Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19
HEARD AROUND
THE CORRIDORS
PRESIDENT OF EDISON
6ANoUETED BY EMPLOYEES
ny THE EAvEsDRoPPER
For he's a Jolly good fellow.
For he's a jolly good fellow,
That nobody can denv.


With the old, old song that has done
duty at festive gatherings for ages,
three hundred and thirty-eight en-
ployes of the Edison Electric company
greeted their president last night in
the Angelus at the conclusion of one of
the largest banquets of the kind ever
given in Los Angeles.
There was mirth and music. feasting
and flowers and speechmaklng and
handclapping, and the affair was demo-
cratic from start to finish.
The big dining room in the Angelus
hotel was a blaze Of electric lights and
under the direction of G.. S. Moselle,
the compGnys decorator. a wonderful
decorative scheme was evolved Down
the center of each of the long tables
which formed the arms of n letter ~
an electric distributing system was
erected. Poles were erected to repre-
sent the electric poles of the over
mead system of the company and upon
these q double row of wires was
stretched. The wires were covered with
graceful strands of asparagus plumosus
and 5000 tiny colored lights glistened in
the greenery. on the table an addi-
ferns and huge punches of California
violets and at one end of the room
under the balcony where the orchestra
was stationed large electric sign bore
the words Edison Electric Company"
Bronze figures supporting cluster
lights completed the arrangement.
There was a hornet orchestra that
furnished ''music?" with the aid of
tin horns and megaphones and a yazoo
wifi
keep the company in peals of laughter
all the time. The hornets began with
There will be a hot time in the old
time tonight" and every one joined in
the old time songs. All those who
could not sing, whistled and when
there was a moments lull in the noise
President John Is. Miller, or some other
one of the company's hige men, start
ed things going again.
After an elaborate course dinner Sam
NJ. kennedy, the general agent of the
system, introduced President Miller as
the POSTMASTER and he made a royal
one. With story for every man he
introduced and a word of praise he
brought cheer after cheer from his
employees and the long program of
speeches went off all too quickly
H. H. Sinclair, the third vice presi-
dent of the company, told How We
Started" w. H. Raymaker, foreman
of the overhead system, spoke of the
company. the men and their relations,
and r. H. Ballard. the secretary told
some things of interest under the title
strenuous Figuring" H. H. Trow-
bridge, chief counsel for the company,
followed with talk on "Circumstan-
tial Evidence" quoting "Who to him
self is law no law doth need; offends
no law and is king indeed"
w. H. Darnell took the company back
into the long ago, a hundred years and
more, and told them of many things
that We're not then and are today. A.
l.. Selig, the general manager of the
company, talked about what the Edi-
son company stands for, and he quoted
the favorite motto of the company.
Good service. square dealing and
courteous treatment" From the oper-
ator's point of view spoke II. D. Thax-
ter and b. f. Pearson, general super
intendent, spoke of The Man Behind
the Cum
DR.. Milbank Johnson, the company's
physician, talked of Medicine and
Men" and John S. McGroarty, as usual,
upheld the honor of the press.
To Byron T. Story fell the last toast
of the evening, and it was "The Ladies"
There were twenty of them in the room,
and they compose all the women in the
employ of the local division of the COM
pany. The banquet wound up with a
selection from the Edison Wobblers
Handsome menu cards were the SOU
venirs of the affair." and these were or
namented with sketches meaning much
TO the initiated in the wonders of elec-
tricity.
r. C. Neal, William Dieterle, Ray
Houston, Irving Harris and Clayton
Biggs formed the reception committee,
and the banquet was under the man
agement of B. F. Pearson, S. NJ. Ken
nedy and r. C. Neal. To these men is