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​AT the close of the nineteenth century, the little city of Bayonne, New Jersey, still retained its early character of a residential center. Located on a low, narrow peninsula which extends along the west side of upper New York Harbor it was rather sparsely covered with little individual wood houses, set in the familiar pattern of rectangular streets, laid out in a multitude of long narrow blocks, as nearly alike as possible—the traditional American town. Slowly growing, it was taking its place as a suburb of New York City. For the most part, industry had left it undisturbed. Self-contained and homogeneous, Bayonne had few serious problems.