The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-12-01
GREATER NEW YORK, NJ.
A VAST CITY ALSO ON THE OTHER
SIDE OF THE HUDSON.

Already n Movement Has Been started to
Consolidate Jersey city, Newark. Pat
erson and IA Hundred Other cities,
Towns and villages.
The contamination of the scheme
for creating the Greater New York has
scarcely become matter of history
when another plan for adding to the
greatness of the metropolis of the
Western Continent is contemplated.
The new proposition is to unite un-
der one municipal head all the cities,
towns and villages adjacent to New
York in the.state of New Jersey.
While the plan would involve no fur
ther aggrandizement on the part of
New York proper, inasmuch as there
would be no amalgamation of the two
cities, it would undoubtedly be of
great sdvantage to the business inter
ests of the section in question, as it is
proposed to name the consolidated
territory, New York, N. j.
II is estimated that il the union Of
these different cities, towns and vii
lagos could be effected, city which
would rank one-fourth in point of size
in the United States wsuld be created.
There is no doubt that the impetus
which would be given to the trans
Hudson New York would soon add to
its population enormously, because
the name of New York as applied to a
business centre would give it a world
wide prestige.
Already the commercial importance
of Jersey City is most considerable, it
being practically the dischsrging point
on the Eastern seaboard for all the
railroads from the various sections of
the country.
census was taken the population of
Jersey City has increased from 1885,
900 to close upon n quarter of mil
lion, and so congested is the traffic
ut some of the more central points on
the river front that the erection of
two-story docks is being contemplated.
The freight, as well as the passenger
railroad business, of Jersey City must
exceed that of any other terminal
point in the world.
One of the proposals advanced is to
include in the area of the new city all
the territory from point on the New
Jersey side of the Hudson, opposite
to the north line of Greater New York,
to point north of Paterson, running
south to Plainfield and east to the
mouth of the Raritan river, including
Perth Amboy. Over one hundred
cities, towns and villages are now sit
uated in this section, and they have a
population of considerably over mil
lion souls.
In all that pertains to make people
homogeneous, the population of this
territory is identical with that of New
York. Had it not been for the vicinity
of the great metropolis, it is doubtful
if there would have been one hundred
thousand people living today where
there are now one million. Being
contiguous to New York, the overflow
has naturally gone in that direction,
as it has done on all sides of the city
proper, and were the consolidation OF
the whole under one municipal head
possible, the area of New York would
not then be nearly as great as that OF
London, although its population
won d be about the same. Practically
today, the city of New York, with its
suburbs, has a population equal to
that of the English metropolis. Ir
ten years more, at the present rate o
increase, we shall have passed Lon
don, achieving in little over one cen
tury what it has taken London sixteeI
centuries to attain. New York News