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Sicklerville, F8
Sidney, F4
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Whiting, H7
........ @200
Whitney Station. ES ......
Barbertown, E4
.a275
.. a75
Chesilburst, F8
.. 283 Fairmount, F4
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Holmdel, 15
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.. a100 Hopateong, G3
Martins, G2
Passaie Bridge, B4
Silverton, IO
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Martinsville, G4
.. a200
Paterson, 13
105,171
Singac, 13
.a125
Wiekatunk, H5
.. a50
Masonville, F7
a200 Pattenburg, F4
a275
Singae Station, A3
Wilburtha, F5
.. a275
Matawan, 15 .
.1,511 Paulding, D8
Skillman, G5
a50 Wildwood, G10 .....
.150
Maurice River, E10 ... a125 Paulina, F3
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.a100 Paulsboro, D7
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Smithburg, HG
a100
Williamstown, F8 ... a1,600
Blauricetown P9
Smith's Landing, G9 .. ^375
Williamstown Junetion, E7
Mauricetown Sta., E9
Pavonia, E7
Smith'e Mills, H2
.a100
Willowgrove, E8
Windsor, G6
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.. a200
Mayette, H8
.. a125 Peapack, G4
.a250 Smithville, G7
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Winslow, F8
.a275
May'e Landing, F9 .. a1,500 Pedricktown, D7
a550 Soho, B4
.. a400
Maywood, J3
536 Pemberton, G7
.. 771 Somers Point, GO.
Winslow Junction, F8
.1,826 Somerville, G4
.. 4,843 Woodbine, F10
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Meadow, B4
Medford, F7
a1,150
Penn Grove, D8
Pennington, G5
788 South Amboy, 15
.0,340
Woodbridge, 14
.11,575
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Pennsville, D8
.8300 Southard, 16
a100 Woodbury, E7
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Mendham, G3
Menlo Park, H4
.8525 Penton, D8
South Atlantic City, H9.60 Woodcliff. 12
.320
.. a75
South Boundbrook, G4. . 883
.a100
Merchantville, E7
.a250 Pequanack, 13
Woodmansie, H7
... 1,608 Perkin Town, D8
South Branch, G4
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Woodport, GS ..
.a75
Metuchen, H4
1,780 Perrinevillo, HO
a200 South Dennis, F10
. a300 Wood Ridge, C3
.. 582
Mickleton, D7
Middle Dranel, H7
.. a100
Perth Amboy, 15
.. 17,699
South Elizabeth, A5
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Woodruff, EO .
.. a75
South Grange, 14
.. 4,668
Middlebush, G4
.a125
Perth Junetion, 114
Woodstown, D8
... 1,371
Petersburg, F10
.0300
South Plainfield, HI
.. a200 Woodsville, F5
... A100
Middletown, 15
.a275 Phillipsburg, E4
.. 10,052
South River, H5 ...
2,702 Wortendyke, 12
.. a375
Middle Valley, F3
.... a150 Piermont, D2
South Seaville, F10 ... a450
Wrightstown, GO
..... a250
Middleville, F2
.a150 Pine Brook, H3
.. a200 South Vineland, EO ... a500 Wyckoff, 12 .....
.. 2375
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Midland Park, 13 .... 1,348 Pine Brook, 15
Sparta, G2
.. a525
Wykertown, G2
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... 100
Midvale, I2
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.. a250 Sparta Junction, G2
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Millbrook, F2
.a175 Pitt's Grove, E8 ...... a125 Spotawood, H5
.. 500
Yardville, G6
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Yorktown, D8
.. a500
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THE Industrial Directory of New Jersey
CITIES AND TOWNS HAVING ONE HUNDRED POPULATION OR MORE; BANKING, RAILROAD, POSTAL AND EXPRESS FACILITIES; ALSO, ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED LIST OF MANUFACTURED ARTICLES, WITH NAMES OF FIRMS AND LOCA- TION OF FACTORIES PRO- DUCING THEM
COMPILED AND PREPARED BY
WILLIAM STAINSBY
Chief of the BUREAU OF STATISTICS OF NEW JERSEY.
TRENTON, N. J.
1901
Special Publication
Bureau of Statistics of New Jersey
BUREAU STAFF:
WILLIAM STAINSBY, Chief
JAMES T. MORGAN, Deputy
LOUIS F. A. HEROLD, Chief Clerk
MacCrellish & Quigley, Printers, Trenton, N. J, Exchange Rand McNally & Co
338 N461 1901
INTRODUCTION.
The resources of a State, its capabilities for business, its advantages for profitable investment of capital, its opportunities for remunerative labor, and the inducement it offers generally for those who are seeking investment, employment or residence cannot be too fully set forth or too widely advertised.
All the States in the Union are now engaged in fraternal rivalry to secure for themselves wealth and population, which are the basis of State prosperity. Some of the States make ample appropriations to pay for reports and statis- tics setting forth their advantage for the information of their own people and of the outside world. These States show a marked progress; others that are slow to adopt methods in common vogue among all enterprising business men and progressive commonwealths are found in the rear in the march of progress.
Situated between two great cities-New York and Philadelphia-and the two great commercial waterways-the Hudson and the Delaware-with the terminus of the immense trans-continental railroad system on our eastern frontier, gridironed by the tracks of six trunk lines and their numerous branches, with ocean liners plying between our shores and European sea- ports, New Jersey is geographically and commercially the best situated State of the Union.
Its development under the stimulus of railroad enterprise has been very great, but its full capabilities are as yet far from being utilized. This fact is due in large part to lack of definite and detailed information about the State's resources and opportunities. Although in the last census decade the industries of the State increased to an amazing extent in number of establish- ments, hands employed, capital invested and value of products, a far greater growth would have been witnessed if carefully compiled data had been con- veniently accessible to capitalists and investors in industrial enterprises.
Of great importance in connection with this subject is the incorporation by this State within the last three years of a vast number of manufacturing companies of all kinds, some of them of colossal proportions. The majority of these maintain plants and do business in other States, and few of their managers have been brought to consider the advantage of locating in the State from which their legal existence is derived. Obviously, a publication giving all the facts in regard to localities for manufactory sites, if placed
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in their hands, would lead to inquiry and doubtless, in many cases, to a. removal of plants to New Jersey.
The work that has been undertaken in these pages is to set forth this. information in detail in connection with an industrial directory of the State, taking in all establishments, great and little, that employ labor and contribute to the State's prosperity. The idea of the work was suggested to the Bureau by the fact that, as officially made known to it, a considerable number of manufacturers had been induced to remove their plants to other States to. secure advantages that they could have readily obtained in New Jersey munic- ipalities. The removals were made in ignorance of that fact, because there was no official data to give the information. Thus the State at large, but particularly the numerous small towns who would eagerly welcome a manu- facturing industry as a means of employing its surplus labor at home, has experienced serious losses through this manifest neglect.
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If for this reason New Jersey has lost industrial plants that formerly sup- ported hundreds of working people and their families, what has she not also lost in the respect of manufacturers who have left here to locate in other States simply because they were unaware of superior advantages to be had for the asking in New Jersey?
In seeking a site for a plant, the manufacturer desires information on these points : land value, facilities of transportation, water, tax rate, banking and other conveniences, and population.
To get this information himself, so as to procure the best advantages, would require a long, tedious and expensive investigation. It is for the State to provide it in a complete and compact publication that can be studied like a map by the manufacturer in his office without effort or expense. That is what the present publication is intended to do. It is also intended to be a complete directory for business men of all the industries of the State, prop- erly classified and accurately located, to serve as a reference. Many inquiries have come to the Bureau about the location of specified lines of manufactur- ing in New Jersey and also asking for complete lists of goods made in certain manufactures. The Directory forestalls all such communications for the future. They will not be necessary. It will also serve the important purpose of advertising the goods made in the State and extending the demand for them.
The data secured was obtained at first hand from standard sources or by direct canvass by representatives of the Bureau, and it is given without embellishment. Boards of Trade, Postmasters, County Tax Collectors and other local officials, together with manufacturers and public-spirited citizens, have cheerfully given information and lent material assistance in the com- pilation of this book.
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In the matter of duty, the task completed belongs peculiarly to the province of this department. The object of the establishment of the Bureau of Statistics of Labor and Industries, as expressed in the legislative act, is to, "in all suitable and lawful ways, foster and enlarge our manufacturing and every other class of productive industry."
The department has gotten along with limited means and an inadequate offi- cial staff, and the results achieved are out of all proportion to the cost of main- tenance. It may be found, at all events it is earnestly hoped, that the results of this special work will more than compensate the State for the entire cost of the Bureau for the quarter of a century of its existence.
All the material interests of a State are co-related and labor is the basis of all. The nation is prosperous when labor has ample and remunerative employment, and business stagnation with general distress attend the idle- ness of labor. Public improvement is halted, the growth of communities is checked, enterprise languishes and all interests suffer. In fostering the growth of manufacture in an industrial State like ours, we provide against the recurring evils of labor idleness. Every new manufacturing plant established on New Jersey soil is a means to that end. If we double the number of factories, we double the opportunities of labor for employment, and, while increasing population and adding to the public revenue from taxation, we give to busi- ness and the general community the best possible guarantee against losses such as are incurred in long periods of industrial depression.
The greater the number of factories and the more diversified their products the better is the condition of labor. That fact is strikingly shown in Newark and the other large cities of the State having a diversity of manufactures, where there was steady employment for thousands and comparatively little distress during the panic of 1893.
To the Hon. Foster M. Voorhees, Governor of the State, who, from the time of assuming the duties of his exalted office, has shown a high and intelli- gent appreciation of the paramount importance to the commonwealth of its manufacturing industry, the credit of this work is primarily due: first, for the clear insight which at once discerned its value to the State and prompted his giving it official sanction, and again for unremitting interest, helpful sug- gestions and general encouragement from the beginning to the conclusion of the task.
The State of New Jersey, which he has so ably and conscientiously served as legislator and Governor, will, it is earnestly hoped, find this not the least important of the many services for which, in both capacities, it is indebted to him.
WM. STAINSBY,
Chief.
PREFACE.
This work is the result of an effort to meet a want, the existence of which was revealed through the necessarily close relations existing between this department and the owners of manufacturing establishments, great and small, situated in various parts of the State.
From outside the State many inquiries had come to the office from parties who desired advice as to where factory sites might be obtained in New Jersey, with particulars as to transportation facilities, labor supply and other details, information which could be furnished only by referring those seeking it to such places as were known to have Boards of Trade. The compara- tively prosperous and well-known towns have thus grown, while many other places in which equal, or even superior, advantages might be obtained were passed unnoticed because nothing regarding them was known.
In the large cities instances are constantly occurring of business demands outgrowing factory accommodations, which could not be adequately increased without a great outlay of money for land on which to build. In such cases manufacturers seek new locations where plants of greater capacity may be established at the least possible cost, and finally settle where the induce- ments offered are most to their advantage.
The larger and more enterprising communities in our State are alive to the importance of securing such factories, and through the assistance of Boards of Trade, who make known their advantages, are generally successful in doing so. It happens too often, however, that many important labor- employing industries are induced to leave our State entirely, going elsewhere because the inducements offered were superior to any tendered to them at home.
. The State thus sustains a distinct loss in the removal of industries which might have been retained had wider information regarding our own resources been available before final selection was made.
It was, therefore, as a patriotic duty that the Bureau of Statistics took. up the task of helping the comparatively obscure communities to a share of the State's great industrial growth by making known the advantages and inducements that industries in search of a location may find among them. Although the compilation involved a vast amount of labor in addition to the regular duties of the Bureau, it has been cheerfully done in confident
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expectation that the work would redound to the credit and material welfare of our entire State. The kind of information furnished for localities by their Boards of Trade is now for the first time given for every city, town and village in New Jersey the population of which is one hundred or more.
The names of the towns are given in alphabetical order, with the rail- road connections, population, banking facilities, express and postal service and tax rate for 1901. Where special inducements are offered to manufacturers full particulars relating to such concessions are set forth in an appended note, to which is added a complete list of manufacturing establishments in towns where there are any, with the names of the firms owning and the number of persons employed in them.
An examination of the work will show hundreds of towns in this State having railroad facilities which insures easy communication with all the great commercial and industrial centers of the country; some of them situated on navigable rivers, with the advantage of choice of water or rail routes for shipping freights, and many others on 'streams of smaller size, from which water-power in volume sufficient to supply the largest mills or factories may be developed. In a large number of these places land for factory sites will be given free of cost, and in all others it can be purchased at a price which is merely nominal when compared with land values in the larger towns and cities. Among the inhabitants of all the towns that appear in this compila- tion there has been found an eager desire to secure labor-employing industries which would serve to bring revenue among them, stimulate improvement and furnish work for their young people, who are now forced to choose between idling away the most productive years of life or severing domestic ties by going far from home in search of employment.
If this work shall prove helpful in bringing about a realization of these aspirations for growth, if through it the advantages of New Jersey as a home for industry become better known, and thereby the vitalizing influence of "work for willing hands" is more widely diffused throughout our State, the labor expended upon its preparation will have been amply repaid.
The office is indebted for valuable assistance in the work of obtaining data to the postmasters of the various postal districts, the county clerks and county tax collectors, officers of Boards of Trade, and many other public- spirited citizens in all parts of the State.
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