. The problem of greater New York and its solution. ries. The manu-facture of automobiles, for example, has been the chief factorin increasing Detroits population from 300,000 to 600,000 withina few years, and has brought to that city and to others abundantprosperity while imperial Xew York City possesses but aminute fraction of the industry. It is interesting to cross the Hudson and find suburbanXew Jersey studded with great factories of a type hardly to befound in Greater X^ew York. Clustering thickly along therailroads and waterways leading to this City, they are locatedto command the Citys
. The problem of greater New York and its solution. ries. The manu-facture of automobiles, for example, has been the chief factorin increasing Detroits population from 300,000 to 600,000 withina few years, and has brought to that city and to others abundantprosperity while imperial Xew York City possesses but aminute fraction of the industry. It is interesting to cross the Hudson and find suburbanXew Jersey studded with great factories of a type hardly to befound in Greater X^ew York. Clustering thickly along therailroads and waterways leading to this City, they are locatedto command the Citys market while paying taxes and bringingl)rosperity to the people of another state. These factories are monuments to Xew Yorks lost oppor-tunities. They tell of concerns forced out of Xew York or ofthose that would have come here had conditions represent hundreds of millions of capital and scores of * From Industrial Causes of Congestion of Population in New York City, by Edward EwingPratt, Ph. D. 20 INDUSTRIAL GAINS AND L f) S S E S. Courtesy B. T. Babbitt LEAVIN(; NEW YORK IN ORDER TO EXPANDSmall picture shows the old plant of H. T. Babbitt, occupying less than one cityblock; large picture shows the present New Jersey plant, covering twenty acres, >nthan adflitional sixty-one acres for expansion. thousands of hands. They aiv a direct k)ss to the revenues ofthe entire City. Newark is j)roseeuting a great harbor and iiuhistrialproject for the })urpose of providing factory sites adjoiningdeep water. It is also anticipated that the recently createdNew Jersey Har})or Commission will devote much of its energyto similar projects on the Jersey meadows, to the increasingindustrial loss of New York. If New Yorks authorities l)iitrealized how attractive to the ears of her manufacturers isNew Jerseys siren song: Chejxp lands, room for expansion,light and air, water and railroads, low taxes—these authori-ties would take account of their own citys industrial resources,it
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