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1898. | MARINE REVIEW. THE ANNUAL BANQUET. A REPAST AT DELMONICO'S FOLLOWED BY SPLENDID ADDRESSES BY MEN PROMINENTLY IDENTIFIED WITH NAVAL AND SHIPPING INTERESTS. A very pleasant as well as invaluable feature of the gathering was the annual banquet which was held on Friday evening, Nov: 11, at Delmon- ico's new 'home, corner of Fifth avenue and F orty-Fourth street. The rooms and tables were handsomely adorned in the national colors and the elaborateness of the decoration extended to the favors which were in the form of miniature ships with full sails set. More than a 'hundred of the members and their friends were present. The program of toasts was as follows: ae President," "Our Navy; It Has Justified Its Existence and Glorified the Nation," Harvey D. Goulder; "Our Commercial Marine, Its Development and Extension is a National Necessity,' Hon. George F. Edmunds; "The Naval Militia," Capt. J. W. Miller: "Naval Architecture," Lewis Nixon; "Marine Engineering," W. M. McFarland: "Our Manufacturers,' Theo. C. Search; personal toasts by Charles C. Haswell, Charles Ward, William H. Webb. The mention of the names of Admiral Dewey, Hiobson, Col. Roose- velt, formerly assistant secretary of the navy, and others were given most enthusiastic receptions and hearty cheers were also given for President Griscom, Dr. Charles H. Haswell and Secretary Francis T. Bowles. In responding to the toast "Our Navy" Mr. Harvey D. Goulder said: "We have more ships on the great lakes than all other parts of the coun- try, because our laws give us the betiefit of the great commerce which must be carried on. 'Why is it not so in the foreign mercantile marine? Why will our people permit our millions of tons of freight to be carried in foreign ships? Admiral Dewey achieved a victory which makes not only his name but the name of the American navy immortal forevermore. Think of the record of our navy because we had bravery and skill and back of it all because we had the ships. How long, though, are we to stand on the record of what our navy has done? 'Or shall we not build up a foreign merchant marine that shall do honor to our flag as the navy has done honor to it?" Senator Edmunds spoke in part as follows: "We must look now, in consideration of our enormous development, tio find places to dispose of the products which the industry of our people has produced. We had for many years to admit that Great Britain was mistress of the seas." A voice "Shie is now." "No, sir" replied the senator "the United States 1s now. We now have the question where are the markets to which the sur- plus of our products may be sent? The place for American commerce 1s the eastern coast of Asia. If you take the Philippines as a market it will turn out almost nil because it is almost in the heart of the tropics where the people have few wants. The markets of the world are to be found in the temperate zones. The people who can consume things and whio can pay for them--and that is an essential requisite--are the people who live in the temperate zones. Therefore it seems to me that the place to which Americans should give their attention are the temperate zones of Asia and therefore many of us are in favor of the Nicaragua canal. Miloreover, I am not in favor of any private corporation in that business; it should be national. 'Once before we thought the construction of this canal was all but an accomplished certainty, but at that time there were influences in the seniate which thought that it would not be honorable to Great Britain to build the canal and it was not built. 'Now we are again facing the ques- tion of the welfare of our commerce, and I 'hope that for the sake of that commerce you will all urge your senators and representatives to push the Nicaragua canal project, not by anylbody's corporation but under the authority of the United States exerted by itself. "The opening of the canal would do for America all that the opening of the Suez canal did for Great Britain--and we all know that the Suez canal belongs to Great Britain--and then shall we indeed become masters of the commerce iof the world. This is the mission of the congress of the United States and it is the mission of you ship builders and marine engine builders that you should do what we have failed to do for so many years-- exert every power to induce the United States to build up and support a merchant marine. That is the thing which will furnish us the means to develop our resources, and you all know how easily this can be done it congress will stop talking and go to voting. |We have a navy which 1s ship for ship, man for man and gun for gun the equal of anything the world has produced, and now with that accomplished let us devote our- selves to the upbuilding of our merchant marine." - a Capt. Jacob Miller iin responding to the toast, "The Naval Militia, said a good word for the officers 'of the navy who wanted to get to the front but couldn't, and as an illustration of what they accomplished, even while staying at home, he cited that at the New York navy yard alone 150 ships were fitted out. His comment on the subject of his toast may be well summarized in the opening sentence: "There were some little things done by the auxiliary navy of the United States that were well done. Mr. Lewis Nixon paid a glowing tribute to the members of the con- struction corps of the navy. Said he: "The construction corps has not only produced the best ships but has worked with the engineering corps and produced vessels that have challenged the admiration of the world. He declared that the United States is on the eve of a great era, and called attention to the progress of Germany as a ship building nation simce 1885. "The experience of the past war," he continued, "was such as to call at- tention to our ship yards, ang jie Pa round faut with the uniform excel- th: Is turned out those yards. ; cai fee e Engineer NMcharaga made an address of the highest merit. "One reason we gained victory over the Spaniards, he declared, "is because we are a nation of mechanics, and the Spanish are not. Un- less the officers of a vessel have mechanical instinct they most certainly cannot have success." 'He referred in glowing terms to the trip of the cruiser Columbia across the Atlantic and that a the Oregon aapend are Horn. He also emphasized the importance of co-operation, im evi- dence of thie value of this pointed to the fact that at thie battle o SanBe® within fifteen minutes after the signal was given to steam ahead, the Ore- gon was making15 knots. , In response to a most vociferous deman few remarks, in the course of which he said: great activities for our profession and I realtz or will be, and whatever the commercial marine may the members of this society." d, Secretary Bowles made a "T see in the very near future lize that whatever the navy 1s be, it will be due to A REPRESENTATIVE GATHERING. MEN IN ATTENDANCE IDENTIFIED WITH EVERY PHASE OF INTERESTS FOR THE FURTHERANCE OF WHICH THE SOCIETY IS DESIGNED. On Saturday, Noy. 12, a large number of the gentlemen in attend- ance at the meeting accepted the invitation of the Bethlehem Iron Co. to visit its plant at South Bethlehem, Pa., and the greater part of the day was spent very profitably in witnessing the demonstration of all the processes attendant upon the manufacture and testing of steel forgings and armox plate. It would not be just to conclude any mention of the New York meeting without some expression of the unliversal recognition on the part of all members of their indebtedness to the secretary, Mr. Francis T. Bowles, to whiose energy and untiring exertion s0 much of the pleasure and benefit of the gathering must be admitted to be due. Mr. Bowles' occupancy of the position of naval constructor in charge of the Brooklyn navy yard might naturally be expected to leave him scant opportunity for attention to any other interest, but no one lin attendance at the New York meeting of the society could have failed to appreciate the enormous expen- diture of itime and labor entailed in the perfection of details to the degree necessary to msure a meeting so highly successful in every particular. That 'he should make such endeavors for a work which is at best a labor of love, speaks well for the generosity of Mr. Bowles and his interest in hils profes- sion, and if gratitude constitutes anything of a commendation the secretary must also realize that 'his beneficiaries are at least not lacking in apprecia- tion. Among thiose present at the meeting were the following: Harvey D. Goulder, Frank J. Firth, Henry P. Booth, Theo. C. Search, Hion. Geo. F, Edmunds, John L. Waterbury, William H. Baldwin, Jr., Clement A. Griscom, Naval Constructor F. T. Bowles, Jas. M. Belford, William H. Deming, Geo. Rowland, Chas. B. Rowland, Geo. N. Gardiner, Chas. H. Haswell, C. A. Griscom, Jr., Arthur Krause, J. Gordon Emmons, L. Katzenstein, J. Katzenstein, Robert Russell, A. Moritz, U. S. N., John Loyd, F. L. Dubosque, Spencer Miller, H. N. Creel, Andrew Fletcher, Andrew Fletcher, Jr., H. N. Fletcher, W. H. Fletcher, E. R. Mead, J. W. Shackford, John D. VanBuren, Alfred G. Smith, Chas. H. Loring, Jas. Barre, S. Putman, L. B. Libbey, T. F. Newman, Stevenson Taylor, W. D. Forbes, Prof. C. H. Peabody, Meirs Coryell, C. Lufkin, Darwin Aimy, L. R. Pomeroy, Wm. E. Volz, Wm. D. Dickey, Thos. Cingdon, Howard Pusey, Edward P. Robinson, Rus W. Davenport, J. R. Andrews, Louis Silva, H. F. J. Porter, Lewis Nixon, R. L. Newman, J. H. Mancor, Wm. Nish, A. McDermott, M. Hume, John N. Robins, R. C. Veit, W. H. Starr, A. K. Bouton, W. I. Babcock, John C. Kafer, Geo. E. Weed, Wm. Rowland, Wm. H. Bailey, W. M. McFarland, U. S. N., Naval Constructor F. L. Fernald, Prof. Wm. Durand, D. G. Moore, M. Woodburn, E. Platt Stratton, F. B. King, H. A. Magoun, Gustav Tuska, H. H. Suplee, H. Deb Parsons, Capt. J. W. Miller, This. F. Rowland, J. H. Gardner, Samuel J. Clarke, Alex. Pollock, A. R. Smith, Chas. Ward, Warren E. Iiill, T. F. Rowland, Jir., Chas. E. Hyde, E. A. Stevens, Wm. H. Allder- dice, U. S. N., John F. Kane, H. C. Felton, Chas. W. Pusey, Erastus Wiman, Henry Steers, J. Edson, W. P. Stephens, J. A. Thomson, Naval Constructor J. H. Linnard, Capt. W. C. Wise, U. S. N., Naval Construc- tor J. G. Tawresey, Naval Constructor J. J. Woodward, Irving Cox, Chas. H. Corbett, Walter Aucker, F. D. Herriman, Mr. McIrvine, E. E. Rob- erts, R. M. Watt, F. W. Hibbs, H. G. Smith, E. P. Robinson, William Boyd, J. C. McGuire, J. C. L. Byrnes, Howard Wood, James Swan, A. Packard, Lieut. William C. White, U. S. N., G. R. Ferguson, F. W. Wheeler, E. Elinquist, William L. Bulkley, Fred. L. Lepiine, Henry S. Epes, H. E. Boucher, A. J. Oliver, Hiram Meeker, William Haughton, F. B. Southard, James A. Hargan, Wiilliiam E. Winant, J. D. Williamson, Jr., B. F. Wood, John J. Swan, William B. Beckley, Warren E. Hill, W. L. Mintraye, J. B. Hoover, J. B. Hoover, Jr., G. W. Magee, William Rogers, C. R. Hanscome, E. A. Magee, John Platt, J. R. Andrews, C. P. Paulding, W. D. Forbes, William R. Sattler, R. W. Steele, Harry S. Ful- ton, Jesse N. Smith, S. J. Clark, A. J. McLean, C. W. Whitney, A. Kirby, Frank Grogan, T. .C. Zeregn, J. Derycke, William Wylie, Henry C. Meyer, Jr., Henry Steer, James Filson, Alfred Newell, S. S. Jordan, H. T. Row- ley, Henry G. Barbey, Clinton H. Crane, John B. Hoover, U. S. N., G. Fred. Tweedy, and H. C. Wintringham. OUR SUPPLEMENT--TURBINIA AT FULL SPEED. The Review presents as a supplement to the current issue a striking new picture of the Turbinia steaming at a speed of 35 knots an hour. Es- pecial interest 'attaches to this type of craft now, by reason of the an- nouncement that the Parsons Steam Turbine Co., which was formed to take over Mr. Parson's patent in August of last year, has just taken pos- session of one of the most complete anid fully equipped engineering works in Great Britain, and thiis despite the fact thiat the site for the works was not secured until September a year ago. The company is niot yet prepared for ship building, but is proceeding with the erection of two sets of turbine engines, one for a foreign torpedo boat destroyer, the order for whiich was placed a year ago, and the other for a torpedo boat destroyer for the British government, which was ordered last March. 'Each is to be 200 feet long and fitted with engines of 10,000 horse power. Tihese destroyers will be twice the length and six times the weight of the original Turbinia, which we lillustrate. That vessel is 100 feet in length, 9 feet beam 'and has a dis- placement of 44% tons. The engine originally fitted in the Turbinia was designed to develop upwards of 1,500 actual horse power at a speed of 2,500 revolutions per minute. The boiler is of the water tube type, suited to 225 pounds working pressure, the heating surface aggregating 1,100 square feet and a grate surface of 42 square feet. Two firing doors are provided, one at each end. The stokeholds are closed and the draught furnished by a fan coupled directly to the engine shaft. Later, the single turbine engine was removed and replaced by three separate compound turbines directly coupled to three screw shafts. The picture presented is from a photo by West '!& Son, Southsea, and was taken during a recent special run on the Tyne. For Thanksgiving day a rate of one fare and one-third for the round trip has been authorized to points within 150 miles on the Nickel Plate road. Good going Nov. 24. Tickets good returning until Nov. 25. 267