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EDISON PHONOGRAPH MONTHLY, OCTOBER, 1916
Meet "Scotty"— Amberola General
Supervisor
"Scotty" in Conference with Amberola Sales Manager, K. R. Moses, and T. E. Dean, Traveler for Pardee-Ellenberger Co., Boston
JW. SCOTT, 200 pounds of geniality, smiles and Amberola enthusiasm, has been appointed General Supervisor of Amberola dealers in the United States and Canada.
This not only means that the right man has been put into the right place, but that the right place has been created. Heretofore you have been obliged to worry along without the assistance of a supervisor, but in the future you will enjoy the motherly care of "Scotty." And Mr. Scott, by the way, is a regular phonograph salesman and a regular fellow. For fifteen years he has been selling Edisons and there are not many things that he does not know about the Amberola and Blue Amberol records. He first became interested in selling Edisons in 1901 when he became associated with the National Phonograph Company which at that time sold Edison products.
After spending a year in securing experience in New York, Mr. Scott invaded New England and for the past fourteen years he has been traveling through that section of the country. Up Maine way
he has become a character. To many of the natives of the State he is a greater man than the Governor and the dates of his arrival and departure from town are considered a matter that is worthy of being chronicled in the public prints. While not a vaudeville artist, he has built up a tremendous reputation by telling a story that is known as "Whoa! Bill!" and when he drops into your store you must insist on hearing this. Up in some Vermont villages, the arrival of "Scotty" and his "Whoa! Bill" story is one of the big events of the year. "By hickey," they say, when times are dull, "wait 'till that fat phonograph feller comes back again. Then we'll hear a real story."
In a sketch of the life of all great men, it is considered essential to mention their eccentricities. "Scotty" has only two. He travels in an auto and he gets violent at the sight of dust. So you had better keep your eyes on the highway and when you see a cloud of dust rising in the distance and hear a roar that sounds like the approach of a tornado, you will know that "Scotty" is in the offing