New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-01-30
JOYOUS JEWELLERS DINE.
THEIR ANNUAL FEAST HELD AT DEL
MONICOS.

MONICOS
MANY COMPLIMENTS FOR THE BANQUET COM
urrTEr-srrrcHEs BY JOHN g WISE. CON
TRoLtR FITCH AND OTHERS
Mercury and Benvenuto Ce'lin. ATTENDED o'
waiter I'm modern broadcoth. were seated oppo'''e
each other last evening at the Hote' "a.nor,' WI
curry was on hand to represent commercial ii,'e.
csts generally Benvenu,o to typify the goidsmi'h
trade in general. and the occasion which pro'e''
them together was tic sixth annual dinner vi '''
New-York Jewellers Boarl OF Trade But Mercury
and Ben were on.y pictures on the hahusoNe
menu cards engraved by TIFFANY, ana the Peop-e
who really ate the dinner, drank the wines smckeu
the cigars And sang the songs-toward the emu Oh
the feast athed by the band In the balcony ana me
strains OF "sIy Pearl is Bowery Girr'-were 'he
600 Jewellers OF this ater-day city ana their guests
These all declared that the dinner had proved one OF
the successful OF the series and indeed Win
the good vands to discuss and the choice speeches
to listen to the statement seemed fully )ustiieo.
Among the guests seated on the platform OF
honor at the upper end OF the room. most OK whom
did their share OF the speechmaking. we're A. n.
Sloan. Joseph Fahys August Oppenheimer, inc
Rev. Dr. Rudolph Grossman. John B. wise A. ..
q. Hodenpyl. Asnbel p. Fitch. Colonel John il.
Shepherd Amos J. Cummings. Leopold stern ana
Daniel p Hays. The banquet committee, "hch
was extensively compllmented during the evening
for its part in the entertainment, comprised T.. v
CIergue chairman: T. X Benton. George NJ van
Deventer. Samuel Wallach. Leo Wormser August
Oppenheimer w. !. Rosenfed. Appleton Smith.
and A. J. G. Hodenpyl. ex-offico.
Mr. Hodenpy as president OF the board presided
the dinner and promptly at oc.ock called the
meeting to order. First he proposed the toast Ihe
President of the United States" which was drunk
standing. Then he made few remarks containing
the first batch of compliments for the banquet COM
mit,ee Conscience he said. rs the chief point
In the jewellers character applause. and have
sat through this dinner and have not dared TO look
upon the wine when 1t was red
For the next toast. "Our Country. the chairman
He said In part:
that shall he indicted for sailing under false pre-
fences Ny friend has called me Governor of West
/ got beaten for Governor in old Virginia fet
grateful for your imitation Yss
Sweet are the uses OF adversely; when Ike The
tonight you have given me a theme which any
body could speak that could speak at all what a
ia The spot where an American citizen can feel the
spirit OF his theme. in this matchess metropolis
Here catch and disseminate the germs ,has M M
more like the country OF our boyhood than as i
been transported to other climes. ,...
Mr. Wise then gaye graphic rsy's ss =, I've Of the
civil War and Leading up to the trying period ., re-
not destroyed the states. and welded me cSSun.i!
And now" said the speaker. "a citizen OF America
Is citizen OF no one place IN partsuar no m aver
for tarpons in the Gulf OF Mexico the Southerner
cuts ice on the Merrimac. the New.Yorker shoots
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his share to make great and glorious, .so .n
the S.nd FO Tae up 70 hs
faa liaiy q y.
"our city" the toast spoken to by Ashbel p
Fitch. had a hardly less gratifying hearing Mr.
Fitch said. among other things:
New-York is to each OF us the pisassntest place
in the world to live IN Hendrix s"s ,s5 nTn.
most hosptabe and agreeable savages that ! nave
snwhers met Win IN MY Il anTse m
early as that you see. Every american gets TO
New-York sooner or later the N s,e from
corder from ireland and the Presdent OF
the Jewellers Board OF Trade from Holland
Other toasts with those responding. all enthusi-
astlcaIly greeted. were ''our Association" by ID.
p HAYS; "Our Guests" A. X. Sloan; "Our Travel
lers' Colonel John l.. Shepherd "Our Friends
Amos J. Cummings. and Integrity In commerce.
the Rev DR.. Rudolph Grossman.
The list of guests present included r. Clersqf'
6 3 carr Z o va%&FF 1'" SS l.
Rowden, NJ. Young, Henry Hays F : Sheryy'
X. r.. /. l.
IT, Hennegan. H.. NJ coni!t II; W; steere, T. r:
Arnold. c. J. Follmer. samuel ~ Turney; Luther
COX Irving smith Il IiuylsI Stephen s,; Aye,S'
NJ y. Rothschild Louis W; Levy. Edward Young
John II. WEIGH 6. W. Farchild 6; NJ Eliot T. W.
MAN. ". + King. T. +. skinner. ", T. Thompson.
+ w. Martin n c, p rsrslva' - hG gnryr.oA
David keller Wrsht charies W oa Dayton 9r
J. VI Pitt. H. Patterson, c. NJ. Fogg, W. w. Hay
den Isdor Stern. l.. H. stern; $. Myers, =.
ll HS'P >Sf"as nsntSn william ROs Snsrs
l. i Milford Nathan Wallach. samuel Waliach.
W. r. Lounsbury J. Z. wilson, W. C. Ro6er rt,., W.
The officers OF the Jewellers Board OF Trade are
president A. J. q. Hodenpyl; first vice president,
August Onpsrheimer: second vice-president. Frank
IT, Rchardson; treasurer. David Keller; secretary
tnr T. Y Clergue W. A. COPELAND, A. j. G.
iIoicnpyl j. ". Johnson; David Keller; August
onnenheimer Frank n. Richardson, David INTER
never G.. ~ Van Deventer, Leo Wormser and
Samuel Wallach.