Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1922-05-11
CITY AFFECTED
BY SAGE PLAN
Broad City Plan Would In
cIude Parts of Three
States
PLAN Is EXPLAINED
Movement is Launched at
Meeting in New York
Last Night

The purpose of the plan is to inn
prove New York City and the adja-
cent territory in the three states in
cluded in the plan. 1t is estimated
that 100000 people will reside
within this area and that a plan can
be worked out whereby cooperation
will result in the other cities and
towns in the district developed. The
Sage Foundation has laid out COM
prehensive regional plan for the
district being affected. Long ISL
and being included in this zone. The
project. as outlined, contemplates
the harmonizing and extension of all
civic. traffic and transit plans within
sthis area as though for a single pop
ulation of common needs and prob
iems.
A city planning scheme which
would embrace Perth Amboy and
more than 900 other cities and towns
in territory extending from Bridge
port. Conn.,. to West Point to Prince
ton and along the New Jersey coast
was made known last night by the
Russell Sage Foundation trustees at
a meeting held in the Engineering
Societies Building on West Thirty
ninth street, New York City.
1t is an effort primarily to weld
New York City and all the cities
and towns which lie clustered about
it into a unit of interest toward
creating more logically arranged,
a more intelligently developed, a
more beautiful, and more comfor-
table place in which to live and
work.
Though the enterprise had been
quietly under way for a year.
through a series of scientific analy-
ses of the problems involved. it was
only last night that the full scope of
the undertaking was revealed.
The committee directing the work
is in no sense an exclusive or SELF
centered body and seeks the aid. ad-
vice and close association of all
groups or individuals within the
zone whose aims lie in the same di-
rection. Already Secretary of State
Hughes, Secretary of Commerce
Hoover. Chief Justice Taft and Ehhu
Root have given the undertaking
their endorsement and cooperation.
The Sage Foundation has agreed
to finance the work through it's pre-
liminary stages. but as the plan de-
velOps and various interests are
| al oused to concur and participate it
is fully expected that the enterprise
will take on the impetus of a ma
/ tfonal movement to create a metro
| polls worthy of its own destiny.
1t is not probable that the COM
mittee will seek its solution at the
| bands of, or in the mind of an in
! dividual. 1t is the present expecta-
! ton that team of architects. engi-
neers. artists and sculptors will be
| selected. each the foremost that can
be secured in his profession to carry
| the work forward and develop the
| final plans.
The committee is we'll aware of the
cost of executing such plans. But
the cost of not planning. as the his
| tory of every American city with
| the honorable exception of Wash
| ington. ID. c. demonstrates. is infin-
| itely greater. No community with
holds funds for improvements: most
! of them spend with lavish gener-
osity. The money goes by chance, oy
! favor or is frittered away without
| due consideration and in a decade
! or so there is often very little 10
| show for it. But coordinate the
normal expenditure with a noble.
comprehensive and permanent plan,
land an increment of increased values
| results which is startling.
| The committee has undertaken
to prepare such a plan. But it can
| never be realized until the average
man decides that it is necessary 10
| him. to help him rear his family in
better surroundings. to assure him
that his work will be pursued in
| comfort and security. Therefore
| the plan of New York and its en-
virons must be a democratic move
ment built upon the demands of nine
millions of people and sure of the
active support of every idealistic
| group within its number.