The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-05-15
Remarks by Mr.. Huntington on the Vital
Issues Of the Day.
He Speaks Of the Lack Of Practical
Education in the Young Men
Of the Present Generation, the
Change Of Conditions in the
Last Half Century and the OPP
portunities That are offered to
Our Country and It's Citizens.

SAN FRANCISCO, May A. The
tenth annual banquet given by G. F.
Huntington to the officials of the South
ern Pacific Company and several prom
inent citizens of San Francisco was a
decided success from every point OF
view. The decorations were elaborate
and there was a profusion of flowers.
The time for dinner was fixed at
o'clock p. M, and for an hour before
that Mr.. Huntington was busily en-
gagged in receiving his guests, being
assisted by his Private Secretary,
George E. Miles.
The table was arranged in the form
of horseshoe. Mr.. Huntington held a
seat at the head of the board, while at
his right sat James Speyer, the finan-
cier. In the order as given then sat
w. f. Herrin, John P. Irish, J. C.
kirkpatrick, Prince Poniatowski, E. B.
Vining, A. "A. Moore, E. E. Wade, L.
H. Goodman, H. j. Small, J. B. Wright,
ID. Burkhalter, J. E. F'oulds, William
Sproule, G. F. Richardson, j. M. Hans
brough, c.. E Swain, D. r. Sessions,
DR.. M. Gardner, Howard E. Hunting
ton, James l. Frazier, E. B. Holiday,
G. w. Luce, D. D. Stubs, ]. A Fill
more, E. c. Wright, r. A Donaldson.
j. w. Dayan, E. o. Mccormick. AT
the foot of right wing of the horseshoe
sat ]. c. Stubs.
On the left of Mr.. Huntington, Will
lam H. Mills occupied a seat. Then
followed in order Isaac L. Requa, H. E.
Huntington, Horace c. Platt, Rabbi
Jacob Voorsanger, E. S. Pillsbury,
William Hood. N. T. Smith, James
Agler, Alexander Center, r. p
Schwerin, George E. Miles, J. OBJ.
Gum, G. R. Anthony, H. S. Brown,
r. H. Platt, Willard V. Huntington,
c. j. Wilder, Foshay Walker, H. r.
judah, II. H. Lynch, Samuel Young,
l. Jordan, ]. NJ Hanford, S. T. Gage,
N. K Masten, E. B. Ryan, G. w.
Fletcher, j. P. Meehan, w. G. Curtis,
and at the foot of the left wing of
the horseshoe. Julius Kruttschnitt
On the outside of the right wing of
the horseshoe beginning at the head
OF the table sat in the following order:
Jerome Madden, J. H. Wallace, w. 5.
Palmer. j. R. Bonner, E. Orrell, w. A.
Worthington, B. A. Worthington. E.
B. Carson, R. Stevenson, Richard Der
by, N. H. Foster, D. W. Horsburg, w.
E. Mckenzie, E. A. Stevenson, K. A.
White, w. McAllister, W. NJ Thomp-
son, H. W. Ellicott, F. B. Lake. A. B.
Ford. w. A. Cheadle, G. B. Mcclellan,
H. r. Thompson, W. Mckay and C. E.
Green.
At the inner left wing of the horse
shoe, beginning at the head of the
table, sat, in the following order: W.
Singer, Jr., S. r. Chappell, r. S. Gull
verwel, J. S. Noble, c. ]. Robinson,
H. S. Lincoln, ]. H. Sharpe, G. A.
Parkyns, G. H. Smith, Gains H Fish,
NJ. Wallaeh, H. N. Hauxhurst G. T.
Klink, E. H Prentice, John D. Isaacs,
c. H. Redington, B. F. futile, Ben
Welch, w. B. Ludlow, L. M. Clement,
Howard Stillman, E. E. Holton, S. N.
Bostwick, j. Horzburgh, Jr, and A.
D. Shepard
The menu was as follows:
Blue Point Oysters, half shell.
Bisque of Clam.
Consomme la Pretaniere.
Filet Of sole la Cardinal.
Cucumber Salad. New Potatoes.
F,et 81 sw sect Bread s sa Pnle peripeux
Suffer Artichokes.
Terrapin la Maryland.
Spring Chicken. German Sauce.
Roman Salad.
Dessert.
vanilla Ice Cream. Plombill Ice Cream.
Fresh Strawberries,
Coffee.
After the dinner had been partaken
of the toasting began. William H. Mills
acted as POSTMASTER and gracefully in
troduced Mr. Huntington, who made
tina principal speech of the evening.
He said:
1T gives me pleasure to welcome
you to my house at another of our
annual dinners and to express to you
my appreciation of your continued
friendship, which is so gratifying as
well as satisfying to me. We have seen
another year pass, and again we are
together to give way in our brief hours
of social reunion to the feelings and
the thoughts which I know must &C.
cur to each of you as they occur to
me- How many more times, if ever
again, we shall join hands none of us
can tell With the year passes the
century. May we all live to see the
new one and to enter upon it in good
health and happiness. determined to
see to it that we will bear our earnest
part in the great work that is yet to
come.
ITO you young men, who have much
of your lives before you the twentieth
century opens with grandeur Of pos
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