Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-19
HERSHEY PLANT
OPEN TO PUBLIC
More Than 1000 People Are
Guests of Company and
Inspect New Building


The beautiful new South Cameron
street home of the Hershey Creamery
Company was opened to the public
for inspection last night, more than
1000 people being escorted through
the big plant. The visitors were
shown the entire process of ice
cream and butter-making and in
cidentally they viewed what has been
pronounced the mosL modern and
best equipped plant of this nature in
the state. The mandatory, it is
said, ranks among the finest in the
country.
,rhe plant was opened to the pub
lie at $50 o'clock. From that until
the doors closed at 10 o'clock, Wis
itors packed the building. Fifteen
guIGes were kept busy the entire
evening explaining the intricacies of
the trade. The Stevens Memorial
Methodist Church orchestra played
during the entire evening.
The new building is located on
the corner of South Cameron and
kittatinny streets. When the Wis
itors arrived, they were first shown
six huge ice cream freeZers. In
these freezers seventy-two gallons of
Ic cream is made every ten min
utes. Each machine is equipped
with a separate motor so that If II
is desired to run one or two freezers
this can be done without wasting
power on the other freezers.
Zero i'm Summer
Passing through a corridor the
visitors viewed the ice cream brick
hardening room through window
with three thicknesses of glass. The
70. In nf i
mated, ranges from zero to ten de-
greeS below. The next sight is the
cutting and wrapping OF the bricks.
The shipping and packing depart
ment where thousands of quarts of
ice cream are prepared and shipped
daily-is an interesting sight. Here
was seen an ice crusher which
crushes 3OO-pound cake of ice in
five seconds. The salt elevator is an
other innovation. 1t is so arranged
that the salt may be dropped in amy
quantity upon the ice when the
cream is being packed for shipment
1000 Gallons of Cream
In the hardening room 1000 gal
lono of ice cream may be hardened
into brick at the same time. There
are four rooms, each with capac-
.ity of a thousand gallons. Near the
can washer. I'VE stick can in one
end and in a few moments it is
elected from the other end. COM
pletely washed, the guide eX-
planned.
There is an immense air compress
sor and also two small compressors
in the plant. The large compressor
is driven by a 350-horsepower motor
and has a fiywheel fourteen inches
in diameter. A huge boiler generating
15U- horsepower is another feature OF
the machinery that attracted great
deal of attention.
Probably the most interesting
thing on the first floor is the ice
making plant. I've always wanted
to see how ice is made" was the
comment heard on all sides. The
Hershey plant has a daily output of
thirty-three tons of ice.
There are two milk storage rooms
on the first floor and three on the
second. Here milk is kept pure and
sweet.
That the employees of the company
are given every opportunity to keep
clear was evidenced by the up-to-
date system of lavatories, shower
baths and hot and cold basins. A
locker room was shown where the
street clothes of the workers are
kept
Milk Is Smashed"
When the milk is received in the
second floor it first passes through
the big cooler. 1t is then pasteuriZed
and cooled again. 1t is sent through
the homogenizer where the fat
globules are broken up and the rich
velvet texture which ice cream lovers
want is given. The materials for the
cream are mixed in two big Vats'
each holding 500 gallons of the mix
ture. There are two more watts 10
be installed in the very near future;
A condenser is also to be installed
wherein it is planned to condense
the milk. 1t will be news to many 10
know that 100 pounds of pure milk
are condensed into thirteen pounds
when the water is extracted and the
pure cream is obtained.
When the cream is mixed 1t IS
sent into sanitary pipes which lead
to the freezers on the first moor
When cream is desired 1t flows into
the freezer and care is taken that
no hand touches the material. Zen
minutes after the cream goes into
the freezer which has a tempera-
ture of ten degrees below zero, 1t
merges as Hersheys ice cream.
Milk Is Tested
The plant maintains testing
laboratory where the milk and cream
is thoroughly tested. Various testing
ap2aratuses are here and experts
conouct the tests with great care.
The offices of the company are on
the second floor of the building. Near
the staircase is the office of the
treasurer-manager Eli III. Hershey.
The bookkeeper's Office and the or
der department are on the opposite
cnd of the corridor. A private branch
telephone exchange connects all
parts of the building.
The walls are painted in three
harm onious colors, gray, white and
a beautiful buff. The appointments
of the entire building are up to the
minute.
At the end of the sightseeing tour,
SarVad with som @