New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-03-13
HONORING WARNER MILLER
HE STARTS FOR NICARAGUA TOMORROW
A FAREWELL DINNER TO HIM GIVEN BY HIRAM
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. WITH OTHERS TO
INSPECT TIE BIG CANAL.

1nTCHCoCK-GoING WITH OTHERS TO
INSPECT THE BIG CANAL.
Hiram Hitchcock, president of the Nicaragua Mari
time Canal Company gave a dinner last evening at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel in honor of Warner Miller, presi-
dent of the Nicaragua Canal Construction company
Mr.. Miller will sail tomorrow by the Steamship Aguil
| for Nicaragua, where he will make a personal eX-
animation of the whole route of the proposed canal
| He will be accompanied by party which VIII In
Glide General sickles General utterfeld. C. l. Mer
| RAM Charles Watrous. c. Hilton Scrbner Mr..
Donaldson and Mr. Gooch who are British engineers
Mr. stapfrer Of "The Engineering News" Lieutenant
CIV Howard who has been sent by the secretary OF
| War and Major Dutton OF the Geological survey.
Among those who attended the dinner al Whlch the
whole company numbered about seventy, were General
O. o. Howard General Scklcs. GecerI samuel ThonaN.
Ex-Governor Waller. Of Connecticut. thare' various
I. b. Thurber. cX-PoSimas crGcneral Thomas L. James,
General L. =. di CesuOl1 W. j. Arhcl eNJn1Ee Henry
F. Rowland, Congressman J. J. Belden state senator
Titus shcard, \. c. Cheney, vice president OF the
Nicaragua Canal Construction Company; Captain Am
brose snow, David H. King. ir, Coone! j. j. Mccook'
W. H. McElroy. Charles l.. Flint. Henry w. Cannon,
Augustus Kounzc W. NJ I. Hughes, W. O. Hitch
cock, A. b. Darling. Professor Myron Peek, J. W.
Vrooman c. l.. Merriam. Il. "a Lancaster. Commander
Crowninshlcld Lieutenant Guy Howard, G.. Wcthcrbcc
r. b. Atkins General Charles +. FurOHg. ex-Congess
man Henry q. Bureigh, Richard D. Butler and NJ. W.
Cooper. a,,,
safe voyage and prosperity I'm all things n our friend
Warner Miller Mr. Miller, In responding. made .
speech In which he sketched the history OF the cana
enterprise. outlined the work which had been done and
explained the benefits g The country ana to comnerco
at large which would follow It's successful completion
Part OF what he said
1t year and six DAYS since became president
OF tho Nicaragua Canal Construction Company. When
came to that position l entirely familiar with
all that had been done IN the matter. with all the
Investigations that had been made. and with all the
surveys the United States Government had carried on
attracted ~ II because | considered II by
far the greatest engineering feat that remained to he
accomplished by (ApylauseJ believe too, that
the time tho spirit " ,h commercial NofIa
looked It practical question - u" solved by dollars
and believe that II the treaty negotiated WIN
the Nicaraguan Government durng The Administration OF
prsaden Arthur had ratified the canal would have
been completed by this time aud would have been the
| property OF the United States Government.
When becsme president Of the construction company
found that ccncosson which had Leen obtained
from the toyernment OF Nicaragua The company must
pend not $1,000 900 by the sh Of october last
BY that time 1 had gotten ria 81 the t"o
| millions aud good deal more, and the
Nicaraguan Government made inventory q our worh
and certified had expended since II began n'ily
four millions Of dollars. W. have obtained Depth Of
| fourteen fee. II water IN Gioytown Aafbor. We haN"
built railroad up 10 the mt lock- We have cleared
the line Of canal and have established at Gle}o"n
everything necessary the beginning 81 the great Work
pnd the employment OF ten or twenty thousand mon
| (Applause) r Il result Of our hospital work not 4
|
sent oil our engineers and skilled mechanics. all our
clerks and orcia men, died from disease
tracted In Nicaragua tAppl1useJ W" have hospital
record be equa!d bF that ~ the Aqu'duct
I'm New.York OF by the OF the construction Of
o. tho great railroad. Of the United state. NWhu"J
The Foreign Ana Con lttcc Of the Gated Sut,s
ute reported unanimously after ,c. alton that the Goy.
eminent ought " interested TAI, work but tEictu.
natcly the report thlng be dose
in that Congress. The however o: 1.
character 10 commend t.c TO all LIoaiphld u
this country and prove the whole world that the GOV
eminent Of the Emitted States deeply m:cotd IN -
! subject, and that no matter how the canal
i 10 be bi,dd OF where the money Is "a
come from, the United STAT, Government viii
always look on It aud protect from
from every pocsibc direction. ApplauseJ This canal
VIII the Pacific md Atantl. ,cacoaste substantially
II would enable N transfer within ten days any
naval force from the Pacific to the Atlantic side. W3n
ave day. after Is opened less than million tons
Of freight Will pass through This canal We propose to
appca II necessary. the whole world FOR the money "a
| build the canal.
II IL should be found that the people ~ hc United States
demand securities and furnish the necessary r.
build American citizens shll; bc proud Of that r.
suit but hold that this Of international
importance and DE- objection to asking III.
whole world. not governments. brt conmcrcia'
bodies and czenS. TO their aid Ia this enterprise
| tApplau-c)
do not hope 10 he able obtain rooney 70 build
this canal q very rich u Is the
people moderatc that have scrompi shed Pron
results IN great enterprises. IL il the DO IN,
work. Npplousc.j THIS canal when IL l. opened. vii
pour into New.York greatest commerce ever seen
applause and | believe that general Growth Of t
CONNIE rec Of the woro Will beyond expectations
(Apulause)
Mr. Murray General Sicklcs and others made abb,
speeches. The steamer Laura NJ. staIin Will carry
company Of ex senator Mllcrs friends down the Bay
Tomorrow when the Agnan sails.