Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-07-02
Inactivity Along Certain Lines
is Cause Members Last
Night Are Plainly Told.
SPEAKER FOR EVENING
TELLS OF SLIGHT
No One Received Him When
He Arrived Delay in Secur-i
ing Secretary is Discussed

boy Board of Trade came in for crit
icism last night for it's inactivity in
certain lines. It's members were
caused to sit up and take notice when
b. H. Burnett, industrial commis-
sloner Of the Lehigh Vall~s Railroad
Company, informed them of neglect
In receiving and welcoming the
speaker of the evening, who was him
self, and urging them to become ac-
tive without delay, engage a live sec
retary or some such worker and get
busy doing tFings.
\ Albert Leon spoke about the delay
securing permanent secretary
l. tnSe position formerly held by Cap
Smn ta,n Mise. He contended it was past
au9 au9 I'm that one had been engaged
somothj arr IG Nid the board should do
chants Of 5 the sboost bSsiness for mer-
nortad fbot obX. Jean Du Bois re-
of the members ofe hosrd n,p Pe1 bad oent ent
yet paid dues and ot oaliootin. he't nos
from others had beeS aIonto5 Coa,eesAons no
that the balance in the tleeI' 49, -, oo
80, at the time of the las .oornt = ~
ing was but $602.89. HeosS.tnaa
collections in previous months DE-. az
year were between $500 and $700@
month. y
Mr.. Burnett was introduced by
John Pfeiffer, who presided at the
meeting held in the council chamber
OF city hall at s o'clock last night.
The speaker had some interesting
facts to tell and did some impressive
urging. He opened with a discourse
on the many advantages of Perth
Amboy for industrial purposes, stat
ing that he as Industrial commits
sioner of the Lehigh Valley Railroad
Company had taken more interest in
Perth AmbOy than any other city in
the railroads system. He said, that
geographically, 1t was the best locat-
ed city along the line of the
Lehlgh Valley railroad and there
fore It's advantages he hailed as great.
Its features were so numerous and
advantageous to industrial concerns,
he asserted, that there seemed but
one reason, and that was unknown
to him, why it had not been crowd
ed with manufactures long before
this.
Its brilliant water front, number
of railroads and It's nearness to the
metropolis he hailed as such great
advantages as few cities in the United
States possess. Somehow and for
reasons unknown to him, the city
had taken less interest in develop
ment than any other along the line of
his railroad, he claimed He then
elaborated upon the wonderful
growth of Easton, Pa. For years
that city was dead one," he said.
1t had no board of trade, but had a
sort of a chamber of commerce which
was dead and did nothing. Allen
town of the same state was alive,
had money and knew how to use it to
the city's best advantage. Now Eas-
ton has new and active board of
trade, the city has become alive and
is growing In an industrial way, the
speaker stated. While it was inactive
1t lost the lfcation of big bath tub
concern, which went
elseNhere, spread and employs in the
neighborhood of 500 people, he
claimed. Its new board of trade was
not aiming for the civic development
of thee ity, but for the Industrial.
1t caused a lew line of railroad to
be extended to an undeveloped part
of the city, but for the industrial.
and now there are six industries To-
were located in two years. One of
the industries now located there had
1877 cities after It, He was em-
phatic in his declaration that Perth
Amboy must go after industries if it
wants them here; that there must be
a real live board of trade and it must
have a hardWorking representative.
Despite the fact that this city has
many advantages that others have
not, it must go after concerns to get
them to locate here. Mr. Burnett de-
sired the Board of Trade members
to remember that there were equal
ly good factory sites elsewhere He
mentioned there were numerous sites
along Newark bay, between Newark
and New York. Mr. Burnett said
there was value in proper organiza-
ton and illustrated the extension of
the industrial department of the Le-
high Valley Railroad Company
Among the things needed here as in
other cities, said the speaker, was a
live board of trade representatives
and something special to offer In the
line of Inducements to industries.
The board of trade representative
should be thoroughly alive he said
and should be of calibre to OPP
proach presidents of the largest con-
Germs. He should keep In touch with
industrial matters generally and
should have things at his finger tips
so that he could pull strings for the
advantage of the city Then too, he
should be allowed an open field in
which to work and should not be
If no results were shown
the first year, said the speaker.
In conclusion Mr.. Burnett urged
the board of trade to become alive
and not to let a man, coming here to
address the board and merchants, go
as he had done, being al
lowed to drift through the city of his
own accord. He sat for thirty min
utes in a hotel before he knew
or not the board os trat1e
still existed here. Questions were
asked of him in relation to rates in
with municipal dock
and concerning extension of railroad