Passaic City record., 1893-10-07
A Land Of Suburban Homes.
NORTHERN NEW JERSEY.
Ideal Spots for Homo Seekers--Easily
Reached by the Excellent Service
on the Erfe Lines.

Nature has destined the portion
of this State penetrated by the
main line of the Erie Road with
its Bergen County cross cut, and
branches, as a grand outlying sub
urb of the metropolis of the Ameri-
can Continent. Within the limits
of Passaic and Bergen Counties
lies the most delightful area for the
building of homes to be found any
where within radius of 200 miles
of the city of New York. The
steady and rapid increase iii the
local patronage of the railroads
which tap this suburban home area,
demonstrates the progress which
the idea is making in the minds of
a large portion Of the inhabitants
of Manhattan Island. 1t has been
the aim of the RECORD to present
the claim of Passaic County as af-
fording ideal spots for home-seek-
ers in season and out of season.
and thus to accelerate the move
!nent which some time ago set in.
and is proving such powerful
agent for the development of
Northern New Jersey.
Here MAY be found localities
suited to all tastes and to all classes
and conditions Of society, the veal :
thy, the moderately circumstanced,
as we'll as those who are less for
tunate in the conflict of life. Wher-
ever you 60 among the hills of
these northern counties you find
places which present every condi-
ton of perfect healthfulness, and
the most unexceptionable santa
tion.
What will prove of no less inn
portance to city seekers of subur-
ban homes is the excellent train
service which the Erie Line extend
to all the stations lying along their
respective routes. This frequent
train service and the wonderfully
low rates of fare make points IS
to 80 miles from the New York
City Hall as near and as easily and
cheaply accessible from business
places in the city as Harlem was a
few years ago, and as the annexed
district and Westchester County
are at the present time.
These are the facts which indi-
cate the future of Northern New
Jersey. which is to become a sue
cession of villages springing up
out of the surplus population of
what is to be the greatest city in
the world. We desire that our
patrons and those to be benefited
by the development of the county
shall not be deprived of the advan-
tages accruing from speedy real
ization of the possibilities of the
future, and the RECORD will stand
as the advocate and exponent of
the unrivalled superiority of our
section to any other as home cen
ire. From Belleville to the Eorth-
ern line, and from Pompton Plains
to the Hudson are a series of de-
lightful and attractive villages, in
which hundreds of thousands of
New York business men may find
the home which they desire. Our
platform is not Jersey for Jersey
men. but Jerseymen for New Jer-
Sey, the more the better
One of the projects in which the
people of the State are ..vitally in
terested is the construction of
bridge over the North River. To
such scheme the New York Cen
trail and Vanderbilt interest is un-
alterably hostile. Whatever inf1u-
ence the combined commercial,
financial and business interests of
this State can bring to bear upon
the naturalization of a North
River Bridge should be put forth
until that proposed improvement
is accomplished.