Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-27
SEE NEWARK AS
GREAT SEAPORT
IN FEW YEARS
Predictions Are Made at An
nual Banquet of Chamber
of Commerce.


held last night in rooms in the old
telephone building Market street, pre-
dicted that in the near future New
ark will be one of the greatest sea-
ports in the United States. Mayor
Jacob Haussling, President Charles
F. Kraemer, of the Board of Works,
Commissioners Albert H. Biertuemp
fel and Arthur R. Denman and other
speakers dwelt upon the progress
made by Newark within the past
year.
Robert Emmett Ireton, represent
ing the Bush Terminal Co., was the
principal speaker of the evening. He
told of the crowded conditions of New
York for handling freight and stated
that Newark holds the key to the
situation by it's water front.
Mr.. lreton stated that Newark
would be a second New York In the
shipping world as soon as the dredg--
ing of Newark bay is flashed and
the work of reclamation of the
meadows completed.
Those who sat at the guest table
were: Board OF Works Commissioners
Biertuempfel, Mayor Haussling,
Board of Works Commission
President of the Common Coun-
Gil John II. Donnelly, Carl Heller,
superintendent of the Newark Pa
rental School; Hugh Lynch, secre-
tary of the Perth Amboy Board of
Trade Trade; R; E. Lent: secretary of the h.
Yorsten, secretary of the New Bruins
wick Board of Trade; John D.
i inchcliffe, form Alderman Alex
ahder Archibald, and Henry S. Altai,
secretary of the Chamber of Com
.nerce of Newark.
q ,fcei a1 tfo
FIRST speaker called upon by Toast
/ master Oliver. and he, as did all of
& the others, spoke but briefly of the
z duty of the members of the body to
further the interests of Newark in
every way possible at all times.
Mayor Speaks.
Mayor Haussling said, in part: st
esteem it a privilege to be guest
at this banquet. I am sorry I cannot
remain to its finish, but I want to
congratulate all of you on the sue
cessful progress you have made in
the year of your existence. You have
given the oldtimers new life. It
shows the city is one that is going
some, and 1t is up to you men to
show the entire world what progress
is being made here.
TT is remarkable the progress that
has been made in the paving of
streets and the improvement of the
sewer systems. The dockage question
is going to be solved, and a thing I
am convinced will shortly be a real
ity is the making of 1t possible that
people can not alone be brought into
the city quickly, but will be able to
get out quickly and not be held up
at the -Four Corners for twice as
long as it takes them to get here be-
fore they can get a trolley to get out.
1t has been said that a person can
go quicker from Morristown to New
\ York than from the same place to
b Newark. l want to see lines estab-
\ lished that will bring them here just
as quickly. Newark is bound to be
the centre of business of the sur
rounding towns I again congratu-
late the chamber on the success 1t
has achieved so far
Mr.. Donnelly declared that he
echoed the sentiments OF the Mayor,
and congratulated the president of
the organization, the members, and
all who had helped to make Newark
as widely and as well known as it is.
DR.. Charles F. Kreamer declared
that within twenty-four months there
would be a factory site on the re-
claimed meadows and factory in
operation, and that Newark would,
within a short time, be a seaport of
the Atlantic coast. He described the
city as a Mecca of Industry"
Rev. DR.. e. A. WATSON made
forceful address, in which he declared
that the surest proof of the moral
tone of the city was the prosperity
of it. and that no city could be pros
porous unless its moral tone was high.
He also declared that the conglomer-
ate population was one of the rea-
sens of the strength of the city, and
that he would not care to live in a
city which was composed of people
OF one race, one religion and one
characteristic.
Other speakers were Commissioner
Arthur R. Denman, Hugh Lynch, F.
M. Yorsten, r. E. Lent and Henry S.
Altai
Robert e. Ireton, educational di-
rector of the Bush Terminal Com
pany, New York, spoke on New
York Harbor Improvement" His
remarks were illustrated by stere-
optican slides. In part he said:
Problem of Terminals.
THE commercial problem of the
future is a problem of terminals. and
the extraordinary efforts now being
made for the Improvement of the
port of New York clearly demon
strates that additional facilities for
receiving, handling and shipping
freight are necessary. Unfortunate
ly, however, the deepening of the
East River, the development of
Jamaica Bay and reconstruction of
piers in the East and North Rivers,
the projected marginal freight rail
road along the Brooklyn water front
the. contemplated city piers north of
Forty-fourth street, the barge canal
terminals and the improvement of
S the channel opposite anchorage
grounds in Upper New York Bay do
not take into consideration, sep
arately or collectively, a development
of tine Jersey side of the harbor,
more particularly Newark Bay.
yet 1t is quite plain to all con-
versant with the true situation in
Greater New York, that all the con-
templated improvements do not reach
the basic problem of the greater city,
which is, in brief, one of great con-
gestion and of insufficient shipping
terminals. The only way in which
real relief may be found lies in a
transfer of much of Manhattan's
heavy manufacturing industries and
most, If not all, of her warehouses to
contiguous points along the water
front in which connection Newark
Bay and meadows prominently claim
attention. Your territory has rail-
road facilities easy of approach on
the west and north, and has on Its
shores broad margins of flats which
are an essential part of any great
harbor development
various suggestions have been
made from time to time for the i'm
provement of the New Jersey side OF