The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-12-17
NOTABLE GATHERING
OF PROMINENT MEN
AT Dinner Given president-eIect Taft
in New York Last
Night.

New York. Dec. 17.--Iu bringing his
stay in New York 10 close last night,
Pfesident.elect William II. Taft was
the guest Of honor at one Of the most
notable banquets ever held in this
city. II was the twenty-third annual
dinner Of the Ohio society In New York
but around the 100 tables placed in
the grand ball room and Astor gallery
Of the Waldorf Astoria hotel were men
gathered from every section OF the
country and leaders in many walks Of
life.
Mr.. Taft took advantage of the oc.
casion, in speech filed with more
earnestness than any he has delivered
since his election, TO pledge his admin
istration and his party, so far as he
can control It, to loyal adherence TO
the Chicago platform. He dwelt al.
most wholly upon the revision Of the
tariff, which he singled out as the
most important declaration made at
the last national convention and after
having previously referred TO the veto
power Of the chief executive, said with
all the emphasis Of which he was ca.
pable:
Better no revision at all; better
that the new bill should fail, unless
we have an honest and thorough re-
vision on the basis laid down and the
principle outlined in the party plat
form.o
Mr.. Taft also referred again to the
Sherman antitrust law and declared
for its enforcement as one OF the poll
cies OF President Roosevelt which the
party pledged itself TO carry forward.
Seated at the presidents table" with
Mr.. Taft were the ce-president. elect
Mr.. Sherman; Gov. Charles K. Hughes
OF New York, who paid glowing
tribute 10 Mr. Taft during the evening;
Henry w. Taft, president of the so
eiety and toastmaster; Charles p. Taft
OF Cincinnati; Horace ID. Taft OF
Watertown, Conn; DIR. Arthur T. Had.
ley, president of Yale university; for
mer Senator John G. Spooner, one Of
those who responded to toasts; j. PIER
pont Morgan, Paul Morton, Gov Frank.
lin Fort, of New Jersey, Secretary
Strauss, Frank H. Hitchcock, Gen. II.
Q. Corbin, Admiral Jasper Goodrich and
others.
At one Of the tables near that of
the guest of honor, was perhaps the
most notable group of financiers ever
gathered together at a dinner in this
country. All the diversified interests
and so-called Wall street crowds"
were represented. There were Z. II. |
Hartman, George +. Baker, president |
of the First National bank, George w. |
Perkins Of j. p. Morgan & Co., y. Fl. |
Gary, chairman n the board OF the |
United States steel company, John |
Clanin, Frank A. Vanderlip, vice-prcsi-
dent of the National City bank, Dar.
win P. Kingsley, president Of the New
York Life Insurance company, J. P.
Morgan, jr., E. T. Etotesbury of
Drexel, Morgan & Co, of Philadelphia, /
end Charles Steele, of ]. ?, Morgan &
Co. =
At another table, and riyaIing in the
attention of the diners the "four Taftss |
at the Presidents table. were four
Rockefellers-John d., John d. ir., Will
liam Rockefeller and r. A. Rockefeller.
With them sat John D. Archbold, the |
active head OF the Standard Oil com.
pany, and John G. Milburn, the special
counsel of the company.
Frank B. Kellogg, who has been prose
cutting the Standard Oil company, and /
William Nelson Cromwell, so promi-
nently brought to the front in the re-
cent Panamat canal discussion, were
near neighbors to the Rocl1efeIlers.
Thomas F. Ryan sat at table with /
B. F. Yoakum, James Speyer, Lord
Revelstose and others.
Paul O. Cravath. John Gates, Mel
vile Il. IngaIs, Wade Fl. Ellis, Leslie
NJ. Shaw, Myron t. Herrick, Justice
William A. Day, Robert G. .C1owrey,
Charles H. Treat and Delavan Smith
were others among the more than
700 diners. The galleries of the grand
ball room, where the speeches were
made, were filled with an assemblsge
of beautifully gowned women, who
Joined with the men below in the en-.
thusiastic tributes of cheers and ap.
plause paid to Mr., Taft and in but
slightly lesser degree to Governor
Hughes.
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