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96 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE, Weunesday, August 18, 1954 Lengthy Service Is Woolworth's Pride Six Oshawa Employees Boast 135 Years Service One hundred and thirty-five years of loyal and effi- cient service given by six employees of Woolworth"s store, Oshawa, had much to do with its steady growth to the modern, well-appointed department store it is today. 'They were years of hard work, determination and pro- gress. Seventy-five of these years are marked by the gold wrist-watches worn by three of the six, who saw the re- sults of their endeavours today when the new enlarged store was opened by Herbert J. Cook, the vice-president of the Company. RAPID PROMOTION Boy wanted for stock-room. 80 hour week, Sundays off. $4 a week, good pects. This might easily have been the wording of an ad- vertisement 40 years agp, and just| : how Jood the prospects were can be told by F! years, rose from the stockroom where he was wrapping delivery parcels to the position of mana- ger of the large department store. He will tell you, too, how to go , about raising a family on $20 a week, or what it feels like to join the army in Canada one day. and find yourself Sitting behind a ma- chine: in a front line slit trench in France ten weeks later. What he knows about running a store would take too long to tell, for his knowledge is backed by 42 years of hard experience in many jobs, and in many stores of the F. W. Woolworth company. Mr. Bartlett first joined the com- pany as a boy in 1911, working in the stockroom of 'the London branch, He started at 7.30 in the morning in those days, and those n lasted 12 or 14 hours. It was hard work for $4 a week, but Mr, Bartlett thinks he got better then than he would on equivalent wage today. The store, he remembers, had ood departments in the MRS. MARGUERITE SKUCE as as a stockman. A year later he moved on to Woodstock where he worked in a similar capacity, It was this year, 1914, that he made break, apart from war service, in his connection with the company. He spent six months on in then went He worked there for two years as a stockman before transferrin to Sault Ste, Marie where he ful- filled the duties of stockman, j=. itor and any other position where his services were required. It was here, in 1917, that he enlisted in the 75th Battalion of Canadian In- fantry, After two weeks in Toronto he found' If on a Europe - bound roopship, At the port of disembarka he was quarantin- ed for a month. Two weeks training followed be- fore he was shipped to the line as a member of a machine-gun sec- + tion. But 1919 found him back at his old as a stockman, this #® time at the Hamilton branch. In the three years that followed he transferred in turn to six other stores, Including two in the United States. This began with promotion Bartlett, who, in 11| & a -. MRS. RUBY VIVIAN to assistant manager of Bloor Street. Toronto branch. From there Mr. Bartlett went to the branch of Queen-Yonge streets as floor- man. In 1920 he went south to Ale bama as manager, moving the fol- lowing year to Jackson, Tennessee. He returned to Canada in 1921 and after a year as floorman at St Catharine's he came to Oshawa in May, 1922, as Manager. The second world war meant a shortage of merchandise, and diffic y everyone yong just that much harder. In 1940 Bartlett was presented with a gold watch commemoral his 25 years of service. He ha actualiy been with the firm for 38 years at that time, and had watch- ed the store Lg from a small . In 1928 the store was ed by a 130 feet by 30 feet mn, and now it has fur- ther improved. Outside working hours, Mr. Bartlett's time was devoted main- ly to his family. He has three rows.up sons, and a married ughter. He plays the violin, and for 16 years led the Sunday School orchestra at the Simcoe Street United Chureh, of which he is a member, In 1928 he was initiated into the Pentalpha Chapter of the Royal Arch Masons. He was a member of the Cedar Lodge for three years before this, and has been a Past First Princi- al of the Chapter since 1939. He 4 also a mem of the Kiwanis Club. He lives on Brock Street East, C: 41 YEARS SERYICE When Mr. opened the store today, hg was no stranger to Miss MISS BERTHA HAWLEY J, CANADA BREAD CO. HI an is proud to Serve The New WOOLWORTH STORE in Oshawa with TOASTMASTER "Mighty Fine Bread" STORE MANAGER Fred Bartlett, present mah- ager of the Oshawa store, has been with Woolworth for over 40 years. He has been manager in Oshawa since 1922, is well known and has been closely identified with the growth and prosperity of Oshawa, Bertha Hawley, a floor and per- sonnel supervisor in the store. Join- ing the firm only a year after Mr. Bartlett, Miss Hawley has spent all of her 41 years with the com- pany in the Oshawa branch, and Yemlembers Mr. Cook from those ear stockroom there. In the passing years Miss Hawley has seen many |# people come and go. Some stayed only a short time, and a' few mov-| ed on to higher positions in the company. . When Miss Hawley began as a junior sales clerk in 1912 were only eight or ten girls work- ing in the store, compared with a staff of over a hundred now. The store has changed a great deal. k i age Hore Modern. ut, says awley, people are little changed by the passage of FIRST MANAGER When the first F, W. Wool- worth store was opened in Oshawa in 1912, Walter F. Musselman was appointed man- ager. He remained in the Osh- awa store until 1918 when he went on to manage other stores. Mr. Musselman retired from the company in 1950 due to fll- health. The F. W. Woolworth Company is happy to have him Chg at oe Deni of the , new, ultra ern store on King Street, days when he worked in the|® there |; 28 YEARS SERVICE One member of the staff with 28 years service behind her, has look- ed forw, keenly to the re-open- ing of the new store. But she will not be there to see it. She is Mrs. MRS. ELIZABETH McCONN Ruby Vivian, of 247 Simcoe Street North, and who is the Chief Cash- jer. Mrs. Vivian ig ill and has been away from the store since last Thursday. She began her ca- STARTED HIS CAREER HERE One of the highlights of the new Woolworth store opening in Oshawa will be the attend- ance of Herbert Cook, execu- tive vice-president of the com- pany. The importance of Mr. Cook's presence is underlined by the fact that he was born in Oshawa and started his career with Woolworth's in the Oshawa store back in 1913, as a junior in the stock room. Today the same H. J. Cook of the pleasant smile and burly figure is execu- tive vice-president of the entire Best Wishes to F. W. WOOLWORTH dpon the Occasion of the. Opening of Their New Oshawa Store Eo TERRAZZO & RESILIENT FLOOR COVERING INSTALLATION By CONNOLLY COMPANY LIMITED CLIFF DOUGLAS 220 Bowie Avenue Comptroller Toronto 10, Ontario Woolworth chain, with head- quarters in New York. He in- sists, modestly, that his career is unspectular, merely a steady progress in the Wool- worth manner, from foreman to store manager, from superinten- dent to buyer, from merchan- dising supervisor to assistant general manager, from Cana- dian general manager to execu- tive vice-president. 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