Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-08
TWO MILLIONS
FOR PURSES OF
SHOPPERS HERE
Savings Funds, Associations
and Industrials Put Vast Sum
Into Circulation
BIG RUSH ALREADY ON
Stores Filled With Thousands
Who Have Followed
Shop Early" Advice

Two million dollars. il is estimated.
will be turned loose between now and
Christmas in the city and Steelton,
from Christmas savings funds. benef-
ciary and employees associations, and
in salaries to the thousands of people
employed in industrial plants alone.
This big total of money-the largest
amount. it is believed, that has ever
been released for years-will be in the
hands of the thousands of employees in
few days.
The PENNSYLVANIA railroad, Phila-
delphia and Reading Railway Com
pany and the Christmas Savings funds
alone have about S1,350,000 to be
scattered prior to the holiday season.
The two millions from the indus
trials does not include the salaries to
be received in the business and mer-
camille establishments in the city.
Business in every line in the city, ac-
cording to the manufacturers and mer-
chants, is at its best, and the pros
poets of a record breaking year. in
output salaries, and receipts is pre-
dicted on all sides.
The enormous amount of money to
be released to the public means much
III Harrisburg, and based on an esti-
mate that 25 per cent. of S2.000,000
will be spent for Christmas cheer. will
mean that one quarter of a million
dollars will change hands and much
Of the money stay in Harrisburg.
Big Rush Is On
Extra clerks, delivery boys, cashiers
and floor forces in the stores indicate
that the big rush prior to Christmas is
on. For more than a week, the mer-
chants have had their windows and
counters devoted to display of Christ
mas goods.
With practically every industrial
manufacturing plant within the city
boundaries running full time and ship
ping capacity output. il is easily un-
derstood how the big pile of money in
salaries, savings funds, and associa-
tions accumulated.
Thousands have started the SHOP
early movement and the money in
circulation in the next two weeks will
reach startling totals according to
businessmen of the city.
The source of the money is traced
70 the savings fund and the railroads
first. The banks having Christmas
Savings Funds association announce
that the total of all checks to be sent
out shortly will reach about one-half
a million dollars.
The Pennsylvania railroad in pay
ments to employees being made this
week, are giving three-quarters of
million in the city alone.
The Reading Railway, Pennsylvania
Steel company, Harrisburg Pipe and
Pipe Bending Works. Central Iron
and Steel company, Harrisburg Foun-
dry and Machine Shops, the Elliott
Fisher Typewriter company, combined
with other industrial plants including
the w. o. Hickok Manufacturing COM
pany, the Harrisburg Silk Mill, Blough
Manufacturing company, the Harris
burg shoe Manufacturing company,
Lalance- Grosjean Manufacturing COM
pany, and all of the smaller companies
will release hundred of thousands of
dollars.
Women's and babies shoes, socks.
stockings, underwear, mattresses,
typewriters, book binding machines,
tin plating. shrapnel cases. steel cast
ings and plates, air cylinders, silks
and cigars are only few of the many
things turned out in large quantities in
the city and are being shipped to all
parts Of the world. Orders for these
supplies are flooding into the offices
of the plants and keeping the ma
chimes humming in some places a ful.
24-hour day.