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DISCUSSION. 



The President : — I am sure we are indebted to Mr. Blood for this paper. If there is 

 no discussion, I will extend to Mr. Blood, on your behalf, the thanks of the Society. 



Gentlemen, my term of office is nearly over, but before leaving this part of my closing 

 work I wish to present to you the President-elect, Admiral Washington Lee Caps. (Loud 

 applause. ) 



President-Elect Capps: — Gentlemen, the purpose for which I came to the platform 

 was not to receive your acclaim, grateful though it may be. It is a far more important pur- 

 pose, but, before proceeding, will you please permit me to express my very great appreciation 

 of the honor which you conferred upon me yesterday? Having, with Commander Taylor, 

 been associated with the Society from its infancy, you can easily imagine what a very great 

 and profound satisfaction it is to me to be honored with the highest office in your gift on the 

 twenty-fifth anniversary of the creation of the Society. All I need or can say further in 

 that respect is that I shall do my utmost, with your hearty cooperation, to give to the Society 

 as nearly as possible a continuance of that fine direction which has been given by my prede- 

 cessors. We have been twenty-five years in existence and have had only four presidents, and 

 I think a great part of our success is unquestionably due to the comparatively long period that 

 our principal executives have remained in office. 



The particular purpose for which I have relieved the chairman temporarily is to make a 

 motion which he cannot appropriately put while chairman. He is now about to complete a 

 second period of service of three years as your president. During an intervening period he 

 also bore a large part of the burden of the direction of the affairs of the Society, due to the 

 illness of the incumbent. Colonel Thompson. From the very inception of the Society he has 

 shown an interest and a fine direction which has, in large part, made possible the success 

 which has attended our efforts. 



The hour is late, and I should undoubtedly be doing the correct thing if I followed dis- 

 tinguished legislative precedent and asked "leave to print." But it is not necessary to in- 

 dulge in any extended eulogium of President Taylor by reciting his services. You know 

 about them almost as well as I do, and it is one of the greatest privileges that I have, in 

 offering you an opportunity to make fitting avowal of the esteem in which you regard him. 

 But before doing that formally, I will return to parliamentary procedure, and give to my 

 colleague, Vice-President H. D. Goulder, the opportunity of seconding such a motion. 



Mr. H. D. Goulder, Vice-President:— Mr. President and gentlemen, I am very happy 

 to second a vote of thanks to our retiring president. I do not know that you technical 

 gentlemen consider how much you are being appreciated for the wonderful work that you 

 are doing. And now, when somebody tried to stop the clock of history and we have got to 

 start over and regulate it, does anyone connected with the Society fully realize the value 

 to this country of the work done by Qement A. Griscom and by Stevenson Taylor, and the 

 work to be done now, because this Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers is 

 going to be, and is — but is going to be more so — a tremendous factor, and it is going to be 



