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Founded in administration of a department of market implies more than man routine inspection and investigation and more than the mental division of a good thing for somebody. And requires a continuum alertness possible improvement and I just a huge investment and in our time and. We intend to go on with this type of program. To me and that our city shall always being a leader in the utilization modern marketing method. And the tradition of ceremonies of this type I'd like to know. That in this bar on the corner stone will have some material which may interest goals of future generation current. Irag copy have today New York Times. Copy of the specifications for the job. Registry me and program. Department of market old and new material. I picked up one from a boring and I'd like to read the entire inspection there are. Specimen of timber recovered in Bahrain operation on March nineteenth one thousand nine hundred forty nine from barring he till I get tired of CAN'T let me carry pepper while he. This temper is part of the matter and start to support the foundation I've bought Gansler which was built about eight Cantwell timber is well prepared. May I present to you the honorable You've all the right you are upright the man had. The commissioner with the mayor. Thing which God ladies and gentleman. We met here today to lay the cornerstone of another project that was planned. And executed during the present administration. These things taken separately may not have as great a significance as when you're refuting the program of operations during the last three and a half years and after the tangible evidence planning I've worked. Up difficult allocation up front. So that every need in every service of the city could be brought up to what would be some semblance of a normal condition after a point a half year lapse brought on by virtue of the war. I don't think any administration that ever held public office in the city of the arc faced the problems that the current administration had to face when it came into office on January first one nine hundred forty six. We had a lot of fancy plans we had a lot of statements we were told that there was about eight or ten million dollars to the good with which the stock. And when we made a careful check. We were scratching I had stuff firing that eight or ten million dollars that we were supposed to have to operate with before we got down to real fiscal troubles. Needless to say we never found them. Yet seen for the first time in some twelve to fifteen years the actual completion of the West Side Highway. You have seen very streets widening. You're seeing similar programs brought up to date in some instances some of the things up nobody dared to touch for thirty some odd years you've seen fifty schools rise above the ground. You have seen public officials actually take hold of our hospital programs about which there was much criticism and nothing done. You can talk about a lot of things you can indulge in. Personalities. You can take a crack out of any human being for some of the known the mistakes that people make. I defy anybody to produce a single person in public office or private life who has such a record that no mistakes appear therein whether of thought or mind or any other phase of human reaction. When construction was started on this building in November one thousand nine hundred eighty eight we're expected to what would be close to completion at that time a very novel reason comical the delay which is taking place the excavators whose job it was to provide space for the building's bound patients came across some heavy wooden locks later we learned that they were the remnants of all flights canceled which project of the approaches to Manhattan Island from the west for about forty five years and the first half of the nineteenth century. That headache caught by the to life out of a man or has borne so many others in similar circumstances it is his department that supervises and directs the numerous aspects of construction it is in his capable hands and all city officials placed their plans in problems relating to public buildings I am speaking of course of our New York City Commissioner of Public Works they are able Frederick X.M.A.S. mailing. Them I am far present on a gesture ladies and gentlemen. I am particularly happy to be a part of this ceremony today because I am an engineer. I think this problem this program that we have been this area is a challenge to an engineer remember that we must construct a market we must move the people who operate in the Old Market into the new markets we must So let me just right as a mom of your own pocket and then upon that site building that center right. Now it's not many years ago I'm sure all of you will agree that when one wears off Bob and it's in a right or wrong. Side of a market that most people would shrink with Harada and whatnot would raise themselves up in in in rebellion and object strenuously to it and I am proud that the profession of engineering as South many of those problems and I can assure you that when this entire project which includes Yamaka the incinerator the dumping bog and all there will be no into ferrets nor will I be any rebellion as to the end of parents of one project with another. For a second reason I am proud to be added a particularly interested in this project. It is not generally known that I come from the Borrow leash known in New York that of Richmond where most of our garbage is now being dumped and my people want this in center ADA done as quickly as it is possible to do it and I want to say to you that since I have taken office which is relatively a short time. Scene coordinator the cooperation of the members of the Board of Estimate headed by our mayor William O'Brien has been most inspiring to an outsider reservoir a man in private practice who came into city snipers under a rather quick and hurried command of the omega. That inspiration as inspired my decline to produce almost the impossible and I can assure you that this market will be completed in the early part of the coming year we have already let a contract for the out and other tempting board as we call it or the incinerator you know you see the contractor working we will be ready to demolish after we have moved you into the new market. We will be ready to demolish the old buildings and we will have our contracts ready for the erection of the incinerator and that isn't my voice alone I need and must have the inspiration as I always the encouragement of the Board of Estimate No commissioner in the city department can do I think if he doesn't and he isn't able to get from the board and its mayor particularly its mayor that cooperation not understanding. Of the work that is involved in coordinating the several projects I am proud to be a part of this ceremony and I thank. The mission is a mile long and the other public officials the would have us after no one I can only aware of the importance of having behind them in such matters is planning on construction some want to host nation is brought in clear those outlook isn't limited and whose personal progress of medicine integrity are on question. We are fortunate to work under a man who has those characteristics and a home we are able to turn for the guidance which every administrator of a set in apartments at one time or another requires. I know that many members of the train appreciate all that he has done to replace an agitated marketing push so in a way this new modern main center I am very proud to present to you the mayor of the city of Najaf the Honorable William all black. Mishmash rally. That of. The present Rodgers. Sabs you know I'm not a. I just heard about it about a box. Metal container with a. Lot of ancient history and it. Was going on to say. The sad to know. We're doing a whole lot more than just setting the stage. And. Markets generally just assume as you're getting rid of your sales and your commodities are delivered to the mobs that take you back. But as soon as they got his pay I was becoming full of. The headache we've got. Cloud of years or more of them still doing a. Play about Barry. Comics and the. Garbage within our city limits this is not a good plot it out of the people no matter what. And by road and. I hate to mention the name of somebody on a limb. But it can mean a gases come up out of the ground. And the wind blows towards the moms children and everyone else gets sick one of the filthiest ways it was positive garbage the area within the city limits and we had many many more for that. To rid of a garden considered to help the people and you in the market as a result is that none of the business are the people with anyone else not having a warning you get am now the parliamentary human. We gotta do it and let it rest. So we can take a little just. Mile an hour you jumping on board average of the rest of us. Just because they're a little smaller population just because they didn't come up with. A million two million dollars that's no reason why they should be subjected to this just cutting practice and very wrong God How do you get out of while you do it by believing in the center right and not find a place for. You which will not attract problems will not smell a lot follow up they alone will not interfere with. Saw the typing. Let me tell me me. To buy a spine to fight. Begins for I just gotta plan and this neighborhood has jobs I mean think twice the investment and even considering the industry that was just wanting to. Sign me but I wanted to get a kind of a. Proper way to get to the future needs to. This is what we decided on as being in your best interests and the best except it is a whole. I'm happy to be here. Fact that troublesome situation. Is the best that we can come up with and if it's the purposes we believe. Me What is going to be. Best about tell you you're not. Going to go.