4 THE TURKISH BLEND CIGARETTE Erect Massive Building *" ' Hershey. Pa., Dec. 16. Work has \\\ , # 4fes Vj /-* As you enjoy your cigarette this evening after dinner it of thousands of bags and will be the rf*in may please you to think of the widely distant places named h» this country. It will bo 66 feet OlllY 1 liCL here —for they have a close relation to the pleasure you tons. SO foet wide, four stories high, - M * J - » _ . and will be of relnformed concrete. \9e\ XjoOsa ao f fvnm imill* h o t«rna An elevator will be placed in this 11 A gel 110111 yOUI 1 <&111K1CU building which is a new achievement Of 111 ' ra wind n^ a way u io "ofthS USSR //l* At these strangely named towns on the other side of the building desired. This massive plant Vi 11 .1 J • ftow has a floor BP ace of thirty-five world, perhaps at the very moment when you are drawing in the fragrant smoke of your Fatima, expert tobacco u* D n/r i~~* r j r buyers are going over bale after bale of choice Turkish He Making Landy ror leaf, selecting here and there tobacco which they consider Santa Claus For 52 Years worthy to - enter into the famous Fatima Turkish Blend * These resident Liggett & Myers buyers know the slightest Captain Laubenstein Turns Out Tons of Sweets For jp variation in quality. And it is largely due to their judg- Nation's Youngsters; Industry Has Remarkable De- ment that FatimaS are always SO uniformly good, velopment Here « . _i % Samsonn • aval la 1 I $P3k I / e '*. Vj* Captain Ezekias Laubenstein, fore man of the D. Bacon Company, 435 South Cameron street,wholesale candy manufacturers, has been a Santa Ciaus "lieutenant" for fifty-two years. Since ho has been in the candy ■business ho has made tons and tons of all kinds of sweets and just about this time of the year he is too busy to *eo any one, because Santa has sent in It is annual order for about fifteen tons of clear toys, several tons of chdco lates and a lot of other varieties of candy for the youngsters of the United States. And, of course, Captain L,aubenstein gets on the job at once with his men nnd in three weeks the whole lot is packed and shipped all over the coun try, just where Santa wants it. Some goes to Wisconsin, some to Tennessee, several tons to North Carolina and many tons to other States. Mr. laubenstein is 6 8 years old. He began making candy when he was fourteen, serving his apprenticeship with the old Henry Felix Candy Com pany in Market Square. June 1, 1862, was his first day and he is still at it, «ach year turning out hundreds of tons of sweets for the candy-loving people. He is the oldest and best can dymaker in Central Pennsylvania. Off the Job Just 11 Months After working six and a half years for Henry Felix, he went to the E. G. Whitman Candy Company, of Phila delphia, and then to George Miller & Son, of the samo city. He then re turned to Harrisburg to his former position with the Felix company. He again went to Miller & Son for a short time. On February 1, 1876. he came to the D. Bacon Company, which had lust started in the candy business at North and Seventh streets, this city. In a small house. Since that time Mr. I-aubenstein has been with the Bacon Company, only missing eleven months during the Spanish-American War, j when ho was commissioned captain of j Company D, Eighth Regiment, Penn- | sylvania Volunteer Infantry. Thousands of pounds of candy that | he has made have been sent to all i parts of the country. Ho understands the processes used in the manufac ture of every kind of candy and has Invented machinery that has greatly 'ncreascd efficiency along many lines. One of the machines lie invented, I which is now used by the Bacon com-1 pany. Is used to separate the grated | rocoanut after it has been dusted over rlioeolate drops. When this work wasl first done girls had to sift the cocoa- ! nut by hand from the candy drops,! end to turn out 400 pounds was con- j sidered a good day's work. With Mr. T,aubenstein's machine almost a ton af candy can be coated daily. How tlie Industry Has Grown In speaking of the large amount of Italy Has Adopted Policy of "Watchful Neutrality" By Associated Press Rome, Dec. 15, 6.20 A. M. (delayed in transmission). —A vote of confidence in the government and its policies was adopted almost unanimously to-day by the chamber of deputies. Previous to the vote Premier Salan dra delivered a speech to the deputies in which ho reaffirmed his statement made in a previous address that Italy's position was one of watchful neu trality. He said that nothing had hap pened to warrant any change in that position. "What I can guarantee," he de clared, "is that the government will follow a purely Italian policy, but in saying this I do not mean that we will disregard the policies of the great powers or the grouping of the powers fighting for the supremacy of the world. Italy is satisfied in protecting her noble traditions preparing for her great future." SCLZKR HAS PLANS FOR NEW PARTY IN NEW YORK By Associated Press Utica, N. Y., Dec. IG. —Following a conference with ex-Governor Sulzer, CHINA * Hand painted, beautifully Jesign ed at reasonable prices. JOS. D. BRENNER Diamond Merchant and Jeweler l No. 1 North Third St. m. J-x:- I .. _ ,-^ffMCTEi=3a» Christmas Business gM promises to bo large this year, and you y *\(/S M will need the services of a pood bank •tl / ' H l )j t0 facilitate your affairs, and make the Ek' pfi payment of your bills easy by having a wl"»'/(■ Wy checking account in a good bank. If i . KS you are not one of our numerous clients, He, VS we would suggest that you open an ac count with us before your Xmas business Ist National Bank 224 Market St. : i m HP' ' ~ s *"^7'' • -■■• - ■■• - v * ' ' ,s 1 ' " ( WEDNESDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH DECEMBER 16. 1014 .j CAPTAIN LAUBENSTEIN candy made daily, Captain Eaplien- Btein began making a comparison of the day's total forty years ago and the total of to-day, with remarkable results. Years ago employes of the Bacon company, making all the candy by hand, thought it a big day if about 1,800 pounds of candy were made. Now five tons a day is a very conserva tive estimate of the amount turned out, according to Mr. Eaubenstein's j figures. Here is a summary of the total amount the company averages per day: Four thousand pounds of hard can dy, such as clear toys, lollypops, tarts, cough drops, lime, orunge, horehound, lemon and other tablets for /irug stores, in addition to a line of special ties; 1,500 pounds of cocoanut can dies, and almost 2,500 pounds of cream bonbons and chocolate-coated creams and nuts. Back in '7fi three hundred pounds jof hard candy and 300 pounds of cream* were considered fine averages I for a day's work. i Captain then went on Ito speak about the new machinery ' that is in use, which makes it possible to turn out so much confectionery. "When the candy business first began j no modern improvements and ma chinery were in use. Each piece had j to be handled several times before it was packed for shipment," he ex- I the members of the Prohibition state ! I committee, in session here, last night adopted a resolution calling for pres entation to the national committee Mr. Sulzef's plan for a new party. He proposes a union of the Prohibition, Progressive and American parties and predicts a victory in 1916 for such a party. National prohibition is the first plank proposed for the party, with other planks calling for woman suf frage, an international peace confer ence and a commission to regulate the tax schedule. GERMAN ATTACK REPULSED By Associated Press Petrograd, Dec. 16.—The Army Mes senger publishes a series of communi cations from the front as follows: "On the front at Dowicz and How violent German attacks have had no success. Our troops have respulsed the Ger mans, causing them to suffer great losses." RECOVERING AFTER OPERATION Special to The Telegraph Mechanlcsburg, Pa., Dec. Gertrude Kerr, a well-known woman in this place, submitted to an op eration in the Harrlsburg Hospital lost week and is recovering from' the ef fects. Miss Kerr Is connected with the millinery establishment of Miss Haura Westhafer, West Main street. BEANS CAUSE FIRE i Allentown. Pa.. Dec. 16.—Explosion ! of cans of beans, which caused the ex plosion of firecrackers left over from ! last Fourth of July, set fire to the i store of Jonathan Pierce Monday even ing. Tho loss is SMOO. What caused the canned good 3 to explode is a ' mystery. plained. "When bonbons and other kinds of candy were to be chocolate coated, the following process was used: Kirst, the foundation for the bonbons had to be made. The sugar was weighed out and about fortv pound batches were made of the cream; this had >be whipped with a paddle by hand "1 then was dropped into molds v.iti i funnel. After this the pieces wen .tried by putting them on a sieve and powdering them with sugar and sifting them by hand. Each piece was their put on (mother sieve and lowered into the melted chocolate. It was then taken out to cool. The Modem Method "Now to make chocolate creams, several hundred pounds of sugar, to gether with the other ingredients, are I put in the machine and in a short I time the whole amount is run out in I a large box, ready to be dropped. "It is then put in a second machine, which drops it into largo boards full of molds. With this machine thou sands are dropped in an hour. The small pieces are then dusted in an other machine, which sifts the sugar over them, the candy coming out at one end and the sugar at the other. Next is necessary the coating ot' the pieces with chocolate. Here one of the best candy manufacturing ma chines over invented is used. Two girls lay the candy on a belt, which revolves slowly, drawing the candy to " ward the melted chocolate, which , rains on the pieces through a sieve. Just before the candy leaves the ma chine several fans drive heated air over it. which blows off some of the I chocolate and (jives each piece an even coating. The faster the fans re • volve the thinner the layer of coating. : Another girl is kept busy removing the finished product at the other end of " the machine. Th/; enndy is then taken ' to the packing department for prepa- J * ration for shipping. This is just one! example of the many processes used in! manufactu Ung candy to supply the in- ! ' creasing demands of the nation. ; "People want candy, and we must! ' make it for them," the veteran candy [ maker went on. "So machinery had - to be invented to do it. Now we use j machines with which three girls can make tons of sweets each week, CONSTANCE FARBER WHO IS HELPING MAKE ROTARY WEEK BEST EVER AT ORPHEVM . • ''••• '• ; * ' " " -J fmW " . ? . ; f , At both performances at the Orpheum yesterday, standing room only was inv»rder. Rotary Week promises to be a record breaker and the fund for H: | Belgian sufferers is on the increase. Lust night another fashionable audience was present and the artists on the bill won new laurels. Bessie Wynn,, tho Earber Sisters and Joe Jack son are the favorites. The sale of seats for the rest of the week indicate that those who have not purchased seats in advance had better do so at o ice. , ■ j whereas only thirty years ago eighteen ( i girls wre required to do the same i amount of work. All the help we j have here learned the trade with Us. j j Some of the men have been . i here almost as long as I have, | and for years have been mak | ing confectionery which has been • sent all over the country. Manv | men from the New England and : Southern States have been here to see Jus work and all of them say that this , I factory maks the biggest lots and j batches of candy at ono time that they ( j ever have seen. We make about tlvc l tons of candy each day and employ about forty people, fifteen men and , twenty-five girls." Santa's Veteran Helpers ! Mr. Laubenstein has been with the Bacon company ever since it began ' making candies and is proud of the fact that many of his men learned the business under him and are working ; with him yet. Some of his helpers are ; almost as old as he and have been making sweets for the youngsters in the summer and for Santa and 'the I Bunny in the winter. ! Some of the men who have been i with the Bacon company, starting their apprenticeship under the Cap i tain, are Albert Davis, thirty-nine years in the business; William Shel lenberger, thirty-five years; A. Mc- Cormick, twenty-five years; William Harrison,fifteen years; H. Elsenberger, fifteen years; Charles Anderson, fifteen years, and H. Gelger, ten years. PATTON SU99ESTS H unw PliN Would Have a State Commission of Three Take the Place of the Present System Speaking at Washington yesterday Congressman Charles E. Patton, of Curwensvllle, in discussing the Penn sylvania Highway Department, ex pressed the hope that a commission of three instead of one commissioner would be provided by the next Legis lature to conduct roadbuilding. He says such a change could not help but be beneficial to the State, would bring the department into closer touch with the taxpayers and would cost but little more than the Commonwealth is pay ing to maintain the Highways Depart ment. "As at present constituted," Mr. Patton said, "we have a commissioner of highways and two deputies. The commissioner is paid SB,OOO per year and his assistants receive $6,000. I believe three commissioners, with equal authority, would divide the re sponsibilities and the work of this rap idly growing department and would get more results in road construction. By advocating this change by the Leg islature I do not wish to be placed in a position of criticising the depart ment, as it is constituted. Under our present system Mr. Bige low, the commissioner, must shoulder all the responsibility. He is held ac-1 countable for all that is done or left undone. Wjtli three commissioners, one a practical roadbuilder, a second a good businessman and the third a man familiar with finances, I believe the department would be on a bettor basis. Each man would have certain work to do and he would have suffi cient time in which to do it. Then, too, these commissioners would have opportunity to visit different sections of the State where important work is under way or is contemplated, they would lie brought into touch with the taxpayers and would learn the wishes of the people who furnish the money to maintain the roads, and who usJe them. "The added expenditure would be little or nothing. The commissioners, should they be paid SB,OOO a year each, would cost the State only $4,000 ad ditional or a total of $24,000. Under the present system the commissioner and his two deputies receive $20,000." MARRIAGE OF UNFIT | IS MOST un [Continued From First Page] hind. It is always with the full con sent of the parents that the children are removed from the regular to the special schools. Tin? Teacher's Big Job , According to the effort required in teaching the feeble-minded, each child is rated as the equivalent of four nor mal ones. Thus the class of 18 means 72 for Miss of the Melrose school, and the class of 20 under Miss Knabe, in the Hamilton building, is equal to 80. These young women have to bo, from 9 to 3.30, teachers, moth ers. nurses, doctors, friends and play fellows. They fee) responsible for the moral welfare of their charges as well as the physical and mental. Great stress is laid upon the value of hygiene, deep breathing and personal eleanli tiicss. A freer circulation of the blood and good physical condition naturally stimulates the mental forces. The appeal of the beautiful also has its influence through the power of sug gestion. Around the classrooms are stands of growing plants, boughs of fir and shaded autumn leaves. On the walls are framed pictures, paper lan terns and cut-out drawings of the ptiplls'. "Wc believe in everj thing which will help to uplift and improve," said one of the capable young teachers. "When Howe's moving pictures come to Harrisburg T urge all the chil dren who can possibly do so to go. .Such plays as "The Blue Birr surely do much good and can be understood by these children in a degree to help them." Chance for Civic Club Surely there is a /letd here for those members of the Harrisburg Civic Club who visit the grammar schools to talk to the children upon the live topics of the day. Simple wording brought down to the level of these poor dwarfed minds could teach them many things outside the regular curriculum. The advancement in this wonderful method of instruction is very, very slow. Sometimes It seems almost hopeless. "Oh, I feel so discouraged now and then," said Miss Laucks. "but yet something about it seems to grip and hold me. It may be pity. Brave? Why, it does not seem so to me! It is Just my everyday work." It is this spirit of self-sacrifice, gen tleness and understanding on the part of the teachers which has made the special schools for defectives a suc cess. As the city has grown there has developed the need of more of them and it is to be hoped that they will be opened before very long. It has been said that the question of the feeble-minded of our populace has become one of the greatest problems of the country. The unfairness to the | future generations of the marriage of the unfit Is demonstrated right here among us by some of the cases In these special schools. But beyond and above all the argument is driven forcibly home in favor of a cleaner moral code . ONLY ONE "IIHOMO tI'IMNE" Whenever you feel a cold coming on, think of the full name, LAXATIVE BKOMO QUININE. Look for signature of E. W. Grove on box. 25c.—Adver tisement. NEW MKMIIKRS ADDED Dillsburg, Pa., Dec .16. ■ — At the i church services held in the Dillsburg i Methodist on Sunday morning thirty ! one new members were added to the church roll. The greater number of I these were young men and all of this j number were converted during the evangelistic campaign conducted by the Rev. S. B. Goff, of Philadelphia. Next Sunday a large number of these converts will join the three other churches of Dillsburg. I PROGRAM FOR INSTITUTE Lewisberry, Pa., Dec. 16. —A uniot Institute will be held at Newberrytown on January 16 by the teachers of New berry and Falrvlew townships, Golds boro, Lewisberry and York Haven. The program follows: Devotional exercises, J. W. Weigle; "Phonics and the Use of the Dictionary," Miss Mabel Walton and J. P. Hays; "Learning to Head and Heading to Learn," H. M. Sutton and the Rev. Mr. Funk: query box. Even ing session. "Manners and Morals," P. C. Bell: "How Can a Country School Ground Be Made Attractive?" Miss Kohler. Debate, "Resolved, that con gress was justified in laying the SIOO,- 000,000 war tax." Affirmative, John Whisler, George Fitzgerald and W. G. Cross, negative, William Crone, C. F. Brillhart and B. G. Nebinger. WEDDING AT BAINBRIDGE Bainbridge, Pa., Dec. 16.—Miss Har riet Camp, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William M. Camp, was married yester day to Frank Reno, Jr., at the par sonage of the Cookmun Methodist Episcopal Church, by the pastor, the Rev. William J. Lindsay. JAIL FULL OK "INMATHJS" Sunbury, Pa., Dec. 18. Northum berland county Jail here has eighty three Inmates at present and every cell is full. Warden Wallace W. Barr has dropped the name "prisoner" and will call his wards "inmates" in the future. IIOI.ISO WRONG "RABBIT" Sunbury.f Pa., Dec. IG. While hunt ing rabbits at Weigh Scales, Roman Dauksha. a Northumberland county court Interpreter, "holed" a supposed rabbit. When he put ills hand in to pull it out his finger was badly chewed. When the animal was finally gotten out and killed, he found he had a ten pound opossum. SPUIIHKD ON BY SONGS ! Sunbury, Pa.. Dec. 16. Volunteer | workmen helped finish the interior of the big Bloomsburg tabernacle, where 1 the Nlcholas-Hemmlnger evangelistic campaign will open December 27. Wo- Imen of the Baptist Church served re freshments. while those of other fle noniinatlons spurred on the workers by singing religious songs.
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