Louis Wiley, business manager of The New York Times, was guest of honor at the Hotel Commodore last evening at the thirty-sixth annual dinner of the Society of the Genesee, an organization of which he was a founder and past president. The dinner also marked the anniversary of Mr. Wiley’s fifty years in journalism and the thirty-ninth year of his association with Adolph S. Ochs and The Times.
More than 700 persons, many ### in journalistic, industrial and ###lic life, heard Mr. Wiley toasted ### the speakers, who included Dr. Clarence A. Barbour, president of Brown University; James W. Gerard, former American Ambassador to Germany; Mayor Charles Stanton of Rochester; James R. Sheffield, former American Ambassador to Mexico and Venezuela; Thomas J. Watson, president of the International Business Corporation; Jeremiah G. Hickey, president of the Hickey-Freeman Company; Martin Conboy, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William C. Cannon, retiring president of the Society of the Genesee, who served as toastmaster.
In an answering address, Mr. Wiley paid tribute to Mr. Ochs when he said:
“I appreciate the honor you pay me tonight. But the honor I wear proudest is the accolade conferred by Mr. Ochs, in the simple, treasured words read here this evening.”
In his message Mr. Ochs reiterated a previously-made statement which called Mr. Wiley “one of the most useful and valuable assistants” and referred to the hiring of Mr. Wiley as “one of the best trades” he ever made.
Speaking about his own field of activity, Wiley said that the newspaper has become so important a factor in contemporary activity that New York’s millions “could not live for two weeks if they were cut off from the rest of the world. News of what is happening to our brothers elsewhere is vital to our very existence.”
“The newspaper, he continued, “finds an age of increased usefulness to man. I am confident that it will live up to the challenge, if it continues in the direction brilliantly and nobly charted by Adolph S. Ochs.”
One of the features of the dinner was the presentation to Mr. Wiley of a volume of testimonials from 200 friends, including President Roosevelt, Governor Lehman, Mayor LaGuardia and other noted personages, many of whom were gathered around the festive board paying homage to the noted newspaperman.
SEES SONS INSTALLED
Max L. Hollander, Grand Secretary and honorary member of the Chasam Sopher Lodge No. 5 of the Independent Order of Brith Abraham, saw two sons installed as officers of the organization. Bertram Hollander was installed as president and Abraham H. Hollander as secretary.
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