Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1888-02-29

Their Third Annual Meeting Last
Evening Addresses by President
Peek and Others.
The Sons of Tubal, an organization COM
posed of employees of the well known firm of
Peck Brothers, held their annual meeting at
the City Hall dining rooms last evening.
After banquet had been enjoyed the
opening address was made by President Il.
F. Peck. He said among other things:
'fTubal Cain was distinguished as an inven-
tor and a worker in brass. We will assume
that he was plodder. Although the die
tionary does not give such a person a very
high position, yet it is q question in my mind
if the ranks of the successful in life are not
recruited from the plodders. When speak
of success do not mean that such generally
reach the pinnacle of success, perhaps they
rarely do, but these reap their reward be-
cause of their perseverance and patience.
"Many persons have to begin the voyage of
life against both wind and tide, it would
seem as if they were doomed to life of ever
lasting warfare with fortune. The school of
adversely graduates the ablest pupils. No
doubt it is easier to moralize on the uses of
adversely than to bear it. We are aware that
it is hard to begin life without q dollar,
hard to be poor, and harder to seem poor in
the eyes of others. No young man, espe-
cially no young man in our cities, likes to
make his entree in life with his boots
patched, to wear last years hat and clean
gloves smelling of benzine and economy
nor to carry a cotton umbrella, nor to ask
girl to marry him and live in the sky parlor
of cheap boarding house. We all like to
drive along smoothly, to have fine turnout,
to have the hinges of life oiled, the backs
padded and the seats cushioned, but such is
not the road to success in any profession or
calling"
President Peck was greeted with loud
applause at the conclusion of his address.
There was music by Stacks orchestra, af
ter which Mr.. A. T. Foster of New York re-
spended with an address on gu. B. or P. 3"
After thanking the association for the honor
extended he said: 'fI am expected to give
the meaning of these mystic letters Well,
am Yankee enough to do it, although was
met with mystifed looks when I asked what
they meant. If you transpose the first two
letters you have the initials, which, accord
ing to my dictionary, signify Peck Brothers.
You bet have been talking Peck Brothers
for the last twenty years, and imagine that
it is sentiment on which any of you could
talk with pleasure. For have we not, most
of us, spent tbs best part of our business
lives--from youth to manhood and some
of US from manhood to middle
pleasantly and proftably. We have seen it
grow from shop of modest dimensions to be
the largest manufacturing establishment of
its kind in the world. The president and
treasurer we all respect and delight to honor.
Every man and boy in their employ knows
that in each of them he has friend. These
gatherings are great pleasure to US ALL"
Mr. Foster proposed the following senti-
ment, which was applauded to the echo: May
Peck Bros. & Co. continue to flourish, may
their employees continue to work together in
harmony and prosperity, and may the Sons
of Tubal long meet to celebrate their ami |
versary as pleasantly as all have this evening |
and with unbroken numbers.
Other addresses were made and responded |
to by II. G. Weeden, J. M. Peck, Ell. NJ. San |
ford, L. L. Camp and James lothian. |
Among those present were the following: |
York, Professor Benjamin Jepson, H. F.
Peck, A. T. Foster, L. L. Camp, Arnold |
Behrer, A. Moore, g. NJ Peck, c. Il. Downs,
J. Fl. Landrigan, j. NJ. Peck, o. D. Peel, H. G. |
Weeden, George A. Webster, James
lothian, F. L. Coleman, F. L.
Hawkins, L. B. Hitchcock, H. M.
Sanford, l. II. Abramson, j. H. Tay
lor, Chris. yisel, J. g. Beach, John Morse,
w. G. Whitman, Theodore Thompson,
Thomas Leddy, G. A. Howard. George A.
French, Willis Curtiss, jr., Robert Camp,
J. M. Hendinger, Richard Miller, Thomas
Flood, Terry Ford, Edward Thayer, Edward
G. Bristol, Andrew Gold, Hobart Howard,
T. S. Coleman.
The following officers were elected for the
year: G. NJ. Peck president, Fl. M.
Sanford vice-president, F. L. Hawkins score
tary and treasurer; executive committee:
John Landrigan, Chris. Bissell, John Man
vile, r. L. Hawkins and 81. M. Sanford.