The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-14
NATIONS NAVAL HISTORY PICT-
URED IN GLOWING WORDS BY
SECRETARY HERBERT.
DUTY ALWAYS WELL DONE
TODAY PAUL JONES, PERRY AND
THE EARLY HEROES HAVE
WORTHY SUCCESSORS.
READY AGAIN IF OCCASION OFFERS.
Uncle Sans Ships Prepared to De-
fend American Citizenship
ON Any Sea.

NEW YORK, Nov 13-The fourth
annual meeting of the Society Of Naval
Architects and Marine Engineers, which
closed today after a two days session,
was finally wound up tonight with a
banquet at Delmonico's. Covers were
laid for $50 guests and ranged around
the table at which President Clement
A. GriScom presided were the guests of
honor, among whom were Secretary H.
A. Herbert, Commodore Sicard, COM
mander of the navy yard; Rear Ad-
miral Erben, retired; Capt Mertvago,
Of the Russian legation; George H.
Daniels, Nathaniel G. Herreshoff and
Charles H. Cramp, of Philadelphia.
Ample justice having been done the
elaborate menu, President Griscom
toasted the president Of the United
States. The toast was drunk standing.
The second toast was the United States
navy, which was responded to by Sec
retary Herbert.
He said, in part:
1t has been for years labor of love for
me TO aid as far as in me lies, in building
up navy worthy of a country whose peo-
PIE astounded the world by the courage and
devotion they displayed In the greatest of
CIVIL wars, and who, after the bloody war was
over attracted the admiration of mankind
Dy coming together again brothers under
the nag OF their fathers, thus presenting
spectacle OF moral grandeur without pre-
cedent In the history of the world.
hrst-class, modern man-of-war such as
we are now constructing, and have construct
ed, is the sum Of all human inventions We
are proud OF our great shipyards that have
led the way in this triumphal procession of
industries, proud of our manufactures of
armor and gun steel and torpedoes and pro-
!ecuies and rapid-1re guns, and steel In all
ntin
wide range Of the industries of the world can
De round more splendid exempIifcation of
enterprise and genius than in these exploits
OF American mechanics. The navy is espe-
c1ally proud of its constructors it's steam
engineers and its ordnance engineers, and
Ine W1ole country owes them a debt of
gratltude Tor the work they have done in
the construction of the navy Indeed take
the personnel of our navy altogether. line
o11lcers, staff officers and enlisted men, and
they are worthy Of our ships and our gun.
and worthy, too of the heritage of giory
lett by Paul Jones, Decatur, Bainbridge. Nc
Dtonough, Perry and Hall, and other gallant
tars who made famous the name Of the
country. - 0"'
:. Our navy began It's career in glory and
1t has never yet missed an opportunity of
adding to its reputation No more splendid
pages will ever be written than those which
record the deeds Of the Confederate and
Union naV1eS, OF Buchanan and Semmes on
the one side, Of Wtnslow and Cushing and
Porter and Farragut on the other Consider
TOT moment the services to the cause of
the Union that were rendered by the navy
during the civil war. Consider the brave en-
eInles Il encountered and that it lost during
that struggle about thirty vessels by the
new and terrible torpedo alone.
The navy Of the Union blockaded the whole
coast OF the Confederacy, prevented the i'm
portauon of supplies and munitions of war
ana the expectation of cotton that would
have brought in gold to sustain the currencv
that was maintaining the Confederate army
~ captured New Orleans, the principal city
OF the Confederacy, and Mobile, the greatest
city on the gulf; 1t established and main
talned at all points along the shore lines and
far into the interior of the Confederacv de-
pots OF supplies and bases of operation for
the armies of the Union; the Mississippi
river, on the Tennessee, the Cumberland, the
Sunf1ower, the Big Black the Arkansas. the
Red and the James rivers, 1t severed the
communications between Confederate troops
1T captured supplies and munitions of war
Taken altogether 1t is perfectly safe to say
that the services it rendered could not have
been accomplished by the efforts of half a
million Of men on the march.
The veterans of the great war are RAPIDLY
passing Into history, but there need be no
the honor Of our flag. Let me assure YOU
that whenever and wherever our navy is
called upon 1t will be found on the alert
t6at 10y n1, LOT us W4rK Whatever and wherever
that work may be. ! sincerely hope 1t will
not soon have any battles to hght-it will
pest serve its purposes If by its size Its
strength ana clearly apparent readiness for
rights Of our citizens abroad. to aid our
diplomacy and to command our peace all
around the world, without firing a gun but
II 1t shall at any time come to pass as come
1t may, that readiness is not enough, but
that foreign foe must be encountered in
actual combat, then l promise you, on behalf
OF the ofncers and men of the navy, that they
Will do their duty in manner worthy of all
the glorious memories that cluster around
the flag of our country.
The other toasts were the Congress
Of the United States" Congressman
Belford; The Press" Joseph Howard;
'The Maritime Exchange" Hugh KeI-
ly; THE Society of Mechanical En-
| gineers," c. H. Loving, engineer-in-
chief; 'The Naval Militia" Capt J. w.
Miller; Our Society,"" Chief of Con-
struction Hichborn; the Ship Build
ers," Gen. Thomas K. Hyde. w. H.
Webb, George B. Daniels and Steven
son Taylor were called upon for short
| talks.