Show bu S NeW jerse 4 A Z I 1 4 0 A va I 1 4 4 lu i I 1 ai I 1 II 11 maklon shaving croaro tubes in a factory rac tory P r enrol by national balty Bl ty W aldington r D 0 swit 9 ANY cities of 0 northern M MANY new jerse jersey y ow owe e their growth largely to the fact that they block the southern and western gates ot of new york city and receive its ita overflow newark Is the most important air doo to 0 o the metropolis matro polls opened to air tri tn fil afi iu in september 1031 the newark airport has grown rapidly when airplane traffic was at a pep pert in 1032 several transport companies and local airlines scheduled fco plants dally la in and out of ne newark ark and in aldI audition tIon a e constant stream of unscheduled private planes pianos used this municipal field newark new ark today Is in a state ot of flux but the changes that are taking place point to a ost dinst metropolitan center newark Ne Nark since tile tho world war aar has hanged changed amazingly new high build buildings lags hove cut through its skyline in them thein one finds the cherl cal forces of many firms erms whose office address la Is new york and again newark has become a seaport balers once sailed up to the elty city docks on passaic river but ft hen ships of deeper draft began to carry J world adrid trade newark had to be content with arid and small coastwise vessels no nov v port newark a municipal development on tile upper pirt of Ne newark ark bay has again brought ocean going nes es bets to the gates of the city only newark itself can list all the thousands of different products pro duits which pour out of its factories the most important in order of prodie tion alue are electrical machin ery cry and supplies paints and var sar dishes leather leata r ments foundry and machine machin shop eshop products product chemicals and jei jewelry elry here are some odil odd trades as well ell ns as highly specialized industries electrical instruments are made w with ith counterbalancing pointers that are miracles of craftsmanship one of these has an arm of aluminum tubing alth ft ath walls 0 one ne ten thou sanath 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 new ne ark too many of the worlds world a largest air conditioning plants planta are designed and constructed New arks kt library and trolley newark library today is the larg est in the state and one of the na alons s friest libraries throughout the united states and in many for elga countries hae adopted methods originating lu in this newark in only london has a larger co bus bua and trolley system than one newark compary com chilli sen seres 03 21 new N e IV javy I 1 I 1 aes ues reaching caching all but one county in the state in 1031 1931 it transported a total of nearly OW passengers the equivalent of more than three times the population of the united states strangers are confused by the in huddle of municipalities around newark B essex esex county Is really one city with nearly dearly a million people once isolated villages have expanded so rapidly that out siders cannot tell where one on ends and another begins offers an example of sri an intensely diversified community lo in a state noted for variety var lety with a population of only many of them commuters it embraces some forty industries large and small which run the gamut from I 1 safety pins ping and horst horse radish to books clec electric lights and woolens wo olena i in a bloomfield lamp works were made the bulbs bulba that shine from the i status statue of liberty and those that 11 laminate the bonu went ment holland tunnels natural bridge ala and the bermuda caves here is made every type of alamp lamp from the grain of wheat asod b by dentists and physicians to I 1 the giant bulb for movie and out i door illumination i although we may not realize it when hen we pay a iw batall coin for an electric light bulb we vire are r purchasing a commodity that requires more delicate craftsmanship than buy any thing else sold in bulk the tung illum filament ent Is 13 one of the fenest drawn commercial wires pulled through it a diani diamond ond lie die t 0 a thick ness of of an inch com coin pared to a lamp filament a human heir resembles a piece of hemy heavy rope it Is nil all part of tle the day days a work la in this bloomfield dattory to deal with argon helium and neon nn an pressure of per cent atil pressures up tip to 5 3 tons per squire hinchl 11 vuth ith par bilde this plant adopts the eligan el igan used by the united states Bigi n in france it cant can t be done but here it la Is P I 1 in an unpretentious red brick bull building dIng that faces on one of the principal streets of anest est oran conme e 11 nn n empty chair sits before an old fashioned dk here ts is A edison spent the last years of chiq hl life ills fits library and study have been maintained just as lie he aft them traffic of jersey city geisey city largest of the hudson river cities opposite new ew york has industries ranging from soap to printing and type making odal enough it la Is one of jersey jersek a least known cities to outsiders hall roads skill its business district or rass ass through it underground while mille the main motor highway to the llie aloi land and tunnels runs in a subsurface roadway through the residential dis tricks many dough doughboys boys recall hersty city s water front u h malor ambirk ing and lux points during the world war alicie do we ae go feo from here bo boas s w here do we go front from here anywhere from clarl harlem benl enl to a jersey city pier tan lan the NA words of a popular war var song today jersey CRY city handles mst most of the freight car traffic that cornea comes into the port of new tor from the south and anest eat one ona of its ita print ing plants turns out tous tons of telephone directories annually for new york ula washington and other larbe enit east ern era cities ill fu tile the sadie plant litho graphing tor for se seeni eria 1 widely cincu magazines Is also prepared from jersey city northward along the hudson to weehawken Wee hawken an 1 Is 13 3 one olle of the highest concentrations of railroad traffic in the world new jersey leads ends the nation in railroad per square mile and tile focus of its busiest lines Is till this short bit of territory along the hud son opposite manhattan island freight car contents are trans berred here into the hold of liners lifler and recently a terminal ual was lifts stab which places loaded cars therus themselves elves within huge esses called moro interesting tonii the man ner in which commodities are trans trani shipped from rails to boats how hon eser eer are the split second schedules devised for the N waves anes of commuters that sweep twice dally through the halt half dozen terminals to la the new ew jersey side of the ili hi adson it I 1 Is I 1 estimated that people pour into and out of manhattan Man hattin on a tip val iral business busl nesa day find and that more mor thau than 15 per cent of them arrhe front from new jersey stand in the Ilo llo boken boLen terminal to tower er of the lackawanna and watch the tha big rush of commuters homeward bound no ho major olTen offe she wilie of the world war aar r as timed to a great er nicety than this daiil dall e bent ent Ns which has become its as much a part of the commuter com nuter s life as his meals and sleep Crovi crowded ded ferry boats t and tub trains from manhattan laro have 1 brought armies of men and r vomer 0 mel to the train shed where long ex presses are waiting to hurry th them em to sores of suburban stall stations ong zero hour comes from 6 25 to 5 35 p m when emery co commuter namu t er wants tin an express that will ill get him home about six 0 clock commit ing railroads perform the tha seemingly impossible by sending se several ern I 1 trains to the destination at almot almost the th sime time one biking s stops that another skins newark einar ing k bopst a metropolis of rilay may not be even a flag stop on on an espre express s hur through passengers on r to mill burl or lorriston lorri stor a |