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ADDRESSES IN RESPONSE TO TOASTS AT A DINNER TO THE DIRECTORS OF THE UNITED STATES RUBBER COMPANY at the Metropolitan Club November the Twenty-third Nineteen Hundred and Nine.
190998467New York: The Barnes Printing Company 1909. 1909. Very good. - Octavo 8-1/2 inches high by 6 inches wide. Softcover bound in printed cream wrappers decorated with a prancing horse and a green rubber tree leaf in the original glassine dust wrapper. The edges of the glassine are slighly chipped. 48 deckle-edged pages with a photographic frontispiece picturing the guests at the dinner seated around a large table decorated with candles and plants. There is a rust stain to the top of the first page from the paper clip which held the toastmaster Samuel P. Colt's card. Very good. <p>First only edition.<p>Laid in is the Metropolitan Club card of Samuel P. Colt who served as the toastmaster at the dinner. Colt 1852-1921 formed the United States Rubber Company. Among the toasts given at the event was "Insurance and Banking" by Paul Morton 1857-1911 the 36th Secretary of the Navy "Tariff and Currency" by Rhode Island Senator Nelson W. Aldrich 1841-1915 "Law and Business" by Francis Lynde Stetson 1846-1920 President of the New York State Bar Association "Rubber and Canada" by Douglas Lorne McGibbon the chief benefactor of a tuberculosis sanatorium in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts Quebec and "Judiciary and Commerce" by LeBaron Bradford Colt 1846-1924 a Rhode Island senator. [New York: The Barnes Printing Company], 1909. paperback
