tees, who I understand will arrive a few days previous to the regular Convention people, we will be able to take care of most all of these Committees on the first sleeping floor, giving the majority of them rooms with bath, also allowing the use of our parlors and other meeting rooms on that floor during their stay at the hotel. At the time of writing to Mr. Sears I was unable to guarantee to take care of more than fifty of your people, this owing to the base ball clubs not having their playing dates laid out. I can now see my way clear to take care of about 150 of your people, giving them outside rooms, and assuring them of the best that we can offer in every respect. I would thank you to notify me a few weeks in advance of the arrival of the Committees and just how many rooms they will want, as I would prefer to have them all on one floor, the other Convention people we can take care of when they arrive, but I would like to know about how many will be with us. Any further assistance that I may be able to give you, and Local No. 68, we are at your command. Yours very truly, VICTOR B. COOKE, Manager. The following letter, addressed to the JOURNAL, and enclosing hotel rates, as well as round trip railroad fares from several points, will be of interest to the delegates and their friends. July 1st, 1916. The Biennial Convention committee of Newark wishes to send for your approval the following hotel lists and railroad rates to Newark Convention, and wishes to have the same placed in the Official JOURNAL, for at least two months, July and August. Trusting, however, you will arrange the setting up of the same, and to thank you for the cooperation in this matter, we are Fraternally yours, Local Convention Committee, HENRY HEBELER, Chairman. E. W. SEARS, Secretary. 30 days October 31 October 31 Ottumwa 48.44 30 days 30 days 34.00 30 days 30 days LOUISIANA: All excursion tickets reading to New York may be validated for return at Newark or stopover will be granted on tickets reading to New York. One-way fares to Newark, N. J., from points from which no summer excursion tickets or short limit excursion tickets are sold to New York are as follows: Akron East Liverpool. Alliance Youngstown Cleveland Martin's Ferry. Roanoke Wheeling ... 12.48 A letter addressed to the General President by Brother Henry Hebeler, chairman of the entertainment committee, explaining provisions made for the entertainment of delegates, is as follows: MR. MATT COMMERFORD, Dear Sir and Brother: I suppose you have been waiting to hear from Local 68 about our next convention. I therefore take the liberty of sending you a few lines for publication in the next issue of the JOURNAL. Mr. President, Local 68 is making big preparations for the Fifth Biennial Convention. We have secured a building which is one of the finest in which a convention of engineers has ever been held. A building in which the convention hall, exhibit hall, dining rooms, committee rooms, Ladies' Auxiliary rooms, etc., are all under one roof. The committee is further making preparations to give the delegates, ladies and guests one of the best times they ever had. The city of Newark is at present celebrating its 250th anniver .$13.10 11.94 12.80 12.65 13.36 12.15 13.10 12.21 12.43 10.83 11.21 8.08 sary and there is something going on every day. Our Ladies' Auxiliary which is progressing rapidly is also making arrangements for entertaining, and promise to have something new for the ladies when they arrive in the city. Mr. Comerford, enclosed you will find some of the hotel rates, with possibly more additions later. The committee will keep you better informed and will communicate more with you regarding convention hereafter. We are forwarding under separate cover a cut of convention hall which we ask you to return when through using it. Hoping to see you in the near future, as we have important matters to discuss with you, we remain, Fraternally yours, HENRY HEBELER, Chairman. NEWARK A GREAT CENTER OF INDUSTRY There is now forming in the shadow of New York, a world's great industrial center, of which the City of Newark is the heart. Henceforth it will begin to loom large upon the horizon of industrial and commercial life. As an integral section of the port of New York, the Newark zone which comprises the real substantial land terminal of the continent has been handicapped because of the imaginary state line dividing New York and New Jersey, a political division blinding the eyes of capital and serving as a prejudice against the development of land terminal facilities. Eighty per cent of all transcontinental freights are obliged to pass across this zone in order to reach the Hudson River and a lighterage service costing over one hundred million of capital is required to make deliveries to New York. INDUSTRIAL NEWARK There are in operation within the City of Newark more than 6,000 manufacturing concerns engaged in 250 different lines of industry-in which are employed an army of 75,000 operatives. The capital invested in manufacture approximates $225,000,000; the value of raw material used aggregates $130,000,000; the yearly pay roll amounts to $56,549,000, with an annual output to supply a part of the world's wants, Within an valued at $250,000,000. area of 42 square miles, comprising the industrial zone of Newark, there are hundreds of other plants employing thousands of workers, all part of this center. The population of these suburban sections added to that of Newark makes up a commercial city or district which rivals Cleveland or Detroit in aggregate of numbers, in wealth represented in taxable values, or in purchasing power. In the industries of Newark a total of 100,484 horsepower is required. The leading industries according to the total value of the annual output are: Smelting and refining of metals, $35,000,000; leather, tanned, curried and finished, $18,858,000; foundry and machine shop products, $15,482,000; jewelry, $13,152,000; liquors, malt, $12,361,000; paints, oils and varnishes, $6,733,000; electrical machinery and apparatus $5,617,000; chemicals, $4,805,000; hats, fur, felt, $4,443,000; printing establishments, $4,519,000; celluloid and celluloid products, $4,500,000; copper, tin and brass products, $4,165,653; clothing, women's, $3,349,000; boots and shoes, $2,901,000; tobacco manufacture, $2,771,000; fertilizers, $2,500,000; advertising novelties, $2,500,000; clothing, men's, $2,473,483; auto accessories, $2,250,000; cutlery and edged tools, $2,081,000; lumber and timber products, $1,916,000; buttons, $1,907,000; leather goods and novelties, $1,666,000; confectionery, $1,635,000; thread $1,500,000; clocks, watches and cases, $1,179,000; silversmithing and silverware, $2,946,169; slaughtering, wholesale, not including meat packing, $1,624,367; stamped ware, $3,241,142; structuhal iron work, $2,506,733; signs, etc., $1,628,532; brass and bronze products, $1,000,000; marble and stone. work, $1,000,000. According to the last census the population within the territory which it would be reasonable to include if the city's boundaries should be extended would make an addition of 250,000 or an aggregate population of 650,000. The ownership of the home, so general in Newark, maintains a parity between capital and labor and to this influence can be ascribed the relative freedom from serious labor troubles which |