New-York tribune., 1898-01-14
JEWELLERS AT DINNER.
THE ANNUAL FEAST OF THEIR BOARD
OF TRADE.
AN ENJOYABLE GATHERING AT DELMoNIcos-
SPEECHES by EDMUND wETMoRE CHARLES
Bu1.KLEY HuspELr. THE REV. DR..
OTHERS

SPEECHES by EDMUND wErMoRE, CHARLES
Bu1.KLEY HuBBELI. THE REV. DR..
W. NJ. SMITH AND OTHERS
Some three hundred guests were present last night
at Delmonlcos on the occasion OF the ninth annuai
banquet OF the New-York Jewellers Board OF
Trade among those specially invited being the
Rev Dr. Wilton Merle Smith. Charles 7. COOK.
George r. Bldwell. Edmund wetmore. Charles
Buckley HubbeIl H. H. Trcadwell. II. c. Hardy.
Franklin Bartlett. George W. Sheoier. LOUIS r.
Bomeiser. Frank L. Crawford. Judge Joseph 4.
Newburger. Postmaster Cornelius van Cox,
Dutee Wilcox. Joseph Fahys. Leopold Stern and
August Oppenhemer. the last three being ex-p -presi-
dents Of the Board OF Trade
The dinner followed by the presentation q
a silver service TO E. J. Treadwel. OF Tinany q
Co. In recognition OF his services in influencing the
reduction OF the tariff cut diamonds and precious
stones, and In making Improbable the practice
or smuggling. which had heretofore been carried
on TO some extent. Leopold Stern, who made the
presentation speech. pointed out that Mr. Tread
well had by his efforts Washington, so innuenced
tarin legislation that jewellers were now paying
10 per cent duty under the Dingey BILL where they
had paid p per cent under the Wilson bill
The service was made by Stern Brothers Co.
OF No. ss Nassau-st and was presented by ind-
vidual members representing twelve firms.
A speech of welcome by President A. j. G. Hoden-
pyl was followed. after the presentation. by a
toast on Our Country and Its Greatest City, by
Franklin Bartlett
Edmund Wetmore, who spoke Past and
Present said that the year sent the thoughts
backward well forward. and the present an
niversary. falling II does, near the end OF
one century and the beginning Of another, set him
TO thinking Of how far the age In which
the cunning and beautiful craft OF the goldsmith
took It's rise. and how closely It was connected
with tho development of the and so many
epochs Of individual lives.
The rise OF the jewellers art, he said. may be
| fairly traced to the fall OF man. or. rather. OF
woman. for It has been most sagaciously observed
that Eve ate the apple in order that she might
dress, and love of dress receives its impulse from
the love of beauty The love of beauty is the source
| of art. and IL is that rehnes and eevates the
power that civilized society develops that the
hand that fashioned the first bracelet did that for
mankind that shall outast the work Of the men
| who forged the first sword blade. In the age 10
| come. foretod hy the prophets the sword shall he
! beaten into ploughshare but the bracelet VIII
Other toasts THE Majesty OF the Law "
! Louis Edwin Bomelsler; The American Scholar,
Charles Bulkley Hubbel Our Collector" Collector
Bidwell: The Priceless Jewel" the Rev Or. Wilton
Merle Smith and Art Side Of the jewelers. Craft. "
| +. L. Crawford.
| The Banquet Committee was composed OF A. X.
| Sloan. chairman: August Oppenheimer. Ira Bar
| rows. Alfred krower. Charles F. Wood. Will m
|. Rosenfeld. Leo Wormser. George E. Fahys Sam
uel II. Levy. F.. V. Clergue, y B. Barton J. A.
Todd. G. C. Afford Alfred II. Smith. J. B Bowden,
J. G; Mount. Walter T Thompson. James HEDGES
NJ De II. Mason. T: K. Benton David Untermeyer.
! David c. Townsend Leopold Stern. o. c.. Fessen-
! den and A. J. G. Hodenpyl. ex offico.