The Washington herald., 1913-10-31
SHOE DEALERS
BANQUET.
Washington Retailers Enter
tain Baltimore and Phila-
delphia Guests.
ADDRESSES ARE HEARD
Joseph Shasburger, as Toastmaster,
Speaks on Advantages Of 0rganiza-
tion-Personael of Committees.

Shoe dealers Of Washington, Baltimore.
and Philadelphia gathered about the
banquet board of Ine New Ebbitt House
last night 1t was the first meeting of
the men in this line of trade of the three
cities.
The out-of-tpwn shoe men came here
as the guests ot the shoe section OF the
Retail Merchants Association. The BAN
uuet was given in special compliment 10
the members of the Retail Shoe Dealers
Association of Baltimore, who enter
;ained the Washington merchants last
spring.
Thirty -four shoe merchants came from
Baltimore on a special train The Visi-
tors from Philadelphia included some of
the officers of the National Retail Shoe
Dealers Association.
Joseph Strasburger, chairman of the
shoe section of the Retail Merchants
Association, was the toastmaster of the
evening, and in his Introductory address
said, in part:
We shoe merchants have everything
10 gain and nothing to lose by the COM
nInglinS with one another in our vari-
GUS shoe trade bodies To meet our fel-
low shoe merchants on a common ground
Of fellowship is to practice one of the
noblest sentiments, the brotherhood Of
man. There are none of us so wise in
the ways OF our business that we cannot
learn something from our competitor and
he, in turn. from US.
Organization has done wonders for the
shoe trade. Through a collective effort
store hours have been shortened, and this
has not only proved an advantage to the
merchant, but to the employees as we'll
AOuses familiar to our line of endeayoT
nave been abated or minimized and the
shoe trade generally placed on a broader
and more firm foundation than ever be-
fore i'm its history"
BRnqueIers Hear Addresses.
Maurice Wyman, president of the Bal
umore Shoe Retailers Association. fe-
icitated the hosts in the name of his
association
addresses on organization were made
by A. II. Geuting. of Philadelphia, Pa,
president OF the, National Shoe Retailers
Association; j. l.. TwaddeII, secretary of
the national organization, and Morris
Hahn. treasurer of the banquet COM
mittee; Henry c. Dalsimer, of Baltimore:
Joseph Be-berich, of Washington; L r.
NordlingeT, of this CITY, and Joseph NJ
Hess and Ottmar Marcus. of Baltimore.
The banquet was in charge of the fol-
owing committee:
Banquet committee-Joseph Strasburger
chairman; Morris Hahn, Jos Berberich
samuel c. Splitter ]. b. Nordlinger Max
Rich. T. B. Edmonston
Reception committee-Harry W. Hahn
hartman: d. B. Gusdorf. d. Louis. John
D. Crawford. W. n. Dorsett, Edgar
Hahn. c. Raymond, Z. Sommers, Her
bert Rich, +. l.. Burns, Robert Berber-
Ich. Harry Wolf. NJ. b. Sinsheimer, W.
r. Ehrman. H. n. Roberts. A. z. Eel
ser. NJ. Adler. W. B. Keneaster, $. NJ,
Sreenbaum
Present at the Banquet.
Those present were Maurice Wy man,
OItmar Marcus, Joseph NJ. Hess. o. +.
"oombe. r. \. Howard. H A Rettberg,
John J. Lewis Frank Z. Buck Amos A
Feeder. jr-. Fl. Lebauer L. r. Adams,
l. J. Pollock, Abe Breslau. Arnold Bam-
berger. NJ. Harris. Abe Rubenstein, A. ID.
Brown. Michael Hess. Melvin Marcus
il. Frank P. Smith. Thomas H. Easley,
charles II. Centrum. Edward Herman,
Fred {. Butler. George W. Butler, I. z.
boveman Charles F. Rupert. H. n. Rob.
erts. Sam Levie. Theodore Goldstrom,
II. a. Smelling, H. E. Jones. Charies G.
Quartley, J. Thomas Lyons, 7. c. Dal-
semer. of Baltimore; A. II. Geut-
ing of Philadelphia; J. l.. Twaddell,
Benjamin King Farnham. of New York
sam B. Wolf. of Cincinnati; Robert J.
Berberich, T. f. Edmonston. Joseph A.
Berberich. Harry A. Wolf. Isaac B. Nord-
linger. Herbert J. Rich, Bernard Walter.
Ehman p. Hirsh. S. G. Splitter Herbert
e. Adler, Maurice B. Sinsheimer, Henry
:. Adler. a. NJ. Greenbaum, David Louis,
Edwin Hahn, 5. NJ. Louis, Sol Louis, N |
:. Hirsh. Edward l. Burns, John D. |
g Irawford, \. f. Felser. Harry W. Hahn, |
d. b. GusdOrf, Louis Rosenberg, Morris
'-ahn, Joseph Strasburger, and Charles
j. Columbus, of this city.