The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-10-30
OUARRIES CENTURIES OLD
WHENCE CAME OR MILES or
BROH NSTONE FRONTS
. Gsssi nat % New IOrk Dug out 10
Holr IN the G.round At Portland Conn.
Present Diserrdit % BrowDstSnr
Due to Its Misuse seasonins stone.

lrl-ro' ra'I' material. W-r" At 'H" aelg1f
q 'hCir glory
Even then. however. they w~ra not
a. the dault Z their H. aioprlan- PruVn-
stone - tail 7"lHE qIArrI-i and ever
daar..r and wider are growing me "yra-
va-ions some = them are over 80 feet
deep one peers over the DreClrlra .1r'
one % -n--s great holes and FAR below
-.-es clear green lake tsslf ov"- eighty
fact deer
In the raimy DAYS 4 the br0wu-rune
guarriess 80 men worked IN 'rern. To
tav only ABOUT 81 are employed. Then
a -i@at 4 fifty or more -Choonsr- carried
the stone down the Connecticut River
and along the sound 20 New fOrS and
other ports To-day there are is-s than
A DOZEN.
4 hundred miles - hrownstons fronts
we're built IN Nsw forS WITHIN a COM
parariv.ly few years Then the fashion
got The worst kind - a Llaos "ya The
reason can ~. found IN any street IN The
civ. FOR there a-a srv biocs- without
one or more scaling AID crImhlInS brown
stone faCades
And vet there are other buildings =
the same materis, which ara A. 0lean cue.
a. perfectly surfaced to-day AZ wh"u
they were erected . quarter - a century
ago. According - the guarrynen o.
vas a case u greedy contractors. To
the outsider Il seems n 4 greedy 4IArry-
men ought 20 share the re-ronsihilit~
Most folks dou' know that stone ought
20 -eason Just a. llm Der does. CoUn@ctI-
cut brownstone especially needs t. When
fr-, .yi- II IL ~ fIll q - own kind q
A IN. - FRHH
pounds u moisture in ~ form = AlIid
sick 20 the cubic foot. II can't A-
guarri-d With safety after heavy f-1Sts
raxin About Nov~rn her - - me later
date when th- stone may - c'It from .ts
natural o-d.
II quarrisd during the winter 70 may
even Az 20 pieces a. . consequence 81
the freezing % the liquid contents In
any case II must season for a numt--
81 weeks. according 20 the --ason osfor.
icing usAd IN construction
When -he craze for ~ vas at is hei xht
oontrac,ors demanded ~ much faster
than the q,IaTrie- could supply Il Builders
WorSInx on time contracts .rslst-i thai
the stone be taken out no matter vha'
the time % the year. ard 'hsv used 70
IN Weather and IN SEASONS which were
fatal % Us dlrafl!lfy
The craze for 'ha material had come
With such -uddenn@=s that he q.IArr.e-
had no facilities for carrying arg.
stock q Weu -~Asou@d stone Under
pressure fron the contractors th-- -oli
70 green. and u Vas uz@d r that condition
S.r Christopher Wren. the architect =
- PauTs IN London. stipulated that 10
stone should ~ g-Ai IN that n.litlnz
hat Rad hem quArrl-d is-s than th-e-.
years II New York h-ovnSton.. fronts
aad b.en pat NJ with a fraction u that
amount q vr~cau'Ion they would snow
A different face today
But that wAs not the worst abuse
The a,Iarry men 81 that time then, 80! vs~
so-ed a second harvest - iest r'lc-ior.
though the builders ald@d and anarteyt
them IN u In The technical rnra-a
s.oue should always -. Sat % - natural
BOD II you should glsIt 'rs glar-.as ~
Portland yog would 'hs great hort
EontAl layers - s-ona. formed CENTURIES
ago wing IN Eat sections They are ~
heir natural h~d The grain = the
stone rms parallel with that 81 \
va--icil section you'd rs .rrDss the
gram
Now ANYBODY "an $50 that Z .tona q
gong 20 fake Or scale ~ II can ID y
across the gram RI- = vou So I slab
u s-oG- % edge VII ne grain running
up and down moisture = gong .
-s-rn-atA al 'ha little ~ ard down -1fts
and DhaEE@ts Ant then 'tI- moisture
VII fr@-gs and oo=@G a ~ p sra.a or
lAy-r n the stone = 'ur - that % lSit
on - natural - that - the wav y iav
~El.- Vas growing the SAILING o.ron1e-
.rnus@-tr'-
In tha haTdav Il the hrovn--7ra fashion
- Wa "lsI-r ard rhe,tr - 20 0'I' ina vana~-z
NhIch v~s.- commonly I-Nd with he grain
instead { ar-u-s % In Pm aia.r
here are millions % f-.-t y these yana..rs
only 40 inches thick The .4.ItInE
AVS u New York -~gIlr@t yaae..-s TO
- four inches tn 4. nut the SaFn.. fault
n Cl'tInz and citing The stone Va.
common here
The -,oaa splits sva1lv along the ines
% - natural t.-t aEt 10 Is.a . that vay
~ - %" cot Z saving NIwaiavs
-auIrR - rhelgsr ard 49, ~ - tn. mis-
taH" = not Of f-s-1 .snt oc,urrarre W.a
arUE.,@rts srsrlfy thar the stone must
- -at IN - Ha'Ira4 I'D IL England
and GA the Continent stone = seldom
-s-t 0'harVi--a
Any ora Nno questions he vsatasrI-z
qualities ~ 'rovnst0n. tina: 1-ls uaa1
prop--y u-.-'i sGol Z ylslt the old rs.ns.a---
- AlidII"'oWf.. ~. d. ross 'l. Gonna. q
cut p - from Portland TEs-- Are vs.
and rows % tDFII5' nfL-s Z 4 or Of fha
Port land quarrles and -ar 10 from 10
n 2on years ago Viii q ars AZ ut AMI
y..-i.-rly @zib.- today aral sfrkar,
are mora taan IT Years ord slad ~. ...
sSrrgt.pus a-- almost as sharp - . cut
Yesterday
Even hs-f0-s that time the q.ia-ria-
were o1s 4 Tho most VllU@i ro@ss-s. ons
o. Niid~town. which -Le1 !urhlds-i both
uaEas Z the river H~-A u an anr-art
iron. tho records dAt~Si september 4
1915
~ towna meeting u va voted thai
~. ,soey or shall lag r rl4-. tone NJ vA
rockies On to sl-' -lte Il the -yar 'I-
any vttEuvT the tnvrs. the a.. ger
shall - none but an Iruaii'anf - NIid!e-
'pwu and -hHil D. "a .,7ns,ib!e - 80 -DNua
- Usno@ per tJInn f0- =, cry trlnn II stones
that hc Or they sn.ll dig for anv rerSpn
without a." 'owu~ this money - be RAID
IT. wheat ami resLs 90 fe fJN fl-Uen ar their
ar-i ms for ye u-s ~ We toUns within -tx
months after the transrorfati1n - sali
s-Ous-z
There are .'t'- records o. -. -asu IN
'Na Iulrr.--- tGrTs-. - who. u much
g.. 49,