Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-09-29
MORE PEOPLE
FOR THIS. CITY
Prominent Railroad Expert Dis
Cusses Growth of New Jersey
Now Under Way.

NEWARK, Sept. 29.-"The So
called waste lands of New Jersey
which lie within the radius of twelve
miles from New York, and comprise
an aggregate area ten times greater
than that of Manhattan Island" said
the head of a great manufacturing
concern in Newark recently, ''offer
greater inducements to industrial en-
terprises than are offered by any 9TH
er state in the Union. Public OK
preston of this fact has not been
made until the last few days when
President Peters, of the Long Islani
Railroad, warned the real estate men
of Brooklyn and Long Island against
the great rivalry of New Jersey as a
home for manufacturing. In this
remark Mr.. Peters sounded the key
note Of the whole matter. AS a mas
ter of transportation he realized the
possibilities for the waste lands of
Jersey, which have been created by
the extension and improvement of
the trolley system in northern Jersey
and the existence of six trunk lines
running through that part of the
state.
Keen sighted business men of
many states have long awaited the
development of New Jerseys trans
p~ortation facilities which have now
made the great areas of waste land
of that state available, and have been
quietly buying factory sites which
abound in that territory, 'he con-
tinued. "The impetus thus given to
the industrial development Of Nor
| thern New Jersey has solved it's
greatest problem, namely, communi-
cation between the waste lands and
the adjacent residence districts lying
both to the east and to the west. To-
day the trolley system of the state is
keeping a few PAGES ahead of the de-
mand, and as industry after industry
sinks its foundation in the Jersey
meadows for permanent tenancy, its
hundreds of workers establish them
selves in the adjacent towns for resi-
dences.
Real estate owners and dealers in
the towns of Northern Jersey contig.
uous to the industrial centres foresaw
the rise of the tide of population in
their state and for two years build
ing of homes has been going on with
unprecedented rapidity. Within the
city limits of Newark and Paterson
each, there are something more than
200 houses for wage earner in course
of erection, representing an outlay of
approximately $1,000,000 for each
city. In the smaller city of Perth
Amboy similar dwellings for wage
earners to the value of $4,000 are
building, and architects and, real es-
tate owners are planning buildings to
the value of five times that amount
for next year. The plans for Newark,
Paterson, Passaici and Elizabeth for
next year are very much greater, and
within the next twelve years large
industrial plants in Perth Amboy will
double their capacities, bringing to
that city no less than 1900 add
tional wage %earners, the majority of
whom will find their places of resi-
denee within the territory which is
connected by trolley with Perth Am
boy, namely, the towns of Sewaren,
Woodbridge, Railway and M%etuchen.
In Newark new plants to be estab-
lished and old plants to be increased
will bring within the next year to
that city 5000 and more additional
wage earners. Paterson has in pros
pect the increase of her great army
of wage earner by not less than 3,
500 and Elizabeth expects to acquire
an equal number.
1.-THE problem Of furnishing homes
to this great number of working men
and their families is taxing New Jer-
sey builders to their utmost. A pre-
liminary report for the present month
on the commerce of the Passaic and
Hackensack rivers, as well as by the
ports of Elizabeth and Perth Amboy,
shows an increase in building mater
ials received of 80 per cent. over the
two preceding months and 48 per
cent. over the same months of last
year. The actual number of wage
earners deriving their livelihood from
the Industries of New Jersey will be
increased next year by 70 per cent,
according to the expert statistician
who is preparing reports for the
Newark Board of Trade"