24 PROCEEDINGS OF A.I. E. E. [April profession should stimulate and inspire agent of civilization and of culture. [ every one of us to a higher accomplish­ cannot but think that such a building ment and to nobler purposes, so that the engineering could have been given lofty motive which actuated the donor no more fittingly by any one than by a when he formulated his proposal may man born in Scotland, because Scotland have its warrant in the further progress was civilized by engineers. There made by the engineer in every branch is a tradition that it was done by the of his profession, between which no poet and by the priest and by the uni­ envy or rivalry should ever exist, ex­ versity, but as a matter of fact it was cepting that contention of the engineer­ done by the engineer. ing profession in every branch for the The story is a short one. At the benefit of the profession at large. end of the eighteenth century the May this home be a monument to inhabitants of Scotland were still the eminence and standing which the engaged in the noble business of engineer has attained in every branch lifting cattle from their southern of the great industrial advancement of neighbors. I have no doubt that the this country, and may his further pro­ Carnegie clan got its full share. They gress and success in the economical de­ had poets, they had prophets, they had velopment of the resources of nature universities, but they lacked civiliza­ for the use and benefit of man bring to tion. Four engineers came along and him the full recognition he shall deserve. civilized them. One taught them how Please accept and convey my sin-to build roads, and his name is perpetu­ cerest good wishes and congratulations ated to-day in the street pavement to the societies upon this occasion of the known as the Telford. The second memorable opening of their new home, taught them how to build a bridge and may the spirit of peace, progress, across a stream. A third, and perhaps and prosperity ever dwell within its he was the greatest of all, taught them walls. " how to harness the power of steam. The fourth taught them how to draw a wagon on two rails with steam power. Address of Dr. Henry Prit- Those four men did in fifty years more cHett than all the poets and prophets and uni­ PRESIDENT OF THE CARNEGIE FOUND­ versities had not done in a thousand ATION. years; they changed the country from We who labor in the preparation of a generation of cattle lifters to a gen­ men for the calling of the engineer eration of civilized men. feel a keen interest in your success and Speaking in all seriousness, sir, this in your gift, and, for two reasons; building is of greatest moment to us first, because we have seen here because it does recognize that very fact. an effort towards cooperation and unity, Your engineer is to-day the real worker and we feel that progress is in accord in civilization. He is not a poet, he is with the spirit of the age. There could not a prophet, he is not a priest; but be no more fitting time to dedicate he is a constructor. He represents the such a building as this, occupied and to constructive side of human develop­ be held by the engineering societies, ment, not the destructive side or the than at the time of the meeting of a passive side, and as such he is the real great peace conference. Secondly, we maker of the civilization of our day. feel a great interest in this evidence of What is it that makes civilization? prosperity on the part of your societies, What is it that civilized Scotland? It because it is a recognition of the dignity was the making of transportation, it and of the value of the calling of the was the bringing of men together; for it engineer. is not weakness that brings war and that After all, the engineer is the real makes peace impossible, but it is the civilizer of to-day, is the real advance ignorance, the lack of knowledge of one 1907] NOTES AND COMMENTS 25 people of another, that makes war pos­ trotechia Italiana, and the Italian So­ sible and that brings with it all the hor­ ciety of Engineers and Architects, by rors which war entails. He who builds Mr. John W. Lieb, Jr. the railroad, he who throws a bridge across a stream, he who makes trans­ On behalf of the Berlin Observatory, portation possible,—they are the men by Dr. F. R. Archenhold. who build the enduring paths of peace and of civilization. On behalf of the associate societies So we, sir, of the technical school, in the Engineers' Building, by Captain ask you as engineers that you may help Baxter, United States Navy. us in our work of instruction to realize, and to make our students realize, that Mr. Lieb then read a large number the engineer is the builder not only of of congratulatory letters and telegrams material civilization, but that he must from all parts of the world. Among be in this next quarter century a builder these were the following: also of those structures which look London, April 4, 1907. towards things which are spiritual and " I am sorry it is not possible for me towards things which are eternal. to present on the occasion of the dedi­ On behalf of the Verein Deutscher cation of the building of the Engineer­ Gesellschaft, Mr. Charles Kirchhoff said: ing Societies on April 16 and 17, as I I come to you to-day to bring must be in London at that time. the greetings of one of our German Kelvin." sister societies, whose headquarters are in that beautiful city on the Rhine, '1 Institution of Civil Engineers, Great Dusseldorfl, where they have cunningly Britain. Under a resolution of the coun­ succeeded in establishing both an art cil I have the honor to request you to centre and an industrial centre. The convey to the trustees of the United foreign societies and the societies on Engineering Societies the very warm this side of the water have repeatedly congratulations of this Institution upon exchanged visits. I have been a guest the occasion of the dedication of the on some of these occasions; I can new building established as a home for assure you that if I should be a host in American engineering societies. With future years you will find true again an expression of the hope that it may what you have found in the past: there be the means of furthering the interest is an open hand, an open heart, and of the engineering profession and of an open cellar door ready for you at establishing more closely the relations all times. which exist between its various branches Mr. Kirchhoff then presented the I have the honor to be, sir, your obe­ United Engineering Societies with an dient servant, illuminated manuscript from the Verein " J. H. T. Bacborough, Secretary." Deutscher Gesellschaft. " Council of Institution of Mining and On behalf of the Societe Internationale Metallurgy now assembled send cordial des Electricite of France, by Mr. Carl congratulations to American confreres Hering. on dedication of the United Engineering On behalf of the Faraday Society of building." Great Britain, by Mr. Leon Gasper. On behalf of the Canadian Society of JOHN W. LIEB, JR.: We have to-day Civil Engineers, a congratulatory tele­ as one of the features of our programme gram from the president, Mr. W. Michael the presentation of the John Fritz gold Wellbank. medal, and as an introduction to the presentation of that medal I will ask On behalf of the Associazione Elet- Mr. Fritz kindly to be seated on the 26 PROCEEDINGS OF A. I.E.E. [April

platform. [Mr. Fritz took the platform it to a reality in this magnificent build­ amid great applause.] This medal, as ing—the capitol of American engineer­ you may know, was founded by a num­ ing. ber of friends—and he has a host of This medal signifies more than a bit them in the engineering profession—of of gold, more than honor to a man for our honored colleague, John Fritz. his achievements. It stands for a sen­ The American Society of Civil Engi­ timent, for a new ideal from which many neers, the American Society of Mechan­ results may follow. As one of the first ical Engineers, the American Institute fruits to which it has contributed has of Mining Engineers,, and the American come this noble building. Institute of Electrical Engineers, con­ On this dedicatory occasion the first stitute a board through their repre­ formal announcement is made of the sentatives which awards this medal awards of the John Fritz medal. Mr. Charles F. Scott is the chairman of The first award was made on January the board which has awarded the medal, 20, 1905, to Lord Kelvin, " For his this year to Dr. Alexander Graham Bell. work in cable-telegraphy, and other scientific achievements." The second John Fritz Medal. award was made on January 19, 1906, Presentation of medal by Charles. F. to George Westinghouse, " For the in­ Scott, chairman of the Board of Award, vention and development of the air April 17, 1907: brake." The third award was made The presentation of the John Fritz on January 18, 1907, to Alexander medal on this occasion has a peculiar Graham Bell. significance, for this noble building owes Dr. Bell, on behalf of the Board of much to the John Fritz medal. The Award of the John Fritz medal, con­ happy outcome of the cooperative move­ sisting of Messrs. Charles Warren Hunt, ment by which the national engineer­ Charles Hermany, C. C. Schneider, and ing societies joined in the founding of Frederic P. Stearns, from the American this medal, and the brilliant dinner to Society of Civil Engineers; of Messrs. John Fritz on October 31, 1902, did Charles Kirchhoff, E. E. Olcott, E. G. much to develop the sentiment of which Spilsbury, and James Douglas, from the this building is the outcome. Mr. Fritz, American Institute of Mining Engi­ in grateful response to the honor he had neers; of Messrs. S. T. Wellman, James received, was the nestor of the com­ M. Dodge, John E. Sweet, and Henry mittee to whom Mr. Carnegie handed R. Towne, from the American Society his letter of gift. I am personally glad of Mechanical Engineers; and of Messrs. to acknowledge that it is to the John Charles F. Scott, B. J. Arnold, J. W. Fritz dinner that I owe an acquaintance Lieb, Jr., and Schuyler S. Wheeler, from with the several societies, and a con­ the American Institute of Electrical ception of what engineering societies Engineers, I have the honor to present may accomplish when they work to­ to you this medal, for the invention and gether. The ideals which were there in­ introduction of the telephone. spired have been the impelling force in my relations to the noble enterprise which is consummated in the dedica­ RESPONSE OF ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL. tion of this building. The vision of the future which seemed I hardly know how to express myself to show a reflection of the John Fritz fittingly in response to the honor that medal in a larger life of the engineer of is bestowed upon me. I can only say the twentieth century, was discerned that I appreciate very highly this medal, by the keen eye of a genius in foreseeing and I shall prize it also from the fact and in inaugurating movements for the of its being presented in this magnificent upbuilding of men, and by a touch of building, this temple dedicated to ap­ his magic wand of wealth he has brought plied sciences, the home of the societies