Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-10-27

Newark. the City of Industry. is to
have an Industrial exhibition next yedr.
This will be the prelude 10 the. .grent
exposition Of 1915, when, after $50 years
OF growth and prosperity Newark Will
attingIy celebrate her Industrial
achievements and the true birth of
Greater Newark.
~ Newark will be truly boosted and the
STAR is going to lend ell it's aid,
TO this end Curtis II. Burnett, presi-
dent of the Newark Board of Trade,
and James M Reilly, secretary, today
held a conference with Edward Fl.
Allen, of Chicago Plans for the indus
trial exposition to be held in this city
next year were discussed. Mr.. Allen,
the general manager of the Interna-
tonal Municipal Congress Exposition,
held in Chicago September 1880, is an
expert in this work
Borden D. Whiting will file an appli-
cation with the secretary OF state for
the incorporation of a Newark exposi-
ton company. This concern will be
operated under the auspices of the
Board of Trade. The officers will be
Curtis r. Burnett, president; Philip J..
Bowers, treasurer; James M. Reilly,
director. The foregoing officers, with
George w. Jagle and John L. O'Toole,
will form the executive committee. The
organization of the following commit
tees are being arranged for Promotion,
finance, educational and publicity COM
mittees.
This will be followed in 1916 by the
great exposition in honor of Newark's
two hundred and flftieth anniversary.
AS shown by the consensus of opinion
of many prominent business men and
capitalists, the 1915 exhibition will be
in every respect a fitting celebrate Of
the titanic success which Newark has
gained in the industrial world. It will
be an industrial exhibition given by the
City of Industry.
II WIFI probably be held in May, the
month when the first little ships,
manned by Puritan crews and carrying
Puritan settlers, sailed up the Passaic
and anchored off what was then q will
derness, but which is now the City In
dustrial.
From few small houses, scattered in
the clearing, Newark has grown to be
a mighty force in the industrial world.
For her manufactures she stands pre-
eminent.
mo other city can compare with her
in industrial progress and achieve
ment," seid David Grotta, president of
the City Planning Commission.
ut is wrong-it is crime" asserted
Frederick Keer, another commissioner,
Sthat the manufacturers and capital
lists have done nothing to advertise
Newark Widespread advC -tisin6
tho co1Irt,.ty 4ua ,,o11cf Ve
An exhibition is the way to attain
that publicity. And it must come,
and come quickly"
The first great Newark exhibition
was held in 1872 in a building erected
for the purpose, the old Machinery
Hall but after a third exhibition in
1875 the project was abandoned.
Since that time civic pride has been
apparently helpless to stir Newarkers
to any extended scheme of industrial
advertising. Now, however, the time
is admittedly ripe for such an indus>
trial exhibition as has never been
equaled in the cities of the country.
In 1916 Newark will be an even
greater city of industry than now.
Gigantic undertakings are being
pressed to conclusion on every side.
Skyscrapers are springing up. A score
or more will be erected in the very
heart of the city before the anniversary
celebration five years hence, Broad
and Market streets will be metamor-
phosed.
The reclamation of the meadows will
make hundreds of factory sites avail
able. The ship canal, even if not fin
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