Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1895-02-20
P[EASANTV|LLE As A
SEASHORE RESORT.
tie Advantages as a manu-
featuring Centre.
ITS GRAND DRIVES and BEAUTIFUL BAY.

ITS GRAND DRIVES and BEAUTIFUL BAY.
SOME COGENT REASONS THAT SHOULD COM
MAND THEMSELVES TO THE ATTENTION
OF CAPITALIsTs-ITs EXCELLENT WATER
AND RAILWAY FACILITIES.
In q previous issue of the PRESS we
advanced some reasons why Pleasant
vile was q very desirable place for a
Summer residence for those who can
afford such q luxury, and also why
others might hnd it a profitable locality
for farming and gardening. In our
present issue we desire to call public
attention to its advantages as a place
for manufacturing. To most people the
idea of manufacturing something is as
sociated with great natural water
power. This Is largely true as applied
New England and some other parts of
the country-but it is not true as applied
to most other Enthusiastically the
ton of silk and wooden fabrics. A great
expenditure of money is necessary before
water power can be utilized, on account
of the roughness of the country. the
steep descent, the danger from floods,
and the difficulty Of keeping within
bounds large body of running wates,
A great water power plant for manu-
featuring, at the present day, requires
deep canals, strong walls and abutments,
heavy dams, huge gates, turbine wheels,
and costly machinery. In most places
steam power is found to be fully as
cheap as water power, and does not re-
quire such large outlay to start with.
In establishing any kind of a manufact-
ory where it is not desirable to use water
power, one of the chief considerations is
nearness to railroad. In this respect
Pleasantville is highly favored. The
two lines leading to Philadelphia run
nearly parallel to each other, and only a
few hundred feet apart, and along these
roads on either hand is abundant room
for large number of manufactures of
various kinds.
Next in Importance to railway connec-
ton is a healthy location, a moderate
climate, and suitable Accommodations for
mechanics and operatives. 1t is needless
to further enlarge upon the advantages
of our climate as it has already been
elaborately written upon in these col
umns. 1t it only necessary to say that
a moderate Winter climate enables the
manufacturer to cut down the expenses
incident to heating large buildings
warm enough for the operatives, and to
protect whatever may be damaged by
freezing.
We have respectable hotel acoomoda-
tions, and an abundance of high, dry.
healthy sites upon which to build such
suitable dwellings or tenements as may
be needed in any large manufacturing
establishment. Land is very cheap here
when compared with the exorbitant
prices charged in cities and along rivers
where there is natural water power.
Coal is shipped here directly from the
mines in Pennsylvania, and can be de
livered in car load lots at prices but
little higher than is charged in Philadel-
phia. Lumber can be bought at the
mill here, either rough or dressed, or it
can be sent here in light draught vessels
and delivered at the wharf. There are
good mechanics and day laborers, and
teams for use in excavating for founda-
tions and conveying building material
to and fro. The excellent railroad ac-
commodations make it possible to have
platform adjoining, or a short spur
track run directly to the doors. The
natural competition between two large
railroad systems keep freights at a
reasonable fi9nre, and is guarantee
that they will remain SO.
The danger from STRIKES and other
labor troubles, is less than in the crow
ded cities. The question of wages is not
by any means the only one that causes
friction between the employer and the
employed. Exorbitant rents, crowded
tenements, foul streets and unhealthy
surroundings add to the discomfort Of
the operatives, and are prolific sources OF
discomfort. In locality like Pleasant
vile no such conditions can prevail.
First of all the place is healthy beyond
dispute. 1t sets upon high dry ground,
and receives the full sweep of the pure
breezes blowing in from the ocean over
a broad expanse of open, running tide
waters of the Bay. You cannot shut out
the air, the light and the sunshineas
it is done in the compact part Of large
cities by high buildings and narrow
streets extending in every direction.
There is no built up" land covering foul
dumping-places of filth, or swampy
breeding places of malarial diseases.
There can be no healthier place for people
to live in from sanitary point of view.
There is pure air, pure water, and
light dry soil. There are no stagnant
pools and deep swanps, and no place for
the deposit Of sewage and garbage
swept down from distant localities.
Rents are reasonable, food of all kinds
cheap and abundant, the freshest and
best of vegetables raised right here, and
seemingly, every natural advantage of
location that should commend itself to
the attention of capt = lists. Taxes are
very low when compared with cities
that expend millions for palatial public
buildings, costly street railways, and
extravagantcity governments. The cost
of maintainance of big manufacturing
plant of any kind ia no greater here than
elsewhere, while the first cost of the
building site and the large sum saved in
taxes would quite offset the slightly in
creased cost of freight in marketing the
products.
The advantages Of healthy, quite,
and orderly country community are
more than manifest when we consider
the temptations and criminal associa-
tions of great city in comparison, and
to none should these advantages appeal
more strongly than to those who invest
large sums of money in manufacturing
ENTERPRISES where success and certain