December i, 1909.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



87 



At Dinner with President Colt. 



To meet 

 The Directors of the United States Rubber Company 



Mr, Samuel Pomeroy Colt 

 requests the pleasure of 



company at dinner 



on Tuesday evening, November the twenty-third 



at half after seven o'clock 



at the Metropolitan Club 



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Metropolitan Club 



TO very many readers the feature of chief interest in con- 

 nection with the dinner given at the Metropolitan Club, 

 New York, on the evening of November 23, to the directors 

 of the United States Rubber Co., by Colonel Samuel P. Cult. 

 president of that corporation, will be a review of the list of 

 guests. Perhaps at no other dinner given in New York has the 

 prominence of those in attendance, from a business or financial 

 or professional standpoint, averaged higher — if the term may be 

 used in such a connection — than in the case of the half a hun- 

 dred or more who sat at Colonel Colt's table. 



The directors of the United States Rubber Co. themselves form 

 a very substantial body of citizens, some devoting their energies 

 wholly to the affairs of this important corporation, while the 



others are interested in large business affairs on the outside. 

 There have been larger gatherings of business men in the city, 

 and, of course, dinners of more ultimate consequence. The 

 point here, however, is that the dinner here reported was not for 

 the promotion of any business enterprise, not for any political 

 purpose, not for the entertainment of distinguished visitors from 

 abroad. It was only an opportunity made by the president of a 

 rubber manufacturing company to meet his co-directors in a less 

 formal way than around the big table in the board room, and in- 

 cidentally to enjoy the company of a few friends of his and 

 their own. 



It is high tribute to any man that he is able to surround him- 

 self with such a body of guests under such circumstances; it is 

 a tribute to the company of which he is the head that its directors 

 number among their friends so representative a body of men 

 of affairs. 



List of Guests Present. 

 "Denotes Directors of the Company. 

 Judge William H. Moore,* 

 George F. Baker, chairman of the board, First National Bank 



of New York; 

 Frank A. Vanderlip, president The National City Bank; 

 Francis Lvnde Stetson,* general counsel United States 



Rubber Co. ; 

 George W. Perkins, of J. P. Morgan & Co.; 

 Rev. Dr. Ernest M. Stires, rector St. Thomas' Church ; 

 Judge Elbert H. Gary, chairman United States Steel Corpora- 

 tion; 

 Francis L. Hine,* president First National Bank of New York; 

 Commodore Elbridge T. Gerry, counsellor at law; 

 William H. Porter, president Chemical National Bank; 

 James B. Ford,* vice-president United States Rubber Co. ; 

 Anthony X. Brady;* 



Robert Winsor, of Kidder, Peabody & Co., Boston ; 

 Hon. Nelson W. Aldrich, United States senator from Rhode 



Island ; 

 Thomas H. Shevlin, lumber merchant, Minneapolis; 



AT DINNER WITH PRESIDENT COLT AT THE METROPOLITAN CLUB. 

 [Colonel Cult in the center, at the head of the table.] 



