Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-27
MERCHANTS HAVE
NIGHT OF MIRTH
ANNUAL PASADENA BANQUET
PROVES SUCCESS
-Four Hundred Gather About Festive
Board and Listen to Excel
lent Toast Re-
sponses
Pasadena Agency
1914 East Colorado street
Telephone Main I02.

PASADENA, Nov. 26.-Between four
and five hundred people sat at taple
this evening i'm the handsome dining
room of the west building OF the Hotei
Green. the occasion being the annual
banquet Of the Pasadena Merchants
association. The affair was IN point
Of attendance and general accomplish
mont far ahead Of anything hereto
fore attempted by the association and
the speeches of the evening were both
numerous and at the same time filled
with the more serious thought which
is usual from men of the cloth-five
ministers representing different de-
nominations, being on the list of
toasts.
Prior to the serving of the dinner
there was an informal reception in the
vast receiving room of the west build
ing. On the reception committee were
Mesdames. l.. III. Turner, l.. E. Jar
Wis, f. L. Heiss. II. G, Hotaling, j. O.
McCament, Fred Nash, Joseph Welsh,
d. w. Herlihy Henry Newby Arthur
Wood w. N. Van Nuys. e. II. May,
j. S. Glasscock, w. A. Cundy, E. r.
Braley, II. e. Hertel, B. o. Kendall,
Ralph Slxillen. Nelson March, Kingsley
Stevens, Il. w. Woodbury., J. Herbert
Hall, E. M. Mold, A. j. Bertonneau, d.
w. Coolidge. d, NJ. Linnard and Mrs.
George Brenner and Miss Sargent.
1t was slightly after o'clock when,
to the music of the Hotel Green or
chestra, the members of the associa-
tion and their women folk marched
from the spacious parlors to the din
ing room. 1t was not until after 10
o'clock that the formal menu had been
completed and President c.. D. Sar-
gent, of the association, introduced
the POSTMASTER of the evening, the
Rev. John A. Holmes.
Mr. Holmes was in fine humor in
spite of the fact that he had been i'll
and was not even then completely re-
covered. In his responding remarks
he had lots of fun at the expense of
the gathering destined to be talked to
by five men of the cloth and then he
introduced a brother preacher, the
Rev. Albert Hatcher Smith, who re-
sponded to the toast. "The Ideal Busi-
ness Man of Pasadena"
1.-THE ideal business man." said Mr..
Smith, sis he who follows literally the
golden rule. He is a mixture of fair
ness and squareness and is not afraid
to do what is right and honest" Mr..
Smith then went on to tell what Pasa-
dena required to make for the city an
ideal business man. He said that
what the city needs Is the sound man
of business and still the man who is
able and willing to use every legitimate
IleIHOu WHICH enterprise anu push Will
suggest to advance his own business
and also the city.
Mr.. Lon V. Chaplin, editor of the
Pasadena News, was the next speaker
He had for his subject "rhe Civic
Spirit" and in well chosen language
iJoiIsted out how Pasadena is imbued
more than any other place with that
harmony of good fellowship and good
womanship among it's business people
which carries to successful conclusion
each effort ineugurated.
With "The Business Mans Tongue"
for his toast, the Rev. Frank M. Dow
ling made one of the most charming
talks of the evening. talk filled to the
full with bright and catchy stories and
at the same time a plea for honest
business representation of wares and
conditions.
The last toast of the evening was by
no means the least for it was left to
the Rev. s. G.. Durham to respond to
the toast, "The Ladies'" In a half
serious, half jesting vein Mr.. Durham
told what the business man owes to
the women who have founded him
rightly in life and helped him to be
what he is. In closing he paid a very
pretty compliment to the fair sex and
pledged to them long life and happi-
ness in sparkling water the audience
responding by liberal APPLAUSE and sim
liar pledges