Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-12-27
METZ B00MS
new JERSEY.

H. R0P(ffFA A~NS1R - 49,
metropolitan district of New Jersey
overthe outlying district of New York
city itself was called to pubic at
tention for the second time within a
few months y Comptroller Herman
Metz, of New York, in a speech al
the dinner of the Municipal Art So
eiety at the National Arts Club last
week. Mr.. Metz said in part that
New Jersey as a suburb of New York
"'as M .oke, ald add9d: Unless
New York wakes up TO the fact that
it has a transportation problem oil It's
hands, we will all be coming to New
Jersey. ! have just moved two com
panies in which l am interested to
New Jersey, because of the superior
facilities Of that state, and many 9th
er persons are doing as ] have DONE
"On a previous occasion Mr.. Metz
gave a similar warning at the con-
vention of the Long Island Real Es-
tate Men and created something of a
sensation" said a well known man
ufacturer of Paterson. while his
remarks on both occasions were to
the point! Mr.. Metz might have gone
further and said that the people of
New York at least have awakened
to the fact that the transportation
problems of that city are unsolved,
but that New Jersey has solved its
problems and is ready to extend its
present Transportation system all
over the state as demand require.
New Workers realize the exceptional
advantages resulting from New Jer-
sey's transportation facilities, as is
shown by the fact hat New York cap
ital is pouring into New Jersey by
hundreds of thousands of dollars,
and many industries other than
those In which the, comptroller of
New York city is interested, are COM
ing here as fast as they can get their
factories built and move their ma
chinery.
Every Improvement hat is in
process now or is being planned tends
to the advantage of New Jersey Deer
the territory to the east, north and
south of, Manhattan Island. New
Jersey is already helping the real
ization of Mr.. Metz's prediction that
in a few years there will be ne resi-
dences on Manhattan Island south of
Fifty-ninth street. New York has
already lost thousands of its resi-
dents to New Jersey and will lose
tens of thousands more. The finest
of New jerseys suburban residences
have been built up by New York
ers who have now become New Jer-
seyites by adoption, and the great
majority of fine places that are now
building belong to New Workers who
will son take UP their residences in
New Jersey. But infinitely greater
is the number of people of moderate
means and wage + who are
fiocking from New York apartment
houses to the towns in the five north
'ern counties of New Jersey within
the metropolitan belt. An idea of
this number may be gained from the
fact that no less than 10000 new
homes mist be built in New Jersey
withon twenty-five miles of the Hud-
son river newt year to meet the de-
mands by the emigration from New
York.
Every industry that comes from
New York to New Jersey brings
some hundreds of operatives with it.
The majority of the larger mills al
ready established here are charging
their present plants in order to meet
the demands for increased output of
their commodities, and this ! after
item alone has created an enormous
demand for homes, which within a
few years will bring into being whole
cities where the is now only waste
land.
Rome was not built In a day, but
New Jersey will see cities built with
in her borders in q year, and the end
is not yet in sight"