The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-12-10
SUCCESS ATTENDS
|RvNGTON BOARD
OF TRADE DINNER
Though Organized Only Year
Ago, Members Have Done
Much for the Town.
WORKED FOR BETTER
FIRE DEPARTMENT
One Hundred Present at Ban
, quet in Speedway Hotel Hear
Enthusiastic Speeches.

Enthusiastic speeches in behalf of
Irvington were made at the first annual
banquet of the Board of Trade of that
town last night. About one hundred
members and guests assembled for the
dinner in tho clubroom at the Speedway
Hotel, in Springfield
DIR. Albion C. Christian, president of
the association, acted as POSTMASTER.
Judge Benjamin F. Jones, of Orange,
congratulated the board on the work
which it had accomplished, and said
that while %Irvington and its %neighbors
felt content in themselves. 1t would be
only a short time before they would all
be together in one great city.
H.. Stacy Smith, of South Orange,
was unable to be present. Informal re-
were made by President DIR.
Albion c. Christian. Secretary Acker-
son J. States, former Assemblyman
George r. Brandenburgh and George
r. Scribe.
The board has accomplished much
toward bsttering the conditions of
the town since it's inception. It's
agitation for a more efficient fire de-
partment vas taken up by h Council.
and improved fire-f1ghting facilities
have been the result. This board is
also credited with being a prime factor
in securing the defeat of the annexa-
ton project. The officers at present
are: DR.. Albion C. Christian, president;
James H. Byrne, vice-president; Ack-
erson J. States. secretary, and Michael
A. Dougher. treasurer.
These members compose the present
board of directors: Nathaniel Drake,
Joseph Walker, Joseph Ross, jr, Har-
vey D. Post, Ackerson J.. States, Ed
ward r. Folsom, Walter "A. Wills,
Thomas S. Osborne and Joseph 7. Cas-
ties.
The committee that arranged the
banquet was composed of Ackerson ].
states, chairman; former Assemblynlan
George F.. Brandcnburgh. Walter A.
Wills. Harry Stanley and George II.
Woolley.
Among those present were: George ..
Adams, David H. Greene, Thomas s..
Osborne, Joseph Diebold, Joseph Ross,
jr., Harry D. Post, Henry G. Burk-
hardt, DIR. r. w. sFairthorne, William
r. Adams, e. R. Folsom, Julius
Bartsch, Francis s. Green, Clifford
Mooney, Charles Hecht, Ernest Boer-
ger. Isaac J. Casey. ST., Joseph t.
Castles, Frederick W. Engelberger.
George H. SmaHey, DR.. Arthur c.
Wilkes, Edwin Berry, Dayton o. Meek
err. Caleb ]. Sippell, Gustav A..
Schweedes, Joseph G.. CHASER, Frank
r. Sharp, Edward jacob, Joseph
Walker, Michael A. Dougher, DR.. AL
bion c. Christian. August L. Lacombe,
Frank H. Morrell, Edwin D. Harrison,
William Decker, Harry M. Radcliffe.
Mahlon s. Drake, James H. Mortland.
Walter A. Wills. Charles II. Stewart.
Carl r. KEGS, Harry J. Stanley, G.
William >Pfeil, A. J. States. Thomas J.
Rossfter. Louis Hecht, Kilian Jubert,
Archibald F. Slingerland. c. William
Elliott, Bernard j. Larney, Frederick
NJ. Wilson, Alfred NJ. Stockman. James
III. Byrne, Frederick J. Howard, Sam
uel G. Merrill, Adam Philhower, Julius
g.. Sieb, John Bruck, Eugene B. Mury,
Robert Braitsch, Henry Diehl, J. f.
Ten Eyck, John C. Mcclure. w. Eugene
Turton, Henry A. Dawes, Frederick H.
Goble, Henry Foley, Gustav Krutt-
schnitt, Henry w. Meeker. Edmund r.
Halsey. Frederick T. Shoyer, Ralph
Wakefield, John w. Wolf. Raymond w.
Drake, John G. Gibson, Nathaniel
Drake, Jacob Werthman. John H. Van
Cleve. Fred Stone. Rev. Thomas F.
Monaghan. Joseph ~Sonnenberg, George
Jennings, Isaac J.. Casey, jr., Thomas
Kirkbride and George Garwood.