Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-07
ganization's publication accomplish
ed this purpose.
Industrial Efficiency

ganization's publication accomplish.
ed this purpose.
Industrial Efficiency
The Chamber made an effort to
bring about greater Industrial effici-
ency, thereby reducing costs while
maintaining high wage scale,
which in turn increased production
through lower selling price and in
consequence employment for q
greater number of people.
Employers of industrial workers
and others have been urged to main
OF wages. reasonable working hours,
and facilities for recreation. both
mental and physical.
The Chamber has assisted in the
national effort to extend and develop
our trade. Charles Lyons Chandler,
foreign expert of the Corn Exchange
Bank of Philadelphia, was secured
to point out the possibilities of for
eign trade relations at a luncheon
meeting during the year.
The Chamber Of Commerce is
preparing an authentic account of
Harrisburg's part in the World War.
both at home and through its men
in service. The organization through
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which will place in their hands the
record of every soldier. sailor and
marine of Harrisburg. The his
torical committee OF which B. NJ.
| Mead is chairman, is preparing O
history of the activities of all the
war organizations at home, as we'll
as the peace-time agencies which CO.
operated in war activities.
| The Chamber is promoting the
| construction of a suitable memorial
to the soldiers and sailors from Har-
risburg who served the nation dur
| ing the World War. A Chamber of
| Commerce committee. through CO.
| operation with Arnold w. Drummer,
| New York landscape architect who
| designed the plans for the Capitol
| Park extension and memorial bridge
| project, has completed plans for a
| dignified granite and bronze shaft
topped with a f1agpole, the whole
surrounded by a granite open-air
| rest station, and augmented by a
park, to be situated at Thirteenth
and State streets, as a elimination
| of the Capitol Park and Memorial
| bridge plans. A committee of 1875
citizens is engaged in the task of
carrying the project to completion.
City Improvements
| THE Chamber has developed a
plan for the partial solution of Har-
risburg's most serious and most
difficult problem. More than two
| hundred houses have been erected
| in Harrisburg since the first of 1919,
| largely, it has been conceded.
through the publicity attendant
upon the efforts of the Chambers
housing committee in showing how
| vitality new dwelling structures
L.. Ill
conducted under the auspices of the
| Chamber of Commerce with the CO.
! operation of the Civic Club, dis
| closed the fact early last spring that
| only thirty-eight vacant houses ex-
| listed in Harrisburg. AS q result of
! the survey, the Chamber installed
| in the offices of the organization. a
housing bureau with a capable
| housing secretary, who listed more
( than 1900 vacant rooms, and as
many vacant houses as there were
| in the city at that time, for the ben
| eft of home seekers. Since it's in
| stallation, the bureau has been in
| strumental in placing 1900 people
in suitable homes, these including
| everything from rooms at fifteen
one hundred and fifty dollars a
month.
The Chamber encourages the
building Of new, up-to-date office
buildings, to supply new quarters
for Harrisburg's rapidly expanding
| trade. The Office building situation
has been relieved greatly through
the opening up for office tenants of
the Keystone Building, formerly the
Star Independent building, in South
Third street. the construction of an
eight-story office building from the
old Board of Trade Building, and the
installation of more than thirty Of
| fees in the rear building Of the
Telegraph Printing Company.
THE organization is urging the
construction at the earliest possible
moment in the most desirable To-
cation of a public comfort station.
Funds for the comfort station have
been appropriated and action awaits
the determination of a proper loca-
ton. Capable authorities are pro-
viding arguments in favor of the
proposed location in Market Square
and at the courthouse, and a refer
endum of the Chamber membership
will then be taken to determine the
state OF public sentiment regarding
a location.
THE Chamber of Commerce is
risburg Hospital authorities at any
time in their proposed extension to
the Harrisburg Hospital.
The Chamber of Commerce In
| endeavoring to secure the erection,
at the earliest possible moment, of
| well-equipped contagious disease
hospital. At the expense of the
| Chamber of Commerce, DIR. John
H. Stokes, of the Mayo Clinic, con-
Quoted cursory survey of the city
| and its needs, and made recommen-
dations for contagious disease hos
pital. Again at the request of the
Chamber of Commerce, special
committee of the State Health De-
partment drew up specifications and
prepared blue prints for q proposed
| contagious disease hospital. These
plants and prints were submitted to
the city and county commissioners
with a request for favorable action
risburg Club, recently. The Cham
ber of Commerce will cooperate
with the city and county authorities
in any action they take looking to-
| ward the erection of such a hospi-
tai.
THE Chamber has adopted the
construction of a new joint city hall
and courthouse which will ade-
quately meet the present and future
needs of the city and county and
which will be in keeping with the
standing of the community.
1.-The Chamber Of Commerce haf
been the instigator of publicity