New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-02
lob OFFERED TO HOOKER
Asked To Be Manager Of Greater
New York Brick Company.
HIGHWAY MEN WON'T FIGHT
Gossip at Albany Over New State
Superintendent-Real May
Get Place.
by Telegraph TO The Tribune. !

Albany, July Is. Percy Hooker chair
man of the State Highwav Commission
admitted yesterday that he had been asked
70 consider the acceptance OF the position
Of general manager OF the Greater New
York Brick Company. but said that he had
made no decision as the terms OF the com
pany had not yet been made known to him
II was merely asked TO think ii over" he
said
Chairman Hooker and his two fellow
highway commissioners Will be legislated
out OF Office by the bill which passed the
Assembly on Thursday and is now before
the Governor abolishlng the present State
Highway Commission and creating in its
place a commission to be made up Of the
State Engineer Superintendent Of Public
Works and State Highway Superintendent
to be appointed by the Governor. Chair
man Hooker said that no effort would be
made by the present commission TO contest
the validity Of the proposed law, and that
he supposed he would have to submit to
the inevitable by bowling down to the VIC
tors OF the last election.
The law provides that the present COM
mission shall remain in office until after
the new State Superintendent Of Highways
has been appointed and confirmed by the
Senate. Although Governor Dix will un-
doubtedly sign the bill Immediately, it will
| be week or two before the appointment
of Superintendent OF Highways is made
and confirmed.
| In the mean time numerous candidates
are springing up for the job, Gordon Real
a prominent Democrat Of Kingston and for
many years the general manager Of the
/ Kingston Street Railway, is looked on as
the most probable of the asprants for the
position. He Is the man wanted by State
Engineer Bensel, and while Charles F.
Murphy the chief of Tammany Hall, has
not come out actively for him. he is said
TO have assented to the Kingston mans APP
pointment
Mr.. Morrissey. Of the Stanley Morrissey
contracting firm, algo has been around Al
bany much OF late, and says that he Is
certain he will get the job. He is one OF
the engineers who made a name for them
selves in roadbuilding during the Skene
regime. He retains his confidence in get
ting the position in spite of the fact that
Murphy is said 10 be out against him fol
some unknown reason, although he is q
Tammany man.
Another candidate is Paul McCloud. a
present the division engineer Of the 6tt
Division. taking in the vicinity Of Bing
hamton. He is the choice of the Superin
tendent Of Public Works. Mr.. fireman.
The Greater New York Brick Company
was organized on June % at a meeting ir
the Palatne Hotel Newburg, of seventy
five brick manufacturers, representing *
per cent Of the brickmaking industry OF
the Hudson River district Ii does not in
clude the Hackensack and Raritan River
plants nor the Connecticut plants. Ac-
cording TO Hiram Merritt, the secretary
Of the company. it is not a combination for
manufacturing purposes. but an agency for
the sale of brick and the purchase of raw
materials The authorized capital stock is
only 100000 1t is understood, however
that many OF the Hudson River plants
will be closed. while the separate sales Of
fees in this city will also be closed and all
the selling will be done through the new
company
The reason for the organization of the
company was said TO be the demorali-
zation in the price Of common bricks in
this district. Manufacturers could not sell
] DrlchS mere at less IMAM - 4 lNOuSdnu ana
make profit, while the price for the last
six months had ranged around s. 1872 a
thousand. There has been some fear
among builders that the organization OF
the new company would mean a consider
ably higher price for bricks. This is de-
| MED however by the officers Of the COM
pany, who say that it is only intended 10
/ esta blish a stable price at which bricks can
| be produced at profit