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By transcription your city station presents they historic heritage of only you are. Right there are. Many that. There is not a historic occasion a programs a star a heritage a boat New York which is broadcast every Thursday night at this time we know that our radio audience will be pleased to learn that these dramatic broadcasts will be resumed on the evening of Thursdays guy knew very well. And I however we will hear from a number of prominent New Yorkers representing several organizations that are collectively responsible for the programs which make up the interesting and inspiring broadcasts dramatizing historic events which have taken place and downtown Manhattan frequently referred to as old New York since its first settlement by the Holland Dutch colonists more than three hundred years ago. Each dramatic broadcasting series is recorded in the studios of York City station to be rebroadcast later directly into the upgraded junior and senior high schools throughout the city over the Board of Education station W N Y E F M the listening audience of students estimated to approximate more than four hundred thousand. In our studio tonight we have five gentleman who are well informed as to the background and purpose of a dedication broadcast now going into their fifth year annually featured programs on your city station during the last six terms from September interview. The programs that nine hundred forty nine of them funded by the downtown Manhattan Association for its predecessor organizations with the co-sponsorship and support of several other groups. I will now introduce Mr Phelps who are more alike as moderator and more is the executive secretary and director of the downtown Manhattan Association a former newspaperman. Author editor and publicist and coordinator for this radio series Mr Moore. When Midhir examination is now being held in the city schools are over the dramatic program to the historic heritage devotedly our series will be revealed as your announced they had stated two weeks handstand Thursday January twenty eighth that's historic story to be dried gaffe though tell of interesting events which took place at the Bakula mansion going seventy nine while that four story call your house with occupied by General guard Washington as our first president that broadcast his title of the second presidential mansion the night our fourth panelists will discuss other old we are historical events to be dramatized each week on that station as the series continues First I will introduce Mr Percival Robert Moses that's the motive I'm delighted to be here tonight my capacity as president of the downtown Manhattan Association our next panelist is Mr William P. then at he is the president of the Holland Society of new we are close members are the leader of the male descendants of the Dutch settlers of Manhattan Island and elsewhere in this area that's bigger than at any capacity to which you referred and as a citizen of our fair city very happy indeed to visit the drug. Now we come to two editorial representatives on tonight's panel first is Mr Raymond de Parker a prominent downtown Manhattan Advertising Agency Executive Director Parker and a somewhat for the past with a I am representing the Downtown Athletic Club which is a co-sponsor with a down time on how to move socially Asian leaders who are an educational radio broadcast as I am the editor of a club monthly magazine the DA Street Journal. The fourth member of the panel. So is Mr Richard I did a feature writer on the staff of The New York Journal American Mr I got well since our newspaper has a co-sponsor of this series of radio program a great pleasure for me to be here tonight to get down to the business of the evening I will first ask Mr Moses as to the background and purpose of these weekly historic educational radio broadcasts that could most. Presidents of the downtown Association I'm proud that our organization has been privileged to be the initiator and sponsor of the broadcast. They have been dramatically retold to so many millions of listeners close to two hundred historic events. Which have taken place in Manhattan Island below Canal Street for a period of need three hundred fifty years. The value of these patriotic education the broadcast have been most favorite recognized not only by the city authorities directing a municipal broadcasting system above board of education in the city of New York. I really am happy to say the Board of Education has requested if we continue to sponsor this historic heritage of old New York series not only for the next winter and spring of nine hundred fifty four that we make plans to resume the series fall of ninety fifty four and through the spring of ninety fifty five we have been complemented by statements of this current series is the best yet. Left of them at US President of the hauen society are well versed in the history of downtown Manhattan I know do you believe that the script writers of our broadcast will be able to produce some fifty additional programs pertaining to all really arcs history without a doubt or your present series you have selected historic landmarks which have been marked might have. Many of them would have been placed by our society such black or tablet briefly tales of the event so it recorded on downtown Manhattan is literally dotted with I believe also that it is a fact that on Manhattan Island and particularly in the area of the lone Canal Street more important events in the history of our time and of the United States have taken place then and any other specific parts of our country they committee for New York's three hundred anniversary celebration which I have on which I have served during the past year in its research work brought again to public attention numerous obscured historic events that occurred after the city became a chartered Unisa finally on February the twenty fourth sixteenth at fifty from these these files alone I believe the downtown Manhattan association would have no difficulty in particularly more than the required number of additional historic happenings to dramatise future broadcast Likewise the library and files of the Holland Society contain many historic facts which would be available for necessary background material. At the feature story writer Mr I do and what would you say well as a good many of our listeners already know the New York Journal American one of its community service life there with his co-sponsors this historic heritage of old New York series each player is still a darling American faith is an illustrated historical all the coal which ties in with the broadcast will be heard on this station that same evening at six thirty the article is prepared by Clarke canard of King Features sun the get this also published in paper from coast to coast for the even the broad spring before millions of persons outside our city those stories of New York's place in history just a canard seem to have no difficulty in finding great American historic happenings. Approximately one third of which have taken place in our city. He prepares some three hundred of these articles each year and this has been going on for some five years now I believe a downtown Manhattan association can continue to uncover offensive and partons in downtown Manhattan which a suitable for these broadcasts from a whole list of there is for years to come. This year the Downtown Athletic Club aided co-sponsoring this radio Skerries Mr Parker as an editor an advertising man who knows much about radio may I have your comment. Not only would it appear that recorded historic events which have occurred in long Manhattan appear to be almost an exhaustible lot of Chicago one thought about quite often unexpectedly to take a rightfully important place in the record fish very because the Downtown Athletic Club became interested in this important viable historic educational program we discovered that I club building nineteen watched great was located on the side of the pier which jutted out into the author of From the McComas mansion gotten back in seventy ninety all present filled inland Beijing on West Street was then a little distance out of the water it was from this pier the General George Washington then president of the United States bad his last farewell in the oxygen and black on the official state by to be rowed to the Jersey shore from there he took his coat from. That year the capital of the United States was moved to Philadelphia and President Washington went there to resume his duties when the next Congress convenes and never again returned to watch any other state. The non-dominant logic club is now in design for bad why is felt a member of the national scope of society and the National Academy of Design for a commemorative plaque which if a probe will likely be placed on our club building this event for then become the background for one of the programs in this area. Because of research undertaken for this series another important site has been rediscovered it appears that the first United States Navy Yard in New York City was located directly after the Revolutionary War on the East River its docks in seventeen ninety two are approximately out in the water for the now still in sight of the New York Journal American is located at two twenty south street here such few ships that are new government and then possessed for battle were overhauled at the docks when necessary during the British occupancy of the city its naval vessels had been repaired and tied up to the same docks old maps marked this location as the US Navy dock when the United States Navy purchased land in Brooklyn early in the one thousand nine hundred four locating the present New York Navy Yard the installation was moved there and the old docks used by the Navy in Manhattan were sold to private enterprise at present the United States Navy historians are officially undertaking to confirm this first New York Navy Yard location it is likely that the journal American will then place a fitting plaque on its ability to commemorate another historic site in downtown Manhattan so it would seem that important sites somehow temporary lost in the historic shuffle to bob up as Mr Parker has remarked so that our historic heritage of old New York series may continue on indefinitely. Thank you Mr Moore and gentlemen. You have just heard a panel of prominent New Yorkers who discussed the historic or are both New York they were Mr Percival Robert Moses president of the downtown Manhattan Association Mr William T. Vand acting president of the Holland Society of New York Mr Wrenn and D. Parker a prominent downtown New York agency executive representing the Downtown Athletic Club and Mr Richard are doing a feature writer on the staff of The New York Journal American moderator was L. Porter more executive director and Secretary of the downtown Manhattan Association. They historic heritage of old New York is presented each week at this time by your city station under the auspices of the downtown Manhattan Association the Downtown Athletic Club The American Heritage Foundation the New York Historical Society is am of the city of New York New York Public Library the New York City Department of Commerce and the New York Journal America coordinator for the series is L. Porter move these programs are rebroadcast in the schools on the York City Board of Education station W N Y E F And we invite you to be with us again next week when a panel of prominent New Yorkers will again discuss the historic heritage of New York. And. I can.