New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-10-30
THE cT7Y or NE WARK.

for their night 10 the tract Of land included in ,h
preset city of Newark, and the tosnships OF q CON.
held ard Orange for the very detailed prizes o. &c,
"a Hbe hsno'uls OF powder one hun ired b,s Of lsx
"twsuty axe twenty coats, ten guns, t-enty pst,.
"ten X alee teh swords, tour blankets, four bursl. q
" beer teo pars Of b'eectes fay knives t#en hoe,
" sight hunS'ed and fey fa,homs If ~smPpn, t~onsy
"ankers OF liquors or some ether squvsen,, snd tb,s
troopers Goa s." The history OF this settlement q,
drawn by the abe peis Of he Rev. DR.. Seams asd
n. A. Whitehead, Esq., proves that the pc pie Of this
colony were unusually select as to character sai e.
ergy endesvorng the csrry ing OF spiritual COO
"cerIments es also Of civil and to IN sifais sccort.
Ing to God and gody government" as they sad IA
their original compact. And yet when the Rsvolua,n
came, enc hundred and nine years after the 6rst tree
was feled, Newark was sill small place. LIS stress
were not cowpactly built up. 1t WAS farming CON.
munty to all intents with but little sgo OF ,assvst
manufacturing enterprise which has since given such
importance to the place In old times CITIES and ems
were slow in their progress when compared with sons
unded but yeste ~ at the West In 1850, one bun.
dred and seventy-three wears after It's setleue.t il
he'd population Of only ten thousand nine hunsreS
an fly but in the next ten yeas II gained tsothln
a. much as IN al is previou, existence, and IN lssoh
tbirt, eicht thousand nine hundrod and ninety .su.
1t is now not for from fifty thousand.
we now recur to tee history OF railroads sni ma.
ufscturs, we shah fpd the causes of this increase.
Between 1890 ard 1910 the old-iashioned stages he
tween Newark ard Hoboken and Jersey City Sus
SUPERSEDED By the railroad, which Afforded cheap and
rapd facilities for raNel and 'reightng. Men coai
do business in New York and have the benefit Of Gv.
ing on comparatively low rents in Newark This
fact has dore much for the later city, as one can
EASILY zee by inspecting tie crosded trains the
New jersey road.
1t is quite amusing, also to take the files of TL
StntiHel f Freedom and see the beginnings OF some
large houses now doirg an enormous business. One
of The wealthiest men in Newark IS William Rankin.
wi ose early advertisements show that he doing
q small retail business ss halter. His trade now is
on the scale # very large Wholesale SO, also.
Smith 4 Wright sa' dies and harness makers, were
don JUS: "a lhrge business "a very small capital
would allow on the pay as You go" principle. The
first of the firm lived to reap fortune from The bas
ness even then greatly enlarged. Tho o'her member,
Mr. Wright is now living to zee the business of hls
house so large as to circulate for materials and labor
hundreds of thousands of dollars every year The
leather business a small affair thirty years ago.
not doing a graf deal for the foreign msrke', but
now "the swamp alone, as Il Is called, must en-
ploy severa hundred thousands Of dollars in capiti
In tbs business and there arc single psent'leatber
manufactures with moe capital, laborors, and pro
ducts than all the lea herdeaeTs IN Newark together
thirty years age. The advertisements in the Sssti-
mel indicate IL at previous to 1880 Newark had tauors
and seamsresses sufficient TO make cl thos enough
for the good people al hore; but at this time Newark
has several tizeps who have become independently
rich BY making clothes fer the Southern aud Western
market, ard these establishments are furnish Nc en-
plo,uent to thousands of people in the city and ylcln
ity. The same holds true of the coach and wagon
making business The old establishment OF David
Beach, v hich to our boyish eyes looked vass was
small compared with some that can now be named IN
the city, TIE amount of capital how invested IN HE
making of hats, harness, saddles, coaches, wag rs.
trunks leather shoes hosiery, wagon xles Je"olry,
maleabe iron csst.iron wa,e, iuda-rubber goods,
&C. is tnormous and single houses such as Fatoute,
Wright & Co., or Rankin, Duryee 60, or the NeS-
ark India rubber company, are actually using more
capital and paying out more cash for labor and mate
rails than ali the manufacturers OF Newark together
forty years ago. But this point propose %
furnish some statistics which viii illustrate the I'M
mense increase Of manufactures in Newark.
If we look 1t Newark now compared with former
times by s churches, We see the same progress. Du-
ring half c5n.ury the Old First Presbyterian
church" was the only ecclesiastical Organization In
the original purchase. In l7l5 the first church IN
Orange was organized; in 1884 the Trinity Episcopal
church st The Forth end Of the park and in 1894 tie
Presbyterian church in Bloomfield. The town had
been settled ole hundred ard thirtytwo years when
in 1899 tie Rev. David Bartine preached tho fra
Methodist sermon in it; and this denomination buts
small wood church in Hasey street 10 1909. The FrSt
Baptist church OF organized until 1901, and the
Rev. o. Is. Brown Gen. JacksOL's favOrite auditor.
was one Of its members. Their meeting house was
not quit until 1906 Meanwhile in Newark proper
there was but one Presby teran church until 1910,
when the Second church, on the uppsr park, ""
built II was in ibis church that that gifted, bhlian!
and il.fated pulpit orator the Rev. Hopper Can
mirg drew crowds Of sdmng hearers for some three
years At the pre- ent time Newark has some eight
PIesby tersn churches, ore Congregational, I've
or six Episcopal, six Methodist, two Bsptht, tso
Reformed Dutch, one Lutheran, three Roman
Catholic one Univeralist-thfre are two organize
tiops-snd SOME others which we canno, now recall,
making some forty churches ia alan aVersgeof one
church 10 every ore thousand inhabitanb. II We
compare the church edifees of the present day with
those Of past tine, find the same perceptibe prog
ress. The plain but very eegant buildings Of The
first, second aud third Presbyterian churches eontrsa
finely with the old irsme church which stood directly
opposite to the present first church. Ia fact, it's
doubtful whether, If the old setters-the Ketches
the Wares, the Bruels, the Meokefs, and especially
their old pastor, Abraham Piersonsen-shoud ne
fiom their mueh.desecrs:ed graves, they would Dc
peased with the very rich siorrmenL in the ssnc%