Early in the year 1913, the Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens recommended to Borough President Maurice E. Connolly that it would be appropriate if an official Queens Flag were to be designed and adopted.

Mr. Connolly agreed and assigned Rodman J. Pearson, a draftsman in the Bureau of Sewers, to prepare preliminary sketches, which were later submitted to the Chamber's board of directors for approval.

A special committee consisting of Commissioner of Highways G. Howland Leavitt, Louis Windemuller and Charles G. Meyer was appointed to confer with E. Hageman Hall, president of the New York Historical Society and secretary of the American Scenic and Historical Preservation Society, for the purpose of authenticating the various elements of the design.

At Mr. Hall's suggestion, several important changes were

incorporated and finally on June 3, 1913, the revised sketch was adopted by the Queens Chamber.

The Chamber defrayed the expense of making the initial flags, later displayed at regular functions of the Queens Chamber and at its headquarters in Long Island City, at the Queens Borough Public Library in Jamaica, and at Queens Borough Hall in Kew Gardens.

The new Queens Flag was first displayed officially at the celebration inaugurating construction of the dual rapid transit system in Queens on June 7, 1913.

For some reason, it was not flown at Borough Hall until October 14, 1929, when Borough President George U. Harvey raised it upon the Borough Hall standard in the presence of Queens Chamber officials and borough civic leaders.