Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-02
WE WILL MAKE
THINGS HUM AT
STEELTON-SCHWAB
Steel Magnate Interviews Re-
porter Who Goes to In
terview Him
ASKS MANY QUESTIONS
inquiries If There Is Any Steel
ton-Hary'isburg Annexa-
ton Sentiment

Charles M. Schwab, chairman and
Eugene G. GRACE, president, of the
Bethlehem Steel Corporation, the
honor guests at the annual dinner of
the cnaaYer of Commerce this eve
ming, arrived in the city late this aft
ernoon.
Mr.. Sclwab passed through the
city shorty after noon in his private
car Loreto, on his way to Lebanon,
where he addressed the recently
organized Chamber of Commerce at
it's first Big dinner and met President
Grace, Nie-President w. F. Roberts
and GenGal Manager Quincy Bent,
who had gone to Lebanon previously
Schwsb Does the interviewing
While ne Loretto was being switch
ed from the Union Station to the
Philadelphia and Reading station,
where II was attached to a Reading
engine preparatory for the run to
Lebanol as a special, the Steel King
interviewed reporter from the Tele-
graph or ten minutes.
Mr.. Schwab smilingly declined to
reveal my of his future plans for de-
velopins the recently purchased Steel
ton plant, declaring that he is going
to TAX about that this evening"
He tSked the reporter many ques-
tions about the city and expressed
much interest in what he was told
aboutthe community's plans for pub
lie improvements, particularly the
plan for floating the big new high
school loan and for the erection of a
new million dollar hotel.
When told that this evenings din
ne. was to mark the dawn of new
erl for the city the steel magnate
expressed his approval of Harrisburg's
enterprise by declaring, We'll make
things hum at Steelton."
When asked whether he had further
plans for extensions at Steelton, and
particularly whether 1t is true that
the Bethlehem interests plan TO
greatly enlarge the Bridge Shop
there, Mr.. Schwab intimated that he
would have something to say about
that this evening.
Talks of Annexation
lie also expressed much interest in
the relations between Steelton and
Harrisburg and inquired whether
there was much sentiment favoring
the Joining of the two municipalities,
Mr. Schwab, however, declined to
express any opinion on the subject of
annexation himself.
Mr. Schwab inquired whether Gov
ernor Brumbaugh was in the city and
said he would like to call upon the
Governor If he was in town.
The steel king expressed much
pleasure when told that this evening
dinner was to be the largest affair OF
the kind ever held by the Chamber OF
Commerce and reiterated his assertion
that If the community planned to be
really progressive the Bethlehem in
terests would do their bit by making
things hum at Steeiton."
At Lebanon
Mr.. Schwab arrived in Lebanon al
1885 and Immediately went to the
Lebanon club to address the Chamber
of Commerce.
The committee which met him there
included: B. Dawson Coleman, the
steel man; James Lord, president OF
the American Iron & Steel Mfg. Co.;
John Penn Brock. vice-presdent OF
the same company; E. r. Coleman
Frank B. Dutton, manager of the
Lebanon furnaces of the Bethlehem
Steel Co.; Lloyd Wolfe, local manager
of the Lackawanna Iron & Steel Co.,
and George f. Speaker president OF
the Chamber of Commerce.