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I want to bring something. From. Mary Tyler Perry. President and heart listen to most of. The Cavanagh distinguished guests ladies and gentlemen. The secretary of the pardon of Marine and having a friend. I have the honor this morning. Of. Welcoming you here at this historic occasion. We have a. Small program. And it necessarily had to be brief because as we all know all American poet Terry is a very busy man. Therefore well out further adieu. I would like to stop a ceremony. With the playing of the Star-Spangled Banner. Of the city and the we are on of a direction of honorary devotee. Georgette Riddell. Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen. Rabbi Alexander Bernstein chaplain of the the power of Marine navigation. Well I'll deliver the invocation Rabbi Bernstein. That has been great. On Microsoft with feedings of the Reverend central found rackets to. Be assembled here to dedicate this terminal that may become a place of comfort and then a meeting place for those who work for the toilet in our great city. And carry on the commas and industries of our beloved land I land and. Be noticed on that's our bill the House and veiny the labor that our the and the last hour and the with us the sanctified by pressing no blessing kind of way to here nor can we find that strong that sense of a common destiny and a common humanity which should find our hearts to gather and peace and drop in. Always I was ten is the solitary in families and gathers the nations to gather we thank you for this land of our hearts devotion be blessed before the bottomless badgers and the many gifts of nature hidden within our borders and in vast that to all people for us what i Providence itself that I believe about our nation from danger and. From memory supply in New Years and the Allies leaders who transformed the wilderness into a nation and once threw off our feelings too thin for the new sponsor better to use an opportunity for our own NEW DAY a new age and for the privileges it's ours to serve the cause of human freedom everywhere God from all selfish purposes in this critical hour on the life of our nation deliver us from every one does with breakdowns revenues from long and corrupt our credit's of corporate responsibility make strong our hot sun patient out fear made up of the outskirts and made the light of the icons and is given to Rock Springs and out in a spirit that you might not falter in the time he switched that stuff through the F.M. those opposed i seven is the president of the United States the governor of this state then may have his great city the commissioners executive and all of us who the people haven't trusted with power that constructive I fear they may govern this nation according to the law or that string them which has no rain in this spirit consecrate this time around to the old gods and be entertained and confidence on the by protection key parts not pain but the well is out with us forever be still with our blessing of God upon our C.E.O. guide Oh father was going to happen our step. And God out of going out and not coming in from this time before and forevermore I mean. It now for it's me great pleasure to introduce. Commissioner Edward F. kavanah Joan here all the pomp and I'm very lavish and oh well act as your Master of Ceremonies commission a cabin on. Camera. Pilot carry a mission to Mars has passed and haw much to head question. Stang which yes ladies and gentlemen. The chairman has sounded the keynote of brevity and I know the pressure on to what. Labors this is rather a long problem and I shall abide by the keynote sounded by the chairman. Consistency and proximate regularity with which I have had the honor and pleasure of appearing in my official capacity. At a million and multimillion dollar improvement ceremonies in this borrow. Well I believe. HIERO gotten deep consideration in which. Administration. The welfare of the people of. This ceremony this morning. But. Significant and not a democracy completion. And statewide traffic system. And. To date upwards of twenty million dollars. It does not represent just a fairy house. Or a ferry terminal in a broad sense it represents. A link in the great Audrie's of traffic on which the life and progress and success of the city. Here on this island that you have more than ten percent. Of the total. Value. Of. The city of New York without adequate attention from the other areas of the city. And Commerce would be diverted to other areas of the nation in the world. Having in mind that great commerce. And your administration. On a tremendous. Development program of which we feel this time and. Whether it's approaching. Five point. It's Audrey's of passenger travel is a major part. Today we have spent in addition to the twenty five million dollars or so that has gone into this particular part of the project. More than twenty three million dollars. On work accomplished or being accomplished as of this moment. That work includes new construction fire prevention rehabilitation and modernization of your hope one. And we in tandem know a template and energetic way to keep this part in the forefront as the greatest and most important point in all of well. I just in conclusion I will say that you have complete assurance that this time you know and this link. Well be maintained in the interest not only of your people but in the greater interest of all the people of the city you have our assurance of that can can you care and we will take around the clock in your ferry service and your interests here on Staten Island thank you. Before presenting the next speaker I would like to take a moment to introduce to gentleman. I have given such service such assistance that I would be remiss if I did not ask them at this point. And take a box first I would call on the deputy commissioner of the department of Marina navigation and likeness. And then also on no experience and I just a conscientious Deputy Commissioner brain and I have a ation Alexander Pete shall pass. Gentlemen it is a real pleasure for me to present someone known to all of you. Oh I believe. In his conscientious effort. To safeguard the interests of the Great Fire of Richmond and in addition I would like to express the same time I introduce in my appreciation to him and the organization he represents by the count so they continually get to watch Mr OTTO you had placed executive secretary of the Scottish island Chamber of Commerce. Mr Cavanaugh. Mr Man made. President all ladies and gentlemen. This occasion and initiate a magnificent forward step in the advancement of Scott and. It indicates that Scott will stat not honest finally coming into its all as one of the outstanding for the city of P.R.. Every citizen of Staten Island is very proud of this fact deficit. And to you Mr Mayor. All the officials of the city of New York as well as the labor. Engineers contractors and all others who have had anything to do whatsoever with the building of this ferry terminal the citizens of Staten Island will be ever great. We sincerely pray and hope that this faith is but the first miles in the back is going to start not as magnificent as it is without proper. Both for our passengers and far. It's cost could well be for not. Commissioner Kavanagh to you your official staff of the department of parade and I appreciate the pilots and crews of the ferry that gratitude but also we look to you for increased ferry service that will be. Commensurate with our crowd and our ever increasing busy tempo which exists in the metropolitan New York. Mr Hall is our leader and we appreciate his on tiring efforts in pursuit of the citizens of. The improvements the place he probably called his home we pray and we hope that this is the beginning of a new era in the growth and the development of the fact. That so many things which we need to make it a thriving growing island will be supported by the officialdom of the city of New York and that I leave. Express Highway waterfront improvements sanitation. And jumpstart to necessary to lessen the pollution of the water surrounding the Staten Island will be shortly. We are indebted to ration our Moses for his one of the developing a bipartisan and sincerely trust that he will last in his efforts to further to develop the marine park. In order that it will be heralded throughout the entire country as a haven for recreation. Not only for the general populace. But also as a space for small fry we on Staten Island are well aware of the fact that our growth and development I entirely dependent upon the officials of the city of New York. And that as we hear that it takes us back to the start terminal we look to our official. Rate. Which shall establish call fact that fast and island is no longer a stepchild with the city of New York. Has its least populated. With the open for experience. It can very shortly be converted into a large tax revenue producing area for the city of New York but only the officials of the city of New York give to it the necessary necessary improvements that will give its ever growing population the same facilities up in grass and he grass as is now enjoyed by the other Paul city of New York. Mr America commissioner Moses commissioner Kavanagh and all the officialdom of the city of New York he speaks you I'm here. To accept this challenge which is dry to your hand. Already gentlemen it would be stretching the operators. To emphasize the importance of hard. Play. Not only conception of the idea. But the conception of the idea. For much of the development of our mission. With on our present the. Construction coordinator of the city of New York and the commissioner of the city of New York. A man who has built up so much of the city and state of New York the honorable Robert. Cavanaugh. Aaron Pillitteri ladies and gentlemen. I said this all before. This is a great moral way only borrowing the city of New York where there's still an opportunity for a first class planning job one of the reasons for it of course here comparative isolation. This terminal is not only a very ingenious piece of engineering and construction work but it is one of the most important solutions of the traffic problem in the city of New York I must say I'm getting a little bit tired of the press and other people who. Post that they really have are going to Brooklyn that they only go to Queens for funerals and that they've never been to Staten Island. I don't think that's any patent of nobility. Fact is that there's much more to New York City than Midtown Manhattan and this is a very important part of. I was a statistic showing me on this. Program you have in front of you. This terminal here will have half as many passengers as Grand Central and Grand Central is one of the most important and used terminals in the world very few people understand that horses because everybody goes through this tunnel on the way to well. Work and home in the ME. Are just two things I want to mention in this. Particular context. First of all I guess you all know that we were very anxious to build a Narrows Bridge. Tunnel was impossible cost another reason. We had to give that up and I would be less than frank if I said that it hadn't been given up for a long long time. Clearance for this bridge had to be so great over two hundred fifty feet and it would have been the highest longest and five fall the most expensive bridge in the world and there was no way of finding the funds to build. The Triborough Bridge authority but anxious to help Mary and Philip Perry and also for a present home and we've agreed to spend some of our surplus money to revive the thirty ninth Street fairy tale rebuild the slips in Brooklyn. To widen thirty nine spree till the ramps on the bill want to simply put in additional slips here and better approaches we'll start designing the path of the borough president and with Commissioner Kavanagh just as soon as we can i don't say that's a complete substitute for an hour on this bridge but it's a very important admission to your facilities here at this terminal and you can be sure that we'll build just as fast as prior. Labor and material conditions will permit the only thing I want to mention is this long delay Staten Island Railroad elimination program. Began I would be less than frank I didn't say I think it's nothing short of a disgrace that this argument over the elimination has been going on within my knowledge and memory. Since the last administration of Governor Smith. And finally it's got down to a question of just exactly how certain details of construction will be carried on an argument largely involving railroad engineers and engineers in Albany. Centering around the question of whether certain changes in design will be made which if they were made would result in a delay of another two years I think we can overcome that but that record of the Staten Island elimination takes up about three feet if you pile the whole thing up all of her responses would be about three feet high and it's been going on for twenty years and it's time it ended and I think we can and. I want to thank the commissioner for inviting me and I'm delighted to be here on this very auspicious occasion Thank you. Commissioner Moses extended thanks to the commissioner and if I may have the privilege of extending it further thank you it also has gone to the next speaker. Termino is not alone in the project of the Department of Marine and navigation. It is also the project of your borrow and the next speaker. Also from a conception of VERY him for forty and I thought it has been marked with diligent effort tireless effort day after day push no observation of it progress and cry. I present the bar president of Richmond. Honorable. Mr May I. QUESTION The Moses. Question Kavanagh. Distinguished visitors ladies and gentlemen. I like this term. I have not a single criticism to make a hand. Either in designers' construction. The tribute is like the turn and I feel that everyone who has passed through it admires. And several pages in the past. I have thanked the members of the Board of Estimate for appropriating the money that made this time no possible. I wish at this time. To thank the former mayor of the city Merrill Dwyer and what he did here. I wish to thank him for the many kindnesses that he showed to me as far as President of Richmond. I was just thanked him for the interest that he saw in all problems affecting heart. And you must a man. Or a member of the Board of Estimate from January first one to forty six. And one of the scenes all during the construction. And therefore I especially. For another. Time at that time. We had I. Was there and drove up the square and I mean for many millions of dollars. And you always went along with those requests with a smile. Occasions like. One the opportunity. Point out the additional name of the community. But I agree. As I want to celebrate the thing with private. Anything the word or phrase. I wish the people of having could realize. Or put on this thing was. The great and serious problems that affect the city of New York. And the burden that is placed on the mayor of this that. He is the chief executive and my face many problems. That friendship problem is only one of the many. But I want to be honest the man that this is your day on that night. We don't want to be burdened with any additional problems today. We want to have it be as restful and pleasant as possible. And we want him to leave here with the knowledge that we appreciate the fine print. We offer the way for a bank. In addition to every city agent. Every department. The mission of Moses the engineer and I didn't have to every contract and to every wife and especially feel Mr Man. Before hearing once more from the fire department band under the direction of sheep prego I wish I could take just one more moment. And to go. Three from among the many go home we are indebted for session and operating the terminal. Oh a ferry service for a prominent Staten Island resident here on Jan first the commandant of the. Coast Guard just picked. Up the Commissioner of Public Works for the city of New York. Chaman building on no choice the mission of Frederick simular. And last but not really your councilman councilman or. The next. Need no introduction at all to any of you. Frequently men in public life. Why are developed. And various areas subsequent to. Political success. But I think in the case of the next speaker. And this island. Date. Back. I won't date it but they show far back that it would just be senseless to charge him with what I have mentioned starting out a. Game and president of the city council. Working on all matters connected with the construction of this time and since that date is interested in the replacement of the terminal after the fire was called to the attention of all had a very early date as May I think his visit to Staten Island and the frequency with. She encouraged with his commission as on affecting Staten Island. Just some degree of affection but. More than other places it's my real honor to present the city of New York vention all of her. Thank. You Lesnar Cavanagh. Reverend pledging. President Paul. Commissioner of Public Works Fred's I'm alone. At my lonesome head west ladies and gentlemen. The natural beauty and the pleasant living conditions and staff and I have long been a claim it is also a borough of tremendous potential development whose growth is logically the pendant upon adequate transportation facilities the water sections of the city. Because they we celebrate one of the most important contributions ever made in the history of the borough of Richmond thought this kind of development. Another such contribution was recently made when we placed in operation the third of our new fleet of streamlined ferry. Together these prints potations improvements represent an expenditure of almost thirty million dollars. Down through the years editorials the times have pointed out. Correct tried to point out that Staten Island was a stepchild of the study administration. Surely ladies and gentlemen this is an answer to that kind of editorial. Only a short sighted up server however what Consider this magnificent terminal solely is above Richmond improvement. For the economic gains an improvement of the general public welfare and any one borrow cannot help but bring direct benefits to all the people of our city. The advantages of this modern terminal will soon spread to all sections of the city because much more of them better terminal facilities are contained in this building that is also a major traffic really measure. It will serve as a stimulant. Lobby economic development of the burl which in turn will bring additional city revenue. Direct revenue will also be produced by the increased business of capacity of this terminal to sell of these and from the concessions that I.P.M. allocated for certain public improvements through and convenience. The problem of Staten Island Ferry transportation has been the subject of lively controversy that's popped back to the seventeenth century. History records that and sixteen twenty four of Peter cited the front placed what was actually called home batterings caused by serious inconveniences that the people residing on either side of the water. And that goes all the way back to sixteen twenty four ferries at that time consisted mainly of robots or Indian canoes sometimes lashed together to transport horses and capital as well as people a few slips made a passage from Staten Island to New York and what was considered then very fast time three hours. I mention this because I would like to significantly point out a comparison between our ferry right now and what but it was then about three hundred years ago wagons and horses were charged two guilders and two styles that was under the Dutch administrator are approximately one dollar. A horse on Hong Kong be one get over and tense times are sixty cents. Each person three Stivers are six percent except for Indians may or are female who are charged six timers on twelve cents I don't know why but with that discrimination I went back and I was back. And shot a five cent play today is less than alright in effect three hundred years ago and I am sure that you will agree that the service is somewhat back. For those who might like a more modern comparison contained in the span of one generation the best way to measure the tremendous improvements made this year the Staten Island Ferry possibilities is to consider the increased traffic load since nineteen five when my last post ferry operation first began from forty one thousand vehicles going through the terminal to nineteen five autocratic bottom has song to more than two million vehicles accommodated last year. With the increased capacity of this new terminal next year's total may well read a quarter up billion. There. Similarly passenger traffic has increased while most thirty million ferry passengers carried per year the magnitude of this operation is better understood as commissioner Moses pointed out when one considers that this is about half of the total passenger traffic handled like Grand Central Terminal despite increased operations cost has which are far in excess of the proportion that returned from increased paralleling use the failure is still what it was in nineteen five five percent and one cent less than it was three hundred years ago. Today we had to their servers are unique transportation facilities unlike any other terminal five separate types of transportation have been integrated into what's designed so he can run a bus right out and protest bring in traffic must be transferred on and off ferry boats. The complicated interchange had to be continue uninterrupted during the entire construction period and relevantly a small area and under most difficult working conditions. Commissioner Kavanagh an entire division of very operations in the pop in the marina navigation how to be congratulated for having accomplished place major achievement with minimum inconveniences to the public. I am proud to have had a share in the conception and that's but died in this great public and prove. To all of the members of the board of. The governing body of the city of New York and particularly for your distinguished president CANIDIUS hall goes the credit for having made this improvement possible. It is interesting to note that on the very day that the Board of Estimate was considering plans for construction of this new terminal the. Ferry Terminal rundown uncountably the fire did hasten our plan but less terribly any misunderstanding I assure you that our enthusiasm for this project did not involve the crime of off. The many advantages of this modern structure I have too numerous to describe in the limited time of this joyful a case I would like to call your attention however some of the innovations and public services that are contained in a. At full capacity this terminal is except to handle an estimated peak load of thirty ferry gulps per hour accommodates five hundred fifty commuter passes around the specs thirty railroad trains per hour provide France potations for forty five thousand passengers per hour provided waiting in line for two hundred sixty passenger cars for the Brooklyn New York area provided a separate area for eighty automobiles waiting to pick up passengers and provide additional pocking facilities for five hundred cots the fireproof terminal building that cell with large public waiting rooms supplying with radiant heat he has applauded area of one hundred sixty eight thousand square feet. About seventeen thousand square feet of this area has been allocated for concession which will include such public conveniences as a post office telegraph office travelling and such shops as a bakery habitat Sheree tires and cleaners barber shop floors new stands for gosh plans few repairs and looks like seven everything about this building has been designed for the comfort and safety of the writing problem. I would be remiss in my duty that day however if I did not acknowledge that much more of them concrete and steel went into the making of this great terminal this project might better be measured in the heart like I'm planning the kind of planning that was supplied not only to this project but many other similar projects for the benefit of the bodily people of the city of New York by perfectly wonderful said the construction coordinator Bob most of. The many headaches of construction from the skill of the engine there and the sweat on top of our great American laboring people on behalf of the people of the city of Najaf I want to thank everyone connected with this project all of them my fully share in the gratitude and floods of all the people of I said he saw a splendid job well done thank. You Reverend Dr Charles T. bridge been trying to make sure to show any of my young chaplain of the Department of Marine and I may. Announce a benediction. I love be with you. I must pray. Almighty God. Who has his own home by people traveling by last and all by sea extending. B.C.P. buying Russia for protection to all who they were here. And who passed through the scary terminal on their local occasions. Defend them from all dangers and set them on their way with a great flow sense of my message through Jesus Christ on God and the blessing of God Almighty the Father the Son of the Holy Ghost be with you the Pongo going out and you are coming in from this time of I'm on Amen. I well I have to show like change in the fire department band under the direction of Kate breakup. And mg. Guy. Got. Got. Guy. Got. Got. Got. Got guy. Got. Em and GOD GOD GOD. Well I have some idea of their day next and. I have a day on this program and we will find on from Harry just a moment and play well last thought the bat out through this dog and around the south end of the time and out of the upper level for a while and go down through the know what I found out to the terrace and back and to the new entrance at the no answer and the man out well how to read bend and sound the first second now those of you who don't want to take that long roundabout friend. What's the matter might go right here to the south end of the time and home and take the stairway down and made us down stand by going to have another selection from the band before the man will be ready for the bomb.