The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-12-06
Business Men of the City Gather Round
the FestaI Board at the
7. M. C. A. Building.
FEAST OF WIT AND ELOQUENCE.
Every Sort of Business is Represented at
the Building, and Rare Good time
is Enjoyed by All.

Two hundred of the representative
business men of the city sat down
around the festa1 board at the banquet
given at the Y. M. c. A. building
Tuesday evening, and it is probable
that there was never such another
gathering of business men in the CITY.
Around the long tables lawyers and
doctors touched shoulders with minis
tiers aud merchants, while the goodly
fellowship of all was apparent in the
hearty conversation that spread
throughout the hall.
The surroundings of the banquet
were the most charming. The recep-
ton rooms of the building, in which
the guests were greeted by the differ
ent members of the Association, were
Respondent in decorations of palms
and flowers. The guests arrived early
and spent the hour in looking over the
building. Every part of the structure
from the bowling alley in the base
ment to the rooms in the third story
was visited, and the business men reg
istered hearty approval of the man
ner in which their money, so freely
given, had been expended.
In the lower hall an orchestra far off
in one corner of the room rendered in
strumenta1 music while the guests
were waiting for dinner to be served
The banquet was spread in the large
auditorium on the second floor and in
the rooms adjoining. The long tables
with their spreads OF white and decora-
tons of palms and chrysanthemums
covered every part of the rooms and
every seat at the tables was filled.
The banquet itself was beyond COM
pare and the efficient corps of young
ladies that waited on sthe hungry
guests showed that the Ladies' Aux
iliary was one of the most active
branches of the Association. The
dinner was served in courses and was
all that the inner man could have
desired.
After dinner was over the plates and
dishes were removed and President
Buckmaster, in a few words of greet
ing, introduced E. L. Grant, the toast
master, and the feast of reason and
the flow of soul began.
The speeches on the program and off
the program took up the time for the
next two hours, but sthere was no rea-
son for any one present to become
tired, as the short addresses were all
of great interest to the men attending
the banquet. II Willis w. Cooper spoke
of the building and what it represents,
and Dr. Hart, of Chicago, spoke on the
subject, "'The Value Of the AssoCia-
ton to Kenosha's Young Men" Z. c.
Theirs responded to the toast, GA Fra
ternity of Helpfu1ness." International
Secretary C. c. Kitchener, of Evans
ton, closed the list of toasts by talk
on the subject, 'The Value of the AS
ISOLATION to the Business Interests of
KenoSha."
After the regular toasts were over
short impromptu speeches were made
by G. B. Willis, secretary of the Mil
waukee association; John w. Adams,
secretary of the Kenosha association,
and A. D. Wheeler, of Chicago.
The banquet was grand success,
and the ladies and managers are de-
serving of great praise for furnishing
the business men of the city with SO
pleasant an evening. The ladies who
had the banquet in charge were: Mes
danes E. L. Grant, DR.. Farr, Peter
Fisher, Geo. S. Baldwin, w. W.
Cooper, c. F. Beachel, Thos. Marx,
P. J. Dieh1man, John Lewis, E. B.
Kipp, w. N. Shandrew, G. H. Curtis,
Jas. Bailey, A. B. Ames, Walter Chris
tan, T. J. Dale, George Sutherland,
Lynn Wyman; Misses Ethel Shan
drew, Bailey, Haw1ey, Cornelia Hawley,
Jackson, Wyman, Helen Hastings and
Miss Edith Sherwood.