The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-04-13

house, President of the United Typo
 thetae of America, Wilson H. Lee and
 Others.
 The Master Printers association of
 Rhode Island had a splendid banquet
 in Providence Tuesday evening in the
 Providence Athletic association build
 ing. It was tfe finest the Journal says
 in the history of the association. pre-
 liminary reception from z until 7:3C
 o'clock was followed by adjournment to
 one of the private dining rooms, where
 the thirty members and guests found
 that picturesque preparations had been
 made for their coming. The center
 piece on the large oval table was a
 miniature lake, banked with ferns and cut flowers with here and there min iature swans, deer, wolves, bears and other deniZens of the wild wood. Twenty-four electric light bulbs or red,
 white and blue, shed a softened radi- ance over the pool of water into which
 streams from fountains set at regular intervals played with splashing tinkle that gave a music readily distinguish able above that of the orchestra float ing in from the corridor outside. Deli cately tinted shells and flakes of glis- tening glass further enhanced the beau ty of this unusually elaborate decora- tion.
 The beauty of this table piece was only in keeping with the excellent din- ner served by Chef Vogel. Included in the party were President Joseph w. Freeman, Governor Elisha Dyer, Mayor Baker. Cornelius S. Warehouse, Rich ard T. Knight, Louis l.. Wyman of Boston, Walter s. Southwick, secretary of the association: J. $. Cushing of Norwood, Mass: Benjamin F. Briggs, MT. Proctor of Boston, A. E. Johnson William Fully, William l.. Chatterton Edwin Snow, H. O. Houghton of Bos- ton. J. E. c. Farnham, Wilson Ii. Lee of New Haven, o. A. Carleton, J. A. HaWes, T. R. Magee, Charles M. Ar hold, Captain Charles Gray, Colonel H. T. Rockwell of Boston, Assistant Sec- retary of State J. Fred Parker, General Treasurer Walter A. Read, Secretary Tillinghast, of Equity Life Insurance company; Hon. E. l.. Freeman, Colo- nel J. Edward Studley.
 President Baker of the association presided. The first speaker was Cover nor Dyer of Rhode Island. After Gov ernor Dyer's speech the toastmaster an- nounced that while business had not been unusually good during the past year, nevertheless they had with them one amply qualified to speak of the conditions of the trade, Cornelius $. Warehouse, of New Haven, Conn.,, pres ident of the United Typothetae of America.
 MT. Morehouse said that he would like to speak for a moment of one who was master printer, one who was al- ways ready to have good word for anyone, R. R. Donnelly, secretary of the National associa tion, who died sudden ly last Saturday night, one who was ever thoughtful and ready to do what could be done for the good of the cause
 The speaker said that this union was one that was formed for the transac- ton of business, not simply for pleas ure. He told of the early days of the organization, the agitation for the nine hour day at the meeting ill Chicago Now the tramp printer and the bum are gone. Machine work has come in with resulting shortening of the hours of abor, until now there has been a de- mand for another shorter hour" He referred briefly to the meeting at Syra- cuse, where members of the various or ganiza tions met and discussed the nine- hour day.
 "After four sessions 91a hour day was granted, commencing in November to last until the coming November, then the nine hour law is to go into effect. The question now Is, how are we to go under the nine hour law with ten hour a day prices. It is my opinion that an eight hour day will soon go into force, and in discussing the question we may as well discuss the eight-hour day in- stead of the nine-hour day.
 ''It seems to me that we must figure our business in such a way that we will be able to pay our employees their ac- customed wages and still have suffi- cient sum to keep our plant in proper working order. I think that we In Con- necticut can say truly that competition does not come from our state to such an extent as it does from over the bor- ders of our state. I do think that we ought to come together and by the adoption of a scale of prices, try to harmonize the scale of prices all over the country I hope that none of the gentlemen present will attempt to form a printers trust. If you do think that it would be as shcrt lived as many that we have had in the past. The less law we have the better, the best law is Do as you would be done by, following | that out we live in harmony. I believe that we ought to come together and | unite our profession until we work to- gether."
 Wilson H. Lee, president of the Con- necticut Typothetae, was the next speaker. He referred to the pleasure he felt in being present. He thought, too, that the master printers must have a mortgage on all the political offices worth having, judging from the mem- i bers present He dwelt at some length upon the need of uniform scale of prices, stating that a list of prices had been prepared by his local organiza- i ton, and it was hoped that it would be adopted next Monday night. He spoke of the formation and member ship of the Connecticut society, and of the many advantages which it had brought.