Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-15
NEW ERA OPEN FOR PERTH aMBoY

fn.ittee from the Chamber of Commerce appeared and pre-
scented the proposition to take some definite steps toward the
development of Perth Amboy's waterfront. The aldermen
Serose to the occasion as a man and without hesitation agreed
that the time had come for harbor development. They
I grasped the significance of the great project as laid before
them and showed an interest that means much for the
growth of the city in the immediate future.
The committee of the Chamber of Commerce urged
upon the aldermen that they go on record as favoring the
i expenditure of at least 81 900, 900 for waterfront develop
1 ment at once, and that at the next meeting Monday night a
resolution be passed for the appointment of a commission by
4 the city to make an exhaustive investigation of the whole
matter and report back at the earliest possible moment. This
Z the aldermen agreed to do.
With this first step taken there is no doubt that some
thing really worth while for the development of the city will
follow. Such a project as this cannot be ignored once the
movement has been started. When it is done the wonder
will be that it was not done long ago.
Perth Amboy is no piker city. The people here are as
able to do big things in a big way as are the people of any
other municipality. This waterfront development is a big
thing. 1t is in accordance with the spirit of the times. This
city is included within the boundaries of the Port of New
York for the development Of which elaborate plans are now
being made. These plans are to be submitted to the legisla-
lures of New York and New Jersey this winter. Perth Am
boy, with such action as the Board of Aldermen propose to
take, will be in a position to demand a fair share OF con-
.sideration in the big things that the port authority is planning
to do.
Nothing succeeds like success. This applies to munich
palities are we'll as to business and industry. We are just as
big as we think we are. We will become just as great as we
want to be. If we are content to grovel around dong the
petty little things, never thinking or planning beyond the
insignificant affairs of the day, we will always be a petty and
insignificant city. To rise to the stature of a full grown man,
think big thoughts, figure in big amounts and plan great
Projects, is to become great and big and have a part IN the
ilings that are worth while.
Perth Amboy has been wallowing about in the doldrums
ing enough. The old pep that the city had eight or ten
ears ago seemed to have been lost. A sort of stagnation
Alppeared to have got into the life of the city. Hundreds Of
ueople having been moving away, business has not shown
AIhe life it ought to have. People have been wondering what
Els the matter, but little or nothing has been done.
But already a new spirit seems to pervade the atmos-
here. Something is doing. The aldermen are going to
make Perth Amboy a great port. The city is already within
The limits of the port of New York and is included III the
plan for the development of the port as a whole which will
involve the expenditure of 800, 600, 900. The clouds are
cleaking away and ii is realized that, after all, there is some
thing in store for us in the future.
This attitude of the governing body of the city to do
something worth while now, cannot help but have a salu-
tarv effect on the whole life of the city. There is new life
already put into our civic body; fresh hope is injected into
everyone. Business is bound to respond. Everybody in the
city is going to benefit.
With the Board of Aldermen on record as favoring the
expenditure of at least 81 900, 900 to develop the water
front every citizen can throw out his chest once more and
proudly boast that he is a resident of no mean city. He will
have a strong talking point in boosting his home town. No
longer will be have to hang his head in silent admission
when Others tell him that Perth Amboy is asleep; that
through lack of enterprise a matchless waterfront has been
allowed to lie idle for 200 years without the least effort
being made to develop it.
1t is big stuff that we are now talking about. Every
person who was present at the aldermanic committee SEES
SION last night will have cause to be proud of the fact that he
was there at the very beginning of this new period in the
citv's history.
The aldermen are now thinking in terms worthy of the
n cifv IF perth AmhOv They show that thew are CaDable of
measuring up to a great occasion. If they follow up their
announced intentions of last night they will pass down in
history as the men who really started Perth Amboy on its
greatest period of growth and prosperity.
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