New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-11

rccitals as planned BY the Board OF
Education in connection WIN ilS Pup'''
school course Of lectures.
Newark is sure to become a great
musical centre, very mecca, indeeu'
for the many thousands VINO reSide !"
its suburbs. Of the fact that this IS
but the natural issue in the true Sc
ouence of eycnts the figures cited below
should be sufficiently convincing. win
n population of 347 ,469, Newark ranks
fourteenth, and has greater variety
of manufactures than any other city
in the United States. The capital IN
vested amounts to Sl50,000,00O. There
are employed 1900 operatives, draw
ing an annual wage Of S5O,0OO,OOO, ana
there are ! 1853 establishments employ.
ing ten hands or more. The value OF
finished products amounts to S22O,OOO,-
900. The United States government IS
TO spend 81 06i 800 for increasing the
depth Of the Passaic River, which, with
the Newark Bay, gives the city whart
frontage of ten and one-half miles. The
thrift of the city's inhabitants is seen
in the fact that there are 235 building
and loan associations and thlrty-hve
savings associations. Newark has hve
railroad trunk lines. More people board
here than in any other city not a ter
minal point in the United States. There
are twenty-five electric trolley lines to
suburban points, and the city is within
ore hours ride of more than one hum
dred resorts located on the Atlantic
Coast, Hudson River and Long Island
Sound. The Northern New Jersey
mountain and lake resorts are within
easy reach of the city.
While the above items bear witness
to the material prosperity Of the city,
the following should be a convincing
certificate that the moral and intel
lectual development have been keeping
pace commensurately: The Newark
Public Library has seven branches and
fourteen deposit stations, containing
205,2l7 volumes. OF public schools,
there are four high, one normal, sixty
primary and grammar, and three UNI
graded There are 1856 churches, repre-
scnting over twenty sects; over 100
clubs, social and athletic, in addition
to dfteen women's clubs, having 2,266
members; twenty-six singing societies,
fourteen of which belong to the United
Singers Of Newark; thirty bands and
orchcStraS, about $50 music teachers,
ard forty houses dealing in pianos and
musical merchandise. As final argu-
ment for its possibilities as a musical
centre the attendant statistics will
agtouud those of US who have been in
the dark in regard to Newark's wonder
full cosmopolitan population. In the
public schools there are enrolled 1899
American whites, LIP negroes, 9,l66
Hebrews, 6,5l3 Germans, 5,49S Italians,
l,Al7 English. S27 Irish, 4s3 Scotch, PIT
Polish, 257 Magyar, 226 Russian, 202
Swedish. 1919 French, III Canadian and
135 Slovak pupils, besides Chinese. jap
anesc Javanese, Finnish, Syrian, Turk
iSh. Greek, Egyptians and American
Indians in small numbers.
Can we even lightly imagine what
wonderful future awaits a city that
So powerfully typiiies the very prin-
c:ple which governs our nation? What
bOundless opportunities for a musical
development among so heterogeneous
mass of children, in whose ears are
still ringing the lullabies and folk
songs of their various chimes and who
are adding 10 the Imaginative faculties
of their Old World creation the prac-
tical training of their New World be-
ing, This, then. is the earth wherein
the seed that has already taken root
will terminate and bring forth a glor-
Gus plant attcstinG Newark's great work
in the Garden Of Music.