The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-05-23
Governor Griggs Instructs
the Attorney General to
Proceed AgaTiISthe
Quarrymen.
INSPECTING THE BIG ROCKS
Hhe New Jersey State Forestry
Association and the Commis-
sion Witness the Havoc
Wrought.

eral Stockton to obtain injunctions
against all the firms and individuals now
engaged in quarrylng along the big
rocks. The Attorney General will move
in the matter next week.
Some members of the New Jersey State
Forestry Association, which has just had
its annual meeting at Plainfleld were
yesterday guests OF the Palisades Com
missions of New York and New Jersey
on an excursion up the Hudson as far
as Piermont, that they might be shown
the damage that has been done to the
front of the cliffs by the quarrymen.
The party went on board the Pennsyl-
vania tug America at 10 O clock from the
Adams Express wharf in Jersey City. At
noon the steamboat was opposite the
quarry owned and worked by Carpenter
Brothers, about a mile above Fort Lee,
and those on board were just in time to
see twenty blasts fired off. These blasts
were placed about half way UP the cliff,
where the stones and earth We're mixed
in nearly equal proportions, forming the
talus, or earthen sheath, at the foot of
the cliff and for varying distances up its
front upon which the trees grow so
luxuriantly-where there are no quarries.
The quarry formed a llideous gap in a
view otherwise very beautiful. The tops
of the cliffs stood out in bold outline as
? far north ea the Hudson as the eye
could reach. Up the face of these cliffs
as high as there was earth to nourish
them grew oak and chestnut trees in
full foliage. Here and there narrow
path through the trees marked the dry
bed of winter torrent.
James r. Croes, of 68 Bond street, one
of the members of the New York Pal
isadss Commission, explained the object
of those who are working to save the
unimpaired beauty of the cliffs not only
for the enjoyment of the adjoining States
of New Jersey and New York, but also
for the hundreds of thousands of Wis
itors who come from all parts of the
world to see the Hudson.
THE State of New Jersey, by an act
OF the Legislature. has already granted
to the United States all its water front
rights along the shores of the Palisades.
and It's future income from the taxes
Wssica would accrue to it from the land
70 be included in the military reserva-
fion which it is purposed to make. These
z grants. however. which are equal to a
capitalized sum of several hundred thous-
gress passing the act acquiring possess
that the State Of New Jersey may be be
held to have done its strict share of the
work of preserving the Palisades.
Neither the State nor the city of New
York can, I believe, give any money to
no chance of getting so many different
owners OF ouarries and building sites to
sell their property voluntarily to any
association, so that the only way to reach
them is by powers of condemnation
Only two legal bodies possess this
power in the present case-one the United
Jersey. The acquisition of the battlefield
Of Gettysburg by the National Govern
Supreme. Court on the ground that it is
historic site to be preserved for the
benefit Of the Nation at large.
There are interesting historical associa-
cliffs beyond it,
General Washington saw from Fort
Lee the fort named after hfln on Manhat-
tan Island captured by the British Mad
Anthony Wayne made many of his excur-
frcn the Palisades. But it is not peeu,
Harly as historic ground but as a con-
yenaent camping ground and rendezvous
for stores for United Statets troops that
the Commissioners and their allies have
urged the purchase of this tract by the
.sInspector-GeneraI Rreckinridsa said
not long ago that the number of regular
army oIlcers who have had exberience
in handling large masses of men is grow
ING each year smaller and smaller, and
mat there are actually now in the SER
Wee many officers who have never seen
brigade of troops. Tie area of the mill
mako 1xro71l5 ~, o mn ~ II oPo9eu "
nsIas and 1Aia ba os z'1oV acres lylng twelve
to S0o feet in 1idth ~ ieilS ~ ana from SOo
land ia now worth o,iv iSgnrita s5an1e tn.s area
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has In for,e - IL siiJ ;,2eSretdry oI war
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