New-York tribune., 1885-01-18
THE TYPOTHE7E DINNER.
CLEVER COMPANY AND GOOD SPEECHES.

FRANKLIN TXToILED-THE PRINTING PRESS,
AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS TALKED ABOUT
The Typothetn OF New York cOmmemoratcd
the birthday OF Benjamin Franklin. according TO annual
custom by eating good dinner and listening TO numcr
Gus good speeches last night at the Hoffman House
Wliam c. Martin the president OF the society, pre-
sided. Among those present Douglas Taylor A. d.
f. Randolph John +. TrOw, the Rev. Dr. G. I. Deems,
H. o. Houghton Of Boston, +. c. Baker W. II. Parsons
whtelaw Reid Horace White. Bernard Peters, Andrew
Little. H. o. Shepard, Of Chicago president of the Illinois
state Press Association Frank Lincoln Colonel William
l.. Brown, Andrew Mclean. Amos j. Cummings. the
representative of the Press Club Hector Orr Of Phia
delpha seventycight years Of age, credited with being
the oldest printer IN the country and looking though
he would long continue to enjoy that distinction. and
John A. slecher, OF The albany Erening JoW7,al In all
there about eighty members and twenty-five guests
present The feast disposed Of withb ecOming les
ure and with such assistance 10 digestion good wine
aud lively conversation afforded and all agreed that the
Dinner Committee and the Hoffman House chcf had ac
quilted themselves admirably. There was genial,
and easy air about the gathering which made time
fly fast and merry. The speeches in the
and were entirely free from any didactic favor.
& When the coffee poured President Martin made
brief address, congratuatng the society on its flourish
ing condition and especially its possession of local
The first toast " Benjamin Franklin-an Upper Case
7ype Of Manhood" was responded to by the Rev. DR.
he Confessed m no hat he dn Gaye speech
opinion OF benjamin Franklin. He knew all about hn
fifty years ago. His parents made him learn his pre-
cepts and. what worse uy 10 live up to them; and
for that reason. perhaps, he had acquired aversion
Ben Franklin was that he was printer spegE,
ing seriously, he said: "He so lived in his
passed, the whole American people are proud Of
him: on the whole, printers are glad in their ovn
he was not clergyman or lawyer II is fitting that
fashion should be treated with reverenee s tS twtnS t
Mr. Reid with having beguled him into speaking for
O Mr. Reid spoke next % for The % Printing Print Fest scat
ters light over the sphere OF thought rs
Referring iestingy to remark Of DR.. Decmss The
thanked him for the compliment he had paid TO THE
OF the highest be had received since IL depicted
them resembling oexacy Dr. Dcenlss own sermons
would have male All Impossible candidate for the Presi
deh,sy' as, or ,tev even for the senaor'hp lie then
printing be referred Colonel Richard Hoe as
asa,n aaa ncsFn asGes1s daS aS s man Who had
referred to Messrs. Theodore L. Dc vinne and H. e 1
printers perhaps the best than whom %
least there we're none better IN the United siates while
best work equal to any in f1O"%oe the world 'ng.
to the he p.1 Gss,0ea IL the daily
the New York Press Club, Amos j. Cummings wSs os
Vs Of the '9saS os h% Wa.iy lat the representa-
paper NewYork or on the Continent '%ISsa WSs nsws
1q @ o %as M the Of the political die M
ousy engaged IN forcing the will OF the people on bc
politicians in Albany i'S '' 'no
Colonel William L. Brown though not on the toast st
responded TO the loud demand for speech him by
speaking with much eloquence and humor for few
PARTISAN of ts eoaaiy mary os os ss S%t
sides constitutes the bulwarks OF our liberties" ~
The next toast "Pubishers, we know them by their
works they know us through their faith faith with.
out work Is dead responded TO by ii. o. Hough-
CB lie thought that the trouble with the pnbshers of
the present day was that they had not enough faith
II they had there would be more works. He recon-
mended u return 10 the practice Of apprsuticing
printers, and told how he had tried IL with good results
A. d. +: Randolph did battle for the Authors" and
bestowedla g0odhumOred drubbing all their enemics-
publishers printers and others.
Toward the close OF the evening Amos ]. Cummings
Presdent OF the NcwY0rk Press Club who had been re.