Perth Amboy evening news., 1914-09-21
Moving Pictures Will be Taken
of Waterway Convention
and Sent Out All Over C0un-
try to Picture Theatres.
PLANS ALMOST COMPLETE
Convention of Waterway AS
SoCiation viii Open Tomor-
row and Rest of Week Will
be Spent in Discussion.
PLANS ALMOST COMPLETE

What will be one of the most ex-
tensive advertising features Perth
Amboy has ever received will result
from the big reception of the dele
gates to the Atlantic Deeper Water
way convention in this city Wednes-
day. Through Manager Ned K. Mil
Ter, of the Ditmas theatre, the Uni
versal Film Company will take pic
lures of the proceedings, and will
have them shown to millions of peo-
pie through the medium of their
Animated Weekly, which portrays
events of national Importance
throughout the country. Movies"
will also be taken for the Mutual
Weekly on that day. This is the
first time that moving pictures have
ever been taken in Perth Amboy to
circulate throughout the whole Unit
ed States and Secretary Lynch. of
the Board of Trade, believes 1t will
be one of the best advertising me-
diums ever used by the city.
The official program has been re-
leased by the convention committee.
This afternoon the Office of the Asso-
citation Committee in the Hotel Ma
jestic in New York, will be opened
for the registration of the early ar
rivals, and tomorrow will mark the
start of the program for the most
novel and entertaining convention
ever held by this association. ON
Wednesday the steamer Berkshire
leaves pier 80, of the Hudson River
Navigation Company, at the foot OF
Debrosses street. 1t will proceed
around the Battery, up the East
river, under the Brooklyn bridge,
past Blackwells Island, to Riker s
Island, affording a view OF the Har-
lem river, the Bronx Kills, and the
He'll Gate bridge, returning hr the
way of the Navy Yard and Goyerno S
island, which will be passed at l p.
M; thence past Ellis Island and the
Statue of Liberty, then through Rar-
itan Bay to Perth Amboy.
At 3:15 the boat is expected to
dock here An address of welcome
is to be given by Governor James F.
Fielder and the response by George
Ainslee, mayor of Richmond, Va;
remarks will then be made by Mayor
Ferd Garretson, and John Pfeiffer,
president of the Board of Trade.
An address will be made by Freder-
lex w. Donnelly, mayor OF trenton,
and w Parker Runyon, who Will
speak on "The New ersey Ship Canal
and Its Place in the Waterway
Chain" Responses will be given on
call of the president, ]. Hampton
Moore, of Philadelphia. At 3 40
the automobile trips through the
city will start from the municipal
dock and between 4:30 and 8 O'Clock
the autos will return and passengers
will board the Berkshire. At 800
p. m. the big steamer will leave
Perth Amboy and return by the
same route.
The evening session Wednesday
will be held also on board the steam
er Berkshire. Five minute addresses
will be made on the call of states.
led by John j. Martin, president OF
the Massachusetts Real Estate Ex-
change and Charles E. Galconer,
president of the Merchants and
Manufacturers Association of Baltl-
more, Md Addresses may also be
expected from Mayors John Fee of
South River, Ellis of Camden, Ward
of Chester, Pa; Fordyce of Pater-
son, Mcintosh of Auburn, School
,raft of Schenectady, N. Y.