Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-07-21
VIEW THAT is
UNSURPASSED
From Eagle Rock, in Essex COun-
~ the Working Place of Over S.
100000 People Can be Seen.

W. ODOUH
There is n point in New Jerse,
from which it is possible to lool
down on the homes and working pla.
cos of more people than can be seer
from any similar elevation in any 9th
er part of athe World. That point is
Eagle Rock, which is the highest ele-
walton in the Essex county park sys-
tenn. Its unique distinction comes
not so much from its height, although
1t rises 600 feet above sea level, as
from the fact that it stands within
tho rim of the worlds greatest store
house of population and industry.
No better object lesson in the
greatness of his state as a place of
residence and business can be had
by the citizen of New Jersey than is
afforded by a trip to Eagle Rock and
the view from its summit. AS the
rock is located within the park sys-
tenn, the view costs nothing and the
trip to il is an easy n for the troll
ley limo deposits the visitor at the
foot of the rock up which he can
make an easy ascent by means of a
rustic stairway.
Here the eye takes in at a single
sweep the bustling activities of over
five million people scattered over the
expanse of land and water that
sweeps in a gigantic half-circle from
the foot of the mountain to the hori-
zon-limiting line. Ones range of
vision has the unobstructed right of
way from Paterson on the left in
sweeping radii to Plainfield on the ex-
IRENE right. At ones feet is chin
neyed Newark, with Jersey City and
Hoboken directly beyond, and Eliza
beth on the right. The Passaic river
can be seen connecting Paterson with
Newark, and beyond that the Hack
ensack, with which Newark Bay and
the Raritan river form a blue ribbon
of water that spreads past out of
range of sight. The tongue of land
between New York and Newark Bay
is easily distinguishable, with Bay
onne extending along its tip, and to
the north and the south and the east
of that one sees the whole of Greater
! New York. The gaze slips over the
wall of the Palisades to upper Man
haitian and the Bronx, where the New
| Yorker always believed himself to be
invisible to eyes in the west. The
Jagged outline of the skyscrapers on
the lower end of Manhattan is plain
ly visible, and so are the boats on
the river and the bay. Beyond the
water Is the mass of stone and brick
that means Brooklyn, and over the
way from that, on the nea side of
the Narrows, lies Staten Island.
Across the nearer landscape stretch
the steel bands of the great railway
lines with their rushing trains, while
in and out along the tree-bordered
streets slips the ubiquitous trolley
joining town to country and country
to town so closely that the two are
one. Here is to be seer the reason for
the generous peopling of North Jer-
sey's stretches. The lines of rails
that spread out fan-like from every
center of activity make all this por-
| ton of the Garden State-which
might even more fittingly be called
the State of Homes-a great big
roomy village from every part of
which the journey cityward or coun-
tryward is one of ease and speed. AL
together this view from Eagle Rock
has its education side no less inter-
esting than its scenic aspect.