The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-11-28
Promoters Hope 10 Make a City That Will
Rival the Greater New York.
MORE THAN A MILLION PEOPLE



eral New Jersey municipalities into one
great city is attracting 30 small degree OF
attention here.
This is entirely logical, since virtually
all the region included within the lines of
the proposed consolidation is almost as
closely identified with New York from the
business and social viewpoints as any OF
the outlying boroughs that were added to
New York last January, save possibly
Brooklyn. More persons whose daily oo-
cupstions are carried on within the bor-
ough OF Manhattan dwell In the Jerser
suburbs than i'm all the other suburbs put
together, excepting Brooklyn. There isn't
the slightest doubt that much of the Jer-
sey suburban territory would have been
included In tho Greater New York when
it was created had not there been state
boundary limo i'm the way. Nor is there
any doubt at all that the dream Of great
New Jersey municipality will eventually
be realized, though it seems hardly prob
able that IL will come to pass In the near
future.
A Great Ciy Of the Future.
The territory now under discussion as
likely to be included in the great new city
as the Greater New York. 1t contains
Newark, town almost as big as Pitts
burg; Jersey City, Of about tho same size
as Kansas City; Paterson, two-thirds as
big as Columbus; Hoboken, nearly us
large as Duluth; Elizabeth, not much
smaller than Saginaw the four Oranges
Orange proper, East Orange, South
Orange and West Orange-with COM
IL a. knex -
Salt Lake City, and half score other
places Of local Importance. In tho aggre-
gate the dwellers I'm this region number
good deal more than 1,o00,0oo and the
assessed value Of tho property is far In
excess of $500, 600, 900.
In several instances these places are
separated by no tracts not fully built up,
and tho stranger needs to be told when he
passes from one municipality to another.
All are connected with one another and
New York by numerous lines of steam
and electric railway. There is a perfect
network Of telephone apd telegraph wires,
and the social and business affairs Of each
are indissolubly bound TO those of all tho
others. Their complete dominance by
New York is best exempliaed by the fact
that, although excellent afternoon newspa-
pers are published in Newark, Jersey City,
Elizabeth. Hoboken and Paterson, not
more than one daily morning newspaper
IL printed in the entire region, owing to
the admirable manner In which the news
of each locality is covered by the great
metropolitan journals.
A similar state Of affairs exists with re-
gard to hotels, there being fewer first class
largo hotels in all this territory than may
be found In the single city of Cleveland,
for instance.
Manufacturers md Transportation.
In manufacturing interests this region
is excellcd by no region OF similar extent
and population in the United States. New
ark Is the seat of the biggest skatemak-
ing shops In the land. More high class
;ewelry Is also made there than In any
other Americsp olty, and the same Is true
with regard to fine carriage leather Pster-
sons silk mills are easily tho leading es.
Establishments Of their sort in the new
world. The kearney cotton thread mills,
located itist outside Newark's city line,
excel all others in the republic The hat
shops of Orange, which overflow into
Newark, are foremost on this side the At
lantic.
As 10 transportation facilities tho COM
ing great New Jersey city will not be ex-
celled by any other town in the world,
since the deep water terminals of nearly
all the eastern roads connected with the
transcontinental trunk lines are located
within its boundaries. These include the
West Shore. of the vast Vanderbilt system;
the Eric; tho Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western. connecting westward with the
Grand Trunk; the Ichigh Valley, con-
Meeting with the northwest grain region
via the Grand Trunk; the Flint and Pere
Marquette and the car ferries ON Lake
Michigan; the Pennsylvania and the Cen
trail Of New Jersey, making through con-
noctions via tho Philadelphia and Read.
ing and the Baltimore and Ohio.
These lines radiate TO every section Of
the United States excepting New Eng
land, and communication between the site
of the proposed consolidated city and that
region even * more direct than from al
most any othcr part of the country. Az
the same time 10 should be noted that tho
ocean shipping facilities OF the new town
need not be- second even 20 New Nork's,
for all the terminals mentioned above,
though located inside tho now city's linn.
its. aro also situated on the western shores
OF New York harbor. Nothing indeed
seems 90 DO needed to compass the sudden
creation of a city exceeded I'm size only by
New York, Chicago and Philadelphia ex-
ccpting tho proper public spirit, and this
l. certain to come with th3 lapse of time.
Whom it does comc, Now York Is sure to
be vastly nero interested In the project
than she now is since the new city is
bound 90 Lc her strongest and most active
rival I'm many ways.
knriouS schemes.
Although much has hCcn printed about
the carrying ont uf this vast schCme and
como public meetings have hecn held
nothing rslly practical has yet been done.
The scheme that Is attracting most az
iguticn iust now j. being engineered in
Newark. 10 g. essentially ilan for the
Crntion of a f,r,ntcr Newark, nud it~ car
fyiug out would rv.ult In city oi not
more than 400, 40 inhabitants, since Jer.