The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-01-31
INSURANCE MEN BANQUET
Prudential Insurance Company Staff
at the Hotel Terrace.
RECOGNITION OF SERVICES
Company Gave the Feast for the Agents
Record Last Ycar-Scverai Won
Special Prizes - Details
of the Affair.

OF the Affair.
The Prudential Insurance company
| of America, through it's superintendent
| of the Scranton district, II. j. Schubert,
| last night gave banquet at the Hotel
| Terrace TO it's large corps of assistant
| superincendents, agents, clerks and
medical examiners. The banquet was
| in recognition of the splendid showing
made by the staff for the year ending
| Dec. l, at which time a certain increase
over the business of 1884 had been
| written.
During last summer the home office
of the company held out its offer
through Superintendent Schubert, the
agents We're apprised of it and the
feast was won. Prizes were distributed
as follows during the evening for the
largest amount of insurance written
by Individual solicitors during the
year: First prize. Si5, John Garvey, of
Scranton; second prize. $40, W. II.
Decker, of Carbondale; third prize, $40,
Assistant Superintendent A. IL. Smith,
of Scranton.
Between I and s o'clock in the hotel
parlors the guests were received by
superintendent Schubert and intro
duced to W. +. King, of Newark, the
head of Division i. in which the Scran-
ton district is located and who was the
representative at the home Office at the
banquet. Those present included rep
lesertatives from agencies in towns
from Plttston to Forest City and
Honcsdale and numbered almost forty
G.A tI,
district. Added to these were several
medical examiners, assistant superin-
tendentS and clerks who swelled the
total number to nearly seventy-iive
persons. After an hour of introduc-
tions, conversation and discussion of
insurance matters the. company filed
into the dining room.
An ArCciiking Menu.
The banquet table was arranged in
the form of an open square and sup
ported large number Of delicately
shaded banquet lamps. jardineres of
ferns. palms and blossoms and the
usual accessories of epicurean trim
mngS. Bauer and several of his mu-
Sicians occupied Il corner of the room
ana executed continuous programme
of delightful music.
Th" menu was rs follows:
Blue Points. Half Shell.
O!lNTS. Celery. Almonds
Mock Turtle
Eroiled Lake Trout, Sauce Tar:are.
Potatoes ii la Parisienne.
Claret.
lmperal Patties.
Young Turkey, Cranberies.
Strln% leans. Potato Glacc.
Punch. a Ia Prudential.
Chicken Outlets.
French Peas.
Lobster Salad.
lee Cream. Assorted Cakes.
water crackers. Cheese.
Fruit, Foreign and Domestic.
Coffee.
Those present were: OF Scranton,
Superintendent IT. J. Schubert, Assist
ant Superintendent w. T.. Qunlan. As
sistant Superintendent w. Mcdonnell.
Assistant Superintendent A. H. Smith,
Assistant Superintendent w. G. Bun. s.
j, llansec, G.. Il. Bryant, $. Treat. Ho-
mer Nicholson, Palmer Freeman. w. A.
Morgan. r. $. Walsh. I. G. Dubois. A.
Stropf, c, Nelson. p. Higgins. ID. Green.
+, Van Deusen. II. w. Tregear, J. Gar
vey, G. Morgan. John Hartman, j. II.
C. Griswold, G. h. Stanley. Attorney w.
S. Hulslander, Attorney A. a. Voshurg,
w. G. Fulton. NJ. D.: l.. $. Barnes, NJ.
d.; of Newark, w. +. King; of Bing-
hamton, Superintendent w. T.. Ralph:
of Williemsport. Superintendent G.. ".
Andrews; of Wilkes Barre. John Grady:
of peckVille, +. Il. Van Sickle. NJ. D.: of
Jermyn, \. Davis. NJ. D.: of Taylor. J. $.
Porteus, NJ. D.; of Honesdale, Assist
ant Superintendent a. n. Bryant. Geo.
SchwcsinGer, J. i. Seelig. w. G. Hawk
er and i. w. Wheelen: of Archibald As
sistant Superintendent =. f. Kielty. w
y. Cummings. II. W. Lotus, NJ. J. Gala
CHER, NJ. j. Swift. NJ. Haggerty and ~.
Eurlte: OF Carbondale, Assistant Super
intendcnt j. O'Malley, w. ii. Decker,
y. r.. O'Neill. w. J. Meyers, J. j. Grier,
w. j. Smith. i. Mullalley, +. Walker.
W. Flanagan and u. \. Larkin: of
Pittston, Assistant Superintendent j.
w. Grier, w. NJ. Collier. NJ. r. Collier,
l.. Siejak, NJ. II. Mangan and Joseph
Coyne; of Avoca. j. II. Ward.
ost.prandiai Exercises.
Two hours We're occupied in discuss
ing the menu, after which Superintend-
eht Schubert introduced programme
Of speeches by greeting the gathering
and reading Il number of letters of re-
gret. Then followed these addresses:
How 1t Was Done" Assistant Super
intendent j. O'Mallcy: Competition"
Assistant Superintendent \. r. Bryant:
actual and Apyarent Age" l.. $.
Barnes, ". d.: "The Letter + and Col
lections," Assistant Superintendent j.
w. Grier: Chances for Success" As
sistant Superintendent w. T.. Quinlau;
INSURANCE Applications" Attorney w.
S. Hulslander; "The Experience AS Il
Solicitor" Assistant Superintendent W.
McDowell; "Benefciaries." Attorney A.
a. Nosburg: "rhe District Superintend-
ent," Assistant Superintendent +. +,
Kielty; THE Medical Examiner w. G.,
Fulton, NJ. D.; Quality of business"
AssiStant Superintendent \. II. Smith:
in Insurance \