors which It servos, or
one hallx may servo for transporta-tion
between two widely separated de-partments
being inaccessible to oth-ers.
A given helix may. also be ar-ranged
to deliver from one depart-ment
to another on the next floor and
one to receive goods from this ,next
lower floor arid deliver them to de-partments
still farther down but
without the possibility of. the ma-terial
loaded at the first floor being
delivered to the last one without pre-viously
stopping at . the intermediate
department:
"The number of floors which can be
served by this type of conveyor is
practically unlimited, and its capacity
is limited only by the speed at which
articles can be removed at the outlet.
Where the service is practically con-tinuous
arid large quantities of mate-rial
are handled at all hours of the
day, or even where large quantities
are moved within a short period of
time at irregular intervals during the
day, it is advisable to install m con-nection
with the gravity conveyor an
apparatus for rapidly clearing the
outlets. For this purpose a belt con-veyor
is; frequently advisable.
"The fire risk Which would natur-ally
exist with a flue of the character
of .this conveyor extending through
the seyerail floors of the building is
minimized by a complete equipment
of automatic fire doors. , These doors
which serve as the inlet openings to
the conveyor are counterbalanced, the
counterbalance being attached to the
door by means of a fusible link.
Upon the occurrence of fire within
the vicinity of the conveyor, this fusi-ble
link liberates the counterbalance,
allowing the door to close, and thus
completely isolating the conveyor
'from the fire. Hinged drop doors
similarly counterbalanced cover the
outlets."
Four Score Years Young
Mr. Simon Eby Drops in at the
Press Office After a Five
Mile Stroll
¦ A very welcome and cheerful visitor
to the Press Office on Moriday was
Mr. Simon Eby. He was promptly
invited to a seat of honor but he said
he prefered to stand and that it was
altogether too fine a day to be sitting
around. He declared there was noth-ing
in life like youth and fresh air;
and he was . thankful for both. He
had called to see Mr. Zimmerman at
Derry and had continued his walk to
the house of an aged friend who had
not been well recently, Mr. Eby
likes to call on his elders because
they are prone to think that the
young people forget them arid as one
of the young people he wants to
show them that they are mistaken.
Mr. Eby walks at least three miles
every day. . When he called at the
Press office his walk had extended to
five miles and he was not the least
tired. Mr. Eby is 84 years young.
Miss Bradle y s Wedding
Invitations to the Ceremony Received
in Hershey
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Trego Brad-ley,
of Philadelphia , have issued in-vitations
for the wedding reception of
their daughter, Mi^ss Helen Trego
Bradley, to Samuel Davis Foster,
Monday evening, January 25, at 8
o'clock, at the Bradley residence, 1602
North Fifteenth street, Philadelphia.
Tho ceremony will bo private, attend-ed
by only the immediate families.
There will be a southern honeymoon.
Miss Bradley has a wide acquaint-ance
in this county through spending
her summers at her parents' country
place in Swatara. She is a member
of tho Country Club of Harrlsburg
and a fine golfer. Colonel Foster, a
resident of Pittsburgh, is chief engi-neer
of tho State Highway Depart-ment
and ono of Governor Tenor 's
aidH. Ho is a graduate of Washing-ton
and Jefferson and was county
rond engineer of Allegheny county,
whoro ho constructed many of that
county 's fine system of roads. Ho
also hud charge ,of construction of
government roads in Cuba after the
Spanish war and for tho Isthmian
Commission in tho canal zone. Ho
was .battalion adjutant of tho Eigh-teenth
Regiment before being named
to tho Governor 's stuff , of which
Colonel Bradley has long boon a
member. Several Horshoy families
have bopn invited to tho wedding.
For the Younger Set
Mr. and Mrs. Ezra F. Horshoy en-tertained
a number of tho younger
sot at; their homo on Ohocolato Ave-nue
on Now Year's Eve. Cards wore
played , and after luncheon a number
of tlio latest dancing stops wore
tried. At cards Miss Helen Fox won
tho lady 's prize, and J. It. Suavely
the gentleman 's prize. Those present
wore Miss Clara Walmor , Miss Ada
Walters,, Miss Violotto , Cnssol, Miss
Holpti Fox, and ,Mlss Catharine
Rohror , and William Gauss, Russell
Stoncr, Morford May, Ohas. Hols-berg
and J. R, Snavoly,
Will be oh the First Floor of the Old
Fire House arid Work is Now Un-der
Way. Bright Promises For
the Year. Inquiries For
Excursions Already in
This will be the banner year of
the Hershey Transit Company. The
last twelve months largely surpassed
all previous figures and the record in
promptness arid efficiency was excep-tional,
but the prospects are that 1915
will go far ahead of all previous
showings. . , ¦. ' ¦'
. Most ' important of the changes "Swill
be the completion of the new, Eliza-bethtown
and Deodate Railway. This
line is about ten . miles through a
beautiful country connecting Her-shey
with the system that gives di-rect
trackage to Lancaster and to all
Lancaster county and beyond Lancas-ter
to all points to Philadelphia. Af-ter
this road is completed one may
travel by trolley from Hershey to the
East as far away as Portland, Me.
Already Manager J. R. Kreider is
receiving inquiries from parties in
Lancaster and surrounding cities and
towns for excursions to Hershey Park
next summer, and it is certain that
a very, large business will be done
from the completion of the line. The
special cars will run from Lancaster
to Hershey without change and it is
expected that the schedule may be
brought within ninety .minutes. It
will also open a rich territory for milk
and general trade.
Experts pronounce the Hershey
line to Lebanon the best piece of trol-ley
construction in the State. But
the line to Elizabethtown will be much
superior. Except in . two places it
will have very slight grade and. the
road bed and track will be the best
that money can provide. Then, too,
the Hershey cars cost much more
than the average trolley cars and
this means speed and easy riding.
This week work was begun on the
new waiting room. : The apparatus
¦was taken from the old Fire House and moved to the new building on
Caracas Avenue. The room up
stairs will be retained for the social
purposes of the members of the Fire
Department, but the rest of the build-ing
will be converted into headquart-ers
and waiting room for the Transit
Company. The first floor will be re-novated,
greatly improved and com-fortably
furnished, Manager Kreid-er
will have new offices and the new
waiting room will have every con-venience
for the public.
The enlargement of the carbarn is
underway. The company has out-grown
its old accomodations. In fact
its increase necessitates constant ad-ditions
of space and facilities.
The new power house and bunga-low
about four miles this side of Leb-anon
continue to draw many visitors,
These buildings are of stone and are
the most artistic Builder Putt has
erected. They are being used as
models. They will be the center of
a new village which is how being
planned . Lots will be for sale soon,
New Waitin g Room For the
Hershe y Trans it Company
Coasting Accidents
Many coasting accidents have hap-pened
in Hershey and the surround-ing
towns during the past week.
Fred Clark and Monroe Stover are
among tho latest victims at this place.
At Waltonville five ' boys were pain-fully
injured on New Year's Day
when their bobsled collided with a
stone wall. Tho hills in this vicinity
are covered with a sheet of ice and
were never faster for tho sleds. Pat's
Hill near Horshoy and Mann's Hill
near Hummolstown are tho most
popular places for the coasters.
Skating has also boon very good in
Horshoy Park and on tho Swatara at
Hummolstown during tho past two
weeks and many lovers of the sport
havo had fine times.
Miss Boyer s Part y
Miss Viola Boyor entertained tho
members of her Sunday school class
and a few of their friends at her
homo last Friday afternoon. Music
and games passed a pleasant after-noon
and refreshments wore served
to tho following guests : Misses
Blanche and Vanclotta Cooper, Edna
Carpenter, Ruth Runldo , Sara Ettor ,'
Goldlo Habockor, Anna Gordon , Ma-tilda
Trostlo , Pearl Sanders , Mabel
Carpenter , Cora and Mabel Llnglo and
Viola Boyor.
Progra m For its Meeting in Hershey
on Friday and- Saturday of Next
Week. Will Include Able Ad-dresses
and Timely Discus-sions.
Participants
There is muph interest in the meet-ing
of the Teachers' Local Institute
of Steelton, Hummelstown and Pax-ton
Boroughs', Townships of Swatara
and Derry, which is to be held in Her-shey.
The Friday evening meeting
will be in the Hershey Central Thea-ter
and the Saturday morning meet-i
ing will be in the High School rooms.
The program for Friday evening is:
Music, High School Chorus; Invoca-tion
Rev. Geo. S. Rentz; Address of
Welcome, Director A. B. Shenk;
Music—"The Minstrel Boy," High
School Chorus; Address—"The School
Principal of Yesterday and the School
Principal of Today," Supt. L. E. Mc-
Ginnis, Steelton; Music, Misses Win-gert
and Foltz, Messrs. Dubois and
Keboch.
On Saturday the first rrieeting wi^ll
be at 9.15 a. m. with the following
program: music by the Institute and
the High School chorus; invocation;
Rev. N. L. Linebaugh ; Educational
Waste,. Professor H. V. B. Garver; as-sistance
to pupils, Lillie M. Nanki:
veil and Linnie V. Hess; Latin, Marie
H. Johnson. There will follow a
round table' on the. following:
1. . How much) credit, if any, should
be allowed pupils of the Seventh and
Eighth Grades in arithmetic when
their principles are correct but err in
the mechanical process? 2. . What
is the best method of teaching
geography in the Fourth Year ? 3.
The value of play—Its supervision.
. The Saturday afternoon meeting
will begin at half past one and this is
the program: Vocal ' Solo, Russell
Clark; Discussion-r-"Devices, Their
Use and Importance," Myrtle Garrett;
Address, County Supt. F. E. Sham-baugh
; Address—"The Educational
Trinity," W. A. Geesey. The Round
Table will be: 1. What I as a teach-er
am trying to do: (a) in home
geography. (b) in local history, (c)
in the study -of pictures, (d) in the
dramatization in reading, (e) in cre-ating
a taste for musici (f) in giv-ing
encouragehient to the dull pupil.
(g) in kindling the aspirations of
pupils, (h) in the cultivation of a
world-wide patriotism, (i) in secur-ing
and maintaining a proper rever-ence
for the Bible, (j) to assist my
principal, my superintendent and my
directors, (k) for myself, physically,
professionally, socially and financial-ly.
Professor F. D. Keboch is president
of the Institute and Gertrude Brubak-er
is secretary; the committee,
Charles S. Davis, G. F. Dunkelberger,
Roscoe Bowman and Walter A.
Geesey. The public is cordially invit-ed
to be presen t. '
Teachers ' Local Institute to
Discuss Leading Questions
During the year 49 persons were
received into the church , or a gain of
about 21 per cent. Tho present mem-bership
is 158.
The Sunday School increased in
average attendance over ono year
ago, 17. .The enrollment gain was
about 80. The Otterbcin Men 's Bible
Class had a splendid gain of 11 per
Sunday.
During tho year an Otterbein Guild
was organized. This is the young
ladies' missionary society and now
has a membership of (50. Thoy havo
aided every branch of missionary ac-tivity
in the church.
The church attendance has nearly
doubled itself , and so havo tho prayer
services.
Tho present evangelistic services
havo resulted in 8 conversions since
Sunday.
First U. B. Church
Masquerade Party
A Now Year's Eve Masquerade
party was hold at tho homo of Misa
Esther M. Seltzer at Lebanon. There
wore guests present from Harrisburg,
Palmyra , Annvillo , Horshoy, and Lob-anon
. After games, and music, re-freshments
wore served, Among the
guests wore : Miss Lucy K. Toahl ,
of Harrlsburg; Norman Stable, of
Horshoy; Miss Anna Spanglor , and
Paul Longonoclcor, of Palniyra; Miss
Arabollo Kolchnor, of Annvillo; Miss
Knthryn Won rich , Miss Ruth
Roinoohl , Miss Mabel Housor, Miss
Esther M. Seltzer, Paul E. M,
Smith , John J, Oborholtzor , Clarence
Board , Arthur Marks, Mrs. Sara
Stable, and Mr. and Mrs. Harvoy
Seltzer, of Lebanon.
None Killed on Pennsy
Not a single passenger was killed
in a train accident during 1014 on all
of the 20,108 inllos of track of tho
Pennsylvania Railroad system. The
railroad carried 188,411,870 pas-sengers.
More than 3000 trains
were operated , every day and mora
than 1,000,000 trains in tho year.
One of the Big Stage Hits in Addition
to the Most Thrilling Moving Pic-ture
Story That Has Been
Shown Since Season Start-ed.
¦ Record Attendance
So far the season at the Hershey
Central Theater has gone splendidly.
It was well into autumn before the
new house opened, but in the weeks
since it-has held close to ten thous-and
persons and its audiences are
growing every week. It is the most
comfortable theater in the Valley, and
every seat commands a fine view of
the stage. Many of the established
successes of the moving picture world
have- been presented' and many fore^
most speakers have been heard.
Now the new year is opened and
it is the intention to make Saturday
night a gala occasion and to set the
pace for the future. To that end the
very remarkable George Kleine at-traction,
"Between Savage and Tiger"
•has been secured. It is ' a' master-piece
of moving : picture work in six
parts arid with six thousand feet of
reel, one of the greatest and most
thrilling entertainments of the day.
In other, places the prices of admis-sion
have been 25, 50 and 75 cerits.
In the Hershey Central Theater Sat-urday
night they will be 10 and 15
cents.
But to make the night doubtly in-teresting
the manager has secured
Princess Zelda, . the floating lady
mystery. She lies suspended in the
air in full view of the audience and a
hoop is passed over her body to meet
the suspicions of wires. In addition
to this act the Princess will give, ex-hibitions,
in mind reading and will do
many things to mystify the audience.
As this will be a double entertainment
for one admission price the patrons
are asked to be prompt in their at-tendance.
¦ ' •
Extras For Saturda y Night
at Hershey Central Theater
This State is on Velvet
One of the Very Few in the World
That is Out of Debt
Over ,$62,000,000 in real personal
and mixed property and money ill
banks and in the State treasury, , is
the worth of the Coniriibnwealth of
Pennsylvania. It has no liabilities
except' bonds of $651,110.02, for which
more than enough has. accumulated
in the sinking fund to pay. In fact
the . sinking fund is $151,000, more
than these old debts.
The vast extent of the assets of the
commonwealth was made known for
the first time when ' the "Property
Commission of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania," made its report. This
commission was appointed by the
Governor on his own initiative. He
wanted to find out what the State
had in the way of worldly wealth so
that it could have a basis to work on.
The commission had no appropriation
and secured its information from each
departmenfc,.,.an ,d,.,.e,ach.,^ In
many cases the estimates are low
and it is stated that $1,592,075.14 of
liens, taken under the appropriation
act of 1911, on 77 hospitals, are not
included.
The valuations are as of May 81,
1914, and the aggregate is $62,743,-
870.35. This includes the cash bal-ance
in the treasury funds. About
four-fifth of the grand total is real
estate.
Hershe y's Growth
A special New Year edition of tho
Horshoy Press shows in a convincing
way tho remarkable growth of an in-dustry
and upbuilding of a neighbor-ing
town. Shipments of tho Horshoy
Chocolate Company for 1914 broke
all previous records; a score of now
buildings and miles of now streets
and roads wore built; a now water
supply was furnished the town; now
trolley lines wore constructed , and
more than 100,000 people visited tho
place.
Factories, stores, bank , schools,
farms and park , all show records of
growth and development despite tho
business depression that rotardqd
many a community throughout tho
United States. In a musical and lit-erary
way, also, much was accom-plished
during 1914 of which Horshoy
can well bo proud.
Probably tho biggest reason for tho
chocolate town's success lies in tho
fact that tho Horshoya have planned
to mako the town a social as well as
an Industrial center,—Harrlsburg
Telegraph .
Horshoy was represented In the
Mummor 's parade at Harrlsburg on
Now Year 's day by Maurice Hlnltlo
and Patty Miller, "llinlc " and "Put-ty
" pulled tho "Boar Stunt" and thoy
carried It out so well that thoy enmo
In for ono of tho big entth prizes for
tho comlo participants. "llinlc " not-ed
as tho trainer and "Patty " did
well as tlio boar.
Won a Prize
While at work In tho Horshoy
Chocolato Factory last Thursday
morning, David Horst of Palmyrn
foil from a ladder- and received a se-vere
sprain of his wrist. Tho Injury
Is painful and will keep him from his
work for sometime.
Wrist Sprained
Edward L. Llnglo and Miss Han-nah
Buchanan both of Lyonsvillo
wore married on Christmas ovo at
Grantvillo by tho Rov. I, O. Bitnor,
Both are highly esteemed and • havo
tho best wishes of their many friends,
Thoy will move to Horshoy in tho
spring and will go to housekeeping In
tho homo recently purchased by tho
groom's father , on Spring Crook ave-nue.
Lingle-Euchanan
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew C. Fox, of
109 S. Harrison street, Palmyra, gave
a large dinner on Christmas to an-nounce
tho engagement of their son
Paul and Miss Amanda Boyor of Lob-anon,
a nurse at the Good Samaritan
Hospital in that city. Tho wedding
will bo an event of tho early summer,
Tho guests wore Mr. and Mrs,
Andrew Fox, Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Yingst, Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Snyder,
Mr. and Mrs, Charles Matter, Loo
Matter , Enda Matter, Minnie Finon ,
Paul Fox, Amanda Boyor, Slanton
Tilgnn , Vorna Snyder, Martin Snydor,
S. Snydor, Edward Snydor , Estolla
Bochtol, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Farns-lor,
Mildred Snydor, and Mr. and Mrs,
Goo. Schrivor.
Engagement Announced
She Shows Remarkable Versatility in
Drawing and Talking at the Same
Time and in Holding the At-tention
of a Large Crowd.
Her Tribute to Hershey
Again the Hershey Central Theater
was well filled by an appreciative
audience and the Union meeting Sun-day
afternoon scored, another success.
Many seats were occupied a half hour
in advance by people who had come
from . the surrounding towns. These
meetings are attracting more atten-tion
every week.
The star on Sunday was Mrs. Mar-ion
Ballou Fisk, who has won honors
as a teacher in drawing in the famous
Schauffler Missionary Training School
of Cleveland, and even greater hon-ors
as one of the attractions of the
lyceum, her work taking her into
every part of the country. Her ex-perience
in Sunday School Institutes
aided her in,giving a Sunday talk that
was full , of fine uplift and helpful re-ligion.
All the time she was draw-ing
pictures and these productions in
color were admired by all who saw
them. She worked prodigiously,
keeping her hands moving swiftly,
and yet it . did not seem to interfere
in the least with what she was say-ing.
George Copenhaver, who made
a fine presiding officer , said from the
platform that he had been told as a
boy that a man could not do two
things at once. Perhaps a man
couldn't but certainly Mrs. Fisk had
shown a woman could do two things
at the same time and do both of them
well. This tribute evoked laughter
and it exactly fitted the case. Mrs.
Fisk simply jammed an hour full of
talk and pictures. She said she was
particularly glad to get ' to Her-shey.
"You good people will never
know how much I owe to you," she
declared. "In marty a faroff place
and on many a Weary journey your
delicious products have satisfied hung-er
and saved me from suffering."
She declared that the Hershey nutbar
was jus£ about the most useful arti-cle
in existence, and while her re-marks
were slightly humorous she
emphasized the true value of the food
that comes from Hershey and - that
may be found in every corner of the
land. Mrs. Fisk's gospel was that of
hope, faith and content and she il-lustrated
it all from many angles.
She was cordially congratulated upon
the interest of her effort.
George Copenhaver was the leader.
President Millard was on the stage.
Rev. Frederick C. Krapf made the
prayer and pronounced the benedic-tion.
Mrs. Harvey sang with great
success, the orchestra accompanying
her. The congregational singing was
wholesome and earnest and there was
much of it. It becomes more clear
each Sunday that the congregational
singing is one of the strong points of
these union meetings. The ushers for
the day were M. S. May, Roy Mum-ma,
Ivan Mease, Ira Mumma.
Next Sunday will be one of the
best speakers in the whole list, Dr.
John G. Scorer, of Philadelphia , and
his subject will be, "The Man Who
Sold His Shadow." It is said to be a
remarkably eloquent address, full of
humor and cheerfulness. All are in-vited.
The meeting begins at 3.00.
Sunday Afternoon Audience
Enjoys Mrs. Marion Fisk
An interesting shooting match con-ducted
by David Howard was hold
on Saturday afternoon near his homo
at; Sand Beach, A number of gooso
and ducks wore up for prl ^qs and there
woro many contesta nts. John Hock-ort
of this placo proved his ability as
a shooter and carried away a fine
goose.
Heckert Wins a Goose