New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-11-24
PRESIDENT GILMAN'S RESPONSE.
President Gilman the last speaker, made an
address that WAS heartily appreciated. He said:

President Gilman the last speaker, made an
address that was heartily appreciated He said:
In responding TO this toast do not suppose, Mr..
President. that | exhaust II. 1t would be I'M
possible justice TO It In after-dlnner speech.
FOR The Relation OF Science and Commerce" IS tho
back we Te rHaeTs OF history to those
binary people who lived on the eastern shore OF
the Mediterranean and who gave to the world
both ships and letters: or, i by, men OF affairs
modern, references are preferred, they can be
found abundant and suggestive.
Just in passing onward. let me- remind you that
not long. ago Yale chose It's president from me
followed by making a merchants son. OF Boston. Its
leader. and recently Columbia, not to be surpassed
Der and drew from il one who Is equally at home
on the Riato az may so designate the bro1K ~
University Heights that onpartisan1 poti nc an
that scholar-merchant that foremost citizen OF me
Borough of Manhattan, one OF the hohored guests
OF this banquet , d.
historical research this comprehensive theme Ley
me give striking illustrations OF the impulses
shall ali be drawn from present times-at least
from days with which many OF this assembly are
architecture and engineering that commerce owes
the marvellous improvements which have trans
Blackball Line and the Baltimore clippers built OF
wood and driven by wind, into the majestic IRON
steamers OF to-day. | need only remind you that
the size. materials forms. structure and steering
apparatus OF seagoing ships-the White Squadron
great liners OF the ocean carriers OF merchandise
ana mutltudesmare ,he resus o, bours mob
served by the multitude. devoted the ascertain
mcnt OF accurate knowledge.
DEVELOPED BY MECHANICAL SCIENCE.
1t is mechanical science which has developed the
steam engine from the feeble motor invented by
Robert Fulton. and first tried upon the Hudson.
into the triple and quadruple expansion engines
which propel enormous steamers across the
ocean to and fro with a regularity almost as ex-
act as the swinging OF pendulum.
I Geographical science has studied every portion Oh
the globe and opened to commerce me con'l I
of Africa and Australia, and the Islands OF Japan
and Oceanica, closed to Europeans before the DAYS
of Wilkes Perry. Stanley and other explorers.
II Is to photography that commerce Is lnueDted
for the accurate surveys of coasts, channels and
harbors initiated In this harbor by the stunts
those once famous New Workers.. and those sur
yeys carried on by the United States Navy, on the
very bottom OF the ocean. which proceeded and
probably insured the laying or tho Atlantic cable.
Nor must the infant science OF meteoroogy be
forgotten Interpreter OF the laws OF winds and
cyclones guardian Of the departing mariner and
warden OF the ports. -.
sure navigation of the open sea- Old as this SCI
ence u.s. the great obsCrvatores, with their able
masters and their powerful lenses adding every
wear 10 our knowledge of celestial mechanism, and
are making accurate those prophetic manuals
Of seamanshp which are known as nautical al
might be called the pilots Bible.
Physics has well fulfilled Its part. Witness the
improvements introduced by Lord Kelvin into the
construction Of the mariners compass: Ericssons
propelling screw. the lighthouses of Fresne the
Introduction OF fog signals and the splendid ever
Advancing development Of electro magnetism, so
rapid, SO surprising. 80 revolutionary. that COM