Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-12-17
MILLIONS FOR
n. j. IN FUTURE

THE enormous growth of the
northern section of New Jersey, and
its prospects of far greater develop
ment in the future, bids fair to be-
come the subject of international dis
cussion among statisticians," said a
prominent business man of New Jer-
sey. I'm reading some recent papers
on the growth of the metropolis, l
find that a German statistician pre-
dicted that in fifty years Berlin will
have a population. of not less than
IL, 100000 people and will become
the greatest city of the world; also
that New York statisticians, in work
ing out the future e the metropolis,
are YER much CO, eerned over h
comparatively greater growth OF New
Jersey and hat they do not hesitate
to express the fear that the exodus
of New Workers. - northern New Jer-
sey will greatly .et-.rd the growth of
the metropolis for many years to
come. That New York's fears are
well founded, every well-informed
New Jerseyman knows.
although New Workers have been
coming to New Jersey by thousands
for several years, the enormous resi-
dence district that has been opened
up by trolley extensions and steam
railroads, with a full capacity of ten
million persons, still has room for
many times the present population
of Manhattan Island.
I'm fifty years from now, whether
or not Berlin has become the great
est city in the world, there is no
doubt that the metropolitan district
of New Jersey will have many times
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greater New York, and that what Is
now known as the metropolitan dis
trict, namely, all the territory with
in the radius of eighteen miles of
Manhattan City Hall, will have more
than the IA, 900, 600 in actual popu-
lation which is predicted for Berlin.
THE question of emigration from
New York to New Jersey has been a
serious one ever since the develop
ment of the trolley began some four
teen years ago. The trolley served
as an educator, and by this means the
public learned the opportunities that
awaited them west of the Hudson
river. New jerseys attractive resi-
dence territory, and it's numerous
railroads combined with trolley i'm
provements, served to turn the tide
from Manhattan and the boroughs
east of 1t to New Jersey. New York
foresaw the problem which 0 con-
fronts it and began the planning and
building of bridges across the East
river to the Long Island shores. But
New Jersey could build trolley lines
faster than New York could build
bridges, and with it's superior advant-
ages 1t naturally gained in the race.
The result at present is the creation
in New Jersey of an industrial center
second in wealth and Importance to
but one or two in the country. linen
came the tunnels under the North
and East rivers and beneath the heart
of Manhattan. !.
''The transportation facilities of
Jersey City have long since elimin-
ated the North river as a barrier be-
tween New York and New Jersey.
The tunnels promise to eliminate its
very existence from the problem OF
interstate transportation. In antici-
patton of what the tunnels will &C
complish, 10000 homes were built
In New Jersey this year and more
than 10000 more are now in de-
mand. What could not be done by
the tunnels and terminals, for which
the railroad andA tunnel companies
will spend more than $100,O0O,0OO,
has been accomplished by local con-
ditions which make the working
mans dollar worth $1.20 in New Jer,,
sey. New York sums up the problem
in the words, When will New York
surpass London in size?' 1t would
be a matter of but a few years II It
were not for New Jersey with its 15O
miles of trolley road, 5S5 miles o.
steam railroads, sites for 3,000,OOO
new homes. and its $4,000, y
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