Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-17
TEN YEARS OLD.
Whittall Mutual Aid Society OBJ
serve Anniversary by Banquet.
Employers Touch Elbows With Employees
and Spirit of Bonhomie Reigns-
interesting Speeches,

The 10th anniversary of the birth of
the Whittall Mills Aid Society was OBJ
served in most fitting manner at the
City Hotel, Wednesday evening. Seven
ty-five members of the society gathered
around the banquet board, and for over
an hour discussed one Of Landlord Kes-
sells most toothsome dinners. Many
prominent guests, including Messrs
Matthew ]. Whittall and Alfred Thorn
as, the proprietors of the mills, were
present and touched elbows with their
employees with q geniality and spirit
Of bonhomie which makes all men akin.
akin.
sThe society was founded exactly 10
Years ago, on the 10th of March, 1888,
and contains in its sick and mortuary
features one of the most successful and
original plans of any similar society in
the country. The menus were attrac-
lively gotten up, and contained as
frontispiece an excellent half-tone of
Matthew j. Whittall. When the dis
tinguished gentleman glanced at the
menu to note the courses of the evening,
he was surprised at his own likeness;
and his surprise at the thoughtfulness
and kind remembrance by his en-
ployeesl afforded one of the rarest treats
of the eWening.
Those present were as follows: Mat
thew J. Whittall Alfred Thomas, Will
lam Greayes, Benjamin Haynes, Chas;;
A. NJ Caffrey, Jr., Alfred Jones, David
Roner, Palmer, Alfred Ridge, John EN-
NETT John Cox Joseph Westwood, Fred
erick Farmer, NJ. Percival Whittall, w.
e. Ballou, Joseph Dobbins, G. S. Giles,
Fred Fl. O'Rourke, Charles Manchena,
Uriah Hinsley, c. Hyde, ]. Phillpot, VII
liam Phillpot, Noah Westwood, Edwin
j. Hinsley, W. S. Hodgdon, Joseph Hay
cock, Jesse B. Woolfenden, Simon Coop
er, Fred German, John B, Reece, Mich
ael S. Garvey, George EargreaYes, John
E. Wharton, Benjamin Cooper, Fred
Halstead, William H. Critchley, Charles
TAYLOR, Charles Hugo, Caleb 7. lnnett,
John ]. Weiss, Charles j. Thomas, jacob
F Adams, William Coley, John BoWes,
D. F. Oldroyd, Walter Lees, George
Chatterton, J. S. Moore, George t1ela'
Charles Martin, William H. Bush, Rod
ert Midgley, Thomas Nadrin, Jonh I P1i-
lard. w. A. Leland, Edward Barry, John
Newsome, John w. Lassey, John
Sheack, Thomas Clayton, Martin Davis,
Alfred Ridge, Jesse Seed, John Sey-
mour. Holmes AGitner, 2. Corr1gan, CnaS.
IA Evans Joseph Whitaker, Joseph j.
STYLES, Edwin Butcher, Richard W.
Baker
President Albert Jones opened the
oost-prandial exercises with a few nap
nv ,nfroductory remarks; and then fe-
licitously introduced as the POSTMASTER
of the evening William GreaYes. roast
master Greaves announced as the tlrst
number, a selection by the copper
River Quartet" whose songs were as
Iinipid as waters flowing forth from the
frozen lakes Of Copper river and us
precious gold. The quartet comprised
w, Baker, r. Baker, Samuel Giles ana
Albert Jones, director, with Fred Ayers
as accompanist. English songs We're
rendered exclusively; and many a time
during the evening the heart was car
ried back to the old home in Lanca-
shire or Yorkshire An encore marked
the success of the selection, and then
the toastmaster, in calling up the speak
ers of the evening, said that the society
had been unusually successful IN cnoos-
ing it's officers, and knew good man
in an official capacity, and kept him
there AS a witness of the tact, tnefe
had been but four presidents.
David Roman Of Palmer, the first pres
ident of the society, was called upon to
respond as the first head Of the society,
and the visitor received q warm vel
come from his old fellow-employees MI.
Roman said that ne felt honored TO be
present, and wished to express ms APP
probation of the kindness in inviting
him back for a night While in Wor-
cester he made many frieEds, and the
friendships were among the strongest OF
his life. He knew what friendship
meant, and the formation IF the society
had strengthened these friendships,
There has been a marked unity IN the
society, and it has been fortunate IN
having as members the employers them
selves, who were great source OF
power and support to it. Never had they
failed to return sympathy aud aid where
deserving: and many is the witness to
the friendship and assistance and SYM
pathetic interest of Messrs. Whittall
and Thomas,
Charles Taylor sang song with great
eclat; and, after the encore, he was fol-
lowed by Past President David Oldroyd.
He expressed his pleasure at being pres
ent and being one of the gathering, the
society being, as he thought, immeas-
urably better for them. The assess
ments had been so few during the past
few months, that he had not seen any.
The society was truly a beneficial So
ciety, and it would be impossible to form
one where such effective benefits were
secured at so small cost. The assess
ments for the last year had been the
smallest in the history of the organiza-
ton. William Gritchley sang two songs
with an encore and won warm ap'
plauSe
The next speaker introduced was
Charles A. McCaffery, the genial and
popular officer of the society, who al
ways makes a success of, everything
and is the Chauncey Depew of any ban
quet Mr.. McCaffery confined himself
however, to giving in an interesting
manner the secret of the workings OF
the organization. since the time of the
formation there had been a successful
and healthy growth, until now the
membership numbers 1853, comprising al