Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-15
GROWTH OF SUBURBS
ALLEGED INFLUENCE OF THE
TROLLEY RAILWAY LINE.

1t is in the development of suburban ter
ritory adjacent to the great cities that the
results of trolley pioneering are most ap-
parent, says a writer in Woodys Magazine.
suburb Is not sufficient unto itself. There
must be not only good Communication facil-
tiles to the city, but ready access to the rail-
road and ready communication between diff
ferent houses and different suburbs. The
old-time suburb meant a sort of social isola-
ton with which the trolley has completely
done away.
Boston. Chicago, Indianapolis, Phladel-
phia and Washington are all marked ex-
amples of trolley development; but nowhere
are the results more evident and character
fstfc than in the outlying portions of the
greater city of New York and the adjacent
tributary territory. But the most remark
able results of trolley pioneering unparallel-
ed even in Massachusetts,, state famous
for its trolley lines, have been obtained in
New Jersey, particularly In the northern
part of the state The five counties in
which trolley development has been prlnci-
pally carried on-Bergen, Essex, Passaic
Hudson and Union-have increased in popu-
latiOn from 80 to 1G0 per cent since the first
trolley line was built, and now contain al
most 90 per cent of the total population of
the state.
There are now more than $50 miles of
trolley lines in North Jersey and about
100000 persons who are New Workers. as far
as business interests and associations are
concerned, have their homes in New Jer-
sey. From the city Of Newark as center,
iself within the circle which bounds the
greater city of New York on the north and
east, the trolley lines radiate in all direc-
tiOns like the spokes OF wheel linking
together the smaller cities and towns and
connecting them with the railroads, until in
many directions the country Is settled so
solidly along the trolley lines that one is
unable to tell where one town ends and
another begins
When the present rate of growth in popu-
lation is considered. 1t is not an impossible
dream Of the future that the entire northern
within a reasonable committing distance of
New York will become an unbroken su-
burban residence section tributary to the
metropolis, with its present cities and towns
forming the local market center
Improvements on 18th Street.
Some changes are being made in property
on that section of 10Th street in the block
between II and l streets. At the south
east corner Of 18th and l streets alterations
are being made in the building formerly
occupied by the late John Chamberlin to
adapt it for business uses. These being
done under the direction of Mr.. James II.
Taylor, who represents the heirs of Fer
nando Wood, the owners Of the property.
The adjoining property, which was for
SO many years the home Of the late Mrs.
Swami is also being changed for the
same uses by the present owner, Maj. Fer
guson, who not long ago disposed of the
Dockon office building on the block to the
south.
The Willett & Reinecke Company have
fitted up the building on the north line
of the old St. Matthew'S Church property,
where offices for its real estate business
have been opened.