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Daily News from New York, New York • 218

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Daily Newsi
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DAILY NEWS, MONDAY, MARCH 4, I-'roofclyn Section Page 1 New Recreation Area QUEENS BUILDING RISES $600,000 DURING MONTH Building activities initiated in Queens during February exceeded in value those of January by more than Village Group Asks R. R. Span at Once The Village Officials Association of the Great Neck, Nassau, area has asked the- Town Board of North Hempstead immediately to start construction of the bridge over the Long- Island Railroad tracks at 7th Great Neck. 1 l-1 'I" 1 GUARD ROUTS YEGG WHO CUT HOLE TO BANK A painstaking safe-cracker who entered the South Ozone Park branch of the Bank of Manhattan Company by cutting a hole in the wall of the building was routed without loot yesterday by the arrival of a watchman who found the This landscaped recreation area will be laid out on the site of the car loops east of Washington monument in Brooklyn as part of the Williamsburg Bridge terminus improvement project. according to a report yesterday I by Building 111 issioner i Frank C.

Keller. I ssing i the belief that the Spring pick-! up in building already was under way, Keller informed Bor. ough President George U. Harvey, of Queens, Commissioner Keller that plans had been filed last month for 251 new buildings costing $1,084,611. In addition, he said, permits were issued for 507 alterations, costing $207,383, making a total of In January plans were filed for 164 new buildings and 449 al- teration permits issued, the total cost amounting to $507,930.

3 3 FORM WINTER CLUB AT PORT JEFFERSON The newly organized Winter sports club of Port Jefferson, Suffolk, has been named The Pen guins. The bird has been approved as the insignia 01 the club. X. Clark is president. ABRAHAM 352 mil Beauty Experts To Doll Up Two Old Bridge Ends Improvements that will reduce the unsijrhtliness of two East Kiver bridge-end areas the Manhattan terminus of the Brooklyn Bridge and the Brooklyn end of the Williamsburg Bridge were announced yesterday by the Department of Plant and Structures.

Work on the removal of the Brooklyn Bridge extension over Park Kow, which has been an eyesore in City Hall Park since it was built fift vears ago, will start on March 31. Must Change Stations. Notice of the operation, which will 'require them to rearrange their station facilities, has been served on the Xew York' Rapid Transit Corporation and receivers for the I. R. T.

and the Manhattan Railway Company by Commissioner of Plant and Structures, F. J. II. Kracke. The bridge extension, once a vital link in speeding up transfer of passengers between the Second ami Third Ave.

Klevated lines ami the bridge routes to Brooklyn is no longer necessary, this traffic having fallen off to almost nil, it was said. In the Williamsburg Bridge terminus improvement, a landscaped recreation area will be laid out on the site of the car track loops east of Washing-ton Monument. Includes Wading Pool. The recreation facilities ill include a wading pool, sand boxes, jungle gyms, see-saws, slides and swings. There will also be concrete handball, basketball and volleyball courts.

For adult relaxation, the department will provide benches with built-in checker boards, shuffle-board courts and quoits and horseshoe pitching pits. Both bridge improvements will be carried out with the aid of relief workers and labor provided by the Works Division of the Department of Public Welfare. yegg attempting to bore through the safe. I.cuviiiK behind hi burglar's tools and hat, mat and shoesr which he had removed to do a businesslike job, the frightened thujr scampered through the hole he had entered by as Louis Buck.j bank watchman, appeared fur his I'. M.

inspection of the bank at Kockaway lioulevard, South Ozone I'ark, (Queens. Huck pursued the man on Lincoln but was outdistanced by bis shoeless quarry, who disappeared in the direction of Sunrise Jlii'hway, Fingerprints found on the ecu kinan's tools will make his capture virtually a routine matter if he has a criminal record, in the opinion of apt. Henry Flattery, in chartre of the detective division in South Queens. KAISKS WHISKERS ON FKAT DAKE UurlinKt-n, March There's money in those whiskers Richard J. of Brooklyn, N.

sophomore at the University of Vermont, is raising on a dare. His fraternity brothers vowed he could not go without a shave untd May 2 and backed their bet with $10. Martin accepted the watrer, I'ururinjr he would le in not only the ten but the cost of shaves and razor I. lades in the meantime if he could hold tin. A campus that was not entirely aware that, sophomore, could row-whiskers is eagerly watch in? the growth, already luxuriant.

HELD AFT EFTwiLD RIDE IN STOLEN CAR Followinjr a wild drive Saturday ninht in a stolen automobile which struck a man, Daniel Ahearn, 2l, of STlh Jamaica iueens, was arrainoU Jamaica Court yesterday. Magistrate Alfred J. Hoffman held him in bail for further hearinc March i on charj(s of grand larceny and assault. NASSAU OPENS WAR ON BAD HEADLIGHTS Nassau County police have been directed to arrest all motorists' traveling the county's highways without, proper lights. Police said many necidcits have resulted from improper liirhts.

It's no longer "Specs" Now itfs "Eyewear" The ilisliiulion is well-deserved lieeause today glasses are as well-styled, as beautiful as a piece of fine jewelry. The frame illustrated is gold-filled, in white or flesh-color, finely engraved, and lias the self-adjusting nose-pads which are comfortable. It will give yon lasting service. Mezzanine Floor. WOULD DEPORT ALIENS Deportation of aliens on relief rolls, as well as those who have been in the United States tea years without becoming citizens, was a a ted in resolutions adopted by the Tiger Club of Astoria, Queens.

PAR WAGES URGED Restoration of pay cuts for city and State employes was urged in resolutions adopted by the Dutch Kills Democratic Club of Long Island City, Queens. PUBLIC NOTICE INVITATION TO CONTRACTORS CONTRACT INSTALLATION OK TRACKS. COXTACX KAIL AND OTHEK WORK FOB. A. i'AKT OF A RAPID TRAXMT RAILROAD JAMAICA YARD Sf altil bills or proposals lor the Installation ol Tracks anil Contact RaU ant! oilu work lor a iun oX a Rapid Transit in tb- Borough ol Quit City ol New York, will be riMlvuil t.y tli Board ct Transportation, acting lor ami on bcbalf of The City of New York, at the otfu-e of Bun! Board at No.

Sov Hudson Street. Borotiifh ot New Yoik. City, until the twelfth day ol Man 1 at eleven-thirty (11:30) o'clock A. at nhiih time and place or at a later data to be lixed by said Board, the Diollotaia will be publicly opened and read. The Jamaica Yard in which said traik anil contact rail are to be installed ami oiher work to be perforniiii 19 located in the Borough of Queens on Citv property situated northwest of the intersection ot Grand Central Parkway and Queeus Boulevard.

The Contractor will be to complete all ol the. work withia eit-ht IM monthii from the date of the delivery ot the contract. This contract is to be financed la wholo or in pari, by a Loan and Grant by the" Fed rai Kuienieney Admiuistration ot rtib-lic Works, and ia subject to the provigtonn of the National Industrial Reeoveiy Act and to the rules and regulation prescribul by the I'resident of the Unitwl Statm or the Administrator of the Federal Entr-rccncy Ailnn nist ration of Public Woiks. Without exception, no bid will be mi-iJered unless it includes or acconipann by the Bidder's Certificate of Compliance, I'nitcd States Government I'orm PVVA tU. Revised March.

to the effect that the bidder is complying with and will continue to comply with applicable Coce of Fair Competition, or. in the absence of such Code or Codes with the I'residi iit'a Hcemploynieni Asrreement. This Certificate is set lorth verbatim in Hie Form of Contractor's Proposal. The attention of bidders is particularly called to the requirements as to the Diim-niuni wase rates to be paid under th contract. No proposal will be received tinlep accompanied by a certified check fur twem.r-two thousand dollars i payable to the order of the Comptroller of the city and drawn upon a national or state back or trust company satisfactory to the Bnani and having its principal office in New York City, or by coupon bond? or tiik ol the thy of a market value at Irat equal to the above amount.

checks, bonds or stock must not tie enclosed in the envelope containing the proposal. Kvery proposal must when submitted bi enclosed in a scaled envelope endorsed lor hiKUtilntit.n of Traiks, I tut' tat hatl jh(1 Other Work-Jamuiti lt.Hi,ttrt T-S5." and must be delivere.l in the Board or tts SeerMnry: and ill the presence of the person snbinittiiisr the proposal, it will tie deposited in a sealed box in which all proposals will be deposited. Ilippsits made by bidders, evcept tins lhne lowest formal bidders, will be re-inrnid within 3 days alter the receipt of the bids. The deposits of the remainimr bidders, except the lowest bidder, will returned within 3 oavs after the award ot the contract by the Board and approval thereof by the Gorernmenr Engineer. If oO days shall have elapsed after the award of ttie eontracl tw the Board and approval thereof by the frovernment EuKineer and before the Beard of Estimate and Apportionment shall have authorized the cxci n-tion of the same, as provided in Section of the Rapid Transit Act.

the successful bidder, at his option may substitute for tl; certified cheek so deposited a surety homl satisfactory to and acceptable by ilm Board, and shall thereupon have reinrmd to him his deposit of said certified check, provided that the bidder shall have stipulated with the Board to waive the rieht to withdraw the bid if deliver? of the contract, is not made within 45 days of ihft receipt of the bid. Within 3 days after the delivery of the contract the deposit consisting of cither the certified check op surety bond shall be returned to the Contractor. A fuller description of the work on5 other requirements, provisions and steci-fieaiions are riven in th Contract Documents forming: this contract, which are as lollows: Invitation to Contractors. Information for Contractors. Form of Contract.

General Contract Provisions. Specifica lions. -Form of Contractor's Proposal, and Form of Boml. together with the Contract Drawings, copies of which may be inspected ami purchased at said office of the Board. The purchase price of these documents, per sot, is The receipt of bids will be stibicet the retiuirenients specified in said Information for Contrn'-tors, New York.

FebrtiaiT 5. lHfin BOABD OF TRANSPORTATION OF TOT CITY OF NEW YORK Bv JOHN H. DFUNFY. rhairman. FRANK X.

Sf r.IJVAN, CHARLKS V. HALI.KY, JR. firm mis sr. WM. JEROME DALY, Serretiirn.

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