Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-28
ELECTRICITY IS
DOING WORLDS WORK
Used in Household and Business
and in All Manner Of In
dustrial Enterprises

Within the last year or so electric
service has been adapted to all sorts
of uses in the business. civic and in
dustrial world.
Prior to the merging of the two old
electric light companies and the ola
steam heat company into the Harris
burg Light and Power Company, Har-
risburg used electricity for little else
than lighting it's streets and homes
and heating its homes and office build
ings.
Now refrigerating plants, dairy ana
milk establishments, pumping stations
on private estates, laundering estao-
lishments, to say nothing Oh elevators
motor driven machinery and prac-
tically every other commercial ana
industrial activity has installed the
electrical service.
Chickens Drink by Electricity
One of the biggest chicken farms in
the State. the runways near Lingles-
town, conducted by DR.. John "A.
Fritchey, is supplied with water that
is pumped into the thousands oil
troughs by electricity; the Hershey
creameries and the dairy establish
ment of John Y. Boyd have installed
electrical devices. Many of the big
hotels have constructed electrical re-
frigerating plants.
The electrification of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad shops is going rapidly
ahead and within the next few months
it is probable that electrically driven
motors will have superseded the old
steam driven machinery throughout
the plants from here to LUCKNOW.
HunHrp6S nf Electric Irons
In domestic service the use of elec-
tricity has been large and varied, too;
during the last year more than l,2OO
electric irons were placed IN Harris
burg homes and electric toasters,
chating dishes, heaters and vacuum
cleaners were among the many cleo
trical household devices and con-
yeniences that We're sold and installed
by the Harrisburg Light and Power
Company.
Electric service is becoming more
and more the vogue for motor vehicles
and trucks, too. The Pennsylvania
Railroad has ordered two big electric
trucks to handle the baggage at Union
Station and more, 1t is understood,
will follow as they are needed. The
electric truck, it has been discovered,
is much more speedy and less expen-
sive to operate than horse drawn
An Electrical Butcher Shop
Physicians and private residents who
prefer the light, easy running electric
runabouts are buying this style of car,
while the use of the electric delivery
in mercantile circles Is growing every
month. The Steelton Store Company
has planned to have a group of seven
electric delivery trucks and already it
has two or three in service. One that
is bound to make a big hit is a
miniature butcher shop on wheels. IL
is equipped with scales, a gate-board
that can be converted into a counter,
a chopping block and racks for meats,
knives, etc. And 1t Is driven by elec-
tricity.
AS for the lighting of the streets.
the Harrisburg Light and Power Com
pany has developed this end of the
service remarkably. A little more than
year ago Harrisburgs business
streets were lighted more or less bril-
liantly with the old overhead arc sys.
tenn. Now it boasts Of white way
with attractive cluster and single arc
standards. Plans for extension of this
service to the outlying districts, to the
Capitol Park and to the Union Station
plaza are now being considered.
Harrisburg Electric Signs
As for electrical signs. Harrisburg