The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-13
Edge, Calder, Hylan, Hague
and Other NOtables Take
Part in Exercises.
COST Is SET AT $29,OOO,OO0
sThree Corners Park at Canal
Street Is Scene Of Big
Celebration.

I. Edwards, Governor of New Jersey,
and Harry c. Walker, Lieutenant
Governor Of New York-seized avidlY
yesterday afternoon silver pick and
a silver shovel which were handed to
them in Canal Street Park, known To-
caIly as the Three Corners. at the
western end of Canal street.
Walker raised the shining pick over
his head and. swinging it down, drove
the point into packed brown earth with
in a square marked by white chalk
lines. Edwards bearing his weight on
the shovel sank it into the soil the
pick had loosened and flung an honest
scoop OF it into an iron wheelbarrow.
dignitaries as United States Senators.
two Mayors of New York and
Hague of Jersey City-and scores OF
plain commissioners. Back of them
stood line upon line of soldiers. foot
and mounted. Two grand stands fun OF
more or less ordinary citizens COM
pleted the picture.
"More action" shouted young man.
who seemed to be In command of the
galloping patrol of moving picture
cameras
Gov. Edwards passed his tile hat to
a friend and jabbed his pick viciously
into the resisting earth. even hitting the
shovel changing blow in his eagerness
to make the event a success. Lieut.
Gov. Walker spat upon his hand and
shovelled like a sand hog.
Band Plays ns Barrow Fills.
The barrow was nearly full when in
the background the Seventy-first Regi-
ment Band started The Star Spangled
Banner" The heads of the two State
Governments dropped their tools and
breathed hard as they and all the other
civilians stood uncovered in q chill wind
from the Hudson.
Soon the little hole In the ground that
the silver pick and shovel dug yester-
day will be wide and deep hole. grow
ing larger daily and eating its way
toward the water front Over In Jersey
City similar cash will work toward
the diggers will go underground and be-
come borers. and eventually men boring
eastward will meet the men boring west
ward and shake hands somewhere about
the middle OF the river. under its silly
bed within tubes of steel
And In about four years from now. II
all goes right, there will be another big
celebration 10 mark the completion of
the interstate vehicuiar tunnel. which
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about these many years and of which
yesterday saw the actual beginning. 1t
will cost more than s29.00O.00o to be
paid equally by the two States. but the
belief of those who spoke at the ground
breaking yesterday Is the tunnel will
be such commercial success than IN
twenty years the tolls will pay for II
and thereafter all may use II free OF
charge
Jersey City dressed Itself up with
flags and bunting for the event more i'm
portanc to It in the long run than tbs
horse race In Canada. the ball game In
Cleveland or the prize fight within IT.
own borders. Escorted by squadron OF
Essex Troop and by the Sixth Infantry
of the New Jersey National Guard, Gov
= Edwards. Mayor Hague and the members
of the New Jersey Interstate Bridge ant
Tunnel Commission motored through tn
town and were ferried to New York OLD
style. At the Seventy-frst Regiment Ar
mory they Joined forces with The New
York ceIebrants. including Lieut.-Goy
Walker, representing Gov Smith Mayo
Hylan and many members OF his admin
istration, and the members OF the Ne'
York state Bridge and Tunnel Commits
sion. They had buffet luncheon In III
armory and then set forth in n regua
parade marshallcd by Col j. Holli
Wells Of the Seventy-first Regiment
Several hundred men of the Seventy
first marched behind Lieut.-Col. james
Eben. Both regiments Of guardsmen hat
their bands and the Essex troopers hat
their own on horseback. The ofiicia
party was scattered through many auto
mobiles, with Gov. Edwards and Lieut..
GOV. Walker riding with Senator Calder
OF New York and Senator Edge Of New
Jersey and Mayor Hylan and his retinu'
In the next car.
Procession Ends at Park.
This mingling OF military and civilian
spectacle was witnessed by Fifth avenu'
az far south as Washington square an'
bv several streets of Greenwich Villag
until the procession reached the thre
cornered park bounded by Canal, Wash
ington and West streets, where IN
rpelkers' stand and the grand stand
were prepared. Meanwhile the band
the Department OF Street Cleanin
helped the waiting crowd In the CRANE
stands TO forget that the day was rathe
raw and that more rain. which did no
come, was threatened.
Flags were hung along many build
fngu of Canal street. the great trucking
path of the future. Along the rive
front hundreds Of trucks. idle on tn
holiday, afforded bleacher seats for tn
Kids whose Park % the Three Corner
was preempted by their elders Thes
trucks now get their freight from light
ers alongside crowded piers. When IN