Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-05-14
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Record Attendance at First Day at First Regiment
Armory, Where Wonderful Spectacle is Being
Presented Under Auspices of Trade Board.
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that a majority of the visitors to this
great undertaking, will, when they return
to their homes, add another line to the
slogan. to the effect that Newark Shows
How.
''This thought gives ne the theme for
the little sermon | am about to preach.
III a certain sense Newark has known
how for years and years. While our
population was still so small that we
ranked little above the village of the
present day we had achieved an enviable
reputation in certain lines of manufac-
ture and as the city grew and the manu-
features grew in number and variety this
high reputation was maintained and In
creased.
go into a jewelry store in San Fran
cisco, into a leather factory In Massachu-
setts. or ali automobile shop in Detroit;
80 into any place In the world where en-.
gines or machine tools are used. where
chemicals are employed, and you will find
Newark goods occupying conspicuous pc.
aitions. Sometimes these wares are pur-
chas sod through New York Offices and not
ipfreouently the purchaser is not aware
Of the place of their origin. But they
are nevertheless the products of the In
iustry and skill of Newark workmen and
the enterprise and good faith of the New
ark manufactures.
.sBut, as | have already intimated, while
the goods we produce as a manufacturing
city find a ready market because OF their
quality, our city itself is little known
beyond our own borders, and even many
OF our own citizens have but a faint Inn
preston of the magnitude of the interests
that are centred here and of our relative
Importance among the great municipali-
ties of this country.
How many persons realize, to take
Just one example, that the commerce on
the Passaic River is practically equal,
measured by tonnage, to that on the great
Mississippi from st. Louis to New Or
leans? How many persons know that the
assessed valuation of real estate In one
section of Newark is practically equal to
the highest assessed valuation In New
York city? What does the outside world
know, and what do our own people realize
of the movement of passenger traffic be-
tween this city and the metropolis of the
country, which, as / saw recently In one
of the local papers, reflected the greatest
MiIOiiUl U lldftl OCt"tSh ~
municipalities In the country.
How many of us know that In popu-
lation we exceed New Orleans, the me-
tropolis of the South; Washington, the
capital of the country; Los Angeles, the
wonder city of the Southern Pacific
coast: Minneapolis, the ginat of the
northwest; that we are pressing right at
the heels of Cincinnati, are within strik-
Ing distance of Milwaukee. and that II
we would take In the thickly populated
territory which naturally belongs to us
we would probably ~displace Pittsburg
Al fhe eighth, and possibly challenge
Baltimore as the seventh city In the
country?
Newark to show How.
"No. Newark has known how for years
an<~years, as | have said, but she Is only
just beginning to show how And this
exposition, ! take 1t, beautiful and com
prehensive as 1t is, interesting as 1t Is
certain to prove, and Immediately profit
able, as / feel sure 1t will be, is, after
all, chiefly important, not on account OF
these circumstances, but because 1t Illus
trates the new spirit which is moving
throughout the city.
''Modesty becomes a city as well as an
individual, but there is such a thing as
hiding too much of our light under a
bushel.' We have been content too long
with merely knowing how to the salts
faction OF ourselves and our immediate
customers. We are from this time for
ward, I hope, going to show how In
such a manner that the whole world will
realize for what the name of Newark
stands.
And hope and believe that. this will
not be confined to manufacturing
commerce. ! hope and believe that this
new movement, this new spirit, will ami
mate us so in every line of human en-
deavor that in government, in education,
in social rogress, In health and moral
conduct, Newark will show how she
knows how to the admiration of the
whole civilized world"
The next speaker was Curtis r. Bur
nett. president of the Board of Trade,
and chairman of the exposition commit
tee.
Curtis II. Burnett's Speech.
Mr.. Burnett's speech follows:
Press reports within the last few days