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SATURDAY, JULY 24, 1999 Artery project facing major ‘So like his father’ cost overruns Sen. Kennedy eulogizes By Thomas C. Palmer Jr. JFK Jr. with poetic mix GLOBE STAFF

Cost overruns on a single Big Dig con- ofhumor and anguish struction contract near South Station could exceed $100 million, an increase ofmore By Fred Kaplan and Doreen Iudica Vigue than 25 percent, according to sources fa- GLOBE STAFF miliar with claims submitted by the com- pany doing the work. NEW YORK – A nationwide week ofmourning for Ifthose claims forextra work are veri- John F. Kennedy Jr. came to a quiet end yesterday as fied and paid at the rate the project has 350 ofhis close friendsand relatives assembled in a experienced so far, that alone would in- Manhattan church to say their formal farewells, while crease the total Central Artery-Ted Wil- about 1,000 people stood solemnly outside under a broil- liams Tunnel costs by at least $50 million. ing sun to pay their respects. And there are also large claims by many of Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the uncle who has the scores ofother contractors working on served as a surrogate father to so many Kennedy chil- the mega-project. dren, eulogized John Jr. – the 38-year-old publisher, Perini Kiewit Cashman – a team of philanthropist, and man-about-town viewed by many as companies building the northbound under- the heir to Camelot– in a 10-minute speech full of fond ground lanes ofthe new Central Artery memories, anguish, and humor. under Atlantic Avenue – has submitted the ‘‘He had a legacy, and he learned to treasure it,’’ the more than $100 million in monetary claims, senator said at the memorial Mass, which also paid tri- sources familiar with the costs of the $10.8 bute to John Jr.’s wife, billion construction job said this week. Carolyn Bessette Kennedy. The claims, or ‘‘change orders,’’ are ‘‘He accepted who he was, mostly tied to unexpected excavation and but he cared more about construction problems in the tight Atlantic what he could and should Avenue corridor between South Station become. . . . And he could and the edge ofthe Leather District. laugh at the absurdity of The company’s original bid, in early too much pomp and circum- 1995, was $378 million for construction of stance.’’ BIG DIG, Page B4 He remembered when Crash probe: John Jr. once was asked The Navy has what he would do ifhe went into politcs and was elected completed re- Big Board president, and he replied, covery ofthe ‘‘I guess the first thing is wreckage. A10. call up Uncle Teddy and Farewell: The looks to offer gloat.’’ complete text of ‘‘I loved that,’’ Kennedy Senator Edward stock in itself said. ‘‘It was so like his fa- M. Kennedy’s ther.’’ eulogy in New He ended on a more sol- York. A12. emn note, paraphrasing a By Gregg Krupa Yeats poem about a man GLOBE STAFF who died young. ‘‘We dared The world’s largest stock market is to think, in that other Irish phrase, that this John Ken- about to issue stock in itself. nedy would live to comb gray hair. . . . But like his fa- Taking its cue from the longest bull ther, he had every gift but length of years.’’ market in US history and boffo initial pub- After the eulogy, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, lic offerings, the New York Stock Ex- John Jr.’s sister, stood and hugged the senator. change may become a publicly traded cor- According to a spokesman for the family, Caroline poration in November. AFP PHOTO NYSE Chairman Richard Grasso said Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg and her daughter, Tatiana, leave the Church ofSt. Thomas More afteryesterday’s Mass. MEMORIAL, Page A10 yesterday that the 207-year-old Big Board needs to raise cash to buy an electronic trading network and invest in technology. REAL ANGUISH FOR A LIFE MADE MYTHIC ‘‘I fully expect that you and I, at Thanksgiving, will be looking at the trad- – giving us an image from Nov. 25, 1963, that had to die at the perilously early age of46, 1963 we were a nation unified by television – ing ofa New York Stock Exchange stock,’’ By Gail Caldwell GLOBE STAFF came to signify not only the death of Ameri- how could the gods have let the son – still so by its ability to bring us that unforgettable Grasso told Bloomberg News, in an inter- can idealism but the innocence that had to young and unafraid – fly so close to the sun? funeral cortege, that riderless black horse – view in Washington yesterday. ‘‘I’ve not He was forced into valor before he could witness its demise. There is a cruelty inherent in any child’s we were also still enamored ofthe magical heard any significant internal opposition.’’ comprehend the word, a 3-year-old saluting Now, like Icarus descending, the boy has death, but when the loss ofthe fatherhas al- powers ofa new, untarnished medium. Celeb- The shares would be sold simulta- his father’s casket in what had to be one of fallen from the sky. The hearts broken by a ready taken on the proportions ofclassical rity belonged to movie stars and stateliness neously to the NYSE’s 1,366 members and president’s assassination nearly 36 years ago to the public in an initial public offering on the saddest farewells in history. No one sacrifice, the loss of the child may simply to presidents, and movie stars hadn’t yet de- the Big Board itself, NYSE spokesmen should have to be so brave so young, and, just Commentary in Dallas have felt the seem too much to bear. cided to become presidents. But one dark, un- said. as important, nobody’s young bravery should tug ofmemory this And yet many ofthe most private and avoidable legacy ofthe Kennedy years was Competition from about a dozen elec- be subject to so much public scrutiny. But week like an old sol- wrenching aspects ofthe plane accident have the mixing offameand nobility, with the al- tronic communication networks, or ECNs, John F. Kennedy Jr.’s life had the makings dier’s war wounds, and that return to sorrow been blurred or obscured from the moment chemy ofTV confusingthe two and suggest- which trade stocks electronically away and the lure ofmyth fromthe moment that explains some ofthe country’s current out- the first camera began rolling and the first ing that one ensured the other. NYSE, Page A8 tragic gesture ofa child was captured on film pouring ofgrief.IfJohn Fitzgerald Kennedy commentator started waxing eloquent. Ifin COMMENTARY, Page A11 Tern tide: N.H. sees a shorebird comeback Marines drilled on fighting harassment, abuse ofwomen By Scott Allen geant thought about his 14-year-old GLOBE STAFF By David Abel GLOBE CORRESPONDENT daughter. SEAVEY ISLAND, N.H. – The first time he ven- ‘‘At first, I thought this was all tured among the nesting terns, Drew Trested looked like WASHINGTON – When Gunnery crap,’’ he said. ‘‘I’m an infantry man. We a victim from Alfred Hitchcock’s classic horror movie Sergeant George Vukovich learned he don’t deal with those issues. But I ‘‘The Birds.’’ had to attend a two-day seminar on sex- changed my mind afterward. I thought: The second that the young biologist stepped into the ual harassment, the Marine of17 years ‘This could be my daughter. And as a grass where the birds were tending their young, the shrugged and thought it was just more father, I’m going to use all means avail- terns took to the air, screeching and pinwheeling around civilian interference in the military’s able to stop it.’ ’’ him in a blur ofwhite feathersand sharp orange beaks. warrior ways. Vukovich, 38, is one ofthousands of When he knelt to put metal identification bands on the But it didn’t take long to change his Marines on at least 19 US military fluffy little chicks, terns pecked him on the head so much mind. bases worldwide since 1996 to go that his hair was matted with blood. After course instructors asked Vu- through the Mentors in Violence Pre- Adding insult to injury, they bombed him with hot kovich and other Marines to consider vention program, which teaches men white droppings, too. their response ifthey witnessed a wom- how to help prevent rape, battery, and Yet, Trested, though sore, was happy. The terns, an being hit by a fellow member of the sexual harassment. driven by gulls and human development from their home GLOBE STAFF PHOTO / MARK WILSON military or heard a friend insulted about Founded in 1993 at Northeastern TERNS, Page A8 Biologists Dan Hayward (left) and Drew Trested walk on Seavey Island, N.H. the size ofher breasts, the gunnery ser- TROOPS, Page A7

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