The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-04
RAILWAY APPLIANCES.
Great Exhibition is Opened at Wash
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 Washington, May 3.-The American Railway Appliance exhibition was for mally opened at noon today in the presence of nearly a thousand dele gates to the International Railway Con- gress. Speeches were made by Secre- tary of War Taft, Secretary of the Navy Morton. President G. A. Post of the exhibit District Commissioner Me- Farland, T. A. Lawrence. deputy chair man of the London Northwestern Rail- road, and Stuyvesant Fish, president of the American section of the congress. The delegates spent the morning sightseeing. The exhibit occupies the Government reservation at the foot of the Washington Monument and con sists of nearly 400 separate exhibits, housed in nearly a thousand pavilions.
 The opening was attended by dele gates, many members of the diplo- matic corps, members of the Cabinet and representatives of the army and navy. President Post. in calling the assembly to order, described the ex- hibit and it's purposes. George West inghouse was made chairman of the exercises. In his acceptance he pre- dicted a new era in railroading by the substitution of electricity instead of steam in the movement of trains.
 Secretary Paul Morton was heard next.
 Secretary Taft spoke in humorous vein. He had personally experienced the skill and genius of the railway supply people, he announced. He re- ferred humorously to the ease with which Secretary Morton, a railroad man now, he said, strutting the quar- ter-deck could speak. All he has to do now is to think what he has done in the past" was his good natured fling at the Secretary of the Navy.
 There are a number of railway ap- pliances l do not see in this exhibit" said the Secretary. They are the courts, the injunctions and the receiv- CTS. But I have no doubt as l look down on this well-fed audience there are gentlemen here who would be will ing to accept positions as receivers
 The Fedel~l courts as well as State courts, he said, had received q great deal of criticism for their interference in railway matters. This interference. he explained, had been necessary at some time that nearly every road had been the subject of court procedure, all of which had been necessary to pre- serve railway traffic which otherwise would have been interrupted by the suspension of bankrupt road. It had taken years and years to build up a code of law which was applicable in this matter and which now worked the least harm to the public and the least loss to the mortgage holders and other creditors of roads.
 Speaking for the foreign delegates. particularly those from Great Britain. MT. Lawrence expressed appreciation of the exhibit and admiration for the en- terprise of the American manufacturers which had prompted 1t.
 MT. Fish concluded the speech mak- ing with references to the early deVel- opment of railway mechanism of vari- ous kinds and illustrated by figures from the patent office the constant im- provements in devices.
 Many members of the International Railway Congress met tonight at a banquet at the Raleigh Hotel as guests of the American Railway Guild. While the welcome to the foreign delegates was the keynote of the speeches fol- lowing the repast. words showing the interest in the work of the congress were lacking. Secretary Paul Morton took occasion to give fresh expression to President Rooseyelts ambition re- garding railroad rate legislation
 Theodore N. Ely of the Pennsylvania Railroad was toastmaster. The response to his welcome was made by Ernest Girard of Brussels, acting president of the permanent commission of the con gress George F. Baer president of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad voiced American interests in foreign ideas as to transportation. The re- lation of forestry to railroads was set forth by Clifford Pinchot of the United States Bureau of Forestry.