Search Constraints

Start Over
You searched for: Topic Furniture Industry Remove constraint Topic: Furniture Industry
| 191 - 195 of 195 | Next »
Number of results to display per page
View results as:
List Map Gallery

Search Results

191. Michigan Artisan; 1908-05-10

Notes:
Issue of a furniture trade magazine published in Grand Rapids, Mich. It was published twice monthly, beginning in 1880. and ..-,. Twenty-Eighth Year-No. 21 MAY 10, 1908 Semi-Monthly A Specialty with us--not a side issue WILL MAKE TWO TO SEVEN SQUARE MORTISES AT ONE STROKE Fastest and most accurate machine on the market. Entirely automatic, Makes square mortises free from chips. Write for Catalog ] No. 119 Multiple Square Chisel Mortiser. WYSONG &. MILES COMPANY, Cedar5t.and50u.R.R .. GREENSBORO, N. C. ~ The Best Truck--The Strongest Truck This is the famousGillette Roller Bearing Factory Truck-the truck on which it is said, "One man can move a load of 3000 pounds while with the other trucks it takes three men." This is the truck that is strong where others are weak-the truck that has an unbreakable malleable iron fork. This is the truck YOU are looking for if youwish to invest in rather than waste money on factory trucks. Gillette Roller Bearing Co. ORAND RAPIDS, MICHIOAN The Lightest R.unning, Longest Lasting Truck ------------rg -- -- --~- - -~ MAPLE JAWS AND HICKORY SPINDLES SPINDLES WITH SAW-CUT THREADS Compare our Hand Screws, part for· part with competitive makes, our superior quality will readily be seen. Note that Jaws are of Kiln Dried Michigan Hard Maple---N at Beech---have beveled corners and are oiled. Spindles are of best Second Growth Hickory with Saw- Cut Threads, and are tumbled and waxed. There is but one perfected machine for cutting Hand Screw Spindles with saws, we own it. Spindles so threaded last 25 per cent longer than ordinary makes. Write for prices. GRAND RAPIDS HAND SCREW CO. ------- BENOHES. TRUCKS. ElENEOICT OLAMPS ------- 918 JEFFERSON AVENUE GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN Here are a few specimens of our Colonial, Glass No-Kum-Loose Knobs NEW DESIGNS. LOOKS LIKE CUT GLASS. SEND FOR PRICES. No. 194. Diam., 1% inches. No. 195. Diam., 1~ inches. No. 196. Diam .• 1M inches. GRAND RAPIDS BRASS CO. No. 175. Diam., yg inches. GRAND RAPIDS. MICHIGAN 1 Hand Feed G1uei.na Ma.c.h.ine (Pat-ent pending.) Many Ilyles and .izes. Wood-Working Machinery and Supplies CHAS, E. FRANCIS &. BRO. OFFiCE AND WOAKS, RUSHVILLE, IND· CINCINNATI OFFICE, No. t 9 HULBERT BlK. No.6 Glue Heater. Wood Bar Clamp fixtures Per Set 50c. OVER 15,000 Of OUR STEEl RACKVISES IN USE These Specialties are used all Over the World Veneer Presses. different kinds and .ize,!;. (Patented) Veneer Presses GIUf Spreaders Glue Healers Trucks, Etc" Etc. Power Feed Glue Spreading Machine. Single. Double and Combination. (P"tenwd) (Sizlla 12 in. to 84 in wide.) LET US KNOW YOUR WANTS 25 d07.. Clamp Fixtures bought by on~ mill \~st year. \"1e ship on approval to rated tinns, arId guarantee our I!;oods uncondi-tionally. Write fot' list oj Steet Bar Clamps. ViSM, Bsnc!~ Slops, etc. . 1:.". S"ElDON &. CO. 283 Modison St.. Chicago, Price $2.80 to $4.00 SPARTAN VELVET FINISH Spartan Velvet Finish is a new and practical· DULL FINISH which produces a beautiful, soft egg-shell effect. It is made from the highest grade of gums and is suitable for the highest grade of furniture, or for any work where a fiat finish is desired. Write for Barnp[e and Folder' ,d once, .UJith iustrlLCtiaus. for applyi,ng. MARIETTA PAINT and COLOR COMP'y MARIETTA • • OHIO Aurora Stamping Inks~ THESE INKS ARE OF THE VERY HIGHEST QUALITY AND WILL BE FOUND TO GIVE PERFECT RESULTS WHERE IT IS DESIRED TO IMITATE QUARTERED OAK Diamond Paste Filler~ IN ALL SHADES MADE EXPRESSLY TO BE USED WITH OUR SPARTAN STAINS CAN BE. usED FOR ANY KIND OF WORK 2 The Universal Automatic CARVINO MACHINE === PERFORMS THE WORK OF === 25 HAND CARVERS And doss the Work Better titan it can be Dolle by Hand MADEBY--~--- Union [nUOSSlna M,(Hlnt Co. Indianapolis, Indiafta Write lor Inlormation. Prices Etc. THE CREDIT 8UREAU OF THE FURNlTURE TRADE The Grand Rapids Office. 412-413 Houseman Bldg. GOO. E. GRAVES, Manager CLAPPERTON & OWEN, Counsel LYON Furniture Agency THE STANDARD REFERENCE BOOK CAPITAL. CREDIT AND PAY RATINGS CLEARING HOUSE OF TRADE EXPERIENCE ROBERT P. LYON, Genual Manater THE MOST RELIABLE CREDIT REPORTS CREDITS and COLLECTIONS COLLECTIONS MADE EVERYWHERE PROMPTLY- RELIABLY . Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company Jobbers and Dealers in Plate Glass. Mirrors, Window Glass. Ornamental Figured Glass. WIRE GLASS, the Great Fire Retardant. CARRARA GLASS. a New Product Like Polished White Marble. For anything in Builders' Glass1 or anything in PaintsJ Brushes, or Painters' Sundries, address any of our branch warehousesl a list of which is given below: NEW YORK-Hudson and Vandam 8ts. CLltVELAND-1430.1434 West Tblrd St. :BOSTON-41 ..49 Sudbul"J' St •• 1-9 B()w8.erSt. OMAHA-1608 ..10.12 Harney St. CHICAGO-44Z ..4S2 W"ba ..h Ave. ST- PAUL-461-463 Jackson St. CINCINNATI-Broadwa,. and Court Sta. ATLANTA. GA.-30-32·34 S· Pryor St. ST. LOUIS-Cor. Tenth and Spruce Sts. SAVANNAH. GA.-74S.149 Wbeaton St. NfNNEAPOLIS-50i).516 5. Third SI. KANSAS CITY-Fifth and Wy.ndott. Sts. DJt,TROIT-5a.S9 L.arned St ••E. BIR.MINGHAM.AL.A.-2nd Aye. and 29th St. GRANDR.APJDS~MICH.-39.41 N. Dlvt..lon SI BUFFALO. N. Y.-312-74 ..16.7B Pearl St. PITTSPtURGH-1Ul ..103 Wood St. BROOI(LYN-63S-637 Fulton St. M1LWAUKElt. WlS.-492_494 Marhet St. PHILAD£.LPHIA-Pltcalrn Bldg••Arcb aftd 11th St•• ROCHESTER. N. Y.-WUder 8'dg ••MaJn &Ezcbap,eSt.. DAVENPOI'T-410.416 Scott St. BoALTIMOl\£,-310.12-14 W. Pratt St. Sold dl.tributera of PATTON'S SUN PR.OOF PAINTS. White Printing Co. GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. HIGH GRADE CATALOGS COMPLETE GRAND RAPI[,~', I•V, "','!1 ,r T1 t'"i ,"~_I V j nn,/nv ,A ~\ 1 28th Year-No. 21. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., MAY 10, 1908. The Consumption and Supply of Lumber. A very interesting and eillightenillg discourse by Emerson Hough, on "The Slaughter of the Trees," appears in the l\lay Everybody's. The pwpbecy is made that in fifty years' time our COll1ltry will be desolate of trees unless we 'wake up and buy back the forest lands in addition to treating forcst re- !'.erves in states which are not yet stripped of their trees. A great many statistics are given showing the billio!1s of trees slaughtered yearly for various purposes, such as railroad tics, 100,000.000 tics b(jng the present lltlmber demanded. The telegraph poles Clit t\'vo years agonu111bercd .1.526,875, of which three-fifths were cedar, twenty-cig-ht per cent chest-nut. Ihmdrcds of thol1~;tn(h of sllla1]cr poles arc cut fCl)" other llses. ..A.l1l1ually between thrce and fOllr million acres of lalH[ are dncastated for this purpose. Tnnneries used l,~ 370,OOD cord,.; of hark two years ago. J n the same year 11,- 858,260 shingles and 3,812,80i laths were Cl1t. For timbering mines 16j,OOO.CCO cubic feet. not board measure, much of it hardwood, were tlserL Price'" for hardwoorl used in vehicles, manllhctllred furniture and farm implements have risen from twenty-Jive to sixty-five per cent, since 1899. I1I scvel1 yenrs the pronudio!1 of hardwood has fallen off 11ftcen per cent. and those were the six years of its greatest demand. Tight bar-rel cooperage is a heavy drain on ·white oak. In 1906 we made 267,827,000 hand staves. California bas had to resort to redwood fOf ,vine casks because white oak costs ton much to ship there. "The highest estimate or our renulning hardwood is four hundred billion feet. Twenty-five billion feet are u:'.llally annually used for lumber, tics, posts, manufacturers, fuel, etc. At that rate it \'>'ill take nS sixteen years to use up all the rest of our hardwood if we do not burn it and if the dem.and re-mains the same!" The nelVspapers and magazines Use a gTeat quantity of pulp wood. 1n 19G6 it reached 2,327.844 tons. This meaus that over 4,COO,OUO cords were cut fOl' that purpose-some-thing like a million acres a year for Jlulp. T,cad pencils, 31S,OCO,OCO of them, \verc made last ycar. This required the cutting of 7,300,000 feet of cedar. 111'. 1-lo1..1gh nlakes the statcment that over 100,COO acres of timber arc cnt e\'cry workillg day in the year. in the whole Cnited States. Commcn:i:-d timlw.r to the anlO'Lmt 45G,OOO,COO acrc.'> are stilt standing. All our standing timber is cstinwtc<! at S0111('- ,,,,here between hmrteen hundred and two thousand billi(l11 feet. H we use forty bi\1ions per [lll llt1n1 , ,ve can run thirty-five tll flfty years at the present rate, providillg there i" no waste. Using one hundred billions per annutll. our timber will last fourteen to twenty years on the same basis. If we use one hundred and fifty billions per annUITI O\.\f timber witt all be gone in l1inc to tbirteen year-so Counting natural growth tlllder prcv;lillJlg' conditions, we could add tell years to thesc terms; hut that mel\n~, if the'i~, is 110 w<.\ste in any pri\'ate op-erations <llld \\'c carll10t control the operations on private lands under any laws we no, .., have. $1.00 per Year. Advantage Gained by the Manufacturer of a Large Line. "Rut for Our trade in foreign lands," remarked a manufac-turer of ,vood working machinery, "we would be compelled to -;;hut oown our plant ior an indefinite period. \V cafe sell-ing about sixty per cent of our usual output when in full op-eration, and six-tenths of this amount represents our foreign hl",iness. The manufacturer of a small line of machinery is naturally limited to a small mrtrket. vVitlt a large line one is able to exploit the markets of every country. Overhead charges remain with the matlufacturer of a small line without orders as well as with the manufacturer of a large line, by the size and character of which be is enabled to secure more or less trade in some part of the \'iorld." Engineer License Bill Rejected. The legislature of the stale of New York rdused to pass a bill forbLddillg persons to operat{'. aHy engine. irrcs-spectivc: of motive power, without a certificate of qualification. Under its terms all persons, except licensed steam engineers and their assistants, mechanical engineers and machinists were excluded from operating all engine. To Prevent Theft of Stamps. All order has been issued by Postmaster General :"IIeyer permitting the perforation of postage stamps with initials. signs or numerals, as a meal1'i of idelltihcation so as to pre-vent theft, but not for advertising purposes. The manufacltlfe of wardrobes ror the use of clothiers, tailors, dressll1akers·and other providers of wearing apparel is a growing industry and the introduction of the chiffo-robe enabh:s the h01..1se builder to dispense with the old-fashioned dust t:Jllk and insect hreeder called the dark closet. The people of the ,,,arid are moving steadily forward to better s:-ll1-itary and comfort-giving surroundings. Employes of the federal govettll1lent ill Chicago have es-tablished co-operative stores. They will endeavor to pur-chase olrtic1es needed from the manufacturers, \Vhat will the attitude of the national and local retail associations be to-wards, such c11terprise? \Vill the honDr of legitimacy be con-ferred upon it? A graduate school of business adlllini~.tration has been es-tablish by Harvard University. Especial attention ,,,ill be given to the development of the. work in bLlsiness organiza-tion, from the operation of a factory to the management of a department store. 4 ·~MICHIG7IN &"2 . i New Styles •In Table Legs Is it not a big advantage, not only in the selling of your product. bul in the prices you command. if you are able to keep changing the style and gettinp; out something new right Illon8 and without any extra expen&e in the coat? Our No. 5 Table Leg Machine wilJ turn not only round. but square, oc.tagon. hexagon. oval OJ any poly~ gonal shape. and all with the same cutter-head. Its capacity is equal to eight or len hand tuenen, ,u:d it is guaranteed to do the work 5uc«:ssfI.lJly. Would it Dot interelilt you to know More about thill nulchine? Then drop us ill line. c. Mattison Machine Worlis 863 Fifth Street. Beloit, Wiscobsin THE ABDUCTION OF GERALD. No, !'i Tahle Le.lr M:'IcllillC How a Thoughtful Salesman Secured an Opportunity of Un-loading a Line of Furniture Where it Would Count. All great man have their hobbies. Lincoln packed a fund of funny stories about with him. Grant's long suite was cigars. Kapoleon couldn't do business without roast fowl. Every man who has a faculty of doing <111}' one. thing well has a spot where he ceases to exude greateness and becomes merely human. The Honorable D. Robert Carver~Judson was a great man. He had succeeded in life despite the reckless way he had of hitching two names together with a hyphen. He had been mayor and a member of the state senate, and was often talked of as a possibility for the office of governor. Beside .111 these civic honors which the Honorable D. Rob-ert c.-]. had carved out of fifty years of life, he had also ac-quired a large bank account. He was said to carry around with him a roll that would plug a ten-inch water pipe. But he was a haughty man and no one ever referred to the money he owned~ The theory in Fowler town, where he was IT, was that should be loved for himself alone. The Hon. D. Robert had a hobby, two of them, in fact. One was to perpetuate his name forever and ever in his town by building the largest and most elaborate sanitarium the world ever saw, and the other was to own the nastiest, sneakingest, barkingest, black-and-tan dog that anybody evcr ,",,·entanywhere with. He succ.eeded in both ambitions. The Carver-Judson sanitarium was a corker for size, and Gerald, the black-and-tan that ruled in the man's heart at the time the big health-orillm was ready to filt with furniture, was the meanest little pup that ever boasted a devoted master. But the big sanitarium was to be. furnished. That was all the furniture men of the land cared to know. There was a contract that would make a year's output look like a world record. The news of this need of furniture in trainloads went far and wide, and missionaries traveled to Fowlerton from Grand Rapids, and aU towns wl1ence missionaries go forth to inform the people of earth of the delights of good furniture. They swarmed into town and took the best rooms at the hotels, and asked all about the religion of the Hon. D. Robert, and all about his politics, and the size of his neck, and his taste in cigars, and everything a traveling missionary should know. The initial discovery concerning D. Robert was that he was a man one couldn't run up behind and thump on the back. He was exclusi\'Tc, and hid )Jjmself away in a private suite of rooms back of a National bank, and it was dollars to apples that a man couldn't get to him in a month of Sundays. He was guarded in l1is retreat by a strong-armed Dane dubbed Oleo, by the natives. and by Gerald, who slept on a rug at his master's door and bit the legs of those who ven-tured near elJOugh to argile with the Dane. vVhen the fur-niturc men swooped down upon the town they heard all about the Dane and the dog. They weren't going to lose a COI1- tract for fUTI1ishing a two-hundred room building just because of a man and a canine, so they bO\\'ed before them both. But that didn't get them anything. They never saw the inside of D, Robert's cheerful suite of rooms back of the National bank. One day S. O. C. K. Percival of Grand Rapids struck the town. He wanted that contract. There were manufacturers in town who wanted it. too. Some of these rnak~rs were trying- to do business behind a retail dealer. and same were going right ahead with their business on their own hook. Percival, who rather prided himself on the number of his initials, got illto the suite and back as far as the Dane and the dog. There he stopped, for the very good reason that Oleo locked the door leading into the holy of holies. <llld put his JnJad back against it. "Come out of that,' said Percival, as Gerald took a nip out of his right leg. "I have important busines-s with his gib-lets in there. Have yOl1 got anything in your possession that makes a noise like that?" And Percival flipped a ten-doUaT banknote befo:-:e the large, mild eyes of the Dane. Oleo shook his head dumbly. He didn't seem to nnderstand. Percival rammed the money into the dumb man's ve!".t pocket and set his hand to tllC knob of the dOOT. Gerald remonstrated against this. and Percival gave him a hist that sent him to the end of the re-ception room. "Look here. you." said the njssionary, ;;if you don't let me in there, I'll fix your face over so your own wife won't know you when you get out of the hospital. Do you think I'm here to do my work by wireless?" And he gave Oleo a jolt on the chest, that set him to won-dering how long it would be to dosing time. But this did not open the door. The Dane showed symptoms of being in touch with the hurry~up wagan, and opened the street door of a corridor which brought him in view of a patrol box. Ger-ald gave a series of yowls which sounded like setting off fire-crackers and scurried along after him. Percival, mourning the lack of hospitality in that neck of the timber, moved along in the wake of the pup. When he got out on the sidewalk the black~and-tan was headed for the green hillsl which were not far away, and 01'eo was explaining te a copper with a dub which looked to be a MICHIG7!N yard long, that all anarchist bad atlempted to blm\' LIp the building with a gas pipe stuffed with dynamite and packed ..".,.itb nails for variety. Then an unholy desire for vengeance seized Percival. He picked up Gerald, \..-110 \vas likely to get injured in the rush, anyway, and put him in hi:-;overcoat pocket. This wa,s lar-ceny and abductioil, and numerous other things, but Percival saw a glimmer of light ahead v..·.hich looked like a furniture contract, and marched off with the canine, which, ollee in his room at the hotel, he larrupcd over the head \vith a razor strop and put to bed in a suit case. After thus demonstrating the right of a furniture salesman to resent the loss of a misdirected bribe, Percival lighted a long, black cigar and went down into the lobby to converse with the unresourceful furniture men who hadn't got near enough to the person of D. Robert Carver-Judson to do a thing to his familiar or his pnp. That night the abducted Gerald skpt in a bath room and had sausages for supper. The next morning the newspapers told of the abduction of the pup, and D. Robert, etcetera, offered a reward of ten bones for his safe return. \'Then D. Robert stepped fronI his smoke wagon in front of the l\ational bank, Percival touched him on the shoulder and smiled. The man who \v<lnted to buy furniture for a two-hundred room building looked coldly upon the salesman. "Look here, old man," said Percival, speaking just like he was addressing a common person, "I found a black-and-tan wandering about the streets last night and took him to my room. That dog bas all the bench 3ho\vs that ever were faded to a silly yellow. lie's so line that I thought he might belong to you-might be the one you lost." "Bring him dOW11to the oBice awl get the reward," said D. Robert. "If yon want him," said Percival, "you'll have to come up to the room and identify him before witnesses, and take him away. That pup is so desirable that I'll have him all his way to my palatial- summer residence in about seventeen minutes, if no one claims him. He sure has nestled about my affec~ tions," D. Robert walked away with Percival, and just in time, too, -for the Dane, with his chest in a sling, was coming around the corner. Tile great man was pleased with the salesman because of his love and admiration for Gerald, which shov·...s that Percival was not more than a thousand years in the rear of the procession. \;Vhen they got to the suite occupied by the missionary, Gerald jumped upon the great man and tried to tell him that his imprisonment had not been one unmixed pleasure, but the master didn't under-stand. He looked at Percival and then lookd at the dog. "I believe," he said, in a moment, "that you abducted this dog." "All right," said Percival, "whatever you say goes. But before you call the Batty on the beat, just look over these pictures of furniture, designed especially for sanitariums and hotels. Observe the grace of the styles, note the rich yet simple carving. A man who couldn't be restored to health amidst such surroundings ought to be sent out to the con-tagions disease dump. You'll fllld the prices attached." "If 1 thougbt you had played this trick just to work off this old rubbish, I'd have you arested," said D. Robert. "Ail right," said Percival. ""I've been arrested before. But yOU must remember that 1 did this for your O\vn good. '\"ow you've got a chance to look over pictures which other-wise you might not have had. You've got so many men after you that you might have confused some of their cheap stuff with our high art furniture. Besides, my firm stands back of its salesmen, and if you send me up they will shove a man over here to serve the time for me. 1'\ow, you pick out the furniture you want and I'll wire the house!" "If I had a few men with a nerve like yours," said D. 5 Robert, "I wouldn't have much trouble getting what I ",,·ant. Do you always get what you go after?" "I'm from Grand Rapids," replied Percival, "and I'm apt to catch on somewhere in the game. Just think what you would have lost only for Gerald!" "Corne on over to the office," said D, Robert, "and I'll call up the manager of the sanitarium. He picks out the fur-nishings. I like YOl1rnerve, young man." But Gerald fought shy of Percival all the tIme he was there furnishing that big sanitarium. ALFRED B. TOZER. A New Tilting Saw Table. Alexander Dodds, 181-183 Canal street, Grand Rapids, has brought out a new tilting saw table, ::.\'0. 8, which is one of the best machines of its class ever offered to the trade. The table top is 40 x 44 inches. "The base is similar to what we Manufactured by Alexander Dodds, Grand Rapids, Mich. have been using all our ;..ro. 4 sa' ..·. table, only we have mad~ it larger on the floor. The raising and lowering device is the same as we ha\'e on the No.4 machine, with lever and pitman. The lever is made of ~teel. "The arbor is made of 10-inch steel, running in long ring oiling boxes, and is for I-inch hole in saw, \;Ve furnish one I4-inch saw on each macbine. It will carry a I6-inch saw if desired. "Table is made with a center slide 12 inches wide with a movement of 24 inches. It has a locking device to hold it when you do not wish to use it, and has a detachable mitre gauge to be used when using the sliding table. Can cross-cut with table extended to 24 inches, also rip up to 24 inches wide. Table has a removable throat that can be taken ont when using dado. It also has two mitre gauges for regular ..vork and a two-sided rip gauge that can be used on either side of the saw, more especially when the table is tilted; also :L tilting rip gauge to be used to cut bevel work when you do not wish to tilt the table. The top is 40 x 44 inches. "Countershaft has tight and loose pulleys lOx4 inches, and the drive pulley is 16 x 5 inches, countershaft should run 800. l\,faking in all about as complete a machine as can be found and at a reasonable price." \\Trite for price to above address. Complete Outfits Give Satisfaction. C. B. Atkin, who is largely ellgaged in the manufacture of wood mantels in Knoxville, Tenn., uses complete outfits of gluing machinery, cookers and presses manufactured by Charles E. Francis & Brother of Rushville, Ind., at his two factories and pronounces the same entirely satisfactory. 6 Dainty Bedroom Furnishings. In the drawing shown of a guest room a paper with a half garland of dainty pink blossoms, green leave:~ and a bit of floating blue ribbon in the design is applied to the ceiling, extending to the picture rail. A similar design is shown on the material used at the windows as over cnrtains and in the covering of the winged chair. The side walls are tinted green in a soft pastel shade. The central rug of \Vilton carpet 8hmvs -tones of mossy green. The standing wood- '...o..rk of the room is of ivory white enamel, alld the hui)t-in There is no single jarring note in the entire color scheme. The various shades of rose and of green tone the one into the other, while the exquisite ivory of woodwork and furniture is repeated in the creamy curtains at the windows. The room designated in the illustration as "a man's room" is especially interesting and characteristic. The bold, sturdy lines of the dark oak furniture include the cottage bed, a McKinley armchair, a candle stand and, last but not least, a bachelor's chiffonier. This furniture is not expensive, though it is well built, and as will be seen by the illustration, simple bookcases are treated as part of the standing woodwork. The small taple and several chairs, as well as the screcn frame, have also been enameled. The table and chairs were orig'inally designed for kitchen furnishings. The rug \vas the most expensive part of the furnishing. This cost $30. Next the glass of the will(lows are hung-creamery madras' curtains, which are lightly caught on either side . .The decorative details of this room were composed and evolved by the woman who loved her home and beautiried it. The exquisite lamp shade on the small table and the erlndk screClls 'wen~ the work of her hands. of line. The chiffonier is arranged for the convenient stow-ing of shirts and trousers, as well as the smaller accessories of the toilet. The wall is simply treated, the upper third being covered with a p,lper of dead leaf brown, showing a conventional de-sign in old blue at spaced intervals. This, with the darker brown of the woodwork and the two-toned brown stripe paper used for the lower wall, is relieved by the ecru tone of the tiles about the mantel and the ceiling color, which is re-peated in the plain nct drapery at the windows. The other room ShOVv"11 is complete in its furnishings, and yet in comparison with the neighboring drawings one feels its M.l.,DARRfTl 3 co. Importers Merchants Manufacturers 219 Lake Street, Chicago snmAcaUMS ~MIF.rIG7!N 7 It is a PIGMENT FIRST COATER. no firm makes a better piece of goods In our honest opinion Let us convince you. "Wemahe ROYAL SURFACER We also make Polishing Varnishes. The Royal Varnish Company, Toledo,' Ohio. incompleteness. This room lacks the individual touches. Tt would be impossible. to (\ctexminc in looking at this room the characteristics of its occupant. Such a room. hO\vever, is as often fOi.\nd in tllt'; homes of the well-to-do people who are fond of heautiful things as in a hotel.-1VIargaret Green-leaf. An Incident. A business man, deeply engrossed in the cares of the da}', with a deeply furrowed brow and throbbing temples, bellt over his desk and gloomily contemplated the future. The "honk-honk" of the horn on a '.-Vhite steamer caused the man of business to glance out of a near-by window, when he noticed a big, jolly and happy friend, swinging his arms like a Dutch windmill, beckoning the man of business to ap~ proach the vehicle. Languidly responding to the vigorous invitation, the weary busincss man closed the nfl-ice door and approached the steamer, when the big man whipped off his great overcoat and, ellclosing his fricnd in it:.; ample folds, urged him to "get in," A pair of amused bystanders of the "ncver-say-dic" species, ,,,,itnessing· the incident, were sum-moned by the big mall to enter the "ilutO." and a moment later the party glided over the smooth pavement through the city. The big man cracked his jokes, pointed om many places of surprising· interest that none of the party had no-ticed, led his friends to an auction sale, ·where be joshed the salesman and bought everything that \Araswortb buying, pur-chased skin food and perfumery of it druggist for his lately disconsolate friend, promptly choked of alt remarks that con-tained the slightest suggestion of husiness, joked the police-men on the crossings, advised bo}'s riding bicycles to "hitch on" to the steamer, ;,l1d so made the business tnan "forget I I FOR SALE: I I FURNITURE AND PIANO BUSINESS Profits last year $18701.06. Capital nec-essary to handle ihis business $27000. Reasons for selling, proprietor wants larger opportunities. Address XYZ, Care of Michigan Artisan, himself." After all hour or two of fun the exuberantly spir-ited big man returned his friend to the office he had left a rad-ically changed man. The corrugations no longer marred his hrow; t11('pain:; in his head had ceased, his "veary eyes bright-ened and expressed plcaS111'cand the black future of two hours past took on a radiant hue. The business man was as rested, as happy and as jolly as a healthy child upon awakening Sketch by Charles A. De Land, Student in the Grand Rapids School of Designing. from a long afternoon's sleep. Naturally, the reader would like to learn the names of the motorman and his friends" but the purpose of the ·writer will be served if he shall be able, hy re\at~ng this incident, to exbibit the kindly disposition, the forethought and consideration for the welfare of others ever present ill a man widely known, respected and admired by thousands in the busines ,...o.rld-Ralph P. Tietsort, treasurer of the Royal Furniture C(m1pallY, Grand Rapids. 8 -~~MI9,tIIG7JN THE A~TISTIC ANTIQUE. Is Bought at Auction by the Newly Married and Enthusiasm Hides I ts Defects. "There's no question about it," said" ),hs. Honeymooner wheu her husband came home that night. "The Smiths have a most artistic flat, and they paid very little for the titting of it. "All the furniture is genuine antitlue. Came from old South Carolina plantations and those other places down south. "YOll know those old families send theiJ things up he,"e to be sold. Southerners are so proud that they don't like to sell 'em where they live." Mr.- Honeymooner listened while the waitress brought the dinner provided by the apartment hotel. He was glad to hear about the cheapness of this style of furniture because their own nest was being made ready. "So I'm going to buy everything at auction," 1V1r5,Honey-mooner went on, scarcely noticing in her enthusiasm that she had taken canned corn for three nights in succe:~sion, ".and you'll see what artistic rooms we'll ha\'e." So she haunted the auctions and a varied lot of chairs that creaked ominously whenever they were sat on, bookcases that rdused to shut after they had been submitted to a very mod-erate allowance of the steam heat in the flat, chesls of draw-ers with a most perverse desire to stay shut-these familiar antiques were soon placed about the Honeymooners' new Hat, Then there were tables that would wabble, however the carpenter might work to adjust their legs to a com111on length_ They were more or less accurate reproductions of old models and made a tasteful show in .the little rooms of the apartment. To the captious the veneer might seem a little too brilliant, and the brass knobs and handles certainly shone with a bronze glow that did not suggest antiquity. The visual appeal of the rooms, however, was a success; whatever might be thought of the comfort. "Ridiculous," replied thc happy ~Irs. Honeymooncr, when the less artistic half, of the family grumbled out the desire to sit down just once in a chair that did not creak menacingly. "Real antiques cannot be as strong as a kitchen chair. You must realize that." So the Honc,ymooner continued to dwell os' comfortably as possible among the antiyues which the superior wealth of the North had grasped from the proud families of the South who needed the money_ It would have been heartless to dis-abuse the mind of Mrs. Honeymooner as to their origin. :Kone but a brute could have turned around the chests of drawers and showed her the ne.\' wood in the back or called attention to the very obvious newness of the metal work. She was in the first happy stage of the antique fever. Then all mahogany is old, all brasses are the original ornaments and there is no guile in the vender of artistic objects. In the face of such faith, who could have led her by the hand over to Fourth avenue and called her attention' to what her eyes refused to see? ":\Iany times had she passed by the little shops in the side streets and failed to see the piles of gcnuine clawfeet, turned out by machinery until hundreds awaited the arrival of the searcher for this or that antique piece. Perhaps the dealer did not have it, but he knew somebody who did. So any-thing in the clawfoot line \vas certain to be ready by the next day. The supply of antique brass drawer handles, knobs, or or-naments as large as several factories always at work can make them, is another disillusioning detail to which the seek-er after antiques seems equally ·blind. Mrs. Honeymooncr was as lucky as the rest of her kind in escaping interruption to her blissful dream of beautiful antiques, genuine and at a price within the means of a young couple just starting on their way in life. "There is no question about it," said Mrs. Hom',ymooner, when her ln~sband came home on the night she put the fin-ishing touch to their apartment. "Vole have just as artistic a flat as the Smiths did and we paid very little for it. All our furniture is genuine antique-came from old South Caro-lina plantations." During the time intervening between the marriage of the lloneyn:ooners and their acquisition of their own home the Smiths prospered. Smith got an interest in a magazine and tbe amount of advertising he secured for it made his holding much more profitable than he had ever suspected it would be. The Smiths consequently acquired a house and a runabout. Every Pur<:haser Satisfied ..w THE One· half Our Trade MICHIGAN TRUCK There's a Reason Duplicate aod Trlpllca Ie HARD- Orders WOOD FRAMES M.M.a L.CO. MALLE-ABLE IRON CASTINGS HOLLY, MICH. Then they had a small motor car of the same description. Smith of course used to run it himself, but it was not long before he plunged about in a French touring car with, a be-furred ehaffeur at the wheel. It was n.ot consistent to combine such means of transpor-tation with life ill a flat, although Smith got the rigs cheaper through his advertising interests, so he hought a house. They had just moved in when the Honeymooners decided they were ready to entertain, and kept their promise to them-selves that the Smiths should be their first guests. "Perhaps it·s her money that's made her different," sighed J..hs. Honeymooner after the entertainment was over, as she prepared to carry the whiskey and soda glasses out to the pantry, whence issued already the snores of the exhausted maid. "There are mighty few that can stand it." ;'Bosh !" ans\',rered her husband, who was dropping the contents of the ash trays out of the window that the sitting room might not smell of stale smoke in the morning. "I thought she seemed very different. She scarcely said a word about our beautiful furniture. Merely l6okedaround and said,. yes it was pretty. I remember how I raved over hers. It was pretty, too; but 110 prettier'than ours." "Thought you were a copy-cat probably," answered her husband, who had finished his chores by closing up the bridge table and pushing it behind the sofa. "Couldn't help feeling sore because you'd made the place look so nice." "Mrs. Honeymooner was we1l down the shooting gallery hall when she heard this. "\-Vell, we'll see how her new place looks next week," she called back to tl:e faithful Honeymooner, who had just blown out the lamp at the risk of losing an elebrow. "What-ever she has I'm going to be just as snippy about it." The night of the dinner at the Smiths' found their friends on· time. Mrs. Honeymooner swept the hall and drawing room at a glance as the maid took her cloak. They were a ~MIC1-I.IG.7l1't • .., ,. e 9 TUIS MACUINE MAKES TUE MONEY It makes a perfect imitation of any open grain because it uses the wood itself to print from, and one operator and a couple of boys can do more worl{ with it than a dozen men with any other so-called machine or pads on the market. That's why it"s a money maker. It Jmitates perfectly. 50 50 Machines More Sold Satisfied Last Year Manufacturers PLAIN or QUARTERED OAK, MAHOGANY, WALNUT, ELM, ASH or any other wood with open grain. -~--- \VRITE THE Posselius Bros. Furniture Manufacturing Co., Detroit, Mich. FOR PRICES AND FUL.L FARTICUL...AR8. ME:NTION THE: MICHIGAN AflTI .....N minute atone in the drawing' 1'00111 and 1\1rs. Honeymooner had the time to make her ohservation thorough. "Did you ever see any thing- like it?" she ,vhispered dramat-ically to her husband. "There isn't a stick of old furniture ;:l1lywlH;re in the room." Even the eye of a Inan to whom such matters offered little interest could not fnil to mark the brand new appearance of the furniture. There were in tbe room upholstered chairs firm as a mountain, hut soil as a feather mattress to the tired man. There were leather chair::; that did not totter under the weight of the heaviest guest. At dinner they sat on eh<lirs of wood and leather ..\.'.hich wabblcd no more than the firm table, all which one indifferent to the finest points of table etiquette might lean his elbows without danger of shaking the gla:~ses, "Your house is lovely," ).J rs. 1-1oney11looner said wben the two women \il,rcn: together, forgetting her unfriendly decision under the warmth of her friend's hospitality. "But \vhat did yOIl do with all your beautiful old furniture?" "Don't m~ntio11 it," said JJrs. Smith. "YVc count that as a part of our earliest struggles. John and J used always to say that we \",ould get comfortable furniture whenever we werc rich enough. Of course. it didn't mean to be very rich. hut it mean a good deal for us, I-T e 11('.\,el-ceased to quarrel about the rickety stuff, although it all seem cd bc~autifLll enough to me. 11 didn't mind if it did creak and totter, loved it." "But yOIl gave it all up?" "\Vhat thc:re \',7as left of it at thc end of fOllt' years," the hostess went on. "Of course, it didn't wear vvith tiS as it lwei for the century or two it spent on the Southern planta-tion." IVIrs. Honeymooner .vas as fond of her anti<..j,uestllat night as she had ever been, and refused to join her husband in hi,,; cntht.siastic praise of Smith's comfortable chairs, She thought her antiques were much more artistic, Tt happened that the Honeymooners prospered, too, and another home was the natural result. There had to be new fnn iture as vl'cll. The antiques had followed, the way of lIJrs. Sn::itll's and lost the youthful strength of their apocry-phal days on tbe Southern plantation. ~lrs. Honeymooner bought the furniture again, The new followed in its general fashion that of the second Smith period. "For it's 1110re comfortable, really," she explained, "when you're young, Now we're old enough to be comfortable, and \ve can afford it," "Yes," assented her husband. "And we don't have to be s-o darned artistic."'-;.1'" ew York Sun, Lady Montgomery Starts on a Business Career. Lady rvlary Graham l\.Jolltgomery, one of eight sister:, fCIlQ'rl'llCd for their startling beauty, is the latest recruit to the ranks of aristocratic traders, She has elected to start her business career as an artistic hOLlSC decorator, and only quite recently opened premises ill Duke street, Manchester Square, LOlldon. The distinguished ownership of the new shop is concealed under the following- laconic commercial announce-ment: "Rapley. House Decoration, Alterations, Uphol-stery, Sanitatioll." LId}' l\lontgomery is the wife of Sir Thomas Montgom-ery, s('venth baronet of Stanhope, in Peeblesshirc, and the youngest daughter of the late Sir Thomas and Lady Louisa !Vfoncrieffe. Her eldest sister married the present Duke of Atho11, who holds more titles than <Iny other peer in the British 1s1es. Lady il'1ontgol11ery follows the example of many other distinguished shop-keepers.-London Tit-Bits, lOG. 110. 112 norl~Diyision~1. Qr~ndR~~ids lOG. 110.112 nort~Diyision~t. Qr~ndn~~ids OUR BUILDING EN G R A V ERS P R I NT E RS B IN o E RS PRI NT E RS B IN o ERS EN G R A V E RS Erected by White Printing Company. Grand Rapids, 1907. Michigan Engraving Company :: White Printing Company Michigan Artisan Company OFFICES: CINCINNATI--Pleker'lll& Bou.lldlng. NEW YORK--346 Sroadwa.y. BOSTON--18Tremont St. CHICACQ--!34 Van Buren St. GRAND RAPIDS--Housernan Bldg. JAMESTOWN. N. Y.--Ch ..d.koln 8ldg. HIGH POINT. N. C.--Stanton-Weleh Block. The most satisfactory and up-to-date Credit Service covering the FURNITURE, CARPET, COFFIN and ALLIED LINES. The most accul"a.te and relia.ble Reference Book Published. Originators of the "Tracer and Clearing House 5,._tem." Cottection Service Unsurpassed-Send for Book of Red Dra/is. H. J. DANHOF. Michigan Manaiier. 347-348 Houselll20n 8ulldlb •• Grand Rapids. Mleh. PETER COOPER'S GLUE is the best in all kinds of weather. \Vben other manufact-urers or agents tell you their glue is as good as COOPER'S. they admit Cooper's is the BEST. No one extols his pro-duct by comparing it with an inferior article. Cooper's Glue is the world's standard of excellence. With it all experi-ment begins, all comparison continues, and all test ends. Sold continuously since 1820. Its reputation, like itself, STICKS. Peter Cooper's glue is made from selected hide stock, carefully prepared. No hones or pig stock enter into its composition. In strength it is uniform, each barrel containing the same kind of glue that is in every other barrel of the same grade. ORIN A, WARD GRAND RAPIDS.GENT 403 Ashton Bldg. CITIZENS PHONE 9333 A Well Established Manufacturing Business for Sale A modernly eqnipped factory, especially adapted for the manufacture of office desks and furniture is for sale. 'l"he business is in active operation, and an unusually good opportunity is offered to anyone desiring to en!fage in the line of business mentioned. Address P. O. Box 50, RIC"MOIIIO, 11110. Investigate our Line. New 200 page Catalogue for 1907 Free. Saw and Knife Fitting Machinery and Tools ~~',~';.~:i.~~~,:~~' Baldwin. Tuthill ®. Bolton Grand R.a.plds, Mich. Filers. Setters, Sharllenets, Grinders, Swaoes, Stretchers, Brazino and Filing Clamps. Knife Balances. Hammering Tools. Bolton Band Saw Filer for Sawl % inch up. B. T. & B. Shle 0, Knile Grinder. Full Automatic. Wet or dry. l1 These saws are made from No. 1 Steel and we war-rant every blade. We also carry a full stock of Bev-eled Back Scroll Saws, any length and gauge. WriUl UI fo .. Price List 'and discount 31-33 S. FRONT ST., GRAND RAPIDS Morton House ( American Plan) Rates $2.50 and Up. Hotel Pan tJin d (European Plan) Rate. $1.00 and Up. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. The Noon Dinner Served at the Pantlind for 500 is THE FINEST IN THE WORLD. J. BOYD PANTI..IND, Prop. 12 HER OWN BUNGALOW. Miss Chubb Making Use of Her Manual Arts Training. To build her own bungalow is the project which Miss Eva Irene Chubb, a pupil in the manual arts departttJ.ent at Teachers College, is planning to carry' out this summer. :Miss Chubb proposes to be her own architect and to do a good part of the building with her own hands as well as to supervise that part which she isn't able to do herself, such for instance as the excavation for the cellar. So confident is she that her bungalow wil be finished and ready for occu-pancy by August 1 that she has already issued invitations for a housewarming, The bungalow is to be built on acreS, a few miles north of Albany, her father's farm at Schuylerville. of 350 On a Sketch by Otto Jlranek:. Grand Rapids, M1Ch. knoll about half a mile from the house is the site: It is a beautiful stretch of couritry and from the broad veranda of the bungalow one will be able to look out on a pretty and pic-turesque stream, the Saratoga river, which winds in (l,nd out among the hills and valleys thereabouts. On the bank of the river, which is not more than fifty fect from where the bungalow will stand, ·.:vliss Chubb will erect a bathotlse which is to house a slick little Thousand Islands craft which this young woman is now in the process of building. For this addition to the plant she bought lJlans and cut her boat accordingly, making no more ado about it than most women might about a dress or a shirtwaist. Ivliss Chubb expects to leave college about May 1 and re-turn to her home in order to put her project into operation, and much of her time meanwhile is being spent in studying the mysteries of building and construction and in perfecting her plans so that she can proceed with as little delay as pos-sible. When seen at the college reccntly she was at her bench deep in the mysteries of cabinet making. She was just putting the finishing touches to a table done in mission style, one of a number of similar pieces of furni-ture designed for the new bungalow. For everything now is being done with that end in vicw, and up to date there are besides the table, a scttee, a .vood box, a tabourette and a desk, 1liss Chubb, who looks like a girl that can do things, didn't think that her determination to build her own bunga-low was a matter of exciting moment. It just looked to her like a plain every day sort of operation which' anyone might accomplish if her mind happened to be turned in that dirc<> tion. But her friends don't think so; they gaze upon her with profound admiration, and after they have endeavored to drive nails ill their dormitory hedrOilms, with the deepest re-spect. In explaining her plans Miss Chubb pointed out that she was aiming more at comfort and a certain picturesqueness of aspect than a snlution of any deep problem in building con-struction. "I simply mean to have a bungalow where I call entertain my friends," she said. "It will be along the lines of a wood camp with nothing of the elaborate detail that characterizes some of the bungalows one sees pictured in the magazines. "My plans call for a three-roomd welling on one floor, with a fireplace, broad veranda and a few of the accessories of the sort that go to make up the typical summer camp, though as a matter of fact the building could be use(l until snow flies if desired, the way it will be built. "Nothing l1l1uSl1alwill mark the construction as to the frame work. Half logs from which mut:h of the bark has been removed, will cover the outer walls. These will after-ward be stained y;.-itha good creosote stain in green one that will stand the weather and not fade. "The shack wilt have somewhat the appearance of a log cabin and will be particularly in harmocy with the sur-roundings, for it will be ncstled in the midst of a grove of n~aples. Fortunately there is plenty of maple and birch on the place which are available, so that this will, for me, reduce the cost of construction. "The interior finish and trim will consist prohably oi the maple and the sawing can be done at the mill in tOWIl. An-other product of the farm which will be brought into use is the field stone, which will be used to 'build the fireplace and also for the four stout square pillars which will support the ten foot veranda running across the front of the house. "Besides one large living room covering 16 by 24 feet floo'r space there will be a bed chamber nearly as large except for a small kitchenette. The latter opens, as does the bedroom, from the living room 011 one side of the fireplace. "Panels of birch wil sheathe the walls of the 'rooms, while the ceiling wilt show beams and rafters of maple left in a semi-rough fll1ish. On either side of the flrepla,f:e, which will be big enough to take in six-foot logs ,a settle will be built and in the two corners of the room at either side of the front door low divans will be placed, over which book shelves will be hung or rather built in." Whcn asked if she looked for any difficulty in building, ~{iss Chubb said she didn't cross bridges until she got to them, but as far as she could see she didn!t think she would have any troubles; at any fate she wasn't looking for it. By no means the least attractive part of the furnishings of the bungalow will be the articles which Miss Chubb has made herself in the manual arts course at the college. In fact it might bc safely predicted that nearly all of the furnish-ings wilt be iil the line of handicrafs.-l\ ew York Sun. 10ufs 'lbabn DESIGNS AND DETAILS OF FURNITURE IS. Livingston St. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN Citl.:R11S' Telephone 1102. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING BETTER THAN OUR GUM and COTTONWOOD DRAWER BOTTOMS 13 Dried by the "Proetor SystemH Machine. (We will describe it to you.) Prompt deliveries of DRY STOCK rain or shine. (Something unheard of before.) WALTER CLARK VENEER CO 535 Michigan Trust Buildiug, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Harmonious Effects. A dining room in whicb the furniture was black ,'\'alnllt, shading to tbe lighter tones, was brought into harmony by llsing a golden brown crepe paper and by painting the wood-work in dull black. Blue was introduced with tan color in the rug and curtains. Black walllut produced the best of effects with a lavender color scheme in a bedroom. The lavender. which seems to be a pet bedroom idea with any number of wotnen, "\\'as put into the walls and rugs and portieres. A little green was in-troduced for relief, <md the woodwork was white and the cur-tains were of white ground, figured strongly in purple clem-atis, with a less amount of green in the stems and leaves. Oak furniture does not go well with red and where it is necessary to retain a red rug if the latter is at all dark a dark yellow will be successful on the walls. The walLs and paper can then be harmonized ,...i.t.h flowered curtains in red and yellow madras. Blue back of oak is alway" a good choice, and there are mallY greens that go with it "vell. ldahogany. for which there are many good settings, is never so welt shown as with green wal1s and white enameled woodwork. The ·white enamel is especially good in throw-ing out the outlines of the l11ahogany. A pretty parlor scheme has {lapel' and portieres of a strong rose, with white enameled woodwork. The mahogany furniture i'l uphols-tered with satin damask, the larger pieces in old rose and the smaller ones in a mixed tapestry of old rose and green. Green overcurtains were used at the windows, which gave the variety of a two~toned effect.-lvlilwaukee Sentinel. Recent Sales of Graining Machines. The Posselius Brothers 1\1anufacturing Company of De-troit. rVIich., have tilled orders for graining machines, by the use of v.:hich pnfect imitations of fine cabillet woods may be produced, to the following: Caye Furniture Company, Stevens Point. \\/is. \Volverine :\:1anufacturing Company, Detroit, ),fieh. Day I\.Jetallic Company, Detroit, .Mich. J. C. \~7jdmall Company, Detroit. .:\-lich. lHurphy Chair Company, Detroit. lvlich. Luger Furniture CompallY (2), rvIinneapolis, :\Jinn. North St. Paul Table Company (2), Xorth St. Paul, }Ji 11 11. Day rdanufacturing Company, Jersey City, 1\. ]. Hager;;town Table Vv' orks, Hagerstown, :Lvld. St. Johns Tahle Company, Cadillac, Mich. General Fireproofing CompallY, Youngstown, O. Otta''',.,<1 Furniture Company. Hol\and, T\lich. Fond du Lac Table Company, Fond du Lac, \Vis. St. Lawrence Furniture Company, Riven': du Loup, Que-bec. Reliable Furniture Company, Baltimore, Md. F. A. Broadbent ::\1alltel Company, Baltimore, Aid. Vv'. J. Scully Ventilator 1\.Ianufacturil1g Company, Detroit, 1Jich. Kelley-Sorenson Furniture Company, Clinton, la. 1.fcrsman Bros. & Brandts, Celina, O. L'. S. Chair Campaily, Corry, Pa. Joseph Peters Furniture Company, St. Louis, -:.\'10, !\Ieicr & Pohlman Furniture Company, St. Louis, Mo. A, P. Bohlinger Table Company, St. Louis, .:\rl0. New York Desk & Dining Room Furniture CompallY, ;-Jew York, K. Y. Humphrey Book Case Company, Elkhart, Ind. Cabinet l\.Jakers Union, Indianapolis, Ind. lVlorganton Furniture Company, 110rganton, N. C. Stout Furniture Compal1y, Salem, Ind. Fox & MasoH, Corunna. Mich. Merriam, Hall & Co., North Leominster, )''1as5. Framke & Sievers, Chicago, Ill. Buffalo Lounge Con~pal1Y, Bu]al0, K. Y. Arcadia Furnjture Company, Arcadia, Mich. Ballman, Cummings Furniture Company. Fort Smith, Arn. Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company, Buffalo, N. Y. Rockford Cabinet Company, Rockford, Ill. E. }J. Hulse Company, Columbus, O. Quincy Show Case Company, Quincy, []1. California Lumber & Milling Company, 'Vest Berkel.;y, Cal. Dwight Lumber Company, Detroit, Mich. Anderson Furniture Company, New Castle, :.J. B. Petrolene Company, \Vhiting, Ind. Keokl1k Floor Coving Company, Keokuk. fa. Drexel Furniture Company. Drexel. N. C. Specialty Furniture Company. Evansville, Ind. .?\apen,j]le Lounge Company, Xaperyille. Ill. Globe Furniture Con~pany.' Evansville, Il~d. A. G. \Viedman Cigar Box Company, Kans:ls City, 1\10. Cornell Table Company. Earlville, N. Y. Robbins Table Company. Owosso, )'iich. House of Correction, Detroit, "YIich. C. G. Ginter, Company. Columhus, O. Rishel Furniture Company, \Villiamspon, Pa. Upham :"lanufacturing Company, Marshfield, "Vis. Columbus Brass Company, Columbus, O. D. \ViIfson & Sons, Baltimore, )'l d. -:.\1arkdaJe Furniture Company,. Markdalc. Ont. Judkins Company, Chicago, Ill. Deinzer Furniture Company, \1ollroe, Ivlich. A. R. V\'jl1iulns Machinery Company, Toronto, Onto 1Jeaford ·Manufacturing Company, ~leaford, Ont. Fenske Brothers, Chicago, 111. The Acme Company, Chicago, Ill. American 1Ianufacturing Comp,my, Sheboygan, \\Tis. Battle Creek Table Company, Battle Creek, 11ich. 14 ·~~rvr.lf ..HIG?!N, !:STASLlSH&:D 1880 PueL.15HI!:D liT MlCHIGAN ARTISAN CO. ON THE 10TH AND 25TH OP' EACH MONTH O......ICE-108. 110,112 NOATH l:"VISION ST., GRAND 'R....PIDS. MiCH. ~TIiIll!O " IU.TnR OF "Tlol.ElleJ::ON.D Cu.u 1n his addres!'> to the retailer:~ of Vrisconsin,' ~1r. Arwin C. Hahn, the treasurer of the PhOCllix Chair Company, She-boygan, \\Tis" discussed some of the evils to 'which manufac-turers are subjected by the retail merchants throughout the Uttited States. He was justified in his complaint against the unlawful deductlons on invoices of goods, broken goods damaged in transit, due to rough handling on the part of the transportation companies and errors arising through corres-pondence, also to abuses imposed tlpon the Juanufaeturers in the matter of supplying reproductions of parts broken. He claimed justly that the retailers should aid the manufacturers in obtaining redress from the railroad companies for break-ages, in consideration of the practice of the manufacturers in supplying pieces tll replace broken parts gratuitously. Care-lessness in re'turning goods .subjects the manufacturer to many losses and <l.1ll10yarices. Kot -infrequeritly dealers ship to a ll1,-IllUfactllrer gocds IJurchased of another of whom the man-ufacturerreceiving the goods knows nothing, thus creating a coedition it i:.; <J.lmost impossible to rectify. The speaker pleaded for cooperation between the manufacturer alld dealer, It would serve the hest interests of both. "t" "t" Since the opening of the existing season of del;lression in business, a great many "legitimate" retailers bave issued cata-logues and scattered the same broadcast. :.;rot infrequently the title pages, numbers of pieces and the prices printed in the catalogues of rr.anufaeturers have been changed and thousands of catalogues issued in the name o( the retailer, al-though the forms and descriptive mattcr were prepared by the wholesaler. Can such retailers be considered "legiti-mate," or do they deserve censure on account of their efforts to sell goods in the towns of other retailers by the employ-alent of the mails? I. "to °tO A tnanl1facturer, speaking evide,ntly from experience, de-clares that "it is pleasant to do busincs with mail order mer-chants." IVlodcrn methods are employed in all transactions; settlements arc made upon the exact terms of a contract. Broken pieccs are repaired at the expense of tbe purchasers, ,,, ...ho look to the transportation companies to make good such losses. The prC£erence given by many manufacturers for orders from mail order merchants is not surprising. <)t<) <)f' vVise manufacturers rarely attempt to supply goods fin-ished to match in color, goods made by others or by them-selves in years of the past. It is almost impossible to match the colors of goods that have been in use for any considerable time. Besides, when the attempt is made, a cancellation order is likely to come in when the goods have reached a point half way through the fmishi11g. room, "to °t" The secretary of tbe National Case Makers Association, like the boy on the burning deck, sticks to his job. Firmly perched on the safety valve of conservatism, he sounds the slogall of the association: "Hold production to not more than fifty per cent of your capacity and maintain prices," fre- ~---- I 7IR T 1..5'.7£.2\1 t $". quenHy and forcibly. services. He is e.arning the n{nne,y p'O\idfor his 0.0 I The average pay of workmen employed in tlle industries north of the Ohio river and east of the Mississippi is $40 per 111onth. The "pauper labor of Europe," to quote the cam-paign orator, is not paid ([uite so liberally, but his living ex-ipenses are much lo"vcr in sU,ch industrial nations as Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland and England. °t" at" A considerable number of manufacturers have 110t com-menced work on new lines for the fall season of trade, and may not change styles this year. Probably they imagine that old styles will sell as readily as Ilew when the fall sea-son opens. Perhaps they ,,,ill; probably they will not. "t<) Ct" One-third of the cost of coal might be saved if stokers understood the scientific principles of comhustion. That would mean upward of one hundred- million tons a yea! in the United States-an item that should command cOllsidcra-tiotl. °tC CtC The man who spends the first half of his life in accumu-lating a fortune and the second half in paying his savings to thedoetors in the endeavor to regain a few days of health, is considered a financier in the ffi(iney centers of the world. °tO "t" "tC The manufacture of turpentine from the stumps and roots of cut~over pine lands in Louisiana has been commenced at Lake Charles. Machinery designed especially for ~he pur-pose is used. The industry promises to grow 111 importance. "to Ct'" The damage to upholstered furniture in cities in which soft coal is burned is ten per cent per annum.),fanufactur-ers of cover fabrics would find no reason for complaint if the loss were twice as great. °fo "'to Proper firing would do much toward curing the smoke evil in the great cities where soft coal is burned. A good beginning in many cases would be the firing of the smoke in--: spector. CtC "tC Manufacturers would be justified in calling in the ·police when traveling salesmen whose· contracts expire with the spring seaSOll, strike for illcreases in salaries. "to "to Philadelphia and Evansville have av.·.a. kcncd to the import-ance of a furniture exposition and expect to be known as ex-positl0n towns next year. Ct" °tC \Vith twenty-five thousand marriages solemnized in the United States every day, the installment bnsillcss should not continue dull long. "t" "to At the age of 21 most men afe too young to realize that the?, don't ,know all there is to learn in the furniture manu~ac-turmg husmess.1 CtC 0tC I Because he "stood-off" a bill collector sixteen times, young Schadd is recognized as "the most promising young man in Chicago." \Vhile trying to pick up pennies a man not infrequently drops dollars. °t" "to The good listener IS the shrewdest buyer in the furniture trade. Abolish the Easy Chair. You will notice, if you make a tom through any oHLce building, that the men who have tile most businesslike. wide-awake appearance are the men in straight legged, straight backed chairs. The emplo~yC-'; most liable to have an idle thousand miles away look are those nested in swing hack, ball bearing seats of rest. It is not the fault of the employe that he looks lazy, it is 'the fault of the chair. A mistaken idea of comfort has led manufacturers to develop a style of chair which is C0111fort-able in theory, hut which for business ptlrposcs is a mistake. It makes working a hardship. No man can 100ver himself into a device which instantly invites him to loll back, light a good cigar., clasp his hands behind his head, and tell a good story-no average mall can sit in such a chair and work. l\Iental concentratioll is dependent on physical stimulus. The chair ,vhich makes a man sit erect, keeping him pointed at his work, is best-best bath for the employer who hires the man and for the man who uses the chair. There is at least one employer in Chicago who has discov-ered this fact and acted upon hi~ discovery. He owns a large printing bllSillCSS. Not long ago he moved into nc\',,' quarters. His office force he placed in a large room ill full view of the entrance, This room he claboratdy finished in costly wood, furnished it with fine heavy desks and with lux-uriant chairs. He was particularly proud of this office, ~\nd he showed it enthusiastic:aly to every business and social acquaintance who called on him. Oue day he awoke. He had been showing' an out-of-town customer over his plant, and all returning to his private oHlce settled back contentedly ,.,..ith, "ViIell, ,vhat do you think of it?" The reply '''.'as prompt: "Everything is tine except the parlor. You have the laziest looking offlce force I ever saw in my life. I came in here £ronl a small city, expecting to see things done as they should be, and here I fltld only a set of idlers, who do nothing hut lie back and ya"wn. H O\V do they ever work? Take my advice, either get a new set of clerks or put fJrecrackers under those you have." The employer pondered-and watcl1ed. About a ,veek later a furniture van brought to his door a sufficient number of erect, energetic looking chairs to supply his office force. It departed loaded "with an equal number of the indolent kind. Today that employer points with pride to a roomful of what he declares to be the, most alert, wide-awake, interested looking dc~k workers in the city. The change of chairs did it. W. A. FREDI'RIC. A New Plant in Course of Erection. There has just been dosed at 1hrictta. 0., a business deed of considerable il11portan(~c between two manufaeturillg C0111- panies of that city which has opened the eyes of Marietta peo-ple to the magnitude of One of the inchtstrics cotlcernd. As a result of the transaction the l\1arietta Paint & Color Com-pany has sold its present larg;e plant at tho:: corner of Fnrt and \Vood streets, \Vest 1.larietta, and will immediately COl1l~ me nee work on .a much larger and more lllodern plant ill K arwood, an eastern suburb of that city. For sever8l years past the Marietta Paint & Color C0111- pany has found its present large plant at the corner of Fort its immen:=;e and constantly growing busil~ess. This com-pany is probably the largest manufacturer of wood fi.nishing materials in the world. It is also a large manufacturer of high grade paints and paint specialties, and it is the expand-ing of business in all these lines that has mndc it necessary for the compauy to seek larger qnarters_ The ne,y plant will be thoroughly modern and will be equipped with every facility for the handling of business of the company. The site selected is an ideal Ol1e and ""vi\[ afford convenient railroad shipping facilities. L. 15 I( your DESIGNS are right, people want the Goods. That ma.kes PRICES right. (tlarence 'JR. bills DOES IT 163Madison Avenue -Citizens Phone 1983, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ELEVATORS IMPROVED, EASY AND QUJCK RAISINC Belt, Eledric atld H"nd Power. The Best Hand Power for Furniture Stores Send fOJ:" Catalogue and Prices. KIMBAlL BROS. CO., 1067 N;.'h sc. Council Bluffs, la. KI:rnball Elevator Co •• 323PrClspect St., Cleveland, 0.; 10811th St., Omaha, Neb.; I:~OCedar St., New York City. =====-SEE:===== West Michigan Machine & Tool Co" ltd. GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. for mG" GRADE PIJNG"ES and DIES. We can help you. Time saved and when done leavesare bound (by your-self) and indexed by floors or departments. BARLOW BROS., Grand Rapid8. Mich. Write Right Now. West Side 36 Inch Band Saw Machine, Gleason Palenl Sectional ,Feed Roll, "'~~~MAN:UFACTUl<KD BY·===== WEST SIDE IRON WORKS CRANO RAPIDS, MICH., U. s. A. WABASH B. WALTER & CO. INDIANA M""f,,'",,,. of T ABLE SLIDES Exclusively. WRITE FOR PRICES AND DISCOUNT WHITE PRINTING CO., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. PRINTERS OF CATALOGUES and everything needed by business men 16 17 Oran~Da~i~sDlow Pi~e .an~Dust Arrester (om~anJ THE LATEST de"ice for handling shavings and dust from all wood-working l1wchines. Our }linetcen years experience in this class of "uJork has brought it nearer perfection than any other system on the market today. It is no experil'nentJ but a demonstrated scientific fact~ as ',Jut have 'Sc"veral hun-dred of these systcnls in use, and not a poor one am,ong the'J11. OU,Y Aufontatic Furnace Feed System, as shown in this cut) is the most perfect 'lfJorking de~lice of anything in this line. Write for our prices for equipments. WE MAKE PLANS AND DO ALL DETAIL WORK W.ITHOUT EX-PENSE TO OUR CUSTOMERS. EXHAUST FANS AND PRES-SURE BLOWERS ALWAYS IN STOCK. Offioe and Fa.ctory: 20&-210 Canal Street GRAND RAPIDS, MICII. CIUz.D.. Phone 1282 Bell. Millin 1804 OUR AUTOMATIO FURNACE FEED SYSTEM Evansville, Incl., ~ilay 4.-Thc furniture illdustry has 1011g becn the pride of Evansville and it has probably done more to advertise the city at home and abroad than any other one thing. And it is a 11105t gratifying fact that there have been fe,"- or 110 labor tronbles to break ont 1n the local factories. and this speaks well Ior the managcm~l1ts of th(~se huge p]<1nts. The discipline of the employes in all these factories is a thillg often commented upon .JL '" ,~ by strangers who happen to drop in and visit at ~ It:~ the plants. The superjntelldents and men in COll- -~ ~, trol at the factories arc good judges of human ~ ~ ~ d natt1f(~ and kno-w ho ..v.. to so treat the men under -.IJIi! . -..;:~: them that friction is avoided and harmony reigns. ~ - - ~J; One of the well known superintendents at a large c ~ furniture factory in speaking of tbis matter a feV\·' -- -- - Q ~ I --,p_--_--/,,~\~,:I~ _ "" days agO to the correspondeut of the Artisa11. ~5;~~~~f1~" ':..i- "~~ ~ said: "The discipline at the local furniture fac-tories is all that a Il'ianagcT or O\Vl1cr could ask ~ ... ~ ~trlli for. In fact I do not believe the employes of , I~r ffl/"';'·' , ~;II the factories in other cities sho"\v better training ~ -;. ,~" and appreciate more their working condilion than -~~~~~ our men in Evansville do. There is seldom any 4 ~ ~ ,;, disposition to break the futes laid down ill the F#,:" :( ~'~~_ ::~".,. '<", e ~~ y. factories and the JUCll [lrc well behaved a/"H] s!JO\\" the best of demeanor around the factories. The men knO\\' what is expected of them and abide hy all rules. I have' notieed that the superintendents are as a rule kind-hearted men and do not ask anything unreasonable of the o-.,vners. This 011(' reason above all others is why the discipline in the Evansvile factories is what it is." Several superintendents who "vere interviewed. said it wns a matter of great pride that labor disturbances had not broken out in the .local factories. Good wages are paid the me11 and' one sti.perintendent said he has made a full investigation of wages paid ill other furniture cities and found that the Evansville \vage scale was much larger than that paid ill many of the other cities. The men are satisfied with their wages and have never had any cause to complain of thelr working condition. The factories here are larg-e, well ventilated and modern in every n'spect. Another thing that can he said in favor of the furniture plallts in Evansville. There have never been violations of tIre child labor laws. Boys ;tre 110t taken into thc factories and givcn employment until they are of the age specified by law when they can 'lNork in the factorics. ,"'hile the fae-tories are it1Sp(~cted from time to tirr.c tJle skirts of the local furniture malwfacturers havc always been found to he clean. Just now Evansville factories are trying to get along on as little lumber as possible. The best grades of lumber just 111m; are showing no disposition to drop in price. In fact lumber men say there will be no decrease in the price of good lumber during the SLll11mer. Some of the inferior grades are a little cheaper than they were this time last year. Four of the local faetories have been operating on full time for the past several weeks, but most of tbc factories are running on the average of forty hours a week. 'One of the best known and' respected furniture men in tbis city is Vv'illiam Heyns, a self-made mall. Several years ago he was operatjl1~ a slTIall grocery store and undertaking establishment in the little town of St. \Vendcl, Ind., a few miles west of htis dty. By dint of hard work and determina-tion, he saved a little money and came here and started in 18 ·"~Mlf ..HIG7J-N ·ft;· EV~SVILLL the furniture husiness all a small scale. His store is in ,Vest Franklin street, and his business has grown wonder-fully durillg the past ten years. From there he came up town and opened a branch store in Third street, and this store does an enormous business. Mr. Heyns' son, John, who is one of the 1110st progressive young men in the city, has had charge of the furniture end of :Mr. Heyns' business, while Mr. Heyns has devoted most of his time looking after the Evansville Dimension :\dills, of which he is owner.. 1\Jr. Heyns is a heavy stockholder in the NewVendomc hotel, at' the corner of Sycamore and Third streets. This is one of the finest hotels in the state. and since it was opened, a fe ........ 1110nths ago, has cnjoyed a wide and extensive pat-onag-e. • Sketch by George W. Barker, Binghamton, N. Y., in the Grand Rapids School. of Designing. Student .:\Jr. IIeyns is prominent in churCh and lodge work and is kno\'nl as one of the most progressive and public spirited men in this part of the state. His son, John, is the secretary of the hotel company, and. srpnd." a good deal of his time there looking aft~r the business. ' Conrad Haase, Sr., died at his home a few days ago at the age of 81 years. Death was due to old age. l\fr. Haase was horn in Prussia October 26, 1826, and came to America in 1854. He came to Evansville in the same year and resided here up to the time of his death. In 1860 he opened a mat-tress factory at 719 Main street and for about fifteen years conducted the husiness at the same place. He was one of the best know1l business well of t11e city and stood 111gh among bis fe-Bowmen. The building committee of the Commercial Club at Hen-derson, Ky., have let the contract for the construction of the Henderson Chair factory to Harry 1feBridc of Henuerson. The buildillg will be of brick, two stories high and 150x 61 feet. l\Jr. IvlcBride is under contract to complete the build-ing on or hefore June 25, at which time the machinery will be installed. The Ohio Valley Banking and Trust Company of Henderson, trustees of the building fund, made an assessni"ellt of t\'\7enty-five per eent a few days ago, which was responded to promptly. C. F. Kleide,rer, a public spirited eitizen of Henderson, donated the lot for the factory. The machinery will be brought from Hillsboro, 0..and installed in the plant and twelve families will come from Hillsboro and locate in Henderson, the heads being empoyed in the new factory. It has been definitely settkd that a modern six-story strnc- 71.R-'T' I.s' A.l'l 2 7 .. • 19 POWER VENEER PRESS Black Bros. Machinery Co., Mendota, Illinois, U. S. A. PATENT APPLIED FOR. ture, to be known ;\s the EvansvilleFLLfllitl1re Exchange, will be erected at till' corner of Vine and Fourth :.;tl"ccts. Behind the enterprise are the furniture <led stove mallufacturers in the ,Evansville Furniture :V]anufacturers' \s'·;ociatiOlI. The decision to erect the b!lilc1ing was reached ,It a meeting" here a few days ago. The proposed building has heell di;ctlsscd at variolls lI;cetings held dl1ril1g the past six months. The ...trttcttlrc will combinc ,:how rooms with oflicc suite:;. The building wiE cost $lCO.0CO .• There will be $70 ceo ill stock iSSllCd~$5G,CUO of this amount \\'ill be con, mOil. l30llds in the sum of 550,000 \\'ill be put on the market and it is believed they wilt be readily '.wlet owing to the lin'\1H.:\,d standing of the men back of the cllterpri8e. The committee fr0111 the Evallsyille Furniture f',ifanufactttrers' Association is composed of Benjamin Bosse, A. F. Karges, Henry Rllsche, Harry Schu and 'lv'. A. Koch. The structure ",viiI be ~:;ix stories high and fireproof. The primary purpose of the furniture and stove manuiacturers in erecting a big building- is to have a suitable place to show their lines of goods allcl group them for the convenience of buyers. At tl;e present time bttyers have to travel from one factory to another across un-improved streets and sid\:;walks to 'pick out the goods they want. ::vlannfactnrers in other cities have adopted the ex-change huildillg idea 'with success. The new building will have an area of 75 x 140 feet. It is Vropo~,ed to have the building ready for occupancy by next February. The new structure, when completed, will be Ol1e of the largest and fin-est buildings in this part of the state. Herbert :\ilatthews bas obtained i\ judgment against the Hohcllstein-Hartmetz Furniture Tactory of this place. It is charged he 5ustail1ed inj\Jdes while at work in the plant by an unprotected shaft. The case was veuued frorn here to Rockport, Tno., 'where it \vas tried by jury 1. Fortes, well kno\Vl1 to the fUf1liture mcn of Evansville A quick and powerful Veneer Press. strongly buill. heavily geared. equally as well adapted for heavy or light work. All movements made by power except the tightening of rctaining chains. After retaining chains are in place, material can be removed on a truck and the Press is ready to be filled again. No limit to the capacity of press. Made in any length of beam and plates to take in any width of material. Write for pricea and particu-lars, giving length of beam, num-ber and length· of plates wanted. See article on page 30, and southern Indiana, now cngaged in the furniture busi-ness at l\.Tcll1phis. Tenn., is said to be doi11g a fine business. n. H. Cooper, <l well known furniture buyer of Birming-ham, Ala., was in the city a fev.·' days ago calling on the focal trade. lie is one of the most popular men who make this town. V/. C. Smith, representative of the Big Six Carloading' ,\'s30ciatioll, who has been conhl1cd <.\t" St. }lary's hospital for the past sevcril1 weeks, 1vas able to L'ave the hospit<ll it few day:; ago nlld went to :\fcmphis to rccuperate. He ex-pccb to take up his work here again in a short time. B~\.::al\.se of 3. COn1l)r0l1;ise out of conrt, Henry Rohrman11 :lnd the liability company holding- risks on the Bosse Furni-ture CompallY's employes, the suit of Rohrmall11 against the furniture company wa:~ dismissed at Boonville, Ino.\ to which place it bad been vcnucd from this county some time ago. Robrmann lost his left hand while operating a rip saw at the lJ,osse factory, and sued for $5,,000, damages, allegillg that the company failed to properly provide the saw with guards. C. B. W; Bricks Without Straw. Making bricks without straw may have beell the SUpreme test of it workman's ability in Pharaoh's time, but the illus-trations which appear in the advertisement of the Grall~ Rapids Veneer \-\7orks in this issue, i1l(licate that the old-fasl1101iCd dry kilns 1n 115e throughout the country have a task hefore them ';.vhich would calise Pharaoh to unwind several yards of Illummy cloth. The facts, as stated, are almost un-'- believable. hut the samples are to be seen at the Veneer \Vorks office and the marking of the grain provc that results have been attained \vhich woodworkers have heretofore con-sidered impossible, 2& ~MI9JiIG7}-N No. :21. DRAWER KNOe. Drawer Knobs In Maple, Birch. Oak or Mahogany. High. grade. Nicely sanded. Choice of fUlenings. Write for catalogue and samples. "eory Rowe Mfg. Co., Newaygo, Mich. NO. 20. COMMODE BUTTON. A Great Profit Earning Machine. The new multiple mortising machine, shown on this page, was inve,nted by the Wysong & Miles Company of Greens-boro, N. c., for mortising in factories manufacturing chiffoll-ie, rs, bureaus, washstands, desks and sideboards. Tl1is ma-chine ·is automatic in action; the operators lays the P.ost in position and his foot on the trea-dle, whereupon the machine auto-matically damps the material, makes all the mortises accurately and, fre.e from chips and releases the material. It is claimed for it speed and strength over all other processes without e.xception, and not only a saving in time in pro-duc1l1g the post, bqt also by its use an immclls'c amQitnt of "time I; saved in produci:flg;' the drawer rails, drawer guides and in the erecting room in putting the ..ca5e together. The manufacturers of this mul-tiple square chisel mortiser sell the machine'" under a positive guarantee that it is at least twice as fast as any other device for preparing the posts and ten to fifteen times as rapid as man-}' of the constructions heretofore used and ten· to fifteen times as rapid in the, erection de-partmcnt. It is guaranteed by the manufacturers in their sale of the machine to be fifty times faster than the ordinary jig mortiser, also more accurate; to be five or six times as rapid. at grooving the post--and a neater case prQduced, also stronger and more accurate; that it clamps, makes all the mortises and releases a post completed in less time than a .post can be clamped on a single horizontal square chise.1 mortiser, and is therefore ten to fifteen times as rapid: to be three times as rapid as the multiple routing machine and makes a stronger and neater job; to he three times ~s fast as; a dado machine and a much stronger c'tlse produc.ed; to be three times as fast as the round tenon _construction, eve.n where parties are equipped with automatie .double end ten-oning machines for rapid production, al.so makes a stronger and more accurate ease; to be four times as fast as the dowel construction and stronger and more accurate; to be five times as rapid as the pilaster construction, more, accurate and more durable; that three times as many posts may be worked than on a gang dovetailer, and four <to five times as many cases put together in t,he case ej'ection ;department_ It is claimed that this mortiser will prepare the posts fifteen to twenty times. a5 fast as a single spindle dovetailer and in addition save twice to three times t,he entire cost of the machine in the case erection department each year and also enable the manufacturer to prepare the drawer rails in le,% than half 'the time. They compare in detail each of the follmving con-structions. and machines: Jig or pounding mortiser yet in use in some factories; The Wysong & Miles Company Multiple Mortising Machine. single, horizontal square chisel mortiser, now almost gener-ally adopted; d(w~tail construction; grooved construction; pilaster construction; dado machine; multiple router; dowel construction; round tenoner and boring machine. In other words, they claim that there is little to be said in favor of the jig or pounding mortiser. That -it takes longer to make one mortise '"'lith it than to complete all the mortises an entire post on this' new machine, .and; furthe;', . that it leaves the mortise full of ehips; that it takes longer 'to dig the chips out of onc mortise than to completely mor-tise a post all this llew machine with every mortise free from chips and ,absolutely accurate; that it takes longer to clamp the post for each mortise than to completely Inoftise an entire post on this new machine; that it takes longer to layoff the mortise:.; for the single pounding stroke, machine than to com-plete a post on this nev..·machine, a-nd ev.en then the work is not mortised with tlie absolutely accuracy that this new mor,- tiser does it, even though it has taken fifty time~ as long to get out the work. Tt is claimed that this new mortiser will complete 400 posts in an hour. Grooved construction: It is claimed that it takes as long to make the groove as to mortise the post complete on this new mortiser. That it takes as long to make and cut the filling in sticks that fill in the grooves between the drawer rails as it does to complete a post on our machine.. Again it takes as long to glue them in. The work, even then, is not as strong nor as accurate and yet has taken four or five times as lOllg to produce same. This ne,w mortiser com-pletes 400 posts an hour with absolute accuracy and a strong suhstanti.al tenon on the drawer ral\. Single, horizontal square chisel mortiser: ' It is claimed . that it takes as long to make Ol1emortise on this machine as to make all of them on this new mortiser. That it takes longer to clamp the material for one mortise, than to com~ plete a post on the ne"" machine. That the work accomp-lished by this new mortiser is ahsolutGJy accurate, which is not the case ,",,'here the mortises are made one at a time, and the post clamped and undamped each time. ldultiple router: 1t is said that the multiple router routes one post while. this new square chisel mortiser is completing three. That the mortise thus made by the router has round-ed ends, which show above and below the rail, and are there~ fore not as neat alld the mortises and tenon are llarrow and frail and have not near the body a1id strength of the larger square ones used in this new construction. '. Dado construction: It is claimed that the <iado machine produccs only nbout llalf a~ many posts as may be, produced on this new square chisel mortiser in the same timc. That about three times as many drawer rails may be made to fit posts mortised by this new machine, and a more accurate and better fit made and a stronger case. It is also claimed that a better dado can be cut if desired and more qUlckly"\vith thi.s new square chisel machine than a dado machine (see hrM tone No.5) but a dado construction is not the best constn,lction, even with this im-provement in speed and shape of dado. Pilaster constructi011: A very expensive construction, 110t as ne<J.t llOr as strong as either of the other constrltctions, due to the llailing and glueiug llccessary, all of \I\lhieh takes much time, and i:; not as cheap nor as neat nor as strong as the solid post, and when time alld material are all figured, the cost, alsO appear-ance, also durabibty is such as to declare ~tgainst it for all of these reasons. Tbis new construction is cl~imed to be fully five times as fast. Dovetail construction: Some people using the dovetail have <torguedthat their construction is \he strollgest, hut as this is an nrgumellt that canlIot be well proven, the manufac- ,.turers of this square chisel machiue say for the. sake of ar-gument that if a six-inch girder is 111.0rethan am_ply !'.trong to hold a bridge, is there· ally need of paying the extra price for a hvclve-inch girder, evcn thoug-h it is stronger, or, ill other words, if their constructiOll -is more than strong enough to suit all demands, \",hy usc a construction that requires you to pay four and eve~n five men where oue is sufficient? They claim their construction is the strongest a11(1the); arc willing to guarantee it and put it to the test '"any time. They say it takes twice as long to do\'etail the posts, twice as long to prepare the drawer rails, as the double end tClHmcr must be set up with special beads or bits, and fivc times as long to erect the eases, as by investigation 'in several factories this fact was brought out in each, that it took five men to set up the same Humber of cases that on('. man and a revolving clamp can erect '.vhere using the ~quare chisel cOl1struction. Half-Tone No.5. 21 Olle man with a revolving damp can, on the multiple square chisel mortiser, erect 125 cases in a day of ten hours. One of the great advantages of this case construction is that a double end tenoner will accurately prepare to a perfect tight fit for the square mortise thousands of draw-er rails in a few minutes without any change of heads or bits, using the l'egular heads and bits that are in use for other purposes, and this is not the case where the dovetail is used. They claim it takes longer merely to change a tenoner to dovetailed work and back again than to accomplish the work. Dowel construction: 1lany factories still adhere to the dowel e011structiol1. The man-ufacturers of this new mortiser claim dowel construction is very much slower, as merely the boring of the postS and the cutting off of the rails to length covers as much time as is consumed by their construction elltire -by the multiple mortise process and there still remains the further loss of time of boring bo(h ends of the drawer rails, and making of 'the dowels, glueing them and driving them in. Also the dowel is a weaker con-struction and less accurate, together with the tendency to split the rails when boring and doweling them. Round tenons: Some are boring ..the post and. cutting round tenons on the ends of the rails~ but it is plain that square holes t1l~ly.be- .11l<ide with, the multiple mortiser quicker, ?ue to \he automatic clamp than a round on~ can be made 9n a _boring machine. and rails' '.\·ith square t~ons inade twice as quick as round ones, .a\ld, the square tenon will not iurn ahd get out of true or twist loose. ~ , It is claimed that there is 110 construction The Chisel. that is stronger, neater, more economical, nor more aC'cl1,l:;ate. These machine.s -have sqnare chisels with bits revolving within the chisel and the chisel and hit both conveniently a-djustable. The chisels are ea$ily removed, arid the machine then becomes a very efficient multiple boring milchine, automatically clamping and auto-matically releasing the material. . For fllrtlier 'information in regard to this mortiser the manufacturers, tbe \Vysnng & Miles Company, Cedar street and Southern railroad, Greensboro, N. c., may be ~dd.ressed.> " Deception ill merchandising i:s a short sighte.d policy. The dealer who misreprqents the qu~,1ity of his goods is short sighted and':disllOnest: The man who buys a stained birch dresscr upon the statement of the dealer that it was solid mahogal1)~ will learn of the deception sooner or later, and 'will buy no more of the man who s~d it: WOOQ F.INISHING MATERIALS FILLERS, STAINS, POLISHES, ETC. g If in trouble 'with finishing materials, now.is the time to let us put you right. tj v'ge match ~lsaltrtple~ submitted and fill aU orders promptly. GRAND RAPIDS WOOD FINISHING CO ... 55·59 Ellsworth~ve .• GRAND RAPlDS. MICH. . --, .. - ", 2! ·"~.M·ICHIG7lN l' 7 - i Dr. Henry S. Pritchett on Industrial Education. Nothing has excited mOTe interest in the gchool world than the proposition recently made in Chicago at the meeting of the l\ational Society for the Promotion of Industrial Edu-cation by the president of Harvard University, Dr. Eliot. He said: "\Ve have come upon a new fuuclion for the teach-ers il1 our elem~l1tary schools, and in my judgment they have. 1-.0 function Hiore in-,rortant. The teachers of the ele-mentary schools ought to sort the pupils, and sort them by their evident, or probable, destini(~s." The question thus raised by Dr. Eliot has since been act-ively debated ill various teachers' associations .yh~~rea general discussion is now g-oing 011 rcg-arding industrial education. The Xatio 181 Society for tJle Prom()tjon of Indllstri::Jl Edt1c~~ tion, of w ieh the first president ..v.as Dr. Henry S. Pritchett, V'csidcnt (f the Carnegie Foundation for tll;: Advancement of Teaching, as org'anized to stimnlate this very interest. \\Then uestioned in regard to the fnnction of this society, It is equally to the interest of the workingmail, of the. manu-facturer, of the teacher, of the c.itizcll, that the boys and girls may find an open door to opportunity by \vhich they rr:a) '1t tberr.selvc:3 to be effective n:en and won ..e..n in ll~e industrial life of 'our nation. "During- the first year of. our work, our attention has been focused on the first of the two purposes named, that of call-ing the attention of the public to the cOEditions which exist loday in our own country. '0le have been largely occupied in trying to emphasize the fact that these conditions must be dealt with, in trying to make it clear to those who are inter~ estcd that here confronting us, are problems which must be solved; and that the interests of all citizens of our country are to be served by dealing; with them as directly, as efficient-ly, and as quickly as possible. "A second part of our work dl1ri:'ng the year has been that ,vhich has dealt with the publication of information concern-ing the work of education in industrial lir:es in foreign coun- Sketched by Edward Wuenn of Michtgan City, Ind. Dr. Pritchett said: "The underlying purpose \vhich gave birth to the National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education is the thought that we <Ire 110 longer fitting our youths for thclr opportunities in the way in which they must be fitted. In this day, every nation must make of each cit-izen an effective, ecnnollJic unit, and then must bring the units into efticiellt organization. VI/oe in America are today 110t doing this. \Ve are behind, and as the old :Methodist be-lief .vhich bolds that the first step to in: prov(:ment is a con-viction of sin, so the first purpose of this society is to make it clear to the Amcrican people that the hcts show that we are. behind; tl18t we arc not preparing our men and our wo-men as they must be prepared to be effective, economic units. ;;The 'iecond purpose ,.".hieh led to tbe inauguration of the society was to hring togeth(T the various persons in our citi-un hody, who arc most directly intere3ted in this problem; first, those who have to do directly with industrial calings, next ~..t~:g'ieat maIluf~ctllrers who depend on skill in these tr-ades,' • :'~fnd the schoolmasters ..v.ho are to train .the h;lyS and th~ girls, <ll)d lastly the grea,t American public itself, which afUr all, in all'such questions is as directly concerned as allY other' party, hut which is the one the most of teL left unconsulted. "This soden:'., belieiles that this problem, vital as it is, is to be worked O\it by co-operation; that it is to be dealt with in a spirit.6f illdttstrial peace, not in a spirit of industrial war. t,ies, particularly ill the work which is. being done in France, in certain places in England.' and above all in Germany. In the environs of Berlin there is an institution, covering many acres, known as the Natioual Testing Laboratory. It is an institution to which any engineer, any manufacturing fIrm, any commcrcial firm or anyone in industry or industrial life, may go with a difficult problem. The experts in that el'.tab-lishment wilt take up this problem and study it. A paper manufacturer told 111ein 'this connection the following story: 'Some months ago,' said he, 'we b~gan to buy our wood from <:l new region, but the formula by which we had made our wood pulp no longer worked. The process we had used proved a failul'e and om business seemed to be about to go to the wall. 'Ve took 0111' problem to the testing laboratory. Two of our own men were set to work ohit and two men from the laboratory. In six months they changed our business from a losing one into the n:ost profitable one we ever had.' It docs' not take a very g-reat intelligence to see that you can set that· kind of an institution down outside of New York or Chicago withOl~t any modification, and have it do a lot of good. "And now a word as to the future work of this society. It is not enough to say, that we a.re going to co~perate. It is not enough. merely to po'int out what foreign nations are doing. The.-r:e must be also constructive work. We mgst 23 Some Very Desirable Space Still to Be Had If You Act Quichly ~.. In the original Big Furniture Exhibition Building, containing over 9 ac(es of exhibition space, comer of Pearl. Ottawa and Lyon Sls" Grand Rapids, Mich. Apply for information as to rates, list of,tenants, etc., to FURNITURE EXHIBITION BUILDING CO. THE KLINGMAN BUILDING. GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. have definite, practical trade schools; schools that a1"(: going to train these boys and these girls illto definite skilled work-ers. J us1 which of the various types of schools this society will he able to recommcl1d we hope may be made clear within the next year or two. This society by a cOIlltnittee of its men most familiar 'with the subject, ,vill be able to recommend to a municipality Of to it city a model type of trade school; the kind of school that it, in its judgment. helieves \voultl be equal to the industry which that particular city or that par-ticular cmnnn:lllity may well promote. It hopes to bc able to show ho\',,' to deal dire-etly. practically, specifically, with the problems of a given region, of a given city, and of a given state. "Secondly, it is the expectation that 1,.vithin the next year there may he brought out of this society a committee similar to that famous committee of ten, of which President Eliot was a member, \vhich some years ago dealt in so successful a way with certain standards of college and secondary edl1ca-tiOI], This committee, it is hopcd, ",,-ill tell us how thcse continuation school, these schools for industrial training should articulate thelnselves with the gTeat public school sys-tem of our country and of our various states, because after all, this study by \vhich a boyar girl is to be started into a trade, in which skill shall hc one of the great agents for the moral and intellectual uplifting, must ill some way be intelli-gently, practically and efficiently articulated witb our public school system." Russian Exposition of Furnitu~~. An exposition of furniture, under tbt auspices of the dowager empress, will be opened in St. Petersburg, Russia. early in the month of Angust. The prol1'loters are endeav-oring to induce manufacturers of the United States to contrib-ute samples of their work. Shipments should be madf'. as early as possihle. Especial care should be taken iri packing the goods. (The German Inanufacturers use corrugated card-board.) Detailed instructions should be furnished for use ill setting up the g"oods. Every piece used in construction should be numbered ill the order in which they are to be put together, when unpacked. Sketch by George W. Barker, Binghamton, N. Y., Student in the Grand Rapids School of Designing. 24 Hardwood Interiors. The use of hard woods in house-finishing and other lines has been constantly growing until now nearly every section of our country is contributing some wood of a hard or tough nature for this purpose. The fact that these woods take a handsome natural finish, are more serviceable, especially for flooring, has rooted them so firmly in the popular demand that we doubt if they will ever go out of use. Ho'" to work them economi-cally with the 1001s at hand has, however, been a serious prob-lem with the wood-worker who desires to tllrn out good work at a fair margin of profit. To meet this demand a Shimer cutter head has bc~n brought out, which in the most severe trials .J1as "made good," both as to the quality a 11 d the amount turned out .....l'le refer to the Shimer inter-mediate cutter head. In its general make-up it resembles the regular Shimer heads and it is provided with the same reliable expansion feature, but in regard to the cutters and their fixtures it is entirely new. By means of this tool straight and circular bits arc used in combination. The straight bits used for cutting the verti-cal edge of the board are made from flat steel usually ,of easy access. The square offsets aboye and below the tongue are formed- by grooving out the end of the knife and projecting it to the proper distance. The neat finish is accomplished by means of the intermediate circular bits, working in pairs in upper and lower series, in combination with the straight ones to complete the full outline. This setting of the bits in pairs, all oppo~ite sides of the head, and the symmetrical C:'lnstru('~ tion of this new tool, insures a perfect run-ning balance, a feat-ure of much impor-tance and one appre-ciated by the wood-worker who is accus-tomed to fast running tools. As all the good points of a tool like this cannot be mentioned in a short reading notice, we would suggest that our readers send for descriplive circular of the intermediate head at once. Like all the other Shimer beads, these tools are sent on trial to responsible lumbermeil anywhere. For further information, prices, etc., address Samuel J. Shimer & Sons, sole manufacturers, J\:1ilton, Pa. E.mployes Amply Provided. For. Throughout the length and breadth of East Anglia there is, perhaps, no name so well known as that of J. & J. Colman, Ltd. Carro,\-' works, so aptlydescribe<1 as the "self-contained town of ceaseless acrtivity," with its one mill-ion square feet area of floors, its ten million cubic feet conten'ts of buildings, and its battalions of busy workers, has a world-wide reputa-tion, and there is no wonder that the wheels runs 50 smoothly in this busy hive of industry, for between employers and em-ployed the most harmonious relations have ever existed. An English paper deals at considerable length with the business activity of the numerous departments at Carrow, and having described the processes of manufacture in the great 111ustard milts, the starch rooms, the blue mills, and the numerous other branches of industry to be seen in full swing at Car-row. it devotes some attention to the great social scheme re-recently inaugurated. The late Mr. ]. ]. Colman, who for nearly a quarter of a century represented Norwich in parlia-ment, made the welfare of his employes as much a considera-tion as the extension of the colossal business. The benefi-cent social' and domestic side to the business introduced by him in his early career has, year by year, been developed until now aU that human fOfethought can devise is done fOf the benefit of the thousands of "Carrowites." There are the dispensary, the elothing club, the Carrow schools, the recrea-tion grounds, the kitchens, the pension fund and savings fund, the common trust. The CaImans never do anything by halves and meagreness is a trait which has never found a place in the G.0unsels of the directorate. Having onee decided upon a social scheme on a scale never before attempted in the history. of commerce, the directors wi!'icly determined to place at its head, in an ad-visory and managerial capacity, a gentleman whose life work emincntly fitted him for the position. 1\0 Icss than thirty-two acres of ground were placed at the sale disposal of Mr. Wellington, the manager of-the department, and the entire site is contiguous to the works. At the far end-near the club hot1se~there is located NO! NO TROUBLE HERE! Simply wanted to get you to give this something better thaD a passing glance and since we have caught your eye let·s catch YOUl· orders for Veneered Rolls. We huild the famous IIRELIAJJLE" ROLLS. WRlTE FOR PRICES. The Fellwock Auto. & Mfg. CO. EVANSVlLLE. INDIANA Oun'sis the largest Roll Plant in tke United Stales. fLY W"EEL EXPLOSIONS H THE "LOCKE" AUTOMATIC ENGINE STOP AND SPEED LIMIT SYSTEM. By means of the "Locke" system your engine can be immediately stopped from any part of the plant; the apparatus furnished includes an independent speed limit which automatically slows down and stops the engine when it starts to race. Read "When Fly Wheels Explode" in the February number of the "Michigan Artisan." 25 PREVENTED BY C. C. WORMER MACHINERY CO" a spaciotls boathouse. lmmediately adjoining is a sixtecn-acre field, known as the playground, and during the break-fast bour, in the winter months, the Carrow footballentl1us-lasts- and they are to be numbered by the hundred-are to be seen cultivating prowess in the game. At the rear of the clubhouse arc two excellent bowling greens, for the men of Carrow-aye, and lads, too-are great devotees of the popular game, and here, amidst picturesque surroundings, it is a common sight during the coveted break-fast hour to see scores of interested spectators watching the prowess of the players. There is ample accommodation, too, and one longs to take a pair of bowls and join in the excitement. The clubhouse is a revelation. It is conveniently divided into sections, and the first visited is the boys' club room. The youngster of Carrow who could flOd no amusemellt in the attractive building for hours at a stretch wonld be past pray-ing for. But, as is only to be expected, the lads most thor-oughly appreciate the privileges accorded them, alld quite 250 of the rising generation can hc seen enjnying themselves in this spacious room. III the men's club room are two excellent billiard tables, and here no one grumbles at the modest sum of one penny charged the cutist for a thirty minutes' exhibition, for the small fee helps to preserve order, and afterwards finds its way back to the club members. The concert room is admirably adapted for all kinds of gatherings and will seat from HOO to 1000 people. Here, at frequent intervals, concerts are arranged. The arranging of a program causes no anxiety, for there, is, curious to rclate, plenty of talent at Carrow . .A hreakfast room is also used as a library. Then there is a smoking room and an office for 1Ir. \Vel1ington. On the opposite side, and facing the clubhouse, arc two quoit beds and another bowling green. Cricket. net-ball, and hockey devotees arc liberally provided for. But the limit of the social scheme has not yet l)een reached; there arc two nHl"reJields for football enthusiasts, and seeing that there <Lretwelve Carrow teams actually in training, and a similar number of cricketing tea111s,the grounds do not lie idle. There is little wonder, bearing' in mind the thoughtful and almost paternal care bestowed by the principals upon their employes, that Carrow employes generally are imbued with all enthnsiastic COllcern for the great 111'11w1hich flllds them employment. ·without ignoring their social conditions. The same enthusiasm, the same lightheal·tedness is manifested in the lad \vho has just left school and is learuing the rudiments of the trade of l11ust-ard manufacture, milling, or starch making, as the case may be, as in the grey-beard who in the evelling of his days is still \vorking merrily among the mus- •~ 97 Woodbridge St" Detroit, Mich. tard seed, happy in the kllo\vledge that his well-earned retire-ment, thanks to the beneficent Carrow pension fund, will not be darkened by dread of pauperism. East Anglia has reason to be proud of the colossal business at Carrow, which has been built up by successive, generations of industrial genius of sterling integrity, and humane consideration for the great army of workers \\'ho have cheerfully taken their share in making the name of Colman known and respected all the world over. Supplying Mail-Order Houses. "Ill the past we supplied a considerable quantity of goods to the mail-order houses. Designs especially for such houses were prepared, none of the patterns were exhibited during the openings of the seasons; no photographs of the same were made-in fact it was a special order business. No one had questioned the right of any merchant to contract for the manufacture' of such goods as he might require in the transaction of business; we have filled many orders for special articles for dealers whose legitimacy in trade has never been questioned, and could not see any impropriety in filting the demands of mail order houses. Regular dealers should remember that hundreds of factories located in var-ious parts of the United States are operated exclusively on special orders and mail-order merchants will never experience difficulty in obtaining goods so long as such factories exist. That the mail-order merchant encroaches Upon the trade rights of the regular dealer is admitted, but he can be com-batted effectively ..v.ithout bringing the manufacturers into the game." A MANUFACTURER. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. THE WEATHERLY INDIVIDUAL GLUE HEATER Send your address and receive descriptive cir-cular of Glue Heaters, Glue Cookers and Hot Boxes and prices. WEATHERLY CO. 26 -----_._---------------------~ OUR SPECIALTV BIRD'S EYE MAPLE ( Made and dried right, and white. Samples furnished on application.) 500,000ft. 1-20inch Quarter Sawed Oak carried in stock. Come in and see it. Birch and Poplar crossbanding and rotary cut Oak. Birch, Maple, Basswood, Poplar and Gum Drawer Bottoms. PROMPT DELIVERY. ALL PRIME STOCK. FIGURED WOODS. MAHOGANY. WALNUT. QTR. SAWED OAK. BIRCH. HENRY s. 23 SCRIBNER ST., HOLDEN VENEER CO. ________G_RANO RAPIDS, MICH.. -l Renting a "Furnished Flat." I always knc\v it wasn't what is was cracked up to be, be-ing a landlord. ,"Vhen my brother put his money in apart-ment houses and the women used to come along and take the dining room for a back parlor and then ask scornfully where the dining room was. But you really don't know what it is to have your feelings hurt until you rent your flat furnished. I carried down an ad for the boss the other day to the newspape.r office: ******* *' ****** '" TO RENT~For the summer-Eight * >i' room furnished flat, thoroughly * '" modcrn. * ******* * ****** The boss lives on the top floor of one of the high, modern apartment buildings, and the, flat looks Ollt over the lake. I wrote out the ad carefully and thought at the time that it was a pity to make it so conservative, and 1 wished I could think of something better than "thoroughly modern," some-thing to suggest \\i]ut a gem it really was. The truth is we are' all as intereste.d in the flat as if it were our own, and the boss was so happy over it when they got settled that they couldn't help talking about it. They have hardly been married a year and they are adding new things to it all the time. The boss is a good deal of a connoisseur himself and he has been busy picking up odd pieces of mahogany ever since there was any prospe.ct of an engagement. The resltlt is that the whole flat is furnished in mahogany eomplete from end to end, not another piece of wood in it, and most of the things are rcal antiques. There is an Italian walnut chair that would bring $80 or $100, and one of the beds is a four-poster which Mrs. Tapfloor bought in the south and which cost $175 even to buy it from the 'old house she. found it ill. It has a value of five times that much, and even for a. reproduction like it onc would have to pull out at least $27"5. It is this way all through the flat. It isn't money only that they put in it, but the selections are good. The dining room chairs are Chippendale, and the sideboard is Sheraton. There is a high inlaid mahogany spoon box that is price-less- it is a family heirloom, and this stands on the middle of thc sideboaru. There is an Adam sofa, and I don't know whose name belongs to the old fashioned mahogany secre-taries, but they.all were good, and the boss and his wife have been like two children about adding every little thing the)~ could to make it complete. Even when they were on their honeymoon they lived in curio sho'ps, and onc day they found a man with part of an old carved four poster bedstead which he was going to work over into something. "\;\,That will you take for one of the posts:" the boss had said. suddenly with a briliiallt inspiration. He had thought of adding the hooks to it and making a rack for the bedroom to go with the rest of the mahogany thing:" and 1\'1rs. Top~ floor was so tickled that she told us about that herself. So "\Ie were all personalty inte,ested when they had de-cided to rent their Hat for a fe\v months. ~{onclay, after the Sunday the ad was to be il1, the bo:;s said to me, "Miss Christie, did yon notic~ that ad? They got it 'fairly mod· ern' instead of 'thoroughly modern.' There hasn't been any-body here yet; don't know whether that has kapt anybody away or not." It was about 1 o'clock that IHrs. Topfloor camc in. She often came in to go out to luncheon with Topfloor, but this time you c.ould see that something out of the ordinary was the matter. She was flushed and excited. "I thought you were going to stay home and receive the renters," said Topfloor. "Receive renters! I should think I had been doing it!" said 1l.frs.Topfloor. "Two awful people have been there, and they went through and looked at everything; and what do you think they said?" ","Vhy, what did they say:" ';They said that the advertisement was misleading," gasped ~frs. TopfiooT. ';V>.!'e had said that it was 'fairly modern,' and it wasn't modern at all. The mcdest one, the one that said she wanted it for her brother, said there wasn't a piece of furniture in it that didn't look as if it had been made before her grandmother was born. She said she was surprised that we should put in such an ad, that it had brought her clear in from Chicago Grove, and made her waste all that time coming to the north side. ., 'And now I've got to go way out on Lake avenuc to answer another one,' she said. 'My brother is coming fro111 Goldfield with his wife, and he has got to have something that really is fashionable. That is the last thing hc s:lid in his letter that he wanted something up to date.' ;'And then they coiled the chairs rush-bottomed, think of that," went on 1Irs. Topflaor, almost weeping. "And the one that came with the other went up to the sideboard ~nd said that the silver box looked like a box that her mother used to have for wood. She said that they always kept theirs down on the floor down by the parlor grate. That was back in l\laine, she said, but whe.n the house came to her she got rid of them long ago. "But I haven't told you the worst," continued ~hs. Top-flooT. ';You know the little Sheffield piece, the- one your mother gave us-well, what did that woman do but say that she was surc that her brother never could star;d for a house where they were old fashioned enough to use a caster." \Ve were all interested in the Sheffiield plate casters-there were two of them, one with a standa~-d only-it was 160 years old, al,d the bottles had been broken. The other was 27 III III -----_._-_. Rip saw table. with l'.Duntershaft and iRW. Rounder, two_spindle with countermaft. Rod. pin aud dowel machille No.2, Smith. with head~ Rod and dowel machine No.2, Elir1D power feed. Shaper. single spind, Colladay with frie-tion c. s. Swinl:/sll.w. colllplele widl saw and rei. equip Sand",T, two.spindle with oountenhaft. Sander, 36 in. Columbia triple-drum. Sander. 42 in. Columbia triple-drum. Stick~. 14n Hermance with regulal equip. Siliider. 3D in fb~rtJm Egan. Saw table, 38x63 in. wo<>dtop. Saw table, 29l<30in, cut-off, np and 8 in saw. &roll S<lW. iron II. wood top, Cord'SIn'n & Egan. Saw table, 30x48 in. with .Jiding guage: Shapero mDlIle-llpindle. table 3h42 in. £lIan. Sander. Younll's new edie. iron frame and lop. Stave boll equalizer with two 30" saws. T ruch. 38 miscelianeoul factolY trucks. T enoner, American double end. TelKlner, gjnf/lehead Col'desman & &aD with cut-off attachment. TenOD~r, self-feed blind a1at, J. A, Fay. Tenoner.6" dCluble head. H. B. Smitb. Tenoner. hand-feed blind slat, J A. Fay. Tenoner. self·feed adiwtahe hlindslat. TwiSt: machine, Shawyer.l 28 in. cent., 10 in, sWi, Woodworker. Patucombined lathe. rip and cut-off law, shaper, elc. WOOD-WORKING MACHINERY AT BARGAIN PRICES. Havina- purchased the entire Elkhart, Ind., plant of the Hl1mphrey Bookell.se,Co., we are offering at bara-ain price_ the followin8'A~l woodworkingtool_: Band saw. 32 in. Crescent. Band saw, 36 in. Cre>/cenl. Band saw. 26 in. Silver, iron tilting table. Back-knife lathe. Whitney. BoriDii machine. 72' 8-spindle Andrews. Boring machine, 3-spindle horizontal. Borer. No. 21 bench. Slater & Marsden. Boring machine, No.2>f Gernent hori-lontal. Carver, 3-spjndle. with countersbaft. Cahinetma~rs' saw, double cut_ofL Chair bending pre". Swartz. Chamfer cutler with iron frame, table 48 x30 Latison. Edging ~w. 3611'xl81 with saw arOOr. Cut-off laW machine. Clement double Glue jointer, Myen. with counteuhalt Jig saw, complete with rel;rlllarequipment. Joinler, MY~r8"Iue. Jointer, 20 in. Porter hand. Joinler, 8 in, hand with 4-sid"d head. Knife grim!er. 32 in. BuJfalo automatic. Lathe. Whitney back-knife with counter-ih", ft. Lathe. Trevor automatic 4' 211 between centers Lathe, 14in. cabinetmaker's Egan. Moulder, 14in. Herm~nce. 4_~id~. Molder, ~ng. hd. Smith F-6 with 4 in. 4_al'td lid. Moulder, style F-6 Smith. one side wilh cap sash. head. Mortiser and borer, double-end llutom1l,tic. Mortiser and borer, Co,burn imp. blind style. Planer. 30 in. Clement ~ingle cylinder. Planet and matcher, 2"n sinll:le cylinder 4-roll, matches 141 J. A. Fay, Planer, sinll'. cyl, surface 20xO 10 6 in. Con'l & D. Cortesp<>nclencesolicited. Price and description OEl applicati"n. C. C. WORMER MACHINERY CO., 98Wesl Woodbridge 51"Detro". Mich. -----_._------- near]:y <t,; old rtt-,d \\":1,; cOlrplcte with ,;ix lJott1c;;;, al~d it was considered a w()ndcrful thing that the)' had 110t been broken. vVell, anyhow, they arc so rare and the designs so old that rh('y were written up in the TTouseBeautiful "dtll S0111e other old sih7cr piece::; that belong to )Ji-s, TopAoo!". A.llel imaginc the man from Gol(]l!eld ,vouldn't \V<:\llt to li\"{~ ill a hOllse whe:-e they ;;;till llsed a casler. \Ve Iven' getting to the point whcn we were ,;;;traillillg Ollr ens to hcar what \r rs. Topl1Qor would say 1lext about this, when :\]1'. Toplloor hegan to roar. lle laug-htel until ~lrs. T(jptlOOI· finally gave up trying to remember lHlw' her beau-tiful mahogan,y fiat had bccn scor!,e<l, and :,hc 11xfd hcr veil and they went out to lunch. ;'YOtl ca11 phone over and tell them to take out that ad," he calleu back, and we heard ;"IL~. Top!loor :,ay as she wcnt: "Tlldced, 1 \-vill never let anybody into my hou.:.;e a;;·ain to SC(' whether they want to rcnt it Or not. r will slay where I am this surl11l1er, thank yOll. anti if we want to go away \-ve Cfln shut it up." CHRJSTIE SAC:-JDERS. Veneer Trade Improving. The veneer trade. though dragging considerably in sym-pathy with slow business an:ong the fttrnitul·c· manufacturers, is picking np 8 little, especially in the jiller face woocls. The importations of mahogany stock have been decidedly light during the past two months, but well informed people in thc mahogany business say that this is really 1)(' sign of ,Illythillg except tbat the entries have been sTllall for the per-iodnamed, but they Itl<\}' be made up for in the next few wonths. ilbhogany is not a wood that comes In re.gularly, but requi. es quite a lot of time to accumulate and tra11S- 1)Ort, and as a conseyuence the de-liveries are at til11cs rather erratic. So to take a month or tWO at any time during the year, doe;;;n't Rive any gauge or clew as to what the busioess during the yc,ir rnav be 0:· Sketch by Otto Jiranek y.,·hat is coming in the near- fmurc. The demand for quartered oak has been excellent in lumber and fairly gocd in V<;11(:cr, too, but there is not ,IS much cail, for plain veneer made of native wood as the trade would like to see. There is an excellent outlook ahead for the ba"ket factories and tll()se venee:- industries making light packages and this should relieve; the situation son~ewhflt. .:\150 the furniture business is reviving son~e and the ve11cer business should steadily improve from now on, --------- Hapgood Assailed. The Chicago Tlibune devotes much space in its columns to exposures of Hapgood, the employn:ent agent. If the charges against Hapgood arc true. tbe system employed by the "intelligence" bureaus, and conlidenCe men generally are mere play for childn:n in comparison. Hapgood is a hig "grafter" if the Tribunc is worthy of confidence. l\-Ianagcr J. S. ?--1eycr of the ~Janufacturers' Exhibition Company, Chicago, will soon commenCe an extensive adver-tising campaign, for the purpose of attracting a larger nUm-ber of buyers to that city. T .ast year Mr. :Meyer interested a large number of dealers in the Chicago market who had never visited that market for the purpose of buying furniture. Hi); publicity bureau will soon be in fun operation. I .~ltl'~ / 10 SPINDLE MACHINE ALSO MADE WITH 12, 15, 20 AND 25 SPINDLES. DODDS' NE.W GE.AR DOVE.T AILING MACHINE. This little ma('hine has done more to perfect the drawtr work of fUrnllure manufacturers than anything else in the furniture trade. For fifteen years it has made perfect-titting, vermin.prool, dove· tailed stock a possibility. This bas been accompJisbeo at reduced cost, as the machine cuts dove-tails in gangs of from 9 to 24 at one operation. ALEXANDER DODDS, Grand Rapids, Mlcblgan. Represented by Schu.chart & Schutte al Berlin, Vienna, StoeI:holm and St. Peter\lbllnt. Representatlve by Alfred H. Schulle at Colot!:ne. Brutsels. Liege, Parils Milan and B~boa Repre!ented in Great BRtian and Ireland by the Oliver MachinerY Co .• F. S. Thompson. Mgr .• 201·2<l3 Dtal18lCate, Maneheftet, England. - - --- ------ Sfe~~en50nnf~(.0. BOYNTON & CO. South Bend. Ind. Manuiac.tu'rers of Em bossed and " Turned Mouldings, Emboned and Spindle Carvinp., andAutomatie Taming .. We also manu-facture a large line of Embo.ed Orna-menu for Couch Work~ SEND FOR Wood Turninll'. T umed Moulding. Dowels and Dowel PIUS. CATALOGUE Catalogue to Manufac· t~rers on .Application. 419·421 W. flAeentb St .• CIlICAGO. ILL. MANUFACTURERS OF Wood Forming Cutters SPECIALTIES: ~1.~'1!'EogQUAR. OAK VEN EERS MAHOGANY VENEERS We offer exceptional value in Reversible and One·Way Cutters fOT Single and Double Spin~ . dIe Shapers. Largest lists with lowest prices. Greatest variety to select from. Book free. Address ' HOFFMAN BROTHERS COMPANY 304 W. Main Sl., FORTWAYNE,IHDIANA SAMUEL J. SHIMER &' SONS MILTON. PENNSYlVI\NII\. U. 8.1\. MANUFACTURERS OF FURNITURE: Have yOU.ever used the Mercantile Editions. of the Michigan Artisan? IF NOT, WHY NOT ? . 1./ .' These Editions would serve you well. Why noL try them? Mailed to Retailers Only. Mr. Manufacturer-Do you ever consider what joint gluing coSts? The separators and wooden wedges, if you use them and many do. are a Jarge item of expense accounts: but this is smOlllcompared to wage ac-counts of workmen who wear them out with a hammer, and then a large per cent of the joints are failures by the insecurity of this means. RESULT, it has to -be done over again, if possible. If you use inde-pendent screw clamps the result is betfer, hut slewer, altogether 100 slow. Let us lell you of something better, PALMER'S CLAMPS. All ~eeJ and iron. No wed~es. no separators, adjUst to any width, damp instantly yel securely, releases even faster. Posilively ODe~lhird more work will, one·lhird less belp. In seven siz.es up to cO inches. any lhieknes~ up to 2 inches. 200fadories convinced in 1906. Why not you ill 1907? Although sold by dealers everywhere let us send you paTlicuh",. II. E. Palmer « Sons. Owosso, Mi6h. FOREIGN AGENTS: Proiedile Ca" London. Enllland. SebuchaMt & Schutte. Berlin, Cennany. WOOD'S PATENT LOOSE CENTER COUNTERSINKS --~------AND BORINBCITS------ STYLE 7 BORING BIT STl'lE B TAPER COUNT~RSltlK Carried in dock in all ~I. CenleTe ar~ adjustable. and caD be replaced 11.( very small cost when broken or worn out. Wri~ today for complete Catalogue. MpRRIS WOo.D & SONS, 2114 L.AKEST" CHICACO.ILL. "R<Jtary Style" lor Drop CarvJDg1I, Embo88N1 MonIdiiJa's. PfUlels. Machtne8 lor all PUrp08ell, aDd a·t p:rlccs within the resell of all. Every mMhine hlUl our guarantee against bftlakaa:e fo:r one year. "Lateral Style" for laqre. ca~clty heavy Carvings Rod Deep '~8tIiDgll. We have the Machine you, want at a 88tlsfaetory prlee. Write fo1' descriptive c1rcolW's. Also make dies for all makes of Ha-chlnea. UNION EMBOSSING MACmNE CO., Indianapolis, Ind. MACHINE. fiNIVES PERFECT QUALITY RIGHT P'JUC,ES PR.OMPT SERVICE ABSOLUTE GUARANTltE Dado or Ol"Oo...ln.· H6ads. Miter "'achilles. Universal Wood Trhnmel'S. Soring Maohlnes. E1c. FOX MACHINE CO 185·N. F•• ", St. . • Grand R.apld_. Mich. 29 30 A New Power Veneer Press. The Black Brothers JHachinery Compariy of .:\.Jendot<t, IlL who are the patentees and manufacturers of the well known "Pioneer" moulding sander, an extensive line of clamps of various styles and other special wood working machinery, have just brought out a powerful power veneer press almost equal to the hydraulic and much cheap-cL This press we arc pleased to bring to the atlentlon of OUT readers at this time. The preSA is strongly-built throughout and heavily geared, Beams arc made of six pieces % x 6-illCh steel set 011 edge, 011e inch apart and strongly trussed; The toV beam is ,raised and lowered by a 3}-j-inch screw, with threads three to the inch, passing through a -deep nut on each cl~d of the beam, the bottom end of these screws arc run on roller bearings which overcomes the friction on the thrust of the sere,,,", mak-ing it vcry easy to operate. The loose belts arc used to operate HIe press, one to raise and the other to kl\vet the top beam. Thc~e belt:'> are 1.:011- ~ I I I I block of materia} and it is then 100:vered onto this truck. The plates are released from the upper beam and beam raised, leaving the material on the truck ready to be removed. The bottom beam is then placed in position, anothcr set of platcs put in place and the p:'ess is ready to receive another lot of material. These preS3es are made with any length of beam and with plates to take in any-..vidth of material. The ca~ pacity of the press depends on the number of plates you have. l:his company has seen the demand for such a press as this for some time, but were t1l1able to develop it in their old plant on account of a lack of space, having all they could take care of in their regular wOik. They arc now located in their large new and modern equipped plant and arc in good shape to take l:3Te Df their rapidly grmving business. It would not be surprising if Henry Siegel should be com~ pelted to advertise for buyers ere long. By the organization trolled by a lever and idler in the bal:d~ of the operator and can be applied to either belt to make the beam travel in the desired direction. This gives the operator full control of the press at all times.' It has ample belt power for th(', largest and heaviest work and is as \vell adapted fOT light work. AU movements are made by power except the tightening of the retaining chains. Any number of plates desired can be placed 011 the lower heam with plates opposite them ou the upper beam. After the material to be damped is in position in thc press the operator takes the lever in his hand alld lowers the he am until he has the desired preSSUH~, then the retaining chains are put in place and tightened. A fter this the oper-ator raises the beaUl and with it the block of material in the clamp. The bottom beam is then puslled to t11e hack of the press. \Vhen this is done a truck is placed under the of the Henry Siegel \Vholesalc Company, which will practi-call relieve the buyers of the Siegel houscs of responsibility as well as privileges, resignations of the buyers nowemployetl may be looked for. The -plan under which the wholesale company will" work is outlined as follows: Joseph SiegeL a nephew of Henry, will receive from the buyers of the fOUf Siegel stores requisitions for such goods as they may need: Joseph will take up "his hammer and pound 'the manufacturer::; of the goods needed for extra discounts "in consideration of the large orders placed." No self-respecting buyer would ac-cept a job under the conditions imposed. He would not care to become a mere inspector of lines, with no authority to "tie his bundles." Delays in the delivery of goods and loss of sales will be inevitable while nephew "Joe" is fruitlessly swinging his hammer. ~JVLI9""HIG7JN , CONCERNING HAND TRUCKS. Simple Thing They Might Seem, but They are Made in Great Variety. TJle familiar 10\,\,'\vheeled band tmck seems like a simple thing, but as a rnatter of fact hand trucks are made in vcry grc"t variety and for all ~~(Jrtsof trades and speci;11 uses. One illustrated clta!()gll(~of trucks that jncludes as well carts. cars and barrows, is a book of about 200 pages. This Ciltaloguc is lilled wjth descriptions of trucks and kindred yt'hicles desigJled for the use of raikoads. steamship and other tr;lllsllortatioll COllll),ll1ies, and for store and :;idl'- walk Ilse. antI for w,HchollSCS, factories, foundries, mills. offlces, banks. lJoteb. briekyards and stoncyanls. {t contains al-together up\"'ard of 500 111l11lh{'rs and for each Ol'o.? of these llllIl1- bel'S there is .a llan:c jn a tele-graphic cipher code. seeming like it cOlJsidc;'ahle dignity for <t hand truck to ;lttain; bt1t the code is a great c.ollycllienc:c fOl' cu;,;tOl11('rs, who in nrdCrlt1R arc thus enabled tel ii.dicatc IJI"C-eisci} the trllck wHllted dowll to the minutest fkuil by the nse of a .~i1Jgle word. Among the live lWl'flred "nr! udd I1ttmbers there were found alrnost a hUll-dred g-iven to lWlld trucks of tlH' kind 1110:;t tamili;l1' to the general public, the kind that one :-:.;:esin us,::,on sidewalks and in stores and on wharves "nd railroad stations handliiIg mcr-chalJ< 1i50:a.n' d freight. There <trc, fo!" t'\:Rl1lplc, various styles of handles and varion:
Date Created:
1908-05-10T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:
Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
Collection:
28:21

192. Michigan Artisan; 1907-06-25

Notes:
Issue of a furniture trade magazine published in Grand Rapids, Mich. It was published twice monthly, beginning in 1880. and L l .-_._- Sligh's Superior Styles Sell ALL THROUGH THE SEASON No complaints of dull trade uttered by dealers handling the SLIGH LINES ... THE PAST SEASON'S SALES OF SLIGH GOODS A ~ RECORD BREAKER. ~ CORRECT STYLES, GOOD MATERIALS AND HONEST WORKMANSHIP, STRONG FEATURES IN THE SLIGH LINES. A Mammoth Exhibition of Fine and Medium Furniture for the Bedroom Ready on June 17, 1907 SLIGH FURNITURE COMPANY BUCHANAN STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 3 1883 --- 1907 Michigan Chair Company GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN "FOREMOST CHAIR FACTORY IN MICHIGAN" IIHE opening day of the coming Furniture Sales Season, June J 7th, is a holiday in many sections of our country, and we are going to cele-brate same by having our warerooms dressed in very attractive attire., From one end to the other will be seen handsome Chairs, suggestive of com-fort and usefulness with a range and scope so broad as to make selection mere-ly a matter of which and what. A carriage to come in if you wish -and to go as well. Cordial greeting and best attention. REPRESENTATIVE SALESMEN East: CHAS. H. cox ROBT. E. WALTON CHAS. F. M<GREGOR South: W. R. PENNY We,t: CHAS.B.PARMENTER ROBT.G.CALDER MICHIGAN CHAIR COMPANY ~ --- --~ --- --- -- - -- - 4 A B L E s FOR EVERY ROOM BUT THE KITCHEN L 187~ ----------- THE MOST COMPLETE LINE OF EXTENSION TABLES . MANUFACTURED IN AMERICA , 1 PILLAR TABLES FROM $12.50 UP I OFFICE TABLES ALL SIZES PARLOR TABLES LIBRARY TABLES DEN TABLES MEDIUM PRICED MAHOGANY SAMPLES ON EXHIBIT AT THE FACTORY No. 615 TAKE SCIUBNEJt ST. CAR. No. 617 ! I IMPERIAL FURNITURE CO. I Grand Rapids. Mich. I 5 Grand Rapids Chair Co. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. weare I iSinil.tors ! . nor I I__ ~.~.....-.a. llators_J Strictry High-Grade Furniture At Medium Prices 1186 BUFFET Desks Buffets Sideboards Hall Racks China Cabinets Music Cabinets Tables Hall Seats Cellarettes Book Cases Hall Glasses Chests and Boxes Goods shown at our factory only. Full line now ready. 6 ORIEL Cabinet COlnpany ======Grand Rapids, Mich.====== La~gest Manufacturers In the W orId OF ------------ Furniture Novelties Line Ready for Inspection by the Trade on June 17, 1907 The Higher Degrees of Furniture Construction Have Been Taken by the ESTEY MANUFACTURING CO. For Workmanship CHAMBER SUITES No. 912 For Quality SIDEBOARDS and BUFFETS OWOSSO, MICH. CATALOGUE TO THE TRADE ONLY For Designs For Finish ~---------------- -- - L. The Line with Invincible Points of Merit Inspect Our Parlor Cabinets Music Cabinets Hall Trees Hall Seats Hat Racks, Framed Mirrors No. 320 Table Inspect Our Buffets China Cabinets Combinations Gents' Wardrobes Shaving Stands Ladies' Dressing Tables Ladies' Dressing Chairs WITH PATENT ADJUSTABLE FiXTURES No. 680 Cabinet Full of NOVELTIES and USEFULNESS Show Rooms: NEW YORK 4th FLOOR NEW YORK FURNITURE EXCHANGE With THE: WEATHERLEYS It will pay you to look our line over even if you don't buy. ROCKFORD FRAME andFIXTURE CO. ROCKFORD IWNOIS . Show Rooms: GRAND RAPIDS 2d FLOOR BIG BUILDING CHICAGO 6th FLOOR FURNITURE EXCHANGE With PECK &: HILLS - . THE Manistee Manufacturing Co. MANISTEE, MICHIGAN CJl We say but little but do a lot in the way of bringingout one of the strongest lines of Sideboards, Buffets, Chiffoniers, Odd Dressers and Gentlemen's Wardrobes there is on the market. This is One of Our BEST This is One that will SELL No. 266 Sideboard. Top 25x60; Minoy 18x50 CJl Our full line of one hundred patterns will be shown on the 6th floor, spaces 17 and 19, Manufacturers' Exhibition Build-ing 1319 Michigan Ave., Chicago. We make our own Exhibit. Call in and we will treat you right, and give you your money's worth. CHAS. ELMENDORF, in charge. 9 r---------------- --- I· l 10 Berkey & Gay Furniture Co. Grand Rapids The Line will be ready for inspection by the Trade Monday June 17 1 907 Chamber Furniture Dining Room Furniture Library Furniture It is all Furniture of Character That Has the Charm of Quality i II ..I Luce Furniture Company Godfrey Ave" GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Line Ready at FACTORY JUNE 17, 1907 New Features in Upper Class Circassian Walnut A Large Addition to Our Line of Staples· Medium and Fine Furniture for the Chamber and Dining Room 11 ~------------ 12 13 ~~IIMPORTANT!~1~~ It is a matter of IMPORTANCE to every Furniture Buyer that he inspect our Fall Line before placing orders for Davenport Sofa Beds-Box Couches Adjustable Sofas _.Plain or Tufted Couches and Davenports .... WE HAVE THE STYLES AND THE VALUES .... No_ 583 .. SIMPLICITY t1 Sofa Bed, a popular medium priced pattern from our Spri[]g Line AN INNOVATION We will also show our Initial Line of TURKISH CHAIRS and ROCKERS in "RELIANCE" LEATHER. A sensational short line of sure sellers. We Exhibit at Grand Rapids only. JUNE·- JULY SEASON. JAMESTOWN LOUNGE COMPANY Manufacturers 01 Superior Guaranteed Upholstery JAMESTOWN, N. Y. 14 Royal Furniture Company GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN Dining : Library Bedroom Suites HALL CLOCKS IN "COLONIAL" STYLE NEW ADAPTATIONS Ready for Inspection June 17, 1907 SHOWN AT FACTORY SALESROOM THE ROYAL fURNITURE Co. GRANO RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, - - - -- -- ------------------------ 15 Why Biggest in the World? At the coming Furniture Exposition at Grand Rapids (opening June 17th), and that in New York (from July Isth to August 3rd), the Northern Furniture Company will as usual, have the largest space of any American Manufacturer. Though but a few years old, the Northern makes more bed-room, dining-room, and kitchen furniture than any other Ulanu-facturer in this country, and that means' in the world. WIlY? Why' 7:oasJ.Vorthern space last 'year more cro7:oded than any other at these f'lfJO exposi-tions? BECAUSE-The Northern line sells best on the floors of the ,.etail dealers. It's a quick mover. It doem't get stnek. It gives satisfaction. The prices are the kind the people want-not so low as to necessitate poor workmanship, not so high as to be fancy. The Northern line is noted for its elegant simplicity. J t is stylish without being over-iJrnGtnented. [t is substantial without being gaudy. [t looks well for years and it wears <Dellfor years. [t is solid "Uthe way through. It has illlter quality as v.Jeli as ollter quality, And the people know it. Do you know it9 C"U ""d see tis. You you,.self will then know WHY. The plates on this page are but a suggestions of our enonnous line. NORTUERN fURNITURE COMPANY Sheboygan, Wisconsin 12th- Season CHICAGO Commencing July 1, 1901 MANUFACTURERS' EXHIBITION BUILDING CO. 12th Season Commencing July 1, 1907 The Original Building-1319 MICHIGANAVE.-Admission to Dealers Only PAI\TIAL LIST ON EXtiI&ITOI\S Manufacturers' Exhibition Building Co., 1319 American Furniture Co., Bassett, Va. American Metal Ware Co., Chicago. Banta Furniture Co., The, Goshen, Ind. Bassett Furniture Co" Bassett, Va. Blanchard-Hamilton Furniture Co., The, Shelbyville, Ind. Billow-Lupfer Coo. Columbus, O. Bissell Carpet Sweeper Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. Booth Furn. Co., Peru, Ind. Brumby Chair Co., Marietta, Ga. Buckeye Chair Co., The, Ravenna, O. Burkhardt Furniture Co" The, Day-ton, O. Bay View Furniture Co., Holland, Mich. Cad.illac Cabinet Co., Detroit, Mich. Campbell, c.. H" Co., Shelbyville, Ind. Campbell, Smith & Ritchie, Lebanon~ Ind. Capital Furniture Manufacturing Co., Indianapolis, Ind. Capital Rattan Co., The, Indianapolis Cass, .R T. & Co., Chicago. Cates Chair Co., Thomasville, N. C. Central Bedding Co., of Illinois, Chi-cago. Chippewa Falls Furniture Co., Chip-pewa, Falls, \hlis. Choate· Hollister Furn. Co., Janesville, Wis. Conrey & Birely Table Co., The, Shelbyville, Ind. Conrey-Davis ]"'lanufacturing Shelbyville, Ind. Co-operative F.urniture Co., Rockford Coye Furniture Co., The, Stevens Point, \Vis. Cramer Furniture Co., Thomasville, N.C. Crowell Furniture Co., Bassett, Va. Davis, Horwich & Steinman, Chicago. Dillingham .Manufacturing Co., She-boygan, \-Vis. Dixie Furniture Co., Lexington, N. C. Dunn Co., John A., Chicago. Eckhoff Furniture Co., St. Louis, 1:10. Elk Furniture Co., Lexington, N. C. Emmerich, Charles, & Co., Chicago. Empire Furniture Co., Jamestown Empire 1'loulding Works, Chicago. Emrich Furniture Co., The, Indiana-polis, ~Ind. Fall Creek Manufacturing Co., Moo-resville, Ind. Faultless Mfg. Co., Geneva, Wis. Fenske Bros., Chicago. Ferguson Bros. Manufacturing Co., Hoboken, N. J. Fisher, Charles A., & Co., Chicago. Foster Bros. Manufacturing Co., Utica, N. Y. f'uUer- Warren Co., The, Milwaukee Fulton Manufacturing- Co., Chicago. Frank Todd, Chicago; Freedman Bros. & Co., Chicago. Garvy Co., The,' Chicago. Globe-Home Furniture Co., High Pointj N. C. Golden Furniture Co., Jamestown Goshen Novelty & Brush Co Gos-hen, Ind. Heroy Glass Co., Chicago. Herzog Art Furniture Co., Saginaw, Mich. Hillsboro Chair Co., Hillsboro, O. Hodell Furniture Co., The, Shelby-ville, Ind. Hohenstein- Hartmetz Furniture Co., Evansville, Ind. Co., Hollatz Bros., Chicago. Hood, F. L., & Co., Nashville, Tenn. Hulse, E. 1\01., Co., The, Columbus, O. Humphrev Bookcase Co., Detroit Ideal Register & Metallic Furn. Co., Detroit, 1-1ieh. Indiana Brass & Iron Bed Co.I Indian-apolis, Ind. Indianapolis Chair & Furniture Co., Indianapolis, Ind. Johnson & Sons Furniture Co., A. J., Chicago. Kelly, J. A., & Bros., Clinton, Ia. Kelly-Sorenson Furniture Co.,. Clin-ton, la. Kemnitz Furniture Co., Theo., Green Bay, Wis. Kendallville Furniture Co., Peru, Ind. Kincaid Furniture Co" Statesville, N. C. Kindel Manufacturing Co., St. Louis Kinney-Rodier Co., Chicago. Knoxville Table & Chair Co., ville, Tenn. Lamb, George L., Nappanee, Ind. Langslow-Fowler Co., Rochester, N.Y. Landay, Joseph 1., St. Louis, Mo. Landay Steel Range Co., St. Louis Lathrop Co., The, Chicago. Lilly Varnish Co., Indianapilis, Ind. Lustre Chemical Co., Chicago. Manistee ~'1anufacturing Co., Manis-tee, Mich. Marietta Chair Co., Marietta, Ga. Marvel Furn. Co., Jamestown, 'N. Y. . 1Jayhew Manufacturing Co., Milwau-kee, \Vis. McDougall, G. P., & Son, Indianapo-lis, Ind. Mechanics' Furniture Co., Rockford l\'[eier & Pohlman Furniture Co., St. Louis, ·Mo. 1linneapolis Furniture Co., Minnea-polis, Minn. ;':1ission Furniture Co., S1. Paul. Minn. Modern Furniture Co., Cincinnati, O. Naperville Lounge Co., Naperville, Ill. National Carriage & Reed Co., Cin-cinnati, O. National Table Co., Marietta, O. Norquist Co., A. c., The, Jamestown, N.C. Oakland Manuafcturing Co., Winston- Salem, N. C. Oberbeck Bros. Manufacturing Grand Rapids, Wis. Onken Co., Oscar, The, Cincinnati,O, Palmer Furniture Manufacturing Co., A. E. Adrian, Mich. Palmer Manufacturing. Co., Deb'oil Pana Metal Bed & Manufacturing Co., Pana, Ill. Penn Furn. Co.. Huntington, W. Va. Pioneer Manufacturing Co., Detroit Plimpton, F. T., & Co., Chicago. Posselius Bros. Furniture Manufac-turing Co., The, Detroit, Mich. Preston & Khouri, New York. Probst Furri. Co., The, Pomeroy, 0. Pullman Couch Co., Chicago. Queen Cbair Co., Thomasville, N. C. Ranney Refrigerator Co., Chicago. Richmond, . Ind., Manufacturing Co.,· Richmond, Ind. Rishel Furniture Co., J. K, Williams-port, Pa. Rockford Furniture Co., Rockford, Ill. Rockford Standard Furniture Co., Rockford, Ill. Rome Metallic Bed Co., Rome, N. Y. Root Furniture Co., Shelbyville, Ind. Rothschild-LuskY Mfg. Co., Nashville, Tenn. Royal Mantel & Furniture Co., Rock-ford, Ill. Sanitary Feather Co., Chicarro. Sanitary Steel Couch Co., Elkhart, Ind. Schneider & Allman, Chicago. Knox- Schram Bros., Chicag-o. Schultz & Hirsch, Chicago. Sellers, G. 1., & Sons Co., Elwood, Ind. Sextro Manufacturing Co., Cincinnati Shelbyville Wardrobe Co., Shelby-ville, Ind. Shreve Chair Co.) Union City, Pa. Sidway Mercantile Co., Elkhart, Ind, Sikes Chair Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Skandia Furniture Co., Rockford, Ill. Smith-River Chair Co" Bassett, Va. Spencer & Barnes Co., The, Benton Harbor, Mich. Spiegel Furniture Co., Sh~lbyvil1e, Ind. Sprague & Carleton, Keene, N. H. Standard Chair Co., Thomasville, N.C. Standard Chair Co., Union City. Pa. Standard Furniture Co., The, Cincin-nati. Stickley & Brandt Chair Co., The, Binghamton, N. Y. Stomps-Burkhardt Co., The, Dayton, 0. Streator Metal Stamping Co., Strea-tor, Ill. Streit Manufacturing Co., The C. F" Cincinnati, O. Sturkin-NeIson Cabinet Co., Logan-sport, Ind. CO'I Swift & Co., Chicago. Thayer, H. N., Co., Erie, Pa. Thomasville Furniture Co., Thomas-ville, N. C. Union Furniture Co., ]ame,:;town \Vashington Manufaetu·ring Co., Washington, Court House, O. Western Hardware & Manufacturing Co., Mlwaukee, Wis. \Vestcrn Picture Frame Co., Chicago. White Furniture Co., The, Mebane, N. C. White-McCarthy Furniture Co., Chi-cago. Widman, J, c., & Co., Detroit. Mich. \\Tisconsin Chair Co., The, Port Wash-ington, Wis. Wisconsin Furniture & Manufactur-ing, Co., The, Neillsville, Wis. Wolf & Kraemer Furniture Co., St. Louis, Mo. Wolverine Manuafcturing Co., De-troit, Mich. Yeager Furniture. Co., The, Allen-town, Pa. Michigan Ave., Chicago GRAND RAPIDS PU2LIC LIBRARY 27th Year-No. 24. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., JUNE 25, 1907. TALKED ABOUT TREES. Timber Topics Discussed by Members of a Michigan Horti-cultural Organization. The June meeting- of the Grand River Valley Horticultural Society was devoted to the discussion of "Trees and Timber." William H. Anderson, presidcllt of the Fourth National Bank of Grand Rapids read a paper Oll the "Comparative GrO\.vth of Trees" in which he showed that the harder and more val-uable timber is from trees of slo-w growth. The whitewood or poplar is the most rapid grower among Michigan trees while the boxwood 15the ;-;lowest. Prof. Filibert Roth, state forest warden talked on "Refor-est ration as an Investment." He presented figures showing the state could set aside land now held at a dollar an acre, plant trees, care for them for forty or fifty years and-eli-minating taxation-realize 100 per cent profit, in addition to compound interest on the entire investment. Taxation, he said, is a bar to reforest ration by private parties, The local assessing officers value the property so high that the taxes more than over balance the profits. He charged the assessing officers with having hastened the wanton destruction of Michi-gan forests. By overtaxing timber lands they conlpelled the non-resident OW'ners to cut the timber as soon as possible and allow the land to go back to the state. The state does not pay taxes; therefore it is not handicapped in that way. Prof. Roth spoke of erroneous ideas, frequently expressed in the newspapers, as to what the forestry commissioners arc doing and from his statements it appears they are not doing much in the way of planting trees. It is not necessary to replant the pine barrens of Michigan in order to make them valuable and a source of profit to the state. There are plenty of young trees-many varieties-now gro\ving on nearly all of the so-called waste lands, he said, and all that is necessary is to keep the fire away from them and allow them to grow. Four years ago the commissioners asked the legislature to set aside a few thousand of the six mitllon acres of waste. lands owned by the state, to be protected and used as a forest reserve. The request was granted, but the state officials were not friendly to the i<1c,aand they picked the poorest of the lands-some that the state had been trying to dispose of for years. They were offered at 50 cents an acre and the state had spent more than that amount in trying to sell it. The largest tract reserved contains about 29,000 located in Roscommon county just south of Houghton Lake. No trees have been planted on this tract. To pay a watchma.n to look after trespasses and guard against fire, with a few assistants in the dryest, most dangerous seasons, the commissioners have paid, on an average, a little more than $800 per year. During the four years they have sold dead timber for which the state has receiv,ed nearly $6,000. For the first year the sale of dead and down timber brought $870 and for the last year $2,900. The young trees are growing with surprising rapidity and Professor Roth figures that without cutting a live $1.00 per Year. tree tlle land will pay the expense of protection and less than lorty years hence will be worth more than 200 times what the state asked but was unable to g;ei for it. Prof. Roth ridiculed the idea that "it requires 150 years to gro\'v' a big cork pine. A vcry repectable tree will grow in 70 years," he declared. H. C. Beardsley, formerly timber agent for the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad Company which had a large grant of Michigan lands, corroborated Prof. Roth's statement in regard to excessive and unfair taxation, causing the rapid destruction of the forests. vVil1iam \Viddicomb, the veteran furniture manufacturer, gave an entertaining talk on "One Furniture Vvood"-ma-hogany. He told of the peculiar growth of the tree, the dif-ficulties encountered in cutting it and getting it to market and how the wood is obtained by the furniture makers, the fine5t being purcb::.sed at fabulous figures at the a.uction sales in England. To illustrate his talk, he exhibited three fine boards finished in the natural color, one of true mahogany from San Domingo, another of the Mexican variety and another about ten inches wide sawn out of a limb from a tree cut ill Honduras. Mahogany is an evergreen, said Mr. Widdicomb. Tt is a member of the cedar family. There arc several different varieties of the tree. They are found in Mexico, Central and South America, the West Indies, in (Continued on Page 20.) THE CORRECT Stains and fillers. THE MOST SATISFACTORY first Coaters and Varnishes --------------------- - - - I Central furniture Company ROCKfORD, ILLINOIS WHOLESALE MANUFACTURERS OF "IG" GRADE fURNITURE COMBINATION BOOKCASES LIBRARY BOOKCASES, CHINA CLOSETS BUFFETS (jj Better made goods than ever. (jj Better styles than ever. (jj Better prices than ever. (jj WHY? Because we do not spend hundreds of dollars showing our line at Furniture Expositions. . F. T. PLIMPTON & CO. 8th Floor, 1319Michigan Ave., CHICAQO REPRESENTING: Humphrey Book Case Co. Sedional Book Cases, Phonograph Cahinet' Preston & Kourki Imported Brass Novelties, Oriental Rugs Goshen Novelty and Brush Co. Novelties in Mission F urnifure. Lamps Banta Furniture Co. Extension Tables. Dining Room Suites Campbell Smith Ritchie Co. Kitchen Cabinets, Wardrobes Billow-Lupfer Co. Mattresses, Feathe", Box Springs--guar. anteed Five Years Sidway Mercantile Co. Alwin Go-Cart., Shaving Stand., AdjuStable Bed-Tables Spencer & Barnes Co. Bed Room Furniture·-·Mahogany, Birdseye Maple, Oak ===== BissellC~et Sweepers .- Brass Candle Sticks ===== Samples on 5th Floor. Open Entire Year 19 M,esserSMiDis An Advertisement Reproduc6u from the Buffalo Courier of April 28, 1907. The Original Occupied Space 181nches Deep Across SiR ColulDns, 20 (Continued from Page 17.) Africa and other sections of the world, but the true mahogany tree is found only on the western hemisphere and there north of the equator. Mexic.an mahogany and, lately, the African variety are largely used by the furniture makers, but the best, -the true mahogany-comes from the West Indies, the very best from San Domingo. The tree grows frequently to a height of 150 or 175 feet-70 or 80 feet without a limb. The limbs branch out like those of the live oak, the top spreading over a space 150 feet in diameter. In order to stand against the hurricanes of the tropics the tree is buttressed or braced by the roots which arc of immense size above the ground. In order to fell a tree it is necessary to erect a scaffold on which the workmen stand to cut it off above the bracing roots. In speaking of the English auctioJ1s I\.Jr, Widdicomb said that in 1903 two mahogany logs were sold at Liverpool fOJ" something over $8,000. A sman log brought $300 per thous-and feet, board measure. Later a single log-sQuared-sold for $15,768. It was bought by Americans and the speaker modestly admitted that the Widdicomb Furniture Company is tense with desire. Just at the right time he gives it a toss and away the beautiful thing soars to meet the sky. He was ready when the wind blew. :Many failures in this world come from trying to fly kites after the wind has reached its height and begun to die down. The mall that tries that way may get his kite up half way and then see it drop helplessly to the earth. Discouraging, isn't it? Out West there are a good many land booms. Who are the men that make money out of them? Kot the men who come late and buy land when the boom has reached the crest and begun to go down on the other side. Oh, no. It was the man who was on the spot early and was ready to sell when the price had climbed to the top and the late-comer put in an appearance. Out in the western part of this state a man had a thousand bushels of potatoes to sell one -year. He thought he saw a chance to make some money out of the crop. They were bringing·a good fair price, but he thought that wasn't just time to sell. He would wait till they were a little higher. And he did wait. The price began to go down. The breeze had spent its force and his kite was still in his hand waiting -~--=..-~-:~-_..~ A FEW SAM.PLES FROM THE LARGE LINE OF DlNING TABLES MANUFACTURED BY THE IMPERIAL FURNITURE COMPANY., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. got" a piece of it." These logs were from San Domingo-the true mahogany. "The English manufacturers," said Mr. Widdicomb," are frequently quite jealous, when Americans out-bid them at the auctions." Ernest A. Stowe, president of the Grand Rapids Board of Trade talked on the "Use and Abuse of Trees" giving some valuable information as to the value and care of shade trees. Proper Time to Fly Your Kite. Have you ever tried to fly a kite? If not, watch some little chap before you begin. You will get some pointers about the matter that will stand you in good stead, not only in the business of flying kites, but also in the more serious affairs of life. The kite is done. The tail is furnished with bits of paper or cloth to give the proper balance, The lad is out on some high point of land. watching. Watching? For what? Listen! "Here she comes! Get ready for it!" Down there in the valley yon hear· a rushing sound. The trees bend before the wind. In a moment it will be here. Get ready. And the lad does get ready. Before the breeze strikes the knoll his kite is face to the wind. Every nerve fo" the fresher gale .. It did not come. He kept his potatoes till they went clear down to smash. Many of them he fed out to the cattle. Did it pay? A::;k him. He has some positive views on the subject now. The time to fly kites is when the wind blows. What is your particular line of business? Be ready for the breeze. Put up your kite and see it sail to the sunshine. Takes a smart man to know just when to do that. It certainly does, but it is the smart men that win. in this world. All the rest are sitting under the awning wondering why luck did not stand by them as well as by the other feHow. Half the victories of this life come from knowing when to strike. How can a man get the gift of hitting the spot at the precise moment? Isn't it, after all, a gift, and not something everyone may have? The secret of it is in this plain truth: No hound ever caught a fox unless he kept his eyes open, his mouth open and his legs on the keen scoot.-Spare Moments, Wise is the man who knows just what to say-and when not to say it. Secret of Remarkable Success. Many furniture men are interested in the extraordinary sUccess of the Northern Furniture Company of Sheboygan, 'Vis., Wl1ich, in a few years, has grown from a modest begin-ning to the largest manufacturers of bedroom, dining room and kitchen furniture in the world. Just ",,-hathas caused or contributed to the phenomenal success of the Northern is a matter of something like mystery to many less successful manufacturers, though most of the dealers know how Oley do it. Those well acquainted with the product of the com-pany and who have met the managers and salesmen can g-ive good reasons for its success, but to those who have not b-een so fortunate a little explacation may be acceptable. One of the leading causes of the success of the Northern was the fael lhat its managers ·were among the First to notice the drift of public taste toward the simple though elegant and tasty styles. For years most manufacturers and dealers had entertained the idea that only the wealthy possessed taste good enoug"h to appreciate simple designs and plain elegance in furniture. For the masses it was thought necessary to provide cheap, over-ornamented, highly colored stuff, but the Northern people djd not like that idea. Tbey believed tbat the ordinary people had taste equal to that of the wealthy Richmond Chair CO. RICHMOND,,\;INDIANA Doullie Cane Line SEE OUR NEW PATTERNS CATALOGUES TO THE TRADE 21 and they proceeded on that line. They threw out most of their carving machines, turned their attention to the plain and durable, though really elegant designs, used good materials and the best of workmanship even on their cheapest pro-ductions and the results were surprising even to themselves. The plan was a success from its inception. Another point in the success of the Northern people is that their aim is not merely to unload their furniture on the retail dealers but to see that it moves quickly out of the deal-er'swarerooms to make place for another order. The North-ern people would rather destroy a job lot than force it on Made b}~Mechanics Furniture Co., Rockford:, Ill. some dealer who would not be able to sell it. Their motto is "Sell only quick seIIers." Still another element in the success of the Northern people is the fact that they are good advertisers. They also conduct business on thc highest plane, give each and all fair honorable treatment and thus secure the respect anq confi-dence of their patrons_ Advertising "Before the War." The New York Press recently reproduced a few adver-tisements that appeared in Horace Greeley's NewYork Tri-bune in 1859. The advertisements in those days "before the ·war" did not "run to spate and display" as much as they do nowad;tys. Neither did they go into particulars to such an extent as at present and the cuts were lacking. Here is a copy of one used by one of the most enterprising furniture dealers of hj5 day: "FURNITURE EXTRAORDINARY." The finest kind of Broadway furniture ean be purchased of H. P. DeGRAAF, at Ko. 87 Bowery, at about half Broadway prices. He em-ploys 150 hands, and lays in his stock for net cash. His store is 240 feet deep, and six stories high, filled from ROOF TO BASEMENT with all qualities of FURNITURE AND MATTRESSES And-he says he will not at/ow himself to be undersold by any man. TheM and s Line IT SELLS and SATISFIES Do you know that we. have been making upholstered furniture more than two decades and satisfying our customers every minute of that time? We are making the line that Sells and Satiyies and would be pleased to add your name to our list that you may become a satis-fied customer. ROCKFORD, ILL. WHO ELSE COULD MAKE IT) China Closets Combination Cabinets Buffets Library Cases· Write for New Catalogue. Watch for oLlr ad next month. Everything for the Parlor, the Library and Drawing Room will be found in oue July Exhibit. MUELLER & SLACK CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. No. 919 Buffet OF COURSE THE STANDARD LINE OF AMERICA IS MADE BY THE ROCKFORD STANDARD FURNITURE CO. 23 Valley City Desk Company Grand Rapids, Mich. We can furnish you desks in any grade. Reasonable prices and high quality are what you are look-ing for. Our line on exhibition Top Floor, North, Furniture Exhibition Building GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. No 114 CATALOGUE MAILED TO DEALERS ONLY. r;:::::::= Quality - Individuality , • The distinguishing feature of a PAINE PIECE is its INDIVIDUALITY We make Davenports, Odd Sofas and Library Chairs. Suites and Leather Goods. We make them GOOD and we make them DIFFERENT No. 275 Quality in Upholstery C. S. PAINE CO., Ltd. GRAND RAPIDS CHEVAL DRESSER LOUIS XVI SUITI:: IN SOLID MAHOGANY MADE BY THE NELSON-MATTER FURNITURE CO.. GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. BED CHIFFONIER TOILET TABI-E THAT PACIFIC COAST TRUST TRAIL. Charges in the Indictment Against the Furniture Men in the Far West. During the first week in June the federal grand jury in Portland, Ore., found 182 "true bills" against furniture manu-facturers, jobbers and retailers in California~ Oregon, \Vash-ingtoll and Idaho, who are charged with having organized and maintained a conspiracy to restrain trade in violation of of the Shennan anti-trust 1a,'l_ The charge as set forth in the indictments reads as follows: "That during the whole or a part of the time [lioresaid (being from June 7, 1904, to June Made by Mueller & Slack Co.• Grand Rapids, Mich. 6, 1907,) defendants were members of at least one of certain retail furniture dealers' associations, namely, the Northwest Furniture Exchange, the Northwest Furniture Dealers' Pro-tective Association, the Oregon Retail Furniture Dealers' Association, the Portland Retail Furniture Dealers' Associa-tion or the Lewiston Furniture Dealers' Club, engaged in the business of buying at wholesale and sclling at retail, furniture and household goods, vvhich they, the said retailers and mem-bers of the aforesaid last-mentioned associations would and had secured and purchased from the said manufacturers, wholesalers and jobbers of the same, who resided and were doing business in states other than those in which said re-tailers resided and ,vexe doing business, and Frank F. Free-man, who was at the time aforesaid the secretary of the afore-said the Northwest Retail Furniture Dealers' Protective As-sociation, and who was at the time aforesaid the secretary of the Oregon Retail Furniture Dealers' Association, and who did during the period aforesaid co-operate with and assist the above-named defendants in the organizing and bringing about of and accomplishing the purpose of a certain unlawful combination, conspiracy, confederation and agreement here-inafter in this court more del-lnitely set forth, the aforesaid defendants and all of them in the 1:itateand district of Oregon and within the jurisdiction of this court did, during the period aforesaid, knowlingly, wilfully, unlawfully and maliciously conspire, combine, confederate and agree together between and amongst themselves to restrain trade and commerce amongst the several states of the United States, and parti- 25 cularly amongst the States of Oregon, Washington, California Montana and Idaho, and engage in a certain combina-tion, conspiracy, confederation and agreement in restraint of trade and commerce then being carried on among the several states in the United States, and particularly among the last-mentioned states; that is to say, a certain combina-tion, conspiracy, confederation and agreement in restraint of trade al1d commerce, t]len being carried on among said states in furniture and household goods, and that said unlawful com-bination, conspiracy, confederation and agreement for the restraint of the said commerce." As 'will be seen in the charge the "trust" is alleged to have existed for the past three years. The methods of transacting business are said to have been very much like those used by the "Prudential Club" ",ihich recently "came to grief" in Chicago, but the western organizations have a much wider scope and their rttles and regulations are not so stringent nor so effective as were those ttsed by the church and school furniture men. It is said that very few of the indicted dealers had any intention of violating the law when they became members of the organizations. The manufacturers also deny their guilt. And it is said none of them will plead guilty. The indictments, however,are accompanpied by specific charges describing certain transactions showing how the combinations were managed and if these allegations can be supported by sufficient evidence some of the officers and managers seem to be in danger of conviction. Window Trimmers and Advertising Men. In the smaller stores, the manager or owner of the store does the advertising, so that it is easy for the window~trimmer and this advertising man to get together and plan out the best things to put in the window. But in the larger store, where there is an advertising man, when he conceives an idea for a special sale, it is only proper that hc and the window artist discuss the question of getting the public in-terested as much as possible. How the goods shall be placed in the window will, of course, be left to the trimmer. In some stores the trimmer does the advertising for the store, and this man can supplement his ads with windows of the same goods or supplement his windows with advertise-ments of the same wares. You can readily imagine that this combination would bring results granted, of course, that the man was capable. This same close relation of the two de-partments should obtain e'iten where they are presided over by two individuals. These heads of departments should work together for the common good. Grand Rapids Caster Cup Co. 2 Parkwood A.... Grand Rapids, Mich. We arc now putting aD the best Caster Cups with cork bases ever offeree to the trade. These are finished in Golden Oak and White Maple in a light finish. These goods are admirable for polished floors a~d furn-iture rests. They will not sweat or mar. PRIGES: Size 2U inches••.... $4.00 per hundred Sizt;2Minches······ 5.00 per hundred T1'jIa Sample Order. F. O.B. Grand .Rupia.. 26 ROYAL MANTEL & rURNITURf COMPANY ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS Manufacturers of FINE and MEDIUM FURNITURE WE DO Nor MAKE MAN7~LS TJ-\t:= ROYAL LINE: will be found as usual in CHICAGO, 6th floor, 1319Michigan Ave .. and in NEW YORK at the Furniture Exchange during July. Buffets, China Closets, Combination Bookcases and Library Bookcases. SPRATT'S CHAIRS ARE THE JOy OF THE CHILDREN. Our new CHILD'S MISSION ROCKER was a winner from the start. Write for Catalogue and prices. Our line is large and prices are right. We make CHAIRS GROWN-UPS as well as CHILDREN. GEORGE SPRATT & co. Sheboyvn, Wis. Say you SQ= tllis ad in the Michigan Arti-san. The White Directory CONTAINS A CAREFIJLLY COMPILED LIST OF MANIJFACTIJRERS OF FURNITURE, PIANOS,ORGANS, INTERIOR FINISHES AND KINDRED INDUSTRIES Now Ready. Send inyour order. WHITE PRINTING COMPANY PRINTERS. ENGRAVERS, PUBLISHER.S, BINDERS 2-20 LYON ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Caliinet Makers In these days of close competition, need the best possible equipment, and this they can have in • . . • BARNES' Hand and Foot POWER Machinery Our New nand and foot Power Cll"cula ...Saw No.4 The strongest, most powerful, and in ~very way the best machine of its kind ever made, for ripping, cross-cutting. boring and grooving. Send for our New Catalogue. "W. F. ®. JOHN BARNES CO. 654 Ruby Street. Rochford. Ill. The Ford 8 Johnson Co. MANUFACTURERS Chicago Salesroom Ford-Johnson Bldg., 1433-35-37 Wabash Ave. For the July market we will have many new things to show. All furniture dealers are cordially invited to call and inspect our line, which includes Chairs, Rockers and Settees---all goods; Dining Room furniture; Mission furniture; Fiber Rush and Malacca furniture; Reed Rockers; Children's Go-Carts and Carriages, etc. WE ALSO SHOW SAMPLES AT OUR OWN SALESROOMS IN Cincinnati Atlanta New York Boston 27 28 Use for Mail Order Catalogues. There is said to be nothing so bad but what it might be worse; there is nothing so utterly useless but what it might be put to some good use. As an eye-opener to many a sleepy dealer, the mail-order house catalogue is a whole brass band at the head of a torch-light parade. "I never thought before that people would go to a hard-ware store for that/ remarked a small~town dealer recently in the writer's hearing, "until I noticed it was listed in the hardware department of a mail-order house catalogue. Oh, yes, I read them regularly now; it used to be spasmodic, till I got my awakening jolt over this little article. When I first saw it listed I laughed to myself, then got to thinking it over and wondered, why not; then it occurred to me that I had had a few calls for that very article. Now I look over all the mail-order catalogues I get my hands on and very often get awakened to SOUlenew thing that I ought to keep and don't. Those fellows as a rule are bright men, and know Underwriters Discuss Protective Methods. The eleventh annual convention of the National Fire Pro-tection Association was held in New York. The usual dis-cussions on modern methods of fire protection and the reports of -committees on special hazards were listened to with deep interest. The importance of the work which the Association is doing in the direction of standardizing fire protection devices and bringing about uniform requirements for betterments in construction was forcibly brought out in the opening address of President C. A. Hexamer. A comparison, he said, of the per capita fire loss in this country in 1906 with that in six prominent countries of Europe shows that the former was $3.30, including the San Francisco loss, and $2.25 excluding it, while the latter was only 33 cents. The percentage '0£ loss to premiums received by all the fire insurance companies reporting to the New York department last year showed the unprecedented ratio of %.9 per cent, a ratio, continued Mr. Hexamcr '~lhich certainly merits the attention of the highest legislative bodies of the nation. The committee 011 special hazards and fire record submitted a report which stated that the year 1906-7 was especially noteworthy in the large Humber of heavy losses due to failure of sprinklers to hold fire in check. Of seven fires which caused a property loss of two millions of dollars, three were in New England, viz., thc Lynn fire, the Dover (N, H.) fire and the Springfield (Mass.) fire. Made by Valley City De8ki:Co., GrandJRa,pids, Mich. what the people want, often better than I do. Several ar-ticles they have by their lists induced me to keep in stock I bave found to bc exceptional sellers. "It has taught me this lesson, too. If I, with a life long experience, do not know what I want to keep in stock until I see it listed elsewhere, it is pretty good evidence that there are others who want something that they do not realize until they see it; then they buy. If they had happened to see it first in some house catalugue the chances are they would have bought there and probably a lot of other stuff along with it. 'Vbo could blame them? One thing though, make all the use possible of the mail-order house catalogue but do not leave it kicking about the store or office. If a customer happens to see it be may be-come interested, if he hasn't any particular scruples against dealing with foreign firms; if he has, he will conclude that I am myself a patron of the catalogue-house and that if he is to take that quality of goods from the -local store anyway, he may as well send off direct and get the goods first hand. It's good logic on his part, if he catches yoU studying these cata-logues; but it isn't good business on your part to let him catch you."-H~ware. Tips Exceed Wages. The large furniture houses have men to go around and fix up any scratch or damage a customer may find in goods he has bought. His presence in a house, with his snug kit of tools and polishes, usually emphasizes the wabbly legs of an old chair, the scar· in the table top which Freddie's shoe made months ago, and a score of other things with which the repair man has no concern. But he fixes them readily enough, though sometimes pressed for time, and he always carries away a good-sized tip. Some days the money thus earned "on the side" exceeds the repairer's salary from the firm.-New York Sun. - - --------------------- 7IR'T' I t5' A...N 1 $ ,. • 29 Character in Furniture. "Quality" in furniture is not so lightly <:onsidcred that the manufacturer can afford to disregard it. In fact those manu-facturers who do not claim some intrinsic goodness for their particular product are cultivating a speaking acquaillLance with the bankruptcy court. But quality is not all. i\ silk gown of tbe early forties \vould hardly be appropriate in a modern ball-room. The ''cluality'·' would be there but the "style" has changed. A solid mahogany davenport in an ex-pensive covering made by high class workmen would hardly be saleable unless it had that indefinable something called "style." l\lr. Paine of the C. S. Paine Co., in a reccnt intervie\v emph;lsized the above distinctio11. "Furniture" said 1Ir. Paine "to be salenble mnst be distinctive as_well as good. It ing, fourth floor. Geo. C. Dyer will meet his metropolitan friends, Ernest IL vVilliams wilt represent the Middle West, J. D. Douglas, the Pacific Coast and H. M. Robins, the South. How To Treat a Salesman. "How would you treat a traveling salesman?" asked a re- Uiilcr of :t -vetc:,;w commercial traveler. "Treat him the best you know ho~v," caine the answer quickly. "1£ you can buy, stop your work and buy; if you can't buy, say so. Remember that the traveling salesman, 110 matter how jolly a fellow he may be, is busy making- a living for himself and family. Re~ member that traveling expenses are high and that he has just a limited time to devote to your town and generally even a shorter tillle to you. Treat him right always. Remember, MADE BY C. S. PAINE CO., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. must express t:haracter. The individuality of the line must be so marked that an ordinary furnitut'e man can 'spot' it. The retail customer must be attracted by the character of the piece as well as by its goodness. We make a big effort to secure this individuality in our line. ~IallY a design though other-wise good is rejected, because its character is not suffic.iently distinctive. We are bringing out this season nearly seventy-five entirely new patterns everyone of which is purely and exclusively 'Paine.' We look {or the largest volume of busine!:iS we have ever had." The Paine line will be s}lOwn in the large exhibition build-too, th;1t you can always get a better deal from the traveling man than from the firm direct. This applies to every busi-ness; and why? Because the commercial traveler is sent Qut to sell goods. That is what the house pays him for, and the house wants you to deal -with him, not with the house." Lives of many great men remind us, As we learn them day by day, That they'd best be put behind us, Out of sight and far away. MADE BY C. S. PAINE CO., ORAND RAPIDS, MICH. IT'S BECAUSE WE HAVE THE RIGHT KIND OF MECHANICS THAT ~ MAKE THE RIGHT KIND of FURNITURE MECHANICS FURNITURE COMPANY • ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS Write for neW Catalogue and keep your eye p~eled for this space ne~t month. UNION FURNITURE CO. WE manufacture the larg-est line of FOLDING CHAIRS in the United State8~ 8ttitable for Sunday Schools, Hall.s, Steamers and. all PUblic Resorts. . • . . We also manufacture Brass Trimmed Iron Beds, S-pt'ing Beds, Cots and Cribs in a larKe variety. . . . ~d for Catalocue aDd Price. to Kauffman Mfg. CO. "SULANO. OUIO ROCKFORD, ILL. China Closets Buffets Bookcases We Icad in Style, Comtrudion and· Finish. See our Catalogue, OUT line on permanent exhibi~ lion 7th Floor, New Manufact-urers' Building, Grand Rapids. The New Banquet Table Top a~weil aI OFFICE, DINING and DIRECTORS' TABLES are 001'" specialty. STOW & DAVIS FURNITURE CO.. 2:clt..':""'· Write far Catalogue. Gel sample:tof BANQUET TABLE TOP. Thousands in Use Furniture Dealers need have no more fear. With the use of Cline's Caster Cup one table may be placed on top of another without injury. Made in two sizes in the follow~ tog finishes: Oak, Mahogany and Ro-5ewood. Special pre-pared felt bottom, preventing ,sweat marks, scratching, etc. Price: 2)( in. per 100, $3.50; 3);; in. perlOO. $4.50 We alsomanuiacture IRe most reliable C.s.rd Holder on the market. Write for our new 40 page Catalogue. L. Cline Mfg.Co.• 123.Wah •• hAv ... Chicago 31 Something DiffERENT in Couches No. 155 WOVEN WIRE COUC" $4.00 Net We have made for some time, Couches and Davenports with woven wire tops. OUf latest essay in this line is Dlffl:RENT. Made and shipped K. D. Easily set up. A trIal order will convince. SMIT" ~ Dt\VIS MfG. CO., St. louis. Johnson Chair CompJny CHICAGO, . - ILLINOIS Manufacturers _ Office Chairs, Dining Chairs, Bedroom Chairs, and Parlor Rockers Sendfor our new catalogue, just out, illustrating our entire line. PERMANENT EXHIBIT: Furniture Exhibition Building, 1411Michigan Avenue 32 PACIFIC COAST CONDITIONS BUSINESS IN SAN FRANCISCO DEMORALIZED BY LABOR TROUBLES AND A HALT IN REAL ES-TATE SPECULATIONS. Bankers and Business Men Combine to Fight the Strikers and Speculators-A Slump in the Price of Lumber. "Business affairs in San Francisco are in bad shape," said Charles R Sligh, the well known Grand Rapids furniture manufacturer, who has just returned from the Pacific coast, where he spent four weeks looking after his business and tim-ber interests. "I was in San Francisco in June last year-about six weeks after the earthquake," he continued. "Then the future of the city \vas doubtful. Some thought it would never be rebuilt, but doubt gave way to confidence and the city has already been rebuilt to a large extent and there is now no question as to its future. The amount of rebuilding done during the year is surprising. Comparing present con-ditions ,""ith those of a year ago it does not seem possible that the change was made in so short a time. "Just now, however, building operations are practically at a standstill and business of all kinds is more or less paralyzed. The trouble is due mainly to the strikes, but a halt in real estate speculation has also had. a bad effect. When I left the city there were no less than seventeen strikes in pro-gress besides the street railway strike. Most of the strikes are in the building trades, but all kinds of business are affect-ed and there is no telling when the trouble will end. The bankers and business men have apparently joined with the the contractors and manufacturers to down the strikers and there is little doubt of their success, but it may be a long fight. "The bankers have also shut down on the real estate and other speculators. Real estate speculation had been carried to an extreme that made it dangerous and the bankers were obliged to make some effort to call a halt. There is plenty of money in the banks, but it cannot be borrowed for specula-tive purposes. The speculators, when they cannot obtain money to meet their obligations will have to throw their holdings on the market and sell for whatever they can get; some of them have already been obliged to do so. As a consequence values are uncertain and their business is demor-alized. "The halt in real estate speculation is not confined to San Francisco. It extends to all towns on the coast, or, at least, all north of San Francisco, though it is not so noticeable in Oregon and Washington. I did not go down to Los An-geles. In Oregon and Washington-at Portland, Seattle and Tacoma-general business is good. Those towns have certainly been benefited by San Francisco's misfortunes. They have felt no falling off in any line of trade or industry, ex-cept in the lumber business. There has been a slump of $1.50 to $2.00 per thousand in the price of lumber recently, due, in part at least, to San Francisco's halt in building opera-tions. "Whether San Francisco dealers will buy as freely as usual at the summer exposition is doubtful. Conditions there are not Made by Valley City Desk Co., Grand Rapids, M.ich. encouraging, but they are hopeful and may bank on an early settlement of the labor troubles which would assure them a booming fall trade. Dealers in Washington and Oregon are prosperous and will probably place orders larger than usual." Merchants Organize a Fire Insurance Company. The Retail Merchants Exchange of Los Angeles, which is composed of sixteen commercial organizations, at a recent meeting took preliminary steps to organize a mutual fire in-surance company, which is to be known as the Merchants' Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Southern California. It was decided that the company should have a reserve fund of $50,000 at the start and to bea "non-boarder." (ESTABLISHED lass) BERRY BROTHERS' Rubbing and Polishing Varnishes MUST BE USED IN FURNITURE WORK TO BE APPRECIATED THEY SETTLE THE VARNISH QUESTION WHEREVER TRIED WRITE FOR INFORMATION, FINISHE.O WOOD Si\MPLES, AND LITERATURE. BERRY BROTHERS. LIMITED VARNISH MANUFACTURERS DETROIT THIS IS THE CAN AND LABEL NEW YORK, ii10STON, PHIUDELPH'A, BALTIMORE. CANADIAN FACTORY, WALKERVILLE ONTARiO CHICAGO, CINCINNATI, ST. LOUIS. SAN ..RANCIBCO. REMINISCENT. Twenty-eight years ago the writer gained his first irnpres~ siems and knowledge regarding the Grand Rapids furniture ex-position. No ol1t-of-to·wn lines were exhibited and the local lines werE: few in number and, in comparison with the Jines of today, unimportant. The Berkey & Gay Fur-niture Company, Nelson & 1\Jatter, the \Viddicomb Furniture Company, the Phoenix Furniture Company and the Grand Rapids Chair Company and Stow & Haight were the only ex-hibitors, and yet in view of the fact that the lines exhibited would be considered of little conse.quence today they were strong enough to attract huyers from the leading retail houses of the United States to Grand Rapids. The writer remem-bers having met in the market twenty-eight years ago ]'Vfr. Hildreth oi Holton & Hildreth, 1h. Schone of Vv'irts & Scholle, Jacob Beicrsdorf, Harry \Vright of the Tobey Furni-ture Company and John II,!. Colby of Chicago; Mr. I\Jatthews of Milwaukee; Clark A. Brockway, representing Marcus Ste-vens, and George \V. Fowle of Detruit; A, S. Hereoden and Mr. Barstow of Cleve1alld; C. F. Doll of Schlund & Doll, Buf-falo; Johnny Hand, Fred Pulhrnan, R. 1. Horner and Mr. De- Graaf of New York; '\ilr. Stone of Dewey & Stone, Omaha; Mr. DeCostar of DeCostar & Clark, St. Paul; 1'\'1r.Phelps of Phelps & Bradstreet, Millllcapolis; Co1. Abernathy of Leav-enworth; John H. Sanderson (of capitol furnishing notoriety), Philadelphia; \V. B. J\'loses of \Vashington; Mr. Minch, 1'/1r. Chalmers and Mr. \V2.Lte of B;l1timore; Sam Burrell and Mr. Jones of St. Louis; }1r. Elder of Indianapolis; Mr. Barth of Louisville; Mr. Plum, Mr. Heeney and 1'fr. Cole of San Francisco. 1'l1r. Conant and :r..-rr. IVleilink of Toledo; Mr. Orison and Mr. Keith of Kansas City, and othe-rs whof-c l1am~s are for the moment forgotten. The spring season opened in March and the fall season in August. Of the sales-men who received and attended the visiting buyers, :.vir. \Vheelock and 11r. Fitch of Nelson & ::'I.'1atter,!'vir. Sligh and ¥r. Corson of the Berkey & Gay Furniture Company, Mr. Foote of the Gr::tl1dRapids Chair Company, Mr. W. H. Jon~s of the Phoenix, Jacob Moore of the Grand Rapids Furniture Company, John E. Foster of the \Viddicomb Furniture Com-pany, and R. J. Stow of Stow & Haight are remembered. The hotels were small, and many of the conveniences deemed essential to health and comfort by the commercial tourist of today were lacking. ]\1any of the buyers mentioned above have passed away, but the market grows and will continue to grow in importt.nce to the end of time. The art of manu-facturing is planted in Grand Rapids as firmly as sculpture i.n haly, painting in France and music in Germany. A. S. WHITE. "Fancy Furniture." ~lallY years ago the Oriel Cabinet company commenced advertising their lille as "fancy furniture." The goods were morc realistic than fanciful, although in their design play was given to the ingeniollsness of the designer. Factories producing "fancy furnitme" began to multiplY and so lllaHy . "freaks" were brought out and designated "[auc.,,-· that lraua-gel' C. \V. Black, decided upon a departure for the Oriel Cabinet company. Sometime ago it was annolltlced that the OTicl. Cabinet company .vauld thereaitcl.· manufacture furniture novelties, a term that suggests the line of work pro-duced more tittillgly than·' "fancy". The Oriel is showing many furniture novelties this season. Steadily Progressing. Since the new purchasers of the Grand R~-ipids Farnitt:re company (formedy the Nev,.· England) took 1JOS3C·.~;~('1l of the property, steady pTogress has been made in improving the quality of the line and in placing the same on the floor of the leading retailers of the United States. A marked advance has bcen made for the fal! season of trade, and buyers visiting Grand Rapids should not leav{~the market before making an inspection of the company's offerings. 34 The Udell Works Are Now Ready With Their New Line 01 Sample, in Grand_Rapids Only. July, 1907 Exhibit. 4th Floor. S,,-uth Hall. Furoiture Exhibition Buading. 1245 Mission Desk LARGER BETTER CHEAPER THE UDELL WORKS, Indianapolis,Indiana,U. S. A. fJ Get on our Mailing List for New Catalog in July. Robbins Tabl6 60. OW0550, Mi6higan No. 318. AMERICAN OAK. 44x48IN. TOP, AMERICAN BASE. 7 IN. PILLAR. Ladies Desks, Music Cabinets, Bookcases. Library Tables YOU will be the loser if you don't see them. 1242 MiSHion Desk The New "PERFECT" FOLDING CliAIR Comfortable Durable Simple Neat The Acme of Perfection in the line of Folding Chairs.PBRP"H(:T COMPACTJ'(ESS when folded. WRITE for PRICES The PeabodY School Furniture Co. North Mancheater. • .. lndlana MANUFACTURERS OF HARDWOOD ~~~~i~~ SPECIALTIES: ~'l.U;1?l'l3QUAOR.AK VENEERS MAHOGANY VENEERS HOFFMAN BROTHERS COMPANY 804 W. Main St" FORT WAYNE, iNDIANA 3S t. EXTENSION TABLES Complete Line sho\lln in (lur new space FURNITURE EXHIBITION BUILDING First Floor, North Half. Grand Rapids, Mich. ST. JOHNS TABLE COMPANY CADILLAC, MICH. Cf\}3lNET Mf\KER~ CO· Grand Rapids, Michige.n ... New Dining Room Suites No. 1115, CUBAN MAHOGANY. New Library Tables, Desks and Sewing Tables. These are all novelties---something different from anything on the market. FIRST FLOOR, SOUTH HALF, MANUFACTURERS' BUILDING. John Samuelson, F. H. Bogges, C. F. McGregor, M. D. Blum, A. T. Kingsbury and Robert Baxter. 36 ESTABL.ISHED 18BO ",(i " , ,"'~~ , '-~ .~:\. ~ ~ --"""""'!' ~ - - PUElL.I$HI!!:D BT MICHIGAN ARTISAN CO. ON THE 10TH AND 25TH OF EACH MONTH OFF1CE-2-20 LYON ST.• GRANO RAPIDS. MICH. ENTERED AS MATTER OF THE SECOND Cl.AS~ The growth of agitation in the trade press and retail mer-chants' organizations against what they call the mail-order evil, affords opportunity to a class of promoters who, without any personal preference or interest in the matter, offer to co-operate with the oppressed merchants in their efforts to check the advance of the enemy. Those promoters advance various schemes to put the mail-order houses out of business, but nearly all of them arc merely plans to bleed the merchants individually or through the associations. Very few, if any, of them, even if worked out as planned would have any effect on. the catalogue trade nor would they benefit the merchants in any way. In nine cases out of ten, at least, the merchant who, individually or through association with others, goes into any scheme to fight the mail-order houses fmds that it costs him more than he loses through the mail-order competition. The only way for a retail merchant to meet the dreaded en-croac'hments of the catalogue dealers is to improve his busi-ness methods, make the most of his location and natural ad-vantages and work his field to the limit. Mail-order com-petition has few terrors for the live, up-tn-date retail dealer. *1* *1* *1* *1* The past month has been a strenuOUS one for President Kanitz of the Muskegon Valley Furniture Company, and Sec-retary Foote of the Grand Rapids Chair Company. What with the work of closing up their lines for the fall season of trade and defending the management of their pet institution, the Michigan Soldiers' Home, they have llad no time to at-tend the camp fires or their regimental reunions. The insti-tution and the lines are Ila11 right" and ever will be a long as Messrs. Kanitz and Foote shall remain in their present act-ivities. Both are honorable and able men. *\* *\* *1* *\* The action taken by the railroads in several western states, as noted on another page, shows that they are deter-mined to fight the two-cent fare laws to a finish and if defeat-edthey plan to retaliate by raising freight rates through new regulations and changes in classification. They may sllcceed in defeating the people in this matter, but it will be an empty victory. It will only encourage the Socialists and tend to convince the people that the government should not only control, but should O\vn the railroads. *1* *1* *1* *1* Every customer, whether man, woman or child, rCll'"lembers the store where they have been kindly treated. Salesmen should be made to understand that everybody's call is impor-tant. No man likes to be approached by a careless, slov-enly salesman with the question: lIWhat do yon want?" A man who does not possess the instincts and the training of a gentleman is hardly fit for serVIce in a barnyard or among the pig styes. *'~ *1* *1* If there is not a r-l:ch 1:' rger turn-out of buyers to the exposition in Cl~inTn t"C't C· o:·th it will not be the fault of President ~.Ieyns of the i\Lu'ufaeturers' Exhibition building. Dud .......,.t~(·' r :'~t four I11cnth he has kept the mails well toad- .cd \vitl1 letter;; ~:ddressed to dealers, setting forth substantial reasons why every dealer should become a market buyer. The arguments presented by Mr. Meyers are unanswerable. *1* *!=ll *1* *1* "Salesmatlship is a profession in itself," remarked a veteran merchant. I'The salesman who is able to ascertain why the public buy, and who is able to inspire enthusiasm in the minds of prospective purchasers, is sure of advancement and' steady employment. By taking a correct view of their' profession and making good in its practice the op?ortunities for con-scientious and industrious salesmen are unlimited:' *1* *1* *1* *1* Failing to receive prompt attention, when apparently there is no cause for delay,' makes a customer "grouchY," and when a merchant has more people in ,his stme than can be waited on ii is his misfortune. Salesmen cannot inspire enthusiasm in customers when flying from one to the other. Men are especially keen in their remembrance of how they are treated by the storekeepers and their employees. *\* *\* *\* *1* Want of tact is almost a common fault in salesmen. ",'hen this is combined with carelessness the explanation is fur-nished why many individuals employed by merchants earn so little. The best training schools for salesmen find the correction of these faults very ditlicult to accomplish. Slov-enly persons arc disposed to remain slovenly all their days. *1* '*1* *1* *1* Visitors to the mid-summer expositions in Grand Rapids and Chicago will be pleased to learn that the Hotel Ottawa thirty minutes ride from Grand Rapids al1d five hours by boat from Chicago, will be open for the reception of guests on July 1. In the past this resort has entertained large numbers of fllfIliture men. *j* *1* *1* *1* Many samples were received in Grand Rapids during the first week of June and the w~rk of putting the floors in order has gone steadily forward since. The placing of the lines on the floors is not easily accomplished. Often weeks are required to properly display a single line. *1* *1* *1* *1* Fears are expressed that on account of the indictment of two hundred furniture men on the Pacific Coast the attend-ance of buyers from that section will be smalL Many will have pressing engagements with their lawyers during the mid-summer season. *\* *1* *1* *1* During the months of July and August large red spots will appear on the maps of the United States. These will indi-cate the locations of Grand Rapids, Chicago and New York, the great furniture centers of the world. *1* *1* *1* *1* The successful merchants of the future will be the men; who have had experiel1ce on the f1!)ors of mercantile houses with Cllstomers. The office offers no such opportunities as the floors or the road to acquire power in salesmanship. *1* *1* *1* *1* There is a steadily increasing demand for f~rnit\\re made of toona mahogany. Many supposed that the light finish employed on this wood would not remain long in favor, but it seems to have gained a lasting position in the trade. *1* *1* *1* *1* It seems to be a well established principle that a manufac-turer has the right to open his exhibit whenever he pleases, and to close it at any time, without asking the cons.ent of the sheriff. *1* 1111**1* *1* Incivility and lack of attention on the part of satesmen caUses the loss of more trade through the resentment of customers than the delivery of inferior goods or the pay-ment of excessive charges . _._-------------------- "INCOMPARABLE CENTURY LINE" PARLOR. LIBRARY AND LIVING-ROOM FURNITURE IN MAHOGANY. WALNUT. AND GOLD LEAF. ALSO MAHOGANY DINING-ROOM CHAIRS AND CHAMBER CHAIRS AND ROCKERS. REPRODUCTIONS FROM THE FRENCH. OLD ENGLISH AND THE COLONIAL. REPRESENTATIVES: L, D, BERRY W. T. WELCH A. T. KI NGSBURY ROST, E. BAXTER CENTURY FURNITURE CO. SALES-ROOM 153-159 CANAL ST .. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 38 Detroit, June 24.-A. VV.Bosley has purchased n:e stock of furniture and good will of tl:e estate cf the late W. E. BarkeT at 211-14-16 Michigan avcm,e, and will contil1ue the business at that location in addition to his present store at 14-16 Gr::.ttiot avenue. lvIr. Bosley has been a successful iUT nituTe merchant in Detroit for nventy years or more and is a man who has done and is doing his full share to advance the city's prosperity. Victor V. Cel1lebroek, who has been with the IVlichigan avel'l".C store sillce it started, rC11la:l;S with Mrs. Bosley in charge of the alTice. ~dT. Ceulebrce~k has been in the furniture business as a manufacturer, salesrr.an and with Mr. Barker in the store almost sil1ce boyhocd, and his many friends ·will be glad to know he is still in ·the busi-ness. Idr. Bosley has the best wishes of the rVlichigal1 Ar-tisan for success in his l~ew vcr.ture, and he will surely win it as he 'deserves to do. The Possclius Bros. Furniture Manufacturing Company ·will show an entire t'.ew line of dining extension tables at their permanent show rooms, 1319 :'lichigan avenue, Chicago, in charge of l\Jessrs. Kueey, Kemp and Armstrong. This is one of the largest lines of extension tables in the market and in addition to thc famous Victor, their line en:braces Murphy Chair Co. MANUFACTURERS A COMPLE.TE DETROIT, MICH. LINE. Pioneer Mfg. Co .. , DETIlOIl, MIen. Rood furniture Babu GarriaOllll Go-Garts Fall line l'hown lJon second floor, 1319 Michll!an Ave., Chi. calilo, in 'anuary. ItOOKWOOD and a general line of fl\NGY TI\BlfS Write for Cuts and Pricea ........ PALMER Manufacturing Co. 115 to 135 Palmer Ave. DETROIT. MICH. Full line -.hown on teeond £100", 1319 Miehigan Ave., ChiealrO. in January. many pattcrns in round and square tops, in mahogany, quar-ter sawed golden and mission oak. It is so large and varied that i,t cannot fail to be one of the slrongest lines in the build-iug. The Safety Folding Bed Company will show their full line of metal safety lockless folding beds on thel1rst floor of 1411 Michigan avenue, Chicago. .\lessrs. Fitzpatrick, Ryan and Radtke wilt have charge of the line ;and it will be a winner. The Palmer IVTanufacturing Corhpany will have a beaut:- ful line of library anl parlor tables, pedestals and tabourettes on display at 1319· Michigan avenue, Chicago. The Pioneer Manufacturing Company show their fine line of reed and rat-tan rockers, children's ..:arriages and go-carts in with the Pal-mer Manufacturing Company. The Detroit (;:thinet Company'" fine line of fancy furni-ture wil1 be shown as usual in the big Furniture Exhibition building, Grand Rapids. George}. Reindel's new six story building is rapidly ap-proaching completion, and when finished he will have one of the finest furniture stores in the west, Don't Be a Whiner. Lucky is the man in business who doesn't feel occasionally like giving up the fight. There are times when everything seems to go wrong and nothing comes your way. When in such a condition the following, written by a buyer for the An:erican Tobacco Journal may serve you as a bracer: "Don't, gentlemen, play the part of the under dog. Don't let the public think that your business is being injured by the trusts or by any other combination of men or circum-stances. Put \-lp a bold front, look the world in the face and whistle, whether you win or lose. You can't win anything with a whine. Thc man with troubles r::ever lacks an aud-icnce, but his auditors seldom leave him with more respect for him as a man than they had before they knew he had any troubles. "Humanity is a peculiar proposition, anyhow. Give them somcthing to look at; put up a show of sightliness; keep things ncat, attractive and cheerful and you will get the business re-gardless of other things. To hold a business you have got to have, something else of merit, but to hold trade you must have some trade to hold in the first place. It isn't necessary to brag, but it is viblly necessary to keep the public thinking you are ;1l1 'is-cr' and not a 'was-cr.' If once yOll let the people thick yOU have gone 1111derthey will fall on you like Sibcrian wolves alid eat yoU Up. Every time and all the tirrc people follow th~ successful man; they trade with him and try to tn8ke friends with him." The buyers bought light in January <l11d from "hand-to-mouth" since. Upon these facts the prediction of a lively mid-summer season is based. • 39 i To Make Sdre of It, When in Chicago, Go to 1411 MICHIGAN AVENUE F1RST FLOOR NEAR THE ELEVATOR AND SEE THE Safety Lockless Metal Folding Beds ·---------1-1 -- MADE BY THE ---- Safety Folding Bed ~\. C L d ) ,If{"; il~, 0., t. I DETROIT, MICHIGAN I J. d~"fTHrs' FITZPATRICK,M. E.RYAN .,dA P.RADTKe '-------------1 I I I Np-KUM-LOOSE FASTENER 4 \I' 1\\ is the only device th t makes it absolutely impossible for the Knob, Pull or Toilet Screw to grt loose or come off. As they cost the manufacturer absolutely nothing af. all, no manafacturer c~n afford to trim his furniture without using these rasteners. Manufactured under the Tower PatentS only hy the I GRAND RAPID~ BRASS CJ. GRAND RAPIDS, MICmGAN I S ARE BREAD AND The "ELI" fOL~!~~,~d~i~Mant:Ra~:'~p:~:~ERS No Stock complete wlthou O MILLER &, Evan.ville. Indi~Da ELI . CO.Writeforcutsandpnces TUE BOCKSTEGE fURNITURE CO. EVANSVILLE IND. Globe Furniture Company Globe Side-boards Are me BeSI on me G10De lor me MOney GET OUR CATALOGUE MeQlion-the MICHI-GAN AR!ISAN when wnlmg. EVANSVILLE. IND. Kitchen Cabinets , Cupboards and K. D. . Wardrobes. That Plell8e. Send for our 1907 C.ta1ague Now Ready. The Bosse Fumiture CO EVANSVIll.E. IND.- .nar~es War~ro~es are Good Wardrobes GOOD Style Construction Finish PRICES RIGHI Write for Catalogue Karges Furniture Company, EVANSVILLE, IND. 42 ===== OUR ENTIRE NEW LINE OF THE ===== ~~·I FAMOUS VICTOR1==--=1 OUR GREAT SPECIALTY and a full line of EXTENSION TABLES are now on Exhibition .at 1319 Michigan Ave., (2d Floor) Chicago IN CHARGE OF F. A. KUNEY, J O. KEMP, H. J ARMSTRONG -- --_ ..- --- --- ----- ---'---- I POSSELIUS BROS. FURNITURE MFG. CO. DETROIT. MICH. Luce-Redmond Chair Co. Big Rapids. Michigan Om Largest and Finest Line of Bedroom, Slipper Chairs and Rockers Parlor Suites, Office and Dining Chairs In Mahogany, Oali:, Maple and Chxassian Walnllt Furniture Exhibition Building, 2d floor, South Half to the front Sections 15 and 16, Grand Rapids. In charge of ], C. HAMILTON and EDGAR FOSTER, assisted bytbe followiug Representatives: L. G. WALDRON, J0r.:; T. HEALD, A. D. HUDGINS, :A. R. SANKS lUld C. R. DAVIS oj the Wisconsin Furniture Co. 43 - - - -- --------- --- --- 44 Grand Rapids Furniture Co. SUCCESSORS NEW ENGLAND FURNITURE CO. Dining Room Furniture in Complete Suites MEDIUM PRICES Side Boards, China Cabinets, Serving Tables, Extension Tables, Chairs '1 Line strengthened and mad'(: more Com-plete by addition of New and Artistic Patterns. Show Rooms at Factory IOn Canal St. On the First Floor at 1319 Michigan Ave., CHICAGO ~TH.ROPCO. :f 9- Display complete Lines of samples from the following factories: Elk Furniture Co~ } ~~\is~i:RS. Dl'XI'e" " CHIFFO~IERS. SIDEBOARDS Crowell Furniture Co. §~rttAL Thomasville Furn, Co. ~~'t1KF~~~i~ Standard Chair Co. g~Wci'¥2,O,J'Gd Queen Chair Co. ~~~AT Pro bst -B'Iggs F urn. Co. GSdIDBEUBFOFAETRSDS Choate-Hollister Furn. CO.l:I1AA~GGRADE . TABLES OoIden F urn. Co. PCOHLIFISFHOENDDIREAElRlSWSSo.oE".R,.;S SeIIers & S ons Co. CKAITBCIHNEENTS MI.S. SlOn F urn. Co. AMRISTSSGidO.,CN.;RAFTS Capi·taIF urn. Mfg. Co. FOUARKPNOITRUCRHE GET OUR PRICES AND DISCOUNTS, 'READY JULY 1st. MANUFACTURERS' EXHIBITION BUILDING, 1319 MICHIGAN AVE" CHICAGO ~MlfrIG7}-N Fight the Two-Cent Fare Laws. Eighteen railroad companies in Missouri are fighting the two-cent fare law which is to take effect in that state on July 1. They have secured an injunction, from Judge Smith McPherson of Kansas City, restaining the state officials from taking steps to enforce the law until the courts have passed upon a previous petitioll asking that the law be de- 45 rates and will raise the mll1l1TIUm caT load weight on more than 90 per cent of the articles named in the western freight classification, abolish several special commodity tariffs and restore the articles to classification. Such action would ad-vance the minimum car load of iron articles, 6,000 pounds, agricultural implements 4;000, grain products 5,000 and all other carload commodities from 3,000 to 6,000 pounds, and, elared invalid all. constitutional grounds. About twenty roads have taken similar action in Illinois and a smaller number in Minnesota, Arkansas, Iowa and Nebraska. It is expected the decision in the Missouri case will be accepted in the other states, but as that case may be appealed to the United States Supreme Court the operation of the laws may be sus-pended for a year or more. The y;.'iscansin senate, by a DINING ROOM, MANCHESTER, ENGLAND with the abolition of commodity tariffs on low grade ship-ments, .v..o..uld have the effect of making a general advance ill freight rates of about six per cent. . The Sextro Line. The Sextro Manufacturing Company will have their new line for the July season on display on -the sixth floor of the BEDROOM. MANCHESTER, ENGLAND votJ of 6 to 20, killed the twO-cent fare bill 'which had passed the 'lower house of the legislature. It is announced that in case the courts uphold the two-cent fare laws, the railroads wilt withdrawnj all special rates of less than two cents a mile, except comntutation rates. They will also withdraw all "less than car load" commodit}" freight Manufacturers' Exhibition building. 1319 Michigan avenue, .Chicago. Manager Sextro states that his company have had an l1l1USllal1ylarge volume of business during the past year and that :it the present time they are still behind On filling their ordets. The Sextro table line is one of the strongest to be found on the markets. 46 We Sell to Dealers Only. New Catalogs Free. COLONIAL DESIGNS Appeal to the best trade. Many new Colonial pieces, with our complete line of Mahogany, Birds-eye Maple and Q!artered Oak BEDROOM FURNITURE will be shown on the Fifth Floor Manulacturers' Exhibition Building CHICAGO, ILLINOIS ..... The Spencer & Barnes Company BENTON HARBOR, MICH. Some of our Salesmen who will "show you" F. T. Plimpton: & Company, M. A. Harmon, S, Mercer and E. B Benbow. NEW· LINE on DISPLAY Manlacturers' Big Exhibition Building CHICAGO. ILLINOIS WRITE FOR CATALOGUE THE SEXTRO MFG. co. CINCINNATI, OHIO 47 Moon Desk Co. MUSKEGON, MICH. HOFFICE DESKS New Styles for Fall Season q Line on sale Seventh Flocr, Manufacturers' Building, Grand Rapids, Mich. No. 384% Dining Table. OUR OAK AND MAHOGANY Dining Extension Tables Are Be:fi Made, Bdl: Finished Values. All Made hom Thoroughly Seasoned Stock. No.3&4~Dining Table Top. 48x:48. Made in Q!:!arteted Oak. Full Polished, Nickel Calfters. NQ. 384. Same style as above with square top. LENTZ TABLE CO. NASHVILLE. MICH. WHITE. PRINTING CO. I I GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. HIGH GRADE CATALOGS COMPLETE 48 Free Excursions Like Trading Stamps. During the past two years many towns in Minnesota and some in other western states inaugurated bargain weeks- and buying excursions, during the progress of which they offered Made by Manistee Manufacturing CO., Manistee, Mich. railroad fare free to those who came in from other towns and bought goods to a certain amount. The proposition naturally has some attractive features and at first showed signs of being a profitable investment for the promoters. Like the trading stamp scheme, how-ever, it was not long before the idea was overworked. Other towns' began to employ the same means to attract trade and eventually the large city of Minneapolis decided to take a hand in the matter and recently held its tlrst "Free Fare Trade \Veek." The jobbers and manufaetttrers of the latter city have evidently decided that they do not care to continue such me-thods of enticing the people to come from out of tOW11to buy in that market. They apparently believe, as the business men of every good market town should believe, that they have de-sirable lines to after and that no inducements should be nec-essary in order to attract business to that center. 1£ each city were to inaugurate a plan of this kind, no oue would be deriving 'any henetlt from the plan but illstead the merchants would be distributing to their customers in the \-yay of rail-road fare a large amount of money, which eventually mnst be made up in some other way. As- mentioned ahove, it would practically become a duplicate of the trading stamp scheme. In summing up the experience gained after its first trial in Minne'apolis, the North \Vest Trade of that city dis-courages the holding of future similar excursions and says: "No city can hope for commercial honors as a manufac-turing and distributing point where its manufacturers and wholesalers are called upon to combat such commercial her-esies and methods as exemplified in this scheme, as it inspires, and justly, a feeling of resentment on the part of the mer-chants whose trade is thus raided. 'Free Fare Trade Week' was not a success. The expenses attending its operation were almost prohibitive, the more so as it was not inspired nor put into effect by Minneapolis retailers themselves, but by a couple of 'promoters' or schemers from the outside loaded, with' fair predictions and bright promises. The city has not been crowded, nor has the volume of business shown any decided increase. "The single item of fares should have exhausted legitimate profit on the required minimum of merchandisepu.rchased, but in addition there were heavy expenses for thegerierotis newspaper advertising, the strolling band, the maintenance of the bureau of registration, and last, but by no means the least, the promoters' share. And the grand aggregate formed such a handicap that the scheme has been voted many things but a success." New Record £0[' the West Michigan. The business of the ",Vest !vIichigan Furniture Company, Holland, .~dich.,for the spring of 1907, has been the heaviest in the history of the company. The line, covering golden elm, maple mahogany, golden ash, golden oak, imitation fig-ured mahogany, imitation figured quartered oak, genuine ma-hogany and qnartered oak veneered goods in chamber suites, chiffoniers and dressers, is the largest they have ever pro-duced. They have also' had a very extensive trade in their imitation quartered oak sideboards as well as in the genui11e quartered oak goods. The managers announce that they will make very few changes for the fall, the line 'being so popular with the trade that they do not deem it necessary to make changes. Every month their business this season has shown an increase over any and all preceding seasons. Foreign Trade not Desired. One of the consular rcpresenfatives of the United States, in a long letter to the secretary of ,state at Washington ,gives many reasons why there is no market to speak of in England for furniture manufactured in the United States. It is a well known fact that the trade of great Britain is not sought nor desired by the manufacturers of furniture on this side of the Made by Grand Rapids Chair Co., Grand Rapids. Mich Atlantic. So long as the domestic markef takes the goods produced, why bother with the trade of the tedious, fussy Englishmen? \\Then the domestic market shall not beab!· to handle the output of furniture made at home, the American manufacturers wilt engage in the business of supplying the English market with such goods as tbat country needs. The factory cafes, for which Grand Rapids is famous, were fully stocked up and ready for the enterta.inment of visiting buyers on June 17. UNLAWFUL COMBINE ADMITTED SOME OF THOSE INDICTED FURNITURE MEN PLEAD GUILTY AND PAY SMALL FINES. They Adapt Resolutions Withdrawing All Obligations and Agreements With the Northwest Furniture Exchange. Sillce the artjcle appearing Oil nnother page relative to the indictment of furniture men in the far northwe5t was printed, it is announced from PortlaTHl that sixteen manufacturers and wholesalers ;llld fOUf rct<lil dealers pJc;::dc{1 guilty on Tuesday June 11, and paid fines of $25 carll, Previous to entering the plea of g'uilt)' the respondent:, held a Ineeting and adopted the following resolution \vhich 1vas presented to the COllrt: "Resolved. That the KOTthwcst Furniture Exchange be dissolved; that the relationship of different members of the organization be terminated, jbe agreel1~cl1ts aed ohligatiolls FURNITURE POLISH We offer a polish guaranteed to produce a BRILLIANT and PERMANENT lustre on any finished wood. A dealer's trade butlder. Send for sample )( gross) $3.75. Our Superior Repair Finish never fails to remove burlap marks and mars; and, used with crystal shellac and a set of our colors, [alli/ioe, to match any finish] will repair deep scratches and jams, and reproduce the original finish, at once. A boon to factory or store. Repair outfit complete, with colors, one quart finish, and inslructions for use, Send for Samples. Grand Rapids Furniture Polish Co. 24 Milton Ave.• Grand Rapids. Mich. A.uti£Jma.ttc: Phone 8226. $3.25 of the respective members thereof be annulled, and the i!l-dividual corporations, firms and persons forming the associa-tion pursue their respective husiness ",,'ithollt regard in any way to the exch811ge, and ,vithout any combil18tion of prices, or in any resp<:ct, in restraint of trade." The names of those vdw entered pleas of guilty on June 11 are as follows: \Vashington Parlor rurniture Company of Tacoma; Car-man Manufacturing Company. George E. K. Fitchner, Rob-ert E. Bri.<;tow, Portland 1\lattress & Upholstery Company, Oregon Casket Compal\Y, Ot·cgon Fllrniturc}'1anufacturing Company, Henry DOl1.<;ing, Theodore Donsi"g, Peters & Rob_ erts, Doernbecher )'lanufacturing Company of Portland; F. S. H8r111oll & Co., of Tacom,t; D. 1\, & E. \Valter & Co. of San Francisco; Seattle }.-Iattress & UpllOlstery Company of Seat-tle; A. 1\Jcr1e & Co., T-Teyv"()(HlBrothers & \Vakefie1d of Portland; F. H. ]. Lestoe, I-I. Goldstein, Ricket Company and L. Rubenstein. On vVednesday, June 12, twenty more of the respondents pleaded guilty of being in the combine. Three members of the Nortbwest Furniture Exchang-e, and seventeen sm811ercon-cerns were reprcsentcd. Fifty-seven finns asked for an ex-tension of time in which to plead, and were given until July lD. J'\'105toi these were out-of-town nrms. The follo\ving small dealers were fined but $10 each. Kick v\.Teis,Baker City; F. A. ;'\utbrown, F. S. N"utbro·wtl, 1. Dau-toff, S. Hockf-ieJd, A. Hirt, B. },blo\vitz, H. A. Ker11S, E. C. Yatlet. IT. Hausen and the Havvthotne Furniture Company of Portland. Thos'e fined $25 were as follows: Chehalis Manufactudng Campa11Y of Chehalis, \Nash.; Frank \V. Hollis, 1Tark Baker, 49 F. \V. V,\reeks of lVIedford; \V. H. Phelan, F. A. Jones, W. M. Taylor, L Rllvcnsky 2nd Herman JI,-Ietzger of Portland. At the meeting mentioncd above the object~ and motives of the Northwcst Furniture Exchange were discussed and ex-plained. It was declared that t.he primary purpose was pro-tection of credits, from which it drifted to the rcgulation of prices, which finally kd to action tending to restrain the trade of dealers who were not members of the organization. Since June 12 others than those named above have come into court and pleaded g11iIty or asked further time in which to plead. S0111eof those at distant points have made their requests by mail or by wire and it is thought it will not be necessary to issue a warrant ill any case. As shown by the fines imposed, the court seems dis-posed to leniency with those who plead guilty with a disposi~ tion to \'v·ithdraw horn the associations, but heavier fines may be expected for those who stand trial-if convicted. The maximum penalty for the offense charged in the indictments is a fine of $5,000 and imprist)nment for two years. Sale of Christmas Goods in March. In his remarks in regard to the conditions of the fumiture trade on the Pacific Coast, pUblished in another column, Arthur F. Switz states that a large quantity of house furnish-ing goods and toys ordered by dealers in Seattle and other towns for delivery· in "Kovember last, in time for holiday tr8de, \"ere not received unt.il late in February, and that the dealers inaugurated special sales of Christmas goods on 1,farch 1. which were not very sllccessful. The toys at1d many other articles \vill be carried over until next faU and considerable lms must result from deteriora.tion. In these days of pat.ern.alism, when it seems to be deemed proper for business men and corporations, when in distress, to call upon the state and national governme11ts for assistance, is it not strange that the trade opportunists of the northwest failed to induce the governOl"S of the states whose business men Were disastrously affected by the slow movement of freights, to call special sessions of the legislature for the pur-pose of passing laws to create "buying days for Christmas goods" and providing a penalty to be inflicted upon every Illan ..v..ho should fail to pur~hase and distribute Christmas gifts to the members of his family. If it is legitimate to employ the forces of government to promote tbe mnnufacturt: of toys and house furnishing goods. why should not the same forces ne hrought into action when necessary to provide mar-kets for the products of the indllstries in the manner Stlg-gested? The D. & B. Line Steamers leave Detroit weekdays at 5:00p.m., Sundaysat4:00 p. ffi. (central time) andfrom Buffalo daily at 5:30 p.m. (eastemtime) ~.E"-----~~ reaching their destinationthe next "-._t!f;.~ ~: ..--.:::c'---- morning. Direct connections with early t.rain& Lowest rates and superior service to New York, Boston,PhiJadelphia,AtlanticCity,alJpoints east. Popular week end excursions to Buffalo and Niagara FaIls, leave Detroit every Saturday. RAIL TICKETS AVAILABLE ON STEAMERS All cla9~e9 of tickers sold readin(:" via Mlcb{gan Central, Wabash and Grand Trunk railways between Detroit and Buffalo in either direction wili be accepteq for transportation on D. h B, Line S:eamers. Send 2c. stam~ for illustrated PampbletandGreatl...akeamap. AddrC88: L. G. LEWIS, G. 1". A. DETROIT & BUFFALO STEAMBOAT CO., Detroll, Mieh. PHilIP H. McMILLAN, VICIE-PRES. A. A. SCHANTZ. GEl(. MGR. 50 Spread of· the Mai1~Order Method. The outcry against mail order competition that comes from the small retailer is bitter indeed, and- it is not w,ithout reason. Yet not all retailers join in this condemnation of CORNER. OF A MORNING ROOM. LONDON. ENG. a mail-order catalogue for the use of its customers going to departments of their own. Not only the farmers living in sparsely-settled western districts purchase supplies in this manner, but the suburban dwellers abont large eitie's, and the people living in small cities of the East, and, even residents lOllg~distancc business. Among neighborhood retailers the dis-position is to fight mail-order trading; but as soon as the re-tailer grows out of his neighhorlcood he turns to and develops this class of patronage. It is fundamental, and has come to stay, and when the retailer goes with the current instead of up-stream he finds it a means of widening his opportunities. The telephone aed trolley are bringing in new conditions for merchants, and, perhaps, will be more or less in the nature of salvation to some of them within the next ten years. The small retailer, today, is ~ghting against a parcels post Oll the assumption that it will divert most of his trade to the mail-order hOllses. But ten years hence he may find ~ueh a ser-vice exactly the thing he needs to deliver packages ordere(l by telephone and mail. .l\-fail"-order trade has been built up largely by intelligent pron~otive work. The price factor counts, beyond doubt. En the .local merchant has always the advantage of being the man on the sp:Jt. He can save time to his customers, ;ll~d that is a greater advantage, prob~ ably, than the average local merchant re:l1izcs today.-Ex. Justice Knows No Color Line. T\vo court decisiOlls recently reported from SouthCaro-line furnish a lesson for dishonest installment dealers and also indicate that Southern justice does not recognize the color line. In one case a negro- woman sued the Eagle Furniture Company (N. Lifchez, proprietor) claiming dam~ ages for being overcharged to the extent of $3.35 on furniture for which she had agreed to pay $39. She was awarded judg-ment for $6UO, the furniture having been seized and removed hy the dealer, but the judge reduced the amount to $400 on condition that it be paid 'within ten days. The other case, which has been affirmed by the supreme court, seems to put the seal of approval lIpon the action of jurors "soaking" installment dealers fdr overcharging. In this case, also, the complainant was a colored woman who sued the Drake Furniture Company of Columbia and got a verdict of $100 for havillg her 50 cent tablecloth seized wrong-funy. The costs fall the total expense of seizillg that table-clcth up to about $250, In the Lifchez case the collector alleged $7.65 due, but AN ENGUSH DINING ROOM of the largest cities. In New York, for instance, the re-tail house that delivers within a few blocks in winter, issues a mail-order catalogue for the use of its customers going to the country or seaside in summer, and its trade becomes a Lifechez himself claimed there was $10 due and procecde-d against the goods. The woman employed a lawyer, who ten-dered $7.65, which was refused. Recei.pts were introduced to show that the bjll had, in reality, been reduced to $4. cases, 5\ GRAND RAPIDS FURNITURE PRODUCTIONS are ~ouli!.ht and CORRECT DESi~~;orld over by the discriminating buyer of ARTISTIC In CABINET CONSTRUCTION and FINISH they are the highest possible attainment. The GUNN. SE~TrONAL BOOKCASES stand ont from all other m"l.kes, Dot only be~ cause of this high grade of construction and finish. but becauSe of the MANY EXCLUS-IVE, PRACTICAL PATENTED FEATURES of the system. Points of superiority Over the older makes are; THE ROLLER BEARING. NON. BININGDSINHGEL, VREESM. OVABLE DOORS' NO UNSIGHTLY IRON BANDS OR PROTRUD-THE OVER LAPPING DOOR, making a perfectly DUST PROOF CASE UNIFORM ~~ONTj doin~ away with the step ladder effects found in other makes. Sections that JOID so PERFECTLY, the appearance is that of a SOLID PIECE OF FURNITURE. fLooroekpfuorrchthaesi~neg.SPECIAL POINTS OF MERIT, found only in the "GUNN," be- SAMPLES OF DIFFERENT FINISHES SENT FREE. TEhx'p'E·rRviTarceOeSyUsooRufrsEXPERT DESIGNER and of our entire force of LIBRARY to COllllU3.nd. SEND FOR FREE CATALOGUE TODAY. Giving valuable hints on the furnishing. of your home Library. .' <./ Sold through leading furniture deaLers' everywhere or direct from factory. THE GUNN FURNITURE COMPANY Grand Rapids•. Michigan Sole ManufadUt_ ers of Gunn D~"ks and Filing Device. The above is a reproduction of one of our full page. advertIsements to be run in the fall months. No dealer can afford to overlook the Agency for the three greatest selling lines on the market. GUNN SECTIONAL BOOKCASES GUNN SECTIONAL FILING DEVICES GUNN OFFICE DESKS $100,000.00 This enormous sum will be spent during the fa II months of 1907 by the manufact-urers of Sectional Bookcases wit h the prominent magazInes. It i s needless for us to call the attention of the live dealer to our advertising c a m-paign, which goes steadily on for the benefit ofGUNN AGENTS. We do not ad-vertise spasmodi-cally but contin-uously, and are prepared to prove to you that our carefull y studied campaigns s e I I Gun n Sectional Bookcases. We look for an unusually Ia r g e volume of trade t his fall which will result from the heavy ad ver-tising expenditure in the Standard Magazines, and suggest too u r presen tag e n t s, and those dealers who contemplate taking on our line of Sectional Book_ that stock orders be placed at the earliest possible date to insure safe and prompt delivery. With the recognized high quality of uGunn" products there can be only one result. and that is. the leading advertised lines from this time forward are to be the Gunn Sectional Bookcases, Filing Devices and Office Desks. Write/or hoth catalogutJ. Free/or the aiking. GUNN FURNITURE COMPANY, Grand Rapids, Mich. M.nn~:~~n~ ·~MlffIIG?JN THE LEXIN6TON _ /lInl." 22d Sf CHICAGO. ILL Refurnished and re-fitted throughout. New Management. The furniture dealers' bl!ad-quarters. Most con-veniently situated to t b e furniture display houses. Inler·Slale Holel CO. OWNBa &; PROPklETOR E. K.. Criley. Pres.; T. M. Crlley, V. Pres.; L, H. Firey, Sec·Treas. WALL PAPER HISTORY. Present Methods of Manufacture, Conditions and Prices Com~ pared With Those of Forty Years Ago. S. S. Conner of Westfield, Mass., is said to have been in the wall paper business longer than any other man in this country. It was forty years ago that Mr. Conner made his first venture. l\Iachinery such as is now used was then Ut1- unknown, and all the wall papers were printed by hand. Now a wall paper .11ial1ufacturer boasts that in two hours he can convert a tree into pulp, manufacture it into wall paper and have it on the wall. But the use of the wood pulp without other stock to strengthen the paper, makes it so brittle that it is hard to hanule and has little. wearing quality. Early wall papers were intended by the manufacturers to last more than a year. Mr. Conner has sold wall paper for $4.50 and $5 a roll. Of course, this was of the finest quality and design, which requited considerable time in the process of manufacture. The most difficult and tedious parto{ the work was putting on the designs. The paper came in a big roll drawn over some flat surface and the block on which had been cut the design was dipped in .the color and it was then pressed upon the paper. This operation was repeated with a number of blocks until all the colors required in the design were put on. 1 The paper was moved along a short distance and the process repeated. So well was the. paper made that it would last a lifetime, and the house\vife never dreamed of having it pulled off ev~ ery fall or spring to be replaced with new, as is the custom nowadays, when paper can be· bought for 3 and 4 cents a roll. In the old fashioned days the wall paper tame in rolls twenty inches wide instead of eight,een inches as at present. Borders were not made to match the designs in tllC wall paper, so the customer selected the decoration he wanted for his wall and then took the border that looked best with it. Borders with gilt background were in general favor and most of them were decorated with dark red flecking. Flecking was produced by covering the gilt paper with a mu-cilaginous substance and then sifting through the desig-n vel-vet trimmings. After the velvet had dried on, the trimmings that did not adhere to the glue were brushed off. Sometimes these borders were flat g.ilt papers, sometimes the flecking was put on solid. Solid flecking was used for wall decoratioin up to fifteen years ago when the modern wall papers began to come into the market. English wall paper came in rolls of eighteen yards but after the industry secured a foothold in this country the length of a roll was reduced to sixteen yards and the cutting down has been going on ever since, until nOw some rolls do not con-tain more than thirteen yards. Early manufacturers paid high wages to color mixers and block cutters, men who cut the designs in wood blocks, and the result was the manufacture of fast colors. It is said that one firm in New York paid its color mixer $60,000 a year and he had as an assistant his son, who drew $15,000 a year salary, and they. only worked eight months in a year at that. De-signers and cutters received $8 a day. Color mixers soon discovered that arsenic produced the most beautiful green for printing wall papers and its use quick-ly became general. It was not long before its poisonous ef-fects were discovered, the paperhangers being the first to suf-fer from it. Physicians have reported many cases of arsenical poison-ing from wall paper and only a few months ago the news-papers printed a story about an Illinois farmer who lost three wives in three years by death, the cause of which was found to be the arsenic in the parlor wall paper. According to the story, tbe women were taken ill immediately after the spring house cleaning, during which the waJl paper in the parlor had been brushed. An investigation of the house led to the dise'overy of the cause of the women's deaths. Gerieral knowledge of the dangerous properties of green wall paper caused a falling off in the demand and dealers soon stopped buying it, with the result t11at the manufacturers to a large extent abandoned the use of arsenic, so that today there is very little of this kind on the market. Soon after the introduction of the printing- presses the manufacturers vied with onc another in producing artistic wall papers, the principal object being to put the largest Hnm-ber of colors in a design. One Philadclphia firm surpassed an its competitors in this work and succeeded in producing designs having eighteen different colors, but this fad died out and now not more than eight colors are found in one design. Borders are manufactured to match design in the wall paper and the paper is trimmed and butted so that there is very little waste. When wall paper was made by hand, the borders sold 'IS high as $3.50 a single roll or $7 a double roll, but now the border and wall paper are sold for the 51-meprice, Added Dining and Chamber C':1airs. The Ottawa Furniture company of Holland, Mich., have added a line of dining and cham ber chairs, in fre1:ihand novel patterns (;to their" choice lires of furniture for the chamber and dining rO~Jlll. Samples will be exhibited in Grand Rapids and New York during the mid-summer selling season STAR CASTER CUP CO. NORTH UNION STREET. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. (PATENT APPLJED JI' ....R) We have adopted celluloid as a base for ollr Caster Cups, making the best cup on the markel. Celluloid is a g«'at improvement over bases made of other material. When it is necessary to move a pie-cesupported by cups witb cellulnld bases it can be done with ease, as the bases are per-fectly smooth. Celluloid dot's not sweat. and by tbe use of tht'se cup.'i tables are never marred. These cups are finif<hed in Golden Oak and White Maple, finished !;l7{ht. If you u'iU try a 8ample order oj tlMtJe goods ,//OU will del/ireto handlethem in quanUtieff. PRICES: Size 2M"inches $5.50 per hundred. Size 2U inches 4.50 per hundred. f. o.b. Grand Rapid8. TRY A SAMPLE ORDER. ------------------------------------------ - 53 IN FORCE FROM MAY 15th to JULY 15th, 1907. We have imported direCt from Japan 300,000 good quality folding Fam. specially prepared,for us, and will give these out to our customers during the nextsixtydays. Dealers ordering BISSELL'S "eyeo" BEARING SWEEPERS during the period our Fan Offer is in force will receive the fans free, in accQrdance with the conditions of our Fan Offer. The Fans will please your customers, thereby advertising you, and at the same time will help the sale of our goods during the warm seaSOD. PLEASE WRITE US FOR FULL PARTICULARS REGARDING THIS LIBERAL OFFER $} BISSELL CARPET SWEEPER CO., Grand Rapids, Mich. (LARGEST AND ONLY EXCLUSIVE MANUFACTURERS OF CARPET SWEEPERS IN THE WORLD) Branches: New York; Toronto: London; Paris, Woodard Furniture Co. OWOSSO, MICH MANUl'ACTUREI<S 0' HIGH GRADE, MEDIUM PRICED BEDROOM FURNITURE IN ALL THE FANCY WOODS and FINISHES Our beautiful new fall line of 400 pieces will be especially strong in Circassian Walnut and Colonial designs. Shown in Grand Rapids in our usual space, 3rd floor Klingman Building. New catalo,R ready for mailing July Ist. WOODARD FURNITURE CO. .... 54 Show of Appreciation is Good Business Policy. Men need a word of cnc.-,ouragement now ar.d then just as n:uch as they need food. For as food is to the bcdy, so is encouragement to the n~jlld and heart. A worker who is discouraged is not half. a man. And even the mo~t liberal compensation call 110t take the place of a word of appreciation and encouragement given in the right siprit in the rigH time. "That is a wMd job, Henry," said a business man to his clerk, who had jL:st finished ruling a bock for him, and the young man threw himself into his work with rer:ewed energy and interest. The man never knew how much that slight word of approval meant to the clerk, nor how much it added to his enthusiasm, Men and women crave assurance that their work is meet-ing with satisfaction. To withhold that assurance when it i.3 due is not ITlcrcly poor b1..1Sinesspolicy, but it is also an in-justice. Part of the compensation of every worker is the satisfaction of knowing that he is accomplishing .something, and to withhold that satisfaction is often more -grievous than to hold back money duly earned. More .and more must tllOsc in authority in business recognize the human elen~ent in men ar.d women-the part the heart plays in the world. It is possible, of course, to say too n1\1ch to a man, gj·..,inghim an over-elated sense of his value, bllt the tendcl1(:y seems rather in the other direc-tion; men do not get cllccuragen;,ent enough-V\raldo P. \Varren. "An Unburnable City," A New York fire insurance man is reported as declaring "Some day 'we shall have an unburnable city!" The declara-tion was made after inspecting the Caledonian building on Pine street, in the vVall street district, which is considered morc nearly fireproof than any other large bt1i~ding ill the city. It is twelve stories high and has a cast iron frame protected by porous terra cotta and brick. Tts insurance rate is 5 cents per $100, while the rate 011 the New York Exchange building, ten stories high, with its metal frame only partially protected, is 10 ents per $ICO. From this it appears thzt The Sargent Mfg. Co. MUSKEGON, MICH. Bachelors' Cabinets Ladies' Desks Extra Large Chiffoniers ----- __ AISO Manufactulell aDd ~ of _ ROLLING CHAIRS Chairs adapted to all kinds of invalidism, both. for house and street use. OVER FORTY DESIGNS TO SELECT FROM Line on Sale in KUNGMAN BUILDING. GRAND RAPIDS. 7'lR. T 11T5'Aee.l\I Muskegon Valley Furniture Co. MuskOl!OD. Mich •. Odd Dressers Chafoniers Wardrobes Ladies' Toilets Dressing Tables' Mahogany Inlaid Goods Ladies' Desks Music Cabinets Line on sale in Manufactur-ers' ExhibftiQU Building, GRANIJ RAPIDS. the way to obtain low insurance rates is. to construct fireproof buildings. Fans From the Flowery Kingdom. The Bissell Carper Sweeper Company of Grand Rapids have imported 300,OCO fans direct from Japan, which will be distributed to dealers handling the Bissell sweepers free be- Made by the Spencer & Barnes, Co., Benton Harbor, Mich tween .the present and July 15. The fans will 'please cus-tomers and will help the dealer in making sales of Bissell sweepers. The company 'will give the particulars of their "fan offer" to dealers requesting the same. OUR NEW 1907 LINE OF ALASKA REFRIGERATORS with side ice chamber is made in twenty-one styles, zinc lined, white enamel and porcelain lined. Our cataloguewill interestyou. Write for it. Exclusive Refrigerator Manufacturers. MUSKEGON, MICHIGAN. THE ALASKA REFRIGERATOR CO. A Dirge for the Price Cutter. never pays to cut prices. The cutter is an object of Sl1_~- piciol1 from the time he hegins the trick. It is bad practice, and one that is dcmoratizillg to trade. And, like the boom-erang, it strikes back at the one who thnnvs it. The retailer-for he is the one \\'ho cllts-only cheapens the price of hi:; goods to attract customers. He is hungry for trade, and oftell unwisely thinks that he had rather sell tJJrce pieces at a pr(Jllt of $2 each than Ol:C at a gain of $5. Ma.tleby The Spencer & Barnes Co., Benton Harbpr, Mich. In theory this looks good. But it is Door business. To sell three pieces he mLlst have thrice the capital or credit that he ,"vollld J,ave to scJl Olle, The less proflt per dollar he tUrllS ..·.'.It on this clpital, the poorer financier he is. The price cutter is looked upon w.ith lvonder by business men. Tf he is llOt demanding <t fair profit ttpon his wares a manufacturer Or johbcr will soon be made vy'jse ;ll1d 1vary and his business sanity at Oncc undergoes an examination to determine if be is not sllffering from dementia damphoolicana, If found to be a victim his credits are tightened, and his sup-plies limited. The business associatcs smile. when the price cutter's name is mentioned. Poor fellow, the sheriff or the idiot annihi-lator \vill 50011 pick his mercantile bOlles. He loses his stall ding among those \vho 01lC~ welcomed him as a business competitor and the dogs shun him as one likely to snatch thc hone they have clain-.ed as legitimate prey. Only the vul-tures will give him even half-hearted welcon:e, as in his greed he has become one of them. And tlle 11ludJ sought custorner,,-they, too, doubt the honesty of pllTIH}se of the price cutter. They look at his offers \Nitb sllspicjoJ) born of experience. They know that staple goods have a fixed price. They are "hep" to the meth-ods of price slashers, and want nOlle of it. A el1..,tOl11erwho is offered a cut expects fake goods. If he is offered a stand-ard article he at Ollce believes there is something w;'Ong w'ith it somewhcrc- ·last year's make painted over, or a flaw puttied up, or possessing son:c defect-and !line times Ol1t of ten he looks at the t111dersdler and his wares with it feeling that tbere is a job ill it somewhere. goes over to t11e other man and pays the ruling price for the thing he needs. Time 1-Vas""hen cUstOIUers went bargain hunting. They looked about lor the cllC;lpest goods they could buy, were swindled. and h<J.\'elearnnl better. Now, when a man starts price cutting J e is looked UpOn as a 5~vjl1dlc-r. They know that furniture, farm machinery anI ill1plen~ents are as staple as wheat or oats or corn. They kll0W, too, th.at the manufac-turer does not countenance slashing of prices. They further know that no one dealer can buy from the maker cheaper than another. The consumer ,""ho buys from a price cutter expects to be fooled. He didn't once, but he does now, So if he wants a first class article hE:is willing to pay the ruling price. So the price Cl1tter dm:s not do the busil~ess he expected when he sbrted On the road to ruin and if his creditors do not close him up before h{~gets over his demoralization, he goes back to Jiving prof-its, and sells at the same figure his compatriots do, arid SCCllTes tr.nde by legitimate advertising and personal pcrsuasion. It doesn't pay, and the cutter knows-or should know-it before he blkes 011 the dangerous pra~tjce.-Eli Grocee Will Have «Everything Good." Prominent business men of Columbia, S. c., [aye incor-pmatcd the Gibson-Mille' Company, capitalized at $20,000, with $19,000 subscribed and 25 per cent paid in, to open a first class furniture store in that city. A. M. 1\leetze is president, Athol H. 3.Tillcr secretary and treasurer, and E, B. Gibson general manager. The company promises to ha die "every-thjng good in fumiture m:d house furnishings." 56 ·~MI9rIG7}N The Window's Influence on Trade. One of the greatest problems of today which the merchant has to solve is how to influence trade, says C. T. Cullom of Sedalia, Mo., in an article on "V\lindow Dressing" in the American Artisan. Naturally the 6rst thing to do is to use the newspapers freely. Let the public know who you are, what you are, and impress upon them that you are alive and up-ta-date, and in position to give them good value for their money. And when you have advertised be sure that you have the goods which are, in every particular, an you claim Made by the Bosse Furniture Co., Evansville, Ind. for thew, so that your patrons will have confidence in yoU and your goods. If you can't get their confidence your effort:; to get their trade will be in vain. The first step toward gaining the confidence of the public will be in the appearance of your store. Let a customer come into your store and find everything topsy-turvy' and -he will at once lose confidence ill you as 'a storekeeper. To my judgment the window is the index to the whole store. When yon Sf.'.f.' a nice window di!'>play,just step inside and you will find, without single exception, a well arranged store. You will find each class of goods arranged to good advantage and well displayed. No jumbled up goods there. Kinety-nine chances out of a hundred, when you see a store with attractive window display, inside yOUwill find ~nergetic, industrious clerks and a prosperous -business. In talking to merchants who do not pay attention to win-dow displays, it is almost a universal opinion that it is too much work and expense for the results ohtained. Also, that it takes a 'window dresser of experience to make an attrac-tive window. This is a very common idea. For instance, the display for which the A~erical1 Artisan recently awarded me the second prize in its contest, took me just two days' work in arranging at intervals when I was not waiting on trade. I could easily have arranged it in half a day with nothing else to do, and all the actual expense was not to cx-ceed five cents. I do not pretend to be an expert window dresser; in fact, my experience is ve.ry limited; and I am encouraged to know that I was able to win a second prize among so many contes-tants, There isn't a store in the country but what has a man who could with a little time, a few cents, and the good-will of his proprietor, make a window which would attract a good deal of attention, and draw trade enough to pay his time and the few cents spent many times over. The results obtained from success in window dressing will fire the ambition of any man and lead to better arrange-ments and display throughout the store, "Goo{ls well dis-played are one-half sold." Taking into consideration the silent salesman, the V.llndow, as per salary you pay, is the hest investment any merchant can make. Significance of Colors in Oriental Rugs. Kot only the designs but the colors of rugs woven in the Orient are full of significance. They represent national or individual traditions, they stand for virtues and vices, social importance or social ostracism. They are the result, says the Eclectic Church Magazine, of the political and religious his-tories of the countries in which they were made. Tyrian purple is almost universally regarded as royal. Red was regarded by the Egyptians as symholic of fidelity. Green has been chosen by the Turk as his gala color, but he would not approve its use in rugs, where it would be trDdden by the feet. Rose tints signify the highest wisdom, black and indigo sorrow, with the Persians. Preferences for duller tones of color among the Persians give to all their embroideries and other products of the loom a certain richness and dignity. New Furniture Dealers. "'T. H. Obling, \Vichita, Kao. Brunswick Furniture Co" Brunswick, Neb. Painter & Ehrenberger, Schuyler, Neb. Albert J. Fountain & Son, !l'1esilla, N. M. L. Switzer, Kalispell, Mont. M. Buller, Klamath Falls, Ore. Sheehan Furniture Company, Couer d'Alene, Ida. R. L. Loflin---,-----incorporated$,20,(J(JO-Hlgh Point, N. C. Newell & Co.-incorporated, $lO,OOO-Newport News, Va, Sheridan Furniture Company, Shcrldan, 'Nyo. Capi.tal f,tock, $50,000. Kirkland & Overstreet, Pearson, Ga, Furniture Fires. Arthur G. Pike, Chelsea, Mass. Loss $5,000. Enger & Olson, Duluth, Minn. Loss $800. Dou'glass Furniture Hospital, Chicago. Loss $6,000. Bradley & Thomas, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. P. Vl. 'Madsen, Salt Lake City, Utah. Campbell & Skinner's mattress factory, Reno, Nev. The Newton Company, San Angelo, Tex. The Hoffman Company, Wilmington, DeL W. S. Clark & Son, Seward, Pa. Mohawk (N. Y.) Manufacturing Company. Plant pletety destroyed. Loss $75,000; insurance $44,GOO. rebuild. com- Will New Factory For Grand Rapids. AHred B. Nachtegal, Julia .Nachtegal and George J. Vie\"- heilig of Grand Rapids, Mich" Stephen P. Spitz of Washing-ton, ·D. c., and James E. Reilly of Charlotte, N. c., have in-corporated the Nachtegal Manufacturing Company, capital-ized at $100,000, with tenper cent paid in, to manufacture and sell office, store, bank and other fixtures. The factory will be located in Grand'Rapids. 57 J. C. WIDMAN & CO. 14th, 15th, Kirby Ave" and G. T. Ry, DETROIT, MICHIGAN Man%cturen tJf ---. Mirrors, Hall Furniture, China Closets, Buffets, Chevals NEW YORK, 428 Lexington Ave. PERMANENT SALESROOMS .. CHICAGO, £,3£9 Michigan Ave. Art in Selling "Spiffs." Selling of "spiffs" by salesmcll in stores is a source of rev-enue that often adds to the \veckly salary and forms a legit-imate means for the clerk to illcrease his income and at the same time assist his employer. "Spiff" is a term that is understood well by salesmen and prohably is seldom heard outside the stores. Spiffs are the left-over:)- goods that have passed the novelty stage and are not staple, They arc as good as ever, but their salable quatit:es have declined until newer goods are IT. ore easily sold. "VVhCll such goods <1ppear ill a stock a premium is placed on their sale, and the man \vho gets them out of the store receives the premium in addition to his regular pay. They are marked low to move them, and the careful salesman \-vho watches his chances can dispose of them often and thus profit. Buying spiffs is not a thing that harms the purchaser, for the price he pays is fair and the goods are all right except that the dea1er \vould rather have his money than the goods. Often they are just what tbe purchaser wants, and often are preferred to the newer goods that arc popular at the time. One instance will illustrate the 1n:tllal benefit that may come from spiff selling. In shoe stocks most sales are from the 1redium sizes, and unusually small and unusually large sizes are like1y to remain unsold until the style may have cbanged. They become spiffs. The man with a large foot or the woman with a small one may purchase these shoes at a low price when they are spiffs, and the salesman makes his commission, the dealer getting his money ant and ready to invest in new goods. So it is all through the line of merchandise of whatever kind. A suit of clothes in a clothing store is left from a cer-tain line and with 110 inducement for its sale the salesmen would work from full lines and neglect the old suit. As a spiff the clerk has it in mind, and when opportunity presents itself for its sale he gives the purchaser a real bar- EXCEPTIONAL FACTORY OPPORTUNITY Do you wish to find an openin~ for a CHAIR FACTORY or would you like to remove to some more favorable location? If so, it would repay yOIlto at once request information about a fine location in the great timber section of Southeast Missouri along the • Liberal inducements are offered to secure a bona fide proposition em-ploying not Jess than forty men. Good dj-<tributin~ faciHties for finished product. Correspondence is invited regarding this and other excellent opportunities for furnitllre, mattress. iron bed and other factories along-our lines. Send for industrial descriptive matter about the Rock 18tand- Fri8CQ, M. SCHULTER. Industrial Commissioner. Roek Island· Frisco lines. 1144Frisco Bldg •• ST. LOUIS. MISSOURI. gain and collects his commission. It fills the bi.l1 and the pur-chaser feels he has been treated well. At holiday time the salesman in a busy store may 'move ~L great deal of spiff stock in the rmh seas 011 and perhaps double his salary. The goods are all right except that some factor of the trade has placed them in a position whcre they are likely to be neglected unless an inducement is held out to the salesman to make a special effort to dispose of them. The better the salesrr.an the closer watch he keeps of his stock and the better judgly.ent he i.1ses in dealing with his cus-tomers the more chance he has of fitting the spiffs to purchas-ers and adding to his incorr.e. It is one of the arts of the trade, and salesmen vie with one another to excelt in this as well as in moving the newer goods.-George H. Manlove. Failure Should Not be Fatal. The word "failure" has a daunting sound, but it means less than might be expected to those who have achieved real SUccess. Such workers know v,iell that failure only is serious or discouraging when marked by lack of the cheery, confident ability to "take heart with the day and begin again" that means new and augmented progress. Perpetual, recurrent fail-ure looks bad for the individual, but one or more distressing, perhaps seemingly absolute failures easily may be the result of will and talents turned in the wrong direction, unsuitable cir-curr. stances or environment, over-competition, anyone of a variety of inevitable effects or causes. Few of the world's shilling successes but can remember, even if they will not ac-knowledge, at least one early mistake or blunder serious enough to be called failures. MallY a presently successful worker actually is proud of the untoward preliminary events and adventures that led to his enviable today's situation. These facts equally apply to the worlds of commerce, pro-fessional endeavor, and art.-Exchange. Morton American House ......Plan Rates $2.50 and Up Hotel Pantlind European ......Plan Rates $1.00 a.nd Up GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. The Noon Dinner Served at the Pantlind for 500 is the fiNEST IN THE WORLD J. :BOYD PANTLIND. Prop. 58 Jamestown Lounge Company to Make Leather Turkish Chairs. Arthur H. ~Greelilund, vice-president of the ]amesto"Wll Lt'~nge Company is particularly well 'pleased with the new fall line of J1;5 concern, now practically COI1:1p1etcd. .Mr. Greenlund's enthusiasm is unmistakable. To use his own words, "we have outdone ourselves tbis season :111(} we will show a line at the market which will make lively times around our space." AsM L Grccnlund has persolJal]y supervised the designing and production of every new line hrought out by the Jamestown Lounge Company since the business 'was es-tablished, and has also attended in person every exhibit made by them during the fourteen years in which they have shown their line at the markets, he should be pretty well qualified to judge as to results. The Jamestown Lounge Company were might have handled some more business, their shipments are, as a matter of fact, slightly in excess of the spring season of last year, establishing a new record. The Udell Exhibit. Indianapolis, June 22.-The "Udell Works will make a big showing this July seasoll at Grand Rapids, where this com~ pally is now exhibiting exc1uisvely. Manager Cobb states that the July line ·wj1] be as strong as ever and that it will be of special interest to the buyers of ladies' desks, music cabincts, piano player roll cabinets, bookcases and library tables. He says, however, the quality will 110t be sacrificed on aCCOl1ntof .reasonable pric:es. The Udell line this season will show son~e beautiful patterns in Circassian walnut in the department of one, two or three ladies' drawer desks .. The ne\v Cdcll catalogue will he ready by the rlliddle of July and \vill contain sixty or more jlages of ictcrcsting reading and illustratetI matter. The exhihit this season will be in charge of the following gentlemen: F. L Billings, who looks after Chicago antI Milwaukee; Dan G. Williams, who travels in Pennsylvania and Ohio, also coveril1g Detroit; W, H. Mur-phy, middle West; Geo. C. Dyer, the East, and Paul M. Roth the Pacific coast. INTERIOR OF A COTTAGE AT LETOHWORTH, ENGLAND. am011g the lirst of the ot1t3ide manufacturers to recognize the advantag"c of showing their line at Grand RapiJs, and al-though occasioned exhibits have heen made in other markets, Grand Rapids has long been recognized as their regular ex': hibition market. The Lounge Company will surprise their customers this season by showing for the first tin~e a line of Turkish chairs and rockers upholstered in "reliance" leather. It was decided to add these goods owing to the insistent demand for them by the trade, and although a new department, it will not by any means be conducted in an experimental way. The com-pany has engaged as manager for this branch of their business one of the most expert men In this line of work who has for many years been in charge of this department for one of the larg~stconcerns inaking leather furniture. The initial line will not be large as to number of patterns, but will be confined to ."l range of tJle most popular gr.ades and wj}l be filled b as occasion demands. Although considerable complaint of Quiet business has been heard throughout the season from both the retailer and manufactmer, the Lounge company report that while they L On the Kalamazoo. Stuart Foote and Russell Taylor, of the Imperial Furni-tune company spent two weeks recently in boating and fishing on the beautiful Kalamazoo river. After a few day on the river they becarr:c dissatisfied with the boats for hire On the stream and proceeded to Muskegon where they purchased a neat little naphtha launch and in eight hours made the ruri of fifty miles from Muskegon to Saugatuck, on Lake Michigan, The outing was greatly enjoyed by the young men, and they returned to prepare for the opening of the season "reinvigor-ated and in jubilant spirits. 7'119-'T' I.sJI.AI t 7,$9+ REX [;:;t:~]MATTRESS CHAS. A. FISHER & CO., 1319 Michigan Ave., Chicago. WRITE FOR BOOKLET AND PROPOSITION WarehOUlIelil ST. LOUIS, MO. KANSAS CITY, MO. PEORIA, ILL LINCOLN, ILL MINNEAPOLIS. MINN. CHICAGO, ILL. EVANSVILLE Eva nsvillc, Ind .. J tllle 22.- The }'1etal Furniture Con-p,,-cy, which erected a larg-e plant and cOlllmenced the manufacture of brass <llHl iron beds in this city a year or two ago after a rocky experience on account of illC0111petcnt rmll~a:;'c111elltJ has passed into ("<ljl:thlc hands, and the iutnfe of the industry is no longer uncertain. \Vith the business in the h:lllds of B. B. Bosse, \'\1. A, Koch, the Karg-cs Brothers and their as-sociates. SlIccess is assured. The Evanville 'i\.Tetal Bcd CompallY ,,,,ill S0011 issue it cata-logue illustrating ar:d describing the Banner line of bras:; ami iron beds. The J ndiana Furniture Company have given orders to their cngraver for Ctlts to be used in printing their annual catalogue. Salesn,en representing the Karges, Globe and Borkstege Furniture companies will handle the line of the Evansville Metal Furniture Con:;pany hereafter. Louis Hahn and James A. Anderson, the "cry successful designers of Gran! Rapids have been employcd for several weeks in the prcparation of new p::ltterns for lo~,ll rnanufac .. UtTers. SalTples of ;111 leading lines made ill Evansville will be fOUlld On sale in the Furniture Exposition building, S1. Loui.: The Eli n. }Tiller Company will exhibit their excelle::t line of m;llltel folding beds in Chicago. Eli D. 1\filJer will attend the sale, with his "git thaI''' stroke. Buyers will find mallY good things ill the lvliller line. "Fred" Boc],stege has decided to spend a part of his sur-plus cash by the erection of a splendid home in Evansville, rather than ill planting a furniture factory at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. The Rosse Furniture Comp;lt1y have had a very success-ful season of trade. Their line of kitchen cahinets and wardrobes are ever ln steady demand. A catalogue may be had for the asking. Montgomery Rockers and Couches. The H. ]. I\fontgomer:r flJanufacturing Company of Silver Creek, X. Y., has sent out a neat little booklet describing and illustrating their line of high grade Turkish rockers and couches. They specialize in the manufacture of these goods, confining themselves to these fe\-\' patterns of couches and chairs. Tll couches they use a double cone spring on a slat, with the S. & 1-1. fastenings on top, no twine being. used. This is the constructioll used and approved by the Ul'ited States government. In their Turkish rockers particular at-tention is given to seat room and to the rocker spring and iu adjustment; avoiding· the annoyance mally have experie,l1ced in having to change the springs. Every buyer and dealer owes it to his business tn investigate their line and prices. Their motto is "A short line at short price:~." Additions to the Century Line. The Centmy Furniture CompallY of Grand Rapids Mich., announce the addition of a new department to thcir line con-sisting of dining chairs, chamber chairs and rockers. They will also add a llumber of new patterns including some re-productions of rare pieces by Chippendale and other old Why Not Order? Say a dozen at more Montgomery Iron Display Couch Trucks senlyou on approval? If nol satisfactory they can be returned at no expen.se to you whatever, while the price asked is but a trifle, C()m~ pared to the convenience they afford and the economy they represent in the saving of floor space. Thirty_two couches mounted on the Montgomery Iron Display Couch Trucks occupy the same floor space as twelve dis_ played in the usual manner. Write for catalogue siving full descrip-tion and price in the different finishes, to~ gether with illustrations demonstrating the use of the Giani Short Rail Bed Fastener for Iron Beds. Manufactured by H. J. MONTGOMERY PATRNTRR Silver Creek, New York, u. s. A. Dennis Wire and Iron Co., Canadian Manu_ faduren. London, Ont. English masters. Their line consists of the finer grades of parlor, library, and living room furniture in mahogany, walnut and gold leaf, including suites, davenports, sofas, couches,. odd chairs, rockers, fireside chairs, reception chairs, hall chairs, stools, tabourettes, piano seats, English upholstered ch::lirs, and sofas, dining room chairs, chamber chairs and rockers, etc., in accurate reproductions of all the great French and English styles, and also the Colonials. 59 60 MiEcellaneous Notes. The Imperial Furniture Company, Grand Rapids, Mich., have sold their sectional bookcase business t'O the (). C. S. Olsen Company of Chicago. The space hertofore used by that department will be used to increase the output of tables. The White Furniture Company of Mebane, N. c., recently shipped several carloads of furniture billed "To Uncle Sam, Panama." The cars were decorated with ballflcrS inscribed "For the Big Ditch; From the vVhite Furniture Company." The Dodge-Spear Company, successor to the old house of Pitts, Kimball & Co'. of Boston, is facing a petition in bank-ruptcy, filed by creditors W}lO were dissatisfied with the ap-pointment of a receiver selected by the debtors. I Eldredge & Peabody of Boston, who were burned out in December last, took possession of an elegant new store on the old site during the jirst week in June. Mr. Peabody will visit the Grand Rapids market as usual. J "VV. Dunwell of Butler, Mo., has sold l1is furniture busi-ness to James T. Glanville, a brother of F. J. Glanville, the well known furniture dealer of Kansas ,City, Kan, John Hummel, furniture dealer of BroDklyn, N. Y., who recently made an assignment for the benefit of creditors, will pay 100 cents on the dollar and continue business_ The Gutter Fumiture Company of Port Huron, Mich., will soon move into larger quarters, having leased and re-modeled the armory building on :\lilitary street. Pritz Brothers, furniture dealers of South Bethlehem, Pa., were closed out by the sheriff on June 10. The creditors; re-ceived less than 25 per ccnt. Turner & CUne, furniture, hardware and undcrtaking, Bradshaw, ).Jeb., have dissolved partnership. A. B. Turner continues the business. Conrad & Kiesker, furniture dcalers of Fresno, CaL, made an :l5sjgnnH',]]L \V. Parkcr Lyon bought the stock in bulk and crcditors were paid in full. The plant of the Kincajd Furniture Company, Statesville, N. c., was damaged to the extent of about $2,000 by a wind and hail storm recently. The general offices of the Simmons rVIanufacturing Com-pany have been moved
Date Created:
1907-06-25T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:
Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
Collection:
27:24

193. Michigan Artisan; 1906-07-10

Notes:
Issue of a furniture trade magazine published in Grand Rapids, Mich. It was published twice monthly, beginning in 1880. and [0 Twenty-sixth Year-No. 26 JULY 10. 1906 Semi-Monthl., WYSONG &. MILES LEE AND JACKSON ST$. CREENSBORO, N. C. I 00 % to 2 0 0 % PROFI T PER lE AR on. this Sand Belt. The investment is a small one. The few months you are getting along withollt it is losing you the entire price of it. HUNDREDS MOSTO~RTo'i.'iNENT FURNITURE MANUFACTURERS using this Sand Belt state that thesedaims fall short of the real merits of the machine. IT HAS THE DESIRED ADJUSTMENTS QUICKLY MADE OUI" claims are that.it will sand with the grain and require no retouch-ing by hana the following: Mirror frames\ found oval, any shape; drawer rails; drawer fronts, base rails, etc., serpentine, agee, round or swell; straight veneered or cross veneered; agee, round, bevel or straight edges of dresser or table tops, of round, square or scrolled patterns; table tops, of round, square or scrolled pat-terns; table rims, dresser postSj veneered rolls or columns; straight, ogee or round-ed mouldings. i raised surfaces of. panels; spirals of table legs; curtain slats for roll-top desks; spindle carvings; French table legs; plumbers' wood workj etc., etc. No. 164 Sand Belt Machine. A MESSAGE OF IMPORTANCE TO THE MANUFACTURERS OF AMERICA: Do you wish to lelSen the cost of handling your pro-duct by the use of light running, loqg lasting axles! If so explain to your wagon builder that () Gillette Roller Bearing Axles are inexpensive to buy~ea9Y to install-siinple i:o con-struction and highly effective in reducing the draft-that they can be made a part of YOUR vehicle at OUR risk as we ship on approval to responsible persons. And ask him to write to us-or do so yourselves. IT WILL PAY YOU. Yours for the cheapening of manufacturing costs, THE GILLETTE ROLLER BEARING COMPANY Patentees and Sale Manufacturers, GRAND RAPIDS, M.ICHIGAN. WHEELER'S Forms a permanent foundation. Brings out the full life and beauty of tb e wood. Goes further and saves labor and material, hence cheaper than other fillers. The Bridgeport WoodFinishing Co., NewMilfOrd,Conn.;IB Fulton St.• NewYork;70 W. Lake SL Chicago; 4t·43 South 3rd St•• Phila-delphia; 48 Cornhill,Boston. PATENT WOOD FILLER l The Principal Points of Merit Possessed by Our ~ MISSION LIQUID WAX It makes the color uniform where red and white oak is used in the same piece. It does not show white in the corners or on carved work. It colors the white pores left in all finishes that are not filled. It is especially adapted for red oak, overcoming the red cast left by the stain. . It gives a more durable finish than paste wax. We shall be pleased to send Samples. The Marietta Paint &Color Co. MARlETIA, OHIO. USE BENEDICT CLAMPS New Drawer. Revolving. GRAND RAPIDS HAND SCREW COMPANY 130 South Ionia St., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. MaDufacturenof HAND SCREWS, CABINET MAKERS' BENCHES, FACTORY TRUCKS, Etc. For all kinds of Furniture Work Special Section. STRONG. DURABLE and USEFUL Chair Seat, 1 The Universal Automatic CARVING MACHINE ===~ PERFORMS THE WORK OF ==== 25 HAND CARVERS And does the Work Better than it can be Done by Hand ==---~- MADEBY======~ IndianapQU8~ Indiaaa Write for Information. Prices Etc. The Pittsburg Plate Glass Company MANUI'ACTURKRS AND JORRERS Of!" Plain and Beveled Mirrors, Bent Glass for China Cabinets Plate Glass for Desks, Table Tops and Shelves OUffacilities for supplying furniture manufacturers will be understood when we state that we have 10 Glass factories, from Pennsylvania to Missouri; and 13 Mirror plants, located as follows: extending Also, our 22 jobbing houses carry heavy stocks in all lines of glass, paints, varnishes and brushes and are located in the cities named below: NEW YORK-Hudson and Vandam Streets. BUFFALO-37:ilo.4-6-8 Pearl Street. BOSTON-41-49 Sudbury St., 1-9Bowker St. BROOKLYN--635 and 037Futton Street. CHICAGO-442-452 Wabash Avenue. PHILADELPHIA-Pitcairn Building, Arch and CINCINNATI-Broadway and Court Streets. Eleventh Streets. ST. LOUI~-Cor. 7th and Market Streets, DAVENPORT-4IO-416 Scott Street. MINNEAPOLIS-soo-SIO S. Third Street. CLEVELAND-149-51-53 Seneca Street. DETROIT-53'55 Larned'Street E. OMAHA...,.I608-lo-I2 Harney Street. PITTSBURGH-JoloI03 Wood Street. ST. PAUL-349-5J Minnesota Street. MIL WAUKEE, WIS.-492-494 Market Street. ATLANTA, GA.-3'!, 32 and 34 S. Pryor Street ROCHESTER, N. Y.-Wilder Building Main SAVANNAH. GA.-745-749 Wheaton St~t. and Exchange Sts. 'KANSAS CITY-Fifth and Wyandotte S15. HALTIMORE-221-223 W, Pratt Street. BIRMINGHAM, ALA.-2nd Ave. and 29th St. New York Boston Phll.delphl. Bullalo Cincinnati St. Louis MllllllleapoU. Atlanta Kokomo. Ind. Ford City. Pa. High Point. N. C. DavelllPort Cry.tal City, }do. It needs no argument to show what advantages may be derived from dealing directly with us. AGENTS FOR THE COULSON PATENT CORNER POSTS AND BATS. Veneer Presses, all kinds and sizes Veneer Presses Glue Spreaders Glue Healers Trucks, Efc" Etc. These Specialties are used all Over the World -::::::-===,=--- - Power Feed Glue Spreading Machine. (Patent applied for). Single double aDd combination. No. 20 Glue Heater C"AS. E. FRANCIS &. BRO.D Hand Feed Gluelng Machine. (Patent pending,) Eight Styles and Sizes. Wood· Working Macbinel} and Supplies ~i " .•~ J '. (&.,.; LET us KNOW YOUR WANTS 419·421 E. Eighth St. CINCINNI\TI. O. No.6 Glue Heater , ,. 2 Dovetails either straight or swell front drawers without removing or changing any parts HIGHEST speed, absolute accuracy and most con-venient operation combine to make this the ideal machine for furniture factories whether large or small. It is built in the most compact manner possible so that the spindles can revolve at the highest speed without dan-ger of vibration and at the same time the spindles are made readily accessible for sharpening the cutters. The supporting table back of the cutters is formed with an adjustable roller so that any shape of swell front to a maximum of three inches and with one inch from the end to the beginning of the swell, may be held perfectly and successfully worked without removing or changing any part. This feature alone coupled with the the fact that the bits alwavs em the same Slze dovetail until worn out, should ca'mmend this tool to every modern furniture factory everywhere. Send for CIRCULAR and CATALOG. WOodworkinglfochinery. - -- ----- ------ 26th Year-No. 26. GRAND RAPiDS, MICH., JULY 10, 1906. ========~==~== $ 1.00 per Year. Accidents in Mills and Factories. The Hartford Courant recently puhlished accoullts of three accidents, very similar in character, which oCCllrred 011 the same clay in that state, a workman in each instance hav-ing been caught and >vhirlc.d around a rapidly rotating pulley or line shaft. vVhill' no particulars were given as to whcthe;- the casualties were due to carelessness on the part of the victims themselves or caused 'by negligence on the part of others in leaving unguarded dang"crously [ocatc<l helts. puHeys and setscrews. there is no question bm that workmen in machine shops, and factQrit~s generally, are (juite apt to take altogether too many chances, when working around mfl-chillery in operation. Sometimes they take risks through ignorance, but usually the practice in due to carelcssness or to familiarty which breeds contempt even for danger. Millwrights and repair men, 'whose work necessarily takes them aloft among the running shafting and pulleys, arc par-ticularly apt to become insensible to the possibility of being caught and injured. and it is a matter of general observation that they arc inclined to thoughtlessly :lssume unnecessary risks in keeping overheacl apparatus in rlInnillg order, though sometimes the blame for accidellts they med with must be placed on other shoulclers. The w iter rec'!lls distinctly the customary methods of these men in a certain large mannf<lc-turing establishment, ,"v-herehe was one time employed. <llld 'where, owing to the fact that nearly the ''v-hole establishment was driven from one engine, llobody liked to assume the re-sponsibility of having the whole plant tied U\) while S0l11C {lve;- head repair job was going OJl; cCll;;equultly it was not an uncommon thing fOt· wide, heavy belts to be n:n off their pul-leys, taken up aml put back on the pulleys witll the main shaft running at full speed. The writer Ol1ce saw in the department where he worked three men put a tight, 6-inc1l belt on a 36-inch pulley, ml1- ning at 150 revolutions, and was told by the men tbat tbe es-tablishment was never expected to stop dnrillg working; bOll"S, unless the engine broke down or some one was caught in the machinery. As a result of this policy, the millwright; put belts 011 "011 the By," anel where co'_\ntershaft belts were wound up and were cut loose to prevent the counter bcing pulled down, the belt coiled 011 the line shaft was removed without stopping ·the shaft, by one of the men holding a belt shifter against the wound-up belting .vhile the other man caught the free end, dragged it down as far as possible and cut it off. This process. repeated a half dozen times, removed the belt, but it was a dange-rotls performance and anything but pleasant to witness. Shortly after one of these exhibitions of recklessness in the depa: tment referred to, one of the same group of l11e11, while performing some similar operation in another section of the works. was caught in the shafting, whided around fl. number of times and thrown to the floor, with injuries which kept him in the hospital for many week.". A peculiar accident of this type occurred recently in <I New England shop, and, as stated by a friend who witness~ cd the affair, the principal in the occurrence escaped with much slighter 'injuries than one of the men who undertook to help him out of his predicament. \\ihile oiling a shaft which was located at some distance heI"ow the ceiling, the man's arm was caught by the shaft and he was whirled rapid-ly round, although swingi11g clear of the overhead beams at each turn. A fello\v-workman, however, who started to run to the engine room \vas struck in the face by the heels of the mall on the shaft, and, besides losing several teeth, was kuocked senseless, and in fact lald up for several days. Upon the machinery being stopped and the man released, it was discovered that he had recei\'ed no further damage than a had fright, a few bruises and a seve:-e shaking up in general. The courts have made such decisions in these matters as to constitute an insufficient influence toward the provision of wfety devices. Ivren who value their jobs wit] take risks by confo:'ming to the custom of the ptace in which they work. 111 Enrope generally lives of workman are much better pro-tected than here, and we ought to improve. Lumber Plentiful. Lumher is very plentiful in the south at present. The cause of this condition is the high water. The lumber is being stored in large quantities. The Abernathy Furniture ),{allufacturing company of Leavenworth, Kan., have enough hnnher stored to co\'er twelve city lots. THE CORRECT Stains and fillers. THE MOST SATISFACTORY First Coaters and Varnishes I ,..--- l 4 The Wallace Collection in London. The \Vallace collection "yas bequeathed by the late I.ad), \Vallace to the British nation. It includes armour, paint-ings, bro1Jzes,FreJlcll fl1rniture, enamels, clocks, candelabra. porcelain, marbles, sculptures. carved \'.'nod work, majolicas, coins, ivories--in fad, all the rarest art objects one can think of, gathered together and (/isplnycd ullder 011C maf-that of Hertford House. The collection \\,;15 hrought togeth-er by Francis Charles, third l\Tanillis and Richard, fourth l\1arquis of Hertford. The late Sir H.icbard \V,t!lacc atId;cd largely to it and re-organized jl;, The paintings by Prellch maste:"s of tile eighteenth century as well as those by Span-ish, Italian, Flemish, Dutch and English artists arc of great value and cannot be surpassed in S0111e particulars even by the Louvre. The building itself is said to be th(', original of Gaum !louse in Vanity Fair. It was formedy the residence of Sir Richard and Lady \'Vallace and is vcr.!/ large ana linel)' ar-rangeel. The inner court on the ground noor is very at-tractive, palms and a playing fonntJin lend quite a tropical effect. The grand staircase is of Louis Quatorze style. The marbles busts of the third 1Jarquis of Hertford and those of Sir Richard \Vallace and his wife adorn the landing of the staircase. The upper rooms arc very numerous and con-tain so many interesting objects one cannot hope to see them :dl ill one visit. or a dozen. The furniture is 1110stly of the French style of the Louis Xl V., XV. and XVI. per-iods and I talian of same periods, and is richly gilded, inlaid and has mounts of hrOH:r-e gilded, In the first gallery :Ire several sofas and annchain designed by JC<ln-8aptiste Oudry. The sofas are of wood, carved and gilt. covered with Beau-vais tapestry of the style and period of I.ouis Quinze, the framework of Louis Seize style. The arrnschair corres~ pond in style and all have hunting sce]Jcs for subjects of tap-estry. A stnall cabinet ior medals in marqueterie of 1nttal on tortoise shell has mounts of gilt brnnz(;. cast and chased. A writing table of tulip wood is ill LOllis Quinze style. An Italian mirror of the eighteenth century has a carved and gilt ..v.ood frame, showing foliage and conventional scroll work. intermingled, surmounted by a cupid and swans. In the next room a cabinet of ebony ".Nith marquderie of tortoise shell and white mdal on yellow metal, has g-ildc(] and chased mounts of bronze, in Louis (jllatorze style. bllt .~aid to have been made in T.ouis Seize period by an imitator "I BOlLlle. A console table of gilt \V00(1 thought to be of Ital-ian style, eighteenth century, has a top inlaid witb lalld;;c.apcs and patterns in colored marbles. The supports of wood. carved and gilt, are threc life sized ligures of cnpiJs Ivr(,3t!Icd with garlands of berries and knves. A scrcen of wood carved and gilt, frames a piece of embroidery of Louis Quatorze design, raised in silver thread on a ground of crimson velvet. An oddity was a mirror of polished steel in a frame of walnut-wood, at the base the device of the ;\'ledicis (the balls) are painted on a shield. This is of course, in the Italian Renaissance style, of the sixteenth century. A French table of sixtenth century style is very elaborately carved. It is of oak supported by fJgures of three Fauns, There are many examples of \valnut and oak furniture and a wood called i1l11boyn'l. similar in color to birch. An armoire of carved w;:dnttt in two sections, crowned with a broken pcdiment, adorned with ligures is in a~ldition ctJ:'iched by inlays of green n:ined marble, A rather odd chair of carved oak in Renais-anc\, style has cane bottom and back. An ecclesiastical seat in carvcd walnut is of early 16th century sLy!(:, a panel in the center represents the Annunciation. A very fine ebony cabinet of Louis Quatorze style has panels decorated with l10ral designs in marqueterie of various woods. This cabi-net belongs to the early period of Boutle. The ornamental ba1l<Js amI plaqucs arc ill marqueterie of metal on ehony and tortoise shell on metal. 1\ prominent featnre is the crown-ing decoration of gilt bronze, consisting of a milit<lry trophy, in the ceIltre of which is [i medallion of Lows Quatorze in early manhood. A large bllffet, shaped like a commode, is of mahogany with mounts and ornaments of Kilt bronze, ~igncd ]. F. Lelcll. ;'\ beautiful mitTo" is Ot Inarqueterie of metal 011 tortoise shell. \vlth [{iIt bronze mounts, style of Bcrain. A French eighteenth century table is magniticent, of eholly and gilt metal~ covered with marquclerie in tortoise shell, coppcr and white mctal, on yellow metal. A pedestal cabinet of ebony has inlays of metal on 'l"c<l tortoise shell with the usual gilt bron7:e mounts, A novelty 'was a barom-eter of tulip wood with bronze mounts, of L0Uis Quinze style. \ hUI"CClUUlb1c of ebolly attributed to HouJle has marqueterje of tnetal on tortoise shell. A rose,;vood commode is of Louis Quin;'l' style, A writing table of prirple \vood ill 1;;;:::=-17~-- -="'T'" ="11 Louis Quatorze style has decorations of gilt bronze. A wall mirror of wood carved and gilt is of Italian early eighteenth century style, the main features of the decoration are the dragon at the top and winged sirens at the sides. A large ebony cabinet is in three sections, vv·ith marquctcrie of metal on tortoise shell and mounts of gilt bronze, cast and chased, in the style of Louis Quatorze, but period of Louis Seize. A Boulle armoire in ebony, with marqueterie of metal on tor-toise shell, and gilt bronze mounts is ornamented with an un-usually high relief of a nymph and a young satyr. Placques at the sides, in low relief, symbolize Summer and Autumn. A sofa, part of a suite, is elaborately carved wood with gilt decoration and brocade covering. The subjects of the dec-oration are love's quiver, a guitar and other emblems, g-rouped with garlands of flowers, branches of foliage and birds. Twelve armchairs accompany this sofa and a second one. The latter is a companion piece to the Jlrst sofa. The chairs arc cO'7ered \vith modern brocade in style of Louis Seize. .il.. buffet of amboyna wood and mahogany is inlaid with stained woods. There are mounts, pbc(jues and ornaments of gilt bronze. This is of the style and period of Louis Seize. The late Frederick Davis purchased this, together with a com-panion piece and a secretary, in the year 1865 from a Rus-sian count and sold them to the ~'1arquis of Hertford. A marriage chest of ebony has a decoration in marqncterie of tortoise shell and white metal all yello\'I" metal', made for the marriage of a French prince, made in imitation of 'Roulle's style. A large table of satin wood and purple ·wood \,,;ith gilt mounts and ornaments has rich decorations of oak leaves and acorns. This is in the style of J. Dubois. A large bureau in marqucterie of various woods was ordered by the king of Poland, Stanislaus Leczinski, who died in 1766. It once belonged to the cro·wn of France. Th;s is in the late Louis Quinze style, signed Riesener. A table in red Egyp-tian pO:'phyry mounted in gilt bronze has a base of wood carved and gilt in the very elaborate 1talian Renaissance style. A small latIy's bureau of mahogany, has }t1lTee drawers, a frieze and mounts of gilt bronze in the late Louis Seize style. An upright secretaire in amboyna ,',;ood with purple wood bands is by Riesener. The gilt bronze mounts, placqncs and ornaments are ascribed to Thomire. This is in Louis Seize style. ./\ table of dark woods with a slab of red Egyptian porphyry, contains three drawers of satin wood. The delicate frieze and mounts, the capitals and flutings of the columns which form the legs are of bronze, cast and chased. This is in Gouthiere's style but probably a late work of J. F. Le1eu. A work table of mahogany made in late Louis Quinze styl'e has mounts of gilt bronze, cast and chased. A cabinet of tulip wood with marquetcrie of box- 7IR'T' I.5'.7I.L"I 2 T F 1* 5 wood and purple wood has Sevres porcelain placques painted ',vith flowers, of the Louis Seiz.c style by Martin Carlin. An ebony commode popularly described as the marriage chest of lI.'1arie Antoinette, has panels of Japanese lacquer framed in mounts and ornaments of gilt bronze. It rests upon legs formed by the fLgures of sea-nymphs or sirens bear-ing cushions on their heads. The panels of lacquer are half covered with zigzags and circular wreaths of roses in gilt bronze. Ovcr the lmvcr part of the central panel is a group in low relief of doves pecking, as they rest on cupid's quive'r. The edges are enriched with hangmg garlands of roses and other flowers in gilt bronze. It is signed J. Du-bois and is in Louis Seize sty Ie. An armchair of carved and gilt wood, covered with silk brocade, bears a monogram of "11" and "T" interlaced. It belonged to the Empress Marie Theresa of Austria, mother of Queen llarie Antoinette. A secretaire of mahogany of Louis Seize style is inlaid with geometrical patterns in box-wood and ebony. The mounts of gilt bronze, cast and chased, enclose p1acques of Sevres porcelain, painted with a farmyard scene and small landscapcs. A console table of wood, Louis Seize style, has carving and gilt throughout, "vith a frieze and decoration of pierced and detached work. A small bookcase is of pale green lacquer and gilt bronze, cast and chased. At the summit mounted on a circular ped-estal of classic type, is a group of Cupip and Psyche in gilt bronze; at the sides are the figures of Peace and Vvar; be- 10"\" is applied a classic trophy of arms. This piece with a ,vritillg table to be described later were made by Dubois for Empress Catherine II. of Russia. The writing table is of pale green lacquer and gilt bronze. Round the Upper part of the tahle is a series of freize-like panels of gilt bronze. The supports are figures of sea-nymphs in the same material bearing cushions on their heads and garlanded with festoons of oak leaves and acorns. This table is said to be the one used by Napoleon 1., Alexander 1. of Russia and King Fred-erick Vv"illiam III. of Prussia when the Peace of Tulsit was signed. A sofa designed by Francois Casanova in eighteenth century French style is of wood carved and gilt, covered with Beauvais tapestry. A small bureau ascribed to Montigny or Levasseur is of marqueterie of various natural and stained woods with gilt mounts and ornaments. Simulated book bindings in their shelves form a curtain to the front. A sofa of carved wood has gilt decorations in a white foundation, covered with Beauvais tapestry. The frame work has unusually sharp and delicate carvings of roses and other flowers, Louis Seize style. Eight armchairs accom-pany this suite. A small circular bureau of exceptional type is in mar-queterie of various woods with gilt mounts. This is believed to be the only existing bureau of the period with an oval upper part of this peculiar type, by Riesener and Gouthiere. The principal panels of marqueterie show trophies relating to music, war, wine. comedy and so forth. This is in Louis Seize style. This is far from a complete catalogue of the furniture in the \Vallace collection, but will be sufficient to give an idea of its rarity,.beauty and gnat historical and artistic value. Popularity of Fireless Stoves. The manufacture of fireless stoves is becoming more general. The latest factory to engage in its manufacture is located in Omaha. This stove is said to save seventy-five per cent of the cost of fuel. Everywhere they have been tried they have met with approval. Mrs. Conger Makes a Big Profit. 1\Jrs. E. H. Conger, wife of the United States mllllster to China, who recently bought a rug in China for $90 against the protest of her husband, has just sold the rug· to a Chi~ cago man for $7,000, netting her a handsome profit. Have You Solved the Conundrum? This matter of advertising is a conundrum to a great many people, and it will so remain. There are those who think they have solved it in one way or rlllOther and the so-lution apparently justifies them. This man don't believe in it. He aJvertised once, twice, a year, continually a long time, or a short time. :N0 one wrote him and said "1 see by your ad. in such a paper that you sell such a thing." He can p0int to no specific salc which he can tack onto advertising. In time he devel~ps into an unbeliever. 0" very curiously, he may generate a strong belief that advertising pays, although he can point to no specific instance. Different men having precisely the same experience in results often arrive at different conclusions. Curions thing. The matter itself to me is a conundrum. that is. the way peop~e differ in regard to it, but advertising itself is as sure to get re-sults, as being caught is a shower gets you wet. The-trou-ble is that you cannot always see the results. If you could trace every sale to its starting point, you would find innum-erable instances where advertising gave the push. Here is the main point: The firm whose name is most under the eye, "whose nallle IS associated with the goods they make or sell, so that when you think of the goods you think of the firm, is the firm which gets the most benefit. Take anything you like. Take Hood's Sarsaparilla. The fences yell at you to take it. The barns, from roof to sill, implore you to take it. Drug stores which sell it don't say so much of it; they have their own brands, which perhaps make them more mon-ey, hut they sell it, and sell a lot of it. Your system gets in a certain condifon, and you think you need a tonic. Then what? Yau remember the fences, and the rocks, and the bams. and you go to th('. druggist and ask for Hood's. Now, honestly, is that not so? You don't tell Hood you want his Sa -sapal"itla. Hood never heard of you, and probably never will, but you have patronized him and increased his net business. Does Hood stop advertising because he don't hear from you, and me, and a thousand others? ::Jot much. He doesn't judge of advertising that way. Neither shou1d you. You may adYertisefor years and never pin a net result hut you may be getting a hundred-fold under apparently an-other form. Take furniture, for instance .. You advertise in the trade or daily papers that you make it or sell it. Vour business goes on, now standing still, now IncreasIng. If you make furniture, perhaps you cannot point to a sin-gle instance in which an ad resulted in an orde;-. But re-member this: Every order, with few exceptions, was hatched, had down, then pin feathers, then ~athers, and eventually you bagged it. What do yOU expect? Orders just out of the shell with full blown feathers? It is not sufficient in these days to make a good thing and then depend on sales, because it IS a good thing. You will make greater sales by continually shouting for a poor thing oftentimes, than by standing Quietly behind a good thing. There is a funny corner of our Main, in which we contin-ually store away information, which we acquire unct-Ilscious-ly, don't know we have at all, don't forget because we never know we know it, and someday when the time comes, out pops the information and it has an influence. A buyer of furniture wrote me once asking where lodge fu!'"niture could be bought. I knew of Retting and Sweet, audfor years had been glancing over the furniture trade papers. In an instant there came to my mind a picture of Gothic chairs and a pulpit, and the name of Schmit of Cincinnati. I never bought a stick of such furniture in my life. Didn't know I knew who made it. But the information was there, and ad\'ertising put it there, and when the time came it came forth. I wrote my friend lodge furniture was made by Ret-ting and Sweet and Schmit of Cincinnati. Schmit got the order, as I afterward learned, but he never knew that order had down and pin feathers long before it flew. vVhen the time came for tonic he was Mr. Hood. There arc cases like that innumerable, and that's about all there is to it, atlyway. Advertising is faith, in a great measure. Away inside somewhere in everyone that ever lived is tucked an atom of faith. So, away inside of every business man, is stowed a grain of belief in advertising, be he ever so outspoken against it. The meat of the whole matter to me is this: The one "\vho advertises a little 'continually gets a better result than the one \vho splurges only occasion-ally, and the one who never advertises at all, or only when bus:ness is poor, is overlooking the main point of adve,tising-namely, to tuck his firm name and product away in the minds of the people who mig-ht later need his tonic. It is no ea~thly ~se trying to judge of advertising by mak'ng the order fit the ad and look acquainted. Perhaps the ad and the order that it hatched were mites and yea s apart. If you can make the public or the buyer think of you, when they think of what you sell or make, you are well advertised. You can throwaway motley on advertising, Sometimes it is harder to get a big ad in onc's mind than a small one. vVhat you are aiming at is the sub-consciousness of the buy-er, ami if you fire lots of bullets, you are likely to hit occa-sionally. The namc, and the product, and a picture over and over again gcts the best result. 1\uf sed, as Pickering puts it, and several others have made it stay put. Cozy Corners Abolished. The Oriental cozy corner fad is a thing of the past. Its impracticability was soon demonstrated. Housewives learn to shun dust catchers and the cozy corner proved such a nuisance and so unsightly and hard to keep clean that it is a relief to see it abolished. Sale of Cassie Chadwick's Valuables. Mrs. Cassie Chadwick's possessions are to be sold at pub-lic auction. The list includes besides some three or fou: hundred gowns, valuable furs and her valuable Vertin Martin cabinets and beds. What a chance for the collector of fur-niture once used by celebrities! Mrs. Chadwick's creditors will' undoubtedly profit by thi~ sale. A Test for Linseed Oil. Raw oil, one ounce, nitric acid, one-half ounce, shake welt together in two-ounce vial, stand twenty-four hours. vVhen pure the acid should be clear below, and the oil clear above. Some times there are three layers, one forming "be-tween the oil and acid. \¥hen such is the case the center "ayer is caused from impurities. The bottle should be well shaken. \\Then the test is completed destroy the bottle and contents. --- ----- ------------- "RELIABLEll ROLLS EXCLUSIVELY The "RELIABLE" is the best THE fEllWOCK ROll AND PANEl CO. EVANSVILLE, IND. GLOBE VISE ", TRUCK CO. Grand Rapids, Mich Makers 01 the BEST Quick Acting VISE Our Illustrated Circular will ten you aU abOllt it. 7 The Most Economical Table Leg Ma~hine IS T"E ONE T"AT TURNS OUT HIE BEST WORK No. S TARLE LEG MACHINE, (Patented) The old style Table Leg Machines may tum out just as large a pile of legs in a day as our new machine, but' we will guarantee that none of them turn out as smooth work. One of the main reasons is that our Shearing Cutter Head is far superior. There are also several other good features that are exclusive with this machine. CIVE US A CHANCE TO TELL YOU ABOUT THEM. C. Mattison Machine Works 863 5tb .'Itreel. BELOIT, WIS. -I THE TOWER PATENT FASTENER Is a Tower of Strength Nothing but fire or a screwdriver can loosen a pulI or knob from the drawer after it has been securely fastened by the TOWER PATENT FASTENER As it costs nothing to the manufacturer who buys the Grand Rapids Brass Com-pany's trimmings (and can be procured in no other way) it is very unwise to trim furniture without these fasteners. No scratching or marring furniture by loose pulls; no complaints from customers, and no calIs for rebates or damages. GET INTO CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE GRAND RAPIDS BRASS CO. AND SAVE TROUBLE AND MUCH MONEY. r- - ~- 8 Golden Oak Oil Stains STRONGEST NOW ON T"E MARKET 1914 1916 1917 DARK BROWN BLACKER BLACKEST All of which produce a rich black brown effect, increasing in blackness as indicated above. WILL NOT CURDLE Leaves no deposit or film on face of wood. Leaves flakes clean and white, more especially when used with our 20th Century Stain Solvent which is for use with all Oil Stains and costs very much less than turpentine. Write for samples. The Barrett Lindeman Co. IN CONSOLIDATION WITH The Lawrence Mcfadden Co. CHICAGO, III. 61-63-65-67 Ashland Ave. PHILADELPHIA, Pa. 1400 and 1402 Frankford Ave. ~MI9pIG7f-N 9 ,,,I ~" I Designed by F. VAN DOMELEN. 24 Goodrich St. Slooenl in the Grand Rapidl 5cllool of F ufmture Desig:n I, IJ r - 10 General Observations of Circular Saws. If a saw is properly adjusted and everything about the machine right, it should run cool or nearly so. lf the saw heats .at the center, it is usually either the fault of the maud:"el heating or the collars not being properly turned, or the carriage being out of line, or the saw being rUll with too little Set. If the saw heats at the rim it may arise from leading too much into the log, causing it to bear too hard against the out-side guide, or the backs of the teeth may be too high, or the saw may be trYlng to cut mo::-ethan it will chamber. If a saw is run at a higher rate of speed than that for which it is adjusted, it will be too large on the rim and will Tun in and out or "snaky." On the con~rary, if the speed for which it is adjusted it not kept tip, it will be too large in the center and is disposed to dish or rUI1out of the log. If a savir inclines to run out of the log, give it a little lead, and if tight on the rim increase the mot:on to expand the rim. If it inclines into the log, lead out by filing the points of the teeth or adjusting the mandrel. If it runs in and out, lead into the log, file the points of the teeth to lead out, and if necessary reduce the set of the teeth. This will cause the saw to warm a little and expand. 1£ it heats at the center while the mandrel runs cool, line into the log a trifle and increase the set. If it heats at the rim and not at the center, line out of the log a trifle. As the saw enlarges on the rim by wears. lead out a triHe to expand the center and equalize the tension of the rim. The track rnmt be solid, level alld straight. The carriage trucks must be free from cnd play, and the set works accurate and positive. The saw arbor must be abundantly heavy, level, with very little end play, and the saw must hang plumb, The saw must have an easy, c1o!'lefit on the mandrel and lug pins have a good fair bearing. The tight collar should be slightly con caved ; the loose collar flat. The saw should stand straight on the log side when the collars are screwed up and tbe saw ruuning at the' required speed. The saw must be in line with the carriage and lead a trifle into the log. The saw must be in perfect round or balance. The gullets mllst be properly shaped and sufficiently l'arge to chamber the dust. The backs of teeth must not be higher th,1I1 the points. The teeth must be 1Iled or sharp~ned per;eetly square on face and back. The !:iwaging must be sufficient for perfect clearance, and should be evenly baJanc.eA The guides must be perfectly adjuHed when the saw is standing still. or l1ghtly running. The saw must have sufficient teeth for the amount of ieed. The saw must be properly thick for the character of the work. The teeth must have proper pitch for fast, free cutting. The mandrel and carriage must be free from spring. The mandrel must not be allowed to heat in the bearing. The saw must be kept sharp and not run when dull. The teeth must be sided ·essed to mah: the extreme point and face oi the tooth the widest with a proper taper or clearance down and back from point. Tbespread of the swaging must be suffidcnt to properly clear the blade of the saw to prevent friction. The speed ought to be uniform both in and out of the cut. Do not lead the saw with the guide pins, but by slueing the mandrel or proper filing. Reduce the set or spread of the swaging if you wish the saw to run warmer at center. Increase the set or spread of the s\\aging if the saw runs too warm at center. 1ncrease the gullet or lower the back if the saw heats 011 the rim. Increase the motion if the saw is too light on the rim. Keep it cool in tl1e center. Don't set '.he guide pins too close or the saw wilt heat at the rim and run snaky. Kecp the saw Lee from gum by proper swaging an·d the use of water, or the rim will beat from undue friction. Keep your swag'e and saw sharpener constantly in good o:der. Fair, evenly balanced swaging, taper side dressing and perfect sharpening are essentials to a fine cutUng saw. Keep all gum and sawdust off the trac~{s. Don't use over 3~32 set equally divided on the saw. Do not attempt to straighten saw until it shows about the right amount of tension for your work In testing a dished saw lean it over until it shows as near-ly straight as possible, and then test with straightedge. Oth-erwise you will nut be able to loc2te the lumps. -. Heavy blows must be carefully avoided, and blows Ull- July hard near the eye have a g;'eater tendency to dish the saw than if placed near the rim. You may get your saw too open for your speed, in which case you have ouly to reduce the amount of expansion by blows around the rim, as previously des~ribed. The use of the sharpener, and the constant strain on the saw near the rim will presently enlarge it here and so render l1ecessary the expal1!:iJonof the central po~tions until it is ncessary in hammering to go right down to the eye. A saw with the tension too near to the eye is not likely to srab well. A s'aw when put up for its speed wiJl cut well in any kind of timber and without special adjustments of the guide for various woods. A saw used for work in frozen timber needs more tension than for summer work. With many small mills It is a common fault that the power is insufficient for the load and the speed of the saw i!:itherefore far from uniform. The motion is up when the saw enters the log anJ is down wben it leaves the log. The next eut starts before the saw has recovered its normal mo· tion. If, then, the saw tUns out, you get a thin board, or if it runs in, you get a thick one. If saw heats on rim, but does not snake, you have too much lead; if it wa:ms on the eye, there is not enough lead. Saws th'at are laid over or dished out will wa:'m on the eye; if dished in, will warm on the rim. If motlon is steady in any @ut,and the saw snakes, the saw is 110topen enough. \Vhen saw is too open, you get thick and thin boards. Saws should run at high speed to accomplish the best re-sults. Short, slim teeth can be run on lighter cuts. High speed saws will stand heavier feed in proportion to the length of teeth than low speed. Long tct.th will not hold corners well. The use of water on circular saws is helpful in keeping the saw cool and free from gumming. The piping may be so arranged that if the water is required at any particular part of saw h may be there applied. "Vatcr is also used succcss~ fully running into the journals of the saw shaft. A small rather than a large stream will do the work and a tiny jet is often all that is needed. CAUSES FOR HEATING ON THE RIM. Saws not open enough in the body ior the speed. Accumulation of gum or pitch cn the teeth. Teeth without sufficient swaging or set. Backs of the teeth too high for clearance. Gullets too small to chamber the dust. Guide pins set too dose to the saw. CAUSES OF HEATING AT THE CENTER. Saw too open in the body or center for the speed. Teeth without sufficient sV"'clging or set. .Mandrel running hot. Saw lined too much ill to or out of the log, Sa,,,,, lined too much out 9£ the tog. Speed insufficient to expand the rim. The remedies. for abovC'. should sllggest themselves. Use large collars not less than eigh't-inch diameter for a sixty-inc.h sa'N. It is said that for every 11'2 inch you arid. to the size of your collar you can take one gage off the thick-ness of your saw. A ten gage sixty-inch saw with nine-inch collars will do as good work, and as much of it as an eigllt gage saw on a six-inch collar. The collars should have from five-eighths to three-quarter-iuch bearing surf~ce on the SJ.W, the halance tumed out clear; the collars should be of good tool steel, Tor those collars made of cast iron are not stiff enough, as the center is liable to be squee:zed in by the nut and the saw is not properly clamped. The guides should be as near to the cut as possible and rigid, with as little opening as yossiblc, although the sawyer must regulate the guides according to the condition of the saw. Cow's horn makes one of the be,st and roost durable guide pins known. The guides should be within about one-inch of the throats of the teeth. Small, light mills having too many teeth in tile saw for a full swagil1g, sh.Duld run half swage and half set. Atlantans Are Busy. Everything in the furniture manufacturing line in Atlanta is going these days. Every plant is working full time, and quite a number of factories are adding a considerable amount of extra machinery and floor space. Skilled help is in demand and furniture workers can get a job any time. The outlook is good for a heavy output for the coming six months. The !',outhern demand for goods looks good while the plants are all well stocked with dry lumber. Nothing scarce save skilled labor, although considerable help drifts in from the Carolina factories, hut they have to be made over in order to hold their places. The Natiol1al Furniture comp;my is building an additional machine room 50 x 200 feet in size and they will need it all to take care of their increasing business. The 1\" ationa1 to-day is the largest factory in the south, and are makers of a higher grade of goods than any south of the Ohio river. D. E. Spencer, superintendent and designer of the plant is not a believer in a cheap grade of goods so year by year he has made a better grade ulltil there is no one in the south can equal him for 4.uality. The gn.l\vth of the National is a di-rect proof of the policy of giving their superintendent abso-lute control of thc manufacturing of goods. The firm says "Here is the material, the kind you ask for, make the stuff." And he does it. The superintendent says: "Here's your goods made right. Sell 'ent." And they sell' them, and so they prosper. Snperintendent Ed. Klaap of the Fulton Furnitwe Co. is making a success of that factory, and considering the length of time they have been running they are doing a spl ~ndid business. Ed. has a machine room that is freer from du"t than any factory the writer evcr saw. Charlie Vv'ise lS Ed's machine foreman, and things certainly "do move." Another plant has been added to Atlanta's ftlrniturp tn<Jk-ing interests. Tt is the United States Chair C0ITlp8_t1y and they will manufacture only medium and high grade chairs. The company is buliding a new factory building on Marietta street. The officers are as follows: C. V. Baker, prcs-i-dent; J. J. Freeman, vice president; A. L. Myers, secretary and treasurer; F. E. Spence, assistant treasurer. The or-ganizers of the United States are all practical furniture mak-ers and wat make it a SUccess. 11 Stickley's Goat Skin EnterpriSte. A gr(:at deal of time has been given by Alhert Stickley of the Stickley Brothers company, to the study of leathers for seatings, during the past hvo years. In pursuit of his in-vestigations, 11r. Sticklcy has made several trips to Europe and traveled through all the countries of the old world. Sev-ci- al years ago he became convinced that sheep skin was ut-tcrly unfit for Use in seatings for furniture, and as the cost of cattle hide makes the use of that leather almost prohibitory, 'i\-lr. Stickley sought to find something that would be prac-tical for the pwpose mentioned. After the conclusion of his investigations and experiments he decided that the skins of goats, 2.nd to a certain extent, calves, were best adapted for furniture seatings. The question then arose where could a sufficient quantity of goat skins be obtained to meet the requirements of Lhe manufacturers of furniture in the United States? nut 3. compM<ltively small number of these animals are raised in our country, for the re.ason that beef and mutton are largely IFeferred for food, \""hile in )'lexico, Spain, Switzerland, Aus-tria and many other- countries of the old world, goats are raised by the millions, as much for their flesh as for their hides. The Stickley Brothers company have recently made contracts with houses in Europe to supply their facto~y in ~rH'II'. DESIGNED BY F. VAN DOMELEN. 24 GOODRICH ST. Student in lhe CriI.Dd Rapida School of Furnit.u~ Dai'itn. lhis city with 12,000 hides per month} and have cornmenc<cd using the same in their furniture factory, as well as supply-ing other manufacturers of leather goods with the hides. The trade has gradu;-llly learned the value of these hides and are gradual1y subsdtuting the same for the unsatisfactory sheep skin and the high priced cattle hide that have been used in the past. The Stickley Brothers company guarantee the quality of every goat skin purchased for five years. The tanning facilities of the company will' be materially enlarged in the Ileal' future. :"'lr. Stickley is entitled to great credit for bringing this industry to Grand Rapids. Factory Furnishings. Catalogue No. 10 of Factory Furn:shings, issued by the Grand Rapids Hand Screw company, -is just out. Its a handy little forty page book of illustrations and descriptions of hand SCf(',WS, hand damps, carvers' and cabinet makers' and manual training benches. saw tables, factory trucks, Bene-dict furniture clamps and other factory furnishings. It should be in the hands of every factory superintendent and manager of a wood working establishment of any kind. A postal' card addressed to the Grand Rapids Hand Screw com-pany will fetch it. I ...lIIII "'- - - 12 NOW IT'S ADAM FURNITURE. Designs Easy to Get, But Genuine Adam Products Very Scarce. It was not marc than a decade ago that Empire furniture was a virulent fashion in this city. All sorts of Empire pieces were dragged out and imitated and new pieces that seemed like Empire to the furniture makers we:-e manufac-tured to supply the demand for Empire pieces. Ormolu imitations were turned out in vast quantities and any kind of old mahogany, which had been· guiltless of orna-ment during all its previous existence, was stuck over with ormolu appliques representing Au:-ora, the a?otheosis of Apollo or some pseudo-classic scene. The Empire craze was potent while it lasted. Anybody who has studied the rooms in the Empire styl~ made for Napoleon at Versailles or in other French palaces however, have just been put up. They are copied after houses built by Robert Adam of London. It is safe to say that few noteworthy houses built in New York or its immed-iate neighborhood during the last two years have failed to have at least one room furnished in the style of Robert and James Adam, These two worshipful architects and decorators did not make furniture themselves. They maLie designs for it. Un~ like some of their famous contemporaries t1H~Y were not cabi-net makers and did not know the practical ·side of decoration. Even perSOJ1S who have not heard of Robert Adam or his brother James, havc seen the most common kind of the Adam furniture, which is usuall'y of satinwood painted with dif-ferent kinds of figures. Frequently these are classical fig-ures with a little landscape. Some of this yellow satinwood-nearly all of the Adam furniture now to be had is made of this wood-was decorated by such artists as AngeJ'ica Kauffmann. Other pieces were AN ADAM DININC ROOM, knows that these apartments rarely contained more than two or three pieces. The Empire style was possible to per-sons of taste only when very little of this massive furniture was shown. The rage that struck this country and especially this city never felt any such restraint. If Empire furniture was the style and was expensive and hard to get, the thing to do was to get as much of it as possible, The~efore rooms ..v.ere jammed with heavy pieces until it was difficult to make one's way between cllairs and tables. A room which would have been amply furnished in the taste of the Empire period with two or three pieces was made to hold twenty. The most painful feature of this craze is the small price to be got now for Empire furniture. vVhen this kind of furn-iture went out of style, it went entirely out al1(f there is so little demand for the furniture that those who do not want to keep it are advised sometimes to hold on rather than to sell at the loss likely to be suffered. Empire is today the style of antique furniture least in de-mand. It is possible that there may some day be a revival of the taste for it. It is out of the mode now. There is another style that promises to be almost as much of a craze for the next decade. It is the absorbing passion of certain builders and furnishers of houses just now. Virulent as the fad fQr Empire fashions became, there were no Empire houses built. Two houses in the style of Adam, decorated by Flaxman with figures like those th'at appear on the Wedgewood pottery. Their work was as remarkable for its symmetry as for any other beauty it possessed. When they built a house they flot onJy decorated the rooms, but made the designs for even the locks on the doors, that all might be in harmony. The finest specimen of their work in domestic architec-ture was the home of the Earl of Derby in Grosvenor Square, London, which exists now only in the drawings which the Adam brothers made of it and its decorations. The house that Robert built for himself in London is said to have been altered very little and gives the best idea of WIJ2t hjs vmrk was that can be obtained except from his engravings of the great homes he did in England. The Grosvenor Square. house was regarded as the masterpiece of the brothers. In their decoration the Adam brothers made use of the-urn which forms the exterior decoration of one of the Adam houses recently put up here, the laurel leaf, the ribbon bands and the garland which were also much used by their immed-iate successors, the oval paterae, the arabesque and the acan-thus leaf. These elements of their decorative work were of course not new, Robert Adam, after studying in Italy, returned in 1754 to England and determined to bring out of the complicated ro-coco style of household decoration that was prevalent then something purer and more in accord with classic models, r--.--- Ten years later he published a book of drawings engraved by Bartoloni showing the ruins of the Emperor Diodetian's palace at Spalato. Several years later the two brothers be-gan to issue their "\\/orks in Architecture," which estab-lished as classic their style of building and decoration. "Sim-plicity, elegant slenderness and low relief" 'were the fore-most qualities that an old critic found in their decorative work To get the execution of his designs as he had planned t~em, Robert Adam brought from Italy Bartolozzi, Pergolesi :ll1d Capriani to carry out his plans. Some of the >rew Eng-land houses of the type called colonial :l re in reality very gooJ specimens of the most modest style of Adam. The Adam style seemed classically simple after the dec- (jrat\.oll that pl"<.'.ccdcdit in London. This was a comhination of the c1emellts of the period of the fifteenth Louis clumsily (>xecuted by English decorators combined with Chinese ad-ditions. Today the work of the Adams seems extremely ehlborate and of rather a degenerate period of art. That purely critical consideration has not, hO\'I'ever, rered with the favor of Adam furniture and decorations. have an Adam house, built takes, of course, a fortune. 011('. just completed in l'ifty-sevcnth street is to have every room decorated in Adam style. r 11 many cases in England the interiors of old country houses done by Robert and James Adam have been taken ui) to London so far as it was possible to transfer them. H ere there ,Ire no old houses with Adam interiors and it is possible to buy only mantels-the Adam mantel was a very marked feature of the room's decorations-furniture, urns and other decorations of a portable character. There are many Adam mantels in the 1:\ ew York shops and their number is likely to increase so long as the fashion continues in favor. They are manufactured now in great number in England. The Adam houses are certain to he a relief from the mo-notony of the French exteriors which have during recent years grown so numerous in New York. The two Adam houses recently built are very similar in design, to judge from their facades, but there must be resemblance in all of them, as very few contrasts are possible in Georgian archi-tecture. inte1"- To The The Adam houses are the most characteristic in the Lon-donstreets~ The Adelphi terrace, which they designed, got its name from the fact that it was the work of the two brothers-a delphoi-a rch itects. \-Vhen n certain kind of furniture becomes so popular as Adam is and Empire was, most of its buyers do not seem to care very much whether it is genuine or not. Of course, there 'was n great deal of Adam furniture manufactured in London during the lifetime of the brothers and their habit of overseeing every part of the equipment of the houses they built has left many specimens of their handiwork. It is easily possible th8t there are many genuine speci-mellS of their work in existence; but not one-third of the stuff which has been added to the visible supply during the past two years is regarded as genuine by the honest dealers. "You must understand," one of them said to the Sun re-porter, "that the Adam designs have been for the past cen-tury a standard pattern with most of the English furniture makers. For the past forty years the big English manuiac-turers have turned out so-calted Adam furniture in large quan-tities. "So, of course, there is plenty of that kind of furniture to be had. \Vhen it gets a Fe}\'years old and looks a little "'lorn it can readily pass as the work of the Adam brothers, partic-ularly with ''v·omen. "Real Adam furniture. of the -finest kind, with decocJ.t\ons by the best painters is almost impossible to get hold of, and very expensive when it does come into the market. The ma-jority of the Adam furniture here now is the product Df fac- 13 tories that came iilto existence long after the two designers had ceased from their labors. "The Adam mantels sold ior two or three hundred dollars are in very few cases genuine. Adam brought from Italy the method of using stucco in his decorations and that was the material from "vhich many of the mantels were made. "It is very easy to copy the design and mould as many of them as there is call for. These may be imitations, but they are nevertheless very graceful and pretty. "Adam upholstery stuffs are practically imposs;ble to get. The two not only Llesigned a chair, bL:tthe covt:r for it as well. One Adam chair that I kn(l\v of with the O:'iginal covering for it designed by Robert Adam is in the museum of the Cooper Institute. Some of these stuffs, which always fol-lowed the pattern of the decoration, have also been copied hy the makers of the p;'esent day and very fair imitations of the genuine Adam goods are to be had. ;;I do not personally believe that the Adam craze will last yery long Some of the effects that we:'e most admired in _r~~ I, i, Dmsned by F. VAN DOMELEN. 24 Goodrich ~l. Student in the Grand Rapids Sehool (If Furniture Desiin the time of the Adams would now seem yc:"y bizarre and no-body could say that they v.·..ere in good taste for domestic decoration "Take his use of the Vv'edgwood color schemes, for in-stance. John Flaxman would designe plaques an'd panels to be inlaid in' the furniture. Sometimes these were imbedded in the yellow satinwood and at other times they were put into the wood of another color which was painted in the blue and \vhitc of the y"r edgewood 'ware. "The entire room wouM be done in these tints of blue and white. Even the piano of that day would be made to match with its blue and white figures 011 the blue background. "Of course no American builders of Adam houses are like-ly to have any Adam furniture of this kind, for it is worth its weight in gold. But v.·..ould they want it? I doubt it -very much and women who are building and decorating houses now should think not only twice but several times be-fore they adopt any school of decoration so pronounced as the Adam."-New York Sun. ", 14 THE USE AND ABUSE OF STAINS Written for the Michigan Artisan by C. J. LaVallee, Vice President of the Marietta Paint & Color Co., Marietta, Ohio. Tt is only within a comparatively few years that the \Vo.d stain in connection with the wood tin-shing craft, has been understood. Ten years or more ago the finisher used what was, and is today, called wood dyes and pigments to make his stains with-such as sielluas, umbers, Vandyke b,owns and the lakes. These comprised at that time the known stainers. nut since the advent of the coal tar dyes the 'Nord stain has taken OIl a different meaning and it is now possible to produce effects that were undrl;'.amcd of a few years ago. The stains of today are perfectly transparent, enabling the expert to change as it were the very nature of the wood" This js especially tnn' of oak. As proof of this, we have for instance the Old English, the Early English, the Cathedral Oak, the f<'Jemish Oak, and many others, each one representing a distinct period of our civilization. Thesc different effects were not produced by the skill of man in those carlier days, but were instcad o:'ta"ned only by the action of the weather and by age affecting the different meth-ods of finish in vogue during this pe_ied. The finish, no doubt, intended more as a preservative agent, might have been oil, or wax, or acid, but it re::luired the aid of atmos-pheric conditions and time to bring about the different effects. Now we produce in one day, with the a:d of our perfected ,;tai11s,what it formerly took centuries to accomplish. The Marietta Paint & Color company has spared ncither time, effort nOr cxpense to bring its stains to the highest pojnt of practical efficiency and perfection. BUl while there arc hundreds of furniture manufactuiers who arc successfully using our products, there are also many who, not using the goods properly, arc unable to get the best results. This is not as a rule, the fault of the finisher, for while a certain stain may be practical and well <1d<lptedto one special line of work it may not answer the purpose on another line. For instance, a stain may be used successfuly in a dipping tank, hut whcn applied with the brush does not produce the desired effect. The trouble will be found 1Iot in the stain, but in the mode of application. The finisher must by experience acquire a knowledge of the use of the stain. Knowing this, we send out with all our products a sheet of instructions for finishers in the f1rs1'use of our stains. These instructions are the result of the experience of s~)me of the foremost fin-ishers of the country who have successfully manipul~tcd our stains, and if properly carried out the;'e cannot be any dis~ appointment or failure in sccuring satisfactory results. As to the misuse of stains, it is unfortunately true that there are a fcw finishers who are for some rcason or other opposed to trying anything ncw, and who when forced by their employers to 'fest these stains, pos·~ively refuse to fol-low the instructiollS, and assuming that the manufacturer is not himself qualified to instruct in the art of finishing, the finisher, hidebound in his opposition to all progress, tests the goods according to his own ideas and condemns them for his failure to secure proper results. This form of prejudiced oppnsit~on we find rapidly dying away. In fact, the furniture manuf1cturer who has been thus handicapped, and finds hims~lf dropping behind his more progressive competitor, has become enlightened and insists on a finisher who will test and use the new goods and conform to the new ideas. L It is only the truth to say, however, that we find the ma-jority of finishers anxious and willing to try anything that promises to give them the best re.sults with the, least work, and the Marietta Paint & Color company is frank to con-fess that it is only th,ough the assistance and perseverance of the finisher that it has been .able to make such wonderful strides in the manufacture of pract:cal stains and finishing materials. To the fillisher is largcly due the credit for the wonderful strides wbich have been secured in the last few years in the mock n a. t of wood finishmg. A Popular Finish. Thc Chicago Wood ,Finishing company, 259-277 Elston avenue, havc a popular finish before the trade today in their Colonial wax finish. Colo'nial wax finish is used over old finish to give it new life. It is also used on wood, cloth, leather and other materials which have never had any finish< on them. It is as easily applied by anyone in the household as by an experienced finisher, and with perfect results. It is not put on with a brush, but is appt:ed with a piece of cheesecloth. It is the most economical finishing material to employ, since a single gallon will Coyer fifteen hundred to two thous-and square feet of surface, or ~lS much as four gallons of varnish. . Unlike varnish, it is a self-leveler, so that it only requires t() he ruhl:t.ed on with a piece of cloth to produce an even, hard, wax-finished appearance. Leather, cloth and other fabrics arc given a durable and high grade finish by being coated with Colonial wax, finish. In order to obtain the best results, the finish must be ap-plicJ in a very thin coat when used on leather o~ cloth, sam(" as when put on wood. If put on in a heavy coat, the finish has a high gloss, whereas, a soft, wax-finished a~pearance is much mo:e desirable, and put on in a thin coat, the cost is of course, much less. Thus, leathcr used on fu:-niture, tru.nks, traveling bags, hand satchels, etc" and cloth employed on cases, trunks and other objects as a cover, may be easily giv-en a wax finish. Colonial wax finish takes the place of wax and saves the great labor expended in applying wax and in polishing it. Any surface which is coated with Colon:al wax finish may be washed and wiped. A light coat applied every few months keeps anything on \vhich it is used in fine condition. It dries hard over night. It is used in place of wax, yar-nish or other finish, and may be applied over shellac, varnish filler or stain. Registration for Protection of Designs. In the June number of the Upholsterer a good suggestion is made in regard to the registration and p otection of de-sig- us. It is believed that with such a law in operation the manufacturers and designers, particularly would all prollt by it. In Europe it has proved successful as an open market is thus created. Rel"ations between schools of design and manufacturers would be closer. Designers would feel freer to submit designs in competition as manufacturers would buy 'more freely and artists not in the strictly commercial line would be more likely to compete. The Highest Grade of Brain Pow-er Should be employed by the manufacturer when engaging in the difficult task of preparing a catalogue for publication In the mailer of goods to be advertised and the prices to be charged the manufacturer alone must be the judge, but when it comes to the engraving, printing and binding of the book, we come in and respectfully offer our assistance. Do you need our skill and experience of many years to aid you ? We have been engaged in the business of making catalogues many years. We have ample facilities including newly built presses, linotype machines and competent workmen and guarantee the quality of our work. Send us a statement of your requirements. We can help you. White Printing Company 2 to 20 Lyon St., Grand Rapids, Mich. 16 ·~MIF]-IIG7JN , P. H. Reddinger Carving Worhs (Formerly Cincinnati Carving Work/?of Cincinnati, 0.) CARVlNGS and FURNITURE ORNAMENTS of all kind •• EVANSVILLE, IND. Bysendil)g me a small order I will convince you that I am the man wbo can make your carvings. ONE TRIAL WILL DO THE BUSINESS. . £t.l.'.S-. PHONE: 3333. FOUR TRAINS TO AND fROM • Lv Gd. RApids 7:10am ArChieago 1:15pm Lv. Gd.lU.pidl 12:05 on Ar Chicago 4:50 pm Lv Gd. Rapids 4:25 pm ATChicq:o 10:55pm Lv Gd. Rapids 11:30pm daily Ar Chlca~o 6:$ am 4;25 pm and 11 :30 pm run daily. Pullman Sleeper, on 11:30 pm train open 9:00pm. A II. carte Cafe service on all day trains. Pere Marquette Parlor cars on all day traIns. Rat_ reduced to 50 (:elltl;. T"REE TRAINS D ET RO I T TO AND "ROM Leave Grand Rapids 7:10 am Arrive Detroit 11:55ant Leave Grand Rapids 11:10 am daily Arrive Detroit 3:05 pnt Leave Grand Rapids 5::;W pm ArrIve Detroit 9:20 pm Note fad time made by both midday Bondevening train. Meal. seNe<! II.lll.carte on trains leaving Grand Rapids II.t It:15lltu and 5:20pm. Pere Marquette Parlor Cars on all train.; seat rate ••IS cents. "ALL OVER MICHIGAN" H. J. GRAY, DtnRICTP.UIENGRR AGENT, PHONE .. 168 Gnmd. Rapids, Mich. NO MATTER WHAT YOUR DRY KILN REQUIREMENTS WE CAN FILL THEM "ABC" APAR TMt:NT filLNS are successfully employed. Note the experience of the Hale & Kilburn Manufacturing Company of Philadelphia. "You recently installed for us a seven compartment 'Moist Air' kiln which has proven very satisfactory Our re-quirements are unusually exactinf", manufacturing, as we do, furniture and interior bank and office fittings, and interior woodwork of the highest class, and our lumber must be thoroughly dried in such condition as to be sus-ceptible to the highest finish. These conditions have been very well met by your kilns. "Your service has been prompt and satisfactory, and we heartily recommend you and your kiln to anyone whose requirements are similar to our own." In some instances it is necessary to have comparatively small quantities of a number of different kinds of lumher, in varying degrees of dryne15s. In such cases the AMERICAN BLOWER COMPANY NEW YORK, CHICACO, ATLANTA, LONDON Oran~Dapi~sDlow Pipe an~Dust Arrester (ompan~ THE latest device for handlillg" shav-illgs alld dust from all wood wood-working machines. Our eighteen years experience in this class of work has brought it nearer perfection than any other system Oil the market today. It is no experimentj but a demonstrated scientific fact, as we have severa1 hundred of these systems in use, and not a poor one among them. Our Automatic Furnace Feed System, as shown in this cut, is the most perfect working device of anything in its lille. Write for our prices for equipments. WE MAKE PLANS AND DO ALL DET AIL WORK WITHOUT EX-PENSE TO OUR CUSTOMERS EXHAUST FANS AND PRESSURE BLOWERS ALWAYS IN STOCK Office and Factory; 208-210 Canal Street GR.AND R.APIDS, MICH. Citizens Phone 1282 Bell, M ..ID 1804 OUR AUTOMATIC FURNaCE FEED SYSTEM 18 ~M.JFHIG7fN Portable Saw. An inter-csting /lovelty of recent make is a portable wood ~:lW driven by a turbine and operated by compressed air. Air is admitted through a throttle and passes through a .con-duit cast ih the frame on the back of the machine to a gover-nor valve which is mounted on the hub of the turbine. It is operated by centrifugal weights, whi,ell move a collar laterally against spring resistance and operate the valve. Three ports discharge air against the buckets, of Wl1ich there are 35. A pillion on the turbine shaft drives the saw through a train of gears, 'which reduces the speed from 8,000 revolutions per minute at the turbine to 5,000 revolutions per minute at tJl(~ saw; or, by shifting an intermediate gear, the saw can be operated at the full speed of the turbine for light work. An adjustable grooved hearing pcrmits raising or lowering the saw shaft so as to allow of the use of smaller or targer saws, this vertical adjustment being accomplished by a set screw. The machine sets on a base resembling a hand plane. The bottom of this base is polished, so that the machIne is easily moved along the work. ,A brake at the side of the turbine is so arranged that when the air is shut off it is automatically released. One of the largest t1ses for this tool is trimming roofs of freight cars in car shops and for ripping wood gcner-ally. It is adapted to lumber up to 10 inches or in some cases 2 inches thick. The air turbine is also used for operat-ing an emery wheel, the wheel being placed on the shaft in-stead of the saw for surface grinding. Steam Separator. In a newly-designed steam separator the idea of throwing the moisture out of steam by imparting a rotary motion to the column of steam is adopted, and the designer of the separator has now accomplished the feat of separating the steam and water in such a. way that tbe water can not be taken up again by tbe steam, and that there shall be no noticeable loss of pressure between the in-let and outlet of the separator. The helical worm in the throat is, integral with the main shell casting, so that, aside from the gage glass fittings, the separator consists of a single piece of neat design and absolute simplicity, with no internal parts to get loose and rattle or become inoperative. The moisture after being thrown to the outside by the contrigual force of the revolving column, gathers in the pocket and is trapped off, while the clean and dry steam passes down the eentral riser, in a direct line with its original direction of flo,v~ with no restriction of its passage or sudden change in motion which would require energy which could be sup-plied only by a fall of pressure. It is built in sizes adapted to pipe of from one to 12 inches in diameter. Burlap Market Awaits Jute Forecast. There has been an active demand for lightweight burlaps and heavy orders for the same have been placed. The heavy-weight end has been decidedly quiet, however, and practically 110 new business of any sort c'an be repo:-ted. Calcutta eight-ounce goods are firmly held at 4.85 cents, and ten and one-half-ounce at 6.25 cents, All interest in both the jute and burlap markets is center-ed in the coming jute crop. Should the new crop amount to 9,000,000 bales, as many predict it will, buyers of both jute and bUrlap' will, it is helieved, wait for a break in priee:s be-fore doing any purchasing. On the other hand, should the forecast indicate a yield of less, or even the same size as last year, namely, 8,5CO,OOO bales, prices will, it is stated. un-doubtedly be forced up sharply. In the meantime the mar-kets are decidedly quiet on hu-laps. while jute in Dundee is slightly easier, being quoted for prompt shipment at £27 per ton, and new jute at £22 5 shill"n·;s for October delivery. Buyers are determined to await the issuance of the jute fore-cast before purchasing or placing any new contracts. Im-porters in this market are not worry'ng over a lack of de-mand, as they have very little to offer for spot or nearby fut-ure delivery. Metal Beds Favorites in Many Lands. 1Ietal beds are in use in many foreign countries besides Europe,-South Africa and South America, Turkey, Egypt .and others. Those of American w<lke find a ready salcinfor-eign countries although they are more· expensive than those of English make. English manufacturers failed to succeed in forming a combination, as those who refused to enter sold orders at their own prices. An idea of the quantity of iron beds imported from England may he gained when it is stated that Egypt receives from 20,000 to 25,000 pieces, Asiat;c Tu~key from 50,000 to 60,000 pieces yearly, It is said that at present there is a wide latitude for rivalry between the product of Great Britain and the United States. Lowers Furniture Rates. The Missouri railway and warehouse commlSSI011 has issued amendment No.4 to the maximum freight rate sche-dule under which carload rates on agricullural implements, furniture and wagons are reduced to 177';3 cents. The former rate was 220 cents. The westen] llnes concerned in this re-duction which applies across the state say that the order was issued without a hearing, and as it would affect the rates on either side of the state from Iowa to Colorado, a meeting of the western trunk liries' freight committee will be called to consider the snbject. I F' YOU H AV ENE V E R T R I E 000 UR RUBBING AND POLISHING VARNISHES DETFlOIT r ...CTI)RY C ...NADI ...N .....CTORY YOU HAVE YET TO LEARN THE F'ULL POSSIBILITIES OF' THIS CLASS OF' GOODS WHY NOT PUT IT TO THE TEST BY GIVING US A TRIAL ORDER? BERRY BROTHERS, LIMITED, VARNISH MANUFACTURERS NEW YO"K eO.ToN "H'''.PEL''HIA BALTIMORE CHICAQO .T. LOUI. CINCINNATI SAN ,.RANCISCO FAQTQRY AND MAIN OFFICE, D.TItOIT CANADIANFACTa.,. WALKERVILLE. ONT 19 IOtis Mfg. Co. New Orleans. Chicago. nAUOOAnT Chicago Office and Dislrib· Importers and Manufacturers of Dling Yards: 2251 to 2261lUMBER ST. R. S. HUDDLESTON MANAGER Washing Machine. A Hew washing mac.hine of the ruhher or ball.-bearing type, claimed to possess many advantages over other ma-chines similiar in construction, has just been introduced. It has a doubte ball-bearing at both the top and bottom, in-stead of a single ball-bearing such as is used in other ma-chines of this type of manufacture. The advantage of tbis is understood when it is considered that any hearing to worK in perfect alignment must have two points of contact. It is claimed that this makes the machine keep a perfect align-ment, revolve easily and \vo~-k to better advantage. By us-ing a corrugated tub, thc operator not only rubs the clotlles 011 top and bottom! but also on the sides. The tub is manu-factured out of Louisiana red cypress, which is less suscep-tible to expansion and contraction because of hot an cold water th.an any other lumber known, The frame is made of the best material, and well braced by four iron braces run-ning diagonally across the frame, while the wringer board is a special invention, being a continuation of ttlC f:'ame and fitted with a slidillg drip board, so that the wtnger call be kept attached to the machine at every washing, Hand Saw Filer. A new type of hand saw lilc:-, suitable for us¢ on a bench O~-pedcst31 is adapted lor automaticl1y filing any ordinary small hand saw. The vise which cnrries the saw is c1am)cd together by spring pressure suAicient to hold the saw fimly, yet allowing it to slip th,ough as each tooth is fikd, At eac;] re~'ollition of the tile shaft, the li1c is ;'t1t:_)\l1a~ically with-drawn from cngag;ement with a tooth, dropped back, anrl ju--t as the smooth portion of its ci;'cul11fercl1ce reaches the ~W"I:, it pushes the sa\v atong for the next tooth, this movement being regulated to the si:<:eof the saw tooth, by a thumb-screw. The file is ccntrolled by Celms to cut only a certa;n depth each time, and this feature insu<-es ,;ccur;:lte and even teeth. The s,nv carrier can be S\VUllg so as to gc~ any r!c!-iired angle of hook and ally bevel up t-o 30 degree,. The saw ,'" "':cr sl:des e;~s:l'y on a long In'·. i , GLOBE VISE AND TRUCK CO. Office 321 South Divi8ion St., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Manufacturers of HIGH GRADE Wood Workers Vises AND Factory Trucks Simplicity in construc-tion enables us to lItive qnalilY am~ durability, aud meet all competi. tion. Wrile/or Prices, I No. 21. RoUer Bea'il\'i!s. SlI.me style Tt"llcks No. '2,4,without Ron~rRearings Shellac. Calct\tta was cabletl stronger and London linn at the ad-vance Hoted recently. The New York market is moderate-ly active under a continued good demand and the tendency 01 spot pr-ices is up·ward. Orange Shellac- Ordinary 1'. 1\', ... ,., Bright orange grades. Diamond I. V. S. 0, D. C A. C. Garnet lac.. Button lac ... , Bleached shellac. wet, Klin-dried " '" .47@48 . _ ' .. 49@S4 .......... 55@56 ......• 55@56 ...... 60@ .. ......... ,46@47 ..... , .... 36@50 .. 47@48 ................ 59@60 Flexible Auger. ,'\n auger wllieh is guaranteed to ~o cleaning in the most obscure places and work itself into almost any conceivable position is made of a flexible steel spring that glides easily and without injury through the oddest-shaped pipes. It is simple in construction and easily and effectively operated. This device is especially useful for cleaning drain pipes, etc, It will also clean and remove obstructions from all kinds of pipes leadillg from sinks, wash bowls, bath tubs, etc. For sCVI;er pipes, boiler flues, dc., there is supplied an auger \vorking on teels and carrying any length <Iud size of con wire desired, with necessary parts for use in diffe:-ent pipes. Valuable ";Nalnut Logs. \Valnut logs to the value of $17,5(0 were recently loaded on cars at Fayette, Ark., for export to l-bmburg, Germany, where they will be converted into furn:ture. The represen-tative of the fo:-eign firm has been in Howard county for a couple. of years looking after this export bulslness. The fine old forests of walnut are gradually disappearing in that sec-tion. One tree recentl"y cut brought $150 to its owner. Silex Wood rmer: Fumed Oak Oil Stain (Origi.nal produ'Ctiol1 in oil) No morEl fuming, No more sandina. This stain can be sbeUaced over in tbiny minutes after It is applied, Every piece of furniture on whicb it is used can be tiilished and. ship-ped the same day. We are the originators oiWeath~ ered, Early. En",sh, A~twerp and other mission oil stains. Samvlegfurnighed on application. Grand Rapids Wood Finishing Company GAANr:! RAPIDS, MICH. B. WALTER & CO. ~VNADU~~ M,nufa"um. of TABLE SLIDES Exclusively WRITE FOR PRICES AND DISCOUNT .'-_._-_. ... r- 20 5aw and K"'ofe FOlitnt"g Mhaoe lnery and T00,S TLihne' BMigagnesutfaoanlud"dB. est Baldwin, Tuthill ®. Bolton Grand Rapids. Mlob. Filers. Setters. Sharpeners. Grinders. SW80e&. Stretchers. Brazing and Filing ClamJ)s, Knife Balances. Hammering Tools. 801l0n Band Saw Filer for Saws ~ inch up. New 200 page Catalogue for 1906 Free. B. T. & 8. Strle D. KnifeGrinder. Full Automatic. Wet or dry INSIST ON HAVING MorrisWoo~3 Sons' Soli~ Steel alue Joint (utlers (or there are no otheror U ju.rt a.r good." They, cut a clean perfect joint always. Never bum owing to the GRADUAL CLEARANCE (made this way only by us), require little grinding, saving time and cutters. No time wasted setting up and cost no more than other makes. Try a pair and be convinced. Catalogue No. 10and prices on application. MOR.R.IS WOOD ®. SONS Thirty_two Yf:ars at 31_33 8'. Canal Street. CHICAGO.ILL. Cyclone Blow Pipe Co. Improved Cyclone Dust Collectots. Automatic Fumace Feeders. Steel Plate Exhaust Fam, Exhaust and Blow Piping . Cmoan..u..f.a..c.tur"e"d"."" iostadllaedoi"a"n"d-llUacaateed. Old ~ remodeled on modem lille!l on most economical plaDll. SIJI?~enlary 8y 8 t em 8 added where prerent ~8~ tems are outgrown. De~ fective 8y s t e m 8 corrected and put ill. proper workin:g ...w. 70 W.•Jackson Street, CHICAGO, • ILL. NEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA, Via GRAND TRUNK-LEHIGH VALLEY ROUTE. Two Fast Trains Daily Except Sunday. Daily. Leave Gd Rapids 2:45 p. m. 7:05 p. m. Ar Philadelpbia " " 3:40 p. m. 7:25 p. m. Ar New york 4:30 p. m. 8:40 p. m. Service unsurpassed. For further information apply at City Office, Morton House Block. C. A. JUSTIN, C. P. & T. A. The Furniture Agency ------------------OFFICES--_--------------- Bo.ton New York J aDleetown High Point Cluclnnatl Detroit Grand R.8jlIlds Chtc~o 5t. Louis Minneapolis Associate Offices and Sonded Attorfteys 1ftall Principal cities REPORTING FURNITURE. UNDERTAKERS,. CARPET HARDWARE AND KINDRED TRADES. COLLEC-TIONS MADE BY AN UN'RIVALLED SYSTEM THROUGH OUR COLLECTION DEPARTMENT ., .. WE PllODUCE RESULTS WhERE OTHERS FAIL WftlTH FOR, PARTICULARS AND YOU WILL SEND us Y aU.R BU 5 IN E 55; Our Complatnt and A4JuetmeDt DeplIrlmeDt Red Draf,. Collect Lo Jo STEVENSON. Micblg ..n M..nager .7IR T I .5'JI.l"l $ 2M;;;;; $ r f* 21 WEATHERED OAK OIL STAIN Fast Color. Correct Shade. Most Penetrating Stain Made. WILL NOT WIPE UP WITH WAX OR SHELLAC. AO-EL-ITE FINISHING WAX Dries Harder Than Ordinary Wax. For Use on Weathered or Mission Finishes. SEND FOR SAMPLE PANELS AND PRICES. Ask for our "STANDARD STAINS BOOKLET," real wood panels showing twenty-one Fillers and Stains. The finest booklet ever supplied. ~ CHICAGO. Dept. 5. 'The Ad-el-ite People. L Richey, Halsted & Quick, CINCINNATI. OHIO OAK----Plain and Qgartered. POPLAR-Soft and Yellow. Cool Comfortable Inexpensive Goo d Service Chicago and Grand Rapids FARE $2 ONE WAY • l $3.75 ROUND TRIP Leave Chica,e;o 7:45 p. m. Leave Gmnd Rapids 7:55 p. m. daily. Reserve berths at docks, foot of Michigan Ave. or City Ticket Office 101 Adams St., Chicago; 91 Monroe St., orB1 L)·on St., Grand Rapids. PALMER'S Patent Gluing. Clamps Are the most successful Piling Clamps Ma.de For the following reasons The\' clamp instantly any width of dimension stocki no adjustit:lg damps to fit the work, they hook at Qm:e to the oesired wlQth. Released instantly-throw out the lever and take them off. The work elll be removed as fast as it can be handled. As the clamp' is placed over the work and locks into the oile below It the dmw is alike on both sides, prevents all springing no matter how wide the stock may he. Impossible for them to slip; the wedge has serrated edge and cannot he moved when clamp is closed, hammer all you like, Unlimited power; great strenIrth and dumbilitYj malleable iron and steel; the knllckle joints are socket joints, not rivets. Although the best they cost you Jess. For further information ask for catalogue NO.4. A. E. Palmer. Owosso, Mich. F, 22 7IRTI.s'fU'l a z,.. Finest In the world. Birch and Poplar Cross banding ==-::=== ..A•LWAYS IN STOCK =======~~~~ WAL TERCLARK 535 Michigan Trust Building Citizens Phone 5933 GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN Factory Notes. The Parker-Little "Furniture company of Raleigh, N. c., has been organized with $25,OCOcapital to manufacture and deal in furniture, carpets and oth;::r hou:;ehold goods. The incorporators are: A. C. BtLke, v'l/. F. Snuggs, G. M. Lipe, J. M. Burris, M. F. Litt1c:; v..'. A. Boger, P. O. Skidmore, and T. S. Parker, all of Albemarle. The KendallviJle, Ind., Furniture cOlnpany will mm'c to Peru in the same state, where a new th:'ce story btlliding 48:x 148 feet has been erected. A fire in the Golden Furtliture company's plant .. James-town, N. Y., resulted in $40,000 damage. The loss is fully insured and the company will resume business. The :\a-tional Furniture company also suffered some damage. The factory of the Brunswick-Blake-Callender com-o Ily is to be moved from Chicago to :Mtukegon, :I\Tici.l. ;..~ soon as the buildings are reoldy. August 1 is the time set for completion, but the work will not be done for some time after that according to present indications. The Crescent Manufacturing comp'.ny, Louisville, Ky .. has been incorporated with $100,GOO c<:pital to make office, school and store furniture. The incorporators are E. r~. :VIcClain, A. E. Shaner, E, E. Crone, Frank Baldwin an 1 John A. Miller. The IvIartin Brothers factory in Jamestown. )oJ. Y., W;\S almost totally destroyed by fire, recently, with $12.0CO loss, incuiance $10,000. The vVait-Fuller Furniture company, Portsmouth, 0 .. have increased their capital to $75,CCO. The American Seating company has been incorporated in Chicago with a capital of $53,000. The French Mirror & Beveling company of Chicago will move to Allegan, Mich., whe:-e a site, has been fu~nished by the city and the company agrccs to payout $35,000 annually in wages and to cmploy f:'om 50 to 100 men. Enoch Ohnstral1d will engagc in the manufacture of metal furniture in Jamestown, N. Y. He has becn super-intelident of the Art Metal Construct:oll company for the past six years. A metallic furniture factory is to be located in Falcone:·, N. Y. Lodge furniture wilt be manufactured by the Hender-son- Ames company, Kalamazoo, Mich. The Columbus (Ga.), School Desk company has becn or-ganized to manufacture school desks, opera house seats. church pews and other furniture. The Keystone Upholstering House is a new firm to en-gage in the manufacture of pad'or fumitu-e in Philadelphia, The Badger Invalid Bed company of Green Bay, V\.ris., will engage in the manufacture of patented beds for in-valids. Capital is $30,000. The Luce Furniture company of Grand Rapids have com~ rnellced the erection of a $5,000 warehouse. The new plant of the Chippewa Falls (Wis.) Furniture company is busily employed on ordc:-s. A night force is required. A fire in the Trade Table company, insid~ the Jackson, (l\.lich.,) prison resulted in a loss of $4,500. Onc hundred and twenty-five convicts were employed in the factory. Thc plants of the Atlanta Spring Bed company and the Atlanta Iron & Brass Bcd company W2:C dcstto)'ed hy d DESIGNED BY F. VAN DOMELEN. 24 GOODRICH ST. Studellt in Grand Rapids School of Furniture Deflen. lire June 22. The loss is estimated to be $60,000, fully in-sured. Jo11n Posthumus the supe.intendent of the Estey Manu-facturing company, Owosso, died recently as the result of a railroad accident. l-T e was well known)n Grand Rapids and to the fllrnjture trade. The l\ilarvel Furniture Co.,. ]aniestmvn, N. Y., was re-cently incorporated. Capital. $60,000. -~ ·:f'~MI9pIG7J-N The Demopolis Coffin & Cabinet company of ).'lont-gomery, Ala" have e0l1,n1enced business with $10,000 capital. The incorporaco1"s arc: \Villiam E . .:\Jichael, Jr., T. C. Bailey, A. M. Sledge and lsaJ()~-e Bley. The BaHller Furniture company of Kew York having a capital of $20,000 have incorporated. The incorporators arc Paul B. Roseneraub:, No. 21 Allen Street, Jamestown, N. Y.; August S. Soderstram, /\ndrew Norlander, Cha,ks Johnson, Jamestowll, 1\. Y. A large factory is about to be erected near Pittsburg for th(~ manufacture of beds, mattrc.~s and bed springs. Twelve hundred men will be cmp:oycd. The name of the firm is the Hickson-Pittsburg company. The plant will be one of the largest in this country. The Fall Creek 1fal1ufaeturing company of 1Iooresville, Ind., have organized with $15,000 capital to manufactu:e furniture. The directors are vViliiam /\. Votlcanon, Fred L. Dutton and Charles G. Morris. The plant of the Ordway ':'VlallufactlFing compall:y Bristol, Tenn., is closed, awaiting its sale by the OW1H;rs. The Southern Upllolstery comVany h.~s been mganizcd Atlanta, Ga., with a paid in capital of $5,000. The sixty employees of the New Orleans Furniture com-pany have been locked out by the general. manager J. \\'. \~lright 011 aCc()llllt of their joining the union. In the mean-time the plant is closed. Mr. \Nright refuses to take the men back and states tl1at he paid more than union wages. The l1lallUi'actUr(·.of carpet s\veepers is a new indust.'y to be established in Racine, \Vis., by the Dodd Carpet Sweeper company of Chicago provided that the company has a clear title to the article manufactured. If 50 a factory will be operated to employ one hundre.d men. The c.apitai invested is $300,000. A. ll. Dodd of Chicago is the inven-tor of the sweeper. The: organization of the Brunswick-Balke-Collcnder COIll-pany in Grand Rapids has been completed and is a separate , organization. Capital is $50,000. Th~ plant of the Grand Rapids Table company 'will be occupied for factory llse. The officers of the IVlichigan company are n. E. Bensinger, presi-dent; Julius Blake, vice president and Frank J. Lyons, mana-ger of the branch, seeFetary, treasurer and manager. The Buckeye Parlor Furniture company having an au-thorized capital $10,000 will manufacture upholstered £1.wn1- lure in Toledo. Davis & Halbert, Seattle, Vv'asb'J manufacture upholstered furniture. A. J. Charleston succeeds Davis & Charkston in Seatt:e, \Vash., in 'the manufac.ture of upholstered furniture. The Dearborn Desk company organized by Chicago men will be located in Marion, Ind. Capitalization is given as $50,OCO. The ~\lichaels Bedstead factory will be. used and desks and other modern office furniture manufactured. The incorporators are Alexander A. Samuel, Charles S. Ferry and Jon P.Ho\ton, who are also the directors. The Klein Specialty ::\fanufactnring company of Hen-derson, Ky., will manufacture kitchen cabinets and othc;' specialties. The company has a capital stock of $35,000 and ,vill construct a plant modern in all respects. The l\Iohawk Desk company succeeds the I-Torfocks-11etz-ler company with \Villiam Horrocks president. The othn officers arc: Vice president, Edwin Jones; treasurer. Harvey Fc1dmier; secretary, Fred C. Burney. The Crippeu & Railey company has been organized tn manufacture furniture in New York with $10,000 capital. The incorporators are :\Tarvin D. Crippen, L. T. Baliey and Charles L. Bartoll of Rochester, N. Y. The factory of the Hagerstown Lounge company was recently struck by lightning and badly damaged. Insurance covers the loss. Valuable antique fl1rnitu;-e in the building was also badly damaged. 23 The Globc-\Vernicke company has declared a regular qua rtcr\y dividend of 10 of per cent on its preferred stock, payable July 15 to holders of record June 30. The Scott Chair company successors to George \-Valter Scott has been incorporated in Newark, 0., with a capital stock of $251000, to manufacture chairs, rockers and other furniture. A retail business will also be conducted. The plant will be enlarged and new machinery added. The Kearns Upholstering company of High Point, N. c., has he en organized with $25,000 capital to manufacture all kinds of upholstered goods. The Ne"v Orleans Metal Bed company Ltd., have incor-porated with $75,000 .capital. A new factory will be con~ strudel.! containing 90,000 feet of floor space. The com-pany bongbt the business of Magee, Dow & c.ompany. 1lr. DO\v will be manager of the new company. 1Ianufactllrers of furniture in Canada met in Toronto re-cently to effect an organization. Circular Saw Vise. One of the main features of the 11e\iI,o"ecsitrcular saw vise IS that it is adjustable to almost every conceivahle position. This is possible because of its swing on a pivotal! the way of a circle and on what might be termed an axis to any point of three-quarters of a circle. These cliffe.ent positions make saw iiling very casy, because they make the vise adaptable to tll(' fancy of eve:'y liler a~ well :J.S suitable for every style of saw or cutter. The vise is all iron, Wi.t'-1 the rnost metal Ivhcre most needed to make it strong and l"lljatrable, thus p -eventing all possibilities of vib:'aLons while being operated. point where other casters refuse to turn is 75he POint with The Faultless Pivot Bearing Caster The FAULTLESS received Ihe Highest Award at the World's Fair, 1904, over all other casters. Itissupplied wit h Fauldess Pat e 11 t Steel Spriug Sockets. 'rhe Faultle .. has no weak spots-n 0 mechanical .flaws·~it's Fault~ less in name-in action-and as a seller :-: .. If you are after a money maker, write to 75he Faultless Caster Mfg. Nebraska City. Neb. They only manufacture the The Faultless is interchangeable; will fit six differ-ent sizes of 11"o!~ bed sockets. :.: Co•• 2+ ·~MI9rIG7!-N : 7IR. T I...s'..7I.2'l 2 $ $: e" BOYNTON &. CO. Mfrs.of 'Embosltd and Turned Mouldings, Porch Work, Wood Orllls. and Auto. matlc Turnings We also manufac-ture a large Hne of EMBOSSED ORNA· MENTS for couch work. Send lor illustrations. SEND FOR CATALOGUE Removed to 419-421 W. flneeltlh St., C"IC4GO, ILL. If your DESIGNS arc right, peoplt want the Good •• That mak.. PRICES right, CIlarence 'JR. bills DOES IT 163 Madison Avenue-Citizens Phone 1983. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. MANUFACTURERS OF DROP CARVING AND GENERAl EMBOSSING MACI1INES Dies for all kinds of Machines. At lowest prices. 7 Second St" LAFAYETTE, IND, Wood Forming Cutters We offer exceptional value in Reversible and One- Way Cutters for Single and Double Spindle Shapers. Largest lists with lowest prices. Great-est variety to select from Book free. Address SAMUEL J. SHIMER & SONS MILTON, PENNSYLVANIA,. U. S. A. FaIding Bed Fixtures Profitable fixtures to use are those which give the least trouble. They are made by Folding Bed Williams in many styles and designs, suitable for every folding bed manufactured. Furniture Cast-ings, Panel Holders, Corner Irons, etc. New id.eas and inventions constantly being added to the hne. F. B, WILLIAMS 3812 VlneeDneB Ave•• Chlcaio. Manufacturer of Hardware Specialties for the Furniture Trade. Established 1878 Step~ensonnr~.(0. South Beud, Ind. W ood Turnings, Turned Moulding, Dowels and Dowel Pins. Catalogue to Manufac-turers on Application. Fine Service MICHIGAN CENTRAL Grand Rapids .a Detroit .a Toledo THROUGH CAR LINE Solid train service with Broiler Parlor cars and Cafe coaches funning on rapid schedule. Through sleeping car to New York on the "Wolverine," making the run in nineteen hours and fifty minutes. For full particulars see Michigan Central Agents. Or E· w. Covert. C. P. A. Gf'BDd R.apld •• o. w. Ruggle •• G. P. A. Cblcaso. L 25 HAND CIRCULAR RIP SAW, MORTISKR COMBINBD MACHINE. No.3 WOOD LATHE. ~:;~"::. HAND AND FOOT POWER MACHINERY WHY THEY PAY THE CABINET MAKER: H~ eaR save a mauufadu1"er's profit as well as a dealer's pront. He can make more money with less capital invested. He can hold a better and more satisfactory trade with his cllstomers. He can manufacture in as good style and finish, and at as loW cost, as the factories. The local cabinet maker bas been forced into only a dealer's trade and profit, becau$e 01:ma\:hinl:= m:muiaclured goods of factoties. An 3Utftt of Barnes' Patent Foot llnd Hand-Power Machinery, rein- !Itate!! the cabinet maker with advantages equal to his competitors. If desired, these machine,; will be sold ON TRIAL. The purchaser can have ample time to test them in his own shop and on the work be wishes them to do. DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUEANDPRICK LIST FRRK. W. F. &. JOHN BARNES CO., 654 Ruby SI., Rockford, III. NO.4 SAW (ready tor ripping) No.7 SCROLL SAW. No.4 SAW (readY for cross·cutting) WHITE PRINTING CO. No.2 Sell.OLL SAW FORMER OR MOULDER. HAND TBNONKR. Printers for the Furniture Trade. Grand Rapids, Mich. Do~~s' Patent TaMe=le~Dovdailer We Dnd upon investigation that our Dovetailing Ma-chine patent covers t his machine nicely. Cuts Morlise in the Top Cuts Mortise in the Cleats Cuts Tenons to fit the Top Culs Tenons to .fit the Cleats Adjustab\e to keep Mor-tise and Tenon at a Standard size The Cheapest Joint Made Will turn rnl\ 2S0 \1) 300 Small Parlor T aWes in 10 HoufS The Dodds Tiltin.r:: Saw Table has more practical features and good points than anyotber saw table on the market. MANUFACTURRD AND FOR SALE BY ALEXANDER DODDS Grand Rapids, Michigan, U. S. A. 26 Band Rip Saw. A new pattern of band rip saw is constructed throughout with heavy cored column and is able to resist all vibration. The wheels are 42 inches .in diameter, entirety of iron and .steel, the upper ligbt~nd strong, the lower heavy with solid web. The straining device is fitted to,the upper wheel and has a for ..v.ard, backward and side adjustment. The blade is kept uniformly taut at all times and the lightest blades can be run at the highest speed with entire safety. The saw guides have sectional hardwood bracks arranged to take up the sligl1test wear. The feed is very pO'NeduL Speeds of 30, 60 and 125 feet per minute are furnished regularly, but faster feeds are furnished when desired. The feed rolls are adjustable up and down instantly or they may be raised from the board instantly stopping the feed, or lifted entirely 011t of the way for use as a hand feed rip saw. All the ad~ justments are accomplished by a single movement of the tong lever. A Pretty W,edding. The ma:-riage of Edward Jackahoice «lid :\1iss Helcn Hake took place in Grand Rapids at St. Mary':; churcl{ recent-ly. The wedding 'was a beautiful one and a large c'ompany attended the weddin~ breakfast. rVIr. and 1lrs. Jackaboice left on the afternoon train for New York, where taey sailed June 16 for Naples and they wilt spend three months tour-ing Italy, Switzerland, Germany and Fracc·e. 1lr. Jacka-boice is'very popular and is president of the \\/cst Side CrOll \""'lorks. Summer Furniture is Very Attractive .. One of the most striking sets of S~lmmer furniture seen this season i~ of bent wood highly polished and colored a shade de('ver than forest green. The backs and seats of the sofas and chai. s arc cushioned with a bealltifullincll taffeta ill a large design of green lattice and shaded' purple blos-som.". Green wicker furniture upholste: ed-if the fresh chintzy cushion can have so stuffy a llame~with green ,:nd yellow c:-etollne, is. among the ~leanest looking of ..\.'a.m we<lther ftunishings. 1Iiss Jane Addams takes especial p'ride in showing Hull House visitors the old dining room f.urnitlce which was presellt at the discussion in which the settlement W<lSo:-ig-i-nally started. There is a Difference·· LeI us tell you. .Ask for Catalogue No 135. When you buy Eccenlrlc Clamps specify COLT'S BATAVIA CLAMP COMPANY 45 Center St•• BATAVIA. N. Y. '- . The Importance of Well Kept Factory Grounds. The beautifying of factory 'grounds ordinarily unsightly with· piles of lumber, and various odds and ends is getting to be a matter deserving of more attention. - Nor.only does it put ·the workmen in good fettle, but it becomes a matter of comment, and favorable mention of that sort cannot hurt and may help business. The factory wl~ich gives attention to general appearances isyery apt to be con-sidered one which also gives attention to well made goods. Some factories encourage noon sports among the work-mcn, furnishing a ball field, if suchbeavailabre_ It certain-ty helps along the good will between men and their employers. The G_'and Rapids Chair company are well advanced in this respect, a large area in front of the factory being well kept in grass and flower beds. Bk:ycle sheds arc provided for those who ride, and there is a general air among th.e men of being looked after. The factory of Innis,Pea~'ce and company of Rushville, Ind., is a good inst.ance of fine taste and artistic appearance. In front of the factory is a well kept lawn sloping down to a small banked pond. The area . s provided with shade trees, rustic seats and summer houses. The factory, which is a fine looking one, presents a striking appearance in connection with these tasty su,rou'ndings. As arnIe, city factori~s, from lack of space" have little opportunity to do much In this line, but there are numer-ous establishments around the smaller towns whose general surroundings could be improved, and it will not be lost labor hy any means. Supply mell, t:-avelers, and occ<lsionalbuy-ers note it, and <lny mcntion of a factory ill that connection is a help. Antique Furniture Fac~ories Busy; The oak furniture factories in Yorkshire'and Belgium are now working overtime turning out treasures for Ameri-can miilionaires. Of these, the most popular tilii seasoil is the chair in which King Charles 1. sat during his trial by Parliament. Three thousand of these chair-shave been made <lnd sold already. A native rndian ruler owns a musical bed. The weight of the body sets the works in motion, and its plays half an hour, while life-sized figures of G:-ecian maidens at its head and foot finger string-ed instruments. Fans are waved by a concealed motor, which keeps them gOillg the whole night long. Buyers of Furniture DO YOU WANT IT? WE HAVE PUBLISHED THE LIST FOR JUNE. 1906. WRITE US. MICHIGAN ARTISAN co. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 27 LIGNINE CARVINGS Unbreakable Perfect reproduction of hand carvings. Full depth of grain. Will not chip, crack uor shrink. Stronger than wood. Are applied the same as wood carvings by nailing aud glueing; no heating or steaming. Finished with filler or stain. Will help sell your goods. Samples furnished prove all we claim for LIGNINE. Send today for samples. You can well afford to use carvings at LIGNINE prices. Write for prices, catalogue showing designs of heads, scrolls, claws, etc. ORNAMENTAL PRODUCTS CO., Fort and Twelth St,., DETROIT, MICH. auxiliary, serving only to keep the jaws together when the wrench is used with the jaw side up. Under ordinary COll-ditions the weight of the jaws tends to keep them closed. There are no sllding parts and no loose, shackly joints. All the joints are pivot bearings, and the strain at these points is a shear strain on the rivets. There are no nuts or screws to adjust, so that no time is lost in changing from one size of pipe to another. All that is necessary to attach it is to b:-ing the outer jaw against the pipe and apply pressure. Automatic Wrench. The evolutions of the monkey wrench has of latc years been a subject of no little interest to mechanics and ma-chinists of all kinds. It is evident t\lat the day of the clumsy old implement which first bore this name is passed, and that in the future the machinist is to have a much more efficient assistant in the wrench line than ever before. The invento s who have specialized on wrenches seem to have taken the human hand as the model for their experiments, and they have at last produced ;L tool which in its operation and ac-compllshm(', nts is about as human as anything made of steel can be. In outline the new wrench is not at all unlike the hand, the article to be grasped heing held securely by two jaws, one of which fairly well represents the thumb, and the other the partly closed fingers. The fore-arm is represented by the handle, and a couple of inconspicuous joints and a spring imitates almost perfectly the human ,,,,-rist. In this new wrench thclc are th~·ce separate levers, compounded, and so arranged that the pO'wer applied to the handle is tran-smitted through the jaws in a tangential direction to the pipe. Hencc the power is applied in a wringing manne' similiar to that exerted by the hand. The spring is merely Glue Warmer. An article particularly of service to furniture makcrs and wood workers in general is a new style of glue warmer, ar-ranged to be connected to steam and over-flow pipes at the benches of the workmen. Tt is supplied with an extended apron to rC;lch over the edge of the bench, thus enabling thc worker to keep his be.nch c1ean and free from glue, wlth a glue faucet to enable the user to withdraw all of the glue at any time, thus keeping the warmer in a cle~n condition. It is furnished with lids when so ordered, that will enable the user to keep his glue in first class condition indcfinit,ely. 28 ~M.1frIG.7fN These saws are made from No. 1 Steel and we war- . "rant every" blade. We also tatty a full sto<:k of BeveJed Back Scroll Saw's', any length and gauge. Write us for Prloe Lht atlld dl_oount 31-33 S. FRONT ST., GRAND RAPIDS 10uis babn DESIGNS AND DETAILS OF FURNITURE 154 Livingston St. . .. ' GRAND RAPIDS, MICHiGA~.'~~7:'~C:~ '..;:.,,- Citizens' Telephone li02. Jlnrnown PAnrl AnDvrnrtK conPAnl ,(Incorporated) M"DUf~cturei'8' i:)f VeneC;;red Panels and Table Tops La.rd.at Stock or Veii6er'8' MAHOGANY, QUARTERED OAK. WALMUT~ 61R.D·S.EYItMAPLE. CURLY BIRCH,.P'LAINOAK PLAIN IUR.CH, MAPLE, CROSS 'BANDING The Best Workmanship and Finish Office, 50..58 Steele Street. Jamestown, N...Y.. Two Large Factories: Jamestown, N. V. Ashville. N. V. Get OUf Prices Before Buying Elsewhere. Samples on Application THE WEATHERLY INDIVIDUAL GLUE HEATER Send your address and receive descriptive cir-cular of Glue Heaters, Glue Cookers and Hot Boxes with prices. WEATHERLY CO. GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. L COLT'S UNIVERSAL CLAMP Catalog, and Price List Furnished Batavia Clamp Co. Meritkm: MiChigan Artisa~. gs:cds all hand screw clamps in adaptation to work, i::onVenlence of bandlifig and quick action. Especially adapted to Veneer.nll: rlinellfti" ltnd all wOrk req'Uiring long-broad jaw, 45 Cenler 51. BATAVIA, N. Y. '~.. Cabinet "ard\liare and Tools £tc .. lJpholstered Goods l-laDdsomett .Pull on Ihe Mar~ fix'lhe Money Write for prices and Sample JOHN DUER &. SOlS BALTIMORE. MD. Correspondence Solicited IMPROVED, EASY and ELEVATORS QUICK RAISlNG Belt, Electric and Hand Power. The Best Hand Power for Furniture Stores send tor Catalogue and Priees. KIMBAll BROS. CO., 1061 Nl.th St.. Council Bluffs. la. Kimball Elevator Co .• 3t3 Prospect St., Cleveland,O.; l0811th St., Omaha, Neb.; ]2(1 Cedar St., New York City. WHITE PRINTING CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH WE PR11',1T THE: MI'CHIOAN ARTIS"-H. ""'NO MAK~ A ""PECIAL.T ... ·OF" CATAI.OOUES FOR THE rVRNITI,JRE TRAO&. "FLOWERY BEDS OF EASE" MODIFIED MISSION 29 , _._~~---'-~-~-' 30 Safety Gates for Elevators. Before placing orders for freight elevator safety gates anti (ire doors, there are a 11tllnber of impo:tant points to consider in addition to the probable cost, Among these essential features are: Reliability of the equipment, ease of opera-tion, simplicity and durability. The. Richmond Safety Gate company of Richmond, Ind., <.Ireengaged exclusively in the manufacture of these special appliances and desire to remind those interested that fifteen yea~s' experience and a thorough knowledge of the b.usiness are at - their dispo:'>aL The elevator safety gates and fire doors mal111factu~ed by this company are so 'Well and fa,":o"ab- 1y known that many architects specify Richmond appliances exclusively. The products of this company are a standard for excellence and mechanical perfection. Among the best kJlOwn devic.es are the Zeller and Columbia safety gates .. the Underw. iters' gravity fire door, the Richmond horizontal t--oHey door, and Richmond counter balanced iron door. In addit'on to. the above they also manufacture standard tin cl;~d fire doo~s and shutters with fixtures complete and arc prepared to fnrnish estimates on any class of equipment desire'd. Anyone contemplating the purchase of safety gates and fire doors arc invited to correspond with this firm and a,e assured of courteous t--eatment and prompt service. Mistakes in the Application of Wax Fb.ish. Of the many errors which occur in wood finishing t' c most frequent to come under the observation of the Adams & Elting Co., is in the application of wax finishes. The)' find that a great many finishers heat the specially prepa ed waxes and apply them with a brush. This, of course, leave,s an excess of wax on the surface, which will have a cloudy. grayish appearance after the work is finished. Another error frequently made by finishers is in the use of :soft waxes, such as bees wax, paraffine, etc. \\raxes of this kind do not dry ha--d consequently will not take a high polish and stand the wea;· and tear as do the specially prepared waxes. To obtain the best results with wax finishes, a good, specially prepa,ed wax should be used, applying it very thin ;md evenly with <l soft cloth. This should dry at least twenty or twenty-five min-ntes and then be rubbed briskly until a velvety-like 'lustre is produced, Tbe best results arc assured when the Adams & Elting company's Ad-el-ite wax finish is used. AfHicted With a Poor Memory. A salesman of mill wright snpplies is afflicted with a poor memory. Many times he is at an utter loss to remember names and faces."I \-vas going by a trolley from Saginaw to Bay City .. when a young. well dressed IUan came and sat down beside me and asked questions about the co ·reet ropes to use and so on. I sat there and suffered, trying to remember where I had seen 11imand when. Finally he made a remark about the superintendent of the factory, r had visited that day and then r knew who he was, Many times I meet well dressed men in the hotels after working hours whom I can't remember at first but finally discover them to be factory men I have done business with that day but whose changed ap-pearance from factory clothes to other and better ones made them unrecognizable. I have, though, a list of seven hundcrd people whom I know well enough to caH by name and I ought to know fifteen hundred others, who are also my cust0I11ers." McAllister & Mohler of Columbus, Ohio, are remodelling the entire rear of their store. It is already one of the fin-est furnitu~e stores in America, presenting a beautiful ap-pearance on entering, and the alterations -will make it equally so througllOut, L Modem Resaw for Furniture· Factories. The makers of this machinc claim th<lt by mounting the upper wheel directly upon a JleiH'Y up:-ight column, vibration is practically eliminated and the speed is inceascd nearly two·fol<l..6ver most other styles of resaws. This method of construction in connection with the patent straining device for the top wheel, insures the steadiest pos-sible rUllning as the bhlde is kept uniformly taut all thc time and entirely protected hom sudden strains and vibrations, The feed rolls open to receive any materiall1p to eight inches thick and twenty-four inches wide. They are self-centering and have a special device for reducing thick lumber into picture backing, panels, etc., the outside :ol1s being moved to and from the saw. A quadrant divided to eighths -of an inch gauges the space most accu~ately. Three speeds pffced are regularly furnished, fifteen, thirty and fifty feet peti1)in-ute, but for certain work a faster feed is permitted. The rolls may be tilted twelve degrees for 'sawing at an angle. This machine is built by the J. A. Fay & Egan company, 505-525vVest Front street, Cincinnati, Ohio, to whom an re-quests for circulars should be sent. They will gladly fur-nish complete details of this or any other modern machine on request. Cock Chest.: A useful novelty for campers and others consists of a frame box of wood or metal, a g(anite vessel or pot of standard size and a secret non-conductive filling agency_ The ehest is mani.lfactured in different sizes and with one or mor~ compartments. Food is brought t~ a strong boil in the kettle over a gas or coal range and the kettle tIlen trans- '{erred to -the chest, where it is closed with an airtight cov-er and left until ready to serve, during which time the heat is maintained and the cooking continues, Experiments are cited of food brought to a boiling point over an open fire in the evening, placed in the cook chest and served hot the fol-lowing noon. The chest fills an important place in a camp-ing or outing outfit. Claim is made that food cooked in'the chest retains its whole strength, taste and nourishment and that a saving in the fuel bill of 75 per cent, as well as great economy of time in watching and stirring food,is effected. ESTABLISHED 1880 PU.Il ..ISIolECieY MICHIGAN ARTISAN CO. ON THE IOTIol AND 2!1TIol OF EACH MONTH OFFICE -2-20 LYON ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ENTEIlEO AS MATTEI! OF THE SECO"D CLASS \\-hell goods rnovc slowly manufacture s are prone to at-tribute the cause to overproduction. When the price of cot-ton ill the south or corn in the west is low, the growc:-s of those staples resort to the use of lire for the purpos('. of re-moving the surplus. \Vhen the out)ut of diamonds in South Africa is ut1usually large, the diamond trust closes down one or more of the mines and locks up thc surplus stock in their vaults in London. It has never occurred to the manufactur-ers of fnrnitui'e that a way might be found for disposing of their surplus stocks without cutting prices. By co-operation, the markets abroad might be opened to receive tb. S111"- P;llS or it might he stored t11ltil such time 2S it is nccJ-eel. If either of these plans, the COnS\Y11\113t\On of WhlCll might be affcct~d through organizafon, shall not be dcemed practical. the remcdy ,:dopted hy the pi2110 makers when the.:.: found the markets glutted with old instruments and new pnes of small value, remains tor conside: atioll. T. o~1sallds of instruments were assembled and the toreh applied. The crackling of the burning pine and mahogany cleared the mar-kets of a great deal of rubbish. Secoud hand furniture might be gathered and disposed of by th:;:: same means. The cost of the old stuff might be added to the price for the new, ",,,hich the people, perforcc by nece:.;sity, would buy. The:·c are other ways for doing things than the ways that arc fol-lowed, aud the foregoing is offend for t e purpose of in-ducing the trade to endeavor to frce ibelf Lom the old ways and to take up v,rays that are better. r I I .I\lr. Albert Stickley of the Stickley Brothers company, Grand Rapids, who studies the markets diligently, observed recently that demands for better tbings ill house furnishings which are supplied from year to year ,He created because of the education the pcople havc acquired in recent years in art and utility. wftle Americans are the most prosperons people all earth," 1\.'lr. Stickley ramarkcd, "and they arc making good use of their mOllCY. They travel everywhere, and nothing of practical value escapes their attention. In. the commercial :tlld a: t centers of the old world they filHl better things in the line of household furnishings and personal ndorn111cnt than they have bccn able to obtain at home, and upon their return to America, their minds elLic·hed by study and the exper iences afforded during their ahsence, they dem:md of the mer· chants goods more :n kcc"ing w;th th(',\r cnltH'"e and n1eall~ for obtaining the same. The merchant is ever conservative. He always holds the middle ground in thc p:-ocession. The keen witted Inanufacturer, knowing what the people will want, is ahvays husily at Vv'ork improving his line, knowing full well that the people will compel the merchant to buy the new and better things." In view of these fads, it is evi-dent that the prosperity that cnables thousands to go abroad for the improvement of their minds. is widely diffused. R. J. Ferris, of the Royal Furniture company, while con-ducting a cLlstome-:s throug·h the company's exhib:t. engaged in a discll-~si()n of the uses of mirrors upon sid'--,hoa:-ds "Sheraton alld the old English cabinet makers, constructed thei - sideboa:-Js without mirrors," he remarked. Thc glasses -wen::: added long- after the old master cabinet makers had passeL! alvay. \Ve furnish thes~ pieces with or without mir-rr, rs, and I-ind tb;\t more of the latter are demanded than the forl11er." The visitor studied the line carefully and C0111- p,\re~l the pieces su:·mounted by the high backs containing mirror plates with those with backs rising but a few inches above the tops of the case. "To my mind,' he remarked, "lIle cases without mirrors are preferable. All that is gained by the addition of the mirrors is height, and that is not de-si able in a line like this." The educated and refined people wi\\ approve the t3ste of that dealer. To make the grcatest success in his line of work and busi-ness, the entrxprising manufaetur~r sl~otl1d at all times try tu keep in touch with every influence that will tend to help him in that work. Too much trade knowledge can hardly be acquired. \Vhen one has arrived at t~eknow·it-all stage it is about time to put up the ~hutters. Try to get a place ill the front rank and stay there. Don't be an "also ran." Remember, there's always plenty of room at the top for the hustrer. Tht: solution of the mid-summer opening question seems tl) have settled down to an understanding that the manufac~ tmers -who desire to sell the heavy buye,s from the east must ll<IVC their goods re<:ldy to show in the exposition buildings ea:·ly. Those who do not care to deal with the buyers from. that section will open on July 1. It is quite evident that the buyers representing the I'-big" merchants of the great cities of the east have fixed the early openings of the mid-summer selling se,lsons in HIe west~ 11 markets, and that thLy are not disposed to concede any part of lhc vantage g;·ound in respect to the openings. The Colorado supreme court, by a unan~tnous opinion, has upheld the constitutionalty of the employers' liability act, passed by the Legislature in 1901. It mah~s an employer liable ror the death of all employe by an accidcnt, even jf it is caused by the negligence of a co-employe. I '·fJi;perity in all brallches of indust-y is assured fOT the remainder of the year. Everything that goes for making the people happy and contented is provided by the munificence of 1\Jother Earth. and there is rejoicing thro1tshottt the hmd. The higher prices asked for furniture did not unfavorably affect the buying. ulated the markets. and kindred goods The advance stim- Experiment on Sulphur Process to Fill Pores of Wood. The faculty of wood to withstand atmospheric pressure is so small, compared with its mechanical resistance, that a close study of new systems aiming at its preservation is of great interest industrially. All wood preservative methods now employed are defec-tive, in that they make use of solutions, the evaporative na-ture of which makes their action upon the wood effectual only ror a certain time. The new method in question, goes furth-er and utilizes a fixed bcidy ,vhich becomes solid upon being llbtilled into the pores of the wood. This substance is sul-phur. the physical properties of which offer interesting ad-vantages, being fusible at about 115 degrees, a temperature which the wood c.an support without any perceptible change. The sulphur is applied in liquid form, and in hardening com-pletely fills up all the interstices of the fibrous tissue. Although sulphur oxidates easily if subjected to a high temperature at a medium temperature it remains impassive. resisting· not only the influence of water but also that of acitb, concentrated nr diluted, and alkaline solutious, if eo~~ ~ /~/ -- ·§'~MI9«HIG7J-N "Rotary Style,. for Drop earn.111l1.Emboaecl MouldiDIlI. Pane1t, Etc, EMBOSSING and OROP C4RVlNG M4CniNES Maehines for all pUl'»OSe8, audlal prieetl withia tkreach of all. Every Machine w our guarantee !l~aiD6tbteakas:e for one year. "Lateral Style" for Lafi;e Capacity Heavy Caninlll and Deep Emboainlf$. We have the Machine you want at ill satiJactory price. Write for descriptive cireu1an. Also make diea for all makes of Madrinee. UNION EMBOSSING MACHINE CO" Indianapolis, Ind. Factory Locations There is in the various offices of the Land and Industrial Department of the Southem Railway and Mobile & Ohio Railroad late information regarding a number of first class locationsfof Furniture) Chair and other Woodworking Fac-tories, which will be furnished Manufacturers upon applica-tion. An invitation is: ~xtended to all who use wood in their plants to w.rite about the timber supply, good sites and mar-kets available in our territory. Address your nearest agent. M. Y. RICHARDS. Land and Industrial Allent. WASHINGTON. D. C. CHAS. S. CHASE. Agent. M. A. HAYS. AGent, 622 Chemical Building. St. Louis. Mo. 228 Dearborn St., ChicaaG. III FOX~lSJ\.W SMOOTHEST GR.OOVES DADO UEADS QREATEST RANGE QUICKEST ADJUSTMENT FAST~ST CUT Also MachiD.e KniveJ'. Mlter Machines, Etc. LEAST POWER LEAST TROUBLE LONQEST L1FE PERFECT SAFETY We'll gladly teU .,ou all about It. PHRMANENT ECONOMY FOX MACHlNf:. CO. 185 N. Fl'Ont Street. Gl'aDd R.aplds, Mlch Richmond Safety Gate Co. RICHMOND, INDIANA C1I Manufacturers Exclusively of Automatic Elevator Gates, Automatic Hatch-way Doors, Underwriters' Gravity Fire Doors, Rieh-m0 n d Counterbalanced Ir 0 n Doors, Richmond Horizontal Trolley Doon, Automatic Division Wall Doors and Shutters. WRITE FOR CATALOGUE QUARTER-SAWED INDIANA WI1ITE OAK VENEERS CHOICE FIGURE :: EXTRA WIDTHS When writing for prices, mention widths required. and kind of figure preferred, HOFFMAN BROTUERS co. Fort Wayne Indian ... , There's a Great Day ==Coming== f, for manufacturers who may desire to extend their business. NINETEEN THOUSAND DEALERS will receive the Special Mercantile Edition of the Micnigan Artisan. IT WILL BE READY FOR THE MAILS SOON . .._----- -----------_ .._------ ----- WRITE FOR RATES AND SPACE AT ONCE. MICHIGAN ARTISAN COMPANY GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. F .L rt:~·,rI 34 American Furniture Wanted in Mauritius Island. L'nitcd States Consul Theoc1os:us Botkin writes from Port Louis on the island of :\huritius asking for descripti\'<..' catalogtleS and price lists of household, school and office fur-niture. A New York liml ~old the only American goods on the island, but it was t1.imsy stuff and .Me Botkin says that "Cwadian IUl"nitun' will donbt!ess be purchased in fut-ure ill preference to American unless a better quality d goods is forthcoming. The ::\ew York jobber recommends the purchase of the Canadian product and they also demand. ill addition to their- commission iroll1 the lll<llltlfactt1l"er, a eom-mission lof 2y; per cent from the purchaser. [t is under-stood, of course, that t1h' jobber is not in business for his IYcalth; hut when he is paid a commission to sell goods for the manufacturer, or makes his llrot-lt on the goods sold, I would respectfully suggest that his exaction of a like com-mission from the purchaser is carrying that 'business' too far. And when he informs his foreign customer that in- Lerest at six per cent will be charg-ed Oil the amount of the purchase for the pcriod elapsing between the date of ship-ment and the arrival of the remittance in Nw York, an utter disregard is given for foreign trade. "o'\l1oth('-1"question that strongly concerns these local deal- ...r.s relates to the time and manner of payment. In conver-sation with one of them he said that he objected to being-cempellcd to send a draft v",ith ally order he might give, bUL preferred thirty and sixty days after· the tlfi"ival of the goods and could furnish good banking assurance that drafts tlpon him would be h01lOred. It seems that the banks here sdl no American exchange and all tnlllsactiolls would have to he cH;·ied tllrough Londnl1, unless our Amcrican bankers W:RITE EITHER OFFICE. Branc:.h: Memphis, Tenn. Main Office: Cincinnati.Oa VIlesell on Katiollal Hardwood Lumber Association inspection onl~'. Bennett &. Witte MANUFACTURERS OF LUMBE.R For Furniture Mfrs.. Car Bunder. and Carriage Trade. Plain and l Wh't d R d 0 u J Plain.nd Qllartered I I e an e 8I'i.! Quartered RED and SAP GUM Poplar. Cottonwood. Ash. Elm and Chestnut. A Full Line of Southern Hardwoods. Export and Domestic. will place thernselves in touch \vlth the ballks here. \vhich are safe and strong anu have London backing. "Tf AmericlIIs arc to build up and hold a trade in this island our flimsy wares mll:.;t be kept at home and only ser-viceable goods sent here. In this cOl1lwction I again urge the establishment of an American supply stclre here, for its presence ,yould effectiyely remedy Sl1C~ evils as the above." Cotton Mills in Japan. Consul Shart) 11111lter.\vriting from Kobe, says that raw cottOll forms the largest single item of import into Japan, its manufHcture being- also the most important industry. He continnes: "Japan having seen th~\t Great Britain, though not a cot-ton producing country, spins and weaves that staple for about fifty per cent of the people of the world, and having seen that many of the conditions in the two countries are parall'e{ no doubt wishes to profit by the example of her prosperous .:.:l.1ly. Thus cotton mills have been eseahlished thmughout l 7I:R- 'T' I oJ' AL"'J 1 7 e *ri this C0111ltry.more p;l\-ticularly in the I'_oile district, anQ ,in these American and other cottons are transformed by cheap labor illto fabrics which not only go toward supplying the home demand, but in certain lines a: e also largely exported. ;'The quality of the cotton imported is mostly middling ;llId infe-rior. of which the greater part comes from British BUILT UP STOCK Advertiser will contract to furnish anythin g in this line; also will contract cabinet work. Address "Y," 1019 W• .27lh SI., INDIANAPOLIS, IND. India, America, and China, in the order nam(~d, while Egypt supplies the relatively small amount I cqui.-ecl for tht~ higher grade yarns. Yarn for home cOnStllllption is composed al-most entirely of American cotton. but ili tb,;t for export it is mixed with others to the extent of from ten to twenty per cent. "Formerly the 111:lchinc~lIsed~hcl11d aud foot power gins -\Ve:l~ imported from China, but now the Japanese are re producing them of better quality and at a much lower figure. and nllt only supply their own market, hut are also exporting them largely to Chill a and other Asiatic countries. The foot gin is 011e foot two inches wiue and sells for $11.95; the hand gin is three v./itk and sells for $23.90. "The Dutch C011S111 at Kohl', seeing that over fifty per cent of the cotton imported here comes Lorn British India, while :\etherlands India. p.-oducing the same grade. contribute's ouly <:1 small quantity of unginned, has had the machines mentioned photographed, copies of which he has sent to his cotnifrymen in the Dutch colonies with the view of indu'cing the people to adopt their u::>!:b.',elieving that thereby Nether-lands India can very largely illcrease her exports of raw cot-tnn to the J apallese markets." He Did Not Succeed Because- He tried to do everything himself. He did not know ho"" to advertise. a He did not keep up with th(~ times. He tried to save by hiring cheap help. His work could not be depended upon. ~e looked upon system as useless red t<lpe. He strangled his progress by cheeseparing economy. He did not 'have the ability to multiply himself in others. He did not think it worth while to look after little things. He never lenrned that it is tbe liberal policy that wins in business building. His first success made him overconfident. and he -got a "swelled head." D. A. KEPPERLING Commercial Photographer Phone CaluDJet 709. 1414-1416 Wabash Ave•• CHICAGO SATISFACTION GUARANTEED . 1 M I CHI G 7Ii"J" *"If t\ 7I.R..T 1.5' JI.l"J +k4 j $ ,..,M THE CREDIT BUREAU OF THE FURNITURE TRADE Grand Rapids Office, 412-413 Houseman Bldg. GEO. E. GRAVES, Manager CLAPPERTON &: OWEN, Counsel The LYON Furniture Agency THE STANDARD R£.ffiRENCE. BOOK CAPITAL. CREDIT AND PAY RATINGS CLE.ARING HOUSE OF TRADE EXPERIENCE THE MOST RELIABLE. CREDIT REPORTS ROBERT P. LYON, .General Manager CREDITS and COLLECTIONS COLLECTIONS MADE EVERYWHERE PROMPTLY RELIABLY Miscellaneous Advertisements, WANTJ1:II-P(1joJitlou By {,)\'eman of cabind and machine rooms. ~ightccn ~'ears expel"ien(':~(In. mediunl anct fine bedroom and dining room furniture jn Grand Rapills. ,'u1(11''''''$ ":0;," ean' of Miclli- -gan Artisan. 7-ll:l-H ~~------_.._----.-----~._---- n'ANTEH---FIlr('\l'll
Date Created:
1906-07-10T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:
Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
Collection:
26:25

194. Michigan Artisan; 1906-12-10

Notes:
Issue of a furniture trade magazine published in Grand Rapids, Mich. It was published twice monthly, beginning in 1880. and ( Twenty_seyenth Year-No. 11 DECEMBER 10. 1906 Semi-Monthl,. SANDED AND POLISHED TO A HIGH FINISH BY UNIVERSAL SAND BELT MACHINE G H R I E G A H T P ,~,' S 0 P L '.~ E I ; E S )~ 0 H , ,1 ·4,l Ail for Ask/,r ~ Catalogue Ctlt(J/~gtie uE" "E" ·1 WYSONG &. MILES COMPANY, pg A GREENSBORO, N. C. Voluntary Letter of Praise J. E. DAVIS MANUFACTURING CO. PIANO CASES, BACKS, BRIDGES. Md STOOLS. Cortland. New York. Oct. 24th, 1906. Gillette Roller Bearing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Dear Sirs:__Replying to yours of October 17th. your trucks are certainly O. K. One man can move a load of 3000 pounds while with the other truck.s it takes three men. We give trucks very hard usage and the other makes are continually breaking. As fll$t as they break. we propose not 10 repair them. but 'plIt them in the junk heap anti replace them with your make. Meantime, the trucks we have recendy received from an-o\. hel concern are for sale at half what they cost us. You may enter our order for six dozen to come at the rate of a dozen. a month. Thi~ will take care of the breakage and in lime we will have Ihem all replaced. Before this order is filled we will probably give you another one as we have no doubt as we use your trucks more, we will decide that we cannot a60rd to keep the old ones, and wi!! find this way 100 slow a process of replacing the ones we have. Very huly yours, j. E. DAVIS MANUFACTURING CO.• [);ctaled J. E. D. J. E, Davis, Pres. ' Truck Frames Steel or Wood---your choice. WHEELER'S - ...- PATENT WOOD FILLER Forms a permanent foundation. Brings out the full life-and beauty of ,tM wood. GOb furtber ami saves labOT and material, hence ch.eaper that! other fillers. Tile Bridoel'ort Wood Finisbing Co•• Np- MilfOrd. Conn.; 66 Fulton St .. New York; 70 W, Lake St. ChleauQ; 41-43 SOut\\. 3rd St•• Phlla. delphia: 48 Cornliill, Boston. . - '" r--------~--- ---- lI r II' Three Vital Principles Underlie the Manufacture of ======== Andrews' Polishing Varnishes CHICAGO WORKS AMERICAN WORKS NEW YORK-BUFFALO-CHICAGO BUFFALO WORKS FOREIGN WORKS LONDON-PARIS-HAMBURG NEW YORK WORKS SECOND: They are the result of an experi-ence of over half a century in the manu-facture of fine Varnishes. THIRD: They are thoroughly aged and test-ed before being placed on the market, • therehy guaranteeing to the ner absolute uniformity and constancy of quality. FIRST: They are produced from the best raw materials obtainable. Andrews' Polishing Varnishes should not be confused with the ordinary Polishing Varnishes on the market. They are made on different principles and produce results not obtainable by auy other line. They please the finisher because they work and rub easily and do not sweat. They please the manu-facturer because they harden up quickly so that work can be put through with dispatch, and at the same time they are proof against water and will positively not check or crack. In addition, they produce a beautiful, full, polish which holds. These results could not be obtain· ed were it not for our peculiar system of manufacture througb which all our Var· nishes are purified, thus overcoming all tendency to cloud or bloom. ff vou are not at present usin/('Andrews' PolishingVarnishesdrop us a line at any of our factories and we wil11i.aveOl1e of our representatives call and see you. ==- Pratt 8 Lambert VARNISH MAKERS New York London Buffalo Paris - Chicago Hamburg --- ----------------- 1 SPARTAN LIQUID EARLY SURFACER ENGLISH OAK SPARTAN S;'rAIN No. 380 The most talked of and most sought after Dark Oak Finish on the market. A PRACTICAL AND PERFECT STAIN THIS Surfacer is made with a perfectly transparent pigment. It will not cloud any finish. It flows out and works as easy as a polishing varnish, and lays so close and smooth to the wood that it requires very little sanding. It is being more and more appreciated as A PERFECT FOUNDATION FOR ALL KINDS OF WORK Write us for Ten One-Gallon Ideal Buckets at the Barrel Price. The Marietta Paint & Color Co., MARIETTA, OHIO Yel'wer rreS~!il, flll Itlnds llnd sizeN, Veneer Presses Glue Spreaders Glue Heaters Trucks, Etc" Etc. These Specialties are used all Over the World H:mf1 Feed Glueiug l\oIacbine (Pllt. pending.) Eight styles and sizes. Wood-Working Machinery - .:..-------- and Supplies P~we1' :l'eed Glue Spreading Machine, (Patent applied fu}".) Single, Double and Combination. LET US KNOW YOUR WAN'I'S 419-421 E. Eighth Sf. CHAS. E. fRANCIS &. BRO..8 CINCINNATI. O. Do You Want Something Original? Ko. 6 Glue Hea,ter. The Originality of our work is one of its chief characteristics. WE BUILD HIGH GRADE CATALOGS COMPLETE ENGRAVING PRINTING BINDING White Printing Co. 2 to 20 Lyon Street GRANDRAPIDS. MICH. r---- - - 2 .. l - .- - -- ~~ ~- ----------------- 2 7th Year-No. I I. BOOKS ON FURNITURE. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., DECEMBER 10, 1906. =-==-====:=.:= A Rare Illustrated Volume Recently ,Added to the Grand Rapids Public Library. Vhth a view of pleasing their constituents by furnishing valuable information for designers, manufacturers, and others interested, the library authorities of Grand Rapids, 11kh" for the past fev\' years, have been buying books on furniture, the clty's most extensive and most important industry. They have succeeded in obtaining a large number of books written by authorities on the various de_partments and pro~esses in the furniture indtl.stry~ hut most of them are in foreign lan-guages and devoted to technical affairs, maklng them of little use to any except students and experts, Recently, how~ ever, a volume has been added that will be of interest not only to designers but to all connected with the furniture in-dustry and to many others. The book referred to is in the reference department of the library. It's cata~c.gue number JS i~;-1-9. i.\Lli It's title is "Specimens of Antique Furniture and \Voodwork'.' It was written and illustrated by Arthur 1Iarsllall, an Engli"h arch-itect, copyrighted in 1888 and published by \V_ H. Allen & Co,. London, wtth printing. and photo-lithographing by R. T. I Mountcney, of Nottingham, England. It is dedicated to Her Royal Highness Princess Loui"e, Marchioness of Lornc, to whom the author ackJlOwledges his obligations. for favor!'. and encouragement. Thc purpose of the book as stated by the author ,vas to "bring out and illustrate .authentic specimens of antique carved furniture aml woodwork, dating from the fifteenth to the eighteellth centuries, at present in the possession of pri-vate collectors and from such other sources as are accessible only to the few." The book was published only for subscribers of whom there were 69, one. of them taking 5 copies, two taking two and 66 taking one copy each, only 75 copies being prlnted. Last spring Olle copy W:-iS listed in Bumpus' cat.alogue of second hand books by Stevens & BrovvI1 of London and was immediately ordered for the Grand Rapids library, at a cost of £3 l5s-abol1t $18.75. It W.lS received in time to be in-cluded in the November additions to the catalogue and is believed to he the only copy in an America!l library. The' book does not contain any great amount of. reading matter. The ellgravings, with notes or short explanations fot'"m the great feature of the volume. The pages are 14 x 20 inches in size and fifty of tht',l11 are. devoted to pictures of furniture, etc., the specimens being from 100 to 350 years old. The illustrations, include bedsteads, eabil1ets, chair:", chests, desks, doors, mausoleum screens, "overmalltets," pillars, pulpits, "settles," tables, etc., some of them with de-tailed drawings of parts_ There is also a front view of the "Feathers Inn," LOl1don and a picture of a fireplace in Stoke-say Castle, Sbrops11ire. The best or, at least, most interesting specimcnts of cabi-nets are from Shrewsbury, Ludlow, Oswestry and Stoke-say castte in Shropshire, and from Korth Nottingham, York- $1.00 per Year. shire. A church cabinet, or credence, is a magnificent speci-men of French carving in the fourteenth century .. 1'105t of the chairs represented were found in Derbyshire, one page showing six old chairs from Stafford Castle. One of the most elaborate, and perhaps the most interest-ing, plates shows a bedstead that was found in an old farm house near Skipton, Yorkshire. It is one of the richest specimens of seventeenth century canring now in existence. It has an oaken canopy, panelled nnderneath, supported by the llead-board and two fluted and carved pillars at the foot corners. The latter stand Oll square flat bases, each suppor-ted by four smaH, short, sp1ral or twisted pillars. There are two arched panets in the head-board, separated by an exquis-itely carved rail which forms the door of a little secret cup-board. The bases of the foot-pillars and panels in the foot-board are elaborately carved and numerous secret shelves or slits for hiding money, jewelry, etc., are found in the side rails and other parts of the strllcture. This book will certainly be of illterest to all admirers of carvcd furniture. However it is not the only "carving book" in the Grand Rapids library. Another almost as interesting as Mr. Marshal1\:, volume is entitled "Examples of carv~d Oak andvVoodwork Found in the Houses and Furniture of the Sixteenth and Sev('.nteenth Centuries!' It was written and il1ustr;Jted hy \Villiam Bliss Sanders and publls.hed by THE CORRECT Stains and fillers. THE MOST SATISFACTORY first Coaters Varnishes r------------- -- -- - - - '--- 4 Carvings have been tried and have made good. UNBRfAKABLE is rightly used when applied to LIGNiNf'. Stronger than wood, no waste in your factory. Perfect Reproduction of wood. Write for catalogue and prices. ORN4MENT4l PRODUCTS CO., fort """ Twelfth St •. , DfTROIT, Mien. THE CLASSIFIED WHITE DIRECTORY of the Manufacturers of Furnituret Pianos, Organs, Bedding. Interior Finishes and kindred Trades. Price $5. WHITE PRINTING CO., Grand Rapid., Mic:h.. Bernard Quartich, 15 Picadilly, London. Catalogue number, R. 749-sa 5. Two other books that may be of value to furniture work-ers, have been added to the circulating department of the Grand Rapids library recently. One is entitled "Style in Furniture," by R. D. Benn. It was published in 1904 and CQ\'ers the period from James I to the present time. Cata-logue 1lumber 749.21. The other is "Polishes and Stains for V./oodwork; How to Prepare and Use Them,". by David Denning, 1905. Cata- .logue number 698.11. Table Prices Ten Per Cent Higher. Forty or- fifty furi1iture manufacturers, most of them table makers, met inform'ally in Grand Rapids, Mich., on December -3 to discuss c\1rrent conditions. The meeting was held at the suggestion of fOUf prominent Grand Rapids manufactur-ers. It was not called officially nor at the suggestion or re-quest- of the Grand Rapids Furniture Manufacturers' Associa-tion, but most of the factories in that city were represented, less than a dozen from other towns bClng present. The visiting members were guests of the Grand Rapids men at luncllcon served at the Morton and in the evening all enjoyed an elaborate dinner at the Hotel Pantlind. After a general exchange of views and social discussion it was de-cined unanimously that the table makers should take action "imi\ar to that takcn by the manufacturers of case goods, the brass bed makers, the spring bed manufacturers and the glass men at their meeting in Chicago recently and agree on an advance of ten per cent in prices, to take effect on January L It was generally conceded that te.n per cent is not enough to cover recent advances in materials, and some wanted to make it twelve and one-half or fifteen per cent, but as the case goods men had fixed their figures at ten per cent it was thought best not to t1)ake a greater raise at present, though it may be necessary to do so before spring or even before the dose of the January selling season. Theory vs. Practice. There was a clash between theory and practice at the re-cent meeting of the Case Goods Manufacturers' Association in Chicago. The modern theory of figuring costs, as ap-proved by experts, was illustrated by applyying it to a dresser that manufacturers lmve been selling for $12. The experts proved beyond a doubt that the cost of the article was more than $12 and that those who had made and sold it at that fig-ure had been doing business at a loss In discussing the matter most of the speakers endorsed t' theory, but an old Gerinan, who had been in the busitl""s for years, and whose chief output consisted of the $12-dre~ser, expressed doubt as to the correctness of the conclusions reached by the experts: "I don't know about that," he said. "I have made those dressers for a good many years. I sold them Just Out of Press, Ready for Delivery. Unbreakable for $12-sometimes for less-and I didn't notice that I was losing money. I didn't have much at first, but now I have my factory, my machinery, my stock, my hame, some bills corning to me and some money in the bank. Now, if I have been losing money all these years. how did I get all my prop-erty? I think somebody must have made a mistake. May be their rules are wrong." The German's remarks are said to have closed the dis~ cussion of the subject. A Rapid Fire Screw Driver. A machine for applying screws at the rate of fifty a min-ute, if necessary, has recently been placed on the market and consists of a hopper connected by a vertical flexible shaft and tube to the driving mechanjsm below. The withdrawal of the bit from each screw as it is driven causes a new screw to drop out of a magazine and fall in line with the bit and also allows a screw to fall from the hopper into the magazine. The use of the intermed~ate magazine was found necessary, as WAXED PAPE.RS For FURNITU~E Prevents varnish from printing. Keeps out moisture. Will not scratch the highest finish. Excellent for wrapping mouldings and green varnished goods. Rolls or sheets. WRITE FOR SAMPLES AND PRJCES, H. P. Smith Paper Company; Sacramento .rIId ClU'ToJlAveatlue_. CHICAGO. the operation of the machine is 50 rapid that too much time would be wasted in waiting for it to drop from the hopper. The screws are caused to revolve at the rate of 1,200 re-volutions a minute by means of a friction drive so adjusted that the screw stops after it llas been driven the required distance. Office Furniture Prices Advanced. Prices on office furniture were materially advanced last spring after the San Francisco disaster, but not enough to cover the advances in the cost of materials, labor:, etc., in the past six months. The manufacturers of office furniture in Grand Rapids, Mich., and vicinity have therefore decided to follow the lead of the case goods men, table makers, chair .manufacturers, etc., and will add ten per cent to present prices on January 1, 1907. ~r;..I9.rIG7}N , News, Notes and Comments. The Spartanburg (South Carolina) mattress works were burned out on Kovember 23. Nuemechek Bros. of Kearney, Nebraska, has sold tllier furniture business to Arthur Robertson. Andreas Martin, for fifty three ycat'S a furniture dealer in DeJial1ce, Ohio, died on Nov. 27, aged 83 years. Fire on Novemher 29 damaged the furniture store and stock of C. N. Tufts, Herrington, Kansas, to the extent of $500 or $600. George L. Lamb, formerly of Goshen, is completing the third addition which he has made to his novelty furniture factory at Nappanee, Ind. The O'Connor-Alten Furniture Company of Columbus, Ohio, has dropped the latter part of its name. It is now the O'Connor Furniture Company. Charles L. Jackson, for thirty years a furniture dealer in Reading, Penn., is scUing out his stock, fixtures, horses and wagons and will retire from business. J. Glaser & Son, furniture dealers of Clinton, Iowa, have sold out to James Buchner and Walter Lane, who are to take possession of stock and store on January L Pratt &" Lambert, varnish makers of New York, Buffalo and Chicago, will hold their annual salesmen' conventiorl at their Buffalo works December 18 ,19 and 20. The Will E. 3.1atber's House Furnishing Company of St. Paul, Minn., suffered a loss of $13,000 by fire all the second and third floors of their store on November 21. The Columbus (Georgia) School Desk Company is erect~ ing a two-story factory building, SO x 150 feet, in which they will install a sprinkler system and the best of machinery. The Huron Manufacturing Company, recently organized at Port Huron, Mich., has built a hctory and is working a force of twelve men on spring beds, etc., at North Port Huron. E. H. 1\.foore of the firm of Pettijohn & I\,foore, furniture dealers, Gallatin, Mo., has sold his interest to Corey Petti-john, a brother of his partner. The firm is new Pettijohn . Bros. The T. VI/. Jones Furniture and Transit Comp<lny of Chicago suffered heavy loss hy the burni11g of their ware-house, 428 Twenty-ninth street on Nov. 27, but were ,veIl in-sured. Will E. Dale, furniture dealer of "\Vashington Court House" Ohio, has added another floor to his store building, making it seven stories which is considered a sky-scraper for that town. 'The Moore-Miller Furniture Company of Louisville, Ky., which began business at Seventeenth and w1a1n streets about a year ago, has just opened an up-town store at 916-18 West 'Market street. One l1Ltndred merchants of. Toledo, Ohio, have been ar-rested charged with violating the child labor law ot that state. Among their number are several heads of department and furniture stores. Oliver Rothert furniture dealer of Atoona, Penn., who was burned Ollt recently, will build a six story block alld resume business on the old site, corner of Twelfth street and Twelfth avenue. Richard Hollzelan who bongllt the furniture stock of Cook & Crain of Lexington, Ind., has vacated the store and moved the stock to some point ill Missouri, where he will open a new store. George A. Findlater, formerly with the Akron Varnish Company, is now with the Blackburn-Nolan Varnish COt11- pany of Cincinnati, Ohio. His office is at 295 Pleasant street, Grand Rapids, Mich - -- ---------------------- - 5 The plant of Berman & Garfinkle, Allentown, Fa., has been sold at sheriff's sale to the Allentown National bank for $2,400. The plant was formerly known as the F. A. Ruhe Furniture VVorks. George D. Gardner has purchased t'he stock of the Focht. man Furniture Company of Petoskey, :~lIlich.,and will continue the business independent of his other store in Petoskey and a branch at Boyne City, Michigan. The Columbus (Georgia) Furniture & Fixtures Com-pany, recently incorporated, has elected the following officers: Prescident, John F. Weathers; vice president, Louis Sim-mons; secretary and treasurer, L. L. Noble. Creditors have :filed a petition in the United States court asking that the BOler Furniture Company of Toledo, Ohio, be declared bankrupt. It is claimed the company committed an act of bankruptcy by securing preferred creditors. Fire starting on the fourth floor of the Day Furniture and Carpet Company's building, in the business center of Peoria, Ill., on November 28, caused damage to the extent of $120,000. The Day Company's stock was destroyed com~ pletely, with the loss fully insured. £. Eo Gatewood, president of the Gallipolis (Ohio) Fur-niture Company, has been missing for a month or more. The affairs of the company, which are not in a satisfactory shape, have been placcrl in the h;lnd~ of Hollis C. J ohoston for in-vestigation and report. The liabilities are estimated at $180,- ueo. Creditors and stockholders have made an agreement to keep the- factory running. Mr. Cramer Will Recover. "Benny" Cramer, the well known varnish salesman, under- ~vent a dangerous surgical operation in a New York hospital and for two weeks the result was exceedingly doubtful. Mr. Cramer has many friends in the furniture business who will be pletsed to learn that he is now assured of recovery. Cabinet Hardware --AND-- Factory Supplies New Enlliand Flint Paper. Barton Garnet Paper. Douhle Faced Flint and Gamet Finishing Paper. Brass Butts. Wroullht Steel Butt •. Cahinet Lock. and Key•. Gold Plated and Gilt Cah-inet Keys. Bench Vise•. Bolts, Wasbers, Zincs. Wood Screw•. Coach Screw •. Liquid Glue, Casters. Upbolsterer' • Tack •• Lal'l!e Head Burlap Tack •. Wire Brads. Standard Nail•. Cement Coated Nail•. Elhow Catche •• Door Catclaes, etc., etc. Our large and complete assortment of general hard ware is at your service. Correspondence solicited. Inquiries fQ~ prices. will receive careful and itnmediate attention. FOSTER, STEVENS & CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ------------------------- - - 6 ESTABUSHI!:O 1880 PUBLlSHf:D BY MICHIGAN ARTISAN CO. ON TH I!. 10TH AN 0 25TH OF EACH MONTH OFFICE-Z-20 1..YON ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ENTERED ~S MATTaR OF THE eECOlllt1 CLAU If the contention of the Denver & Rio Grande railroad officials that the Interstate Commerce Commission has JW jurisdiction over shipments to points in Western Colorado after they have been "transshipped" at Denver, shall be held good, it is easy to see how the rate regulation law can be llul-ifLedto a large extent. All that is necessary is to rcbill the cars at the first station or junction within the state. That wiB rob the national authorities of jurisdiction and the rail-road reaching the final destination may charge what it "\\'ill. If that idea is good, there is nothing in the rate law to pre-vent the granting of rebate-s from any point to another within the same state, and, what is worse, it would seem that con-gress has no authority to amend the law so as to cover snch shipments. The Colorado idea is more fully explained Un-der the heading "A Snag for Rate Regulation" on allother page. If the contention is correct the law may be nullified completely by rebilling cars at each state line. *1* *1* *!* *1* TheannuaJ meeting of the Michigan Vehicle and Imple-ment Dealers' Association was held in Grand Rapids during the first week in December. The proceedings showed that the troubles of tllC members are much like those of the retail furniture dealers. ),.Iail order competition, prison made goods and retailing by manufacturers were the principal top-ics of discussion in both open and executive sessions, and they also placed themselves on record against the proposed parcels post. Thi;;>d,iscussions and the action taken showed that the vell;de and implement uealers are a few years behind the furniture men in dealing with the retailing manufaeturers and prison labor and that they lack confidence in their abiJity to snccessfully eombat the catalolSue houses. *1* "I' *\* *1* \\'hen a shipper orders a car placed for loading and ·fails to load within forty-eight hours, or ..v..hen he receives a car loaded with freight and i,1ils to unload it in forty-eght hour!i he must pay demurrage. Neither weather nor unforeseen conditions arc considered in fixing the amount of the penalty. Then why should the railroads not pay demurrage ".·.h. en they take two weeks to deliver a car that should go through in four days? There is no reason why the rule should not work both ways. *1* *1" *1" *1" The people of Texas will cngage largely.in the propaga-tion of Angora goats, the skins ,of which are used in the fur-niture trade. Nine-tenths of the Angora skins used at pres-ent arc imported. There is room enough in the great south-west for millions of goats and as there is a large margin of profit in the business, there i!i no reason why manufacturers who use kid and goat skins should be obliged to import their supplies. 11<1,* *1* *1* *1'" The result of the proceedings started by the Pacific Coast Lumbermen' Association against the Northern Pacific R.ail-road Company are of great importance and the outcome will be of great interest, not only to lumbermen but to furniture manufacturers and all other shippers. If a railroad charter 71R T 1.5'.7U"J 1 , •• can be forfeited or revoked for failure to furnish cars, car famines will probably be few and far between in the future. *1* *1* "'1* *1* President Roosevelt's demand for laws regulating condi-ti011Sof ehild labor, will be heartily endorsed by all who ear-nestly hope for the welfare and general good of the country. Vv'hile the Presidcnt'~ message was be.ing read in congress, the same sentiments in regard to child labor were expres!ied in the resolutions adopted by the convention of the Cititzens' Industrial Association then in session at Chicago. *j' *j" *j* *1* There is Ol1e man, at least, who does not think that the fines imposed for rebating are inadequate. He is a Kansas City broker who paid a fine of $1,000 for having accepted a rebate of five cents on a shipmel1t of corn. Perhaps the court may have entertained a suspicion that the re-spondent ha<l accepted rebates not mentioned in the indictment. *1* *1* *1* *1,* Again the country has congress on its hands and the par-cels post movement has been revived. Supporters of the bill should not be discouraged. Twelve years were re-quired in which to pass an amendment to the iJ1ter-state com-merce bilt and nearly as many to amend the pure food law. *1* '\' *1* *1* \Vell trained Spanish women learn to handle the sword from their earliest years, a.nd as a result they have admirable figures and an easy walk.-Ex. Well trained American women learn to handle varnish and paint brushes and as a result they have admirable figures in the savings banks. *1111 *1* *1* *1* Dealers, generally, do not exercise that promptlless in re-turning prints of negatives that they should. A number of manufacturers use postal cards especially printed for the pur-pose, in recalling prints loaned to dealers. 1\fuch expense is saved thereby. '1* "I" *1* 'I' The social clubs of Grand Rapids are preparing to royally entertain sojourning furniture- men next month. The prize dng will be closed, but those .",ho would look upon the chicken when he is game will not be disappointed when they go to the suburbs. *'* *j' *'* *j' The manufacturers of tables very sensibly concluded to follow the course of the case makers' association and have advanced prices to cover the enhanced cost of materlals used in their business. *,* *1* *1* *1* A New "Vay (but not a good way) Furniture company has commenced business in Milwaukee. Selling knock down furniture to the public has not proved I'a great snap" by those who have tried it. - *1* *1' *1' "I' Grand Rapids will have another furniture exhibition build-ing ready for occupancy before the fall season of trade opens. It is large and centrally located. *!' *1* '1* *1' "Hurry-up" orders for holiday stock burden the wires. The dealer in most instances generously permits the manufac-turer to pay the tolls. *1* '1* '1* *1* '''Labor is itself a pleasure."-Lt1credus. comes intolerable if followed too closely. But pleasure be- Laborious pleas-ure, as it were. *1* '1* *1* 'I' The adva;,ce in prices on all kinds of furniture will afford pecuniary satisfaction to the commission men. *1* *" *" ,,* A rising market for any commodity usually benefits all who handle it except the consumer. 7 The LYON THE CREDIT 8UREAU OF THE FURNITURE TRADE Grand Rapids Office, 412-413 Houseman Bldg. GEO. E. GRAVES, Manager CLAPPER1'ON & OWEN, Counsel Furniture Agency ROBRT P. LYON, General Manager CREDITS and COLLECTIONS THE STANDARD REFERENCE BOOK CAPITAL, rnEDIT AND PAY RATINGS CLEARING HOUSE OF TRADE EXPERIENCE THE MOST RELIABLE CREDIT REPORTS COLLECTIONS MADE EVERYWHERE PROMPTLY- REUABLY Care of Cutter Heads of Various Kinds. fbe use of the modern types of cntter heads is so general in woodworking plants of every description that it is not ont of place to emphasize somewhat the importance of keeping the bits in good order. A gage is commoniy furnished by the manufacture to serve as a guide when filing the bit to the proper slant and hook. [f you give the ..:dge of the bit a different slant, you change the relation of the cutting edge and it will 110 longer cut the true shape of the mold. If you increase the hook, that is, the slant from the throat to j Designed by Bernard ZierJeyn, Grand Rapids. Mich. the edge, the bit wilt cut deeper than originally intended and jf yoU diminish the hook, the bit "will cut shallower. The bits should never be filed on the Ollter circle. An eight-inch tapcr or three corner file is the most con-venient size and shape for all sorts of cutters. A half round file, four to six-inch, is useful in filing a\'vay the inside of edge for cope bits, where the very keen edge is necessary to prop-erly cut and form tenons across the grain. The operator ought to have a wooden bench so placed as to afford a good light on the work and fitted either \'v·ith a cutter head grinder or a cutter head filing stand, in order to keep up this work in the best manner. Thee are several types of cutter head grinders manufac-tured, some of which are exclusively for head work, while others have an arhor carrying an outfit of emery wheels of different thicknesscs and shapes to suit all possible require-ments in tool grinding, and even with a saw gtt1l1mcr at-tachment in connection for use if the filing room is not prop-edy cql1ippedwith an automatic sharpener for rip and cross-cut circulars. A good outfit for all purposes is the best kind of an investment in any kind of a plant, and it is remarkable to find how many are depending entirely upin hand fitting of heads. r"fuch attention is now being paid to the matching of hard maple flooring. Because of its close 6brous grain it is es-pecially difficult to produce satisfactorily under rapid feed "with the usual tools. "Matcher heads to~cco111plish this work ought to have many cutters to tp.ke part in the work so as to distribute the cut as finely and evenly as possible between all the cutters around the head. The importance of having each bit do its proportionate part of the work will be obvious 101' the working strain will otherwise come on only one or two of the bits to their disadvantage and the certain produc-tion of poor results. vVhen ordering bits special attention should be given to the matter of temper and order ought to state whether the bits are wanted hard to grind on a cutter head grinder, or of medium temper to nle slowly, etc. You may have a careful man upon whom you depend for the grinding or filing of your wood cutting knives of various kinds, a man who devotes all or much of his time to this class of work. The time he employs on this work and the wage scale paid are of importance, but far less important than the matter of increased output and the quality of the output. 'This fact ~mphasjzes what has been stated above concerning the usc of a machine tool for the grinding instead of hand fil-ing, The principle involved is the same as in that of knife grinding, Noone can file a knife as satisfactorily or accur-ately as it can be ground with an efficient knife grinder, and there is no operator except those who are working in thc most 1in~itfd fashion, that would attempt to get along a day v..·ithout a knife grinder. It is equally important that filing room have a good cutter head or bit grinder and those who are not al-ready equipped in this line, will surely 1111(1 it of advantage to look up wllat the market affords and equip INith something that can be recommended as \vel1 suited for the purpose. John Bates of Hampton, Iowa is closing out his stock and will quit the furniture business. SOMETHING NEW WE have perfected a new GOLDf:N OAK OIL STAIN without the use of asphaltum or acid. This stain is the strongest and most pene~ trating stain on the market. It entirely pt'"ne~ trates the wood. leaving- no surplus on the sur-face to penetrate with the filler. Samples furnished on application. CRAND RAPIDS WOOD FINISHINC COMPANY 55-159 ELLSWORTH .a.VE.• GRAND RAPIDS. MICH· 8 How They Fool the Antiquarians. Evidently America is 110t the only fool's paradise where the 1:J.oodwinking of collectors of antiquities is a profitable business. Here is a scheme which, according to the Grand 1Jagazine, is true in all its details and is practiced in London: Let the reader imagine he is listening to the en dof an earnest conversation between a dealer of world-wide reputa-tion and one of the latter's most important customers, a man whose bottomless purse is the lodestar of all swindledom. The visitor complains that nothing really fine is to be picked up -nowadays. When he thinks he has at length discovered some ancient piece of funliture in an out of the way farm~ hotlse, he is sure to learn at the last moment that it is not au-thentic and has merely been planted there by some cunning rogue o( \VarJour street or the Rue des Faussaires. "Ah," replies the dealer, looking very sage, "I know at least Olle place where there are still some perfect treasures! Its an old Elizabethan mansion in Slumberingshire, but the owner, all ullmarried lady, nearly 70, though she has barely enough to live upon, absolutely refuses to sell a single article. She ''\1011'teven allow a stranger to enter the house. I mall-aged to get in once by a trick, and I assure you I ''v'as al-most dumfounded at what I saw. The whole place is in identically the same state as it was two hundred years ago." The hook is llOW· baited, hut the dealer, who knows his man, allows several days to ·e!apse. Then he sends a tele-gram: "Just learned that the old lady will be absent from home for a day or two; can bribe servants to. show house." The place is at some distance from London; no matter, off the pair go, only to find on arrival at their destination th8-t by some fatality the O'wner of the house has not gone away after all, so the inspection must perforce be put off. Naturally the colleetor, if he be worth his salt, knows no rest now ulltil allOther opportunity to see the treasures presents itself. B is desire is finally granted, and in company with his lidis_ interested" cicerone he is allowed to run hastily through a few rooms filled with dusty old furniture piled up in picturesque confusion. He is not permitted to make a dose inspection under the pretext that the old lady may return at any moment and that he will nnd 1t difficult to explain his presence. "\\That a terrible pity," sigh both men simultaneously as they hurry away, "that such admirable specimens should re-main here in the dust !!, A month, perhaps two months, pass; then one morning the dealer rushes in breathlessly to his customer's pres-ence. HYou remember the old lady?" W"{es,what ab0l1t her?" I<She is absolutely compelled at last to r<lise some ready money and has consented to sel! me some of her most prec-ious' historical relics." MANUFACTURERS OF" DROP CARVING AND GENERAL EMBOSSING MACHINES Die'S for all kinds of Machines. At lowest prices. 7 Second SI., LAFAYETTE, IND. l "By Jove, what luck! Buy everything you can for me. must have those things, whatever they cost." \Vhat the confiding millionaire did not know-though he assuredly suspects something of the sort now-is that the Elizabethan mansion was rented by the dealer;· that all it contained was the same personfs property, and that both the carefully trained servants and the "old lady" herself were in his pay. The "Fonetik" Fad. We are redy to folo the leed ofPrezident Ruzcvelt for fonetik"spelling and to mak plane how it wit afect the kemikttl hizness we are spesifying- a few wet known artike1s.in the line Des.iff,n by Henry De Loof, .. Student of the-Grand Rapidl School of Furnitur-e Designing_ so that reeders of "Thingz Kemikul" may se whatz kuming. Aeston, asetik, sitrik asid, fosforic asid, analeen kul-ers, sulfur, zink, fosfat of kalseum, rosin, blu vitrul, ferus amoneum, sulfat, magncshum sulfat, etc. Its ging tu mak Ieterz and documents, in which it is uzed, luk funy until we bekum akustemed tu it, but in the long run it wi! mak speling and riting ezyer for t15 al. Thingz Kemi-kul, tho, will not at onee llse fonetik speling in its reeding pages, at least until pcepul are familur wit.h the nu skeme.~ Things Chemical. Another Point to Remember If you place your announcements in the MERCANTILE EDITIONS of the ARTISA N the.v will be read by DULfRS in fURNITURE and KINDRED GOODS ONLY. UNCERTAINTIES OF BUSINESS. Only One Out of Every Twenty New Ventures Are Really Successful. Five per cent of new lirms starting in business make a Sllccess. The other 9.1 per cent fail. This is a statement startling when first met ""jth. To the business man of Johg and wide experience and the variolls mercantile reporting agencies it is not startling because it is not new. It has been accepted as a fact for so long that it is now only a matter of conrse. But to the worker who contemplates advOlllcing his position and fortune by leaving a sure salaried position and setting lip in business for himself in a small way it is a cir- Bear This Fact •In Mind YOU can present your claims for uade to a larger number of buyers of furni-ture and k.indred goods through the mer· cantile editions of the Michigan Art. isan (mailed to dealers only),than is possi. ble by the use of any other furniture trade paper. Write for rate card. CU111st<lnce to· be considered soberly and carefully before the important move is made. "\Vill I be one of the favored 5 per cent? Or will 1 be numbered among the vast majority, the 95 per cent who fail?" arc questions for all ambitions young workers to consider, says 11artill Arends, in an article on "the craze to be in busi-ness" in the Chicago Tribune. If morc people would ask themselves these questions and think over them earnestly, the list of banrnptcies, defalcations, dishonest dealings, wreck-ed lives and homes and suicides dne to "business troubles" would be much diminished, The rashness \",ith which men rush into business at any opportunity, assuming debts, ob-ligations and duties which they are equipped to hear no more than the schoolboy is equipped to be a teacher, is probably as great a somce of unhappiness and suffering ill the lives of the class which is above need and yet not independent as any cause one might take up. Scarcely a day goes by but in a city of lndnstrial importance some -ill steered commercial bark goes on the rocks of failure with a hopeless crash. Tn the '''lake of the crash there is often a wrecked life, sometimes several of them. This is not to be taken to mean that the vvriter would counsel the young, ambitious man ..v.ith ideas to slick to his salaried position if a favorable opportunity should pre- SCllt itself. On the contrary, in tl,ese columns, '''le have ad-vised such a move under certain conditions. Faint heart never' Wall success. But as statistics show tha~ there are all too many people trying to get into business for themselves. the one contemplating it shoulcl be sure that he has the ex-perience. the idea, and the capital at least to save him. from wreck, if not pull him to success. Each of these three qualifications is as important as the others. Experience is the corner stone upon "hich the structure of a business must be buiit. "Vhile no one can come to a new enterprise with all the experiences necessary to run it smoothly to success, the man beginning in busi-ness is like a lamb among wolves if he lacks experi,~nce. This does not mean that he shalt merely understand his business. It means that he should also have plenty of experience in fI~~Iq;~~~~· dealing with men and t'ith the world in general. Competi~ tion to the edge of battle is the condition of the business world today. Probably I half of the greatest successes of the day owe their pre-emintllce to an ability tv outwit and out-fight competitors. Such ability could not exist without a wide and useful knowle1ge of men and busin.ess life. A man may be able to make 4 good brand of shoeblacking, but if he doesn't know how t~ put it up! advertise it, and present it to the trade and the !pubtie in a manner to make it com-pare favorably with otl~er brands of shoe blacking he has a poor chance of winningj patronage that witt yield him a liv-mg. His shoe polish n~ay be better once it is on a' patron's shoe, but this will avail nothing if other manufacturers get their polish there. ! vVhile experience isi the foundation, it is quite helpless without capital-as hc1~less as capital is without experience. Few new firms are sufficiently equipped in the matter of capital. One of Chica~o's largest manufacturers expresses the average condition ofl beginners in manufacturing as "hold_ ing a $2,000 equity in ai $20,000 place." The new enterprise under this condition hais to carry a load that is practically sure to prove too heavy. The machinery maker of a mort-gagor in six cases out 6f ten is the true Owner of the plant, not the man or men those names arc on the letterhead. \Vhere in many instancb a start with a paid up equipment would end successfully, ~he start when made with only enough for a partial payment qf machinery, etc, ,proves disastrous. The seller of equipment~ wants his payments and his interest every so often or the I~ortgagee wants his interest and his fee for extending a loatt, and this, of course! in addition to the pay roll, the rent, and the other natural costs of operation. , The extra burden top often breaks the back of the firm. Unless the idea upon wrich the business is started is one of phenomenal ,\70rth and ~ossibilities and so will carry its pro-mulgators into instant ifavor without the usual long, tire-some fight against comnetition, etc., existence for the begin-ner becomes a harried qne ·of hurrying and scurrying to get trade, to get in money,! to borrO\v, to raise sufficient funds ill any old way to keep the -pay roll going, tamed bills, and to stave off the mortgagee .. VVith a combination! of these three assets, capital, ex- , perience, and the idea lin the proper quantities, a man is properly equipped for ~n entrance into the business world. 6enn~tt &. Witte MA!fmFACTuRERS OF LlJJM6ER For Furniture Mfrs••Far Sullders aDd Carriage Trade. Plain and f Wh"t ' d D d 0 16 J ptalnand Quartered 1 e !an I"'Irr.e B.n. "I Quartered RED and SAP GUM Poplar, Cottonwood, Ash, Elm and Chestnut. A Full Line of Sou.her~ Hardwoods. Export aDd Domestic. WRITE EITHER OFFICE. Branch: Memphis, Tenn. i Main Office: Cincinnati, O. We sell <m. Nationai1 Hardwood Lumber Association inspection only. \;Vithout them he is noJ, and the chances for anything but failure are so small that ithey cannot even be called a gambl':" ing chance. Ruin in bus~t1ess is a disaster which few recover tram. The papers ehrobic1e suicide on account of business troubles with no great idfrequency. More often they tell the tale of defalcation or dther dishonesty that has been dis-covered. These things ~re wel! worth considering long and seriously before one yiellds to the popular craze for being in business, I 9 EASY MONEY IS MADE B' USING THE ENTIRELY AUTOMATIC BAND SAW SHARPENER MADE BY US There is no need of spending money year after year in having your band saws hand filed, "l;hen by paying us only a little morc th.l.n tht: cost of hand filling one saw for one year you can own an automatic machine that will last a lifetime, and with practically no repairs. Why not write us and find out about it ? We aho miJlle au!omaric hand saw sha"'peners, and autamaric circular saw sharpeners. ROTARY FILE &. MACHINE CO., 579KentAve., BROOKLYN, N. Y. SOUTHERN .QGENTS: AMERICAN MFG. CO" ATLANTA, GA 10 ~MIfaf'HIG7fN Men Who Are Worse Than Demagogues. At the annual convention of the Cititzens' Industrial Asso-ciation, held in Chicago, December 3 anu 4, resolutions were adopted denouncing child labor and favoring the establish~ ment of manual training schools throughout the country, The principal address of the session was delivered by James W. Van Cleve of St. Louis, who rabidly denounced those who oppress or treat their employes unfairly. "Such men," he declared, "are worse citizens than the demagogues whom they condemn." The speakerdeelared that no man despised the agitators and the unW1se; arbitrary, oppressive and tyrannical methods of the Labor unions more than he, "but still," he said, "it must be admitted that they have ac-complished much for the benefit of their members and for labor in general. They have done much that is wicked and wrong, but it must be remembered that if all employers had treated their employes right there would have been no need of labor unions." C. W. Post of Battle Creek, Mich:, was re-elected presi-dent of the organization with F. 'V. Nunemacker of Louis-ville, Ky., and James W. Van Cleve of St. Louis as vice-presidents. The board of directors, or governing board, for the ensuing year is composed of George P. Bennet, Chicago; T. J. Mahoney, Omaha; A. C. Brown, Sioux Falls, and J. V.i. Franks, Peoria, Ill. The convention will be held ill Battle Creek next year. A Snag for Rate Regulation. "The Interstate Commerce Commission has no jurisdiction to regulate the freight rates on our lil1e~, when the rates apply to shipments made from points in the East to points on the ·western slope of the mountail~s in Colorado, for the rcason that the consi::rt1ments are transhipped in Denver. and we carry them from state point to state point. Tile commi5sion has 110authority to interfere with state btlsiness, as state rights demand that the commissions keep their hands off." That is the principal point made in the answer of the Denver & Rio Grande, the Colorado ~Iidlatld and the Colo-rado &: Southern to the petition of the 'Merchants' Traffic Association, demanding that the rates between the eastern and western part of Colorado be equalized. Besides denying the authority of the commission to super-vise their business, the railroads say that the present rates arc "reasonable and just." The main fight, however, is on the question of jurisdiction, as the Colorado roads don't want to come under the rate supervising power of the federal government. Panama Canal, Politics and Railroads. John F. \Vallacc; fdrmerIy chief engineer of the Panama Canal is quoted as saying: "The construction of the Panama Canal as a private enter-prise would be an· easy matter. In fact, many railroad en-gineering feats of a 1110redifficult character than the building of this canal have beep carried to completion in the United States within recent times, but they attracted very little atten-tiOl1. The making of the canal is everybody's job, but with private enterprises there is no politics to contend againsL" Mr, Wallace also denied that railroads are opposed to the canal, and added: HI have not talked to a railroad president or a traffic mana-ger of a railroad who said that he was opposed to the scheme. l\. great many fal5e stories of that tenor have been put into circulatjon for political purposes. There is nothing to all such talk. The transcontinental business will in no way be injured by the building of the canal, and the railroads have no reason to hinder its construction." Long Cars May Go Through. The rule of the Transcontinental Association prohibiting the billing through to the Pacific coast of cars more than forty feet long, has been abolished, to take effect January 1. This is of importance to both eastern and western shippers, The action of the association is expected to help relieve car congestion. The limitation noted has been a source of hard-ship, especially to shippers of furniture. BERRY BROTHERS' Rubbing and Polishing Varnishe:s MUST BE USED IN FURNITURE WORK TO BE A~PRECIATED THEY SETTLE THE VARNISH QUESTION WHEREVER TRIED WRITE TODAY FOR INFORMATION AND PRICES. FINISHED SAMPLES ON REQUEST. BERRY BROTHERS. LIMITED VARNISH MANUFACTURERS DETROIT NEW YORK BOSTON PHILADELPHIA BALTIMORE CHICAGO CANADIAN FACTORY, WALKERVILLE, ONTARIO rlNCINNATI ST. LOUIS SAN FRANCISCO , A Page from Collier's Weekly, CRAFT IN PENNSYL VANINS STATE CAPITAL. 12 SPECIALARTICLESIN FURNITURE ====HARDWARE ==== Door Catches in great variety The Tillotson Toilet Fastener Push Bulton Catches, Wardrobe Rods and Hooks Desk Lid Supports Toilet Hings, Shell Supports, Dowel Pin' Enamel Knobs and Automatic Wood Trimmings Hardware Supply Co.,c;,rand Rap;d.;-Mfdl. THE GRAND RAPIDS PANEL CO. 4.. n. SUERWOOD, Manager Manufactur.r. or ELASTIC GRAINING PLATES GRAINING MACmNES GRAND RAPIDS, - - MICHIGAN. IF YOUWANTTHEBEST fURNITURE P"OTOGRAP"S WRITE M. P. TUiELE &. CO., 242 S. front St., GRAND R4PIOS. Mlell. WHITE PRINTING CO., PRINTERS OF CATALOGUES and. everythi.ng needed. by busi,tle$S men. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. New Factories. Wilson's Automatic MU'15ic--L~aJ-Furniture Company is a new corporation that wili estaBlish a plant in Portland, Oregon. A. J, Kingsley, Margaret White and]. N. Teal have organized the Oregon Chair Coppany at Portland, Or,,:gon They have $75,000 capital. The Oriental Rug and Drugget Company is installing machinery to manufacture reproductions of oricntal rugs and druggets at Manchester, Virgina. A. H. Pettingill, from Calif ofilia is to establish a furni-ture factory and employ 200 hands on a site given him by the business men of Raymond, Wash. Philip Harbach of Des Moines, Iowa, 'w.ill establish a fac-tory in which he will make an improved upholstering device on whch he has recently secured a patent. William Genge, E. F, Bean and David Herman have or-ganized the Inland ~Iattress & 'Upholstering Company at Spokane, Wash. They expect to begin business in Decem-ber. Lincoln, Neb., is to have a new factory to make a patent adjustable window shade. L. K Wettling is the principal prorhoter.$everal state officials are stockholders in the project. B. 0: Jackson, W. W. and H. W. On have organized the Jackson-Orr Company with $5,000 capital stock, all paid in, 'to establish a plant and make beds and mattresses in At-lanta, Georgia. A dispatch from Decatur, Ala., states that the Common Council of that town has offered exemption' from taxation for L SYDNEY J. OSGOOD S. EUGENE OSGOOD OSGOOD & OSGOOD, Architects. F ACTORV CONSTRUCTiON AND D~SIQNINC A SP~C'AL.'TY. GRAND'RAPIDS, MICHlGAN. Michigan Art earvi g Co. ---~-FOR WOOD CARVINGS of all kirtcIs. Mention Michigan Artisan. GRAND RAP~DS, Micb. I ====S!EE=====' West Michigan Machine & Tool Co., ltd. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. for mGU GRADE PUNCUES and DIES. saved and' when done leaves are bound (by yOUl""' self) and in~cxedby 800rs or deptllrtm~ts. BARLOGWra~nROSRapid•s•. Mieh. L.. ·_WR;:.:;;,:ITE.I:G::;HTNOW. ,", ! I j, i MIClJlOAN ENORAVlNO CO. Grand Rapids, Mich. ENa~AVBRS BY ALL P~OCESSES. . ten years to Kentll<;;kY gentlemen whoVTopos to establish a large chair factory "on a site donated by De atur business men. W. B. Teague, A. E. Lewis, T, D. Harris nd James H. Johnsoo have organized, the Staley Chair Can pany, capita-lized at $25,000 with $4,000 paid in, to establis a plant and manufacture chairs and chair stock at Staley, C atham coun-ty North Carolina. The Lake Geneva Piano Stool Company is a new ,Illinois corporation capitalized at $15,000, with the purpose of oper-ating in Wisconsin. The company will start business in the old plant of thc Lake Geneva (Wis.) Manufacturing Com-pany, but will soon build a new factory. George F. Felker of Logansport has purchased a site of thirteen acres and let contracts for buildings for a furniture factory at Lebanon, Ind. He has purchased the patents and patterns of the kitchen cabinets formerly made by H, C. Clark and will confine himself to that line at the start, but expects to add other lines later. •t Enlarging Their Buffalo Plant. Pratt & Lambert, varnish makers of New York, Buffalo alldChicago, have in course of construction at their Buffalo works, two large brick buildings" one being an additional cooling room and the other~:i·garage for their automobile de-livery trucks, the second floor of' which will have commodious lunch rooms for the factory employes. William Mauthe, furniture dealer of Fond du Lac, Wis., has taken four of his clerks into partnership and incorporated the business, the capital stock being fixed at $25,000. How to Banish Child Labor. Give the children a chance. This has been the demand of advancing civilization everywhere. Too often it has been vetoed by the counter-demand of a despotic industrialism. For the sake of cheap labor we have our child-slaves of the coal breakers, of the iactories, of the cotton milts, vVhat capital saves in cost of production, the nation loses in the de-struction of life, and in a growing generation ignorant, stunted and brutalized. Each state is a laW' unto itself, in the matter of protecting its children. \Vhere pmverful and ruthless interests dominate, there are no adequate laws; or laws adequate in themselves are inadequately enforcel. The remedy lies in federal authority. Senator TIcveridge has ad-vanced an ingenious suggestion (to be embodied bter in leg- DESIGNS BY Eo. A. HAKE., GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. -It 11" 7IR T I oS' JIj'\J 1 2e 13 nicely and assures Mr. Flint that he will s'oon be able to get out, though it was a remarkably narrow escape from death. New Dealers. Chas. S. Robison and H, A. :Ylartin have organized the· Roblnson-Martin Furniture Company and have opened a new store at 23-25 East Hunter street, Augusta, Maine. The People's Furniture Company has opened a new re-tail store at 206 South ~ain street, Lima! Ohio. Olam'-s Olson has purchased the Allard block in Spring Valley, Minn. He will remodel the building and open a furniture emporium. A. Steinkamp & Co., have opened a new furniture store is1ation) which will hardly he opposed by any but the most cyllical of vested interests. The Beveridge child labor bill will not seek to interfere with or overide state laws. It will simply shut Ollt of inter-state commerce the output of any commerce which employs children under fottrteen years of age, Thus will each offending state be choked with its own evil. The taboo would seem to be the easy and righteous solution of a threatneing- problem.-Ridgway·s. Close Call for Mr. Flint. S. B. Flint, nUl11;tger of the Hellrung & Grimm Hotlse-furnishing Company of 51. Louis, Mo., well known as a lib-eral buyer in the furniture markets, is suffering from the re-sults of a peculiar accident. On November 10 he was ad-justing the back ofa Morris chai·r in the store, which re-quired considerable exertion. \lv'hen he arose from a stoop-ing posture he felt a sharp pain in his chest. Ill' was taken home in a carriage and did 110t realize the extent of his in-jury until the next day, when the physician told him he had ruptured his left lung. He is confmed to his bed and not allowed to talk, but the doctor says the wound is healing in 'Portsmottth, Ohio, under the management of C. A. Han-sen, from Wars a"", Ky. The Davidson Furniture Company, chartered by A. T. I-Jarris and associates, with $4,COO capital stock, 'will run a house furnishing store in Raleigh, N. C. Fumed Oak Water Stain. Fumed oak has been in use a few years, and is very popu-lar on furniture of the novelty order. It has been produced by subjecting the work to a chemical bath in a hot room; that, however, is 110t 'within the reach of the average iurni-ture manufacturer, and as a result the Barrett-Lindeman- Lawrence-McFadden Companies have produced a water stain that they think gives a better result for any shade that may be required from a soft yellowish brown toa dark blackish brownl including the shades t'ending to the greenish cast. It is a manufactured stain and not furnished in powdered form. Negotiations are pending for the reorganization of th~ \Vabash (Ind.) Cabinet Company, which has been in the hands of a receiver for the past six months. 14 Get Busy ===~ AND===· Get Space IN THE SOUTHERN FURNITURE EXHIBITION My! How YOU'VE ().ROWN~ ~ THE REASON WHY. Open Every Day in the Year Pioneers always get the cream of the trade and secure an immense advantage over competitors who foil their lead. Be a Pioneer. Atlanta is the geographical and railroad center of a buying population greater than that of the whole Trans-IVIississippi region. Reduced rates are available nearly every day in the year to our 4000 buyers who can see your samples in no other way. Space in the great new Show 'It the Gateway of the South is being rapidly taken. The Exhibition building is in the heart of Atlanta's business dis-trict, .I minutes walk from leading hotels and post office. Steam heated, electric lighted, with elevators, toilets, local and long distance phones, telegraph office and every other modern convenience. Samples may be unloaded direct to the building from the cars through an ample loading shed. The management can supply competent salesmen without conflicting in lines. A limited amount of storage space available at low rates for those desiring to distribute from Atlanta. SOUTHERN FURNITURE EXHIBITION COMPANY ATLANTA, GA. I72-178 MARlETT A STREET I " Chicago, December S.-The retail market in furniture is less brisk now than it \vas earlier in the season. Probably this is the lull before the storm. 11anufacturing interests, however, remain very active. The factories have never been busier than at present. ':lilany of them are running overtime. Reports show au ullusually large volume of business for the past year and many manufacturers arc contemplating addi-tional facilities for getting out their products, vVith many firm,s, out-of-town orders have been rcsponsible for the in-crease in yolume, while with others the city demand has kept them running overtime. Still the mail order house grows! lliIotltgomery \Vard & Co. have recently taken out a building' permit for what is believed to be the biggest single store huiJ(\iilg in tIle 'Node.!. The ground dimensions of the Hew structure will be 296 x 717 feet, and being eight stories high it will contain over t11irty-five acres of floor space. It is to be divided into six separate section,s with three stainvays in each. The material used will be steel, tile and concrete, with brick walls. It is to be ready for occupancy July 1, 1907, when the company will abandon their present quarters on the lake front. A special meeting of the mileage bureau of the western railways is to be held in Chicago the week of December 10, at which it is hoped some change ''v'ill be made in the present rate of mileage books. No challge has been made in the western mileage book for over ten years and public sentiment is llOW demanding a reduction in the price. The present 2,000 mile book of the \Vestern Passengc\' Association costs $60.00, a refund of $19.50 being made for the cover. A proposition to reduce the price (}f the book to $50.00 with a refund of $9.50 is now before the bureau and will likely be adopted at their next meeting. It is also proposed to place on sale a 1,000 mile book for $30.00, giving a refund of $5.00. l\Ir. F. T. Plimpton, 1319 Michigan avenue, left last week for a ten days' trip in the east for the purpose of perfecting his lines for the coming exhibition season. ],\'lr. Plimpton still has charge of the eighth floor of "The Big TIuildillg" and will have several new lines and a greater variety this yf'.ar than before. When the new .Furniture Exchange, Fourteenth st;-cet and vVabash avenue, is completed the Peck & Hills Campau}' will ocCUpy the three top floors of the building. They ex-pect to take possession of their new quarters on January 1, 1907. Major Burkhardt and son of the Burkb<1rdt Fl1rnitm'c Company_, Dayton, Ohio, were in attendance at the meeting of the Chair Associ.ation held in Chicago December 5. They spent the morning at 1319 ':.Iichigan avenue, inspecting their exhibiti.on space. for the coming season. They report a ca-pacity business. For the benefit of their Christmas buyers Vol. K. Covv"an & Co. have issued a miniature volume entitled "Thc Cowan Gift Book," which contains all kinds of suggestions for gifts at prices ranging from 50 cents to $8,000. [t is a beantiful advertisement of real usefulness, printed on Jap:l1l parchment in gold and colors a11(lcontaining many blank pages for mem-oranda. Louis Kanitz Honored. The chamber of commerce of :Yluskegon, Mich., recently elected Louis Kanitz (the president of the Muskegon Valley Furniture Company) to ftIt the prcsidential chair of that im- 7IR'T' IoS JI.l'J' eM' 4 7 e • 15 portant organization. Mr. Kanitz is one of a group of use-ful men that have "made Muskegon famous." As a member of the board of education for many years and the improve-ment committee of the chamber of commerce, he has ren-dered the city important and valuable service. Mr. Kanitz is also a member of the board of managers of the l\:1ichigan Soldiers' Home. To quote the remark of oue of his as-sociates on the board, "he gives morc time to the affairs of the instituation than any of his associates and is really thc most l1scf111 man in the organization." The term for which Mr. Kanitz was appointed will expire next month. If Gov-ernor 'Varner is wise he will probably tender Mr. Kanitz 'an-other term. Buying Out of Season. During the past week \Villiam T. Chittenden and George H. \Vol1ey, who are to manage the Pontchartrain, Detroit's nc\.... three-million-dollar hotel, that is being erected on the site of the popular old Russell House, wcre in Grand Rapids, selecting fu1'11itl1refor the llew hostelry which is expected to be the finest in the west. R. G. Alexander, ,Po N. Evers and Charles Solomon, buy-ers for the Siegel-Cooper storcs, placed some large orders for furniWre with manufacturers in Grand Rapids and Chicago during the last week in Kovember. D. E. Frederichs, furniture dealer of Seattle, was in Grand Rapids on November 30, placing'orders for quick delivery. \V. 1T. Miller, buyer for Marshall Field & Co., Chicago, placed a few orders with Grand 'Rapids manufacturers on De-cember 3 and 4. FAULT.~:': point where other casters refuse to turn is 'fShe Point with The faultless Pivot Bearing Caster The FAULTLESS received Ihe .Hlghesl Award allhe World's fair, 1904, over all olher oaslers. It is s uppli ed wit b Fauldess Pat e n t Steel Spring Sockets. Tbe Faultless is interchangeable; will fit six differ-ent sizes of Iron bed sockets. :-: The Faultless bas no weak spots-n 0 mechanical flaws·-it's Fault· less in ,name-in action-and as a seller :~: :-: If you are after a money maker, write to 75he Fa.ultless Ca.ster Mfg. Co•• Nebraska City. Neb. They only manufacturo 16 ·~MIPJiIG7JN ' Hat Racks Out of Fashion. Ordinary hat racks are going out of fashion," said John E. Brower, designer for the Sligh Furniture Company. "It is almost impossible to make them artistic or practicaL When they are empty they are unsightly and when loaded they are a nuisance. Their pTace is being taken, by hall stands and costumers, but the hall stand is not much of an improvement over the old style hat rack. The closet is the place for hats and overcoats and they a.e provided in most of the modern houses and apartments. Where there is no convenient clos-et, however, a substitute may be easily provided. I live in the Hoffman and I have just made a substitute for a hall stand and put it in the end of the entrance to our apartments. It is made in this way," and Mr. Brower proceeded to make an off-hand drawing, showing two shelves for hats and, un-derneath the lower one, hooks for wraps and coats. "There," he said, "I m~de it just the right length to fit the space and fastened it at tJ1C right height against the wall. It is not unsightly, it answers the purpose all right and you can't and undoubte~ly some of those received in Berlin are the same. In the return letters the students are told of their mistakes, benefiting both the Germans and the Americans. The teachers place restrictions on what shaH be said in the letters possibly to avoid any international romances. In order to join the correspondence classes, the ',students have to inform the teachers of the opposite nations as to the busi-ness in which their parents are engaged. It has been suggested that furniture designers might find amusement and profit, perhaps, by following the example of the Battle Creek students. By an exchange of sketches both American and German designers might gain new ideas, pro-viding the drawings are definite enough to indicate an idea without too much explanation. ' A Well Informed Radical. Vigorous measUres taken by George ]. Kindel of Denver, Col., in dealing with the freight rate problem before the trans- Mississippi Commercial congress have been watched with in- De,ign by W.L. Kimerly. Grand Rapid•• Mich. knock into it when going through the hall. By fitting it with doors it could be made a shallow closet or it might be inclosed with curtains. "The regular closet, however, is better for hats and over-coats. They are also best for umbrellas and overshoes when they are dry; when they are wet they are left on the porch of'in the vestibule. "Over in Europe they get along without hat racks or hall stands by building closets in the walls, and that idea will soon be adopted in the better class of houses in this country." Suggestions for Designers. Students in German at Battle Creek, Mich., High School have adopted a distinctly novel plan of assisting their work along this line by exchanging their papers with German boys and girls who are studying Eriglish in Berlin and other cities. The local students write letters in German to the foreigners, -who respond in English. Some of them are irresistibly funny, 50 PER CENT of the circulation of trade papers (excepting the MICHIGAN ARTISAN) is mailed to manufac-turers, designers, shop hands, commisQ.ion men, jobbers of factory supplies and others who do not sell furniture and kindred goods. To reach the largest number of retailers use tbe Michigan Artisan's Mercantile Editions MAILED TO RETAILERS ONLY. L tcrest in the west. Kindel is radical; so much so that west-ern commercial bodies have refused to endorse his actions, but that he is thoroughly familiar with freight rates is not disputed. The character of Mr. Kindel was shown recently when the Colorado supreme court handed down a decision whk:h did not meet with his approval. He placed in the front window of his store an American flag draped in black and also a rope made into a hangman's noose, together with placards stating that the noose should be used for the.judges who made the decision. With all his radicalism, however, freight men have been unable to show Kindel why in shipping mattresses, which he manufactures, to California,he could get a cheaper rate by sending them to Chicago and shipping from there to San Francisco than he could by shipping direct-ly from Denver. Yet such was actually the case. During the session of the Commercial congress he attacked E. H. Harriman and other railroad magnates so vigorously that their friends in the organization were silenced. TO OUR WESTERN PATRONS NOTE: There has been no change in the management of our CHICAGO FACTORY. the. same practical men who have brought it to its present high standard continue in our employ. BE NOT DECEIVED. WE CAN MATCHANy'THING I FILLER BONE HARD OVER THAT Will DRY N I G H T The great majority--in fact just about all of the manufacturing trade ask for a filler to be hard dry the day after filling. We can do better than that. USE OUR FILLER AND YOU CANNOT DIG IT OUT OF THE PORES· THE ====NEXT DAY ====== IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR VARNISH TO PENETRATE THE SURFACE IT SANDS OFF IN A POWDER THAT 'WILL LEAVE YOUR SAND PAPER CLEAN AFTER THE WORK IS DONE. The Barrett-Lindeman Company. IN CONSOLIDATION WITH The l.Jawrence-McFadden Co., Ltd. 6/·6365·67No, Ash/and Ave., CHICAGO. 1400·2·4 Frankford Ave., PHILADELPHIA. 17 r-·· 18 WOOD WORKING MACHINERY Mnnufaetured by VAllEY CITYNACHliYE~OIllf5 CHANDRAPIDS,MICH.,USA. BEST JOB IN THE WOODS. How the "Timber Cruiser" Earns His Five Dollars a Day. Would any young "city fellow" like to bettcr his condition by becoming a litimber 'cruiser"? Here is a picture of the man and his job painted by a western exchange: The timber cruiser is the autocrat of the woods. He is the king of wood-men. He lives well, feels well, and does welt financially. He never has to take a vacation to get away from the grind of the office. He never has brain fag. His liver is always in order, and his conscience is clear. At night he sleeps without disturbing dreams. But he has to work harder than most men think it possible for man to work. The timber cruiser's business is to estimate the amount of timber contained on areas of land. He can walk through the woods and tell within ten per cent, frequently within· five per cent, of the amount of lumber the standing trees would make. He can tell you, besides the boards, how many piles there are in your stretch of woods, and how many railroad ties can be made from it. He does all this for $5 a day and his expenses, counting from the moment he leaves the lumber company's office for the woods. The accomplishment of thc cruiser appears more wonder-ful on closer exa111ination. He works hard and fast, "look-ing" one qLlarter section everyday, and frequently two. Man-ifestly, it would be impossible for him to count the trees or measure them. Packing enough to last generally for several weeks, the cruiser and his compass man start for the piece of woods they are to estimate. The compass man is an apprentice, and his is a bard apprenticeship, but he. too, is well paid. He gets $3 a day and expenses. Arriving at the neighborhood, the cruiser and compass man first find a scction corner. This may take them but a few moments, if a farmer can tell them where to look. It may take hours, or perhaps even days, The cruiser has a blue print map. with the sections and quarter sections marked on it. together with some streams, and perhaps a few roads. This gives him the general lay of the land, The cruiser and compass man find their way through the woods by means of a compass, which the compass man car-ries. On arriving at the corner, the compass man takes a dght at some distant tree which lies in the direction he wishes to go and walks straight to"ward it, never taking his eye off the tree, He may fall over windfalls, tumble down gullies, and tear his clothes in going through the dense brush, but he never loses sight of the tree. How does he know when he has gone far enough? By the number of steps. He figures by tallies, sixteen making a mile, and generally counts 130 to 140-steps too a t~lIy, and so expert do these woodsmen become that they can "tie up" at the end of a mile of walking through the woods. tip hill and down, within a few paces of the place the map shows them the corner mark should be. In estimating the timber the woodsmen regularly go through each forty acres twice. The compass man walks ahead, the cruiser following and observing the timber. At each tally the compass man paces off twenty-five paces and measures perhaps half a dozen trees. A circle with a radius of twenty-Jive paces is figured as an acrc, and the cruiser. by taking the average circumference of the trees in this acre, and counting the trees, can gain an idea of the amount of timber on this single unit. He regularly estimates the height of the timber. as it varies arbitrarily. Log.· scales enable him to figure out how much timber there will be, say in a tree three feet through and one hundred feet high. The end of the day finds the cruiser and his compass man tired and hungry, but their work is not fmished. While the compass man prepares supper the cruiser makes his elabor-ate compilations. At the end of perhaps a morith, in which they have traveled possibly several hundred miles. mostly on foot, the cruiser and his compass man come back to town to report what they have found. One is paid $150. the other $90, and it is almost clear profit, for a good cruiser seldom has to wait more than a day or two between jobs. De.ip by Arthur Kirkpatrick. Grand Rapib. Micb. 19 Sawed and Sliced Cut QUARTERED WALTER CLARK 535 Michigan Trust Building Citizens Phone· 5933 OAK VENEERS ===========ALWAYS IN STOCK ===================--- You May Come and Select it for Yourself or we will do it for you. G RAN D RAP IDS, M I CHI G A N Don't "Thir..k Business" in Bed. Numerotls business men, as well as their executives and employes, bear testimony to a great and common weakness-- their inability to stop thinking about business after retiring for the night. Tn this way they are robbed of so much steep that they feel "all llsed up" the next day-are "total wrecks, on arising. To a prominent New York business man thus afflicted, O. S. Marden, a contributor to the Business t.Jen's IHaga7.inc, not long ago gave this advice: "Cultivate the habit of closing the door of his business brain at the same time that he closes the door of his business office." You should, said the prescriber, insist on changing the current of your thoughts "vhen you leave your business for the day just as you change your environment, or as you change your dress for dinner when you go home in the even-ing. Turn your thoughts to your wife and children, to their joys and cares; talk to them, play games witli them, read some humorous or entertaining story, or some strong interesting book that will lift yOU, in spite of yourself out of your busi-ness rut. Go out for a long walk or a ride; fill yottr lungs with strong, sweet, fresh air; look about you and observe the beauties of nature, or have a hobby of some kind to which you can turn for recreation and refreshment when you quit your regular business. Be master of your mind; learn to control it instead of allowing it to control you and tyran-nize over you. Hang up in your oed chamber, in a conspJC- ~UOLIS place, where you can always see it, a card bearing in bold illuminated characters this motto: "NO THINKIKG HERE." Shut off all thinking process of every kind when you retire for the nig-ht, relax every muscle, let there be no tension of mind or body, ar:d in a short time you will find that sleep will come to you as naturally and as easily as to a little child. The habit of thinking after going to bed is fatal to all frt;:'shness of brain wark. These men have not learned to lock their business in their offices or factories when they quit for the night, so they drag it home, bring it up at the dinner table and depress the whole family. Or, if they do not talk about their problems, their anxiety and absent-mindedness to-tally unfit them for the pleasant companionship of their fam-ilies. They are so absorbed in the problems of their VOca-tions that they do not know what is going all around them. They do not know hmv to sleep ""'ith all their burden, just as a timid camel lies down in the desert with its great burden stitt on its hack. It i!i a great art to he able to shut the gates in the great mental power house on retiring, to control yourself, to put oneself in sympathy with those about him, in harmony with the world, to expel from the mind everything which jars, ir-ritates, all malice, envy and jealousy, the enemies of our peace .and happiness, before we go to sleep. World Wants American Wood. The bureau of statistics of the department of commerce and labor issued a statement November 2:~, which says: "Practically the wbole world is asking for Amer.ical1 wood and its products. The exports of this character have in~ creased thirty-three per cent during the nine months of the present year over last year. Dur-ing this time the value of these exports ....a..s.. $59,000,000. This total is raised to $61,~ 000,000 by adding shipments from American ports to contig~ uous territory. Ten years ago the total value of exports of tbis class ..v..as $32,000,000." The larger part of the exports is classed as boards, deals, planks, poists and scantling, and the next largest is furniture. Germans Have a New Metal. The American consul general of Frankfort, Germany, re-ports the use of a new metal called Alzen, composed of two parts aluminum and one part zinc. It is said to equal (',ast-iron in strength but is much more elastic. Alzen is superior De.ign by Henry De Loof, Student in the Grand Rapids School of FUl'I'Iiture DeRlI;Iling. because it docs not rust as easily as does iron and it takes a high polish. Resides being very strong this new metal is capable of filling out the most delicate lines and figures of form!i in casting, and therefore is superior to anything yet discovered for ornamental purposes. .J 20 Otis Mfg. Co. New Orleans. Chicago. Chicago Office and Distrib· uting Yards: 2257 to 2267 LUMBERST. Importers and Manufacturers of MAnOOAnl How Many Table legs Can You Turn Per Oayand How Good are They 1 WE can figure with you either way on Ihis ptoposition. If you have the quantity you haven't the quality of work done on our No.5 Table Leg Machine; if yOIl have the quality you· haven't the quantity. A queer proposition? Yes. BUIowingto the simplicity of ope ..a-tiOD; the oscillating carriage; the variable friction feed, and last, but nol least, the cutter head of this machine, no other machine on the market can come anywhere near it. It will turn heavy table legs piano pillars; piano stool legs, couch legs. len pins. etc" round 01' almost any odd shape, better and faster than any olher possible way of do. ing Ihis kind of work. Your correspondence is solicited. C. MATTISON MACHINB WORKS, 841 Fifth Street. Beloit. WiM:onlin. R. S. HUDDLESTON MANAGER HANP CIRCULAR RIP SAW. MORTtSltR Complete Oulfi! of HAND and FOOT POWER MACHINERY WHY THEY PAY THE CABlfI,1ET MAKER. He can save a manufacturer's profit as weU I1S a dealer'l!I p1"(Jflt. . He eau make more money with less capitat invested. He can hold a better aud more !lutlKfuctory trade with hbl. custoiners. He caD manufacture in as good d;l'le ll·n(1finish, and at llS low cod as the fadories. The local cabinet IIlRker hils been foreed into 6nly tbe deal-er'l! I trade and profit, because of macbIoe manufactured goods of factories. An outfit of Ba.rnes' Pat~nt Foot and Hand-Power )Iachio_ ery, reinl!otat~ the enbinet maker 'WIth ad-vantages equal to his competitors. If desired, these ntaehines will be MId ON TRIAL. The purcbsu;:er can have ample time to test them in his own shop and on the work he wlshe8 them to do. Descriptive cata-logue and price Ust tree. No.4 SAW(ready for cross-cntting) W. f. & JO"~ 84RNES CO.654 Ruby St .•RockfOrd. III. COMBINED MACH1NE. FOR lifER OR MOULDER. HAND TIlNQNlla. No, 3 WOOD LATHIl, NO.4 SAW (ready tor ripping) No. l' SCR.OLL $A.w. r .21 THIS MACHINE MAKES THE MONEY ===BY SAVINGIT'=== It makesa PERFECT IMITATION of any open grain becauseit usesthe wood itselfto print from. and one opera lor and a couple of boys can do more work with it than a dozen men with any other 50pcalled machine or pads on the market. That's why it's a money maker. It imitates perfectly PLAIN or QUARTERED OAK, MAHOGANY, WALNUT, ELM, ASH or any other wood with open grain. Write the Posselius Bros. Furniture Manufacturing Co., Detroit Mich. FOR PRICES AND FULL PARTICULARS. MENTION THE MICHIGAN ARTISAN. j 22 -------...... ----,,--- IT'S UP TO YOU MR. MANUFACTURER to nnd out tbe real merits of our "Special" grade.of leather Beltinlr for Wood Workinlr Machinery Years of experience have taught us your requirements in this line and we are therefore prepared to guarantee you the very best Belting for small pulleys and high speed. Sen'd iti Iour Inquirin. GRAND RAPIDS BELTING CO. MANUFACTURERS OF LEATHER BELTINC, LACINC, BELT DRESSINC NO BELT CEMENT. PHONE 4518. 99·IOI·6th St., Grand Rapids, Mlch" U. S. A, We manufaclure a grade of Belting for Carving Machinery which has proven a great success, Let us tell you abouf it. (PATENT APPLIED FOR) "NO-KUM-LOOSE" Knob "8" This Koob is the latest thing out iu the way of a drawer knob. It will never come loose. CJI A sample sel 01 out styl~A and B mailed Iree on application. Prices quoted lor Qyartered Oak, Birch, Walnut and Mahogany. We carry Qyartered Oak, Walnul and" Mahogany in stock. 1'.I~ft, I}>;" Net.50 pet dozen i IX' 65" .. 2" 75" .. f. o. b. Grand Rapids. WE MAKE A TOILET SCREWTO MATCH. Waddell Manufacturing Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. Saw and Knife Fitting Machinery and Tools n:"'..'ffn·~~a~~~,~~t Baldwin. Tuthill ®. Bolton Grand Rapids. Mich. Filers, Setters, Sbarleners, Grinders. Swages, Stretchers. Brazing and Filing Claml)s. Knife Balances. Hammering Tools. Inv~stis:ate our Lme. New 200 page Catalor;rue for 1'}06 Free, Bolton Band Saw Filer for Saws % inch UP. B. T. & B. Style D. Knife Grinder. Full Automatic. W~t OTdly -------------------OFFICES----------~------- Bo.ton New YOl'k JaMe.town High Point Ciaciaaatf Detroit Grand RapJds Chicago St. Louie MJn.fteapoU. ".&Gelate Offtce. IUld :Bonded AttorneyS In all Pl'lnclpal cUtes WE PIlODUCE RESULTS WHERE OTHERS FAIL WRITlt FOR PARTICULARS AND ,\:OU WIt.L SEND US YOUR JIUSINESS. Our Complaint and Adjustment Depal'hnent ked Dl'afts Collect I A New Style of the "Everlasting Dado-Head." The, accomp:Ol11yingcut shows a new style of the "Evcr-lasting Dnc1o-Hend" recently gotten out by the C. 1daUisol1 l\1achine \;Yorks of Beloit, \Visconsin. The new feature of thi~ head over the old Olle is that it carries eight knives in-stead of four, giving it twice the cutting surface. To any mechanic the p-icture will readily show that the head is entirely practical and suited to all kinds of dado work. The claims of advantage made for it are: 1. It 'works faster and smoother than any other style of head because its grooving knives are made to cut with a shear. 2. It is adjustable to the smallest fractional part of an inch, to cut a groove to fit any odd size of lumber, 3. It is indexed and can be accurately adJusted without rcmoval from machine. 4. It is renewable \",here the wear comes, that is, on the knives. They can be replaced by any 1l1echank, making the head "E\'erlasting." ;"l. The knives are adjustable in and ont and the diameter is always kept the same. This makes it cut with the highest efficiency until the knives arc entirely \yorn ont. 6. It is simple in construction and very easily taken care of-an important point where a head is left about the factory for the general use of whoever may happen to need it. 7. /\ set screw is used to fasten the hub to the arbor, the latter being protected by a feather fastened in a slot in the hub. This does away with the need of saw collars and also permits of the head beiJlg placed anywhere on a long arbor. The C. Mattison !\.fachine \iVorks sell this head on the con-dition that if after ten days trial it does not prove entirely satisfactory, it may be returned at their expense. A circular containing a large picture of the head and giving complete description will be cheerfully sent to any me-chanic or mill-man. D. A. KEPPERLING Commercial photographer Phone Calumet 709. 1414-1416 W.I..,h Ave., CUiCAGO SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. 23 Americans Must be More Liberal. An experience of Consul Albert Halstead of Birmingham tn an effort to help introduce an American novelty into the United Kingdom carries a lesson that he thinks should be learned by Americans who would enter the foreign market. The consul writes: As a result of one of my consular reports a lette'r came from an American manufacturcrasking if he could be put into communication with some firm who migbt be interested in handling his product. 1 wrote to a large and substantial firm of merchants here and received a reply that was non-committal as regards the American novelty offered, but con-tained the following paragraph, which is most instructive: "Vie carry a hlrge and varied stock, including some Ameri-can goods, but there is a limit to these, and we do not often find American producers considerate. They generally want to sell out and out, 'cash down on shipment, and we are not disposed to take all the responsibility and risks in creating :1 sale. To have samples and take orders to be delivered is too slo'", and contrary to what our customers look for from us. 1£ any of your correspondents are prepared to venture SOOL(·.- thing we are confident we can be useful to them and help to justify it, but to buyout and out shipments of all articles that they think \..·.ould sell at sight on this side we are not pre-pared to do." The experience of this fmn is not exceptional. American exporters insist very frequently on being paid f. o. b. New York. They will give little credit to foreign firms and de-mand an acceptance of goods unexamined. They offer the would-be purchaser no opportunity to see that the goods are up to .':iample,exactly are as ordered, and have arrived in good shape. They manifest little, if any, faith in the foreign buyer and deman an almost unlimited faith in themselves. \~rhen citizens of other exporting nations give long credits and large discounts for cash and smaller discounts for pay-ment within comparatively short periods, y:uoting prices de-livered at a seaport in the country to which they are export-ing, or at the point of destination inland, such exporters nat-urally capture trade which the American exporter could have if he did likewise. In addition to this lack of faith in the foreign purchaser is the fact that goods sold f. o. b. in New York cost much more for shipment from the American seaboard to the foreign sea-port or inland city than those upon which the freight has been paid by the shipper. The shipper has the opportunity of getting freight rates from several steamship lines, That means competition, and consequently lower freight charges. The foreign shipper, if the goods are sent IIfreight collect," must pay the freight charges assessed on the goods on their recdpt. He can not calculate in advance upon the exact cost of shipment, and can not th~refore know when ordering the exact cost of his purchase. This is manifestly a decided dis-advantage to the foreign buyer. The American exporter mLlst take his share of responsibility and risk or lose thE' chance of making a sale. Trying to Force the Railroads. The executive committee of the Pacific Coast Lumber l\fanufacturers' Association, which was empowered by the association to institute <lIly action deemed necessary, has in-structed attorneys to begin suit in the federal court at Ta-coma, Vlash., against the Northern Pacific Railroad Company for a writ of mandamus to compel the railroad company to furnish cars; also for a forfeiture of the charter for a viola- .t:ion of the same as a common carrier. An action will also be brought before the Interstate Com-merce Commission, which will sit in Tacoma to consider the complaints of delay and discrimination in handling lumber and products. A complaint also v-"'illbe filed with the state railroad commission. 24 P. H. Reddinger Carving Worhs (Formerly Cincinnati (Jarving Works of Cincinnati, 0.) CARVINGS and FURNITURE ORNAMENTS of aU kinds. EVANSVILLE. IND. By sending me a small order I will convince you that I am the man who can make your carvings. ONE TRIAL WILL DO THE BUSINESS. INSIST ON HAVING MorrisWoo~a Sons' Soli~ Steel alue Joint (utters for there are no otherJ' U Ju.rt aJ' good .. They cut a clean perfect joint always. Never burn owing to the GRADUAL CLEARANCE (made this way only by us), require little grinding, saving time and cutters. No time wasted setting up and cost no more than other makes. Try a pair and be convinced. Catalogue No. 10 and prices on application. MORRIS WOOD &. SONS Thirty_two .,.ear. at 31-33 S. Canal Street, CHICAGO. ILL. THIS, THE FACTORY EDITION OF· THE MICHIGAN ARTISAN, IS Mailed to Manufacturers Only. IF YOU WISH TO REACH ALL DEALERS IN FURN-ITURE. USE THE MERCANTILE EDITIONS OF THE MICHIGAN ARTISAN. MAILED TO DEALERS ONLY. L. 25 USE A MORTON KILN IT WILL END YOUR DRY KILN TROUBLES Does not warp or check lumber. THE MOST PERFECT MOIST AIR KILN ON THE MARKET. TRUCKS, CANVAS DOORS, RECORD-ING THERMOMETERS and other sup-plies. Write for catalog F which tells HOW TO DRY LUMBER. MORTON DRY KILN CO. 218 LA. SALLE ST" CHICACO. PALMER'S Patent Gluing Clamps Are the most &ucce&sfut Piling Clamps Mi1de For the following reasons They damp iD!ltantlly lUly width of dimension I!\tuck, DO ad- .lU!olting clamps to fit the work, they hook at once to the desired width. Releallcd iOMtaOtly-throw out the lever and take them oft', The work CRn be removed as faMt as it cAn be bandled. '\8 the clamp i8 placed over the work and locks into the 000 below it, the draw 18 alike on both sides, prevents all springing no matter bow wide the stock may be. Implll.sible for them to sl1p; the wedge has serrated edge and cannot he mOlred when damp ill closed, hammer all YUUlike. UnllmUed power: great st,rength and durability; malleable Iron and steel; the knncklo joints are socket joints, not rivets. Although the best they COl!It you less. For further Information ask for catalogue N<>.4. A. E.. Palmer. Owosso. Mich. (Engine Patented,) Engine Satisfaction Assured by the use of our VERTICAL, SELF-OILING ENGINES (Type A). Regarding their experience with them the Marietta (Ga.) Chair Co., write: "In regards the TVPE A Engine of your make that we are using, beg to say thjs engine has been in operation for about fourteen months, and has been the most satisfactory- piece of machinery we have ever run for that length of time. \Ve use it to drive two light dynamos, and are get-ting most excellent results from it." Our descriptive matter is yours for the asking. American Blower Co., ---DBTROIT'--- New York Atlanta London '------- - 26 ·"'~MIF[IIG7J-N , Fine Service MICHIGAN CENTRAL Grand Rapids .II Detroit .II Toledo THROUGH CAR LINE Solid train service with Broiler Parlor Cars and Cafe coaches running on rapid schedule. Through sleeping car to New York on the "Wolver-ine," making the run in nineteen hours and fifty min-utes. For full particUlars see Michigan Central agents Or E. W. COVERT, C. P. A., O. W. RUGGLES, G. P. A., Grand Rapids. Chicago. 1------------ . BOYNTON «CO. Manufacturers of Embo ... ed Ilnd Turned Mouldil'lp. Embo.&ed -and Spindle Carvinp, and Automatic TlU'Ilingll. ''lie also manu-facture a large line of Emboaaed Orna. menb for Couch Work. SEND FOR CATALeGUE 419-421 W. Fifteenth St .• CUICI\GO. ILL. Wood Forming Cutters We offer exceptional value in Reversible and One-Way Cutters for Single and Double Spin-dle Shapers. Largest lists with lowest prices. Greatest variety to select from. Book free. Address SAMUEL J. SHIMER & SONS MILTON. PENNSYLVANIA. U. S.A. 50 PER CENT of the circulations of trade papers (excepting the MICHIGAN ARTISAN) is mailed to manufac-turers, designers, shop hands, commission men, jobbers of factory supplies and others wllO do not sell furui ture and kindred goods. To reach the largest number of retailers use tbe Michigan Artisan's Mercantile Editlons MAILED TO RETAILERS ONLY. Sfe~~ensonMf~.(0. South Bend, Ind. Wood Turnings, T umed Moulding, Dowels and Dowel Pins. Catalogue to Manufa<:- tllrers on Application. If your DESIGNSare right. people want the Goods. That mak.. PRICES right, (tlarence 1R.bflla DOES IT 163Madison Avenue-Citizens Phone 1983. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Folding Bed Fixtures Profitable fixtures to use are those which give the least trouble. They are made by Folding Bed Williams in many styles and designs, suitable for every Folding Bed Manufacturer. Furniture Castings, Panel Holders. Corner Irons, etc. New ideas and inventions constant-ly being added to the line. F. B. WILLIAMS 3812 VIDCenD.ee ATe •• Chicago. Manufacturer of Hardware Specialties for the Furniture Tmde. Established 1878 Factory Locations There is in the various offices of the Land and In-dustrial Departments of the Southern Railway and Mobile & Ohio Railroad late information regarding a number of first class locations for Fumiture,.Chair and other Woodworking Factories, which will be furnished Manufacturers upon application.. An invitation is ex-tended to all -who use wood in their plants to write about the timber supply, good sites and markets avail-able in our territory.. Address your nearest agent. M. V. RICHARDS, Land and Industrial Agent. WASHINGTON, D. C. CHAS. S, CHASE, Agent. 624 Cbe~lcal BUlld!~a!$~._~o~i~ Mo. 27 The LION VARNISH and SHELLAC WORKS KAREL DE LEEUW, Manager. 1475 State St., CHICAGO, ILL. ONE OF OUR SPECIAL TIES Lustreless Special Finish for Mission and Fumed Oak Furniture. Does not retain wax. A quick dryer and does not stick. Samples Furnished on Request. Wages in Great Britain. The annual report 011 ''''ages and hours of labor in the United Kingdom in 190;) h;lS recently been published by the, la bor departmcl1t of the British board of trade as a parlia-mentary paper. A. \;Vitson Fox, in his introduction, says that the changes in ",'ages reported during the year resulted in <I net reduction. The amount of the decrease, however, meas-ured in weekly loss of wages, 11e says, ..v.as considerably smaller than in any of the four preceding years, while in the first half of 1906 there was, on the whole, a decided upward movement. In the fonr years, lD01-1D04, reductions in the rates of ,-"ages of coal miners formed a prominent factor. In 1905 rates of ,,·:ages in the industry continued to decline, but there was ~n important advance in the cotton trade, and wages also rose in the pig iron and iron, steel and manufac-tnring industries. He goes on to say: Taking into accollllt the various dates at which the changes in :1.905 came into operation the llet decrease in the year's wages bill due to the changes recorded in this report may be ronghly estimated at $554,781, as compared with de-creases of $4,564,7'77 in lD04, $2,433,250 in 1903, $1l,192,950 in 1902, and $7,786,400 in l!)01. The general report gives a summary of the results of the labor department's inquiry in 1905. It figures out that the net result of all the changes was a decrease of nearly $l1,OOQ per week. It is stated that the last five years, 1£101-1905, have been years of falling wages in the United Kingdom. It is further started that for thc first half of 1906, 832,526,,,,'arkpeo-ple had a net increase in their wages, while 6,66[1had a net decrease, and others were llllchanged. But the net effect of all the changes \Vas an increase of $1:;0,000 per \,veck in the toted wages. The changes reported in llOurs of labor durillg the first half of H106showed that 2;'"),017 work people had a reduction in hours amounting in the ag'greg-ate to 41,902 hours a \veek, while 74 persons bad their hours illcreaseda total of 132 hours a week. Bankers and Currency Reform. Because the currency progTamme cut out for COllgress has the unanimo1ls indorsement of h;l11kers, it is argued tbat it must be perfect, hut there is a lot of public opinion in this republic to th(', effect that ban-kers are 110t the only people who have an interest in the currenc:r, says the Chicago Eyen-ing Journa1. Possibly it is very ahsurci, but there is a wide-spread belief that banker.~ care more for their own iuterests' than they do for the interests of other people, and that when all the bankers get together 011 allY currency proposition it is time for the public to look Ollt for the hooks. Unfortunately, bankers are apt to entertain the idea that currency is created for the benefit of banks, not that banks exist merely as a currency convenience. To the banker mind money exists for the yielding of interest. To the average business mind it exists for the saving of illtcrest. Thc essential purpose of currency is to facilitate general industry, and its volmne and flexibility ought to be regulated solely to tbat cnd. Quite a different viewpoint is that of the banker 'who \vould like to have the money supply so far regulated by himself as to afford him the highest possible rate of interest. Congn:;ss kno'\\'s very well that the currency system is de-fective. But congress kTlOWS,too, or ought to know, that the main defects are not due to any oversight of the inter-etsts of the money loaners, but to an 'oYersight of the inter-ests of the hundreds of thousands of money borrowers. Currency reform by bankers is "reform" in the wrong di-rection and in the interest of the wrong kind of people. From Owosso to Sheboygan. James Findlater, for the past tcn years with the Estey Company, Owosso, Mich., has resigned and gone over to Sheboygan, Wis., where he takes charge of the finishing de- DeBig-ned by E. A, Hake, Grand Rapid&, Mich. partment for the Northern Furniture Company. Mr. Find-later is known as a conscientious, capable workman, and the Northern people are to be congratulated upon securing his services. 28 ·~r;.I9 ..HIG7fN Il I'o"u!lelius Bl'os.Furn. Hfg Co., Vetrcit, lJi<'h. l~l'(l.bst Fum. Co., Pomeroy, O. Queen Chair Co., Thoroasl'ille, .N. C. Ranney Refrigerator Co., Greenville, ~lich. Richmond Ind. Mfg. Co., Richimond, Ind. Ri!lhel Furn. Co., WilliamsJ;JilJrt. Pa. Rockford Furn. Co., Rockford, nl. R-ockford Standard Furn. Co., Rockford, DI. Rome Metall.ie Bed Co., Rome, N. Y. Root Furn. Co., Shelbyville, Ind. Royal Mantel & lurn. Co., Rockford, m. !Sanitary Steel Couch Co., Elkhart, Ind. Sextro Mfg. Co., CIncinnati, O. Schneider & Allmman, Chicago, III. Schneider it Allman, Chicago, m. Shreve Chair Co., Union City, Pa, SeUors, G. I., & 8008 Co., Elwood, Ind. !iihelbyvllIe Wardrobe Co., Shelh)'ville, Ind. Sikes Chair Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Skandia Forn. Co., Rockford, III Smith River Chair Co., Bassett, Va. Spencer it BaJ'ocs Co., Benton Harbor, Mil'll. SpIegel Furn; Cu., ShelbyvUle, Ind. Spl'ague & CW'leton, Koone, N. H. Standard Chair Co., Thomasville, N. C. StiCkley & Brandt Chair Co., Binghamton, N. Y. ~trillmp8-Burkhurdt "·orn. Co., Dayton, O. Strlet Mfg. Co., C. I'., Cincinnati, O. Sturkin-Ne1son Furn. C<t.,Logansport, Ind. Suitt Bro8., Cambridge, O. Swift & Co., Chleago, III. Toledo Metal ·Wheel Co., 'l'oledo, O. Thayer, H. H., Co., Erie, Pa. Thomas\'iUe Chau Co., Tholllllsville, N. C. Thomil!ivllle Furn. Co., ThfJomasvllle, N. C. 'thompson Chair C-6., Thoma~llrllle, N. C. t:nlon Foro. Co., Jamestown, N. Y. "·e8tern Hd\\'. & )-·urn. Co••, Milwaukee, \\'is. "·e"tern Furn. Co., Indianapolis, Ind. "'Idman, J. C., & Co., Detroit, Mich. ,,"'isco-nsln ChaIr Co., P"rt Washio.gtun, ,Yilil. ll'isconsln Forn. It lUfg Cu., Neillsville, Wis. ""olf & Kl'aemer Furn. Co., St. Louis, Mo. Wolverine Mfg. Co., Detroit, Mieh. Yeager Furn. Co., Allentown, PaT 11TH SEASON "THE CHICAGO EXHIBITION" THE BIG BUILDING Thirteen Nineteen (1319) Michil!an Avenue, CHICAGO, LINES IN READINESS JAN. 1ST,1907 PARTIAL LIST OF EXHIBITORS. THE MANUFACTURE'RS' EXHIBITION BUILDING COMPANY 1319 MICHIGAN AVENUE CHICAGO, ILL. American ·I·urn. Co., MartInS"'ilIe, "11. AmericllD. Bolet.alware ·Co., Chicago, UI. Banta 'Furn. Cll., (}QliIhen, Ind. Bassett Ful'D. Co., Ultssett, Va. Blanchard-Hamilton lurn. Co., Shelb)'ville, Ind. Billow-I.npfer Co., Columbus, O. BockeYe Chair Co., Rnvenlla, O. Bnrkhardt }'U1"O. Co., Dayton, O. B.RY View Furn. Co., Holland, Mich. Cadillac Cabinet Co., Detroit, Mleh. Campbell, C. H., Co., Shelbyville, Ind. Campbell, Smith &, Ritchie, Lebanon, Ind. Ca.pital Rattan Co., Indianaplllil" [nd. Cass, B. T., & Co., Chicago, nl. Clttes Chair Co., Thomasville, N. C. CiUltl'al' .Bedding Co., Chicago, Ill. Conrey-Blrely Table Co., Shelbyville, Ind. Conrey-Davis Mfg. Co., Shelbyville, Ind. Co-operative Furn. Co., Rockford, ID. Crame., Furn. Co., Thomasville, N. C. CroWl'll} Fum. Co., Lexington, N, C. Davis, Horwich & Steinmllll, ChIcago, Ill. Dillingham Mfg. Co., Sheboygan, Wis. Dixie Furo. Co., Lexington, N. C. Eckholf Furn. Co" Lexington, N. C. Elk Furn. Co., LexingtllD, N. C. Emmerich, Cbas., It: Co., Chicago, Ill. Empue lurn. Co" Jamestown, N. Y. Empire Moulding Works, Chicago, UI. Emrich FUrII. Co., Indianapolis, Ind. Fall C.-eek ~[fg.Co., Moores-'iille, Ind. Fenske Bros., Chicago, III. Ferguson 81'1)8., Hoboken, N. ,J. Finley Mfg. Co., Jameshwn, N. Y. Fisher, ChaM. A., &: Co" Chicago, Ul, Foster Bros. Mfg. Co., St. Louis, 1\010.,11011 Utica, N. Y: )-'uller &: "·arren Co., Milwaukee, ",,'1M. )-'reedmaD BrllS., ehlengo, III. Gar\'Y, The, Co. Genge Co., .t. C., St. Authuu)' Park, lliull. ('lIaheD Nm,eUy & Brush Co.• UOlihen, Ind. Hawks Furo. Co" Goshen, Ind. Heroy /It, Marrenner, {'blcago, nl. Herzog Art Furo. Co" Saghut\v, Bolich. Bodell Furn. Co., Shelby\'iUe, Ind. Hohensteln-][l1rtmet.z FnrIl. Co., E-"II,IIS\'ille, Ind. Hollatz Brolil., Chicago, 111. HOOD, F. I•., & CO., NASHVILLE, TENN. Hulse, E. M., Co., Columbns, O. Humphrey Book Case Co., Detroit, !oUch. Indianapolis Chair & Fnrn. Co., IndlanapoIls, Ind. Indian Brass & Iron Bed C(I., Indlunapolilol, Ind. ;'ameatowll Table C"., Jamestown, N. Y. ,Iohnson, A• .I., & 80ns, Chicago, Ill. Kelly, J. A., & Bros, Clinton, Ia. KeUy~So.-ensen Foro. Co., Clinton, Ia. Kemnitz Furn. Co., Green Bay, Wi8. Kincaid Furo. Co., States\'llle, N. C. Kindel Bedding Co.: St. Louts, 1\10. Knoxville Table & Chair Co., KnQxvllle, Tenn. r.amb. Geo. L., ::Sappanee, Ind, J.angslow-Fowler Coo., Rllchester, 1'l. Y. I.ANDAY, JOS. I., ST. LOLlS, 1\010. r.!tnday Steel Rlinge Co., St. I..ouis, :&10. I.ATHROP, THE, CO., CHICAGO, ILl •. Luster Chemical Co., Chicago, Ill. llanistee Mfg. Co., Manistee, Mich. Mayhew Mfg. Co., 1\lilwlIukee, ,,:is. McDougall, G. P., /It, Ron, Indianapolis, Ind. Mechanics' Furn. Co., Rockford, nr. Meier 8:. Pohlman :turn. Co., St. Loul!'i, 1\la. Modern Furn. Co., CincinDati, O. Napen:iIle I.ounge Co., Napen,me, III. National Table Co., Jamestown, Y. Y. :Norquist, A. C., & Co., Jl,mestowo, Y. Y Oberbeck Bros. "Ifg. Co., Grand Rapids, ·Wis. Oll:car, Onken Co., Cineinnutti. O. Palmer Furn. Co., A. E., Adrian, :Mich. Palmer Mfg. Co., Detroit, :MIch. Pana 1\oletul Bed Co., Pana, n1. PJ.D[PTOX, F. T., &I CO., CHIC.'.GO, U.J,. 7I19-.T IoS .7I.l'I 7" • 29 Qran~Da~i~snlow Pi~e an~Dust Arrester (om~an~ THE LATEST device for handling shavings and dust from all wood-working machines. OUf eighteen years experience in this class of work bas brought it nearer perfection than any other system on the market today. It is no experiment, but a demonstrated scientific fact, as we have several hundred of these systems in use, and not a poor one among them. OUf Automatic Furnace Feed System, as shown in this cut, is the most perfect working device of anything in its line. Write for our prices for equipments. WE MAKE PLANS AND DO ALL DETAIL WORK WITHOUT EX-PENSE TO OUR CUSTOMERS EXHAUST FANS AND PRESSURE BLOWERS ALWAYS IN STOCK Ofrice and Factor)': 208-210 Canal Street GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. CUla:en. Phone 1282 Bell. M.In 1804 • OUR AUTOMATIC FURNACE FEED SYSTEM 30 1Loufs babn DESIGNS AND DETAILS OF FURNITURE 154 Livingston St. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN Citizens' Telephone 1702:. THE WEATHERLY INDIVIDUAL GLUE HEATER Send your address aDd receive descrip-ti1.'(' l circular of Glue Heaters, Glue Cook-ers and Hot Boxes with prices. WEATHRL Y CO. GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. These saws are made from No. 1 Steel and we war-rant every blade. We also carry a full stock of Bev-eled Back Scroll Saws. any length and gauge. Write U8 tor Price List and discount 31-33 S. FRONT ST •• GRAND RAPIDS • FOUR TRAINS 10 and from CHICAGO Lv Gd Rpda 7:10 am AI' Chicago 1:15 pm Lv ad Rpds 12:05 pm. Ar Chicago 4:50.pm Lv Gd Rpds 4:25 pm AI' Chicago 10:55 pm ~Lv Gd Rpds 11:30 pm AI' Chicago 6:55 am • Daily. Pullman Sleeper, on 11:30 train open 9:00 pm. A Ill. carte Cafe service on all day trains. PeTe Marquette Parl(t)l' cars on all day trains. Rates reduced to 50 eants. THREE TRAINS 10 and from DETROIT and TOLEDO Lv Gd Rapids 7:12 am Ar Detroit 11:55 am At" Tol(!do 1:00 pm *Lv Gd Rapids 11:10 am Ar Detroit 3:06pm Ar TOledo 4:15 pm Lv Gd Rapids 5:20 pm Ar Detroit 9:20 pm At" Toledo 10:45 pm • Dally. Note Fast Time Made by Both Mtdday and Evening Train. Meals served a la. carte on trains leaving Grand Rapids at 11:10 am and 5:20 pm. Pere Marquette Parlor Cars on all trains. Seat rates, 25 cents. "ALL OVER MICHIOAN" H. J. GRAY, District Passenger Agent. Phone 1168. Grand Rapids, Mieh. IMPROVED, EASY and ELEVATORS QUICK RAISING Belt, Electric and Hand Power. The Best Hand Power for Furniture Stores Send for Catalogue and Prices. KIMBALL BROS, CO" 106' Ninth St•• Council Bluffs, la. Kimball Elevator Co.. 323Prospect St., Cleveland,O.; 108 11th St., Omaba, Neb.; 129Cedar St., New York City. Another Point to Remember If you place your announcemeuts in the MERCANTILE EDITIONS of the ARTISAN they will be read by DEALERS in fURNITURE and KINDRED GOODS ONLY, NEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA, Via GRAND TRUNK-LEHIGH VALLEY ROUTE. Two Fast Trains **7:05 pm **7:25 pm **8:40 pm Leave Grand Rapids , *2:45 pm Ar Philadelphia *3:40 pm Ar New York.". . *4:30 pm *Daily except Sunday. **Daily. Service unsurpassed. For further information ap-ply at City Office, Morton House Block. C. A. JUSTIN C. P. & T. A. JOHN DUER & SONS BALTIMORE. MD. Cabinet Hardware and Tools Etc., UPholstered Goods Hzwd&omeIt PuU on the Market for the MoO<l' Write for prices and Sample CQrrespondence Solicited No. 1573 WHITE PRINTING CO. ORAND RAPIDS, MICH WE PRINT THE MICHIClAN ARTISAN. ANt> ""AKE: A SPECIAL.TV OF CATALOOUE:5 FOrt THE F"URNITURE: TRADE:. DECEIVES PUBLIC AND DEALERS. How Makers of Bogus Antique Furniture Age Their pro-ducts. Sober. he js Ol1e of the most interesting men T know. Unfortunately, he is sober only three days a week. \\Then I ~\sl, him the reason he merely says he doesn't know. Yes-teniay, when I .va1ked into the taboratory at the back of his little village shop, he was a band of hope epitomized. "There's somdhing you'll like," he said, indicating a small bureau, old Spanish mahogany 'iv-ith new satinwood veneer-so far unpolished-without. The veneer was inlaid with ebony lines and kingwood bands. The accuracy of the joint-ing was wonderful; the fi.nish perfect. "You must come in again when I've stained and polished 1t," he went on, "and then you'll think 1t one of t'lle best Queen Anne pieces extant." "Don't your customers ever Jlml you out?" I asked. "Lord, no, sir! \-Vhen you've pulled seventeetlth century lurniture. "to pieces all your life and learnt the things the tcn~ ons and mortises and the finish tell you, it's easy enough to get the righ effect. The public haven't any judgment, and, for that matter, many of the dealers aren't much better?" "But this vcneer--so very new?" I hazarded. "Ah, wait till you see it toned down, and the drawers fitted with a set of old Boule handles and 'scutcheons I've got by me and a few little dents hammered here and there-espec-ially about the feet, where they get kicked. You'U not know it then. See that little black knot I've left on the face of the third drawer?" He is always frank with me about his fakes. to take a pride in being able to deceive a trained satisfaction in explaining his dexterity. I left the bureau aud began examining a heavy looking oak settee, gray with age. "Looks ancient, doesn't it?" he observed. "Looks !" I "'cllldered. "Surely it's genuine ?" He shook his head with a wise old smile. "It's as g"ctluine as dilute nitric acid can make it. Oh, yOUneedn't go by the panels. They're purposely warped with hot ammonia. The sun and rcl1n do the rest-bleach it, you know. "But the carving?" I argued. "It's almost effaced in places," "It would be after half an hour with a sandblast-a little thing of my own contrivance. The wormholes I rnake with a very fine ])uneh. Beginners use shotj but that's a clumsy way. Of course, the timber it's made of is old. Bits of a Charles the First table, mostly. The hinges are ordinary trade copies toat have lain in the ,vet all summer and got nicely rusted; and if you were to draw the screws that hold them you'd find they were rusty, too, and had no points. Those I filed off, and then hammered the heads a bit." "1 didn't kl10\V you-treated metal as well as timber." admitted. ;'Sometimes. See that fircback?" I went to the corner indicated and scrutinized the Greback. As far as 1 COUldtell it was a beautiful specimen of ham-mered work bitten and worn by over two centuries of use, as its date, 1687, seemed to show. "I bought a dozen of those of different dates from a man who makes them. They're only cast; but after they've had a bonfire over them in my yard for a week or two they get soft and look right enough, don't they?" I admitted that they did, flinching a bit, though, at the adjective he used. "There's a regular trade between the manufacturers of faked antiques and the country dealers. Why? Vl"ell, the manufacturers have discovered that people go into the COl1n- . try districts now hunting for antiques. They think the thing5 they pick up there must be genuine. The simple countryman inspires confidence! He seems eye and a 31 "There's nothing hardly that can't be imitated," he went on, "It's merely a question of time-and skill, of course, and it's only by accident-or talking, as I'm doing-that the fact's discovered. But when a man knows he can take in an ex~ pert it's difficult for him to keep it to himself. That is, if be's got a sense of humor. Do you think that Syriall gold work they had at the Louvre would have been known as a targer)' if sorcebot\-y hacf!y't talked? No, indeed! There's china, now. People always think it is ab0ve suspicion; but you just look at t:lOse two china cows all the shelf there. One's genuine old Staff(lrd-the other isn't. Can yOli tell the difference?" r used a pocket magnifying glass this time, but at the end of seyeral nlinutes I came to the conclusion that they \vere identical, and said so. He denied this. His ethics are summed up in the statement that given per-fect workmanship and material, ·he argues that if the imita-tion is as good as the original there is no dishonesty in selling Design by E. A. Make. Grand Rapid •• Mich. it as such. He bas st~preme contempt [or the indifferent cr<lftsmall. A flaw in his own work will condemn it. It must be above suspicion before it leayes his shop. He knolNs everything there is to know about furniture, faience, tapestry, pewter, Jacobean glass, Adam's brass~work, colored prints, old Sheffield plate, and a hundred other thing.;. His shop is full of them, He buys most of them from the surroU11(ling farmers who are ignorant of their value, and his profits go in old brandy. Some of it is as antique as his goods. "If T were like some of them," he resume~, "I might have made a mint of money. I've seen the trend of public taste for £lily years-and always been able to anticipate it.. When people lived with heavy Victorean mahogany I laid in a little stock of Sheraton and Chippendale. When they changed from that I was ready for them with Hippelwhite and Adam. i foresav'i the craze for Empire things, and now-wen, I'n telt yOU something, and yoU can go away and make money out o[ it. The curio-hunters will be running after Italian furniture next. Not quinque-ecnto stuff-it's not comfort-able: but Venetian chairs of carved walnut-the semi-cir-cular shape-upholstered in old rose and gold brocade. And they'll "vant Italian walnut paneling with the fine simple pat-tern in relief, and Della Robia ware to go with it." He paused for a n1011)ent. "And I can make it an just as wetl-and you couldn't tell the difference."-Armiger Barclay in Chicago Examiner. 32 ·~r;.I9]-iIG?!N B. WALTER & CO. Manufactu"'" of T ABLE SLIDES Exclusivdy WABASH INDIANA WRITE FOR PRICES AND DISCOUNT ===Fnmed Oak Oil Stain (Origioalproductlon in 'OIL) No more fumina. No more sancHnt!. This stain can be &heIlaeed over in 80 minutes after it 1M applied. Every pice of furniture on which it is need can be fin.- ished and chipped the same day. We are tbe originators of Weathered, Early Engli8b, Antwerp and "I hel' l\fismon oil stains. Bam-plcsfut'n18hed on application" Grand Rapids Wood Finishing Company GRAN~ RAPIDS, MIeN. GLOBE VISE AND TRUCK CO. Offi(:e 321 South Division St., GRAND RAPlDS. MICH. Mfrs. of High Grade Wood Workers Vises AND Faolory Trucks Quality and Price talk in factory trucks and we ran interest you. Will you send us your address and let us write you aboUL them ~ TYrite/or Prices. "'Ie have Over 12different st)'les of factcn-y and warehouse trucks to offer, also a complete lil.e of woodworking vises atJd benches. The Universal Automatic CARV/NO MACHINE ===~PERFORMS THE WORK OF ===~ 25 HAND CARVERS And does the Work Better than it can be Done by Hand --~~---MADE BY------- Union [nuosslno MA(U1nr Co. IndianapoU8# Indiana Write to, Info,mation, P,icel Etc. The Pittsburg Plate Glass Company MANl]FACTtr1lRRS A.ND JOBBERS OP Plain and Beveled Mirrors, Bent Glass for China Cabinets Plate Glass for Desks, Table Tops and Shelves OUTfacilities for supplying furniture manufacturers will be understood when we state that we have 10 Glass factories, extending from Pennsylvania to Missouri; and 13 Mirror plants; located as follows: Also, our 22 jobbing houses carry heavy stocks in all lines of glass, paints, varnishes aad brushes and are located in the cities named below: New York Boston PhUadelphia New York-Hndllon and Vandam St8. Buffalo--B72-4-6-8 Pearl Street. BUffalo Cincinnati st. Louis Bosto0-41-49 SUdbury, 1.9 Browker. Stll. Brooklyn-6S6 and 637 Fulton Street. . Minneapulis Atlanta Kokomo, .Ind. Chicag0-442-4JS2 Wabash Avenue. Philadelphia-Pitcairn Bollding, An' Ford City, Pa. High Point, N. C. Cincinnati-Broadway and Croun Sts. and Eleventh Sts. St. Loul~or. 7th aod Market Sts. Davenpo1'~lO-416 Soott Street. Davenpflrt CrJ'shJl City, Mo. MfRDetlpaJ,8-M)t)-.lHQ S. ThIrd St. CleveIaod-149-51-511 SeneCa Street. Detl'olt-.'i3-1'15 Larned St., E. Omaba-lOO8-10-12 HUDey Street. PUtsburgh-lOl-l03 Wood Street. St. Paol-S<l9-51 Minnesota Street. It needs no argument to show what Milwaukee, Wis-492.494 Market St. Atlanta, Ga.-30, 32 and S4 S. Pryor St. Rochester, N. Y.-Wtlder Building, 1\Iuio Savannah, 08.-745-749 Wheaton Street. advantages may be derived from dealing and Exchance Sh. KRnrms CUy-Fifth and Wyandotte Sts, directly with us. Baltlmore-221-223 W. Pratt Stl'eet. Birmingham, Ala.-2nd Ave. and 29tb St. AGENTS FOR THE COULSON PATENT COR.NERPOSTS AND RATS. Glue-Pot Efficiency and Economy. "AllY manufacturer who foLlmvs the. atd method i.n using all oil lal11V for keeping glue warm or the other common method of a bot .\'ate1' pan with several lift-out glue pots, is behind the time~," says a well known Inal1ufacturer of Grand Rapids, :~v1ich. 'The oil tamp requires time, is \.\npkasant and unsafe i~la fire risk way. "The central battery, with the carrying of glue back and forth, is also unsatisfactory. for even if at the right tempe nt-ture when taken, it cannot remain so for n10re than a fe.w mo-ments. A little calculation of lost time going to and from will be a surprise to the mall who takes the trouble to figure it out. "The up-to-date method consists in a tine of steam pi.pes usually 1 inch or three-fourths of an inch, starting from a high point in the factory and extended with a constant down-ward grade just bnck and over the benches, "with a T' fitting at each bench, to which is attached a water jacket (ste.anl heated) with a lift-out glue pot. The stearn does 110t, however, Colt's Universal CLAMP Excels all hand screw clamps in adaptation to work, convenience of handling and quick action. Especially adapted to Veneering, Panel-ing and all work requiring long broad jaw. Ask for Catalogue No. 135. BATAVIA CLAMP CO. 45 Center St .• BATAVIA, N. Y. Mention Michigan Artisan. enter the \-vater or have any escape \"h;ltever, except at the extreme end of the line, for the relief of condensation. On th(: entire system, be it flve or tifty kettles, only two valves are needed-one at the feed and one at the return ends. "The adjustah1e feature of the steam heater premits per~ feet regnlation of temperature. It may be kept always just right. It does away with the seri011S complaint against the central steam patl, that is, pouring' a cloud of vapor into the "oom constantly, damaging alike to stock and timber \vork." From the foregoing it appears that the heatlng of glue and keeping it at the proper temperature for use IS a matter of great impe,rt::mce to furniture manufacturers. There are many glue pots and similar eJc-viees 011 the market, but it is COllceded that the glue pots and glue heaters invented and made by YV. C. \Veatherly of Grand Rapids, Mich., come nearer the ideal {\cscribed above than any other 110\'\7 offered. l\lr. \Veathcrly also manufactures and sells a "hot box" that has pUJ\·ed its worth to many manufacturers. The Ad·el-ite Folder. The Ae1;lms & Elting Company of Chicago has recently issued a folder illustrating the merits of their popular one-coat dull finish. Samples of oak and mnhogany, to which their Ad-el~ite dull finish has heen applied, are attached. This finish is well liked for halls, dining rooms, libraries and all interior wood work. It shows up well in weathered oak and all rich, subdued effects of the old Spanish Missions. It stains awl finishes complete in one cont. Any desired shade can be produced by mixing the different colors together. Ad-cl- ite dull finish will cover t\vice as much surface as yarn"ish stains or Fmishes do and \...i.ll not scratch, mar or wear ofT. 1- 7IR T I.s A.l'f e T r:.. :n Death of Mrs. Walter Langley. 111'S.""Va.lter Langley of Grand Rapids, Mich., met death suddenly and in a peculiar mallncr on December 10, She had been standing on the veranda at their home, watching her husband phiying with their little daughter, who in's1sted· on accom.panying hin! to the grocery. The walk and the \'eranda floor were covcred with ice from the rain and freeze of the night before and as J\hs. Langley turned to go into the house, she slipped and fell backward, the back of her head striking the stone walk. Her skull was fractured and she died an hour later without regaining consciousness. :\lr. Langley is well and favorably known as traveling salesman for the Herzog Art Furniture Company of Saginaw, l\lich., and has many friends i.n the flltuiture trade who win sincerely sympathize with him ill his sad bereavement. Substitutes for Folding Beds. "Then>. has certainly been a great falling off in the demand for folding beds recently," said P. J. Vlegrler of \Vegner Bros., Grand Rapids, lVfich. "I suppose it is due to changes and improvements in the styles of lounges and· couches. The sanitary eouche~ have taken the place of the old cheap lounges nlH..!the davenports and other convertible couches take the place of the old style folding beds. So, you see, that while \-ve notice the fatting off in our sales of folding beds we also notice an increase in the demand for the substitutes, which are easier to handle, especiaf1y where they have to be placed 011 the Upper floors of apartment buildings. The converti-ble lounges ;u'e surely more convenient, more sightly and less CLtlllber!',ome than the. old style folding beds." Mr. Dodds' New Factory. Alexander Dodds, the well known manufacturer of wood \vorking l1ladllnery ot Grand Rapids, Mich., has found it nec-essary to enlarge his plant. He has had plans prepnred for a new building to be erected on the old site ·over the canal, at a cost of $15,000. The building will be of what is known as mi1\.constfaction cllld ,vill be rendy for occupancy early in the spring. H. Friedmnn & Co., dealers in furniture nnd carpets, 124 East Broadway, New York, who \',,'cre adjudged bankrupt in October, have settled with their creditors at 25 cents on the dollar, The Hastings block in Salem, N. Y., in which E, B. Cruikshank's, furniture store wns located, was destroyed by fire on November Hi. I\fr. Cruikshank's loss is about $3,000, two-thirds insured. ALHO~ . . MANUFACTURERS ,..rlD DEALERS IN HIGH GRADEBAND AND SCROLL SA~S REf'Alftl NG-5ATI5FACTION GUARANTEED \ ~, GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. CITIZEN5 F'HONE: 1239 27 N MARKET ST 34 A One-Coat Weathered· Oak Finish. A little over a year ago there began to appear in the lead-ing Furniture Journals of the country an advertisement of it One-Coat Weathered Oak Finish, sent out by that well-known hot1se- The Marietta Paint & Color Company of 1farietta,Ohio. Furniture manufacturers, always on the look-out for anything that will save time in the finishing room, became interested at once, and a number immediately gave the new :finish a trial. In this, as in all its other products. The Marietta Paint & Color Company has sustained its re-putation for manufacturing nothing that is not practical, and in the case of this new product its succcess is already acknowledged. The One-Coat Weathered Oak Finish produces a com-plete finish in one operation. It has all the qualities of a stain and wax finish both in appearance and durability. The finish is made so as to cover any large or small surface with-out leaving brush marks, runs or laps, and will flow out even-ly, leaving that beautiful wax finish appearance. It is a finish that is bound to meet with favor and to be much used by manufacturers who make up a cheap Or med-ium grade of work as one coat will produce a finish that will wear equal to a stain .and wax finish. It is already being used with marked success and all who have tried it are en-thusiastic over the splendid results obtained. This One-Coat Weathered Oak Finish will be found to prove a money saver, enabling the manufacturer to produce a weathered oak effect on this class of work at a cost much below a stain and wax finish. Men Wanted in the Lumber Woods. Reports from the Northern woods indicate less than the usual activity during the coming winter in the logging camps. A great handicap is the inability to get enough men. What would be regarded by old-time lumber jacks as ex- Morton American House ••...P. lan Rates $2.50 and Up Hotel Pantlind European •...••Plan Rates $1.00 and Up GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. The Noon Dinner Served at the Pantlind lor 500 is the fiNEST IN THE WORLD J. BOYD PANTLIND. Prop. -------- traordinary high wages are being offered to induce men to go into the woods, but the unusual prosperity of the country has tied men up in the city factories and in other lines that some-times have a surplus of labor during the winter months. In consequence of the shortage of men, work is advancing slowly. It was almost impossible to get enough men to open the necessary logging roads. This is an important matter, because after the ground becomes solidly frozen it is almost impossible to build roads, and without the roads operations omst halt. This means that the operations this winter will be confined largely to the old camps. From the information obtainable it is apparent that the dearth of labor is going to have considerable influence on the winter's output and may cause an advance in the price 0.£ lumber next season. Some operators say they have been able to secure only from 25 to 50 per cent of a full Quota of employes. Others, however, say they are short only a small percentage and expect to bring the camps up to the full standard before the winter is fully set in. Used in Finishing Interiors. The mahogany oil stains manufaeturedby the Chicago, (Ill.) Wood .Finisl1ing company are used largely on interior work of birch, to produce an imitation of mahogany wood. Office buildings, hotels, public institutions and clubs as well as private residences, have been finished with birch, (a com-paratively low priced wood) and stained .in such a perfect imitation of mahogany as to deceive all but experts in the art of finishing. The company will furnish samples free of cost. "1 can sing 200 notes without taking breath" remarked a trained vocalist. "That is nothing," remarked Dedbroke. "1 can sign 500 notes ,",,'ithout breathing and yet not realize the value of one breath on the Jot." The White Directory =====OF MANUFACTUORFE==R=S== FURNITURE, PIANOS, ORGANS, IN-TERIOR FINISHES and Kindred Indus-tries is now ready. Send in your order. Price 15.00 Wh·Ite Pn" ntIng Co··. PPRUIBNUTSEiRiESlis,ENCRIDANVDEERRSS'· 2-20 LYON ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Cyclone Blow Pipe Co. Improved ~yclone Dust Collectors, Automatic Fumace Feedl:ts, Steel Plate Exhaust Fans" Exhaust and Blow Piping •••••. Complete systems de~ s I g n ed, IIlQnufac-tured, instalkld and guaranteed. Old sys-tems remodeled on modern lines 0 n m 0 s t economical plans, Supplemen-tary systems added where present syll-terns are outgrown, ~fectlve &ystems CQftl6Cted and put 10 proper working or-der. 70 W. Jackson Street, CHICAGO, • ILL. GLOBE VISE -AND-TRUCK CO, Manufacturers of Strictly up·to-date quick-acting Wood Workers' Vis e s. Thev are time savers and make a barrel of money for those that use them. Our prices are the best. Write for them. We also make a complete line of factory and warehouse trncks. Our circulars aTe cheerfully mailed upon requeBL GLOBE V1SEand TRUCK CO. Grand R.apids. Mich. EARLY ENGLISH OAK OIL STAIN The most popular and up~to-date finish of the season. Brings out the natural beauty and grain of the wood and gives a beautiful and permanent finish. The strongest and most penetrating stain made. Will not fade or wipe up with wax or shellac. Send for sample panels and information. Ask for our Standard Fillers and Stains Booklet. Real wood panels showing twenty-one Fillers and Stains. Finest booklet ever supplied. ~e~ ~CHICAGO Sta. E. Manufacturers of Wood Finishers' Supplies. . THE KNOB THAT WONT COME -OFF NO·KUM·LOOSE WOOD KNOBS CUT shows the construction of our line of Wood Knobs. The metal nut is clinched into the wood at its front end. pr<- venting turning or pulling out. To the back end of the nut is riveted a steel
Date Created:
1906-12-10T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:
Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
Collection:
27:11

195. Michigan Artisan; 1908-08-10

Notes:
Issue of a furniture trade magazine published in Grand Rapids, Mich. It was published twice monthly, beginning in 1880. and Twenty-Ninth Year-No.3 AUGUST 10, 1908 r-- -------------_._- IA PERFECT CASE CONSTRUCTION Makes the It is entirely Strongest Automatic. It Clamps, Most Mortises and Economical Releases, Completing and Most the Post in Accurate Less Time Than the Cltse Material can Construction be Clamped anOther Possible Machines. WRITE WRITE FOR FOR CATALOG CATALOG J J NO. 119 M\Jl. iIPl.E SQUARE CHISEl. MORTISEA. WYSONG &. MILES COMPANY, CEDAR ST. AND SO. R. R., GREENSBORO, N. C• .~ The Best Truck--The Strongest Truol.• ".~ This is the famousGillette Roller Bearing F-a:ctory Truck-the truck on which it is said, "One "Man can move a load of 3000 pounds while with the other trucks it takes three men." This is the truck that is strong where others are weak-the truck that has an unbreakable malleable iron fork. This is the truck YOU are looking fol'if YOu'",ish to invest in rather than waste money on factory trucks. • Gillette Roller Bearing Co. ORAND RAPIDS. MICHIOAN • The Lightest Runnlna. Longest La.ting Truck ~-----~ , ~. ~J:""( __ • , l, ") 1 'I I I I I FACTORY FURNISHINGS [JI of Quality Cabinet Makers' Special Chair Pattern and Carvers' BENCHES Hand Screws Saw Tables Horse Clamps Saw Guards Factory Shipping and Warehouse TRUCKS Benedict Mitre and Frame Bed and Case CLAMPS Grand Rapids Hand Screw Company 918 JeffersonAvenue, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN •...---.~-----------------------------.;--. SLIDING SHOE FOR USE ON DESK LEGS This shoe does the work of a castor yet allows the desk legs to set close to floor. Fastened with flat head wood screw and furn-ished in three sizes. SEND FOR SAMPLES AND PRICES. No. 1493 PULL A very fine handle for desks in the square effect. Something different from the regular bar pulls. GRAND RAPIDS BRASS CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN II -~ .. ~--; "'I I CHI G A )J ART I SAN I f .' These Specialties are used all Over the World - Veneer Preue&, different kinds and .izell. (Patented) Hand Feed Glueing Machine (Patent pending.) Many abies .and ,izel. Veneer Presses Glup Spreaders Glue Heaters Trucks, Etc., Etc. Wood·Working Machinery and Supplies Power Feed Glue Spt'eading Machine. Single. LET US KNOW Double and Combination. (Paterlted) YOUR WANTS (Size. 12 in. to 84 in wide.) No.2. Glua Ha.'a,. CHAS. E. FRANCIS & ORO'! Main Office and Works, RushYille, Ind, No.• G1uaH •• '", • ---- ----------. WHEN YOU HAVE SET-TLED DOWN TO USING Tlte Marietta Paint 8 Color Co's Wooorin~~in~ Materials MARIETTA STAINS ~ FILLERS Ale famous for lheir perfectly working qualities. The colors are unsurpassed for correctness and beauty and are absolutely fast. . Our fillers fill the pore:J of the'wooel perfectly, holding up the coatingS, making possible the very highest grade of finish. Special:orders of slain or 611ers,made-to match any s.hade of color. given - prompt an<!. -careful attention. Write (or sample panels of any 6nish you arc interested in. . YOU HAVE REACHED THAT STAGE IN YOUR PROGRESS WHICH MARKS YOU AS ONE OF THE LEADERS IN YOUR BUSINESS, • 1 , i '. i .J i, I!, ! I . ....~~ • WHITE PRINTING CO. I I GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. . I .•··l j HIGH GRADE CATALOGS· COMPLETE • , 2 MICHIGAN ARTISAN • THE LEONARD [XHIBITION BUILDINGS OTTAWA, LOUIS AND MARKET STREETS, GRANO RAPIDS, MICH, 200,000 square feet of floor space. Railroad siding to save cartage, automatic sprinklers, reducing insurance and preventing loss by fire, steam heat, electric light, elevator and janitor service, all at one-half the rates usually charged in Grand Rapids. The location is central, viz. on Ottawa St. next the Blodgett Block. Manufacturers requiring large space on one floor can now obtain it. Manufacturers who have been kept out of Grand Rapids on account of expense can now afford to come. . The opening of these buildings for Furniture Exhibition Purposes assures Grand Rapids' supremacy as the furniture market of the world for many years to come· RESERVATIONS SHOULD BE MADE EARLY. FLOOR PLAN SENT ON APPLICATION, . GRAND RAPIDS REFRIGERATOR COMPANY ,.I \ C' 29th Year-No.3. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., AUGUST 10, 1908. ===~ ==~~~===~~~~ NO GENERAL RISE MADE IN CARLOAD MINIMUMS. Western Classific.::ation Committee Finishes its Work. After a meeting :-tt 1Ianitou, Colo., that lasted two weeks, the western classification committee has finished its y.,'ork and adjourned, to meet in January at l\Tiami, Fla. Contrary to general expectations a general advance in carload minimums from 30,000 to ,%.000 pounds was not made. The committee considered each classification sep-arately, and either raised or lowered the minimum on its merits. Tt is stated that an adv;mcE'. has been agreed upon in a majority of cases. Just what they are \vill probably not become public until the nnv classification is published. The only statement obtainable from H. O. Backer. chairman of the committee is this: "Vv' e felt that in justice to the shippers it would be better to take up cla~;sificati()n separately, as a general schedule would work hardship in most instances. In this manner \ve feel that we have satished the greatest number of shippers, as in several classifications a lower minimum rate was necess-ary." The increas('.s are said to run from 6 and 10 per cent. The remarkable thing about it is that most of the increases are agreeable to the shippers. For example, the Tl1inois Steel company is said to have suffered an increase in the minimums of more than 30 articles, which the company ships, and no objection was made. Two-thirds of the increases, it ..v.as also stated, \vere on light and bulky articles which are diffi-cult to load heavy. The committee gave the shippers an eight-day hearing before it went into executive session to settle the 500 subjects on the docket. Never before was such a courtesy extended, as they have usually been cut off with a short hearing. The fact that nothing morc definite can be learned and that in most illstances an increase was made will keep an army of small shippers on the anxious seat, while it will not make so much difference to the big shippers. The latter will, it is asserted, be benefitted, and were strong advocat,~s of the higher minimums. The effects v.·..ill be far-reachillg". as the small jobbers in the territory of the heavier shippers could interfere \vith their trade. The railroads as a rui,~ v,'ere agreeable, ~,J:(1 justified it all the ground that a grt~\, volume of freight could be handled \.·.i.th the same amount of equipment, and that had the heavier loading been required during the past three months, it would have helped to solve the car shortage problem. On this point, when the meeting of the committee began, its chairman said: "The clamor for the higher minimum weight of carload lots has come largely from the jobbing interests. alld es-pecially the large firms that are able to buy in almost any quantities. It will be an advantage to the railroads, as the most of them have been improving the roadbeds and in-creasing their motive povver in the last few years, until they are now able to haul much larger cars and heavier tl-ains than formerly. \Vith the increased minimum weight, the $1.00 per Year. roads can handle more freight with the same number of cars, &lld in times of congestion this ~vill relieve tJle car shortage? which will be much appreciated by all the large business in-terests that in the past have been hampered by their in-ability to get freight on time. "The charge that the committee is trying to manipulate the classificatioH so as to effect what would be equal to an increase in rates is false as it is absurd. Some articles may be placed in higher classes and some in lower classes, but it is impossible to tell whether the average will be higher or lower for the general jobbel-. There will probably be very little difference noticable. The work of the committee is open and above board and there arc at least 200 representa-tives from the business orga.nizations of the country ready to enter protests or make petitions. In fact the work of the committee is nothing more nor less than the consid-eration of appcals or protests from the shippers of the country, some of which are granted and others of which are rejected as the members of the committee may deem wise. The committee meets every six months, and all the ac-cummulatcd protests for the iutervening time are consid-' ered. \ATe have absolutely nothing to do with the fixing of rates. The classification of freight is not of so muchim-portance to the business men of the country so long as the classiJication is the same for all cities west of the Missis-sippi as it .is bound to be. It is uniform and therefore no particular jobber and no particular city has any advantage over the others. \Ve have four classes for freight in less than carload lots and six classes for carload lots, making 10 classes in all." \Vhcn asked as to the rumor that the Standard Oil trust had a special representative at the committee meetings Mr. Becker smiled and said that such might be the case but he had not made himself manifest and the big oil concern might have a dozen men for all he knew. The committee has nothing to do with the classiJication of such freight as oil, which is handled in special tank cars owned by the large oil companies. The same rule applies to the packers' special refrigerator cars.-New York Commercial. Occupants of Burns' Chair Must Treat. In one of the rooms of a Dumfries public house is an old ann chair which is said to have been frequently used by the poet Burns. All who sit in this chai1' are expected to treat everyone who is in the room at the time, and often the immortal memory of the famous Scottish national poet is drunk. An Order for Hotel Furniture in Sight, Viork has been resumed upon a ,hotel building at Grange-ville, Idaho. It will cost $50,000 to complete the structure. The Melrose hotel furnished throughout. at Albuquerque, N. M., will be ~Trjte J. M. Ashby, proprietor. re- r 4 :liIICHIGAI\ ARTISAN EVAN.SVlLLL EVANSVILLE, August 9.-Buslness with the Evans-ville furniture manufacturers is holding its own ve.ry well and it is believed that trade conditions '-vill improve after the first of September. The factories continue to be operated on fairly good time and a bettcr feeling prevails since the ex-positions at Chicago and Grand Rapids. 1\'la11y of the local manufacturers attended both expositions and say they wefe greatly benefitted by so doing. The volume of business done by manufacturers during the month of July was nothing to be compared to the same month of last year, yet taking into consideration the general depression they have fared well. Conditions have been opening up in the southern states and especially Texas, during the past few weeks and salesmen have sent in some very encouraging reports. Recently the Grand Rapids Show Case company, at Grand Rapids, l",lich., furnished an entire outfit of patent clothing cabinets, all glass, made especially to order for the Progress Clothing company of this city. Charles \V_ Talge, of the Evansville Veneer Works, is back from a business trip to Chicago and Grand Rapids. He is of the opinion that the furniture business is getting better and this being the case he looks for more business in the veneer manufacturing line. The stove manufacturers held their regular meeting at the E: ,E:. A.: hall here a few nights ago at which tradc con-ditions were reported much better. The factories are now working a full force four days a week. Evansville furniture manufacturers have been invited to attend, a meeting of shippers and railroad rate makers in St. Louis September 1st, to confer over the proposed advance in the minimums of light and bulky articles to Texas points. The proposed advance will be' contested by Evansville ship-pers. Several of the local manufacturers will attend the meeting. Some time agO there was a move set on foot here to or-ganize a co~pany for .the purpose of manufacturing metal kitchen cahinets and several of the leading furniture al1d stove manufacturers have become interested. vVilliam A. Koch, who is at the head of the Advance Stove \Vorks, also interested in a half dozen other leading industries of the city, has been asked to take over the active management of the business and has the matter under consideration. Tvlr.Koch is one of the leading manufacturers of Evansville and has made' a success of everything he has ever undertaken. In case he takes the active management of the proposed metal cabinet factory there is no question as to its future. Benjam.in Bosse, of the Globe Furniture company, is back from Chicago where he attended the Furniture Ex-position. On his way back he stopped at Springfield, IlL, where he had business in connection with the Lutheran church synod. Mr. Bosse is one of the leading members of the Lutheran church, and stands high in its councils. Work will be started in a short time on the Evansville Furniture Exchange building at the corner of Fourth and Vine streets. Any doubt as to whether the building would be built as planned was removed at a meeting of the direct-ors of the company held in tbis city recently. An award of the .conb-:tct will be made by the time this letter has gone 1,n pres". The ·building with eight floors (including· the basement) will have marble staircases and wainscoting and tile floors in the corridors. It will contain furniture display rooms and offices. The directors are A_ F. Karges, of the. K,arges Furniture company; Harry A. Schtt, of the Crescent com-pany; Benjamin Bosse, of the Globe Furniture company; Edward Ploegar of the Bosse company and Vlilliam A. Koch of the Evansville ~detal Bed company. The .building must be completed by February 1, 19C9. The building of the Furniture Exchange marks a new epoch in the busines:i career of Evansville. William A. Heylls, one of the' leading furniture men of the city, and who is also interested in a local veneering plant, says that his plant has been running most of the time since the so called panic started. IV!r. Heyns sees.a silver lining to the financial cloud and is of the opinion that business all over thc country will grow better in a short time. C. W. B. More Room For the Furniture Men. The Grand Rapids Refrigerator, Company having out-grown their quarters, has erected the- largest refrigerator fac-tory in the world, and by September 1st they wilI be out of the old house into the new. The company has decided to offer these buildings (containing 200,000 feet of floor space) to. th¢rnanufacturers of furnitnre throughout the country who ""'ish to show their wares in the Grand Rapids market. These·bnildings arc within five minut~s walk of all the lead-ing hotel:; of the city, situated close by the railroad tracks, a great saving of cartage expense is trade by those who avail themselves of this opportunity to show in this market. '{he above cut shows the seven story building facing on Ottwa street. Their advertisement on another page of this issue shows the big seven story building on Market street. The advertisement gives many facts that will be of interest to manufacturers contemplating exhibiting in Grand Rapids in January. Preparing to Resume. The Ramsey-Alton Manufacturing company, of Portland, 1'lich .., have offered to settle with creditors for 33;1 cents on the dollar. If this offer shall be accepted the company will continue in business. It is believed the proposition will be accepted. The company manufacturers Morris chairs as a speCialty_ MICHIGAN AHTISAN 5 • IIII III II aran~Da~i~sDlow Pi~e an~Dust Arrester (om~an~ THE LATEST device for handling shavings alld dust from all wood-working machines. Our nineteen, years experience in this class of 'It../Ork has brought it nearer perfection than any other system OIl the ·market today. It is no experinLent) but a demonstrated scientific fact~ as 'loe have sC'Z.Jeral hun-dred of these s'J1stems in use) and Hot a poor one among titem. Our Automatic Furnace Feed S:ystem) as ShO'IV1l in this cut) is the 1120St perfect 'lvorking dC1Iice of nllytking iu this line. Write for our prices for equipments. I . 1 208-210 Canal Street I GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. . ---------O_UR .AUTOMATIC FURNAOE FEED SYSTEM WE }1AKE PLANS AND DO ALL DETAIL WORK WITHOUT EX-PENSE TO OUR CUSTOivIERS. EXHAUST FANS AND PRES-SURE BLOWERS ALWAYS IN STOCK Office and Fa.ctory: Citizen. Phone 1282 J 6 MICHIGAN PRACTICAL HINTS ON HOME BUILDING. Comfort and Artistic Satisfaction in the Arrangement of the Dining Room. Take the Dining Room as flC Living Room, its great fcatur~ -is the fireplace. It is the keynote of the room. The use of a fireplace is to give heat. This might seem a rather un-necessary remark, but in view of the fact that most fireplaces waste more heat than they throw out, the point j5~well worth consideration. A defi-nition of a good fireplace would be "one that gives plenty of heat, wastes none, and is easily cleaned," but such a one is an ideal. A fireplace must necessarily waste heat, even the best designs must waste at least 25 per cent. It gently wafts itself up the flue, and, of course, one can't do without that convenience, therefore it can't be helped. It is better to have a fireplace use-ful and ornamental than to have one ornamental and of little usc; on the other hand, it is still better to com-bine usefulness and beauty. There is no reason why the two should not combine, but seldom is. it that they do. There has been gr,o:at improve-ment in the design of fireplaces of late years_ It is not long since they wen,'. built in such a way as to affm-d the least possible amount of heat for the greatest quantity of fuel, and "vere of such surface as to require a whole morning, and several cakes of black lead to polish. Those old grates were cunningly fashioned, so as to smuggle all the heat up the chimney, and leave the room frigid, and one didn't even have the satisfaction of knowing they were "artistic_" Then there were the mantelpieces! They exist still in many a house, huge, clumsy things, some ranged up in tiers of fretwork and useless little cupboards, and others just heavy shelves, supported on lumpy brackets or reedy pil-asters. ;And then the marble mantlepiece! Hideous and ungainly, but somehow it seemed one time to be taken as an indication of gentility. Inseparable from such mantles were the huffy, fringy drapes, that hung all round them, and caught the smoke and the flies. Then there were the steel fenders, and the clumsy fire-iroils, that everyone stumbled over. After these came the cMt-iron mantelpiece, painted -to resemble marble, and a hundred other abominations too irritating to mention. What a difference there is between such atrocious ex-amples and the beautiful conceptions of modern manufacture, some of which are here shown. GRILLE. Designed and Manufac-tured by Buckly & Nunn, Sydney, N. S. W. ARTISAN This age has certainly seen a vast improvement in the design of such domestic furnishings, also there have been many inventions to regulate the consumption of fuel and the supply of heat. There are many good designs in the market, having these qualities of convenience and economy, but for positive comfort there are none that can compare with the open fireplace. vVhat a sense of well-being it gives, the wide hearth seems always glowing with genial hospitality. The evening group sitting round it, can talk or be silent as they will, the work-a-day cares .arc dissolved, and one ar-ranges the future in a splendidly comfortable mamler beneath its radiant influence. There is no s11ch pleasure emanating from a stove or tiny g:-ate, and Ol1ecertainly can't imagine anyone weaving far,c.<:s while sitting before a radiatorl Now, an open fire, though in the process it wastes heat. docs ventilate a room. The fireplace should be recognizc>,d as an integral and highly important part of the ventilatioll, and most architects realize this as they are beginning to re-alize its decorative value, -but when one sees that in a direct line between door, window, and fireplace, is the only possible sitting place, then one is justified in believing that someone has blundered. It -is seldom that one comes across any effective attempt to combil1e heating and ventilation by means of the fire-place, and this surely, is· one of the things that should be GRILLE Ma.nufactured and designed by Buckly & Nunn; Sidney, N. S. W. done; another suggestion here given to any inventive genius is to devise some means where-by th~ waste heat may be util-ized. Just think of the heat which might be utilized to warm the icy cbld bedrooms to which we retire from thlOOcomfortable sitting room. One of the best features in modern fireplace design is the ingle-nook. Its revival is, in a way, due to the medieval in-clinings of the arts-craft 1Tlove-rnent; there is an atmosphere of snllgness and Quietude about them which is wonderfully pleasant, though they in a large measure prevent the warm-ing of the whole room. How-ever, the ingle-nook, campen-- sates by its picturesqueness, "it is an excellent architectural opportunity, and its treatment can often give an otherwise commonpl,ace room distinct in-dividuality. Such a nook is not expensive. Quite a simple treatment is all that is needed to place one of these most companionable re~ cesses in the living-room, and what better place could be de-sired for quietude and content? MICHIGAN Its opening could he made a great decorative feature by the addition of a grille, such as shown in these notes. For the fl replace surroundings, simplicity ;md neatness should be the ilrst consideration. Tiled openings arc clean SIDEBOARD IC\f A US'J'RAT.IAK TIMBEn Manufacturprt and designed b~' Ruckly & Nunn, Sldney K. S. "V\T. and fresh, both in appearance and reality, Those built up of pressed brick, \vith wiele openings, are A fireplace should have as little about it; many of those elaborately also good to have. ironwork as possible "quaint" designs with copper everywhere and a metal hood, are rather absurd. The hood especially is a mistake; it re-minds one of a cure ior a smoky tIue, and prevents the heat being thrown u p w ar d !:i. The present day dog grate is another thing that .vauld be very well if it ,,,,ere of any use, but as it is used merely for the sake of' its pic-turesqueness, and is of little or no utility, it could well be dis-pensed with. These grates are seen at their best in old DINING no OM ART MANTEL IN AUS-TRALTAK TIMBER. Designed and Manufactured by Buekl~' & Nl1nn, Sidney, N. S. W. C01] n try houses, where the blackened dogs rest on a broad hearth, in a deep-backed, cavernous aperture. In a modern drawing'-room, the small recess containing the polished dogs (quite purpose-less), and a flickering fire that warms the room not at all, remind one of stage prop:::"rties. To summarise the matter; choose a fireplace that is a good heating apparatus, for that is the first consideration; the second is. that it should necessitate little cleaning, it must have nothing about it that will collect dust and dirt. In reganl to the design, let it be broad, simple, and well-proportioned. Avoid alt unnecessary, fiddling detail, and you ,...il1 have a fireplace good to give warmth and pleasant to look upon,-"Building." Sydney, Ne"w South \Vales. ARTISAN 7 New Hotels in the South. T. V·l. Smith will erect a seventy room hotel in Columbus, Ga. A large extension to the Hotel Grafton, in Washington, D. C. will be erected at a cost of $150.000. D. \Volverston is financing a company to erect a sixty room hotel in Yazoo City, Miss. The Greenville (S. C.) will invest $105,000 in a new hotel building. A hotel to contain 200 rooms will be erected in Macon, Ga., by Dr. E. P. Frazier. C. VV'. Baxt.er will erect a hotel with 126 guest rooms at St. Petersburg, Fla. A seventy room hotel will be erected by the Red Springs (Texas) Devlopment company. Booming, the Home Town. Every business man should be proud of the city or town in which he lives and lend his efforts to the work of making his place of residence 'Worthy of his pride, In many cities civic pride is almost a pas- SiOn. The Gotha111ite argnes that "little old New York" is the only city in the world fit for a lady or gentleman to live in. The resident of the "\Vindy City" will undertake to prove that Chicago is the only city in the wor1d~ that all others are merely her suburbs. The,CJeve- 1 and e r challenges the world to produce greater evidences of natural and acquired beauty than he can boast of. Albany, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, and Grand Rapids must be considered w hen the beauty spots of this grand old world shall be present-ed for consideration. It remain>; for the people of Atlanta however to show the people of Am-erica how to boom the towns in which they live. At the recent convention of the hotel keepers of America, 1-fr. Zimmer, proprietor of the Kimball house (a former resident of the remarkably beautiful and still more prosperous and rapidly growing city of Detroit) gave the following statement of the plan employed by the citizens of Atlanta. It has been said that everyone who comes to Atlanta becomes thoroughly intoxicated with the greatest of all tonics, "The Atlanta Spirit," which by the way is the only intoxicating thing available in Georgia now-a-days. To demonstrate the strength of "The Atlanta Spirit" it has been told that an Atlanta traveling man met a competitor from Savanah. The Atlanta man said to the Savanah man: "Did you ever visit Atlanta?" "Oh, yes." "How long ago?" says the Atlanta man? Savauah man: "Last week." Atlanta man: "Oh, well, you ought to see her now." There is a lot of enthusasiam in that final sentence. If there is nothing in a man's town that will not make him swell with pride and remark, "Oh, well, you ought to see her now!" it is that man's duty to wake up and assist his neighbors in putting the place he lives in l1pon the map prominently. WINDOW DESIGN-"AUTUMN'" • MICHIGAN ARTISAN DRIPPING WITH VARNISH. Adventures of Jean Baptiste. It -is now 5i.~ months since I am come to America, and be-hold me already a citizen of this glorious Republic! At pJ:cscnt, fortune smiles benignantly upon me. 1 am agreeably placed in I\,Jortoll & Covington's new emporium Dfpaint and varnish' 011 lower Sixth Avenue. My salary i.~ considerable, my fellow clerks are amiable and obliging, and lam entirely content. True:, there are occasional un-pleasantnesses, but these are of no importance, They do not disttlrb me, as I have reason to think myself a favorite. Today it is already August. From where I sit behind my desk of cashier, I can see the patches of sun that lie along the threshold of the store with all the languor of afternoon. Outside, the listless hush of four o'clock spreads itself over the burning pavements. I withdraw my gaze from the street and look about n:e with satisfaction. Beneath the arch of the ceiling, elec-tric fans whirl energetically, rendering the air of an agree-able coolness, and the shadowed interior of the store is quiet and without excitement. l\eat rows of tins, diversified with cQlored labels, line the shelves OIl all sides, and little kegs of 'varnish are heaped beside the tall machine of artistic ~ctal'anda dial face in which one puts the penny and ascer-tains one's' true weight. I am surrounded by an atmosphere of lacq~l-er;,of enamel, of paint, of multicolored tints. All is riotous eplor, the very walls themselves seemingly tapestried ,i..~..th advertisements of surprising hues. On the post 'beside my desk is hung a superb lithograph. It ;represents a:, young girl, very pretty and adorable. This one is also a blonde, with eyes of an animated blue, and mag-nifJcentcolor. Between her parted lips one sees the little teeth like pearls. She is decolletee, and her shoulders lift tllemse;ves above her dress 'with a luster of tinted i\'ory. She extends,in one hand a tin of "Herrick's Varnish." ~_gaze: upon her with adoration, believing myself to see in: her the countenance of my ideal. And ,always she looks at me, smiling. I am alone except for Henry, the errand-boy. About two o'clock my confreres become restless. Peterson is stricken with an unaccountable illness, and is obliged to absent himself. !\-1cDermott also fancies himself siezed with appendicitis, and goes to consult a physician. "Jean, Baptiste,,"'he says "Jean Baptiste, just keep an eye on the; store while I'm gone, will you? There'll be nobody in; 'but I mayn't be back for some time in case the pain be-comes seri·ous. And' there's no occasion to mention it to the old n:J.antomorrow. It might alarm him." I assent, but T am not deceived. :\lcDermott has a girl, and he 'will take her to Coney Island for the afternoon. It will be delightful down there, and tl'.onsier is safe not to return until morning. And then, too, there is the adorable blonde of the confectionery-shop. I consider the suggestion, but no, I am Jean Baptiste, amI ne'ver betray a trust confided by my employer. Also. it will he wise to. keep an eye upon Henry. There is a base-ball game this ,lfternoon, and I am already conscious of his efforts to quit the store without observation. Vi e endllre a long pause of inaction, during which I re-gard the countenance of my ideal with rapture, and Henry approaches himself' nearer aild nearer to the door. Then the entrance is suddenly darkened, and a customer enters in con-siderable agitation. She dedares herself waiting since ten o'clo«;:k this morning for the arrival of a tin of enamel which was promised to her yesterday, and she comes tei de-mand an .explan,ation. Henry addresses her courteously. sigIlifyinghirr:self ready to inquire into the negligence, and iriorder to investigate, withdraws ,himself to the rear of the store 'while 1 regard madame with' a casual interest. She is not beautiful, this lady, but is of middle age, large, ruddy, and of an amazing expansiveness. One observes at once that she is German, and, though not of the upper world, is ostensibly a woman of substance. Also one secs that at her house all is admirably regulated. She wears a purple dress with astonishing spots, and of a style a little anti-quated, and a black bonnet that nods with purple flowers. An inimical eye gazes out from behind the skirts of madame, and I am suddenly conscious that a great dog on a leash accompanies her. Oh, he is ferocious, that animal, and of a surprising ugliness! Also it would be possible to drcam about those relentless teeth, long and so glaring a whiteness, that menacing jaw, that gaze so omnipresent and wicked. He is indeed a true nightmare, that dog! "Ach, mein lieber," says madame, bending above the animal, "do not be afraid. The kind gentleman will not hurt thee. Be stilt, mcin Engel." Me, I do not think that the kind gentleman desires to annoy the angel dog at all. The kind monsieur prefers to remain in perfect amity, and at a complete distance. He is young, and, he has at present, no desire for sudden and fright-ful death. Jerry, Henry's confrere, returning from an errand, enters the store hurriedly, but precipitates himself behind the counter, on beholding the animal. The dog growls, in showing his teeth. Evidently young boys do not please him, but then perhaps the period of his youth has not been an entirely happy one. Presently Henry reappears, flushed and apologetic. He ,is entirely desolated, but he has been unable to trace the order of madame. The regular clerk is not at present in the shop, but will be interrogated concerning it upon the instant of his return. ,Madame has only to wait until to-morrow, and all will be arranged satisfactorily. However, this does not content madame at all. She is angry, and she expostulates, She has lost an entire day in waiting, and it is not her purpose to quit the store with-out satisfactory assurance that the stuff will be sent to her immediately. And it is an order for a brand which we do not keep in the store! It is tremendously important to madame that she should have it at once, and it is· preposter-ous that she should be made to wait. It is necessary that Henry should look again. "Jerry," says Henry, "maybe you can find that enamel for th' lady. I've just been loakin' in th' back of the shop and 'tisn't there. \\-'onder if 1\-1r.Peterson hasn't put it down in th' cellar?" "I'll look and see," says Jerry, entirely willing to oblige, and he descends into the recesses below with an impetuous rapidity. The enormous beast presses closer to his migtress, beat-ing violently with the tail. "Fine dog you've got there, ma'am;" says Henry, with politeness, and observing him with care. l\'Iadame is pleased. She sm'iles, nodding the head. ;'Yes, yes, he is a goot dog, a fery goot dog, but he does lIot luf the Icetle cats. He has killed a great many, :Y~:;. a fery great many. And there was a burglar once, They took him to tile jail in many pieces, and the judge has given him seven years in the hospital. Yes. a fery goot dog." 1 decide that I will never burgle-at least, not while there is a possibility of meeting an animal like that. A thousand thunders, but I would not have liked to have been that man 1 I determine always to be virtuous. ;'Ach," continues madame, with complacence, ;'buthe has a so beautiful disposition, my Bismarck-so gentle, so affec-tionate, a heart mit a so great devotion filled! I luf him like a son. Is he not indeed magnificent, mein junge?" Henry assents, but we are here interrupted by the return of Jerry, who comes 'to report a lack of success in his search. He has diligently investigated into every nook and -------~ MICHIGAN AI{TTSAN 9 corner but has been unable to discover the slightest trace of "Presbury's Ename1." \iVill madame not be satisfied to wait, or else allow us to supply her with <l. different brand? Madame is again disturbed. The purple flowers on her bonnet agitate themselves, and she gesticulates in extreme irritation. It is monstrous, unheard-of! The tin must be Iotwd, and immediately, or she will withdraw her custom from the Grm, never to restore it! The unfortullate Henry, in despair, endeavors to appease her, but discovers it use-less, and, as a last hope, addresses himself to me. "Jean Baptiste," he says, "Jean Baptiste, do you know any-thing about tbat cnamel?" I do not. My business does not concern itself with paint. I am here only to keep the books. However, a lady is in distress, :l1,d I wil1 el:deavor to do my best to as-sist her. I step forward, in bov.·.i.ng, and assure her of my wil1ing-ness to search. "Madame." T say, with the !TIost profound courteoUSlless "1 will attempt to do my utmost to discovcr for you the vanish cd article. I am entirely desolated nt the incon-venience to which you have been put, and make n:y most humble apologies. 1 go now to tmdertake a most pene-trating investigation." Again T bow, and the countenance of madame is irrad-iated with approval. 1 turn toward the entrance of the cellar, the he£ld high and bdieving myself to have mad::: :l most agreeable ilrpre:.;sion, when, nlas, what a miSr:.Jrt.L~ne~ All undiscovered, the dog has left the side of his p.l~stress: and" in turning, I tread unexpectedly upon the tail of the animal! Figure to you: self the confusion 1 The brute, emitting a cry of the greatest acuteness, endeavors to hurl himself upon me, and would have destroyed me immediately had it 110t heen for the efforts of madame, This latter is only able to restrain him with the greatest possible difficulty. he tug-gi: 1g"at the end of his leash. the teeth bared, the eyes glaring and terrible. l\ladame threatecs, cntreats him ill te1'"ms of endearment, but is entirely unable to render him calm. Overcome by tl1(~ enormity of my mistake, 1 withdrew myself from danger with the utmost abrl1ptnf'ss, I am shaken with the violence of the surprise, and irnploring a thousand pardons, I accelerate my steps in the direction of the cellar. I descend a long spiral of darkened steps and believe myself safe. I look around me, 6nding myself ill au un-familiar region of casks, boxes, tubs, gigantic barrels. Everything about n:e appears to 100m in strange and un-rt~ al proportions. 1 am -surrounded by a somber twjlight, with only a pale star of radiance to mark the open door above me. Irresolutely I pause, at a loss how best to set about my task. All at once a fearful shriek reaches mc, the cry of a woman, terrified and despairing, I turn with celerity, casting my t'yes up the stairway down vvhich I have made my approach. vVhat 1 behold fills me with the most vi'"id emotion. I grow giddy with horror, I reel. A thousand devils, but I see that dog descending at the grand gallop. the mouth gaping, and a broken leash streaming in the air behind him! He has come to destroy me! I do not pause to consider, 1 have no time in which to make a farewell. For one swift instant T cast it despet'ate eye around me. A heap of gigantic barrels invite me, and I am suddenly upon the topmost, with an agility of which I had not believed myself eapab1e, I hold myself upon my insecure refuge with the greatest desperateness, I am horrified, 'while the infuriated animal rages below me. Far above, the star of light is suddenly blurred by the shadows of my rescuers, Jerry, Henry, and madame hasten to descend, madame in the greatest agitation, the gamins not entirely uninfluenced by mirth. I find hilarity in-appropriate. To me, the situation is Ol1e of the gravest ~- terror. I behold myself suspended above the very Jaws of death. Suddenly 1 discover myself menaced by a new danger. TJu:~ head of the barrel upon which 1 stand begins slowly to yield beneath my feet. I recognize my peril and en-deavor, to late, to avoid it. I attempt to save myself; I seizE': "vith desperate hands at walls and projections; I behold that accursed varnish gapping below me! ,;Yith the strength of despair I gr:1Sp at :m overhanging beam. It is useless. I am precipitated downward, and am im-mersed, almost to the neck, in the abominable liquid, That \vhicb follO\vs is llcart-rending. Madame seizes t~p()n Bismarck and reduces him to submission, but my mis- ~dveIltttre is only at a beginning, I attempt to free my-self from my monstrous predicament, 1 strugglc, I combat it with violence. Alas, what an unhappiness! I only suc-ceed in subjecting myself to more humilating disaster.';. My efforts have disturbed the equilibrium of the barrel in which [ am c:onllned, and a last struggle dislodgcs it totally from ib resting place. I roll, I am whirled downward, strik-ing with a sickening crash on the flooring of adamant. Un-happy O1~e,it enly remains to me to pick myself up from the rUil!.'>,utterly o~'en"lhclmed hy varnish and humilation! Bismarck attempts to wrench himself from madame that he n:ay precipitate hin-:self upon me, while the gamins suffo-cate themselves with laughter. Those miserable ones are convulsed with an extreme merriment. Barbariansl Before my very eyes they mock of my misfortune, turning the unhappiness of' my plight to ridicule. They even -ejaculate rudeness between their paroxysms of hilarity. Beholding them, 1 am seized by an overpowering frenzy. I have suddenly the wish to annihilate them. On the moment, I fling myself upon them, but they elude me, Oee-ing before me, in giving utterance to shrill cries of delight and fear. T pUfStW them with vehemence as they dart up the !:itairway, I desire their blood. We storm upward. alld burst into the stole with the rapidity of a tornado. At the same instant, my employer enters unexpectedly from the street, with several friends to whom he wishes to demonstrate his mod;::l establishment, and the perfection of his office force. The scene is £rightfuL Monsieur purplc with rage, the eyes starting fro111his head, demands an explanation of this astounding occurence. We attempt to oblige him in a single breath, all clamoring together. ~'.lonsiet1r listens, his anger increasing to a point of danger, but it is upon me. alas! that his eye is concentrated. And then suddenly madame emerges from the cellar, dragging with her, by the collar. the monstrous Bismarck It is the last straw, The displeasure of monsieur reaches its fever-heat, and the tempest of his wrath is launched upon us. Never before in my whole existence ha""e I been permitted to listen to'such eloqucnce. Monsieur rages, he storn:s. he annihilates us with his irony and consumes us vvith his disapprobation. \Ve arc left w'ithout character and without hereafter. Vie behold ourselves sketched out in the 1110stlurid colors; we are depicted fallen into depths of iniquity whose blackness the most lively imagination might fail to realize, until finally pausing for breath, he leaves us cowering, both speechles3 and appalled, "A pack of thieves, the whole lot of you!" shouts mon-sieur. "Consider yourselves no longer in my employment!" The te1"1"iblewords strike irrevocably upon my ear, over- \"'helming me with the mcst vivid despair. I start forward intending to implore his mercy. I attempt to expostulate, to entreat for pardon, It is useless. The mind of mon-sieur is entirdy made up; and, dripping with varnish, I can only stand before my employer, confounded and discharged. -Cosmopolitan 1'1agazine. ....--------------------------- -- 10 MICHIGAN T • ARTISAN ABSOLUTELY NOTHING BETTER THAN OUR SWELL DRAWER FRONTS AND VENEERED ROLLS IN ANY KIND OF WOOD AND PROMPT SHIPMENTS. WALTER CLARK VENEER CO. 535 Michigan Trust Bnilding, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. IN RIVALRY TO GET COLLEGE MEN. ~----- Demand for Technical Knowledge Has Revolutionized Sys.. tern of Employment. Educational men say that during the last few years the demand for young engineers and other graduates from tech-nical schools has been so great in this conntry that large corporations have been bidding against each other to get the men fresh from college well schooled in technical knowledge. Modern methods in the conduct of the large industrial cor~ pOtations, which have set aside the old system of obliging the experts to climb up from the lowest rung of the ladderJ has been responsible for this. Old engineers say that a great change has been h:-ought about by the institutions of technical learning and that the big corporations have been the gre,atest gainers. In the. old days, they say, an cl1gineer, civil or electrical, attained a de-gree of excellence now possessed by the graduate of a good technical school only after long years of work in the bus-iness. Now the corporations do not have to wait for the evolution of their en.g-ineers and other technical men. They grab them up as they come out of college, and put them to work in jobs which, in the old days, would have been filled by men old in the service. "Ies a foot race between corporations to see '\vhich will get to the college first, and the concern that is a slow starter doesn't get any men at all," said John J. Carty, Chief, En-gineer of the Americ<Jll Telephone and Telegraph company. "Princeton, Troy, Massachusetts Tech.~we used to drift around to these schools at comm~nceme~lt time. Some years ago our man got around in April and found that the Gen-eral Electric and VVestinghouse and others had been there ahead of him and cleaned the deck "It was no longer a question whether the graduate could get a job or not, and now it is actually impossiblc to get the requisite number of men to come in and learn our bus-iness at a salary of $15 a week. "It's the trusts that have brought this condition about, and put a premium on education. vVhile the technical schools have furnished recruits for certain corporations, I do not believe- it has been so fully recognized in the midst of the general uproar that the corporations by a simple reactive process have creatcd schools and brought higher education, particularly technical education, within every boy's reach. The progress of industry and wealth in this country has been so great that it has lifted the whole mass, "These college graduates that we take in, I have· ques-tioned them, and r was surprised at first to find that it's no aristocracy that we're getting noadays from those places. They ate the sons of carpeneers, machinists, small trades-men, thrifty workmen. Under the ancient conditions they couldn't have had these advantages, and their children's chi.ldren c.ouldn't have had them. "It's a great thing fot them, but it is also a great thing for the country, to draw the young men of these classes into these lines of effort because they are strong and fresh and filled with keen desire to rise in accomplishment above the level of their forbears. "You can see it when they start in. There's nothing of the dude about them. There are no snobbish, ..notions. They know what hard work means, and they get on the job promptly; "They are amenable to discipline, too, and that is per-haps the greatest lesson that modern organization teaches-obedience to somebody, responsibility to somebody. It's a hard road to travel, but it leads up. "Of ('.Gurse under the t>resent system a man has got to deliver the goods or fall back for somebody else. It's efficiency that wins. In the old days, when companies were private affairs, it: was all right for the owner to find places in the works for all his kin, whether they earned their pay or not. It was his money and he could do what he pleased with it, but there is no room for ornaments now, nor for relatives unless they work their passage and a little better."- New York Times. Millions to be Expended on a London Home. Anthony Drexel, an American millionairel has taken a seven years lease of one of the finest houses in London, which he is having refitted with every novel device to afford comfort and luxury. The mansion was built for extensive entertaining, judging by the size of its ballroom, reception, billiard and dining rooms. There are also spacious halls, minstrels! gallery and a wide staircase entirely of IVlezzano and Ezchallion marble. Charles Allam, who planned and decorated the new ball-room for the King at Buckingham Palace and reconstructed Brook House for Sir Ernest Cassel, has been responsible for the decorations, 'which are of the Louis XVI. period. Par~ quet floors of the design at the Petit Trianon are laid in the saloons, and the bronze balustrades and rails are in har-mony with ornaments of the same period. No fewer than twenty-two bedrooms and bathrooms are-provided for guests. The :floors of the bathrooms are paved with India rubber tiles. There are electric passenger, lug~ gage and food elevators. Roth Adds to His "String." John C. Roth, proprietor of the Great Northern, the Auditorium and the Annex, Chicago has leased a hotel now under construction, at St. Paul. ----------------------------- -- -- MICHIGAN ARTISAN 11 • The finest equipped plant tn existence doing Engraving, Printing and Binding under one roof and management. The mark of Cargill on your Engraving and Printing bears the same relation to quality as to jewelry, Rogers on or Sterling on silver. Tiffany Cutlery, Every furniture catalog planned and executed by us last season has been talked about..•In a class by themselves···Something better .··Something new. Write about allow us and at once and your to to us requirements, suggest improvements quote you. Drop down to our plant when in Grand Rapids. It will be to your interest. The Cargill Company Grand Rapids Engraving Company Grand Rapids, Wealt~y Avenue, just west of Michigan Di1'is.ion Street. ......------_._-----_ ... • •I THE Wellin~on note! Remodeled at a CI.lst of $150,000 Hot and cold I'UDnina: water and long die-tance 'phone' in all rooml. 200 rotmIS. J 00 with bath. Sinl[k or en 5ui~. Rates $1 ,00 and upward;-. One 01 the moet uuique dinin1;l rooms in the country_ Our homoU8 lnmllJl Cafe. NOrED FOR \E",I~E AND CUI~I"E McClintock and Ba'tfield PROPS. .,·":,~~')'~~:s~1~ ,~,~ COt. Wabash Ave. & Jackson Boulevard CHICAGO II I I ! I>------------ ...--------_. WHEN IN DETROIT STOP AT Hotel Tuller L- l / 10 SPINOLa MACHINE \ ALSO MADE WlTH 14, Hi, 20 AND 25 SPINDLES. DODDS' NE.W GE.A~ DOVE.T AILING MACHINE. This little machine has DQlle wore to perfect. the drawer work of furniture manufacturers than anything eb;~ in the furniture trade. FO)rfift~n years it bas made perfect-fitttng, v<!rmin-proof. dove-tailed stock a possibility. This bas been accomplished at reduced cast, as the nlachine cuts dave-tails in gangs of from 9 to 24 at Olle operation. ALEXANDER DODDS. Grand Rapids, Micbigan. Rep~ted by Schuchart & Schutte al Berlin, Vienna, Stockholm and St. PetetshUtll_ Rep~ntalive by Alfred H. Schutte l\.1c.:.1011lle. Brusseb. ~lF, Pam. Milan and Bifhoa. Rep~ted in Great Britian and Jrdarn:J by the Olivet Machinery Co.• F. S. Thompson, Mat·, 201·203 DellJlSi8te. Manchener. Enaland . • 12 MICHIGAN ARTISAN Progress in Filing Room Practice It may be worth whjle for the readers of the Artisan to c011sider the pfognss that has been made during the past fe\v years in filing room practice, for the reason that very many of the processes in cafe of saws and knives are 110 longer performed as done years ago. In the caSe of a modern woodvYorkillg plant having In use the ordinary variety of narrow band saws used for se'roll sawing, say from }4 up to 1" or more wide.. tJle opportunity for improvement in methods of fitting is relatively less than in the caSe of band resa"vs or wide log band saws, but even ou these narrO\'1i widths there has been marked progress, in that the old tirr.e filer and setters, which about every factory has tried out, have given \vay to tools for the purpose that are practic,d and efficient and well enough made to afford comparative accur-acy and lasting satisfact101' to the opcrat01. A band ~a"v filer or setter lS <.'.xpected to file or set satisfactorily S!1l,VS ranging from ;:.i up to 1, 2 or 3" wide, having from three to six or mOle points to the inch, and the modern machine will sen'e the purpose well unless ignorantly handled, or put to use On saws so lacking in uniformity that an autonutic machine cannot be adapted therefor. The como,ent fro:n the better class filers who understand the advantage of Uni-formly fitted Harrow band saws, both as· regards filing aBU setting, are all in favor of these appliances. if of first CbS5 manufacture. A letter lately seen from the filer in Brooklyn Navy small rip and crosscut saws in common use on circular saw benches, self-feed rip saws, swing crosscuts, and the like. It is a remarkable fact, however, that some woodworkers do not seem to realize that machine fitting is distinctly sup-erior to hand fitting, and at the same time much more eCLo~ nomieal because of the greater uniformity and perfection in operation of the saws that are machine fitted, al1d which go about their work with little attention required on the part of the operator. These special fitting machines st1rely pay ill plants where there is a large amount of fitt1ng, becau~", they often times save the expense of at least one man or in other words, some $2 or $3 a day in th matter of labor cost, and in the case of the small plants, they surely pay because they enable an unskilled operator, unless not possessed of .sufficient mechanical ahility, to properly adjust the machine for the work in hand, to do far better work than his lack of ~kiH would pennit hilll to do by hand. III a succeeding number, the \V.riter will take up Modcnl Practice, in so far as it relates to band resaws that range from 3 to 6 inches wide, and suggest some of the changes <Iud acl- \'al1tages that result as the different p~ogresses are llOW C<Ir-ried on. Noiseless Book Case Door Slide. C. L. Frost, of the Hardware Supply company, has got-ten out a new attachment for sliding doors in show cases book cases etc. which allows the door to' slide ou a polished steel ·track-- without noise or friction. . It consists of <l. steel shoe that may be read;ly attached to the lower edge of the door as shown in t-H.(' accompanying illustration. T t is so formed that it cannot bind 011 the track, and the edge of the track being polished ve--ry smooth the door operates })('T-fectly, and without the noise usually l)roduced by wHer!'> or sheaves. It being made (If a single piece of steel it cannot get ont (If order and will lasL a life time; moreover the cost is much lower than any other ap-pliance made for this purpose. The goods are now being made by the Hardware Supply company, aed are meeting with favor by the trade. Yard, speaks of a set·of these machines in use that are speeded to tile and set 50 band saw teeth per minute ana mentions that he is overwilling to give up for these little machines because hand fiHng and setting are not in it for a minute with them. The prejudice that formerly. existed On the part of' saw filers against such tools for factory use, has been largely done away with, at least on the part of any who have seen the modern well built machines used. Furniture factories alld pattern shops, in particular, even though there be only one or two band saw machines in use, can well afford a set of these appliances, and in the case of the larger plants in which from one-half doezn to twenty or mOfe band sawing macbinesare used, the need 'for them is self-evident. There are still some woodworking plants that employ a grindstone with a hand wheel device for grinding machine kn!ves, but the nurnber of these concerns is daily growing smaller. Kow, well built automatic knife grinders pro-vided with water attachments for cooling the knife during the process of grinding, and every necessary adjustment to insure true work and little or no waste of the knife, are ob-tainable at modest price. Special grinders are also obtain-able for c'utter head work, and likewise for the grinding of l A SENSIBLE EDITORIAL. Optimism is again appearing. Men of all walks in life ale burying the proverbail "hammer" and giving things <I boost. This is an the country needs. Conditions do not warrant hard times. Ask the banker, merchant or manll~ facturer the reason for the present stringency and he will tell you lack of confidence. Crops arc good, money plenty and, in fact,· conditions are right for the greatest boom this country ever enjoyed. The people of the United States have acquired a bad habit of "hedging" to a greater or less extent every four years at election time. No apparent cause, just a habit. This country is going 10 grow and boom no matter which party is in power. Don't make the mistake of following a blind superstition that trouble is bound to come every election time or that panics are sched-uled at regular intervals of from eighteen to twenty years. This is all wrong. It is' up to the people. Use sound business methods all the time, boost instead of knock and there will be no hard times. Grand .Rapids Brass Co. OUR BUILDING E p N R G I R N A T V E E R I R S s B II P I I I R N t I D I I N E I T R I E S I R E I s N , B G I R I N A D V I E E R R II s S MICHIGAN ARTISAN [ I IOD.IIO.112 I norli DiisilJn II. ~;~ ~ I Qran~Ra,i~s Erected by Wbite Printing Company. Grand Rapid•• 1907. 106. 110. 112 nort~ Division~t.i Qran~Ra,i~s Michigan Engraving Company :: White Printing Company Michigan Artisan Company ... -~--__._._-----. I "" 13 14 MICHIGAN , ARTISAN Oliver Tools "OLIVER" No.:l6. Band Saw 36 Inchel. Made wilh or without motor drive Melal table 3&/:.: 30". Will lake 18" under the iluide- tilts 45 degrees one way and 7 degrees the other way. Car-lies a saw up to IWI wiele. Oultide bearin~ \00 lowe't wheel sbah when notmolordciven. Weilloo 1800 Ibs when ready to ship. CHOICE TOOLS FOR FURNITURE MAKERS If you do not know the "Oliver" wood working tools, you had beller give us your address and have us tdl you all about tbem. We make nothing but Quality tooJs, the first cost of which is considerable, but which will make more profit for each dollar invested than any of the cheap machines Hood-ing lhe country. "Oliver" New Variety Saw Table No. 11. Will take a l:KlW up to 201 diameter. Arbor bell is 6" wide. Send for Catalog "B" for data on Hand Jointers, Saw Tables, Wood Lathes. Sanders. Tenoners. Morti.ers. Trimmers, GriDde:ra,Work Benches, Vises, Ciampa, Glue Heater.s,etc., etc. OLIVER MACHINERY CO. Work. and General Offices at 1 to 51 Clancy St. CRAND RAPIDS. MICH •• U. S. A. BRANCH OFFICES - Oliver Machinery Co" Hudoon Terminal, 50 Church St., New York: Oliver Mad:linery Co" Fint National BlI.Dk Building. Chicago. Ill.; Oliver Machinery Co., Pacific Building. Sealtle, W.uh.; Oliver Machinery Co • 20 I ·203 Dell.llsgate, MlI.JIchester. Eng . Save Labor Tillie Tempers Cod .._--_._---------------------_._--------" . Freight Car Shortage of 100,000 is Predicted. One of' the foremost railroad authorities in the country declared last ,'leek that American railroads would have in service 100,000 less freight cars on January 1 next, than were in service January 1, 1908. The nason of this decrease in the transportation capacity of the country, he added, was the inability of the railroads to earn enough or to borrow enough to replace the cars being worn out. . This loss is greater than the shortage of freight cars last October, 'illhcn the demand for transportation facilities in excess of the ability of the railroads to supply them reached its highest point in the history of the country. For several months after the slump in railroad traffic began, early last winter, the railroads continued to increase their rolling stock equipment but almost entirely through the receipt of cars previously ordered, which the 11.1anufaceturerswere un-able to turn out when they were urgently needed. Just how many cars were thus added to the total equip-ment as it stood during the high pressure of business of 1907 can only be estimated, but it is evident that through the failure or inability of the railroads to keep damaged cars !n repair and destroyed cars replaced since the beginning 01 the currcnt calendar year, the transportation capacity of tht:: country has been set back to a very serious degree. Com-petent authorities hold that it is less nm..- than it was at this time a year ago. That the volume of freight traffic in the United States is subject to violent fluctuations from year to year and almost from month to month is a fact with which not only every railroad official, but likewise every shipper, big and little, is only too familiar. It is at the bottom of the persistently reiterated assertion of railroad managers that it is dangerot1~ to the ultimate prosperity of the country to allow the de-velopment of railroad facilities to cease during periods of business recessions. • Nevertheless, the present year will witness, according to the authority first quoted, a failure on the part of the railroads to place orders for the replacement of $100,000,000 worth of freight cars which might have been worn out and destroyed in service. This is merely 'what the railroads have failed to do-or, more properly, becn unable to do-in order to keep the capacity of their plants unimpaired and does not include anything which might have becn done to keep pace with the normal average increase in the demand upon the railroads for transportation. It is safe to assume that had the railroads not becn forced to cut down maintcnance atlowances in order to meet current charges upon capital obligations already incurred, they would have promptly replaced everyone of the 100,000 cars which they will have lost this year. It is safe to assume fltrther, that had their net earnings been such as to make possible the borrowing of fresh capital all a scale commen-surate with their needs, they would have purchased not only the equivalent of the rolling stock put out of service, but probably as much more clearly additional equipment. To say that the cars are 110t needed at the present tilli~ does not touch the heart of the matter. Freight cars can-not be had in any quantity in a day or a month, as the con-ditions of last summer amply demonstrated, while recovery in the volume of traffic, once fairly started, usually proceeds with a rapidity only equaled by the rate at which it shrinks in time of general depression.-New York Commercial. Reorganized. The Aulsbrook & Jones Furniture company, of Sturgis, Mich., succeeds Aulsbrook & Sturgis, The capital stock of the corporation is $100,000. M. C. Kelly's stock of furniture in Colville, Washington, was destroyed recently. Insurance $2,000. MICHIGAN ARTISAN r A Power Veneer Press I of Pra&ically Unlimited Capacity Material lowered on truck, top beam raised, leaving the pre<;s ready for another set of plates. QUICK. POWERFUL. STRONG. Clamps for Every Line of Woodworkin\!. ·Weare alwaY8 glad to mml WI18traled p'f'inted moUe,. giving full particulQr~. Black Bros. Machinery CO. h- . MENDOTA. ILl. , i ------.---.~ '"---,-.--- - --1 '--.---.-.. rr ------- B. WALTER & CO. }"N'b~n~I (t. 113. (tbatfieI~t ~~ TABLE SLIDES Exclusively I lDeaigner Blo(lgan BJJg.. GrJuu:1Rapids, Mich. , ...-.-.-- . ..l ... Working drawings flirnishedfoT • fine and medium Furniture, Chair:J and fancy articles in modern and classic styles. GUI1-T£UJtUJ &lltrs. WRITE FOR PRICES AND DISCOUNT r ._--_._-------'-------,~ MANUFACTURERS OF FURNITURE, Have you ever used the Mercantile Editions of the Michigan Artisan? IF NOT, WHY NOT? These Editions would serve you well. Why not try them? Mailed to Retailers Only. 15 1 ~---------~ -- --- 16 MICHIGAN l!STABUSHED 1880 ~. ~YfiLcQR]n..~.lA.i;Ii~J,,§j,;~N ~ -# ~__ "C*',,- - ~~ .... ~ .~~ ~- - - I"Ul!ILl8Heo BY MICHIGAN ARTISAN CO. ON THE IOnl AND 25TH OF EACH MONTH OFFICE-10B. 110.112 NORTH DIVISION ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ENTEReD"'8 "....neR OF THE SE(lOIlO CLAn Greater attention is given to manual and trade instruction by the colleges and schools of America than to other branches. New York is spending vast sums for the purpose mentioned and Pennsylvania is scarcely behind her most imposing neighbor. In the central west the movement is strong and steadily growing in importance. Michigan is giving a great deal of attention to the question while Wisconsin. a state l<\rgely inhabited by Germans and the descendants of Germans has inherited the spirit that has given the fatherland its position as the leading nation of the world in the training of sons to fil1 useful occupations, Not only in the larger cities of Wisconsin, but in many small towns trade and man-ual schools have been established, Instruction in the trades and domestic science is given in the following towns of 6,000 inhabitants. Severalcontaill less than that number: Antigo, AppletOll, Ashland, Chippewa Falls, Eau Claire, Fond du Lac. Grand Rapids, Green Bay, Janesville, KellOsha, La Cro'sse, 1Yladison, Marinette, Menominee, Omw, Oskosh, Racine, Sheboygan, Stevens Point, "',Taukesha, Wausau. Washburn and Viroqua. The trade 5c.hools of Milwaukee, \Vis., Sagina'N, Grand Rapids and Detroit, Mich., rank high ill the list of such institutions, The movement, althottgh a new one, has taken a strong hold in public favor and will, in a few years be en grafted upon the educational system of the United States. "'t'" tlttl Complaint is made by the railroads that the dining cars have not been patronized as might be expected from the vol- Uille of travel. .A passenger official has expressed the opinion that it js due to fewer traveling'salesmen having' been on the road. Another and more potent reason is that the traveling salesmen have rebelled against the inferior food, indifferent service and the outrageous prices charged by the managers of the dining cars for meals, Many traveling men have learned to suffer the. pangs of hunger for a few h01.\!s rather than eat the poor food and' pay double their value for the same, I DtD DtD A considerable number of manufacturers of wall p::tpcr have leased suites of rooms in prominent hotels of New York for the purpose of exhibiting their products during the current month. The idea is not a new one. In the year 1882 a line of chairs was exhibited in the Fifth avenue hotel l\ew York by an enterprising manufactl.1rer of Grand Rapids and a few years later a line of chairs made in Kew York placed on exhibition in the rotunda of the Hotel Morton, Grand Rapids. °to °to "The Grand Rapids association is endeavoring to estab-lish a standard of colors for finishes.-Jimestown Journal. The propo5ition is not fairly stated hy the Jout-nal. The Grand Rapids Associa.tion has established a standard of colors through the <lgency of the leading dealers in furniture in the United States who will buy no other, The manufacturer who fails to adopt the Grand Rapids standard speedily will soon learn the necessity for so doing, <'ttl tltO Merchants and manufacturers of the eastern states,. ARTISAN charged by the railroads with underbilling and other 11lis~ representations in connection with shipments, fear indictment for violating the rate law, Government ir.spectors have unearthed many interesting practice" for the com,ideration of the grand jury. Manufacturers of lodge and church furniture report the receipt of a considerable number of' orders. Fraternities and religious societies seldom pay attention to panics. °tD <'to Judging by the number of hotels in course of erection in all parts of the United States owners of reat estate fail to see any chance for discouragement in the near future. <'ttl Dttl funeral be- Presently Union hack drivers in Albany struck at a cause the hearse driver was a "non-union" man. they'll want a union label on the corpse. 0t D °tD Now is the summer of our discontent made bearable by the assurance that' the other fellows' vacations wUl b~ over soon. tlttl DtO The growing scarcity of box cars repeats the story of the revival of trade in the wood working industri~s. 0t D °tD If the politicians could be muzzled there would be no question about the future of business. tltO tltO Malachite finish is again in favor. "Satin walnut:' It is used mainly on Grafting Barred. One of the evils that prevails in many large industries is the practice indulged in by foremen and in many instance,; superintendel1ts, of horrowieg rr.oney from shop hands. A movement to check this species of blackmail has been in-augurated by the United States Steel Trust, which has posted the following rule in its several plants at Pittsburg: "No superintendent, foreman, boss or clerk is permitted to solicit money or make collections from workmen for any church, society or association." Bosses have been in the habit of seeking donations from among workmen who were afraid of their jobs if they did not subscribe. Rule 23 reads: "No salaried employee of this company will be permitted to buy or in any way assist in the sale of ~\le product of any company, nor must any salaried employee take an active part in conducting any business in which su(:h investment i" made." The rule was adopted to keep the bosses from forcing workmen to buy at places in which the bosses are financially interested, A rule has also been adopted prohibiting employees from interfering with each other in political matters and none is permitted to solicit contributions for political purposes. .AN IMPROVEMENT NOTED. The Grand Rapids Brass company (the largest manu-facturers of furniture and refrigerator trimmings in the country) report a decided improvement in trade. Everyone of their customers are buying, and order immediate ship-ments, H the present improvement keeps up (and there is no reason in the world why it should not) it will not be long before the full tide of prosperity may not be reached, Re-cently this company brought out a new· bra.ss pull for desks. It is illustrated in their advertisement in this isstle, also a new sliding shoe for use on desk legs. Look up their. ad. J :VIICHIGA~ ARTISA.K -------_._--_._---------------------~ 17 If YOU want the BEST BENCH that money can bUY, eqnipped with the only PERFECT QUICK ACTING VISE" write tbe GLOBE VISE and TRUCK co. I Manufacturers and Jobbers of Wood Working Machinery II GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. . I '\ II Our CataloJfnes and Circulars will, Jfive.you· a Jfreat I deal of vaLnabLe information yon onJfht to know. i' ,---- ---_._--- -------- ---_.--,------"-~--_.~ , 'I' ..------_._----------------- .... If your DESIGNS are right, people want the Goods. That makes PRICES right. lXlarence 1R. 1bfUs DOES IT 163 Madison Avenue-eitizens Ph<:me1983. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ~._-------_._------_._-_. ----- ..,,-._ i).,. IMP.RO".D~EA.S_V"N." ELEVATO RS I ' QUICK.tR"JSINC Bclt~ Electric and Hand Power. The Best Hand Power for Furniture Stores Send for Catalogue and Prices. KIMBAll BROS.CO•• 1067 "nth St.. Council Bluffs, la. Klmball.,Elevator Co., 3~3 Prospect St., Cleveland,0,; 108 11th St., Omaha, Neb.; 129Cedar St., New York City. i'----------------------"" • The Universal Automatic '"------ CARVINO MACHINE === PERFORMS THE WORK OF === 25 HAND CARVERS ..----- ._------_-.---------_-.-_-------~---------------------' II DESIGNS AND DETAILS : OF FURNITURE ::I I, -- .J 10ufs 'lbabn 154 Livingston St. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN Cjtlz~ns' Telephone 1702. And does the Work Better than it can be Done by Hand ------MADEBY------ UnIOn rMDOSSln~ Ml(n1nr (0. Indh. napoli., Indiana Write for Information. Price. Etc. • ~_ West Side 36 Inch Band Saw Machine, 61eason Patent Sectional Feed Roll, MA~UFACTURED BY WEST SIDE IRON WORKS CRAND RAPIDS, MICH., Ue S. A. H. W. Petf'ie, our agents for Canada. 0ffice8, T01"onto, Mont1"eal and Vancouver. 18 ;-.,J V S 1.1. liV How Sandpaper is Made. The variocs grades of sandpaper, otherwise \.;110\ ....11· a" glass paper, at:e llumbered from 3 to 0 (and even finer), and there are correspocding sieves to divide the various g"rades, or to "size," as it is technically called. These sieves aTC nun:- bered from 140 to 30. the number representing the number of meshes per lineal inch; the finer sieves a.re covered ..".i.th S,.,.iss silk, the remainder with wovell wire. III this part of the prOcess considerable care must be exercised, as O1:e large particle of glass on a sheet of fine paper weuJd scratch the work upon which it was used, and would produce an uneven surface. The placing Df the glass on paper requires conside,Z!h\e skill and experience. The work-man has delivered to him Interior of Bungalow. plain paper in reams of 120 sheets, each shed making four sheets of ordinary size. The appliances u,;ed arc a c~~pper tank holding 56 pounds of glue, a table, a bench on which the ~heets are laiid to cover them with glass, a hot plate for firing the sheets, a drying room, a cuttir,g lllachine and a press for packing and tying up. A ream or two of paper is placed on the table and the top sheet is cMted by means of a brush resembling a shoe brush, but with longer hair~ The sheet is lifteu by two corners anu laiu on the bench, glue side upermost; the bench has a honler standin~~ up some seven or eight inches on three sides, with a nar-row [dIet in front. Powdered glass is simply thrown or scraped over the sheet, which then is raised from one side so that the superfluous runs off on to the bench and is used again. The sheet is then placed on the hot plate, a hollow. flat iron bench heated with steam; this causes the glue to boil up and thus securely fix the particles of glass on the paper. All this is done much m()re quickly than it C(lll be de-scribed. After drying, the sheets are cut up and arranged in quires and reams ready for ·the market. Glass paper has entirely replaced the old-fashioned sandpaper. This was made in the same way as glass paper except that sharp, fine sand instead of glass was uscd. Custom, however, has perpetuated the r:ame of sandpaper and we hear IHtt seldom the name "g.lasspaper." Employed a Collector. The furniture department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art has employcd a collector, especially for the purpose of strengthenillg the section for antiques. The gentleman en:;agl~d, Mr. Luke Vincent Lockwood, although his em-ployment commenced hut recently, has secured a number of valuable pieces and hopes to make the collection one of the most useful in the world. Mr. Lockwood is an undoubted authority on antique N V ~ 1 I-I J I !\I furniture, ;:nd has two fine homes, one in New York aud another in Bridgeport, Conn., in which are to be found probably the fincst collection of antiques in the country. He is <LIsain touch with other collectors, among whom is Rich-ard Canfield, the celebrated New York gambler, who has a $600.000 collection, and \...h..o recently paid $15,000 for a set of a dozen chairs. "Furniture," said 1\1r. Lockwood, "acquires value ,\,,)th age, the same as paintings of the great masters. It is valuable on account of its scarcity." "Some of the Grand Rapids factories are producing' mest creditable replicas of the choicest patterns of antiques of the Dutch and Frcnch types, as well as Chippendales amI Shcratons. There is much to be hOIled for in the perpet-uation of these antique patterns, especially those of the 18th ceetury." The eollection which l\.h. Lockwood has ~:eCl.tr{dfor the .Metropolitan museum includes the finest specimens of the cabinet makers' art of two centurit:s ago, aed pos5esscs a value which can only be estimated. :dr. Lockwood spent a few days in Grand Rapids re-cently and during his stay took occasion to examine the lines on sale. He expressed surprise and gratification over the faithfl':leess of the replicas. Will Promcte Sales. in Mexico. Ten years ago an enterprising young American, R. \V. Vv·. Delman, ill Old Mexico as a 11 ineral expert. In the course of pany in Old l\Jexico as a mineral expert. In the course of tirr.e he tired of his employmeet, and meeting E. H. Foote of the Gral~d Rapids Chair COlTpany in "11exico City, tendered his services as guide. During the week SIlent with Mr. Foote he gained considerable information in regard to the furniture business and resolved to take on a few lines on commission. Coming to Grand Rapids, he easily obtained the agency for a number of good lines, and purposes working the trade in forty Mexican cities for qrders. Mr. Drinnier is confident that with the proper presentation of American furniture to the people of Mexico, a heavy business will be created for the manufacturers of Grand Rapids. Eleven Hundred Buyers. During the midsummer selling season eleven 11l1lHlrcd buyers visited Grand Rapids, inspected t~..e. lil1es and placed For Summer, White Enameled Frames and Cretonne. orders. Of this number two hundred werc members of thc Michigan Undertakers' Association which convened on July 28, f9r a four days session. The interest taken in the exhibits was very great and the selling agents were pleased and encouraged by the results of the opening. :IlICHIGAj\ AETISAN ARTISTIC andINEXPENSIVE CATALOGUE COVERS LET US FIGURE ON YOUR PHOTOGRAPHING ENGRAVING and PRINTING at Right PrieM PROMPT DELIVERIES COMPLETE CATALOGS PERFECT MICHIGAN ENGRA VING CO. WORK· GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN 19 ~------- --- 20 MICHIGA.:\ -----~ f\ A J, T [S A N OUR SPECIALTV BIRD'S EYE MAPLE II I ~ ~C.~Nkg.I.?~D~AP'~.~'~EERe 0 ·1• ( Made and dried rightl and waite. Samples jurnisked on application.') 500,000ft. 1·20 inch Quarter Sawed Oak carried in stock. Come in and see it. Birch and Poplar crossbanding and rotary cut Oak. Birch, Maple, Basswood, Poplar and Gum Drawer Bottoms. PROMPT DELIVERY. ALL PRIME STOCK. FIGURED WOODS. MAHOGANY. WALNUT. QYR. SAWED OAK. BIRCH. HENRY Wo::nan Who R~sto::'es th~ Ill-Fashioned Ho:r.e. One of the wotren decor<ltors who ha'le succfed('c1 espec-iJl1y well attributes son- e part of her prosperity to the fact that she selected a specialty al':d confined herself to it. The tield that she picked ont w~:s cot nearly so crowded as that of gel1cral decoration. "I knew that my chance of success," she told a report~r ,the othe.r morning "was to strike out in son~e new field. 1 call myself a beauty doctor for country houses, and there seems to be enough people who take me at that valuation to keep me busy. I'll tell you what I've been doing .for the last month and you will see how I work. "As a. specia.list skilled in supplying :first aid to the hou~e .that has been aesthetical1y il1jured, I wen up to the Berk~ shires last spring to look over a hC1ltse. I have just seen it again and I don't hesitate to say that it would scarcely be rec-ognized. The happy hostess who brought me down to the train in her motor was a decided C011tr;:st to the woman who came to me in March and said: "'My house has absolute.!y no character; although it cost enough when it was built to be beautiful. As it is, every-thing is wrong. .:'JOl;V I ·want you to eome up and look at it and see what can be done;' HIt looked ve.ry discouragiJig. .It had been put up about a qU:trter of a cer:!tury ago when the \-Valter Crane Eastlake craze Vitas at its height and Fifth avenue decorators got very high prices for applying it to houses. That period knew r.othing of the: lightness and beauty of French decoration. That was the period in which the dado and the frieze were regarde.d as the last word in household dccoration and were applied indepcl1del~tly of all care for the proportions of the room. , "50 every room of the salon Hoor of this house bad been treated in just the way that would acc.entuate the mistakes of the architects. The ceilings ·were not high, but that had not prevented the original deeorator from adding to each wall a dado or wainscot and a frieze, which gave the dfect of three stripes running arouild each room. vVith the ceilings al-ready low and the rooms not very large the effect produced made the ceilings seem not an inch above the heads of those in the' room. Of course any such architectural .proportion:; required exactly opposite treatn;e,nt. I asked the owner of that house if I was at liberty to do what I wanted to make the rooms look their best. She told me to go as far as I wanted. She had lost all hope 'of ever having them modern and tasteful .• like the apartmenfs she saw in her frielld's new-er hO,mes. "The first thing I did,was to substitute for the dark East.., lake ,papers in the three divisions a light d:J.inty wall paper with the .11arrow flowered stripes rt1l1ning up a.nd down the wall, to give a sense oC height to the rooms. There were no heavy lPouldings allowed, but in place of the mahogany about the conliccs the mouldings were finished in the color of the paper. That irr.n·_edi;:::.tely gave rr:e a sense of space which the old decorations had l~Ct possessed in the slightest degree. "The ceiling had been painted ill a combination of pe:t-cock blue, dark brown and old rOSe, which was just the thing cak.ulated to n:ake the r00111 as dark as possible. My pain-tcr with no thought of what it may have cost rubbed his brush unn:erciful1y over this daub, which had the effect 01 making the room darke.r with its three windows opellin:; onto a broad lawn than a room in a New York fiat lighted by a court. It was this celing that illustrated so strikingly the ignorance of one of the first laws of deeoration which some-times exists even in the. handsomest houses. It is a prin-ciple of correct d~coration that the ceiling, wllich is the dark-est part of the room, since the light from the w·indows falls on the Boor, SllOUId be done in the lightest colors, whi.1e the floor, which receives most of the light, looks best with a darker cover. They did 110t seem to care much about that fact, however, in the days of late Victorian standards in de,c-oration, and in this house there was a cream colored carpet on the floor with these three dark eolors in the. ceiling. "There was one possible way of arranging the carpet so as to accentuate this fault, and that had, of course, been donc. H a carpet in a comparatively small room is surrounded with a border it will look much smaJ{cr and give the s:tme effe:t to a room. This purpose may also he accomplished by hav-ing a rug of just the size t1w.t shows;: a border of hardwood floor around it. The decorator had heen careful to sur-round his rug with a border that took off several feet from the size of the room. "The drawin~ room that I have described was typical of the whole house, and the changes Tn:ade there we:-e ahout the same that were necessary everywhere. I. took the border off that carpet, extended it to th::: sides of the rOom and re-lieved it with a few rugs. The eurtains. which were hung with heavy lambre.quins and draped back in such a '''lay as to aecentuatc the 1001\i11essof the ceiling by their curves, were made to hang in straight folds, which gave an effect of addi-tional height. The portieres were draped back and tied with a silken cord, which contributed its share to the squat look of the rooms. By allowing them to fall straight from the poles in simple straight lincs there were more circumstances to supply the necessary look of altitude. "When the rooms 1,lad been furnished the object of the decorator had been to' make every piece fit the room into which it was put. For the low ceilings the.re were .approp-riately short and stocky pieces. The only high eiling in the house was in an entrance hall, and there the urniture was high. "There was a pr"iuCiple of decoration here b t it was only half developed. Low furniture for low ceiling d rooms and the reverse for the rooms that have high ceilin s is all right 50 far as it got'~, bot it doesn't go far enough. The theory .\i I C It I c; .\ 1', ~, ------ :II II II!IIIII:I A I, TIS A 1< 21 ------ ---_. -------------.~ I p-EI.r (TRACe:: MARK REGISTERED) PAINT AND VARNISH REMOVER Things don't grow without nourishment· Manufacturers do not increase their facilities unless there is a growing demand to supply. In point of sales, Ad-el-ite Paint and Varnish Remover is tar ahead of any similar preparation on the market and our new, thoroughly equipped plant enables us to give better service than ever before. You will find that Ad-el-ite contains more energy to the gallon, has fewer dis-agreeable features and brings better results than anything you can get. Eats down through any number of old coats of hard paint. varnish, wax, shellac or enamel leaving the surface in perfect condition for refmishing. Send for Free Sample. CHICAGO I II STA.E I~ of broken heights is much more effective. That means that there should be mixed heights to give. C'v<?xypiece its value. So I. brought ,some of the high pieces out of the hall, mixed them with the low furniture built for the dra"wing room and had tv\7ice as good an effect as if there had been but one scah~ in the two different rooms." The old fashioned decorators of a qu::uter of a ccntLLry ago loved blues, dark browns, greens and the leather tints, and it was difficult for them to get away from them, whether they were decorating a dining room or a drawing room in a sunny country home. The woman decorator, whose sense of color is, as e.ven her rivals admit, better than most men possess, went through the same process of simplifying the ar-rangement of the walls, abolishing the 'Nains:::ot or dado, frieLe and the central hand of color. The patterns of this wall paper Wf!.l-::'; in aln:(:st every caSe so large that it tended to make the rooms lose much of their size. and in none of the paper of the Io-w ceiling rooms had the stripes that in-crease the effect of height be.en thought of. "I did not use the same colored papers in e\'ery room," she. explained, "although that increases the eITed of space whell one call see from one room into another. but I used analog'lIe. tints that made no sharp contrast. Tn the high entrance halL nearly as large as one of the drawing rooms and running to a height of two floors, was the only stripped paper. There in a space already w high that no emphasis of the height waS needed, (lud where there was an excellent opportunity to use paper with a large and decorative pattern, the walls were cov-ered with panels of thin striped brown and green paper in alternate satin <lI1drough finish. Those stripes seemed to soar up the \valls until the top of the hall looked as far up in the air as the top of the Singer building. "Here \'\.'<lS a legitimate chance to plunge a bit on decnt-a-tion and use S0111(' of the \vonderful big figured cretonnes and wall papers which are. always a tcmptation to the decorator L because their color3 are so beautiful but cannot often be ap-propriately used 1n city houses. The big figures would di-minish the effect of extreme height and as there, was. little fur-niture in the hallway and half the high piece,s had been moved into the dra\ving room there \vas r.o danger of producing an effect of overcrowding. "I reve.l1ed in being able to use that wall paper which with its brilliant bluisb green and yellow parrots among wonderful trees 'in shades of green and blue had cretonne curtains to match it eXilct!y. From the higb ce.iling down to the floor I ran Jl:lllels of the paper against a cool sage green back-ground of soft cartidge paper. In the side doors and in the two windows I hung 10llg curtains of the cretc.mne. broken in the case of the doors by deep lambrequins in order not to give too great an effect of height. The woodwork of the hall which had black l,valnnt, was painted in a tone of sage green background. Two tall palms added variety to the heights of the. furniture. T had only a narrow frieze about the top made of the same ~:age green wall papeL" The decorative beauty doctor wip2d the pe.rspiration from her brmv after this enthllsastic description. "See that house no\v," she concluded, "and then remember the stuffy,' morgl1c!ike place the first'Hoor was before I began to work all it. The change has delighted the woman who lives in it, and her friends are just as pleased. I do not at-tempt to take houses and decorate them from the be.ginning and from top to bottom. That would ce too much for me, and curiot1s1:y enough I have 11ever found it so.interestil1g as what I do. ~{allY decorators hate to h·ave to come in and correct lhe mistakes of their predecessors--or the employes of their predecessors. I have no such fe,eling, for T.like best to go over somebody else's ground and straighten it out. So by making' this specialty try own I have fou(HI plenty to do." -New York SUI1. 22 AlICHIGAK f ROYAL WHITE MAPLE POLISHING VARNISH White-the Emblem of Purity--our White Maple Polishing Varnish is Pure-and the WHITEST GOODS on the market. It dries to recoat every other day; can be rubbed and polished in four to five days. Ask for testing sample. ROYAL VARNISH COMPANY TOLEDO, OHIO How Jor.es Was Cured. • • "John!" "Y cs Sir:." "Tell me, how ]t 15 that your sales have fallen off so, of late. I hear that George Matthews, who. travels for the North American Furniture Company, has had increasijng sales every month this year, until now the North American di-rectors have voted him a long vacation. John is the traveling salesman for the International"Furn-iture Company, and his territory is the same as that of Geo. Matthews. Mr. Jones, the president of the International Furniture Company addressed his remarks to John Thompson, as quoted above is a pessimist by nature. \Vbile he is careful and painstaking watching every outgo and every income, be i" t ' 55-59 Elleworth Ave., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. WOOD FINISHING MATERIALS I FILLERS, STAINS, POLISHES, ETC. tj If in trouble with finishing materials, now is the time to let us put you right. ~ We match all sampl~ submitted and fill all orders promptly. GRAND RAPIDS WOOD FINISHING CO. • 21ways sure his competitors are getting the best of him-~_~'~1:- tiug the trade he ought to have; and getting it at a great deal les~ cost than he has b~pay. John had just retumed from a long trip, :1nd while he had sold some goods, his sales were hardly satisfactory to Mr. Jones. "Vl"ell, Mr. Jones," replied John, "I admit that my sales were not sati~~factory as [ could \vish, but I did the best I could. 'You know George Matthews represents a house that has been in the business much longer than we have, and by reason of extensive advertising is better known. I think that· has some influence." "Not a bit of it,'! roared Jones. "Nobody pays any atten-tiQn to furniture papers, and as for circulars and catalogues, they all go into the waste basket without ever being opened or the wrappers torn off. \Vhat we want is results. "1 haven't been on the road for sixteen years, and· y~t I venture to say I c.an go right out over your territory and sell four times as much-as you have in this trip you have just finished." "Quite possible, Sir," said John, but Twill tell you what I will do. "If you \vill start out Monday and go right over the territory I have just lrade, call on the same people, and make it in three months, sell four times as much as I have, and at no larger experse, and without cutting the price, give me free rein to do as I please in your place, while you are gone, in regard to making sales; in other words, we'll do the "Prince and Pauper act," (I'll be the the Prince and you the othet fellow), I will work for you for six months for nothing and pay my own expenses, if I, on the other hand. do not sell at least 50 per cent as much while you are out as you do." " It's a go," said Jones. "I'll show you a thing or two about doing business on the road. On the other hand I am curion; . to know how you expect .to sell 50 per cent 35 much as I shar, and when I return you may immediately prepare for six 111011ths service without salary and <it your own expense." "Nuf sed," replied John, and he drew his check for what was coming to him and went home. The next Monday morning Jones with John's photos was off bright and early to catch the 5 :30 train, 'while 'J ohn saunt-ered in at 8:30 aed took his seat at the pres:dent's (1e.~k and proceeded to light a fragrant Havar..a. vVhen Jones reached the first town it was latc in the afternoon. The day was hot and sultry and he wa!> tired from his long ride. He went to the leading hotel saying, Ii] will take the best room in the honse," and after a bath decided he would rest a bit, and call on his customer after ,;upper, which he did. On his arrival at the store about 7:45 hc found [our other salesn,ell ahead of him, arId he sat down to wait his turn. The first one did not come out till 8:45, No.2 staid with the buyer till 9:45, No 3 till 10:30, and when 1'\0.4'5 turn camc he was politely requested to call in the morning, and Jones did not even get a chance to present his card, but he determined to he on hand bright and early in the morning. V\.ihen he returned to the hotel he met 1\ o's_ 1, 2 and 3 en-joying a smoke and telling their good and ill luck. l\" 0 1 said he had sold a bill amounting to $1,500, "YOtt know boys," said he " my house is one of the best advertised in the whole country, ;lI~d it is easy for me to sell goods, because every up-to-date merchant feels that if his compedtor gets our line he has a big advantage. ~ly house spends more money in the trade papers, and more _in the magazines, to help the local merchants, .nnd more on catalogues than any house in the country, ,,0 that our name is a household word, and many .of our custon:ers advertise -in their local papers that they carry our goods, the san,e as the clothing merchants adver- GRAND RAPIDS""''''''MICHIGAN YIICHIGAN ARTISAK 23 !:fi !Ii I BARRETT'S PRIME SHELLAC VARNISH !Ii y; !Ii made from Sl:rictlypure Shellac Gum cut In Specially Denatured or !Ii !Ii Wood Alcohol. The results of 25 years' experience in the importa- tion of gums, in the use of solvents, and in the manufacture of varnish !Ii !Ii embodied in "Barrett's Prime." Ask for samples and prices. y; !:fi !Ii 1M. L. BARRETT &. CO., I y; y; 219 LAKE ST., CHICAGO tisc Stein-mock and Hamburger; the Schawb. the piano mell Chickering - -or jeweler \Valtham and E\gll1 ..v. atches." No.2 said "that is just what I have been telling n:)' house for three yeaC-i, but it does 110 good. I spent an hour with Brown this evening, I showed him my photos, gave him my vcry 10..\.'.e5t prices al1(\ hest (liSCOl1l~ts, and came away ,<"..itb a little measly order of $100, ior a fe\'" specialti(::-,;; he thong-ht he must have," ~o 3's story was s01l1cwhlt similiar to Nfl, 2's, C'xcept that 11(' did 110t se1[ a dollar's worth of goods. JOlles listened intelltly hut said nothing, detcrmitl(rl t~) h: lin-it at Brown's ;;torc ncx.t morning. Howe:vt''i,whcn \1<:' awoke the follc)\ving morning it "va~ 7 :30, and "whcn he reached Brown's store it was 9:00, all the morning tr;,il1s h,lc] left the city, and he was compelled to ,",:ait till II :30 b,-'(orc he could see Rro"\vll's buyer, because of other" who wer.:.' ahead of him, and he was asked to come in at 2:CO p.m. This was after '111 the midday train .;; had left, anrI so there was nothing {or [,iln to do but wait. ,\t 2:00 o'clock he was the store again, and the buyer had Hot returned. He waited till 2:30 before he showed up. Now, said Jones to him-self~ 1 hope to place a nice order hert'. The buyer 100ke,1 over his photos, selt'rtcd a very fe'''' things he had to have said he would try (lrd du better Oll hi" next trip, ,Lnd excused himself saying he had annthcr nppoiutrnent that he must meet. So there was nothi11g for Jones to do hut patiently wait for the evening train for the Hext town, three hundred miles away. \\.'\Jen he arrived ,there next 111or,:tllg, he called on the leading furnitl!re merchants ,md found all were well stocked LIp. and one of them would 110t cven look at his photos. Finally be went into the brgest dcpartn:en"~ store in the city, where he got an eye-opener. The buyer sa1d to him, "\Vhy my (leal' sir, 1 do not see how I C,l11 han<l1(' your line. YVeImy larg"c1y from the North American Furn-iture Company, of your city, because they are up-to--datc They make nice goods at the right price, they advcrti~;e lih-erally in the ?vlirhigan Artisan and other fUrllitllre trade papers, ,,,,hile we never see your advertisement in [\ny oi them, you r~evCT:~cl;d us a catalogue, and if you ha"e ;ll1ythillg special we n;"!.vcto wait ror your salesman tOC011lC aroull(l, and take our chances that the stuff is all closed out before he gets here. The Korth American sends uS a fine catalogue every yenr and a supplement between seas:l1lS which keeps us posted. V',Je do a great deal of advertisi:lg ourselves, i:1 the city papers, but never advertise your goods, because y01J are not known to the buying public, and llot'one even asks to see your goods. That was rather di~~couraging for Junes but being of a stubborn disposition he cleteT1rtned to slick it out, and make John's trip if he didn't sell a <1nU:.'\f's worth of gooel:;. In the ILeantin:(~ what was Prince John doing? shoe men Selz- Everett, and th ... After 'lnishing his cigar, and going through the mail he called the stenographer and dictated letters to a half dozen of the lead-ing furniture trade papers asking fOT advertising rates. Next he dictated a letter to the 1\lichigan Engraving Co., "Vhitc Printing Con:pany and several other catalogue maker!' for samples and price~i and in less than a week he had a cat-alogne in the hands of the engravers, Rut not a word to J ones, but the catalogue was guaranteed to be delivered in six \veek5. John was onto his job, also kept dose tab 0:1 t:lle \",hereabouts of Jones. llis ads did not appear in the papers until about a week before the catalogue was ready fur mailing, and whcn he mailed them he took good care to mail them to the people Jones had called on. Of course, as Jones had 110 use for t.rade papers, and never locked at them, he failed to see the work of "Prince John," At the end of three months Jone,; came in tired and disgu:-i-ted with the road, vowing 'l1ewould go into bankruptcy before he "voLlld ever tackle that job agnin, 'Vhen he came into his office Monday mOrtling he foull(~ "Prince John" in hi5 chair leisurely smoking h1s c1gar. John. greeted him cordially and after a few pleasantries about the joys of the road, John called for a showdown as to results, He presented the president with a copy of "a beautiful cata-logue, showed him the ads in the furniture papers, and then drew out his sales hook and showed him the sales he had made to the customers that Jones had called on, which proved to he fom tilTH;Sas much as Jones had 501d. That cured Jones. The pricter, the engraver and the editor are now his most valued friends, and "Prince John" has had hi~-isalary doubled, .and everything is now lovely ,...i.th the International Furnitui'e Coinpan)< \ Which Was Right? "\~Teu~~e·only genuine hand buffed leather in our factory," remarked a manufacturer of upholstered furniture, "An leather used by upholsterers is .split," remarked a huyer of leather in an upholstery shop, It Vi'ould be impos-sihle for the t.anners to supply the leather needed by the up-holsterers if solid hide:~ were t:sed exclusively. A fact well known in the leather industry is that the hides used for seats are split from 11..·.0 to eight tin:es. \Vhich of the statements quoted ahove is trne? Sales of Factory Supplies. "Business is much improved," remarked a prominent dealer in factory supplies. i'There is a steady demand for veneers, mirror plates, cabinet locks, glue, sandpaper and lumber, and the outlook could scarcely be better. The worst is over, Thl.: COUlltry will have another decade of pro.::,perity, no matter who shall be elected president. 24 MICHIGAN Selling Merchandi~e. The broadest, biggest, brainiest occupation in the world IS selling lLcrchandise, says acorresp.ondent of Buck Shot. You've seen a traveling man COl1"C into the store when the proprietor had no more intention of buying than he had of running for poundmaster 011 the prohibition ticket. He felt sort of sorry for the lad when he came in-he'd come such :1 ways to sell nothing. Far as the owner was concerned, he might as well have left his order book at the hotel. Then, somehow, he began to get interested in spite of him-self. "1£ thal were so," he would catch himself saying in his subconscious, "I'd consider that line." Then before he had time to interp::se an objection, he'd have that embryo objec-tion proved, m:d pretty soon he would hear himself saying" aloud, "No, only six; can't use more than that." You know how it goes. Later on, after the salesman had left would look over his duplicate and say: man knew his business." Then """hen he looked the goods over, when they came-a nice, new, dependable stock, and finally when that line sold at a good profit, just as the salesrr:an said it would, he said to himself for perhaps the hundredth time: "That salesman knew his business." There you have it; tbere's the key to all commerce-sup-pose you put it this way- When the salesman knows his business, then there's busi-ness for him. Yes, indeed. When a n:<ln knO\\'5 how to sell, he can selL You've se'e1iit proved a dozen times in a hundred different ways. Take that fellow wbo started a new store at Ridgway. Everybody opined that he wouldn't last. "Ridg'.vay is a small town; several dealers starved to deatb there in '80; one walked back to St. Paul, ,,,,-here l:e came from, do you re-member?"- all that kind of talk. Then :vIr. New J\lan opencd up and started to rustle. Ad-vertised. Solicited. \Vrote to every farmer within twenty miles. Pretty soon he had balf the trade, and--· Well, he's paying taxes 011 four or five eighties now-store still humming; say a quarter-page ~,d of his juust the other day; and the wolf must be close to a million miles from his door and still running. All because that dealer kl:ew his business; he knew how to selL T11<:I1, take Bill Andrews at Stockholm. Remember his son that just had to go to college? Boy wanted to be an en-gineer, build machinery, design engines, and do such work. l.J:e wasn't what you'd call a star-not much of a mixer. Always dr8;wing diagrams, he was; covering paper with fine figures \-vhich seemed to answer up with an x or a y, or something like that. Vacat1or;s he used to wait on trade for his father. One day Bill turned his son loose to sell a stove to a fin-ickY prospect. The fellow was a fusser-a child could see that. But in response to the parental invitation the SOl1 took his paper and pencil and began: "There are8,OGO calories, or heat units given off every time a pound of coal is buurned in oxygen," the boy led out. The prospective customer pricked up his ears. He was prepared to have the young man tell all about the nickel plat-ing and the graceful pose of the goddess at the top of the stove, but this 'Was different. So he listened. "Now, a stove, from an engineering point of view," the boy went on, "is nothing but a macchine for getting every pos-sible caloric from a pound of coaL The more nearly perfect the combustion, the more heat you get for your money." So the· boy went on and on, telling about perfect and imperfect com-bustion; drew diagrarr:s to prove that the stove he was selling was bllilt on the best lines to force right draft, and thcn to utilize what heat was secured. the store, the boss "\\rell, that sales-l ARTISA1'\ The prospect hadn't heard the word "quality" or "looks" once; he even forgot to ask the price. There was the proof of everything right on paper, dia-grams and flg"ures and all. And the stove was sold. Why? Because the boy knew his business. He had learned that nothing is taken for granted in engineering. He applied that he had learnE'.das an engineer to the problem of selling stoves. \Vith his engineering training, it would' have seemed just as criminal to hav-e tried to gllCSS his 'way to it sale as ·it would be to guess how many feet of steel rod it takes for a bridge. Heengincered his stove problcn:-andmade his sale: He knew how to sell. Now, this selling game is not so difficult as it is compre-hcns~ ve. ~rhcn a man wants to be a doctor he studies a sC".oreor more different branches before he dreams of practic-ing. Chemistry, anaton~y, surgery, bacteriology-he grinds M.M.& L.CO. EYer~ THE Purchaser Saffsfied One-hall Our Trade n•• Duplicate and Trll)lIclite Orders MICHIGAN TRUCK There's a Reason HARD-WOOD FRAMES MALLE· ABLE IRO' CASTINGS HOLLY, MICH. away on such studies day in and day out. Even the man who doctors your horse put in three years' study and practice hefore he took' a case. Ar:d that's what you've got to do in order to get into the game and get in to stay. Selling the goods means far mote than handling the trade that comes into the store. Selling is the broadest biggest, brainiest subject in the world. To sell, you've got to organize your business and organize it right. You've got to finance it-to reach out for trade-to study cach of its many subjects like a student cramming for it gold medal contest. You've got to know your business to know how to selL You'll always find this kno'wing how is the greatest thing in the world. It's not alone in the ,dollars that it puts in the tilt---,in the bonds that it stacks up for you in the vault that it counts-it's in the splendid, ,superb, magnificent, deep-down satisfacUon that it gives you when you do a thing and do it right. That's where know-how is greatest-and where it pays best. The pure, unadulterated joy of striving and winning, that's the spirit which jmpels every real salesman onward and on-ward to better things. Swell Drawer Fronts. The \Valter Clark Veneet Comp::my, of Grand Rapids, has built up a fine trarie in. swell dra,ver fronts and veneered rolls. These goods are made in mahogany, ,,,,-alnut, birth, birdseye n:aple, quartered oak, gum, and ,in fact any desired native woods. This comp,llly is prep8red to make prompt ship-ments, and they clnim there is absolutely nothing better in this line. Mr. Clark s<lid to the Artisan, "Trade in July was fine and if it keeps up ill August as well there will be no reason in the world for 211yto complain. It is a good sign when the veneer men talk this way, as the manufacturers are not buying only as they need the goods. I,lf I ~lICJ[lGAt-; ARTISAt-; -----------~ IPittsburgh Pla~~-Glass Company i Jobbers and Dealers in I Plate Glass, Mirrors, Window Glass, Ornamental Figured Glass. WIRE GLASS, the Great Fire Retardant. I CARRARA GLASS, a New Product Like Polished White Marble. For anything in Builders' Glass, or anything in Paints, Brushes, or Painters' Sundries, address any I of our branch warehouses, a list of which is given below: NEW YORK-Hudson and Vandam Bts. CLEVELAND-1430 ..1434 West Third St. SOSTON-41 ..49 8udbuI"YSt.• 1-9 Bowlier St. OMAHA~J608.10.J2 Harn~:J 8t. CHICAGO 442.4S2 Wra.buhAve. ST. PAUL-459·461 J.clison St. • CINCINNATI-Broadway and Court 51s. ATLANTA. GA.-30-3Z.34 8. Pryor St. I ST. LoutS-COl'. Tenth and §pt'Uce Sts. 8A.VANNAH. GA.-14S·149 Wbeaton St. • MINNEAPOLIS-SOO.516 5. Tb.lrd St. KA.NSASCITY-Fifth and Wy.ndoU. St.· I DETROIT-S3-59 Larb.ed St•• E. BIRMINUHAM,ALA.-2b.d Ave•• b.d19th St. GRA"'liDRAPIDS. MICH.-39-41 N. O1vl.loo St. BUFFALO. N. Y.-312-14a76-78 Pearl Sl. I PITTSBURGH-IOI-IOa Wood St. BROOKLYN-635-637 Fulton St. I MILWAUKEE. WIS.-492-494 Market St. PHILADELPHIA-PitcalrD Bldg••Arch and 11th St•• ROCHESTER, N. Y.-Wilder Bldg., M.ln "Exchange St.. DAVltNPORT--410-416 Scott St. BALTIMQRE-310-J2-J4 W. Pratt St. Sole distributer. of PATTON'S SUN PROOF PAINTS. i""-- --------------------------- Wood Bar Clamp Fixtures Per Set SOc. OVER I 5,000 OF OUR Price $2.80 to $4.00 STEEl RACK VISES IN USE 2;$aM. Clamp Fixtures bought by aile mill last year. We ship on approval to rated firms. and guarantt=e our ~oods ullcondi-tiollal] v. Write for Ust of Shel Ear Clamps, Vises, Bend/- Stops, etc. E. H. SHELDON &. CO. 283 Madison St.• ChiCago. ._-------------------'_--.----------------_._-----_...1 r,I . , --1 OFFICES: CINCtNNATI--Plekerlng Building. NEW YORK--346 Broadway. BOSTON--18 Tremont St. CHICAGO--134 Van Billren St. GRAND RAPI08--Houseman Bldg. JAMESTOWN. N. Y.--Ch..d.ltoln Bldg. HIGH POINT. N. C.--Stanton-Welcb Siock. The most satisfactory and up-to-date Credit Service covering the FURNITURE, CARPET, COFFIN and ALLIED LINES. The most accurate and reliable Reference Book Published. Originators of the "Tracer and Clearing House Syetem." Collection Service Unsurpassed-Send for Book of Red Drafts. H. J. DANHOF, MlchlgaD Manatler. 347..348 Houseman SuUdlntl. Grand Rapid •• Mich. >.-._--_._---_. ---_. Saw and Knife Fitting Machinery and Tools n:;:J1f:~Ja~:~,~~~t Baldwin, Tuthill ®. Bolton Grand R.aplds. Mich. Filel'$, Setters. Sharpeners, Grinders, Swage;. Stretchers. Brazing and Filing Clamps. Knits Balances. Hammering Tools. , Bolton Band Saw Filer for Saws % inch up. I \"el ur ury. ! ._-------_ .._-------. lIlvesthrate our Line . . New 200 pa~e Catalogue for I907 Free. B.T. & B. Stvle D, Knife Grinder . Full Automatic. 25 I• , 26 ~11 C 111 G A i\ Rules for Factory Fire Protection. All oepartn:ents to be clear of refuse all kinds. \Vater barrels to be kept filled with water, and fire buck.-:·t~ put in their places. These barr('Js. must not be c.overed at any time. \Vatcr in them to be chang-cd when it be-comes impure. Sand boxes to he kept filled box. Extra bucket, filled with set on top of sand box. See that all fire extinguishers are in their proper place and arc in working order. The complete equipment of fire and shovel sand, ready handy at each for use, to be Porch Attractively Furnished. extinguishers should be tested once a year, aile or more each IlIonth. All fire hose to be "taken out and tested twice a year, and if allY repairs are necessary, report to office_ All rags or refuse must be kept in standard metal waste cans, and these cans to be taken by the elevator man to yard before the machinery stops, and must be removed from prem-ises the same day. Use spittoons made of metal only, and never to contain any sawdust. Gasoline, naptha, or other volatile oil, should not he kept in the building. Gas brackets must have stiff fixtures. If it is necessary to use swinging brackets, all exposed wood-work must be protected with sheet metal, leaving an air space. All waste must be hauled away from the premises each day. Each floor sholl:d be kept separate by fire doors to avoid drafts. Sheet iron cupboards, with doors and latches for the hang-- ing of clothes for each man. All electric wires n;ust be clra''''n tight, and see that the porcelain cleats are in perfect condition, and insulation is ;'1 good shape on all wires, and where wires go through par-titions or ''''ails, wire should be reinforced by using firt'~lrci)f-tubing or porcelain tubes. All electric ,,,,ire joints must be brazed or soldered where c01111ectionis made. Lamp cords n111stnot be hung" on nails or wLlpped around piping. Paper shades must not be used. Lamps must be suspended by light twine. Stairways must be kept clear at all times, and swept down once a week aed refuse taken away. Aisles and spaces around fire extinguishers must be clear at all times. No stock allowed in front of windows to intedeT" with the firemen in case of fire. Fire doors and shutters must be closed everv night. Stock must not be in the way to hinder the ready dosing of these fire doors. Instruct watchman that if a fire should occur, prompt ART1SAi\ aetioll must be taken, and impress upon the watchmal1 the illlportance of keeping cool. Each foreman to inspect his department at quitting time each day and see that everything is left in good order. Each foreman to go over these items carefully and see that these instructiocs are carried out, amI report to the office or superintendent if anything is lackiTlg. Make a.n appointment with your ni.ght watchman once every 30 days for a 15 minutes talk regarding the condition of the factory-he may offer some suggestions that are of benefit. Issue instructions to each foreman four times a yearOuly, October, January and April 1st), cautioning them to keep everything in order, and see th<'lt all fire <lpparatus is in the best of condition. It will not take 15 minutes a day, four times a year (total one hour), to dictate these instructions to the stenographer, and go a little further, and issue the first of every quarter an order to your superintendent to go with you OIl an inspection trip to see for yourself that everything is ill good shape. These few hours that you put in each year will not be noticed. but will be of great benefit and will be a good system. Burlaps are Higher. Kew York has been quite active ill the burlap market and sellers state that they have put through more orders than they have taken before in months. Tn one quarter sales were reported on Saturday of twelve to 15 carloads of Cal-cutta g-oods for shipmellt "vest, the deliveries running through to the end of December. As a result of the in-creased demand, price.'> are stronger. and importers arc holding firmly to prices, as they kno-\\" that the burlaps that they now own, could not be replaced in the markets abroad, at 'the prices they arc being offered at. Calcittta 8 ounce goods are firmly held at 3.85 cents, and 100-ounce at 5.45 cenB. Buyers are also more inclined to cover for future requircn:ents, as they now begin to realize that ,prices arc finally firmly fixed on the up grade. Cables to band from Calcutta state that the market there has been very active, at:d advar:ces have taken place eQuiva- Rustic Porch in the Adirondack MQuntains. lent to }'8-cent. Good orders are said to have been put through for deliveries throughout December <'.nd into ]an+- uary. The further ahead the delivery dates, the higher the prices charged. Some sellers are not willing to accept> orders for future deliveries at prevailing rates as they are not sur"e of being able to secure the good.s at values that will allow them a small margiin of profit. Reports from the jute growing districts indicate that the new crop will be even smaller than the governmellt's fore-cast, and this is serving to drive price" up steadily. ~1 I CHI G A l\ WOOD-WORKING MACHINERY AT BARGAIN PRICES. Having; purchased the entire Elkhart, Ind., plant of the Hl,lmphrey Bookeaae Co" we are offering at bal'gaiD prices the followina- A·I woodworkiDIf tools: Band 'llW. 32 in. Crescent, Band saw, 36 in. Crescent. Band saw, 26 in. Silver, iron tilting lable. Back~knif",Jalhe, Whitney. Boring machine, 72~ 8-.RiDdie Andrews. BonnG maebine, 3.spindle horizontal. Borer, No.2 I hench, Slaler & Marsden. Boring machilre, No. lU, Cle~t hori-zontal Carver. 3.spindle• with cOI.H1lershaft. Cabinetmakers' saw. double cut-off, Chair beodioll preGS. SWllrtt. Chamfer clltler with iron frame, table 48 dO L..tison. Edwill$t saw, 368x18' with saw arbor, Cul.off lIlI.Wmaehine. Gemellt double Glue jQinler, Myers, with countersh.l! Jill ~w. crnnp}ete with regularequipmenL moter, Myers 1l:lue. ! Jointer, 20 in. Pol'ler hand. ~_~.:d.=_J::'-tJ:-::"_:ci~.I_";'~-;:'--C-._C.._WO-RMER MACHINERY CO.• 98West Woodbridge St" Detroit, Mich. r Jointer. 8 in. hand with 4_sided bead. Knif~ grinder. 32 in. Buffalo automatic LathlJ. Whitney back-knife with CQunlef-shaft. Lathe. Trevot automatic 41 2ff between centeno Lathe. 14;0. cabinetmaker's E\l:lln. Moulder. 14 in. Hermance, 4-~ided. Molder, Unll. hd. Smith F·6 with -4 in. 4-.I'td hd. Moulder, slyle F-6 Smith, one side with. cap 6ash head. MortilleT and borer, double-end .ulomatic. Mortiser aDd bOfer, Colburn imp. blind style. Plan«. 30 in. Oement s.iDRlecyljnder. Planer and mah'.her, 24w !ingLe cylinder 4-roll, matchea 14" 1. A. Fay, Planer, sing. cyl. surface 20xO 10 6 in Con'! & D. , --- ---., , I Ii Mo(rton House! AmericanPlan) Ra.tes $2.50 and Up. I I I i Hotel Pantlind! I (EumpeanPlan) Rates $\.00 and Up. I I I GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. I j !i The NO~H~in;;~~r;.~Nat~:;~~~, 50c is II J. BOYD PANTLlND, Prop. "'----------- ..... ------------ THE CREDIT BUREAU OF THE FURNITURE TRADE Grand Rapids Office. 412-413 Houseman GOO. E, GRAVES, Manager CLAPPERTON & OWEN, Counsel Iii R 0L L--S-!llII ~~!~I~d.o~~e?~~~:'~tell you their glue is as good as COOPER'S, they admit Cooper's is the BEST. No one extols his prodilct by comparing it with an inferior article. Cooper's Glue is the world's standard of excellence. With it The uRELIABLE" Kind. I all experiment begins, all comparison continuell. and all test ends. Sold continuously since 1820. Its reputation, like itself, STICKS. Peter Cooper's glue is made from selected hide stock, carelully pre- pared. No bones or pig stock enter intl) its composition, I In strength it is uniform. each barrel containing the same kind of ! glue that is in every other barrel of the same grade. ORIN A. WARD GRANDRAPIDSAG.N' 403 Ashton Bldg. CITIZENS PHONE 9333 ~--------------~ The LYON Furniture Agency ROBERT p, LYON, Gen~ral Manater CREDITS and COLLECTIONS THE FEllWOCK AUTO & MFG. CO. I~---- -------_-.:.I EVANSVILLE, IND. ARTISAN 27 1! Rip sawtahle, with (;ounlerJtaft and s/tw. Rounder, two-spindle with ~ounten;hoft. RA!d, pin and dowel machille No.2, Smith, with heads Red' and dowel machine No.2, Eg\ln power feed.. Shaper. single spind. Colladay with fric-lion c. s. Swing saw, complete with saw and fe\il, equip Sander, two_spindle with countersh.ut. Sander, 36 in. Columbia triPle-drum. Sander, 42 in. Columbia triple_drum. Sticker.14" Hermance with rellular equip. Sander. 30 in !luee_drum ~an. Saw table, 38x63 ill. wood top. Saw table, 29:dOin. cut_off, rip and 8 in saw. Scrollsllw, i,on fro wood top, Cord'8m'II & Egan. SIlW table, 30x48 in, with wmnll ~uage· Shaper, sinale-sPindle, table 37x42 in, J:::.aan, Sander, Young's new edge, iron harne and lop. Stave boil equal~r with two 3(11) $aws. Trucks.. 38 miscellaneous fadory trucks. T eooner. Amen<:an double end. Tenoner, single ~ad Clrdemtao & Epn with CUI_off attachment. Tenoner, .elf.ked blind slat, J, A. Fay. Tenoner, 6" double head, H, B. Smith. Tenoner. hand·{~bJind dal, j, A. Fay. T enonet, seU-feed adjuSla.be blind dat. TwUi: llIachine, Shawye[.l 28 in. ceDt., lOin,8wli. Woodworker. Parks combinEd lathe. rip and cut-olf saw, shaper, etc. I I .. , ~ • FOX SAW DADO HEADS SMOOTHEST GR.EATEST GROOVES RANGE - FASTEST QUICKJl;ST CUT ADJUSTMENT LEAST - LEAST PO-WER TROUBLE LONGEST PERFECT LIFE SAFETY We'll a1adb tell Also Machine you. aU about Kralv..... Mlter It. Macblne •• Etc. PRRMANENT KCONOMY FOX MACHIN.£. CO. 185 N. Front Street. Grand Rapld •• Micb ~ ---- • --------_._--_.~ Bldg. I THE STANDARD REFERENCE BOOK CAPITAL, CREDIT AND PAY RATINGS CLEARING HOUSE OF TRADE EXPERIENCE THE MOST RELIABLE CREDIT REPORTS COLLECTIONS MADE EVERYWHERE PROMPTLY - R£UABLY I.. 28 MICHIGAN ARTISAK iII Any Practical Mechanic appreciatts the impOlt-tllce of sifl1"Jkit~· ill'machillcn-. Our No.5 Table Leg Machine i; far ~uperi l' ill ~illlpl'citr'i COllstructioll <.over alor other lllald~ of ma..:\li,,,,. yt-t lo-mhorlics all the late.1 improvemcll"~, special att.I,tion being called t, th", CuUerhead, ti,e Variable Friction Feed an,1 the O~dlJll,linl!r Carria,e. Consider the ahove, allf! the'l bear ill mind that this IIIflChille tun,,, round, Qdagoll, heX3l?:"", squill:' (,r silly other shape. all with the Stine cutterhead Also. th"t one lIlall with it call do lhe WOIk t.r .i" or eight hand turrk' s alld we lfuarantee the lVork to be sati.factory. I)on't y"u lI~d such a machine? Then write C. Mattison Machine Works 863 Fifth Street. BELOIT. WISCONSIN. Furz:iture aT_dDecora'icr.s for the Stage. Retailcr$ of furniture in n~any cities have an intimate rlC-qualntance': with the stage property man and his work. The condition of the property, exchanged for a few complin::entary seats, when returned, has caused many an honest dealer to utter words' of condemnation for the enlightenment if not tl~e entertainment of that indispensable factotum of the <l.nltl~,<'- ment ~vorld, \A/ithin recent years the fact that any old furni_ ture from a regular or second haalHl dealer's would not serve to set the st<tge for allY old scelle of a play bas dawl~cd 'UpO;l the managers of many phces of amusement in the brger cities <itA at\ c):plauatlon of what has heen accon:plislled i.l this lil~e is stilted by D.wid Belasco, the greatest producer of plays of his qay, in all article entitled, "The Art of IlIu?,ion," published in the Saturday Evening Post of July 25: Of course furniture and costumes are the prime attributes of atmcspher,e. Few persons know Old Dutch from Old English furniture. But there is always one man in the aud-ience who cantell the difference, therefore one cal1not afford to take any c'hances. \Vhen I produce a play of a remot~ period I caref.ully study the furniture of the time., If r cannot get odginals J obwin reproductions.. Nor does it do to "cross!J'furnittlfe, so to speak, mix up English with Dutch or French with the idea that its <Ll1tiquitywill cany the fraud. \ll/hen 1put on "The Darling of the Gods" I felt the necessity of sorr.e great war token to put in tlJe chambc:- of the minister' of war. The Japanese consul obUined from his government a statue of a ·war god which was brought h me bearing the legend, ''OJ in Teno, August "VaT God, Mightiest of Eight '"thousand." From this sacred piece I made a 11l1gereproduction ",ihich perfected the atmosphere of the scene. The statee was only loaned to l1::e. \Vhcn the play was -produced I returned it to the consul, but he told me that the drarnahad dealt so truthfully 'with Japanese at-mosphere and conditions al1d had pleased his co\.mtryme11 so greatly that he begged thatJ would accept it as a memento of their appreciation. I [jlways invite criticism of my furniture as it pertai::s t,) certain periods, particularly from students of the history of that tirne, One cannot too carefully guard against a laugh that some incongruity may bring about in the midi'>t of., a scene de-sigHed to be serious. For instance, some years ago a play of the' Cromwellian period was produced. Great pains had been taken by the manager that the scenery, costumes an9 other effects of that date be correct. In one scene a soldier picks up an axe and smashes a door. It chanced that .the property axe on this occasion had been mislaid, When the soldier wa',; ready to do his smashing he looked about for his axe, and he couldl)!t find it. Tho:' scene would not ,"vait until a search had been made, pO the actor grabbed the near-est thillg at hand, which happened to, be a brand ]lew fire de-partmCl1t axe. He hid the t: ing as best he could, but in-stantly the audience caught on. Loud guffaws filled the house and a splendid tragedy situation was turned to One of burlesque aJ~d confusicll. On another occasion a very clevcr one-act play of the titre of tlie French Revolution was produced one Sunday night in a Harlem theatre-on trial. The laws of New York forhid the presentation of plays with costumes, scenery or other properties all Sunday. Obvio113- 1y the success of this play depended on costumes, and settin!!:s, T nstead of a typical French kitchen there were four bare walis, a plain table alld two chairs.. The [jctor who irnperSollated the soldier appeared in a frock coat and derby h:11':""'-c:1om-bination 'which lent itself to comedy; the one who v.ctcd the part of the citi7.en was dressed in th"" ordinary clothes of the mechanic. For a time their spirited dialogue held the aud-- ience, but when, with rage and fury, they attacked each other '""lith hilliard' cues instead of s:,vords, thrusting, ,and parrying i R.8]J2Ioi ..lns·· ..Satlsf.cUOD ju_rab.teed. Citizens' Phone 1289. 27 N. Market St .• GraDd R.apids, Mich. A. L. HOLCOMB ~ CO. Manufacturers of HIGH GRADE QROOVINQ SA WS up to 5-16 thick. _ h-. • ~ and skipping ahnlt, tl:e lr.inh of the audience knew no bounds. The actors ignominiously abandoned the scene and the curtain was TL!lIg down 'without a moment's delay. In a scel:e where the furniture is entirely n;odern I am careful to adapt it to the tastes of the man w1:o plays it. If it be the house of a parVClll1, there cannot be too 111uchgilt and red and heavy furnishings-~yerything all the scale of the coarsest luxury. The gentleman's residence, of course, has old portraits and other heirloorr.s in evidence while that of the literary man is denoted by books, to give the illusion of culture. Some years ago a promincnt actor played the part of a pr01T.:oter. Evcrything in his drawing room was OTl1ate-. desigt:€d to irrpress his victirrs wit.h the trerr:endous prosper-ity of his s-:.heme. This was .artistic illusion. It 13 notor-ious that the offices of promoters are. furnished magnificently. Latcr the s:UTIeplay was produced at a provincial t\catre. The s::;ct:ery and settings were tawdry, alld it failed dismally for lack of atmosphere. "Faking" in the matter of furniture is dal1gerotls, if 110t fatal. Nothing pays like the genuine. If I have a scene representing the home of a l"nan who moves in the same circles as the Astors orVanderbilts I study thc homes of such \l l C let I C; A 1\ • ------------------- ARTISA1\ 29 I! III! II , ------------4 I, I II II IIII I! Satisfied I Manufacturers !I I,, ! THIS MACHINE MAKES THE MONEY It makes a perfect imitation of any open grain because it uses the wood itself to print from, and one oper<'ltor and a couple of boys can do more work with it than a dozen men with any other so called machine or pads on the market. That's Why It's a Money Maker. It Imitates Perfectly. 50 Machines Sold Last Year penon.:; of wealth, and spare 110 expense to make all exact re-production. T have on one production alone spenL from flity to olle hundred tbottsand dollars in order to get the real at-tTIospherc,- allu it pays, pecuniarily no less than artistically, since cvcryhody "goes ;:nva:r" full of enthusiasm about sllch and such a scene and advertises the play better than a ne'o'\/"- paper. Thoroughly artistic atniosphere inspires the actor who absorbs it to tlle full. I-l'e feds thTOtlgb the scelle tl1at be is a Japanese, a Frenchm;;lll or a German~as the case may bc'. It puts him in closer touch ..v..ith his character tl18tl allY amount of coaching. The ll/;Jtter of time on the stage is a curiaLIs illusion. This is produced more frequclltly by the pbywright than by tbe producer. He mllst marshal his events in rapid, y~t grace-ful and logical successioll. ;\ COllrt scelle in'lokillg a murder trial that would ill reality occupy two or three days is ac-cornplished on the stage ill half an hour. Only the essen-tials of the story are treated-there are no 'waits, no repeti-tions. The jury i:~in t11e box, the judge on the bench as the curtain rises. In a few words the district attorney pre-sents his case-it is all on the rapid-fire order, yet by good stage management it is not only effective, but adequate. The effect of the passing of Hight w.as accomp]jshed ill "l'-Tadame Btlttcrfly," where the vigil of the girl continues into the morning, when her husband appears from the ship. \7'./ c m8Y crowd a day',; events into thirty-five minutes so long ;:(5 we do not oulr[lgc COO"Jnon-scnse. But this art has developed only 'within the past d~cade. Before th<1twe were compelled to resort to numerous scenes to stretch over the lapse of a ye"r. The act 'would start, part of the scene de-velop; then [l frOllt scene was lowered and songs and dances introduced 'which were supposed to carry the audience along six months, or a year, into the following scene. Some acts would have four or five scenes. Now they ha ..'t.' but one. The Greeks had the ;jrt of perfect playwriting. They 50 More Plain or QuartoeredOak, Mahogany,
Date Created:
1908-08-10T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:
Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
Collection:
29:3