New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-16
|SC0T TAPS At FEAST
Follows ShackIeton's Silent
Toast at Maritime Dinner.
PLEA FOR NEW NAVY YARD
Captain Van Duzer Finds Bay
onne Ideal Spot, with Facili.
ties for Great Fleet.

Upward Of six hundred members Of the
Maritime Association OF the Port Of New
York dined in nautical style in the grand
ballroom of the Waldorf last night. The
two balconies were draped with the house
flags of the lines represented, buglers
from the old frigate Granite State sound
ed calls and bells struck the time. Sir
Ernest Sbackleton. who made the hrst
address. paid tribute TO Captain Robert
F.. Scott who had saved his life on an
expedition eleven wears ago.
The other speakers were Commander
George +. Cooper. hydrcgra pher Of the
Navy Department: Professor Willis l..
Moore. chief of the United States Weather
Bureau; Alfred T.. Smith. Speaker Of the
Assembly; Commandment Il. p Bertholf,
Of the United States Revenue Cutter Ser
vice: Louis Sayre Van Duzer captain in
the Brooklyn Navy Yard: Charles Dick.
William NJ. Calder. Commander Russell
RaynOr. Or. Joseph J. O'Connell. Health
Officer of the Port: Captain John +. Wild.
supervisor of anchorages; Captain r. f.
Dickens. inspector of the United States
Coast and Geodetic Survey; the Rev. +.
G. Fitzgerald, the Rev. ". G.. McKeady,
Walter r. Frew, president Of the Corn
Exchange Bank; Lieutenant John GRADY
and James II. Scarf forecaster Of the
United States Weather Bureau.
Silent Toast and Taps for Scott.
1T was with deep personal feeling that
/ heard of the tragedy OF the five men
who are dead in the Far South" said
to
full tonight. and | cannot speak much
of the men who gave their lives in q
work which is an incentive to the coming
generation. | know you American people
feel as we do, as We are mourning for
them at home. 1t has been said that the
disaster will put an end TO polar explors-
ton / say that the work must 90 on.
Not even occasional loss Of life should
put an end TO it,
The POSTMASTER proposed silent toast
TO Captain Scott and his companions WHO
sounded taps.
Willard L. Taylor asident OF the
Maritime Association, who was toastnas-
ter. then introduced Professor Moore He
told OF the work of the Weather Bureau,
which will soon tell the weather condi-
tons over the entire Atlantic Ocean. He
told OF the discovery, recently made. that
the government station on the Aleutian
Islands is in the centre of zone IN
which all the great storms OF the West
ern Hemisphere originate. He predietej
the use Of the aeroplane at the weather
stations for scientific observations OF the
upper air. which. he said. would soon be
made at an altitude OF at least two miles.
Van Duzer for New Navy Yard.
Captain Van Duzer, Of the Brooklyn
navy yard. spoke OF the necessity OF
having a new site for the yard, recon-
mending Bayonne. where, he said, quar-
ters could be provided for the entire navy.
In regard 10 diagonal piers In the North
River. he said that he found only one
man who had disagreed With the opinion
that they were necessary, and that that
man prepared brief on the subject, but
the captain said that critic made only one
statement in his argument which was
borne out by the facts, and that was the
plan had been formed by the Dock De-
pdrtineut'
If you keep on putting your piers at
right angles TO the waterfront, he said,
the time Will come when ships will just
neatly fit in between the piers and the
Jersey shore. With piers 1850 feet long
and ships 1900 feet long you will have
beautiful dam across the river. The ships
will probably ride over 1t, but It will.
aood YOUR docks"
Captain Van Duzer said that it was
possible 10 bring ships into the Brook
lyn yard only twice day. at high water.
and then there was only an allowance
of twenty minutes for docking. lie said
that there was only one spot in New
York Harbor fitted for such great plant
as the navy yard, doing Si5,ono,oc busi-
ness, and that this was on the vest
shore of the upper bay at Bayonne, which
had peculiar facilities of every kind