New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-05-01
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FRIDAY, MAY /, 1857.


The growth of this Emporium is less obvious to
the great mass both of citizens and visitors than
would seem probable. Broadway indeed, increases
in the hight and elegance of the structures which
line it, and Thirty fifth street is as well built and
populous as Blocker street was only few years
ago; but Pearl street and the Bowery Broad street
and Chatham are much as they were in 1880; and
he whose daily journey from his dwelling to his.
store or shop only takes him from Union square or
the Fifth avenue to Wall or William street, can
hardly realize how the extension of our Commerce
| and Manufactures is expanding what is really our
| city on every side-along the banks of the East
| and North Rivers down the Jersey and Long
Island coasts of the Bay, beside the Harlem River
on Staten Island, and far up into Westchestcr
County.
We have placed Commerce before Manufactures
above, in Difference to the general usage, and be-
cause our Citys commercial position is the CONTROL
ing cause of her growth; yet it were great mistake
TO suppose the Trade of this city equal in impor-
lance or value to her Manufactures. We judge
that New. York and her suburbs employ more
capital and at least twice as much labor in Manu-
features 40 in Trade, though the former have never
received due consideration from our capitalists and
business men, Philadelphia has at least twenty
manufactures of textile fabrics where New-fork
has one, and her superiority in the fabrication OF
metals though less decided is still undenablc. New
York has not to-day onefourth the capital employed
in the various processes Of manufacture that she
| ought to have. Here is where most raw materials
ore bought cheapest; here most OF the labor which
| is constantly pouring in upon us from Europe hrst
| steps on American soil; here is the great market
for every products and here should be the chief seat
Of American Manufactures of those kinds which are
most advantageOusly produced in or near some
great city. Philadelphia has about twenty-five per
cent advantage of us in fuel with perhaps ten per
| cent in the average cost of provisions; III every
other respect the advantage is on the side of New
| York. And this advantage is daily making itself
| felt and acknowledged among business men. Look
ing over yesterday to the point where the Flushing
| Railroad reaches the East River we landed just
| between two new and large manufactures, one OF
| them erected by Boston firm for the production
of Glass and the other by Baltimore house for the
production of Paints, each of them having ascer-
tanned that this is the true point for the prosecu-
| ton of their manufacture. The Boston house ex-
poets to save the $4,000 per annum hitherto paid
for the transportation of its product to this city
! where it has hitherto mainly been sold, while its
fuel will also be considerably cheapened by the trans
| fer. This concern brings with it two hundred
| workmen, who, with their families, will add some
six or eight hundred persons to the population of
| our suburbs--in effect, of this City. And similar
transfers of manufacturing establishments to the
point at which their materials are mainly bought
| and at which their goods must be sold, are con-
| stanty occurring.
The landing. place of which we have just spoken
is itself an exemphfcation Of the general truth we
are enforcing. 1t lies just across NewtOwn Creek
from the extreme east end of what is now Brook
Ign, but was recently Williamsburgh and formerly
Bushwick. This section {" oreenpont y has
within few years been built up from nothing into
maze of manufactures, ship-yards, stores and
dwellings,. This process, it is manifest, ia about
to be repeated the other side Of the creek oppo-
site Thirty third to Forty-ifth street in our City,
where Newtown corners on Brooklyn and the Eas.
River, and where some three or four hundred acres
Of naked sand ridge and salt marsh have hitherto
separated Greenpont from Ravsnswood. Here.
the ridge has been and is being cut down and filled
into the marshes, through which canals have begun
10 be constructed, while docks have been run ont.
dwellings and factories erected and industry i'm
PEELED by thrift is steadily transforming the whole
area into dry and firm plain, soon TO be covered
BY another such busy and prosperous community
| Al TINT which now oecupies tyreenpOnt Whoever
debarks to take the railroad for Flushing ten years
hence will not suspect that here rocky ridge or
Doggy marsh ever existed Such is but one of
many kindred transformations quietly pro-
ceedng in the suburbs of New-York.
/ Ih1 4lhnnn 4tLns will nlease CORRECT itsef far