The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-03-27
The Metropolis of the State.

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far toward remedying the deficit.
The Metropolis of the State.
We printed a letter yesterday from
a resident of the thriving village of
Newark in which he attempts to
prove, by mere force of asseveration
and abuse, that his home is the first,
instead of the second, city in the
State.
We printed the letter, not because
there was anything instructive in it,
but because it was so funny.
Every one knows that the metropo-
lis of the State is Jersey City. In
commerce it leads the rest of the COM
monwealth with three or four lines of
ocean steamships landing here, and in
the line of manufactures the village on
the Passaic is only a little ahead of it.
The very largest factories in the world,
in at least three branches, are in Jer-
sey City, and when it comes to divers
ity, even New York has hard work to
keep ahead.
Jersey City is the greatest railroad
terminal point in America, with it's
five great trunk lines and enormous
terminal facilities and wonderful sys-
tenn of connecting lines. More railroad
business is done in Jersey City in one
day than would overflow Newark for
a week. As for freight, all the freight
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shipped across the Hudson on a single
Jersey City float.
If we turn to the social side of it,
Newark does not make a very good APP
pearance. Why, it was only Monday
evening that a crowd of Newark club
men, members of the Roseville Athletic
Club, came to Jersey City and deliber-
ately and grossly insulted their hosts,
the Palma Club.
This may be according to ethics of
Newark society, but it can scarcely be
termed metropolitan.
There is a yacht club in Newark, as
there is in Jersey City.
Ours is the second oldest yacht club
in the country.
The Newark Yacht Club is a collec-
ton of old-fashioned cat-boats.
We have a ~race-course, the West
Side Driving Park, but when Newark
horses trot, it is on the State Fair
grounds at Waverley.
So far as population goes Jersey
City is larger than Newark by at least
5000.
But we do not care for that.
We know enough to let water
swindlecates alone.
ANOTHER New York street was
blown up yesterday morning. And
still we hear talk of the new coast
defences. Bosh. Just let the invaders
land at the Battery and march up
town, and by the time the column gets
to Twenty-third street those who
have not been run over by horse cars
and beer wagons, or killed by electric
wires or pulled in and torn to pieces
by ambitious tradesmen; OF blown up
by steam pipes II subway explosions
can be confined in a seven-by-nine
cell at the Nineteenth Precinct
station, Thank Heaven, we in Jersey
City can walk the streets without feel
ing that at any moment our next step
may be upon the golden stairs.
Newark's Peril-Jersey City's Danger.
Can the Lehigh Valley Railway Com
pany give a good title to the water
rights which it assumes to be able to
sell to the city of Newark, and for the
purpose of buying which the reckless
officials of that city are willing to
contract several millions of indebted
ness to be a burden on the taxpayers!
There is the most serious reason to
believe that it has no legal claim what
even to the thing it pretends to sell.
In the first place all the natural
principles of law and politics are OPP
posed to such a theory. There are in
herent, popular rights which are be-
You'd the interference even of Legisla-
lures, and among these the right of the
State to control its water sources for
the general good appears, in the judg-
ment of the greatest lawyers, to
be one. Men must be guaranteed by
civilized government, in the first place,
room ON the earth wherein to live;
they must be guaranteed the open air
and the free sunlight; can they then
be denied the water which God made
to flow? Well, those lawyers, who
look beyond the narrow limits Of calf