The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-07-18
HELD ALFRESCO
CONVENTION
Vermont Life Insurance I'm
derwriters at Williams
town Gulf
BANQUET LAST NIGHT
AT HOTEL BARRE
w. R. Bliss of Burlington
Was Elected President
for Coming Year

Forty members of theS*ermont Asso-
citation of Life Insurance Underwriters
motored yesterday afternoon to the
Barre quarries as the initial event OF
their annual convention. Though mem
bers of the Barre Board of Trade were
ready to accommodate passengers to the
quarries and Williamstown gulf in their
cars it was found that an ample number
OF machines were the property of the in
surance men, so the assistance of the
Board of Trade was not necessary.
In Granitevile they were shown about
the Boutwell,, Milne & Varnum quarries
by Guy Varnum, who interestingly de-
scribed the operations. After having
seen or heard many of the interesting
features of the deep stone mines, the
men were treated to punch and cigars
at the expense of the Boutwell,, Milne &
Varnum company that was greatly ap-
preciated by the visitors.
Once again to the cars. The road
which led to Williamstown gulf was the
one taken by all the machines and the
cars were brought to halt at the site
of the old spring house. There an open
air business meeting was held. Reports
of the last meeting were read; and the
election of officers for the ensuing year
followed. The election resulted: Pres-
dent w. r. Bliss of Burlington, of the
New York Life Insurance CO.; first vice
president, II. A. Butler of the Burlington
office of the Equitable Life Insurance
Co.; second vice president, J. P. Kelly Of
the Burlington Prudential Life Insurance
CO.; secretary, A. c. Mason of the Rut-
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ance Co.; treasurer, K. s. Pike of the
Rutland branch Of the Provident Life &
Trust Co. The executive committee con-
sists of H. G. Farrar of the Rutland
branch of the Proyident Life Insurance
Co., N. A. Goodwin of the National Life
Insurance Co. in Montpelier, H. S. Parks
of the Barre Office of the Massachusetts
Mutual Life Insurance Co. The legisla
tive committee is now composed of 5. s.
Ballard of Montpelier of the National
Life Insurance Co., f.. S. Fiske Of the
Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co. Of
Montpelier and F, L. North of the 4Etna
Life Insurance Co. of Burlington. The
other business attended to WAS the en-
rollment of eight new members into the
association, as we'll as deciding the place
for the next meeting, which viii be held
in October or November in Rutland.
With the business completed, many Of
the group leisurely enjoyed the scenery
along the gulf road and before 1880 all
had arrived at Hotel Barre in order to
partake of the banquet feast After the
party had enjoyed most delicious spe
cial menu, F. A, Rowland president of
the National Life Insurance company in
Montpelier, gave most pleasing wei
coming address to the many visitors.
Remarks by Joseph g. Brown of Mont
pelier, state commissioner of insurance,
were decidedly interesting to the 55 or
more insurance men who had come from
numerous points of the state for the af
fair. William NJ. McClench, president of
the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insur-
anee Co. and of Springfield, Mass dis
closed to all, the fine points in the art
of underwriting. The banquet served to
give splendid finish to a successful con-
vention.