The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-29
III. c. NewcOmb, of Philadelphia,
Will Deliver Lecture.
USE A STEREOPTICON.
Show Hundreds OF Pictures
Taken in Europe.
Will Be Preceded by an Oyster
Dinner.

Another big event has been arrang-
ed by the Commercial clu,. 1t Will be
in the nature of a social gathering for
the grocers of the city and their wives,
and will be held on Monday evening
January Il. Travels in the Lands or
the Olive is the subject of a stereop-
ticon lecture which the club has booked
for the occasion. The lecturer H. c.
Newcomb of Philadelphia, has taken
number of trips through the European
olive districts. and from the thousands
of photographs of an intensely inter
esting character which he has taken
during his travels he has had hundreds
of lantern slides made the best of which
he will show in the assembly rooms
of the Commercial club.
A number of s O'Clock dinners have
been given at the Commercial club, but
owing to the inability in most cases
of the grocers to attend a function at
that hour they have had to lose out
altogether. This is the first time that
the grocers have planned a social gath
ering of this kind on a big scale.
Secretary E. Montgomery. secretary
of the Grocerymen's Association. states
that $50 or 200 of the grocers of the
city with their wives will sit down to
a I O'Clock oyster dinner which the as
sociation is arranging The spread
will be held in the main and private
dining rooms of the quarters of the
Commercial club. Subsequently ad-
journment will take place to the as
sembly room where Mr.. Newcomb will
give his interesting talk.
This affair which the Commercial
club has planned is but another in
stance of the carrying out Of the clubs
policy of creating in the organization
a get together" spirit. This spirit Is
catching ard never before in the his
tory of the Commercial club has it been
so strongly manifested as at the pres
ent time, and with such a spirit as this
nothing can stop the pro-
gress growth and effectiveness
of the live organization. When men get
together in social way, it is generally
an easy matter to get them together
for business.
The Commercial club will do every
thing possible to. make this evening Civ
en- for the grocerS and their. wives a
great success. They have secured Hairs
orchestra to furnish music while the
guests gather and during the supper
which the groCerS are arranging
1t is interesting to note that the
speaker of the evening H c. Newcomb
since the Spanish-American war has
been Spanish consul for Pennsylvania
and Delaware. The following which is
taken from a letter received by the
Otto Kuehne Preserving company from
Mr.. NeWcomb gives q clear idea of the
nature and purpose of the lecture;
In order to make such lecture IN
teresting l have added to it number
of pictures showing the customs of the
country ard some of the prettier sights
on sucn journey. together with ocean
views going ana coming.
II have given this lecture number
of times to sa alesmen for different houses
in the east, in Chicago. Minneapolis and
Cincinnati. In number of instances
I have given it to statesmen in con1uno-
ton with the Retail Grocers' associa-
ton. The result has been that the
statesmen have always been able to sell
more olives to the retail grocers.
The entertainment am able to fur
rish is one which can be very we'll
given before ladies. so that when CIV
ing it before the Retail Grocers' asso-
Citations the families are usually invi-
ted.
"Realizing that very few salesmen
travelling for such houses as yours
know ANYTHING about how olives are
produced, prepared and shipped, and
therefore are unable to talk olives to
the grocery trade as we'll as their en-
ployers would like, some three or four
wears ago began to utilize some
photographs which 1 have taken from
time to time on my trips to Spain by
making lanter.a slides for a lecture.
"I now own about 1000 slides and
from them have selected $50 for
lecture They show the cultivation of
olives. gathering of the crop, curing,
asserting and shipping-in fact, the
whole process. and also the process of
making olive oil in France and
Italy"