The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-04-27
Vice President BIB. Thayer
and Others of Staff at
A. B. G.. Plant.
NO CHANGES PLANNED
Extensions Must Wait Revival
of General Business and Bet
ter Demand for Output.

Enlargement of the plant of the
American Brass company in Kenosha
and the extension of the business of
this great branch of a great business
is dependent upon general improve
ment of business and a demand for the
products of the Kenesha plant. This
was the message to Kenesha today from
B. B. Thayer of New York, viee-persi-
dent of the Anaconda Copper Mining
company, the newcomers of the prop
critics of the American Brass company.
who with a party Of officials of Ana
conda spent the day inspecting the Ke7
nosha plant and making the acquaint-
ance of the local staff of managers.
Vice-President Thayer. expressed keen
Satisfaction at the development which
the company has made in Kenosha and
showed an active interest in the ad-
vancement of the business of the com
pany here.
In the party with Vice President
Thayer were John Gillie of Butte,
Mont, manager of the mines of the
Anaconda Copper company; Frederick
Laist of Anaconda, metallurgical man
ager for the company and H. D. Hawks,
sales manager of the wire department
with headquarters at Chicago. In ad-
dition to the officials of the Anaconda.
company, Vlce-President George H,
Allen and a number of the officials of
the American Brass company came to
Kenosha and piloted the new officials
in their trip through the mills here.
The members of the party will return
to Chicago this afternoon and later in
the evening leave for Buffalo, N. Y.
for an inspection of the big properties
of the American Brass company there.
Leading Men Extend Welcome. (
The members of the visiting party
were the guests of honor at a dinner
given in the private dining rooms of
the Elks' clubhouse at noon today at
which covers were laid for twenty
guests and at which the visitors met
number of the leading manufacturers
and financial leaders of Kenosha. These
men extended to the Anaconda Copper
company most cordial welcome to the
business life Of Kenosha and the din
ner was happy event by the exchange
of compliments.
Vice-President Thayer let it be un-
derstood that while this was his first
official visit to Kenosha that he was
not unmindful of the splendid record
Kenosha had made as a manufacturing
center and he expressed the hope that
Anaconda would be ready to take its
full part in the advancement of Ke-
nosha and its interests.
Spend Whole Morning in Mills.
AS it was the first time that the
officials of the new controlling com
pany had visited the plant in Kenosha,
the entire morning was spent in the
mills of the company, every department
being visited. General Manager Clark
s. Judd of the Kenosha branch was in
charge of the official trip of the officials
through the plant.
"Any changes in the Kenosha plant"
said Mr.. Thayer when interviewed at
the Elks club, twill depend upon gem
eral business conditions and the de-
mand or the products of this particu-
lar branch of the company's activities.
Our business at the present time, like
all other businesses of the sort, is suf-
fering from the low selling price of
the products. We have no plans for
changes in the Kenosha plant at the
present time. 1t is my first visit to
the Kenesha plant and / want to say
that I spent one of the most interest
ing mornings of my whole life looking
over the splendid institution which the
American Brass company has built up
here"
Praise for Local Management.
II am more than impressed with the
management in general and the make
up of the men in charge of the various
departments of the plant here" con-
tinued Mr., Thayer. ut is wonderful
high grade organizations of men who
know their business and who have
high business ideal. The organization
here is characteristic of the whole or
ganization of the American Brass COM
pany. From President BROKER down
to che heads of the branch departments
it is made up of men who are worth
knowing. They not only are excellent
business men who have built up a great
business, but they are men worth while
knowing in their personal life. It has
been a pleasure for me to come into
contact with them"