The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1902-02-27

! the luncheon at Sherry's today were:
Edward C. Acheson, Niagara Falls, N.
| Y, the inventor of carborundum and OF
a successful process of making graphite.
| James w. Alexander. New York City,
! president of the Equitable Life Assur-
ance Society.
| J. Ogden Armour, Chicago president
of the Armour Company, meat packers.
! George F. Baer. Reading Pa. he cor
| porate representative of the largest an
rhracite coal interests of Pennsylvania.
Alexander Graham Bell, Washington, d.
Co, the scientist who produced the first
successful speaking telephone.
Edward j. Berwind, New York City,
| prominently identified with the bitumin-
| Gus coal interests and pioneer in it's
export.
Lieut.. Col. ]. S. Billings, New York
i City. director of the New York Public
Library.
Torpedo Manufacturer.
Eliphalet w. Bliss. New York City,
inventor and manufacturer Of machinery
for working sheet metals; sole manu-
facturer of the Whitehead torpedo
Emil L. Boas. New York City, general
manager of the American business of the
Hamburg American Line.
Frederick C. Bourne, New York City,
president of the Singer Manufacturing
Company.
Henry Pickering Bowditch, Boston,
Mass, Psychologist and educator.
John \. Brashear, Allegheny, Pa, in
ventor and manufacturer of astronomical
and physical instruments.
Many Varied Branches.
Daniel Hudson Burnham, Chicago. ILL.,,
the architect who has distinguished him
self as the chief exponent of the sky
scraper.
Adolphus Busch, st. Louis. Mo-. presi-
dent of the Anheuser-Busch Brewing
Company.
Alexander J. Cassatt. Philadelphia,
president of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Alexander e. Brown, Cleveland. o., in
ventor and manufacturer of labor-saying
machinery for handling of materials at
mines, docks, iron and steel plants, ship
building yards, structural works, and rail-
way terminals.
Charles f. Brush, Cleveland, Ohio. sci
enlist and inventor. and founder of the
American arc lighting industry.
Silks, Watches, and Soda.
Francis Woodbridge Cheney. South |
Manchester. Conn, of Cheney Brothers, |
the Oldest silk manufacturers in the
United States.
Duane II. Church. Waltham, Mass, in
ventor, mechanical superintendent OF The
American Waltham Watch Company
Charles Finney Clark New York City.
organizer and president OF the Bradstreet
Company.
William Brown Cogswell, Syracuse. y
Y. who has established ard developed the
manufacture OF soda products IN the
United States.
John D. Converse. Philadelphia. repre-
senting the Baldwin Locomotive Works
Charles II. Cramp. Philadelphia for
Fifty years general manager of Cramps
Shipyard.
An Electrical Leader.
Francis Bacon Crocker. New York City,
instructor and professor of electrical en-
at Columbia University; founder
of the Croker Wheeler Electric Com
parry.
Charles Deerng, Chicago, senior mem
Der of the Deering Harvester Company,
Chicago. manufacturers of grain harvest
ing machinery.
Theodore Low De Winnie. proprietor of
the De Winnie Press.
William T. Dodge New York. merchant.
Identified with the production of metals
and with their use in manufactures.
John F. Dryden, Newark. y j., founder
and president of the Prudential Life In
5urance Company.
II NH /
IF the American Tobacco Company
William II. Dunwoody Minneapolis.
Mimi, representative Of the WashbIKn-
crosby Company.
Edison Among Them.
Thomas l.. Edison, Llewellyn, \. j.. in {
'entor of the incandescent light system.
Frederick Eilers. Brooklyn, metal
urgist and mining engineer.
Marshal Field, Chicago, drygoods mer
liant
stuyvesant Fish, New York City, presi-
lent of the Illinois Central Railroad sys- :
en-.
David r. Francis. St Louis. president
# the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.
prominently Identified with financial and I
abroad interests. I
John b. Fritz, Bethlehem. Pa, the
,estor of the iron and steel Industries of
merica. founder and designer and build 7
r of the great forge and armor plate 9
liant of the Bethlehem Steel Company. 4
Railways and Steamships. I
George J. Gould. Lakewood, y. j., presi- +
ent of the Missouri Pacific Railway,
Ianhattan Elevated Railway. Western t
MON Telegraph, and other companies.
James b. Grant, Denver. Col, metal .
lrgist and mining engineer.
Clement A. Griscom. Philadelphia.
,under and chief executive of the Inter-
ational Navigation Company.
James ID. Hague. New York City. prac-
cal gcologist, mining engineer. and ex-
ert adviser who has been intimately
lncerned with the development of the
old. silver, copper and lead production y
the country.
Charles NJ. Hall Niagara Falls, ". Y.
lventor OF the commercial process of
aluminium.
Hartman and Havemeyer.
Edward II. Hartman, Arden, ~ Y. the
m rolling executive of the Union Pa e
&c Southern Pacific, and other railroad
stems
Henry 0. Havemeyer. New York City.
of the American Sugar Refining 4
Ompany
Marvin Hughitt. Chicago. president of y
lie Chicago and Northwestern Railroad
stem.
Jerome Kennedy, Pittsburg. expert en- 8
neer in iron and steel manufacture.
Samuel p. Langley Washington. d. c..
,tronomer and physicist. secretary of E.
lie Smithsonian Institution. H
Robert T. Lincoln. Chicago, president of