The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-14
PLANS LARGEST
CITY IN WORLD
FOR NEW JERSEY
Trade Board Sees Possibility of
Newark and Jersey City
Linking Hands.
100000 POPULATION
IN GIANT MUNICIPALITY
Colby and Martin Bills APP
proyed-Anti-trust and Other
Measures Scored.

1.-The City of 1000, 900 Inhabitants
was discussed at the meeting of the
Board of Trade last night, and the
rosy view of the future establishment
of the largest city in the world with
Newark as it is at the present, the
centre, was explained by Calvin Tom
kins.
He spoke of the merging of Jersey
City and Newark and surrounding
towns into one large municipality, the
retaining of the meadows between
Newark and Jersey city to allow these
cities to grow together, and he de-
clared that when this was an assured
fact "our interests are so closely re-
lated to those of New York that We
will be practically one large city, the
business centre of the civilized world"
Librarian John Cotton Dana, of the
Free Public Library, chairman of the
interurban committee, which prepared
Il report on the matter in 1906, request
cd tina the report be reprinted and
distributed and steps be taken to per-
feet the scheme. He suggested a met
ropo1itan commission to take the mat
ter up.
Utilities Bills Indorscd.
The board then took up legislative
matters, and unanimously Endorsed
Senate bill II and Assembly bill 4, the
Colby and Martin public utilities meas
ures.
Senate No. 80, the Robbins bill, pro-
yiding for the supervision of public
utilities. was the object of much criti-
cism, and the report on it was n
favorable, the action in these three
bills being the same as taken recently
by the legislative committee of Com
mon Council.
Assembly bill 8, favoring a reduc-
ton of the number of Freeholders
elected in counties, was not Endorsed
by the Board of Trade because 1t IS
not applicable to Essex County.
Condemns Antitrust Bill.
The following bills were condemned
by the board: Assembly s, known as
the antitrust bill, for being extremely
radical; Senate 81 and 80, as being
inimical to the proper interests of the
fire Insurance business; Assembly 10, to
license engineers of stationary engines.
a~ndsSenate Al.
THE last bill provides a 10 teacher
in the public schools car be removed
after three years of service, without
first being brought up on charges be-
fore the board of education. The Board
of Trade resolved that it vas de
cidedly opposed to such a measure"
The bills providing for a State editor
of public reports and a commissioner
for public accounts and bills we're not
approved.
Trades schools were advocated by
Professor Albert A. Snowden, who spoke
with emphasis upon the vocational
schools now established throughout
Germany, and said that the United
States would have to adopt some SINH
lar method of training mechanics il
America is to hold her supremacy in
the manufacture of machinery.
Ask state Commission.
The board also adopted a resolution
that the educational committee of the
Board of Trade recommend to the Gov
ernor and Legislature 1.-THE appointment
of a commission of inquiry by the Gov
ernor, consisting of not more than
five, nor less than three members, to
ascertain what becomes of the boys and
+. girls for the first three or four years
after leaving the grammar schools,
what gainful occupations they are fol-
lowing which will increase their earn
ing capacity. and what proportion
would have remained in school for a
longer period if there had existed a
vocational school which they might
have attended"
The commission is to report to the
Governor before the meeting Of the
Legislature of 1909.
Another resolution favored the pen
sioning of members of the maritime life