Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1923-12-26
BOOM IS AHEAD
FOR THIS CITY
Hotels are Already Filled to
Overlooking and Expan-
sion is Likely
MANY IMPROVEMENTS
Local Men Will be Employed
on Projects in This
Vicinity

Perth Amboy during the next
three or four years and possibly
longer, will experience the greatest
prosperity in its history. This is in
dicated by the many improvements
which are to take place here and in
this immediate vicinity. Already
many of the hotels are filled to over
flowing and it is expected those
which still have accommodations
will soon be filled. There is also
possibility that the eating places will
have to increase their capacity in
order TO accommodate the increased
population which is bound to come
here when work on these various
Improvements begins. AS far as pos
sible local men will be employed on
the work it is said, but there are
not enough of these to meet the
demand and thus others will have to
be brought here.
Some idea OF the vast amount of
work to be done may be obtained
from the following list, for wo < on
which the contracts have already
been placed: Trunk line sewer. now
under way, contractor, Hammer d
Company of Detroit; State bridge
across Raritan river from this city to
South Amboy, contractor, Stillman,
Delehanty 81 Ferris of Jersey City.
The contract for the railroad grade
crossing elimination will be let soon
after the first of the year and 1t Is
expected that work on this Improve
ment will be started by April /.
Other improvements planned by
the state and this city which VIII
mean the employing of many addl-
tional men include: Extension ol
Cleveland avenue to Woodbridge as
a part of the state highway. The
state engineers are already at work
planning for this thoroughfare and
it Is probable that the contract for
the work may be let in the early
spring. Then the new state highway
bridge over the New York and Long
Branch Railroad at Morgan to elm
mate the grade crossing at that place
will soon follow. 1t is likely that In
the immediate future the city will
arrange for the bulkheading of the
water front along the Raritan River
and the laying of n trunk sewer
along the southern section of the city
to eliminate the present street end
sewers which have long been the
source of complaint and the erection
of a filtration plant TO eliminate tho
acids in the local water supply.
CITY Engineer Louis p. Booz, Jr.,
estimated roughly today that the
number of men to be employed on
the various Improvements now under
way will be as follows:
Sewer. sixty to seventy men, the
whole force to be employed within
a period OF two weeks, weather per-
hitting. 1t will take about seven
months to complete this contract.
Railroad grade crossing, in the
neighborhood of 800 men. This work
even with the modern machinery for
digging, etc, will take all of two
years time.
State bridge, on which work has
already been started, will employ 400
men, many of them experts In Their
line and will take period of thirty
months to complete. Experts from
the State Highway Commission and
the contractors are already on the
ground doing the advance work nee
essary before the actual construction
! work on the bridge can be started
When these additional men begir
to arrive 1t Is believed the hotel ac-
commodations will be unable tC
meet the demand and already those
interested with the work are con-
sldering the housing OF the men
There is a possibility tha4 some oi
the employees who may be held foi
two or three years may bring theli
families with them. 1t Is probable
/ the railroad companies will house
many of their employees in cars as
this is done many times when large
! big improvements like the one tc
take place here is under way.
Not only will eating houses and
hotels benefit by the large number
of men to be employed on these con-
tracts, but every other business in
the city also. These men must have
clothing. shoes, hats, drugs and en-
tertainment and from present indl-
cations the merchants in this city
will find the big end of the horn OF
plenty pointing toward their doors.
place your order today for a Chevrolet
on OUR NEW WAY TO PAY PLAN. JEFF
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