Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-10-19
MORE SCENERY
IN DANGER.

A new quarry company has been
incorporated at Albany within the
week for the purpose of extending the
DETACHMENT of the scenery of the
highlands of the Hudson river by
blasting for trap rock. Venerable
Storm King Mountain, situated on
the west bank of the river between
West Point and Cornwall, is now to
be attacked, providing the plans of
the newly incorporated company are
carried out. The name of the new
concern is the Storm King Rock Com
pany, and it's directors include Arthur
j. III. Brooks, Charles e. Ring, Louis
G. Buttrick and Edward H. Jewell.
| Messrs. Buttrick and Jewell are stock
brokers, Mr.. Ring is an insurance
broker and Mr.. Brooks is a dealer in
building materials at 644 West Fifty
first street. No one interested in the
company would say today where the
holdings of the company are nor
| would give any information concern
ing it's plans. Those of whom inquir-
les were made were asked if the own
ers of the quarries now operating at
Hook Mountain were behind the new
company. This they refused to dis
cuss and said that they knew little or
nothing about the matter at the pres
ent time.
The largest quarries operating on
Hook Mountain o are controlled
by the Odell-Foss interests at Nyack.
This company was most active last
spring in opposing Assemblyman
Wainwright's bill to save Hook
Mountain. The measure was finally
passed by the legislature, however,
fifteen minutes before the close of the
F, session. Odell's men in Albany had
succeeded in enlisting on their side
\ sufficient number in the senate to
iefeat the Hook Mountain bill, and
only the exposure of Odells hand in
he affair at the last minute saved the
| day. BY the provisions of the bill the
Interstate Park Commission may ac-
| luire by right of eminent domain all
IF the territory on the west bank of
| the Hudson river for a distance OF
more than fifteen miles from Pier
| mont to Stony Point, necessary to
| preserve the scenic beauty of the riv-
n. This will eventually Dust the
1uarry men of their Hook Mountain
holdings, but owing to the necessary
lelay in the searching of titles the
oalisade Park Commission has not
)een able to stop blasting on Hook
Mountain.
For several weeks the commission
las beer comforting with a number
Of friends of the project, who have
llready contributed largely for the
completion of the park, mad plans for
The permanent stopping of the deface-
ment of Hook Mountain are nearing
completion.
When the commission stopped the
blasting at Indian Head a few years
lgo, the quarrymen located there,
though reluctant to give up their
luarries, finally met the commission
lalf way and suspended operations
FOR several months prior to the actual
transfer of their lands. Not so with
the destroyers of Hook Mountain.
Since the passage of the Wainwright
bill last spring the destruction of
Point-no-Point, as Hook Mountain
was once called, has gone on with in
creased vigor. Practically a double
force of men has been working in the
Odell-Foss quarries ever since, and
the mountain has been uefaced all
most as much since the passage OF
the bill as it had before.
Friends of the greater Pallsade
Park project, both in New YORK and
New Jersey, are awakening TO the
fact That their further efforts are re-
CURED not only to oust the quarry
mem at once, but to h$kten h COM
pledon of the great Highway from
Fort Lee to Stony Point Whlch VIII
ae 1he great feature OF the park
Stg2m King Mountai1 is not wltnih
th& lpresent Jurisdiction o. the all