Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-23

with apartments, but on the con-
trary haB stimulated interest in
them and broadened the breach be-
tween the limited supply and the
Increasing demand, for the opposi-
ton to apartments of a few years
ago has given way to enthusiastic
interest. The very people who were
wont to bemoan their introduction
are now living in very luxurious
ones, or looking about diligently for
suitable quarters in a proposed one
10 occupy, if they can sell their
homes. The new structures have
been a benefit to the municipality in
that they have educated the public
to the very latest improvements and
service and have made owners of
older buildings brush up their prop
critics to meet the expectation of
tenants. 1t has made the prepara-
ton of apartment buildings, old and
new, science requiring expert ser
vice. Indeed, the demand by owners
of older buildings for experts to
touch up here and there-and
modernized appearances and service
has reached such proportions that
it has brought into being a large
firm that specializes in making old
buildings equal competitors with
new ones And every good building
efficiently managed in the city has
every apartment taken and a long
waiting list
Newark is growing, growing in
population and growing in wealth,
and the building business has not
Kept pace with the increase in the
people and wealth.
The firm of John II. Dunn & Sons
alone developed more than $1,000 600
worth of apartment properties In the
past two years, and has averaged
the completion of twelve buildings
that time. Still the number of
apartments available does not equal
the number of people desiring them.
In the centre of the city several
bachelor apartments, and buildings
containing two and three-room suites
have been erected and have proven
very successful. And the inquiries
received at such properties for
furnished rooms with maid service
and main diningroom fortells the
need of several apartment hotels in
and near the centre of the city.
Newark Is Progressing.
Newark is progressing, and the
march of progress is from the large
hurdensome houses where the wife
is slave to servants toward the mod
ern apartment, where heat, hot
water, refrigeration and vacuum sys-
TENS are to be furnished by press
ing the button.
In this city, with its unusually eff
Gent building and tenement depart
ments, and it's interested publlc-spir-
tied citizens, always ON the alert to
recognize and encourage anything
for the benefit of Newark we have
fostered a new and great industry
the manufacturing of apartment
houses, according to the hopes of ar
lists and ideals of a thoughtful,
home-loving community. The indus
try Is strong and permanent, for, dur
ing the depressed financial period of
the past winter when panic was ripe
and one of our greatest banking in
stitutions, one of our largest mercan-
tile establishments, and one of our
apartment companies were the sub
ject of rumor, the latter measured up
well in staunchness with the older
institutions in weathering the test.
Now we find apartments are a per-
manent part of our city life, and, in
this city particularly, we can look
forward to greater use of them. We
can look forward to seeing beautiful
edifices replace fine residences in Sec
lions within walking distance of the
city's centre, the establishment of
apartment hotels around parks, and
larger quantities of small apartments
convenient to transportation facili-
ties on the outskirts, for the automo-
bile has moved the wealthy mans
home to the country, and his short
stay in town in winter will be in an
elegant apartment hotel. And the
owrer will fill such properties with
men who have sent their families
away for the heated term. And the
other modern and tasteful buildings
will house the great majority OF
Newark's Industrious, ambitious,
home-loving people.