Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-11-09
CIVIC EVENT
AT So. AMbOY
Chamber of Commerce to
Have Dinner Dec. Ia to
Boom the City

!, SOUTH AMBOY, Nov. 9.-The
Board of Directors of the Chamber
of Commerce at a special meeting
last night, discussed at length the
| advisability of holding within a
| short time, a dinner to which every
person interested in the welfare of
the city Is to be invited. While no
| date for the dinner has been set,
it was decided that speakers be pro-
cured for December IA, and that a
committee wait or the chairman of
the buildings and grounds commit
tee of the Board oe Education, rela-
tive to securing the high school
auditorium for the affair. The re-
ports of these committees will be
heard on next Wednesday night,
which is the regular meeting night
of the chamber.
John D. Van Pelt, president of
the Chamber of Commerce, is es-
peciaily interested in the affair. He
is anxious for its success and with
that thought in mind. the members
of the board are making an effort
to bring to South Amboy for the &C.
casion Professor Robert MacElroy
of Princeton University. The pro-
lessor spoke in this city recently
at a Republican mass meeting. The
impression made at the time makes
the chamber feel as though the pro-
lessor would be an attraction.
In addition, the committee on
speakers have rendered to Congress
man-Elect Elmer Geran, in invita-
ton to address the gathering. John
K. Griffith, secretary of the Cham
Der of Commerce of Elizabeth, will
also be asked to talk at the dinner.
On December 6, 1921, the Cham
Der of Commerce held a similar af-
fair, at which time approximately
300 persons attended. Like this
years affair, matters pertaining to
civic betterment were talked of by
able speakers. Chief among the
speakers on that occasion were
Thomas Brown Of Perth Amboy and
the late Thomas j. Scully. The in
terest manifested in the movement
at that time makes the chamber
feel confident that the affair this
year will bring cdt an even greater
number of persons.
Although handicapped to a great
extent the local body is making a
desperate attempt to interest a
greater number of presons in its
work. Few of the members outside
of the Board of Directors, attend the
regular semi-monthly meetings.
This is probably due to the fact that
their headquarters can accommo-
date only a few persons. Mr.. Van
Peit is considering plans whereby
a more spacious meeting place can
be arranged to hold large meetings
at monthly intervals.
Realizing that with the present
high tax rate. it is almost useless
to talk of their extensive plans for
annexation and the possibilities
that come from such procedure, the
chamber for a time at least, will not
discuss these possibilities.
A membership drive will shortly
be in~augurated, and it is expected
that the local body will have n
of the largest memberships in this
vicinity. The election of members
to the Board of Directors will be
held within a short time. Ballots
for tho nomination of members will
be distributed among the members
within the purse of two weeks, and
the election will follow two weeks
afterward.
In the meantime all interest is
to be centered on the Chamber of
Commerce dinner, which if the ten
tative plans are carried out to the
letter, will be a great success in
every way. The board are at the
present time considering some es-
pecially great entertainment in ad-
6ition to the speaking. The dinner
Is to be a perfection.