The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-02-19
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SILVER ANNIVERSARY.
Stevens Institute of Tech
nology Celebrates It's
TWenty-flfth
Birthday.
BANQUET AT THE WALDORF
President Morton Presents the
Institution With $4,000
Worth Of Bonds.
AT THE WALDORF

OF Hoboken opened with banquet at the
Hotel Waldorf, in New York, last night.
The ballroom Of the hotel, where the
guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. Bradley Martin
gathered a few evenings ago, was trans
formed into a spacious banquet hall.
where three hundred graduates. under
graduates, professors and guests of the
Institute. gathered to celebrate the an
niversary.
At the guest table were Chancellor
MacCracken, of New York University
and Mrs. MacCracken; Mrs. E. A. Ste
vens, widow of the founder of the Insti-
tute; Governor Griggs and Mrs. Griggs.
Abram s. Hewitt. Bishop Potter and Mrs.
Potter, Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Carnegie
Henry Morton, president of the Institute.
>. Bayard bod. president of the Board
or Trustees; Colonel E. A. Stevens, Mrs.
M. b. Stevens, Commodore George HI.
Melville, U. 8. N; Mrs. Archibald Alex
ander,. Miss M. Hayden, Mr.. and Mrs.
Richard Stevens. Chancellor McGil and
Mrs. McGill. Prof. J. e. watkins of the
Smithsonian Institution, Mrs. and Miss
Turnbull. Charles Mcdonald. DR.. G.. F..
of Columbia University, and E.
p. Roberts.
After dinner these toasts were respond
ed to.-.Our Founder Ahram s.. Hew-
lit; THE Iron Masters of the United
States" Andrew Carnegie; .sOur Iron
clad Navy" Commodore Melville; Amer
lean Citizenship Bishop Potter; .eThe
Railroads n Steamboats, of the United
States" Prof. Watkins; 'sour State
Chancellor McGil; sThe Alumni E. p.
Roberts; THE Faculty. President Nor
ton.
In calling 0 n President Morton to re-
spond to the last toast Mr.. bod read the
following letter.
IS Bayard bod. Esq. President of Board
OF trustees Of the Stevens Institute of
Dear Sir-I- send you herewith certin-
Gates for one thousand shares of stock
Of the Texas Pacific Railroad Company.
which l desire to present to the Board Of
Trustees, to be held until their appreciate
ed value, with such other funds as may
be devoted to that purpose, may be ade-
quate for the erection and maintenance
of the proposed new building generally
referred to as the Alumni Building.
4 have put my gift into this particular
form as an example or suggestion to 9TH
ers having the interests of the Institute
at heart. that they might, when able to
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of property having a prospective value In
advance of its market price. Such, for
example, as the stock of newly organ
lied or ~reorganized companies of a sub
The needs of the Institute are rather
for the future h the present. Her
work, as heretofore and at present con-
Quoted, can be carried on with the means
sions which should be made in the future
in order that she should maintain her
leading position, larger accommodations
and increased revenu will be required.
There are also many cases in which
our alumni or others could Tomato to the
Institute property of prospective value,
where they could not withdraw from
their resources. cash or that which yield
with best wishes for the Alma Mater
whose silver wedding We are about to
celebrate, | remain very truly yours,
HENRY MORTON"
( In speaking of the Stevens family, Mr..
Hewitt said:-
81 supposed am the only one living who
knows the entire family. 1 was taken to,
Hoboken when I was six years old by my
father, and saw a magnificent four pipe
steamer sailing up the Hudson. He said
there was another like it, which was
also built by the Stevens family, in Ho-
boken.
my father introduced me to John
Stevens, who was then eighty-three years
old, and in full possession of his facul-
ties. He saw the first steam engine built
in America, and, not only that, but the
engine was ordered and paid for by John
Stevens. 1t was put into a boat, which
made the trip from Bellville, N. j., to this
city and back again, during which Mr.,
Stevens was the pilot and captain and 1
was a passenger. That was nine years
before Fulton put the Claremont on the
Hudson River.
1.-THE next time I came in contact with
the Stevens family was when I was a
student at Columbia College. We used
to play bail, I'M frequently lost balls in
a yard in the rear of a house in Barclay
street. After we had lost every ball l,
was delegated to go to the house and ask
for a ball that had Just been Knocked INTO
the yard.
gave me a basket in which were twenty
five or thirty balls which we had knocked
into the yard, File, was the greatest me-
chanical, the greatest naval n h
greatest railroad engineer the nineteenth
century has produced.
az saw no more of the Stevens family
1876. when Edwin A. Stevens sent for
me and wanted 1000 tons of rail made.
Rails were scarce then and could only be
at a price which would make my
friend Mr.. Carnegie lick his chops.
s.The characteristic of the Stevens
family is that when they want work done
they do it themselves. With all their
trusted employees and tried assistants.
thew attended to the minutest detail of
John G. Stevens. Robert L. Stevens
and Edwin a. stevens, all son of John
Stevens. are the founders of what has
this country what it Is, the wonder
and admiration of the world. The lesson
to be drawn fromSthis Family is that you
prosperous, but Q should throw light
and sunshine in your own path and in
that of every n with whom you come
In contact
President Mortonsread an original poem
on the motto of the Stevens family, Per
aspera ad astra,' meaning, B a rough
road to the stars"
The Institute was really twenty-five
years old last September. but it was COM
sidered advisable to postpone the. celebra-
tion until after election. Preparations
institute for some time. The students
and faculty alike worked together to make
the celebration one of note in the history
of the institution.
ton of the work of the faculty, and
alumni at the Institute Building. began
The whole hover floor of tho building was
to the place to view the works Of art and
the Institute was a scene of great ac-
tivlty all day, Among the EXHIBITS Il
S sIsition 81 va Ds; 4; s g. Isaas has Win e. f tx
microscope by which he Shove speci-
mems of bacteria In Hoboken water. An
other exhibit is q new MODEL gas engine,