The New York herald., 1922-04-23

within the fold of the greater city and it's
"neighborliness."
April / work was actually begun on
the new vehicular tunnel to connect Man
haitian with Jersey City. Excavation was
haitian. and at point in New Jersey near
two railroad heads and the Manhattan
tubes. Other tunnels, to be paid for from
the receipts of this pioneer, will, not long
after reach under the Hudson, and soon
the New Jersey side will be as completely
a part Of the parent island" as is now
Long Island.
The Hudson bridge will follow. 1t is
not an idle speculation to look forward
to the crossing of five millions of per-
sons daily from Jersey to New York. Resi-
dents of Jersey City. Hoboken, Union Hill,
even Newark, perhaps, will then feel
slighted il one refers to them as Jersey
ties" They will have became Manhattan
ties indeed.
There is room within this great district
soon to be opened, including that now
wholly a part of Manhattan's door yard,
is estimated that for every home there al
ways are at least four persons-that is
the average family. Thus the Manhattan
of the future may be compact COM
munity Of from eighty to one hundred
million persons
More and more as these improvements
develop. Manhattan itself is becoming
great business core Pushing into The
Bronx, across the bridges of the East
River, even reaching timidly now across
the ferries to the edge of the Jersey shore,
the whole business district is expanding.
With the transportation expansions al
ready planned and under way Manhattan
eventually, no doubt, will become the one
great market place-the largest business
beehive the world has ever dreamed of, and
the far counties will be the residence
neighborhoods.
barrier. Manhattan will be as much
part, even though separated from it, Of
tho surrounding territory as If there were
no streams of water to vary the perspec-
tive.
1t is far cry back to the time of Mr..
Jan Jerrits and Mrs. Jerrits, and the far
away farm at Harlem River. where there
would be no immediate neighbors to OBJ
struct the vision of the enterprising Jer
rits pere." The great knitting into one
community of great stretches Of country
far beyond any possibilities Of single city
even the last generation could have i'm
agined, has been accomplished without
the influence of the greatest of all trans
portation agencies-the aeroplane. 1t is
almost impossible to vision the result Of
the next generations development of this
mode of quick passage back and forth
from office to home Connecticut, Penn
sylvania-who knows-may come within
the fold and write Manhattan across their
minds If not their maps.
1t will not be many years, 1t is freely
predicted, before street cars will be absent
from virtually the whole Of Manhattan's
streets There are many matters Of fran
chises and bondholders and stockholders,
of course, to be disposed of before the con-
dition arrives, but that 1t eventually will
come seems assured
New traffic lanes for automobiles and
possibly the "automobile-aero" lanes will
then have unobstructed reaches. With
transportation facilities underground or
overhead surface transit will have become
so much more convenient and speedy that
many sections Of the greater city now neg
lected will be beautifed.
Even before that time comes perhaps
Manhattan itself will be vast area Of
skyscrapers Buildings will have to rise
high indeed to take care of the markets
for so many millions of persons as will
then inhabit the metropolitan district.
The holdings of many Of the old estates
are now being released gradually-even the
Astors are beginning to let CO." All these
properties are being improved for bigger
business, and with these improvements
whole districts are changing appearance.