Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-03


quet tables The very picture of real
American democracy, took his listeners
in his confidence, and modeStly told
them what he has done at Bethlehem
and what he hopes will be done at
Steelton. Briefly he outlines the fa-
nous Schwab bonus system and the
SchWab methods of organization and
how they could equally as we'll be
applied to the business of any of the
men present, small though they be.
The message that he brought to
Harrisburg was that the mills at Steel
ton are going to "hum," that they are
going to grow.
II take it." said he, "that I am not
TO 20 into details about our plans for
Steelton tonight, but rather that am
to come here to renew old friendships
and to make new friends. Men, l
hope to make you my friends; hope
! find good friends here, and, men, j
hope you will find me a friend of
whom you may be proud to number as
one Of you.
Schwab's Principles
Briefly I would tell you of the
underlying principles that govern us
in our work at Bethlehem. These are
a hearty sympathy for the men with
whom we work and sincere love for
our f,iends.
"These things and the system we
our work. / want to tell you about
that system. 1t is somewhat unique.
Every man is paid for his individual
effort. But it is not mere profit
sharing plan. You divide with the
man who deserves extra recompense.
You have man at the head of
| every department and you make that
man feel that he is owner of that par
| ticular part of his business. If he
makes an unusually low record for
cost and high record for production,
| he should receive a bonus accordingly.
And the greater the effort the greater
should be the bonus. Every unusual
effort should be rewarded by unusual
pay. That is the principle at Beth
lehem, and it is the policy Mr.. Bent
and his associates are going to follow
at Steelton.'
The New Hotel
Mr. Wallower was the first speaker
end was introduced by Spencer c. Gill
bert, the POSTMASTER. as "a man who
man with a vision" Mr.. ~Wallower S
part in the movement for new
Y. w. c. A., filter plant intercepting
sewer the Paxton creek sewer, better
parks and paved streets was re-
ferred to.
After paying a glowing tribute TO
Mr.. Schwab Mr.. Wallower told what
|
Harrisburg and pointed out the crying
need for a building of the kind
planned.
Harrisburg is city of one conven-
! ton every day." said he; "a railroad
center of more than ordinary magni-
| tude, the capital of great Common
| wealth; the center of a garden spot OF
the land; on the great arteries of the
! William Penn and Lincoln highways
along which streams of automobile
traffic will flow; a city near Hershey
Gettysburg, the Masonic home at Eliz-
abethtown-a most desirable stopping
place for the flood of travel that will
come if we only have a modern hote
for entertainment of the people. And
in modern, history, 300-room hote
we shall have this
Harrisburg's Gift to Steelton
/ In introducing Mr.. Grace the toast
master traced the growth of the stee
industry from the time when the frs
| charcoal furnaces were built until to-
day, the time of the 500-ton blast fur.
naces. He described the early effort!
to have the Pennsylvania Steel Com
pany located at Steelton and exhibited
the original list of subscribers to the
| $4,000 worth of stock and the tele
gram that was sent to Philadelphi;
when the KellSer farm at Steelton wa.
purchased. SO acres of it at 5000 al
acre.
This site for those mills and a biz
block of the original stock" declared
Mr.. Gilbert, lis Harrisburg's gift tC
Steelton. 1t may have been forgotten
by some but there is a string to it
Whenever they stop making iron ant
steel at Steelton the land reverts bacl
to the subscribers"
Better of the Bargain
President Grace prefaced his re
marks with the assertion to severa
high officials of the Pennsylvania ant
Reading railroads, former owners o
Pennsylvania Steel Company, that tn
Bethlehem interests feel that the,
have all the better of the recent bar
gain.
There are just three things, de
c1ared Mr.. Grace, "that we want from
Harrisburg and Steelton to help u
make the properties at Steelton grow