August i, 1907.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



345 



New England Rubber Club's Outing. 



FOR tlic fifth time in its history the New England Rubber 

 Club, on July 17, held its Midsummer Outing at the Coun- 

 try Club, Brookline, Massachusetts, than which no better 

 place on earth could be selected for such a function. Besides, the 

 visiting club has always had a sense of complinuMit in that it, of 

 all trade organizations, has been admitted to this oldest and most 

 exclusive of American country clubs. 



The story of the day's outing would naturally read as it has 

 for years past. There were 125 or more present, and they came 

 in automobiles, special cars, and by train. For sports there were 

 golf, tennis, quoits, and billiards, and at 4:30 in the afternoon a 

 hotly contested baseball game between the rubber manufacturers 

 and the importers. Then in the evening there was the usual 

 excellent dinner, with instrumental music, songs, and speeches. 

 So far it will be seen that the description of the day's enjoyment 

 would really cover any one of the four outings that have pre- 

 ceded this with the exception, perhaps, that the day, although 

 hot, was without rain, and the concensus of opinion was that 

 there was more genuine fun and more really good fellowship 

 shown on this outing than at any of the previous ones. 



At 7 o'clock promptly all were seated in the banquet hall and 

 ample justice was done to the menu, which is reproduced on 

 this page. 



After cofTee, President Stedman addressed the Club as follows : 

 President Steom-vn's Remarks. 



Gentlemen and Fellow Members of the New England 

 Rubber Club: While this gathering of our Club members is 

 intended to be quite informal, I feel it incumbent upon me to 

 say a few words. I wish first to express my earnest and heartfelt 

 appreciation of the great compliment you have paid me by elect- 



ing me to the high office of standard bearer of your Association 

 for the present year. Such expression of confidence in, and I 

 may perhaps be permitted to say, esteem, coming as it docs from 

 such a body of men, representing, as they do, one of the most 

 important industries of our country, should not be held lightly 

 by the man so highly honored. 



It seems to me but a few months since when a handful of men 

 imbued by that indomitable spirit, H. C. Pearson, known to every 

 man of us by the familiar term of "Henry," met together and 

 organized this Association, since grown to include representatives 

 not alone from all the important rubber firms and companies of 

 New England, but those from the width and breadth of the whole 

 United States and Europe, as well as the trades subsidiary to the 

 rubber business. 



MENU. 

 Little Neck Clams 



Consomme 



Olives 

 Cucumbers 



Cream of Chicken 

 Radishes 



Fried Filet of Sole 



Delmonico Potatoes 



"Saddle of "Lamb Mint Sauce 



Roast Squab Jelly 

 Julienne Potatoes 



Tartar Sauce 



New Peai 



Escarole Salad 



Country Club Cheese 



Vanilla Ice Cream 



Strawberries Assorted Cake 



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Group of Members of the New England Rubber Club, at the Countky Club. 



