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- Issue of a furniture trade magazine published in Grand Rapids, Mich. It was published twice monthly, beginning in 1880. and /r (, Twenty_seventh Yea.r-No. 16 FEBRUARY 25, 1907 Semi-Monthly L, it; IT:'! .";,. ~(f :.\; High Grade Office Chairs and Rockers i ., 1907 CATALOGUE 18 now being mailed on request. "f!....uality will he rememhered long after price Ita; heen forgotten. " THE B. L. MARBLE CHAIR CO., Bedford, Ohio , MAKING GOOD "Making good" is a hobby with us---making good LEATHER FURNITURE for one thing.---the bes'. "Reliance'· Natural Grain Leather is the handsomest and moSt dependable brand of M. B. Furniture Lea'h« manufactured, but we ask no more for "Reliance" Leather work than many charge for inferior grades. If something cheaper is wanted. buy our "Oakdale" No. 1 Natural Grain stock---we are quoting this at special low figure5~ The "Oakdale" quality is fully equal to the average market best. Some manufacturers of Leather Furniture use Grain Leather for the wearing surface and "Split" or "Deep Buff" for bands; backs and trimmings. We condemn this practice . ---we use no "Split" Leather--no "Deep Buff"---nothing but Natural Grain stock. BIG CATALOG SENT TO DEALERS UPON APPUCATION. JAMESTOWN LOUNGE COMPANY JAMESTOWN, NEW YORK The Line That Caught Them All I GREATER THAN EVER I POSSELIliS' PERfECT PATTERNS DID THE BUSINESS. NEW CATALOGUF. IN PRESS. Posselius Bros. Furniture Mfg. Co., Detroit, Mich. The Safe Side is the Right Side THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE REFRIGERATOR TRADE IS FILLED BY THE BELDING-HALL MANUFACTURING co. MANUFACTURERS OF REFRIGERATORS THAT CONTAIN ALL THE GOOD POINTS -IN-REFRIGERA TORS THREE GREAT FACTORIES CAPACITY,80,000 Per Annum WRITE FOR OUR CATALOGUES INVESTIGATE OUR QUARTER SAWED CASES saUD· QUARTERED OAK The Belding - Hall Manufacturing Co. BELDING, MICHIGAN BRANCH OFFICES---213 Canal Street, NEW YORK; 196 Monroe Street, CHICAGO. 1 -----------------------_ ..._---- 2 Beautiful Bedroom Suites In our new catalogue we are showing a number of beautiful bedroom suites. With our enormous variety of styles and designs, (for example, one dresser case is provided with seven different styles of mirror, and each is made up in four different finishes, making a total of 28 different designs to choose from), it is very easy to make up bedroom suites to please any and every customer that might come into your store. Our new catalogue is now ready showing hundreds and even thousands of hand-some and new designs. We have more white and birdseye maple than any other manufacturer in the United States. No one else can give you the splendid grading of price that we offer, from the lowest to the highest. Elegant simplicity is the popular rage in furniture this year. We have always been leaders in high grade simplicity, and now we are enjoying a total business far in excess of that done by anyone of our competitors. You had better gel fm",har wilh our new linejusl as quick as possible There is money in ilforyou. Send for our NEW CATALOGUE. Northern Furniture Company SHEBOYGAN, WISCONSIN 2 7th Year-No. 16. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., FEBRUARY 25, 1907. LONDON FURNITURE MAKERS Talk With Two ons of Harris Lebus Who Are an an Amer-ican Pleasure Trip. Louis H. and Herman A. Lebus who, with their father Harris Lebus OVVll and manage the largest furniture factory in the world, located in London, Eng., are making a tour of the United States and Canada. They came over during the first 'week in February and were in Grand Rapids, lvIich. for a few days during the past week. They will visit Chicago, Mil-waukee, 51. Panl, 1'1inneapolis and vVinnipcg and then go west to the coast and return east through the southern states. This is not their first visit to America and they do not expect it to be their last. They aTe sharp, keen obser-vers, aTe not at all backward in the matter of asking ques-tions and declare that their travels in this 'country have pro-ved beneficial in a business way; hence they are not in a hurry hut propose to take the time necessary to see anything that is \vorth seeing as Herman 1\. Lebus put it. "V\'e are here for pleasure rather than for husiness;'"' said Louis H. Lebus, '·'Of course we find pleasure in looking through your factories, observing your methods and inspect-ing the products, but we do not expect to give much atten-tion to business. \Ne did not gct over in time to visit the furniture expositions, but we expect to see some of the best displays in the factories. 1,Ve hal,."e nothing like a regular sales season on our sille. It is all the year with us, though we ship more in some months than in others. V/ e have no organizations of manufacturers-no combinations as you have here-and witbout uoitc.d action an exposition would not be successful. \Ve do not need an exposition to introduce new styles-designs are not changed so often as they are here. "Business has been quite good with us for several years. The people of England are quite prosperous and business of all kinds is good an<l steady. "Yes, we have a large factory. Americans who have visited us say that it is the largest in the world. It is surely larger than any other furniture factory in Europe and if there is anything larger on this side you ought to know about it. '''vVe have about 2,500hallds and 'we make all kinds and styles of furniture from the cheapest to the most expensive and from little chairs to roll top d.esks, parlor and chamber suites. Our methods are quite different from yours in both construction and finish. 'ATe use the best machinery that 'we cari find and I think we have some machines that are hetter than anything T have seen on this side. "There has been no material change in the cost of labor or material with us in the past year and we have made no advance in our prices recently:" "vVe are going all over the country," said Herman A. Lebus. "That may mean a long trip, but if we keep up with your people here it will soon be over. Your people here move quickly-always rushing. '{OUr business men are $1.00 per Year. quick. They could not do things in their way in England but it seems to be easy here. Everyone seems to have what you call a 'cinch' on l1is business here while on our side it is a struggle for everybody." The Lebus brothers are accompanied by a friend, Edgar D. Rosewall, who is not interested in the furniture business, but as it is his flrst trip to America, is much interested in the great country and its people. Radical Regulation of Corporations. The· legislature of North Carolina has under consider-tion a most drastic measure for the control of corporations. It forbids corporations to pay more than six per cent. div-idends, giving the state the right to sue for and turn· into the treasury all earnings over this percentage, and of all the sur-p'lus retained by corporations. A corporation commission is to fix the salaries of the officers of public serdce corpor-ations, and no dividends or interest is permitted to be paid except from net earnings. The two-cent passenger rate rule is not tb be confined to states cast of the Mississippi river. A bill fixing the two-cent rate on all main lines in 1.fissouri has passed both houses of the legislature and the governor has signed it. Judging from Ohio's experience 1l,'1issouriroads may now expect an increase in passenger earnings. THE CORRECT Stains and fillers. THE MOST SATISFACTORY first Coaters and Varnishes CHICAGOAwooIiCi=iNIStIlNu CD. 259·63 ELSTON AVE"'2·16 SLOAN ST, CH I CAe D. 4 Short Credits .Favored in Scotland. Reporting on, the matter of mercantile credits, Rufus Fleming, American Consul at Edinburgh, Scotland, says: "Each year extends and confirms the thirty-day credit rule in the domestic trade of British industries and wholesale houses. Manufactureres and exporters on the continent of Europe doing business here arc also conforming to the gen-era" lly accepted system. It .is nbt so much a restriction of credit as an acquiescence in the common wish of dealers them-selves. On the part of most dealers longer credit is neither required nor favored. In fact there are few established firms that do not pay cash for wares and merchandise on thirty-day bills or accounts if they thereby get the benefit of even a fraction of one per cent discount. Some leading firms buying large quantities of goods abroad deal through their own agents, the discount for cash paying the agents' commissions. "Speaking of this part of Scotland only-although con-ditions are probably much the same in all sections-I find that prominent business men take the view that the object of trade credits is fully served (except in special cases) when fat children was one of the fine and beautiful traits in his character, says St. Nicholas. He was never known to be unkind to a child. He often inconvenienced himself that he might oblige children and ·give them pleasure. Many of Longfellow's most popular poems are founded on real events, real places and real things. His "village blacksmith" was a real man in Cambridge, and the "spreading chestnut tree" under which his smithy stood was a very fine and old one that Longfellow loved, ,for he was a great lover of trees. \~rhen the street in C:;lmbridge in which the "spreading chestnut tree" stood was about, to be widened by the city, Longfellow protested ,to the utmost against its being cut down. His protest, however, did not keep it from being felled, much to the regret of Longfellow. Then some good friends of his had a "happy thought." It occu,rred to them that it would be a pleasant thing if the children would have a chair made of some of the wood of the old chestnut tree and make a present of it to Mr. Longfellow on his ap-proaching seventy-second birthday. The children of Cam-bridge fell in very heartily with the idea and nearly 1000 of them gave ten cents each,to pay for having the chair made, A Talty Modern Interior. the period covers the delivery of the goods. A longer term offers a temptation to the purchaser to pay interest on the money value of the goods, thereby reducing his profits. The advantages of short credits-the lowest prices and also the best opportunities for the future-are lost in proportion as length of credit may create a sense of obligation for a favor. The average Scottish business man esteems above everything else his independence in business matters, and therefore dis-likes above everything else the fetters of favors received. He wishes to discharge any obligations with the least pos-sible delay, to feel free to deal with whom he chooses, and to secure the best bargains obtainable. What specially com-mends the short-credit system to the trading community as a whole is that it simplifies business and reduces to the min-imum the friction in the machinery of trade." Longfellow's Arm Chair. The one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Long-fellow, which occurs on the 27th of this month, will remind many men and women of a de"lightful event in the poet's life -an event in which these men and women had a part when they were children in Cambridge. The great poet's love and it is a very handsome chair indeed. It was designed by the poet's nephew. The wood was ebonized 50 that it was a dead black. The presenting of the chair was what the children always enjoy, a "surprise present." Mr. Long-fellow did not know anything about it until he found the gift in his study on the morning of the 27th of February, in the year 1879, and as that was twenty-eight years ago, the boys and girls who gave their dimes for the chair are now men and women. Railroad Receiver Starts Important Suits. Judge Harmon of Cincinnati, as receiver for the Pere Marquette and the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton railroads has started proceedings in the federal courts that may go, far to solve the car shortage problem, by determining the extent to which a railroad may use or detain cars belonging to other roads. He has brought, suit against several lines that he alleges have been iHegatly using a number of the cars of the two roads in his charge. Either an accounting of profit derived from using the cars or damages for loss of business due to their detention will be asked. 5 NEW IDEA IN FURNITURE DISPLAY FORT SMITH ARKANSAS Overcomes Long Experienced Difficulty in DISPLAY of FURNITURE. A $4,000 to $7,000 Stockcan be dis~ played in a room 25x 100 feet so that Every Piece of Sample Stock will be in plain view, not obstructed . from view by other pieces. Plan also provides for considerable Storage room in same building. Stock Presents a Most Attractive Appearance from any part of Store. For full de~ scription and Storage arrangement, with photograph, send $1.00 to W. A. WILLIS FURNITURE AND CARPET CO. 6 FURNITURE FRAUDS. Tricks in Trade Practiced by Sharpers Who Trap the Unwary Bargain Hunter. One day there came into the warerooms of a furniture manufacturing establishment in an Eastern city a man who asked to see parlor-suite frames, and, having been shown them, selected a cheap set and inquired the price of it made up in showy, inexpensive covering and stuffed with hay. The surprised salesman never had received such an order before, but, there being no good reason Why he should not fill it if the customer so desired, he named a price, which, after S0mc haggling, was accepted and the bargain closed. The suite was duly finished and sent C. O. D. to a vacam house in a good quarter of the city, where it was received by the buyer in person and paid for. It was not till several weeks later, and by accident then, that the furniture firm dis-covered just what the purchaser was up to. It seemed that he was in t~e habit of hiring fm a few days unoccupied houses in respectable localities, stocking them hurriedly with trashy but outwardly attractive furnishings, and. then advertising a forced sale of them at an enormous sacrifice on the repre- "Did you get your money?" asked the suspicious husband, when the glowing recital was finished. "N 0, not yet-except a dollar for that old broken table that stood in the corner of the sitting-room; he took that with him and said he would call for the other things later and pay then." Ah, I se,e," commented the suddenly-enlightened man of the house; "very much later it will be, I think you'll find." His surmise was correct. The broken table was a gen-uine antique and, with a little repairing, could probably be sold for twenty dollars or more; the other articles were al-most absolutely valuel'ess except as firewood; and it is need-less to add that the wily dealer, having secured the only ....ein that trusting dame's collection, entirely omitted to cdrI for the trash he had pretended to buy at such generous prices. Would Waste No Space. Operating and traffic officials of the western railroads are of the opinion that the climax of unreasonableness has been reached when strenuous objection is made by shippers MADE BY CENTURY FURNITURE CO.. GRAND RAPlDS, MICH. sematiOl1 that L1leowner either died ur had been ohliged to leave town suddenly, or that for some other irnperatinc rea-son the contents of the bouse must he disposed of at once quite regardless of cost. It is hardly nccessary to say that the buyer "was the victim of the "sacrifice." Another easy game, played some time ago on the too-credulous housewives in a certain surburban community, though not financially serious in its consequences, was rather humiliating to the victims. The example more immediately under notice is this: One evening, when the man of the house returned from his daily grind in the city, he was greet-ed by his wife with a radiant face and the glad announcement that she had sold all "that old furniture that had been cum-bering up the attic for years-and at perfectly splendid prices, too:' It appeared that an itinerant dealer had called at the door and asked if they had any old furniture they would like to sell. As there happened to be in the house considerable lumber of that description she had invited him in and had sold it to him. With astonishing readiness he had bought two bedsteads at five dollars each, and a dozen cane-seated chairs at two "dollars. to their in~i';ling that all shippers, in order to be entitled to carload rate,;, ,;hould be obliged to Jil! the cars furnished for their use to normal holding capacity. Tn times like th(:sc, when there is a car scnrcity from -:\lainc to Oregon ;[lld from Texas to I\.finnesota, anJ the whole country is suffering from 1::tck of facilities to movc their business, the railroad men declnre it is preposterous that they should be expected, much less required, to a11O\vany of their space to be ruthlessly wasted for the benetlt of a small proportion of the shipping public and at the expense of the great ma-jority of shippers. The officials declare that to allow shippers carload rates when cars are only partially filled, even 'when the maximum weight is put in, would be a direct violation of the spirit of the Hepburn act, which is opposed to discrimination of any kind. If the claims of the few small shippers alluded to were to be conceded, they say, it would be a gross discrim-imttion against the great body of shippers. In justice to all concerned it is declared necessary that cars should be filled to normal holding capacity, and shippers who cannot thus load them are in no sense entitled to car rates. THE GREATEST LINE of the GREATEST MANUFACTURERS OF _. CHAMBER FURNITURE Every Dealer Wants It Because Everybody Buys It. SLIGH FURNITURE COMPANY, Grand Rapids, Mich. Manufacturers of BEDROOM FURNITURE EXCLUSIVELY. New Spring Line ready. We operate the largest factory in the world producing chamber furniture. The Ford & Johnson Company "EVERYTHING IN CHAIRS" When in Chicago do not fail to see our immense display at our salesrooms, 1435-37 Wabash Ave. Many new patterns. IOGel Solid Mahogany. ==== SEE OUR ==== Complete Dining Room Suites--Oak and Solid Mahogany. Chairs and Roekers--All Kinds. Mission Furniture~~AllFinishes. Children's Go-Carls and Carriages. Reed and Rattan Rockers. Fibre Rush and Malaeea--The Ideal Furniture. ===GENERAL OFFICES === Sixteenth St. and Indiana Ave., Chicago. . SALESROOMS~~ CHICAGO BOSTON, MASS. ATLANTA. GA. 1433-3S-H Waba~h Ave. 90 Canal 51. Marietta and Bartow Sb. NEW YORK 202 Canal St. CINCINNATI. O. FRANKFORT, KY. 47 E. Sixlh St. l06C7 Solid Mahoa-Bay. 8 ESTABLISHED 1880 ~i'?~ , ~ ~ I I \ \ J " I , :if"'"' ,\ ~"§v~ ~~~'-~~ pua"ISHEO BY MICHIGAN ARTISAN CO. ON THE 10TH AND 25TH OF e:ACH MONTH O~P'ICe:-2-20 LYON ST•• GRAND RAPIOS, MICH. ENTERED AS MATHR OF THE SECOMD CLASS The mail order problem seems to be solving itself. Mer-chants are finding ways to meet competition with the cat-alogue houses and the people are discovering that it does not pay to send their money away from home. Many merchants have suffered more or less from the competition with the mail order houses but their experience has been beneficial It has sparred them to greater efforts, to the adoption of better methods, caused them to wake up and improve their opportunities and advantages, until most of them have lost all fear of mail order competition and very few are really losing trade in that direction. As now seen the mail order scare appears to have been a clear case of borrowing trouble on the part of country and small town merchants. It was very much like the department store scare of twenty or twenty~five years ago when, it will be remembered, many merchants imagined that their business would. be ruined un-less they could find means to stop or control the growth of the department institutions. The department stores, how-ever, continued to increase and multiply until now every town of any considerable. importance has one or more and their existence is hardly considered a menace by the straight deal-ers. The mail order problem will soon be considered as of no more importance than the department stores and it is prob-able that the danger to retail merchants from the proposed parcels post will prove to be largely imaginary. Experience has shown that the wide awake retail merchants-men who understand their business, are energetic, enterprising and up-to-date in their methodS-have little to fear from legiti-mate competition of any sort. Dishonest, unfair or illegit-imate competition may bother them at times but it can not Jive long enough to cause permanent injury to merchants who deserve the confidence and patronage of the peop'le. An examination of the 1800 page catalogue of a great mail order house revealed the fact that only a comparatively small number of pages were used in offering furniture for sale. The "..stuff" illustrated and described was low grade work-low in design as well as in price. Anyone acquainted with the goods made in Grand Rapids, Rockford, Chicago or other manufacturing centers of importance would declare at a glance that the stuff illustrated was of faulty construc-tion and not in any respect like the product of the factories in the cities n.amed. The Grand Rapids, the Rockford and the Chicago "expression" was lacking. Regular single line dealers should not fear such competition. By handling a better class of goods they can rise far above the level of the mail order houses and in a short time forget that the mail order houses handle furniture at alL Charles Stedman Hanks, of Brookline, who has been making a study of the nation's corporations in Washington for the last year and a half, estimates that twenty~five per cent of the business wealth of the country is !lOW under corporate control. Mr. Hanks also agrees with the statement recently put forth by another economist, that seven-eighths of the country's wealth, seven hundred billions, is owned by less than one per cent. of the population. The alarming rIFt.T I >5' ..7U'l t 2"· significance of this condition df affairs is not so much in the present ratio as it is in the fact that the proportion of wealth owned by the -few is rapidly increasing. Twenty years ago it was estimated that ten per cent of the population con-trolled only three-quarters of the wealth of the country. Some retail furniture dealers are disposed to grumble because the hardware men are handling kitchen cabinets, which until recently have been sold only in the furniture stores. The kitchen cabinet business seems to have been overdone. It is probable that the action of the hardware men is due largely to importunities from the manufacturers of kitchen cabinets who have found difficulty in disposing of their output. The furniture dealers have little caus.e for complaint, however. The hardware men are only getting even for loss of refrigerator trade. A few years ago refrig-erators were sold almost exclusively in hardware stores. Now it is ~stimated that the furniture dealers sell at least twenty-five per cent of the refrigerators and they still hold a consid· erable share of the kitchen cabinet trade. Can it be that marble is chea?er for table and dresser tops than lumber? One of the large corporations engaged in the business of making furniture in Grand Rapids, is using considerable Tennessee marble for the purpose stated. Twenty-five years ago no fine or medium priced work cou'ld be marketed without tops of marble. While the brown and pink slabs from the mountains of Tennessee were be<].utiful to the eye they were cold to the touch and lost favor in the estimation of the public. Why the slabs should be again in demand can not be accounted for unless their cost is less than figured lumber. What's the matter with Chicago people anyway? They have had their automobile show and their horse show re-cently with other attractions intended to induce people to visit the city but the merchants do not seem to be satisfied with the winter's business. They have now arranged a "bargain week," beginning March 10. If that does not prove successfu1 they should borrow a street carnival company from some of the country towns. Operators of furniture factories in the flood districts ha ve fully recovered from the damage done by the winter freshet in Grand Rapids, and abandoning the basements and in several instances the attached buildings of plants, have placed their property beyond the power of the river to do further injury. The machinery of one entire floor in a large I factor}' was taken out of a basement permanently. Some of the fire insurance managers are borrowing trouble over the operations of the pure food law. They fear that it will make some factories useless or unprofitable and thus increase their tendency to burn easily. Well, "it's an ill wind," etc. What injures the fire insurance men should ben-efit the "lifers." If theories are correct the pure food law will lengthen the lives of many men. The new clerk may make himself unpleasant at times by comparing your stock with that of his former elnp!oyer. This is not an unmixed evil. Perhaps the other fellow has a good line of goods, and possibly his arrangement may be superior in some particulars to your own. You can ~tal1d for the comparison if you can learn anything. lErch properly stained makes a good imitation of Cir-cassi~ l.llwalnut. Few can discover the deception. In view of tqe rapidly increasing demand for goods manufactured of Circasaian walnut, there was created an opening for the stain' maker of which he was quick to take advantage. BUCHANAN CABINET CO. :BUCHANAN, MICHICAN NO. 132 KITCHEN CABINET. Say you saw this Ad in the Michigan A'rtisun. Send for our New Catalogue of SIDE· BOARDS KITCHEN CABI-NETS HOUSE DESKS THE LI N E 0 F MONEY MAKERS -,.,- the Merchants 9 PATENTED JULY 29, 1902. The Best FASTENER for Five Legged Tables Write for Prices and .Information. -10- Invincible Table Fastener Co., Shelbyville. Indiana. The Luce Furniture Co. INVITES ATTENTION TO ITS LARGE LINE OF Bed Room and Dining Room Furniture. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Salesroom at Factory Only. 10 ~MI9«HIG~N $ VARIOUS MATTERS. E. M. Hulse, president of the E. M. Hulse Company, although still young in appearance and just over the line dividing youth and age, has had a long and varied exper-ience in the furniture business. He has passed through trials that sap the energy of most men, and came out, like the individual sung about in the comic opera, years ago-he "bobbed up serenely" in every instance. No man in the trade has tested the value of the trade papers as a means for drawing business morc thoroughly than he, and his decision is that the trade mediums are useful and valuable. Certain journals he esteems morc highly than others, asa matter of course. A few years ago he engaged space in all the trade papers, taking a page in each, and offering one dollar for every coupon which formed a part of the advertisement, returned to his office. The main attraction was a very g"ood Turkish rocker, in leather, for $25.00. It was illustrated, described and guaranteed as to value. In printing the ad-vertisement an error occurred in the price of the rocker in one of the trade papers employed by Mr. Hulse. His feel-ings upen reading the offending publication in which the $25.00 rocker was offered for $15.00, can he more easily im-agined than described, and when the stenographer was called into Mr. Hulse's office the very atmosphere was filled with resentment. In brief, yet pointed language Mr. Hulse in-formed the publisher that he would fiU every order for rockers sold through the medium of the journal for $15,00 and would look to the publisher to make good the difference. Many orders were taken on account of the advertisement in the other trade papers, but not one ever reached his office for a rocker for $15.00. Mr. Hulse was dumbfounded, and when lie recalls the incident he is inclined to go into a dumb-founding mood. "Every man has a hobby," remarked an eminent min-ister of the gospel. When asked to name the particular hobby under wf:lich he labored, he replied, "A single-jointed stove pipe hat." The minister in question was seldom seen without a shining head piece. D. W. Kendall's hobby is painting; he has an "annex" to his particular affectation, however; it is playing the fiddle. F6rmerly it was a bull dog. William Widdicomb likes to. make speeches before assemblages of business men. He acquired this hobby in the commOn council many years ago. His remarks are never dull or without interest. A good horse delights John Mowatt. He is never without a fine roadster. E. H. Foote seems to give most of his time and thoughts outside of ·his business to the Michigan Soldiers' Home-a hobby he is proud of. A plantation on the' island of Cuba, is the source of pride for John D. Case, while John Shanahan delights in sailing a naptha launch. David E. Uhl is too busy to give much time to a hobby, but a good horse pleases him as much as anything. W. H. Gay, Ralph Tietsort, "Rob" Irwin, Mi- ·ner S. Keele, W. A. Gunn and John R. Shelton dote on automobiling while A. W. Hompe would rather sail a fast single sticker than sign a check for a million. His business associates, Messrs. Irwin and Tietsort would leave their automobiles standing in the road if Mr. Hampe should bear down upon them under the power of a stiff breeze. The manufacturers at Jamestown, N. Y., are fully sup-plied with hobbies. Charles W. Herrick, of the Maddox TOLbleCompany finds rest and recreation (the term is used advisedly) in the study of finance. Probahly no man outside of Wall street, in the greac Empire state, has stowed away in his brain as much ir.tormation as he regarding stock cor-porationsand securitit:s. He reads prominent newspapers devoted to finance, the letters of Henry Clews, Holden and other monetary authorities. He is an official of a prosper-ous bank and a director in several corporations, but having entered a banking house when a boy his mind naturally 7fRe T I.s ..7I.2'I =e clings to the influences of his earlier employment. A beau-tiful summer home on Lake Chautauqua and the new home he bas under construction in Jamestown call for the full em-ployment of his mental and physical energies. A story is told of a farmer who aroused his son at four a. m., and direct-ed him to feed the horses, milk fourteen cows, split a cord of wood, sho.vel the snow out of the paths, build the' fires, feed the chickens and the hogs, and while resting before breakfast, to peel the potatoes, grind the coffee and bring water from tbe well. Like the farmer's son Mr. Herrick is the busiest "rester" in Chautauqua COUIlty~ "Tom" Crane knows the history of every actor worth mentioning since the days of Shakspeare; Frank O. Ander-son is a skilled navigator; L. C. Stewart smilingly acknowl-edges that his week old daughter is a good enough "hobby," wbile Mr. Corne"ll of the Jamestown Lounge Company fairly "gloats" over beautiful painting. W. J. Maddox, of the Maddox Table .Company has a hobby which he employs in promoting the business of his company. His "mad ox" is known to everyone in the trade. A few months ago be con-ceived the idea that a large white ox in action could be made useful, but was unable to find any among his large force of carvers, who were able to execute the animal in wood. Finally his brother, J. W. Maddox, undertook tbe task and turned' out a very good specimen of an ox in pine. It attracted much attention at the late exposition at Grand Rapids. Mr. MaddOX decided to have the specimen .repro-duced in a smaller size in plaster and called in an artist from sunny Italy to make a mold. Many attempts resulted in failure, the curling tail of the imitation animal breaking off, repeatedly. Finally, Mr. Maddox suggested that wire be used to support the tail, when the efforts of the artist were successful, and a considerable number of casts were made. The artistic spirit of tbe Italian conceive·J tbe idea that an ox could not be enraged without an object to excite his resentment, so he brought to Mr. Maddox various casts to supply the deficiency. A girl in a red skirt was suggested and rejected. An ugly looking Turk followed -and finally a crocodile was presented but all were rejected by th~ exacting Mr. Maddox. The artist is still busy with bis brain and hands, and promises to exbaust the animal kingdom in an effort to please his employer. RemOTe. Shipping Mark." Marst Scratcbest Staina. Clean8t Fills in and PoUsbes. 11 ALL PROSPEROUS. Notes and News From a Few of Michigan's Furniture Factories. The Lentz Table Company of Nashville, 1tIich., had a great business in 1906-the largest in the history of the com-pany. During the last year they made many improvements and cnlargernents, and in addition to largely increasing their sales they have steadily kept in view the making of higher grade goods, and eliminating as far as possible the cheaper lines. This has been a wise move, for while the averag"c price is higher the quality of the goods more than makes up for the difference in price, and every dealer realizes that when he puts a Lentz dining extension table on his floor he is prepared to show his customer an article that he can guarantee to be without a superior in its grade. Lentz ta-bles always sell well; the value is there-materials, style, workmanship and finish. Good stuff. Sturgis. The Sturgis furniture factories, five in number, are all busy and prosperous. Sturgis is rapidly becoming one of the most important manufacturing cities in Southern Mich-igan, and prospects are bright for several more factories locating here this year. The Royal Chair Company has recently fitted up a new set of offices and made other important improvements. The past year was the most successful in the history of the company, and Mr. \Valton, the manager, is pushing business with such energy and skill that every month sees a steady gain. The Royal and Regal Morris chairs have become fa-mous all over the land, and the merchant who does not handle them is missing one of the best selling lines in the market. The Stebbins Manufacturing Company although the latest addition to the furniture industries of Sturgis, is one of the most prosperous, and thc growth of the business is something extraordinary. The line of parlor and library tables made by this company js onc of the best on the market. The \Vallick Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of refrigerators and kitchen cabinets, are enjoying a fine trade. Business seems to grow with this house every month in the year. Alusbrook & Sturges, the oldest furniture manufacturing company in Sturgis, is pursuing the even tenor of its way, SHELBYVILLE DESK CO. MANUFACTURERS OF OFFICE DESKS Mahogany. and Imitation Qyartered Oak. Plain Oak in Three Grades. SPECIAL FEATURES A SQUARE DEAL Write for lotnt Catalogue. SHELBYVILLE, IND. manufacturing an excellent line of medium priced chamber furniture, sideboards and buffets. The Grobhiscr & Crosby Furniture Company, is one of the largest in the manufacture of dining extension, parlor, library and office tables. Buchanan. Once in a while a fire proves to be a blessing in dis-guise. This seems to have been the ease with the Buchanan Cabinc1 Company. Last year fire completely destroyed the main factory, and now in its place they have a fine brick building with more than twice the capacity of the old onc. Ke.v engine house and dry kilns, a side track to the shipping house door, the boiler room, dry kilns and lumber yards, a new 150 horse power Corliss engine, new machinery through-out and a larger business than ever before. The plant pre-sents an air of prosperity calculated to make one congratu-late Albert Richards the manager, and all the stockholders. The line is made up of sideboards, kitchen cabinets, house desks, book cases and sewing tables. Its a good medium priced line and trade is fine. Hastings. Hastings is the county seat of Barry county, one of the most prosperous agricultural counties in Michigan. It is a thriving little city, with numerous manufacturing concerns, among them four furniture factories, the Tyden Car Seat Company and the Hastings \Vool Boot Company. The fur-niture companies are the Hastings Cabinet Company, man-ufacturers of kitchen cabinets; the Hastings Table Company, dining extension tables.; the Grand Rapids Bookcase Com-pany, bookcases, china closets, buffets and serving tables; and the Barber Bros. Chair Company, manufacturers of high grade dining chairs, rockers, etc, The Table Company, the Bookcase Company and the Chair Company have gone into a combination scheme for making dining room sets to rnatch, one furnishing the tables, another the chairs and serving tables. This makes a very nice arrangement, as it enab1es the merchant to purchase complete dining room sets to match in style, wood and finish, and ship in the same car in car lots or open freight, as desired. Hastings furniture has a name for excellance that is as wide as the continent. The Hastings Cabinet Company made a fine. display at the January exhibit in Grand Rapids, and is enjoying a fine business. Their white maple kitchcn cabinets are among the very best made. A new catalogue is ready for mailing. 12 ·§>~MI9,.HIG7}N Evansville, Ind., Feb. l8.-The manufacturers here have voted to discontinue the practice of giving the long time fall datings to customers on all orders for immediate ship-ment. This move has been agitated by certain influential members of the Evansvilte Furniture Manufacturers' Asso-ciation for some time past, owing to the way that some of the retailers have taken advantage of and abused the priv~ iIege, and recently an agreement was circulated and signed by practically all of the factories abolishing the practice. The trade in Texas has been particularly culpable and un-scrupulous in this matter, some of the dealers there going so far as to hold back the manufacturer's money for a whole year, turning it over once and twi.ce i.n the meantime, and with the small margin of profit that is left to the manufac-turer now, he can't afford to a(low anything of that kind or he will find his balance on the wrong side of the ledger at the end of the year. Consequent1y all the Evansville plants have notified their salesmen that in future no datings must be allowed on goods ordered for immediate shipment. \\lhere the purchaser leaves the shipping date to the dis-cretion of the factory, and they choose to ship the goods early to get thcm out of their warehouses, then the dating is given same as formerly. All the factories here that were closed down during January either for invoicing or to make some much-needed repairs have resumed operations again. All the plants have plenty of orders and everything looks bright for a cracking good year. The Fellwock Automobile & Manufacturing Company is now the name of what was formerly the Feltwock Roll & Panel Company. P. B. Fellwock of the Bockstege Fur-niture Company and his brother who has been running the roll and panel works since he was put in charge of the Bock-stege plant, have bought out all the other stockholders and have changed the name as above. The new concern will manufacture rolls exclusively and is the biggest exclusive r01'l manufacturing plant in the country. A. F. Karges of the Karges Furniture Company who is the guiding hand of the Karges-Globe-Bockstege inter-ests, is one of the most prominent men in the furniture business in Evansville. Like most men who have risen several rounds higher on life's ladder than most of his fellows, ~Jr. Karges is averse to talking for publication. When approach-ed by your correspondent, he at first said that the only thing he cared to say was that his plant had recently issued a handsome new catalogue.. Asked if he thought that bus-iness the coming year would equal that of the year just closed, Mr. Karges said: "I see no reason why business during the· first six months of 1907 should not be fully as big as that of last year. Further than that I would not like to make a prediction, for conditions in the business world are altogether too uncertain for any man to set himself as a prophet, and furthermore, the state of affairs in Texas has a large bearing on the trade of most of Evansville's fac-tories, and until the cotton crop is gathered no man can tell what Texas will do. However, money seems to be plen-tiful throughout the south and west, crops are good and are bringing good prices, and unless something untoward should occur, I believe we will enjoy another year of undiminished prosperity." "Ben" Bosse, of the Globe Furniture Company has re-turned from a visit to \Vashington, D. C. Mrs. Bosse was with him, and they had a most enjoyable visit. The Globe Company have prepared an entirely new line for this year, and their new catalogue, just off the press, shows some de-signs that certainly ought to catch the dealers' eyes and their orders. They build sideboards, buffets, chamber suites, odd dressers, chiffoniers, cupboards, kitchen safes, etc., that are unexcelled. Evansville now has a triumvirate of salesmen on its floor-the third-at the exposition building at Fourteenth and Locust streets, St. Louis. Proctor Shelby has joined Vining and Wilson, and the three ought to send in many a good order for the coming year. The United States Furniture Company find -that they can't turrt out ladies' desks, library tables and mantel and upright folding beds fast enough in their present quarters. They are building a three-story addition to their plant at a cost of about $4,000 and when it is completed they will use it for finishing and warerooms and will devote the floor space in the main building which was formerly occupied by these departments to the installation of several new ma-chines. Old Rebate Claims Are Dead. The interstate commerce commission has announced that it will not authorize the payment by railroads of rebates and claims for overcharges previous to January 1, 1907, the date on which the anti-rebate law became effective. This was in response of an appeal from Mr. King, traffic manager of the Alton, and -Mr. Boyd, traffic manager of the Chicago board, who explained that a large number of claims originating before the date named the railroads hesitated to pay without' specific authority from the commission. CANADIAN FACTORY. WALKERVILl.E ONTARiO CHICAGO, CINCINNATI, ST. LOUIS, SAN FRANCIScO. BERRY BROTHERS' Rubbing and Polishing Varnishes MUST BE USED IN FURNITURE WORK TO BE APPRECIATED THEY SETTLE THE VARNISH QUESTION WHEREVER TRIED WRITE TODAY FOR INFORMATION AND PRICES. FINISHED SAMPLES ON REQUEST. BERRY BROTHERS, LIMITED VARNISH MANUFACTURERS DETROIT NEW YORK, BOSTON, PHILADELPHIA, BALTIMORE:. Our Oak and Mahogany DINING EXTENSION TABLES Are Best Made, Best Finished Values. All Made from Thoroughly Seasoned Stock. No. 506 Dining Table Top 44X44. Made in ~arter-ed Oak. Full Polished. Castered. LENTZ TABLE CO. NASHVILLE, - - MICHIGAN No. 506 Dlnlng Table. All Kinch of BASKET WARE MADE TO ORDER Please Send for Catalogue and Prices FOR WILLOW and RATTAN WARE I manufacture the Fineat Clothes- Hamper or Bedroom Basket IN THE AMERICAN MARKET F. PARTHIER, Manufacturer of Willowand Railan Ware, No. 209 GRAND AVE., CHICAGO, ILLS. "This Tlade Mark Guaranlees I~e besl." No. 526. No. 525. 13 14 FREIGHT RATES FINELY FIGURED. Loss of a Mill per Ton per Mile Would Bankrupt Many Railroads. Addressing the Railway Employes' Transportation Club of Chicago, recently, A. B. Stickney, president of the Chicago Great \Vestern Railway, a man noted for his conservative views, declared that a reduction of freight rates of one mill a ton a mile would wipe out all the dividends earned by the greatest and most prosperous railroads in the country. After quoting figures showing the average rate of interest on bonds and dividends on stocks paid by the leading rail~ ways, Mr. Stickney showed that in 1892, the year of greatest depression, the average rate of interest was 4.23 pcr cent. and the average dividends 1.93 per cent. 1n 1905, the most pras-considerable length the Question of statements to mercantile agencies, and in the course of his decision said: "It has never been decided whether under any circum-stances a false statement contained in a report to a commer-cial agency can be made the ground of successful objection to discharge. The conditions advanced in re Dresser & Co. are entitled to great weight, and in my opinion show that the usual commercial agency report obtained by an agency in order that it may gi\re the merchant a "rating," and for gen-eral distribution among its customers, cannot be made the basis of successful action by an objecting creditor. ';If, ho\vever, such a report as is here shown be obtained from a merchant by a comme;cial agency at the request, dis~ c10sed or undisclosed, of one or more of the agency's cus-tomers it seems to be incredible that the merchant furnish-ing su~h report call be supposed to have given it for any V1EW OF A WELL-DESIGNED INTERIOR. perous year, the average interest rate \vas 3.6:') per cent and the average dividend rate 3.02 per cent. "There is no other business in the country," he said, which is done on so gmall a margin of profit as 3.02 per cellt dividends. No other invested capital gets so small returns as the capital invested in railroads, and the tonnage carried is so large that a reduction of the insignificant amount of half a cent a hundredweight on a lOO-mite haul would deprive the stockholders of railways of all dividends. - "Such a decrease of one mill per ton mile would have substantially the same effect upon all the great lines, and put into bankruptcy most of the minor lines in the competitive territory extending from the Atlanti.c to the Missouri river and from the Gu1f to the Great Lakes." An Important Bankruptcy Decision. A decision that will surely have an important influence in the administration of the federal bankruptcy :law was re-cently handed down in the United States District Court of New York. In the ease in Question a discharge from bank-ruptcy was denied by the judge on the contention of the cred-itors that the bankrupt made a false statement in writing to a mercantile agency on the strength of which these creditors sold him goods, and also that the debtor made a false state-ment in writing to another creditor. The judge discussed at other pUf]lOse than of cn1igbtening those persons \'vho hab-itually deal \vith him on cre,lit as to his true financial con-dition. "It cannot be that a merchant may in bankruptcy avoid the consequences of making false statements by always ma-king them to a commercial ag-ency, even though such agency specially request him to tel! the truth for special purpose." For several years there has been no material decrease in the cost of anything used in making furniture, except alcohol. Years ago grain a1coho'l, used for cutting shellac, etc., cost $2.40 per gallon. Then wood alcohol was intro:" duced and sold at $1.25, gradually decreasing to 90 and finally to 75 cents. Kow, as a result of the law removing the tax on alcohol not used as a beverage, manufacturers get the denatured article at H5 cents per gallon, and it is predicted that if regulations can be made that will allow the farmers to make the stuff the .price will go down to 25 cents. Of course alcohol forms a very small proportion of the material that goes into a piece of furniture, but the reduction in its COSt will help to offset the advanced cost of other materials and, alcohol at 25 cents per gallon new uses will be found for it that may be of great benefit to the country-it may soon cut a great figure in the cost of heat-ing and lighting. 1 Furniture Dealers need have no more fear. \Vith the use of CHne's Caster Cup one table may be placed on top of another without injury. Made in two sizes in the following fi nishes: Oak, Mahogany and Rosewood. Special prepared feet bottom, preventing sweat marks, scratching, etc. Price: 2)( in. per 100, $3.50, 3% in. per 100. $4.50 Wealso manllfacture the most reliable Card Holder on the market. :: Write for our new 40 pale Catalo_ue. L. Cline Mfg. Co.. 123'W.b~h-Av;;. Chicago WE manufacture the larg-est line of FOLDING CHAIRS in the United States, suitable for Sunday Schools, Halls, Steamers and a.ll Public Resorts. . . . . We also manufacture Brass Trimmed Iron Beds, Spring Beds, Cots and Cribs in a larKe variety. . . . Send for Cllta!o&ue and Price. to Kauffman Mfg. CO. "SOLAND. OOID Morton House American ......Plan Rates $2.50 and Up Hotel Pantlind European ......Plan Rates $1.00 a.nd Up GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. The Noon Dinner Served at the Pantlind for 50c is the FINEST IN THE WORLD J. BOYD PANTLIND. Prop. The New Banquet Table Top III well uOFFICE. DINING and DIRECTORS' TABLES are OU1' specialty. STOW & DAVIS FURNITURE CO.• ~:e'''''' Write for Catalogue, Get samplelof BANQUET TABLE TOP. five Complete Lines of Refrigerators RIG"T PRICES at apalite Lined Enameled Lined Charcoal Filled and Zinc Lined Zinc Lined with Removable Ice Tank Gal ranized Iron Lined Stationary Ice Tank Send fOI" nt:w CATALOGUE and let us name you price Challenge Refrigerator Co. GRAND HAVEN, MICH., U. S. A. 15 16 MERCHANTS WIN FIRST ROUND. Dakota Judge Denies Montgomery Ward & Co's Applica-tion for a Preliminary Injunction. Retail merchants throughout the country have reason to be pleased with the result of the first decision in the case brought by Montgomery vVard & Co. against the Retail Merchants' Association of South Dakota. The matter is of much importance to others than the South Dakota retailers because there is no doubt that if l\'lontgomery ¥lard & Co. could win this case they would start similar proceedings against many other state organizations and also against city and national associations. It is true that the decision of Judge Carland of the Fed-eral court at Sioux Falls, is only preliminary-it simply de-nies the motion for a preliminary injunction-but it is be-lieved to foreshadow the court's views on the merits of the main question, because it contains this declaration: "Where the only object of a suit in equity is a permanent injunction, a temporary injunction will not issue where the court is of the opinion that there is no probability that the complainant will succeed on the merits." Those words surely mean that "Judge Carland is of the opinion that the complainants are not likely to succeed when the case is brought up for final hearing on its merits in ApriL As some of the readers of the Artisan may not-have seen the letters issued by the South Dakota Retail Merchants' Associatioll on which the complaint of Montgomery Ward & Co. is based, that part of Judge Carland's decision in which the letters appear is given here: l'The South Dakota Retail Merchants' Association is a voluntary association organized for the purpose of correct-ing trade abuses, to develop the mercantile profession and to co-operate with other organizations having like objects. The retail dealers held their annual meeting at Mitchell, Jan~ uary 2?, 1906, and soon after said meeting there was with the· consent and knowledge of its principal officers issue-d and sent to a great number of wholesalers and jobbers throughout the United States who were not members of said association the following circular letter:" F. A. Grimm, President. L. S. Tyler, Secretary. THE SOUTH DAKOTA RETAIL MERCHANTS' AND HARDWARE DEALERS' ASSOCIATION. Sioux Falls, S. D., March 1, 1906. The South Dakota Retail ~1erchants in convention as-sembled at Mitchell, S. D., January 23, 24, 25, 1906, expressed strong sentiments and were unanimous on the subject: Re-lating to the selling of merchandise by the jobber and man-ufacturer to the catalogue or mail order houses. That it was unfair treatment on the part of the wholesaler toward the retailer. The retail merchant of South Dakota feels that the cause of the catalogue house has been advanced by the wholesa"ler, inasmuch as the stock of the mail order house is carried by the _wholesaler. The retail merchants have suf-fered. in consequence of this arrangement. Wilt you not act with the. retail merchants? Do you at the present time encourage and help the catalogue house business? \i\Till you not refuse ,to sell -to the mail order house, and will you confine your trade to the legitimate retail dealer? Any suggestion for co-operation' for our mutual inter-ests of both the who"lesaler and retailer we would as a body of merchants be glad to receive aild consider. This letter is endorsed by the_board of directors as above named and sent out under their instructions. Yours truly, L. S. TYLER, Secretary. 71R T I.s .7I.Z'T e 7 e I<That on July 14, 1906, there was issued and sent to the members of said voluntary association a letter in words and figures as follows:" F. A. Grimm, President. L. S. Tyler, Secretary. THE SOUTH DAKOTA RETAIL MERCHANTS' AND HARDWARE DEALERS' ASSOCIATION. Sioux Falls, S. D., July 14, 1906. Dear Sir:-The attached list comprises those, jobbers that refused to answer in any way the letter that was sent out by the Retail Merchants' & Hardware Dealers' Association at your request in March, asking them if they would act with the retail trade and not with the cata!oguehouses. In these houses refusing to answer our "letters and ignor-ing the merchants, through their association, the secretary cannot come to any other conclusion than that they prefer the business of the catalogue houses as against retailers of this state. It would seem that, in the course of business, a jobber that depended on the retail trade for his support might have courtesy enough to reply to a fair question even though he might not be in accord with it and preferred to trade with the catalogue houses. Hang this over your desk for reference. Yours truly, L S. TYLER, Secretary. "It also fairly appears from the evidence that the retail dealers have agreed among themselves that they will not pur-chase merchandise from who'lesalers and jobbers who sell to catalogue or mail order houses. It does not appear, however, that said retail dealers intend to do anything in connection with the matter in controversy different than they have done already." Further quotations from judge Carland's opinion read as follows: "For damage arising from the commission of lawful acts the law affords no remedy. The facts in evidence on this hearing show that the retail dealers have agreed among themselves that they will not purchase merchandise from wholesalers and jobbers who seU to catalogue and mail order houses. That they have corresponded with jobbers and wholesalers stating that the retail dealers were opposed to said wholesalers and jobbers selling to catalogue or mail order houses and have requested the former not to sell to the latter. Are these acts of the retail dealers unlawful? Do they show unfair trade c,ompetition? Is persuasion un-lawful when considered with reference to the facts of this case, or, in other words, is persuasion unfair competition? Upon the answer to these questions depends complainant's right to a temporary injunction. I'That the retail dealers have a lawful right to agree among themselves that they will not purchase merchandise from wholesalers and jobbers who sell to catalogue or mail order houses cannot be denied, and it necessarily follows that they have the right to inform each other as to what whole-salers and jobbers do sell to catalogue or mail order houses. The question in this case is, what may they do in ~ddition to influence the wholesalers and jobbers not to seIt to catalogue houses? I'lt must be conceded that complainant has the right to transact and carryon its business free from intimidation Or coercion. That this is a property right, and that a com-bination to interfere with this right otherwise than in fair competition must show justification. "The American cases, however, when carefully consid-ered, show that the great weight of authority in the United States is in favor of the proposition that it is not unfair com-petition, intimidation or coercion for a combination to inter-fere with this right by persuasion or any peaceable means. "It thus appears that the retail dealers have done nothing nor threaten to do anything which is actionable." Inset Ranney Refrigerators and Kitchen Cabinets are shown during the WINTER FURNITURE EXPOSITIONS -at - CHICAGO ManufactureR' Exhibition Buildinll, 1319 MichigaD Ave., Fim Floor. NEW YORK Furniture Exchange, 43d and Lexinatoo. A full line of samplesat each ex~ position and com-petent salesmen in charge. THE BEST MEDIUM and HIGH PRICED REFRIGERA-TORS on the Market. SEE THE SEVEN LINES LAPLAND CHIEF, OAK, THe Lined. CHARTER OAK. ENAMELED. ASH. Whi'e Ennmel on Galvanized hon. LAPLAND. OAK. Galvanized Iron Lined. MONITOR, ASH. Galvanized Iron Lined. CHARTER OAK, ASH, Galvanized Iron Lined. Ail with metal Ice Racks, Adju&able Shelves.Self ClosingDoors, Removable Ice Chambers, and other improvements MASCOT, HARDWOOD. Galvanized Iron Lined. RADIUM, HARDWOOD, Galvanized Iron Lined. Ranney Refrigerator Company, aHnOdMFEACOTOFFRIICEESS. GreenVaIlle, Mic[n. CATALOGUES FURNISHED ON APPLICATION TO THE HOME OFFICE. Inset GRAND RAPIDS UPHOLSTERING CO. Davenports, Odd Chairs, Library Furniture, Sofa Beds, Overstuffed Leather Goods. Get our PICTURES and PRICES-then the GOODS-and you'll put MONEYin your 'bank. GRAND RAPIDS UPHOLSTERING CO.,Grand Rapids, Mich. Say y~u saw thir in the MICHIGAN ARTISAN. JOHNSON CHAIR COMPANY CHICAGO, ILLINOIS We manufacture as complete a line of OFFICE, DINING, LIBRARY and BEDROOM CHAIRS AS ANYONE IN 'THIS COUN'TR r G.atalogue to the :rrade. EXHIBIT: Furniture Exhibition Building, 1411 Michigan Avenue. GOOD RAILROAD POLICY. President Finley of the Southern Outlines Duties of Freight and Passenger Agents. \V. \V. Finley who succeeds the late Samuel Spencer as president of the Southern Railway, while addressing a meeting of 150 freight and passenger agents in Atlanta, recently, expressed ideas that may seem new to many patrons of railroads who have had more or less aggra vating exper~ ience in dealing with agents. President Finley urged em-ployes to build up erfLcient transportation facilities, and de-clared that the railroad, as an institution, must he fair to the people. He said: "Your duties arc two-fold. 'lOll mve duties to the railway company by which you are employed and you owe duties to the public.' These double duties do not in any way result in conflict or divided allegiance, for he serves the railway best who serves the public best. The policies of the railway are formulated and mapped out by the general officers, but 17 officer, but the: damage done to the reputation of the road cannot be remedied. Questions that seem to you to be trivial may be considered of importance by the person ask-ing them, and they should be answered with patience and courtesy." Reductions in Western Freigpt Rates. Several reductions in freight rates in favor of Denver have been made by the western classificition committee. The rate on unmanufactured tobacco from the Mississippi river to Denver in carload lots is reduced from $1.45 to 02 cents a hundred pounds. Lawn swings from Chicago in carload lOb from $1.25 to 77 cents. Talcum powder man-ufactured in Colorado is given a rate of 80 cents a hundred pounds instead of $1.2;',i,when shipped to points on the Mis-souri river. Electrolytic carbons arc reduced from third class to fifth class, and the class rates to Utah common points, from $1.85 to $1.54. The SOllthern Pacific is preparing to make a flat reductio"n of fifteen per cent to points in 1\ew Mexico and MADE BY LENTZ TABLE CO., NASHVILLE, MICHIGAN. the application of these policies to spccific transactions must he entrusted in the main to mcn in the field. It fo!loovs, then, that you have, in a substantial sense, the reputation of the Southern Railway Company for fair and just dealing in your hands. "\Vhethcr the company shall be popular or unpopular depends in a very large measure upon your attitude toward the public, and upon your treatment of those doing business ,,,·ith the road. It is of supreme importance, therefore, that yOU, who daily come into intimate contact with the public shou"!d bear in mind constantly that it is the unvarying pol-icy of the company to be just and fair to all alike, to the small shipper and the occasional travelc:r as \vell as to the larg-est shipper and the regular traveler; that you should be perfectly frank in all business dealings: that you should always be considerate and patient, and that you should do all in your power to make the services of the road satis-factory for whom they are performed. "\Vhile everything possible should be done. for the ac-commodation of those doing business with the road. care should be exercised not to promise the impossible in the, way of facilities or service. \Vhen failure to fulfLll such a prOm-ise follows, the man 'who made it may he able to shift re-sponsibility to the operating or some other department or Arizona. A reduction of from 1:'j to 18 cents to all stations on the Oregon Short Line in Utah, Idaho, Montana and eastern Oregon will be made shortly. The Rock Island has made a horizontal reduction of twenty per cent to western Kansas. The Burlington has made a reduction of twelve to twenty per cent as far east as 1TcCook, Neb., and as far west as Billings, 1'10. The rate on pig tin from New York to Denver has been reduced from $1.11 to 93 cents a hundred. The changes noted above went into effect on February 15. It is expected that other roads will announce similar reductions to take effect March 1. Chili Wants "Little Brown Men." ,Vhile many Americans vie"", the deluge of Japs with alarm, little Chili down in South America is inviting them with open arms and promises of extraordinary liberality. She offers forty acres of rich land to the J ap settler, twenty more to each son over eighteen years of age, a yoke of oxen, a set of farm implements and $15.00 a month in hard cash for the fir,';t twelve months of residence. Such a proposition seems attractive enough to nearly depopulate the Japan~se island. 18 OWQSSOFactory Notes. Business in Owosso is good. The furniture factories are busy and everything points to a great year in this city. The Woodard Furniture Company had an excellent trade in Grand Rapids in January. Their new line of Circassian walnut and mahogany chamber furniture was much ad-mired, and the whole line, including the above woods, birch, Made by Woodard Furniture Co., Owono, Mich. birdseye maple and quarter sawed oak sold well. Trade keeps right up, and if anything, grows better all the time. They have just contracted with the Grand Rapids Veneer \\larks to put up their dry kilns with their new system, and will be in better shape than ever before to take care of their orders. The Robbins, Table Company is having a fine business. Sales so far this year are ahead of last year, and that was t'.le best in the history of the company. The American Blowcr Company has just fitted up this plant with two moist air kilns with a capacity of 75,000 feet, which is double Cut which they had before the fire which destroyed their form~r kilns a few weeks ago.· The Estey Manufacturing Company will soon erect an addition to their factory containing about 4,000 square feet of floor space. They are elljoying a fine trade, and in July will bring out some finer goods than they had to show ill January. A Cane Chair. "The stranger, who had long white hair, good features, singularly bold and well defined for an old man, and dark, bright, penetrating eyes, looked round with a smile and sa-luted the carrier's wife by gravely inclining his head. "His garb was very Quaint and odd-a long, long way be-hind the time. Its hue was brown all over. In his hand he held a great brown club or walking stick, and striking this upon the floor, it fell asunder and became a chair. in which he sat down quite composedly."-Charles Dickens, in "Crick-et on the Hearth." RIGHT MAN IN THE RIGHT PLACE. Louis Kanitz, president of the Muskegon Valley Fur-niture Company, who has served four years as a member of the board of managers of the Michigan Soldiers' Home, lo-cated at Grand Rapids, has been re-appointed for another term by Governor \\Tarner. The re-appointment of Mr. Kanitz is heartily approved by all who know of what he has done for the So1diers' Home. He is greatly interested in the institution, in fact, has made it something like. a hobby. It is conceded that he has given it more time and attention than any other man ever connected with its management. During the past four years it has been nothing unusual for }Ir. Kanitz to spend days and even weeks looking after the interests of the Home and he has done it without financial recompense. New Furniture Dealers. Central Furniture Company, Paterson, N. J. Donald Furniture Company, Newark, N. ]. Geo. E. Tole & Co., Lancaster, Pa. r>.1ackley, IVlah,an & Co., Pittsburg, Pa. Bariteau & Girouard, :::lashua, N. H. F. R. & Robert \Vadsworth, Pittsburg, Pa. The Julius Campbell Company, Traverse City, l\Iich. Samuel Adkr, Hattiesburg, Miss. H. R. Fox, Bay City, Mich. O. L. McKee, Joplin, Mo. A. \10.1. Bills, vVaterloo, la. Petti Bros., Germantown, Neb. Peoplcs' Hardware & Furniture Co., V\linfield, La. Spande Furniture Company, Logan, Utah. Hillstrom & Bennett, Vancouver, vVash. "V. P. Sherman, Eureka, Mont. No. 244 Music Cabinet. --Manufacturersof-- BOOKCASES, LADIES' DESKS, COMBINATION CASES, MUSIC CABINETS, and CHINA CLOSETS. New Catalogue ready for mailing. Mr. Dealer: If you want your ordeI filled promptly and want goods that you can make good profi.ts on du.ring the commg spnng sea-son, mail your orders to us. We solicit trial orders. Sheboygan Novelty Company SHEBOYGAN, WISCONSIN, U. S. A. ~MIEfHIG7}-N Changes in Firms, Transfers, Etc. Poe & \-Vhitson, Gowen, }10., sold to J. P. Holbert. Charles \Vrenu, StOCktOl1, Mo., succeeded by \Vrenn & Young. A. \f>y'. Beswick, \VinfielJ, Kan., sold to L. C. Long-side. J. \V. Parks, Jr., succeeds Dixon & Parks, Hillsboro, Tex. J. A. Dahlgrectl, Enid, Okla., sold to Alva Goff. O. VI/. Strong's Sons, Albuquerque, X. 1'1'1.s,ucceeded by F. H. Strong. "Vestfal! & 1Jitchcll, \i\/eldon, la., sold to C. E. Bodley. YVeichel & Tatul11, Plymouth, Neb., sold to Clement Haake. Franklin (.Keb.) Furniture & }fllSic Company, succeeded by P. L. Sturtevant. J. P. Gilbert & Co., Falls City, Ore., sold to ]. C. Talbot. J. C. l\lcAdams & Co., Kaw, Okla., sold to B. E. John-son & Co. e. B. \Vebb, Eddy, Tex., succeeded by Beard & \"ebb. 19 Benton & Co., Fordyce, Ark., succeeded by the Thomas Furniture Company. O. L. Harris, Mercer, Mo., sold to Moore & Mollestoll. J esse Child Mercantile Co., Richmond, Mo., succeeded by A. B. Conrow. Zimmerman, Clyde & CO.,Dodge City, Kan., sold to Doolittle & Traynor. The manufacturers of Rockford do not cater to the mait order houses nor have they encouraged the efforts made by certain promoters to establish a factory in that city to man-ufacture lovv.grademail order furniture. Representations that have been published in the news and trade papers that the manufacturers of that city were catering to the trade of the mail order houses were erroneous, based upon false infor-mation, and the Artisan cheerfully publishes this fact be-cause an injustice has been inflicted upon a manufacturing community that should not have been subjected to it. PART OF BEDROOM SUITE No. 1431. Made by the Nelson-Matter Furniture COO. Graud Rapids, Mich. 20 MUST OPPOSE PARCELS POST. What It Would Mean to the Retailers and: to Small Towns. One of the features of the national convention of retail merchants, held in Dallas, Tex., recently, was an address on "The Parcels Post; Its Rc'lation to the Retail Trade," by George E. Green, editor of the Retail Merchants' J ourmil of Peoria, Ill., in the course of which he said: "If there is anyone question before the public today in which the retailer is directly interested, it is the Parcels Post agitation, which has been before congress during the past several sessions. The advocates in favor of a Parcels Post measure for this country afc· very active and are ex-erting a powerful influence in its favor. The principal agency for advocating the passage of parcels post enactment for this country is what is knmvn as 'The Postal Progress League.' The question would n~turally arise-what inter-ests compose the Posta'] Progress League, and the question is very easily answered in the statement, that the Postal Progress League represents the large catalogue mail order houses of our country. Literature is sent out by the Postal Progress League, making the statement that 'The only things that stand between the eighty millions of people of the United States and the Parcels Post enactment, arc the ex-press eompanies and the small shop keepers.' In the eyes of the Postal Progress League, these two intere.sts seem to he insignificant and should'be brushed aside. "I cannot stand here before you with any apology III favor of express companies, but I do stand here hefore you as a staunch advocate for the preservation to this country of an avocation in which over one-half million people, men of intelligence, men following an avocation for a livelihood and the passage of a parcels post enactmcnt would mean, if not complete ruination,: at least ,;'I. ,serious crippling of qt.e business avocation of this so [arge·'{clas5,of represen'tative husiness men of our co~n;try, and th'c'T'~'1t're,ac~ording'to a conservative estimate, from statistics which I gather one mil-llon retail dealers i.n thc United States. The twelvi:'. principal lines, such as dry goods, grocers, clothing, boots and shoes, drugs, jewelry, millinery, mens' furnishing goods, stationery and books, harness and carriages and furniture, make up in excess of 350,000. There are about. 175,000 genenl stores, carrying either several or combining all lines. On the other hand, the catalogue and mail order houses are comparatively few. \Vhile they as an individual business represent a larger investment than the average dealer, the aggregate capital of over one-half million of retailers, far exceeds the aggregate capital of the mail or~ler houses, viewed in a comparative sense, and in justice and equity to all business interests of the country I would consider a Parcels Post enactment as in favor of a very small proportioq of merchants as against the many, and would greatly question the wisdom of congress in pass-ing any legislative act in favor of the few against a great ma-jority. "The principal tendency of and the desire for enactment of parcels post is to serve directly from the producer to the consumer, which means the practical elimination of all mid-dle men. The thought of receiving goods from first hands, theoretically sounds quite agreeable and has an alluring fas-cination for the purchaser. But connected therewith are many things which not only the retailer, but the public in general, should carefully consider. The tendency under the operation of a parcels post enactment would be for a concen-tration and consolidation of business interests into a few large trade centers, to the detriment of the smaller towns and vi11ages throughout our country. The future of the retailer depends upon the growth and prosperity of the smaller towns and villages, and therein the residents of the rural districts are also vitally interested. * * '" * * "It is true, that the tendency of rural residents, is to trade away from home. We; need not, however, confine our attention entirely to the residents of Tural districts, but we find that this tendency is growing even in our smaller cities and towns, and as a matter of special regret, it has come under my observation and experience, that merchants them-selves have this tendency to a large extent, This tendency has been created, it has been nurtured, and encouraged by catalogue mail order houses. *' *' '4' '4' "" "The relation of Parcels Post to the retailer is alarming. It is one that deals with the perpetuation of retailing as an avocation and in the thought of how catalogue mail order buying was created, there lies a great study for the retailer. The press of our country is a great power. The press is a great molder of sentiment and any question handled by the press, although there be two sides to the question, if viewed only from the one side, sentiment is inevitably created in that direction and so I find an unusually large number of pub-lications that arc being utilized in favor of this proposed measure and against the direct interest of the vast army of retailers in our land. In dealing with any question it is not only the purpose of holding to view the great dangers and particularly in dealing with the topic under consideration Made by Century Furniture Company, Grand Rapid.. Mich. there call be no question as to the relation of the retail mer-chant to parcels post; every indication demonstrates that Parcels Post is antagonistic to the retailer and the retailer must exert himself if he will preserve unto himself and future generations the privilege to deal in commodities in a small way. I would therefore give these few thoughts for your consideration: "First of all, I would say that since Parcels Post is being agitated by a few large interests for their particular advan-tage and since they arc seeking legislative enactment to enhance their particular business interests to the detriment of the retailer or small shop keepers of the country, the small shop keepers must unite in a determined and vigorous protest against its passage. One thing is certain, that even though we concede that cata\oguemail order houses are not with us to stay, -..vecannot and never should concede that they are a greater power or influence than the retailers of this country and that the retailer can and must prevent any legislation at the hand of our federal government which means rUination to his business. * * * * * "The relation of the retai'! dealer to Parcels Post must at all times be an unequivocal opposition and he must see that the same does not become a law." MAlL ORDERS TO KiI(~en (a~inets of· Oualil~ Sell at sight, and make a greater profit than other lines of kitchen cab-inets. Send for catalogue. Th. BBST of QUALITY f" least money. We have dcmbled our CllDacity aod will be better able to take caEe of oUE trade than before. We solicit your patronage. C. F. SCHMOE & CO. SHELBYVILLE, IND. 21 ARE THE JOY OF THE CHILDREN. SPRATT'S CHAIRS Our new CHILD'S MISSION ROCKER was a winner from the start. Write f~r Catalogueand prius. Our line is large and prkes are right. We make CHAIRS fo' GROWN-UPS as well as CflILDREN". GEORGE SPRATT & CO. Sheboygan, Wis. Say you law this ad in the Michigan Arti-san. SAFETY and COMFORT Are Best Secured by Using Lockless Metal Folding Beds Made by the SAFETY FOLDING BED CO., Ltd. " \ £ ~, II DETROIT, MICHIGAN Full Line of Samples shown at the Furniture Exhibition Building, 1411 Michigan Ave., Chicago. Second Floor, Front Middle Section. 22 OUR NEW 1901 LINE OF ALASKA REFRIGERATORS with side ice chamber is made in twenty-one styles, zinc lined, white enamel and porcelain lined. Our cataloguewill interestyou. IFritefir it. THE ALASKA REFRIGERATOR CO. Exclusive Refrigerator Manufacturers. MUSKEGON, MICHIGAN. EFFECTIVE ARGUMENTS. Mail Order Catalogue Patrons Thoroughly Convinced by Odious Comparisons. A retailer in a small. town located near a 'large mail order center, has a good method for keeping the home trade from ordering from the mail order houses. He was driven to this idea by circumstances and has followed out the plan long enough to see that it has been a big help to him, and one thing in favor of any kind of advertising which holds trade at home is the fact that once you thoroughly convert a customer, be is not likely to again relapse into the mail order habit. His neighborhood several years ago had quite a mail-order craze, and its effect was pretty bad on the local dealers. This particular dealer, however, was not satisfied that it was paying anyone but the mail-order house. A good friend came in one day and told about a neighbor who had pur-chased some article through a catalogue, and that it was very unsatisfactory. Our dealer at once saw his 'opportu-nity, and sent word to the man to bring it into the store and he would allow him the full price paid for it on a better grade which he'had in stock. Upon arrival of the mail-order house article, he explained to the owner that he wanted to buy it just to show the difference between a good article and an imitation, and asked to be allowed to tell where he got it. This privilege was readily granted., and the man purchased the kind of an article he had expected to get from the mail-order house when he ordered, and went home well pleased that he had made a good turn of a bad bargain. The dealer made a couple of good big cards, one for the mail-ordcr article, giving the price it sold for, and calling attention to the differcnce in quality between it and the gen-uine, which was displayed beside it, bearing a card, giving its price, and the strong points of superiority. This at-tracted the attention of all customers, and a little talk with each one who mentioned it caused them to go away with a better idea of the real value of mail-order purchases, all the bargain-counter features of their offers having been explained away. He always told them honestly that if they wanted to spend less money than good goods cast they could get cheaper qualities at the mail-order houses at cheaper prices, but that the quality was always cheaper, and he could not afford to handle it, because he was selling goods to his neighbors and felt that he had to give good value. After his regular trade had seen the two articles side by each, where they could be handled and closely inspected, he put them in his show window, where they could be seen by everyone who passed by. The result of this display was so very apparent that he decided to carryon the campaign for a considerable length of time, and took in several other unsatisfactofy articles from neighbors, giving them the same kind of publicity. The next visit he made to the city he went around to the 1l1ail-order houses, took their catalogue and selected a number of things in his line which looked to be particularly cheap and asked to see the goods themselves. He was allowed to in-spect them, and found them exactly as expected, in nearly every instance. They showed ,they were not of the value of Grand Rapids Caster Cup Co. 2 Parkwood Il.ve., Grand RapIds, Millh. We are now putting on the best Caster Cups with cork bases ever offered to the trade. These are finished in Golden Oak and White Maple in a light finish. These goods are admirable for polished floors and furn-ure rests. They will not sweat or mar. PRICES: Size'2X incbes ...... $4.00 per hundred SizeZ%, inches······ 5.00 per hundred Try a Sample Order. F. O.B. Grand Rapids. goods imitated) so he made several purchases, and while at the wholesale houses bought some of the goods imitated, where there was not already plenty of them in stock, When he got home, he cut the picture and description of onc of these articles out of the catalogue and put it on the article, then put the priee and. description on the imitated artic1e, and a big card calling to the difference in quality was put in the window with them. But one mail-order article wa's used in each dis-play, and attention was always called to the difference in value, on a big window card. Californians Are Greedy. A correspondent of the Artisan, writing from Oakland, Cal., under date of February 16, 1907, says: "Dealers make 150 per cent. on mixed carloads of goods shipped from Grand Rapids and· Chicago. Several· are not satisfied with the profit they are earning, and talk of establishing factories, in the expectancy of obtaining goods cheaper. It's the old story, but few are wise enough to be satisfied with a' good thing." 23 A Beautiful Daven-port by Day and a Comfortable 4 ft., 6 in. Bed at Night. fl No double somersaults--~works smooth and easily from the front. C] Finished in our Old Ivory it is the swellest thing on the market. g Mattresses upholstered in Bagdad aT Corduroy Velours or T apeftry, and filled with twenty pounds Sanitary Felt; Center of Curled African Fibre. g A soft elattic Bed, it makes a deep cozy Davenport. q Try a sample on approval. We take the risk. HARD MFG. CO. 117 - 133 Tonawanda St., Bnffalo, N. Y. Charge Railroads With Conspiracy. J obhers and merchants in the larger cities on the ?vlis-sauri river have filed a complaint with the interstate com-mission charging that the Chicago & Northwestern, Burling-ton and Rock Island entered into an unlawful conspiracy to prevent them from securing reasonable freight rates from the eastern seaboard. The complaint alleges that these railroads conspired together to stop the St. Paul and the Great V\iestern from putting in rates which would have given to the Missouri job-bers relief. It is declared the roads named threatened to boycott the 51. Paul and the Great \Vestern, to treat them as unfriendly connections, to refuse to route business ave,r their lines and to do everything in their power to destroy their business, provided they made the readjustment of the Missouri river rates which they were then contemplating. But for these iJ1ega1 acts, it is stated, the Missouri river merchants would have securcd a reduction on freight rates in 1906 ",,-hich would have permitted them to compete with other jobbing districts including Chicago. They therefore petition the commission to order these rates put in by all the railroads. It is claimed by the petitioners that, when compared with the rates from the seaboard to 51. Paul and Minneapolis, the The only CASTER CUP that will not Mar or Sweat A NewCaster Cup, it furniture Protector iIIndill Rest We guarantee perfect salls-fadion. We know we have the only perfect ca"ter cup ever made. This cup is in two sizes, as follows: 2U Inch and 3 ineh. ana we use the cork bottom. You know tbe rest. Small size, $3.60 per 100 Large siz.e, 4.50 per 100 F O. B. Grand Rapids. Try it ana be convineed. Our Concave Bottom Card Block does not touch the sur-face, but upon the rim, permit. ting a dre;ulation of air under the block, thereby preventing moisture or marks of any k.ind. This is the only card block ofits klnd onthe market. Price $3.00 per 100 Srand Rapids Casler CUPCo" 2 .,,'wood A.e.• Srand Rapids, Mich. Also can be had of LUSSKY, WHITE &. COOLIDGE, 111-113La(i(eSr., Chfcaoa rates to the cities on the l\:fissouri river are discriminatingly high. This view of the case was taken by the St. Paul and the Great \\'estern, and, it is alleged, but for the terrorizing methods said to have been used, a correction in the rates would have been made. The Chicago Commercial Associa-tion also opposed the changes, claiming Chicago would suffer. The five ciass rates from the seaboard to St. Paul are $1.15, $0.99, $0.76, $0.53 and $0.46, and to the Missouri river points $1.47, $1.20, $0.\13, $0.68 and $0.57. The petitioners ask for the following rates from )Jew York and the seaboard: $1.10, $O.95?"i, $0.727"2, $O.5n-;;; and $0.44. The distances from the East to the twin cities and to the Missouri river points are said to be substantially the samc. The railroad defense for this disparity in rates is water competition, which lowers the twin cities tariffs, A hearing and action on the complaint is expected at a meeting of the commission to be held in Chicago early in rdarch: The deadliest problem is not a hard one to solve, but the practice of the solution is more difficult. Every mer-chant has it ·within his power to restrict credits. How he may do so wisely is a different thing. Therein experience and discussion assjst greatly. The White Directory =====OF MANUFACTUORFE==R=S== FURNITURE, PIANOS, ORGANS, IN-TERIOR FINISHES and Kindred Indus-tries is now ready. Price Send in your order. l5.00 Who Ite P"r1nting CO. PPRUI8NUTSEHRESRs,ENGBRIANVDEERRSS: 2.20 LYON ST .. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. GLOBE SIDEBOARDS ;--------- ARE THE -----------, BEST ON THE GLOBE FOR THE MONEY GET OUR CATALOGUE. Men/i," the .MICHIGAN ARTISAN when writi"g. Globe Furniture No.257. Price $18.50. Has 48 Inch Top,S Legs and is Highly Polished. It's One of the "SUPERIOR" -- ..~== There are many more, all Peaches Pie and Pudding. Send for Catalogue and get a taste. THE BOCKSTEGE fURNITURE CO. EV4NSVILLE IND. Company EVANSVILLE, INDIANA. Kar~es. War~ro~es are Good Wardrobes GOOD Style Construction Finish PRICES RIGHT Write for Calalugue Karges Furniture Company, EVANSVILLE, IND. MAKE MONEY MR. DEALER BY SELLING THE D055f KITCHEN CABINETS CUPBOARDS SAFES and WARDROBES Best Goods Lowest Prices The "ELI" f No Stock 00 OLDING BEDS ARE E tnplete without the Eli Bed . PROFrl~I~N~RND LI 0• MILLE R S In Mantel and Up,;.ht 5 &, CO. ~,;~:rsoaInnd~dpiariiDc~eas ~~. BOSSE FURNITURE CO., e or new catalope. et today, It will pay Evansville, Ind. yEoVuAtoNSVILLE DESK CO. Manufacturers of tl send us an order. Writ f DESKS on the mrt.r~e BEST VALUE OP 26 HORN BROS. MFG. CO. 281 to 291 W. Superior St.. CHICAGO. ILL. MANUFACTURERS OF Chamber Suites, Odd Dressers, Chiffoniers l4D1ES' DRESSING TABLES to match Made ill Golden Oak, Genuine Maholf<l:DYVeneered, Birdseye Maple, White Enamel Highly Pohshed or Dull Finish. We also make a line of PRINCess DRESSfRSfrom $13.00 up, In Quarter-Sawed Oak. Mahogany and Birdseye Maple. Veneered If you. have not nc~ved OUTSpring Supplement, ask lor it. SAMPLES SHOWN BY PECK &: HILLS 1319 Michi~D Avenue, and HALL &: KNAPP, 187 Michigan Avenue, Chicago. MOON DESK CO., Muskegon, Mich. OFFICE DESKS SEE OUR NEW TYPEWRITER CABINET No. 924. Muskegon Valley Furniture Co. Muskegon Mich ••. Odd Dressers Chiffoniers Wardrobes Ladies' Toilets Dressing Tables Mabogany Inlaid Goods Ladies' Desks Music Cabinet. LimJ on 8ale in New Man1tfac-iturero' Bftild-ing, ()RAND RAPIDS. Tlte Sargent Mfg. Co. MUSKEGON, MICH. ;. Bachelors' Cabinets Ladies' Desks Extra Large Chiffoniers --- __ Aloo Manufacturers and Exporten: of _ ROLLING CHAIRS Chairs adapted to' all kinds of invalidism, both for house and street use. OVER FORTY DESIGNS TO SELECT FROM 27 REX [::~~]MATTRESS CHAS. A. FISHER & CO., 1319 Michigan Ave., Chicago. WRITE FOR BOOKLET AND PROPOSITION WarehOUlelll: ST. LOUIS, MO. KANSAS CITY. MO. MINNEAPOUS, MINN. PEORIA, ILL. LINCOLN, ILL. CHICAGO, ILL. STILL ON THE GRILL. Grand Jury Investigation of the Alleged School Seat Trust Not Yet Finished. The investigation of the so-called "School Furniture Trust" which began before the grand jury in Chicago on February 4, has not been completed. So far no indictments have been returned, but F. A. Holbrook the managing director of the American Seating Company has been ar-rested on comp"laint of District Attorney Sims. It is ex-pected, however, that several indictments will be secured, including officia'ls of the American School Furniture Com-pany. A. H. Andrews & Co., Sherwood & Co" The Super-ior Manufacturing Company, E. H. Stafford & Co. and others. The evidence is said to have tended to show that while several apparently distinct concerns were engaged in the manufacture and sale of school and church furniture, they were really combined under a "gentleman's agreement." \Vhen the investigation began it was supposed the American Seating Compa.ny had aC<luired title to all the other con-cerns in the combine, but the evidence is said to have shO\-vn that such is not the fact. It appears to have been organized merely to manage sales for the others and it did not have complete contro! of the sales. The government relies for an indictme.nt .Rot only on the showing made regarding school furniture, but that of thea-tres and churches as well. Among the theatre owners especiaHy there has been much complaint, for here the persons dealt with were private individuals, who are usually more canny in such things than a public hody spending public funds. The man who is credited with stirring up the govern-ment along this line of action, is Eugene Carpenter, a lawyer in Grand Rapids, Mich., who was formerly connected with the Haney School Furniture Company of that city. President Boyd, of the American Seating Company is reported as denying the existence of a "gentlemen's agree-ment." I-Ie states that the American Seating Company ..v.as formerly known as the American School Furniture Com-pany, which was organized in 1899 with a capital of $10,- 000,000. They did business under that title until April of last year, when a new company, known as the American Seadng Company was organized and purchased the assets of the oM concern. The charter calls for nine directors. There are two vacancies at present and Mr. Boyd names the seven, now acting as follows: O. M. Stafford, Cleveland; F. Billmeyer, New York; S. H. Carr, Dayton; W. P. Orr, Piqua, 0.; ]. P. Drouilard, New York; Edward Case, In-dianapolis; and T. M. Boyd, Chicago. )..lr. Boyd was asked why it was thought best to re-organize the American School Furniture Company into the American Seating Company. He hesitated about replying, but final1y admitted it was a "financial" reason which he did not care to discufiS. More than ordinary secrecy has been maintained as to the identity of witnesses. It is known that many of them live in Racine, Grand Rapids and Buffalo, but these for the most part are employes of the American Seating Company. Chicago men in the employ of the same company have also been subpoenaed, as have the employes of the A. H. An-drews & Co. and the Sherwood Company. It has been reported that the investigation has shown that the American Seating Company contro']5 the product of the furniture plant in the Indiana penitentiary, but the report has not been confirmed. One of the men who is we'll informed as to the affairs of the American School Furniture Company says it is true that the reorganization was necessary for "financial reasons" as stated by President Boyd. It appears that immediately after the organization of the old company-the American School Furniture Company-bonds were issued, or author-ized, to the extent of $1,500,000. The bonds did not sell readily to the public but most of them were taken by the stockholders. Then it was found that the bond issue had impaired the company's credit and in order to restore it, the reorganization was effected, the bondholders exchanging their bonds for stock in the new company. It has been surmised that the alleged "trust" was held together by a plan invented by a Rochester lawyer, named Oviatt-the Oviatt plan-by which each member of the com-bine executes an immediate note for a certain amount, the dates to be filled in and the notes thus made negotiable, due and payable, in case of failure to stand by the agree-ment, but gentlemen who are supposed to know ,-ieclare that no such notes have been given and that there is no written agreement-that the old company simply bought the plants, paying for the most part in stock and bonds and that the new company has simply taken charge and contin-ued the business-that the only object of the reorganization was to call in the bonds and thus strengthen the company's credit. Edith-T do so admire a man who says the right thing at the right time. Harold-So do I-especially when I'm thirsty. 28 .:f'~ J:'vl.IF,HIG7J-N , TRAGICAL TALES OF SIGNS. Hard Luck and Business Reverses Cause a Demand for Window Cards. Did you ever notice anything in the advertising columns of a newspaper that told a tale in brief as plainly as if it filled a column of the reading matter in another section of the newspaper? Some people read between the lines roman-ces and tragedies of the signs as readily. A city sign-painter has recently chatted entertainingly about the suggestiveness of his work. Ever since r first learned my trade, he said, I have been a reader of signs as well as a maker of them. Between the lines of many a sign I read a story-a talc of triumph or a tragedy of ddeat. Again, I have acquired the habit of industry, and ,by industry I thrive, pay rent, meet bilts, keep square with my fellowman and am in tbe shop when wanted. I painted a window card for a prominent merchant years ago. It read, "Boy ':Vanted."It was a ,remarkable boy who got the job. As I lettered it, I imagined who the boy would be and how he wou"ld turn out. I kept my eye on the boy who took the job, the merchant's daughter for a wife, and a place in the finn. That was a romance, and a fact. In my time I have painted many a "Boy \\'anted." Vv'ell, some of them did not turn out so well as my first hero, more than one was not wanted long and went to the bad. It was only the other day that a man along in years dropped in on me. He purchased a "Furnisbed Room" card and T could not hide the expression of surprise on my face. He explained that he had lost a fortune since retiring from bU'siness. He told me that the only thing that was saved from the wreck was the family home which, as good luck would have it, was in the name of his wife. As he paid for the placard he said sarcastically: "My wife has furnished rooms to rent in the house and I have a vacancy in the upper story." I have in my shop now a "Piano Lessons" sign that is a dirge of buried hopes. The job was done to order for as nice a woman as ever trod the -earth, the flower of a family of high degree. No end to their wealth, so everybody thought. Father died, left an immense fortune in trust. Trustee, a scoundrel, beggared the estate and skipped. When the exposure took place, girl was about to marry a nab. He had a frozen heart on account of the changed financial con-ditions, and the wedding, already announced, was postponed. The Lord didn't postpone the measley chap. The races and the bucket shop got him, and if he lives long enough he will be peddling shoestrings Saturday nights and panhandling the rest of the week. The brave little woman is now giving piano lessons to support herself and mother. Everything they had went and they are the poorest of the poor. Another sign reads: "Receiver's Sale. Entire Stock to be closed Out." There -if, a story goes with that. A man in trade crawled all the way up the ladder by patient degrees, winning every inch and every dollar by hard work, square dealing, and clean methods. Then at the height, Mr. man got dizzy from a swelled head and thought that he knew it all, made some blunders that jarred him, but taught him no lesson. Then he got gay, became extravagant, then reck-less; instead of hauling in sail, he sprl.::ad more canvas, threw discretion to the winds, and his craft turned turtle. Mr. :vIan is in a sanitarium, his affairs in the hands of the re-ceiver, and his wife was in yesterday and ordered a window card. "Board by'the Day or \\'eek." I sell "Girl \Vanted" signs to the restaurant folks. The last one that T disposed of produced unexpected results. A wicked wag stole it out of the window and fastened it to the coat tail of a bachelor friend and he paraded the whole length of the street with the announcement in view, and as he passed down the street a pretty young woman ran after and halted him and removed the sign with many apo'logies and blushes. That strange meeting led to an acquaintance and a wedding. Bennett Company's Booklet. The Charles Bennett Furniture Company, Charlotte, Mich., have just issued a neat little pocket booklet on buffets, chinas and sideboards. This is a forerunner of their regular catalogue which will be ready to mail about March 1. The Made by Ch... Sennett Furniture Co., Charlotte, Mieh. above cut and the one in their advertisement on another page of this paper, will give a slight idea of the beauty of design in this new line. These are money makers for merchants because they are excellent values, well made and finished, and cheap. Great Demand! ·for New Freight Cars. Orders for steel cars amounting to $150,000,000 are now in the hands of the steel car building companies of the Pitts-burg and other districts for construction this year and in. quiries are coming for cars that already give indications of orders amounting to from' $20,000,000 to $30,000,000 more. This is startling in the face of so much talk that the railroads have been compelled to curtail their buying because of failure to secure funds. Despite ~the enormous aggregate of cars now in the hands of the steel car builders the railroads would be willing to buy many thousands more if they could be assured deliv-ery within the next twelve months. Practically every steel car building company in the country is booked ahead for more than one year, and plans are on foot for extensions that will "largely increase capacity. The need for cars was never more urgent than at present, but the buying has been limited only by the capacity of the builders. Recently the Standard Steel Car Company which has 6,000 men at work at its Butler plant, began the con-struction of a $3;000,000 steel car works at Hammond, Ind. to care for the orders which are threatening to overflow it. This new plant 'will be almost a duplicate of the Butler works, and it is expected to be in operation in August. Al-ready the railroads of the \-Vest have placed orders for cars to be constructed there during this year. This plant wilt relieve the Butler works and allow orders for eastern roads to be handled more quickly at Pittsburg. Good Sellers Sample Always. Order Try No. 46, Single Cone. .2.00 Net. GENUINE TEMPERED ALL STEEL WIRE MATTRESSES MANUFACTURED BY SMITH ®. DAVIS MFG. CO.•St. Louis. Mo. Callinet Makers In these days of close competition, need the best p08liible equipment, and this they can have in • • • • BARNES' Hand and Foot POWER Machinery Our New "and and Foot Power Circular Saw No.4 The strollgest, most powerful, and in every way the best machine of it!l kind ever made, for rippiJlg, cross-cutting, boring and grooving. Send for our New Catalogue. "W. F. ®. JOHN BARNES co. 654 :Ruby Street. :Rochford. Ill. 29 30 WILL AWAKEN LONDONERS Marshall Field's Former Manager to Give Them a Depart-ment Store on American Lines. London is experiencing a new invasion by the American ideas and has been told to wake up by Harry Gordon Sel-fridge, former manager of Marshall Field & Co's retail store in Chicago. Mr. Selfridge has been in London for the past year looking over the situation and has come to the conclu-sion that the London shoppers need an up~to-date depart-ment store. An article in the London Daily Telegraph con-cerning the enterprise quotes Mr. Selfridge as follows: "Shopping in London presents a problem that will be interesting to solve. I confess it fascinates me. I had prac-tically retired after the Marshall Field store had been set going on a successful basis; but the business holds me still. The direction of a large number of men and women toward one honorable end of legitimate success, in which all har-moniously co-operate, seems to me an ambition that is worth while. "If a big store in London is rU,n on lines that are elastic and adaptable; if it starts without any old world prejudices and methods except the essential virtues of hard work and honesty; if it deliberately trics to please the women, first, last and all the time; if it is never afraid of a new devel~ opment merely becausc it is a ch<:wge; if it rca'lizes that a woman's shopping can be made more pleasurable to her than ever was the case before-then I venture to think a real ,vant will have been supplied." The invasion seems to have bccn complete for th('. Lon-don Press sounds a warning note to the London merchants . when it says: "For years the English producer and ,;endor has had the best article on the market in many trades. But he 'win never take the trouble to change his methods of sale, or to alter his pattern to suit any of his customers. If they don't like what he offers them they can go to-well, as a matter of fact, they have gone to Germany; not for the best article, which England still possesses, but for the article they want, which England will not sell them. ::'-lotcontent with losing the markets of the world, England's merchants are now to see the actual trade of London itself challenged before their very eyes. "The writing has long been upon the waH, and few who ran have read. Those few have profited accordingly. But the majority, who will lose their trade because they will not change their old habits, will suffer; and it will serve them rig~t. But his words were uttered to ears already sealed in stertorous slumber. Now it is the sleeper's pockets that wi!! suffer, 'and the appeal may prove more intelligible. The c~mpetition is close at home; the gage of battle is thrown down on his front door step." The motto of the Se"lfridge & Vv'aring store, as it will be known will be "integrity of business principles, the highest quality of merchandise and accuracy in all our statements. \Ve shall stock only the best. The purchaser remembers "enry Schmit &. Co. "opkln. _Ad"_rrlet St:t. Cincinn_U. 0, K..U::.llS or UPHOLSTERED FURNITURE LODG~ AND PULPIT, PARLOR LIBRARY, HOTEL AND CLUB ROOM the quality of goods long after he forgets their prices According to the architect's drawings the plans for the new store provide for a magnificent building. 250 by 200 feet fronting on three streets. The date of the opening has not yet been announced. An Endless Belt Window, It remained for an ingenious and enterprising Cleveland merchant, says a contemporary, to discover a way of mul-tiplying his available window display space by four-a seem-ing impossibility. This is how he did it: The window floor was arranged 50 that it re.volved like all endless chain over two clrums at either elld; the window Chas. Bennett furniture CO. CHARLOTTE, MICHIGAN Buffets, China Closets, Side- Boards No. 615 Buffet. Write tor Pocket Edillon of the BEST SELLINGLINE you ever handled. Say the Michigan Artisan told you SQ. floor extending back into the store the depth of the window and being s.eparated by a black velvet cloth. The different aluminum articles-some two hundred in number-were wired to the moving window floor, and thus produced such a unique and striking effect as to challenge the attention of a large number of pedestrians. Before this device \',,·as installed, but fifty pieces could be shown, and that in the old time stationary stile. This enterprising merchant has i<blazed a new trail" in the window display line which merchants in many other lines of business. may find it to their advantage to employ. The device was home-made, simple in design, inexpensive, and driven by a small electric motor concealed below the floor. Every man stamps his own value upon the coin of his character in his own mint, and he cannot expect to pass it for more, and should not be disappointed if people do not take it for more than its face value. 31 Woodard furniture Co. of Mahogany, Circassian Walnut, BIRD'S-EYE MAPLE, Quarter Sawed Oak, BEDROOM fURN ITU RE is the sensation in the Furniture Market today. rt's the kind the best. merchants everywhere are buying. If you are not onto this, get next quick. If you say you saw this in the Michigan Artisan \\'e will let you into a get rich scheme that beats anything you e\"er saw. OWOSSO, MICHIGAN OUR 1907 LINE The New "PERFECT·· FOLDING CHAIR PATKNTEP OCT. 20, 1903. Comfortable Simple Durable Neat The Acme of Perfection in the line 01 Folding Chairs. PERFRCT CaMP"cTNESS wh«n folded. Hard maple. natural finish. WRITE FOR PRICES. No. &1 15M PEABODY SCHOOL FURNITURE CO. North Manchester, Indiana UNION FURNITURE CO. ROCKFORD, iLL. Buffets Bookcases China Closets We lead in Sty~, CQnt.lructron and Finish. See OUI CatalOille. Qur line an pern1aDelltexhibitim. 7th Floor. New M.tRllfacturer.! BuildiDe. Grand Rapid" NALLS', the Polish thai Is Making Evansville Famous. Nan's Red Star Polish dries instantly and never soften:;; or gums. No dis-agreeablt! or offensive ooor. Never set-tles or evaporates. A trial order always makes a permanent customer. Brings out the finish and gives new Ufll!:10 furniture, This PoUsb is free from add. Can be used by any child. Guaranteed to give satisfaction. Sold in 1, 2, 5 and 10 gallon cans and in barrels, also put up III 2, 3and 6 oz. bottles retailing for 100. 15c a.nd 25c. allowing a liberal profit to the retailer. Write for prices and state quantity wanted, Aperfect Polish and Cleanerfor Furniture. Office and B..r Ffx-tures. Pianos. Organs. Bicycles. Iron beds. Carrh,iea and Automobiles. We re.r~l' you to the Crescent Furl1,iture (fo" The E'IJQnsvitle Oe8k (fo" The Eli D. j!filler Folding Bed 00., and the Oity National Bank of Evansville. AMERICANPHARMACALCO., 'os UP". "ROT ST., Evansville, Ind. EXCEPTIONAL FACTORY OPPORTUNITY Do yOll wish to find all opening for a CHAIR FACTORY or would like to remove to some more favorable 10caHon? If so, it would repay rOll to at once request information about a fille location itl tbegreat timber section of Southeast Missouri along the • Liberal indll~ments are offered to secure a bona fide proposition em-ploying !Lotless than forty men. Good di.;tTibuting facilities for finished product. Correspondence is invited regarding this and other excellent opportunities for furniture, mattress, iron bed and other factories along our line~. Send forindustriat d68cripliN3 matter about the Rock Istand- If'riseo. M. SCHULTER, Industrial CommissiOlll}t. RDCk Island.Frisco Lines, 1144Friscf) Bldg" ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI. THIS PUSH BUTTON distinguishesthe "ROYAL" Morris Chairs from the other kind MORRIS CHAIRS ·--FROM-~- $6.00 to $30.00 CATALOGUE UPON APPUCATION Royal Chair Co. STURGIS. MICH. Six Years of Test Have Good Traits in Employers. The ideal employer is, no doubt, the one who gets the most efficient work from his employes with the maximum of contentment on their part. Under cover of anonymity, says a writer in \Vorld's "'lark, I can tell several stories of employers, and describe certain of the qualities that make men popular or unpopular with their employes. One was a grocer in a small western city for whom I kept books. His sales people liked him because in rush hours be worked behind the counter with them, and on the occasion when he asked overtime work, he was always on hand and did more than anyone of them. But my own lik-ing for him was based 011 two incidents which happened soon after I went to work for him. I was told that every morn-ing I was expected to sweep out the office where I worked. I disliked this small piece of drudgery because it seemed menial and I~pproached the l<boss" on the second day and said: "Me G-, am I supposed to sweep out the offiee every morning?" He responded with a simple "yes." There was no emphasis on the word, either of command or irritation, or other emotion, but it was as final as a judgment of the Supreme Court, Some. months later I had an offer of a position with a higher salary. I needed the extra money, so I went to Mr. G-- again, and said: ".:lir. G--, I like to work here and I don't wish to leave, but Blank & Co. have just offered me $60 a month-" "I'll give you that," he interrupted, in the same dispas-sionate tone as before. I stayed. I liked two qualities of the man-this instant decisiveness and the impression he always produced that he would stand by his decisions. It made us who worked for him feel that we knew just what he could be expected to do when he said a thing. THE."ROYAL PUSHBUTTON MORRIS CHAIR EstaLhsLed Suprem.lcy Another employer had a quality which won me in spite of his rather acrid disposition. \Vhenever he set me a task he took great pains to make clear just what he wanted done- ;Ind how-and when he wanted it. He would patiently. an-swer any numbeT of ,questions that would make these things clear. Then I heard no more of the task until it was done. H it were done properly, he merely said, "thank YOu." If it were wrong, or not on time, I got a scorching "call-down."' His theory was a fair one-that when he had given a man every chance. to learn what was wanted he had a right to ex-pect the results. But I appreciated especially the fact that between the time the task was set and its conclusion, I heard nothing about it from him. Other men for whom I had worked had nagged me almost to distraction. Reasons Are Necessary. A. salesman, early in his career,learns to judge his buyers, and to adapt his arguments and methods of approach to each individual case. You cannot address a different ad-vertisement to each individual, but you can get at the kind of people you are selling to and show up the points about your goods that will get them to buy. Give reasons why. That is essential, 110 matter whom you are addressing, but the specific reasons why must be adapted to your particular audience. Don't FoUow the Ban<t Wagon. Don't be a band-wagon man. He never amounts to anything. Nobody respects him. He is not even respected by himself. The world admires a plucky fighter even if he goes down in defeat. Friends know that he can be depended on, enemies know that he is to be counted on, and such a one himself feels more like a man because of it. Stand for something. Don't be a nonentity, for that is what a band-wagon man is.-Chanute (Kan.) Tribune. THE LEXINGTON Michigan Blvd. & 22d 51. CHICAGO, ILL. Refurnished and re-fitted throughout. New Management. The furniture dealers' head-quarters. Most con-venienlly situated to the furniture display houses. Inter·State Hotel CO. OWNER & PROPRIETOR E. K. eriley. Pres.; T. M. CrHey, V. Pres.; L. H. Firey. Sec- Tte3.S.. Chicago, Feb. 23.-,\1though the exposition season is a thing of the past there is enough activity in the retail mar-ket to employ the millc1s of tile buyers and sel1ers. The man-ufacturers are now reaping the benefits of their talks to the buyers at the ShO"'\'5 and the orders seem to be coming in pretty rapidly. In fact, there is no let-up to the volume of business. Salesmen in the city and on the road report good business and every body seems to be satisfied. The only difficulty experienced is with the manufacturer who either cannot get material enough to fill his orders or is unable to get cars to move his goods. The exhibition buildings have again fallen into the be-tween- season state, and with the cxccpt~on of a few buyers (mostly in the city) the attendance is very limited. Plenty of goods, hmvcver, remain on the floors and even now the furniture buyer should have little difficulty in selecting his goods. The Banta Furniture Company, which has had a won-derful growth under the management of llarvey F. Banta, has begun an expansion of its plant at Goshell, Ind. Here- Why Not Order? Say a dozen or more Montgomery Iron Display Couch Trucks sent you on approval ~ If nol satisfactory lhey can be returned at no expellse to you whalever, while the price asked is bUI a tri8e, com~ pared to the convenience Ihey afford and the economy they represent in the saving of floor space. ThiIty-two couches mounted on the Montgomery Iron Display Couch T fUcks occupy the same floor space as twelve dis~ played in the usual manner. Write for catalogue giving full descrip~ bon and price in the different finishes, to~ gether with illustrations demonstrating the use of the Giani Short Rail Bed Fastener for Jron Beds. Manufactured by H. J. MONTGOMERY PATENT"-R Silver Creek, New York, U. S. A. Dennis Wire and Iron Co., Canadian Manu~ facturers. London, Onto 711'<-T I oS' J'I~ 27ft 7 $ .a 33 9 tofore, the company has made library and extension tables -which have proved satisfactory-and now, with the erec-tion of a new building and the installment of new machinery for the purpose, a complete line of dining room furniture \-viII be manufactured in connection with its present line. \Jr. Banta assumed charge of the old factory five years ago and by his energy and ability has tripled the output. The Chicago Furniture ::'vIanufacturer's Association held its anntlal meeting Feb. 12 in the banquet hall of the Chicago Athletic Association. A large number of the members were present and occasion was taken to cc'lcbrate the birthday of the Great Em,ancipator. The Fourteenth Street Furniture Market was unex-pectedly turned in to an auto show the first of the month. The Ford 1Iotor Company's sales rooms on Michigan avenue were gutted by fire and manager l\lcCready generously ten-dered the company ample space on the first floor of the build-ing. A new furniture concern known as the ,Manufacturer's Sample Furniture Company will be opened in Chicago the middle of ~larch. The controlling parties in the venture are Sigmund Kline and Louis \\l eil, the latter former manager of the Sample Furni'ture Company of this city. The company wilt occupy five floors at 346-8 \Vabash avenue, which will give them a display space of some 30,000 feet. Both men arc \vell and favorably known to the trade and the enterprise will undoubtedly he successful. J. C. Hills, of the Peck & Hills Furniture Company, left la,st week for a trip to Cuba. He was accompanied by his wit, and th. Ruiz, manager of the foreign department. Mr. .-Jills will combine business with pleasure and expects to remain in the tropics for the next two months. Four new companies for the manufacture of furniture in Chicago have formed during the month. They are: The Empire Furniture & l\Ianufacturing Co., with a capital of $10,000. P. L. ::VlcArdle, F. P. Brodculis and A. ]. Schmidt are the incorporators. TlIc People's Portrait and Frame Company with a capital of $3,000. J. E. Dittus, H. II. Costello, 1. R. Lewis, incor-porators. 11ahogany Koveity Company, capital $10,000. To man-ufacture picture frames. Incorporators, R. J. Cook, D. B. Graham, and Vv'alter Frahicus. International Mirror Company, capital $5,000. S. C. Car-roll, E. E. V/augh and Nina Johnson, incorporators. Secretary McCready, of the new }lanufacturer's Furniture Exchange, realizing the difficulty dealers have in remembering the names of the various Chicago exhibition buildings, has decided to re-christen the name of the new exchange. It will hereafter be known as the Fourteenth Street Furniture :'darket and will continue to be the home of Chicago-made furniture. A new name has been added to the selling force of the Columbia Feather Company. ZoIa C. Green, manager of the company, has succeeded in enlisting the services of James A. Dean, former manager of Mandel Brother's metal bed and bedding department. !vfr. Dean is well known in the retail trade in Chicago and is a valuable addition to Mr. Green's growing business. A. H. Revell and family have been visiting in Washington, D. C and Palm Beach, Fla" the past month. The Derby Desk Company, 311 \J\.!abash avenue, sustained a loss of $30,000 by fire February 13. The blaze started in the basement which is used as a storeroom by the Derby company. Before the firemen could arrive the fire had spread to the first and second floors and was making danger-ous bead way. Two hours of fighting, ho",1ever, extinguished the blaze. Several other companies suffered an aggregate loss of $30,000, among them being the Chickering-Chase J 34 B'rothers Piano Co., and the Henry Holtzmann & Sons Com-pany. F. T. Plimptoh has added the line of the Spencer & Barnes to his list. The Hawks line was dropped from the Plimpton exhibit in January, when no showing was made by that company. Chas. Kindel, of the Kindel Manufacturing Company, St. Louis, was in Chicago Feb. 18 to confer with John A. Arton, the Chicago representative. Mr. Kindel reports good bus-iness in the St. Louis territory and a satisfactory season in New York. He was on his way to Toronto to look after the Canada branch of the company. Mt ~rommersberger, vice-president of Charles Emmer-ich & Co., is in New York attending to the company's bus-iness at the exposition. Condemnation proceedings have been instituted by 'the Northwestern -Railroad Company against the- factory sites nothing to do but make a settlement and vacate. How soon that will be I cannot say; it will probably be some time, though. VVe have done nothing in the matter of a site for our factory. Several locations have been offered but none has been accepted. There are so many companies affected by the ruling of the council that it will be months before we are obliged to come to a settlement." The police authorities of Chicago are still searching for W, R. Wieboldt, a furniture dealer at 1302 Belmont avenue, who, after setting fire to his store, disappeared, Every effort to locate the missing man has proven futile. On the day of the fire it was fQund that blankets satur-ated with coal oil had been hung from the ceiling of the store, which caused the p01ice to look further into the causes of the blaze. Insurance policies to the amount of over $30,000 were found, aU of which had been taken out a month or two previous to the fire. Between twenty-five and thirty com- DAVENPORT MANUFACTURED BY GRAND RAPIDS UPHOLSTERING CO., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. of the Johnson Chair Company, the L. F. Kounast Table Comrany and the Koenig & Gamer Furniture Company. This is the result of an ordinance recently pas5ed by the city council giving the 1':J orthwestern the privilege of widen-ing tqe right of way amll II).aking various other improvements in the Halsted street di~~trict. The plans of the railroad company contemplate the des-truction of a number of manufacturing pla.nts but the three companies named are the 'only ones connected with the fur-niture trade to suffer. The Johnson plant will be cut in half, the line of demarca.tion, so to speak, starting in at the south-east corner of the site at Halsted and Erie streets and con-tinuing through t,o the northwest corner on Green street. This will leave a part of the factory untouched but the ware~ rooms and office will be included in the path. The northeast corner of the Nonnast factory, on Green street opposite the Johnson plant, will be cut off, and almost the entire site of the Koenig & Gamer factory will be taken in by the proposed improvements. It is possible that the Nonnast plant will be able to stand the loss of the corner and yet retain its present location, The: other companies, however, will be obliged to remove completely.' In regard to the suit and bis plans for the future, :\/Ir. Ne1s Johnson of the Johnson Chair Company said: "We have been served with a notice that proceedings have been started but there has been nothing done so far, We will have panics were repre5ented in the policies nearly all of which wcre for $1,000. Other papers found in a satchel in the v'lie-bolelt apartment were worth $20,000. \Vieboldt's daughter disappeared at about the same time and left a note saying that both she and her father had ended their troubles in the: lake. The suicide story, however, has since been discreJited as reports from both parties have been received by friends in this city, It is now supposed that Wieboldt is hiding in St. Louk Upon the request of the American Trust and Savings Bank, receiver in the affair, an order was entered by the court permitting the receiver to sell at 'private sale the two stores owned by \Vieboldt. Mr. Flesh Changes Base. l- Vl. Flesh, the popular salesman of eron-Kills & Co., has become general sales manager for the L. C. & W. L. Cron Company of Piqua, 0., who are about to discontinue their export trade and devote their energies to satisfying the American demands for dressers and chiffoniers. ,Mr. Flesh is thoroughly competent, both horn his long exper-ience as a furniture salesman and on account of his exten-sive acquaintances with buyers in all parts of the country, to ,guarantee the sales of this company's output. Mr. :Flesh is very enthusiastic over the new patterns. He says that they are bound to make good. 35 ROBBINS TABLE COMPANY OWOSSO, MICHIGAN No. 318. American Oak. 44x48 in. Top. American Base. 7 in. Pillar. Rockford Chair and Furniture Co., Rockford, III. OUR SPRING LINE -01- Dunels. Doo~mes. Oina (IosetS. li~rarJ Cases, On sale at our ware-rooms, BLODGETT BLOCK, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., dur-ing January, 1907. 36 ·:f'~MI9]iIG7JN Detroit, Feb. 25.-The Palmer Manufacturing Company wiH soon he in full possession of their new three-story brick addition. One floor is already filled with parlor and library tables and pedestals. A large part of the first floor will be occupied with offices, which will be handsomely fitted up. The second floor will be used as a sample room, where sam-ples of their full line will be kept for the inspection of buyers. /\. new old gold finish has recently been added to the large line of finishes previously shown, and already it bids fair to rival in popularity their famous Rookwood finish. Tbey re-port their January sales in Chicago as the best for January they have ever had in that market. The Pioneer }1anufacturing Company have recently fitted up a neat set of offices on the second floor of tb'eir fac-tory, directly over the old offices; hut they are much larger, lighter and more convenient in every way. They report trade as very satisfactory, their sales in January in Chicago ·being nearly equal to their last July sales, and much greater than any January in that market. Their line of reed and rattan rockers, children's carriages and go-carts 'is large and grows in popularity every season. The Posselil1s Brothers Furniture }\{anufaeturing Com-pany report a good volume of orders on their books, and the big factory is being operated to its full capacity. Their dis-play at 1319 ~1jchigan avenue, Chicago, in january, was the largest they ever made, and their sales were corresponJ~ ingly heavy. The Safety Folding Bcd Company is another of the busy ones, and under the skillful guidance of manager Farrel is growing steadily from year to year. J. C. \Vidman & Co., made such a big display of china closets, buffets and ha1l furniture in Chicago and Kew York in January that they "caught the crowd" and are full of bus~ iness. The vVolverine Manufacturing Company and Cadillac Cabinet Company report business active. The Detroit Folding Bed Company is one of the suc-cessful ones in the way of providir.g vehicles for the babies. Some of their goods are illustrated in this issue. Look up the pictures, get their prices and prepare to gladden the hearts of the young mammas and the future presidents, dce-presidents, senators, representatives and other great men and great women who are coming to take our places in the conduct of affairs in this great and glorious nation of Uncle Sam's. The "'1'/. E. Barker furniture 'store at 178 \¥oodward avenue has been vacated, and the goods that were not sold in the recent clearing sale were moved to the Michigan ave-nue store, corner of Third street. The big Michigan avenue store is filled with goods, as the peop1e are discovering, and a good, steady business is carried on. Owing to the putting in of the foundation of the huge eighteen story office building at Griswold and Congress streets, the foundations of the ~1offat building, (in '",hich Geo. J. Reindel & Co's office furniture store was located) re-quired to be strengthened, which rendered it necessary to vacate the premises. Temporary quarters are now occupied on Farmer street, but the fine six-story building now being erected for them wilt give th(',m in a few weeks, one of the [Lnest furniture stores in the city or state. Geo. Reindel is one. of the busy merchants of Detroit. \\Then he removes froin "Voodward avenue there will be but four furniture stores on that street, viz: \iVeit & Co. and A. A. Gray & Co. on the east side and Keenan & Jalm [lnd H. R. Leonard & I Co. on the west side. There arc nearly a score of furniture stores on 1\1ichigan avenue and about as many more on Gra-tiot. ~lost 'of them carryon an installment business, and some of them have an immense trade. \i\lith the opening of navigation, ""'hich is less than eight weeks away, will commence the usua1 rush of spring and sum-mer visitors. Official reports show that the steamboat pas-senger business of Detroit far exceeds that of any port on the lakes with the possible exception of Chicago. This al- 'ways makes busincss brisk for Detroit merchants. Some of the enthusiastic Detroit boomers arc now pre-dicting that this wilt be the sixth city in population when the. United States census of 1910 is completed. The city is certainly making marvelous strides in growth of population and business, but it is quite possible that these boomers are not com1ting on what other cities are doing. But that's the way to make things grow. Had there been no enthusiasts Pioneer Mf,g. Co ... DETROIT, MICH. Reed furniture Babu Carriages Go-Carts Full IiDe shown on secoDd floor. ] 3; ] 9 Mlcbi1!an Ave.. Chi-cago. iD January. «OOKWOOD and a general line of ff\NGY Tf\BLES Write for Cuts and Prices PALMER Manufacturing Co. 1015 to 1035 Palmer Ave. DETROTT, MICH. Full line shown on second floor, 1319 Michigan Ave., Chicago, in January. :a Chicago it would be far from the second city in the United States and the fourth or fifth in the world. The writer, who is far from being an old man, was in Chicago when it was not not more thaI). half as large as Detroit is at present, so there is every reason for the residents of Detroit to look forward to a city of one million souls in less than twenty years. Andrew Dutton, the Boston jobber in upholstery goods, will open a branch in Detroit, from which he will fill orders from ~1ichigan and the northwest. Murphy Chair Co. MANUFACTURERS DETROIT, MICH. ' A COMPLE
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- Issue of a furniture trade magazine published weekly in Grand Rapids, Mich, starting in 1879. and I f 7 \ " 7,"" -..., \ _ U..t \1-~;. '\ -..../ r :"",-" J.. .t -'"........., GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.• MAY 21. 1910 NELSON-MATTER FURNITURE co. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. BED-ROOM and DINING-ROOM COMPLETE SIJITES in Mahogany, Circassian ,"T alnnt and Oak. If you Lave Dot one in your .tore. a simple request will brinli you our :matnifleen" new Cataloaue of 12x16 inch valle 'roup., show-inll •• ite. to Ulatch. With it, even the most Dloderat. sized furniture _iore can show the best and newest furniture satisfactorily. 1----- I WEEKLY ARTISAN 1 2 WEEKLY ARTISAN ~p--- -_._---------_._--------------. ----------- ." LUCE FURNITURE COMPANY GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Manufacturers of COMPLETE lines of MEDIUM PRICED DINING I and CHAMBER FURNITURE. Catalogues to Dealers Only. ~- -- ---- . ----~._-- -------- - --------------------------..& Luce-Redmond Chair Co., Ltd. I BIG RAPIDS, MICH. High Grade Office Chairs Dining Chairs Odd Rockers and Chairs Desk and Dresser Chairs Slipper Rockers Colonial Parlor Suites 111 Dark alld Tuna Mahogany BIrd' J EYf Maplf BIrth !Zuarttrtd Oak alld Clr(aJJlall Walnut Our Exhibit you will find on the fourth floor, East Section, MANUfACTURERS'BUILDING,North Ionia Street GRAND RAPIDS, MICmGAN Exhibit in charge of J. C. HAMILTON, C. E. COHOES, J. EDGAR FOSTER. 30th Year-No. 47 GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.• MAY 21.1910 Issued Week1)o' GOING AFTER THE EXPRESS COMPANIES Movement Started by the New York Merchants· Association Supported by Many Other Mercantile Organizations. On May lIon the invitation of The Merchants' associ-ation of New Yark, representatives of the followmg promi-nent commerCIal orgamzatlOns attended a conference m the association's rooms, to consIder the expeldiency of a Jomt pe-tItion to the Interstate CommeJ:1ce commISSIOn for an mvesti-gatlOn of express rates and practices, to the end that faIr and Just rates and practices may prevaIl' Merchants' and Manufacturels' associatIOn, Baltimorel; C~amber of Commerce, Boston, Cha:nlber of Qommerce, Cleveland, Bloard of Trade, Grand Rapids, Mlch ; Merchants' association, Indlanapohs; Board of Trade, Manche"ter, N H ; Board of Trade, Newark, N. J.; Bu"iness Men's Association, New Haven; Chamber of Commerce, New Haven; Board of Trade, New Otleans; The MeJ:1chants' assocIatIOn of New York; Board of Trade, Portland, Me.; Board of Trade, Pater-son, N. J ; Chamber of Commerce, Philadelphia, Merchants' and Manufacturers' assocIation, Pllliadelphla; Eastern MIl-lmery assocIation; Chambm of Commerce, PIttsburg, Board of Trade, ProViidence, R I; Chamber of Commelce, RIch-mond, Va , Chamber of Commerce, Rochester, New York; Chamber of Commerce, Syracu~e, New YOlk, Syracuse Traf-fIC Bureau, Chamber of Commer,e, Watertown, N. Y ; Board of Trade Worcester, Mass.; Busmess Men's assocIatIOn Pawtucket, R. I ; Chamlber of Commerce, Spokane, Wash., Board of Trade, Bridgeport, Conn. In addItion to the orgamzatlons actually Iepresented by delegattJs the followlllg bodIes, by letter, favored the pro-po" ed investigatIon by the Interstate Commerce commISSIOn: Chicago Association of Commerce, Chamber of Com-merce, Dayton, 0 ; Iowa State Manufacturers' associatIOn, Des Moines, Iowa; Merchants' and Manufacturers' assocI-atIOn, MIlwaukee, Wis. ; Commercial Club, Mlllneapolts, Mllln ; Chamber of Commerce, El Paso Texas; Board of Trade, IndIanapolis; Chamber of Commerce, South Bend, Ind; Board of Trade, Savannah, Ga.; Commercial Club, LouisvIlle, Ky.; Board of Trade, Spningfie1d, Mass, Chamber of Commerce, San Francisco, Cal ; Merchants' association, San Francisco Cal ; Chamber of Commerce, Baltimore, Md. The Conference, whIch was in sessIOn all day, adopted the followlllg preambles and resolutions: WHEREAS, The rates charged by the express com-panies appear to be excessIve as compared with the service performed; and WHEREAS, The practices of these companies with ref-erence to collectIOn and dehvery and to regulations of vari-ous kmds appear to be unjustly dlscrimmatlve and other-wIse in VIolatIOn of the Interstate Commerce Law; and 'WHEREAS, An analysIs of the reports made by the pnnclpal express companies domg business in the United States to the Interstate Commerce commISSIon, and on file in the office of the latter, mdlcates that the net earnings of the companies are from more than 40 to about 125 per cent per annum on the value of the property in use for the public service; and 'WHEREAS, The Supreme Court of the Umted States, m ItS deCISIOn in the KnOXVIlle water case", has declared as a standard for the measurement of the Just earntngs of pubhc service corporatIOns that those earnlllgs shall bear due pro-portion to the fair value of the property actually employed for the servIce of the pubjlc, and WHEREAS, If the earnlllgs indicated by these reports, on full investIgation be practically substantiated, it is evi-dent that such charges are excessive and extortionate and should be reduced, therefore, be it RESOLVED, By this Conference, representing many of the prlllcipal busllless orgalllzatlOns throughout the United States, that a petttlOn be prepared on behalf of these com-merCIal orgamzatlOns and such others as may, subsequently join, to be presented to the Interstate Commerce commission, praYlllg that body to exercise the authonty vested in It by law, by conducting, forthWIth, an exhausttve investigation into the whole question of the rates and practices of the express companies, to the end that fair and equil'able rates and practices may be established. To carry out the program deCIded on by the conference, a permanent executive commIttee was created, wIth power to employ counsel, to prepare and present the petition to the Interstate Commerce commission, and wIth full discre-tion to determine the breadth and scope of the petition. The delegates present at the conference, by unanimous actIOn not only pledged their respective organizations to join in the petition to the Interstate Commerce commiSSIOn, but to assist in every possible way in the preparation of supple~ mentary information and argument The executive committee WIll submit the form of petition to the leadlllg chambers of commerce, boards of trade and merchants' associatIOns throughout the country, to secure WEEKLY ARTISAN then conCllrrence m the actIOn and thell co-opel ation as petitIOners The executive commlttee vv111 !11let l1e"t vveek. ,lHCI whIch the necessary :oteps to c,u n mto dtect thl de ~l1l ~ I j the cOl1fel ence WIll be taken at the e,l1!Jlc,t pO~~lb1L d Ite \Vlth the 1111 ltatlOn to the COI11I11cLl1al OliSanuatlolh 1epl e "ented at the confe1encc, the \[elchdnh' a,,~oerat1(In t1 In, nlltted a "RepOlt on lxp1es" CapItal. laIDln~~ and ]\lte,. vvltll tahlllatee! statement" "hO\v 111e;the lone!Jtlll11 ut the 1 Illl pnnopal expl CS" compall1e" alld u)ml11ent111~ thu (on ,h 1,,1 lows GentlCll11cn In accordance \\ Hh ) our 1I1structlOI1:o I have made an anal} "lS of the a,,,etc, 111C0!11cand e"pell,e~ "I 1 JUI pnnllpal expresc, cOl11pal1lec, ot the elunent, th,lt 111 I~l IIp the sen Ice' ed lell 1 bv them d11d ot the 1J,1,1~ upun \\ hll'l the 1ates cha1gcd Me made The C0111p1111C"dl"c'l""ed bel !IV drc l;I1:.;<:h en:.;a~cd 111 add1tlOn to the exple,,, bu"me,,,, m 1I1ve~t!11ent and bank111c; bu:ome"" The pUlpl c,e of the alldh "1~ \\ hlLh 11 JlIu\\ ~ h t shoy\ vvhat pOl bon of the a,,~ch ~lheduled I~ t, be 1c~ I led as m vestm ent or hdnk111g LapHal Wha t pm tlUn 1~ to ]JC I e-garded as exprec,s capItal, and the pClcentd!.?;C uj P1OI1t cle-nveel bv expl e"" operdl1on" upon thL L'lpltal ae tnallv and properly emplo} eel m e"pl ess opel atlon The follo\\ 1l1~ ,oheelules dl e ..,U1111lla11e". compIled!1 om 1e ports made b} the :oeveldl e"ple,~ COI11P,{l1lL~tel the Inler state Commerce C0111111h::,lun,fOI the h"cal veal lndlnc; 1Ulll 30, 1909 1he scheelule of as"et" "hO\v" 'W\ eral la1(;e Item~ \\ hleh ObvlOlhl} represent ul,j!ltal not emplo\ ed 111 L"p1l '" opel a110n These C0111p11<;e' ~tl ck" and Ill)Ild~ 0\\ l1ed (hhe 1 Permanent In\ estment<;" (RLal J "tate not u~ed 111 Up( I atlOn." and "\101 tga~es ., In Table III the a~gl egate ot these Item:o ha~ been Ie-ducted flom tl,e aggregate net a<;"eh remalllm~ aHel p<lV ment of all current llah1!It1es The amount 1e111dmlll!.?;h th" amollnt of capItal osten~lbh tl"ed 111 C"PIC~~ upelaiJun, 11 cOimpn'oec, the Items <;chululed a, ' Real I ~Llte and n1111dll1~' u"ed m OpelatlOn," "EqUIpment.' "La~h and em I ent \~ seh," ":\1 a tellab and SupplJe",' I n"l11anCl l'H'J111Ullh I IH Cld1111S," "GooJ-\\ 111and Lontlact<' and \celJunh III ~u~- pense" Of the 1teJ11~1I1cluelerl under the head -\~<;eh ()~te1hl],j\ used 111 L'<p1e"s Operatllln' ~e\ e1al dre open tll "e11UU' ob JeetlOn, as follo\\ <; It 1S questlOnahle vyhether the'e Item" s111>ul,1not be regarded as mve',iment eapltdl ane! not a~ opel atlllg cdpltal The ownel "Ihlp of the"e holdmgc, h not e""f'niJdl t,) e"pH" operatIOn", n01 h there any 1e,hon v\ hv "ueh n, In-f"~Ll1tlal --------~ 4~ __ ~_. __ ~_ ...--., Pitcairn Varnish Company I Reliable Varnishes of Unifor~ Quality Our Motto: "NOT HOW CHEAP-BUT HOW GOOD" to ••• C. B. Quigley, Manager Manufacturing Trades Dep't. a.. [ DO 'YOU WANT'" II the PRETTIEST, BEST and MOST POPU-LAR LEATHER FOR FURNITURE. I - J ANY COLOR. WILL NOT CRACK. I III IIItt II If so buy our GOAT and SHEEP SKINS Write for sample pads of colors. DAHM & KIEFER TANNING CO. TANNERIES CRAND RAPIDS, MICH. CHICACO, ILL. 204 lake Street, .... CHICAGO. ILL. ••••••••• ••• A ------- - ----- - h JI 11l1~' "huuld J (cell e net 1etm n" denved flam express lh,ll~l" 110m tIllee to 11101eth,w ten ttmes the ordlllary re- 1. 11l n" ir 0111I e,d L~LIt e 111l e ,tm en t <; 1n e ]leI cellt net after pdy ment of aLl expenses is the Olcl111dl\ 1al( ot letl1ln frol11 leal estate investments The fi", II celp1t,11 111\ e"tecl ]i} e"1'1e,s compames 111 real estate ~!J()llld !wt be l llltlht'd \\ lth the actIve capItal required in l)]llldtHJll, and ~11lJuld not (Itaw f"-.cessrve returns from in-tl, l1l d l hell ~c~ 101 cX]lre~~ sen Ice l{u':,11 d111g-the vallle of the leal estate used III operatlOn a.., mvest1l1ent capItal and not as operatmg capItal, a net five pC! C(:.11t1t tll111 shoul(l be alloweJ tJhereun, WhICh amount ,h Iltld be chaH!,lll ,1~c11J1st ()pelatll1~ eo"t Adoptlllg th1S \ Ie \\ thl ,l11l0unt oj the Item "Real 1, "tate and Bl1lldmg" used III ()pelallllll ha~ 111 ['able rrr been deducted from the osten- -----~_._.-._-~- Manufacturers of Factories: Milwaukee, Wis.; Newark, N. J. -" WEEKLY ARTISAN ~---- .. . ..------------- ------'---.---.~.-----.---.-.--.--~.--.---.--~.~.--------.-----"5 -----~ ACCURACY, DURABILITY, ECONOMY Three most important requisites in case construction. We absolutely guarantee our method of construction to be stronger and less expensive than all others. Let us tell you about it. No. 181 Multiple Square Chisel Mortlser. .... ..WYSONG & MILES CO., Cedar St. and Sou. R. R., aREBNSBORO, N. C. Ask. for Catalog "J" . .. --.. . .. . ------- ---_._-----.--------...._---_..._._._-----_._._._------_ .... SIble active expre'3S capItal anJ treated a~ part of the mvest-ment fund, I athel than as part of the operatnng fund Unhke a mercantlle 01 manufactunng busme'3s the ex-press busme"s doe" not reqUIre, nor e\ en adnllt, a large amount of ready ca..,h for Ib operatIOn", masmuch a" It .Joes not reqlure the pUl cha;"e of lar!:;e stocks of matellal or mer-chandIse, or the gmntl11g 0: large hnes of CIedIt The '3el- Vllces are as a rule paId mad, ance and "uch ad, ance cash receipt" at all tlme'3 sqpply an ample fund from whIch to pay cun ent expense" The cash balances held by the several expre'3s com-pa11les June 30, 1(0), after deductmg the amount of all cur-rent halbllltie'3, was a, follO\vs Adams IExpress Co . $1,410,889.49 Ame1l1can Express Co 716,00449 U S Express Co ,Yells-I< argo Express Co 2,4-1-3,90200 A "tudy of "taLments of pI e\ IOUS years "how'3 that the free cash bdlance" al eat occasIOnal mten ab con, el ted mto mVLstments and that they are not to any con"lderable degree m the nature of wor~ing capItal necessanly reqUIred for carry-mg on the busmess, but are rather accrued profits awaIting m-vestments m stocks, bonds and other securities 11hl'3should be borne m mmd m consldenng the amount of the actual capItal reqt11recl for express operatIOn, the amount of the return upon suah capital, and the fallness of the rates which Ylel.J such returm One company mclucles m ItS as;"ets $816,66600 for "Good- V{lll dnd Contracts" TIll;" probably replesents a payment to anothel expl ess company fOl the nght to operate ov er hnes prevIOusly controlled by the latter If '30, the cash paid is not capItal nece'3"ary fOl operatIOn, equipment, or other legItImate expre;"s purposes, but b merely capltahLatlOn of ant1clpated profits and should be excluded from the h"t of asset" actually used in express operatIOn, as It properly belongs m the mvcst-ment account If the foregOIng conclUSIons are accepted, It appear'3 that the greater part of the as'3ets of the express compa11les, m-clud111g most of the free cash balances, are de' oted to the 111- ve'3tment business and not to the express busmess, and that the amount of the capItal actually and necessanly employed 111the latter is but httle more than the value of the eqlupment, plus a very moderate amount of wOlkmg capItal Express service 15 compo"ed of three elements, namely, Terminal sen Ice, an.J cal e m tranSIt, performed by eA-pre"" compal1les, and TranslPortatlOn, performed by I allroad" The relation whIch the ter'1l1l11al sen Ice bears to the whole servIce was in 1899 ;"tated a;" follows WIth the exphClt applOval of the PreSIdent of the '\.dams Express Company "The chIef servIce whl1ch the express com pan} performs IS the temmnal service-a service entIrely away from the lall-ways and stations; the collectIOn, care and dehvery of pack-ages constItutes tlhe sCIence of the express busl11ess " The special report of the United States census (1907) on "Express Bus111es" 111the UnIted States" state;" the baSIS of c1iv1.s,ionof charges between the raIlroads and express com-panies as follows: "The usual contract made by an express company WIth a ralJlway company provide" that the rall" ay company shall fur111sh the necessary car", heat and hght the111, haul them ovrr ItS 11l1es, together vvirt:hthe employeee; of the express com-pany necessary to care for the traffic en route At statIOns the rallway company permIts It", employees to act as em-ployees of the express company also, WIth certam restnc- "THE BEST IS THE CHEAPEST" 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, Railroad Companies, Car Builders and others will consult their own interests by using it. Also Barton's Emery Cloth, Emery Paper, and Flint Paper, furnished in rolls or reams. MANUFACTURED BY H. H. BARTON & SON CO., 109 South Third St., Philadelphia, Pa. ---_...-._._._---_.._---------_._--_._------_._----------_ ....~. cS WEEKLY ARTISAN ..._•• _.. . . •• .. ••• _. •• _.I. . _ - Veneer Pre ..... dIfferent kin1. and lizel (ate.ted) Veneer Presses Glue Spreaders Glue Heaters Trucks, Etc" Etc. These Specialties are used all Over the World Power Feed Glue Spreadine Maehine. Single. Double and CombInation. (atented) (Sozea 12 In. to 1I4 In wide.) tions, and permIts the use of statIOn faCIlities by the express company The express company on Its part assumes all the n'ik for damage to express matter and all liabIlity for mJury to Its employees, and agrees to pay the railway company a fixed per cent of its gross earnmgs, wIth a gualanteed m1111mU111 amount It was formerly the custom to make the contracts upon a tonnage basIs, but the gross ear111ng~ plan IS no\\ m general use. After deductmg the amounts paId carner~ f01 express pnvileges, the remamder IS a\ a1lable for pay menb of all ex:penses of operation, interest, taxes, dn 1dencl'i, etc" For transportation the raIlroads in 1909 recelveJ slightl) more than 477 per cent of the aggregate charges collected upon all express parcels passing 0\ er the respectn e lmes The remaining 52-3 per cent represents the charge for the terminal serv1ce~that IS, that portion of the sen Ice \\ hlch IS dIrectly performed by the extpress companies It is self-evident that the cost of transportation bv raIl increases in proportIOn to distance, and that the element of dIstance does not enter into the cost of term mal ,;en Ice It is equally eVIdent, therefore, that \\ hlle the charge for trans-portation should mcrease wl'th the d1'itance, the char~e for terminal serVIce should rem am unchanged, 1rrc,;pectn e of dIstance by rail, inasmuch as the termmal sen Ice performed is the same. whether the rail transportatIOn IS long or ,;h01 t It IS nevertheless the practice of the express CDmpanle-- to increase in proportion to dIstance the charges exacted for Hand Feed Glneine Machine (alellt pend.na.l Many Itylel and lizel. Wood-Working Machinery and Supplies LET US KNOW YOUR WANTS Ne 20 Glue Heater CHAS. E. FRANCIS COMPANY, Main Office and Works, Rushville, Ind. - ---' '" . _.0 .. _ ... ... .. . . ... .. No.6 Glue Heater. purely termmal servIces, whereby a much higher charge is 1mpo"ed at one pomt than IS imtposed at al1lother for an Iden-tic 11 --en Ice \s noted abO\ e, the transIJOrtatIon service, which is \\ 11('1/\ performeJ by raIlroads, IS paId for by an agreed per-centage of the total express recclpt,; ThIS basis of compen-qtIOn does not nece~sanly bear any defilllte relation to the co"t of rendenng the tran'ipor tatIon sen Ice and is in some degree arbItrary An offiCial analYSIS of express rates with a \ 1C\\ to 1 eadJ ue tment should therefore cover the present charge~ paId by the express compallles to the railroads for transportatIOn, \\ Ith a VIew to determmmg whether those charges are Ju,;t and reasonaJble Furniture Fires. John P Carlson's furniture snore at Bruce, S Dak, was damaged by fire to the extent of about $1,500 on May 12 Insured John \Yard. fur111ture dealer, was the principal loser in a fire that destro) ed three bUll dings at Colfax, Ill, on May 1; HI'; lo~,; e--tlmateJ at $4,500 IS well covered by 1l1surance. The four story bnck burldl11g occupIed by Koch & Henke turlllture dealers on Loram street, Cleveland, 0, was burned on ::\Iay 13 Koch & Henke's stock was almost completely de~troyed The total loss wa'i about $350,000 well oovered in 1l1'iurance ..... -------------------- -_.-.--.---.----------------------t MOON DESK COMPANY DESKS OF MERIT ....-----_. - ..- .- - - ..-- .,. - . ------ ------------_. -- _. ---_.. .. MUSKEGON, MICH. .. WEEKLY ARTISAN 7 ~ a.a ••• _. __ ._. __ •• •__ .~_~._. ._._.~._._. ._. __• __ ._.~._._. __• __._._._._. ••••• - ••••••••••• __ ._- •• ~ I WALTER CLARK VENEER GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. COMPANY YOll cannot find better Quarter Sawed Oak Veneer than we could furnish you right now. Write us. SUMMER HOUSE DECORATIONS. ~----.-..- .... - -- _. _. _. _._._._._.~._ _._---_.----- .----------------_. - -_ ..- _ - - .. .- ... More Hints and Suggestions as to Materials9 Color Schemes9 Etc. Many things should be thought out before redecoratmg a room As spring is the time when thoughts turn to lighter styles after having been surrounded by heavier effects all winter, the force of contrast appeals to the average woman. Yet there are cautlOns to be borne in mind when a woman is planning color schemEs to freshen up country or city rooms For instance If the ceilings are high don't use a striped paper; if the room is light use a restful color, and If dark reverse it and the effect will always be good. Many women nowadays hke a color scheme of different tints on a floor giving a shading of tones Although thi'3 may be harmonious it often becomes tIresome, for it seems as though you could never get away from it, and after a while you take an inteme dislike to anything approaching that particular color. A much prettier way is to have differ-em colors, one blending into the other by force of contrast, gradually shading off to a lighter tint at the end of a floor, thu<.,gIving the perspective or shadowy feehng of dIstance. For bedrooms use only soft neutral tones on the walls. \Vhatever color you prefer for contrast can be in the frieze above. For e~ample, take a white m01re paper with a cut out frieze of hlacs. The hangings can be of white net with a full valance on which can be sewed a band of hlac material, WIth the outsIde edges shaped to your fancy and finished with a lace braid The net bedspread can be made to makh WIth a full gathered flounce and monogram m the centre of the same hlac material and similarly treated A plain hlac rug completes the scheme. ~-_.--_.-._._.-- _--------------- I .- ....__ ._~ We are Special Tool Manufacturers for the Wood Working Trade.. Our SOLID STEEL MOULDING CUHERS are the Best in the World SPECIAL ORDERS SOLICITED AND GUARANTEED SATISFACTORY WOOD WORKERS TOOL COMPANY, 542 Jackson Blvd., CHICAGO. SAW, KNIFE AND TOOL MANUFACTURERS I~ ad _._.a ._. __ •• a •••••• aa ••• ~ If you prefer white alone for bedrooms cut out friezes of dIfferent flowers can be used which will relieve the monot-ony The hangmgs can be of simply endless variety, some WIth the cut out cretonne idea, which many persons like, others of certonne alone Then again in summer homes silk-oline looks cool and doe" not keep out the air. A hall is always an important factor in the decorative scheme of a house and should be well considered. not only for its own sake, to give it a spacious look if it is small, but also for the color effect on the rooms which open out of it, for a wrong note here will spall the whole. It sometimes hap-pens that the entrance hall of a small house in the country has a window or two with an ugly outlook which it is de-sirable to hide If stained glass IS out of the question on account of the expense the glass can be covered with one of the matenals which give the effect of stained glass, cost little and come in pretty designs. A very pretty hall in a remodelled country farmhouse had on the walls a landscalpe paper showing an old mill with water running from the wheel It was a quaint conceit and was the right thing in the right place, as the hall was light and the tones were soft and subdued as though mellowed by time. As for woodwork, white enamel is always good and looks cool if chIldren are romping aibout. Forest green is very good in summer dining room with a high wainscot and colored cotton tapestry frieze :vbove it, provided it is a light room; otherwise it would look sombre. Dark Flemish or English oak trim is inadvisable except in good sized rooms, as it looks heavy in small spaces. For furniture white enamel is servicealble, and is prettier still when cane is inserted in panels. This is intended principally for bedrooms and reception rooms, but it looks well too in a "ummer dining room with the color note, say, of rose. On the walls, the chair seats and sideboard the same tone can be used 111 some design, and it may appear in either flowers or border on the china. With a plain rose rug and white trim and the glitter of glass and silver and the white n3Jpery such a dining room would be especially good for the seashore on dark daJls. For bedrooms in the country the large white enamel washstands are good Have the china match the room in color. The waste paper baskets and laundry bags hung in closets should also have the prevaihng color note in them. The note paper on the desks or writing tables should be stamped with the name given to the house-it gives a cer-tain style to the place-and a guest book is always pleasant to keep -New York Sun. 8 WEEKLY ARTISAN LUMBER WILL NOT BE CHEAPER. Mr. Nichols Talks of Conditions as lIe I<'ouud Them iu the South. "I can not ~ee any I ea~oll tm c"pect111g d c1ed111t 111 thle the pnces of halc1\\oc'dlumbel at j1lc--ent 1101 111 the lntnre, sald F I :--lchol'3 uf the :--Ichol-- C'\c Lu" Ll11nbu CClIlIpdm, Grand Rapld'3, la~t 1\ eune'3Ja\ . I have Ju~t letl11ned 11um a southern tllp.· hc contmuec1 ",mc1 I (!Jd not hncl dm l?,lldt supply of haldwood lumbel at am JlC11nt \Io"t ot the 111111~ are bus) and thl" ~ea'3on's cnt \\111 be lan:;e bnt lW! Llll;e enongh to cause a Jechne m pllce~ on all\ \alllt\ Thtlc I" a pcssl1b11lty of an 0\ er ~uppl.\ 01 qnartel-"a \\ ul oak a t pIC" ent, but It WIll all be needed It IS good quff to hold and the pnces w11l SUIely be ma111tall1ed "The most acb\ e "\anet1e~ 01 har.h\ ood at pI C"c n t ,1Il maple and bIrch Both are mo\ ln~ 11\eh and the c1Clll,lIHI for maple, espeCIally, IS remalkabh --rrong. a" It h,l" bccn smce the first of the year In orclel to renu\ .,ome ot clUl contracts for maple that \\ e had last \ ear. \\ e \\ ere oblIl?,ul tl) add $6 per thousand to last \ ear'", pnce" and "nce then 'lbont $2 more has been addeJ BIrch ha" al"o ach anccd m ])[1(( ,1Ild the demand, locally at least, IS e"-ceedll1:{h "tlC)I1g" "In the south gum 1'3the most act1\ e \ dnlt\ at l)fC"C 11\ The demand IS good and pnee'" hd\ c been ach anelll a hunt $3 per thou"anJ, smce the first of the \ eal. an(l I l]lIllk the \ WIll go higher The pnce of oak, 01 cour"e. depend" Idl!.;ch on the demand from the fl1ll11ture makel" I hat c1elll,llLCldt pn:"ent IS not qUIte so urgent a" It \\ a" d In\ mOllth" a~) but lt 1'3 stIll good and unless the faetune" al e tu hc ,hut daVIn entlre1) thele IS no plOlbabl1tt.\ that pllee~ \\111 he 10\\ er TImber has become too '3cal ce to 11bt ltv am l" 1)(C tatlOn of ]o\', er pnces for harch\ ood lumber dt )1I e--U11 iiI lt1 the future "Our busmes" has been gooJ "0 fdl thl-- \ ear It It l,)11 tmues as It ha" been '30 far the \ o]ume \\ III be mCllC than doU'ble that of an} other year m our e,,"penence \ \ e dl e rUl1l1mg our m11ls 0\ ertlme no\\ as \\ e hay e been lur ~ol11e time" Canadian View of Reciprocity. \Vallace Kesbltt, former JustIce of the "'upreme COutt 01 Canada. saId some \ ery frank th1l1g~ ahemt the pos--lhl1Jt, ut a recIprocIty treaty between the lTllIted ~tate-- and CanacLI dt a d1l1ner of the Econonllc Club at the Hutcl \ '-to!, \ ell 1irk the othel llIght ~mong the~e \\ a-- hi" _tatel11cnt tlHt a, I ,n:.: as the chIef executl\ e of thIS countJ.\ I" unable to conti 01 certam peclal 1I1tele'-h 111 the "enate, nelthel Canada nOl thc 1:"l11ted States need expect closel tl ade rela tlon -- th f(lU~ h d lo\\enng of the tanff \\ all '3 HI'" '3peech follo\\ cd OIlC ])\ Henry M \i\lllItney, formel pre--Ident of the Bu--tOll Chamhel of Commerce, 111 Whllh noth1l1g hut the mo--t glol\ mg pI ""- peets for mutual plo;,penty \'\ere pIctured on the ('ont1l1£;e'll \ of a reCIproCIty treaty be1l1g made "There were one or two thIng'" 111 }Ir \ \ llltne\ " ~l'lll h that were new to me as a Canadian," '3ald 1u"'tlce "e,,1 Itt "If hIS hypotheSIS of a leClproClt) treah hem£; d :::;ualal1t\ "t the peace of the world can be prm en I hope that hc 'IIIII travel the breadth of Canada and lepeat the "peech thdt he made this evenmg I confe'3" that the C,lIlacltan" 111 ~,l1el al feel that thIS country has been a httk rough 111 Ih tleaill1l lit of their government !\s a government, \\e Cdnadlan" C 1'-- ltke you; as a people, we love you "One great weakness m your constltutlOn, and I "peak WIth fnendly frankness, IS that Jour execut1\ e makes a l)3.r-gam and then somebody m the senate kIcks It 0\ er Afl er ledllll11~ ,dl the other fellem 1'3\\ 11hng to do the senate throvv s dUI\ n the a~lee11lCnt and nuke" a ne\\ proposal on what It ha'3 leal neel 1]1I" n1dke~ u" very tll1l1d m our dealmg'3 WIth \ ou \ treat \ of I euproClt) between u" \v 111never be made d" lOllQ, ,I" \ mil e"ecu t1\ e 1" PO\verle '" to control certam ~pcL1a] ll1tLlC"r-. ut the upper house of your Congle,,:'>" 1 he "']JLdkcr then "aId that PIe"'ldent 'I dft'S recent utter-an" e ,lt Hulfa]o 1 tgal c1mg the cont1l1ental Interests of thl'1 l U,111 tl \ dnd Canada "mtJ oduced a contUtental dortrme 111 tJ d.le equal ut 11l1pUltance to the }Ionroe Joctnne" "Duostyle" Litigation. 01\ nel" of the Duo;,tyle patent claIm that many manu-tacturel'" and dealCl s are 1I1frmg1l1g on then nghts and hay e ,tal tecl COllIt plOceec11I1g-, to ;,top such mfnngements as w11l be "eell ])\ the 10110\\1I1l.?\,\ hlCh IS a copy of a letter sent out to all ll1anUl,lctul er" of e>::ten'3lon tables Gentlemen \s there are still a number of manufac-tUt el" \\ ho "ee hi to make the "Duostyle" constructlOn of t,t!lle" \\ lthout a hcen,e the' eby lIlfnn~1I1g upon the Klem Made by the Manistee Manufacturmg Co , ManIstee, MICh. pdtent dated \1'111 ICJ, 1898, \\e have been qUIetly secunng l\ Ide !lle 101 thL Pdq nme month-- As a re;,ult, action was L!llllmC1leed \plll 11 ag,lln,t J Blumherg, \Vaukegan, III J for "e1l1l1g tl) the pnhltl. tables manufactured by H C NIemann &- Co. Chlc,lgo mtJ m~mg upon abo\ e named patent The ,ltl/Jlne \" trll the dcfenddnt appeared 111 court on May 4 and fllvl delll1l11 el. 1\111ch goc~ to '3110\'\ that a stubborn fight IS on hand l! l \ lemdnn & Co . have not only been mak1l1g Dno--t\ le< but hay e been persl'3tent 111 advertJsmg tJhe fact that they furl11"h them 1'le,l..,e note. that tlllS ~tllt doe" not pertam to locks, a" \he l-dell1 p,ltcnt I" a e()n~tJuctlOn patent "wheleb} the top hO'll cl'" al e l1Cll1llttecl to 1110\e 111 hwendcnt,ly of the legs" al- ") 1\11u c:1)\ the ()lJter le:{'3 al e permItted to move mdelpen-clln, h ot the Ctntel le~ and the top boards Il1dependently of ,(11\ III the legs 111 other woreL, constl uctlOn perl111tt1l1g the 1Il "CIt ton 01 one or 11101 e fillel s hefore dlvlC1111gthe pedestal III lc~ '" J hb ~ult 1\111be \lgC)IOusly pu~hecl as well as an} others \\ e ma \ start In the near futl11 e \Ve arc oblIged to see that om nght;, arc full} protected ao pl0vlded by law Yours very truly, IV I'3COn'3111FurnIture Company. WEEKLY ARTISAN 9 F. Manufacturer or Willow Furniture SEND FOR CATALOGUE REMINDERS OF THIRTY YEARS AGO. ~,-----------_._------------------------ ----_ .. -- -_ .._-~ Paraliraphs Copied From the Michilian Artisan for Narch, 1881. D Wilfson is about to erect a furniture factory in Baltimore. James Knox is traveling for Bossom & Cuff of Boston, thIS year. J. W. DavIs has purchased the Wrampelmeier factory in LOUlsvl!le. M. Ohmer has retlred from the firm of Ohmer & Son, of Dayton, O. The Louisville (Ky) Furmture comp3.ny closed out thelf retaIl business. L D. Leonard IS representing the Sligh Furmture company m the eastern states. E. Hemenway of Boston, V\ 111engage m the manufacture of ebonized furniture. Manufacturers of furniture m Cmcinnati complain of the ~carClty of freight cars. Charles ShlVenck, a dealer m Omaha, made his first vIsit to Grand RapIds t1115month. Oldenburg & Baltes of Ml!waukee, employ 150 men in the manufacture of parlor frames. Keck, Wmte1halter & Co, is the name of a new firm en-gagmg m the retaIl furniture busines" in Detroit. F E Warren of Cheyenne, 'vVy, bought a heavy bIll of goods of Donnelly & Barnes, III ChIcago recently. , Clark Brother" & Co, of Phl1adelph1a, V\ 111 furmsh the Kaatersk1ll, a new hotel m the Catskl1l mountams. George R Somes of F. M. Holmes & Co., Boston, was m ChIcago recently from whence he Journeyed to St. Loms Bbonized pallor and chamber furmture i:o not very popu-lar. Its sale IS mainly m the form of cabinets and novelties H. D. Moore, travelmg salesman for the Berkey & Gay Furmture company, has returned from a tnp through the mId-dle west. Charles Streit, of Streit & Schmitt, Cincinnati, is the in-ventor of a sofa bed and has received letter::. patent protectmg the same C. Kmll formerly an employe of the Phoemx Furniture company, has opened a stock of furmture in Rock !:oland He IS the lllventor of a foldmg ohaIr and WIll manufacture the same The stock of the late Marcus Stevens. in DetrOlt, has been disposed of, C R Mabley purchaslllg the same Mjr. Brock-way, the old manager of the Stevens store, will be wIth Mr Mabley. By a fire on Jefferson street m Chicago recently, the follow-mg firms sustained losses. H. S Carter & Co, $7,000; L. F. Nonnast, $2,000, Johnson & Kramer, $2.000; John B Gavin, $3,000, Max Tonk, $8,000, Austm & Boynton, $3,000; Otto N ettleman, $3,000. These losses were partly msured. George W Perkms of Pueblo, MIlton S Pnce of Syracuse, G W Avery of Peona, Mr. Burnll of St. LoUls, Jacob Lucas, Mamstee, D M.. Bohn, Petersboro, Ill, A. C Rosenraad, Zee-land, C J Stanford, Atwater, 0 and W P DIlworth, Ft Scott, Kansas, were among the buyers arriving 111Grand RapIds early thIS month. ChIcago correspondence A rumor that there was a Brusque and Rick-e-ty firm making parlor furmture III this city has been venfied. This IS the firm that perpetrated an outrage on art and the finer sens1blbtles of the people by introducing the horse shoe (an emblem of superstItion, suggestive of dust and filth) as as ornament for parlor frames. ThIS firm can never hope to gam a foothold in the trade untl! It makes better stock, whJ1e R1ck-e-ty has yet to learn that it IS more profitable to be a gentleman than a bully and a loafer. The agents of nme glue manufactunng firms were m Grand RapIds recently to attend a glue test. They indulged in a good deal of "Joshmg" dunng theIr stay. "In the Sag111aw valley," one remarked "they make log chains of my glue, be-cause It IS stronger than Iron" "11y glue was used in con-structmg the bndge across the nver at St. LOUlS," another modestly declared. "Do you remember the expenence of the Mormon farmer?" the agent from Boston inqUlred, "No, what was It?" mqUlred the bndge glue man. "The Mormon farmer claImed that he drove a herd of cattle mto Salt Lake and they came out corned beef. HIS claim IS as well grounded as yours about your bndge glue." The successful man in the glue test entered at thIS moment, when the agents proceeded to use hUll as a pigskm m a game of football. and during the scrimmage the offiClal report of the test was destroyed ." .......... wa. • .... e •• ~ Doetsch & Heider Co. Telephone, Lincoln 796 1534·1544 Greenwood Terrace CHICAGO Manufacturers of Parlor Furniture Frames TO Reach OUR FACTORY Take Clybourn Avenue car to Ashland Avenue and walk three blocks North to Greenwood Terrace, then turn East into Green-wood Terrace. Or, Clybourn Avenue car WIthtransfer on South-port Avenue car, thence over Southport Avenue to Greenwood Terrace and walk West. a,.. __ • ------ •• - •• - _ •• - .. MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND NEWS Robert Blast wIll open an undertaking establIshment at Shelly, Iowa Mark Dexter of Kenoml, X eb, has seoured a patent on a tiltalble chair C D A Fesler & Son, have succeeded vv V Fe\\, furni-ture dealer of Lone Tree, Ia R. R. Hill succeeds R J Morton m the furlllture and hardware business at Greensrboro, X C The Frostrburg (l\Id) Furlllture company ha\ e mo\ ed into new quarters at 84 East ::\Ia1l1 street The TaJilor Furlllture and Hardvvare company of Tifton, Ga, are bUlld1l1g a large addition to their store The Rockford (Ill) Desk company are planlllng an ad-dition which will double the capacity of their plant J S De VVItt & Co , furlllture dealers of X on'v alk, 0 , \'vIII double the size of theIr \\ arehouse on "Yest ::\Iam street The Anderson Patent ExtenSIOn Table company of Camden, N J, have mcorporated with capItal stock fixed at $100,000 Stevv art Brothers of Columbus ha\ e been enlarg1l1g near-ly all departments of theIr store which 1:0 no\\ the large"t m Central OhIO The Oppel-Spencer company, furnIture dealers, of Dav-enport, la, have changed theIr name to the Spencer Furni-ture company. A C Hulett, doing busmes as the Hulett "L'nJertakmg company is a new undertaker and dealer m coffins, ca::,keb, etc, at Hattiesburg, J\1Lss The gilt room m the Holland house, in X ew York, IS an ex-act reproduction of the famous gIlt room famou::, In the hb-tory of Holland house, London J\I L BIggar has been appomted rece1\ er for the X e\\ Ohio FurnIture company of Columbus, whIch has been m financial dIstress for some tIme The business of John Biddle, Undertaker, ChIcago, ha", been 1l1corporated by E M vVood, H .\ Brolllllet ancl F 0 Mure10ck CapItal stock, $2,500 The Jacoby FurnIture ~1anufactunng company of York, Pa, have installeJ new mach1l1ery and enlarged the capaclt) of their plant nearly fifty per cent FE, S P and Clara H Templeton, are the mcorpor-ators of tlhe S P Templeton company, funeral Jlrector" ot Bloomington, Ind CapItal stock, $10,000 Frank Miller, furnIture clealer, ot 1\ est Pomt, X eb, h erect1l1g a two-story bnck bUlld1l1g \vhlch \\ III gIve hIm the largest and most COIn elllent store m the town The Norfolk (Va) Furniture Manufactunng corporatIOn have plurchasecl the bul1d1l1g formerly u"ed by the X aval Y M C A and are remodelmg It for a furlllture store Martin P Johnson, for several years money order clerk in the postoffice at Rockford, Ill, has reSIgned to take an important p03ltlOn Vvlth the National Furlllture company New England chair manufacturers compla1l1 of dIfficult) in ~eepmg workmen, many of whom are mclmed to qUIt the chaIr factones and find employment m the textl1e mills George Schmulbach, propnetor of the Red Star Supply company, retail furniture, of MemphIs, Tenn, has filed a voluntary petItIOn m bankruptcy. LiabilitIes $8,955, a::,sets, $6,012. VV E Haworth has purchased an interest m the under-takmg busmess of H C SmIth of WhItewater, IY IS The business IS now conducted under the firm name of SmIth & Haworth. IV VV Heisler has sold his cabinet and upholstering shop m Tacoma, IV ash , to H. G Clark and A Jorgenson, ::\Ir Hebler WIll engage in tihe same business in some other part of the state The buildmg occupied by the late H. J Nelson, veteran furnIture dealer of BurlIngton, Vt, has been sold to a cloth-mg com pan) The Nelson stock will be :sold out and the bt1:omess dIscontmued II 11ham A French & Co, furniture dealers of Minne-apobs, ::\1111n, have moved into their new store on First ave-nue, south, and EIglhtlh streets. They now have one of the best eqUlppeJ stores in the city Ambrose E) on has tradeJ his furnIture store at Stewart, ::\lmn , to F E Russe for store property at Gascogne, Mmn ::\lr Russe \\ 111 take possession of the furniture store on June 1 and \\ III enlarge the stock. The \\<111of ::\Irs Rosa Fleck of MIlwaukee, whose deat1h \\ a" noted la::,t \\ eek reqUIres her four sons to continue WIth then Sister, a::, partner" m the R Fleck Furniture company or lo::,e theIr share m the estate which is valued at $65,000. II ;\ Flatow, formerly WIth the ~ew York Furniture Exchange and Henry Seigel & Co , has taken a positIOn WIth the Clark-Bo\\< chtch company of New Haven, Conn., who no\\ ha\ e one of the finest furlllture stores m New England. 1he ::\IcGee FurnIture company of Fall RIver, Mass, hay e made an a.,slgnment wIlth lIabIlItIes aggregatmg $11,000; assets $2,000 They have offered tJhelr credItors 25 cents on the dollar 111cash or 33 1-3 cents m notes running six, nine and t\\ eh e months Ed", ard T Lennartz and L H Burger, propnetors of the . X ortln\ estern Furlllture company," who worked the popular s\\ mdlIng game in DetrOIt. were arrested and taken back to DetrOIt for tnal on the 'Charge of obtaining money under fabe pretenses \rthur and Albert Shannon and WIllIam Kouns have pl1l chased tlhe stock of Hlte Brothers & Co, furniture deal-er", Fourth and RlOh streets, Columibus, 0, and will con-t1l1ue the Dusmess under the partnershIp name of the Out-fit FUll11ture and Rug company. The Central LTpholstering 'Company of She1boygan, Wis, \\ hlch \\ as organized about three montlhs ago, has purchased a bact of land 80 by 150 feet on the Lyman flats, and WIll erect a substantIal factory bUlIJing to care for theIr busmess \\ hlch has grown rapIdly from the start Ralph S SmIth & Son, furnIture dealers of New London, Conn, hay e sold out to their competItor Thomas F Foran, \\ ho \\ III cont1l1ue the busmess, separate and apart from his Bank street store, under the name of the Foran Furniture company The Smith store was estalbhshed 46 years ago D VY Cress, pr1l1C1pal of sohools wt Clearwater, Neb, \\ ants to engage m t1he furniture busmess m a town ot 1,500 populatlOn w1hIch does not boast a furl11ture store. He has \\ ntten to the Grand RapIds boards of trade asking for the address of manufacturers who sell their products on the con-signment plan Buyers in Grand Rapids. D ?II Kahn of the SImpson-Crawford company, New York, J Baum of the Swgel, Cooper company, Chicago, and R. G. Alexander of the Henry Siegel company, Boston, were among the furl1lture buyer::, who visited Grand Rapids during the past week. WEEKLY ARTISAN THE L. Mac E. VARNISHES BLUE RIBBON RUBBING and POLISHING VARNISH, QUAKER CITY COACH VARNISH-CABINET FLOWING V~RNISH, WHITE MAPLE RUBBING and POLISHING VARNISHES; WHITE MAPLE GLOSS VARNISHES-WHITE REED FLOWING VARNISHES, FLAT ALL VARNISH and ALL DULL FINISH-JAPANS, Etc. DIPPING VARNISHES NOTE-Our many years of practical experience with the Furniture, Plano and kindred lines of manufacture enable us to know Just the kind and quahty of varnishes demanded. Also the fact that our strong corps of salesmen have an already estabhshed trade with this class of customers through visiting them with fillers and stains, makes it possible for us to sell varnishes wIthout additional ex-pense to us, which advantage we are disposed to give to our customers in quahty. Send us a Trial Order. THE LAWRENCE-McFADDEN COMPANY - Philadelphia lished by the Salina Rug Manufacturing company, capitalized at $10,000, with Fred Hederstedt & Co, and other business men of the town as stockholders. Fred Hedersted who will New Factories. J. Westveld &Co., have established a factory, to make mission furniture, porch and door ~creens, at Holland, J\llch Hans Meyer of Manitowoc, \V IS, will engage in the wood-working business and manufacture bar fixtures at Two Rivers, Wis. The Winchester Lumber Manufactunng company are purchasing maohlllery for a new furniture factory which they will estabhsh at \iVinchester, Ky The Belhngham Bay Lumber company are bUIlding a large addition to their plant at Bellmgham, \Nash, and are considering the advisaJbIllty of usmg a part of it as a furni-ture factory. J L HUgglllS, Mrs N eha Evans, J T Ragan and L A Whipple, have organized the Automatic Rockmg Chair com-pany, capltahzed at $5,000 and wIll estalbhsh a factory at HawkinsvJ1le, Fla. The Ring Furmture company, KernersvIlle, N C, has been organized with $50,000 capital by \V S LmvIlle, S G Ring and others The company wIll erect a plant for the manufiacture of kitchen cablllets, safes, etc WIlham Baim, Joseph Wemlberg and Samuel Rubin, have incorporated the Rollup Mattress company, capitahzed at $10,000 to estalbhsh a factory and manufacture and deal in mattresses, mattress matenal and machinery, in Chicago Fort Brothers, MorristOlwn, Tenn, proprietors of the J. P. Fort Lumber company, of the same city, wIll erect a fac-tory for the manufacture of chairs The proposed buildlllg will be 40x150 feet, two stones high, and to be equipped With modern machmery throug'hout Salma, Kan, is to have.a rug factory It will be estab- Made by MamsteelMfg. Co.• Mamstee, Mich be the general manager has gone east to purchase machinery and expects to have the factory ready to begin operations by the first of July. 11 12 WEEKLY ARTISAN Exposition in British India. An agrIcultural and industrIal expositlOn IS to be held at Allahabad, BrItIsh IndIa, opening In December ne\:t Eng-lish manufacturers wIll be \, ell 1epl esentecI. the Gelman government has appoll1ted ItS commetcial attache at the con-sulate- general in Calcutta as Impel tal speCIal cOmmt~SlOnet for the exposition, and It has been resolved to et ect therem a separate German dIvision so as to more leadl1y plomote Ger-man trade interests As many merchants ft om China and other Asiatic countries are expected to VISIt thIS expOSttIon It Rockford Chair and Furniture Co. ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS Dining 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 July on the thIrd floor of the Blodgett Building, Grand Rapids, Mich. \\ 111afrol d a 1 al e OppOl tumty to e\:pand trade It is hoped that ~\mellcan manufactm ers \\ 111be as well represented as Germany and England Contracts for Army Furniture. The Gland Ledge (:\Ilch) ChaIr oOimpany has been award-ed the gm ernment contraot for makmg dmmg room, arm and lIbrary chairs for army officers' quarters, WhICh will amount to about $25,000, and the Stebbms & WIlhelm com-pany of SturglS, :\l1ch, wl11 makel about $10,000 worth of lIbt ary desks fat the same purpose The contracts were a \\ Jrdec1 at \\ d"hmgton last Saturday. ._---. Built with double arbors, sliding table and equipped complete with taper pin guages carefully graduated. This machine represents the height in saw bench con-struction. It is designed and built to reduce the cost of sawing stock. WrIte us for descriptive information. CRESCENT MACHINE WORKS OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Business is Only ··So-So" in New York. New York, :;Vlay 19-' The furmture trade h onh tall, the usual penod of dullne% IS on Ib There l~ 110 "nap OI \ 1m m the trade. All ltnes of tl ade feel the same com!Jtlon" and all parts of the country are more or le~s m the same bcnt Unq-ness cannot always be strong and \\ e have to take the l{ood with the bad The present conc!JtlOns al e not nnu"uaJ m tdct occur every year RetaIlers seem to be pt ett\ \\ ell stocked up and there IS no heavy buymg apparently :\IanuLtcturer, dl e workmg In a faIrly steady manner, \\ holesaJers are hay mg onh moderate orders and are takmg th1l1gs eas) Such ale the comments made by manufacturers and dealel ~ on the plt',cnt busmess condItIons The firm of F. illohr & Co, \\holesalel' and retallel~ 01 ...------------.-------.----------------- furmture at SIxth avenue and Thlrt) -fom th ~treet ha\ e come G d R ·d C to a settlement WIth thm credltors, ha\Il1g 111ddea 23 pet cent ran apl s reseent payment, and the Cambndge Tradmg comp'lI1) has as~umed THB WORLD'S BEST SAW BENCH all assets and habllttles and \\ III LOntIl1Ue the bus1l1e," Stahle Bros are handJmg 111 the ten Iton edst ot Pltt,b111 £; the hne of the ne\\ly org-amzed Cortland C abl let compam whIch makes odd chma closets, three-pIece (!JnLlg re Jl11 "l1lte, of oak and mahogany The Amencan Lookmg Glas:o company 1Ms been II1COl p )1- - ated, to make mlrror~, etc, wlth a capItal of S 10 UOO plomotecl by Edward Van Pelt Dongla"", Saml1el G1a"er and I rLclCIlck T DaVIes. The Mowltz Cabmet company has been 111 '01 pOl atecl \\ lth a capItal of $10.000, to deal m furmtl1l e by \lbert \10\\ ItL WIllIam H Pritchal d and JulItb Roevel The L. McGIllts Furl1lture COl11pan) ha" been IIlcOlj)or.{1tel to manufacture and cleal m homeholcl fllr11lture, \\ lth d. C,tpltd] of $12,000, by AJl11111a11 McGllll", James A \J1cGIlhs and Charles:--' McGIlhs 1hey wdl do busme,,'i 111Og-dembuIg 1\ Y. ...>- ----_._~--------_.-------.-..-..-..' -----~~---------_ .... WEEKLY ARTISAN Emeraency Income Tax. The New York legislature, havmg refused to adopt the income tax amtlndmant, is now consIdermg the advI~abIlIiy of ask1l1g congress to submIt a substItute to the lelShlatures of the vanous states, \\~lth the Idea that It would ~urely pI e-vent the adoptlOn of the amenJment whIch is now awaitmg aCLlon by the statcls The substItute whIch I~ called the emergency mcome tax amendment reads as follows' "Resolved, That the senators and representatIves in con-gress of the state of Now York are hereby requested to urge the congress to submIt to the several states an amendment to the federal constitution empowenng the federal gOVdfl1ment to lay and collect an mcome tax in emergencIes wIthout ap-portionment among the states and wIthout reference to any census or enumeratlOn in substantIally the following terms: "ArtIcle 16. The congress shall have power to declare that an emergclncy yXIStS reqUlnng addItIonal revenue to meet expendItures penmItteJ by thIS constItutlOn, and, in con-nection wIth such declaratlOn, may lay and collect taxes on incomes; except income consIsting of interest on bonds or othclr evidences of indebteJness issued by the U mted States Embossed Mouldmg Mada by Waddell Mfg Co.• Grand RapIds, MlCh. or by any of the seve! al states or by any mumcipal govern-ment maintained under the authonty of one of the Umted States, Wlithout apportionment among the several states and vvIthout regard to any cCi!1SUSor enumeration, but every act establIshmg such a tax shall set forth the purposes for which the revenue aris1l1g there under shall be avaIlable, such taxes shall be umform throughout the United States and no act authonzod by these artIcles shall remam in fOJ1ce f01 a longer period than three years" Faith in Business Conditions. The managers of the Rock Island RaIlroad system '">urely have faIth m bus mess condlltlOn" and eApelct them to glOW better m the near future They have Just placeJ on file in the various states through whIch theIr lInes run an equip-ment agreemCint wIth the Bankers' Trust company of New York, under whIch they WIll get 3,975 freight cars, 50 PaCIfic type locomotIves, 84 consolidated locomotives an,d tenders, five dmeIs, 25 caboose", four McKeen gasolIne motor oars, 20 steCil compartment passenger coaches, four steel postal cars, six combmatlOn baggage and passe)nger cars, six steel combmatlOn mall and baggage cars and 20 steel passenger smokers, at a total cost of about $8,000,000. K early all of the eqUIpment is to be delIvered before Jan 1 next. The Rock Island IS to pay in cash $970.253 and the rest of the pa} ments are to be made semI-annually m sums of . $225,000, amountmg to $6,750,000 For the future payments eqUIpment bonds are to be issued. 13 Bristol,Ct. ,Aug.16,1907. G. R. Veneer Works, Grand Rapids, Mich. Gentlemen: In reply to your letter of Aug. 14th, we beg to call your attention to the fac~ that our superintendent wrote you a per-sonal letter a few days ago cov-erIng the matter of the dry kiln. By reference thereto, you will see just what success we have had, WhICh up to the present time has been unqualified and we are absolutely satisfied with its performance. Yours very truly, THE E. INGRAHAM CO. Wm. S. Ingraham, Treas. 0• () . :c (,) '00; ..S.:.:r:... ~ lot 0 =' ~ ..... r.r () Q c..! . • II tL) ~ 0 =' <.. '0 f» ~ II '0 ca -e. II ~ II. 0 Q) ('I) Z • 0 0 lot - 0 0 .... .. $.t e I-f) 0 ~ --. - ca ~ 14 WEEKLY ARTISAN Grand Rapids Hand 618 North Front St. Screw Co., Orand Rapids, Mich. TRUCK TALKS Might not convince you without evidence. But compare a wagon to our truck, note the similarity of construction fea-tures-- No box bearings; nothing to easily break or get out of order; extra large center wheels, revolving on taper turned axles; wide treads; special first-class cast-ings. Grand Rapids Trucks are first, last and all the time the safest in construction, and positively the best. No. 15 Catalog Shows Them. AUTO TRADE PRESENT AND FUTURE. Enormous Growth Due to Novelty. Newness and Extensive Advertisina. Hugh Chalmers of the Chalmers ::\f otor Car compan) de-livered an addre"s recently, in the DetrOIt College E"ten"lOn course, 111which he said "The automobIle bus111ess has been bUilt up "0 rapldh and particularly 111DetroIt, that the people of DetrOIt gener-ally do not reahze what the automobl1e 111dustrv means "It is estimated that there are 150 automobIle compal11es in the United St<lltes. There are thlrty-fi\ e compal11es 111 MIchigan, with a total capaClty of 140,000 cars annuall) Twenty-five companies are in Detroit, "Ith a total annual capaClty of 85,000 cars and a total capltahzatlOn of $30,000,000 "There are 39,000 people employed b) automobl1e manu-facturers 111Detroit, and 19,000 employed by accessor) manu-facturers, mak111g a total of 58,000 altogether engaged 111 automdbl1e work 111 Detroit ThIS means that more than 200,000 people in DetrOIt are dependent upon the automobile ibusmess Nearly $1,000,000 weekI) IS paId out 111\\ ages here 111 Detroit by automobIle and accessory manufacturers "Nearly $10,000,000 b mvested m automobile factones 111DetrOIt The total value of DetrOIt-made cars tll1'- \ eat w111 be about $200,000,000 DetrOlt manufactures ahout 00 per cent of the natIOnal output of automdblles The auto-mobile industry is now the mo"t stupendous of all manu-factured products "Detroit produces any kind of a car that an) one can want, from a $500 runabout to an $8,000 limousme DetrOit has more cars per thousand populatIOn than any other Clty in the world except Los Angeles "People naturally ask, How long \\111 the automobl1e bus111ess cont111ue, and Isn't It hkely to be overdone? Now, I am not a prophet, and cannot tell Just what is gomg to happen, but I beheye that the automobile is not sulbject to any other companeson, because the automobl1e IS the first l111plOvement 111111dlvldual transportatIOn m centunes. The automobl1e ha" replaced the only tll1ng 111 our civihzation that has been the same thlOughout centunes, and that is the hor"e, so that I thInk the automobile WIll he with us as long as the horse has been \\ lth us. But whether or not the pubhc can take the output of some 200 automohl1e companies is another question "1 helle\ e that the automobl1e business WIll be the We are now puttmg out the best Caster Cups WIth cork bases ever offerea to the trade. These are fimshed m Golden Oak and WhIte Maple m a IIght fimsh These goods are admirable for pohshed floors and furn- Iture rests Theywill not sweat or mar. PRICES. SIze 2)( Inches •.. $4.00 per hundred SIze 2)( In~hes .. 5 00 per hundred 7'ry a Sampl. Ordor FOB Grand Rapid', ..... ... ..... • • • • • • • • • • • •• I • __ • • • • • ••• •••••••••• WEEKLY ARTISAN 15 NO OTHER . ....................................•.. _--_.~ SANDER No. 171 Patented Sand Belt Machine. WYSONO « MILES CO., Cedar St. and Sou. R. R., OREENSBORO, N. C. ..I makes it possible to dispense with hand sanding. Our No. 171 Sander produces a finish on flat surfaces, irregular shapes and mouldings that would be spoiled by hand retouching. Ask for Catalog liE" ,. -.. ... ..... ..... ..., .....•... , .. a_a ... ,_. .-.. leading industry of Detroit for more years yet than any of us will live, and I am not so fearful of reaction in the present situation, because the1 e are so many companies that are building good cars located here Of course, many people figure that where money has been made, it still can be made, and the danger ahead of us is that too many people wIll get to thmking that way. Personally, I would not take much stock in any new company that was Just starting, because I belteve the competition in the future is going to be keener by far than it has been in the past, and competItIOn, of course means the elimination of those who are unalble to withstand it. "The automobile business requires more capital in the conduct of it than most people realize, and, while the profits to successful automdbilq manufacturers haNe been quite large in some instances, yet it must be remembered that the risks have been great in the automobile business, and where large sums have been made it must also be remembered that large sums have been lost. "The automobile is the best advertised product in the world, largely for six reasons. "(1) It is a new business. New things advertise them-selves Millions buy newspapers daily, looking for news Everyone remembers the first automobile The first auto-mobile made in this country was made by George B Selden, whose name has become famous as a result thereof, because of the vast amount of expensive litigation that has taken place over what is known as the so-called Selden patent Automobile manufacturers who produce over 85 per cent of the automdbiles used in this country recognize the validity of the Selden patent. Judge Hough, of the southern dis-trict of the United States circuit court, of New York, sus-tained the validity of the Selden patent, and since that time a great many of the going concern" who fought the patent theretofore have come into what 1S known as the licensed association. Selden was the first man to build a self-pro-pelled vehicle, and naturally secured a very broad patent for his invention, and scarcely any other patent has been liti-gated over so much, and so much money spent over it, and so much time given to its careful thought and study as the Selden patent. "(2) There is a mystery about the automobile It i" a wonderful piece of mechanism-the most wonderful yet in-vented. It is still a curiosity in many sections "(3) AutomdbiLing is a sport Automobile racing ap-peals to spol1ting instinct American people are sport-loving people "( 4) Automobiles appeal to all classes of people-those who cannot own one as well as those who can. Everyone hopes to own an automobile some day. "(5) The automobtle helps solve a universal problem-ttansportation. A question everyone 1S interested in. Auto-mobiles solve the problem of mdiV'idual transportatlOn. Multi-plies the time of the business man. "(6) The adverttsing wh1ch the manufacturers do them-selves; that is, through the national weekly and monthly magazines, the newspapers, b1Uboards and other advertising mediums Th1s is only one reason in SlX, and is not more im-portant than some others in explainmg why automobiles are the best advertised products Trade Between the United States and Panama_ Trade between the United States and the Repubhc of Pana-ma will exceed $22,000,000 in the fiscal year which ends next month, and for the seven years since the Republic of Panama came into existence w1ll approximate $100,000,000 About nine-tenths of th1s total, speaking m very round terms, is merchan-d1se exported from the United States to Panama and about one-tenth merchand1se 1mported mto this country from that Republic. Even these figures do not show the grand total of merchandise sent from the United States to Panama during this period, since such portion of the supplies for the Panama canal and those en-gaged in 1ts construction as were sent from time to time upon government vessels are not mc1uded in the figures, by which this statement of trade with Panama is reported Just what proportion of the merchand1se sent to Panama has been for use in the construction of the canal cannot be definitely determined, though the BntIsh minister at Panama recently esttmated that about one-fifth of the total imports of the Republic were for the commissaries of the canal zone, approximately two-fifths for canal supplies, and the remaining two-fifths for general use New Furniture Dealers. S. H Cull will open a new furniture store at St. Cloud, Fla. The H. F A. Lange company has opened a new furniture store at 371-3 Main street, Worcester, Mass. R. E. Lowery has opened his new furniture store in Tus-caloosa, Ala., in the building formerly occupied by the old City Furniture company. Andrew Peterson, who recently sold his furniture store at Ros5eau, Mmn, will open a new furniture and carpet store at Pelican Falls, same state. F. H Brockway and H S. Stedman of Minneapolis, are erectmg a blulding at P~llbrook, M\Jnt, in which they will open a furniture store on July 1. Tanner & Kent-B. B. Tanner and T. V. Kent-popular grocers of Wrightsville, Ga, have decided to go into the retail furniture busines::,. They will open a new stock in July. 16 WEEKLY ARTISAN "'UWL.laHIEO EVERT SATURDAY WY THE MICHIGAN ARTISAN COMPANY --------------------- - ---- .U.SCAI~TION $1•• 0 ~EA YEAR ANYWHEREIN THE UNITED STATES OTHEACDUNTAIES $2 00 ~ER YEAR. SINGLE CO~IE. 5 CENTS. PU.LICATION O ......ICE. 101-112 NO,.TH DIVISION ST. G,.AND RAI"IDS. MICH. A S WHITE. MANAGINQ EDITOA Entered as lecond class matter, July 5. 1909, at the post office at Grand RapIds, MIchIgan under the act of March 3, 1879 CHICAGO REPRESENTATIVEE LEVY. Ever since Austraha gave us the ballot system that 1S nO\\ used in all the states and C1tles, that country ha" been generally cons1dered as a sort of 11110delfor ad\ anced leg1slat1On The laws of the Austrahan states relatlve to the ~ettlement of labor d1sputes have frequently been commended and approved, e"peCl-ally by so-called labor leaders, \\ ho haye declared them lIberal, progressive, fair and just, but there may be a change m such sentiment soon New South \Vales has recently enacted a la\\ that would not be pleasmg to :\..mencan labor l1111On" It em powers any pohce officer aboye the rank of sergeant \\ hen he has any reasonable ground to behe\ e that an) bmldmg or place is being used for a meetmg for mStlgatmg or a1dmg m the con-tinuance of a stnke, or lockout, to enter such bmldmg b) break-ing open doors, etc, and se1ze any documenh \\ l11ch he may reasonably suspect relate to such lockout, etc :\..meetmg of two or more persons assembled for the foregomg purposes. etc , 1S declared unlawful Any per~on takmg part m such meetmg, who has reason to belIeve that the probable consequences of "uch strike or lockout w1II be to depnve the publIc eIther \\ holh or to a great extent, of the supply of a neCeSbar) com1110dlt\, shall be lIable to Impnsonment for 1'.\ elve months The- purpose of the law is evidently to protect the thIrd party-the publIc-from loss, injury and mconvemence dunng labor troubles a matter 111 which Americans surely need enlIghtenment Perhaps the) may learn from the expenence of New South \Vales The consular repm t;, ~hO\\ that Canada h g-ettll1g the be<;t of the Enghsh emIgrant;, thl~ year Ch er 30000 ha\ e left England for the Amencan dommlon thb ~pnng and the num ber is clXpectell to reach 50,000 befm e tll e end of the summer, while the number commg from England to the U11Ited States WIll not C1xceed 10,000 Among those ~omg to Canada are many ..,kllled workmen and not a fe\\ \\ lith con-siderable capItal Germany, hO\\ e\ er, contmue.., to send most of her emIgrants to the U11Ited States Dunng the past Y'ear about 260,000 left that country 'Ia Bremen and Hamburg, more than 70 per cent commg to thIS country and most of the others g;mng to Argentma anll Branl Tho great bulk of the German emlg1 ants are cdmmon laborer" and fc\\ of them have any capItal Years ago (the exact number 1S1mmatenal) the publl"her of the M1ch1gan Artl"an recog11lzmg the need of a furnIture Journal to promote the mterest of the fUl11lture trade of Cmomnatt, despatched "Q D" one of It;, staff (Holbrook) to that city w1th the ondorsements and backmg nece~"ary to sta1 t the FurnitUl e ,IV orker. Holbrook gave it a good start and then turned 1t oyer to the present owners N ow its degenerate ellttor u"e'i 1tS columns to pubhsh fal'iehoods about the .\rtt'ian The supporters of the \Vorker livmg in Cmcmnat1 'ihould not bCIcharged w1th ingratttude on account of the Jealou<;y and unfa1rness of the man who now raJutles around m the seat, formerly filled by Holbrook, Brown and :\Iondschm. The Art1"an has never neglected the shghtCist opportu-nIb to expres'" 1tS v10lent antipathy for anythmg and e1very-thmg connectecl w1th or emanatmg from the C1ty of Cinci-natl -Fur11lture \IV orker The author of the above is a malicious liar. He knows the above charge against the Artisan is untrue, but a lie sel ves his purposes as well as the truth. He hes at all times-awake or asleep By re-electmg A F. Karges of Evansville to the office of pre'ildent, the National Furmture Manufacturers' assooi-ation recogmzed the fa1thful servvce of a tried and true offic1al and reta111ed the cont111uance of a 'iervant who would "<l.cnfice porsonal 111terest to promote the welfare of the trade. E\ ans\ l11e \Vas strongly represented at the meeting of the Kat10nal Furmture assoc1ation in Ch1cago. With Benja- 111111Bosse, Harry Schu, "Ed" Ploeger, A. F Karges and other:, of the1r class present, Evansville exercised a salutary 111fluence 111the deliberat10ns of the assoClation. '\ resolut1On has been introduced in Congress calling for the appointment of a comm1ttee to investigate the express oompames "Yhen the committee shall bel app0111ted and the spade~ are put into the companies' affiairs, let every business ma'l prepare to hold h1s nose It i" whbpered by delegates who attended the meel1ing of the 1\atlOnal Furmture Manufacturers' association at Chi~ cago, that the CO'it of manufacturing goods is still an un- --01'.ed problem Thelre are a considerable number of gues-ser:, still 111the busmess The 1110st effectlve rt:lgulatIon of the business of trans-portmg small packages would follow the passage of the parcels post bill, now pIgeonholed in the rooms of the house COml11lttee on postal affairs, at Washington. To 11\e do\'. n the regrets of not having engaged in the furniture manufBctunng business 1S beooming morel diffi-cult for the people of the world Property owners expect that Gary, Ind, will become a great cIty All 1t needs to attam and retain greatness is ten or twelve furmture factories RetaIler.., of Grand Rapids will partIcIpate largely 111the fes1Jlvltles of h0111e coming week in August next Ltfe 1S not e2Gactly "one grand, ,",weet song," for travel-mg salesmen 111the furniture trade. One 1110nth hence the furmture eXpO'iirt:1On season will be m b10ss0111 SpeCla1 sales 111porch and lawn furmture \\111 be in order soon WEEKLY ARTISAN 17 ...--~-----_~ . . • • • • •• ·1 I GLOBE VISE and TRUCK CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Don't you want the BEST bench that was ever offered for the price, $12.00 (Subject to discount) This bench is 34 inches high, 6 feet, 3 inches long-front 15 inches; made of thoroughly kiln-dried hard maple strips glued together, 2% inches thick. The balance-13 inches is soft wood. Can ship on receipt of order. ~-----------_._._._-----_._-------_._--_._._---.-------~ .._ .._._--- .._---------_ ..-- .... ..- .. ."'I Orientals Originated the Cabinet. The rage for cablllets 111 France onginated during the reign of Henry III, althoough the Onentals were the first to make them. However, It was the Itahan artIsts who chiefly excelled in the con-structlOn and still more, In the decoratIOn of cabinets, wIth the result that from the end of the sIxteenth century the demand for those exported from the peninsula became immense. The ItalIan manufacturers used for them costly exotic woods, whIch they used wIth colored marquetene, Ivory, shells and mother of pearl, ennched WIth je~ elry, glvlllg a new impulse to artIsans and craftsmen The use of bronze In the ornamen-tatlOn of French furmture, of whlCh ,,0 many examples eXIst, was WIthout doubt "uggested by the delightful comblllatiom of gold and sdver designed by cabInet makers beyond the Alps. The use of tortoise shell plaques, In which the Boulles excelled, w.as also eVIdently suggested by the mosaics which Florentine artists began 111 the Imddle of the sixteenth century, to work into theIr cabmets and table tops. At the beglll11lng of the century an incomprehemlble and melancholy whIm led northern craftsmen to use ebony, original-ly a mere accessory of marquetene, as a material for the whole of the cabmets made by them, WIthout anythlllg to relIeve It, and it was to study thIS kind of work that Henry IV sent a corps of carefully selected workmen to Holland, assigning them quar-ters in the Louvre, on their return and dubbing them "menuisiers en ebene,'; whIch I'; the ongin of the name "ebenists," given to makers of furniture. A great many Itahan cabinets have been pre"erved in France, one of whl':.:h in the Cluny museum, may be mentlOl1ed as a typical example It is of very complicated structure, so overladen with all manner of ornamentation that it is really less hke a work of art than a masterpIece of tncks of vanous trades. From It the French got the Idea of using bronze, inlaying with gold and silver in iron. A Valuable Little Book. The Amencan Blower company of DetrOlt, will have ready for distributlOn at the Foundrymen's convention, at Detroit, June 6 to 10, a handsome book, the title of which will be em-bossed upon the cover as follows: "Blower Equipment for the Modern Foundry." The work embodies a treatise on foundry heating and ven-tilation by F. R. StilI. A section is devoted to driving of cu-pola blowers by dIrect connected electric motors Several ap-plications of exhaust fans and ventilating apparatus are illus-trated. An interesting comparison of the generating of electric cur-rent by isolated electric light and power plants, with the pur-chase of current statIOns, is worked out, giving Just the infor-mation the average manufacturer needs to consider. The book wiII be mal1ed gratis to 1l1telested parties. The fatiher of tW1l1Scan't be blamed 1£ he has a deuce of a tIme over them SEND FOR CATALOGUE. 18 WEEKLY ARTISAN 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 10 a line of the "Alaskas," Write for our handsome catalogue and price lists. THE ALASKA REFRIGERATOR COMPANY, EXCI:~~8u~~;~~M:~US:~KoErGON, MICH. New York Ofhce, 369 Broadway, L E Moon, Manager .._-- EASTERN WOOL MARKETS. Prices for New Clip Will Be Lower Than a Year Alio. New York, May 19 -Importers of carpet \\ ools \\ ho ex-pected to see the demand for raw matenal qUIcken thIs week have been dlsappolllted It IS e\ Ident that the miii<: have been so busy wIth the fall openlllgs that \ ery lIttle tIme could be gn en to the \\ 001 market The bustle attenchng the onening of a new season, howey er, \\ 111<:ttbslde \ en <:hortly anJ It is reasonable to suppose that ra\\ matenal \\ 111reLen e a greater degree of attention Carpet wool buyers hay e been out of the market for so long a tIme that dealers hay e been consIderably perple"xed regarding the matter Some tnne ago It \\ a" concluded that all of the mills have had a larger store of \\ 001 than mo"t market factors would concede \\ as the fact As the factone" were well under order, and WIth rare exceptIons con<:umln~ enormous amounts of \\ 001, the ..,ource of supph \\ as rather puzzhng, even if the manufacturers har! a surplth III eAces_ of normal III hand DUring the past \" eek <:tathtlclan" In the trade began to compIle the figures \\ hlch sho\\ the \\ Ith-drawals from bonded warehouse from week to week and the results arrived at went far 111solving thIS \"001 nddle The WIthdrawals slllce the first of last December, hay e not onh been steady, but they have been on a pretty large <:cale Dur-ing the twenty-two weeks that hay e passed S111ceDecember 1, 1909, the average weekly WIthdrawals of Chllla" alone amounted to 450 bales, each conta111111g about 500 pouncls of wool It can be seen readIly by these figures that near" 5,000,000 pounds of Chllla wool has gone 111tOconsumptIOn. while the market remained practically dormant In adci!tlon there was a huge volume of Class III \"001 of othel descnp-tions wlthdra\\ n also \iVhile the cost of Chllla wool appears very high to some buyers, it is interesting to note that OW111gto an advance III the rate of exchange the cost of these wools on thIS market is about 7 per cent lower than the pnces buyers would be compelled to pay on the primary market It may be stated, however, that no large quantities of Chll1a \\ 001 are at pres-ent procurable on the prodUCing centers The arnval of addItional ;,ample'3 of ne\\ clip \\ 001 from the territOries is being awaIted by the leadlllg handlers, and it is expected that WIth larger consIgnments than those ob-tainable last season the local market w11l be more of a factor III these wools than It was during the recent past That the basis of value WIll be more reasonaJble IS a foregone con-clusion, as the co"t of Imtial shIpments sho\\ s a declllle of about 20 per cent compared WIth the figures named at the _._ .... - .._ ..... --- ._ ...I beginning of the last season The latest advices from Texas '3tate that sheanng IS gOlllg on in all sections of the State, but \\ 001 gro\\ ers are not quotlllg pnces to dealers or mills as yet Classification Committee in Grand Rapids. The railroad freight claso,ification commIttee, consIsting of R '\ Call} er, chaIrman, E H Dulaney, R C Fyfe, G H Kelland, F II ::\leadows, R. N Powe, F W SmIth, J N Stead\\ ell anJ Elmer H ·Wood, visited Grand Rapids this \\eek and put III two days investigating WIth a vIew of fram- Ing claSSIficatIOn rnles that may be used III all section'3 of the countn II hlle III the city the gentlemen were the guests of the local FurnIture ::\lanufacturers' aSSOCIation On Thursday the commIttee dl\ Ided Illto gronps each accompamed by a local freIght man and an escort of furmture manufacturers selected by Presdent AddIson S Goodman, viSIted and ins,pected local furl1lture factOries. givlllg packlllg and shipping methods .,peClal attentIOn In the evening the committee was enter-tamed at an mformal dlllner Iby the transportation commIttee of the hoard of trade, E K Prichett, chairman. The work on Fmday was in the same line as on Thurs-day, considerable time was given to consultation with local raIlroad agents In the evening the furniture manufacturers' aSSOCiatIOn enterta1l1ed the committee wit ha d1l1ner served in the GUIld rooms ChaIrman Collyel and other members of the committee express themselves as confident that their "Work will result III the adoption of Ulllform classification rules ,by the western and <:outhern as"oclatlOns and hope to be alble to induce the ea<:tern and PaCIfic coast associatIOns to adopt them \t the dllll1er Thursday night, Mr Collyer repeated the hI" tOr) of cla s'3ificatlOns, '3ubstantially as given in his New York and ChIcago addresses, whIch have he en pubhshed III the II'eekly Artisan He also (hscussed the Importance of proper packlllg, and complimented Grand RapIds furl1lture "hlppers on high standard maintallled here "The freight los"es and damage in this country," he said, "IS e;,timated at $20,000,000 a year and thl" with the fire loss represents a tremendous draw upon the national resources and should be regarded as one item in the higher CO'3tof living Before the question of ratll1g can be considered, the conditIOns precedent to the receIpt of freIght mllSt be determllled and thIS is what the committee is now trying- to arrive at. "An adjustment of classification would not be immedi-ately accompanied [by a readjustment of tariff scales to a common basis per ton mile in all parts of the country, al-though that might come in time, ,but it would make the con-dItIon" of shIpment the same in all sections, and make it pos- WEEKLY ARTISAN It's not dIfficultto produce the popular effects required for MISSION FINISHED PORCH FURNITURE But Porch Furniture demands more than the mere effects. It demands durability under outdoor conditions. AURORA PORCH STAINS have been perfected after much study and experiment. They meet the NEW need. They resist the weather lIke first class paint, yet retain the transparentbeauty of high grade stain. WEATHERED OAK, MISSION BROWNS, MOSS GREENS, DULL BLACKS, SOFT REDS, AND OTHER POPULAR EFFECTS. Write for sample panel. To facilitateprompt attention,address Desk No.3. MARIETTA PAINT 8 COLOR CO., Marietta, Ohio. sible to properly e~press the relation which each article should bear to the whole classification scheme throughout the country It is no part of the present work to put ratmg .on the classification, yet a near wpproach to this is m hav1l1g to decide what articles shall Ibe recognized as entitled to carload rating, as this determines minimum carload weight The furniture shippers of Grand RapIds are much inter-e'ited in the plan for minmum carload weight of larger size than standard. I am famtliar with the competItIve forces that you face in putting your goods into western markets and m the growing burden of decreasmg supplies of raw ma-terial. The same condItion faces the New England manu-facturers. The solutIon is an increasingly high stand-ard of output as compared with competitIve manu-facturers. I take It you will be satIsfied to adjust your shipping condItIOns to whatever rule may 1:le adopted provided your competitors are made to work under the same rule" A general dIscussion of shIpping problems followed Mr Collyer's address, dunng which the fact was brought out that glass front furlllture traveled more safely if crated than If boxed, handler bse1l1g more careful when they see the glass and also 1:lecause the crates are easIer to handle. ThIS seemed to be news fOI Mr Colyer, but several of those who jomed in the dIscussion confirmed It A Crisp Criticism. EdItor Weekly Artisan Dear SIr In a recent ISSue of your paper, the resolutIOns of the executIve committee of the National RetaIl Furniture Dealers' association adopted m Chicago, was published. The points covered m the resolutions are well taken, and doubtless - I! I represent the Ideas of the entire retail trade, but, how effec-tive are the Ideas of the retail trade with some of the factone'i when a test occurs? How generally do the factories adhere to their avowed purpose when an opportulllty occurs to get a good sized order mdirectly? How would the trade look at an instance of an order being accepted for a small hotel from a dry goods firm who have not a single article of furniture on sale The dry goods firm in question have made an announcement that later in the year they would add a furlllture department to their store, but at present time, when an order was sent factory, the buildmg for furniture department was m actual use as an office buildmg The hotel order was a side issue How does this instance impress trade, represented by the dealers' associations? A patron desired to match out a sectional bokcase by adding three sections As natural m these days, the lady wrote the factory for pnce, and at same time placed her order WIth local firm, but in the course of three days called to say that she had received a reply from a factory offenng to deliver the parts at one-third off the manu-facturers' ltst, plus $100 for freight? How largely do the factories protect the dealer described in the resolution that reads. "The associatIOn recognizes no one as a legitimate and bonafide furniture dealer except such as carry at all tImes a full stock of furniture, commensurate with the localtty in which they are doing business" We all know high class factories that advertIse largely who never send out good'i dIrect. But the exceptions, how about them? If these inCIdents occur in one place doubtless they do in others A Retatler \iVho Reads The Artisan. Colorado Springs, May 17, 1910. 19 THE PENDING FEDERAL RAILROAD BILL Some of the Important Fe'atures That Are Now Expected to Be Approved by Congress. That Congrcs:o will pa"s the pending Iaill odd hill I" no\\ genenally conceded That 1t \\ III dlfter \\ 1del) m mam part1- culars from the bill drawn and apprm ed b) Prc"ldent Taft 1S equally apparent The bill ha:o been amendeJ so radically and so frequently that 1t has been difficult to keep posted on the charges, but the followmg synopsh \\ 111em er the mo~t ,important of them Both hou"e and "enate ha\ e taken ~Tcat hberties w1th the ongmal measure, making changes \Hth-out regard to the PreSident's recommendatIOns, and as the) are yet at variance, more amendments are hkely to be made before the bill becomes a law The merger clause, wh1ch \\ as m effect an attack on the Sherman law, has been elimmateJ, as was abo the sectIOn rUl1horizing traffic agreements among the ra1lroads. Sec-tions 13, 14 and 15, providmg a plan for the regulation of the capitalization of railroad corporatIOns, ma) also be dropped from the senate bill, but the house has adhered to them, and has, besides, incorporated mto 1b bill a number ot equallY Jrastic and far-reachmg assertIOns of gOYern mental author-ity One of these makes 1t obhgator) on the ra1hoacb to quote rates correctly to sh1ppers; another gives the Interstate Commerce (ommblOn power to m1tJate 111\e<;tJgatlOn on 1h own complaints; a third prOVides for a Slxt) -da\ su<;pen~lOn of t ates pend111g an investigatIOn b\ the comml s"lOn mto their reasonableness, and a fourth extends the scope of the act, with very doubtlful con"tJtutlOnal \\ arrant, to tele~raDh and telephone compallles domg an mterstate bU:'lmes" The "long and short haul clause" lS another feature of the proposed leg1slatlOn \",hleh, 1f mcorporated therelll a" something more than a "Jokel," \\111 mark anotht:r departure from the admm1stratlOn's program '3till another, and of greater 1mportance, 1S the clause prov1c!lng for the ph) ~Ical valuation of ratlraods-wh1ch the mter:otate comm1:O"lon might today undertake 1f 1t had the funJ", a<; It ha<; thc pm\ er ~or any of a numlber of other matter" appeanng m the origmal measure or grafted on 1t as amendment, Not only 1S the \\ hole "cherne of rate" \ Itall) m\ oh ed in 1he issue presented by the long and short haul quc:'ltliJn, hut the pl"'lpellty of sechon:o and commulllties and the mo\ ement:'l of trade dl e ahke conce~neJ On the theory that the\ mlbt meet \\ ater cOlmpetltlOn to advantge wherever it eX1sts, or has e:X1sted and 1Shkely to eX1st agam, the ra1lroads ha\ r b111lt up a sy:otem of late" under wh1ch intenor points are flagrantl) 0\ ercharged m order to recoup losses resultmg from e'Ctraordmar) la\" rates to coast pomts and places along the larger rl\ ers Fre1ght tanffs are replete wttth instances m \\ hlch an even much htgher rate is charged for the short haul than for the long haul over the same route For in-stance, as has been explameJ by senator Smoat of Utah, the rate on \\ ood from Sdlt Lake C1ty to Boston is $2.13 per hun-dred \\ e1ght, hut 1f the shtpment of wool origmating at Salt Lake mO\ ed 'louthwest to Los Angeles, Cal, a sea coast center, and trans pOlted thence to Boston through Salt Lake, the fre1ght charlSe 1S only $192 per hundred weight. In other \\ ords the t ailroads carry the wool sh1pment destmed to l~o:oton to Los Angeles and hack to Salt Lake C1ty for 21 cenb less than nothmg, as compared with the Salt Lake-to- Bo"ton charge Slmllarly the transcontinental rates to Seattle, Tacoma and other ~ orthwest PaClfic c1ties are cons1derably less than those to such an 1l1lportant intermediate pomt as Spokane. Thh "ort of Jugghng enables the Seattle Jobber to Sh1p his good, mto Spokane m competJtlOn WJth the jobber at that pomt catellng to local trade, as the sum of the through rate to Seattle and the local to Spokane 1Sless than the direct rate from the east to tJhe latter Prett) much the same rate SituatIOn obtains with re-spect to the terntory of the l'ower l\IbSlsslpp1 river To dnve the boats off the stream the ra11 carriers adjusted their tar- 1ff<;to a \ er} low level for all long hauls On first class fre1ght a ulllform rate of 40 cents from Memphis to every rl\ CI pomt south was prov1ded, the schedule applymg nTI-partlall) to Helena, Greenvtlle, Natches, Vlcksburg, Baton Range nd ~e\\ Orleans The re"ult was, wnth rates on other cla"~e" of fre1ght slmilarl) reduced, the boats had to abandon the long hauls and ha\ e practtcally disappearcd from the No 9-Porch Chair Large size. Oak Seat Green or MISSIOnFinish. Weight, 20 pounds No to-Porch Rocker Large size Oak Seat Green or MISSIOn FIUlsh Weight 2tYz pound. No. l1-Porch Settee. Seat 40 Inches long, 17% Inches deep Oak Seat. Green or MISSIOnfimsh Weight, 32 pounds. RICHMOND CHAIR COMPANY, RICHMOND, INDIANA WEEKLY ARTISAN 21 CHOICE TOOLS FOR FURNITURE MAKERS If you do not know the "Oliver" wood working tools, you had better give us your address and have us tell you all about them. We make nothing but Quality tools, the first cost of which is considerable, but which will make more profit for each dollar invested than any of the cheap machines flood-ing the country. "Oliver" New Variety Saw Table No. 11 Will take a saw up to 20' mameter Arbor belt" 6' WIde Sendfor Catalog "B" fordataon Hand Jointers, Saw Tables, Wood Lathes, Sanders, Tenoners, Mortisers, Trimmers, Grinders, Work Benches, Vises, Clamps, Glue Heaters, etc., etc. OLIVER MACHINERY CO. Works and General Offices at 1 to 51 Clancy St. GRAND RAPIDS. MICH., U. S. A. BRANCH OFFICES-Oliver Machinery Co., Hudson Terminal, 50 Church St. New York, Ohvcr MachInery Co , Fm!! Natronal Bank Budding, Chicago, III , Oher Machinery Co , aClflCBUllmng, Scatde, Wash, Ohver Mac/unery Co ,20)·203 Dean.gale, Manchester, Ena lower lIver, the few remainmg steamer'S being engaged ex-clUSIvely m local serVIce Senator Bnstow of Kansas, in dIscussing these facts from the hIstory of raJ1road and steamboat competItIon 111 the south, l11troduced several l11terest111g IllustratIOns on hIS No. 1730-1730 Pull. Made by Grand RapIds Brass Co, Grand Rapids, MICh. own account One of thebe reldted to cotton shipments flam MemphIS to New Orlean, The dIstance between these two CItIes IS 396 mJ1e:", and the rate on cotton over that distance is 20 cents per hundred weIght On the other hand, the rate from Jackson, MIss, to New Orleans, a distance of 183 mJ1es over the same raIlroad, IS 33 cents per hundred weIght, or 13 cents hIgher than the ]\1<::mphi'S-New Orleans tanff schedule All shlprpers, except those dJrectly benefitted, agree that such VIcious absurdItIes 111rate-making should be inhi1bited, Oliver Tools Save Labor U TIme " Tempers « CO$l "OLIVER" No. 16. Band Saw 36 Inches. Made w,1b or WIlboul motor drIve Metal table 36"x 30". Will take I8" under the smde- lilts 45 degrees one way and 7 clegree$ Ibe other way Car-nes a saw up to 1,%11 Wide. OUlllde beanng to lower wheel shaft when not motor doyen Welwh. 1800 lb. when ready 10 shIp at <:11hazards, in the new raIlroad legIslation in congress. It IS not pOSSIble, to be sure, to adopt a mIleage baSIS for rate makmg, nor yet a zone basIS, but thIS thmg of overchargmg Spokane for the benefit of Seattle, and of laying a heavy rate burden on BIrmingham, Ala, to compel15ate for unreasonably low ra tes made to V teks burg or New Orleans-in other words, of makmg the 111tenor cities pay for the unprofitable handlmg of the bUSIness of sea ports or certam nver points-should be brought to an abrnpt and defimte end. A clause prohlbltmg the charging of a le'SS rate for the long than for the short haul over the same road should not only be 111cor-porated m and made an enforceable feature of federal law, but, m addItIon, the Interstate Commerce commISSIon should be gIven the authonty to oven ule a rate vvlhICh 111 itself IS unprofitalbl1e, or I~ even unreasaiJ:>ly low 111 the matter of earn-mg power Five Hundred Houses at Carey. Plans have been submitted to BUIlding Commissioner VV. H Kltver of Gary, Ind, by offiCIals of the Amencan I3ndge company, for the constructIon of 200 houses for its employes, to cost from $1,500 to $3,500. Plans are also being prepal ed for the American Sheet & Tm Plate company for the constructlOn of 300 dwellll1gs, rang111g from $2,500 to $5,- 500 Both compa11les are Sub<'lcllary plants of the U11ltec1 States Steel corporatlOn, and are now erecting large plants near the sites of the IndIana Steel company. The plant of the Amencan Sheet & 1'm Plate company vv ill be one of the larg-est of Its kmd m tJhe world. Rtehes take unto them'Selves wings A filer in the stock market often proves It. 22 WEEKLY ARTISAN Minnesota Retail Dealers' Furniture Association OFFICERS-PreSIdent J R. Taylor, Lake Benton, Mlnn , Vice· President, D. R Thompson, Rockford, Mlnn , Treasurer, B A Schoeneberger, Perham, MInn 1 Secretary, W L. Grapp, Janesvdle, Minn EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE-Chairman, Geo Klein, Mankato, Minn., 0 Simons, Glencoe, Mlnn; W. L Harns, Mmneapolls, Mtnn , C. DanIelson, Cannon Fans. BULLETIN No. 140. Housefurnishing Store Advertising. The advertIsmg manager of the Rhodes-Burford Furni-ture company, St. Loms, dehvered the fo11o\\mg address to the company's employes recently, and It b \\ orth perusal by salesmen as well as dealers m furnIture' "N ewspaper pubhClty IS but a part of the great ach ertIs-ing force of thIs store-those wmdo\\ dlspla\ s, our dell' er} serVIce, our office force, our collectIOn department, the con-dItion of our store, our sales force-are the parts that make up the whole great force, advertI"mg, upon \\ hlch depends the ultimate success of thIS great store "Upon the part of each, then, there must be a perfect harmonIOus workmg WIth the other-the closest co-operatIOn If our newspaper pubhcity, our \\ Indo\\ dIsplay s, bnng peo-tour of inspectIOn She asks to be shown a ladies' writing de"k Salesman shows her the line Never stops to ask her 'o'ohat filllSh she prefers, nor to ascertain albout what priced pIece she deSIred to purchase, but pIcks up the first tag, says, "Quartered oak, $77S"-the ne'<:t, "the same finish, $97S," and so on down the hne Salesmen, that isn't selling voods, that Isn't backll1g up your store's publiCIty-that's just simply calling pnces IVhat this store wants-what it must have-are \\ holesouled, heart-in-their-work, painstaking, attentIve salesmen \\ e have no room for order takers " \mong "alesmen personal appearance counts for a whole lot IV e aren't all able to affO!d $60 taIlor made suits and patent leather shoe", but we can all wear clean linen, keep what clothes \\ e do possess neat and clean, our hands and Are you partll~lly responSIble for the addItion to thIS week's cartoon by not using the a68oClatlOn helps WhIChthe aSSOCIationbrmg6110 you to meet this competlOn WhIChIndIVId-ually. you could not? Think It over and watch this picture grow next week. pIe mto our store, both have done their duty, they have created the deSIre, and that IS all that we can expect ut them "We shall endeavor to Impress upon the mll1cb ot the people of St Loms a dIfferent store, a better "tore, a thoro-ughly dependable store, a store where theIr satbfactlOn 'o'oIII be glVen first attentlOn \Ve can accompll"h thIS onh through a better antI dIfferent SOlt of pubhClty But bear m mmd that this pubhcIty, no matter how much better, how dIfferent In every way, IS but a small factor of the greater force upon \\ hiCh thIS store depends for ultImate succes" "Can you conceIve of anything mOle dIsastrous to thIS store's welfare than a splendId publICIty campaIgn, not backed up? Here's a woman, for instance, who has read our open-ing announcement She comes to the store filled \\ Ith e,,- pectancy ThIS IS a new store to her The ad'o ertI~ement she has Just read speaks m glowmg terms of ne\', goods-splendId assortments of them-an unexcelled sen Ice \Vhen she reaches the store, behold-the store's wllldows, poorly arranged goods dusy and dIrty Instead of addmg to her expectancy It has retarded It and now she wonders "On the other hand, had those wllldows been artlstlcalh trimmed, as attractive as store wllldows can po",,1bly he made -what an Impetus her already created expectancv would have received Take it for granted they are such She enters the store, a salesman approaches her-and they start on a tingel naIls clean I tell you, salesmen, the part you play ha~ a 111Ight} Important beanng upon the success of thIS store, and \ our o\\n future success as well How well are \ ou gOlllg to play your part? E'oen thOlough salesman knows hIS goods He mU3t kno\\ them to be able to present them to his customers as they should be presented It's thorough knowledge that enables you to make "ales And upon every branch of the store's produclllg force devolves the same task, and to that end all :ohould pull WIth every pos"lble effort-the customer's entire satisfactIOn A sharp reply over the te1ephone-de-hvelles promIsed and not fulfilled-impudent collectors-a d1scourteous carpet layer or delIvery man-may result in a lo"t cu"tomer . I :oav to "au, III all faIrness, If you can't put forth your "\ ery be"t eft art, If your heart isn't III your work-Ill the name ot falfne"s to the management, to whom the success of this "tore means so much-hand your reSIgnation to the manager no\\ and let h1l11fill your place with someone who will do for Rhodes-Burford what he would expect them to do for h1m 'ol,ere he the employer and they the employed. "The sort of publlClty that w1ll be given this store if pro-perly and Illtelhgentlv backed up WIll mean unquallfied suc-ce"" for thIS great store, and this store's success means your success" Minnesota Retail Furniture Dealers' Association. BULLETIN No. 141. One of our members abked 'Why don't we 0\ erdraw our ad,ertlsmg UnIts the same "'S some of the catalog houses do?" Our reply IS that we feel that If we cannot get busllless on the ment of the goo ds as they really are, we are not entItled to It Therefore, we would rather have our advertlsmg umts a lIttle underdrawn than overdrawn Yo u use these advertlsmg units to brmg the customer to your store When he comes and sees that the real artICle IS even mOl e pleasmg than the de se rJptlOn led hIm to beheve the sale IS made a great deal eaSier We have to meet our customers personally and we would a great deal rath er have hIs full confidence than to coax hIm mto our store wIth overdrawn pICtures and then have hIm find that the article does not look as well as he was led to believe it would If you wIsh to bUIld up a permanent bUSllless, you must conduct your busllless along truthful lines We feel that we can follow thIS po!Jcy 1ll preparmg our advertlslllg umts and Wlll out A High Grade Kitchen Cabinet. A Special Value in a Kitchen CabiJ1et. F3G No o - 0 1 T hIs h and y, dur a bile kItchen cab In et I s made of har d wood 1ll golden oa k or natural fimsh The top IS 26 x 42 lllches and It has a large flour blll a drawer whICh can be used for cut-lery and a kneadmg board ThIS cablllet IS made by one of the most modern and best eqUIpped factorIes It IS very well constructed and only the best matenal IS used It IS an e"ceptlOnally good value for the pnce F 3 6 N 0 o 07 T hIs s e 1 - VI C e-a b I e hlg h grade kltch - en ca... bIn et I~ made of hard wood m the natural or golden oak fimsh It has a 26x46 mch top two large bms whIch can be used for flour, sugar or meal two good sIzed drawers whIch can be used for cutlery and a kneadmg board ThIS cablllet IS hIgh grade 1ll every respect and WIll be a ,alu-able addItIon to any kItchen It IS very convemently arranged and cannot fall to gIVe satisfactIOn WIth type, 40c WIthout type, 25c PrICe of kItchen cab met to our mem-bels $2.47. WIth type 40c WIthout type 25c PrICe of kitchen cab met to OUI mem-bers, $3.33. A Durable Kitchen Cabinet. F 3 6 N 0 0-0 3 .r hIS n eat kltcr, - e n cabI-net IS made o f 11 ar d wood m natural or golden oak fimsh The top IS 26 x 46 lllches and It has a large flour bm, tw 0 good sIzed drawers whIch can be used for cut lery a spacIOus cupboard and a kneadmg board The constructIOn IS of the best and only first class matenal IS used ThIS cabInet IS very convenIently arranged and can not fail to gIVe satisfactIOn It WIll add a neat finIshing touch to any kItchen I ___ ~ __ I WIth type 40c Without type, 25c Price of kItchen cabmet to our mem-bel s, $3.66. A Handsome Kitchen Cabinet. F36 No 1 - 9 1 ThIs well co n-struct e d kitchen ca b Inet I s made of hard wood In the nat-ural or golden oak fin- Ish The top IS 26 '{42 mch-e s an d the base has a large flour bin, a good sIzed drawer and a kneadmg board The top has a very neat and convenIent arrangement of two medIUm large cupboards and four drawers ThIS cabmet makes a very pleasmg re-ceptacle for the varIOus kl tchen utenSIls and cannot fall to appeal to every housekeeper A Neat Kitchen Cabinet. F36 No o - 0 2 T hIs hand-s 0 m e kItchen cabInet IS made of ha rd wood m the nat-ural or golden oak fimsh The top IS 27 x 44 lllches and It has an e"tra large flour bm, a spauous cupboard for pans, etc, a lalge drawer and a kneadmg board It IS made by e'{- penenced cabmet makers and only the best matenal I~ used The ar-rangement of thIS cablllet IS some thmg that those havmg small kItchens WIll apPI ecmte .:A Popular Kitchen Cabinet. Vllth type, 40c WIthout type, 25c Price of kItchen cabmet to our mem-bers, $4.38. Price of base, $247 Pnce of top $1 90 WIth type 40c WIthout type 25c Price of kItchen cabmet to OUr mem-bers, $5.46. F36 No 5 - 9 3 T hIs neatly arrang-ed kl t-c hen cabmet IS made of hard woo d In the natural or gold en oak finIsh The top IS 26x4b mches and It has a large flour bm two good sIzed drawers, a roomy cupboard for pans, etc , and ,l kneadmg board The top has a very pleasmg arrangement of se, en drawers the one m the center bemg shghtly larger than the otherb Just what you need for your kItchen WIth type, 40c WIthout type, 25c Price of kItchen cabmet to our mem-ber~, $5.56 Price of base $3 66 Pnce of top, $1 90 I A Very Popular Kitchen Cabinet F36 No 4 - 9 7 T hIs h I g h grade kltche n cabme t IS made of hard wood m the nat-ural or gol d en oak fin Ish The top IS 26 x 46 mches and the bas e hab two large bms WhICh can be used for flour meal or sugar two good sIzed drawers and two kneadlllg boards The top has a very neat and convement arrangement of three medIUm sIzed drawers and three small ones ThIS cabmet WIll make a most pleaslllg addItIOn to your kItchen --------- A Very Substa';tial Kitchen Cabinet. I F36 No 'i - 5 3 ThIS at-tractIve kl t chen ca blnet IS made of ha rd wood In natural 01 gold-en oa k fm I sh The top I ~ 2 6 x 46 mch-es an d the base has a 1 a 1" g e flour bIn, a spaCl-ouschlna close t tor pans etc two good sIzed drawers and a kneadlllg board The top has a roomy chma closet fitted WIth glass doon and a shelf extendmg the en tire WIdth of the cablllet You WIll find one of these cabmets a great convemence m your kItchen A Roomy Kitchen Cabinet. F36 No 2 - 4 1 't' hIs pleasm g In tchen cabInet IS made of har d wood In the natu-ral or gol-den oak fIn 1 s h .rhe top IS 26x42 Inches and the base has a large flour bm a go 0 d s I zed drawer and a kneadlllg board The top has a roomy chma closet fitted WIth glass doors Thel e IS a shelf extendmg the full WIdth of the cabmet ThIS handsome cabmet WIll be an Orna ment to ~our kItchen WIth type, 40c WIthout type 25c PrIce of kItchen cabmet to our bel'S, $5.80. PrIce of base, Price of top $3 33 mem $2 47 WltlJ type, 40c WIthout tvoe 25c Price of thIS cabmet to our members $5.80. Price of base, $333 PrICe of top $247 WIth type 40c ,;Vlthout type 25c Price oj' kItchen cabmet to our bel'S $6.99. Price of base Price of top, $3 33 ' SEND ALL ORDERS TO THE SECRETARY, JANESVILLE, MINN. mem- $3 66 24 WEEKLY ARTISAN . ---.- .-..--~ SIGNIFICANT LUMBER STATISTICS An Average Increase of Fifty Per Cent in Prices in the Past Ten Years. The followmg statistics and statements compIled and sent out by COm1TI1SSlOner\VU1p1 of the N atlOna1 IIa1 d\\ ooel Lumber dssoclatlOn WIll have great slgmficance and meamng to all \\ ho a1e m any way mteresteel m the furn1ture trdele Dr 1I1du.,tl\ Total lumbel productlOn ~mce It! -;0, l.~()O bllhon teet The cut was as follo\\s m the penod, mentlOned 1830- 5 bl1110n feet 1860- 8 bl1110n feet 1870-13 b11l1Onfeet 1908-33 1K'30-18 bl111011 1890-'H b1lllOn 1900-33 bl1llOn bl1llOn feet feet feet feet Total cut m 8 ) ears, 1900 to 1908, j'29 bIllIon teet Yellow pme leads all \\ 1th a cut of 100 b11110nfeet Wh1te pme sceond wIth a cut of 49 b11lIon feet Oak 15 fourth wIth a cut of 31 bl1llOn feet M11l Value m 1900 190'3 Increa"e Produced Yellow Poplar $Ue OJ $'23')0 800', HciC'C less Ash 15 8-k 2331 C1r;; 16 .~ Ie" Oak 1'3 78 21 5,) 31ll, 3, 6l{; Ie"., Yellow pme 846 1266 -±9'7r 16 7c more Wh1te pme 1269 1811 ci ')c,~ ,-;C()c~~le,,~ Chestnut 1337 1627 '2F~ III F( Ie,s LouiSIana ranks first m ) ellm\ pme cut Texa::, ,econd Total oak cut m 1900 was 4cl38 m1llIon teet In 190t!, d tnfle over three-fifths as much Kentucky ranks first m oak cut, \\ est \ Irgl11la second The general mcrea,e m the pnce level for the past 10 \ ear5 IS 50 per cent. The maxImum output of wh1te pme, oak, ) ellm\ poplar d,h and elm 1S Said to have been passed Grand Trunk Orders Auto Cars. The Grand Trunk and Grand Trunk PaCIfic ra1h\ a\ CO 111- pames have placed order5 WIth the vVestern Steel Car anel I oun-dry company of ChIcago, for 2,000 steel-frame box cars of (JO - 000 pound" capacIty each, or about the Oldmary "lze bo,- Lar, These steel frame cal s cost about $1,000 each, so that thh one order represents more than $2 000,000 ] he Importance ot the automobl1e trade to the ra1lwa) ~ 1S shO\\ n 111the t,lCt that the Grand Trunk has ordered JOO spe~ldl automobIle Cdrs 1 he"e are lal ge box cars, WIth specIally deSIgned doO! s at the ends, whIch WIll allow a large tounng car to be run m or our \\ Ithout d1ffiLuity The Grand Trunk touches DetrOIt, I lmt, Lan,mg and other CItIes 111 the we~t whlLh have large automobtlc tdC-tOlles, and the cars have been found nCCeS~dr) to handle thl" trade. ThIs system has also been consldenng the purchase of a number of steel frame box cars of 100,000 pounds capaclt) each, for the wheat handlIng trade A t1am of iW st1ch car" could carry 1,OeO tons-3,3,000 bushels-of wheat each tnp, WIth a mmlmum of handl111g However, It hac bee 1 deuded not to ordel the5e cars at present Slam·tand to the Point. Grand Rapld~ Veneer Works, Grand Rap1ds, :\IICh, Gentlemen-Your favor of the 27th mst. dt hand In repl) would say that our kIlns are work111g finely Yours respectfully, Henry H Shelp l\!~fg Co -R. C PIckett PhIladelphIa, July 10, 1909 ( American Plan) Rates $2.50 and Up. Hotel Pantlind (European Plan) Rates $1.00 and Up_ GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. The Noon Dmner Served at the Pantlmd for 50c is THE FINEST IN THE WORLD. J. BOYD PANTLIND, Prop. I J..------_._------ .•.• _._._ w._ ._ .... ~ SEND FOR Manufaduren of Embo.. ed and Turned Mould. inas, Embo.... cd and Spindle Carvinp. and Automatic Turnin ••. We 0110manu-ladule a Iarac hnc of Embo ... d Ornament. for Couch Work. 1256-1258 W. Fifteenth St., CHICAGO, ILL. ---_ .. _. _._-----_._-----._-_._--------_._--_ .. -- ~ r· Ii• I IIIII I FOX MACH IN E CO. G~~N~ ~':.";,;,;:·~f~HI ..-----~-_.---------- -- -"_. - .- . - - '" No.15 FOX SAWING MACHINE WRITE 44 FOR NEW CATALOG ~----_-. --~--__._.-_._---------_._-_._._.-------. HOFFMAN BROTH ERS CO. FT. WAYNE, IND. I HARDWOOD LUMBER I I SA~~D} QUARTERED OAK { VENEERS SLICED AND MAHOGANY I'----_._._--_ .. ----_.. .. -._ ...... _. - . ------------------~- - ~ ~ WEEKLY ARTISAN TABLE MAKERS IN CONVENTION They Oppose Senator Smith's Amendment to the Railroad Bill. The meeting of the NatIOnal Ao,,,oclatlOn of Table Mak-ers, at IndIanapolIs on Wednesday was marked by large at-tendance and better reports of the condItion of busmess than had been expected The assocIation IS now much stronger than a year ago The membership includes 66 per cent of the table manufacturers of the country and over 80 per cent of the product. The proceedings which were mamly of mter-est only to the members were I emarkably harmonIOus N ear-ly all who participated m the dlscusslOns expressed OptI-mIstic sentiments as to present condltlOns and the outlook for the near future The convention went on record as opposmg the amend-ment to the pendmg raIlroad bIll offered by Senator Smith of MIchIgan, intended to lllcrease the power and authOrIty of the attorney-general in cases of shIppers agamst raIlroads before the interstate commerce commission, by WIring the followmg protest to Senator BeverIdge' "The manufacturers of extension dining tables in con-ventIOn here assembleJ from all parts of the Umted State", and representmg practically 84 per cent of the t3Jble product of the United States, would respectfully enter vigorous pro-test against the Smith railroad bill now under conslderatlOn by congress "We respectfully urge the defeat of saId amendment, and that It gIve the shIpper due plivIlege before the mterstate commerce commlSSlOn, where cases and complamts may be adjudged finally" To Oppose Higher Freight Rates. Chicago, May 18 ~A nation wide campaign to force the raIlroads to reduce freight rates or to hold them at theIr present level was launched in ChIcago yesterday. Perma-nent organization to carry out the campaIgn was effected by 400 manufacturers and representatives of com~erclal clubs in a conference, which started in the Gold room, Congress Hotel A steady campaign of publicity against the raIlroads, bringmg politIcal influence to bear to cut off "favors" which they now receive and fosterIng of water traffic were the three remedies repeatedly advanced to force the raIlroads to time The sItuation IS made particularly acute by the increa:oe whIch is to go mto effect on certam classlficatlOn on June 1 next and a general advance whIch IS antiCIpated in all parts of the country before autumn Practlcall yevery bIg shIpper in ChIcago v. as represented at the conference Organizations m many smaller cIties and particularly trades mterested only in the tariffs affectlllg theIr lineo" were represented by secretarIes or chaIrmen and many large shIppers m other cities were personally repre-sented The conference was brought about by the I1l1l101s Manu-facturers assoclatlOn and the ChIcago AssoclatlOn of com-merce The permanent officen, as o,elected by a nominatmg commIttee and elected by acclamation, are : John E \iV Ilder, president, vice president of vVIlder & Co, ChIcago, R E Spencer, vice president, Peter" Shoe Co, St LOLli", E E \V IllIamson, secretary, commissioner of the Recel\ ers' and ShIppers' aSSOCIation of Clllclllnati The nomlllatmg committee recommended that a trea-surer and a name for the permanent body be selected later ResolutIOns and other commIttees also were deferred. The nom1l1atmg committee consisted of P. M. Hanson, chairman 25 of the Mi"si:osippi Manufacturing aSSOCIation, St Louis; W B Moore, o,ecretary chamber of commerce, Dayton, Ohio; E J. McVann, manager traffic department, Commercial Club, Omaha, W. B Trickett, executive manager of Mmnesota Traffic as"oclatlOn, MmneapolIs, and J E Huntley, commls-si01ler of the UtIca traffic bureau, Utica, N Y Talks Encouragingly. New York, May 19-Concernmg the rals1l1g of freight rates 111 the terntory of the Trunk Lme and Central FreIght associations, George D DIxon, freight traffic manager of the PennsylvanIa, confirm1l1g rumors of such intention, is quoted as saying: "RaIlroads are readJustmg their freight rates all the tllne There WIll not be any such extraord1l1ary advances as has been presistently forcasted and there is nothing unusual or anythmg to get eXCIted about in a contemplated increa<;e. "At the present time the carriers are m need of money and are compelled to raise certain rates because of the 111- creasmg cost of lalbor and the general advance 111 the cost of various materials. "In some cases the freight rates WIll be lowered, while in others they WIll be advanced Then again, there are some that will not be changed" It is understood that by work1l1g mght and day, the checking m new rates on commodltleb has been completed sooner than at one time seemed possIble, by the roads m the Trunk Line AssoCIation, and the rate clerks al e now WIth lIke remitting labor, domg the bame WIth the various cla<;ses, after whIch the schedules ""ill be passed upon by the traffic executives Correspond1l1g progre"s has been made by the Central FreIght AssociatlOn lInes, except as to dre"sed beef and like high class freIght concermng whIch dIfferences of opmlOn as to what the rates o,hould be have served to cause delay. It is possIble, however, that the roads 111 both associ-ations WIll be ready to file their new tarIffs by July 1 Some further officIal announcement may be made in a few days Might Better Cut Dividends. "The repol t of the commIttee on interstate commerce submitted to the N atlOnal AssociatlOn of Manufacturers at the annual meet1l1g in New York, stated that for the year ended June 30, 1909, dIvIdends of about 8 per cent were earned by 66 per cent of the raIlroad stocks of the Umted States-"a considerably larger net income than the average realIzed flOm most investments" So It is argued by the commIttee that if to all the burdens now re'it1l1g upon the manufacturers of the country must be added the proposed 20 per cent increase in freIght rates, they WIll find It a very senous tax The commlttee'o, Intimation IS that most of the raIlroads mIght better cut down their dIvIdend disburse-ments than advance freight rates, and In this connectlOn the commIttee bald "Under the present c011301IdatlOn of ownership m Wall street, the officers of the road<; arc powerless, whIle those 111 complete control of the sltuatlOn, seem interested only in gettIng larger dIvIdends \Ve have heard a ratlroad superIn-tendent complaIn that hIS lIfe was anythmg but a happy one. Laborers wanted more wage,,; he had not been allowed to spend the amount needed to improve hIS road, there were consequently more accIdents and more complaints from ship-pers, whose bItter oppOSItion to advancing freIght rates was overpowered by the mappeasable demand of the Wall street owners for more dIvidends" MANUFACTURERS' NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Synopsis of the Fourteenth Annual Convention Held in New York City---Important Topics Considered and Discussed. New York, May 20 -The fourteenth annual conventIOn of the 1'\ational aSSocIatIOn of :Vrannufacturer~ ,,11l'::h opened at the \\J aldorf-I\~tna on :'Ionday "as the most lan;-eh attenclul and in every way the mo~t successful meet1l1g e\ er held by the or-ganizatIOn The conventIOn opened 111 the shadow of the death of the assoClatlOn's former presIdent, James \Y Yan Clea\ e, and it adopted a resolutIOn express1l1lS the as~oclatlOns admIra-tion of M,r Van Cleave, and ItS sense of loss 111 Ius death The first sessIon was devoted ma1l11y to reports, addresses and discussions on fire preventIOn, 1I1terstdte commerce and Im-l111gratlOn, the latter tOpIC being apparently of most 1I1terest to the assemblage. On the subject of fire preventIon there" as an address b} Charles L. Case, who spoke from the standp01l1t of 11lsurance underwriters HIS address folio" ed a report of the a ~soclatlOn' ~ committee on fire prevention. "It IS ~ufficient to sa} that as one effective means of fire pre\ ention, the natIonal board has assisted at an expense of $80,000 111 send1l1g 38. 1I1cendlanes to the penItentIanes of cllffelent states," sald :'Ir Ca~e '\\ e believe we are rendenng the publIc a valuable serVIce, not \\ holly on the 'pro bono publIco' order but because by reduc11lg the fire loss we 1I1surance companies can make more money for our stock-holders, who require good dlVldends to leave their money in our risky business. "Our loss is stIli several times hIgher per person than that of any other country \Ve desire to deal fairh "ith the publIc, to do all we can to safeguard property and thereIn, 1l1cldentall}. against this awful, ever present, enormous, but largely prevent-able fire penl, and we thank you for the present opportunitv of co-operating with you." The committee on imnllgratlOn. speak111g of the country as a whole, reported among other o]J3en atlOns the~e "In the past our economIc strength has been largel} due to our pre-eminence as producers and manufacturers of food-stuffs. While we should be jmtly proud of our 111crea,,111g exports of manufactures, we cannot afford to lose our p0'iltlOn as CXiporters of the products of the SOlI :'luch has been 'iald and written about the 1l1crease in the cost of food In the eastern and the southern states as \\ ell a'i 111the II est, there IS much untilled ground In the face of thIS conditIOn we are met by the fact that only a very small proportIOn of even falm laborers who come I11to this country engage here 111 agnculture I\lthough producel s 111 bhelr own lands, they become consumers here without doing theIr part in produc- I11g toward our store of food" The commIttee also turning ItS attention to the contract labor la\\ sa} '3 that both through its prOVIsions and its abuses It has become "one of the most powerful weapons of the labor unions for the oppression of the manufacturers," and the commIttee adds' "The chief abuses of the law are the uses made of it by labor unions in stnke cases, both in inconveniencing the em-ployer and 111 intImidating the employes by threats of depor-tation epon tnal before the board of special inquiry the alIen IS presumed guilty until he has proved himself innocent He IS first subjected to an examinatIOn by the board and com pelled to acquIt himself before his accusers are compelled to sl'bstantIate their accusatIOns It will readIly be seen what an opportUnIty such a practice gives to those who invoke it \\ Ith malIcIOUS motIves" The report declares that in no case is the law invoked by the labor unIOn officials from a desire to see it enforced, but 111 ever} case from ulterior motives of self interest The commIttee recommends that no restrictions be placed on im-mllSra tlOn except those necessary to keep out the morally, mentalh or ph} slcall} unfit and tho'ie whose racial origin makes them 1I1capable of assl1uilatlOn 111 the !body polItIc; that It shall be lawful to Import skIlled labor when the per-son Import111g cannot obta1l1 laborers of the like kind in thIS country \\ ho WIll work for him at the rate of wages prevail- 1I1g generally 111 thIS country for such labor; and that war-rants of arrest and deportatIOn of aliens who have landed be Issued only. by a UnIted States commIssioner or United States Judge on such warrant compla111ts as now are necessary 111 cnml11al cases Let Them Come. Ormsby ::\IcHarg in an address on "DIstributIOn of Im-migrants a NecessIty," said: "There IS consldera1ble popular fear of the result ,..----------~-------_.-- - _. - ...- _ ..- - - . . - ---- --------------._---~~---.-.-----If--1m- .. ----., L-ARGEST .JOBBERS AND MANUFACTURERS OF GLASS Pittsburg Plate Glass COl1lpany IN THE WORLD Mirrors, Bent Glass, leaded Art Glass, Ornamental Figured Glass, Polished and Rough Plale Glass, Window Glass WIRE GLASS Plate Glass for Shelves, Desks and Table Tops, Carrara Glass more beautifullhan white marble. CENERAL DISTRIBUTORS OF PATTON'S SUN PROOF PAINTS AND OF PITCAIRN ACED VARNISHES. q For anythmg m BUilders' Glass, or anythmg in Pamts, Varmshes, Brushes or Pamters' Sundnes, address any of our branch warehouses, a hst of whICh is gIven below NEW YORR-lludson and Vandam st •. BOSTON-41-49 Sudbury st., 1-9 .owker st. CEICAG0-442-452 Wabash Ave. cn'Ircn'lrNATI-Broadwa;yand Court Sts. ST. LOUIS-Cor. 'l'enth and Spruce St•. MINNEAPOLI8-500-516 S. 'l'hird St. DE'l'BOX'l'-53-59 Larned St., E. GBAND BAPlDS, MICE-39-41 N. Division St. PI'l''l'SBl1BGH-IOI-I03 Wood St. MILWAl1XEE, ~S.-492-494 Market St. BOCHES'l'EB,N.T.-WUder Bldg., MaID41EZChanll'ests. BAL'l'IllI[ORE-310-12-14 W. Pratt St. CLEVELAND-1430-1434 West 'l'h1l'dst. OlllAKA-llOl-1107 Howard St. S'l'. PAl1L-459-461 Jackson St. A'l'LAN'l'A,GA.-30-32-34 S. PryOI' St. SAVANNAH. GA.-745-749 Wheaton St. XANSAS OI'l'T-Pifth and wyandotte Sts. BIB.llIINGKAlII.ALA.-2nd Ave. and 29th st. Bl1PPALO. N. T.--372-74-76-78 Pearl St. BBOOXLTlII'-'l'hird Ave. and Dean st. PJD:LADELPJDA-Pitca.1m Bldg., Arch and 11th DAVElIPOB'l'-410-416 Scott St. OXLAHOlllACX'1'Y. OXLA., 210-212W. rust St. '" •••• aM ••• -------a.--------_.._._.---~..--. .-...-. --.-..--_.--------------------'"~ WEEKLY ARTISAN Wood Sa.r Clamp Fixtures Per Set 50c. Patent Malleable Clamp Fixture. E H SHELDON & CO , ChIcag-o Ill. Gentlemen -We are pleased to state that the 25 dozen Clamp Flxtnres wh.ch we bou2ht of ) ou a little over a year ago are glVltlg' excellent serVIce We are wel1 sallsfied w.th them and shall be pleased to remember you wheuever we want anythmg add.llonalm th.s hne YOUIS trulv, SJOux CIty. Iowa CURTIS SASH & DOOR CO Sheldon Steel Rack Vises 27 Sold on approval and an uncon-dltlonal money back guarantee SHELDON'S STEEL BAR CLAMPS. Guaranteed Indestructible. We sohelt pnv.lege of sendmg samples and our complete catalogue E. H. SHELDON CJ CO. 328 N. May St., Chicago. ~-----_._----_._----_.--. .... . -- .. .- -_.. . .... _. .. .. - - - --_. ..- ,. - ..- .- migratIOn remams unchecked The present naturahzation laws are strict enough It now remams with the states to Impose stricter suffrage laws The citizenshIp of the country gu:trded m this manner would make it safe to let in every sane, healthy, moral man and woman in the civilized world without fear and Without danger. Tlhe congestions of im-migrants in the Cities where they are consumers is one of the fir~t causes of hIgh pnces "Gentlemen, your orgamzation should sU1lport a plan for increasing the supply of raw materials produced in the country, and at tihe same time reduce the competition for 13lbor in your manufactones. Accordmg to the statistics of the natural mcrease in our population the time wJII never come when our unculltivated lands WIll be all settled. Im-migrant'> are our only source of bupply for this punpose. Spend the pnce of a battleshIp a year m placing our Immigrants around, and we reap a natIOnal profit of untold millIOns. This IS a popular busmess argument to be considered in this connection "We want the matenals of our citizenship to be as pure as the gold m our standard dollar. We must not, however, Ideallze and ask for somethmg better than ourselves When the problem of congestIOn is solved the countly is bound to face an era of marvelous growth" The followmg recommendatIOns made by the commIttee were approved and adopted' 1 That no restnctions be placed on immIgration other than those whIch arc necessary to keep out the morally, mentally or physically unfit, and those whose racial origin makes them mcapable o{ assimJIation in our body politic 2 That special prOVISIOn should be made to dIrect and urge ImmIgrants who have been engaged m agncultural pur- Sluts toward farmmg communities, and that agricultural com-mUnities be inVlteJ to maintam duly accredIted agents at, and provide transportation from, the various ports of entry 3. That immigration offiCials, and all others havmg to do WIth the enfoJ1cement of the laws, be selected with speCial reference to theIr JudICIal and sociological attamments 4 That the present law be amended so as to prOVIde as follows: (a) That it shall be lawful to import skilled labor when the person Importing cannot obtam laborers of hke kind In this country who wJlI work fOI hIm at the rate of wages pre-vaJ1ing generally in tl11s country for such lalbor (ib) That the sflcre;tary of commerce and labor be authorized and dIrected upon the application of any employer, and upon hiS showmg the facts set forth under (a) above, to grant to such person the permIssion to import such labor, such permISSIOn to be conclusive upon hIS right so to do" and upon the right of the ahens to land (c) That warrants for the arrest and deportation of aliens who have landed be issued only by a United States commissioner or United States Judge, and then only upon such .... ... sworn complaints as are now necessary in criminal cases. (d) That upon the arrest of any allen upon such war-rant, that he be brought before a United States commissioner or judge and there permitted to give ball as in criminal cases, such bail to be fixed by the commiSSIOner or judge (e) That such allen be tned as soon as pOSSible before the United States commissioner or judge, and that in case of a trial before a commissioner the right of appeal be given to him to the United States dIstrict court as in case of Chinese, and that such trial, eXlcept with respect to a Jury, be con-ducted in all reSipects as cnmmal trials (f) That the decision of any United States judge be subject to review on behalf of the alien by any of the higher United States courts as in criminal cases. TueSday's Proceedings. On TuesJay the convention considered uniform state laws, banking and currency, the merchant marine, the matter of making export business profita'ble and listened to a talk on facts and tendencies in legislatIOn; all this in the morinng, .....-..... - .. .. .. .. ... ... .. .. .. - _.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..------~ II THE FORD & JOHNSON CO. CHICAGO All furmture dealers are cordially invited to visit our building. This is one of our popular Hotel chairs. Our chairs are found in aU the leading Hotels in the country. The line includes a very complete assort-ment of chairs, rock-ers and settees of all grades; Dining Room furniture, Reed and Rat tan furniture, Special Order furni-ture, etc. A complete line of sam-ple. are displayed in The Ford 8 Johnson BUlldinl!, 1433-31 Wa&.. h Ave., in-cludinl! a special display of Hotel Furniture. I ~ ...... .._.... _._--------_-._-----.-.-_ .-.-.--_-.-.-..-_-._-.-.._.~I. 28 WEEKLY ARTISAN besides 1Istening to the reports of the officer" of the a:,,,ocI-ation In the afternoon they dl-;cus",ed patent'3, fore"-t;; and waterways, and more partlculaJ1y, the lanse que~tl\1n of 111- dustnal Illdemnity Illsurance, on \\"hlch It~ COlllllllttee made an exhaustve report, be'3ldes "ll1ch tll1 ee ~peaker~ dealt \\ Ith phases of the general tOpIC, one \\ Ith the pre\ entlon ot 111- dustrial accldent-;, one \\ Ith co-operatIOn and compelhdtlCln, and the other wIth economy 111compen,atlllg tal I11du-,tnal accIdents All busllless of the com en tlOn \\ a ~ halted at -l- 0 cIe 'ck 111 the afternoon, the hour at \\hlch the hod.' of Jame~ \\ \-an Cleave was buneJ at hIS we"tern home, and the com entwn was turned into a memorial meetlllg The :"ervlces began WIth the S111g1l11g of "Alblde \\ Ith ~1e," aftel \\ hlch there \\ a;; a prayer and a bllef memonal addre," 1)\ the Re\ el end ..:.; Edward Young of the Bedford :\[emondl Church of nlookhn who saId that :\11 Van Clea\ e ha,l not (hed and "hould not dIe so long as people 11\ ed to \\lhom he had done a k111(lne;;~ and so long as the pnnclple-; eXIsted to \\ hICh he had 1:;1\en his life The sen Ices \\ ere held III the ~ ;;tor (JdUel \ ot the Waldorf, vvhere the ",e'3"lOn-; of the com entlOn al c h cl,l After the servIces the bu"ines:" of the a ~~Ol1atlOn II a, rc sumed New Party Needed, Pre"ident Klfby, 111 his repol t "ugge-;tcd the (JI ga111- zatlOn of a new polItical party \\1hen he "aIel "The l'3sues that brought Illto eXI"ience thc l~epublIcan party have practIcally passed a\\a.' and ne\\ COn(htl(ln~ con-front us, condItIOns \\hlch unlIke tho~e that thleatenul the disruption of the '\mencan Ul11on, threaten thc Je~tl uc tlon of the very pnnclple-; upon \\ hlch the \melllcln tdthel ~ founded thIS government and \\ hlch, rhroul:;h the ddeci~ In our polItical sY'3tem and the deSIre for polItIcal POl\ I, both RepUibhcan and DemocratIc polItIcIan, ~eem to \ Ie 1\ Ith edch other in theIr willlllgness to sacnfIce III the 1I1terest of 'polItI-cal ex.pediency' "But what has become of the "pInt of patriot1~11l 1\ 111eh prompted the formation of the Repubhcan pal t.' In l8~6) Does It sleep the slum1ber of the deaJ) I cannot behe\ e "0 Then has not the day da\\ ned for the formatIOn of a ne\\ polItIcal party that shall give \Olce to the ~ame "entlJJ1ent;; that created the part) of Fremont and Ll11coln, a put \ \\ 111ch shall sen e the same hIgh purpo"e and be P(1\\ el ful enough to hold the natIOn III balance agalll"-t the demagogue~ ()f e"\.- isting partIes? "As evidence IllJlcatlllg the dllft of contempOrdf\ 1cl:;h lation the baleful influence of cla-;..,-con:"clOu'3 labor-ul11ol11'3m, look for example to the supposedly cons en atl\ e qate of Massachusetts authori71ng 'peaceful pICketlllg' \ \ ho can Imagine 'peaceful plcketlllg?'" Mr. KIrby called PreSIdent Taft'", COIporatlOn taA la" a sop, a sop thrown to the people to placate a grouch \ con-stituency, who "by a common la\\ of human nature mu~t have eIther a Sa v lOur or a Barabba, for occa "lOnal "au Ihce He said also: "We aibominate any legIslatIOn that contem pIa te~ noth-ing higher than palItIcal expedlenc.' \\ e helIc\ em the !)J(),C-cutlOn of all illegally managed tI ust", whether conducted 111 the interest of rich monopolIe" 01 m the 111terest of trade;; unIOnism" l\Ir KIrby got great applause when he :"ald that \\ e haJ too many men who \\ ould rather fall back and com plam about unequal distnibutlOn of wealth than make an hone-;t effort to earn that whIch they so badly needed He declared that one of the needs of the hour wa:, men \\ Ith com Ictlon" and the courage to declare them \\ e had too many Jobbers, he "aId, addmg that wabbler:" lIke demagogues, were a men-ace to "oclety "They held," :"ald he, "to make up a crooked and perverse nation" J ame;; ~ Emer), general COUlbe! for the NatIonal Coun-ul tor Indu-;tnal Defen'3e, 111 talk1l1g of "Legl'3latIve Facts and TenJenCles," saId that in the la:"t year there had been plopo"ed 111 tll1" country one law for every 7,000 of popu-la tlOn \\ hCI ed" 111 England there had been reported only one tor e\ er.' 177,000 populatIOn Of the 1\loon bIll 111 the house of lepre'entatl\ e;;, he saId that It \\as an 1I1sldlOU:, attempt to 'a\ that the Issue of an InJ1.l11ction should be upon term:" to be prescnbed 111 advance by the legIslature instead of by a ju,!iclal deCISIOn The commIttee on banking and currency made various recommendatIon" for the passage of laws enabl1l1g an "as- ,et currenc.' " and after saymg that the central banks and a
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- Issue of a furniture trade magazine published in Grand Rapids, Mich. It was published twice monthly, beginning in 1880. and r r I l SPARTAN PASTE FILLER Made in Marietta. A High Grade Article in Every Respect. possessing qualities that put it easily ahead of other fillers from the fineness and character of the ingredients that make up its composition. We produce this in all of the leading shades. including our FAMOUS GOLDEN OAK IMITATION QUARTERED OAK "tRY OUR SPECIAL FILLERS AND STAMPING INKS We are producing the goods of this nature that bring results to perfection. Sample our Fillers No. 800 and No.810 and our Inks Nos. 5. 6 and 11. In OIL STAINS. remember, we lead! Our Golden Oak and Mahogany Stains stand without a rival. Write us for samples and full informatiun. The Marietta Paint and Color Co. MARIETTA. OHIO. THE HAND SCRE.W WITH THE SAW·CUT THRF:AD THE BEST THAT MONEY CAN BUY OUR Hand Screws, Cabinet Makers' Clamps, etc.; is the result of fifteenyears experiencein this class of work. Our Spindles with the Saw-Cut Threads will wear fully 50 per cent longer than the ordinary spindle with the Lathe-Cut Thread. We use only the very. best second growth hickory in aU our spindles and the jaws are the best Michigan maple, sanded and oiled. We make all the standard sizes and can furnishthem promptly. Give us a trial. We make a complete line of Cabinet Makers' and Manual Training Benches, Factory Trucks, ete" Write for catalog. Grand Rapids Hand Screw Company 130 South Ionia St.. Grand Rapids. Mich. , 7I R'T' I >5' JI.l"l ? fa? T ,. • These Specialties are used all Over the World 1 VM1eer Presses, aU kinds and sizes Veneer Presses Glue Spreaders Glue Heaters Trucks, Efc.. Etc. Hand Feed Glueinl{ Machine, (Plltent pendinl?;.) Eight Styles and Sizes. Woud·Working Machinery and Supplies Power Feed Glue Spreading Machine. (Patent applitd for). Single, douhle and combination LET US KNOW YOUR WANTS 419-421 E. Eighth St. C"AS. E. FRANCIS &.. BRO.B CINCINNATI. O. No.6 Glue Heater The Pittsburg Plate Glass Company MANUFACTURKRS AND JOBBERS oIl" Plain and Beveled Mirrors, Bent Glass for China Cabinets Plate Glass for Desks, Table Tops and Shelves Our facilities for supplying furniture manufacturers will be understood when we state tbat we have 10 Glass fa.ctories, from Pennsylvania to IHissouri; and 13 Mirror plants, located as foHows: . NeW"York Roslon f' hlladelphia Buffalo Cincinnati St. Louis Minneapolis Atlanta. Kokomo, Ind. Ford City. Pa. High Point, N. C. Davenport Crystal City, Mo. It needs no argument to show what advantages may be derivt'd from deating directly with liS. extending Also. our 22 jobbing houses carry heav~ stocks in all lines of glass. paints. varnishes and brushes: and are located in the cIties named below: NEW YORK-Hudson and Vandam Streets. BUFFALQ-;;7z-4-6-8 Pearl Street. BOSTON-41-49 Sudbury St., 1-9Bowker St. BROOKLYN-635 and 6?'7FuLton Street. CHICAGO-442-4SZ Wabash Avenue. PHILADELPHIA-Pitcairn Building, Arch and CINCINN ATI- -Broadway and Court Streets. Eleventh Streets. ST. LOUIS-CoT. 12th and 5t Charle9 Streets. DAVENPORT~4IO-416 Scott Street. MINKEAPOLlS-SQO-510 S. Third Street CLEVELAND-149"51-5.3 Seneca Street. DETROIT -53-55 Lamed Street E OMAHA-1608-lo-12 Harney Street. PITTSBURGH-wl-lo?, \'Vood Street. ST. PAUL-349-51 Minnesota Street. MILWAUKEE, WIS.-492-494 Market Street. ATLANTA, GA'-30, 32 and 34 S. Pryor Street. ROCHESTER, N. Y,-Wilder Building, Main SAVANNAH, GA -745-749 Wheaton Street. and Exchange Sts. KANSAS CITY-Fifth and Wyandott Sts. BALTTMORE-221-223 W, Pratt Street. BIRMINGHAM. ALA.-2nd Ave. alld 29th St. I AGENTS FOR THE COULSON PATENT CORNER POSTS AND BATS. The Universal Automatic CARV/NQ MACHINE -,--,---= 'PERFORMS THE WORK OF ==== 25 HAND CARVERS And does the Worli: Better than it can be Dcne b~ Hand ======~-MADE BY Indianapolis, Indiana Write for Information, Prices Etc. 26th Year-No. 10 GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.• DECEMBER 10. 1905. $1.00 per Year. Furnishings of the State Apartments at Windsor Castle. \Vindsor, the residence of the kings' and queen",' of Ellg- Lind {or generations, is one of tll{~ most picturesquely situated as well as 011e of the handsomely furnished palaces of Europe. The castle stands 011 a terrace high above the Thames river and from the top of the tower a fine view of the "Long \Valk" (three miles long) the manllsoJc\1tn 0'£ Frogmore, and in the distance the house where \Villiam Penn was born arc enjoyed. The country is very green and woo4ed, the Thames winds in and out for miles. Across the river from the castle is Elan, the fa"molls school for boys. The public are allO\'Vcd to walk through the state apart-ments conducted by a g"uic1e. The rooms secn include the Throne room, banqueting hall, reception room, vVaterloo, H.nhens. Van Dyck. and others The Throne r,)(Jlll bas a blue carpet, the woodwork or handsomely carved oak, the walls are covered with blue bro cade. Portraits of fonner kings' and queens' adorn the \,valls. The Throne chair rests on a rose velvet carpet and a canopy of the same is abov.e. The chair itself formerly belonged to the king of Candee and is of silver gilt, a design of thistles covers it. The top of the back is encrllsted with diaUlOtHls aud sapphires with sapphire knobs at the comers, upholstery of old rose brocade. The reception rooms are all very elaborately fl1rnisheJ, one decorated with much gilt in I.ouis XV style, the furniture of the same period. A Louis XIV tortoise shell cabinet is in another room, the walls and Llpholstery of rose brocade. Rc·se must have been Queen Victoria's favorite color as her apart-mel1ts are furnished exclusively in that tint. The vVaterl-:HI room has portraits of \Vel1ington and other famous o ..o..lJle such as the first duke of 1Iarlboro and Pope Pius VII. The latter is one of Van Dyke's best paintings. The panelled walJs of this room are much carved and gilded. At each e:'H! is a gallery for musicians. The state theatricals are always held here. There are Gobe[in tapestries in many of the rooms. The Rubens' room ha.~ portraits e.xeJusively by him. The carpet was a present from the Shah of Persia. The banqueting hall is two hundred feet long, thirty-fom feet high and thirty-t\vO feet wide. Suspended from the ceiling· are twenty-six flags belonging to the original knights of the garter. Portraits of monarchs from James I down to the' present, adorn the walls. The long table seats two hundred and fifty people. Louis XIV tanks stand along the walls. thl~ furniture is covered with rose brocade. One sees the Frellch mattas I-Toni soit qui mal y pense and MOil Dieu et Mon Droit conspicoously displayed. The entrance hall has a grand stone staircase and armor of many Jifferent centuries and cOl1ntries. After being hurried through :so many rooms, one experiences a feeling of regret at leaving so soon and a wish to study the grand apartments at on(','sliesure. Grand Rapids Will Supply All Grades of G~ods Wanted. The manufacturers of Grand Rapids haVe promised to st!pply everything needed by the buyers. If the withdravva) of the lines of several manufacturillg corporations, making cheap furn iture, from the expositions should create a scarcity of cheap ftITnittITc, the manufacturers of (l·rand Rapids will sup-ply the need .. Ticket Scalpers VictoriouS". Under a judicial ruling ill Texas all raiJway passenger as" sociatiolls are declared illegal ttl1"-tS and l1'ot enLitled to pro-tection from ticket scalpers. The ,so;alpers exper~enced a thrill of joy in their winning a vital' p'oint in the complaint they had lodge.<l against these associations when the latter sought to drive them out of busine5s. No Bad Debts Show What? There is one rinn in London which has not mad.: a single bad debt in the \vhole course of its fifty years existence. Just what this demonstrates is l1nCertaill. \Ves~"e'rn New York had a merchant a few years ago who made a similar hnast, but incidentally was knO\,Vllas the 111etdlest and hardest of his COmll11ttlity. \Visconsin mantlfacturers are preparing to fight against prison-made goods. They wish to have a law compelling the labelliug of all "goodti made ill prisons, as they claim competi.tion w~fh such goo(ls~s Hl\nous . .The House of Cor-rection in Mihv<Lukee is ~)nc of the strdilgest competitors. It is useless to fight convi.;;t labor. Dealers outside the state CUllerase marks and mauufacfurers will help them to do it. THE CORRECT Stains and fillers. THE MOST SATISFACTORY first Coaters and Varnishes MANUFA<TURCD UNLY -,,-y-- ~ CHICAGO WOOD FINISHING CD. Z59-63 ELSTONAVE."'Z-16 SLOAN ST. CH I CACO. l 4 We carry a line of RebuiltWood- Working Machinery for Pattern Shops. Furniture Factories. Sash and Door Manufacturers, Car= penters, Planing Mills, Etc.· Jl .II When in the market let us send you our list of machines and we are ~ure that we can interest you ill prices and quality or machines oHered EDWARDS MACHINE CO. 34·38 W. Washinoton St. CHICAGO. ILL. PALMER CLUEINC CLAMPS Patented, April 11, r893; May 16, 1&)q; March 22, 1'lo4. Improved damps have now become an absolute necessity. \Ve believe OUfS meets aU reguirements, and why? F1RST- They have unlimited strength and power; damp Jn~ . scantly, yet securely, instantly released and the work re-moved as fast as it can be handled. SECoND-They will adjust themselves to any width or thiclt-ness (not to exceed the limir of size clamp used) and can be used to put a truck load under pressure while still on the truck. THIRD-Very durable~ being all malleable iron and 5teel~ and not easily broken or got out of order under any con-dition~ no matter by whom or how used. Catalogueexplains all-write f()r it. A. E. PALMER NORVELL, MICH. Jackson County INSIST ON HAVING Morris Woo~ a Sons' Soli~ Stetl Glue Joint (utters for there are no other.,. .. jUoI"taJl good .. They cut a clean perlect joint always. Never burn owing to the GRADUAL CLEARANCE (made this way only by us), require little grinding, saving time and cutters. No time wasted setting up and cost no more than other makes. Try a pair and be convinced. Catalogue No. 10 and prices on appJication. MORRIS WOOD ®. SONS Thirty_one years at 31·33 s. Canal Street_ CHICAGO. ILL Spindle Carving and Hand Carving, For Furniture, Caskets and Fixtures. 411work guaranteed to be first Class. Send us your Samples or Sketches for prices and Samples. Knoxville Carving and Moulding Company, Knoxville, 'Tenn. NO! IT is not a new STAIN or a new FILLER or a new SURFACER, Only a New Departure We have realized the necessity for a long time, of getting nearer to our good friends in the WEST and NORTHWEST. Not nearer in spirit or confidence, for we feel that we are very close to our patrons in that way already, but nearer in actual mileage. We have just opened a new factory for the manufacture of our line of WOOD fINIS"ING SUPPLIES at Nos. 61-63-65 and 67 North Ashland Avenue C"ICAGO, ILLINOIS It is fully equipped with all modern machinery, and the plant more complete in every way than the home factory. We will there manufacture and carry in stock, a full line of our Antique and Golden Oak fillers Japan Coaters Surfacers (Mineral Base) Water and Oil Stains Enamels, Lacquers, and in fact everything that our good friends in the Central West and North West may call for, and if you want a special shade, we can only reiterate what we have claimed with confidance in the past WE CAN MATC" ANYT"ING We want to tell you about our No. 390 and No 397 NEW PENETRATING GOLDEN OAK OIL STAINS, USED IN CONNECTION WITH OUR NO. 611 and NO. 512 fiLLERS. We will gladly furnish samples, and also send copy of our little book "Lindemanthe filler Maker" DON'T FORGET WHERE TO SEND T"E BARRETT-LINDEMAN COMPANY I'''''IN OffiCE and FACTORY, Nos. 1400-02-04 fRANKfORD AVE. PUiUDELPHIA, PA. c"neAGO fACTORY, Nos. 61-63-65-67 NORT" AS"LAND AVE. CHICAGO, ILL. 6 igf\?piQs.f\ic~ Burlap Prices Lower. Cables from Calcutta received Saturday, report that the price of burlaps in that market for December shipment has declined in value as a result of speculators offering goods for resale. The mills, however, have hetd very firmly to their prices, and refuse to make concession of any sort. III addition to this, jute has again advanced and is now within five shillings a ton of the highest prices reached this year. III the Dundee market burlaps are reported as firmer, if any-thing, and supplies very short. In the market here the de-mand for cloth has been more active, wi: h many requests coming forward for carload lots, which cannot be filled. Sev-eral carloads were disposed of late last week at 5.10 to 5.I5C for 8-oz. and 6./5 to 6.25c for IO~-OZ. The shortage of goods jn thi5 market continues in spite of the arrival of two 1:ihips carrying Durlaps, within the past week, and many importers are totally unable to fill orders which they now have on hand. These orders include weights ranging frm 7 to 1O-0z. The demand for heavyweights is just starting; the season is opening up very well, and an un-usually heavy demand is expected during the next ten to twelve weeks. Estimates by conservative consumers arc to the effect that lightweights will be in larger demands than during the next three months indicate a large demand, with a during he next three months indicate a large demand, with a very short supply. Fire which hroke ont on the steamship Neuenfe1s, lying at her pier in Brooklyn, has not helped to ease the situation allY. The cargo consists of jute anrI bmlaps, and late Oil Saturday the full extent of the damage done had not been learned. The bllflaps Wl1ich comprise part of the cargo arc hadly need-ed to help out snpplies in this market, and owners of the goods are wondering to what extent they Inve been damag-ed. In additi Ii to this the jute which forms a large part of the cargo 's also badly needed by manufacturer!;; lt1 this country to filliorders that are now delayed. Death 01 S. J. Burlord. S. ]. Burford, secretary of the Rhbde5~Burford company of Louisville, died Nov. 21st, at French Lick Springs, th~ cause of death being pneumonia, following all attack of rheu-matism. He was forty-one years old. He conducted a fur-niture store in ;Cairo, 111., for several years, but moved to Louisville where he established a large furniture store with several branches. From that beginning he added other stores until now there are a chain of forty-three scattered in cities around the country. Mr. Burford 'was very popular. The funeral services in charge of the Masons was largely attended. The' furniture trade will also feel his loss, and extend their sY1:npathy to his bereaved family. To Abandon the Expositions. The decision of forty table manufacturers belonging to the association 0f table makers, not to exhibit in any market for two years, will not affect Grand Rapids as not more than one or two have exer exhibited here. A number have ex-hibited in Chicago but it is not likely to affect that- market very much. Sprinklers Failed to Save Property. A total loss 011 the sprinklererl saw mill is reported from the Converse Basin, Fresno County, Ca1., where the Sanger Lumber mill was destroyed. The mill was equipped with 460 Grinnell heads, supplied by two tanks of 20,000 and 25,000 gallons capacity. The insurance amounted to $53,850. THE IRON OF QUALITY No. 10 Tilt and No. 30 Adjustment. Sizes13J4 in.-15~ in.-16~ in.-·17~in.-19 in. WfSTfRn"AllUDlf I O~HIRon"to. co. MilwaUkee, Wisconsin. ~4'- THE DAILY ARTISAN ~RECORD for the mid-winter season of 1905-06 will be issued from the office of the FURNITURE RECORD Some Preferred Space Is Still Available for exhibitors who desire to secure the eye and ear of the buyers who go to the markets. Write for rate sheet. ADDRESS DAILY ARTISAN-RECORD Grand Rapids. Mich. That's our TRADE MARK, and it means that every pull or knob fastened with the will NO-KUM-LOOSE, and it Costs You Nothing Tower Patent fastener BEWARE of Loose Pulleys that wear out like this one. Get the NELSON and in' cidentally get rid of bushing, babbitt-ing and the expense and delay ac-companying these. WILMARTH & MORMAN COMPANY 153 CANAL ST. GRAND'RAPIDS, MICH. FOR FULL PARTICULARS WRITE THE No-Kum-Loose GRAND 'RAPIDS BRASS COMPANY GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 8 Saw and Knl'fe FI't'tlng Mach'lMeryan d T00 IS TUhoeeBMigg.nesut faan"d",dBe.st Baldwin, Tuthill ®. Bolton Grand Rapids. Mich. Filers. Setters. Sharpeners, Grinders, Swages, Stretchers. Brazina and Filing Clamps. Knile Balances. Hammering Tools. Investigate our Line. New 200 pag-e Cataloj{Ue for' 1905 Free. Bollon Band Saw Filer for Saws h inch up, B. T. & B. Style D, Knife Grinder. Full Automatic. Wet or dr)". -~-'---OFFICES'--------- ~ _ Bostl[)D New York Jamestown High Point Cincinnati Detroit Grand Rapids Chicago 51. Louis Mlnneapoll& Associate Offices and;iBonded AttoMlleys in all Principal Ules The Furniture Agency REPORTING FURNITURE, UNDERTAKERS, CARPET HARDWARE AND KINDRED TRADES. COLLEC_ TIONS MADE BY AN UN,RIVALLED SYSTEM THROU(;H OUR COLLECTION DRDARTMENT' • WE PRODUCE RESULTS WHEIlE OTHEKS lfAIl. WRITH FOR PARTICULARS AND 1o'OUWILL $ENO US Y OU R B 11SIN ESS. Our Complaint and AdJustDlen1 Department Red Drafts Collect -""'=~L, J. STEVENSON. Mif,higan Manager BE UP-TO-DATE, Get one of the New Electric Spindle Carvers and keep abreast of the times. You cannot afford to let the "other fellow" have the WOTkyou should be doing. The Electric Caner will keep the rrade you have and get more for you. Our carving Cutters are of the best. West Mi{~i~anMa{~ineand ToolCo.. ltd. GRAND R.APIDS, MICR. BUll~UP PANELS AND VENEERS FOR FURNITURE, MANUFACTURERS We can furnish you 2, 3 or 5 ply Panels in Quartered Oak, Mahogany, Plain Oak Ash, Elm, Birch, Maple or Basswood, and guarantee same in every respei:t. We Use high' grade Glue in our work and our Ven~ers are thoroughly dry and our Machinery up-to-date. Our 2 and 3 ply Drawer Bottoms and Glass Backs are the finest on the market. \Ve can also furnish you with Rotary Cut Maple, Birch and Elm Veneers in 1.30, 1-20. 1·16 and 1·8 inches thick:. All of our Veneers are dried in the new Coe Roller Dryer, and lay flat and are free from crinkle. If you wish to buy Panels and Veneers that are RIGHT AND THAT WILL STAY RIGHT, give us a chance to figure with you and submit samples and prices. We do not cla.im to be'lower in price, but we do claim our pa.nels are cheaper in the long run, a.....they A .A A THE GORHAM BROS. CO. Do YOU see the point"" Submit your wants and let us make you happy. MT. PLEASIlNT, Mle". TABLE LEGS turned with this machine cost less than any you ever made. .. ReliaMe" Rolls .. Relia~l( Panels THE FELLWOCK ROLL AND PANEL COMPANY Mfrs. of "ReUable" Built lip Veneered Rolls and Plural Ply Panels for all purposes. Correspondence solicited, EVANS\'ILLE, IND. Sle~~en50n Mf~.co. South Bend, Ind. Wood Turnings, T umed Moulding. Dowels and Dowel Pins. With it one man will do the work of six to ten skilled Hand Turners. The quality of work can't be beat, and we would like to have you judge of it for yourself, by sending you a sample of W}13t we guarantee it to do. The main features of the machine lie in the patent Cutter Head. the Vari-able Friction Feed, and the OscUIa-tingCarriage. A full description of this machine will interest yOll. May we send it? C. Mattison Machine WorKs 863 Fifth Street BELOIT, WISCONSIN Catalogue to Manufac-turers on AppliC"ation. THE "PORTE R" 1his cut rep-resents 0 u r 12. 16 a np 20 in. Jointer --MANUFACTURED Ey--------- ------- c. O. & A. D. PORTER, 182 North Front Street, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 10 This bedroom was occupied by Qyeen Victoria of Emdand on the' occasion (If her visit to the Grand T rianol) in 1840. The upholstery and draperj"3 are of rose satin brocade. The Bedroom of Francois I, Musee de auny, Pari,. ""~MIF,HIG7fN Two Per Cent-Ten Days. This phrase, so commonly used ill the export trade, fre-quently becomes most bewildering to mally manufacturers as a result of their dealings with export commission mer-chants. The term is usually intclldco to convey the mealling that the customer is expecled to pay his bill ten days from its date, deducting the two per cent cash discount. This also is the meanillg of the term among the commis-sion honscs, but unfortunately for the reputation of all the commission houses many of them are extremely lax in their attention to the ten-day part of the deal, but equally zea]o'.ls in observing tile two-per-cent feature. In other \vords. cer-tain of the commission houses regard it as their privilege to fxtend the ten days indefinitely l1p to thirty days, but still consider themselves entitled to the two per cent. They justify this attitude on various grounds, none of which would be wholly acceptable to a first-class credit man. JVlanufacturers who have dealings with exporters who take advantage of this cash discount allowance are amply justified in insisting upon their rights, and declining to allo\',' the di"count unless the payment is made strictly at the ap-pointed time. It is another matter if some other interpre-tation is given to the ten-day clause, but ten days from date of invoice is what is commonly understood ill the absence of any sJlecially arranged interpretation. A Cincinnati Patent Attorney in Greensboro. The \\tysong & IVIiles company of Greensboro, N. c., in-vented a sand helt machine some mOl1ths ago and employed C. H. I\·liles, a prOlninent patent attorney of Cincinnati, 0., to visit Greensboro and prepare the drawings and necessary papers for taking out patents on the machine, since which time the machine has become the most useful and popular one ever introduced. It has come to the ears of the \Vysong & ),Jiles company that attempts have been made by others Grand Rapids, Mich. 15he White Directory (POCKET EDITION) of makers of Furniture, Pianos, Fixtures, Show Cases, Interior Wood Work, Cabinet Makers, Upholsterers, Bedding, and Planing Mills, con-sisting of approximately 6000 individuals, firms and corporations (revised to May 25, 1905), is ready for delivery, and will be sent to any ad-dress, postage paid, upon receipt of Price$5.00 Address orders and inquiries to MICtllGAN AI\.TISAN CO. 11 to use their invention, and they at once 110tified their patent attorney at Cincinnati of the facts and he is collecting the necessary data to promptly prosecute infringments on the rights of the \Vysong & Miles company. Walnut Timber Trade Not Dead. It seems that it is by no means true that walnut has dis-appeared from the list of staple commodities in the lmnber trade. As a matter of fact, ",,'alnut is ont of the rarest species of American woods and ill recent years many tirms making a specialty of ·walnut have been obliged to go out of business because of the small quantities of the commodity obtainable. That it has Hot entirely disappeared from thc market, hmv-ever, is evident from the announcement that there has re-cently gone from a Virginian saw mill to Furope an im-mense shipment of walnut log~ of superior quality. Had Joyful Hour. On November 21, the manufacturers and retailers of Philadelphia enjoed a banpuet at the Bellevue-Stratford hotel in that city, and took preliminary steps to form an as-sociation. There were two hundred present and after a fine mcnu thc matter of organization was discussed by a number of represcntatives of different firms. The benefits to -be derived by both the manufacturers and dealers would be mallY, and better social relations established, prodtlCing more harmon}' in trade. These restl1ts v..·.ill be obtained no doubt, throllgh the organization in the near future. Space in City Apartments Valuable. Dining room and other furniture is designed to occupy· the least possible space in the city apartments. This is due, no doubt, to the requircments of flat dwellers to whom every inch of space is of value and usc. China closets are made just large enough to fit in a earner. For bedroom are chif-foniers 24 inches long, barely largc enough for a man's shirt. /\. large size bureau takes 11]) llearly the whole space in a bedroom which is only large clloug-h for a hed and chair. Flat dwellers must learn to dispense with bureatls and often use a hanging mirror and shelf. 'fhe Niagara Bedstead company, of BLlffalo, N. Y., has pur-cbased the stock, plant. and husiness of the Empire Metallic t'.edstead company, cOlltinning the amnufacture of the former line of brass and iron beds, adding thereto from time to time such styles as demanded by trade requirements. Joseph Haberhasch and C. R. Funk have organized the Hab-erbasch- Funk Furniturc company, in Hamilton, Ohio, and will engage in the retail btlsiness. Mr. Haberbasch was formerly with A. J. Conroy & Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. aran~ Da~i~sDlow Pi~e an~Dust Arrester (om~anJ THE latest device for handling shav-ings and dust from all wood wood-working machines. Our eighteen years experience in this class of work has brought it nearer perfection than any other system on the market today. It is no experiment, but a demonstrated scientific fact, as we have several hundred of these systems in use, and not a poor one among them. Our Automatic Furnace Feed System, as shown in this cut, is the most perfect working device of anything in its line. Write for our prices for equipments. WE MAKE PLANS AND DO ALL DET AIL WORK WITHOUT EX-PENSE TO OUR CUSTOMERS EXHAUST FANS AND PRESSURE BLOWERS ALWAYS IN STOCK Office and Factory: 208-210 Canal Street GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. Citizens Phone 1282 Bell, M ..h:l 1804 OUR AUTOMATIC FURNACE FEED SYSTEM 13 WABASH B. WALTER & CO. INDIANA M'nnf"lm,nof TABLE SLIDES Exclusively '''.!RITE FOR PRICES AND DISCOUNT If your DESIGNS art right, people want the Goods. That makes PRICES right. (tlarence lR. bills DOES IT 163 Mad ison Avenue -Citizens Phone 1983. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. berman Scbaubel, Ilrar"ra' SlttrlKs aid llttalli ALLE~TOWN,.PA. 'l1Iammoth 1Jrop-Caruer~ 9/0. .:J This machine weiJ':"hf; about one ton. Has a tran:JinJl:tahle. is reversed and started from a counter shaft, wnich is indud-ed with machine. Hollow steel mandrel 3% inchl:'S in diameter. We furnish burn-eT for inside or outside heat· ing, for either gas or gaso- Hne. Size of machine, 4 ft. 9 in. high, 3 H.lD in. long, 3 ft. wide. vVe guarantee this m~cbine. LPrice, $225; without trav-eliug: table, $200. Mammoth !\I o. 4, sam e as machine No.3. driveh wilh long:itude shaft only; pulleys at riRht a 1Ig:· Ie;;; need s no ('ounter shalt. Price $;::00; with· out travel· inK table. $170. Send fOT full de-scription and list of other drop carvers we build. Blue Print Designs Free to the Trade. 'l.Ollts babn Engraving, Printing Binding CATALOGUES A SPECIALTY DES1GNS AND DETAILS OF FURNITURE -- --- -- ------ 154 Livingston St. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN W. P. WILLIAMS, Manufadurers' Ag~nt. --- -----------1 91 Campau St. , Grand Rapids, Micbillan BaRRY BROS. (Ltd.) Varnishes and Shellac. JACQURS KAHN. French Mirror Plates. CORBIN CABtNET LOCK CO., Locks. AM GLUU:Co.'s Union Garnet and Flint Sandpaper. B. CANNON & Co., (Limited), Irish Glue. S,H.t'!. CABOT, House Stains ar? ",uilding Quilt. WHITE PRINTING co. ]NO. P. DENNING ---- -- Michigan Central 208 S. FIRST ST, TERRE HAUTE, IND. LEAVE Nov. 27, 1904 ARRfVE 6:55 am Detroit Express.. 10:45 pm *n:OO u'n New York Special. .* lAU pm 5:30 pm New York Express.. 9:55 am 1>1hlO pm Night Express .... * 6:30 am *Daily. All olher trains daily except Sunday. Detroit sleeper on night train. New York sleeper and fine cafe coach on noon train. Partor car on morning train. II O. W. RUG(;l.ES, G. P. & T. A., Chicago. The Niagara falls ~oute II i GRAND RAPIDS DOWEL WORKS C. B. CLARK, Proprietor. Manulacturers of Cut and !l'olnted Dowel Pins and Dowel Rods -~I ~~>-~ 91 Sixth StreEt, GRAND RAPlDS. MICH. IMPROVED, EASY and ELEVATORS QUICK RAISlNG Belt, Electric: and Hand Power. The Best Hand Power for Furniture Stores Send for Catalogue and Prices. KIMBAll BROS, CO., 1087 N;nlh St.. Council Bluffs, la. Kimball Elevator Co.• 32.3 Prospect St., Cleveland. 0.; l{l81lth St., Omaha, Neb.; 120 Cedar St., New York city. Cili~etls Phone 558U. 2 to 20 Lyon St., GRAND RAP(DS, MICH. Varnishes. Shel. lacs and Sandpap~r carried in Stock B0YNT0N eX C0. Mfrs. of Embossed and Turnltd Moulding" Porch Work. Wood Orilles. and Auto· matic Turnings Vie also manufac-ture a large Iiue of EMBOSSED ORNA· MENTS [or couch work, Send for illustrations. SEND FOR CATALOG-UE Removed to 419·421 W f"ifteenth 8t 14 Advanced Prices on Furniture. Prices on furniture have advanced ten per ccnt. in most lines. The chair manufacturers are considering the propo-sition of advancing prices. LTpholstcred furniture has not advanced. The latter business is of a some.vllat different type from the others. Many of the mal111f8.cturers make simply the frames and the dealers \\'110do their own upholster-ing are enabled to make their prices correspond ""itlt the cost of the raw material and withont announcing <111y general advance. The cost of leather and the big demand for hides should naturally call for an advance in certain classes of up-holstered goods. It is quite likely that this increased cost in the production will be cared for in the quiet manner out-lined. The advance in all these articles of furniture is absolutely legitimate and just. The prices of ra,,, material, the various veneers and the cabinet 'Noods have been moving upward stea-dily for some time past and labor has also become a heavier item in the expense list with the manufacturers. Deal-ers as a rule are registering no objection to the increased cost to them, according to men \vho come closely in touch with the retail trade in all portions of the country. The con-sumer \vill be the one who will foot the bill, and a,,- he is \\.5\.\- ally tractable even when not entirely reasonabk, the added Senes, Spanish, Egyptian and statuary. ,On the next story, after going lip interminable stairs, one finds the royal apartments. The furnishings do not as a whole, impres8 one as much as those at \Vindsor. The rooms aIten,ate in colors varying from red to rose, yellow, blue and gleen in succession, brocade hangings are modern and gaudy. The noors arc marble. The paintings are such fine trea~lIres a~ I~otticelli's l\ladonlla of the Rose and some of Carlo lJolci's heautiful work. Florentine frames are very grand anJ encas~ mirrors which g-iYe four reAeetions when placed opposite. The Throne room is in red, all the hangings and upholstery matching. The Throne itself is an ordinary 100ldng red-draped affair with no jewels of any description to enrich it. In some of the rooms arc degant tortoise shell cabinets in-laid with ivory. lupus lazuli and columns of alabaster-a very rich effect indeed. Tables arc inlaid with marbles vt~different kinds. The Quecn's rooms cotltain the most interesting·furl11sh-ings. The bedroom is in pale blue, the bed has silk hangings and spread. .:\ green malachite secretary furnishes the only touch of varying color in this room. The dressing rOom adjoining is oval shaped with Japanese satin "'mbroideTed hangings in yellow. A beautiful silver mirror was on the Inahog,my dressing table, but the best thing was a cheval These rare pieces sUllgestcomforatnd inspire admiration. price to the articles which he desires for the furnishiug of his home will be forthcoming as readily uuder the new condi-tions as undcr the old. The increased cost of thc raw material is something well known to the trade, and as to the item of increased labor cost a man who recently had the opportunity of inspect-ing a pay roll of a plant making medium priced sideboards and buffets. This factory, which has an output of buffcts, says it showed heavy increase. This factory has an output of $250,- 000 annually and the increased co~t of its labor this year was $25,000 on this output, just the ten per eenL advance deLerlll-ined upon. What is true of this establishment is l111douhled-ly' true of others and demonstrates the manufact11t·ers have been most reasonable iil their action. Furnishings of the Pitti Palace of Florence. The Pitti palace is the residence of the Ki:lg and Queen of Italy, which they occupy whenever stnprillg in F!,_)ren,_e. It is not as fine as \~'indsor, England, that, 1 s1tpp();;e should not be expected. The huilding is of stone and is on a hillside overlooking the city. The Roboli gardens behind it riSe in terraces to a great height, from which at the top of an obser-vatory, a fine view of Florence may be had. III the buiLJing itself the first story rooms open to the public, arc devo(eo to a display of gold plate, many rare kinds of china, inclUding • l . g-lass three feet wide of Inahog:any with gilttrJ1umings with sconces holding C<l11dlesou each side at twodifterent heights, the lowesl all a level with the hem of a lady's gown, make it very convenient for view'ing the train. The King's room is in yellow- satin, the bed gilded. The family dining room table has a beautiful silk em-broidered table cover, formerly owned by the Medicis. The dt'.sig;n is 01 birds and -flowers in colnrs on a black ground. The chandeliers are magnificianl rock crystal and Florentllle gilt. Another part of the palace is used for an art gallery, such magnificiant paintings as the well known Madonna of the Chair by Raphael, C1copatra with the Asp and the artistic dancing· gronp of Apollo and the Muses being among those Hated. Mr. Barnhart Expects a Lively Season. Roy S. Barnhart of the Nelson-Matter Furniture com-pany, allticipates as good, if not a better season of January buyillg, than 11s11a1.The advallCC: in prices will make no dif-ference in the attendance or purchases of buyers. Southern buyers may decide not to come hut that would have no effect locally. Tn spite or rumors about one exhibition a year, the January season continues to be well patronized and attended. Space in the Klingman huilding is reported to be all occupied . Quality and Finish. An instructive illnslratiol1 was givcl1} by the trade in machetes in a district in Central America, of the value of high qua.!ity combined with a fair !iuish in goods used by the \vorking people. German machetes of good shape, niekcl-plated and pol-islled nlltil they glittered like new silver, \vere pushed upon iljc trade. At the same time a dealer, who knew their super-ior worth, imported a lot of S\vedish machetes of temper so lIne that one could and did actually take a shaving of the Ger-lHan implement, as a knife 'A'ould take a shaving of( the sharp COrner of a board; but these tools of tine temper were rough. To save on duties, blade and horn handles had been sent separated. to be riveted together by the dealer, who had no time nor inclination for the job; or by the user, who had neither skill nor tools for that task. And the horn handles themselves .\'ere not polished smooth. Nlachetes of American make outsold the others more than a hundred to one, although the Yankee toob were tar behind the German in glitter, because the American wer·~ superior in quality of steel, and therefore in p'ractical vailic. They outsold the Swedish, despite the fact that these ·were of better steel and temper, because the Ne\v England irnple~ ments had halJdle.s securely fixed in 'place, and so shaped aud polished that they would rasp no skin from the hands of users; and the finish of the whole was fairly attractive. Better in Quality. American mallufacturers have never bad time to lcarn the art of making flimsy, cheap alld almost worthless thLngs, such as arc sent it! <-glantities to the people ol little-developed countries by SOlue European COllcerns, because 111 A..merlc;l manufacturers have heen making things for people who 1<1leW the wisdom and economy of buying thing::; Ul goon ijllalily. and were able to pay for and have ahNays lllslsteCl that they should get quality for their cash. Some Europeans have, on the contrary, seemc(l to ;;tnv\.: to excel in the art of making goods of fair appearance and u! little or no real worth. T t is to be hoped that this art \vil! never become. common in America, if for no other reason, than because there is ample cause for thinl<tng that so long as American goods shall bc of superior quallty, OUf tra,k \vith other cOlllHries will continue rising 111 relative pOSItion as well as in actual value. In many parts of Latin America, 1ll China and japan, as elsewhere, O\1r trade has been growing more rap](Jly ,han has that of other nations, and this because Ameflcal1 .,oods are better in quality for the price than arc those at others. It certainly call not he beeaus(~ American salesmen Have snr-passed those of Europe. Odd Things in Bedrooms. Americans travelling in Europe have occasion to notice many odd things in bedrooms. For instance. there are always a great llllmber of pieces of furniture containing many drawers, even the wardrobes sometimes have three drawers. In Paris wardrobes instead of hooks or stretchers for cloth-ing, one finds a number of shelves. The chiffoniers with shallow drawers are a great convenience for holding small articles of wearing apparel and ""hen one is in a hurry arc so easy to find. Deep dra·wers arc Rood to lose things ill. \Vhen called on to pack articles for travelling' use, it is rather a funny sight to see a la"y rllmmaging in dra\vers tucked away in chiffoniers, lablc,:" wardrobes and so forth, to try and collect them and pack them. Nothing makes a woman feel more cosy, comfortable and at home, than to be ahle to unpack several stlit cases and a trunk and scatter things around in drawers all ovef the room. but when it comes time to IIl1L1them all Ollt again, "that\; another story." 15 Peace on "Both Sides:' A traveling salesman died suddenly in Pittsburg, Pa., and some of his friends telegraphed to the undertaker an order to make a large \vreath. Investigation showed that the telegram ordered a wreath bearing these words: "Rest in peace" on both sides of th~ ribbon: if there should be rOom: "\Ve shall meet in heaven." The undertaker was out of town and his new assistant handled the job. It was a startling f10fal piece which tttrned up at the funeral. The ribbon was extra wide and it bore the inscription: "Rest in peace on both sides and if there is room we shall meet in heaven." Death of a Worthy Young Man. The death ofF. P. Tawse, jr., in Chicago recently, came ;:tS a great shock to the fl1rniture trade. He was well known and populat· with all and he was a representative of the Furni-tnre \Vorker of Cincinnati. He was the son of Frank P. Tawse of Grand Rapids. His illness was the result of ser-vices in the Spanish-American war, and his death came after two months' sufferillg from cancer. His lvife and two small children survive him. "It would cost our company $25,000 a year to exhibit our Jines at the expositions in Chicago or New York," remarked the secretary of a large manufacturing establishment in Globe Vise and Truck Company OFFICE 321 R. DIVISION ST. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH· Mallufacturers of The Best Factory Trucks SimpJidty in conSlruc-tion enables us to give -qualityaud durability, and m{:et all competi-tion. Writefor Prices. No. 21. Roller Bearings. Same style Trucks No. 24, without Roller Bearihgs Grand Rapids. "Our samples '~over $10,000 square feet of floor space and the expese in addition to rent, wonld reach the Sl1m stated. We have carefully investigated this matter and shall continue to exhibit our lines in our factory ware-rooms. 1f the time should ever come when it should seem ucces5ary to pInce onr line on sale in New York or Chicago alld incnr thereby the expense we have estimated. we wonld go out of the furniture manufacturing business and use our plant for some other purpose. The low back dressing chair for ladies was first sug-g(' sled hy the daughter of a noted chair maker of Michigan. The daughter was about to wed, and the indulgent father in making a list of articles which he deemed necessary for the home of the future bride, included a dressing chair. The daughter requested that the chair be constructed with a IO\.\, back, that hex hair might be combed more easily than would he possihle while using a chair with a high back. The sug-gestion ""vasof practical valne and the (ather has since made il1Ld sold thousands of low hack dressing chairs to the trade. 16 HAND CIRCULAR RIP SAW. No.4 SAW (ready forcross-<:ulting) .7IR T I k5' 7I.l'\T ? 7 r· MORTISER COMRINKD MACHINE. No.3 WOOl> LATHE, ~:~~'::' HAND AND FOOT POWER MACHINERY WHY THEY PAY THE CABINET MAKER: He can save a manufacturer's profit as well as a uealer's profit. He can make more money with. less capital invested. He can hold a better and moresatisfactorv trade wilh his customers. He can manufacture in as good style and -finish, and at as low cost, as the factories. The local cabinet maker bas been forced into only a dealer's trade and profit, because of machine manufactured goods of factories. An ::mtfit of Barnes' Patent Foot and Hand-Power Machinery, rein-states the cabinet maker with advantages equal to his competitors. If desioed, these machines will be sold ON TRIAL. The purchaser can have ample time to test them in his own shop and on the work he wishes them to do. DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE: AND PRICE L(ST FRgK. W, F. & JOHN BARNES CO., 654 Ruby SI., Rockford, III. FOR1"n-~R OR MOULDRI{. HAND TENONKR. Do~~s' Pattnl TaMt=lt~ DoYtlailer w~find upon investigation that our Dovetailin~ Ma-chine patent covers t his machine nicely. Cuts Mortise in the Top Cuts Mortise in the Cleats Cuts Tenons to 6t the Top Cuts Tenons to 6.t the Cleats djustabte to keep Mrn:_ tise and Tenon at a Standard size The Cheapest Joint Made Will turn oul 250 to 300 Small Parlor Tables in 10 Hour$ Tlle Dodds Till iliK Saw Table has more practical features and good points than any other saw table 011 the markf't. MA:-UE'ACTURRD Al\:]} FOR SALE BY ALEXANDER DODDSGrand Rapids Michigan, U. S. A, No.4 SAW (ready tor ripping) No.7 SCROLL SAW. JUST AN AVERAGE "CUT" MADE Just as we make hundreds of furniture "cuts"f or man- • ufacturers in all parts of the United States and Canada Write for Prien MICHIGAN ENGRAVING CO., Grand Rapids, Mich. GOOD PRINTING AT RIGHT PRICES Has built up our business until we are now operating one of the largest and best equipped printing offices in the state. LE'T us FIGURE WHITE PRINTING CaMP ANY GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Nine-Tenths of Our Business Comes From Customers Whose Business IS In Other Cities WHY? BECAUSE our 200 employees work under better condition, sunlight, blue sky, pure, fresh air. BECAUSE these conditions-onr equipment-mean better engraving, typography, presswork, and binding. Our customers don't pay light bills and high rent for us-we have neither. Type, ink, paper-isn't printing. There's something more. Your little job printer might satisfy you in running five thousand hand circulars. Would you want him to print a three~color sixty-page catalog? We can handle your catalog from the designing and engraving to the printing and binding. We can't blame your engraver for delayed cuts if we do it ourselves. That means you get delivery ON TIME. Write us for samples and figures. ~raUll 1Raptllntunrautug <nn. THE CARGILL PRESS GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN 18 Rare Old Furniture in the Home of Sir Walter Scott. The home of Sir \\ralter Scott at Abbotsford, Scotland, is rich in hi~torical associations.1 t is owned and occupied by Sir \Valter's great grand neice the Honorable 1I1r5. 1\f8.x\\'c11- Scott. who has preserved all its treasures and furnishings as they were in the poet's time. There is a large collection of armour which was gathered from variOl1S p,lrts of Fl1l"OpC. ing" cOlilltry and no doubt received inspiration from its beauties. Bllt to rctl1r11 to the furnishings of the house. which is sl1rrOllnclcrl by beautiful gardens. The entrance hall is very imposing \vith its trophies of war hanging on the walls. The panelling ;" of richly-carved oak from the ancient Kirk at Dunfermline. The carved stone fireplace is a model of the ":\bbott's Stall"" in the cloister at Melrose. A Louis Libr",ry in Sir Waller Scott's home ",t Abbots· ford. His SOD'S portrait is over the mantel. The bust af Sir Waller by Chantrey is al the end af the room. Sir Walter Scott's Study in his home at Abbotsford, Scotland. The furniture of Course is of special interest, each 1'00111 con-tains valuable pieces. Sir \Valter spent eleven years superintcnding and de-signing the building of his home and borrowed {t'cely from Melrose Abbey, a few miles away, the design of the curly kale being much used. The home itself is picturesquely sit-uated in a valley, 011 the hanks of the Tweed river. The Eildon l1iJJS rise behind the house to a comma.nding height. At the summit Sir \Vatter used to sit and view the surrol1nn- XIV clock said to have belonged to Marie Antoinette adorns the malltclpiccc, also models of the skulls of Robert the Brucc and other". At the left of the fireplace stands the "Mistletoe Chest." Tn this, according to legend, a bride hid on her wedding nig-ht. The carving is of the mistletoe design. The floor is paved with black and white marble from the Hebrides. Round the cornice are blazoned the arms of the Border CJal1S. The Arms of Sir "Valter's ancestors occupy the shields running down the centre of the roof. The drawing-room, which overlooks the river contains many interesting objects. The walls are hung with hand-painted Chinese paper given to Sir Walter by his cousin, Hugh Scott, of Raeburn. The portrait of Sir V\falter adorns the wall above the fireplace. There are other portraits of members of the family, also of Nell Gwynne, Oliver Crom-well, :r,.'laryQueen of Scotts, and others. A to'l"toise shell cabinet said to have belonged to the great Marquis of ),'Iont-rose is a very v(tlllable possession. 19 boxwood chairs are said to have come ~rom the Borghese Palace in Rome. They were presented to Sir Walter by Mr. Constable. A glass covered table in the bay window con-tains many valuable treasures, such as .:\I"apoleon's blotting book, a gold snuff-box presented to Sir Walter by George IV and mally minatures and other things. The stnoy lS a small room lined with books, a gallery en-circles it half way up. From this gallery a door leads into Sir vValtcr's bed room. The study contains a writing desk Drawing-room at Abbob-ford. Sir Walter Scott', portrait by Sir Henry Raeburn hang, above the fireplace. Hall at Abbotsford. Curly kale design on fire_ place is copjed from Melrose Abbey. On a cabinet is a bust of Shakespeare copied from the monument at Stratford~on-Avon. The library \",hich contains 20,000 volumes, is forty feet long by fifteen broad. The richly carved ceiling is copied chiefly from the roof of Rosslyn Chapel. The bust of Sir vValter by Chantrey occupies a niche at the end of the rOom. The portrait of the eldest son of the poet is seen over the mantel. The writing table is of carved ebony. Two carved made from pieces of wood belong-ing to the ships of the Spanish Armada. The Wallace chair, made of wood taken from the house of Royrohstoll, the sccne of Wallace's he-trayal. A horse hair chair which belonged to :Mr. Lock-hart, the author's son-in-law, is here, too. A snlall turret room opening from the study "vas called by Sir Walter "Speak~a-bit:' an allusion to its convenience as a place for tete-a-tete. 20 ESTABLISHED 1880 PUBLISHED BY MICHIGAN ARTISAN CO. ON THE IOn. AND 25TH OF EACH MONTH OF"FICE-2·20 LYON ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ENTERED AS MATTER or THE eECO~D elMS State Factory Inspector ]. E. Vallier denies that childre1l are employed illegally ill \~Tisconsjn ft1rl1itme factories and paper mills. In a recent trip throngh the northern part of the state :\'lr. Vallier said that he found but one case Representatives of eight leading cbair 1l1all11taC1nrillg concerns met in Detroit the last ·week ill November to COI1- sider the matter of advancing pnces. An advance of tell per cent. on chairs and tables is contemplated bllL not decid-ed definitely. Another advance in prices should he made in Jalltwry. The conditions of the trade and the conntry \varrant if. The people are rich and growing" richer. They are willing to pay a fair price for goods. Tn the past prices have been unfair-to the manufacturer. Perseverance counts iTl husiness. The ability to stick to one thing until S\1ccessful i" the main necc,:;sity. ITcliry Rogers, said to be the force behind Stardanl Oil. compares success to a postage stamp-a very good comparison, illdeed, judging by his own expericllcc. At this season of the year sCllesmell are looking' for new jobs, and employers for new salesmen. lI1any shifts are re-ported and in January the Clir of the exposition buildings will be filled with statements as to the causes of the many changes. Thc tea kettle will try to nHke as much noise as a storm at sea. In the past four years there hCls been a large increase in the !lumber of manufactllring ent('l'prises ill the South; the amount of money invested is $TI6,7RS.ooo. .L\lany factories are of small size bul in time will grO\v and rlevC'lo]l by means of the increase in their own earnings. This is a promis-ing field for investment. Among the most pros-perOllS of these enterprises is the manufacture of furniture. Space has been taken in all the exposition l)11ildings of Grand Rapids for the January season, and the same is true of the buildings in Chicago and l'\e\v York. ]\1aIlY OCCllpants have signed leases for periods runnning from three to live years, and it is presumefl it is the illtelltion of the leasol's to use the same. The abolition of the expo"itiolls will not he: accomplished in the near future, if ever. "\¥hen we take an inventory wc ;clways estimate the value of manufactured goods below the cost of proollction," remarked a tllanllfach,rer of forty years o[ experiencc, re-cently. The reason is plain. 1£ the goods \\'(~re priced at their actual cost and hy a slump in tllc markt:'L we ShOll1d be compelled to sell the same for less than inventry prices, we would lose monc}". If the goods \vere priced below cost the probabilities are that ·we WOllld save lo~ses. At 3.11Y rate, we consider anI' plan the best. It is a safe plan. Vintofl and company of Detroit. are the successf1l1 bid-ders for the order for the new special furniture of the city hall of that city. The appropriation is (or $40,000, There is considerable dissatisfaction over the order; felt in the trade lIninlls. a" their contention is that Vinton and company are builders, llot fU[11it11rcmanufacturers, and the work will be j'lhh'(] outside o[ Detroit, and so Detroit mechanics and C011- C('l'IlS will gel I:Ulhjng. "Vinton atld company were the lowest hidders, arc a responsible iirnl, and I do not see how the cOlllnliUee and the council can rei11se to give them the con- Irati, llnder the law," said Chairman Br07;O of the committee. The manufacture of cheap and medium priced case goods is growing ill volu111eat Rockford. Two factories just commencing business will hring ant lines of sideboard, buffets and music cab-inets, to be added to the many lines of bookcases, china closets and kindred goods mallt1£aetll,.,~d in that city. A quarter of a cCl1tmy ago the factories, with a single exception, of that city manufactured luw and medium priced chamber suites and cylin- (leI' bookcases in walnut. Parlor furniture was produced by the Excelsior Furniture cOlupauy. the exception noted above. When the c01111linalionhookcasc made its appearance it was quickly ,Hlopted lly the manufacturers of Rockford, who have made and sold them by tlle hundreds of thousands. Charley Cox, of the ~lichigan Chair company, was in a rcminiscellt mood when he recalled a strike of upholsterer5 in :-Jew York ,t few years :lgo. IVlr. Cox was a-;sociated with the house of :\ledicns at. the time, and when the ,~trikers walked out, the head of the 11OtlSe,Henry VV. f\.fedidts, re-cent]:)' deceased, \'1'110 was a practical t,pho15tet:er, took charge of the shop. I\lr. lvfcdicl.1s had learned the uphblsterers' trade while in the employ of Lord & Taylor many years ago. "Vith the deparlure of the strikers ·Mr. Mediclls became ver~t mt1ch interested in his work and v.:hile he bent springs into place, stnffed seats and hacks and attached coverings, he whistled Clnd sang merrily. He declined to leave his work for ally purpose and when the strike ended with a victory for the em players. he declare(l that he had never spent his time more pleasantly. ;\ change of work is the most pleas-allt and satisfactory form of recreation. l\hl1ufactnrers of fmnitme and kindred goods have been raided and plundered ttlthlessly by a coterie of schemers, backed IIp in several instances by the retail associations of the several states, with \vorthless advertising publications. Souvenirs, directories and other issues of novaltte except to the publisbers Jnvc heel] forced upon the attention of the manufacturers, and in many instances means employed to (Jln:.,in ad\'ertisillg contracts that would do credit to the inge-lluity alld the effrontny of a highway man ·0£ the Claude D\1val and "Sixteen-String Jack" type. The manufacturers have ever at. their command high grade influential journals through \vhich to express their views, putposes and desires to lhe trade. There is no reason \vhy they should be bled by schemers. Tbe manufacturers of Grand Rapids have promised the trade that everything needed would be supplied if the market shmtld be weakened by lhe \vithdrawal of certain out-of-town lincs. No\" is the time to fulfill this promise. Mirrors Used at Windows and Doon; in Europe. J\Tirrors of small size hung outside the windows and so placed as to give a good view of the pedestrians on the streets are a very common sight in some foreign countries, notably Belgium and Holland. Of course when one desires (0 see the front dOOI' of the house and especially when strangers or callel's make their appearance, the little mir-ror is put to a vcry good use. Americans might do well to copy this idea. No doubt the women of the country would be delighted \"ith the handy little aids which enable one to see and not to be seen. Dealers in mirrors, no d0ubt. \vould approve the plan. EVANSVILLL The P. I-I. Reddinger Carving ·YVorks, formerly the Cin-cinnati Carving \\.'orks, is one of the latest industries added to the big list found in Evansville. This. cotnpany started four months ago, awl is managed by P. H. Reddinger, who was originally from Grand Rapids, Mich. The Reddinger Carv-ing \Vorks is one of the biggest plants of its kind to be fonnd allywhere, and js 60 x 100 in size, and equipped ,'vitlt ccment floors. Trade is pouring in from all sections of the United States. The plant includes tbirty carving machines, ten spindle sanders, 1J'"e band 5a".'5, three rounders, planer, rip saw, jointer, s\ving salV, turning lathe, and ~{ll1jng'outlit. The Evansville Vencer company have just completed a large two story addition, 5" x 110, to be used as a \varehotlse and dry hOllse combined, and have p1.trclns,(?,d addition a] grotllld on thevVest Side of their present l()cation-~the size of the ground pm"chased beillg 245 x 270 feet; this gives the Evansville Veneer company a tot;t[ of 550 feet front on the Belt railroad, and a depth of 270 feet. The location is one of the finest on the Delt linC'. The compally is now adding a rotary maehinC', and is now receiving- about eight car loads of logs per day, in orcin lo he prepared for their winter supply. "\lanager C. \V. Talg-c, reports the business of the company as being very good. GERMAN TRADE-MARKS. Foreign Goods Bearing a Trade-Mark Protected Theye Liable to Seizure. The Imperia! German cOllrt has decided that foreign goods bearing a trade-mark protected in Gennall)'", no matter how long the foreign firm may have Llsed that mark, are liable to seizure on importation iuto Germany. All American house shipped to T-lamburg, on the order of a German buyer, a consignlnent of lubricating oil in barrels bearing their old trade-mark; bllt as this particular mark happened to have been protected in Germany by a German Grm hvo ycars prior to tIte importation, the oil was seized by the Hamburg Custom House officials--·of course, at the instance of the German ''1,'ho had registered the mark. The !\mericans' allS\Vcr was alL action for wrongful seizure, and a claim for damages. In the Strafkalllmer the seizure was upheld, and the Imperial court, to which the A11lericans appealed, took the same view oithe case. Section J 7 of the German trade-marks act, of I\.Iay 12, 1894, gives a German t:ourt pO\'V"er to uphold sllch a sei7ure ill the interest of German traders <lgainst foreiguers. It is thus open to ally unscrupulous German firm to reg-ister in Germany the trade-mark of a reputable foreig-n house, work it at home for all it is worth, and also get the goods of the foreigl1 house seized should they be imported into Gcrmany.-Ex. Wives as Partners-Importance of Signatures to Orders. At a meeting of the Credit lIens' Association, of Grand Rapids, held recenlly, a statement was made by an attorney present that is of interest to every manufactufer and jobber concerning the taking of orders. Under the statutes of many states no order UpOll the purchaser of goods valued at a sum greater than $50,00 is binding upon the purchaser. unless his 'written signature to the ordcr has been obtained. Goods may be fdllscd after shipll1e~lt, or returned at the -wilt of the lHlrc,I\(\ser. As prohahly cight-tenths of tl1('. goods sold hy jobbers and manufacturers ;"lfC shipped llpon l1nsigned orders, the risk involved becollles apparent. 21 A paper was fead describing- tbe relations of man and wife when engaged as partners in business. Under the com-mOll bw a man and his wife are one; the wife is absorbed in the composite individual. A wife haviTlg property in her own right before marriag·e may legally manage the same, hut she could not he. held responslble for any partnership contract eTlt('red into by herself and husband, as man and wife. The members of the association were advised to be on their guard against husband and wife partnerships. As a general propo-sition it is not wise to deal with such a combination. Will Move to Canada. The "\VolverLne Reed company, employing eighty hands, will abandon theil' plant in Detroit and move to Canada, announcing as their reaSOll, inability to compete with the prisoll made goods turned out, mainly in the state of Michi-gan The policy of selling the labor of convicts to manu-factl: rcrs by the state has ever proven disastrous to manu- Carved by Hand in Florence. Italy. factllrers emp[o:ying free labor, and the course of the Wolver-ine Reed company in abandoning the important business they have built up in the United States to engage in an effort to establish trade in a foreign state is not surprising. Information Not Forthcoming. Some time ago Commissioner Folk called ~Tpon the mutuai cOlupanies doing business in Tennessee for a list of their Tennessee policy-holders, with the address of each. So far no responses have been received, and the questions involved in the matter are now being considered by the attorney-general of the state. Sprinklers Saved a Store. The efficacy of an automatic sprinkler waS shown recently III a large dry good;.; store in Roston. One of the heads sprung a leak, and the water dripped on the motor. This caused a ShOft circuit, which set the automatic sprinkler sys-tem at \vork. which extinguished the fire. D. A. KEPPERLING Commercial Photgrapher Phone South, 709 1414-1416 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO 22 Are You Next? A young man's cnaracter and hahits of hie arc either a help or a detriment to his advancement in business. His employers consider morals. ubi!;ty and persona) appearauce to be of the first importance. Oftentimes a young mall in a subordinate position may sneldenly be promnted to a much better position and sabry. In every e;1.seit is betatlse Excels all hand screw clamps in ad.aptation to work, convenience of handling llnd quick action F:spedafly adapted to Veneering Paneling aud all work requiring long hroad jaw. COLT'S UNIVERSAL CLAMP Catalog alld Price List Furnished Batavia Clamp Co. 45 Center St. BATAVIA, N. Y. Mention Michigan Artisan of his possessing the q\lalilicatiollS lllClltiolled ahove. In thi,.; connection the follo'.ving story may be mentioned: \Ve were coming over the road Hot long ago in :::L special One of our officers (we will call 1JillJ :loLl'. \-V.) said to a party of liS as we sat in the ohservalory I"oom of his car: "Now, gentlemen, 1 \-"F<'llyltour opinion nil a matter th<1t concerns my departmcnt. The next stop will he X. \V(' will remain there abol1t a half-hout". \Vatch me as we all get out on the platform and cast yonI' eyes over a young man whom I will greet and shake hands "with. He will hand me an envelope, and when \ve return to the car gl\'t' me your individual opinions of him." Everything passed off as ~{r.\;V. had planned. \-Ve were introduced to a number of persons at the station. Chhers were known to us; !'iOIl1C of them good and faithful fel-lows, Fortunately, all of us met and shoook hands with the young man who had been outlined to llS hy l'vIr. VI. We were anxious to know \vhy ollr 0PI111011 was desirert \A/hen the special pulled Ollt we all g-athcrer! again in the big observation room of the car. ""Vhat do yOll think of him?" asked !lh. \V. The answers came thick and fast. "I noticed he was cleanly shaven." "His 5110('8 \vert': nicely polished." "His linen V:...as fresh and clean." "He had a bright eye." "His clothes were modest, alld no grease "vVhen he shook hands he took hold meant it." "He was very courteous." "He was not forward." "He looked like a boy of characler." "He didn't have a cig-arette in his month or a tobacco cud." "He looked like a gentleman." After all had passed their coml11ents and jndgmellt, r-o.T\rv. . remarked: "That settles it. J am sure T made a wise choice. The boy doesn't even dream of the good Jilek in store fOl' spots on them." as thongh h(' him. But utltside of yO\1l' decisions or opinions I have made il1(j\1iries as to his habits, and linel that he is the support of a widuwed mother. He is never Seen hanging around sa-lO(' lb ur billiard rooills. J-T e is home with his mother eve-ll! ugs. Sunday morning he is at church with her, He has a good ("1C'an record." "\:Ve arc ahol1t to make an important appointment, and while this yO\1ng man is filling a position where the salary is small. \1'<: are going to promote him to the place I have mentioned, at a great deal larger salary than he now re- ("elves. OUT desire W<lS to select. a young man from timber of Oln' own road and your good opinions to-day have set-tled the matter." The challg'e has been made since this was written and r am glad to be informer! by i\h. W. that the young man h8S been eminently satisfactory, says the writer in the Erie Railroad Employes' ]'vlagazine, This is a short story, !Hlt there is lots of meat in it; Is your record clean? Business Men Should Dress Well. External appearance is lhe only way in which one man C[lll judge al10tber in bllsilless, and when a mall'S appearance is Hot pleasing' the judgment will be against him. As one progresses through the lower ranks and gets nearer to the place whudrolll ~t\ccess; tllay be easily reached, the effect O! p('l"sonal appearance grows in value, A clerk or other 1111i10r employe may do well withont paying any particular attentioJl to his appearance. so long as he does his work salisfactorily. nut when he rises to a position near the top of the ladder, he will find that it is a question of appear-ing well or giving" IIp his chances for a future. Look into the general ()ffice of any large enterprise. The men who arc employed therein. from tJ]e office boy to the general tllanagcr. :ne all well dressed in appearance, They are clean, their clothes arc neat. it 110t expensive, and the en-tire cHen of their appearance is pleasing. How much of thvij- success they owe to this bct it is hard to say. Cer-tainly the)' owe <.t greal deal. No employer selects for ])I"{111l0tiOall man ';vhose appearance will not be a credit to hi~, busine,.:,s. A man may be a good salesman, b\1t if he Our UnbreaKable proaucts can be glued and nailed, filled or fin-ished same as wood, with oil, water or spirit stain. f\o. 139 A No. 152 B BETTER THAN WOOD Much stronger and more durable, full depth of grain. A perfect rep,.oduetion of hand carving which absolutely defies detection. Send for Sample. Send for CATALOGUE. ORNAMENTAL PRODUCTS CO. TweHth aM Fort Street.<;· Detroit. MidriiaD. dre:-;scs jjkc :-t POOl one he 'wilJ hardly be given a chance to show that he is able to fill any position above t.his, A care-le~ s man may manage to act successfully as the manager of a bl1sinl'Ss where his duties take him in contact only with his immcdiate oth('e force, bUl v.·hen a promotion to some hi.>rher place i,.; 10 be made he will find that some one else, possibly a little less able than he, possibly of a lower rank, whose appearance suggests that he is of a bright progressive disposition, is chosen. The Chicago doctor who discovered that the automobile IS a ctlTe for dyspesia should make it clear whether he meant for the man in the machine or the man run over. ~Mlf ..HIG7fN 23 INCH POPLAR for DRAWER BOTTOMS JOSEPH ROSS & COMPANY 223 SDulh SecDnd SI., Philadelphia, Pal MILLS: CHESAIS, S. c.; THOMASVILLE, N. C. CUT TO DIMENSION KILN DRIED 10 YEARS' EXPERIENCE Large Demand For Hardwood Lumber. The raising of the quarantine ill Tennessee, 1\Jississippi and Arkansas, where tile regulations were 1110re stringent tha1l elsewhere, has ~cn('d greatly to stimulate the demand [or hardwood lumb(·r and at the saille time to faciliatc the movement thereof, according to lV[emphis, advices. The de-llland is now better for southern hardwoods 111<111for eighteen months, but the domestic call is large Cll01:g-h to take every~ thing available at constantly advancing 1n[«'.",. Thlycrs. aTC nn hand in large 111ll11bcrs from a11 (WeT the NOrih find East and arc scol~ring- the coen',ry millillg sections throl1ghout the Ivlemphis bard wood territory in tl1eir seaTch ror dry 111l11ber. Conditions l1nder which production ha:-; he en carried on, hOl;vcvcr, have heen ql1ite lllllavorable, ,11le! for this reason offerings are very light ;t11e! all lumber is iirmly held Price.-; afC higher now than they have been for a nl1111bcr of lTlOllLh" ,\11<1 the move1l1('nt is jn:st ao; large as the limited dry stncks and the congestec! conditio11s of railway traffic will adlnit. The {()reign demand is -rat hey slow a~, h.as hec~l the eai;,(' ior a nllmber of nlOllths and yet holders, iuc!tHling both mallufadtlrers and v,rhoIesalcrs, are so strollg" in the convic-tion that prices ,,,ill go still bigher that tlley an, not pl1shing anything for sale. The trade ·will go into the willter with the smallest amount of timber in hand for years and like-v,' ise ,vith the lightest stock they have possessed fOf a num-her of scaSOlls. The demand for plain oak in all grades and lengths is very aei-ive. The supply is inadequate and prices are as stiff GLASS BACKS BACK PANELS as call ,vell be imagined. There is likewise a large call for ash and cypress in all grades and dimensions and holdings arc not large. Cotto1lwood is scarce, firm and ad'lancing in response to the improved demand. Th-i~, -is 111QSt prononnced ill the higher grades including boxboards, but the lower grades including box material, are ml1ch firmer than hereto-lore. There is a good demand for high-grade popl.ar and considerable quantities of rcd gum are being sold, mostly in thill stick. The lower grades of gllm are rather unsatisfact-ory, the demand for these being only moderate. The same state1l1cnt, too, is partially true of hnv-gradc poplar, thol1gh the demand for this is relatively better than that for gum. Will Pass Through Forests. ;\,rexico\; forests equal those of the entirc United States 1ll extent, arc rnllch more varied ane! include, ill large quanti-ties. the coveted mahogany and rosewood. "\vhich the United States is obliged io import. Owing to the fact that hOllses, hridj2;cs, dc" were constructed of stOllC and that the Grst railrm.cls built i.nMeKico chosc for thei.r ront,,',s "tock and agriClJ1tl1ral districts, the forests were left almost t111l01lChed. Howevcr. there are now projected and l1lH1cr construction in that republic HlOre than 4,000 miles of railway lines, the most of \lI,7hich will pass tbrough extensive forests, as well as rich mincntl and agricnlturallands. Life insurance is just philanthropy, says one of the pres-i-dellts. \;Vc1J. we're glad it isn't the itch'. Tt would be so irritating. Our Clamps received GOLD MEDAL World's Fair, St. Louis PILlNG CLAMP CHAIN CLAMP Patented June 30,1903, BLACK BROS. MACHINERY CO. MENDOTA, ILL. VENEER PRltSS Patented JUlie 30, 1903 24 A Statement by the ]. A. Fay & Egan Company to the Trade. J. A. Fay & Egan Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, statenlent to the trade: It may not be 0\11 of jl]ace to anllounce to the trade that many makers of machinery, most of them ,vitb old fashioned traps, are trying to impress their salesman to say their machines are about as gOO(] as Fay & Egan machines. Don't be deceived by this class of people. There is 110 machinery made in the United SUI.1.es or even in the world. equal to our latest design. \Ve have been workillg whiie others have been blo-wing. A Money Saving Machine. Every wood working plant handling long stock should h-ave a double cut-off sa..\.'. By its use lumber can be eco-nomically handled and a great saving effected in the matH'r of time. These machines are so well made and card1l1i:r adjusted by the Buss .Machine \Vorks of Holland, l\lich., that pleasure as well as profit is derived from their opcra- Will Build a Factory at Buchanan. The Btlchanan, IVlich., Cabinet company, havingre-ecived a liberal bonus from the municipality, will erect a fact-ory in that village to replace the one recently destroyed by lire. J t v"ill be ready for occupancy early in the coming year. l\ot many years ago Buchanan was an important furniture rnanllfactllring" cenler, with six factories, e~ploying 1,000 me11. \Vith the disappearance of the timber of southwestern :\Iichigan, anu the appearance of the bonus distributor, the to\vn lost its industries. The Buchanan Cabinet company. the sale survivor, bas prospcrcd under the management of A, A. Richards. A New Enterprise in New Albany. The Roberts & Conner company, manufacturers of yellecrs and lumber, is the name of one of the latest con-cerns to be included in the best of industries in New Albany, Incl, The plant of the company ocupies an acre and a half of 11001' space, and started operation December 1st. The tion. They arc constructed of the best material obtainahle and so well finished as to prove an attraction in a \vood working shop. Built under the expcricilted an (I caref\11 eye of W. R. Buss, these u").<lchines IlC\'cr fail to satisfy the purchaser_ A full delailed deSC1-iption together with price and terms may be obtained by addre:-ising the Buss J)..'Iachinc V'o.T arks, Holland, IvliC'.h. Loose Leaf Catalogues. The use of loose leai cataJog1les has heen auopted by a considerable number of manufacturers. Their cost is 1111.1ch greater in the first instance: than the oid style book, bUl ill the end much cheaper. John Lewis, the secretary of the Ranney Refrigerator, Greenville, l\lich., in discussing the sub-ject of the cost and use of the loose leaf book said: "The coverings should be of leather, substantially made in the expectancy that the book will outlast the ledger, the jOllrnal or other book, subjected to cr)J1.stanl use in the office, As the tine is changed from time to time new leaves afe mailed t'o the holders of the catalog-Ilc~, to be substituted for those illustrating a.nd describing goods \vhic11 it has been determined to discontinue." The R;l1l11ey Refrigerator com- . pany's catalogues cost more than $1.00 each. plant is a full fledged and 1110stcomplete one with an output of frOtH 6fty to seventy-five thousand feet per day. Forty-five hands are employed, and the plant will cut rotary sliced and savved stock. The company is offiqred as follows: Presi-dent, John Roberls; Vive-President, John N. Roberts, Sec-retary and Treasurer, ]. \V. Conner. Hood & Wright, Big Rapids, Mich. l\hllttfacture veneers and thin lumber of high grade. They make a specialty of fine quarter-sawed oak and birJ's eye: maple. They have had l11.anyyears experience, and their trade cxtends over a very large section of country. Just at the prcsent time it is very difficult for manufacturers to get orders for quarter-sawed oak filled promptly, and it would he 10 the advantage of all such to correspond with Hood & \Vright. "Bob" Lind Honored. Robert C. Lind, secretary and treasurer of the Rockford Chait' & Iollfniture company, has been chosen a director of the Third National Bank of that city. Mr. Lind holds a number of prominent offices. being president of the Union Furniture company and Royal 1VT antcl & Furniture company. Trade Notes. Geo. S. Clark & company, will manufacture chair stock in Bennington, Vt. The Nall- \\rheelcr Furniture company of Evansville, Ind., have organized ·with capital of $10,000. The De Long Furnitl1l'e company at Reading, Pa., will have a new mill, modern in every respect. New machines are ill process of installation. The Tennessee Furniturc Manufacturing company. of Knoxville, has been incorporated with a capital stock of $50,- 000 to manufacture bedroom furniture exclusively. The \Vestcrn Chair IVlauufacturers Association, at their monthly meeting in }lilwallkee, decided 110t to advance prices on chairs. No action .was taken against prison made goods. Zion City is soon to have a large fllTniture factory which will be O\vned and operated by a number of wealthy men in the town. The site will be near the northern limits of the city. The Decatur, Ill., Furniture c0111pany's factory canght nre from flying emhers from arlOther building and the loss be- 25 \Vo!f Levy, onc of the oldest pioneers of Chicago, died recently. I-Te established the \Volf Levy Furniture company which he COll(lucted for thirty years, retiring ten years ago. 1.fr. Levy introduced the credit system into the fmniture busi-ness in Chicago. The Andrews Office Fllrniture company, of Chicago, are about to move to Toledo, 0., and will occupy the Peter plain-ing mill, which tllCy have purchased. The three large build-ings cover a square, will be remodeled extensively. Four ht111dred skilled mechanics will be employed. The plant of the Orient :'danufacturing company at Char-lottee, N. C. has been sold at auction to the Calvine Manu-facturing company for $250,000. The sale \'Vasthe result of a suit against the company ·which called for a receiver. The sale was made by the Superior Court. \V. S. and VV. L. Alexander, of Charlottee, N. C, have pllrchased from George \V. Vanderbilt timbered land from his famous forest preserve, the consideration was $2,000,000. It will take twenty years to t('.\ll.Ovc the. timber. A fllrnture factory and tannic acid plant will be established. J. D. Froman and T. ),'1. Lenham, Vevay, Ind., have in-vented a bed which can be combined with a bookcase, settee, wardrobe, dresser, and various other kinds of furniture. The principal objects are to provide for folding a bed in such a manner that it will occupy much smaller space than has been th(: case heretofore, and especially to reduce the vertical space occupied by the bed in folded position. :rvluuufacturers of wagon and furniture wood stock, met in Chicago on 1\" ovember 21, and formed a temporary organiz-ation ;'The output of oak and hickory within the last year ha.~ been curtailed throughout the country," said James E. Gatewood of St. Louis. As these are the principal woods used in /ntr factories we must hnd some way to increase the product. Another meeting will be held in January. The Knoxville, 'Tenn" Furniture company have won their suit against the Knoxville \Vater company. The Knoxville Furniture COITlpany sought to enjoin the "VVater company 11'0111 making an excessive meter rate charge at its factory on a sprinkler system which the furniture company was in-stalling to afford the factory bettcr protection against fire. The flltniture company filed an injunction bill in the chancery court against the water company, and has won the fight in an important suit. MarieJ Antoinette's Chamber, Palace (If Petit Trianlan. The L'ph(l!5lery and Hanl;:ings ate of Blue and Cold Brocade. fore the flames were extinguished amounted to over $20,000.- 00, insured. The storehouse used by the Bnwswick-Ba1ke-Collender company in Kansas City, Mo., was destroyed by rlre NOV 29. The loss is $25,000, mostly caused by water. Inslltance covers the loss. The Alhernathy Furniture company lost $(0,000 as the result of a fire \vhich destroyed furniture stored in the old Dold packing house in Kansas City, Mo. The J. H. Vanden Boom Furniture company also suffered loss. A manufacturing firm in Greenwood, l\'fiss., have com-plained to one of the sOLlthern railways about the high freight rate from that city to Atlanta and !H)\'v" the railway makes the announcement that an investigation will be made. Charles B. Ford, a manufacturer of kitchen cabinets in Kalamazoo. ),lich'J has formed a stock company '\vith an anth-orized capital stock of $30,000 partly paid in. The name of the company will be the Ka1ama:Loo Manufacturing company. The Spencer Cabinet company, of Chicago, report [me re- SllltS from their advertisement in the special 19,000 edition of the Artisan isslled September 20. A number of orders re-sulted and applications for catalogues continue to corne up to da e. 26 Peter Cooper's Glue If you have any trouble with your glue, has it uccurred to you to use Peter Cooper'.? When other manufactur-ers or agents tell you that their glue i~as good as COOPER'S, they admit Cooper's is the BEST. No one extols his product by comparing it with 3'1 inferior article. Cooper's Glue is the world's standud of ex:- cellence. With it all experiment begins, aU comparisons continue, and aU tests end. Sold continltously since J820. Its reputation, like il~eJf, STICKS- Peter Cooper', glue is made from selected hide stock, care-fully prepared. No bones or pig stock enter into its composition. fn strength it is uniform, each barrel containing the same kind of glue that s in every other barrel of the same grade. ORIN A. WARD, Grand Rapid. Agent 523 Pythtan Tempi., Citizens Phone 3333 CyClone Blow Pipe Co. ~-~----- Improved Cyclone Dust Collectors, Automatic Fwnace Feeders, Steel Plate Exhaust Fans, Exhaust and Blow Piping Complete: syste:rnsdesigned, manufactured, installed and guatanteed. Old SY3tems TePlodeled on mcdern lines on mosl economical plans. Sdf.p]emenlary s y s t ems ~em~ar:h'::I1:;,~~t B';~ fective s y s t ems corrected and put in pr()per workinll order. STAffORD fURNITURE 12and 14 S.ClinlonSt. CHICAGO, ~ ILL. ENGRAVING Our half tones are deeD sharp. clear; gMn,t them long wear and ease of make-ready. Every plate i~precisely type-bigh, mourHed 011 a perfectly squared. seasolled block trullmed to pica standard. All are proved and tooled until the: best possible printing quality is develof>ed. Specimens mailed on request. STAFFORD ENGRAVING CO. "The House oj ideas" INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA MACHINE ffNIVES PER.FECT QUALITY R.IGHT PRICES PROMPT SEI\.VICE ABSOLUTE GUARANTEE Dado or' Grooving Heads, Miter Machines. Universal Wood Trh1l11lers. &orlng Machines. Etc. FOX MACHINE CO 185 N. F•• n' St. • Grand Rapids. Mich. IOO~6ONINVESTMENT Doesll't sound reasonable in connec-tion with a piece of machinery, but the annual saving in cost of operating our TYPE A Engines over others of similar rating, figures out that way. Isn't your curiousity sufficiently arous-ed to prompt you to ask for circular No. 18S-F explaining this? All facts---N 0 fancy theories. American Blower Co. DETROIT, MIOH. NEW YORK, CHICAGO, ATLANTA, LONDON ·~r;..Iff'HIG7f-N He Executed the Contract. "It LS futile for the (lId-time dealers. to protest against the business methods pursued by the scheme houses," re-marked a prominent manufacturer. "The soap boilers. the ftavoflng extract disti1Ie-r:;, the medicine makers and other distributors of pri7-cs have the coin and will never lack for goods' needed for prizes." And then he took from a drav,"er contracts for $110,000 worth of goods, one of -which he signed, sealed and mailed to a great soap manl1factllf-ing, prize distribution company widely known and gener-ollsly denounced by regular dealers. A New Automatic Gage Lathe. This is olle of Fay & Eg-an gag-c lathes for chair stock, bal~ l1sters, spindles, etc., and guaranteed seccl1ld to HOlle. Tts wide usage proves it. It is their latest development in this type of machinery, and is thoroughly up to date in features and improvements. Circulars more fully describing it call be had by sending a Jlostal to the makers. \Ale will just glance over a few points: It is called a No. 35 automatic gage lathe. and made \n sizes to turn 30, 42 and 48 inches long, and up to 3 inches in diameter. Great speed combined with fi~le accnracy in tl1rlling Ollt the work can be attained. The few adjt,.,.tmellts are qU1ckly rnade, the carriage lUOVCS with e:.\sC 27 sense oj visitors. rather than affront them with signs moni-torial. The sign vvc.nt: up immediately after an officious call-er1eft the shop in search of a surgeon gifted in the use of the closing needle. One of the saws in the factory is a deli-catc little buzzer. designed only for cutting grooves and protllde;; barely a quarter of all inch above the table on whieh it operates, It is noiseless and in manners unassum-ing. i\l hoth respc,c.ts differing (rOI11 the, obtrusive VtSltor. This individual, 8iter meddling abo\1t the shop and buzzing the busy \vorkmcn till "veary, finally approached this par-ticular table. turned his back and plac.ing his hands on th~' edge, J"8ised himself to a sitting as the loafer in the country store helps himself to a seat on the cOllnter next to the cheese and herring-. He was scarcely seated than he ut· tered an exclamation and sprang to the floor. He had been in.iured--n01 dang-erollsly, but uncomfortably. He had not seen the saw, but the saw was there and moving at high speed in its modest W8)'. The seat of education is n"t a1ways in the brain, An Addition Under Construction. In order to adequately care for their continttally increa~- ing business the American Blower company of Detroit are erecting- a three-story addition to their plant. This particlI-lar addit10n is re1Hlere(1 lH~cessary by the g~owing popnb,it~· Fay & Egan No. 35 Goige Lathe, and without looseness, and its operation is at at! times under instant control for suiting" it to different lengths of stock turned. The back-knife gate slides in heavy ways planed perfectly true, and is connterbalanced. It is fitted with ~ special knife shaped to conform to finished work, and plaeed in an inclined vertical position. It works automatically on the back of the piece being turned. so that as the tool carriage moves forward the knife is fed gradl1ally dO'wn and immediately follows after the ronghing CllttcrS, giving a very smooth shear cnt. A spec.ial adjt1st1l1ent sets the kn-ife in or out to compensate for wear on its edge. Further par-ticulars and terms can be had by v..riting the makers, -who advertise in every issue of this paper, J. A. Fay & Egan Co., 505 to 525 "lv' est Front street, Cincinnati. They send fl"ee of charge their catalogne of wood-working machinery, or books on band saws, sanders, and universal wood-work-ers. Concerning the Seat of Knowledge. "Beware of the buzz-saw" is a warning sign conSpiC\1011S 1y posted in a Saginaw shop. The 1113nagement bad felt until recently that something shonld he left to the common of their type "A" enelosed, vertical, self-oiling engine which was placed upon the market SOlne 1\"0 or three years since, meeting witb immediate favor. The building will be of ;;tecl and hrick construction. Thetlrst floor will he m,ed for erectillg and testing engines, a very complete new out-fit beillg pnt in for the latter purpose. The power from engines llllder test will he ahsorbed by generators and air C01l1pressors. All electric. crane will form part of the equipmcut ill this department. The second floor wilt be IIs(:d for ~t()ring engine parts and painting the completed engines, and the third f100r wil he utilized for storage pur-poses entirely. Singcr & Donnell, formerly dealers in furniture in '¥iehi-ta, Kas .. after a long rctirement will ag;ainenter into the business. They have, for a number of years, been conducting a warehouse business, but found such a quantity of furniture \dt on their hands by people leaving the city and selling samc, that they decided to reopel1 a retail furniture business to which thcy cxpect to devote all their energies in future. ing- is sold. but 11Chas a Iew choice spaces in the annex at his disposal. 28 Fumed Oak, How to Make it. There are more than a hundred difTerent shades of Fumed oak, from the partially fumed, down to the rankest concep-tion of a stained '; Fumed oak," .HanuIacturer.s are spend-ing more time and taking more care to get the right finish or color today than they did a few years ago. They have founel that there is a possibjJjty of elegance in a _I\dission finisb 25 ·well as in a varnish or gloss iinish. To many the mentioning of a fuming box-or anytbing that required the use of a fuming hox-was met lvitll a 1to.<:L 1£ Fumed oak had to be made: it ,..-as duplicated with a slain _ "vVe can't afford to put in a {uming box." Tn some: it meant the building of somcUlillg- like a valdt, to o1hers the j)nldllC-tion of but one shade and because there was bllt 011(' sbade and that not much in demand, fuming \vas not cOl1siriered. Those that did have a fuming 1;0>:: found that the jHOCCSS produced a color base upon w-hicb a litlle sta;ning produced many different shades. These people have produced some beautiful effects, making some decided hits But notwithstanding the opposition found, Fumed oak has been increasing and next season ;t prom;ses to rival E<i.rly Engl;sh in popularity. The only regret is that up to this '\vriting manufacturers have not adopted any particular shade. becaUSe: of so many different processes employed to secure a coloT. The writer is of the opinion that if local makers of £urn1tl1rc would adopt one shade, they would do a good deal to strengthen this market The problem seems to be what method is best to produce Fumed oak. We say, by ftmling process. This brings us face to face with the fmTliug box propositioll, wbich, if the following suggestions are employed, is com para! ively easy. Construct a frame of 2 x 2-inch stuff. UStwlly lOx T6, and R feet high, faslen to floor 1;vithhingec';. Then cow~r with ordi-nard unbleached sheeting, care being taken to lap 011 floor, so as to avoid draft. After the sheeting- is all placed coat \vith silicate of soda (liquid glass), giving' it 2 or 3 coats and care-fnlly coating all joints. A coat or two of paint on top \vill doubly assure a gas proof box. The door is preferably built wedge shape so that when it is closed it is air tight. The little opening is a "testing box," or a controller, being- so ar-ranged that when th~ fumes are 011 a piece of board can be subjected to the fumes and watched through the glass duoe Suppose one \vishes to remove this. Drop the rear door and open the front. Examine the control piece and re- TJlacc without loss of fumes or disturbing the process. The ammonia tank is a common ,) gallon galvanized iron oj! CBlJ to tlle faucet of which is fastened a rubber tube, which c3.rries the ammonia water to the first pan, These pans arc ~-inch deep. \Vben the first pan is' full it runs over into Hnmber two and so on till the whole series is filled, then the Hol-.·.' of ammonia is redtleed to dropping which allows a greater escape of the fumes, To free die box of 1he fumes there are two methods. One is to connect the box \vith a blower, sucking the fumes out, or to put in an ordinary stove pipe leading it to a window. These, hmvever, must be fitted with a tight shut-off to pre-vent escape of the gas during the process. Another, but not so well understood or known process, is to obtain the gas from anhydrous ammonia, This is liqui-tieu amlIlonia gas and is furnished by the Michigan Ammonia \Vorks in irO!l cylinders. -.==-= There seems to be very little difference in the cost of the gas, whether derived from the water or from cylinders, with the preference greatly in favor of the water by those who have fuming outfits. Particulars regarding the use of the anhydrous ammonia will be cheerfully ft.frnished by the writer, A third method-but not recommended-is the employing i)f carbonate of ammonia. This, however, by actual expet'i-l11ent, is more costly than either of the above. T11edescribed process takes from 24 to 48 hours to pr?dtlce the deepest possible shade of Fumed oak, and it has been found that the shade thus produced has not been deep ello11g"hto take "dth the general buying public, and that is why f'umed oak (real f'umed oak) has not taken as well as that ",:hich ",;as fumed and then darkened with a stain. The writer has therefore had a series of laboratory ex-periments conducted with the results of a chemical com-j) ot1l1ri-which was cal1eri ;;Fnmine"-and by the use of which any 3.mOl1ntof brown shades can be produced in from 2 to 4 hours. Many arc still skeptical. The whole fuming process is nevI" to them, they look upon it as an expensive venture. Hut here \VI: have it, a fuming box for $15.00 to $25.00; the process cnt down to one~tellth of the time with these results: Any shade of brown. greyish or reddish, A warer proof color, A spirit proof color, An oil proof color, A color that can't wear off. One process, One handling, A color in the wood not on top, A color that beautiGe:, with age, A color that has style, e1<'~'lnce. and will rival the popularity of golden oak. \Vhen T say \vater proof, spirit proof and oil proof, I mean that your salesllull has the greatest talking point about finish that ever \vent with a sale of furniture. A brokcn botde of gasotine witt remove a '\'lax li\\\sh-bnt not the color. Simply wax it and yOll can't see the spot. A glass of wille is spilt, it \iI.'ill C11tthe wax and the shellac. Simply put on a little shellac and wax. Y (HI can't find the spot. Remove the entire finish and water can't touch the color,-Fuminc made the color and the fuming proccss pro-duced a chcmical chang;e in the wood which is inel(:strllct-ible. The shade produced is absolutely in y011r control. Fumine is il1Yisib1e in water. Usually one part Fmnine to lOllr of water, the stronger the mixture the darker color and the strenglh of the solution employed makes the color. Not the length of Fuming, that'" why yOl' can fill Y0\l'f fuming box at night and take out the work the next mornillg, or yon can !cave it in over Sunday. YOll can run a batch every two to four hours according to your streng; h of gas, and it will go so far and 110 farther. The strength of yOl.::r Fumine solu-tion makes the color. It means further that yOll can match any fumed oak Oll the marKet. Snj)j)ose yon have three shades to make, you filld by employing ymtr test box that one requires a one to four solution, one a aile to eight and a thin! a one to ten solution of Fumine. Yon coat the work with the different indicated strength. put the whole lot in the box and ;1\111 them Ollt. Each one has the required depth of colol". Can any maker of furniture deny that this process is not the most np-to-date, scientific, way of producing the no"v popular shades of Fumed oak. Does any process enable the production of many shades? Ts there a'1y coloring process so silllple and yet so durable? 1t is applicable to all kinds of lHrnitnre and -..vorks on oak, ai'h. chestnnt and maple. The expel1SC docs not e([ual any other finishing process and as soon as it becomes generally understood \vill find immediate favor. Jl'lany manufacturers have already adopted the above describcd method, and as Fumed oak promises tn he the coming style, the al:ove will be of vahle to the mannfa,:,t'cwer. ~o far every line that we h~l"veheard of will show the new brcn ...n. shade of Fumed oak. WALTER K SCHMIDT. His Salary Raised After Losing $I5,OOO. \Vhcn in a reminiscellt mood E. H. Foote, the treaS\.lrer of the Granu Rapids Chair company, is a bighiy entert<tining gentlemen He has been engaged in the industry over forty years, rising from the shops to the manager's office. For more than twenty-five years he has been in the sen'ice of the Grand Rapids Chair company and much of their prrr.;perity is duc to his energy. intelligence and good judgme!1"!". "J lost $15,000 for thc company in the year 1880. 1t \Va" my first year in the officc of secretary. lVly losses werc con-siderable Jess than my precleceS5or's and for tbat reason the board of directors voted an increase of 111Y salary at th c end of the year. Commoll chairs were the only produce of the 29 factory and the output was sold largely to jobbers. In the year ISSO I sold 45 car loads to Col. Abernathy without a profit and increasing the total sales $8.1,000. In that year the price lists were prepared by a committee of the \Vestern Chair '[\'Iakers' association, and in marketing the Olltput of our company I was confined to the association prices. Our directors were SOon satisfied that no money could he made III the business of making common chairs and we abandoned it, i:iLlbstituting a line of furniture." NO' Cancellations. !vlanufactllTers of furtlitme derived great benefit from the action of the National Case 11akers associatloll in adopting a resolution calling for an advance of ten per cent. in prices at the convention held in Chicago, early in November. At that se,lSOl1 of the year dealers have quite generally pursued the long established custom of cancelling orders not Jilled by the manufacturers. The effect of this custom was the leaving of a Jot of goods in the hands of th('. rnanldactnrers to be disposed of as jobs. There 'were no cancellations this year. A politician once complained that the colored dele-gates to a natoinal convention would not stay sold after they had sold their votes. In the ft1fniturc trade it is differ-ent. The goods stay sold. New Shuttle Block Company. The \.Vorth-Sherwood Shuttle Block company of Greens-boro, N. C. recently made application to the secrct~ry of state for a charter. H. B. \Vorth, ':\'1. S. Sherwood and 0. C. VVYSOllg are the incorporators. The CO'l1pany will get o~1t shuttle blod~s for the Sherwood Bobhn t'b.mlfadnril\g cmn-pany and other concerns manufacturing sh111tles and bobbins for cotton mil1s. The authorized capital is $'2~.ooo. b\1t the company wili begin business as soon as $.1,000 is paid into the treasury. The main offices will be located ill Greensboro. Early English A perfect stain which pro-duces the correct shade-and directions for manipula-tion to produce correct finish Get our circulars and book-let that puts you next to the very best ways for producing Sold only in powder form; does not fade--penetrates tl~e wood. FUMED OAn WALTER K. SCHMIDT COMPANY 84-86 CANAL STREET GRI\ND RI\PIDS, MICI1IG4N 30 INSURANCE POLICY LIMITATIONS. All Ambiguities in Policy Must Be Settled in Favor of Insured. A lecture upon "The St'HlcJard Fire TnsuraJlce Policy" was delivered by Morris Plltnam Slevens, professor of law of lire inslIrance at the New York University, before lhe Insurance Society of New York recently. Mr. Stevens called attention to the use of the word, "while" as contained in the clausc of the polic.y, which pro-vides that the insured property shall be C!lyerec! "whiJ(' lo-cated and contained as described herein, and llot eL,,;('\yhcre," and stated that any change of locatioll of the insured prop-crty without the consent of the company would relic.;:e the company from its liability 111 case ()\ i'.1.1bt'ctj\1cnt l()s~. \Vhether the (kscriptioll in a policy covers or fairly de,;eri\)c;; the property intended to be insured is a matter flC fetel whieh in the evcllt of an action is for the .illry to delt:rmilll', and the terms of the policy are to be rea:c.onahly C()ll:-:.Lnlcd \\"ith referellce to the whole subject maHer. Insurance contracts differ from urdinaty cUllt1'acls in (111(: !:itriking particular. If the contract is ambiguous a,; to loca-tion, description, or ally othet- matter, it \\'i11 ht: cOll:c.lrtled liberally ill favor of the insured and strictly a~:raill;;t the com-pany. If its terms are stlsecpl'ih1e of two cOllslructinll:-; with c(jcal certainty, that COllslrltction which is the lllllrc h.\·()r-able to the insured will always he adopted. Parol testimony is admissible to explain a bt<'llt ,11lJbigll ity in regard to the merchandise iutended by thc partie:c. to be embraced within the policy, anll so the cUl1yersatinlls of the insured with the agent. correspondence, etc" would he re-ceived in evidence for the p\1rpose of explaining the meanillg of the terms of the policy as to desniptioll, etc,: {nr example: \Vhere the in.sured property wa"" described <IS " lJ.1yand graill in barn," and there were two barns. it \\"as helel that parol evidence was admissible to show which h'1.rl1 was 111eant, 111 which the hay and grain V1'Cl-C to he insured. Wherever there appeClr illCOllsistel1cies 1)('( W('el1 \\TI1\<,,'11 and printed clauses of the policy, the printed iOr1n 11l1lSt yield to the more careful and deliberate written langu;lge of the parties in describing the subject of the insttrC(1. If a policy is effected O!1 the materials used in a btlsiness, it includes and authorizes the l1se of S\1ch material,", as an' cllsto11lary, and which arc in ordinary use therein, though the llse of th(' same be prohibited by other portions of the pr;ntcd policy. and though other materials, 1I0t prohihitcd, might haye been substituted therefor. Thc term "stock ill tradc" in a :-ipecitied hl1:-iille:-i:-i when tlsed as a matter of descriplion in a policy of illSl1rallCe ill 7I R....'T'1 t-..5' .A..N $ 7i 71t • . eludes, besid<'.'-i materials, everything necessary for carrying "n that bl1silles:c., and if the policy is issued upon the stock of gll()ds in a :-;pecified business, the underwriter is presumed ill kfl';"\' \dla( goods are llsually kept by those engaged in tInt l111siness. \Vhile parol evidence IS adrnissible to explain and to effectltate a polity of insl1rance,i where there i~ any amhig11iLy or indefinitness, yet if the contract of insurance rel:1tes to Ol1e definite and distinct subject it cannot be turned illlo a contract ror the insurance of another and different sub-jcct and parn[ evide!1re will not be received to chauge, to \-ary the written contracl. [11~urallce on stock "malll1tactllred or in process of manu-lact11rc" C()\'ers raw or unmanufactured stock. Insurance 01. a stock uf gl)Or!S, which is being constantly solid and replen-i: c.hed CUycrs new IHlrchases as they arc made, provided they become part oi the general stock. The <1e.~criptjoll sometimes covers the property of the illsl~red. ""hi:c. o\vn or held by him in trust, Of on commission, "1' slJ1d alld delivered but l10t removed." Here are used special \\,()td,~ coYering property ill the possession of tht: insured. whether the oy\,l1el" thereof Of not. "Ile1dil1 trust" means simply goods in the custody of the insured. Tht. phrase j~ not 1Tsed ill its stria legal meaning. Upon the sl1bjecl ot the mcasure of damage, Mr. Steven~ :-itatcd [hat in case oC loss or damage by fire, the company's liability is limited to the actual cash value of the propery at Lhe time sllch loss OL- dal11ag-e occurs. The market or eash \'alue at the time of the fire rules, and the cost price is re-levant only as bearing thereon. The difference between the actHal (ash valne of the property just before the fire, and its value after the lire is tbe measure of indemnity where the pruperty has been injured and not destroyed. If during the pendency of the risk there has been more than one loss ItlHler the puliey, recovery in the aggregate is limited to the face of the policy, and so payment of a partial loss operates to reduce the am0l11lt of insurance by the sum paid. A '"yalllerl policy" is olle where the' face of the policy i"ixes the amount to be paid in case of total 10ss_ The meas-me of clam age in the case of the destruction of leasehold pruperty: wl)jch has been insured, may be determined in two Ivay,",: [,'irst:. (--;y asking the question, how much would be .Q'j,·cn in llloney for the nnexperienced lease when the fire O(ClllTed? Second: By ca.lculating the difference between Wh;lt the illsured \V0111d pay to his landlord, and what he would receive from the sl1b-tenants during- the balance of the tenn uf the lease. It is probable that a compromise be-t \\'eC11 these extreme methuds would arrive at a more c(jl\itablc determinatiun of the a11l0Llnt to be paid by the in-surance comp:'\Jly in case of loss upon leasehold property. IF YOU HAVE NEVER TRIED OUR RUBBING POLISHING VARNISHES " DETROIT FACTORY YOU HAVE AND CANADIAN FACTORY YET TO LEARN THE WHY NOT PUT IT TO F"ULL POSSIBILITIES OF" THIS CLASS THE TEST BY GIVING US A TRIAL ORDER7 OF" GOODS NEW YORK BALTIMORE BERRY BROTHERS, LIMITED, VARNISH MANUFACTURERS PHILADEL.PHIA CHICAGO ST. LOUIS CiNCiNNATI 8AN FRANCisCO FACTORY AND MAIN OFFICE, DETROIT CANADIAN 'ACTOII". WALKERVILLE. ONT. IT GOES TO RUSSIA. Dovetailing Machine from Alexander Dodds. Grand Rapids machinery continues to invade the Ettro-pean factories and not only this, bl\t is {(mnd to be so effect-nal that duplicate orders are steadily received by the makers of such products. Alexander Doddg is experiencing a con-stantly growing business from the foreign field and 1as1 Saturday shipped a second dovetailing machine to a Il1fLll-tUfe iactory in St. Petersbnrg. This Inachinc is a fOlIrtcell-inch device and ,;",ill do the work of some forty men. Previ-ous to the introduction of these machines all the dovetailing was done by hand. This is not the only foreign order which has recentl:y been received by 1\-11'.Dodds, for he i!-i now engaged ill makillR two twenty-four i11Ch machines of the same tYPf as the St. Petersburg shipment for factories in Cologne and 'Berlin. The former goes to C. & L. Bornheim, who iostalled one of these machines a year vf so ago, an([ 'who ha ve fount! its working mllch to their liking. How Bed Rooms Are Furnished in Europe. The beds used in Continental Ellrope are mostly single. They are built up high \'"ith several mattresses, a bolster or two and crowning all two large square pillows, the cases of which arc elaborately scal10ped and embroidered. Some times m01lOgrams arc emhroidered on them, too. The small feather beds to put over one's feet are very commonly used. They are oftentimes covered with lace over red cases. \-Vhen tv.,o beds arc placed side by side, the sheets and other coverings are large enough to co\'er the two, going across both beels. The beds themselves are often iron ,""lth head and foot boards of sheets of that material and heill~ painted black seem rather funereal. Tn Eng-land the old fashioned canopy top beds are used, the bell cord suspended over the sleeper's head. The furniture is very heavy and of old mahogany or oak. The dresslng table is always placed in fro11t of a window. The v,7ardrobes are devoid of hooks, clumsy stretchers taking their place. In Italy, an observer ,viI[ notice when '''alking through streets where poor people live, that no matter how much filth and dirt is about, the beds are al",'ays clean. The aile room in which a family lives overlooks the street and is used to cat. sleep, cook and live in. T11 Paris the Napoleon bed in wood is found, the mat-tresses are (lpt to be lumpy and han!. 1\'lar1le top tables abound here. hut dressing tables seem to be unheard of. Our rocking chairs. too, arc almost unknown in Europe. Taken altogether our American bed rooms are the morc comforta bIe and better furnished than European. Morris Rockers. \Villi:tl11 J\Jorris. the originator of the I"Iorris chair, ·would look with disfavor upon the ::\lorris rocker, recently intro-duced to the trade. l'vtnrris was an EnglislHnan, and rock-ers of any description are seldonl used in Ellgland. The Englishmen are 1lot so high stt"lltlg, so llervous and so re,~t-less as the American. In a chair they seek solidity ann steadiness. A rocker, or "an American chair," to employ the: Englishman's desig-oation, does not look comfortrrble. there-f(, re their sale is limited to sucb people as make a business of entertaining citizens of the United States. The !\lorri.~ rocker is an ill-looking, ill-shapened thing. The l\Iorris idea is not adaptable to rockers and should not be so ern jJ!oyed. The C;oulds do not intend to relax their grip UpOll the business 111('11 of St. Louis. They ahsolute1y refuse to abolish the arbitrary charges 1n addition to the regular rates on flll freight and passenger traffic passing over the two railroad bridges into S1. Louis. Their attitude will tend to strengthen the growing demand for public ownership of public utilities, 31 and the day is not distallt when the aid of congress and the legislaturers of Missouri and Illinois' will he invoked to break the monopoly. The Goulds are tryillg to choke the good old French town to death, but, in the language of the English cockney, "they will 1I0t be let." Higher Prices for Belting. The Leather Belling .1Valnufaeturers have advanced prices 10 per cent.. the reason gi ven for so doing was the ad- \'a11ce in the cost of hides and leather. The ,i\.ssociation met in New York at the Fifth A·venue Jlotel rceently. There \vcre sixty firms represented and melilbers of five new firms wcrc elected to membership. Improvement by the Retting Furniture Company. The Retting Fmniture Company of Grand Rapids, are making important improvements in thcir plant by the erection of an addition to their power house and the installation of an addi-tional boiler. C. B. Rctting says the company's business this wear is sixty per cent. larger than last year, which was a very prosperous one. Heavy Export Shipments. The Grand Rapids Carved .\lol1dillg company are having a i1ne export husiness. l'v1anag-cr S. L. King reports ship-ments of beavy rnoo1dings for int(~riors were made this \veek to Loudon, Liverpool al1d Glasgo,,\'. also to Johannesburg, So. Africa. The latter comprised tell boxes. WOOD CARVINGS If you don't buy them right this season it will not be our fault. WRITE FOR ESTIMATES Our work and prices will both surprise and please you ORDERS FILLED PROMPTLY JOHN DUER & SONS Cabinet "ard"'BI"e Bnd Tools Etc., Uphof!otered Goods Handsomellt pun on lhe Markel for the MoMY Writ",-{u-r pricefland Sample BALTIMORE. MD. Corr<::.spondence Solicited No. 1573 32 The Weatherly Individual Glue Heater Send your address and receive descriptive cir-cular of Glue Heaters, Glu~ Cookers and Hot Boxes with prices ... Weatherly s.. Pulte Grand Rapids. Mich. These saws are made from No. 1 Steel and ,ve war-rant every blade. V"le also carry a full stock of Beveled Back Scroll Saws, any length and gauge. Write us for Pde e List and dIscount 31-33 S. FRONT ST .• GRAND FlAPIDS MANUFACTURERS OF DROP CARVING AND EMBOSSING GENERAL MACHINES Dies for all kinds of Machines. At lowest prices. 7 Second SI., LAfAYETTE, IND. fOUR TRIlINS C" I CA GO TO AND fROM Lv Gd. Rapids 7:10am At Chicago 1:15pm Lv Gd. Rapids lZ:05 nn Ar Chicago 4:5{J pm Lv Gd. Rapids 4:lSpm Ar Chicago 10:55pm Lv Gd. Rapids 11:3()pm daily Ar Chitago 6:55 am Pullman Sleeper, open 9:00 pm on 11:30pm train ever~' day. Cafe service all all day trains. Service a la carte. Pere Marquette Parlor cars on all day trains. Rate reduced to 50 cents. •T "REE TRIlINS DE T R 0 I T TO 4ND FROM Leave Grand Rapids 7:10 am Arrive Detroit 11:.55 am Leave Grand Rapids n:Z.5 am daily Arrive Detroit 3:25 pm Leave Grand Rapids 5::ID pm Arrive Detroit 10:05 pm Meals served a la carte on trains leaving Grand Rapids at 11:2S am and 5:20 pm, Pere Marquette Parlor Cars all all trains; seat rate. 25 cents. "ALL OVER MICHIGAN" H. J. GRAY. DISTRICTPASSKNGRR AGENT, PHONE 1 t 68 Grand Rapids, Mich, QUARTER-SAWED INDIANA WHITE OAK VENEERS CHOICE FIGURE; :: E;XTR<I. WIDTHS When writing for prices, mention widths required and kind of figure preferred. HOFFMAN BR.OTHERS co. Fort Wayne Indiana Wood Forming Cutters \Ve offer exceptional value in Reversible and One- \iVay Cutlers for Single and Double Spindle Shapers. Largest lists with lowest prices. Great-est variety to select from Book free. Address SAMUEL J. SHIMER & SONS MILTON, PENNSYLVANIA, U. S, A. --------- QRAnID RAPI DS WOOD finIS "In fi co. EXCLUSIVE MANU!'ACTURERS 01' •. WOOD FINISHING MATERIALS That is our specialty. IWe confine our business to Fillets, Stains, Polish Furniture \'I.'ax alld Finishing Supplies. We are the orig:lnalors of ¥leathered. Antwerp and Mission Stains in Oil. Our shades are absolutely correct. We are authority on Early English, Fumed, Cathedral Oak, and Silver Maple Stains, and will match any particu-lar shade desired. Office and Factory, 55, 57, 59 Ellsworth Ave.,Grand Rapids, Mich. Buy your GROOVED and POINTED~DOWELS and DOWEL RODS of A. FALKEL, 31'd and Dewey Sts •• Gt-lIu),dRapids. Mich • NEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA, Via GRANO TRUNK-LEHIGH VALLEY ROUTE. Three fast trains leave Grand Rapids 9:30 a. m. daily, except Sunday. arrive New York 10:30 a. m., Philadelphia, 10:30 a. m. Leave Grand Rapids 2:45 p. m. daily except Sunday, arrive New York 4:30 p. m., Philadelphia 3:40 p. m Leave Grand Rapids 5:30 p. m. daily except Sunday, arrive New York 8:4fI p. tn. I Phiiadelphia, 7:25 p. ID. Sleeping car Detroit to New York on 9:30 a. ID. train; sleep-ing cars Durand and Detroit to New York on 2:45 and 5:30 p. m. trains. C. A, JUSTIN. C. P. & T. A. To Dissolve St. Louis Terminal Company. United States Attorney D. P. Dyer of St. Louis has filed a bill in equity in the federal circuit court to break the so-called "terminal monopoly," The action is directed against the Tenni-nal Railroad Association of S1. Louis and its directors, the sub-ordinate corporations of the association and the fourteen rail-roads owning terminal stock. The comt is asked to dissolve the combination existing between the defendant concerns, to enjoin them from voting stock in one another's meetings and to take such other action as is necessary to the complete abolition of the unlawful conspiracy alleged to exist between the railroads and several terminal companies, The defendants are required to ans\ver the petition on the first Monday in January. A temporary restraining order is asked pending thc final decision of the court on the petition for a permanent injunction, Timber is Scarce and Expensive in Michigan. The manager of a large wood-working plant, employing three hundred hands, located in the western part of lvlichigan, in 33 ceivable, and pay all its liabilities. The Cordes man Machine company has gone out of existence. Peter Best, jr., a chair manufacturer, of Lewisport, Ky .. IS looking for a new location for his factory as the present quarters are outgrown. Owensboro, will probably be the city selected by him. The factory employs one hundred and fifty hands and manufactures double bottom' cane-seated chairs, Rockers and straight back chairs will be made, The Rockford, Ill., I\lantel company will, on January I, become a part of the Rockford Cabinet company, the business with that of the Haddod! Piano company will be controlled and operated from one office. Secretary Hult, of the Rockford 1'lantel company, will take up another line of business in the furniture field. "It is not advisable to take all the moisture out of glued up stock before the fin\sh is applied," remarked an experienc-ed factory superintendent. \Vithont a reasonable amount of Napoleo,,'s Bed Cbamber (Little Grand Trianon Ver5ailb), France. discussing the scarcity of timber, said: "Vv'c consume vast quanti-ties of native timber but it is becoming so scarce and so expensive that the end of our career in business seems to be uncomfortably nigh. If we could obtain timber for moderate prices \ve might continue, but under the exsisting conditions our fires will be put out for all timc a year or two hence." A listener to the remark suggested that cheap timber in abutludance could bc found in Canada and that if reciprocal trade relations could be established between the Dominion and the United Slates many wood-working industries in the state of Michigan might be preserved. Average Accident Claims. The Massachusetts Insurance department has recently pre-pared data, from which it appears that the average accident claim ranges from $30 to $35 and the average policy settle-ment under suit from $500 to $600, The Corde"man Machine company, of Cincinnati, 'will hereafter be known as the Cordcsman-Rechtin company, the business to bc lmder the same management. The pur-pose of this change is to increase the capital and expand the business. The new company will carry Ollt contracts made ·with the old company, collect all its aCcolints and bills re-water the glue crumbles and loses strength, when it is worth-less, IIIII ALHOLCOM~&CO. MANUFACTURERS ..r.1l> DEALERS IN HIGH GRADE BAND AND SCROLL SA~S REFAIRI NG-5ATI5FACTION GUARANTEED CIT1ZE:NS FHONE 1239 27 N MARKET ST ~,GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. 34 7'l R'T' I IS' JI.l'I • 2S* BUSS MACHINE WORKS G:~' HOLLAND, MICH. Manufacturers of Latest rro-proved WOOD WOR K I NO MACIUNERY. Special features it! Planers. Vertical Sanders and Glue Joint.ers· Write for Descriptive Circu-lars and I1lustrations_ BETTER TIMBER. Lengthening the Life of Wood by Special Treatment. Reference has already been made to the new process for pre-serving timber under exploitation by the Powell \Vood Process Syndicate of London. The process 1S extremely simple, and .adds very little to the cost of the timber, it may be explained that it is one which rapidly seasons newly cut timber, and unlike other systems, improves, toughens, and strengthens the wood, enhancing" the appearance, and resisting the attacks of dry rot, which in temperate cOtlntries is the equivalent of termite. This is accomplished by boiling the timber in a saccharine solution, which extracts the air and coagu-lates the albumen in thc sap. In cooling, the air spaces ate filled with saccharine matter, which in large measure is analagous to the fiber of the timber. The timber is dried in faidy high tem-peratures, and becomes a homogeneous vegetable substance, which does not expand, warp, contract, or !';plitlike ordillary timber. A revolution in the export timuer trade to trupical countries is likely to ensue. In tropical countries where termites ahount, soft woods will· now replace the more expensive hardwoods. The cost of building permanent raihvays, bridges, piers, etc., will be greatly reduced, and the anxieties attending the inroads of the white ant will be eliminated. Contract With Soap Company Unprofitable. A large fumture manufacturing company recently completed the filling of a contract with the Larkin Soap company, extending over a series of years, and declined to consider a proposition to renew the same. "We furnished 12,000 bookcases to the soap company," remarked the manager of the furniture manufacturing company, but did not realize a dollar of profit. The advances in the cost of material and the higher wages paid to workmen swept away the small margin of profit we had calculated upon when we signed the contract." "A friend of mine," remarked a well-known traveling sales-man, "has just entered into a contract to deliver the entire output of his factory, located in V\Testern New York, to the Larkin com-pany. He makes but two patterns-a bookcase and a desk. They are made as cheaply as possible. because the soap company gives the stuff away as prizes to purchasers of soap. The factory's output is valued at $150,000 per annum and as the contract has sevcral yeats to rUI1, the success of the ,manufacturer depends entirely upon the cost of producing the goods. , It is a self-evident fact that the prize distribution houses call not handle well-made furniture. Cheapness is the only considera-tion with SllChtradesmen. Sawmill Machinery'in Demand. kIanufacturers of sawmill machinery, and other equipment, used by sawmill interests in the Mississippi valley, say their sales have been larger this season than ever known and that there is still a good demand for everything in this line, according to :'vTemphisadvices. This is due to the formation of a number of new companies in Arkansas, Mississippi, West Tennessee and Louisiana, growing out of the rapid advance in the price o{ all kinds of lumber and especially of Southern. hardwnnof> and yellow rine. Roth are now at the highest level for the year and for a lltlmber of seasons, and in both pine and hardwoods there is a marked scarcity of offerings of dry stock. There is a rapid influx of lumber interests from other sections to (he ttrritory in 1l1iCS,ioll, and 8S their macbinery has been used lur a long while in the old locations, they are buying new equipment. Alcohol and Turpentine From Sawdust. Patents have been taken out by a Tennessee inventor for the production of turpentlne from sawdust and chopped t1p slabs at the rate of two gallons per ton of sawdust. Methyl alcohol is likewise obtainahle by the process covered by the above patents. It is estimated that a mill cutting 60,000 feet of lumber per day can thus make $52 net profit per day out of what is now waste. The cost of the machinery necessary for a mill of the above ca~ pacity is estimated at $<),000.. Boynton & Company's New Line of Manufacture. Boynton and company of Chicago, manufacturers of plain, emhossed and turned mouldings, have recently added the manu-facture of pressed carvings. They have new machinery installed especially for the purpose and are in position to turn out goods to compete with those already on the market. High Grade Factory WE MAKE A COMPLETE LINE OF IT. Equipment GET OUR NEW CATALOG AND PRICES. OUR REGULAR BENCH We make Benches with Iron Vises. We Catalog Twelve Styles of Work Benches. GRAND RAPIDS HAND SCREW COMPANY 130 South Ionia Street, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. G. R. ~ I. fLYERS BETWEEN Grand Rapids and Chicago To Chicago To Grand Rapids Lv. GRAND RAPlDS, Ex. Sun 7.10 A. M. Ar. CHKAGO , 12.35 Noon 8"fl •• Parlor Car Lv. CHICAGO 8:45 A. M. Ar. GRAND RAPlDS .•................. 1:50 P. M. Lv. CHICAGO. fJih(~t~~1E~x~.I~S~un 1.15 P..M. Ar. GRAND RAPlDS .......•.....•.... 5.50 P. M. Buffe' Parlor Car Lv. CHICAGO. 1~illl~StR~:E~;x7.~S~un ... , .. 5.30 P. M. Ar. GRAND RAPlDS .....•............. 10.25 P. M. Parlor and Dlnlb.g Car Lv. CHICAGO, ~ibC~t~~:::D-ta1i:l~y ..... , .. 11.55 Night Ar. GRAND RAPIDS ......•............ 6.45 A. M. Electric Lighted SleeplDg Car Lv. GRAND RAPIDS, Ex. Sun ..... , 12.01 Noon Ar. CHICAGO , ...•. , 4.50 P. M. Parlor and Dlnlna Ca.. Lv. GRAND RAPIDS, Daily , 11.50 Night • Ar. CHICAGO 7.15 A. M. Electric Lighted Sleeping Car Phone Unton Station for Reservations Phone M'chl!i&'DCentral CItJ' Ticket Office for Reaenatlons, 119 Adams Street 36 7I1'<-'T' I.s Jl.l'l 'st 2 %$ +' TtiE CREDIT RUREAU OF TtiE FURNITURE TRADE The LYON Furniture Agency , ROBERT P. LYON, General Manager CREDITS and 'COLLECTIONS Grand Rapids Office, 412-413 Houseman Bldg. GEO. E. GRAVES, Manager CLAPPERTON & OWEN, CouttseJ. THE STANDARD REFERENCE BOOK CAPITAL, CREDIT AND PAY RATINGS CLEARING HOUSE OF TRADE EXPERIENCE THE MOST REUABLE CREDIT REPORTS A Whole Day for Business Men in NewYorh Half a day Isaved going and coming by taking the new Michigan Central "WOLVERINE" Leaves Grand Rapids, 11:10 a. m, daily; Detroit 3;40 p. ro.; arrives at New York, 8:00. a. m. Returning, THROUGH GRAND RAP-IDS SLEEPER leaves New York, 4:30 p. m., arrives Grand Rapids 1:00 p, m. Elega.nt up-to-date equipment. Take a trip on the Wolverine. COLLECTIONS MADE EVERYWHERE PROMPTLY - REUABLY fURNITURE PLANT fOR SAlE 300 H. P. plant, Built only 3~ years ago. Electric transmission of power. Complete arc and inca.ndescent lamp lighong system. Splen· did fin:-hose system; 50,000 gallon tank. Underwriter". fire pump. steam heatl (;omplete telephone system. Band saw mill, pond with log haul, latest filing-room outfit, blacksmith shop, foundry, machine shop, bending room wirth dry-kiln, barns, sheds, dwellings, supeiintendent's resi-dence (cost ~b.,5ool, commissary, store house, separate office building, side tracks with sted railroad from mill to yard, equipped with push cars. About 50 acres of land. Plant located on a river in the heart of the Oak and Hickory district of East Tennessee. Everything is new and up to date. Hundreds of machines in pllrfec:t order. Thi~ plant has cost over $100,000 and is in perfect running order. Eleven \'aluable woodworking patents go with the plant. Cheap labor, cheap materiaL . This is a grand opportunity for the right party. Contracts on hand for all next year's output. $30,000 will buy it. The locat banks will carry $I5,oOO of this as long as desired. For detailed information, address E. B. WEBSTER, Bristol, Tenn. WHITE PRINTINC CO. GRANO RAPIDS. MICH We PRINT THe M,CH,CAN ARTIS,oN. "NO MAKE A sPECIALTY oF" CATA ...OOUE:lI FOR THE FURNlrUR£; TRADE See US now for ORA WER BOTTOMS Basswood, Yellow Poplar, Birch, Cottonwood and Gum "THE EARLY BIRD CATCHES THE WORM" 535 Michigan Trust Building Citizens Phone 5933 WALTER CLARK G RAN D RAP IDS, M I CHI G A N 37 Otis Mfg. Co. Chicago Office and Dislrib· Im~orters and Manofacturers of uUng Yards: MAnOQAnT 2257102267 LUMBERST. --- New Orleans. Chicago. R. S. HUDDLESTON MANAGER DON'T READTmS unless you are a MANUFACTURER, MILL-MAN Of BUSINESS MAN, in which (ase you would do well to carefully consider the following facts. The St. Louis &. San francisco R. R. better known as the has built, or added to its system, over 1900 (nineteen hundred) miles of new railroad during the past five years and all tTJversing newly settld sections of the $nothwe;;t. NOW is the time to locate your taclOry or mllI in this most prosperous section. It will repay you to wtite TUDA Y for full particulars regarding inducements offered, abundant raw materials, excellent markers, etc. lliu,tral~J hDOUU "OpPQT:uni,;c,." sent/ret. M. SCItUL TEll., Industria. Commissioner. Fri~co Bldg. St, Loals, Mo. Green. Gold and Brown" Daylight Special" -elegant fast day train. "Diamond Spectal"-fast night train-unsurA paned fur convenience and comfort. Butlet.library ens, complete dIning cars, parlor cars. dra-..ing- room and bUffet sl~plDg cars, reclining chair cars. Through tickets, rates, etc., of I. C. R. R. agents and those of connecting Jines. A. H. HA.NSON, (;.r.H'1. PMllO.'R Aa'T, , CHICAGO. fOR SAl[··W",TE OAK We have the following dry Ohio White Oak, widths of the finef.t and standard lengths. Good figured Quartered Oak 10 cars I iach Firsts and Seconds alld No. t Common. 3 caTS of IJ{ inch Fil'"Sts and Sec.,nds aud No.1 Common. 3 cars 1% inch Firsts and. Seconds alia No.1 (' ommon. 3 cars 2 inch, all Firsts and Seconds (very flne). ~-car 2J4:illch. all Firslsand seconds (very fine). 2 cars 3 inch, 'all Firsts al'ld' ;econds (very fine). Plain Oak 4 cars 1 inch Firsts and Second~. 5 cars 1 inch No.1 Common. 2 cars 1M' inch Firsts and seconds. 2 cars 1% inch Firsts a"d Seconds. 2 cars 2 inch Firsts and seconds. 4 cars 3 inch Firsts and Seconds. 2 cars 4 inch Firsts and 5ecollds. Also big stock dry Yellow Poplar and Mahogany. Call ship mixed carS. Write us. C"ARlES f. S"IElS &. CO. Cincinnati. Ohio MISCELLANEOUS ADVER TISEMENTS WAJ.III''l'.E:U-Xoines to Sell HALF TONE CUTS By experIenced salesman; first-class lines on commission, for January, 1906, Address Box 278, care of Michigan Arti-san. 9-10-1I-12-m SI'l'U ATION WANTED-By Sz.perienced E'orem.a.n Finisher. Now holding an important position. Satisfactory reasons for desiring a change. Address "Finisher," care Mich-igan Artisan. 5-10tfm Factory Wanted. Lakeview, Michigan, offers factory build-ings, power, dry kilns, elevator, shafting, etc. HS inducement. for some labor em-ploying industry. Now operated as fur-niture factOl'Y employing 50 men. Va-cant Dec. 1st. Machinery can be bought. Address Scott Swarthout, Village Clerk, Lakeview, Mich. 12-10 it WANTED, An ASj!,jstant Foreman for Table FactoI)", one who understands the manufacture of tables and a bustIer for machine room. One who is willing to stan for reasonable compensation. A good pos-ition to the right mall. Address, Tables No, 24, care of Michigan Artisan. WANTED-Position as Salesman. Experienced finisher of all grades of furniture desires position 11:< traveling rep-resentative for manufacturer of wood fin-ishing material. JDxtensive acquaintance among foreman finifihen.; in 1l.Iichigan fac-tories. Addre~:,) Royal No. ,;:1, ca.re of Michigan Artisan. 12-1Q WANTEO-Salesmen. Good, live, commission salesmen, to handle best line Metal Reds and Spring-s, in Ohio, Indiana, Tennessee, Aiahama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana., Nebras-k,,, \\0\11 D-akota. A(ldl'l'"sS No. 32, c;,\re of M
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- 1905-12-10T00:00:00Z
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- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
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- 26:11
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- Issue of a furniture trade magazine published in Grand Rapids, Mich. It was published twice monthly, beginning in 1880. and -----~--- - -----'-'---.-,--. • /'?/C -'T._ ENe;.. CO. P!lE~S OF WHITE PRINTING CO., GRAND RAP!DS. r New England Furniture Co. F 01 Dining Suites in various styles---Alilhe popular finishes---Buffets pleasing designs, dependable goods, medium prices,---Sideboards, either plain or carved. You cannot alford 10 pass us--at least without an inspection. IIIi Sectlonal &0011. C.sos Built up of units, but as .solid a.s a stone wall GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN Factory Salesroom Canal St., near Bridge St. ---------, TO THf fURNITURf BUYfRS Of AMfRICA When you arrive in Grand Rapids early in January we will show you the best selling line of Medium Priced Bedroom Furniture EVER PRODUCED We will show you the most attractive styles, the greatest variety of Foreign and Domestic Fancy Cabinet Woods strength and utility combined in construction. The Latest Fancies in Finishes. SLIGH FURNITURE COMPANY GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Makers of Everything for the Bedroom "In the Spring the young man's fancy Lightly turns to thoughts if love." Ours is the· Best Selling Line for the Springtime Matrimonhd Season· _. _ ~ ---l 3 No. 670 is only one of the many ,tyle, 01 children. metal cribs we make. Write for newcatalog illustrating com-plete line. No, 670 Size, 36 x 60 inches. Head. 40 ind ..es high. Foot, 40 inches high. Pillars. Jii inch. Filling, ~ and J( inch, Top Rod, ;Vs inch. Pencil Weave Woven Wire Bottom. Sliding Drop side Rails 24 inches from top of side rail to Fabric Prompt Shipments Your Orders Solicited No. 258 Medium Double Weave Fabric Heavy Rope Edge. Fabric corded with three sections of our ribbon wire web. insuring longer wear and better satisfaction for heavy weights than any other weave. Maple frame. Made in all sizes for wood and iron beds. The T. B. Laycoch Mfg. Co. INDIANAPOLIS, IND. J l Michigan Chair Company GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN MICHIGAN'S FOREMOST CHAIR FACTORY 0D·R.greeting, courteous and hearty, to our friends in the trade. And the most extensive line of real good things in chairs, etc., we have yet offered, is what the visiting buyers will find at our tactory any time after January zd, 1906. REPRESENTATIVE SALESMEN. EAST:-CHAS. H COX; ROBT. E. WALTON; CHAS. F. MCGREGOR. WEST:_CHA5. B. PARMENTER; ROBT. G. CALDER;W. F. LOVELL. SOUTH:-W. R. PENNY. I I -~ Owing to the exceedingly large business which it has been our favor to enjoy during the past year, it will be impossible for us to get out a line of samples for the January·· exhibitions in Grand Rapids and Chicago. Our regular salesmen will visit the trade the latter part of January with photographs of our new line, and we can assure you of better values than ever. Thanking you for your liberal patronage in the past, and hoping for a continuance of Yours very truly, same, we remam, ihfnllaub ]JiuruUurt (!In. Makers of Bedroom Fumiture in all prevailing woods. The Luce Furniture Co. Asks the Attention or Furniture Dealers WE MANUFACTURE Bed Room and Dining Room Furniture in Mahogany, Oak, Birch and Maple l DISPLAY AT FACTORY ONLY GODFREY AVENUE GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. COLONIAL TABLES No. 2109 Price $30 Top, 50x32 Solid Mahogany. Cross balld Veneered. Dull or Polished. Our Colonial patterns have won a big reputation for faithful adherence to original designs. They have like reputation for superiority of workman-ship and attractiveness of price. Wolverine worth has made Wolverine growth, and keeps our business still growing. Our line is the product of the best factory organization possible. It will be fully displayed in New York and Chicago in January, and we ask your careful consideration of our exhibit. Up-to-the-hour Styles. Chicago: 1319MiChigan Ave., Seventh floor. In charge of J. W. Smith and H. S. Smith New York: 428 lexington Ave, fifth floor. In Charge of A. Weston Smith A postal card will bring you fully illustrated catalogue WOLVERINE MANUFACTURING COMPANY DETROIT, - - MICHIGAN I j THE BUILDERS OF ====The ===== Northern Line are showingDISTINCT ADVANTAGES in making Design, Finish and Construction the Important Factors No. 90. BED. F..Ill Size. 74 in. high. Polished Quartered Golden Oak, MahogaDY. Birdseye Maple. GIVING IT PHYSICAL as well as ARTISTIC STRENGTH The Line as it will be shown in January will be WELL BALANCED as to GRADE and PRICE and will STIMVLA TE DEMAND in the broadest sense 01 the term. NORTHERN FURNITURE COMPANY SHEBOYGAN, WISCONSIN Manul.ctu,,,,, of BED ROOM, DINING ROOM .oJ KITCHEN FURNITURE GRAND RAPIDS, Smnd Flo,r Big Building; W. 1/. Waechter;N. P. Nm,n; A. F. Schafer. NEW YORK: Third FloorFurnitureExchange;H. R. MnJ. No. 2090. DRESSER Top 24x44. Plate 24:130.. Fun Swell Polished Quar. tered Golden Oak. Mahogany And Birdseye Maple. - -~- - - -- ------- Valley City Desk Company GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN We will be pleased to have you inspect our line of OFFICE FURNITURE on exhibitiou in our new permanent space, Sixth Floor North Exhibition Building. IOFFICE DESKS I Designers and manufacturers of Cheap, Medium, and Choice Office, Typewriter, and Standing Desks Directors and Office Tables Write at once for new Spring Catalog. Mailed to dealers ouly TOP FLOOR NORTH BIG BLDG. SPRING LINE READY -JANUARY FlRST·- No effort has been spared to create a Line for the coming season which will prove of paramount interest to Furniture buyers everywhere. EXHIBIT AT GRAND RAPIDS ONLY THIRD FLOOR KLINGMAN BUILDING THREE HUNDRED EXCLUSIVE PATTERNS OF ADJUSTABLE SOfAS: A range of designs which will command the instant attention of all who see these goods. COUCUES: All kinds.·all grades ••including our special "KlNGSPRlNG" construction. BOX COUCUES: Greatest variety and widest range of styles ever shown. Fitted with clio max top lift, cedar linings, solid dust proof bottoms. DAVENPORTS: A superb line, cheap, medium and good, exemplifying some entirely new conceptions. "SIMPLICITY" SOfA BEDS: All the new models for 1906 ... Fifty patterns. The most perfect working, quickest selling. best satisfying Davenport Bed yet produced. A very complete"assortment of coverings including all worthy new fabrics and pat-terns and "RELIANCE" natural grain genuine leather. SELLING AGENTS fOR Youngsville Manufacturing Company, Ltd. Medium grade. Q,jartered Oak Suits, Sideboards and odd Dressers WARREN TABLE WORKS: Dressers, Chilfoniers, Toilet Tables and Commodes in Q,jartered Oak, Figured Mahogany and Bird's-Eye Maple. Dealers who do not visit the market, will be shown our lines as nsual. in ample season for placing their orders for spring requirements. JAMESTOWN LOUNGE COMPANY JAMESTOWN. NEW YORK -~. ------ --- ~~-- -~-~--------- Stop, Look and Listen! When Entering the Exhibit Building at 1319 Michigan Avenne, Chicago. There is Danger for the Dealer Who Fails to See the 1906 Line of No. ::H8. SIDEBOARD. Permanent Exhibit on the 6th Floor at the Furniture Exhibition Building, J 3I 9 Michigan Ave., Chicago. IN CHARGE OF EXHIBIT Chas. Elmendorf, F. A. Moore, Y B. Wadsworth, F. H. Kemnitz Sideboards Buffets Chiffoniers L __ and Odd Dressers made by The Manistee Mfg. Co. Manistee. Mich. No. 134. CHIFFONIER. Our Line is Longer and Stronger Than Ever Our ~artered Oak Finish on Solid Oak is the Best No. 320. DRESSER. 12 Shelbyville Desh Company MANUFACTURERS OF Office Furniture A PERFECT DAVENPORT OF ELEGANT APPEARANCE NOT NECESSARY TO MOVE FROM WALL THE BACK SIMPLY ROLLS FORWARD THE KINDEL SOMERSAUL TIC DAVENPORT BED THE GREATEST Household Invenlion 01 the Age THIS is the NEW DAVEN-PORT that is creating all the furor, and the only one which is FREE FROM FAULTS. Must be st>en to be appreciated. When your customer sees this h Ind.ome piece of furniture and tries with what ease it can instantly be cOllvt'rted in'o a full sized bed, with bedding in place ready £"r use, and reit:> the lu:'i\u-oUS douhle \:One springs, with the restlul, felted cushions, held in place by our :nvis-ible clasp, and, in addition to all these advantages, learns that it costs no more than the ordinary or anti-quart d Davenport, they will con-sider no other, as it is very appar~nl to anyone that "No Other is Just as Good" EXHIBITED Sec. 20. 6th Floor, 1319 Michigan Ave CHICAGO, ILL. C, J. KINDEL BEDDING COMPANY Eighth and Hickory Sts. ST LOUIS MAHOGANY AND IMtTATION QUARTERED OAK. PLAIN OAK In Three Gradea' A Full Line. Up-to-Date. Exhibited 1319 't(I EIGHTH P'LOO&. Michigan Avenue CtIlCAGO 't(I Write for Latut Cata!ogltt. Shelbyville, Ind. N.OT NECESSAIolY TO REMOVE BEDDING SIMPLE; CANNOT GET OUT OF ORDER CUSHION AUTOMATICALLY TURNS INSIDE OUT MAKING A PERFECT BED FURNITURE DEALERS, as a rule, are looking for a better class of case goods; PLUNDER will not sell when times are good. The intelligent consumer wants something that he can refer to with pride. The illustrationson this page show three articles selected from our many pieces that are sellers, and for style and workmanship will certainly please. Do not hesitate, but place your orders. CA7ALOG 'TO DEALERS ONLY, O.V APPLICATION. Goods will be Gn exhibition at Our line is also shown at W. R. SCHICK'S 270 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO 125 E. 42nd St., New York City By M, F. M. Randall Salellmen, E. H. Griffin and M. A. Harmon THE SPENCER & BARNES COMPANY BENTON HARBOR, MICHIGAN F. T. Plimpton &. Co. E.ighth Floor. 1~19 The Sati$facto1"YLines. Michigan Ave .• Chicago. Good Goods From Goshen "awks furniture Co., Goshen, Ind. Bedroom F umiture, Qyarlered Oak, Early Englisb. Weathered Oak, Bird's-eye Maple, Tuna Mahogany, Mahogany Banta furniture Co., Goshen, Ind. Fine Extention Tables, Library Tables Goshen Novelty and Brush Go., Goshen, Ind. Plate Racks, Book and Magazine Racks, T abourelles, Mission Lamps, Screens and Light Fumiture Milwaukee Art Specialty Co. Framed Pictures, especially adapted for furniture stores. Above Lines on Eightb Floor with well known Corps of SaJesmen in Attendance F. T. PLIMPTON ®.. COMPANY The Following Lines w111be Shown on Sixth Floor. 1319 Michigan Ave. The Billow-Lupfer Co., Columbus, Ohio Felt Mattresses, Fine Box Springs, Pillows, Feathers. (Qyality Guaranteed) Western furniture Co., Indianapolis, Ind. Chamber Suils. Oak, Bird's-eye Maple, and Mah"1lany Princess Dressers, T oilel Tables American Go-Cart Go , Detroit, Mich. Go-Carls, Children's Carriages. An elegant new line. Campbell, Smith &. Ritchie, Lebanon, Ind. Kitchen Cabinets, New Finishes, Cupboards. "umphrey Bookcase Co., Detroit, Mich. Sectional Bookcases, Office Filing Devices. Be sure and see their new K. D. Sectional Bookcases. The Sa.tf..taowl"'J' Line... Opea. Du~ln& the E.nUre Year. 6th and 8th Floors. 1319 Michigan Ave ••Chicago New Plant! New Location! After January 1st, '06, we will be located in our New Plant at STURGIS, MICHIGAN Our Aim is to Better Serve Our Customers We have selected the hest location in the country---Three Railroads---Best of Shipping facil-ities. We will gradually increase our line of library and Parlor Tables, Tabourettes, etc., with more than double our former lIoor space, and the latest improved equipment. We solicit your orders, feeling confident you will be pleased with our service. Catalogue to dealers only. Wishing You the Compliments of the Season, We are R.espectfully STE.BBINS MANUY ACTURING CO. STURGIS, MICHIGAN (Formerly LaKe View. Mich.) 8th Floor 1411 Mich. Ave. Office and Factory 533-539 Sedgwick St. Chicago No Furniture stock is complete without a line of our "Pretty Parlor Pieces." We originated and are the introducers of Loose Cushion Work; a feature which has proven so popular for several seasons. The individuality of our designs and the excellence of our finish is characteristic of our g-oods. VALENTINE-SEAVER COMPANY L Dressers and Chiffoniers TO MATCH In QUARTERED OAK, MAHOGANY, BIRDSE.YE. MAPLE and CURLY BIRCH SEND FOR CATALOGUE Grand Rapids Faney Fumiture Co. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN ______ lNEWLINES OF------ MUSIC CABINETS, WRITING TABLES, BOOKCASES, LADIES' DESKS In Mahogany, Oak, Imitation Mahogany and Maple No order to small or to large to receive prompt attention. Catalogue to dealers only OPEN FOR BUSINESS JANUARY 1st, 1906 SHOWN IN BLODGETT BUILDING GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN ~-- -- BE KEY & GAY FURNITURE COMPANY GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. WHOLESALE MANUFACTURERS OF Chamber Furniture Dining Room Furniture Library Furniture OF FINE AND MEDIUM QUALITY LINE READY FOR INSPECTION BY THE , TRADE JANUARY 1, 1906 Ranney Refrigerators - - - -AND- - - - Kitchen Cabinets ARE SHOWN DURING THE WINTER FURNITURE EXPOSITIONS AT CHICAGO New Exposition Building, 1411Michigan Ave. , NEW YORK furniture Exchange, 43d and lexington A FULL LINE OF SAMPLES AT EACH EXPOSITION AND COMPETENT SALESMEN IN CHARGE. The Best Medium and High Priced Refrigerators on the Market. See the 7 LINES LAPLAND CHIEF, OAK, Tile Lined. CHARTER OAK, ENAMELED, ASH, White .Enamel on Galvani:t.ed Iron. LAPLANDy OAK, Galvanized Iron Lined. MONITOR, ASH, Galvanized hon Lined. CHARTER OAK, ASH, Galvanized Iron Lined. Ali with metal lee Racks, Adjusrable Shelves, Selt Clos-ing Doors, Removab:e Ice Chambers, amI. other improvements. MASCOT, HARD\VQOD, Galvanized lron Lined. RA.DIL™. HARD\VOOD, Galnu- [rOll Lined. Ranney Refrigerator Company HOME OFFICES ANI) FACTORIES, GREENViLLE, MICHIGAN Catalogues furnished on Application to the Home Office Grand Rapids Chair Company =======GRAND RAPIDMSI,CH,======= INCORPORATED 1872------ ---------------IRE-INCORPORATED 1902 New Line will be Ready lor Inspection JANUARY 1st, 1906 SHOWN IN GRAND RAPIDS ONLY IN MAHOGANY AND OAK MANUFACTURERS OF Buffets and Sideboards Tables and Bookcases Racks and Chests Desks and Music Cabinets Hall Seats and Glasses Wine Cabinet3, Etc. IN MAHOGANY AND OAK 18 ·f'~MlprIG7fN 7I"R..-T I >5' A.l"l tAi l' :- 7"· The Rex (Inner Tufted) Mattress. (PATENTED. TRADE MARK REGISTERED.) \,()\\ [IF\;10"\s'nZATEll 1,,-- g;].!(" r)' 01\']" REX 11",]1(" \];ntrl" ',) 'C; I'\"U au! :n>" cu:;:"iClll It ;.::::s on t'fU\\ ir:g J, 11 ,-1 cr-, ~~t'!);' ':l:r l'l:.<.IIl( 1'. ;iir' ILl:; ell "rf't'd-- 0 ITR BEST rR.-\DF \\ :i' 'ur Ilc<srllH)':'c;_~' ',The klllg at T'J :-11:,' L:~,:I',,:! JhO,:' In:, :,,..;,,l::nJ:d \'1a:~rc,s. YV,-' 'l;rI11\', :':':,,' :,eaull:ll, il:I.(' ~() :'<1;<:: bGuk]c, rc.' ,";, (im""S dllt! 1',e11-« ~)!~·lliS. (~et ()lJf tU"lTIS, Don': \\;)-:. A CHARLES J FISH£R c CO, 1302 Michigan A,,·e., CHICAGO, ILL. PEORiA. II,I-. sr. 1,OUl.\ /UO. l,P.iGOLA', IU. l1J,\'I\·EAl'OT.f~\'. lIJli\'N. The Safe Side is the Right Side THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE REFRIGERATOR TRADE IS FILLED BY THE BELDING-HALL MANUF ACTURING co. MANUFACTURERS OF REFRIGERATORS THAT CONTAIN ALL THE GOOD POINTS --IN-- REFRIGERA'TORS Three Great Factories Capacity, 80,000 per annum Write for Our Catalogues Investigate Our Quarter Sawed Cases SOLID QUARTRRED OAK The Belding-Hall Manufacturing CO. BELDING, MICHIGAN BRANCH OFFIO::S- 213 Canal Street,N~ York. 1% Monroe St.• Chicago. New Line Ready to Serve Jan. 1st SHOW ROOM CHICAGO 1319 Michigan Avenue 1st Floor SHOW ROOM NEW YORK N. Y. Furniture Exchange 4th Floor ROCKfORD. ILL. Remember We Mahe the Goods That open Lihe New Money in a Banh Make Our Exhibition your Headquarters Hang Your Hat and Coat on our Hook of Friendship Pl'rlor Cabinets Music Cabinets Dining Cabinets Hall Seats Hat Racks Hall Trees Shaving Stands Cheval Mirrors Ladles Dressing Table Ladles Dressing Chair With Patent Adjustable Fixture", Ladles Writing Desk Grill Cabinets Lamp Stands Framed Mirrors Make Our Exhibit Your lteadquarters Invite Your Friends to Come with You Rochford Frame and Fixture Company I\.och.ford. Illinois - - ---- --------------- 21 ~THROpeo. :f S-Wholesalers of Furniture. CHICAGO First Floor. 1319 Mich. Ave. GET NEXT TO OUR 1906 PROPOSITION---for we propose to sell you medium grade furniture at positively the lowest prices on the market,--give you the newest designs,--largest variety,--best made and finished furniture and do it better, ea~ier and quicker than you have ever had it done hefore,--we have the goods and can deliver them. Here is a list of our factories. WAIT FURNITURE CO, Polished Qgar'ered Oak Sideboards and Buffets. MODERN FURl CO. Polished Qgar'ered Oak Hall Racks THE STATESVILLE Combination SuUs. Dresser-s. Cornrnode •• Sideboard$;. ChlflQoiers. a.nd Chairs Sta.tesville Furniture Co. Imperial Furniture Mfg. Co, Alba Chair Co. Loaded together In onlf:lCar. RANDOLPH FURNITURE WORKS Polished Dressers and Chiffoniers in Mahogany, Toona. Bird's-eye Maple and Curly Birch, CRANDALL·LONG FURl. CO. Dining Tables. MARVELL FURN CO. SELLERS & SONS CO. Polished Qgartered Oak Dressers and ChiJfoniers Kitchen Cabinets THE LEXINGTON Combination Thoma.sville Chair Combination. Wood Seats. Cane Seats. Cobbler Seats. Double Cane Sea.ts and Sox Seatso Suits. Dressers. Commad-es. SJdeboaJ"ds. CbJffoniers. Dixie Furniture Co. Elk Furniture Co.. Loaded togeth.r tn one ca,. Queen Chair Co. Ca.tes Chair Co. Thompson Chair Co. Standard Chair Co. L.oaded together in one car A surprise Package for the January buyer. Crowell FUl'niture Co's. 8uile (one bed with six Dressers) sold In car lots onlYto one dealer In a town. Fil'st comer gets It. These Lines and Combinations of Lines are shown only by us in the GREAT CHICAGO MARt\ET 1319 Mich. Ave, Stoch Carried in Chicago for Immediate Shipment. 22 HORN BROS. MFG. CO. 281 to 291 W. Superior St .• CHICAGO, ILL. MANCFACTCRERS OF Chamber Suites, Odd Dressers, Chiffoniers LADIES' DRESSING TABLES to match M""d~ in <;olden Oak, Genui.ne Mahogany Veneered, Birdseye Mli.pte., y.,'hite Ellanlel Highly Polished or Dun Finish. We also make a line of PRINCESS DRESSERSfrom $13.00 UP. in Quarter-Sawed Oak, Mahogany and Birdseye Maple, Veneer..ed If you have not received Ol.1f Spring Supplement, ask for it. SAMPLES SHOWN BY PECK & HILLS 1319 Michigan Avenue, and HALL &- KNAPP, 187 Michigan Avellue, Chicago. Our New Hand and foot Power Circular Saw No 4 The strongest, most powerful, and in every way the best machine of its killd ever made, for rippitlg, cross·cutting, boring and grooving. SOME OF OUR NEW DRESSERS -Ma.de In Quarter-Sawed Oak. Oval or Square Glas. CABINET MAnERS In these days tit close competition, need the best possible equipment, and this they can have in . . . BARNES' Hand and Foot Power Machinery Send for our New Catalogue. "W. F. ®.. JOHN BARNES CO. 654 Ruby Street. RocKford. Ill. RICtfMOND Chair Co. RICHMOND, [NO. The Standard line of Double Cane CHAIRS and ROCKERS Write for Cafa!ogu{'. Mentioll MICHIGAN ARTISAN WOODARD FURNITURE CO. Owosso, Mich. For the remainder of the sea&ODwe are prepared to fiB orden promptly. If you want iOod good5 quick. mail U5 your orde~. Catalogue for lhe asking. 7'lR T I 15' 7Il'\J . 7" • 23 i§ Oliver Bros. LOCKPORT. N. Y• !BEDS Chicago Salesrooms moved to Funti~ ture Exhibition Building, 1411 Michi-gan Avenue. New York Salesroom, 125 E. 42d Street. F. M. RANDALL IF VOUDON'T VISIT THE MARKETS OUR CATALOGUE WILL INTE.RESr YOU. Company ..u Hlib Gr.deIBr .. s .Dd Iron u .. Morton House American ......Plan Rates $2.50 and Up Hotel Pantlind European ......Plan Rates $1.00 and Up The Noon Dinner Served at the FanUind for 500 is the fiNEST IN THE WORLD J. BOYD PANTLlND, Prop. No. 2S F CABINET Plain oak front, ash ends. Height 'i8 inches. Base 48 126. Zinc drain pan l!lx16. SO Ib flour bin. ~ 5 I b meal bill. One large drawer. Big- Clipboard space Four spice cans. Top 12 inches deep. 3 small drawers, Two tilt-ing llugar bins. LarAc cupboard space with g 1ass door.Onesmall cupboard space. Finish, golden oak. Two COOts of glos<:\'aTnish or wax liuisll. Brsss trimminj!;s Price, $12' Extra for ziDe lop $1.25 No. 16 H CABINET Plain Oak frollt; ash ends. Height 72 inches; base 42x 26. Drop leaf 18x 14. 501b flonr bin. Big cupboard space; linen dmwer 32xl7 by 10 inches deep; 3 small draw-ers, 2 cupboards spaces and one shelf below cupboard. Finish same as No. 25 p. Price with drop leaf·. .... . $7.75 Price without d,op leaf ... ·····.$7.25 Mail alt orllers to C. F. SCHMOE, Shelbyville, Ind. TERMS: 2 per cent off 10 days; 30 days net; F. O. B. Shelbyville, Ind. OUR MOTTO; First class goods. First class finish and prompt shipment. Let me ship YOU one 01 each Kitchen Cabinet and be convinced what they are. 24 "The Standard Line of America" Will be found at the front as usual in China Closets, But-fets and Book Cases. Exhibit 1n charge ot Johnny Johnson, 1n the usual place, First Floor Manufacturers' Exhibition Building, 1319 Mich. Ave .• Chicago ROCKFORD 5TANDARD FURNITURE CO. ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS The Leonard Cleanable Refrigerator lined With Genuine Porcelain Enamel MADE in our own special factory, constructed for this particular purpose. Our enamel is fired on sheet steel, and we produce a quality of Lining You Cannot Scratch or Corrode. You Cannot Break our Genuine Porcelain ~namel. Use a hammer on it and then compare the result with tile or opal glass treated in the same manner. It will lasl forever, always retaining- the same hard, smooth surface, sweet and clean. Sliding adjustable shelves. of same material. System Gf Refrigera-tion absolutely perfect. Insulation unequaled, there being eight separate and dis-tinct walls of insulation. Air-tight locks. Porcelaln·lined water cooler. Case oi Oak, quarter sawed panels. Hand polish~dJ golden finish, nickel trim-mings. Send for catalogue. Send for free samples of our \\'onderful lining. Om salable Porcelain Lined Refrigerators, on whkh there is a profit to the dea1er of from $10.00 to $25.00, occupy no more space than a cheap article with a profit from 25 cents to $5.00. Grand Rapids Refrigerator Company Show Room at factory, 17 to 27 Ottawa St., Next to Blodgett Block GRANO RAPIDS, MIC". - - -- ------------------------ DRESSERS Princess Dressers Misses' Dressers CHIFFONIERS Liberty Furniture Company Jamestown, N. Y. NEW LINE SHOWN IN JANUARY AT GRAND RAPIDS, ONLY Masonic Temple, First Floor, South Half IN CHARCE Glenn K. Brown Ed. J. Gamble W. J. PeSlr GOLDEN CURLY BIRCH GOLDEN OAK MAHOGANY VENEER BIRDSEYE MAPLE THE IDEAL LINE of METAL BEDSTEADS, CRIBS and SPRING BEDS i. 'old in EVERY STATE IN THE UNION, EVERY PROVINCE IN CANADA There are reasons for it: QUALITY and PRICE 1£ thousands oi other dealers (and there must be some good buyers among them) regardless of their distance from us, find it to their advantage to buy the THE IDEAL LINE, why not YOU? Our extensive magazine advertising, backed up by the best quality, has made THE IDEAL LINE an EMPHATIC SUCCESS for every dealer who handles it. TRY IT. FOSTER BROS. MFG. CO. UTICA, N. Y., ST. LOUIS, MO. ON EXHIBITION IN JANUARV AT CHICAGO Mfl'"s. Exhib. Bldg. 2d floor NEW YORK FURN. EXCHANGE 3d floor 26 All the kids are in love with Spratt's Chair GEO. SPRATT & co. SHEBOYGAN, WIS. CHAIRS AND ROCKERS FOR EVERYBODY Send ior Cata.logue No. SS-Child's High Chair with Unl!.er Saletv Guard. NEW YORK AND PHILADElPHIA, Via GRAND TRUNK-LEHIGH VAllEY ROUTE. Three fast trains leave Grand Rapids 9:30 a. m. daily, except Sunday, arrive New York 10:30a. m., Philadelphia, 10:30 a. m. Leave Grand Rapids 2:45 p. m. daily except Sunday, arrive New York 4.:30p, m., Philadelphia 3:40 p. m Leave Grand Rapids 5:30 p. m. daily except Sunday, arrive New York 8:40 p. m., Philadelpbia, 7:25 p. m. Sleeping car Detroit to Ne\v York on 9:30 a. m. train; sleep-ing cars Durand and Detroit to New York on 2:45 and 5:30 p. m. trains. C. A. JUSTIN. C. P. & T. A. Factory Locations There is in the various offices of the Land and Industrial Department of the Southern Railway and Mobile & Ohio Railroad late information regarding a number of 6rst class locations for Furniture, Chair and other vVoodworking Fac-tories, which will be furnished Manufacturers upon applica-tion. An invitation is extended to all who use wood in their plants to write about the timber supply, good sites and mar-kets available in our territory. Address your nearest agent. M. V, RICHARDS. Land and Industrial Aoent. WASHINGTON. D. C. CHAS. S. CHASE, Agent, 622 Chemical Building, 51. Louis, Mo. M. A. HAYS. Jlgent, 225 Oearborn St, Chicaoo, W. The A. C.NORQUIST CO. JAMESTOWN, N. Y. MANUFACTURERS OF DRESSERS AND CHIFFONIERS hi PliJ1>1and !f!..!!arttred Oak, Mahogany and Birdu)'( Mople. PERMANENT EXHIBITS --------AT------~ Chicago and New York 1- ~ - -- -- -- ------------- G. R. ~ I. fLYERS BE:TW£EN Grand Rapids and Chicago To Chicago To Grand Rapid5 -~~------ ------~----------- Lv. GRAND RAPIDS, Ex. Sun., ,. 7.10 A. M. Lv. CHICAGO, NihCst:::tW~~Ex. Sun 1.15 P. M. Ar. CHICAGO , 12.35 Noon Ar. GRAND RAPIDS , .. " , .. , '. 5.50 P. M. Suflet ParlorCar Buffet Parlor Car Lv. GRAND RAPIDS, Ex. Sun ~12.00 Noon Ar. CHICAGO . ~ 4.50 P. M. Parlor and Dining Car Lv. CHICAGO, ~ihcst':~g:-tEl~x. Sun 5.30 P. M. Ar. GRAND RAPIDS 10.25 P. M. Parlor and Dlnln" Car Lv. GRAND RAPIDS, Daily 11.50 Night Ar.CHICAGO ; 7.15A.M. £.Ieotrlc Lighted Sleeping Cat' Lv. CHICAGO, NihC:it~~~::-~D1a::ily ..... , .. 11.55 Night Ar. GRAND RAPIDS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6.45 A. M. El~tt"c Lighted Slee1:lin& CIU' Phone Union Station for Reservations Phone Mloblga.n Central CU,..Tlck"t Office for Re&ervations. 119 Ad'lllD\sStreet This is one of our Famous Non-Dividing Pillar Tables THESE ARE 'THE ONLY TABLES 'THAT ARE PERFECT IN CONSTR UCTION ANr DEALER THAT HAS NOT TRiED ONE OF THESE SHOULD NOT FAlL TO ORDER ONE No. 340 $19.50 Choate-Hollister Furniture Co. JANESVILLE, WIS. Robbins Table Co. I OWOSSO, MICHIGAN No. 286 Improved Extension Table Leaves stored in top Center column does not divide CATALOG AND PRICES TO DEALERS ON REQUEST TO FURNITURE BUYERS January 1st, 1906, the A. M. Tucker Furniture Company, Brookville, Ind., will exhibit an entire new line of goods at The Wholesale Furniture Exhibition Building, 1323 Michigan Ave. Chi-cago, Ill. Our new line is far the BEST we have ever called your attention to. The line consists of Suites, Chiffoniers Princess Dressers, Toilet Tables, Napoleon Beds and Colonial Dressers in quartered oak, mahogany and Circassian wal-nut. Bottom Drawers of all Dressers and Chif-foniers are red cedar lined making them moth proof. Construction and finish second to none. A. M. TUCKER FURNITURE COMPANY BROOKVILLE, IND. SALESMEN:- Geo. D. Williams CQ., A. M. Tucket, Jno. N. Bishop, T- F. Shaffer of Canton, Ohio, O. L. Hall, Metropolitan District and New England States, NEW CHAIR SEAT CLAMP This damp is adapted for every kind of seat. It is also made in a larger size for other work as Mitre Ffames, etc. Manufactured under the BENEDICT PATENTS GRAND RAPIDS HAND SCREW CO. 130 South Ionia 51.,GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Upham Manufacturing THE LINE OF QUALITY ========= Co. Possessing for 1906 the greatest array of entirelynew designsand new features ever produced. The great demand for our "Upham" Fumiture has inspired us to outdo all previous efforts. Chamber Suits Wardrobes Chiffoniers Sideboards Buffets Dressers FROM 1319 MtCH1GAN AVENUE, TWO DOORS SOUTH ========SALESROOM MOVEDI======== The Wholesale Furniture Exhibition Building Entrance 1323-1325 Michigan Ave .. Chicago L. E. HOTCHKESS. Manager Salesman You are Cordially Invited Feathers. Pillows. Hair Mattresses. Felt Mattresses. »ox Spring. Patent Open Roll Bolsters at out" Sa.mple ROOUl. 1319 Michigan Avenue 4th Floor In Cha-ge of Zola. C. Green M.NEUBERGER. C.S· REYNOLDS. A.N,LEE ~ !J Columbia feather Company C"IC4GO, ILLINOIS TO INSPECT OUR LINE Of ---------------------- --- --- -- 30 • fOUR TRI\INS TO 411B FR()U CHICAGO Lv Gel Rapids 7 10am At Chica~o 1:15pm L", Gd Rapids 1.2 05 nn Ar Ch.icago 4:5Q Plll Lv Gd. Rapids 4:25 pm Ar Chicago 10:55pm Lv Gel. Rapids ll:JO pm daily Ar Chicago 6:55 am Pullman Sleeper, opel1 9:00 pm on 11:30 pm train every day. Cafe service on all day trains. Service II la caTle. PelC:Marquette Parlor cars on all da~' trains. Rale reduced to 50 cents. T"REE TRAINS DE T R 0 I T TO 4ND fROM Leave Grand Rapids 7:10 am Arrive Detroit 11:55am Leave Grand Rapids It:l5 am dally ArrLve Detroit 3:250ill Leave Grand Rapids 5:20 pm Arrh'e Detroit 10:05 pm Meals served a la carte on trains leaving Grand Rapids at 1l:25 am and 5:2<1 pm. Pere Marquette: Parlor Cars on all trains; seat rate, 25 cents. "ALL OVER MICHIGAN" H. 1. GRAY, DISTRICT PASSKNGHll. AGHNT, PHONE 11 6 B Grand Rapids, Micb. ROCKFORD UNION FURNITURE CO. ROCKFORD, lLL. Buffets, Bookcases, China Closets \'\Te lead in Style, Construction and Finish. SHR OUR CATALOGCE. l~eBotanical De(Oralinf (0. It would pay you if you are In neW 01 an.v PRESERVED PALMS, TREES AND ARTIFICIAL FLOWERS To write 10 U5 lor our new colored CATALOGUE The Botanical Decorating Co. 271 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO, ILL. The Acme of Perfection in the Tine of Folding Chairs, PERf'ECT COMPACTNESS whlttl folded. lIard maple, naturaL finish. \VRITIt Fall:. P"RICfo;S. 15he PEABODY SCHOOL FURNITURE CO. North Manchester. Indiana The New "PERFECT" FOLDING CHAIR PATliNTRD OCT. 20, [(!'J3 Comfortable Simple Durable Neat No. 51 Smith & N... 328 All Iron $3.75 net Davis Mfg. Co. MAKERS OF ST. METAL WITH REVERSIBLE LOUIS BEDS Pillars, 11·16 inches. Filling, 3~8 and 5-16 inCh. Head, 56 inches. Foot, 40 inches. Sizes: 3 feet 6 inches and,," feet 6 inches. \Veight, 67 Ibs, STANDARD RAILS Standard Reversible Rail Patented July 15, 19D,z. No, 71WiO:I. SOLID RIGID REVERSIBLE This rail is reversible in the true sense of the word---ean be used either side up and enables the dealer to ma.ke one set of rails answer instead of having two stocks, one of regular, tbe other inverted. BEDSTHAT DO NOT WIGGLE : Indiana. THE ONLY CASTER CUP THAT Will NOT MAR OR SWEAT A New Cll$tet CUD. a Furl\it'.lre Prot&Clf)t and a Rest We J::uarantee perfe<:t satis-faction. We know we have the only perfect ca,ter cup ever made. This cup is in two sizes, as follows: 2'7I inch and 3 inch, and we Use 'the cork bottom, You know the rest Small size, $3.60 per 100 Large size. 4.50 Iler tOO Try it ;lnd be convinced. F O. B. Grand Rapids. OUf Concave Bottom Card Block does not touch the SIIT_ face, but upon the rim. permit. ting a circulation i){ air u.nder the hlock, thereby preventing- moisture or marks of any kind. This is the only card block of its kind 011 the market. Price S'3.00 per 100 Grand Rapids Caster CUPCo" • ",kwo" 'vo.. Grand Rapids, Mi&h. Also can be had at LUSSKY. WHITE & COOI.IDG£. 111-113 Lake St.. Chicago QUARTER-SAWED INDIANA WHITE OAK VENEERS CHOICE FIGURE " EXTR~ WIDTHS When writing for prices, mention widths required and kind of figure preferred. HO·FFMAN BROTHERS CO. Fort Wayne The Club Table That Satisfies Everybody SIMPLE, STRONG EASILY FOLDED Size 32 in. tong; 27 In. wldel 27 In. high Covered with Leather or,Felt COOK'S PATENT FOLDING ATTACHMENT i~or;:;~~~sle~,~if~~c~~~;~ of the tabJel as shown In the illustration. OUftahle"t are made of hardwood, and covered with green felt and leather. The cross·piece of cleat on end of table keep!>.Ihe top from warping, and is so arranged that a person can sit close to the table without cramping the knees. The felt used on this table is of extra thickness and made special, and is much better than padded tables where cotton batting is used and inferior quality of felt. Very useful and convenient, for card parties, children's games, ladies' fancy work, or tea table. BELDING~HALL MANUFACTURING CO. BELDING. MICHIGAN WAREHOUSES-I% Monroe Street, Chicago. 213 Canal Street. New Ymk POOL CARS FOR PACIFICCOAST OVERLAND FREIGHT TRANSFER COMPANY. SAN fRANC1SCO, CAUFORN1A. make a specialty of distributingpool cars of all kinds and PARTICULARL Y. furniture, carpets, linoleum and interior finish. References. Bradstreet's or Dun's and any bank in San Francisco. and the trade. Cadoader in Chicago Carloaderin Grand Rapid, J. M. Welling. 633 So. JeffersonStreet Gelock Transfer Company, 108 So. Ionia Stree!. TEAMING FORWARDING STORAGE CENTURY FURNITURE CO. FACTORY AND SALES-ROOM 153-159 CANAL SL GRAND RAPIDS. MICH DESIGNERS AND MAKERS OF FINE PARLOR AN 0 LI BRARY FU RN ITU RE LARGE LINE OF NEW PATTERNS FOR NEXT SEASON. INCLUDING A NEW LINE OF ODD CHAIRS AND ROCKERS AND RECEPTION CHAIRS EXCLUSIVE AND PURE IN DESIGN W1L~ EXHIBIT FROM 400 TO 600 PATTERNS IN JANUARY INC"'EASED FACILITIES LARGER LINE REPRESENTATIVES L D. BERRY} EAST G.O.PACKER L. H. LALEY } FROM PITTSBURG A. T. KINGSBURY WEST 26th Year-No. 12: GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., DECEMBER 25, 1905. $J ,00 per Year, Free Music in Department Stores. The custom of pro\'iding free music in department stores is becoming quite general, especially in the large cities. Oftentimes, too, an orchestra is regularly employed and gives continuous concerts, moving from time to time to dif-ferent parts of a store .and visiting every department in the the course of one day. The sheet music department ahvays has a crowd of interested listeners, anxious to bear the veTy latest compo5itions. The proprietOTs of department stores have fOl1od it to be a paying 'investment, as mllsic attracts many more Ctlstomers and many more purchases result in all departments. The employes, too, are mnch benentted. the effect of music being to cheer them and awaken a livelier interest in the husiness of selling- goods and increased de-sire to please customers. Ofte,ntimes c"stamers spend hours in a store where music is free and with some it is a regular habit. At holiday seasons the crO'lNds arc often so great as to interfere with business and then it becomes necessary to dispense temporarily with the music. ~{anagers in a few of the store." express themselves as follows: "The department stores are only taking advantage of the ptlbtic's wishes, its appetite lor free music. Person;tlly I have reason to think this form of advertising pays." "Primarily we do not illfnish free music to help bring in more business, bnt to keep the business we already have funning with as little friction as possible." "The desire of every retail merchant in these days of close competition is to make his store attractlve and furnishing good music is the way to do it. It is that end we have in view here rather than a certain specdied increase in our sales." Wall Street the Only Cause for Anxiety. John A. Covode (banker" manllfactmcr and Olercllant) of the Berkey & Gay Furniture company, ke~ps in close touch with the business conditions of the country and looks hope-fully for another prOSper01..1Syear in all branches of trade. "The farmers are very prosperous as the result of several continuous years of bumper crops." he remarked. vVorkmcll are fully employed and tradesmen ~ould. not ask for a more satisfactory condition in their business. There is too much speculation in \Vall Street, however. The interest rate is too high and stocks of questionable value have been b1..ll1ed beyond reason. I hope for a return of reason and common sense to the street. bllt if the speculating fever 1"ll11S as strong as it has in the past the financial stmctl1re, in which every business man is interested. may topple over and when the bricks begin to fall many ..vill be hurt." Made in Grand Rapids. \-Vhat is there in a name, any\vay? \-Vhy should people have such a good opil1ioll of Grand Rapidsfmniture? \Vhy ,-10 the small dealers '\ovhowant to make an impression on the passer-by ahvays put a eard "Grand Rapids Furniture" in their ·windows? ''-''hy not "Chicago Fl.trniture," or ")few York Furniture?" There is quite as good furniture made in one place as in another, is there not? The reason is that average of all the furniture made in Grand Rapids is the highest average of qllality of any fmnitttre made in America. These various catch words of quality do not get abroad in the land without a reason. You may be sure that if the average quality of Grand Rapids Furniture was low tb~ dealer would not brag of handling the Grand Rapids make. "Elgin butteT," says the grocer, proudly; "A \Val-tham watch," says the jeweler; "Virginia ham," says the mar-ket mall; and "Grand Rapids furniture," says the furniture dealer. Such quality-names are not created in a day nor by a few years of advertising. The best the advertisement can do is to call attention to a merit already existent. 1£ the merit is merely imaginary, all the puffing in the. world win not serve to make the nalIle a permanent guarantee of quality. There is something back of this general belief in the goodness of Grand Rapids furniture and it is the furniture itself. Grand Rapids does not make all the good furniture. Wf; may say that the very fll1est furniture of all is not made in Grand Rapins" hut dollar for dollar, and piece for piece Grand Rapids quality holds its own and more. Its manufacturers make, and always have made, just as good furniture as the people care to hny. There is a broad spirit of local pride amC)11g Grand Rapids manufacturers. They want Grand Rap-ids to be known as a maker of good hnniture.-Furnisher. THE CORRECT Stains and Fillers. THE MOST SATISFACTORY first Coaters and Varnishes MAJ¥UFAcrUN£D IINLY H Y CHICAGO WOOD FINISHING CO. 259-63 ELSTDNAVE.mZ-16 SLOAN ST. CHICACO. 34 AMERICAN FURNITURE. Good Opportunity for Sales in France. Consul Goldschmidt report;; that there 15 an excellent opportunity at Nalltes and other pJ<l.ces in France ior the sate of cerlain kinds of .\mcrican hO\1se and oiflCO:; Lmnitnrc. The consul descrihes the kind of [muiture made aud sold in France. and is confident that if \mcriC:lll mallulactl1rers "..ould make a persistent effort fllflliturc of the chsses described by him \,,'"ould rind a gl)()d market COllSU} Gold-schmidt \cHites: Nearly all kinds of furniture are manufactnred at :Jantes, aU being of good quality and C'xcellent \Yorkrnanship. yet there arc two reasons why, in my opinion. certain kinds oi American fmniture might be sold here: Fir'st, the high cOst of everything in that line; second, the lack of comfort to be derived in the use of fllrnittlre made here The ('o,;t of furniture is high, because nearly en:rythiJlg- is ll£lJldmitrlc. Labor in connection with its manufacture is slow, bec,\l\';C everything; is done hy hanc1-sa\.\'ing, plalling, can·il1g, etc.- Manufacturtd hy Spencer & BaTnes Company, Benton Harbor, M:ch. and conseqHently cOrllpar:Hive1y small ~\l1l(J',11lt:o are t',1rued out. Another re"SOll i., tllC high prices of the "'ooc\'; entering into the manufacture. The French cahilletrnaker is ,11l anist in hi::; lillc. :lll(l \vill produce beat1tifll1l~y \vrought work. Hown-"r, he h hampered by tr;liJitiol1 or delllalHl, which require' certain styles. Consupelltly he ",ill reprnduce, year alter 'year. tlle same styles whicb his forefather,; han- made 1'01' celltnric,;. I_Ollis XV. [.ouis XVT, Empire, Renai,;sauce, (lenr)' 1[, and a fe\l: others are the c;tyles in gcncr;l! dernarHI. The French lllal'IIJanllrer hac; new']' .:'ducated his. [ll\r-chasers into the Jill(' nt '\~o;']]f(ln'" ill Llrllitllre. ,)11(1 the demand (onsell1,cntly i" gCI'('r,Jlly Ie\r tlle "hence c1as~,ic styles. [<or some few ye'~l'_';::' past ill\lo\·ations hayc he.:,n nncle, and entail) style" communly called "Art l'{ou\'eau" 11:I\'c bec)) mndc and placcrl on sale. Some of these are bcau-liflll. others arc monstrosities, and althoug-h for a few yeafs there has been considerable ;idling- of this "An NOL1yeal1" there is again a tendency to retnrn to the old styles. One I,f the reaSOl1S for this is the lack of corniort in the lIse oi such fucniturc. Taking these facts l11to consideratioll, 1 think au e"cellent market can be worked up here for certain kinds of :-\merican furniture. This, however, would re(ll1ire intelligent dforts 011 the part of our manufacturers or exporters, as it would he neces_"ary to s!IO\\' the ad\'alHage.~ which American furniture offers. Salesmen 'Noulc1 have to be employed who would explain its merits to the trade, and displays of it \vould ha ItC 1O be made in sho.\' room.,:; in the larger centers. The cheaper grades of oak and ash fnrlliture of all kinds \vould probably be sold to a certain clas:'i of customcrs--bcdrool11 sets, chairs, armchairs, rockers, hall trees, ett. Tn dining-room furni-t'tlre nearly everything to be found here -is heavy, massive, and generally lacks rhe neatness and elegance of American dining-room fnrniwre, \vhile the prices are considerably higher. Tn dining-room fnr1litnre there ought to he a chance for !1S also. \Vh'lt I consider as particularly lacking here arc the comfortable armchairs and rocking-chairs found in nearly eyery Amcrican home, al1d ior these there is a good market bere, if all intelligent effort be made to introduce them. One nlay fl1ld a few hent-\,vood rockers of either Austrian or German m;lke in the local storcs, but they are far horn being-comfortable. Office furniture of American lll<"1ke is already sold ]-JC\"(' t(o a certain extent, but much more of this could be sold if it was to be fnull(l generally in the local furnit\lre "tore". (It'.i- :-;idc of Paris very little office fllrniture is found on sale . •--\ 1\ efforl \vas made by the \\Tiler to procure a f~w pieces of rattail furniture, sncb as arc comlllonly sold in the Uuite(] Strltes. b11t lint a single piece could be fouud in any of the S-HH('S. There are a fc\v cll<:ap chairs of rattan or \""il1O\v to he t<)ltlld u[ Pl1ropc<1n max-e, hut they arc of tile most COll1- m,m y;niety The dealers here hayc not the slig-lttest idea of the c011'.fort and elegance of some of nul' rattan fnTnitur(', "llid there being non;;: to be found in the stores there is no sale ~llld y".'ry little c1e~nalld for it. There is all exceptionally' good market [1('re ior sl1l:h furniture for use at the sUll1rner resi-llel'<:: es. dJateanx, and sea.side resorts. 1:\early everyone here, excepling the working classes, have some country or ~ca~idc residclJCe 'whcr(' sl1ch furniture would be appreciatc(l, ~,ild if placed on cxhibition larg-e qnamities could be sold in :,;allteS as well as in otber P;Hts of France. T spoke of this to a local dealer a few months ago and be seemed yery 11111C11 interested. TTe asked me for the IlallleS of ,;omc :\merical1 manufacturers in this line, whic:.h r g-ave him. He \-yrote three letters to different concerns. On],- one took the trotlblc to reply, amI the nature of the reply was s11ch that ntlsincss relations seemed in.1Vossible. :\lal1Y of the French merCh<111ts wOl'.lcl ask nothing \nore than a hir oppottllnity to try American furniture, anrl if properly 1:roachc:.rl 011 this sl'.biect an lnterestil1g business could be worked up. The followij;g arc :t fn\" of the leading furniture concerns in ::'\ante:o: Bot1\'et, :.;elle, ruc Affre: Rreauc1, A., rue Lahy-cttt.' 1; Drocbard, Placc Bretague 24: Brocharcl, Andre, Place Frctag\1c 20: Chahas, Cll., Canefoll!" Cas:;crie: Charpentier, L, Place Dr:;tangc: Deere freres. }-lallte Cqnde rue; [·'en-e. FranC(li~. POllte dc l'Arcbe s(;che 2; Frehel, A1pholJ:oe, P1"l'l' Bretag11c 6; Granacha\1d, Alfred, rile Pare 17; Gra-vodlc, Franc;:::, rue d'll Calvaire 34; Gl1illemartel, Tue IV[er-cnf'! lr 2; llenri-T,eg1as, 11asse Grande rlle 7: Josso, rue :'vler- ("(I\'\1r 3; Lac(j\lemcllt A,rnnllc1, n,e '!\'lerc()cnr; I,anoe, ,:\., rl\e [,',ni]ean 8: Leglas, ).'[aurice Frau~oi.'i, R'.lC de RriDrd 9; ;\Iarx, r"e l~l1 Calyaire 18: Parcllt, Place Bretagne 22; Roux heres, r:1l; clll Ca1yaire 20; Thomas, Charles, rue de Feltre :j: Vcr-hn'ggt'. I'll(' Boileau 9: \Volkowitz, rlle Boileau 12 DEPARTMENT STORES. To Be Inaugerated in Many Cities of Mexican Republic. The success of the department store having been fully demonstrated in the United States, is beginning to be felt in other countries where the experiment is being tried. At least one tremendously successful caravanserie has been reported from one of the leading capitals of South America, and now, at least, there is a possibility that l\Jexico may have, not one but a series of department stores throughout the entire repub.lic. In each city large and important enough to "varrant such outlay, a modern department store, such as may be found in the majority of American cities today, would, it is believed, pay on the im:cstment from its inception, because of the very novelty of the scheme to say nothing of the convenience, utility and advantages in prices, made possible to an by the concentrating of such varied comlllodities under one roof. Only systematic, well organized and broad-gallge enter-prises of this kind are ·worth "\vhi1ein Mexico today. From the prevailing style of smajl shops in vogue in that cOlllltry as in Europe, ior many years past, the "ticllda" or Mexican store, particularly in the capital city, has evolved into mag- 35 WELL PLACED MIRRORS. Are of Splendid Effect in Room Decoration if Properly Located. A we.11-pl:l.cedminor has the effect of a pool of water in a garden; it makes reflections, and a pleasant spot upon which the eyes may rest. In a dark corner a mirror is nearly equal to a window-provided it reflects a bright portion of the room, says Pictorial Reviev·l. Tn olden times the distinction between a mirror and a looking-glass was clearly defined. The glass was purely personal, and had no place oLltside of the bed chamber. The mirror belonged to the parlor or the dining room, and was chosen to accord with the woodwork of the room. The most beautiful of these articles was the mantel mirror, which is now reproduced in many modern homes, but in few houses does it hav<:. the old-time character. In the old days a pair of candlesticks and two tall India vases were frequently the only ornaments on the mantlepiece. 'Vhat housewife today has the courage to place only fOt'r things on her mantle-piece? In new hOllses the built-in m"antel-mirror is seldom used. \'Then it is empJoyerl, it is sunk in a plain band of wood like Thomas Madden, Son & Co., Indianapolis. nifice11t proportions, and beautiful goods artistically displayed, prevail ever:n·vhere, while the ;;settling" for these wares formes a harmony which the rather aesthetic ),1exic.an desires, and once intrOduced, will in futmc demand wherever he pur-chases_ Not only in the larger capitals wOllld American depart-ment stores be successful, but in the smaller and more remote towns, as well. There is hardly a section or district of the republic that is now free from American invasion, and while the American asstiredly can be counted on for his patronage from tbe first, there is no doubt that, even in far remo\'ed districts, ,vere the experiment tried, the Mexican customer would prove quite as insistent upon pllrchasing American goods, as long as quality, price and selection of articles are adapted to the needs aDd general financial condition of the people. Arrest of Robbers of Peoria Firms Effected. The Day Furniture & Carpet C01l1pan:yand the John Gate-ly company of Peoria, TlL have heen defrauded out of la,ge ~mms of mone)" hy a gang of robbers, who 8.1soextended their operations to the cOLlntry round about Peroria. A large quantity of fnrnitnre was bought from the above mentioned firms and shipped to Missouri nnder a false name. The goods have beell located and the arrest of three men who are Chestel- and \Vain Crow and A. D. Sh<-lpely has been effected Luce Furniture Company, Grand Rapids. the trim of the room. The few articles used should be chosen with care. A clock of plain design, if it is going, is a sensible thing to have. If it does not keep titp.e it is the most useless thing in the house, and should not be placed where it is a constant delusion. Place it on the mantlepiece and so near the glass that the back is not reAected. A pair of candlesticks and a pottery bowl of flowers;~something for matches., if there 1S a nre-place, or if the sticks hold candles-and nothing more is needed. The bowl ma~/ cost 50 cents or $IO.OO, the candlesticks may be of brass or of silver, inherited from a great grandmother, but the rule holds good. \Vith such an arrangement you cannot go astray. If the mantlepiece has no mirror do not add one. Decide what yon wish the mirror to reAect, and hang it a.ccordingly. The room may be deficient in sunshine; place the mirror where it will catch the reflected light. Or the room may have a charming vIew from one window; duplicate the view in the mirror. Last Year the Best. The Retting Furnitme Company have closed the and most sllcce~sft1l year's business in their history. show rooms will he opened January lirst, and the for the coming season will be larger and finer than seasons. :rviany new features will be shown, largest Their di?play in past 36 COOKING BOXES AS KITCHEN FURNITURE. Housekeeping Schools to Take Them Up. The Frankfurter Zeitt111g reports that, in COllnC~'1 ion with the twenty-fifth annual meeting of the German Cninu for Assisting the Poor, the \Vomen's lInion of Haden pT()\'ided for an exhibition of cooking boxes. Tn recent yC<l1":-: mudl attentiOll has been given by mallufacturers to thi.~ lJt'\\" and llseful article of kitchen fmuiturc. Instead of bcil1~ made en-tirely of wood, cork and hard paper are now also heing used. :\'loreover, felt and fcathers are laking the place of "wood wool" for upholstering the boxes, and the ('()ver:-:- of the enameled pots arc made more air-tight than fonncrly )Jll-rnerotls manufacturers have produced mOTe or 'Ies., re;nark-able "self-cookers," and inventors arc still <It work. On the occasion mentioned above a Karlsn!he lady exhibited an unusually large box, equaling <l range ill its completeness and containing pots of c\'cry imagillaLle size and variety. Furthermore, thc Baden \\':ornel1'~ Union (Frauen-Verein) has published a cookbook explaining fully the use of the box and giving" a large number of tempting receipts. Of course the food is thoroughly heated by means of fire before the pots are transferred to the cooking box, ·where they continue to siml11er for hours. The lHocess is particularly good for those kin(ls of foods \vhich require 510\,,,' development, such as .soups, boiled meats. legumes. vegetables of the cabbage family, rice and some sons of ptlddings. From the catalogue of the Nelson·Matter Furniture Complllly, r.rar;d Ra,pids. The value of the cooking hox to the poor is scH-cyi(1t'nt, and a skillful workman can ycry ea;;;ily adapt fill' Ill(' p'.~rpo~e any good box, lining: it with "wood wool," or any g:OO([ tlUlI conductor of heaL and carefully fitting in Ol"(lir,;<~'Y poto;. ln Norway the cooking box is a.lready \'cry c:\:tcllsively used, but in Germany it has been fOllnd much more difficlllt to interest working women in this ne\\' iriel1d. r.or many years the Grnlld Duchess of 'Raden has heen doing her utmost to induce people of nJJ classes to exprrinH'I",t with a \'cr:r simple sort of cooking box, and on her jOllrncys she \1sual1y takes one with her for the pllrp,)s(' of practically demonstrating its llsdnlness by distril)11'il'f~ warm food Tn spitc, however, of this propaganda. ",hidl is heing made throughout the cOl'ntry hy Jlhilan(hr()fli~t~, the rbult ,al111ot yet be said to be Yl'ry encouraging, for whate\'er is ne,\' and simple is sttre to be opposcd by prejudice. l\lost women, especially tbose who arc nnedllcated, do not comprehend the natural law of bad heat couductors, regarding it as lInllatural and incredible that the ~ame feathers and thick woolen materials \\'hich imprison the heat of onr bodies in 'Yinter and rhus keep us warm arc likewise capable of preventing the escape of heat stored up in food by previous exposure to fire. No one is more cOllservative than a cook. Accordingly, in order to ob\·iute prejuclice by familariz-ing the rising- generation with the advantages to be gained in this way, many German women's cillbs arc no\v providing cooking boxes for use in their housekeeping schools. New Ideas in Home Decorations. Tn Hoor coverings the gllady Horal design \vith Cupid decoration, thc immense floral medallion effects, which at one time appeared in sotTle of the hllest WC<lves, have given place to more stlbdlled and morc artistic colorings and designs, Turkish patterns, if one wants something striking and fnll of color, arC' favored. \vhile in many of the other floor coverings the softer, lighter tones prevail in decidedly con-ventional design. Popular taste is beginning to recognize the beanty of soft and harmonious coloring-s as distinguished from the showy effects \\'hich erstwhile held almost l111dis- 1Jllted s""ay, It is rehrkabJc to note tbe improvement in taste which has resulted from the widespread '\1iscLlssions as to art in the home." Onc d()(:s not mean to assert that all such discussions have been fruitflll in the right \'\'ay. CnfOrlUll<ltely an Immense amount of misinformation has been disseminated the the bev.rildered readers have been led into many wild vag-aries in the line of interior decoratioll hy the deluding ;;will-o'-the-wisp" guides, One wTiter fcelillgly and earnestly states in her talk to yOt1Ilg house-keepers that ';the careful lnistress of a house will see that the mattress on her hed is turned once a week." Picture it, think of it, the state of a mattress turned and aired once a week The home decorative fad was exploited some years ago h:y a series of ridiculous instructions as to the manner in which ,harming- lamps made of old pieces of st()\'e pipe and ~et with h'\veled effects might be cvolved by following the instructions laid own in articles descriptive of home work. One was told how to fashion an exquisite lounge from alrl barrels covered \vith brocade and fitted with mahog"any feet. Tt is always necessary to 11se ju([gmcnt and discrimination in these matters. It is not surprising that many fail to see l11e nice distinction between the fashions which are just the right things in the right place and the modes which border Oil the eccentric. Art does cot mean an y·thing and every-thillg novel and bizarre. In the matter of bouse furnishings the artistic colorings are decidedly in evidence. The amount ()f violet, dull b111e and soft green. the i:~determinate shades \\·hidl blend and shift and chang-e with the changing- light, ,He eVl'rywhere on display. The patterns arc curious; one thinks instinctively of pre-Raphaelities, of Dame Gabriel Rc,sctti's "nlesse(l Damosd" and of all the quaint and cttriOU5 medieval effects of -Rower and leaf and arahesque. Carpets, draperies, w,dl papers and upholstcry Roods all show the ait Illny('ment in these extreme and l,eal1tiful colorings, bnt as yet the majority are not qnite ready to accept these decided illn()Tation~ 011 the old styles.--Cilicago Chronicle. Box Car Merchants. In the nonlnvestern sLues hox car merchants do a thri\·ing husiness. The merchant makes his appearance in a community nlld take!" orders for various kinds of goods sufficient tn fill a car, which he purchases of the jobbing hOl1ses. Later he cleliv('t"s the goods and makes a hnnd-some profit. ha\-·ill'·~· 1'0 taxes, store rent :ll1d other expt'llS(:S incidental to the ITlercCLlltile l)llsiness to pay. ·~MI9fIIG7}N ESTABLISHED 1880 PUBLISHED BY MICHIGAN ARTISAN CO. ON THE 10TH AND 25TH OF EACH MONTH OFFICE-2;-20 LYON ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ENTERED AS MATTER 0 .. THE SECOND CL.o.SS Good feHovy'ship is often a cloak for hypocrisy. Until they accomplish it, the big stick. Seeing an imitation teaches the market buyers how to appreciate a really good thing. The designer who spare no pains in the preparation of a line is considered a genius. 1tan wants but little when the mercury in the thennomc-ter of a furniture exposition to\,,711bUs below zero. By the excuses he does not have to make, the successful salesman is known. The man ""ho saves a part of his earnings lives ·without worry. Government is considering the advisability of issuing 98 cent bargain dollar bills. to encourage shopping by mail. That hired feeling is felt by the gates-men who have re-newed contracts with their employers for the coming year. Designers do a lot of boasting, but salesmen fill the order books. Until he retires from the road, the old salesman neyer knows hovi' hard life can he. A position is "accepted" when a man has succeeded in his efforts to fmd a job. These things a salesman should keep: A clean, civil tongue, an llntaillted breath. and a good appearance. To sell well dealers must buy \vel1. To buy well dealers must go to the furniture expositions. The market buyer is like the early bird that catches the worm. He has the pick of the best things offered. The only difference between a manufacturer and a travel-ling salesman is that the latter may get rich and the former die in an almshouse. It is surmised that the wonderful :vIr. Bmbank. of Cali-fornia, may cross varie.ties of ,"vood, and prodlKe a new species of timber that "vill not warp or check. History records the fact that George \Vashington never told a lie, but it should be remembered that George was a warrior and a statesman, and never a traveling salesman. Sa1esmen shol1ld remember there are moments when the buyer wishes to be alone. There may be moments, too, when he needs a loan. 37 Buyers of house furnishillg goods wil find the expositions as complete as ever in the past. Trading stamps are still used but not to the great extent they have been. "Vv c sell it ror less," is the motto 01: Stewart Brothers, of Columbus, Ohio. Would not "·we sell it for a profit," serve lheir purposes equally as well? The Sargent ),I[anufacturing company have prepared a very showy line of parlor desks, hall stands, chiffoniers, ward-robes and b8chelors' cabinets for the spring season of trade. Samples will be found on sale in Grand Rapids. Several enterprising manufacturers of Chicago, purpose sharing the expense of sending a man to Japan to teach the natives how to use furniture, in the expectancy that a market may be created for bedsteads, chairs, cellarettes, and other things "the J aps do not use. Traveling salesmen will spend the coming month at the expositions, Utying up" the best things in the lines they rep-resent ·with the market buyers. vVhen they go "on the road" in Fehruary they ''''ill, as usual, offer the stay-at-home buy-ers the odds and euds that may be left. The prediction published in these columns several weeks ago that the movement inaguaraled by the manufacturers of cheap furnitttre to withdraw from the exposition towns would fail, has been fUlftlled. One of the leaders in the movement was first to adandon it. "T'was ever thus," etc. \Vhell the buyers come to Grand Rapids in January they ,viII learn that retailing in the exposition buildings is no longer carried on. "Phil." Klingman has moved his retail stock fr0111 the big building to the annex which will be devoted to the retailing of furniture hereafter. Former tenants of the annex have t8.ken spaces in the big building. The Shepard block and the Pythian Temple will be used for wholesale purposes hereafter, while the Blodgett will be as it has ever been, used for wholesale purposes. Yon Sternberg's Historical Furniture. \Vhen he retLlTned to \Vashington recently Ambassador Van Sternberg brought a complete suite of drawing-room fnrnitllre that had adorned the rooms occupied by Napoleon in Leipsic. These treasures were bequeathed to the am-bassador by a relative whose grandfather had owned the place where the Corsican elected to abide. The furniture is ancient Flemish and in the tapestry are woven mythological designs. The frames bear a gold design. A desk at which Napoleon wrote vigorous messages is part of the legacy. A Paying Occupation. She was proudly telling her friends down on the East Side of her husband's fine new job and how much he was making. "And \'v·hat is he doing?" curiously asked one of the group. "He's boring wormholes ill antique furniture over here in Fourth avenue and he's got all he cando," was the re-sponse. Bachelors' Hall. The floors above the Mead Furniture cnmpany's store, in Rockford, 111.,will be furnished by Mr. Mead and used for a "bachelors' hall." There will be twenty suites of rooms, all elaborately fLtrnished, to harmonize with the woodwork, in weathered and :rvlission fl1rnitme. Mr. Mead has made a new depart me which other furniture men would do well to follow. 38 Competition In Trade. Pra.ctical Suggestions for the Retailer. Competition is primarily a searcher (jllt of 1'esonTees, and shows a man-if he studies the inside as \,vell as the Olltside of his business-how strong he is, which is another way of saying, how well he has his market in hall(1. Competition may be general, affectillg an entire business; Of special. affecting only a branch of a business. Genera! cOlllpetition applies to what is called a single produce bllsiness such as iron or beer, while a mixed product business is exemplified From the line of the Luce Furnitule Company, Grand Rapids. by dry goods, where the values of raw materials and of flllish goods may be widely variable. Competition has its origin and development in the s011nd-est of /)l1."ines:; principles; a larger market is \1'onh paying for. \',then you sacrillce a portiol! of your pront margin ill order to secure a certain customer, or a certain territory, all(l make the sacrifice 'with your eyes opcn, you are playing· a l;twflll Manufactured hy Posselius Brothers MlI.llufacturing: Compa11Y, Delloit. game. Rut to make it a sOllnd game, the pllrchasing' pov,:er thus securcd mllst be permalH'nt "lld m~ht pay a \\'flrking profit at the timc. For the 111an who hands on'r all of his profit Ior the market, i;;, walking il1to a hlind ,dley. no rnatrcr how grand and glorious his total sale,; may be. :\Ioney may win by mere bellk. Imt sl:ch yictori(·,; are few in 11u111ber alHl of short duration The cl1t-thro'lt CCllnpet;tnr the reckless. hlind-staggered, t~l1edllc,ted man. who dcorgallizes tt'l',e \·:t1ues by pt>ihing his false \veight;; into the public price lists, is nuking far rnOre trouble for himself than for others, pro- Yided that the "others" have brains--and patience. The problems of competitioll divide naturally into anti-thetical phases. \\"hcn and ho\',: to exert it; "\\'hen and how t'.1 meet it. Tn a single product bnsiness, competition ""cts its own date and pace with merciless, clarity. "\-\ie mllst sell goods Or shut down the plant." It is better to trim the marglll clown to the quick and keep going, than to shut down. and let fixed charges show an actual loss. A mixed product business is different. Competition is rarely exerted or felt all along the line. One class of g'oods may ~he cansing competition. a second meeting it, \'lhi}C the remainder stands level. and supplies the sinews of war. \Vhen there is a particular class of purchasers, or a terri-tor: r of large purchasing power, wJ]ich is desirable, a reduc-tion of prices may be good policy, afLer the salesmen and the advertising rnen have failed Again, if fixed charges run hig·h. it is better. as already mentioned, to rUIl at 10\-';' profits or none tban to shtlt down and feel a loss. Competition may be lore ed, and to some degree met, by Manufactured by Century Furniture Cornp~ll1Y,Grano Rapids. the rai:-.ing of (juality, instead of through the actual cl1tting of prices. The results of tbis policy, hC)l,.vever disappoillting at rirsL will ce sound in the conclusion, T heard a manufac-turer of valves say': "\Ve never attempt to meet competition: wc force competitio!l to meet us-if we can." Of C01JfS(' the cheap goods salesman call say tbe same. lint T am not praising the selltence :;(1 much as the position. It's hard to attack a man who is beyond the range of your guns. \~/hen you have ·won the vantage ground of high quality, spare no expense to maintain it. The money cannot be better invested, and any neglect of your standard is both an active and poten-tial. loss. Scaling of prices is common property, hut quality is a business asset whose value sho111d never he jugg"ied with: it is better to abandon it altogether. Competition may be expected withotlt making a change in quality or price, simply by extending the salesmen's lines of attack or by advertising. In these cases retaliation of some sort may be reasonably expected. Reore putting forward any competitive forces it lS important to he informed of the methods and resources of the enemy. \Ve should study not only our necessities but his opportunities. Careful reading of the trade journals and scanning the market prices, will reveal the conditions that are general and to some degree local. For other information-- the traveling salesmen, the purchasing agent <lnd the adver-tising sections of trade publications. l\leeting competition demands again accurate and com-prehensive information of your o\vn business health and that of your opponents. The -first question, and by long odds the most important is-shall the competition be met? For I wish to emphasize the point that to accept eve~y competi-tive gauntlet that may he thrOvYrI into the Tace, 1S business hysteria, \\/hen your friend the enemy, puts a ntW pTice OD the market which thrcatel1S to affect your sales, try to fmu 39 who knows what be is doing, and deliberately sacrifices his prol-i.ts on one tine of goods, that he may find a larger market for a remaindcr. He reduces his policy to a formula, Class A of his business, nets 10 per cent. and forms one-sixth of his sales. He forfeits the 10 per cent. and sells Class A at cost, with the intention of expanding his general sales until the total is, say, one-third greater than before. The results more than offset the loss on the si"th, and at any rate his name and trademark cover a larger area, This sort of competition may have good or serious results. As a per-manent policy it may be held as bad, but as a sharp aggres-sive dash it has sOme reason behind it. \Vben competitive retaliation has demoralized the market the remedy is usually foul1din a "pooL" The pool is an agreement between manufacturers, or jobbers, or both, to maintain specified minimum prices. A pool is designated to regulate competition within rational lines, and to put the cut-throat ma111J£acturer at a disadvantage. These aims are good ones and the effect of a pool is generally good. It is true that these agreements have their abuses like any other form of organization, but too much form is generally a better evil than entiw. '3bse,n~e.of form, A form of competition that is irritating is the -cutting of prices by a member of the pool: treachery to the agreement. At present there seems to be no good remedy. Enormous fines are written in the contract-one seldom hears of their being imposed. The writer ,vould suggest that the penalties Atllle Hatheway's Bed, Stratford"oll.Avon, England. out whether thc new figure represellts a true vall:e to him. If it does, you must meet it. or shift your position, 01· lose ground. I[ the nc,,\, price is all a false basis, you may both lose, but his loss is the worse; let him lose it. There is a maxim in the game of these, which is perti-nent: "A weak attack may be ignored, but a really strong one cannot be." \Vhcn price cutting comes from the ignorant mClnufac-turer, who is frightened by variations in sales volumes, and has no records of his losses-ignore his c0111petition. He is like the yellow dog that barks fro111behind a fcnce; annoying of course, but he must simply be endured. There is itl\'ar-iahly a ·weak spot in the ',,",cakman's attack, which is revealed to a little scrutiny. Some of the business he secures yOU can probably afford to lose. Very different from this. is the strong attack of a man be changed to temporary abstinence from all sales of the article or substance which was sold at the unfair price. Evi-dence would be no easier to secure, but the experience of a single conviction would he far more impressive than a fine. A pool, to be effective, must concentrate enough capital to give attacking power. A manufacturer who prefers to remain outside the circle of formal agreement will often abide by the pool prices merely to avoid the appearance of direct antagonism. 1\ sudden change in prices may be due to radical changes in 111al1ufacturing methods, as when a lead-ing manufacturer discovers a new source of power, a cheaper raw material, invents a new machine, or the like, This is the strongest form of attack if such a term be applicable, for it is final, and action of some sort is impera-tive. You must meet the new conditions of manufacture, if you intelHI to meet the price. Should the change in eqllip- 40 ment demanc] 11lorc capital lhan YOll can c\J'l,rol. a])alHlcl11 the fjeld. for in tryin,Q" to hold YOllr market on a kniie edge oi profit, yOll are playillg it lost g-;lmc. One of the nllest Lest" or judgment i" to ];:IH1\\- \\"heu yOLl are beaten before it )J ap]I(, 1).";'. Lool, at the U:O.--j ;J1Jd jJJ(!em-nities you save. The injunction that wcwlc\ seem to ('on'r the lllost gr'-H1l1d Manufactured by Valentine-Sea\'er (:ompanr, Chicago, Ill. is-do not compete for mere vOln1l1C of sales, Profih, of ('.Ollrse, depend 11P011 volume as \yell :Lei rate. and the an10111lL af goods sold can n<;\"er he oFcr!ookcd, but when the rilte of profit declines as the salcs iucrcase. 8 little study is needed along tbe lines of penile investment of capitaL It's ,j poor boat that is all engine and no rudder III order to truly COlllpete in a mixed business, a man "hOllkl knO\y the rate of protit on each class of goods. The perccntage of gain on tbe year';; business 5gntcd ill bulk ic; 110 indication of the real resources or defects. \\Then we kn(i\\' which lines of manufactures or of sale:" arc strong. :111:1 which :Ire weak, we :11'1.' ill a po,:;ition to organize for hetter results. Dellnite information rllllst precede defillite policy. COlllpetition that in"i,-' !In:'s tll<:' violation of any broad busi- "('ss principle must ultimately prove to he UllSOllllCLhowever im·iting the immediate returns may seem. And this rule works both \VdyS. A.l1 attack all prices that lIaS 110t business principle. no clear policy. hehind it, shonld be ignored entirely if \\·ea],;. allc1 :l\"oided as cheaply as possible, if strong. It may draw bluod, llllt La meet it as an equal would be 11carsighted. Udell \VOIb. Indianapolis, Ind. And one last \Yord. \Vhcn you really knovv your resources of price and qllality, and have the market conditions in band, don't let the bl1yer-larg"e or small-bull doze you into a non-llw5table margin by telling you what other sellers ean do. The question for you to decide is your own limit. If other men can sell the same quality at a lower price than is reason-able to yOll, the field is theirs, and your wisest course is to abandon it. Tlvice in his career, ha:-; tbe writer been placed so as to see the cards of the pmchasing agent, and has studied at close range the 'workings of the game. He has seen sellers cleverly mi"lcd regarding the "oiher man's" prices; he has seell the order given to the highest bidder; he has often seell single bidders frightened by mere bluff into reducing a reasonable price. He has also seen \",hat he lW"i,'Cr failed to admire-men who klle~ ....exactly where they stood, and who, when urged to retreat past the proGt line, refused lo be driven from their intrenchments. Lost the sale ( ,"Veil, not al" .·.a.ys, but tllat isn't the point. \\'hich is hettel', to lose the sale, or to gain Ihe saic, and then lose? A car loaded with furniture for the new Federal building in Salt Lake City has been lost in transit from Chicago. There arc no bills of lading and that adds to the difficulty. If the \\' abash system of tracking freight cars by telegraph were universally adopted, it \vould be round of great benefit both for the shippers of goods a11(1the railroa(l:; also. EVANSVILLE Evansville, Ind" Dec. 25th, 1905. EvansvilJe, the hustling, bustling furntbJre city of the South, true to its reptltation, is veritably a beehive of in-dustry these days. Reports from all manufacturers go to show that every plant is <:Toweledto the hrlm with business, and that there will be no cessation at least before the opening of the New Year, 1906. \Vith a ne\'l/ line of goods for the n~xt year, and the big ft1sh which is on to get their goods, it is doubtful if this city has ever had a more active period in the history of the fLuniture business. A meeting of the Hardwood l1a1nlfact\.\i.'"ers'Association of the United States, was held in this city, Dec. 6th, at 1:3° p. m. Headquarters were established at the St. George Ho-tel, and from 50 to 75 memh(',rs of the association. \vere in attendance. Among all of the fllrniture factories of Evansville, there is none which has a greater demand made upon itf, output at tbis writing", tbal1 the Karges r"urniture com-pany. The Karges line is one of the most popular in the Manufactured by Thomas Madden, Son & Co. Indianapolis. furniture field to-day, and the. plant tS having its capacity taxed to hustle out the goods. The Globe Furniture company will make a notable addi-tion to their big line of sideboards, buffets, chamher suites and odd beds, dming the coming year. The ne\-", depart-ment will be a strong line of hall trees. The Globe is hav-ing a big trade from all sections-the Soutll being espec~al1y noticeable in the demand. The Bockstege Furniture company manufacturers of the "Superior" line of extension, parlor and Ehrary tables, is an-other one of the notable examples among the factories of this city, which is having a big rush of orders. All sections of the country are equally urgent in their demands for the Bockstege goods, although rVlanager Jourdan states that the South woke up a little late on aceOllnt of the yellow fever epidemic. The Bochtege company \.",ill also make a note- 41 worthy addition to their line, the new department being a line of dressing tables in quartered oak. The Evansville 1.fetal Bed company are ahead of last year in the volume of business done, says Treasurer Wm. A. Koch, and plans are being- made by him to not only add a new departrnent immediately of cribs, but also a number of new departments are to be added in the nea.T future. The line of the Evansville J\.fetal Bed company will be strengthen-ed throughout, maki.ng the goods of a higher class than ever before. The plant of this company is one of the larg-est and most substantial of its kind, being 400 x lOa, con-crete floors find steel trusses having been put in in the erection of this excellent plant. The Rosse Furnitnre company, one of the sturdy and younger industrial plants of Evansville, is setting a pace in the fnrnitme business that would do high credit to a veteran. Trade is pouring in for the Bosse from all over the East, thevVest and the South. This company is managed by Ed- \"iard Ploeger, Secretary and Treasurer, and a very sub-stantial line of wRrdrobes. safes, and kitchen cabinets is being ltlannfactltred. The famous line of Eli folding beds, manufactured by Eli D. 1\'Tiller& company, are having a big demand in all sec-tions of the United States. "Business is very good," said IVlanag-er ::vriller. An exhibit of the Eli folding beds will be shown the coming January season in Chicago, at the Century Furniture Company. Grand Rapids. l\hnufacturers' Exhibition Building, 13I9 rvIichigan Avenue, on the 6th floor, and l\dr. Miller will, himself, take personal chaI"ge of tlle dispby. This means that this line with all of its strong qualities and features. will be set forth in most advantageous terms, and that a goodly number of orders will be the reslllt. The Evansville Furniture company is another one of the big plants here that is taxed to the utmost to get out the goods for the tnde which is coming with a rush from the East and the \Vest, as "well as the South. Vice President Gus. A, Nonweiler, says the company are putting out a new department in chiffoniers made in oak Sixteen patterns 42 \"\'111 he ShOWll. The company \\-i!1 11a\-e all ('"hibit d\l1"il1!2: the January scaS'-'l1 at 1,119 ~\IiclJigal1 :\n:1111(:, .\hllL:fac-wTers · Exhibition Huilding. l\tanager R. A. Reitz, of The Standard Chair company. reports his company afC having good trade at the prc;;cllt time, the demand heitl;?: geucral ior tbe Standard goods. The \leta1 FurnitllTc company, capital stock $25,000 is one of the latest fnrniturc industries organized in this city, and work i5 nO\V being rllshed Ol) a big f::lctory that is being pllt up on the Belt Line. The size of the bunTy is 11".1 be 100 x 2iO; 60 feet being two stories ill height. ;lIHI the balance, onc story. The plant is to be completed by the :"i;'st of February, 'Oh, and a medium grade oi metal beds, chairs, center stands and cb.ycnports, ..v..ill he mal1l1factllred. Tt is intended to ..y.ork this line l1p into the better grades. eventu-ally. The erectioE of this plant hegan the middle of 1<1"t October. The ()ft-~cers of the company arc "s follows: Presi(lent, ja('oh Cadden; Vice Presidel1t, \Villiam Frank; Secretary-Treasurer ~t1l(1 General ?-Janager. Joseph LLnthol-ome; Sl1perintenclent, John Ym11lg. The Specialty Furniture cllrnpany report trade very g'()I)(L and ail exhibit of their line will be shown at St. J .Iluii'i ill Jall118ry, ScheJosky & company, m<lnl1Tactnrers of extensi011, kitchen and restaurant tab1cs, "''''!lo werc dela)'ecl for al;n;.'l a mOllth ill wood, cane alld co1ibJer .~eats. ?danager E. K, Smith al-so states they are having heavy runs on their fancy and six dollar rockers. T!le Indiana Fllrniture company, manufacturers of cllamber snite:', \'.-ar(lrobes, exb:::nsion tables, canopy suites, kitchen ;.;aies. etc., are ha\-ing: an excellent tradc---principally in the r::outll- -Hates Prcsident A/cuke. The company gets out a I1nv line (Ii winners in J\'Iarcb. ThE: Evansville Rook Cace & Table company expected to bave their new ~dditi0n completed hy January 1st. Thcsize (If the addition is nfty by ninety and the old plant the same, ;.;,) that the entire plant will he one hundred by oue hundred eight)·. Supl. H. ~\r.Hall says the line will be comprised of alj(lllt eight suites oi dining roOI11 fmniture in golden oak al1d wcathered oak. and early English, silver gray a.nd imita-tion rnahogan:y; also aboLlt twenty patterns of dining tables in all the popular nni:shes. The Eyansville Desk company are planning· the erection of all audition to their plant next spring. :\Janager \V. M. Ellci'i states the size of the ne\\, addition ..v..ill be 50 x 112, tbe same size as that of the present plant. The company is having a large g-eneral trade, the bulk of the !lusincs,s coming from th~ East and South. The :Fellwock Roll & Panel company, ma11l1factllrers of '"Rei; ;1;~~"n,~iIL:P \relleered RolL,;; and Plural Ply Panels fot' Drawing Room Eatoll Hail (re~idellce Duke of \V~stmifjster,l Cht's!er, England on acconnt (If their $-1-,000 lire ('arly in Octubcr last. art now working alnn~ ag,lin qllite ::;ll100Lh~y. tbe patrl\lb fit of Schelosky & CIJl11p.'111Y. ;"Irc showing an admir;"lhl<.: de-gree of patience in allowing- ,helli t(l gCl lIeH thei1- g·'P,r!c' llcot- \ovithstaudillg- this delay. \1r. Anhnr Kid~p;nrick, head ()f the Grand Rapids School of Furniture Dc"ig·nillg:. 3-1-2-.::;--1-3HnLlscmall hlclI:k, (~ratld Rapids, i\Jjch .. 1-isitcclEI'<ln,q"ille XO\ 27th and 28th. :lnd as a resnlt, a nnl1lber ot the furniture \\-u1"kers (l{FV<llls\"ille enrolled themselves as pl\pils of thii'i sclloul "\11'. Kirk-patrick states that the metlwds of the Crewel R;1pids sc]lool of teaching furniture dC'signillg" by mail. arc wholl:y hy plates. explanalor:y in themselves, althollgh illSlructinlls afe scnt with crl:dt plate, making the course ;1 most complete and practical onc The lessons start witb the I-cry simplest kind or a piece of furniture th8t cOl',ld he j)nt on paper. and carries t1\!~ stlldellt ill a practical K:t}· tl1r<il1gh tilt' CUllJplctc course. giying- him more difliclllt drawings as 11(: a(lI·a11c('s. The E. L. Smith Cbair com0:1ny ,lrc ha ....ing an e:\.lr;\ilHli-nary demand inJfJ1 the triH:C (111 their 1i!1~' (if cl1ild\ rh'!ir...; all puq)():"c,:; ll::ln~ orders enough ahead at this writing to J,;cep them busy 111ltil Fehru<1.ry r, says Secrctrl:ry-TreaSllrer P. n Fe:l work. The Hohenstein & Hartllletz l'urnitl1re company, m;tnL1- iacturers 01 parlor tables ancl music cabinets is one of the busiest of thc yOl1l1ger industrial furniture plants of Evans-ville .. \lr Hohenstein, \\"11f'11 "ee11 said his factory is crowd-ed 1.)(,)'011<1 its limit '\vith onlers ahead enough at the timc (If tllis \'.·Titing to keep things bumming until after January 1St. The present capacity is inadequate to meet the growing denVl11ds of lhe company's tr(l(lc. :\lanag-er H_ J. Lit.chtenfeld of the Buehner Chair cornj)any say" his factnry is h,n";ng all the husiness it can look after. The huli(lay trade he reports as nnnsllally large. The lllontbs of October and :Non~ml>er have brought an excellc:nt trade to the 1-:\'an5vi11e l1rnshVVorks, states -.\1a11- ager T-]c:drnal1. Besides a large local t.rade, this company is deyclopillg- (rHlsiderablc husincss in the South. Secrdary-Treasl'rc:r JohnA. Seilz of the Evansville Fold-ing }',ul cnrJJp?Il)', ~:pellt two weeks on a deer hunting trip in Mississippi the latter part of l\7ovember. Conrad l-l aase is on{~of the oldest manufactmers of couch-es, lounges and mattresses in this section of the United States, and is having a hig s11ce of the trade in his par-ticular department of the furniture field. \Villiam p, Keeney, manufacturers agent\ returned recently to Evansville from an extended trip through the south. "I returned on the 25th and 'wound up my year, and so will stay at home until 1 go to the exposition in Grand Rapids and Chicago in J al1uary. The fall season has been exceptionally good, notwithstandi11g the yellow fever in the south, which, of course, did a lot of damage to trade. The trade since July 1st with me has been fine; about as good as. I ever had. The business was dull in New Orleans up to November 1st you mig-ht say, owing to qtl<uantines wh1('h did ten times more damage to the trade than the yellcn\' fever itself. But everybody has been busy there slnce thell. All PosseliUl> Brothers Mll.ll\\facturil1g Com])ally, Detroit. Juring the fever the real estate in that city was rapidly advancing and no city I know of has been 50 prosperous in that line of business. Fortunately, some furniture men were in that line of business and made 10rtunes." "The high price of cotton has been a blessing to the soutb, as the producer derived more benefit this year tha11 ever before from his crop. The crop in A..rkansas and north and east Texas and nortb Louisiana is very short--the worst in years, so that a whole lot will suffer same. I look for cotton to go still higher. I consider the prospect for next season good, and hope we may find it so. The 8dvance III prices is coming at the right time to begin the year with. Co~operative Englishmen. Nothing ever devised has been of such enormous benefit to the workillg people of England as co-operation in mer-chandising, according to Charles Edward Rnssel1. In cert,dn ways and tip to a certain limit it has transformed life. Often it has made jnst the d1fference behveen hope and despair. ~loreoYer. it has been of incalculable social as \vell as in-du;; trial significance. The store has heen evcry\'\;here a meet-ing place where the melnbers came together, discussed ways of improvement, learned something worth \vhile, and felt for the first time the democratotc inspiration. The great im-pulse of a cornman canse and a high aim has been a boon to minds and morals. It has inculcated thrift, it has tended to break clown a little the iron barriers of caste, it has pro-duced better homes, gre8ter comfort, amI h(lj}-pier lives. Trouble Over a Factory at St. johns. The circuit court judge bas stopped the payment by the city to the S1. Johns, OHich.) Table c<nnpany, for the real estate and buildings of the company which the city agreed to buy. The company has closed and partially dismantled its factory and moved to Cadillac. The townspeople had in-vested ~25,ooo in the bnsiness in 1892 and never received any-thing ill return. The plant has been offered for sale or rent by the city. 43 Yeager's Line of Novelties. The Yeager Fl1rniture company of Allentown, Pa., will be in the markets in ]anl1ary with a new and varied line of upholstered novelties. They have retained only the best of their old patterns and added a great many new, such as Sheraton, Hepplewhite, Ch-ippendale and Colonial styles. There is also a strong edition to the medium priced goods in Mission style and a new feature is the line of upholstered rockers in oak, imitation and solid mahogany. Every pattern is of different design alld prices range from medium to the better grade. The line will he hereafter permanently shown in New York City at their warerooms Nos. 333 to 341 Fotlrth avenue, second floor, corner 25th street, with Charles E. Zerfass in charge. J n Chicago the exhibit will be on the seventh 1~oor Manufacturers' Exhibition building. These two exhibits together wilt comprise twelve hundred and fifty patterns. The following salesmen will represent the company during the next year: E. P. Seipel, H. '\"ertheimer Jr .. and Chas. E. Zerfass in the east. ]. Swart Lee in the middle west, and George ¥l. Corley ill the south and coast. Messrs. Wertheimer and Seipel will be in Chicago until the 15th of January, after which their entire time will be devoted to the New York vvarerooms. \V. H. Yeager and J, E. Teall will be at Chicago, }Jr. Teall remail1ing throughout the entire period of the exposition and Mr. Yeager dividing hjs time between New York and Chicago. Berry Will Sell the Century and B. L. Marble Lines. L. D. Berry for twenty-three years Eastern representative of the _.VI ichigan Chair company \vill hereafter be the Eastern representative for the B. L. Marble Chair company. He will cover the l\Jetropolitan district and the principle towns of ).J'"ewEngland and south from New York as far as Wi".sh-ington. 1-Ir. Derry is also representative for the Century FurnIture company of GratHl Rapids in Eastern territory. August DiTks has pmchased the furniture. stock of r Ostermann & Son in Arlington, Minn. The name will be the Arl-ington Ftlrniture company. A new furniture store is that of M. Poet & Sons, located in Altoona, Fa. The se11ior member of the firm, Michael Poct, has been a cabinet maker for thirty years. ADVERTISING HINTS FOR RETAIL BUSINESS MEN. William D. Mcjunkin Shows the Wisdom and Profit of Keeping Oneself in the Public Eye, Have yOu a ~olllp('tit()r? Advertise. Have you no COlll-petitor? Advertise. There is not a particle of difference, so hr as the neces-sity for advertising is concerned, between the merchant \vho is alone in his little town and the merchant who has one or more rivals. You may say: "f'ill the only merchant here. The folks all kno'\'\' mc. ThcY'1d;~ Ilowhere eJ"c to go." That last point is a fallacy-you n18Y or may 110t know it. If there is not a larger town near b.y \dlCre tho:'}' may he lured by the ag-grcssi\'e advertising- of some storekccper, therc is always your ri\"al--th(' big store of the large cit. How are you going to even things up with the big st.ores, their ternpting offers ant! low prices? Greatest Mercantilec Establishment In the World ,....,.---~,,"M--:,:w~nr~!"~ S.-,f\]ple Advertisement of Mail Order house. Only by pulling yourself together, getting OlJt of the 01d futs-and advertising. Advertising is selling goods-more good~. dun't lorj:!;ct that. Advertising will send those lazy stocks on the move. Advertise ·vigorowily, and :you'l! soon fint! that you must renew your stocks oftener and better. You are not there to snpply a demand merely, you are there to cr('ate a demand. You have 01lly to make the folks around ahoLit \\'3.nt a thing badly enough, and you \vill sell it to them, nen::r fear. "nut 1. have ;.\(I\·('rtised," you say, "and it doesn't do a bit of good--might as well have kept the 1l10ney'" Nonsense, there was never a hit (If real advertising that did not do good. But miJl(l yon, it must be rcal advertising. Probably you took a tlycr or twO in your local paper v..·.ith a doleful announcement that "John Jones carries a cornplcte line of dry goods, groceries, hardware, etc., etc." Heavens. man! the folks all know that already, and they \yondcr \\'hy 011 earth you spend good mOney telling them so. Kind of friendly deal with the editor, they suppose, and let it gu at that. Thri.t is not advertising-you may as well get rid of that notioll first as last. \dvertising is snrnetbilJg more liyc than t.hat. lust imagine yomsclf saying solemnl:y to [vIrs, Schneider. when she dnJjJs into your store: "::'Ifrs. Schneider, T carry a com-plete line of dr:y goods, groceries, bardv.'are, etc., etc." Can't you see .\[r5, Schneider smilin[4"? You 1l1,ly take jt for gr<1nted that ouly a live man can adn'rtise, and tllat every live man can advertise s(\ccess[ully. TIut you I1111St be on the outlook for opportunities for real advntising-, for the mcans of stirril1g Ull the neighbor-hood with hargains. You'll he astonished at the increased appetite for merch-andise ..v.hich the women will develop \,..h. en :yotl g:et into the way of making them v...a.nt tbing;:;. And the only way to make them want tbing:s is to show them a real good thing desperatel:y cheap. If yon' ...e. a lot or goods on your shelves that threaten to !'etlle do\vn there for life, get llP a bargain sale. ::'Ifake the .1rJnOllllccment of the sale in your local paper, or sC'nd it Ollt on hand bills, jf that way seems better to )fOll. Some <!(h-crtising men migbt advise yOIl to lJ]ay up the OnYour Heating Stove or Range Out on We,;t Washington !;treet i" the Store out or the High Rent D\stnct, where pftce and quaJily predominalt'. Von'! take our wore lor thl", bUI before making any purchase make It a poin' to take ~ trig ullough the Hlgh .Rent stare" fir", Make note" and carel III ob5en,JJhdIL". <trI'Q. 'hen comt to Ul>. You know we wa"uld not takt this stand i( '" e were not posnivdy ';:<t:rtain0,1 our 25 pet cenl. saved price. IS THIS CONVINCING? IT IS. IF YOU TRY. Another Sample. sak as a special purchase which yot! can afford to sell them at a ridiculously low price, etc. Don't do it. Be on the square with the folks and :rotl'll reap the bendit of it by and by. Of course, ,you don't neeu to say that the goods are 1l10111ding'on yom shelves or anything like that. You don't need to enlarge on your desire to get rid of them. JUSt get down to the root of the matter-here's a lot of ginghams that have first-rate '-lualities which yOll invite the goocl ladie:; of the neighborhood to enjoy at 2 cent~, less a :yard than they ever botlght them in their lives. YO\1'l1 lose by it? >J"onsel1sc, yOLl can't lose if yOll sell the ginghams quickly and win the good ,,,ill and confJdence of the ]:J.die:; by giving them ar'l astonishing bargain. That good \vill, that cnniidencc, is as g"ood as silver dollars in yot;[ bl1sinc::;.'"i. nc on the lookollt for goods to advertise. Take the interests of your customers as your OWl1. Don't be afraid that if yOll sell them g-oads cheap there won't he demand enollgh for the goods in which there is more profit for you, The farmers can afford to buy a-plenty and of the best. \Vhat ,you have to do is to keep your eyes peeled ior the 1hings that t.hey'll like if they're only hronght. hefore th\:':n. \-Vhat you have to do is to make them want them, and that is what advertising is for. But you may say: "1 don't know how to advertise in that way." \iVell, any man \\'ho has the intelligence to nm a store ha1:' the intelligence to write advertising of the right kind. Stick by the goods-never mind the grammar. Get the goodness of the goods 1nto your ad. and the lowness of price, and leave out all kinds of flourishes. And if you're not sati!-ified with your effort the editor will help yon out, or the schoolmaster or schoolma'am-only don't let them put down pretty phrases for you instead of business. You'll soon le~1T11the trick yourself if yOll watch how the big stores in the city advertise. Of course yOll can leave out the "frillings" and stick to plain facts. You'U notice that when these arc disconnted the ad_ just comes to this: "Here is an article which you want, an article which you'll be happier to possess, and it's ridiculously cheap. Under ordinary circumstances you would do vv-ithout this particular article, But at this price you can't do with-out it." Human nature is the same in the country as it is in the town. Stripping off certain conve'1tionalities, you reach the heart oi the woman who drives to YOLlr store with her eggs and butter for exchange jm;t in the same way that the 45 broidered frames in the drawing-rooms ~crve at once as ornaments and as protection against chill air drafts, which have a way of cH'.eping through space across the desirable places for the reading chair. Embroidered screens are not dear. When sprays of autumn-tinted Jap maples, and hanging branches of purple wistaria, or glimpses of landscape decorate a screen much depends on the workmanship, and if the material is silk, satin or cotton the price varies all thc way from $5 to $500. The black Jap and Chinese screens of black c.otton, with gold thread embroidery, in which storks and lotus play an important part, are dnrable and pretty, ranging from $4 ior a four-foot-high three-leaved screen to $5 for a five-foot one, and advancing by degrees. The bamboo frames are light and the convenient articles may be carried into the bedroom to shield a sleeper, or the screen may conceal a washstand or disturb a sleeper, or the screen may conceal a washstand or catch-all corner or a rest couch. The shops are selling good screens of weathered oak or dull green or crown frames, with some applied decoration, fQr $5 each. Other screens are covered with tapestry woven after the Gobelin pattern~ and faded colorings, or perhaps in brighter, happier tones in \Vattean colors and wreaths of roses and flowers. Nelson-Matter Furniture Company, Grand Rapids. city merchant reaches the woman who is driven to his store in -an antomobile. Bargains---that's the keynote of store advertising. Give the folks bargains; and give them real ones. Advertising will then pay YOl!o SCREENS ARE IN STYLE. Ware From Old Japan May Have Aided in Finding Sphere of U sefvlness. Screens are on the tiptop of fashion. T t may be a wave from old Jap~lll has bronght them to their proper sphere of usefulness. The 11igh-grade department stores arc showing processions of screens from the pretty boudoir shield to the emin(1)tly practical burlap!:> and artistically embroidered Japanese. \.Vhen Ollce a screen is taken into the it is difficult afterward to paTt \vith it. household intimacy The high art em- Silkoline and dainty rosebud dimities are prettiest for bedroom screel1s. "Vhen the shirred material loses freshness it may be washed and put in Illac.e again. A screen on which the covering is gay with roses is a decided ornament to a room and adds so much to the atmosphere of daintiness. Lawns and swisses and cnrtain fabrics in white wash materials with lln-ings of bhle and pink or violet cambrics are really more serviceable than they look. Advances in Prices Announced. Dealers are receiving notices from manufacturers tInt prices will be advanced Jan. I, from 10 to 20 per cent when new price list catalogues will be issued. "Flowered" Oak. The Eval1sville (Ind.) Furniture company will exhibit thei" famol1s "Flovl-'ered \Vhite Oak Goods," in the Manufacturer!s Exhihition Building, Chicago, during the mouth of Jannary. 46 Ten Years a Manufacturer. David E. Uhl. the proprietor of tlle Grand H.apids F2lIlCY Furniture Company, at the close of teu year.s' after his initia-tion into the bllsiness. illld" himself ill pos,;cssion of a large modern, well equipped ractory. and a large iinnl}' csrahli,:;llcd bl1siness. ::\1r. Uhl was a lJ(Jvice in the furniture trade ill lhe year- 1895, and rightly commencing in a small ,vay he mastcrct! the details of malll1factnre, ouyillg and selling, and the :~l1CCl.'SS achieved is due to his intelligence, his energy and his appli-cation to business. His Ene cOI1"i~ts of parlor desks, book-cases, writing tahles and music cabil1cts, and is shown ill the Rlodgett building, Grand Rapids. Will Show in the Pythian Temple. The Cahillet }fakers Company. of Gnuld Rapids. J):Jn: leased a large part of the second tloor, (somh hall) of t1lf" Pythian Temple. Grand Rapids, and will "hmr wore than twice as man:y pieces of fancy furniture as in Jnl)' last. Tho.: line is a fine one, eonsisling- as it docs, of p;.trlor and Iibrar:>" tables, music cabinets. book cases, sideboards. bllffets, china closets, serving tables and dining extenSIOn tables. Tbis cornpany uses choicest sclected woods. and ranks high in the maHer of design. \YOrbIlanship and finish. The doon or their show room wilt te opened ]alltwry 1. The stock of fnl'nilLire of the Koepp-:\Iueller f'nrllilure company in )'filwal\kce W;IS damaged to the exknt of $3.000 by a fire December T;.th. The 10ss is covered by insurance. Quaintness. \\'as attractivel.y interllli"l'i[ with hoth simple and formal effect;; ill the stately little parlor which an Englishwoman ftlrl1i.~hed l'or her drawing r00111. Her furniture was covered \\itll a pale pink and grei..'l1 brocade, and the rOO[11 paneled ill :t g-n'ell watered or moire paper bordered 0111 \"ith a nar-ru\\, Ilowcr bordering. The rug was one of the \"/iltons which came \vlthol\t pattern or border and which are so \\,O\·CI1 that they reqllirc only to be bonght in the required Icllglhs. having already tbe \vidths to make them adaptahle to any room, This also was selected ill a sort green which hlellcled \vitb the ftlrniture. The curtains were of the simple kind which fitted \vith the English habit of tlsing the dra\' .. -ing room windows as reading places and sl111ggcries Spencer & Barnes Company, Benton Harbor. for lhe doing of prelty afternoon needlework. They wcre of creamy Uluslin ,vitlt ribbon knot designs, the bowknots being woven in the green color. and \,,7cre simply made up with frills not unlike our idea of a bedroom curtain. The wbile marble mantel W8" disposed of by covering the &helf in pink moirc of the same shade as lhat in the brocade, the ends of the scarf bting pointed and allowed to hang down about half \Va:r and heing finished with a narrow pink fringe. The grate was kept open and in the perfect ready-to-light order known as being "laid.·" and even when fireless it drcw d bright tOllell to itself, A Gloomy Shade. Tntting stamps are of lnallY colors, but lhey have the saine general effect. They ma:y be yellow, purple or helio-trope. but they end by giving the merchant a particularl:y )1;loorny shade of bll1c.-Fx. The \VallbloolU Fl\rnitl1re company of St. Paul have been sued for $7,000 daJl1<1gc.~by George Smith, who was in-jured by a fall down the elevator shaft. 47 THROUGH determined efforts ro icrce prices downward, we are proving our fiddlty to tbe common people. With . unparalleled offenn~ lilte these I.ere mentiono:d, backed by the most li~I'treciil plan In existence, It is no wonder ~ are getting the borne furnishing business of Sprin~eJd. Every pun:hase' here now means a saving that you cannot lutord (rJ o.o::rlook. Weare Making Homes for Detroit's Salaried Men and therefore a great benefit to all mankind ThQusands of beautihil, comfortable and well furni~ll~r1l10rljeS exist in this cit.)'> s01ely because of tIle modern installment credit system which \Vei\ & Co. ha'-e extended to the people at large. If t~e wage earners were obliged to pay (fish wl1<1tkillrl of 3ample !/Pe/ail .lfdveTtisemen/s 48 The Bedroom of F ranceis I, Mu."" de Cluny. Paris. This bOOroom WM occupied by Qyeen Victoria 01England on the occasion of her visit to lile Grand Trianon in 1840. The llpholstery and draperiee life of rose "alin brocade. ALL WOODS ATLAS FURNITURE COMPANY JAMESTOWN, N. Y. DRESSERS .CHIFFONIERS Grand Rapids Exposition BLODGETT BUILDING, FOURTH FLOOR H, L. CHAMBERLAIN =~~====== EMIL JOHNSON 50 THE ROYAL MANTLE AND THE ROYAL MANTEL There's a Difference The royal mantle falls to the lot ot but few; but The Royal Mantel is broad enough to carry the benefits of its splendid productions to a multitude. Evidence? See the line Fourth Floor MANUFACTURERS' EXHIBITION BUILDING 1319 Michigan Avenue In January CtUNA CLOSETS BUFFETS COMBINATION AND LIBRARY CASES LADIES' DESKS P. G. Lundquist in charge Royal Mantel and Furniture Roch.ford, Illinois Company BISSELL:S BRANCHES: 15 Warren St" NEW YOlt,K LONDON I S Pearl St., TORONTO PARIS Is the unl~' carpet sweeper on the market sold at fixed retail prices, and the value of tru5 policy to the dealer in making his profits both good and secure, is well understood b)' the trade generally. One large retailer said to a certain manufacturer recently: "If YO\l will agree to maintain a fixed aelling price, I will buy a carload, but I will not put a ten cent piece in yom goods if later 1 may have to sell them without profit, to meet competition. " Here is a strong endorsement of om price maintenance policy, and is predse:y what we have advocated for over twenty years. A fixed retail price is all that guar-antees to the dealer profit in the sale ofa commudity. Please remember the Bissell is the ONLY sweeper sold under a carefully devised and rigidly enforctd price mainte-nance policy Bissell Sweepers are sold at the following fixed retail Prices . "Gr ..nd Rapids" iJapan).... •, .. (Nickle] .. "Gold Medal" "Supet'ior" "Prize" "Welcome" "Boudotr" .. "Premier"· . "lde ..1". "American Queen" "EUte" "Parlor Queen". ··Superb . "Gt'and" ::Clu~:' , Hall .. .$250 300 300 300 300 300 3 SO . 300 325 350 375 400 500 4 SO 600 750 In the extreme western and southern states our fixed retail prices are fifty cents higher than those given above. Write for our special Christmas offer, the most liberal we have ever made, Bissell Carpet Sweeper Co. Grand Rapids, Mich. (Largest sweeper makers in the world. Established 1876.) We Show in Our Own Building the Year Round McAnsh, Dwyer & Co. Weare Showing a Bunch of DRESSERS, SIDEBOARDS, and TABLES LOOKS GOOD ENOUGH FoR A KING AND PRICE ISN'T HIGH. That Need no Argument to Sell. 1300 and 1302 Michigan Ave" Chicago A CATALOGUE OF YOURS FOR THE ASKING The Estey Standard line Large and complete and can't be beat Drop a postal card to ESTEY MANUFACTURING CO. owosso, MICH. "Rotary Style" for Dr<ltl Caninlls, Embossed MouldinjJ, Parte/s, Etc. Our Oak and Mahogany DINING EXTENSION TABLES Are Best Made, Best Finished, Best Vall!e!l. All Made from Thoroughl~' Seasoned Stock No. 435 Dining Table Top 54.%54, Made in Quartered Oak and Mahogany. Full Pol-ished. Nickel Casters LENTZ TABLE CO. NASHVILLE. MICHIGAN EmbOssino and DrOD Garvino MaGhln6S Machines for a II purposes, and at prices wi I h i n the reach of all. EveryMachine has our guar-antee against breakage for one year UNION EMBOSSING MACHINE CO, INDIANAPOLIS, IND. "Lateral Style" for Larue Capacify Heavr CarvinG's and Deell Embossings We have the Machine you want at a satisfactory price v.,rrite for descriptive drculars. THE FAMOUS VICTOR ALWAYS AT THE TOP c.~ .. Our Full Line on Exhibition on Second Floor of the Furniture Manufacturers' Exhibition Building, 1319 Michigan Avenue. Chicago. In Charge of F. A. KUNEY, ], O. KEMP, and H. ]. ARMSTRONG, The Posselius Bros. Furniture Mfg. Company DETROIT. MICHIGAN THE NEW SOUTHERN Corner Michigan Boulevard and 13th Street Chicago Headquarters for Furniture Men Rates, $1.00 to $2.50 per day ANEW high-cla", fire proof European plan hotel at moderate price,. Remodeled and newly fur- 1&31llnished throughout at a co,t of $100,000.00 Best accomodation in Chicago for the money. Two hundred room" 100 with private bath; re,taurant and cafe in connection. Fumiture buyer' should engage rooms m advance for the exhibition 'easons. Address ALEX DRY-BURGH, President and Manager. Almost Directly Opposite The Big Furniture Exhibition Buildings A FEW OF.OUR MANY DO NOT FAIL TO SEE THIS POPULAR LINE OF GOODS AT THE January Show in GRAND RAPIDS ONLY FUf"niture Exhibition Building Ottawa and Pearl Streets 2nd Floor, South Half to the Front F. E. STEVENS IN CHARGE DESIGNS Office Chairs. Bedroom Chairs and Rockers in Oak. Mahogany and Maple LUCE-REDMOND CHAIR CO., Big Rapids, Mich. Fancy Rockers. Desk and Dretiser Chairs. Parlor Suites and Dining Chairs in Oak. Mahogany and Maple Notice We have changed our location. During the Jan-uary show in Grand Rapids you will find us in ne rurniturefx~iMion6uil~in~ OTTAWA and PEARL STS. Second Floor. south h.lf to the front. Do not fail to look us up, as we will be there with a Complete Line, including many new designs. KARGES WARDROBES ARE GOOD WARDROBES Prices right WRITE FOR CATALOGUE nAnOf~ fURnlTURf ( O. EVANSVILLE INDIANA cLaisE SIDEBOARPS Are Ihe BEST ON THE GLOBE for the money In wnting mention Michigan Artisan ,r GET OUR CATALOG. Mention Michigan Artisan when writing Furniture Company E~anihille. Indiana BOCKSTEGE FURNITURE CO. EVANSVILLE, IND. NO. 10. DRESSINGl TABLE. TOP 2Ox40. FRENCH PLATE 22x2S, SELECT QUARTERED OAK, RUBBED AND POLISHED. Makers 01 the "SUPERIOR" Extension, Parlor and Library Tables NEW CATALOGUE JUST ISSUED-GET ONE 1858 1905 E. Q. SMIT" C"AIR ===COMPANY=== MANUFACTURERS OF WOOD, DOUBLE CANE, CANE, COBBLER TUfTED LEAT"ER AND VENEER SEAT C"AIRS AND ROCKERS No.145 Reception Rocker Veneered Rolled Seat Quartered Oak Finisbed Golden Office and Warerooms, Cor, Third and Division Sts. Factory and Supply Mill, Foot of Oak St. ------IEVAN5VILLE,IND.------ MAKE MONEY MR· DEALER BY SELLING THE Dossr KITCHEN CABINETS CUPBOARDS SAfES and WARDROBES Best Goods lowest Prices BOSSE FURNITURE CO., Evansville, Ind. The "ELI" fOLDING BEDS PARROEfITBREWAINDNE"DRS No Stock complete without the Eli. Beds in Mani.d and Upright ELI 0 MILLER & Co E..... lII•• I.dl ••• • • V.'rite for Cllts and prkes hansYille FurnRure CO., Evansville. Ind. Manuradurers of the "Celebrated flowered White Oak Goods." BEDROOM SUITES CHIFFONIERS ~ ODD DRESSERS~ "d WASH sTANDS "The line with the Finish" Something Entirely New Goods shown in January ex-hibit at Chica-go. Ill., at Ka. 1319 Michigan Ave., 2n floor ann also at our factory sa I es-rooll1 <It Evans-ville, Ind. New Catalogue ,just issued. lrI The Sargent Manufacturing Co., MUSnEGON. Mich. Bachelors' Cabinets, Ladles Desks. Extra Large Chiffoniers. Ja.rdiniere Stands. Hall Rackli. Book Cases and Magazine Stands. Also Manufacturers and exporters of Rolling Chairs. chairs adapted to all kinds of invalidism, both for home and street use. L" S I \ Furniture Exhibition Bldg., Grand Rapids, Mich. me on .. e al (1319 Michigan Ave .•Chicago, Ill. 5 Complete Lines of Refrigerators at RIGHT PRICES Opalite Lined Enameled Lined Charcoal Filled and Zinc Lined Zinc Lined with Removable Ice Tank Galvanized Iron Lined Slationary Ice Tank Send for new CATALOGUE and let us name you pl"lce Challenge Refrigerator Co. GRAND HAVEN, MICH., U. S. A. Thos. Madden, Son & Co. INDIANAPOLIS. INDIANA UPHOLSTERED FURNITURE Be,t In America Parlor Suites Our New Line of Davenport Beds are the very best that can be made Styles and Prices to suit everybody In Two, Three and Five Pieces made in Stationary and Loose Cushions One of our Big Sellers Our new line ready about January 10th and will be shown only at our Show Rooms 35 to 39 North Capital Ave., Indianapolis,Ind. Write for Catalogue. Koenig So Gamer Furniture Co. MANUFACTURERS OF VICTORIA, COMBINA nON, UPRIG"T and MANTfL folding Beds Odd Dressers, Princess Dressers, Napoleon Beds in Quartered Oak, Mahogany and Bird's Eye Maple. Our full line shown on 3d floor, 1319 Michigan Ave. Office and Warehuuse 266 to 272 N: Green St., Chicago, III. Factory No. 22 to 48 Pratt Street THE FORD & JOHNSON CO. CHAIR MAKERS Wish to announce to the trade that in addition to the complete line of Chairs to be shown by them in January, there will be a line of medium and fine grade Dining Room Suites. To this line we wish to call particnlar attention, as we believe it has the (;haracter, merit, style, good taste, and individuality desired by the trade. The Chair Line, always strong, has many new and pleasing additions, especially in Dining, Bed Room,Reception, and Rocking Chairs. In Fiber Rush and Malacca there will be a number of very desirable new ideas, which will merit your inspection. Look for our next announcement in this space and see some of these trade winners. Genera] Office INDIANA AVENUE and SIXTEENTH STREET CHICAGO, ILL. Salesrooms: BOSTON. MASS. NEW YORK, N. Y. CHICAGO, ILL. FRANKFORT, KY. ATLANTA. GA. CINCINNATI. O. , . . "'~·r,".IJ1>.''''''''''''''''' ------Tm: ------ YEAGER fURNITURE CO. ALLENTOWN, PA. Upholstered Parlor furniture and Novelties A Large New Line of Upholstered Rockers and Wood Seats "We Make Our Own Frame/' EXHIBITS NEW YORK Manufacturers' Exbihition Bldg. I Jl9 Michigan Ave. 7th Floor 333 to 14T Fourth Ave" Corner 25th St. 2-d Floor A Great Line of Bedroom Furniture MADE IN THE EAST SOLID CONSTRUCTION. MODERN DESIGNS. UNEQUALLED FINISH. BURT BROS. Leading Manufacturer, in the E"t of 2000 S Ninth St Philadelphia Pa CHAMBER FURNITURE . 0' l • WRITE FOR CATALOGUE Refrigerators YUKon EGonomiG AND GhilKoot ZINC LINED AND WHITE ENAMELED There are excellent reasons why you ,:1 I should buy the above. The catalog tells you what they are. Send for one. The Michigan Barrel Co. 670 CANAL IT. GRAND ~APIDS. Mlcn. Cabinet Makers CO. MAKERS OF FINE FURNITURE Grand Rapids, Mich. EXHIBIT PYTHIAN TEMPLE No. 134. Remarkable Growth Due to QUALITY and VALUES " New Go-Carts and Children9s Carriages FOR THE SEASON OF 1906 Our new catalog will be ready about Jan-uary 1st. and will contain the finest line of Go-Carts and Children's Carriages it has ever been our pleasure to present to tbe trade. See our line at the Cbicago ex-hibition, 131 Michigan Ave. Write for catalog A. American Go-Cart Co. DETROIT, MICH. WHITE PRINTING CO. Printers for the Furniture Trade. Grand Rapids, Mich. Rockford Chair and Furniture Company Rockford, Illinois. Our Only Exhibit In the Blodgett Block Grand Rapids We will show during January, I906, a large numb~r!!f ne'iV and natty conceits in that "A Little Better 'Than Seems Nec-essary" Furniture. In the mean-time let us have your ordersfor your holiday needs. We have much that is admirably adapted to this purpose, and can make prompt shipments. Exhibits Chicago. 14.1 Michigan Avenue. (Fourth Floor) New York. Furniture Exchange. Fifth Floor. No. 33 Ma.kers of Library Suites. Library :Book C.~esl Music: Cabinet., Ladies' Parlor Desks. Medicine Cabinets THE UDELL WORKS INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA A MO(O)N-EY MAKING LINE Moon Desk Co. Muske.gon, Mieh. Buy Our Desks and Prosper On Sate Ground Floor Pythian Temple GRAND RAPIDS D. L. McLeod in charge. No. 814 Has raised panels all around and be-tween pedestals, wide pedestal drawers\ center drawer with flat keyed lock; double writing bed, heavy pilasters and roll top arms, drawers varnished inside, have mov-able partitions, deep drawer partitioned for books. Overhanging or bracket front, golden oak finished. rubbed and ·polished. Desk is supplied with 13 aU wood pigeon hole boxes, 4 letter file drawers with index, one card index drawer with follow block attachment, private compartment with flat keyed lock. This desk is also supplied with space for books at each end of the pigeon hole case. No. 2tO A No. 281 A WE manufacture the larg-est line of FOLDING CHAIRS in the United States, suitable 101"Bunday Schools, Halls, Steamers and 1.11Pu hUc Resorts. . . . . We also manufacture Brass Trimmed Iron Beds, Spring Beds, Cots and Cribs in a larg-e variety. . . . Send "fo-rCatalogue and Prices to Kauffman Mfg. CO. AS"LAIID. 0"10 NEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA, Via GRAND TRUNK-LEHIGH VALLEY ROUTE. Two Fast Trains Daily ExcePt Sunday. Daily. Leave Cd Rapids 2:45 p. m. 7 :05 p. m. Ar Philadelphia 3:40 p. m. 7:25 p. m. Ar New york 4:30 p. m.. 8:40 p. m. Service unsurpassed. For further information apply at City Office, Morton House Block. C. A. JUSTIN, C. P. & T. A. 64 7IRrr I0'A~ • .-\-1 X;;; 3t .. • NINTH SEASON "The Chicago Exhibition" (THE BIG BUILDING) 1319Michigan Avenue, Chicago New Lines in ReadinessJanuary first, 1906 PARTIAL LIST OF"EXHIBITORS Atlme Chair Co., Reading, Mich. AmericRIl Go-cart Co., Detroit, l\1ich. Alnerlcan :a.retalware Co., Chicago, Ill. Atha Chair Co" State"ville, 1'. C. Banderob-CbllBe Co., Oshkm.h, "'is. Banta Ftirniture Co., Goshen, Inti. Bay View Ful.'niture Co., HGlland, l\11('h. Baxter, ItobcJ:'t E., ChimlJ::"tJ, Ill. Billow-Lupfer Co., ColumhuI', Ohio. Bissell Carpet Sweeper Co., Graull Rapids, :nnch. Blanchard-Hamilton Fnru. Co., Sbdbyvl1le, Ind. Buckeye Chah- Co., RaveDna, Ohio. Bockhardt :turnltnre Co., Dayton, Ohio. Cadillac Cabinet Co., Detroit, l\licb. Campbell. C. II. Furn, Co., Shelbyville, Ind. Campbell, Smith & Ritchie, Lebanon, Ind. Capital Rattan Co., Indianapolis, Ind. Cass, B. T., &; Co., Chicago, Ill. Cates CbaJr Co., Thomasvlllc, :S. C. Central Furnitul'c Co, Rockford, Ill. Central Mfg. Co., Chimlgo, ilL Chicago 'Wire Chair Co., Chicago, Ill. Cole, E. B., &; Co., Chicago, III. Conrey &; Birley Table Co., Shelbyville, Ind. Conrey &; Davis ~1fg. Coo, Shelbyville, Ind. Corunna. Furniture Co., Corunna, Mich. Coye Furnitu ..e Co., Stevens Point, "'is. Ca-amer Furniture Coo, Thomasville, :So C. Crandall-Long ]:·'urnitlll'e Co., Hanove .., PII.. Crons-KllIs & Co" Piqua,Ohio. Cush:man, H. T., l\llfg. Co., N. Bcnnington, "~to navis, HOl'wich It Steinman, Chicago, Ill. DIxie FtlrPiture Co., I..exington, N. C. Earl MetaJ. Hed Co., Pana, Ill. Eckhoft' Furniturc Cu., St. I>Olli!l,1'1[0. Elk J<urniture Co., I.exin"ton, N. C. Emmerich, Chll,!!., it Co., Chicago, Ill. Emptre Furniture Co., Jameliitown, N. Y. Empire Mouh:Ung '\,-orks, Chicago, Ill. Emrieh Furniture Coo, lodianapoli!l, Ind. Enterprise Bcd Co., Chicago, ILl. Evansville J<'urniture Co., EVlI.nliivilIe,Ind. ]'-all Creek l\'lfg. Coo. Mooresville, Ind. FeJlilke Bros., Chicago, Ill. Ferguson Bro!l. JUg. Co., Hoboken, :So J. jI'oster Bros. Mfg Co., Utica, :N, Y. Fremont Furniturc Cu., jI"remont, Ohio. Garvey (The) Co" ChicllgO, Ill. Gendron Wheel Co., Toledo, Ohio. Globe Chair Co., HHI!lboro, Ohio_ Go!lhen No\'clty &:Bl'\1>lhCo" Goshen, Ind. Grand Rapids Cabinet Co., Gd. Rapids, Mich. Grand Rapidlj Refrigerator Co., Grand Rap-ids, Mich. Green, Sol., Chicago, Ill. Greenpolnt l\:Jetallie Bcd Co., Brooklyn, N. Y. Gllnll Furniture Co., (;rand Rapids, J.ll,~h. Hatncr "Furniture Co., Chicll.~o, Ill. Haggard it )Iar('U880n (:0., Chicago, Ill. Uansen, Loui8, ('hieago, Ill. Hawe!! }'urnit.ure Co" (;oshen, Ind. lIero~- & '!\Iarrennt'r, Chicll.J.:"o, Ill. Herzog Art Furniture Co., Saginaw, 1'Ilich. HerzoK Table Co., Saginaw, :anch. lIirllhhel"J.:",::-.f. II., &:Soo, Baltimore, ]old, I10dell Furniture Co., Shelh.,.-ville, Ind. Hollatz Bros, Chicago, JlI. Homan, Andrew, Co., Ne,l' York, N. Y. Horn B..-os. l\Ifg. Co., ehicago, Ill. Hllbba,rd it Eldredge Co.. Rochester, N. Y. Hnls ..,.. 1\:_ ". Co., Columbll!l, Ohio. Humphrey Book Case Co., Detroit, Mich. Imperial Furniture Co., Stat>es,"iUe, N. C. Indillnuoolill Chair & Furn. Co., Indianapolis, Ind. Johnson, ,-\.. J. it Sons Furn. Co., Chicago, Ill. Kelly, J, A. &: Bro., Clinton, Iowa. Kelnnlh; Furniture Co" Green Bay, 'Vis. Ke-no!lha. Crib Cu., Kenollha, "'is. Kimball &: Chappell, Chicago, Ill. Kincaid l·urn. Co., Statesville, Y. C. Kindel, C. J., Beddlng Co., St. Louis, Mo. Koenig .& Gamel' Furn_ Co., Chicago, Ill. Lamb, Oeo. L., Nappanee, Ind. Lunday, JOEl.I" St, Louis, ~Io. l,anday Steel RaoJ:"e Co., st. Louis, 1\010. Lllnglliow-Fowler Co., nO(~hel'lter, S. Y. I.athl'op Co., Chicago, III. Leroi .Furniture Co., St. Louis, ~Io. 3.Ianist.ee l\'Ifg. Co., .lfuuistee, ~fic1l. ~[an,-el Furnitnl'C Co., Jamestown, N. Y. lUayhcw lIUg. Co., Milwaukee, '''Is, .UcHougall, G. P. & Sons, Indlanapolilii, Ind. ).Ic:s"own Mfg. Co., Columbia City, Ind. ).IechaniC!l Furniture Co., Rockford, Ill. "Icier & Pohlmann Furn. Co., St. Louis, :\10. )llller, Ell D., Co., Evansville, Jud. _UlIne, lV. S., Co., Cleveland, Tenn. MinnC-lIp-QJl/jFurn. CQ., M1nnMpolls, l'fwu. ="Iodern :Furniture Co., Cinclrmatl, Ohio. .'\lontgomery .lUrnlture Co., ),Ioutgomery, Pa. l\'lontgomer}." Table Co., .:\Iontgomery, Pa. Morgun .:\[fg_ Coo, ,Jamf'stown, :Y. Y. l\'[yrtle Furnit'llre Co., High Point, lS". C. Naperville J,,(Junge Co., :Saperville, III. )Iiemalln&: ... einhardtTableCo .• Chieago.lIl. Oberbcf'k Bros. ")lfg. Co., Grand Rapids, Wh. OJbJ'Jeh & Golbeck Co., Chicago, 111. Onken, Oscar, Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. Palmer, A. E., Mfg. Cn., Adrian, ::u.i(~b. Palmer ")ltg. Co., Detroit, ~nch. Paul JUg. Co., Fort 'Va)'06, Ind. I'eck &: Hills ~urn, Co., Chicago, Ill. Penn Chair Co., Philll,delpbia, Pa_ Perkins (Hr) Sanitary kefrlgerator Co., battle Creek, l\Uch. Plimpton, F. T., it Co., Chicago, Ill. PosseJlus Br0Ol.Furn. Co., Detroit, Mich. Queen Chair Co., Thom:f\lilville, N. C. RfUldolph Furn. WorkOl, Randolph, N. Y. Rockford E'ranle &: .F"b:ture Co., Rockford, III. Rockford Standard Furn. Co., Rockford, IlL R()Ot :Furniture Co., Shelbyville, Ind. Royal Mautel and Forn. Coo, Rockford, Ill. Sa.rgent MfK. Co" Muskegon, Mich. Schadt & Mathewson, Detroit, Mich. Schulh &:Hirsch Co., Chicago, Ill. Sellers .& Sons Co., Elwood, Ind. Sextro, Mfg_ Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. Sheannan Bros. Co., Jameliitown, N. Y. Shelbyville "'-ardrobe Co., Shelbyvllle, Ind. Shreve Chair Co" Union City, Pa. Sikes Consolidatt"d Ch~lr Co., Buffalo, N•. 1.'". Skandia :FurnIture Co., Rockford, Ill. Spiegel Furn. Co., Shelbyville, Ind. Standard Chair Co" Thomasville, N. C. Standard Chair Co., Union City, Pa.. Standard Metal Furn.. Co., Detroit, Miell. Statesville .f'urn. Co., StatesviJItl, N. C. Stickley It Brandt Chair Co., Blngha.mpton, N. Y. Stille it Uuhlme1er Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. StompOl-Burkhardt Co., Dayton, Ohio. Streit, C. F., Mfg. Co" Cincinnati, Ohio. Syracuse Screen Iii, Grine Co., Manchester, Ind. Thayer, H, N. Co., Erie, Pa. Thompson Chair Co., Tholll8s-,.'ille, N. C. Tidioute }i·urn. Mfr;. 00., Tidioute, Fa. 'ridioute Rocker Co., Tidioute, .l'a. Tlpp (The) Furn. Co., Tippecanoe City, O• Toledo Metal \Vheel Works, Toledo, Ohio. 'lurk, Jos. Furn. Co" Kankakee, Ill. Union City Chll.ir Co., {Jnion City, Pa. Wait J<"urniture Co., Port!lmouth, Ohio. lVarfleld Iii, \\lil!lon, Rus;h-,.·ille, Ind. lVa!lhington l\Ug. Co., n'ashington C. R,. O. 'Vest .I!lnd Furn. Co., Rockford, III. Widman, J. C_, &: Co., Detroit. Mich . 'Vif,momun Chair Co., Port Washington, wi&. Wisconsin Furn. it Mfg. Co., Neillsville, Wi8. "'-oll it Kraemcr Furn. Co., St_ LOuis, Mo. \Voh"erlne l\1fg. Co., Detroit, Mich_ Yeager (The) .furoitul"e Co., Allentown, PR. Zeeland Furnitul'e Co., Zeeland, Mich. Manufacturers' Exhibition Building Co. CHICAGO .~. I The High Reputation of the Alaska Refrigerator IS JUSTIFIED BY ITS MERITS ONLY Economy, simplicity and durability are combined to make a PERFECT REFRIGERATOR. When in the market let us hear from you and we will be pleased to matt catalogue and quote prices. The ALASKA REFRIGERATOR CO. New York Office, 3S Warren St. EXCLUSIVE REFRIGERATOR MANUFACTURERS MUSKEGON, MICHIGAN MUSKEGON LETTER. The manufacturers of Muskegon will make a great exhi-bition ()f furniture at Grand Rapids in January. All lines have been strengthened and a better showing of Ollr leading industry \",ill be made than in the past. The lofuskegon Valley Fl1fnitllre company have added to their strong line of chamber furniture many beautiful patterns of ladies' writing desks, music cabinets and bed-room tables ;n solid mahogany and marquetry inlay. The Ivloon Desk company have completely changed their patterns and will sho\,,' a line of office desks complete in detai1. Kew features ill typewriter desks vvill be among the strong attractiollS of the line. The Graud Rapids Desk company will occupy their old qnarters in the Fllrnitl1fC Exhibition building, with "Ed" eald"well in charge. The Alaska Refrig'erator company are operating their grcat fac~()ry to its full capacity, haying booked many heavy contracts for goods. The company divided a handsome dividend recclltly. Ballowski & :V[assey opened a house furnishing store De-cember 18th ill l\e,vnygo, IvIich. Muskegon Valley Furniture CO. MUSKEGON, MICH, ---- Odd Dressers Chiffoniers Wardrobes Ladies' Toilets Dressing Tables Mahogany Inlaid Goods Will Not Believe It. "Selling belo-w cost" is a poor thing to do. It is also a poor adve.rtisernent for more reasons than one. First, a tua-jority of those who read it will not believe it. It does not look reasonable. Then, it mtlst be remembered that the purchaser is not so much interested in what something costs yOll as what it will cost him. He is not anxious to know huw and why and when yOll bonght it, but, if he wants it, he is very much interested in the selling price. It means less to him than it does to yon to know the difference be-tween its huying and selling price.-()regon Tradesman. No-Kum-Loose, J s the name of the trade mark adaptcd by the Grand Rapids Brass company for the TI)'wer Patent Fastener. Knobs and pulls put onto furniture with these little Tower Patent Fasteners will "No-Kum-Loose," ul1less the furniture is entirely destroyed. That means a saving of much trouble; a saving of drawer fronts from being scra.tched or marred; a saving of much valuable time and expense in correspond-ence; saves many a purchase from being returned to the stDre; and -in athlitinn to all these advantages they C03t the manufacturer absolutely nothing, and the dealer can well afford to demand them of the manufacturer. They cost no one a cent aside from the Grand Rapids Brass company~ who simply furnish them gratis to increase the sale of their goods, "No-KlI1l1-Loos.e" is a success. Demand the Tower Patent Fa.o;tencrs from every salesman ",;Ita shows you photos of case goods, and positively refuse to buy unless they are furtlished. Rattan Furnishings in Europe. Rattan furniture in Europe is very comfortable and has lines of color illtcrwoven in the cane seats and backs of chairs which make thcm very attractive to the eye. Red, blues and greells arc l1scd sparingly and make the furniture appear to lrluch better advantage. One finds halls, dining-rooms and even dral,,,ing-rool11s furnished wholly or in part with this artistic and graceful fllrniture, This statemerH ap-plies to hotels, l,vhether private houses are similarly fur-nished the writer can not say. .. 66 Pioneer Mfg. Co .. DETROIT. MieN Rem1Furniture Babu Garriages Go-Gartll Our goods will be shown with Palmer Mfg. Co. on the second Aoar of the Furniture Manufacturers' Exhibi~ tLon Building, 13 19 Michigan Ave., CHICAGO, - ILL. To the fact that ten millions 11[ dollars have- heen expended in Detroit during the past year in the erectiol1 of buildings, the retailers of furniture attribllte much of the great prosperity they enjoy. The growth of pupu]<t tion has been so rapid during the paq (\'1'0 years 'llld tile demand for fl,rniture has been so great that the retailers have bad to Pllt {or"th great efforts to fill the same. For several :ycars it seem-ed as if there were too mally furniture stores (upwards of fifty) in Detroit, but the res111ts of the past years proved there was room {or all. There was hut one failure', and that an important one. Creditors lost nothing, and the only com-ment excited by the failure l,vas that the bankr\1pt had lasted so long. A large part of the furllituce sold in Detroit is of the better grades, although tbe great laboring population of the city requires milch cheap work. President 1\-1. J. 1'1urphy, of the Murphy Chair comp<111y. is of the opinion that the next census will show the popl11atioll of the city to have in-creased to 400,000. Secretary Seeger, of the Posselins Brotbers Fllrn;tl1re Manufacturing company. reportcil trade as Ullllsu<t1ly active ROOK WOOD and a genera] line of fRNGY TRBLES Write for Cuts and Prices PALMER Manufacturing Co. 1015 to 1035 Palmer Ave. DETROIT, MICH. Will exhibir during January on second floor, Soulh FUfnitur~ E"hi-mlion Bldg., 1319 Michigan Ave., Chicago. Ill. for this season of the year. "\"!Ile have received but a very few cancellations," remarked Mr. Seeger. "Many of our customers have written us to ship when we can, if we can not ::;hip now. \Ve shall exhibit practically a new line of one htlndred patterns of tables in the Manufacturers' Ex~ hibitioll bllilding, Chicago, during the month of January. It will contain, in addition to our specialty, the Victor, many st'lllc1ard patterns. In finishes we notice a growing interest ill fumed oak, but there is a steady demand for weathered. Gulden oak ,vill. it seems, ever retain its popularity. Solicitors {or business hnd a chjlly reception awaiting their presence if they do not hold certificates in the Detroit Board of (ol111nerce. No time or attention is given to so-licitors or salesmen l,\'ho have not paid the price of
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- 1905-12-25T00:00:00Z
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- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
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- Issue of a furniture trade magazine published in Grand Rapids, Mich. It was published twice monthly, beginning in 1880. and ~. GRAND RAPIDS., PUB Twenty-sixth Year-No.1 OCTOBER 10. 1905 ~eml.Monthly PEN-SOL. The New Thinner for all kinds of Oil-Stains as well as Fillers and Stains is THE MOST PENETRATING REDUCER on the market. It may be mixed in all pro-portions with oils, fillers and stains because it IS ABSOLUTELY NEUTRAL to all ingredients used in them. It permits of much greater reduction than turpentine and benzine ~ AND INTENSIFIES THE COLOR 100% No danger of curdling, flows betlEr than other reducers and sells at a low price. SEND FOR FREE SAMPLE, THE SECRET OF SUPERIORITY Of the frame of the Gillette Roller Beaing Dry Kiln Truck s disclosed by the cut. The girth or header at the end fastens the angle steel sides together. It is made of mallable iron-extends the endre width of the angle steel sides-is solid across the top- grooved to receive the angles. TruckforEndwisePiling It is riveted at six points on the top and sides. These girths-+-in a 6 foot truck make the frame rigid-strong-Iasting. Examine the nrf>t channel steel tfock you see. The· sides separated by cast or malleable iron spreaders-frame held together by bolts---:.not rivets-running through the center of the channel-not fastened at top and bottom as in the Gillette truck. . Raise a channel iron truck-so built-3 feet from the floor. Drop it oI$the end of one of the channel sides-not on both-and see that side driven back, tbrowing the wheels out of line\.. Subject -a Gillette truck to the same treatment--or to any other test. Its superiority will then be as plain to yo\ as it is to us. The Gillette Roller Bearing Angle Steel Dry Kiln Truck is right in construction-right in price. Particulars for the asking. T"E GILLETTE ROLLER BEARING CO. Paten lees and Sole Manufacturers YANKEE VARNISH R EMOV E R ~uperior toatt other an;ic1es of the kind. Takes off notooly varn· Ish but shellac, fillers and stain. Work may 'be refinisbed imme_ diately witbout injury if our directions are followed. THE BRIDGEPORT WOOD FINISHING CO.-New Millorlf, Conn. 55 Fulton St., New York. 19 W. Lake St., Chicago. 231 Dock St.. Philadelphia. SPARTAN PASTE FILLER I .Ai High I Made in Marietta. Grade Article in Every Respect. possessing qualities that put it easily ahead of other fillers from the fineness and character of the ingredients that make up its composition. We produce this in all of the leading shades, including our fAMOUS GOLDEN OAK IMITATION QUARTERED OAK ~ TRY OUR SPECIAL FILLERS AND STAMPING INKS We are producing-the goods of this uature that bring- results to perfection. Sample our Fillers o. 800 and No. 810 and our Inks Nos. 5. 6 and 11. In OIL STAINS. remember, we lead! Our Golden Oak and Mahogany Stains stand without a rival. Write us for samples and fun information. The Marietta Paint and Color Co. I MARIETTA, OHIO. For they pay for themselves m a few Months OUf Clamps Cost You Nothing We now own the BENEDICT PATENTS May we write you about them ?• GRAND RAPIDS "AND SCREW COMPANY 130 South Ionia Street, Grand Ra'pid5,~ich. These Specialties are used all Over the World 1 V~[\('.er Presses, all k.ind!! and sizes Veneer Presses Glue Spreaders Glue Healers Trucks, Elc.. Etc. Hand 'Feed Glllein~ Machine. (Patent pending,) Eight Styles and Sizes. Wood· Working Machinery -,~-=---===-"';L-..-..--_--" . and Supplies Power~F'eediGllle :-;preading Machine. (Patent applied for). Single, double and comb11lation LET US KNOW YOUR WANTS 419-421 E. Eighth St. CHAS. E. fRANCIS &.. BRO.D CINCINN4T1. o. No.6 Glue Yeater The Pittsburg Plate Glass Company MANUE'"ACTURKRS AND JOBBERS OJ" Plain and Beveled Mirrors, Bent Glass for China Cabinets Plate Glass for Desks. Table Tops and Shelves It needs no argument to show what advantages may be derived from dealing directly with us. Our facilities for supplying furniture manufacturers will be understood when we state that we have 10 Glass factories, extending from Pennsylvania to Missouri; and 13 Mirror plants, located as follows: New York Boston Philadelphia. Burfalo Cincinnati St. Louis Minneapolis Atlanta. Kokomo, Ind. Ford City, Pa. High Point, N. C. Davenport Crystal City, Mo. Also. our 22 jobbino houses carry heavy stocks in all lines of alass, l)alnls. varnish.es and brush.es; and are located in the cities named below: NEW YORK-Hudson and Vandam Streets. BUFFALO-372-4-6-8 Pearl Street, BOSTON-4I-49 Sudbury St., 1-9 Bowker St. BROOKLYN-635 and 637Fulton Street. CHICAGO-442-452 Wabash Avenue. PHILADELPHIA-Pitcairn Building, Arch and CINCINN ATI-Broadway and Court Streets. Eleventh Streets. ST. LOUIS-Cor. I2th and St Charles Streets. DAVENPORT -4Io-416 Scott Street. MINNEAPOLlS-,500-SIO S. Third Street. CLEVELAND-I49-S1-53 Seneca Street. DETROIT -53-55 Larned Street E OMAHA-1.£08.1o-n Harney Street. P[TTSBURGH-IOI-l03 Wood Street, ST_ PAUL-349-S1 Minnesota Street. MILWAUKEE, WIS.-492-494 Market Street. ATLANTA, GA'-30, 32and 34 S. Pryor Street. ROCHESTER, N. Y.-Wilder Builditlg, Main SAVANNAH, GA -745-749 Wheaton Street. and Exchange St5, KANSAS CITY-Fifth alld Wyandott St5. BALTIMORE-22I-223 W. Pratt Street. BIRMINGHAM, ALA.-2J\d Ave. and 29th St. AGENTS FOR THE COULSON PATENT CORNER POSTS AND BATS. The Universal Automatic CARVINO MACHINE ~------c:-:= PERFORMS THE WORK OF 25 HAND CARVERS And does the Work Better than it can be Done by Hand ======MADE BY====== Indianapolis. Indiana Write f<ir(nhlorJ\\ation.PriCl!$Etc. 2 Machinery for MichiJran Artisans or Any Other Artisans . No. 98 Patent Gang Dovetailer 9 12 or 15 SJ)indles Cut ShOWSI5 Crucible stepl spindles I1riven by cut g-earing-. Self·uililil/ aojllstable Spindle steJl~. ecct!ntric Dovetail Cl1tt",rs, nlf'Challi~m above the table ailjustllbl· for f'itlJer ,'lain or swell frollis without hnvillg to dlsmanUe machine. Top raises to admit of i'llslly sharpen illg spindles. No.4 Patent Triple Drum. Eight Roll Sander 80x81ndles Send for s~llder book BUILDERS OF Wood Working Machinery FOR ALl. PURPOSES WRITE: FOR FULL DESCRIPTIVE: CIRCULARS AND CATALOGUE No. 133 Inside Molder-four sides Ras 4.71nch 1116108(('ell rolls to work 4 sides Hi Illenee wide and II Inches thick. four 81(\(->s(\lottf'(1 cylinders. wHh 11MInch journals, ffllll.'H> Inch knives n1leach. Side sptnrl!ps 1~ bleh diam~t",r, wbere peade Me al'plipo, lHted with a pail' of 6 Incb heaus and a pall" of 'I jllch knh'es Oileach. AS A RIP I:;AW AS.A RK-SAW No. 146 New Combined Band RiD and Re·saw------Three Patents Rlps rnateriaillp tu ~~tllch()~ wide lJptwepn saw all,1 fence. takes 18 inches under the gUide; re~aw!\ mllterial18 lllches wille. 8lllchesthlck. Just what ~'ou lleed If you rip and )"eRawand have all Illsuffieiellt amonnt to require sevarate tools. Send postal for new lJlllldsaw llOOk. NI). 156 SinDle CyJder in Cabinet Smoother Capadty Ii to 7 Inches thir'k. 24 10 42 Indlf's wide. feed roll, Solid or lusedlollS AU" IQUtG I<'EATUHJ:I: 011 tlllsmllchille te ~I~lcfha~~~;;;"l~;\~:)t;1I~~ll~.a~a~p~~i;;,l~~s~etmglcbll~l e~1l~it~~iri~~ 505-525 W. FRONT ST. J. A. FAY & EGAN CO. CINCINNATI, OHIO GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC LIBRARY 26th Year~No. 8. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., OCTOBER 10-15. 1905. -~ ~~--- '-- ---~~=== ._-- The Late Morris Wood. .:VTorris \Vood, of the firm of Morris \Voon & Somi, manufac-tUT(: rs of wood \vorkillR machinery rind tools in Chicago, died recently in that city, after an illness of three years. He was sixty-eight years of age, and is survived by his wife, yIargaret, and SOllS, George, Jay, \Varren, am.' Robert l. and his daughter, :\Jrs. Nel1ie"kichardsoll. For more than thirty .years l\.Ir. Wood was known to the m81lutadllrcrs of furniture in the United States and by his ability as fl mechanic ;:md his strict integrity as a bllsiness man won the friendship 31ld confidence of a large llllm· her Ivilh whom he had established bUi'incss relations. Many machines and tools cOllsiclcrcd indispemabk by wood workers were originated hy 1\Jr. \Vood. lIe was 011e of the 6rst to en-gage in the manufacture of carving machines, also a combina ti011 boring bit and counter sink, for which he was granted tet-ters patent. Bis death is not ouly a serious loss to his family and friends, but to the wood workers of America. The bllSi- 1WSSwill be continued by George and Robert]' Wood, who have long been associated ,vith their father in the firm. Profit-Sharing at Fall River Rejected. Fall River mill operatives had under consideration a proposition fro111the manllfactllrers that cOlll"cyed a promise of future prolit to the workers and a satisfactory solution of the more or less disturbed eoudition existing alllong the employes. The opera-tives asked for an increase of wages equivalent to fourteen per cent. They were offered a n\··c per cent advance and a hcnefit in fl system of profit-sharing arranged on a sliding scale that is to be governed by the .conJiton of the market and the Ol1tput of the mills. Under certain conditions the profit to the men would be much greater than the fOllrteen per cent wage increase de-manded by then!. The plan proIJosed was a new one. There were many prec~ $ J .00 per Year. thing like it has been tried prudently and with earnestness 'the showing has beeu such as to gladden those who have partlc:i?3.ted . The \vorkers have been the beneficiaries, while employer;:; have also henefited by having that greater need of good work \vhich any sound craftsman brings to his labors when he feels within himself that the more he does and the better he does it the greater will be his wage on pay days. And yet th~ men rejected it. It would seem that the conditions existing at Fall River and ;l.Inollg the cotton mills everywhere were especially fitting for a furtber test of this industria! experiment and for the establish-ment of a mutual b(lllci of symllathy and expectation between c1ll[)loycr and em[)loyc that cannot be broken by every chance hreath of trade dissatisfaction. The average employe 1s a dunderhead. ""as the effort of the manttfactmers worth while? Tl1(' property of the Two Rivers. (\Vis.) l\llanufactming company was sold recently for $25,000. Bdore the sale the pro-perty had been appraised at $[55,000. It is doubtful if the ref-eree will confirm the sale, as under the bankruptcy law, the pro-perty mllst bring at least sevellty-nve per cent of its appraised vall1e. A new appraise.ll1ent seems to he in order. The Buchanan (Mich.) :-itroyed by 6re recently. was ftllly insured. Cabinet company's factory was de- The loss amounts to $.}O.ooo which THE CORRECT Stains and fillers. THE MOST SATISFACTORY first Coaters and Varnishes JlfA/lfUI'"ACTURED DH.i.ya....- CHICAGO WOOD FINISHING CO. ZS!I·&3 ELSTON AVE.... Z·16 SLOAN SI. CHI CAGO. 6 Sketches by Arthur Kirkpatrick. Grand Rapids, Mich. Qran~Da~i~s:,Dlowr'Pi~e an~Dust Arrester (om~anJ THE latest device for handling- sbav-ings and dust from all wood wood-working machines. Our eighteen yrars experience in this class of work has brought it nearer perfection than any other system on the market today. It is no experiment, but a demonstrated scientific fact, as we have several hundred of these systems in use, and not a poor one among them. OUf Automatic Furnace Feed System, as shown in this cut, is the most perfect working device of anything in its line. Write for our prices for equipments. WE MAKE PLANS AND DO ALL DETAIL WORK WITHOUT EX-PENSE TO OUR CUSTOMERS EXHAUST FANS AND PRESSURE BLOWERS ALWAYS IN STOCK Office and Factory: 20&-210 Canal Street GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. Citizens Phone 1282 Bell, M ..ltl 1804 OUR AUTOMATIC FURNACE FEED SYSTEM 6 7I 1'<-'T' I >5' JI.l'l ? ;'" $ f; * MODERN ENGLISH. in illuminated manuscripts. The manuscripts seldom or never show us cupboards or settles with pointed arches. And when we come to examine the few pieces of real mediae-val furniture which Mr. :Macql1oid has figured, neither do we find the pointed arch in them. In most of the fifteenth-century specimens here ;tlus-trated the well-knowll napkin pattern i!> used, a pattern very characteristic of English work of a Perpendicular THE OAK AGE IN ENGLAND. The, fine volume \vhich Mr. Percy )'1acquoid, R. 1., has compifcd relates ()]lly to what he calls the age of oak. Subse~llent volumes will deal with waluut, mahogany, and the cbmposite prodllctions of the half century between J 770 and 1820. The age of oak again, d-iviues itself into Gothic, Elizabcthan, and Jacobean. The scope of the present volume is summarized in two sentences on page \'ii. of; the introdllction: "All very early English fl1rnitllre that Has come down to liS is of oak. Deal and chestnnt were rare, valuable wood~ ill those days; what was made of he\ich and elm has penshed, and walnut was not grown for its! wood in England till about 1500." The! Gothic style ill furnitme occt,rs but seldom. \Vhel1 it cloes, ~hiefly in the form of chests, cupboards, and buffets, it is ~s unlike as possible to what was invented during the so-calted Gothic revival of the last century to represent it. \iV;l1C11 the lH:W Palace of Parliament ....a.s.. ready for its fl1Tnitmc Pugin alld others undertook to produce chairs and tables sllch as ought to have he en used before the Renaissallce. They lacked one quality; they Vo,'credesigned I OAK BEDSTEAD MADE IN 1560. . I. I I d . 1ll all lmaglllary style; t 1ey 'were evo ve from the lllller consciollsness of the 'eminent architects concerned. The fesult ""·as disappointing, and we do not see that in restored castles and houses of the most undoubtedly ;Jointed architec-ture the new furniture found much favour. In the C0m-mittee rooms of the Houses of Lords and C0111mons there are cxamples, hut they do not answer to the few ancient SpeCln1Cns that still exist or to those which are represented I Pcop"t, of the D'ke of D"m"hi". I type. l\1r. .Macquoid calls it linen fold, ami gives bxat)1ples in chests, cupboards, buffets, and the oak wainsJoting of rooms. The most imJ)()1·tant example is knownl as "Sir John \Vynne's "P.n:ffct," preserved at Gwydyr Castle, where it was made in 1535. "The ConstrL1~tion is Gothic, being surmounted by a canopy or dais, the base of which has at one time heen cut and reduced." It is remarkable for its heraldic decoratiOllS. The eagles of Owen Gwynedd are represented with the rose and the lions of Ellgland, and the red dragon of Cadwaladar, all grouped with a back-ground of linen fold. A double hutch, the property of ?vlr. 1'lajcndie, and one belonging to Mr. 1Iorg'an Vv'illiams aTe carved with more distinctive Gothic tracery but have the linen fold besides. A cupboard with very interestillg his-torical associations is the prop.erty of l'vIr. Barry; it must have been made for Ann Pickering, probably on her mar-riage with the ill-fated Francis \Veston, the son of Sir Richard vVeston, who built the well-known Sutton Place, near Guildford. Francis \\Teston was put to death, with other victims of the jealollsy of Henry VIII.. in 1536. It is curio LIS, among so many examples of these heavy oaken coffers, not to find chairs. The few seats preserved were in each case part of a series of stalls fixed to a wall, like the fine seat preserved at S1. Mary's at Coventry, which dates froni 1460. Another which ),1r. Macquoid figures, is he thinks. Flemish. Two chairs of what he calls the X shape are in \Vinchestcr and York cathedrals, and date from the Tudor period. Mr. lVfac(juoid does not mcntion the Glas-tonbury chair, whieh is so often imitated by the Western chair-makers. Perhaps he does Bot consider it a genuine example. \Vith the introduction of chairs as ordinary domestic furniture Gothic dies ant. "Although the number of chairs used, even in important bedrooms, at tbis time," namely, the reign of James 1., says Mr. Masquoid. "still remained limited. the growth of comfort is shown by an increase ill those made for the parlours and witb-drawing-rooms He elsewhere tells that the word chair is de- ri"'ed from an old French 'word chayre, chcrre, or cayre. The X shape is convcnient and looks \vell, but for a man with a heavy coat of mail something stronger was nece,,- ;:;ary, and in jlluminated m;Hluscripts or tapestry we see the box-like form, \vith panelled armsanc\ back, and evi-dently alrnost, if not quite immovable. r'jfteenth cen-tury chairs always l1ad arms to support the hea \'y sleeves then ..\.'.Or11. The chair ill" ark is "the earlicst knc)\·vn example of an English llpl101stered chair." Queen ~Jary TlIdor,. in the 'Nell-knowll portrait in the library of the Society of Antiquaries at Burlingron Honse, sits in a chair of this kind, The \va1I1nt. chair belonging to Sir George Donaldson (Fjg. 50) is ,l good example of tile', type. Bed-room stools, \vhich answered the pLHpose of small tables 8 as ".veil as seats, were probably the only portable seats, and "..-ere no doubt in coml11on lts!¥ The bed is ot oak, and of about the date 1560, that is, vel'}' early in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, whose arms are carved at the head. The roof or ceiling of the bed is very massive, weighing nearly a quarter of a tOll. The autllOr has much to say about tables. The modern mahogany dining-table, with its adjustment of leaves to suit the size of the dinner party, was not invented in a day. It js interesting to observe that the highly inconvenient foot-rail-which, no doubt, was calculated to steady rickety legs-\-\'as among the last of the primitive features to be improved away. A large table which is the property of the Duke of Devonshire (Fig. In), though it looks so ancient, is dated at the end of the seventeenth century-in J6')7, in fact-- -so tllat it may almost be described as "Queen Anne." Sharpening Machine Knives. An Important Process LiUle Understood. The common method is to use an emery grinder, using water to prevent heating the edge and drawing the temper. Gre<lt care should be llsed in grinding with :m emery wheel. )'b.lly knives are injured and often destroyed by its use. The danger tomes from tht friction of the whee{ heating the edge, and this may result il) cracking the knife and gen-erally leaving it. soh, but occasionally leaving it in the con-dition called "case hardened." An examination of the knife will r·c,,'c.1.1 the effect. as a blue color lS left upon a polished smface. \\Then the knife is craeked the crack usually nms parallel to the edge and gelleraJ[y takes ;"(('lllTe lip to the edge. lis distance to tbe edge j5 detenn-illed hy the point of contact Oil the opposite sidc of the emcry ",·heel. The crack is tlsnally from 1i to 'i-inch from the edge. There are some knives whose temper can be drawn enough to SeriO\lsly injure thern, if not ruin them, and yet no color \Vill be shown. Very hard knives, like, plane bits, st.roke jointer knives, shaves, etc., are examples of this. Knivf';;; can be g-rollnd upon an emery wheel and not be injured, but they 'will not submit to c:are1css treatment. Use a soft, coarse wheel and be SURE it does not GLAZE. Have the knife move steadily and reasonably rapid over the wheel and do not attempt to grind it too rAST, keeping a stream of \vater upon the \lointof contact bctweei1 the knife and wheel. (Continued all page 31.) The 1Nansau OVis.) }'urniture and Undertaking Com-pany \vas organized recently by \\T. M. Lawrence and others. Capit.al stock $25,000. 8 The Fundarnental Principles of Cost Accounting. The part of a cost system which a business manager is mainly interested in is the cost sheet, and all cost sheets can be divided into 1wo general classes; the one in which the arti-c1t Or unit of cost is one of a large number of identical units and is called a"combined unit, and the other that in which the article or unit of cost ha.:; a separate existence and is termed a distinct unit. The method employed in compiling tbe cost sheets in the t\vo classes vary widely, although the principles on \'v"hichthey are based are the same. In the case of the combined ullit examples of which class of manufactures are, coal and ore mines, tiquid and fluid pro-ducts, and large quautities of small articles each exactly alike, it is the usual practice to first record on the cost sheet the tota;~ quantity produced during a specified period of time such as ai day, a week, or a month, and secondly to ascertain and record on the cost sheet the entire cost of the same. This ac-cpt1tHing serves to ascertain the first quantities produced, and second the entire cost of material and labor used and ex~ pended in order to produce the same. 1n the case of the distinct unit examples of which class of manufacturing are special orders, contracts, steam engines and :special machines, it is usual to ascertain the total cost on the rost sheet, upon the completion of the work, although it is necJssary that the cost sheet be in a form to readily show the management the cost to date, at any time such information may be required ;I'he cost sheet for a plant manufacturing combined units show>; the total production during a specified period, the total costlof the same, and the cost per unit calculated from the en-tire broduction and the total cost. The cost sheet may be ar-rang; ed if desired to show" the cost of each process or in each department if there are morc than one; in general form the cost sheets for all kinds of combined units are much alike. The cost sheet for a plant manufacturing distinct units shows the total cost for labor amI material for one specifIc article or unit of cost. It may hc arranged to show the cost in e1ch department or the cost of the various parts of the article. ]n the case of the plant manufacturing combined units there is one cost sheet each month for the entire plant; in the cas~ 'of a plant manufacturing distinct units there will be a cost Isheet started for each article when commenced, and a cost :completed for each article when completed~ therefore there may be a large number of cost sheets started and com-pleted each month. All business operations are transfers either of rights or materlal from and to persons or places. The science of double entry accouilts is concerned with the recording of these trans-fers and the compilation and statement of the results of the business operations. A double or so-called journal entry is the record of a transfer made, and is also an adjustment of the at-counts to the new conditions existing after the transfer has b~cn made .. the transaction is recorded in such a manner that t)le party from whom or place from which the goods arc transferred receives credit for the amount transferred and the party or place receiving the goods is charged with the same. There are two distinct parts in all systems of accOltntS. The first being the blank forms upon which are first recorded the tratlsactions or transfers, these may be bound books or loose sheets of paper contained in a binder or held together in thel form of pads and are variously known as day books, cash books, journals, sales books, purchase journals, etc., when used in the trading department of a business; they are known as material consumption sheets, time records, pay rolls, production re(':oras, etc, when used in the manufacturing department of a business; the second part in all systems of accounts are the "ledgers;" these are bound books, or loose sheds of paper held together in a binder and are for the pur~ pose of summarizing the different kinds of transfers and transactions recorded on the forms and books previously mentioned, into "ledger" accounts, each separate ledger ac-count containing amounts of a like nature, they are varioudy known as general ledgers, purchase ledgers, etc., when used in the trading department of a bl!siness; they are known as manufacturing ledgers, unfinished product ledgers, etc., when used in the manufacturing department of a business. Intermediate books or forms are often used when the original -record of a transaction and its entry in a ledger ac-count, but such are only used for the purpose of saving time in writing up and space in the ledger. While it is not the intention in this article to enter fully into the principles of the science of accounts, it is neces-sary, however, to discuss such principles a,s apply to the re-cording of the transactions -and transfers taking place in a manufactury or plant engaged in the manufacture of a product, together with the instruments consisting of loose sheets and bound books upon which the transactions are recorded. There are at the present time two methods in vogue of as-certaining the cost of a manufactmed article. One of these which is commonly called the memorandum method or system i:'>to ascertain, upon tl1e completion of the final process, either by actual measurement of weighing, or by estimating~ the quantity of material consumed and contained in the article the labor is sometimes accurately ascertained and sometimes esti-mated, a percentage is then added for expense and wear and tear and the result is taken as the cost of the article and upon which the selling price is based. The ledger accounts usuatly kept in connection with the memorandum system are a manu-facturing account to which' the factory pay roils and all ma-terial purchased are charged; separate factory expense ac-counts are sometimes kept, and sometimes expenses are all charged to manufacturing account. When the memorandum method lS used the books do not show from month to month the stocks of raw material on hand~ the cost of the unfinished product nor the cost of th-e finished product shipped or in stocks; the results of the operation of the plant are never known until an inventory is taken, which, while" being accu-rate as far as the raw material is concerned, is never accurate in regard to the tll1finished product or the finished product. It is an easy matter for the manager or superintendent of a plant using the memorandum method to show a fictitious profit or loss by the simple process of inflating or decreasing the inventory, and even when an honest effort is made to take a correct inventory a serious error may exist without being detected. For some years there has been in use an exact and scien-tific system of keeping factory cost accounts and which uses the double entry method for balancing and verifying the ac-counts kept, it is very accurate and while perhaps from day to day it requires a somewhat larger clerical force than the mem-orandum, yet the information derived is so much greater, so mltch' more readily available, and so much more exact than anything which the old memorandum method affords, that~ with the competition existing to-day, no factory of any size can afford to use the old inaccurate memorandum method. This second method is called for want of a better name~ the modern method or system, and indeed none other will be nt'.eded for very long as within the course of a few years it will be th-e only method in use. While there are many classes of manufacturing in which the combined unit pre:va1ls, and in which the modern method repays many times over the slight additional expense incurrer.:: for clerical help over and above that required by the old or memorandttID method, i.t 'is particlllarly in those plants where th-ere are numerous distinct units of cost and numerous processes or departments that the main economics are af-fected. The chief points of difference between the old and the new method are, that the operations of the plant under the old method are only shown 1n the financ'ial books in one gen-eral result at the end of the year, and th'ere is no control through the tinancial books of the operations of the plant, a seriolls leakage in material or labor cannot betraced or discov~ ered by the accounts and often times may exist for years ·without being kno"\vn; in the new or modern method the transfers and transactions inside the factory between the dif-ferent persons or departments are retorded on the same prin-ciple that the transactions between the trading department and the outside world are recorded in the trading books, aU material received in the plant must be strictly accounted for through the stock consllmption records and any leakage is located -..vhen the records are compared with the actual inven-tory of material on hand when the same is taken, the total amount of labor shown on the pay rolls must agree with the total laLor charged against the various units of cost as shown (J11 the various cost sheets, and the tlltire operation and finan-cial standing of the factory is shown each month when the usual monthly balance is taken from the general books; 50 ad-dition to this exact control of the operation,; of the history there is )'et another featuTe of the modern method extremely valuable to the fInancial manager, this consists in showing each month the exact cost of the goods sold making it possi-ble to draw up with very little labor each month a correct profit and loss account show-ing the correct profit or Joss. JOHN PROUD. AN UGLY LOOKING PIECE FINISHED. BEAUTIFULLY A Plea for Beauty in Things of Daily Use. Everett Shinn, artist, mnral decorator and illustrator, anounces himself as a disciple of \Vatteau, Fragonard and noucher- As such he is reviving the art of "intimate decoration;' as he calls the work 'which can turn an awk-ward bit of furnitme into a thing of beauty. His initial production in this direction is a piano which he transformed for Clyde Fitch and which occupies the place of honor in the l.ouis XIV. room of the dramatist's house. In the Cluny Museum in Paris aTe examples of what can be done in the way of decorating musical instruments. There Mr. Shinn spent months studying their decorations and ahsorbing the secrets of their colors and their glazes, and determining a certain path for himself from the con-ventional art of today. He has 110t cut himself adrift, by any means, from the traditions of canvas, of big gilded frame, of sh'adow box and all the other conservative means of Iming immoral-ity. He pays them their due of work and respect but he contends that the view of the painter is too contracted and that a piano is as good a medium to exhibit his ta.lent as a bit of machine made paper which will crumble to bits in flfty years or less or a canvas that has none of the ele-ments of duration canvas of other days had. He is not content merely to copy in the \vay that word is ordinarily understood, but has gone back to the seven-teenth century and adopted the brush louch and other technicalties of the period. He declares that no imitative scheme worthy of the name can be accomplished in any otl1erway and that for a modern painter to use modern methods to produee seventeenth century effects is a confes-sion that he does not 11nderstand the fundamental require-ments of the undertaking. In regard to the details of the work, 1lr. Shinn said to a Sun reporter: "When Mr. Fitch turned the piano o\'er to me it was the ordinary drawing room article, with a substantial case and good tone, but not different from thousands of others scattered all over the country hypnotizing the eye with their uncouthness so that al sense of value ·is lost, as by the very force of awkward strength a giant will attract the eye where the grace of a beautiful woman might be overlooked. 9 "First of alj came the filling of the pores of the wood so that the background would be absolutely dense as the toughest substance known. Then by slow degrees, as it was ready for it. came the gilding and lacquering, a com-bination of processes reslllting in a wonderful amber tint, with the very translucent brilliancy of amber itself against which and through which shone the vivid tints of the de-sign- the blues, greens and reds. "\Vhen you spc2k the words Louis XIV. you have vis~ ions (Jf ribbons and laces, of garlands, of theatrical fetes un-der spreading trees with tapestries stretched from branch to branch, of beribboned walking sticks and powdered wigs, of frivolity in life and its counterpart in art. I believe I have caght that evanescent charm-at least I have made the effort:' There is no part of the piano that "1h. Shinn's facile brush has not touched. Semi-wreaths caught by fluttering ribbons cover the ends, and across the front, while your fingers idJy str'1)' from key to key yOLl can examine at leisure the urn with its profusion of floral offerings, the ba.skets of blooms, the drooping sash of tiny blossoms. On the lid a VV'atteau-like group dance in the open, while a mass of clO:ie twined roses outlines their graceful postures and steps. After the painting was completed a special glaze was prepared which produces at once the look of age which time \.,.'ould require 300 years to give. The piano as finished is in its proper environment, The room is a p.erfect Louis XTV. apartment. th. Shinn is now '\vorking on the designs for another piano for AIrs. \ViJl1am Tevis of San Francisco. He is hav-ing the piano made under his supervision, and is debating het"vcen the relative merits of teak, mahogany and rose-wood. The piano will be a conc((rt grand and he is to have free rein. One design for the decoration of the piano over which he ''''i.\xes especially enthusiastic is about to be done on a white background in red, the painting simulating the red chalk dra.wings which Mr. Shinn uses a great deal in his illustrating work and which was a medium particularly liked by the old painters. If this design is carried out it wil display a set of medallion portraits en wreathed with roses and the lid wj}J show some ballroom scene or theatric~ 801 representation. The piano is to be placed in a period room ""here every detail lS to be carried out under Me Shinn's supervision. "The modern ar~ist," says Mr. Shinn, "has put aside that wonderful red ~halk which is used just as it comes from the cartb and has the most wonderful possibilities of color. Sometimes it is almost black, and then you get the most delicate pink; always it comes nearer the flesh tint than any other medium. "It was the discovery of tJlOse old painters, and it would. seem as if nature had intended it for the artist's uSe. The black penciJ is the substitute for the artist who has adopted different technique and wants to go further and use different mediums as well. "1n France this chalk can be bought for almost noth-ing, a box containing 300 pencils for 5 cents, what you would pay for one black pencil here or for its manufactured sub-stitute. I have asked mallY artists why t.hey did not use it, and have received fat answer only the wOl"d of tradition, just as they paint canvases instead of other articles and add to the overstock when they might make life more beautiful and glorify the crude workma.nship of daily use. "They never stop to consider that Michael Angelo painted the walls of a chapel and that Benvenuto Cellini could spend his precio11s moments ornamenting a door-knob, which is today the wonder and distraction of thou-sands of admirers." 10 Painters are llot the only ones who cavil at this in-timate decoratioll" scheme. ,:vlusicialls view it with senti-ments varying from acute displeasure to good natured tolerance. The painter langhingly describes the agollles of one of his sensitive friends, who became almost hysterical at the idEa of his 0\\'11 special pianoforte being touched hy vandal bands, and its ugly exterior, which is abOLit as prepossessing as a coffin, made into a work of art. "Primarily," says Mr. Shinn, "the piano is a piece of furniture. t:1 is not something that can be shut up, pushed into the wall or kept Ollt of sight. Consequently it should be treated so and if possible should be made to conform to the canons of good taste. "I can understand better the feelings of a violinist who might not care to see the limited surface of his instrument to~;ched, but when he is through with that he puts it in its case and it is taken away, and it does not when in repose offend the ('ye. Even ,,vith the violill 1 kno,,,, no reason why its ucouth case should not be made beautiful, so that to see it is a delight and its removal not a necessity. "I see, in fact, no reason why the public should not be aroused to the thought that the intinate theil1gs of their daily lise, articles \vhich they touch and pOSseSs and grow to love with that attraction of sentimellt which comes by asso£iation, should not. be made valuable by the work and name of the artist. The old painters did not despise the snnffbox. the fan, the casket. even the doorknob or the salver. Are we better artists? Have we a truer conception than they? I don~t think so." Uncle "Dan" Jumps Over the Broomstick. "The marriageof _:drs. Ella neall and Mr. Daniel G. \'Villiams took place this morning at 9 o'clock at the home of the bride on _Bellefontaine, street. Only the relati.ves were present fo;." the ceremony, which was performed by the Hev. Thomas J. Villers of the First Baptist church. The attendallts were Dr. A. ]. Lewis, of Day tOil, 0., a brother of the bride, who gave her away, and little Mlss Helen eOOnA,a granddaughter of l\.tr. \Vil1iams, \.".ho was the tlower maid, land carried the bridal bouquet of \larechal Nei.l roses. A ha.rpist played the wedding music and during the break-fast that immediately followed the ceremony. The wedding gown ;was of gray crepe de chine trimmed with silk and lace appliqne in delicate pastel tones. i\mong the guests were Mr. and l\i[rs. David Stmgeon, of Franklin; Mrs. Rettie Seeger, of Kansas City and ).Jiss Cora \Vest, of Day tOil, O. The rooms were decorated wit.h palms, carnations and rOses Mr. and l\frs. vVilliams left at noon for the North to spend three weeks and they will be at home at 2:217 Bellefontaine strret after November Ist."--Indianapolis News, Oct. 2. Mr. Williams has many friends in the furniture trade, who will wish him and his wife health and prosperity in their n,ewly found joy. Marked Increase in the Use of Machinery. Th~ extent to which machining of lumber is done. 110W as compared with twenty-five years ago is a marked one and make;; a considerable difference,'"said John Horn, of Horn Brothers Manufacturing comp"<:tny,Chicago. "But in order to tell just how much is the difference in dollars and cents would requirel.some study. The thing we have to, contend with is the ran in ihe manufacturing business who don't know anything about it. Such men on acconl1t of lack of knowledge sell their goods at any price, 110 matter whether there is a pro1it or !lOt. You find shoemakers, tailors and bankers in the business and it ,s their foolish moves that we have to contend with." The National Cash Register Company ha.s declared for the open shop and closed cash register. A Useful Combination Saw Table. One of the best machines made by the Edwards l\'1achine Company of 3"1 to .16 "'V. \Vashington St., Chicago, is theii· NO.5 Comhination Saw Table. This machine is adapted for use as J. rip, crosscut, grooving or dado machine and is a tool for furniture factories, planing mills, pattern makers and anyone needing a good working saw. It is extremely simple in design, convenient in operation, and suitable for those desirig a reliable piece of apparatus at a low cast. The frame is constructed to secure the greatest streqgth, be-ing cast in one solid piece. The countershaftis attached di-rectly to the frame and the belt shifter is also attached to the frame convenient to the operator. The machine is con-sequently quite compact and requires a minimum amount of Hor space. The saw arbor is grooved to prevent end mo-tion and tlie pulley is between the bearings which are cast extra long and liIled v,'ith the very best grade of Babbitt metal. The Saw Arbor is of a fine grade steel and is n~ inches in bearings, tnrned down to I inch where the saw goes on. 'the Arbor and slot will accommodate a T4 inch saw. the table is all iron, cast in one piece and heavily ribbed and is 3g inches long and 30 inches ,,,,ide planned perfectly trne. and is adjustable up and down. The table is construct-ed with an opening around the saw into which a wooden, de-tC" ochabtethroat piece is accurately fitted, which, when taken out, gives ample room for changing saws or using dado or grooving head. The table is provided ,,,,ith two parallelled ways or slots for the reception of the cross cut gauges, oue DB either side of the sa,,\,. Tllese ways are carefully and ac-curately planned in the table. The cllt.-off gauges can be set at any angle for angle or mitre sawing. The ripping gauge moves easily back and forward across the table. Tight and ioose pulleys on countershaft are R inches i!",-di-ameter and 4 illch face. The driving pulley is 16 inches in diameter and 4 il1ch fac_e \Veight 700 pounds. Coullter-shaft sped Sso revolutions per minute. The saw is not furnished with the machine. Pensol, a new Thinner,. The Adams & Elting company, of Chicago, have per-fected a thjnner of great penetrating power, which can be ilsed for all kinds. of oil stains, as well as ll11ers and varnishes, to be ~old at a reasonable price. The reducer is abso-lutely neutral to all ingredient.s used in fillers, oil stains and varnishes. 1t's penetrating alld flo\ving properties are far su-perior to those of tE:rpentil1(,or benzine, rendering it a much more valuable article to users of stains and wood fillers. This reducer being absolutely neutral, may be mixed in all propor-tions with oils, fiUers and stains ,,,,ithout the least danger of curdling where it is employed. As a reducer of filler and stains it wilt intensify the color 100 per cent. as a result of its g-reat penetrating power, consequently material will stand much more reducing with PEN-SOL than with reducers COI11- 1110nlyused, such as benzine or tcrpentine. Samples will be sent by Adams & Elting company to those interested. Comfort For Workers Pays Well. A little wisdom and welfare being deemed good things for workers, a building has been reared by aNew York company with library, reading room and assembly hall. The library will contain 1,000 volumes on technical snbjects, interesting and instructive. The auditorium will be open to the various departments of the company for entertainments and lectures. Of the latter a number ""iIl be given by experts eminent in the various fields and on snbjecf.s in which the men are most interested. Alexander Dodds, reported a big demand for his d_ovetailers, swing saws and saw tables during August and September, the trade coming principally from the sout.hern states, with North Carolina in the lead. MACHINE fiNIVES PERFECT QUALITY RIGHT PRICES PROMPT SER.VICE ABSOLUTE GUARANTEE Dado or Grooving Heads, Miter Machines, Universal Wood Trimmers. Boring Machines. Etc. FOX MACHINE CO 185 N. F'onl St. • Grand Rapids, Mich. THE POLISH THAT IS MAKING N ALL'S EVANSVILLE FAMOUS Nll.ll's Hell St.-.l' T'nllslL dries lus\;'mtlV lmd never softens or ~\ll1ls. No disagn;ea(lle 01' offensive odor l' eVl'l' sctrJe.5 or eVfLj10rates, A trial order always makes It permanel)t eusto- Iller. HrtnJ{s out lite finish amI g-lve~ new 11f(' to the fllfllitlll'P. This 11011.,h h free from acl<l Can he llseu hI' an" child. 1311:lrallteed 10 gin perfect satl~factloi1. Sold in 1,2,5 and 10 ~allon cans and in barrels, also put up in 2, 3 and 6 oz. bottles retailing for 100, ISo and 250. allOWing a lib~rall-'rofit to the retailer. \\trite for pTices and state quantity wnnted. "'e r('t~r )"ou to t.h~ CreSC('llt ~'u['lllt(Jre<'(J, The J<;vansville l}e~!> Co., The leU II. Miller ~'oidill>:" Kf'd Co., and Ti\(~ tity Nntlollal Han!>, ofEv:tusvitle. M~NI]FACTCR"D BV THI~ A Perfect Pol1sh and Cleaner _ .. for. _ Furniture. Office and :Bar Fixtures Pianos. Organs Bicycles. Iron Beds Cal't'lages and AUlomobiles AMERICAN PHARMACAL CO, 205 Uliller First St., EVANSVilLE, IND, STAFFORD ENGRAVING CO, "The Honse of ldeat{' INDIANAPOLIS, INDII\NA STI\.ffORO fURNITURE ENGRAVING Our half tones are deep sharp, clear; gh1jng them long wear and ease of make-ready. Every plate [5 predsel~- type-- hIgh, mounted Oil a perfectly squared, SeasOl1ed block. tTimmed to pica standard. All are proved and tooled until the nest possible prill/jng quality is developed. Specimens mailed Oil request. t'Jtt~IS:l~~!~~~m~o. , '., I Wood Turnings. T umed Moulding, Dowels and Dowel Pins, Catalogue to Manufac-turers on AppLication. 1000 0 ONINVESTMENT Doesn't sound reasonable In connec-tion with a piece of machinery, but the annual saving in cost of opera.t,ing our TYPE A Engines over others of similar rating, figures out that way. Isn't your curiousity sufficiently arous-ed to prompt you to ask for circular No. 18S-F explaining this? All facts---N 0 fancy theories American Blower Co. DETROIT, MICH. NEW YORK, CHICAGO, ATLANTA, LONDON It ,-------_._-- ------ ------------------ We were PloneeFS 10 Produc;ln& 'it.. Su.ccessfu1.a.nd Pl'actical R.ub.. bing and Polishing Machine .nd a PERFECT Sander MAD DO X MAC H I NEe 0 M PAN Y. JAMESTOWN, NEW YORK As Ii "ander, It will do :1.11that any other DIll.Chille will do all'I mallJ" things that uo othl"r machine can do. HundredS ofmaclllne~ In constallt \lse wor:klnll: upon wood, varnish, brass. copper. slate, marble, ivory: many factor1es using frolll6 to 14each for Slluding, rut>blll~ and polieh1tlg. !fABLE LEGS turned with this machine cost less than any you ever made. With it one man will do the work of six to ten skilled Hand Turners. The quality of work can't be beat, and we would like to have you judge of it for yourself, by sending you a ~ple of what we guarantee it to do. The main features of ~hemachine lie in the patent Cutter Head. the Vari-ab'e firictlon Feed. and the OscillAting Carriage. A full description of this machine will interest you. May we send it? c. Mattison Machine Works 863 Fifth. Street BELOIT. WISCONSIN Goodlander-Robertson lumber Company MEMP",S, TENN. ORDERS WANTED fOR 500,000 Ft. Jl in. to·3 in. Common and Better Plain Red Oak. 500,000 ft, of 1 in. to 4 in. Log Rnn Plain White Oak. Delivery in the Next Four Months. Lumber to be shipped when sixty da.vson Stick.. Would also be pleased to have your inqUiries for any other stock. GOODLANDER-ROBERTSON LUMBER CO. MEMPn'S, Tt;NN. - - -------------~------ WALTERCLARKhasnot only the samplesbut theSTOCKITSELFof MAHOGANY VENEER in HISWAREHOUSaEn,da lot of it. Beautifullfyiguredandpricesright. WALTER CLARK 535 Michigan Trust Building Citizens Phone 5933 GRAN D RAP IDS, MI CHI GA N THE "PO R T E R" This cut rep-resents 0 u r 12, 16 and 20 in. Jointer --MANUFACTURED BY--------- C. O. & A. D. PORTER, 182North Front Street, GRANDRAPIDS,MICH. Long-Knight Lumber Co. ===========SPECIALTY:=========== QUARTERED RED AND WHITE OAK INDIANAPOLIS-------------------INDIANA 14 W. A. Bat"ker Discusses the Business of Furnishing Hotels. Mr. vV. A. Barker of the Pacific Purchasing Company, Los Angeles, CaL, was re.cently 111 Grand Rapids, aCl.:')111.- pallied by Mr. A. C. Hilicke, of the same city, to purchase the fnmiture for a new hotel. Mr. Barker states that business conditions on the PaciJic coast are of the best with shong 'indications of a heavy fall ,tmde. He is an enthusiastic admirer and SHllporter of his home city and speaks in glowing terms of its present and future prosp-erity. I believe people in the East," said Mr. Bar- "have little idea of the size and resourceS of Los Angeles. It is much larger than the average Easterner imagines. The city :has a population of 250,000 and this year the tourist crop is expected to reach 50,000 or more. These people, with the rest,! have to be taken care of and their ever-increasing !lUm-ber contributE's ill 110 small manner to the healthy b\1sine~" growth of the city. III addition, Los Angeles is the distrib-uting' center of the big orange, lemon, and English \"iaI1l11t crops, as well as the center of the \'ahlable and extensive Califprnia mining operations." Son..e two or three year:;:,ago, at a! meeting of the Retail Dealers association, it was de-cided not to allow the retail customer to buy at the 'factories direct. Mr. Barker, who -was on the floor of the convention at th~ tilue, saw at once the inhlry that would result in rnal1y cases! to the retailer's business and secured a modification of this decision that would al1o"\\1 the customer to visit the facto~ies when accompanied by his dealer. "One of my objects in securing this ruling," said ?\'1r. Bar-ker," was to put -in a ,vedge that ,','ould ultimately shut out the mail-order houses from this important part of the re-tail furniture man's business, which they were rapidly encroach-lllg upon. The mail-ordef houses, carrying a more extensive line of samp-les, g1ve the customer wider scope in his selec-tion "than he can oftentimes god from his local deate,r. This is especially desirable in the case of furnishing new hotels where: a large order of a particular class of furniture is being sought. The mail-order houses were rapidly securing the big hotel trade, and in time would gobble up the little ones, but b~ shutting them 01.1tof the former we protect the latter. "Pethaps the effect of the mail-order business in this respedt is not so keenly felt in Michigan and other miridle west a:nd eastern states, for in the W{'.5t the sittlation is some-what ~[ifferent. The average western dealer carries such a class ~nd style of futlliture only as is calculated to meet the demands of his average trade. The hotel man, in the case in question, usually is looking for sOlUcthing a little different from the styles ordinarily carried in stock. Tn the east the dealer could send to the factory and supply the exacting tastes of his customer "\vithi11a day or two, but in the west he woi.lld be obliged to wait a week or ten days. In the meantime the mail-order house, with its local Of nearest agency, has got in its fine work and the dealer has lost a good ctlstomer, "Now, I have noticed recently considerable af?;itation in a certain class of trade jonrnals, which seems to be designed to prejodice the hotel peopk against buying at factories ac- COtlqla,nied by their retail dealer. The tcxtS of these articles seem to imply that some sort of graft enters into such tran-sactions injuriol\s to the hotel man's interests. Now, as a matter of fact. there is 110 fotlndation for any such reports, for anythillg b\.lt a straight, legitimate, open transaction h> tween the three parties interested~the customer, dealer and manufacturer---woulc1 soon come to light and seriously in-jure the dealer's business. "Now, to sum IIp thc whole matter, any such ideas of shady dcaling or "graft'" could be effectually put at rest if the re-tailers would 111lal1ilT1otlslyagree upon a fixed r<lte of per-centage. For instance, tell per cent of an order not ex-c. eeding $1,000 and five per cent. of an order above that amount. 10 most lilstances suc.h an agreement is entered into between the retailer and the Cl1stomer before the deal is consummated, and the retailer in addition has his expenses paid to ac-company the cllstomer to the factory in the capacity of ad-viser only, giving the customer the henefit of his experience similar to the manner in which an architeCt would act towaT'l his Cl1stomer in a big bniJding deal. The retailer is not there to inAucnce his Cl1stomer. hut to advise him. Furthermore. there is littk. Opportlll11ty for a dealer to deceive his cnsto-mer, if he wanted to, for in the majority of faCloties the price of the differellt pieces IS marked in plain fig-ures which all may read." . Heavy Sales of Glue Joint Cutters. }Iorris \Vooo & SOl1S,11-33 South Canal street, Chicago, re-port having all the orders they can fill on their .solid ~teel Glue Joint Cutters. This old and widely knowll firm is crowded with the demand for their cutters, the trade on these goods coming from all sections of the united States. These cutters cut a perfect joint and ncvcr burn owing to the gradual clearance. They require Ihtle grindjng, saving time and cutters. No time is wasted ill setting them 11[> and their cos.t is no more than Cl1tters of other makes. Prospective pl1rchasers should send for catalogue No. 10, and prices will be fUrJlished on application, The Scng company, 39 to 51 Dayton street, Chicago, are lJl1ild-ing an adrlition to their vlant, the ground having heen bnken e.arly last month. The Hew btlilding will he 75 x 130 feet in size and will contain three stories and a basement. It will be completed witll the close of the year. it will adjoin the present plant and when finished the entire factory will he 150x 130 feet in dimen-sions, and afford a total Boor space of 80,000 sqtlare feet. In si7.C and capacity the n('"" addition is a duplicate of the present factory and wjtb reinforced concrete construction will be ahso-lutely Greproof. IF YOU HAVE NEVER TR lED OUR RUBBING AND POLISHING DIOTROIT FACTORY VARNISHES C"'!ijl,O\P,!'t "",CTOf\Y YOU HAVE YET TO LEARN THE F"ULL POSSIBILITIES OF" THIS CLASS OF" GOODS WHY NOT PUT IT TO THE TEST BY GIVING US A TRIAL ORDER? BOSTON 8ALTIMORE BERRY BROTHERS, LIMITED, VARNISH MANUFACTURERS NEW YORK PHILADELPHIA ST. LOUIS CINCiNNATI SAN FflANCI8CO FACTORY AND MAIN OFFICE, DETROiT CAN.,PIAN FACTORY WALKE.RVILLE, ONT Spindle Carving and Hand Carving, For Furniture, Caskets and Fixtures. 411work. guaranteed to be first Class. Send us your Samples or Sk.etches for prices and Samples. Knoxville Carving and Moulding Company, Knoxville, 'Tenn. BE UP-TO-DATE. Get one of the New Electric Spindle Carvers and keep abreast of the times. You cannot afford to let the "other fellow" have the work you should be doing. The Electric Carver will keep the trade you have and get more for you. Our Carving Cutters are of the best. Westni(~i~anna(~inean~Tool(O.•lM. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. G. R. ~ I. fLYERS BETWEEN Grand Rapids and Chica,go =-==- To Chicago To Grand Rapids -------- --'- -- -_ .. _-------------- .... 7.10 A. ~f. Lv. CHICAGO, NthCSt~~Ii:tEt~x~. Sun . ... . 12.35 Noon Ar. GRAND RAPIDS . Buffet Parlor Car 1.15 p. M. 5.50 P. M. Lv. GRAND RAPIDS. Ex. Sun. Ar. CHICAGO ...........•. Buffet Parlor Car Lv. GRAND RAPIDS. Ex. Sun. . .. 12.00 Noon Ar. CHICAGO ... " .. . . . . . . . ... 4.50 P. M. Parlor and Dining. Car Lv. CHICAGO, fJibC8t~~~~,E7~x.~ Sun 5.15 P. M. Ar. GRAND RAPIDS 10.25 P. M. Parlor and Dhllng Car Lv. GRAND RAPIDS. Daily 12.35 Night Ar. CHICAGO..... .. .... ., 7.15 A. M. Electric Lighted Sleeping Ca.r Lv. CHICAGO, NthGSt~~~~Dtla~i~ly ._ .. , 11.55 Night Ar. GRAND RAPIDS 7.00 A. M. Electric Lighted Sleeping Car Phone Union Station fot' Reservations Phone MJchilia.n Central City Ticket Office for Reservations. 119 Adams Street 16 Feeding a Planer Req~ires Skill. That to plane an ordinary piece of lumber requires a little more than ordinary knowledge is demonstrated in the fol-lowing interview with a well-known foreman in a prominet Grand Rapids factory: "An intelligent expla~ation of the manner in which lumber is fed into a planer, and the establishment of any fixed rules that may govern the process, is practically an impossibility. The method by which the work is done depends upon both the wood and the kind of planer USI?,d.In the first place we find that we can secure the best results by setting the planer knives nearer the head. This, though necessitating slower feeding, favors the wood and prevents waste and tear, or 'eating it up,' as it is called in the shop. In many pieces of wood the grain does not run uniformly straight throughout. In such a case the piece could not be successfully fed into the machine end to end, as the knives would be apt to raise with the ;grain and an uneven piece of work would result. "In general the lumber is 'sheered' or fed into the machine at almost a right angle. This gives the best results in most cases. However, you can readily see that only a general ex-plarption of the work can be given. \-Vith the wood and the maclhine, the experience of the man behind both plays an im-port; ant rart. An experienced planer can tell at a glance, The De!;cipk!; Bed. ill the Armory, \VofCesler, Ellgland. fromlthe tendency of the grain, just how the piece should be handled. It is the wrong idea, however, to believe that the same principle holds good with each distinct variety of wood. It most assuredly does not. No more definite instruction is possible in any particular variety than I have already given you an outline of. For instance, I have seen the grain in the same cutting of mahogany run in two or more directions. This might possibly mean that the different pieces from the same board would have to be handled in as many different ways·i' I Money in Waste Hardwood. All the world's woodcutters might be millionaires if they knew how to gather up the twelve baskets of industrial crumbs as does a distilling plant in a Michigan town. This establishment has a capacity of ninety cord-s of hardwood a day, the wood consumed being slabs, tree tops and other hardwood offal from logging and lumbering operations. From one cord of this material there is made ten gallons of wood Suggested for a Hall, alcohol, gSY; per cent being pure; 200 pounds of a::etate of, lime, quicklime being added fo·r this purpose, and fifty bushels of charcoal. Every product of the wood, except the charcoal. passes off in the form of gas and is reduced by distillation. Some irreducible gas and a little tar product are used a"s fuel. Nothing is lost. The alcohol is worth sixty cents a gallon. The acetate of lime is worth two cents a pound, and the char-coal is worth ten ccnts a bushel. The value of the lime llsed is worth not over one-fourth of the value of the acetate. Thc value of the final product of the cord of refuse wood is, there-fore, not ·far from $q. The process is not expensive. The r lalIt, running at full capacity, will turn out a product daily worth $1,200 from material that has but little commercial value in its crude form. The Portland (Mich.) Observer condemns the employ-ment of convict labor by the Tr~de Table company. formerly of Portland, in the following: "It is a shame that such a class of men as are employed in the table factory should have to lose their positions through such a system; for, besides being out of work, those who are taxpayers must indirectly, yes, directly, help to pay to keep in a state institution those who are th-ieves, forgers, murderers, etc." Alderman George P. Tilma, an experienced carver, for-merly employed by the Luce Furniture company, and others, have purchased machinery and established the Furniture City Carving company, occupying space in the factory of the Lindner Interior Finish company, on Godfrey avenue, Grand Rapids. Old men continue to carry the burdens of business that should be assumed by younger men. But old men would die without employment. Activity and re-sponsibiIity in the busi-ness world protects their existence. If the retailers desire prosperity in the furniture trade all they need do is to pay the prices asked for goods by the man-ufacturers without question. 17 INSIST ON HAVING MorrisWood3 ~ons' ~olid ~teel OIoeJoint (utlers for there are no otherJ" U ju.rt a.r good." They cut a dean perfect joint always. Never burn owing to the GRADUAL CLEARANCE (made this way only by us), require little grinding, saving time and cutters. No time wasted setting up and co!'>tno more than other makes. Try a pair and be convinced. Catalogue No. 10 and prices on application. MORRIS WOOD ®. SONS Thfrty_one yeal'S at 31-33 S. Canal Stree'. CHICAGO. ILL. (;yclone Blow Pipe Co. Improved Cyclone Dust Collectors, Automatic F IJ[nace F eeden. Sleel Plate Exhaust F am, Exhaust and Blow Piping Complete 8Y!l~m, designed, manuEactured, installed and Iluaranteed. Old ~YStem~ remodeled on modern line!; on mo~t economical p(am Su{?plemcntary "y s t em, added where preoont .ys" kms are ollt{lrown. De-f~ tiv", S Y s t em" conecled. and .put LOproper workinll order. 12 and 14S.CiintonSt. CHICAGO, • ILL. Peter Cooper's Glue If you have any trouble with your glue, has it occurred to you to use Peter Cooper'.? When other m<l.llu(a.::tuT-ers or agents tell you that their glue ii as good as COOPER'S, they admit Cooper's is the REST. No one extols his product by comparing it with at) inferior article. Cooper's Glue is the world's standard of ex-cellence. With it all experiment kgins, all comparisons continue, and all tests end. Sold continuously since 1820, Its reputation, like inelf, STiCKS. Peter Cooper's glue is made from selected hide stock, care-fully prepared. No bones or pig stock enter iIlto its composition. In strength it is uniform, each barrel containing the same kind of glue that is in every other barrel of the same grade. ORIN A. WARD, Grand Rapids Agent 523 Pythian Temple CHlzens Phone 3333 18 Dodds' Patent Ta~le..le~DoYeiailer I We fiuq. upon illvestigation that our Dovetailing Ma-chine patent covers t his machine nicely. Cuts Mortise in the Top Cuts Mortise in the Cleats Cuts Tenons to nt the Top Cuts Tenons to fit the Cleab Adjustable to keep Mor~ tise and Tenon at a Standard size The Cheapest Joint Made Will turn out 250 10 300 Sm3H Parlot Tables in 10 Houts The Dodds TillinK S:l.w Table has more practical features and good poillts than any Other saw table Oil the mark~t. ALEXANDER DODDS Grand Rapids Michi~an, U. S. A. I HAND CIRCULAR RIP SAW. MORTISER COMBINED MACHINE. ~~r.IH::A'ND AND FOOT POWER MACHINERY WHY THEY PAY THE: CABINET MAKER; He can save a manufacturer's profit as well as a dealer's profit, He can make mOTemoney with less capital invested. He can hold a better and mQre sat!sfactory trade with his customers. He can manufacture in as good style aod finish, and at as low cost, as the factorif"S". The land cabinet maker bas been forced into only a dealer's trade and profit, becau'Se of machine manufactured goods of factories. An :lUt!it of Banles' Patent floot and Hand·Power Machinery. rein-lltate'S the cabinet maker with advantages equal to his competitors. If desi1ed, these machines will be sold ON TRIAl. The ~urChal'leT can have ample time to test them in his own sho~ and on the work be wishes them to do. DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE AND PRICK LIST FRKK. :"lo. 4 SAW (ready for cross-cutting) W. F. & JOHN BARNES CO., 654 RUbySt., Rockford, III. No.3 WOODLATllK. FOR MER OR MOULD8R. HAND TIl:NONBR. No.4 SAW (ready fOf ripping No.7 SCROLL SAW. Our Clamps received GOLD MEDAl World's fair, St. louis 19 PILING CLAMF BLACK BROS. MACHINERY CO. MENDOTA, ILL. CHAIN CLAMP Patented June 30, 1%3. SAVE OIL BELTS. BABBIT, TIME. MONEY AND TEMPER hy using the NELSON loose pulley. Observe that the pulley does not run on the shaft, but on a s!et:ve that is fastened to the shaft j!;iving:more than three times the hearing surface. No speed too high, no belt too tight to effect this pulley. The sleeve is entirely encased making pulley dust proof and no oil wasted. Recommended where every other known method failed. 153 CANAlST. GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. WILMARTH & MORMAN CO. Palmer Q]uing Clamps Patented April n, 18g3. May r6, 1899; March 22, 1904. Improve<:! damps have now become an absolute necessity, We b(']ieve (lurs meets all require-ments, and why. FIRST- Thev have unlimited strellRth ami power; damp instantly, yet securely; instantly reles:sed and {he work removed as fast as it can be handled SECOND-They will adjll~t themselves to any width or thickn~ss (not to exceed the limit oEsize c1<1mpused l and (an be used to put a truck load under pres!;ure while still on the truck. TflJRn---Very durable, being- all malleable irotl and steel, and not easily broken or got out oE order under any condition, 1\0 matter by whom or how used. Catalogue explains an-write for it. A.E.PALMER NORVELL, MICH. Jackson County VENEER PRESS Patented June 30, 1903 ..Relia~le" Rolls ..Relia~le" Panels THE FEllWOCK ROll AND PANEL COMPANY Mfn;. of "Reliable" Built up 'Veneered Roll oS and Plural Ply Panels for all purposes. Correspondence solidted. EI· ....:.S..·..·JI.I.E, I.'n. WHITE PRINTING CO. GRANO RAPIDS, MtCH We PRINT' 'l'He MICHrCAN AFlTlSAN, AND MAI<E: A SPE:CIAL.TY 0" CATAL.OCUE:9. 1'"0," THE: FURNITURE: TRACE:. You can clean it qUickly and thor-oughlywithout leaving theengille room No plallttaking its boile-rfeedwatel from a river. lake or pOlld can afford to be without this valve GIVE!S SIl.TLSFACnON WlJEREVKR USED SI';NO FOR CIRCULARS A~D PRICK LIST l. &. D. fOOT VALVE CO. 352 S. front Street GRANDRAPIDS,MIC". A Cheap and Simple device that will .save you lots "f trouble and mQr pre\lent an ex-pensive shLtt-down. An Automatic Self-Cleaning foot Valve .. 20 The Furniture of Yesterday and To-Day. FQl"t\1nee. Spent fo1' flare Antiques. Vi,lithout going back to the days of Solomon or without dwelling in ecstasy upon the iron bed' of Og, King of Bashan; or corning to the classic days of Cicero, whose table of citnjs wood cost him £9,ooo-calcu!ated with scientific exaetittide on rates of exchange and purchasing values-there are sufficient modern examples of splendid furniture to overturn an ordinary man's conception of the lares and penates. 1'ladame Sarah Bernhardt has a hed in her pos-session :for which she is said to have paid .£1,000. It is con-structed of old oak and elaborately carved. The tapestry hangin~s aTC vahH~d at an additiohal £500. Mr. Jan 'Van Beers, ~hc Belgian painter, has ooe of the finest grand pianos jn the world. It is of tbe most- supcrb construction thro\.lghont and has panels painted by the artlst himself. It is stated to be worth £5,000. Tbe most costly and most celebrated clock in the world is the one formerly in the possessipn of LOllis XVI., 110W in the hands of the Roth- ! schild faLIY. It is held to he tbe work of that unfortunate monarch] who was an amateur clock maker. It changed hands fo~ no less a S\.1ffi than '£30,500. 11. stands 18 ft. high, anda phi of silver hells chimes the hours. One of the most valuable carpels in the world was sold at Seville only three years ago. It is a magnificent Persian carpet 20 ft. square, is 600 years old, and is exquisitely embroidered -witb gold and silver thread. This rare piece was formerly in the possessiop of a princess in the East, and i~ valued at over £2,000. A- royal bathroom costing over £120,000 is in daily use by the Sulton of Turkey. The bath itself is of silver, and the bathroom floor is richly paved and ornamented with rubi'es and sapphires dear to the Oriental eye. , SCIENTIFIC COLLECTING. \Vhen Horace \Valpole strayed into collecting be brought the spirit of the dilettante into his hobby; it never became a passion, for in those days of leisured ease the man of fashion cultivated a pretty taste in trifles, be they Bow handles for canes or Battersea enameled snuff boxes. In early nineteenth century days Major Byng Hall, in his capacity 4s Queen's messenger, sconred Europe iu stormy times and incidentally h-lloted bargains as other men trac.k down big game. Still the spirit lacked exactitude. It was, after all, a mere hobby. The major, it is true, was probably the first t() see the monetary side of collecting, and he dearly loved, as he confesses in his Bric-a-Brac Hunter, to outwit some continental dealer. Nowadays collectors are scientific in their precision. They specialize, they tabulate lists of prices, they systematise in search of bargains in 'as thorough a manner as the steam trawl~r scours his allotted field for a catch. Icry EttIe escapes the collector of to-day. The .7'IR.T I >S' ..7I2\J if 1 Tes· auction-room prices are as well known to him as the latest betting 1S to othc-r seekers after fortune. His library is an armory of formidable volumes on his subject. Tn short, he is a business man who with the least possible taste for art for its own sake has realised that there is money in it. ELABORATION IN CARVING. Up till quite recent days, when the stamped copper panel took its place, the ordinary man grew accustomed to see mere scratchings as with a carpenter's brad awl upon his washstand or his wardrobe panels. \Vhat tbe intention of tbe so-called decorator was is best known to himself. Whether the individuals who perpetrated these monstrosities ever saw wood-carvings we do not know; probably they were trade symbols of the dark ages now happily passing away, resembling that stage scenery labelled, "Here' is a water-fall," or "This is a bridge." It is tnle that black oak side-boards had a crude carving of a lion's mask as though at one time the carver had once seen a wood-carving, but all else was mere Egyptian hieroglY1-1hics. Tn former days after the Renaissance swept across Europe the wood-carver triumphed ovcr the designer. In the magnificent specimen of wood-carving we reprodnce of the time of Louis XI IT. the design of the table is subservient to tbe elaborations of the wood-carver; in other words. it is at the opposite -pole 1.0 the feehIe s{'.ratchings of the nin~teenth-cel1t\1ry 'prentice h?nd. CARVED PAKELlNG. The ideal of the collector is to discover specimens of dated furniture, of chairs with coats of arms, such as the celebrated cbairs of the Earl of Stafford at the Victoria and Albert l\Iusel11TI. These are his ideals and bear the same re-lation to his hohby as do signed proofs to the print collector. As time goes on and as the !lumher of collectors gro"vs apace it becomes more difficult to light upon treasures which bave escaped the'reg\.llar arl1)y of searchers. Stw.h a fine pjec.e of English panelling as we reproduce is only to be found in the possession of private families or hidden away in some manor house and guarded with no less vigilance than the family plate. This coat of arms is from the panelling of an old hotlse at Exeter, and dates from tlte year 1600 when the Earl of Essex plotted to seize Qtleen Elizabetb.-London Atlas. Having obtained a good government contract it is hut ll?tllral that the Ohio Valley F\.lrniture company should favor the plan for the ah,mdonment of the January exposition. c. O. and A. D. Porter, of Grand R<lpids, report a big volume of trade at the present time, the demand being especially marked itom California. A. H. Sherwood, manager of the Grand Rapids Panel c0mpany, has been spending six weeks in Canada, calling 011 the trade. --------------------------- Industries Demanding American Machinery. A New Pield for Enterprising MaDuraeturers. Consul Smith of Victoria reports upon tbe great lumber-ing interests of British Columbia. The facts furnished sug-gest a field_ tor Am<,:rican forest and sa"\vmill ruachinery. He ..v.rites: Next to the extenc:ive mineral lands, of this province, the most important of British Columbia's natural resources is beT immens(' timber reserve. which, although curtailed somewhat by the great forest liTes that have rag-ed in the interior during hot and dry SUHuners, is still vast in extent. An oil-icial estimate plaC(~s the acreage of timber in British Columbia at the preSeJ1t time at 182,750,000 acres. As the great timber belts of the continent are being gradually taken lip, the attention of lumbermen ha~ of late been dra"v'n particularly toward this province, and especially during- the past two yeal'S, y\.:hen vast tracts have been ac-quired by Americau syndicates, ,,,,,hich are rapidly becoming the largest holder~ of timber lands in Vancouver hland and also 011 the mainland of British Cohunbia. A valuable circular in regard to the timber el1t of the province bas just been issllec1 by the department of lan{ls and ''v'orb, "",hieh gl"VCS the following results: To 1871, 250,000,000 feet; from 1871 to 188S, 595,ono,ooo feet; from J888 to /9<14, inclusive, 2,.569,262 feet, or, in Ibe aggregate, 3..~ 414,7.39,262 feet, besides that ClIt from private and Dominion Government lands. Tbe htmber Cllt of 1904 in this province, according to the report of the department ()f lands and ""arks. aggre~ gated ;)25,271,568 feet, cut off 703.433 acres under lease from Junior Drawer Clamp, Manufactured Grand ~apLds, Mich., Hand Screw Co. the provincial gnvcrnmcnt; and in addition to this there was Cllt on Dominion lands 22,760,222 feet, making a total of 348,031,790 feet. The cargo shipments from British ColulTlbia to foreign ports were in 1903 as follows: Luruber, 52,263,105; lath, 1,676,270. In 19°4 the shipments fell off in consequence of strong American competitioo and were as follows: Lumber, 38,220,148: Jaib, T .306,569. This falling }.)ff in the shipments of lumber is claimed, as stated, to be dne to American competition, and ~trenuous efforts have been made to indllcc the Dominion Government to put .:t duty of $2.00 per 1,000 all rough lumber imported from the United States, but so far \vithout success, and no hopes are now 21 en/(~rtained by the ll1mber dealers that such import duty will he exacted. The provincial government's revellue from timber for tbe year ended June 30, 1905, was $150,000 more than es-timated, exceeding $400,000; this notwithstanding nearly "J;f ~'I f I Designed by ARTHUR KIRKPATRlCK, Gtand Rapids, Mich. Design by BARNEY 21 1-1<1 ~YN a student in the G£!. RapidsSchooJ of Furniture Design three-fifths of the revenue accrued from l.icenses to cut Limber upon lands owned by the c.rown. Recently the pro~ vinc.ial government hets heco111.e more drastic in its regula-tions, and has issued a ~tringenl order prohibiting the ex-port of Jogs Cllt by band loggers from crOWl1 lands in the province. The penalty impo!'>ed by the order is that all logs attempted to be exported under suc.b conditions are to be seized. There are now ahollt 400 hand loggers alol1g the coast, men who take out lice11!ieS at $10 each, and who have carried on work on sidehills near the ""ater, so that their logs may be marketed without the use of expensive logging outflts. Heretofore one man has had as many licenses ;;\s he wished. Jll this way well-to-do loggers ]]ave carried all an ex:tensive business. One lumberman in Van~ COllver bad no lcss than 60 licenses, from which he made exports to the L"nited States. This order has created a great deal of opposition, and lumbermen are proposing to take it to the courts. It is estirnaled that the total capital invested in lumber-ing is $4,250,000 represel1ted by mj[Js, Jogging plants, log-gmg railways, tugcoats, etc., exclusive of the value of !a.llds pnrchased and leased as timber limits, which would total near $J ,500,000 addilional. There are 100 sawmills in the province, big and small, with an annual cut running between ;)00,000,000 and 350,000,000 feet. The acreage of timber under lease is about 2,000 square miles, and the total area of forest and woodland is estimated by the DOll1in~ ion statistician at 285,554 square miles, or 182,754-,560 acres, but mueh of it is co\Cel-ed with small trees on]y fit for fuel and local lumber, which would not be considered as "timber" by t he logger~.--Ex. o. 1\'l. Pryor, of Pensacola, Fla., purposes engaging in the business of manufacturing furniture in Nashville, Tenn_ 22 EST ABLJSHED 1880 PUBLISHED BY MICHIGAN ARTISAN CO. ON THE 10TH AND 25TH OF' EACH MONTH OFFICE-2'20 LYON ST.. GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. Owing to the strike of our compositors the publication of this i,ssue is much delayed and we are forced to mail it in quite Ian imperfect form. When we had a large amount of conttjact work and special publications In progress of completion the compositors left their frames, with but twenty-fouf hours' notice because of our refusal to sign an agreement to establish an eight hour work day in the plant on January 1. We are slowly recruiting and educat-ing a new force. In the meantime we beg our friends to bear -*nth us in patience. The ~o;st ca, sho,taRe fo' yea,; ;s repacted. Happ;ly, the manufacturers of furniture and kindred goods have shipped the greater part of their orders, lJUt there is quite an active demand for holiday goods, many of which will he shi.pped by cxpre~~. What the 1 conditions will be after Jannary 1 cannot be surmised, although it would seem that the large number of cars now under construction should relieve the shortage. During the past summer two steam boats have been construct-ed to ply on Cran{] river between Grand Rapids and Grand Haven, on Lake Michigan. As the ownership of the boats lies largely in the hands of the manufacturers of furniture, shipments by water to Chicago, Milwaukee and Western points will be on an extensh'e scale next year. The \Voodworkers Union of Milwaukee is soliciting funds from other organizations to support the strikers in their efforts to unionize the woodworking shops of that city. \Vith the strikes in the prlntjng, mattress and other trades prevailing, or~ ganized lal)or has a heavy load to bear. Working men seem incapable 6f learning anything, except through personal exper-iences. The experiences of others count for nothing. Or~ gani:7.ed labor is unwittingly learning a great lesson. It is this: The business men of the United States are determined to run their business in the future in their own way clOd for their own interests. The credit managers at Michigan have determined to ask the legislature next year to pass a bill to provide for the recording of chattel mortgages with the clerks of the counties of the state, This is a wise and just proposition and no difficulty should be experienced in obtaining the relief desired. L'nder the existing law the filiJiIg and recording of chattel mortgages is a farce. A bit of history will not be lacking at this time. Upwards of twen-ty years ago a gmup of farmers living in the northern part of Kent county, in their trips to and from Grand Rapids, with loads of hay, wh~at, hogs and otller llroducts or dry goods, groceries, clothing, fatm machinery and farm necessities, as the Case might be, noticed the gradual development of the furniture manufactur-lng business of the city, and one day, while attending a town caucus, they resolved to organize a company and engage in the manufacture of furniture at Sparta, Mich. A factory was erected, a sllperintendent engaged (not for his experience and ability, but 011 account of the very moderate wages for which he agreed to ",,-ark) and the manufacture of furniture (if the stuff produced might be called, by straining the truth, such) with in-expe;; enced \hclP and geeen lumbe; begun. From the aay when the first board was Cllt the company reaped only losses, and when the end of the financial rope had been reached the managers sought to prolong the worthless life of the corporation by the practice of tricks that served their purpose for a while. A com-plaisant township clerk (a stockholder in the company) concealed the many chattel mortgages that were placed in his hands to se-cure creditors and in the book of record the filing \vas so I::o'n-cealed that creditors wOLlld not discover the same. The com-pany placed large orders for mirror plates, varnishes, lumber, hardware and other materials estimated ill value at $30,000 and when the inevitable crash came the unsecured creditors lost all The l1istory of the Sparta Furuiture company should afford all the argument necessary io secure the passage of the bill 8riefly Mentioned. Plans for the new factory for the Brunswick- Balke Bil-liard Table company, to be erected in Muskegon, have been completed. The main buildings will be 65 x 325 and 65 x 219 feet re.specti\'ely, three stories high. The power house will be 50 x 100 feet in size. Three hundred men will be employed as soon as the factory is ready for operation. Tillman Brothers of LaCrosse, 'Vis., arc filling al1 order for 5,000 chairs placed by the. Unite.d States government, to be used in furnishing the hachelors' quarters near Colon on the Isthmus of Panama. The contract price is $I.QO per chair. William S. Winegar, trustee in bankruptcy for the defunct l :olt~ehold I'urtltture c,ompally of Grand Rapids, has brought suit against a !lumber of stockholders to compel the payment of delinquencies in stock subscribed for in the corporation. Frank S. Rase of IVlilwallkee, \-Vis., has been granted a pat-ent upon an lnventlon to prevent children from kicking off bed clothes. Mr. Rase should pursue his investigations further for meallS to prevent children from falling out of bed. The Southern Piano and Furniture company was organized recently with $10,000 capital, l)y C. T. Johnson and ot11ers of Meridian, Miss. The Brooks Boat Manufacturing company, doing business in Bay City, Mich., will add the manufacture of furniture to he shipped knocked down. The Skeely Furniture company of :lvkKeesport, Pa., hav(' increased their stock from $30,000 to $50,000. The White-Day Furniture company succeeds the White- Jones Trading company in Dallas, Texas. The capital stock has been increased from $5,000 to $10,000. The Mancha Shmv Case company of Detroit have increased their capital stock from $50,000 to $75,000, \V. M. Ward and others ha\'E: incorporated the Art Furniture company of Jamestown, "K. Y., with $20,000 capital prellaratory to enga.ging in the manufacture of arts and crafts furniutre. The Quisisana Furniture company, organized recently in La-porte, Ind., is manufacturing arts and crafts furniture. \Vork has been commenced 011 a nnv factory building for the Clarksville, (Tenn.) Furniture company. The Star Furniture company of Lincoln, Neb., recently 111~ corpora.ted, have $5,000 capital stock. The Western Cablnet aml Fixture company have: com-menced the operation of a new factory in Kansas City, Mo. For-ty men are employed. The compa.ny will manufacture bank and office furniture. The Rowell & Fetch company have opened a stock of furni-ture in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The Columbus (Ga.) Show Case company suffered a loss of $5,000, caused by the destruction of their dry kilns by fire. A cigarette thrown in a bed of shavings in the boiler house ca.us~ ed the conflagration. Waldheim & Company of Milwa.ukee, Wis" have taken posses-sion of the Bell Furniture company's stock in Racine, and com~ menced business in that city. Lynch and Ginga\ ha\'e oflened a stock of fmnlt\1TC i.n Wy;m-dotte, Mich. NO! IT is not a new STAIN or a new FILLER or a new SURFACER, Only a New Departure We have realized the necessity for a long time, of getting nearer to our good friends in the WEST and·NORTHWEST. Not nearer in spirit or confidence, for we feel that we are very close to our patrons in that way already, but nearer in actual mileage. We have just opened a new factory for the manufacture of our line of WOOD fiNISHING SUPPLIES at Nos. 61-63-65 and 67 North Ashland Avenue &"1&460, ILLINOIS It is fully equipped with all modern machinery, and the plant more complete in every way than the home factory. We will there manufacture and carry in stock, a full line of our Surfacers (Mineral Base) Water and Oil Stains Enamels, lacquers, Antique and GoldenOak fillers Japan Coaters and in fact everything that our good friends in the Central West and North West may call for, and if you want a special shade, we can only reiterate what we have claimed with confidance in the past WE CAN MATe" ANYT"ING We want to tell you about our No. 390 and No 397 NEW PENETRATING GOLDEN OAK OIL STAINS, USED IN CONNECTION WITH OUR NO. 611 and NO. 512 fiLLERS. We will gladly furnish samples, and also send copy of our little book "Lindeman the filler Maker" DON'T FORGET WHERE TO SE!'ID T"E BARRETT-LINDEMAN COMPANY M41N OFfiCE and fACTORY. Nos. 1400-02-04 fRANKfORD AVE. PHilADElP"IA, PA. CmC4GO fACTORY, Nos. 61-63-65-67 NORT" AS"lAND AVE. CHICAGO,ILL. 24 Weight and Worth. In our boyhood days the questio11 was sometimes asked, which weighs the most, a pound of lead or a pound of fcrtth-ers?" and without hesitation the answer wOllld be "A pound of ]iead, of course," The reader win be apt to ask, ;'\V]lat has that to do with wood\,.'orking machiller)'?" Simply this, that it indicates the ahsence of thought, ml1ch less careful c011sid-eration. That is the trouble with too many business IllC.11 to-day. In their 3nxietty to do a large business they too often bny a piece of machinery that i.s too light and poorly made to do perfect work, because it is cheap, or else if a manufacturer of machinery one is apt to demand very light casting-s from the foundry to save expenses, and enable him to piae\': his ma-chines on the market at a lower price ill order to increase the number of sale,,:; r n either case it is <l. delusion and a snare, breeding trouble instead of satisfaction. One of the tuost nec-essary and valuable machines in the furniture factory is the sha.per. This mach-inc is sllllject to as severe a strain as almtDst any machine in the factory, and to stand up under it, mus't have a good solid irame. That is the fOllndation, and l1nle~;;it is heavy and stroug it matters but little how ,v('-\Ithe machine is built, it will soon get out of order. The new NO.4 streets, Cincinnati. This company was established in 1864, and for nearly a half century has been supplying American and foreign furniture factories and other woodworking estab-lishnlC'nts with machinery of the very best make. It is but natnra1 that they should have a reputation for reliability that is an asset of inestimable value. Filling Orders. Tlle Knoxville (Tenn.) Carving and Moulding Com~ pany recently established by C. Evan Johnson and others, started their factory recently with a good !lumber of orders. Although the facilities of the company for manufacture are luge the volume of orders received already taxes the same. In passing criticism, don't be too harsh on the life 10- sura nee oJ11cers. Be regardful of the fact that they could have llrawn much larger salaries if they wished. It was there. Frank Laughlin, of Evansville, Ind., that was importcdhy Thomas Jefferson T-T e has refused $2,000 for it. owns a bedstead 111 colonial days. dOLlblespindle shaper, ""ith patent double counter shaft and improved self-oiling bearings, manufactured hy the Cordes-roan Machine company, of Cincinnati, has a frame larger and heaviet than any other make. The base is 33x34 inches: the top 40*-60inches, and the machine ,,,'eighs 2,200 pounds. The table is made of iron, in one piece, and the spindles are 24 inches apart, with r8 inches in front and 18 inches fTOm the spindles to the ends of the table. thus giving a large space for the workman to operate 011. Either spindle can be dropped at will entirely below the table and they will run a long time at 800 revolutions per minnte witlwut oiling. A treaJle in front starts or stops the machine. For full particlllars and pnce .'.Lddressthe Cordesman Machine Co., Pearl and Butler Skinner, Grobbiser and Kanitz Men of Nerve. lnveJt $150,000 in Furnitflre Exposition Builaing. Cha.rley Skinner, \\r. C. Grobhiser, Louis Kanlt7., Henry Schuerman and their associates e\'idently have faith in the perpetuity of tl1e Grand Rapids Furniture Exposition. Upon their recent purchase of \'aluable ground on North Ionia street, Grand Rapids. they have commenced the erection of a handsome, modern exposition building, to be ready for occupancy in July next. That they have faith in the future of Grand Rapids as 'well as in the perpetuity of the furniture exposition is proven by their investment of $150,- 000 for the purpose mentioned. New Patent Sanding Machine. The Cl1\. here represented is of a sanding machine espe-cially designed for makers of furniture, desks, etc. Ttwas patented 1Jarch 20th, 1/)00, alld has embodied in its make-up many l1;:W points to insure good work to those having this dass of sandil.lg to do. Limited space perm.lts of on1)· somE" of the most important features being considered. The machine is invaluable ..".'.here a perfectly smooth snrface is desir-ed either for v<LrnrshilljJ or painting. r t is massive and substan-tial, and saves the \vol·k of several machines for doing this character of work. The three steel polishing cylinders UpOI1 which the paper is placed have a vibntory motiol1 to prevent the formation of lines. and arc equipped with a device for quickly applying the sand paper, the third .cylinder giving the final and SInooth finish. The feed is very powerful. and con-sists of eight ked rolls, four above and four bel()\v, driven by a train of heavy expansion gearing. and "will open to receive material eight inches thick The machine is made to v..·ork materia! f'·om 30 to 80 inches wide and has a brush (lttach-ment which cleans the stock aftcr it In,, pl.ssedthrough. The prcssure rolls are so arranged that the ;tdjHstments can he made easily, quickly and accurately, ane! the feed started and stopped instantly. The makers of this rmpnwed sander, ]. A. 'Fay & Fg-an Co .. Nos. 505 to 525 \-V. l"rOl1t St .. Cincinnati, Obio, will be glad to he<lr from those interested, to \vho1l1 they \'\'ill submit prices, information and c.ts showing the ma~ chilH' ill detail. and a!"o testimonial letters. They "will also send free tIleir new illustrated catalogne, showing their ma-chinery, and book on sanding machines. Otis Introduced Tabasco Mahogany. Some fifteen years ago the Otis \lfg. Co., 2257-2267 Lumber St,. Chicago, {Irst called utterttion to the mcrits of 1'a-bu:-; co mahogany, a \vooe! at t1le time almost unknown to tb(' consumers in the United States, while no\-\, there is hardly a consumer who does 110t blO\V Tobasco and use it as a standard iu judging other varieties. During ~11t]les{' years the Otis iVlall-ufactnril1g · company has handled Tabasco exclusively and tht;ir ontpltt this year, with the small amount of Cuban, is all Tabasco wood. There are dozens of mahoganies being sold on the market at the present time, but there is only one Ta-as co. Tht, only wood dlat ever equalled it was the old San Domingo, hut as this ""'aod is now receiv'ed irt sHch small qnantities, it is 110 longer a factor in the market, and Tabasco heads the list. The Otis Manufacturing company handle 1'a-hasco only, and being importers direct, can quote close prices on the hest wood that groV_iS. Adams & Raymond have commenc<.~d the erection of ~ veneer mill in Lonsdale, Tenn. 71R T I k5' JI..l'l rm·g- At··, 7#. 25 The Imperial Makes Improvements. The Tmperial Fnrniture company \vill begin a.t once the erection of a new frame building to be one hundred four by fifty feet ill dimensions and to be used for stotage of high gp.de lrl1110er and otber materials. The structure will be lo-cated north of the company's factory and will be completed by December IS- Other notable improvements by the Impe-rial Furniture company js the putting in of a new twO hundred horse power boiler, to be installed November I, and several new machinE'S which ,..·.ill increase the capacity of the Imperial plant. The above improvements are the outgrowth of the in-creasing demands made by the trade ttpon the Imperial goods. The company are al"o nearly ready to issue a new catalogue which will show the oftLce and library end of the Imperial line. Crowded With Orders. All departments of the American Blower company's shnps at Detroit are cro\\rded to their utmost capacity, Re-cent orders from the wood-working field include a fifth dry kiln for the \V. F. Stewart company, Flint, 1vIich, and kilns for the English \Ianufacturing company, ~JerriJl, \-Vis., L. B. i\lorrison, Halvillc, Tex., and the Buffalo, (N. Y.) Lounge compallY· The La",'rencebmg (Tenn.) Furniture Company will move their manufacturing business to Clarksville, in the same sin te. WOOD CAR.VINGS If you don't buy them rig-ht this season it will not be our fault. WRITE FOR ESTIMATES Our work and prices will both surprise and please you ORDERS FILLED PROMpTLY JOHN DUER & SONS BALTIMORE, MD. Cabinet "ar(lware an1l Tools, Etc. Upholstered ()oods Handsomest PuB OD the Market for lhe Money Correspondence Solided. Write for Prices ana Sample No 1573 At-Grand Rapids T"E NATIONAL fURNITURE MARKET A LIMITED AMOUNT OF SPACE ~=FOR RENT~= IN THE BIG EXPOSITION BUILDING Desirable space, formerly occupied as retail quarters, can be had if applica-tion is made promptly. Now is the time to arrange for an exhibit at the com-ing January Exposition. Don't put it off--but write today. Original Exhibition Building, Pearl, Lyon and Occawa Streets Frontage Lyon 8t 255 ft. Ottawa St. 24+ .ft. Pearl St .67 ft. One hundred and fifty strong lines now tenant this building-not second raters but the leading lines of the country. The past season it has been dem-onstrated more forcibly than ever th~t Grand Rapids is the market where you get RESULTS. You can get some Eastern trade in New York, some Western trade in Chi-cago- but you can get both with one exhibit at Grand Rapids-you can get the best trade from every section of the country by showing here, and the expense of space and other incidental expense is less here than at the other so called markets. Write today (in order to get most desirable location) for detailed information as to rate, etc. Furniture Exhibition Building. CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. 27 Hardware Supply Company, For 13 Years We have been studying the needs of the Fumiture Manufacturers in the hardware line and have learned a thing or two. One line of our endeavor has been to find A Thoroughly Good T oilet Fastener which would displace the oid~fashioned, clumsy wood deat used for attaching the toilets to bureaus, dressing tables. etc. etc. and have found th.t the TILLOTSON TOILET FASTENER, which has now been used six ye.rs, is the ONLY ONE WHICH HAS STOOD THE TEST OF TIME.; hence we have secured the patent and now own the exclusive right to make the goods. We have made improvements in the construction of the fasteners, and now offer them to Furniture Manufacturers as the very best thing ever made for the purpose. Their use greatly improves the appearance of a piece of furniture and Saves the Retailer much Time and Money WE ALSO MANCFACTURE The Largest Line of Door Catches of any Concern on Earth. Beside' lots of other good things, aUof which we show in our c.t.logue, which may be had for the asking. Grand Rapids, Mich, U. S. A, Nut used on under side of Case Top. How I Struck the Manager. The desirable position that every boy, who has his O\vn way in the world to make is early ill search of goes frequently to the odd candidate ill some odd way or for some odd reason. In:::t case in mind. not a. month old, with Rrooklvn as the IOCLlS, it wel~t right over the beads of every youthfu\- eandidate for the position and was offered to an unsuspecting lad who had not the remotest idea of applying for it. He was a small boy of fomtecn; he had given days of his va-cation to earn some money that he needed in temporary messenger work in a branch ofGec of a large corporation; and when he re-ceived his pay be found an unwarranted deduction from his earn-ings, against which he had duly protested, exacting a promise of proper adjustment. Hc was indignant at the ensuing delay, but he was not a boy to give way to indignation in a way to imperil the collection of an amollnt of hl$ claim. Neither- had he any mind. to go again personally to the main office wit11 its besieging crowd of !Joys applying- for positions. So, with his mind bent on going straight to the mark in the fewest possible words, he penned a letter to the Brooklyn mana-ger. He wrote the letter, as he had uudertakcn the work, with-out the advice of anyOlle. It was couched in English that would have done credit to any business man of the city, and it was writen ill the vertical hand that reads as readily as print. He mailed it and awaited a reply with misgivings as to its tenor. He hadn't long to wait. Promptly camc the following· and astound-ing reply from the manager ,himself: "If the attached letter was "iritten hy you and it is a sample of your usual handwriting, T have a place ill this office for you as clerk, helping me in light office work, where there is a fine chance for promotion. Yours truly, * * *" Trade News. The late Henry Dinwoodly, of Salt Lake City, {eft an es-latc valued at $206,000, which \vill he distributed among a large number of heirs. The Columbia Bcd company, organized recently by the state of New Jersey, will manufactl1re bedsteads at Newark The California Fmniture company have opened their doors in Los Angeles, occupying a building erected especially ior their use. It has a frontage of seventy feet all Broadway and is six stories high. The proprietors, H. Voight, A. A. Ecbtrom and B. ]. VOlght, arE' widely known in the furniture trade. The Diplock-lvlorrill Furniture company, organized in Au-gusta, Me., recently to deal in furniture, is capitaliz.ed for $10,- 000, of which amount $2,000 is paid in. The Pickering Furniture company of Concord, N. H., suf-fered a heavy loss by fire in their store recently. The King Furniture company of \V"arren, ()., have increased their capital stock from $30,000 to $60,000. The Joseph Peters Furniture company of St. LOllis, Mo., were damaged recently to the amount of $2,.000 by fire, which originated in the varnish room. The Phoenix Furniture company is said to be the largest importer of mahogany logs in Grand Rapids. During the current ye8r it has received six large shipments from Africa. The Hoover Furniture company, organized recently 111 Hartford City, Ind., is capita1i;:ed for $15,000. Dele-her Brothe.TS, dealers of furniture in Jacksollville, Fla., have purchased a tract of ground on \Vest Bay street, and will erect a large building to be used in their business. Creditors of the Two Rivers (\Vis.) \lanufacturing com-pally are considering an offer to settle for twenty-one cents on the dollar. 28 Care of Machine Knives. Get the best knives, A good kn-ife will do more and bet-ter work and require much less care than a poor one. The men who have charge and care of knives generally have tenacious ideas about the temper suitable for their work, and as a rule, their ideas should be conformed to, unless decid-edly wrong. Knives that cut across the grain, sHch as stroke jointer, tennoning and dado, should be so hard that a file cal1 make no impression upon them. Many prefer to have sticker knives and moulding knives the same unless there are such corners that an emery wheel will not con-veniently reach. But the hard kllife will do most and best by BARNEY ZIERLRVN, a student in the Grand Rapids :<=:choolof Furniture Design, wor,k, bnt it 'is mOle difficult to sharpen. The same is true of lathe knives. All planer knives should be of such temper that they can be sharpened with a file, hardwood requiring a knif;e that a file will just toui.'_h, while pine requires a knife thatl will file easily. The temper suitable for elm and ash is ail trifte harder than for pine, that for hasswood another deg,ee harder, that for oak still harder, while kiln-dried mapfe and beach requires hardest temper of all. It will PlailtlY be seen that for one set of knives to work on all kind of "vQod a medium temper is the best that can he pro-cure. The g-rade of files lIsed has much to do with what a w(~rkman calls a filing temper. A knife that one workman will fall too hard to file, another will call too soft for 11se. Some prefer to Use the file more and grind less, while others pref1r to grind more and use the file less. Remarkable Furnishings of a Palace in the Netherlands. The Misses \Vhlte, of the Artisan, now touring Europe, have written a Humber of very interesting letters relating their experiences and describing their observations to the· local neWSpapers. In a letter dated the Hague, Sept. r6, Miss Lucy \Vhite describes the furniture of a palace as follows; "V\! e ]visited the palace or house in the woods where the reigni~lg queen spent her childhood. It is saUle distance out, but a~ the wads were good and the grand old beech trees ,vith \mossy green trunks in the woods so beautiful we greatlr enjoyed the carriage ride. The palace contains two rooms of more than common interest. The first-the Chinese---has rice paper on the walls while the upholstered iCfllitttre of ehony is covered with silk embroidery. Three handsome tables are inlaid with mother-of-pearl, in designs of grafes, leaves, Howers, birds, huttert1ies houses trees and human figures. The pearl is protected by lacquer. Ebony cabin tswere decoratcd with gold and supported Cloissone vases. The walls of the Japanese room are covered with hand embroidered silk. The furniture was of uniform de-sign and in the siting room there is an elaborately carved chair in teakwood, from Bombay, India. Orange Hall was constructed by Queen Sophia and contains a series of paint~ ings depicting events in the life of King Frederick \Vilhelm, The dining roOm is a cool combination of white and blue-a blue carpet, white chairs, with blue coverings, and a blue covering over the white (able. The De;ft table ware in-terested us very much. The Hotcl Du Vieux Deelen (old shooting house) where we are "topping was erected seveal centuries back. The furniture of our suite is much gilded and ornamented with festoons and heads. An adjoining suite the furniture is of white and gold, the waHs are covered with red upholstery and the carpet is of the same color. Natural flowers add mllch to the effect," A Hamess for a Dragon .. In the search for a weapon to use against the trusts, a most efficient one seems to have been found in alcohol; not as a stimulant, however, but as an active agent to accomplish real work. The present high tax. on alcohol prohibits its llse for mechanical purpOses, but it may be rendered impossible as a heverage without impairing its usefulness as a heat, light and power producer, and it is proposed that, thus ''tlena-turizcd," it be freed from taxation. It haS: been demonstrated that alcohol, if untaxed, would be bette and cheaper for heat-ing and lighting than gasoline and kerosene, while it is I1sable, probably with economy, as a fuel for internal com-bustion engines similar in type to the gasoline engines now in such common use. One of the largest factors in the trusti- Jication of industries is the fact that power is much more, per unit, in large installations than in small ones, and the grow-ing efficiency of the internal combustion engine, simple, direct and efficient for small powers as well as large; capable of being lIsed as economically for short and inte.rmittent runs as for long ones, has done much to encourage small indus-tries and to sustain a certain amount of competition in manu-factures. The average man, having accumulated a little more than enough to satisfy his immediate needs, hesitates to invest in a large company in the management of which he can have little voice and much prefers to operate a small industry by himself when he can see a fair chance of adequate returns then,Jroffi. The gasoline engine has made possible many small industries whieh could not have eXisted without it, but the tremendous increase in the consumption of gaso-line for this as well as for innumerable other p.urpo:ses, to-gether with the fact that its production and price arc arbi-trarily controlled, seriotlsly limits its field. A suitable and cheap fuel to take the place of, or to compete with, gasolin'e is much to be desired and would vastly extend the field of usefulness of this class at engines. \Nhile the present stage of development will hardly warant one in say-ing that alcohol will immediately and directly supply this fuel, it is certain that, if placed on the market as a competitor of gasoline it would have a decided t~ndency to lower the price of that commodity, and it is not- unreasonable to assume that the methods of its use for power purposes will be greatly improved within a short time. Added to its value as a weapon against (he trusts is the fact that it is capable of being made from a large variety of farm products, grain, vegetables and fruits, and is capable of being advantageously made in small installations and in any locality, so that its extensive consumption would open up all industry of an extent almost beyond conception; one no more capable of "combination" than farming itself. The question as to what we will do when our ,coal is ex-hausted would beat least partially answered,and one of man's worst enemies W-ot~!dbe made one of his most effident servants. \V. D. GRAVES. BUILT-UP PANELS AND VEN EERS FOR FURNlTURE MANUFACTURERS We do not cla.im to be lower In price. but we do claim our pa.nels are cheaper in the long run, 8J" they J1. .A A \Ve can fumish you 2, 3 or 5 ply Panels in QuartHed Oak, Mahogany, Plain Oak Ash, Elm, Birch, Maple or Basswood, and guarantee same in every respect. \Ve use high' grade Glue in our work and our Veneers are thoroug"bly dry and our Machinery up-to-date. Our 2 and 3 ply Drawer Bottoms and Glass Backs are the finest on the market. \Ve can also furnish you with Rotd.ry Cut Maple, Birch and Elm Veneers in 1.30, 1-20, 1-16 and 1-8 inches thick. All of our Veneers are dried in the new Cae Roller Dryer, and lay flat and are free from crinkle. If you wish to buy Panels and Veneers that are RIGHT AND THAT 'WILL STAY RIGHT, give us a chance to figure with you and submit samples and prices. THE GORHAM BROS. CO. Do you see the point IJiJ!I'" lifT. PLfASANT.Mien. Submit Y(lUrwants and let us make you bappy_ Saw and Knife Fitting Machinery and Tools n"'/J'!"'~}:;;~'~d:t Baldwin. Tuthill ®. Bolton Grand Rapids. Mich. Filers. Setters. Sharpeners. Grinders, Swa'les. Stretchers, 8/'azil1Q and Filing Clamps, Knile Balances, Hammering T(I(JIs. lnvtest1gate om Line. Neo,..· ,mo pal!:c CatalQRUe for r905 Free. Bolton Band Saw Filer for Saws ~ inch Ull. 'B. T. & B. Style D, Knile Grinder. Fun Automatk. "',et or nr~. ~----------·---OFFICES-~--------------- Boston New York. Jamestown High Point Cincinnatl Detroit Grand Rapids Chic:agG St. Louis Mlnneapoli. Associate Offices and Bonded Attorneys in all Principal Ities The Furniture Agency REPORTING FURNITCRE, UNDERTAKERS, CARPET HARUWAf.!E AND KINDRED TRADES. COLLEC· T1QNS MADE BY AN UNRIVALLED SYSTEM THROUGH OUR COLLECTION DEPARTMENT. wE I'Ronuel'; RESULTS WHERf: OTHERS FAlL WJUTli «OR PART!CULARS AND ~'OV Wll-1. SEND US YOUR. BUSIN ESS. Our CoJ:nplaint and AdJusbnent Department Red Drafts Collect #== L. J. STEVENSON, Michigan Manager We carry a line of Rebuilt Wood- Working Machinery for Pattern Shops. Furniture Factories. Sash and Door Manufacturers. Car-penters. Planing Mills.Etc. AI AI "Vhen in the market let us send \"Qll our list of mA.{"binesand 'W'e are f'ure th9t we can interest you ill prices aIld quality of machines offered EDWARDS MACHINE CO. 34·36 W, Wasbinllton St. CHICAGO. ILL. 29 30 CW.M[MM[~ ~ ~~. MANUFACTURERS OF DROP CARVING AND EMBOSSING GENERAL MACHINES Dies for all kinds of Machines, At lowest prices. I 17 Second SI., LAFAYETTE, IND. I.fO~f.l~~Cl":!Ie I\GO Lv Gd RapIds 7 lOam Ar Chicaj(o 1:15pm Lv Go Rapids 12:05 nIl AT Chicago 4:50 pm Lv Gd. RapIds 4:2,5pm daily Ar Chica.&0 10:55 pm Lv Gel Rapids 11.30 pm daily Ar Chicago 655 am Pll1hr.an Sl~epef, open 9J)O pm all 11:30 pm train every day, Cafe service on all day trains. Sf'Tvke a Is carte. ~1';1 eM arquette Parlor cars on all day trains. Rate r~uced to 50 cents. THREE TRAINS DETROIT To AND fROM' Leave Grand Rapids 7:10 Ilm Arrive Detroit 11:55 am Leave l~rand Rapids 11:1.5am daily Anive Detroit 3:25pm Leave Grand Rapids 5:20 pm Arrive Detroit 10:05 pm Meals served a 1a carte on trains leaving Grand Rapids at 11:25am and 5:lu pm. Pete Marquette Parlor ellrS Qn all trains i seat rate, 25 cents. "ALL OVER MICHIGAN" H. J. GRAY, DIStRICT PA.SSIl:NGI:I:RAGKNT, PHON£ 1168 Gra.ndRapids.Mich ~Weatherly Individual Glue Neater Send your addren and receive descriptive cir-cular of Glue Heaters, Glue Cookers and Hot Boxes with prices ... Weatherly &. Pulte Grand Rap'ds, Mich. These saws are made from No. 1 Steel and we war-rant every blade. We also carry a full stock of Beveled Back Seron Saws, any length and gauge. Write us for' Prloe Lht and dfacounc 31-33 S. FRONT ST•• GRAND RAPIDS QUAR TER.SAWED INDIANA W"ITE OAK VENEERS CHOICE FIGURE :: EXTRA. WIDTHS When writing for prices, mention widths required and kind of figure preferred. HOFFMAN BROTtlERS co. Fort Wayne : Indiana 9l/ammotA lJ)rop- CaTV(lTJ 910. .J Thb machIne weIJZhs abollt ql\e k.m, Hal> a traveUn/t lable. (s reversed and stArted from a C()llnter 911aft, which is In-cluded wIth macninp. Kollow !'!teel lI'utndrel a% Inches In diameter. \Ve fUrnjsh burner fnr InsIde or 6utside heating, for either ~l:LSor gasoline. Size of mach ille • ., It. (I in. ~\§~\\:leJ;J~r~r~lt~~f~ mllchl"e. Prlce. *225; witbont trav_ E'lIPlf( table, $200. Marum otb No.4, same .as machille No. 3. driven wItil lo[)gitnde sbaft only; pul-leys Ilt right all g 1 e a: needs 110 counter shaft. Price $200; wJth- (IUt trll\'el_ Wfo. t~~~'\i tOr full c- ~crJptJ{\1:l and lfi;tUf other drop ~.al"Vf'.r\o 'If e I!ulld, Blue Print Designs Free tD the Trail e JNO. P. DENNING ---- 200 S. FIRST ST. TER RE HAUTE, IND Wood Forming Cutters \Ve offer exceptional value ill Reversible and One- Way Cutters for Single and Double Spindle Shapers. Largest lists with lowest prices. Great-est variety to select from Book fre-e. Address SAMUEL J. SHIMER & SONS MILTON. PENNSYLVANIA. U. S. A. ----~---------------.I A (Concluded from pageS.) 1f a glaze forms on the wheel it is next to impossible to grind a knife ,'vithout inj uriIlg it. If the knife has a wire edge have it rC111oveo and the edge nicely smooth(~d with a 1111(' whetstone. The length (If til(; bcvel of the klliie is imporlant. 1]lldel- no circumstances sbould the bevel be allowed to rub all the work as it will dr::tw the temper in a few seconds. But if the bevel is too long it weakens the cutting edge, and care and jUdgment must be llsed to gct lhis just right. Ii work-mell \:\'ill us.e a shorter bevel and slnrpc\1 more often their kniV('s will do work that knives wilh a long hevel canlln( do ~'1mlY good knives have been pronounced worthless simply becal1se they have attempted to l1se the111 with too long-bevels. Never allow the fac(' of the knives to become rusty, <l'> thc rllst cats Ol1t a hole in the lnetal and when the edge Our Unhreak. .. hIe products can be glued and nailed, filled or fin-ished same as wood, with oil, water or spitit stain. No. J39 A No. r52 13 BETTER THAN WOOD Much stronger and more durable, full depth of grain, A ferfect I"eproduction of hand cal"ving which absolutely defies detection. Send for Sample. ORNAMENTAL PRODUCTS CO. Detroit. Midligan. reaches this it will leave its 111ark in the work. Grinding for diff('n~nt kind!:' of wood awl for different pur-pOses dCmalld'i good judgment. Perhaps the majority of men grinct the same bevel for all kinds of wood. A thinly ground knife will tear up the grain and tear out knots and splil1ters. C1C8r white pine will stand a pretty good bcvel. hLlt ""hen you get down to box stock tlle bevet should be Globe Vise and Truck Company OFFICE 321 S. DrvrSJON ST. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH MalJufadllrers of The Best Factory Trucks Simplkity ill l:oll~lr\lC-tion enables us to dye (j"alilv and durability, and meet all competi-tioll. n'l'ilefot l'riC(8. No. 21. Roller Bearings. Same st)·le Trul:ks No. J4, without RoUer Beatings considerably shorter if yOll would savc knots and shakes from making a bad showillg. Ore call often take ri.r!vanLage of conditions in 1"l\.llning the \~i)arseT"kinds of stock by .va-iting until the knives get a short bevel from sharpening with a file. sometimes llsing a h<:'vel from tl1C front will help Oll1. In 31 hot. kiln-dried southern pine, sharpening from the front of the knife often gives splendid results. A little good judg-ment will many times save work and make a very llice finish, hut one has to he morc carefnl a11d sharpen oftener. The 45 Center St. BATAVIA. N. Y. Excels all hand &,-rew damps in adaptation to work, conve"ience of I-HttldHnR amI quick action Espedally adapted '0 Veneering Paneling and all work requiring long hroad jaw. THE UNIVER,SAL CUMP CataLogand Price List Furnished Batavia Clamp Co. Mention Michigan Artisan, short he vel kllife takes 1110re power and must be sh.arpened oftener. but pays by saving stock ill many instances. There -is 110t a sateT or better chipbreaker made than a knife grollnd from the front side. One sometimes sees pl;l11ers v..·.ith the knives fairly set back into the head. There is an elemcnt of danger in this. Sttch as cannot possibly exist with a knife ground with a hevel front. \Vith a front bevel t here is no 110ssibility of shavings being (orc{,'.d ,,-,nde:r the knife and breaking it off. Most planer operators have seen a set of knives stripped by getting shavings under a knife. \Vhcl1 one goes there is no hope for the others. "Vhen pony and buzz planers are concerned, it is well to grind a front bev<:,l and set the knife Ollt a little to save the wear on the lip l1nder tbe knife. Comi'lg to hardwoods. tllcre is some difference of OpiJlion. One mall makes almost a sqnare edge in order to fInish harchvood stock to suit him. Another turns his knives over to work a lot of maple stock for finish and flooring, using in all cases solid side-cntter bits for tongueillg and grooving. Slow fced and constant care to keep his tools sharp and clean gi've him spJ<:'ndid results; or, to use his own expres-sion, he "polishes it." Every man. in order to do good work. must grind his knives for the work he is doing. SOllth AfrIca i.s hy far th.e hest of all the British colonial markets for furniturc, over $r,ooo,ooo worth having been imported from England during the past year. A considerable quan-tity was also imported ham the United St<ltes. The lack of native ll1aterial VI·illprevent the manufacture of furl1it~lre in that conntry, except on a limited scale, Frank C. Klode, president of tllC C. S. Tiischer Furniture company of I\Jilw<1ukee, was indicted recently upon a chargc of perjury. in cOllnci.tioll with testimony given to a jury. A nC\.y furniture factory .. iust completed in Decatur, Ala .. ,,,,,ill mannfactt1H. center tables, bedsteads and kitchen safes. Robert Uyas is the president of the corporation. The manufacture of adjustable rocking chairs is a new in-dustr) at Harrisburg, Ark., undertaken by D. M. Curtis. 32 ~MlprIG7f-N .1 Various Matters. ~le movement inaugurated by the manufacturers of cheap furniture tor the purpose of abolishing the semi-annual expdsitions of furniture is at a standstill. In the picturesque Jangllage of the trade, "there is nothing doing." The leaders havJ not sold the leases they hold l1pon fioor space in the expdsition huildings, and it is doubtful if the same could be purchased for a reasonable price. The dealers appreciate the importance of the expositions to themselves, and their llum:bers are steadily gro.ving. :Nlanuhctcucrs -..vho cannot qnaliify for the successful sale of their prodtlcts at the expo- 5itiQ'115 will have to be content with the unsatisfactory trade of t~hescheme honses. '.' "," That was a very sensible stroke of business entered into by \ harley Davis, Harry \.Vhitcomb and Charley Birely, of She~byville, a few ye8xs ago. These gentlemen hold the stock of t~le Conrey & Birely Table company. Each had his life in-sur~ d for $100,000, the premiums for which are paid hy the con~pany. Upon the death of either one of the party his hei~s will receive $100.0CO. while the interest of the deceased "vill pass to the surviving stockholders. \Vhen two shall havie passed away the entire property of the company will pas~ to the hands of the one remaining stockholder-a tOIl-tinilc feature. The company distributes their profits anllually, and the plan deserves the comrrendation of sensible men. It provides for a "square dea1." The fut:.lre welfare of three h1ilies is assnred. *** *",* :\1ahogany lumber is imperviol1s to the effects of hC'lt an@ moistttre, and for that T(~asonit is perfectly adapted for use in the lllanufacwre of kitchen furniture. More attention is paid to the furnishing of kitchens by women of domestic tastes, and the manufacturer of well designed. substantially constructed and sensibly planned kitchen cabinets, tables. chairs, wall cabinets, racks, ironing boards, dryers, and like eC1tiPment for the kitchen seldom has reason for comPlain-. in of dullness in trade. A collection of drawers, shelves. ell boards and a kneading board thrown together at the least exrense possible without regard to design, convenience ill ar angcment, in a slip-shod way, will not satisfy the demands of women for kitchel1 cabinets when they can get something heftter. A commOn '''''ood seat chair costing fifty cents is tl1iwillingly accepted when one dollar wo,)ld be cheerfully p~id for a more comfortable one, The fifty cellt chair is atl best a rickety piece, unsuited for the many purposes for ,vhich it must be nsed. 'Vall racks and cabinets for the ki~chen should he made in attractive form, for thousands of wr'ves and mothers spend many hours in the kitchen and it is just as necessary that they be provided with pleasant sdrroundings as when they array themselves in fine attire td grace and enjoy' the drawing room and the library. 'Vo-rden buy nine-tenths of all the household furniture sold in t~e United States .and if they buy cheap and poor stuff for tl1e kitchen the reason for their so doing lies in the fact that t~ere is but little "good stuff" offered for their choice. ,I '* '* * '* . , I The lines for the initial season of the coming year arc 4ell advanced, and the prospects for a large attendance of ~~lyers at the expositions have impelled the manuhcturers t~) bring out large and strong Jines. Naturally much atten-tlon has been paid to work suitable for the summer season, the furnishing of cottages having become a specialty with many dealers. Exposition huildings in all the exposition towns will be filled with strong lines as usual. *"* *.* George Clingman, of the Tobey Furniture co:npauy. spent the last ten days of October in Grand R1pids, picking lIP goods for the holiday trade. It is generally CO'lceded rat Tohey's is the great furniture store of Chicago, and the prediction is often heard uttered that the house of Tobey wi.ll soon become as well and favorably known in New York, through its branch store, established recently in that city, a's it is in the west. Tobey handles only the best lines of medium and fine work. *#* *** A gentleman who keeps in close touch with the mer-c< 1t1tileinterests of Chicago, predicts that when Marshall Field shall have completed the extension now under con-struction to his great retail store he will give more space to his furniture department. At present it is merely a side issue, not worthy of the reputation of the great merchant. No one realized this fact sooner than .Marshall Field, and as that gentleman is determined to lead in every enterprise in which he engages, the house of Tobey may be compelled to look to its laurels as well as its trade in the near fl1tme. Work With a Purpose. Long ago some ,>,rise man evolved a maxim-"Shoe-maker stick to yom 1ast1" The wisdom of it is more ap-parent in these stre1l11OtlSdays than ever before. It is de-fined to signify that he who changes much accomplishes but little. A young man who believes in himself, who is confident that he has powers, that "'there is something in him," should first of .all select the field in which he expects to carve out his fortune. He may not be able to determine upon this at once. Experimenting may be necessary, but too much time should not be spent in experiments. Then having de· termined what his life work is to be h~ should knuckle down to it with a will and a stern determination to stick to it tltltil he has succeeded. The life without a strong purpose is a life wasted. Moving about from one place to another aimlessly and re-constructing plans after having spent months in construct-ing other plans is a mere waste of energy. The mind is the thing that leads. Unless it has shaped the model for all the rest of the faculties-unleSs the mind has picked out the thing to be done and determined that it shall be done-tife is a mere gamble; mayhe "luck" will hand you a few good things; maybe it will not--the chances all are that it will not. Having decided to strive in a certain field of enterprise, learn all there is to know about it-all that your menhl faculties can grasp: do all that your hands can do. Resolve at the start-off to be no second or third rater, no "piker;" resolve that yOU wiH ce the best in the craft, whatever it is. Don't envy those above yOll or those that have suc-ceeded, but study t.hem calmly and sce how they have done it; then do likewise. But the main point is to never relax your grip, once having settled the question of what to do. Stick to it, do it well. Be honest with yourself; pause and seriously consider once in a while if you are doingyollf best, then tighten your belt a notch and do more earnestly. There is never an earnest worker in any subordinate position whose efforts are lost. Industry, integrity, earnest-ness and application bring their rewards. They may not have been noticed yesterday, may not today, but tomorrow they will be, and then come tbe ,joy and exultation of pro-motion and the renewed enthusiasm that inspires to better results. However, there never was a man working with a seriolls, earnest purpose who did not find ample reward in the consciollsness that he had done the thing well. The failures in life are those who linger and waver, vacillate, let go and take hold again; the successes never let go. but push on with a pertinacity that must conquer. They win. Any-one can who does that. A. E. :Martin, of Indianapolis, is preparing to erect a fac-tory to be lIsed in the manufacture of furniture at Chippewa Falls, \Vis. - ------------- 9th SEASON "The Chicago Exhibition" (THE BIG BUILDING) 1319 Michigan Avenue,· Chicago New lines in Readiness Jan. 1st, 1906 About· four Hundred Thousand.(400.000) SQ. ft. floor space for the strongest exhibit of Case Goods.Chairs. fancy furniture, Metal Beds, Baby Garriages, Refrigerators. etc.• ever congregated in a building. Of the four Hundred Thousand (400.000) sq. ft. of floor space. there is for rent at this date. Oct. 26th. 1905. less than Ten Thousand (10.000) sq. ft. Necessary to hustle to becomea part of the World's Most Popular furniture Show for the year 1906. Manuufacturers' Exhibition Building Co. C"ICAGO ~- ~-----------~ 34 E.XCUSES Are often a<:cepted as a matter of courtesy. but seldom willingly, and never when they are needless. Annoyances and troubles that might easily be avoided should never be thrust upon others with a begging-to-be-excused by the guilty party. In conversing with a very wealthy gentleman from Kansas City, the conversation turned to furniture, as he had recently built a magnificent 28-~oom house. He aired his troubles by saying he had not been able to find furniture in which the drawer puIls or knobs did not Jrequently get loose or come off) marring the furniture. The writer said to him, HYour troubles and annoyances along this line are needless. You have only to insist that the furniture merchant you patronize shall dt':mand of the manufacturers that they fit up the furniture you buy of them with the TOWER PATENT FASTENERS (made only hy the Grand Rapids Brass Company, Grand Rapids, Mich.,) and as they Cost the Manufacturer Nothing and the dealer nothing, there is no reasonable excuse for his not furnishing you with i furniture wherein the trimmings will not be as firm as the furniture itself, without a i possibility of their ever getting loose." A copy of the Michigan Artisan was given I him, containing the above illustration of the Tower Patent Fastener. He was .very muCh pleased, and said he would, on returning to his home, call on the merchant, show him the illustration, and demand to know why ,his buyer had not purchased goods from factories using the Tower Patent Fastener instead of the other· kinds, and causing him so much annoyance and trouble. These little fasteners do the business; cost nothing to anyone except the Grand Rapids Bras~ Co., who charge nothing for them, but'iiimply "use them for bait," as it were, to increase the sale of their goods. ' Our line of Furniture Trimmings is the favorite with all up-to-date furniture manufacturers. Why? Because you cannot be up-tO-date without them. The Grand Rapids Brass Company ========Grand :Rapids.Mich.======= HOL.L.AND, BUSS MACHINE WORKS MICHIGAN ~:I~~I'lo;,:~;:W::3o' od Working Machinery ~~~1:~~,P,"laners, Vertical Sanders and Glue Jointers Write for Descriptive Oirculars and Illustrations When You Think about publishing a new Catalogue THINK OF us. We make the best Engravings~ we do the best Printing~ we bind Substantially. ,wHITE PRINTING COMPANY. 2 to 20 Lyon Street, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. I ~i The Standard SubstituteSHELLAC isStill SLOAN SHELLAC TRADE MARK It has maintained its lead for years. and more largely used than ever •IS now Same old price-$l.oo per gallon in barrels, $1.05 in half barrels, and $1.10 in five or ten gallon packages. No additional charge for packages. Usual freight allowance. Made in translucent shade, which is used in place of white and orange. Sample free and correspondence solicited. ------ SOLE MAKERS ------ Chicago Wood Finishing Company ELSTON AVE. and SLOAN STS., CHICAGO, ILL. ,~,---- 36 Promote Deserving Employees. Once upon a time there was a highly efficient and thoTO\.lghly satisfactory janitor. (This a true stOry, though if starts like a fairly tale.) He was so good a: janitor that I e wa~ on friendly terms with everyone of the te-nants il\1 the fifty-four-fiat bui1dillg where he was employed, and db ring five year"s of service 110 one had ever complained of him. 'D\lTing thi:; time the landlord had managed the property himself, collected his OW11 reots al](l signed new leases, but the time came when he
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- Issue of a furniture trade magazine published in Grand Rapids, Mich. It was published twice monthly, beginning in 1880. and - -,.. 26th Year-NorH. l:7) GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., JANUARY 10, 1906. $1.00 per Year. CASE MAKERS MORTICES AT FIVE ONCE Accurat.ly Mortises and clean. the mortises perfectly Clamps . and completes the .work in less time than a stngle mortise can be made on other Machines and is entirely automatic Makes stronger case, m~re accurate ]es8 expensive, and neater case No. 119 Square Cblsel MOl'tis'81' Furnished with any number of chisels and any size-ofChiseJs Ma.nufactured by WYSONG & MILES CO. Corner Cedar SI. and Southern R. R. Greensboro, NorthC Carolina,U. S. A. Strength-- Dura1>.i~ty Ease OfLOperation-- a practicallyindestructibleTruck at a rea~ sonable cost. THE GILLETTE ROLLER BEARING ALL 5TEELAND MALLEABLE IRON FRAME FACTORY TRUCK Write fOl"' Prices. GILLETIE ROLLER BEARING COMPANY PATENTEES AND SOLE MANUFACTURERS. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. WHEELER'S PATENT WOOD FILLER Forms a permanent foundatiol1. Brings out the full life and beauty of the wood. Goes further and saves lahoT and material, hence cheap<:r than other fillers. The Bridgeport Wood Finish;np Co .. New Millord. Conn. 65 FuitonSL N. Y. 70W. Lake SI., Chlcaoo 231 Dock 51.. Philadelphia. 'j .j 11 -~ ~---- - - --. -----~-~ At the Fumiture Manufacturers' Exposition at Grand Rapids New York and Chicago, our EARLY ENGLISH OAI1 Spartan Stain No. 830 was selected from hundreds of others as the most correct shade displayed and buyers emphasized their decision by placing large orders for this finish. Try Our Mahogany Spartan Stains ABSOLUTELY NON-FADING The Marietta Paint and ColOt" Co. Marietta. Ohio. u. s. A. Our Clamps Cost You Nothing For they pay for themselves in a few months We now own the BENEDICT PATENTS May we Write You About Them L-- ?_----:....-.._--! • Grand Rapids Hand Screw Company 130 South Ionia St.• Grand Rapids. Mich. 1 These Specialties are used all Over the World Power Feed Glue Spreading Machine. (Patent applied for). Single, double aDd combmation C"AS. E. fRANCIS s.. BRO..D Veneer Presses, all kinds and sizes Veneer Presses Glue;Spreaders Glue,Heaters Trucks, Efc.. Etc, Hand F~d Glueing Machi~. (Patent pending,) Eight Styles and Sizes. Wood·Working Machinery and Sup,lies LET US KNOW YOUR WANTS 419-421 E. Eighth st. CINCINNATI, O. No.6 Glue Heater extending The Pittsburg Plate Glass Company MANUFACTURERS AND JOBBERS Of" Plain and Beveled Mirrors, Bent Glass for China Cabinets Plate Glass for Desks, Table Tops and Shelves New York Boston PbUad'elphla BuUalo Cincinnati St. Louis Minneapolis Atlanta. Kollomo. Ind. Ford City. Pa. HIBh Point. N. C. Davenport Crystal City. Mo. AlsO, our 22 jobbing houses carry heavYstocks in all lines 01glass. paints. varnishes and brushes: and are located in the cities nlllmed below: NEW YORK-Hudson and Vandam Streets. BUFFALQ--3']2-4-6-5 Pearl Streltt. BOSTON-41-49 Sudbury St., 1-9 Bowker St. BROOKLVl'l-63S and 637 Fulton-Street. CHICAGD-442-452 Wabasb Avenue. PHILADELPHIA-Pilcairn Building, Arch and CINCINNATI-Broadway and Court Streets. Eleventh Streets. ST. LOUl5--Cor. 12th and 5t Charles 5.treets. DAVENPORT-4!<>-4-16 SCott Str~t. MINNEAPOLIS-.soo-SIO S. Third Street. CLEVELAND-t49-S1-53 Seoeea Street. DETROIT-53-55 Lamed Street E OMAHA-I608-lo-I:il Harney Street. PITTSBURGH-Iol-I03 Wood Street. ST. PAUL-349-51 Minnesota Street. MILWAUKEE, WIS.-492-4q4 Market Street. ATLANTA, GA,-30, 32 and 34 S. Pryor Street. ROCHESTER, N. Y.-Wilder Building, Main SAVANNAH. GA·-745-74Cl Wheaton Street. and Excbange St5. KANSAS CITY-Fifth and Wyandott Sts. HALTIMORE-221-223 W. Pratt Street. BIRMINGHAM, ALA.-2nd Ave. and 29th St. It needs no aTgnment to show what advantages may be derived from dealing directly with us. AGENTS FOR THE COULSONPATENT CORNERpoSTS AND &AT~. OUf facilities for supplying furniture manufacturers will be understood when we state that we have 10 Glass factories, from Pennsylvania to Missouri; and 13 Mirror plants, located as follows: The Universal Automatic CARVINQ MACHINE 25PERFORMS THE WORK OF' ==== HAND CARVERS ,Anddoes the Work Better than it call be Done by Hand MADE BY Indianapolis, Indiana Write for Inlormation, Prices Etc. L~ , i, \C, ....-" '~.--" C' 26th Year-No. 13 GRAND RAPIDS, MICH" JANUARY 10, 1906. $1.00 per Year. Safeguards in Woodworking Plants. As the proper safeguarding of the limb~, life and healrh of employes in \voodw'orking; plants is a 11""1atter deservillg the careful consideration of every employer, superintendent, foreman and millwright, their attention may be directed to "the following places for improvements: (1) The guarding of saws of every kind. (2) The guarding of belting, gearing, set screws,shaft-ing, drums, etc. (3 The guarding of slainvays, landings, elevators, and elevator entrances. hatchways, elevator wells, "vheel holes, etc., by hand rails and gates. (3) The contstructiol1 and distribution of lIre escapes. (5) The removal of dust and odors by a blower system. (6) The guarding of emery wheels and tool grinders. (7) The introduction of water systems or similar checks on fire. (8) The nse of automatic ",hiiters or ()tll(~r medlanical contrivances for throwing belts on or off plllleys. (0) The l1se of exhaust tans, for carrying off dust from emery ,"'heels, grindstones, and similar dust creating Illachin-ery. The numerous small saws of different kinds used in the average woodworking plant are probably a far greater 111e11- ace than are the larger saws in the mills. Any saw, regard less of size or shape, is dangerous, but there is a recklessness or carelessness on the part of many ,vorkmen. especially boys, that uemands from operators the taking of every reas onable precaution to prevellt accidents or injury. The laws in England touching these matters have for a lOllg time been exceptionally strict, allCl as a result of the necessity to guard every s<!\v in l1se, a great number of saw guards of more or less relatlve excellence havc been invented and put on the market. IVTanyof these arc very expensive, that is to say, the price for one gOl1anl\,..,hell multiplied by thc 1l11t11- bel' of saws used in mallY large establishments, sllhjcds the buyer to a heavy cbarge for this one item. In the United States, or in many of the state;;,;, tbe fac-tory inspection laws arc coming more and more to deal with this matter and tl-wxc 1s no doubt tllat the tin1e is fast comlng whese these safeg-tHtrcls agaiw:it accident will be cOl11pul.'wry here. Of the guards marketed in this country, it is probable that the so-called "Reliable" g-uarcl has the most merit at the lowest price. This is lltHJuestionably a good device, and one moreover that possesses plel1ty of merit. It has been adopted already in most of the Grand Rap ins furniture fac-tories and the lIsers speak of it in terms of the highest praise. Furtber. it is being extensively marketed throughout the country. This article is not written pat-tic111arly to exploit any saw guard, and reference is ma{k to O\H~in this con-nection merely for informatioll to any that may com(' to believe that it is better to expend a fcw dollars per saw for such a device, than to run the risk of operatives losing a finger or a hand, and then he subjected later on to the cx-pense and annoyance of a suit -instituted for damages, by rea son of the accident. 1\0 doubt, i( mechanics used more care, fewer acejdents would occur, but apparently the only safe thing to do is to makc it impossible for them to meet with accidents. H. C. Frick Will Build Fine Hotel in Pittsburg. 1\1r. Frick contemplates the erection of a $5,000,000 hotel in Pittsburg. The site has been purchased for $1,500,00. ,V. 1.. Roth, manager of the Auditorium Hotel in Chicago, has been conferred with and will probably be the mana-ger of the new hotel which will be one of the finest in the cOllntry. Manufacturers visiting Chicago will do well to patronize the Auditorium Hotel. Mr. Rotb, as manager of the Pittsburg, botel, \-vould have charge of the furnishings of the same and many heavy purchases of furniture ,viII be necessary. 1'1r. Roth will doubtless favor some of the manufacturers '\'ho patronize the Auditorium Hotels with his orders. New Zealand International Exposition. Beginning in November this year and extending to April, 1~)(17, the colony of New Zealand will hold an international exhibition. 1-'Iantllacturers arc l1rged to appoint represent-atives awl send exhibits of their work. Special rates for freig-ht may be secured from the steamship companies. THE CORRECT Stains and fillers. THE MOST SATISFACTORY first Coaters and Varnishes MAItUFJtt:TUwCD Q"~Y H...- CHICAGO WOOD FINISHING CO. Z59·63 ELSTONAVEmZ-16 SLOAN ST, C" I CAe o. "---. ,, NO! IT is not a new STAIN or a new FILLER or a new SURFACER, Only a New Departure We have realized the necessity for a long time, of getting nearer to our _good friends in the WEST and NORTHWEST. Not nearer in spirit or confidence, for we feel that we are very close to our patrons in that way already, but nearer in actual mileage. We have just opened a new factory for the manufacture of our line of WOOD FINISmNG SUPPLIES at Nos. 61-63-65 and 67 North Ashland Avenue C"IC460, ILLINOIS It is fully equipped with all modern machinery, and the plant is more complete in every way than the home factory. We will there manufacture and carry in stock, a full line of our Surfacers (Mineral Base) Water and Oil Stains Enamels, lacquers, Antique and Golden Oak fillers Japan Coaters and in fact everything that our good friends in the Central West and North West may call for, and if you want a special shade, we can only reiterate what we have claimed with confidence in the past WE CAN MATC" ANYT"ING We want to tell you about our No. 390 and No 397 NEW PENETRATING GOLDEN OAK OIL STAINS, USED IN CONNECTION WITH OUR NO. 611 and NO. 512 fiLLERS. We will gladly furnish samples, and also send copy of our little book "Lindeman the Filler Maker" DON'T FORGET WHERE TO SEND T"E BARRETT-LINDEMAN COMPANY MAIN Office and fACTORY, Nos. 1400-02-04 fRANKfORD AVE. PHILADEPlHIA, PA. C"ICAGO fACTORY, Nos. 61-63-65-67 NORT" AS"UND AVE. CHICAGO,ILl. - - - -- ----- --------- Qran~Da~i~sDlow Pi~e an~Dust Arrester (om~an~ THE latest device for handling shav-ings and dust from all woodwood-working machines. Our eighteen years experience in this class of work has brought it nearer perfection than any other system on the market today. It is no experiment, but a demonstrated scientific fact~ as we have several hundred of these systems in use, and not a poor one among them. Our Automatic Furnace Feed System, as shown in this cut, is the most perfect working device of anything in its Ii"e. Write for our prices for equipments. WE MAKE PLANS AND DO ALL DETAIL WORK WITHOUT EX-PENSE TO OUR CUSTOMERS EXHAUST FANS AND PRESSURE BLOWERS ALWAYS IN STOCK Office and Factory: 20B-210 Canal Street GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. Citizen. Phone 1282 OUR AUTOMATIC FURNACE FEED SYST:QlM 6 Merchants Favor the Expositions. The opinions of many retailers of furniture have been sought on the proposition presented to the trade by a l1t1tn-ber of manufacturers of cheap furniture to abolish the ex-positions. Scarcely without an exception the retailers inter viewed insisted upon a contimtance of the exposition plan for selling furniture. Ben Tobin of the J. H. Pray company, Boston, expressed himself very decidedly in favor of the expositions. Their abandonment would cause great inconvenience to the buyer and a loss of busjness to the manufacturers. "At these ex-positions a buyer sees exhibits of different and similar lines displayed for his inspection; he goes from onc to the other, examines the character of the goods and compares prices, then he starts in to buy. He saves time and expense, can make his selections quickly and get better values-and it is better for the manufacturer. Suppose in visiting threc factories a buyer had to jump 100 miles between each. He would go to one, get his prices and memoranda, then he would visit the others, and do the same, finally he would go home and after a lapse of time during which he was making compa.risons and selections-the order would be mailed to the manufacturers-they would have to wait until the orders arrived and he would have to lose several days time, while not look for any organized oPPosItion or wide-spread under-standing that will seriously effect expositions as they are now conducted." Gus Louis of 'Voodward & Lathrop. Washington, D, c., said: "The exposition is simply something that the furniture dealer could not do without Its abolishment would be a step in retrogression, and in these days of progress the manufacturer who does not bend all his energies to keeping abreast of the times soon finds himself without a clientage. "The live buyer of the present wants to know exactly ..\.'hat he is getting before he purchases. He goes through a long course of preparation prior to attaining his position. He is an expert in his line, which can fitly be termed more of a profession than a trade. Furniture expositions enable him to bring all his trained facnlties into play and secure only the hest and those lines most advisable for the class of trade to which his house caters. To do away with expo-sititions would simply compel buyers to travel to the 'four winds of Heaven in selecting stocks, and the result would be far less satisfactory than under present conditions." Henry S. Haltzel, of the Haltzel Furniture company, cx-presed himself very strongly in favor of the expositions, W, A. Mandeville, of Voorhees & Murray, Wilkesbarre, Designs by Arthur Kirkpatrit:k. Grand Rapids. under the present system the buyer makes his selections and places his orders very often ina single morning, No, I think, as I said before, stich a move on the part of the exhibitors would be a great mistake. J am in favor of holding the expositions because J think they mutually benefit both buyer and seller." Louis Oettinger, of the Economy Furniture company, Scranton, Pa., was quoted as follows; "I do not believe that any such project could gather headway enough to become formidable. Most of the manu-facturers of the country are entirely too wide awake to their own interests to countenance it after due consideration. It has become anabsolute necessity to buyers and an element vital to the prbsperity of the furniture trade. Those manu-facturers who do not believe it pays, can keep away, but I do Pa., spoke veryemphatieally in favor of the expositions. W. P. Madsen, Madsen Furniture company, Los Angeles, C.l.: • "In my opinion the holding of these exhibitions are mut-ually beneficial both to the buyer and the manufacturers. It enables the former to make their selections and place their order judicously and without loss of time, and by bringing together an immense throng of buyers, not only from this country, but in fact from the ends of the earth, enables the latter to sell a much larger quantity of goods than it would be possible for them to do, jf they were compelled to wait until the buyers called upon them individually." "The furniture exposition has come to stay," remarked Joseph Goldstein of Long Branch, N. J. Competition in the furniture trade has become so brisk of late years that buyers want to kno"w exactly what they are getting through personal obsenration and comparison before purchasing. It \vould entail a great deal more expense to jump from factory to factory than it does to visit an exposition like the pres-ent one, and the results would not be nearly as satisfactory. A man's percept.ions are quickened and he derives a certain amount of inspiration through the cnrnparison of displays. Every new one is what might be term cd a course in furni-ture study,"and the more he visits the more he llatnrally learns abollt the hnes of goods he is handling." Read the following utterallces of John T _cslie, the lead-illg retailer of \\rinnipeg, l\.fanitoba: "I believe that expositions have done more to raise the general standard of furniture than all other elements com-bined, and that any move looking toward their abolish-ment is conceived in ignorance and fostcrcd in idiocy. The man who doesn't shmv his goods, like the man \~lho doesn't advertise, is avvay behind the times-he is a stnmbling block Ccorg-c \\'. Steffey, of the Parkersburg Chair COlllpany. in the path of enlightenment 8.nd a dead limh on the growing tree of American progress. 'Competition is the life of trade' simply because competition has always the tendency to raise standards. The factory that cloes not desire to enter into competition ahvays has a good reason, and that reason gen-erally is, that it is using the patterns discarded by its rivals months before. The exposition is a150 a boon to the buyer as well as a benefit to the scller. The furniture busi-ness is a peculiar one, in that a man engaged in it has to make it a matter of carefut study and keep conCin\.\ally ahrcast of his classes Of he will find his competitors getting- the trade. The standard of sugar doesn't change, and there isn't much fluctuation in the quality of table salt, but fllrnitme is an entirely different proposition, ancl,after a man has been in it a few years, he is fOfced to the conclusion that 'all is not gold that glitters.'" \V. H. vVaggoller of Van Sciver & Co., Camden, N. J., expressed the opinion that if the expositions should be abol-ished the country manufacturers would suffer great loss, 7 while those of Grand Rapids, Chicago and New York would be benefitted. Editor Thoits of the Daily Artisan-Record scored a point in the discussion, as follows: It seems to us that the manufacturers who are promi-nent in the nOll-exhibit propoganada fail to consider the in-terests eq\.\ally affecte.d-the ""otheT half" ot the fmnitme trade-namely, thc buyers and dealers. The buyers and dealers certainly come to market because they deem it an advantage and a benefit so to do. Probably everyone of them could see the photographs and the blue prints of evcl·y line he sees at market, if he stayed at home-and he, too, WOldd thereby save the expense and discomfort and the hard· work and the time requiTed to come to Grand Rapids and ClJicag-o. The fact that hc does come is the "best evidence that he prefers to buy his goods after a personal inspection, not only of the lines he regularly uses, but possibly competing lines. Isn' he cntitled to some consideration? He wants the exhibits-his presence attests his wishes. Is it quite wise and business-like to leave him out of consideration in determining there shall be no more exhibits? No one need feel alarm in regard to the future of the ex-positions. They have long served a good purpose and be-come so firmly established that theif permanency is assured. For Free Alcohol in Congress. In this session of Congress five bills have bccn intro-duced, by memhers from different sections of the country, with the object of removing the duty from alcohol made from grain and potatoes. Farmers arc interested as they foresee a new use for their crops. On the Pacific coast a cheap alcohol from potatoes for use in the arts and for fuel, light and power purposes 'would be the basis of an extensive and profitable industry, so it is claimed. Painters and decorators favor the movement as the use of grain alcohol 'Nill remove danger of poisoning so apt to be the result of the me of ..".ood alcohol. Representative Lover-ing 01 1tassachusetts fathers a measure to anthorize the withdrawal of domestic alcohol from bond. when desired [01· use ill the mannfacture of goods for export, just as in lhe C;l.~(',of imported alcohol, with a drawback of the duties already paid. The arguments advanced for the proposed legislation, while covering much othcr ground, are especially directed toward effective aid to American industrial interests in com-peting with the manufactured products of the foreign conlltries having legal provision for free industrial alcohol. Furnitmc ma1111facturers are especially interested and will awalt the action of Congress, and hope for a favorable result. Uniform Lading Bill is Not Yet in Sight. The joint committee of railroad traffic officials and ship-pers has not yet completed work on a bill for a uniform bill of lading. /\ better understanding will probably be reached a.;.; a result of further conference. The nnv offIcial classification of the Trunk Line Asso-ciation, which became effective with the beginning of the year, possibly as a result of the delay, has on every page the Collowing in black type: Property shipped not subject to uniform bill of lading conditions will be c.harged twenty (20) per cent higher than as herein p1"Ovided subject to a minimum increase of one cent pcr 100 pounds and cost of marine insurance. This is not entirely new, but it is emphasized in a manner to bring it conspicuously before shippers. Price doesn't sell the goods. Style, quality, a:.ndsalesman-ship take the orders. 8 DoMs' Patenl Ta~le=le~Ooyetailer We find upon investigation that our Dovetailing Ma-cbille patent covers t h l s machine nicely. Cuts Mortise in the Top Cuts Mortise in the Cleats Cuts T eaons to lit the Top Cuts Tenons to fit the C1ea1:s Adjustable to keep Mor-tise and Tenon at a Standard size The Cheapest Joint Made Will turn out 250 to 300 Small Pador Tables in 10 Hours The Dodds Tilting Saw Table has II10re practical featurt:s and good points than any other saw table on the market. MANUFACTURED AND FOR SALK BY ALEXANDER DODDS Grand Rapids Michigan, U. S. A HAND CIRCULAR RIP SAW. MORTISBR COMBINIID MACHINE. Complete Outfit of HAlO AND FOOT POWER MACHIIERY WHY THEY PAY THE CABINET MAKER: He can save a manufacturer's profit as well as a dealer's profit. He can make more money with less capital invested. He call hold a better and more satisfactory trade with his customers. He can manufacture in as good style and finish, and at as low cost, as the factories. The local cabinet maker bas been forced Into only It dealer's trade and profit, becaulle of machine manufactured goods of factories. An outfit of Bal'ues' Patfm,tFoot and Hand·Powe-r Machinery, rein· slates the cabinet maker with advantages equal to his competitors, If desired, these machines will be sold ON TRIAL. The purchaser can have ample time to test them in his own shop and on the work be wishes them to do. DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE AND PRICK LIST FRliK. No.4 SAW (ready for crols-cutting) W. F. &. JOHN BARNES CO., 654 Ruby St., Rockford, III. FOJtMBR OR MOULDKR. HAND TBNONBR. No.3 WOOD L~THR. No.4 SAW fnmdy tor ripping) NO.7 SCROLL SAW, 9 G. R. ~ I. fLYERS BETWEEN Grand Rapids and Chicago To Chicago To Grand Rapidl! --------,--------- Lv. CHICAGO ...•............... , 8:45 A. M. Ar. GRAND RAPIOS 00 00 00 00 1:50 P. M. Lv. CHICAGO, ~i.hCSt~S:~Etlx~. Sun 1.15 P. M. Ar. GRAND RAPIDS .•........ " ., 5.50 P. M. Buffet Parlor Car Lv. CHICAGO, I1ihCSt~~~E~lx~.gSun 5.30 P. M. Ar. GRAND RAPIDS .. 00 00 .. 00 10.25 P. M. Parlor and DIDID.Car Lv C C G M. e. R.llroad D '1 11 55 N' h • HI A 0, 12th it, StatlCIU at y ..... .-. .' 19 t Ar. GRAND RAPIDS. . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6.45 A. M. Electric: Lighted SleeplD3 Ca... Lv. GRAND RAPIDS, Ex. Sun .. , 7.10 A. M. Ar. CHICAGO ... 00 ........ 00 00 0012.35 Noon Buffe. Parlor Car Lv. GRAND RAPIDS, Ex. Sun 12.01 Noon Ar. CHICAGO 4.50 P. M. Parlor and Dining Car Lv. GRAND RAPIDS, Daily , 11.50 Night Ar. CHICAGO , .. 7.15 A. M. Electric Lighted Sleeping Car Phone Michigan CentralCit., Ticket Office Phone Union StaUon for Reservations for Reser ..a. tlons. 119 AdaMs Street THE "PO R T E R" This cut rep-resents 0 ur 12, 16 and 20 in. Jointer MANUFACTUBRYE--D-------- _ c. O. &A. D. PORTER, 182 North Front Street, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH 10 Valuable Points on Insurance Policies. In a lecture given by Morris Putnam Stevens before the Insurance Society of New York, the statement was made by him that policies ou insured property become void in case a chattel mortgage is placed on same. The great objection to a chattel mortgage by insurance companies is because of the increase of moral risk. the giving of such a mortgage indicating that the insured was financially em-barrassed. The provision will be strictly enforced by the courts of New York state, and a policy once void by reason of the existence of a chattel mortgage is not revived by the satisfaction of the mortgage before a loss; it can only be reinstated by the consent of the insurance company. A chattel mortgage on partnership property given by one partner to auother docs not avoid a policy covering partnership property. The courts of that state hold that such a mortgage or transfer docs not introduce any new party or any additional moral hazard. The policy becomes void if, with the knowledge of the insnred, foreclosure pro- ""~----_ .... ,.,;I dissolution of the partnership effects no change in the title, interest or possession of the insured. Such a receiver is merely appointed for the preservation of the property petld~ ing the fitigation. If a policy stands in the name of a "re-ceiver," a change of receivers is not a change affecting the policy. The polky becomes void if assigned before a loss. After a Joss the debt due from the insurance company may, of course, be assigned. Grand Rapids a Great Mahogany Market. An idea of the immense Quantities of mahogany used in Grand Rapids may be had from the following figures. DlIr-ing the season from 7:':iO,OOOto 1,000,000 feet of mahogany logs for the furniture factories are received here, val lied at abotlt 12~ cents per foot or a total value of $125,000. The annual local log trade reaches 3,000,000 feet and amounts to $480,000. In the veneer trade 25,000,000 feet of mahogany are used at an average of 3 cents per foot. this includes crotch veneers. The prices in the veneer trade vary from 1 to 15 cents per foot, so the correct value cannot be estimated, but $750,000 is the figure given. Summed up, the total numbe~ of feet of mahogany annua1fy used is estimated at 29,000,000 feet, the valuation of which is $l,355.0()0. Labor Scarcity in West. There is a great scarcity of common labor all over the western part of the United States, and it threatens to become a serious problem next spring with so many big enterprises being projected. ,11 1'-1_1 __ '\,\ Designs by Clarence R. Hills, Gmnd Rapids. ceedings be commenced or notice given of sale of any prop-erty covered by this policy by virtue of any mortgage or trust deed. In that state it has been held that the words "change of interest" are substantially synonymous with the words "change of title." The court declares that in a large class of risks the term "interest" is more applicable than the term "title," where insurance is .vritten in favor of parties who have a claim upon property in the nature of a lien to secure the payment of a debt and perhaps for other purposes. If such a claim is transferred to another, there is a "change of , interest" and this is the appropriate use of the words. Hence the giving of a mortgage, whether for one-half the value of the property or for its full value, is not a change of inter-est. If a partner retires from a firm, there is no such change as will avoid the policy, out jf a new partner be taken into the firm, the policy upon the firm's property will be void, unless the consent of the company be obtained. The ap-pointment of a receiver of partnership property pending the L A Bitter Fight Over Rate-Making Measure. The rate~making bill in the senate is meeting with bitter opposition. Senator Foraker is opposed to a radical law affecting interstate commerce. He may resort to filibuster-ing to prevent such legislation. The introduction ofa cloture rule may be the result. Senator Foraker is a deter-mined fighter and has taken a decided stand against the president's policy. The suggestion of a cloture rule comes from sources close to the organization of shippers actively engaged in promoting the idea embodied in the score or more rate~making bills that have been offered. If such a thing is proposed 'the bitterness of the fight will be greatly increased, and may last until stlmmer. A New Wisconsin Factory. The Chippewa Falls Furniture company, Chippewa Falls. V\-'is., have held their [Lrst annual meeting and election of officers. The factory is about completed and machinery is being placed. Operations will begin in a month. Various Matters. The addition of a big stock of fltrniture to the carpet establishment of John H. Pray & Son and the inclusion of a heavy stock of furniture in the big department store of Henry Siegel, 'is calculated to create stirling times i,) the furniture trade of Roston. The city and the surround-ing country grow but moderately, from year to year, and there will be a battle royal between the big houses for trade. "Vv' c are selling goods valued at $l,()OO,OOO per an-num," remarked a leadillg retailer of furniture in the Hub, "and there is not ] ikely to be an increased demand for the goods we handle. Unless conditions should change so as to enable us to get a stronger hold of trade in the British provinces, the fnrnitnre trade will remain practically un-changed in volume." There are strenUOllS times ahead for Leonard Shearer, Alexander, Ben Tobin and others. Tobin retl1rtlS to his old field of activity by the opening of the Pray stock, which he has engaged to buy." • • • Told by a buyer from Cincinnati: "I was seated in a car while it was descending one of the steep hills of our city a few mornings ago. The grade is abollt sixteen feet in aile hundred, and "vhen a car breaks loose the ride one takes. down the incline beats the famous ride of Paul Revere all hollow. The car jumped the track, ran across the road· way, crossed the gutter, tore over the sidewalk and hmnped against a shade tree, located within five feet of the house occu?ied by a German family. Before the terror 5tricken motorman could recover from his fright and the passengers find the seats from which they had bren thrown, a fat, in-dignant hausfrau threw up a window and s]1utteringly re-marked: "Der trouble mit you lTIotonnens vas, you dand know how to steer." The occupants of the car roared, and the window was slammed down. There is a grain of wisdom in the remark. A great many business men have failed and retired to motlrn their o\',,"n lack of the knov ..·.ledge that enables one to steer his bark, his auto or his street car properly. • • • An important question discussed by a group of manufac-tnrers recently was "\;Vhat is the Best Training for a Young 1dan \Vho vVishes to ReCOlTIc a Traveling Salesman?" Sev-eral of the party expressed the opinion that a yCHlng man should spend a kw years in a factory to learn the details of manufacture. Another added that he should spend a few years behind the office counter of a hotel to learn how to handle people. Another said the study of desigtl was im-portant, in order that the salesmen 111ight be able to discuss the mallY periods, incidents and movements in the history of furnihlre with prospective customers intelligently. Finally J. B. Howard, the veteran representative of the Grand Rap-ids Chair company, was invited to participate in the discus-sion. "In my opinion, abollt fifteen years' experience in a retail store of some prominence would be the best trainillg possihle {or a young man ·preparatory to taking a line on the road. In the retail store he \vould learn all that would be necessary in regard to styles and construction and also how to meet and deal with people, facts of value and necessary for st\ccess in hi.s calling. • • • "The buyer of fllrnittlre, when examining a line of goods, does not give so mllch attention to the manufacturer's prices as might be sl1pposed." remarked J. B. Howard. "The thought ever first and foremost is 'if I hought that piece what could I sell it for on my floor?' That is the olle important thing, to his mind. He may see many attractive pieces that tempt his artistic sense, Imt he will not buy them; they 'would not, in his judgment, sell for a reasonable profit on his floor. The artistic temperment must not be allov,:ed to sllpplant the commercial instinct." Il D. 1\1. Read of Bridgeport is a celebrated wit. His stock of stories would win a fortune if he were a monologuist on the stage. Ezra Kendall would hide in shame after a half hour in 1\'1r. Read's company. He kept Grand Rapids in a continuous roar of laughter the first ·week of January. • • • /\ feature of the Grand Rapids Chair company's line is the very attractive ornamentation in copper made in Eng- Lll(l. The patterns were prepared by Mr. Holt, the com-pm)" s designer, which arc "greatly to his credit," while the wClrkm<lnshipis all that could be desired. • • • Seal Reynolds, a hright young hustler formerly engaged 1:1 the rootiing business, has made an engagement with the Imperial FUrlliture Company. He is nlldersturlying the bus i- I~CSS preparatory to taking up life on the road. CABINETMAKERS' STEEL SQUARES. Inventor a Vermont Blacksmith Who Became a Millionaire. The- large- steel squares used by cabinetmakers are such a common tool that perhaps few know when and where they were first made, and how they came to be used, or even give the matter a thought. The making of them is a great in-dustry now, but when the last century came in there was not one in use. The inventor was a poor Vermont blacksm,ith, Silas Howes, who lived in South Shaftsbury. One dlul, rainy day a peddler of tinware called at his shop to have the blacksmith fasten a shoe ori his horse. These peddlers traveled lip and dO\'\711 the country, calling at every farmhouse buying everything in the way of barter. This one had a number of worn out steel saws that he had picked up in various places. Howes bargained for them shoeing the peddler's horse and receiving the saws in pay-ment, and each thought he had made an excellent trade. His idea was to polish and weld two saws together at right angles. and thus make a rule or measure superior to anything then in use. After a few attempts he succeeded ill makillg a square, marked it off into inches and found that it answered every purpose that he intended it for. T 11 the course of a fevv' weeks he made quite a number, c1c:ring his spare hours. These he sent out by peddlers, who foand every carpenter eager to buy one. Soon he found orders coming in faster than he could supply the demand. One of his steel "squares" would sell for $5 or $6, which 1,-vaS five times as much as it cost him. He applied for and obtained a patent on his invention, so that no 011e could rob him of the profit it gave him. It was jllst after the war of 1812, and money was scarce and diffi-cult to get. But he worked early and late, and as he earned money he bought iron and hired men to hdp. him. In a fe',.\' years he was able to erect a large factory and put in machinery for the making of squares, which by this time had found their way all over the country and had made their i1)Ventor famous. Such was the small beginning of a large and important industry. People came miles to see the wonderful forges, the showers of sparks flying from beneath the heavy ham-mers, and listen to the din of the thousand workmen. Silas Howes lived to be a millionaire, and he did a great spot \vhere the first aIle was made more than ninety-five years ago. A Club House For Employes-An Excellent Idea. A manufacturer in Massachussetts has set a good ex· ample which others would do well to follow, by the building of a club house for the use of his employes. The building is of stone, heated by steam, and lighted by electricity, and has a finely furnished club rOom, bowling alleys and all conveniences and comforts for the members. 12 !!!!Weatherly Individual Glue Heater Send your address and receive descriptive cir-cular of Glue Heaters, Glue Cookers and Hot Boxes with prices..• Weatherly &. PUlte Grand Rapids. MlGh. These sa ws are made from No. 1 Steel and we war-rant every blade. We also carry a full stock of Beveled Back Scroll Saws, any length and gauge. Write u. for Price Lht anddlsoount 31-33 S. FRONT ST., GRANO RAPIDS MANUFACTURERS OF DROP CARVING AND EMBOSSING GENERAL MACHINES Dies {or all kinds of Machines. At lowest prices, 7 Second St" LAFAYETTE, IND, • fOUR TR41NS TO AND FROM CHICAGO Lv Cd. Rapids 7:10am Ar Chicago 1:15pm Lv Gd. Rapids 12:05 nn Ar Chicago 4:50pm Lv Cd. Rapids 4:Z5pm Ar ChicaKO 10:55pm Lv Gd. Rapids 11:30 pm daily Ar Chicago 6:55 am Pullman Sleeper, open 9:00 pin on 11:30 pm train every day. Cafe service on aU day trains. service a la carte. Pere Marquetle Parlor cars on all day trains. Rate reduced to 50 cents. T"REE TR41NS 0 ET R 0 I T TO AND fROM Leave Grand Rapids 7:10 am Arrive Detroit 11:55 am Leave Grand Rapids 11:25 am daily Arrive Detroit 3:15 pm Leave Grand Rapids 5:20 pm Arrive Detroit 10:05 pm Mea)s served aJa earte on trains leaving Grand Rapids at 11:15 am and 5:20 plh. Pere Marquette Parlor Cars on all trains; seat rate. a5 cents. "ALL OVER MICHIGAN" H. J. GRAY, DISTRICT PASSENGERAGENT, PHONE 1168 G11LudRapid., Mich. QUAR TER·SA WED INDIANA WHITE OAK VENEERS CHOICE FIGURE " EXTR<I. WIDTHS When writing for prices, mention widths required and kind of figure preferred. HOFFMAN BROTHERS CO. Fort Wayne Indiana Wood Forming Cutters We offer exceptional value in Reversible and One- Way Cutters for Single and Double Spindle Shapers. Largest lists with lowest prices. Great-est variety to select from Book free. Address SAMUEL J. SHIMER & SONS MILTON. PENNSYLVANIA, U. S. A. ounDUPIDS WOOD f1nlSnlnO (0. EXCLUSIVE MANUFACTURERl; 01" WOOD FINISHING MATERIALS That is our specialt}'. We confine our business to Fillers, Stains, Polish Fumiture Wax and Fmishing- Supplies. We are the originators of Weathered. Antwerp and Mission Stains in Oil. Our shades are absolutely correct. We ale authority on Early EngUsh, Fumed, Catbedral Oak, and Silver Maple Stains, and will match any particu-lar shade desired. Office and Factory, 55, 57, 59 Ellsworth Ave" Grand Rapids, Mich. Buy your GROOVEDand POINTED DOWELS and DOWEL RODS of A. FALKEL. 3rd aDd Dewey St••• Gr.Dd Rapid •• Mich• NEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA, Via GRAND TRUNK-LEHIGH V·ALLEY ROUTE. Two Fast Trains Vail)' ExcePt Sunday. baily. Leave Gd Rapids 2:45 p. m. 7:05 p. m. Ar Philadelphia 3:40 p. m. 7:25 p. m. Ar New york .4:30 p. m. 8:40 p. ·m. Service unsurPassed. For further information apply at City Office, Morton House Block. C. A. JUSTIN, C. P. & T. A. 1 / / /4 INCH POPLAR for DRAWER BOTTOMS CUT TO DIMENSION KILN DRIED 10 YEARS' EXPERIENCE GLASS BACKS BACK PANELS JOSEPH' ROSS & COMPANY 223 South Second St., Philadelphia, Pal MILLS: CHERAW,S. c.; THOMASVILLE, N. C. BE UP-TO-DATE. Get one of the New Electric Spindle Carvers and keep abreast of the times. You cannot afford to let the "other fellow" have the work you should be doing. The Electric Carver will keep the trade you have and get more for you. Our Carving Cutters are of the best. West Mi(~i~anMac~ineand ToolCo.. ltd. GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. --------OFFICES------------------ So.ton New York Jatnestown High Point Cincinnati Detroit Grand Rapids Chicago St. Louis Minneapolis Associate Orfices and Bonded Attorneys in all Principal eWes WE PRODUCE RESULTS WffJ';:RJ<: OTHERS FAIL WRITH FOR PARTICULARS AND 'YOU WILL SEND US Y OU R BUS r NESS. Our Complalnl and AdJustmeb.t Department Red Drafts Collect ...=~L. J. STEVENSON. Mlcbig ..n M..n..ger 5aw and Km'f e FI'tt'Ing Mach'Ineryan d T00 IS TLhine' BMigagneust""and...Bdes,t Baldwin. Tuthill ®. Bolton Gr8Dd Rapids. Mich. Filers. Setters. Sharpeners, Grinders. Swages, Stretchers, Brazing and Filing Clamps. Knife Balances, Hammering Tools. Iuwstfn':~ OUI New 200 pa.s::e CataloKue lor 19O5 Free. Bolton Band Saw Filer for Saws ~ inch up. B. T. & B. Style 0, Knife Grinder. Full Automatic. Wet or dry. 13 14 Troubles Salesmen Have to Contend With. The salesman's situation bristles with difficulties. Upon their solution he must bring to bear an unfailing good nature and a ready perception of means to be employed. Buyers often complain of his firm; the treatment may not have been liberal; the goods may have proved inferior; credit inql1ir· ies may have been too insistent; any number of irritating comments rain about his head. To these he must listen pa-tiently, sympathetically, and then lead his man along the pleasant paths of complacency to a different point of view. Sometimes a playful artifice may be necessary to dis-arm a blustering kicker, as happened one day to a salesman eute"ring the office of a country merchant. "\Vill never buy anything of your house again, Smith, as long as 1 call beg it elsewhere," gro\vled the merchant. "Smith looked LIpwonderingly. "I don't have to buy of people who are afraid of their money." Smith saw at a glance that defense would be futile. The firm evidently had committed the unforgivable offense of questioning a sensitive credit, and he jocularly inquired for the full exte11t of the penalty. ;;15 it a ten years' sentence?" The meanness had softened in the man's face, as he re-plied with barely a gleam in his eye: In a close market it often becomes necessary to place some business at cost in order to swell the total volume upon which the cost figures have been based. It is the sales-man's problem to guess when and where conditions ""villper-mit of a normal profit to be asked, without losing bus1ness. Thorough knowledge of conditions in general and a quick recognition of their value in a particular instance are (he salesman's equipment to meet the lInforseen and to these should be added the self-control which is ever confident and serene. Defeats may hail about his head. He must pass boldly from one to the other, with all the impression of suc-cess, for apparent failure begets failure. To seem sincere one must be sincere, and truth is th.e foundation of all sales work. Unless a salesman can main-tain all honest reputation for himself and his firm, extend-ing it in widening circles as the years pass, his work is in vain and his firm the worse off for his efforts. The fact is self-evident, but difficult to observe. I t is so tempting to take an unfair advantage. Ephemeral competition repre-sents attractive bargains which appear better than they are, provoking similar tactics on the part of the salesman; sometimes his goods are inferi9r at the price, his firm does not or cannot produce them on a par with the best competi tion. The impulse to misrepresent is then urgent and always fatal in the end. Funtitllre ill the Raw. HSix years and eight months, commuted for good behav-ior." Smith did not sell his man this trip, but he left the office with the pleasurable sensation of having at least pulled the tares from his wheat. His experience in the office of a large manufacturer was just the reverse. The buyer met him with a dignified court-esy and a shrewd glance. Tht're was 110 chance for personal influence; it was a question of figmcs. As the two men faced each other, settling back comfortably in their chairs, each experienced and evinced in his glance the subdued penetration with which a sht'e\vd business man habitually weighs the other fellow's advantage. "\Vhat is your proposition, Mr. Smith?"' The question was just what Smith bad prepared for, but . somehow its tone of finality flashed throngh his mind the whole brood of alternatives between which success hung suspended. W'ould his figure get the business, or would it be betrayed to a competitor? "VVasthe man ready to buy or only sounding the market? Should he name a maximum or a minimum figure----:-agratifying profit or bare cost? Hours of deliberation had developed plausible answers to these ques-tions, but in the moment of decision they seemed to melt and dissolve before the searching glance of his customer. The weak man is ever prone to make concessions to get business. Competitors do so, why should not he? If other people make a bettn article, why should he be expected to get their price for his product? He naturally asks this questiou of himself, and sometimes foolishly asks it of his employer. There is a large manufacturer of leather in vVisconsin who tans a grade of calfsfkin slightly inferior to the best and at a less cost, expecting his salesmen to get the top price for his product. Since it was not permissible to misrepre-sent, scores of salesmen starting ont to sell this leather failed and accompanied their protests to the office with confident offers to sell trainloads of stuff as good as the price. It was the tanner's idea of salesmanship to spend money to sell goods 011 a "mail order basis" and gradually his force de creased until but one remained in the field. The secret of his success was in keeping his leather out of direct competition with the better grades. accumulating it during periods of light demand and then forcing the price whenever leather fell short in the market. For this service he received a $10,000 salary Success comes to the persistent. During months of dull market the salesman must persevere, redoubling his efforts to garner the little business in sight. Designs by Otto Jiranek, Grand Rapids. 16 ·:f'~Mlf]-IIG7JN B. WALTER & CO. iVNADU~~ M,nufa<tu'," of TABLE SLIDES Exclusively WRITE FOR PRICES AND DISCOUNT If your DfSIONS are right. people want the Good,. That mak.. PRICES right, (tlarence 1R. lbills DOES IT 163 Madison Avenue-Citi;;o;cns Phone 1983. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH lberman Scbaubel. ALLENTOWN, PA. 9J/ammotA iJ)rop- Carver~ 9/0. 3 This macbine weighs about one ton. Hasa tra ...e..lin/{table, is reversed and started from a counter shaft. which is includ-ed with machine. Hollow steel mandrel 3% inches in diameter. We furnish bum-er for inside oroutside heat-ing, [or either gas or gaSQ-line. Size of machine, 4 it. 9 in. high. 3 ft. 10 in. long, 3 ft. wide. We guarantee this machine. P r ice. $US; without trav-e1inl{ table, $2(10. Mammoth No.4, sam e as machine No. 3. driven with Longitude shaft onl).'; pulleys at right ang-les; needs no counter shalt. Prite $200; with-out travel-j n g table, $170. Send for full de-scription and list of other drop carvers we build. Blue Print Designs Free to the Trade. GRAND RAPIDS, .. "r-""MICHIGAN 1Louis lbabn Engraving, Printing Binding CATALOGUES A SPECIALTY DESIGNS AND DETAILS OF FURNITURE 154 Livingston St. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN Citizens Phone 5580, 2 to 20 Lyon St., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. I-----~---~ WHITE PRINTING co. JNO P DENNING 208 S. FIRST ST, • • TERRE HAUTE, IND~ ---- ---- Michigan I Central LEAVE Nov. r., 1904 ARRIVE 6:55 am Detroit Express.. 10:45 pm *12:00 n'n New York Spedal * 1:40 pm 5:30 pm.,.New York Express 9:55 am "'l1<iOpm •.. ,. Night Express * 6:30 am *Oaily_ All other traills daily except Sunday. Detroit slE!eper on night train. New York sleeper and fine cafe coach on noon train. Parlor car on mo:miug train. .. The Niagara Falls Route" I O. w. RUGGLES, G. P. & T. A., Chicago. GRAND RAPIDS DOWEL WORKS C. B,. CLARK, Proprietor. Manufacturers of Cut and Pointed Dowel Pins and Dowe_1Rods U South Front Street, GRAND RAl"lDS, MICH. IMPROVED, EASY and ELEVATORS QUICK RAIST"NG Belt, Electric and Hand Power. The Best Hand Power for Furniture Stores Send for Catalogne and PIi~8, KIMBALL BROS. CO., '.67 N;nlh 81., Council Bluffs, la. Kimball Elevator Co •• 3Z3 Prospe<:t St., Cleveland, 0.; 198 11th St., Omaha, Neb.; 120 Cedar St., New York City, 91 Campau St. , Grand Rapids. Michigan Varnl'hes. Shel. laCJand Sandpaper carried in Stock W. P. WILLIAMS, ~;:::~clure,,' BERRY BROS,(Ltd.) Varnishes and Shellac. )ACQVHS KAHN, French Mirror Plates. COR.BIN CABINET LOCK <':0., Lucks • AM GLUB Co.'s Union Garnet and Flint sandpaper_ B. CANNON & Co" (Limited), Irish Glue. SAM'L CABOT, House Staius arr' '1llilding Quilt. BeVNTeN <5' ce. SEND FOR CATALOGUE Removed 10 419-421 W fifteenth 51 Mira. of Embosstd and Turned Mouldjng~. Porch Work. Wood 6,;118$. and Auto.. math: Turnings We also manufac-ture a large line of EMBOSSED ORNA· MENTS- for couch work. send tor itlU$tratioDs. WOOD CARVINGS If you don It buy them right this season it will not be our fault. WRITE FOR ESTIMATES OUf work and prices will both surprise and please you ORDERS FILLED PROMPTLY joints, chamfering, ripp.ing, cross cutting, mitering, tenoning, rabbeting and boring may be easily and perfectly done on this machine with fixtures accompanying- it, as can also da-doing, gammg, grooving, tongueing, routing, paneling, beading and other similar flat or circular molding work with suitable cutters, heads and fixtures, provided at a reasonable additional cost. Their No.1 Royal Standard universal wood worker re:()~ resents all that is good, desirable and necessary, in simpli-fied form, supplying at one stroke, weight, strength, work-manship, easy and accurate manipulation of adjustable parts, economy in floor space and po·wer-all at a cost to place this valuable tool \'v'ithin reach of all those requiring it. Ed Caldwell Makes a Change. Ed Caldwell, who has been traveling the Pacific coast for the Imperial Table company for the last year, severed his con-nection with that institution with the close of the year. It is understood that Mr. Caldwell will continue to cover eastern territory for the Grand Rapids Desk company. 17 A Machine That Educates the Man. Ihat seems like a strange proposition, and so it is to the unthinking person, but to a man familiar with woodworking' among them the No. 30 band resaw illustrated in their adver-tisement in this issue. Furniture manufacturers who want the best in wood working machines will do well to correspond with this old, reliable house. The Cordesman-Rechtin company, Cincinnati, manufacture <t great variety of strictly upto-date wood working machines; machinery, it is .Ili:t at all strange, for the longer he uses the No.1 Royal Standard Universal \iVoo(\vVorker, illustrated above, (manufactured only by The Cordcsman-Rechtin Co., Cincinnati), the more he will be charmed with its perfr.ctiotl and adaptibility. As its name implies, this wood worker is suited for a very great many purposes-in fact the variety of work that can be done on it is limited only to the skill of operator. Planing out of wind up to 12 inches wide, making air-tight glue \ FaIding Bed Fixtures Profitable fixtures to use are those which give the least trouble. They are made by Folding Bed Williams in many styles and designs, suitable for every folding bed manufactured. Furniture Cast~ ings, Panel Holders, Corner Irons, etc. New ideas and inventions constantly being added to the line. F. 8. WILLIAMS 312 Vh:.eennes Ave., Chicago. Ma!lufacturer of Hardware Specialties for the Fumiture:Trade. Established 1878 is ESTABLISHED 1880 PUBLISHED BY MICHIGAN ARTISAN CO. ON THE lor ... AND 25TH OF EACH MONTH OFFICE-2-2Q L.YON ST•• ORAND RAPIDS, MiCH. Er.lTEIlEO ..,8 MATTER O~ THE 'ECOND CLASS The New York state labor commissioner has been inspect-ing factories where women are employed and finds that the hours of work arc altogether too long. "The law allows ten hours a day. Those honTs are extreme, but unfortu-nately the real working hours are often much more than the legal hour!;." The laws are not enforced as they should be. The legislature will probably be appealed to. The Alaska Refrigerator company of Muskegon employ a sys-tem whereby the foremen are enabled to earn more than their regular salaries. When a lot of refrigerators are sold at more than factory prices the foremen are entitled to a percentage of. the increased selling prices. In the course of a year each foreman is able to make $100 marc than his regular salary. If the remarks of dealers in lumber and factory supplies may be relied upon, and there are no grounds for Questioning the same, the spring season will be an tmusually active one for the manufacturers of house furnishing goods. The orders taken are without precedent for the short, or spring season. The Supreme court of New York has decided that a rail-. road ticket when bought from the first owner can be signed by the purchaser with the original owner's name and the name may not be considered a forgery. The sale of a ticket conveys with it the right to use the original owner's name. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, has issued an appeal to the affiliated unions to add life insurance features to their work. He argiles that this would be a great means of keeping the unions solid. If the dealers of the South must have a furniture exposi-tion either Chattanooga or Atlanta is a better location than High Point. which is lacking in conveniences and is not centrally located. The manufacturer who has the courage to advance prices when they should be advanced is an important factor in the market. The weaklings applaud and follow him. The man who can get a full day's work out of twenty men is more useful than the man who can do three days' work himself while the twenty watch him. The merchant endeavors to sell what the people want. He knOwS that they want what is advertised most success-fully and widely. It is a pretty good argument. Are you enthusiastic? Enthusiasm pays big dividends. It isn't all a merchant needs, but it is an essential. Hard work judgment and enthusiasm is a trio hard to beat. It is gratifying to manufacturers to find that no burden-some accumulation of stocks has occurred, despite the recent record-breaking production. It is stated that Chicago banks have decided to charge ex-change all all outside checks. One of the heaviest losers by this will be the mail-order houses. It is estimated that this small-check business with mail-order houses in Chicago amounts to about $500,000·daily, and the profits will be cut down not a little by this decision of the banks. The merchant of the small town may not be a "natural born" window dresser. There are not very many such to be had in proportion to the demand. But every merchant can keep his windows clean, change the displays frequently and use ordinary common sense and some taste in their ar-rangement. Good lighting is important; clever ideas may be utlizied and the results will be worth the extra effort. The measure of success rests largely with the man. If he is not satisfied with results he should earnestly start on a hunt for the trouble. He should not rest until he has found it, and after he has found it, he should not sleep till it is corrected and ended forever with him. No less an authority that the New York Sun refers to the name "Grand Rapids" as a synonym for furniture. When the pull and push ends of b\.lsiness work together in the right spirit, success results. The man who is not getting all he can out of his business has some steps to take before he can retire with satisfaction. WAYS OF RECKONING A SALESMAN'S VALUE He Must Make a Profit For His Firm. Three different ways of making business profitable through salesmen are discussed by three sales managers for a wholesaler, a retailer, and a manufacturer. The first suggests that one's profit should be figured daily. Each salesman's sales are posted on a board which hangs on the wall. This board indicates the stock number, the amount of goods sold, the price per dozen, the gross profit and the salesman. At the close of the day the gross profits are easily figured. The per cent of each salesman's profit should correspond to his percentage of the sales. If he sells $2,500 his sales should show a gross profit of 5 per cent., or $2.50. His daily expenses must be subtracted to arrive at his net profit. The second method of determining profits is as follows: A salary of $10 a week is paid the city salesman and 15 per cent commission. When all discounts for ca::ih and all other items of expense are deducted from the selling price and added to this, a proportion of the general selling expense, and the profit on a sale can be reckoned. The salesman's net profit is very easily reckoned. His salary expense is included in the total. The traveling salesman has no commission-just a straight salary and exp.cnses. His p-rofits depend on the discounts on the goods. The third way of reckoning profit has nothing to do with a daily profit, but with the result of sales on a certain amount of goods. The difference between the selling prices and the first cost of the goods, plus the general expense, determines what per cent each salesman is entitled to. The average of expense is 3% per cent., what the salesman he-ceives. If he sells $600 worth of goods he receives $21 salary. Less than that amollnt sold is a loss to the firm. In this way the discovery is made as to whether the sales-man's sales pay for the expense of keeping him. ]. Harris, proprietor of the Central Furniture company, Houston, Tex .• has been declared a bankrupt on its own pe-tition. Liabilities are $2,OOQ. assents, $625. The Boy That Makes Good. "The office boy of today is the general manager of tomor-row," said, one of the general managers, "and we take great pains in choosing them." A millionaire manufacturer who has built up a great industry in a small town and who has been for a score of years a Sunday school superintendent was once asked what direct results he ever received from his religious de-votion, says System. "I get my office boys through my religion," he said, half joking, half serious; "I hire all my boys from the mem-bership of my Sunday school-and that means most of my employes, for most of my clerks) bookkeepers and exec-utives have come up from office boys. 'The boy who makes good in business comes from the middle class families and lives in a home where he has been taught the importance of truth and obedience and where he will be given encouragement to succeed. "Show me a b.oy's mother," an old English manufacturer used to say, "and I will tell you if I will have him in my employ." The need of proper home influences is shown by the ex-perience of a Chicago employer who was impressed with the quick wits and nervous energy of the city newsboys. He picked up a particularly promising lad who was selling papers near the city hall and installed him in his office. "Newsie" lasted just two weeks. He was bright. honest and did his work well, but he could not shake off the habits of the streets. \\-'innings the earnings of the other boys at craps, turning the electric fans into roulette wheels and making a handbook on the races ior the clerks, demoraIized the whole office and ;;;ent him back to his extras. Judging from the boys you see in many otherwise up~to-date offices, the manager believes a "boy's a boy," no matter how dirty and unkempt he is. The good effect produced by an expensive suite of fineiy furnished offices is often sadly marred by disreputable-looking boys. The general appear-ance of your place of business-its personalitye-is a big factor in your success or failure. It gives an impression to your Cllstomer or client before he sees you, and by that im-pression you yourself wilt often be judged. Is it, then not worth while to make clean hands, a clean face and alt-around neatness the first requisites fOJ;"a boy in your employ? Appreciated by Wood Finishers. The Barrett~Lindeman company, which recently established a branch in Chicago at 61-67 North Ashland avenue, to meet the demands of their trade in the west, report that their enterprise is appreciated by users of woodfinishing goods. The plant is completely equipped with the latest machinery. A full line of everything made by this company is kept on hand. 19 Significant Facts. The St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad company, better knO\vn as the "Frisco," has built or added to its system over nineteen hundred miles of new railroad during the past five years. Also another thing to be remembered is the fact that all of this new railroad traverses newly-settled sections of the south-west, principally in Missouri, Arkansas, Indian and Oklahoma territories and Texas. Th~se sections of the southwest are rapidly settling up with a good class of nor-them immigrants impelled to locate in the southwest for the following reasons: Lands for the cultivation of a wide range of crops can be pur-chased most reasonably; the climate is mild and there are no extremes of heat and cold.. such as obtain in the northwest, and there is ample rainfall annually to mature crops. Most of the sections traversed by these new lines have not previously enjoyed the privileges of railroad communication and therefore, they have opened up entirely new markets to the manufacturer and wholesaler. It is a self-evident proposition that it is cheaper to utilize in manufacturing, the raw material at its source, instead of shipping it in a crude state to some large city or remote, thickly settled section. This is a fact that manufac-turers are beginning to realize more and more and for various reasons arc turning their steps toward the singularly favored locality. The principal raw materials available in large quan-tities for mal1Ufacture are cotton and its by-products; all the grains; almost every kind of timber found in the North Temper-· ate zone; all of the truck crops, vegetables, melons and fruits; minerals, including iron, lead, zinc, gypsum; stone, including granite, limestone and cement rock suitable for Portland cement; highest grade of shale for pressed, paving and fire brick, pottery, tile and sewer pipe; and last and most itnportant, this fact, that in almost every portion of the states and territories traversed by the "Frisco" system fuel supply is abundant, either bituminous or semi-anthracite coal. Oil or natural gas are procurable. Labor troubles also in the southwest are of much less fre-quent occurrence than in the large cities and thickly populated localities of the north and east. Possibly the most attractive inducement, however, that could be given manufacturers to se-cure the location of their industries, is the fact that they would in most cases have a proprietary right to a vast section of rich territory, as they would be almost the only manufacturers in their particular line in the southwest. They would, therefore, be free from most of the competition met with in the factory sec-tions of the north and east. From the above extended list of natural resources for manufacturing it can be readily seen that almost every kind of manufacturing plant can be accom-modated with an excellent location. Mr. M. Schulter, Indus-trial Commissioner of the "Frisco" system, St. Louis, Mo., would like to get in corespondence with any manufacturers not entirely satisfied with 1;heir present factory locations and will cheerfully furnish data regarding favorable locations, induce-ments. We carry a line of Rebuilt Wood- Working Machinery for Pattern Shops. Furniture Factories. Sash and Door Manufacturers, Car-penters. Planing Mills. Etc. .. .. When in the market let us send you our list of machines and we are sure that we can interest you in pnces and quality of machines offered EDWARDS MACHINE CO, 34·36 W. Washington St. CHICAGO, ILL. 20 ·~MI9]-1IG7J-N INSIST ON HAVING norris WoodI Sons'Solid Sleel alue Joinl Cutlers Proposalsfor ~(~ool furniture (or there are no other.,. Uju.rt a.r good." THE BoARD OF" EDUCATION, OFFICE OF THE DiRECTOR OF SCHOOLS, CLEVELAND, OHIO. Sealed proposals will be received at the office of the Clerk of the Board of Education, Rose building, Cleveland, Ohiol until 12 o'clock noon, January 25, 1906, for furnishin~ seats and desks for the public schools in the City School. District in the City of Cleveland for the year 1906, in accordance with plans and specifications furnished on application at the office of the Director of Schools. Each bid must contain the name of every person interest-ed in the same, and each bid must be accompanied by a certified check for $500.00 payable to Treasurer, Board of Education. Specifications may be procured at this office on applica. tion, and all proposals must be made on blanks furnished by the Director of Schools. All proposals must be sealed, addressed to the Clerk and endorsed on the outside plainly showing the items bid upon and the name of the bidder. The Board of Education reserves the right to reject any or any part of any of all proposals, A corporate surety bond is required on all contracts. They cut a clean perfect joint always. Never bum owing to the GRADUAL CLEARANCE (made this way only by us), require little grinding, saving time and cutters. No time wasted setting up and cost no more than other makes. Try a pair and be convinced. Cata'ogue No. 10 and prices on application. . CHAS.ORR. MORRIS WOOD ®. SONS Director of Schools, Cleveland, Ohio. 'l'hirt,,_olle "ears at 31-33 5. Canal Street. CHICI\.GO.ILL. WE MAKE $2.00 A Specialty 01 Furniture Showcase and Carriage Work For Half Tones of This Quality Write us for prices on any ENGRAVINGS you may need Michigan Engraving COPlpany, 2 Pearl St.• Grand Rapids. Mich. WHY NOT CALL ON US FOR WE BEAT THEM ALL, ESPECIALLY ON PROMPT DELIVERY ·~"r;,.IfHIG7fN Veneered Panels, ~1 Tops and Backs? WALTER CLARK . 535 Michigan Trust Building Citizens Phone 5933 G RAN D RAP IDS, M I CHI G A N Trade Notes. Isaac L. Rundio, formerly superintend(,l1t of the Oriel Cabi-net company, is now filling the superintendency of F, Mohr and company's factory in New York A. H. Stevens, formerly superintendent of the \Viddicomb Furniture company's factory, is now located in Camden, K. Y., in charge of the factory of the Camden Cabinet company. George A. Browo, formerly superintendent of the St. Johns (Mich.) Furniture company, is managing the business of the Loudonville, (0.) Y1allufacturing company. \Vm. Beutin has asked for the appointment of a receiver for the Milwaukee Parlor Frame company. l\fr. Beutin bought an interest in the business in June, 1904, but the other partners al-ways refused to admit him into partnership. The Aberdeen Furniture Manufacturing company is the name of a new corporation which will do a manufacturing business in Aberdeen, ::'diss. The capital stock is $50,000. The factory of the Yorke Furniture company, Concord, ).T. C, was destroyed by fire in December with a loss of $65,000, partly insured. The plant will be rebuilt in the spring. The supreme court of Texas hotds that where the ticket agent of a railroad company gives a passenger wrong informa-tion which results in trouble, worry and expense to such passen-ger, such road is responsible. Edward R. Olive, secretary of Olive & Meyers IVlanufacturing company, died recently of typhoid fever after a ten weeks' illness. Mr. Olive went to Texas from his home in Iowa in 18!HIand with AIr. Meyers organi7cd the furniture manufacturing firm of Olive & Meyers. Their business has heen very sl1cce,ssf'lll. Globe Vise and Truck Company OFFICE 321 S. DIVISION S'J.'. ~ GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Manufacturers of HIGH GRADE Wood Workers Vises AND Factory Trucks Simplicity in construc-tion enables 115 to give quality and durability, and meet all competi-tion. WriteIQr Prices. No. 21, Roller BearIngs. same style Trucks No. ~4, without Roller Bearings -- Smith & Stanley, cabinetmakers of New York, have made an assignment; liabilities are $3,615, assets, $2,884. They were in business about a year. Arthur J. O'Keefe and Joseph Dillon have purchased the planing machinery and merchandise of the Michigan Order "Vork Furniture company and wilt start a factory to be known as the O'Keefe & Dillon Furniture company. It will be capi-talized at $15,000. Svcral sites arc under consideration. The Enterprise Lumber and Manufacturing company of Pitts-burg are contemplating the establishment of a veneering plant in Little Rock, Ark. It will cost $50,000. Tbe Matthews Brothers' Manufacturing company's plant in IVlilwallkee will after December 15 be operated as a closed shop under the union scale and labor. E.K. \Vheeler has entered the employ of the Stoltz-Schmitt Furniture company of Evansville, Ind., as superintendent. £. B. Fixen's lounge factory in Eola, Ill., was destroyed by fire recently. Fire in the New England Reed Rattan Goods company, Bos-ton, caused a $50,000' loss late in December. John Jackson and C. Munsotl, Clinton, la., have patented a chair seat and will manufacture the same. The Columbia Lounge company, incorporated with $10,000 capital, will manufacture furniture in Chicago. The Tell City (Ind.) Chair company's sales for the past year amounted to $250,000. C. Vol.Young will invest $45,000 in a furniture factory to be established in Aberdeen, Miss. Excels aU hand !!crew clamps in adaptation to work, convenience of hll.ndUng and qnick action. Especially adapted to Veneering Paneling and all work requiring long broad jaw. COLT'S UNIVERSAL CLAMP Catalog and Price List Furnished Batavia Clamp Co. Mention Michigan Artisan. 45 Center 5t. BATAVIA, N, Y, 22 ·!'~MlppIG7}N Danger in the Use of Wood Alcohol. Wood alcohol is a deadly poison, and its fumes often result m severe injury to the sight of those who handle the liquid. An effort is being made by the Brotherhod of Painters, Decor-ators and Paper Hangers, to secure remedial legislation by con-gress, and Representative Roberts of Massachuetts, at this session, \vill present a bill to the lower house looking to the abol-ishment of the high tax on grain alcohol when the fluid has been denaturized. Grain alcohol is much superior to wood alcohol and may be employed without danger to the person using it. At the national meeting of the brotherhood in Memphis a few days ago, the convention threw down the gauntlet before the wood alcohol trust, by adopting the resolution calling for the abolishment of the excessive tax imposed upon grain alco-hol when the fluid is rendered unfit for beverage purposes. The action of the organization all this question is most im-portant. Only slight oppostion to the resolution developed and the vote for its passage was almost unanimous. The issue was brought up in the regular order of business. J. W. Cotton of Lynn, Mass., and secretary of the local of that city, which started the .crusade against the USe of wood alcohol in the manufacture of varnishes, explained to the convention the measures already taken in the fight on wood alcohol and recited the great benefit to be derived by the cessation of its use among painters. His address was loudly applauded. Estey Was a Great Salesman. "Ed" Caldwell of the Grand Rapids Desk company en-tertains kindly rec.ollections of the late D. M. Estey. "He was one of the best salesmen I ever knew," remarked Mr. Caldwell. "He could sell patent rights, furniture, lumber or anything that he considered worth taking up. He gave me many valuable pointers on the art of selling goods, one of which I shall never forget. I was laboring with a buyer, endeavoring to impress him with the importance of the Estey line, and finally used as an argument a statement to the effect that the Estey line was 'just as good as the Luce line.' \¥hen the dealer left, Mr. Estey remarked: 'Ed. I would not use that argument in which you assured the dealer that the Estey line was 'just as good' as Luce's. If the dealer should be handling the Luce line he would naturally content himself with the same, If the Estey goods are no better than the Luce goods why should I change? is the natural conclusion of the dealer. The most effective plan is to talk about the goods yoU are handling and ignore those of competitors." Antique Furniture Bought at a Great Bargain. It is quite true that persons possessing antique furniture have come to have an exaggerated idea of its value, and it is daily growing more and more difficult to pick up bargains, even in the more remote towns of Connecticut. But one New York woman is rejoicing in the possession of a highboy for which she paid only $2. She has since had an offer of $150 for it. While antoing not far from Ridgefield, Conn.., recently she stopped at a far'mhouse for some water, and casually inquired if the family had any antique furniture to sell. The family looked at her, not seeming to understand what she meant. "Old mahogany furniture-have you any that you would like to dispose of?" she repeated. "\Vall, now, there's that old chest of drawers o.n the back porch-maybe that's what you want," and the fanner took her out to inspect the article in question. It proved to he a handsome highboy of unusual pattern and large proportions. It was battered and one leg was broken off, but when tbe farmer offered jt for $2 the offer was accepted, and it was shipped to New York. It was renovated, rubbed down and repaired, and now it is the admiration of the woman's friends who know the value of antique furniture.-Ex. It Would Not Pay. "If we should attempt to fill all the orders that come to us for stock out of the low priced end of our lines," remarked an intelligent and very successful manager of a wood working plant, located in Northern Michigan, "we would need a factory twice as large as we now operate and would not net a larger profit. We make a reasonable amollnt of cheap stuff, but aim to sell as much high and medium priced stuff as possible. A high priced case occu-pies more space on the floors of our factory than a cheap one. The cost of the materials, aside from the lumber, are practically the same. A better grade of lumber and better workmanship must, as a matter of course, be employed in high or medium priced work. As to the cost of handling a cheap piece in com-parison to a_ high priced one, there is little difference. The cost of packing, cartage and freight, if prepaid, is practically the same. Then why should a man operate his factory exclusively on cheap stuff?" Pressed Ornaments. "The reason pressed ornaments of wood, clay or other material are not more generally used," remarked William De Pagter, a veteran foreman finisher. "is because the man'- ufacturers generally do not know how to attach the same firmly and finish them proper:ly. There. is no reas\:m why pressed ornaments should drop off nor why the finish of the same should not be as good as an experienced fin-isher can produce on hand carvings. A little study and careful work will make the pressed ornaments look "just as good" as carved, and stay in place when properly adjusted, Municipal Training. In embarking on industrial undertakings, says the Man-chester, Eng., Courier, municipalities run a great risk for the sake of a problematic gain, which- in most cases is only secured by injuring individual enterprise. Early English A perfect stain which pro-duces the correct shade-' and directions for manipula-tion to produce correct finish Get our circulars and book-let that puts you next to the very best waysfor producing Sold only in powder form; does not fade--penetrates the wood. FUMED OAfi WALTER K. SCHMIDT CO,\\PANY 14·86 C"'NAL STREeT GRAND ~APIDS. MICI1IGAN -- 185 N. Front StreetA Grand Rapids. Mich. FOX SAW DADO HEADS SMOOTHEST GROOVES GR.EATEST RANGE Also Machine KniveJ'. Miter Machines. Etc. FASTEST CUT QUICKEST ADJUSTMENT LEAST POWER LEAST TROUBLE LONGEST LIFE PERFECT SAFETY We"1lgladly tell J'OUall about It. PK:f!.MANENT I:<:CONOMY FOX MACHINI: CO. Cyclone Blow Pipe Co. Improved Cyclone Dust Collectors, Automatic Fuma<:.e Fe.ooen, Steel Plate Exhau:;t Fam, Exhaust and Blow Piping Complete 5}'sterm desilIIlOO, manufactured, installed and ~aranteed. Old ~yslem! remodeled on modem linea <:m JIIOit ~nl'>lJlica\ piani. Supplementary sy 8 t e m8 adckd where present ~s-tems are oulirl'OWll. De-fective I y 8 t e m 8 corrected and put in proper working order. ST4ffORIl fURNITURE fNGR4VING Our half tones are deep sharp, cleal'; 11.1"10&them long wear and ease of make-ready. Every plate is precisely type-bigh, mounted on a perfectly squared, seasoned block trimmed to pica standard. All are proved and tooled until the best possible printing qualityis developed, Specimens mailed on request. STAFFORD ENGRAVING CO. "The House oj ideas" INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA 23 Estimatirtg Cost. The puzzle of puzzles with manufacturers is how to pwp-erly figure cost. The selling price of furniture is based on th(' cost of it, but no two men will figure out the cost exactly alike on the same piece; something is sure to be overlooked by nearly everyone. Eugene C. Goodrich, of the Rockford Chair & Furniture company. calls attention to one expense that is generally overlooked-the designer. "Herc are two bookcases, the factory cost of which is exactly alike, say $4fJ.oo, and yet 011C will readily sell for $10 more than the other. \Vhy: Because of thc lines, the style, the design; in other \vords, the brains of the designer. No one can tell just how it happens. The designer is paid $5,000 a year; that sum reperesel1ts a cost that it is not easy to distribute, or separate, and give to each design its proportion of cost. The bookcase that will sell fnr $10 marc than the other may have been an inspiration, a happy thought, and did not take one-half the time tLlt the other one did to work out. Should not the bo,)kcase with the most beautiful lines have the benefit, and be marked at a higher price than the other, even though the factory cost is the same?" If Mr. Goodrich should find time to consult C. \\r. Cun-ningham of the Sargent Manufactming company, he might feel inclined to reveal his plan for attaching the cost of unprodl1ctivc labor to the cost of constn1ctlng the ,goods_ The salaries of designers are very properly charged as a part of the expense paid for non-productive labor with the book keeper and the stenographer. Mileage Books Unpopular. The Pennsylvania's rigid regulations governing the sale of its interchangeable mileage books, including an excess charge of $10, is 1110st unsatisfactory to the Merchants' & Traders' Association and the Merchant's Protective Associa-tion of New York. They have been conducting a campaign to effect an elimination or modification of objectionable fea-tures. The excess charge is declared to be illegal, unjust and unwarranted, and contrary to the rules of other lines. One Philadelphia firm complains that the railroad c.ompany has over $5,000 of its money representing deposits of excess charges. The associations have named a joint committee to interview the trunk line passenger committee and Presi-dcnt Cassatt. This is by no means a new movement, but it is hoped that better success may be had this time. Specialty Furniture Company's Factory Destroyed by Fire. The factory of the Specialty Furniture Company of Evansville, Ind., was destroyed by fire January 5. The loss reaches $SO,ooo, insured for $70.000. The fire alarm wires had been tampered with and caused a delay in the response of the engine companies. The factory will be rebuilt as !-iOOll as the insurance is adjusted. The one hundred employes will assit in clearing away the debris. The walls arc all that remain of the building. A New Factory in Baltimore. The Headington-Pfeil Furniture company, of Baltimore \1d., have a four story building 50 x 150 feet in course of erec-have a four story building tiO x 150 feet in course of erec-tion. It will be in operation March first, the product of the plant will be chamber suites, odd dressers, wardrobes, chiffoniers and hat racks. Wm. Headington, formerly with Hall, Headington & Company, is the president. G. II enry Pfeil, formerly with the Hughes Furniture Manufacturing Company is secretary-treasurer. Frank D, Ellis, a furniture dealer and undertaker, retired,. died at his home in Forestville, N. Y, recently, after a short illness. 24 Brief Mention D. Markus Brainerd, Minn., has sold his furniture stock to Hon. E. Mark of Staples, Minn. V'latson Brothers, furniture dealers in Vicksburg, Miss., have filed a petition in bankruptcy, liabilities are placed at $7,815.79, assets, $5,300. Albert Kahn of Cincinnati has purchased of Jonas Joseph his interest in the Model Furniture factory in Shelbyville, Ind., and paid therefor $10,000. The Kitchen Cabinet Manufacturing company, Greencastle, Ind., lost their plant in a fire December 4, $10,000 was the amount lost; insurance, $1,500. The contract for the furnishings of the new government building at Guthrie, Okla., was awarded to the Western Cabinet Fixture company of Kansas City at $3,266.65. The National Parlor Furniture company of Chicago have leased for the term of twenty years the manufacturing plant formerly occupied by Winslow Brothers on Carroll avenue, Ada and Elizabeth streets. The Everroad Table Manufacturing company has been or-ganized in Columbus, Ind., to manufacture the Dunlap fold-ing table. The furniture factory of the ",,raTren \Vood \Vorking company at Belvidere, N. ]., was burned December 22, loss $60,000, in-surance, $30,000. The National Couch company, capitalized at $50,000, will manufacture furniture in Chicago. The storehouse of the Derby Desk company at Somerville Mass., burned December 10, loss is $25,000. The state penitentiary in Lincoln, Neb., mav have a furni-ture factory. Rustic furniture ·for the prison wi~llbe made. Ensign 11 Clark, formerly a cabinet maker and undertaker of Niagara Falls, N. Y., died December 5. The Corner Case compan:)f, capitalized at $5,000, has been incorporated in Chicago to manufacture furniture. The new plant of the United States Chair company of Buf-falo, N: Y., is enclosed and work will be pushed rapidly. Francis G. Wiltshire, a member of the manufacturing firm of S. G. Estabrook and company, died recently in Brooklyn. The Earl Metal Bed company, Pana, TlI., will donate the first bedste.ad manufactured worth $30 to the Catholic fair. A new furniture factory is contemplated for Hendersonville, Tenn. It will cost $50,000. Wm. 'Niemann, Jr., vice president of the Niemann Table com-pany of Chicago, died recently as the result of a bullet wound. Alexander A. Smith has organized a furniture company in St. Lonis, Mo., with $20,000 capital. Karreman Brothers will sell their furniture factory in Grand Rapids and engage in other business. E. R. Hotaling's furniture stock was ruined by smoke and water, as the result of a fire in his store in Coxsackie, N. Y. His loss is covered by insurance. The vValker Commercial company have moved from Gran-ite, Mont., to Phillipsburg in the same state. W. T. Alli-son has charge of the furniture department. The FrankS. Harden company has been incorporated with $40,000 capital to manufacture furniture in McConnellsville, N. Y. Creditors of the Broghan-Doll Furniture Company, have petitioned the federal court of Shreveport, La., to have the firm declared bankrupt. High Point is holding its first furniture exposition. Will it be the last? J. B. Eilers of Doon, la., has bought the furniture stock of Klaas Koel. . , An Invifation to Rest. The L. Sternberg Company incorporated with $15,000 capital will conduct a general furnishing store in Newark Christ Metzel, one of Pittsburg's old furniture dealers, died December 28th. Robert Skinner has purchased a furniture and under-taking business in Neligh, Neb. Peter Loeffler, for years a furniture dealer of Pittsburg, died January 1, at the age of 77 years. Anton Knittle will open a furniture store in St. Paul, Minn. E. K. Butler has purchased three acres of land in Syracuse on which he will erect a furniture factory, to employ three hun- IF YOU HAVE NEVER TRIED OUR RUBBING 'ffifsHING VARNISHES DETROIT FACTORY GOODS CANADIAN FACTORY YOU HAVE YET TO LEARN THE WHY NOT PUT IT TO FULL POSSIBILITIES OF THIS CLASS OF THE TEST BY GIVING US A TRIAL ORDER? NEW YORK BALTIMORE BERRY BROTHERS, LIMITED, VARNISH MANUFACTURERS PHILADIl:L~HIA CHICAGO aT. LOUIS CINCINNATI SAN FRANCiSCO FACTORY AND MAIN OFFICE, DETROIT CANADIAN FACTORY WALKERVILLE. ONT" dred men and women. The building will be of brick, five stories high and 85 x 180 feet in dimensions. The plant will cost $100,000. I-I. E. \Vanamaker will OCClipyMr. Butler's pres-ent plant on July 1, 1907, which he purchased from Mr. Butler three -years ago. The death of VV. S. Norton of VVilkesbarre, Pa., took place recently. He was engaged in the furniture business in Oswego, N. Y., until five years ago, when he moved to \Vilkesbarre and opened a store there. N. S. Johnson and C. L. Foulks dissolved partnership in the furniture business they have conducted in Canova, S. D. The former continues in the business. Earl S. Rich, a furniture dealer of Jamestown, N. Y., committed suicide on Christmas day. Melancholia following iii health was the cause. The Bristol Furniture compa.ny's store in Bristol, Conn .. was damaged by fire to the extent of $5,000, insurance covers about half the loss. The Webster-Clark Company has been incorporated in Dallas, Tex., for the purpose of conducting a house fur-nishing business. Capital stock is $20,000. The Powelson company succeed C. v\.[. n~.vOf(·. in the firm of C. VV. Devore and company, \Vashington, Pa. Simpson & Young have discontinued business in \Villiam-stan, Mich. R. E. Simpson succeeds his father in Laingsburg, Mich. E. C. Lovering's stock of furniture ill CaldwelL Idaho, \-vas badly damaged by fire. James H. Abbott will open a furniture and l\1lc!ertakill,R" business in Granger, vVash. Charles B. Stacy, a furniture man of Richmond, Va., died lately. He was a solider in the Civil war and was im-prisoned in Fort Delaware for sixteen months. The Zenith Mercantile company incorporated in Duluth, Minn., ,,,,ill engage in the sale of furniture amI other goods. ~- ,~.25 Morris and company are erecting a building in Spokane, \\-'ash., to be occupied and used by them as a furniture store. A receiver has been appointed for \,iVilliam Munger, (St. Paul, l\'Iinn.,) at the request of the Joerns Manufacturing Company. Frederick Joerns (receiver), will sell the stock at retail and conduct the business on a cash basis. The furniture warehouse of the Conroy & Levy Fur-niture Company of Middletown, 0., ,",,-asso badly damaged by water as a result of a fire as to be a total loss. $2,000 'is the amount lost. I\Jax London, president of the London Furniture com-pany, incorporated in June 1,905 in New York City, has been sued by 1. G. Mann and Louis Salkin, stockholders for an accounting. A receiver has been appointed. The Rahmoellcr Flint House Furnishing Company, has been organized with capital stock of $5,000, to do business in \Vellston, Mo, H. C. Herrick, Yankton, S. D., has sold his stock to Charles Lawrence. Mr. Herrick will Ogden, Utah, and open a furniture store there. The Blackwell House Furnishing Company has been in-corporated ill Springheld, Mo., with capita! of $25,000 all paid in. A number of manufacturers have petitioned to have a recei\'er appointed for the Carter Music and Furniture Com-pany at Birmingham, Ala. Damage amounting to $2,000 resulted from a fire in Mc- Carthy & Lill's furniture store and mattress factory in Bos-ton. Spontaneous combustion is assigned as the cause. Thomas Lynch for along- time engaged in the ,,,,-holesale and retail fttrniture business ill J erse)' City, N. J., died re-cently. Lenlz and company's furniture and undertaking store in Kennett, ]\.10.,was damaged by fire. About $13,000, insUFance covers only one-third the stock furniture move to NO MATTER WHAT YOUR DRY KILN REQUIREMENTS WE CAN FILL THEM r . In some instances it is necessary to have comparatively small quantities of a number of different kinds of lumber, in varymg degrees of dryness. In such cases the "ABC" APAR THE-NT l\ILNS are successfully employed. Note the experience of the Hale & Kilburn Manufacturing Company of Philadelphia. <l\~ou recently install~d for us a seven compartment 'Moist Air' kiln which has proven very satisfactory Our re- 9Ulre.ments are unusually exactiol, manufacturing, as we do, furniture and interior bank and office fittings, and mtenor woodwork of the highest class, and our lumber must be thoroughly dried in such condition as to be sus-ceptible to the highest finish, These conditions have been very well met by your kilns. "Yo~r service has .be~n prompt and satisfactory, and we heartily recommend you and your kiln to anyone whose reqUIrements are SimIlar to our own." AMERICAN BLOWER COMPANY NEW Y_ORK, __ CHICACO, ATLANTA, LONDON 26 Backbones for Salesmen. One reason why many yOllng men fail to become good business men is that they teach themselves to fcar responsi-bility when they are young. They begin by being timid and end by being incapable of fearlessly settling any business problem whatever. The mind that has shunned responsibility for ten years is as weak and nerveless as the arm' that has been strapped to the owner's side for tell years. It has no power of initia-tive- no strength to cope with a situation and decide it-no vigor of its own whatever. A few days ago I sat in the office of a large produce commission merchant, the telephone bell rang. It was answered by one of the clerks, a boy of eighteen, perhaps. Some colloquy ensued between the proprietor and the person calling, the successive messages being delivered by the clerk. At the close the proprietor gave the clerk certain instructions comprehending the adjustment of the matter telephoned about. Then he turned to me and we resumed our conversation. Five times within the next ten minutes that clerk hustled i.n to ask further instructions. "The man you told me to give this order to is out to lunch-shall I hold it till he comes in or give it to somebody else?" "What did you say So-and-so's address was?" "We're out of part of this order" but we'll have it again tomorrow. Shall I call So-and-so up and tell him?" (He was told to call him up and explain why a part of the order would be delivered late.) "Who shall I ask for when I call tip?" "He isn't there; will anybody else do?" And several more of the same kind. After the seance was over the employer was irritated almost beyond endur-ance. Now, this young man is a type of many who are not only making their services worth little or nothing to their employer, but are training themselves so that in the future they will be worth little or nothing to themselves. Instead of boldly taking up these little questions as they arise and settling them themse1veson their best judgment, they shirk the issue. They hesitate to use a judgment that may be wrong. They ask somebody else. They grow to lean all others. They are afraid to strike out. As a result, when they some day find themselves com-pelled to decide a question for themselves, they faiL Their minds, untrained to quick decision, dependent to the last degree, 'grope about for somebody to give them inspiration, and, finding nobody, swing to and fro in an agony of in-decision. No man who has trained himself to ask other people what to do will ever amount to shucks. All his life he witt be a leaner, and when the time comes, as it will, when there No. JJ9A BETTER THAN WOOD No. 152 B OUf Unbreakable products can be glUed and nailed, filled or fin-ished same as wood, with oil, water or spirit stain. Much stronger and inore durable, full depth of grain. A perfect reproduc:tion of hand carving which absolutely defies detection. Send (or Sample. SeIlCOorCATALOGUE. ORNAMENTAL PRODUCTS CO. Twdfth and Fcrt Streets. Dettcit. Mi_n. is nobody to lean on, he will fall down, for he' has no back-bone to hold him up. No, indeed, if 1 were an' employer I should infinitely prefer an independent, self-reliant judgment :that occasion-ally went wrong to onc like this young clerk's I have de-scribed. So, I am persuaded, would most mel1.:-Ex. Cheats His Work. An employer of thousands of men was asked what thing in all his large operations gave him the '11-lOstconcern, says an exchange. "Thc man who does a little less than is expected of him," is the reply. "He is the dangerous fac-tor in all business. The absolute failure we readily dis-cover and discharge, but the lalmost' escap~ detection for months and often for years, and they, make: our losses as well as our fears," and with a very seriolts smile he added, flThe drip in business is worse than the leak." Thousands of men fancy they are fulfilling their duty to their employers and to their tasks by keeping hours and performing just enough to hold on to their positions. They have an idea that to do more would be to give larger servlce than their compensation required. They object to what they believe would be extra value. "The old man shan't get more than he's paying for" is the vernacular. Possibly it never strikes these trimmers that in cheating their work they are doing double damage; they are injuring their employers much, they are robbing themselves more; they are, in fact, losing everything in life that is worth while. They fare worse than if they did nothing at all, for time with all its precious values slips entirely from them and leaves no substance of satisfaction. Half doing soon brings undoing. It is the nine-tenths doing or the ninety-nine one-hundredths doing that bleeds business and saps character.-Ex. Farmers Much Benefitted by the Advent of Factories and Railroads. Farmers are better off now, than they were forty years ago. The railroads and factories deserve much credit for this condition. The comforts of life such as carpets" and other household furnishings, were then rare. Money was scarce.;- most business was done by exchanging goods. What a change has taken place since then! Farmers can now have, and do have, all the comforts of life, money is no longer a rarity to them, but is plentiful. The factor.es and railroads have had a large share in bringing about the fine results mentioned. The interurban roads -and the tele-phone may also be mentioned. No. 1573 JOHN DUER &. SONS BALTIMORE. MD. Cabinet "8rd~8re .nd Tools Etc., Upholsle{ed Good. Haodromeat PuB on the Mar1l:et for lhe MoneY, Write for prices and Sample Correspondence Solicited j 27 Stability, Durability, Adaptability. That's what makes the 'lNo-Kum-Loose" Furniture Trimmings manufactured by the Grand Rapids Brass Co. so popular. We invite both manufacturers and dealers to caB at our office and factory on Court Street (Take Cherry and Shawmut car to Court St.) and investigate the TOWER PATENT FASTENER It is the only reliable Fastener for knobs and drawer pulls and costs manufacturers, dealers and consumers NOT ONE RED CENT GRAND RAPIDS Grand Rapids, Michigan. The Grand Rapids Chair Company's Artistic Menu Card. The Artisan received a beautiful menu card sent out by the Grand Rapids Chair company for the opening of the January season. The card is white with a menu printed on blue paper attached. The luncheon menu, so-called, really was a banquet. The list of viands was as follows: Oysters. Soup Chicken Gumbo Radishes Celery Pin Penny Pickles Stuffed Pin Olives Salted Almonds \Vine, Haute Sauterne Roast Turkey Dressing Cranberry Sauce. Mashed Potatoes Petit Pois rvlcLarren's Fruit Plum Pudding, Cheese Cracker~ Salad Brandy Sauce Dent's \Vater Coffee. Fruit Cigars The banquet "vas "en'ed under the direction of J. B. How'ard, the company's western representative. Prices on Iron Beds Advance. The prices of iron beds and \-vire springs were ad-vanced January 1 ten per cent. The. Tvletal Spring Bed associations met ill Chicago December 1:) and decided to advance prices. The plant of the Evansville (Ind.) Metal FUfIlitme com-pany is about completed. It is of brick, 100 x 275 feet two stories. Operation will begin February 1. BRASS COMPANY The Town Bought the Factory. The little town of Lakeview, Mich., has decided to issue bonds for use in the purchase of the Stebbins Manufacturing company's factory. The factory will be leased to a firm now engaged in the manufacture of cabinets in Iowa. Better Work. The. manufacturers of kitchen cabinets have profited by the suggestions of the Artisan, many having greatly improved the styles of their cases, as well as the workmanship and the arrange-ment of the compartments. One pattern has a china cabinet en-closed with leaded glass doors. Another is constructed of bird's-eye maple. There is much room for improvement in kitchen fur-niture, however. In many cities the kitchen is used as the din-ing room, and for such only high grade furni.ture is suitable. Low Water Boiler Alarm. Some low-water alarms for boilers are made dependent for operation tlpon the'melting of a fusible alloy exposed to the heat of the steam. V\Thcnthe water falls and the temperature rises the melting of the alloy releases a weight-actuated circuit- ('.loser and rings a belL Modern Code of Honor. It would seem, says Hall Caine, as if the modern code of honor for gentlemen embraces only three principles-to live ex-pensively, to cheat in business, but never at cards, and always to lie in defense of a woman. Manufacturers who use souvenirs; city directories, hotel registers, and fake write-up publications to give publicity to their business, would save themselves time and labor by throwing their money into the fire. The regular furniture trade journals can serve their purpose. • 28 ·:f'~MI9J-IIG7!N IWrite for Prices to I THE CHAUTAUQUA VENEERING CO. Manufacturers of VENEERED TOPS. FRONTS and PANELS In All Woods JAMESTOWN, NEW YOR.K PALMER'S Patent Gluing Clamps • Are the most successful PIlIDI Clamps Made For the following fitasons They clamp instantly any width of dimension stocki no adjusting clamps to rlt the work, they hook at once to the desired wioth. Released instantly-throw out the lever and take them off. The work can be removed as fast as it can be handled. As the clamp' is placed over lhe work and locks into the one below it the draw is alike on both sides, prevents all springing no matter bow wide the stock may be. Impossible for them to slip; the wedge has serrated edge and cannot be moved when clamp is dosed, hammer allJ"ou like, Unlimited power; gTeat strenf;!th and urabilltYi malleable iron and steel; the knuckle joints are socket joints, not rivets. Altbough the best they cost you less. For further information ask for catalogue No.4. A. E. Palmer. Norvel. Mich. fURNITURE PLANT fOR SALE 300 H. P. plant. Built only 334 years ago. Electric transmission of power. Complete arc and incandescent lamp lighting system. Splen did fire-hose system; 50,000 gallon tank. Underwriter', fiTl~pump-steam beat, complete telephone system. Band saw mill, pond with log. haul, latest filing-room outfit, blacksmith shopt roundry, machine shop, bending room witth dry-kiln, barns, sheds, dwellings, superintendent's resi-dence (cost $:7.,5°0), commissary, store house, separate office building, side tracks with sttel railroad (TOmmill to yard, equipped with push cars. About 50 acresof land. Plant located on a river in the heart of the Oak and Hickory district of East Tennessee. Everything is new and up to date. Hundreds of machines in perfect order. This plant has cost over $100,000 and is in perfect running order. Eleven valuable woodworking patents go with the plant. Cheap labor, cheap materiaL Thia is a grand opportunity for the right party. Contracts on hand for all next year's output. '30,000 will buy it. The local bank, will carry $15,000 of this 3.5 lallg as desired.. For detailed information, addrm E. B. WEBSTER. Sristol, Tenn. News Items The Grand Rapids Dowel Works, C. B. Clark, proprietor, 72 South Front street, Grand Rapids, manufacture cut and pointed dowel pins and dowel rods in quantities to meet all re-quirements. Mr. Clark has been manufacturing dowel pins and rods for many years and has a widely extended trade. Robert H. Wilson, formerly city passenger agent of the Rock Island in Salt Lake City, will shortly leave that company and will be assistant manager of the Co-Operative Furniture company. Joseph Frick and C. L. Lawrence have purchased the furniture stock of C. J. Herrick and company in Yankton, S. D. The firm name will be Frick & Lawrence. The floor space will be doubled by the addition of an adjoining store. The New England Furniture and Carpet company of Minneapolis have bought out Winslow & Ruff; $75,000 was the value of the goodR. Winslow&: Ruff continue in busi-ness in St. Paul. The Japan Polish company is the name of a new firm recently organized in Baltimore, Md., for the manufacture of furniture polish. Authorized capital is $10,000. The Chattanooga, Tenn., Furniture 'company have bought a lot adjoining their plant and in the near future will probably erect an addition. The Anniston, Ala., furniture factory was sold at auction in November for $300, subject to a mortgage of $15,000. W. P. Acker was the purchaser. Feldhusen and company have been incorporated in New York with $40,000 capital to do a commission business and manufacture furniture. The furniture factory of Augusto. de Alber in Mexico City was burned January 4. There was no insurance and the loss is $100,000. The National Adjustable Chair company of Greenville, Ind., has shipped a consignment of high grade reclining chairs to Yedda, Japan. The Asher r-,'lercantile Company, of Asher, Texas, with a capital of $16,000 ha:r been organized to conduct a furniture business. . Skinner Brothers succeed Rapp & Vankirk in Fremont, Neb. The Armstrong Furniture company has been incorporated in Baton Rouge, La., capitaJstock is $20,000. Edward B. Wooster has filed a petition in bankruptcy. His stock of furniture is in Albany, N. Y. The Geo. W. Bent company has been organized in Port-land, Me., to deal in furniture. Capital stock is $200,000. Mr. Silvinus is selling out his furniture stock in Marshall, Minn., and is considering a removal to Dickinson. N. D. Kinney & Burns have dissolved partnership and are sell-ing out their furniture stock in Mason City, la. Fred Plagman, Peterson, Ia_, has added furniture to his hardware and machinery business. E. E. Cooper has opened a furniture store in Mitchell, S. D. James J. McElroy, formerly engaged in the furniture business in Binghamton, N. Y., died recently. G. W. Schutte Elected President of Queen City Furniture Club. The annual election of officers of the Queen City Furniture cltlb of Cincinnati resulted as follows: President, G. W. Schutte; vice president, Henry Sprengard; secretary, Carl Streit; treasurer, N. W. Hind; directors; John Dornett'e. Jr., Wm. H. Russell, D. C. Tappe, J .J. Conroy and J. C. Meyer. The bill which is at present up forconsiderauon of con-gress to permit the industrial use of alcohol was strongly indorsed by all the members present, and a resolution to that effect was adopted . • fOlJR TRAINS TO A.NO FROM CHICAGO Lv Gd. Rapids 7:10am Ar Chicago 1:15pm Lv Gd. Rapids 12:05 nn Ar Chicago 4:50pm Lv Gd. Rapids 4:~ pm ATChicaco 10:55pm Lv Gd. Rapids 11:30 pm daily Ar Chicago 6:55 am Put1man steeper, open 9:00 pm on U:30 pm train every day. Cafe service on all day trains. Se~\'lce a 1a carte. Pen Ma:rquette Pat'1l)Tcars on an day trains. Rate ndl1e~ to 50 cents. T"REE TRAINS DE T R 0 I T TO AND fROM Leave Grand Rapids 7:10 am Arrive Detroit 11:55am Leave Grand Rapids 11:15 am daily Arrive Detroit 3:25 pm Leave Grand Rapids 5:20 pm Arrive Detroit 10:05 pm Meals served a I. cllrte on trains leaving Grand Rapids at 11:25am and 5:10 pm. Pen: Marquette Parlor Cays OR a\1 trains i seat rate, 25 c~ts. "ALL OVER MICUIGAN" H. J. GRAY, DISTRICT PASSENGER. AGENT, PHONE 1168 Gr:andRapidl, Mich, unmown PAnn AnDvrnnn (OMPAnl (Incorpol"ated) Veneered Panels and Table Tops Largest Stock of Veneen MAHOGANY. Q\JARTEJ\ED OAK, WALNUT. EoIR.D'S.£,YI!.MAPLE. CURLY B.ll\CH, PLAIN OAJ( P[.,AIN BIRCH, MAPLE. CROSS SANDING The Best \Vorkmallsbip alld Finish Office, 50-58 Steele Street. Jamestown, N. Y Twu Large Factories: Jamestown, N. Y. Ashville, N, Y. Get Our Prices Before Buying Elsc\vhere. Samples on Application BUSS MACHINE WORKS HOLLAND, MICH. ~allufact\lreTS of Latest Im-proved WOOD WORKING MACHINERY, Special features in Planers. Double Cut Off Saws Vertical Sanders and Glue JOinters. Write for Descriptive Circu-lars and JllustraHons. NEW YORK AND PHILADElPHIA, Via GRAND TRUNK·LEHIGH VALLEY ROUTE. Two Fast Trains Daily Except Sunday. Daily. Leave Gd Rapids _ 2:45 p. m. 7:05 p. m. Ar Philadelphia , ,.·· .3:40 p. m. 7:2S-p. m. Ar New york ,., ·· 4:30 p. m, 8:40 p. m. Service unsurpassed. For further information apply at City Office, Morton House Block. C. A. JUSTIN, C. P. & T. A. Factory Locations There is in the various offices of the Land and Industrial Department of the Southern Railway and Mobile & Ohio Railroad late information regarding a number of first class locations for Furniture, Chair and other Woodworking Fac tories, which will be furnished Manufacturers upon applica· tion. An invitation is extended to all who use wood in their plants to write about the timber supply, good sites and mar-kets available in our territory. Address your nearest agent. M. V. RICHARDS, land and Industrial Aaent, WASHINGTON, D. C. CHAS. S. CHASE. Agent, 622 Chemical Buildina, St. Louis, Mo. M_ A. HAYS. Aoent, 225 Dearborn St, Chieaoo. Ill. 29 30 Mr. F. G. Carpenter's Statements Wrong-No Reason for Shipping American Veneers to Canada. Frank G. Carpenter in an article on "American Millions in Canadian Factories," makes the statement that veneers are shipped to Canada from Grand Rapids, Michigan, to be mounted upon a pine foundation in furniture making. Both of these statements Grand Rapids manufacturers wilt repudiate. On the St. Mary's river is a large vcneer cutting mill where great quantities of veneer are cut and why :\:lr. Carpenter should say that Grand Rapids veneers are shipped to Canada, at a great expenSe, one cannot conceive. As to the statement concerning the application of veneers to a pine foundation, ever ymanufac-turer knws that pine is never used but always a hardwood such as maple or cheaper grades of mahogany. The article follows: In the sawmiII 1 saw Lake Superior cutting millions of fect of lumber into boards for the markets of the United States Saw With Adjustable Handle. A hand saw whose handle can be set at variou's angles is one of the new lines set before the American hardware trade. The saw can be used for almost any purpose, such as work-ing on metal, wood, nails, etc. It is particularly useful for work in places where nails are frequently found, and nails are always ruinous to all tools not adapted to cutting them. The handle can be· adjusted to suit any, pitch of the bJade required for the work in hand. The producing power of the banana is 44 times as great as that of the potato. The dried fruit is readily converted: into nutri-tious flour; it may also be manufactured into sausag~; beer can be made from it, while the skin 'can be turned into cloth, and the juice made to do service as ink; the ink can be used to print an advertisement in the Michigan Artisan and the advertisement may prove to be the foundation of a fortune for the' advertiser. l:J.edroolil, Ann Hathaway's Cottage, Stratford·oll-AvOll. and in the veneering works birch IORs as big round as a flour barrel were being rolled out into, sheets, some as thin as your little finger nail and others as thick as the board cover of an old family bible. This veneering is used for the backing of mahogany and quartered oak, which is brought here in thin sheets from Grand Rapids and other places. By means of the birch they are so turned into furniture. that one thinks he is getting solid mahog-any, or solid oak, whereas he has only the knottiest of pine or other rough wood, all which is placed a strip of birch with a iilm of mahogany on top. The thick veneering is also used for chair seats. Most of the opera seats are made from it, and it is largely used in furniture and car making. It seems wonderful to take a log soak it in boiling ,water and then unroll and pare it off, just as you would pare an apple, into these wide thin strips of wood carpeting perhaps a hundred feet long. That is what I saw here. D. A. KEPPERLING Commercial Photographer Phon. South, 709 1414-1416 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO IL New York Capitalists Form $7,000,000 Power Company in South Carolina. The Southern Power" company, capitalized at $7,000,000, of which Dr. W. Gill Wyle of New York is president, and J. B. Duke of New York is vice-president has purchased the fine water-power at Ninety Islands on the Broad River, in South Carolina. The development, which is to be begun at once, will give 12,000 horsepower and will require an expenditure of $1,000,000. Power wm be supplied to many cotton mills in and about Gaffney, Blacksburg and milling centers of upper South Carolina. The Southern Power company now holds the absolute control to seven sites on the Catawba River with a total possible development of 2,000,000 horsepower, Commercial Travelers in Costa Rica. The regular customs duties of Costa Rica are levied on a traveling man's samples, but refunded to him upon leaving the country, if he takes the samples with him. Bill to Regulate Interstate Commerce. Senator Heyburn of Idaho has reintroduced his bill in Congress proposing the creation of a national board of cor-porations to regulate all corporations doing an interstate commerce business. 31 Our Clamps received GOLDMEDAL World's fair, St. LouIs PILING CLAMP CHAIN CLAMP Patented June JO, 1903, BLACK BROS. MACHINERY CO. MENDOTA, ILL. VENEER PRESS Patented June 30, 1903 BURLAP TRADE IN THE LAST YEAR WAS RE-MARKABLE. Prices Highest in Many Seasons. The year 1905 was one of the most remarkable ever ex-perienced in the burlap trade. It is remarkable not only from the fact that the jute crop produced by India has heen the largest ever known in that country, but also from the fact that prices on manufactured goods have steadily advanced, and at the close of 1906, stand at the highest point reached in this market in many years. Another important fact to be considered in Jooking" over the fcatmes of the past year is that importation at the six largest ports of entry in this coulltry have been exceptionally heavy" In the early part of the year prices on Calcutta and Dundee steadily declined. Eight ounce goods were pur-chased at $3.90 and 100 ounces at $4.80 on a speculative basis. In July prices had neither advanced nor declined. l-'ros-peets for a large jute crop in India were very good, the government forecast placed the amount at 8,000,000 bales. In October the market became active for all grades of cloth. Prices rose to $4.2;) for eight ounce flnd to $:'i.35 for 100 ounce. Speculators were caught, the well known firm of Schrager Brothers failed and prices in Ne\" York jumped to 4%c for eight ounce goods and on 100 ounce goods to 6ygc. The price of jute had advanced in October to 20 pounds sterling per tall, the highest price of the year. In January jute was quoted at 17 pounds and steadily advanced up to October. In Noyember the price quoted was nineteen pounds, ten shillings audit remained at that figure until the close of the year. One of the interesting features of the year is not only that the jute crop has been the largest in India's history, namely, 8,500,000 bales, but that the demand for consumption had been found to fully cover this enormous crop. A glance backward to a~ far as 1902 shows that the production of jute in India has increased steadily; the crop for 1902 amounted to 62,000,000 hales; for 1903, 7,100,000 bales, and for 1904, 7,400,000 hales. Burlap speculators believed that the crop of jute for ln05 could not be taken care of. Nlatlufac-tnrers of burlaps at I1rst refused to pay ally advances named by the holders of jute; they were gradually forced, ho\vevcr, to purchase in order to cover the requests that were coming forward from all parts of the world for burlaps and gunnies. Crops proved to be exceptionally large not only in this " country but in South America and other parts of the world and the demand for burlaps increased accordingly. For the nine months ended September 30, 1905, America imported 307,552,488 yards of burlap. South America for the came period purchased 105,544,600 yards. This figures out a grand total of 413,270,988 yards. For the corresponding period in 1904, the importations in both countries amounted to 411,432,112 yards, and in 1903, they reached 361,856,100 yardS. There is a steady demand for burlap, with prices still further advanced. No one in the trade is willing to predict just what will happen, but with supplies inadequate to meet the demand, and the demand apparently growing in size, buyers should take warning, as they can hardly expect that prices will be in their favor. Dundee goods have advanced throughout the year on a par with the Calcutta goods, and the situation in the Dundee market can be stated to be exactly similar to that existing in the Calcutta market. \Vhat ])l1zzies importers now is where supplies are to come froOl to meet the early demand. Very Satisfactory Equipment. The Sandard Wall Paper company of Sandyhill, N. Y., who claim to be the largest makers of wall paper in the world, have within the last two or three years, had occasion to install con-siderable apparatus manufactured by the American Blower com· pany of Detroit. Their experience with same is stated in a letter recently addressed to that company as follows: "Reply-ing to yours of the 7th would say that we have two of your 100-in. fans in operation in our Sandyhill plant, which are used for dI"ying purlloses, one of which is operated with a motor, and the other with one of your Type A engines, and we are pleased to say that they are in all respects the most satisfactory equipment of the kind that we ever had anything to do with. The heatcr and the fan, with the engine, just received were put in complete operation in thirty-six hours after they were received; everything seemed to fit perfectly." Sales of Dry Kilns. American Blower Company's recent dry kiln sales include kilns for the Gwyn Veneer & Panc:1 company, Lenoir, N. c.; Adams & Raymond, Knoxville, Tellll.; George lVV. Hart-zel1, Piqua, Ohio; the Cole Manufacturing company, of Mem-phis, Tenn.; Bliss-Cook Oak company, Bliss ville, Ark., and the Kaiser-Giesler company, Ean Claire, Wis. This com-pany continues to be extremely busy in aU departments. Sfep~enson t1f~.(O. South Bend. Ind. Wood Tumings, Tumed Moulding, Dowels and Dowel Pins. Catalogue to Manufac· turers on Application. igRapl~s,f\ieh: FOR SALE--CHAIR FACTORY Chair Factory located in central parI 01 New York Stale, IhorougWy equipped with new modern machinery. having a large es-tablished trade on a line 01 high grade box seat dining chairs. Were unable 10 611the amount 01 orders received in 1905. This lactory must be sold and can be bought at a great sacrifice in order to dose up an un-settled estate. CONGER CHAIR COMPANY GROTON. N. Y. WHITE PRINTING CO. Printers for the Furniture Trade. Grand Rapids, Mich. THE CREDIT BUREAU OF THE FURNITURE TRADE The LYON Furniture Agency ROBERT P. LYON, General Manager CREDITS and COLLECTIONS L Grand Rapids Office. 412-413 Houseman Bldg. GEO. E. GRAVES, Manager CLAPPERTON & OWEN, Counsel THE STANDARD REFERENCE BOOK CAPITAL, CREDIT AND PAY RATINGS CLEARING HOUSE OF TRADE EXPERIENCE THE MOST RELIABLE CREDIT REPORTS COLLECTIONS MADE EVERYWHERE PROMPTLY- REUABLY 33 Chicago. MANAGER Otis Mfg. Co. New Orleans. DON'T READ TmS unle~s you are a MANUFACTURER, MILL-MAN O! BUSINESS MAN, in which case you would do well to i:an:fully consider the following facts. The St. Louis s.. San francisco R. R. better known as the has huilt, or added to its system, over 1900 (nineteen hundred) miles of new railroad during the past five years and all tr .w. ersing newly settled sections of the Southwest. NOW is the time to locate yuur tactory or mill in this most prosperous sectiun. It will repay you to wlite TODAY for full particulars regarding induc~ments olTered, abundant raw materials, excellent markets, etc. I!!uJtriit~d bookl~1 "Oppou/l.tlilies" sent ji-u. M. SCI:IUL TER. Industrial Commissioner, Frisco Bldll. St. Louis, Mo. Chicago Office and Oistrib-uting Yards: 2257 to 2267 LUMBERST. R, S, HUDDLESTON Green, Gold and Brown ., Dayligh.t Special" -elegant fast day train. "Diamond Speciat"-fast nlght train-unsur~ passed for convenience and comfort. Bullet-library cars, complete dining cars, parlor cars, d,awinl<- room and lJuJlct sleeping cars. reclining chair cars. Through tickets. rates, etc., of L C. R. R. agents and those of connecting lines. A. H. HANSON. OEN'L PASS'R AGT .. CHICAGO. SITU A'l'ION WANTED-By Experienced Foreman Finisher. Now holding an Important position. Satisfaetory reasons for desiring a ell3.nge. Address "Finisher," care 11ich-ig- an Artisan. 5-10tfm Wanting- to gil"0 my unllhioleu attention t.o lh.~ IJn(l('rtakill~' ill illy lI"W lluJlrling n'- ('('ntly D\'Pcted fOl' tllr, plll"lJOSe, I offer fOl sale my stock of fUl'nitul'e and fixtures €It in\'ol('(O prices, ir.cluding also frcig:hts and drayages. amount about $6,!JOO. Stock in good shape. Localion c"nfl'al. For 24 years in Peru, Indiana, Rent moderatiO'" Popula-tion 10,000, 'with new business industI'i8S ,iust starting and others the 1)ui!(l[ngs at'e llOW being bUilt. Population bound to incl'casC. c\. tine opportunity f01' pal'ts with experience who will g:h'c the business peJ':<onaJ att';ll Hon, Address at once J>1,s. H. F,Ater, Pr,ru, Indiana. 1-10-Jt FOR SAT.E. Purnitul'e and Undertalclng- busin<'ss <'stab-lish(' d fifty years. Slrictly up to date stock, Address ,Tohn E. ],1oy,.,r, Dixon, 111. I-IO-It I!'OK 8.'\T,E About 50,000 feet of saw"", walnut Cl"oteh veneers, C1HLS I\f. Rtieff, C~ot".E. ],afayett~' A Vi', and Aik",n SL, llaltirno,"Jr(" )"hl. 1-111 &.. ;2,-,-21 WA:XTED. 'Ie, bu," an ""t"l,li"hr,(( r,'t.flil furnilure busi- 11r·ss ill a dlY ur IIOl less than f;r,""n thous-and, '''-ill pay eS.,shfL)" Mn"k hut IlO bonus. Addl'r,f;s giving; j)il,l'ticulal's "Ful'nitu)'I',' 144 'l."-'l"ravC' _-\.\." G-)'"tlHl }'l:Jpid=" '[\"11(,11. I-tO-II' 'VAXTEn-l';lI11erinlellllt"ut. for mu('hinl\ and Hench j)ejllll'tm(·nL Tn R ne\V [urllilul'i.; factory, To ,1, fully eOll1- 110lent Inan w(~ of[,'1" a su'a(ly position. Bh.te am.ount o[ exp,,'l'i'··n ...1. and in Whflt lines. A.lso g-ivc' refel'enr:rs il.nd ;ln1i,unt of salary requi)'crl. Ad,ll'pss "Supr,,-illtt'ndent;' curc of 1I-Iiehigan AI'U,.,an. 1 10. 1-;:5, 2-10 \\-·A~T:F.:n-An eXlleriell('ed 3Iill :Foreman. For a fUl'n!tul'i) faetol'Y. Stale ag'<e, expel'i- "11r:(', anll nali,jnality, and g-il'(' your rr:fr;!"·· "'nel's. AddJ'""s Hr;lll'Y (}oldwaler,'j;jS 1\-1i8- "ion St., San Fl"anl'isco. Cal J-I0-1t n'ANT.J;;H-An rllholRterer, One who Ciln work /(oaih",!" and dn ail kinds of \VOt'\{, AdcJn'f;R H. H(wtkher &- ~Oll 1 -1O-2,~-2t "'A:S'I'.J;;D_Tra\"(~linJ.:" Salesmen, Tn the fundtul"e t.rade. Pi(~k up U"..i,' ex-penses and. mOl'e too, laking nnl''1's fo)' nUl patent nl~'(licine cabinet=;., Salesman's out-nt free. \\"1'itr' fo]" it t{l(1ay. :-;penc"'l' C,l,1)\nu Co" 4~f. Og"l1{,n A.ve., C11icago, III. 1-2-;l-J-5-G-Gm Importers and Manufacturers of MAnOQAnT C"ARLE f. SmELS &, CO. Ginclnnati. Ohio fOR SAlE--WHITE OAK We have the following dry Ohio White Oak, widths of the finest and standard lengths. Good figured Quartered Oak 10 cars I inch Firsts and Seconds and No. I Common. 3 cars of 174" inch Firsts and Seconds and No.1 Common. 3carsl% inch Firsts and Seconds and No.1 Common. 3 cars 2 inch, all Firsts and Seconds (very fme) , % car 2%inch. all Firsts and Seconds (very fine), 2 cars 3 inch, all Fints and ieconds (very fine), Plain Oak 4 cars 1 inch Firsls and Seconds. 5 cars J illch No, 1 Com mati. 2 cars 1;( illch Firsts and Seconds. :;: cars 1M incb Firsts all<) Seconds. 2 cars 2inch Firsts and Seconds. 4 cars 3 inch Firsts and Seconds, 2 cars 4 inch Firsts and Seconds, Also big stock dO' Yellow Poplar and Mahogany. Cau ship mixed cars. Write us. "'ANTED-To Buy .\ Fay-Egan drawer f\lU~r. State cash price f'or SHnw. The "Vait FuJler Callilwt Co,. !-'Ol·tSllloulh, Ohio. 1-10-lt HALF TONE CUTS Special Designing, Steel and Cop-per Plate Engraving, Fine Stationery, Invitations, Etc. MBrIPHIS ENGRAVING CO. MBMPHIS, TtiNN. l" ANTED-I'oren,an for l'hildren',. chl"tlr flH'tOI';\". .\hlst he g-00<1man to I.U1'n DUt work and 11>1\'e good up to 11'tu' i(leas. Slat<; expert(!Uc." 'lllll salary (;xpeeted. Address A No. 17, eil.l·r, ~\1iehigan Al'til'un, 1-1ll-It Hills, Clarence R. .16 Hahn, Louis. .16 Hood & \Vright 32 Indiana Lumber & ,"eneer Co Cover Jamestown Pnnel & Veneer Co ,.29 Kimball Bros. Co. . .... ' 16 Kepperling, D. A.......... .30 Lyon Agency. .32 ),lemlTIer & Co., Geo. . 12 IvIichigan Central R'y.. . .. ' 16 Marietta Faint & Color Co.. ., Cover ::\lich. Art Carving Co.. . 17 Ornamental Products Co. . ,26 01'1', Charles. . 20 Pittsburg Plate Glass Co., The .. ,. 1 Porter, C. O. & A. D... .. .. .. 9 Pere Marquette R'y. . .12 Palmer, A. E........ . .... 28 Pere l\'Iarquette R. R.. ..29 Ross.~ Company, Joseph. . 13 Shimer & Sons, Samuel J. . 12 Schaubel, Herman . , .. , .. , 16 Stafford Eng. Co. . 23 Southern R. R. ..29 Stephenson :Mfg. Co.. . ... 32 Schmidt, \V. K. & Co.. . .22 Union Embossing ~lachine Co... 1 W. F. & John Barnes Co ' 8 vVhite Printing Co.. . .16 W~illiams, W. P... .. . .. 16 'Weatherly & Pulte .. ,. .12 \Vatter & Co., B. . ' .. ,.16 Wa~, 0 A...·····~ ,,,rebster, E. B. . .. 28 \Vest Side Iron 'Vks. ., Cover \Vysong & l\liles Co.. .. . . Cover V,,'illiams. F. B........ . .. 17 \'Voo<l. ::\iorris & Sons. . ... 20 \Vest ylichigan lvrachine and Tool Co., Ltd 13 34 INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS I IrI American Blower Co..... .25 Alexander Dodds. . 8 Buss IVIachine \Vorks. . .. 29 Baldwin, Tuthill & BoltOll. . .. 13 Barrett-Lindeman Co., The.. 4 Barrett, M. Lo'. & Co. . .. 34 Berry Bros.. . .. 24 Batavla C\amp Co. . .. 21 Black Bros. . .. 31 Boynton & Co. .16 Chicago "Vood Finishing Co.,. 3 Chicago .Mirror & Art Glass Co .... 16 Chase, Roberts & Co.. . .. Coyer Conlesman-Recbtin Co Cover Cyclone Blow Pipe Co. . .. 23 Chautauqua Veneering Co.. . .. 28 Conger Chair Co.. .32 Clark, VValter. . .. 21 Ducr, John & Co. ..26 Dellning, Jno. P...... . .16 Edge & Co., Frank. .12 Edwards Machine Co.. .19 Furn. City Tool Co. . Cover Fox Machine Co. . .. 23 Fumifure Commercial Agency Co., Tile .. . 13 Francis & Bros., Cbas. E 1 Falke1, A. . _. . .12 Fay & Egan Co., J. A.. , 2 Grand Rapids Blow Pipe and Dust Arrester Co , 5 G. R. & I. R'y __ ____ 9 Grand Rapids ,Vood Finisbing Co .. 12 Grand Trunk R'y. . .. 12 G1'a11Cl Rapids Do'wel \\To;ks. . .. 16 Grand Rapids Electrotype Co. ..16 Geo. \V. Cummings & Co... . Cover G. R. Brass Co.. . .. 27 G:and Trunk R. R.. . .. 29 Gillette Rolling Bearing Co .... Cover G. R. Handscrew Co.. .20-CoYer Globe Vise and Truck Co. . ..21 Hoffman Bros. Co. . .. 12 . White Printing Company Engravers Printers . Binders Electrotypers CATALOGS COMPLETE 2 to 20 Lyon St. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. GUM SHELLAC WHITE ZORA.GE . WOOD STAINS ORANGE or BLEACHED DRY DR LIQUID ALL SHADES SHELLAC VARNISH - WHITE and ORANGE A SHELLAC VARNiSH PUMICE STONE WOOD ALCOHOL SUBSTITUTE SECOND TO NONE Ele. ASK FOR PRICES, SAMPLES OR FURTHER INFORMATiON M. L BARRETT & CO. !MANUfACTURERS AND IMPORTERS CHICAGO ~ ;----I~' __ --, • Cutter Efficiency Demonstrated in the highest degree by the use of our Moulding Cutters Made for SHAPERS, STICKERS, JOINTERS, ETe. Also makers of BORIJ\G BITS, RCUTER BITS POVETAIL BITS, MORTISING. BITS, REED CUTTERS, ETe. Send for Catalogue. Furniture City Tool Co. 89 Campau St •• Grand Rapid., Mich. -~-- AGENTS, ------- HarrQll, R.i.ckard allld McCuoe, San Francisco. Ca). Ma1bew Wylie. Glaegow, Scotland Schuchardt & Schutte .. BernD. Germany This is an instrument with which you can determine quickly the per-centage of water your glue takes, thus protecting yourself from the carelessness of the workman and overcharge of the seller. Price of $1.50 also gives you privilege of having auy number of your glue samples. scientifically tested, without fur-ther charge, fora period of six montbs, I furnishing laboratory record of test, and also· market value, as compared with recog.. nized standards. . George W. Cummings 35 Congress Street, 'B08ton. Maalh i ! THINK DEEPLY The more you think, the more you will be impressed with what you can save by using a Cordesman 3~in. Sand Re·saw WHAT WILL IT DO ? It re-saws up to 24 in. wide and S in. thick. Producesa greater amount of the very best quality of resawing in less time-with less kerf-with Jess labor-less· saw and repair bills-less danger-than is possible on any other machine of the size. A FEW POINTS IN BRIEF. ¥lei.e;ht 4.200 Ibs. Has 42 in. x 4 in. wheels. eLl-rries a blade 4 in. wide. Has se1f-l:entedng and tilting feed rolls. Has a perfect feed mechanislIl_ Material and workmanship are of highest order. Ad-justments aTe cOlllplete, perfel.:t, exact. and co-..'er every point desired. Ask for furth~r particulars gnd large picture. ITS INSTALLATION MEANS PROFIT. THE Cordesman-Rechtin Company Sole Builder. Frlend.bipaJ:lld Butler Sh•. CINCINNATTI. O. .- T The Test of Continuance· Is a Good Test The "West Side" 36-inch Band Saw Machines (HIGH SPEED) Have kept the front rank fpr a quarter of a, century, due _to the fact that they have squarely met the demaridQf the alert, i: progressive patternmakers and wood workers at"every poiJlt. Simple. Prac:tiea.1 and Durable. Built by pne firqi' who I, build but this one machine, it is being made better and petter every seasoot until today its value has been estab1ishe9-b~ yond question, and it is used by the foremost shops of j~pi{;:r. ka, the big railro
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- Issue of a furniture trade magazine published in Grand Rapids, Mich. It was published twice monthly, beginning in 1880. and Twenty-Ninth Year-No. 13 JANUARY 10, 1909 Semi-Monthly • I •I ._--_._----- THROW OUT All Disk, Drum and Spindle Sanders are money wasters. There is not a piece of sanding that our PATENTED SAND BELTS WILL NOT POLISH BETTER AND FASTER 400 machinesalready in operation. Why give your competitor an advantage over you in this department? No. 171 SAND BELT MACHINE. PATENTED Jonu"')' 12th, 1897 May 17th, 1904 November 14th. 1905 February 13th. 1906 October 2nd. 1906 Will sand and polish flat surfaces, all irregular work in your sanding department. Ask for catalogue E. WYSONG « MILES CO., Cedar St. and Son. R. R., GREENSBORO, N. C. ~ The Best Truck--The Strongest Truck ..... - E, This is the famous Gillette Roller Bearing Factory Truck-the truck on which it is said, "One man can move a load of 3000 pounds whlle with the other trucks it takes three men," This is the truck that is strong where others are weak-the truck that has an unbreakable malleable iron fork. This is the truck YOU are looking for if you wish to Invest In rather than waste money on factor.r trucks. Gillette Roller Bearing CO. ORAND RAPIDS, MICHIOAN The Lightest Running, Longee. La.ting Truck 11 ~ ·,".1 ..A8c" Vertical Self-Oiling Engines are Arranged for Direct Connection to Any Make of Generator "The highest quality of material, workmanship and finish ever embodied in steam engine con~ .tnJ.ction." "ABC" Questions on Lighting If you need a boiler to run your engine and you use Ex-haust Steam for heating and drying, how in the world can any-one sell you electric current for lighting your mill, factory and yard as cheaply as you can generate your own? Can you afford to belt a generator from your line shaft, or can you direct connect a dynamo to any ordinary steam engine when an "ABC" VERTICAL ENCLOSED SELF-OILING ENGINE WILL PAY FOR ITSELF IN ONE YEAR IN SAVINGS OF OIL AND FUEL? You can afford an "ABC" ENGINE and we can prove it. Write us number of lights or kilo-watts wanted, together with steam pressure carried-for proposition. Get catalog 232 M. A. anyway. AMERICAN BLOWER CaMP ANY, Detroit, Mich. MANUFACTURERS "ABC" ~~Tk~5~~R1Kf9L'rJ~.GENGINES. "DETROIT" ~~pr-x~tYrf~rRAPS. . HEATING AND VENTILATING APPARATUS. AUTOMATIC RETURN TRAPS. • , SLIDING SHOE FOR USE ON DESK LEGS Tbis sboe does tbe work of a caster yet allows tbe desk legs to set close to floor. Fastened with flat head wood screw and furn-ished in three sizes. SEND FOR SAMPLES AND PRICES. No. 1493 PULL A very fine handle for desks in tbe square effect. Something different from tbe regular bar pulls. GRAND RAPIDS BRASS CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN rII I ---------------------------- MICHIGA'i ARTISAN Veneer Prellllel, different kinds and ahe._ (Pa~Dted) .::: Veneer Presses Glup Spreaders Glue Heaters Trucks, Etc., Etc. These Specialties are used all Over the World Power Feed Glue Spreading Machine, Single, Double and Combination. (Patented) (Si2es12 in. to 84 in wide.) ----1 Hand Feed Clueing Machine (Patent pendiull'.) Many styles and sizes. Wood-Working Machinery and Supplies LET us KNOW YOUR WANTS - No. 20 Glue Heater. h. __ CHAS. Eo FRANCIS COMPANY, Main Office and Works, Rushville, Ind. No.• GIu.H ....... -----------_.~ ~ A practica0~ and Perfect Stain ~---- ------------------------------- I D1SGRIMINf\TlNG I FUMED OAK EARLY ENGLIS" Here aga\n we have been able to produce the correct shade and the one most in favor by manufacturers. It is the most perfect stain of this char-act~ r,on the market. III ~----_._---- Mf\NUff\GTUKGRS OUf Fumed Oak Acid Stain pro-duces a perfect match for the color produced by the old-fashioned fum-ing process where the wood is fumed in a fuming chamber. The color is not only correct, but it is more uniform and has more depth. Being an acid stain it is more per-manent while it is also practical and inexpensive in application. THE MARIETTA PAINT and COLOR CO. MARIETTA. 0"'0 ._---~III I ff\VOK Mf\KIETTf\ -----.--- .__ ----0 / / Should ~ Be in Every fiNISHING ROOM MARIETTA SOLVENT A perfect Solvent for Oil Stains, Fillers and Varnishes. Invaluable for Golden Oak Stains. Write for sample and try it out for yourself. WHITE PRINTING CO. I I GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. I I HIGH GRADE CATALOGS COrlPLETE Ii I I~ 2 MICHIGAN ARTISAN aran~Da~i~sDlow Pi~e an~Dust Arrester (om~anl THE LATEST de7!ice for handling shavings and dust from all wood- ''UJorking n'Wchines. Our nineteen years experience in this class of work has bronght it uearer perfection than any other system on the market today. It is no experiment, but a demonstrated scientific fact, as 'we have sez-'eral hun-dred of these systeuls in use, and not a poor one Gl1wng thern. Our Automatic Furnace Feed Systenr, as sho7.f!1Zin this cut, is the most perfect working device of anything in this line. Write for our prices for equipments. WE MAKE PLANS AKD DO ALL DETAIL WORK WITHOUT EX-PENSE TO OUR CUSTOMERS. EXHAUST FANS AND PRES-SURE BI"OWERS ALWAYS IN STOCK. Office and Fa.ctory: 208-210 Canal Street Gl\..AND l\..APIDS, MICH. CUI:zena Phone 121a Bell. M..ln 1804 ._--_.O_UR A-UT-OMATIO FURNACE FEED SYSTEM II •I 29th Year-No. 13. ~~==========-=-----=- GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.. JANUARY 10. 1908. $1.00 per Year. CLASSIFYING VENEEl<. There has been quite a problem before tbe veneer 1l1en and the railway freight departments over the proper classi-fication of veneer products for shipment. Sometimes the ve-neer men have thought the railroads ·were ratl1er arbitrary and unfair, but it is probably not so much inte1l(led unfair-ness as it was confusion and misundersbtnding. \Vhen it comes to examining the matter tboroughly it is easy to see how one may grow confused in trying to fannulate some basis on ..v..hich to classify veneer on the freight list. There is SOIne veneer that undoubtedly belong"s to l;Nhat is termed the morc valuahle wood product and should pay a higher rate of freight than ordinary lumber On the other hand, there is some veneer prOd1.1ct which, though it may be cut up in smaller pieces than standard lumber, is not really any smaller than lath, staves and heading. This is probably en-titled to an equa.l rate of freight The trouble is that neither thickne!:is nor dimension give a true indication of tbe relative value of veneer, nor of the care necessary for transportation companies to exercise to prevent its being damaged in tran-sit. S0111eveneer is nothing more nor less than box shooks and as such it comes under lumber classification. There is other veneer of select quality sometimes put up in bundles with a protecting sheet of inferior veneer on the outside, and other kinds put up in crates for shipment, 'vhich is en-titled to pay a higher rate of freight than the cheaper kinds. because it is more liable to be damaged; and. wht;':n damaged, thcrc is more value lost tha,n if the same damage were done to the clle<lper veneer. Leaky car roofs and dirt and various other things inci-dent to transporting and handling may damage fine {ace ve-neer. The same conditions or mishaps ".'ouldl of course, de-preciate tlk quality of box shooks or of the common veneer for dralver bottoms and things l.ike th8t, but the damage would not he anything ill proporti0l1 to that of face veneer. It seems now that the railroads and the yeneer men are about to get together on the basis of classing all veneer 1-16 of an inch and Oller in thickness as thin lumbcr, and that cut thinner than 1-16 as veneer in a higher classification-i. e., paying a hiKher rate of freight. Tllis, thongh admittedly imperfect, will lTe1pa bit :J.nd is a decided step in clearing IIp the confusion incident to handling veneer. It is probable that quite a large majority of the cheaper veneer is cut thicker than 1-16. The 1-16 thickness used to be the recognized standard for quarter-sawed oak veneer, and und{'r tbis c1a:ssi~ fication it would probably be included under the thin lumber head, whereas oak veneer cut 1-UJ and 1-20 or 1-28 ,,,ould not be classed as thin lumber, but would have to take the higher rate of Vl.'.neer. Quite a lot of the oak veneer too eyen of the sa\ved veneer, is made as thin as 1-18 and 1-20 and the cut veneer, that is, the quartered oak veneer cut with a slicer, rum largely to 1-20 in thickness and frequently as thin a,s 1-28, The 1-20 thickness, however, seems to now be to the veneer trade practicaIly what the 1-16 ,.v~sformerly. so that m1..1chof the fine fa,ce veneer ,,,"'auld come below the 1-16. The majority of mahogany i:o, cut thinner than that, and also most of the fine walnut, though some walnut is cut a." thick as 1-8-and in that case the thick veneer would go in as thill lumber, though it would likely be qualified because of the \vaillut namc and be put into the hig{l pt"iced wood class This ,vould be fair, too. nut here is also something on the other side, n()twithstru-.dil~g. There is quite a lot of rotary cut veneer made as thin as 1-20 in gum and popular, bit"ch and various otber native woods, among them oak, and then there is being developed more or less trade in basket stock and light package material, which would come in this thin class, though it really is not entitled to be classed, at the higher rate. Basket splints are cut as thin as 1-28, and it seems unfair to make basket and light package stock and va,1'ious other kinds of thin veneer from inexpensive ..v..oo<1s pay a higher rate of freight than quarter-sawed oak veneer 1-16 of an inch. It is probable that the specifications may be qualified by naming the wood and the p1..1rposefor which :::ilE: veneer is cut to take care of thcse things; and, anyway, a de-cided step has been made in the right direction by the ve-ne. er men and the railway traffic men working together, and tllls problem of classifying veneer for railway shipment is being reduced to a much more satisfactory basis than it has been in the past.-St. Louis Lumberman. @ * @ Furniture Books in the Ryerson Library. During- the month of January the semi-annual showing of the latest additions to the collection of books on furniture has .been made at the Ryerson Public Library, Grand Rapids~ Beslde.s the books which includc a new volume by Esther Singleton on the subject of Dutch and Flemish furniture, and othe.rs, ther~ is a collection of photographs presented by ::V1. L. Fltch, wlllch "vere used by him for thirty years in his [ravej~ for the ~elson-Matter Furniture Company.:~ is in-terestl1lg to note the evolution of the styles from the first book ca.rried by him in 1876 up to Ole. present time. The \vulls of the historical room of the Ryerson Library were ht/ng with illustrations of interiors, styles of ornamcnt, wood carving, etc .. taken from tbe art llwgazines. The Renais-sance and Colonial styles were g.iven the most prominence. The plates of ""'ood carving are so natural one imagines at -first that they are the original drawings. The illustrations of French and German styles in inter-iors arc interesting for co'mpa.rison. TllOse of the German lean more to heavy substantial furniture, large patterned carpets, draperies and Upl101stery and gaudy colors. Tbe general effect is not restful but "stuffy" wllereas the French is light, graceful, artistic, the colors a.re delicate and the patterns in Hoor coverings a.nd draperies jnconspicuous. Late additions to the collection include books of plates in French and German st:.r1es, the "Art Industry, Upholstery" with 12(10 engravings by G. \Y. Yapp. "Illustratjolls of Furniture from Great Exhibitions of London and Paris with Examples of Similar Articles from Royal Palaces and Noble I\lansiolls,"by J. Bra.und. @ * @ Portland, Oregon, has attained considerable prominence as a furniture manufacturing center and will soon claim the distinction of "the. Grand Rapids of the We st.;' @ * @ Lawn, SUlnmer home and porch furniture form important features in the mid-winter furniture expositions. MICHIGAN Great Progress is Power~Producing Methods. Economic reforms in the developme11t of power keep coming in such rapid succession that One almost treads upon the heets of its predecessor. The chief aim is simple enough, but the accomplishment is by no means easy. Looking bac,~' to the early days of steam, we find that as latc as the beg.inl1illg of the nineteenth century invention had just achieved the return tlue construction in boilers, and the use of a steam jet to quicken the draft. Richard Trevithick, a Cornish engine builder and boiler maker, did this, and he bujlt the first steam tram using smooth~faced wheels on a smooth track. It was a good boiler at that time that would be trusted with a pressure ot 10 pounds of steam, and that weakness decided failure tor John Fitch as a steamhoat in-ventor, and improved bOllers made Robert F\llton's success. Both with the best modern boilers automatically stoked to save the cost of labor, and with quadrupte expansion engiu(',s to utilize the steam until pressure has almost heen ex-hausted, it remained a disheartening fact that the greater part the energy of every pound of coal is still wasted, be-cause it can not be utilized in the best allparatus. Method is now rapidly changing from the combustion of coal in an ordinary firebox, ~here only a portion of the hot gases are hrougth into _contact with the boiler surface and \..,.here lUuch heat goes up the chimney, to a retort sys~ tern where the coal is subjected to destructive distillation and everything but the residual ash and other incombustible elements <Lreconverted into what is known as producer gas. Instead of burning gas in a comparatively -ineffectual process of developing steam in a boiler. the gas is utilized in an ex-ternal combustion engine by compressing it with a proper proportion of air to afford comlepte and insta.ntaneous combustion, and utilizing the explosive force of the mixture. to drive the piston of the engine. Instead of a battcry of b.oilers fed wlth tons of coal ('.very day, there is a small~ FOR SALE-FUlly Equipped Woodworking Pianl I Suitable for pla.ninj; mill, box factory, furniture manu-facturin~ or any kind of woodworking business. Splendidly located m Michigan. Better than a bonus. Investigation solicited. Addre88 L. M. M" care Michigan Artisan. • producer plaut occupying much less space which generates gas pure enough for engine use. There is ItO high pressure except in the engine cylinder::> at the moment of each ex-plosion, and there is <J. great economy of space and machinery as well as of -boiler equipment. In a producer plant the coal is slowly distilled, and such residue CIS may be formed is generally utilized as fuel to keep the generator hot enough to expel the gas from the coal. The a.pparattls is almost automatic when Ollce u11der \'vay. Althoug-h tbis system of power generation may be said to be stilt in its infancy, it is apparent that for most large plants it is bound to supersede the present costly steam equipment. Hardly is this economic reform well under way before imaginative inventors prepare for another exploitation. Their present aim is to eliminate all the cost between the coal 'r,ilH'''- ::lrcl the developed power. The ultimate hope is. to merely raise the coal to the surface, and there. without ex-pensive handling, long railway hauls, payment of' commissions to wholesale and retail dealers and storage in yards~ to con~ . vert it into producer gas, and utilize the g:;:tsfor develop- ARTISAN mcnt of high voltage electric current, which can be delivered over an area of hundreds of square "miles by cOll)parat\vely inexpepsive wiring, and turned on and off at every power plant 'within a radius of 100 miles. This would eliminate the smoke nuisance in cities, relieve manufacturers of the detail of power generation, and reduce the cost of power to a fraction of the best achievement of the present day. It may sound like a dream just now, but it is something that maybe looked for with as sure a hope as the development of the gas engine. @ * @ A HANDY MACHINE. This cut il-lustrates a corn-bimitioll mach-ine that is of unusual merit, viz; an arm swing or radial sander and borer, made by the Cordes-man - Rechtin Co., Pearl and Butler streets, Cincinnati. It is made of the best material, and by thor-ough machin-ists. This ma-chine is sim-ple, easily un-derstood and handled, saves a great deal of labor and is i n e x pensive. yVhere a larg- Cordes.man~Rechtin's Arm Swing Qr Radial er and more Sander and Borer, cxpensive san~ der can not be had, this little machine will be found to fill the requirements, viz; a flat surface polisher, and borer. Nearly every wood-working factory can use this machiue to advantage. A card to the Cordcsman-Rechti.n people will give you full information in regard to it. @ * @: The Greater Profit. An experienced manufacturer of furniture declared re-cently that a larger margin of profit is yielded to the manu-facturer of medi-um than to the manufacturer of high priced goods. He explained that this was owing to the larger out-put. Sales of one hundred high priced bedroom suites in the course of a year were not common, where there were sales of five hundred of medium price. The difference lay in one hundred items of profit in the first instance. and 500 in the latter. @ * @ Some people. couldn't even crac.k a joke without hitting their fingers. MICHIGAN ARTISAN 5 HAND SCREWS Hickory 5pindles~-Genuir.e. Saw r.ut threads-true, smooth, even ones. lI1ichigan l]ard lVfaple J<:1WS. That's the combination of the best, strongest ~l11d mo~t durable Hand Screw on the market. The kind of a Hand Sere, .-.. you need in your bU5- luess. The kind that brings satisfaction and repeat orders. The kind that we guarantee to stand the severest tests. OUf stock is up~ah\'ays. 'Ve call ship promptly in any size. Our catalog describes them, and other things we make such as Cabinet ~':Ja.kcrs, Carvers, Chair and Pattern 1\.Jakers Benches, Benedict Clamps, Factory Trucks, etc. It-'s a catalog you should have and .it's a catalog that you'H order from. \Vc'rc anxious to send it-because \ve want your order. Just rip out this ~d., sign your /lame and .address and band to Uncle Sam. He'll bring catalog and particulars return mail. .Putting things off "never done nobody no good." Do it no"v, Ha Address .. GRAND RAPIDS HAND SCREW CO. 918 JEFFERSON AVENUE GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ..... ---------_. If your DESIGNS are right, people want the Goods. That makes PRICES right. <ClarencelR. bills 163 Madison Avenue-Citizens Phone 1983. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. :• h ~ DOES IT .....-------- lB. WALTER & CO. M.nof"Mm"'o T ABLE SLIDES Exclusively WRITE FOR PRICES AND DISCOUNT WABASH INDIAN.A ~ ---- • • ~ I ~~fI~~~~~r We can help you. Time saved and when done I leavesare boundt Y(lUI- I ",If) and mdexed Hoot. or departments. ! BARLOW BROS.• Grand Rapids, Mich- I Write Right Now. ~.--------_. II I Wesl Side 36 Ineb Band Saw MaChine,l Gleason Palent Sectional Feed Roll, -=---"----MA"lUF/tCTQRED BY=~~~ WEST SIDE IRON WORKS CRAND RAPIDS, MICH., U. S. A. AGENTS: Chicago Machinery Exchange; Eby MachineryCo., 3:'-41 Main St .• SaD Francisco. I Cal.; H. W. Petrie, allffit for Cllllad~-o6icei., I Toronto. Montrealand Vanoollver. ~------------ --~ ---_._--."".--., ~--====-SEE===== West Michigan Machine & Tool Co" ltd. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. for "IG" GRADI: PlJNC"ES and DIES ~------- I...-- ---------~ WANTED I CABINET MAKERS; at least one who can do carving, MACHINE MEN. and CUTTER. STEADY WORK. Write O. W-. U-HR-ICH-,A-lcbi-son-, K-ans-as. I ... , .J h- _ •I , IMPROVED. EASY 'NO EL EVAT 0 RS I QUICK RAISINQ B~lt, Electric alld Hand Power. ! Thl! Best Hand Power for Furnitu. re Stores Selld for Catalogue and Pri~e5. KIMBAll BROS. CO., 1067 Ninth "C. Council Bluffs, la.! Kimball Elevator Co., 323Prosped St., Cleveland,O.; 10811lh St., Omaha, Neb,; l~ Cedar St •• New York City. 10---___ __ _ __ ..... 6 MICHIGAN ARTISAN LANDSCAPE ART INDOORS. Evergreens Now a Part of Decorative Schemes. Landscape gardening in city houes is no longer confinecl to the facade, stoop and vestibule. It has entered the houses and modern decorators rely on the assistance of growing green planb as well as all the colors on the vvaJls or in the hangings. The clusters of living leaves are often the dots on the i's in the decorative scheme of the room. That they are different from the greenery formerly used is apparent at a glanc.e. The day of the sheltering palm is past and the rubber plant, in spite of its immunity from steam heat and lack of air, is 110 longer seen even in that part of Flatbush, Brookl"·' that is in the know. Entrance Hall With a Summer Bower in White and Green. Plants for decoration indoors have followed the fashion of those formerly used only in the open. Closely cropped box, bay and arbor vitae are the varieties that appeal to the taste of the up to date decorator. Be no longer considers the pos-sibility of placi.ng a graceful young palm near a white carved Renaissance mantel even if a crimson tapestry forms a back-ground of complementary color for the plant. His bosom would swell with pride, however, ..v..c.re he to place a drawf laurel in a way that gave the necessary a,ccent to the picture. In a certain great hallway in a certain great house on the Hudson River the central points arc marked by four stand-ard bay trees that catch the eye and give the aspect a char-acter it would otherwise never possess. This hallway, which serves as a specie5 of gigantic living room, is not restful in line or color. It contains many pieces of furniture and they are of varied colors and sizes. This lack of dominating scheme is less noticeable because the four round halls of dark green bay form decorative points that set the eye at rest, at least more at rest tt~an it would otherwise be. This is the purpose of the dwarf bay trees, the box and the arboT vitae that come now in triangular, oval and natural shapes. In a yellow room with no dark tones beyond the furniture coverings and the rugs on the floor stand two massive pots ,painted in the prevaiHng tone of the room and ~ontail1ing ivy trained to grow in a triangular shape, The dark green Icaves flanking the open fireplace, which is never used but contains logs that nobody thinks of lighting, give point and contrast to the light colored room. A hallway in a house done throughout in a sha.de of rather cold gray welcomes the traveller that enters by the invita-tion to rest under a bower of ivy growing from a pot over a circular frame of lattice work, and two trim box plants stand at the ends of this indoor gardcn seat. For the sa,lne color scheme upstairs the gray walls and the white woodwork are relieved by green arbor vitae plants that stand in pots on the landings. A Pompeii<l-n room of too va.ried colors was found to need some sort of toning down. The decorator had so few hangings in the room that they could not be relied on to do that for the overcolored apartment. Four standards of bay, however, accomplished the purpose and the green fitted in well with the red and yellow color scheme. A dining room on Madison avenue w<:!s painted through the combined freakishness of the woman who owned the house and the decorator in a pale shade of green finished with gold. Proud. as she was of it in the beginning the green and goid got as much on the hostess"s nt'-rves after a while as it did on her guests.' That green was too insistent, but it was not possible in the middle of the season to do the room all ove,-. It was then that the decorator placed four pots O'f gl"owing wy about the walls. Each was trained on a heart shaped screen turned upside down. In the corners were f 0 U I" dwarf bay tree~. The effect had just the tone of subdued green that the hostess and the decorator had previous- I ly struggled for in vain. •( The paler green formed a beautiful b~ckground for the tree~ and the ivy drew out the pale green of the walls. F:.:>Ur pointed arbor vitae trees, trimmed so that their triangular shaped dsidhes wer.e1 flat 'Potted Cedars to GI.ve Color to Gray crnove t:- ,gans lness and WhIte Hall. from a dmmg room done in Delft blue, white and yellow. As the ceilillg.3 had painted rafters of the same color it was found that toning down was necessary, The foliage did it. Hallways large enough to have room for the tubs are now deliberately painted in colors that are suitable for the box or bay. One example of this kind of decoration is a hall panelled in white and carpeted in red. The wooden mantel is also painted white that it may SCl·ve a.s a background for the two beautiful grown standard bays that give the can. trasting touch of color. A particularly daring use of growing pbnts for the sake of added color was the work of a. decorator who finished a Pompian Dining Room; Plants In-dispensable Detail. ------------------------------ - 7 ~~_._---------- NIICUIGAN ARTISAN "GOING SOME" But whether going or coming, or staying at home, the young man with brains and ambition may take our course of practical Furniture Designing, that will be of inestimable value to him. Our course (which may be taken at home if desired) is thorough, embracing the the principles as laid down by all of the old masters and best authorities on furniture designing. The Grand Rapids School of Furniture Design ARTHUR KIRKPATRICK, Irntructor and Designer 542-545 Houseman Bldg., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. I I II I II ~----~---_. hallway in ·white and black and a small addition of lavender. It was not until he had put srna.ll arbor vitae trees in the hall that the color scheme had its just '\-'alue, Only the fact that the hall "\vas a flood of sunlight all day excused such a funereal color scheme, >'"hieh was relieved by the grmving green. "The demand for the greens in various geO-metrical [onns, ovals and similar designs, came froLl their suc-cess in beautifying the fronts of houses. De<::- orators saw how well they looked there and etermined to try the aesthetic effect of a transfer to the .interior of the hotlses. "The time was especially well suited to the introduc-tion of the new style, as palms 8.11d rubber plants had gone wholly out of fashiotl. "The dwarf plant!:. had already been grown for the \vindow decora-tiol15.. which are this year composed almost entirely of box, The regular design is a row of low plants with two at ea<:h end rising somewhat higher than the others. This is varied in some cases by having two box phlllts in the middle of the row as .vell as at the ends. "These same plants have been adopted now for indoor Use a,l1din addition to the box "ve have bay and arbor vitae as well as the ivy sta.ndards. "\Vc make them ill the design required by the decorator. In very fe\v cases are fancy pots used. vVe usually paint ordinary pots the required color and do the same \""ith the basins :n which they sit. Entrance Hall in White, Violet and Black, With Only Green Cedar to Vary This Scheme. Write tiS for full particull/rs. II: "vVhile these new greens are hardier than palms or ferns, they are not equal to the rubber plants of other days. Sometimes we rent the plants, gua.ranteeing to keep them in good condition. In any case we keep them under our care that they may not lose their freshness."-SUI1. @ * @ Why the Trust Plan Failed. Roger W. Butterfield, the president of the Grand Rapids Chair Company, has been interested in the furniture manu-iacturing business many years. His first savings acquired shortly after graduating from the law department of the 1lichigan University. amounting to $500.00 was invested in the stock of a furniture manufacturing company, and he has long held stock in the Grand Rapids Chair Company and the \Viddicomb Furniture Company. In a reminiscent mood re-cently he recalled the effort of the late Charles R. Flint to organize a trust to control the manufacture of furniture in the United States. AIr. Flint ca.me to Grand Rapids and tendered Air. Butterfield a retailler after stating briefly the object of his visit. lIT. Butterfield stated that his firm re-presented a number of furniture manufacturing corporations and asked for time in which to consult his clients. A hurried investigation of the affairs of the local manufacturing cor-porations Mr. Flint had proposed to include in the trust showed an aggregate indebtedness of $600,000. Under the trust plan this indebtedness would be increased $l~OOO,OOaOnd upon the: whole it was proposed to provide for the payment of an annual interest of six per cent. The business of the interests illvo1ved was not paying six per cent and Mr. Butterfield was unable to see how it would be able to do so with an addition of $1,000,000 to the indebtedness. E. H. Foote of the Grand Rapids Chair Company de-clared that the trust would kill Grand Rapids as a furniture center; that the business would be conducted in New York and that a considerable number of the factories would be closed for all time. !vlr. Butterfield advised his clients to reject the plan, vl-·bich was [l1lally done through the refusal of the Grand Rapids Chair Company a.nd the ~riddi<:omb Furniture Com-pany to enter the combination. @ * @ The holding of the Yukon exposition in Seattle next sum-mer will call for considerable outlays for furniture to accom-modate the many thousands of visitors who wi-ll attend it. 8 MICHIGAN ARTISAN Table Legs and Pedestals Round. Square. Octagon or any Polygonal Shape •II tI Turned on the Mattison Leg Machine at a fral;:\ioD at what it costs by hand. Every pie<:c COlJles out smooth, true and exac.dyalike in me and shape, no maller how deJicate Ihe pattern. c.n It is sold on the condition that if after it has been lun in yOUI own facIDry. you do not find it to .be'tn every way as repre$ented. we will lake it bade and pay (r~ht chafge3both waY8~ f1/ Belter send for a copy of our large circular and let us tell you what the mac~~~ wil(~o'~ryou. C. Mattison MatIUne Works ________ . . 863 5th S-t..,.cB. eloit;Wi.e. -' __ -: . Factory Dining Rooms. During the exposition season the manufacturers outside of the local business center of the city serve meals to the buyers who may be in the warerooms at the noon hour. All of these factories arc located within fifteen minutes ride of the leading hotds, and in other furniture centers would be considered within easy walkh1g distance, but in Grand Rapids the time of the buyer is considered valuable, and by providing carriages, automobiles and dinners the manufacturers enable him to utilize every minute at no expense to himself. A locat newspaper described the factory dining rOoms in detail re-cently. from which the following is condensed: Among the elaborate factory dining rooms of the city is that of the Grand Rapids Chair company, with its massive oak furnishings, which are changed every year, That is to say, the chairs, buffet, china cabinet, etc., a.re changed. The dining room table is 8!1 feet in diameter, its size having re-quired that it be practically built in the dining room. It is a large round oak table, and brings forcibly to memory, as 16 or 18 of the factory's customers congregate around it for the noon, refreshment, the tales of King Arthur's famed round table. Over this ele.gant table. at the Chair company hangs a beautiful large canopy lamp of many colored glass, some three and a half feet square, while the walls are delica.tely tinted as far as the moulding and prettily papered above that. In the room is also a.11exquisitely finished buffet and a china cabinet to match the mission style of the rest of the furniture. On the walls are mugs and steins of various ages and degrees of beauty. Like the other lunch rooms. the cooking in this cosy room is dOlle entirely with electricity in the most up-to-date manner, by a young lady. At the LUl:e Furniture company's plant the lunch room, to put it in the society editor's langua.ge is "a perfect dear of a little room." It combines that so often forgotten ele-ment of extreme coziness that seems to welcome every comer and bids him partake of the refrcshment there offered, both solid and liqUefacient. For it must not be forgotten that each of these lunch rooms also has a modern buffet. The Luce uining room is a small denlike affair, finished in oak. It's very size, however, adds to its charm and makes of it <t' cosy little lounging roOHl as wel( as a mere eating place. ,It has seating capacit.y for about eight hungry buyers at a time, but feeding capacity for all the furniture men in town. The kitchen is larger than some of the others and modern in every respect, while a colored chef presides at chafing dish and oven. The walls arc handsomely oak paneled to within two feet of the ceiling, exquisite china-ware decorating the walls from the top of the paneling to the ceiling. Four beautifully shaded lamps hang from the ·ceiling on heavy chain. pendants, and the furniture is oak and of a most pronounced mission style. making in all a lunch room calculated to delight the heart of a discriminating c1ub-mao. .. Perhaps the most pretentious dining room of all the factories, and that which lays most claim to beillg a dining room as compared to a lunch ro.om, is· the tang dining hall of the Michigan Chair comp;lllY. Here the kitchen ap-proaches that of a hotel in size, and the service is of the best. The long hall will accommodate a large number of customers, and the furniture is picked from the best designs of the factory. A feature of this room is the art work on the walls, which shows rare ta.'He in the selection, and ranges from famous paintings to popular subjects. One piece 011 which the company prides itself is a panoramic view of Niagara Falls taken in one eight-foot photograph, one of the only three extant. The long table when set will accommodate 25 or 30 din-ers, and tbe company keeps a colored chef in tbe kitchen all day, from 8 in the morning until 6 at night, to serve light lunches and drinks. Stickley Brothers' dining room will seat from 15 to 22 around its large round mission table, and is finished in oak and German tiling, with electric lamps hanging from the ceiling. and heavy curtains in the windows .. Two colored chefs are here employed to keep down the hunger of the buyers. The C. S. Paine company feeds its visitors in its office, having a table set apart for that purpose, and hiring a young woman to preside in the kitchen during the noon hour. Here, of course, where the preparations are not so elaborate, mere-ly a light buffet luncheon is served. Berkey & Gay have fitted up their cosy little dining room with one of their own Flemish oak dining suites, the chairs of which are high-backed and elegantly hand carved. The table is a long narrow one seating over a dozen people, and the kitchen, as in all the dining rooms, is operated by elec-tricity and modern in every respect. The Sligh Furniture cornapny conducts its lunch room on a somewhat different plan in combining with it a reading and lounging r00m. The room is paneled in mahogany and oak. and the furniture is massive and after the mission style. In one corner is a large lounging davenport, in another a writ-ing desk and a few easy chairs, and against one wall is a reading table littered with furniture and ~ther magazines, In the center is the large round dining table. The Sligh plant, like most of the others, serves just the noon meal, but the dining room is open to tired buyers for a few min-utes of lounging and smoking at ail hours. - • I- . GRAND RAPIOSc.Oc...•....MICHIGAN MICHIGAN ARTISAN 9 .,;..----------------------------------., I I,,II The mark if ~~o:n:~~! your Engraving and Printing bears the same relation to quality as TiJfan] tojewelry, Rogers on cutlery, or Sterling on silver. Every furniture catalog plannc=d and executed by us last season has been ca.lked about-In a. class by themsehres-Something better-Something new. The finest equipped plant in existf!IlCe doing Engraving, Printing and Binding under one roof and managemmt Write us at once about your requirements, and allow us to suggest improvements~and to quote you. Drop down to our plant when in Grand Rapids. It win be to your, interest, THE CARGILL COMPANY (GRAND RAPIDS ENGRAVING COMPANY) Wealthy Avenue. just west of Division Street, Grand Rapids Michigan. r'"------_--._------------------------~------------ • VVood I I, Forming I' , I I We offer exceptional valne in Rev~~et~n~rs II One-Way Cutters for Single and Double Spin- I' dIe Shapers. Largest lists with lowest prices. Greatest variety to select from. Book free. I I Address I I!SAMUEL J. SHIMER& SONS! MILTON. PENNSYLVANIA, U. S. A. I ~....---------- ------" ..----- i SfiIiIiIiIiIi/iJ I II Spiral Grooved and Bevel Pointe~ DOWEL PINS I ---------------- . Notehow the glue in the SPiral Groove forms Thread like it; Screw. Be... el Pointe". easy to drh'8. Straight 50 will not split the frames. Prices and discounts. on application. ,I --------- STEPHs~~~y~EN~C.~O~.,~.I .._-- ----"'" ROLLS The "RELIABLE" Kind. THE FEllWOCK AUTO & MFG. CO. EVANSVILLE, IND. II I,!! II :, , j 10 MICHIGAN ARTISAN STYLE LOUIS XVI. By A. Kirkpatrick, Director Grand Rapids School of Furniture Designing. The people were so disgusted with the pomp and ex-travagance of the Louis XV period and the shameful misuse of the money that it caused them to revolt, and a new phil-osophy bega.n to make itself felt. It wa.s quiet evident to them that the system of government was WI"Ong and that they should have more power in the af-iairs of statE:, Louis XVI, a nlaTI of good in-tentions, but weak in character, suc-ceeded his grand-father, Louis XV, and was crowned king of France in 1774 under dis-couraging and ominous circum-stances. He was ma.rried shortly before this to the young and beau-tiful Marie An-toinette, Arch-duchess of Aus-tria. He ruled for eighteen years, Arthur Kirkpatrick. and 'in 1792 was tr,ied for conspiracy and beheaded in 1793. The young queen preferred simplicity and truth to polite deceit, and her char-acter was one of the chief influences of the coming style. Gradually under the new rule, the architecture and furni-ture designs became more simple. Straight and geometri-catty curved lines took the place of the excessive curves used in the preceeding reign. In fact all kinds of decoration took a decided turn toward the Classical, which was partly due to the recent discoveries of Herculaneum and Pompeii. Their rich store of long hidden art treasurers offered many suggestions for the new style. Columns and pilasters with Roman capitals reappea,red in both architecture and furniture designs. Instead of the irregular panels of the Louis XV period, we find the rectan-gular and oval shaped panels surrounded by carved mould-ings., The corners of these panels formed an important part, and were generally of a geometric pattern, centered with a rosette, \\lreaths and festoons of delicately carved and undercut flowers draped and adorned the richly finished furn-iture, Chair and table legs tapered toward the feet and were either spiral or fluted. The flutings were often filled with a td-Teaf or husk patterll for some dista.nce down from the top or up from the base and sometimes from both top and base, leaving a plain fluted space in the centet'. Very often both the base and cap were richly ornamented. Much of the furn-iture was painted in delicate colors and decorated with gilded carvings and metal mounts of dainty bowknots of ribbon, bows and arrows, torches, clusters of war trophies and shields with wreaths of laurel leaves and roses. The Louis XVI scroll took thc form of the oval or ettipse instead of the ·circle as used by the Greeks. The decorations on the painted panels and the tapestry coverings seem to have been suggested by both the Grecian and Louis XV styles. The Greeks' used painted panels de-cora. ted with figures from mythoiogy and herding scen-es with half naked, hide clad sheperds as central figures, Th('. de-signers of the Louis XV time Ilsed nymphs. cupids and alle-gorical figures while those of the Louis XVI period retained l the light and dainty treatment of the previous reign, but used the Greek's suggestion as to subject, and placed figures of full dressed shepherds and shepherdesses in their scenes in the little bopeep effect. The leading designer of this period was Jean Henry Ries-ener, who was born in Gladback, Germany in 1735. When quite yOung, he went to Paris, and became an apprentice to the ebonist, Jean Francois OebeIl. and remained in his employ until the master's death. Riesener's work must have been an important part in the business because in 1767, Oeben's widow married the pupil, Riesener. It is not known just what pieces were designed by Gebcn and what by Ries-ener, because in many cases we find that they both worked on the same piece. The "Grand Bureau du Roi" was begun in the workshop of Oebcn in 1760 but was not finished until 1769, a little over two years after the death of Oeben, and was signed by Riesencr, who was noted for his fine mar-quetry work, inlaid in deep tones on mahogany .. His first work shows that he followed the ideas of Crescent and Coffein, but he soon changed his mode of omamentation and construction to meet the developments of a new line of taste which demanded a radical change from the happy rov-ing decoralion and curved outlines of the previous reigns. He became so proficient that his work was noticed and ad-mired by Marie Antoinette for whom he worked as chief designer and cabinet maker for twenty years. The Louis XVI style is considered one of the most refined of the period styles. The student should notice this difference that when a style is almost a copy of a classic period, it is an effort on the part of the people to apply an ancient design to a new character and mode of Jiving, but this ftyle will never be as strong and full of meaning as the style that is an out-growth of the period in which it was invented. The accompanying cut shows a number of examples of the Louis XVI style. Number 1 is a design of a bed, showing the straight, square construction, carved mouldings and fluted columns. The flutings are crosscd by a spiral shaped wreath and the post is crowned with a carved knob. The center-piece on the head of. the bed is a design of a carved torch and quiver with ribbons. On the whole this bed is an ex- ~ . Standard Uniform Colors I We are producing the standard uniform colors recently adopted by the Manufacturers' Association of Grand Rapids. These cQIQrs are produced with our Golden Oak -Oil StaiD No. 1909 and Filler No, 736. Earl,. Euli8h--Qil Stain No. 55 and Filler No. 36. Maholfany-Powder No. 9 and Fillet' No. 14. W~therod Oak-Oil Stain No. 281. Fumed Oak-Acid Stain No. 45- Place your orders with us and get the correct shades. GRAND RAPIDS WOOD FINISHING CO. S5-59 Ell-worth Ave., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. • ccllent example of the Louis XVI style. Example number 2 shows the Louis XVI treatment of the acanthus leaf in combination with mouldings. Figure 3 shows a number of carved mouldings with the finished ends_ and corners. Num-ber 4 is an example of an oval shaped shield in combination with the acanthus leaf and a laurel' festoon. Figure 5 is an example: of a shield with the upper corners terminating in ribbons and combined with mouldings and a wreath of roses and a spray of laurel. All of the effects on this plale are strong Louis. XVI features. @ * @ Revenge is sweet, when it isn't an instance of sour grapes. @ * @ It is better to swallow your pride than to chew the rag. ~1I CHI G A N ART I SAN ---------------_._---- --- 11 .._-----.., l EXAMPLES OF LOUIS XVI STYLE. 12 MICHIGAN ARTISAN T I --- ------------------------ Rotary Cut Drawer Bottoms Write us for Prices on in BASSWOOD, BIRCH, POPLAR or GUM Walter Clarh Veneer Company 535 Michigan Trust Building, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. BllRLAP DEMAND VERY DllLL • Lightweights Show Slight Improvement. Business in the burlap market continues very quiet, with little doi'ng on spot goods or for future delivery. Buyers are not inclined to purchase, as they have seen prices slowly de-cline, and goods purchased early in the week, lower before the week has dosed. No actual price. changes have been made in the open market, but buyers claim that were they willing to place fair-sized orders, concessions could be se-cured from sellers. Lightweight Calcutta goods have shown a slight improvement in the demand. and, as stocks are short, prices are being maintained on a firmer basis, Heavyweight goods are dull, however, and prices are weak. There is little doubt that buyers could pick up some very cheap sup-plies if they cared to operate in the market at the present time. The prices at which heavyweights stand today repre-sent less t)1an the landing cost of the goods, according to importers. Various reports have b~en received from Calcutta during the past few days. In most of the cables received, a better demand is reported for nearby shipments, with more buyers in the market. Some bullish reports have been put out on the slight improvement in Calcutta, but conservative houses in this market are of the opinion that there will not be any large movement in goods, and that prices will not show any marked a,dvances at an early date, South American buyers have been out of the market since last November so that no support is being received from that quarter. Buying for American account is not heavy, and will not, it is -believed, be sufficient to create any advances. The short-time schedule which went into effect last year in the Calcutta mills is still in force, but has not been sutli-dent to keep stock fro'm a,ccumulating. ]\,{any manufacturers wished to make a working schedule for all mills of four days a week, but, as some of the mills had orders booked ahead into June, they were not willing to adopt this schedule. The other mills decided that, as some plants were to rUn on practically a full schedule, they would also continue on the sa.me working time. As a result of this policy, stocks have continued to a.ccumulate in the Calcutta market. Toward the last of the ·week jute dropped sharply, going down as low as £13 175 6d per ton. Prices slowly regained some of the loss, however, and the market closed at £14 per ton. Reports from Cakutta st.:!.Tethat new hltC i" com-ing !n very slowly from th~ ,ariou5 districts, and the re.ceirts have. begun to fall off considerably. Importers here cla.im that if the mills would get together and agree to keep down the burlap production, the market would shortly right itseif. Under present conditions, very little of improvement is ex-pected in the next month or two. Cables from Dundee report the market there as dull at present. as some mills still have orders ahead sufficient to keep their plants in operation. Manufacturers of common goods are badly in need of orders, and efforts to get business are serving to keep prices on an ullcerta.in basis. Weakness in the raw material market has to be contended with, and it is proving a difficult matter for burlap manufacturers to hold prices all anything like a steady basis.-N. Y. Commer-cial. @ * @ Gum and Mahogany Dried- in Seven Days. The Hawks Furniture Company of Goshen, Ind., installed one of the Grand Rapids Veneer \\forks' dry kilns a few months ago, and as an experiment dried a lot of gum and a lot of mahogal1y, in seven days. In writing the Cable Piano Company in regard to their experiences with the. kiln:, the Hawks Company said: "Our foreman reports the lumber comes from the kiln in very much better condition than formerly (we have a series • • 1Lou{ebabn DESIGNS AND DETAILS OF FURNITURE 154 Livingston St. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN Citizens' Telephone l'i02. of common-sense dry kilns, which have been in Use for twenty years and have done good service), it 'is very much softer and easier to work. We are very greatly pleased with the kiln, thus £ar, and certainly would consider no other, if we needed additional kiln capacity. We consider gum among the most difficult of all kinds of lumber to properly kiln-dry, and we cannot ask anything more successful in drying this lumber than the Grand Ra-pids Veneer V-lorks system. After we have become' more accustomed to handling it, we expect better results than the above, Of course you understand that we could have dried 1" in less time, the above figures being on the 2". For our own use we expect to dry all Ottr stock by the use of exha.ust steam only. From our experience, we think this a most remarkable process, and are glad to recommend it:' @ * @ The ideal man only ·exists in the mind of a woman before. she marries him. @ * @ The matt who is long-headed is seldom short-sighted. MICHIGAN ARTISAN RESAWINO BEFORE AND AFTER. 13 it i,:; piled for drying at all. This is, admittedly, the best There afe many interesting problems arising in connection ·way to treat any wood-resaw it while it is fresh. Yet it with the different practices in regard to resawing lumber involves extra handling; tha.t is, the handling of two boards for various pnrposes, To begin \vith, there is a fine theory, instead of one and the piling on the yards and the piling in well supported by good loglc, that the proper time aDd place kilns. And for this reason and other incidental troubles that to 1'e5a\',' lumber is at the saw mill immediately after it is ari"e, milln::en, as a rule, don't look with favor on the making made. That is, to resaw it green and then dry the thin of the thin stock. They prefer to make it thick and then re~ :.;to('k Yet, llotwith:.;b.nding this theory and all the good saw it when it is ready to use. logic supporting it, there is ri10re lumber rcsawed after dry- Not'withstanding- the fa.ults that develop from rcsawing ing it than before. Sometime,:,; there is one reason for this plain oak after it is dry, there is quite a lot of it done in and sometimes another. T 11 the manufacture at bevel siding certain branches of the work, one nota-ble example beillg in it is important to dry the lumber before resawing for the the mallufacture of thin oak flooring, both in regular tongue sake of getting it into condition to dress. It would be rather and groove strips a.nd in parquetry or square-edge strips. difficult to dres:, bevel siding after it has been resa\'"ed, and ?v10st manufacturers of this product which, as is.well,known, it would take twice the time as the regular v·,:ay of manll- requires exeellent material and fine workmanship, dry their facturing, w]:ere <~ board j.s dressed two sides 2nd t}len re- stock before resawing. Then, some resaw it in stock widths sawed, \vhich givb two pieces at weather boarding, wherea"i as it comes through the kiln, others rip it into flooring strips jf the resa wj(:g- were dOilC first the two piece." both have to of a variety of widths from J % up to 2% inches, or possibly be surfaced. 3 inches. and then resaw it on a small circular: or splitting In box factory "'iork, ..v..here th~re is more resawing done saw. In each c:u;e there is seemingly no difficulty of defects than anywhere else. prolnbly, opinions differ materially arising from the stock having been dried before rcsawing. about just when to do the rcsawing. Tt seems that the ma- It is dry, too, thoroughly dry. In fact, is made so dry that jority of box (actory stock is resa.wed after it is dry. S0111e- if, on being tested with samples by baking, a certain amount times a.fter it is dressed, also sometimes before, but generally of moisturc call be found in the lot. it is sent back to the always after it has been tl1rough the dry kiln or stood on the kiln. Of course, there is quite a difference between using yard untll thoroughly dried. There arc some notable ex- oak in narrow strips and in wide panels, and it is very likely ceptiorJs. Some Df tJie Jnost up-to-date box factorjes jn the th(\t if this stuff were so thoroughly dried and then resawed country rcOlaw their stock be (ore it goes to the dry kiln. for panels it would warp and check and develop objec:tion- Sometimes it is rcsawed as it is unloaded from tIle car .)nd ahle [eatllres, while in the'llarrow stt-ips of flooring it docs other times as it is taken from the yard, so there arc realty very well. different stages of dryness \vben it comes to the resav.r. Some Xow, right here develops. a peculia,r problem, and one that may be nearly green and other stock may be practically dry. some of these flooritlg l"l:.amtfacturers are wrestling with and All of it, however, is resawed before going to the dry kiln experimenting on right now. And that is whether stock; that to facilitate the drying. is, half-dry stock that has been air-dried for quite a while In the making of hardwood panel stock for furniture, de., and is ready to go in a kiln, can be resawed before putting recourse is frequently had to resav',lillg dry stock, as in oak. it through the kiln at the factory, or is it better in this case This is not always satisfactory, though, and sometimcs leads to hnish the drying before the resawing? It is admitted tl13t to trouhle thl"ongh warping-And checking. In fact .. ~() much if stock is resawed while it is green it can be put tJlroug-h trouble has developed frolll resawing'plain cak lumber after a dry kiln or dried in any other manner, and it will turu it is dried to get thin stock that the seC1'etary of the I-I<trd~:~,out all right. But some claim that if it has become, say wood Manufacturers' Association One time, after investiga-ting alld exan;ining some stock that had been sent to Eu- hair-seasoned, and is then resawed and put into the kiln. it rope, took trouble to warn all the members against this prac- will \-varp and check considerably. The theory is that the tl.ce and to ac1vI.se that where they wanted to rcsaw standard the outside is dried and there is still moisture OJ} the inside thickness in .oak to get thin panel stock they should do the and \-vhcn it is opened up by resawing there is an unbalanced resawing· while the stuff is green. Realty the bulk of the Cbjl~itiott in each half of the board that causes it to warp and thin oak panel stock, both in plain oak a,nd in quartered, is chcJ.:k in going through the kiln even if it takes longer, and cut to thickness either by resawing or by thin boards ori- thoroughly dry it clear thrOUgh before resawing.-St. Louis gillalJy as the stuff is' nJimtlfaetnred in tbe mills alld before Lumherman. .,.--------_._-- -------------- --_._-----------, The Universal Automatic cARVINa MACHINE l"ERFQRMS THE WORK OF ==== 25 HAND I CARVERS I Anddoes the Work Better than it can DeDone by Hand t MADE BY I Union fnuosslno M,(Hlnt (0. I IndianapoUa. India ..... Write for Inlormation, Price. Etc. - --- ----------- 14 MICHIGAN ARTISAN NO MORE HAND SANDING. sanding and polishing large flat surfaces as well as all ir-regular shaped pieces. The design and equipments of this new machine are such that aIr sanding is done strict1y~with the grain, in a practical and rapid manner, which are most valuable features and are advantages, which no other machine ever pos::;cssed. The upright portion of this machine carries. sand belts any width When This Machir.e Goes in, nor Disks, Drums or Spindles. After once going through the Wysong & ~'i1itesCO.'5 fac-tory where they make nothing but patented sand belt mach-ines, one would naturally think that it had been made possible to sand every piece in the construction of furniture regard-less of shape and with the grain by macuinery, avoiding hand sanding and cleaning, and to a great extent, this it true. The accompanying cut represents a new machine, which they have recently perfected, and in which all furniture, chair, piano and coffin manufacturers will be interested, as it has recently proven the greatest success in the sanding line for up to ten inches in width and can be thrown in any position in order to get at the work and for the convenience of the operator. The horizonaal side carries a sanc1 tJelt up to six inches in width and two men may work on this portion of the machine without conflicting and without interfering with the other half of the machine, on which a third operator may be at work. Sometimes as, many as {our men are found at r THE 6-FINISHES YOU-WANT I THE GRAND RAPIDS STANDARD SHADES , . ,III II ~IIC[lICAN WE HAVE GOLDEN OAK·--No. 1919 Stain and No. 1702 Filler. EARLY ENGUSH··.No. 1652 Stain and No. 506 Filler. WEATHERED OAK---No. 1649 S'.;n. ARTISAN 15 ----_.~ MATCHED THEM FUMED OAK •••No. 547·8 Sta;n. MAHOGANY ••·No. l017-D Stain and No. 29 FilIel". TOONA MAHOGANY -.No. 1658 S,";n and No. 1564 Fill .... NOTE: We will send you working samples with fun instructions for use. Also finished piece&which will show you the correct shades. Write for samples. II ~_._--- The Lawrence-McFadden Company PHILADELPHIA, PA. ._-----_._----------------------.1 work on this machine at one and tJ1C ~ame time without conflicting with each other. It is no longer necessary to do sanding by hand nor to contend with the old disks, drum or spindles; these methods were all right in their time, but their time bas passed, The sanding problem that may be costing manufacturers dollars daily, could be saved by the use of this new machine. One would be astonished in what a short time a manufacturer actually loses the cost of this machine withQut its services, therefore, with this data before your eyes and before laying it aside with good intention to investigate the matter later, do it now by ·writing the manufacturers for their catalog .E. The vVysong & 11ile5 Company, l\'Ianufacturers of patented sand belt machines and mortising machines, Gn"ensboro, N. C. @ * @ Piano Prizes Never Drawn. Y cars ago, it n~atters cot how many, when gift enterprises were more numerous Own temperaTlt:e dn1g stores, a pt·jze was given with every purchase. No cheap goods were car-ried in stock and the manager of the enterprise could \ve11 afford to distribute valuable prizes among the CllstOtnCiS. Envelopes containing $lips, upon which the number of gifts offered were written, were placed in a box, and when a cus-tomer had made a purcha~e he or she was allowed to draw one of the envelopes, open it and give orders for the delivery of tile prize. There were no blanks. Usually the main prize was a piano, but it was never drawn. Owing to this fact many people were impressed with the belief that the box did not contain an envelope ".·.i.th the number of the prize. The lucky number was in the box, but the envelope contain-ing it was laid flat in the hottom of the box., while those con-taining prizes of ordinary value \vere placed in the box in the usual way. The business was broken up by the legal authorities because it was considered a lottery. • Veneer Cutters in Buoyant Spirits. Reports from the veneer cutters indicate a lively season of tra,de. Kot only was the industry characterized by great activity dnring the closing months of the past year, but current demands call for the full operation of the plants. This is especially true of the mahogany branch. The im-port. atlons of mahogany the past year were unusually low causing a reduction in stocks on hand considerably because the demand for mahogany throughout the year was better, comparatively, than the demand for any other veneer. The mahogany people, therefore, feel that with the comparative .--._---------------_._---_.~ ! I i Crawfordsville. India.na. ~------------------:. Montgomery Uardwood Lumber Co. Manufacturers of all kinds of NATIVE FURNITURE LUMBER E. S. STERZIK. Prell. • scarcity of stock and the revival in furniture and cabinet work. which calls for more mahogany as welt as for more veneer, toat the mahogany trade has before it what wnI be the biggest and best year on record. Indeed, some of the mahogany people talked with are more enthusiastic over the outlook now than they cv'er have been over the mahogany business. @ * @ The Brower Studio. The Browers -(they might be called the two Johns. but J oho and "Jack" will answer the purpose)-have fitted up a very comfortable studio in the Shepa.rd building in front of the elevator. The Browers are artists of experience, and wilt be pleased to meet merchants needing designs for special pur-poses or decorations for interiors. A royal welcome awaits callers upOn the two J ohos. 16 MICHIGAN .II!!:STABLISH~P 1880 ,"U.L.lsrtIi:D IlIT MICHIGAN ARTISAN CO. ON THe: IOTIoj AND 25TH OF EACH MONTH OPFICt::-l0B,110.112 NORTH DIVISION ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. I!NTERlOD IN THE PDSTOFFICE ...r I3lll<ND RAPIDS, MICH" "8 SECOND CL...SS MATTER. The ever increasing scarcity of figured domestic wood has compelled manufacturers of furniture to use gum wood of the south more extensively year by year. Formerly it was not considered fit for use by cabinet rr.akers, but by thorouf{hly seasoning 3.11d quartering the timber it has been rendered quite tractable. The wood has many names, the states in which it grows contributing to the list. However Tupelo is generally consldered all approprlate and satisfadory name, and its general adoption will follow_ In addition to several latin names it is known as sltin vl"alnut, and Caucasian wal-nut, because it has he en the white man's burden and ever will be unless he has learned how to make it t:ike its proper place and stay there. 1Tr. Crissey 'of the Sta.r Furniture Company refused to adopt the title Caucasian walnut. "The wood does not grow in the Caucasus, it is oat walnut and the name docs not honestly designate the nature of the tim-ber." It may have occurred to !'vir. Crissey that to call the timber "white ma.n's ,valnut" would retard the sale of his goods in Porto Rico, the Phillippines aod other sections of the United States not inhabited to any considerable extent by white men. Of' Of' The furniture manufacturers of Grand Rapids are con-ducting their business on lines not far removed from that of the hotel keepers. Spacious rooms fitted up especially for the purpose in the factories are used for serving meals to sojourning buyers and a number have i.nc\.ltI"ed the ex-pense of fitting up very elaborate bedrooms. These are not as yet used for sleeping purposes, but as furnished they might be made ready for occupancy with very tittle expense. The manufacturers are noted for their hospitality and in the effort to please their guests it would not be surprising if the factory of the future (not far distant perhaps) were equipped with the necessary conveniences to entertain customers dur-ing their stay in the city without expense. "to "t" John Mowatt, the superintendellt of the Grand Rapids Chair Company, recently recalled the fact that thirty years ago, when furniture wa.'i sold and shipped unfinished, the 111anu{acturers, on account of their ability to turn over their capital every sixty days, realized brger profits than they do today. The delays, annoyances and losses attending the processes of finishing goods were sustained by the retailers. The goods were not well finished, the average retailer not having at his command the shop room and facilities deemed necessary hy the trade of today for finishing furniture as it should be. Mr. Mowatt recalled one firm which em-ployed $50,000' capital, realizing a profit of $85,000 on its out-put, of twelvE'. months, thirty years ago. "Arts and crafts is a. modification of the mission style," remarked a young man \\lho knows all about styles in furn-iture. "But" he added, "the mission cabinet work of today is so superior to that of the monkish workers in wood of past centuries, that they would be ashamed of their lack of skill if given an opportunity. to inspect a twentieth century sample of mission work. ARTISAN Beds of wood are steadily returning to the favor of the public. Brass and iron beds have had a long run, but the tall post and Napoleon styles in wood are stndily crowding the metal bed into the back ground. For hospitals, asylums and houses of detention the metal bed naturally is preferred, but so long as furniture is made of wood the beds of the saqtematerial should be considered the most desirable. "t" Sales of mahogany finished light arc not so strong as in the past. It may have had its day. @ * @ IDLE CARS INCREASE. Railway Association Reports 332,513 Now Out of Use on Various Lines. The largest increase in the number of idle cars which the ra.ilroadshave reported since tJ--:eturn in the tide of traffic which came last May, was revealed in the statement of the Committee on Car Efficiency of the American Railway Assoc-iation for the fortnight ended Jan. 6, made public yesterday, Dming the last week of December and the first week oJ January the number of idle cars increased by over 111,000 cars, bringing the total idle equipment in this country and Canada up to 332,513 cars. This is the largest .number of cars which have been re-ported idle since June 10, last. It is within about 80,000 of the number of cars reported idle on April 29, last, when the maximum was reached, but on that date there was also an ab-normal number of cars undergoing repairs estimated author-itatively at about 200;000 cars, making a total idle list of about 600,000 cars at that time. Kow. on the other hand, the num-her of shop cars is nearer normal, say about 100,000 cars, so that the actual number of idle cars is perhaps 175,000 less than it was at the end of last April. The let-up in traffic due to the holiday season is adva.nced as one of the factors which contributed to the large increase in idle cars at the close of last year and the beginning of this. Railroad men said yesterday that conditions have im-proved somewhat since the da.te of this report and that there are now fewer idle cars than there were on Jan. 6. @ * @ POE'S DESK UNEARTHED. Writing Case Once Used by the Poet Now in a Book Store. A desk that ':ias once owned by Edgar Allen Poe has been on exhibition for several days in the windows of a Wall Street book store. The desk is a small portable affair of a fashion long out of use.. It is neatly made of mahogany, wi.th brass mountings. That the desk was Poe's there is said to be no question, for its history has been carefully traced. The desk ,was for several years, after the poet's death, the property afMr,;. Clemm, Poe's mother-in-law. From her it passed into the hands of Amos Bardwell Bayvl'-ard, who, with his wife. were intimate friends of Mrs. Ctemm, The desk was sold for the first time at auction, with several other ar~ tides and books of Poe's, in this city on April 17, 1906. bringing about $100. In the desk originally was a volume of George P. ).1:orris's poems and ballads, a presentation from the author to Edgar Allan Poe, bearing 1\'lr. 'j,1:orris's autograph. This book was sold separately at the same time with the old desk, and brought $25, and eventually found its way into Henry "'tAr. Poor's library, which is nOw being sold a.t the Anderson book salesrooms. At the sale of the third p<trt of the Poor library last week this identical book was sold, with a few first editions of roe's works, but. following the vagarie& of book auction prices, only brought $6,~N.y, Times. @ * @.l Even the money stringency doesn't seem to interfere with the wages of sin. MICHIGAN ARTISAN 17 ...-- ------.... I I List of BuyersI Do you want it? List of Buyers ..----------------_ ..... IW~~~el 1 Do you want it? I R~,~e~'~a~c;:~f I II Ho::n~~:~~~nning water and long dia-tanee 'phone3 in all roomll. ! " 200 ,~=.100 m>h bath. Single or en suite. R ..tes$I·OO aad upwards I list of BuyersI l~~~~ -1 Do you want it? If so send in your order with 25 cents at once. List of Buyers Michigan Artisan CO. I . II D N. Division SI., Gra_n_d_R_a_pi_ds, Mich. 1I • ..-- ---------_._--_.--.., I WIlBN IN DBTROIT STOP ~T I~~~~~~I;;~~;~~ En the Centerof the Thealre. Shop~ I pini. and Busin&lS District. A Ja Cute Cafe Newest and Fine.t Grill I Roorn in the City. dubBreakfast _ ~ _ 40c up I Luncheon - - • • 50c I Tabk d'hote Dinners - 75c Music flom 6 P. M. 10 12 P. M. I I Every room haa II. privlJ.te bl\th. : EUROPEAN PLAN ! ' Ratell: $1.50 per day and up. .... I L. W. TULLER, Prop. M. A. SHAW, Me:1" ....---------------_._-_. r pai6r'S patRnt ijlUino ()JafflDS~ I - II I I i I I I ! I Mr. Manufacturer: Do yoU ever consider what joint gluing costs1 The separators and wooden wedges. if YOIl use them and man? do, life a large ilem of expense accounts; but this is Wl811oornpared 10 wage account. of workuren who wear !hem out with a hammer, and then a large per cenl <;If the joinb are failures by the irn;eeulity of this means. RESULT, it hll6 10 be doac Oller ae-ain, if posibJe. If you U!Ie independent ~crew clamps the result is better. but slower. allogether too slow. Let us tell you of i<Jmethini' betlec. PALMER'S CLAMPS. All 6ted a'nd iron. No wedges. no separalors~ adjust to any width. damp instantly Yet lIeClirely, rdeaaell even I faster. P06itively ODe-third more work with one·third leSi helP. In seven sizes up to 60 inches. any lhicknes! up to 2 inches, 200 facmes in 1906. Wby nol you in 1908;> Althoullh sold by dealers evel'Ywhere lei us $l!:DdyOU palbculat1. ft. E. Palffi6r & Sons, Owosso. MiGh. FORElGN AGENTS: Proietl& Co., LmJCJon.~, Schuchardt &: Schu\te., Berlin. German)'. ~ . 18 MICHIGAN ARTISAN • [ ROYAL WHITE MAPLE POLISHING VARNISH I White-the Emblem of Purity--our White Maple Polishing Varnish is Pure-and the WHITEST GOODS on the market. It dries to recoat every other day; can be rubbed and polished in four to five days. Ask (or testing sample. VARNISH COMPANY TOLEDO, OHIO • I l Golden Age of Varnish. Varnish may be said to have reached its golden age-its age of finest quality and supreme virtuc-:--whcn, after having been confined in the ageing tank by the maker and finally received by the- fmishcr and shelved for a time sufficient to settle it out and give it the proper degree of mellowness" it goes upon thc"surface rich in the elemental pro-perties that make it at once the most delicate and the most indispensable articles used 'iirf\hc economy of wood finishing. That a great quantity of varnish fmds consumption in the finishing shop 'which in no mentionable degree measures up to the above specifications goes without saying, and this fact contributes directly and substantiaJIy to the inferior re-sults credited in all quarters of the country to the finisher. Varnish should not be used-indeed, need not be used-until it approximates a fairly perfect article, if such a thing be possible,. even· in the advanced science of varnish making. The golden age of varnish, if we rightly understand it, is an age in its life before use when, like the butter from Orange County, it is "prime"-that is to say, of proper age and uniformly balanced throughout. In the matter of giving it age as well as in the science of 'imparting to the varnish all those qualities and functions vitally essential to its com-position, the varnish maker is, of course, responsible. For all of these things together with the cost of the raw mater-ial, the manufacturer is duly and, we may be sure, fairly rewarded. After reteption of the varinsh by the finisher, the golden age of the. preaious material is affected for good or ill, for better or for W;.:>'h5'e, :,t,.y the method of curing, housing and handling it practiced bY'.the user or craftsman in charge of it. If he places, ~tin stora,ge, as he avowedly should, upon shelf room half V\7;\ji'::' or more -between floor and ceiling in an apartment heated; when heat is required, to a standard tem-perature of 70 degrees Fahr., and is used directly from such shelves without chilling, shaking or mixing it, he should, other things. being equal, be able to get satisfactory results. It is scarcely necessary here to state that the most superb varnish-the varnish not only of the golden age, but of the priceless virtues-may, after having been groomed and fitted for the surface with consummate skill, be utterly ruined by rough usage, neglect of necessary precautions, or by mixing with another varnish. Varnish should not, like the unpalata-ble medicine, be' shaken up before use. There is sufficient temper in varnish to "stir' it up"-make it cantankerous, in fact-if gripped with two strong hands and shaken vigor-ously, as, some finishers have a habit of doing. And the mixing of varnish has, been denounced by the most competent authorities-the varnish - makers. It is a practice opposed to the chemical and scientific principles in-volved in the manufacture of varnish, and it introduces an element of uncertainty into the product with which, in this age of competition, no self-respecting finisher can afford to deal. If varnish has rea.ched its golden age, then, vedly, after all the care and coddling lavished Upon it, the surroundings in which it is flowed upon the surface should be of a char~ acter to assist directly in giving it a clean body and an un~ challenged lustre. At best, the v<lrnish room is hardly on a par with the character of the varnish used within it. Readers of this article may travel far and wide without, finding an adequately suitable varnish room-one in which all the conditions an perfected; Ventilation and light and cleanliness and heat are far too often neglected and obsolete factors, whereas the very opposite of all these should prevail, and in good truth must·prevail, if the golden age of varnish would be respec-ted and its highest development made secure. Certainly the· varnish maker has played well his partin the drama of varnish evolution, and the wonderfully fash-ioned material speaks eloquently of his attainments. It remains for the painter to play his part eqnally well, secur-ing so far as possible those conditions of greatest advantage to the development of varnish. Thus will its golden age prOve an imperishable age.-Ex. @ * @ Slow in Posting Tariffs. Some railroads have been unable to comply with an order issued last June by the interstate commission relative to the posting of ta,riffs, owing to their inability to obtain the tariffs of other lines in which they are participants, and to some extent, to complete all their own files owing to their supply of schedules having been exhausted. This matter having been brought to the attention of the commission, it has been ordere.d that any carrier requiring an extension of time, prior to Feb. 15; may file formal app(i-cation, but good cause must be shown for modification of the original order, au·d that it has been complied with in all other respects. The order is not to apply to express or shipping car companies that are amenable to the law, separate orders covering them having been iSStlCd. The commissioner does not favor an extension beyond July 1 next. @ * @ Screw Hole Plugs and Buttons. In addition to several patterns and sizes of spiral grooved and bevel pointed dowel pins, beaded legs and stretchers for chair makers, beaded and rope chair spindles, the Steph-enson l'vIanufacturing company, of South Bend, Ind., manu-facture screw hole plugs and buttons in many sizes and shapes. Thoroughly dry stock is used and the tenons are uniform in size and guaranteed to fit standard bits. Turned drawer stops and drawer pulls are important features of the company's manUfacture. MICHIGAN ENGRAVING CO., Grand Rapids, Mich.; ENCRAVERS BY ALL PROCESSES. MICHIGAN ARTISAN 19 1'\ G U M 0 R I E D F L A T "The Veneer \Vorks Process is the only system in our €x-pedenee that '''ill dry gum box boards without \'larping." JOI-:/N A. BAIN, Pres. Bajn Wagon Co., Dated 9-11-'08. 'Voodstock, Onto "\Ve consider gum among the most difficuIt of all kinds- of lumber to kiln dry, and we cannot ask i'wything more successful in drying this lumber Ulan the Gt-and Rapids Veneer \Vorks Pro-cess." HA,-VKS FCRNITURE CO.. Dated 9-15-'08. Goshen, Ind. By drying gum flat and plump we have given wood-workers an enormous supply of inexpensive raw material. Get your share of the resulting profit by installing a Veneer Works Dry Kiln Grand Rapids Veneer Worh.s GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. WHY THIS FIRM WON. Answered Questions Without Blowing Its Own Horn. Out in ~he middle west there is a huge manufacturing company, the largest in the world in that lilW, it is said, but it 'has numerous enterprising competitors, all of whom ad-vet'tise liberally. But this company advertises too, and for yea.rs its appro-priation has been made on an unusual plan. The rule gen-erally 'with such expenditures is to set aside a stated sUIll each ycar--sometimes all arb.itr<1ry amount, sometimes a per-centage of profits for the last twelvemonth. This concern, however, recognizes that publicity money is to be spent to influence next year's business-not last year's, So the gross amount of next year's trade is estimated as closely as possible, 311d then a certain percentage of that con-stitutes the advertising appropriation. Before the depression of 1907-08 developed, says the critic, this company's business had grown at such a rate that the annual percentage y.ielded more money than could be spent to advantage along the established lines of the hOllse. ,"l\"ow, had we better reduce our percentage;" asked the directors. "Or sball we seek new channels for spending the surplus of the same percentage? T i so, what channels are best?" They wanted information-honest advice. A dozen questions calculated to bring it out were drawn upatid submitted to every advertising tlrm in the country. Si:)lllC did not give any opinion. 1Iost of them replied, how-ever, and usually at considerable lcngth. Among the latter was just one, it is said, that gave fnll replies to the questions and said nothing about itself. Other advertising firms saw an opportunity to get profitable new business. They therefore gave full particulars about them-selves, and in some cases sent salesmen to see the manu-facturing concern's directors. A few were so intent on ex-plaining who they were that they neglected the (luestions. In the end it t\ras decided to spend the surplus, not reduce the percentage. The firm that said nothing about itself got the account. @ * @ Makes the Strong Man Wise. Genius, th;lt power which dnzzles mortal eyes, Is oft but perseverance in disguise. Continuous effort of itself implies, In !'ipite of countless falls, the pm",·er to rise. 'Twixt failure and success the print's so fine, 11en sometimes know not when they touch the line; Just \vllCtl the pearl is waiting one more pl1tllge. How many a struggler has thrown up the sponge! As the tide goes dear out, it comes clear in; In business 'tis at turns the wisest w.in; And, oh, how true when shades of doubt dismay, "'Tis often darkest just before the day." A little morc pcrsistallce, courage, vim, Success will dawn o'er failure's cloudy rim. Then take this honey ior the bitterest cup; Tllere is no failure save in giving up, 1\0 real fall as long as one still tries, For seeming set-backs make the strong man "\\'Ise, There'" no defeat in truth save from within; Unless you're beaten there, you're bound to ·win. @ * @ Varnish Specialties. The Acme \'Vhite Lead and Color \;Vorks of Detroit, Mich., are offering to the trade "three winners in varnisn." "Paradox rubbing," a high grade, quick rubbing varnish; "Furniture Coach," described as ';thc kind you will buy again," and "Ti-Ki Lac," '·'the best first and second coater," The varnish department of this organi;,:ation will furnish full information regarding these superior goods. 20 MICHIGAN An "Old Saw" -Amended. George Frederic Stratton, a writer for the Saturday Even-ing Post, proposes an amendment to the old saw, "Mon~y makes the mare go," or in language more ornate but seldom used by sensible people, "the coin of the realm induces the equine of the female gender to proceed." Mr. Stratton em-ploys a number of instances in the history of business to sup-port the amendment offered by himself, in which he declares that "man" in these buoyant and better days, "makes the mare go." In his presentation of the proposition Mr, ·Strat-ton recalls a once famous merchant, C. R .i\Jabley, of Detroit, now occupying his final home. th. Stratton discusses Mr. Mabley's venture in the furniture trade a.s follows: Twenty-five years Charles R. Mabley was known as the clothing king of the middle west. He hatf stores in Cleve-land, Toledo, Detroit, and one or two smaller towns. He was' a pioneer in sensational advertising methods, a splen-did business man, a.nd had made a fortune before he was forty. To employ some idle capital he dec.ided to exploit furniture, and stocked up an elaborate store with the finest line ever seen in Detroit. Eighteen months a.ftcrward he stretched a canvas across the front of that store, inscrihed in the following characteristic style: **************** I Know the Clothing Business Up and >I< * Down and Through the Middle, * * BUT * * I Don't Know a-'Blamed Thing About * * Furniture, and I'm Not Going to * * Sink Any More Money in * * Learning. * * This Entire Stock Will be Sold at Auc- * * tion, Commencing Next Monday and >I< * ContinUing Daily Until Even the Pack- * * ing Cascs are Closed Out! * *************** The stock was sold and the key turned in the lock, when a quiet, unassuming man from Kalamazoo came along amI ar-ranged to take the unexpired lease. He brought in a moder-ate stock of furniture, hired one of the fanner clerks and in-stalled his wife at the desk. In three years he was carrying as fine a stock as Mabley had carried, and doing a larJt.':, profitable business-a striking illustration, again, that the money is in the m.an rather than in the business. Mr, Stratton also gives a brief history of the development of the ferry and pleasure boat business in Detroit, one of the best paying enterprises in the middle west. No one paying a visit to Detroit in the summer time fails to take one of the pleasure steamers to Belle Isle Park, Grosse Isle, Sandwich or Walkerville and return. It is a delightful experience. Mr. Stratton proceeds as follows: "At about the same per-iod in the history of Detroit the ferryboats running across to the Canadian town of \Vindsor were owned by an English-man named Horn, who also ran a somewhat noted saloon on the wharf, The boats were tw~ in number, small side-wheelers, unattractive and uncomfortable, with twelve-inch plank seats affixed to the sides and in odd corneTS. As the boats were proving unprofitable, Horn, after trying for two years to sell out, declared that he would take them--off the tun and surrender his franchise. His eldest son who had been a lake tug-captain for two or three years, ca~e home at the close of navigation and persuaded his fa.ther to put in more money and build a new boat. The old man consented only when his son, who was his idol, agreed to stay at home and manage the line. The boat was built from the young captain's plans, and nearly paid for itself in the first season. "The upper deck was absolutely dear from stem to stern with the exception of the cased-in smokestack. On the deck were seats for four hundred people, everyone being a com- ARTISAN fortable rocker or folding armchair. Not a plank scat or campstool -was allowed on that boat. "The regular ferry fare was five cents, and Captain Horn issued ten-cent return tickets which gave the privilege of staying on board as long as one wished. Every :fine after-noon, from early summer tmtil la,te fall, that upper deck was filled with women who brought their sewing or their books, and often their babies in carriages-for which no extra charge was made-and rode back and forth on the mile run across the beautiful river. A man was stationed at the stair-case to run those baby~carriages up and down. In the even-ings the boat was crowded with young people, enjoying, for ten cents, a river ride lasting until eleven o'clock. "Two hundred and fifty passengers was the afternoon av-erage, and twice that number for the evenings. The income, at ten cents each,' was dear profit, for the regular ferry pas-sengers and teams paid the expenses. The young captain had seen what no other man had then seen, that the combina-tion of ferry business with excursions had splendid possibili-ties. "During the five following years four new boats of the same type ,,,ere added, and there was scarcely a day through the summer when one Or two of them were not chartered for all-day picnics. The type of boat which Captain Horn d~- signed a11dhis method of managing them are in USe today by the company which succeeded him, and which owns the finest fleet of local excursion steamers on the Great Lakes," Two brothers, partners in the insurance business in Buf-falo, had advanced some money to a manufacturer of bed-springs. The business went wrong and, in order to pro-tcct themselves, the insurance men had to take it Over and dose it 11p. One of the brothers handled the matter, and, although he knew so little of manufacturing that, as he said, a "line shaff' and a "buzz saw" were synOnomOllS terms to him, before he had proceeded far with the closing-up proce".,; he told his brother that be thought he would try a little build-ing- up. He hired a good shop foreman and devoted himself to the office work, with the result that in a few months he was making some ,veIl-advised changes and improvements in his equipment. And the business was gratifyingly successful from that time on. ' @ * @ Grand Ra.pids will rank hereafter as the leading market in upholstered furniture. In addition to the seven strong local lines, there will be found on sale in January the 'best products of the best upholsterers in New York, Brooklyn, Milwaukee, Toledo, Jamestown and other furniture centers. In the number and the quality of lines exhibited Grand Rap-ids will be pre-eminent hereafter. " ALHOlCOM5&CO@ MANUFACTURERS 1')'10 DEALERS IN HIGH GRADE BAND AND SCROLL SA~S REFAmING-5ATI5fACTION GUARANTEED CITIZE:NSPHONE.1239 27 N MARKE:T Sf ~. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. II MICHTGAN j\RTISAN 21 ------._------_. -------------~ Cabinet Makers In these days of close competition, need the best possible equipment, and this they can have in BARNES' == HAND and FOOT POWER === MACHINERY Send for Our New Catalogue. w. P. & John Barnes Co. -------------,---------- II I ___ , -1 .!.. ---------------~ MANUFACTURERS OF II HARDWOOD VLUENMEBEERRS&. IIIII I• SPECIALTIES: ~1.'Y!fETIQUAR. OAK VENEERS MAHOGANY VENEERS HOFFMAN BROTHERS COMPANY 804 W. MaiR St., FORT WAYNE, INDIANA ....-_. ----'" I I I Morton House: ! (AmericanPlan) Rates $2.50 and Up. ! I ff 0!u~'!Plan)~~n/!d.~!!: I I GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. I : I I J. BOYD PANTLIND, Prop. .--------,--------------~I I....._-----------,-------' OUr'New Hand and Foot Power Circular Saw No.4. The sllOllpest, most powerful, and in every way the best ma~hitle of its Jdn.d ever made, for lipping, cross--cutting, bonng and grOOVlIlg. The Noon Dinner Served at the Pal:1t~ndfor 506 is THE FINEST IN THE WORLD . ------.... These saws are t made from No. 1 I Steel and we war-l rant every blade.! We also carry a full stock of Bev- t eled Back. Scroll I' Saws, any length and gauge. I-----'"I '''rUe us for Price List aud dlHOunt 31-33 S. FRONT ST". GRAND RAPIDS ~~------------------- MACHINE. KNIVES , PROMPT SERVICE I AS,SOLUTE GUARANTEE I I• PERFECT QUALITY RIGHT PRICES Dado or Grooving Heads. Miter Machines. UniVIt'rsa1 :WoodTrimmers. Borlng Machines. Et,.;:. 22 - - -- -- ------------ MICHIGAN ARTISAN • ALL OF THE ABOVE MACHINES ARE IN FINE ORDER. C. C. WORMER MACHINERY CO., 98 Woodbridge St.! Defroif, Mich. "Clement" Double End Tenoning Machine. "Clement" No, 4 ~. 30 Incb Cabinet Planer, "Berlin" Cabinet Makers Double Cut-off Saw. "Royal Invincible" 36 Inch Triple Drum Sander, "Invincible" 36 Inch Triple Drum Sander. "Fay" 24 Incb Drum Sander! mg~f:te'{s,AND "Clement" Double Bell Sand Belt Macbine. "Fay" . Two SpJndle Dowel Borer, LABOR LAW VIOLATIONS ON DECLINE. Employment of Children Falls off 21 Per Cent. Alba.ny, Jan. 19-That he is fair to both sides in the en-forcement of the state labor laws, is the statement made by John 'Villiams, state commissioner of labor, in his annual report to the legislature. During the year ending Sept. 30, 1908, there were 50,396 regular inspections as compared with 46,816 in 1907. Persecutions for violation of the law in5titu-tued during the year numbered 743, showing a greater, ac-tivity in connection with prosecutions than in any other corresponding period in the history of the department. "There is no disposition on our part," says the report, ;;to extend unduly the rigid requirements of our statutes; on the other hand, we are not allowing the question of the money cost of an improvement to outweigh the right of men, women and children whose conditions of employment arc affected by the eviJ of danger to be remedied. In other words we conceive it to be our duty to administer the factory laws so as to ac-complish the end sought in their enactment, namely: to safe-guard the moral and physical welfare of all factory employes. Every other interest must be subordinate to that central thought, \\'here there is room for an honcst diffcrence of opinion we seek the fullest measure of information obtain-able, recognized the right of progressive manufacturers to be heard and. that it would be against public policy to unduly hamper the development of industry." Upon the departments orders 1,633 children found iilegally employed were discharged. In 414 cases employers were prosecnted for such illegal employment. The falling off in child labor generally from the figures of 1907 was 21 pcr cent while illegal child labor fell off 34 pet ceni. The commission reports serions difficulty, however, in en-forcing the law in the canning industry (fruit and vegetables). Prosecutions in this industry for a number of glaring viola-tions of the law relating to "V omen and children proved "al-most a waste of time," says the commissioner, owing either to the local prejudice of court or jury in favor of the canner, or to the effect of the opinion of former Attorney-General Mayer, that the employment of young children in "sheds" connected with canneries is not illegal. The last legislature established a state official known as medical inspector of factories. and, his efforts the past year were mainly devoted to determining conditKllls as to venti-lation in various factories by measurement of the proportion of carbonic acid gas in the air. In" all 430 tests of air in 136 different workrooms were made. Twelve parts of carbonic acid gas in 10,000 volumes of air is regarded as the maxi-mum if air is to be wholesome for breathing. Btlt a ta.bula-tion of the medical inspector's tests shows proportions fre-quently two or three times greater than this, and in some cases five or six times grea.ter. The· commis'sibncr urges the need of a ventilating engineer to supplement the work of the medical inspector. @ * @ Some Generations Hence. "Why are the trees all chopped away?" The little fellow said: "vVhy do the streams go dry "...hiJe sunshine's bea.ting over-head?" His father said: "It is because the 111mbermen sO gay Each had an ax to grind and WelS a cutup in his way!" @ * @ To Manufacture Musical Instruments. The Greene Music company was organized recently at Somerville, N. J., by Arthur H. Greene and others for the' purpose of engaging in the manufacture of pianos and organS: The company's capital is $10.000. IY; y;1 BARRETT'S PRIME SHELLAC VARNISH I y; 1!:Fi y; made from strictly pure Shellac Gum cut in Specially Denatured or y; y; Wood Alcohol. The results of 25 years' experience in the importa- y; tion of gums, in the use of solvents, and in the manufacture of varnish y; embodied in "Barrett's Prime." Ask for samples and prices. !:fi Y; y;1 M. L. BARRETT &. CO., y; !:Fi 219 LAKE ST•• CHICAGO MICHIGAN ARTISAN r,-.-.---------------·-------- II 23 THIS MACHINE MAKES THE MONEY It makes a perfect imitation of any open grain because it uses the wood itself to print from, and one operator and a couple of boys can do more work with it than a dozen men with any other 50-called machine or pads on the market. That's Why It's a Money Maker. It Imitates Perfectly. 50 Machines Sold last Year 50 More Satisfied Manufacturers Plain or Quartered Oak, Mahogany, Walnut. Elm. Aah or any other wood with open grain. Posselius Bros. Furniture Manufacturing Co. For Prices and Full Particulars. Mention the Mic::higanArtisan. Write the Detroit, Mich. Questions of Importance. Is it prolltable ior U1C owner of a [neto!"y "\viLh a capa,city amounting to $150,000 per annum to make a diversil1ed line? \i\,Tbat importance is bis .competition ..v..ith a line of 200 pieces against a ma,llufactueer with a capacity of $500,000 per annum, making a line of 1,000 pieces? If a manufacturer of a divcrsitlccl line offers to the COll-sideration of buyers thirty patterns of dressers, 110W much trade should he reasonn,hly ex.pect \vben a competitor plac:es on the market ninety dressers equally as "\-"ell made and with a greater variety of styles? \Vould it be profitable for the o\vner of a moderate: sized factory to operate the same in the production of a line of dressers of a single style-say sixty patterns of colonial dressers and chiffoniers, or tall post bcdsteads? Kat m(lny years ago "Ed" 1torley gained his 110m de plume. "carload," hy selling the products of a factory locatcd in Rochester, N. Y" making chamber suites in one style. A factory in Memphis, Tenn" earned a Jot of profit for its o"vncr, '.vhen it was operated in the production of a single C,heap dresser. It suited the requiremcnts of a certain c1a~~s of trade, which bought it in carload lots. A few years ago a manufacturer located in Chicago, man-ufactured music cabinets in one pattern and sold them in thousand lots. The profits he gained v,'ere squandered in the wheat pit and caused his r('tircment from tIle furnitun', busi-ness. The above facts suggest that small the manufacturer call-- not operatc profitably in th~ pt'odtlcing of extensive lines, ;wet that, as in other branches of business, the hig fellow has de-cided ndvantagcs when he enters the markets. @ * @ Not Considered Suitable for Crating. Clarence R. Hills, the well known dcsig'llCl" of furniture recalls a trip he made through tltC southern states a few 1 years ago when his attention was called to gum or Tupelo lumber. "It was not considered fit for crating," Mr. Hills ex-plained, "and was sold so cheap tbat it was hardly worth while for any olle to handle it. During the past two years it has been used moderately by the furniture makers of the northern states for drawee work and cheap furniture, but whjje the lumber is very handsome, the trade has not taken it up with confidence. Two years ago I made the design for a fine dining room suite in Tupelo 'for a prominent man-tliadurec, but after it had been made ready for the market he did not have confidence in the wood that would .varrant his offering it to the-trade. ';\\lith a solution of the problem of properly drying the lumber Mr. Hills predicts that there would be a growing demand for Tupelo furniture, @ * @) It Will Always he a Sheraton. Charley \Vcst, of Des 1\1nines, Iowa, ~topped in his tour through one of the big furniture exhibition buildings in GnUlc1 Rapids to admire a chamber suite,. constructed in the style of ShCl'atoll. "\Vhen I move to my new store I shall buy a Sheraton suite. r shall not carc whether I find a buyer for it or not for I admire Sheraton. If it fails to sell T shall have the pleasure of looking at it frequently, It will :dways ha\'e the expressjon of Sheraton and if it should stay in the store ten years it will never become (t, sticker in my mind. It will always please me, because I shall never Jose my love for the art of Sheraton. @ * @ The maturing of plans for the erection of additional furn-iture cxpo,sition buildings iJ1 Gr<lIld Rapids annoy the ma.na-gel's of exposition enterprises in otber furnitttr'e centers, The drift toward Grand Rapids is steadily growing stronger and the prestige gained gives the Michigan city the leading posi-tion in the marketing of furniture. 24 MICHIGAN A TAME LION. An Experience of the New Man. Whew! \-Vhat do you know about this? Left Abbington late last night, and say I was scared stiff when I hit that town-so stiff my hair broke when I took my hat off. I won't need a haircut for six weeks. They all told me what a terrible man that big merchant was, and I was some ·worried when I found myself on the depot platform. Right ahead pf me I could see a big store and across the front of that store I could see the sign: *********** * * JAMES Q. PEERS. ********* ** I looked about for some other store to tackle first, but didn't see any. I wanted to get limbered up before I went into action with a terror, But there was nothing to do but buck Up. trust in providence and shut my eyes. \rVhen I got to the door I set my grips down and wiped my perspiring forehead. I was cold and clammy, all right. Finally I mustered up what I have always referred to as my courage and walked inside. It was a big store and no mis· take, and there were not very many people in just then. Fact is, I was hoping there'd be a few, so I could have a dis-traction for the old gentleman if he should get too much enraged and try to chew my ear off. I looked around cau-tiously. There he stood talking to a farmer's wife. He was not very tall, but qf good heft-had shoulders like the circus strong man. His hair was grizzled; his beard was heavy and unkempt. His eyes looked out from under his shaggy brows, and it seetnedto me that they shot fire and that his nostrils dilated as he got a scent that reminded him of a sales-man. The evening before, some of the choice spirits on the roa,d, that I met on the train, had regaled me with tales of what this particular town held in store for me. They had told me of one fellow that had been thrown out bodily, another that had been kicked out and of still another who had run for his life. I took it all with a little salt, of course, because I thought they'd try to get me scared. In spite of the sodium chloride they had succe.eded very well, though. After a while the farmeress moved on and I felt those cold, sharp eyes hit me like a dipperful of icy water. I of-fered up four silent but earnest prayers, and faltered for-ward. "What'll ye have?"- he growled, sizing me up, I thought, ferociously, picking out the places where a crack with a wagon spoke would hurt worst; I managed to stammer out that I was traveling for The House, and that I thought maybe he'd be in line for some goods. Before I could say any more, he snapped his teeth and told me gruffly to come baek again at 1 o'clock, when there wouldn't be anybody around. I thanked him and told him I'd be there. But, honest, I didn't intend to show up. I thought, what's the use of tempt-ing fate. Pm out and still sound in wind and limb. Will I go back? Not on your tintype! I found two more stores in town and got one for a,n order, but not a very big one. As noon passed I got more and more anxious. Should I at' should I not? At last, I worked myself up to hero size and went back atld walked in just as the clock struck one, He looked up from the paper he was reading, and grunted. "Thought you wasn't eomin' back," he said, "Why, I said I would, didn't I?" "Yes, you said it, but you didn't look it." That seemed so mild that I started in about some of thr. goods, and to keep my upper lip stiff, I opened Up, keeping l ARTISAN up a shower of gab all the time for fear I'd lose my nerve and bolt for it. He sat still, eyeing me and never said .a word till I ran down, Then he shrugged his shoulders and said: "Set down." There was a chair there and I sat down, waiting for the torture to commence. i<Got yer pencil an' paper ready?" he snarled. In a daze I produced 'em. Then he reeled off one of the best orders I've taken yet. I wrote and wrote and wrote, and finally he snapped out that that was all. I scrambled to my feet, packed my grips and started out. He called out to me before I got to the door. "Come back here, you," and back I went, «Hev a seegar," he said, producing a black one about :) foot long. I took it and poked it into the corner of my mouth. "What's the matter with ye?" he queried. i<Takill' down with grip? You look sorter peekish. Got any quinine:" I found my tongue again after a while and told him I was all right and thanked him for the order.' He showed all his teeth and he had two httndred, it looked bke. "Some of the fresh guys must a been stttffin' ye about me," he hazarded. I acknowledged that he was correct. "Come on back on' set awhile an' I'll ten ye how about," he volunteered, so we squatted by the side of the stove and he told me. He said that about four years before a real sassy drummer marched into his store when it was full of customers. It was a busy time and he had just stocked up pretty heavily. Be-sides which he had the toothache combined with a dose of cramps and one of his feet had chilblains. A smooth chap had worked a bogus dollar on him the day before, and the house this man traveled for had loaded him up with goods he could not sell. The j'drummcr" stayed by him and would not take no for an answer, and at last, in desperation, he had ordered him out of the store, emphasizing what he said with violent gestures. And that story had grown and grown until it was the side of the mountain back of us. That and his surly appearanc~. He felt sort of bad about it, he said. Said his neighbors knew he was good at heart and that he wouldn't hurt a living soul. Declared that, while his looks were fierce, he wasn't altogether to blame, but he said that, while he didn't minJ cutting the wing feathers of a few of the real sassy boys, he felt it wasn't hardly right to have that kind of a reptttatiol1, and when he saw I was ready to dodge every time he moved he decided to set himself right for once. The old man had a streak of humor in him somewhere, or he remarked that the situation was not without his compensation sometimes Why, before I got through there, he was calling me Bob and I was calling him Jim. Went out for supperl "supper," mind you. this time, and We had a regular love feast. He is all right, is Jim, and he told me never to pass him out. W-~ cottoned to each other from the word go. On the train out I met up with another traveler. He grinned when he saw me and asked me what I got. I told him offhand that I 'got a good order out of Jim. He grinnect and said I was a cheerful one, but he was glad to see me still ut1crippled. I had an impulse to show him the order, but on second thoughts I didn't. It isn't good policy and besides why not have Jim keep his reputation? Won't the boys at The House open their peepers when they see that order, though I Well, I've learned one lesson, and thafs not to believ~ everything I hear. Also, I l1ave discovered that retail mer-chants <'Iregood hearted folk:s down at the bottom. Further_ more, I am convinced that freshness does not pay a knight of the grip. Two more towns and then I'm headed for home and, it seems to me, a few words of commendation from the Big Noise of The House.-The Oregon Tradesman. MICHIGAN ARTISAN 25 .- ------ ---., ...------------- -----., ~~!~;;}!¥!.1~~:~~\!I;~lc~~S. They cut a clean perfect joint always. Never burn ow-ing to the gradual clearance (made this way only by us), require little grinding, saving time and cutters. No time wasted setting up and cost no more than other makes. Try a pair anrl be CQnBinced. Catalogue 1',To.10 and ]J'rices on aplJliration. I I M02~~~~w~2eq.?Ch~g~8NS, ! .._------ ------- ---_... 1,1,-----~ 10 SPINDLE MACHINE ALSO MADE \VlTH 12, 15,20 AND 2ii SPINDLES. DODDS' NEW DOVETAILING GEAR MACIiINE This little machine has clone more to perfect the nrawer work of furniture manufacturers than anything else in the funliture trade. For fifteen years it hllS made perfect-filting-, vermin-proof, dove-tailed stock a possibility. This has been accomplished at reduced cost, as the machill~ cuts dove-tails in gangs or from 9 to 24 at one operation. ALEXANDER DODDS. Grand Rapids. Michigan. Reprelented by Scbuchart & Scbulte, at Berlin, Vienna .....Stockholm and St. Petersbu~. Representative by Alfred H. Schutte at Cologne, I:5russels,Liege, Paris, Milan /lnd Bilboa. Represented in Great Bntian and Ireland by the Oliver Machinery Ca" F. S. TbompsOD, Mil'" 201.203 DeallSi3te. Maneld:er, Endand. B0YNT0N ex. C0. Manufadurenof Embosl~d and I Turned Mould- ;.g., Embo.~ I ed and Spindle Carvinh, and Automatic Turnina-I. We also manu-fadure a latlle line I of Emboued f Ot._me.'. £ot I Couch Work. ,• 419-421 W. fifteenth St., C"ICAGO.ILL "Rotary Style" lor Drop Ca.rvlngs. Embossed Mouldlnp. Panels. l\lacblnes for aU purpose~. aud at prices within the reach of 1111. Every machine has OQI' guarantee p.galnst breakage lor one year. "LRteral Style" for large eupaclty heavy Carvlo&"s and Deep Emt...osslngs. We have the Machine YOU ''lillot at II satisfactory prl~e. Write for deiWriptive circulars. Al80 make dles fof' all makes 01 Ma.- ('bloes. UNION EMBOSSING M4C"INE CO.. Indianapolis. Ind. 26 MICHIGAN ARTISAN U you do not know the "Oliver" wood working ·Iools, you ·had' beller give us your address and have us tell you all ahouttheQl. We make nothing but Quality tools, the first coSt 01 which is considerable, but which will make more profit lor each dollar invested than any 01 the cheap machines flood. ing the counlry. Oliver Tools "OLIVER" No. 16. Band Saw 36 1nclJe•• Made with oJ without IJlOIor drive Meta I !able 36"x 3{)'1. 'Will take 18" uDder t be aeride- tilb 45 delUees one way and 7 ~ ,he oIher way. Car. Res a saw up tQ 1Mil w .... O....,. ...... to Iowel whed dNJi: w~ bOt motor dmren. Weidm 1600lb- wRen ready 10 ship. II!II•• "Oliver' New Variety Saw Table No. 11. Will lake a saw up to 20' diameter. Arbor belt 'is 0' wide. Send for Catalog "8" fordata on Hand Jointera. Saw Tables, Wood Lathes, Sanders. Tenoners. Martisers, Trimmers, Grindera. Work Benchea, Vises, Ciampa, Glue Heater ... etc., etc. OLIVER MACHINERY CO. Worn and GeDel'alOffice. at 1 to 51 Clancy St. GRAND RAPIDS. MICH., U. S. A. BRANCH OFFICES -Oliver Mllcrunery Co'l Hudson Terminal. 50 ChurehSt .• New York. Oli"eF Machinery Co .• Finll: NaliQUai Banlt Building. Chicago, 111.;OIM Machiery Co.' , Pacific Building. Seat11e. Wuh.; Olive!" Machinery Co .201-203 Deanqate, Manchester. En~: The Grand ~apids Shades. Since the adoption by the 'Grand Rapids Furniture Manu-facturers' Association of certain fixed standa.rds of shades it has becn developed that this action did not bring out any new shade. It simply fixed upon one shade in each of the various finishes which are in popular use and demand today. vVhen the adopted shades had been given out the ~arietta Paint & Color company, of Madetta, Ohio, who daim sUIHcm-aey in the making of wood stains, found that it was not necessary to change its sh;ldcs to meet the new order. This company's shades have been correct at all times. Two of the most popular of the Marietta stains arc the Fumed Oak and Early English. The Fumed Oak is an acid stain, and contrary to other stains of this character it will stain red oak as well as white oak, making it possible for the manu-facturer to produce a finish on a piece of furniture, such as a chair, for illustration, where sometimes both red and white oak is used in the same piece, and still get a perfectly uni-form color. This stain raises the grain so little, and pene-trates so deepl).., that the work can be sanded perfectly smooth without. cutting through the stain. It is made to produce the gre~nish brown tint adopted at Grand Rapids, while it is allO,\lla.de to match any special shade desired. To the manufacturers using a fuming chamber this stain will be a revelation. Another stain made by the Marietta Paint & Color com-pany that meets the requirements of the discriminating man-ufacturer is its Early English, and those who have not yet been in touch with the adopted shade can put themselves right by securing a small sample from this house. vVith the :\1arietta Early EngliSh stain you can get results without the nece!isity of glazing_ @ * @ Death of Jacob Van Putten. Early io January the furniture trade suffered an HTe-paT-able loss by the death of Hon. Jacob Van Putten, president Save Labor Time of Tempers .. Cost of the Holland (Mkh.,) Furniture company. Mr. Van Putten had been engaged in the business of manufacturing furniture more tha,n ten years and was noted for his strict integrity, his enterprise and a kindly disposition exercised toward all. During his life he served the people of Holland a!i ppstmaster, mayor, police commissioner and school trustee, and in all his public acts he was ever guided by lofty principles. Possessed of excellent judgment, fairness and kindly consideration for men not so menta.lly strong as himself, he was ever a leader in his community and a tower of strength in civic righteous-ness. His funeral was largely attended. @ * @ His Thirteenth Year. William S. Findlatcx, a pra.ctical wood finisher, but lor many years engaged in selling supplies for the finishing room, has renewed his contract with the Adams & Elting company for the thirteenth time. Me Findl~ter is widely and favor-ably known but his acquaint,ances are'·m.ost intimate in the states of Michigal1. and vVisconsin., JJe has aided materially in developing the business of the Adab1's & Elting company by the employment of legitimate practices in salesmanship. @ * @ Why Does a Hen Cross the Street? In answer to· the CJuery: "How can you tell a female chicken from a. male when newly hatched?" a farmer says: "Place a lighted lamp on a table, also some bread crumbs, and if he eats it it is a male; -if she eats it, it is a female." The same farmer being asked how to tell a bad egg says: "\\Then you want to tell a bad egg, break it gently_" @ * @ Finance. "1 have some money, but 1 don't know whether to buy a home or an automobile." "1 na,,'e itl Buy the home and mort-gage it to get the machine. Then you will have both. MICHIGAN ARTISAN 27 fII III.uTWO WINNERS IN VARNISH This is the verdict of the furniture manufacturer who KNOWS THE EMBLEM OF SUPERIORITY Paradox Rubbing Is the best high-grade, quick-rubbing varnish ever produced. every day and last coat rubbed safely in three days. Can be re-coated Ti- Ki- Lac Is our high-grade first or second coat varnish. Dries hard night. Last coat can be rubbed in twenty-four hours. to sandpaper over The man who KNOWS is the man who WINS II I VARNISH DEPARTMENT, Acme White Lead and DETROIT, MICHIGAN Color Works a.-- ~--_- .......----------.-----------------..1. Siberian Timber Supply. The aCCOllllt of the foresb of the A1TlltTregion and the prospects of their commerc.i.al devC'1opment is of, substantial interest. as the 'world isnow beginning to realize the threat-ened inadequacy of its' timber supply, and to take careful stock of the chief productive areas remaining. C0l11parati\,'c1r little attention has so far been paid to the utiliztltioll oi the forests in lhc Russian far east, though concessions lwve been sporadically worked, and· an Australian and a Briti:,sh com-pany have lately b~cn included .1l11011g those which have ac-quired concessions from the Russian Goverllrnent. Accord-ing to the estimate of the forest department, the Amur and maritime provinces contain 509,000,000 acres of forest land: It lS by ]10 means so densely timbered, however, as the for-ests of ),Jotth America, Both hard and soft woods arc founel in considerable variety; the latter include ,,,,hite cedar, pine, larch, nr, and spruce, a.nd the fonner walnut. ash, and oak. The right to cut timber on a large scale may he obtained either by 'way of conee:,ssion for a ter111 of years or by con-tract. Recent concessiol1s have been granted for a term of four years only (this being the maximum that the governor-genera! can accord), with all extra year for taking a·way the timber felled. Though this period ean be extended on appli-catioo, yet it .is gCllel'ally recogniz('d that it is too short, and efforts, ,,,,hieh appear likely to prove successfuL arc llfnV being made to have the regulations on the subject altered and a longer term allmvcd. Areas whieh the (;'ov<.:rnme111 de-sires to sell aTe from time to time put up to auction either at Vladivostok or at Khabaro"sk, the terms and conditions heing published beforehand. They are adjudged to the highe!it bidder, who is reqnired to pay down the equivalent of the royalty tOT one year on the number of trees put up 10 ;1l1ctioll. a certain portion of the forest being a.llotted for each year of the cuneney of the tigreement. J\iforeover. in the c.ase of felling rights obtuinecl by al1l~tioll as well as those obtained in the form of a concession. some money deposit 'will gener· ally be insisted upon, Felling tickets may also be obtained from tl,C loc;1I officials: giving the right to cut small quanti-ties of tjmber on payment of the GovernmQ:nt royalty, At present the Russian authorities insert a clause in all contracts stipulating that Russian labor shall alone be em~ ployed. As they are actively encoura.ging immigration, how-' ever, the resultant hindrance to industry may be expected to <liminish. The report includes full schedules of the rov-alty levied on timber of different classes and ill the differe;1t areas. It also describes the existing facilities for transport and :,sbipping, \-vhich are still in a predominantly undeveloped state, Other miscellaneolls information includes the terms of the forest regulations and the scale of export duty, There is also an outline 1ll<lp, @ * @ Sure. His proper place. Ts on the shelf \i\Tho only lives To doubt himself. @ * @ A Unique Work Record. A mannfacturing concern in which only one-half of the employes ,\"ork in the day time ba,s a 24-hour clock in the timeke~pcrs' office, hy ·which the work record is noted. The business day begins at 1 o'clock in the morning,' and when other clocks indicate midnight this factory timepiece shows that it is 24 o'clock. The men who go to work at the time ordinarily known as 6 p. In., arc recorded as having started at 18 o'clock. The people in charge of the work say that this chang0. in the timekeeping method has prevented many e1rots, an<l although it took the men a little while to become accus-tomed to it they now sveak of 14 o'clock and 16 o'clock in a matter of fact way and without the smile which this at fjr~t provoked. 28 • MICHIGAN ARTISAN ------_._--------------_._--~ l-._:.-. • ~ •II ~nCHIGAl\ ARTISAN II I~_._-_._-----_. ..----~---------_._--_._-----------....,• PITTSBURGH PLATE GLASS COMPANY LARGEST .JOBeERS ANO MANUFACTURERS OF GLASS IN THE WORLD· Mirrors, Bent Glass, leaded Arl 6lass, Ornamental Figured Glass, Polished and Rough Plale Glass, Window Glass WIRE GLASS Plale Glass for Shelyes, Desks and Tables Tops, Carrara Glass more beaulifulthan white marble. CENERAL DiSTRIBUTORS OF PATTON'S SUN PROO-=-PAINTS. fJ For anything in Builders' Glass. or anything in Paints, Varnishes, Brushes or Painters' Sundries, addre55 any of our branch warehouses, a list of which is given below: NEW YORK-Hudson a.DdVandam Sts. BOSTON-41-49 Sudbury St •• 1.9 Bowker St. CHICAGO - 442 ..452 Wabaah Ave. CINCINNATI-Broadway and Court 8ts. ST. LOUIS-Cor'. Tenth and Spruce 8ts. MINNEAPOLIS-SOO~S16 S. Third St. D&TROrr-53.S9 Larned St., E. GRAND RAPIDS, M]CH.-39~41 N. Division St. I PITTSaURGH-lOt-I03 Wood St. MILWAUKEE, WIS.-492·494 Market St. ROCH E.STER.. N. y. -Wilder Bldli.•Ma.inGlExchange Sta. BALTIMORE-310-12~14 w. Pratt -St.----------------------------- CL~VELAND-1430-1434 West Third St. OWAHA-IIOI-]IO"l Howard St. ST· PAUL-4S9-461 Jackson St. ATLANTA. GA.-30-32-34 S. Pr~or St. SAVANNAH. GA·-"I45~749 Wheaton .st. KANSAS CITY -P'lfth and Wy ..ndott. 51s. BIRMINGHAM. ALA.-2nd Ave. and 19th St. BUFFALO, N. Y.-372-74-16.78 Pearl St. BROOKLYN-63S-631 Fulton St. PHILADE.LPHIA-Pltcalrn Bldg•• Arch and 11th St•. DAVENPORT-410-416 Scott St. rII --_._------ --~ I OFFICES: CINCINNATI-Piekel'ina Building. NEW YORK--346 Broadwa.y. BOSTON-~I8 Tremont St. CIUCAGG)~-134Van Buren St. GRAND RAPIDS--Houseman Bldg. JAMESTOWN. N. Y.--Cha.d ..koln Bldg. HIGH POINT. N. C.--Stanton~Weh;:h Block. The most satisfactory and up-to-date Credit Service covering the FURNITURE, CARPET, COFFIN and ALLIED LINES. The most accurate and reliable Reference Book Published. Originators of the "'Tracer and Clearing House S)'siem:' --- ----- ---- ------------- CollectionService Unsurpassed-Send for Book of Red Drafts. H. J. DANHOF. Michigan Manager. 347-348 Houeetnal:l SuUdin,. Grand Rapids, Mich. ~_._---_._-------------- r-------------·-----------------· ---..,. I THE CREDIT BUREAU OF THE FURNITURE TRADE Grand Rapids Office, 412-413 Houseman c. C. NEVERS, Manager CLAPPERTON &: OWEN, Counsel •I Bldg. The LYON Agency THE STANDARD REFERENCE BOOK CAPITAL, CREDIT AND PAY RATINGS CLEARING HOUSE OF TRADE EXPERIENCE THE MOST RELIABLE CREDIT REPORTS COLLECTIONS MADE EVERYWHERE PROMPTLY-REUABLY Furniture ROBERT P. LYON, General Manager CREDITS and COLLECTIONS 29 30 MICHIGAN ARTISAN "ere are the Exact Shades Adopted by the Qran~ Rapi~s furniture Manufacturers' Ass'n II III !I IIIIIII I IIL.~_. ~-,--____ Their "Golden Oak Oil Stain" is our No. 3424. Their "Early English Stain" is our No. 3425 Oil Stain. Their "Weathered Oak Stain" is our No. 3426 Oil Stain. Their "fumed Oak" is our No. 3427 New Process fuming Liquid. Their "Light Mahogany Stain" is our No. 3428 Dry Mahogany Stain soluble in water. Their" Dark Mahogany Stain" is our No. 3429 Dry Mahogany Stain soluble in water. Send for Samples and Information. WE SUPPLY EVERYTtllNG NEEDED IN Ttlf fll\llStlll\lG ROOM. NEW YORK THE AC-EL..-ITE F'EOF'L.E HE BUYS A NEW CLOCK. And Shows what False Economy It Was to Keep the Old One. "At last," said Mr. Quillback) "we have bought a new clock, and goodness knows we needed it. "The old clock was a small, round, nickel plated time-keeper that we had had for some years, and in the course of time-as alas! all clock owners do too---it began to show signs of wear. But we hated to go to the expense of a new clock as long as we could make that one do, so we kept it, shaking her up 'most every day for something like a year until finally it got to be so tiresome that we mustered up courage and bought a new clock. Then I did a little figuring. In the course of a year T had spent an average of five minutes a day shaking up that old clock on, say, 300 days, ma.king, to save the cost of a· new clock, a gross total of time spent amounting to 1,500 minutes. You divide th·s by 60 and you find that I had spent in shaking that blessed old clock a little matter of twenty-five hoursl "Kow, in the way of income, you know, I don't pretend to class up with the Rockefellers and Carnegies and that sort of folks, but figuring my earning capacity on the modest basis of 50 cents an hour I find that I have spent in shaking up that miserable old ticker time worth $12.50. The new dock cost 69 cents! "Of course buying the new. clock when we did instead of a year sooner we !>avcd the wear on it during tha.t period, and if we count the life of such a clock at say ten years we find that we have thus saved about seven cents worth of wear on the new clock, amI this, properly. of course, should be deducted from the $12.50, but even at that on the best sho ..v-ing possible we find that to save 69 cents we have met with a. net loss of $12.43, to say llOthing of the wear and tear on us caused by the aggravation of having to shake the old clock up every day to make it go! "VIle had been, as in so many ways we are prone to be, penny wise and pound foolish, but we arc learning wisdom and we haven't got to shake the old clock up any more, any-way. -"-Sun. @) * @) Six Indispensable Finishes. The Lawrence-McFadden Company, of Philadelphia, ad-dresses the trade on another page of this issue, calling at-tention to the following stains: Go!den oak, Early English, weathered aRk, fumed oak, mahogany and toona mahogany. The company sends working samples, with full instructions for use, also finished pieces which show the correct shades. Samples will be J)romptly furnished on application. It may be superfluous to remark that the Lawrence-McFadden com-pany is one of the best known and most popular manufactur-ers of wood finishing goods in the whole country. and whose superb product is backed uP, by a corps of most capable and energetic, salesmen. The effect, quality and prices of the Lawrence-::\lcFadden goods should enter into the calculations of furniture manufacturers generally in settling their finishing room problems; @ * @ Glassware Smashin g at Funerals. A custom which would improve the condition of the glass industry if it were more widely adopted prevails among the natives of a certain district in \VestAfrica. When a chief dies, his neighbors meet at his palace and partake of a fun-eral feast served in the deceased monarch's bowls and dishes. At the end of the meal the presiding chief rises and, raising his stick high above his head, with one gre<tt stroke smashes to fragments the glass bowl and other dishes before him. This is the 5ignal. The chiefs a11 rise, and with their sticks destroy all that remains of the dead man's glass and crock-ery. • MICHIGAN ARTISAN 31 r USEfUL TOOLS fORWOODWORKINGPUNTS :::::::::.~.:::::: •.:::':::: -----l I Black Bros. Single Chzt.inClamp. Black Bros. Double Chain Clamp or Ven~er Pre ... Black Brol. Column Clamp. BlkCk Bros. Power Veneer Pren. Ih . _ Up·to.Date Cabinet Clamp. -------..--_.. ------_ ... New and Practical Methods. There is a general current of unrest among woodworkers who are keenly watchful for new and practical methods to take them <:\'\vayfrom the beaten paths of their forefathers. The demand for better machines~bettcr tools or applia.llces is greater tOd4}' than it has ever been. Desiring to assist any worthy ambition. it has ahv<tys been the practice o[ this paper to sbO\v neVI' ideas, from tirne to time, in the hope of being of greater service to its readers. To this end we herewith illustratc and describe the Shimer Blac.k BrQa. Piline: Clamp •. Full information can be had regarding the ab01.'eand o[ltermoney making tools. AddreM BLACK BROS. MACHINERY CO, Ninth Ave. and Fourth St .• MENDOTA. ILL. Illustrations and prices furnished. ers, which fit s11ugly 111 grooves made in the cylinder, enab-ling the blades to withstand th~ strains to which they are subject during operation. The knife holders are made of tool steel and form part of the chip-break, which when worn or injmed may be replaced without discarding the cutter head or causing delay and inconvenience. These blade's cylinders have superior advantages in point of simplicity, durability and efficiency. The blades may be kept in good working shape ··with less grinding, less trouble in -setting .a.net fastening to the hea.d, They are also less It I,I II1 I blade's cylinder, ;'L practical tool for surfacing, heading and ~icling, lately put on the market by Samuel J. Shimcr & Sons, iHiltOll, Penllsylvania. This ne\",· cylinder provides for the use of tllin blades of high specd steel, which when properly temperee! and treated serve for one or two days of work on hard maple, oak or hickory. Knives made of this material in tbe old, heavy slotted fashion w01l1d be too costly to use owing to the tlrst cost of the steel a,nd the trouble in working it, yet the ex-pense for the thill blades docs not exceed that of thc ordin-ary machine knife. By rderence to the illustration it will he noticed that the thin blades of this head are rc-inforced by special knife hold-liable to get oHt of balance, owing to the lighter weight of the knives used. The ease by which the chip-breakers can be renewed, and the absolute securit.y of the thin blades when re-inforced with the holding clamps, ,together with the many other advantages vdlich will be apparent to the wide awake woodworker, makes it seem certain that this is going to be a favorite tool wher-ever good work is desired. Further information can be secured from the makers, who \vill gladly rnail their latest book of cylinders to anyone making the request. Address Samuel J Sbimer & Sons, Mil, tOll, Pellllsylv<:lnia. - - -- --------------- 32 MICHIGAN ARTISAN ARTISTIC andINEXPENSIVE CATALOGUE COVERS LET US FIGURE ON YOUR PHOTOGRAPHING ENGRAVING and PRINTING at Right Prices PROMPT DELIVERIES COMPLETE CATALOGS PERFECT-WORK MICHIGAN ENGRAVING CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN MICHIGAl\' ARTISAN 33 r------'-- IBIRD'lri{YELMAPLE ( Made and dried right, and white. Samples furnished on application.) 500,000 ft. 1-20 inch Quarter Sawed Oak carried in stock, Come in and see it. Birch and Poplar cross banding and rotary cut Oak. Birch, Maple. Basswood. Poplar and Gnm Drawer Bottoms, PROMPT DELIVERY. ALL PRIME STOCK. FIGURED WOODS. MAHOGANY. WALNUT. QTR. SAWED OAK. BIRCH. I IHEN R~__l!!SCllNg.!T..I?~o~'P,y'.~,E!:E:IRe 0J MAY CUT DUTY ON FILES, S. M. Nicholson, Head of Largest File Company, Reluctant Witness, Admits Goods Sell Cheaper Abroad-Imports $80,000, Consumption $7,000,000. Material reduction in the duty 011 files seems certain if the trend of sentiment of the ''''ays and means committee of the house really was displayed ill \Vashington 011 J~lIl. 15. Only one "\vitness was examined Samuel 1\1. KicholsOll, president of the Nicholson File Co., of Providence, R 1. This concern is creditpd with $4,000,- 000 of the $7,000,00
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- 1909-01-10T00:00:00Z
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- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
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- Issue of a furniture trade magazine published weekly in Grand Rapids, Mich, starting in 1879. and GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., AUGUST 13,1910 SLIGH FURNITURE COMPANY The Largest Manufacturersof CHAMBER FURNITURE EXCLUSIVELY IN THE WORLD Catalogue to Prospective Customers. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. L - _______ .. - _a. .. _.. . ._. -------------------~ I HARRr C. WHITE, Treasurer. II II I,IIII IIi I,,t I II II II II HALF-TONES' . .. ARTHUR S. WHITE, President. ALVAH BROWN, VIce President. LET US MAKE YOUR Perfect Prod tict Large Facilities Courteous Treatment "Right" Price I• IIII I II III ,I IIII II I, III II t CO.I,, II I •• oil MICHIGAN ENGRAVING GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. I Samples and Estimates Upon Request. I I., ••••••• - .••• a_ ••••••• WEEKLY ARTISAN 1 YOU CAN MAIL YOUR CATALOG SEPTEMBER 7th If you place the order with us. . W"ITE PRINTING COMPANY GRAND RAPIDS, MICU. I PRINTERS FOR THE FURNITURE TRADE. I 2 WEEKLY AR.TISAN ~ .- ....... ..-_ ....... ".-. __ ........ ._.. ..,.... • • •• • ..... 1* ...... " .. I ... " ..... ; .... iii ..... .. . • '".. • Ii. •• LUCE FURNITURE COMPANY GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Manufacturers of COMPLETE lines of MEDIUM PRICED DINING and CHAMBER FURNITURE. Catalogues to Dealers Only. __ ..- ..-_- .4 Luce-Redmond Chair Co.,Ltd. I BIG RAPIDS, MICH. High Grade Office Chairs Dining Chairs Odd Rockers and Chairs Desk and Dresser Chairs Slipper Rockers Colonial Parl-or Suites In Dark a1ld Tuna Mahogany BIrd' J Eye Maple BIrch • !Zuartered Oak and C,rC4JJlan Wl1lnut Our Exhibit you will find on the fourth floor, East Section, MANUfACTURERS'BUILDING,North Ionia Street GRAND RAPIDS, MICmGAN Exhibit in charge of J. C. HAMILTON, C. E. COHOES, J. EDGAR FOSTER. ~--------------------------~- GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC LIBl?ARY 30th Year-No. 59 GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.• AUGUST 13. 1910 Issued Weekly MANAGEMENT OF THE MACHINE ROOM The Office Is Not the Only Place in a Furniture Factory Where Brains Are Needed. By M. C. Berne. The success of a great many furniture factories is at a very low ebb owmg to the antIquated way of managing the mechamcal departments. There are furniture factories to-day eqUIpped with modern machmery at great expense for the productIOn of hIgh-grade furniture, but whose methods of handling the work and of engmeering it through the various departments are so far out of date that unless improvements are made 1ll thIS respect the factones themselves will, one after another, pass out of existence. Year after year in some of these factories, when stock-taking tJmes comes, instead of a substantial profit, there is either a loss or the profit IS so small as to be quite unsatJs-factory. Where is the trouble? The managers have bought the raw matenal at the lowest price consistent with quality and the salemen have sold the finished goods at little ex-pense The cause cannot be in the office, consequently it must be in the factory end. The cost of converting the raw material into the finished product is too high. Now comes the question of reducing factory expense and the suggestion to cut wages is being considered. Don't do it. Raise the wages. Mr. Manufacturer, I crave your indulgence for a few mom-ents while I address myself particularly to you. Do you suppose that the office is the only place in a factory where brains count? If you do. you are making a mistake. If you have a large plant, and in order to save the few hundred dol-lars which represents the difference in salary between 'the competent and the incompetent man, you think you can place cheap men at the head of your mechanical departments, and then you yourself supply the Ibrains for the whole institution, you are not only out of date, but you will soon be out of business. A manager may exercise a general supervision, but the details of the work to be successfully done must be carried out by men of large brain carpacity. A certain man-ager, in answer to a protest that the head of a certain depart-ment was incompetent. said' "There is no use discussing the matter further; if Jake had my brains, he would be drawing my salary." Right here is the key to the whole situation. If "Jake" had not as large a brain capacity for his particular work as the manager had for his, then he had no business to be in his position; and if he did have, then in order to en-courage him to do hIS best he should be given a sa.lary ade-quate to his brain power. I am reminded of the words of the president of a com-pany, who, addressing the men on the occasion of a presen-tatIOn to himself. saId: "The success which has attended our efforts to place upon the market an artJc1e which would meet the requirements of the trade and profession is due not so much to the firm as to the men III the factory. We 1ll the offIce buy the raw material to best advantage. we may attend to the detaIls of distributing the finished product, but we cannot make organs Each responsible head of the various departments of our factory is an expert and an artist in his 1111ea,nd It IS to them we must gIve much of the credit and praIse that falls to us today." Let me say again, "Don't cut wages." If your factory is not bringing you the returns it should, reduce your factory expense by increaslllg the output. If you have a head of a department who is not a man of bralllS equal with yourself. get rid of him and get some one in his place who is. Pay him a 'Salary equal to hIs bralll power and you will find it the best lllvestment you ever made. I recall a manufacturer whose net profits amounted to $15,000 per year HIS general superintendent drew a salary of $1,800 per year, and when he asked for $2,500 it was re-fused. He left and stal ted in business for himself, thinking that if he could make $15,000 for another he could make a good part of it for himself. And he did. Within three years his former employer's business was in the hands of the bank, and today, instead of $15,000 in profits, he is drawing a paltry $3,000 for the use of his name. The greatest and most successful corporations of today are not dominated by one man. as many seem to think, except in so far as he has been able to select the right man for the right place and to hold him strictly responsible for the pro-per performance of the duties devolving upon his depart-ment A one-man factory is, usually, a one-horse factory. Permit me to repeat it· There is no place in the whole economy of the modern factory where brain power-the ca-pacity for details, inventive genuis, executive ability, know-ledge of human nature; in one word. the 3.lbility to think 4 WEEKLY ARTISAN p-.. •• ---------- • • - • • • - _. •• • • -----------------------~ I "THE BEST IS THE CHEAPEST" : 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, Railroad Companies, Car BUilders and others wJI consult their own interests by using it. Also Barton's Emery Cloth, Emery Paper, and Flint Paper, furnished in rolls or reams. MANUFACTURED BY H. H. BARTON & SON CO., 109 South Third St., Philadelphia, Pa. II, II ~- . ---" clearly and qUIckly and act promptly-b of more \ alue than at the head of the \ anous mecha11lcal Jepartmenb A suc-cessful manufactul er once said to the \\ ntel, An mtellJgent mecha11lc IS a velY \ aluable man' But It does not ah\ ay" follo\\ th2 t becdlhe the co~t ut convertmg the raw matellal mto the £111l~hed plOduct h e,,- cesslve the fault lJes \\ Ith the heads ot the mechanical de-partments Man} manufacturers hd\ e ta' led ~Impl) becdlbe of their obstl uctn e method" oi mLel tt1mg \\ lth the plan,., ot the heads of the JlfIerent mecha11lcal depal tmenb I could give a score of mstances \\ ho e the wten uptlOn" to the \\ ork resultmg from such mtetference hay e pi 0\ ed the undomg oi the busmess, but It IS not necessal) Ho\\ e\ er, a" an Illus-tration of Its effect and the mannel of pI actlcllH; It \\ e mIght mentIOn the case of a \\ ooel-\\ orkmg e'tablbhment that hael a monopoly of several lIne, of manutacture dnel cuuld lM\ e made barrel, of mJney undel propel lnana~cment nut the concern never pad dIvIdends out ot ItS ear111ng,." and because ItS orders were never filled on tnne, ,;ome of lh be,.,t cn"tomer,., began to manufacture these Ime, f()1 them"eh c~ or place then orders elsewhere As a sample of one day " mtel iel ence 1 \\ 111 gn e the followmg, taken from note,; 111the dldl \ ot a pel,.,on II ho had the informatIOn at £1r"t hand On ::\Ionda}, lmmedlatel) after the early mornmg mati had bee'1 reaJ, the manager II ent to the head of one of the depal tments \\ Ith d letter mqumng about order No 104D, for A B &. Co The toreman e"plamed that hIS men vvere now \\ orkmg on 01Jel ::\0 WI D, \\ hlCh would be completed anJ ready to ship by tomorro\\ (Tud- Jay) The manager ,;ald the) could not II alt and that It would be necessary to change from K 0 WID and rt1,.,h ::\0 I04D as fast as pOSSIble The fOIeman tned to expla111 that he had now changed from Ko 96D 111O1del that Xo WID mIght be rnshed out VI Ithout dela) a" It ah.J II d,., \\ anted qUlckly 'Then chang-e agam from '\0 IOID to Xo 104D,' 'iald the manager \Yhen the aftern.Jon mdl1 aHl\ eel It brought an order from C D & Sons, and marked 'Rush' Thls order was sent to the f01eman, with mc,tructlons to lay ever)thm~ el'ie aside and 1u,;h It through at once The foreman went to the office to explam to the manager the chsastt ous conse-quence of these contmual m ten uptIOn S Followlllg IS the conversatlOn "Manager-The orelel must be l;0t out dt once Foreman-These chan~e,; are co,;tl) Not onl} do thev take time, but they mtenupt the SW1l1i.; of the \lork "Manager-\V ell, lt h me who pay" fOI lt "Foreman-If \\e are g-Olllg to make an) progre'i'i in filltng these orders \\ e must work accord111g to ,;ome sys-tem \\1 e have no" made ,;evel al chang-es and none of the orders are filled, although dll al e started I have told my men that 1\0 lO-iD I" \\anted lUshed, and I dlJ the same on No WID ~ow lf I go and change them agalll, before the ordel 1" complete they wJll thlllk I don't know what I am dOlllg or that I am a bluffer "::\Ianager-::\ OIv, LlOk here, I don't care anythmg about ) oUr system and I don't care what your men thlllk, I want ) ou to change and get thb order out at once 'The followlllg day, lmmedlately after the noon hour, the hreman II a,., called mto the ofhce to explam I'vhy order \0 IOID \Vas not ready 'It ha'i been 111 for some time and 'ihould have been ready before thl';,' said the manager 'A B & Co. hay e telegraphed that unless It can be sent for\\ard at once to conslder it canceled' " In order that a furnIture factory may be succe,.,sful from e\ en standpomt It 1.0 nece'isary for each department to fit 111to the requlfements of the other and all move along to-gether as one \\ hole The machllle loom mmt feed the cabI-net loom and the cdbmet room must feed the filllShlllg room II Ith the regulallty of clockwork To hd\ e the machine rO.Jm place on the cabll1et floor several Job'i, none of whlch al e complete, "'0 that the cab111etmaker" may Stdl t all, but ~annot finbh any of them, IS to create the utmost confuslOn But \\ here the cabmet room sends several mcomplete Jobs to the filll"hmg department the confuslOn lS much greater, as there each Job must pass through vanou'i processes, each process reqUlnng tlme to dry and prepare Itself for the pro-ce,., s \,;hlch IS to follow Each proce,.,s must be noted and dated, and the amount of extra work mvolved where the Jobs g-o through plecemeal l'i 111creased m proportlOn to the nUl11- bel of parts mto which each Job lS dIVided, and is equaled only by the blundenng stupldlty which render'i such \,;ork necessary ~ ow. all thb cau"es lo"s of tllne and consequently loss of money I know there are those who thl11k that lt does not cost an) thlllg to change from one Job to another III the fin- Ish111g room, but the,;e men al e not half a,; obsen mg as the) glve themselves credlt for Xo matter m what 1111eof dCtlVlty It may be, the hghtest 111telruptlOn 1etard" progre,,,, and although the cJn'iequent lo"s "ustamed 111 one day may not be nottceable to the man 111the office, lf r011tl11ued for any length of t1111ethe'll' 1000,;e" 111 the aggregate amount to a conSiderable sum One great drawback m thiS connection l'i II hat we rmght call the "one man one Job" method of puttmg \\ork through the cabinet room This" ay of l1d\ ml; one or two men start and complete a lob fight tblOugh I" not mly co,.,tlv fOl the cabinet, but the effect on the filllshmg lS, m some mstances, almost dlsastrous Take for mstance a small shop employing fifteen to twenty cabmetmakers IN e Will suppose the men are dl\ lded mto pairs and each paIr on a different Job If WEEKLY ARTISAN -------- . - - - - - - -----------_._------------_._------_ ... ---------------------_._. ---- _. - - - - - .~ Pitcairn Varnish Company I Reliable Varnishes of Uniform Quality Our Motto: "NOT HOW CHEAP-BUT HOW GOOD" ...--- I!I 1 C. B. Quigley, Manager Manufacturing Trades Dep't. ~ . . .. . It IS one man to a J)b so much the worse It IS qUIte lIkely several of these Jobs wIll be completed m the cabinet room on the same day and arrive In the finIshing room at the same tnne Ii IS also Just pos,Ible that for several days the foreman finIsheI has been worned to find work enough to hold hIS men together Now would be a good tIme for hIm to make an effort to rush thmgs m order to mill1mize the loss sus-tamed through the mactrv ity of the past few days But he finds that "ome of them are wanted quick, and Instead of beIng able to rush thIngs and thus reduce the cost, he must add to the cost of finIshIng by dIvIdIng the Jobs that he may get some of each through Out of twenty-five sIdeboards and an equal number of tables, dressers, etc , he must rush ahead three or four of each Now, If the cabInet room had put through one Job at a tIme, or even two, WIth some men cleanIng up, others bUIld- Ing cases and others fittIng drawers, each taking hIS part as the Job was suffIciently advanced for hIm, the first of these Job" would have been pI etty well through the finIshing room by the tIme the last arrn ed, and the enforced inactlVity of the finishers vvould have been avoided, together with the consequent loss, '.'.htIe the present confusion and crowded condItion of the finIshIng room would not have occurred It IS Impo"sIble to keep a finIshing room anything lIke well balanced v\ hen the work goes to It In such a fitful way Rut the ad\ antages of thIS modern way of puttIng work thlOugh the cabInet 100m-of havmg It pass Into the finIsh- Ing 100m In an even, steady stream-are fully as great to the former as the latteI \i\ here the w')rk IS LhvIded and subdIvided Into various branches every man becomes an expert in his lIne The man '.'.ho fits dray, ere, can do lt much better and quicker than the man who 10 dOIng everythmg The man who makes mirror frames and nothIng else soon becomes, through accuracy and rapIdIty wIth whlch he does hlS work, the wonder and admir-atIOn of hIS fellow workmen ThIrty years ago an organ actIonmaker could take a board and construct an actIOn nut wlth the march of pro-gress actlOnmakInl; has been diVIded mto several depart-ments, whIch grv es each man an opportunIty to become an explft In hb hne The result of all this is that today a much bettel actIOn can be omIt f01 only a fractton of what It formerly cost These prmcIple" are all applIcable to the cabinet room of the modern hIgh-grade furnIture factory To put one or two men at w;ork on a dozen or twenty fine sideboards which will wholesale at $75 to $100 with the expectation that they WIll be maJe at a cost whIch will enable the manufacturer to sell at a faIr profit m competItJon WIth goods made under 5 Manufacturers of Factories: Milwaukee, Wis.; Newark, N. J. ---------------- -. .. - •••••• -.-....1 modern condItIOns and up-tJ-date methods IS to expect the impossIble ThIS method of doing thmgs IS a survival of the days when our forefathers hewed out for themselves homes 1ll the foree,t; when the pioneer butIt his own house and made hIS own furnIture, and when the good housewIfe spun the yarn and wove the cloth to clothe them It IS the last link in the chain WhICh bmds Us to an honored past and, although to break It may afford many a tWInge, It must be done if competitIOn is to be met, because It has no place in thIS age of great aChIe\ ements The hIgh mtellectual order of the present generatIOn of human bemgs vvill be surpassed by the IntellIgence of the generatIOn whIch IS to follow. The won-derful inventIons and ama71ng achIevements of today will be dwarfed mto m'iIgmficance when compared with the gi-gantIC achH'vemente, of the future, and the only men who WIll not be dIstanced 1ll the race for fame or fortune will be those who utIlIze e,'ery opportumty and grasp every advan-tage, no matter how "mall, that WIll enable them to keep pace WIth those about hI111m thIS rapIdly on'.'. al d movIng world ThIS does not mean dnvmg the workmen to see how much can be ground out of them It means the exerCIse of that God-glVen bram power WhICh every man IS supposed to possess There are many heads of departments who grind thier men from morn to nIght who, 1f they exercised one-half the energy 1ll ImproVIng methods of domg work, or adopt-mg methods now tned and found satIsfactory, that they dIS-play m watchmg and pushmg theIr men would obtain re-sults much more "atIsfactory from the standpoint of both quantIty and quahty MIsery 10\ e" company, but the company isn't apt to call agam po--_. ... _. -- ------~------_._--- ------------ i I I THE WEATHERLY INDIVIDUAL Glue Heater SeoJ your aJJre.. aoJ aoJ receIve Je.cr,ptive Circular of Glue Beaters. Glue Coolier. aoJ Bot Boxes WIth prIces. The Weatherly Co. Grand Rapid •. Mich. . ---_._-------~ that the old chair is not 1D keeping with the new desk, or he needs a new filmg ca~e or a table to gIve his office a more up-to-date look These sales I have found in many cases to be more profitable than the first sale, and even if one does not ~ell a thmg, It demonstrates that one IS mterested in seeing that the customer is entirely satisfied In many instances aftel I reach the offIce, the purchaser is in a quandary as to w here to place his purchase, and I am called upon for sug-gestIOns By giving them in a diplomatic way, I can recom-mend that the desk be placed in a certain place, and he then finels that he has room for a table or an additional chair, fil-mg devIce or something that he needs Such sales are profit-able, as hIs fnends will call and compliment him on his office, \1 hlch IS a fine advertisement. In sellmg furmture I never try to load a customer up. nor do I try to sell a customer a $150 desk where a $75 desk will do 1\ hen a customer comes to me and explains his wants, I put mvself in hi'3 place and try to interest him in furniture that WIll not only be servIceable, but a source of satisfaction. I would not have him feel when he enters his office, that I had talked hIm Into something that CO'3t more than his business could profitably afford Big sales are a source of satisfaction, but a satisfied customer IS of more importance, as it results in future trade, and a personal feeling towards one, which com-mends one to his friends. Not long ago, I walked into the office of a large concern and found that SIX months before they had placed their wants Illth a firm II hlch had loaJed them up with $720 worth of filing ,Ie, Ices. and a ~,~tem from which they were not gettmg the '3en Ice the} expected and they were "ready to throw everybody out that came 111 talking system" After some persuasion, he consented to listen to me, and I sat down and went over his C'ntlre svstem I simplified It down for him to such an extent that his ,,,ant'3 only demanded a little over $200 warth of file;:; and supplIe~ I then offered to help him dispose of the '3urplus stock for a ~light commission, which offer he accepted and he in turn proposed that I take all the other goods and pnt mine in their place Thi;:; I consented to do, and in a short tlme I had his file'3 disposed of and he is now using ours A month or so after" ards a gentleman came into the store, \\alked back to my desk and sat down He gave me his card and said that he was in the market for an entire office outfit. Ive went up ~tall s to our show room, and after I had shown him my entire stock, he gave me an order for over $1,000 II orth of furniture I wa'3 amazed to realize how easily the order came to me, and my curiosity was aroused I had hardly returned to my desk when the telephone bell rang. and my fnend '" horn I had helped out' with the filing devices said: "\fr Blank is down in my office and has just told he that he ha~ placed ",ith you his entire office outfit order, and I just ,'Vant to say that 1 sent him to you as an appreciation of the '3ervice yoU rendered me a '3hort time ago" Both these orders heli e since been added to conSIderably, besides the advertise-ment I got through the publIc seeing this offIce ",hich I fitted up Thm the servIce I rendered was the mean;:; of pulling for me not onlv two good friends, but profitable sales and customers '\ at long ago 1 landed another sale of filing devices that ran 0\ er $3,500 This '3ale was made without any competition ""hen I obtained the information of this contemplated pur-chase, I went to the secretary of the company and offered him BUYING AND SELLING OFFICE FURNITURE Pointers Wrought From Experience in Managing a Furniture Department That May Be of Value to Many Dealers. George B Wray, the author of the followmg article, is the manager of the offIce furmture department of VVIllIam B Burfold of IndianapolIs No dealer in the Hoosier state is better known than Burford, and MI Vi,!ray, as one of hIS chiet assistants, is a man fully qualIfied to speak on the sub-ject of the selection and sale of offIce furmture, sav~ the editor of "Office Appliances," ChIcago, from which It is r:,- printed: Office furniture of a modern type has become such a necessity during the past five years that no business concern can now afford to be WIthout it, and dealers in the several lines must recognize the condItions existing today to success-fully compete in this important branch of business In selecting office furniture, '3uch as filing devices, desks and chairs, four points should be considered by the dealer, first, the quality of the line, second. its publicity; third It;:; completeness, and fourth, the co-operation of the manufac-turer When I selected my desk lines, I had one aim, namely, to obtain the agency for a good high grade line, and alsJ a good medium line I dIvided the desk manufacturers into two classes, as a concern which makes high grade goods doe'3 not care to put its time m making medmm price desks, and likewise, the medium pnce manufacturer has not the facllItle'3 to turn out high grade goods Now m selecting a lIne, I always take a trip to the factory, and see and study for myself how the goods are made The first thing I hunt i'3 the glue pot to see if the glue they are using is made m a brass kettle and fresh every day I figure that the grade of glue used IS very important in the construction of a desk and its abllih to stay together after it reaches the customer Some concerns are inclined to Use the old glue after it becomes cold This is a mistake, as it does not have the proper strength after it once becomes cold, and the agent IS the one i\ ho suffers if the desk comes apart or the veneer cracks after It reaches the customer The next thing I see is the dry kilns to find in what manner the wood is dried After that, I go through the different departments to learn to what extent good II orkman-ship and fidelity to details is used Il1 turning out the goods Having followed these rules, I take the agenc} for a line of goods, and I am ready to stand by the lme so long as it proves satisfactory, and I guarantee and stand back of every piece of furnitrue I sell Of cour'3e to .:10 this, you must know your lines I figure that a satisfied customer will tell his friends. and they in turn will come to you for their furniture. The trade I am after is the future. for this is where we get our success and profits. Now in selling and displaying furniture, a great deal depends on the show room and the way the goods are di'3- played, for many times a good display sells the furniture Constant changing of di'3plays, I find is a great advantage, not only in the show room, but Il1 the windows also. One thing must be done and that IS, the elimmation of dust, not only on the outside of the furniture, but also in the drawers pigeon holes and openings 1\1so the brass feet, handles and label holder~ should always be shl11ing This IS especiallv important WIth mahogany and weathered oak In delivering furniture to a customer, I 'TIake it a point to carefully inspect every pIece that leave'3 our store, and see that it is properly placed on the wagon for safe delivery I have found that it pays to follow up a delivery, a'3 the pur-chaser, after he gets the de'3k in hl'3 office frequently discovers WEEKLY ARTISAN 7 These Specialties are used all Over the World ., f V.neer Pre ..... dIfferent kind. and .ize. (Pale.led) Veneer Presses Glup Spreaders Glue Heaters Trucks, Etc" Etc. Hand Feed Glueinc Machin. (P.1eIl1 pendm•. ) Many .tyle. and .ize •• Wood·Working Machinery and Supplies Power Feed Glue SlIreadine Machine, Sincle, Double and Combiaation. (Palented) (Size. 12 in. to 84 in wide.) LET US KNOW YOUR WANTS N. 20 Glu. Heater CHAS. E. FRANCIS COMPANY, Main Office and Works, Rushville, Ind. No.6 Glu. H•• t.r. my services. I found that he was a very busy man, so I set to work and laid out hIS entire outfit, J1lustrateJ and mapped out In such a way that all he had to do was to lay my illustration before the board of dire.ctors They were clear, prices opposite each outfit and they could see what It would cost to install each department wIth files The rcsult was, I obtamed the entire order through the serVIce I gave to the secretary Good servIce is one of the most important thmgs in sell-ing furniture The clerk or mana~er should be well versed not only in hIS own line, but also his competItors Also the sales-room shouLl not be crowded The furmture should be well dIsplayed S0 that the customer can see It from all angles and not have to look over other goods to get a proper vIew of the artIcle m questIOn In displaymg chaIrs, I have them arranged all over my show-room, not bunched together, but so placed that the customer wJ11 aCCIdentally drop into one, and If the chair feels comfortable, hIS mterest is aroused, and m many cases I close a sale right on the spot I think it is also a good Idea to have model ofhces fitted up. showmg an entire outfit ready for delivery WIth a neat display card stating the price of the entIre outfit There are many buyers who come m with the mtentlOn of fitting up an office, but with no Idea of what they ~ant only that they do not deSIre to spen,i over a cer-tam amount You can show a customer your model offIce and he sees lust what he wants Now perhaps thIS amounts to more than he desires to pay, so you suggest to take out a certain piece and then he sees that the office looks bare WIth-out it, and he wants it returned, and gives you the order for the entIre display DIsplays hke thIS not only save your time, but also that of your customer It shows him that you are up-to-date and makes purchasing easy, for what IS so con-fusing as to take a customer into a show-room where there are - 25 to 50 desks, t~ice as many chairs, and a dozen or more tables and 50 feet of filing devices, and expect him to purchase an offIce outfit? It IS not only hard for him, but gIves him the opportunity for an argument as to why this piece is more and that piece less One thmg I always try to keep clear of is an argument with a customer, I use all my energy in shm,- ing the workmanship and the points about the furniture, and thus get him so enthUSIastic over It that price is a mmor consideration In arrangmg filing devices I use two schemes On one floor of our showroom I have n ery pIece of sectIOnal sections made, arranged together, namely, the vertIcal upnghts on the same idea, and the small cabinets on top and around them so that the customer can see every sectIOn or cabinet. On an-other floor I have a large table with easy chairs around it, and m front of thIS table I have arranged ten system stacks of sys-tem'l that are the most popular in use If a customer comes m and desJres to see a stack of filing devices that will be SUItable for takmg care of his mail order and follow-up sys-tem, I show hIm my stack covenng thIS system with the guides and everything pertaining to it arranged in the differ-ent drawers, the label holders having printed labels show-mg the subjects This idea appeals to the customer, as he 'lees hIS scheme worked out Sometimes some changes are made, but the appearance and the system stands before him, the sale is qUlckly secured Instead of the buying being a bore and a strain on both the customer and one's self, it is a pleas-ure The customer's time is not wasted while you build up and tear down a stack to suit his ideas, hand cards to show him the system and many other things, and consequently he has tIme to look around and see your other lines This also demonstrates to hIm that you and your store have the facilities for giving the nght kmd of service with every sale T have found that a great many houses which sell filing deVIces neglect the most Important part of the sale from the money POint of view, that is, supplies that go WIth a cabinet or section They exert all theIr efforts to sell the furniture and let theJr competItors sell the supplies "hich is the cream of the sales m fihng deVIces As an IllustratIOn take a four dra" er vertical cabmet The supphes for this cabinet will coml st of one set No 1fiO alpha1betical press-board guides, one set No 160 alphabetical folders, 500 blank folders, one-half cut, also, when his file becomes full, he wJ11 need transfer cases, another set of alphabetical folders, and 500 one-half cut folders The proportionate discount to the dealer is greater upon these supplies than upon the cabinet Besides all thIS, it brings the customer into the store, keeps him away from the competitor, who in time might replace your cabinet with his own and spOIl your chances for other sales Thus it IS important that one should not only have a bright attractIve store with well displayed stock, but salesmen, who, when they sell an artIcle can '(ell everything that be-longs to the system Also, salesmen should study not only then stock, but be famlhar WIth the quality and prices of the stock of competitors. In being tl ue to the interests of the customer, one is true to one's employer and to one's self other "Wants man finds a source of JOy and a spIrit of dehght m playmg the game of busmes'i for the game's sake Men who do thmgs often find that they ha\ e progressed m theIr cho"en vocatIOn untIl by Jegrees It has become theIr avocatIon as \\ ell, and therel11 he'i the true germ of lastmg progress '\ 0 co-operatn e plan whIch Ignores or operates to suppress the mdlvlduahty of It" aJherent UllltS or fads to prOVIde the widest pO'islble scope for theIr exercIse and development need occasion surpn;;,e If the result aImed at end~ m dlSappOl11tment Befm e undertakmg any ambItIOus schemes let ItS sup-porters be sure that they understand each other and each other's respective quahficatlOns for the task m ml11d, as well as the temperamental equations whIch must come into play and wdl leave theIr Impre,,'i on the progress of their work It l'i not wI~e to overnde honest prejudIce nor even unfounded fear m the adoptIOn of plans whIch must for theIr successful \\ orkmg depend upon the good will and co-operatIOn of all concerned The workmg out of many problems will m their last analysb be found not matters for paper elUCIdation, but for research, expenment and thoughtful stUdy m the presence of actual condItions OrgalllzatlOn'i are not so much in danger from without :lS from \\ Ithm-from domg too httle as from attemptmg to do too much-nor from eIther so much a;;, from dIstrust of one another''i motrves. I ha\ e been lllfluenced to make the foregOIng ob'iervatl Jns at the n'ik of becommg tlfesome and bemg charged with preachmg generahtles, because I feel convmced that the prin- CIple.., m, oh ed and the lessons whIch they teach are funda-mental and must be kept constantly m mmd as the gUldmg stan of ) our orgalllzatlOn In every 'itruggle for survi, al or for supremacy those UllltS of actIOn whIch are best eqUIpped sClentIficall) and most capable of concerted actIOn-other thl11gs being equal-wIll always prevaIl Osten'ilbl), all aS'iociatlOns are formed and fostered "WIth ..,ome defilllte obJect" In vIew Trade a"soclatlOns for better trade condltlOn'i, pohtlcal associatIOns for better government. and so on RetaIl furlllture dealers' assocIatIOns may be a pO\\ er for good, but, hke all other force'i for good, they must be mtelhgentl) dIrected or they wIll not reahze the more sub-stantIal benefits whIch the law of co-operatIOn affords The "oclal SIde of the"e assocIatIOns makes fnends of competitors anJ leads to a better under~tandlng and hIgher appreciatIOn of the other fellow'~ motives, better acquaintance means FURNITURE MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS From. an Address Delivered by O. H. L. Wernicke to the North Carolina Retail Furn-iture Dealers' Association, August 10, 1910. THE GEO. B. LUPFER CO., 262-94 North Hanover St., Columbus, Ohio. Mr. Lupfer having sold his interests in the firm in which he was a full partner for sixteen years, during which time he had full charge of the manufacture of Fine bedding, wishes to announce to the Furniture Trade that he has organized the Geo. B. Lupfer Company. Purchased an up-to-date Factory building, installed the best and most modern machinery for manufacturing a superior line of Mattresses, Box Springs, Woven and Coil Wire Springs, Feathers and Pillows. Guaranteed in quality and price. You are invited to call and examine the merits of our lines. With our New Equipment, long experience and square dealing, we solicit a portion of your business, which will have our immediate and best attention. Samples shown only with F. T. Plimpton & Co., 1319 Michigan Ave., Chicago, III. (4th floor), and at the factory The pnnclples of co-operatIOn by whIch an added force may be gIven to human purpose'i 111 every department of so-cIety. are so well and generally understood In our hme and theIr advantages so defillltely proven and WIdely apprecIated that extended argument m support of the general propo"ltlOn seems to me hardly nece'isary before thl'i bod) of merchant" I shall, however, try to bnng out the particular phases of co-operatIOn bearing on the condItIOns and the posslblhtles of the furlllture industry It WIll not be senously dIsputed that capItal for enter-prises which are wholly depenJent upon mdlvldual effort tor permanent succes" IS becoming scarcer and scarcer every year, and other eVIdence accumulates rapIdly to emphaSIze the old adage that "In unIOn there IS strength" SocIety IS growing m knowledge and wealth at an amazing pace. old forms of do-ing things prove madequate to the new wants that are bemg contmually created, modern mdustnal conditlOn" are con'-tant-ly becommg more complex and the tendency to ne\\ demand~ m thmgs IS mcreasmg the burden of supplymg them Shght reflection wIll show that a higher degree of skIll and ablhty IS required to meet these new condItions, and the neces~lt) oJ: organized effort, consIstent WIth the time In whIch \\ e In e, IS becoming more apparent to all who are mtere"ted m the welfare of large enterprise'i, but whIle these e, olutlOnar) pro-cesses are makmg themselves everywhere felt, the depth of theIr meanmg I" not always understood or apprecIated b) those who are affected thereby There IS abundant eVI\lence on e, er) hand that co-opera-tion IS the pnnClple through whIch present day busme"s I, seeking rehef from the mcrea"mg complexltle" \\ hlch beset our industrie", the Idea, however, IS represented b) tv\O db-tinct economIC schools, agreeing as to the potency of co-op-eratIOn but dlffenng almost oppOSItely as to the pollC) \\ hlch should govern these forces One IS monopohstlc and al bl-trary, the other SCIentific and constructive, and we are mdeeed blind If we have not already seen that the former contam~ the "eeds of economic sophistry and IS ndmg for a fall to\\ al J~ the rocks of pubhc opmlOn I do not WIsh to convey the Idea that success IS Improb-able, or even doubtful, unless co-operatIOn IS It" gUldmg pnn-clple and ruhng force On the contrary, the spmt of mdn d-ual illltlatlve and of achIevement gIves ample proof that "uch is not the case Above and supenor to the Idea of makmg money to prOVIde hIm WIth hIs nece""ltles and to ;;,upply 11ls . ._ .. ANNOUNCEMENT. :... , .. WEEKLY ARTISAN 9 p- ----------------------- ..__._......._-_._----_._._._---...---_. _. _.------------- 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:~:8u~~:~~M:U~:S~KoErGON, MICH, New York Office, 369 Broadway, L. E. Moon, Manager . - t... .. greater respect and establishes that broader and more chari-table bas1s for mutual confidence and esteem without which the highest 1deals and the most advanced methods in business would remain but names. These steppmg stones on the road of progress must not be mistaken for the final goal. They are but the fragrant and showy blossoms which precede the ripened fruit. There are two elements, either one of which will blight the efforts of any association The name of one is Distrust; the other, In-difference; and of the two the latter is the worse. There are three kinds of co-operation: the kind that helps nobody, the kind that helps somebody at the expense of some-body else and the kind that helps everybody. The first is a waste of hme, resulting in misspent energy and neglect of op-portumties for gooJ; the second works on the principle of helping yourself at the expense of another; the third is the worst of all forms because it means monopoly, and the idea of monopoly is the same as robbery. There is no difference between enforced consent to robbery and robbery by force; in pnneiple they are alike and a people who refused by the blood of their sires to be taxed without representation will not permanently endure robbery m any form whatsoever. The only form of co-operatlOn that is worth whl1e is the third; it benefits everybody and hurts nobody. The progress of the world in every department of life may be traced to helpful co-operation. All other efforts of that nature have resulted in failure because they engendered op-position which grew stronger and stronger unhI its force was great enough not only to res1st but to destroy its enemy---- and so w1ll it ever be. The furmture men all over th1s great country of ours have orgamzed or are organizmg for mutual benefit. This movement has found expression among manufacturers as well as among merchants. Look wherever you will and organized co-operation confronts us, whether among the machine hands, the cabinetmakers, the carvers, the finishers, the tnmmers, the shipping clerks, the salesmen or the big bosses. So, also, with the merchants and the various subdivisions of their in-stitutions. There is nothing very new or even alarming in this state of affairs. It simply means that the world is still progressing and that better and higher standards are de-manded by those whom we attempt to serve for personal gain. The one great common error wh1ch business men commit is that they take mankind too seriously. It is inconsistent w1th human nature to be senous. Man is a frivolous creature by instinct. I mean by th1s that what we call civilization and progress is nothmg more or less than sentiment----a desire to shllle and to satlsfy the wants created by your own desires. It is, therefore, good business to stimulate the wholesome desires of others in order to create new and greater wants to be supplied by ourselves. I doubt if more than one-tenth of the money expended by a people goes for their actual needs. The rest of it goes for wants. There is a vast difference be-tween human needs and human wants. All that anyone re-ally needs is food and shelter sufficient to sustain life and health, and these are abundantly supplied by Mother Nature. Beyond these simple needs, which every living creature enjoys, oUr activities have to do with our wants, and this rep-resents business or commerce. Furniture is a human want----not a neC'essity-and it fol-lows logically that every effort which results in a greater de-sire for furniture will benefit those who a1e engaged in that business. It follows, also, that all of us, whether we make or sell furniture, should co-operate to enlarge the desire for more and better furniture. It is the one and only sane solution for all of the socalled evils of the trade. The only way to bring this about is by organized efforts to create more inter-est in furniture. There is no such thing as over-production in our industry; but we are suffering from under-education. A nation that spends seven times as much to support its government as it does for furmture needs furniture education and not curtailment of production. A nation that supports one saloon for every five or six hundred inhabitants and has but one furniture store for every five thousand needs furniture education. A nation that spends more for tobacco, for coffee, for car fare and for an endless variety of other human wants and luxuries than it does for furmture can be educated to want more and better furniture. The annual sale of furniture in the United States is only about $1 SO for each person. Think of it! Why, it would not pay car fare for a month 1 I want you to take this simple truth home with you and think it over until you fully realize what it means; and I want yoU to con-sider whether you are doing what is for the betterment of the business or whether you are simply drifting aimlessly on. I want you to ask yourself whether your Association is doing anything to create a desire for more and better furniture or whether it is merely an Association which is trying to make business better by a vain effort to choke off competition. One trouble with the business is that few people know enough about furniture to interest anybody, and the public seldom buys the thing in which its interest has been aroused and cultivated. We need more foolishness over furniture, more furniture talk-call it whatever you please; but. remember, we need it just the same. Start any fad or fashion, give it interesting publicity, endow it with sentiments that appeal to people's (Continued on page 12.) 10 ------,-------------------,- -, Carpet Trade in Julv. Trade for the month of July in the carpet and rug trade have turned out better than was generally hoped for, accord-ing to reports from several selling agents 111 the east. July is usually a very dull month for manufacturers and sellIng a-gents, as retatlers are busy with their summer trade, and Jobbers are more interested in making deliverIes on orders already booked In several quarters sales are reported as shlShtly ahead of those for the corresponding month last yeal \V lth the opening of the new month there are signs of some nTIprovement in the demand. Quite a few buyers have come into the market. and while they are not placing orders freely, they are looking over the situtation and picking up any cheap, salable lots that can <behad. Stocks 111 retail hands are said to be in good shape, and the large pur-chases which were made at the auction sale in May, have been comfortably taken care of. The retail trade throughout the west and middle west has been good. and many of the reports coming through from as far as the PaCific coast. show that there has been a fair amount of retail bus1l1ess during the past month. Rugs have been lSood, especlally in the oriental designs in domestic goods. \lany of the American consumers are taking these goods in place of Oriental rugs. as they claim that they are cleaner, and theJr wearing qualities excellent. Although there has been a good demand for rugs, piece goods have also come in for a very fair share of the trade, and well known lines such as the Hartford. have secured better orders than those booked a year ago. Reports still vary. according to the quarter from whence they come Some selling agents object to the statements that husmess has been fair, and claim that the past month has been unusually dull ¥,'here prices have been reasonable, and the patterns attractive, buyers have shown interest. Outside of the usual summer close down at the mills, there have been few complaints reaching the eastern markets of manufacturers placmg their plants on short time Quite a few improvements have been going on in the mills this summer, and everything has been put 111 readiness for a good fall and winter business. Some acldltions have been made to certain plants, and taken as a whole it does not appear as if the carpet trade had been passing through a very poor season. Late advices from Canada state that road salesmen are out wlth new lines for the spring season of 1911. Canadian mills have been giving considerable attention to rugs in Oriental patterns. and extensive ranges are now being shown for the new season Greens occupy a very prominent position in the new Canadian lines. mostly in dark rich effects, with designs of a lighter shade. Medallion centres have about passed out, and are being replaced by square-borderea de-s. igns, with the centre entirely plain. Mulberry shades are making their appearance, and promise to become a feature in the spring trade ... FOX SAW DADO WEEKLY ARTISAN HEADS GREATEST RANGE QUICKEST ADJUSTMENT LEAST TROU&LE PERFECT SAFETY Also Machine KnlvsJ. Miter Machlnss. Etc. 185 N. Front Strset. Grand Rapid •• Mlch .. - _. ...~ SMOOTHEST GROOVES FASTEST CUT LEAST POWER LONGEST LIFE ROLLS ------------ ------1 For Bed Caps, Case Goods, Table Legs and many other purposes; in Gum, Mahogany and Quartered Oak Veneers. Th8 F811wock Auto & Mfl!. CO. EVANSVILLE, INDIANA ----- -..... -_._----------_. These saws are made from No. 1 Steel and we war-rant every blade. We also carry a full stock of Bev-eled Back Scroll Saws. any length and Kauge. Write .. f.r Prie. LIII& ...d .....,0_& 31-33 S. Front St., ORANDRAPIDS, MIClI. BOYNTON &, CO. Manufatlur«Iof Embo ... d and Turned Mou\cl· in ... , Embol" ad and Spindle Carvinlrl. & n d Automatic Turoln ••. We aJ.o manu-fa~ UIe a lerae be 01 Embo .... d Ornaments for Coucb Work. 1725-1739 Dickson Street, CHICAGO, ILL. Ws'll iladly tell you all about It. PERMANENT ECONOMY FOX MACHINE. CO. .. SEND FOR •• --1 Bones and Rocks. Everybody has heard about "bones of contention," and "rocks" of offense, but it was reserved for the Carrier Lumber and Manufacturing company of Sardis Miss., to explain it be-ter than anyone else In a letter to C. W. Manning, 66 Broad street, NY., which appears in the advertisement of the Grand Rapids Veneer Works on another page of this week's issue of the Weekly Artisan. it is so clearly explained that anybody can understand it. Look it up. It is sometimes difficult to distinguish between oppor-tunity and temptation. WBEKLY ARTISAN UTradeWeeku in St. Louis. The St. Louis Furniture Board of Trade is an organi-zation of the furniture manufacturers of that city, and it embraces all of them, with one or two exceptions. who are banded together for the benefit of the furlllture trade in general and for the betterment of this ml1rket in pqrti~ulqr Several years ago the custom was established of holding a "trade week" tWice a year during the market season. and in choosing the date for these meetmgs the convemence and best mterests of the retail dealer has been the object :"ought With this in view the board has set the date for the ~um-mer meeting for the week beginl1lng August 15 The Board has advertised "trade week" liberally and several thousands of invitatlOns have been mailed to dealers throughout the tern tory tributary to St. Louis. A'San extra inducement for buyers the Board proposes to pay part of the expenses of the trip. Buyers traveling less than a hundred miles, who visit St. Louis and buy $150 worth of furniture from members of the board during "trade week" will receive full return railroad fare. Those who have to travel more than 100 and less than 200 miles, must buy $300 worth in order to obtain return fare and the amount to be purchased increases until it reaches $1,000 for those who live more than 500 miles from 5t Louis. All railroads belonging to the Southwestern Passenger association and the Western Passenger association have in effect, during August, a "summer tourists' rate," to St. Louis and return. on a basis of 2c per mile each way, (this rate does not apply to any tern tory in Missouri or the northern half of Arkansas). Buyers are expected to purchase round-trip tickets. When they arrive in 5t. Louis they are to call at the office of the 5t. Louis Furniture Board of Trade, 810 Olive street, and register with H. 5 Tuttle, the manager. When purchases are completed they are to furnish the manager with a memor-andum of the amount purchased from the members of the St Louis Furniture Board of Trade. The manager will then return one-half of the amount of the round-trip ticket. "Trade week" will also be the week of the "Made in St. Louis" show at the Coliseum. While the title of this exhi-bition sounds like a local affair. everyone who attends it is assured, "be he from New York City or Beaumont, Texas. that they will be delighted with what they see, and will pronounce it a great show-just as more than 100,000 people did last year." Elected President. Benjamin Bosse, who was recently elected president of the Business Men's Association of Evansville, Ind. in one of the "live wires" of that hustling city Mr. Bosse is an offi-cial of several prosperous furniture manufacturing corpor-ations and will make an efficient head of the business men's association. During his incumbency of the office of president there will be "something doing" in the association every minute. His first work will be devoted to largely increa'ling the membership. Machinery Installed. The addition to the plant of the John Widdicomb com-pany has been provided with machinery, increasing the ca-pacity of the factory twenty-five per cent. The addition con-tains five floors 80 x 100 feet in size, and an "L" is 24 x 60. The total floor space of the Fifth street factory of the com-pany is about 200.000 square feet. The capacity of the Kent factory is fully as large. Six hundred tnen are employed. ,.-. - ..,. Dodds' Tilting Saw Table No.8 We lake p1elllure lDlDlroduClDg10 you our new Saw Table The base IS Ilm,lar 10 whal we have been uung on our No 4 Saw Table. only we have made ,I larger on Ihe 800r The ralsma: and lowenDI deVice 1$ the same at we have on the No 4 Machine. WIth lever and pllman The lever 's made of sleel The .rbor IS made of I %-lDch steel. runmng In long nng m1ma bon •• and IS for I-inch hole lDsaw. We furnISh one 14-lach saw on each maclune It wul carry a 16-mch .aw If demed Table 1$ made Wlth a center .ltde 12 mche. w,de Wllh a movement of 21 mches It hal a lockmg deYlce to hold ,t when you do not wISh to use ,t. and hal a detachable mitre llUage to be used when usmg the Ihdma-table. Can crOls cut With table extended 10 24 mches. also np up to 24 mchel w,de Table has a removable Ihroallhat can be taken out when uSlna dado It .Iso has two mItre guages for reguJar worle and a two J.1dednp guase that can be used on. nlher SIde of lhe saw. more espeCJalIywhen the table 'I blted, also a biting np aauge to be used to cut bevel work when you do not WIShto bit the table The top IS 40x44 mche. Countershalt hili T & L pulleys 10xl4mches, and the dnve pulley 16x5 mches. counter- .haft .hould run 800 Makmg ,n all about as complete a machme as can be found and at a leasonable pnce Wnte us and we wul be pleased to quote you pnc.. Addr .... ALEXANDER DODDS, CO., ~)-)83 Canal St., Gr ....d RapId., Mich. _____ o~ ~----.---.-_---. _._0· ._._.__ • __ • ~ ,I I Palmer's Patent Gluinlr Clamps The aboYecn* .. _ken dJnet from a photosraph. ADd ....... the ra.D6e 01 on. .b. onl7. our No.1. U-Inch Clamp. Wo make .Ix other ...... *akinlr In atock up to 60 Inch.. will. ADd = lncJIao thick. Oara.. the mod practical method 01 ......plnc clued Hoek III aM at tho preaeDt tJme. H_llnda 01 ladorlu hayOadopted our waT the put .,_ and hunllnda mo... wID la Ulo tature. Let 1U allow 7Oa. Le* a. .eDd Ton the _ea 01 n_IT 100 I.. rlM (oDITa Iraetton ot our Hit) who aye ordered and reordered mllDTttmea. Prool poaltlye our .. aT .. tho bu*. A poa* card wID brine 1*.CIOtaloeIncladed. Don't lIel,., but wrI*o uda:r. A. E. PALMER &, SONS, Owosso, MICH. .. 11 ..... • 0 ~ • ------ ---- -----,-~~--------------- Rockford Chair and Furniture Co. 12 WEEKLY ARTISAN Furniture Manufacturers and Dealers. (Contmued from page 9.) wants and forthwith it IS a seller 1 This sort of educatIOn knocks over-production into a cocked hat There IS never any trouble over prices or profits when the demand equals or exceeds production, and if we can make people want to spend two dollars for furniture where they were spending but one dollar before there would be no "Jobs" at half pnce, no complaint about mail order competItion and no threats to boy-cott the manufacturers The average furlllture man remmds me of the hoot-owl going to a funeral; in fact, many of them combme the funeral busmess with furnIture and wonder why It IS that the thnfty young bride endowed with thoughts of Me and gaiety does not come into his store and SIt around among the coffms and other mortuary emblems while selecting some furnIture for her nest. How many of us in the business really know some inter-esting things to say about furnlture-someth111g that would make some other person want to spend hIS money for It? Mighty few! The reason for this IS that furniture manufac-turers have been narrow minded regarding publicity and blind to their own interests They have not taken the publIc Into their confidence by telling them the many interesting thlllgS that may be said about furnIture The talented desIgner and the skilled producer have hugged their own knowledge of 111- teresting furniture lore so closely to their bosoms that they have nearly squeezed the life out of it. They shut themselves up like a jack-knife for fear that some one may steal an idea from them Ideas, like grains of wheat, only grow and multi-ply when they are scattered broadcast in the soil. A disagree-able truth is sometimes a better business asset than the most pleasant fiction, but the truth need not be dIsagreeable It is usually quite pleasant to take when one gets the habIt It is largely a matter of acquired taste and should be CUltI-vated with dIligence * * * * There is not a single commodIty in the realm of human wants about which more interesting things can be saId or written than about furnIture It IS with us 111JOy or sorrow, al-most every hour of the day from the cradle to the grave The making of furniture is an ancient craft, trace of which is lost only where history begins In all stages in all coun-tries the degree of civilization achieved may be read in the SI-lent records of its furniture and its architecture. The furni-ture craftsman of each generation has been confronted with ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS Dining 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 July on the third floor of the Blodgett Building, Grand Rapids, Mich. problems of \'; hlch hI" pI edecessOf never dreamed There is, probably, no phase of the furnIture bu"mess in which our sev-eral mterests can not be advanced by taking advantage of the opportulllty whIch thIS co-operative movement affords, and until the good that can be derIved from the forces and the knowledge we already have IS realind It would seem to be a doubtful expedIent to go farther The furniture mdustry in thIS country has developed out of ~impler surroundmgs than v,e no\\ enJoy, and m the natUle of things the men who are Identified WIth It dId not need to have a very hIgh degree ;)f scientific kno\\ledge a~ a basis fOJ thclr techlllcal trainlllg, and It IS but natural that \'; e should find ourselv es confronted with <;ome problems \\ lllch demand hIgher qualIficatlOns for their solutIOn k '" -1< The maklllg and selllllg of good fur11ltUl e are complicated processes, combllllllg skill, SCIence, art and commercial wis-dom. All these reqUlrements al e Iarely met WIth III one estab-lIshment and almost ne\ er in one per:oon Each respective UUlt of a co-operative body may have 111 ItS ov\ n way built up a busIlles<; more or less successful III character, and there may be wIth III each concern a degree of ,,1011, talent and order up to the average found III SImIlar lmes elsewhere when meas-ured by eXIstlllg standards of effICIency It may, therefore, be taken for granted that no lef1ectIon IS meant and that no credIt or honor is taken away from any person or concern If we now set about to examme the standards them ~elves to see If they are suffIcient for our present need:o, as well as for those more complex problems which will soon be prcssmg for solu-tion It is my purpose to bring forCIbly to your mmds the fact that whel e progress in the art IS pOSSIble It w11l sooner or later be made by some one, and that there al e always import-ant advantages to be gamed by getting there first. There 13 one thought \'; hlch appeals to me WIth Impressive force and seems to find confirmatIOn 111 expellence Smce the development, productIOn and use of good hunltUle appeal to the sentImental and aribtlc consideratlOn of people \'; Ith about the same force as they do their practical notIOns, It follows that extreme economies in its productIOn, ~ale and distnbu-tion, whIle deserving of careful thought and attentIOn, are not of such Importancc as to 0\ ershadow all others, and herein hes the need of educatIOnal work, whIch takes ac-count of the wants, thoughts and sympathies of the people of our time and \'; 111be expressed m the quahty, character and deSIgns of our furniture WhIle It may be true that WEEKLY ARTISAN Henry Sohmit 8' Co. HOPKINS AND HARRIET STS. Cincinnati, Ohio makers of Upholstered Furniture for LODGE and PULPIT. PARLOR. LIBRARY. HOTEL and CLUB ROOM '"---~----------_. -- -_._-------~ httle can be added to fUll1lture designs as received from eatlier penods. it IS also true that each epoch in the history of every progl eSSlVenation has left ib distlllct impress upon furniture, and we have the same opportunity to express the dommant fOlces of our time In our furniture and thereby discharge our debts to the past by legacies to posterity Thi" need not take the form of deSigns alone. but may find expl e"S1On in many other ways, such as quality, practical ideas and a greater harmony in all these. I should hke to see every member of your organization provided with the cUJrent furniture literature of today, to-gether with the best text books pertaining to the various branches of furniture. science and art I believe it is quite possible for your organization to make itself felt in a center of thought which shall guide and direct, if it does not origi-nate, the dommant note in all that will be said or written about good furniture Thel e is to me somethlllg inconSistent III the semi-an-nual revolutIOn" of styles and designs as against the further refinement of the good, strong and popular deSign') and the artful improvement of their details and conveniences. The practice which prey ails seems to me to cheapen the designer's art and prostitute the glonous opportunities which our time and circumstances have placed upon his altar A creation 111furniture in which there bl eathes the soul of genius and which radiates the sklll and talents of the craftsman, even although its lllles be plain and Its cost a modest amount, can no mal e be successfully copied that the creation upon can-vas of a Raphael \Ve have an opportul11ty to set up stan-dard,., of our own and to educate the buy ing publlc up to them, III other words, to choose our own vantage ground where the public wlll be With us and Will accept our views If we only set about It in the right vvay and with the right spmt Your interests and mine; the lllterests of every furniture retaller and of every manufacturer are absolutely identical We are all in the same boat; whatever hurts or helps the re-tailer also affects the manufacturer. and vice versa. There are really but two Sides of the problem The producer and the seller on one hand and the consumer on the other hand It IS plalll to all that in the end you retailers will only sell as much furniture as the consumer can be induced to buy; and If the manufacturer produces more than that or you lay in any more than that one or both will be stuck for it. You can not make consumers want more furniture by keeping them in ignorance regardlllg the most interestlllg facts about it; and one of the most 111tensely interesting facts about furni-ture from a consumer's pomt of view is that it was made by a house that knov. show. Many retailers prefer to believe that their word goes farther With a consumer than anything the manufacturer can say. Sometimes that is true but the smartest dealer does not know as much about a piece of furniture as the man who made It He may have the confidence of his neighbors ~- _._-_ , ~ A. L. HOLCOMB &. CO. Manufacturers of HIGH GRADE OROOVINO SA WS DADO SAWS I - . CItizens' Phone 1239 21 N. Market St •• Grand R.aplds, Mich. but he can not make them believe he knows that which in fact he does not know The responsible merchant who handles goods made by reputable and well known producers has a two-fold advan-tage and inspires a confidence which results in satisfactory business for both. The producer who makes a good article and who lets the public know it helps the merchant to sell it What we want in the furniture trade is a better appre-ciation of the fact that the makers and merchants can double the consumer's demand for furniture by working together and by giving the subject greater and more interesting pub-licity. Every maker of furniture should brand his goods with a name or mark to let the world know who is responsible for it. Then if it is good he gets credit; if it is bad the mer-chant is at least partly relieved from blame by placing It where it belongs A merchant's guaranty, not publicity backed by a reputable and responsible maker. involves a big-ger risk than any retailer can afford to assume for the ordi-nary profits in the business. I am glad to note that more and more the furniture makers are beginning to appreciate the value of trade-marks and publicity and that the best mer-chants are giving them encouragement and support This form of co-operation will result in better furniture and better furniture will increase the demand. It will also increase profits and, together with publicity, will drive the snide houses out of business, to the lastmg benefit and greater sta-bility of the whole industry I am firmly convinced that a series of lectures by de-signers and others having knowledge would be a benefit to the furniture industry Such lectures could be illustrated by lante! n slides in colors to show styles and decorations, and if gotten up with care by makers and backed by retailers would draw immense audiences in every community and would rouse up through the press and social circles more real interest in furniture than we can stir up in any other way, This plan. if carried out by the leading makers and mer-chants, would accomplish more and cost less than any other form of furniture publicity ever devised. Let the merchants get together and say to the producers of furniture, "We want you to brand your goods! We want you to advertise them by letting the consumer know why you desire his patronage; that will help us merchants and, in return, we will help you." Every retail furniture store should be a center where people who have homes can get inspiration that will result in making their homes more "homey." It takes more than a "Clearance Sale," or "Half-Off," or "Blue Tag Day." at Sham & Fake's to increase the demand and respect of the consumers of furniture and, consequently, the profit of the merchant and the maker. In conclusion let me say: If my httle effort here today should result in some benefit to some of you who are present, or to the industry as a whole, I will feel myself amply repaid for my time and in coming here all the way from Grand Rapids, and I wish to express my gratitude for the opportunity of addressing you -- • .fi Beam, Ardery & Co., is the name of a firm just engaging in the business of retailing furniture in St. Joseph, Mo. Mr. Beam wac; formerly and for many years with Louis Hax. "Provided you have planted the trees from the lumber of which you will eventually make them you may ship to me 125 maple bedsteadc;," reads an order recently received by a manufactunng company of Grand Rapids. Wllham H Beard defines the decorative art, so called, of the day, as "a craze" consisting of Japanese fans. cat-tail and sun flowers, grouped grotesquely, and fastened with a horse-shoe upon a background of sick colors, cut bias." 14 WEEKLY ARTISAN New designs In the Louis XVI Style. WRITE FOR SAMPLES AND PRICES. OLD "NEWSn REPRINTED Paragraphs Copied FroIU the Michigan Arti.an for DeceIUber9 1881. Payne & Willingham have opened a stock of furniture in Macon, Ga. Dewey & Stone of Omaha, sold furniture to the amount of $375,000 last year Ketcham & Rothschild will soon take possession of a new factory, located on Lake street, in Chicago "Johnny" Zerfass, of New York. spent a day in Grand Rapids recently. John is a fine fellow-on the Zerfass at least. Conflicting patents on children's carriage chairs will cause long and expensive litigation unless the patentees "get to-gether." A. Bamberger of Chicago ic; endeavoring to compromise with creditors by offering to pay a small per centage of his indebtedness. Nelson, Matter & Co, have shipped an elegant chamber suite to Washington, to be used by President Arthur, in the White House. It is no longer fashionable to place mirrors in any room of the house. except the bedroom It is very bad taste to use mirrors in the parlor. Brown & Bliss. manufacturers of dining room furniture in New York, were damaged to the amount of $105.000 by a fire in their factory recently Manufacturers of furniture in St Louis are promotin~ a movement among the manufacturers of furniture located in the Mississippe valley for an advance in prices Many manufacturers in Chicago have discontinued the use of the telephone owing to an increase of $50 per annum for the service The amount now charged is $125 .. No. 1711 Looseness. Some people have the habit of looseness-loosness in everything they do or attempt to do If they were to make a box it would be sure to have a board that would not agree with the rest of it; or something else would be wrong. "The cheapest thing that will answer is good enough," is their motto Their are some manufacturers of furniture just like that, victims of the loosenesc; habit When they make up their lines they buy the cheapest veneers, lumber. glue. varnish, castors and furniture trimmings. The stuff is poorly made, and sold cheap, and bears the marks of the marker and almost his name. which is Looseness. Not so with the careful man, the man of success, who knows that his reputation is at stake in every piece of furniture that goes from his factory. His reputation is more to him than his bank account, for he knows full well that if his reputation is gone his bank ac-count will soon go with it His name might appropriately be called Perfection This man demands the best of every thing-that's why he buys his wood furniture trimmings from the ,Vaddell Manufacturing company of Grand Rapids. the largest manufacturers of wood furniture ornaments in the world . ••• •• * .. No. 1705·1705 GraQd ~apids Brass <00. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH• j .. WEEKLY ARTISAN Sleeping Car Fares. TraffIc Manager Wann of the Los Angeles-Salt Lake route. while in New York last Saturday, expressed the opin-lOn that there is no likelihood of an immediate adoption of the proposed plan to make sleeping car passengers pay a hIgher rate of fare than those who ride in day coaches, al-though he is in favor of it. Concerning the propositoin Mr. Wann said: "I t costs more to handle passengers in sleepers. We can seat 70 persons comfortably in a coach, while between 30 and 40 will crowd a Pullman, which weighs 40 per cent more and costs twice as much as a coach. "I think it would be no more than right to charge the first class passenger in the Pullman 5 per cent or even 10 per cent more than the second class passenger in the coach, but we could not make such a change just between Salt Lake and Los Angeles unless it was made on through first class tickets farther east "Furthermore. the interstate commission recently cut our rate from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles from $30 to $25, which is as low as we can afford to haul passengers. If we should undertake to charge even 3 per cent more than that for the additional comfort and service of a sleeping car the commis-sion might object. "If the time ever comes when it is possible to make fur-ther reductions in passenger rates. I believe this plan will be adopted and those who ride in Pullman cars will have to pay higher rates." Commenting On Mr Wann's statement, the New York Commercial, a paper that is usually more than fair to the railroad interests, says: Mr. Wann ha" given what may be termed stock argu-ments and raesons for every general passenger agent or other traffic official talked with upon the subject ever since the plan was first made public in the Commercial, when a contemplated conference upon it in New York was indefinitely postponed, has made practically the same statements In fact there was so little variation, that it was suggested they had been speciallv prepared in advance for the information of inf(uirers and as an answer to objections that mig-ht be raised That there is strong uncertainty in the minds of the tra-ffic officers as to just how the interstate commission will view the matter is incHcated in the remark of Mr Vvann about po'SSible objections from that quarter and confirms what the Commercial intimated when the idea first became known that the abandonment of the joint conference' was either due to something of this kind or the expectation that the traveling-public wonld at once make undersirable war upon the roads before the commission As to the cost of a Pullman car. that is something- the railroads do not pay but they do pay a consideration to the "Pullman comnany for the operation of t~c cars, the precise character of which no one outside the corporations has defi-nite and reliable knowledge It has been said to have a ,anable chal acter and it has also been repeatedly alleged that if some of the contracts obtained by the Pullman com-panv from the railroads were brought into the limelig-ht and nublicitv for them gained they would make mighty interest-ing reading matter The point is likelv to be raised by travelers that because thev ride in a coach they are not to be rated as second class passeng-ers for thev pay a first class fare the same as the passenger in the Pullman, the latter paving to the Pullman company its price for occupying- a berth or an upholstered revolving chair The Pullman corporation for years and years has regarded itself as a law unto itself but the interstate 15 Give your men tools that are ac-curate to the one-thousandth part of an inch. Tools that are straight and true and hold their cutting edge. No matter how expensive and per-fect your machinery may be, if the cutting tools are not of the best, you can not turn out good work. We pride ourselves on the fact that we have manufactured only the very best for thirty-five years. Write for our complete catalog. It shows many new ideas in fine labor saving tools. MORRIS WOOD & SONS 1508-1510 W. LAKE ST., CHICACO, ILL. .. ... commission has lately contested its position and its rates and the courts are to eventually decide whether it is right or wrong. Iowa Attacks Freights. Attorney-General Byers of Iowa, acting in behalf of the state has filed complaints with the Interstate Commerce Com-mission, actions against all railroads operating in the state of Iowa, asking revision of the present rates which are alleged to be excessive. discnminatory and unlawful. The actions are divided into three classes, the first re-lating to the proportional class rates. and directed against the seven largest roads operating in the state; the second relating to commodity rates, against all roads and the third relating to local shipments. The actions are lbased on the amendment made by the last Congress to the act to regulate commerce, such amend-ment prOVIding that no more shall be charged as a through rate than is the aggregate of the intermediate rates. This amendmen t becomes effecti, c on August 17-The actions charge that Iowa is discriminated against by reason of through rates from points in Illinois and the East being higher than the aggregate of the intermediate rates. The roads affected in the first class are the Rock Island Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul. Burlington, Great Western. IlhnOls Central, Iowa Central and Northwestern. Most of us should carry repair kits to mend our broken resolutions A man must either make a way for himself or make way for others. T 16 WEEKLY ARTISAN MICHIGAN ARTISAN COMPANY luaSC'''JOTlON $1•• 0 JOE"YE...." ....NYWHE"E IN THE UNITED ST....TES OTHE" COUNT"IES $2.00 JOE"YEA". SINGLE COJOIEI I CENTS. PU.L.ICATION OI'"I'"ICE. 101-112 NO'HH DIVISION ST. GI'IAND RA~IDS. MICH. A. S WHITE. M....N....C;ING EDITOft Ii:ntered .. lecond cia .. matter, July 5. 1999, at the post ollice at Grand Rapldl. MIChleaa under the act of March 3. 1879 CHIC...G. O REPR.SENT...T. IVE. E. LEVY. The tide of money which set in toward New York so strongly in June was still flowing the past week. The clear-ing house banks in their statement showed an increase of very close to $11,000,000 in their cash holdings There was some increase in reserve requirements. due to an expansLm in de-posits accompanied by an increase in loans. but these re-quirements consumed less than one-half of the increase in cash, so that the surplus reserve was mcreased by more than $5.575,000. This brings it up to above $53,000,000. which is considerably more than twice the amount of the surplus re-ported at this date a year ago To this large increase in sur-plus several factors have contributed m varying degrees, most important of which has been the inflow of currency from the interior since the beginning of July Heavy payments by the government have done their share toward increasing the re-serves of the banks, and gold imports have also added to the gains from other sources With the passing of the first month of the new fiscal year the heavy excess of government pay-ments over receipts at thIS centre is lIkely to diminish and the inflow from the intel ior may normally be expected to halt in the near future How long the gains by gold imports will continue depends upon a number of factors. some of them entirely beyond the control of American financiers, but the indications at the moment are that the gold import movement will continue for some time to come. This state of affairs is pleasing to business men, some of whom have feared a short-age of currency, when the movement of crops begins From present indications there is not lIkely to be any lack of cash with which to market the crops this year. By his appearance. manners, the tones of his ,oice and conduct. the retail merchant tells his customers many things he does not intend they shall know The goods he sells and his ways in selling them impress either favorably or unfav-orably the prospective customer. A case in point· A lady called upon a retailer for the purpose of purchasing a daven-port. The space required on the floors of merchants hand-ling these useful pieces of furniture is so large that it is im-possible to show many samples. but with a supply of blue prints at hand, it is not difficult for the customer to make a selection. The lady inspected the 'samples in stock but did not find the style she fancied The blue prints were brought out and while studying the same, one after another, the lady laid one of the sheets aside, to be studied later. The dealer quickly picked up the print, pulled out a draweI, buried it among a lot of photographs and printed sheets and close.:! the drawer. The lady's suspicions were aroused She could not define the motive of the dealer in placing the print she had selected out of sight, and <;oon lost interest in the entire collection Had the dealer explamed the reason for his act he mIght have retained the confidence of the lady. Failing to do so It v. as but natural that the lady should "look a little further" and make a purchase of another dealer Little things count for much m the busmess world \Veek after next, beginning August 22, will be home-commg week m Grand Rapids The affair has been widely advertised, special railroad rates have been secured and there is little doubt that many thousands of former residents of the city will improve the opportunity to return and spend a few days ,,,ith relatives and friends As is well known there are many men fOlmerly engaged in the furniture iudustry here who now reside in other cities Indeed there is hardly a furniture factory anywhere in the country that does not number among ItS employes men who formerly worked in Grand Rapids If they were all to "come home" at once they would make a large addition to the home-coming crowds here. In addition to former residents, many others are expected tJ visit the CIty during the week, including a considerable number of furniture buyers, and for theIr convenience the factory showrooms and exhibition buildings will be kept open and ready to do busmess Elaborate arrangements have been made to amuse and entertam visitors and the local furniture men v\ III aSSIst materilaly in making the affair a pleasing success for all concerned. Judgmg from the large number of new fdc-tone" that are reported as bemg estabhshed m all o,ectlOn" of the coun-try, there must be many men who are eager to get mto the furmture-makmg busmess and It is probable that many of those now going in will be quite eager to get out after they have had a year or two of experience Many are undoubt-edly actuated by the idea that "there are mullions in it" and some of them wIll find that their expectatIOns are based on theones very much lIke that promulgated by "Col Sellers" in his eye-water project. The INest Coast FurnIture company of some town in FlOrida. registers a double shotted protest agamst the prac-tIce indulged In by certain manufacturers In publIshIng m catalogues theIr prices for goods, WIth a dIscount of fifty per cent to dealers Catalogues frequently fall into the hands of persons not entitled to receIVe the same and the information conveyed in regard to the discounts creates trouble for the dealer. The VVest Coast people suggest that a pnvate cipher be used in prmtmg the dIscount rate. The suggestion is prac-tical and should be adopted by manufacturers. One Max Leckner, a musician of prommence, remem-bers when. as a boy, there was but one piano in the town of ShelbyVIlle, Ind There are but few famIlIes now living in Shelbyville that do not possess a piano. The music of the planer and the dovetailer in the eleven big furmture factories of the city have supplied the means WIth which the reSIdents of the town purchased pIanos. The Merchants' Protective association of Portland. Ore, aim to keep all assets out of bankruptcy, because in the settle-ment of estates they obtain far better results than by allowing proceedings to be instituted in the bankruptcy court. where release from debt seems to be the interpretation of the law. WEEKLY ARTISAN 17 -...-.~-----------~.-----------'-----------'--------_._------ -------_._------------~, FOUR NEW BARONIAL OAK STAIN FLANDERS OAK STAIN S M 0 K ED 0 A K S T A I N EARLY ENGLISH OAK STAIN in acid and oil. in acid and oil, in acid and oil, in acid and oil, TRADE MARK REGISTERED PRODUCTIONS Send for finished samples, free. Ad-el-ite Fillers and Stains have long held £ir'~tplace in the estimation of Furniture Manufacturers and Master Painters. In addition to the reg-ular colors the above shades offer unusually beautiful and novel effects. The Ad-el-ite People CHICAGO-NEW YORK .. .. . . EverythIng In PaInt SpecIaltIes and Wood FID1shingmaterIals. FIllers that £tll. StaIns that satIsfy ._---- -------- -- -----_._-------_._--------------_._-- -' -_.- ~ Funeral of Charles W. Black. On Tuesday afternoon, August 9, funeral serVIces were held over the remains of the late Charles W Black, who died August 7, at Grace church, Grand Rapids. Rev F. R Godolphin officiated A quartette of male voices rendered "Rock of Ages" and "Lead Kindly Light," and among the organ numbers played by Mr Stillwell, was Chopin's funeral march The bunal serVIce for the dedd of the Protestant F)piscopal church, was Impressively read, and the rector eulogized the deceased eloqently. He recalled the humble en-try of Mr. Black into the business affairs of lIfe and spoke of his gradual rise from the bottom rung to a position of promi-nence, power and usefulness in a great industry His never failing courage, his unbending will, exercised in the pursuit of high ideals in his occupation, the valuable contI ibutlO113 he had given to the movement that had made Grand Rapi,le, famous as a furniture manufacturing center; his lIberal al-though unostentatious support of charities, and his loyalty to friends, were commented upon and praised In the lIfe of such a man the Father of all performs hIS wonders, said the speaker VI'cighted down with cares and re"['ons'l)!lltIh that would ble-lk tPf spints of many, he Wd" !lC t d periecL man hUL the speaker recognized in hIS alms and purposes the desIre to serve mankind, honestly and faIthfully. The body was interred at Oak HIll cemetery. One hun-dred men from the Oriel Cabinet company's factory and a large number of iurniture manufacturer dne! tncnds attended the services. Doubling Capacity. To double the capacity of any department of the factory, without increasing the expense, is certainly a great achieve-ment. It means a great deal to the stockholders, and in the furniture bus111ess, where competttion IS so sharp, that in many cases a dividend ever so small IS a great welcome (even if not a great surprise), it seems as though every manufac-turer of furniture would be on the alert to grasp whatever is best and most economical. In no department of the furniture factory is this more necessary than the dry kiln This i" usually a money maker or a money loser, and it i" so subtle that many manufacturers do not detect it, but are surpnsed when they come to figure at the end of the year that they have not made any money, or scarcely any. Every other depart-ment seemed to be in good shape and each foreman was able to make a good report, but somehow or other not one of them thought of looking to the dry kIln to find the leakage Here is a case in point from one of the great chair manufac-turing companies in Sheboygan, Wis, where more chairs are made than in any city in the Ulllted States Turn to the ad-vertisement of the Grand Rapids Veneer Works, on another page of this issue of the Weekly ArtIsan and you will be much 111terested in what yoU read. ~---_..- -- ------~.-._----------_._---__._..-..-.., 1Loufsbabn DESIGNS AND DETAILS OF FURNITURE 154 Livmgston St. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN CItizens' Telephone 170Z. I'"'-- - • _ •••• we •••••• __ ... 18 - - --------- When a man could be no longer tolerated, he was let out in the smoothest and kindliest manner, for one reason or another. The greater number of men had been long III the service and \\ ere very loyal and respectful towards the firm, and ready at all tImes to speak a good word for the factory and its owners The men were never crowded, everything was done with the utmost deliberation, the absence of hurry and bustle being one of the notIceable features of the place Most of the appliances in use were crude and out of date The system of heating was httle better than nothing, and during cold weather the men \\ asted their tIme in an effort to keep warm. No one seemed to take the trouble to suggest improvements in either the building or equipment, the idea being to adapt the ways of doing things to the <;urroundings rather than seek for im-provement The methods of time-keeping, cost-keeping, estimating and billing work into the mill were of the simplest and most rudimentary character, and a woeful lack of system was every-where evident. To anyone with the most superficial knowledge of modern factory methods, the daily violation of all those principles whIch are held to be necessary to the successful operation of every manufacturing plant seemed to indicate that the miII was badly managed, that it was being operated at a loss, and, sooner or later, must result in failure. From my point of view as an humble mechanic I could imagine myself out of a job, and resolved to seek another. In a city several hundred miles distant I found employ-ment in a factory turning out practically the same kind of goods The principal owners were men of considerable ex-perience The buildings were new and the equipment modern In eyery respect The management was in the hands of a progressive. energetic, and wide-awake young man, an en-thUSIastic apostle of "industrial efficiency," thoroughly im-bued with the latest and most up-to-date ideas of factory management, including the most economical methods of hand-ling- materials and labor, and the systematic recording of all the' arious operations in and around the plant. Part of this progressive svstem ,vas to issue all kinds of arbitrary instruc-tIOns to the foremen concernmg theIr duties, usually remind-l11g them of their shortcomings and the weak spots in their departments. \Vhen a man of a foreman failed to meet the official re-qUIrements, a new one was promptly instaIIed As a result WEEKLY ARTISAN TWO KINDS OF FACTORY MANAGEMENT Two Much System. Rushing and Pushing May Spoil the Best of Theories. Benjamin McCune, In the ,Vood Worker-When we speak of good and bad factory management, or refer to a well-managed plan, we usually have in mmd a concern in which all the vanous operations are conducted according to some preconceived theory, based on the elimination of waste of time, materials and labor, together with some method of ascertaining and recording the value of all the different items of expense entering into the finished product, the whole re-duced to a system, the object of which is to diminish costs and increase profits as well as to keep the management in-formed at all times on the exact condition of the business in all its details Bad management therefore would imply the absence of all such methodical arrangements It will be admitted that some simple method of procedure is necessary in even the worst managed plants, and that nu-merous wood-workIng establishments are being successfully conducted in a happy-go-lucky, old fashioned way, the only consideration being to get the work done by following the lines of least resistance-by taking the shortest cuts from the lumber yard to the shipping room and the exercise of common sense. The following narrative, based on my own experience. presents what seems to be a peculiar example of the com-parative results of the two kinds of management· A good many years ago I was employed in a rather exten-sive and well-known wood-working establishment The own-ers were two very fine gentlemen of rather imposing appear-ance, dignified and courteau., in manner, but unacquainted with the details of the business The actual running- of the plant wac; under the direction of a superintendent. a practical man and a very fine gentleman The foremen in charge of the different departments were ordinarv good men. very pleasant and agreeable, and c;eemed to get along on the best of terms with each other and the men under them There was a notice-able absence of that pulling and hauling such as I have en-countered in other similar plants It was an ideal place for a man to work; everybody put in the time about as he saw fit; joking and story-telling- were favorite pastimes during working hours \iV ages v. ere com- .p.aratively high. and everybody seeme-d -ha-pp-y_an..d--con-ten-ted- ---------------- ------------~ Lentz Big Six No. 694. 48 in. top. No. 687. 60 in. top. I Others 54 in. top. I 8 Foot Duostyles I I II ANY FINISH II CHICAGO DELIVERIES I• II I Lentz Table Co. NASHVILLE, MICHlGAh .-. ----------~---------_. _.. ._._--_._-------_.~---------I.. WEEKLY ARTISAN 19 WE HAVE NO PRETTY THEORIES ABOUT STAINS OR FINISHES THE MARIETTA PAINT AND COLOR CO. MARIETTA, OHIO. Making stains for practical men has been our job for many years. And long before we became makers we were USERS. Above all, our products are practical. They WORK. The results in your finishing room, if of this policy changes were frequent, both among the men and the foremen. first in one department, then another. They came and brought with them tales of former achievements, and the best schemes for doing everything as everything ought to be done. The mill was always crowded with work, and the whole atmosphere of the place was hurry and bustle, everybody on the jump, this state of affairs being offICIally recorded as "in-tensified production" In direct contrast to what I had been accustomed to, system was everywhere-in the yard, the factory and the office It was measuring, counting, check-ing, tabulating continually until it became a sort of nUlsance, greatly interfering with the progress of the work. Frequent changes of men and machines from one job to another became necessary, in order to live up to some particU-lar phase of the system, and the getting out of numerous small jobs was greatly hindered by what seemed to me much useless red tape, so that the unusual activity displayed did not neces-sarily mean increased production. In contrast to the attitude of the men toward my former employers. the presence of the manager In the mill had about the same exasperating effect on the men as if he had carried a banner with the words, "We are here to make all the money we can out of you fellows" A sort of dissatisfaction appeared which gradually developed into a spirit of enmity against the institution-a situation that would seem to confirm the con-tention that it seems impossIble to get the maximum of work out of a man and still retain his good will. Be that is it may. I was conVInced that the supposed ad-vantages of the latter system over the former were never real-lized After several years of striving to enforce the practical application of an unerring theory, the concern referred to has never been a financial success. On the other hand, the busi-you have the right kind of finishers, will be the same results as we show on our sample panels. You are not experimenting when you buy stains from us. Ask your best finisher about them. Send for sample panel to desk No.3. ness of my former employers is in the most prosperous <:on-dition, enjoying the highest financial standing, the owners being among the wealthiest and most influential men in the town. respected by their employers and held in the highest esteem in the community in which they live. It is not my purpose to advocate sloth among men nor laxity of methods in the operation of a mill, but merely to record what came under my own observations from the point of view of a subordinate employe; but judging from all known standards of companson, the concern that should have been a failure was a success, while the other was as near a failure as possible. While the compa! atlve standing of the two institutions may have been due to other causes than those mentioned, I am confiJent that the personal qualities of the men at the head of both institutions were the most lmportant elements in the case In the former instance the owners possessed that subtle quality that commanded the respect and inspired the confidence of their men-the recognition of the human ele-ment around the plant In the latter case the attempt was made to enforce the same ngid principles as to materials. ma-chines and men ahke, wlth clock-like precision, in an effort to obtain that which was theoretically desirable instead of that which was practically feasible If your DESIGNS are right, people want the Goods. That makes PRICES right. (tlarence lR. bills DOES IT 163MadIson Av~nu~-Cltlz~ns Phon~ 1983. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH .4 --------------1 20 WEEKLY AaTISAN . ... ... ...., Be careful of the dealer who tells you he can furnish cutters "as good or better than MorrisWood & Sons." He is imposing upon both you and our reputation. If you would have cutters which do the most perfect work, at the least expense, that wear out on the jointer and not on the emery wheel, which save their first cost in a few weeks, in the saving of time, required to grind and adjust sectional cutters. Write ua right now for further information. We have made solid steel cutters for thirty-six yeats. Is that worth anything to you? A trial order is our most convincing argu-ment. Write now before you forget it. MORRIS WOOD & SONS 5108 W. Lake St., CHICAGO, ILL. ...- _--- ~_._._._._,_-.-.-._. _4.. ..I . .., Here is a Rocker that's a seller. Write for the price. GEO. SPRATT ($ CO. SHEBOYGAN, WIS. No. 592. ... ...... -..-.....--- ----------.----.....1.. Grand Rapid. Factory Notes. The announcement that D. C. McNamara, who recently engaged with the Marvel Manufacturing company, will travel IllS old territory, was wrong Mr. McNamara's positIOn with the Marvel company is that of sales manager. 1\1 E Campbell, who recently engaged with the C S Pame company to cOver a part of the middle west territory, is out on hiS first tnp James Gillies, who formerly represented the company In Pacific coast territory, is no longer with the Pame company. "There is nothing in the way of news that I know Gf," said Robert W Merrill, secretary and manager of the Phoenix Furniture company. "Our buo;;iness is about as usual and I think that IS about the condition of most of the factories. Both manufacturers and dealers are acting conservatively. Of course the dealers must buy if they expect to Jo business anJ their orders come along steadily. There is no indication of a desire to branch out or speculate on the demands of the future" "Business is fair," said Joseph S Hart of the Hart Mirror Plate company the other day. "I have Seen it better and I have seen it a great deal worse. I suppose our business is a sort of mdex or indication of the general condition of the fur-niture industry. If so, business must be picking up with the factories, for we have had a considerable increase during the past few weeks There is nothing like a boom, but business has certainly improved during the past month and especially during the past few days We now have live accounts with e\ er} factory, that uses glas"i, in the city. The summer sales ~eason \'"as certainly good for the local factories." :\Ianager Edgar S Kiefer of the Dahm & Kiefer Tanning company, accompanied by hiS family, is in Europe for pleas-ure with a little business on the side. The furniture leather department added by the company about a year ago has proved a great success and while abroad Mr Kiefer Will try to ar-range facilities to make it still more profitable for both the company and its patrons He is looking for better facilities for obtaining skins and other supplies The success of the fur111ture leather project has encouraged the company to add 111010CCO leather to its line of products. It has already made ~Ol11emorocco leather for which it has found a ready demand and ~fr Kiefer hope~ to secure suppltes of skins, either su-mach tanned or 111 the hair that Will enable them to turn out a most desirable grade of morocco leather Their furniture leather department is said to have reached a stage where It 13 not necessary to send out traveling men to secure orders-the orders come 111 without solicitation Have Plenty of Business. The Grand Rapids Blow Pipe and Dust Arrester company IS having a fine trade, having plenty of business nowadays. In addition to the large list of orders recorded in the Weekly Artisan a short time ago, they have secured the contract for repiping the E H Stafford factory at Ionia, Mich, and also the factory of the Hayes-Ionia company which makes automo-bile bodies III the old wagon works factory. The latter is a large job, necessitating a complete outfit. They also have a contract from the Flint-Wallen company of Kendallville. Ind .• manufacturers of windmills, tanks and silos. for a complete outfit, and another from the Indiana Box company of Muske-gon, Mich, for additional piping that Will take the shavings and dust through pipes 600 feet to the Sargent Manufactur-ing company's boiler room and depOSIt them in the furnace. This company certainly has a lot of work on its order books, largely because every job is guaranteed to be perfect. Its business is growing every year WEEKLY ARTISAN New Factories. Contracts amounting to $48,000 have been let for the erectlOn of new buildings for the plant of the Appleton (Wis ) Chair company. Work on the new couch company's plant on Norfolk Downs, Quincy, Mass, is progressing rapidly. It is to be ready to begin operations on September 22. E. A. Lancaster and associate,; have incorporated the Greenville Furniture company, capitalized at $50,000, to es-tablish a factory in Greenville, Green county, Tenn. Hamilton Moses, S Sidney Stein and Leo J Kramer have organized the Safety Infant Bed company, capitalized at $5,000, to manufacture a newly invented little bed, in Chi-cago, III Managers of "a furniture factory in a northern state who wish to change their location',' are negotiating with the Chamber of Commerce of Roanoke, Va , with a view of bulid-ing a new factory in that city. The Concealed Bed company capitalized at $24,000 has been incorporated by George W. Coover, C. W. Snidow and W. T. Snidow, to establish a factory and manufactuer a patented folding couch and bed at Portland, Ore. A company is being organazed to manufacture grass mat-ting and rugs at Green Bay, Wis. It is to be capitalized at $100,000, of which $70,000 has been subscribed, and work on the construction of the factory has been started. W. V. Corbett, L. W. Walker and others have incor-porated the Stork Highchair company, to establish a plant and manufacture a patented highchair, recently invented, at Los Angeles, Cal. Capital stock, $25,000; subscribed, $5. P. H. and J. K. Laman and William Kaiser have incor-porated the Duluth Casket and Undertakers' Supplies com-pany to establish a casket factory and do a general whole-sale business in undertakers 'supplies in Duluth, Minn Cap-ital stock, $25,000. L. T. Yoder and three other capitalists of Pittsburg, Pa., have incorporated the Augusta Veneer company, capitalized at $100,000, to establish a large veener and rotary cut lumber plant at North Augusta, S C. They have secured F. J. Wells of Penn Yan, N. Y., as superintendent and general manager. uGrand Rapids" Beyond the "Rockies."9 Suggesting a route to be traveled by tourists who wish to make the best of their time when visiting the city, the Ore-gonian of Portland, Ore., says' "The first factories which you will pass, are a number of large concrete buildings where furniture is made and before you forget it. tell your friends that Portland ranks first in furniture manufacturing west of the Rocky Mountains. Everything is made here from the plain mission type to the costly mahogany and much of it is specially designed. Hundreds of skilled workmen are busy, turning the product of the forest into things which beautify the home. One may go to any large city west of the Rocky Moun-tains and find furniture bearing the stamp of some Portland •manufacturer." Zion9s Co-Operative Mercantile Institution. The largest mercantile establishm6nt in Utah is the Zion Co-Operative MercantIle Institution. The store is located near a group of mormon institutions and is partonized by all classes. It is a large establishment, and all varieties of merchandise are handled. The managers and their employes are mormons. The business transacted annually runs into millions. " - . . -., HOFFMAN BROTHERS CO. FT. WAYNE, IND. HARDWOOD LUMBER SA~~D } QUARTERED OAK { VENEERS SLICED AND MAHOGANY ....... UNION FURNITURE CO. ROCKFORD, ILL. China Closets Buffets Bookcases We lead in Style, ConilruCbon and Finish. See our Catalogue. Our lme on permanent exhibI-tIon 3rd Floor. New Manufact-urers' Building,Grand Rapids. ..... - .... _-_. -_. __ . ....... ....- -., -....-...-...-. --_-_ -..-.--_.... _. -----------_._-- ... .. ............• ..& ," .. I Don't Burn Your Moulding. Blackened edges so often found in hard-wood Mouldings indIcate the use of mferior tools, which frIctIOn and burn because of their failure to have proper clearance. The Shimer ReverSIble and Non- ReverSIble Cutters are made of the finest tool steel by experienced workmen. In deSIgn and con-struction they are superIor to anythmg on the market. They cut well and retam their shape until worn out. Send us drawmgs or wood samples for estImates on special cutters. Many useful de-sIgns, with prices, are given m our catalogue. SAMldEL J. SHIMER & SONS, Milton, Penn. Manufacturers of the Shimer Cutter Heads for Flooring, CeilIng, Sidmg, Doors. Sash, etc. ... .. . ... 21 ....I ....., ... , WEEKLY ARTISAN Complete lines of samples are displayed at 1411Michigan Ave., Chicago, and in the Furniture Exhibition Building, Evansville. THE KARGES FURNITURE CO. Manufacturers of Chamber SUItes,Wardrobes, Chlffomers, Odd Dressers, Chlfforobes. THE BOSSE FURNITURE CO. Manufacturers of Kitchen Cabmets, K D. Wardrobes, Cupboards and Safes, m Imltallon golden oak, plam oak and quartered oak. THE WORLD FURNITURE CO. Manufacturers of Mantel and Upright Folding Beds, Buffets, Hall Trees, Chma Closets, Combination Book and Lbrary Cases. THE GLOBE FURNITURE CO. Manufacturers of Sideboards in plain oak, imitation quartered oak, and solid quartered oak, Chamber Suites, Odd Dressers, Beds and Chiffoniers m lffiltallon quartered oak, ir<lltatlon mahogany, and imitation golden oak. THE BOCKSTEGE FURNITURE CO. Manufacturers of the "Superior" Line of Parlor, Library, Dining and Dressing Tables. THE METAL FURNITURE CO. Made by The Karges Furmture Co Manufacturers of "HYiiene" Guaranteed Brass and Iron Beds, Cnbs, Wrre Spnngs and Cots Evansville is the great mixed car loading center of the United States, made so by the Big Six Association . • WEEKLY ARTISAN Made by Bosse Furniture Company Made by World Furniture Company. Made by Bockstege Furmture Co --pnng I" bemg pU'3hed lapldly. It will be completed and occupIed by the mIddle of September. The CI11Cmnatl RetaIl Furniture Dealers' associatIOn has a'3ked the' CIty councIl to pass an ordinance requiring owners ot mm mg vam to file reports of their operations. giving name'3, dates an,l the old and new addresses of the migrators. 1 he Konrad company, undertakers, of Oshkosh, Wis. dre electll1l:; a nev. two stOly bllck building to cost $8,000 The first floOl v\ 111 be occupIed by the office, chapel and mal ~ue, and the uppel floor wIll be used for a furniture shop 'l!1el --tale 100111 I'ecau"e then btbmess has not been up to expectations dt1l111g the past yeal or more, the Edwards-Ihrig company of O"hkosh, \Y IS , manufacturers of caskets, mattresses and bed spnngs. hav'e JeClded to close out the stock and material on lund pay then debt,., and quit busl11ess On Its v oluntary petItIOn the Henry S. Holden Veneer company of Grand RapIds, MIch. has been adjudged bank- I upt The ltabIlitles are scheduled at $14,578, assets $14,087 Of the claIms $1,831 are secured Among the creditors are sn el al \ eneer manufactunng concerns or their agents. Henry B -:\lorns. formerly connected with the Michigan '-,eat1l1g company of Grand Rapids, Mich t died at Michigan Cltv, Ind, last \\ eek, aged 66 years. He went to Michigan CIty to take a pOSItIOn 111 a factory soon after the Michigan Seatl11g company moved from Grand Rapids to Jackson, Mich. \\ hen the Bosse, Globe and World furniture companies ot },v ans\ Ille, Ind , \\ ere merged recently, the property of the Bo""e company \\ as appraIsed at $150,000, that of the Globe at $150,000 and of the World at $100,000. The consolidated com pany also 0\" ns the new factory that is being erected on ~l11th a\ enue The Rocktord (Ill) Furniture oompany. in order to meet d pres~lng obltgatlOn, has borrowed $12,000 from Edwin E UdCl at ChIcago, gl\ mg as security a trust deed covering the factory SIte, bt1lldmgs, machinery an'd appltances. but not the lumber suppltes nor stock finished or in course of (un" tructlOn fhe Interstate Commelce Commission has postponed its 1m l--tlgatlOn of I11creases 111 freight rates which had been --cheduleJ to begm on August l5----next Monday. Some of the raIlroad offICIals declared they could not "get ready" so soon It IS now announced that the I11quiry will begin about the first of September ] he lug \\ eavmg demonstrations that were inaugurated la--t --plmg are rapIdly growmg in favor with dealers. Sev- (J a1 manufactt1l er" now have demonstrators "on the road." "\ 100m set up 111 the store of DaVIdson Bros .• Sioux City. 10\\ a, last '" eek, turns out a small rug complete in fifteen minutes The looms ale great "drawmg cards" for the stores m whIch they al e exhIbIted ] he Bosse-G1obe-\Vorld Furn\ture company, recently fOlmed bv mel g1l1g three of the prominent companies of EvansvIlle, Ind, b planmng for the erection of an elegant commodIOUS offIce bUIlding. It will be of pressed brick, one "tOl y. 60 J\.80 feet alhl WIll stand on the corner of Ninth ave-nue and .:\Ialyland street. Hem y Stud11lczha, Amencan commercial agent. report-mg from VIenna, Am,tna. says "Nothwithstanding that Vi-enna produces and manufacturers a large variety of furni-ture. there IS room here for furniture of American produc-tIOn I learn that the Amencan Trading Company, located 111 thIS CIty, has ananged for supplying a new hotel in c':m-stantinople WIth Amencan furnIture." MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND NEWS C A. Swope succeeds ,IIller & Co, fUlnlture and hard-ware dealers of PI escott, Kan J B Johnson has purchased the unJertakmg bl1"l11e--" of W V. Almand at Conyers, Ga Managers of furmture faetones In the mIddle \\ e--t are complaimng of a scarcity of skIlled workmen The llorala (Ala) Furmture company, dealel -', ha\ e 111 creased Its capital stock from $3,500 to $4,500 The only feIt makl11g machine in the state of Kansas IS being I11stalled m the new mattress factory at \\ Ichltd W M HIlls. furnIture dealer ancl undertaker at \1 d more, Okla, has been succeeded by the -\ D Ra\,,11l1s com-pany J A Newsome, furniture and hardware dealel of J ack-sanVIlle, Fla, has enlarged hIS store by leasing an ad]oll1lng bUlldl11g Dukes & McDonald, furnIture dealers of GreenvIlle, Ky , have dIssolved partnership 1\1[ B McDonald '" III contl11ue the business The stockholders in the Sanitary Upholstenng company of MIddleton, Conn, ha\ e decided to dIssolve the corpordtlOn and qUIt business The Fort Smith (Ark) FurnIture company reports a large and rapidly increasing demand for theIr Border Queen lme of kitchen cabinets The Caswell-Runyan company, furnIture manufacturers of Huntl11gton, Ind, has added to ItS capItal by issumg SlO,- 000 111 preferred stock The Cl11cl11nati RetaIl Furniture Dealers' aSSOCIation IS consldenng a propOSItIOn to admIt plano dealer" and c1oth-merchants to membershIp The Crown Mattress company, manufacturers of St Pdul Minn , has been I11corporated by F M Dolan, A B Hackert and Henry Kane. CapItal stock, $25,000 J. E Van has pUlchased an I11tele'3t m the retaIl furm-ture house of Lowe Brothers, Eugene, Ore, and has a'3sumed the general management of the busl11ess J D and VV R Craft, cahmetmakers of Hattiesburg, MI"S, have mcorporated theIr busmess under the name at the Craft Cahl11et company CapItal '3tock $10,000 Carter & Campbell, manufacturers of I eecl chaIrs and go-carts have gIven theIr reed workers an I11crease of ten per cent m wages, taking effect on Monday, August 8 Portland, Ore, IS to have a manufacturers' cJ\.po"ltlOn under the auspIces of the RetaIl -:\Ierchanh' aSSOCIatIOn and the Board of Trade, dunng the week openmg October 31 The Holden famIly of DetrOIt, possesses an hen 100m m the form of a sideboard deSIgned by a grandmother, on the panels of whIch ate the busts of her chlldlen, pamte,l by her-self. R F Hayn"worth, preSIdent, G H Hurst, se'cretaly-treasurer and W C WIse are the newly elected offIcers of the J. D CI aig FUI niturc company, manufacturns of Sump-ter, S. C. J H. Tiemeyer. for over 40 years a furniture and carpet dealer of St LOUIS, Mo , dIed on August 4, aged 62 ) ears He was a native of St LoUIS, and leaves a widow, t\\ a <.laughter" and a son. The Sledge Furniture company, dealers, of Wmston- Salem, N C, are erectmg a two story brIck bUlldll1g 25 x 75 feet It IS located on Trade street and \\ 111 ha\ e a plate glass front The rebUlldll1g of the sectIOn of the UnIOn Furlllture company's plant at Rockford, Ill, that was burned last WEEKLY ARTISAN WISCONSIN FUNERAL DIRECTORS More of the Proceedings of Their Annual Con-vention Held at Fond du Lac Last \Veek. The twenty-ninth annual convention of the Wlscon:01n Funeral DIrector.., and Embalmers' AssoclatlOn, whIch was In progress at Fond du Lac, when the \V eekly !\rtlsan went to press last week, wa'i one of the mO'it 'iucce'3sful, interest- Ing and profitable mEetings ever held by thc orgamLatlOn Thc reports showed the affairs of the as'iOClatlon to be In a most prosperous and satisfactory condItion WIth a steady l11crea'3e In membershIp and mterest At the second seSSlO11of the conventlon:vr K Rellly de-livered an address whIch won hIm a vote of thanks He open-eJ hIs remarks by paYing a tnbute to the hIgh standard of the undertakers' prOfeS'ilOn as set by V\ Iscon'im men engaged 111 that pursuit He saId It was no longer consIdered a bU'ilnes3 but a professlOn "A man may be honest and get along WIthout the servIces of a lawyer," said the speaker" He may go through Me WIth-out the counsel and advIce of a clergyman, he may hve ac-cording to hygIene and dl'3pense with the servIces of a phy-' siclan, but sooner or later he must bow to thc scepter of the undertaker. He is one of the men who comes to the home when it IS clouded WIth SGrrows He IS called upon not only to exercise the mechamcal dnd SCIentific part of the profcs- SIan, but to hghten the burden of those bereaved and be theIr fnend in the trYing hours that follow" Mr Reilly then spoke of the need of a new phIlosophy of success for the Amencan people He spoke of the insanity of the business world in the maJ race for 'iucce'i'i, commercIally and professionally at the '3acnfice of health anJ happiness Years ago, he said, the buslne:os men were satIsfied to retIre after they had accumulated a competency and become a hver in the world. Kow It IS a mad nerve racking \ ace for untold wealth at the expense of hfe and happiness At the conclu-sion of the addres:, the speaker was enthusiastically applauded The next number on the program was a report of the dele-gates to the natlOnal conventlOn, whIch was gIven by John R Ragan of Grand RapIds, \VIS, who, on Tuesday had been elected presIdent of the Wlscons111 Retal1 Furmture Dealers' associatIOn The conventlOn mentlOned 111the report was held at Portland, Ore, Sept 29-30 and October 1 An excerpt from hIS report IS as follows, "\Ve are a waken111g to the fact that in the stncken home where we each come into close re, latlOnship with the pubhc and where we hghten or darken the versIOn of the Eternal world, geography has no meamng, but that In every place In all thIs land In the dreaded hour of death and In the rendenng of servIces we profess to perform, there should be one reqUlred standard of ablllty and there should be granted but one graJe of certificate or hcense \Vh;le we, as an orgamzatlOn are not permitted, perhaps very prop-erly, to fix the reqUlred standard that is to determine the con-ehtions on whIch the certificate or hcense shall be granted, yet I beheve that our attitude accompamed by reasonable sug-gestlOll'i does and wlll serve a large purpose Ul estabhshlng and ma111talnmg such a standard "\Ve therefore ask that the term 'professIOn' a'3 apphed to our calling be Justified by ask111g that suitable prehmUlary educatIOnal reqUlrements, whIch shall be eqUlvalent to a hIgh school dIploma in our pubhc schools be made of all aspIrants for embalming hcenses. • Mr Ragan expre:osed the thanb of the assoCIation to the delegates at the natIOnal conventIOn for the electIOn of GeOlge L Thomas of W ISCOnS1l1,as national presIdent. 2S On Thur~day, whIle conduct1l1g the "expenence hour," 1\11 Ragan dcclared that undertaker'i were born, not made "There are some ~ ho th1l1k a ~hOlt term 111 an emhalm111g 'ichool and a dIploma al e the only requIsltcs of an undcrtaker," "hut thIS IS very much a mIstake." he "aId "It IS only the be-g111mng A man to be '3ucces'iful 111 the undertak111g mu..,t pOS'ies.., tact, ablhty ancl represent a hIgh type of manhood The days when undertaker, were harsh m the11 conduct and ruled the famIly mto whIch they werc called have changed, and now the undeltaker~ are the one'i VIho arc ruled If they hope to succeed !\nyth1l1g that does not mean the nght kind of manhoJd. and gentlemanly conduct on the part of an un-dertaker at all time" means that hIs competltOl VIlli soon put hIm out of busmess " Past PI esdent J R \lcLaln, of Mannette, \\ IS, ad-dre: O'ied the convEntlOn, ha' Ulg been a~ked to take the :oubJect "Undertakers' Records" The speaker declared that the under-taker ~hould be a power for good Ul the commumty In whIch he re-,Icles He saId hl'i deportment should he open to 111- 'ipectlOn at all times, and hIs a11n 'ihould be to exemphfy the true ele, ated type of manhood "\Ve must he 'iympathetlc In thIS bU'ilnes'i of ours I don't mean that It IS the busln ess of an undertaker to go to the father or the WIfe and condole WIth them and at the same time have 111m111d a mahogany case WIth slh er tnmm111gs vVe can d'J more than thIS by con'iollng them by the 111telhgent handl111g 01 the11 dead" The speaker scored the class of undertaker'3 who count theIr VIC-t1111Sbefore they are dead, and saId that men 111practlcmg hus- 111e~'ithat way laId themselves open to the scorn anJ contempt of all nght-mUlded member'i of the profe'i~lon and people at large "They 'ihould be ellIven out of the commuUlty ," ~ald Mr MeLam. "at the pOInt of the 'iword of puhhc dhappI 0\ al and mJlgnatlOn There 1:0no place for thcm In the ranks of undertakers who profess to be men among men, theIr place 13 m the membershIp roll of the amalgamated umon of ambu-lancp chaser:o " \Ir McLam al'io spoke of the grow111g e\ll of tak1l1g the naUle of the SavIOr m vam He saId the evl1 wa~ a bhght up-on mankind and the cur..,e, a'i he called It, has no place m the vocabulary of the undertaker "'\ 0 soldl er, ho\'\ ever low, would apply the names to hh general that mank1l1d use, WIth apparent unconcern m blasphemmg J esu~ Chnst" " . .- ..-- ... ---- We Manufacture the Larlleat Liue of Folding Chairs In the Unlted States, SUItable for Sun day Schools, Halls, Steam-ers and all publIcresorts We also manufacture Brass TrImmed I ran Beds, SprIng Beds, Cots and CrIbs In a large I varIety Send for Catalogue I and PrlCtl to II I KAUffMAN ,I MfG. GO. ASHLAND, OHIO Ih_ • .~ I ... 26 W'EEKLY AltTISAN Minnesota Dealers' Retail Furnitu)."e " > Association OFFICERS-PreSIdent, J R Taylor, Lake Benton, Mlnn , Vice-President, D R Thompson, Rockford, Mmn , Treasurer, B A Schoeneberger, Perham, MlDn , Secretary, W L Grapp, Janesville, Mlno EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE -Chairman, Geo Klem, Mankato, Mmn., 0 Simons, Glencoe, Mmn, W. L Harns Mtnneapohs, Mmn , C. Danielson, Cannon Falls. BULLETIN No. 163. A REMEDY TO ELIMINA1.~E TRADE EVILS. W~NTED-A Furniture Dealer, who will put him-- self in a position to save from $1,500 to $5.000 a year, with a chance for increase. Such an "ad" If publIshed m a dally newspaper and properly br'ought before the furniture dealers would create a de.'Hre to know how. why, ctc Ii, no doubt 1\ (mId bnng a multItude of replIes The furnItUl e dealer, who is pluggIng hard from morning untIl nIght. would no doubt say: "That appeals to me, you bet' I would lIke to do that If I could Another dealer who has a reasonably large volume of busI-methods whIch wIll bnng about such saving which are cash, quantIty and cuttmg out the \\ aste in gettlllg his merchan-dIse \\ e Imagme \\ e can hear the all wise saying: "The Idea. of anyone bemg able to buy better than I, or to assume that functIOn of personal selection I" etc Thoughts like these runnIng thru the mmds of suspicious dealers, is the cause for so many, many thousands of furniture dealers plodding along ) ear after year 1ll the same old rut. At the end of the year the' find that they have not made any money and they find themselves contmually hard up. ~ If \'ve have stated what is true, then there must be some unIver"al cause for these condItIons. and in trying to solve tIns problem, we find that It is true because of the education No 1 No.3 As shown In Catalog The tl Uf lornpanson rhe Real ArtIcle The above row of cuts shows a method that our AbSOclatlOn ('Ill ploys to help Its members to proteLt. themselv es ~ga111st fraudulent m.all ordm advertisIng Look at cut No 1 Isn t It a massn ( tablp to be sold for $1125? Yet No 2 cut shows the vast dlfh ILnce bet" E, 11 the arhcle as re-CPlved In compallson to the mall Older IllushatI( Il Wouldn t you have a prett\ hard tIme convIncIng the IllJ.11 OldpI UIS tomer that the PlCtUlP dS Illushatec1 b\ the catalog hou"'ie IS ani) a Inch base but that IS what the descllptlOn states and \\ hat the, ShIp out So make good use of the opportuIllt\ of exposIng thIS fraud \\ ( have ordered one of these tables and we are makIng a duplicatp onl' ness, might say "Well. how can It be done?" Or, he might say' "The audaCIty of anyone tellmg me that I might save from $1,500 to $5.000 a yeal 111 hUY1l1g my year's suppIJes Yet, that 1" what thIS httle "ad" Imphes if ) ou take It at Its true meanIng No doubt many a small furnIture dealer would be lookmg at this "ad" and wondellng why a savmg of from $1,500 to $5,000 is not more easily found -Read on: The person who answers the above "ad" must be a clean red-blooded, progressIve, "I WIll" dealer, who has the ability to plan ahead an,1 who can see that by combmmg the buymg forces of many that he will be able to do that which is Im-possible as an indIVIdual That i" just what the Minnesota Co-OperatIve BUY1l1g aSsoClatlOn is domg for ItS members Ah, there i" the rub, "co-operative buying ., The proportionate savmg of from $1,500 to $5,000 a year would be most desirable and should ll1terest every furnIture dealer ThIS extra saving wIll not come to anyone unless he IS willIng to adopt such a \ (I \ luueh bettpr finIsh a 42 Inch top plaIn oak vVlth a 6 Inch ped estal fOI ~4 <;;:J 01 It Cdn be had WIth et 7 inch pedestal for $535 H( n1PInbei that e\ (n at these prIces that these tables are made hood (nough <;;) tll It no furnIture dealer need be ashamed of them ( ould \ ou a.., a ..,m 111 dc-aIel "ho ('an only buy from 10 to 15 tables a <.,( ason c, el l ...1.).( < t to gpt them eLt thIS figure? But thanks to co-op PI d. tIOn \\ f' al P able to furnIsh j. OU thIS tablE> at a pnce that Vi. III not onh dHl j-OU t< meet It but make' a profit also v\le have 200 tables bPIIlg mau( dt facton and shIpments ean be made In ten days Order \\ h 1t "\OU need no" the consumer 1" gettIng thru the mail order business methods, the soap club lIterature and the vanous wholesale jobbers, "hlPp1l1g merchdnlhse to theIr customers out of their regular lme, all of \\ hlCh 1" showmg the consumer. that certain com-modI tIe" can be had at a certa1l1 pllce These pnces are so close to the pnce demanded of the small dealer, that it is not an) wonder that they are not makIng money The small dealer an'(IOUS to retam hIS volume of bUSIness begins to talk quality dlhl serVIce and he does everythmg WIthIn his power to stem thl" tIde, (vl-hIch by the way, IS the remedy generally pro-posed for these e, 1Is) StIll we find a certaIn volume of trade cont111uaIl) slIppIng away from us-why? SImply because bu"mess IS beIng done more and more upon the cold blooded bU"1l1c"" ba"I" and because our old tIme Ctlstomers can and d J C vcry now dlld then some Item for Ie" ... tl1dn we can "ell It We ImmedIately ask our"elves "Now If this, that, or the other fellow can scheme to do thIS," should I not be able - ~ - ~-------,-----------,------- WEEKLY ARTISAN to buy my merchandise as close as they?" Our answer is "Yes you can, that IS, If you wIll do as they do." But you say "I am only a small dealer and I cannot buy in carloads, etc" Yet, thIs is the condItion of all the small dealers It took the Minnesota association over three years to discover the solution of these conditions, which are, either that we wiII be forced out of the game of business or we mu<;t adopt such methods that will enable a smaIl dealer to get on the same ba.sis as to the first cost of his merchandise, a'S doe<; his big rival WhIle co-operative buying has those features that are hard to overcome, which we wish w~r&other- WIse, we find that unless we use this plan.: ~t'$ptofits are on the decline instead of where they ought to be~ce. when the years roll around we find our small dealers doing quite a No.3. Cheav ~Iontgomery Ward Bed a.. shQ<Wnin Their Catalog 27 But, My Dear Brother, of the furniture trade. what are you going to do? You have certain conditions to meet, the majority of which are not of your making No doubt sooner or later the small dealer will come to that understanding where he wdl see that he will have to adjust hImself to the scientific methods of today which methods are adopted by the <;uccessful enterprises now III existence. or he must atone to the offended law of the survival of the fittest. In which class are you gOlllg to be found? It 1<;the purpose of this article to inspire you and to Illculcate that hope in you, whIch WIll spur you on to do that which WIll make you successful and prosperous in your furni-ture business At the beginning, it may seem hard for you to adapt yourself to the requirements necessary to make co- ST~DY THIS ITEM. No 4. T Two-Inch Post Bed. Half Tone of Real Article. ThIS F2 No 0-035 Is the greatest bargaIn ever offered In a 2 Inch post Hon bed The maIn pIllars are 2 Inches In dIameter, and IS a plaIn artIstIc deSign in any bed room FInished WIth one coat of antI-rust filler and two coats of enamel SIzes 3 or 4 feet ThIS No 2 contInued post bed can be fur-nished our members 111 all SIzes In white enamel for $4 85 V Martm $5.35 Can you as a small dealer, who does not use ,)9 60 or 100 beds a Year, ever expect to buy beds at thIS price? Haven t you of-tener paId from $7 00 to $9 50 Yet by cut hng out all the waste, we are able to do It at aba" f' pflce Another IllustratIOn of what the nght kInd of co operatIOn WIll do rhIS IS--ihe kmd of bed the catalog buyer has in m1nd when he comes to your store. The half tone On opposIte SIde IS what you show him Unless you have an illustratIOn of this kInd pInned on the bed you are apt to have a hard tIme to conVInce hIm ThIS bed Is sold for $158. Note what we furmsh them for on OppOSIte side. No.1. Montgomery Ward S prIce for thIS dresser $11 55 but cut No 2 shows what you get Do you thInk that If theIr dresser wae; II lustIated as It IS shown In cut No 2 that It would teinpt anyone to part WIth then money? '" ell hardly, yet thIS IS the- kIn 1 of a game the dealer IS up against Look at cut No 2 and study It carefully volume of business, yet the net results are not there Why aren't they? Think again Of course we do not as<;ume to say that this is So in all cases, but we challenge OUI readers to deny that these con-dItion, affect the maJonty of our Jealers If you want to get at the bottem of these conditions, Just take a trip with your friend the travehng salesman and follow hIm on his route and you WIll probably be made to realize the fact as you never have realize
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- Issue of a furniture trade magazine published weekly in Grand Rapids, Mich, starting in 1879. and GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., SEPTEMBER 24, 1910 NELSON-MATTER FURNITURE CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. BED-ROOM and DINING-ROOM COMPLETE StTlTES in Mahogany. Circassian Walnut and Oak. If you have not one in your store, a siIDPle request will brina you our IDagnificent new CataloQue of 12x16 inch JUlge groups, show-ina .uites to IDotch. With it, even the Dlost :m.oderate sized furniture store can show the best and newest furniture satisfactorily. S/!.eciaJists fQtneFul'nitul'e Trade. MICHIGAN ENGRAVING CO.GRANDRAPIDS. CHOICE TOOLS FOR FURNITURE MAKERS If you do not know the "Oliver" wood working tools, you had better gIve us your address and have us tell you all about them. We make nothmg but Quality tools, the first cost of which IS consIderable, but whIch WIll make more profit for each dollar mvested than any of the cheap machmes flood-ing the country. "OLIVER" No. 16. Band Saw 36 Inches Made WIth or WIthout motor drIve Metal table 36"x 30" Will take 18" under Ih e gUide-bits 45 degrees one way and 7 degrees the other way Car-nes a saw up to 176" Wide. Outside beanng to lower wheel shalt when not motor drIven Weighs 1800 lb, when ready to shIp Oliver Tools Save Labor H Tempers u Cost "Ohver" New Variety Saw Table No. 11 Will take a ,aw up to 20' dIameter Arbor belt IS 6' Wide Send for Catalog "B" for data on Hand Jointers, Saw Tables, Wood Lathes, Sanders, Tenoners, Mortisers, Trimmers, Grinders, Work Benches, Vises, Clamps, Glue Heaters, etc., etc. OLIVER MACHINERY CO. Works and General Offices at 1 to 51 Clancy St GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., U. S A BRANCH OFFICES OlIver Machmery Co, Hud'on Termmal, 50 Church St, New York Ohver Machmery Co , FlfSl Nauonal Bank BUlldmg, Chicago, III , Ohver Machmery Co Pacific BUlJdmg, Seattle, Wa,h Ohver Machinery Co 201-203 Deansgate, Manche'ter Eng WEEKLY ARTISAN 1 YOU CAN ___ I.- MAIL YOUR CATALOG OCTOBER 12th _____ 1 ___ If you place the order with us. W"ITE PRINTING COMP "NY GRAND RAPI[)S, MICU. I PRINTERS FOR THE FURNITURE TRADE. I 2 WEEKLY ARTISAN ....-.---~-._._-- - .-- - - LUCE FU~~!~~~~CH.COMP ANY I IIIII II,I , II Manufacturers of COMPLETE lines of MEDIUM PRICED DINING and CHAMBER FURNITURE. Catalogues to Dealers Only. ~_. . Luce-Redmond Chair Co., Ltd. I BIG RAPIDS, MICH. High Grade Office Chairs Dining Chairs Odd Rockers and Chairs Desk and Dresser Chairs Slipper Rockers Colonial Parlor Suites In Dark and Tuna Mahogany BIrd' J Eye Mapll BIrch !Zuartertd Oak and ClrcaJJlan Walnut Our Exhibit you will find on the fourth floor, East Section, MANUfACTURERS' BUILDING, North Ionia Street GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN Exhibit in charge of J. C. HAMILTON, C. E. COHOES,J. EDGAR FOSTER. .. C,RAND RAPI'-- -- P\lllLIC UBR.\H\ 30th Year-No. 65 GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.• SEPTEMBER 24. 1910 Issued Weekly OLD AGE EXEMPTS FROM TARIFF DUTY New Law Furnishes a CuStOlliSHouse Guarantee for Antique Furniture That Has Passed the Century Mark. The appraIser's YVdlehou"edt \\ ash111gtonand Chll~topher streets IS filled Just no\\; wIth ~o-lalled antique furmture brought to this country by returnmg tounsts and Imported by the dealers along upper FIfth avenue Under the new tanff the matter of admitting old fmmture free of duty has come to have much greater sIgnificance than It dId formerl} If furmture IS found to possess artIstIc value and be more than a hundred years old It IS entitled to free admissIOn The Importance of thIS pro-vision to dealers 111antIques both here and abroad IS that ad-mission free of duty constItutes a guarantee of genuineness which is of great value to the owner. Deputy Appraiser Wanamaker saId recently that he did not believe one-fifth of the furmture brought to thIS country as antique and entItled to enter free of duty on account of its age was to be admItted legally under that claim. "We demand vhe most posItIve proof of its genuineness," he said, "and even then are not satIsfied with the declarations of the owners, but have our own experts to pass on every ob- Ject that come~ 111. Onl} those objects WhIChare genuine be-yond all doubt are admitted under the terms of the new law." Often it happens that a woman purchaser goes into one of the old furniture shops on the avenue and asks If there happens to be a set of chaIrs of Chinese Chippendale, for instance. The polite salesman is dIstressed that there is nothing of the k111d on hand. But if the customer is not in a hurry there will soon be something 111the store that will suit her. "We have just now in the custom house," the polite clerk Will say, "a wonderful set of Chinese Chippendale chairs that formerly belonged to old Lmd "Norocks," whose furnlture has just been sold at private sale. One of onr buyers was fortunate enough to get hold of the famous Chippendale chairs and they are now in the custom house." It is not in the least improbable that there are some chairs in the custom house, although most polite young clerks of this kind would not consider themselves boun\!. to stick so closely to the facts. In many cases the clerk might know where there was such a set of chairs, send for it on commission and sell it to the customer. Or he might even know where there was a good re-production of such a set and sell them as the original property of the late Late "Norocks" Such things have been known to happen in many shops, and the mention of the custom house in such transactions has come to mean to the initiated that-the shopkeeper is sparring for wind. "\Vhatever the dealer mdY be up to," saId the manager of one of the e",tablishments on FIfth avenue which has been strict-ly honest 111its deal111gswith its customers in such matters, "there IS now one positive means of protection against imposi-tion If there IS such furniture in the appraiser's warehouse and it has been admitted free of charge it is genuine. That is the result of the present law and its administration by Appraiser Thomas, whose judgment 111such matters IS accepted WIllingly by all who are really anxious for an honest opil11on. He is sucT:! a well qualified expert in the matter of old furl11ture that it could have no better indorsement of its genuineness than ad-mission free of duty by him." Antique furniture of the commercial kind is like many hu-man bemgs who are rarely entirely good or entirely bad. Old furniture, as it is called, IS rarely altogether fake or altogether genuine. Most pieces are composed of some old parts and some new ones to supplement what has been lost or destroyed. This naturally has raised another question for the experts: if part of a pIece IS old and the rest of it new shall It be passed or shall the \\ hole thing be rejected? Much to the dISgust of importers for sellin1o5it, antique fur-l11ture to be admitted free must be altogether old and cannot be a combination of new and old wood. Of course there are few manufacturers or restorers of these old pieces so unskillful as to put in new wood without having imparted to it by the varied means known to their craft an appearance of old age. This is clone in a variety of ways of which the most usual are exposure to the elements to give the color of antique wood, shooting with birds hot in order to give the impression of wormholes and a num-ber of similar devices. But the expert can detect the difference in the age of the real and the spurious wood. In view of the fact that very few pieces of old furniture ",hich had previously had some claims to genuineness are made altogether of the original pieces, this new decision has proved distressing to the dealers in old pieces. There are few cases in which genuine old wood or pieces of furniture are employed in making these restorations, and of course there is no reason why that should be accounted more than 100 years old and a work of art merely because it serves to hold together parts of what was originally quite another piece of furniture. "Such a law is bound to create almost a revolution in the business of antique furniture," one of the dealers told the re-porter yesterday, "unless buyers become satisfied with what they 4 WEEKLY ARTISAN TURPS-NO. The Only Perfect substitute for Turpentine. Contains No Gasoline, No Benzine, No Headlight Oil. For use in reducing Varnish. For Use in CUTTING DOWN EXPENSES. TRY IT. The results speak for themselves. Barrel sent on approval. THE LAWRENCE·McFADDEN CO. PH ILADELPH lA, PA. get and do not InSht on absolute authentlClt) The 1111beU111 pleces or very fine speClmen" of antIque furl11ture \\ 111mo, t hhe ly suffer by Its PlovlslOns, a~ 111paymg the hIgh pllce~ demanded for these pleces purchasers \\ ant absolute gel1ml1ene" T 11 the case of less expensIve plece~ bUyers mav be "athfied to tahe the furniture as lt lS and not leqUIre that It be of undoubted al1- tlqmty Under the present conc1Itwl1" thel e 1c., no 1ea ,on \\ h \ any 1\ew Yorker should be 111the lea" t decen ed a, to \\ hat he buys here pm pOl tmg to be a genu1lle antIque ' The new la\\ as to the adI111s"lOn of the~e thl11g, hd" CO,11( to benefit even those ~mencan~ who bu) old hlll11ture abload It was not at allunl1Sual fO! pm chasel ~ \\110 entered these place" In England or on the contInent thl~ summer to have the plOpll etor say then good~ had never been held fOl dut) at "e\\ ) LJ!k v'>h1ch they 1egarded as a great recommenddtIon ot then ~ooch and a gua1 antee of thell hone~ty It (hd not often happen that w hat the) sald \'>as true \lore than one purcha~el \\ ho bought on the strength of that guarantee found that not onh cltd he hay ~ to pay at the cu~tom house but that even hoclY \\ lth a \ en fev\ exceptIOns \Vho bought of thls same pel,on had abo to pay dutles when the goocls Idncled hel e nut there 1, one \vav 111 which the law may be made to act as a complete pl0tectlOn to the Amencans who buy 1n Europe "I wIll gualantee to ) ou,' a foreH.;11 dealel \\ III ",L\ to an Amencan buyer, "that I am sellmg you a g enmne antIque It you are not wIlling to take my \\ 01d for 1t I W1II lea\ e the mat ter to your own customs officer~ If they deCIde that thb pIece is not a genu111e antique of more than at least a hundred) ear, old yOU need not pay for lt at aII and I v\111take It bach ' That has been said by more than one fOlelf; n deale 1 to \mu icans abroad. Probably the dealers feel that even If the gooch should be pronounced dutiable the purchasers \\ auld 1athel pay the dutv dnd bllng them m than go to the trouble of send111g thlm bac1, to I~nl0pe ~lhe 1l10"t 11l1pOl tant eftect of the new law, ' thls dealer told the llpmte1, v\111be to deal the an as to \,lut and what b not ,111tlqne 1t 1, to! tlMt leason thdt the 100111Sof the appralsel s \\ 11 eh()n ,e ,n c lU"t nO\\ ,tacked up v\lth the g ooels of dealers \\clltlng tel hG\.l the opl111on ot the expcrt as to Yvhether thelr l \ lclcncl cl11C1 the Occ1l1111lcttlonof the eApel t show that then g )(,d" ldn entcl tl ee ot duh and be ploverl to he v\1th111the class ()t 1 e tl ,Ll1tIClue" - \ C\\ ) 01k ::"un Exppnsive Improvements. 1 hl LUll Eulmond UtaH comjJdnv of Ih~ Raplc1s, 1\1'ch, h'h lomplued the ll1-tallatlon ot a ne\\ lower and hght1l1g plant; dl"o a "plllJkll1Jg sv"tem, bv the me of \\ hlch the Insurance rate b rleluceel to 23 cenh per hundred In speak1l1g of these 1m-p10\ el11lnb \[1 J[atha\\av the ,ecleta1) of the company, saId 0111 phl1t 1" cOll1pletel) Isolated but befOle we put 111the spr111k-leI" the latl v\as h111clen,,0ll1e ,Ve caIn a heavy lIne of 111S111- ,\ 1Cl nIJt ()nh 111cle1ll111Int\£; our company 'lgamst loss by fire but t1()l11 v\atel I lc,lfl1ecl recently of vel y heavy losses sustal11ed b\ 111an11f1Lt1l1l11~COIpordtlon, located dt other lJOll1tS111the state lau,ccl h\ the open11'g ot ,pl1111der heads unclel the pressure of \\ atE'! '.;l1lh a 1 all clent 1111(.;htbe f,l11) as lhsastrous as would be -\bt,llllUl b\ fill and \\e conSIdered lt "lse to protect our- 'elv e, ,LgclllJ"t "uLh an acudent The bOIlers are of the Wickes pltle1n the el1S;111e11111Sat hIgh speeel, dcvelopIng one hunch.:cl h01,e PO\\ el \\ hlle ,\ s111a11engl11e and dvnamo furmshes plenty IJt lllu1l1l11a\1on \11 lIatha\\ay repOltcd bmIne~s as satlsfactor) 111 \ olu111e ","bout one hundred hands are employed 5) hours per v\ eek WEEKLY ARTISAN Grand Rapids Factol"Y Affairs . • \0 '11, said Ralph P Tlet-ort of the ROyal lurmtlll e COIn- In 1\ whe 1 asked It llc vl,lted an) furlllture factonec while on his tour of It.,uro]x wl1lch vvas mel1t onedlll the ~I tlsdn last \\ eek 1 II ent over to have cl good tU1Ie aud I certdllll) hall It' he con-t1l11' ed I forgot that I Wd, connected with a fur11lture factor) -allllo~t fOlgot that T lIved 111 (xrand Rapid, -and Ju,t gay e lll) ,elf up to seelllg the umntn and It \\ a~ certaml) cl dehghtful e"pcllcnce 1\ e tom ed England T I ance, SWitzerland, CJelmam dnd Holland 111 our auto d'ld then 'v\ent u'v rail thlOugh Trance dm\ n IIlto I talv 1\ Itn pleasant \\ eather and perfect loads the auto tilP \Va..,n'o t enJo)clble Thele IS nothmg lIke It for seelllg thc countl) ,llld the people T wa,lt to <a'v agal11 that the roads O'vc~ tllel e are \\ onelerful 1 had heal d about them but for all that IV as ,m pnsed b\ then comhtlOn v\ 11\ dUrIng our entIre tnp \\ e clId not get a J0l1l1ce nor find a rut or a hUlllmock On n') I eturn I founel th, affalr~ m thc factory I t1l1111ngalong all lI'iht There lS no gl e,lt I u'-h hut we ale clOlllg about th" thual dlllllLlIt of b FlIle" '1 cheI not take a gooel tU11e to ,ee Cah f0l11ld at Ih be" t '-did \ ~ lr'loelman of the Luce FUlmture company, who hac, lu~t I eturnec1 from d tllP to the Pacific coa~t '1 was thel e j' the ell) ,eason anll the country \\ as I athcr brO\\ ,1 1 (heI not <top .It all) place 10m; enough to learn mlLh about buslllcss cdfcllr, but through the \VI con<lll 1 urlllture company IIhlch handles our llIle flom Denver west. I found that the furlllture tI ade IS goocl III Los '\ngeIe~ and southern CalIforllla whde at San 1" IanCI"C0 dllll farther north It I~ rather dull I went north as far as \ an-couvel and returned b\ the Canacllan PaCific route Bus1l1ess III Portland, ~eattle. Tacoma and \ ancouver IS ~alcI to- he ql1let, hIt those towns appear to be bus) and Itvely enough Tracie has been rathel dull III San FranCISco all ~ummer but ImpI OVement hds been noted rcceatl) aneI a revIval IS generall) expected thiS fall ' PIan~ for a 1 cxtemlOn to the factory of the Impenal Fur-mtme Clmpan, of Granel Rapids, have been ddopted and bId" fu the constructIOn at the same \\ III soon be opened and the contract let The malll bculdlllg Will cover an area of 63,165 feet and Will be five stOlles high \ wlI1g of commodIOUS SIze \'vlll be u-ed by the shlppmg clerk and hiS asslstant< A large kitchen and cafe \'vlll be located on the second floor of the wlI1g 1'\'vo full floors of the mam ~trudure Will be devoted to ware-room, In the: high basement there WIll be a clIl1Ing room, a rest room and sho\\ er baths tor the me of the employes These bUlldmg3 Will be ready tor occupancy about the H1Iddie of I\Iay next year IIanager I, Stuart Foote reports a very satIsfactory volume of trade for thIS sca<on of the year (,rancl RclPld~ 'manufac ttlrer~ I epOl t the lumber market qUIet dnd stead, Dealel' seem to be lItllte eaSier to "ell but the) al e not cltspo,ed to cut prIces on an) thIng except cratmg boaret" \vhlLh have dec1111ed conslderabl) m pnce dUllng the past fe\'v n'onths ~s most of the ::\JlLhlgan n]\lls have culls on lund a Emther dec1me may be expected The only advance III pi Ices re-ported recentl) IS on dr), red gUlll, \\ hlch, 0\\ mg to mcreasmg consumptIOn ha, become rather scal ce The II1crea se IS very httle however, not much mOl ethan merel) strengthe11lng the pllce~ that have pI evalled slllce last Spllllg 1he Immechate fu-tm e IS COJ1',ldered uncertdll1 Dealers g(nerally predict higher pllce:o but con"umel s "hlm l.lck of faith 111 the prophecy bv de chnl11g"to bm more than for present wants 5 THE WORLD'S BEST SAW BENCH Budt With double arbors, slIdmg table and eqUipped complete With taper pm guages ca'efully graduated. Th:s machm, represents the height m saw bench can-struchon It IS deSigned and bUilt to reduce the cost of sawmg stock. WrIte 08 for descrIptive information, THE TANNEWITZ WORKS, ~~t~g,e;'PIDS, Local manufacturers report an Improvement m the demand for medium pnced ftll11lture smce the opemng of the current week ::\Iany of the factOlles are faIrly actIve and a fair volume of tl aele, espeCIally 111 gOOlJ:, sUItable for the hollIday season, IS antIupated In fine goods the movement contmues moderate The additIOn to the Luce Furmture company's factory \\111 be completed by the mIddle of October. The show rooms, 120 x 120 feet, WIll be located on the new tlllrd flom and Will be con-nected v\Ith a dl11l11g-room and kitchen which probably be gIven cl In oper dechcatlOn early 111 January George 1 Smc1alr, presIdent anel manager of the Grand Rapids Blass compan), IS a true and loyal member of the Ma- ,omc fratermty He \\ as one of the select few on whom the thlr-h -thIrd deg-ree was confen ed at a meetmg of the ScottIsh nte bOlhe,; 111 DetrOIt t11l' \\ eek / (hr'< Th\\ 111g" manager of the Grand Rapids Veneer Works, IS m New York city lookmg after the mstallation of dry kIlns and tahll1g orders for more In adchtlOn to overseemg the mstalldtlOl1S he takes new OIc1ers at a rate averaging about one per week "\n effort IS bcmg made to orga11lze a company to take over the plant of the Grand Rapids Parlor l'rame company which has been Idle for sevual months It Ie;proposed to abandon the fur- 11ItUlc bmIness and engage In the manufacture of automobile bOlltes 6 WEEKLY ARTISAN SINGLE CONE ALL STEEL SPRINGS Are very popular with the Furniture Trade. $2~ Each Net $2~ Each Net No. 46, Single Cone, $2 Each, Net. We manufacture a full line of Single and Double Cone All Wire Springs. SEND US YOUR ORDERS. SMITH &, DAVIS MFG. CO., St. Louis Old Items Reprinted. 1·rom the ~1Jclllgdn \1 tlsan for <"eptl111hu 1""2 ()I II 30,000,000 feet of lumber IS used annualh III the J1lelnUlaLt111l of furmture 111 Grand Rapids Thomas C J\Iosely, formerly wIth the Berkel ~ Gcll 1 Ul mture company IS 111 Grand RapIds bm m~ a "tack ot good, for the Fargo (" D) rurmture com pan} soon to commence business. \;Vl11iam \V 1dcl!comb, pI eSldent of the \\ 1dcl!comb r Ul111- ture compan}, accompamed b} hIS \\ lie, 1~ spendmg a fell II eeks 111 the eastern cities The household fm111ture that belonged to Rope1 th~ Ul1- balmer, seIzed and sold at auctlOn 1ecentl}, II as purchased b\ L:nc1e John Colby, who presented It to Roper's unfortunate II 1fe ::\~anufacturers of Gland Rap1cl-, are 1nveQ111g-11lal111 111 the harc!w{)od tlmber lands of 110rtheln :'II1chlgan See Brothers formerly II 1th IIenlJ I e1g-e ot "d~ UlaII In\l opened a stock of fur11lture m Bay C1t} ::\Iattres,e, made of fine hl1gs arc \\ ClIr elnkcl b} tht l1lelkt1 to cure a patient of rheumatIsm, 1t he does not che before " Ul1L is effected A cabinet maker of Balt1more 1S exlllbltmg a £leak Chell1 On the back he carved repre~entatlOn:o of man} :opeCIe:oot h,h Crocadile arms and legs of a satyr complete the thmg If your DESIGNS are right, people want the Goods. That makes PRICES right. (tlarence lR.bills DOES IT 183 Madiaon Avenue -CItIzens Phone 1983 GRAND RAPIDS. ),(ICH ... ... f \ lJl\\ \\ el\ 01 chSpld} lllg household furnitu1 e has been eldojlted 1)\ ( \ HI OLk\\a} for the John Wanamelke1 store fh1 ee 100111:0LonQ1 ucted e"pectally for the pm pose, contd111 re-spectn el} tur11lture for the d1n1l1g room, the parlor and the bed room These dIsplays, 1\ h1ch are very attractive, arc changed tl equenth and are an ever mterest111g attractlon The manufacturel s of fur11lture m Ph1ladelph1a w1ll partic1- pate 111 the b1-centenmal celebratlOn of the fOlll1Chn!Sof Penn- '\ h a11lclon Octobe1 25 Bu} ers repre-ent1l1g the following houses bought furmture 111 Gl and RapIds to date thIS month D Scott, \Vinnipeg; Rob-el t KeIth, Kan~as C1t} ; \Y S H111l1lan, BelO1t, Wis ; Kev1lle & \\ elpples, Kansas C1ty, 1\10 ; 13 F. Robb111s, Meld1son, Iud; C Ekas, Springfield, Mo.; B. Hal nson, Maquoketa, 101\-a, C A DHS"eIO\\ DO\\ aglac, R J SIde, ::-Ju111ca;Frank Shafer, Morley, Jj I IIllghe, Dlo0111111gcLl1e~.I1ch , A \V. HutchIns ChIcago. kl1pdtl1d,- ~ BIO\\n Denver, :'IIel1111k, Smdll & Co, Toledo, ]udson &. Co, Gale-burg, III , :\1 S Pllce, Syracuse, P H "nook -\tlantel. Ga , lIo\\ cll &. Benkam, SlOUX CIty, Iowa, (reelm Lit} FUr1uturc COmpdn} ~I111Iaukee. \\ IS., Donnelly & narne~, ChIcago, Charles E Dunn, Lockport, ~. Y ; rakes & Co, I ort \\ orth TeAas; :'II. II H1llmeln, \V llhamsport. Pa , Tuhn'on ~ Son Jack,om 111e, III , J \V Smith, DetrOlt; r LC1denck Demson Texas 1he manufacture1 s of ChIcago, 111convention assembled re- Lentl}, adopted el memo11al to congress ask111g for the removal ot the dut\ ot lumber imported from Cdnada ~ elso11, :'IIatter & Co \\ 111furn!',h the new Llkewood hotel at Lakewood. N J C A Broc1.lIa\ 10 lIalkl11g behind an elegant gold watch, presented to h1111 1)\ h1s employer, John vVanal11aker as a testi-momal of apprCCla l10n of his services . WEEKLY ARTISAN 7 Gimbel and Their Methods. Spit) -eIght years ago ;\c!,t1l1 (:rlmbc1 opened a rnerchandlz-mg busmess In Vll1cennes, Ind, then consIdered a much more Important and progressrve cIty than ChIcago ThIs business proved so succe~sful that stores wel e opened 111 other cItIes such as DanVIlle, Ill, and :\111"aukle. and Llte1 111 PhIladelphIa, Re-celltly an 1mmen~e bmldll1g of 1'2 stolles ha~ been opened for the Xe", York trade It eonL\ll1~ t\\e,lty-~1'C ,tlH'~ of HoOl ~pace ,ulll cost $O,000,000 ] he fi:xture~ a1e all of ~olld mahogan) ,md the anangement' for stocks, plans of elevatOl ". ~tdll \\ ayS, office' "altIng rooms and man) other fcatm es are the 1esult of much thought and pamstakll1g effort of the seven GImbel blother'-, wIth theIr aSSOCIates who control the present busll1ess. It took five years to carry out the plans for thIS bmldmg \\ hlch IS on an he10ic scale The viSItor does not feel that It is too immense however, owmg to the skill of the des1gnCl s, "ho hdve so planned It that It is in proper proportion. The store WIll employ from 1,500 to 6,000 people \\ho havc definite mstructions to carry out as to the matter of courtesY to- IV <uds prospective purchasers "C1V1ltty is not SCtv1llty," I" one of the Gimbel sayll1gs employed for their employes' benefit Motor vehIcles WIll supplant horses entIrely in the deltvery part of the bus1l1ess One hundred and twenty-five ltght, SWIft wagons WIll be used, beSIdes a dozen or more hcavlcr furnitm e vans and six six-ton trucks. The sons ha\ e adhered to the same pllnciples that the father employed 111the ong111al and plOneer store In Y 111cennes, lnd The latter founded the second 1etall dI} goods store 111the countI y and also conducted a banking business f01 the benefit of customers IllS Ideas were alway s found pt aLt1caI m apph-cdtlOn He beltcved 111 one price for all. "Onc plOfit IS enough but be sm e ) au get that," was one of his mottoes and "Y0111 money back If not satIsfied," \\ as another. He behe\ed 111the "square deal to customer, manufacturer and employe" ahkc and the business has always been conducted on "right ltnes and 111 ways to increase its value to the public Don"t Know What to Make. Otto J1ranek, commercIal deSIgner, who has just returned from a tour of the east and south, says the manufacture1s of ft1rniture "do not kno\v \\ hat to make." The introductlOn of the Flanders, Ehzabethan, \iVilham and Mal}, and other Dutch and EnglIsh sty les, and the determll1atlOn of buyers to cl111g to the standard Engltsh and French claSSICS, has 1endered it Im-possible to form an op1l1ion as to what is best to make in the fu-ture. ThIS problem IS the most perplex111g the manufactm er, of furniture have had to contend with 111many years ;\n ex-pression uttered by a retaIler of Iowa whIle staymg in GI and RapIds in July last, is "orth repeating here. "\Vhen you do not know what to make, make Sheraton stuff. It ,,111 look good t1115year; It WIll look fully as good next year and \V 111be no less pleasing ten years he11ce In my scctlOn Sheraton does not sell vely \\ell but 111buymg goods made up in Sheraton de- SIgns I knO\\ that no matter how long the se1ectlOns may 1ema111 on my floors they WIll always look well." Not eve1Y manufacturer knows how to 1l1telpret the art of Sheraton properly. In fact it is safe to say that most of the 111terpreters have failed 111theIr "Sheratoman" efforts The spint and Impulse of the master cabinet maker is possessed by but few and the manufacture of tIllS sty Ie of goods should be left to those capable of mterpretmg It mte1hgently. Mr J Iranek 1eported that trade was mOV111~but moderately 111 the eastern states In the ,;outh the cheap furl11ture is hav-mg- a fairly achve sale wlu1e 111 the Ohio valley and contribut- 1l1g rcglOl1S there IS qmte ,1 stlOng demand fOr medium priced h,,l,rnittll e. ~I -------------------- -----------.., I I ! II II I I i I : I IIII ,I• II I Be careful of the dealer who tells you he can furnish cutters "as good or better than MorrisWood & Sons." He is imposing upon both you and our reputation. If you would have cutters which do the most perfect work, at the least expense, that wear out on the jointer and not on the emery wheel, which save their first cost in a few weeks, in the saving of time, required to grind and adjust sectional cutlers, write UI right now for further information. We have made solid steel cutters for thirty· six years. Is that worth anything to you? A trial order is our most convincing argu-ment. Write now before you forget it. MORRIS WOOD & SONS 5108 W. Lake St., CHICAGO, ILL. ~ ._ __ea .. - ..... --- __ a. _ 4 ~ .. - IIIII II I ._--~._-----_-.- ------------_._----------~-----., Here is a Rocker that's a seller. Write for the price. GEO. SPRATT ($ CO. SHEBOYGAN, WIS. No. 1192. .... .- ...----------~---.------------------.-... 8 WEEKLY ARTISAN Onl\ one Cillcago furniture man's name was dIscovered on the ballots of the t\\ a partIes at the pnmarIes last week. Col Leopold IIo,s of the }Iarshall "\ entilated Mattress company, In1 }I1ch1gan a\ enue, attempted to get the nommatIOn for con- ~re,,,man on the DemocratIc tlcket m h1S cllstnct Anyone who ha" heard Col \Io"s call clown the ';upenntenclent of h1S firm's J,,"enosha plant 0\ er the telephone wIll tell you that he is a bol n 01 ator and the fatlure of the voters to sc:ratch for the colonel at the pnmane'l h the11 loss PI oc:res~ on the new Karpen exhibItIOn butldmg m Mhchi-gan a\ enue IS bemg made as rapidly as conve11lent WIth the depth to \\ hlch the tounrlatlOn ca1sson, are bemg sunk---through the clay to ' hard pan" \dolph Karpen stated th1S week that the foun-datIOn, and steel "tructUI e of the bUIldmg, to be completed next \\ lllter \\ III have Stl eni.ith to WIthstand the weIght of adrhtlOnal floors to be added at some future tIme to bnng the heIght of the bl1ddlllg up to h\ ent) storcres the present regulatIOn limIt of Chi-cago sk)'scraper~ ThIS WIll even up the Karpen bUIld1l1g WIth the slq hne at the other hIgh blllld1l1gs along the ~11Ohigan ave-mle 10\\ frontmlS on Grant park all of \\ hlCh have been erec:ted \\ Ithlll the pa'lt ,e\ en ,)ear'l -\dolph ProusL elevatOl operator at the entrance of the T ourteen-Ele\ en bUIldmg, has returned from a montlh's CrLuse on the Cmted States gunboat "~ashvllle,' ",hlch IS one of the tram- 1111S"hlp'l at the 11111101S naval reserves of whIch he IS a member c:,peclal ten !ton catalogues' seem to be the latest stunt for ld1ge jobbers ot turmture The Peck & H11lS Furmture company ot ChlLago ha\ c recently 1ssued a ,.PaClfie \\ arehouse catalogue" to! \\ e"te1n cllStomei s sho\\ mg only good~ carned for quick d1S-tlIhutlOIl 111the \\ este1 n brdnches of tbiS firm The capItal "!ock of the }[ L '\elson Furniture company hd" heed 111eredsed tram $13 000 to $50 noo J ,V Taylor retires 110111 the firm GREAT BIG BRASS BEDS One Priced at a Thousand Dollars Exhibited in a Chicago Show Window. ChIcago, Sept 23 ---An unique and attrdctn e feature tal ,1 furniture store's dIsplay wmdow IS attract111g considel able dtten-tlon thIS week over at Straus & Schram's on \\ est 'lacl!son "treet near the Junctlon of "L'nIOn street 4. maS~lVe bras~ bed made of six-inoh tubll1g, satm fi111sh, was made to order for the ,hO\\ wmdow of thiS firm by a ChIcago metal bed foundn The IetaIl prIce of this maSSIve piece IS quoted at $1,000 e\ en \\ Ith no buyers as yet Its prIce tIcket calls It the most expen'l!\ e metal bed ever made The Adams & We~t1ake compan)'. another ChIcago totlnd!\ who last Wl11ter dropped beds from theIr hne and no\\ confine their attentIOn to raIlroad blass good~, should rbe up to lhspute this claim, as the ornate brass bed made by thIS house to be ell" played at the ColumbIan exposItIon 111ChIcago 11118<)3 \\d" at that tIme announced as costmg more than t\\ a thousand dolldI" Hand carVl11g, onyx fillmg and hand pamted hang111g, made tlp much of the worth of the ,Vorld s FaIr bed, \\ hlch \\ as famou, in its day, whIle strong SImple 1111escharactenzed the Straus ~ Schram bed, whIch is a very heavy pattern at the rounc} ttlhe type now in demand and whIle the thlckne'ls ot tubll1~ and tl1111 m111gs have been greatly augmented It doe, not ha' e the ettelt of c!ums111ess or lack of proportIon A. E Seavel of the \-alent111e-Sea\ er compam ChlCa~() I-making an extended tnp on the PaCIfic coast 111the 111tele"t, ot hIS house's 1111eof fine parlor goods, \\ h1ch b no\\ be1l1~ sold 11l nearly all the prinCIpal clt1es and to\\ ns at the COtlntl\ He e" pects to complete his tnp b) October 1 UPHAM MANUFACTURING CO. MARSHFIELD, WIS. Dressers Chiffoniers Dressinu Tables Suites' Wardrobes Sideboards Buffets Etc. Made in Oak, Bircl's-Eye Maple, Mahogany, etc., and All Popular No. 2228 Toilet Table, Finishes No, 2240 Toilet Table SEND FOR OUR COMPLETE CATALOGUE WEEKLY ARTISAN By E. Levy. -Representative. Chicago, Sept 22 ---There are a number of manufacturers 111 Chicago who have taken pi Ide 111 mak1l1g the extenor and "ur-roundl11gs of their bmld1l1gs 1I1Vlt,mgand plea~mg to look at, ,,0 that the neighborhood 111 '" hlch they are located may be Improved rather than marred by their presence ~mollg these may be men-tioned that of the O. C S Olsen company, manufacturers of desks, at 2511 Moffatt street, who, when they made their additIOn to their plant a few years ago, did not thl'lk It completed without a row of trees and sodded plot along the factory frontage. The trees not only give shade but enhance the appearance of the street whIle well filled flower boxes with thEIr bnlhant colonng ex-tend long the second story window sills. CIVIC pnde along other lmes IS eVidencing Itself at other POl11tsand among others may be mentIOned the efforts put forth by the Seng company, Dayton and Huron streets, where they have sodded and kept smooth and green the plot of ground next to the side walk along the length of their plant on both sides A number of the nelghbonng manufacturers have fol- 10wed::vIr Seng's example and have transformed the neighbor-hood where formerly It was an unseemly conglomeratIOn of factones without sidewalks or pavement, with dumping grouncb The land has all been leveled, sidewalks and pavements laid, and It IS now a pleasl11g locality where trees afford shade, lawns are carefully kept and streets swept and sprmkled, all of which at-tention to outward appearances mchcates a growth of CIVICpride :vlartl11 S Johnson, Chicago manager of the Talge Mahog-any company who has been west a" far as the coast for "ome weeks, has retm ned, reporting a very successful a~ well as an en- Joyable tnp. The Talge Mlahogany company IS bmldl11g up a considerable tI ade 111 this CIty and VICl111tySl11ce estabhsh1l1g a warehouse and salesroom here about a year ago. J. D Freese & Sons have completed the adchtlOn to their plant at the corner of Campbell avenue and Horner street, have 1I1stalled their machl11ery and other faClhtles for manufactur-ing and are now runnmg the entire plant to ItS fullest capacity, filhng their fall orders. 1\1r. ['reese says he does not now un-derstand how they managed to turn out their product in their former cramped quarters and IS greatly elated over the new or-der of things. William T. Horn Becomes a Benedict. A pretty weddmg took place on the even1l1g of September 21 at the home of MISS Ethel Thlssleu, -+431 North Paull11a street, Chicago, when that estimable young lady became the wife of Wilham F Horn, second "on of John Horn, of the Horn Bras, l\Ianufactunng company Mr Horn has been for a number of years, in charge of the office and sales end of their busl11ess and has also had much practical expenence in every department of the manufacturmg end He has been aiding the business fully a dozen years and has become the "light bower" of hiS father and Uncle Jacob, who have run the busmess for upwards of twenty years In fact, WIlham Horn has become such a factor in the bus-mess that hiS presence wIll be greatly missed whIle he takes hiS weddmg tnp wll1ch will be a protracted tour in the we~t as far as the coast. The weddmg was pnvate, only the nearest rela-tives on each side being present. Mr Horn has been slowly selecting the furnishings for his 9 ,..--------------------D~~~;~~~~:OF FURNITURE 154 Livmgston St. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN I ~-----------------------------._.~.--._.-------~ CItIzens' Telephone 1702. nev" home and on 111Sretur,l will announce to hiS fnends hI" future place of I eSldence. Miss Eva Petersen Abroad. l\Ils~ Eva Petersen, daughter of Anton Petersen, of A Peterson & Co, the well knO\\ n office desk manufacturers of Chicago, has been ~pendl11g the summer 111 her father's native town 111 Norway, and wntes of the beauty of that land of the mld111ght sun, "and 111 a lengthy letter waxe" enthusiastic over the splendor of the scenery and wondrous glory of the evenl11g sunsets 111 that far off northern country A Hustling Salesman. ~ short time ago R.VlT l\Iathews of St Johns, New Brunswick, secured the agency fOI eastern Canada for the sale of the Grand Rapids \ eneer Vvorks dry kIln and Immediately proceeded to place two of them 111 11l';home town He has been remarkably successful amI h send1l1g In orders frequently. He seems to be pecuharly fitted for thiS k1l1d of work and the company he rep-resenb IS proud of him, and well they may be MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND NEWS H C. Heffner, fmmtnre dealel at El Campo TeAa" hd" ~olcl ant to E E Hnnt J Bo)d & Co, furl1ltme dealeh ot \\mneLago \\1' have sold ant to O. E Dnlkle). \V :t\ Orns has pur ha,ed tnc nndCltah.lllg InHnl" OJ \dam & Keatmg at X orfolk, :\ ebl The Germans ale cItstllltng a snb0tltntc for tnrpcntmc flom heavy petrolenm ImpO! ted flam Dorneo 1he Galt 1-' nrnlture comp,ll1\ of llarbdale 111'0' In \ L ad-ded an nndcrtakll1g dCp:ll tment to the, to! C \. ~I I mnc\, for 11111t))e,l!s a leadmg ttllmtme dldlcr at ~Ianchester,"\ If, ha, "old ont to LOll1'o \n,ell I [ P Campbell Ius purchased thc tmnltm e and nndel t,,\ mg bnsme,s ot j \\ \ndre\\, at l\!C'omfield, 10\\ ,I Han) \\ etmght has pnrlha,ed the mteI e"t ot T C h.111gIn th~ letall fmmtme btlOIl1e,,' at }dng 8. Co llla711 1nd Lon SI11Ith 8. c..,on f11l11ltnle dealel" ot c.."dln,l l'\.dn \\ III move mto nev\ quartet s m the ne\\ I{oalh bmlel111g m ULtobel \V H BOStvvICk, formerly of \ alclo"ta, 1~ nO\\ man,tger ot the Dohannon- IIcRae compal1\ " ftlll1ltnre ,tore at jastnldn (Ta ~I C Hennmg lon cIt) goods and grolcl \ eleeller ot / Lj)h\ I TIllIs, jla, 1'0ackltng a tmmtm e dml harel\\ al e depal tment to h1'o stOl e Phal r Bros. &.. ChJ1c!o have p IrLlla'ecl thc nnclu tah.111gInH ness anel eqmpmlnt of the C U \ctU11' 1nr11ltme lOI1lP,ll1\ ot LaGrange, Ga Chaffetz 8. ~e"sler, tml1ltme clealels at Calelnel Ila, have opened a blanlh "tore m the nc\\ Cohen hlolh. on rlca"'lnt strect. same to" n George G Dnnn and Thomas S \\ ell" hay e purcha"ed tile mterest of then partner CeOl ge Eberle m the \\ ,lterloo (101\ a) Fml1ltnre compan) John 1 Schaefer of \\ e~t \111'0 \\ 1'0 ha- ptncha,ed d h tIt mtelcst m the retelll fnrmtnrc Imsmes, of HClman IIellalm at Kewasknm, same state Kathan Hambmgel \llC ple'lClent at the (Tlmbellho" com pany of ~rJ1\\;H1kle chcel snclclenh at heal t c!he,hl at ]11' home 111that CIt) on Sept ember 1" The name of the Schn,ter-\\ ,un" I[anntactulmg COmpa'l\, fnrmtnre makel s of \\ elm\ eltosa \\ 1'0 has been changed to thc Schnster-V\ arno-Demereth compam \ \TOlk IS nm\ ll1 prog re % on acTcltt !Ons to ,IA of the fmmtm e factones 111Rockforel III 1 he aelchtlOn to the L mon ltlll1lture company s factof) IS nearl) completed Herman Roth"dllld has pm cha~ed the stock acconnh ancl gooel wlll of the DIXIe lurl1ltnre compan) of Colnmbl" Ga and has been londnctmg a senes of spU'Jal sale, A.t the fall opel1lng last \\ eek the ILlbon J\tmche comp,lll\ of ~ew Orleans, La, IS saId to have made the gledte"t dbpLn of carpets amI Ing sever ,een ,onth ot ChIcago The l\[enden (CO,1l1 ) f'urmtnre com pan) 0 '\ ell 8.- 11\ nn proplletors, celebrated theIr tv\ entleth annn Cl,an clmll1g the past week vdth a ,peclal ~ale thdt "as ven ,ncces,fnl Thomas F Larle) , the oldest fnrl1ltnre dealer 111Colnmblh Ga, has sold ant to the DdVlc1 S Goodman compam \\ ho \\ 111 '", ...... ,II , II, ..... IMPROVED. EASY AND ELEVATO RS QUICK RAISINC Belt, Electnc and Hand Power. The Best Hand Power for Furntture Stores Send for Catalogue and Prices KIMBALL BROS. CO., 1067 NInth St, Council Bluffs, la. Kimball Elevator Co•• 717Commerce BIdg , Kansas Cllv Mo J Pe-vton Hunter TermInal Bld.g Ddlhs Tex 1'- Western EngmeerIng SpeCIaltIes Co , Denver, Cola ... - lontlllue the buslllec' after ChSPC>"-lllg of all stock at specIal sales [he Roherhon FUr11ltUle company, de,tlers of Llllcoln, X eb , hay e attrelCted mnch attentIOn to theIr store by offerIng a pnze to the fil "t pcrson \\ ho counh C01rectI) the lamps 111the bIg elec-tIll ,1gn l' A. A.ppleton, represent1l1g the Fur11lture Inc1cx of J ames-tem n '\ Y 1~ Vhltlllg the fUl11lture manufactunng center::. of the nmlclle \\ e~t 1Ie \\ as III (~relncl Ral)l(l, last Monday and Ine~cla) 1 he ferrJ1l .:--ranufactnnng company of Grand Rapids, will cnlarge thllr ptll1t b) the el edlOn of an ac1chtlOll JO x 400 feet j he lompam m,ulllfactul es steel locker::. and other eql1lpl11cnt for telctone"- 1he firm of Strecker & ~raag, furmture dcalers of Salllla, },d" ha~ been lh~solved,),It 1I.aag h,lVlllg "old hb mterest to C D Lcchner fhe nc\\ firm, Strecker & Lechner WIll add carpeh ellld rug" to theIr stock The stock of fUl11lture 111the hands of the receIver for the n A. KIPP company manufactm ers of \Hhv'll1kee, has been sold to the Boston Stol e of that Clt) anc1 WIll be cll,posed of at a "re-l en el ,sale that 1~ no\\ bemg advertIsed Thc Gurne\ Refngerator company of lond du Lac, \\ IS , 1e,umed operatIOns last ':--[onday WIth a full force after a vaca- 110n ot t\\ a months dunng whIch they bmlt an ac1chtlOn to the plant lllll ea,lllg Its capaut) about 23 per cent. \ulSustus H I unlk, V\ ho has conducted a furmture store 1n 131htol Conn for fift) \ cars, Ius taken hIS three sons mto lMrtnll ,hIp The busllle,s v\III be enlarged but WIll be conc1ucted under the Ollg111al firm name of C Funck & Son. 1he blh1l1e,S of the ':--10bIle (Ala) Spnng Bed company, mannL1LtUlel- and dealers III brass and Iron beds, mattresses, Ltl ha, bcen 1l1corporatec1 by ~Ionroe D Block, P P Hunter anc1 .:--r \\ \lch lc1ge CapItal stock. all paId m, $50,000 The film at IIontgomE:1 y & Co, wholesale and I etatl funll-tl11e c1e,tleh at "\a,hvllle Tenn, IS to be lllcorporated WIthout clungc of name 13 \Y ':--Iontgomery and VV VV ::VIontgomery, L 1{ Cullom D II Kelley, J A Smlbh and Charles A Dur-helm \\ III be the" tockholders JT \ \ IIIllel. ploplletor of the l\Itller Furl1lture company of Durham,"\ C, has sold the busllless to Frank Stone, H T T ohn,on and \\ C \v I1ltdlTIS ':--Ir MIller wIll contlllne the re-t \11 tur11lture bnsll1ess ll1 the same town, but WIll have no stock 111 the company that bcars hIS name ':--Ielvllle C Chance IS now manager anc1 bu)er for the Brown 8. Durham furmture st01 e of X ew Haven, Conn, now owned by 11'1 III 0\\ n IIr Chance has redecorated the store throughout, remodeled It shg-htl), and filled It WIth a stock of new goods re-centl) purchased ll1 Grand RapIds and ChIcago Oscar Helmes of A.tlanta Ga, has pul chased the 111terests of hI' p,l! tner,-.:--r L Llvel) ancl lanme K l\Iathews-111 the firm ot ()"C,l1 Baine, 8. Co , fur11lture de,tlers, ancl1l1 the Atlanta Fur- 11ltnre Exchange \1 rs Barnes IS executnx of the estate of the LIte If F \Llthc\\ s \\ ho V\ as 111 the funllturc bus1l1ess V\ Ith II e"l' Ln eh ancl Darne, \ 1I HellnHn 8. Co , of \J\ llhamsport, Pa, plopnetors of \\ Ilhamsport" (Ireatest Store," made a great hIt by glvmg a tl ec exhIbItion b) chspla) 1I1g "Old Darby," one of Rosa Bon-heur" gleat pa1l1t1l1g, In theIr carpet department for two weeks fhc ldnva,,~. whIch IS I x f) feet, represents an old whIte horse lookIng ont flOm a baln clom and IS valued at $J3,000. It was ,een b\ neal h all reSidents of \Y Ilhamsport and by many flam ,1c1jacent,towns 1-- WEEKLY ARTISAN WAS QUITE FRUITFUL OF RESULTS Story of the Late D. W. Kendall's First Trip ··Across the Water'" ~n exp0:,ltIc n \\;as gl\ en 111Pall" dUl111g the eIghtIes Ul the last century It wa" open to the vvorll and all the natIon" 'lf the earth contllbuted theIr product" Ul :,ome measure to the entelpn"e The great Elfiel tower V\as amon~ the aldl1- tectural attractIons of the expo"ItlOn A nevvspaper publI"her of DetI OIt detell111ned to "end one hunclI eLl 1 epresentatl\ es of the 111du"tne:, of the L'11lted States to the eXposItIOn, a,,- ,um1l1g the entIre expense of the tnp A tour of Englaml. Holland, Delgltlm and a part of France was 111cluded 111 the It1neral y The men cho"en for the expedItIon wel e skIlletl 111theIr occupatIOns and were selected by repl esentatIves of the publI"her, statIOned 111vanous parts of the DUlted States "Tom" Hunt was "tatlOnetl 111Grand RapIds at that penod and D 'II,' Kendall, hay 111gacqUlred but a small pal t of the handsome fortune he left at hIS death, came to the vvnter dncl asked 111'0aId 111 gett111g a place 111 the delegatIOn as a I epre sentatn e of the furnIture trade \Ir Kendall was 111tr'lduced to \Ir Hunt and the latter was so pleased WIth h1111that he promptly recommended Illm to the pubhsher A letter fro111 the latter InformeLI :\Ie"srs Hunt and Kendall that a cab111et-maker named RacklIffe, who reslcled 111 a httle tovv n 111 OhIO. had been selected to represent the furnIture trade. when It \\;as deCIded that .;\Ir Kendall should make an applIcatIOn for a place 111the delegatIOn as a deSIgner l\Ir Kendall \ l"Ited the pUbhsher 111DetrOlt and "ecured an appo111tment for hIm-self and also for Capt 'Iv Ilder, at that penod employed by the Phoem,- Furl11tUl e company as photographer f01 the expo"ltIon J n mak111g hIs selectIOn the publIsher 11151 sted upon one very Important reqU1rement---the abIlIty ot the men ch )sen to wnte a lettel gn 111g theIr obsen atlon, and e'(- penences on the tour and In PaIlS, espeCIally in regard to the 111du"try \\;Ith whIch they were connected The delegatIon saIled from '\ ew York 111mHlsummer and :\11 Kendall. not havmg had pI ev lOllS expellence at .,ea, pI e-sumeLI that the v\ eather would be warm on the ocean, so clId not pro\ Ide hImself V\Ith an overcoat and the steamel nu;- generally used by traveler" across the seas He suffered a great deal of dl scomfort on account of the coldness of the \\eather :\11 Kendall alway s carned a small sketch hook and a number of pencIls on hIS person, and from the moment of hI', departnre I11Shand and hlall1 \'Vele busilv employed over Its \)ages He "ketched mdustnousl} on the Journev throuQ,'h En~land, Holland and Belgltlm and when he arnved 111 Pal h he had filled man) page., One day whIle attenclIng the ex- PO"Itlon and bUSIly workIng his pencIls upon the pages of hI" httle book he was arrested by a gendarme and marched to a place of detentIon He was 111formed that he had vwlater! a la\\; of To rance, Vi, hICh pi oh Iblted sketchll1g The ~mencan consul general was summoned vVhen the character of the offender and the purpose of hI" sOjourn 111the republIc had been expla111eJ he was relea"ed but the greatly prized "ketch book 1 S stIll preserved 111 the cfllTIlnal museum of Paris Mr Kendall's excellent memOly 1eta1l1ed many of the scenes he had sketched and V\hen he returned he deSIgned and brought out for the Phoe11lx Fl11nIture company, an ori- Q,'mal and sensatlOnal Illle of fancy furl11ture that causecl the trade to "It du\\;n and marvel n er the ac1lle\ ement Panel", were 01 namented WIth Dutch winch11l1Is, quam t saJlmg ves-se~'" and VleV\s on canals and mal shes so skIllfull) apphed a" to proclaim the designer a gemus 1I'r Kendal's Jetter to the publIc after J1lS return home \\ as one of the best of the senes -lvhclll (i,an T1 adrsman 11 ,~------_.~-_.----------~--- IIII III •I fII I I I -. <f No.15 FOX SAWING MACHINE WRITE 44 FOR NEW CATALOG FOX MACH I N E CO 185 N fRONT ST"HT, I GRAND RAPIDS, MICH A. .~____ __ ___ ._. __ ~_~.~. __ • ~ ~-------------------------------------------<f II II II II I These saws are made from No. 1 Steel and we war-rant every blade. We also carry a full stock of Bev-eled Back Scroll Saws, any length and gauge. It I I III -----------_.~._--_._._------------ .- ..... Write .1 for PrIee .... , and t11le._' 31-33 S. Front St., ORAND RAPIDS, MIen. ~----- -~-------~---------- --_ ..---"III BOYNTON &, CO. Manufaduren of Em boned and Turned Mould. in •• , EmbOli. ed and Spindle Carvines, and Automatic Turnin .... We allO manu-fadure a large lme of EmboOied Ornament. for Coucb Work. I,, I IIII ~------------------------------------------------. 1725-1739 Dickson Street, CHICAGO, ILL. ,~._----------_.~----------------" III GRAND RAPIDS "OTELS MORTON HOUSE (AMERICAN PLAN) Rates: $1.00 a day and up. HOTEL PANTLIND (EUROPEAN PLAN) 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. '-------_._._.~---_._--------_._-------- ... 12 \\ ~ E K L Y A R J 1 SAN r------------------------------------~--------·----- Lentz Big Six No. 694, 48 in. top. No. 687, 60 in. top. Others 54 in. top. -----------------------------------------------~ ,•• I I•III• ,• I• •I~-----------_.------.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------~ 8 Foot Duostyles ANY FJNISH CHICAGO DELIVERIES Lentz Table Co. NASHVILLE, MICHIGAlv ~-------------------------- Rapid Proaress in Buildina a Hotel. Rector ~ famou~ le~talllant 111 \C\\ 10lk I' a, I dzul a tl\\ months ago to make place fOl thl Rector hotel, nO\\ unclel ,on structlOn 111that Clt) It \\II! be lead) tOl the 1UlIW\\ll \\hlch WIll be very elaborate, eall) 111Decemhel '\ huet hh tor) of the I' ork performed upon the Stl uLture I~ ot 111tere,t On } ebruar) 1the contract \\ as sIgned, and for fi\ e dnd one hali months the \\ ork of demoh~h111g the old ~tl uLtl\! c dnd t "-ld\ ell mg for the foundatIOn of the ne\\ bUlldmg \\ ent on 111le"anth Eally 111June the fhompson StaucH orgamzatlUn l01l11l1encul bl11ldlllg operatIOns, and soon the ~tecl II)h ot the ,tltllttl!l hfted themselve~ out 01 the hole~ and to\\ el ed UpI' dl d h It 11\ magIc, the bIg ,teel lkn Icks ~\\ lllg111g 1l1dll1l1lOthlolum!h 111t(} place and the n\ eter~ \\ Ith then Plltlll e'ljue eqt1lpment I end 111gthe aIr wIth theIr automatIc hammcr~ until the pIUl.;ll'" ot the work carned the 111du~tnal Babel tdl ,1bO\e the h\h) hum of Broadway J\Ieam\hlle the whIte ~tOl1t e,,-ten 11 \\a~ ueljJ 111gup alongsIde the steel columns, the pace of the ~tone\\ or1..el~ gathenng m momentum as the fil,t t\\O ~tones \\ere clealul Once for a \\ hole \\ eek the ~tone \\ a~ ~\\ \1l1~ up, ,111d'It We Manufacture the Larllelt Line of Folding Chairs m the UOIted States, sUitable for Sun day Schools, Halls, Steam-ers and all pubbc resorts We also manufacture Brass Trimmed I r 0 n Beds, Sprmg Beds, Cots and Cribs m a large variety 1II•• II•II I..------ Send for Catalogue and Prtce, to KAUffMAN MfG. CO. ASHLAND, OHIO elt the I ate ot a "ton a day Early thIS month the superstruc-tUl e \\ a' do~ed 111 ±tom cellar to roof, haVIng taken eXdctl) t1ml) -fi\ e calendal d'l\ '0, 01 thIrty-one workIng days In that tllne 2 500 ton~ of ,teel, 18,000 cubIC feet of ltmestone and gran- Ite GOO tons ot tell d cotta and 2,800,000 bncks had been han- (Iled and <;et and the "team heatIng and plumbmg eqUIpment In- , telllecl 1he \\ or1.. on the extenor h no\\ movl11g forward at the ,ame IHLl 1t humdn I11gemnt) , courage and effort count for ,\1lCl" tlK ne\\ 11lltcl \\ 111be fin1~hed by December 15 Trying to Hold a Bonused Factory. \n I11tere,tmg ca~l, pcndll1g In the Putnam county, Ind, 111l\1lt lOUIt, I" that of the LommerClal club of Greencastle versus the Crlecnca"tle. Cabll1et company, ot that place The company 'el\ ~ It ha ~ outglO\\ n Ib fdub tIe, at Greencastle and that by 10- latll1g dt :\lartll1s\llle, Ind, It \\111 have bettel transportatIOn, be dosel to raw matenal, and have Idrg er and better bUlld111gs The Commlrual club stdtes that four years ago when the com- P,W\ " pLll1t \\ cl" burned the managers declared that unless they \\ el e a'o~bted fin,mclall) they could not rebUIld, that the club I clhtcl ~e\Cr dl thousand dollars and provIded ground on \V hlch tu CIect bUlld111~~, 111return for dll of whIch the club receIved elll llltele~t 111the pldnt and assurance that the cornpany would I tnJalll 1 he club maIntd111s that the company may establtsh an- (lthel Lldon dt \1 artllh\ 111e,but that It cannot move machmery t 1 OJ11 the l,l eenlel~tle plant 1he Gleencastle Cabmet company ha ~ I elen ed an otter of $1'1,000 from the ~lartmsvllle Commer- Cl,t! dub to move to thdt CIty, and WIthout glvmg the Greencastle bLhllle~S me,l an opportun1ty to mcet the offer the claIm I~ that the \J <1rtllh\ Ille proposItIon was Immelbately accepted The llreen 'htle people cue "~01 e' for thh IS the second tIme they havt had ';Jmllal ttouble lIve years ,1gO they rdl~ed $75,000 to brmg to tll\\n a tl11plelte 111111w,hIch \\as operated for a year and then ,]1\1t do\\ n fhe dechl01 In thIS case \\ 111be a\\alted WIth 11l1eJe,t h\ men 111 man) towns -------------------~( II I I III I I I II I• I I II II I II I I,•• I I• •I I II .. .4 _ ..----------------------.--------- A Busy Factory. PI eSlde,lt \lart7, of tht I3lg Rdpld~ (1\llch) Manufactur-llIg company recently mformed tbe "'rtJsan that the company \\ a'o 0\ ellrowded wIth orders lIavmg no ground room that coulLl be thed for such purposes an enlargement of the factory h not to be consIdered. WEEKLY ARTISAN 13 = WE WERE WOOD FINISHERS BEFORE WE WERE STAIN MAKERS That's why we KNOW a stain is a PRACTICAL WORKING STAIN before it leaves our factory. We make mighty pretty stains; not based on pretty theories, but on every day finishing room conditions. We put the materials in them that make for longer life and greater beauty. Our stains are NOT cheap, but they ARE economical. W rite for sample panel to desk No.3. MARIETTA PAINT AND COLOR CO. MARIETTA, OHIO. Germans to Invade Canada. A remarkable example of the thorough manner 111 which Germany seeks busl11ess IS pi oVlded by a cIrcular Issued by the Export-verel11 of Saxony, I11Vlt1l1gItS members to take part 111 a study tnp through Canada for the purpose of ga1l1l11gan Idea of the posslbJ1lt1es of that country as a market for Saxon goods The abolttlon of the CanadIan supertax, whIch practically closed l anada to Gelmdl1 goods,hds cleared the way and tIllS forthconllng tour serves to show how thoroughly Saxon manufachll ers mean to take advantage of the opportu11lty The tnp, adds the circu-lar, ,,111 extend over seve Ial months, so that those takll1g part are evidently prepared to expend a consIderable smJ1 m the confi-dence that subsequent busmess With Canada vv 111more than JUS-tify the 1111tlaloutlay The fact that EnglIsh goods, profitmg by the supertax J111posedon Gel man wares, have secured a powerful foot1l1g 111 the Ganac!Jan market I" evidently not regarded dS an Imuperable obstacle, and v. e may now expect to wltnes~ the m-auguratJOn of a "'Ide~pread and sClentIfi~ campaIgn havmg as Its goal extensive German particIpatIOn m the CanadIan Import trade It IS probable tl1dt the Saxon tracle tounsts WIll Improve their opportul11ty by visltmg some of the cIties m "the States" Amer- Ican trade orga11l7atJOns Vv ho WIsh to entertam them should send mVltatJOns through Ulysses J By\\ater, ;\mencan con'ul-genelal at Dre'den, Saxony Suggestion to Manufacturers. John L Gnffiths, Amencan consul-general at London, Eng, reports "I nqmnes have recently been made at thIS consulate-general for the names of local representatIves of vanou" pro-ducts of Amencan manufacture In some 111stances It has been pOSSIble to give the deSIred 1l1formatJOn without delay, but in other cases It has taken conSIderable time to venfy the fact as to "hether or not thIS or that article of Amencan manufacture was handled 111London As the result of such I11qUlnes It appears that It ',:ould be greatly to the benefit of the Amencan manufac-turer 111general, and 111partIcular, If 111establlsh111g a foreIgn branoh or 111emploY111g a foreign representative he would notify the Amencan consul situated 111that place In thIS manner the consulate would be, as It ought to be, a local cIeanng house for the c'(tenslOn of trade m \mencan made products" Stealing Chickens. '\ colored man "as brought mto court one day accu"ecl of steal111g chIckens The Jud~e "aIel to him, "Have you any Wit-nesses )" "1\ 0 sah \Vhen I steal chickens I don't bnng any Wlt-nc~ ses, , was the reply of the accused. He thought he ,\a~ covenm; up 1m trdcks by not br111gmg dny \Vltne'ses to prove 111mgUIlty i"\ ow there are lot" of people 111bu sme''3 who do th111gSJust a" dbreputable as stedl111g clllckcn'-, and If they are not found out they Hllnk It Just sharp practice and pat themselves on the back and thmk themselves shrev. d bUSiness men There al e manufacturers 111 all hnes of bU<'lnes, \\ ho Will not heSitate to appropnate others Ideas; 111 othel worch, steal styles and change them just enough to cover up then tracks, that IS,. they do not bnng witnesses to prove theIr gUIlt and If they are not found out, will call their products new styles The Waddell ManufactUring company of Grand Rapids, the largest manufacture I S of wood furmtuure ornaments and tnm-m1l1gs 111 the world, have such men to contencl WIth very fre-quently, but that only goes to show the supenonty of the Wad-dell productions. "Only the be'ot IS cheap," dnd it pays to buy fr0111the house that originates and not from the one that steals. 14 .. WEEKLY ARTISAN KINDEL9S FREIGHT RATE FIGHT Suggests That Colorado Should Be Obliterated in Order to Beat the Railroads. George J Kmdel of Demer, \\hu dppcncl !n'urc;ent '-,u pen1sor and Boo'iter" to hIs sIgnature ha~ h-,ued ,mother pamph let as a protest agamst expre''S and frel~ht rate C!JscrJl11lDatlon agamst pOlnb m Colorado m \\ hlch he cu£;~e~h that the e,tdte 'ihould be obhterated, c!l,soh ed ,md dl"eLted Its tu lIto! \ dl\ Idu! and annexed to Kansa'i \ebra,ka alld ltdh lL ha' 111,trlLd map shol'l mg how a ~l eat sectlOn of the CI eat \\ c' t \\ llu!d dJ! pear wIth Colorado "\\Iped out and comment, on the plO]L"ltlO 1 as follows' \iVhat 'ihall It be fan fl eIght ratc" UI ,1 ne\\ ~LU~l dpl1\ Colorado IS commerClalh the 1110StI~olated -,t,lte In the L mun particularly m the matter of tl eIght and e__pl e" !dtb fhe e,,- } Mr. Kmdel and XIS New Map tortlOn, by our ral1road and expl e~~ compan1e" amount to thlll 1111l11ondollars annually, or, m othel words t\\ent) pel lent lD Clease on the average of 1ates of adjOIning states 1'he follm\- mg "sIxteen to one" rea'ions make It mal1lfe,th ,1(h ,mta£;eou, that Denver be m ~ebra~ka. and that the 'itate ot lololde!o be dIssected FIrst-If Colorado were c!lv1(le(1a'i -,ug-£;ested \\ e \\ oule! l"- cape the 2Uc clIffel entIa! !ledpee! on to CO!01ado 011 the all I ll! rdte, f10m \tlantlc coast pomt'i Kansas and Nebraska pay a (!ltfelentlal at 10l 011 all lal1 as agamst the sea and raIl hauls, \\ 111lc<- olorac1o pal 'i 39c ade!ltlOnal \econd- 1'hen Dun el 'i first-class rate from 1'\ ew York alI-I all \\ auld be S2 03 per c\\ t mstead of $.2 i3 per cwt , and also be ~ 11 a, elc;,111l~Jt ]] nl1lls pel ton per 1111le 1'h11d-l hen Denver 'i fir,t-clas~ rate from ChIcago woulJ be $J (lb 111qead of $205 per cwt , or, 321 as agamst -101 nlll:s per ton per l111!e lourth-Then Denver'., first class late f10111Omaha ,\ould be i'olc 11lctedClof SI .2) per c\\ t , or ,) 21 a~ aga111st 4 80 l111llsper ton per 1111le 11 thl' '\ ,tem at latc makmg IS fair from east tn \\cst then \\ h\ not m the 1e\ er,e dIrect 1011 ") I lfth-Then Denvers first-cla'i'i rate from \ew York VIa Gaheston \\ould be S138 (whIch IS Omaha's rate) 111~tead of S~ H pu c\\ t \\ hlch IS our pre,ent r ate~a savmg of aGc c...1"th-1 hen Dem er \\ auld have the mdustne~ that were {)dle locdted he1 e and knolked ant by chscnm111atlVe f1 eIght I ate, 'iulh a~ Qtw II 001<>1' '''i'ls paper 111l1l'i,cotton mJ11s, roll111g ml11<;h<1)(h\elle f anory Implement factory envelope factory, tl11 ldll tactOl \ qddle facton match factory k11lttl11gfactory, whIte ICdd \\Olk-, b01le1 \\01b cement works glass work'i, soap works, patten tannen loopel "hop mcc!Jcl11e plant, etc, besIde, sev-e1al contemplated entel pn 'ie, that have been much talked of by l 111 comn erCldl boche, but never matenallzed. ,uch as the ~coUl111g \\ 01 k" and \\ oolen St01age \\ elrehOllSe c,e\ enth- 1'hen Dem er would not be ,ubJected to a 31c per l \\ t ham!leap a, agdm,t Omah" on goods Jobbed from here to the \lamo'd ,ectlOn of mu ,tate neIther would Denver be subjected to a I-tC hanchlap to all Gtah pomts LIgh th- Then Dem er would no lOllgel ply ROc the ton for UM! tor ~O ml1e haul dm\ 11 lull. but 111, tead Wc, the rate that IS no\\ 1;n en to \ ebra,ka and han,a, pOlnt, for the same IdentIcal hanl \ \ 11\ 'nfter Dem e1 to pay 100 per cent lugher") \mth-l hen lolorado \\ould no !on£;el 1M) from 50 to 100 P I ccnt hrg-her late, for p1al11e hauls Dl'tdnle Kansas and \I11e" <- 0101"clo \V) ommg 1\ebraska ,)- $0 ]() $(2) $022 ) )1) .)1 .30 .32 , J HG b3 .-1"') 100 110 73 52 no 1 )N 8) .59 - j 130 IS') n .63 \le Colorado rate'i eqmtable") If not, \'vhy not change them? Tenth-Then LeadVIlle would l10t be charged 20c hIgher "THE BEST IS THE CHEAPEST" 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, Railroad Companies, Car BUilders and others WIll consult their own interests by using it. Allo Barton's Emery Cloth, Emery Paper, and Flint Paper, furnished In rolls or reams. MAN U F A C.T U RED BY H. H. BARTON & SON CO., 109 South Third St., Philadelphia, Pa. .... . . .__._--------------------_._-------------------- WEEKLY ARTISAN lS .. ~-------------------------------------- ------------_._------------- , II ,I I,I II I II ~--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I I I IIIIIII I III I II IIr rates from all ea~tern p0111tSthan IS Salt Lake, 430 mlle~ beyond The Interstate Commerce Lommlsson co~ts $1;250,000 per annum-Is It worth It? Eleventh-Then Grand JunctlOn and the entIre we~tern ~lope of Colorado would not be paymg from GOc to $1 00 per cwt hIgher rates than t;"tah POli1ts m eIther dlrectlOn, also Grand COLORADOAS THE GOAT. Col D C Dodge msplred tl11" cartoon ThIS master carIcature by ArtIst Hopkms of the News, Denver, fittmgly expresses th'l cont~mptuous conduct of our five raIlway systems, the Gould, HIll, HarrIman, Yoakum and RIpley systems which for years have regarded Colorado as thEIr goat. ThIS reason, together Wlth the lIntlpathy of our commprClal bodIes, IS why Colorado has been and stLll IS the goat. J unctlOn \\ ould not be denied the commodIty rates now enjoyed by Utah Smce the expl ess rates are the same to Grand J unctlOn that they are to Salt Lake from all points east, why should not the freIght rates be the same? Twelfth-Then Greeley would not be obhged to pay "iOc hIgher per ton for Its coal haul from Wal~enburg than does Che)- enne, vVyo , 50 mIles greater dIstance. ThIrteenth-Then LaJ unta would no longer be treated lIke d despIsed way-statlOn whIch is made to pay 43c hIgher per t-wt for ItS first-class freIght from ChIcago than El Paso, Texas, whICh IS 600 mIles greater dIstance 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. Supersedes all other Interchangeable Parlor Beds. SEND FOR ILLUS lRATlONS AND PRICES FREEDMAN BROTHERS & CO. Manufacturer. of Upholstered FurnIture Factory, 717-731 Mather St., CHICAGO. . ..~ FOUl teenth- Then Denver would not be oblIged to pay $3 00 pel cwt more than On1dha for reload of 100 lb expressage des-tmed to the PaCIfic coast NeIther would Denver pay 83c per ton per mIle for the longer haul as agamst Omaha's 64c for the shorter haul. -"Illes MIlls per ton pel mIle G 42 833 1\ew York to Omaha N e\\ York to Denver 1400 IJ20 Rate per cwt. $4 :50 800 The u111vers"l rule I~ that the rate per ton per mIle decreases a s the dIstance mcreases, except 111 Colorado. FIfteenth-Then our pohtIuans, republIcan and demo- ClatIc senators, ~tate legIslators and judges, who are nd111g on passes, would be obhged to pay fal e or walk a'i do the rest of us. :;\0 state 111the U1110nLould be parceled out among Its neIghbors WIth such great advantage to the vast tern tory of Its mhabltanh a~ Colorado • SIxteenth-Denver, Nebla~ka, would not ~ound as well, but would smell qUIte a'i svveet, S111ceour hvmg would be cheapel and OUI 111du~tnes ma11lfoldly mcreased Our magnificent capItol would make a capItal Clty hall In bnef, one of three thmgs must ll1evItably happen Colorado must be gIven faIr and equal rates, the raIlroads and expre~s compa11les be put under govern-ment control or the state chssected a, suggested herewIth In thIS way we would more nearly reahze the benefits guaranteed by the constItutIOn of the C111ted State~ The Denver TImes, September +, 1010 -On another page appears a pIcture of "George J Kmdel and hIS map of the we'it \\ Ithout Colorado He argues that In order to get faIr freIght 1 ates Colorado be \\ iped out and parceled among Utah, Kdnca, and Nebraska so that the lower rates to POll1ts m those states mIght apply to all POll1ts now m Colorado He contench that the rates are raIsed at Colorado 1ll1e jU'it because there is a Colorado-that the rates are made by the map alone" PreSIdent Parker of the Colorado & Southern raIlway re-cently argued before the senate commIttee of the extra sesslOl1S, that rates must be hIgh 111order to pay good wage~, and that hIS employes were paId 13 to 20 per cent hIgher than those of other states He dce1ll1ed my challenge to debate the questIOn \iVhy? l'i he fearful of the fate of Professors ~leyers of ChIcago and l\I1cPherson of BaltImore, whom I have ronted? "Thll1gs true and eVIdent must of necessIt) be recog111zed by those who would contradict them." For equal nghtc commerClal equahty, pro'ipenty and hap-pll1ess GEORGE J KINDEL, Insurgent, Supervl~or and Booster. 16 - - - - --------, gl eater loss would be 'U'itamed by the furmture mdustry. The 01lg111ator of the bIll vvould not be able to ]usttfy hImself before the bu,111ess world. WEEKLY ARTISAN PUBL.ISHf;O !EVERY SATURDAY .V TH~ MICHIGAN ARTISAN COMPANY SUElSC"'PTION $1 00 POE"YEAR ANYWHERE IN THE UNITED STATES OTHER COUNTRIES $2 00 PER YEAR. SINGLE;COPIES SCENTS PU.L.ICJ'TION OFFICE, 101S-112NOPITH DIVISION ST. GPIAND RAP'IDS. MICH. A S WHITE MANACOINQEOITO" Entered as second class mailer July 5, 1909, at the post oftice at Grand Rapids. M,chlc:sn under the act of March 3, 1879 CHICACOOREPRESENTATIVE E LEVY So far the ra11toads ha\ e made a bad sho\\ 111~betore the Interstate Comme1 ce CommISSIOn 111then eftOl h to llbt1h the proposed mcreases 111f1eIght and pa"'ienge1 1ate'i Il1gh officul, of the IIImo1s Central fm 111~tance, have been f01ced to achmt that instead of find111g chfficnlt} 111keepIng dO\\ n expense'i the\ had to re'iort to ' hH~h financ1enng- III olCler to keep the (h\ FIend, down to a rate that \\ ould not 111Cllea c1amo1 tor 10\\U tl e1gh t and p t'isenger rates "10 1 educe the dl\ 1dend" the\ 1 al 'cd "tI,ll 1e'i (not wdges) and 111CI ed"ed the bonded 111debtedne", hut ,tIll the clIv1e1ends contInued to glO\\ "1llln the\ 111U ea,ed the cap! tal ,tack The} den} tlBt they chd It h} dcclallllg ,tock dll I denel'i but aclnl1t that the} (hd about the -ame thlllg 1 hc\ "old new st{Jck to old stockholde1 s at pal \\ hen It comn1dIHled a pI em1 um of ,')0 per cent or mOl e 111the open market Lach man \\ 110 held $1,000 111stock \\ orth $1,300 \\ as allo\\ ed to bu\ a fe\\ SluO shares of new stock at par value and thm reahze an Immechate profit of fifty per cent on hIS new l11\estment The 1ea"on gl\en for not sel1111gnc\\ 'itock In the open ma1ket dnd putt111g the htt\ per cent pre1l11tlm 111the compan) , t1 ea 'tll \ b It \\ Oltld 'i\11eh have affected the stanchng ot the shale, on the ,tack e"change After such a oho\\ 111gatt01ne}" \\!E find gl eat (hfficult\ 111con V111C111thge COml111,0lOnerstlMt the IIIIn01' lcnt1 al 1ealh nced, to advance fle1ght an(1Ins,enge1 rate, The Grand T1unk Ra1h\ a) company a,lILnglI"h l011'0l atHJn IS abo hlll11~h111ggood 1ea-ons fm ~ove1n111ent control 01 legu latton of raIlroad capItalIzatIOn The Grand T1unk hold" \\ hdt 1'3claImed to be a perpetual franch1,e 111J\I1cl1H:ian.\\ h1ch 1eqll1re" the payment of one per cent on the capItal stock as ,I "peutic ta" Other J\T1c111ganr,llltoads ale nO\\ ta"ed on an ad \,t!Olll11 b,hl' The Granel Trunk has p,wl the taA onh on 11'> ollg111allapIL-th/CI-tlOn-$ 2,'500,COO It IS kno\\n thdt the cclpllal 'itolk ha, becn lalgely mcreaoed, but the company cla1111'ithat the sidtc ha" no nght to tax the I11crea~e Dunng the past \\ eek the "tate -td1 ted a 'iUlt to compel the company to dIvulge the amount ot the out-stanel111g stock and shovv reason \\ hy It should not pa\ the speCIfic tax on the whole amount The ca,e \\ III plObabh be callIer! tu the court of la"t resOl t and may cause mte1 natlOndl COl11p!tlatlOn" before It IS fully settled It IS reported that the operators of laIlrodds are '\\on1ed because of the prospect of the passage ot ,I bIll bv the congl ess of the U11lteel States !tmiting the sIze of freight cars The trunk l111esown thousands of Cdrs that arc used m t1 dn,pOl t111g f111111 ture dnd other kinds of bulkv goods and the p10hlb1t1On of the use of such cars would cause a great loss to the 0\\ ners ~ fal \ hullet111 ot ,tore d0111gS,filled WIth news of the store (not umhned to the goods 111stock, but to the md1v1duals employed the1 e111a'i \\ ell) has been f{Jund a profit-yield111g mvestment by prom1l1ent reta11e1s \\ hen d1stnbuted to the general pubhc. Pa-tron" ~eem to take an interest 111tIie people who satisfactonly ,en e them andlhe store personals are carefully read Employe" ,d '0 appl ellate the k111dl} reference made to them m the store 1Olllnals \ p,lttent anel mdnstnous citIzen of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has con,tlucted a table top composed of 34,473 pIeces of wood The deSign IS meamngless and the only purpose the table serves is to enable one to speculate upon the number of years the citizen had \\ a"ied1l1 makmg the top. \\ hen the floors are crowded WIth "values" IS it not the tune to announce a quarter off sale? A sllffiaient quantity of stock is ,dl thdt deale 1 needcarl\ Overcrowded floors call for actlOn. \\ hen an ' epIdemIC of selhng enthUSIasm" prevails in a re-tall ,tOle It WIll be cro\\Cled \\lth customers Enthusiasm IS con-ld! SIOU' 1 he HI odd\\ ,l} Depdftl11ent StOI e of Lo, \ngele'i, ddvertlSes ,l tUp"l -tU1V} "ale Ed, that "tore bcen ,haken by an carth- CJuake:> llll rka!u II hO'l poltC} IS the undel~ell1l1g of competttors I' dot elltltled to e"pell,t1lons1del atlOn by the buy l11gpubltc 'R1dllUlOlb \ alues shoulel tempt no one Actual, substan-ttal \ alues encourage confidence and satIsfy purchasers. (Joldenbe1g of 1\ a"hmgton, advertises a "sale mterest of red hot 111ten'l1\ ~ file sale, perhaps :-'111,dl ot 1ro) . states that "thtre IS ,ometlnng d01l1g dt "m,d1') In d "Small way? J lItt1n~ thc n,lll Oil the head wIll not dl\\dYs dnve It ,tralght to thc 11dn place \ ene1 atlOn f{)] ~l e} haIr neve I redches the lontents of a mdtt1e~s. 1 hll e I::'but one best store Is It }ours? Crop Prospects in En~Iand. T J Stephens, ~mencan vIce-consul at Plymouth, furl11shes thc follo\\ 1l1g 'iummary of crop conc!ttlOns in the countIes of lUlm\ all Dn on Dorset and Somerset, iEnglanel: "1\ heat and barley have suffered by the contmued rams, but the 11op" \\ 111prDve a !tttle over the average m quantIty. \Vhl1e oato have Itke\\ 1se suffered by storm, the crops are heavy and the \ 1el<1\\ III be good lIay has been most abundant, but great quan-titIes ha\C been 1111ured and destroyed by the rams. Orchard tr111t" al e m most cases a fatlure Apples are very scarce, whIch \\ III 1I1C1ea"e the demand for foreIgn fI mt of thIS descnptlOl1 POLLtoc, \\ t11be a 1emark,lble crop, both as to quanttty and qual- It} Root ClOp" are above the average WEEKLY ARTISAN 17 _. . .. _... ... ... 1--------1 I A. PETERSEN &CO., CHICAGO MANUFACTURERS OF THE I BEST MADE and LEADING LINE of OFFICE DESKS r-- IIj ••• I I I II III• &.. - - 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. ._-------S-E-N-D--FO_R._C-A-T-A-L-O-G-U-E-.-._F-UL-L-L-I-N-E.--R-I-G.H_-T.---P-~R_.I_C_.E.S_. --~-_~I. Ransacking New England. Fredenck HllI, the de~lgner of the Impenal FurnIture com-pany, is tounng the ~ew England ~tates m a search for antique furnIture. He drives over the famous country roads and stop-pmg at the farm houses or vlllage homes, begs 01 buys hIs WclY mto the attic, where most of the good furmture manufactured a century or more ago, IS stored The Colomal homes of VIl-gmla, South Carolma and CeO!gla contall1 many valuable an-tiques, whIle 111 the state of LOUlsldna many ImportatIOns of the pellods when that regIOn was undel Spam"h or Fren,::h rule, are found In cllscmsmg the value of antique" a contemporary trade pubhcdtlOn "ald' "l\ ew and attI dctlVC l111e"dl e alway" III elemanel ff a ll1dll-ufdcturer finels It a cllfficult matttr to produce a pattern thal IS ab~olutely ne\'i, he at ltast can turn out an olel eleslgn so sn- / 10 SPINDLE MACHINE ALSO MADE WlTH 12, 15 20 AND 25 SPINDLhS. DODDS' NEW GEAR DOVETAILING MACHINE ThiS ltttle machine has done more to perfect the draw~r work of furnl. ture manufacturers than anythmg else In the furnIture trade For fifteen y~ars It has made perfect fittlllg vermin proof, dovetaIled stock a POSSI blltty ThIS has been accomplIshed at reduced cost, as the machllle cuts dove taIls III RanR' of from 9 to 24 at oue operatIOn It s what others see about ~our busllless rather than what }ou say about It, that counts III the cash drawer It, the thnll of enthUSiasm and the true nng of truth }OU feel and hear back of the cold type that makes you buy the thlllgadvertlsed ALEXANDER DODDS CO., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Repre",nted by Schuchart & Schutte at Berltn, Vienna, Stockholm and St Pelersbura Repre.. nted by Allred H Schutte at Coloane. Bru""l. Leae Pans Muan and Buboa Represented In Great BUbanand lroland hy the Ohver M~chIne'; Co , F S Thompson, Mar, 20 J -203 Dean'aate, MancheSler, Enaland penor 111workmanshlp to the ong111al thdt It IS practIcally a new ~tyle. The deSIgner who makes a bunch of grapes or a leaf look better than It has ever been before has practIcally produced some-thl11g new. A better and more artistIC standard IS set and the rCJuvenated 1111e111many II1stances proves to be an excellent seller "It is not always an casy mdtter to develop a deSIgn that is unqualifiedly ne\\ anel partIcularly one whIch WIll meet WIth favor 111 the traele, and fOI thIS rea:oon an occasIOnal glance ovel the favonte~ that hcld sway year" ago might prove profitable in more wdY~ than one i\ eleft toueh here and an chml11atlOn there often works wonder"," Disagrees With Laurier. SIr James ,Vhltney, premIer of Ontano, does not agree WIth Premlel Laul1er of the DommlOn, as to the desll abl1lty of c1o~er track relatFm s between Canada and the "States." WhIle in Lon-don reccntly he urged the deslrablhty of Canada estabhshmg hel self 111the Bnt1~h market and strongly deprecated any 1eci-ploclty arrangements WIth the Lmted States Canada, he saiel, could supplv \\ heat to Blltall1 a~ cheaply as the Umted States or i\n;entll1a The refmClI of Dntall1 even to dlscms propo~al~ for ImperIal pI efel entlal tr ade wa" deplorable he thought, and mIght yet provc c11~a~trou~ ",Ve don't carc whether you make free tl ade or tarIff Ieform the baSIS on your part of commel '::lal ar-rangements," he said. "but for gooelne'l' sake let us stop elnft- In~ am) ag rce to ~all a defimte course The only hve Il1Ipenal pohcy before m IS that enunCIated by }1r Cl1dmberlall1" ---~--~ I ~---------------~---------------- I II I II I II•• III I II II III II fob Grand Rap,d, ~_._-_._-~-,-----~------------..-. _ STAR CASTER CUP COMPANY NORTH UNION STREET. GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. \ II II I II II II ..........._. _ ..I. (PATENT APPLIED FOR) We have adopted cellulOId as a base for our Caster Cups, maklllg the hest cup on the market. CellulOid IS a great Improvement over bases made of other matenal When It ISnecessary to move a pIece supported by cups WIth cellulOId bases It can be done 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 lilllshed III Golden Oak and White Maple, lilllshed lIght If you w,U tr1l a .ample order 01 the,e good, you w,ll de.. r,to handle them ,n quant,t, .. PRICES: SIze 2X lllches $5.50 per hundred. SIze 2)( Illches 4.50 per hundred. TRT A SAJEPLll ORJ)ER 18 WEEKLY ARTISAN MAIL ORDER BUSINESS DID IT Enabled Chicago to Exceed New York in Post-office Receipts. The lepOlt that the po"tal lecelpt~ 1t Chicago tm thc month of '\ugust eAceeded thooe of '\ e\\ 1 ellk 1)\ mOl e thel11 $30,000 wa'i a 'iurpn'ie to many I eacIer, e~peuetll} to re~l-dents of Xew YOlk man} of WhU111c!oubted the tluth ot the 'itatement InvestlgdtlOn hO\\ "vel pI 0\ eeI thdt It \\ d' cur reet \\ hen men conneded \\ ah the po"tal ~u \ leC \\ ~I a~ked for ltght on the ,ubJed the\ u~ualh an,,, oed 1)\ "a\ mg that lt wa,n't true of Crleatel '\e\\ 10lk \ lei th( Brooklyn recelpts to tho,e of the poq office tor \lanhattlll and thc 11ronA, and the ,tor} \\ dl be \ CI} e1Jf{elent the\ ~aleI But lettmg thc 1'0,t Oftlce 1t \U\ lmk "tanel un lt~ own mellt" \Vh\ "llOulel It have Ltl1cn behInd 111 \\1Q,\1~t \\ hen It had leeI Chleag-o by mOl ethan $2 000 000 'il Ke the fil'it of the ycar, an average of $3(/0000 a month) fhat It \\el'n t a freak \\a'i ,hown b} a compall"on \\lth la"t \el1" fi12\1ll~ \'Vhen ChIcag-o 111 \ugu,t ml,~ecl \e\\ 10lk b\ ol1h S..?..?OOO fal1Jng behInd $2eO,OOO a12aln the ne\.t month L0eal COl1c1JtlOn, thele \\a" the e"-'1Ianatlun \\ hleh l)o~ - ma'oter :\Tmg-an hac! to oftel and It \\a" to Lh'eaQ,o" mall-Olclu hou,e'o that tho'c pOlnteeI \\ ho \\ el e fd1111hdl \\ Ith the de\ elup- 111entof that compelldtl\eh ne\\ fedlme ot \111,11 dn bU'1lle~, I all 1, the hlg 'ea,on 11l the mall-01du \\mld and \u12\1,t 1'0the month t J1 ,u1ehng the catalugue" bll aeka~t One ]]()U"l alone maded plobabl) t\\ 0 mll1Jon, each \\ lth mUll than 1,~00 page~, to dS man} \mCllcan home' \ \ hen mall- 11\lel tolk 111'\ e\'V York sa \\ the figure", they saId they represen teJ the open11112 gun~ tOl the matI-order "ea~on ln ChIcago LhlcaQ,o mOl ethan lead'i the c JtlDtry 111the mail-order 1m,111e", -\ man \'Vho ,hould know sa} '0 that the bus111ess of "'ears Roe buck & Co , now lD thelr fifteenth j ear, lS hea \ ler than all the mall-oreIer bu ,111e0'3 of X ew York put together T\\a leaeI1I1Q, Clncdgo homes he ,aId, wIll clo a $100 ,OUO ,000 bu"rne" .. th'~ \ eal and 111thell catalogue he and other, found the explanatIOn ot Chlca~o '0 I11crea~ed po, tal recelpt'i One hou,e alone recel\ e,., an averag-e of 50,OJ8 letter" a da\, and Ih out-~lJIng mad I~ hea\ ler The bU~1l1e~s of Sears, l~oebnck K Lo 1'0 ~o hea\ \ that the gOy elnment ma111tall1, ,npen hlOl1 and the mall 'odck'o go cIn ect to the car, ""'i many lettel ~ ~ ) to that one hC'u"c e\ e1} Jay a" to the uty of J\Id- \\ at'kec \ln1Cht a" man} of 11'0,11lpment" are by mad a~ hy L"pl e'~ 0' fJ e1ght 1 he mad-oulel bU"1I1e,~ beg-an 111 ChlLago fifteen years a-.;) and that ut\ prolJahly alvva}" wdI lead, becau'>e of thl~, a nel 11'0Q,eo~ I aphlLal po,ltlon It deals WIth the whole coun-t! \ anel one of 11'0hon,e'i "ay" 11'0bIggest market I" Penn~yI- \ ama, wIth 11'0 h !'ot of ,mall town'.. The firms w111 dehvel am thln12 ±lom a hook to huggle'i from p1l1S to pachy(lerm, In the pd,t fi\ e } ear" the department 'itore'3 111 th1<; cIty ha\ e been entellng the mdd Older market LTntJI recently they ha\c leQ,alded It meleh a, an 11clcIent to the bU'3l11es~of the "tOle, hnt no\\ they ale reachlllg out fOl It Visited the Trade in New Yorl~. \\ I r RedmoncI manager of the Luce-Reclmoncl ChaJr com-pam ha'i returned trum ~e\\ York whele he ~pent a week vl"lt- In~ the trade 1he featnrc~ ot the "Great \Vhltc Way" were 111- 'pectcd l11uclentalh :\11 Redmond enjoy ed hI'> tnp very much Own Your Own Electric Light Plant "ABC" Vertical Enclosed Self-Oiling Engines Save 25% Direct-connected to any good make of dynamo. Can be run safely anywhere a steam line can be carried. No Noise. No Vibration. Economy. "ABC" Engines require only one-half the usual amount of steam. Consume only one-fifth the usual amount of oil. The wear is so slight that adjustments are required only once in six to nine months. Efficiency of the "ABC" Engines IS the very high-est attainable. Friction loss less than 4%. Will run constantly at higher speeds than any other reciprocating engine. Lubrication of "ABC" Engines is ample at any speed and is not dlstnbuted under pressure. Oil is separated from water, cooled and filtered at every circuit. Automati..: internal lubrication by a pump and gravity flow. Get Lateot Bulletin, 288 MA. AMERICAN BLO'¥ER CoMPANY ---- DETROIT AICH ----- V S A. Ablest Engineenng OrganIzation In the Blower Busine$5-operatmg three large plants devoted exclUSIvely to the manufacture of Fan System apparatus and the alhed hnes. An "ABC" Vertical Enclosed Self-Oiling Engine, direct-con-nected to dynamo, making an ideal Outfit for Isolated Electric Light Plants. Mailed postpaid at your request, I J WEEKLY ARTISAN ~---------------------------------_.----------------------------------- IIII II I,II I II III II.I.._-~-----~---~.---~-----------.------ .-----------_._----~ II t,I I IIII t II\ I IIII It I I It I II ----------------------------~t, Chicago's Best and Most Effective Line of BEDROOM FURNITURE .n MahOl!any, Walnut, B... 1'. Bye Map'e and Ouort .. ed Oak Can be se n throuilhcut the year at J. J. Hall & Son, 137 Peck and Hills Co., Wabash Ave. and 14th St. and In sent to ooy furnIture dealer on request Michigan Ave, Our Catalogue, HORN BROS. MFG. CO. 1114-1156 W. Superior St., Chicago. New Factories. l' \\ Brown & Co., have opened an uphohtery ~l1op at Eaton Rapids, :\Ilch Dn ectOi 5 of the Ridgeway Cotton :\1111company of K ewton, ~ C, al e considering a plOpOSItlOn to cony crt the 111111111tOa furmture factory. Clclrence 111'''' 111g,Otto Holm and Challes \Vellman have 111- cOiporated the Rattan r urmture :\1anufactUl111g company, capl-tahLed at $5,000, to e~tabhsh a faCtOly 111Seattle, \Vash "\1 Kohler amI Le'A IS Talbel t have been app0111tecl by the BUS111ecs:\len's assoClatlOn of Dallastown. Pa, to ~elect a C,l1lt-able Cite and estllnate the co, t of establ"hl11g a fUrlllture factOl y 111that to'An J 1. Ihgg" nm\ enlSagul 111the manuiacture of "anil,[ue 1 fU1111ture111 Richmond, \ a, has pmd $5,300 for a site 111that Clty on which he propo,es to bUIld a fUl111tl1le fa~tOl y lIe expects to 01gam7e a company, capltdhzed at $ 30,000, and have the fac-to! y read} fOI operatIOn edrly 111the spl111g :'\ e\\ YOlk capital Will be 111 ve<:ted 111 the new iur111ture fa '- tory tlut Everett :\1 \Vatelhouse IS to e~tabhsh at ~dCO, 1\1'. The ma111 product will be "art furi1ltme '-leproclu-::tlOn" of qua111t ancl rare Colomal models '1 he company, wInch 1<:called the Goose [<air company \\ III occupy the Gilman shop bmlchng on 1\1echamc ~t1eet and expect to begm blNlles~ about the nlldcllc of October Pittsburg Plate Furniture Fires. '1 he Dogushut/ furmture start at [<mley :'\ Dak, 'Ad.., burned on September 1 (, 'AIth a loss of $-t,OCO, partlall) 111surcd Wilham Herman s furmture store at 1U ~South Broadway, St Loms, ::\10, y\as burned on September 16. Lo~s $1,8GO, 111- surance $1.000 The factory of the Flllnas Bank and Offi-::e Furmture C0111- pan}, Incllanapolts, Incl, \vas completely clestlOyed by fire on September v; Loss, est1lnated at $30,000, partlall} msured The work of rebllllclmg the warehouse dncl fimshmg bmlcl- 111g of the Thompson } urmtul e compal1y, Duluth, 1\1mn, which wa~ burned recentl}, Will be ~tarted as soon as the 111surance has been ~ettled 1he Eompany's loss above mSlllance 1S about $10,- 000 New Furniture DenIers. Hdl r} ~hdifer IS a new furmture deale I at Vvoocllancl, Ia The' People's FurmtUl e company al e ae\\ clealer, 111l'ale~- tmc TeA The \\ hltfiel1 f ur111t111e comp 1l1y, mcorporatecl, ale new cIealo'-, at Willtfielcl, Ia The J Hill Carpet and 1:< urmture company are ne\v dealer" at 1b16 Tlllrcl avenue, Rock I ~lancl, III "" B Ancler"on,] H Tho"ell ancl S II E0k111an have 111- corp01 ated the Anderson- Thorcell l~U1mturc compallY capltallLed at $")0,000, to engage 111 the letall tldde 111 Duluth, 1\1mn ----------_ . Glass COlIlpany LARGEST ..JOBBERS AND MANUFAOTURERS OF 19 1 II~------------~------------------------ ------_._------------------------~---' GLASS IN THE WORLD Mirrors, Bent Glass, Leaded Art Glass, Ornamental Figured Glass, Polished and Rough Plale Glass, Window Glass WIRE GLASS Plale Glass for Shelves, Desks and Table Tops, Carrara Glass more beautifullhan while marble. CENERAL DISTRIBUTORS OF PATTON'S SUN PROOF PAINTS AND OF PITCAIRN ACED VARNISHES. I] For anything in Builders' Glass, or anything in Pamts, Varnishes, Brushes or Painters' Sundnes, address any of our branch warehouses, a list of which IS ghen below NEW YOB.K-Hudson and Van4&mSt•• BOSTON-41-49 Sudbury St., 1-9 .owke:r St. CIUCAG0-442-452 Wabash Ave: ClNCXJlfNATI-B:roadwa:yand Court st •• ST. LOmS-Co:r. Tenth and Sp:ruce St•. MXNNEAPOLI8-500-516 S. Thi:rd St. DETB.OIT-53-59 Lamed St., E. GB.ANDB.APIDS,MlCH-39-41 N. Division st. PlTTSB11BGH-101-103 Wood St. MILWAUKEE, WIS.-492-494 Ma:rket St. B.OC.ESTE.... T_Wll(1.er Bldg., Main Ii; Ezchan ... StH. BALTDIlOB.E-310-1ll-14W. P:ratt. St.. CLEVELAlll"D-1430-1434West ".l'Jl1~ St.. OMAHA-llOl-1107 Howa:rd St. ST. PA'UL-459-461 Jackson St. ATLAN'1'A,GA_30-32-84 S. pryor st. SAVAJ!fNAH,GA.-745-749 Wheaton St. KANSAS CI'l'Y-J'ifth and Wyandotte sts. BIB.MXNGHAM,ALA.-llnd Ave. and ll9th st. B'UJ'PALO. N. Y.-372-74-76-78 Pea:r1St. BB.OOXLYN-Third Ave. and Dean St. PHILADELPHIA-Pitcairn Bldg.. A:rch and 11th DAVENPOB.T-410-416 Scott st. OKLAHOMACITY, OKLA., 210-212W. Pirst st. . ._ ...I 20 WEEKLY ARTISAN WHY LINSEED OIL IS HIGH Traveling Men Asked to Explain and Tell of Other Bumper Crops. D Frank Herne, dl! ector of the PUb!JClt) 'l'LtlOll ot till EducatlOnal Bureau mamtamecl b) the \atlOnal ~--OClat1on at Pamt and \ arl1lsh ::\llanufacturel", at (,2; the BO\l1 -e Phl1ldtl phla, Pa, has sent the fOllo\\ mg lettel to Lommel11al tl a\Cleh ~l) Dear Tldveler -"1he product, of the ,oJ! dlL the h'hb of real prospellty." Your own expenenLe doubtle" has tdU£;ht ) ou thdl t hL g Ol-el al pubhc, reahzmg thl", al e keenly lllterestc d 111 Lrop Londl-tiom. The U111ted States government and lalge commerClal mtlt e"ts are spencl111g huge sum" of mOnE:\ obta1111l1g cL1ta \\ Ith \\ hllh to sl1111Ulate and satJsf) thIS mterest ::\ferchants throughout the countJ y u,ualh iSdge thell p 11- chases on the crop 1l1fOrmatlOn they receIve. Consumers are very apt to f01 m theIr habIt of thouQ,ht-regardmg re-sale pnLeS-\\ lth clue cOnqderdtlOn of crop m-formation they receIve You have unquestlOnabl) been benefited 111 the pa,t-get-t1l1g with ease under the clealer s ,klll-b\ 111tellH;enth ch-cu-- mg broad commerClal affaIrs m \\ hlLh he ma\ be pal tlculat h mterested Llllseed oJ! lh pllce, the \\ 11\, and II hel eto! c< 'll1d lonch tlOn of other ClOp", al e of l111ll'iUdl 111tt! e,t to the dealt! 1 H;ht now ] he enclosed poslel "Repol t of Cwp C ollclltHnh ha, hun dcslgned to a,sl,t ) ou IJ1 1u,t such d cll\ll1',\1011 and \\ e dl e q\1tte confident you WIll c;ee Its value-at a glance Study thOloughh thIS 'Report of ClOP ConchtlOn- and bllng every salient P0111t and c0111par1',on thele111 to the atten-tion of each dealer you VISIt \\' e are C;hlpp111g to the compam \ ou I epl esent a suffillent quantJty, so that eaLh of \ our cnstOl1let s \1 III ha\ e at lea,t t\\ 0 ( 2) of these postel s Have each cu"tomel IJctqe one ot thl po teh Oil hh 1101lt <;tore wlI1dow. "0 tllclt all \\ ho Pd" mal ,ee It thc othu to he mountccl on a boalcl for dl'pla) lI1<;lcle \tOle ;\n ac!chtlOnal qUdllt1t\ of these PO\tlh nM\ be obLlllled on request The po<;te1 rcfetred to m \1J HeIne \ lette1 1- pI tllter! 111 the form of a teleg1am on a \\ este1n L man bldnk enLuged dbout 1\, en ty t1l11e~ L nde1 the hcad111£i Look on Tln, It ~ .. ------------------------------------------~ !I• ,I•IIII II• I• II "'. ..__ -.. ------ -------_. __.-- -- -----.-.' ~Ives statIstIc, on \\ heat, corn, oats and other crops from the £;0\ ernment crop report of September 1, and adds: The '{ e\1 Yark Produce Exchange <;tatistlclan estimated £to111 these fi£;ule, a corn crop of 2,943,341,000 busheh wl1lch 1<; 1-; (, U ()()() hthheJ-, hettcl than la~t month's estimate. The IlCOIc! corn uop 1\<1\ that of lCJOG, when 2,J27,416,091 bushels \\ C1e han e<;ted 1 hl Plolll1,ed ClOp of oats IS 1,035,466,000 bl1sheh, whIch UJmpare, \\ Ith lact month s estJmate of 979,8;)0,000 bushels and la,t ) cal ~ crop of 1007 1;)1,000 \\l1I'::h was the record rhese hgure, taken from the government records compare e,t1l11dteel \ lelel\ tn 1CJ10 \\ 1th prevlOU<; record years' COIn 1(jO(, llCUld \e,ll 2,927,416,091 bushels " 1)10 2,943,341,000 " Illlrea~e for lCJ10 15,924,909 " C;pnng \\ heat, 1906 I ecorel ) ear 242,',98,644 bushels " 1910 290,823,000 " InLrc,t~e tor 1<)10 48,02-t,356 " (Jdl, 1CJ06 rLcold year 9()4,904,000 bushels 1910 1,007,383,000 " Inuea,e for J910 42,4,9,000 " I'ot,ttol' 1CJn~ I eCOl d \ eal 312,800,000 bushels }ClJO 376,537,000 " Inu edse tor 1110 13,737,000 " The'l 1t1C1ea,e\ \pell d bu,y fall and a "bumper . ~pnng for till paltlt ckale1' and other mercl1dnts. Thcll I ool? H Cl (' ",el 0ppo\lle the fO! egOltl£; stdtemenb, under the heaclmg, , \\ 11\ Llmeecl OJ! IS HI£;h, 1, the followlI1g relatlve [() the crop of fLI""seeel \ orth Dal,oid produlc~ about half of all flax\eecl grown 11l thL l mted State' \ \ erage flaxseed Lrop cOl1ChtlOll September 1, 48 3. \\ lrag-e ~even year ClOp conclltlO'1, 866 ~ nder the heaclmgs, "Record Pnce for Linseed 011" and Dolla1 \fjark Reachec! ltl ChlLago, HIghest 111 HI<;tory of the I lade thc po, ter g-l\ e~ thc followl11g, dated ChIcago, September ](1 'Ra\\ hmeed oll \dl1lh Lompllse, about two-thIrds of the COlllpO'lt1OJ1 of p lllli 1cached the hIghest POltlt ltl Its history yes-tel da\ c!O'1l1g at $1 on the ChIcago board of trade an advance of JI-, lellb 0\ CI the hl~h pCl1nt of September last year, when all \old at +2 Lents The record pnce previous to thIS year was 68 Lenh m December 1CJOlJ In January 1910 llI1sced oJ! began the Upll al el tenclellC\ that re'lJ!tcd 111 ; 7' cents bemg attained as the 11lgh p J1J1t for that month The IeaJ movemcnt that brought dbout the dolldr prIce, hO\\- l \ II qal ted thl\ month, reachll1g a c!JmaA when go, ernll1ent LlOp 1 epO! ts c hcm eel a fla'\:seeel crop com!JtlOn of 483, Il1c!Jcatll1g a u op ot 1G,+ i 7' .000 bushels. or nearl) 1 ;),000,000 les<; than re-q1l1rel11enh lnueasec! cost of 1l11seed 011 has already resulted in an ach an, e m the pnce of ready 111Ixecl pamts, varl1lshes, etc , The nonndl pllCe of flaxc;eecl IS $133 per bushel, whIle it 1\ 110\\ quoted at $2 8+ " Dodds' Mochines in Demond. ! hL \lc"anclel Dc clcls camp;; l1y reports a good trade 111 \1 ()()ch\ orkLJg mdchmer} !\mong chelr recent orders and shlp-lJ1Lnh arc a \0 S saw table for t e manual tral11l11g school at ",alt Lake Clt} , l\\C) dovetaJlel s to ) to South Amenca; one 15 <]Jmclle elm ctaller to Carthage, N -\- , one 10 spll1dle dovetailer to Tdl11L,to\\ n ~ Y; d Hj "p1J11 e dovetd11er to Evansville. Iml , ancl one 12 spl11dle clovetaller 0 go to Cologne, Germany WEEKLY ARTISAN 21 ~--_ .. - --_. _. -------- - - - -- ----------_._-------- _. ------, FOUR NEW TRADE MARK REGISTERED PRODUCTIONS BARONIAL OAK STAIN FLANDERS OAK STAIN S M 0 K ED 0 A K S T A I N EARLY ENGLISH OAK STAIN in acid and oil, in acid and oil in acid and oil. in acid and oil. Send for finished samples, free. Ad-el-ite Fillers and Stains have long held first place in the estimation of Furniture Manufacturers and Master Painters. In addition to the reg-ular colors the above shades offer unusually be~mtiful and novel effects. The Ad-el-lle People ~ CHICAGO-NEW YORK Everythmg in Pamt SpeCIaltiesand Wood FmIshmg matenals. FIllers that £111. Stams that satisfy. .. - --- . . . -----------_._---.4 Conditions in the Carpet Trade. '\ ew York, Sept ~2 -1here I a steady stream of ~ll1all ordel ~ comIng mto the malket 0~1Ldl lme~ of carpets and rugs Retaller~ are covenng then fall need~, but accorchng to state-ments made by the largest JobbIng houses 111 thIS country, they ab~olutely refuse to plunge or cover vel y far ahead .!\lost re-tall buyers al e wlllmg to admIt that they do not belIeve pnce~ WIll be any lower later on, In fact ~cem to feel that there may po::,slbly be some advances named on ccrtam 11l1e~ The manner m whIch cotton yarns have acl<.anced dllfl11g the past two weeks or mOl e has made It faIrly plaIn that manufac tures of rug~ m whl..:h cotton yarns are used wIll not be an) lower than they al e now Buyers are clo~ely follow1l1lS develop-ments 111 the raw matenals, as vvell as the fi111shed market, and al e look1l1g for anytll1ng that can be pICked up 111 the way of ,I b,Hga1l1 Up to date, they have not been ~uccessful m find1l1g man) "Job~" m thIS market, as stocks are pretty well cleaned up QUIte a few retaIl buyers dl e m need of goods WIth WIlH.h to complete theIr fall collectIOns Requesh are be1l1g sent for-ward to ~ellmg agents and Jobbers for the qUIck ~hlpmcnt of all £;oocl~ on order, and 111 sevel al ll1stances these orders are bell1g duplIcated Reports from the south indIcate that a very fair ie-mand WIll develop m that sectIOn shortly, as reque~ts for adclI-tlOnal lots of spot gooch are receIved frequently. Better grade rl1gs are wanted, and It I~ notIceable that buyers \'IIho fOlmerh pl1rcha~ed cheap lInes are no <v chang1l1g to 111edll1111 and bette~ 1 grade::, In the carpet and fl1lS dt~)artment of the H D Claflll1 C0111- pany bus111ess IS reported as) head of la~t year, but at the same tnne buytrs are saId to be ShVW111gqUIte a 11ttle conservatIOn on fall ordel s Buyers al e hell for the purpose of buymg goods, but are lookmg for "lobs" "nd are not at all 1I1chned to cover theIr future needs ven far ,lhlad Orders f10111the west are re-ported as good, and ~ho\\ mg d steady Improvement each week Con ~l(lel ahle merchanch' e ha~ betll (hspo~ed of dunng the sum-mer month" hy retaJIers, and they are no\\ ~hoWJl1g a de"ire to fill 111. \t the vanou~ sellmg a~encle~ m thIS market bU~lness for the month of August was well ahead of that for the correspond-mg month last yeal. The nulls are stJ11 reported as husy WIth old Olders. and are mak1l1g some preparatJOns for the new ~eason whIch WIll open up the first week 111 November Onental rug" and carpets have contInued to move faIrly well, and 111some qu,lrters good order~ all repO! ted a~ 11clvlng been placed for the c0l111ng fall and w111ter season CIty buyers have not been very actlve as yet, but are expected to C0111emto the 111arket dUf1ng the lattel pal t of thl" month ~------------ -- - ---- - _. - - . III II II II UNION FURNITURE CO. ROCKFORD, ILL. ------.. 1 A..__ • a •• China Closets Buffets Bookcases We lead In Style, ConAru~on and Finish. See our Catalogue. Our line on permanent ahlblo bon 3rd Floor, New Manufacto urers'BUilding. Grand Rapids. • 4 22 WEEKLY ARTISAN New Utilitarian Novelties. A. fold111g (IteS~111gtable a,1d a chafin2, ch,n ~ab1l1et alC thc latest mgemous pIeces of flll mtul e made for the d \\ ellcl ~ ot "mall hou"e" and apartments v,hue e, el) Inch at IOCJm coun1', and where eVel) cleve 1 "pace "dV1l1g deVIce that h aitl ac tl \ C to look upon and yet acId, to the con'rot t of In 1112,1" \\ elcol11ed Chafing Dish Cabinet. WIth open pUl,es The la"t \,01d111 c(Jmpactnc~~ ot al1an2,e-ment and "lmpItclt} of desu2,n 1" "poken In the"e la"t e,amplls of the arttsan\ gen1us The dreSSIng table 1" a 1epj()ductlOn r1l1m an ant1que adapted tD pI esent day necds "lth pI c"ent day mech lllh'n concealed 111Its poIt"hed mahogany top. b, mean~ of ,\ lllCh It 1S com erted automattcalh £1om a pla1n lntle table that could stand t111questlOned 111the pallO! 01 In 1112,100m-01 \11\ place 111the Rat for that matter- -111tOthe m )~t com e111en\ and spaclOlh c!le"sl11g table The top h dn HIed lnlo 11\ 0 pal h Ih Itft111g the lea, e, on th ell 11\1h1hIe h 1112e,~ a (('n tel p,ll t [I"es from helo\, Itke an ele, atm h[1n2,"1112,1nto ,1C\\ a \\ ell selected t01let outfit mounted 1n "tl, cr. each p1eCe fitt1112, pe - fectly 111 lh own ltttle compartment-comb blu-h hand n 1 - r'Jr, powc!el a11c! sah e bo,e" and ll1a111Ulre 1111plel11C11h r 11 the mlddle, h1ng flat on It-. race h a 2,Cocl ~17Ce!11111101tJ tee! W1th h111ge" an,1 UP112,ht-. that h (as1h Itftcc1 1n placc a[t 1 the tahle h open and folc1ed flat ,\hen It 1~ to bc c\()~c I 1'(oth1ng could be more 1112,"e111ouslvc1ece1\1112,dnd "C1 \ C t\ ) purpo"e" "0 "klllfulh 1he chat1112, (It-h cab111et. "0 unob ,t1 th1\ e 1n 1t~ Uh1dc appearance h the "olll of ho"pltaItt, \\ llh1n 1h ~m()(JLh \"ooden doOl" ale fOUl compartment-. ancl t\\O cIra\\ eh Onc the lowest, 1'3 "et aSIde tlom the chafing dhh 1e.,t1112, on a portable tray 'Jf \"hlte opaqlle g-la"" boun,l \\lth \\O)c! 111 \\ ]11eh are handles at elther end 1he glass 1~ Cjl1lekh lean"ul ,llld doee., not hecome too hot to tOlleh In anothcl CmlJpal tmc'l1 FURNITURE MA~UFACTURERS ATTENTION' Send (or samples of our Celebrated Nickel Steel Sword Tempered BAND SAW BLADES WarrantedIn everyDarllcular BestDroDosllloonn the market FRANK W. SWETT & SOIll Mfrs of band saw blad .. and lools 1717 1719 W.AdamsSt , Chlcage HERE IS A RECORD TO BE PROUD OF. Second orders receIved for dry kIlns durmg the last two months by the Grand Ra"lds Veneer Works: AmerIcan Mahog-any Co, New Ycrk Clty, 4 kllns; Xenry X, Shelp ManufacturIng Co. Phlladell'hla, 2 kllns; Sl1gh Furnlture Co, Grand RapIdS, M1Ch.,2 kllns, K,el Furmture Co.• Klel, W,S., 2 kllns; 'l'he Gour-ley, Wmter & Lemlng Co., Toronto, Ont., I klln; pullman Palace Car Co, Chlcago, Ill, and RIChmond, Cal., 1 klln, makmg 10 mall. They have also shlpped one klln complete to England thlS month. ThIS sale was made through the recommendatIon of John B. Snllth & Sons of Toronto, who have made theIr second lUstalla-hon. The G"and Raplds Veneer Works' process has been m-stalled m the kIlns of 16 plano concerns and they have Just closed wlth Xarrls-McXenry & Baker, Elmlra, N. Y., for two klins, h a fi,ed I ack Tell 2,la",c" and another, "ll1ch sWlI1gs out '30 l~ to be 111 ea~, reach, for a "et ot crnets and c i11e!tments and 1 place tol pcppel, "art and alI the th1l1gs neceSsa1 \ fell a Foldinll Dressinll Table. c'ldfin2, c1J"h suppel '1 here 1" a place f01 a cracker Jar, too. and In the drawel s are napk1l1" kn1\ e" and fork" De"lcle", there 1" loom f01 plate~, 1f the) l11\l"t he kept thel e, and an) 11nmber of packa2,es flam \\ hKh the supper 1~ culled The top h Hat and Ju"t the 112,ht hel2,ht fOJ the cook to stand comfortably to ,t11 It h cl boon to the h'Jspltable hearts of p~ople who Itve 1n dpal tl11ent hoteh and boal dl11g hothec• where nothll1g tastes a" L:C )c\ a, somethl11g made b\ one s o\\n ha11(1and where nothmg h lll"re tun than to gather around a stea1lll1lg c1nflng (It"h for cl lareb1t 01 an a la '\e\\bUlg 111 the "ce sma' hours \Vho among the, a'it a11n\ 01 hoardel s has not longed fOJ Jnst snch c:::mveI1l-ence, VI hen restawant, arc closed or the t1ouble of dres'l11g to go Ullt "eem" the l<reate"t wce 1n the wotld" WEEKLY ARTISAN 23 Stow & Davis Clean-cut, dignified style in dining tables, built from solid oak and mahogany that are, in themselves, a tangible assurance that they will resist a lIfe time's wear and tear. Stow & Davis Furniture Company, Grand Rapids. Michigan. Show your customers the strength of Stow & DavIs conslruclIon, the exqUIsItely matched woods wIth theIr beauty mtenslfied by careful rubbmg and poilshmg, and agam, the accurate pede&lal and leaf locks that fit snugly and securely. Each pattern offers a sales talk that wms every lIme Get Our Catalogue. He Knows How. Fugene Hlggms, a manufacturel of carpet" recently re-turlllng from a tnp 1.) Europe, was vastly "tupnsed when hIs trunks wele held u~ 111 the New YOlk customs house and he was accu"ed of attemptmg to smuggle m dutIable article'" liVlth an aIr of mJured Innocence he protested that he (lId not know that the tanff law affected goods brought to thl:o coun-try b) returnIng travelers It \\a.., a revelation to hl1111.0 (hs-cover that there was a duty on such thmg.., l\Ir Hlggll1S, however, does know that there i.., a tal1ff on carpets, espeCIally the cheaper grades, \\ hlch have the largest sale In thl" country and that the rate of duty rum 111 some cases as hIgh as l)1) per cent, effectually shutt1l1g out uuportatlOns of foreIgn made carpet" of these graJe" and thereby advantag1l1g Mr HIggIns and other ~mencan carpet manufacturers Doubtless. If ~I r Ihggm", should hear of SOIl1e other person or pel sons try1l1g to evade payment of duty on torelgn made carpets he would be properly lI1(hgnant It would Imple..,s hl111 a-, a monstlous Clime agam'\t the (!,mernment and a blo\\ at the vel') vital", of ~mencan mdu'\try Yet there IS an old '\aymg that' \\ hat I" sauce for the £;lo-,e h sauce for the gandel "---SpIll1gfielcl ("Mass) Lman. Advantages of Movable School Furnitlll"t'. Dr J\Iaxwell, supenntendent of the '\ e\\ York schools. wno recently retm ned from a tom of Europe where he gave partIcu-lar attentIOn to the scho{)!s and school bmIclInlSs, IS quoted as sa)- mg "In Germany one thl11g 1111pres,>ulme, that was c1eanlll1ess Ever) tlung about the class rooms wa" so remarkably neat and trim that it made one feel good Jt1St to look about The neat-ness applIed to the pupIls as well a" to the rooms and furmture I observed tl1ere a eonchtlOn 1 have long been advocatl11g III the sch{)ols of thh cIty. that IS, moveable furl1lture liVlth It 111- stalled a loom can be kept clean, cllso It affords help 111 clolllg away WIth part tIme, for furnIture 111 a c1asslOom that is 1101. fulh occupleclma) be slllftecl to a room where It IS needed" How He Would Accumulate Wealtb. ,.If I had $100,000 av allable for the purpose," I emarked a prominent manl1factmer, "1 '''ould go to the southern states and IIn est It 111 gum timber ~t the end of five } ears the tImber would be worth $:500,000 I would sell out ancl then ~raclOu:oly permIt the \v orId to wag as It would" ~----------------------------------------------~ I I III II I\ III I I, I I I II ,,I, I• I, I THE WEATHERLY INDIVIDUAL Glue Heater Send your address and aud receIve descriptlYe CIrcular of Glue Heate ... Glue Cookers and Hot Boxes with prIces. Tlte Weatlterly CO. Grand Rapids, Mich. -..--.---_._------------ -------------- .-------------------._---------------------------------------------~ ~---------------------------------------------~ Pitcairn Varnish Company Manufacturers of Reliable Varnishes of Uniform Quality Our Motto: "NOT HOW CHEAP-BUT HOW GOOD" c. B. Quigley, Manager Manufacturing Trades Dep't. Factories: Milwaukee, Wis.; Newark, N. J. 24 \\'EEKLY ARTISAN Hartman Furniture Company's Great Buildinli. The Hartman Furmture and Carpet compam nO\\ h~h un cler constructIOn a $300,000 waf(~house \\ hlLh wIll be the chlet bmldnlg 111the plant on La Salle street, south ot Thlrh-11lnth street, ChIcago The sh ucture \\ III be 333 feet long e"'tenc1111L; from an alley 11-b feet south of Thlrty-nmth sh eet to the t1 ack ':> of the Umon Stockyards & TransIt compan) on the ,outh anc! e.. tend111g from the alle) ea~t of \Vent\\ 01th avenue, mnet\ -1\\ 0 feet to La Salle street. 1 he bmld111g \\ III have seven ~tones and ba':>ement, \\ III be No More Kitchen Cabinets. Ihe ralcon :\fanutaLtunng company, once a prosperou~ \\ 00(1 \\ ork111g corporatlOn at DIg RapIds, Mlch, dIsmantled Its UJl 11\el faLto1 y a few \\ eeks ago and late1 1t':>water power plant \\ a~ (!tmag ed b\ fil e so badly that the company determ111ed to 1 etne flom bU'lne~s The company has dIsposed of its personal JlI()pel t \ and the I eal estate IS on the market. A few years ago tne tactone~ \\ el e operated largely 111the manufacture of hard maple flame, fOI spnng beds anc! WIre mattresses, but wIth the L;10\\ Ill£; seal ut\ ot tImber and the advances 111the cost of the A Great Modern Structure of l111llconstructlOll, spIll1klcc!, a'1c! \\ III conta1l1 a fie01 ,pace of about 230,000 square feet It WIll have track conlleLtlOn \\ Ith the I alh\ ;:\\ 1111e,011 the east and ,outhea~t anc! m,Ic1e the bmlc!m2, l"i(l teLt 111,dl on the second floOt levtl allO\\ 111gtOl \\ agon tl affic beneath fhe tot,d ImprOVel11ent~, \\! hlch \\ Ith the lanel repl e,en t about S"i(l(lOl)() WIll be completed Janual \ 1 The grounc! 0'1 \\ hlch the plant h hl1n~ el eLted \\,h CHICI, nally aese111bled b\ ,",01 I \hane \\ ho contempLltecl the el cc tlon of a lumhel and ,t01aL;e plant lnablltt\ to secme ':>uffi(lent ground led hIm to tran,fel the \\ holc to the lIartn1<ln eomp,lm repre':>ented by the pI e~Ident, \lux Straus The compan\ has ,tl-so purchased land along the tracks and frollt111g on \\ ent\\ CJIth avellue, and other propert) flO11tml; on Thn t\ -mnth street \\ hel e c'Cten slve Implovements ell e m pro, pc Lt [he pI e,en t pLl11t ,) 1 \Yeet ;\[onroe ~tl eet hds been touml ,dtos;ethel too ,m,tll tn1 hI com pan ) s g 10\\ mg blhmess The archItect 1, II L Ottenhe1l11CI of Ch1cago ROLLSI For Bed Caps, Case Goods, Table Legs and many other purposes; in Gum, Mahogany and Quartered Oak Veneers. The Fellwock Auto & MfJI. CO. EVANSVILLE, INDIANA Facilities That Are Uneqrralled ~al11e, a ltne of k1tchen cabmets was subshtutec! Cheapness \\ as then onh ClUdltt\, It It IS proper to charactenze the stuff plOc!lIlUI a, ,uch 1he bus111cs~ d1d not p10\e profitable and the hI e p1ob lbh hdotencc! the \\ md111g up of the hus111ess Spreading Popula.·ity. T fan) th111g l' needed to conV111ce the reader of the popu-llllt\ ot the Gland Rapld~ \ eneer \Vorks' process dry k11n, 1t \\ III he 'l1pphcd b\ 1eadmg the1r "ad' 111th1S 1s,',ue of the Weekly \1 tI"dIJ 1 he demand for th1,', k1ln has grown so great that 1t 11,e" thell LlIdttsmen to make the spec1ficattons fast enough to 'l1pph It ()l(lCI are c0111mg 111not only from th1S country and lanada, but even fI0111 England, and It 1S qUlte hkely there W1]] ,ocm be d great e"'port clemand from not only England, but all <)\ ('11m ope ,11](1,",ol1th \mellca It w111repay the reader to ]( ok 11pthe C1and RapId" \ eneel \YOlks "dd" r,------------ .... I f t f IfII ~._---~-------- . . ~ B. WALTER & CO. ~eturen 01 T ABLE SLIDES Exclusively WABASH INDIANA WRITE FOR PRICES AND DISCOUNT . ....I .. I IfII I~--. . "'I Henry Schmit 8 CO. HOPKINS AND hARRIET STS.' Cincinnati, Ohio makers of Upholstered Furniture for LODGE and PULPIT, PARLOR, LIBRARY, HOTEL and CLUB ROOM .f. No. 100 DOUBLE CANE SEAT WEEKLY ARTISAN RICHMOND TABLET CHAIRS "SLIP SEATS" AND THE MOST SANITARY RICHMOND CHAIR CO. RICHMOND, IND. Michigan Express Rates Under Fire. :\Ilchlgan manufacturers', merchanh and SIllpper~ as- '1oClat1On" had a heanng befOl e the "tate raIlroad C0111111,,1- ,,1OnelS at Lan"1l1g, dunng the pa~t V\ eek, all theIr c0111pla1l1t3 aga1l1st the expre"s compa11les' rates and method" They pre- "ented figures show1l1g eXOl])1tant charge., and chscnm1l1atlon-. almo'3t a., unrea"onable as tho~(' CIted bv :'IIr Kll1clel of Den-ver aga1l1"t the Cohraclo carller., and, Juclg1l1g from remarks made by PresIdent Glasgow and other 111ember~ at the C0111- mlSS10n the plote"t" under conslderat1On, are ltkely to pro, e effectn e They CIted 1l1stance'3 \\ here expl ess I ates for 60 mdes on packages Vv elgh1l1g SO pound s or le~s, \ al y from 34 to SS cents and where the charge'3 on 100 pounds ran~e from 80 cents to $1 30 for the same cltstance and under slmtlar con-dItIOn" 1he "hlppers ask, not only that rates be reduced, but that the) be made Ul1lfOr111and placed on a mIleage basIs The \111encan dnd the Cl1lted State" c()mpa11le~, V\ ho transact most of the express bus111ess 11l the state wel e shm\ n to be the \\ orst offendel S The Com111!"'''1Oner~ took the nuttCl undel con'31(lel atlOn and proml",ed to announce theIr I ultng In the nedr futm e ,..._ . ----------_._._----- ••._. . _._._..~--------------- Veneer Pre •••• , different kind. and .ize. (Palealed) Veneer Presses Glup Spreaders Glue Heaters Trucks, Etc.! Etc. .. No. IOO GENUINE LEATHER SEAT 25 A Fratm'nity Cluh House for .Furuiture Men. 'lIen of the fur11lture trade, thou'3and'3 111 number, Gue 1J1dl1ber" of the Benc\ alent Protectn e Order of Elks \\"hen man) of thc"e men arrn e 111 (rrand RapId" 111 January they \\ III find a mag11lficcnt club houoe, WIth ample lodge rooms c\1ld all the comfort, of home read) for theIr enjoyment The tcmple \\ hlLh has been unde! con"truct!on clullng the past )ea\, \-. neanng c0111pletlOn and \\111 be occupied early in \ 0\ ember It \\ III be Ilchl) fur111'ohecl throughout The work of c)n" trnctlOn of th e temple 1'0 Il1 the charge '1f a C01111111ttee uf Dal"y L(]cl~e \0 48, of v\lnch DavId l hI, preshlent of the (,lanel I\ap1c1'3 I aney I url11turc compan) 1'0 cha1l111an Quartered Oak a Luxury. Len \ ear':o d~() the best qualtty of quartered oak lumber ulUld be be ng 'H fUI $4000 per thon "and,' remuked a C011- ':oU111Cl ot lnmber '\0\\ It I" Very ,;carce and costs $10000 per thou"and a lcl the oak from Kentuck) and Tennessee 15 f 111felJ I to the oak that once greVv 111 \Ilch1f;an an...l Indiana 1rue eUlJ1( 'il} me"lh get, our money'., \\ orth ' These Specialties are used all Over the World Power Feed Glue SpreadIng Maehine. SlUgle. Double and CombmatIon. (Palenled) (Size. 12 In to 84 in w,de.) __ "I ----=-. Hand Feed Glueing MachIne (Palettl pendmg.) Many sty Ie. and aizel. Wood·Working Machinery and Supplies -----------.---_ ....----_._.----- LET US KNOW YOUR WANTS 20 Glue Heater CHASe E. FRANCIS COMPANY, Main Office and Works, Rushville, Ind. No 6 GlueHeat.r. ---_._----------_._----------------.-# 26 WEEKLY ARTISAN III Most Attractive Inducements for Car Load Buyers I I Are Offered by the II II I II III 1 THE KARGES FURNITURE CO. Manufacturers of Chamber SUites, Wardrobes, Chiffoniers, Odd Dressen, Chifforohes. THE BOSSE FURNITURE CO. Manufacturers of Kitchen Cabinets, K D. Wardrobes, Cupboards and Safes, In imitation golden oak, plain oak and quartered oak. THE WORLD FURNITURE CO. Manufacturers of Mantel and Upright Folding Beds, Buffets, Hall Trees, China Closets, Combination Book and Library Cases. THE GLOBE FURNITURE CO. Manufacturers of Sideboards in plain oak, imitation quartered oak, and solid quartered oak, Chamber Suites, Odd Dressers, Beds and Chrlfomers in Iffiltation quartered oak, imitalion mahogany, and imitation golden oak. THE BOCKSTEGE FURNITURE CO. Manufacturers of the "Superior" Line of Parlor, Library, Dining and Dressing Tables. THE METAL FURNITURE CO. Made by The Karges Furmture Co Manufacturers of "Hygiene" Guaranteed Brass and Iron Beds, Cribs, Wire Springs and Cots Evansville is the great mixed car loading center of the United States, made so by the Big Six Association . .. • WEEKLY ARTISAN 27 Made by Bosse FUIlllture Company ;\fade by World FurllItme Compau). ....._._------------------------_. __......._._._._._. ---_._-----...... _. ---- ...... Made by Bockslege FurnIture Co. .. ._. _ .. • •• _. a .. .. . 28 WEEK LY THE LATEST SMOKE CONSC~IEn An Austrian ArchUect Said to Uav(' Solvcd the Smok('}c!'ts Comhustion pJ·ohlem. \111" "lhut d11 'llcl11telt d laIl,,]){(1 \U"IIII 1" l ]oltu1 to ha\c "ohu! thl )11llh1l111 llt tllnJ1lJIl,l1"l1 kill" lomlJlht ( 11 I Ie hd" 111\ente 1 ,md put IlltD )11 Illll d the t "111 ,ke lOlhU1l111l" hllnd,t \\Inch hi\'-, lJlcn patented III Il\ II 111e wollel aud \\h eh ha" ,,110\\11 e'lLlllnt ll-u1,,, 111 )' 1,1 the Tbe l(Ied h a 'l111]llt OUl h 1t -Il lttCl 1\, th It tIll ]J { Cjuabh (f !;ll'lcu11an l 1'11, d , tt h",lllte m,n (l U"l 1 1\ I b I lOll1hu"tllJ1] of ~. i I (l lLl1t and pl altll,l1h UI "JlllJ).,.C 11 ,,( lt rJ1l" IlnentlOll IP,Ul e', ,I cllcltt OJ hot all dim n ll11 tb {lll i ,h \ e, hlat111g 1'1lt;: the -l11okc a" 11 ell Ie l\ 01" I II"C all 1 l J1 "Ul1'l11i-, lt CC 1 pIctel 1'he 1I a1 h 1 belel 111d tee 111":: hi), dl1cl ,,1 I e" h~lll1 11 (\ Cl 811 lLl "C 1 ",rdte II a flit ~1 lte U1l,) l" \\ 11 Il "nl1'1ll of thl h\ () "::1tll" 1" n 1111)]11111 l \ l ell hI 11111lJ111 "Ill l~ JJI ( \ 11(' 1 a l Jl" lljJj 11 h<l1f \\ Jih 11,\1I l \\ all ,Ipll tUIl" lJl'l 1))1\ gond1 glat, ,l\1(l at lh 1cm 11 J111t \\ 1 h \\ I \ I Illl1" 11111tl al'el111le" !he tIdt [21 I'e Lke\' hl h,\'-, 1 )]H.?Yl1l1111,tld]Jl1 UI l" J he fire ,t,1 led en t11e 1Ll, glate and fe Inh d11 l'11l11'1 rlellll let 1\ h lh e,tell ]" 01 el ,'le 1ncllnecl gl ate t] t'le Hut" [)U1111" thl~ operatlO11 thc II a1 01 the upper balt 01 thl 1111111 1 ,,11 t Pp t J the JeU'I, g 1 I, g1\ C" oH 1\" ~a"e, ane! -1111 gl,)cltll1h dl \\11\\,)1(] I 11to the 11a ~latc a- t'le Li mlH1'" 11 11 th 1'1t11 plreec'" thoe1 \ co ltJl1UIU-lI ICplILlIl", tlll l011"UJJ ed L d 1he nelc,'an a'l J" -up~ ill" 1 \ 1 the "::l,ltl thl )tl~11 <Ill 11 \ III l dni t'11" can be fCf.?tJ]'11cd 11 alll1(1'111ll \ l'h Ihl dl"lll 11:::at 'ole attalJlul I11 the a h pH lm11edJatd' bcnlath t II 11l\ "I I'~ dll I1l 1111et OpClll11g" 01 the all-,upph p l,,'agl" j( 1 l l11"unlln~ hl ~n'oke lhlclllgh the"e p~""<lge" t111' all Pll\ 1 lu,h 11el ed 11 the a,,11 p't c11teh the a"ceu 1J11~ J'a,,,a..::1"" pa""l" )JJt 1he alche1 pa-'iage" h 11eattl1 \'1e1cl11 anr\ pa"'c" t11lC1tl-?:h apll t're" 01recth l11to the e l,lbu,j on chd111bel a11d e l11b111111g \'lth the fh re prodUCt" pertel th "111l1"c!e,, llJmlu,tlo11 H\ th~ rrccec!Llle all pelltele" 11 ,n1ckl, ")'l'Jt ,1nc1 "llplll1f tlom t'1e (( al al e el1bl ell eOlht'll1e 1 j hc 1111,le 1111111"ql1 tt \' hl l and pa-":::, I ut thl lu"h t'1l flue, <I' a "111lke1e"" flame In!l) tIle eha 11be1 111 \\ h1eh It h' be u"ecl 10 d11\ "plLltl pll Jl "l '[Cfel\el 111 C ll1bJl1::lt11)J1 \\1th lach I tll ,I",ln \\1_ 11ue, a f]JJ 'hel 2'1 -u 11 pd'''a~c 1" JlI )\ 1c1ed 111 1 dill ,upph f e,lel nal all '0 that 111thc la"l c t (( al l)11 (11 11" 1 ldrge <Ill lUll! oj "uljl1\ll 1 ,uf}l11ent (IU,ll1 H\ t \11 ll\ bl ,pppl1cd thll Pgl1 the a"le11];11-) fJue> 10 the allhc 1 I1Ul" l11c1 t11r Ug'1 'hl'e to lhl (l)111bthtJon lhambl 1\ ben \\ Itll <I 1 l\\ t Ie the \ all e "to d " t,lt e,lent cl "cd 11h pa"" I"C- l,l11 bc ...- .---~----------- ---------~----~ I: Don't Burn Your Moulding. : I I I Blackened edges ~o otten found t I I I In hard \\ ood '\louldmg~ I1ldlcate I the use of Intenor tool, \\ hlch I f friction and burn becilll'e at theIr : fI fddure to hel' e proper clear <'mce II , The Shimer Reversible and ~on I I ReverSIble Cutters are made ot the : I finest tool steel by expenenced workmen In de"gn and con- I I structlOn they are supenor to anythmg on the market They cut , ,'ell and retam theIr ~hape untll 'Worn out ~end us dra'Wmgs or I ,I wood samples for e<;tlmates on special cutters :\Iany useful de !• I sIgns, WIth pnces, are given ll1 our catalogue , I I I SAMtJEL J. SHIMER & SONS, Milton, Penn. , II Mdtlufacturer~ of the Shimer Cutter Heads tor f loonng Cedll1g I I Sldmg, Door~, Sa~h, etc ! ~---- ----------------------------~ ARTISAN ~-------------------------------------- ...--~ ; I ! Palmer's Patent Cluinl!: Clamps I 1 I I , I I I I , I I f I I I I I I : I I : : I I I I I I I t I I , t I I I I , I I I I I I I I I I I , , I f I I , , '!1l::: "..lcve cut IS take~ dIrect fronl a photograph, allcl f t [he l\- S Ll ~ r1.' ~ e cf one sIze 0' IS, our No 1, 24.-111Ch t t Cl-ll11P w 0 11ax e & x otll:r S.l.zs::, talnng 11. stock up to t fI CO 'n-h'5 ,,,"de a'd 2 wchos t'J. ck Curs is the mcst II I 1ract.cal methc d cf cla1'lI'lng glued sock m use at the I I, 1rO~3"t t:'l e H>1Idrsd3 cf fa3tones h,we adopted our I ,~ay 11,e last ~0'U ard h mdr3d3 more w.ll III th9 future t Let 1 s shc\v yen L3t us s(nd yo"" the nallles of nearly I I leo factcr22S (0rly a fr;>ot on of our hst) who have or· I' ,'cred and rocroercd 11any tlmcs rroof pOSitIve our way I is t'le cost A post card wlll 1:rl g lt, catalog lllcl'.1dad. I Dcl. t d9lay, b~t Wl.te today. l A. E. PALMER & SONS, Owosso, MICH. ! I:, FGR7I::N P.;E:PR::E;SE~TA~IVES: ':the ProJeotile Co., II Londo En~ lal d Sch>1chardt & Schutte, BErlin, Ger-l1~ anyI Alfred H Schutte, Co]o<rns. FarlE, Brussels, Liege, Iu.lan, Turm, Baroelona al' d Bilboa. I I ~-----------------_.--------------------------~ ~I -----------------------------------------------~ , I I , I I , : I I , I , t t t I I I I I I I I , ,I tI , I I I I I I I I I , I I I I f I f I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I t I t I I I I I , I l I I I I I f I • I I I I I t I I I THE "ELI" FOLDING BEDS ~~~frTR~,~!N~:~ I No Stock complete w1thout the Eh Beds In Mantel and Upright l I ELI D. MILLER & CO. I : EVANSVILLE. INDIANA I I II '" rIte for cut. and pnces I ON SALE IN FURNITURE EXCHANOE, EVAN.VILLE. ~------------------------------ -~ WEEKLY ARTISAN ~------------------------------ ----------------------~------------_. I Wood Bar Clamp Fixtures. Per Set SOc. 30 000 Sheldon Steel Rack • Vises I III I III II \ I 29 ------ -- j I I I !II• I E. H. SHELDON {;J CO. I 328 N. May St •• Chicago. II ,,--- .... -----_...... .. . _------_. ---------------------------------_. ------_.-..\ Pa>tentMalleable Clamp Fixtures. E H SHELDON & CO ChIcag;o III Gentlemen -We are ple..sed to state that the 25 dozen Clamp rtxtme' whIch we boultht ot you a httle over a year ag-o are glVlllg' excellent se vIce "\Ie are well satIsfied wIth them and shall be pleased to remember vo, v. henever we want anythmg addItIOnal m thiS Ime Yours trulY, SIOUX Clty Iowa CURTIS SASH & DOOR CO controlled h} dd111pe.s ]f the glate ,Ul Lv.e IS qUlte CO\e1ed and an l11tense fil e h 1equll ed the \ ah e must he full} openeJ p} tl11" mean". a lall;e qualltlty of all cntu" the ash pIt and pa.,,,e, thlOuL?,h the d1r flues 111to the Lllched flues above the fi1(:' and through the apel tm es 111tOthe combustIOn chamber ThIS proce% keep" step \\ Ith th(' developmcnt of ilk h1C 1ll the c Jmbu"t)(Jl1 chamber \\ hen a "lovHx fire 1" dCS1red, the vah e 1"-11101e nca1l} clo"ed, the "-uppl} of all IS less, and, the1 efOl c the hre h lo\\el ed \ \ Ilh a "lcnvel fire les" smoke '" pr )(lucul <111(1 1e"" ,,11 1~ leqUlred to burn Ii. 1he '-;lLhcrt ,,\ "tell1 1" bun2, 11"ul e '\.lU1C1Vc1) 111 (allc], \(1 It (va" fil "t 1n"tallcd at the ll1U111Clj)ctlslaulShtel1lO11"e ,md afte1 1\, e11t) -'on ell 1l1( nth" constant USe the ch1mne, IS UI1- ,tamed 0) SGot 01 "111oke \hout bO 1..1tche1, 111 tne llt\ ha\ e been equlppeel VI Ith the "moke lOnSUme!" Thh 1" an ahsolute 11ece""lt) 1n the lelllSe pUblIc l;<11den", VI here thousands of pople elle "en eel ref! c"h111ents each day dUll112,"the (cm e' "ea"Ol1 1he e arc no \ )lu111e" ot "1110ke tu hdl!l1 the bees nor SClot to "wlthc. \'vll1te dle""es 01 the laclIe" ~,--------------------------------------_._._---~ i I I I I I l I,I 0. 'I I I~ 1 I I : RITE TO 0 A4 : i ICHICA6OMIRRORdRT6I.ASS01\ i I I) 217 N. Clinton Street. J\ I :I"~~\ Chica go, Ills .. U.S.A. :I I I I I j I I I --_ _-- -- ---------..\ Sold on approval and an uncon dltlOoal money back gu'ualltee ~---_._----------------- / ----- -------------------------------~ WE MAKE REFRIGERATORS IN ALL SIZES AND STYLES I II IIjIII I..--- - Zinc Lined. Porcelain Lined. White Enamel Lined. Opal-Glass Lined. SHELDON'S STEEL BAR CLAMPS. Guaranteed Indestructible. We sohot prIvIlege of sendmg samples and our complete catalogue The bOl!e1s of the Eh7dbethbad, the newest mUl1lC1pLt! hatl1 hou"c., !1d\e been eqUlppeel 'v\lth the ::'lchert appalattb Hel e thl prore"t quaht) of ralkenau (Od! (a soft hgl11te) 1" u"ed dnd tbe cll1mney IS s'110keles" It wouLl be Imp.osslble to u"c. thl" glade of fuel VI !thout the consumer, ao the bath IS 11l L1"rnall palk 111 the center of the city i1,'''' a matter of econ-omy It ma\ be mentIoned tlut the ut} saved enough on Ih fucl hlll "t thl', bath 1n "1, months to l'L') for eqll1pp1l1g the t,,,\o 1J 111u" Ihc '-v "tem It1d) bL u"ccl on 1()(omot1\eo and "e\ elell \mellCLt11 1aJ110,ld mcn Lmd lOLt! 11lll1L0\\ ne1, \\1m have vl',ltcd l,ll',]Md Jelcntl) cue cnlhlhl<l"tll ()\er thl pO""lb111tlf'> of thc top-ell art '-v "\em The Auto Strengtbens RUI-alHotel Business. l B HamIlton et11llR \\ lm "on of the Berke) 0.. (Jay I 111l11tl1](~comp,l11y hdve returned f1om a t0111 of the (L,,,teln market" Ten da) " \\ el e "pent 111the \ c\\ E1~!and state aml mal1\ mttnOI Lltles a" far north as a' POI tland, "'lIe, and Boston ProVIdence emd Hartford \\ el e VIqted "'IIr HamIlton -,rated t11at the ,,!)Cua! l111e"of the compa 1y e~pe 1all) the Ilal1 del" hdve sold 1eachl} 111 the utlC" ot \ ew l~ngland lultlllecl [;l)'tU11!Lm,-lIke the] lande1" \ Cl} much \J 1 J] l1111'ton ep )ke of t1J': b,'neilt elcln ed hy hotel keepe1" 1n thc "m.ll] ut1c, LInd 'vllLt£;c, 01 account of the "teachly ~IO\\- I!'g use 01 the dl1tomubl1~ The \\ calthv patl un, ±10 n the L1t1e~ cll11ancl the be"t 01 LtCl)mme elatIOn, and llJ many of the hotels the dcn'Lllld" <Ire fully 111et -\mon£, the best of the hotel, vhteel 11 the mtd 101 ot COlJl1clllUlt IS one LIt \\ aLl bun tInt "ho11ld In t. a" cl 1J0dcl f()J d1l1hIt1OU"leIldlulI! s J bc tlLl\d1ng "ale"m,ul \\h,) IU11a11h at hh hott! when-l \ C1 the j ,Ull falle, ha" no 'o\loll2,"e1 hold un hh Job th<ln thc man \vlw tIle" t) c1rn c "pIke" \\lth a Lllk ha111mer 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~S~~:~~;~~:;:~or MUSKEGON, MICH, New York Ofhce, 369 Broadway, L E. Moon, Manager II II It .. 30 WEEKLY ARTISAN Buildings That Will N€'ed Furnitlll"€'. RCSII!ClICC\- \tLlI1t 1, (1a -Challe~ II D'1l1lcl, ); La~l 1 OUI teenth stleei, $1000, ~n" <..., C SteHll', ; 2 1Ltel' ,trcet S2 ;,1111 ~Irs D IV. Thoma" 20U La..,t Halrh 'lreet S2111(l \\ R Sassett, 298 People s bireet, £2,300, IIh kCltnna \\ al~er ;j La\\ ton street, ~,3,000 Cleveland 0 -Charles La\\ lel 1120 E 12-1th ,treet -;;3 jOO, F ~ Saal, J915 Plel pont a\ enue, $1000 G J f'edelman East bouleva1 d ,U1clSupellol i\\ enue, S:)('O J ame, II C;outh-aId, 10;0 Ea~t :\metleth stleet, Sj ')00, COlJ1l1llh nlI1cldtell 10103 EmpIre avenue, $2,300, Caspcll \ntal G:ilh "'t Clan i\\ e nue, $3,000, H IV. Lelghton, 380 Ea,t Xlnet)-fitth ,tleet Sf- 500, F. C Denbel, 9918 Lorall1 avenue, $-1 300 ChlCago-Josefa StolmsKl 1631 ;\orth HellJ1lta~e a\enuc, $11,000, Otto Evelt, 1830 \olth 101tleth ,treet Sj 100 f' II Hoody, 12l± Rlver a\ ellue, :525,000, Charle, DundIn ; I-1G Car-penter street, $-13,000, A. D ~IacGlll, ");]8 Shellebn road 812 000; Joseph Budlong, 1820 Cullom a\ enue SI') 000 Y,llla, Lunde, JO-lcG;\01th I lft\-fiht avenue S1000 Tohn f'hnn lD21 Potomac avenue, 83 1110 11anUm 5111',lel 0: 1<) PlU,pect a\ e-nul', $3,200; Ann DUlhe, u832 II lleo'\. a\ enue S: (l00 Bmghamptol1, ;\ Y -111, L L Cha,e nu Ga\ 10tel 'tIeet $2,900; :Mi. J. Touhe), 3 II ales a\ enue 82 jOt) II C CLll h Fi 2 Duane street, $-lc,000. J\Ioblle, ~la -J L Rouke, South Hallett sheet and Spnng-blll avenue, $±,OOO, lIIrs F \ Smlth, 20-t IYe,t IIo,pltal sueet, $2,300, Emma IVnnberl), \\ ash1l1gton a\ enue and KentuCK) Sheet, $3,000, :Mr~ L Y l[cCue, II e,t Juha ,tFet wd SP11l1g-blll avenue, $2,500 Omaha, X ebl -II H Putman 2bOb "\ orth 1 \\ enh -fiah ~tJeet, $2,500, \\ llham J KIger, 72cl: Dorcu, ,U cet, S2,500, LoUIS Abramovltz, 1616 Korth Twenty-fourth sheet $4,000 V111cent Kresle, 4810 South Thu teenth street $2,GOO S1. Louis, ]\110-Jacob .:\Itller, 3437 .l\ ebraska a venue, $3,- 489, H. E. Bradley, 6021 Kl11gsburg boulevard, $cl:500, C c\ Sl1110nS 5416 VHgll1la avenue, $9,000, J L II ees, 106 South Twelfth street, $2,500, Otto Wlttich 8H5 Hall's f'en v road, $3,800, A N aert, 5030 Idaho avenue, Sq 000, Boston, Mass.-G L. Dav ldson, 11 Lpland a\ cnue, $cl:,500, Mary F Mulvey, 75 Mattapan street 8) 500 Tohn Cutbertson 200 Princeton street, $4,000, Robert T r 0,\ ler, H8 Bellevue street, \¥ e~t RosbUl), $5,000; Mar} Salerno, 1509 Blue Hl11 avenue, $12,000; Frank L Clapp, 143 Boston street, Dorchester $6,000 Kansa, Clt}, .:\1:0 -1; C Cl0", 3'F; 1 JIora st!eet, $2J500, Rockford Chair and Furniture Co. ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS Dining Room Furniture BUFFETS, CHINA CLOSETS and TABLES Library Furniture-Library Desks, Library Tables, Library Bookcase., Combination Book. cases, Etc. Our entire line will be on exhibition in January on the third floor of the Blodgett Building, Grand Rapids, Mich. L lllla G Tohn,on +0 Ea,t Flft}-~econd ,treet, $5,000; William P <-leal) 12,2 \lontg-,l1l street, $,),000, II R Raker, 3,H2 Ylr-glllla ,t! eei $4 100, \nd) E 1'h0111,1" 270G East Thirty-third ,t1 eet $.f 000 , lIed J ohn~on, 40 East F lity-second ,treet, $5,000 Portlanel, Ore -Thomas Fosstrum, East Thlrty-thlrd and II \ ll1g st! eet Scl:,,300, John Hart, East Eighth and Taggart stl eet $2, jro, G E Laurence, Boston avenue and Jessup street, $,),200, ::\I1S ::\IcIlJcKen, \Yatts and Delaware streets, $2,500, IllS :\1 Daruh. \Iarshall and Twenty-fifth streets, $10,000; :::'pokane, \\'a"h -C II Schoenberger, 904 FJfteenth ave-nue, $5,000, 0 II 1\ atis, EG30 Twenty-thlrd avenue, $3,000, 1 H Denkelson, 2GO± Cleveland avenue, $2,500; 1. H. Dean, 1207 Ol} mpla avenue, $2,500. IEno, Pa -f' J VanNatta, Tenth and Plum streets, $5,600; 111' lIIlllte Clrroll, Eleventh street and East avenue, $-10,000. Incllanapolts, Ind -.:\1:rs.::\1 Closterman, State and Twenty-lllntll ,t! eeb, $: ,000, Loms J. Heymann, Logan and Montana ,tt eet, S ~000, R C Craig, Tlmty-fourth street and Broadway, S-t,300, P R 1'111ush, Senate and Thirty-ninth streeb $2,750, Challes Stolt, 603 Ha111tlton "treet, $3,000. LOlllwtlle, K) -::\1:r5 Georgle D Wayne, Sixth and Onns-b\ street" 88,000, J D. Speed, 328 IVest Jefferson street, $2,- 600, H :\1 Home, 317 Durnett street, $2,500. Covll1gton, Ky -:\I1S' Hildegarde Escher, Bankhck and Elghteenth streeh, $2,300, Ohmer Caterbuck, 1105 Lee street, 83,000 Phllac1elpllla--Rocci clJ .l\ ubell, 717 Fitzwater street, $4,500 ; IIlchac1 0 MellIe}, 1'53'( Rldge avenue, $5,000 ; James Carroll, Rha\\l1 and CllSP1l1 streets, $3,800; Hugh McIlvain, Glbson ave-llue and Slxtleth street, $-i,000; Charles R. Wentz, Horter street ,111\1\Ybsahlclon avenue $12,500; W, S. Barnes, 1016 FJ1lmore stl eet, $-t,000, J 1\1. Kennedy J r , Araminga and TlOga streets, $7,000 Peona III -R. P. Burns, 492 Glenwood avenue, $2,960; 1\ llllam COHOll, 100 t\ugustine avenue, $2,500; A. Coleman, 1006 '\ orth Pel ry street, $4,000. Utlca, 1\ Y -Nlcholas Fehr, 277 Hickory street, $3,500; F d\\ al d Blust, '2GMathews avenue, $5,000. San Dlego, Cal-l\Il s Nellie M. Perrim, Broadway and lbh ,t! eet, $3,000, Mrs. Fannie T. Nichols, Twenty-fourth ave-nue and \ streets, $3,500; James Phelan, Sixth and F streets, $1,800 II1lwaukee, \V1S -Herman A. Pauley, 852 Burnham street, $5000, Joseph Klrcher, T\\'ent)-seventh and Walnut streets, $4,- 000, John P N ll11Csgem, Thirty-third and Mieineck streets, $3,- .-.-- ..... WEEKLY ARTISAN ---------------~_._.-._._.._.. ..- --- - - - - ..- ._. . - ------- .. - ... - .... . ...... 31 No. 1705-1705 New designs In the Louis XVI Style. ... . . . . .. ... . No. 1711 WRITE FOR SAMPLES AND PRICES. GraQd
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- 1910-09-24T00:00:00Z
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- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
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- Issue of a furniture trade magazine published weekly in Grand Rapids, Mich, starting in 1879. and GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.• DRCEMRER 24.1910 Come to the Chicago Market SOMETHING SPECIAL IN FllRNITURE FOR YOUR JANUARY VISIT I fJI More than 1000 varieties of KARPEN GUARANTEED UPHOLSTERED FURNITURE will be on exhibion at our I sales rooms in January. fJI These up-to-the-minute designs are now being made up and will comprise A LARGE NUMBER OF ENTIRELY NEW PATTERNS fJI In this choice selection we are prepared to show you the largest line of high grade furniture to be found anywhere. fJI And we waut to prove to you. if you are not already convinced. that dollar for dollar in real comparison of genuine values we are prepared to meet all competition in variety of styles. elegance and correctness of patterns. material. con-struction and PRICE. ASK TO SEE THE KARPEN SPECIALS S. KARPEN & BROS. CHICAGO BOSTON NEW YORK ~------------------------------------------------------ ,I -_._------_. - ---------------~ weare iginutors . not ....l.l.a..lors Floor Space 175,000 Sq. Ft. Organized 1872 Grand Rapids Chair Co. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Established 1872 High Grade Goods at Medium Prices A COMPLETE LINE OF SIDEBOARDS MUSIC CABINETS HALL GLASSES BUFFETS BOOKCASES HALL TABLES SERVING TABLES HALL RACKS DEN CABINETS CHINA CLOSETS HALL SEATS HOUSE DESKS LIBRARY TABLES CEDAR LINED CHESTS ·I IIII II I III III I I•• II I t I,I I I .. OUR LINE READY MONDAY, JANUARY 2nd, 1911 GOODS SHOWN AT FACTORY ONLY (Take Taylor St. Car North to Travis Ave.) ~--_._----- t,". • .---------------------.-.-~ •• -------.---------------. III WEEKLY ARTISAN ... - •• a 1883 1911 MICHIGAN CHAIR COMPANY GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN I Michigan's Foremost Chair Company Visiting Buyers will find our line for the coming season most complete we have ever offered. Ready and at their disposal at Factory Ware .. rooms January 2nd, 1911. Representative Salesmen: SOUTH W. R. Penny WEST Chas. B. Parmenter Robt. G. Calder H. M. Story EAST Chas. H. Cox Robt. E. Walton MICHIGAN CHAIR COMPANY 1883 1911 • 1 -.. 2 WEEKLY ARTISAN ~-----------------------------------------------------------------_.--- ---------- ----._""-- ~I I ROYAL FURNITURE CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN DINING LIBRARY BEDROOM SUITES HALL CLOCKS IN "COLONIAL" STYLE NEW ADAPTATIONS READY FOR INSPECTION JANUARY 2, 1911 SHOWN AT FACTORY SALESROOM GRAND RAPIDS ,, ~--_......".... ..... _.. .. .- ... • WEEKLY ARTISAN If you. have Dot one in 70ur store, a si:m.plerequest will brina you our Dlaanifioent new Catalo&ue of 12x16 inch paae aroupa, show-inti •• Ue. to Ulatch. With it, eTen the mOllt IDoderate sized furniture .tore oan show the best and newest furniture •• ti.faetorily. Nelson-Matter Furniture Co. Grand Rapids! Mich. BED-ROOM and DINING-ROOM FURNITURE COMPLETE SIJITEfii in Mahogany. Circassian Walnut and Oak. 3 4 WEEKLY ARTISAN ------------------- --- _____ ._.----.--..-.-.-.-.1", I I I II II ,iI , -IIII IIIIIII ,I I I III , II I, I• II ,I ,• II• I III LueE FURNITURE COMPANY GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Manufacturers of COMPLETE lines of MEDIUM PRICED DINING and CHAMBER FURNITURE. Catalogues to Dealers Only. I -------------------- - ~ luce ..Redmond Chair Co.,ltd. I BIG RAPIDS, MICH. High Grade Office Chairs Dining Chairs Odd Rockers and Chairs Desk and Dresser Chairs Slipper Rockers Colonial Parlor Suites In Dark and Tuna Mahogany Bird' J Eye Maple Birch !f!.!iarttred Oak ana ClrCflWfln Wamut Our Exhibit you will find on the fourth floor, East Section, MANUfACTURERS' BUILDING, North Ionia Street GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN Exhibit in charge of J. C. HAMILTON, C. E. COHOES,J. EDGAR FOSTER. 31st Year-No. 25 GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.. DECEMBER 24. 1910 I sSl.led Weekly WOULD EDUCATE FURNITURE SALESMEN Representatives of the Century Furniture Company Lecturing on "Period Styles" for the Benefit of the Retailers. On the occaSIOn of his recent sOJOUln in Boston, Mr Some" of the CentUlY FUl111ture company was invited by "Ben" Tobm, buyer fOl the fur111ture depal tment of Jordan, Marsh & Co, to address the salesmen employed by the firm In its fur111ture department. J\Ir Somes accepted and upon the day fixed for the purpose dehvel ed an address on the subject of ,. Penod Styles m Fur111ture" .:\11 Somes was unable te enter mto a le\levv of the hves of the ongmatols of the penod styles for lack of time. \Yhlle facts m regard to the birth, education, environment, traimng and opportun- Ities of the deslgnel sand CIeators of artistic furniture in the past would have been of great intel est to hiS hearers J\II Somes real17ed that the selling problem was of first imp or-ance ,\ Ith the salesmen, and hiS aim vvas to so mstl uet them that m dealmg With customers, they could discuss pellod styles inte1hgently and pomt out their mhel ent supellollty ~Il. Somes was listened to with wrapt attentIOn and when lw had concluded the management as \\ ell as the em ployes thanked hl111 fOI provldmg for them a pleasant and plOfit'lble hour Smce that date several tra\ elm~ salesmen In the employ of the company have dehvel ed addl esses to salesmen employed by retallers of furUlture and other, are pi epall11g to take the lectm e platfOlm \\ hen 1m Ited by deal-e] s 111fl1l111ture to do so J\ ranufactm el '0 are spendmg \ ast sums of money fOl the pUlpoo,e of educatm£; the pubhc on the subject of the utl1Jty and 111clLantlie \alue of fm111tme The ;,i[accy company the (;unn lm111tm e company, the lkl key &. Gay lur111tm e com- IMn). the Karpen", C A Streit, the (Tlobe-\Y CI111Ckccompanv and m<11,y others that might be mentIOned use the ma~aLlnes hbeldl1'. tllloughout the) eal, but It \\ ould seem that the time ha~ alll\ ed when the sale"men should be educatecl m order to deal mtelhgently With the educated pubhc The field IS such a Wide one and its 1111pOl tance so £;reat. that the manufact m ers would be JustJiied m makmg hberal expendi-tures III prepanng theil tra\ elmg repl escntatl\ es to take the lectul e platform when im ited to do so i\ ~reat deal of space IS given by the trade-papel s to the Illustl at !On of pellod "tyles, <lEd to the presentatIOn of facte, m legald to the11 ongm and de\ elopment, but the] e al e pnnclples m sales-man" lliD that cannot be dlscu"e,ed mtelll~ently by \\ liters 01 speaku e, who have not had the henehh nf cXpcllenc(' 111 actn;> I s;:deo,mano,hlp Tla\ elmg o,ale'>men. alC men of 111gh mental cahbre anti the deals they have and are handling, and the inCIdents of their callmg quahty them especially for ef-fectl\ e sen Ice m the field of trade lectures It is not neces-sary to name all' one, or any group of '>dlesmen, who might be called upon teJ tale up thiS new WO! k \v Ith every assur-ance of succes" \ moment's I eflectlOn ought to satisfy the thmk'n:3" manutdcturer that those of the tlavehng salesmen who would probably fall ,I" lecturers are few m number Drastic Liability Bill. The commiSSIOn CIeated by the last Legislature of Massa-chusetts to 1m estlgate the subj ect of compensatmg working-men fOl mJulles I ecelved m the com se of thell employment and to I epOl t to the next leglslatm e a plan fOl adoption, has plepaled a tentatne drdft of a bill \dl1Ch cO\ers the employers of the state, counties, cities, and tovvns and all other employ-ments, except where there are not 0\ er fi\ e employes regular-lyemployed REcmelY is allo\\ed m all ca'ies Inespectl\e of negligence, except \\ hen mJmy IS self-l11fllLted. 01 due to in-toxlcatlO11 01 hreach of statutory 1e£;ulatlOns The employer IS not hahle for Il1june" to employes of a conti actor or sub-contldct01 but he shall hay e the ri£;ht to mdem1l1t, from such contlactol or'iubcontJactor Tn ca'ie of tl1(' banktuptcy of the emplo) el the c1alm of the 1111111 ed emplo\ e shall be gi\ en pl101I1\ undeJ the acts of Con~l es" Car Surplus Rapidly Incl"Nlli\in2o \n 1l1U ea"e of about :;S pel cent Il1 thc nU111hu (f Idle hell~ht cal" on the Jal1'.\a\s of the G1l1ted c....tale'i dnd (dnada I" 1 CpOItt d 111 the fOl t111£;hth hullet1l1 of the \mellUln Ra11- \\a, \Se,oLldtJon UJ\elll1£; the 1\\0 \\eeks fJom ~m~1111Jer 23 to Decemhel 7 On the lattel date thCle \\ el C 44014 Idle cal" the lal£;ee,t l1umhcl lepolled s1l1ce Septemhel 14 and ,lhol't "n times the numbu of idle c~f'; J eported on October 26 ;,loe,t sectIOns of the countlY contllbuted to the mClease 111 the idle Itst. and practlLally all classes of eqUIpment, in-c1ud1l1\ 2,bo" cal s and coal car'i. vvere 111 less demand on De-cemher 7 than they had.. beel1 t \VO ,\ eels eal her A decrease 111 the demand £01 fJ cu:;ht cal e, 1e, ne,ual at th1s season, mVi1112, paltly to \\mtel \\edther ancljJdlth to the fact that the filst IlJ"h of the uop" to mdlket I" 0\ el The surplusage of cars no", ho\\ e\ er, 1e, dhoUl :;,000 cal" more than at thiS date last year. 6 pel ton (2240 pounds) had been regIstered. Owing to vari-ous "0 uses m CI"pccula tlOn included, priccs then receded very l()J)slduclbh, hut Iccovered a£;a111 111 \u£;ust, and ale now hl2,lH 1 thclll e\ U \\ Ith a dlffel ence of no less than £20 ($97.- n )lCI tOll 0 f OIl ovu the prlCCS ruh!1l.;"a yeal ago The"e loni nued 111..,.h PllCL'o .lIC duc to the \CI) unsatIsfactory re- ))(Jlh le)ald111~ the nc\\ crops 111the L11lted States and Ar-gcn; 1 3 and If these I eports pI 0\ C tlue prices WIll certainly 2,0 stIll hl~hcl, dnd 111such case l111seed 011 111England and el 'oCI I ell IS not lIkel) to rule helm\< $19:; per ton during ne"t \ f31 "Tu1 n111~ to 1 elIable newspapel statIstics for October, 1910 It .lppeal s that the rulIn~ pllce fOl l111seed in London J anL,"S fJ om £4:; ;S to £45 15s ($22021 to $22264) per ton, I,llll( n the lOll e'opond111g week ot 1909 the price varied from ±)O '( £30 ;s ($140 to $14721) per ton." Con,ul (:renelal John H Snodgra~s of Moscow, RUSSIa, say, FLAX AND LINSEED OIL ABROAD WEEKLY ARTISAN ._----------- .. FREEDMAN CONVERTIBLE DIVAN BED I A Revoluhon 10 Parlor Bed Construction. An ImmedIate Success. Full S,ze Bed in Divan Space. Consular Reports Show Why Current Pri('t's Art' Higher Than Usual. \...t11rent lonsulal 1epol ts shm, th.lt 111gh pI ILL~ (tJ fl,I" and 1111'<eedoil ale not Lonflned to the L11lted C:;tatl~ but are due to scarcIty that IS almost \\ odd \\ Ide F01 I11stdnce Consul-General Loop of London \\ lItes as 10110\\ '0 "Thf price of l111seed 011 111the Ln~lIsh mal ket ,ll (()] d ing to a prom111ent dealer, changes almost houd) \t the time of writ111g the United States 1'0 plobabh bm 1112, ,I I'el, untanked oIl from thIS malket 01 fJun Gelmany .'t db(ut $11.20 per 112 pounds, m ball els fob J ondon Ie ,,, 2' per c('nt far prompt cash. Amellcan l111~eed OIl doe., !1( 1 .It presel1t participate to any extent m the En~h"h mal ku ('tJe dealer advises that It could not have been bought hell' 1( I some months past, save at a pllce fal m e"cess of that o! English or continental oil, and adds that It \\ auld 1)e almost impossihle to make a pllce hele fm oIl tOl shIpment 110m the lJnited States Crude l111seed OIl .h sUjlplIell 11 111 the crushers here, is put up m ballels of about ;0 \muI'ltJ ",d Ions, in pipes varymg from 125 to 17) \mu l,ltJ "tll' tJ ,1lH! also in returnable steel drums of 150 to 200 -\mellldl1 ~dl Ions. I inseed oil comin~ mto thIS LountIy from the LontI nent is almost invariably sent 111barrel, but a part ot It 1, imported in steel drums Assummg- 7}i pound" to he the equivdlent of an American gallon 1 hundled\\CH;ht ~112 pound~) is the equIvalent of 15 gallons and a ton 01 2240 pounds is equivalent to 298 gallons. "The present supply of linseed oil is by no meoln,< nor-mal, and has not been dUllng the \\ hole ) eal the demand far exceeding the supply, and it IS saId that thrs ~ltuatlOn ap plies not only in the United K111gdom but to all part~ at the world. The linseed crop 111 the Ulllted States IS Just now becoming available for oil; the ne\\ crop from Argentina will not be available in the United Kinf;dom 01 111the l~lllted states until early in the year 1911, whIle the ne"l fnclldl1 crop will not be a,ailable for OIl untIl Apnl 01 ::'IIa\ 1911 "The bulk of the linseed ImpOl ted 111to Em ope 1~ pIa duced in Argentina and India; small shipments are occasion-ally m~de from Russia, and also from the UnIted C;tate~ but shipments from the latter have ~laduall) deCleased 111 \01 ume. The "hortage of linseed. hoth 111the L111ted "tdte" and Argentimt, became appal ent at thL beg-mnin~ of the (t111e11t year, c,ncl pllces he~al1 ad\ a11U1H; ,lCCU]dlll~h hoth f(]J the seed and for the 011, until 1n \plll .1 II~e 111OIl ot '-()j11( Sill "fhe RUSc,lan flax ClOp of 1910 IS medmm 111 quantity, but ,,()ml qualItv 1he bUY111g-price at present is 20 per LUlt hI~h(] than 111 1909, oLLdslOned prlnclpdlly by the Lll"l '\.j)()1 t denund and the lImIted stuck of the European nlll' DUllng -\u~ust dnd September there were few clear-dnll, of '-toe k on ,lccount of exp01 ters having succeeded in ~et~'n~ holdels to ~II e way m pllce, but in many places the full askmg prlle \\ as paid As a rule dealers have been and are L >\\ holdms; firmly to the little flax they have to sell. A pl011l111ent house leports as follows: , \ ITC elle not) et in a position to form a definite opinion as tu th" yield LOmpared with last year, taking Russia as a \\ ho· c hut \\ e al e mdll1ed to the belief that the 1910 crop \\ III ch('\\ a model ate e,-cess There has been an increase 111 the total of btbll1ess call led through 111 the consumll1g couLtrles blOlH;ht about, not h) any ~eneral buying but by sam ~ larglsh deal ancc of stocks of cel tain descriptions, chief-ly '2ter retted, pI iLes have fluctuated to a slight extent, hut the last sales 1eached the hig-hest fil.;"ures paid. There hd" 1 een a fall numbel of 11 an solctlOn s itl. tows; a good deal more \\ auld have been done If there had been a greatel ChOll e at qualIh 01 If sellers had been more amenable as I egarcl~ price. '\ few sales of new crop Slanetz flax have bee 1 me-de at pIICCC,whIch ale decidedly under the ideas of the lllal( rIh of "ll1ppels IVe ha,e not yet been able to trace anI ales of thb Ical's \\atel letted fla,-" The Boothe Pottel Furnit1tl e com pan I are new furniture ,llld ,alpet dedlu'- at 131 Bank street. XCII London, Conn . SIMPLEST IN ACTION. LEAST SPACE. STRONGEST BUILT. The sensation of last season's furniture exhibition and the "last word" In parlor bed construc-tion. Supercedes all other Interchangeable Parlor Beds. SEND FOR ILLUS TRA nONS AND PRICES Fullime show"l during January, 1st floor, 1319 Michigan Ave., ChIcago FREEDMAN BROTHERS & CO. Manufacturer- of Upholstered Furniture Factory, 717-731 Mather St., CHICAGO. WEEKLY ARTISAN 7 IT'S A HANDY PLACE TO GET OAK, POPLAR, BIRCH and GUM VENEER VARIOUS THICKNESSES. ALWAYS READY TO SHIP. PLEASE NOTE OUR NEW ADDRESS: WALTER CLARK VENEER co. SOUTH IONIA AND PRESCOTT STREETS, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Roughly Treated by Furniture Movers. MI" Isadore Bryan of 1937 ,Vest TaylOl street, who Sd) ':> "he was beaten and abused by men who came to hel flat lot, ke away fUlllltUl e bought from an msta11ment house, was ~tJ11 confined to hel bed ye"terday, m the care of Dl. M .l\Ieyerolltz of 572 ,Vest Twelfth street, says a ChIcago papel of l'ccember 18. ),frs JenlllC Isaacson, owner of the bUlldmg in which :\1rs. Bryan lives, and other neIghbors corroborate ;\frs DrYdn's statement that the fUlnitUle men struck and kicked hel, rendenng her unconsuou" She cal nec] hel fOUl-month" old baby m her al ms, she sa,\ s, when she" as set upon The attack was made and the flat c,tllpped of It" con-tents although, Mrs 111)dn sa) ", she tendered the $6 whICh "as in an ears, and ]\11" I c;aacson "ay s she, too, offet ed to pay the $6 and guarantee futUl e l)dyments The total bIll was $200, the Bryans say, of whIch $130 has been paId "The first I heard of the mattet ," "aId Mr. 131yan yester-day, "was when some one telephoned to me where I am em-ployed and said that my WIfe had been beaten by fUlniture men I hurrIed home and found her lmconsclOUS "I have consulted an attorney and am fSomg to mstttute pl0ceedings at once agamst the furllltnle concern The day after the $6 payment was due I "ent to the company's branch on Blue Island avenue and told them the stove one of the articles taken, "as out of I epair and that I would leave the $6 to be collected by the man who fixed the stm e "But the next thmc, the furllltm e people did wa" to hrnta11y beat my "lfe dnd e;tnp my flat of the goade; fOl \\ hlch I had paId much more tl1dn half" \n offiCIal of the fur11ltnl e lompany "ald the men sent to the Blyan flat 1\ el e \\ Ithm then lIghts undel the con-tract." Familiarity With Your Varnish. Ii Ie; an old sdymg that fanllltallty breeds contempt, and tll1S Play be true I ee;pectmg \ allllsh-some kmds But of the t, ue kmd the more one becomes acql1amted with It the more one respects It It IS not ah\ay~ \VIse to c11dnge brands once one understands a bl and m use, for thel e IS danger of los111g somethmg, whIle at the Sdl11e tn11e nothl11[?,"may bL c,amec~ II hlle CltftClent make" ()f ',ll nlsh 111tcnded fOI one pm po,:>e al e pI esumed to be made npon one fOJmula, or plac-tIC, I11\ "a sttll thel e al e fal tOI " m the (ae;e that Vv III materially dltel the ploduct as compal cd \\ Ith ,mathel bl dnd. Olle of the nlO"t ImpOl tant thm!Ss I" that \ ,lrlll"h "houlc1 have ac:e '1hIS IS costly to the' allllsh-makel as It medn::. the laymg by of capItal that IS plachcall) domg nothmg Some let the \ arlllsh Iemam in the tank longer than a com-pehtm \\111 and yet both hlande; n1d, he made aftel the samc form'lla That would make a chffet enle In the two, the ae,e Then thue is a cltffel eme ma) be In the quahty or choice of the ~UJ11used whel eb) a cheaper 01 cleal et selectIOn of a gU1l1 may ht' emplo) eel TIlle; 1l11c,-htmdkc "ome dIfference Then there 1e; the OIl nseel. and e;o on. c;ayl11[?," nothl11!S of the e;klll empl,)) ed in the makmg -IX I C111th ,Yalren, r rand .;\111dlcd Anelel son al e new fnl mtnl e dealel e; at B1111ey, Icld nudel the name of the War-len .'..nderson I'Ul111tt1IC lOmpan) inc01j)vatu1 \lith $10,000 l apltal e;tock. • WEEKLY ARTISAN Nearly all of the (xl and Rapids factor) n:lllblb vIIII be ready for inspection by the ealhe"t ]n1\ el" f01 thc \\ 111tu "de'i season of 1911 :\lost of them ale ledch today 'llHl111C uthu:o lack only fimshlllg tOllche'i \\ hiLh v\ 111hc applle,l dm1112, the coming week. So fal as ha:o been I epOi ted none of the Grand Rapids manufacturer'i have made any 1 adlcal chdnc;e" 111theIr lines, though all hdve made ne\\ pa tteln" and thel e m,\I be some surpnses fOi the buyel'i :\lam of the tactm v "how rooms have been changed. Some have been located 111ne\\ buildings and many have been enlal2,ed and ncal h ,dl have been re-decorated and le-ananc;-ed \" a II hule the eh"pla} of furnitme made in Grand Rapid" II III ])( III ,llUlul 111111the progre'is of the industi\ 111thc utv- \\111 hc Idl~L1 \)t Ill_hel quality and bettel in even sen"e than 111anI jlll\Wl1" "la" n * * * * ' Unless a blizzard OJ 'iome othel tiouble tie'i up the laII-roads during the com111g week the exhibItors 111the dOl\ n tOl\ n buildings will al'io hay e their dlspla) s 1ead\ felr 111"peUlOn at the opening of the season-a \\ eek from ne"t \londav Good'i have been arri\ ing for a month 01 1110re and al e ncm con1111Q with a rush. Some of the dl"plays are no\\ completeh ,II ranged and barring unexpected dela \ s 111 tl an ,;porta twn all will be put in read111e,;s dm ing the C0111111\2\, eek Pl ac tludh all available space will be filled and hke the 10lal dI'ipL\I" the so-called outside exhIbits \\ ill be lar2,eI 11101c atti act1\ e and better than ever. From this it I'; ev Ident that 'ill tal a'i c, hibit'3 are concerned the wlllter sale's 'iea,;on 111 the Gl and Rapids market will eclip,;e all of its pI edeces'iors * * * * The lunch r00111 for employes 1ecenth e,;tahhshed ])\ thc Sligh Furnitme compan) has proved a complete 'itllces" It is so well patronized by the workmen that the eOok1112,and serving facilities have had to be largel) inClea'ied The'iulles,; of the restaurant and the appl eClatIOn of the I ead1112,loom and card tables, manife,;ed b, the 111en led the 111anaQel'; of the company to inaugurate anothel entertain1112, featul e T dSt week the men were inYited to brinQ the11 \\ 1\ e" and e the1 members of their familie,; to the factOlY on tlldav evening when they were given a 111u,;ical and litelan entel ta111111ent that \\ a,; hic;-hly appreciated ]YI an audience of m el t\\ 0 ll\111 dred The pt02,ta111 con';l,;ted 01 ,;on2,'i \\Ith plano acc0111p,1ll-iments, violin 'iolo'i, recltation" etc ancl ,;elel tH)l1'; hI the Sligh fmnitme OIchestia which is c0111po,;ed of men el11plmed in the factory The enterta111111ent \\as ';0 thOloue;hh enimed by the WOlkmen and theil faI111he,; that It \\ 111bl follOl\ eel ])\ other" of a "ilmliar natul e cJUllllQ the \\ inte! Indeed It t'; plOhable that the social entel td11111lent 1111Qht\\ ell belome a weekly featUJ e at the Slil;-h factorY * * * * The Luce lurnitUJ e company 11dve cha1H;ed thcil pLlll" in regard to the use of the thil d ,;t01 v that \\ a" added to the hie; factory building clUJing- the pa,;t ';U111mel Thev ]lad 111tended to use the north half of it fm ,,11011 100m'i ])\1t latel decided to u,;e the entire tlm'd floor f01 factOl v pUI po,;e,; and locate the show rooms on the north end of the ,;econd flom 01 er the of-fices The 'ihow room'i occup, a ,;pace of 1;0 A 200 feet T]'ev are finished in tena cotta. with ';Cleen pal tlt1On" ha11ll1l111/Jn" with the color of the \\all" "',t the hcad of thc 'itall Ildv II ((I int; up fr0111 the office" thel e 1" ,l ] eception 100m filll"heci ill oak ,1 doak ]OOlll and aelJdcent, IS the dlll111g room, ",hele lunchuJll" II III hc "Ll \ eel dll1ln2, the sale,; seasons, and the Lltc11cn \\ hlth h eqll1pped \\lth the latest ImplOved electncal luoklJl~ app;ll atu" The "hlppm(~ department occupIes the "pdCc t01lllel1v tbed t01 "hOl\ 1 ooms on the first floor The tl1l1 d "to] v delC]" a tlllrel to the fm mer flom 'ipace, and almost ,b much to thc capautv and II lth the rearran~ement of the depal tlllcnh the LUle tactor) 1'-, one of the lan?,est, most com-moc! Ious and most cony elllent 111the cit) * * * * \\ 1I11a111'-, 1111cllateJ ha,; SIgned and rettuned hlS annudl umtlcllt WIth the \da111'i &- E1tJn~ company, to represent that lOlpOlatlOn m the "tdte,; of ::\IlChH?,an and \\ lscon';111 dunng thc com111g ,e,ll 10m teen) cars ago he entel ed the employ of the lompam and lS the olde"t 111P0111t of service of the J11dm I epl e"elltatll C'i of the company He has aIded 111de-velopme; tll( bU'ime,,'i ±1om almo,;t m ';Igmficance to mll!Ion-d'Jllal pI opm tlO1h * * * * 1 he C S Pame lompdn I have enQdged the sen lces of ff C \ll \ddm" f01mel1v \\ Ith \lal,;hall Fleld &- Co, Chl-cae; 0, to repl esent their lme 111the l111ddk AtlantIc ,;ta tes and Penn" vh allla I "}! \\ Ilham" v' III look a ftel theIr trade \\ l "t oj (hE \,,) lJl( luc1111l..the loa"t '-tdte" and L A Dowel IV III lOl Ll thc la"tl1n "tate" and \IetlOpo11tan dIStllct * * '" * ! hc 'I1Ilhl(,,111 1)l"k lOmpan\ \\ho had ,111c"hlbit down t()\\ 11 Lht v (,,11 \\ 111"lw\\ thc11 h11c 111 the factOly, corner of Cln,d and C:;1,th ,;tl eeh thh "ea"on The) occnpy what is kncl\\ n ,,~ the old Com"tolk facto!, and have recently made l1l]JI I (ment" that 11111enlal~e t1lell capdclt) conSiderably. '" * x >t The "1and RdPld,; C:;hen" Ca,;e compan) have 1ecentl) ()lJlncO "ale,; and ~toclc room,; 111ChIcag-o and Kansas City 1 h LV 1e])cJlt ,lll lJlU ca "L of en el 2') pel lcn t 111thei! bu sine,;s tell thl" ve,l! ,'" c01l1palec1 \\Ith lCJOC)dnd anticipate even ,1 lal ~el 11111ea"c llJ 1911 >I- 'I< * * \\ 111 P () nl1cn "nlc<!etl-, 1\ llhd1l1 T II al"h a,; leple 'Cl1l,lt1\ l of the Cllltnl \ 111lnit111e C01l1Pd11\ 111 the east, but Ill" tUl1tllil duc" llol llJdndC' thc J\1"ctIupohtdn di"trilt WEEKLY ARTISAN • Court Ruling Favors the Tyden Lock. EchtOl \V eekh ~I tlsan 1he sult fOI 111fnngement of the ong111dl T)den table lock pcttent ~o 073,311. whIch has been pend111g 111the Lmted States clretllt court 111ChIcago for thl ee ) eal s past, blought by I'mll T, den agam st cel tam users of the so-called Arnold Lock, and \ H.;orousl) defended on behalf of John L Amold. the patcntec and at that tllne manufacturel o± "aId lochs, VI' a" deuded on Decemhel 10, 1910, by Judgc lhll"tlan l Kohlsaat 111an O])mlOn "u"ta111- mg saId 1'yden patcnt \0 671,177, a" to all the "e,en claIm" sued on, findmlS the \1 nold Lock an mflmgment of all saId claIms, and grant111g a perpetual 111JunctlOn alSa111st the de-fendant;, 1'he opmlOn 1ende'l ed IS m part as follm'V s "Defendant claIms to opelatmg sub"tanttally under pat-ent i\0 R52,01l gl anted to J L ~1 nold, Apnl 30, 1907 In the above named cause befOl e the llrcUlt Court of ~ppeals for the SIxth C11unt, It "as held that the defendant, who was operatm:; under patent;, No 772,010 and 778,471, grantcd to J F Arnold m 1904, clId not mfnnl:;"e The deVICe now m "Ult 1" to all mtcn±:'> and purpo"es the same as that of 1')- den Thc pnnuple IS the "ame and the only dIfference con- SIstS m the substItutIOn of one well kno"" n form of level f01 another The Tyden claIms can he read upon the l\lnold de' ICe To con"tt ue Tyden ,,0 nallowly as to exclude the Arnold arrangement of elemcn t" 1" to destroy It-, ,alue en-ttrely- a resuIt whIch under the Clrcumstances m eVIdence does not commend Itself to the m111dof the court "1') den was the first to effect the complete clo'iml:;" of the pedestal "cctlOn" by thc mm cment of a Ie> e1 Thc table ~------------------------ ----- . ... !I DRY LUMBER I Like you want it- When you want it. I KNOXVILLE FURNITURE COMPANY. KnOXVille,Tenn., December I12th, 1910. Grand Rapids Veneer Company, Grand Rapids. Mich. Gentlemen Replymg to yours of Dec. 9th, Will say that we do not know of any thmg at thiS tIme that we can add to our former letter m regard to the satIsfactIOn your drymg process was glvmg us. Smce wntmg thiS letter, the wnter has been very busy at our KnOXVille plant, and unable to give our Chnton mill any attentIon. Weare expectmg very soon to have our Mr. Kelley go to the mill at Clmton and look over the kilns very thoroughly. After he does thiS he Will pOSSiblybe able to get you up a letter more m detail as to the results we are obtalmng. Yours very truly, KNOXVILLE FURNITURE COMPANY. Signed, Jas. J. Pnce, PreSident. GRAND RAPIDS VENEER WORKS DRY KILN, I• GRAND RAPIDS, MICH • constt uLted undc1 hIS patent held the market for several ,ear" and became an extenSl\ c feature m the table market. Thl" I" pot condu"l\ e C\ 1dence of mventlOn, but It IS very persuasIve It IS chfficult to conceIVe of any vahd mventlOn however narro\, whIch would conta111 so many elements of self-constructIOn as T) den's would, were defendant s' constructIOn thereof to prevaIl The rehef prayed for IS granted " \\ lulc tlm" lefellmg to the matter of thIS deCIsion of the DUlted States urcUlt court we take occasIOn to add that the language of the opmlOn 'iecms to us to md1cate that any lock located m the pedestal at the substantIal dIstance helm" the top, and whIch 1'i all anged to be operated at the top of the pedestal fOJ dlawmg the same together at the bottom, "Ith leverage on the dra ,'Vmg 01 connectmg de" Ices, "J1l be held by thIS court to be an lll±nngement of the Tyden patent, and smce these al e feature, of sub"tanttall) all (h~ pede"tal lock" now made, It seem" that all pI udent table manutacturer'i de"ll111l; to put out dIVIded pedestals should dVOlc! the me of an) lock not made under the Tyden p'ltent<; ) Olll s ,ery truly, THE SENG COMPA.:"JY, Pel Frank J SenlS, PI e<;ldent Phonographic ~Iusic at a Funeral. l'honol:;"rapillc mmK took the place of musIc at the fnneral of \11 s Bvron \kClelland, \\ Ido" of a w!Clel) known turfman and one of the wealtllle"t women 111 the ,c.,outh, at LeXIngton KV on December ] I Shortly beforc hel death :\ rrs :\IcClelland heard a phono-gl aphll I econl o± "acred mthlc b) a qual tet at noteel smgers, and she requested that the machmc be med at her funeral It ,~as the only mUSK at the serVIce SEND FOR Manuladurm 01 Embo •• ed and Turned Mould. in .... Embo .... ed and Spindle Caryin .. , and Automatic Turnin ••• W. aIao manu-ladur. a Jars. Ln. of Emboued Omamenu for Couch Work. .....t 1725-1739 Dickson Street, CHICAGO,Ill. • - -- - - _.---------, Rockford 'Chair 8 Furniture Co. Rockford, Illinois 10 WEEKLY ARTISAN "".fixed-Prices" ~Iay Be Outlawed. Thele are sIgns m \Vashmgton that the bIll torbldmg the so-called "fixed-pnce plan" or agl eement bet\\ een manutdc-turer and retailer or between Jobber and 1etaIlel or bet\\ een manufacturer and jobber-m bnef, the pnctIce undel whIch cut-rate pnces by retailel s are made pI actIcally impossible wIll be pushed vIgorously for passage by the present Con-gress. There are not wantmg those who contend that not only the Sherman <"antI-trust" law but the common law as well make thIS unlawful~the theory bei'lg, of course, that the pursumg of such a plan whether by dlrec1 agreement or otherwise constitutes an act m 1estraint of trade and that the partIes to It constItute a "combmatlOn" as defined b\ the Sherman act. It IS extremely doubtful, howe\ er, If a Federal court would ever convIct and fine as a la\\ -breakel eIther the manufacturer who pnnt') on a can of soup lts retdil pnce and refuses to sell It to any retaIler who will not agree to stick to that price or the retailer who does not stick to it under such an arrangement. A promment Wa.shington attorney has been quoted as saymg that, although the "antI-trust" la\\ of 1890 was enacted to protect trade and C0111lnecie dga.m" re-stramts and monopolies and conspiraCIes and struck hard at them in its penaltIes, It dId not attempt to define a "trust" nor dId it make It unlawful to fix, control, mamtam 01 regulate the price of any article of trade. "If it had gone that far," he argued, "the wholesale merchant 01 mdnutacturel \\ auld never have obta1l1ed such a hold on the retailer as the Cah-forma decision has given him." That was a ruling by the ~,---------------------- ._---~ i It •IIII I I II• II". I I RITE TO tl(lHJCA60 MIRROR E.ART6LASSCQ ~ 2J7 N.Clinton street.Jl1 '\ -~Chic,ago~, Ills., U.S.A. -~~~ DINING FURNITURE BUFFETS, CHINA CLOSETS and TABLES. LIBRARY FURNITURE DESKS, TABLES, COMBINATION and LIBRARY BOOKCASES. Our entire line will be on exhibition in January on the third floor of the Blodgett Building, Grand Rapids, Mich. ~UPIeme court of the state sustaining the legahty of the "fixed pi Ice plan" The necessity for further Federal legislation of a mOle specific character is obvious. fhe Bo'\ el s bIll~so called because Duke C. Bowers, a cut-I ate retaIler of Memphis who operates thirty-two stores, had It drawn up and mtroduced in Congress~is aimed direct-ly and squarely at the "fixed-price plan"-would make it un-lawful to engage m It and proposes heavy penalties for vio-latIons of the law. It seeks protection for men who are able to conduct their business profitably without having to resort to the expedIent of combinmg with their competItors. It dIms at preventmg combinations among competitors and at pi e\ entmg the fixmg of prices by such combinations on food pi oducts and general merchandise. It proposes to create a "ltuatlOn wherem the law of supply and demand shall fix the pnce thereby permlttmg the consumer to get the benefit of it. :\1r. Bower's testimony at the last session before the house commIttee then mvestigating the "high cost of living," cold qora~e, pnces and so forth was illuminating. He showed by ;,peClfic CItatIOns that retailers all over the country are tied up \\ Ith the manufacturers and jobbers in such a way that many kInds of goods cannot be sold by them 'mless at the price fixed by the producer or his agents-his customers-and that in consequence retailers who do business by fixing their own pnces cannot purchase such goods at all. \Vhen, for instance, an optician pa} s a manufacturer thirty cent') for a pair of eye-glasses and must sell them for $3 or be barred out from handlmg" the goods-a clear profit of 900 per cent-the fact· demonstrates most forcibly that retail buyers or consumers are sorely in need of some sort of protection by law. That allowing the consuming public to take advantage of prices fixed only by the owner of the goods-that is, the retailer-can be made to pay gets a good illustration in the case of the Bowers ')tores in Memphis. Each of the thirty-t\\ 0 managers is paid a monthly salary, the owner of the busmess fixing it according to his judgment as to the man's \ alue to him; then at the end of the year the manager gets his pro rata of the profits of his store; on Thanksgiving Day, the close of the "fiscal year," the owner distributed $14,665 on this profit-sharing plan some of the checks heing, for sums m excess of $1,000. IIII• I I• IIIII .I. A dealer in St. Louis advertises an "altitudinous sale"-':- must have a mountain of stickers on his floors. WEEKLY ARTISAN r N~thi~--~t~-E~~ai"O-- ~;V~l~es' OFFERED IN THE MARKET Let us show you these and other . at.tractIve p.Ieces In our line of UPHOLSTERED FURNITURE 5.00 extra in Oak. Ruffled Front, 1.50 extra. This 3 Piece Suite PRICE No.1 Leather, 52.50 No.2 Leather, 47.50 PanPlush, 51.50 . Exhibited only at our Factory, 1113 West Washington Blvd., Chicago. Enterprise Parlor Furniture Co. MANUF ACfURERS j .. . . . .. .. ..... ..... .. .... 11 12 WEEKLY ARTISAN HIGH ART IN MANTEL BUILDING The Fireplace Now Cuts a Great Figure in the Decoration of Fashionable Homes. Thanks to the demand for handsome mantels the fil cplace has come back to ltS own 111 1\ew York. and ae cordmg to one expert lt IS only \wthm the la "t half el07en \ eal" thelt the Im-portance of the mantel III the 'ocheme oj mtenOl cIec)J atton 1M' been fully I ecogl11zed Persons who can afford It no longel al e content \\ Ith com monplace manteb m r('oms furmshed to mcltcelte a cel tam pel 1- ad \-\Then buymg a house, often \\ hen lca,m~ ,m apartment they are apt to pull out the mautel the) tll1cI and Ieplace 1t \\ ah one more dlstmct1ve, coc,tl) and expl eS'1\ e oj ll1d1\Idual LI-tc even though that taste ma) not ahv a), please the decol dtOI The other day, for Imtam e, the purchaser of eI spleneltdh carved ver) black oak mantel \\hllh \\as to be plaLedll1 eI fo' cr hall, l11s1sted that the huge fil eplaLe "hould be ltnecI \\ 1th hlome color desplte the fel vent a"cnrance" oj thc decO! ator th,lt to hL 111 harmony w1th andIrons, ..,ettmg" etL It \\ a'- 111lpo"lble tu use other than a black 11l1mg The decoratol 1'0 LOJbolm~ hllll-self wIth the reflectIOn thdt probahl) none of the \ hltrJl" to that house WIll be aware of thIS departtlle fr0111 ,ll tt-tlC con,htenL\ 111 the mantel Features whlch have helped to mCIea"e the numbel ot \\ on-detful mantels recently set up m tim, ut) ,ll e the mcrease m the number of pnvate houses \\ hlch mclude a vel) lal ge cltmng room or ltbrary or drawmg room or foyer sometImes all four and the tenclency to pay attentIOn to penoel, m jurJ1lshm~ the-e rooms Thel care Lomp,natlvel) new houses, such for l11stance as that of Senatol Ualk, buIlt \\Ith nLl11Yloom) chnnneys and whlch l11clude a halt d07en or mOl e manteb of costly construct1On rep- I e"entl11g dS many penods of house decoratIOn, Italtan and I rench Renals"ance, Eltzabethan, Tudor, l-<rancls 1, Old Eng- It,,h, Colomal and so on, made of can ed woocl, Caen stone, all SOlb of marble or ant1que ltmestone, the latter havmg a con- SplCUOU"plaLe m the 1eproductton of 111QStof the at1tlqu.es These are it 0111four to ten 01 twelve feet hl~h, accordll1g to the deSIgn ,ll1d thc 100111where It IS placed, and the cost lS an)\\hoe £10111$l,(}OO to $10000 accorcltng to the fittmgs, fac- Il1g" ancltrons and other access ones In many Il1stances the and- 1ron" are work, of art, eI few bell1g ventable ant1ques Such thll1gs cost 1110ne) ElabOl ately wrought ornamental lron lS combmed \\ lth bronze 111 some speclmen", others are of bronze, of bro117e and brac,s combmed, of brass, of metals overlald with gold Some are three feet, others five feet tall The ltnll1g of the SIX by four fireplace of an Italtan Renals- "ll1e e mantel of cal ved oak I ecently put m a } l£1h avenue Itbrary alone cost $()OO ~ ,uperb mantel costll1g $2,000 before bemg put up \\ III eelsll) Lost $ ~oon a decorator saId, before the last deteld 1'0 Lompleted 1f dntlques are mSlsted 011 Satt~fied With mot e modern moulltll1gs the total wl11 be a good deal less and the ettect prechel) as good to the average eye \t the que"tlOn, "Is one style of mantel more popular than mother: the expert explall1ed that aSIde ft am the fact that m the ver) large n1dl1tcl, used m ltVll1g rooms, spacIOus dmmg rooms and ltbranes the ldrger mtmber Il1stalled were of wood, there was no preference for an) one kmd of mantel, the selec-t10n dependmg all the st) 1e of the room or rooms, "1 here are more new houses of the Colomal style now m "e\\ York than there were half a dozell 'Years ago even, and 111 ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS Our New Factory is shown here. ROCKFORD SUPERIOR FURNITURE CO. Buffets, China closets and Library Cases Our full line is shown in Grand Rapids only, first floor, Furniture Exchange Building o. HALL, F. CARLSON and E. SAUNDERS in charge. Library and Dining-Room Furniture WEEKLY ARTISAN 13 For quality goods, visit the Fourth Floor of the Blodgett Building in January, and purchase our Dining Tables, fitted with the latest devices and locks. And leave your order from the largest and most comprehensive designed line of Office and Directors' Tables, Costumers, Waste Baskets, and Bank Check Tables offered for sale. And buy the Perfection Banquet Table Top, which IS in great demand at this season, and which is fully exhibited. STOW & DAVIS FURNITURE CO., Grand Rapids, Mich. rooms dIstInctIvely Colomal of course none but a Colomal mantel w1I1 do For that reason art dealers are endeavorIng to get the most beautIful speCImens of Colomal mantels extdnt not on I) to sell but to reproduce A few weeb ago I was lucky enoclgh to secure fIom a 1\orthampton, :'IIass , re~Idence a Vel) bcauiI ful example elaboratel) ornamented WIth apphed cal Vl11gs,. Compal ed, however, WIth the nme and ten foot hIgh heav) oak mantels, some examples of whIch have a ~upcrbly carved projectIng canopy the Colo11lals seem mode~t, and theIr prIce except 111the case of a genu111e antIque IS relatlvely low One of the IEnghsh mantels seen at a decorator's and ~oon to be moved to a house east of Central Park. comb111es convent SIenna mal ble and whIte mal ble, an exqUIsItely can ed twenty-inch plaque of Cal rara marble cross111g the black and yellow marble lust belo\', the shelf. whIch IS of Carrara The carv111g represents cherubs and flower garlands. A :\ew York woman who spends most of the year at her X ev. port house, has her CIty headquarters 111a large FIfth ave-nue apartment where she spends perhaps two months of the yea 1 The fur11lsh111gs of thIS department are extremely artIstIc, and 111 order to have three of the rooms absolutely harmonlOus 111 every detaIl, the occupant had three mantels mstallecl a few weeks ago whIch are reprocluctlOns of Itahan, French RenaIS-sance and LOUIS XVI styles, the first of gray Caen stone and the others of whIte marble elaborately carved \s p0111ted out b) the decorator, perhap~ the most wonder-ful feature of the stone and marble mantels more 1ecentl} de- ~Igned IS that certal11 reproductlOns made of antIque hmestone and cement are not to be told from the ong111al by an} but em expert and 111beanty ale cqnal~ of the ongmals In these, as 111the copIes of ongmal.., made of marble etnd stone of stone and of colored and whIte marble combl11ed, the color, or rather the dIscolor, IS preCIsely that of an antIque Clas~lC heads, Atheman carvlllg.., WIth the shadows and stams 111clClentalto tIme are ~een also l1l the cople~ The art of the WOlkman gIves to the nmtatIOns the ~ubdned shadmgs, the mellO\~ tone~ dssoclated only wttth mantels of venerable age, Even to the ChIPS dnd ImperfectIOns on exposed corners and edges the reproductlOns are exact In fact these Imperfections are artful!} and faithfully created after the model \ 1ecent great find from the standpoint of an art dealer \~dS a mantel stored III ~ome out of the way corner of Europe, made of I taltan marble and design, and a mass of splendid carvmg whIch m 1557 had been dbcovered m a BelgIan theatre and before that had occupIed a place of honor 111the chateau of a BelgIan nobleman ~ drawlnlS of thIS antIque was made from whIch a reproductIOn of the mantel, whIch I~ about SIX feet hIgh IS bemg constructed 1\ ~ ew York house WIll soon boa~t a 1eproductIOn of a man-tel taken from a VIennese ducal palace ThIS WIll go In the drawmg room ~t the atelIer where these remarkable repro-ductIOns are created ElIzabethan, Enghsh and French GOthICS WIth and without hooels, the latter 111~ome deSIgns ShO\',111ggra} tones only, FrancIS I fuclm and Lom.., XIV XV and XVI, mantels are 111proce~~ of b'1l1c1mg to fill the orc1ers of house 0\\ nel s 111thI-. and othel C1tIe~~ \ ere J 01 k Sun ::\IaUllCe and Emma Lazal e and DOl a Long are new fUl11ltUl e dealel c'-, 111 ChlLago, undel the name of the Co- OPCI at!\ e Home Supply II OlI:oe, ll1corp lratecl WIth $2,500 r--~-------------------_._------c-ap-Ita-l -S-tO-l k---------------------------.-.-.. I II IIII I I• COME TO THE GREATEST MARKET IN THE COUNTRY FOR UPHOLSTERED FURN1TURE and view our NEW CREATIONS in THREE PIECE SUITES, ROCKERS, CHAIRS, DIVANS, ODD PIECES, and the best line of TURKISH CHAIRS AND ROCKERS ever offered. Our recent removal to a plant where we have trippled our capacity, enables us to manufacture a larger line, and affords us faCIlitiesfor improvement WITHOUT increase of price. Shown during~January on the 4th floor, 1411 Michigan Ave., Chicago. Factory and Office, CHICAGO 2599 Archer Ave, III II I _... MAURICE TAUBER & CO., New Catalogue now in preparation. ----_.--' -- . . ------ .. .. .. . 14 .. WEEKLY ARTISAN These Specialties are used the World Over. Power Feed Glue Spreadinlr Maehine. Sinlrle. Double and CombInation. (Patented) (S,ze. 12 In. to 84 JR wIde.) Trouble With the Fan Driver. In most wood-working institutions the fan used for hand-ling shavings is one of the most difficult drn es m the plant. It must run at high speed to create suction sufficIent for taking up the shavings and the pressure for carry mg them to the collecting bin To get this pressure means high speed, and often, to get the high speed, small pulleys are used, with the result that at times it is pretty hard to keep a belt in good enough order to do its work properly when dl g'ing the fan. While but little expression has been heard on the sub-ject, it is probably safe to assume that the new patterns of fans designed with a view of permitting slower speed and yet get the same surface, strike a responsive chO!d of favor in the public mind. In fact, anything that tends to ease the ten-sion of driving should be vvelcomed in connectIon \\ ith the use of the fan. Sometimes it looks hkc one might II el1 use a larger fan with a larger pulley. This begets excess of belt travel, but one can use a light belt well balanced with high speed better than a stiff belt running over a small fan pulley even at a somewhat slower speed. Electric transmission has helped out considerably in this respect, for if there is one place that an electric drive should be more welcome than in another, it is in connection with a fan, because here is a chance to relieve d troublesome belt An electric motor is natmally inclined tow~rd high speed and is therefore the proper thing to hook up to a fan It 1" pH,b-able that the moto! has been a gI eater relief in fan dn\·ing than any other one class of work about the ayerage factory. Veneer Pre .... (Serew and Hydrauhe) Veneer Presses, Clamps, Glup Spreaders, Glue Healers, Trucks, Elc" Elc, .. ! ~ Hand Feed Gluinlr Maehine (Pa""'t pendJa•• ) Many .tyle. and .i",e •• Wood·Working Machinery and Supplies LET US KNOW YOUR WANTS N. 20 Glu. Heater CHAS. E. FRANCIS COMPANY, Main Office and Works, Rushville, Ind. LARGEST MANUFACTURERS OF CLUE ROOM EQUIPMENT. No.6 Glue Heater. It may have certain weak spots or objectionable features to 0\ elcome but just the same It otters a rehef from one of the hardest belt dnves m the factory, and should be made free use of for the fan, if for anything. The use of fans and compressed air in one form and an~ other IS mcreasmg right along with every wood-working in-stitutIOn, and with all of them, last and all the time, the most dIfficult problem has been the problem of driving, be-cause of the speed involved. Som~ day we may entirely revolutIOn17e the fan busmess and get a fan construction that wIll take a slO\\, 1atJOnal belt dnve like an ordinary machine. AJready some steps have been made' in this direction, and thel e 15 scemmgly 100m for more. Anyway, in connection 1\ Ith the use of fans It IS well to bear in mind that one of the SellOt1'3problem,; IS that of driving them at proper speed con-tmuou,.,]), and s;n e proper consideration to this in installing the eqUIpment, so as to minimize the trouble of maintenance. -LotHs C Kelsey, in the Wood-Worker. MANUFACTURED BY THE 'U"':ndtlpARLOR 1 =wA...U BED f'''-::~~ ~..~~ Need not be moved .s.'J -/0 .,. ~ ~~ ~ """?4.''l.;~ from the wall <"I '" ~ .... ~~ ~~" ~ ~r"'-~f, !~ 1 Always ready With f-:"- ~~'::_\ ~"'1 beddmg in place. ~--{ ..~ 111} J So Simple, so easy, a 1 ... 't ~ 'If, Y1) child can operate It. 'L_---' ~v Has roomy wardrobe box. CHICAGO, Erie & Sedgwlek ~, NEW YORK, Norman & Monitor. I,. "THE BEST IS THE CHEAPEST" BARTON'S GARNET PAPER Sharp,t 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 gettmg. WE GUARANTEE SATISFACTION. Furniture and Chair Factories, Sash and Door MIlls, RaIlroad Compames. Car Builders and others will consult their own interests by using it. A1w Barton's Emery Cloth, Emery Paper, and Flint Paper, furnIshed in rolls or reams. H. H. BARTON & SON CO., 109 South Third Ste, Philadelphia, Pae I .. d WEEKLY ARTISAN Buy the INVlNCIBLE Line of SPRING BEDS AND BE PREPARED TO FILL THE WANTS OF YOUR TRADE FOR Standard Quality Solid Comfort Honest Values Durability SEND-FOR CATALOG CONTAINING OUR LINE OF Spring Beds, Steel Folding Couches, Davenports, Cots, Cribs, Cradles, Mattresses, Couch Pads, Etc. MANUFACTURED BY HENRY SCHOMER COMPANY, 533-534 So. Canal St., CHICAGO, ILL. ~_. ----a-a-- a__a. __ J FOUR NEW TRADE MARK REGISTERED PRODUCTIONS BAR 0 NIA LOA K ST A IN in acid and oil. F LAN D E RS 0 A K S T A I N in acid and:oil S M 0 KED 0 A K S T A I N in acid and oil. EARLY ENGLISH OAK STAIN in acid and oil. Send for. finished samples, free. Ad-el-ite Fillers and Stains have long held flrst place m the estimation of Furniture Manufacturers and Master Pamters. In addltion to the reg-ular colors the above shades offer unusually beauttful and novel effects. The Ad-el-ite People CHICA.GO-NEW YORK Everythmg m Pamt SpeCialtIes and WQIOdFIU1shmg materials FIllers that hll Slams that ;,ahsfy ..------- -----~---.-..-.-- .. ...-~----------------------------~ 15 --, III I II,, II, II II, ,,I , II I,I 16 l hl \ alul of goldcn oak h11l~h \\ as 'ienously dIscussed ten \ edl, ago It \\ ae, not r apturotle;l) rlcelVed bv the buyers anJ the pI cehUH 1 \\ d'i frequentl) uttlred that It \\ auld not last h n~t1 tlUll one 01 t\\ 0 ~ea'io11'l 'J hc manufacturers of stain,,; \\ ell ljt11lk to moehf) ,md Improve the fil1l~h, and It IS 'itIlI pop-ubI I t11ned amI weathel ed oak faIled to ,upplant It and It ,eem" probable that the golden fil1l'ih \\111 be med as long as oak I' ueed 111the lon"t1ultlon of furlllture WEEKLY ARTISAN PUBLISHED e;VERY SATURDAY aY TH~ MICHIGAN ARTISAN COMPANY SUBSCRIPTION $1 eo ~ER YEAR ANYWHI!:RE IN THE UNITED STATES OTHER COUNTRIES $2 00 PER Ye:AR. SINGLE COPII!:S SCENTS. PU.L.ICATION OP'P'ICE, 101-112 NOPlTH DIVISION ST, GPlAND RA~IDS, MICH A S WHITE, MANAGING EDITOR Entered as second cla .. matter, July 5, 1909, at the post office at Grand Rapid. MlchlC'an under the act of March 3, 1879 CHICAGO REPRESENTATIVE, I!: LEVY When the bu} eh commenled Cl)m111~to (J 1and Ra ]Jld- thll t \ years ago the manufactUlel~ 01 lUll11t111Lehel not have dt thell command the modeln \\a1eIOOm" that all u"ed tllda\ e,,-- ples:'>l) tor the purpo,e ot cl1'ipla)111~ ~oo(b \0 lunlhl" \\ell served at mld-da} and no lal nage~ \\ el e pI U\ J(led tOl tJ1( iJ l1h portatlOn of the bu) el 'i to 01 from the Ltct1J11e, 1 he hlld, (Jt the manufactunng firm" ()J lorpOlat101b lhualIv 0\\ led ,l 1J(I-l and carnage and when neal one at thc hotl!, the O\\llel ~lllel ally stopped to learn lf there \\ ere bm el, jJ1V,tC1l1\\ 110 e e,11ed to nde There wele no telephonh In u-e anellJ1c;agemlllh \\Lle personally arranged or b) letter Occa~lOnalIv the nunULtltulll would convey two buver'i 111hiS 'imgle seat hugg\ h1111'elt 'It ting on thell lap" \t the factOl) the buy er' \\ ould be led through all department'i, m'ipectlllg a bed here 01 a 'Ideboal d there, placmg their {)1 ders 111 the meantIme There \\ d~ not much varIety m the ,t) les but there \vel e \ an 1l1g \\ lc1th, ,mc1 heIghts to be con'ilc1erec1 ~ large pel centage ot the goode, wel e ~hlpped, unfi111shed m bundles, crat111~ not hay 1112, been llltlLJ-duced to any con ~lde1able extent \ 0 ca~teb \\ ell t11111-1heel and a number of manufacturcI" shipped thell ~ood, \\ Ithout 111n rors or the marble top, that \\ ere genel allv placed on table, dressers and Sideboards IIahogal1\ lumbel CAI~ted b\ IepO!t only, but walnut WIth \mencan burl veneers and ln COmbllMtllll1 WIth whlte ash cherI) and maple \\ ele consumed eAChbl\ eIv m the cuttmg of stocK Black ash, bIrch and oak \\ ere not con sldered SUItable for use 111 the manufacture of fur111ture D\ contemplatmg the"e facts the reader \\ 111be enabled to form an ldea of the advance that ha'i been made 111 the mdustn The men who establIe;hed the fur111tllre manutactllrIn2; 111 du,try 111 Grand RapIds \\ el e m then eal Iv manhood 'hup hands The IV111chester~ \ 13 Pullman rohn \ f11111ham VhllIam George Haln and John \11'lclIcomh 11111l1''luke\ Eha,l\Iatter \\Ilhdm \ BelKev fohn IfO\\.ttt I II ]C)Jll Charles R Shgh 'vV S Fme1\, H If ~nNkn J rLCklllK Ilml-ler. Lon Hod2;e, Thoma'i D HaIght John \\ dddc 11 and other, vvhom the \\ 11tel at thh moment does not rleetll. ,en ed time 111 the 'ihop, and .tcclUlreel through cApenenle kno\\ ledge that proved 111valuable m late1 -'ea1 , IIo"t of thecl mell hay e pa "lei a\\ay, but whIle among the hvmg they tlalJ1ec1men tor thell 'u cessors, and the industn ha~ apparenth ,uRe1 eel but Iltth, through thelr lose; The factones of (Trand RapId" .tre Ua1111nc; a largc number of young men \\110 \\ III be the manager- ot the future In evel) hne of bU'lJ1ec~ men mu,t be tra111ed to take up the work of tho"e who \\ III pa'i5 a\\ a\ It the hll,mhs h to hl mall1tal11ed I (0), out t( I the mcmbel ot the "do\\ n and out club" \\ ho \\ ant::, to tell -'OU hlm to sucleed TheOrIes al en't worth mue h It they \i\i on t \\ 01 k Of course there'~ e;uch a thmg as prohUm; b} ml"take" ot the past, but ad\ Ice from a man who ha" been "Ull e""ful 1" l1"ually preferable to the hne of dope hand oc/ out b\ a man \\ hose efforts hay e alway" ended m t,lIll11l \ perpetual mventor} ,,}stem, covenng all departments of alai ge furmture manufactUrIng plant, located ut the state of IIldllgan and damaged b\ fire recently enabled the adjusters to "lule the 10"" 111 a fe\\ hour" The lanb " "ays Sy~tem mag-d7111e contamed a descnptlOn of every Item affected by the DIe I hl \ eal no\\ dl a \\ mg to a close hae; been a fairly good (me !( II the 1\11 111tUIe I11dustJ) :\lthough the opening was \1 eak tlade glacluallv gamed ~tJength and closes with a ,plenchd 1elmd f01 "ale" \l11eteen-ten WIll be long and ta\()Jabh lemembe1ed. Pullman nppel berths al e loml11g dO\Nn The movement tu compel Pullman to keep hIS nppel berths up when not in lhe \\ 111be I ene\\ ed The pubhc calls for .1n up and down "el \ Ile 111 the ~leepel s HIgh PO\\ el all lamps are not fit to use m exhlbltmg sam-ple, of tnr111tul e The glar~ of the lamps, reflected by the 111ulnp1l11t\ ot p01l-hed surtaces, u eates confUSIOn. ITam ot the OppOl tU11ltJes enjoyed by the successful tl a\ ell11g "ale"man \\ el e created by hImself. I hL ",tle'iman who I" Kno\\ n mamly for quahties of good tellcm "ll1P doe" not sell man} goods Must Control or Own. Bell1g 111tCI v1e\\ ed \\ hIle 111~ e\\ YOlk the othel day, ex- (rO\ el110r HOlh OJ Kansa" deda1ed hImself ~twngly m favol ot 2;0\ elnment lonU 01 of publIc utilIties as oppo'ied to govern-mlnt 0\\ ner,hlp He belIeves that un1c,,, ~overnment control h adoj)lul on ,l b1oMle1 ~cale than .tt present the people WIll be alou,ed to clemdlld gm el nment CJ\\ nel ,hIp but he does not be-he\ c th'lt gOYU lll11cnt 0\\ nel ~hlp hold'i d 'OlutlO11 to the COUll-t!, , gleat proh1em- I clo not hebe\ e III It belau~e It \\ 111tend to stIfle com-pctlttcm but 1 1'0 th111k that govelnment lontrol h necessan both for the protel!lOl1 of the publIc and the pre~ervatlOn ot the corporatlOn~ them-elves,' he e,ald "I beheve In corpol-atlO1h I am convmced they are d necessary part of our system, hut I am also ('onvmced the) ,hould have gOyernment "upel- \ l"lOn much dS the natIOnal bal1k~ have" GO\ el nor Hoch vI~orou~ly advocate'i publICIty of corpora- !l(nl finanlc" 'hi" he "a\ " (1" demanded 111 the interests of the publll ancl the l1ltlre,i-, of the pubhc mue;t dIv\ay~ be para-mount WEEKLY ARTISAN DAVENPORT BEDS and COUCHES V!~~~n J~teres! la!'ge ~d small ~uyer~. Don't f~il t~_see ~ur ~xE-f~~~t at 1319 M~higan_ Ave., 6th floor, CHlCAGO, ILL, January. 1910. Write for Prices and Cuts. Write for Prices and Cuts. No. 1218 EXCELLO DAVENPORT BED. Seat revolves and makes bed. Loose mattress is placed inside. Looks hke single davenport. Thos. Madden, Son & Co. INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Line shown on the top Floor of Furniture Exhibition Building, GRAND RAPIDS. D. L. CONREY FURNITURE CO. SHELBYVILLE, INDIANA Makers of THE FACTORY Makers of CHINA CLOSETS THAT MUSIC CABINETS LIBRARY CASES IS ALWAYS RECORD CABINETS COMBINATION CASES BUSY MUSIC BENCHES Try 12 samples and you The line that makes Why? will then buy many more. money for the dealer. : ~-.srrr It will pay you to send for Catalog and see the reason. 17 ..- _-- ----- ._-., I UNION FURNIR!c~!!L~O. I , I I, China Closets Ii II Buffets II I,I Bookcases, I I • ,,I ,II ,I '----_. 18 WEEKLY ARTISAN ._ . . a_. •• ••. •• ••• r" GREEN MANUFACTURING CO. I Manufacturers of , PARLOR FURNITURE FRAMES OUR NEW LINE IS READY FOR INSPECTION AND WE COR-DIALLY INVITE THE TRADE TO SEE IT AT OUR FACTOR}!, 1500 NORTH HALSTED ST., CHICAGO, ILL. ============= OR SEND FOR BLUE PRINTS, ============= WONDERFUL EFFECTS OF INVENTIONS American Life Revolutionized by Labor Saving Machinery Since the Civil War. (By Frederick J. Haskin.) It would be difficult to overestimate the part which the inventor has played in the material progress of the United States, and it is equally hard to picture the full effect of his work upon the lives of the people, individually and collective-ly. The economists attnbute two-thIrds of the \\ ealth of tIllS nation to the creations of American inventive genius. It is only 60 years since manufacturing bE-gan to be one of our national activities. Since that time the value of our manufactures has inCleased more than 15 folel the \\a~c, ot the employes of the country's Llctones ha,'e been multiplied by 10; and the number of men and women finding employ-ment hac; quintupled. The inventor has made 1110<;tof tIll, possible, just as he has increased the products of the farm and of the mine. Many industries have been called into existence through the work of the inventor. One of the most pn fitable of these i'3 the use of electricity in the commercial \\ orld In less than 40 years the activities of inventors in the field of electrical application have built up an industry with a total investment of $7,000,000,000. The products and Ievenues of the electrical industries aggregate a billion dollars a year, and the 700000 people who find employment annually receive wages and salaries aggregating half a billion dollars Jnvention is the one wonder-worker which may take a\\ a) from and add to at the same time. It solves the old problem of eating cake and having it. It makes labor-saving machin-ery, at the same time adding to the demand for labor It '3l1b-tracts from labor's opportunities for profitable employ ment in one place, and, by the same process, multiplies its oppor-tunities in another place. One railroad train takes the place of a dozen stage coaches or hundreds of wagon teams; } et there is more work for horses and men in the transportation world than ever before. The day was when one man could turn out from 42 to 48 yards of shirtinlS in a week. Now, at-tending six power looms, he can produce 1,500 yards. Yet there are more men making shirting toda v than ever before A century ago it was only the well-to do who could enJO\ the luxury of a bountiful supply of clean 1:>edlmen. It took the earnings of 30 days of common labor to buy a smgle lmen bed c;heet. Today they are within the reach of even the com-paratively poor. A century ago it requil ed the earnings of from four to twelve days to buy a gridiron. Nnw, by working We lead in Style, COnftrudtOIl and F mish. See our Catalogue. Our Ime on permanent exhlbi. bon 3rd Floor, New Manufad. urers' BUlldmg, Crand Rapid.. ,,• -----.... an hour or two, one may earn enough to buy a good one. The ayerage individual in those days had a scant supply of cloth-mg He could not have frequent changes, and, consequently \\ as not physically as clean as he is today. The rise of textile machmery has changed all this, and today the very poor, may enJoy as good clothing as the moderately well-to-do did in, the early days of the republic. The very first problem that faced mortal man was that of clothing himself. Until a century or two ago the activities of half the civilized world \\ el e ehtlrely absorbed in providing raiment for civilization. Toda} only a small percentage of the people are so employed, and the others gn e no thought to the subject, except as they come 111contact with the problem at the retail counter. The statIsticians have attempted to figure out how many people It would require to produce the entire output of the Amellcan manufacturing establishments, working under con-dltlom \\ hlch obtained a century ago. They figure that at least 100,000,000 employes would be required. Five million are now so employed. According to this ratio between man-ufacturing employes and population, it would require the po-pulatlOn of the entire globe to give us 100/]00,000 workmen in our factories. Dinner Tables Affected. Even our dinner tables have been affected by the inven-tor One may find on the dinner table the products of the \\ hole world-grapes from New York, bananas from Central A.mellc<l, oranges from Florida, raiSllls from California, nuts £lom Europe, figs from Africa-most of it made possible by lInproved method'3 of transportation Not only thIS, but summer's dehcacies may be served in winter, and the winter's ~ood th111gc;kept 0\ er fOI summer. The cold storage ware-houses of the LT111tedStates a1e sa1d to conta111 $3,000,000,000 -----_._----., II III i.- . .-----.---..--.-~----,----. J Take any car west to Halsted St and transfer north on Halsted to our door Only 10 mmute. rIde from loop. Or North western" L" to Halsted St statIOn and walk sout to our door ..... .. . WEEKLY ARTISAN 19 worth of products every year, a great proportion of which are food products awaiting the demands of the American kitchen Labor was at one time bitterly opposed to the labor-saving machine. The inventor was looked upon as an enemy who would take from the laborer's children the very bread which they ate. The textile workers in the days of Kay an~ Arkwright would have destroyed every machine such men brought out. Even in our own country the dawning of the age of agricultural machinery aroused the agricultural laborer to a high pitch of indignation. He saw in it a movement to deny him a part in the harvest operations, or a chance to earn a few dollars at seed time. Sometimes his opposition took the form of sullen mutterings. Sometimes it went so far as an attempt to destroy the machine. In those days he got 50 cents a day and his board, swung a cradle all day, mauled rails or ripped new ground. Today he does not work so hard and gets from two to four times as much for his labor. Formerly his family ate old-time middling meat and cornbread, with coffee as a special Sunday treat. Today his table woul.d put to shame the rations of the mansion house of the early days. Man can scarcely turn but he finds something for which to thank the American inventor. Whenever he buys anything from a house to a pencil, he finds that the inventor has lowered its cost. Every time he steps on a street car he must pay mental tribute to the inventors who enabled him to ride so cheaply, so comfortably and so quickly. The elevator that carries him to the fifth story of the apartment house and to the tenth story of the office building has made those struc-tures possible. Even the city where he Q,"ainshis livelihood might never have been more than a village but for the rail-roads which came that way. Investigation made by Congress in 1891 led to the con-clusion that the average mechanic was then getting twice as much wage as in 1840. He is now gettin~ twice as much as he was in 1891.. It will, therefore, be seen that wages have practically quadrupled since the age of labor-saving machin-ery dawned in America. Statistician Powers of the twelfth census declared that the $25,000,000,000 of national wealth added between 1890 and 1900 represents a greater saving than all of the people of the continent were able to save from the day that Columbus landed on American "hores down to the outbreak of the civil war. He further assf'rted that it repre-sented houses, buildings, tools. machinery, clothes and means of transportation of greater value than the savings of the human race from Adam to the Declaration of Independence. Queen'May Start a Fad. Rumor says that Queen Mary is going to have a black carpet in her boudoir in Buckingham palace and if the rumor is true black drawing room" will speedily hecl,me the fashion in England. Some fifteen years ago, there was a temporary ltkl11gfor black carpets. and sma)t people fitted up rouge-et-noir salons in their houses, but the fashion quickly died out. It was found that black as a back ground for certain varieties of furniture or pictl11es onIy appealed to certain tastes. Al-though gilt furniture goes very well with a black carpet, it is next to impossible to have any light or delicate colors in the room where the floor is a dead black, and the effect in a small house is apt to be depre'3Sing especially in Lcndon. Besides a black carpet wears very badly, the slightest speck of dust or footmark sho""s. It is a carpet to look at, not to walk on -New York Sun. Costs a Lot Our Claim Less for MARIETTA SOLVENT I~For many years we have made it, used It, sold it..·with unvarying sat.. isfaction to our customers and ourselves. Marietta Sol.. vent WORKS EQUAL .. LY WELL IN OIL STAINS, PASTE FIL-LERS and VARNISH. Especially effective in oil stains containing asphaltum, gums, etc. A perfect sol.. vent for varnish, making it work freely and still retain the necessary body and dry-ing qualities. It means money to you to keep it in your finishing room. W rite for sample to desk No.3. Marietta Paint & Color Co. Marietta, Ohio. 20 WEEKLY ARTISAN By :E. Levy, Representative. '\ new lme of extensIOn table'S manu1actUl ed m Ch1ld~O wl1l I'~' C'xh1h1ted th1'S "ea'Son m the ::\[anufadul el" h1111d111"; Grand Rap1ds, 111 chal ge of Edga1 II ~lOtt It \\ 111bl (11l of the mo"t elegant dhplay" of d111111ctd; lJle" C\ u "hll\\ n dnd "tand'S ln a cla"" b) Ihelf [h" 1111l o( tdble" U 111p1hllH., abotL a dozen pattel n", 1'0manufactu1 ed b\ the r ean n 11a" "ewe, company, 2416 and 2418 Ind1ana a\ enue and h the mitIal l111e that thh company '11a" made f01 sale to the i1,\fle Realiz;ng that thele IS a demand 101 table::, "ueh a" thl \ show, from the splendId bm111e", thl} hal e e"tablhhC'd 111 theIr ye:Jrs 01 exper Ienle m 01 del 1101 k, the} detell11l1Jed to make up a hne for the tIade J he} al e lHlllt \\ Iih ,j paten ted construcilOn, are centlalh halanled and "l1JlJlI\1ted "II th It a 60 tn' h top, extended ten flet, h a" IIc;Id ,h ,l ll"ULllh litlllt tahle Vihen closed 1'he1c h d tla\ 1ll the eultll 1l~t1)]" on the ba'St, 111 whIch can be plaled ,\11 ,hbe"tlh tdhlc 111at table cloth, etc These tahles are 11ldlH1tddl1l ed fJ om the finest selected mahogany, ever} one 1eee ved the jPl' 11al "upervl'SlOn of Mr Ha"se,\ el and ihe Jllodm t fl0m the 1 ol1~h lumber to It'S fil11sh IS the acme of the cab111etmakel " (1 att All the patterns ale 111 Colomal q,le d11d the finhh I' \11 done h\ hand and the be,t that ldn be plodnled The \clalr company repOl t a lOmpetltlOn ot thcll UJ) poranon, WhlCh wa" 1 ecentl} 01 ~anl/ed Illth ,l paId up l dp1 tal of $.;,000 The \11eOlp01at01, dIe Tame" r "'-dall PIl~1 dent. J r Bwmehter vIce pI e'Sldent and '-, lIlluel nl1llllel" ter, 'Secretary The\ al e p' oceed111c; 111th all pO'''lble "peed to g2t theIr neVi quarteI'" at 1418 \\ abash al enue 1ll re"dl-ness for the cOl11mg exhIbItion sea-:on and the "JUrnlttll e Shop," a" they Vi111call It, WIll conta111 the11 l1lle of fUllllture speeidltie'S. tastefully and al ti'StIcalh all an~ed 111 then 'Shlll\ rooms or parlors so dlstnbuted as to ,hem to aell ant,lge the11 man v n velties 111hammered h1as'S etiects, uphohte1 cd nO\ el tIes, ete which they WIll hal e l~adv bl the opell111~ of the exhIbition season The Freedman COl1veltIble dl'. ,111 hed II111lh \\ ,h phl dl on the 111alket la"t 'Sea"OI1 ha" met \1 lth l11(ht ,,1 atlt\ 1l1" .sneees" It 1'Sa paIlor hed \\hlch 1'S"we to ~10\\ 1111a\I)) d' It bee'Jl11e'S bettel kno\1 nIt'S al lIOn IS ca"l 1t 1" "lmpl( 111 COll'ot1Llciwn and II hen opened m,1kee, a pel fed hed t()lll teet ----------------.---.-~-·--.---~-~-~----~1 II IIIItIiI I-----------_.~I The Good Old Reliable Work Bench THAT NEVER GETS OUT OF STYLE. IIII I,I "- For Many Years Made Excluslvelv by C. CHRISTIANSEN, 2219 Grand Ave., CHICAGO Also manufacturer of the ChIcago Truck for \\'oodworkmg factories Send for Catalogue FURNITURE MANUFACTURERS ATTENTION! Send for sample. of our Celebrated Nickel Steel Sword Tempered BAND SAW BLADES Warranted In every partIcular Best proPosItion on the market. FRANK W. SWETT & SON Mf", of band saw blades and tools 1717-1719 W AdamsSt. Chica08 \\ Ide L he} II III "he)\\ d 1111cof the'oe dn ,1n bed" 111 thell "paLe on the tu st ftoOl of the \[annfdcturer" ExhIbItIOn butl(ll11~ 131C) \11lhli.?,an a \ enue, (hila\; 0 dunng ranuary, \\)v 1 e It" mall\ alii anta~eo, as a pallor bed and 1tS utthty II III h, demon"trated The bed when c1o"ed shows a beauti-tul f 111 toot dn dll and chall sand lockers are made to match Il10duc111g \\ hat, to all appearances, IS a regular three pIcce ~l'lte, \ et 111addItion, a comfOl table bed. opening out tlOm ,hr 1\ all aga111c,t wh1eh It IS placed by a double move-ment \\ jrIch a chIld can manage I'he hed need" to he "een to he appreuated. e de"k hel e "hO\I n 1" fl0m the hne of \ Peterson & CfJ ..pi) \1l11fJUl "tied md I" but one of theIr many o,taple d"'1\;11' that hcl\e PIO\Cl1 pop,llar "ellel" :\11 Petersen ha" hecn th\. ul1c;111atlJI (ll mam lle\1 alld good Ideas that have been embodIed 111de"k hmld111g, and the hne they mannfac-tUll h amlll1g the he"t 111the country He IS a "de"k" man ut 111,1'1\ } car, c'CpellenCl and hlm"elf look" 0\ er every plece betol (. It leal (." the11 fae t01), 111a1<111o\;,ure that ever) detaIl WEEKLY ARTISAN OUR NEW PATTERNS Are the highest achievement of the designer and the skill of the best cabinet makers and finishers. With an equipment for the special pr9duction of EXTENSION TABLES LIBRARY RESTAURANT CAFE BAR PARLOR AND DINING CHAIRS IN CHEAP AND MEDIUM GRADES WE OFFER EXCEPTIONAL VALUES. Shown throughout the year in the Furniture Manu~ facturers Exchange, Wabash Ave. and 14th St., Chicago, in charge of Peck & Hills Furniture Co. SEND FOR OUR NEW CATALOG. NIEMANN TABLE COMPANY Factory and Office, 77th St. and Cottage Grove Ave., Chicago. ha~ been taken care of 111the most pam stakmg 111a1111el 1he, ha\ e put out a large numhel ot ne\\ desIgn" for the comm!,; ~ea"on and al e at \\ 01 k on d new catalog whIch \\ III shovv the efltne Ime :Val,ae,el'; of the estate of Henry Schome!. Canal and Harn..,on "t1eets. Chlca2,o, ha\e a,; theIr trade mark, the hgnr ~ (f . TypIcal ChlCdgO." on theIr 1m mClhle" spnng bed, dnd ha\ e made a £,1eat success of that 111gh qua11tv spllns; fhe busmes" ha" been conducted unde1 the manas;e-ment of F T Dorle) fOJ mOle than a } ear and has prospered \ ery c;atJsfactOll1y fhey are DCm prepanng a new catdlog WhICh WIll be out early 111 1911 He"lc\e~ 111anufclctunng the "Invlflclhle" 11ne of spllng bed" the) do a 10bbmg tlade m ,;teel da\ enports, cots, cnhs n on beds and tahle,;. whIch are shown 111 theIr cataloe,ue C J K mdel of the Kmdel Red company, 400 'vVe,;t Erie street. ha" returned from a tnp to the east. \\ here he has been lookmg after theIr mtel e,;t" m theIr New York and Toronto hranches They ha\ e had a very succe,;sful yea1 's busines,; and feel elated at the way the dealers all over the country have been dl"POSl11g of the Kmdel da\ enport bed. They re-cently Issl,led "ome \ e1Y good ad\ el bsmg matter WIth cuts of the Kmde1 bed. fOl dealel s who deSIre to use them i'n aIding to explOlt tll1" pal101 bed whIch IS Illustrated on a folder, and any of them WIll be ,;ent free of charge to dealers mqUl1mg for one 01 more "'\ttention I'; called to a three pIece parlul "111teoffered in thiS Issue by the Enterpnse Parlor Fnrmture company, 1113 \Vashmgton bouleval d ChIcago, \\ hich they claim is very good value as priced. The rockel here Illustrated b the11 number 58 It is man-ufactured m mahogany fimsh and oak They are offering thIS rockel m mahogany fimsh covered in number one leather at $950 and m number t\\ 0 leather at $8.50. They also 21 make It m oak at SO cents extla and have chairs to match. \\ '\ \\ hltmg, \\ estel n representatlYe of the H. B. ~l11lth :V[achme company, whose office and warerooms are at 558-60 \\ ashmgto11 bouleva1 d, has recently "old an eqUlpment of machl11ery for the new facto! y of the Khoeh1er Manufac-tUlll1g company, Bradley, Ill. Among the machines is a Smith 48 mch tnp1e drum sander, two self feeding rip saws, one sectlOnal roll surfacer and many other machines. He has also 1 ecently sold a number of machmes to the McDoug-al company, whose factones his company has eqUlpped with most of the machmes there installed. ________ J 22 WEEKLY ARTISAN ,..- . - ... -- . . ., I B. WALTER & CO. WABASH I INDIANA I WRITR FOR PRICES AND DISCOUNT S Ij TABLE SLIDES EXCLUSIVEL Y jj I ,,~. --- .. • .& IndianapolIs, Ind., Dec. 13.-This city has blossomed out almost over nrght wlth a profusIOn of Chllstmas gI eens un-known and impossIble in cities farther north, where the heavy snow fall lllcldent to the season is apt to make outdoor adornment a bedraggled ImpossIbIlIty. The favonte method of decoratlllg here is the use of southern laurel woven into verdant ropes and of thIs countless thousands of yards are used. Every busllless house down town, many m the outly-mg distncts and many pnvate houses are lIberally adorned wlth the laurel whlch Iemams green for a long tIme. VV111- dows are outlined with It, cornices are fl escoed and great festoons of It are stretched gracefully from lamp post to lamp post along the business streets. Clusters of mistletoe, red Christmas bells, crosses and stal s and wreaths of holly hang in many a window and the streets are filled wIth the chatter and mIrth of the Chnstmas shopp1l1g ero\\ d The store::, are struggling with immense crowds, the buyers are spending liberally. "There isn't as much in all this talk about high prices and the high cost of lIvmg as It would seem," saId George A. Gay president of the Pettis Dry Goods company, operating the New York store, to a representative of the Weekly Artisan today. "Goods are cheaper now than they have ever been be-fore, at least for many years back. Thel e IS of Course some advance along the line of groceries and meats, but I am\ speaking of other commodItIes partIcularly textl1es Never before have all classes of dry goods including silks and ""oolens been so cheap. By cheap, I mean good value for the money. And I can see no immediate prospect for an 111- er ea~e 1I1 pnces except possibly in cotton which is showing an upvvard tendency Just now. "vVe do not handle the cheap grades of furniture as our trade calls for medlUm to hIgh priced goods, but our prices CJnthese have not been advanced and will not be unless there should be a sharp advance among the manufacturers. Nor have we found any matenal advance in the cost of operating WafT\.;:a:'re a lIttle hIgher, it is true, but other expenses are about the same." ?\Ir. Gay was asked what he thought about concerted ac-tIOT} m splmg and fall opelllngs and he said: "Per::,onally I do not favor It. For a number of years back there has been more or less talk among the down town merchants about combming for sImultaneous openmg days, both sprmg and fall, but nothing has ever come of it though It mIght not be wIthout ItS advantages. The difficulty would be to select a date or dates which would be convenient for all and that seems to be next to impossible. A date conven- Ient for us might be too late or too early for neighboring firms or VIce versa. I really think it will be a long time be-fore anythmg of that sort materializes. "I do not approve of a co-operative delivery system with unmarked vehIcles as has been suggested." Etta S. Wilson. TURPS-NO. The Only Perfect substitute for Turpentine. Contains No Gasoline, No Benzine, No Headlight Oil. For use in reducing Varnish. For Use in CUTTING DOWN EXPENSES. TRY IT. The results speak for themselves. Barrel sent on approval. THE LAWRENCE·McFADDEN CO. PHILADELPHIA LPA. WEEKLY ARTISAN NEW EXHIBITORS IN CHICAGO " The Deimels Make Positive Announcement of Their Retirement From Business. Chicago, December 22-The statement that the Na-honal Parlor Furniture company WIll wind up their af-fairs and qUit busmess, has been confirmed by the principal proprietors, Jerome and Rudolph Deimel, ,\ ho have formally announced their mtention to retire as SO'1;1 as the business of thl'i well-known upholstenng house c.w be wound up. Orders will be taken in January at their di'iplay, 1411 Michi-gain avenue, for such parts of their hne as the stock on hand at the factory WIll work up and as this is one of the most varie1 hnes of parlor goods m th~ country buyers may se-cure a good assortment, notwithstanding the limitations set by the Deime1s for their actiVities dunng the next few months The Fourteen-Eleven bUilding has just undergone its semi-annual redecoratmg and affords a bnght and f1 esh m-teno, for the arnvmg samples for January's exhibition. The lunch room has been greatly enlarged and ~he retrenchment of Oliver Bros. & company on the sec0nd floor has made room fo'- a few new lines here as well as on some of the other floors. Following IS a complete list r,f factones whose samplf"s will be on view at "1411" which were not there last season: Crown Table and Specialty company, Argos, Ind., fancy furlllture. Banderob-Chase company. Oshkosh, Wi3., dressers, chif-foniers, etc.. Buckstaff-Edwards company, Oshkosh, Wis., chairs and ro..:k~rs. Northwood Furniture Company, Chippewa Falls, WiS, dressers and kitchen cabinets. Paoli Cabinet Co., Paoli, Ind., Exten",ion tables. -;Drague & Carleton, Keene, N. H., dot1b1e cane porch furllltnrc Wmnebago Furlllture company, Fond du Lac, Wis., of-fice desks. Hastmgs Cabinet company, #Hastings, Mich., kitchen cabinets Greemann Bros. Manufacturing company, Batesville, Ind, chamber and dmmg room suites. Tne Louis F. Greemann company, Seymour, Ind, dres-sers. Home Furniture company, Muncie, Ind, Htchen cabinets Mellon & Storm Manufacturing company, St. Louis, Mo., metal beds. 'vV. S. Milne, Cleveland, Tenn., chairs and rockers. The Billow-Lupfer company, Columbll'>. 0., mattresses and pillows. Dewey-Levi Manufacturing company, Chicago, dressers. Ft. Smith Refrigerator Works, Ft. Smith, Ark., refriger-ators. Champion Stove company, Cleveland, 0., stoves. Sturkin-Nelson Cabinet company, Logansport, Ind., kit-chen cabinets. Friends of John Clyde Murray, assistant secretary of the Fourteen-Eleven building, were much shocked recently to hear of the death of Miss Genevieve Marion McAnsh, whom he was to marry next June. This young lady was the daugh-ter of Mr. and Mrs. Medill McAnsh, of Montclair, N. J., formerly residents of Chicago. Her death occurred in Paris, France, where she was to spend the winter completing her If your DESIGNS are right, people want the Goods. That makes PRICES right. <rlarence lR. bills DOES IT i63MadIson Avenue-CItIzens Phone 1983 GRAND RAPIDS, 1I.ICH .. musical educatiOn as a harpist. The family and friends of Miss ;V1cAnshwere wholly unprepared for the news of her :,udden death. The announcement that she had con-tracted a cold came III a letter, which was C'Ulcklyfollowed by a cablegram informmg them of its development mto pneum011la, whIch resulted in her death, Sunday, November 28. The young couple had planned to reside m ChIcago, where Miss McAnsh lived during her school yea1s, before her father went to New York to engage III the lmportmg busllless there. They had selected a home in ChIcago before she saIled for Pans last summer and "Jack" Murr.lY has been busy all fall havmg her Ideas for Its furn-ishing carned out to the letter. These circumstances in par-tIcular caused everyone, who knew these young people both m the trade and out, to feel a deep sympathy for both her parents and Mr. Murray III a grief that must seem to them almost too hard to bear. Several eastern roads have announced sharp reductions to take effect soon m fares to New York. This will be re-ceived WIth acclamation by the furniture trade-makers, salesmen and dealers. Since special rates are so difficult to obtam of late years this voluntary reduction, resulting from a rate war among the eastern roads, is bound to increase the attenrlance at the three big exhIbitions. A few dollars clip-ped loft the ticket to market often decides the" to go or not to go" Issue with many a dealer who has not yet acquired the Iegular market habit. The most notable absentee for the January season in the Chlcaso market WIll be the twin Shelbyville lines that have occupied a good part of the top floor at the Thirteen-Nineteen bUild1l1gfor several years-the Conrey-Davis company and the l.Javls-Birely company. These lines will be shown only III Gr.md Rapids this season, Tv those who pass the new Karpen building being erect-ed on JYhchlganavenue, the race for completion between this skyscraper and the new twelve-story exhibition building bems bmlt by Mr. Spratt, in New York, is interesting. Both bUildmg', were slow m gettmg above the basement and sub-basement floors, because of the peculiar difficulties in each of these undertakings. Mr. Spratt's office is diligently send-ing broadcast photographs showing the progress at regular intervals. The Karpens have not adopted the visualing plan yet, but their contractors are "sawing wood to beat the band," as Chicago residents can see every day. Before many weeks a list of to-be tenants of the new Karpen building beginning May 1, next, will be made public. Over at the new Munn building on Wabash avenue, al-most directly west of Karpen's new building, a good string of furnit.ure exhibits IS being put in order for January. These are thr- Kimball & Chappell company's and Knapp & Tubbs' hnes, F. J. Barnes' chair lines, and Ketcham & Rothschild's dIsplay of fine parlor furniture, until this month shown in the Ford & Johnson bUilding. VIsiting buyers should bear these i emovals in mind as they will "save steps," as the kit-chen calJinet man says, by getting the removals for January propedy mapped. ... N0- fium- Loose Fasteners WEEKLY ARTISAN !: I,' WAD"DELe MGraAn'd~UF~CTU~ING ~~'~-'II Rapids, Michigan All Knobs and Pulls have the I 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. ~-_._._._------_.---- ---------- ------- ---_._-----------~-------._---- --- -~--='-======= System in Christmas Shopping. Storekeepers aglee that the real Lru,h of holllla, ,hopjl1l1!2, occurs m the last SlX 01 seven dal ~ ]Jeforl l hll stmZl' 1h1' week has been no exceptlOn and 111 'plte ot ,dl pI edChmg () th contrary, lS bound to be ~o fOl t\IO leason, The lank 1I](1hlc of persons who buy comparativel) 101\ pncec! gltt, u,ualh ',11 e up for the purpose and \1 alt untIl the sllrplu~ h neal h eqll d to the demand, and a Llrgc majont, of ,11Oppel' cannot Ul \\ III not make up thelr l11111c!,I\hat to bm untIl Chl1'tm,h h at their elbows. "Can't help It,'' sald a StOl e managel II ho was tel1111g of the steady 111crease 111the sIze of the hohda) shoppmg clO\\ds. "There lS no wayan earth ot prevent111l:f jam, 111the more pnp ular stores Juc,t before the hohda) s Xo wc,tem hac, 'ci. been lI1vented to keep ShOppCls from II m\ dmg Ulto cllta1n dCj)alt-ments and 111 Vanoth pOlnts 1'':1 ,onalh I thmk I leu gc pu centage of women prefer to shop 111a crOl\ c!ccI ,tOl e 1he \ hke crowds, seem to get mot e ftm out of them ThIs) ear the crowds Just before Chnstmas are hkeh tu be larzel than e, el whethes the sales are or not ' A saleswoman who wa" SUle that the m,ll1ager hall 'lzed up the sltuatIOn correctl), told of a customel \I ho h,h managed t) come through wlth fl) mg COlO1" "I knO\I thl s shoppel pel ~o1 ally, and when I noticed last I ear that she ('allIed a stllp of paper WIth three articles sometimes more, \\ ntten oppo'Ite e\ ery name on the hst, I was cunous, know111g that to zn e onE present to each of a long hne 1\ as all her pocketbook \\ oul,] stand. I asked her about 1t and thIS IS what I learned "For a week or so she stuc1Jes over the awful problem II hat to gIve to each of hel husband s relatIves and to each )± hel relatives that wlll LOme w1thll1 a certam pnce gettl11§, help often by walkmg through a shop or 100k111g m shop windows When she thmks of somethmg \\ h1ch 111lght Sl1lt Lncle Henr) or Aunt Jane or A..unt Jane's young daughtel she puts It down opposite the person':> name and "hen she has got down the h st, begins all over again, Jottmg down an altel natn e A.. tlJlrel time she goes over the hst Wlltll1g dovvn a tlllrd artIcle agall1,t each name unless she IS certall1 that one ot the t\\O thln~, al-ready listed WIll please the person who gets It "Making thIS hst takes some tlme, she sa)s and It 1S done mostly at mght, but 111 the end 1t saves her a lot of time \nel the presents always turn out ver) satlsfactonl) fm dll can cerued, wh1ch is saymg a good deal I tell he1 A..bout one \\ eek before Chnstmas, never sooner, she starts out \\ 1th hel ltst about 10 or 10 30 in the mormng-she couldn't get a\\.:1\ trDm home earlier-goes to some one store, shops till a1xJut 12 anel goes home again on account of her small chIldren In that tIme plobctbh she goes through WIth two, three or four names on her hq, ma) be 11101 e L he next da \ ,he I epe"ltc, tIllS p10gr,1l1ll1le, choosmg ma)- be a)]othu ,to! c \ eve1 m the ~al1le mormng does she ~o to 1ll0l ethan <'Jne stOl e 'tIld by the wa}, If every woman would 'tll k to tllclt ltlle It \\ onld save her tIme and strength a lot TInt \\ lthont ,t lht It \\ ouldn t be easy to do thl" ITel e I' \\ ha t the customer w1th the list does Suppos-mg d ,J1, el PlCtUle fI ame a fancy neck chain, a work basket ,Ire agall1~t one name Of COul se I don't know that these three thll1gs IIould e, er be hned up together But supposll1g they \\ el e The ~hoppel looks fil st at sIlve1 frames and finds that the as,,01 tment doe" not mclude one that pleases her at the ]Jllce ,he can attOJ d to pa) Instead of running to another store te) hunt PICttll e 11 ame, ,he ~oes to the neck cha111 department Ind choo,e, one IIIthl,l the h.gure she has apportioned to that present 01 not hndmg '1 ch,un to her hk111g, she looks at work ba,keb and pI obabh ~elcch one H,n 1l1~ settled that entry on her hc,t, she goes on to num-hel t\\ 0 or numbel ,e\ en accord111g as the artIcles opposite those numbel s al e the mOle hkel) to be found 111the store she h In C:;omestol es have better a~c,OItments of some goods than other- as most shoppel s soon find out "Last) ear the lady WIth the hst made all her purchases m th1 ee_,tares and In five days shopPl11g only m the mornmg, and the re,u1t IIa, so good tllat ,he "Ill follow the same plan thlS \ ear "I have another customel who~e plan IS absolutely ddter-ent but she says It \\ 01ke, out all nght and that she means to .,tICk to lt C:;hepnh dm\ n on a pIece of paper the names of ,dl the persom ,he I11cmc, to remember at Christmas and the amount she can d1£01d to spend on each but that IS as far as ,he ~ets WIth a list Except m a few mstances she has no Idea what she i::,gomg to bm untIl she gets m the StOIes She told me that shel de-pends for m Spll atlOn on vlSltmg the StOles \Vhen she sees a prett, tnfle she hke, she gets out her list, looks at the names, -a) ~ There, that \\ III be nIce for "0 and so and the price I~ nzht too, and buys it "Then she sClatche., that name off tlle list and waits for ,mother 111SpllatlOn 'Hel plan 1'- better than to have no list at all, but she spends double the time m e\ her shuPP111g that the other customer spends, and I don't thmk hel selections are so good eIther "\;ot one shopper 111 fifty has any list at all and many spend days 111 the shops before makmg up theIr minds about the most Important purchases." WEEKLY ARTISAN THE MOST DESIRABLE LINE OF fRAMED MIRRORS and HANGING HAT RACKS IS shown throughout the year on the 2nd Floor, 1319 Michigan Ave., CHICAGO with Foster Bros., and In our catalogue, sent to dealers on request. Many new and beaut-iful designs added this season. GALLOWAY GLASS CO. Office and factory, 406 No. Uncoln St., C"ICAGO,Ill. New Factories. The Stockwell-HalC) company, recently incorporated, are 11l1lld111£; a lan~e mdtt1 es'o factlllY at Los \ngeles, Cal james Ludden and ,Y1111am Sab111 ha\e formed a pa1tner- -,111])to e'3iah11:"h a maitre'3'3 facto1), undel the name of the Samta1Y J\Iattres'3 company at \\ 3U'3aU, \ViS, \V T D1Ck'3on, A D Rcm land, \1 D1ckson, C C Bec1- n1an dnd J '\ D1shlan hd\ e 111COplotated the Standa1 d Up-hol' 3te11ng compam to e'3tab11'3h d facto1Y 111Mansfield, Oh1O H C Jone'3, H J ,Ya~cl11cr :'IIa1tin Ihgler and T F, ::\lcCullol1~h, ha\ e 111co1pOlated the Gland Raplds Upholster- IDe; and J\Ian11factu1111C; compan\ lap1ta11Led at $10,000, to l '3t<11)11'3hd ne\\ fdctOl \ 1I1 1Iemph1'3, Tenn [he Cemal '\Ietal Bed C0111pal1\ llds heen 111unpotated to c"tab11'-,h <1ne\\ fdct01} 111\' e\\ Y01 k C1t\ -Bdl net \hap11 0 ewd ::\10111" l'01'-,l1e1 of BlOOkh nand {"Idc,] n Bendler of "N L\\ Y01 k, \\ ho hold :t)Q, 000 01 ~12 000 CdP1tdl stock a1e the 111U))pOl dtors New :Furniture Dealers. J 1 \\ ebh &- '-lon" d1C ne\\ fUrlllil11e dealels at \lpha1- cttd, Ga D ,Y, DedI ha" opened a ne\\ fl11111tme stot e at \Valker-ton, Ind \V1111a111Po'-,pe"al 1" a ne\\ fm11ltme dealer 111 ClC\e-land, Ohio \1 13 Calhoun has opened a ne\\ fUI niture and ca1 pet '-,tOle at Barl1\\ell, C; C The 'V01Lester T1 ad111l5 company are new llOuse-fu1 n- I'-,he1s 111\ Y01ccste1, Conn 1\el ,;on ~ !\nder'-,ol1 ha \ e open cd a la1 iSC fU1nitm e and cdrpet h011SCelt 1135 Mal ket strect, S,lll Franusco, Cal Hally L1Sha\\ ltz, Loms Tolen, J. JU. Mendelson, A. L. Dlet7 and -:\1. P. Goodman, have 111corp01ated the Lishawitz- Tolen compan), cap1ta11zed dt $10000, to engage in the retail fU111ltUlc bLhl11es" 111Clc\ eland Ohio. Furniture Fires. Cl1ades Joh11son's furmture store dt Ludll1gton, Mich., \\ a" burned on December 16 Loss partlally covered by in-surancc Roy Olney, tm mtl11 e dealel and undertaker of Mendon, 1\11c11, \\a" burned out on Decembel 14 Lo"s, $3,500; in- S111ancc, $2,000 1he \ppltton (\\ IS ) Chall company'" plant was burned on Dtccmbu Ie) fhc 10'-,", almo'-,t total, 1'-,e"i1mated at $25,- 000, etlld 0\\ 111<:; tu the Ide t that thc company expected to mm c m fdnUdl}, 11edl1y all of tht tll"l11anCe had been dropped. iJy carrying the ONE-PIECE PORCELtlINllNED WONrIRD CLERNRBLE WR ITE FOR CATALOGUE GRAND RAPIDS REFRIGERATOR CQ GRAND RAPID."3. f\IICH. 25 26 WEEKLY ARTISAN 5 COMPLETE LINES OF REfRIGERATORS CHALLENGE REFRIGERATOR CO. GRAND HAVEN, MICH., U. S. A. AT RIGHT PRICES ::'t<ND F, R 1'.EW CAT~LOGl'E A"'D LET US NAME YOU PRIel< Buildings That Will Need Furniture. Reszdettces-Atlanta, Ga - J C Rathers, 5 Gal den street $2,500; C. F. Rogers, 196 Oak "tl cct, $2,500, ~II s T D, "on, 236 Atwood stleet, $2,500, III"" L Helma, 140 Clescent a,c-nue, $4,500; D. H. ~Iean", Racmc st! eet, $3 500 1 ::\1 Bl 0" n 816 South Gordon stl eet, $4000, ::\lrs C H Dozlel, 76 Washington street, $6,500. BIGcklyn, N Y -IVlllIam IVagnel, 599 BushwICk clve-nue, $3,000; J. F. Kendall. 330 East Ei~hteenth Stl eet, ~8 000. M F Torpe}, 5S:; Pro"opelt a, CI1l1C $5,000, F 0 POlL', 34 TIffany place, $5,000, M lhenenstock, 1238 Thlrt}-cll.;bth street, $7,000, A J RadclIffe, 1934 rledford el\ U1UC, S4, ;00 Canton. Ill- [' 11 Chapman 11m St1cet ,md c.:,u (11th avenue, $3,000 ChIcago, Ill-John Splrkel, 4447 \01th l\lUltna ~tl('ct $5,500; EdwalCl E ('aIrIer, 1420 II est Se,ent\ fil~t qreet $3,000; Leon Levy, 21;9 L\ddison a\ el1lle, 9;6,800; \u~ust Dickenson, 4143 Nnt th Flftv-first avenue, $5,000; Charles Holman, 4508 West End avenue, $12000, l\lcholas II ,df, 4030 Clarendon avenue, $12,000, Leo KipkO\\ skJ 1'lot] \nrth Paulina street, $9,000; Joseph 1 Vtlna, 4317 \\ est Tackson street, $4,500; Dr. :McGlenn, 4330 IVashlllgtc1J1 houleval d $8,000. CinCInnati, O.-S D Cooper, Cltfton and 110erlIn a, e nues. $6,000; Louise Klein, Jerome and 'Vatfield a\ enl1e~ $3,000; George Haas, Knox avenlle and Beekman "otlct $2- 500; MI' L \V vValdron, Palk and }\[yrtle avenlles 9); 000 C~e\eland, 0 - \meha illurman 3236 ,Vest lourteenth street, $.\000; Charles Hearn, lOS;; Remmgton street, $2500 Anna L Taylor, 12601 Launcelot a, enue, $2. SOD rrank Hal t man, 1605 East Ninety-seventh street, $5,000, Hem) Hart man, 1107 East BOlllevard, $10,000, C \ Ta) lor, S16 Ea"t 108' h stl eeL $6,000, Dl C Dlfford, 2266 West Nlllety-eighth st! eet $3000 "-(,], mbu~ 0 - II all.;alet 0 Rockwell, 61 Sherman street, <::;2~00 D1 f'dmstun, 961 West Iltoad stIeet, $6,000; J II DlCh 1 ..,~2 ] a..,t Second dVenue, $2,500, \1' 0 Ferrell, 2300 Sulln ,\11t ,1\ enue, $2,500 l)el1\ Cl, lul-R liT. SmIth, Gaylord and Twenty-sixth Stl ee', 5;2500 J W Fletchel, South Ogden and Arizona ~U('ph S.? :;00, ITIS H. \Ihuckle, South Ogden and Kentucky "tlept'-, ~2,:;00, \ L. Woodhdm"o, Suuth YOlk and Alameda "tr ell' S;,OOO, ILLY Lehman, rOUl th dvenuc and DetI Olt stl cd" S::3,000, :Nfls T C 11lOwn, 628 Logan street, $2,500 !1l1r(Jll Illd> -C!Jadcs T Duff). [101ton street and ()akL nd d\ U1UC "'~,f)00, ~ F. Larpentel, 448 Twenty-third sUept S?600 \ B Palke, Gal field elVentle and Ellery street, $4 :;10, Tohn ~he\\ It/. Ll\lll~"ton and IIastl11gs streets, $6,- 200, 10hn VIUlI, 1403 IVabash a,enue, $8,000; Lilhe Belle Camp ')ell. Cavall) and Cadet streets, $4,000; E H Brown, 218 ::- ( t 'en street, $6,000, T J Fnt/, 174 Baldwlll street, $3,000, Tohn P Dinan, Porter street and Trumbull avenue. <:I;9,00l' Grand RapId" MICh --11r" A r Spauldmg. 244 Gld-dlllt;" e1\ fnue, $2 ;00; Toseph London, 29 Na)lm avenue, $7,- 500 I B Peck, 204 Eastern avenue, $2,500; Jacob Baker, 148 I llamas street ~2,500, S \ Swalt, 39 \fa~old street, $4,- 000 T r 1 hOl11p"on, 29 \Ve1l1l1gton place, $2,500 Tlou~ton, 1 (" - II' T 'Yllson, Cong-I e"os and York street, ~2,:;00, II llltam \ \Vllson, Fuc1id avenue, Wood-land ,fttg-ht" $4;00, ld,\ald Daltholomew. 780 CapItol ave-nue S.? ;00, C III Bocock 217 ['1 anns street. $2,500 Indlanapohs, Ind--Iv H Pfeffley 355 Bancroft ')treet, ~3,20 '. ( B Spann, 2935 IVa"ohll1l.;"tonboulevard, $4,000, Vl WEEKLY ARTISAN A. B",nda, East Mlchigan t>treet, $2,500; Edmund Itel, Isa-bella 'lnd Twenty-fifth Stl eets, $2,500. Hntc-hl11son, Kan - '\ J \Vilhams 392 Felt>t Eleventh e1\enllC, $2,500, 'IV If Cald\\ eU, 42; \\ est C::eHnth avenue $2,500 Jacksonv11le, Fla-J\I P \ndel, Cleveland sUeet and Kl11g'o load, $2,500, G F Yngent, Oak street and Kl11~'s load, $2 SOO; R. A. Kornegay, 227 Hubbard stleet, $3,000 W J Cowels, Seventh and Laura stl eets, $.3,500, T 11 Blodgett, Cedar and CarDEn a streets $12,000 L011sville, Ky - \Vllliam Klem. 518 Third stJ eet $4,000 I 0" Angeles Cal-I:d\\ 111 Dentha111, 4S49 Lockwood a\ en11e, $2,500, Charles Campbell, 1009 Los '\ngeles "tl eet $3,500, A A Hopkms, 744 rast T\\ ent) -fifth "treet, $2,500 ::\11s II D \V11ha111s, 761 Otta\\a stleet $2,100, CaIne J <::)1111t9l\05 Hal \ al d st1 eet. $3,000, C F I \ baJ Q er, 944 F1an C1SCOstleet, $2,100 L Paullahn 1841 IfontJu:Uo avenue $3,SOO \Tmneapohs, 11111n -Don~Lls \ Flske, 14 tIC,hth "tJ cd $13,onf); D H DUl)Ca, 34S3 FJC1110nt a\ cnlle, 9)2 SOO C; 1 Bakke, 2604 Clm3:';o 3\ UHle $6,300, ,Tl s lhIda l' \'n"Llf "on, 2g?? JIumboldt el\ eUllC, $2,500 011 e,ha, '\I'eb1 -0 C B1adfOld 402 South Thi1h nmt11 street, $10,000, Charles D McLaughhn, 3184 Larimore a\ e nue, $2,500; Paul Bogard, 3408 Cass avenue, $3,000 Philadelphia, Pa -Dorothea Rlllger, 894 North Slxth street, $3,000; Philip Cohen, East\\ ick avenue and Eighty-fourth street, $4,800; George F. Heath, Eighty-fourth "treet and Bre" ster avenue, $4,500; Harry Eisen, 28 "AIest Columbia avenue, $3,000 Portland, Ore,-Martin Johlbon, East Twenty-third and Sumcer streets, $2,500; D H Ryan, East Forty-sixth street and Sandy road, $2,500; T H Harnos, 891 \Vlihams avenue, $4,800; A. L Mc-Kenzal, 408 East Twenty-fourth street, $5,- 000. Sal+ Lake Clty, Utah -Frank Do} e1, 669 G Street. $2,- 500; A ugust Matson, 1098 South \Vl11dsor St1eet, $2,500; C E. Carlson, 1132 East FoUl th stJ eet, $3,000, J ol1n Coulam 60 Sc uth Eighth Fast street, $4,000 S...tn Diego, Cal- T. ::VI: Rarnhart Third and Spruce streeb, $5,000; \ M .McCorkle Thil tJeth and Redwood streeet -', $2,500, Henry Pun lel, Campus and T) leI streets, $6,500. San AntonlO, Texas -:\11'5 Pearl Coleman 111, :\Ilstletoe a\ enue, $2,800, \\ "Y Hood, 327 Tamauhpa::, '-.trect, $3,000, J\Il" \ B Caldel, 272 SKmne1 a \ cnne, $4,000 "ou1h Bend, Ind-LOllI" HlcKcy, 52 S01lll '-,treet. $6,- 399 Young"town, 0 --Kaney Thompson, 216 l\Jarwn elvenue. $2,500; J E Kanc, 422 Lexm~ton a\ enue, $3,000 Miscellaneous Building- -I~c\ P \ Flanag-an has a pel ln1t frj a $15,000 church to be bUllt on FCJ\\ler and Twent)- eighth "tJeets Omaha, Nel) A pel1111t has heen l""ued fO! the el ecl1011 of the Lhlllc11 of the \tonemcnt at 5757 Ken mOLe a\ enue, rhlcd~o eo"t $18,000 The L n10n of Amell ean Hebre\\ a"SOCla110ns al c el ectmg an ad 111 1111 stratlOn buildtnS;, hbraly, chapel, ete, on Chiton a\ enne, Cincll1nati, 0, at a cost of $200,000 \Vllham Bnrblldge l~ bl1llehm; a $100,000 hotel on Clay and Fors)th '-,tlects Jad,sol1\ lUe, Fia Contracts ha\ e be<>n a\\ al decl fell the ClectlOn of a court hc\) "e at Portland, Ore at a co"t of $22S'000 W. C. Baer & Son have opened a new furniture store in York, Neb. THE WORLD'S BEST SAW BENCH BUIlt With double arbors, shdmg table and equipped complete With taper pm guages carefully graduated. Th:s machme represents the height m saw bench con struchon It IS deSigned and bUilt to reduce the cost of sawmg stock. Write us for descriptiVe InformatIOn. THE TANNEWITZ WORKS, GRAND RAPIDS. MICHIGAN. --~_._._.--_.--- I• II I POLISHES Quality and Economy I,: Two excellent reasons for using the II Excelsior or W'orld s II I Fair Polish I I II I III II I IIII 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 2S years of use in the furniture manufacturing trade. Get our prices a ld send for sample before placing your next order. GEO. W. LIGHT MFG. I COMPANY, I 2312 W. Van Buren St., CHICAGO. II I,. .. 27 " 28 WEEKLY ARTISAN Upper Berths '~Till Cost Le~s. Dl"patche,; flam \\ a"h111"tUl1 "tdte that the nu\ Pullman ,.,leepmg car lates vVlll pl0babh ~u mtu ehee t thl()u~h JUt the U11lted States on or hefOlC TanUal\:?O Ihc Illtu~t,ltC Com-merce CommlsslOn toda\ handed elm\ n Ib I u1ll1i:; h"1l1"': the chal ges f01 uppel Pullman bel ths at 80 per cen t ol thc eh<llbe made for lowel bel ths and ha" gl\ en tent,ttl\ e appl (]I ,d to a new schedule of lates filed]y\ the Pullman company tu ~(\ 11110 effect thlOlHshout the entll CL l11tecl State" Ol1Ol lxtOl c the date named The Pullman compam ha,; accepted the COil elu ~tr J11" of the comml';';lOn 111\'vhat a1 e kl1o\\ 11d" the T uttu" ca"c, tllctt the I aies fm lonf; db tanle" on 10v\et bel th s ,,110\11(1be 1ed ue eel and that alluppet-betth" lates should be teduecc1 It 1':0 c"tl mated that the lcdultton \\ hlch melude" ,d1 ol thc 1118.11lt1l1e lalltoads of the L11lted States e,cept1l1g the \e\\ lld\ Cll I 18.r1. $5.25 EACH Quuter sa""ed veneer back and seat Height of back 26 IOche' Wld,h of "'at. 20 mches Fmls~ed Golden Oak PolISh d Sh,pped K D No. 420 Oak Rocker flat Weight. 27 rounds 'JIorw/lfaflukctun/lR co.. Grand Rapjds,Mich. tht (,1 Lelt \urthClll a11C]the \lthvdl'kee & ~t Paul, WIll effect ,l nc t I edncilOn of 11e'tlly $1 '100,000 annually 111the company's ~!(h" ll1C0l11C fhc rZoch \\ ell ),Ial1utaltullng C011lpany of ),1alvel11, Ark., h,1\ C clbpoe,ecl o! then "creen busmess at that p0111t, having "old to othel "C1 een 111telce,ts They have retamed their plant 111iact dud al e um"tdell11g a PlOpo';ltlOn to manufacture t111nlt111e j hie plant n{ !11e \me1llan ParlOi Flame company at Ph mouth \\ 1" \\ a" comp1ctely destroyed by fire on De-l unhu 13 I 0"" $18,000. m"lll anLe. $14,000 The factory, \\ hlc h h,td ]JCen m opel a tlOn onl) a fev, months WIll be re-lnlllt A, PETERSEN & COMPANY Manufacturers of the BEST MADE and LEADING LINE of Office Desks In the Country, Large number of new patterns now being added, ready January 1st, will be shown in our new catalogue. FULL LINE. RIGHT PRICES. SEND FOR CATALOGUE. 430 Arlllour St., CHICAGO, ILL, 111~ IS nO\\ occcupied, most of the Ime" "hown are made in CmcmnatI, but se, eral southern bl tOIles a1e 1epresented. The People's Fmmture and Ca1pet company and the U11l0n Outfittm~ company of Omaha Neb, hay e heen con- "ohdated under the latter name, and" 111mm e mto a new hll11dinc; on c,lxteenth and J acl,.son stt eet" eally m Tanuary A t the annual meetmg of the Ohio Hotel association in Dayton, Decemhe1 IS R. F. Somerv111e, seCletary of the Oh1O Lomme1 ual Travelers, delivered an add1 ess, in which he m g cd the hotel men to p10vide nine-feet sheets and in-d1\ 1dual towel" w1thout hemg 1equired to do so by state law. Representat1\ es of commercIal organizations, wholesalers and retaIlers, from Kansas C1ty. <::;tJoseph, Sioux City and other points on the :M1ssotll1 11\er, held a secret meeting at Omaha on Decemhe1 15 fm the purpose of considering ways and means to force a reduct10n m ratlroad freight rates be-b\ een lVI1SS01lnri, er points and the Atlantic coast cities CmcmnatI manufacturers are reported as having had a husy fall Most of them have had much better business than VI' as antIcipated at the close of the summer sales season, among thes ebemg the Sextro .Manufacturing company, the Modern rur11ltme company, the SchIrmer Furniture company, Phoe11lx l\lanufactunng company and Charles Kaiper's Sons The t\lgentme Mm1st1Y of Agnculture states that 13,716,- OOS aC1es have been SOVvn with flaxseed th1S season, and that ov\m~ to droughts there wIll be only an average crop of about 800,000 tons, the quantIty avaIlable for export bemg about 700,000 tons A promment Buenos Aires cereal exporting firm estimates that about 900,000 tons will be avaIlable for exp01 t. TheIr harvest comes in January. Charles M. F1isse, a Democ1at, elected to represent the EvansvIlle d1StllCt m the Ind1ana leg1slatm e, is a promment fm11ltm e manufacturer He has been the head of the World Fwmture company, recently merged 111 the Globe-World- Doose company Mr Fnsse IS brw,ht, keen, ene1getlc and capable m e\ e1y sense and hIS man) hlends e'Cpect him to make a bIg mark on the HOOSIer statutes. \ Vholesale mall 01der houses ha \ e f01med a strong as-socIation wIth Ed\\ard D Butler of Butlel Bros, Chicago, as presIdent for the purpose of opposmg" the parcels post. Their alleged mot1ve IS to prey ent the ehmmat10n of the country merchants The orgam7at1On was completed at a meetmg held m ChIcago recently. It IS called the League of Ameri-can vVholesale assoclat1Ons and IS saId to have about 300 members. MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND NEWS ] Tolmes Batle, has pUll hased Fl ank Fowler's furniture 'Ot01e at F1t-.her, III F VV. Km~don has pt1llilased the undertakm~ business of F. R Blatt at Cullom, Ill. Biebel t 8-. 11lesen hay e suc-ceeded T K T·Ll!den furni-ture dealel at He1hert, Saskatcl1e\\an Easte1 n manufactm ers and ]ohbe1 s 1eport something like a revlVal m the demand fm hrass heds The Fvan svtlle, Ind, furnitl11 e fact01 ies al e nearly all 1unnm~ full tIme Wd.h a full complement of men A C Robertson, furniture deale1 of vVinnipeg, Man, is closmg out hIS stock and wtll retn e from the business. Palme1 8-. vVebel succeed Bel g eron ~ Malloy in the re-taIl fm mture and ha1 dware busmess at Rancier, 1\1mn The t\l1mgton Refllge1atol company of \rlington, Vt, have opened a New YOlk office at 7 East Forty-second street. vV G KllH;. mattress manufactt1ler of Ham11ton Ont. has made an assu;nment to l' T l\1lddleton. Llah1lities $1,600; assets, $1,100 Tile Economy Fl11mtul e company of Cle, eland, heen mcorpOl ated hy t\1fred t\ Benesch and others stock, $10,000 The Henderson hy Edwa1 d Ploe~e1 ItS full capacity. F1nest KnH"ge, Hem y Moh1 hussen and De1l1ard Schmidt have pl11chased George B Hoppel's furmtme and hardware busmess at Lagrange, Te'C. The addItIon to the plant of the vVorld-Bosse-Globe com-pany of Evans\ ille, Ind , is now occupied, 150 additional men ha\m~ heen added to the force A new hotel erected at Port \ntonio, Jamaica, furnished and owned hy Amellcans, wtll open f01 busmess about Janu-dry 20 The cost of the building V\ as $175,000 The plant of the l\1uskogee Fl11mture company at Musk-ogee, Okla , wtll be enlal ged and eql11pped \\ lth ne\\ machin- (1) m the neal futl11e T. H Dedellis the general manager. The Stemm an & Meyer Furmture company of Cmcinnati, 0, are bmldmg a five-story addItion to then factory on Y01k street. It WIll be 60 x 67 feet and of fire-proof construc-t10n The SkandIa Furnitm e company, the Ro) al Mantel com-pany and the Co-operative Furniture company of Rockford III , will show then Imes m the l\J ew Yark Furmture Exchange next month. Manufacturel s are hUSlly engaged m closing up the year's business w1th the semi-annual tak1n~ an account of stock d1rectly m hand Samples for the sprin~ season also claIm atten t10n Carl, Hall y and Oscar, retaIl furl11ture dealers of Hop- .. kms'l11e, Ky, hay e 1t1corporated the11 bl1s1l1ess l1nde1 the name of the Keach FUlmtme compan), \"lth cap1Lal stock fixed at $42,300 Fme furmture \\ as ,ery ececttvely dIsplayed in the up-holstery and rug depa1 tments of N evvcomb, Endicott & Co's. department store, DetlO1t, on the occasion of the opening of their new building. The Preston Furniture company, dealers of Birmingham, Ala, who were burned out recently, have had their insur-ance adjusted and hay e resumed Dl1SmeSS WIth a larger and better stock than the) had before the fire. R W. FIske, manager of the Ohio Valley Furniture ExhIbition, Cincinnati, reports that a11 space in the big build- 0, has Capital (Ky) Desk company's factory, managed of E\an-,vllle, Ind, is now 1unning to II'yOBll i%tn1e7yCYgarnitilre~ f!/Oll willezyoy.Pe11ing the Line 0/ GRAND RRPIDS FrIN CY FURNITURE C~ -GE-T--THE CRTHLOGUE GRRND RlWlDS,MICH. 30 WEEKLY ARTISAN ~---_._----------------_.-- . I QUALITY MACHINES-ISN'T IT TOO BAD-People wonder where theIr prohts are gOIng when the trouble usually hes In poor eqUIp-ment. A little foresIght In the begInnIng would have saved them dollar,--a httle more money In-vested at the start in "OUVER" "QUALITY" eqUIpment Some manufacturers of wood workIng tools shght theIr output by puttIng m poor matenals-emploYIng poor workmen-sImply to be able to make a httle more proht. "Ohver" tools are bUll, along machIne toollmes-careful-accurate -durable-safe. Some purchasers fall to InvestIgate thoroughly before plaCIng their order Some unscrupulous salesman tells them to purchase somethIng-they go ahead-hnd out too lak they are wrong-lose money, whereas a letter addressed to us would have procured our catalogs-set them thmkmg-saved them money. ISN'T THAT TOO BAD. "OLIVER" No. 61 Surfacer A Sample of Good Salesmanship. Old fashIOned metal or glass handle~ are belL bttle n~ed 111 tnmmmg f Ull11ture " prom1l1en! 111annfactm cr \\ d~ caught wlth several hundl cd dl essel s on hand when the wood l~llob came so suddenly and so generally mto use and could not dIspOse of the same. They encumbered the floors of the wareroom and were a source of expense and annoyance Upon the occasion of a VISIt of one of the salesmen to the factory the proprietor spoke of the unsaleable dressers and asked the salesman to make a speCIal effort to move them. A few weeks later the salesman learned of an order that would be placed by the budder of a hotel located 111 another state and re-solved to visit hIm. Arnv1I1g 111 the cIty of the hotel bUIlder he called upon a local dealer and learned that he had not at-tempted to secure the order. "Let's go and see the man. I think we can sell h1m," the trave1111g agent remarked. The hotel budder had receIved sample cases from a number of manufacturers and hJ.d abom deCIded to place an order, but would consider what tht ne"" arnvdl had to offer. The ments of the speCIal lot of cases were dIscussed and a pllce named that sounded good, but the hotel bUIlder dId not feel dIsposed to consIder cases that were proVIded WIth brass ball handles 111- sitead of wood knobs Then the travelmg salesman played his trump card. "For ordinary use," he explained, "wood knobs on drawers are desirable, but for hotel purposes the brass ball IS superior. The drawers of hotel furniture are used much more than the drawers of case work 111 the pnvate home. TranSIent guests are not always careful Now I'll show you how eaSIly the wood knobs will break." The young man possesses a sb ong arm and a very power-ful grip, it is well to explain. Going to one of the sample cases submitted by a competitor of the job, he took hold of one of the OURLINE-SURFACE PLANERS HAND JOINTERS SANDERS WOOD TRIMMERS CHAIN MORTISERS LATHES " I III III II I,I!•!I CO., :.1 "" W~>T om,l. $C, to. A.," ••, <:'1. I PaCIfic Btd .... Seattle. Wash , II -~ "OLIVER" No. 60 Saw Bench. SAW BENCHES SWING CUT. OFF SAWS BAND SAWING MACHINES BORING MACHINES SAFETY CYLINDERS VISES, CLAMPS, ETC., ETC. ADDRESS DEPARTMENT "D" OLIVER MACHINERY GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., U. S. A. BRANCH OFFICES- 1&tNatIonal Bank Bldg. ChIcago. tu No 50 Church St. New York CIty. \\ood hnobs, clushed It, \\ rung H from the case and threw It on the floor r he hotd budc1u \\ a" conVInced ,ll1d bought the case, WIth the brass handles 1he \ oung salesman remarked later that luckIly the knob was cut out of rotten wood, else he mIght not have taken the order. The local agent "came across" for the usual commission M. Bromberg is a new furniture dealer at Roseville, Cal. ~------------ -- 4 _ ,1 ,,•I II1I ,II I II1I II I~----------._-------------- We Manufacture tlJe Larl!ett LlDe of Folding Chairs In the Umted States, sUItable for Sun day Schools, Halls, Steam-crs and all pub1Jc resorts We also manufacture Brass TrImmed I r 0 n Beds, Sprmg Beds, Cots and CrIbs m a large varIety Send for Catalogue and P,.tces to KAUffMAN MfG. CO. ASHLAND, OHIO I.. WEEKLY ARTISAN '1 YOU CAN MAIL YOUR CATALOG m JANU1ARY 15th If you place the order with us by December 27th W"ITE PRINTING COMPANY GRAND RAPIDS, MICU. I PRINTERS FOR THE FURNITURE TRApE. I 32 • WEEKLY ARTISAN ,...-------------_. ------rl-.---. -- ..lilL.ifilli .... '" lil • .., I Miscellaneous Advertisements. WANTED POSITION As supenntendent of furlllture factory, by man now em-ployed Large expenence m case work Address "A B," care MIchIgan Artisan. 12 24tf COMMISSION SALESMEN WANTED For MIchIgan, Oh1O, IndIana, I1lmOls and all western tern-tory. Parlor and LIbrary Tables, Bedroom Furmture, Dm mg ChaIrs and KItchen Cabmets HIgh grade lmes at nght pnces. Address R & M , care Weekly Artisan 12-23 4t WANTED Furniture men to learn furniture designing, rod making and stock billing by mall. Our course of instruction is just the thing for superintendents. foremen and factory men who wish to increase their knowledge and salary. Grand Rapids School of Designing. Dept. L.• Grand Rapids, Mich. Arthur Kirkpatrick, Instructor and Designer. 4-9 e.o w. tf WANTED CombmatlOn salesman, manager and estImator for bank fix-tures and cabmet work plant m Mmneapohs. State expen-ence, salary and reference Address M. A. T., care Weekly ArtIsan Co. 12 17-24-31 FOR SALE We ha"e a fully equIpped Boat Factory situated in the heart of the lake regIOn of Wlsconsm and SUItable for the manu-facture of large pleasure crafts. Also SUItable for any hght manufactunng busmess. Good shlppmg faclhtIes and well lo-cated. Will sell cheap Here IS your chance If you mean busmess, address for full partIculars the Rhmelander Boat Company, Rhmelander, WIS 12 17-24-31 1-7 WANTED. Supermtendent m furmture factory wants pOSItIon, mIddle aged man of vaned expenence, good mechamc, draftsman and machine man. Conversant WIth all kmds of cabmet work Address "Craftsman," care Weekly ArtIsan. 12-10tf WANTED. A No. 1 men to handle strong and complete lme of spring beds as SIde lme, for Iowa, Wlsconsm, IllinOIS, MIchigan, Ohio. Must have acquamtance WIth furmture trade. Ad-dress "Spring Beds," care Weekly ArtIsan 12-10tf WANTED. CommercIal salesman for Indiana and Illinois to sell Parlor and Library Tables. State territory covered and hnes car-ried. Address "Map", care Weekly Artisan. 9-3tf WANTED. Travelinl?; salesman to carry a lme of Reed Rockers and Chairs in IndIana and Illmois. State territory covered and lines carried. Address "Near", care Weekly Arttsan. 9-3tf POSITION WANTED. A salesman of ability furnishin2; best of references and at present engaged, desires a change. Thoroughly acquainted with the trade of New England and New York states and can guarantee results. Address C. A. R., Weekly Artisan. 7-23tf FOR SALE. A nice clean stock of Crockery in a live West Michi2;an town of 10,000 population. Would also rent store if desired. Address "See" care Weekly Artisan. 5-28tf. • New York Markets. New York, Dec 23-Dullness IS expected in the hard-wood lumber trade at the close of the year and the current month has been no e'\.ceptIon to the rule. The dispositIOn on the part of buyers to hold off untIl after the holidays is even more apparent than usual. vVhIle some reports from the south and west mdlcate a shght llTlprOvement m the demand, It is evident that there \\ 111be no general mcrease m activity until about the middle of January or perhaps latel At pre,,- ent "waiting for the new year" describes the condition of the trade thoughout the country. Linseed oIl is still a matter of much mterest The in-terest, however, is not of the kmd that makes business It IS of the inactive kind that simply induces men to \\ atch the market. Business IS of small volume, ~ith the buyers \\ altmg for lower pnces. The card 1ates, based on 93 @ 94 cents for both city and western raw have not been changed thIS week, but crushers are known to have shaded theIr figures a cent or more without increasing their sales. "I••I• II ••I European plan-$100 I and more Every modern I comfort and eqUIpment. : ThIS hoslelry has created I a new standard III Grand RapIds It has been aptly II called "the somewhat dIfferent holel .. II.. 11;rr ktmrr :Afaximum Comfort at :Arinimum 1L;ntrl 1L;rrktmrr GRAND RAPIDS. MICH Co s t Old EnglIsh. Colomal, and MISSIOnDeSIgnrestaur-ants. CUIsme and serVIce of marked excellence Moderate prices,-- everything rrght. You can pay double our rates for your accommodahons, but you can't get anythmg belter. 11;ntrl Convement to Umon Stahon, shops, theatres, furmture bUlldmgs. etc. mam car hnes to all parts of the CItypass our door TUlpentme has been steady throul',hout the week the only change m pI ICes bemg an advance of half a cent on Tuesday Today's quotatIOns are 79 cent:" here and 7S}4 @ 76 at Savannah Thele is a steady demand WIth a faIr vol-ume o± lmc,l11ess at these pnces "heILl( and vaIl11sh gums are dull at fmmel quotatIOns, lIttle mtel e~t bel11g malllfested m elthel commodIty QuotatIOns 011 uJldalSe are higher The demand from COlbUl1lCl~ IS !I~ht and trade m the johhmg lme IS dull India tllme \0" -1-V to 6, IS qnoted at 8 @; 80 cenb, !IiSht, 9; hlle \ ° 18 11 @ lly B C twme, No 18, 1S0 @ 16 Jute \\ 1appm~ t\\ mes, 2 to 6 ply, 9;10 @ 10 cents Enrlap,,; al e eaSIer WIth a shght dec1me m pllces on 70- ounce ~ood,,; \\ hleh al e now ,,;old at 360. EIght-ounce goods al e stIll held at 37; and lO)/,-ounce at 47; The volnme of bn,,;mec;::, I~ !I~ht thou~h an mcrease in the number of in- Cjl1111esIS 1epol ted . "heet /mc tm \\ h1(h 10\\ Cl pnces have heen predIcted is ~tlll film at S77; pel cnt fob PCln Ill, \'Ith 8 per cent (!I,,((mnt Index to Advertisements. -\l11n c; L~ J Ii y to> Comp'lJl\ D 11it n II H &. c:,on ( H1PdJl' Bo\ niol1 cl( Co (e-ntw\ 1Ulnltule C'Olnpan-\ (hlC<.le,O 1\111101 nl ~ll Gl'1.<::c;(omp'l.rn C'llllSUanSPl1 ( C01110\ D L ulmtUJe (o-rrDanv EniflpJl<;P PallOl tUJl tne C'om.p"Ll1J Fr'll1Cl <; Char Ies 1'..... Campau\ FreeDman Brothll <; (ompanJ Galloway Glas~ C01npan-\ Grand RapIds Brass Company Gr'lnrl RapIds Chall Compan\ Gland RapIds Fanc\ FUlllltule Com.p'll1} 01 eon l\.Ianufactunng (ODI)) Illy C'1 CLn{lTIaplds Refl1g 1'ltOl (ompal1\ GI and RapId.:;;: veneer "\\ 01 ks HIlls Clarence R Hotel lIerklDleI TInpel13,1 rurnltUI e Compan\ Karpen S 8.., Bras L'l" 1enC'p VI:cF'1c1den Compdn-s Lucp rurnlturc Company LuC'c HenT'10nc1 ChaIr ('or:rp in \ \{ac1uen Thomas Clan ~ ( ) "\!'11lf'tta PaInt a 1( (010 C'01npa 1\ ,T II \ 01 1tianufaC't 11111 (oDlpan "\[lchl~an Ch'lll (oDlp<.ln\ "\1 clllg' 1I1 r::n~l 1\ 11..., (ompanv "\11">('lIqneous '.,pISOll l\I.lttel J< UJ mtul ( (o111pany '.,lemann T'1ble ('amp r\ '.,orthpl11 rUlll1tul (Offill"\ l' te ~Pll \ <-'L Co r 1 I J 1 (h'll ll1 I I u mtule C'omp'll1\ T'o 1 fm 1 ....,IPCllOl r1..l! ItUIP ({) llpau, Po 0:11 Ch'll ()111p un Po a.l T Ulnltulc (Olupar" ....c.1.. 011(>1 Henly ('0111pdn\ ...t.o..\.\ 'L Da\ s "f.Ulwtll (OlllPl11\ ~~ it ~lank ~ & Son Tauber "\1aullcP <-'L ('0 ~l1lOn rUl111tUT( (ompan\ (Rockfold) Waddell Manufactul1ng Company Walter B & Co Walter Clark Veneer Company ........ 1 1, 20 13 18 24 22 7 15 .. 14 9 8 10 20 17 11 14 6 25 Cover Cover 29 18 2') 9 23 32 28 Cover 4 4 17 19 28 1 (lover 32, "1 COVPl 28 10 12 o2 ----------- No. 1711 No. 1705-1705 WRITE FOR SAMPLES AND PRICES. GRAND RAPIDS BRASS COMPANY GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN , . ..I ,8e-ecia/ists fQ tneJi'urniture TPade. ; MICHIGAN E,NGeAVING CO.GRAND RAPIDS. ,.... , - ,... t ---_._--- -- ------,--------------_._----------- ,I• SENSATIONAL NEW OFFERINGS I BIG PROFIT IN ATTRACTIVE QUALITY I• MEDIUM PRICES !•f •III I II I• I II• I pay BECAUSE THEY DON'T SELL. The North- I,,,III,i I I I II during the past" year, has almost entirely made over our line, and we shall show at the winter exhibitions at II Grand Rapids, New York and Chicago, I,I• ,, II!I II I,fI •III If you want to make money in the furniture business, buy quality, brain labor-durable fin-ish, artistic designs, prompt (expert) shipments. Cheap imitations at a few cents lower price never ern motto- "WE SELL ONLY QUICK SELLERS" means expert workmanship, no more cost to you, and two or three dollars more from your cus-tomer, with a quick sale. OUR NEW DESIGNER SOME STRIKING NOVELTIES that every furniture buyer will want to see. Half our new catalogue to be issued in January, will show new designs. These new offerings will only emphasize and develop to a sensational point the fresh and popular styles shown last summer-such as our white enamel bed with cane head and foot boards, our bpautiful colonial bed in imitation mahogany on gum, to which the retail trade has taken very readily_ Our forthcoming designs are SIMPLE, CLASSIC, ATTRACTIVELY NEW, we shall show finishes never before offered in medium grades of furniture-in short, we shall give you BRAINS FOR YOUR MONEY, and make the NORTHERN the LEADING BEDROOM FURNITURE HOUSE as for years it has been head and shoulders above all competitors on dining room suites_ I III II i ~--------------~---------------------------------~_._.-----------------------------------------~ NORTHERN FURNITURE CO. SHEBOYGAN, WISCONSIN
- Date Created:
- 1910-12-24T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Collection:
- 31:26