The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-12-20
AN INFORMAL RECEPTION

trade. AS is the custom OF the New
England society the festivities We're
opened early. The diners began to ar
rive at $50 o'clock and for an hour an
informal reception was held in the
room adjoining the banquet hall. Ac-
quaintances We're made and renewed,
and a general chat indulged in that
made everybody neighborly before the
affair was fairly started.
To the strains Of a patriotic march by
Bauer's orchestra, the company entered
the banquet hall, without any formali-
ties of precedence and sought their
places.
A most inspiring picture greeted the
eye upon entrance to the banquet hail.
In former years, the socety followed the
general custom of seating the COM
pany at long tables arranged in the
shape of a hollow quadrangle. This
years committee introduced an inno-
walton as an incentive to more socia-
bility. Small tables accommodating
four. six or eight. were substituted for
the old arrangement, and it was per-
'nitted that the diners could make up
fher own groups by consulting the
committee in advance. Small stand
ards bearing numbers designated the
"iiISi cit Sio"PS' NSdiuS ottiIluS Sol
responding numbers We're distributed to
each of the groups AS a, result OF this
arrangement there was no confusion at
tending the seating.
Decorations an Innovation.
80 The decorations We're also an inno-
Nation. The florist was appealed to
only in the establishment of the tables.
Everything else of a decorative char
acter was "Old Glory except for a
-~ide frieze of buff and blue-lhe soci-
ety's colors. and a happy conceit in the
way of coats-of-arms of the original
New England states. capping the lat
eral pillars, and a large coat-of-arms
OF Pennsylvania, framed in incandes-
itlent bulbs and suspended in the rear
Of the presidents table.
The side and end walls We're half
hidden behind the fan shaped Ameri-
can flags, streamers of red, white and
blue, and shields of the same color, be-
hind which We're assembled small flags
in profusion.
1.-The three big chandeliers with their
opalescent globes We're fairly enshroud-
ed in tlmy festoons of red, white ana
blue, and between and all about them
We're further hangings of tri-color
pe'Si'S'' ~ 'tiiNiiis, contrast Win lnt
Neritable riot of color which obtained
overhead, We're white doves suspended
al close intervals from the ceiling
Each dove bore branch of holly in its
bin, Striking. inspiring and highly ar
tistic, is an appropriate summing up
characterization of the decorative en-
bellshments.
Guests of Honor.
The guests of honor were Rev. NJ w,
Stryker. ID. d., president of Hamilton
college Prof, John NJ. Tyler nstruc-
Tor in biology at Amherst college, and
Rev. Joseph Henry Odell, pastor of the
Second Presbyterian church, of Scran-
ton. They sat with President Charles
II. Welles, eX-Presdent II. NJ Boles.
and the society's chaplain, Rev. George
r., Guild, ID, d., pastor of the Provi-
dance Presbyterian church. Their table
was at the eastern end of the hall ana
all sat facing the company.
Among the other prominent men who
We're guests of the society or OF indI-
Nidual members We're Elihu Root ir
son of the secretary of war, who is a
student at Hamilton college, and Hon
simon =. Wolverton, who is here at
tending the strike commission. The
complete list of diners is appended:
MEMBERS
Scranton Captain ID. b. Athertou, j. L.
Atherton, Colonel II. NJ. Boies, Albert S.
Baker, DR.. +. ID, Brewster, David Boies,
james Blair, Jr,, a. T.. Bedford. H. H.
Coston, Il, f. Chamberlain, A. H. Collins,
Charles r. Conn, Russell Dimmick, j.
Benj. Dimmick, Francis HI. Doane, IL. q.
Dinham. George b. Dmmick A. G. Full
Ter, Il. l.. Fuller, j. Ill. Fisher, Arthur