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with Me," and if ever man can hear the swish of angel wings or feel the presence 

 of the departed he should do so during that solemn moment. 



The members of the Association are as follows : — 



Veterans. — Joseph E. Aue, Leander A. Bevin, Walter E. Clarke, James Craig, 

 Alexander Cruckshank, Frank Creelmann, H. E. Cornell, O. R. DeLamater, M. 

 Fogarty, F. A. Halsey, Fredk. Hulberg, James V. Ireland, Daniel M. Junk, Alex. 

 A. Kennedy, Arthur J. McGarvey, John A. Moran, Daniel E. Moran, Walter M. 

 Parker, H. F. J. Porter, Wm. Prellwitz, T. J. Ryder, Hugo B. Roelker, R. P. C. San- 

 derson, John Shields. 



Associate Veterans. — W. J. Davidson, Joseph F. Moran, Geo. J. Robinson, 

 Wm. H. Todd. 



Associates. — Victor D. Bevin, Sidney Bevin, David A. Byron; B. Frank Crane, 

 Lyman J. Fisher, Hobson Holliday, Geo. S. Humphrey, Chas. P. Kennedy, Andrew 

 Murray, Jos. W. Richardson, Norman A. Robertson, Jos. H. Turl, Harry Wheeler, 

 John O. Williams. 



In Memoriam.—C. C. Capes, Wm. A. McNab, Alex. Miller, Wm. S. Miller, 

 A. H. Raynal, Geo. H. Reynolds, W. D. Stivers, Chas. Van Wagenen. 



Note: — For much of the information contained in this paper I am indebted 

 largely to Mr. Ogden Mills, Mr. L. A. Bevin, Mr. Geo. H. Robinson, Mr. Hugo B. 

 Roelker, Mr. Thomas J. Rider, and Mr. Irving H. Reynolds, to whom I desire to ex- 

 press my appreciation for the trouble to which they went to give it to me. 



For illustrations relative to this paper see Plates i to ii. 



DISCUSSION. 



The President: — I sincerely hope nobody will call me a poet after the reading of 

 that doggerel. I had forgotten all about the matter imtil Mr. Porter referred to it. Fortu- 

 nately it is not in his paper. It is quite my custom, while something is going on at meet- 

 ings, to jot down a few notes. The "Old Oaken Bucket" came into my mind on the occasion 

 mentioned by Mr. Porter, and I paraphrased the lines of the well-known poem, applying 

 same to the DeLamater Iron Works, without any idea that anyone would ever again hear 

 of them. 



I can truly say that the DeLamater Iron Works was a great institution, and though 

 I was never officially connected with it in any way (for I was connected with a much 

 smaller concern, the old Fletcher-Harrison & Co. North River Iron Works) , yet I can truly 

 say that my association with Mr. DeLamater and Mr. Robinson, and all of the gentlemen that 

 Mr. Porter has named, remains in my memory as a very pleasant one. Mr. DeLamater, 

 great man that he was, was very democratic. When I was a young man, rtmning up there 

 frequently to look after work being done for my employers, he always greeted me as though 

 I was really of some consequence. It was due to Mr. DeLamater that Mr. William H. 



