The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-22
WOMEN WITH THE
REAL ESTATE MEN
DINE RA|LR0ADERs
Prominent Officials Guests of
the New York and New
Jersey Exchange.
"DIVINELY FAVORED LAND
PRAISED AT THE PLAZA
PleasantLittle Shots in Speeches
at Commuters and
the Erie.

NEW YORK. April 22.-The New
Jersey railroads had their inning in a
dinner of the New York and New Jer-
sey Real Estate Exchange in the HoteI
Plaza last night. Commuters can and do
talk every day in the year. but las,
night was hallowed and set aside by
the real estate men for the railroads.
1t was a bad night for the commuter.
The Central of New Jersey. the Della
ware, Lackawanna and Western. the
west Shore n the Erie all took a
whack at him, but in the best of spir-
Its. Their purpose was to make the
commuter see the light; to show him
mat a lot of his complaining is unrea-
sonable and unjust. They love the
commuter, the Jersey railroads do, for
he is an asset, and they stand ready
to do everything they can for his up
lift.
About 200 of JERSEYS real estate
ONE listened to the railros -
tors, and frequently agreed with them
on the things they said about the
mmuter AS a matter of fact. Il
would have been pretty hard for the
most seasoned Jersey commuter 10
have sidestepped some of the argu-
ments that the traffic mana ~e-- pre-
scented.
Nutiey Woman Was There.
several women who are interested in
real estate developments in New Jersey
We're present n a V a touch of nov
city 10 the occasion. Among them We're.
Mrs. Evelyn Aldrich, treasurer of the
Monetary Realty Company, Interested
IN developments in Rutherford, and
MISS Daisy +. Hood, interested in de-
Velopments in and around Nutley.
Just to give the railroad men a
proper idea of the land through which
they are privileged to rum. Otto Kemp
her' the president of the exchange, had
a few words to say. Jersey" he said,
Jersey, the fair, the divinely favored
The Central of New Jersey was first
at bat, with Vice-President and General
Manager William G.. Besler as spokes-
man. He began mildly by rehearsing
what the Jersey Central had done as a
pioneer for the real estate agent and
the connmuter. 1t was the first road
that undertook to eliminate grade
crossings and to elevate the tracks.
Built Up from HamIets.
1t built up from a few hamlets.'
said Mr.. Besler, what is now an al
most continuous city from Jersey City
to Plainfield."
- HA hnliaNnh that fhA 49,. -.
ing when the Jersey coast near New
hork VIII be converted into resorts that
Will easily equal Atlantic CITY. He
oug that all commuters and real
estate agents ought to cooperate. rea-
sonably with the railroads In their en-
deavor to serve the public.
clifford s. Sims, vice. president and
general manager of the Delaware,
Lackawanna & Western, confessed he
belonged to a d~owntrodden railroad set.
There is a lot of loose talk, according
to Mr.. Sims, about freight rates. But
the average charges a ton a mile in this
country is orly seven mills, compared
with 1.3 cents in England. The Jersey
commuter who eats his pound OF beef
steak for breakfast pays only 2.5 of a
cent a pound freight on 1t from Chi
cago.
The same 'commuter, he continued,
who buys a SIS suit of clothes pays
about 4 cents freight on it If it comes
from Boston.
All this talk about dreadful freight
"One man, who acts thirty seconds
after a question comes up, can dispose
of 1t better than five men on a COM
mission who act four months efter IL
ought to be settled" was his a of
putting the proposition. :
Pleads for sPoor Old Erie,
Louis Jackson. industrial commits
sioner of the Erie. spoke up for that
road-"the poor old Erie.' as he called
1t. President Underwood. he admitted
was up in Boston. trying to borrow
money, and that explained his (Jack-
son's) presence at the dinner. He would
remark, however, that an oficer OF the
king is also entitled to respect. The
Erie, he begged to inform the public,
would rather spring surprises than
make promises.