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Issue of a furniture trade magazine published weekly in Grand Rapids, Mich, starting in 1879. and r;. // ... ~ ?/l{ # / / A " GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., NOVEMBER 19. 1910 SLIGH FURNITURE COMPANY The Largest Manufacturersof CHAMBER FURNITURE EXCLUSIVELY IN THE WORLD Catalogue to Prospective Customers. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. DINING FURNITURE THAT IS "RIGHT" IN DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, FINISH AND PRICE HAS BEEN ONE OF THE STRONG FEATURES OF THE "EFF and EFF" LINE for a Long Time. This Beautiful Suite is a money maker. Write for price. ROCKFORD FRAME and FIXTURE COMPANY ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS SQUARE POST STEEL BEDS We manufac-ture a very complete line of Metal Beds and Cribs, all steel springs, woven wIre mattresses, Metal Couches and Daven-ports, Cots and Hospital Furniture. Buy beds equipped with the Standard Rev. Rail. They are strong and prevent the bed from wabbling. SEND US YOUR ORDERS. are very popular and should be ready sellers durinlr the Holiday Trade. No. 984. BRASS CAPS. Order this Bed in Vernis Mar-tin Satin Brass Finish (Color 19). No extra charge. You will be convinced of its selling qualities. Stock Color-White. Vernis Martin to order. PILLARS and FILLING SQUARE TUBING PIllars 2 m. Top and Boltom Tubes I Y2 m FIllmg I m Head 60 In Foot 40 In SIzes, 3 ft 6 In and 4 ft. 6 m. Shlppmg weight 154 lbs. Iron beds wIll be shIpped m whIte unl .. s otherwIse ordeled. Price $15 If our No. 35 Catalogue has not been received notify us. SMITH & DAVIS MFG. CO., S1. Louis, Mo. WEEKLY ARTISAN 1 Beautiful Bird's Eye Maple JUST THE THING TO DELIGHT THE LADIES AT CHRISTMAS! There is nothing quite so dainty-so feminine-so charm-ing for Christmas, as a Bird's Eye Maple Dressing Table. Light, airy and cheerful, it goes to the hearts of the ladies, and it is the ONLY LIGHT-COLORED FURNI-TURE THAT IS ALSO HIGHLY ARTISTIC. The NORTHERN has made Maple a leading line ever since starting in business. We are in the heart of the Maple country, where the finest Ma-ple in the world grows, and with our standard lines, using Maple as a base, we are able to pick ONLY THE CHOIC-EST PIECES for N at u r a I Map I e finishes. Therefore, when you buy Natural Bird's Eye Maple from the NORTH-ERN, you are sure of the creme de la creme-the finest In the country. But you must have artistic shapes too-the airy beauty of Bird's Eye Maple is completely lost if it is not made up in beautiful designs. We also give you moderate prices. That is what will sell with you-beautiful wood, designs and workmanship, at moderate prices, coupled with PROMPT DELIVER Y (and that means everything when you get near Christmas-nobody beats us at that part of the game). No. 1152 Dresser. Made in Oak, Mahogany and Bird',·eye Maple. No. 1191 Dressing Table. Made in Oak. MahoKany ""d Bird', Eye Maple. Full information given in courteous letters about anything that interests you. Write us frankly, freely. Northern Furniture Company SHEBOYGAN, WISCONSIN 2 WEEKLY ARTISAN ,. ..,I LUCE FURNITURE COMPANY iII ,Iff II II II IfIffIII I II III I I j I, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Manufacturers of COMPLETE lines of MEDIUM PRICED DINING and CHAMBER FURNITURE. Catalogues to Dealers Only. ._--------_._----- -------- -4 High Grade Office Chairs Dining Chairs Odd Rockers and Chairs Desk and Dresser Chairs Slipper Rockers Colonial Parlor Suites Luce-Redmond Chair Co.,Ltd. I BIG RAPIDS, MICH. In Dark and Tuna Mahogany Bmf J Ey Maple Btrch ~uartered Oak and CtrcaJJtan Wamut Our Exhibit you will find on the Fourth Floor, East Section, MANUFACTURERS'BUILDING, North Ionia Street GRAND RAPIDS, MICI1IGAN Exhibit in charge of J. C. HAMILTON, C. E. COHOES,]. EDGAR FOSTER. 31st Year-No. 21 GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.• NOVEMBER 19.1910 Issued Weekly RATIO OF SALES TO SALESMEN'S WAGES Many Things Must Be Considered in Determining What Percentage Would Be Fair to Employers and Employes. The PaCIfic Coast l\lerchant, 111ItS November number, tackles an Important sub] ect, the ratIO of sales to salesmen's wages, on whIch It says. The questIOn of V\ hat should be the ratIO of the salesman's salary to hIS qles IS a th111g that pULZles many merchants, and few there are who have ever been able tD satIsfactorIly answer It. It IS a que;,tIOn whIch, as a rule, every merchant hImself must answer The CIrcumstances that govern the sell111g abilI-tIes of clerks 111retaIl stores throughout the country are so varied that no outSIder should feel hImself competent to 111StruCt a merchant as tD the relatIve WOIth of the dIfferent clerks in his employ Let us enumerate a few of the contingencIes upon whIch such matters depend' Some clerks may be, comparatively speaking, poor sales-men, yet be ver) valuable in other ways, such as keep111g track of and tak111g care of stock, unpack111g and shelv111g goods, etc Others clerks may be lazy and Idle at all times whIle not engaged 111vva1t111gon customers, but may be excellent salesmen. Agd111, whIle some clerks may sell more goods than others, the clerks whose sales are small in amount may have a trade "of theIr own," whIch they have bwught to the store and could take away WIth them If they went elsewhere. Also there are clerks whose work may have no especial feat-ures to apprecIate or deprecIate its value, and yet their invariable courtesy, attentIOn to bus111ess and general demeanor are such as to make them of great serVIce 111bUIldmg and keepmg up the store's general reputatIOn What outsider can say Just how much-111 dollars and cents-these things are worth to the in-dIVIdual merchant? N ow, to come to more speCIfic items These five thmgs must also be taken mto account: (a) Your total weekly and mDnthly busmess, (b) how many clerks you have; (c) whether they are men or women; (d) what proportIOn of your business is done m shoes, dry goods, furniture, etc ; (e) your store hours, etc. If you have too many clerks, surely you cannot expect each to sell as much as If you had Just enough to handle the business that your store generally does As to the dIfferent lInes of bus mess : YDU well know that we need not enter into detail. Surely there are some functions in store work whICh m most cases women never perform, and VIce versa, and the salarIes are adjusted accordmgly As to the dIfferent 1111esof busL1ess You well know that amounts of "ales are altogether chfferent m dIfferent lInes An excellent salesman 111notIOns can rarely, If ever, sell as much dur-mg a month as the same grade of sdlesman stationed m the cloak and SUIt department, for example All over the country there are merchants who pay clerks all the way from 1 to 10 per cent, accordmg to the CIrcumstances. Kow It IS easy to strIke an average and to say' "Sell111g expense 5 per cent, ' but that by no means proves that you can, should, or would pay your clerks on that baSIS. On Saturday, October 21, last, m an Ill1110is "country" store, one of the clerks m the cloak and SUIt department sold $375 worth of goods, and thIS, we are told, happens frequently. We do not know what salary thIS clerk receIves Other clerks 111the store, who worked Just as hard as he chd on that day, may have sold only half as much-111 amount-as he dId. In some other departments only one-tenth as much How can any Dne but the storekeeper hll11self determ111e accurately whIch salary each of these clerks deserves? Some merchants find that the average cost to them for sell- 111ggoods is 5 per cent Others find It 6 per cent, and others find It stIll more One firm m Georgia, which put theIr sellIng force on commISSIOn, Dffered theIr saleswomen G per cent and theIr salesmen 7/'i per cent. At the tll11e they had four women and three men. The average weekly earmngs of the women reached $9 to $18 and of the men $10 to $20. To sum uP' Each merchant endeavors as far as possible, tD do Justice to hIS clerks (and to hImself) by basmg their sal-aries not solely upon the amount Df theIr total sales As saId, a clerk's experIence, courteous bearmg, willingness to render general serVIce, knowledge of stock, acquaintance WIth custo-mers, stand111g 111SOCIety, etc, are all taken mtD account by fix- 111gupon his worth to the store that employs hIm. Last, but by no means least, the cost of IIvmg and the meth-ods of d0111gbusmess are so dIfferent 111some places fwm what they are in others that there IS no rule whIch can be saId to hold good ul11versally. We present hereWIth a lIst WhICh was recently made up by the deputy office manager of a well-known large department 4 Art Goods 6 Blankets and Comfortables. . . . . . . . . .. 4 Trunks .. .. . 7 Sporting Goods .. .. 7 Wrappers............... .. 5 Furmture and Beddlllg .. . . .. 3 PIctures . . . . . . . . . . . .. 40 Rugs 3 China and Glassware , .. 4 Sewlllg Machines . 5 Candy .. , , ~ G Soda I'ountain .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5 PIanos 1 Sheet ]\1USIC. . . . . . . .. . 5 Patterns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . .. . 5 Phonographs .. . . . .. 1 J\Ieats . 5 FIsh. .. . . .. . .. 5 CIgars .. , " 5 WEEKLY ARTISAN $18.50 MARVEl; ODS PER DOZEN Full Box Seat. Otd. Oak. Genuine Leather Seat. No. 702 rj/arlollfallufactlJrJllR ra, Grand Rapjds.1'1ich. store that caters to the popular trade, glVlllg hIS 0plillOn as to what percentage of sales should represent the ~alanes of the salesmen in various lines: HosIery. . . . .. . . G Women's and Children's Knit Undemear G Men's Furnishlllgs and ShIrt, . G Men's Knit Underwear. . G SIlks and Velvets '" . . .. . :; Colored Dress Goods .. G Wash Goods and Flannels . '" 5 Black Goods .. .. 5 Laces........ . 6 Ladles' Neckwear . . .. . G Veilings... . .. . .. .... G Handkerchiefs. . . . . . . . . . . . () Linens and WhIte Goods.. . .J Linings.... . . . .. . . . .. . . . . . () Notions .... " . . .. '" .... b Perfumery . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .. G Stationery .. 7 Embroideries .. G RIbbons '" , G Flowers and Feathers : 7 Books..... . .. 6 Furs " .. .. 3~ Trimmed Hats 4 Untrimmed Hats 4 Trimmings . 6 Jewelry :; Leather Goods , .. 6 Muslin Underwear and UnderskIrts b Corsets ± Infants' Wear .. :; Waists 4 Misses' Suits 3 Ladies' Suits 3 Ladies' Cloaks 3 Groceries G Carpets and Mattings 3 Umbrellas 6 Gloves 5 Upholstery 30 Men's and Boys' Clothing and Hats. . 4 Shoes.......... .. 4 House Furnishings .J Silverware 6 Toys 30 Wines and Liquors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 3 It goes wIthout saying that no two men-situated as he IS- \\ ould be lIkely to wnte the same figures. Each store's experience and condItions are totally dIfferent, and It \\ ould be nothlllg short of folly for any man to fix a per-centage \\ hlch should hold good at all times and everywhere The \\ ay stocks are arranged, the number of sales people employed III each department, the standard of wages paid, and numberless other things, strongly influence the relation between the payroll of each department and its total sales Some merchants wIll put Al clerks behllld certalil counters; another merchant would put four ordinary clerks there. Surely the ratIO of sale~ to wages III these two stores will not bear Just compan son A.nd so It is all along the line. I t must be remembered, too, that the figures we furlllsh hel e are the a\ el age figl1l es-that IS to say, it by no means follows that ever} clel k\ sales. even III a bIg store---where there is somethll1g dOIng all the tIme-WIll be uniform throughout the } ear. The figures fl1lmshed are based on a year's sales; for ex-ample, a gIrl III the chllla department selbng $6,500 worth of goods dunng the year would be earnlllg the average per cent named for that department, VIZ , 4 per cent, If she were paid $260 a }ear) or $5 a week. The clerks in the furniture department during an August sale WIll make such big sales that the percentage of selling ex-pense will then fdll consIderably, but ImmeclJately after the spe- Clet! sale the furl1lture business may be so much less than usual that the percentage of furnIture selling expense WIll Jump to the other extreme The same way with white goods. During the seasons when these artIcles are III gl eat demand and their percentage of sell-ing expense falls, busll1ess in other departments may be practi-cally at a standstlll, and their percentage of selling expense may rise to the top notch. As \\e have at dIfferent times stated, the amount of a clerk's total sales is by no means the only key to his or her value or efficiency. Some ordll1ary clerk may be stationed to dIspose of articles that sell on sight and on which there is absolutely no profit. She may sell far more than another clerk of fine appear-ance and except anal ablbty, etc , stationed in another department, \\ ho can draw and hold the fine class of trade which a store is allmng for. Both are necessary to a store's welfare. The one girl may cost a store only 3 per cent, whIle the other girl may cost nearer 10 per cent, yet It WIll require httle figuring to determine which of the two IS really the more valuable. WEEKLY ARTISAN 5 Detrolt, Nov. 17.-DetrOlt is ~till on the map and very 111uch on, m fact lf you ask the average Detrolter he wlll be pretty apt to tell you that lt is about the only town of any 1mportance that lS on the map \Vell, the ~ flter ha'o no quan el wlth them about that, for he wa~ born there, but left very early m hfe, pos- Sibly for hlS own good, and maybe for the Clt} 's, but be that as it may, he hkes to go thele occasiOnally to see old fnends and reldtlves. Detroit 1S :,ure1y a fine Clty dncl 111 'oplte of the slump in the automoblle busllless there lS a great cleal of bUlld111g going on, inc1ud111g some new factories J. C Widman & Co have had a great season dnd are now prepaling the finest line of goods to show in Grand Rapids 111 January they have ever attempted to show. The hne is made up of d111111groom smtes 111al ts and crafts, Colomal, and all the popular styles; abo a large hne of hat racks ~ lth seats and mlrrors, and a large hne of cheval m1r- Can you think of anytlling more luxurious or comfortable than this beautiful Mission Davenport It's only a suggestion of the bun-dreds of splendid pieces we are showing in our Mission Furniture Department, and each piece priced so as to come withiil the moderate income. OPEN SATURDAY EVENIl'ICS cwo RAPlllS MIGHIGAN BISHOP FURNITURE co :One of Bishop'S Best rors 1n oak and mahogany, blrd's eye maple and Clrcassian wal-nut. They also have a fine 1111eof plctures and mlrrors. The 1111ewlll be shown on the first floor, south half, of the KI111gman bmldl11g, where they were located m July last. Max Bath, formerly with C D. W1dman, lS now w1th J C Wldman & Co, and IllS terntory wl11 be from Buffalo east. Of course all the \Vldman boys amI other salesmen wlll be there, and "J. c." wlll be there also to see that the boys are at work and not walk-ing up and clown Monroe street adm1ring the pretty Grand Rap'ds girls The full line of Humphrey-Widman sectional bookcases ~ 111be shown with thls lllle The Palmer Manufacturing company will show their full lllle on the fourth floor, Furmture Exchange, Grand Rap1ds, 111January They w1ll have many new patterns of hbrary and parlor tables and pedestals 111 the latest des1gns and finishes and an entlre new 1l11e of reed goods, lawn and porch furniture. Their new dry k1lns are finished and President Streng says they are workmg all right Their catalog for 1911 is already out and 1t is a good one. Trade is good and the output of the fac-tory for 1910 blds fair to be double that of any previous year. The Possel1Us Brothers Fur111ture Manufacturing company have made a success of the1r first hne of d111ing room furniture, and wlll add several new patterns to 1t for January; also about a hundred new extension tables. The elegant catalog of dining room suites and tables was very much admired by the dealers and brought them many good orders. The line will be shown in January as usual in the1r old space in the Manufacturers' Ex-hibitlOn budding, 1319 Mlchigan avenue, Chicago, with all the old time popular salesmen in charge. The Detroit Cabinet company will soon move into their elegant new offices, and will have a good many new patterns of fancy furniture to show in Grand Rapids in January. The writer had a nice visit with his old friend, Mr. Stan-dart of the Murphy Chair company. Mr. Standart has just re-turned from a SIX months' vacation for the benefit of his health, which broke down from overwork. He is looking well now. He has been roaming horseback in the Ozark mountains of Ar-kansas, and says he saw many men down there that were typical Arkansas travelers. C. H Haberkorn, who is said to have made a half million dollars in the table business and other industries he is mterested in, is going into the auto truck business and is building a large factory not far from that of the Detroit Cabinet company. -CO M. p.. ···-·····································-1 The Good Old Reliable Work Bench THAT NEVER!GETS OUT OF STYLE. For Many Years Made ExclUSively by C. CHRISTIANSEN, 2219 Grand Ave., CHICAGO Also manufacturer of the Chicago Truck for woodworkmg factones. Send for Catalogue. I.. . .._. . _. . .. 6 WEEKLY ARTISAN Every Dealer Who Sells Folding Collapsible Go=Carts TAKE WARNINO For your own protectIon aVOIdbuymg any foldmg collapsIble go-carts :lot hcensed under FERRIS and LEITH PATENTS. By seemg that the tag shown here IS on every foldmg CollapsIble Go-Cart you handle you wIll Avoid infringement prosecutions, Handle only goods made by the most reputable makers, Handle Go=Carts for which a demand is created by a big national advertising campaign. licensed Go-Cart PATENTED Licensed and protected by and under the 148869 Jan 5, 1904 111386 _Oct 4, 1904 189310 May 9, 1905 800411 Sept 26,1905 None Genume Without ThiS label Other Patent. Pendlnl None Cenuln_ WIthout This Label FERRIS and LEITH PATENTS so completely cover every VItal feature of foldmg collapsIble go-carts that It IS im-possIble for any maker to manufacture them wIthout usmg some of the features covered by these patents. The only persons or concerns licensed by us to manufac-ture collapsible go-carts are the following named compames: American Metal Wheel & Auto Lloyd Manufacturing Co. Company. Sidway Mercantile Company. Children's Vehicle Corporation. Streator Metal Stamping Co. Collier-Keyworth Company. Sturgis Steel Go-Cart Co. Ficks Carriage & Reed Go. Toledo Metal Wheel Co. Fulton Manufacturing Company. H. N. Thayer Co. Gendron Wheel Company. E. R. Wagner Mfg. Co. All Infnngers WIll be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Through our advertlSIng the publIc WIll be advised that go-carts contaInIng the most desirable features are hcensed under FERRIS and LEITH PATENTS, and cautIOned to look for the Label. We wIll protect both the dealer and the pubhc, and by elImmatmg the unscrupulous manufacturer we msure the dealer a better profit, put the go-cart business on a legItimate basIs, create fixed values, and educate the publIc to these values. LOOK FOR THE TAG. 839230 _Dee 25, 1906 840188 Jan 1,1901 851911 June 25, 1907 861475 July 30, 1907 863972 AU920,1907 913345 feb 23, 1909 914010 Marc~ 2, 1909 918250 April 13 1909 925151 June IS, 1909 925152 June15,1909 925141 June 22, 1909 921089. _ July 6, 1909 REDUCED REPRODUCTION OF FRONT AND BACK OF LICENSE TAGS.~)oce PERRIS and LEITH Suite 630 Marquette Building l' CHICAGO _I WEEKLY ARTISAN 7 RICHMOND TABLET CHAIRS "SLIP SEATS" MOST SANITARY RICHMOND CHAIR CO. NEW YORK'S NEW EXCHANGE Wonderful Progress Insures COIupletion of the Great Building "On Time'" RapId progres:, IS being made \vlth the con:,tructIOn of the great structUl e to be occupIed by the Ne\\ York Furl11ture Exchange, a~ a part of the Mlerchant~' and Manufacturers' Exchange of 1\ew York, In the early Spl111g of next year ThIS rapId progress must be regarded as a fact of llltereot to everyone concerned 111the furmture mdu"try, whether as manufacturer or buyer, and who looks fOlward wIth due con-fidence to the further enlargement of the already great eastern market The progress made sho\\ s, pla1111yenough, that the bUIlding wIll be completed 111due time, while so much of It as IS now VISIble exhIbIts, no less plainly, that the new home of the Exchange wIll be an nnposlng structUl e, of archItec-tural beauty and importance, thoroughly well eqUIpped and altogether worthy an enterpnse of so much consequence Already, although the constructIon wOlk on the ground dId not begin until August 9, last, about two-thmls of the steel frame-work had been erected by the end of October. In all, SIX thousand seven hundred tons of the massive gIrders and pillars had been put 111final place To make all these gIrders and pillars one homogenous \\ hole forty-five thousand rivets had been driven and fastened home. When It is re-membered that the girders are the largest ever used In steel structural work, and that then" el ection and that of the pIl-lars \\as reqlllred to be performed at mght, this amount of work wdl be looked upon as gOing some and going satlsfac- ~n~ I Vv'hlle thIS steel frame-\\ ork \\ a" beUlg erected other work as important was being conducted At the last repOl t, November 5, ten thousand cubIc feet of the gramte for the outer walls had been dehvered and set, ten thousa11'1 square feet of ornamented terra cotta had been placed; fifty thousand square feet of hollow tile fire-proof floor arches had been laId and eIghty thousand square feet of concrete floor arches The ornamental and fire-proof material window frames were also in place up to the seventh story Meanwhile, and while all thIS other important work vvas under \\ay, the steam fitters and plumbers had installed so much of theIr part of the equip-ment which is to make the budding so comfortable and con- No. 100 DOUBLE CANE SEAT No. 100 GENUINE LEATHER SEAT "I II ~_._~~-- ------------------------------~ vement a place of business as IS pOSSIble dunng the process of constructIon as cbstlnglll:,hed flom the fim:,hlng A regIment of over eIght hundred and fifty men are en-gaged in tIllS successful struggle for pI ogress led by theIr officers duly selected for theIr known skJ1l and training. The rapId progress made IS of further 111terest to every one who is Interested at all In mdustrial and commerCIal devel-opment, as it exhIbIts \\ hat can be done by modern methods when these are pUlsued, after due preparatIOn by competent contractors carefully chosen because of theIr thorough eqUIp-ment and known capaCIty to chsl egdl d chfficultles, to over-come all hanchcaps and to achIeve desll ed Iesults There, to be sure, was to be no effOlt "to make the desert blossom hke a rose ," but there I:' be111g\vag ed succe:,sfully a :,tJ uggle to 111creasethe sum of OppOltumty m the \\ oriel anel to promote man's usefulness to man. There was a tune when thIS ne\\ bUllc1mg seemed only a elream, irridescent and as l11tanglble as the ha7e of an Inchan Summer morn111g; but, as all may now :,ee, the dream IS com-lI1g true. If It was a dream It IS bell1g reahzec1 To other~ wiser, and to Charles E Spratt more particularly, It was no dream at all. It was rather an Idea and soon the superb bUIlding wdl stand to mark the development of thIS busl11ess idea of proven value and consequence It wJ1l mark, no less, the happy result of well-ordered enthUSIasm and l11te1hgent enterprise and confidence. AND THE RICHMOND, IND. kakee, have Incorporated wIth $10,000 cdpltal stock, held by P. L Kroehler, E ] T. Moyer and E. R Resentrater The Amcncan Woodworkl11g J\Ianufactml11g COmpdn), cap- ItalIzed at $10,000, I" beIng orgamzed by Lams H Kramer and others to take over the plant of the bankrupt New York Dlll1en- "lOns Supply company, at Devon and I"londa streets, EvansvIlle, lnd. The Bon J\ldrche department "tOl e of Seattle, Wash, IS to have the finest home In the PacIfic northwest The bUlldmg IS to be eIght stones, coverIng half of a block, WIll have rten acres of floor space and WIll cost $1,250,000. It will be completed early m 1CJ12 The Weber, Lmd & Hall company, for thIrty years dealers 1ll furnIture, carpeh, wall paper, etc, In Cleveland, 0, have retIred from the busmess, havmg sold theIr stock to the Conrad, Babch, Kroehle company, ~ ho operate three large stores in the same cIty John Cady and IE. C. Cotter, who have been dealIng In fur-mture in San Antonio, Texas, under the name of the Cady- Cotter Furniture company Ihave gone into bankruptcy. LiabIli-tIes $6,688, asseb $8.918, mc1udmg $4,000 111 stock and $4,300 in bIlls receivable 0\\ mg to the store they occupy having been leased to Wool- ~ orth & Co, who operated a chain of 5 and 10 cent stores, C. H. Rood & Co, furl1lture and carpet dealers of Ware, Mass, have deCIded to go out of business, being unable to secure other smt-able quarters in that town. The RetaIi Merchants' assocIation of Texas, has completed the orgal1lzatIon of the Retail Merchants "Cnderwnters of Texas, whIch IS a mutual fire insurance concern. The new organization expects to do the fire insurance business of practically all the retail merchants of the state. All the woodworking factories at South Paris, Me, make ChrIstmas tables, nothmg else They make them in many kinds of \\ ood and fil1lshes and of all shapes and sizes, from the doll's table only three mches m heIght to full sIze card and sew1l1g table< and sl1lp about 100 car loads dUrIng the fall months. The Sal1ltary Hammock and Mattress company, mentioned la::,t week as haVIng been organized at Marshfield, Wis, is in no sense a re-organiz:atlOn of the defunct Marshfield Beddmg com-pany, though the new company will use the old plant, which was purchased from the U1ll0n Mortgage Loan and Trust company of ChIcago. The meeting of stockholders in the SIegel-Cooper company and Greenhut & Co, last Saturday resulted in the consolIdatIOn of the two concerns under the name of the Greenhut-Siegel- Cooper company, WIth capital stock fixed at $6,000,000. The consolIdatIOn makes it one of the largest and most important mercantIle houses in New York city. The J. B & J. M Cornell company of New York, manufac-turers of metallIc furnIture, have gone into the hands of A Gor-don Murray and yIlchael Blake as receIvers. LIabIlItIes, $ t16,- 421; assets estImated at $330,000 The receIvers have asked for authorIty to sell the property and It IS understood that a new company 1M" been organized to pm chase It. The ~IcDougall KItchen Cabinet company of Frdnkfort, near ImhanapolI" Ind have purchased the stock, good WIll, patents dnd ever) thmg else pertdinIng to the "La-fa-et" KItchen CabInet made by the BIggs lIanufacturing company of Lafayette, Ind, \\ hlch has been domg a bUSIness of about $100,000 a year By the deal the McDougall company will get about forty experienced workmen for theIr new factory at Frankfort MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND NEWS T. E. Jones, undertaker of ::\IarIon, Ind , ha" sold out to B M. Lay. The SImplex Bed company of Seattle, are mO\ mg thel1 tac-tory to Kent, Wash. Maddock Bros have ':lucceeded Arnold & Dleboldt, fUrIllturC dealers of Olpe, Kan. The Newark (0) Furniture company are erectmg an ad-dItion to their factory. R. L. OlIver has sold hIS undertak1l1g bUSIness at LIttle Sioux, Ia , to B. S. Long N. E. Ward has purchased the retaIl furmture bus1l1e,,::, of E. Threlkeld at Tecumseh, Nebr Albert Thompson has purchased the furmture and harchvare business of Daugherty & DIlday at OwenSVIlle, Ind The New Orleans, La, ManufacturIng company are crect-ing a five story bUIldIng to be used as a coffin factor) Raymond Foster has purchased a half mterest In the Dol-doser furniture store at Delta, la. The firm IS known as Boldoser & Foster. The Boston Furniture company, dd.1ers of 'Waterbury, Ct. are constructing a two story additIOn to their warehouse on Sco-ville street. Neillsville, Wis, has raised $20,000 by popular subSCrIptIOn to rebuild the furniture factory that was burned recently and the work has been started Kaufman Bros' department store, PIttsburg, Pa, ha.., <IX large electric furniture cars, each of WhICh, the) sa) performs the work of four teams of horses. The Dodge company of Akron, 0 , manufacturers of furl1l-ture and fixtures, have incorporated "for general manufacturIng purposes." Capital stock, $50,000. Lyons Brothers of Orange, TeX'as, in order to secure larger quarters, have moved their furniture store from FIfth and :\Iam streets to the Hewson building on Front street R. W. Fiske, manager of the Ohio Valle) Fur11lture Ex-hibition building of CincinnatI, announces that nearly all space in the buildmg has been leased for the J anuar) season E. S. Jeanie, Sand E. M Sonntag, dealers m mantel" and tile, of Evansville, Ind .. have incorporated under the name of the Edward L. Sonntag company CapItal stock, $10,000 Alfred Bonhard of the Bonhard FurnIture company, dealers, Cleveland, 0, is defendant in a dIvorce and alImony smt, hIS wife alleging non-support. There is another SIde to the story, Ihowever. J. B. Hough, for many years superintendent of the He)- wood chair factory at Orange, Ct., has resigned to accept the superintendency of the new chair factory to be established at Marietta, Ga. The Seybold Piano and Organ company of Elgin, J1l, are erecting a three story addition to their plant. They wIiI install a new dry kiln, the total expense of the improvements bemg es-tl1nated at $30,000. Adolph Marsh, formerly of Korth Adams, Mass, no" hold-ing a position in the Mechanics and Metals ~atlOnal bank of New York, has invented and patented a lace curtain holder, whIch he expects to put on the market soon. The imports of carpets and rugs for the first mne months of 1910 amounted to a total of 907,965 square) ards worth $3,- 342,424. During the same part of 1909 the Imports were hIgher -930,4170 square yards valued at $3,697,695 The P. E. Kroehler ManufactUrIng company, manufacturers and dealers in furniture, wood, iron and steel products, of Kan- WEEKLY ARTISAN The Architect and His Authority. There IS alwa) s dIscussIOn as to whether It 1S nght that the arc1lltect should have all to say 111the completIOn of a house, that he should tell the .other art1~ts what to do ll1~tead of 1mItmg the1r 111telhgent collaboratIOn. There are those who have saul that Loth mural p'l1l1tmg and sculpture have suffered 111th1S coun-try becau,e the archltecb ha, e been 111 command and merel) told the other art1sts what to do-blzane tl1Dugh 1t 111lght be as to the V\ hole-or left the1r work out of the scheme altogethel 1here 1, an artlc1e m /11 t ct Deem atlOll, VI. ntten w1th every eV1- dence of happmes.s, VI hleh tells of a m{)(leln v1lla bmlt for the manager of a gl eat chamlMgne house at Retm~ 111whIch eve1 y-th111g not only the mtenor decoratlOn but even the ftll11lshmg, wa, left to the arc111tect, and the "nier asks 1t 1t 1Snot ventably a p'ece of good f01tune for an arc1lltect ' 111love wIth hIS art" to have the opportu11lty to complete hIS creatlOn by glV111gto 1t the h fe that IS cal ned by Its ckcoratlO11S and Its funllshln~s In the RenDS house ('very room was decO! ated, arranged and furl1lshed b) the archItect, and the wlltel says w1th a perfect U111tyof style, wluch 1mphes much ThIs st)le IS very personal and modern, he says, the result of logIC, reason and ta,te, and he adds slyly that 111thIs It drfferentlates 1tself from the so-called "model n style," yet to l.ook at the lllustratlOns 1S to get ihe 1dea WIth hUD that the house IS very modern mdeed. It 1Sto be noted, howeve1, that at the very end of h1s artlcle the happy w11ter declares that It 1S eqmtable to accompany the <lrcllltect s name WIth the names of half a dozen of hIS c.ollabO!- at01 -', mc1udmg decorators, fur11lshers, sculptors and even chan-deher makel s, and he speaks of the conSC1ence as well as the ex-treme care, the search for forms best adapted to the demands and1l1to the nature .of the matellals that go to make-up the com-plex work English Furniture ill Boston. The C01mOlsseur 111fur11lture would have l11s e)es sh111ed WIth pleasure and he "ould qUlckly 1ecogmze the qUlet beaut) that may be 1mpal ted by SImple l111esand modesty 111(leCoratlOn, wel e he to call at the great Fame furl11ttll e company st.ore, 48 LanaI 'treet, and vIew the new lme of household furl1lture UD-ported from England, says the Doston Globe ,..------------------ I No. 550 Price $8.75 1015 to 1043 Palmer Avenue, DETROIT, MIC". Palmer Manufadurin~ ======(ompanJ·====== Flegance, Sl111phclty,beaut) of deSIgn and excellence of work-manshIp al e apparent m every pIece 111the exhlb1t. There IS a notlceable absence .of c1umS111essor heavl11es~ 111the constructlOn .of the dm111g 100m sets, the chaIrs, tables, sldeboal ds, cab111ets and dress111g cases for other rooms Consp1cuoUS m the exhIbItIOn 1S a ~leep111g room .outfit done 111 sohd mahogany and enameled, conceahng all eVIdence of the nchly gra111ed wood. It IS only by openmg a drawer of one of the dressmg ca~es, or a door of a clothes cabmet, that the real nature of the wood can be detected. The llvmg ro.om furnIture gIves an Idea of the sohd comfort the well-to-do Engllshman loves to enJoy DIg easy chans w1th deep, 'oft, uphobtery. and great couches in whIch one smks al-most out of SIght, attract the attentlOll .of all callers at the store The sho'l'l111g of Enghsh made furl11ture 1S an mllovatlOn 111 Boston. It was opened about a fortl11ght ago, and that Enghsh made tlungs f.or the household w 111 find favor IS eVHlcnt h om the 111terest alOused by the d1splay LIttle attentlOn" to customers and also to the despised "hoppers and bal ga111 hunters v1111 help 111making the small store a b1g one -----., I _._-- .....•.... _- ... -~ 10 RARE OLD RUGS ON EXHIBITION WEEKLY ARTISAN Great Collection Shown in the Metropolitan ~Iu· seum of Art, New York. It was a ve1Y u11Ll',uale.:\.h1b1tlon that was opened at the :\Iet-ropohtan Museum of Art on Tuesday, the loan e.:\.h1b1tlon ot 011- ental rug" whIch for too short a tune \\ 111occupy the gallel \ that last year was called the \\ 111stler 100m m the ne\\ \\ 1l1g f', say" the Kew York Sun The museum Itself \\ould not be able to present such an exll1b1tlOn out ot It:> 0\\ n pOSSeSS10l}';,and no general loan eXJll1bltlOn under le,s d1gl11fied dud "entre con-dltlons would be hkel) to be able to obta1l1 sue h ma -terp1ece-from then owners, who are naturally Ul1\\ llhng to pel!t \\ lth them even f01 a tIme, to say nothll1g of the ha/at ds 111\ oh ed III han dhng and t1 ansport1l1g them There are forty-nme of the rugs, and a rare treat they ofter to admIrers of the nch beauty m colot and the ta..,c1l1at1l1gmtl1- cacy of deSIgn of these anClent fabllcs \\ 1th the Onent,tl lUg-that m common parlance dre spoken of as antlque, \mLrlCan-are faIrly famtlldr. In orgamzmg thb e"Xh1b1t10nthe mlheum authollt1es purposed offellng VlSltor- the Opp01tUl11t) to eXd1111ne the really old rug '3,proc!t1Lb of the eentl11leS tt om the fourteenth to the eIghteenth, mc1udmg the pe110cls \\ hen the~e e"p1 eS..,lOn-of the gel1111Sof the ::\ e,n ILast appeal ed m theIr 111ghest pe1- fectlOn The e.:\.h1bltlOn sen es at the ~ame tIme to rev eal \\ hat IS not fully understood, the rema1kable nd1l1ess at the pllVate co11ect1ons Df thIS country 111the"e \,orks of the patlent 011en-tals 111 the days when then a1t and theIr a1tl'3ansh1p \\ere at then best. rlhere we1e to have been hft) of the lug-, but at the ld-t mlillute and too late to exclude a cle..,c11ptlOnof It trom thc cat,l-log, word came from the ka1..,er llleclnch \Iuseum at Berlll1 that perm1SSlOn could not be obta111ed to lend a rug \\ h1ch that museum had pr0111lsed to send, It:, Ll11lOUSfourteenth centnn rug WIth the .l\I1l1g coat of arms, the ancIent Chmese motn e ot the dragon fightmg the phcel11x Other rugs of thIS class, hO\\- ever, ale 111the exhlb1tlon And though the De1hn museum \\a" unable to get pel mIssIon to lend Its t1 eds111C, \\ h1eh IS one at t,he oldest 1ugs known to e.:\.15t,anothe1 SlStC1 l1lstltutlOn has con tnbuted to the }J et1opohtan s e"XhlbltlOn j he Do"ton \Iu-eum of F1ne \It<., hd'3 '3ent to \e\\ ') 011, the fincst lUg 111lh po..,se, SlOn. ASIde fl0111tll1<.,one the 1u~" a1e all pllv,lte co11ectlOns, those namely, of Dr Denman \\ Ross of Ld1l1bllClge, Gen Dra, ton Ives, BenJanlln Altman and :-'enator \\ \ Clark of thl:, Clt) Mrs. Helbert L Platt of Ihookl)n, John D \Jdlhenn) ot PhIl-adelphIa, P i\ 13 \V1dener ot Ukms T'a1k, P \1 ~harple" ot THE Hlnd6tpARLOR NEW ~ BEDn ~eed not be moved from the wall. Always ready wit h beddmg in place. So simpl., 80 easy, a ch.ild can operate It. Has roomy wardrobe box. CHICAGO, Erie & Sedgwick NEW YORK, Norman & Monitor. West Chester, Pa , Theodore M DaVIS of Newport and C. F. \Vl1hams of i\01 nsto\\ n, Pa The Metropobtan Museum (l1s-pIa) s a few rug.., \\<h1ch It owns as a part of thIS exhIbItion, but the) are placed m an adJ0111mg gallery so that those lent may have the \\Tl11Stler room to themselves. The result is plenty of room tal a sattsfactory placll1g WIthout crowd1l1g \ "'111gula1beauty pel vades the room It IS vaned but not confmed, not\\<lthstanc1111g the great c1lVerslty 111pattern and col-or and the ll1te1m1ng11l1g of preclOus fragments a few feet m el1menslOns and carpets more than twenty-sl.:\. feet long Most ot them nece~sanl) hang on the walls, or all easels erected for them \\ hC1e the) can be well seen, but by the use of enlarged model "taml.., 01 '-ltter" throne, the gal geous Pobsh rugs, as we hale been accu..,tomed to call them (th1~ nomenclature IS to be chdngec1 ncm) a1e shO\\ n pI actlcally as they would appear all the floor, 1 a1"ed anI) a few 1l1ches above It \nc1 \\ hat a ~lght they are, hke a tesselated pavement of gem", gbstemng 111chang111g hues as the VISItor changes his po- ,,1tlOn hut reta1l11l1g alway s one d01l11l1ant tone. Joyous as a full lJla,,- 011l111~gal den 1111111cldayb11lbance, bnght as a table of 1e\\ el~, the'e products of what mmt have been a happy day, hft the '3p1nt, ~lght ot the~e 1ug" are shown and one of them IS of a qze rarely seen, be111gmore than thIrteen feet long and nearly E1X teet WIele It IS one at the largest Polish rugs 111eXIstence. One of the Pohsh rug, IS woven v,lthout the usual gold or SlIver threads, 'but bght ) e110w and SlIver gray suggest the preclOus metals, a" the catalog says truly. Sombre as compared to these are the other rugs, yet they pI e"ent d \\ ondel ful \ anety of color Merely to enumel ate -ome of the hue~ tells ,1 ~tor) of the weavers' comprehenslVe \ h10n, f01 here are) ellow, blue, hght blue and da1k blue, and blue green led, cheny led, deep lOse and scarlet and pll1k, salmon pl1lk, ta\\ n c111dmouse grdy, peacock blue, green. SlIver, whIte, cream, orange, emer,tld, v101et, vlOlet brown and claret color. These \\ e-,te1n ASIatIcs knew a'3 well a" the easterners of theIr cont111ent, the Ch1l1ese, how to comb111e red and blue into beauty, J. th1l1~ man) 1\ estet n Em opeans and Americans, includmg some a1tl-,ts, fear to do today And the greater vanety of the ele- ... - - ..... .. .-----~_._._._._-- -----._-._._._ .._. _. _._._-------~--_._._--- --~ FREEDMAN CONVERTIBLE DIVAN BED A Revolution in Parlor Bed Construction. An Immediate Success. Full Size Bed in Divan Space. SIMPLEST IN ACTION. LEAST SPACE. STRONGEST BUILT. Supercedes all other Interchangeable Parlor Beds. SEND FOR ILLUSTRATIONS AND PRICES. FREEDMAN BROTHERS & CO. Manufacturer. of Upholstered Furniture. Factory, 717-731 Mather St., CHICAGO . .....------------------- --_.. ..._---_._-----_.__....__._.-._._._•..._-_. --_._---------- .......... WEEKLY ARTISAN 5 COMPLETE LINES Of REfRIGERATORS AT RIGHT PRICES CHALLEN1GE REFRIGERATOR CO. SEND FOR NEW CATALOGUE AND LET US NAME YOU PRICE. GRAND HAVEN, MICH., U. S. A. I ments of their design-human face", ~1uman figures, hunters, elephants, tigers, lions, leopards, giraffes, gDats, boars, deer, Ch1- nese ducks, the rhllloceros, crocodile, bullock, bes1des imaglllary al11mals, birds, partndges, bushes, tre~s, the peony and other flDwers, archa1c dragons, conventiOnal H,af forms, oouquets, geo-metnc designs, escutcheons, arabesques, fohatiOns; Kora11lc m-scnptiOns made decor dtive; the hly an~ Chmese symbols tellmg of mfluences when the trade relatiOns tletween the Near and the Far East were llltimate, 111 earher tllnel DragDn rugs, huntmg rugs, ammtl rugs and compartment rugs, all present workmansh1p as mt~restmg to study as 1t is good to look upon A fragment of a beaut1ful Ind1an rug from the 1mpenal factory, 1tS date placed !at about 1580, from Mr. Altman's collection, with a nch ground of dark claret color, is made w1th 702 knots to the square mJh, a wonderfully fine tex-ture. Imag111e a rug such as one of the fifteenth century Arme-mans "hown, wh1ch exh1b1ts a blue g1een stepped 10Lenge about a four p0111ted star m wh1te outhneli w1th fawn and stepped bands m th1S sequence, scarlet, red, v1~let, scarlet, yellow, scarlet outlmed 111white and blue and repeaTI111gthe lozenge outhnes. A Turkbh rug from nIr Vhlha~s' collection, with repeti-tiOn of three balls 111hght blue and eteam white on a gray field, and a b01 der w1th the same motive /m violet, brown and red, separated by tIger stnpes, 1S a unique! p1ece; no other rug of the type is known. It 1S about twelve arid a half feet long by e1ght feet m w1dth A.nother rug from lithe same collection with a field of four pointed stars separated Iby diamond shapes enc1os-mg arabesques 1S the only complet~ rug of that kind that 1S known. No clement of the exhib1tion is hlOre worthy of it or of the museum, however, than the lllterestlng catalog, which will win the thanks of many vis1tors. The museum has taken occasion I to make the exhib1tiOn as serviceable as poss1ble by publishing a spec1al catalog complIed by Dr. 'N. R. Valentiner, curator of decorative arts, a compact and enhghtenl11g volume, of wh1ch only a thousand cop1es have been pnnted Dr Valentmer's work aroused spinted d1Scuss10n, for hb classificatlOns upset some long accepted trad1tions, and speakmg with the authonty he does, h1S httle book has set some of the rug lovers to renewed study. Some of them so far are frankly unable to abandon the1r pos1tiOns, wh1le others are endeavonng to bnng themselves around to hiS V1ews. An important element in the charm exerc1sed by the Pohsh rugs has been the mystery of thei1 origin Were they Polish, Persian, Indian, m thei1 inspiratiOn and manufacture? And why d1d they appear to have been a spontaneous creation, pres-ently extmgUlished, a short hved race w1thout forebears or prog-eny? At any rate the name Pohsh stuck to them, a putative pa-ternity which was suffic1ently satisfactory to the few possessors and the many adm1rers of the chanmng Polonaises. Now comes Dr. Valentl11er and brushes all the mystery away. He says that the date of their manufacture can be almost ex-actly fixed as a bnef penod in the first half of the seventeenth century, as many of them were presented to European courts by Shah Abbas of Persia at that time and were very probably products of the imperial manufactories. He goes further and destroys another charm which they held for many, the idea that there were very few of them in all the wor1cl. The devotees have said that it would be d1fficult to find perhaps fifty of them, and when they have enlarged the poss1ble number to a hundred it has been with the idea of carrying refutation by the very ex-aggeration of the figure. Dr. Valentiner, however, says that there are at least three hundred of them and that the best ones are in various royal palaces m IEurope, particularly those at Mos- 11 12 .... .. .. - - ..-_._-------------_._----------------------------------- ..._--~ WEEKLY ARTISAN rowADDELL MANUFACTURING CO. I I All Knobs and Pulls have the Grand :Rapids, Michigan No-fium-Loose Fasteners The largest manufacturers of Furniture Trimmings in Wood in the world. Write us for Samples and Prices. Made in Oak, Walnut, Mahogany, Birch and all Furniture Woods . ..... -.. ..--_ ..._-----------._-------------------_._-.-----------~ cow, Stockholm, Munich and Copenhagen, althoLH;h he POl11tsout that tlhere are superb speCImens 111some of the 1'11\ dte collectIon') of the Ul11ted States Indeed, some of the~e are hel e to be Set n Some of the students of 1 ugs among the collectors pIt tol th in support of theIr recognIzed pos!tlons regardl11g the ongl11 ot these rugs the statement that 111 theIr Judgment the 'stItch,' If It may be so called, the method of \\ eavmg emplo} eel 111 the manu facture of these fabllcs, IS chSt111Ctl) not Pel Slan, the) \\ ,1l1t more hght from Dr. \ alent1ner In the present catalog the doc tor merel} states that "there IS ab-,olutel} no e\ IdeI1Ce th,lt ollk rugs of the Polonal 'oe t} pes \\ ere ever \\ oven 111 Poland 111the seventeenth century," and that documents have lately come to hght "whIch show conclusIvely that these rugs were not m,lcle 111 Poland" He does not Identify the documents spoken ot to the d ,- appomtment of the anxJOus He does, hO\\ ever o,pla111 the 01- Igm of the name PolIsh lUgS, or PolonaI'oe'o, and c1hll1l"1l1g that deSIgnatIOn, claSSIfies them thereaftel as Pel SIan, \\ lth the paren-the. tIcal explanatIon "so-called PolIsh ., And the ongin of the name, he sa,", cLltes blLk hltle mOle than thIrty yeal" It causes no speCIal "nrprhe that Lcrtall1 TurkIsh rugs (of \\ hlch there are some m thl" exhlbltlOnl ha\ e come to be called Holbem rug" OW111gto thc appear awe ot one ot them 111that pamter's Darmstadt masterpIece. for the lea"on tlMt most mmds ale rather mIsty legalCl1m; ,1 t111leso long p l"t ho\\- ever VIVIdly It may lIve In the annals of art But tlldt the nd lle by whIch the world kno\\ s these aIYlent "Poh"h . tabllc" "l1oulcl be the aCCIdent of an mtelndtlOnal exhlbltlOn so late a" lKi8 seems a bIt odd. ... Dr Valentmer says, hO\\ever, that that IS Just \\hat hap-pened At the Pans expOSItion of 18/K "everal of these rngs were exh1b1ted They had been ~ent by the PUllce CZdrtolhl-.1 from vVarsaw, and the} bOle the coat of arm" at IllS t 111l1h Hence the assumptIon and confUSlOn The sImple fact \\ a" that th1S emblazonry had been embrOIdered on them at a later date than their manufacture. Muah more wldel) known 111th1S conntr) than the Poll,h rugs are the Ispahans Dr. Valentmer gIve5 them to Hel at and refers to them as "so-called Ispahans" Those \\ ho contencl tor the more famlhar designatlOn set forth that the PerSIan COLl! t traveled and that the royal weavers moved WIth the court, and that therefore Herat may prove to be no more final as an attllbu-bon than Ispahan. Everywhere, however, Dr Valentmer's cla~- sifications and statements arouse 1 ene" ed mtere:.t There 1'0 dn-other instance of these changes of hIS Some rugs long knu\\ n as PerSIan he has carried to IndIa, among them the Boston mu-seum's rare contnbutIOn to the exhIbItIon, the seventeenth cen-tury huntmg lUg whIch is its cholsest posseSSlOn among Eastel n carpets. Dr \ alentmer sa) s that the market for modern Onental rl1~S m Xe\\ York IS the mo~t e),ten~lVe m the world, o'lly Con- "tantlIlOple and PallS beIng compared WIth It, but that pubhc kno\\ leclge at the supenor old weaves IS lackmg, that IS one Iea~on tor the pre ent exhlbitlOn The c11St1l1CtI011 IS seldom made 01 perhaps ever known, he sa}s "between the fine old rugs and the seem111gh old types" ;\ 1110St111terestmg catalog to a dehghttul exhlbltlOn It h the purpose of the ~Ietropohta11, DIrector Robmso11 sa)~, to organl/e othel e'{h1b1t1011s from tIme to tIme, of rare \\ ork" ot art 111 pnvate 0\\ 11ershlp whIch would not othel Wl~e 111the ord111ary course of events be access1ble to the pubhc "BEAVER," "GINDERELLA," "DOCKASH" STOVE HEADQUARTERS ""THE LINES THAT SELL" NoleIMPERIAL BEAVER-one ofmany. 13est, 'llzey Stctno the rest," THIS is the IMPERIAL BEAVER. It is the finest cooking range made anywhere in the world. We think so, and so w111you when you see its advantages: Study the above picture. The glass oven door is guarantffd not to break, No heat lost when you look at your baking. This range holds its heat longest, saves z 5% in fuel, and has unusual hot water capacity. It is the best looking range built-and wears as well as it looks. Send for samples and see it-but we warn you that no other kind will ever satisty you again, if you ro! w. D. SAGER, 330-342 No.WaferSf.,CHICA60 WEEKLY ARTISAN 13 ANOTHER GREAT RUG EXHIBITION Providence Has One That Rivals That in the .Metropolitan Museum of Art. Out'lcle of the ::\Ietropohtan Museum of I\rt, New York, the greatest exh1blLon of antique Onental rugs now to be seen m Amellca, IS shown by the Rhode Island School of DesIgn, at ProvlClence The exh1blt, whlCh has been gIven much attentlOn by rug makers, deollers and collectors m New York and N ev, England, IS thm descnbed by the Prov1dence J ourml "The opel1lng of the exh1b1t Dn WolSan event of unusualm-terest to the art hfe of the Clt) and brought out many of the fnends of the I11stltutlOn and member, of the art frolte1111ty The rugs, \\h1ch "ere collestec1 by Arthm "Gpham Pope were ga<h-ereel from some of the most Important collectIOn, m the country, and \\ hereas It ha, been cu,tomary m such exlllb, tlOns to show t'le male remarkable pleces, m thh the endeolv')r has been to ,ho\\ exampl es of practIcally every Important t) p~ of weavmg olnd the development and relatIOns of the mam types to each other "To each rug 1S attached a cord beanng cntlcal comments of such rug expel ts as J Oh'1 KImberly ::\Iumford and Arthm l:" [- bane D llay of :0Jew YO!k, so that anyone mtere-,ted 111 the sub- Ject, though possessed of httle knO\dedge, ought, by a careful study of thIS collectIOn and the descrlptI\ e cards, to gam an ac-curate 1dea of the cllfferent types and the1r charactenstlcs "The colIectlOn numbers about 63 pIeces, se\ eral of whlch are from the homes of Dr A E Ham, Seeber Edwards and Mrs Gustav Radeke of thIS CIty, whlle some of the most lmportant pIeces, acknowledged by rng expert, to be the best of the type 111 th1S country, are from pnvate collectIOns m ?\ ew York and else-where "]\11 i\Iumford, who lS cons1cIered one of the most famous eA.perts on rugs m thls country, has sent eight, i 1c1uclmg the plate ongmals WhlCh appear ln hIS well known book on rugs, but ow ll1g to dela) s 111 translt they had not arrived 111 tlme to be hunf; for the ope11lng receptlon They vnlI be placed in the gallenes later m the week Among these rare pleces lS an antique Bergamo, remarkable for 1tS vIgorous des1gn and wealth of color ThlS rug is cen-tunes old and has a \\ onderful SlIvery sheen "The most magnificent piece in the colIectlOn lS the slxteenth centUl y Ispahan, loaned by John H Pray of Boston 1'1115 p1ece is in a wonderful state of preservation, httle 1n the way of res-toratlOn ha'l11g been attempted. One of the most 1l1terestmg pIeces lS a fragment of a 15th century Ghayan carpet, hterally 1ll rags, but of a wonderful hue, the hke of whIch has not been produced. Another rug WhlCh shows the attntion of time is a magnifi-cent old DJushaghan from Mr Mumford's collectlOn, WhICh, though extJemely old, is in almost perfect condlton except for the ends, whlch have been worn to frazzles by the bare feet of centunes "Then there are wonderful slxteenth century layer rugs from ASla l\Imor, v,hlch can hardly be matched 111 t,he world, a num-ber of Bokhara rugs w1th their deep nch ins and vlOlet sheen, and rugs fr0111the Caucasldn reg lOn, from Per~Ja and Turkestan. "A Kurdlsh Saraband rug, loaned by Seeber IEclwards, lS one of the best examples of thIS tribe's adaptatlOn of des1gns from all over ASia, appmpnat1l1g wlth wonderful sklll the most chverse and different patterns. "An antlque grave rug of nhe Caucaslan sectlon is a superb old plece wInch has caused much chsagreement among experts as to Its ong1l1 Such rugs were woven b) the entire fal11lly of the deceased, even the chlldren ty1l1g some knots On this p1ece the weavers expended the1r supreme efforts The fineness of the rug, the deep and sombre colors, the use of green and the shape all bear eloquent testlll10ny to the solemn event 1t was de-slgned to celebrate "The collectlOn as a whole offers a I are treat to admirers of beauty and colors, and the fascmating mtncacy of design of these anC1ent fabncs. The effect of the walls hung with these anClent Eastern fabriCS, under the artlficial hght of the gallenes was of a wonderful vanety of gem-hke color, blues and reds, yellow, or-ange, emerald, VIOlet, rose red and azure, woven in combinations of which only those old rug weavers knew the secret. " 'Great rugs do not make a startling appeal,' sald Mr Pope 111 hls comments. 'They must be approached wlth sympathy and understandmg vVhen they are thus studied and understood they are vastly more attractive t,han are the modern rugs which are cold and unsympathetic 111 comparison' " 'A map was dl5playedm the galleries showll1g the rug d1S-trlcts in the Caucasian region. Asia Mmor and Pers1a, and Mr Pope gave an informal talk, in which he treated of the charac-tenstics of the various types of rugs, and described and analY7ed some of the ohoicest specimens in detall, to the enhghtenment of hiS audience" It 1" much easier to take stickelS m1.o stock than to diS-pose of them Rockford Chair and Furniture Co. ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS Dinin~ Room Furniture BUFFETS, CHINA CLOSETS and TABLES Library Furniture- Library Desks, Library Tables, Library Bookcases, Combination Book-cases, Etc. Our entire line will be on exhibition in January on the third Iloor of the Blodgett Building, Grand Rapids, Mich. 14 WEEKLY ARTISAN Holiday Suggestions. The hohdays are approaching and merchants are pI epallng to make the most of the festive occaSIOn~ A contemp01 al) pub hcation of recent date CDntamed the follow111g suggestIOn~ of practlcal value on the :.ub) ect of prepanng and conductmg seas-onable sales: Avoid the employment of mflammable matenals for elecOla-tive purposes, and see that electnc or other hghtll1g ~) ~tem~ an I demonstrations of electrical appltances are kept eaher \\ 1thm the latitude of 111surance pohcies or that the pohc1e~ are endor~ed with special permissIOn cover111g any increased hazarel that ma\ be contemplated. A large pnvate bulletll1 ooard, on "hlch 111btructlOlb and m-formation relative to the :.tore's operatIOn and the adoptIOn of new rules or special hohday methods. can be posted from time to bme, WIll prove an a1d for the "tore's employes In the absence of a regular branch post office \\ 1thl11 the store many concerns pro\ ide a stamp and ma1lmg" sectIOn Some stores also provide an expre~s office f01 the shIpment of ~mall parcels, and 111some 10caht1es It 1S possIble to make an arrange ment ~ lth the expres~ company \\ hereby reduced I ates can be offered to customers An idea for increasing sales of pIanos on the 111-tallment plan is to make customers a gIft of the first payment, deln enng the piano on the "no-cash-dO\\ n" plan and thereafter collectmg the regular monthly mstallments Just as soon as the hohelay dehvery schedule has been defi-mtely elecidedupon pnnted or \HItien ~hp:. gIVl11gthe ~tated h0111- at which dehvery wagons leave the stOle fOJ chftercnt pal ts of the CIty should be placed m the hands of eVel) sale~pel -011 and floorman. During a rush It is 1mportant that a "good orcler and con-dItion" receIpt be taken fOl all valuable merchanchse deln el eel-especially if it IS fragIle. Any employe who enters upon the duties of a ru"h sea-on day WIthout a full complement of workll1g matenals should be censured. Avoid congestion, so far as possible, at every pomt in the store and keep entrances, aIsles and staircases as clear as pos-sible. RapId change makmg and parcel handlmg mean tIme sa, ed for the shopper and consequently more sales. Salespeople should keep 111mmd the fact that there are a number of "green" men on the delnery wagons, to whom ex-plicit dehvery dIrectIons on address labels are necessary During a rush sea:.on the "want shps" become more than doubly important, and salespeople should be strongly cautIOned against negligence in that respect. Morning specials for inducing early shoppmg should be of a widely vaned nature; thIS for the purpose of mtere~tlng the greatest number of persons Throughout the entire building, arrows pointing to the nearest stairs, exits and elevators are absolutely necessary dur-ing the crowded period. If new merchandIse is arnving at the store WIth suffiCIent rapidIty to make an impression, a dally or weekly pubhshed bulle-tin of artIcles thus received would undoubtedly help the general selling. It should be repeatedly mentIoned 111the store's advertIsement that items purchased 111advance of the time at whIch they are wanted WIll be 'Stored free of charge untIl the elate set for de-livery. Regular employes can assist the management to qUIte an ex-tent by reporting any unusual, yet logIcal, P0111ts not 111 the store's rule book that may be brought up by the "extra" sales-people. ..-- a.a. _ ••• _ a_a •• •••• ._.., I LOST! Three TODS of Coal a Week. A Dry Kiln built of wood, brick or concrete has billions of small outlets-pores-whose combined area wastes the equivalent of tons of coal, in heat units, every week. Seal up these pores with II EBONOID ! Kiln Coating I I Keep the steam and acids from de- I I stroying your kiln buildings and I I save the heat units. They are dol- I lars in disguise. Tell us the size of your building and we will quote you. I I Grand Rapids Veneer Works GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. A. •• _. .... ~._-----_._.~-_~_.._-. -----~~_._--_._-------------.., I• II I ., POLISHES Quality and Economy Two excellent reasons for using the Excelsior or World's Fair Polish on high grade furniture. We claim to sell the best and most economical polishes, and have proved it by their being the Standard polishes for 25 years of use in the furniture manufacturing trade. Get our prices and send for sample before placing your next order. GEO. W. LIGHT MFG. COMPANY, I 2312 W. Van Buren St., CHICAGO. .... WEEKLY ARTISAN An Unfair Publisher. The advertisement produced herewIth shows that sometimes even pubhshers dIsplay a degree of shortsightedness m adoptmg schemes for the promotlOn of theIr subscnptlOn busmess. No doubt the pubhsher of the "Drl'-Goods-l1,1 an" has placed an order of conSIderable SIze WIth the manufacturer of the desk Illu'Str dted The chances are also that by thIS means he has secured and l~ glvmg hIS prospectIve subscnbers the benefit of the whole~ale pnce plus the pnce of the subscriptIon to hIS pubhcatlOn No doubt thIS wlll result m savmg all that the pubhsher claIm'S for every A $25 ~OODESK AND THE DRYGOODSMAN $15 00 • • FOR ONE YEAR PRICE, • We contracted wltn a large manufaeturer ror a quantl:t)1or th:esedesks, bot they can't last always If'tou want the best ever saw for the money send US' your ellMk for $1:'00 and we WIll order detilk slupped at once and date YO\J,fllU~tlOl:l aheall on THE DRYGOODSMAN for one year POSlnyeIy no desks s!upped 'WIth",ut U1 adYance as we will not accounts, nelther 'WInwe sell the llesk at prtce unless you are a sul>S<)rl'!let or advertlser You cannot buy thiS desk ltl any other way for less than $25 00 and you would not be paymg a cent more than it 1$ worth 11 you prod that prtct' But If you can get it and The Dryguodsman lor $t500 why not do It todaY? He*M 'VegM 45 II 260 awel' (rQllii<, ImmedIately upon receIpt ()f your re IDlttatlce We W111 In $lrnct the mal<er& to slllP you the <leak, but shipment c1tn110' be ptomtsed sooner than ten days 'Or two week-s from time orJ;ier 1"; recerved The desk 15 crated With utmost care and will pe .ent F o B Fac«>ry THE DRYGOODSMAN 1027 VVashmgton Ave ST LOUIS one who becomes a subscnber under the offer. The questIOn naturally anses, If thIS publisher can afford to furnish consumers WIth office fur111ture at manuufacturers' prices, why should any furnIture dealer carry office desks? \~lhI1e the Dry-Goods-M an no doubt CIrculates to many dealers \V ho handle nothmg but dl y goods and a few related hnes, It probably also circulates to many department stores havl11g furmture departments. If the fnr11l-ture dealer performs a legItImate functIOn, 111carrymg a stock of goods, whIch is essentIal to the conve111ence of a commumty, then the sale of furmture as subscrIptwn premiums must be IllegIti-mate. It 'would seem that propnetors of departments stores hav-ing furmture departments espeCIally would use theIr 111fluence to dIscourage a scheme of thIS k111d. No doubt the publIsher of the Dry-Goods-Man would be very grateful If the furniture dealers' aSSOCIation would co-operate 111 the publication of a dry goods journal. Chicatio House Not Affected. SIege1-Cooper'~ 111New York, a~ "uch, pds~ed out of ex-istence yesterday by mergel WIth Greenhut & Co, the comoh-dated company to be known as "The Greenhut-SIegel-Cooper Company" The merger, however, m no way affects the ChIca-go house of SIegel-Cooper & Co , accOl d111gto Isaac Kelm, thIrd vice president, who says that the Chicago company is owned by other persons and is not connected WIth the New York Slegel- Cooper's. The New York store was founded by Henry SIegel and afterwards purchased by J B Greenhut and hIS associates, who also bought the old site of B Altman & Co, at EIghteenth Stl eet and SIxth avenue, and there started the Greenhut store WIth whIch the New York Siegel-Cooper house is now merged. ----~------------~-_._---_._-_._-----... • I I III III TUE "ELI" I ELtO:""iViOi'LL.E'R='d&U'CO. I EVANSVILLE. INDIANA I Wnte for cuts and pnces ON SALE IN FURNITURE EXCHANCE, EVANSVILLE. a..... ------------------ ----- FOLDING BEDS ARE BREAD AND PROfIT WINNERS / 10 SPINDLE MACHINE ALSO MADE WIfH 12, 15 20 AND 25 SPINDLES. DODDS' NEW GEAR DOVETAILING MACHINE ThiS httle machme has done more 10 perfect the drawer work of furnI-ture manufacturers than anything else In the furmture trade For fifteen years It has made perfect fitting vermin proof dovetailed stock a pOSSI bl1Jty ThIS has been accomphshed at reduced cost, as the machIne cuts dove-tails In gangs of from 9 to 24 at one operatIOn It s what others see about your bus1ness rather than what )0 ou sa-) about It, that counts 1n the cash drawer It's the thnll of enthusiasm and the tt ne nng of truth you feel and hear back ofthe cold type that makes you bny the thmg adverttsed ALEXANDER DODDS CO., GRANDRAPIDS,MICH. Repre.ented by Schuchart & Schutte at BerlIn. V,enna. Stockholm and St Pelelllbu,g Rep,esented by Alfred H Schutte at Cologne. Brussel•• Ltege. Pan •• Muan and Buboa Rep,esented m G'eat Bnuan and Ir.land by the Oliver Machmery Co. F S Thompson. Mg, •• 201-203 Dean.gate, Manchefte,. England. 15 _Ii. "'••....... ..i. \ 16 WEEKLY ARTISAN PUISl-ISHEO ~VERY SATURDAY ay TH~ MICHIGAN ARTISAN COMPANY $UBSCRIPTION $1 00 PER YEAR ANYWHP:REIN THE UNITED STATE:S OTHER COUNTRIES $200 PER YP:AR. SINGL.E COPI"'5 S C"'NTS. PUBLICATION OFFICE, 108-112 NORTH DIVISION ST. G"AND RA~IDS. MICH. A S WHITE, MANAGING EOITO" Entered u second class matter July 5, 1909. at the post office at Grand Rapids MIchIgan under the act of March 3. 1879 CHICAGO REPR"'S"'NTATIVE E L.EVY An enoneous Impression may and does frequent1l C"I,t among the people of the \\ est \n re~ard to the ,o-calleel auctlO11 ~ale~ of carpets and lugs conducted b\ the \lc"anclel "I11Ith 6c Sons company and other 'ea ,tel n manutactul eh \lam pcopll th111k that the sale, al e tor the pm pose ot dbpO'\llSi at aIel or SUl plus ::.tocks-pattellb that have proved ulljlojlulal eLL-but that Idea IS wrong The goods offered are ne\\ mo't ot them of styles, deSIgns 01 pattelns that ha\ e nc\ el been ,h J\\!l bctOlC the Opell111gof the sale \s a matte I ot tact the ,ale, al C not really auctlOlls The} are conducted \ el \ much lIke the 'U11I annual fur111twe sede, The rl1g, and calpeb are ~olelb\ "amplc, dt fixed pnces and the . ]wlel111£;' b on numbe\ ~ 01 lluantltle, rather than on pnces The sales sen e to IndIcate thc V)]U11lC of bus1l1ess for the facto11e" 01 elers al e tdktn amI ,C'lh to the factones where the l.:;uod" elle manu1cldul eel dnd shipped 111tune for the open111g of the follo\\1l1g sea'on ]he -etIe lu"t d()~ul wlllch I" reported b) the \lexallder S11llth 8c :-OOIhC01l1pam (() have been the large,t and most sl1Lcessful 111 the11 11l"tOl\ \\ a" for the spnng season of 1911 1he Selle 111 \la\ h t)1 tlIl led1 "eason of retaIl trade The row teenth :-,tt eet '-,t01e ot the "Ie~d collcdlon 111 \few YOlk, publIshes a monthly called the BllS) COIIlCI Bll~~( I It aun~ to lllStl uct anll entertam the store emplo) e" \mong the senous subJ ect.., cl\scu~sed are "1 he \ alue at S) ~te!1l 'OJ) portUl11tles for Advancement 111 Department C)tOles ' 'Stock Tclk111g" and (Punctuaht)" The (Bll~::c]" I" lead qUIte genel-ally by the emplDyes, but thel e are some who \\ ould not rLad It If paId for theIr tIme whIle domg so 1\ Ith theIr departul ~ at the close of the clay's work the) tr) to dbm1'os thOllght, ot the store \Vhat a SVvlpe 1 A bus1l1e"s sharp of Pllllaclelpllla rkdat eel the other day that retaIlers of 111erchcll1cbse. as a lule al e not possessed of "hIgh 1110ral characters" "The} mll'lt be educated to hIgher standards, \\ hen the C0111bll1cltlOnof clehnquenues tIll I etallers affect to beheve as nght Will be cltscarclecl' It ha" been supposed by many that a gl eat number of merchant::, \\ el e dnllch deacons and supenntendents of Sunda) schools and thel dore uncontaminated by Im1110rabl} 'Th a pIt}, If It 1'0 not trne There is a dlffel ence be1\\ een an ordel taker and a sdlesman The order taker w11te" a memOlanc1a ot the thmg" el (U"tomcI has deCIded to buy 1he salesman l~ a per,uaeler, an ana1l st ,l man \\ho has the ablltty to make one v"ant 'omethmg he need, and to purchase the same. There IS ho\\ e\ el, but lIttle chfferenLl bet\\ een the "trel\ chng 111an" and the order taker The travel- 111g sale"man make, sales; the "travelmg man" tnes to make ,ale,-to cut a round, slTOOth hole WIth a locomotIve \Iel chants 'v ho catel to the cash b lyer ancl keep theIr creel a, as 10\\ as possIble, al e able to establIsh very c!o,e, 111'lde re-latIOn, \\ah the 1l1anUfactul er" ell1d Jobbers fr0111\\h0111 the) 00- tam stuck '\ dealer who ha~ tlled the experiment SellS It pays to c11~Cr1ll11nate111makmg pnces 111favor at the md.l who comes mto the store \\ Ith money m his Dpen palm The "Produce Show" to be glVen next month b} the Han-nah &. La) :\Iercantlle company of Traverse CIty, :\llch, a, stated on another page, mlght be repeated WIth profit by mel-c! Jants III manv sectIOns of the count 1') ThDse \\ ho thlllk of tn mg the -Lheme ~lJOuld sencl for a COP\ of the Hannah & Lay compam s announcement and preml11m lIst RepOl b tlom \\ ood\\ orl~111g factOlles ~ho\\ a cOl1Slderabl" cleu ease 111 the number of aCCIdents to employes S111cethe 111ttO-ductlOn of safety guard attachments tD shapero., bU77 planers, J0111ter, and ~Imllal machmes In many shops the men object to the gual d", but \\hen once 1l1stalled manufacturers should 111- ,10 t upon thur u'e Dealel' 111hard\\ are throughout the country cDmpla1l1 that a ~Ieat deal of the trade that ndtlllally belongs to them is gOIng 111tOthe depal tment st01 es A consIderable number have added IurmtUl e, IU~S el11d other house furmsh1l1g goods whIch have ,el \ ed to recall a part of the lost trade ] he lm;:se ..t ..tOle IS 110t necessdllly the one thett contaInS the lellgest ..,tock and the gl edtest cll1JOunt of flool space The l)J[;:se~t st01 e ma, ha\ e gcllned Jh chstll1ltlOl1 on account of the Sl/e clnd qua11t y of the hI aIn of the man \\ ho owns or ll1ana~e~ It Retallcl" ~eek I()CatlOn~ 111 the retaIl ~edlons of a Clt) n,t1lk1l1~ and office bllllcItng dbtI ICtS are llctturall) aVOIded The hnlk ot tt clele 10 pLlced by the women, amI the retaIl d\stncts at-t! act then attentIOn and pI esence House fUl nl'hers fad to produce an artI~ tIc effect when they place art-, and Claft, fur111ture 111 a room conta1l11l1g a Loub QU111/emantel Ev el) bus111ess man should be a booster and not a bltghter ot the to\\ n 111 \vblLh he ltves The, alue of el de"'Ign I, m the ,U11ount of stocK that :,tIcks on the floor Furniture Fires. T Z DIe." tnrl11tnre deale\ of Dallcls, Texas, suffered a ~mall loss by fire on ~ ovember 12 Insured J D KImball" f UfIJlture store at \Voodbur), Conl1 , was de- "boyed by fire on \ovember 10 Lo.,s about $~,OOO, partIally 111- ~Uled ()ne of the cIt) kIlns of the Duane ChaIr company at Dalton, (Jel, \\ a" burned on '\ ov ember 11 Lo"s on bUIldIng and con-tent-, $ i,OOO, no 111snrance 1he Preston lUI111tUle company's st01 e and ~tock 111 Dlr-llJ 111gham , AId, \vere damatSec1 by fire to the eAtei1t of $8,000 or $9,000 on November 11 Fully 111SUlCd WEEKLY ARTISAN 17 Your Continued Success Depends on the QUALITY of Your GootIs- It's after a bed or chair or table leaves your store that it counts for or against your future trade. Every Stow & Davis table you sell is a constant advertisement of your reliability. Our tables resist wear-quahty is bUIlt m, along with the style and hand rubbed finish that make our designs so attractive. Our new catalog, showing some of the handsomest Colonial and Flanders diners ever built, is in press. Yau will just naturally want these top-notchers in your own store, for your best trade. Send in your name for an early copy. STOW & DAVIS FURNITURE COMPANY, PERFECTION TABLE TOPS. DINERS. Grand Rapids, Mich. OFFICE AND BANK TABLES. New Factories. James Redmond of Grand RapIds, Mlch, IS reported as or-gamzmg a company to estabhsh a ,,,oodworkmg factory at Knox- VIlle, Tenn The Modern FlxtUles company, capltahzed at $15,000, has been organized to e5tabhsh a new plant and manufacture store and office fixtures at Alliance, O. C. D, Gay L. and Zerelda D. Tufts have incorporated the Sunhght MetallIC Cloth Curtam compan), capltdhzed at $13,000, to establish a factory m ChIcago. The ~ew England Cabmet Works is the name of a corpor-ation whIch is to manufacture mantels and office fixtures at Cum-berland, Me. Capital stock, $25,000. The new factory of the Felch & PIer ChaIr company at BrattlebOlo, Vt, WIll begin operatIons on December 15. They wJ11 manufacture a cheap grade of kItchen and chning room chairs. Tille Buchanan Manufactunng company, capitahzed at $5,- 000,. has been 01 gani7ed by E S Gnffith, Joseph A. Rowel, Joel Phllhps and others, to manufdcture fur111ture, coffins and hoe handles at Buchanan, Ga A large veneer plant whIch has been completed at Okeanskaia, near VladIvostok, Slbena, IS eql11pped WIth modelll Amencan woodworkmg mach1l1ery, and IS the most up-to-date factory 111 the far east. The new plant of the Scott Manufacturing company at He-lena, Ark, whIch WIll be devoted entIrely to the manufacture of furnIture, IS nearing completlOn. It will be put mto operatIOn before the end of the year. .-. --Re-SI-de-nts--of-G-re-en-vI-lle-, -T-en_n, .hav_1_l1.g_.s_u-b-s-c_n.b-e.d_--_$.5_,.0-0-0---o-f-_ .._----------------------------. - - the $13,000 111 a company plOmoted by J C Moore, of Lenoir, N. c., Mr. Moore WIll estabhsh a chaIr factor) at GreenvIlle, to employ at least eighty hands, WIth a pay roll of not less than $500 per week. Herbert W. Reynolds, who recently retIred from the firm of Hall & Reynolds, fur111ture, carpet and wall paper dealers, of Lynn, Mass, has been ID1SS1l1gS1l1ce Novembel 1 Before leav-mg, he wrote a letter to his WIfe stat1l1g that he was gmng away for the benefit of his health, and sent her a check for $100. Mrs Lena Pratt, who filled a responsIble pOSItIOn in a Lynn shoe fac-tory, also chsappeared when Mr. Reynolds went away. New Furniture Dealers. Charles Welcome Is a new funllture dealer 111Lowell, l\la5s A. A. Wolfe & Son are new furmture dealers at Manetta, The People'" Cash Store I" the name of a new fur111ture and carpet at Meshopen, Pa. HockersmIth & Bowen \vl11open a new furmture store at Ar-cacha, Fla, on December 1 Kees, Beddow & Co, have opened a new furnIture and car-pet store at Gallup, N. Mex R. Kratche will open d new fur111tUle "tore at AntIgo, \VIS, on December 1, and111ay add undertakl11g later. A..rthur Green of Detroit is to open a new furniture and un-dertak111g estabhshment at Holly, MIch., on December 1. John Nlesman, a harness dealer of Brodhead, \VIS, is to open a new furmture store at DaVIS, 111 He \,,111 COllt1l1UehIS bus111ess at Brodhead . ... .-.._. .. .... WE MAKE REFRIGERATORS IN ALL SIZES AND STYLES Zinc Lined. Porcelain Lined. White Enamel Lined. Opal-Glass Lined. You can increase your Refrigerator Sales by putting III a line of the "Alaskas." Write for our handsome catalogue and price lists. THE ALASKA REFRIGERATOR COMPANY, EXCI::~~:~~:~M~U:S;K:~EoGrON, MICH. New York OffIce, 369 Broadway, L. E. Moon, Manager. . .- -- . - ...t • 18 WEEKLY ARTISAN .. . .. .... . .-._._._.- .., NEW DESIGNS -IN LOUIS XVI STYLE No. 1711 No. 1705-1705 WRITE FOR SAMPLES AND PRICES. GRAND RAPIDS BRASS COMPANY GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN .... T. • ••••• ... .... ... Maine Merchants Want Reco~nition. As an outcome of the awal d of the conh act f01 fUll11~h-mg carpets and shades for the new :0.Iame state capItol, the tur-mture dealers of l\lame are makmg an effort to secure \\ ha t the, call a better recognitlOn of theIr claIms The result of the btcl-dmg was the announcement, recently, that the contract had been awarded to the John H Pray company of Boston, they bem!?; the lowest bIdder. But there are two constructlOns to the bleb and some of the Augusta furmture dealers claIm that m realIty the lowest bIdder was the Jack & Hartley company of LeWIston, especially as regards carpets. The result of the bIdding has been to stir the ft1l111- ture men to petition the incommg governor for the appomtmtnt as superintendent of public bmldmgs of "a man who IS 10) al to the business interests of Maine." Last week a cIrcular letter was sent to fur111ture and hard-ware dealers of Maine. It originated w1th a prominent furm-ture house and is as follows: "Gentlemen: "We wish to call your attentIon to the fact that a greater part of the supplIes and furnishings for the state house have for the last few years, been purchased outside of the state, many of the same at higher pr1ces than our dealers would be pleased to furnish The furniture and hardware merchants of Maine should recelVe the benefit of this business. It w1ll be but a short 11me before Honorable Fredenck W. Plaisted WIll recelVe the oath of office as governor of Maine. Many appoll1tments w1ll then be made by him. If Maine merchants want a "hare of the state busmess and request of hIm in hIS appomtment of the su-permtendent of publIc bmldmgs, that he be a man \\ ho 1S loyal to Mame mdustnes, we feel certam that Mr. PlaIsted WIll ap-pomt a man who w1ll consider our Maine dealers. This may not pehonctlh mtel est you but there are Mame mel chants who \\ auld lIke a share of th1S business. If you w111kmdly wnte a letter, "lmdar to the one enclosed, (your letter head preferred) Designed by Frank Burton, a StUdent in the Grand RapIds School of Deslgnmg. and mall to us, we w111see that it 1S presented with others, at the proper time. vVe trust that you WIll gIve this your atten-hon as all Ma111e merchants are, to some extent, interested to "ee thIS bus111ess left here in Ma111e." The fact01y hand \\ho waits for something better to turn up usually lacks the confidence necessary to grasp it when 1t comes. WEEKLY ARTISAN A.n Unfair Proposition. Here is another scheme to help make busIness more profit-able for furmture dealer" You wlll notice that the Prufrock- LItton company are tryIng to Induce dealers In dry goods and In fact everythIng except furmture, to keep theIr catalog handy, as by thlS means they wlll be able to "reap blgger profits." Of course, no merchant who knows his bus1l1ess w111think of try-ing to break into the game by a scheme of thlS kind. Every store keeper has a few fnends whom he might be able to sell goods to by means of tlllS catalog, especially 1£ he sells the goods at a nommal profit. Of course, 1£ he tned to get regular retal1 Mr. Merchant! Send Today for Our Handsome New 1911 Furniture Catalog' and Reap Bigger Profits You don't have to be a Furmtute Dealer Just so you ate a Merehant and have people cummg mto your store, you can mlke revetal hundred dollars dear prolit between now and January 1st, by havmg our wholesale catalog on yourctlest Neltber do you have to Invest one cent 01 capItal $1 WHOLESALE CATALOG FREE You can sell d.rect to your cu.tomers from thl$ catalog, whtclt contam. more than a thousand hall tone cuts These handsome, accurate dlustraltons and the complete descnptlons mate selee. ltons easy and sallslaclton certam One dollar a piece 1S what these catalogs actually cost us, but .1 vou are a merchant yl>U can have a cntalog absolutely FREE Your name and address WIll brIng you your copy But don't put larger profits offllli tomorrow Send Today-now Cut OUI OmPOl\ and Mall T OOay PRUFROCK LITTON FIJRNITUR~ CO 418. Nbrth Fourth St.reet" Set Lows Mo Dear Sm Yl)U will pl~a$e fend Ul« III once a (QPY of )'CUr new W~ Furmture Ca1!11(.ii Firm '\lame Ow State prices for the goods, even his personal friends would rather buy from a furniture dealer who carnes stocks and pays taxes on lt. If fur111lture dealers made lt a rule to carry catalogs of other hnes whIch they sold at a nominal profit, dealers In those other lInes might feel that It was necessary to retahate In order to protect themselves, As a general thIng any merchant who has been In business very long, does not expect to do bUSIness by substttutIng a catalog for a stock of goods, It is very evident that the Pru-frock- LItton company do not care for the trade of the regular furmture dealers At least they ought not to expect any whlle they continue to urge other merchants to sell furmture by theIr catalog. Cut a Mail Order "Melon."' A ten l111llion dollar "melon" was cut last Saturday by the chrectors of Sears, Roebuck & Co., when they voted to recom-mend a stock dIVIdend of 33;Y:3 per cent. on the common stock ($30,000,000) to holders on record on Apnl 1, 1911. Ratifica-tIOn of tll1s dIVIdend by the stockholders at theIr annual meetIng on Feb 27, 1911, IS regarded as a mere forma!lty, the maJonty of the stock ,having been represented at the c!lrectors' meet111g to-day. The extra dIVIdend had been expected in Wall c;treet for some months. The company, whIch does a mal! order merchan-dIse busl11ess, has reported 111creased earnings from tIme to time 111the course of the year, even when other merchants and gen-eral busmess were findl11g "hard sleddl11g," and lt was generally known that the stockholders were to receIve the ImmedIate ben-efIt of the company's prosperity. 19 r""UNION ·FURN·ii~!!L~O"j . I China Closets Buffets Bookcases We lead in Style, ComtrudJon and Fmish. See our Catalogue. Our hne on permanent exlubl-lion 3rd Floor, New Manufact-urers' BUIlding, Grand Rapids. I• ~-------------------_._---------- .... ,.-- ----------------------------------~ RliETO CHICAGO MIRROR tART6t 217 N. Clinton Street. v,C_hica go, Ills., U.S,A. v II III..I. ,. 1 II II __ a.a. _. _ No 83, HERE IS A CHAIR THAT'S A SELLER WRITE FOR THE PRICE GEO. SPRATT & CO. SHEBOYGAN, WIS, -... ---_._----- , I.. 20 l SKILLED MECHANICS ARE NEEDED WEEKLY ARTISAN Methods for ProducingJThem Discussed by Em-ployers and Educators. noston, :0.Iass, N ov 18 -The fourth annudl convention of the NatIOnal Soc1et) for the PromotIOn of Industnal EducatIOn opened here yesterday mornmg, wIth Dr DavId ~nedden state commis<;lOner of educatIOn, pres1dmg After bnef opel11ng re-marks by Prof. C. R RIchard:" dIrector of Cooper L mon dnd presIdent of the sOClety, the convention proceeded to the dbCUS-slOn of "Demands ane! Opportumt1es for Guls In Trae!e, ancI Stores," dble addres~e, on the cubJert be1l1g gr"en b, Dr ::-'U'd1~.#.__ ~ .. 1\1 Kmgsbmy of the \\ omen s EducatIOl'al and Indlhtndl L n on of Boston, J\1rs L \V Pnnce, chrecto1 of th~ L mon ~C'1( 01 of Sdlesmamh1p Boston, :\llSS Ed1th:\1 Em\ es pI eS1dent of the GIrls TracIe IrducatlOnal League of Bo,ton, and other' The afte1noon 'e'"IOn \\ as de, oted tJ the d1'CU"1( n of "Tramlllg of Teache1s for G rls T1ade Sc'1001s ane! la,t e, emng the delegates v" ere tendered a receptIOn and banquet b, the Do,- ton Chamber of Commerce, amon~ thJse pre"ent be ng pro11l1l1ent educators, manufacturer" and rep1 esentatlve:o of orgamzec1 labor flOm all sectIOns of the count1 \ Ila) or Jlt7gerdld deln ereel the address of welcome and Ex-Go, ern01 CurtI' Gmld acted as toa:ot master. The proceedmgs of the m01111ng se,,:olOn toda, \\ e1e ot m-terest to manufacturers becll1se the reports sho\\ ed that eftorh, earnest and qmte effective, are be1l1g made by great C01pOlatlom to 1eplel11sh the supply of skIlled mechamc, The general tOpIC unde1 dIscussIOn was "~PP1 entlcesh1p and COIpor dtIOn School, Tracy Lyon of the \\ est1l1~hotl-e E1ectnc and IlanuLlctunng company, P1ttsbmg, r \\' Thomas, supe1 VISor ot apprentices ot the Atchmson, Topeka &. Santa Ie ra1lwa) S) stem, Samuel r Hubbard, supenntendent of the '\ orth End L 1110n Doston, and George G Cotton of the ~olva) Ploce,s compan" S, 1dCu,e ch,- cussed the app1 entIce"lllp schools of theIr re'peLtn e compal11e:, and G. 1\1. Dasford, a %lstant to the pI e:01dent ot the \me11can LocomotIve compan), New Y 01k, closed the "e"lOn \\ lth a sum-mation and anal) SlS of the papers read 1\1r. L)on 111 descllbl11g the means taken b, the \\ e,t1l1g-house Electnc and J\Lll1ufactunng cumlJdn) to educate It'> dp-prentices spoke a" an executn e officel of a large manutactunng concern, and saId that hIS company had a vel y keen dppreClatIOn of the importance of lIldust11al education The company gIves '" . Lentz's Big Six No. 694, 48 in. top. No. 687, 60 in. top. Others 54 in. top. 8 Foot Duosty/es ANY FINISH CHICAGO DELIVERIES Lentz Table Co. NASHVILLE, MICHIGAlv .I. , .------~-__. ._--_._._._----~-----~-._--------..-..I.. THE WORLD'S BEST SAW BENCH BUilt with doublt' arbors, shdlDg table and equipped complete with taper pin guages carelully graduated. Th:s machme represents the heIght In saw bench con-structIOn. It is desIgned and bUilt to reduce the cost of saWIngstock. Write us for descriptive Information. THE TANNEWITZ WORKS, ~rt:.gf;PJDS. ItS apprentices a certam amount of class room 111struction during \\ 01kmg hour" and abo supports m part the Casmo Techl11cal :\lght School, besIdes prov1d1l1g 111structors who supervIse the ,hop work at the app1 entIces WIth the end in view of 1l1forming them 111 regard to all parts of the processes of the shop. The apprentices are 111 the classrooms four hours per week during the entIre year and are there taught mechanical draw1l1g and arith-metIc 111 the shape of ~hop problems The aIm of the mstructlOn b to make all round mechamcs of the maJ onty of the boys. In ca se, however, a boy IS capable of attainmg skIll in the operation of but one tool he IS helped to 11lgher efficiency in that single .. .- .. -- . WEEKLY ARTISAN 21 .by carryingthe ONE-PIECE PORCELilIN1JNED ~ONrIRD CLERNRBLE WRITE FOR CATALOGUE. GRAND RAPIDS REFRIGERATOR Cg GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. line. The definite aim of all instruction is to correlate manual dextenty wIth a knowledge of the draw111g and anthmetic that IS essentIal. A further ann IS to Imlme the splnt of servIce and wIllingness, of order, and the applIcation of system and common sense to dally problems. Mr. Thomas took an exceptIOnally broad minded and com-prehensIve view of the apprentIceshIp problem, speakmg wIth true socIal 111S1ghtand sympathy. He saId that the apprentice-slup sy::,tem of the Santa Fe raIlway system had ItS bIrth when the road was 111crying need of skIlled mechal1lcs and was ongi-nated for the defil1lte purpose of providmg mechal1lcs, as they could not be hIred The same need IS felt at present. The company can hIre all the mechamcal engmeers, dra ftsmen and college men that are wanted, but the greatest lack not only of the Santa re raIlway system but of raIlroads and manufacturing plants all over the country IS for first class skIlled mechamcs The apprentIce instructIOn mc1udes two branches, the theoretIcal and the practIcal. In each shop of the company, a bmldmg IS set aSIde, known as the apprentIces' school room m whIch the boy is reqtJJred to spend two hours a day, two days In the week. Here he IS taught freehand and mechamcal drawll1g, practIcal shop anthmetIc, the SImpler elements of mechamcs, and certain facts of geography and hIstory relatmg entIrely to the road The school rooms are furnIshed wIth all the pal aphernalIa common to an academy lecture room, and a techmcally and practically edu-cated man IS m charge. InstructIOn IS mdlvldual and each boy progl esses Just as fast as hIS abIlIty and capacIty WIll permIt. No text books are used but standard lesson sheets, wntten and pnnted m the office of the supervhor of apprentIces, are sent to each of the vanous schools These lessons are prepared wIth the Idea of teachmg and dnllmg the boy along a certam Ime, givll1g hIm what he actually needs m the trade that he IS learning and leavmg out all foreIgn subjects. On the practIcal side the apprentIces are reqUIred to work in the shop lIke any Journeyman, but they have the advantage of first class skIlled mechanics to Instruct and gUIde them. Appren-tices are impressed wIth the desirabIlIty of cleaning up before leavmg theIr work at the shop They are also encouraged m athletics. The Santa Fe system spends from $35,000 to $40,000 a year in traming boys for its future needs; but even in face of such an expendIture it has been found that the boys who have passed through the schools are accomplIshing enough more work to more than pay for the cost of imtructmg them. Mr. Thomas 'insisted that apprentices must be paid a lIving wage, sufficient for them to have nutritious food and to wear comfortable and sightly clothing if the best that is in the boy is to be brought out. 1\1r. Cotton, representing the Solvay Process company's school for mechanics, pointed out that as the company is en- GET THECRTIlLOGUE 1/you %ncy Bfrncy garllitizre~ f!IOu willezyoy;Yelling!he Line 0/ GRAND RRPIDS FAN CY FURNITURE C~ GRRND RRPlDS,MICH. gaged in the manufacture of chemicals, special training for that partIcular kind of work IS necessary. The plan adopted by thIS company IS known as the "half time plan," accordll1g to whIch the boys work one week m the shop and one week ll1 the school. Mr. Basford, assistant to the presIdent of Jihe American LocomotIve company, in summing up msisted that apprenticeship offers the only method for thoroughly preparing reCl uits for me-chanical work in what are known as the trades He said that GRAND RAPIDS PRESS SATURDAY OCTOBER 29 1910) fEXP~1J.§~_~ALE) Sold to Make Room Ths great sto e s expand ng and pd sng th ough ana he ~:~ ~n • ~';~d:' ·p~n·:n :n~nmd o~ ":"::"ho dw: ~ °h~do. ·t~;w ~.d~~ c~ b. h.os. To keep p OW h h b 'nd .do. c ka ", wo n'ogo • 0 h Expaftsiou Sale .... M d. 0 31 E. y • " nOO o.,obo oldaa ho TI. nof h fih/loo h.ngon oofon .nd,h. mpo an n. 0 h • " p. n C a "n".n. d.n 0 qf do .lopm.n fa "p." nll:an • b" nO$(;n h y Help us move the good$.,.cmalr:oroom 0 h. a 0 0 bygo nJ: 0 n•• o h•• "nom ndallon.g.' Another Grand Rap,ds Sample. modern conchtlons made necessary a nevv kmd of apprentIceship provldl11g for defimte, systematIc ll1structlOn for competent m-structors who make thIS their first duty, mstead of the apprentIce-shIp of the old type, where1l1 boys learn only what the men wIth whom they were work1l1g were wllll11g that they should learn. The boys should also be taught the fundamental scientific and mathematical principles that underll11e the processes which they are called on to perform. It takes a wIse supellntendent to lucle hIS own short-cotnmgs. .. _...... .. .~ IMPROVED, EASY AND ELEVATO RS QUICK RAISINO Belt. Electnc and Hand Power. THE BEST HAND POWER FOR FURNITURE STORES Send for Catalogue and Pnce •• KIMBAll BROS. CO., 1067 Nmlh St.. Council Bluffs, la. Kimball Elevator Co., 717Commerce Bldg.,Kallsag rIll', Mo. J. Peyton Hunter, TermInal Bldga, Dallas, Texas, Western EngIneerIng SpeCIaltIes Co, Denver, Colo. "'. . .. ....I 22 "TH'E BEST IS THE CHEAPEST" ~ _- . • •••••• _ ••• e __ • ~ WEEKLY ARTISAN BARTON'S GARNET PAPER Sharp, Very Sharp, Sharper Than Any Other. SUPERIOR TO SAND PAPER. It costs more, BUT It Lasts Longer; Does Faster Work. Order a small lot; make tests; you will then know what you are getting. WE GUARANTEE SATISFACTION. Furniture and Chair Factories, Sash and Door MIlls, Ra~road Companies, Car Builders and others will consult their own interests by using it. Also Barton'. Emery Cloth, Emery Paper, and Flint Paper, furnished in rolls or reams. MANUFACTURED BY H. H. BARTON & SON CO., 109 South Third 51., Philadelphia, Pa. ......j Buildings That Will Need Furniture. Residences-Brooklyn, K Y - \Iax Dehnsk), 117 Kent a\ e-nue, $7,000, H Glassman, 73 :!\IcDonough shect $9,000, P J Carley, 417 Slxty-sccond street, $G000 J Rlh 1 errace a\ enue and Culver road, Holhs, $10,000, S \\ Itt (JO South ;,Iaclbon avenue, Flushmg, $5,100, H R Leno,-, 3G" Jetter~on avcnue, $9,500; B. Baum, 47 Rockawa) road, JamaIca, $3000. P Stelr 139 Foxhall street, $3,000, H. -\neler,on -\shburton a\ cnue and Chambers street, Bay SIde, $G 300, Cord lIe) el, ~1l11hubt, S.,- SOO. Cincinnati, 0 -John Oker, J ul1lata a\ enue and ~tath(m street, $5,000; Duelley C Outcalt, StlllglS aiCnue and DIxon street, $4,000; Ella B Sayel s, Hershel and Red Bank avenue, $4,000; R S Fox, Symmes and \\'Ilhamson ~treets, S3,000, H C. YeIser, 1005 Burton aiCnue, $+ 000, ;,Iro ;,Ieta ;,Ie)cr, 3210 Red Bank avenue, $3,500 Cleveland, 0 -H G Dettelbach, 1430 -\nsel a\ enue, S-1,OOO H. G. Slalmyer, Lane avenue and \V est 110th street, 8S,000, S S. Burr, 3855 \Vest SIxteenth street, $3,000. L H \ an Dame, 38G7 W. SIxteenth street, $2,500, W T ;,Iallo 3859 \\ e,t SI'- teenth street, $3,000; F. '\ Emmerton, IG19 Ea,t 113th otrect $12,000; F. E. Drury, SG1;)Euchd avenue, $30000, -\ E Hope 2121 Abington road, $3,000. Detroit, MICh -Frank Hadden, Harl1llton street, anel Kel-cheval avenue, $3,500; J olm lIIott, Vmeii ood and Scovel sit eeb, $S,OOO;W. W. Robmson, Taylor and Second streets, $3,000, T M. Worden, Blame and ThIrd streets, $G,500, \tV. J. f\ann, 12G Hubbard street, $7,500; "\ lCtor Denemeth, 2S0 Bali\ m street, 83,- 100; John Owen, 422 Semmole street, $3,000, N F Carpenter, 1053 Warren street, west, $2,800, S J Blomfield, 39± Klrb) street, $7,000; vVllliam F Mmster, Seward and GI eenfield ,tl ect', $3,500 ; Jacob J. Lutz, J\1Jlwaukee avenue and John R ,tl eet, S1,- 000; Clara B. Kmg, 33 Palmer avenue, $8,300, rred Kuster, FaIrVIew street, and Kercheval avenue, $9,000 Dallas, Texas -R. S. Green, J acmto and MatIlda streets, $3,500; J. H Cravens, 319 Colomal avenue, $3,000, C I Jackson, Allen and Flora stI eets, $5,000; Nell G Grub, 40G ColumbIa a,- enue, $2,700; J. R Eldredge, 301 Fay street, $3,000 Duluth, Mlinn -A K Love, 186 Twenty-sixth avenue west, $4,500; W. F. Kmg, S18 Jefferson street, $3,300; C S MIller, VIsta street and Fay avenue, $6,000; H ~ Moore, 9S+ East FIfth street, $4,000 Denver, Col.-Peter A Burns, Twenty-sIxth stleet and BIrch street, $5,000; F A. Thompson, Race street and SIxth avenue, $4,000, H. \iV. WIesner, OhIO and South Lmcoln streets, $3,000, W. S. Brenner, ThIrty-eighth and Kmg stI eets, $2,500; A R McKelvie, Ogden and Fourth streets, $3,000. Indlanapohs, Ind.-James]. Curley, 1716 Kenwood avenue, $2,500, James GIlchnst, FortIeth street and Wash1l1gton boule-varel, $9,000, E 11 Jones, Chfton and Udell streets, $3,000; '\nna \Vatts, Tii cnty-fourth street and CapItol avenue, $1,000, \\ T Turnel T\Vent} -SIxth and Pennsy lvania strcets, $3,500. Los -\ngeles Cal--Dana Burks, 152 Garfield place, Holly-iiOOel, S3 300, ;,Ib Della Patteln, 745 South Figueroa stIcet, $+,126, H E Rhodenhouse, 213 North Hartford street, $3,950; H e Bl11kle), 923 \\ est Twelfth street, $2,500; Bessie Brad- A Bed Room Suite Period William and Mary KLING MAN'S SAMPL~ fURNITUR[ co. Ionia, Fountain and Division Streets .~-~~---====-_. A Good Grand RapIds AdvertIsement bury, \321 Grammercy place, $5,000; Emil Overweg, 207 North Coronado street, $2,DOO. Toledo. 0 -Graf Acklm, 630 Central avenue, $3,500; C. L. Pame, 2304 Cherry street, $2,500 Houston, Texa~-\V S Wall, 576 Main street, $6,500: H. B Helman, 290 Colorado stIeet, $2,500; M. D. George, 618 Mc- Kl11ney avenue, $2,500 POItland, Ore -Carl Walters, Virginia and Ml1ls streets, 82300, G W. Cox, 1754 Seventy-mnth street, $3,000; E. J. ;,Iautz, East FIfteenth street and Knott avenue, $6,500; H. E. ChIpman, 1232 East Twenty-second street, $4,000; H. W. Heizen-retter, East Twenty-mnth street and Emerson avenue, $3,000. ~ewark, N. J -David Grotta, 148 Hunterdon street, $7,000; R. A. Heller, 527 Parker street, $5,000; Isaac Steinitz, Irving WEEKLY ARTISAN street and Lincoln avenue, $10,000; IEdmund Weyer, 371 Bloom-field avenue, $4,500; Rev. Thomas Walsh, Peshine and Custer avenues, $5,000; A Prelson Carter, 173 North Flfth street, $5,- 000. Oklahoma City, Okla -E. C. Ross, 1127 West Fourteenth street, $3,000; Lloyd Smith, H16 West Seventeenth street, $2,- 500; D. A Hunsicker, 912 West Twenty-fifth street, $2,500. Topeka, Kan.-Mrs J S Bell, 835 Fillmore street, $4,000; vVIlham A. Fleger, 1231 Fillmore street, $3,000; R. L. Gamble, 1415 Fillmore street, $3,500; W. C. Stern, 357 Lane street, $2,- 600; A. C. Patch, 602 Fl1lmore street, $2,500. Savannah, Ga -Capt. C. A. Taylor, 620 Union street, $12,- 000. Toronto, Ont -Mrs. J. D. Wright, Highland avenue and Glen road, $9,500; E C. SWitzer, Garden street, Sunnyside, $9,- 000; Wl1ham Dunseath, Bloor and Shaw streets, $8,000; A D. Morrow, 480 Balmoral avenue, $6,000; Frank Taylor, 184 Hep-bourne street, $5,000. Utica, N Y -Julius Spoen, 235 Ml1ler street, $3,400, David MulVIhill, 237 Miller street, $3,500. LOUlsvl1le, Ky -George Schwarz, 943 East Market street, $5,000; John A. Schad, 847 South Thirty-second street, $2,500, W. E Hutchmgs, 1083 Cherokee road, $2,500; MIss Belle Ben-nett, 1913 Dunker street, $3,000. Supenor, WIS - J. J. Murphy, 1901 John avenue, $5,000; James Borte, 793 West Fourth street, $2,500. Washmgton, D C -VV. A. Bevard, 11158 P street, N. W., $7,- 500; H R. Howenstein, 431 Eleventh street, N. E., $7,500. Omaha, N ebr -1. T. Peterson, 2912 Lake street, $3,000; S L Lallrd, 3204 North Forty-fifth street, $2,500; H. 1. Wilber, 6003 Florence boulevard, $3,000; George Sprague, 43i).f Frankhn street, $3,000. Chicago, Ill-A C Meyering, 11457 Sheridan road, $8,000 ; D. Shumacher, 3641 South Robey street, $4,000; Thomas McCall, 1370 East Fifty-fourth street, $9,000; John Garson, 6108 Lmcoln street, $2,500; Charles Canfield, 221 Comella street, $7,000. M1l1neapohs, Mmn -F. E Hardenberg, 1025 Logan avenue, north, $6 500; Ehas Gaalaas, 3429 Park avenue, $4,000; J. H Damson, 2520 Harnet avenue, $4,000; Axel K. Lund, 3144 Twentieth avenue, south, $3,000; B W. Smith, 1001 Queen ave-nue, north, $4,500; Mrs. E J. Stillwell, 2480 Pl1lsbury avenue, $7,500; Jacob Stone, 2637 Second avenue, south, $3,500; A. H Schaper, 2810 \Emerson avenue, $3,600. Atlanta, Ga -Roland Ransom, 85 Juniper street, $5,500; Austell Thornton, Decatur and Pryor streets, $10,000; L. H. Hl1l, 229 Pteers street, $6,000. San Diego, Cal-Frank Eychner, Franklin and Twenty-eighth streets, $3,000; Mary Cassitt, Eighth and Robmson streets, $7,400. MiscellaneOtts Bu~ld~ngs-Tihe board of education of To-ronto, Ont, has m course of construction four school buildings that Will cost m the aggregate $350,000. Joel Hurt is buildmg a theatre on Exchange place, Atlanta, Ga., at an estimated cost of $100,000. Muskegon, l\1~ch., IS to have a new $50,000 the-atre, to be erected next summer. The Evangelical Lutheran sOCIety of Toledo, 0., are bmld1l1g a $30,000 church on Nevada and SIX!th streets. The Umted Order of Druids are buildi<1g a temple on Dante and Dubll11 streets, New Orleans, La, to cost $60,000 Tlhe First Umtarian society of Duluth, Minn., are bmld1l1g a church on First and Eighteeth streets. The regents of Victoria U11lVerslty, Toronto, Ont, are buildmg a d1l1ing hall and sJtudents' reSidence at a cost of $350,000. A permit has been Issued for the erection of the Peery Hotel on West Temple and Third South streets, Salt Lake City, Utah, at a cost of $120,000. OUR 23 STAINS WORK They don't raIse the grain. They re-produce exactly the finishdesired. They are the products of practical men. Modern facilities and expert knowl-edge go hand In hand here. Above all our stains practical. are MARlETT A PAINT II& !i~tr~~Hl~O'1I Put this state-ment to the test by putting our stains to the test. You 'IIfind they ALL work ALWAYS. Write for sample panel to desk No.3. 24 A. PETERSEN &CO., CHiCAGO ."I WEEKLY ARTISAN i . MANUFACTURERS OF THE BEST MADE and LEADING LINE of OFFICE DESKS IN THE COUNTRY. Our attention to every detail from carefully selected and matched lumber to the finished product has given the Petersen Desk its Leadership. I SEND FOR CATALOGUE. FULL LINE. RIGHT PRICES. ~o __ • 0 I o "" Rare Old Furniture at Auction. Thomas B Cldrk, the at t collector at ~ e\\ \ ork, a \\ oke nne day a few yeal s ago to the fact that he had a mOl e ex.ienslve and I emarkable co11ectlOn of IE.hghsh furl11ture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centunes than he had I eahzed \\ as accumulat1l1£i while he was collect1l1g It Some of hiS fal11ll) and tnendo \\ ere fully as much surpllsed Loms C Tlftan) and Luke \ 1I1Le11t Lockwood became 1l1terested 111 stud) 1l1g the pieces 11l the col-lectIOn and 1\1'r. Clarke agreed to Ib exhlbltlOn The upshot ot 1t all was the eventual sale of the collectlOn b) ~Ir Clarke to the T1ffany StudlOS, where the furl11ture has been ~111ce190: In the years 1l1tervemng a few of the ob]ect~ have been ,old to the Metropohtan l\Iuseum at -\rt and collector~ \\ ho de~lred to ennch the1r coIlectlOn~, but the Clarke collectlOn rema1l1s otherw1se intact and is so nch that It IS dlfhcuIt to reah7e thdt It ever had other pieces. It IS now to be thrown upon the market for pubhc compe-tItion, the T1ffany StUdlOS requlnng the space gn en to 1t for other departments, and It IS announced that It \\ III be sold at auctIOn by the Amencan Art AssoclatlOn next month 1hel e are so many pieces that the sale Will occupy thl ee atternoon', December 1, 2 and 3. The collectlOn \\ III be exhibIted at the Amencan gallenes from Fnday, \"0\ embel ?3, to the date ot sale. The Tiffany StnclIos, 111 a lettel signed by \ Ice President r B Conover, say. "The Tiffany Stuchos Will therefore guarantee every pleec offered at the unrestncted pubhc sale as be1l1g authentiC and of the penod stated and that 1t has not been restored, although 111 a few cases some slIght [(:,palrs have been made "We are also 1I1fluenred 111 proposmg the dbposltlOn of thb notable coIIectlOn by the fact that It \\ III be the largest and mo~t Important sale ever held 111 thiS countn or 111England ' Produce Show in a Big Store. The Hannah & Lay \Iercantlle company, successor" to the firm of Hannah, L'ty & Co, ot '1 raver"e Clt) , \IILh, plO11eel merchant::, and lumbermen and for many ) ears the large'it mer-cantIle concern 111 the Grand Traverse reglOn, ale runmng an ad-vertIsmg scheme that "Ill undoubtedly prove profitable, not only to them but to the entIre reglOn 111 wh Lh they are located 1he Western ;\llchlgan Development Bureau and the Travel se C1t) Board of Trade have been advertl "1I1g the 1esoUl ceo, and ad, an-tages of the Grand Tra\ er"e reglOn con"lderabl) of late and the plan of the Hannah & Lay company l'i to dS"ISt the boosters b\ prov111g that the claims made 111 the aclvertIs1l1g hay e a substan-tIal baSIS. With that end m view they Will have what the) call a "Produce Show" from December 12 to 17 1I1cIuslve, and have 111\ Ited all the farmers, fI Ult glowers, gal deners, etc, in the (,I and 1'1 avel 'ie I eglOn to bnng 111 the best of the1r products for e'Ch1b1t10n The Hannah & Lay bmldmg, which is known as the "B1g Store, ' \\111be used for ex.hlb1tIon purposes and the show ,,111 be ~ometh1l1g lIke a country fa1r The "B1g Store" ,,111 pay sub- ~tantIal cash premIUms on co11ectlOns and l11dlvldual exhibits of grams seeds, vegetables, fI mts, canned goods, JellIes, preserves, bread, pies, cake" plLkles jams, marmalades, tobacco, nuts, daIry products etc, and there Will be ]uve11lle departments w1th speCl-al pi emlUms for products made by boys and glrls. The ~hO\, \\ 111lead thousands of people to the "BIg Store," and tho"e \\ ho know anythmg about the productIveness of the Grand 11aver"e reglOn WIll endorse the pred1ctlOn that the ex-hibits Wlll be of a high class It vv111undoubtedly be a strong ,tch el tl ~111gcard .0 ., Henry ScItmit 8,( Co· HOPKINS AND HARRIET STS. Cincinnati, Ohio makers of UpItolstered Furniture for LODGE and PULPIT, PARLOR, LIBRARY, HOTEL and CLUB ROOM .. o ... ".----4----0'--- ------------,., I, III I,I II ,I I (PATENT APPLIED FOR) I We ha\e adopted cellulOId as a base for our Caster Cups makIng the , hest cup on the market CellulOId IS a great Improvement over bases made of other matenal When It 1.Snecessary to move a plcce supported " by cups With cellulOid bases It can be doue With ease, as the bases are per- , fectly smooth CellulOId does not sweat and by the use of these cups tables are never marred These cups are ihushed In GOlden Oak and " White Maple fintshed Itght If you wtll try a sample order of thele I good. you Will de.. re to handle them onquanttt,u , PRICES: Size 2U Inches $5.50 per hundred. I Size 2)( Inches 4.50 per hundred. ~I, __fob•••• G_r.a0nd R•ap_td. • TRY A SAMPLE ORJ)ER STAR CASTER CUP COMPANY NORTH UNION STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. . ... WEEKLY ARTISAN A bUllclmg permIt taken out by the Wagemaker company "how~ that at least $10,000 is to be expended 111 the constructIOn of the addItlOn to theIr factory mentIOned by the Weekly Artisan recently. * * * * Charles 0. Sk111ner has a~ked the buddmg 1l1spector to al-low the foundatIOn on the Lyon street side of the propo~ed new fUrtuture exhIbItIOn building to project over the SIdewalk lme 20 mches The bmlc1mg IS to be called the Furmture Temple. It IS stated that arrangements for financ1l1g the pro) ect have been satlsfactonly arranged and that the company orgamzed by Mr Skinner WIll be mcorporated ~oon. * * * * The Diamond Steel Truck company have put a new ~tyle of furmture casters on the market They are colored to harmon- Ize with the wood of the furmture on which they are used or WIth the tnmmmgs. * * * * The condItion of Maurice Shanahan, formerly of the Bissell Bissell Carpet Sweeper company, who has been 111 poor health for a year or more, has grown worse recently and is now such as to gIve hIs fnends httle hope for his final recovery. * * * * The Grand Rapids Furmture company, formerly the New England, wIll have several new patterns In their well known line for exhIbitIOn in the wmter sales season. * * * * Chas F. Retting, accompanied by Mrs Rettmg and daugh-ter, LOUlse, left on November 11 for Pasadena, Cal, where they WIll spend the winter. Mr. Rett1l1g cannot reSIst his natural desire to take an order whenever and wherever It looks easy and the result IS that he has sent in three special orders for hotel, lodge and club furniture. * * * * A. S. Goodman, formerly secretary of the Luce Furl11ture company, was in the cIty dunng the week It is reported that he sold his Grand RapIds home to Harry WIddlcomb, manager of the John Widdicomb company. * * * * The Retting Furniture company have recently mailed theIr catalog for 1911, conSIsting of about 150 pages, averaging about four cuts to the page, 'So that the company's entire l1l1e IS shown The book IS artistically deSIgned and executed and cannot faIl to prove a great help to every furmture dealer who IS fortunate enough to recelVe it. As the catalogs cost between two and three dollars apIece the chstnbutlOn is limited. The company began mallmg the catalogs out t",o or three weeks ago and are ------------- ---_._----------_ ....- . GRAND.RAPIDS "OTELS MORTON "OUSE (AMERICAN PLAN) "OTEL PANTLIND (EUROPEAN PLAN) 25 Rates: $1.00 a day and up. , ----~ ..... - •• - • _. • _... • •••• T. •• • -----------. --,------------.-----------1------.., Wood Bar Clamp Fixture •• Per Set SOc. Patent Malleable Clamp Fixture •. E H SHELDON & CO , Chicago, Ill. Gentlemen -We are pleased to state that the 25 dozen Clamp FIxtures which we boull:ht of you a htUe over a year ago are glvmg excellent serVIce We are well satlstied With them and shall be pleased to remember you whenever we want anythmg addltlonalm thiS hne. Yours truly, SIOUXCIty. Iowa. CURTIS SASH & DOOR CO. Rates: $2.50 a day and up. The Noon Dinner served at the Pantlind for 50 cents is the finest in the world. J. BOYD PANTLIND, Proprietor. ,,_._ . .~.....---------------_._-_._--~---- receiving orders almo~t dally chrect from them Commentmg on the subject, C B. Rettmg Said' "There are a lot o;1small fur-niture dealers in the country who cannot carry very any pieces from our l111ein stock. However, many of these ealers use our catalog We were surpnsed the other day to receive an order from a dealer in a small town 111 WbCOnS1l1 alling for one of the most expensive chaIrs we make. Aside fr m the ad-vantages to the small dealer, our catalog is a great elp to the larger dealers, as It enables them to keep track of th stock bet-ter and very often enables them to substItute." * * * * J. 'IV Oltver, president, states that the plant of the Oliver Machme Works IS fully employed on orders for w odworking machinery. A large line of hIgh grade machmes 1 manufac-tured. * * * * During hIS recent trip abroad Ralph Tietsort, 0 the Royal Furmture company, took a large number of views 'n England, Germany, France and other countries traveled by automobile, with a camera, and of the number of plates develope over seven hundred were perfect. Pnnts of many beautiful cenes have been made, whIch testify to the skIll of the artist. * * * * The Grand Rapids Fancy Furmture company re arts an ac-tive demand for ladles' desks, mm1C cabmets, wr ting tables, bookcases and other goods of theIr manufacture, SUI able for the holiday trade. * * * • Traveltng salesmen, representmg local houses, are makmg short flymg trips to special customers and closing p the bUSI-ness of the year * * * * The Grand Rapids manufacturers of upholster d furniture have, as yet, taken no action toward the organizatlo of a branch of the National f\ssociatlOn of Upholsterers, that was recently launched by the Karpens and others of ChIcago, b It It is prob-able that a meetmg WIll be held soon to consider he matter, 30 000 Sheldoll Steel Rack , Vise. Sold on approval and an un con· dltlOnal money back guarantee SHELDON'S STEEL BA CLAMPS. Guaranteed Illde.tr cUble. We soliCit pnvllege of sendl samples and our complete catalogue E.H.SHELDO 328 N. May St .• & CO. hicago. 26 WEE K L Y ART I SAN YOU CAN MAIL YOUR CATALOG DECEMBER 15th If you place the order with us by November 22nd W"ITE PRINTING COMPANY GRAND RAPIDS, MICU. I PRINTERS FOR THE FURNITURE TRADE. I WEEKLY ARTISAN Think They Have the Ruby Ru~. A bundle of four rugs consigned to Duveen Brothers, \\ ho are charged v'lth defraud111g the government by under-valuatIOn of Imports, was openedm the Nev, York appI alsers' office last Saturday The four rugs had been InvOIced at $1,000-$250 each. \Vhen the burIap "rappmgs had been 1emoved and the rugs were rolled out on the floor a cry of dehght came fr am the expel t 1'\a rugs of su.:h beauty and delrcacy of texture as the second one exposed had come mto the stores so far as he knew, and he had been years 111the gOvernment serVIce awl had appraIsed thousands upon thousands of rugs The near-est example he could recall to mmd was" hat is known as the "Yerkes rug," wInch that mIllIonaIre 1all way man bought for $25,000, and the expert felt that even the Yerkes treasure could not compare wIth the SIlken mass before him AfraId that hIS judgment mIght have erred the expert deCIded that he needed outsIde counsel and adVIce He called 111one of the lalgest rug dealers m the CIty, a Turk, who be-gan a" a boy to work at a crude hand 100m, and vvho knows every celebrated rug 111the" arId, the hlStOIv of ItS manufac-ture, the tImes It has been sold, the pI Ices paId and Its present locatIOn. ThIS Turk actually dlopped on hIS knees almost as If in worshIp, whIle he rattled out a torrent of verbal admiration. \Vhen asked how much It "as worth he thre" up hIS hands as If to say he dared not estImate F111ally he saId reluctantly that lt was worth much more than $100000 StIll the appI alser "as not satisfied So an Amencan expel t was called 11l He "as qUlck to confirm the TUlk's Judgment Among art dealerio It \\ as generally beheved that the rug IS the famous ruby rug of the fifteenth century For years 21 IDEAL STAMPING AND TOO SOCKETS, DO ELS, TOP fASTf ERS and GUID S for Extension 1abies. Also special sta pings In steel and bass, Write for samples and p ices co. NO-KUM.OUT TABLE SOCKET Patent applied for 465 N. Ottawa St . Grand Rapids, Mich. ~, ---------------.-------------------- I I I I, I IIIII• t I II I I~ LOUIS HA -----.. I N! •I I II , I I II ,III ,-----~,I 154 LIVIngston St. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGA CItIzens' Telephone 1702. DESIGNS and Details of Furni I~-- ...~-----------._----------------- this was the prIde of the Duke of Rutland's collec lOn, which also contamed the famous PolonaIse rug, bought se eral years ago by BenjamIn Altman for $40,000 It has been known 111England and Kew Yo k that the Duveens have been tryIng to get the 1uby rug The rug meaioures about 12X1S feet Its general tone IS a deep ruby red Other colors are" oven 111a subdued way in 0 a deSIgn that IS intricate yet harmonious. TURPS-NO. The Only Perfect substitute for Turpentine. Contains No Gasoline, No Benzine, No Headlight il. For use in reducing Varnish. For Use in CUTTING DOWN EXPENSES. TRY IT. The results speak for themselves. Barrel sent on appro al. THE LAWRENCE·McFADDEN C PHILADELPHIA, PA. I 1898 It reqUlres no matenal changes in the methoJs now used by practically all of the Grand Rap1ds manufacturers of case goods The aSSOCJatlOn was unable to reach an agreement on the mlll1mUl1l weight for car loads and that matter was finally re-fe! recl back to the C0111Jmttee for further consideratlOn The chfficulty 111 settling thIs matter arises over the dIfference in the we1ght of the products of dIfferent factones. Those who make heavy furmture favor a h1gh minlmum because, as a rule, the' rate l11ueases as the ml11imum decreases, while those who make lIght weIght pIeces want a low minimum. The cost schedule as recommended by the committee hav- I11g that subject 111 charge was cons1dered fair and about nght. The report was accepted WIth the recommendatlOn that 1t be adopted by all manufacturers. Copies of the report will be fllrnbhed to all members. Secretary Ll11ton, as the result of thorough investigation and I11quiry, reported that the total capacity of case goods fac-tones sl11ce 1906 has been I11creased $2,140,000 in the value of output The present total capacIty 1S $42,221.000. The est1- mated production for th1s year is $30,000,000, compared w1th $27 000,000 last year and $24,000,000 in 1308. ~t noon yesterday a banquet was served at the Jefferson hotel "hen Mr. Wl1lIams of Boston debvered an address on "Glue," 111 wh1ch he gave the manufacturers 'some valuable information on the subject. The address may be printed an~ distributed dmong the members of the association. A comm1ttee, of which R. W. Irwin of Grand Rapids is chdlpnan, was appointed to take such action as may be deemed nece~sary to protect the I11terests of the association in the mat-ter of freight rates. The members are unanimously opposed to any advance in freight rates at present. ~nother committee was named to represent the association 111 the XatlOnal Tanff CommIssion convention to be held in \\ ashl11gton, January 11 and 12, 1911. All members of the a~soclatlOn, so far as known, favor the tariff commission prop-o~ ltlOn The C0l11l11ltteeon plans for establishing an association c1ear- I11ghouse for credIts and collections was contmued with instruc-tions to report at the next meeting to be held in Chicago next ~Iay Grand Rapicls was well represented at this meeting, among those present being John Hoult, of the Luce Furniture company, George G WhItworth of the Berkey & Gay company E. H Foote and John Mowat of the Grand Rapids Chair company, E. K. Pnchett of the Macey FurnIture company, Norman McLave of the Sligh Furmture company and A. B. Hathaway of the John W1dchcomb company. 28 WEEKLY ARTISAN MANUFACTURERS IN CONVENTION Some Important .l\'[atters Considered at the St. Louis Meetiug This Week. St Louis, 1\10, K ov 17-'1he seml-annudl meetl11g ot the 1'\atlonal Assoc1atlOn of } Ur11ltllle .i\[anufacturer~ \\ d, held at the Jefferson hotel here on Tuesday and Wedne"da) 8f tIllS week. The dttendance, about '(::; member", wa" not so larl.;"e as usual;but there was no lack of mterest 111 the proceedmg" \\ hleh, though of a routme order, were of more than u,ual Importance WHEN you were a !ltde gIrl you sat down to make mud pIes wlth your tIn dIshes all around you YOll dldn t even have to get up to find the mud What a wise lIttle gIrl you were Take a lesson from your mud ple days - hAve everythmg Just as convement now as n was then You can do It WIth a HOOSIer K tchen Cablnet whjch has every thmg at yOUT finger sends Yes, yOll can sJt down, sav(' yourself tWO ml1es of walking a day, two bours of drudgery. and $5 00 to $f S 00 on the CabInet Itself. tf you buy a Hoosler Our club term, of II 00 ill week are ma.de to everyone _11 s ou answer to the question of whether you can afford It. The Hoolier Mfg Co. MaJ" OffIce • ...d Facto,., 300 Adam. Str"t NEWCASTLE,IND A Neat One From Hoosierdom There was no electlOl1 of officers at th1s meet1l1g The next election WIll be at the meet1l1g next 1\lay 111 ChIcago. The most important as well as the most chfficult problem considered at thIS meetIng \IV as that of umfonn classlficatlOn and it was not completely solved The C0l11l111tteehad several mat-ters to cons1der. The first was the descnptlOn of artlcle" 111 class1fication, on whlch thelr recommendahons were qUlte sat-isfactory and were adopted by the assoc1ahon The second, methods of packing "a~ eas11y d1sposed of, the comm1ttee recom-mendmg and the aSsoClatlOn adoptmg the method prescnbed by John Hoult of the Luce Fur11lture company, Grand RapIds, 111 y--._---~--_.---~- I .................. .4._._._._._._._._.._._. .__ . ._._._4. ._._._._._. . __ ._._. ·_ .......•....... 4 •• ......., OFFICES: CINCINNATI--S.coad National Sank Sulldlna. NEW YORK--346 Broadwa,.. SOSTON--18 Tremont St. CHICAG8--14th St. aDd Waba.h A..... GRAND RAPIDS--Hou.eman Blda. JAMESTOWN. N. Y.--Chadakoln Blda. HIGH POINT. N. C.--N. C. Sa..,lng. Bank Bldg. The most satisfactory and up-to-date Credit Service embracing the FURNITURE, CARPET, HARDWARE and ALLIED TRADES. The most accurate and reliable Reference Book Published. Originators of the "Tracer and Clearing House System," REPORTS. COLLECTIONS. EVERYWHERE. ..... ...... _ ....------------_.--_._._---.----------- ------------._------------------.-......... WEEKLY ARTISAN Economy in Advertising Space. The accompanying reproduction of advertIsements used by well known dealers are good subjects for study by those mter-ested m the wnting, arrangement and constructIOn of "ads" In the Ch1cago "ads" econom1zing m the matter of space seems to have been carned to the lim1t-not an mch is "wasted" It will be notIced that space is saved by having the cuts overlap each other and in mortIsing and utIlizing the space under the tables, between the legs of the chairs and between the feet of Wheneur Yw Ha»e to 1m," alI\ funlltlu·p-a slDjI;le ehalr a table anv mJall tfflDg l'08rlng onJl' • If>.... doJlarP., OT I\. ~QQlplt>t(" 0 \tnl f'Q!ltltlg ptl'ba'\)6 bundreds-cOlU'lldt'r IOOff' TnI' quaJitv of tal' aM.lcle lOOn the 8.JU() 111 yOU p.a 'Tl>us thl:' .av WI' Bell fur ~"'~ 'r'p slDll;J('..hair"'" ll('1I1A jU$'l afl 1mJl6tta!l1 (l'flrhat \,rnmdas tneplaOOrlll('!ilnmg room or ~ra D.L room ell1 lplXll:'lJl---l.w"ea me tbp small tfhmg of n'lftm,. COl'lt. has 10 llustaUl tlw Kling 1ll3f1 ",putatlon lIud mallltalu the 'KlIngman l'tandard of pl:cellem'l": If l\ 8U I JUIlT fight fll' tl lose nwr(> lhaD roo.w 'wr'llf'thlDg moft than tbE'adTantage& of tD~ llliliM detilre-d lIU1te or IIll1l::-]r piMP If' olfered Ul OR' pt'Hf'nl l"1"l"Y f''lf'IU81Ve dIsplay Low prlCe:: ma.ke »... ~ a&ua.cu.va. "}.I' folio mg I l'l set" fortll Ih \qdt' pl'lee 1'll.1Ill:l'tlIS salf.'offel'f> Ou F,,~n on r"blua.r"so.$UOO Sla~o S2:8)1,l '!.nO",,"Il Oa~ r fl~ s '1251) sun S2I5Clan<t "" .. a Oat <;~ d "1.$ "J...st.I/I~ nl~ b6.5o. 13150and p .....<4 Oak Chlna Cabnes 11050. 'U ..'5 11550 119.00. 112250S2500atldupa"- 0 .. ,.. "'d~ Ch" 5 bin a",~. S2.Z5 l>p,..ar<l '>lpSeal.S!.M.$3.1$SUIOS450"ndup"",r<1 w,alIopI>y D"'ftlt TUlle .. S!150. $04500 55Z-OO 10 l6O:OOa • .."wa <I 5tahogall "'de"'" a In SO an<l uJ>"",a ....labogan) '\rn Chaos 16.50 and up ....ard "J>~:h~pnl en lIa Cal> 1Ij>t 121,08. W.GlI $H SO a"" Mat.ocan~ "wic ("liar> nther slp._ 141$ aJld -'" K/mgman'. Sample F_Co. IONIA. FOUNTAIN AJIID ...... 1'1'1. 29 at the postoffice across the street, w1ll be rushed into Gimbel's and your order-if for merely a yard of nbbon -will be classi-fied and made ready to turn over to the early day force for shop-ping and forwardll1g. Twelve hours' t1me w1ll be saved on many tramactIOns-yes, a full day III the rece1pt of goods at many cbstant pOllltS. We send goods prepaid by n all to all countnes 111the lllternatJonal postal umon-where t e we1ght isn't over two pounds to the five dollars' worth of g ds. We prepay fre1ght on $5 orders to any ra1lroad statIOn ithin 500 the stoves. From these samples it appears that neither Straus & Schram nor Sanberg's beheve 111 the theory of the advert1s1ng experts that "wh1te space 1S valuable" 111 an advertIsement. On the contrary they appear to beheve that space IS valuable only when filled with well arranged cuts and "catchy" read111g matter IThe Klingman "ad," to a layman, appears to be a neat, well-warder appeal for the trade of wealthy or well-to-do people. A cnt1cI~m of these samples by some of the renowned adver-tIS111g experts would undoubtedly be qll1te lllterestlllg, though 1t would probably be qt11te d1fferent from these comments All Night Work in Department Stores. Strawbndge & Cloth1er, of Ph1ladelphla, have extended theIr free dehvery serV1ce and now have a continuous day and mght serVIce. They say: "The greater part of our mall arrives at the postoffice during the night-and we have a speCIal mght force to rece1ve, classify and prepare for sh1pment mal! and telephone orders. Th1s department 1s never closed, except from lTIldmght on Saturday to midnight on Sunday." G1mbel Brothers (Ph1ladelph1a) in their announcement of night serV1ce, say: "Our letter order servcie 1S far d1fferent from the usual mall order busll1ess, because we put your order 111the hands of a tra111ed shopper who becomes your representa-tive. It isn't unusual to recelVe 3,000 letters and postals m a sll1gle dehvery, and, as it takes quite a httle time for our force to read and classify the mail, there has been, in the past, some delay in the delivery of goods ordered. N ow the mall order service will never sleep. All night long the mails, as they arrive miles, except On a few bulky, heavy goods~and on la ge orders we w1ll arrange ra1lroad dehvery anywhere" Under the captIOn ,"Some facts about all-mght all order service," the Wanamaker store (Plllladelph1a) says' "It began on the 10th of th1~ month, but no pubhc mentlOn was made of 1t, as it was Just another of the l1llprOVements we are constantly addmg to our sel v ice. We ,Ire glad to see that 0 her stores have followed the idea, for 1t b all for the good of he pubhc. Some years ago we maugurated the all l11ght te1epho le serVIce, by means of wh1ch orders receIved dunng the l11gh are filled the folloWlllg day. In tIllS new allmght mall order serV1ce we gather the mail constantly from the postoffice dunng the mght, put the orders into work, and are thus able to dehver the goods on the first mormng dellvery." ~-.-IIlIlllThIS Beautiful Massive Snowy~ White. Guaranteed $6 95 Sanitaire Bed :...- We make 150 styles the finest and best beds In the World We eU thema t low FactoryPrlCes. You can trythem30days before you buy ~Wrlte for Factory Prices and Bed Catalog FREE. ICarion Iron & Brass Bed Co., 101 Main St.,lIIarlOn.ItId. The above is a reproduction of an advertisement running in a prol111l1ent magazine. It w1ll be mterestmg to al fur11lture dealers, mainly be<ause the advertIsers are apparent! trymg to deal d1rectly w1th consumers and do not, apparentl , care for the trade of the retallers. -- - - - -------------- 30 WEEKLY ARTISAN ~--------------------------------------_.. .-----------._-------- ------------------------------~ I I QUALITY MACHINES-ISN'T IT TOO BAD-People wonder where their profits are going when the trouble usually lies in poor equip-ment. A little foresight in the begmmng would have saved them dollars-a little more money 10- vested at the start in "OLIVER" "QUALITY" eqUipment. Some manufacturersof wood workmg tools slight theIr output by putting m poor materials-employingpoor workmen-simply to be able to make a little more profit. "Ohver" tools are bUIlt along machme toollmes-careful-accurate-durable-safe. Some purchasers fail to mvestIgatethoroughly before placmg their order. Some unscrupulous salesman tells them to purchase something-they go ahead -find out too late they are wrong-lose money, whereas a letter addressed to us would have procured our catalogs- set them thmking-saved them money. ISN'T THAT TOO BAD. "OUVER" No. 61 Surfacer. "OLIVER" No. 60 Saw Bench. OURLINE-SURFACE PLANERS HAND JOINTERS SANDERS WOOD TRIMMERS CHAIN MORTISERS LATHES SAW BENCHES SWING CUT.OFF SAWS BAND SAWING MACHINES BORING MACHINES SAFETY CYLINDERS VISES, CLAMPS, ETC., ETC. ADDRESS DEPARTMENT "D" OLIVER MACHINERY CO., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., U. S. A. BRANCH OFFICES-,,------_._----_._-------------_._--- -------_._----------------_.-._----- ..I. ht National Bank Bldg , Chieago. 1II. No. 50 Church St, New York City. 1125 Weat Temple St., Los Angeles. CaI. Pacific Bldg .• Seattle, Wash. Stores Need Ventilation. The propnetor of a store 111 a small cIty IS given to tak1l1£; lIttle thought of the phYSIcal comforts and che.,comfort:, and con chtlOns of hiS clerks. He reads and occaSIOnally ob"en es the crowded condItions 111 the great cIty department StOie, \\ hel e there IS scant ventIlatIOn for so many people and \\ here the con-stant contact With so many hundreds of clhtomel' ha' a cIepl e-, ll1g 1I1fluence on the mmd and body of the people \\ ho al c com pelled to be behll1d the counters amI on the floO!" con"tantl\ He declles the unhealthful prospects for these StOie \\ 01 kers and contrasts hIS own store and locatIOn With much pIeasure-and that IS as far as he th1l1ks of hiS own employes There is not one store 111 five hundred in small cIties or \ 11- lage<; that has any provIsIon made for ventIlatIOn beyond the opening of transom~ and doors. DUling the summer month", WIth these opel1lngs always Spl ead, the air cannot become \ en foul and there IS lIttle thought of headache, la 19110r eye-ache slow circulatIOn and sl1111lar dIfficultIes, but so sureh a, cold weather compels the closll1g of doors and the clo,mg ot tl an-soms for the greater part of the time the store people beS(1l1to get pale, fall to move about very bnskly after they hay e been in the store an hour and the frequency of headaches and IJstle-s-ness has effect on failure to hustle about and care for stock and make qUIck sales The manager becomes more or less Irntable and thmgs don't go well generally untIl there comes a 11111ddav and the doors are opened and a supply of fresh aIr IS on hand for all. The lack of ventIlatIOn 111 a bIg cIty department store Ie.,not worse 111 effect on the employes than IS the dead au of five hun-dred countly stores on the employes therel11, and the shame of It all IS that the counby stores have all out of-doors to dla", fIom for freshness It IS less a thought of economy 111 expendItures than a faI1Ule to comprehend the really vItal busll1ess worth of a \\ ell ventIlated ~tore-ventilated sel1'ilbly and On a comfortable pl<111- The Dl,) ~OOd-l11wnJ St LOUIS, Mo. Advantage of Careful Crating. ".ot 10n£?;ago there was a man 111 DetrOIt who wanted a che- \ al mlrrOI and he preferred one from Grand RapIds. He had a blend 111 Grand Rd.plds who wa~ fal111IJar WIth the furnIture made 111 thIS CIty, who lecommended the r\e1~on-Matter FurnIture company \Vell, when the cheval reached hIS home (of course, the reader knows that thIS company as well as all the rest, only sell thlOUgh the dealer) it was CIated so well that the man had quIte a Job to uncrate It He wrote to hIs fnend that there was \\ ood enough 111 that crate to last hIm two or three weeks Rut the chevdl \\as all nght Such care 111 packmg IS a credIt to thIS house and frequently saves a lot of trouble, expense and expla-natIOn -\ competent ~alesman IS any young man wantll1g

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