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TELEPHONE 1757 HOBOKEN Board of Trade Bulletin Published monthly (except in July and August) by the Board of Trade, Hoboken, N. J. to advance the business and civic interests of the CITY of HOBOKEN Volume! 'jANUAR^ AH Aboard For 500 LANS are well under way for the boosting of our membership to the 500 P point A score or more of our busiest "llivi e wires'\ under the leadership of Chair- man John J. Fagan, have been holding Mon- day luncheon meetings for the . past month. These workers have molded their plans; they have arranged their prospects; they are en- thusiastic and determined. We are confident in OUT belief that the half-thousand mark will be reached. CO", Four days—Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurs- day, Friday, January 16, 17, 18 and 19 of the new year—have been decided upon for the Membership Canvass. The Membership >mmittee and a number of • volunteer work- •? will devote from 9:30 to 12:30 each .orning to canvassing non-members, explain- Aig the; value of our Board to them, and se- curing their applications for membership. There are approximately 700 individuals, firms, and corporations who should be affili- What Mr. Filene Says atedl with us There is no reason why they should not be members—and our canvassers are going to explain that fact to them. C£ Chairman Fagan and his co-workers plan a thorough canvass. They are after results- Every member of the Board should co-oper- ate; they should endeavor to secure one new member, at least; or, better still, they should devote one day to assisting the Committee. Our members realize already the value of membership in our Board, and each of us surely knows two or three others who would profit greatly from the service given by the Board. \ €1 Edward A. Filene, the big Boston mer- chant, said the other day, "A business man in a community who is not sufficiently interested to contribute his moral and active support to the Board of Trade or Chamber of Commerce f should not receive the same consideration from his business associates as the man who does support the Board, and, through it, the commercial and industrial advancement of his city." COT Out of his wide business experience, Mr Filene has stated a truth. We, of Hoboken," agree with him; we know that every business and professional man should be a member. During the coming canvass let us unite to impress this fact upon the mind of the non- member. The business man who has an idea that he can profit by the work of a local Board of Trade while doing none of the work, is laboring under a delusion. We profit most by helping along public works. In each of us-—member and non-member—lies a duty. What the Board Offers 3 iiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiuiuiiiiiiiuiuuiiiiiiiiiiiaiiiituiiiiuiii We of the Board are endeavoring to perform ours; those non-members owe it to them- selves to associate with us so that they, like usy iay perform theirs. As has frequently been pointed out, a defin- 0 service is rendered by our Board to our ^members. Our Credit Service offers real. v?ivalue to every business and professional man iin Hoboken. Through this Service the seller can immediately ascertain the rating of the prospective purchaser. The "dead-beat" is eliminated, and members already using the Credit* Service state that they have been saved many times a year's dues. This one feature is sufficient to convince the most skeptical non- member that he owes it to his pocketbook to join our Board. • ffi, Then there is the Traffic Service, through which we are able to give members, at a very low cost, expert service and advice; freight bills can be audited; claims for loss and dam- age collected; shipments routed and traced, etc. CH, The Advertising and Ticket Solicitation Protection is another valuable service given to our members. Such soliciting is discour- aged, and our members are saved money. Of course it is worth a j^ear's dues to be protected in this manner! d£ There are many other advantages of mem- bership. We owe it to the non-members to explain these advantages. So, let all of us— those of us who are devoting all of the four days to canvassing, those who have promised to give an hour or so for one or two days, and those who have agreed to secure a new mem- 4 For Manufacturers ber, remember that January 16, 17, 18 and 19 are important days in the history of our Board of Trade, and that it behooves all of us to put our shoulders to the wheel so that when the first of February rolls around our member- ship list will be over the 500 mark. YOU You ask me what the old town needs? It needs more men—some men of deeds. Not men who talk Find fault and balk But men who'll give the best they've got To make the old town what she ought. You say we need more factories, More stores, more schools, more charities, I grant it, friend But in the end It's men who make them—is that true? The thing the town needs most is YOU. -—-Selected* WHY MANUFACTURERS SHOULD JOIN THE BOARD OF TRADE. Carl Jil. Berne gait CDC When one contemplates the many advan- tages offered by Hoboken as a manufacturing city, one can only wonder that its develop- ment in that direction was so long retarded, €[ Being only a distance of 20 minutes from the heart of the business district of New York, it has in fact all the advantages of the Metropolis while its rent values are still remarkably low. Future Needs 5 •.€£ The markets of the great metropolis are at the finger tips of the Hoboken manufac- turer either to purchase raw material, ma- chinery and tools, or to offer manufactured goods for sale to the many buyers who are either permanently located in New York or who flock there in ever-increasing numbers for the season's buying. d> Shipping facilities m Hoboken can scarce- ly be surpassed, for not only can goods be de- livered right in Hoboken for shipment to any part of the country, but Hoboken ship- pers are even better located with regard to the shipment of goods from the New York docks than most of the concerns located in New York City. With the pending light- erage question settled in favor of New Jer- sey, the position of the Hoboken Manufac- turer would be still more favorable. (H An unusual number of Trans-atlantic Steamship lines dock at Hoboken so that ship- ping connections with European countries are excellent. €£ Labor conditions in the past have been very satisfactory. With the increasing de- mand for labor, two things however should be borne in mind: the necessity of providing more and better housing for the various classes of labor and a friendly understand- ing among the manufacturing concerns, not to artificially drive wages beyond the mar- ket price by indiscriminate offers to help em- ployed in other concerns. We believe that the Industrial Bureau of the Board of Trade might give this question some consideration and bring about such an understanding. For Retail Merchants H Local manufacturers should become mem- bers of the Board of Trade so that they may profit from the many advantages and collect- ively meet the problems with which they are confronted. WHY RETAIL MERCHANTS SHOULD JOIN THE BOARD OF TRADE Herman Geismar d[ Just as soon as you make up your mind that your opponent in business has no horns, —by meeting him in a friendly spirit, and co-operating with him,—in other words, as soon as you will pull with him and others in all general undertakings and improvements, —just so soon will you benefit by affiliation with any Chamber of Commerce or Board of Trade. (£ How are you going to benefit? (I[ You will learn men and ways of men as well as their ideas. We can all learn from the next man,—big men appreciate the merits of others, that's the quality that makes them big. Being big enough to recognize genious, is the next thing to possessing it. No mat- ter how large your business has grown, how much you know, or how great your power is, you can still learn and accomplish more by combining with your fellow merchants in raising the standard of your methods and merchandise, in educating your customers, and keeping them during that process, and in Evils to he Remedied 7 abolishing many of the abuses and evils of the retail trade. (It If you are successful in your business, why not show your fellow merchant how to be successful. You lose nothing by it. You and he both want to keep the buyers of your community at home, and one mistake in the treatment of one customer by one dealer is apt to hurt all the merchants. ([[ If you have been successful in your par- ticular line, you may have aroused the re- sentment and provoked the hostility of nar- row-minded merchants who secretly want what you have, and wish to be what you are. Both you and such competitors will be bene- fited by meeting on common ground, learn- ing to understand each other, and finally pull- ing together to your mutual advantage. Ct Consolidation of the merchants of a town leads to the abolition of many nuisances and the institution of many improvements, made possible only by the combined power of the entire community of merchants.