The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-12-24

tney nave done, competing routes upou
lines remote and independent of us. The
Hudson River and the parallel noun
tains have heretofore been guides for all
movement to this point and guards
against movement elsewhere, but have
ceased to serve ms so absolutely in TINS
character. Engineering skill has reduced
the impeliments of the mountains and
bridged the river far above this position,
and there is already in successful opera
tion road powerfully organized, which
will divert TO Its lines an immense Dusl-
ness heretofore dispatched upon our
routes. Other roads and bridges. are
chartered and contemplated. all OF
which will to their capacity undermine
and supplant this point as entrepot
between sections heretofore unavoid-
ably tributary TO iJ. With the construc-
of route equipped with bridge cross
ing the Hudson above us, our una
bridged line will soon cease il 1T has not
already ceased to be the one OF cheapesII,
transport and travel. and though 1T still
remains the shortest it is not perhaps OF
quickest dispatch.
PROSPERITY AT HOME
"The illusion that the prosperity OF
New York depends principally upon her
foreign trade is being dissipated, land while
we would by all proper means augment
with other countries, we must no longer
delay facilities demanded for our own.
1.-The greatness and prosperity of cities
are not dependent upon foreign COM
merce. The historic cities of Asia and
Egypt were interior cities. Paris, Ber-
lin, Moscow, Vienna, Madrid and Cairo
are interior cities, and there are, as well,
many of our thriving western cities that
live chiefly upon the traffic that comes
from their own vicinage.
ga view OF the commercial develop
ment along our Atlantic coast shows that
cities that have the best approaches by
land routes are necessarily the ones that
have greatest growth and prosperity, and
not those primarily provided with best
sea approaches and harbors.
TOO LONG DELAYED.
''It is evident that bridge communities
tions between New York and New Jersey
and her neighborinG territory, have been
too long delayed. The disadvantages
heretofore attending this condition can
now be obviated by the marvellous
triumphs of modern engineering.
From her position New York is the
entrepot and thoroughfare of the great
regions to the North, East and West, and
all that is needed to perfect the bounty of
her opportunities is the consummation Of
the work now inaugurated-
mot since the laying of the Atlantic
cable has any public work been projected,
with the exception OF the Pacific rail
roads, that approaches 1t in national I'M
portance. 1t is the long needed link of
com ny WulCu Wd5uClul
needless detours and delays in travel and
transport will be avoided; time. money,
health and energy conserved, and COM
fort and prosperity promoted.
"We are forcibly reminded by the fog
experience of yesterday of the primitive
and uncertain methods of reaching New
York at present from New Jersey, and
we should give grateful recognition to
the promoters of this enterprise who are
engaged in the effort to minimize the dis
comforts of travel
"This bridge will be one of the marvels
of modern engineering and it's terminal
facilities are planned TO accommodate
the millions of people and the millions of
tons of freight that will have occasion an
nua]ly to cross it, an ample provision
will be made for facilitating tine traffic of
every railway converging toward the
City of New York, North, South, East
and West.
I'm its construction it's promoters have
engaged the ability OF Messrs. Thomas q.
Clarke and Charles B. Brush, who stand
in the very front of their professional
sufficient guarantee that the structure
will fulfill the highest promise.
LASTING BOND.
1t will serve as a perpetual bond OF
union between the great states of New
York and New Jersey, consecrated by
the amity Of sister states and pledged to
the interests of the people.
Let it rise in its gigantic grandeur, a
monument of beneficent effort.
II bespeak for the gentlemen who have
in charge the responsibilities that attend
the financial and material interest of this
structure the support and aid of the
whole public. 1t will give me, ,as am sure
it will, my colleagues representing the
State Of New York in its progress, Messrs.
Frark K. Hahn, Charles M. Vail,
Evan Thomas and Isidor Straus, as we'll
fha NJ, ,,,,;e-
sioners for the State of New Jersey, great
pleasure to render all the aid that we
properly can that is consistent with Off
cial obligations which we have assumed.