St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1916-04-05
FAIRBANKS CHANGES
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ruler Is president OF the Canadian
| Fairbanks Morse Company, and vice
president and in charge of the house
of Fairbanks, Morse & Co., witt
headquarters in New York city.
Mr.. Thomas Mcmillan has long beel
adam business, and is vice-presiden
and secretary of The Canadian Fair
banks-Morse Company, Limited.
w. S. Hovey has had a large part il
the success of Fairbanks, Morse & Co.
as factory manager, having been a
their Three Rivers, Mich, plant, ant
now in charge of operations at theil
large plant at Beloit, Wis. He will bs
of great assistance in bringing the re
suits of his wide and successful exper
fence for use at the st. Johnsbury
plant.
Newly Elected Officers.
At the meeting of the directors OF
this company the organization was
completed as follows:
| President, Frank H. Brooks; vice
president, C. H Morse, Jr.; secretary
John c. Clark; treasurer, Fred c.
Beck; engineer, J. H. A. Bousfield
superintendent, A. E. Ashcraft; fac
tory accountant, c. B. Rathbun.
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assistant to the president.
Mr.. Beck succeeds Mr.. Clark as
treasurer after many years of famiI-
iarity with the duties of treasurer as
loyal assistant to the treasurer.
Mr.. Bousfield's New Work.
Mr.. Bousfield, with his remarkable
engineering ability. hereafter will de-
vote his entire time to engineering
problems, and their relation to the
factory and selling department. Mr..
Bousfield will thus have time for a
great work in it's relation to new de-
signs and types and the cultivation of
thorough understanding between the
factory and selling house representa-
tives This will require considerable
time away from the factory, and the
enlargement of the field in which Mr.
Bousfield's work will be conducted is
a just recognition of his very great
ability as an engineer.
The New Superintendent.
Mr.. A E. Ashcraft, after IL years
of successful effort at the Beloit plant
has been appointed to the office of
superintendent, in charge of all fac
tory operations. He has had an I'M
usual technical and practical training,
and his tactful,- thorough and success
full handling of factory problems at
Beloit is an indication that he will
bring to his position here practical
ideas and that they will be worked out
in such manner as to bring justice and
good results to employer and employee
alike.
G. B. Rathbun succeeds Mr.. Harp
ham in the work of factory account
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ganization of the plant at Beloit is a
forerunner and pretty sure guarantee
that the highly important task of as
certaining costs viii be handled in a
most satisfactory manner. Both
Messrs. Ashcraft and Rathbun will
move their families to ST. Johnsbury
at an early date and enter heartily
into the community life and activities
of the town.
The RefiFementS.
A word of appreciation in behalf of
the retiring directors is hereby ex-
pressed. The transfer of the control
of this company to new interests
necessarily meant that changes must
be made. The change in the make
up of the board simply recognizes the
control that the changed ownership
of stock requires. and the new board
recognized the faithful service rem
dered by the retiring directors by
placing on record vote of the heart
lest appreciation.
The retirement of Mr.. Harpham
brings out clearly and forcibly the
solid and extremely valuable service
rendered this company. Due appre-
citation of what Mr. Harpham has
done, and of which the public has no
adequate conception. has been given.
Fairbanks, Morse & Co., having sew
eral large plants and certain methods
that they wish to make common with
all the plants, have men that can be
transferred from time to time. This
cooperation between the various
plants is bound to result in very great
economic advantages to the ST. Johns
bury plant. Mr.. Rathbun comes into
the organization to succeed Mr..
| Harpham in the cost accounting de-
partment
Mr.. P. F. Hazen has resigned and
his resignation accepted. The recog-
milton of the long service to this COM
pany by Mr.. Hazen has been sub
stantially and satisfactorily recognized.
/ G. I'll. Morse, The Founder.
In all the above no mention has
been made of the part that G. H.
Morse, the founder of the business
conducted by Fairbanks, Morse &
Co, has had and his relation to the
change in the ownership of the stock
of this company. Mr. Morse was
born in st. Johnsbury and has always
had a deep interest in the town as
recognized by many gifts that he has
made from time to time. He has TAX
en- a deep interest in the institutional
! life of the town, having placed in the
hands of trustees a sum. the income of
which goes toward the support and
maintenance of the Congregational
church at st. Johnsbury Center. He
has also contributed toward the fund
that was raised some years since for
the Academy. He has also taken an
interest in the st. Johnsbury Hotel
company, and in many other ways
that it will not be necessary to men
ton now, he has given evidence of his
interest in the town of his birth.
/ 1t is mainly for the reason that he
u in, soI, I,