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BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, SUNDAY, JUNE 28, 1936 A t-i-h CQOLED AIR IS POLLEN-FR JulyllOpening For Tri-Boro Now Assured Invitations Dispatched for Ceremony Span Gets FinishingTouches By LEO EGAN The Tri-Borough Bridge, which two decades ago seemed a fantastic dream of civic groaps, is virtually complete today. A few finishing touches are engaging the attention bacteria-laden dust, our air-conditioning system makes not only a comfortable place to shop but a healthful onel because it's washed and filtered. By removing these irritating particles (hay fever sufferers note I) along with of a large force of mechanics but there no longer la any doubt that the bridge will open as scheduled on July 11. Invitations for the formal opening have already been dispatched. Unlike any other bridge In the metropolitan district, the new span is really four bridges, Unking Queens, Manhattan, the Bronx and intervening Islands.

A triumph in Suits! WHITE It has many Innovations never conceived by its original sponsors. Incorporated In its construction are the latest engineering methods for coping with traffic congestion; lead 'J7 SHARKSKIN Ml Fi SALE! FOOT-TRAINER PLAY OXFORDS 20 oil price on 500 pairs of Ami famous play exfoida for children. Foot-Trainer Play Oxioids giro absolute support ample toe room and are extremely comfortable. Brown and while elkskln with leather soles perforated uppers. 6 to to D.

All iiies in stock but not in each color. AIR-CONDITIONED SECOND FLOOR, CENTRAL 2.39 Regularly 2.98 ing away from it are spacious plazas and a spider web of connecting highways designed to eliminate all congestion. First Estimate $8,920,945 Back in 1922, when Qrover A. Whalen, then Commissioner of Plant and Structures, suggested that the city undertake its construction, the cost was estimated at a mere $8,920,945. With many awards for necessary land still to be paid, the Trl-Borough Bridge Authority has already spent about $30,000,000 In Federal funds in connection with Its construction.

Including the connecting highways and related undertakings, suchas the Randalls Island stadium, the final cost is now estimated from $61,000,000 to $64,000,000. Mr. Whalen's suggestion, Incidentally, was flatly rejected by the Board of Estimate and it wasn't until seven years later that a different view was taken. After a long wrangle as to whether the bridge or the proposed vehicular tunnel between Manhattan and Queens should be undertaken first, the Board of Estimate in the Spring of 1929 made an appropriation for both. With a silver-plated pick and shovel, Mayor Walker broke ground for the struc- ture in Astoria Park on Oct.

25, 1929, in the presence of about persons. Flreboats spouted columns of water into the East River in celebration. Then Came Market Crash Not long afterward the stock market crashed, city finances became tighter, and in 1932 work stopped. In the same year the Reconstruction Finance Corporation was set up of real Celanese with actiorirback jacket 5.50 Best sellers at 8.95 i. and an attempt was made to get Federal funds for completion through It without success.

From the outset it had been the Intention to reimburse the city for construc Just 150 io sell at this price I This Is the very same sharkskin featured in suits priced at over $20! You know how icy cool it looks and feels how superlatively smart it is! At 8.95 this very same -suit has been a consistent best- seller and will continue to be after this sale! Sizes 12 to 20. AIR-CONDITIONED THIRD FLOOR. EAST "TRAIL BLAZER" SHOES for BOYS tion costs through the imposition of tolls, and so it was decided to have the State Legislature set up a new entity to have charge of construction and to be known as the Tri-borough Bridge Authority. Mayor O'Brien, after the act was signed, named John Stratton O'Leary, George Gordon Battle and Fred C. Lemmerman as commissioners.

A Federal loan and grant was promised shortly afterward by the Public Words Administration. Expensive quarters were rented, new contracts drawn and promises were made that work would be resumed shortly. Mr. Battle resigned because of the pressure of private business and the late Nathan Burk-an was appointed in his place. Such was the situation when Mayor La-Guardia took office.

Promptly he questioned the expenditures for rent and Mr. Lemmerman resigned, his 2. For little, big and good a perforated, raw cord eole, unlined sport oxford for long, hard wear. Leather welt permit! them1 to be resoled and reheeled. Ventilated ramp moccasin style.

Siies 2 to 6. AIR-CONDITIONED SECOND FLOOR. CENTRAL 98 DOBBS Cross Country 5 PICNIC SPECIALS for those holidays ahead place being taken by George V. McLaughlin, president of the Brooklyn Trust Company. Next Mr.

O'Leary was ousted and Park Commissioner Robert Moses named to the vacancy. Moses Revives Project With Mr. Moses as executive director, things began to hum. Plans for the bridge were completely revised. New contracts were drawn and work resumed in the October of 1934.

It wasn't clear sailing, however. Mr. Moses got Into a row with Public Works Administrator Ickes and then with Mayor La-Guardia, and statements flew thick, fast and hard. But there was no delay in construction. Mr.

Ickes finally agreed not to withhold funds while Mr. Moses was a member of the Authority and the Mayor, after a legal opinion, reappointed Mr. Moses to the Authority when his first term expired. A second row between Moses and Ickes broke out, but this, too, was settled amicably. Those who attend the formal opening or visit the bridge after-Wards Island, siips to Randalls From huge towers rising in Queens, Manhattan and the Bronx and on the islands in between has been The only Dobbs hat at $5 created especially to give your wardrobe the pririlage of possessing an extra hat by Dobbs.

Cross Country is typically Dobbs in that It Intro- duces new crown detail and boasts unWer-al becomingness and wearability. All colors, AU headslses. Other Dobbs hats 6.75 to 15.00 AIR-CONDITIONED THIRD FLOOR. CENTRAL DOBBS-YOUR ASSURANCE OF DISTINCTION IT'S NOT A WOMAN'S SIZE IT'S HER BULGES THAT MAZE HER SELF-CONSCIOUS IN A BATHING SUIT! STREAMLINE THEM WITH THE SPECIALLY DESIGNED spun a spider's web or steel ana concrete. Starting at Astoria Park, the bridge spans the treacherous currents of Hell Gate, pauses at Wards Island, skips to Randall's Island, and then stretches out two huge arms to embrace Manhattan and the Bronx.

Express Routes to Span From Astoria Park, express highways and parkways stretch out into Queens. The Parkway skirts Flushing Bay, bisects the site of the proposed World's Fair, and then Joins the new Grand Central Parkway, which hugs the crest of the ridge forming Long Island's backbone. From the Bronx end, express highways stretch north, connecting wiyi the Bronx and Westchester Park systems. Randalls Island, made accessible by the new bridge, is being turned into a park. A stadium has been built and will be used for various sporting events, including Olympic trials, to be conducted on the same day as the formal opening.

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