The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-03-23
.|CEMEN ENJOY
notable | FEAST
Banquet at Richmond Last Night
Largely Attended ecora-
tons Beautiful.
GOVERNOR SWANSON SPEAKS.
Virginia Executive Responds to
Toast Our Country" Other
Well-Known Men.
GOVERNOR SWANSON SPEAKS

Things "thawed" up bit last night
III the banquet hall OF the Richmond
when one hundred and twenty-five MEM
bers OF the Southern Ice Exchange
gathered around their annual festive
board at 0:45 o'clock.
Music and the gay hum Of voices
greeted the car OF the inconers and soon
the air waxed warm with the jolly talk.
The thermometer registered q few points
heat.
The rooms were gayly dcdecked In the
Stars and Stripes. and in the bnttle-
SCARED flags 81 Virginia and tho South
those banners 80 dear to the Mayor OF
Richmond. and cut flowers and palms
were scattered in profusion ABOUT the
room.
AS the goblets were emptied and the
genial spirits mounted through the veins,
songs were INDUCED in. such as Every
body Works But Father" and THE Good
Old Summer Time"
The first toast was drunk to "Rich-
mond', standing, and amid hilarious APP
.plause.
Calls for Swanson.
Calls of Virginia., Speech" 'swaD-
son." filed the room when the Governor
entered the bnnqueting chamber about
II o'clock.
s DR.. Atwood. OF ST. Louis, on behalf OF
the exchange. presented n handsome sill
yer loving cup to the president, Mr.. G.
Doran Wingfeld. Mr.. Wingfield was
aged to get In few graceful words OF
grateful thanks
Happy Jack" Atwood, son of DR.. At
wood, was next presented masterpiece
of art in the way OF Sad Story In Four
Chapters" telling the story OF h!s life.
There were in the first a single pair of
shoes; in the second was added pair
of ladies' high quarters, and in the two
last chapters appeared number OF tiny
baby slippers. ..ost
Vigorous applause greeted the presenta-
ton, and after speech OF thanks, dur
Ing which Happy Jack" meandered
with the red COW OF his story from Dan.
to BeersheM. he sat down.
President Wingfield then introduced
Governor Swanson. who spoke on Our
Country" He said:
II have always wanted to be the man
who sold ice. The first thing I remem-
Der being laugh by my mother was to
keep cool. When you have troubles in
business. when your wife begins to rage.
when she begins to vent her width on
you. I say to you. keep cool. There Il
no wiser saying than keep cool, .,.,,,st,a
Z Speaking Of Richmond. he con tinued:
''Other cities may surpass us in populaic
ton and wealth but there is no other
city In the world so well-known. SO
much written about In history as Rich
mond. On this spot stood the men who
forecasted the Declaration OF Indepen-
dence, asserting that America was for
Americans. which put us above all ma
lions. and which, If we adhere to, will
preserve US the first rank among the
worlds great powers.
For four years the dream OF the
North was to capture this city; for four
years the South kept them back. You
gentlemen took but a few hours to come
to the city. It took others four years
to reach. j ais sa3s'!i's Z e
: "From the ices Of Maine. to the orange
blossoms OF Florida, from the Atlantic
to the Pacific. are gathered into one
fold, the most patriotic people ever
gathered under one flag"
Iceman of the South.
Great applause greeted the conclusion
OF the Governors response to the toast,
and he was compelled to answer to ali
TcsN
forward In body and grasped, as they
could. the executive fist. Iardella's or
chestra struck up Dixie" and the room
was all gayety and noise. The diners
danced figs at their seats and all were
stirred to the bottom. Handkerchiefs
were waved aloft and cries OF That's
fine" Give 1t to Them" smote upon the
nir.
Mr.. Hart. OF New Orleans. spoke on the
s..Iceman OF the South" and remarked:
Give me poverty, living from hand
D to mouth, and will be content 70 live
in the South, as an ice manufacturer"
Colonel George Wayne Anderson was
next to respond and replied to the toast.
Our Modern Richmond"
Mr.. W. D. Copeland told them few
in the way OF jokes and kept his auditors
IN continued roar. His toast was,
Some Famous Sayings. Or Any Old
Thing"
ut Is wonder to me,s' said he in be-
ginning, that the ice combine don't
perish OF spontaneous Combustion. It
is about the warmest refrlgerating COM
sbine that ever butted up against. You
have warmed the town considerably and
the thermometer is way up above tho
freezing point.
Mr.. William M. Hableston replied to the
toast. What. I Don't Know About tho
Ice business and made a remark, ad-
.yising the exchange to effect such COM
'bination MS will mutually aid the larger
concerns in crushing out the Legitimate
as q AZ a2 u
Mi. Rushton. OF Birmingham, Ala.,S
spoke on absent Members and G. 10.
S The banquet was over at 2 o'olock in the
morning. and the Southern Ice Exchange
had celebrated It most successful year In
Its most cornwall banquet.
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Burglar Captured.
(By Associated Press
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