PLEASANT AFFAIR. 
New Manchester House Opened with Banquet 
and House Warming. 
The new Manchester House was 
Thursday afternoon and evening the 
scene of a very pleasant gathering 
which served both as a dinner given 
by the representative business men of 
Manchester to members of the Master 
Builders Association of Boston, and 
as a house warming for Mr. and Mrs. 
M. J. Callahan on the reopening of the 
house. The occasion was one long to 
be remembered, and was one of the 
most successful events of the kind 
ever held in the town. 
The hour for the dinner was set at 
for 3.30 o'clock, but it was 4.30 before 
the Manchester hosts and their nine 
guests from Boston sat down at the 
tables in the beautiful dining room of 
the new hotel. And it was eight 
o’clock before the dinner was com- 
pleted, the speech making was over, 
and the guests adjourned to the parlors 
of the hotel on the second floor. 
During that time one of Proprietor 
Callahan’s best dinners was served 
and the party listened to some bright 
and witty speeches. 
MENU. 
Celery 
Rolls and Butter 
Lettuce, Tomato and Cucumber Salad 
Consommé 
Soft-Shell Crabs and Toasted Potato Chips 
Broiled Chicken on Toast 
French-Fried Potatoes Peas 
Banana Fritters 
Cantaloupe with Ice Cream 
Assorted Cake 
Crackers 
Black Coffee 
Cigars 
One of the pleasant features of the 
occasion was the presentation after 
the dinner, by Mr. Knight, in behalf 
of those present, of a beautiful quar- 
tered oak office chair and an oak 
dressing table with large oval mirror, 
to Mr. and Mrs Callahan. 
Samuel Knight acted as toast mas- 
ter, and in his presentation speech he 
said in part: 
«‘T don’t know why I am here for I 
haven’t any set speech to offer you, 
and I haven’t many thoughts to ex- 
press; but uppermost in my mind is 
the reason why we are here tonight. 
Perhaps most of you remember that 
early one morning not long ago, we 
were summoned here by the bell in 
onder belfry tower to see this old 
historic Manchester house on fire. We 
made a successful attempt to save it 
and out of the ashes of the old has 
grown the new Manchester house — 
one of the best appointed and best 
constructed, outside of. the large 
houses of our cities, in New England. 
““Mr. and Mr. Callahan, we have 
gathered here today to show our ap- 
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preciation of your efforts, not only in 
rebuilding this house but of your 
further efforts in maintaining and 
making this house what it is today. I 
maintain the best interests of the town 
are subserved in the maintenance of 
such a hotel as you have established 
here for us. 
“We have with us quite a number 
of friends from Boston and many of 
our representative citizens. We have 
our selectmen, our town clerk, our 
superintendent of streets, thedesigner, 
carpenter, painter and plumber — they 
have all come to show their interest 
and appreciation of what our host and 
hostess have accomplished. 
““We all come here as a token of 
our esteem and of our gratitude, and 
as a further appreciation of your ef- 
forts, we would present this chair and 
this dressing table.” 
Mr. Callahan responded briefly, 
thanking those present for the gifts 
and assuring them that he and Mrs. 
Callahan would keep the gifts as long 
as they lived, with fond memories of 
the occasion on which they were given. 
Chairman Allen of the Board of 
Selectmen felt the town appreciated 
the kind of hostelry maintained by Mr. 
Callahan. This he considered was in 
keeping with the advance movement 
of the town. He was glad to know 
Mr. Callahan kept a good clean place 
and an estimable house where there 
was no boisterous times such as the 
hotel has had heretofore within his 
memory, but where we may all feel 
able to come and bring our friends. 
Town Clerk Alfred S. Jewett said: 
“ Gentlemen, I have known this 
house personally for 50 years ; I have 
known it historically and legendarily, 
and I can say, as I have often said, 
that it has never been kept better 
than under the management of our 
present host. The town needs such 
a hotel. It would really be a feasible 
plan, as I have often said, to forma 
syndicate to havea hotel here, if needs 
be, so that when we have friends here 
or people to look at our property we 
can have a good hotel to take them to. 
‘‘T think we havea place here where 
any man can come, and go away say- 
ing he has been treated in a very gen- 
tlemanly manner. That is the testi- 
mony I have to pay to our host. 
«‘While we should strive as citizens 
to maintain as high standard a hotel 
as we can, yet we can defeat this by 
driving out men who try by practical 
methods to do what is creditable to 
the town. I congratulate the host 
on the house which he maintains here, 
believing that what he has done in the 
past is a credit to the town, and should 
be a guarantee of what he will do in 
the future.” 
Superintendent Kimball 
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said he was pleased to be present 
and to meet so many of his Manches- 
ter and Boston friends and to endorse 
all that had been said in regard to the 
old Manchester house. ‘But I want 
to goa little further,’ said he, “and 
say a word about our friend Callahan. 
We haven’t a man among us who will 
go deeper into his pockets for one 
who is in trouble than he will. He is 
one of our most generous-hearted cit- 
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Fred J. Merrill said he was sure all 
loved public-spirited and generous- 
hearted men, and he felt sure it was a 
pleasure to all those who were present 
to come here tonight and greet Mr. 
Callahan and his wife on the re-opén- 
ing of their house. 
Remarks were also made by Henry 
T. Bingham, Raymond C. Allen, F. 
Warren Clark, George W. Macauley, 
John H. Northrup, John O’Connell, 
George F. Rouse, C. F. Washburn, 
and George S. Sinnicks. 
The invited guests present were: 
George W. Macauley, C. F. Washburn, 
John O’Connell, George F. Rouse, R. 
B. Plummer, F. Warren Clark, Walter 
S. Gerry, George Brigham and John 
H. Northrup. 
The Manchester men present were : 
Samuel Knight, Selectmen W. H. 
Allen, F. K. Swett and Wm. E. Kit- 
field; Representative F. K. Hooper, 
Post Master Samuel L. Wheaton; 
Commissioner Henry T. Bingham, 
Town Clerk Alfred S. Jewett, Super- 
intendent of Streets George Kimball, 
Fire Engineer James Hoare, Raymond 
C. Allen, D.T. Beaton, A. A. Cushing, 
Charles Danforth, George S. Sinnicks, 
Lyman W. Floyd, J. Alex. Lodge, 
Fred J. Merrill, Horace Standley, 
Benj. Marble, Isaac M. Marshall, 
Richard Rice. 
MANCHESTER. 
Beginning a week from next Mon- 
day most of the stores in town will 
close early on every night except 
Saturday. .« 
James Robertson has arrived here 
this week from Scotland, and has en- 
tered the employ of W. E.A. Legg & 
Co. Mr. Robertson saw two years’ — 
fighting in South Africa with the 
First Scottish Horse, and he is able 
to tell some thrilling tales of his expe- 
riences there. 
John Henry Cheever of this town 
was elected one of the trustees of the 
Essex County Agricultural society at 
Salem Thursday. 
There will be an important meeting 
of the Manchester high school alumni 
association next Wednesday evening, 
at which matters of general interest 
to every member will be considered. 
