Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-23

cooperation
Millions More
The Pennsylvania Steel Company is
Just completing a big improvement
program at Steelton that involved the
expenditure of 100000 Should the
new owners carry out the program
mapped out by President Grace the
expenditure OF many more millions
would be necessitated.
II the personality of President Grace
can be taken for an indication, then
tnere surely are some real boom days
In store for Harrisburg and Steelton.
President E. G. Grace and a party
OF high officials of the Bethlehem
steel Corporation, which recently pur-
chased the Pennsylvania Steel Com
pany with President e. c. FELTON, and
ornclals of the latter company, in
spected the plant at Steelton to-day.
CHARLES NJ. Schwab, chairman of
the board of directors and dominant
ngure in Bethlehem Steel, was not a
mem Der of the party, being in Florida
at the present time.
In special car attached TO the
Queen of the Valley, the fast Reading
railroad train, the party arrived in
harrisburg at 1915 o'clock last eve
ming. Early this morning the party
was met at the Reading station by
pennsylvania Steel Company officials
and whisked to Steelton. Arriving at
the plant at o'clock this morning
the officials spent practically the en-
tire day in inspecting the various de-
partments of the big plant and in
going over some of the records.
Luncheon at Steel Plant
The entire party took luncheon at
the restaurant of the Pennsylvania
N q ut l.tI
shortly after / o'clock. If the in
spection of the local plant is COM
pleted in time, it is planned to leave
for Sparrows Point, Nd. over the
pennsylvania Railroad at 3:45 o'clock
this afternoon. If the local inspec-
tion takes a longer time the party
will leave at $3.50 this evening.
OfTicials on Inspection
With President Grace were the fol-
lowing officials Of the Bethlehem Steel
Corporation:
Fl. S. Snyder, vice-president; w.
G. Roberts, vice-president; c. A. Buck,
vice-president; f. A. Shick, auditor;
q. Fl. Brakeley manager OF structural
steel sales; w. NJ. Tobias, purchasing
agent; e. S. Kinsely, general sales
agent, and T. F. Quier, private secre-
tary TO President Grace.
The party of Pennsylvania Steel
Company officials who accompanied
the inspection party, included Presi-
dent f. c. FELTON,, of Philadelphia;
John V. w. Reynders, vice president
and general manager; Frank D. Car
ney. superintendent of the Steelton
plant; G. 7. Turner, chief engineer
and Charles r. Holton, assistant to
Nice-President Reynders.
Plant in "Tip-Top" Shape
n nj 90 I.,y
the new owners, the local plant has
been put in 'tp-top' shape within the
past ten days. Machines have been
cleaned and oiled, yards have been
placed in order and all debris of all
kinds has been carefully cleaned up
and in short the entire plant placed in
"apple-pie order"
Although expected the visit of the
Bethlehem officials came as a big sur
prise to the employees at Steelton. In
fact so little was known here of the
inspection that although President
Grace's special car lay at the Reading
station over last night, the presence
of the party was not known very
widely until early this morning.
AS soon as rumor reached Steel
ton that the officials were coming
there was much activity and through
out the morning the general office
force was kept busy answering calls
asking information about the trip and
throughout the day many people
loitered about Front street and the
various entrances to the big plant in
an effort to catch a glimpse of the
Bethlehem men.
May Ask For Resignation
Dispatches telling of the proposed
trip printed in some of the Phila-
delphia morning papers, were widely
discussed in the steel borough. Practi-
cally all of these dispatches mention
ed a rumor that high officials of the
Pennsylvania Steel Company would be
asked to resign and there was much
speculation in the borough as to just
how far the changes will go.
one of the dispatches follows:
South Bethlehem, Pa, Feb. 22.-
President e. G. Grace, with other off,
cials of the Bethlehem Steel Company
left tonight on a tour of inspection
the Pennsylvania Steel Company.
They will visit the plants at Harris
burg, Lebanon and Sparrow's Point,
Md.
The acquisition of the Pennsylvania
Steel Company and its ! 3 subsidiary
companies by the Bethlehem Steel
Company, makes the latter the sec
ond largest steel company in the
country 1t will have approximately
so. 900 men on its payroll.
1T is rumored here that many of
the high officials of the Pennsylvania
Steel Company will be asked TO re-
sign, as it is the desire of c. NJ
Schwab TO consolidate wherever pos
sible, similar departments or rear
range them with local officials in