From the City of Churches, Brookfield's plant in Brooklyn is operating on beer bottles

FROM THE CITY OF CHURCHES.

Brooklyn, N.Y., Dec. 9 - The Brookfield Glass Co.'s plant is going in its usual systematic way. Its principal product is the beer bottle line. The strides that the eastern breweries have made in this industry seems wonderful. Formerly it was the custom of these breweries to place this important work with western concerns, but now, to the casual observer, it seems different especially when one stops to consider that ten or twelve years ago Liebmans, Ruppert's, Huber's, Welz & Zerweck's, a quartet of the biggest concerns in the Greater New York, never gave the beer bottle industry a thought, but they are at the present time using from twenty to seventy thousand gross of bottles per year. Seems marvelous, does it not? And yet, it's a positive fact.

Branch No. 52 has decided to hold another reception and ball on Saturday evening, Jan. 22. It has always been a custom of this branch to hold an annual ball or picnic, and as the past entertainments have always met with great success, the writer predicts that this one will eclipse them all. The Brooklyn boys never do anything by halves, so it is a forgone conclusion that they will all be there with a fine front and a 6 X 8 smile.

One of our members, Frank Hoffman, has been ill with a severe attack of pleurisy. We all hope to see him with us at an early date.

Here's hoping every member of the G.B.B.A. and all members of the Commoner and Glassworker's staff will enjoy a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Brooklyn.