. Coast review. de Petits du , —Braumberger, Chateau Margaux, Clic-quot 1900. Pol Reger 1898, Dows Port 1878. The toasts were: The King, TheAtlas Assurance Co., The Guests,The Chairman. An orchestra playedduring the dinner ten selections. Theguests numbered about 200. In theChair was Herbert Brooks, the chair-man of the company. Among theguests were many men of distinctionand title. Mr. Pryor, a director of the SunFire, proposed the toast, The AtlasAssurance Company. He was temptedto dwell on the history of the company,he said, but
. Coast review. de Petits du , —Braumberger, Chateau Margaux, Clic-quot 1900. Pol Reger 1898, Dows Port 1878. The toasts were: The King, TheAtlas Assurance Co., The Guests,The Chairman. An orchestra playedduring the dinner ten selections. Theguests numbered about 200. In theChair was Herbert Brooks, the chair-man of the company. Among theguests were many men of distinctionand title. Mr. Pryor, a director of the SunFire, proposed the toast, The AtlasAssurance Company. He was temptedto dwell on the history of the company,he said, but speeches were to be of them could guess what theyowed to their forbears; but they didknow how much they owed to theirpresent manager and secretary () for the public spirit he hadshown in the management. In the last quarter of a century a great changehad taken place. The company hadbeen something like a great oak, whichwent on growing for some time with-out attracting much attention till it. Cup Presented to General Manager Pipkinof the Atlas. arrived at the age of 70 or 80. Thenit appeared that the small tree, whichhad been gradually growing all thetime, had become a very big tree ofthe forest, and it showed more powerof expansion after arriving at that agethan it had ever done before. The chairman responded in a happyvein, and said it was a great pleasureto the workers in the Atlas to seeamongst the friends present so manyrepresentatives of competing com-panies, which was an indication ofthe prevailing desire of all associated 830 The Coast Review insurance matters to work in har-mony one with another. Mr. Pipkin, the general manager,said that almost every day for the lasttwenty-five years he had been lookingforward to the present occasion. Hehad hoped that at the centenary of thecompany he would be able to say thatit was in a proud, strong and pros-perous condition. The last two adjec-tives could be applied to the company,but he was not sure about the f
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