Show A Token = of Tvne Friendship The empoyees of the z C M T shoe I L and clothing factory departments to gether with the wholesale and retail branches of the shoe department as sembed on Saturday afternoon to bid their friend and manager Mr W I Rowe fsiewell upon his resigning the management and also his position as assistant superintendent of the institution In-stitution Mr Rowe notified the as sembed employees of this fact thanked them for their faithfulness and promised prom-ised to visit the institution as often as possible Edward Schoenfeld one of the salesmen sales-men in the retail department stepped up to the departing manager and expressed ex-pressed in behalf of the assembled employees the good feeling which has so universally existed In this institution institu-tion between those who represented capital cap-ital and the labor He took Mr Rowe by the hand and led him to a handsome hand-some leatherupholstered couch covered cov-ered by a beautiful Turkish rug which he asked him to accept as a token of I their esteem Mr Rowe accepted the gift and in words of thanks expressed himself as deeply touched on the occasion oc-casion of leaving those who had grown dear to him He also made known that In the person of George Romney jr they would find an able successor in the management of the departments Remarks were made by Mr Romney in which he referred to the source of experience which the leadership of Mr Rowe had been to him Superintendent Superintend-ent T G Webber showed the superiority superior-ity of the manufacturing interests of this or any institution over and above the mere mercantile interests He hoped hop-ed that the time would come when Mr Rowe would again be at the head of the department A Frewin secretary in the shoe factory cxpressed his appreciation ap-preciation of what the departing friend had been to the institution and the public at large which might be appreciated appre-ciated by the patronage given the products pro-ducts of his ingenuity All the parties connected with the institution join in their best wishes for the continued success of Mr Rowe in his new enterprises |