Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-10
STATE CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE Dimes
Membership Banquet Held at
Down Town CIub-United
T Action Urged.

The New Jersey State Chamber of
Commerce held a membership dinner
at the Down Town Club last night.
Men prominent in business and
politics in both Essex and Hudson
counties were in attendance. The
purpose of the dinner was to discuss
the commercial development prob
lens of this section of the State with
asview to interesting local men in the
organization.
Munson Ravens, of Cleveland, was
the principal speaker of the evening.
He is q member of the Ohio State
Chamber of Commerce. He was in
strumental in organizing the New
Jersey State body. He told Of the
details of the association and what it
stood for.
The headquarters of the State
chamber Is located at Is Exchange
place, Jersey City. Marcus A. Bee
man is secretary and Howard r.
Heydon is field secretary of the or
ganization.
General William c. Heppenheimer,
president of the New Jersey chamber,
appealed to citizens in general and
to those of Congressional districts s.,
and 10 in particular. to join in the
patriotic movement and participate
in the activities of the organization.
He called attention to the fact that
President. "A. v. Hamburg of the New
ark Board of Trade is a director of
the department of municipal develop
ment of the State Chamber of Com
meree. this department being the
clearing house of the State associa-
ton for local affairs throughout the
State. He expressed the hope that
the same support that had been given
in the past would be continued. and
explained that it was the organize
tons desire to cooperate with the
local bodies. The latter could not be-
come members of the State associa-
zion, but the members as individuals
could participate in its activities, and
only those local matters would be
handled which were of State interest.
The State Chamber of Commerce
numbers among its members manu-
facturers, merchants, bankers and
other taxpayers. 1t is not affiliated
with any other organization. It has
an industrial department, the pur-
pose of which is to conserve the in
terests of manufacturing and COM
mercial establishments already locat-
ed in New Jersey by arranging con-
ferences of representatives of rail-
roads, traffic managers of Industrial
plants, merchants, and the Board OF
Public Utility Commissioners for q
study and solution of the problems
confronting the producer. shipper
carrier and receiver; to present tc
outsiders the States industrial, agri-
cultural, residential and recreative
facilities. The work of this depart
ment also includes specific matters Of
transportation, harbors and naviga-
ton, and manufactures.
In the way of municipal develop.
ment the organization aims to as
sist local commercial organizations
by suggesting, whenever practicable
ways in which their work can bt
made more effective in their respec-
tive communities. It is the desire OF
the State chamber to cooperate II
every way with local chambers OF
commerce, boards of trade and othel
community development organiza.
|tions,- and thus effectually bring to-
gether this great constituency for
united action on Statewide problems
It also has a legislative service an6
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