Evening star., 1924-09-28
RADIO BANQUETS
UNIQUE FEATURE
Simultaneous Gatherings OF
Heinz Employees Over World
to Be Connected.
Special D'srstch 70 The Star.

Special Dsnstch 70 The Star
PITTSBURGH, Pa, September 81
For the first time radio will be used
to eliminate the distance between
members of an international indus
trial organization, when 10000 en-
ployes of II. ]. Heinz Co. attend a
series of banquets that will be served
in the United States. Canada, Scot
land and England. The dinner will
follow the unveiing of a memorial to
H. J. Heinz in the company's admin
iStration building, Progress street, on
Founders day. Saturday, October II.
President Calvin Coolidge will
speak from the White House to the
diners and among the other speakers
will be United States Senator George
Wharton Pepper and Charles NJ
Schwab
The banquet was scheduled for
year ago with President Harding as
the special guest of honor. AS
mark OF respect to the memory of the
Preside mt, the banquet was postponed
for year after his death.
Simultaneous Bnnquets.
The memorial. erected by contribu-
tions from Heinz Company employees
in all parts of the world. will be un-
Neiled at noon and the series of ban
quets. all connected by radio with a
specially arranged dining hall in one
of the large Heinz buildings in Pitts
burgh. will be served at hours rang
ing from $3.50 to 1870 pm, Pitts
burgh time. to be in accord with $50
pm. in this city, at which hour How
ard Heinz, president of the company,
will call for the invocation.
The same menu will be served at
each of the sixtytwo banquets, and
the addresses will be broadcast by
Station KDKA, the Westinghouse
Electric and Manufacturing Co., to
all other diners in the big group.
More than three thousand diners
will be seated and served at the same
time in Pittsburgh. AS there is no
banquet hall in the city that is large
enough to seat so many people, 1t will
be necessary for the company to make
use Of one Of its largest buildings.
which has been equipped with kitch-
ems. reception rooms, tables and fur
niture to make it complete in every
detail to serve its purpose.
All Employees Invited.
Every employe in the big North
Side plant will be invited to the ban
quet and the several hundred or more
special guests will include some of
the most distinguished men in the
country.
Members Of the Presidents cabi-
net. United States Senators, members
of the House of RepreSe natives at
Washington, the Governor of Penn
sylvania and State. county and city
officials will gather at the banquet
table in Pittsburgh with captains of
industry and finance. masters of the
professions and other leaders of
thought
With dinners served in "a cities
in this country. three in Canada
four in England and one in Scotland.
the speakers in Pittsburgh will talk
to cosmopolitan audience within
the 81 family and with 1000; of their
most interested listeners invisible.
Installing Special Equipment.
Owing to the size Of the Pittsburgh
banquet hall system Of amplifiers
will be installed to enable every
body to hear the speakers.
The Westinghous Electric & Man
ufacturing Co. is installing special
radio equipment to broadcast the ad-
dresses and spread the voices raised
at Pittsburgh over at least half Of
the globe. Receiving stations are
being placed at each point where a
banquet will be held.