The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-02-16
A Sleepy Town on the
Arthur Kill Weakened
Up BY a New
Factory.
IS IT STANDARD OIL.
The Big Monopoly Much Talked Of
But the Promoters Disown 1t.

AmD0y. has dr0ned ana QrOWSeQ
away the last five years in humdrum
monotony, but now it has taken a
start. and the denizens of its hills and
dales are rubbing their eyes with as
constituent at the hustle and hustle of
busy, worked-up life which has sud-
denly sprung up there The peaceful
hamlet bids fair to become thriving
and prosperous town, though so
quietly have the innovations been
going on, and so unostentatiously
have the foundations for powerful
business plants been located there
that the world at large has heard moth
ing of it. Scarce whisper of the inn
provements has been noised abroad,
and when reporter took a pilgrimage
to Carteret few days ago he found
an almost undiscovered country. AT
the station the reporter inquired the
way to the new Standard Oil Com
pany's plant. No one knew anything
about it until one of the natives
scratched his head and ventured the
remark that the young fellow might
mean them new mills what was going
up over toward Sewaren.
A ROUGH JOURNEY.
This was the reporters objective
point and he was soon shown an an
tedeluvian specimen of the genus
stage coach, which he was assured
was just on its way to the new mills
1t was distance of two miles over
one of the toughest roads in all Jer-
sey. Early this winter the Carteret
Road Commissioners put some
masons at work filling in divers and
sundry hollow places in the road with
brick and mortar AS a result the
road is now one interrupted series of
miniature mountains and hillocks
which, covered with foot or more of
the inimitable and. delightfully."- plastic
Jersey mud, makes fearful combin-
alton, which might well strike terror
to the heart of the stoutest pedestrian
and cause the knees of all respectable
and sober minded horses to knock to-
gether After a half-hour of steady
splashing and foundering, however,
the Standard Oil Mills hove IN sight
in the midst of small sea of mud,
and with the haf-completed frame
work of the buildings stretching their
giant arms into the air like the limbs
of defunct Titans.
FERTILIZERS AND CHEMICALS.
The new works are located on the
snore of Arthur Kill and occupy
nearly three acres of land adjoining
The buildings are in two sections
joining each other, and they will be
used for the manufacture of chemi-
calls, phosphates and fertilizers The
main building is 500 feet long by 80
feet wide and a story and a half high,
81 feet. The second building about
which the other is built on three sides
is S0x40 feet and IS feet or three
stories high. The buildings are not
quite enclosed, although the roofs of
both are on and will soon be covered
with composition of ground slate
and asbestos. A large boiler and en-
CINE room of brick with sixty foot
chimney has been erected in front of
the main building. A gigantic engine,
400-horse power, will be used, and
some idea of the vast amount of mo-
tive power to be made use of may be
gained when it is said that the main
shafting will be seven inches in
diameter.
SPEEDY WORK.
Superintendent w. G. Hilton took
the reporter over the works, and while
he was exceedingly reticent when
questioned with reference to the work
to be carried on in the big mills, did
not attempt to deny that business on a
very large scale was to be done Money
is being spent with great freedom, but
not with lavishness. The ground for
the new works was broken last Octo-
Der A large force of men was EN-
ployed, and it is calculated that every
thing will be in readiness for manu-
facture by the first of April
GREAT WHARF FACILITIES.
In the rear of the buildings one of
the finest docks IN the State has been
built out over the waters of the Kill
The dock is 500 feet long, and has
three approaches from the build
ings A pile-driver was put to work
early last Fall, and after considerable
difficulty, because OF the unfayorable
condition of the ground under the
water, sufficient number of
spiles were driven. The entire
dock. supports, approaches and all
il built for endurance and
the great timbers used in its
construction show it is expected to
bear heavy weights. Two railroad
tracks are being built from the
CentraPs main line, mile and half
! away. ~ Vie Wins Nt4lt VIII ruiz 10
theboiler room and will be used to
transport the fuel. and the other go on
| to the dock and will be used for the
! transportation of both the raw
material and the manufactured goods.
! Besides the two, switch trolley rails
will be run ali through the buildings
/ and elevators will be used to hoist
/ the cars from the first floor. The
machinery has just begun to arrive
and is all of an exceedingly bulky and
cum bersolne character. When the
mechanism of the works is set in
motion the strain upon the buildings
will be great, and it is not surprising
| that most of the beams and girders
are nearly foot and one-half square,
| and in some cases two beams OF this
size are put together.
One hundred men have been en-
/ ployed on the works since the start.
! and when the process of manufacture
1 is begun about the same number OF
1 experienced worlSmen will be given
| work 1t is said that several cottages
and boarding houses for the opera
| tives will be built ere long, and when
this is done new village will have
been created. The mills, while within
the village OF Carteret. are still quite
| isolated from the centre, and it will be
the work OF few months to convert
the eastern portion OF Carteret into a
thriving settlement Of its own. Stores
| will soon follow the erection Of the
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