New-York tribune., 1919-11-25
u. S. Mining Medal
Given to Schneider.
'Schwab of France
Honor Conferred Six Years
Ago Upon Hoover Award
ed at Dinner to Delegates
TO Trade Farley Here

The gold medal Of the Mining and
Metallurgical Society of America was
conferred last night upon Charles Eu-
gene Schneider, head of the Creusot
Steel Works and chairman of the
French Economic Mission which at
tended the recent Foreign Trade Con-
ference at Atlantic City. Mr.. Schnei-
der and the other delegates to the con-
terence are being entertained in this
city preliminary to their departure to-
morrow on the President Grant.
1t was the sixth annual award of the
medal, which is given for research
work IN metallurgy. Six years ago the
recipients were Mr. and Mrs. Herbert
e. Hoover, who had translated a six
teenth century book on mining, which
heretofore had defed engineers and
linguists.
Mr.. Schneider, who has been called
the Charles NJ. Schwab of France, was
greeted at the dinner by Charles NJ.
Schwab, Of America. as "the leader of
me steel industry" Mr. Schwab said
the steel industry in this country
virtually was back on peace time
basis. The need of the hour and of the
future, he said, was "the forging OF
guns of public opinion and justice by
which the world will DC Won"
Sees Need of More Guns
DR.. Henry NJ. Howe, professor emeri-
tus of metallurgy at Columbia Uni
vcrsity. another speaker, was not SO
sure that the world mad passed beyond
the need OF guns OF steel. Germany 5
ambition had been thwarted only tenn
! porarily, he declared, and German ag-
! erosion again would menace the civil
lized world. Germany. he asserted
was intrinsically criminal.
He called attention to the magnitude
Of the Creusot works, where 100000
men are employed. pointing Jut that
they had supplied three fourths Of the
French artliery used in the war and
also had furnished Belgium and Ser
biz with guns. Engineers from Creu-
sot. he said. had been sent to the
United States when this nation de
clared war to help in organizing the
Am morican steel industry for war.
Other speakers were Bradley Slough
ton and Brigadier General McCloskey
II. II. Knox was toastmaster. Among
those ar the dinner were NJ. J. Case
nave, CASTOR Liebert, French Consu
General; Baron du Narais. Benodic ct
Crowell. Assistant Secretary Of War:
En.ile Collin. Anne Dumaine, Herbert
c. Hoover, Fayette S. Curtis, Dean VI
E. Cooley, Calvert Townley, +. II. Gary
DR.. Charles Warren Hunt, Calvin "
Rice, +. L. Hutchinson and James 7
McCleary.
Stevens Honors Schneider
Earlier in the day Stevens Institute
OF Technology conferred the degree O.
Doctor Of Engineering upon Mr. S"hnei-
der After Dr.. Alexander Humphreys
president Of Stevens, had conferred
the degree in the presence of the stu
dent body Mr.. Schneider delivered ;
brief address, in which he praised tht
work Of American engineers in France
and suggested that French and Ameri
can universities exchange students a
we'll as professors.
About 100 delegates TO the Foreig1
Trade Conference inspected the Busi
Terminal in Brooklyn with members c
the Merchants Association and tn,
United States Chamber Of Commerce
Then they attended luncheon at tht
Brooklyn Chamber of c mmerce
Florimond Hankar, delegate from
Belgium. said at the luncheon tina
there were not more than 100000 per
sons unemployed in his land, and tina
all the railroads wrecked by the Ger
mans had been repaired with the ex
ception of about thlrt six miles
Many of the delegates went to ths
Hippodrome last night They will b.
the guests Of the New York Stat,
Chamber of Commerce to-day.