The Washington herald., 1916-04-07

last as DR.. Jones explained. "in case
4ay body started anything"
II feel myself in a certain sense In
familiar company tonight because a
very great part of my life has been
spent In association with men of sci
ence," said President Wilson. 81 have
often wished. particularly since 1 en-
tered public life. that there was some
oral process parallel TO the process of
triangulation. so that the whereabouts,
intellectually and spiritually, of some
persons could be discovered with more
particularity
yet as 1 listened to the Secretary
OF Commerce. suspected that he was
priding himself upon the discovery, OF
the whereabouts of great many COM
mittees of Congress and a great many
other persons connected with the
process of appropriating public mon
les. have a certain sympathy with
those committees of Congress which
in investigating the Coast and Geo
detic Survey, have found that the su-
perintendent had the great advantage
of knowing all about the service and
they the great disadvantage of know
ing nothing about II. because, as
have said, I have spent a great part
of my life in association with men OF
science and. never having been a man
of science, / have at least learned the
discretion OF keeping my opinion OF
scientific subjects to myself
"T have had association particularly
with the very exact and singularly well
informed brother OF distinguished gen.
tleman present. Gen. Scott has a brother
who is a member OF the faculty OF
Princeton University, and Prof. William
B. Scott Is one of the most provoking
men I have ever known. He not only
asserts opinions and delivers himself OF
information upon almost any subject
but the provoking thing about him Is he
generally knows what he is talking about
good talker who volunteers opinions
on all subjects ought to be expected In
fairness to his fellow men to make GER
tain large and generous portion of mis-
takes, because you can at least catch
him mapping, but Prof Scott Is one OF
those men who SUCCESSFULLY have
sometimes told him 1 suspected adroitIy
avoided the pitfalls OF eminent con-
versationalists like himself; but associa-
tion with such men has taught me a
therefore, I am not going to express any
opinion whatever about the work of the
Coast and Geodetic Survey"
The list Of those present follows:
DR.. c. G. Abbott, Franklin L. Adams
Prof. John W. Adams, Representative
W. c. Adamson, Charles 8. Albert, Rep,
resentative J. w. Alexander, ]. War.
rem Afford, H. C. Allen, H. @. Ayers, De-
catur Axtell.
Rene Bache, Harlow Bacon, Charles w
Baker, A L. Baldwin, S. C. Barnard
D. P. Barnette, jr., DR.. Louis A. Bauer
Capt. ]. B. Baylor, DR.. Alexander G.
Bell, ]. z. Benedict, Ira z. Bennett, ia.
cob Berman, Louis Berman, Clifford K.
Bergman, Capt. E. P. Berthof, Morris
Bien, c. ]. Blanchard, Representative
William P. Borland, Ward 7. Bower
William, Bowie, Andrew. Braid. Edward
A. Br1hd, william e. Brigham, Alfred
II. Brooks, D. II. L. Brooks, Owsley
Brown, Prof. William H. Burger, Arthur
W. Buttenheim.
Representative C. C. Carlin, Represent.
ative J. H Capstick, Percy B.. Castles
Robert H. Chapman, Samuel s. Childs
William = Chiffon. Earl F. Church, Aus
tin H. Clark, DT. F. W. Clarke, H. c. o.
Clarke, B. A. Colonna, John S. Conway
DR.. William H. Dali, A. P. Davis
Frank E. Davis, George R Davis, DR.
Arthur L. Day. Charles H, Deetz, Capt
r. B. Derickson, Dr. A ]. Donlon, DIT
N. E. Dorsey, E. NJ. Douglas, Arthur Do.
vale. Charles r. Duvail.
William c. Edes, Prof. W. s. EickeI.
berger, Arthur J. Ella, Edmund p. Ellis
Thomas Ewing. c. c. Ennis. ..
Herbert s. Fairbank, Walter B. Fair.
field.
Capt. Robert L. Faris. DR.. Louis A
Fischer; Representative ]. ]. Fitzgerald
]. A. Flemer, John A. Fleming, George
L Flower, c. A. Ford. Capt. stehmar
Forney, Owen B. French.
Glenn L. Garner, Henry s. Gamble, s.