The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-18
SHIPPERS JOIN
TO PROTECT
INTERESTS
Bureau Organized
Here With Members From
ALI Parts Of the State.

Freight interests from all over the
northern part of the State were repre-
sented at a meeting held in the Board
OF Trade rooms last night for h in
auguration of a Freight Shippers and
Receivers Bureau to be established in
this city. 1t was decided to incorporate
Immediately. Besides having head
quarters in Newark, branches in all the
nearby towns will soon be in operation,
according to the plans outlined.
The bureau will ACT as a medium be-
tween the shippers and receivers OF
freight and the common carriers, and
will act aF a clearing house in
the matter of auditing bills; 1t
will secure the adjustment of disputed
charges for demurrage claims and
o~vercharges in freight rates, and will
see to the prompt settlement of claims
for losses. or damage to freight, and
act in all like matters for the members
of the association.
Extensive handlers of freight at
tended the meeting and they adopted
a comprehensive constitution and by
laws covering disputed points.
Officers were elected as follows:
President, Isaac F. Roe, of Roe &
Conover, Newark; treasurer, Curtis r.
Burnett. of South Jersey Glass Works
James M. Reilly, secretary of the
Board of Trade. acted as secretary and
no permanent secretary or vice-presi-
dent was chosen.
Under the constitution adopted vesting
the management of the business affairs
in a council. the following were elect
ed! w. w. Ingersoll, Murphy Yarnish
Works, Newark; George Alexander,
Marin Linoleum Works, Kearny; Isaac
F. Roe. Roe & Conover, Newark; Cur
It's r. Burnett, South Jersey Glass
Works. Sw~edesboro; ]. f. Glasby,s
Glasby Lumber Company, Newark;
William c. Bloomingdale, American
Hay Company, Townley; Arthur A.
Barlow, Barlow Foundry Company,
Newark: Thomas Igoe. Igoe Brothers,
Newark; A. J.. Wilson, United States
Printing Company. Montclair, and j. F.
Rodgers, Edison Photograph Company,
Of West Orange.
The section of the constitution under
which the members of the council were
elected, provides for twenty-one men,
bers, seven to serve three years, seven
for two years and seven for one year
elections hereafter to- be for three
years, but only ten were elected. the
balance to be chosen when the MEM
bership list for the year is closed. A
meeting will be held In a few days to
select a manager for the bureau and a
number of men well versed in the
duties attached to the office are candi-
dates for the position.
Letters were received from firms all
over the State who We're unable to have
representatives at the meeting. COM
mending the spirit of the enterprise,
and asking for membership application
blanks. A letter from S. w. Rushmore,
president of the Rushmore Dynamo
Works at Plainfleld, said he was much
interested, and at the present his con-
Germ was tied up to one railroad, and
that one express company had the
monopoly in Plainfeld, with the re-
suit that the service was poor at times.
At a meeting of the council imme-
diately after the organization meeting,
Thomas Igoe, Curtis r. Burnett and
Isaac f. Roe were appointed a com
mittee on incorporation and also were
Unlisted with looking for suitable
headquarters for the main office of the
bureau In this city.
Following are the members enrolled
last night:
Edison Photograph Works, Orange. N;
j.; Newark Desk Company, Newark; Flood
s conklin CO. Newark; South Jersey
Glass Works, Swedesboro, N. j.; Roessler
& Hasslacher Chemical Company. Perth
Amboy, N. j.: United States rrinting
Company, Montclair. N. j.; Marin Lin
oIeum Company. Kearuy, n. j; G. Pardee
Works. Perth Amboy, N. j.; Roe & Con-
over, Newark; Conkling Lumber Conp'ny,
Bernardsville, N. j.; American Hay Com
pany. Townley. N. j.; the Harrington
Company, Perth Amboy. n. =. Nicholas
Mehrhof, Hackensack, N. j.; Murphy Var
nish Company. Newark; Essex Lumber
Company. Newark: L. Goldsmith & Son,
Newark; Franklin L.. Lem Company, New
Elizabeth, N. j.; j. F., Glasby Lumber
Company. Newark; z. L. ard A. Held
ritter, Elizabeth, N. j.: the Dillerton Lun-
Der Company. Paterson, N. j.; Driver
Harris Wire Company, Harrison, N. j.;
Potts & Kaufman tIncorporated), Perth
Amboy, N. j.; Tabor Slsh Company, New
ark; A. Cyphers Company. Newark; Clark
& Co, Newark; Seton Leather Company,
Newark; igoe Brothers, Newark; Thomas
Eggert. Perth Amboy, N. j.; the Barlow
Foundry. Newark; Rushmore Dynamo
Works. Plalnfie.d. N. j.; F. T. Hull & Co,
Newark; American OIL and Supply Com
pany, Newark.