Public works . ad lots. A highway nowhere less thanone hundred feet in width, skirting the edge of the industrialdistrict throughout the length of the city has also beenplanned. Laid out for the purpose of facilitating the move-ment of factory traffic, this street will be improved in such amanner that its pavement will stand up under heavy loadsand endure hard wear. The protection of the district againstfire is also being looked into by the cit>. So long as factorieswere allowed to locate an>-where in the city it was difficultto serve them with sufficiently large water mains. But now,as
Public works . ad lots. A highway nowhere less thanone hundred feet in width, skirting the edge of the industrialdistrict throughout the length of the city has also beenplanned. Laid out for the purpose of facilitating the move-ment of factory traffic, this street will be improved in such amanner that its pavement will stand up under heavy loadsand endure hard wear. The protection of the district againstfire is also being looked into by the cit>. So long as factorieswere allowed to locate an>-where in the city it was difficultto serve them with sufficiently large water mains. But now,as factories may in the future be located only in one district,the city can readily afford to give them all the fire protectionthey need. That the relative competitive strength of a city in thedomestic and foreign markets of the world is frequently con-ditioned to quite as great an extent by the arrangements of RESIDENCE raSTRlCTS BUSINESS raSTRICTS INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTS ^feiS^f HB^AVY INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTS ^SfcjSi:. USE DISTRICT MAP OF A SKCTION OF NEWARK. the industries within the city as by the availabilit>- of raw ma-terials and the proximity of a consuming public is just be-ginning to dawn upon us. Economical means of transferringand distributing freight within the city contribute proportion-ately no less to the development and expansion of its com-mercial and industrial hinterland than efficient outside con-nections by rail and water. Hea^-\• terminal costs are as mucha drag upon a citys prosperity as high freight charges. Everycent saved in needless trucking means just that much moremoney-available for the extension of the citys commercialand industrial radius by rail and water. When factories and warehouses are not located withreference to freight terminals, a situation frequently developswhere the downtown streets are unnecessarily congested tothe inconvenience and financial loss of the whole city. Asimilar condition results where mutually interdependent in-dustries lo
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