Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-21
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When one comes to think about it.
the Pennsylvania Steel Works, which
is about to pass to new ownership or
control from that which has held 1t
fol almost fifty years, contains very
little OF the original plant except the
ground. The familiar old limestone
Duildlngs which formerly housed tho
oessemer and open-hearth steel mills
and which were built like forts have
nearly all disappeared. The new bes-
semer plant is not even located where
the first steel was blown back in June.
1867, and only the timers can tell
Where the first open-hearth steel fur
naces were built forty years ago. Prob
ably the only structures about the
plant which are not materially eX-
changed except to increase their ca
pacity are Nos. and 2 blast furnaces.
NO. l, which used to be called shorty"
furnace because 1t was lower than
NO. z, preserves much of its original
outline, as does its taller neighbor.
NO. l furnace. the first to be built at
Steelton, was erected in 1872 and
blown In the next year. In fact, it was
started forty-two years ago this
month. The next furnace, which was
the biggest furnace in this part of the
state until the new No. was started,
was built in 1875 and started in the
centennial year, only a short time be-
was an object of national interest and
even of English attention when it was
started in 1868, has disappeared, and
| the merchant mills, which date from
1888, are now among the older por-
tions of the plant. 1t is not such q
long time since Locust street in Steel
ton almost marked the upper end of
the plant and the lower end was down
ABOUT Chambers street. Now the plant
stretches for three miles or more.
Mrs. Nellie Blessing Eyster. beloved
OF many old friends in Harrisburg is
now enjoying the sunset of life in Cali
Iornia in her seventy seventh year.
W riting to friend here, she exhibits
all the fire and versatility of her
earlier years Among other things she
says: Paxton Church has long been
one OF my delights and old Derry
church one of my Meccas. Among
my earliest scribblings was a descrip-
llon OF day spent among its environs.
L preserve with great reverence a SER
mon preached by the Rev. John Elder,
Pauls Cher grandson) great-great-
| grandfather, some time in 1875 and
containing some forty logical divisions.
The publication ot Paul Elders yearly
! calendars has become an event in the
! literary world. They go everywhere.
His one of last year was indeed gem
| and have no doubt of the success of
| your venture" This letter is addressed
to DR.. John ]. Mullowney, whose peace
| calendar is to be issued by Paul Elder
Tor 1916. Mrs. Eyster has recently
written biography of Mrs. John
F'ryor, who was the wife of the pro-
fessor or Oriental languages in the
University of California and for fifty
years resident of Shanghai, having
| served for twenty-seven years as q
missionary in the Flowery Kingdom.
Perhaps nothing better illustrates
the value of university training for
| pewspapermen who have the nose for
news than the rather remarkable fact
that member of the Yale class of
1915 has been chosen as the managing
editor of Harper's Weekly. Doc"
merz, as all his classmates love to call
him. is a talented and promising
worker in the newspaper and maga-
zine field. He spent a day or two in
Harrisburg this week and was greatly
impressed with the progress of the ary
and the civic ideals of the community.
Colonel Lewis E. Beitler, who re-
Gently filed at the Capitol all of the
papers and souvenirs of the Gettys-
burg Centennial Commission, of which
ne was the executive officer, has been
highly complimented upon the man
ner in which he preserved everything
VI Ndlue. Inc papers nave already
been looked at by many visitors.
The ubiquitousness of the Ford story
would cause some hesitation in pub
fishing the following facts about Henry
Ford and his mammoth factory were
1t not that the unusualness of the story
makes it stand for itself. At the
Chamber of Commerce luncheon yes
terday, Roger w. Babson, the speaker.
who Is an expert on statistics and the
sounding of business conditions, spoke
of having visited Henry Ford at his
home and hearing Mr.. Ford tell the
Following story, illustrative of the
value of cooperation between capital
and labor. Mr.. Ford was convinced
that the cooperative plan was by far|
the best and he determined to cut
down on the hours of work for his
men and give them bonus of ten mill
lion dollars to be divided up among|
the whole force. Before he inaugur1 !
ated this idea, he had turned out 16, !
700 cars a month, with 10000 men|
working nine hours a day. The MONTH
after the plan was put into operation,
$4,000 cars were built and sold with
the same number of men working onlH
eight hours a day. And" said Mr.
Ford, with laugh, instead OF givingI
away ten million dollars as 1 wanted
to do, they made two million for md
above the bonus"