St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1903-02-25
BANQUET TO SCALE MEN.
A Notable Social Gathering at In
Casino.

| last week OF the presence III INV VI
representatives from the various selling
houses of E. & T. Fairbanks & Co. and
on Thursday evening the corporation
rendered them banquet at the Caslno.
Besides the visitors, the foremen OF the
different departments connected with the
factory we're present, together with the
office force and ~ plates were laid. The
Casino was handsomely decorated tor
the occasion with bunting and lighted
lanterns. The tables were laid IN the
form of hollow triangle, with IA plates
at each table, and scales predominated
in the decorations and in their scoops
were apples, oranges, nuts and ralsihs,
the whole making very suggestive as
we'll as unique design. Miss Marion
Patterson was the caterer and fine
eight course dinner was served, with
some of the young men from the office
and store as walters. The menu was
cleverly prepared by c. H. Horton and
at rhe top of the page was a small pic
ture of the factory as it was in 1880 and
at the bottom picture of the works as
they are today. The Loading List" as
the menu was very properly called, was
full of good hits, the code word for the
deviled oysters being "buy-valves" and
for the buttered peas tripod" Those
present did full justice to the viands and
were in excellent condition to enjoy the
hour of mirth and melody that followed.
This was under the direction of Frank 0.
French of the draughting department
and the special entertainment consisted
of the appearance of the juvenile min
strels. Each did their parts to perfection
and more than one of the visiting dele
gates remarked that nothing better
could be found on the professional stage.
The Jokes were bright and upto date,
and the songs were heartily encored.
Mrs. Don c. Stiles sang twice very
sweetly and the hour closed with some
of Mr.. French's inimitabe and side
splitting monologue work.
Manager Turner then called the as
sembIy to order and read the following
kilograms which it was unanimously
voted o send to the absent members:
To Samuel N. Brown, ESQ.,, President,
Boston, Mass.
Sincere greetings and hearty congratu-
lations to you who have so faithfully
and ably rendered loyal and tfficient SER
vice to this great industry.
(Sgred) Forty Representatives of the
Factory and Field.
To W. Storrs Wells, President The
Fairbanks Co., New York.
Sincere greetings and hearty congratu
lations to you who have planned so
wisely these MANY years Tor the wonder
iul development of our business on the
territory under your supervision.
(Signed) Forty Representatives OF the
Factory and Field
To Charles H. Morse, President Fair
banks, Morse & Co., Chicago, III.
Sincere greetings and hearty congratu-
latiOns to you who have planned so
wisely these many years for the wonder
ful development OF our business on the
territory under your supervision.
(Signed) Forty Representativ of the
Factory and Field.
The day following these replies were re-
ceived:
From Mr.. Brown.
"For the forty representatives of Fair
banks Scale interests. Your acceptable
congratulatory telegram is received and
touches me deeply. Your able and loyal
work has largely helped in our joint sue
cess"
From Mr.. Wells.
1T is with pleasure that | acknow
edge receipt of telegram, and apprecia
the kind expressions contained therein.
Let me express the hope that these kind
feelings will always exist and that a new
era OF prosperity has dawned Tor ALL"
From Mr.. Morse.
"Mr. Morse acknowledges receipt of
your despatch with grateful thanks tor
your greetings and congratulations and
desires to express his appreciation of
your hearty co operation in making his
success possible"
W. H. Sargent then took a fashlight
picture OF The group which he developed
the next day and which came out very
nicely. Mr.. Turner then welcomed the
visitors in his usual cordial manner,
called attention to the fact that the ban.
quet was held in one of their own build
lngs and was entirely q family affair and
then briefly sketched the growth of the
scale business from the early days to the
close of 1902, which was tt e largest year
in the history OF their business. Prof
Henry Fairbanks followed with a most
interesting account OF some of the early
events, how his father evolved the princi-
pie OF the lever as applied to weighing
machines and how quickly this invention
was utilized by the pioneer English scale
maker. E. H. Boardman OF the New
York house followed with brief sketch
of the foreign busint SIS which in The fities
was limited TO few South American
ports and one or two cities in Australia,
and today is larger than ever before and
includes every continent and the islands
OF the sea-
The western field was responded TO by
F. E. Church OF Chicago, and the speech
of the evening followed when John Doom
of the Baltimore house told OF the South
ern field in his carefully prepared address.
The organization OF the factory was con-
clsely gwen by Supt. P. F. Hazen and
Harvey E. Miller OF The Fairbanks Co.,
New York, spoke OF the future of the