New-York tribune., 1867-08-19
TIE JERSEY FLA7S" IMPROVEMENTS

ETc.-THE FIRST RAILROAD EXCURSION.
THE TRIBUNE recently made a note Of part
OF the many improvements which I'm progress upon
the jersey Flats between the Jersey city and Hoboken
Ferries 80 many additional evidences Of substantial
growth manifest there as to warrant another ar
tcIe upon the same general topic
proximity TO the machine shop OF the Erie Rail-
road is a large tobacco warehouse, OF brick, which IL
stories hight and covers half block 1t Is 400
feet length by 100 width Just across the street
frame building story in hight and covering III e"
of $1,000 square feet This building VIII DC eharseu "
double its present size during the coming year. IhS
also used for the storage of tobacco and belongs as dos
the other, to Jarvis & Co.
few hundred yards to the northwest OF these Duuu'
ings and lying at the foot of Groyest Jersey Cy ON
the line Of Morris and Essex Railroad Is the
Abattoir the only HewJersey rival OF the great 'o"
nipaw establishment This abattoir was Duiit WIN So
view OF aordag to the Newfork putehers
who purchase cattle at the Hudson CITY yarps. was
erected about years ago. and has been SINCE ta' ne
in charge Of Mr. NJ S. wckware, whose care ana stten'
son Co are the owners The consist Of two large
buildings used as bean a1 u Toeh ~ ss
snuchterhouses contains two apartments or balk as
@ they Sae ee are rdned to the butchers year and
are in charge OF the superlntendents employed @ by
tbe respectye tenants. There ale now 90 men az
work IN the saughter-hOuses, and the amount
OF cattle staying done is immense from Loo to 400 cat
lie are killed here every week. an average OF 200 day.
Great numbers Of sheep are killed, too Jerry Downg.
the great NewYork ~ Is SnSs NOW ss ner ir1 ON
the meat loaded into the wagons sent 1or H. " Is de-
yered at the foot Of Barcayt and In 20 minutes on
the hooks in Washington Market ready to be sliced up
quantities to suit hungry purchaser Ihe dransge Of
re sitUoted on what Is known as Old Mil Creek, where
the fall the abatOir is o. feet IN 100 While noticing
how iS much each man is capable Of dong in day and
informed by Mr WekTare IVA d dht -a gSUa from
cattle per day with the appliances used at the aDattor
Eth sG9 Seiter This establishment is enlarged just fast as
business requires increased facilities so great Is ths
call for room that the company are about To erect an ad
ditonal building 10 supply the demand Every morning
the Oal is sent In wagons TO the acKehsaek he, and
te boxes ceaDsed thoroughly At night each workman
Is required TO wash balk for winch purpose there
complete system Of watSrppes % an over tne estaS
Is detected there is Immediate application OF dlsln
feotants Landowners In the vicinity are putting up
md graded and In short time what was not long ago
dreary waste viii become popuous and Webuiit suburbs
u Three Years ago the land about the HobOken end Of
the Morris and Essex Railroad was nj under water
CITY It is now nearly all filled in and such improves
renns after having spent three Winters abroad
The company have erected In that time splendid pas
ssp sPseP anu but sn sfeC SaR mile in length an
engine-hOuse coal banks, water tanks &c, and per
ect Witch Strikes the passengers eye az he nears Ho
boken from the side The floor 10 feet above
meets tbe solid earth more han?oS feet away Up thI
great inclined plane long trains Of laden with
ne cSat sre Locust Moanan
Lehgh and Scranton, awaiting transportation abroad
largest to float comfortably where the loading II
coal Is done This s very interesting operation, and as
It is managed ere hundreds Of tuns may be shipped in
very short time. monstrous scoopike affair, made Of
rO extends from the barge or other vessel to be loaded
to opening the floor, over which each 10
riyes stopped The bottom OF the is uDhnged aud
in moment the load dumped into the hold OF the yes
0ne side the dock in front Of the depot is used
clusvely for the landing and shipping OF pig irOn Of
/ uh of daily from HOkeudaQua.
Catasauqua, and Allentown, Pa, and are shipped to AZ
The Morris and Essex Railroad Company are making
arrangements BY which they vii become the owners OF
when the transfer is made docks TO be built and
the railroad company VIII establish ferry OF their OWL
We have spoken in this article only of the principal I'm.
provements which have been made on the expanse Of
water weeds, sand and mud once known as the jersey
Flats The wealthy railroad and other corporations arc
not by any means alone in the labor Of building up this
tract Private enterprise is manifest al many points.
Many have already been reclaimed from the grasp
OF the greedy Hudson, and the work Is Sun solngon
Within few years large number OF residences have
been erected this made land gardens laid out and cu
tvated shade trees planted thOrcugfares opened and
water aud gas pipes laid where but little more thana
decade in the past half these improvements were never
dreamed Of.
Until few years ago nearly all the ground over which
have been leading the reader belonged TO the Stevens
family 0f Hoboken. Not the firm earth alone he.
the solid soil visible and tangble but they were likewise
possessed OF broad hidden beneath the surface
the river. unavailable and utterly worthless until 10
deemed at great labor expense Most Of these water
graded with the general level win make a ciy-site un
pier line, which has been fixed by law and beyond which
wharves other obsructions be built, is from
TO 81 feet amply sufficient for vessels OF the largest size
This circumstance alone renders the growth OF this tract
mere question Of time In ten years the ryerrontd
the old Jersey Flats Will be the landing for hun
drrds OF vessels and the valuess waste lying be-
tween the river and the hills Will be known as young
CCmmumpaw, and perhaps large portion Of the conn.
try farther back into rivalry with the great metropolis
lust cOueeptlOn of the vast improvements luads
upon The Flats since 1859 can be formed except by os
who knew the tract them and walk IL 10 day 70
cannot be done 10 the subject In newspaper sketch b
Ia this have taken pains TO give IN few words gea
tail only nreaon 10 such rs seem TO point most definitely
toward the certain growth OF commercial city upon hs
e Thlchf9r 50 many years was -, an eyeSoFe 70 ,Ss
birthplace OF naugh better than bloodhrsty musketos
walk over this new suburb which can now be in
duged IN fearlessly win wen repay the student Of pro
gress. The geoogst Will lind something amuse hin,
and he who delights In watching the movements OF H.
trcae machinery can enjoy his favorite amusemento
great trees handled like walking sticks and sunk
fatoms deep In the water To- do duty In uphoding ohd
platforms, with which the politicians have naught 10 d
how miles OF iron rails laid and piers built and
water turned 10 earth Here, too, the curiosity
Among other odd things which he may ind here in the
office OF the Erie Railroad machine shops Is silhouette
THE FIRST RAILROAD EXCURSION,
with description Of which We bring these notes tos
close:
A skeleton engine tender bearing strong resem'
blanco to headeSs goslng wheels and two coaches,
much Ike the oldfashoned country stage with rs multi
pllcty OF straps and stays, made up the train The
contained Is SmonS Sa9 Tfa
Bank Albany; Mr.. Dudley OF the Dudley Observatory;
Jacob Hayes Hlgh-Constabe; Major Mrggs, shsrlni
Billy WINES, Penny yPoStmanj Thurow Weed ana eh-
The engine was the De witt Clinton. built at the West
rGEf s m % Z sy 10 ISL hS5 ad h IN 3 %
that year. on the Mohawk and Hudson Railroad Between