The "Refugees" Met Here in 1905
Bainbridge News & Republican, April 23, 1942
The following is an interesting article printed in 1905 and brought into the News office by L.H. Hartmann. Several of the mentioned "Refugees" who still reside in Bainbridge will no doubt recall with pleasure the many grand times their club enjoyed. We are grateful to Mr. Hartmann for allowing us the use of the article which follows:
Twenty young men of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY] belonging to an order called "The Refugees" gathered at the Park Hotel, Wednesday evening, Dec. 27th, 1905, to enjoy a banquet. Promptly at 9:30 o'clock Landlord Hall ushered the guests into the dining room where a royal supper awaited the young gentlemen, most of whom were students returning to their hometown to spend the holidays. After partaking of the many choice viands and delicacies, Toastmaster Howard J. Whitmen arose to the occasion, assuming a grave judicial air, which, by the way, was a little foreign to his general demeanor, and called for the different toasts assigned. Our reporter does not give the responses but we have no doubt they were models and weighty in thought, with considerable spice intermixed. This first banquet of "The Refugees" was so happy, congenial and successful in every way, that it was resolved to decide upon an annual gathering and consequently a committee was appointed to make arrangements for the banquet of 1906. Those present at the initiatory gathering were:
Ralph H. Loomis, Syracuse University
Charles H. Peckham, Joe E. Herrick, Henry Wallace, Business School, Syracuse
Howard J. Whitman, Colgate
Sidney Bennett, Amherst
Jesse S. Wicks, Albany Law School
Arlington Payne, Albany Business College
Louis H. Hartmann, Utica Business College
August Jacobson, Syracuse
Vernon Hovey, Binghamton
H. Lee Mill, I. Dill Tillman, Earl A. Westcott, R. Clay Wilcox, Leon C. Loomis, C. Ward Redfield, Frank H. Croak, Edwin Jacobson, Perry W. Teachout and Frank K. Williams, Bainbridge
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