Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-11-23
IN
NEW HOMES

$3.50
II have been looking up sometsta-
~tistics and | find that the proportion
of individual home owners is Increase
ing annually in New Jersey and nat
the increase during the asst peuade
has been greater than ever eIore
said a Newark real estate opera.oi
today. I'm fact the number OF PEI
sons who build or buy houses ~
creases about 20 per cent. each yea.
This year the builders OF the nve
northern counties of New jersey ~
Guided in the Communication uis.Iict
OF the state have sold to lndlVuual
home owners so per cent. OF the new
buildings erected for purposes OF
snecnIafion and the contracts made
fnr building next year will ensure
the sale for permanent ownership OF
even a greater proportion.
s.History is repeating itself in New
Jersey as it is the world I'VE
through all time. The American
people recognize the fact that the
ownership of individual homes in
large numbers binds the people clos
err to gether for the purpose of NUT
ual protection and common prosper
ity. This was the history of France
which through greater vicissitudes
than have ever visited any surviving
nation of Europe has maintained its
~permanance and is today one OF the
greatest powers of Europe. In
France there probably is a greater
proprtion of land owners than IN any
other country in the world. In no
country is there a people more close
" bound in common interests thai in
France. When the example which
France has set to the world is follow
ed by every state in the Union and
when large holdings of land have
passed out of existence as a state and
national feature, our country with
its great wealth of and in
dustrial activity will undoubtedly be
the greatest nation on the earth.
And of our many states, none will be
greater than New Jersey. This state,
which is already first in per capita
industrial wealth, close to the top in
population and possessed of physical
advantages second to none, will be
one of the greatest of IL common
wealths.
New Jersey has never been not
able for it's great estates and today
they are few and far between. At
tempts to acquire enormous holdings
of land have been met with opposi-
ton by the Unborn independence OF
the native New Jersey agriculturist.
Except for a few enormous holdings
originally granted by the Crown of
England in the ante-revolutionary
days, there have been almost no great
estates in Il commonwealth. The
revolution divided and sub-divided
the original holdings by grant into
small parcels and in the days of John
Quincy Adams New Jersey was first
in regard to it's numbers of individ-
ual land e The PATRONS, of
New York, then held hundreds of
thousands of acres of land and lived
after the manner of feudal lords.
New York has followed the lead OF
New Jersey as fast as circumstances
permitted. The western states began
with enormous holdings of land for
both agricultural and grazing pur-
poses, embracing thousands of acres.
Within the last twenty years, how
ever, they have induced immigration
by a subdivision of their large hold
ings, and as the population increases
the proportion of land n in
creases.
THE decrease in the average acre
age of individual holdings in New
Jersey will probably be more rapid
than in any other state as the result
of its location next door to the me-
tropolis. Wherever they go the troll
ley lines transform sparsely settled
farming districts into pOpu1OuS viii