Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-03-20
JERSEY BOOSTERS
PLAN ACTIVITIES
First General Meeting OF State
Chamber of Commerce Is
Held Today.
ORGANIZATION WELCOMED
BY GOVERNOR FIELDER
Work Will Be Arranged Under
Direct Supervision of Va
rious Departments.
rFrom a stan Correspondent

TFrom n STAFF Correspondent
JERSEY CITY, March 20,-The hrst
general meeting of the recently-or-
ganized New Jersey State Chamber
IF Commerce was held this afternoon
at luncheon in the dining hall OF the
PENNSYLVANIA station in Jersey CITY
The membership is growing rapidly.
At the meeting of the trustees on
wednesday. March 10, a hundred new
names were added to the life, sus-
tanning and regular memberships.
Governor Fielder extended wei
come to the new organization on be-
half of the State. Mayor Wittpenn
EXPRESSED his pleasure that Jersey
CITY was so admirably located as TO
be the logical place for the heao
Office.
4 In addressing the chamber men,
bers.J Mayor Frederick w. Donnelly'
of Trenton, deplored the. fact that
business men did not take more ac-
tive part in governmental questions
He said they express their opinions
on economics and public questions IN
whispers" He spoke at some length
on transportation and its far-reachng
importance. Further, Mayor Donnel-
~ said
1.-The natural function of railroad
is to carry passengers, express and
moving freight. The bulky SLOW
moving and so-called commodity
freights, as COAL ore, lumber, grain
crushed stone sand, etc, should nat
ura5ly be moved by water routes
which would take lower freight rate
than when moved by rail This would
not only result in saving a freight
charge, but would relieve freight con-
gestion, increase the operating rights
of railroads, maintain better passen-
ger schedules and decrease the heavy
maintenance and operating charges
due to bulky freight movements.
Newark Fights Rates.
The Newark Board of Trade re-
Gently decided to secure an adjust
ment of freight rates between New
ark, New England points and Texas
points, and if necessary to prosecute
the case before the Interstate Com
merce Commission, as Newark was
not enjoying the through rates as was
New York city, and within the last
eight years had paid from three to
ave millions of dollars in excess OF
what New York was paying for the
same service. BY reason of Newark
having direct water competition with
New England and Texas points, the
freight rates between Newark and
New England was lowered IL cents
per hundred on all classification
Freight, except third-class, where an
scent reduction was allowed, and a
reduction of cents per hundred on
all classification and commodity
Jreights to Texas points
DIR. Van Dyck, of Princeton, re-
eently called attention of the nation
10 the fact that we were idolizing in
ventions; that a worship of machin-
nry is taking hold of the multitude,
and that there never was q time
when we were so subservient to ma
ehinery, and consequently affected by
machinery, and in this hysteria Of
inventions we had overlooked the de-
velopment and utilization Of the
natural resources that could be
availed to serve mankind and cheaper
life and living.
Canal a Great Project.
There is a great project which has
been originated and mothered by New
Jersey for the construction of a ship
canal across the State of New Jer-
sey. running from the Delaware river
to Raritan bay. This will be an ex-
tension of the harbor line of New
York city. and will be something
more than an artery of local COM
merce. The adoption of the project
by the Federal government of rum
ming an intracoastal, or inside pro-
tected waterway, from Boston 70
Staten Island sound, and the con-
struction of a similar inside water
way running north from Beaufort, N.
c.. TO Philadelphia, necessitate the
building of this canal, and If the
State Chamber of Commerce wishes
to further the contamination Of q
great project, which was dreamed of
md spoken of in Wa shingtons and
in Jefferson's time, it can do nothing
creat ter to extend its field of infiu-
caee, and ii is eommendatory that
this project has been Endorsed.
THE ex-President, the President OF
.tse United States. the national con-
cressional committees and the chief
OF engineers of the United States
army are all mutually agreed that
this development will be of great
direct local benefit to the State OF
New Jersey. and of general profit
and benefit to the entire Atlantic
seaboard. and that it should be built
and maintained as national
system
"The improvements of New YORK
bay by her water frontage being so
contiguous and affecting all North
Jersey points, it is very necessary
that this Chamber of Commerce
should direct its attention and ac-
auire a working knowledge of these
details. so that a coordinate plan may
be worked out Immediately advan-
tageous to New York city and to
North Jersey cities"
Governor Fielder who spoke imme-
stately after the banquet, referred In