Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-02-09
GRANITE MEN
ANNUAL BANQUET LAST
EVENING A SUCCESS
Grand Feast and an Inter-
esting Program.

The sixth annual banquet of the Barr
Granite Manufacturers Association WA
held last night in the spacious dinin!
hail At the Pavilion in Montpelier ant
although 1h'r" was not quite as large Al
attendance MS in former years yet mos
everybody agreed that it was an i'm
provement over thos" Of the pas.
Those from Barre went to Mon.peliel
on a special nain on The Central Yer
mont road and at the Pavilion they were
joined by srvera. invited guests consist
lug OF GU side granite dealers, banker.
and railroad men.
AT o'clock the party sat down to Il
bounteous feast which lasted about two
hours, when the cigars We're pa>sen
around and Pre- -ident James Mckay
arose to introduce the speech making
With few appropriate remarks. "The
pleasures of The evenings feast have now
passed and the time has come for speech
making, This is something when re-
quires natura! ability and know it il
possessed by some OF you here ton light.
Tnc granite Industry in this vicinity has
made in the past year Il rapid stride 20
prom inence and it has steadily advanced
until it is now the leading industry of
Vermont, aI I'hough the t,ale of trade is
not yet quite what we could wish il to
be. The building tra,;e has now brighter
prospects that it has had for long lime,
During the ensuing year hope there
will be more Lively interest taken in
the Association and that its members
will often meet together to discuss our
common Interests in the Association for
our mutual advantage, am very much
pleased 10 see so large turn out here
tonight and it also gives me great pleas
ure to introduce the toastmasler Mr..
'Iugh Jones'"
MIR. Jones then took charge of cere-
monies and ina jovial manner bore on,
his part most crcdilably. In prelude
nc spoke in part as follows: "lt was
expected tlat John Smith would be
Iere tonight to address YOU bu, as he is
lnable to be present it dcvvlves upon
ne to speak few words of hearty wei
'one to the people whom our people
ire pleased to have here" He then
cad letters of regret from A. NJ Hunt
& Co., Charles Dewey, F, W, Baldwin,
4. a. futile, Preblc, McKanna q Ten
ley each one of whom spoke we'll of
he granite business and especially of
Barre granite.
Mr.. Butteliicld of Boston was next
all,.d upon for piccalo solo.
In Introducing the next speaker Mr..
Tones said thai he was about to call up
N man who was a pioneer in the gran
Ie industry of Barre and Eugene >ulli
AN arose 10 address the assemblage.
lr. Sullivan made come very witty re-
marks and said that there was no reason
,hy Barre granite should be handicap
ed bv poor work, advocating the plan
/ having the Association engae ling "A
ompeieut man TO act as expert 10 see
,a1 no poor work should 20 out OF
,urre TO the detriment of the trade.
j. X, SINNERS then delighted his lis
,ners by the rendition of an Irish song.
G.. A. &, jackson editor of the Argus
as the next speaker and his remarks {
onfined chiefly to the praise OF Robbie
urns and the patriotic hus'lng people
Barre who are soon to beauty their I
tv by monument to the memory OF
,e peoples poet. lie closed by read
: an extract from the poem recently
elivered by j. p. Mari,
One of the pleasures OF the evening
AS when Ned G.. Haynes reclted the
,etcb entitled "Casey at the Bat" John
nderson followed with a comic song
hich caused much laughter.
F.. A. Chittenden responded for the !
ans sporta,ion department OF the granite
u>,ness and said in part, ~ take
rc,t deal of interest in your industry
see some here tonight who had a hano
starting it. There Is vast d'He1eh'e
s,ween what Barre and Mohtpel'ef
ere then and what they are now' 'hfn
lev were country hamlets' now thes
~, population enough together 10
,ual the numbers the army under ohai- g,
r at Santiago. Two railroads are now
,rryinu away the pr' duct OF your Ia :.
r. where once there WAS country
age. Your industry is constantly au =
,ncinu and as. representative ol 'ne