The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-05-11
DENOUNCED AS a LIE.
Freeholders Take Exception to Mr.
Records Accusations,

Freeholders Take Exception to Mr.
Records Accusations,
The members OF the Board OF F~resholders
ars not very favorably inclined toward Mr..
George L. Record. They believe him to be
anything but a reformer, AMI are quito cor
tain he desires to be q monopolist. In TIL
JERSEY CRY NEWS Of Wednesday Mr.. Rec
ord in defending himself against the charges
that he is striving to establish a monopoly in
this county in the crushed stone business,
took occasion TO question the honesty of the
Board of Fr~eeholders, which runs the larg-
est stone crusher In this State, at Snake
Hill. After complaining that the Freehold
er do not improve the three county roads
controlled by the Board of F~resholders. Mr..
Record makes a plaintive cry that his
| company, the New Jersey Track Rock Com
| pany, nnot compete with the convict labor
employed by the county on its stone crusher,
Notwithstanding the fact that the Freehold
ers charge highest market prices for their
| crushed stone, just the same as Mr.. Record
does. In Wednesdays News he said
"But we have met the county's excuse In
| another way; we have said to the Free
holders that if they think it their duty to
sell stone, we are willing to buy their en-
tire surplus at the highest market price.
This would keep the market price from being
ruinously cut, end would keep the convict5
at work. But for some reason the Free
holders will not sell to US. Their resolution
to sell the stone at market price does not
| satisfy us, because the price can be actually
\ fixed at any figure for a favored buyer by
| manipulating the measurement Of the stone
| sold. Their refusal to sell their surplus to
us, and their persistence in selling stone at
all, when their own roads are suffering for
it, puts them in the position Of wiilfully in
| juring legitimate and important industries
in the county. This we propose to stop if
there is any honorable way to do SO
The Penitentiary Committee, consisting Of
| Freeholders Gallagher, Ellis and Halliday,
has charge of the sale of crushed stone at
Snake Hill.
Mr.. Gallagher said yesterday, when L
| spoke to him about Mr.. Records remarks:-
"He has not asked us to sell him the stone.
He once offered to dispose of it for US on
commission, / am informed, but he never
asked us to sell it to him or his company.
The insinuatlon that ~favorite contractors
| get more stone than they pay for is untrue.
There is absolutely no truth in the statement.
| We sell the stone at market prices, and no
one can get it for q less price. Some time
| ago crushed stone was sold for ska yard.
| but now the market price is higher and we
| receive more for it,"
Freebooter Ellis said:-s'Mr. Record in
sinuates that there is some underhand bust
ness in the measurement of the crushed
stone sold by the county. That is not true.
In regard to Mr.. Record having offered to
buy the county's crushed stone at the high
est market prices, SO far as | inc he never
| made such q proposition"
IF he had made this offer would you be
| aware of ita' / asked.
81 certainly would know of it IL such a
| proposition had been made. / never heard of
It,"
Freebooter Halliday was not in town, and
therefore | could not see him, but q lumber
Of other members of the board corroborated
| what Freeholders Gallagher and Ellis said.