Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-05-18
INDUSTRIAL PERTH AMBOY.

While Perth Amboy Is forging
ahead in every direction, It's devel-
opment has been greatest. perhaps,
along industrial lines. This is due
mainly to the city's ideal location for
manufacturing of all kinds, The
number of new industries that have
come to this vicinity during the past
ten years is little short of marvel
Gus. and the most encouraging fea-
ture is that they are still coming.
With three railroads and ample
water facilities there is nothing to
be desired in the matter of trans
~portation and the city's proximity to
| New York makes it exceptionally de-
sirable as a location for a factory.
But while Perth Amboy has been
growing industrially, it has been
making rapid strides as a place of
business and shopping center. The
Perth Amboy stores are unsurpassed
anywhere in the state and compare
f~avorably with those of New York.
Shoppers now come to this city not
only from South Amboy, Wood
bridge. Metuchen and other nearby
from all the towns on the lower end
of Staten Island as we'll as from
Keyport, Matawan, Atlantic High
lands and other Monmouth county
town along the south shore of Rari-
tan bay. Since the EVENING
NEWS has begun to circulate in
S~ayreyille and along the Amboy di-
vision of the Pennsylvania railroad,
including the towns of Old Bridge,
Spotswood, Helmetta and James
burg, the people of that section have
begun to come here to make their
purchases, Perth Amboy being near
er and more conveniently reached
than any other city. Once these
people have visited our stores and
have become acquainted with us,
they are bound to stick.
But 1t is the industries of Perth
Amboy in particular that we desire
to discuss. The EVENING NEWS
today issues an industrial number
pure and simple. The merchants
have not been invited to join in this
special issue, because, realizing that
they are a big attraction in them
selves we did not want to divide at
tention, desiring on this occasion to
lay special emphasis on the manu-
featuring side of the city.
A mere glance through the spe-
ciaI section today is a convincing ar
gument as to the Importance of Perth
Amboy industrially. Some Of our
factories are the largest of their
kind in existence. 1t is here where is
made practically all the Vaseline
that is used in the world. Our terra
Gotta and freproofng will be found
in nearly all of the large buildings
throughout the country. Thus the
clay of this vicinity goes into the
walls and flooring Of the big struc-
lures in the cities, so that no mat
ter where you may be you can usu-
ally literally walk on Perth Amboy
soil. Our huge smeIters are unsur-
passed for the handling of metals,
while we have the greatest shot
tower in the United States as well as
one of the largest cartridge factor
les. Then there is the great cable
works, the products of which make
up the network Of wires under the
streets and in the subways and con-
Quits Of all the cities. Our chem
zeal works easily rivals the great
German industries in that line, and
the new BakeIite factory about to be
started promises to revolutionize the
manufacturing Of articles in which
celluloid; amber, hard rubber and
other similar substances are used.
Our dry docks are equal to any along
the Atlantic coast. and so we might
go on enumerating the industries
which have come to make Perth Am
boy famous, but this is done in a most
thorough manner In the industrial
section of today's issue. The
EVENING NEWS is merely doing a
little more talking Perth Amboy
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