Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-11-07
POPULATION
COMING HERE

IF more of our people realized the
magnitude Of the work now actually
in progress to create greater rapid
transit facilities between New Jersey
and New York, there would be none
OF this talk about the danger of rapid
transit under the river carrying peo-
pie past the nearer section of subur-
ban New Jersey to other localities
said a Newark real estate dealer yes
terday. The result of all this tunnel
building will not be as so many peo-
pie say, the carrying of New Jersey
people to New York, but will be
the bringing of thousands of New
Workers to New Jersey. The tide of
travel in this section does not flow
from the suburbs to the metropolis,
but on the contrary from the metrop-
oils to the suburbs of the four quar-
tiers. Until within a few years the
tide has flowed from old New York
to Long Island and the Bronx. We
all know that now it is turning to-
ward New Jersey and is flowing more
steadily and more strongly in this
direction year by year.
The great industrial and residence
section of northern New Jersey is
now connected with New York by
six railroad lines. To these may be
added the several trolley lines across
the meadows. The building of the
Pennsylvania tunnels, which will con-
meet Newark with New York by way
of Harrison, will add the seventh d.
rect line between Broad street, New
ark, and Broadway, Manhattan. The
electric line which will run from
Newark to New York by way of Jer-
sey City, and the lower McAdoo tun-
nels which will terminate in New
York in the Hudson terminal build
ings at Cortlandt and Church streets.
will add the eighth direct avenue of
communication. The tunnel on the
Jersey shore which will connect the
western ends of the McAdoo tubes
running between Jersey City and
Manhattan, and the New York sub
way, which will connect the eastern
end of these two tunnel systems, it
will be seen, will have the effect of
establishing rapid transit communion
ton between the Jersey City stations
of the Pennsylvania and Erie roads
and the Hoboken station of the Lack
awanna system. Thus the necessity
of travelling across the North river by
ferry will be eliminated. That is not
to say that the ferries will go out of
business, but the great result will
be that of placing every point in sub
urban New Jersey within a radius of
40 miles of New York city hall within
an hours railroad ride of the bust
ness section of Manhattan.
"In relation to these terminal pro-
jects more has been said about the
means that they will furnish for resi-
dents of New Jersey to get to New
York, but as / have said before, to my
mind a more important feature is the
means that the tunnels will furnish
for New Workers to get to New Jer-
sey. That New Workers want to get
to New Jersey is proved by the fact
that they are now coming as fast as
circumstances will permit, and every
thing indicates that they will come
faster as soon as transportation ia
%cilities between the two states make it
possible. New York city has thou
sands of people longing to live in the
Jersey hills, and every transportation
improvement now making is bringing
that desire nearer to a realization.
The northern end eastern environs
of New York have been so handicap
ped by inadequate transportation ia
%cilities that there was no room fur
suburban residents within a reason
able distance of the business section.
With the establishment of rapid tran
sit between New Jersey and Manhat-
tan Island there will exist no physical
difficulties to prevent the actual
spreading of New York's many mil
lions into the heart of New Jersey,
where, within the six counties of Ber-
gen, Essex, Hudson, Passaic, Middle
sex and Morris, with a population of
10000 persons, there are thou
sands of acres of desirable and avail
able land for the building of homes.
Those thousands of jewellers of
Manhattan who will in the next dec
ade avail themselves of this oppor-
tunity to establish suburban homes
in New Jersey, will not be pioneers
in any sense of the word. Within the
territory defined above there are al
ready sixty or more towns and cities
supplying every need in the way of
local transportation and supplies for
home builders. In the territory adj
jacent to these cities there will be
opened and brought within close con-
nection by the numerous trolley lines
a residence district capable of hous-
ing twenty or thirty million persons,
a which will meet New York
needs for perhaps half a century to
come, and all these under the condi-
tons now being created by the build
ers of the tunnel roads will be able
to build suburban homes within an
hour of Broadway, accessible at all
times of the day and night. The
present real estate sales which we
consider phenomenal and which arc
such relatively speaking will bear nc