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HARDWOOD RECORD 



March 10, 1922 



Who's Who in Woodworking 



yContiuutd innn ifitif lis) 



J, B. Bartholomew 



Mr. Bartholomew was born on a farm one and a quarter miles 

 north of Elmwood, Peoria county, 111., in February, 1863. He may 

 be said to have inherited an interest in labor-saving farm machin- 

 ery, for his father was a pioneer user of such devices and a most 

 enthusiastic advocate of them. He kept the equipment on his farm 

 always abreast of the latest improvements and this afforded his 

 young son a great opportunity to early become expert with these 

 devices. When young Bartholomew was fifteen he knew his fa- 

 ther's threshing m.ichine like a machine gunner knows his gun. He 

 was also one of the first in his part of the country to operate a 

 straddle-row cultivator, as his father was the purchaser of the 

 first machine of this kind in Peoria county. His father was always 

 a progressive buyer of harvesting machines and mowers froui the 

 first hand-rake types up to and including the evolution of the mod- 

 ern twine binder. 



Young Bartholomew familiarized himself with the mechanical 

 upkeep and field operation of every new development of farm 

 machine or implement that came onto his father's farm. Whoa 

 the first steam tractor arrived in his township in 1879 he took to 

 it like a duck to water and there was not a threshing liee in those 

 parts at which he was not counted "among those present" in a 

 very practical capacity. 



The spring of his seventeenth year he attracted the attention of 

 C. M. Avery by the facility with which he was operating on his 

 father's farm one of the first Avery planters furnished to farmers. 

 Mr. Avery was then canvassing the country in the interest of his 

 company's implements. The next December he hired young Bartho- 

 lomew to work at the company's plant at Galesburg, 111. During 

 the remainder of that winter, the young farmer from Peoria county 

 labored in the factory, warehouse and yard of the Avery plant, 

 taking the first steps up the ladder toward the presidency of the 

 company. 



His devotion to his "job" (Mr. Bartholomew insists this was a 

 "job" and no "position") caused Mr. Avery, in April, 1880, one 

 year later, to assign him to territory in Illinois, Missouri and Iowa, 

 to move from place to place on letter and telegraphic orders, set- 

 ting up and starting corn planters and check rowers on the farms. 

 After ten weeks of successful work along these lines, he was called 

 back to the factory. Hven a vacation of two weeks to visit his 

 folks on the farm. :ii 1 'hen sent out on the road to make exhibits 

 of Avery niaclru" .-it the fairs. In the autumn of the same year he 

 was i)roni()ted to tlio ] o.-.itlou of salesman ami factory rei)resentative 

 to take orders and contracts from dealers. 



From this position Mr. Bartholomew climbed steadily from one 

 place of respons'.b'.lity to the other until he reached finally the 

 highest po.st in the gift of the company. He remained in Iowa for 

 ten years in charge of .-i braiu li house of the Avery company, build- 

 ing up the business of the company in that section until the Iowa 

 branch became one of the most important of its distributing points. 



Upon the death of R. H. Avery, in September, 1892, he was called 

 back to Peoria to take charge of the Traction Engine & Thresher 

 Manufacturing Division of the Avery Company, made a member 

 of the board of directors, and elected vice-president of the com- 

 pany. Mr. Bartholomew continued in these capacities until the 

 death of C. M. Avery in 1907, by which time the business of the 

 Avery Company had reached in volume nearly a million dollars a 

 year and the capital stock had been raised from $200,000 to $600,- 

 000. He was elected president of the comjiany in 1907. 



Shortly before the expiration of the charter of the original 

 company, Mr. Bartholomew effected the necessary reorganization 

 under the name of "Avery Company" with a capital stock of 

 $2,.500,000. 



Under his able direction the big company has continued to grow 

 and prosper and is second to none in its field in its progressiveness. 

 As an instance of this progressive spirit, it has kept pace with the 



evolution of the steam tractor to the gas tractor and has developed 

 an Avery gas tractor for every size farm, thousands of which have 

 been marketed in every state in the Union and eighty-one foreign 

 countries. Mr. Bartholomew, through his world-wide organization, 

 keeps in closest touch with actual users of tractors operated under 

 all kinds of conditions and is fully conversant with every innova- 

 tion as fast as it makes its appearance. 



W. H. Stackhouse 



partners, since 1898. For a number of years he was manager of 

 the Springfield, C, plant of the company and recently he was pro- 

 moted to general manager of the business at both Davenport and 

 Springfield. He moved from Springfield to the headquarters of the 

 firm in Davenport on March 1. 



Mr. Stackhouse is a practical expert on economics, especially the 

 industrial and taxation phases of the science. Early in 1921 he 

 made an exhaustive study of the grave problem of the revision of 

 our federal methods of taxation. The important recommendations 

 for the improvement of the Government's fiscal policy, which he 

 formulated as a result of this study, were published in Hardwood 

 Record on February 10. The paper was prepared by Mr. Stack- 

 house at the request of members of Congress and is known to have 

 reached the eyes of President Harding. 



Mr. Stackhouse is a member of the National Industrial Confer- 

 ence Board, New York City. He has been more or less active in 

 the Chamber of Commerce of the United States since its inception. 

 In addition thereto he has always endeavored to respond in mat- 

 ters purely commercial, industrial and economical, in Washington, 

 whenever called upon to do so. 



Nickey Returns from Pacific Northwest 



S. M. Nl. key, pri'slOeiit iif Nirkcy Brothers, Inc., at Memphis, is Just 

 back from a trip covering iiliout n month to Vancouver, B, 0., where the 

 Capilano Timber ('ompiiiij-, of which he is president, has e.\tensive timber 

 land bolillORs, It Is now euciiEed in cutting this timber and selling it In 

 the open market. It Is disposing of the greater portion of Its output to 

 mills In that territory but it is exporting considerable quantities of cedar 

 to Japan. 



.Mr. Nickey says that business conditions along the Pacific coast are 

 splendid, largely as a result of the good export demand from .Tapan and 

 the big movement of lumber via the Panama canal to the Atlantic Sea- 

 board. He brought liaek with blm a clipping from one of the Vancouver 

 papers showing that exports to .lapan during 1921 amounted to 378.000,- 

 000 feet compared with SO.OOO.OOO feet In 1920 and that shipments via the 

 against 75.0on,o00 the previous year. 



Lumber Trade Customs 



Sotc: The tUvitfiuuM prititrii below are revdered by the Arbitration 

 Comtnittee o/ the Americfin Wholesale Lumber Association. 



Omissions in Acknowledgments Do Not Alter Orders 



THE FACT.S : A southern wholesaler and manufacturer received a cir- 

 cular from a commission man offering certain orders and on December 18, 

 1920, wired the latter that he would accept one of these orders and asked 

 that shipping Instructions be sent him promptly. The order In question 

 called for a ralxe*! car of dressed yellow pine. 



On December 18 the commission man's customer, a northern wholesaler, 

 mailed the seller a formal order covering the transaction, specifying 

 therein that all stock was to be kiln dried short leaf yellow pine. The 

 order was received by the seller on December 20, his formal acknowledg- 

 ment mailed buyer the same date, and the latter was received by buyer 

 on December 22. Seller failed to specify "kiln dried" in his acknowledg- 

 ment, having overlooked this specification In buyer's formal order. The 

 commission man's offer likewise failed to specify "kiln dried" through 

 oversight. 



Shipment was made on December 31, and was In accordance with buyer's 

 formal order, with the exception that 2,046 feet of 1x12 No. 1 common 

 S2S to i? wus shipped out of "air dried" Instead of "kiln dried" stock. 



Upon arrival of shipment at destination the item of 1x12 was rejected 

 by buyer's customer. Seller was promptly notified on February 1, where- 

 upon he acknowledged having shipped "air dried" stock In this Item and 



