New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-03
VANDERBILT GIVES
4,O00-MILE TALK
From Los Angeles He Tells
Queens Commerce Body
of Opportunities.

-Four thousand miles from New York
as a telephone message travels, Frank
A. Vanderlip, president Of the National
City Bank, spoke last evening 20 five
hundred members of the Chamber or
Commerce Of the Borough Of Queens IN
the grand ballroom Of the Waldorf
Astoria. The occasion was the fifth an
nual dinner Of the association.
Mr.. yanderlip spoke into telephone
in Los Angeles, Cal, as each diner lis
tened with n receiver At his ear. Over
the wire, following his address, they
hea, "The Star-Spsngled Banner
plas In San Francisco, and the roar
of tn, Pacific Ocean At the Golden
Gate.
Mayor Mitchell, George ". Perkins,
George A. McAneny, Maurice Z. Con
molly, President Of the Borough o.
Queens; Public Service Commissioner
Henry ". Hodge; Frederick Z. Crane,
justice Of the Supreme Court, Repre-
sentative Charles Pope Caldwell,
George b. Cortelyou, and Robert y.
Lynch, vice -presiden. of the San Fran
cisco Chamber Of Commerce, were the
speakers present. Charles g. N.
Thomas, president OF the Queens
/ Chamber Of Commerce, was toast
master
Business Conditions in the United
States After the Termination OF the
! European War" was the subjec, OF Mr.
Vanderlip's ffteen-minutt address.
Conditions" said the speaker, "msy
depend partly upon the terms of the
peace treaties. They will depend more
largely upon the manner in which our
own country adjusts itself 20 the
changed international conditions a. the
/ close Of the war
in the future we can no longer be
/ provincial. We will be more and more
affected by the political status Of other
nations. In commercial warfare, no
matter how much We may desire 10, We
cannot remain neutral believe we
are to-day subject 10 too much law.
/ That we can compete. and compete
with a considerable measure or sue
/ cess, with other nations, | firmly be
? lleFes Dub oNlt II We are UoL nam
pered By too many and unwise laws.
+ The serious attention Of wise men 90
this important matter can bring the
needed relief
Mayor Mitchell spoke on Prepared
ness for the Defence Of Our City and
Country" but referred az the beginning
Of his address % the transportation
question in the Borough Of Queens. he
announced that he yesterday signed
the Metropolitan Avenue franchise be
cause he felt that the needs Of the
public required u. His objections, the
Mayor said, were that the railway re-
fused 10 allow the city lbs just re-
turns.
But how utterly puny and insig-
nincant.' continued Mayor Mitchell,
ARE our local questions, compared with
that vital question OF developing the
national resources for national defence.
The people of the country must be
aroused 20 realize that sentiment IS
not enough, but service Val De re
CURED The duty OF the people Of this
city, the most exposed community boa
+ the United States, ls 20 make known
10 their national representatives their
demands for an adequate national pre-
parodncss.
}ir. Perkins. in his address on Com
merical Preparedness said; "l hrmly
believe that such a policy as Nr. wilson
has pursued Is more likely 90 get us
into war and more certain 20 get w.
into disgrace than frm, positive pro
Crane. well thought out and strictly
adhered 10 from the very beginning