Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-02-16
SOUNDS KEYNOTE;
BOOMING BETTER
MARKET STREET
Business Men Hold Dinner.
Speechmakers Give lnspira=
ton for Improvement.

If the Market Street Business Mems
Improvement Association does not get a
better Market street it will not be
the fault of the association. At the
dinner given by the association last
night in Eisner's, at which the Board
of Works, the Board of Trade and the
South Broad Street Business Mems
Association were represented. a better
Market street was the keynote Of the
speeches made by the various represen-
tatiyes.
A feature OF the dinner was a box
neatly tied up with red ribbon and
placed before each plate. Many guests
thought it a box Of candy, but. on ex-
animation, found that It vas a sample
of wood block, tarred and banded with
a black sheet of paper. which an
nounced the mem and in verse set
forth some of the principles of tho asso-
en- ton
Leopold Jay was the POSTMASTER.
The chief speaker was Commissioner
Arthur Denman, Of the Board Of
Works. He chose for his subject Civic
Hrlue. he Sdlu III pdTl.
Newark,s Civic Pride.
Il believe Newark's civic pride is for
the coming generation as well as for
the present. We welcome all c)nstruc-
tive criticism and welcome anyone that
comes to us with a plan for public I'm
prtvenent. You gentlemen are to be
congratulated for your progressiveness,
and are doing much to educate the sur
rounding cities In the matter of light
ing and street paving"
Mr.. Denman praised the citizens of
Newark for the ann in which they
responded to the appeal of the Y. w.
c.. A. The next speaker was Senator
Harry V. Osborne. He remarked that
the lighting facilities in Market and
Broad streets. the result of the efforts
of the associations, We're the best in the
country, with the single exception Of
Broadway, New York city.
Curtiss r Burnett, president of the
Board of TlAde, spoke IN "Newark's
Industries" He outlined the Industrial
growth of the city and said that last
years products in Newark had a total
value of 500, 900, 900, and that these In
dustries employed 10000 persons. Mr..
Burnett invited the business men to
join the Board of Trade.
Big Hotel Coming.
Charles II. SAMSON, president OF the
South Broad Street Business Mems
Association, was the next speaker. He
told of the big hotel Newark is going
to have on South Broad street and Of
the store which will occupy the site of
the old City Hall. and of the benefit
the South Broad street merchants had
from their competition with the
street men in the way of effect
ing improvements and extensions
DR.. Charles F. Kraemer, of the Board
of Works and of the Fourth Ward I'm
provement Association, followed with
account Of the difficulties he had
experienced while connected with the
city government. They arose, he said,
not from lack of honesty or progress
siveness among officials, but from con-
ditions. AS an individual and as a
member of the. Board OF Works he
promised to do all he could to help the
association In their work for "a Better
Market Street"
Fred Jay, counsel for the association,
was the last speaker scheduled. He
to go into a serious discussion
of business and confined himself to a
number of amusing anecdotes of we'll
known Newark men.