Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-06-01
WILL RECEIVE
NOTED GUESTS
Perth Amboy to be Honored
by Visit of international
Navigation Congress.
ARRIVE MONDAY MORNING
President of Trade Board
and Committee to Welcome
$50 Famous Engineers.

Three hundred and fifty expert
civil engineers from nearly every
civilized nation in the world will ar
rive in this city at 10:4O O'Clock
Monday morning enroute for Rari-
tan bay, Raritan river, and other
water points in this section, on
tour of inspection of the terminals
I and route of the proposed inter-
coastal ship canal, across New Jer-
sey. The engineers are members
and delegates of the Permanent
International Association of Navi-
CATION Congresses, in recent session
at Philadelphia, and include the
foremost experts In this study in
the universe. The United States is
we'll represented in this Congress,
as we'll as other prominent nations
/ of North and South America.
l. O. Moore Gets Invitation.
l. G. Moore, president of the
Board of Trade, has received an in
vitation from Governor Woodrow
Wilson asking him to accompany
the engineers on the tour, and also
act as the states official representa-
tive during the reception in Perth
Amboy. Mr.. Moore has conferred
with Acting Mayor Ferd. Garretson,
and a delegation of city officials, In
Guiding the two mentioned in the
I foregoing, will meet the Congress
at the Central station and welcome
them to this city. Mr. Moore has
not decided whether to secure spe-
cial trolley cars to conduct the par
| ty to the steamboat dock or request
them to walk down Smith street,
thus enabling the visitors to secure
a better and more favorable glimpse
Of Perth Amboy
The Governors Letter.
Following Is the invitation receiv-
! ed by President Moore from Gov
ernor Wilson:
Executive Chambers,
Trenton, N. j.
May 81, 1919.
You are cordially invited by the
New Jersey State Commissioners in
charge of the entertainment of the
members and delegates of the Per-
manent International Association of
/ Navigation Congresses to accom-
pany them on a trip of inspection
along the route Of the proposed
New Jersey inter-coastal ship canal,
on Monday, June 3, 1912.
WOODROW WILSON,
Governor.
Commissioners -- Frederick W
Donnelly, president, of Trenton;
Worthington M. Jacobus, Of Ruth
erford; Charles A. Mccormick, of
New Brunswick; J. Spencer Smith,
of Tenafy, and James M. Reilly,
secretary and treasurer, Of Newark.
The Congress leaves Philadelphia
on a special train at 500 o'clock
Monday morning, and will stop at
Bordentown and Jamesburg en-
route. Following their arrival here,
/ the visitors will go on board the
ajestic" and make an inspection
of Raritan bay, the river, and Stat
en- Island sound. The engineers
will then continue, by boat, up to
where the trip will be concluded
bay A reception and luncheon will
Newark. The itinerary of the tour
Is as follows:
Itinerary of Trip.
| 500 A. M.-Leave Market street
wharf, Philadelphia, P. r. r.
| . o "A. M.-LGdNo SduuSu ISI-
minal, special train.
| 8:57 A M-Arriye Bordentown,
stop thirty minutes.
9:27 A. M.-Leave BordentoWn.
1000 A M.-Arrive Jamesburg,
stop ten minutes.
1910 A. M.-Leave Jamesburg.
10:40 A. M.-ArriVe Perth AM
boy.
1880 A. M.-Leave Perth AM
boy, by steamer majestic" Navi-
gate up Raritan bay and Raritan
river to terminal of canal, thence
returning, through Staten Island
sound to Newark bay and Passaic
river.
/ 1890 P. M.-Arrive at wharf,
/ Newark.
12:45 A. M.-Luncheon and re-
ception at "The Washington"
500 P M.-Leave Newark,
$50 Arrive Thirty-second street
station, P R r., New York.
Merchants to Decorate.
George st. Andrassy, secretary
of the Board Of Trade, has request
ed many of the merchants on Smith
street, between the Central station
and the steamboat dock, to deco
rate the exteriors Of their stores in
honor of this visit from such a
prominent assemblage. He has re-
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