Michigan Artisan; 1908-08-10

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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. 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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,

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