The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-06-14

that tho Dustle Of their busy neighbors in
the steel works distufbs them not at all.
These works are Il great institu ton.
They are located near the Newark and
New York Railroad and Morris Canal.
The main factory is 600 feet long, aud
several smaller ones are on the grounds.
This company employs from 100 to $50
men IN the manufacture of fine steel,
which is used for gun barrels and sewing
machine plates, besides steel wire.
The amount OF business done here is
very large, and loaded vessels and rail-
road cars may be seen daily arriving at
and leaving the yard. just south of this
point are the chemical works, and on the
banks of the Morris Canal nearby is
Edges Fireworks Company, where 100
men are daily employed In the construc-
ton Of combustibles designed for amuse-
ment and for the more serious purposes,
the army and navy. including the life
saving service.
Further ON may be seen the factory of
Thomas Whitman & Go. This is located
at the foot Of Virginia avenue and the
canal. Here goal hair is prepared by
dozen employees for carpets and mat
tresses. This company will soon start a
similar factory in the neighborhood,
which will be run separate entirely from
the present one.
But short distance further along the
canal is the fireworks factory OF DetwilIer
q Street. This plant contains more than
q score of one story buildings, frame aud
brick, which occupy from four TO i've
acres About one hundred and fifty per-
sons are employed here, and their homes
are near by. A few blocks from this In
dustry is a large factory which Is de-
voted entirely TO the construction of win
dow frames for hotbeds and greenhouses.
IN WEST BERGEN.
In West Bergen proper a new coal yard
hns Hnnn aars hl7ahad ma hafne mr., rfS7.
cred insufficient to supply the rapidly
growing community. Small stores are
constantly springing up and party OF
capitalists are making arrangements for
the construction of fire works factory
which, 1t is said, will be the largest ia the
world. The most of che houses being
built are designed for the use of the own
or, and In consequence are more desir-
able than they would be If constructed
solely for speculation and rents.
The firm of Dodge & Co. and the other
large business concerns a year ago made
formal application TO the United States
War Office 10 have the channel deepened
where the Kill Won KuIl and Newark Bay
meet and form shoal- The water at this
point is but thirteen feet deep at low
tide. The government has virtually
promised to remove the shoal. and by
so doing give sufficient water to float any
Maine or Georgia lumber vessel. With
that done, and with New York city but
seventeen minutes from West Bergen,
there is no possible reason why the Hack
ensack River and Newark Bay shores
should not become centre for the iarg-
est. manufacturing industries In the
country.
Nearly all the industries that I have
mentioned above have been started with
tu five years, and all bur two within ten
years. 1t is not too small an estimate to
say that the business places, excluding
stores and beer shops. give employment
to four thousand people along the bay
and Hackensack, which means they sup
port twenty thousand people. Property
is constantly rising in value along the
east bank OF the Hackensack, and real
estate dealers predict unanimously that
this section of the city viii eacn year
grow more rapidly.