Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-06-07
FOR
LEAGUE EVENTS
Commodore Henry of Raritan
Yacht Club Receives Letter
From President Rauch.
WILL INVITE GOVERNOR
Enthusiasm for Waterway
League Meet Here July 20
21--Rave Three Fleets.

Commodore r. Z. Henry, OF the
Raritan Yacht Club, which will en-
tertain the Waterway League of New
Jersey at its annual convention on
July 20 and 81, has received the
following letter from President Will
liam Sherman Rauch, of Newark,
which explains the rapid progress
made during the past week by the
arrangement committee:
Newark, June 9Th, 1912.
DR.. F. c. Henry,
256 State ST.,
Perth Amboy, N. J.
My Dear Commodore: I attended
the meeting of the Board of Gov
ernors of the Waterway League of
New York, and find there Is a great
deal of enthusiasm concerning the
Waterway League meet at Amboy in
July.
They have called a special meet
ing of the Waterway League of New
York Wednesday, June 18th. which
will be held at Johnson's Hall, No.
s Nevins street, Brooklyn. (Nevins
st. Subway Station will bring you
right to the Hall.) l would very
much appreciate 1t If you will ar
range to attend this meeting with
me and If convenient, bring few
of your associates, or committee
men to get better acquainted.
/ believe they have decided to ar
range to have three fleets leave New
York waters for Perth Amboy as fol-
lows: First fleet leave on Friday af-
ternoon or evening. Second fleet on
Saturday noon and the third fleet on
Sunday morning. 1t looks very
much as though our guests will have
three to four hundred boats in your
waters and l imagine we can count
on possibly 200 from New Jersey
waters.
We sent out the first announce
ment as per dodger herewith en-
closed to all the members of the
League, al the New Jersey clubs,
and all clubs in the vicinity of New
York. l am sending you under sep
arate cover supply for distribution,
Within week or ten days the map
| spoke to you about will be com
pleted, Of which 5000 will be cir
culated. l will also send you a sup
ply for your club. On this map all
routes lead to Perth Amboy, and
gives the distances by water from all
the different important points.
Letters of invitation to speakers
will go out next week. We will in
vite the Governor, U. S. Senator
MARITIME, Congressman Townsend,
Congressman Small, Congressman
Scully and Congressman Moore.
All these gentlemen are deeply In
terested in waterway extension. We
will also invite Mayor Dunnelly of
Trenton, Mayor Haussling of New
ark, State Senator Colgate, State
Senator Smalley, State Geologist
Kummel, Inland Waterway Commits
sioner Schneider and Chief Engi-
neer of Inland Waterways Sherman.
1t will be up to you to invite your
Mayor for the address OF welcome
and any other officials from your
section that you want present. AS
soon as you do this and have their
acceptance 1 will appreciate it if
you will send me a complete list
of them. This will give you fair
outline of what has been done since
| last saw you. Any suggestions
you have to make I shall greatly ap-
preciate.
l might also give herewith, so
that we will be working along the
same lines, the itinerary as 1t now
stands and as Will be given out on
the maps which we are going to dis
tribute and is as follows:
Saturday, July goth.
2 D. m Business meeting of the
League will be called to order at the
Raritan Yacht Club.
p. m. League dinner at the
Packer House.
p. m. Open air meet at City
Hall Park, addressed by men promI-
nent in Municipal, State and Ma
tional affairs.
10 p. m. Illumination of fleet
and harbor and fireworks at the
Raritan Yacht Club. :.
Sunday, July 21st.
1880 p. m. Grand parade of fleet
in three squadrons up Arthur Kills
for review in Newark Bay.
500 p. m. Newark Bay and
shore houses will keep open house.
Safe anchorage on Bayonne shore
of Newark Bay for boats wishing to
remain for the night or longer.
If you have any suggestions or
corrections of the above, kindly no
tify me at once. If you will call
your committee together sometime
next week to meet at your club
house, l will get the committee at
this end together for a Joint ses-
sion, almost any evening Will suit
US.
With best wishes, I remain,