The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-04-28
TERRY TO BECOME AN AUDITOR
Secretary Of Kenosha Company to Sue
coed f. w. Gray and G. j. Hackett
Comes to Kenosha as Secretary
Other Changes Made.

Herbert L. Shearef who for the past
six years has been general manager
of the Chicago Brass Works will leave
Kenosha on next Monday to go into
the central offices of the American
Brass Company at Waterbury, Conn,
and with the departure of General
Manager Shearer many changes will
be made in the official force of the
great Kenosha plant of the brass
trust. These changes will result in
the departure of number of men who
have long been active in the manage
ment of the local plant Mr.. Shearer
will go into the selling department of
the parent company and his position in
this department has not as yet been
fully determined His success as the
manager of the Kenosha plant, one of
the largest plants of the American
Brass Company, has attracted the at
tention of the directors to him and the
advancement comes as a recognition of
his ability as an organizer and as a
manager.
S. Bernham Terry who has served in
the capacity of secretary of the Chi
cage Brass Company, will retire from
the local plant at the same time 60
ing to Waterbury to succeed Fred w.
Gray, a former Kenosha man in the
office of assistant auditor of the
American Brass Company.
George Allen, who has been assistant
manager of the great Kenosha plant
for two years will succeed General
Manager Shearer as the head of this
plant and c. j. Hackett has come from
Ansonia, Conn, to be secretary of the
Kenosha company. Mr.. Hackett has
been Office manager for the Coe Brass
Company at Ansonia and has been in
the employ of the company for many
years. He will be succeeded at An
sonia by Fred W. Gray who was form
erly head bookkeeper at the Kenosha
institution but who went to Waterbury
to go into the Offices Of the parent
company as an auditor many years
ago.
These changes will not stop at the
central offices of the Chicago Brass
Company but they will go out into
the mechanical departments and it is
announced that Thorwald Hansen, who
for many years has been master me-
chanic of the plant, has been given a
leave of absence for an indefinite
period Mr.. Hansen has been in bad
health for some time and he felt the
necessity of a long rest and he asked
to be allowed this leave of absence.
He may return to the plant later or
may be assigned to one of the other
plants of the American Brass Com
pany. w. E. Besse of Torrington,
Conn, formerly assistant superinten-
dent of the Coe Brass Company there,
has come to 'Kenosha to take the place
Of Mr.. Hansen.
All of these changes will be made
with the opening of the new month.
The officials of the company who have
been called to the east have all been
active in the industrial life Keno
sha and their departure will be heard
of with regret not only among the
manufacturers Gss among the people
of the e'ty
No statement is made in regard to
the recently announced plans of the
company to make large additions to
the Kenosha plant, but it is understood
that some statement in this regard will
be given out soon after the new of
ficials get in to working order. 1t is
not probable that there will be any
further changes in the office force of
the company, but it is stated that
James Anderson will remain in the
capacity OF assistant manager for the
company under Manager Allen.