The Coolidge examiner., 1934-06-29

sten flament Is one OF the finest
drawn commercial wires, pulled
through n diamond die TO q thick
ness OF 0.0004 OF an inch. Com
pared to a lamp filament, human
hair resembles a piece OF heavy
rope. II Is all part OF the days
work In this Bloomfield factory TO
deal with argon. helIum. and neon,
an atmospheric pressure OF 0.O0001
per cent, and pressures up to %.
tons per square inch With par
donable pride this plant adopts the
slogan used by the United States
Engineers In France, 1T can't be
done-but here II lsv'
In an unpretentious red-brick
building that faces on one OF the
principal streets OF West Orange,
an empty chair sits before an
oldfashIoned rolltop desk. Here
Thomas A. Edison spent the last
years OF his life. His library and
study have been maintained just as
he left them.
Traffic Of Jersey City.
Jersey City, largest OF the Hudson
river cities opposite New York. has
Industries ranging from soap TO
printing and type-making. Oddly
enough, IL is one of Jerseys "least-
known" cities to outsiders. Rail-
roads skirt It's business district or
pass through It underground, while
the main motor highway to the Hol-
land tunnels runs In a subsurface
roadway through the residential dis
tricts.
Many doughboys recall Jersey
Clty's water front, a major embark
ing and dlsembarklng points during
the World war. where do we go
from here. boys, where do we 90
from here? Anywhere from Harlem
TO a Jersey City pier" ran the words
Of popular war song.
Today Jersey City handles most
Of the frelght-car traffic that comes
into the port Of New York from the
South and West One OF its print
ing plants turns out tons of tele-
phone directories annually for
New York. Philadelphia. Baltimore,
Washington, and other large east
ern cities. In the same plant litho-
graphing for several widely circu-
lated magazines is also prepared.
From Jersey City northward along
the Hudson TO Weehawken Is one
of the highest concentrations Of
railroad traffic in the world. New
Jersey leads the nation In railroad
trackage per square mile, and the
focus Of its busiest lines is this
short bit OF territory along the Hud-
son opposite Manhattan island.
Freight-car contents are trans
ferred here into the holds OF liners,
and recently a terminal was estab-
lished which places loaded cars
themselves within huge vessels
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More interesting than the man.
ner In which commodities are trans
shipped from rails to boats. how
ever, are the spllt-second schedules
devised for the waves of commuters
that sweep twice daily through the
half-dozen terminals In the New
Jersey side Of the Hudson. 1t is es-
timated that 100000 people pour
into and out of Manhattan on a typ
ical business day, and that more
than Is per cent of them arrive from
New Jersey.
Stand in the Hoboken terminal
tower Of the Lackawanna and watch
the "big rush" of commuters home
ward bound. No major offensive of
the World war was timed to a great
er nicely than this daily event which
has become as much part Of the
commuters life as his meals and
sleep. Crowded ferry boats and
tube trains from Manhattan have
brought armies of men and women
to the train shed, where long ex-
presses are waiting to hurry them
to scores Of suburban stations.
"Zero Hour" comes from 5 :25 to
5:35 p. m, when every commuter
wants an express that will get him
home about six o'clock. Commut-
ing railroads perform the seemingly
impossible by sending several trains
to the same destination at almost
the same time, one making stops
that another skips. Newark. a
metropolis of $4,000, may not be
even a fiag-stop on an express hur-
rying through-passengers on to Mill
burn or Morristown.