New-York tribune., 1905-02-12
SILK ASSOCIATIONS DINNER.
Rear Admirals Entwistle and Coghlan
Among the Speakers

The Silk Association of America celebrated its
thirty-third anniversary at dinner last night at
Demonico's. More than four hundred were pres
ent. including a number of we'll known men.
General Joseph W. Congdon. president of the silk
Association of America. thought President Roose-
welt mistaken when he spoke of the possibility
of raising in this country tho necessary supply of
raw silk. General Congdon also said:
Let us imagine an article in 1.-THE American Silk
Journal in 1873 to read as follows: Worms have
been taught to spin together in any desired mum, m
multiple cocoon until silk Of any desirable deneT
development of the this training required
great patience Silkworms being naturally of a
been ascertained that music. soft low and un-
phones are played constantly in many iIatures
and, consequence much evener and smoother
silk is being reeled."
Professor w. Miligan Sloane said in part:
lea is besmirched with "comnercialism,' and
that is the final word of condemnation for the
versity. This, l have noticed, exasperates the
merchant when he hears it And no wonder b9: The The
finally the croakers and the closet scholars judge
and sometimes rotten pillars. Gamblers. a rule.
are bad losers. especially stock gamblers, and the
Greek meets Greek and with the frenzed lamenta-
tions of the losers. So a fine word has come to
Every sane intelligent man distinguishes be-
that commerce ard industry, as you strive to rep
resent them enlarge and beautify life as much as
learning or art
Secretary Franklin Allen of the Silk Association
said he had in the last year what he had
never expected to see. 100000 pounds of raw silk
in twelve months.
Sadazuchl Uchida. Consul General of Japan
spoke briefly. He said he wished to give thanks
for the warm sympathy for his nation displayed.
Rear Admiral Entwistle spoke of the progress OF
the American feet into Manila Bay. and said that
when the lights of the flagship caused the shore
batteries to open fire Admiral Coghlan responded
with the first guns Of the from the Raleigh
That was the gun that opened the war with
Spain" Rear Admiral Entwiste declared.
Said Rear Admiral Coghlan, commandant of the
Brooklyn Navy Yard. in part:
We in the United States of America building
a navy; have spent hundreds of millions of dol
present, but we are going on adding TO it, and when
have finished what is now under way, which
will be perhaps in some four or i've years. we Will
have a navy equa! in all respects TO any other
the globe.
have seen it mentioned i'm several papers that
men-Of-War used in about ten years. That
is a mistake-they do last about twenty years.
To-day. although 1t is almost sacrilege To say
the ships of the Oregon class are so far behind
first class vessels any longer. They lack the two
great essentials of first rate ship of the present
day. One is speed and the other is endurance-the
amount of coal they carry
We of the navy look upon the navy simply as
matter of insurance for the country. We do not
thirst at all for blood any more That is all very
well for the young fellows; they all want TO wade
in it. and all that; but they get tired of it very
At present our great defect in the navy is lack of
trained men and Of officers. We have lately had
laws passed which are going to give US few OH
the lowest notch. Men for naval service cannot be
improvised. They have got to have experience.
To-day ii is a lamentabe fact that were we en-
gagged in war we absolutely have not enough trained
men to all the ships we have