The Building of the United Engineering Society.

Progress, Volume II, Issue 10, 1 August 1907, Page 382

The Building of the United Engineering Society.

The dedicatory exercises of the new building of the United Engineering Society, at 25 West Thirty-ninth Street, New York city, to which Andrew Carnegie gave $1, 500,000 for construction and still more when it came to raising an endowment fund were held on April 17th, 1907. The exercises were in the assembly hall of the new building which is one of the finest auditoriums of its kind in the city. Mr. Carnegie shared attention with the venerable Dr. Edward Everett Hale, President Arthur T. Hadley, of Yale, Ambassador Creel, of Mexico ; Sir William H. Preece, president of the institute of Electrical Engineers of England, and John Fritz, of the building committee, who received the most prolonged applause of any of those present. Charles Wallace Hunt, who presided, had as a gavel the setting maul which Mrs. Carnegie used when she laid the cornerstone of the building. T; C. Martin, president of the Engineers' Club, read this telegram of congratulation from President Roosevelt : The White House, Washington, April 13, 1907. My Dear Sir : I heartily congratulate you on the opening of the building of the Engineering Societies. The building will be the largest engineering centre of its kind in the world. It is, indeed, the first of its kind, and its erection in New York serves to mark and emphasise the supremacy which this country is steadily achieving through her proficiency in applied science. The whole country is interested in the erection of such a building, and particularly of course, all of those who follow either the profession of engineering or any kindred profession, and in no branch of work have Americans shown to greater advantage what we like'to think of as typically American characteristics. With all good wishes, believe me, sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt. Mr. T. C. Martin, 114 Liberty Street. President Hadley delivered the principal address and declared that a combination of ethical and technical standards would produce the best professional service,