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out to the Baltimore, the most modern U. S. cruiser, where Captain Schley in charge 

 waited to receive the remains. 



"When the remains with the accompanying party came on board the cruiser Bal- 

 timore, Mr. George H. Robinson, speaking for the U. S. Government, addressed 

 Captain Schley in part as follows : 



" 'Captain Schley, in the nation's tribute to our illustrious dead the simple duty 

 falls to us to yield to the claims of his mother country, that she may again receive 

 her son. We send him back crowned with honor, proud of the life of fiftj^ years he 

 devoted to this nation, and with gratitude for the gifts he gave us. 



" 'Was he a dreamer? Yes. He dreamed of the practical application of screw 

 propulsion, and the commerce of the world was revolutionized. He dreamed of 

 making naval warfare more terrible, and the Monitor was built. Again he dreamed 

 and the Destroyer with its submarine gun was born. He dreamed of the possibili- 

 ties of obtaining power from air at high temperatures, and behold ten thousand ca- 

 loric engines. He dreamed of the sun's rays in sandy deserts where water was hard 

 to get, and the solar engine came ; and so he dreamed and worked for seventy years. 



" To you. Captain Schley, we commit these remains. An honorable duty is 

 yours, to deliver them to his native country. We shall keep his memory here.' 



"After the closing exercises, the party returned to the shore and the cruiser Bal- 

 timore weighed anchor and steamed down the bay, passing the Statue of Liberty 

 the emblem of that human possession for the preservation of which Captain Erics- 

 son had devoted his great genius. As the cruiser passed through the ranks of the 

 Monitors and other men-of-war, their guns and those of the forts at the mouth of 

 the harbor thundered a salute and on land the church bells tolled a last farewell. 

 Then the Baltimore proceeded with its Swedish convoy of battleships to the home 

 port of Gothenburg, which was waiting to greet its arrival by a great naval display." 



So fell the curtain on the last act in a great drama staged in a national theater 

 the DeLamater Iron Works, a glorious ending befitting the career of one of the 

 two characters who built up an institution which served its country loyally in war as 

 well as in peace for half a century. 



Then as if a relentless nemesis was awaiting an opportunity to obliterate the last 

 vestige of the existence of the works, the city bought its West Side water front and 

 cut a broad marginal way through it with modern piers facing on it, to accommo- 

 date its shipping, and now the waters of the Hudson River flow over and past the site 

 of the works and its name is no longer even a memory in the locality. 



A life-size statue of Captain Ericsson, with the model of the Monitor in his 

 hand, stands at the battery. A life-size statue of Cornelius H. DeLamater should be 

 erected in front of the 14th Street Ferry-house which adjoins the old site of the De- 

 Lamater Iron Works and a bronze tablet recording the combined work of both these 

 men should be placed on the front of the Cunard pier to mark the site itself. 



It was a fortunate circumstance that brought Cornelius H. DeLamater and 

 Capt. John Ericsson together early in life and provided the facilities which the 

 DeLamater Iron Works offered for the cooperation of these men in the fields in 



