[Trade Journal]
Publication: The Industrial Directory of New Jersey
Trenton, NJ, United States
p. 1, 440, col. 1
Industrial Directory of New Jersey
1918
DESCRIPTIVE NOTES RELATING TO NEW JERSEY MUNICIPALITIES HAVING A
POPULATION OF ONE HUNDRED OR MORE, SHOWING FOR EACH THE
POPULATION, BANKING FACILITIES, RAILROAD AND EXPRESS SERVICE,
SCHOOLS, CHURCHES, ETC., WITH OTHER INFORMATION SUCH AS
MIGHT BE DESIRED BY HOME SEEKERS OR BY MANUFACTURERS
SEEKING THE MOST DESIRABLE LOCATIONS FOR THE
ESTABLISHMENT OF MANUFACTURING PLANTS.
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Old Bridge (H 5), Middlesex County.
(East Brunswick Township)
On the Pennsylvania Railroad, station in the center of the town. Population, 1,500. Banking town, South River, distant three miles. Money order post office, telegraph and telephone. Express service, Adams Company.
Old Bridge is situated on South River, a stream that runs into New York Bay, and is navigable by medium sized vessels. A volunteer department provides fire protection of a satisfactory kind. There are public and private schools in the town, and three churches, Baptist, Dutch Reformed and Methodist. The townspeople are earnestly desirous of extending the manufacturing interests of the place, and practically any kind of an industry would be welcomed. About 50 men are reported as available for employment. A much larger labor supply can, if required, be readily procured from other nearby towns, to and from which there are trolley facilities for travel. Land for factory purposes will be given free of cost to a desirable industry. A water power of considerable capacity is situated about one mile from the town.
The soil of the surrounding country is good, and garden vegetables of all kinds are raised in large quantities on the surrounding farms. There is one farm of 225 acres for sale, particulars regarding which may be obtained by addressing Howard H. Brown, Old Bridge, N. J.
The foreign immigrant element in the population consists of 20 Italians, 15 Hungarians, 75 Polacks and 25 Russians.
The industries here now are:
Blend Chem. Co., dyes; employ 5 persons.
Bloomfield Mills Co., licorice extract, etc.; employ 18 persons.
Brookfield Glass Co., glass and porcelain; employ 200 persons.
California Loading Co., detonating fuses, boosters and hand grenades; employ 700 persons.
Evans Engineering Corp., The, ammunition loading; employ 500persons.
Old Bridge Enameled Brick and Tile Co., tile and brick; employ 250 persons.
Oliver Loading Co., loading shells, employ 350 persons.
Runyon Corp., loading shells; employ 400 persons.
For further particulars address Howard H. Brown, Albert Appleby of Old Bridge and Joseph Allgair of Sayreville, N. J.
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