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STANDARD UNION THURSDAY, JUNE 1 1S3V Link Affords Needed Trait euei Much ficE New Bridg ii 1 11 Automobile Highway B. H. Namm Sees Significance In New Motor Highway Link By BENJAMIN NAMM, PRESIDENT OF THE NAMM STORE. The opening; of the new express highway on the Man Gives New Facilities New Automobile Roadway Called Great Forward Step! i ii i By REAR ADMIRAL W. PHELPS COMMANDANT, NAVY YARD, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

Not the least important aid to the maintenance of pros- perlty is a continuing effort on the part of all municipal authorities to eliminate the huge waste of money conse- quent upon loss of time due to traffic jams occasioned bv ng Island To Brooklyn, Lo CITIZENS' COMMITTEE MAJOR BENJAMIN H. NAMM, Chairman EDWIN JOSEPH J. EARLY, Manhattan Chairman Brooklyn Chairman Executive Committee HON. ALBERT GOLDMAN, Chairman Edwin A. Lahm, Manhattan chairman; Joseph 3.

Early, Brooklyn chairman; Borough President Samuel Levy, Borough President Henry Heeterberg, Lawson H. Brown, Robert M. Catharine, James W. Danahy, Tenement House Commissioner William F. Deegan, Hon.

Edward A. Byrne, Police Commissioner Edward P. Mulrooney, Deputy Police Commissioner PhUlp D. Hoyt, Thomas A. Swift, Joseph Platsker, David Rob, lnson, Charles H.

Fuller, J. Driscoll Tucker, Isidor Frledenthal and Hon. Peter J. McQulnness hattan Bridire marks a significant era in the growth of Brooklyn providing, as it will, increased facilities for 35,000 cars daily. The new upper deck vehicular roadway on the Manhat A l.

1.1 1 tan Prirltm i. ntw.n to the DUDI1C Just a few weeks agu, Mr. George McAneny, ina comoination oi increasing Commissioner Albert Goldman of the Department of the number of motor vehicles President of the Regional along with the growth of busi Plant and Structures, which department nas reconstructed the bridge to make this roadway possible, says that the total cost of the improvement is approximately $800,000. Flan Association, spoke of our Borough as follows: ness and population. Mayor Walker's administra It would be a bold The ipu whlcn true roaaway- tion oi tne uty or xsew xorK I nas neen a notable adminis FITTING REWARD prophet to attempt to envision the complete future of Brooklyn.

But there are certain Bigns too plain to be mistaken. The Borough not only surpasses Manhattan in population, but pos TO PAPER'S VALUE tration in the success achieved in increasing rapidity of communications J)y speeding traffic This costs money. But the investment now made is bound to be amortized with a handsome profit to business V- i i 1 By WILLIAM BATES President Brooklyn National Life sesses, in eize and poten tialities for future growth, Insurance Co. It is most aDDroDriate that the of in general. The opening of the new up-1 much larger scope for ex ficial announcement of the nf stjuirlarrl TTnlon Sauara Er deck roadway on the Man-! ttan Bridge is another sig- nif icant step in this advance occupies was formerly used by the Manhattan Bridge Three Cent Line and this cost Includes the sum of $206,760 which was paid to that company tor Hs franchise, ears and other equipment.

This new roadway win he generally 32 feet 6 Inches In width, except at the anchorages where the width is 19 feet It will be used for light automobile traffic from Manhattan to Brooklyn. The existing roadway on the easterly side of the upper deck win then be used exclusively tor light automobile traffic from Brooklyn to Manhattan. The main roadway on the lower deck win be used tor automobile trucks and buses. THE MANHATTAN BRIDG The Manhattan Bridge was opened to traffic 1908. and the cost of the bridge was slightly In excess of $31,000,000.

The facilities on this bridge when opened to traffic were as fellows: Jour rapid transit tracks, four tracks for surface trolley cars and a roadway providing four lanes for vehicle traffic. should be made in conjunction with pansion. In less than a generation of time, the Borough may be expected to have a population pass the ceieorauon oi we opening ui hmi pxnresa hiehwav on Man a a hattan Bridge on June 18. The Standard union, tnrougn lis mm mn of service to the ueople ing four millions of people. Brooklyn's present day population now exceeds ana is Douna to speed up business and turn over to the advantage of bothManhattan and Brooklyn.

The christening of Standard Union Square is a deserved tribute to the place The Standard Union occupies in the field of journalism and an earnest of the continued usefulness of. this journal. j- of Brooklyn and outlying territory, has Justified the high esteem in that of Manhattan by nearly seven hundred thou which it Is universally held. Everything nArtainins to the material and sand and it will undoubtedly keep its present place as the spiritual welfare of its patrons isoi prime importance to ine Bianaara Union. premier Borough for decades to come." One of the great needs of our borough is for adequate ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The opening or the new express htohwttv mwni much to the nuhlic transit facilities so as to provide adequate circulation for our vast population.

This highway is a wonderful step in Owing to the loss of passenger traffic in the trolley lines operating the right direction. welfare in the matter of improved transportation and has naturally been supported at aU times by The Brooklyn Standard union. The nf the new Standard TTnlon There are some croakers who deplore increased facili ties which connect Brooklyn and Manhattan. These people Square Is but a fitting recognition suffer from the common complaint know as "inferiorities." on the easterly upper deck the railroad companies ceased operation on Oct 5, 1919. In that year the vehicular traffic, which was all carried on the lower deck of the bridge, amounted ot 30,915 vehicles in a period of twenty-four hours.

The department at that time believed that this space should be used for roadwav BurDoses to provide facili of the permanent vaiuo oi uus great newspaper. My own feeling is that improved transit facilities can have but one effect upon Brooklyn and that is to further increase its rapidly growing population. MOST APPROPRIATE Brooklyn stores are bound to benefit from any in ties for the Increase In vehicular crease in population. They are nearer home than any store in Manhattan can possibly be, and in addition they compare The thanks of the Brooklyn Citizens' Bridge Celebration Com-mlttee are due to the following for special co-operation: To Gen. James B.

Jourdan, for flags for the school children. To Major Benjamin H. Namm, for decorations on Flatbush avenue extension. i Hoaia at committee ineeUnn: Charles L. Harold, William Todd and Robert M.

Catharine. -Organisation of the parade; 1 Tenement Home Commissioner William F. Deegan, Grand Marshal) First Deputy FoUce Commissioner Philip D. Hoyt, repre- senUng PoUoe Commissioner Edward P. Mulrooney; Major General Hanson H.

Ely, Department of the East, Governors Island; Rear Admiral W. W. Phelps, commanding the Third Division District, including the Navy Yard. Fire Commissioner John J. Dorman and Sanitation Commli-loner WUUam Schroeder, Jr, for detail of the department bands.

Acknowledgment Is made to Dr. George J. Ryan, president of the Board of Education; to Dr. William J. O'Shea, City Superintendent of 8chools, and District Superintendent Emmanuel F.

Van Dam, for the eo-operatlon of the school children. Acknowledgment la made to the Standard OU Company for sue of the site of the reviewing stand. traffic NAME FOR PLAZA Flans were prepared for this re Wm. Payson Richardson John V. Jewell Jacob C.

Klinck Albert Hutton Fred Zeiti Dr. M. B. HanHnson Richardson Webster Solon Barbanell Thomas P. Cummlngs Leo A.

Delaporte Frank Obernier William Bacher Louis Mills Gibb Edward C. Blum Frank D. Jennings, M.D. Walter N. Rothschild Robert C.Blum CoL H.

S. Brown Henry Albert P. A. Rowley Michael Levy Edward J. McCarthy Gardiner Conroy Emmanuel F.

Van Dam Dr. Parke A. Kolbe Mrs. Sara De Foreest Willis H. Booth Frederick J.

H. Kracke William R. Bayes J. H. Walters James B.

Fisher, John J. Hayes Malcolm D. B. Hunter H. A.

Kinsey Paul Windels William M. Greve Edgar A. Baum E. A. Richards Joseph F.

Cox Fred M. Ahern Thomas E. Murray, Jr. A. H.

Laidlaw Francis Peter Murray H.G.Halsted Joseph S. McDonagh Philip Engel Joseph P. Ryan John T. Quinn Alonzo G. McLaughlin, Jr.

William V. Kerrigan Arthur Price Max Marcuese E. C. Dowden C. E.

Spayd E.V.Killeen. C. A. De Vausney Frank J. Murphy David Malbiri William T.

Tooker Dr. Philip A. Brennan Thomas J. Evers Joseph P. Moran Joseph J.

O'Reilly Edward D. O'Donnell William M. Calder Dr. Philip E. Gast M.

J. Shinn George Copeland E. Keeler Jonos William Kennedy, Jr. William H. Todd Simon F.

Bothschild Faul Block Bernard Gimbel George V. McLaughlin Walter Haramitt Fremont C. Peck Frederick W. Jackson Matthew S. Sloan Harry L.

Gaga Grover A. Whalen Jacob Brenner Capt William J. Pedrick Milton A. Ferguson J.H. Walters Howard E.

Galvin Henry Fayler Harry M. Goldberg Peter P. Cattel M. Preston Goodf ellow John E. Rust6n D.

A. Forward Seth Bradford Dewey John H. McCooey, Jr. Dr. Arthur M.

Howe David J. McLean Philip A. Benson Charles A. Harold Herbert McCooey Clarence C. Wood Louis A.

Kif sling Edwin L. Garvin Col. H. R. Brown Alvah W.

Burlingame Orren C. Lester Jeremiah Levy Samuel Gumpert Meier Steinbrink George R. Holahan, Jr. Earl B. Puckett Dr.

Wm. Shroeder, Jr. E. M. Van Dam George C.

Tilyou Everett McCooey Howard Newman -Frank T. Tollea John H. Reb. M.D. Howard Burdick David Lanman Ralph Ebbert Harry-Zeitz Robert M.

Catharine Miss Mary E. Dillon Ralph Jonas John H. McCooey Manasseh Miller Julian P. Fairchild William J. Wason, Jr.

George E. Brower Frank C. B. Page Michael Furst Frederick D. Mackay Frederick R.

Wogan Frederick L. Gross Joseph Michaels, Jr. Henry J. Davenport John J. Robinson James H.

Jourdan construction and presented to we Board of Estimate and Apportionment, the necessary funds were ap most favorably as regards quality, assortment and service. As regards price, most shoppers have learned by experience that it is more economical to buy in Brooklyn. By CHARLES W. BEBBT propriated and the new roadway on the easterly upper deck was opened Controller of the City of New York The opening of the new express to traffic on June 15, 1823. The tral flo between 1919 and 1923 had in A.

S. Executive Sees Link highway on the Manhattan Bridge creased from 17,000 vehicles per day to a total of 37,668 per day. Since' that time there has been a steady increase In this vehicular traffic and the count taken in 1930 indicated a total of 65,828 vehicles in a twenty- is a matter lor congratulation to the people of. Brooklyn and to The Standard Union, which earned its place in the celebration by its vigorous and continuous support of measures beneficial to the borough. The plaza that is to bear the name of The Standard Union is a most appropriate place for the ceremonies.

I beg to convey to you my own con BROOKLYN COMMITTEE. Part of Great Improvement 4 By EDWARD C. BLUM PRESIDENT OF ABRAHAM STRAUS, INC. It is highly commendable that the plaza in front of The four-hour period. This traffic consisted of 49,410 passenger cars and 16,418 trucks and buses.

Horse drawn vehicles are not allowed on this bridge. gratulations and best wishes. By the opening of the new road Standard Union Building should be designated Standard flo artery. Commissioner Goldman Union Square, thus creating a new landmark. would like to answer the many in I understand that the official announcement will be aulries made by the public as to lust how the traffic would move on tne bridge and in the streets near the made, in connection with the celebration of the opening of the new express highway on Manhattan and Brooklyn terminals.

way on the westerly aide of the upper deck, heavy type automobile traffic on the lower deck will be only slightly less than the total traffic was in the year 1919. The complete separation of passenger automobiles and the truck and bus traffic win tend to insure additional safety, as well as the expeditious handling and freer movement of all types of traffic. THREE BOADWATS Commissioner Goldman calls at At the Manhattan end the acUl ties have been increased for the the Manhattan Bridge on June 18, 1931, which will be Brooklyn bound traffic on both the lower and the new deck by the widening of the easterly side of the Brooklyn's Famous Old Oyster and; Chop House Welcomes Each New Step. In Brooklyn's Development at 374 FULTON STREET It Is Just a Step From the New Express High- way After You Leave the Manhattan Bridge Bowery between Canal and Bayard streets. IMPROVED FACILITIES tention to the fact that the bridge win have practically three entrances and three exits for vehicular traffic at each end ot the bridge, a most desirable condition to have at city The conditions at the exit from the easterly upper deck of the bridge at Canal street have been vastly improved by the Borough President of Manhattan due to the widening of Chrystle street for the a further step the closer union of the two boroughs, towards which The Standard Union has contributed to a large extent.

The new "express highway on the Manhattan Bridge is a part of a comprehensive plan of Brooklyn highways and will eventually connect with the cross-town highway and the Atlantic avenue high onages carrying urge amounts of vemcie traiiic. It is estimated that the two road ways on the upper deck will be able Manhattan bound vehicles to points north and east of the Bowery. For to accommodate 75,000 to 80.000 Das senger automobiles in a twenty-four syth street is being widened and nour penoa, ana that the lower deck win furnish increased faculties for can safely accommodate 30,000 to vehicles approaching the bridge sa.ooo trucks. Bo with the opening from the north and east on their way. of these hign- of the new roadway the vehicular way to Brooklyn.

Easy connection ways are now being laid out capacity or this bridge win be increased from the present traffic of Swedish Fish Sales Up GOTHENBURG, June 18 (U P) by the city and borough over 65,000 to about 110,000 vehicles can be made to the new westerly upper deck by using Forsyth, Division and Bayard streets and Bowery to the bridge entrance, without (Continued on Page 13) in a period of twenty-four hours. enginers. Nearly 46,300 tons of fish were sold last year at the port of Gothen In making announcement ot the May the officials of the city and borough and the placing in service of this new traf citizens of Brooklyn be inspired by this celebration and be encouraged to greater efforts towards" the completion of burg. Tnis means an increase ot 6,815 tons in comparison with 1928. The cash turnover increased with about $134,000 to $2,706,800.

ALL SYSTEMS BRAKES IGNITION Brake! Tetted fcr Bolsntlflo Xleetrle Brake Tettlnf Machln DRUMS TRUED WHEEL ALIGNMENT (Doa't start If jrea eaa't atop) Set. HOI. UNIVERSAL BRAKE AND IGNITION SERVICE 188 FLATBUSH AVE. EXT. Brookla, N.S.

Tel. mangle 8-110 this larger highway system, which is vital to the future growth of Brooklyn. I congratulate The Standard Union upon the honor Lipshitz Wetter Manufacture of DRESSES conferred upon it by the city. 36 Flatbush Ave. Extension BLINDNESS LEAGUE CAPTURED CHINESE Chamber of Commerce Head Welcomes the New Highway By WILLIAM "KENNEDY, JR.

PRESIDENT, BROOKLYN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. Every step in the civic or commercial progress of Brooklyn merits the attention and interest of every citizen. When measures of civic and commercial advancement may be simultaneously celebrated the occasion takes on greatly added importance. Brooklyn, N. Y.

PhoM Cumberland -TS4S BANDITS BEHEADED GREAT AID TO CHINA TIENTSIN, June 18 03 P) The PEIPINO, June 18 TJ P). Bandits extraordinary results obtained in captured in Tatungfu, Northern De Luxe Parlor Coaches four years by the International Shansl, have served as a gory ob League for Prevention ot Blindness ject lesson for their comrades still MacCormiack Rolling Window Screens Bronze Fly Screens All types--f or Windows, Doors, Porches, etc At retail Factory prices. Pioneere for twenty yeare ROLLING SCREENS, Inc. Factory and Mala Office: Jay, corner Nassau Street (Manhattan Bridie PUxa) BROOKLYN, NEW YORK In Tientsin have been revealed at a at large. Blx were captured by Tatungfu po reception given for Dr.

P. Lossaurn, who has returned to France after founding and directing the league lice in a robbery. They were taken to the center of the city, and while for tour years. thousands watched, old-fashioned executioners chopped off their The league established four Now Leaving Hourly for From 350 Flatbush Ave. At DoKnlb Avenue ROUTE Flatbush Ave.

to Eastern Parkway, to St. Johne Place, to East New York Avenue, to Glen-more Avenue, to Sunrise Highway, Merrick Road to Jones Causeway, heads. The executioners have had litle practice recently and took some time for the executions. clinics in Tientsin, and did field work in factories. Several thousand men, women and children threatened with blindness hare been curea.

Several Chinese and foreira ine. tors, who have worked without charge for the league, are carrying It is pleasing to note and to commend to public attention the two events of this nature to be commemorated on Thursday, 9une 18. Brooklyn's civic advancement takes on a new and vital meaning through the official opening of the new express highway on Manhattan Bridge to occur on that date. Here is a facility that will do much to -improve the movement of vehicular traffic between Brooklyn and Manhattan. That the official ceremonies will be participated in by the Mayor and other high city officials is testimony to the importance of this improvement.

All motor vehicle owners and drivers will find this new facility greatly to their benefit. In the line of commercial STOMATOL Round Trip One Way Round Trip OneWay FARE: $1.75 Weekday. $1,20 Saturdays, Sundays, $200 and Holidays $1,20 Tooth Paste and Month Wash flat Tult Strang AtiupUt Menufaetured the Orltfnel According to Formula of THE OFFICERS AND MEMBERS or The Long Island Automobile Club Wishes to thank the City Administration for making possible this added convenience to the motoring public on Manhattan Bridge. rn. PHILIP is.

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Ext Brooklyn New York growth and standing of that newspaper that such a designation of its location is thus made. I am glad personally to add these words of commendation' for the enterprise of the publisher of The Standard Union thatliaa. iron for.that newspaper this signal honor..