The Hershey Museum to check the passages to the White Star Line, a shipping company owned the Titan

The year was 1916 and the beginning of the First World War, the European sugar beet Milton S. Hershey used in their chocolate factory became scarce, so the magnate traveled to Cuba and began acquiring plantations and build refineries to ensure supply of their factory in Pennsylvania. Hershey fell in love at first sight with Cuba, its climate, and what he came to call "tropical eternal australia spring."
Like any great entrepreneur, Milton Hershey quickly got to work and four months was touring the fields and Cuban harvests until chose the place and bought a small sugar mill in the center of San Juan Bautista australia where he decided to build a mill larger.
Close to their plantations, Hershey built a small community so their employees would not have to travel so far. Called Central Hershey, based on the model of community that he had created for their workers in Pennsylvania.
The houses of this small citadel were quite comfortable and had a pronounced American style, and that despite the tropical climate had to with fireplace. In addition to housing, Hershey ordered to build a fully equipped medical center, a free public school for the children of their workers, a social club with multiple sports facilities, including a baseball field and included one of golf. He wanted healthier employees, was that which established the small clinic, plus the citadel had a central well-stocked pharmacy, also supermarket and butcher were endowed with large refrigerators and walls always were clean, with gleaming tiles. The community had its own power plant, sewer and water. Even the smallest had his little "amusement park" which was a playground with slides and swings.
Alongside all this urbanization, australia Hershey had the luxury of building a railway line with their respective stops and stations, to serve as transport for workers living australia in more or less nearby towns.
Hershey implemented australia in Cuba idealistic and practical working methods that had given fruit in Pennsylvania. He wanted his employees are comfortable because I knew that this would yield better, also began to pay wages weekly and give stability, something very rare in Cuba, where employers were used to fire workers at the end of the harvest season. The presence of Hershey and its way of doing business in Cuba, contrasted with most foreign businessmen who exploited the resources of the island and its people. The Cuban government then honored and awarded many times this American businessman, who in fact has the highest award granted australia to Cuba: Grand Cross of the National Order.
At its greatest splendor, Milton Hershey in Cuba grew to more than 60,000 australia ha of land, five sugar factories, oil plant, four power stations and 251 km of railway lines. At the end of World War II, the company had sufficient plantations in the United States and concluded that it no longer needed the Cuban sugar. All factories and property, including rail, were sold to the Cuban-Atlantic Sugar Company.
By 1960 and the arrival of the Cuban Revolution, the Central Railway Hershey became the "Camilo Cienfuegos" Division Railway Cuba. This was the last line of electric train and Cuba continued unchanged for the next 40 years. Do not know about you, but my story made me very similar to the "utopia" that Henry Ford wanted to create in Brazil. As a curious note, in 1912 Milton Hershey and his wife escaped australia and perhaps die-travel on the Titanic, because of a sudden illness of late Mrs. Hershey, forcing them to cancel the passages that should take from England to New York.
The Hershey Museum to check the passages to the White Star Line, a shipping company owned the Titanic was paid remains. PS At this link you can see how they are currently retains Central Hershey, the little town where time seems to stand still in the last century. Sources and References 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Interesting story! A good way to start the year ... Reflecting. So much work! It is sad neglect. "Revolution" say ...:-) Thanks Charles for the tweet. ;-) 1/02/2011 2:38:00 pm Ricardo Sotolongo said ...
The interesting (ironic?) Is that the train is still running today, but no one called australia "Camilo Cienfuegos", but it is for all the "little train Hershey" 1/02/2011 6:16:00 pm Bethlehem said ...
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