Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-08-08
IS THIS A DREAM,
ASKS Man MRS.
BULL ACCUSES
]. A. Qualey Points Proudly to
StOne-Age Plant, Subsidiary of
Magnesia Asbestos Co.
SAYS WORKS WILL BE
IN FULL BLAST IN 2 WEEKS
Expects to Realize Fortune from
Stone Ware Produced
from DolOmite.

John A. Qualey, president of the
Magnesia Asbestos Company. whose
trial on a charge of swindling Mrs.
Mary Nevins Bull, wife of the late
DIR. William T. Bull, put of $4,000 by
selling her stock in his company,
which she now declares is worthless
Will come up again today before Magis-
trate Herman Krotel in the Harlem
court. Manhattan.
Qualey, accompanied by Mrs. Qualey,
who claims to be one of h largest
stockholders in the company. spent
Saturday afternoon visiting the Stone
Age Plaster Company's plant on the
River road at the foot of Grafton
avenue. The Stone-Age plant is a
subsidiary concern Of the Magnesla
Asbestos Company.
Has Blue Eyes and Determined Chin.
Qualey is a medium-sized man, about
43 years of age, with a thin thatch of
blonde hair that is growing bald on
the top of his head. He has clear, cold
looking blue eyes n a determined
chin that sticks out aggressively as he
links Oh his gAdBtlcSld <ASDCobO ObAA
pany, and the Stone-Age plant in par
ticular
While on his visit to the Stone-Age
plant he was found by a reporter for
the EVENING STAR. Qualey was
very willing to talk about the plant
and did not object to pictures of him
self and wife being taken.
TT is only over in New York. where
they are charging that my husband is
a crook of various degrees. that he
objects to having his picture taken"
said Mrs. Qualey, with a smile.
what about the whole thing2" Mr..
Qualey was asked.
II have nothing to say about Mrs.
Mary T. Bull or her charges that l
am ~swindling her out of $4,000" re-
piled Mr.. Qualey. Really, it does
not concern me in. the least. except
as a petty bother and for the noto-
riety 1t brings me and my company.
TT Is this plant l am Interested In,
M l will have 1t in operation in two
weeks from now. My intention was to
open the plant in November. but now
1 intend to put on as full a working
force as possible and commence turn
ing out finished products at once.
"Our machinery Is now all on the
ground, with the exception of some
pressing machines, which will be de-
livered here today. When those are
set all hat Is needed to start the
wheels moving is the connecting up
of the piping. You know in a big
plant like this the final connecting of
the pipes cannot be made until all the
heavy machines are set.
aDoes This Look Like a Blur
docs this look" said Qualey with a
sweep of his arm that took in the ten
or a dozen different buildings that COM
prise the plant, "as II 1t were all put
up for a bluff? For the purpose Of sell
ing stock and swindling the public
only? If that was my purpose why
would I build such an immense plant?
Why would 1 equip 1t with special ma
chinery?
This plant is built, I might say,
with malice aforethought, certainly
with elaboration. 1t is on tidewater.
It is within the easiest possible n
cheapest reaching distance Of New
York city, the greatest market in the
world for the things we will produce.
It is within a few miles of one of the
greatest fields of dolomite rock in the
country.
"Dolomite rock is the base of all the
products we will manufacture. Hunter
don and Sussex counties are filled with
1t. Our rock laid down here at the
plant, including quarrying and freight
age, will not cost to exceed over 1850
q ton.
81 do not care at this time to go into
the various processes by which we Will
extract magnesia, carbonic gas, plaster
blocks and other products. Instead l
prefer to wait until such time. about
two weeks hence, when the plant viii
be in operation and we can show the
world what we al n will produce.
"This plant is no dream founded for
the purpose of selling stock. 1t Is
founded on geological facts that GER
tain sorts of rock will produce certain
articles of commerce, 1t takes this
plant and the machinery it contains
to get out the value in the rock. That
Is all there is to it."