Show jersek I 1 X A 7 N making shaving cream tubes in a bloomfield factory prepared by national geographic society D C service ANY cities of northern new m MANY jersey owe their growth largely to the fact act that they block the southern and western gates of new york city and receive its overflow newark Is the most important air door to the metropolis opened to air traffic in september 1931 the newark airport has hag grown rapidly when airplane traffic was at a peak in 1932 1032 several transport companies and local airlines scheduled 89 planes daily in and out of newark and in addition a constant stream of unscheduled private planes used this municipal field newark today Is in a state of 0 flux tut the changes that are taking place point to a nast ast metropolitan center newark since the world war has changed amazingly new high buildings have cut through its ski line in them one finds the clerical forces of many firms whose office address Is new york and again newark has become a seaport whalers chalers once sailed up to the city docks on passaic river but when ships of deeper draft began to carry world trade newark had to be content with lighters and small coastwise vessels now port newark a municipal development on the upper part of 0 newark bay has again brought ocean going vessels to the gates of the city only newark itself can list all the th thousands of different products which pour out 0 of f its factories the most important in order of production value are electrical machinery and supplies paints and varnishes leather meats foundry and machine shop products chemicals and jewelry here are some odd trades as well us as highly specialized industries electrical instruments are made with counterbalancing pointers that are miracles of craftsmanship one of these has an arm of aluminum tubing with walls one ten thousandth of an inch thick and balance threads for tiny brass nuts are cut to the inch this work must be done under a magnifying glass in Nc newark ark too many of the worlds largest air condl dioning plants are designed and constructed ted New arks library and trolley newark library today Is the largest in the state and one of the nations finest libraries throughout the united states and in many foreign countries have adopted methods originating in this newark institution only london has a larger co erdl bated bus and trolley system than one newark company which serves new jersey municipalities reaching nil all but one county in the state in 1931 it transported a total of nearly pm passengers engers the equivalent of more than three times the population of the united states strangers are confused cont used by the itlie interlocking huddle of municipalities around newark essex esses county Is really one city with nearly a million people once isolated villages have expanded so rapidly that outsiders cannot tell where one ends and another begins bloomfield offers an example of an intensely diversified community in a state noted for variety with a population of only many of them commuters it embraces some forty industries large and small which run the gamut from safety pins and horse radish to books electric lights and woolens in a bloomfield lamp works were made the bulbs that shine from the statue of liberty and those that illuminate the washington monuments monument holland tunnels natural bridge virginia and tte the bermuda caves here Is made evely type of lamp from the grain of wi wheat eat used by dentists and physic physicians latis to the giant bulb for movie and outdoor illumination although wp may not realize it when we pay a coin for an electric light bulb wd are purchasing a commodity that wl requires more delicate than anything else sold in bulk the tungsten filament Is one of the fine finest strawn drawn commercial wires pulled a diamond die to a thickness of ot of an inch compared to a lamp amp fliam filament ent a human hair resembles a piece ot of heavy rope it Is all part of 0 the days work in this bloomfield factory to deal with argon argo n helium and neon an atmospheric pressure of per cent and pressures up to 25 tons per square inch with pardonable pride this plant adopts the slogan used by the united states engineers in france it cant be done but here it in an unpretentious red brick building that faces on one of 0 the principal streets of west orange an empty chair sits before an old fashioned roll top desk here thomas A edison spent the last years of his life ills 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 it Is one of jerseys least known cities to outsiders railroads skirt its business district or pass through it underground while the main motor highway to the nolland holland tunnels runa ru as in a subsurface roadway through the residential districts many doughboys dough boys recall jersey cites water front a major embarking find and dis embarking point during the I 1 world horld war where do we go from here boys where do we go from herel here anywhere from harlem to a jersey city pier ran the words of a popular war song today jersey city handles most of the freight car traffic that comes into the port of new york from the south and west one of its printing plants turns out tons of telephone directories annually for new york philadelphia baltimore washington and other large eastern cities in the same plant lithographing litho graphing for several widely circulated magazines Is also prepared A museum attached to a jersey city type manufacturing concern contains a copy of the rare canon missal dating from 1458 one of the first books printed entirely on a press and many tiny thumbnail thumb nail boo books ks exquisite examples of craftsmanship modern type faces are measured tor for accuracy to one ten thousandth of an inch the thickness of a cigarette paper from jersey city northward along the hudson to weehawken Wee hawken Is one of the highest concentrations of railroad traffic in the world new jersey leads the nation in railroad per square mile and the focus of its busiest lines Is this short bit of territory along the hudson opposite manhattan island freight car contents are transferred here into the holds of liners and recently a terminal was established which places loaded cars themselves within huge hug ge vessels called sea trains more afore interesting than the manner in which commodities are transship ed from rails to boats however are the split second schedules devised for the waves of commuters that sweep twice dally through the half balf dozen terminals in the new jersey side of the H ud son it Is estimated that people pour into and out of manhattan on a typical business lay day and that more than 15 per cent of them arrive from new jersey timing the commuters stand in the hoboken tei terminal minal tower of the lackawanna and watch the big push of commuters homeward bound no major offensive of the world war was timed to a k greater nicety than this dally event which has become as much a part of the commuters life as his meals and sleep crowded ferry boats and tube trains from manhattan have brought artles armies of men and women to the train shed where long espres expresses aes are waiting to hurry them to scores of suburban stations zero lour hour comes from to p m when every commuter wants an express that will get him home about six commuting railroads perform the seemingly to impossible by sending several trains to 0 the same destination at almost tle same time one making stops that ain other skips newark a metropolis of 1 may not be even a lag flag sop on an express hurrying through hlas hl ins on to millburn ll or |