The sun., 1906-12-22
HOOK Observation-Disclosures
P.ALISADE BLASTS SHANE DOWN
CEILINGS ~ OSSINTNG.

The TremOrs Follow the Rock stratum Tn
der the River Noise Heard as Far as
Connecticut -suppOsitlOn That the
charges Are Too Heavy suit Brought.
The western edge of Westchester county
is getting tired of the chronic earthquake
shocks caused by the heavy blasting on
Hook Mountain, across the river from
Ossining, and is going to have the law on
the earthquakes and quakers. 0ssinins &
says it cant sleep without stretching fly
tents over the four posters TO break the
fall of the plaster. Miss Cornelia NJ. Arnold
OF Ossining sets forth in the complaint
which she has made against the blasters
that she has plastered one room Of her
Ossining house three times now, and that
too much is plenty.
From all over Westchester county-New
Rochelle, Tarrytown, Pelham, White Plains
and other Westchester metropoises- the
clans are gathering to give testimony
against the earthquakes at the trial of
Miss Arnold suit, which has been set down
for January in special trial term of the
Supreme Court before Justice keogh at
White Plains. Miss Arnold is backed by
the protests of the authorities OF the Ossn-
ing Hospital and a number of physicians
of the town. The strong card Of the COM
plainant will he a set of sworn afiiavlts
of the physicians to the effect that the
blasting on Hook Mountain on the west
bank of the Hudson is a constant menace
10 the sick and that the lives Of many pa
tients are being daily jeoparded thereby.
Although the action has been brought
by an individual, Ossining has taken up
the matter as a family affair and is with
Miss Arnold to stop once and for all time
the earthquakes which Ossining says get
under way about 4:3O o clock in the morning
AS far east as Darien Conn, a dentist will
arise to depose and say that he sets his clock
every day by the noon blast at Hook Noun
tain, twenty-five miles away. Scores of
Ossining citizens will swear to the destruc-
ton Of valued wax flower bouquets and the
protecting glass bells over the flowers
tumbled cuckoo clocks and the constant
chime Of the banging dish pans. The
ceilings are covered with maps OF the ANA
zon River and tributaries Ossining says.
There have been several instances said
one of the worms that have turned -of
people being awakened at half after
in the morning with the plaster falling
into their ears, and in many homes know
of mothers have had shelters devised
over cribs and beds to protect infants and
small children"
A number of mineralogists of the affected
region are to go on the stand and show
that the stratum OF trap rock that is being
blasted by the quarrymen on the west bank
OF the river underlies the Hudson and then
forms the foundation of the town of Ossining
The Ossining people say that since last
May, when the Patsade Park Commission
got the right to the Hook Mountain lands to
extend Palisade Park in the near future,
through the passing Of the Wainwright
law, the private quarrymen have doubled
the blasting charges as well as the forces
OF workmen and have disregarded the
laws that regulate the hours of blasting in
order to get out as much rock as possible
in the time left TO them
Part OF Ossinlng says 1t is afraid to stay
in the houses while the heaviest blasting
they say, and countless windows are being
broken. Also there is much Complaint
about the Sunday glorious Fourths and the
sunset bangs that are said TO continue till
the moon getsup. +. l.. Young of Ossininc,
counsel for Miss Arnold, says the town has
volunteered its services as witnesses, and
he has been supplied with a number of
Photographic that show the damage 10
buildings. He hopes 10 prove that the
powder charges are excessive as was shown
in a recent case where a property owner
named McQuade got $1,000 for dama9 9ed
property that had been struck by rock
flying from the quarries of the Manhattan
Trap Rock Company. There il talk of the
Palsade Park Commission taking action
as soon as possible to get en- earlier hold
OF the Hook Mountain lands by condemna-
ton proceedings.