The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-05-11
NEW YORK HEARS
Of GREAT STRIDES
MADE BY JERSEY
New Jersey Night Celebrated
at Conference on City Plan
ming and Municipal Art.
HEAD OF TRADE BOARD
PRINCIPAL SPEAKER
Reviews the Wonderful Growth
of This City and the Whole 4
State.

New Jersey Night was cele-
brated at the conference on city plan
ming and municipal art at the Twenty
second regiment arInory last night by
speakers from all the northern part of
the state. The principal address was
delivered by George F. Reeve. president
of the Newark Board of Trade, who
enumerated the claims which New Jer-
sey has to its place in the front rank
of the States
New Jersey has an unparalleled sea
coast" he declared in the course of his
speech. Most of it is built up and is
occupied not only during the summer
months. but all the year round, and it's
towns represent a great deal of wealth.
I'VE have twelve miles of iockage on
Newark bay, and forty miles on the
Passaic and Hackensack rivers One
third Of the stone roads in the State
are in this vicinity
with our farm and garden products
we feed the hungry of New York and
Philadelphia. New Jersey is bee
hive of industry We have the best
stone roads of any State in the Union.
We have no State, tax because more
than 81. 500, 600 is collected by the State
from the railroads and other public
corporations. and is being used for the
support Of the public schools through
cut the state.
Population Increase.
Our population in the last fifteen
years has increased more rapidly than
any state this side OF the Rockies.
The first telegraph system was in
vented by Morse of Morristown; the
phonograph and other efectrical inven-
tions We're Invented by Edison, of Or
ange; naileable iron and the. steam
engine by Boyden. of Newark
Newark has a population of about
$4,000. 1t is notwithstanding centre.
The great railroad systems OF the
Pennsylvania, the Lackawanna. the
Lehigh Valley the New. Jersey Cen
trail. the Philadelphia and Reading. the
Erie and the Baltimore and Ohio all
pass through our State, and we have
the benefit from them.
THE are 40l7 manufacturing es-
Establishments in Newark and 245 of
them are distinct branches The capital
invested amounts to s130,o0o.003. There
are 90. .S36 wage-earners whose wages
annually amount to. $50, z46,0oe. The
1 value Of the raw material in the State
Is $50. .690. 900, and the sales annually
amount to S175.0o01ap
Newark ranks eleventh among the
cities OF oln county in value Of manu-
factured products.
sCny's Valuation.
"Ths assessed valuation OF our real
I and personal property in 1867 was s2s5
| 7sSo0e. Our bonded indebtedness for
the same year was t2,els5oo and our
bonded water debt $11s957. .09a. making
total bonded debt OF sa3.s7S.5oa. The
amount in the sinking fund for that
debt was s7.62a, 5SS
.Our water department is self-sus-
tanning. and we claim that NE have the
purest water supply of any city in tna
/. Union. Newark In a few years. wa
claim. win include Irvington. Elizabeth.
South Orange, the Oranges. Bloomfield,
Glen Ridge, Montclair, Belleville, Pas
Z sale and Harrison.
A. W. McDougall. of the Bureau of
Associated Charities spoke ON City
Planning and Its Relation to Estab-
lished Charities He said in part:
What is the history of the forma-
tion of the charities in the past IN our
cities2 1t is surely mot overstating II
to say that under the system or lack
i; of system obtaining in the past there
has been waste, duplication and super
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