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The microphones of your city station are located in the south garden of the Hotel Astor from which point Radio has brought many and have the advantage of many historical events the occasion today of the ceremonies attended the public presentation of awards to civil service employees who have served their city for fifty years and the formation of the Sox kind of Century Club in a moment you'll hear the voice of the Honorable John explain Commissioner of Public Works elect just Chairman thank you sir. I think it a splendid I did it and organizations such as this be fall so that the employer may pay tribute to men and women who have completed more than fifty years of service to your city I hope this club which is being fought on today will be an active organization that comes to mind my many functions with a kind of false but civil service employees there are only two requirements for membership One is that you must be a city employee and the other which time alone can provide is that you have had a half century of civil service I might point out that the idea for the creation of this club which put forth by Mr and we have sacked our host today for like yourself just celebrating its fiftieth year anniversary of the establishment of its first stall here and now we are very awkward like the rest of the world has changed a great deal during the half century of sadness that we are honoring here. I'm sorry to say that the public is often ready to a Buick but seldom to compliment the loyal working men and women I hope that the formation of this club and distributed will bring to the general public a realisation of the law out the integrity and ability of the thousands of men and women who may never meet. Ah seldom read about in newspapers but who day by day thinking of the multitude of beauties which make this great metropolis of ours to function now ladies and gentlemen I should like to introduce a young man and in view of the length of service of our guest of honor he does appear very young indeed However despite his comparative view he is without doubt one of the ablest public servants we have it gives me a great deal of personal pleasure to introduce the president of our city council the honorable events of the Impala Terry thank you. Thank you very much commissioners plan I think you will all appreciate that Commissioner splaying has been very generous in his remarks concerning me I wish for a moment that I work quite as young as he would have you believe it is true that my time in the service of the city has been very brief compared to that of our guests of honor here today but my keen interest in the work that they have been doing reaches back over many many years yes it reaches back since the year in one thing twenty nine when I first entered city service as an assistant district attorney I envy these men and women who for half a century have been so closely involved in the growth of the city of New York whereas the rest of us watched it grow they made it grow and grow great because they knew how to work together we are proud of the fact that in our civil service. Ability merit and purpose are the term really in fact all those employees progress and that the opportunities for employment and advancement are absolutely unlimited there is a quality to all without the slightest taint of bias this grim anation prejudice or favoritism that's a matter of fact and the personnel of almost any city the pup you can get a mighty good cross-section of the city of New York itself here are working side by side and fully and hominy with Catholic Protestant Jew Negro Italian Irish and all the other origins that happen triggered so mightily to the building of our great city fifty years ago when you people entered the Civil Service New York had not yet become the greatest city Brooklyn as you know is a community of thought and if they had won the playoff series from the cot I am sure Brooklynites what still consider themselves all race a pot. Brooklyn Brooklynites However after a long period of time were taken into the fold and the Brooklyn Bridge one of the wonders of its kind was but was built it would be interesting to know what part you people played in the achievement of the many wonders that have come to New York and a half a century. The bridges the highways the parks the splendid fire department the outstanding Paulista Pachmann all without equal in the world and all the other miracles of the half century which make the New Yawk what it is today yes you have been and then for growth part of the history of this great city this is your golden anniversary of service and through your city I want to assure you you have given your golden years on Stanton Lee We have every reason to be proud proud indeed that we are here today to honor you and we salute your inference to the tax Half Century Club thank you very much. Thank you A president got a cherry And now ladies and gentleman I should like to present a leading citizen and show it in a demotion fuse he asked to boost the Bronx the honorable James J. liar and vote of president of the Bronx. I give permission explained the Bronx and they had a wonderful place and then a body you will spend any time up there will agree with me as a matter of fact our host in the afternoon Israel to act should agree with me glad it is true that fifty years ago he started business I'm going to happen where do you think he finally wound up but in the bar of universities the bar of the Bronx they operate it doesn't get you know Washington Brooklyn or Queens when you dial Melrose by three hundred. If you don't believe me say watch your get when you dial Melrose by say under it that's her phone number most the sax welcome come our laws I heard the reference to Brooklyn Well I can understand why the president the council would be apologetic because they only thing I can produce in Brooklyn is a tray. Claims is famous for its ragweed. That nylon for its hops. And of course all of Manhattan ever produced was a little flower. Which has later transplanted to the Bronx nourished by time unless the saxes feel a loyal which he supplies in pay em. Up but in the Bronx we produce the loveliest of the lovely the most beautiful women in the world. They are very happy and they don't have some Bronx night numbered among those who we are honoring today we are very proud of the sax and the progress he has made over those half a century he's made on no noble contribution as an outstanding citizen of our community and we in the Bronx oppa take giddily proud of this great industry and I'm sure of that the fifty years of service is only the forerunner of many more years of useful service to our entire city we wish him well we wish him good health and may he continue on course I'm not a fifty year veteran but I am the dean of the present Board of Estimate having served twelve years under a prior administration and I am mad in twelve years with the ocean is the equivalent of fifty years of ordinary service and I therefore could qualify as a member of a half century club like dealing with the tax. Ladies and gentlemen you have heard the very enthusiastic Laura presence of Bronx and he'll be fit me as a resident of Queens to allow him to do a pass on challenge. We have queens things so much of our great borough that we were a few to boast Jimmy. And now well Mr Israel Sachs says step up and assist in the presentation of a watch to the members of the half century club President Ferdinand Martin of them in a civil civil service commission will call out the names of each member that is brought up to receive is recognition and gift right isn't that a little the first of our guests of honor as my scorer her assistant principal Julia. Amber half of our power is my great pleasure to present your very own thank you very much but the fact that. Our business cards crack in with your old supply party trick and if you're going to try them doesn't get closer to the microphone so you hear all this make me just a more than themselves a bad voice but he's doing the best you can under the circumstances I receive many more years of service with that I can live on. The Nathan the most. Family I'm behalf of the giver a great thank you again thank you very much and the rich and many more their service I remember the human. Animal Michael irony is run affordably abstract and I'm going to ask Mr Bob Joe It's about battalion chief. I guess they have to accept this tocome from our host which again is an indirect fact that the French were similar you service I have. Zero. With about five hundred five you are here and they march exactly to your in your own house I forgot that I was batting at the back and I. Missed the ED would eat. Into my companion at the lunch and I'm back half about I was to give me great such a defensive talking turn to make you many more years back in the. Night probably the day that power. Don't bother me at all if I am in first grade side of the matter is you are right now about that I'm not happy about harvesting good for a great but thank you for your make over there are many here. That can now. And in my. Eighteen ninety six. Year left on behalf of our home give me a great time talking to you and I know your therapist that is. Just over. On the half of our horse is my great pleasure to present the token to you anonymous them to do so faithfully granted that it will open the file expect to get. Wet. Civil engineer. I should have recognized give me great pleasure on the half hour hold the call continue an honorable man and. Thank you very much. Oh I'm home and. Gives me great pleasure on the half hour I was very present was talking to you and I'm the manager. Let's look a bit same. But the park. Already I'm so happy about. It we brought you from the south garden to the hotel after the ceremonies in connection with the making of the awards by Commissioner Martin other department of civil service of your great city government to the fifty year club members who have served the city of New York for fifty years in the presence of Mr Israel Sachs who was the donor and the founder of the fifty year club we have brought to the ceremonies and we wish we could have brought you the happy smiles of the recipients of these awards from the hands of Commissioner Martin commission as mine took over as the chairman because Commissioner Martin's voice was not in the best condition and I have to make just plain the kindly substance and so we brought you this very interesting ceremony from the south gardens of the hotel last week turning out of our studios.