New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-31
Thirty Patriotic Manutac-
turers to Quit Prescribed
Zone February !
200 FIRMS TAKING
LEASES ELSEWHERE
Nation Backs Local Com
mittee in Plan to Pro
tect Retail Centre

Within month the nrst fruits o.
one Of the most far-sighted plans Tor
New York's development that have been
framed since the City Planning Com
mite. tickled Father Knickerbockers
risibilities with lie numbered streelr
that ran clear to Harlem viii peg n
Il ripen. Under the agreement f"Svi 80, u
with the Save New York Commit
thirty manufacturers VIII move ~
February from the prescribed zone.
II was almost a year ago that repre-
,entatives Of leading dry goods iims
met TO deal with the threat alreao!
offered by encrosching factories. ney
formed the Save New York committee
In the twelve months not new tease
for manufacturing purposes mas n peer.
made in the zone, not new pullo'ns
has been erected within It's preclncls,
for manufacturing purposes, ard al
but twenty Of the 225 firms now en-
Gagged in manufactures there nave
agreed 10 move az the expiration OF
their leases.
Two Hundred Firms 10 Move
About 100 firms will have left before
the end Of 1916, and at least eighty
more will 20 during 1919. Most Of the
firms which have not yet scceded 10
the agreement are said 10 be in favor
OF the movement, and 1t is thought GER
tain that when their present business
associates are located in another part
of the city they will join the exodus.
The zone which is thus 70 be stripped
OF its factories is bounded on the south
a Il -rg +
Streets. on the west by Seventh Ave
mo on the cast by Third Avenue and
on the north by Fifty-ninth Street
According to the agreement, manu-
facturers outside of the zone are TO
have the preference when the big stores
do their buying. This stipulation goes
into effect on February ].
Advertisements and personal appeal s
such as made the movement success
in New York are now being spread
throughout the country. Members OF
tho committee believe that the welfare
of New York is important 10 merchants
in Chicago. San Francisco. Cleveland
and every big city in the land. If that
is not sufficient to win their orders Tor
extra-zone manufacturers, II is believed
that the common sense which convlnces
them that the manufacturer who pays
$4,000 a year rent can turn out bet
ter product for the money than the
man whose rent is $4,000 will 90 the
trick.
Relocation OF Factories
Information is being gathered from
rnanufacturers' associations TO help IN
the relocation of the factories. so that
the manufacturers interests will be
served and at the same time the TASK
of the buyers will be simpliied. New
York manufactured $500000.OOO worth
Of garments last year. according TO d.
H. Burton, chairman OF the committee.
and the selection of sites and suitable
buildings is a complex task.
Long Island City, the district south
and west OF the Pennsylvania station
the old Sixth Avenue shopping district
in the Juveniles" and Teens" and a
zone TO the north Of that and westward
to Eighth Avenue are under considera-
ton. -,
This Save New York movement, with
its complement, the system OF zonng
adopted BY Mayor Mitche's admInistrs
ton. are described by Mr.. Burton as
"by far the most important events al
fecting New York City real estate which
have ever taken place"
Members Of the Save New York Com
mittee are NJ. Friedsam, president of b
Altman & Co; /. Stewart, or Nc
Creery & Co.; J. Straus, Of R. H. Macy
& Co; II. A. Saks. of Saks & Co.; !
Gimbel. of Gimbel Brothers; A. II. Ball
of Best & Co.; F. Simon, OF Franklin
Simon & Co.. F. Bonwit, OF Bonwit
Teller d. Co.; S. W. Reyburn, Of Lord
e. Taylor; II. A. Weatherby. of Arnold
Constable & Co; j. NJ Gliding Of )
NJ. Gliding g. Co., and B. Pitman, Of /
=. Hollander g. Co.