The Washington herald., 1916-05-30
AT
ANNUAL BANQUET
Delegates Representing Bill
lion and Half Dollars Wei
coined by Newman.

Senator Duncan U. Fletcher, OF Florida,
made the opening address at the annual
banquet of the Tobacco Merchants As
sociation at the New Willard Hotel last
night.
More than three hundred delegates, rep
resenting a billion and a half dollars In
capital, attended the banquet, which
closed the first day of the convention.
Henry NJ Goldfogle was POSTMASTER.
Eulogies of the principles of the as
ISOLATION of the tobacco manufacturers
proved the theme of the speakers at the
banquet. The speakers were Representa-
tive Mann, of Illinois; r. Goodwin
Rhett president of the United States
Chamber of Commerce. and Col. G. E.
Webb. secretary and treasurer of the
Tobacco Association OF the United States.
Papers on Industry.
Interesting addresses and papers on
the tobacco industry and advertising
were the principal features OF the after
noon session. The speakers were Her
bert Kaufman and o. ]. GUIDE. Papers
were read by DR.. w. w. Garner and E.
G. Beinhart of the Department of Agri-
culture; Carl Werner. editor of Tobacco
Leaf, and Henry Wise.
| Commissioner Oliver P Newman made
an address of welcome at the opening
Of the convention yesterday morning.
| Responding to the address of welcome,
!
said that it mattered not what industry
persons are engaged in, all are bound to-
| gether by the ties OF citizenship.
| President Jacob Wertheim. in his an
nual address, protested against any fur
ther tax on the tobacco industry.
| Tobacco, II a luxury, is a necessary
! luxury" he said 1T already is taxed to
the limit. Thirty-one million persons in
the United States use tobacco in one
form or another"
| Among those present at the banquet
were: Senators James A. Reed, Duncan
L. Fletcher. Ollie NJ. James, George 7.
Oliver, Warren G. Harding, Represent
atives James r. Mann, John J. Fitzgerald,
! Murray NJ Hubert, Col. William H. Os-
| born, Commissioner Oliver P. Newman
| Herbert kaufman. R. Goodwin Rhett,
| Col G. E. Webb, Jacob Werthelm, o. ].
GUIDE, George A Fisher. / j. Msrcuse, J.
! P. Gillroy. o. J. GUIDE. William Inter
mann D. Emil Klein. William B. Grow
tage, Isaac Steiner. William T. Reed, Err
nest ]. Moss, Rawlins D. Best, Pleasant
Larus Reed, John n. Basley Jesse A.
| Bloch, c. L. Conradt. Junius Parker
| George w. Hill. Allie L. Sylvester, J. Pc
terson. Charles ]. Eisenlohr, George P,
| Waidely. George H. Hummel Frederick
S. Lucey. Edward Wise Leon Schinasi
George l. Storm, Alfred S. Rossin. James
! w. Buchner, Herman A Dushkind Israel
Friedkin, Solomon NJ Stroock, Asa Lem
! lein, A. L. Cuesta. Charles Schavrien, A
{ " Jockel. S. X. Lichtenstein, Charles
Schavrien. jr, Phineas Lewinson, Ed
ward F. Spitz, Louis A. Whalen, Henry
NJ. Wise, L. Hamilton Rainey, Claude A.
Thompson, E. c. Johnson, Representative
NJ. F. Farley Edwin I. Hilson, Louis S.
| Gottlieb. ]. A Voice, Henry A. Voice
Emil Steffens. jr.. c. E. Moehle. ]. c.
Gibbs. Isaac Lavenson, Mr.. Batdorf, c.
Contopoulo. A. Osterloh, jr.. Charles B.
Perkins, Carl Kaufman, John G. Capers.
Oscar Reinach, Irving Studweu, Leo
Michaels, A Goldbloom, julius Lichten-
stein, Joseph F. Cullman. jr., F. r. HoIs-
ington. Benito Rovira. Samuel H. Blur,
Walter L. Kohlberg. Charles Fox.
Charles Dushkind, E A. Brand DR. W.
w. Garner. Leon NJ. Estabrook, A. H.
Rogers. John f. Walker. E. G. Bein-
hart, E. E. Pratt, D. A. Skinner,
inner. Leonard Wortheimer, Bertram
S Heineman. Mortimer S. Heineman
Melville B. Brown. Joseph Deutsch.
Charles c. Heldman, J. Lawton Ken
drick, Carl Werner, John Balm. jr, E. II.
Davis, Charles A. Bond. Stephen &.
Ruth. Nathan Garten. Henry Gutenberg
Z. M Hunter Arthur Cohn, Ernest F.
DuBrul. Joseph Auspitz. H A Ford.
George G. Fries. William H Ingram, N
f. Guedalia. William Deiches. jr., Joseph
Simon, J. B. McClements, James NJ. Buck
ner, E. z. Kleiner. Sherman P. Coe. Harry
Porter, Gerson ]. Brown, Morris D. Neu-
mann, John r. Young NJ j. Mcdonnell.
Harvey L. Hirst, J. R. Vetterlein. Samuel
Bayuk. Harry w. Bremen. George NJ
Lex. S. Turner, Morris Krinsky. Theodore
Photades. Samuel E. Landau, Morris
Kaplan, Morris Weiss, Leonard Morgan
Dushkind, David Solon Dushklnd, Cyrus
E. Miller, NJ. L. Kirkpatrick Joseph
, Goldberg. I. H. Weaver, William D,
Spalding S. Major Newburgh, James c.
Tansy, ]. n. Kehoe, W. H. Winstead, G.
o. Tuck, Robert Harris, jr., Laban
Phelps. William G. Bridges. r L. DibrelI,
]. P. Killebrew. Millard H. Lanpheimer,
Hugh H. Jones, jr.. Charles Fortenbaugh,
George Buchheister. jackson Brandt.
Joseph F. Gallagher, Samuel Dealham,
jr., Dave S. Achenbach. William II. Van
Slyke, William NJ. Cory A. Hall. Ber-
nard Liberman, Samuel Levy, joseph
Winnick, Samuel S. Rosenthal, Thomas
A. Horton, Henry Lanpheimer. J. VI
pond. jr., Henry Kraus, S. B. Goldsmit,
L. Goldsmit, Z. Asbury Davis, Maritz
Haas. ALLEN Sterner, Robert E. Lane,
George Lambert, Nicholas Ehrlich, WIZ
lam A. Hollingsworth, Oscar S. Veit, Sid
ney J. Freeman, Herman Stearn, Edwin
c. Reed Henry I. Henderson, ]. NJ.
Loughrsn, Frank Mcintyre, Nathan B.
Williams, L. Lee Combs William Burke
William NJ Wales B. E. Trenis, w. H.
Warner. Henry T Offterdinger, Charles
J. Columbus, Frederick w. Plugge, ]. B.
Newman, E. S. Hecht John W. Dunbar,
Arthur P. Colligan, H. c. HaIlam, Will
lam Wolff Smith, Hobart Bishop Han
ner Nathaniel W. Mead, ]. William
Shelter A uaprv