The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1906-01-11
ORATOR., music
and FEASTlNG
MADE BANQUET BRILLIANT AFFAIR
Hood River Commercial Club Enter.
tains Guests at Social Function
That Proves Most Successful

Saturday evening was red letter
one for Hood River, for with music,
feast of good things to eat and "a
flow of oratory and wit the section al
lines of town and country were abel.
ished. The residents of city and va
ley have joined hands In the common
cause and have put their shoulders 10
the wheel for the further development
of the innumerable resources of Hood
River valley.
The banquet given at the Mt. Hood
Hotel by the Commercial Club Of thi
city on that evening was the cause Ul
cementing the interests of the two
communities, il they can be designat
ed as such. The invitations issued by
the club for the affair we're eagerly az
cepted by those who received them,
and when the time arrived for gather
ing at the festive board about 125 per-
sons we're present to do justice to the
fine supper which Manager Gilbert had
prepared for the occasion. Tilmany's
orchestra was stationed in one corner
of the large dining room, and during
the progress Of the meal entertained
the guests with an excellent musical
program. After this speeches we're
made and stories told and all went as
merry as wedding bell until the
affair wound up with three rousing
cheers for Hood River that no doubt
we're heard re-echoing up the valley to
the very base of Mount Hood with re-
verberations at Mosier and White Sal
mon.
Inr Nf hA nlt.h haf
guests met at the club rooms at 8
o'clock, where President Davidson
made short talk explaining the OBJ
ject of the banquet, which was the
bringing together of the business men
and fruit growers throughout the val
ley for the purpose of developing the
nfluencehof the organization by TAX
ing in members in the out of town
districts and thus making 1t a body
representing the whole valley.
The proposition was met with such
enthusiasm that before the gathering
was ready to depart for the banquet
hall 43 new members we're added to
the clubs list.
At $3.50 the banqueters formed into
line and marched to the hotel, where
the principal speakers of the evening
who had been asked to address the
club we're waiting. They we're Judge
Cake, president of the Portland Com.
mercial Club; Tom Richardson, sec
retary of the same organization Hon.
u. L. Smith, Rinaldo M. Hall, adver
tising manager of the o. r. 4 N. !;
Walter Moore, of the Oregon Savings
bank, also Of Portland, and Roswell
Shelley of OdelI and NJ. p. Isenberg
of Belmont.
The party then marched to the din.
ing room and took the places assigned
them, and the Rev. w. 9. Gilmore
opened the affair with prayer. The
guests were seated, the orchestra COM
menced playing and amid the beauti-
full decorations of Oregon grape and
the many colored incandescent lights
the most enjoyable and important 30
cial event in the history of the city
was inaugurated.
The speech making was begun by
President Davidson, who, in few ap-
propriate words, introduced the Hon.
A. A. Jayne as toastmaster for tie
evening. Mr.. Jayne, after expressing
his appreciation of the honor COL
ferred on him and addressing the as
sem blage for short period, intro
duced Judge Cake. The Judge SAID
that when he had been asked to talk
before the Hood River Commercial
Club, he had turned to Mr.. Richard
son and said: "Tom, what shall /
say?" and Tom answered, "Ob, say
the same old thing. Talk about The
commercial clubs Of Oregon" Mr..
Cake said that this question was 80
near his heart that he could not talk
about anything else that 1t was bound
up with the future development OF
Oregon and that the wonderful op.
timism of the progressive citizens OF
the state was what was making its his
tory and would continue to make 1t.
Optimism, he said, was the one thing
in this world that accomplished re-
suits and that nothing was acct :.
plished without enthusiasm. "Why, )"
said he, "it is so rampant in Portland
that have known two men to mt, t
, on the streets of that city when it
had been raining forty days and forty
nights and after shaking hands, one
: of them would say to the other,
: 'How's everything?' and the other
: would reply, Fine, fine Thank God, +,
it's raining, " Such optimism, said
= he, was sure to win out. He inveigh-
ed against the "knocker," .and said
that there was no room on mother
n earth for him, In this connection
! he told story about man whose
! mother in law had died and his wife
telegraphed him to know whether they
should embalm, cremate or bury the
body, and the man at once tele.
p graphed back to embalm, cremate and
bury at once, as she might come to
! life again. When you meet knockeT,
q said the Judge, "embalm, cremate and
= bury him." lie then concluded with
= . a tribute to Hood River for its unity
4 of purpose, and said 1t was shining
4 example in this respect to other towns
a in the state.
Toastmaster Jayne then called upon
o e. l.. Smith to respond, which that
e gentleman did with an eloquence that
h stirred the hearts of his fellow citi.
q Zens and made them as one gentleman
. said, "feel proud that we have sucl
y man in our city," Mr.. Smith,
! talk sparkled with wit as we'll as elO
\ quence, and he referred to the gentle
& men from Portland as the shot ali
" brigade, " and said that he knew wha
I they we're going to say before the!
% started, and in referring to Judg'
,s Cakes allusion to knockers, assure
, that gentleman that there we're n
10 knockers in Hood River. That tb
% valley was bound together for on
G. common purpose, which was its ad
N vancement and progress, and that J
ia was ever wiling to try new method
'w and to investigate and experimen
ID until it got the best results. It wa
ID ont, he said, like man In Canad
az who had lost several crops by persist
n ing in using the old methods which hi
!. neiRhbors had discarded. When asket