Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-21
new JERSEYS PLACE
AT PANAMA FAIR
Senator Colgate Tells State
Chamber Facts Emitting Com
monwealth to Honor.
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JERSEY CITY, N. J., June s21.--
Thirty members of the New Jersey
State Chamber of Commerce assem-
bled at their headquarters here at Is
Exchange place yesterday afternoon
to consider ways and means of pro-
curing fitting representation for
New Jersey at the Panama Pacific
Exposition in 1915. The members pres
ent were from every part of the
State.
General William C. Heppenheimer
president of the organization, opened
the conference and outlined the pur-
pose for which the State organization
was formed. The chamber was anx-
ious to cooperate with the municipal
boards of trade, he said He intro
duced A. V. Hamburg, president of
the Newark Board of Trade, as the
chairman of the conference. James
NJ. Reilly, secretary of the Newark
board, was also present.
Mr.. Hamburg declared that the
large attendance indicated that con-
siderable interest was being taken in
the project. 1t meant a great deal to
interrupt busy men at that hour of
the day and bring so many to the
meeting. The chairman commented
on the Importance of New Jersey in
the industrial world
New Jerseys Importance.
The chairman declared that New
Jersey manufactured more than the
total output of thirty other States
and for that reason should have a
relatively important place and exhibit
at the big international show.
Mr.. Hamburg also spoke of the COM
mission which had been appointed by
Governor Fielder to select a site for
the New Jersey building. This COM
mission, of which Curtis r. Burnett,
former president of the Newark Board
of Trade, and former Governor j.
Franklin Fort are members, is now at
work selecting the site
Mr.. Hamburg was followed by SEN
ator Austen Colgate, president of the
Jersey City Chamber of Commerce,
who spoke on What New Jersey as
a State Has to Offer He said
New Jersey is great plexus wGere
the vital streams of humanity and
commerce in their eastward and
westward flow by land and water
converge, interchange and proceed to
their destinations in all the four cor
ners of the world. She sits like Da-
mascus of old, where the caravans of
the world must pass, but instead of
merely taking toll New Jersey en-
K-in c5
through her gates. This little State
of ours produces half of all the oil
cloth and linoleum manufactured in
the United States. She does not pro-
duce a pound of copper, but she
smelts one-third of all that the United
States produces.
Its Vast Production.
How many of US would
believe, without being told, that
our mills make one-third of the wire
drawn IN the country and a third of
all the silk and the same proportion
of rubber and fabric betting and hose?
We produce no petroleum from our
soil, but we do one-third of all the
refining. In the dyeing and finishing
of textiles we account for a fifth of
the country's output. OF rubber goods
we manufacture one-seventh. OF soap
we make one-eighth, and in ship
building we turn out one-ninth of
the country's total value.
ut will not have escaped your notice
that in the case of every one of these
articles the raw material is produced
elsewhere and transported to our
State for manufacture. Why Is this?
Simply because greater profit can
thus be made than by attempting
their manufacture at their places of
origin. That is what New Jersey as
a State has to offer, namely, the
enormous advantage, as against the
mere possession of natural resources,
of being the locality where all the
great transcontinental railroad lines
meet each other and meet the ocean
steamship lines, transatlantic, coast
wise and Pacific, and where a con-
slant stream of immigration provides
never-failing supply of labor of all
grades.
THAT these advantages are
having their natural effect is evil
denced by the fact to which I alluded
a moment ago-that in the decade
our manufactures have increased
nearly so per cent, rate of increase
which was exceeded by only one State.
In our manufacturing establish
ments we employ on the average of
326, 900 age-earning operatives"