Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-03-22
BANQUET AND SPEECHES
Life Insurance Men Dine and Have q Good
Time
Commissioners Powell and Other
Prominent Speakers-The COmmit-
tee of Arrangements.

ranks next to the clergy was declared to
be fact by many speakers last evening at
banquet rendered the executive commit
tee Of the National Association Of Life I'm
derwriters by the Life Underwriters Asso-
citation of the District of Columbia. at the
Shoreham. The executive committee yes
terday concluded two days session pre-
pairing for the annual meeting Of the Ma
tional Association, to be held in October,
and as farewell the local association de-
cided to entertain the visitors in sumptuous
style.
The guests were seated at a horseshoe
table deliberately bedecked with flowers
and trailing vines. A fragrant bouquet of
violets was provided for each diner and an
orchestra was on hand to supply music. A
hash-light photograph of the gathering
was taken early in the evening.
A feature Of the affair were unique menu
cards. to which were attached huge keys
nodded from macerated United States
greeEtacks. Each key, it was claimed,
represented $4,000 and illustrated the ma
TONS honor and the grand record of Amer
lean life insurance companies and their
faithful discharge of contract obligations"
After the repast had been properly cared
the local association, stated his belief that
In the near future lies a new era for life
underwriters. which never could be but
for the establishment Of the National Asso-
duced Mr.. Max Cohen as POSTMASTER. Mr..
Cohen announced that the speeches would
be tmpromptu, as no notice had been given
those who would he called on. In the alb
sence of President Plummer Of the Nation
al Association Mr.. Tillinghast of Cleve-
land was requested to make the opening
address, Mr.. Tillinghast declared that five
years ago such scene as the one before
him was an impossibilty, and that ten
years before there was National Associa-
ton life insurance agents went about YER
itably armed with stilettos. 1T takes a
gentleman to make life insurance agent,
Mr. Tillnghast said, =" land if you are not
that you have 30 reason to hope for sue
cess"
Commissioner POwelFs Remarks.
Whether or not we have suffrage in the
District, we do like our District Commits
sioners," were the words spoken by the
POSTMASTER in introducing Commissioner
C. F. Powell. The latter said that he was
glad to welcome the association to Wash
ington. New York Is New York and Texas
is Texas, he went on to say, but Washing
ton is public property belonging to the
whole United States. Major Powell then
explained that the government of the Dis
triot is conducted on non-partisan mu-
nfciple idea. He hkened the municipality
to an insurance company which gives the
best policy for the premium paid.
Rabbi Stern made an eloquent address, re-
marking that of all mOrtalS insurance men
know how to talk well, claiming that an
agent will talk man to death in an eff
fort to insure his life Rabbi Stern refer
red to the nobility and great need of life
insurance, claiming that by 1t death is
robbed of much dread and expressing the
hope that the voice of the underwater may
be heard in ever-increasing numbers
throughout the length and breadth of the
land.
Joseph Ashbrook of Philadelphia related
an amusing anecdote and then gave some
Iy1fa inc CHI hat
the entire amount of insurance in the
United States was s16O,OOO,OoO, with $24,-
100000 of assets. At the close of 1894 the
amount of insurance was 5000, 900 900
81 ,O0O, OOO, 600 of assets.
There Is no business that guards so care
fully all the interests of home life in
surance, was the opening remark of Mr..
Simon Wolf. who was introduced as a
noble charity worker. Mr. Wolf urged
1.-The gentlemen of the glib tongue and the
vast eXpanse Of brain" before him to work
among the wives of men. let us be hon.
erabe. fair. just and dignifed," said the
speaker. land the business will take care
of ITSELF"
Interesting remarks were also made by
w. Hatch. George F. Hadley, Mr.. Ram
som, Mr.. Craig, Col. Tyler. Benjamin Calef
and Rev. DR.. Rogers, Mr.. Robert Cook
read extracts from letters of regret written
Henry B. Hyde John r. Hegeman Gen.
Veazey, John NJ. Holcomb, after which the
gathering was dismissed with few pleas
ant words by President Hendricks
Committee in Charge.
The banquet was arranged by the enter
tainment committee Of the local assoca-
ton. made up of Robert Cook, chairman;
Frank X. Raymond, L. NJ. Reeves, D. L.
NJ. Peixotto, U. S. Roulette and c. L. Hunt
Finger. Seated at the table were George F.
Hadley, George P. Haskell, James Ash
brook, D. s. Hendricks, Max Cohen, BENZ.
Calef, Sheppard Romans, Simon Wolf,
Robert Cook, F. A. Kendall. E. N. Burns,
G. w. Hatch, H. C. Ayres. D. L. NJ Peix-
otto, Rev. L. Stern, B. H. Steinmetz, L. B.
Drewry, H. Peachin, r. w. Janney, L. S.
Roulette A. B. Lewis, B. Bevan, NJ Staun-
ton, Adolph Wolf, G. L. Huntzinger, Nat
Taylor, E. L. Beach, Sanders Garland, r.
P. Evans, G. H. Clark, NJ. C. Grigsby, r.
Goldschmidt, George Kempson, Max Weyl,
w. c. Douglass, E. D. Weeks. A. H. Gibbs,
w. H. Haskell, E. L. Schofield. Maj. C. f.
Powell, Benz. Williams, Rev. Dr. Rogers,
c. E. Tillinghast and Messrs. Ransom,
Moxie, Lupton. Bennett and Reaves.