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90 Corporation and also with a committee representing the Dominion Marine As- sociation in order to formulate a new agreement. The Clearance Corporation reported an average shortage of 27.9 pounds per thousand bushels on its 1915 operations. A resolution was passed earnestly urging widening the Livingstone: channel to 450 feet. The present width is 300 feet. A resolution also was passed recommending improvements to the channel at Port Huron. The retiring officers were all re- elected and the association’s affairs will be conducted as heretofore under the direction of William Livingstone, presi- dent; J. H. Sheadle, vice president; George P. McKay, treasurer; George A. Marr, secretary and assistant treasurer, and Harvey D. Goulder, general coun- sel. Incidental changes were made in the directorate to bring the membership up to 40 in accordance with the resolu- tion passed at the meeting. A complete list of the directors appears elsewhere in connection with this report. The program at the annual dinner which was held at the Statler Hotel, _ Thursday evening, Jan. 20, was opened by an invocation by the Reverend Samuel S. Marquis, D.D., of Detroit. President Livingstone acted as_ toast- master and the principal speakers in- cluded the Hon. Henry D. Estabrook, New York City; Charles F. Marvin, chief of the weather bureau, Washing- | ton, D. C.; Alexander Johnston, deputy minister of marine of Canada, Ottawa, Ont., and Harry Stone, of Marine City, Mich., chief engineer of the steamer J. W. Ruopes. Long Distance Speeches The guests at the banquet also lis- tened to informal remarks over the long distance telephone by men prom- inent in maritime affairs in San Fran- cisco, Cal., including Capt. Robert Dol- lar, J.J. Tynan, general manager, Union Iron Works Co., M. H. DeYoung, pub- lisher and editor, San Francisco Chron- icle, and -J. K. Lynch, president of the American Bankers’ Association and of the First National Bank of San Fran- cisco. Previous to making the connec- tion with San Francisco, moving pic- tures of the transcontinental telephone line were shown. All of the speakers extended hearty greetings to the Lake Carriers’ Association. Capt. Dollar, who talked with Harvey D. Goulder, expressed himself in a characteristic fashion regarding the seamen’s act. Mr. Tynan, who talked with A. C. Pessano, _ president, Great Lakes Engineering Works, Detroit, stated that in his judg- ment steamship prices will go still higher and that American ship yards may look forward to an extended period THE MARINE REVIEW of prosperity. Mr. Tynan also said that the labor situation on the Pacific coast is satisfactory and that he had re- cently been obliged to refuse a contract for a large steamer, because he was un- able to offer better than 22 months de- livery. Messrs. Lynch and DeYoung, who talked with President Livingstone, expressed themselves as confident Orsa continuation of the present era of prosperity. Outstanding among all events at the annual dinner were the emotions evoked by the presentation of a gold watch to Harry Stone, chief engineer of the steamer J. W. Ruopes of the Becker fleet. No man more worthy of such recognition could be found and _ the occasion gave rise to those intimate and Verses by Harry Stone Sung by Mr. Stone at the Annual Dinner Our harbors, lakes and rivers are all ablaze of fire, And we send our signals fore and aft by telephonic wire; Come along, come along, delay, Come from every steamship, come from every bay; Steam ahead my sailor boys, and never drop astern, For the L. is kind enough to help us all to learn... and make no The size of ship and engine is making tapid strides, And we should win promotion to soon be- come their guides; Square root learned with decimals, expedite our lay, And the Gee AK will extends to us a willing hand to pay. involuntary touches of nature which make the whole world kin. Henry D. Estabrook of New York, a lawyer of . some prominence, had just concluded a wonderful speech, admirably set in lan- guage rich, copious, of a steady, even flow and delivered in a voice as flexible and smooth as velvet; but its effect was as nothing compared to the halting, broken sentences and tear-choked voice of Stone. This old man (for he is now over 70) has set an example of usefulness which it would be difficult to equal. In the twilight of life he is bending all his energies to impart his ‘practical knowledge to the young men about him. Stone was himself denied all early advantages and the memory of the bitter struggle to teach himself how to read and write is with him yet. His burning desire—and the word is used advisedly for it really amounts to a flame within him—is to help the young man, who has had no early ad- vantages, to help himself. Stone’s real service to lake interests lies in the rapidity in which he can qualify young men to obtain their papers. He is a natural-born teacher as is shown by the fact that practically 50 per cent of his pupils obtain their first papers after a single winter’s schoo During the sailing season of 1915. Stone prepared a series of 100 qu and answers in marine engineering the Bulletin of the Association, § natural was their sequence and so ¢ haustive their character that compe engineers have declared they form j; themselves a most invaluable text 5 The work must have practically nopolized Stone’s leisure aboard during the season and it was service that prompted the Associa to present him with a gold watch. Stone began his reply to the prese ation speech of President Livingsto with a song that he had written board Ruopes last summer. Two vi of this song are published herewi gether with liberal extracts from Stone’s remarks, which follow: Reply to the Presentation Speech “Mr. president and gentlemen of Lake Carriers’ Association, I mu frank with you. I am a working and have always been a working and there is an appropriate sphere my activities. Although I realize that am talking to workers, I must adr that I cannot appropriately express gratitude to you for this valuable pr ent, and much less for the good ¥ which prompted the gift; neither can hire any one to do it as well as Iw it to be done. But I know from obs vation and personal experience with Lake Carriers’ Association, that it made up of gentlemen who exe forbearance to a marked degree, and trust you will extend your’ forbearanc to me on this occasion. “You have given me this watch merit, real or imagined, which minds be of Bobby Burns’ “Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel’s as ithers see us!” 4 “So do I. I wish I could see myseli as you see me. Who am I- that the vessel owners of the Great Lakes should create an occasion to give me a g watch, and make Jan. 20, 1916, th ‘White Letter Day’ of my life? “But the matter has a phase whicl invites more sober thought. I hope th I have been some help to young peo during the past 40 years, for I hav tramped hundreds of miles snow, mud and_ slush, through th country, to do what little I could to help. I have also often provided my pupils with books and shoes to. enable them to attend school, and have ¢ ducted classes at their homes with expectation or thought of reward. Bu it is all coming back to me now im creased ten fold. “T understand you have given me t watch as a token of your appreciatiot