New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-11-18
MECHANICS AND rhIDESMEA'S SOCIETY,"
GENERAL wooDFORD SPEAKS Of IT'S CENTENNIAL
ANNIYEl sAEN.

GENERAL wooDFoRD >rrAKs OK It's CENTENNIAL
ANNIvEi sARY.
The members Of the Socicty of Mechanics
aud Tradc,ncn hiicl stcinway Hall last evening and
listened centennial al Treas delivered BY stewart
l. WooIturI. Among those Who sal on the stage were
C.I,t Justice Charles T. DAILY. Wi.uan g. Martin. jaime,
j. Burnett Churlc- Knox Charles Galloway, stephen NJ
Wright. william II. Geiuoy David jar iiuc Robert Eut
ter. Dou.la- Taylor. General Edward v. scrreI. aud
Colonel Iapprn. the oldest msnhcr u the society having
Jollcd in l--J when twrny nine years ODD Pfe'dent
Jonu -. Ncy,lcu made snort address. Ia winch he 70
frrcd TO the formation Of the society iu,t hundred
years ago and tuen .utro luccl General WooilorL who
sad:
Whatever good things may stumble npon 70 night
Will hc the memories Of last nights lipur Ind Those
-tul 10 fhn.s which NUT inevitably -y VIII Dbl" IA part
Il~ 'r ,act uai the speaker Hid ttst ti-t every
ru., tlut Lad tuo ent ont for Ia night standing IN
til. rr.-, urc, memory uC~ back over thr-" huhdrod
Nc4r, a. history: hrudr"i year. Whrh - ~ h"'huS
tie lives "t L"nd"n Rome or Jcrn -Alrni "l yet IN
Nc, NuIh 10 uca-irr, the ~ an it- crow h Nhcn
na, N.trN Of cuty-wO met IN iavrru IN I1re@L 10
ruu tl- ,otcti, taerr we're only -lUOO Ic"pn III we
CIV which Wa bounded Tho north 10y Fulton IT,
wo there wero farms on ts INC H%eTy an raw ti h
hrnn the greatest pr"err-s ht Ia mechanical e
V-i"pncnts Tho multiplication 81 mechanism has he
cp"r 20 great d't We "'I'p Io"i@c " 100 ,i
bocn sreH ciurs hut hoHe 80 "nIt - " Is tbtIt
h,irIu aIru- 20 iAy more cinhro cry ihhu TIE
l,di,, ~ thiapeth- court A. caine herr 20 night
81 The world tho Telegraph wires bearing the hopes aud
tA .ud ues>'grS no oh' 81 hi7 ci1y ana c"hh ~
TIC moonlight. fo hat strange electric hrlltncy anu
tnu1ght how every linrmNn aud operator Suo" more
ai,pi electricity Than B"nann Franklin aud oradhy'
Too a,srago man. then knows notr Than Le plI
hundred Years IL he hlppicri HE answer a. Tar
"a. tho primnry needs Of NE concerned i simple
There ne, ~ was a time when 40 many men ana w"m'h
were NJ we'll cl aud clothed and housed ~ 10 day.
INcry man J. prone be Il mist before hc loses bi
hair but when lie begins TO iu lie n apt to tuiHk Tue
world iai Yet eau LOOK hack upon MY ir7 OF
iuauhnoI say that rho - ~ II letter. cleaner
vhtrr titan ever I know II ts.ore Ilruty ahd com
fct have pre4crv from hr COnm 'sion 4 crime
and hcrsrr a has earned anything. hr has 10 th1t
extent gwen bod tor his good OchItlur can
opL Rack over your hundred years ~ history ana
-,e tho cross aud nag. ~ Christian Nations nan tnG
over the slave ship can drunkenness tolerated III
sncicty and war regarded the whole duty ~ man.
NoN eve" ~ giving Lace to lrhtrsu'n but ne
uucsti hone bat l. the tHeci OF al -
on the l.horiug Aud thIt question reaches u.
most pcrplrXug form In the matter " unions ahd
strikes Prom standpoint ~ nm outsider can sec
that have accomplished much, notably III assert
y the power II maulluO dormant IN labor see AlHo
the evil. combined labor steps outside 81 law anu
u-o-. hut unfortunately THIS IL trIc OF min ~ every
condition for ropes ami kings and 90, eminent nave dor
the same These evils viii continue. Greed VIII trlch
TIC employers rv" hard bargains aud i'uOr Incc AMI
hunger viii liye lalor-r - do end himself ny me
first mrJu, 1T hnut The good s~'s" oi the Worli VIII
make II all tend to ht humaultj Higher.