Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-04-04
ADVERTISING
PERTH .AMBOY
Book Issued by the State Has a
Good Description Of This City
Circulation Worldwide.
Special to the EVENING NEWS:

Special to the EVENING NEWS:
TRENTON. Apr. 4:-Through the
medium of The Industrial Directory
of New Jersey for 1906" compiled
by Winton c. Garrison, chief of the
State Bureau of Statistics, and just
issued. Perth Amboy will be widely
advertised throughout the United
States and Canada.
1t is a unique publication and
stands at the head Of its class among
Industrial works published in the
country. 1t give a list of cities and
towns having a population of 100 or
more; banking, railroad, postal and
express facilities; also an alphabetic-
al list of manufactured articles, with
names of firms and location of fac
tories producing them, and cities and
towns in which special industrial OPP
%portunites arc found.
In part the description of Perth
Amboy follows: Perth .Amboy has
IA fine sewerage system that drains
perfectly all parts of the city. the
water works are owned by the mum
icipality. and the water supply is
both ample and pure. Probably no
town in the country has transporta-
tion facilities superior to those en-
ioyed by this highly favored city. BY
rail il has the service of three of the
principal trunk lines of railroad,
and by water il has an extended
frontage on the Raritan river, Rari-
tan bay and the Kill Won Kull. This
extensive water front is lined with
docks, which are surrounded by wat
or deep enough at all times to float
the largest ocean going ships.
Freights may be shipped by water
from here TO any port in the world,
while the three great lines named
above brings every part of the con
tinent traversed by a railroad into
communication with the town.
Besides all these primary adj
vantages. every other requisite of an
ideal location for manufacturing in
dustry is found here-low taxes and
water rates; electric lighting and
power; reasonable mouse rents, and
plenty of accommodations: cheap
living, trolley roads connecting with
all nearby towns; goods schools,
churches representing every denom-
ination, local ferries Connecting with
Staten island. and steamboats, maxi
ing several trips daily to New York,
South Amboy and New Brunswick.
In fact every convenience and utility
that a progressive modern city should
have. are TO he enjoyed here, guided
and directed by a broad liberal pub
lie spirit. which pcryades the entire
community. sg5a,s
THE city has seyein public and
two private schools; in these tho IN
tire range of education, from kinder
garten to high school is covered.
There are seventeen churches, repre-
scnting Methodist, Episcopal, Pres
byterian. Catholic, Baptist, and Ger
Lutheran denominations. There
are also two Jewish synagogues and
four ediiices in which services are
conducted in the Hungarian. Polish,
Greek and Observation-Disclosures.
Fire protection of a most efficient
kind is furnished By Il volunteer de-
partment equipped with two steam
engines, one hose carriage and one
hook and ladder track,
Factory sites adjacent to the rail
or near the water front can be
purchased at specially low rates. a
practically unlimited supply of labor,
particularly OF men skilled in the
several branches of the clay-produc-
ing industries can be found in Perth
Amboy. Some of the most prosper
IL manufacturing establishments
in the country are located here.
Then follows a list of the leading
manufactures in the city, tw%enty-siX
in number, giving the number OF
men employed by each. The total
number Of employees given is 5.552.
The object Of the volume is to ad-
vertise New Jersey to the world as
unsurpassed as IN industrial state.
The book will be distributed broad
cast over the civilized world. wher-
even in the opinion of Chief Garrison
its end will be served by so doing. In
this way Perth AmboY will probably
get the widest publicity in it's his
tory.