Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-10

territory has been opened up. Ten
miles of new trackage was laid in
1914. The installation of the Perth
Amboy fast line from the D.. L. & w.
r. r. to the centre of the city of Perth
Amboy has brought trade to Newark
stores far in excess OF all anticipa-
tions. Shoppers from Tottenville
Staten Island. use this route to shop
in Newark, as 1t Is shorter and more
convenient than going to New York.
This Is New Newark.
"You have all heard the expression.
the little Highlander who doesn't
want to branch out, to grow, to de-
velop, to prosper. And the small
Newarker' is a counterpart of his
cousin from over the sea. The small
Newarker belongs to an age that is
past, he Is living in the long ago for
gotten days; he is still voting for
Van Buren, and Polk; he is still going
to bed by candlelight; his handker-
chief always smells of lavender, and
he believes the Newark Evening
News. But. thank goodness, this
man does not belong to the Demo-
cratic party; he does not vote In the
Democratic ballot box as a Demo-
crat.
II feel proud of this great enter
prise that is going to make us event
ually one of the greatest seaport
cities in this country.
do you realize that the meadow
land is rs per cent. of the entire area
of the city?
what Is the Democratic board do
ing with this 6h square miles of
hitherto useless ground?
Let me summarize briefly, for the
hour Is getting late. We are filling in
this great expanse of waste land; we
are retaining 1t; we are making 1t
ready for factory sites and for homes;
we are making 1t one of the great in
dustrial cenetres of the East--a place
of earning power for the workingman
of Newark
And when we get through we will
have increased the ratables over $685.
100000. Newark today has 252 dis
tinct branches of manufactures, and
ranks eleventh among the cities of
the United States In the aggregate
value of manufactured products.
Reclamation of the Meadows.
81 venture to say that when the
Newark meadows have been re-
claimed and developed that Newark
will have over 1000 distinct branches
of manufactures and rank among the
first three cities In the aggregate
value of manufactured product, and
We will have converted q mosuuito-
breeding swamp into a thriving in
dustrial centre. The Democratic
board has a right to feel proud of this
great enterprise.
Since the beginning OF the year
we have purchased $50 acres of land
lying within the zone, this zone hav-
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ork bay by depth of $4,000 feet
We are dredging channel 200 feet
wide at the bottom and twenty feet
deep at mean low water from the
government channel In Newark bay
to the shore line, and continuing
$500 feet into the meadows, a total
length of 1000 feet.
I'VE are constructing a dock $500
feet in length, extending along the
northerly edge of the channel now
being excavated from the westerly
or inshore end of this channel to the
city bulkhead line.
I'VE are bullkheading an area in
Newark bay that will add an addi-
land.
I'VE are grading streets across the
meadows as approaches to the re-
claimed area, and also on the recla-
nation of that section Of the zone
lying west of the Central railroad.
One of these approaches, sixty-six
feet wide, will be available for traf-
fic before election day, and by the
end Of the year OF least twenty-five
acres will be reclaimed west OF the
Central railroad
Added Possessions.
by the end of December. 1915, the
Democratic Board of Works will have
added to the assets Of your city:
"a ship channel 1000 feet long, 400
feet wide at the bottom and twenty
feet deep at mean low water.
"a dock frontage of 1900 feet, with
the necessary derricks, tracks, etc,
for handling freight.
"A pier 1900 feet long and $50 feet
wide, extending into the bay from
the end of the dock or the city bulk
head, also equipped with tracks, etc.
"a reclaimed area of at least 300
acres, available for factory sites, with
a system of improved streets.
"a railroad distributing and trans
fer system covering the reclaimed
area and having connections with at
least three trunk lines
cat least one wide avenue of APP
proach from the bullt-up section of
the city.
"An undeveloped meadow land area
of $40 acres and construction plant
available for the reclamation of the
remaining meadow land.
1.-THE total cost of these items will
be approximately the S2,0OO,0OO
which has been authorized by the
State Legislature for this work.
'"Thie development is on the western
shore of Newark bay, with deep
water approaches through the Kill
van Kull and Arthur Kill and approx
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