New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-22
HONORED BY THE ENGINEERS.
A DINNER GIVEN BY THE CLUB FOR COM
MODORE MORDECAI 7. END!COTT.

A DINNER GIVEN BY THE CLUB FOR COM
MODORE MORDECAI T. ENp!COTT
seventy-nve guests sat down 20 the dinner ten
dered last night by the Engineers Club TO Com
m )dore MorGccai r. Endicott. Chief of the Bureau
Of Yards and Docks Of the Navy Department. The
dinner given IN the clubs home. NJ 5li Firth
ave. The dnng-room was tastcfully decorated
with American flags and flowers. ard each of ;he
guests wore small american nag IN ms Dation-
hole Tho dinner was III the nature of 4 celcbra-
ton OF Tie appointment q civil engineer az Chicf
Of Inc Bureau q Yards ard Docks. For more than
haif century the civil engineers have iTed -
bring this about but previous to Commodore tnd!-
COTS appointment the post has been filed by Inc
officer who not civil engineer
Among he guests were many former classmates
q the CommoGors al r asse,aer Poly; cchnic Insu
iuic. the number including t. T.. Buck, chief enS!-
rccr of the rev East River Bridge. and O. L. Mich
ols tho assistant engineer. Others present were
Commodore GcorEc " Melville. Engimccr-in-Cniof
OF the United States Navy; Commodore Charles II.
Lofing George :. Morrison. former president Of the
American Society Of Engineers; VI. Cohcn. George
S. Green. Lewis Nixon. presi lent Of ;he Crescent
Shipy ards and designer II the Minneapolis ard CO.
umbia. Henry Steers, president OF the Eleventh
ward Bank and civilian naval architect On the
Advisory Board which designed the original White
Squadron including tho 3Cs;on, Atlanta. Chicago
and Dolphin; George +. Weed, president Of the
Morgan Iroa Work. and Charles Macdonald.
The toast list was re follows. TO our Guests
a Gre tinE and Toast: Hcnceforth, as at Present
May The chief - the Bureau ~ Yards and DOCKS
q tho United States Nafy Bo an tn.in""r' anu
Hcncoforfh. ~ Present; MAY tho Chief o. That
Bureau 10 Commodore EndicDt'' responded 10 p.
Commander Mordccal r. Frdicott. THE Early ana
Present STATUS ~ tho Engineers OF the United
state Navy" responded to by Commander Charles
=. lorng. l.. y. Tho Fighting Machines OF
the Navy and the Men Wa Dcs!-a ana Direct
Them" by Commander George W. Melville. =.
: s.; The Rciotiys Ranf - 'hr P-ot"ssion OF
Tngfnocr!nC" hy palmer g. Ricketts,. The Amcri-
can Society Of civil Engineers ae "A Postgraduate
lie Is Known by M Engineer Editor, by Colonel
Horny @. psout. and Tie r. +. l. and the r. c.
by @. ! Nichols. 49,,
Commodore Endlcott talked, Of the Efforts which
had been made 20 have an engineer appointed
ch.cf Of his bureau and said that after my years
Tho credit for tho appointment belonged 70 lr,s',
dent Mckinley and Secretary Ions. ne addeH
that Mr Lone had an 49," io Wnhi Wotin DC az
ynnfageous 90 the Nayy. and %" saw thai II WAS
rccllul that r. responsible engineer s1OuiG %, ~
The head 81 the Navy engineering department Inc
Commodore ulso referred TO Tho good WORK or me
newspapers Of me country IN bringing tho appoint.
club ffe dld not refer in any way 10 The present
war auI neither ga Commodore Melville nor
Commodore L1rlug Commodore Melville spoke or
the c.1d!tior ~ tho Yards aud docks. the dement's
which would be derived from having e practical
snrlncrr az me head %; thet department and Of
the great good that had been accomplished Tor
humanity Is civil engineers.
Urtwecn the ioasts the guests amused them
selves by singing patriotic SONGS.