The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-11-27
On The NEW JERSEY SIDE
some 20 SUBURBS THERE ARE
- MINUTES NEARER.
rue sayfns In Tims b Between ne Penn
syiyania station I'm 13d street and
IfArrtson-C ommuting xsne Extends
60 Princeton Cheap nuilding silica

heS VIII haA" oAS oine. to eoh
tautcrs from score OF SUBURBS beyond
vac hudson. ine Nov se'Sioo WIN pro
ride n sop~'@ninA inofe~So IN 'he uuh
"cneoui", oooPieu WIN a na @o'e reouc'ion
~ the time OF travel, Inc time s@S"u
WIZ De ABOUT t"enty-'hree inmates each
way
het~enty stat,ons on the fennsyN ANA
between mere and frinceton. the emo OF
ne commn'lns se,s'ce' wiz @h o. 'ne'h DC
brougnf neAry nan an noor nearer 70 'ne
wnoie"aie ana re'4h cen're OF Ne~ iorh'
with us department storeS' tne"'IeS. SiuoS
ana ho'eis' ne saving OF time win oe
mace oesMesn no, .ison anu 'ne
yahia sad'ion III ihi'y ,eeooha 49, ~
harriso" the cnahse on Po"er iIon' eiec-
tticty 10 steam 'aseS Pia"e: so 'ia' rum
mere on the TIM" o' 'ra'e' Will "e 'he S"i''p
rs u mas o@.n.
saiu 'ha' 'ne company p P'epafns
% SUBSTITUTE eiectrio"y ior steam "'' 'hs
way TO fhiiaheiphla' IL TINS II zone 'he
assertion OF prominent ,eai estate man
thar It would not be long before the suo-
uros OF fhii"deiphia ann the SUBURBS OF
New York form CONTINUOUS chain WIZ
be realized. As IL Is the SUBURBAN mint
viii be pushed Forward To trenton which
The saving IN ome Is expected to hav"
great ehect on values along the road
Acrease mas ALREADY gone up % 10 100
per cent or more JUST IA soon a. the
f~nnsyivania announced IT'S tunnel plans
values sa&rtsd upwaru- Farms that could
have been purchased Tor 80 an a>'e IN
1869 are now held IN many cases AZ $50
an acre. No doubt even higher pnces
will follow with tho actual running OF
trains
tis estimated that real estate transac-
TONS amounting 70 AT ieast ssop.Vw
nave been ciosed IN the SUBURBAN. sect'oh
tapped by the pennsylvania IN the last
two years Farms IN great numbers
have been bought up by land companies
between Newark ana New BRUNSWICK
and resold in building lots TO home seekers
with the result that the territory between
Newark and New Brunswick Is already
continuous suburban colony.
What enect TINS SUBURBAN development
hos had on values may De scen IN St@iton.
the station just east OF New brunswick
in 1903 rcsared New York merchant
bought there tract OF ioo acres. ne
wanted TO give up cry me ana TURN
farmer. Inc iano was Wen SITUATED ana
fertile and ne paid $1,000 TOT the farm.
Three years later ne was odered $D'ooo
Tor and h nov holding OUT Tor soo.ooo
The committing limit on the main line
OF the refinsyiVhnin AZ present II frlhce-
ton. princeton - nfty miles from Man
haitian. twenty miles further than the
hour 8 limit ON any other road between
Newark. tho firsf STOP And princeton there
are dozen towns. including Ehzabeth.
Linden. Railway. Colonsa, lsslin. Menio
Park. Metuchen, Steifon. New brunswick.
Deans, Monmouth junction and Plains
boro. Besides these there are n score of
settlements that are rapidly taking on
the proportions OF towns
The suburbs on the Pennsylvania may
he divided into four classes. First are
the industrial cities with their iron works
and factories. their shipyards ana dingy
tenements. Following these come num-
Der OF towns partly Industrial ana partly
residential. Then follow old fashioned
country towns. centres OF distribution for
a prosperous truck farming district.
Finally there are the more modern. or at
any rate modernized settlements occupied
largely by New York business men who
travel to the city every day.
Harrison IL the first stop for out going
trains. IL IL few hundred yards east Of
Newark. and is growing both a. factory
ard a. railway town. Newark and
Elizabeth. which follow closely. are among
tho most important industrial centres
about New York.
Newark with its 800 factories seems /
destined 20 be one OF the great shipping /
points on the Atlantic coast. The Gov |
eminent engineers are at work making !
the Newark Bay accessible TO ocean going ,
vessels channel sixteen feet deep IL /
being dredged through the bay TO connect
with twenty one foot channel through
Staten Island Sound which whsn com
pleted will permit ocean going vessels 70 .
come up 70 the docks along tho Newark
waterfront. On this waterfront what
10 virtually new industrial cit V is planned
by "A group 81 bankers and railroad men
who about three years ago under the name