Discussion politics (Brookfield and glass tariffs); Brookfield buys Woodward-Warwick plant

DONE WITH THE BUGABOO

MANUFACTURERS OF GLASS ARE BRANCHING OUT.

IN SPITE OF THE DEFEAT OF M'KINLEYISM THEY KEEP BUSY — MR. WILLIAM BROOKFIELD'S PRACTICAL FAITH IN THE ADMINISTRATION ILLUSTRATED.

That very highly-protected industry, the business of manufacturing glassware, appears to have gained a decided impetus from the incoming of a Democratic Administration that is vigorously opposed to high protection.

The state of things may be very hard for the advocates of McKinleyism to explain, but it is the plain, unvarnished truth for all that.

As told in the editorial columns of yesterday's NEW-YORK TIMES, upon the authority of the Philadelphia Manufacturer, one of the organs of the high-tariff believers, the Craven Brothers of Salem, N.J., have shipped five carloads of glass bottles to England, thus for the first time bringing bottles manufactured in this country into competition with bottles made in England. The Manufacturer pointed out that the workmen engaged in the manufacture of these bottles in New-Jersey earn on an average $5 per day, but "by reason of their superior skill Messrs. Craven claim that they can compete in the English market with the cheapest manufacturers abroad, and furnish much better bottles than the English can make." The bottles were shipped on the day of Mr. Cleveland's inauguration.

Following right upon this interesting announcement is another which indicates that the glass manufacturers are not going out of business because a tariff-reform Administration has come in.

One of the largest manufacturers of glassware hereabout is William Brookfield, whose office is at 86 Fulton Street, and who has a very large plant at Bushwick. Mr. Brookfield is, and was during the last campaign, the Chairman of the Republican State Committee, and no one fought more valiantly then he for the success of Republicanism and the McKinley law in last Fall's big political battle.

About the time that Mr. Cleveland was again taking up the reins of government Mr. Brookfield was completing the purchase of a glass plant at Glassborough, N.J., which will almost double the capacity of his works. He has purchased the Woodward-Warrick plant, which has been in operation for fifty years. It has the largest furnace but one on this side of the Allegheny Mountains, the exception being at Bridgeton, N.J. The capacity of Mr. Brookfield's new establishment is said to be between thirty and forty tons a day. It has been used for the manufacture of window glass, but it is understood that its new owner will convert it into a plant for the manufacture of hollowware.

Maybe Mr. Brookfield is going to begin to compete for business in the English market. However that may be, it is interesting to note that one of the leaders in this State in the fight for high protection pays a fine tribute of confidence to an Administration that is faced sternly against high protection by promptly doubling up his business plant as soon as the new Administration goes into power.