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tion differs from the main thorofare, in that only one- and two- 

 family dwellings are being erected. The same conditions prevail 

 in the Bedford Park section. 



Crossing over to the easterly section, we come to Throgg's 

 Neck, one of the most attractive shore fronts in The Bronx. There 

 is a great future before it, particularly if the proposed new subway 

 route, which, according to one plan, will have Pelham Park as a 

 terminal, will be carried to completion. One of the first improve- 

 ments planned, is a shore drive, one hundred feet wide, which will 

 skirt Throgg's Neck. 



The water front of The Bronx, aggregating more than forty 

 miles of navigable waters, has added unlimited trade and commerce 

 to the Borough. Almost the entire territory from Highbridge to 

 Hunt's Point has been utilized by railroads, factories and other 

 industrial enterprises requiring shipping facilities along the water 

 front. The Bronx contains seven hundred factories, each large 

 enough to be subject to State supervision and inspection. They 

 give employment to at least thirty-five thousand people. 



Among the numerous industries which have contributed 

 toward making The Bronx a manufacturing center of world-wide 

 renown, the manufacture of pianos and organs ranks among the 

 foremost in importance. No less than sixty factories are located 

 within the Borough, which turn out these musical instruments in 

 amazing quantities annually. These are shipped to all quarters 

 of the globe. 



The mammoth plant of the American Bank Note Company 

 at Hunt's Point is another institution which employs an army of 

 over two thousand workers. For more than a century this com- 

 pany has been recognized by experts as the leading engraving and 

 printing concern in America, if not in the world. The choice of its 

 present site in the Hunt's Point section of The Bronx was the 

 result of a thoro canvas of all the available sections in Greater 

 New York. Another enormous plant is the De la Vargne Machine 

 Works at the foot of East One Hundred Thirty-eighth Street. 

 Other industries covering acres and doing a large business are 

 the Ward Bread Company, and the lumber, the coal and the brew- 

 ing companies. 



A comparison of the business done during 1912 with that of 

 the previous year by some of the public service corporations will 



