Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-07-15
OVER
BUDGET FOR
CITY EXPOSITION
Former Governor Murphy Char
acterizes Subcommittee Re-
port as Incomplete.
MONEY is HELD UP AS
EXPENSE Is QUESTIONED
A. V. Hamburg Resents Crit
icism and Says Affair Will
Produce Deficit.
MONEY is HELD UP AS
EXPENSE is QUESTIONED

The industrial exposition budget of
the manufacturers and trades COM
mittee of the Committee of One Hun
dred, although pared from $4,000 to
100000 at the trades committee meet
ing Monday, failed of adoption by the
executive and finance committee yes
terday, after heated debate in
which former Governor Franklin
Murphy, chairman of the Committee
of One Hundred, declared the budget
was not in Abusinesslike shape.
The executive committee made
plain, though, that its opposition was
not to the exposition plan, nor to the
First Regiment Armory as the 1oca-
tion, and that its disfavor resulted
merely from the shape in which the
budget came to It,
Chairman A. w. Hamburg and r. C..
Jenkinson and Frederick l.. Eber-
hardt, of the trade committee, were
present, and, with Mr. Hamburg as
the chief spokesman, battled hard for
the adoption of the budget. The best
they could go, though was prelim-
mary appropriation of $1,000 to secure
expert aid in preparing detailed esti-
mates of the various expenses of the
exposition.
The committees budget and its
comment upon it, as contained in the
report 1t submitted yesterday, were as
follows:
After consultation with many ex
perts and others the committee sub
mits the following table of probable
costs, as being reasonable and close
estimates of the expense involved in
the project:
Rental of building. g.............. $4,000
Lighting, water and power. 10000
Building of booths and princi-
pal decorations ............... 10000
Salaries and wages for organi-
zation and management -. $4,000
Incidentals, including music,
printing, postage and parti-
eular publicity 49,. ............. 10000
Unforeseen contingencies ..... 10000
Total .....................s70 $50 600
Murphy hamburg Exchange.
mo business man is going ahead
with propect when its cost is pre-
sented to him in an incomplete form
like this declared former Governor
Murphy.
Let me say, governor, that this
committee is made UP of business men
of as good standing in the community
as the members of the executive COM
mittee,' replied Mr.. Hamburg, con-
tinuing with the declaration that
while the budget might seem a little
inexplicit, it had received careful
consideration from the trades COM
mittee. -. s7.=l..
The committees estimate OF possi-
BILE receipts was attacked. In the
report $62, 500 was named as the prob
able minimum revenue from the ex-
position to be turned over to the
Committee of One Hundred. 1t was
stated that the ten days industrial
exhibition held in the city three years
ago had cleared a profit of $4,000,
and Mr.. Hamburg was asked why
the committee anticipated loss of
$1,000 instead of a profit. Mr. Ham
burg explained that since the busi-
ness men and manufacturers OF the
community had contributed heavily
to the $250,000 fund, 1t would be un-
fair to ask them to pay the usual ex-
hibition rates, and that the commit
tee had decided to reduce the exh1b-
itors' rate to fifty cents per square
foot.
Attendance Estimates.
Since the floor space Of the armory
is about 10000 square feet, Mr.. Ham,
burg anticipated $4,000 revenue from
exhibitors. And ] believe that
1870, 900 visitors, at twenty-five cents
each, during the twenty-six days OF
next September, Is a conservative
estimate" he continued. This met
with contradiction from members OF
the executive committee, some Of
whom stated that 5000 people a day
seemed a very liberal estimate.
1t was further declared by a men,
ber that the industrial exposition OF
three years ago had been financed
for $50, 900 or $4,000, and 1t was not
figured how the difference between
this amount and the amount asked
by the trades committee could be
wisely spent This member de-
clared, 1.-The only difference in the
cost of a ten-day exposition and
twenty six day exposition is in light
and water and music and rental.
don't think that will amount to the
difference between the 1912 cost and
the figures of this budget"
Protestation and explanation by
the trades committee proved of no
avail and a motion that the matter
be laid over until the trades commit
tee had prepared an itemized budget,
with expert aid, for which $1,000 was
appropriated, prevailed.
Assistant to Mr.. Murphy.
Other business of the executive
committee was the appointment of a
with power, TO name
an assistant to former Governor Muir
ply, who will transact all ordinary
business and will likely have charge
of the publicity end. The committee
consisted of Governor Murphy; chair
man of the Compittee of One Hun
dred Uzal Fl. McCarter. chairman of
the executive and finance committee,
and William B. Kinney, chairman of
the publicity committee.
Steps toward the preparation of
tentative program for the. celebra-
tion were taken and a committee con-
sisting of Governor Murphy, Uzal III.
McCarter and Secretary Wilson J.
Vance was appointed to fix on ap-
proximate dates for the various
events.
The committee on exhibitions and
athletics was appropriated 5000 to
secure the national bait ard fly cast
ing contest here during the celebra-
tion, and $3.50 for Incidental expenses,
and the resignation of Job HI. Lip
pincott as head of the collection
bureau was received with regret. 1t
was decided to combine the offices of