Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-03-10
BUSINESS HENS BANQUET
The Eighth Annual Event Win Bs ! Held at Auaiteriam To.Niiht.

The eighth annual banquet of the Waterbury Business Mems association will be held in the Auditorium to- night. It is expected that at least BOO persons will be in attendance. The banquet will open at 7:30 o'clock. k. William HampsOn will preside and Charles D. Nye will act as tOastmas- ter. The speakers will include the Hon J. r. Elton, Congressman j.. Adam Beda, Rev Dr Willard Scott, Congressman Lilley and others. The different committees are as follows:
 Reception-Ralph N. Blakeslee, John R. Mullings. Dr Charles H. Brown, William s. Jones, Charles H. Reach. James $. Galley. Henry l.. Rowland, Charles F. Mitchell, Lewis NJ. Holland. Isadore Chase, Thomas D. Barlow, G. Leslie Dexter. Loren K. Carter. Charles G. Belden, Dr William 0. Beecher. Eugene c. Adt, Charles G.. Belft, Benjamin R. Kelsey. Henry l. Wade. David c. Griggs, Dr Charles &. Rodman. William J. Pape, Acly w. Castle. Frank B. Buck, J. Rawson Hughes. Pierre c. Cowles and Ed mund P. Fitzgerald.
 Ticket-O. X. Ziglatzki. C. A. Tenn plet0n, John Blair R. William Hamp- son, John H. Cassidy. John J. Galley, l.. E. FitzsimOns, l. NJ. Camp. T. H. Hewitt. F. w. MOOring. F. X. Wenzel. II. F. Harding, P. C. Cowles. Jacob Kaiser. F. r. Fitzgerald. k. $. Wot- kyns. I. F. Kellogg. W. l.. Hall.
 IArrangement-John Blair. chairman; Charles D. Nye. secretary: \. R. Bron- son, Roger s. Wotkyns. T. H. Hewitt. John Moriarty, l. F. Kellogg, Warren l.. Hall, c. X. TempletOn, Edward 0. Goss, George w. Beach,
 While it may not be necessary to say so. still it is not out of place to re- mark that there is no truth in the i'm putation that Roman Catholics feel hurt because the banquet is being held on Friday. Some very good Cath olics question the propriety of intro ducinc such thing and claim that it misrepresemts Catholic sentiment, not withstanding that thas been put for ward by a correspondent of the Tran script. They believe the alleged offense entirely gratutOus and state that they see nothing in their religion to prevent them from attending the banquet if they care to. It is nothing new to know that practical Roman Catholics do not eat meat on Friday, but every body knows that there will be other things besides meat on the table and that nobody will try to force people to eat anything they don't want. The thing is too trivial to make a fuss about and so long as Catholics are not concerned over it there is mo reason why it should have been mentioned at all. Catholics generally are built upon broader lines than what one might be led to believe from this kind of tom myrOt. They are not peeking in through keyholes and other small places with view to discovering something to quarrel over. Most of them make it q point to observe the rules of their own church, but that does not imply that they want to reg ,llate the conduct of their neighbors. II would he well to cut out that mat ter for it meets with the approval Of nobody outside those who enjoy bick- crings and nothing could have leen farther from the minds of the men who found this the only date on which the banquet could he held and secure the speakers the committee thought would give most satistnc ctioAa.un, sa,'