The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-11
A SHIPLOAD OF ENGINEERS.
ALL BRITISH AND HEADED BY
SIR WILLIAM WHITE.
Welcomed by the American Society OF
Civil Engineers-Ninister Ernest Lyon,
Back From Liberia, Tells How Chad.
wick's Squadron Awed Tribal Chiefs.

! Back From Liberia, Tells How Chad.
wick's Squadron Awed Tribal Chiefs
Sir William White, formerly Chief Naval
Constructor Of the British Navy and presi-
dent of the Institution of Civil Engineers,
arrived last evening from Liverpool aboard
the Cunarder Etruria. He was accom-
panied by 100 other members OF the institu-
ton, all of whom will be the guests OF the
American Society of Civil Engineers during
their stay Of a week in this city After
visiting Canada the party will go to st.
Louis, where Sir William will read a paper
on the progress OF naval architecture.
Sir William was met al Quarantine by
Naval Constructor w. j. Eaxter, who, on
behalf Of the Secretary of the Navy and
Admiral Rodgers Of the navy yard at Brook
Ign, greeted the great British engineer
and his associates. Sir William said that
at this time. He admitted that he had
views about the value OF battleships and
torpedo fleets, as illustrated in the war in
the Far East, but did not wish to express
them.
He said he expected to stay in America
until the end Of October and that he would
visit the principal shipbuildng plants and
navy yards of the country. Among the
engineers in bis party are j. A. F. Aspinall,
general manager of the Lancashire and
Yorkshire Railway; W.. H. Hunter, chief
engineer of the Manchester Ship Canal;
Alexander Ross, chief engineer of the Great
Northern Railway; Cuthbert Brereton and
Prof. w. e. Irwin. Other passengers by
the Etruria were Gen H. L. Burnett, Col.
". B: Beck, Norman c. Chambers, the
In \
can Minister to Liberia; John Purdy Hall,
the Marquis Solari and w. H. Hosking
Minister Lyon is home on vacation In
cidentally, he will vote for President Roose-
welt. He brings the thanks of President
Arthur Barclay of the Liberian Republic
to President Roosevelt for the interest
that the United States has manifested in
the welfare of Liberia. just before Mr..
Lyon departed from Liberia for New York
Presi lent Barclay had summoned the
him for the suppression of tribal wars.
While the chiefs were with the President
in Monrovia Admiral Chadwiok's South
Atlantic squadron happened to drop into
the harbor
The chiefs, none of whom can talk English.
were startled by the apparition and wanted
TO know IL tho great ships belonged to the
navy Of Liberia. The impression was
conveyed to them that the ships were owned
by grt at friendly Power that would see
the black republic. The chiefs were tre-
mendously impr ssed and quickly decided
that the best way to keep on friendly terms
with republic that had so much power
behind it was to do as President Barclay
suggested. They promised to stop fighting
and to try to help along the industrial prog
ress of the country.
Mr. Lyon said that he had gone $50 miles
into the int rior Of Liberia with party OF
fifteen and that II had been unne oessary
In NJ gNrf 'Ia
wcr. pc ace ably inclined, and the life of
traveller WAS as safe In Liberia as 1t is on
Broadway under normal conditions. What
the country needed most, Mr.. Lyon said,
was means Of transportation, and Presi:
dent Barclay was trying to have roads and
bridges built. Altogether, Mr.. Lyon said,
the outlook for the Liberians was better
than 1t ever had been, and he hoped for
the ultimate success Of the republic.
Aboard the French liner La Touraine,