The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-19
ALDERMEN HOLD BANQUET.
GOOD WILL AND FELLOWSHlP
 PREFAIL.

Annual Feast Last EvenIng-PresideDt
 TOwnshend and Mayor StudIey Com-
 mend the Board for Earnest and
 Efficient Service to City--PersonaIi-
 ties Should be Suppressed at Public
 Hearings Says President Townshend
 Alderman Johnson Speaks on Library
 Matter.
 The retiring board of aldermen held very enjoyable banquet at the Hotel Oneco last night. Thirteen aldermen were present. and they had as their guests Mayor J, P. studley, City sher- tiff Kollerstrom, H. W. Lincoln, page of the board, and the representatives of the morning newspapers Alderman John c. Johnson, chairman of the arr engagements committee. was in charge, and as soon as the dinner had been served, and the tables cleared for ac- tion, he introduced Alderman Henry Fl. ToWnshend the president of the board, as toastmaster
 President Townshend expressed the pleasure it had given him to act as the presiding officer of such an earnest body of workers, and urged those who returned to the new board to insist on 1t that persons who appear before them at public hearings should refrain from This, he said, would in- duce more citizens to attend, and would make the work of the committee pleas anter.
 Each alderman present and the rep resentatives of the mornings papers who were invited guests, and the page of the board, were called upon for a few remarks Mayor Studley, the prin- cipal guest, was first introduced. He commended the board for the earnest work that had been done during the year, and stated that they had solved some of the most important questions that had ever come before any board of aldermen, and in manner that was for the best good of the masses. He outlined some of these and spoke a few words in extenuation of the improve ments that 1t is designed to accomplish with the money obtained through the bond issue should the measure be pass- ed at the meeting which will be held Friday evening, December 2S. These improvements, he said, were for the benefit of the working people more than my other class. The playgrounds would furnish the workers of the city with an opportunity for needed recreation as we'll as the school children. He recau- 'd the attention of his hearers to the lifficulty which was experienced in | setting through the East Rock park purchase in 1879, and said that the new measure for the building of a lake and lrive would be of as much pleasure and benefit to the city as that had been.
 Alderman Courtney said that he would always look back to his connec- ion with the board of aldermen with pleasure. He expressed his satisfaction t the treatment that had been ac- ,orded him as a member of the minor ty. These sentiments were heartily by Alderman Richard Healv. Both of these gentlemen said that al- hough they had at first questioned the of a lake and drive at the oot of East Rock they now considered t a proposition that must be carried hrough.
 Alderman John o. Johnson was call d upon by the toastmaster, and said hat In his opinion the fact that each f them had been member of the i0ard of aldermen that had accented he generous offer of public library rom Mrs. Mary B. Ives would be a ource of pleasure to them in after ears He said that an embossed CODY f the letter of gift of Mrs Ives with he names of every member of the oard engraved upon it would be placed n the new library when it is complet- I, as a lasting memorial of their ac- lor.
 During the evening Alderman Francis |. Hamilton entertained the banuueters fith a number of songs, which were cry much appreciated,
 Others who spoke were Aldermen franklin L. Homan, Hamilton. Mar we Curtiss, Loos, Burke, Assistant ( ity Clerk Pallman and H. w. Lin oln.