The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-12-24
SATURDAY. DECEMBER q, 1925
mis- paper is Democratic IN principles
and Is sqsdependelt an ats uietvs on al locas
A Merry Christmas.

"A merry AHitStAhas ~
the New Year bring prosperity and pro-
gress to all in Jersey City.
The year just expiring has been a
memorable one in many respects, and in
one. at least. it has seen the way opened
to greatness for Jersey City in a wider
degree than any of its predecessors. The
award Of 4 contract for a permanent sup
Div of pure and wholesome water marks
a step in municipal development, which,
ii it be properly followed up. may speedily
place Jersey City in the list of the most
prosperous. the wealthiest and the most
progressive cities of the eountry
In this age of sanitary knowledge, Moth
ing is SO attractive to residents as an
abundant supply of pure water. Nothing
SO effectually keeps them away as a repu-
tation, such as Jersey City once suffered
from, for providing liquid poison through
the eity's mains. The Introduction Of the
temporary supply from the Pequannock
system stopped, two years 20. the rapid
exodus of population which had been a
feature of the two preceding years. It
cannot be doubted that the new and per-
manent supply will cause a flood tide to
set in, and we shall speedily begin to
realize the benefit of orr natural adyan-
tages.
This city is seated like a Queen of Com
merce between two navigable bays. She
has low fat land for business purposes
and a high, rock based plateau for resi-
Dental purposes. The level tract both
east and west Of the hill is bordered by
deep water to which vessels of deep draft
can come, to bring raw material to the
mills and factories which should hide the
swamps and meadows forever from sight.
The railroads. interesting the broad, level
plain, should be arteries feeding the
municipality with the wealth of the coun-
try instead of veins through which our
civic vitality GIBBS away.
The beautiful hill which runs like a
huge spinal column from end to end of
Hudson county should be as fine through
the adornments Of civilization as it is in
its natural gifts. Mansions and villas
should border its great Boulevard and
line the sunny streets that run down its
eloping sides towards the Hackensack.
It is an unfailing source of wonder to
all who look to the causes and the fitness
of things that the million should have
gone over to Brooklyn and settled in a
locality which offers only secondary adj
vantages, while the great peninsula which
constitutes Hudson county has been prac-
tically ignored, in spite Of natural adab-
tation for IN Industrial and commercial
city That this city has a destiny and a
great n we have never doubted. and now
we seem TO see its accomplishments draw
ing near. Year after year. for the last
ten years, new steps towards the Tween
tieth Century standard have been made. |
We have constructed our great Boulevard.
We ave built our City Hall. We are
burying the marshes out of sight. New
parks have been laid out. Our streets are
being covered with asphalt and viaducts
have sprung up in the air, linking the high
and the low lands together. We have
abandoned the foul Passaic water and
taken a purer and better supply. never to
go back to the old one.
But, best of all, our citizens seem, at