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HARDWOOD RECORD 



October 2.",, lun 



Major Wood Arrives in France 

 Major li. L. Wmul, vk<-pii'sulc>iit aiul yciu'ral iiiaiuiKi'i' of the K. E. Wood 

 Lumber Compauy, lialtinioro, Md., whose apimlntmcnt as major In the 

 forestry service of the United States has been announced in the IIaudwood 

 Kecoiid, has arrived safely In France, word to this effect having been re- 

 ceived at the olllce of the company some days ago. Major Wood has tem- 

 porarily severed his connection with the company in onlcr that he mlsht 

 take up duties wUh the forestry forces behln<l the lirin;; lines, where the 

 men will be usetl in gettlui; out lumber and other wood products needed for 

 military operations or to carry on the reconstruction In progress. He is 

 one of the hnuber experts who have thus resolved to give their special 

 knowledge to (he country during the war. Practically nil of his life has 

 been spent in the luniher business and he Is familiar with every phase of 

 It, from the logging operations to the mill and even through to the con- 

 sumer, lie has given much time to supervising the operation of the com- 

 pany's mills in West Vlri;inia, North Carolina and Tennessee, and is excep- 

 tionally well equipped for the task he will be called upon to perform during 

 the war. I'rior to sailing he spent much lime In Washington conferring 

 with the military authorities. 



Will Act As Lumbering Expert on Colonel's Staff 



A well-(|ualifleil pal riot might properly bo described as one whose past 

 experience tits him exactly for the position which his government desires 

 that he serve. A striking example In mind Is r. M. liartelme of Minne- 

 apolis, Minn., a well-known young Iund)ernian of the Northwest who lias 

 become captain on the personal stafT of t'olonel W. A. Mitchell, command- 

 ing ollicer in the engineering corps, and in that position will act as 

 advisory lumbering expert and supervisor and inspector for Colonel Mitchell 

 In his command over the forestry ojjeratlons on tlie European western 

 war front. Captain Bartelme, who for several years has been president 

 of The Bartelme Company, and vice-president of the Bartelme-Lloyd Com- 

 pany, hardwood concerns of Minneapolis, is qualified for the task Uncle 

 Sam h.is selected for him for the following reasons : 



Beginning In IIIO'J he worked for four mouths about the sawmill and 

 lumber piling yar<ls of the Upham Manufacturing Company, Marshfield. 

 Wis. : then in turn worked as tallyman and lumber inspector, and for a 

 period of several months following sold lumber on the road for Upham & 

 Agler of Chicago ; later with the Wisconsin Oak Lumber Company, at an 

 operation in northern Wisconsin, he experienced every job in lumbering 

 and sawmilling from the time the ground was first broke in building a 

 logging railroad into the timber through almost every capacity a sawmill 

 affords a workman. Then for two years he was northern buyer for 

 Upham & Agler, and before starting in business for himself in 1908, he had 

 experienced every activlt.v In woods work and the manufacture and mer- 

 chandising of lumber. The Bartelme Company, which was organized in 

 1908, was incorporated in 1910, and has continued since as an exten.sive 

 wholesaler of hardwoods. The Bartelme Company also operates a dis- 

 tributing yard at Cairo, III., for the southern hardwoods that it handles. 

 The Bartelme-Lloyd Company, of which he is also an officer, wholesales and 

 retails liardwoods in Minneapolis, handling both native and foreign hard- 

 woods. Mr. Bartelme. who Is the son of F. M. Bartelme of Chicago, presi- 

 dent of the Keith Lumber Company, one of the largest dealers in native 

 and foreign hardwoods in the city, is also one of the organizers and is a 

 director of the Langlade L\imber Company of Antigo, Wis. 



Mr. Bartelme was originally recommended and chosen by the l'\ircstry 



Department and lumber comniittee of the National Council for Defense as 

 major of the forestry battalion comprising lumbermen and woodsmen for 

 the Great Lakes district, but it later developed that he could not be 

 nominated for the post because he is not forty years of age — he is only 

 thirty-five. There ylH be ten forestry battalions In the engineering branch 

 of the service, eacli commanded by a major ami the entire comnuind under 

 Colonel Mitchell, who Is colonel of the corps of engineers. When it was 

 learned that Mr. Bartelme Is too young to be a major. Colonel Mitchell 

 offered him llie place as advisory lumbering expert on Ills personal staff, 

 a place he accepted with the rank of captain. He is now in the East 

 ready for service abroad, and while away his hardwood concerns at 

 Minneapolis will be operated along lines as usual. 



President Bartelme of the Keith Lumber Company Is entitled to hang 

 out a service flag bearing two stars, beca\ise another son, T. T. Bartelme, 

 Is in the service of the American Bed Cross and just a few days ago he 

 returnctl from France after having been in that country two months on a 

 special mission. T. T. Bartelme, wh(j Is the youngest son, was formerly 

 connected with Ills brother, F. M. Bartelme, at Minneapolis, but several 

 months ago retired and traveled on account of his health. After being in 

 Italy for a year he went to South America to look after the foreign hard- 

 wood interests of the company of which his father is president, which are 

 extensive there. Having fully recovered his liealth. he offered his services 

 to the Bed Cross at the outbreak of the war, and since then has served in 

 Important capacities. In view of what his sons are doing to heli» tbr-ir 

 <'Ountr.v win the war, 1*'. E. Bartelnu' is one of the proudest fathers in 

 Chicago. 



Another Lumberman Reaches French Soil Safely 



Seconii I^ieutenant lioy Cookston, serving with the Tenth Engineers, 

 the first forestry regiment going abroad, is reported to have reached 

 France safely with the unit with which he sailed towards the middle 

 of August. Mr. Cookston has been a timber man during all of his business 

 career. He is twenty-six years old and was born in Louisiana. He has 

 been with the Utley-Holloway Company, Chicago, now for some little 

 time, having left the Pioneer Pole & Shaft Company at Memphis to take 

 up his new connection. 



Mr. Cookston during his services with the Utley-Holloway Company 

 spent all of ills time in the woods and aroxmd the southern mills. He 

 has been a timber looker and estimator and spotted anil estimated the 

 big tract of hardwood near Clayton, La., which the Utley-Holloway 

 Company will soon be operating on with its new mill at that place. He 

 spent considerable time of late going around among the southern mills 

 and looking over and buying up blocks of hardwood lumber which fitted 

 in with the trade liandled by the Utley-Holloway Company. 



He left the company toward the end of July and went directly to 

 Washington, going into the forestry regiment in Canada, and as stated, 

 sailing with the first contingent of the woods workers. 



Imports Records Broken 



For the first time in the history of American trade the imports of raw 

 materials passed the billion-dollar mark during tne fiscal year 1917. 

 According to statistics published by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic 

 Commerce of the Department of Commerce, the exact total was .'^1,109,- 

 655,040, a noteworthy Increase over the .$948,S25,.500 in 1916 and the 

 $632,865,860 in 1914, the last normal year before the war. 



L. WOOD, BALTIMORE, OF TENTH 

 ENUINEICRS (FOREST) NOW IN 

 FRANCE. 



F. M. BARTLEME, MINNEAPOLIS. ADVISORY 



LUMBERING EXPERT IN ENGINEERING 



SERVICE. 



SECOND LIEUT. ROY COOKSTON WITH 



TENTH ENGINEERS (FOREST) NOW IN 



FRANCE. 



