Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-23
BOARDOF TRADE
The HOLDER OF
PROUD RECORD
Organization Has Been Instru-
mental in Advancing the
Progress of City.
HAS ENROLMENT OF 1000
Membership in Body Recognized
as Badge of Honor in
Business Circles.
BY a. V. HAMBURG,
President Newark Board of Trade.


President Newark Board of Trade.
Organized forty-four years ago, the
Board of Trade of the city of New
ark is today a potent factor in the
welfare of the municipality. 1t has
done and is doing a big work.
Untrammeled by politics, unswayed
by religious beliefs, unsubsidized by
trade, independent of all privileged
interests and free from corporation
ties, it has moved, and it is moving
along the lines of progress. 1t has
been said of the organization that
membership in it is a badge of
honor. That is undoubtedly true 1t
is on other grounds, however, that
it has been built up, and it is on
much that is more tangible that its
reputation is based. 1t has been
weighed, not once, but many times,
In the scales of public opinion, and
today, with a record untarnlshed
even by a breath of scandal, 1T en-
joys the confidence and respect not
only of the city of Newark but of
the entire State.
Always ready to protect the weak,
and ever quick to combat or to aid
the strong, as necessity may dictate,
, The board meets friend and foe
with frankness and never-failing
equanimity. 1t knows no master.
Unto itself 1t is q power Working
along broad lines, 1t has put aside
private friendships and personal
animosities. 1t is swayed neither by
fear nor favor and for the right, as
it sees it, the organization stands
with an unfaltering front. Only as
a body does it act. It's work, how
of it is done by committees,
especially appointed with given du-
ties, and serving without remunera-
ton, Through them the board, in its
long and honorable career, has done
much that is laudable and little that
has called forth criticism.
Stands for Newark.
1t has always represented, and it
represents, much more than its name
implies. Trade alone is not it's creed.
1t stands for the city of Newark.
What is good for the municipality,
or helpful to it's industries or its
people, the board upholds and urges
with splendid and fruitful insistence.
What is harmful or discreditable it
opposes with valiant fearlessness.
Having nothing to hide, it works
always with strong light of wide
publicity. It's meetings and its office
are open to the press and to the
public. Its records, its various and
varied statistics, covering not only
Newark, but scores of other cities;
its trade reports and its many
sources of authentic information on
great variety of subjects and
places are at the service of all who
seek them.
It's offices and its committees are
we'll known, and neither under the
cloak of the organization nor the
yeneering of anonymity do they seek
concealment. They in their time and
their special knowledge along differ
ent lines are available to all who de-
sire help or advice. The board is
union of men in which there lies a.
giant strength. 1t is big enough to
be unefraid. 1t is great enough to
disdain pettiness.
What the board has accomplished
In the way of good and what it has
prevented in the way of i'll would
fill a volume. Its history is indis-
solubly woven with the half century
Aof Newarks progress. Often COM
, aperided and sometimes criticised, it
has fought and won many battles.
Occasionally it has gone down to de-
feat, but, unembittered by 1t, the
organization has marched steadily
and courag eously onward. With this
steadfastness of purpose and its con-
sentative progressiveness the board
was no mean factor in obtaining for
Newark public park system that is
unsurpassed by that of any munich
patty in the country. Through the
same fundamentally the city's water
supply of unexcelled purity has been
protected for all time against every
possible contingency.
What the Board Has Done.
The board brought about the deep
ening and widening of the Passaic
River channel at cost to the gov
eminent of 50 100000. 1t claims and
1t deserves credit for the present low
rates for rail and water freights; it
worked necessarily for the establish
ment of the city's fine technical voca-
tional and manual training schools; 1t
did much toward the elimination of
grade crossings and the elevation of
railroad tracks through the city, and
It helped materially in bringing about
the erection of the new and magnifi-
cent City Hall and the imposing
County Court House; it caused the
adoption of the pan under which the
systematic paving of the streets and
avenues of the city was made pos
sible 1t worked indefatigably for the
establishment of a high-pressure
water system, which has resulted in
the reduction of the fire insurance
rates.
The board was instrumental in the
organization not only of the free pub
lie library and the establishment of
the Fairgrounds throughout the city;
but in the adoption of a new build
Ing code, the appointment of a shade
tree commission, the extension of the
fire limits, the formation of bureau
of combustibles and fire risks, the re-
moval of overhead wires from the
streets, the improvement of the local
postal facilities and service, and
score of other important public bet
terments.
Another list equally as long, shows
what the board has done in the way