The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-07-19

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Frank H. Plat, treasurer Of the United
States Express Company; Samuel Rea,
vice-president of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road; @. Tracy Rogers Of B~inghamton,
Director Of the Hudson and Manhattan
Railroad; Lindsay Russell, Francis
Lynde Stetson. Jacob H. Schif, Grant
j.. Schley. H. r. Seaman. Samuel
Strauss, publisher of the Globe; DR..
Albert Shaw, editor OF the Review of
Reviews; A. A. Tilney. OF Harvey Fisk
4 Sons; ]. d. Thayer, Pennsylvania
Railroad Company; William H. Trues-
dale. president OF the Lackawanna
Railroad. F. D. Underwood, president
OF the Erie Railroad: W. X. Vanderbilt.
ir., H. n. Vreeland, former president of
the Metropolitan Street Railway sys-
tenn; II II. Westinghouse, H. Otto
Wittpenn, Mayor of Jersey CITY.
AT the moment the train started Miss
Harriet MeAdoo, the 19-year-old daugh-
ter of William G.. McAdoo. president of
the impair and the mar to whom the
greatest credit for the building of the
great system of tunnels under the river
belongs, pressed a button which flashed
q signal In Jersey City. marking the
start Of the train. This signal caused
flags to be run or the terminals in New
York and Jersey City announcing the
official opening of the tunnels.
Jersey City en- Fete.
In celebration of this great event Jer-
tey City had made preparations for a
gala three days. The entire lower see
ton OF the CITY was gay With flags and
bunting, ana tie Big municipal building
In front Of which the ceremonies were
To take place. 8as buried under the
latfictie decorations. the Pennsyl-
yania Railroad station, the neighbour
Hood OF the tunnel entrances and exits,
Newark wen and the other business
thCroughfares which converge at the
City Hall were swathed in decorations.
once their brief but history-making
Journey was completed the guests of the
officers of the tunnel system boarded
automobiles which were waiting for
them, and were taken through the
Court of Honor, on Exchange place,
along Montgomery street, Newark ave-
rue and Grove street To tho City Hall
Park, Mayor Wittpenn, honorary chair
man of the tunnel opening celebration
committee, presided and introduced the
men who were to speak in g%lorlfcation
Of the mammoth work and its pro-
moters.
Governor Forts Speech.
In the course of his speech Governor
Fort said:
This Is a great day for Jersey City.
1t Is equally Il great day for New Jer-
ser. Quick transit from Manhattan
Island means much to US. The tunnel
makes New York and Jersey city prac-
tically one. with the coming OF the
tunnel, coupled with good trolley faciii-
way transportation service, the future
growth of the western shore of the
Hudson cannot be estimated.
As we contemplate the events of the
day we OF necessity minimize the i'm
spotance of State lines. They are only
ina ginary and stand for very little
any longer.
The Interstate character of the bust
ness oil corporations hecessltates some
sort of regulation which is more than
Statewide. The nation alone can pro-
vide uniform regulations trough all the
States. Forty-six separate State super
visions will, of necessity, create confu-
sion under the varied and divergent
methods of regulation. In business all
State lines will have to go and business
be as free and uniformly protected as
citizenship in the republic. Take the
utlci uitutT IH6 f1uuSOu, lDe opening
of one of which we celebrate today
these canot be wisely regulated at each
end IL the regulations are divergent in
the two states. The ira f1c In the tun-
nels is purely-in fact exclusively-in-
terstate, and In my view the Congress
can regulate, to the exclusion of the
States, the conduct of the business of
these tunnels. Z
The age IN which we are living is the
age of scientific development and in
vention. We think no more of tunnel
tnU riVaFa than MIR fathaFQ did of az
tablishing ferries with the rope and fiat
boat. We tunnel mountains with the
ease with which they dug a well. We
We travel through the air and speak a
thousand miles through space without
even a wire. We converse 5000 miles
under the sea through a strain OF wire
for the transmission of the human
voice. Our facilities for inter-commu-
nication between individuals and ma
tions has revolutionized private and
public matters, both in business and
government.
What is yet to be. no man can fore
tell. Shall we talk with the inhabitants
of Mars and know the doings on the
planets? Why not? The possibility of
such things are no more improbable
than the things we do now were 100. or
even fifty years ago.
Corporate organizations are not to be
condemned. but rather commended and
abuse of corporate power that must be
checked. No other method yet de-
vised is equal to the corporation for
the conducting OF great national or
worldwide enterprises. Let us well
come the coming of corporations under
proper regulations.
These questions are large ones and
will the best craftsmanship
OF the future. Our State is to be the
battle ground of corporate controversy.
We must be wise, conservative and
firm. at all times holding the scales even !
between the interests OF the people and
the demands OF concentrated corporate
power. On this day and on your future
let me congratulate the people of this
great city.
William G. McAdoo declared that
''the public-be-pleased" policy. as OPP
posed to Observation-Disclosures policy,
was the aim of the tunnel
He paid a glowing tribute to Pliny
Fisk and Wilbur C. Fisk, members of
the firm of Harvey Fisk & Sons, for
the gigantic work of financing the con-
struction of the tunnels, and aid
MT. McAdOO's Address.
A great dream is realized today. 1t is
expressed In steel and concrete, in trains
and electricity, in three minutes to
Broadway A great and useful ~instrn-
ment of transportation is here dedicated
TO the public service.
Three score and a half years ago n
hardy pioneer came out of the West
bound for New York. He crossed the HUd-i