Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-07-16
FOR HOMES In
new JERSEY.
Northern Part Of the State Build
ING Up in Spite Of the In
crease Prices.

The proportion of private homes
owned by their occupants which
makes New Jersey an exception
among its neighbors, is being greatly
increased this year by unprecedented
activity among builders and local
real estate Dealers In the territory
bounded on the east by the Hudson
river and on the west by the ridge of
the Orange mountains alone consid-
erably more than 100000 is being
expended this summer for the build
ing of private homes. Real estate
transactions which have already TAX
en- place indicate that these figures
will be equalled, If not exceeded, by
the building that will be done next
year The increased prices of build
ing materials seems to have had no
effect whatever upon the steady pro-
gress of home building in New Jer-
sey, and there are no indications at
present that trade conditions will at
feet further plans already formed.
AT the present rate of improve
ment the number of homes in New
Jersey, which is o over 100000
according to recent census bureau fig
ures, will be greatly increased and
within a few years this state will
hold the same relative position to the
greater city of New York that Brook
lyn once held to the old city en-
braced by the present %boroughs of
Manhattan and the Bronx. The ex-
odus from New York to New Jersey
has been so great for the last few
years that that section of the state
is already almost as cosmopolitan as
New York itself. From the top of
the Orange mountains to the edge of
the Hackensack meadows, and from
Bayonne to the south and Arlington
to the north, the eastern slope of the
first range is practically now an I'M
broken community of suburban
homes. The advance of the trolley
system across the state, linking town
to town, has gradually brought the
frontiers of the district communities
nearer and nearer, until now all of
those situated in the territory named
have been practically merged into
one.
AS the trolleys have been extend
ed from scattered spurs leading from
the most populous centers for a few
miles into the country, or else serv-
ing solely to connect the original vii
lagos such as the Oranges, Newark
ana MOulCldlT, W d VI mann
lines and cross lines bringing the
p~umberless villages into one COM
munity, the tide of population has
risen high.
In the township of Montclair,
alone, this year, 1870 residences are
building. The prices of real estate
have risen rapidly during the last
two or three years and are still ris-
ing. Little speculation in real es-
tate is done because most of the pur-
chasers buy for the sake of establish
Ding homes. With the present rapid
Transportation service between the
sscnters, providing modern cars and
2uick and accurate connection, the
s5t~ssDffsxk4ert oas4n Jersey
within an hour ofSthe business sec
tion of New York is not only possible,
but is an accomplished fact as is
shown by the remarkable increase of
the population of this section during
the last five years. At present the
proportion of increase is even great
err and already the advance guard of
home builders has gone beyond the
limits of both the Oranges and Mont
clair and is swiftly encroaching upon
the hitherto unsettled forests of the
Orange and Watching ranges.