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boom goes the cannon. That is the war feature. It has its good 
uses in peaceful commerce as well. 
I am. told by one who has seen them that the large works of 
Warner & Swayze in every department are models of neatness 
and order; everything so bright that it is like a scientific palace. 
Kvery day at ten Mr. Warner meets the head of each department 
to talk over matters. All must be there to the second. 
Mr. Warner, in addition to being a large manufacturer, is 
one of the grand kind of men who ean find time to take an inter- 
est in educational and church matters, apart from the great affairs 
he has to think about. He is on the Senate of two Universities 
in Cleveland, one being the Western Reserve University. Besides 
this he is an elder in the Presbyterian church, and, as did another 
sreat man, Mr. Gladstone, considers it an honor and privilege to 
assist in the services of his church when such help is required of 
him. | 
This audience will be pleased to know that Mr. Warner 
invited our President, Rev. Dr. Marsh, to visit their works and 
examine the instruments made for the St. Louis Exposition before 
they were sent there. 
On the invitation of the United States Senate, our distinguish- 
ed friend went to Panama as a scientific expert to examine a sea 
level waterway and to report. A committee of the Senate ac- 
companied him. That subject is one of such importance that 
language fails to describe it. You will hear of this wonderful 
work to-night, a work that will revolutionize the commerce of 
the entire world. It is more than kind of Mr. Warner to 
come to Hamilton. He is a very busy man, and is off in the morn- 
ing early to lecture in New York before the American Society of 
Civil Engineers. He is building his own monument while he 
lives as a benefactor of his race. His good name, his personality 
and fame have preceded him here. I will not, keep you longer from 
the treat in store for you and have unusual pleasure in introduc- 
ing our distinguished American friend, Mr. Warner, of 
Cleveland, who will address you on ‘‘The Panama Sea _ Level 
Waterway.’’ 
