NEW JERSEY 



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NEW JERSEY 



New Jersey has not yet adopted the plan of 

 state supervision of charities. Institutions of 

 charity and correction are controlled by sepa- 

 rate boards appointed by the governor. The 

 institutions for the dependent, defective and 

 delinquent include hospitals for the insane at 

 ris Plains and Trenton; a home for the 

 feeble-minded at Vineland; a home for epilep- 

 :it Skillman; a tuberculosis sanitarium at 

 Glen Gardner; soldiers' homes at Kearny and 

 Yineland. Correctional and penal institutions 

 are a home for boys at Jamesburg; a reforma- 

 tory at Rahway; a^home for girls at Ewinp; 

 the state prison at Trenton. Prison contract 

 labor is prohibited. Parental schools and ju\ v- 

 nile courts are established in several count it - 

 The state allows $200 a year to any blind per- 

 son studying in an institution of higher educa- 

 tion in New Jersey. 



The Land. The northwest section of the 

 state is crossed from northeast to southwest by 

 parallel bands of rounded, wooded mountains, 

 tlif loftiest being the Kittatinny Range rising 

 from the banks of the Delaware. The narrow 

 gorge known as the Delaware Water Gap, where 

 tho Delaware flows between forested mountains 

 rising precipitously above the stream, is famous 

 for the beauty of its scenery. The range reaches 

 its highest point near the New York boundary, 

 where High Knob rises 1,799 feet above sea 

 level. 



East of the Kittatinny Mountains the state 

 is crossed by the "Highlands," a beautiful re- 

 gion of lofty, green hills, studded with spar- 

 klmn lakes. These hills merge into the Pied- 

 mont plain, a rolling valley broken by ridges 

 and isolated mountains, and falling gradually 

 :narshy meadows of the Hackensack 

 Valley :in<l the coast. Among the isolated 

 rnlir-s of this plain is the line of forest-crowned 

 cliffs known as the Palisades, rising sheer from 

 waters of the Hudson, and forming a wall 

 200 to 550 feet in height. 



The gently-rolling, coastal plain comprises 



ntire southern portion of the state. It is 

 bordered by salt marshes, or meadows, and 

 hallow lagoons enclosed by long, narrow sand 

 beaches, such as Absecon Beach, upon which is 

 built Atlantic City, the greatest municipal sea- 

 shore resort in the world. Asbury Park, Ocean 

 Grovo, Long Branch and Cape May are other 



>us seaside resorts of the state. The entire 

 coast is ragged and fringed with inlets and bays, 



riant harbors being Newark and 



oastal plain is the 



.es," a sandy, fir-clad area extending from 



the famous health resort known as Lakewood 

 to Cape May. 



Rivers and Lakes. The western slopes of the 

 Kittatinny Range are drained by the Delaware, 

 but the streams of the greater part of the state 

 flow east to the Atlantic. The largest of the 

 coastal rivers are the Passaic and Hackensack 



PHYSICAL MAP 



The area In black represents the only parts <>f 

 New Jersey which would remain above water If 

 the whole state were 100 feet lower. 



emptying into Newark Bay, the Raritan flowing 

 into Raritan Bay, tho Mullica and (i 

 rivers, flowing into coast lagoons, and the Man- 

 draining the southern end of the state into 

 Delaware Bay. These rivrrs an ^.n. nll\ 

 from rapids and falls, except the Paasair. which 

 drops fifty feet at Paterson, furnishum the vast 

 water power used by the great silk mills of that 

 city. 



In tin mountains and highlands there are 



\ beautiful lakes, noted as summer resorts. 



Th. larnrst among these are Hopatc -onu.Clreen- 



wood, Macopin, Splitrock, Wawayanda, Green 



and Budd's. 



Climate. Th. climate of New Jersey is mild. 

 but there is considerable variation between the 



