Identifier: crockeryglassjou78newy (find matches)
Title: Crockery & glass journal
Year: 1875 (1870s)
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Subjects: Pottery Glass Glassware
Publisher: New York : G. Whittemore & Co.
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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fare.The United States Potters Association has lost spirit.I had cold feet when I heard that this meeting was to beheld in Pittsburgh. I wanted it held in Washington,and if I had been at home I would have used my en-deavors to have it held there; but Bill Smith and TamMcNicol, Tam Ferguson and Tam Anderson ruledotherwise. Forget that you are so near home. Asyou cannot be in Washington, imagine you are in Scran-ton, Pa., or Peoria, 111., instead of in the back yard ofyour own town. Changing to a serious toiie, Mr. Wellssaid that in the past few months the labor question hadbeen settled and the tariff was now. in force. Theywould have to wait for results from the latter. Hespoke encouragingly of the future, and said that itwould prove a fitting field for the endeavors of theyoung men present who were in time to take the placesof the gray-heads. He said that last year they listenedto the eulogy of a well-known man who, owing to ill-ness, could not be present. And then, with some hu- «3
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wo w QM CO WHO HO < a o . I-H OOm <O »5 morons allusions to the gcntlemau in question, ho calledupon Mr. Jacjues, of the Ckockicky a.ni) Glass Journal. Mr. Jaciues said that ho had never been accused ofmodesty, but after such an introduction and referenceto the compliment paid him last year he certainly feltembarrassed standing- before the company. Just be-fore the dinner Georg-e Thompson had asked him howold he was. He said that he had told Mr. Thompsonhis age, but he would not tell those present. In thatconversation with Mr. Thompson reference was madeto the first banquet, held in 1878. Mr. Jaques saidthat he and Col. John N. Taylor were the only men inthe room who were at the first banquet, and told howon that occasion old Jimmy Goodwin held up hisg-lass and in his broad Staffordshire dialect asked thelandlord if he did not have something- bigg-er to drinkchampagne from, and how the landlord brought inhandled beer mugs and the company drank champagneout of them until three o

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