Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-25
SteeN0n NeWs
ANNOUNCE DATES
FIRST AID MEET
Finals to Be Held at Steelton
on Saturday, Septem-
ber 27

Final preparations are being
made at the several plants of the
Bethlehem Steel Company for the
fifth annual nter-department and
inter-plant first aid meets. These
events, to be held next month,
promise to be the most keenly con-
tested of all the steel company
meets held so far. In addition to
the first aid trophy which is COM
peted for annually. and which Is
awarded to the first prize winner,
the cash prizes have been increased
and in the fifth annual meet will
be awarded as follows:
First prize, 500 in cash to each
member of team; second prize, $50
in cash to each member of team;
third prize, 325 In cash to each
member of team.
The schedule of dates for pre-
ltminary and final meets to be held
In September Is as follows:
Preliminary Meets
Bethlehem plants at Bethlehem,
Saturday, September 6. 1919, 8
p. m. "a teams will be entered in
this meet, from which 5 teams will
be qualified to enter the finals.
Reading. Lebanon and Steelton
plants at Reading, Pa, Saturday
September 13, 1918, 3 p. m. 29
teams will be entered in this meet.
from which teams will be quail
fled to enter the finals.
Sparrows' Point shipbuiiding
plant at Sparrows' Point, Md, Sat-
urday. September 20, 1919, 8 p. m.
Is teams will be entered in this
meet, from which teams will be
qualified to enter finals, making a
total of II teams from all plants
to be entered in the finals.
Final Meet
sFinals for all plants will be held
on the Cottage Hill athletic field,
steelton, Saturday, September 81,
2.30 p. m.
The first aid trophy is now held
by the Steelton plant of the Bethle-
hem Steel Co., at Steelton, having
been awarded to the electrical de-
partment of that plant last year
after the keenest kind of competi-
tion, which necessitated second
final to determine the winner.
Twenty-seven of the 28 teams en-
tered in the finals in this meet had
an average Of 100 per cent. for
thetr work in the preliminary
meets. The competition in the
coming meets promises to exceed
even that of last year.
The first aid accident prevention
course which eliminates in the
first aid meets as the graduating
exercises, covers a period of five
months, each team receiving a two
hour instruction period per week
during the course on company
time. The subject matter of this
course embraces the best thought
in first aid work as directly applies
to injuries common to steel plant
operation, much of Ii having been
perfected through the experience of
the Bethlehem Steel Company in
this work. The instruction in acci-
dent prevention phase of the course
Is based upon the accident history in
each of the respective plants. The
Bethlehem Steel Company is prob
ably the only concern in the -coun-
try which gives such intensive train
ang to its men along these lines,
which naturally must result in safer
men and safer plants to work in.
Since the Inauguration of this
work by the Bethlehem Steel Com
pany in 1915, the following number
of men have been graduated through
first aid meets: Bethlehem plants,
22OO; Lebanon plant. $50; Steelton,
900; Reading plant, 200.
The work is directed and super
Vlsed In the respective steel plants
OF the company through the bureau
OF employment, compensation and
welfare.