New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-15
yFOR A GREATER BRONX
Binder industrial Centres Need
ed in Borough.
o1HFR PLANS DISCUSSED
! Recent Growth of the Region
Mostly Along Residen-
tial Lines.
BY cYRUs {. MILLER.

,,,,bat,an is getting 20 be more and
= centre for selling ana light manu-
fcturns ,.. s..-,. e..
E,auho,tar manufactures. especially the
I"a,,sr ones and those requiring much
md space. must move elsewhere. a
s,1dv Of The smoGestacks OF Mdnndtta"
49, pe,fod Of wears Will show that
rev have shifted from place to place on
u.rbattar. and low are moving away.
,rho effect off This ON Bronx working
neople is manifest
ETbey must move after the factories UNI
bss tre factories come to The Bronx.
| II KINGS. Queens, Richmond or New
l .srscv OFFER better terms 10 Manhattan
i factories. they VII move from Manhat-
/ ian leaving many citizens of The Bronx
Without employment, emptying our houses
and arresting the tn Of the borough.
| We must have the means Of giving
| Them employment here-we must develop
| pur own industrial centre.
| Much high class skilled labor is avail
| able in The Broux-more should be en-
p!oyed here If We build manufacturing
lMlants with modern cOnvenienCes. near at
! hand. our people will be glad TO work in
/ them. Already We have up-to-date houses
/ In which they may live.
The Bronx is located at the gateway OF
the continent. Five lines Of railroads have
direct rail connections with the Far West,
North and South; FIVE have car float con-
nections. il is the only borough, except
Manhattan, having direct rail connection
80 that It's freight need not be ferried
across the water.
The Bronx comprises AZ square miles
ef territory.
Within this area there is a population
which now exceeds 10000. 1t more than
doubled between 1907 ana 1910. increasing
~ the rate Of ia s-lo per cent, or over
u per cent q year.
Since 1910 IL has increased II per cent
annually. VI this rate. by 1920 there will
be over 100000 people in The Bronx
The assessed valuation Of our real es-
nate Increased from $lSs, 1914, $40 in 1900 to
s59S 227, 0i3 in 1912
Recent development in The Bronx has
been largely along residential lines. In
The last five years there have been built
homes 20 the value OF $l33120s9o and bust
hess buildings 20 the value of sl2,997 100.
This means that many more people
live here than work here. Fifty per
rent Of our population go to Manhattan
daily This includes persons OF all
classes a still larger percentage of our
working population goes daily TO Man
haitian TO work.
The time and energy Of our people
ire wasted in travelling back and forth.
y We must furnish facilities which will
Induce more manufacturers to come here.
How is this TO be done?
First, py the adoption Of a comprehen-
pivc plan of development, so that every
bne intercste d-raiircads. owners. build
trs, manufacturers and others may work
= the same direction and avoid dupiica-
lion and inconsistent developments.
1t NAV be necessary 10 change the map
81 the street systems now 80 AS 10 adapt
The localities under consideration for
commercial development We must an
Hcipate these needs far in advance. with
b. clear idea Of the ends I'm view. The
realization of the whole plan will take
years.
The plan includes industrial railway
Industrial development, dock development
md wholesale terminal market.
have directed my engineers TO prepare
tentative plans for the Industrial railway
md have interested men Of capital IN the
possibilities now before Us. One step in
his development has been made by the
Ryawa Realty Company. which has be-
Eun a s2O.OlDG0 development at the mouth
IF the Bronx River, similar 10 the Bush
Terminal Stores DO Brooklyn.
II we are 20 have happy, coutented snd
lndustrially efficient wori;ing people. we
must provide them with cheap and whole
some food.
Part Of the plan is TO have a union ter
mlnsl market on the line OF the indus
.rial railway where food products may
% carried by all railroads and steam
,hips coming 10 The Bronx. and dis
!ributed cheaply ard directly 10 the retail
aeslers Of the borough
{. The cities Of Europe and the United
States are waking up to the necessity 81
better methods Of food distribution.
They are building Wholesale tsrmIna
markets. such q market would attract
many people Of The Bronx who now sut-
Ter from the high cost OF living elsewhere,
md would relieve the people now here. II
would save the unnecessary increase now
imposed on our food supply by the pres