Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-14
PRUDENTIAL MEN
TO GATHER HERE
Sixth Annual Convention of
League Will Bring Leading
representatives.

Delegates from all sections of the
country will attend the annual con-
vention of the Prudential Insurance
Company's Ordinary Agencies 100000
League, which will be held at the
home office beginning tomorrow. The
business sessions will last two days,
to be followed with a dinner at the
Waldorf Astoria. New York. Thurs
day evening.
This is the sixth annual convention
of the league. previous meetings hav-
ing been held at Washington, D. c.,
in 1903; New Orleans, 1910; st. Angus
tine, Fla, 1911: Colorado Springs,
Colo. 1912, and Quebec. Canada, 1913.
The delegates to this years conven-
ton comprise about 125 members of
the companyis ordinary field staff, in
Guiding managers from nearly every
state in the Union. district managers,
city superintendents of ordinary
agencies and special ordinary agents.
Membership in the league is held
by the leading representatives of the
company in the ordinary department
throughout the United States. In
1915 the convention will be held in
San Francisco.
The delegates began to arrive here
yesterday. Many were accompanied
by ladies'. A special automobile tour
through Newark and its suburbs, with
refreshments at the Essex County
Country Club, has been arranged for
the ladies' for tomorrow
AT the convention matters pertain
ing to the eompany's business will be
taken up for consideration. The first
aSsemblage will be held tomorrow at
2 o'clock in the assembly room, tenth
floor, north building. Edward D.
Duffield, fourth president and
general solicitor of the company, will
preside.
Addresses will be made by John X.
Gore, vice-president and actuary:
Edward Gray, third president;
Mr.. Duffleld, Willard l. Hamilton,
secretary; George B. Speer assistant
secretary, and Fred w. Tasney, SUI
pervisor1 Some of the delegates will
talk of field experiences in life in
surance work. An informal dinner
10 the delegates will be given at the
Washington tomorrow night to which
the ladies will be invited. Mr. Gray
will preside. A cabaret performance
will be given by entertainers from
the home office force, including Fred
erick II. Yeomans, Lou" Noll, James
A. Whalen, Frederick Ryan, William
oil f1puleui w lilld10 NIlDDlnS ana
Robert L. Buchanan.
Thursday morning will be devoted
to division conferences of managers
only in the offices Of Cyrus H. Lang,
manager western division ordinary
agencies, and Edward s. Andrews,
manager Atlantic division ordinary
agencies. The visitors will also be in
vited to attend the home office en-
ployes' MONDAY concert on Thursday,
followed by luncheon on the eleventh
floor of the Prudential north build
ing. In the afternoon there will be
field managers joint meeting for
discussion of matters pertaining to
the advancement of the companys
business.
At the dinner in New York next
Thursday evening addresses will be
made by Frank G. Hasbrouck, super
intendent of insurance for the State
of New York; George NJ. La Monte,
commissioner of banking and insur-
ance for New Jersey, and Arthur b.
Leach, a New York banker. Presi-
dent Gore viii preside.
The president of the league is Ed
mund S. Rowland, manager and
senior member of the firm of Row
land & Wilson, of st. Louis, the lead
ing ordinary agency of the company
in the entire field. Mr.. Rowland is
one of the most prominent life in
surance men in the West. William
f. Woods, of Shreveport, La, first
vice-president of the league, had the
| distinction last year of individually
writing more new paid-for life insur-
anee than any other agent of the
company. The second vice-president
| is William B. Allen, of Richmond
manager for Virginia, who qualified
| the second largest number of success
\ full special agents in the company.
| John c. Anderson, also of Virginia,
| is the third vice-president, and in
1918 insured the greatest number OF
! lives in the ordinary department
among the special agents Of the com
pany The fourth vice-president is
Robert c. Newman, superintendent
of agents, under Rowland & Wilson
in st. Louis.
Among the other delegates are
Arthur c. Crowder, manager foI
Mississippi, former mayor Of Jack
/ son, Miss, and one of the most prom
inent Elks in the South; Charles A
Foehl, manager at Philadelphia, and
flor many years previous to coming
to the Prudential connected with the
Pennsylvania railroad at Pittsburgh
Walter P. Corbett, manager at Jack.
sonville, Fla, a former captain in
the United States army.