May 1. 19.11] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



269 



Rubber Sundries Manufacturers' Association. 



TilF. annual meeting of the Rubber Sundries Association was 

 lield this year on the thirteenth of April at the Waldorf- 

 Astoria and closed with a banquet that was fully up to 

 the best that the association has ever enjoyed, which is saying 

 ni u c h. At tlie 



business meeting 

 preceding the ban- 

 quet, the following 

 officers were elected 

 for the coming 

 year: George H. 

 Hodgnian. president 

 of the Hodgnian 

 Rubber Co., i)resi- 

 dent: Fre:l. Hall 

 Jones, president of 

 the Iyer Rubber 

 Co., vice-president ; 

 Edward E. Iluber, 

 of Eberhard Faber, 

 secretary and 

 treasurer. 



The members of 

 the association and 

 their guests began 

 to assemble about 

 seven o'clock and a 

 brief half-hour's 

 sociable was in- 

 dulged in, after which, the president leading the way, all present 

 filed into the banquet room. The guest of honor was the Hon- 

 orable William A. Prendcrgast, Comptroller of tlie City of New 



York. Included among tlie other guests were Henry C. Pearson, 

 the editor of The lNni.\ RrnBER World; F.dward R. Rice, 



sales manager 

 manager of th 



ol the 

 liranch 



C. 



stores 



Rubber 

 of tliat 



George B. Hodgman, Presiue.vt. 



Co.; W. E. Barker, 

 company and others. 

 1 he tables were 

 set in the form of a 

 hollow square, en- 

 closing a sunken 

 garden that was a 

 mass of roses, rub- 

 ber plants and other 

 exotics. 



1 he dinner, the 

 menu of whicli fol- 

 lows, was one of 

 the Waldorf's best 

 and served witli a 

 deft promptness 

 that was admirable. 

 During and be- 

 tween the courses a 

 trio CI banjcists de- 

 lighted the diners 

 with their rollicking 

 V o c a 1 and inslru- 

 mental selections 

 wliich were excep- 

 tionally well ren- 

 dered. In the post 

 prandial exercises President Hodgnian jjroved himself an ex- 

 ceedingly graceful, sympathetic toastmastcr. After paying a 

 tribute to the meniury of the late president of tlie as.sociation. 



Hon. William A. Prendergast. 



BANQUET OF THE RUBKER SUNDRIES MANUFACTURERS' ASSOCIATION. 



