Toronto Convention Notes

TORONTO CONVENTION NOTES.

Pointed Paragraphs Picked up During the Two

Weeks' Session.

A group picture of the delegates attending the 1907 convention was taken one evening in front of the Toronto City Hall. On another occasion on the conclusion of the day's sessions four summer trolley cars lined up in front of headquarters to take the G. B. B. A. legislators and their ladies on a tour around the city. It required two and one-half hours to make the trip which was thoroughly appreciated by all who found sitting room on the cars.

The ladies who accompanied their husbands to the convention city were also photographed one evening.

Some of the delegates who went to the convention by way of Niagara Falls had a narrow escape from injury by a cable breaking on the incline railway which leads to the "Maid of the Mist" station.

The Milwaukee and East St. Louis delegates are working on the "still hunt," so to speak, to land the 1908 convention, but the solons from Baltimore are flashing a catchy celluloid button which has on its face the photo of a crab. No telling who'll win at this writing.

The delegates' badges are pretty this year. Below the crossbar forming the pin upon which is inscribed the word "delegate" are the American and English flags in relief with a white silken background. From this suspends a medal which on its face has the photo of two jericho blowers, one in the act of blocking the glass; one in the act of rolling it on the stone. Below the medal upon a red silken ribbon are the words, "Thirty-first annual convention, Glass Bottle Blowers' Association of the United States and Canada, Toronto, Can., July, 1907."

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The Brookfield Glass Co.'s plant, at Brooklyn, N. Y., according to trustworthy authority, will not be operated next season. The plant is reported to have been sold. Our informant stated that the firm is erecting about sixty dwelling homes at Old Bridge, with a view of employing a much larger force in that town next season.

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