. Orations, addresses and speeches of Chauncey M. Depew . try Roads 296Speech before the New York Farmers Club, at Sherrys, January 19, 1892. Subject: Arboriculture _ - - 299 Argument in Behalf of New York as the Site of the Quadri-Centennial Celebration, before the United States SenateCommittee, January 11, 1890 ------ ^04 Speech at Grand Central Palace, New York, at the Benefit givenby the Health Exposition to the Red Cross Society, May 14,1898 314 Speech at the Members Reception, Young Mens Christian Asso-ciation (Railroad Branch), to Mr. Warburton, October 13,1908 -- 318 Addres
. Orations, addresses and speeches of Chauncey M. Depew . try Roads 296Speech before the New York Farmers Club, at Sherrys, January 19, 1892. Subject: Arboriculture _ - - 299 Argument in Behalf of New York as the Site of the Quadri-Centennial Celebration, before the United States SenateCommittee, January 11, 1890 ------ ^04 Speech at Grand Central Palace, New York, at the Benefit givenby the Health Exposition to the Red Cross Society, May 14,1898 314 Speech at the Members Reception, Young Mens Christian Asso-ciation (Railroad Branch), to Mr. Warburton, October 13,1908 -- 318 Address at the American Commerce Banquet, in Commemorationof the Centennial of American Commercial Liberty, atDclnionicos, New York, December 19, 1895 - - - 324 IndoK -•••••.•.«-««( Vol. VIII MISCELLANEOUS SPEECHES NEW YORK PRODUCE EXCHANGE. ADDRESS AT THE OPENING OF THE NEW BUILDING OF THE NEWYORK PRODUCE EXCHANGE^ MAY 6, 1884. R. President and Gentlemen : The opening ofthis Exchange marks an important era in our na-tional development. The wildest dreamer of thepreceding generation would not have hazarded theprediction that in thirty years the merchants of thiscity, engaged only in the handling of domestic foodproducts, would have required and possessed the resources to builda palace of commerce costing three millions of dollars. The mod-est rented room which met all your wants in i860, expanding intothis superb structure in 1884, illustrates the agricultural and com-mercial progress of this country in the last quarter of a startling splendor of the facts reduces to ordinary experiencesthe wild creations of The Arabian Nights. This Exchange isan example of how the things most dreaded by our fathers arewelcomed and utilized for the most beneficent purposes in our one nightmare disturbing the dreams of
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