Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1915-07-02 | Page 3 | Will be Exclusive Feast

Only Representatives of Firms One Hundred Years Old Are to Parti-cipate Parti-cipate in lt. There soon will be the oddest dinner din-ner party which Philadelphia has yet seen savs the Public Ledger of that city ' It will be far more exclusive than the lord mayor's dinner in London. Lon-don. . , , Wealth will not bring you an invitation invi-tation nor will public office, even if you are a governor, president or supreme su-preme court judge. Ordinary social prestige will count for naught. The only thing that weighs at this dinner is age. but even that doesn't amount to anything if it is under a century. It is to be a banquet of the bluest of blue blood in business. No firm less than 100 years old will poke its feet under the table at this dinner, and even then all business is barred which has not come down directly through the male line since before the battle of Waterloo. There are only about 40 eligibles In the entire United States, and about three-fourths of them are in Philadelphiaa Philadel-phiaa nice testimonial to the stability stabil-ity of trade in this town.