2l8 THE ADDRESSES, LECTURES, ETC., OF 



which they might have good reason for not acknowledging there, 

 but which at Creusot produced good results. They had seen that 

 which was poor coal and poor ironstone originally produce iron 

 and steel of the very highest quality, and in the blast furnace they 

 got a ton of pig metal for a ton of coke, a result, he might say, 

 which was not surpassed in England. All that was the result of 

 the genius of their host's father, but it required more than that ; 

 it required more than an ironmaster to create Le Creusot ; it re- 

 quired a man who could go forth in the world and take his posi- 

 tion, and M. E. Schneider, as was well known, was President of 

 the National Assembly, and it was there he made an impression 

 and developed the power necessary to produce such results as they 

 saw. Of M. Henri Schneider he would say only that he was the 

 affectionate son of his father. He never knew a son of such 

 thorough devotion as M. Henri Schneider always was to his 

 knowledge to his father, and now that the great responsibility 

 of conducting those works had been thrown upon himself, he had 

 shown himself his father's worthy successor. In Le Creusot to- 

 day he saw no backsliding anywhere ; everywhere progress, and 

 nothing could better express the great example set by M. E. 

 Schneider than was expressed by the beautiful statue in the 

 pavilion, where the poor mother of the Creusot child pointed to 

 its founder saying, " That is the man follow him." It was a 

 great pleasure to him to thank their host in the name of the 

 members of the Institute for the magnificent and princely recep- 

 tion he had given them. Nothing, he thought, could exceed the 

 cordiality and the liberality of the reception which they had re- 

 ceived, and they would go home indeed gratified beyond measure 

 with the kindly feeling to which that visit would lead. Before 

 proposing the health of their host, Dr. Siemens proposed the 

 health of Madame E. Schneider. 



At the dinner the members collected among themselves a sub- 

 scription of 1000 francs, which was remitted to Messrs. Schneider 

 in due course by the President, who also sent the following 

 letter : 



PARIS, 232 September, 1878. 



DEAR MESSIEURS SCHNEIDER & COMPANY, It would be im- 

 possible for me to express to you, in adequate terms, the feeling of 



