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n MmirniitoaaAaiftMM wmmm aatm**x&mmem+amrn LIA15613 LEAD INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION, INC. ! MADISON AVINUI NSW vomc ft, N. Y, ! Walter Beretta, Director of Wocuseeta ew Tork City Copt, of Porks (m presented, la Ida abeenoo, by IJL Martin, Architectural Consultant, Lead Induatrl-- Assoc. 2no.) : * X should Ilka, first of oil, to txen--it to tbs a--hmeMp tbs regrets Mr. Barrtta conveyed to no for bis lasbility to bo bsro today. Thoso of you oho boos not board hio talk will not olss Ma easily entertaining and oolorful stylo. Tbooo of as who boas board bin will non-bar tbs breadth and dsptb of Ida lrw-- ledge, not only of sculpture and architecture bat of tbs city aid Its Ufa for ba la a native bow tarter and bo lov-- It. Bs also has, for as at laast right now, oos unfortwate hebitj bs spooks sxtssyorsnsoosly ~ as notes, no oojy. * Ibis la an enviable ability of oourss bet it leaves tbs poor gay who Is esfcsd to asks a fsw marks for kin In a --17 un-envlable position. X bass. In otbsr words, no indication of what bs might haws eho--n to talk about, nor an dwt tows. So X will simply paraphrase for you oona of tbs marks bs nods fras tins to tins on thoso Jobs ditch oonosrnsd laid and fill In with statistics or technical iiw formation drtofa nay bo pertinent. To begin with than, for tboas of you Who do not know Ifln, Walter Bsrstto in tbs hand of tbs Ifciassante Division of tbs Department of Parks for all five boroughs In bow Tork City. Bs has under his oontrol, with tbs help of o tiny staff of erven non, ths naintsnanos, repair or replaoeosat of nors than six burtdrsd onnrwants of all kinds throughout the city. Sane of tbs-- Jobs Involve the skills of such diverso trsdss or professions as bran-- casters or Jswslry repslrnsn or painting restorers. Since skills of this nature are increasingly bard to find today, Nr. Beretta has kspt his --all staff as a nucleusj sons of th-- baring bass with bln nore than twenty years. Ohs of tbs largest Jobs bs has had reoently, and arm ws ware privileged be wrk on with his, was tbs Soldiers and Sailor's Mxnasnt on Riverside Dries in Row Tork. This Ysrnont marble structure bed deteriorated steadily sin-- its de dication M--orial Day, 1902. Money was finally appropriated for its restoration and a beginning was node with tbs roof which was oorend with four pound sheet lead. Sines tbs structure la circular, roofing ah--ta are laid out and Jointed In a redial pattern. Wood aleepers --re let into tbs stone slab roof and tbs lead loo-- locked and cleated to tb--. In tbs otbsr direction, that is jg tbs reef. Presented at tbs 3Atb annual --sting of tbs Xasd Industries Association, Xne., Che-- Park Plan Motel, i. Louis, Mo., April 10-U, 1962 *e mam BPWW. * i f > LI A1561/* IWIJUIIBJUiinju.mimmiuiA.^j i --i mit m LIA15615 r- W^PP!f pmeiP"1 W" T $: