Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-04


colonel got little too warm and literally
carried out the legend with which it was
Inscribed, "A Grind for the Colonel
Director C. d. Walcott of the survey was
the first speaker scheduled for the OCCASION
but before he could be introduced two of
| the messengers from the office were seen
| coming up the aisle between the tables
| bearing q surveyors level large watering
| can and a geological hammer. which were
| presented to Col. Rizer by DIR. o. w. Hayes,
! the first to raise the spirits of the banquet
| ers, the second to sprinkle cold water on
| all bad and old jokes and the last to knock
| those who attempted to speak too long.
A Geological Menu.
So DIR. WaIcott was cut off before he
| commenced and the banqueters attacked a
! plentiful menu made up entirely of geologi-
| cal formations the information card" be-
ing especially unique and original. The
| crustaceous period was represented by
| oysters on the menu and so on until Up
| per Potomac Formation brought on the
coffee.
The dinner was interspersed with series of
pleasant jokes and happy suggestions. the
first Icing a requisition for a new home for
the survey with the expressed request that
a fiat be not given This request was
granted within few minutes as a model of
a fanciful structure was brought in by one
of the messengers and presented to DR..
Walcott.
Mr.. F. II. Newell chief of the irrigation
oufetu, Was presented with a small dog,
with caudal appendage some three feet
| in length, typical of the reclamation work
having been attached to the geological sur
vey and an attempt to give the brute tail
that at some future time would attempt to
wag the dog. And so on through the even
ing were these merry jests perpetrated at
the expense of first one and then another of
the members of the survey. -.- g.;
Having finished the coffee and tackled the
cigars the guests turned to face the head
table at which were seated Secretary Hitch
cock. Speaker Cannon. Col. H c. Rizer Dr.
| and Mrs. Walcott. Assistant Secretary of
the Interior and Mrs. Ryan Mr., and Mrs
j. T. Kemp. Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Gannett,
DR.. and Mrs. Becker. MFR. and Mrs Bien
Major Thompson. Clifford Pinchet and
Messrs. Wilson .Emmons Gilbert NeweIl
Renshaw. Idd1ngs. Cross and Brooks
DR.. Walcott was then introduced by Col
Rizer. He referred to the early advent of
pr Waicott in tn survey and to the man
ner in which he had started at the first
round of the ladder and climbed steadily
upward until he had reached the head OF a
great institution. DR.. Walcott's toast was
me Early Traditions of the Survey" DIR.
Waicott began with the expression of hope
that within the near future Congress would
see mt to provide suitable hope for the
survey. He told of the early history OF the
survey and what had been Accomplished hy
IL In the face of many obstacles and referred
IN FEELING manner to the help that had been
given the institution by Abrah Hewitt and
speaker cannon when he was a member of
the continued help Mr.. Cannon had given
DIT Walcott closed his remarks bT ex-
pressing the belief that the survey would
the government VI
others who responded to toasts were Mr.
". N, SiiDert, Scientific Work of the Sur
f te 3: f. .Emmons. Economic Work of
Work" F. a Se Ganne't; tuTSpograp hc
work; J: f. Kemp of the Columbian t1ni-
rnsrslty. New York. biologists in Outlying
d;i which he termed the per
dlems. and George Otis Smith .~Tba
icohger Genera ton In the Survey"
Speaker Cannon's Address.
AT the close of Mr.. Smiths address Speak
81 cannon was introduced being one of
1,io most helptui men for the survey in
congress. Mr.. Cannon said in part:
we have heard from the Kids We have
Eeard from the chief clerk, Colonel Rfzer
ana we have heard from the director Dr
aicott and am delighted to inform Won
tLat they are not such fools as they look
90 ioiis as We are going TO carry this bust
neSs on IN the spirit of Jest and reveIrxy
rms world, l sometimes think is controited
by sentiment Yet | am not altoeetber a
sentimental man. AS i sometimes Climb nm
.oWara the dome of the Capitol and look
over at that frieze or painting way up there
l hnd my eyes always turn and look at
tne wal where somebody's work is forgot
zen as gaze on the picture, Westward
is the horse and the OK the mother and
the chlld and the boy trudging alongside.
| and as l see the mighty hunter with his
orusty rlne gong into the far away forests
oI the great and mighty west think what
| a great country this is and how much of it's
greatness Is due to the research and trials
ana triouiations of the members of the geo
| logical survey both early and late
My earliest recollection is being M the
W hite sulphur Springs, Va, and seeing
forty or NIFTY teams going by loaded with
men ana women and children on their way
| 10 the wabash l can see my mother as
she ieft for the west. Always westward
When II was worth a mans life TO clear ,Ip
| eighty acres in the WabG sh valley There
were Indians to fight and there was fever
and ague, yet they conquered it ALL And all
| this IN the recollection of-not very old
il+ian came here thirty years ago, and
mere We're the great biologists and scien-
| ustS, King and Hayden and Powell-PoweIl
| that man OF courage, wisdom endurance
| l cannot speak of Major Powell without a
| tear coming to my eye. / cannot praise
| him and his work in too high terms: / cam
| rot find words because OF a choking sensa-
| ton to tell of the men who blazed the
way to the great west. And see before me
tonight entirely worthy followers of those
| men. All the work you have done has not
| been good. Much of it has been thrown
| away. Some without excuse. Some with
excuse. Yet | want to say that in my
| Judgment, in the development of the coun-
| try In topography in geology and the col
| lateral branches the United States geologi-
| cal survey has been in the front rank and
| leading the world in the acquisition of In
| formation and in giving to the world the
| benefit of this information and promoters
| and others have seized hold of the knowi-
| edge you have given. We can see the
practical results of your investigations. 1t
| cannot be measured by dollars.
| Major Powell and others have passed
| over the great divide They were equal to
| the demands made upon them. With the
| progress of this nation and the problems to
| be solved In the north, the south, the east
the west. In the far east and in Alaska we
are gaining the advantages from a practical