. Canadian grocer January-June 1908. -dav in London. It is on a THE CANADIAN GROCER good basis/ he said, and I am proudof it. The City Travelers. The nice points of the London grocerswere brought out again in reply to thetoast, Our City Travelers. There is no town in Canada with amore admirable lot of tradesmen, saidWilliam Turnbull, of Edward Adams &Co., who is the oldest traveler in thecity. It is only a pleasure to call onthem. They treat us courteously anddo not waste our time, and, continuedMr. Turnbull, the outside travelerstell us the same thing. Continuing,Mr. Turnbull spoke of the gro
. Canadian grocer January-June 1908. -dav in London. It is on a THE CANADIAN GROCER good basis/ he said, and I am proudof it. The City Travelers. The nice points of the London grocerswere brought out again in reply to thetoast, Our City Travelers. There is no town in Canada with amore admirable lot of tradesmen, saidWilliam Turnbull, of Edward Adams &Co., who is the oldest traveler in thecity. It is only a pleasure to call onthem. They treat us courteously anddo not waste our time, and, continuedMr. Turnbull, the outside travelerstell us the same thing. Continuing,Mr. Turnbull spoke of the grocer as aphilanthropist and said that no otherclass of business men give so much forcharity or are of so much help in timesof financial stress. There is notrade, said Mr. Turnbull, enthusiastic-ally, to which we as grocers need totake off our hats. Speaking of some of the incidents of the business, Mr. Turnbull characterized price-cutting and swearing as a weak- . and said that no good grocer would do it. He made a plea for high-. HARRY RANAHAN. President London Retail Grocerssociation. As- er business ideals, saying that charac-ter was worth immeasurably more thanmoney and should be sought for. Clem. Garvey, the youngest city tra-veler, said that the success of the ban-quet was an evidence of the good re-sults of the organization of the associa-tion. In a humorous way he referred tothe city travelers as most conscientiousgentlemen who always worked for thegeneral welfare of the trade. Mr. Cleghorn also spoke briefly, out-lining some of the troubles the travel-ers met with in their journeys, and re-ferring to the courteous treatment ac-corded them in London, where theywere always glad to come. Here Vice-President Shaw took chargeof the toast list and after a couple ofsongs by Alf. Johnson; one an adaptionof some local hits to a popular air, call-ed on E. J. Moore, Toronto, editor ofThe Canadian Grocer, to respond to thetoast, Our Trade Journal. The Grocer Gets in a Word. Mr. Moo
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