Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-05-15
TALE OF WI CITIES

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metropolis as slow, along with Philadelphia. Camden is not
a beautiful city. In its character of buildings and street
pavements it is not up to Perth AmDoy In spite OF the enof-
nous difference in population.
But Camden is growing. 1t is attracting new Industries
and the industries it already has are expanding tremendously
New houses are being erected by the hundreds so that the
city is now built up almost continuously to Gloucester, Had
donfeld and Merchantville. Apparently the city is prosper
ing as never before.
There are three things that seem to enter into Cam
denis present prosperity. One is the excellent water front
and the use that Camden is making of it; another is the con-
struction Of the bridge across the Delaware river to Phlla-
delphia. and the other is the consideration and treatment
that Camden gives her industries.
As far as the water front is concerned, Camden has just
completed a modern municipal pier at the cost of over a
million dollars. In spite of the fact that Camden is many
miles inland from the Delaware capes it is attracting ocean
shipping because it furnishes the accommodations that
ocean shipping requires. Good shipping facilities that are
encouraged and developed by the municipality attract INDUS
tries and bring business.
AS far as the Delaware river bridge is concerned, now
that the work has actually been started and the route of the
approaches fixed real estate valuations have begun to soar.
Whole blocks of houses are going to be demolished and
possibly a large church also, in order to make a broad con,
course through the heart of the city leading TO the bridge.
Camden is surely going to make the most of that structure.
The city is awake to its vast possibilities.
When it comes to the industries, Camden realizes what
iii that brings money into the community; that draws PEG.
pie to the city, fills up the houses and crowds the stores.
There is nothing within reason that the industries in Cam :
den ask for that is denied them. There is the greatest har
mony and cooperation. The result is that the big industries
already there are thriving and more are coming in all the
time. Only a week or two ago the famous Harpers' publish
ing house announced that it is moving its big printing estab-
lishment from New York TO Camden, taking with it hundreds
of men engaged in the printing trades.
Federal and Market streets are the two min business
streets in Camden. They both lead to the Pennsylvania fer
ris to Philadelphia. At the foot of Market street extending
for two or three blocks, is the enormous plant OF the victor
Talking Machine Company. Opposite the Victor plant, be-
tween Market and Federal streets, is the famous Campbell
soup industry.
Go to Camden at any time, day or night, and it is a
common sight to see a locomotive pulling a string OF freight
cars in or out of these big plants, the track being laid in the
middle of the street in the vicinity of the plants, and ex-
tending directly across the entrance to the ferry to Phila-
delphia. Also, the railroad tracks are laid across streets so
as to connect with buildings that are on opposite sides of
the street.
There is no particular harm done. The people who are
passing at the time think no more of waiting for a locomo-
live to 90 by than they do Of waiting for a trolley car to pass.
Why? Because they are in an industrial section of the city
and they realize that such accommodations are necessary for
the industries. incidentally, the work in these enormous in
dustries is allowed to proceed and shipments are being made
all the time to all parts of the country. The tracks are neces-
sary for these industries and because they have such facill-
ties they are able to go on growing, bring more and more
prosperity to Camden. That is one of the reasons why Cam
den has such enormous industries and why she is continually
attracting more.
Perth Amboy can learn a great deal from Camden. This
city has harbor facilities far surprising anything Camden
has TO offer, but here we are unwilling to spend anything to
develop it. This city has a new bridge about to be built, but
as far as the municipality is concerned, it is treated with in
difference. True, the bridge to be constructed here is not
such a structure as Camden is going to have, but the bridge
to be erected here will cost about 81 1000 and will be
the means of bringing a tremendous business into this city
if we are wise enough to make the most of the opportunity
offered, just as Camden is planning to make the most of the
Delaware river bridge.
In regard to industries, here we do everything we can
to antagonize them; in Camden they do everything then can
to encourage them.
Camden is growing, prospecting, looking up and for
ward into the future with confidence. Camden is spending
vast sums of money in preparing for the big things just
ahead. Camden is making the most of her opportunities.
Perth Amboy, under its present policy, is standing still,
Il is not looking into the future, but is living for the present
only. 1t is Indifferent to the big things that are going on
all about it and which vitality affect the future prosperity
of the city. Most of all, the city government has assumed
an antagonistic attitude toward the industries located here,
preventing them from expanding and thus discouraging
f1her large concerns from locating here e.rs~~Sfsesvurx