Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-26

Newark Meadows is midway between
Newark and Jersey City. with the Pas
sale and Hackensack rivers on either
side, and with its nose pointing into
Newark bay. From any part of this prop
erty manufactured products may be load
ed for direct carriage by steam or rail to
any part of the world through connec-
ton with the Pennsylvania system,
Lackawanna. Lehigh Valley, Baltimore
and Ohio. Erie and the Central Railroad of
New Jersey, the Susquehanna and West
ern, and via the Pennsylvania with the
Long Island railroad and the New York.
New Haven and Hartford system.
There are $3.50 acres with $4,000 feet
of water front, in the Hackensack river,
and $1,000 in the PaSsaic river. The eX-
tent, Importance and value of this great
stretch of tidewater frontage exceed in
the Battery to 125th street, New York
city, worth more millions than the ordi-
nary man can well conceive.
In Direct Line of Travel.
The city of Newark and the towns Of
Harrison and Kearny are on the western
side of Newark Meadows. and Hoboken.
Jersey City and New York city on it's
eastern side The direct line Of travel be-
tween these populous and busy centers Is
across Newark Meadows, which is
traversed by the Pennsylvania, Lacka-
wanna, Erie, Lehigh Valley and the Gen.
trail Railroad of New Jersey, and the
trolley lines of the Public Service Cor
poration running over the Newark plank
road and the Newark turnpike. the troll
leys alone carrying about II, 600 600 people
annually. In a short time the Newark
plank road will have compulelaly disap-
"A
boulevard, skirting Newark Meadows.
Day and night there are transit facilities
between these centers, and 1t is practically
assured that at night freight facilities
will be afforded to the manufacturer via
the Hudson and Manhattan tunnels .di-
rect to Herald square.
Newark Meadows Is bounded CONNER
cially on the east by $500 600, 900 of manu-
featured products, and 11,S3S,345 tons, or
81 ASP OOO.0 of foreign commerce to the
city of New York alone; on the west by
$175, OOO,0O0 of manufactured goods in the
city of Newark: on the south by the tom
mage of 23.S63 vessels and barges passing
through Newark bay, and on the north by
a continuous chain OF thriving manufac-
turing towns, including Passaic and Pat
erson: 1t lies in the direct path of the
physical extension Of the cities adjacent;
also of the future commercial advance
nhent and industrial expansion of the
whole district. 1t is twenty minutes from
haitian tunnels, and is in the center OF a
circle of five miles radius which COM
prises within its circumference the most
important manufacturing, financial, COM
mercial and shipping community in the
United States It's natural advantages
are such that all channels Of trade tend
to centralize here. and 1t is the distribut-
ing depot for every manufacturing local
ity and the country at large.
Are Being Filled In.
For more than four years the filling in
of these three thousand acres of waste
land has been going on almost unnoticed
by the hundreds of thousands Of people
who pass across them daily. Steam shov.
els. hydraulic pumps. long stretches OF
pipe and hundreds of men have been not
ed there for long while. The sand
gravel and silt which have been pumped
over the land, taken from Newark bay
the Passaic and Hackensack rivers. where
| the United States government has bull,
! channel for heavy draught vessels, tends
! to make a great industrial and manufac
turing center which within q decade will
| perhaps become q greater center of com
mercial activity than any other on the
continent.
| Hundreds of thousands of dollars have
| been spent by the Newark Meadows I'm
| provement Company to bring the level Of
! this meadow land above the point Of thu
| highest known tide. and they have accom-
plished their purpose. The top stratum o.
Newark bay, the PasSaic and Hacken
sack rivers, has formed a very solid earth
and the substrata, boring for which hav'
been made at many different points
! throughout the tract. show sand, gravel
blue clay, red clay or bed rock.