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Owe dollar a yearBRILL TELLS OF HERSHEY CARSCompany’s Magazine Devotes Four . Pages to ar» Account of the Fine Equipment and Record of .the’Heshey Transit Company Features of the TownThe Brill. Magazine for June,, a handsomely printed publication, devotes four pages to an illustrated account of Hershey and the equipment and history of the Hershey Transit Company. The article, . •says:Hershey, Pa., one- of the most unique towns in the world, recently has had its transit service augmented by the receipt ' of two 30 ft. 8 in. Semi-Convertible prepayment cars, the product .of The J. G. Brill Company’s plant. ' These cars are very similar in design to the type of an order previously built for. the Hershey Transit Company, which cars have been rendering very satisfactory service,1 as . -is shown by the repetition of the order. Hershey has been remarkably progressive and thriving. Its chief, industry is the Hershey Chocolate Company, which with its allied interests, employs about three thousand persons. This plant consumes an average of 75,OCO quarts of milk daily, which milk is collected from the farming districts of Dauphin, Lebanon 1 and Lancaster Counties'. This requirement of daily collection and delivery of millc, with the transportation of employes, has made the transit lines an important part of the development of the town. A model community has been built up about the plant, the construction of every building being overseen by a competent architect arid the furnishing of all the advantages of a modern city being given careful consideration.Besides its industrial’growth, yvhich has been along steady, well-defined lines, the i social- side of the life of Hershey’s inhabitants has been giver attention. The town has become a magnet for tourists, because of its unusual features and unique founding and government. Attached to the town is a most complete park with largeJree private zoo. The town has two i theatres and-a convention hall which will hold ten thousand. In addition, it is planned to build a large social center building covering nearly 90,000 square feet and five stories in height and containing practically every conceivable public convenience, including a music hall and a j modern hospital. Throughout the whole year public entertainments are scheduled, and the transit officials find that this helps make a constant movement of travel in addition to the usual transportation. A park placed at the top of a hill and overlooking. a wide view is in process of development, and it is also planned to build a million dollar hotel on this site.The development of, the transit system of Hershey is equally as interesting and impressive as the development of the town itself. Every attention was devoted to establishing and maintaining a reputation for comfort, easy riding and prompt and efficient service. The company, like the town, is of comparatively recent growth, tlie town having been founded in 1903 and the transit company following soon after. The I-Iummelslown Campbelltown Street Railway Company was incorporated on March, 1903, and was open for traffic between I-Iummelslown and Palmyra in October of the following year. At that . time the equipment of the company consisted of three double-truck Brill Seini-Convertible cars, the power being furnished by the Ilersliey Chocolate Company, The extension to Campbelltown, a distance of about A miles, was opened for i traffic in January, 1908, The Lebanon Campbelllown Street Railway Company,10 miles In length, was incorporated in i August, 1911, and was opened for traffici in_ February, 1913, The entire trolleysystem was merged Into Die Hershey• Transit Company In December, 1913, Thu Deodate Ilersliey Street Railway1 Company and the Deoclale Elizabethtown Street Railway Company, about 10■ miles in length, were opened for operation• In 1915 and also were merged with the■ Hershey Transit Company. 'Ihe latter line1 connects at Elizabethtown with the Conestoga Traction Company, connecting- Lancaster with Hershuy direct and making- connections at, Lancaster to all parts ofi Lancaster, Chester and Berks counties,r Thus the residents of Ilersliey and thesurrounding towns are given direct trolley a service lo Philadelphia,t The present.rolling slock, Including the• new cars, is made pp of fourteop double-ii truck Suinl-Convortililc Brill cars, two
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Hershey Press
Hershey, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, Jun 15, 1916
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