The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1889-12-29

sus,of 1885 they were 16, ia, showing an
increase of 1000 dwellings over the cen
sus of 1880. Take the same increase for
the next census we will have in Jersey
City at least $1,000 dwellings; and if the
buildings shall increase during the next
fifty years at the same rate as they have
for the past fifty years, we shall have at
the end of that time 100000 dwellings
in Jersey City.
Fifty years ago there were five drink,
ing places in all Jersey City, then calleu
taverns because licensed under that name
increase as has developed during the past
fifty years, we shall have at the end of the
next fifty years no less than 14s,092.
Fifty years ago the taxes levied upon
property in Jersey City amounted to
%, 1924 Last year they amounted to
81, 496,63S. At the same rate of increase.
at the end of the next fifty years the poor
taxpayer will be called upon to surrender
for the public good per annum only the
modest sum OF about seven hundred
millions.
Fifty years ago there was but on
railroad entering Jersey City, that was
of the New Jersey Railroad and Trans
portation Company. The cars were drawn
by horses, stopped at the hotels to receive
passengers, and ran from Newark to
Jersey City in one hour and a half.
They were taken over the hill instead of
through the cut. Now, the Erie, the d.
l.. & W.. the Central, the Lehigh Valley
and the West Shore fast trunk lines. and
many other smaller roads are bringing
their thousands of passengers daily into
| the city. What the railroad traffic will
be on this shore. and within the then
bounds of Jersey City, fifty years hence.
| no imagination can set forth.
FAIR FIELD.
Fifty years ago the religious element
| of the community supported one Dutch
Reformed Church, one Methodist Church
and one Roman Catholic Church. Now
would not attempt to specify either the
| number or variety of churches within the
bounds of the city. The Lord knows
| there is room and work for them ALL for
the devil has got the best of them yet,
and doubt not at the end of the next
| fifty years the religious sentiment will
have grown sufficient for the support Of
more churches in greater number and
variety to fight the good fight against the
| wickedness of this world which develops
with such astonishing rapidity within our
| bounds.
| Fifty years ago the amount of money
received from the State for the support of
public schools in Jersey City was $3.50.
| This present year the amount received
was $341, 1874. At the same rate at the end
of the next fifty years the amount to be
received from the State will be about
$729, 100000.
| ANNEXATION AND ABSORPTION.
sOf course in ali these figures and
estimates it must not be forgotten that
Jersey City has enlarged its boundaries
by annexation.
SIN 1861, the township of Van Worst
was brought in and this included all the
land lying east Of Mill Creek, with the
exception of old Paulus Hook. In 1870,
old Hudson City. which included all the
territory in the Heights north of Newark
was brought into the city, and at the
same time Bergen, with all the territory
| from Newark avenue south to Waverly
avenue was brought in; and in 1873 the
old township of Greenville was annexed;
and it does not require very vivid i'm
| agination to see that the time is not far
| distant when Hoboken and the outlying
| townships must be united with Jersey
| City under one municipal government
Fifty years ago the criminal part of
| the population of this county in one year,
So far as brought to trial by presentment
of Grand Jury, showed but eighteen
| charged with assault and battery, one
with assault with intent to kill, one with
assault with intent to ravish, four with
counterfeiting. three with larceny, one
with malicious mischief, two for counter
feiting, one with polygamy, and sixteen
| for selling liquor without license. That
| is all the charges which the criminal
records show for the year 1910.
81 cannot specify the different criminal
charges presented by the Grand jury
| during the past year ending the LIST of
December present; but the sum total OF
indictments during that time, for every
variety of crime amounted in the Sep
| TENDER Term of 1888 to 314 indictments;
| in the April Term Of 1889 to 379 indict-
! ments, and in the September Term of
| 1889, 260 indictments. This enumeration
| does not include the special sessions
which. for the same number of terms will
probably reach the total of 500 At the
same rate of increase in criminal charges,
the end of the next fifty years will pre-
| sent criminal exhibit against the good
| people then bearing the burdens CT this
! life in this county of at least SO, 900 per
! annum.
"Now, if we consider that our county
comprises about twenty square miles or
about 1900 acres of upland, one can
| readily see that with The number Of
dwellings and population heretofore esti-
mated. that this territory, salt, meadow
and all, will be densely settled, in fact
| beyond the possibility of occupation.
AT LEAST A BIG PROSPECT.
| "Of course these figures and estimates
are subject to varying conditions. only
| 1.