William Brookfield personal notes

WILLIAM BROOKFIELD, the recently appointed Commissioner of Public Works, of New York City, is well-known to the electrical public as the owner of the Bushwick Glass Works, and manufacturer of glass insulators for electrical purposes, which he was the first to successfully make with a screw thread. The Bushwick Works was started by Mr. Brookfield and his father in 1864, and have been continuously in operation ever since. Mr. Brookfield has been president of the Eastern Association of Glass Manufacturers, and is now a member of the Union League, Downtown, Fulton and Lawyers' clubs, the New York Chamber of Commerce, Board of Trade, and the Produce and Consolidated Exchanges. He has also taken an active interest in politics for many years, and was a charter member and one of the presidents of the Republican Club, president of the Republican County Committee for several years, and chairman of the Republican State Committee during 1892, 1893, and 1894. His whole career has been marked by high integrity and an energetic business policy, which have combined to make him the successful and highly respected man he now is.