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electric and gas companies got up. and in a dry formal way spoke of their work etc, then to our disgust [[branched?]] of [[red underline]] to deny that engineers or chemists had anything to do with their success, [[double exclamation marks in red in margin]] [[/red underline]] spoke of the impractical reports his [[red underline]] engineers [[/red underline]] gave him and reproached college and University education as turning out men [[red underline]] unfit to be of service etc. [[/red underline]] This made us the next speakers rather restless. So the next one the [[red underline]] President of Franklin [[/red underline]] Institute, himself a gas engineer started by pitching in sharply and roasting [[red underline]] Aldred [[/red underline]] for his ill timed statements Unfortunately effect was
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lost to large extend by nervous long and endless address all read off in a hurry sometimes hard to understand at all.
But when I got up, gave first some [[red underline]] good shrapnel shots [[/red underline]] by pointing out if it had not been for a chemist [[red underline]] Dr. Welsbach, [[/red underline]] [[strikethrough]] the gas company [[/strikethrough]] the inventor of the Welsbach mantle the [[red underline]] gas company would be in the hands of a receiver, [[/red underline]] and if it had not been for [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] all of the work of engineers and scientists Mr [[red underline]] Aldred [[/red underline]] instead of being the President of the Baltimore Consolidated Gas and Electric Light Co, would now, with all his business abilities not be much beyond of being President of the Consolidated [[red underline]] Baltimore Tallow. [[/red underline]]

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haha. I am an Engineer, not much has changed in 100 years.