New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-02-01
NEW HOME OF ELECTRICITY
MEN OF SCIENCE OPEN A CLUB HOUSE.

PLEASANT QUARTERS FOR HOPEFUL ELECTRICIANS
-sPERCHRs AND WASTING.
The new quarters of the Electric Club. at No. IL
East Twenty second-st.. were formally opened last
night TIE house warming was largely attended
The devices for polishing boots by electricity and
boiling beefsieak by means of the same subtle
force excited much curiosity among tine guesta
it was predicted that it will not DO
long before the bar will be furnished
with an electrical cocktail mixer. but last night
the oldfashioned method proved quito satisfactory.
OF course. the rooms were brilliantly illuminated
by electric lights, gas being vigorously excluded
from the building The rooms are numerous and
spacious end the Undergraduates itselfou having
secuted quarters which it can regard az perma-
| nent.
Among those present last night were Thomas A.
Edison, George Worthington. II. q. Adams.
A. J. De Camp. Cyrus A. Baker.
| Henry C. Davis George W. Hebard John b. Powell.
William A. Anthony. John c: To%iS;ont 8: n.
lev. Iieutsnant r. W. Tappan, N. w. Goodyear.
w. u. Sargent and Charles W. Prico. There were
two feasts one oratorical, the other Qastron0mcaI.
The former was served, because, while ministrrns
to the intellect 1t also sbarpened the physical sp-
| petite.
PRESIDENT DAvIss ADDRESS.
| President Henry Davis led of with brief ad-
dress OF welcome in the course of which he said:
Meeting this evening" to celebrate the opening OF our
club house. let us work accomplished but
rather tie threshold Of long lie OF uss'n
ness and laying the foundations OF an institution that
will be known and felt in electrical circles the word over
individuals forgotten We have work
worthy OF highest ambitions to accomplish The prog
OF electrical science and its rapidly increasing
| application to tho commercial interests OF the
world demand organization that while fostering
tho social element will also furnish technical scientific
educational advantages An Institution Is wanted tha
give the facilities Of the museum laboratory library ana
lecture with its mestones OF progress
that should DO carefully guarded and handed down 10
y the laboratory Of investigators not TO re-
port than that but capable OF giving
suits which will accepted authority tho library and
oom thrsrng for higher plane OF intei
gence.
ambition be to lay such foundation for those VINO
como to build upon. Let the Electric Club DC 70
electrical matters what the Cooper and American institutes
OF this city and tho franklin Institute Philadelphia are
| to mechanical.
TRIBUTES TO FARApAY.
! Then followed a highly scientific, philosophc
| and erudite paper by Professor Henry A. Rowland,
| of Johns Hopkins University. to which only
magazine could do justice. The subject was " ne
electrical and magnetic discoveries OF Faraday."
| Here is one OF his tributes to Faraday:
The spark which Fara than fifty years ago o.
darkened blazes out WITH almost tho
power but it is still the spark OF Faraiay
Though 1t is thousand tlmos as large ti stu made on
the principles Faradly laid down and nothing except
mechanical details has beca aided to the process
suitable then. that should remember his name on
this OCCASION havo served rs the basis
OF all progress electrical engineering oil Faraday not
should not have been here Tonight True as nave
before the progress OF science csnld only nave
| been delaysd by the absence OF any man, but
how long In this cannot tell we can
only receive With Faraday has given freely
speak with the reverence due not only 10
his his character Too noble to
leave science wealth held out TO him. he persevee In
the gave the world the fruits OF his labor In
| his Erperime IN tai Researches in Electricity"
President Davis trea cd 10 pleasant sur
prise before the evening was over. handsoms
| gold non magnetic repeating watch was gwen 10
| him rs a testimonial OF appreciation for what he
| has done Tor The club.