The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-01-02
dorsey City's Boom.

~ l4-~Jerseys City's Boom. Ns8N.
The year 1890 opens for Jersey City
with fair promise. Things have never
looked better for her steady growth in
population and wealth, and in the
comforts and convenienees of modern
life.
Iu the first place, the activity III
real estate is more than encouraging,
and the number of vacant lots being
sold to prospective builders shows
that the best Judgment of experts
counts upon a large access
off, settlers during the spring
andN summer. Nearly all the
residences that were completed DUR
ing the season just past have been let,
and the agents report constant en-
quiry for sfnaH housessat moderate
rents thrsougAouS the Hill section.
This we regard a. the most promis-
ing sign possible. Increase of trade
in every branch must necessarily fol-
low Increase of population, and as the
patronage of u large retail houses
INCREASES, they will be better and bet
tk1able to compete successfully with
Aew York traders as Plaut and
wHahne, and the other big Broad
street houses doin Newark.
sWesthink there Ore lIanys reasons
why the expectations of our real es-
tate men should sbe more than jnsti-
fed. Jersey City, during the past
year, has shakeh~much dust from her
feet. Reform in county and munieis
pal methods will bring reduction of
taxation and improved return
for the taxpayers money. The
streets will hereafter be better paved
and better cleaned. The discipline
and efficiency of the police is being
improved daily, and the time is meas
urably near when a wholly paid corps
will be substituted for our present
buffalo" fire department.
Other important improvements are
inseontempiation Through public and
private enterprise. The two "Ln
IOduss Olc u CuuISS VI COHStIuctiOL,
the other authorized by ordinance of
the Board OF Aldermen the substitu-
ton of electric traction for horses in
the Jersey City and Bergen cars /;
the probability of an early
reform in the city water supply; the
introduction of a new and efficient
electric light and power service
these are only some of the new de-
partures that will soon make Jersey
City one of the most desirable places
OF residence in the vicinity of New
York, and that will, doubtless, bring
thousands of new inhabitants in the
immediate future.
! There seems to be every indication
that Jersey City has become possessed
A of a ''boom," and we are confident
that with careful nurture it will do
more for the city in 1890 than the
whole preceding decade mas done.
THE Superintendent of the Penn
sylvania Railway ferries should exert
himself to put a stop to the fakir
nuisance on the Cortland street boats.
1t has become very bad of late, On
Tuesday night, two fellows made
themselves obnoxious on the Hud-
son City. First a vendor of cough
lozenges took possession of the ladies'
cabin and insisted on dumping sam
Piles and packages into the passen-
gers laps, making an Grafton on his
wares meanwhile. AS soo as he got
out, a song and dance artist came
in and played on q mouth harmonicon,s
and danced jigs and reels for several
minutes. Of course taking up a collec-
ton at the end Both of these fellows
were able bodied and tough. They
should have been working at some
honest employment, instead Of play
ing beggar to the annoyance OF the
tN Hts E4IA & NEFt f