The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-06-03
Representative interests of New
ark Meet and Form Mass
Meeting Plans.
GEORGE A. WIEDENMAYER
CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEE
NoOn-day Meetings to Be Held
and States Industries to
Be Electrified.

within two weeks the great Get-T0-
gether mass meeting of the Optimlst
Club of New Jersey will be held in New
ark.
Definite arrangements were made
last night by the standing committee
which includes Newarks foremost citi-
zens, at the Board of Trade for the
meeting. Many noted men are eX-
pected to address the meeting on op-
timism
There will be no political speakers.
It was made very plain by the standing
committee last night that the move
ment for the rejuvenation of business
confidence in New Jersey is absolutely
-sectarian, non political and wholly
free from any element which would be
offensive to any interest The sole
aim Of the organization, and the cam
pnign which il proposes to push ener-
gctically throughout the summer and
fall, is to restore confidence I'm business
and to bring back the commercial pros
perity which simply waits for those
who seek it.
Millions of dollars of invested capital
in Newark and North Jersey were rep
resented The Optimist Club is entirely
managed by the most important men
of the city
Mass Meeting Committee.
By authority of the standing COM
mittee, voted las night, Judge Charles
Il. Herr, president of the club, today
announced the names of a committee
on ways and means, which will arrange
for the big mass meeting This COM
mittee, composed of the most energetic
optimists in New Jersey, will not only
arrange for the place and time of meet
ing, but will have charge of the pro-
gram, will provide bands and orches-
tras which can play optimistic music,
and speakers who will be worth coming
any number of miles TO hear.
The committee follows George W.
Wiedenmayer. chairman; the Rev. DIR.
Thomas j, Villers, Rudolph J. Goerke,
Herbert C, Hoagland Frank Holt,
Theodore S. Fettinger, James NJ. Reilly,
w B. Snyder, Calvin Tomkins, Will
lam A. Baker.
George w. Wiedenmayer, declaring
that he had been an optimist all his
life, even through reverses, said money
would be needed and started the fund
with subscription of $25 Many other
prominent business men Immediately
declared their intention of subscribing
to the fund, which will be necessary to
defray expenses.
Judge Herr will also appoint com
mittee on push, progress and prosper
ity" That will be the name under
which the publicity committee will
work.
The committee will spread the doc
trine of optimism throughout the state
and, perhaps, through the country.
There will be much literature sent
out, preaching prosperity, and during
the summer it is planned to hold pros
perity meetings in various parts of the
State.
Stanch Business Men.
Seldom has there been a meeting Of
more representative Newark business
men than those who participated in
the deliberations of the standing COM
mittee Among them were the Rev DR..
Thomas J. Villers, pastor First Bap
tist Peddie Memorial Church; George
w. Wiedenmayer, Rudolph j. Goerke,
president of the Goerke Company;
Theodore S. Fettinger, advertising
manager Of Hahne & Co; H. c, Hoag-
land, advertising manager of w. V.
CIlyueT N vi ~ murphy Lil6 SIlOG
man; James M. Reilly, secretary of the
Board of Trade; James De Jianne, of
De Jianne Bros; Frank Holt president
of Frank Holt & Co, wholesale and re-
tail jewelers.; G. K. Armstrong dis
trict passenger agent of the Central
railroad of New Jersey; William A
Baker, of the Baker Printing Company;
Carl Schultz, secretary and treasurer
of the Schultz Printing Company Ed
ward Resche, of Ballantine & Co., and
William Ritter.
Besides arranging for the Get-To
gether meeting, to be held within two
weeks. the ways and means commit
tee will consider the advisablity of
holding noon-day meetings in Newark,
so that all employers and employees
may be properly imbued with the spirit
of optimism. At these noon-day meet
ings it is planned to have regular
speakers assigned, to be the business
men themselves.
All of these matters are expected to
he worked out in the next few days, SO
that the definite program may be an
nounced long before the big massmeet-
ing.
When President Herr gave his first
talk on optimism to the standing COM
nittee last night, he prefaced his re-
marks by saying
~ was talking over the telephone
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