The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-11-13
BTRSTING NEW YORK.
Its Industries Spreading Over the Mud
Flats Of jersey.

$50 far "a industry and CONNER ca are
concerned Manhattan twenty-five years
from now will be practically n sample
ROOM saws "a writer in the Worlds Work
The huge stocks of goods OF every
description. from steam engines to books.
will have disappeared from ths island
They will be carried in ssorerooms and
warehouses on tho broader and more
elastic margins that surround the harbor
on every side
New York ia the gateway of a nation
rather than IN. port OF a city or a State
Going about this country | have found
the shippers and manufacturers of Pitts
burg. Chicago. Cleveland. Buffalo. Detroit
the whole mighty inland-berter in
formed about New York harbor and more
Interested in II Than are most New Workers..
The seaport Of New York il a 'rernen-
dous funnel through which flows every
year nearly half the foreign commerce Of
the nation and an enormous percentage
Of IN. coast visa traffic beiw..n the ports
OF the north Atlantic and the south
Atlantic coasts and between the greatest
manufacturing areas OF the United States
and the ports of South America and the
lsthmus.
by far the greatest manufacturing centre
IN the United States Practically the
volume of its manufactured goods every
year IL as grent as that 81 any other two
industrial centres in the nation. Every
effort IL being put forth every day by
,h. great manufacturing industries OF
this country. by the great importing houses
and even by TIA. great municipal com
rnercial bodies TO increase IN. volume Of
our foreign trade
Similarly month by month and year
by year industry piles into the city For
every manufacturing plant that il located
IN any other centre New York gains four
In the last fiv. wears covered by Govern
ru.nt report 1850 new manufacturing
Embellishments were planted within the
limits OF IN. industrial city
The total for the whole country was
only 2 .ss3. During this period Philadel-
,,bi Is. Bo-,1n st Louis, Baltimore Gin
c,nnatt and Providence showed an actual
decrease In number Of establish nents.
though no. 81 course in volume Of manu-
1T IN recognized as q cardinal fact by
those who study industrial progress that
Manhattan itself can do NO moro In the
direction 81 manufacturing industry. and
,he figures Of chs last four years reveal
the fact that its manufacturing progress
has begun ~ slow down. Even Va BROOK
lyn the swift rush OF industry has been
checked.
ION q percentage basis one Ends the
most startling figures coming from out
living parts OF the industrial district Of
New York. from staten lsland. Hacken:
sack, Kearney. Pas-a!c. Orange and
Workers. Here over a ten year period
on. finds the volume Of nanuiacturing
industry doubled. trebled or qliadrupled.
There f. no doubt that here IN these
OUTLYING towns will be found the great
industrial growth OF to-Enorrow- II the
industry o! n Philadelphia. "a Chicago or
a Pitr.burx II u ba poured into Now York
IN the neat ten years there Is no doubt
that most II &c viii settle ia These towns
out ON the fringes II the industrial! city,
where Land II cheaper and where labor
may find habitariOn without the crowded
discomfort Of the tsncnlent district IL the
greater CITY Here along the rank. un-
slightly wastes Of mud and water tina.
DarnIial the New Jersey coast for Miles
and down on the equally unlOvely plains
of farthers Brooklyn IL To be the site Of
the Industrial city Of tho future