The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-05-27

1t was richly decorated in the prevail
ing eolors of the ballroom and great
bouquets of red carnations set off the
decorations.
There were new dances and old time
dances on the program and the mothers
and fathers as well as the younger
members of the party had a chance to
dance to their fullest delight.
Up on the fourth floor of the build
ing was real sslittle theatren Here
a regular moving picture machine had
been set up amidst the decorations of
japanese lanterns and profusion of
festooning and on the picture screen
during the entire evening pictures
were shown. There were all kinds of
pictures pictures of tense dramatic
sort, and Charley Chaplin went through
half dozen reels of his antics for
the delight of the crowd in the early
hours of the morning. Featured at the
picture show was the showing of a reel
of pictures of the people at the big
Cooper plant and there was lot of
fun for every one when this picture
was shown.
Then there was the dinner. 1t was
served on the second floor and the en-
tire floor was taken up for this pur-
pose. The long tables spread in purest
white, furnished covers for over three
hundred people and they were set four
times during the evening and the early
morning. The dining room could not
have looked prettier. The whole room
was hung in pink and white and the
tables were respondent with white and
pink carnations and there was a car
nation for every person present.
Myron Hale was in charge of the serv-
ice Of the dinner and it was served
without even semblance of disorder.
The menu was dainty five course
menu perfectly served.
Service of dinner began at half past
ten O'Clock and it was after one
O. clock before the last company Of
guests had gone to the dining room.
These things are details of the great
est party even given in Kenosha. The
real feature of the big gathering was
the happiness of the guests. Henry s.
Cooper started this plant in Kenosha
fifteen years ago. Tt has grown by
leaps and bounds, but in all of the
fifteen years not one of the people
who have worked and aided in the adj
vancement Of the big plant has been
forgotten. When the party was plan
ned the books of the company, some
of them dusty from years of idleness,
vel, .su.aa an ala name OF
every former employee pug on the list.
Some of them had gone away from Ke-
nosha years ago but they were sought
out and the message went to them,
Bring your family and come back to
the big doingsn and a lot of them
came. Girls who had worked at the
plant brought their husbands and old
time men employees came from other
cities bringing their wives. When some
of these old timers at the plant met
there was a rare festival of re-
miniscence.
The party was made all the more
pleasant on account of the fact that
when midnight came the clock was
stopped and every one was notified
that today would be holiday at the
plant and that nothing was to inter
fere with the fullest enjoyment of the
night. Shortly after midnight feature
dances were put on in the dance hall.
There was an abundance of confetti
and the big crowd entered into the
merriment of the dance and left the big
hall strewn with confetti like the
streets of a carnival.
Tt was an interesting party from
many angles, but most interesting from
the fact that it revealed the feeling
of friendship and fellowship which ex-
listed between the men who are in
charge of the big plant and the men
and women and boys and girls who
work at the machines. Henry S. Coop
er, the founder Of the plant, was the
first man to arrive at the big social
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members of his family and they were
most active in making the event the
big success that it was.
Then President Robert S. Cooper
was on the job all the time as a com
mittee Of one to dispense pleasure on
all the floors of the building.
A lot of prominent men and women
of Kenosha crowded their way into the
party during the evening. They in
sisted that they be invited in order
that they might have part in the fes
tivities. Fellow manufacturers came to
express their pleasure in the growth of
the Cooper company and to learn les
sons of cooperation which will be put
to wider use in other plants of the city
Tt was wonderful night for the en-
ployees and the managers of the
Cooper company and me of the most
interesting nights in the entire history