Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-08-24
Many Officials On Trip


Charles G. Bond, Anthony j.. Grit
fin Albert B. Rossdale, Isaac Siegel,
Frederick r. Lehlbach, Arch E.
Olpp. Ben L. Fairchild. Michael J.
Hogan, A. L. Kline, J.. J.. Kindred,
]. Frank Appleby, Herbert w Tay-
lor.
The list of legislators includes
Salvatore A. Gothic, James E. Town.
er, John Knight, Frederick w. Kav-
anaugh, of the New York senate.
Senators of New Jersey: Arthur
Whitney, Edward l.. S%turgess, Will
lam B. Mackay, Jr., Joseph w. WALL
worth, Clarence E. Case, Collins B.
Allen.
Assemblymen of New York: Louis
j.. Druss, Ernest v. Frerichs, James
7. Carroll, Simon L.. Adler, Henry
Baum, Noel B. Fox, Owen NJ. kier-
nan, Nathan Lieberman, John O.
Gempler, Mario G. Di Piero, Theo-
dore Silt, Ralph Halpern, Charles
D. Donohue, Thomas F.. Burchill,
Charles P. Miller, Charles H. Belts.
Joseph Steinberg, Samuel Dickstein.
Leo V. Doherty, Peter A. McArdle.
Albert Fl. Henderson, James G.
Moore, Frederick A. Wells, James H.
Caulfield, Jr., John A. Warren, Wall
ter +. Clayton, Clarence w. Haus-
ner, Maurice Bloch, Frederick II.
Nichols
Assemb1ymen Of New Jersey:
Francis r. Engleke, Jr., Charles b.
butcher, Jennie c. Van Ness, Ed
ward ]. Peterson, Harold B. futile,
James A. Templeton, Frank b.
Champion, William w. Evans, Will
lam st. John Tozer, Edward K. Pat
terson, Thomas L%oughran, Sir. A.
Lincoln Moore.
Senator Schuyler NJ. Meyer will be
present at the dinner tonight in the
Hotel Commodore when the motion
picture illustrating the report of the
New York, New Jersey Port and
Harbor Development Commission
will be shown.
The new port OF New York dis
trict takes in los municipalities,
large and small. in the states of
New York and New Jersey.
Besides Greater New York and
part of Westchester, Rockland and
Nassau counties of New York, 1t
takes in the following counties of
New Jersey: Union. Hudson. Pas
sale. Essex. Middlesex, Salem Ber-
gen, Somerset and Monmouth.
The Port District includes In New
York State. the city of New York,
(boroughs of Manhattan and the
| Bronx, Yonkers, Hastings, Dobbs
| Ferry. Irvington. Tarrytown, Ards
| ley, Bronxville. Mount Vernon, Tue
kahoe, Scarsdale, New Rochelle.
Larchmont. Pelham. Pelham Manor.
Piermont. Palisades, M~amaroneck,
| Harrison, Rye and Portchester. On
Long Island the boundary line of the
Port District passes through Man.
hasset, Port Washington and New
Hyde Park.
The New Jersey cities included in
the Port District are Newark. Jersey
City, Hoboken. Bayonne. Elizabeth,
| Passaic. Matawan, Keyport, Keans-
burg. Port Monmouth, North Plain
field. Dumont. Hackensack, Ruther-
ford. Oradell. Westwood. Glen Rock.
Lodi. Garfield. Bogota. Edgewater,
Fort Lee, Little Ferry, Ridgefield
Park, Leonia, Englewood. Tena1y,
Cresskill, Demerest, Palisades Park.
Haworth, Salem. Dunellen. Roose-
welt. Metuchen, Perth Amboy, South
Amboy, New Brunswick, Sayreville,
| South River, Nutley, Belleville. Glen
Ridge, Bloomfield, Caldwell. East Or.
| ange, West Orange, South Orange,
| Orange, Irvington. Hawthorne. Hale
| don. Clifton. Passaic, Totowa, Pater-
son. Weehawken. Union Hill, West
New York, Gutenberg. Secaucus.
| Kearney, Harrison, Summit. Roselle,
| Crawford, Railway, Westfield and
| Montclair.
There are s.OO0,oOO inhabitants ir
the port district.
The New York district out-rank:
any other metropolitan district il
the western hemisphere by nearly
200 per cent. Within the district are
located more manufacturing indus
tries than in the four cities of Phila'
delphia, Chicago, Cleveland and st
Louis combined.
The straight waterfront within
the Port of New York, measured
along the shore line aggregates II.
miles, of which SIS are in New
York and 1913 in New Jersey. Meas
uring around the piers and shor,
line gives 991 miles of which rs.
are in New York and 240 are il
New Jersey.
In New York City there are 70!
piers, twenty-four of which ar
owned by the United States govern
ment; seven by the state of New
York, 267 IL by the city of New
York and 410 1-2 privately. TIL
entire area of the port of New Yorl
comprises Ito oQudTt hlicS WlIllll
this vast area any half dozen of tn
leading ports of the world could b
placed and a large area still left un
covered.
The shipping engaged in foreigl
trade entering the port of New Yorl
during the year ending June 80
1920, totaled 17,404, 600 tons; ant
clearances of vessels in foreign trad
totaled 16.045,000 tons. The valu
of the foreign commerce of the por
of New York during the year end
ing June 80, 1920. was $6.309. 35S,
037, of which $2,904,S44,143 con
stituted imports, exports being val
ued at S3,404,513,S94, and the for
eign commerce of the port of New
York constituted At per cent. of tn
foreign commerce of the Who'll
United States. So great are tn
foreign commerce was nearly 81,
900, 600, 900 greater in 1890 than i
1919, while in the year ending Jun
80, 1921 the drop from 1920 wa
nearly two billion dollars-the &C
tual figures being: value of imports
1892, 692,60S and of exports, 50,
5~1S,72S.S76.
The value of the foreign com
merce of the port of New York dur
ing the fiscal year ending June 81
1920, was one and one-half time
greater than the value of the for
eign commerce Of the whole Unite
States during any year precedin
1915.
Ladies' Meet With Mrs. Jacobsen
The Ladies' Aid Society of tn
Danish NJ. E. church. will meet to
a ftarAnna NJ . n'e1nCly at fhl