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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
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CHARLES LEWIS BARTHOLOMEW - Vol III, pg 676-680
By Alfred Colle.
"Charles Lewis Bartholomew" is the notation entered on the records of Lucas
county, Iowa, indicating the birth of a son to Colonel Orion Alexander
Bartholomew and Mary (Smith) Bartholomew. The entry was made on the 10th of
February, 1869.
To the reader of the daily newspaper and the political magazine, however, the
man who has been the creator of so many striking political cartoons is known at
"Bart." But Bart is not known alone to those who find a happy flash of humorous
treatment in a picture editorial. Hundreds of audiences have listened to his
famous chalk talks. And many hundreds of men and women, acquiring the
fundamentals of illustrating, recognize the well known signature at the end of
kindly letters of instruction and criticism which they receive from him as dean
of the Federal School of Illustrating and Cartooning.
Bart went to the Iowa State College long enough to take all the mathematics that
But writs of replevin and restraining orders held no interest for Bart. When his
mother read to the family group, Bart would illustrate the action of the story
with charcoal sketches. In the school room when the going became too slow for
his active mind he relieved the tedium by drawing pictures.
Bart's idea of doing something, however, was running a newspaper, and at the age
of seventeen, his father, having acquired the Chariton Herald, gave him the
chance to be its editor and guiding genius. It is said of him that in the full
burst of his editorial dictatorship he slammed a story of the local discovery of
a coal mine into the back page and ran the first page full of locals. In other
words, he played up the human element.
Bart went to Iowa State College long enough to take all the mathematics that an
engineering course could give, acquired a Bachelor of Science degree, a
cap­tain's commission in the Iowa National Guard, Henry Wallace, secretary of
agri­culture as a roommate, and the acquaintance and good will of Miss Ella
Louise Henderson of Monticello.
Miss Henderson and Bart were married on the 17th of June, 1890. Three sons have
been born to them: Orlo Alf, Robert Henderson and Charles Lewis, Jr.
Shortly after graduation Bart began newspaper work as a reporter in
Min­neapolis; he became staff correspondent and later cartoonist. For a score of
years he was in active management of the art department of the Minneapolis
Journal, with front page cartoons on political subjects and current events. Bart
has the distinction of being a pioneer in the newspaper cartoon field, not only
in the Northwest but in the country at large, the Journal being one of the first
papers in the United States to use the daily cartoon feature. Bart literally
created the department in which he has made a name. His idea met with immediate
success and has grown from year to year until today Bart's cartoons are known
around the world, and the Journal and Minneapolis are familiar names to many
abroad who otherwise might never have heard of them.
A comtemporary writer, James Gray, at one time mayor of Minneapolis, said of
Bart: "In this long period of twenty-five years he has drawn daily cartoons,
missing very few days of publication, an enormous drain upon the invention of
any man, no matter how prolific. Bart draws cartoons as the editorial writer
writes articles, from the news of the day. He is an editor in outline. His
cartoon is a first-page editorial, couched in the most telling phrases and
simplest grammar." Bart's cartoons in the Journal have been reproduced in every
part of America and in England and European countries, by many daily papers and
magazines. Even in far-off Australia they are frequently reproduced. In his
book, "The Americanization of the World," W. T. Stead says: "One of the most
capable cartoonists in the United States is Mr. Bart of the Minneapolis
Journal." In this book and also in Mr. Stead's magazine, The European Review of
Reviews, Bart's cartoons have appeared more frequently even than in the American
Review of Re­views, whose editor, Dr. Albert Shaw, says: "The esteem in which
the Review of Reviews holds the political cartoons that appear in the
Minneapolis Journal is sufficiently shown by the frequency with which it has
reproduced them. Mr. Charles L. Bartholomew of the Journal, whose work is signed
'Bart,' has not merely a very ingenious and ready pencil, but he has a
remarkable political instinct that makes his drawings to a very unusual extent
valuable as elucidating the situation or reenforcing an editorial position or
point of view."
For a period of fifteen years, the American Review of Reviews, Literary Digest,
Current History, and leading metropolitan magazines used more cartoons from
Bart's pen than from that of any other artist. His cartoons were compiled
annually in "Pictorial History of World Events" for a similar period. Rand
McNally & Co., published six books of juvenile caricature illustrated by Bart.
Of the wonderful advertising value of Bart's cartoons, B. O. Flower, the editor
of the Arena, has said: "We doubt if even the management of the Journal fully
appreciated the enormous value of Bart's work in familiarizing the reading world
at large with the name of his paper. In the 1922-1923 edition of "Who's Who in
America," Mr. Bartholomew is credited not only with ten volumes of current
cartoons for the Journal and illustrating six juvenile books by W. A. Frisbie,
published by Rand McNally & Co., Chicago, but also with twelve textbooks on
"Illustrating and Cartooning" for the Federal Schools, Incorporated,
Minneapolis, and his new book on "Chalk Talk and Crayon Presentation," published
by Frederic J. Drake & Company of Chicago and the Bart System and Basic Stunts
issued by Bart Supplies.
Bart has used his crayon continuously for high school and college audiences and
in lecture work and entertainment. He is the editor of a complete and
com­prehensive system which has served as the basis for many a chalk talk artist
and lecturer using crayon presentation. In compiling information for student use
in illustrating and cartooning, he puts in practical form, information from the
highest sources among the modern illustrators and cartoonists, using his ability
as reporter and editor, rather than depending alone upon his own individual
experience. His strength in educational work lies in his ability to secure from
these practical sources, latest methods used in the reproductive art. He is
recognized among members of his profession for originality in clear presentation
of practical require­ments of the illustrator and cartoonist.
In his political views Mr. Bartholomew is a stanch republican and through his
cartoons has wielded great influence in party affairs. His religious faith is
that the Congregational church. He is identified with Plymouth church of
Minneapolis, where he holds the office of church clerk. In an address given at a
banquet in Bart's honor by Minneapolis business men, at the end of twenty-five
years of editorial and cartoon work, Dr. Harry P. Dewey, pastor of Plymouth
church said that if Mr. Bartholomew's services were available he would choose
him as assistant pastor because of Bart's able assistance in popularizing the
vesper services conducted by the church. His chalk talks before factory workers,
busi­ness organizations, schools and colleges have brought him, throughout his
career as cartoonist and editor, into personal contact with his readers.
Mr. Bartholomew is Dean of the Federal School of Illustrating and Cartoon­ing
and at the present time is devoting his entire attention to editing textbooks
and conducting instruction in the course in Illustrating and Cartooning, in
which some ten thousand students are studying practical drawing by
correspondence. The students are from every English speaking community in the
world.