Michigan Artisan; 1909-03-10

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Issue of a furniture trade magazine published in Grand Rapids, Mich. It was published twice monthly, beginning in 1880. and ·GRAND RAPIDS rH:~I'" Twenty-Ninth Year-No. 17 • MARCH 10, 1909 Semi-Monthly r-------- , I Now is Your Chance to Secure I A Clemons Flat Surface Sander I which has been replaced by OUf No. 171 Sand Belt Machine (See ad. on back cover.) We also have a Moore Flat Surface Sander, also Disk and Drum, Drum, Disk and Spindle and Spindle Sanders that have been dis-carded in favor of our machine. We can offer any of the above at bargain prices. Write us. WYSONG & MILES CO., Cedar St. and Son. R. R., GREENSBORO, N. C. ~ The Best Truck--The Strongest Truck This is the famousGillette Roller Bearing Factory Truck~the truck on which it is said,'''One 'man' can move a load of 3000 pounds while with the other trucks it takes three men." This is the truck that is strong where others are weak-the truck that has an unbreakable malleable iron fork. This is the truck YOU are looking for if you wish to invest in rather than waste money on factory trucks. Gillette RolJer Bearing CO. ORAND RAPIDS. MIClIIOAN ________T_he Ligh_test Ru_nning,__E Longest Lasting Tr,uck "ABC" Vertical Self-Oiling Engines are Arum-ged for Direct Connection to Any Make of Generator "The highest quality of material, workmanship and finish ever embodied in $team engine con-struction." "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 aiford 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? Tau 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. lil!",I!,!I, JIi '!lil"~'liill'I""'11,.If+'''\II',II,'I''''''~llil,:1 DE~;~?~~~ae~iH. ~ llli I'I 1'1' I, ,I,I I:1"" I, I: I" 11 ,II' '1' Work., 11" 'ii' " ':1, ,,', DETROIT, MICH. and TROY, N. Y. ~ 1,,·1111 II; II .,L;II I,~ Ilmil 111111" 11J1lL'" II'It.11 MANUFACTURERS w:'Tslf~l~5~VK<i&!~~ ENGINES "DETROIT" ~~pNA~T~kAWPS~. t' HEATING AND VENTILATING APPARATUS. AUTOMATIC RETURN TRAPS. I , . \ New York, Chicago, Salea Offices) St. Loui., Philadelphia, Pitt.burg, Adanta. "ABC" t • SLIDING SHOE FOR USE ON DESK LEGS This shoe does the work of a caster yet allows the desk legs to set close to floor. Fastened with flat head wood screw and furn-ished in three sizes. SEND FOR SAMPLES AND PRICES No 1493 PULL A very fine handle for desks in the sqnare effect. Something different from the regnlar bar pulls. GRAND RAPIDS BRASS CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN • 1 MICHIGAN ARTISAN 1 f.-------------------·-----------------1 I These Specialties are used all Over the World Veneer Preuea, different kind. a.nd size... (Patented) Hand Feed Gluein .. Machine (Patent pendio'll. ) Mally Ity lea and ,izea. Veneer Presses Wood-Working ,! lup Spreaders Machinery lue Heafe rs and Supplies I Trucks, Etc" Etc. Power Feed Glue Spreading Machine, Sin.le. LET US KNOW CHAES. .FRANCIS C;;;~;~~i~:~~:r;i~~:·:)WRo::r:k~sIl::~sN..oGJ •• Hoa'.r.1 • l~~ I~N '.-.'20-01-';;;-Ho-a'''-. -----------_...:--._-----_._-------< ~, ---------- "I lONE-COAT MISSION STAINS I ! Our One-Coat Mission Stains are correct interpretations, both as to color and finish, of the early" Mission" period of furniture making. The great success of these stains is due not only to the fact that they are entirely practical, but to the simplicity with which they can be applied. The beauty of the various colors or shades in which they are made has also much to do with their popularity. Marietta One-Coat Stains are intended for oak or the open-grained woods, although they may be used with very pretty effect on some of the close grained woods. WRITE FOR SAMPLE. TUE MARIETTA PAINT AND COLOR CO. MARIETTA, 0"'0 Old English Oak This stain, white producing a perfect fin-ish, is remarkable for its con,summate beauty .0£ color. It was designed for use where a dull, dead brown color effect is desired, anJ 11]ost completely does it accomplish its pur-pose. But while the color appears dull it is 110t duli, for there is just a hint of red be-neath the dullness that gj'lles you the im~ pression of hidden warmth and transparency. Old English is a finish that'is going to be more used than formerly. Its peculiar t.one of color is one that you admire and grow to more thoroughly appreciate the longer yoU study it. . ~~--------_-.--------------------------_.... I --_._------- • WHITE PRINTING CO. I I GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. I I I HIGH GRADE CATALOGS COMPLETE ~ 2 {l7,,' /. . ". ,. MICHIGAN ARTISAN if II , I I : I I ._-~..._---_._--- ._----------' .'" Wrl~ U8 tor I"rice LIst and dllICouut a1·aa S. FRONT ST•• GRAND ,RAPIDS WHEN IN nROIT STOPAT Hotel Tuller INew andA~o1utel,.Fireproof Cor. Adams Ave. aD~ Park. St. In the Center of. tne Th~.•tre. &mp.. Pins:. and Businell$ Districl. l A la Carte Cafe • Newe.t and Fined Grill t Room ip the City. I ,.Club Breakfast. • • 4<k up LllIIcheon- - - - 50<: Table d"hore Dinners - 75<: I ,Mu.d,om6P.M.1o12P.M. t • Every l'Oom hlUl a private bath. • EUROPEAN PLAN : Rates: $1.50 per day' -and:.up. I L W. TULLER, Prop. · M. A. SMA W.-Ma-r.-----_._--- i, REVERSIBLE AND ONE. WAY CUTTERS. i "The .Shimer Reversible. Ctltters for Single .spindle I Shapers, Variety :.\1ouldcrs 'I or Friczers" ,He carefuJly moulded opposite to the shape of the mould to be be produced, in such a way as to have only the cuttio.;.( edge touch, the lumber. They are c'omp1cte,-inexpensive-time savi'ng. \Ve also ma'.lufacture One-Way Cutters for Double Spindle Shapers. They are used in v:airs, right and 17f( lone Cutter of each shape for each spindle. In ordenng: . special shapes not listed in aUf catalogue, send a wood sample or an accurately made drawing. Address. .1 I SAMUEL J. SHIMER &. SONS, MILTON, PENNSYLVANIA. ~ II- ~. __ -'"-,. __ -,. __ "" •, a0VNT0N4 ~l!I : £mbolled and Turned Moy.M. ingl, EDibou-ed IUId Spindle Carvinp, an d Automati"e I TUl'Dinp. W~also mllQ!.l-" Ml':lure II large line I of. EDlb.oued ;. Ornament.. for I Coucb Work. II ,. ii!Ii. CAT ALO,GUE 419-421 W. I'lfteOllth St .• CUICAOO. ILL I -- -...• TOote: I Wellin~on notel ,I I Cor. Wabash Ave 81 I Jacks~n Bolilefllrd , CHICAGO I I Remod",led-at a cost of I S15(},OOO Hot 'l.Dde~ld running I , water and· long dia- I MACHINE .l\NIVES I tanee ·phone. in aU I pERFECT QUALITY Pa.OMPT SEl\VICE I rooms. I 200 rooms. 100 with R.IGHT PRICES A&SOLUTE GUARANTEE I I I , kIn. Sina'" or en ~uite. , Rales$1.QO and upwards. Dado or Groin'lng Heads. Miter ~achlnes. f Ont of the mas! unique f Unl-versal Wood Trimmers, I I dinWII"rooms in the cou~. I Our famou~ Indian • f I Borlns Mae-b.lncs. Eto. ~"lEC'OIl ~~~IC" .NOtUl~lNE I McClintock and Bayfield FOX MACHINE CO. 185 N. Front St.. I I Grand Rapld_. Mich. I, F'i\O~$. I I .. '-- ---~• I, -------.. ,..- ------- ----.. I I .MANUFACTURERS OF , , I I -- I, I : I I I HARDWOODt~~~~i~, , I I I f , I I I , , : I Spiral moved and Bevel Polnled I ,I I f DOWEL PINS SPECIALTIES: , I , II II I ~t";'l?EogQUAORA. K VENEERS I I I Note,howthe 'glue In the Spiral I I MAHOGANY VENEERS I I Grooveforms Thread like aScrew. I I Bevel Pointed. easy to· 4l"1ve. I fSrtarmaiegsh.t Psroicew,.ilalndndoitscsopulnitts thoen •, HOFFMAN I application. I I , I , , I I BROTHERS COMPANY f 84 W. Main SI., FRT WAYNE, INDIANA I I STEPHSEONUSTOHNB.ENMD.FINGD.. CO., I • - _.. .- -- • GflAND RAPIDS FUBUC LIBRARY 29th Year-No. 17. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., MARCH 10, 1909. $1.00 per Year. Markets for School Furniture in South' America. The need of school fl1rnitttre in a number of southern countries has heen hrought to the notice of i\mericall manufacturers through the consular reports. ~lexico, Brazil, Colombia and Ecuaclor are not proper~ ly provided for in that respect. In Colornbia the modern school desk is not used, either in private or public schools. The kind used at present is home made amI very plain. I\ representative \'\'ho can speak Spanish and understands Spanish customs should be sent with a fnl11ine of sarllples sn;te(l to the needs of the locality. His path would not he stre1.Vll \vith roses, as he 1vauld ha"vethe' prejudices of the people to overcome, IHtt v\lith plenty of time and persistence success \vould be as-sured. The duty on furniture is 17 cents per kilo (2.2 pounds) and is an obstacle to importation at pres-ent. In Ecaudor schools are conducted in houses not built for the purpose anel furnishings arc poor-rough benches or chairs being used. American manufactur-ers have a field for the sale of their goods here \vith the aid of the municipal authorities of GuayaquiL Tn Brazil the mis::;ionarics have introduced American fur-niture into Rio de j ani.era schools and some states have follo\ve<l snit. Orders have been placed through the missionaries. In some instances the authorities £Irc makjnR unusual efforts to introduce modern methods and school equiprnent. The states have estahlished model schools and have attempted to fit them out VI"ith modern furniture and appliances. /\..merican school furniture has the lead and is the only kind imported. Th~school furniture in ~Iexico at Vera Cruz is not up-to-date. very primiti\Te in fact. In private schools the little children bring their O\II,'n chairs; there are no desks. Herc, as elsewhere. the i\..rnerican manufactllrer can get satisfactory results from the introduction of his goods. @ * @ Wire Much Used in Furniture. The \vire trade is separated into two relatively \\"('11 marked divisions-steel wire and copper \\;ire. The steel ·wire trade is much greater in volurne, but meas-ured by money the copper trade probably vvill not fall far behind. Broadly speaking, the uses are as differ-ent as the material, but at somc points they meet in the same employment, as for example in telephone and telegraph equipment. Copper wire is used almost ex-elusively in electrical equipment, while steel wire is an important factor in a great many industries. One of its most conspicuous uses is in the manufac-ture of cables for bridge construction, hut thenu111- bel' of tons consumed annually for that pW'pose ",,"auld be lost in comparison vvith the tons· required by the manufacturing trade for buildings and ordinary house-hold furnishings. Steel vv"ire serves may purposes never suspected by persons outside of the trade. There is not a hinge and hardly a butt on a door of which it does not form a component part. Every nail driven nowadays and every spring is fUfllished by the wire trade. A great rnany of the most essential household articles could not he llrarlllfactureJ without the aid of wire. @ * @ Hotel Orders to be 'Filled. A syndicate of capitalists \\'ill erect an open all year hotel in Rochester, N. ),:,., with six hundenl rooms. It will be up-to-date, The Dorchester-on-thc- Bay hotel to be be erected in Doston \,,:j11 have one hundred. rooms \vith hot and cold water and salt bath. A swimming pool GOxlOO· feet, a roof garden (to be used as a solarimH in winter) will be special features. The bay for a distance of twenty-five miles vdll be in view f~om the roof ga.rden. @ * @ "Boosting" the Town Hall. The furniture makers of Grand Rapids are "hoost-ing-" a proposition to erect a I'to\vn hall" in the city. capable of seating 7,000 people. Among those \V11O are active in the movement are Charles R. Sligh, Roy S. Barnhart. R. VV.Irwin and O. H. L. vVernicke. @ * @ Will Move the Show. In :Marcb. l!HO a business show \vill be put on in Chicago, to continue several \vceks. Cpon its conclu-sion the exhibits. dec.orations anel accolltrements will be loaded on flat cars and moved to St. Louis, where the g-ooc1s\\'ill exhibited for a Dumber of weeks. @ * @ Enlargements of Factories. Durjng the current year eight of the 1arge furniture manufacturing plants located in Grand Rapids will be enlarged by the erection of additions to existing struc-tures. The employment of thousands of additional workmen and increased outputs will follow. 4 MICHIGAN ARTISAN RELICS IN WHITE HOUSE. Little Furniture and Few Furnishings of the Olden Days. The 'White House was built on classic lines and stands as a monument to Vii'ashington's and] efferson's judgment in following the principles of the masters in architecture. Its first occupants, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and John Quincy Adams, all were men of high culture and refined tastes. They were familiar with the most brilliant courts of Europe. It therefore follows that the furnishings of the White House of their choice must have been of the same kind and in the same good taste as that which they pur-chased for their family residences, much of ,~rhich is proudly preserved by their descendants. Had there been from early days a properly appointed curator of the furnishings of the president's house, it now would contain some furnishings, at least, such as grace the old John Adams home at Quincy, Mass., today. The handsome mahogany doors and the mahogany woodwork in the state parlors and family dining room of the White House were retained in the :VlcKim res-torations, made in the summer of 1902, and are the or-iginal mahogany which Hoban used when he rebuilt the mansion after its destruction by the British in 1814. Of course a great deal of the furniture and bric-a-brac in the house at that time was destroyed, but by no means all of it. Mrs. Madison knew for some days that the British were comit,g, and she tells of the difficulties sbe encountered during those days in obtaining wagons to carry. the things she most desired to save. Everybody knows the story of how she had the portrait of Washington Cllt from the frame and con-signed to the care of trustworthy friends, but whether it is the large painting n'ow hanging hl the red room is decidedly doubtful. The classic Italian marble mantels, now in the red and green rooms, but formerly in the state dining room, date also from the rebuilding of the mansion after the British fire. Between the windows on the south side of the green room is. 'a most interesting pier table. :\fro McKim found parts of it, broken and dis-colored, in the attic. He had it brought down, de-signed the classic legs, on which it now stands, to har-monize with the mantel, and had it placed between 'the windows. \Vith the handsome mirror whkh snr-mounts it is one of the most attractive features of the green room, which by J.nany is considered the most ar-tistic of the state parlors. There is another original piece of furniture in this apartment. It is an octa-gonal white marble table, severely plain but of grace-ful outline, and was undoubtedly chosen by one of the very early mistresses of the mansion. There was comparatively little bric-a-brac in the White House when the restoration was made in 1902, which Mr. McKim regarded as being worthy of a place in the president's residence~ and this was unquestion-ably a correct estimate, although some pieces were dis-carded, which fOf'historic associations seemingly might have been retained. From just which administra-tion sOme of this bric-a-brac dates is a hard matter: to determine. , . Probably the oldest piece in the mansion is a tall vase of French faience, decorated with a rural Scene and bearing on its rounded standard the inscription: "Sue des environs de Passy prise de la maison de Franklyn." The tradition is that this vase was pre-sented to Benjamin Franklin while he was the Ameri-can diplomatic representative at Paris, 1776-'85, and that a good many years after his death it was given to the president's house. A few years ago there was a mate to this vase, but one summer it mysteriously disappeared from the White House, as so many otber of its belongings have done. There are two other French faience vases, decorated with figures which are of the Same period as the Franklin vase, but of which there seems to be no record. On the mantel in the blue rOOm rests the most 11is-toric clock in the house. It is of heavy French gilt, and its oblong base is covered with the emblems of the first empire. The clock is surmounted with small fig-ures of Liberty. It was presented by Napoleon 1. to General Lafayette, who on the occasion of his second visit to the United States gave it to the 'White House as an expression of his appreciation of the kindness he bad received from the American people~ There is a small inlaid, lacqtt~r cabinet in the green room which is accredited with having been brougbt to President Buchanau by the first diplomatic representa-tive from Japan. There used to be two Japanese bowls of the same make with this cabinet, but for Some reason they were discarded when the house was re-stored. At the time of the Centennial at Philadelphia in 1876 Austria, with other nations, made an exhibit, and at its close sent to the White House oue of the articles of its exhibit, a handsome piece of tapestry mounted in a gilt frallle screen. It stands in front of the fire-place in the green room. What is perhaps the most intresting piece of furni-ture historically is the old cabinet table now standing in the room lately occupied by President Roosevelt as his den. This table was made from the lumber of the ship Resolute and presented to the United States during the Hayes administration, and around it the cabinet meetings were held from that time until the executive offices were: Dlovcd into their present quar-ters, the little building at the end of the west colonnade. The president's uden" also contains the three-faced black onyx clock which told time for the statesmen for many years in the cabinet room. A classic white marble mantel, its shelf upbeld by the familiar thirteen bound arrows and cap, replaced the heavy mottled marble mantel in this room at the time of the restora-tion of the mansion, and it bears a tablet with the fol-lowing inscription: "This room was first used for meetings of the cabinet during the administration of President Johnson. It continued to be so used until MICHIGAN ARTISAN N 1111 III tIll SILO - KOTE A Pigment First Coater, One that dries hard as bone, One that lays cloSre. One that requires Very Little Sandpapering, One that is made from A High Grade Gum. IT WILL PAY YOU TO TRY IT. Send for sample. THE LAWRENCE-McFADDEN COMPANY the year }cleMIJ. lIere the treaty of peace with Spain was signed.H The suite of furniture in the president's bedr00l11 is also interesting historically as it was made durihg President Buchanan's administration for the room oc-cupied b:r the Prince of \Vales \\'hile he was a visitor at the \.Vhite House, and has been called "The Prince of \~rales suite" ever since. It is of black walnut elab-orately carved with a fruit and leaf design, and there is a round center table beside the three regulation pieces of the set. The bed is finished with the high old-fash-ioned canopy and curtains. The library of the president's house was started by :Vlrs. Fillmore, who, with the late :\:lrs. Emily Donald-son \i\Ti1cox,the daughter of a niece of President Jack-son, who was born in the 'Alhite House, chose the first books which went into it. It is in the oval room on the second floor, over the blue room, and has ahvays been one of the most attractive apartments in the man-sion. Aside from the books, it does not now contain much of historic importance. ~[,here is a handsome old davenport which has been there for two or three generations, and several pieces of bric-a-brac \',.'hich were purchased by President Arthur. This ,"vas :Mr5. John Adarns' reception room. J magine the interest we would have in it if it contained today the furniture \vith which she furnished it! Several very handsome pieces of bric-a-brac anti other ornamentations have been added to the \-Vhite PHILADELPHIA, PA. Jill' ,f·· p ,.. - _- - I ~:::- .. III ,,,•• =. 11lLII' House since the restoration of '02. 1I1r. 1'IcKim de-signed at that time, the graceful vases standing in the niches of the east stairway. tIe also chose the oid Flemish tapestry hanging on the north wall of the state dining room. The exquisite blue Sevres vases, three feet in height, standing at the right and left of the large ,"vindaw opening upon the east colonnade were presented by the French government some time before that date. The French government also gave the artistic busts of VIashington, Benjamin Franklin, and Jefferson, which grace three of the east room mantels, and the one of Lafayette, which rests on the pier table in the green room. This gift is to be increased by a bust of Lincoln, and the generous French government has commissioned "!vIrs.Saint Gaudens to make the design for this from the well-known Saint Gandens head of Lincoln. The gift of the bnsts was accompanied by ejght exquisite Sevres vases,. in wisteria, maple leaf, columbine, and {leur de lis designs, which ornament the east room mantels. \Vhile .Mr. l\JcKjm consulted -;VIrs.Roosevelt in all his plans in remodeling and furnishing the mansion, and the refined, stately apartments are a monument to her good taste and judgment, as well as to Mr.Me- Kim's, yet she chose but few art ornaments for the mansion. \'lhen l\'trs. Roosevelt removed from "the cabinet in the red room the Japanese figures represent-ing the dress of the different periods in Japan's history, - -- ~~~~--~- M Ie HI G A N ART IS A 1\ ----------------------_.~. I!II I! II II I ._---------'-.~----------_. ~~y, C ~~~:~e~:~ ija~:mt, 'J ee"" O. Walnut, e""'l ~.. Curly Ma pIe. ~On ~J," d neers Bird's Eye MaPle,. 1...10, e .hr ..a.cle ~ e Basswood, c:.. D in \:\lg .U1 ~f~:\\e~t.1.1~· .1 nea\ers \,1PS, t<\1Cll1GPJ'I BIrCh, ~J," J ano v R",ND R'" Maple. C. \:urel'S '1>".< St.. G Poplar, "'" nUl.aC 2-3 Set' Gum, \~~a.· Oak. 6 r------ III !III 1. . which the Japanese ambassador, Baron Takahira, pre-sented to her some time ago, she had them replaced with several ~111allSevres and Limoges vases and some miniature Biscuit de· Sevres figures, which are exceed-ingly Jainty and pretty. It will have to be acknowledged that the historic portraits in the VVhite House are not an 'unalloyed joy. Unfortt111ate~y the best qilalified artists have not al-ways been employed in painting the portraits, and there has been a remark:fi,ble disregard as to the size or scale of 'the paintings, or the d?aracter of their frames, either to 1pake them harmonize: \\'ith each other or to fit their architectural environment. This is es-pecially to be regretted, as the portraits of the presi-dents are really an official collection, selected and pttr- 'chased, through a committee of course, by congress, and is an evil which should be remedied as rapidly as possible. Sargent's picture of Roosevelt hangs on the west wall of the main hallway and is regarded by artists as the best canvass in the house, although President Roosevelt's friends were not enthusia.stic over the Iife-likeness of the picture. O'n the opposite wall is a pic ture of lVIcKinley, which was accepted because of the enthusiastic indorsement as to its likeness to the orig-inal by the late Senator Hanna, but the technique of the painting cauSes gnashing of teeth among the artists who see it. On the v-lalIs of the corridor running back to the main hallway hang the portraits of .Benjal111l1 Harrison and Grover Cleveland, by Eastman Johnson; the life size painting of Aruthnr by Huntington; and One of President Garfield by E. F. Andrews. The only ','First- Ladies of the Land" who have been honored by having their portraits hung upon the \Vhite House v.'.a.Ils are l\frs. Roosevelt, Mrs. Han:-ison, IVlrs. Hayes, Mrs, Julia Gardiner Tyler, Mrs. James K. Polk and Mrs. Van BurelL These hang upon the walls of the ground floor east corridor, and from want of out-door ligbti'ng, have to be under electric lighting, which is, of course,- unfortunate. The pi~tLlre~ in each case have been gifts to the White House. The Daughters of the American Rev-olution gave the large painting of lvlrs. H,arrison, and the \-Voman's Christian Temperance Union the one of Mrs. Polk, bnt there is 110 record ·of the Jonors of the' L Foreign and Domestic Woods. Rotary. Sliced, Sawed. portraits of Mrs. Van. Buren and Mrs. Tyler. The lat-est aJJition is the painting of Mrs. Roosevelt by Char~ tran, which was presented hy the French republic to our government. Itis"ttnfair and .Ul1COurteollS in us as a nation that all of the wives of OUi presidents are not represented' among the portraits in the. \iVhite House, and it is hoped this stigma may soon be removed. An effort is to be made to enlist the women of the states who have, had the honor of having. a daughter who has been the mistress of the White House to club together and place her portrait upon the walls, a'S the women 9£ Ten-nessee did for Mrs. Polk In this effort care will be taken that only the best artists are commissioned to do the work and that a uniformity of 4esign,is followed in all the pictures. The mist historic part of the ·White House-that is, the collection of presidential ware-is contained in six cabinets standing in 'the lower east corridor of the mansion. Soon after 1\1rs. Rosevelt 'became· the mis-tress of 'the mansion she saw 'that there was n'othing in it representative of the great majority of th'e presi-dents who have occupied the --high office beyond their portraits. This and the desire to save something of the presidential china which "vas then in the \Vhite House led her to start the collection. She was so StlC-cessfulin this endeavor that the collection now·con-tains some piece of china, plate, or glass which was used by every president's family except those of Zach-ary Taylor, ,Villiam Henry Harrison, Tyler. Van Buren and Johnson, and 'efforts are .now under way whereby it i'- expected that the collection will be com-pleted within a year. It has been made. a part of the Bureau of public buildings and grounds, and is the permanent property of the government.-New York Times. A Temple for the Elks.. A great maily men engaged in the furniture and kin-dreJ trades will he pleased to learn that Daisy lodge, E. P. O. E., of Grand' Rapids, has determined to erect a temple during, the current year, and that it will be ready. for occupancy during the January selling seasQn In 1910. Thousands of m<lnufactt1rers and salesmen are members of the fraternity. MICHIGAN ARTISAN 7 ~ \ ---------- ------------------------... I CHOICE TOOLS FOR FURNITURE MAKERS \ I . I ! If you do not know the "Oliver" wood working tool" you had better give "OLIVER" ! I us your address and have us tell you all about them. We :make nothmg but No. ~:. ~ch~~.SawI : Quality tools, the first cost of which is considerable. but: which win· make Made wilh orwithout : more profit for each dollar invested than any of the cheap machines Rood- ~bt:3i~i}:(,YI~ ,val , ,. h take IS" UDder the • t mg t e country. auide- tills 45 clegfeea t I one way and. 7 degree~ • l the othel" way. Car - " Oll'yel Tools riefta saw liP If) 1%" , wid.. o"ide brio, ' I to lower- wheel ~ha.ft I I Save Labor when notmotordriven. I, Weighs 1800lbs when t Time ready to ship. : t, •. Tempers t' : •• Co&1 : ,:, 'I' " "Oliver" New Variety Saw Table No.II· I : Will lake a saw up 10 ZO~ diameter. Arb,}[ belt is 6~ wide : , ' ~ Sendfor Catalog "B" for data on Hand Jointers, Saw Tables, Wood ~ , Lathe&, SandeJ"3. Tenoners, Mortisers, Trimmers. Grinders, Work : ~ Benches, Vises, Clam.p8~Glue Beaten, etc., etc. , I OLIVER MACHINERY CO. ! II Works and General Office. at 1 to 51 Clancy St. ~ BRA~COHFF~C-O~~:=:~::;:~'::~~~~·~~~i~C~Ih.~u~·SOct.~N, ewYork; I I OliVer Machmety Co., Firtt Nallonal Bank Bmldiog, Chicago, Ill.; Oliver Ma.chinery Co. ! Pacmc Buildinll. Seattle, Wash.; Oliver Machinery Co ,20 [.203 Deanagal"" Manchester, Eng: ""---- -------------_ .. The First Veneer Plant Estahlished in the West. There is no name more widely knO\vn in the west atTlOllg manufactnrers of furniture, pianos, interior ,"vood work and others uSIng veneers and fancy "\-voodsthan the name of Albro. The late Henry Albro, father of E. D. Albro, of Cincinnati, established in 1838 the first veneer mill west of the Alleganies, in Cincinnati, and l\{r. E. D. ./\lbro, president of the ~\lbro \; elleer Co., on \Vest Eighth. street, is proud to sho,",,"visitors the picture of the old min, for he \\,as born in that same year in a house located upon the hill to the rea'r of the factory, from which a fine view was had in those early Jays of the Ohio river and surrounding country. l\h. Albro, therefore, may be said to have spent his \"hole life in this line of bl1siness, and there is no better judge of fancy woods and veneers than he. The v\7riter is proud too of his acquaintance and friendship \vith l\lr. Albro for morc than a quarter of a centur)·, and on every visit to Cincin-nati is glad to call and rene\v old frienclships and talk over the times of the past. The Albro Veneer Company of which E. D: Albro is the pr,esident and general tnana-ger. operates a plant that was fitted up uncler his exper-ienced and watchful eye. and nothing has been oinitted that \\'ould tend to make it complete in every tray. Every department is in full operation, turning out veneers and thin lumherirom imported and native woods. Among the most beautiful of cuts are Persian circassian walnut. \vhich is said to be vcry much superior to the Turkish Circassian walnut. In addition, every variety of mahog- . any and rose,"voo<1are to be seen, both in the logs ;and in veneers; also the finest quartered oak, birdseye I'naple, Hungarian ash, birch, gum and in fact everything that can be of 'value as cabinet ·woods. The \vnter was espec-" ially interested in a log of Tiger \vood, which \vas in ·the process of cutting into one-twentietl~ of an inch veneers, with a segment saw. This log came from British Guinea, on the east coast of Afric.a ; it \vas bought hy the pound, and is worth 1\venty cents a foot. It is a rare specimen, beautifull,Y striped, and resembles the stripes of the tiger; hence its name. The Latin name, as given in the encyclo-pedia is IVfacheiunm-Schemburgku, and is a variety of citrDl1 \vQod. This company makes' a specialty of cigar box lumber, and the writer was given a specimen of sliced veneer cut 16G to the inch. l3y holding it up to the light it becomes transparent. ':.\11'.G. B. Hopkins~. the treasurer of the' Albro Veneer company, is a bright young man full of enthusiasm anJ. rapicl1y learning all about the veneer business. He calls on the trade. and will :-:"0011 be: as ,"veHknown as any of the old timers. @ * @I Cold Feet. There are no pessimists in th~ ranks of the, manufac-turers of furniture. Occasionally a salesman is at-tacked with chilliness in his pedalics, v,rhen his useful-ness in the trade goes, and he elrops out to work on dad's farm, or to live upon the earnings of his wife when she takes up millinery or dressmaking. 8 MICHIGAN ARTISAN Improvements in Sanding. The great results in the sanding and polishing of flat and irregular shapes in wood attained by Wysong & Miles Co., by making a specialty of Belt Sanding Machinery, is only faintly indicated hy words. Their suc-cess has been marvelous in producing. machines to do sanding in a practical manner, and with great speed, handling shapes that hitherto it was deemed impossible to sand except by'hand. Their machines sand more perfectfully than by hand and many tirnes as fast. The ha1f~tone shown herewith illustrates only in a partial way the adaptibility of their No. 1'71 to shapes used in the manufacture of pianos. :!.\.1.anyvariations of each of these shapes are equally as easily sanded. Moulded shapes indi-cated, such as convex and concave surfaces of piano falls, moldings, shaped' edges, raised edges of panels, Ctoss,-veneered mouldings,are no"{ perfectly and rapidly sanded and polished by belt. The quality of work obtained by these belt sanders' is of the highest; it is more perfect than the finest hand work The speed attained is fron~ four to -fifteen times as much as by hand. On flat surfaceslhe machine shows up equally adva.ntageous, giving the highest quality of finish and the greatest amount of product. The man-ufacturers guarantee that no' other belt sander (none excepted) will do as much work or do it as well or COveras large a range of work as those of their make. This improved machine is adapt-able to lengths up to twenty feet or more and of any width, and will not cut through even the thinnest veneer where the work is warped or cup-ped. Further particulars will be furnished hy the Wy-song & Miles Company, Greensboro, N. C. @) * @ To Prevent Industrial Accidents. A committee of the legislature of the state of Illi-nois is framing a bill relative to "the use of safety appli-ances for the" prevention of industrial accidents. The act provides for the appointment of a commission to in-vestigate the subject, and it is expected that Sane and practical legislation will follow its recommendations. The commission must have co-operation of all interested par- • THE NEW GRAND RAPIDS MACHINERY STORE Wcod Working. Machinery Factory Equipment Machine Knives, Bits, Etc. Everything in Equipment for the Woodworker. Off'Jee.nd -Store, 58 South Ionia St .. Oppoaite Uilion Depot. McMULLEN MACHINERY CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. L ties if it is to get good results. It must be bold enough to take advanced ground where necessary. It must be tactful and judicious on occasion. The need for such a study as it is to make has long been apparent. In fin~, l it has a splendid opportunity to do a work that will brinll" .about notable changes in conditions of industry. @ * @ Will Rebuild at Once-Filling Orders. Hood & Wright, manufacturers of fine figured ve-neers and panels at Big Rapids, Mich.., suffered a con-siderable loss recently by a fire which destroyed a part of their plant. The firm wilI replace the burned struc' ture by a larger and modern building with all possibl¢ dispatch. In a letter to the Artisan, the firm give the following particulars in regard to the fire: "We lost all buildings on the south side of the road, in \vhieh were comprised our dry kiln, boiler house, too~ house and grinding room, as well as our veneer cutting room. The loss is total. Fortunately, we have wate~ power connected up with OUf buildings on the north sid~ of the street, which we use for our panel department and storeroom. Here we can go on with OUf panel busines$ and hold our customers, many of whom have expresse~ sympathy, and say they will stay by us. Vie don't think it will hinder our output. Our loss of $25,000 is in-sured for $8,000." @ * @ On account of the slowness of the mail service, a trav...; eling salesman in the northwest is considering the advisa.,; bility of employing homing pigeons when sending in· his orders to the factory. He would not need many birds at present. MICHIGAN ARTISAN 9 r--------------· F R SALE-Fully Equipped Woodworking Plant I Suitable for planing mill, box factory, furniture manu-facturing or any kmd of woodworking business. Splendidly f I located in Michigan. Better than a bonus. Investigation 1 solicited. Address L. M. M., care Michigan Artisan. k--__ _~ ---' rIB. W At TER &. co-:- }"NADU~~ll M,nufa'tum. ot T ABLE SLIDES Exclusively I WRITE FOR PRICES AND DISCOUNT i "- ----"""" ::;;;:;;;;~:---:;;;;;-;:----'l We can help you. Time ; saved and when don-e I leaves are bound (by your-self) and indexed by Boors I or departments. f BARLOW BROS., ,. Grand Rapid., Mich. I --_.Write Right -,-Vow. ------' ------ I! '---- -, I -------------------'I -SEE _ West Michigan Machine & Tool CO., Ltd. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. for ",Gtf GRI\DE PUNCtfES and DIES ~-------------------- I 1Loufs babn DESIGNS AND DETAILS OF FURNITURE 154 Livingston St. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN Citizens' Telephone 17<12. I• ~---'--_._------ If your DESIGNS are right, people want the Goods. That makes PRICES right. ~Iarence lR. bUls DOES IT 1,63 Mad;'on Avenue-Chizoo' Phone 1983, . ----------' GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ROLLS THE "RELIABLE" KIND THE FELLWOCK AUTO & MFG. CO. EVANSVILLE, INDIANA. 10 SPINDLE MACHINE ALSO MADE WITH 12, 15,20 AND 25 SPINDLES. DODDS' NEWGEAR -------1 DOVETAILING MACHINE IMPROV<D, EASV." ELEVATORS QUICK RAISINC Belt, Electric and Hand Power. The Best Hand Power for Furniture Stor~s Send for Catalogue; andPricel/.; I KIMBALL BRS. C., 1067 N;.,h St, Council Bluffs, la. Kimball Elevator Co •• 323Pro~pect St., CLeveland,0,;1 '-- Wa.lltn St., Omaha., Neb.-; J-:WC-ed-ar -St.,-N-ew-Y_ork -Ci1ty. This little machine has done more to perfect the drawer work of furniture manufacturers than anytbing else in the furniture trade. For tifteoen years it has made perlect-fittil'lg, vermin-proof, dove-tailed stock a possibility_ This has been accomplished at rednced cost, as the machine Cllts dove-tails in gangs of from 9 to 24 at one operation. ALEXANDER DODDS, Grand Rapids, MicbigaD. Rep~M!!njed by Schuchart &- Scbutoo at Berlin. 'Vienna, Stocl:Jl<llrn and St_ PeletsbuflI. Represented by Alfred H.Schutle at Cologne. Bruuell, LiOllge.Pam Milan and Bilhoa. Represented in Grellt Britian and Ireland by the Oliver MllclUnery Co.,F. s. Tho~. M~., 2DI·203'DeaR8fJl.te, MlI:~r, EDM'1,uuJ. _J 10 MICHIGAN ARTISAN igRaplQs.f\ie~ An Unique Business Office. "fhe Oliver IvIachine. company, Grand Rapids, has an office which -in its finishing and furnishings is unique. 1t is large and airy, and its beauty is-in its apparent prim-itiveness. The east and southside arc all windows. The \-vest and north side arc in rough facing brick of a -neutral tint, with a big fireplace and mantel. The fin- : ishings- arc in ordinary millsawed lumber and this is stained a forest greCH. The floor is six inches thick, in six to eight-inch \vidths, and is so laid as to_produce a loose effect.' The furnihtrc, except the filing cabinets and some of the chairs, is made of rough mill sa\ved- lumber put to-gether without nails in true- mission style. The office tables, with crude underpinning, have tops -of solid mahogany, with rough edges, but with the tops made smooth for COll- " venience in use. On the wall are many rare old English engravings, and these are framed in rough hUl1- ber stained to harmonize with the finishings and furniture .. Th~effect as a whole is· that of an office thrown together of such material as happened to be at hand, and such as might be found in the lumber camps or at the mines. Th~greatest claim to distinction is that it is entirely dif-ferent from any other office. If the Olivet office lacks ;'polish" it is not deficient . !".-----------.:-.---------.~ in comfort. With two sides of glass the office is as light M' 0r to n 110 US e II as."()utdoors. There are no buildings around it to shut out - - -- the air or to mar the beauty of the view from the win- (Amen""" Plan) Rat•• $2.50 end Up. daws. T;he settling basin park is iinmediately in franty H 1 n J just heyoud is the Mary Waters field· and then comes a O. te rantind vista of fields and woods and dwelling honses. ~ Sketch by Robert Leibuis, Student - in Grand Rapids School of Furniture Design~ ing. @ * @ Dust Arresting Outfits. The Grand Rapids Blow Pipe and Dust Arrester Company. have put in a complete outfit for the Packard Motor Car Compauy, of Detroit. There is probably not another factory iu the world that is fitted 011t like this one. The wood shop is twelve hundred feet -from the power house, across the boulevard; too far to make it practical to pipe the shavings atid sawdust to the furnace; as is customary. 00 they decided to hail the shavings, but as there is so much fine saw dust mixed with them, the standard bailer would not bail them. Nothing was left but to devise a scheme to separate the saw dust trom the shavings, which was accomplished and the shavings are now bailed and the sawdust sacked, making a valuable asset to the product. The Packard Motor Car Company have a 6,000 horse power steam plant, the largest in the state. The Grand Rapids Blow Pipe and Dust Arrester Company are also fitting out the Posse1iusBros~ Furni-ture Manufacturing Company "'lith a new fan and tiust arrester and refitting the whole works. This is one "of the largest furniture factories in the state of Michigan. They are also supplying tbe Kre!J- French Piano Com-pany, of Newcastle, Ind" ~ith a new modern outfit, re-" placing an old one. They are also fitting up the Hayes W.heel Company, of Jackson, ;vlich., manufactUrers of automobile wheels; al£O the Oscar-Felt aud Paper Com-panp of White Pigeon,lVfich, They recently fitted up the lvIichigan Felting Company, of Grand "Rapids, makers of felt npholstery. @ * Special Orde'I's. A number of important contracts for furnishing hotels place? with manufacturers of Grand Rapids thrc!1gh dealers during the past month helps materially in keeping up the output. I I• MICHIGAN ARTISAI\ ,.. -------- ---------- , : Wood Bar Clamp Fixtures Per Set SOc. ,! , III .._-----------------_._------ VER 15,000 F UR STEEl RACKViSES iN USE Price $2.80 to $4.00 2;1doz. Clamp Fb:lun:s bought by 01le mill last year. vVe ship on approval to rated firms, and guarantee our goods uncondi-tionally, Write for list oj Sted Bar Olamps, 'VUltS. Bench Slops, etc. E.". S"ElDON &. CO. 283 Madison St.. ChiCago. I RAPID·AOTING WOODWOBKBlt'8 VISE No. S: ~ .. ----------'I --------~--------------- i ---------_._---, l III •II II! III• • PITTSBURGH PLATE GLASS COMPANY L.ARGiEST .JoeErERS AND MANUFACTURE.RS OF GLASS THE w 0 R L 0 Mirrors, B.enlGless, leaded Arl 6lass, Ornamental Figured Glass, Polished and Rough Plele Gless, Window Glass WIRE GLASS Plate Glass for Shelves, Desks end Tebles Tops, Carrara Glass more beaulifullhaD while marble. CENERAL DISTRIBUTORS OF PATTON'S SUN PROOF PAINTS. g For anything in Builders' Glass, or anything in Paints, Varnishes, Brushes or Painters' Sundries, addrec:s any of-our branch warehouses, a list of which is given below: NEW YOR.K-Hudson a.nd Vandam Sts. CLEVELAND-'430-1434 West Third St. SOSTON-41-49 Sudbury St., 1-9 Bowker St. OMAHA-1101-11b7 Howa.rd St. CHICAGO ~442-432 Wabash Ave. ST· PAUL-459-461 J.acllson St. CINCINNATI-Broadway and Court Sta. ATLANT A, GA.-30·32·34 5, Pr]l'orSt. ST. LOUIS-Cor. Tenth aadSpl"'Ice SlS. SAVANNAH. GA.-74S.749 Wheaton ~t•. MINNEAPOLIS-500_S16 S. Th.trd St. KANSASCITY-Flftb and Wyandotte 5ts, DETR.OIT-53-59 Larned St., E. BIRMINGHAM. ALA.-2nd Ave. and 29th St. GRA""DRAPIDS, MICH.-39·41 N. Division St. RUFFALO. N. Y.-372.14-16.18 Pearl St. PITTSBURGH-JUI,,103 Wood St. RROOKLYN-635-631 Fulton St, MILWAUKEE, WIS.-492.494 Ml!Iorkl!lStt. PtIILADELPHIA-Pltcalrn Bldg., Arch and 11th St •• ROCHESTER.. N, Y·-Wilder aid,., Ma.in8 Exchange Sta. DAVENPOI\T-410_416 Sgolt St. SAL TIMOR.E-310-12,,14 W. Pratt St. ... ----------- ..---------------------------_. II IIII I II ----------_._-~ OFFICES, CINCINNATI~-Second National Rank 'SuUdln!!!. NEW YORK-~346 'Broadwa.y. ROSTON~-18 Tremont St. CHICAGO-~134 Van Buren St. GRAND R,APIDS--flouseman Bldg. JAMESTOWN, N. Y.-·Cb.d.kola Bldtt. HIGH POINT, N. C.--Stanton-Weleb Bloek. The mos.t satisfactorY,and up-to-date Credit Service covering the FURNITURE, CARPET, COFFIN and ALLIED LINES. ---------_._----- The most acourate and reliable Reference &ook PubJished. OrIginators of the uTracer_ and Clearing House S]/'stem.'· I Collection Service Unsurpassed-Send for Book of Red Drafts. II H. J. DANHOF, MlchleanMana1ler. ____347_.348_H_ou.se.man BuUdlna. Grand Rapids. Mich.--' -l --------------------------- ..----------------------------_.~-_._----. II I Bldg. I !II I THE CREDIT SUREAU OF THE FUR.NITURE TRADE The LYON Agency Grand Rapids Office, 412.413 Houseman c. C. NEVERS, Manager CLAPPERTON &; OWEN, Counsel Furniture THE STANDARD REFERENCE BOOK CAPITAL, CREDIT AND PAY RATINGS CLEARING HOUSE OF TRADE EXPERIENCE THE MOST RELIAIlLE CREDIT REPORTS ROBERT P. LYON, General :Ma.na~er CREDITS and COLLECTIONS COLLECTIONS MADE EVERYWHERE PROMPTLY - REUABLY >---------------------_. ----------------" 11 12 MICHIGAN ARTISAN • Write us for Prices on ·CROSSBANDING I in Poplar. Birch and Gurn. I "WalterClarK Veneer Company 535 Michigan Trust Building, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. . I~ ~ --. -l Color in Decoration. In Good Housekeeping for February is a most inter-esting discussion of "Color Harmony in Home Decora-tion.'" The authors, lvlary and Lewis Theiss obtained an interview with Frank Alva Parsons of the Ne\~' York Art 55hool and the res.ult is a very comprehensive treat-ise on the subject of color and harmony as they should .be applied to home decoration. The most important points emphasized by l\{r. Parsons are given below. Lack of color harmony in horrie decoration is as in-sidiously- harmful as lack of fresh air. Ademaod for bet-ter art ill the home has become universal in America. Eliminating the element of discord in decorations has brought. about a new harmony in the home. Rooms are fitted out harmoniously hy salesmen of the largest furnishing houses where four years ago not a salesman in America had any scientific knowledge of what he was trying to do. Mr. Wm. Sloane Coffin a graduate of Yale was the first to urge the necessity of teaching the art of color harmony in home furnishings. It was through hiseft"orts that a class in "'art in home furnishings" was fanned at the "Vest Side Young:;\tIen's· Christian Association in Nevl York under the leadership of Mr. Parsons. Twenty of the leading salesmen and best paid employes of the larg.estfurnishing houses in New York made up the class, A course of twenty lectures with discussions and quizzes was taken. The ciass was very popular and grew rapidly. Last winter a class of 101 took the course and the attendance was ninety-eight per cent. Women of wealth learned of the class through salesmen and asked Mr. Parsons to teach them. A class was fanned of many of New York's richest women. Then: are thirty-four members of this class which meets once a, week in the home of one of the members. Next winter the course will he doubled in length so great has been the interest displayed. The work done hy the women is similar to that of the men. It deals in harmony in color, form and decorations, Color harinony is based 011 color relationship. Color is formed first by the primary colors~ reu. blue and yeUow) then by combinations of these colors. Colors .are either b,lood relations or complimentary. The colors next each other are blood relations as yello\v and green. They are parts of one another. The ·complimentary colors lie op-posite each ot.her in a circle as ye1IO\'I-' and violet. So we have two "\vaysto form a color scheme by associating re-lated colors or'by combining complimentary colors. There should never be a mixture of the two classes. Harmony in color is gained by putting colors together that are re-lated. Colors that lie next each other in the spectrum are related and so are in harmony. But this harmony can be increased by making the colors still ITlore alike. Yel-low and green in: equal parts form a new color that is more harmonious than ttte original colors together. Com-plimentary colors may be combined with a harmonious result. Red and green tll.ixed in certain proportions make grey, an absolute neutral half way between the colors. Between red and gray\ve can obtain any tone of red by uniting red and green, the redapprdaching. grey as we increase the amount of green in the mixture. The same thing is true of green and gray, the green approaching gray as we increase the amount of red in the mixture. A red that is one quarter green and a green that is one quarter reu,harmonize better than pure green and a pure red. Better still is the harmony between a red that is half green and green that is half red. vVhen we get red that is three:-q'4-arters green and green thaCis three quar-ters red we get harmony of the closest kind, both shades being close to the neutral gray. An equal mixture of the component colors of each pair of compliments produces a neutral gray halfway between them. The spectrum comes to resemble a wheel \vith gray in the center and the original six colors for the rim, the lines of color radiating from gray beIng like the spokes. Three values are recognized -in color, hue, value and intensity. Hues of color change according to the proportion of its component parts. The value of color ehat1ges as it grows lighter or darker. The nearer ,white the lighter it is, the nearer black the darker it is. The sky is liglitet' by snnlight than by moonlight. Yet may be the same color. The difference lies in the amount of light. Yellow is the m'ost penetrating, color, violet the least. A turkey red is the brightest and most brilliant red that can be produced, In, choosing pape'rs, textiles furniture, carpets, each of these qnci.1itiesmust .be taken into con-siderati~:: m, and huq, value,_ intensity, resemblance to light or' darkness. If anyone color stands out more than another in a r00111the harmony is spoiled. The question MICHIGAN ARTISAN --_._----.I T,.,U TWO WINNERS IN VARNISH I This is the verdict of the furniture manufacturer who KNOWS ..-------_._------------------- i, jI THE EMBLEM OF SUPERIORITY i Paradox Rubbing I Is the best high-grade, quick-rubbing varnish ever produced. Can be re-coated I every day and last coat rubbed safely in three days. II Ti- Ki- Lac Is our high-grade first or second coat varnish. Dries hard to sandpaper over night. Last coat can be rubbed in twenty-four hours. The man who KNOWS is the man who WINS VARNISH DEPARTMENT. Acme White Lead and Color Works DETROIT, MICHIGAN ~--------------- of light must be considered; whether natural or artificial light will be used in the room. Colors appear different under two lights. They-are different. A blue vliallpaper looks green at night. The yellow rays of the lamp or gas gas arc absorbed hy the paper and the combination yel-low and blue makes green. Red by day becomes orange at night. In buying, articles should be examined under daylight and artificial lig"ht. The colors of nature should be rememberen and ill a room the lightest parts should be overhead, the darkest underfoot and the side walls be-tween the two soft colors are best. Gray harmonizes with all types of complexion in a family. The decoration of 0111' home expresses something-. A roonl must not only be a mere color harmony. it must be in accordance vrith the purpnsc of the rOOl]). In a library the colors should be neutral-nothing to disturb the oc-cupant. A ballroom should be just the opposite. The --_._-_.----., Bankrupt Sale: Sectional Bookcase Business I All of the assets of the HUMPHREY BOOK-CASE COMPANY, a going- concern, including stock, factory equipment, good will of the business, ac-counts receivable, etc.. will be offered for sale TUESDAY. MARCH 16th, 1909. 2 P. M., at the factory. 15th Street and Warren Avenue, Detroit, Michigan. This is a first-class business if well man-aged. Correspondence invited. J. E. WIDMAN } DETROIT W, E. BROWLEE Trustees in Bankruptcy. ~-------,-------_.-" --_._-------- ____ .1 clrav,.'ing room comes bet\veen the two, In a bedroom cool, soothing colors with few ornaments should be the rule. K0 elaborate pattern in wall paper or hangings to catch the e~yeof the convalescent_ r...o. ud colors excite one, soft colors are restful. The colors chosen for rooms of southern exposure should be quiet, a clark hall needs a bright paper. Yellow and }jght red rose arc best for this. Korth rooms need bright colors, yel1mv, neutral oranges and red. Between north-ern and southern rooms neutral colors of each of these extremes should be used. "A miscolored house may be positively injuriolls. @ * @ Supplies Shipped From Europe. :I\lanufacturers and jobbers on the Pacific coast im-port a considerable quantity of the supplies they use from Europe. The cost for freight is much lower direct when tramp steamers arc chartered, than w'len goods are shipped by steamer and rail. Oftentimes six months are required by the foreign manufacturer to make a delivery by water to customers in California, but as it is. the rule everywhere prevalent in the old world to re-quire that payment for goods be made in advance, the foreigner does not mind the time lost. @ * @) More Furniture Cars in Use. March ,hipments of furniture have enabled the rail-road companies to call into use many furniture cars that have stood on the sidings a number of months. - -- ----~---'~ - .- - _.- -- -- -- -- -- ------------- 14 KEEPING COUNT OF CASH. MICHIGAN ARTISAN --'- The Register and Its Value to Business in Modern Times. The use of the cash register in all kinds of stores and business houses has become so general that' the public accepts their presence as it does that of so many other modern inventions, without remark, After all, the most remarkable feature about the cash regis-ter is that it was lacking so long a time. Gp to the time of its introduction the storekeeper reli,ed on meth- -~-------_.~ AN OPPORTUNITY OF A LIFE TIME I is o£fered'to the right party. A splendidly equipped If Furniture Factory located in Indiana, one hundred miles from Chicago. Factory is brick, mill' construc-tion, about 73,OOOfeet floor space, with never failing I water pOwer. steam as an auxiliary, trunk line rail~ road spur. to the shipping room - door and into the lumber yard. "\fiB sell property on long terms or lease same with machinery, also have one million feet dry lumber, factory is in full operation the year round. Declining health compels the owner 'to dis-pOSe of the business. For full particulars address Hoosier 62; care Michigan Artisan, I Grand Rapids, Mich. '---------._-_._- .I ods that were almost pri[~itive in their simplicity. Though cl1.mbered with more or less clumsy safe.., guards, he still clung to the ancient custom of throw-ing all motley taken in during the day 1.nto a cash drawer to which· practically the en'tire force of the store had access"- The shopkeepers of Pompeii and the retail dealers of a generation ago used the same hit or. miss method of dealing with the day's receipts. Could some sooth-sayer have foretold to ~he confiding merchant of that earlier day that in centuries to come men would have in their stores a money changer of brass and iron which· would guard their money, count it' and at the end of the day tell him what goods had been sol(l, which apprentice had, made each sale. and the price re-ceived, un·doub~edl:r that soothsayer would have been regarded as a Pompeiian nature faker of the first water and the ensuing eruption of. Vesuvius would have been cons'idefed condign punishment l~leted out to those who harbored the vain babbler. After all the centuries of development in other di-rectionsthat intervened the salesman for a modern cash -register company' would pr:obably- have had much the same reception at the hands' of the progressive merchants of twenty-five years ago. But when he came he brought with him the proof of his assertions and the first real advance within the memory of man in the cash department of store keepers was begun. The casb register had found its place, \Vhen, in 1882, the proprietor of the "general store" in the village of Coalton, Ohio, made use of the first cash register, although he appreciated its value to him and the increased profits which resulted from its llse, even the wildest flight of his imagination could 110t comp~ss the enonnous business which should gtow from that seed. A manufactllr'ing company which in 1884 had but a single dingy shop employing one nian and two boys has today one of the most up-to-date and largest p~~uts in the world with thirty-four acres of floor space! and employing 7,00D people. ' Owing: to the marvelous rapidity with which the cash regis~er has found favor this ~yankee inve~tion is now adapt~d to reckon ·in the currency of a· dozen or more diffe*ent countries. It is as iproficient in handling the yen in Japan, the rupees and pice of India, the pound,s and shillings of England as it is the dollars alld cents of its native la·nd. Hundreds of thousands. of cash registers are now in USe. During the last year the sales exc~eded . all previous records, and \vith brighter business pros-pects in sight the comiI?-g'year promises a phen01l1e~lal increase. A Warm Campaign. M. E. Case, buyer for the Liudholm Furniture com-pany, Sioux CitYl Iowa, arrived in Grand Rapids on :March 2, acconipal1ied by Frank Donahue and wife. :Mr. Donahue is the proprietor of the West house, the leading public house in the city of the Sioux. During the past year a large addition to the hotel was ~rected and Mr. Donahue's purpose in coming to Grand Rapids was the purchase of ·furniture for the same.· Mrs. Donahue was very much interested in the deal, anq her suggestions proved of great value in selecting the goods required. The order for bedroom furniture was placed with the I\luske-gan Valley Furniture company, represented by Hugo '--~-------~ Standard Uniform Colors We are producing the standard uniform colors recently adopted by the Manufacturers' Association of Grand Rapids. These colors are produced with our GoldeDOak-OU Stain No. 1909 ilLDdFiller No. 736. Be.rly Englit.h-Oil Stain No. 5S and Filler No. 36. Mahogany-Powder No.9 and Filler No. 14. Weathered Oak Oil StaiD No. 281·. Fumed Oak-Acid Stain No. 45. Place your orders with us and get the Correct shades. GRAND RAPIDS WOOD FINISHING CO. ss.S9 Ellsworth Ave., GRAND AApmS~ MICH. Kanitz, secretary and Charles G.. \Vhite .. western sales-man. Orders for chairs and upholstered goods were· taken by Grand Rapids houses. @ * @ A Difference of Interest. 1fanufacturers of cheap and medium priced furniture are more dir,ectly interested in ~he changes proposed In the tariff on looking glass plate than the manufacturers of high grade stuff. Of the materials used in a cheap dresser the mirror plate represents, the largest si-ngle item. of cost, while in a similar piece of high gradel the labor cost is the largest item. For instance, the cost of a mirror for a dresse.r that sells for $1.00.00 is not much 1110rethan a mirror for a dresser tbat sells for $20.00. MICHIGAN ARTISAN ARTISTIC andINEXPENSIVE CATALOGUE COVERS LET US FIGURE ON YOUR PHOTOGRAPHING ENGRAVING and PRINTING PERFECT WORK at Right Prices PROMPT DEUVERIES COMPLETE CATALOGS MICHIGAN ENGRAVING CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN 15 16 MICHIGAN ARTISAN -------_. , i .._------ II b 11 ~ ~~z 0 I ';l I "~ I •"", I, .9'" I ~• "0 '3 ~ "~ <i :Ii ~" •.e "11 ~"t; •~ &l • MICHIGAN ARTISAN Ii Cabinet Makers In these days of close competition, need the best possible equipment, and this they can have in Our New Hand and Foot Power Clrcul.r Saw No.4. The stron~est, mosl powerful. and in every way the best rna~hine {)f its kin.d ever made, for tipping/:CfOSs-cutting. bonng and groovlllg. == HAND and FOOT POWER === MACHINERY Send for Our New Catalogue. w. F. & John Barnes Co. 654 Ruby Street. Rockford. ...'-----------------------------., , I ! raln16r'S ratBnt Gluino GlamoS ..--_._-_._---------------_._----------------- .... I I I ! I I : I I I • 1 I ! BARNES'l j ! I I ! i I ! ! I : I ! ! I I I I I I l I i I I I t ! ~----._-----------------------------------------.------------------ ------------~ IIII ,III• I I III I II , I I I I I I I I 1..,.~~re~~,~u~:!r"j':eniati~~i:~rI~~i~Jt~,it'l:J~(e1e;;'~;;n:;on:t~~;IedEInft-... M 0 R RIS woo D &. SON S Schutte, Cologne, Parilol, Brussels, I,lege, :\\oUlan,Turin, Barcelona, I I and Hilho!l. ! ,2714-2716 W. Lake St. Chicag6• III , ~.-------- ----------------------~ ~-----------------------~--------------~ The llbol'e ('ut is taken direct from a photograph, and show!'! the l'llTlge of one >1izeonly, our No.1, 24.in('h Clamp. "'c mllke six other "bes, taking in stock 111) to 60 im'hel'! wide and 2 in(~hf'lHthick. Ours is the most pracUcEtl metbo(l of dllnlping glued Hlock in use Ilt tile present tJme. Hnndrt\d.8 of factnriel'> ba "€I lldoptcd our way the pad year and hundreds more will in the flltnre. Let llS "how ~"nu. Let us send yoU the llameM of nearly Hll) factories (only (I, fraction of our Ilst) who ha.ve ordered and reordered many times. . Pl."OOfposith'e om' way is the hest, A post eard will bring it, catalog iududed. Don't dela'~·J but "THe today. A. E. PALMER &. SONS, Owosso, Mich. ..----------------------------_.-----------~ I MORRIS WOOD &. SONS' I ! LATEST PRODUCTION I I I The re~l1lt of thirty-five years of Cutter making ex-perience. Insist on havi1'g your new jointer fitted with the genuine Morris \Vood & Sons' 20th Century Solid Steel Glue Joint Cutters, for there are 110 oth~rs just as good. They cut the same perfect joint, when ne."", pa,rtly or fully worn out. They never burn. Reqlllre less grinding than any other make, saving time and cut-ter. No time ,'\.-asted setting up as with knives, and cost 1'0 more than other makes, Try a pair and be con-vinced. Write for prices and Catalog,No. 35A. 18 MICHIGAN ARTISAN ESTABLISHED 1880 "UBl-UIHI:D B" MICHIGAN ARTISAN CO. OH THE 10TH AND 2!o,.H OF EACH MONTH OFFICE-108.110. 112 NORTH DIVISION ST •• GRAND RAPIDS, ....ICH. EHTERll.D IN THE POSTOFFICf AT GR"".O RAPIDS, MICH" AI SECOND CLAU MATTSR. A letter \vritten by an official of a certain corpora-tion engaged in the manufacture of "ecclesiastical art furniture" was received by the Artisan recently asking for the address of a designer capable of preparing "first class Hat or perspective designs; a man who could, if need he, call upon prospective purchasers among clergymen." \Vith an experience of thirty years contact with designers, the Artisan is prepared to· suggest the names of artists who are capable of supplying any sor tof help a clergy-man might desire. If a clergyman needed advice in the purchase of a horsc, the Artisan would recommend de-signer New of Grand Rapids. If a clergyman wished to consult a designer on the art of music, the Artisan w<mld unhesitatingly name Louis Hahn, also of Grand Rapids. If a clergyman should seek information in regard to tha dramatic art the Artisan would write the name of John £. Brower, of Grand Rapids, in red ink. If a clergyman deemed it necessary to extend his knowledge of painting in oils and \-vater colors, the Artisan would mail to him the address of W. E. Horner of Indianapolis. If a clergy-man were to seck the aid of a professor of the national habit (the game of poker), or a man with a tank when he desired to entertain friends, he \vould be obliged to look for such assistance outside of the designers' fratern-ity. + t [t has,· been proven that in business as well as in politics slogans are of much value. The beverage that made a certain city in \Visconsin famous; the fur-niture that made Grand Rapids known to the world; the immense trade of George C.Flint & Co., in New York, and other 'successful enterprises numbering thousands have been built up with the aid of slogans. In discussing the value of a slogan recently, a traveling salesman employed by one of the great industries de-clared that a slogan set in motion in the factories a few davs before the late presidential election ensured suc-ce~ s forNIr. Taft. The slogan was· used where it would do the 1110stgood. "On the 1.lth of October," the gentleman declared, lithe country was overwhelmingly in favor of Bryan. A day or two later the working-men in the shops were advised to 'vote for Taft and keep your job.' The appeal to the stomach proved tHore potential than the appeal to reason.!' + + :Manufacturers of upholstered furniture are more pleased with the proposed removal of the duty on hides than the proposed restoration of the stamp act for checks and other forms of bnsiness paper. Shop hands are not throwing their caps in the air and shouting their approval of the proposition to be submitted to congress to impose a tax of four cefits a pound on coffee. + + The proposed reduction in the duty on lumber by congress 111eets the approval of manufacturers of fur-niture and kindred goods. @ * @ WONDERFUL DEVELOPMENT. EI Paso, the Rising City of the Rio Grande. John A. Covode, secretary of the Berkey & Gay Furniture Company, Grand Rapids, returned on March 6, after spending three weeks at £1 Paso, Texas, the gateway to Mexico. Mr. Covode played golf and enjoyed the wonderful attractions of the Rio Grande region. "EI Paso is a prosperous, growing city. ] t has daubed its population in less than four years, hav-ing at present «,COO. Real estate values have doub-led and .with the completion of the great irrigation dam now under construction at the expense jointly of the governments of the Vnited States and IVlexico, the whole region will advance rapidly in importance and wealth. 'Water only is needed to make the valley of the Rio Grande a great region for the pursuit of agri-culturt1 and the distribution of merchandise. Nine railroads center at EI Paso and for a territory six hun-dred mqes in every direction is the natural commer-cial center. vVith the development of the country will come largely increased demands for furniture." Mr. Covode's family will return early in April. @ * @ YOUR OPPORTUNITY. When a feller's in the gutter and is freighted with des-pair, And the future's lookin' dismal with no sunshine any-where; vVhen he hasn't got a nickel, and he hasn't got a friend, And the weary way he's tread in' doesn't seem to have an end; There's a chance for you, my brother, just to boost him up the road, To enconrage him a little and to lighten np his load; That's the time to prove your friendship, if it be sin-cere and true- \\Then a feller's in the gutter and he don't know what to do. @ * @ Valuable Antique Table' and Chests. Colonel Charles P. Calkins, of Grand Rapids, is the possessor of a rare old table and several chests a number of centuries old. These articles were brought from New Hampshire in the early thirties, and were manufactured in Europe. Colonel Calkins prizes the pieces ,highly. MICHIGAN ARTISAN 19 STORE FURNITURE AND FIXTURES, Demand for Them Shows a Revival in Other Business Lines. Furniture and display fixtures in the merchandise business has not only reached the point of a business in itself, but it has become an art. Along in the fifties and sixties mercantile life knew no such appliance as a willdenv nxturc or display form, Of cases with sliding doors for the pro-tection 0 f goods. l\Terthandise \v a s suspended in show windows on strings or c lot 11e s 1 i 11 e 5, strc\vt1 about the base and garments were heaped promis-cuously on tables or on the floor. Disor-der reigned and the salesman had to drag his goods out of chaos \vhcn waiting on a customer. Sho\v ,\vincll)ws were simp-ly for admitting light. At the present time the business of making and supplying store furniture and fixtures has reached ideal conditions. Fixtures and cases ha \'c become inclispcllsabe in the conduct of a well ordered store and interior decorations and winclow:3 dressers demand the fixtures just as a mechanic does his tools. There is 11O-W a great demand for them, an c:vidence of prosperity, because makers of store equipments soon feel effects of lethargy in general business lines. 'I'he lnerchants huy gao(ls before they do fixtores to sho\-v them. \Vhen they buy both in abunclance business must be good. One is amazed at the enormous !lumber and var-iety of stands, hall trees, pedestals-cases, seats and wardrobes used in the mercantile trade. The output of one factory alone in Grand Rapids exceeds one million dollars. ]'\\,0 others are of scarcely less im-portance. Sketch by Otto Jiranek, Grand Rapids, Mich, ® * @) An Antique Collector, A. D. Porter of the 1TichiganHarrel company, Grand Rapids, on the occasion of a visit to relatives in the state of Connecticut, met a lovable old aunty who was affecte(l with the antique hobby. She had collected many hun-dreds of pieces of furniture, china, rugs and laces and talked by day and dreamed at night of their values. Her husband was patient, good-natured, and indulgent, al1(l the pursuit of his ,vife's hobby greatly amused him, Dur-ing )'-1r. Porter's stay aunty learned that the Pecks, of Stamford, off-side relatives of Mr. Porter, had filled the attics of their homes with antiques, to make space for modern, If n{Jt altogether beautiful things, and became greatly interested. I-lcr curiosity expanded with the pass-ing of the days, and when finally ':\fr. Porter arranged fDr a visit to the Peck's 1vith 31mty, thc lady's heart was filled with as much happinc::s as a bride's on her \vedding day. \Vhen aunty \vas escorted to the attics the desire to acquire the beautiful things found in the discard was so overpcl\vering that8.he purchased a sufficient quantity to fill a freight car and caused them to be packed and shipped to her horne. ,,\Then several l,vagons conveying the valuables drove up to aunty's door the indulgent hus-banel's interest \vas aroused. "\Vherc do you intend to put all that stuff I" he enquired, "Why I hadn't thought of that. Can·t \ve build an addition to the house?" Oh, yes \ve could but \-ve \von't," the husband replied. I sug- Rest that you direct the drivers of those wagons to drive to the rear of our premises and dump the stuff into the Housatonic river, tvm hundred feet below.'''Aunty Porter bad a notion that the treasures might be stored in the harn, cJisplacing- the family vch1cle... Aunty's plan pre-vailed. @) * ® Oliver Machine Company's oreign Trade. A large trade in foreign cotlntri 5 has-been established by the Oliver ::\fachine company, 11 anufacturers of high grade v.,rood cutting machinery and utfits for manual and trade schools, Grand Rapids. Th' bw:iness is handled through a subsidiary company in orporated .under the British laws and with offices and arehouses in London, and ,~hipmellts are made to the bra eh by the carload for distribution all over the ,vorkl. he shipments usually go by way of l\Iontreal. The dema d for manual training iug outfits, both abroad and in th s country, is steadily increasing, and a number of new machines and devices have been brOl1ght out especially c ~signecl for such pur-poses. @ * @ H. L. Chandler has succeeded he \Vallace Company, furniture, etc., at Lakeview, Ore all. Iff, LHOLCO MANUFACTURER IN HIGH GRADE 5A SA CITIZEN5 FHONE 1239 27 N MARKET ST ~, GRAND RAFIDS. MICH. _____________ ..J 20 MICHIGAN BUSINESS MAN'S RUBAIYAT, Awakel For morning's cares must be begun, The shrill alarm is fierce as anygtlll. Reenll the maxim old and true that says It i~the early bird that gets the bun. Dreaming when sleep's soft hand 18y on 111YbraiN, 1Iethonght I Ina'de a llew ami solemn vow To cease the strain. \Vhen suddenly a V01c~, In accents harsh commanded, "Do it now!" Profit and price wages, interest and felli, Credit and cash; details that won't relel1t Next week, next year, some day, perhaps, I'll quit, But now my busy pencil C011l1tS per Cetlt~ Buy and sell and sell and buy again, Down to the office, sun, sleet or rain. Adding, subtracting, balancing" the cash Speculating on the yearly gain. a time turn backward in yOUT hasty flight. I need more time from dewy n~ort1 till night. TO'morrow, aye, tomorrow, I've a note That falls due at the bank and money's tight. Tod<lY the trust raised prices on my ware. Already they 'V,'ere higher than Is faIr. However, it's a business maxim true The price is fixed as cloth the traffic bear. 1"d like to get acquainted with my wife And get a bit of leisure ill my life. But, spite of all my work, my plans go wrong And keep me always bamcssed to the strife. And then my children three of them in all, It sUTely·is the bitterest of gall To leave the house at morn before they risc, Returning after sleep )las made its call. 1,.edgus, day books, cash bDOk~,joornals, files, Book accounts, receipts and salesmen's wiles; These are the texts of fiscal aptitude On him who learns them well Dame Fortune smiles. Last year, when things were gOillg fairly well, EYents came up that 110 ol1e could foretell And plung-cd 111e down to desperation's depths, Transforming heaven into gloomy hell. "All things come to him who waits," they say, AnI joy will·come to him who learns to pray. To "wait" and "pray" I'd like to add "and slave" And always ask the qllestion 'does it pay?' " T drink, ah! yes, the Ctlp that cheers. they say, But not the cup that c1~cers for me, nay, nay. I dri.nk wh<:.never, be it day or night, It's some advantage in a business way. @ * @ Origin of' Ornament. A most iilteresting series of six books on the broad subject of "Decoration," published in Londoll from lBS2-H~8G by,Sampson Low has been acquired by the Ryerson Public Libnry of Grand Rapids. The books fire illustrated with drawings of styles of ornament. the interiors of famous palaces and paintings, sculpure and art manufacturers. Space is given to the various styles in furniture and home decor-at ion and one subject that is discussed is the origin of orna-ment. It is said that the Egyptiatts were not the ori.glnators of the styles of ornament used by them but merely used what came to them from an island in the Atlantic called Atlantis which layoff the coast of Spain and opposite the - ---- ---------- ARTISAN entrance to the l\lediterran~all. Colonists from this island came to Egypt after the overwhelming del'uge had nearly submerged the land which is said to be the Azores of toaay, now mostly submarinc. Atlantis was the nurse and fosterer of civilization and the colonizing power of the antedeluvian-world. So Egypt received the arts and architecture of the island ready made as did Phoenicia. These people are said to have lived before the building of the oldest p-yramid in Egypt. Art, sculpturc, painting and the decorative arts of the earliest years of Egyptian art were found showing a matur-ity, consistency and conventionality too systematic to be entirety originated by them. Other people had done the experimenting and the Egyptian works are simply perfected examples of another people's earlier accomplishments. The other eastern. cotJ11tries such as Syria" Assyria, Persia, India, Asia ?dinor and Greece received tne arts from Eygpt. From Greece they ·were carried by the Etruscans 'who were a Dorian colony, to Ital~i. In the new world, 11exlCO and Peru received seven survivors of the deluge who founded seven tribes. Explorers have compared the ad of the new world \vith the old and there is no question about the resemblance between them. :\Jexican antiquities in sculp-ture were more crude while that of the East were developed by trained artists of the mother country irn.potte.d to Egypt. The IVlexicans and Peruvians were handicapped by the lack 01 proper tools and showed no skill in "realizing delicacies of proportion or refinement of detail." Their works were mere-ly imitations of architectural and ornam·cntal forms they bad been familiar with in their own coulltry. In the west the arts spread to japan and 1Jongolia and in th~ east to Rome, England, Spain and the .couqtries of northern Europe. It is thought that in the future when more exhaustive research has been made that the origin of ornament may be traced to 011C'. common source. .. Grand Rapids School of Furniture Design For full particulars write to II!I ARTHUR KIRKPATRICK, Instructor and Designer j 642·546 Houseman Building, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. MICHIGAi'-l ARTISAN ~------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------- I,,I• III I,!I II,, I, I,,, I II,; I I,I I!I j I 21 , If Ij I, I I II! WE MAKE PLANS AND DO ALL I DETAIL WORK WITHOUT EX- I PENSE TO OUR CUSTOMERS. I I II, II 20&-210 Canal Street II I GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. I Ben, M ..llll 1804 \ • OUR AUTOMATIC FURNAOE FEEf) R'VSl'F.M I ~._-------~----_._------------------------------ --------< aran~Ua~i~sDlow Pi~e an~Dust Arrester (om~an~ THE LATEST device for houdlin!!, shavings and dust from all 'Wood- 'i.('orhillg machines. Our nineteen years experience in this class of 'lc)ork has brought it Ilcarer perfectiall than any other system on the market today. It is I/O experiment, but a denwJlstrated scielltific fact, as 'lee have se-veral hUJl-dred of these systems in use) and not a poor aile among theni. Onr AutOlnat-ic Furnace Feed SysteJH! as shO'lun in this cut, is the 1110St perfect ,(f)orki!1g device of allY thing ill this lille. VI/rite for our prices for equipments. EXHAUST FANS SURE BLOiVERS STOCK. AND PRES-ALWAYS IN orlie. and Factory; Cltla:en. Phone 1282 22 ELEMENTS OF STYLE. MICHIGAN ARTISAN By Arthur Kirkpatrick, Instructor and Designe'r in the Grand Rapids School of Designing. Immediately following that period in the history of the manufacture of furniture which might well be called the "dark ages'! of furniture, people of wealth· and taste found that in order to furnish their homes vvith anything at all artistic or pleasing to the eye that they had to revert to antiques manufactured in the eighteenth century, There arose a very large and widespread grovIlth in the admiration for and desire to possess genuine Chippendale, Sheraton and Adams pieces, so much so that England and the c;ol1,tinent of Europe were raked from end to end by the hunters .Jf antique furniture, who picked up a lot of inferior arti-cles, in thehopc which dwells in the breast of every collector of antiques of getting something of great· value at a small outlay_ There are many romantic. stories of collectors who picked up in some out-of-the-way farm house, say a :Marie Antoinette table for a few shillings, and after-wards sold it for a fabulous price, or the man who purchased an old bureau for a song! and after getting it home, and commencing to scrape off the paint with which it was SIll eared, discovered that it was richly inlaid, of historical value and almost priceless. This craze naturally led to the antique dealers and small furniture makers lifaking" antique, anti many highly prized aiel pieces owe their existence to those skillful imitators. One of the most difficult to detect of these frauds was the ingenious manner in which they made really presentable articles from old chests, discardccl paneling and odds and ends of old lumber picked up when old buildings were being demolished. This state of affairs naturally camc to an end, but the beautiful lines and sterling worth of the old models had still to be satisfied, and a number of reputable man-ufacturers commenced to honestly reproduce period furniture, and sold it as reprOductions, and there is little question but that the reproduction compares in most instances very favorably with the original. There is; in every community, a class which will not be satisfied by the inartistic, whose taste for pure lines and good coloring and general harmony of effect demand that their furniture; decoration and all their surroundings, shall harmonize without reference to any past style or period. There is,,J10 reasQ1; why the fur-niture of Chippendale, Sherato,n, and others should be considered perfect. There~,as a demand made upon the architects and designers of the latter end of Queen Victoria's reign for something typical of their own time, rather than a slavish following of old masters, From the time of the later Georges, and all through Victoria's reign, furniture, decoration and architecture fell upon evil days. Art appeared to be at a stand-still, and there was created and put upon the market the most hideous and incongruous furniture that the world has ever seen. The America.n manufacturers, with a few exceptions, practically new beginners, fol-lowed along the same dismal lines, with perhaps more grotesque results. The first designer in England of any note of the Victorian period was one B. J. Talbert, who, had he lived longer, might have proved worthy to he classed with the great designers of the eighteenth century, but unfortunately he died young. The next move in the direction of freedom from c"ollventionality and purity of. line and color, ~n furniture and the do-mestic arts, camc from vVilliam Ivlorris, the eccentr:c artist, socialist and poet. \Vhen one considcrs -his wonderful versatility, energy and industry, and notes with wonder, the many things he did and did So vvell, it seems astonishing that he alone should stand out as the originator and as the undoubted father of the mod-ern wave in furniture which swept over England some fifteen or twenty years ago, and more recently com-pletely revolutionized America. l\'1ission, Arts and Crafts and the 110rris chair; everything that tends to daintiness, quaintness, purity and harmony in domestic surroundings, can be directly traced to the influence of Morris. Contemporary with and following :Morris were some very able men, notably one Robinson, who founded the furniture department of the great London House of Liberty, which in itself is now a recognized style. It is to be deeply regretted that Morris should have died, when little past fifty, as his remarkable genius might have solved for us today the problem which is eating the hearts out of the manufacturers of "vVhat shaH we make next ?" The same demand is heard on every hand. "Can't we get up something new, some-thing different, something that will get away from the other felIows?" COlOnial has been reproduced to death. There is not a piece of furniture made in the eighteenth century which has not been copied, meas-ured, and published over and over again for the delec-tation and encouragement of our designers, and yet 1111CHI G A N ARt I SAN ~-----~--------------_._--------------------------. TI BECAUSE IT [S PREPARED TO [NTEREST RETAILERS THF MERCANTILE liDlTION OF THfi MICHI-GAN ARTISAN [S TIlE MOST VALUABLE AD-VERTISING MEDIUM FOR MANUFACTURERS OF FUJ?N[TURE AND KiNDRED GOODS. ~--------------------------------------- each recnrring- season brings the same old groups of Colonial and "vQuld-be Colonial, in most of which the only good points about them are the finish and price. In casting about for another style to popularize, if we cannot invent a new one of our own, there secm~ to be nothing in view at the present time but the .:\Jodern English, or for an easy term, let us call it the Liberty style, or the mixture of Dutch, Queen Anne and Eliza-bethan which one manufacturer of our acquaintance aptly dubs "Cromwellian." @I * @ Kenne"\lvick, \Vashington, has a furniture store, op-ened recently by Kalf & Baz, a firm name easily re-membered. --_._----- Ii -----_. ----_.~ Grand Rapids Furniture Club. Contractor l\Jorgan is making excellent progress in the construction of the Grand Rapids Furniture Club. The buil(ling' adjoins the hotel Pantlind and members of the club and guests will be served from the cafe and buf-fet of that hostelry. Elegant dining, reading and loung-ing rooms, a spacious lobby, cloak rooms and other. con-veniences will be provided. The \valls are paneled in figured woods and the floors are of tiles, mosaics or red birch. Cosy open fires, handsome electroliers and a col-lection of the best furniture manufactured in the '''''orId will make the club a delightful resort for furniture men. @ * @ Will Manufacture Special Siding. John j\. Doxtater, of Grand Rapids, who recently received letters patent upon a new system for constructing store shelving has organized with an authorized capital of $2,iO,000, of which $50,000 is paid in. Thc company will operate a factory ionGrand Rapids. @ * @ Recuperating in California. J. \V. Oliver, president of the Oliver ]\1achine Com-pany, one of the important iron working establishments of Grand Rapids, is spending:the winter months in Cal-ifornia. He \-'lilt return early in April. MICHIGAN ENGRAVING CO" Grand Rapids, Mich. ENCRAVERS BY ALL PROCESSES. 23 r MICHIGAN ARTISAN ----------- ------------------------~ ROYAL WHITE MAPLE POLISHING VARNISH White-the Emblem of Purity--our White Maple Polishing VarnIsh is Pure-and. ~he WHITEST GOODS on the market. It dries to recoat every other' day; can be rubbed and polished in four to five days. Ask for testing sample. •• !• III VARNISH COMPANY! OH 10 ~ ROYAL TOLEDO, ~------------_._------- Tracing Stray Freight Shipments. AUlloyance, delay and expense are the results of the lost freight shipments, and while the blame for loss in transit often rests with the transportation companies, in some itl-st< lIlCeS it can be traced directly to the negligence of the consignee. For instance, a consignment of two cases of builders' hardware is made to 'Wallace, Brown & Co., Dartmouth, N. H" via P. R. R. and B. W. railroad. In the course of a week or so the shipment reaches its destination and a postal notice is sent to the consignee, who apparently ignores same, as no notice of it, and the shipment is placed in storage. The consignee was not ready for his shipment, so did not take the trouble to rep'ly to the postal notice, or have de-livery made. A month or so later he calls tip the warehouse and ill a peremptory manner inquires .after his goods. From his offhand description he is told that tilCY know nothing about this shipment, and he rings off in high dudgeun. The shippers ar~ requested to place a vigorous tracer after the shipment, and after a great deal of delay the railroad company writes back advising the shipper that the shipment is on hand at destination unclaimed, and to please advise of same at once. This is not always the case, but from actual observance has proven to be the way .v..i.th about two~thirds of the cases in which shipment was lost in transit. In other cases the shipment has been delivered and "lost" at the plant of the consignee, and after some considerable correspondence is found, shipment having been on hand dur-ing the whole procedure of tracing, presumably mislaid by their receiving clerk. What can a shipper do? He receives numerous requests to trace or duplicate the original shipment. He has received no report of delivery from the, railroad company, so there is nothing left hut to duplicate the shipment and enter claim against the transpor-tation company. A few days after the second shipmen has galle out word is received stating that shipment number one has been received and the transportation company requests that you withdraw your claim as delivery has been effected. As the shipper, it is necessary to render credit for the duplicate shipment when it is returned, and as often is the case. have to stand the charges both ways. \Vith just a little patience and consideration, a great deal of unnecessary ex-pense and trouble can easily be avoided. By this it is not meant that a shipper should be reticent abollt tracing shipments claimed "lost in transit." but that a customer should not be too hasty in his demands that a duplicate shipment should be made, or that shipment should be traced before it has had sufficient time to reach destina-tion, until the railroad company has had a challce to make delivery. \Vhen a reasonable time has elapsed then itis time to go after the railroads. A number of excellent systems have been devisel, which, if they received the proper attenton. from the railroads, would facilitate matters greatly and afford the shipper some little protection. One of these systems includes a recording device that with one op.:ration makes a "tracer," "acknow-ledgement" and the stub for use of the tracing clerk. The tracer for the transportation company, the acknowledgment to go to the party requesting tracer, and the stub remaillS in the book for ready reference of the shipper. This system is a good one, if it always received attention, being inexpen-sive and efficient, as it furnishes all the information necessary for the use of the variou" parties concerned. Something that will keep the shipper advised all the time of just what is being done is necessary, not alone for his protection and information, but for the benefit of his cus-tomer. Among various systems that are now in use is th.e regis- !Ii y;1 BARRETT'S PRIME SHELLAC VARNISH Iy; I!Ii y; made from strictly pure Shellac Gum cut Specially Denatured or y; In 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 il)."Barrett's Prime." Ask for samples and prices. y; !Ii y; 219 LAKE SMT.., L. BARRETT & COC"HICAGO I y; (!Ii . ;I~.~-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------~ I Here are the Exact Shades Adopted by the I I Qran~Rani~sfurniture Manufacturers'Ass'n I I r I , I,IIt III IIII Itt II !II III ,II ~-----------------------------------------_. MICHIGAN ARTISAN 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 ou"r No. 3429 Dry Mahogany Stain soluble in water. Send for Samples and Information. I!II IIIII III! • WE SUPPLY E\lERYTHING NEEDED IN T"E fINIS"ING ROOM. CHICAGO Tt-tE AO-EL.-ITE PEOPL,.E tered tracer system, tilal stands out prominently among the rest. As the name indicates, e,leh tracer is registered, and as it meets with prompt attention from the different railroads when properly filled nut hy the party tr,lcing; it keeps the shipper informed as to ju,;t W1J,lt j:; being uune with this particular shipment. These tracers consist of a cover, red in color, to better distinguish it from other papers, hearing a printed designat-ing number, there being 110 two tracers of the same number, the inside of the cover providing a blank form for full de-scription of the shipment being traced, including informa-tion as to name of shipper, consignee and designation, etc., \vhich information is filled in bp the party tracing and is practically a COpy of the bill of klcling or shipping receipt issued covering the shipment. Attached to the inside cover are ten record sets, each can· sisting of a thin sheet and a post card underneath, the thin sheet being permanently attached to the tracer, and the post c<lrd perforated at the top and easily attached, the printed form on the several sets being- identical as to the thin shcet and the corresponding post card. Each set bears its individ-ual lltlmber in addition to the tracer number. A sheet of carbOll paper is also <ltt<lcbed to the tracer cover. These sets are for the use of the railroad agents in show-ing their record of handling shipment, the tracer above de-scribed being of sufficient size to permit showing the move-ments of a shipment over ftve railroads, each road using two of the sets, one to bc filled out by the forwarding agent and the other by the road, showing delivery to connecting line. In tlt1ing out the tracer forms, the tracing clerk affixes a one cent stamp to each of the post cards and a two cent stamp to the cover, addresses all the post canis to the party desiriilg the immediate information ,wd also fills in the ad-dress portion of the cover. Tt is then forwarded to the agent at originating station, NEW YORK who fil1s in the first set. deposits it at the postoffice aud for-wards the tr<lcer in "R. R. B." (railroad business) envelope by baggage mail to the agent of the initial road, where the shipment leaves such road, who in turn flUs in set ~3,and fo(-- wards post card and tracer in the same manner as set 1. \Vhen set 10 has been filled in, whether ten cents were nec-eSSary or not, it is detached and dropped in postoftice and the tracer itself Jisposed of by folding the cover in ~uch a way as to disclose the return address portion of the tracer, alJd a rubber band put around the tracer and same deposited in the mails without enclosing in any envelope. By addressing the post cards to the shipper he is inform-cd, as the tracer advances, of e<lch movement of the ship-ment, and can see whether the railroad company is giving tbe tracer proper attention. If any agent has neglected his duty the shipper kno,vs just who it is and where to make complaint. By this method he is in a position to takc the company to task regarding any inattention, through the fact of his having the evidence at hand in black and white, in the form of his tracer post cards. The post cards themselves may be scnt to the consignee after llaving been filled in by the agent, as the retum of the registered tracer to the shipper gives him all the information required, though a trifle delayed, of course, but complete and ready for llis file. Some system as above, \'v-hile more expensive than most systems now in use, would seem to be the most satisfactqry and ecollomic way in the end for tracing shipments, as the fact of each tracer being registered and a set filled in and returned as the trace'! moves -along, keeps the party tracing informed, giving him a base to \""ork upon, and in the end is bot1l1d to bring results quicker than by any other method. As results are what is wanted from a tracer the system which secures them, even at a slight increase in cost. is really the cheapest <lnd most satisfnetory in the encl.-Travel-ing l\Jan. 26 MICHIGAN NEEDS IN FIRE INSURANCE. Gre,ter Care Should be Taken in Inventory Work. The subject of fire insurance may safely be said di-rectly to interest a larger part of the general Pltblic· than any other outside the vital problems of life \Vithout going into statistics, which would be impos-sible in 50 limited an article, we know that in 1907 the insurance companies paid in losses $135,270,569 to pro-perty owners in the Vnited States. The relations oh-taining therefore between, let us say, the buyers and sellers of fire insurance are very important. Fire insurance is not an exact science, that is, no matter how many risks of a certain class a company may have on its books it cannot be sure as in life insur- -----~---..-..,j Montgomery Hardwood Lumber Co. • Manufacturers of all kinds of NATIVE FURNITURE LUMBER • Crawfordsville. Indiana. • E. S. STERZIK. Pre •• ance that practically only a certain number will become claims in a given time, nor can it be sure what propor-tion of the face value of policies under which loss is sustained will be payable. These facts have-affected and governed the making or building up of premium rates for fire insurance, and as might be expected in any business where no more exact formulae than the above can be applied greatvar-iations ha,,:e been shown in rates at different periods or by different underwriters at the same period. The influence of competition has been and always will be a potcnt factor in the price of this commodity, especially in districts where no co"mpanies' agreement for the maintenance of rates exist, while a wide differ-ence of opinion as to the adequate rate on a certain character of risks has often existed between com-panies based entirely on \""hat their individual exper-ience was up to that time. Periods of reckless rate cutting have occurred in tbe past and still develop at intervals; at this date, however, chiefly limited to suburban or country dis-tricts where the personal equation of the local agents, with their SOl11.C time private business feud is in evi-dence and where the influence of the rating board of the larger companies is only slightly felt. Science has crept in, an arbitrary sd,euce you may say, in schedUling and indexing the business or mer-cantile risks of the larger towns and cities, and the work is being broadened to include the outlying dis-tricts as fast as may be. By calling the methods of r;~.ting at present in use arbitrary science, is meant that no decision that certain rates are adequate is final nor is it certain that if the fire experience of a year be normal in Kew York city while San Francisco suf-fered, let us say.that the rates in New York will stay the same. They may be raised to meet the deficit at the other side of the continent. This is apportion-ment and arbitrary adjustment. ARTISAN Class rating of risks, except for basic rates, to which would be added in each case loading of premium for de-terioration, deficiencies in protective featutes, occupa-tion, etc., as shown in the individual risks, cannot be successfully accomplished, except perhaps with dwell-ings which, according to construction materials used and "\-vhendistinctly in or out of fire protection, i. e., nearness to water supply and engines, have been ra-ten by class- for a considerable time ""vithas far as,is known a fair profit to the companies. }lost men insure their _business property adequate-ly and in direc.t ratio to the hazard of their occupation. Very few of the same men or any others adequately insure their private property or inventory it thorough-ly enough to know what they really own in values. Particularly does this hold true in respect to their household furniture, books, and jewelry. How many men if asked about the terms and conditions of the standard fire insurance policy of the state of New York could say they ever had read one over? The fact that not one man in a thousand knows anything of the legal contract he has accepted is a serious det-riment to high business development and plays not a small part in the terrible fire drama, enacted in so many places every day in the United States. Not until a fuller realization of the responsibility llt::volving upon owners and lessees of property be comes a reality will our abnormal destruction -by fire of property interest be checked and the general rate of premiums be reduced to a lower level. \Ve New Yorkers pay a high price for our fire protection, as we do for all the other privileges of living in the most ex-pensively rUIl civilized city in the world, and we seem to he proud of it and not anxious to change. If we wonld take the time to study and to carry out the best protective measures, coupled with stricter rules for the proper segregation of hazardous occupa-tions, either by locality, absolutely fireproof housing, or both, we would not continue very long to pay, for instance, from five to ten times per capita what citizens of London or Berlin find their cbarges. "Vith thous-ands of gallons of water a minute crashing through the windows of his building the careless owner and tenant would probably indorse an ordinance prohibit-ing wooden dust bins, the promiscuous throwing of oily waste, rags and papers under stairs, etc. Keeping away from technical details which no one will read or remember, what does the payment of say $300,000,000 a year for fire and marine insurance prem-iums mean to us as a tax? The American people are burning their forest interests down and their houses down at a most astonishing and satisfactory pace if we are trying to qualify as a race of pyromaniacs, bdt if our self-regard as a sane, progressive nation is to, be preserved to uS we must give more time to our fire: in-surance agent and not consider him merely a necessary eviL Out of all the hundreds of tbousands of dollars worth of clothing, jewelry, etc., on the steamer Repub-lic only a few thousands were insured. Had they: all been so covered the problem of the steamship com- . ~._--------------------------------_._-----------. : AND II I . I I I ! !I III.. • ..i MICHIGAN ARTISAN 27 OCTAGON PEDESTALS TABLE LEGS 'J.'hat is Ole Question; and a big one, too. How (10 you make them '! How much do the}' cost you? How good are the}', and are they uniform? Just take a little time and let these questions soak in. Because youmuy be wasting on [he manufacture of the Pedestal.',! and Legs What yOU save by eeo-nomical nUluufacture on the Top!I. Your profits at", then cut dOwn. Make the cost Of the differ",nt parts balance. One man with our panies for adjustment of loss to passengers \"'ould have been simplified. A better understanding of the causes of fire, its pre-vention and the true relations between the great fire insurance companies and ourselves is a national duty. 'fhe best advice to the reading, thinking public is to get in touch with a reputable and responsible insurance broker and g-o over all values with him; to make in-ventories, to check 11p existing policies and to take out suffic.ient in ad(lition to cover oneself thou roughly. :Particular notice should he paid to the standing of companies one insures V\!ith to see that the written or printed forms correctly descrihe the property covered and that all required clauses are attached. }·Jo one can fail of feeling a sense of satisfaction over a job ,",,,ell done, and while there will he in many instances a lot of hard ""vork involv('c\ it will he amply repaid in the event of a firc loss-l'\e\v York Sun. @ * @ "Opening" for Employes. The Charles S. Paine ',:ompany, manufacturers of high grade parlor and upholstered furniture, has a way of its own to keep its employes intcrested. One evening of each exposition is set aside as employes' evening, when everybody employed is invited to bring his family and friends to see the "line" as exhibited for the buyers. The evening is not without its social element, every-body, regardless of station or job, mingling on a basis of equality. It is in the n;:ltute of a reception. It has been found that the artisans take great pride in showing their wives and children the work they have been doing, and the latter do not by any means lack in interest. @ * @ Century Furniture Company Will Build This Year. The Century Furniture COll1pany, Gram! Rapids, have purchased the corner 224 feet on Prescott street and 165 feet on South Ionia street, as the site for a ne\\, factory. The plans for the building will be made dur-ing the summer, and it is probable construction will be started in the early fall. When the present management took hold in 1905 th~ entire building was leased, The business has out-grown the capacity of the building. The company LEG AND PEDESTAL MACHINE will make Oct.agon and Polygonal shaped turnings at one-tenth to one-twentieth of what it costs by ]oahd; round ones at one-sixth to one-tenth. The sllYillg in time and la,bor.is what makes that bal-ance we: were just talking about. NoW, d<m't Imy "tl:lfit sounds pretty good," and Il't It slip your mind. Just write us to-da~y. C. MATTISON MACHINE WORKS 863 Fifth St., nELOl'r, WlSCO'SSIN. I• lnanufactures high grade library, parlor and living 1'00111 goods and dining and bedroom chairs, and the goods have found favor with the tradc. @ * @ To Make Washing Machines. The Portland (Mich.) Manufacturing Company's factory will 'be used in the manufacture of washing machines in the near future. The buildings are under-going the changes and improvements necessary for the transaction of the business. @ * @ PERSONALS. Louis Kanitz, president of the :Muskegon Valley Fllniiture Company, is spending several weeks in New Orleans. E. L. J\Taddox of the Stickley Brothers Company, Grand Rapids, spent several weeks in Florida, and re-turned on ;\farch 1, when the weather. in the south had become too hot for comfort. John D. Case, secretary of the Sligh Furniture Com-pany, Grand Rapids, is spending a few weeks in Cuba, where he has important interests. Charles R. Sligh, president of the Sligh Furniture Company", has returned from a month's stay in Ari-zona. He has large interests in that territory. \Villiam H. Gay. president of the Berkey & Gay Furniture Company, Grand Rapids, and A. Nlargantin, the company's designer, have returned after a short tonr of Europe. A. \V. Hampe, president of the Royal Fnrniture Company, Grand Rapids, has arrived home from a tour of Europe, Robert \V. Irwin of the Royal Furniture Company wil sail for Europe on I\farch 20, E. H. Foote, treasurer of the Grand Rapids Chair company. having spent several weeks in the Argentine R.epubliCJ has started on a leisurely returl1 trip to Grand Rapids. C. F. Retting, president of the Retting Furniture company, is touring the far \vest. Harry Jordan. president of the Michigan Chair com-pany, will return from Florida about April 1. 28 MICHIGAN ARTISAN Old Painted Furniture. In a recent number of the Honse Beautiful the subject of old painted furniture is discussed under the caption "Some Good Specimens of Old Fashioned Painted Furniture," by Rose Standish Nichols. The vogue for painted furniture has been revived during the lQst twenty-five years with the popularity of the Colonial. style and has become especially popular in the last few years. \Vel! made and original specirncl1s have been found in out of the \vay places. Angelica Kauffman, the wen. blOW artist, who was so sought after in Loudon in the latter part of the 18th century, was responsible for the popularity of painted furniture at that time, al-though she was not the originator. Her work was done under the great cabinet makers of the time, Adams, Sheraton, Hepplewhite and Chip-pendale. They 'were very enthusiastic over her designs of garlands of flowers, landscapes, chaste figures with floati.ng classical draperies and mally minor forms. Angelica also painted a marble mantel for Sir Joshua Reynolds. ItaUan painters were also employed for this work and were very skillful in it. Their decorating was done on satinwood. Pcrgolesi was the best known of these artists. He was an assistant to the Adams brothers and was very successful. TiH~ motives he used were garlands and baskets of flowers, medalliol1s enclosing Iandscape.s, shepherds, shep-herdesses, cupids, etc. Later o~her artisaus took up this kind of dec-oration but on a simpler scale. Ordinary woods were painted. either plainly or to imitate the graining of rare woods. ]apannillg as it was caHed was often done It consisted in using turps i.nstead 'of oil to mix colors and was really only painting. The Japanese aud Chinese use lacquer in their process of japannillg. Their method spread to England and then to New Eng- If:nd in 1755. Painted furniture was imported to America be~ fore the Revolution ront England in the north and from France in the south. Tn 1'i97 811 English chair manufacturer in New York advertised to do "dyeing, japanning, wallgee work and bamboo work after the newest LOI](loll patterns" Or such pieces as chair», settees, etc. Often furniture was made to harmonize wit11 the wall coverings of the room it was to occupy. The solid wood \Vinlsor furniture was popular and with rattan and. split bottoms was often seen in drawing rooms, libraries, dining rOOms and bedrooms and for piazza use in summer. During the, eighteenth century the painted decoration of furniture was decadent. 1n 1806 it was used by "the third class of gelltry.~' At the present time there are two artists in this line in Vermont ami Boston who are doing splendid work in reviving old styles and traditions. Ch8s . .B. Ingalls of ,~rind50r, Vt., a man of so years, is very successful and has instructed Miss }oj. C. Hardy in the work, who follows in his footsteps and is inbusilless for herself. She copies his ideas and originates new combinations of styles. @ * @ and similar practices. In their petition to the service com-mission the merchants call attention to important facts: "Ow-ing to changes in business methods and conditions, shipments by express instead of by freight in many classes of commod-ities have greatly.increased, the use of the speedier ex-press service having become practically compulsory. Because of this forced substitution of express carriage for freight car-riage, a very large volume of commodities which formerly paid freig~lt charges which amounted to but a very small per- The merchants of New York have filed a petition·with the service commi.ssion asking ior an investigation of the methods pursued in the transaction of business by the express COlU-panies. Information is sought on the subjects following: Inequalities in charges-such as different charges over the samc route in opposite directions; different charges for equal distances; extra charges for delivery in excess of tariff rates; delays in delivery; failure to notify shippers of non-delivery; delay in returning undelivered goods; delay in s;:ttlement of claims; disregard of specified routing; unreason-able requirements as to methods of packing; delay in account-ing for collections; refusal to collect and return "empties" 'Sketch by Robert Leibuis, Student in School of Designing. the Grand Rapids celltage of the value of the merchandise, now pay express charges of such an amount as in many cases to consume the entire margin of profit on the commodities, the ordinary sell-ing prices of whic:l cannot be varieeJ to include abnormal transportation charges. In consequence the annual aggregate express charges paid hy a l11{'rchant have gradually increased from an almost' neglig·ble 3mouilt to a heavy item which represents an actual loss, inasmuch as the outlay can seldom be covered into the selling price. It is therefore of much importance to merchants that the charges exacted for express service shol.1ld not be excessive, but on the contrary should be as low as consistent with a just return upon the capital neces-sarily employed in efficiently carrying on the express busi-ness." It is claimed that the net earnings per annum of the express companies equals in amount their capital invest ~d. \Vith the territory divided and co-operation enforced in raiding the public the aid of the legislatures and the courts is needed to remove the burdens laid upon shippers. * A New Packing for Furniture. Retailers of furniture will soon receive goods. packed in :J new material manufactured under a process recently patented by W. E. El1iott of Grand Rapids. A company ~1aS been formed for the purpose of carrying on the business under the name of the Elliott Packing Company, of which \V. E. El-liott is president; W. D. Bishop vice president; Charles F. Powers secretary and A. C. Dennison treasurer. A factory will be erected in the near future. @ * @ One for Salamanca. Furniture will be manufactured in Salamanca, N., by a company capitalized for $40,000. M~CHIGAN ARTISAN ~_________ _ 1 r----------------------------------------~ , I I " fI I' I I IList of Buyers II I I I I I I I I I I Do you want it? : I ! , : I I If I f I , ' ! I I I I I I I II list of Buyers.!! !Dependable factory Trucks ! I : I I Do you want it? I i I I I I . I IIII IIII II I,,, IIII II I, IIII I, lI I I !! II Name I ! Address ! I , I I I ,I II I , , I I , I , ...------------------------_.... 1 ,.....-------------- List of BuyersI II fIII Do you want it? If so send in your order with 25 cents at once. List of Buyers I Michigan Artisan Co. II N, Dirision Sf., Grand Rapids. Mich. Dependable factory trucks-\vh",t a lot there i5;n that word dependable? \VbCll you are busy as the c1kkcllS ..".ith fonT car-loads to gel out at a certajl~ t,im,f}.al~;la couple trucks break down-docsl) 1 It J~u you? \Vhen you find tha.t it takes two men to move a load where it ought to take but one, don't you fed like cursin'? Then it's time to thro\",,·out the old profit-losing kind and in with the kind that arc always Johnny-on-the-sj)ot and the kind that you know you c.an depend on. 1-1ct"e arc three main reasons why our trucks arE: dependable. First. All of the framework, stakes and handles in our trucks are made of the best hardwood, thoroughly k.iln~ dried. Second. AU the castings Me heavy and of the best quality-strong. dm'. able and tough. _ The large wheels an~ 14 inches in diameter with 2}-4 inch face. They revolve on turned bear-ings on 1?i inch axles, which do not revolve and wear away the woodwork. Third. Our trucks arE: built from beginning to end by skilled workmen -not boys. All the framework is well joint-bolted together. Th(~re are other reaSOllS you wi1J discover by a perusal of our truck catalog. Please send for it today. Your name and address 011 the lines provided afC all that is necessary. Cut ()1jt the ;ld, and mail. The safest way is to do it now. , :, Grand Rapids "and Screw Co.!, 918 Jefferson Avo., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. II J:; III , I II II !! , I, II, !I,III II - - - - - -- --- -- -- -- --------------------, 30 MICHIGAN ARTISAN .,---_._------------- -------------_._----------., I We Import Direct, and Manufacture Circassian Veneers GENUINE PERSIAN WOOD., CINCINNATI, <>• I• !I• The Albro Veneer Co. Established 1838. FRANK CRITICS IN THE FLAT. Ended a Dream About $2,000 Worth of Furniture. "If you're entertaining the idea that your household furniture, no matter how costly and nifty it may be, is One of your a.ssets worth considering, then stop dream-ing," petulantly remarked a man who is making prep-arations to go away from here. "\Vhen yon ha\'e to sell your furniture you'll find out what I mean by that remark. "I know, because I have just sold the furniture of my 8-roo111flat. \\,then my Chicago firm sent me to Kew York it was the understanding that 1 was to stick around here for a while~ five or six years anyhow. Soon after ~ew Years's the firm began to hint in correspon~ dence that it was thinking of shutting up its ~ew York branch, and a week or so later, despite my wailings, the firm recalled me to Chicago, and I'm on my way back there now-for life, I suppose, gosh hang it. "vVhen I camc to New York I decided that I was going to live in comfort here, The wife and I spent a month 'picking out furniture. It was pretty nice stuff, rather above the average for flat furniture. Ev-ery bit of it was substantial, staple goods, and no fluff or gingerbread about it. "vVe had to bny the whole flatkeeping outfit from canape to crackers, and the buy set me back just a few dollars less than two thousand bucks. I got the piano second hand at a bargain-an immense hargain-though it was almost new" ",,',lithnot a nick on it. 1 . got half a dozen shadow box pictures second han~~, too, at a bargain; but all the rest was dead new. "Well, when 1 got my recall to Chicago I advertised my flat furniture to be sold all in a bunch, nothing sep-arate, dealers ignored, ad invited those interested to come and have a look after 8 o'clock of evenings. "The interested folk were right on the job, The first of them obviously had ignored that part of my adver-tisement which said that dealers would he ignored, for a blind man could have seen through a Scotch mist that they were dealers. "The first of them to heave along rang the bell while my grandfather's clock in the hall still was chiming the hour of 8-a pretty punctual customer- He was a squat young man with a pair of black, hawk-ish eyes, a very flash topcoat several sizes too large for him, a gummy notebook and a stub of a penciL "I led the way and illuminated all the rooms while he bustled through the flat. His scorn as he glanced at my stLrff was manifest. It irritated me. 01 'Say,' I said to him when he h'isted the coverings on one of my brass beds, to see if they were boxed springs, 'are you a dealer?' "He grinned indulgently at me, "'vVhat's the difference?' he replied, in a confiden-tial tone. 'You can't get anything for this ju-I meall this stuff! except from dealers. Stuff like this is a drug, you know.' "'Well,' I said, still irritated, '1 took the pains to say in my advertisement that I didn't care to deal witl: dealers, and I meant it,' and I started to guide him to the hall door. " '\IV' ell, 1"11tell you what I'I do, mister,' said he, not budging at all. 'I'd have to practically give this stuff away; but I like to help lolks out that are in a pickle- I'll give you two and a half for your mess.' "Mess! That got me on the raw, l\tforeover, it got me on the raw to have him assume so complacently that I was in a pickle and therefore forced to sell my gear at the first figure offered. " 'Beat it!' I blurted out almost before he'd finished making me that proposition. 'On your way.' "He didn't budge from the bedroom where this lit-tle colloquy was held, "'I'll tell you what I'll do, then,' said he, jabbing away at his gummy notebook with his stub of a penciL 'I want to' help you out, as I say. and so 1'11loosen up a little with yOtL I'll hand you three lor the mess right now. \Vant it?' and he dug into his trousers .PUl:.K'Ci: and produced a large greasy wad of bills, at the same time glancing up at me with a sort -of contemptuous cupidity. " 'Good·night,' said I, and I literally nudged him to the hall door and then nudged him out, while he pro-tested that maybe after he had another peek arolln"d he might offer mea few dollars more for the mess. "Two more fellows of the same strip-e, palpable dealers, appe~red before 9 o'clock, but I spotted them for dealers when I went to the door-1 attended all rings myself-and I woudn't let 'em in. They wanted ,..---------------- MICHIGAN ARTISAN 31 --_._---_._----------_ ...,II THIS MACHINE MAKES THE MONEY It makes a perfect imitation of any open grain because it uses the wood itself to print {rom, and one operator and a couple of boys can do more work with it than a dozen men with any other so called machine or pads on the market. . That'. Why It'. a MoneyMaker. It Imitate. Perfectly. IIIj 50 Machines Sold Last Year Plain or Quartered Oak. Mahogany, Walnut, Elm, Ash or any other wood with open grain. to argue it out \'\Iith me, one of them swore that he wasn't a dealer, but that he was going to get married next Sunday night and that he \vas looking for furni-ture to fix up- a flat. I fanned him, all the same, be cause the stub of a pencil \vas sticking behind his ear and his notebook was protruding fro111 his overc;oat pocket. "Along toward ]1 o'clock ..when the wife and I were making the preliminary moves toward turning in, a gay young creature who looked and acted like a chants girl swung along. She was accompanied hy a gloomy young man who had a lot of bright finger jewelry. '" 'Sctlse flle for coming so late..' said the young woman, as she breezed past me in the hall, 'but ,l\l11ttsy and I hav~ been to the theatre,' and shc swept lnto the parlor, nodded condescendingly to my wife ~nd sat down at the piano. Vcry l11uch at homej young-woman, that. r '''\. . seen your ad', S1lC Sal.( Ilkto' lne, W lac ll1gI a V1• C-ious discord on the piano, 'and I thought Iil'd chop around and have a peek. I'm looking for a IFanner,' and she walloped the piano again. ' 50 More Satisfied ! Manufacturers I II!II :I , I Posselius Bros. Fumiture Manufacturing Co. For Prices and Full Particulars. Mention the Michigan Arti,an. Write the Detroit, Mich. "----------_._---,--- "'But,' I explained to her, 'I'm not 5cUing the stuff in parcels. It's got to be sold as one lot.' "La, la, that's what thcy all say,' chirped the young \~lOman, gayly, hitting the piano hvo or three more Strallsslike chords and turning around to grin at us. II thought I'd have a peek at the pianner anyhow How much you askin' for it? Isn't a bad little old box, but second hand pianners is as common as sea~ weed. Take twenty-five for it?' "No, I rvouldn't take twenty-five for it, I told her, and, moreover, I wouldn't even consider the matter of selling the piano separately. Let me say here, by the way~ that I got that piano, as I said, at an immense bargain, and at that I paid t\vo hundred and fifty for it, for it was a high grade instrument. II I\Vell, c10ncha care, old top,'. said the yodng wo-man to me agreeably, and then my wife heat it to her hedroom when the yOl1ng woman began to pound out a ragtime song and to hum to the malignant air of the sanle. " "Aw, come on, Tinkie, these folks is gain' to beel,' put in the gloomy young man accompanying the hreezyyotmg woman, and then she got up from the stool, kiss~d her fingertips at me and zephyred swish-ingly down the hall. I found my wife rolling around on her bed with laughter when I returned from letting 'em Qut. "K ext day while I was at work dozens of folks called to see the furniture, but my wife met most of them at the door and told them that the stuff could - -- -- ----- -- -_._----., 32 ~I I CHI G A N ART 1 SAN t,Tt-!~--BiGWHI'iji~SHOP'] • I • I I ! We Furnish Every Article of Printing !: Needed by Business Men Ii I I I I I t : I II II tI,I II ,I ,,I II ,I , WHITE PRINTING COMPANY 108, 110, and 112 North Division Street,. Grand Rapids, Mich. r-THE --BIGWHITE SHOPl I • . -...1 MICHIGAN ARTISAN only DC seell, as the advertisement stated! after B o'clock in the evening, when rei be home. "J'hreelor fOUf parties vf \\'0111Cll refused to take her \vonl for this, pushed their \vay into the apartment an(l ll1oocl:~ecl around, pa\ving things over and asking questions. : "They began to flock in 1,vhile I \-vas at dinner. the dealers I met at the cloor and dismissed vl/ith sc~nt speech, hut the young couples I admitted. : "The "vomen of the couples did all of the talk~ng and examining. The men just stood around on one fJbot and then the other and looked neutral and sad abput the ..v.hole proceedings. ! "Sollle real l~ice l~ttle pieces here." s~id on(' of ithc women to my. \vlfe With great conclescenswn. . 'but th,en, too, you've got a lot of truck here that 1 wouldn't h~lve for any moncy.' ! " 'Yes?' said my wife, glancing at me \vith 1atlg-l~ter in her eyes--she sees laughs where Ion})· see kno¢ks, ~,'Oh, not for any moncy,' the business-like Y()~ll1g woman \vent on, \'\'hi1e her husband tried to catch !her eye, 'But 1'11 tel! you just what \'ve can and v\'ill d!o~ we like to be frank and aboveboard about these thi~1gs, don't vve, Egbert, addressing her melancholy mall .. ~\,;-e will give YOtl $150 cash on the nail. for what yofve got, inchlding the piano.' j "That made me so sore that I had to scamper 101lt of the room for fear I'd say something ornery. al{d I left to my \vife the job of getting rid of that cOll;)lc) "i-\nother woman, abo accornpanied by a \vhiplped-looking husband, went through the place like a genrra] of an army on a tour of inspection. She said hardly a word, but just sco\ivled a tour furniture, and she sl-Jook • ' I • her head over rnost of it in a mighty o\'erpo\ve1'ing-j re-ducing sort of a way. I ,; '\Vel1. she said to me after her ilnprcssivC' mArch through the -.,.vholeplant, from kitchen to .spare rdOlll. 'then:' are rour or five pieces here that mayhe I'd Italk business \vith you about if you did the right lhling. ]'he piano, the cahillet ill the 1)(11'lor,the ,vritillO~" d!, csk. that rnahogall\' chair in the parlor. and that ofnholt\ c1ock-\vllat (to -yOll "vant for the lot? ::\O- \V '.,+o\lr selling price. relllember-no tucking it on.' 1 __ "Some G'lvalierl)r, eh? I told her that the ytutt was only to be sold in One lot. I .. 'Uh, humbug an<1nonsense: she ,vas gooel cn911g-h to chop back at rne. ''y'oldl 11(',·er sell it as allot. There's a lot of stuff here that nohodv'd even look at. Come. no\v, and let's not \vast<.' any 1ll~re ti111<.'. \~That , , do you \Vallt for the pieces T have Hamed?" i "I executed a disappearance again and permitted my v,rife to nudge her and her ,vhipped male creJure to the door. I ",vas afraid of myself, you knc)\.v. I " 'Are these bcds-er-vl"ell, they're 110t bt1gg~' or an:ything?' another WOman who came along a 'ittle later, also '''lith a dismal man, asked m.r. \vife. ! l\fy wife replied that if they were she had not noticed it. " 'Oh. vvell, lots of folks can live with bedbugs! and never notice 'em, vou know/ the woman reassured my wife. 'Get sort ~, used to 'em. you know,' and ~hC;l for the first time I observed that mv vvife's keen ~ense ~ II of humor was put to a strain. l\l hate to say, for fear of not being- believed, just ho\'\/ quickly she got that '''oman and her husband out of the hall door. ,; 'Huh! I)':ye mean to tell me that you've only had this stuff for one year?' another woman said to the wift. and I with a tone and manner that plainly was intendeu to toss us to the Ananias Club in 'a heap. '\V ell, of courSe folks selling stuff in a hurry like this have to say something. ,V,e'll give you $150 for it, won't we, Jim?' "Jim nodded affirmatively, and they, too, \vere out of the cloor in something less than jig time. "All told, I received about sixty people, not count-ing the dealers. ,,,,,110 professt(l to be interested in my furniture. The hig-hest price 1 vvas offered for the \yholc la:\-,out of fu:~niture \vas $300, and the woman who made nlC that offer was good enough to say that she named that high figure because she felt for folks that 'vere in trouble. "So I sent the '''''hole bunch of furniture to an auc-tion roonl, and when it was finally disposed of the auc-tioneer told me that I was danged lucky to 've got $3.26.45 Ol1t of it, not counting his percentage for auc-tioning it off. "So don't imag-ine that your fu~njture is an asset. The next time I've got a flat full of furniture that I can't use any longer I'm going to distribute it among my friends by vvay of gifts and earn the name of being a generOl1S dt1Ck, at any rate. There'd be more satis-faction in that system than practically giving it away, anyhow."-::.Iew York Sun. @ * @ Cochran & Cooley of Cottage Grove, Oregon, have sold their stock of furniture to Cunningham & King, 34 MICHIGAN ARTISAl\ Furniture in Europe Seen Through American Eyes. J.\tfiner S. Keeler, president of the Keeler Brass Com-pany, has returned from a short trip to Europe, made in company with William H. Gay, president of the Berkey & Gay Furniture Company, A. \7\l. Hampe, president of the Royal Furniture Company. and A. Margautiu, de-signer for the Berkey & Gay Furniture

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