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Courts in the City of New York

UNITED STATES COURTS
The Federal courts for the Southern District of
New York meet in the U. S. Court House, Foley
Square, Manhattan.

Clerk of the Court-George J. H. Follmer.
Southern District Court Judges (New York,
Bronx, Westchester, Columbia, Dutchess, Greene,
Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan and Ulster
Counties.)-John C. Knox, Henry W. Goddard,
William Bondy, John M. Woolsey, Francis G.
Caffey, Alfred C. Coxe, Murray Hulbert, Vincent L.
Leibell, John W. Clancy, Samuel Mandelbaum,
Edward A. Conger, Simon H. Rifkind and John
Bright.
The Federal courts of the Eastern District of
SUPREME COURTS,
For a list of the Justices of the Supreme Court |
see page 410.

The Supreme Courts in Manhattan and the
Bronx meet in the new monumental structure on

Headquarters-Manhattan,

New York meet in the Federal Building, Washing-
Clerk of the Court-Percy G. B. Gilkes.
Eastern District Court Judges (Kings, Queens.
ton and Johnson Streets, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Nassau, Suffolk, and Richmond Counties)-Marcus
B. Campbell, Robert A. Inch, Grover M. Mosco-
witz, Clarence G. Galston, Mortimer W. Byers and
Matthew T. Abruzzo.

Circuit Court of Appeals Judges (New York, Con-
necticut and Vermont)-Learned Hand, Thomas
Charles E. Clark and Jerome N. Frank.
W. Swan, Augustus N. Hand, Harrie B. Chase.

United States District Attorneys-Manhattan,
Southern District, Mathias F. Correa; Brooklyn,
Eastern District, Harold M. Kennedy.
NEW YORK STATE
Centre Street.

The Supreme Courts in Brooklyn, Long Island and Staten Island meet in the Court House on Joralemon Street, opposite the Borough Hall.

City Court

52 Chambers St.; ler (1946); James C. Madigan (1943); John A. 120 Byrnes (1946); Samuel C. Coleman (1947); Rocco Concourse; Brooklyn, A. Parella (1947); Frank H. Carlin (1949); Louis Grand Bronx, 851 L. Kahn (1950). Schermerhorn St.; Queens, Sutphin Blvd. and 88th Ave., Jamaica; Richmond, 66 Lafayette St., New Brighton, S. I.

The Chief Justice receives ($18,000) a year; the
Their terms expire
Associate Justices ($17,500).
Dec. 31 of year named.

Chief Clerk, Charles H. Hussey.
The court is composed as follows:
Manhattan-Joseph T. Ryan, Chief Justice
(1942); Henry S. Schimmel (1947); Joseph W. Kel-

Bronx-William S. Evans (1946); Solomon Boneparth (1951); Henry G. Schackno (1943); Thomas Brady (1950).

Brooklyn-Jacob H. Livingston (1948); Sylvester Sabbatino (1948); Murray Hearn (1949); Joseph V. Gallagher (1949).

Queens-William P. Wiener (1941); James J. Conroy (1947); Thomas J. Towers (1947). Richmond-Arnold J. B. Wedemeyer (1941).

County Courts

(The Judges receive $25,000) (Terms expire Dec. 31st of year named.)

Queens-Thomas Downs (1945) Charles S. Col-
Richmond-Thomas F. Cosgrove (1943).

Bronx-James M. Barrett (1955); Harry Stack- | cato (1949); Samuel S. Liebowitz (1954).
ell (1943); Lester W. Patterson (1947).

Kings-Louis Goldstein (1955); Franklin Taylor den (1949). (1955); John J. Fitzgerald (1942); Peter J. Bran

General Sessions

The court sits in the Criminal Court Building, 100 Centre St., Manhattan. Clerk of the CourtF. Howard Barrett. Deputy Clerk of the CourtJerome Craig. The judges, who are elected for 14 years, who receive $25.000 each, and whose terms end Dec. 31 of years named, are:

George L. Donnellan (1955), James Garrett Wallace (1949); John J. Freschi (1945): Owen W. Bohan (1947); Saul S. Streit (1950); Jonah J. Goldstein (1953); John A. Mullen (1955); Jacob G. Schurman, Jr. (1954); John J. Sullivan (1954).

Court of Special Sessions

PART II-120 Schermerhorn St., Brooklyn.
PART III-County Court House, Court Square,
L. I. City, Queens.

PART IV-County Court House. Staten Island.
PART V-851 Grand Concourse, Bronx.

otherwise noted) (Chief Justice, $13,000; other judges, $12,000) (Terms expire Dec. 31st of year named unless Chief Justice-William R. Bayes (June 30, 1946);, Building, 100 Centre St., Borough of Manhattan. other judges Alfred J. Hofman (1945), Frank Oliver (Apr. 30, 1942); Bernard A. Kozicke (June 24, 1946); Frederick L. Hackenburg (1943); James E. McDonald (June 30, 1945); Alvah W. Burlingame (1941); George B. De Luca (July 8, 1945); Nathan D. Pearlman (Nov. 25, 1947); Gustav W. M. Wieboldt (Sept. 8, 1945); Irving Ben Cooper (June 30, 1949); Myles A. Paige (Feb. 18, 1950); Matthew J. Troy (Feb. 18, 1950) John V. Flood (June 25, 1950); Thomas F. Doyle (June 30, 1950); William S. Miller (June 30, 1951).

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Chief Clerk-Morris Ploscowe; Deputy Chief
Clerk-Joseph H. McShane; office, 100 Centre St.,
Manhattan.

PARTS-I, VI, VIII and IX,-Criminal Courts

APPELLATE PART

First Judicial Department, on 1st and 3d Thursdays.

Second Judicial Department, on 2nd and 4th Thursdays.

PROBATION BUREAU

Rm. 512, 100 Centre St., Manhattan. Chief Probation Officer-James J. Ryan.

Domestic Relations Court, City of New York

unless otherwise indicated) (Presiding Justice, $13,000; other judges, $12,000 each). (Terms expire last day of month of year given

Presiding Justice John Warren Hill (Oct. 31, 1944); Justices-Joseph F. Maguire (Feb. 13, 1943); Lawrence B. Dunham (Sept. 22, 1945); Stephen S. Jackson (Dec. 9, 1944); Jacob Panken (1944); Justine Wise Polier (Sept. 13, 1945); Herbert A. O'Brien (Jan. 26, 1946); Juvenal Marchisio (Dec. 15, 1947); W. Bruce Cobb (Mar. 16, 1948); Jane M. Bolin (July 21, 1949); Dudley F. Sicher (Oct. 4, 1949); Isaac Siegel (Sept. 15, 1950).

Director of Administration, Adolphus Ragan ($7,000); Deputy Directors of Administration, Dennis A. Lambert ($6,500), and James F. Gillespie ($5,500); Chief Probation Officer, Andrew S. Bod

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Offices, 135 East 22nd Street,

nar ($3,300).
Manhattan.
New York County-Children's Court division,
137 East 22nd Street, James F. Gillespie, Clerk of
Court (ex-officio). Family Court division, 135 East
($4,000).
22nd Street; Rowland J. Sheridan, Clerk of Court

Kings County-Children's Court division, 111 Schermerhorn Street; Louis Wolff, Clerk of the Court ($3,840). Family Court division, 327 Schermerhorn Street; Benjamin Cooper (Acting), Clerk of the Court ($2,520).

Bronx County-1118 Grand Concourse. Chil

dren's Court and Family Court divisions, Frank A. Marron, Clerk of Court ($3,540).

Queens County-105-34 Union Hall Street, Jamalca, L. I. Children's Court and Family Court Divisions, Thomas J. O'Brien, Clerk of Court

($3,540).

Richmond County-100 Richmond Terrace, St. George, Staten Island, N. Y. and Family Court Divisions, Eugene E. Kenny, Children's Court Clerk of Court ($3,540).

City Magistrates

Appointed by the Mayor for a term of 10 years, expiring last day of month of year named unless
otherwise indicated) (Chief Magistrate, $13,000; others, $10,000)
Chief Magistrate-Henry H. Curran (June 20, 1945)
MANHATTAN-(HEADQUARTERS, 300 MULBERRY ST.)

Anthony F. Burke (June, 1942); William A. Farrell (May 4, 1945); Leonard McGee (July 8, 1945); Thomas A. Aurelio (May 1, 1945); Michael A. Ford (Dec., 1941); Mrs. Anna M. Kross (June 30, 1950); Alfred M. Lindau (July 18, 1947); Peter A. Abeles

(July 1, 1941); John F. X. Masterson (April, 1947); Edgar Bromberger (April, 1947); Morris Rothenberg (July 14, 1947); Harry G. Andrews (July 1, 1951); William B. Northrop (June, 1942); Robert F. Mahoney (April, 1943); Ambrose J. Haddock (July 27, 1949).

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Henry A. Soffer (Jan. 4, 1948); Frank Giorgio | Jenkin R. Hockert (Dec., 1947). (Dec., 1945); Anthony P. Savarese (May 24, 1944);

RICHMOND

Henry W. Bridges (Jan. 1, 1946); Charles G. Keutgen (Dec., 1947).

Municipal Courts

(Justices elected for a term of 10 years ending Dec. 31 of year given; President Justice, $11,840; others, $10,840)

The President Justice, Pelham St. George Bissell (1946)-Headquarters, 8 Reade St., Manhattan. The justices, by districts, are:

1st-8 Reade St., David Morris (1949); Michael R. Matteo (1947), Arthur P. McNulty (1947).

2d-264 Madison St., Isidor I. Haber (1945), Birdie Amsterdam (1949), Joseph Raimo (1947), Emil M. Haas (1943).

3d-314 West 54th St., Charles J. Garrison (1943), Joseph B. Rafferty (1947), George M. Carney (1949), Charles A. Curtin (1950).

4th-327 East 38th St., Wm. S. Katzenstein (1947), William T. Keleher (1947), John M. Lewis (1950).

5th-314 West 54th St., Thomas J. Whalen (1945), Abram Goodman (1947), Benjamin Shalleck (1949).

6th-170 East 121st St., Samuel Ecker (1943), Joseph F. Caponigri (1950).

7th-447 West 151st St., Lewis A. Abrams (1945), Charles Marks (1947), Thomas E. Rohan (1950). 8th-170 East 121st St., Mario G. Di Pirro (1947), William E. Slevin (1949).

9th-153 East 57th St., Keyes Winter (1943), Carroll Hayes (1945), George L. Genung (1947), William C. Wilson (1947); Pelham St., G. Bissell (1950), Jehial M. Roeder (1950).

10th-447 West 151st St., Charles E. Toney (1950); James S. Watson (1950).

BRONX

1st-1400 Williamsbridge Rd., Louis A. Schoffel (1943), Denis R. Sheil (1947), Christopher C. McGrath (1945), William Lyman (1945).

2d-East 162d St. and Washington Ave., Daniel V. Sullivan (1943), Michael N. Delagi (1945), Agnes M. Craig (1945), James W. Donoghue (1947).

BROOKLYN

1st-120 Schermerhorn St., George J. Joyce (1945), Michael Ditore (1949).

2d-495 Gates Ave., Milton M. Wecht (1945), Edward A. Wynne (1949), Wm. J. McNulty (1949). 3rd-6 Lee Ave., Charles J. Carroll (1949), Thomas E. Morrissey, Jr. (1947).

4th-260 Utica Ave., Jack S. Strahl (1949). 5th-4th Ave. and 42d St., Roger J. Brock (1949), Philip Simon (1949).

6th-27-33 Snyder Ave., Frank H. Parcells (1945), Edward Cassin (1947), Charles H. Breitbart (1949). 7th-363 Liberty Ave., Harry P. Eppig (1947), Peter H. Ruvolo (1949).

8th 4th Ave. and 42nd St., Coney Island, Harold J. McLaughlin (1949).

QUEENS

1st-10-15 49th Ave., L. I. City, John J. O'Rourke (1941), Harold J. Crawford (1945).

2d-Broadway and Court St., Elmhurst, John F. Scileppi (1949).

3d-69-02 64th St., Ridgewood, Edward J. Smith (1947).

4th-88-11 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica.

5th-Beach Channel Drive, bet. Beach 90th and 91st Sts., Rockaway Beach.

6th-Town Hall, Flushing.

RICHMOND

1st-Bement and Castleton Aves., W. New Brighton, John M. Braisted, Sr. (1947).

2d-71 Targee St., Stapleton, Thomas J. Walsh (1945).

County Offices

County Clerks-New York, Archibald R. Watson; Bronx, Michael B. McHugh ($15,000 each); Kings, Francis J. Sinnott ($12,000); Queens, Paul Livott ($8,000): Richmond, Charles F. Pallister ($7,000).

District Attorneys New York, Frank S. Hogan; Bronx, Samuel J. Foley: Kings, William O'Dwyer; Queens, Charles P. Sullivan ($20,000 each); Richmond, Farrell Kane ($8,600).

Medical Examiner, Chief-Thomas A. Gonzales ($8,000). Public Administrators-New York, James F. Egan ($10,000); Bronx, James W. Brown ($4,000); Kings, William V. Elliott; Queens, Alfred J. Kennedy ($5,000 each); Richmond, James J. Joyce,

($3,000).

Records, Commissioners of-New York, A. Welles Stump; Kings, Hyman Schorenstein ($7.500 each). RegistrarsOffice abolished and consolidated into city-wide office, appointment to be made by Mayor after competitive civil service examinations.

Sheriffs Office abolished and consolidated into city-wide office, appointment to be made by Mayor after competitive civil service examinations.

Surrogates-New York, James A. Foley and James A. Delehanty; Bronx, Albert H. Henderson; Kings, George Albert Wingate; Queens, John Hetherington ($25,000 each); Richmond, John C. Boylan ($15,000).

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Civil Service Rules in the City of New York

Source: An Official Under the White Civil Service Law, Chapter 370, Laws of 1899. April 19, the rules apply to all positions in the service of the City of New York except officers elected by the people, all legislative officers and employees, heads of any department, or superintendents, principals, or teachers in a public school, academy, or college.

The Unclassified Service includes elective officers: the officers and employees of the City Council; members of the Board of Elections; the head, or heads, of any department of the City Government; or any person appointed by name in any statute. The Classified Service is divided into four classes: namely:

Exempt Class-The Exempt Class includes the deputies of principal executive officers authorized by law to act generally for and in place of their principals; one secretary of each officer, board, and commission authorized by law to appoint a secretary; one clerk and one deputy clerk, if authorized by law, of each court, and one clerk of each elective judicial officer.

Non-Competitive Class-Includes all those positions of a minor nature, in the city institutions or elsewhere, that it is not practicable to fill through competitive examination.

Positions in the Non-Competitive Class are filled as a result of the examinations held by the department subject to approval or rejection by the Municipal Civil Service Commission. all unskilled

laborers Labor Class-Includes and such skilled laborers as are not included in the competitive or non-competitive classes. all positions in Competitive Class-Includes the Classified Service (excepting those in the Exempt, Non-Competitive or the Labor Class) for which it is practicable to determine the merit and fitness of the applicant by competitive examination.

Filing Applications for Positions in Competitive Class-Applications for positions in the Competitive and Labor classes will be issued and received only for the position or positions advertised, and only during the period specified by the commission Advertisements for the in such advertisement. various examinations appear in the prominent

of the Commission

daily papers, The Civil Service Bulletin, and in the
City Record, on file in the city libraries.

General Instructions and Conditions

Age and Sex: All examinations are open to both
men and women of all ages unless advertisement
states otherwise.

Citizenship and Residence: Candidates must be
citizens of the United States and residents of the
tions. In order to be appointed to a position in
State of New York at the time of filing applica-
any branch of the government of the City of New
York, applicants must have been residents of the
Positions in those nine agencies
appointment.
City of New York for three years at the time of
which are established under state law or which
dates must take up residence in New York State
employ people outside the city limits are open to
prior to receiving appointment.
all eligible citizens of the United States but candi-

Military Service: Candidates who have entered
the military, naval or marine service of the United
States, must within thirty days of induction into
such service, or of filing application if already in
Refunds: There is no fee charged for the appli-
service, notify the Civil Service Commission of such
cation. Candidates whose applications are rejected
will receive a refund of their fees from the
Comptroller's Office, one month after the ex-
amination is held.

fact.

Notarization: All applications must be notarized except in the case of promotion examinations. Applicants for all positions in the Competitive and the Labor Classes are required to take a medical and physical examination.

Applicants for Labor Class positions that require or practical test; written examinations, generally previous training or experience must take an oral, and write English, are given to applicants in the to determine whether the candidate is able to read Labor Class.

The headquarters of the Commission are in No. 299 Broadway; applications distributed and received in No. 96 Duane St.

As of July 1, 1941, there were about 150,000 employees in the governmental units serviced by the City of New York Civil Service Commission.

Pensions for Employees of City of New York

Source: The Citizens Budget Commission, Inc.

The New York City Employeees' Retirement System was established in 1920, on an actuarial reserve basis, for all of the City's civil service employees who are not members of one of the City's other systems. All such employees in the competitive and labor classes must, and other city employees may, become members, if their annual salary is not less than $840. The City and the members share approximately equally in the cost of the system which provides retirement on the basis of half of the average annual pay for any five consecutive years. Laborers are eligible for retirement at age 58, skilled workers at 59 and other employees at 60; or a member may elect to contribute at a higher rate for retirement at the minimum age of 55. Employees must retire at age 70, unless a twoyear extension of service is granted by the Board of Estimate. Such extension may be renewed to a maximum age of 80.

Members of the teaching staffs of the Board of Education and the Board of Higher Education must become members of the Teachers' Retirement System, to which both the City and members make approximately equal contributions on an actuarial reserve basis. Retirement at half of the average annual pay for the last five or any consecutive ten years is permitted after 35 years of service or upon attainment of age 65, and is compulsory at age 70. All other employees of the Board of Education must become members of the Board of Education Retirement System. The City and the members contribute approximately equally on an actuarial reserve basis. The system provides retirement, at half of the average annual pay for the last five years, at age 60 or after 35 years of service, at the option of the employee.

Policemen and firemen must become members of the Police Pension Fund and Fire Department Relief Fund respectively, in which the benefits and conditions of membership were revised effective March 29, 1940. Under the new conditions, policemen and firemen who were members prior to that date, are required to contribute, but not on an actuarial reserve basis, either (1) Five per cent of their salary for retirement after 25 years of service or. (2) Six per cent of their salary for retirement

after 20 years, for an annual service pension equal
to one-half of their final pay. An annual pension
bonus of $50 is provided for each year of continued
service after eligibility for retirement until a max-
imum of $500 has been reached. Policemen con-
tinue to enjoy optional retirement at age 55.

New appointees to both uniformed forces after
sufficient to provide 45% of their retirement allow-
March 29, 1940 are required to contribute an amount
ance of approximately one-half final compensation
computed upon an actuarial reserve basis.
City contributes the remaining 55%%%

The

Dependents of policemen and firemen killed in
line of duty receive annual pensions of half pay of
the deceased members. Benefits are also provided
The added cost of
for retirement for disability.
these benefits is borne entirely by the City for those
who became members prior to March 29, 1940.

The City maintains five other pension funds
which are closed to new members and which will
gradually diminish as deaths exceed retirements.
These funds are those of the former Department of
Street Cleaning. the Department of Health, the
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court 1st De-
Kings County Court. These are not actuarial
funds.
partment, the General Sessions Court and the

The City also contributes to the New York State
Employees' Retirement System for certain of its
library employees who are eligible for membership
in that system.

The total appropriation for pensions in the City's budget for the fiscal year 1941-42 is $34,481,956, exclusive of the cost of administration.

The total income of the Retirement System,
1920-1939, was $262,499,201; the total expenditures
were $101,485,502.

Of the income, $113,174,459 was the deduction
from the compensation of the members; $98,739,712
was interest on investments, etc.
represented appropriations by the City; $49,197,603

Of the expenditures, annuities, from the salary
deductions, totaled $7,131,173; pensions, from the
City appropriations amounted to $28,278.266; or-
dinary death benefits, from City appropriations,
were $14,404,585.

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The New York Municipal Airport (LaGuardia Field)

Source: An Official of the Field

each runway are two narrow-beam floodlights, each of 72 million candlepower.

The New York Municipal Airport (LaGuardia | marked by green range lights and at the end of Field), costing $42,000,000 and considered the largest project of its kind in the world, occupies the site of an old amusement park, North Beach, L. I., where a small, privately-owned field had been constructed in 1929, utilized principally by private flyers. With condemned land purchased to the southwest of that field, and the filling in of a portion of Bowery Bay, Rikers Island Channel and Flushing Bay, plans were made to increase the original field site to 558 acres, of which about 357 acres are manmade. For this task a force of 5,000 men was employed, working three shifts a day, six days a week. When building construction started the force increased to a peak of 23,000 early in 1939.

There are four great runways for land planes, the longest, running northwest and southeast, being 6,000 feet in length and 200 feet wide; No. 2, running northeast and southwest, is 5,000 feet long and 200 feet wide. Runway No. 3, running east and west, and No. 4, running north and south, are 4,500 feet and 3,532 feet long respectively. Both are 150 feet wide.

Offices of the United States Weather Bureau and the two departments of the Civil Aeronautics Administration-Air Traffic Communications and Air Traffic Control-are located on the third floor of the Administration Building from which offices all air traffic in the northeastern part of the United States is coordinated.

The extreme western portion of the airport is occupied by the Marine Terminal, to the south and west of which is the marine terminal hangar, a five-sided building of such dimensions that two regulation sized football fields could be laid out on its floor and occupied at the same time. A second large seaplane hanger is (1941) in process of construction. Giant clipper planes in the European or Bermuda trade land or take off on seaplane operating channels or on Long Island Sound, reached through a taxi-strip of water.

At night the buildings are marked out by red lights; the runways bordered by contact lights 200 feet apart. The ends of the four runways are

A control desk in the airways traffic control tower atop the landplane Administration Building is the airport in miniature is on this control desk, on nerve center of the entire network of lights. An which tiny lights go on and off with the contact lights, traffic lights and flood lights on the field. All radio receivers, including those of the airport itself and the airlines using the field, are located on Rikers Island, to eliminate electrical interference from automobiles and machinery at the field. LaGuardia Field has the heaviest air passenger traffic in the world-an average of 270 regularly scheduled airliners arriving or departing daily, carrying an average of approximately 4,000 passengers. At the busiest period of the day (around 5 P.M.) an airliner arrives or departs every minute. There are 4,500 employees on the airport, with an average payroll of $8,500,000. During the year 1940, the seventh huge land plane hangar was completed (cost $1,400,000), as well as the Eastern Regional Office Building and hangar for the Civil Aeronautics Administration (cost $450,000). The loading and dispatch of planes is accomplished from a huge loading deck handling twenty-five planes at one time, all within view of a 1,500-foot-long observation deck used by spectators, access to which is gained by ten-cent turnstiles. There are well over a million paid admissions yearly.

There are three large restaurants on the field seating over 1,500 people at one time. LaGuardia Field is almost a small air city, having its own broker, and several shops that are branches of branch post office, a branch bank, a branch stock well known New York stores. The airlines operating from LaGuardia Field are American Airlines. Transcontinental and Western Air, United Airlines, Canadian Colonial Airlines, Eastern Airlines, Pan American Airways, American Export Airlines and Transcanada Airlines. Airmail letters can be mailed at any hour at LaGuardia Field day or night, and are forwarded immediately on the next plane to their destination.

Air Mail Time, N. Y. City to Foreign Places

Source: United States Government Foreign Air Mail Service; schedules are as of Aug. 11, 1939
Air mail service to Mexico, Central and South America, West Indies

Antigua (2); Buenos Aires (4); Cordoba (5);
Aruba (2); Nassau, Bahamas (1);
Port of Spain (2); Bermuda (1); La Paz (3);
Curacao (2); Para, Brazil (2);

Sao Paulo (4); British Guiana (3); Belize (3); Charlotte Amalie, Virgin Islands (2); Canal Zone (2); Bogota (2); Costa Rica (1); Cuba (1);

Dominica to Antigua (thence by ordinary means) (2); Quito, Ecuador (2); Guadeloupe (2); Guatemala (1);

Transpacific air service Hawaii (2); Guam (6); Philippines (7); Australia (Sydney), via Singapore (12), via Auckland (8); China (Hong Kong) (8); French Indo-China (Hanoi) (13); Rangoon (14); Calcutta (14-15); Delhi (14-15); Karachi (14-15);

Haiti (1); Tegucigalpa, Honduras (1); Kingston, Jamaica (1);

Martinique (2); Mexico City (1); Tampico (1); Nicaragua (1).

Panama (2); Paraguay, via Buenos Aires (4-5); Lima, Peru (2); Puerto Rico (1); Paramaribo, Surinam (3), Uruguay, via Buenos Aires (4-5); Maracaibo, Venezuela (2);

Newfoundland-Via Moncton, Can. (3).

(days from N. Y. City)

Japan (Kobe) (13-14); Macao (8); Batavia (1315); New Guinea (21-22); Straits Settlements kok (13). via Hong Kong (8), via Singapore (11-13); Bang

Iraq (16); Alexandria (17); Khartoum (19); Tanganyika (22).

New York General Post Office

Source: An Official of the Establishment

The New York General Post Office, with jurisdiction over Manhattan and the Bronx, covers the two city blocks, 31st Street to 33rd Street, Eighth Avenue to Ninth Avenue. The main entrance is on Eighth Avenue. Postmaster-Albert Goldman. Assistants-Charles Lubin and John W. Lynch. Mail Deliveries-Manhattan Borough, 3 to 4: Bronx Borough, 2 to 3; Suburban, 2 to 3. Mail Collections-Manhattan Borough, 10 to 26; Bronx Borough, 7 to 11; Suburban, 4 to 5.

On October 3, 1937, City Hall Annex, formerly the Old General Post Office, at Park Row and Broadway, and Hudson Terminal Annex, at 30 Church St., were discontinued and their activities transferred to the Church St. Annex, in the New Federal Office Building at 90 Church St. The City Hall Annex, which formerly had housed also the Federal Courts, was sold to the City of New York for $1, in August, 1938, and the work of demolishing the 68-year-old structure was completed in 1939. The land reverted to the City, having been granted to the use of the Federal government for only so long as it was used actually for federal pur

poses. The site, including Mail Street, thereupon was restored to and became a part of City Hall Park.

The Grand Central Annex, Lexington Ave. and 45th St., handles the mail over the N. Y. Central and New Haven Railroads, in addition to local business in that district. The Foreign Section is in the Morgan Annex, 9th Ave., 29th to 30th Sts. The Bronx Central Annex is on Grand Concourse between 149th and 150th Streets.

The New York Post Office (June, 1941) has 77 classified stations, and 92 contract stations. There are 21,970 employees. The Postal Receipts in the year ended June 30, 1941, were $77,736,235.

Every day, on the average, the office received, delivered and dispatched 16,500,000 pieces of ordinary mail; and weighed and dispatched 290,000 pounds of newspapers and periodicals (at pound rates) and 70,000 insured and C.O.D. parcel post packages.

The New York Post Office dispatches mail for U. S. Naval Vessels, and the U. S. Naval Station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The Flag of the City of New York

Source: Official Records

The official city flag tells the story of the origin and early history of the city-founded by the Dutch It was renamed in 1626 as "New Amsterdam." New York in 1664 and a year later, on June 24. was formally 1665, the municipal government transferred to the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of the City of New York, as successors in office of the Burgomasters and Schepens of the City of New Amsterdam.

The colors in the flag are Dutch-blue, white and orange in perpendicular bars, the same which floated over the Island of Manhattan more than 300 years ago. The colors are exact, a pure indigo blue in use in 1662 and the distinctive color of the Prince of Orange.

The seal of the City which is the device on the middle or white bar of the flag stamped in blue contains in a central position the wings of a windmill, with a flour barrel on each flank, denoting the early industry of Manhattan. The sailor at the left symbolizes its sea-borne trade. He is dressed in garments of the English sailor of that period, in his right hand is a line and plumet and above his right shoulder is a cross-staff. At the other side of the shield stands a Manhattan Indian, with characteristic bow and head-dress. The beaver at the top and bottom of shield was the native animal of Manhattan and indicates The crest is work as well as industry and trade.

a spread eagle, distinctly American. The date 1664 is the year of transfer from Dutch to English Sovereignty.

The Mayor has an official flag, the same in design as the flag of the City, except that upon the middle or white bar there are above the design of the seal. in a semi-circle, five blue five-pointed stars, typifying the five boroughs of the City; the dimensions of the flag are 33 inches by 44 inches.

The Bronx flag. in use it is stated since March, 1912. has orange, white and blue in horizontal bars, with a design in center encircled by a laurel wreath greater in diameter than the width of the white stripe. The crest upon a hemisphere is an American eagle with wings displayed, the shield is a sun rising from the sea and upon a ribbon beneath the shield are the words "Ne cede malis." The Queens Borough flag adopted by the borough itself on June 3, 1913 (without official recognition by ordinance) has two blue stripes separated by a white stripe horizontally. A circle of wampum in the center of the flag within which are a tulip of the Dutch, and a double red and white rose of the English. At the upper left-hand corner of the flag is Queen Catharine's crown for whom the borough was named, and the date 1898 signifying the year in which the borough became a part of the Greater City of New York.

The Police Department has its own flag adopted in 1919 and the Department of Public Charities (now Welfare) adopted a flag in 1908.

CITY HALL

The Governor's Room is so called because it was set apart for the Governor's use when he should be in the city.

THE NEW YORK The first City Hall was the Stadt Huys, at No. 73 Pearl St., a stone building, erected in 1642 by Gov. Kieft at the West India Company's expense, used first as a warehouse and tavern. In 1653, when the Burgher government was established, the tavern was converted into the Stadt Huys, or City Hall.

The original 5-lb. key which fitted the lock of 73 Pearl Street in 1642 was presented to Mayor LaGuardia on July 18, 1941 by Richard S. Palmer, a descendant of City Controller Thomas Palmer. The second City Hall stood on the northeast corner of Nassau and Wall Sts. The site is now occupied by the United States Subtreasury building.

The old edifice, begun Aug. 9, 1699, and finished in 1703 from designs by James Evetts, architect, was not only the seat of municipal government but also of the provincial government when the State Legislature met in New York, and of the Federal Government during the first year after the inauguration therein of Washington as First President of the United States.

The cornerstone of the third and present City Hall was laid by Mayor Edward Livingston. May 26, 1803. The plans were by McComb & Mangin. The building was formally dedicated on May 5, 1812, although the Common Council had met there as early as Aug. 12, 1811. The edifice is in the style of the Italian Renaissance, 216 feet long by 105 feet deep. The south front and sides are of Stockbridge (Mass.) marble, but the rear was built of brownstone. City Hall Park in Dutch colonial days was De Vlackte (the flat) and in British colonial times was variously called the Fields, and the Common. Besides the executive offices of the Mayor, President of the Council and the Art Commission, the Board of Estimate and Council Chambers, the building contains one room of unusual interestthe Governor's Room.

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In the Governor's Room may be seen Trumbull's portraits of Washington and Hamilton, also other portraits eminent Governors, Mayors, and Americans, by Trumbull and other artists, also the chair in which Washington was inaugurated first president of the United States, the desk on which he penned his first message to Congress, and several of the chairs used by the First Congress, brought from Federal Hall (second City Hall), before mentioned; a bust of Henry Clay.

Among the historic associations of City Hall Park was the reading of the Declaration of Independence to the American Army there assmbled July 9, 1776-an event commemorated by a tablet on the south front of the building.

On Monday, Aug. 16, 1824, when William Paulding (nephew of Andre's captor) was Mayor, Lafay ette was received there after a brilliant reception at the Battery and some ceremonies at Castle Garden. In August, 1858, the laying of the Atlantic cable was celebrated by an illumination of the City Hall, from which the building caught fire. The front was blackened with smoke and the windows remained boarded up for a long time.

During the visit of Albert Edward (then Prince of Wales, and late King of England) to this country in 1860 he was received at the City Hall. President Lincoln's body lay there in state, in 1865, after his assassination.

In more recent years, the Prince of Wales, the King and Queen of the Belgians, Marshal Joffre of France, Gen. Pershing, Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and many other notables have been received at the City Hall.

There have been several summer City Halls, the latest in Queens Borough, overlooking the World's Fair Lake north of Forest Hills.

BUILDING

shape of pilasters of the same height as the columns.

THE MUNICIPAL The building begun in 1910 and occupied in 1913, cost $11,787,213. It faces west on Center St. and east on Park Row. Its extreme north-and-south dimension is 450 feet; east-and-west, 300 feet.

Number of stories in height, including tower stories, 40. Total height from curb to top of figure, 580 feet. Estimated weight 377.320,000 pounds. Total cubical contents, 19,490,000 cubic feet. Maximum depth of caisson foundations below curb, 147 feet.

The basement, having an area of two and oneeighth acres, is utilized in part as a station for the subway, which runs directly underneath the building.

Chambers St. runs through the middle of the building, and the court is closed on the western elevation by an open screen of, columns, which serve the purpose of binding together the north and south pavilions of the building.

This colonnade rises to an average height of 70 feet, and is to be crowned by colossal figures. The colonnade is continued around the building in the

Above this surrounding colonnade of columns and pilasters comes the main wall surface of the building, which is treated with vertical bands, and the colonnade is echoed at the top of the building by one of less height.

From the middle of the court on the eastern side rises the tower, which has been given a municipal character; that is, one in consonance with the tower of the City Hall, and of a character that has been used frequently in city halls in this country and abroad.

The copper figure surmounting the tower represents Civic Fame, and is that of a woman in a flowing robe. Her height is 20 feet and she is posed on a copper ball.

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Her left hand holds a mura! crown of five parapets, representing the five boroughs, rounded by dolphins, emblem of a sea port. On her right arm is a shield on which is the city's coat of arms

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