Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-28
FEAST OPENED WITHPRAYER.
SECOND ANNUAL BANQUET OF THE
BRICK CONTRACTORS.
Two ToastmasterS Presided Over 1he
Flow of SouI-Architectsa ana Ma
terinI Men Entertained
Mt the Victoria.

The second annual banquet of the. Brick
Contractors Protective and Benevolent As
sociation held at the Victoria hotel last
night was opened with prayer by Llyman
]. y. Oates, of Bales chapel. Then came
the three courses of wine and the five
courses of substantials, interspersed with
feasts of reason. There were also two
toastmasters W. W. Taylor, toasC1naster
No. /, who has been in the brick contract
ing business in Kansas City since the days
of Prices raid would announce the toasts.
George NJ. Bantield. POSTMASTER No. ;.
would second the motion, as II We're. and
tell the gentlemen referred to to stand up
and talk Their rulings We're entirely har-
monious.
There were about fifty covers laid. The
principal architects. general contractors
and material men of the city were present.
guests of the brick contractors.
Mayor Jones was present, but was not
feeling well, and so did not respond to his
toast, kansas City" The following gen.
tlemen spoke: Frank NJ. Howe. Advance
ment of Architecture in the United States"
Thomas Eadie, Progress of the Brick In
dustry in Kansas City," William W. Rose,
Politics and Building W. S. Halliwell.
Where Are We At?" and w. W. Taylor,
tendency of Brick Contracting
Before the first course was served. the
following song, composed by Messrs. ); A
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was sung. to the tune of Marching
Through Georgia.:
Come let us hail the good times, boys, that
now are ON the way;
When all our fellow craftsmen are gath
cred for the fray,
And piles of brick and lumber, now slum-
bering where they lay,
Will soon be marching up scaffold.
Hurrah! Hurrah, We sing for brick and
mortar. tyelD
Makes the sleepy dollars, boys, get up and
cavorter,
Then here's good health TO architects, good
fellows, every one,
And to the general contractors, and every
| Who lends a hand in fellowship to give us
all run.
AS we go journeying on together.
Chorus-Hurrah! Hurrah! etc.
We mix up lime and mud, perhaps. put in
Cement we do not use at all. we only show
the brand
We can't AFFORD to put that in. for prices
This must stop now very soon, or we all
| will have to go.
Chorus-Hurrah! Hurrah! etc.
| To prove that what we sing to you is very
| nearly true.
Why several of our contractors have
skipped and flew;
One was Peck-ed to pieces for price he
| could not get:
| Another Rushof-ed after him-they have
| not found him yet.
Chorus-Hurrah Hurrah! etc.
| The brick contractors yell which was
| worked in after the first line of the chorus
| was simply the word ''mortar,"
| These gentlemen were present: Mayor
J; NJ. Jones, F. NJ. Howe. w. F. Hackney,
| Wallace Love, Walter S. Halliwel George
Dugan. George Banfield w. W. Taylor.
James Taylor. Thomas Dwyer. p. Noonan,
Joe Callahan, F. A. Thompson. Jacob
| Welch, Charles G. McCleary. Thomas VIII
son. c. f. SHEPPARD, j. A. Oates. John q.
| Hayde. w. Fl. Woods. John Lange Thorn
as Eadie, Ernest Swearingen. S. F. Har-
| ness. w. A. Wilson, William Taylor. C.
| Morse Downing, John Livers. William
Harmon. w. W. Rose. Rudolph Marquard,
| s.. r. Edwards. j. Lonsdale. Henry Ed
| wards. c., H. Summerson. f. Stanfield.
Barney H. Miller, George. Carman.- b.
| Betteman. E. L. Winn, j. A. Oates, John
| Breisch. William KentZ. 2. r. Jordan.