San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-03-15
More About Mr.. Gray and Mexican Brick

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To the Daily LIGHT:
Mr.. S. NJ. Gray, of Monterey,
and Providence, r. l., is paid, we
are told, $3.50 per month for his
services by the city of San Antonio,
Texas.
When last here, in February,
1896, his eminence went to the
Fourth street bridge and selected
from pile of unused Gonzales
brick, some specimens, and
brought them down town and eX-
hibited them to the citizens white
washing committee. The white
washing committee were SIM
ply Mortified at the eX-parte
statement then and there
made to them by Mr.. Gray, of Mon
terey, concerning these Gonzales
brick, and they failed to investi-
gate his statement. Mind you,
! these Gonzales brick were on the
street. No one was using them
no briCklayers were there, nor any
OF their tools and appliances. But
the fact that these Texas made
brick were on the public streets Of
Texas city, when his eminence
had decided in future to use Mon
terey brick exclusively in the San
Antonio sewers, was a terrible
thing in the eyes of Mr.. Gray, OF
Monterey, and he soon had the
white washing committee OF his
opinion, and they listened to him
in humble alteration.
Yet it is a solemn fact that on
this pilgrimage to the Fourth
street bridge wholly and solely
to obtain these samples of Con
Zales brick for exhibition,
his eminenCe Mr.. S. NJ. Gray,
OF Monterey, as aforesaid, passed
and repassed, stacked up on the
sidewalks of the public streets,
thousands upon thousands of Mon
terey, Mexican brick-that are ut.
terly worthless, and if he knows
anything about brick at all he
must have known them to be
worthless, for afterward when at
tentiOn was called to the character
OF this brick by one Of the much
abused inspectors and the public
catch-on this Monterey brick was
then inspected and thousands of
them are condemned and thrown
out as worthless.
Yet this Mr.. s. NJ. Gray failed to
see anything wrong with these
Monterey brick, although he passed
and repassed them repeatedly, and
he utterly and entirely refrained
and abstained from calling the at.
tention Of either the withdrawing
committee or the public improve
ment committee to the worthless
character OF these particular Mon
terey brick. And he took great
care to exhibit one of the
very best of these Monterey
brick to these committees as
Of special beauty and stamped
the whole lot OF them with the seal
OF his approval.
The next move of this immacu-
late Mr.. S. NJ. Gray was to leave
San Antonio, Texas, in company
with Mr.. Robertson, in Mr.. Robert
sons private car, as Mr.. Robert
sons guest, headed for Monterey,
where this Mr.. Robertson ,
makes brick. Mr.. S. NJ. Gray :
travels with Mr.. Robertson,-has
Mr.. RObertson's brick as a side r
line, as it were, and also condemns !
all the brick made in Texas, and
the citizens Of San Antonio,
they pay the bill. Verify
the late P. T. Barnum was correct
when he stated that the American '
people like to be humbugged. And
this Mr.. S. M. Gray, the rambler {
from, the land of the wooden nut
meg, cast-iron saw file, wooden !
ham, and other humbugs, is
lowt humbugging the taxpay- 9
9rs of San Antonio to his
hearts content. Just imagine his e
'eliSity when he is softly saaananRE.
ng or his evening lullabi ,