114 WESTERN INCIDENTS.

Pacific Railway will be exhibited to aid the proposed improve-
ment of the inter-State water way-from the Mississippi to the At-
lantic seaboard, believing that such pecuniary assistance will be
repaid to the Government one hundred fold in the development
of material naval and military resources of our country.

‘¢ Resolved, That our thanks are due and are hereby tendered to
the proprietors and managers of this signal enterprise, assuring
them of our highest appreciation of its magnitude, and for the
skill, boldness, and ability which projected, and the marvellous
rapidity with which it is being carried forward to completion.”

REPLY OF HON. C. A. LAMBARD.

Mayor Ricze—I will call now upon one of these men who are
engaged in this noble national work, and in doing so I again offer
them the hearty welcome of the people of Chicago. I call upon
the Hon. Charles A. Lambard, of Boston, one of the Directors of
the Pacific Railroad. Mr. Lamparp spoke as follows:

‘“¢ As a Director of the Union Pacific Railroad Company, I feel
bound to say one word to you in response to this cordial welcome,
for Mr. Durant, our Vice-President, who is kept away from us
by sickness. In his behalf, then, and in behalf of the Union
Pacific Railroad Company, let me thank you for this kind recep-
tion. Let me return thanks here in a public manner for the many
kindnesses we have received in the West. Wherever we have
been we have received the greatest kindness and the most lavish
hospitality from all your citizens. Indeed, sir, the devices and
ingenuity with which they have insured our comfort, safety, and
happiness over these long lines of railroad, have excited the ad-
miration and wonder of our friends. No men educated in a
country less magnificent in resources or less expansive and liberal
in influence, could conceive or do more for stranger friends; no
men less learned in nature’s learning could have devised the
mise en scene we have so thankfully beheld, and so successfully
earried out a plan to develop it. In regard to this subject,