The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-02
FRISCH.
Ist Das Bier Won
Milwaukee.
DELEGATES SENT
From Builders Exchange
to Sample 1t.

A full delegation of hire members OF
the Worcester builders exchange will
leave town tomorrow for Milwaukee,
the city which Pabst and Schlitz made
famous. The same delegation of nine
will return to Worcester a week from
Saturday, but it won't be ''full' dele
cation, on that they are willing to
stake their regulations. 1t is not for
reasons of intemperance that the
Worcesterites are going to visit the
city of beer and brewerles. Neither do
they go there to study German. Their
object is to attend the convention Of
the national association of Builders
Exchanges. which meets in Milwaukee,
February It'll.
But of course there will have to be
a little sightseeing en- the side, and
one can't go sightseeing very far in
Milwaukee without deserving the out
lines of a brewery, and it is such dry
work making and listening to speeches
and Lake Michigan water is so motor
iously bad. Friends CT TIE members of
the party are already beginning to
shake their heads and express the fear
that the tourists will fall easy victims
to the allurements OF Gambrinus, the
German Bacchus.
Indeed, one of the more reckless
members of the party has asserted his
belief that when as man goes to Rome
he should do as the Romans do, which
means that when man goes to Mil
waukee he should take apartments at
the Pfister and dine sumptiously on
sauer kraut, purmpernlkel and Konigs-
berger klops washed down with copious
draughts of Pshorbrau. 1t was when
he heard the reckless member utter
these sentiments that President B. W.
Stone resolved to accompany the party
in person to see that all went well.
Delegates to the convention were
chosen last night at the meeting of the
builders exchange. They are as fol-
lows: Delegates at large, j. G.. Vau-
dreauil; delegates, Charles A. Vaughan
and John Shelbourn; alternates, 0. S..
Kendall and T. ]. Smith. Besides these
President Stone, D. +. Marsh, E. j.
Cross, Ellwood Adams and other mem
bers will also go on the TRIP.
The convention meets at Milwaukee,
Feb. I. The delegates are going to take
an early start so as to take few days
off in Chicago on the way. The great
ternoon on the Boston and Chicago
special They will start for home as
soon as the convention is over, arriving
in Worcester the following Saturday
night.
The question of prime Importance to
come up in the convention will be how
to increase the membership of the Or
ganization. Leaders in the National
Builders Exchange have reached the
conclusion that the present membership
OF 1900 is far too small. They propose tc
institute an active campaign and bring
the national membership up to 10000
before the year is over. How to brin6
THAT about is the principal matter to be
discussed
The Builders Exchange organization
now has branches in every ilnportant
city in the country but as a rule the
membership in each is small. This i,
chiefly attributable to the high initia.
ton fee of $50, which keeps a large
number from joining. The convention
VIII lower this fee and trust to a larger
membership to more than make I'D the
attendant financial loss. If the conyen.
ton takes the action that is expected
the effect will be to double or treble The
SIZE Of the Worcester Exchange. BE.
slues the matter of expansion, the usua.
matters of interest to builders will bt
discussed - w
In the meantime the delegates are
looking forward with much pleasure r.
their trip and are endeavoring to secure
tne services of an experienced German
Interpreter TO see them safely througl
the affair. 80