New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-11-22
A GEM OF A DINNER.
how THE JEWELLERS APPRECIATES II.
SPARKLING WIT. ExcEIhENr oRAToRY AM
SUBSTANTIAL DECORATIONS.


TNerc was so great pressure on the space OF Inc
Edbune yesterday, that the annuai d'"ner o u,0
Eew- York Jewellers Association, held at Demonco's
IN Thursday evening could not be described fully
es II deserved.
II was gem of dinner. II original to
beun with in the way in which tho tables were
laid. The dishes served, not among banks OF
fragrant flowers and trailing evergreens but In SUD-
stantial surroundings Of other sorts Of fowers-cau
nowers to wit, and other green's cabbage and carly
kale. interpreted with pumpkins big enough to 90
set on wheels for Cinderella carriages without the
magnfying intervention OF fairy godmother' ana
with huge trnips and carrots that would nave e'"o
a county fair. For centrepiece each table hau
barley sheaf, bright with poppy heads among us
yellow stalks
In his time. and has responded many times 10 o''o
toast Of "The Bench and Bar but ne never
reused to such enthusiasm when he looked aronho
that fertile board. and exclaimed: ats an ao'er
tsement for Delmonico'sl 1t tells you THAI WIG"
Won come here you get the real thing, tnongh "hen
hs cooks It, the devil himself can't tell wnat
The surroundings inspired the speakers VINO welo
nj, placed at the right and left OF the pfcs'ueu'
U.rrv Ide nj a raised table, to tremendous
oss.vs after the manner OF Tom Hood ii 'hey hau
or,v Known when they were playing with the inno
cent names OF the carrot and the beef tnat al .io
cuests at all the tables had been rachps tne'r oraS
from course to course in similar neids Oh iheeh"'s'
they might have RETAINED
Grover cleveland was guiltless. however, though
he did divide his discourse on "Our country lhto
0hoadsp which might have been weird allusion to
cabbaccs When Mr.. Cleveland arose to speak some
body called out Our next Presidenti Three cheers
Hurray!'
iul between their expiration and the uterance OF Mr.
C1eveland's first words, deep bass voice near the
hallway door remarked slowly and emphatcaly:
al say no."
The speech of the Rev. DR.. Brown OF st. Thomas's
Protestant Episcopal Church. about Honesty ana
Integrity the True Basis OF Success In Trade was
manly and straightforward one. and the points that
ne made-especay that in spite Of the old proverb
honesty wasn't "pollcy,' but a principle-were
loudly cheered. lie quoted Plato's saying. Honesty
As 10 be honest when there is an opportunity 10 be
dishonest and when there is possibility OF detec-
ton and his hearers cordially Endorsed it,
Then General Stewart l.. Woodford. when the
Jewellers and their friends still rejecting the
beams darted on them from cluster OF rare and fair
diamonds that had glittered for minute from the
gallery was asked to speak OF " The Ladies'"
The gallant General fulfilled his grateful task with
brevIty and wit. Then having avoided the punstePs
scya the carrots he dashed himself against the
tempting Charybdis afforded by the beets. He es-
caped with his ufe however. Then ne became more
serious and said q" want to congratulate the business
men and bankers, the clergy and the public men OF
York, that through the last week New-York has
not lost her head (Cheers) do not know that Tree
trade has transferred the centre of business to London
but do know that to-day, with London and England
extended the world over, with their Investments In
Tasmania and the mountains Of the moon In Argentine
md in the isles of the sea- all the trouble in the nan
cia world is because London is calling, and New York
and the United States to-day so strong that we are
taking every dollar of securities forced back upon u.s.
and we the money TO take them at their present
.hao rr,-da nf
can railway is earning interest upon its securities TO
we are strong today 1t Is simply because we have
tried 10 be honest loud cheers.l
Ex-Judge Noah Davis made speech Of much greater
diversity than has een implied In the quotation about
the vegetables But before he came to the subject OF
his response he remarked that IN the last two jewellers
had been talked about as the OF the
association. But do look like the Mayorf' said he,
and there were roars of laughter line that was read
by the chairman along with the toast of Bench and
Bar declared an honest lawyer to be the hardest work
Of Cod ExJudge Davis trampled upon the libel. and
Gem: "An honest lawyers the noblest work OF God
In this reading his audience agreed with him, cheering
him heartily.
The other speakers, Noah Brooks and A. Q. keasby,
kept the oratOry up to the eighteenth car-n0 that
must not be repeated say up TO the hrst-water
pitch, and II late before the company separated
And the most remarkable fact about the jewellers
dinner has get to be told. OF all the people present
the only Of jewels, in shirt front or on finger
were not jewellers, but were few Of the guests and
friends Of the association.