The Saint Paul globe., 1901-01-04
EMPLOYEES SIT AT DINNER
FOURTH ANNUAL BANQUET OF FAR
WELL, OZMUN, KIRK & co.


The dining hall of the Ryan hotel was
scene of festivity last night, the occa-
sion being the annual banquet given bv
FarWeH, Oznun, Kirk & company to all
their employees. sSse-
There were 235 men seated in the hall
and around the tables We're palms and
other decorations. . At the front table
sat the heads of the firm and at the
iong side tables the employees The presi-
dent OF the company, r. A Kirk, occupiad
the seat of honor ana officiated as toast
master
The banquet was success. IF
was strictly ala mode, at the same time
an affair where employers and employees
associated in brotherly fashion It was
the Fourth Annual and they were out
for time and they had it.
The Metropolitan S>euartette and Miss
Hopes orchestra furnished the music
Tor the evening. The quartette sang
Swiss People Song" and where Are
You Going My Pretty Maid2s2 both of
which We're entertaining.
W hen ali IN the hall had elined heartily.
ana cigar smoke began to curl in the air.
PRESIDENT K. A. Kirk made the opening
auuress OF the evening. He spoke in
part as follows:
Another year has passed. and wa bave
gathered again around these very pleas
ant, cheerful tables We have laid aisle
LOT Wnle our work and cares, and we
an Ieet that we are having a real erood
IlMe L think most of us will ioi6 in
saying that 1900 now seems to MS to have
peen short year. We have been signal
~ Iatored IN not having the grim reap
81 81 VISIT one of our entire number dllrinp
the year, for which we are all profound
~ grateful to the Given of An Good
,lIier d.iere nave been drouths and floods:
plIceSz during the year have not been in
our favor, and yet with 1t ali we ha1Ia
come to the close of the year feeIIne
that it has been kind to us. IS
soon a1ter our last banquet l started
as you Know, on trip of many lhousand
miles, extending throughout tie Medifer-
ranean, and on UP the historic Nile far
nearly 1,G0U miles; also making a fiyIpg
visit to Palestine and through a rinoiI
part of Europe. 1 wish van could oil
nave seen with me the wonderful things
cannot express what [ felt when 7
caught the tirst glimpse of the Pyra-
nlds, or, the next day or two. when
mad climbed old Cheops and looked over
those great sandy plains on which so
Inuch has occurred that has vftalIv af
Aecte9 1he interests of the human race.
AND then came the few days that we
passed in Jerusalem and at the Jordan
visiting few of the spots that are most
@ sacred from their association. with Him
whose teet trdo those hills and valleys
centuries ago in His wonderful mission
from heaven to earth
L Will not detain you now to speak
OF the thousands of interesting things
through Europe. If you could but have
seen-even though hurriedly, as we sav
them-Constantinople Athens, with it's
areopagus and Mara hill; Naples. Pom
pen, Rome, Florence. Venice, Milan
Genoa, Nice and the Riviera and then
Paris and London! 1 need not say that We
came nome more deeply impressed than
ever before with the feeling that this is
the best country on earth-best for the
reason that it Is the poor mans country
DIS well as that OF the rich man.
We start out in the twentieth century
with bright prospects. Our house, is wei
organized in all its departments; our
corps of fifty travelling statesmen, we be-
4evc, takes second rank with none ia the
held, and we purpose to have them. and
also the entire house, so thoroughly
equipped for successful work that there
Snall De no reasonable excuse for even a
partial failure in securing the results
Which We have in view. Let us, every
one, see that we do our duty and thus
may we jointly and severally contribute
generously toward. the prosperity of our
house in these early years of the TWEEN
tieth century.
T. T. BateheIler responded to the toast.
plain Facts Plainly Told
G. II. Bigelow responded to 1.-THE New
Year OF the New Century, and Allen
Ter Bush to "The Salesman of the
Twentieth Century"
A character sketch was given bv
Charles Fairchild, and H. P. Hall made q
few short remarks about Trade Jtems''
The programme closed with music by
the Quartette and the orchestra