Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-15
EXHAUSTIVE REPORT
BY BOARD OF TRADE
City and County Needs Covered
by Directors-Praise for Mu-
nicipaI Officials.

The forty-sixth annual report OF
the directors of the Board Of Trade
made public last night. covers a large
number Of subjects which are of vital
interest TO the welfare of the city.
Passenger traffic is discussed at
length. The means recommended for
relieving the present congestion is
system of intra-county subways serv-
ing neighboring counties as well as
the city of Newark. A large part Of
the report is used for the exploitation
of the bay front improvement prob
lem and the improvement of the dock
and bay facilities and the establish
ment of a Newark bay port district
Praise is given in the report IN
more than one part to Mayor Hauss-
ling for measures advocated by him
in his annual message and to the
Board of Works for its meadow
reclamation work, its saving in the
street department, the erection of q
municipal repair plant and the trou-
BILE the board took, though of no
avail, to get lower rate of fare on
the tubes between here and Summit
avenue, Jersey City. Thanks is also
given Congressman Walter |. Mccoy
for the assistance rendered the Board
OF lrdue ana the ClIlESHS III GSIeI eNi
on various public matters.
In It's opening paragraph the report
dwells on the continuous growth of
Newark, as evidenced in the in
creasing number OF beautiful blu Id
ings going up and crowding of facil-
tiles and the pressure upon municipal
bodies for moneys to cope with the
demands of the various departments.
Stating that one single set of Of
flcials of one community could hardly
cope with the vast subject of the
bay front improvement, the report
continues:
Would Seek Cooperation.
would it not be more to the pur-
pose IL this board, as a body, would
undertake to secure the co-opera ton
of the municipal officials of the cities
fronting on Newark Bay, to join in
an application to the Legislature for
the creation of a new municipal dis
trict to be known as q Newark Bay
Port District. and to request that
general powers be conferred with q
commission under which plans COM
pretending the entire area of tie
bay may be developed, anticipating
therein to the greatest possible eX-
tent the future uses that can be
made of this magnificent waterway
as q part of a worlds port leaving
It with each municipality to deter
mine, under a referendum. when and
how the water front within their
municipal boundaries shall be i'm
proved in accordance with such a
general scheme when adopted.
There is no question but what the
trend of manufacture and commerce
is to that location which can afford
the greatest opportunity for water
and rail transportation service. No
where does opport unity offer superior
advantages than are to be found
within the meadow lands fronting on
Newark Bay, if wisely developed"
The report then reIers to the
achievement of the Board Of Trade
in having secured from Congress an
appropriation Of S1.065, 900 for the
widening and deepening of the
channel in the bay. which, 1t is stated,
lis the second appropriation secured
through the agency of the board.
On the question of the rate discrim-
nation against Newark shippers the
hope is expressed that the agitation
of the transportation committee will
ultimately be crowned with success.
In conformity with formtr resolu-
tons, the directors again called atten-
ton to the Morris Canal question, ad-
vocating the abandonment of same as
a waterway and the Transformation
into a public highway.
On the project of an nte-county
subway the report says:
Inter-County Subway.
1.-THE development of the subway
| system under municipal appropria-
ton to all parts of Greater New Yorh
with low rates of fare serve to prove
that such Improvements are desira.
BILE and necessary, and if it were pos
sible for a com bination of interests
to be brought about whereby Union
/ Essex, Hudson, Passaic and Berger
counties could enter into a plan fol
the building of q system of subway'
to operate through their respective
| centres to New York city, the outlay
no matter how great it may be, would
be more than justified and compen
stated in the increase of population
and the increase in property valua
/ tons"
In advocating a general industrial
survey of Newark and vicinity tn,
directors say:
1.-THE cost of such a survey would
be considerable, but it would b.
money well expended, and wei woul,
suggest that It be made a part of tn
legislation which Mayor Hausslinl
has suggested as being necessary t
advance the progress and develop
ment of the city, which we gladl,
take occasion to cordially indorse a
advocated in his MESA ge, viz:
a A - =. .- =