New Jersey as a colony and as a state, one of the original thirteen . uences, encouraging her industries, ex-tending her public beneficences, educating her peo-ple, and strengthening her administrative func-tions, New Jersey may well take her place amongthose States whose life is optimistic, whose deedsare creditable, whose influence makes for the goodof the nation. But the nineteenth century brought manychanges to the State, converting a population dis-tinctively affected by rural influences into onewhose life was largely urban. In other words, in1800, scarcely two per cent, of the people of
New Jersey as a colony and as a state, one of the original thirteen . uences, encouraging her industries, ex-tending her public beneficences, educating her peo-ple, and strengthening her administrative func-tions, New Jersey may well take her place amongthose States whose life is optimistic, whose deedsare creditable, whose influence makes for the goodof the nation. But the nineteenth century brought manychanges to the State, converting a population dis-tinctively affected by rural influences into onewhose life was largely urban. In other words, in1800, scarcely two per cent, of the people of NewJersey lived under city influence; in 1900 eightyper cent, of the population of the State resided ingreat municipalities or were in daily communica-tion with Philadelphia or New York. And the twogreat factors that have brought about this changewere the development of manufactures and thegrowth of systems of transportation. Of the great industries of New Jersey—silk,brick and terra cotta, window and bottle glass,mens felt and wool hats, celluloid, jewelry, pot-. 346 NEW JERSEY AS A COL tery, rubber, leather, shoes, woolen and worstedgoods, chemical products and refined oils and theirby-products, iron and steel in every form—the^plants devoted to these manufactures may begeographically designated. The one hundred and fifty silk mills of NewJersey are to be found in Paterson—the Lyonsof America, —West Hoboken, and Jersey City. Inthis industry $22,500,000 is invested, twenty-eightthousand operatives are employed, and ten milliondollars is annually paid in wages. In Patersonthere are twelve large machine shops producingsilk and other special machinery. Brick and terra cotta works are located in thevicinity of Perth Amboy, although there are smallplants throughout the central part of the State,notably between Trenton and Camden. This in-dustry embraces about seventy plants, in whichsix thousand five hundred men are employed, andwages amounting to two million dollars are pa
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