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BUSINESS REASSURED-NO EARLY REVISION OF THE TARIFF AND NO
COMPETITIVE RECIPROCITY-FELICITOUS INTRODUCTIONS BY GOVER-
NOR BATES AND PRESIDENT HUTCHINS - CHARMING MUSIC, A FINE
DINNER, BEAUTIFUL SETTING, LARGE ATTENDANCE, ENTHUSIASM
AND SATISFACTION.

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T is several years since the Home Market Club has held its annual dinner in a hotel, for the reason that until the new and magnificent ball room of the Hotel Somerset was built last year there has been no dining room anywhere near large enough to accommodate those who might wish to attend. Between four and five hundred sat at the tables in this room, and they were so placed, chiefly at round tables of six plates each, that nobody was crowded and all were comfortable. The dinner was given on Thursday evening, April 2, and was preceded by a reception in one of the parlors, at which the diners were presented to the guests by the following

RECEPTION COMMITTEE.

Colonel Edward H. Haskell, Chairman.

Charles A. Stott, Lowell.

Francis H. Manning, Boston.
Arnold B. Sanford, Boston.
Lew C. Hill, Boston.

Charles H. Child, Providence, R. I.
John B. Smith, Hillsboro Bridge, N. H.
Henry Fairbanks, St. Johnsbury, Vt.
Eben S. Draper, Hopedale.
Thomas Talbot, North Billerica.
Edgar R. Chaplin, Cambridge.

John Shaw, Quincy.

Arthur H. Lowe, Fitchburg.
Henry A. Marsh, Worcester.
Leontine Lincoln, Fall River.
J. R. MacColl, Pawtucket, R. I.
Roland H. Boutwell, Belmont.
Wilson H. Fairbank, Warren.
James P. Hamilton, Worcester.
C. C. Buffington, Fall River.
Fred E. Waterman, Fall River.
On the principle that "beauty unadorned is most adorned,"
no decorations were placed in the banquet hall except a large
Berthrong portrait of President Roosevelt back of the speakers'
table, in a setting of flags, and a fine display of roses on that