The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-17
DIRECTORS OF COMPANY HERE
Nine Members Of the Board of Directors
Come Aboard Special Car to Spend
Day Looking After Interests Of
the Company In Kenosha.

! Men who dictate the management Of
1 the great brass industry in the United
i States, centered their interests in Ke-
nosha today when the Hon. Charles f.
! BROKER and nine of the members of
/ the Board Of Directors of the American
Brass Company, owners of the great
/ plants in TorringtM, Waterbury, An
bsonia and Kenosha, came to Kenosha
to spend a day looking over the vast
properties Of the company here and to
hold the regular spring meeting of the
Board of Directors.
The distinguished party OF national
1 business leaders reached Kenosha
aboard a special car just after ten
Q o'clock Tuesday night and the car was
stored away in the yards of the com
pany and the great directing heads Of
the company had chance to hear the
whistle blow the work hour this morn
ing and President BROKER and many
of his business associates were climb
/ ing out of the car early enough to see
the army Of men employed by the COM
pany in Kenosha getting to work.
The members of the party are:
Hon. Charles r. BROKER, president;
John 2. Elton, vice president and
treasurer; Edward L. Frishie, vice
president; Thomas B. Kent, vice presi-
dent; John A. Coe, Jr., vice president;
Gordon w. Burnham, secretary; Charles
E. Steele, private secretary to Presi-
dent BROKER, and Directors Royal
Victor, John E. Wayland and Harris
Whittemore. Nearly all of these men
have been prominent in the field
of brass manufacture in the United
States for many years.
Early this morning President Brook
er and the other directors of the com
pany made a trip of inspection about
! the Kenosha plant and saw the great
additions which are being made to it.
Later in the morning they went, for an
automobile trip about the city visiting
places of interest, including some of
the larger manufacturing plants. The
car was mecca for many visitors dur
! ing the day. Mayor Pfennig and many
of the city officials called to pay their
respects to the men in charge of the
4 great Kenosha industry and many
Of the manufacturers of the city
dropped in for visit during the
early afternoon.
" [ wanted these directors to see just
what kind of town we have here, =
said Mr.. BROKER. In speaking of
/ Kenosha the president of the American
Brass Company always uses the per-
sonal pronoun, for since the big com
pany took over the plant of the Chi
cage Brass Company, more than six
teen years ago, President BROKER has
! taken a personal interest in Kenosha,
"I have urged the expenditure of
large sums of money for the improve
ment and extension of the property of
h the company In Kenosha, r said Mr..
h BROKER, and / wanted these fellows
! to come out here and be convinced that
it was being spent in a town worthy
of the expenditure. I brought along
nine of the fifteen directors Of the
1 company. One Of the others is in
Europe, a couple of them are sick, and
one of them is managing the work of
the Red Cross back home and I did not
think that he should be taken off that
Job for a meeting of the Board of
even though it was to be held at Keno
sha. I have kept in pretty close touch
4 with Kenosha since we took over the
futile property here and it has been
a matter of keen interest to me to see
its splendid growth along so many
different lines. When we went over to
| see it this morning it looked like a
real city and the other members, who
had not been in Kenosha IN recent
i wears. agreed with me that it was an
/ excellent place for this plant Z
Mr.. BROKER declared that the work
of the new building at the. plant
was going. along just as rapidly as
could be expected under the present
conditions.
The members of the Board of Direc-
tors will remain in Kenosha unit
tomorrow noon when they will return
to the east.
The visit of the executive board q
the company to Kenosha has been Z
matter of great interest to the loea1
employees of the company as they
have been enabled t. get acquaintec
with the men who are directing thu
, destinies Of this and other great bras;
slindnstries of the country.