Michigan Artisan; 1908-02-10

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Issue of a furniture trade magazine published in Grand Rapids, Mich. It was published twice monthly, beginning in 1880. and Twenty-Eighth Year-No. 15 FEBRUARY 10. 1908 Semi-Monthly I. The Only Drawer Fitter THAT WILL SAND DRAWERS WITH LIP ON FRONT No. 169 Double Belt Drawer Filter. WI"SONO « MILES CO" Cedar St. and Sou. R. R., OREENSBORO, N. C. No waste of sand paper. No waste of time. Requires less floor space. Requires less power. Dust removed pertectly. Paper lasts longer. -------_.~ rgThe Best Truck--The Strongest Truck This is Ihe 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 Roller Bearing CO. ORAND RAPIDS. MICHIOAN n. U"••'R_'... fi!t Longest Lasting Truck TD, Notice! In Our New Factory Means QuicK Shipments We desire to make it known to the trade that their orders for Gluing Appli-ances and supplies can now be filled promptly. No waiting two to eight months as was necessary with the com-paratively limited facilities of our Cincin-nati factory. We want to thank the many custo~ mers who waited so patiently for their turn to get our appliances, and want to express sorrow for those who felt Veneer Presses,dl kind. and size& (Patented) compelled, on account of .the delay, to adopt some of the imitations or jn~ feriar appliances that are a drug on the mal ket. Such appliances waste money instead of creating profit. Hand Feed Gluing Machine (Pat. Pending.) Many styles and ..izN. The extetlsi'l'c use 0/ our products in tile :-ep~ resentative mills and factories proves their i!!~5:;,.value. It is the experience of thou~ands 0/ :: users that they give lasting good service a1td the Powe.. Feed GlueSpreadina-Machine.Single. best a1tdmost economical rf'sults. Experience Double and Combination. \Patented) counts. Avoid experiments and infringements by adopting Our products perfected by actual experience. No make-believe. No.6 Glue Heater. No. 20 Glue Heater. ,.-----------ILET USKNOWYOURWANTS----------, Power..Feed Glue Spreaders (tiingle, Double and Combination with patented glue trough and other features). HaDd Feed Gluln. Machines. many style'-, Glue Pots. Glue Heaters. Glue Boilers or Cookers (Cast Iron, Plate Ironand Copper), wlth lnanJ' advaDtages. Sectional Presses. Complete Pres.es (With Patented adjullt. ment of the Screws), all sizes; Steel Presses. Hydraulic Pl'esses. Specia.l Pre.e.a. all kinde. Retaining Clam:ps.. Double ClamlJlIo.Trestle ClamllS. Ca.rpentel" Cla.mps.. Factory Tru:cka. etc. ' CHAS. E. FRANCIS AND BROTHER Ma.ln Ollice and Worke. RUSHVILLE. INDIANA. Branch Office. Cincinnati. Ohio. Pittsburgh Plate Glass Jobbers and Dealers in Company Plate Glass. Mirrors. Window Glass. Ornamental Figured Glass. WIRE GLASS, tbe Great Fire Retardant. CARRARA GLASS. a New Product Like Polished White Marble. For anything in Builders' Glass. or anything in Paints, Brushes, or Painters' Sundries, address any of our branch warehouses, a list of which is given below: CLEVELAND-1430_1434 West Tblrd St_ OMAHA-1608 ..10..12 HarDey St. ST· PAUL-349-351 Mlftneaota St. ATLANTA. GA.-30-32 ...34 S. Pryor' St. S,o\VANNAH. GA--14S-149 Wheaton 8t. KANSAS CITY-FIrth and Wyandotte St.· BIf\MINGHAM. ALA.-2nd Ave:. aDd-19tb St. BUFFALO. N. Y.-312~14 ..16..18 Pearl St. BR.OOKLYN-635 ..637 Fulton St. PttILADELPHIA-Pitcal"D Bldg.• Arch;ulld 11th Sta. DAVItNPOR.T-41(J~416 Scott St. NEW YOR.K-Hudson and Vandam 8ts. BOSTON-4I ..49 SudburY St •• 1..9 &owker St. CHICAGO 442.452 Wa,ba.h Ave. CINCINNATI-Broadway and Court St •• ST. LOUIS-Cor. 11b and Market St •• MINNEAPOLIS-506-St6 S. Third St. DETROIT-53.59 Larned St•• It. GRA"'D RAPIDS. MICH.-39 ..41 N. DivlelolllSt. PITTSBURGH-IOt.I03 Wood St. MILWAUKEE. WIS.-'-492 ..4'4 Market St. ROCHESTER. N. Y.-Wllder &ldlt ••Ma.lD6: ExchanieSta. BALTIMORE-ZII-213 W. Pratt St• . ---------------- --- 1 DO NOT LET OLD FASHIONED PREJUDICE OBSTRUCT PROGRESS Every lurniture manulacturer owes it to himsell to KNOW that he is getting the best in Wood Finishing Materials. He should know that the colors of the stains he uses are not only non-lading, but that they are correct colors. With his fillersthe same rule should apply. Do not let any old-fashioned prejudice stand in the way of your trying newer methods in order to secure . better results in your finishingdeparlment. The Marietta Paint and Color Co', Stains and Fillers are to-day recognized as being without any superior. They are first 01 all practical. The colors are perfect and permanent. It i, this company's business to experiment and finallyperfect its product,. When it ha' done that you assume no risk. Every stain and filleris tested before it is offered to the trade. If you want to get the hest results in your fini,hing department this year let us hear Irom you. Marietta WODdFinishes mean to you greater economy and more perfect results. THE MARIETTA PAINT AND COLOR CO. MARIETTA, OHIO New Patterns I•n Hoohs. WRITE us FOR PRICES. GRAND RAPIDS BRAss CO., Grand Rapids, Mich. 2 1\10.4 TRIPLE DRUM SAI\IDER. THE PROOF OF THE PUDDING CHAS. F. REIMANN, President. ADOLPH FLEISCH. Vice-President. ERNEST EOW. REIMANN, Sec. & Treas Reimann Manufacturing Co., Ltd. SASH, DOORS, BLINDS, MOULDINGS, AND HOUSE. FURNISHING MATERIAL , OFFICE AND FACTORY SI()9..S125 BAUDI~ ST. PHONE MAIN 980. J. .!I.. F.I1.Yg- EG.I1.N00., Oincinnati, Ohio, Gentlemen:·-I very heartily testify to'the merits of your :No.4-TripleDrum Sander as follows: Prior to my connection with the present company I had under 7Thy supervision one of your older style No 4- Triple Drum Sanders tor about ten years and during all this time it gave me no trouble, in fact, I did not have to babbitt a box on it. When this company was tormed we purchased one of you,rlater No.4-Triple Drum Sanders which gave uS excellent satisfaction. .I1.syou know this machine was destroyed byfire about two years after it was installed. It was replaced by one of your latest No, 4- Triple Dram Sanders which machine we now have in operation J!ivinJ!the best of satisfaction. Before purchasing this machine we carefully investigated other sanders in nse here in New Orleans and concluded that YOlJ,rmachine was easily the best, and we have not once been disap-pointed. You are at perfect liberty to refer any prospective customers to ns or have anyone visit our shop where this machine may be l:Jeenin operation. Yours truly, REIM.I1.Jr:NMFG. 00., Ltd . .11.. Fleisch, Supt. and vice-Pres't, WRITE fOR DESCRIPTIVE CIRCUUR. 505-525 W. front St.. Cincin.n.ati.Ohio. U.:::S::.A=::==:. = New Orleans, La., Sept. 21, 1907. '7 .,.T,..::' 111c ...\-1 i... j.;;j 10..) ,J 28th Year-No. I5. $1.00 per Year. A Dearth of Skilled Mechanics. In an address, delivered in Chicago recently, director Chas. Ii'. Perry, of the Mihvaukee Scbool of Trades dis-cussed, "The Trade School' as a Part of the Public S'chool System." He called attention to the fact that althollgh most of our states provide for a complete system of free educa-tion, from kindergarten to university post-graduate work, very few of the yOllth of the land take full advantage of these opportunities. Eighty per cent of those who enter the primary grades fail to complete the ..eighth grade, ninety per cent fail to enter the High School, and ninety~six per cent fail to graduate from the High SchooL" He charged a lack in the present curriculum of studies "which wilt interest and hold pupils. The inherent unrest of th(~ adolescent period leads to a repulsion for abstract work. More-over, the necessity for individual support presents itself early in life to a large per cent of the world's population. Nearly all must work for a living, but there is always the tendency to turn to unskilled labor because of the lack of training. There is a crying dearth of skilled mechanics. These men do not have sufficiently broad opportunities for training. The United States needs a skilled industrial citizen-ship like that of Germanv and France. There is but one solution to the problem~industrial education. The trade school must be conducted in e'very 'way identical ",,-ith actual commercial conditions, bllt with one marked exception,- there must be no repetition of work. 'i\Then once a new problem has been mastered and has passed the most rigid test possible to give it, the student is immediately given another one involving- ne'\",' and more difficult principles. The student should be paid an apprenticcship wage based on the quality of the work done, the time consumed and the student's general application to his daily "york. 'In most manufacturing and building trades, the essential subjects arc, mechanical drawing, workshop mathematics, shop talks and lectures, shop practice and shop inspection trips. Lead the boy to the theoretical side of his work through the practical. Results appeal to him. The trade school student should be at least sixteen years of age and should be an eighth grade graduate. Perhaps a probationary course mav be provided for those who drop out of the public schools b;- fore the age of sixteen. The trade schoo! will take a boy whose income represents the interest on $4.000.00, and at the end of a two years' course will increase his earning' capa-city four fold. "No privately endowed trade schools can do much to\vards solving the problem of industri~l education. Thev can reach only a smalI number of individuals. Hence. thc~re must he public provision for industrial schools." To Do And Do Well. Tn the moral aspect of industrial educatiol1, ecol1omic COI1- s-ideratiol1s and financial advantages are held to be less weighty reasons for the inauguration of industrial schools than thc moral effects sure to accrue to individuals and to society from the scheme. "The system no",y in vogue in our schools cannot bc said to have been very noted for its moral results" in the opinion- of Emil G. Hink. "Infor-mation, transmission of knowledge,- has been in the fore-ground of pedagogical solicitude. The appeal is to the head, only incidentally, scarcely ever systematically, to the heart; the hand until very recently was neglected altogether. The dogmatic presumption of this pedagogical creed seems to have been that all normal men are to be head workers. Industrial training satisfies the natural impulse, congenital, or innate in man to create and to do. Activity and creation evoke gratiCJcation and the consciousness of self-dependence. The fundamental lessons of all morality will be brought home to every child <I.tthe bench and the anvil. The sense of responsibility for one's worth will be deepene ..l. Pride in what he produces will take hold of the pupil. The power to do and to do well will always engender readiness and willingness to do and to do well. Industrial education will uplift women as well as men. Send the woman out into life equipped for blessing toil, and. that which is priceless in her will not be bartered away for corrupting gold or be con-sumed by the fires of a foolish or a wicked passion. The old Rabbis knew of what they spake, when they said: 'He who rears his son without having him learn a trade, brings him up to be the associates, of thieves.' J) OUD~pr(IAlIMPr«lAl wrAlnrDrD OAKOil ~lAIn is the standard all over America. Are YOUusing it? Write us for Samplesand Quotations Of the BEST SHELLAC VARNISHES .I4.ItIlFAf:T~"CP •• '1>".1>" CHICAGO WOOD FINISHING CD. 259·63 EL5TONAVE..,Z·16 SLOAN ST. CH I CACOO. 4 ~MI9J-iIG7fN Panics and blizzards don't seem to have very much effect m Detroit. Tn spite of the fact that it is several centuries old, Detroit is one of the most prosperous cities in America, and if there is business to he had,. Detroit is sure to come in for a share of it. The furniture factories, as a rule, while not having the trade of one year ago, are fairly busy. In years of depression in trade; the demand for cheap and medium grade products is greater' than when times afe booming, This makes it necessary for furniture manufacturers to use substitutes in graining, carvings, and special materials for finishing. The Posselius Bros. Furniture Manufacturing company have, for several years, supplied manufacturc'Ts with a machine that makes such a perfect imitation of quarter sawed oak, plain oak, mahogany, walnut or any open grain wood that only an expert can distinguish the product from the genuine article. One machine is capable of turning out more grained panels in two days time than the average factory can use in a week. It is practical, moderate in cost, it requires no high wage men to run it; the product wears well, and holds its color as perfectly as the solid veneers. An illustration of the machine and how it works, may be seen elsewhere in this number. It is worth while to look at it. The Ornament<iJ Products company manufacture a beautiful line of Lignine drawer pulls, one of which is il-lustrated herewith. This is a new dep'arture, and one that will be thoroughly appreciated by the trade, as Lignine admits of working out in so many beautiful forms, and as it is practically unbreakable, and' takes a finish similar to wood perfectly. Their 1908 catalogue with samples of the work will be sent on application. Their advertisement on another page gives further particulars. The C. C. \\Tormer Machinery company offer a large number of furniture and other woodworking machines at bargain prices; a list is printed on another page. These machines are in good working order, and afford a rare chance to the would-he-purchaser for saving money. See the list. The A. R. C. kiln, one of the many devi<;es of the Amer-ican Blower company to put money into the pockets of furniture makers and other workers in wood, is an un-qualified success. Hundreds of these dry kilns are in use. To learn the real value of these kilns write the American Blower company for a list of the kilns nearest to your loca-tion, and 'tvrite to the owners of any, or all, for opinion as to their merits. The American Blower lfompany will not fear the results. Sailed for Europe. John Widdicomb of the John Widdicomb company and O. B. Starkwather, of. the Luce Furniture company, Grand Rapids, have sailed for Europe. Troublous Times. Good mornin' brudder Parson, how is yer dis mornin'? 1's well, brudder Mose, bless de Lord. How is yerse1f? ""ell, I kaint zackly say I's de same. De panick wuz bad ernuf but now dar is sumpin wus on de herizen. Dat sho is er true sa in' dat "nuffin is so wus hit cant be wusser I was jess erbout gittin use ter de short time er de mill an also de subdued rashuns when, 10 an behold, I heerd de Capting say yas' night dat de 'Nited States giner waar wid Japang, an dat dey bein a colored race de white folks gwiner hands off and dat Unkel Sam gwiner make us niggers do de fightin'~ I thought sho my peg leg ud 'skuse me but de Capting he 'low de 'scription laws dun changed up and dat de gubment got er Ostrick farm in Calafornyer and dat dem as is not 25000 in l!8e. AU IcindsofFac. tory, Kiln and Yard Trueb. YOU waot the Gghtest run. Dinll"aod longest lutinll".lru(:ls:. Steel roller be.nnlrl· Mal. leable iron cast-iIlt5. Hardwood frames. No more dura-- able or ealier runmnlr tnK:lr. is or can be made. THE MICHIGAN TRUCK HOLLY, MICHIGAN M.M.&.L. CO. HOLLV, MICH. WRITE ~~R CATALOG _, E"- fittcn for walkin' or de cabulry will hatter ride er Ostrich. He 'lowed er Ostrich WllZ so£' an easy ridin' but dat ain't de pint. He say de gubment gibd you er pair er six-shooters and dat whin de command was gib'n de Ostrich he up an fly right ercross re breasworks ob de enemy an dat all de nigger on his back got ter do is ter shoot down on de Japangs. But heahs whats bodderin me. What's ter keep dem Japangs from shootin' up? An' if dey kills de Ostrich, er breaks his wing, er sumpin like dat, whar is you gwine ter Ian'? An den whin yeT duz Ian' you doan unnerstan' Japang talk so how is yer gwine ter serrinder? Dat's de queschun. Dey say Unkle Sam knows hit all but it sholy doan look like sense ter me to larn dem Ostrich ter fly ober de hreas-works. Dey sho mus' be er big fool birds. What's de matter wid de Japangs any how? I ain't mad wid urn. Dey ain't dun nuffin ter· me as I knows ob. An den if dey had doan hit look ter yew like dat's 'twixt me an de ]apangs? I show knows one thing-de gubment kin put me on er Ostrich hut hit kaint keep me from fallin' off dis side of de breasworks. MOSE AFRICANUS, in St. Louis Lumberman. A Lady in the Furniture Trade. The latest addition to the ranks of titled business women IS Lady Auckland. She has opened a furniture shop in London and will attend to interior decorating. Beside supcrintendillg the business in the 'shop Lady Auckland wilt be her own drummer. By keeping watch over real estate transfers she is able to make the first bid and 50 prevent those of her friends who might prefer to engage more experienced decorators from saying that they have already given the work Qut. According to Lady Auckland, that is what friends are for, "to help one to build up a reputation, not to wait to lend a helping hand when that reputation is made and there is no longer need of help." ----- - Absolutely Nothing Better than our Quman~ (offonwoo~ Drawer Doffoms Dried by the "Proctor System" Machine. (We will deurihe it to you.) prompt deliveries of DRY STOCKrain or shine (Something unheard of bl:!fore.) Ouarter Sawe~ Oa~ Veneer The Largest and Best Stock in Grand Rapids. (Come and st/Cd _'Yourown.) Dirc~ an~ Po~lar (ross~an~in~ Cut to Dimension if Desired. Walter Clark Veneer Co. 535 Michigan Trust Building. Grand Rapids, Michigan 6 ·~MI9f1IG7f-N Wood Bar Clamp fixtures Per Set 50c. PrIce $2.80 to $4;00 Chippendale, A Great Mixer Of Styles. By Arthur Kirkpatrick, Instructor and Designer, Grand Rapids School of Furniture Designing: "During the eighteenth century there was a confusion of styles in Eng-land as a result of the changing social conditions of the people, and this period offered many opportunities for the development of designer!:'. It was about 1710 that Thomas Chippendale was bortl. During his early life, he was as- A. KirkpatrtCk. sistant to his father, who came to London from vVorchester-shire and who was famous as a carver of picture and mirror frames, and whose work fOUlld favor with the nobility. Later in life, the younger Chippendale opened a shop in St. rVlar-tin's Lane, where he and his sons worked as designers, carvers, and cabinetmakers, winning for themselves a reputa-tion throughout all England. Even the words St. Martin's Lane seem to be full of inspiration, when, in fancy's eye, we see such well known celebrities as Sir Joshua Reynolds, Sir "VVilliam Chambers, Garrick, and Goldsmith, characters of wit, humor, and masters of pen, pencil, pallet, and chisel OVER 15,000 OF OUR STEEL RACK VISES IN USE 25 doz. Clamp Fixtures bought by one mill last yellr. Wesbip on approval to rated firms, and guaralitee our goods uncondi-tionlilly. Write lor liBt of Steel Bar Clamps, Vises, Bench Stops, etc. E.". S"ELDON So CO. 283 Madison St.. Chicato. as frequent yisitors at Chippendale's shop. To be able to assoGiate with such men, a man must necessarily be a great character himself, and' this he was as is shown b.y his work. It has been said that Chippendale was not original, 'but as designer's work is suggested by the observation of nature and the desire to improve the line of former'designers, he was influenced by the wishes of his patrons and any suggestion they might make would bring forth original ideas, as is shown in his book of designs,the Gentlemen and Cabinet 1faker's Director, which was published in 1754. He was what might be called a great mixer of styles, taking many of his ideas from the Chinese, French, and D'l.ltch, and artistically combining them with original ideas to meet the requirements of the trade. Sir William 'Chambers, an architect of the time, and a visitor to th,e Orient brought back sketches of the arrange-ment of thc Chinese gardens to England, and this with the importation of a number of pieces of furniture from China created a demand for Chinese effects among the English people. Even the part of Goldsmith's work which we now know as the citizen of the world, and which was published in the Public Ledger about 1761 as his Chinese letters shows the demand for Chinese effects among the English 'people. This demand was met hy Chippendale, whose work followed to a degree, the gig sawed, squa,re and open angular work of the east. In these patterns, as we]] as in his later work he used three-ply stock, thus insuring strength to his deli~ cate!y sawed balasters and slats. The French styles offered another source of inspira-tion for Chippendale, especially the Louis XV and the part of his work influenced by this style, is the part mostly ad-mired by the students of design today. In many of his designs, he used the a G or serpentine legs, the Louis XV carved leaf, and the rococo or shell like ornainent, gracefully mixed with Dutch features, such as the ball and claw foot and other well rounded curves, taken from the Dutch, at; plate Number 8 in styles we have shown one of Chippendale's most famous, and we believe his most beautiful chair design. This richly carved chair also shows his ability as a carver~ as welI as a designer, and exhibits his fondness for brass headed nails. This design bears the strong influence of the Louis XV style, combined with gracefully arranged ribbon work taken from the Louis XVI period: It also shows the gentle sloping of the back posts, the protruding ends of the top slat, and the accurate proportions of the wood and openings in the back, which are characteristics to be found in a majority of his chair backs. His work always gives one the impression of proportion, strength, and craftman-ship_ The discovery of mahogany as a cabinet wood in- the early part of the eighteenth century was undoubtedly the reason for so much elaborate carving, as mahogany is one of the best woods adapted to this art, and as Chippendale was an excellent carver himself, rejected all inlay, and relied solely upon carving for ornament. He also used rosewood, and 7 pine for many of his pieces; the former generally decorated with richly engraved metal mounts the latter painted or gilded. The coverings for his chairs ~ras usually red morocco which was fastened to the rail of the chair with brass headed nails in a closely set pattern or straight row. His perforated chair slats, his artistic rendering of the French style of acanthus leaf, and the roomy and solid aD-pearancc of the chair seats have won for him a name in history. However. his drawings were not limited to chairs as he designed all kinds of household furniture, but it is for his chair designs that he is often termed the 'Prince of Chair 1fakers.'" 8 SOME VALUABLE SUGGESTIONS. are poor speakers. E"ery great law firm has a fe\" wind-jammers. The brains of the firm- are listeners.-Ex. By an Ex-Salesman. 11any and many a good sale has been lost by a salesman saying too much. Jt's not the mentioning of the right thing and at just the crucial moment, but the salesman, talking and talking, gives the prospee:ti\'c buyer no oppqrtunity to "have his say" so as to divert his mindfrorn thinking. The writer, ere his present position, was also one of the boys on the road, and now receivc-s those of his former days. This idea, that the salesman must do all the talking, is a grave CTTOT. Give the buyer a chance-let him have his little say, so that when it comes to clinch the deal, the buyer may have dropped 81RD'S EYE MAPLE OUR SPECIALTV 3,000,000 FT. For 1908 3,000,000 FT. MADE and DRIED RIGHT and WHITE. AT REASONABLE PRICES. SAMPLES FURNISHED ON APPLICATION. MAHOGANY QUARTERED OAK: FIGURED WOODS LET US QUOTE YOU PRICES. HENRY S. HOLDEN VENEER COMPANY 23 SCRIBNER ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MiCH. (SuCCt880riJ to Henry S. HOlden) a word or suggestion that may be of some importance to you. I distinctly remember, a few days ago, I had received a letter of a salesman for whom I had the greatest respect and confidence, saying that he would be at my office within a few days. I looked forward to his coming for the reason I had to place an order which amounted to several thousand dollars, and really did not know where to placG the order and gct the goods and same service outside of his honse. On his arrival the usual courtesies were exchanged, we smoked cigars, and after talking of the general conditions of the trade, proceeded to husiness. I asked him prices on certain commodities in which I was interested, and received his prices. In a way, I said his prices were high. Before.I had an opportunity to answer, this salesman said: "Do yOU refer to so-and-so's-goods?" To which '[ gave an evasive answer. The result was the salesman lost the order. I wrote to the concern to whom he referred (1 never having heard of them before), asking for prices and delivery. Both were very'satisfactory, and I placed the order with his competitive concern, recei\'ing excellent service, equally good material 'and at right prices. Kow, what I contend" is, had this old salesman held his tongue, allowed me to do the thinking, there is no doubt he would have had our account today in the usual manner. Did it ever occur to you that the fellow who knows the most is the best listener? The party to whom your conver. saban is addressed, if he is wise and slick, listens to your talk as though he were drinking in every word, and lets you do the arguing while he ;:;its back and listens. He is wise, for he is hearing your arguments and turning them over in his mind to combat with you. A good listener, nine times out of ten, is a good reasoner. The old old story of empty barrels making the most 'noise is axiomatic on account of the wind in the barrel; .,and such is the case of the man talking or the talkative man. It's the wind jamming. One man'out of a thous<1nd can control himself to listen. The other 999 want to talk, and will talk, but when the fellow who is silent speaks, hark how the mob listens to the words which come forth! Some of our. most able lawyers The Marietta Exhibit at New Orleans. At the International Master Painters' Convention, to be held in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, beginning Feb. 18, and extending to the 21st, the visitors will be afforded the opportunity of seeing one of the finest exhibits of .finished wood ever shown in the United States, and it is safe to say in the world. The Marietta Paint and Color Co., of Marietta, Ohio, has planned and prepared for this display for months and e\'ery architect, painter or wood finisher at the conven-tion will be shown some of the most beautiful finishes, pro-duced by this company's stains and fillers, on oak, mahogany, birch, chestnut, pine, gum, wood, birdseye maple, and in fact on every kind of wood known 'to the building and furniture trades. The exhibit will be in charge of Mr. C. J. LaVallee, the \'ice-president of the company, who is recognized as one of the most expert colorists, and the most eminent authority on wood finishing in the United States. Mr. LaVallee will give practical demonstrations every day while in New Or-leans of the uses of his company's stains and fillers, and will show in addition to its famous golden oak oil stains and mahogany and early English stains, a large number of special finishes which will include some of the very richest examples of old English, alI the mission effects, the green spartan' stains, fumed oaks, silver greys for oak or birdseye maple, and many other novelties. It is the purpose of this exhibit and demonstration by the Marietta Company to show the house wood finisher and the practical painter, as well as the architect, that their stains and fillers which have gained such wide fame among furniture manufacturers, can be used with equal success upon the interior wood finishing of the home, the store or the modern office building, where the most artistic effects in wood finishing are desired, and when-ever it is the purpose to preserve the natural figure and beauty of the wood. It will be well worth the time of any painter or wood finisher, who can do so, to attend this de-monstration. Ad-el-ite Stains. For many years the Ad-el-ite stains, manufactured by the Adams & Elting 'company of Chicago, IlL, have been used by prominent manufacturers of furniture, pianos, or-gans, railway coaches, and interior finishes, subjecting the same to very severe and prolonged tests. These stains have given clltire satisfaction and their sale is steadily on the increase. Furniture Trade Boom. Prohibition in Georgia ought to benefit Michigan in-directly. You know, the sideboard industry is a large one m that statc.-Ex. PETER COOPER'S GLUE is the best in all kinds of weather. When other manufacta urers or agents tell you their J:rlue is as good as COOPER'S, they admit Cooper's is the BEST. No one extols his pro. duct by comparing it with an inferior article. Cooper's Glue is the world's standard of excellence, With it all experi-ment begins, all comparison continues, and all test ends Sold continuously since 1820. Its reputation, like itself, STICKS. Peter Cooper's glue is made from selected hide stock. carefullr prepared. No bones or pig stock enter into its composItIon. In strenl{th it is uniform, each barrel containing the same kind of glue that is in every other barrel of the same grade. ORIN A. WARD "RAND RAPIDS AGENT 403 Ashton Bldg, OITIZENS PHONE ssss I --~----------- - - -~~tu9f1IG/(N p :A~~I'{-:r£'1 ~ .. , 9 Michigan Engraving Company :: White Printing Company Michigan Artisan Company lOG. 110. 112 nort~ Djyi~onSf. Orand Rapids lOG. 110.112 nort~ DivisionSf. Orand Rapids OUR BUILDING EN G R A V E R 5 p R INT E RS B IN oE RS Erected by White Printing Company. Grand Rapids. 1907. PR IN TER S B IN o ERS E N GR AV E RS 10 ANTIQUES IN CONNECTICUT. Finds Still to be Made on Old Nutmeg Farms.-Chippendale and Hepplewhite, Mahogany and Crown nerby in Un-expected Places. Penalty of Offering Too Much for Antique Furniture and Old Crockery. Litchfield, Conn., Feb. l-Nothwithstanding the industry of searchers 'for old furniture and old china of4 the Colonial period for years past, finds of antiques are still made oc-casionally on Connecticut farms. Within a month a book agent who knew about old furniture and crockery happened to call about dinner time at a farm-house a few miles out of Hartford. The owner of the farm was a widow over 70, the sole remaining descendant of a noted lawyer of the latter part of the eighteenth century. The farmhouse had been the homestead of the family since 1730, and when the visitor was shown into the front parlor he found a dozen Chippendale chairs there. Although the oaken ceiling of the dining room showed the dust of generations and the floor was warped, in one corner stood a Hepplewhite sideboard propped up on three legs. A mahogany block front, desk, carved tables and Colonial mirrors were a few of the treasures that the attic disclosed, aU of which the owner was glad to exchange for the money that would buy her modern luxuries. It leaked out ,later that a traveling collector had un-earthed in a neighboring house some weeks before and had carried away for 15 cents a Crown Derby cup and saucer that he sold later fa $30. A New Yorker, a member of the faculty of Columbia University, told friends here recently of an experience he had.a few months ago with a Connecticut family who had migrated with their worldly goods just arcoss the state line into New York. While tramping over the hills he stopped to ask for a glass of water at a little tumble down house, and on being invited to enter was surprised to find in the only bedroom a high carved bed of Spanish mahogany. On being asked if she would sell it the woman of the house said she \..·.ould bc glad to have in its place a white iron one. HvVhat do you want for it?" inquired the scientific man. H\VcJI," said the old lady, "last summer one of those automobile fellers came along, and he offered me $20 for it, but r wouldn't sell it 'cause I thought that if he offered so much his money couldn't be good." When told that the New Yorker was ready to deposit $20 in gold in exchange for the bed and give her time to test the coin before taking it a\vay she expressed g-rcat surprise that people could have so much money and be such fools with it. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. THE WEATHERLY INDIVIDUAL GLUE HEATER Send your address and receive descriptive cir-, cular of Glue Heaters, Glue Cookers and Hot Boxes and prices. WEATHERLY CO. He carried back to. New York with him a bed estimated to be worth $400. A Connecticut physician tells how he came near losing in his early days one of his best paying patients through his love for antiques. In his visit to the home of this patient, some twenty years ago, he offered to buy of her a set of six historical plates known to collectors as the Dr. Syntax plates. He paid her a dollar apiece, $3 more than she asked for the set. Some days afterw.ard he overheard her relating .the fact to a neighbor, winding up her recital as follows: "Do you know I'm beginning to think Dr. I'll-isn't just right in his head payin' such a price for those old--blu~ plates of mine, an' I've half a mind not to have him again." Occasionally a piece of this old furniture is parted with at a sacrifice by its owner. In Norwich recently an old sofa was so{d by its owner for sufficient money to keep her out of the poorhouse for the winter. For several years professional collectors and others had been trying to buy it, but its owner had always refused to sell. She said that her mother had died on that sofa and that as long as she could keep it she would. An undertaker of eastern Connecticut has been collecting furniture and crockery from his customers for the last quarter of a century in part payment for bills, and all this has been storcd away until he now owns al).tiqucs valued at a large sum. A neighbor of his, a widow, has educated her three children and put two girls through Vassar College on money that she has made from the sale of her own collection, made during her prosperous days, and what she has been able to gather since. \Vithin a few weeks the death of a collector over the Massachusetts line disclosed that he had left a fortune of $300,000. Ten years ago he was working on the streets of a small New England city when an old colored woman sold him for a dollar a wreck of an 01d bureau. \Vhile carting it to his home after work he met an auctioneer who offered hi-m a five dollar bill for the bureau, He sold it. A day or two later he saw a prosperous looking city chap au au express wagon toting that same bureau into the city, and led by curiosity 'he stoppeJ him and asked him where he got it. «1 just bought it," said the proud possessor of the bureau, "of Mr. Smith and paid- him $150 foriC' "Begorra," sa'ill the laborer,"that's the bureau I sold Smith myself for $;") day before yesterday:" That n'ight he gave up his job on the road and started collecting antiques.-N. Y. Sun. Planted His 'Furniture. FiftY' years ago, William H.Winchester, adjutant of vVilliam O. Stevens Post G. A, R. atDutikirk, N. Y., planted an acorn on his father';> farm at Stockton, N. Y., which he had obtained while on~:a visit to an uncle at Bemus Point. Some months ago Mr. Wincheste.r bought the tree from the present owner of the farm, J~h1es Rawson, and eut it down. The logs, averaging 31 inches in diameter, he had sent to the mill and cut into quartered oak. He intends to have furni-ture built of the lumber for his. horn e.-Calumet (Mich.) News. • Recuperating in Florida. Alexander DOdds, the well known manufacturer of the Dodds patent gang dovetailer,is taking a much needed rest among the flowers of Florida. Mr. Dodds has not taken a vacation in many years, and the Michigan Artisan wishes him much pleasure while "speadn' 'gators" and feasting upon the field and orchard products of Florida. Mrs. Dodds ac-companied him. ------------- -- - This Machine Makes the Money BY SAVING IT======== It makes a perfect imitation of any open grain because it uses the wood hself to print from, and one operator and a (;:ouple of boys can do more work with it than a dozen men with any other so-called machine or pads on the market. Tba.t~s why it~8a money maker. It imitates perfectly PLAIN or QUARTERED OAK. MAHOGANY.WALNUT, ELM. ASH or any other wood with open grain. WRITE THE Posselius Bros. Furniture Manufacturing Co., Detroit, Mich. PLeAS!:: MENTION THE MICHIGAN ARTISAN WHEN 'tou WRIT!!:. 11 12 ·!'~MICHIG.7lN •• 7 3 This space reserved for THE ~OYAl VARNISHCOMPANY. Toledo. Ohio . . are laid one across the other in front of the saw at an angle of 45 degrees; as the saw cuts there is an equal pressure 011 either side of it so that the cut is abSOlutely tru'e. It cuts picture frame moldings up to 6 by 2%. inches, at any angle to 45 degrees. Cuts straight joints up to 9 inches wide. The frame is a solid cast iron structure, free from vibration, whose table is mounted on frictionless rollers ~and moves easily. Saw mandrel is hung on 'the swinging frame and the bearings are adjustable independently. The saw is hollow ground, and the side vibration is eliminated by a guide under the table. The double fence is the important feature of con-struction on this machine. It is adjustable from a straight angle up to 45 degrees. Angle Plates (of wood) are furnished to set in the fence trays when mitering joints for picture frames to give a deeper set to the frame. CO'l1ntershaft has For ManUfacturing Purposes. T. and L. pulleys, 10 x 4-%- inch face, and should make 500 The large factory, operated by the Grand Rapids Re- R. P. M. One 20-inch hollow ground s;;n.v'is furnished with frigerator company, will be leased to quite a large' number of the machine. Full particulars of the ahove machine can be small manufacturing industries as soon as the company. _obtained by addressing the J. A. FAY & EGAN CO., 505- takes possession of their new factory, nearing completion .• 1525 Vv·. Front St., Cincinnati, Ohio. Filled with Fine Old Furniture. King Leopold, of unsavory fame, who reigns over Bel-gium · while he lives in France, has just purchased another princely estate in the latter country for his favorite the "Baronne de Vaughan." This is the Chateau de Balain-court, one of the finest properties in the Ile de France. It contains a ,superb park, 200 acres in extent. standing within its own walls, its fine old trees are grouped in a way that would have delighted the eye of a Watteau or a Frag-onard, and its groves and purling brooks, its lovely gardens and the lak~s on which graceful swans move majestically to and fro would make a fitting backgrourld for the jOyOl1!i festivities of a gallant court. It is a veritable Versailles in miniature, and the chateau .is worthy of the grounds which surround it. It is an im-mense manorial residence of mixed· architecture, half Louis XV)., half Empire style, and on the Greek front one may still trace the arms of its first possessors, the Marquises of Balaincourt. This illustrious family, whose chief, a Marshal of France, was one. of the most zealous supporters of the Bourbons, has left irnpehshabh-' souvenirs 01 its possession in the vast halls, decorated by ·the'master artisans of the eighteenth century. All the apartments on the first and 'second floors, all the marble chimneys, encrusted with chiselled bronze, are decorated with pier '.glasses representing family portraits. The interior decoration is of the purest Louis XVI. All is white and pearl gray. M. Boue, who has just sold the Chateau de Balaincourt to the King of the Belgians, was a scholar and an artist. During his tenancy of this princely domain he filled it with fine old furniture and ornamented it with refined taste. He is said to have spent £60,000 on it and only abandoned it with regret because he had no family, and the utter loneliness Of the vast dwelling oppressed him. Unhappily, the "Baronne,"! who has enormous influence over the King and in whose i name the property has been acquired, has decided not to ~ake over the furniture of the previous owner, and instead s~e will furnish it anew to suit her taste. "Modern style" will be the keynote of the new decoration, and the refined elegance of past centuries will soon be only a memory of Bala.incourt. One of the most appreciable attractions of the Belgian sovereign's new estate is that it is only one hour's run in an automobile from Paris, and if he must go to Brussels he can get there in four hours.-.Sun. A New Picture Frame Machine. A Cincinnatti firm, engaged in the manufacture of wood. working machinery, has recently patented a machine for 'cutting the two parts to a miter simultaneously. It is claimed by the makers that it wilt do away with the necessity ofa double opera.tion and fitting by hand plane, and is therefore invaluable to picture frame manufacturers, and others who have considerable mitering to do. Two pieces of moulding ·§t~MI9fIIG7}N SALES MANAGER MURPHY RESIGNS. Leaves the American Seating Company to Engage in Private Business. M. H. 1-1urphy has resigned his position, that of general sales manager for the American Seating company, and will engage in a manufacturing business on his own account in Manitowoc, "'Vis. In his association with the American Seating comfJany, Mr. "\lurphy V'laSin charge of the operation of the several manufacturing plants of the company. which is the largest manufacturer of church and school furniture in the world. The retirement of Mr. Murphy brings from officers and the executive management of the seating company expressions of regret and warm appreci.ation of his work. Mr. Murphy's first connection with the furniture manu-facturing business was in 1892 when, after the burning of the plant of the Manitowoc Manufacturing company he, being extensively interested in real estate in the city, be-came active in the organization of the Manitowoc Seating company, though at that time having no idea of assuming an active part in management of the company. He was electcd a director of the company and gave one-half of his time to the effort in securing a site and erecting thc factory, and later Mr. Murphy was induced to take charge of the com-pany's factory, which he successfully operated until 1899 when the property was sold to the combination of interests organized as the American School Furniture company. Following thc sale of the local plant, Mr. Murphy was ap-pointed resident manager, a position which he held for three years when he was placed in charge as manager of' the operating department of the American company, with head-quarters at New York city. Two years later thc company's general offices wcre removed to Chicago and sincc that time Mr. Murphy has bcen located in that city. Mr. lviurphy has demonstrated his capabilities for large projects, both in the executive al1d organization, and Manitowoc appre-ciates the possibilities which his return to that city will bring. His many friends in the furniture and kindred trades wish him success in his new enterprise. Accidents in Factories. Manufacturing accidents must be estimated rather than stated flatly; for nata are wanting. Terrihle as they ate, they 13 have never attracted much attention, because it is nobody's business to collect and publish the figures. So far only one state has ever made a serious effort to secure figures of factory accidents. It was in 1899 that the New York Bureau of Labor strove to get returns of industrial accidents for three months among one-half the State's factory workers. Confessedly incomplete returns for this period showed one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two serious acci-dents. On this basis all New York's factories would show fourteen thousand six hundred accidents in the year; but even these figures are known to be far below the real facts. Many trades not very dangerous reported forty-four case5 to the thousand workers; and there was everywhere a dis-position to conceal casualties. But even forty-four, to .the thousand gives two hundred and thirty-two thousand factory employees killed and injured annually in this one division of our industrial army. And remember, all of them are mc·n ill early middle lifeJ~trained and experienced hands such as can least be spared. It has been estimated that industrial casualties of this kind cost the nation at least twice its an- 1Iual fire loss, which now stands at about onc hundred and seventy-foUT million dollars. Thus a man is worth far more than the article he mines or makes. This. of course, is regarding the question purely on its cconomic side, and with no reference to moral responsibility at all. Every year thousands of wage-earners~men, women, and children-are cat!ght in the machinery of our record breaking production and turned out hopeless cripples. Thousands more, as has been shown, arc killed outright. But even so, we are too busy to count the d~aJ, to consider the injured. Certain it is that few efforts are made in the hurlyburly of output to safeguard the workers. Out of six hundred and twelve "caught in the machinc" cases, forty per cent. could have been prevented by screening off the moving parts. NO! NO TROUBLE HERE! Simply.wanted ta get yau lo give this something better than a passing glance and since we have caught your eye let's catch your orders far Veneered RoU.. We build the famous I~EUA8LE" ROlLS. WRITE FOR PRlCES. The Fellwock Auto. & Mfg. Co. EvANSVILLE, INDIANA Ours is the largest Roll Plant in tM United States. 14 HEARD ON THE FAST TRAIN. Bedsteads That Give Dreams Like the Figure Eight and Hair Renewer That Slipped a Cog in Results. "Speaking about bedsteads," observed Harry, the veneer man, "do you know that Uncle Sam is having all kinds of trouble in getting men for the army who are tall enough to command the respect of the effete monarchies of the smelly east?" Tommy, who sells bedsteads and other things, (aid aside his newspaper and looked out into the corn country, through which the train was making its laborious way. Then he lighted a cigar, very deliberately, and turned to the speaker. "What's the answer?" he -asked. "Eh? \\'hat's what answer?" "Do you guess about soldiers and bedsteads and win something in a pink box if you get it right?;' "Oh! The answer is that every generation of men is shorter than the preceeding generation." "I know a lot of men down on Wall Street who are rather short just now," "V'/elI, it wasn't your bedsteads that made them short not in the way you mention, but it is the modern bedstead that is making the American race short in stature." Tommy pulled away at his weed and looked out into the corn country. He had an idea that Haxry was trying to stir him up to the story-telling point. "You bedstead makers," continued the veneer man, <lare shortening your bedsteads in order to elongate your bank ac-counts, You are too thrifty in the matter of lumber and iron. Every year you shorten up your bedsteads an inch." The corn country seemed to possess great attractions for the bedstead man. "And the worst of it is," continued the veneer man, "that Cabinet Hardware --AND-- Factory Supplies • New BnlllandFlint Paper. Barton Garnet Paper. DonMe Faced Flint and Gamet Finishinll Paper. Brass Bntts. Wronllht Steel Bons. Cabinet Locks and Keys. Gold Plated and Gilt Cab. inet Keys~ Bench Vises. Bolts, Washers, Zincs. Wood Screws. Coach Screws. Llqoid Gloe, Casters. Upholsterer's Tacks. Lal'lle Head Burlap Tacks. Wire Brads. Standard Nails. Cement Coated Nail•• E1howCatches. Door Catcltes, etc~,etc~ Our large and complete assortment of general hard ware is at your service. Correspondence solicited. InqUiries for prices will receive carefuJ and immediate attention. FOSTER, STEVENS & CO. GRANDRAPIDS.MICH. the people who make bed clothing follow their leader in the matter of scant material. The clothes are made to fit the bedsteads_ I'm not an extra long man, but, half the time, r have to sleep with my feet on (\ chair or a light stand, covered with an overcoat in cold weather. You chaps are sure making a· race of dwarfs." "I presume," said Tommy, "that the manufacturers make the kind of bcdsteads-" "Look at the soldiers of France. Are they short? They have to stand on a chair to look into the muzzles of their guns. Have you ever slept in a bed in gay Parree? Well, that's the answer. Do you think you can raise a long man on a short bed? Not according to the latest returns." "I presume the bed make.rs find out-" "What is needed is a bedstead that will let a man stretch out without getting corns on the sales of his feet.' Then we shall be a race of giants. I should think you chaps would know better." <lIf the people want bedsteads-" "Look here! It doesn't cost any more to feed a taU man than a short man, does it? Besides, a fellow has to grow. in some direction, doesn!t he? Do you men who make short bedsteads ever think of that? Don't you know that if a man can't grow east and west he'll grow north and south, about where he fastens his suspenders? You manufacturers give me pains!" Tommy looked out of the window and gave up trying to get a word in, for the time being. Harry would show less speed in a minute. "\,thy don't you get up bedsteads like mother used to make? They were long, and wide, and ~igh up from the floor. We used to hide under 'em. They wasn't much like the contrivances you make, the half-resters that give a man views of things reptillian in his dreams. I suppose you think the people are going to sleep with their knees tucked up under their chins so you can save an inch of lumber on a bedstead 1" "Quit it!" said Tommy. I "If you had to sell bedsteads, you'd-" "Just because lumber is going up, you want to turn out a lot of warriors that will have to use a step ladder to climb into a pair of adult boots. Yeuought to be -arrested for condensing the human family," The veneer man chuckled and sat back with a satisfied look on his face. Tommy turned from the window, and looked as if he had taken every word seriously. "It strikes me," he said, "that the men who are making bedsteads know the demands of the trade. I guess they aren't putting stick together in a shape that won't sell. If the people wan't short bedsteads we'll make 'em. How do you know that long beds will make long men? You've got to show me. Suppose we go and get up a lot of bedsteads so long th'at th'ey have to be introduced into the upstairs rooms through _the window, like a blooming piano, and the average height of people in that section is under five feet? I guess we'd be declaring dividends in surplus product, what?- "You make me think of a man who had invested his all in a patent hair renewer, the only trouble with w~ich was that it wouldn't renew. He described his remedy for that billiard-ball effect in the mail order papers, and even hired a poet to make up a song about it, but it wouldn't sell and he was, in consequence, living pretty close to the husks. You see, he was making something that wouldn't fill the bill, wasn't up to the sample, as it were." HWhat's that got to do with a bedstead that makes a man have dreams like a figure eight?" demanded the veneer man, with a grin. "You keep to the previous question." "One day this hair renewist discovered a barber with a head of hair that was a wonder. It' was blonde, and soft, and fine, and plenteous, He used to·- drop into the shop 15 C'1 I ·~·.'I·.·'· ,r, ~ STA.E CHICAGO Don't You Sometimes Wish that some capable person would come along and give you a new viewpoint-a new method or means that would materially increase your trade; show you new weapons with which to successfully tackle old problems? Have you ever used ADELITE STAINS ? You will find them stains of exclusive merit, with van-tage points which cannot be duplicated in any other similar goods on the market. Our Mahogany and Golden Oak Stains have a reputation for sustained ex-cellence and are today the most popular stains on the market. Our No. 514 and No. 516 are Dry Stains, various combinations of which will produce any shade of Mahogany. Our No. 502 is an equally popular stain producing old shades of mahogany. No. 2533 and No. 2985 are Golden Oak Stains that have found unusual favor. You can't beat' em. You will find that Ad-el-ite goods make your products look belter, last longer and sell easier. where the barber worked to admire that hair. It sure was a lulu. Then, after about a week of adoration, he became possessed of an idea." "I should think you'd want to change the subject," said Harry. "Go on out Oll the: platform and play you're an air brake while I read my paper." "He took the barber to one side and showed him how he could acquire hatf of all the money there ,vas jn the 'world, reserving the other half for himself. 'All you've got to do: he said to the barber, 'is to go to some town where you're not known and ~have off that hair. Of course yOU don't have to reap it all. Just shave a spot on your dome about as big as one of Bauman's soup plates.' "The barber said that he would defend that head of hair with his life, and all that, bllt this promoter was long on talk. 'Then, when you get as bald on your nut as a brick, you get a job in a barber shop,' he said to him, 'and l'll do the rest. Some day, soon, \vhile they are reviling your barren coco, I'll drop in and announee that I've got a bottle of something that will make your head look like Sampson's in about two months. Then, when you begin to rub this dope 011 you quit shaving your head. See? It is so easy that it seems a shame to take the money. You keep putting on the dope in the presence of the passengaire, and let the hair grow. Harriman will be building railroads to bring the bald-headed to us, and Rockefeller will be in on a special train. Nothing to it, barber!" "So the barber deprived abo\lt half his; head of its lUXll-riener. and went to a town where he wasn't known and got a job in a shop. Oh, yes, they set the trap, all right. They accumulated coin abollt as fast as the mints could turn it out for a time, for it is an interesting thing to see hair growing on a pate heretofore as bald as a new drnm. It looked like the renewer was doing business according to schedule, and the men who were shy of hair in that valley were plenLy. "Then one day the barber sought his companion in crime with a scared look on his face. 'See here," he said, 'you told me there was nothing in this stuff that would injure the foundadons of the curly locks I sacrificed for you. Look at that eminence 1 There isn't a thing between that slippery place up there and the solar system. Your dope's killed the roots. \Vhat arc yOU going to do about it?' 'N ow, what could the promoter do about it? He had worked out a false proposition and got a stock of hair goods on hand tl12.t represented all his profits and all he could borrow. He was like a man who had warranted a seven foot man to every eight foot bedstead and fo"und 'em raising a mess of Tom Thumbs. He had deceived the public as to ,.,,-hnt his product would do, just as you would do if you put out a line of talk about long bedsteads. He had produced something the. public wotlld no longer buy. "Vv'hat could the poor ma11 do? Besides all the loss, there ,,,,·as the barber, mourning his Sampsonian locks and likely to get a gun or a razor into play at any time. He got out of the state a mile ahead of the barber, who is now the baldest man in his section." "\Vhat's the answer to that?" asked the veneer man. "Besides," said Tommy, "you go and put tall soldiers in theficld and tllCy will get their heads knocked off the first shot. That will make a demand for short men, and that will make a run on shart bedsteads. According to yO,ur o\ovn figuring, you'd be in wbrse shape than the barber." "And that," said the veneer man, "i~ all the sense a short-bed man has." ALFRED B. TOZER <' Covered steam pipes are great money savers: 1& ·!'~MI9f1IG7fN , 1!5TABLISHED 1880 l"UIIL,.H.D lilT MICHIGAN ARTiSAN CO. ON THE 10TH AND 2fT" O~ EACH MONTH OP'P'ICE-"108. 110. 112 NORTH DIVISION ST •• GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. E"'TERED AI MATT!R OF THE SECOND DLA" An improvement in trade is reported by retailers on the Pacific coast. The "crop" of eastern sojourners is large and with their expenditures and the sales of winter products the financial condition has been rendered considerably easier. "to °tD D, N. & E. Walter Co., of San Francisco, celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their engaging in business in that city recently. The firm's growth illustrates the adage of the tall oak and the little acorn. CltO DtD Three hundred and twenty-five thousand cars and 8,000 locomotives are in "cold storage," and as yet no reductions in freight rates are reported. The value of the idle roIling stock is $445,000,000. °to °to ¥lith machinery driven by directly connected motors, the shop superintendent is relieved of all bother and worry about tight belts, hot boxes, shafts out of line and like annoyances. °to °to To keep saw mill operators from going into the interior finish business, show them the wide margin of profit that is enjoyed by the manufacturers of kitchen cabinets. °to °to The output of new furniture factories has been largely reduced. )[0 additional plants of consequence have been commenced during the past ninety days. °to °to The jollying letter, mailed to the trade by th,e Heath & Milligan company of Chicago, failed to save the firm from bankruptcy. It is about $500,000 "shy." °to °to A considerable number of manufacturers of furniture have ordered catalogues, the first in several years, for Use in pushing for trade. "t- °te \Vhen the "expert" veneer worker breaks into the shop one can never predict wh'at will happen to the crotch ma-hogany. °to °to The average stationery engineer can tell what he knows in half as much time 3>i it takes to tell what he thinks hc knows. °to °tCl' Manufacturers report the receipt of a fair volume of mail orders and look for an improvement during the coming month. °te o to') "How to formulate businelss getting letters," problemn that commands much time and study in the °to '"to is a office. '-Words are truth."-Sidney an amazing barrier to the reoeption Smith. Kot in the furniture trade. of the 7IRTlr8~ 3 • $ ... In the' storm bound clUes of the east, trade is as lifeless as an editorial in the Chicago Furniture Journal. °to °to Because he is headed the wrong way many a salesman is unable to make his expenses equal his sales. °to °t'" Under the name of art many worthless designs arc in-flicted upon the uncultivated buyer. °to °to The quadrennial selection of a national cabinet maker is one of the problems of the year. °to °to Every man's business is to be good and happy to-day. Of tomorrow nothing is known. °to "'t'" "Why is a jointer called a "buzz" planer?"-Woodworker. Why not a Buss planer? °to °to A slump in the funiture expo>iition building industry is apparent to all. °to °fo Some designers have but one design "in them; others hundred>i. 0t" °to The electric motor is rapidly disposing of the loose pulley. °to °to The after effects of experience counts. To Teach School Boys Trades in Chicago. Night >ichools to teach boys trades are to be a part of the Chicago educational system. The plans provide for the establi>ihmeut of trade classes in three of the manual training schools to instruct those pupils who are unable to obtain the benefits of private technical or day public manual training schools. The establishment of night trade schools in Chicago sets a precedent in public educational systems of the country. Despite the fact that trade night or "continuation" schools have been in operation in Germany and England for many years, their inauguration in the United States has been looked upon as a radical innovation. J\.fen alone are not to be the beneflciaries of the city's "continuation" >ichools. Classe>i for women are to be in-stalled where millincry, dressmaking, cooking and other trades in which women have excelled will be taught. As a preliminary to the wider spread of this work a two-year course will 'be provided for beginners "in the first of the "continuation" schOOls, with diplomas for those who complete the work. Industrial Efficiency. In a general way it may be said that the following things are essential for industrial efficicncy in workmen: 1. Hnbits of close observ'll;on. 2. A high ideal as to what constitutes honesty in work-manship. 3. Habits of accuracy in work. 4. Comprehension of what is good in design a>i related to use in connection with th,e work in hand. 5. Knowledge of materiah best adapted to different forms and typcs of construction. 6. Knowledge of construction processes in the treatment of materialfi. 7. Skill in the care of tools and in th·eir use in industrial processes. Knowledge of machine processes and skill in using machinery. Skill in freehand and mechanical drawing. 8. n. ----------------~--~ ~-- -§>'-!'1.1fJi1G 7}-N I II 17 I LIGNIN~ CARVINGS, UNBREAKABLE Increase YOUJbusiness. Increase yon1 profits. Increase yon~ bnsiness friends by adopting LIGNINE CARVINGS. Send for sample and new catalogue showing Drawer Pulls, Capi-tals, Pilasters, Drdps, Shields, Heads, Rosettes, Scrolls, etc. . I --- ORNAMENT AL PRODUCTS CO., 556 Fort St., Detroit, Mich. When Flywheels Explode. And even in ordinary factories the ftywhe,cl may becorue more deadly than any shrapnel ever ramUlI d into artillery breach. One can hardly pick up an eugf,ncering journal tvithout noting a flywheel expJosjOl1, 1 myself counted eighteen in two months, and many more ar unrecorded al-together. The engine is wrecked, costly II achinery l""UiIled, buildings damaged, and all persons in the PEl lh of the flying cast iron missiles are either killed or badly aimed. In July, 19D5, a tllirty-foot flywheel, \ eighing seventy thousand pounds and revolving at three an/:l a half miles a minute, burst in a mill at Cumberland, ,Mary~alld. The whole building was instantly wrecked and the r.opf thrown down on the workers, of whom two were killed putright and ten mangled. One such accident may do one llundred thousand dollars' worth of damage. There are no s<~feflywheels, the insurance companies say, because no maChj'Ue wll! nm con-tinuously \vithout some accident. This ",.-as shown by a startling episode fit a steel mill in Cleveland. A powerful engine was running! smoothly and at normal speed, when the governor belt brokie and tbe engine began to race. Thae were safety devices 11nuse, bllt these proved unavailing. Running to shut off steam, the engineer in his excitement got his arm caught in a s~rocket wheel and chain and could not disengage it to close t~c valve. It was a terrible position, for the man foresaw dis~ster. The engine W;lS by this time fairly. flying. Just as the filer was running to his comrade·s assistance the great twenty-foot flyvv'heel, weighing fOity-eight thousand pounds, bJrst with a terri-fying report from eentrifugal force. nath Imen were struck down, and everything wrecked in the path of the broken monster. One fragment weighing over on9 thousancl pounds was hurled through the roof for eight lnu}dred feel, and in falling wrecked a hOllse. The steel roof tru'sscs were cut like pipe stems, heavy girders smashed into Ishapeless masses, and brick walls battered down. I \iVith exploding boilets the risk is eveb greater; and all the great insurance cornpanies employ insJectors for thcm-whose work, by tll(: way, is also extrerhely perilolls. III truth, the workman of today runs more risk than any profes-sional destroyer on the battle field. And ~(t, while attempts are made to promote cordial relations he~ween master and man, the safeguarding of life and limb is but little thought of. In other nations it is vastly differebt. "Musetllns of Safety Devices·' and general industrial hyg~fene have been es-tablished by the governments of HoUand, Germany, France, England and other nations. These do m gnificent work in educating employcrs and employed, as \rell as the public generally .. Today these mu"eums stretcl~ in :l chain from Paris ~o 11,'105:,0\...-; an~l upo.n th~e WOl1c1CTful Industrial ?\-Iu-seum 111 Berlin the Impenal (To ....ernment has spent over three hundred thousand dollars. Its siJnifle::tl1t motto is, "A fence at the top is bettcr than an !ambUlanCe at the bottom." Live exhibits, of machines and dC\,ic,s in aetnal opera-tion, are shown in preference to mocleh. There arc \'>'ood and metal working machines; machines for stamping, grind-ing, and polishing; with safeguarded elevators and cranes; and a hundred others. Security in transport by sea and land is demonstrated in many ways. There are sa.fety lamps and explosives; fire protection devices; masks and helmets· for quarrying and working in irrespirable: gases. There are even J.:nge rows of improved dwellings; and of course first aid and prevention of disease appliances of every kind. Each procesS sho\vs how the worker may be pl'Otccted and his welfare advanced. Cog,vheels, whirling saws, emery wheels, and the like are covered with safety bands; skids provided with pOiseJ rntchets render it-impossible that a heavy cask shall roll do\vn and injure the man handling it. Mechanical engineers are in attendance to supervize and explain. \Vhen asked at Charlottenburg hOlN all these de-vices were got together, Dr. Albrecht, the curator, said that he appealed to atl the minc and factory owners, as well as constructors and inventors of the Empire, and offered a place in the museum for methods and devices of every kind. Next he secured a jury of twenty-eight representative ex-perts to pass upon those offered and to nplace old models with new ones on a year's loan. Fifteen large electric motors furnish the power for driving all the live machines in the grea.t halls; and there .are besides a library, lecture hall, rlt1d an immense exhibit of photographs and plans; not forgetting microscopic views of dust particles from work-men's lung~, with masks and respirators hy the si,:le of them to show the remedy. It is in such armorie~ that humane and intelligent captains of industQ; will hnd weapons of pre-cision wherewith to put an end, once and for all, to what the President sadly calls a "great <lnd perpetual war." Running to Full Capacity. D. L. IvlcLeod of the Moon Desk company, informed the Artisan that the company's factory at Muskegon wilT be run to its full capacity during the current month. ;'If the con-dition of trade does not warrant a continuation of operation, the factory will he ~losed ,for a month or more. ML :\/[oon, 2\'1t". Stephens and others of our board of managers do not consider the operat1~n of a factory on short work days profitable. If the object sought is the reduction of the product, the most economicaI plan is to close the entire plani. ~aturally quite a number of workmen will fail I'J respond when called to labor after a shut down lasting a' tY considnable period, but the man8.ger of a factory is r c ,rer without the means of attracting workmen to his plant." ~ Operating their New Factory. The Black Brothers Machjnery company have tlJ.en pos-session of their new plant in Mendota, Ill., and an' operating the same in the manufacture of veneer prC.:15~-",sanding machines, clamps and other tools retluired by wo Jd workers. The new shop affords much larger facilities I nan the old and enables the company to fill orders· withllut delay. 18 Mr. Manufacturer-DQyou everoomider WhMicint gluing co&t. t The separators and wooden wedges, if you use them and many do. are a large item of expense accounts; but this is small compared 10 wage ac. ,counts of workmen who wear them out with a hammer, and then a la!]e peT cent of the joints are failures by the insecurity of this means. RESULT, it has to be done over again, if possible. If you use inde-pendent screw clamps the result is better. but slower, altogether too .slow, Let us tell you of something better, PALMER'S CLAMPS. All tteel and iron. No wedges. PO separators. adjust to any width. clamp instantly yet securel>,:. releases even faster. Positivdy. one-third more work with one-third less help. In seven sizes up to 60 inches. any thicknest up to 2 in<:.lles. 200 fadoncs convinced in 1906. Why not you in 1907 i Although sold by dealers everywhere let 118 send you parti,nla". II. E. Pdlmr.r 8: Sons. Owosso, MiGh. FOREIGN AGENTS, p,~ Co.• London. Enol""'. Sehuduudt & Scllutte, Berlin. Germany. OUR ClA.MPS RECEIVED GOLD MEDAL AT WORLD'S fAIR ST. LOUIS. PILING CLAMP. CHAIN CLAMP (Patented 1une 30, lOO3) Writefor prius and particulars. BLACK BROS. MACHINERY CO. MfNDOT4, ILLINOIS ROBBINS TABLE CO., OWOSSO, MICH. Difference in "WORKING QUALITY" caused by "ABC" MOIST AIR KILN "We are pleased to advise that the dry kilns which you built tor us in February are peileetly satis- . factory; in tact, we had no idea that there c01~ldbesomuch difference in the workini quality of timber, a,swe ji.,ndin your Moist Air system over the old sYl:Jtemwe were using. , (Siined) ROBSINS TABLE CO. ASX FOR CATALOGUE NO. 225 M A. AMERICAN BLOWER CO., DETROIT NEW YORK, 141 BroadwB~. CHICAGO, Marquetts Bldg. ATUNTA, Em~lre Bldg, LONDON. 70 Gracechurch St. I "Rotary Style" for Drop Carvings, Embo~oo rOUlding8, Panels. Machines tor aU purposes, and at prices mtbln the reach of ~~r. "v.,y m"h'D' hoo on' ... , ....t ••••• ,D'I h".k ••• '0' ODD I "Lateral Style" for large capacity heavy bonings and Deep Emoossinp. * We have the Machine you want 8t a $Rti actory price. Wrlte tor descriptive cireUlars, Also make di~ 10 all makes of Ma~ .hln~ IJNIONEMBOSSINGMIlCnlNE CO., In lanapolls. Ind. FOX SAW SMOOTHEST GROOVES FASTEST CUT DADO HEADS GREATEST RANGE QUICKEST ADJUSTMENT LEAST TROUBLE LEAST POWItR LONGEST LIFE PERFECT SAFETY We·1I gladly tell YOUall about ft. Also Machine Knlve.r, Miter Machines. Etc. PKRMANlJ:NT ECONOMY FOX MACHINE. CO. 85 N. Front Street. rand Rapids. Mtch 19 list of Buyers 25 CENTS LIST OF BUYERS, 25 CENTS LIST OF BUYERS, 25 CENTS LIST OF BUYERS, 25 CENTS LIST OF BUYERS, 25 CENTS LIST OF BUYERS, 25 CENTS LIST OF BUYERS, 25 CENTS LIST OF BUYERS, 25 CENTS LIST OF BUYERS, 25 CENTS LIST OF BUYERS, 25 CENTS LIST OF BUYERS, 25 CENTS. Recently Published LIST OF BUYERS, 25 CENTS LIST OF BUYERS, 25 CENTS LIST OF BUYERS, 25 CENTS LIST OF BUYERS, 25 CENTS LIST OF BUYERS, 25 CENTS LIST OF BUYERS; 25 CENTS LIST OF BUYERS, 25 CENTS LIST OF BUYERS, 25 CENTS LIST OF BUYERS, 25 CENTS LIST OF BUYERS, 25 CENTS Wrile for It, Remit Amount. MICHIGAN ARTISAN CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 20 ~MIFHIG7fN $ Economy hi Table Leg Turning CanDo!. be LeeOOl.l)!imed ~n Ik .....mk u.done bY I-.autl; nOTi.it much better to use an old fuhioned l,.,g Turninll' Machine that leaves the work in such IOllllh condition that it requires finishing by hand. The MATTISON No.5 TABLE LEG MACHINE not only produces the belter quality II! work which is moSt esSl\":Jltial,but it al-o has the caPacity to lurn out the quantit)' necessary to m"ke it economical. The Heart of the Machine il the Culler-Head, and if yoU Will make a comparison you cannol fail to see tbat it is far ahead of any competitor on this point. Ther. comell the Oscillatinll Cilmage which feed!; the work Qeadier and with less effort than any other alTanieIDent; next the Variable fridion f«d which hu proven without an equal or the puwose. There are also other aood featurel and we WQuid like an oppDflunity of eJ:p]aiNIli: them .11 in detail Our Iar[ie circular won't co6t you anythinB and it may pl"OYe wurth a ~~a1. Why not write for it today? C. MATTISON MACHINE WORKS 863 FIFTH STREET. BELOIT. WISCONSIN. U. S. A. SLAYTON'S CARVED CHAIR. How a Man's Appreciation of Superior Furniture Brought Satisfactory ..Results at Last. The chair was a beauty. On pleasant days it occupied a ~place of honor at the top of a kitchen table, set Qut on the , sidewalk in front of a little second-hand furniture shop, and Slayton never passed that way without glancing at it and wondering why some wealthy man didn't buy it. Slayton was in the furniture line himself, and knew that the articl~ was valuable as a very rare piece. He often thought daring-ly of buying it himself, or at least of asking the price, but he was paying for a.home and felt too poor to tempt' him-self with serious thoughts of so reckless a purchase, so he admired at a distance .and hoped that it would not be snapped up before he got rich. The chair was dark and foreign-looking. The wood was something which Slayton didn't know about, although he had for a long time been confidcntial clerk at the Carter Furni-ture plant, and had heard a lot about different woods. It looked like it had come from Italy or India, and had been constructed through stow, patient years by a cunning work-man whose time was worth about as much a month as modern furniture makers pay a good man for one day'S work. The first thing one saw in the chair were the legs. They were carved, and twisted, and slender, and bulging under the seat, and they sprawled out so that the chair looked like a big spider with a little head and awfully conspicuous legs. The oval hack and the seat were carved and inlaid, and the latter was hard as flint, and so slippery that it did not seem possible for any human being to sit on it. The seat-honrd was fitted into a box-like metal frame, and Slayton often wondered what the metal was, and how long it had been since it had been fashioncd into its present shape. Taken as a whole, it was a sturdy chair, though slender and apparently frail. It w.as certainly very old, and to Slay-ton it looked mysterious, and seemed to carry with it thc atmospherc of an ancient castle on a mountain, with sccret ll(lssages behind the walls and hangings which gave out a subtle perfume. Slayton was fascinated with it. One day, when he felt especially hopeful concerning his prospects, Slayton stoppcd at the sec.ond-hand furniture shop and asked the pricc of the chair, ask'ed not eagerly, but carelessly, as if he didn't think much of the chair anyway, and was merely asking out of curiosity. Then, in about a second, the young man came near having a fit. The dealer evidently didn't know the value of his find. He seemed almost ashamed to name "the price, like a person who knows he is asking too much for a thing, when he declared that he couldn't sell it for less than two dollars. "It is such an odd-loo~ing thing," he said to Slayton, "that I had about given up all hope of getting rid of it. You see it won't match with anything modern. Came over with Columbus, I guess." Slayton was quite certain that it was nearly as old as the dealer imagined it to be, and kept it under his arm all the time the merchant was making cfiange, he was so afraid it would get away from him. Two dollars! Poor as he was, Slayton would have paid twenty for it! He would put it up in the den, and there it would bring' to him dreams of the strange land of its birth. Two dollars! Well! vVhen Slayton got the chair home his wife wouldn't listen to its being lugged off to the den. She wanted it to stand by the bay window in the sitting room, where she could study it and be impressed with its mysterious personality. Personalityiin a chair? Certainly. Furniture makes a room either dreary or cozy, and so it must have a personality! "It is just too lovely for anything," wifey said, "and I'm going to polish it up and pretend that you paid an awfUlly high price for it!' And she did polish it, until the hard wood shone again, and the ancient carving and the inlaid work came out in strange and. beautiful pattern. Slayton and wifey took plenty of comfort with that chair. One would have thought that it was a sentient thing, the way they talked of its moods. Slayton used to say that, being childless, wHey tied the chair about with fresh ribbons every afternoon and warned it llot to play in the mud. And wifey only laughed and ran her hands lovingly along the smooth seat of the chair. Presently there caine a succession of evenings when Slayton didn't take much comfort with his chair. He seemed blue over somethi'ng, and sat brooding by the fire until it was time to go to bed. vVifcy knew that he would tell her aU about it when the time came, and, like the sensible little thing shc was, did not worry him with questions. At last it had to come out. "They're forming a new company down at the plant," he said, ·."and the stock will be mostly in the hands of new me~. If I could get hold of a couple of thousand dollars I could get in on the ground floor and. keep my present pl?sition. with, perhaps, an increase in salary." . "'VVhy," said wifey, a little wrinkle of anxiety showing be-tween her eyes, "you aren't going to lose your place, are you? I thought you were to stay there forever and ever:" "If I can't buy stock," replied Slayton, "some man who can will be given the job. I have the first whack at it, but how can r buy stock? If we had this place paid for, we migl1t make a raise on it, but we can do nothing as it is. H T get out down there ·we're likely to lose what we've paid on the place." Lose the place? There wasn't much sleep for wifey that night. She kept still until hubby was asleep, and the~ walked about, the house under the dim gaslight, looking at the rooms 7lR.. T 1.57'Je'L*1'I THE OLD WAY "1AS 0000 BUT THE NEW IS BETTER No factory having sanding ~odo can afford to use obsolete methods. The new way is the way to profit-success. Ask for the proof. l A MONEY SAVER. STURGIS MACHINE co., Sturgis, Mich, Charlotte, Mich" Oct. 1st, 1907. Gelltlemen:-Inclosed we hand you our deck in settlement forthe belt sander purchased of you about one month ago. We have tried this machine on almost all of OUT work and fink!. It a money saver Work: that we were domg bv hand can be eaSJly dome on your mac11111e In a great deal less time and gives better results after done. We belie'\ie you WLn sell a good mally'of them as at woodworkmg plants should own a machmc 01 tbIS kind. Very trul~' CHARLES BENNETT FURNITURE CO, GIVES ENTIRE SATISFACTION. STURGIS MACHINE COMPANY, SturgLs, MLCh Algollla, WIS, Sept. 19. 1907. Gentlemen -We have your favOTaf the 7 inst. and cardullynote contents. In reply to same we are pleased to note that you will forward the four inch roller in a few days. With regards to the No.2 machine '\\ioul say same has gwen us entire SRtisfadlOn and we a.re making some improvements on same whlch we WIll descnbe to you some day In thelnear futnre, Yours truly, PLUMBERS \VOODWORK CO. STURGIS MACH,NE COMPANY, Sturgis. Michigan 21 and the things in them, fOf all the WOfldlas if the parting was an assured thing and was to take place t dawn. Hateful old things! '\Thy couldn't they let hubby alone? Somewhere near morning she came b ck to the sitting room where the chair was and stood in a ~haft of moonlight which flooded the floor. As she looked at the chair, thinking that, whatever happened, they wouldn't part with that, it seemed to get into motion of itself and tJist its snaky legs about in the white light. \\lifey knew th~t it was only the thin shadow that came through the panes t7at gave the noted effect, but she drew the chair up into a 1tronger light and looked it over. "I believe you know ail about iH" she Isaid, sitting down on the floor and throwing her arms over ~he seat in a rest-ful attitUde. There came an odd little click as her heavy wedding ring struc:k the back part of thf seat, and there surely was a stir of something under the aim of her hand! Something was pressing up-up~up! It was all so unex-posed, so uncanny, that wifey sprang awa)fl' but did not take her eyes from the chair, which seemed to be bewitched. The c:arved and inlaid scat of the chair seemed to be lifted by some concealed spring. \\lifey stood aid watched it with the queerest memories of old India rOO1arncesin her mind. The chair was living up to the half-magic Ipart it had always been given in the home. The lifting of tile seat revealed a cavity inside the metal frame, and in thiJ ,,-vcre thing3 that sparkled and burned in the moonlight. She gave one quick look and drew down the window shades 1111dturned on the gas, for. she was a wise little 'woman, 3nf' didn't want any prowLing person to see what was in the c air. "Charley! Charley! Get up and see That a wonderful thing I've found!" She pulled away at hubby's arms as sHe called, and soon he was out on the floor, still half asleep] and grumbling at being awakened. \\lifey led him into th1 sitting room and pointed to the chair. The cover was back in its place now, and wHey looked like a person frightenedl almost out of her wits as she told hubby all about it. "You were dreaming!" declared hUbt>y, but she knew better, for the moonlight had shone on t le contents of the cavity, and she certainty knew diamond, and rubies, and emeralds when she saw them. I "Why, Charley Slayton," she said, ]'YOU ought to be ashamed of yourself! I sat {hnvn here by the chair, just like this. and threw my hands on the bqttom, palms down, like this, and I heard something click, alnd then the cover lifted." t There was another elick, and again the cover lifted. "VVifey had had the good fortune to again touch he spring with her wedding ring. Charley emptied the ea ity and took the kwels to the light. I "There's a good many thousand doUirs' worth of gems here:' he said, perfectly white in face becare of his emotions. "I reckon some old gazabo out in India or Italy hid his treasures bere, and had a dagger inserted into his ribs before he could fwd time to tell where they were. Think of this wealth sitting out there in the street on a kitchen table for weeks and ,,,,eeks! Here's a lot of stock in the new company, dear, and a home all paid for, and lots of things! Wouldn't that second hand man howl if he knew!" "I had got as far as that," said wifey, with a smile, "and we ought to have that dear blessed old chair framed In gold! Iu"t think of it carryi~g all these gems f~r hundreds of years to hand them to us in our need!" . It was quite evident that the chair was a very old one, probably Italian or early French, as shown by the slender, carved legs and the inlaying, for the gems which had been hidden in it v,'ere not of modern cutting. They brought a pocket full of money when offered for sale, and Charley's dream of stock in the furniture company and a home all paid for was realized. But it was not $:~,OOO in stock he held, but $1.0,000, and his position was of vastly more im-portance than the old one. "It all comes of my love for rare old furniture," he ex-plains. "A man who 1135 a thirst for the artistic and com-plete in material and workmanship belongs in a furniture factory, anyway, Clnd the chair saw to it that I did not get fired out!" But wifey insists that she had something to do with the finding of the gems, and that hubby really can't expect her to find a secret treasure box in every piece of the acres and acres of old furniture he is buying! ALFRED B. TOZER. Resorting Lumber. Yard men do not give as much attention to the resorting of lumber as the importance of the work (leservcs. Sorting is mainly for knots, stains and such other defects. Not much time is given, however, to ascertaining, for example, the strength of each single piece of a shipment, the character of the grain and the position of the knots. A stringer free from knots in the middle, making two-thirds of the distance from each end and one-fourth of the distance in on both sides, is very much stronger than a similar' stringer, with knots in these particular positions. George L. Parker, the furniture statistIclan of the St. Louis Furniture Board of Trade. authorizes the statement that the factories making furniture and kind-red goods in St. Louis number fifty; that the capital invested in the sa'me amounts to 55,000,000; that the sales of the past yearainount-ed to $30,000,000; that of this amount $8,000,000 represented the sales of the furniture makers. The 7,500 hands employed were paid $4,000,000 in wages. All of which is making a hne showing for St. Louis. 22 PROFIT SHARING AND CO-OPERATION. Paper -~ead Before ~e Class in Applied Christianity, at Fountain Street Baptist Church, Grand -Rapids, Mich. On Sunday, January 19, A. S. White read a paper before the class in Applied Christianity, of the Fountain Street Baptist Church, on the subject of Co-operation and Profit Sharing. Upwards of 500 members of the class were present. and "a lively discussion followed the conclusion of the reading: Robert W. l\Ierrill of the Phoenix Furnitu're company; recalled the history of Albert Dolge, the altruist of Dolgeville, who had given c9-operation and profit sharing a thorough trial, resulting in failure and bankruptcy for Mt. paige. Mr. Merrill contented that the only equal basis for the ·illan' is a division of the losses in lean years as well as -the profits in years of plenty. Th'e pastor of the church, Rev. A. W. Wishart, expressed the opinion that there is merit in the system; that it would be of value in solving the industrial prciblemn. An abstraCt of Mr. White's paper is as follows: "Co-operation, is defined as the aG( of working, or operat-ing together to an end; joint operation; concurrent effort or labor. Profit sharing is the distribution of the advantages gained in some commercial undertaking with others. Since its inception, many centuries ago, co-operation has been ap-plied, with varying degrees of success, to almost every pur-pose. In the field of business it has been utilized in manu-facture, navigation, banking, farming, merchandising, real estate and kindred interests. As technically understood, co-operat, ion occupies a middle position between the doctrine of communism and socialism on the one hand, and private property and freedom of lahor on the other. At a very definite and significant point it takes its departure from communism. The motive of. individual ·gain and possession in the sentiment of a universal happiness or good, would be extinguished by communism. All the existing rights, laws and arrangements of society would be remodeled on a basis deemed consonant to this end. Co-operation seeks, in con-sistency with the fundamental institute of society as hi.therto developed, to ameliorate the social condition by a Co.t1- currence of increasing numbers of associates. The co-operative idea requires identity of purpose and interest, with a community of advantages and risks, though not necessarily absolute equality or uniformity of individual relations among the co-operators. When the investment passes into a mere investment and trading company, the idea would seem to be lost. During the middle ages, co-operation was in use in Russia, but it was not until near the middle of the last century that pr~ctical plans were adopted and the merit of the system tested. The impracticability of the plans of operation, in-competency and dishonesty in the management, caused many of the associations to suspend business, involving heavy losses to the investors. At present the business of the Rus-sian associations is confined to the purchase and distrIbution of supplies needed by their members. The most prosperous association, at present, is that which is located in one of the suburbs of S1. Petersburg. It was started in 1880 with one hundred members and a capital of 7,500 rllbles. The present membership is 2,168, and it not only possesses con-siderable funds, but has also its own bakeries, breweries, stores, dining halls, and other real property. The goods handled are bought directly from domestic and foreign pro-ducers, and the enterprise yields a profit of from 100 to 200 per cent per annum upon the capitalization. ~1embers own-ing shares receive substantial dividends, sometimes up to ?4 per cent per annum, and the common consumers. get a bonus upon every dollar's worth of purchase. Besides, part of the' net profit is, used for benevolent purposes, for schools homes, for invalids and asyl\1n1s for the aged. For the suc~ • cess of this co-operative association, credit is due in no ~small degree, to the following prudent stipulations in its statutes: 1. That'members holding shares may be expelled if not actually patronizing the association; 2. That even non-members become entitled to a bonus on every dollar's worth of purchase, by which inducement the trade of the association is kept steadily increasing . Following the great political upheavel in France at the close of the eighteenth century, Robert Owen and others caught the spirit of the revolution and instituted co-operative and profit sharing associations in that country, with the aid of the general government, which furnished ninety-six per cent of the funds required, the people supplying the labor. Incompetent management and the dishonesty of the officials soon wrecked these ambitious enterprises, and socialism scored a failure. This is the qnly instance in which 'so-cialism has been undertaken by a government. In 1828 spasmodic attempts were made to realize some of Owen's ideas by the organization of what were called union shops, for· the supply of the common necessaries of life, the profits of which were to be applied to the formation of prci'ductive works and independent industrial colonies. These flourished for a short time but collapsed in the year lR34. In 1844 co-operative and profit sharing societies were or-ganized in England, for several purposes, as follows: 1. To buy and sell to members alone, or to members and non-members under differing conditions, the necessaries of life or the ra.w material of their industry; 2. Societies of pro-duction, the object of which \-vas to sell the collective or individual work of the members; 3. Societies of credit or banking, the object of which was to open a.ccounts of credit with members, and advance loans to them for industrial purposes. These several plans define the distinguishing character-istics of the co-operative society proper, and it is somewhat remarkable that these three kinds of ·associations have at-tained a measure of success in three different European countrics. England ranks first in societies of consumption; France in societies of production; Germany in societies of credit. \'Vith reference to the variety of result, it has been observed that the socia! equality following the great revo-lution, in connection with the character of much of the manufacturing industry of France, has given that country a larger number of artisans, who work in their own houses, and have a passion for independence in their handicraft,· than is to be found in any other country of Europe. On the other hand, the masses of operatives in the factories, while retaining their position as wage earners, have put forth most energy and attained their highest co-operative success' in societies for the purchase, and in some degree the production. of their own immediate necessaries of life. In Germany it has been demonstrated that societies of credit were the neces-sary foundation of the co-operative system, and their de-velopme ·nt has been remarkable. Credit unions are maintained in many cities. and loans are made to artisans and mechanics. The movement in Great Britain owes its inception, its capa-city and progress entirely to the genius atld energy of work-ing men. It was born of their needs and the outcome of the' hard conditions under which, they lived and worked. Its methods were adapted to their requirements, and its results have been achieved by their unaided efforts. These 50- c.ietles, known as the Roachdale associations, are mainly engaged in the purchase and distribution of family supplies. A fixed interest (nevermore than five per cent) is paid on the capital invested and the remainder of the profit is divided among the members in proportion to their purchases. The membership of these societies in England numbers 2.500,000; the value of the 'products handled annually is $425,420,000 and the profits $11,000,000. Co-operation is well developed i,n Switzerland, and Dr, 'J.1uller, the head of societies in that country. regards it as "a ray of rtivine tight. ~howing the- ·~~ M.l fJ-tIG7}-.N r way Qut of the confustOn of sterile social doctrines and theories to the long-sought for ideal of a loew, harmonious order of humanity." A concrete case reveals the plan most generally chosen by the co-operators of our country. Sup ose Brown puts $100,000 into the manufacture of say, furhiture. Smith in-vests $50,000 and accepts the presidency df the corporation at $10,000 per year. Jones subscribes $2:i,obo and gets $5,000 per annum as secretary. Hill pays $15,O~O and gets $3,000 as treasurer, while Field puts in $10,000 ahd receives $2,000 as manager. The five named who investl $200,000, fOUf of whom receive $20,000 in annual salaries, employ ten men at $5.00 pef day, twenty men at $3.00 and ftrty men at $1.50. These men work 300 days in the year. vv~ages tben amount to $1.5,000,$18,000 <lnd $18,000 in these thr e grades of labor or to $51,000. In the spirit of fraternalismr the partners pro-pose to share profIts or lo"ses of the busimess, at the end of each year in proportion to the investment bf money or labor. Capital invested amounts to $200,000; shlaries amount to $20,000; wages amount to $51,00'o-total vatues $271,O(1(J. The net profits arc divide .!.. by 271,000and eheh of tbe seventy-five men who have contributed to the s~lecess of the firm, draws his proportionate share. Brown receives $10,000; Smith $6,000; Jones $3,000; Hill $1,800; Field $1,200; each of the ten receives $150.00; each of the twenty receives $90.00; each of the forty receives $45.00. The pa~ment of $5,100 to the wage earners of $51,000 is more thaln compensated by the feeling that the laborer is a profit Shat1/ler. The most notable example of success is recorded to the credit of the steel trust, which distribute? $2,000,000 among its employes on last Christmas. Fiye Yi/earsago the trust induced many thousands of its employes to invest a part of their earnings in the stock of the compa~lY· Annual distri-butions of profit were made and in December last the amount set aside for this purpose represented dividends of seven per cent and a bonus of $5.00 for each sharle held by the em-ployes. Building and loan associatiohs, manufacturing houses, and mercantile establishments, Iodated in many parts of the United States, have tested the s~stem more or less successfully. Many traveling saksmen ar/e paid a stated SU111 for selling goods aggregating a specified S 1m in value. '~Then they have reached the limit provided in tlheir contracts, they co-operate with their employers in the e,ort to add to their sales, and share in the profits gained through such increases. An organization known as the Co-operative Society of America i", promoting the movement, and a newspaper is maintained, for the purpose of informing/the members of its progress. In one county of Vlisconsin nire stores are owned by an organization of farmers, each of Iwhom invested the sum of $100.00 in the business. Tlle {}~cers are -elected by the membership, and are always subjeCjt to the, initiative, referendum and recall. Interest is paid! on the capital in-vested and dividends to all members J'n the-ir purchases. Many of such stores arc located in vViscbnsin, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, California and Indiana. Co-dperation is also em-ployed by students attending tbe great Jnlversities. In 1906 an eight per cent dividend ,"vas paid tt members on their purchases by the Harvard co-operative society, and a satis-factory business was transacted by thel co-operative stores at Princeton Berkeley and Butler, Ind. The grangers of Pennsylvania' have established a cons~derable number of banks; the fanners of Iowa many grain dlevators; ,the women of Newark, N. ]. a shirt factory; the nJwspaperworkers of New York, a corporation to erect homl for its members at Bayside on the co-operative and profit s/, aring system. These facts indicate the flexibility of the plan and the facility with which it may be applied to almost e 'Iery purpose of life. It is not necessary to go outside of our city to finJ examples to prove the paternal value of the sys!tem. A few years ago the Grand Rapids Gaslight company inaugurated a plan, through which its 300 employes were t6 share in the gains 23 earned in the operation of its plant, and the transaction of its business. After remaining in the company's service 18 months the employes are put upon the profit shartng list. Their share in the profits is an addition of ten per cent to the amount of wages they have earned during the preceeding year. Wages are considered as capital paid into the com-pany's treasury. One year ago the Oliver Machine company informed its employes that it would share its profits with them, on the basis of their earnings, following the plan of the Gaslight company. Increased interest in the affairs of the cor-poration has since been evinced by the workmen, and co-operation in the operation of the shop was gained through profit sharing. A unique profit and loss sharing plan upon which the business of a manufacturing company in Bridgeport, Conn., conducts its business, is as fo1101N5: (1.) El'l1ployer and em-ploye agree to share both profits and losses; (2.) Net gain or loss is ascertained by deducting from the. gross result of the inventory on the first of February all expenses for the year previous of every kind, including depreciation of build-ings, tools, machinery, and bad debts. In the case of gain, the capital invested, as shown by the inventor}~> shall first draw 6 per cent interest, "or, in case there is less than that amount, shall draw what there is, in liquidation of its claim"; the balance, then remaining, to be divided between the company and the individual employe in the proportion which the capital invested bears to his total wages for the year; (3,) For each current year, one-tenth of the wages of every ~mploye, who is a party to the contract, is withheld each week. In case there 'is not a net loss on the entire business of the year, this reserved money, together with ally accrued profit, as figured above, is paid to the employe, on or before March first, of each succeeding year; (4.) In case of a net loss on the business of the entire year, without figuring any dividend as above provided for capital, this loss is divided between the company and the employe in the same method as that prescribed for the dividing of profit; but in no case does the employe become responsible for losses greater than the amount reserved from his wages; UJ.) Other employes may become parties to this contract upon the invitation of the company. Any employe may withdraw from the eontract at any time, and from the firm's employ, but the company then holds the right to rctain the 10 per cent reserve till the end of the current year. In case it is so beld, its owner shares in the company's profit or losses; (6.) The firm may discharge any of its employes, but in that case he shall have the option of withdrawing his full reserve, or of leaving it till the end of the year, to share in profits and losses; (7.) It is agreed by the company that none of its employes who signs this contract shall be H:mporarily retired from work so long as the company has any work of the kind he is accustomed to do; but if there is a shortage of work in the hands of the company it shall reduce the hours of work, and so divide the ,"vork among its employes. If at any time an employe becomes sick or incapacitated to per-form his duties, and has a certificate of a reputable physician that he is so incapacitated, he may draw on his reserve' wages at a rate not greater than six dollars a week, without affecting his interests in the profits at the end of the year. If any employe is injured by any accident while in the em-ploy of the company, the company, at its own expense, pro-vldes him with a competent physician or surgeon, upon ap-plication stating that such services are needed. The contract does not apply to the whole labor force. The company did not think the propbsition would appeal to their unskilled laborers, comprising abmlt two-thirds of the num-ber in their employ. As regards the skilled laborers, it has been the company's practice not to invite further signatures to the contract at any time when three-fourths of their skilled laborers are already working under it; for the amount • of business on hand is subject to some fluctuations, and the firm do not wish to enter into this relation with a larger number ~of employes than they can be reasonably sure of providing with steady employment. This limitation, how-ever, does not apply to the office force. The resutt is that, out of a labor force of about 250, there are eighty who are eligible to admittance to the contract, and sixty arc actually so enrolled. No man is ever urged to become a party to it, but there is always a long waiting list. It would be unfair if I were to present only the bright side of this problem and there is an abundance of material at the command of the investigator to prove that envy, jealousy, ambition, selfishness and dishonesty have ruined many ~o-operative enterprises, and are likely to prevail in their operation in the future. The same evils, however, would have ·wrecked the business of a private individual, a firm or a corporation. At Rockford, (III.) a decade past, several furniture facto-ries were established by practical shop hands, somc of whom had been favored with business experience. The officials of these eorporations received no more remuneration for thcir servic~s than the bench hand or the packer. The profits divided annually were liberal but the man at the bench and the man attending the saws looked through envious eyes at the men in the offiee, anJ sought by intrigue to depose them. The operator of a planer deemed himself fully as capable to handle the finances of the corporation as the one that had been chosen on account of his training and experience to perform that important duty, and in conse-f1uence of tlle dissensions that arose, the companies soon lost their co-operative character. The rapid growth of the milling business in Minneapolis attraeted several thousand coopers to that city. In the course of time. having become dissatisfied with the wages paid, the men (who were members of a union) went out on a strike ilnd co-operative shops were organized. In twelve years time the business was absorbed by the associations, and habits of thrift, temperance and steadiness were developed in the workmen. (Co-operation is especially adapted to Democr<'tic control and the co-operating workmen were not subject to· the trials and losses of labor disputes.) But dis-sensions arose. Too many wanted· to be a general manager; too many clerks were employed; loyalty was· lacking, and with the withdrawal of the dissatisfied the enterprises as-sumed the form of joint stock companies. Thesc shops started with the plan of apportioning gains and losses pro-rata upon the wages received by each member. In the eaily ninety's one company discontinued the use of wages, as a basis for a divisi'on of any part of the earnings. The explanation offered by (In officer was: "It's money makes the business go, not the men. \Ve can get all the men to work we want." This proceeding \,I/as not unusual. Tt has been employed many tirhes by co-operating companies in lean years of business. . In Rochester a few years ago a Union of IVletal polishers struck work and organiud a shop on the co-operative plan, thirty-four meinbers contributed $100 each to the capital stock of a company. The trials of management tested the patience of the stockholders and gradually the dissatisfied sold their stock until it was concentrated in the hands of five. The business was successful-the union was dissolved, an Open shop maintained,-but the noteworthy result of the ex-periment is the 11umber of men, who, from it, started ill business for themselves. It proved a practical school of business for them. It incited many of the original stock-holders to quit the shop and engage 111 some enterprise as pronrietor. The co-operative movement attracted wide spread atten-tion in the United States in the year 1876, and many mer-cantile and manufacturing enterprises were launched upon that basis. The report of the commissioner of labor of the .7I19-.T I .5'JIi"I t ? f:. state of Massachusetts for the year 1889 :contained a list of 189 establishments operated under the co-operative plan. But the panic of 1893 caused many industries to cease opera-tions; thousands of men were discharged and as no profits were gained necessarily there were no distributions. Co-operation and profit sharing is distinctly a fair weather pro-position. It cannot withstand a season of adversity. 1 have briefly e.xplained the origin, the purpose and the history of the movement, in a necessarily fragmentary way, supplying facts from which conclusions may be drawn as to its prospe~ts, and nO"\\'take up the very important qucstioti, "Is co-operation a possible solution of the industrial problem?" I To the on-looker, capitalism and trade unionism have the fifd to themselves, and treat as armed allies. Throug 1 the exactions of the unions of short work days, a limitation u on the apprenticeship system and wages demanded for service not rendered, monopoly is enabled to sell its pro-duets for rices that inflect hardship upon consumers, and would not ~e charged in a market where competition exists. Such monopolies can well afford to pay liberal bonuses to em-ployee- stockholders, as is done by the steel trust: At its inception the co-operathre movement had a broader impulse than now gl verns it. The science of moral philosophy, which WOOD FINISHING MATERIALS FIllERS, STAINS, POUSHE5, ETC. 9 If n trouble with finishing materials, now is the ti e to let us put you right. IJI W match all sample~ submitted and fill all or1ers promptly. GRAN RAPIDS WOOD FINISHING CO. 59 Ellsworth Ave., GRAND RAPlDS, :MICH. teaches men their duty, was understood by its adherents, and they be1lieved themselves in possession of a secret that. was to tran form society. John Stuart Mill, Lord Derby, the Bishop of urham and many prominent men in America gave it sup art, but the history of the movement is full of instances of the launching of ethical co-operative enterprises that "went lp like a rocket and came down like a stick." Paternalistic co~operation enables thrifty families to save a few cents in the cost of soap and saleratus. It gives to the employe a few dollars gratuitously that he would have earned hon stly had he rendered dutiful service, anJ to the depositor of the building and Joan associations a little extra intere1t collected from the borrowers of funds from such associat~ol1s. Aside from the spirit of independence and the determinrtion to engage in occupations on their own ac-count inspir~d in the workmen of France and the striking metal polishhs of Rochester, co-operation has little to its eredit of per~anel1t value. Good conduct has not followed the transmis ion of metal bonuses from .the treasuries of monopoly to the pockets of its employes; morality has 110t been upheld tnd strengthened. It has not boosted the man who is tryi g to climb the tree of social emancipation, although it as been available for centuries; it does not teach that the only way a man can work for himself is to work for ot ers; it fails utterly to reveal anything that would assist lin the finding of a solution of the industrial problem. Evblution changes all things and for the credit of our civilizatiok it is to be hoped that it will find that bound-lc~ s sea of Idving kindness, where there is room for every .5aj}. Persistenc than hope. has won more victories for salesmanship ~Mlf~HIG7JN ~- I ----------. c. C.Wormer Machin~ry Co. offer the following at Bargain Prices: Band Saw, 26" Crescent LaUson Chamfer Cntter Saw Table, 48 x 50...;. 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The busines!->of the conckrn is to supply logs of certain native woods for the use of vcineer manufacturers, and logs of certain other woods for eXPjft, \Vhite oak, yellow poplar and ash are the woods that this concert! collects for veneering purpose" and it buys these wherever it cannnd them. For some years the principal sources of supply for vlhite oak have bee~}Virginia and ,,,rest Virginia. Two or three times a year a memhe of the firm who i.~ also its buyer traverses these states in search of suitable white oak trees, and ,he may find yello~' pDplar and ash in the same regions. The white oak has ~een pretty well cut away along the lines of the railroads, fwd so now he goes back in the country and spends weeMs there looking for suitable trees. I A log' is the dear trunk of the tre1 extending from the ground to ,.-..h.ere the tree branches. To be available for veneers a white oak log mtlst be at le1st tell feet in length and not less than thirty inches in d,ameter, for the oak must he quartered hefore it is sa"\ved air sliced into veneers. They get oak log3 that will cut ten, I~welve, fourteen and sixteen feet, and occasionally they fil~d a white oak tree with a trunk that will measure thirtY-jiX feet, cutting three twelve foot logs, the biggest of these having a diameter of perhaps fOl·ty-five inches. The log buyer may get hack as fall as twenty-five miles from the railroad, which is about as far as it will pay to haul a log, and of course the further ~ack he gets the less he pays for the trees, for there is to pe added to the price paid for them the cost of hauling them to a shipping point. He will buy one tree or three or four br aily number. \~.rben the trees have been cut dow~ the buyer has to get them to the railroad, and for this workl he hires team~ in the neighborhood; and it takes good tealrs and hard work to get the logs out over the rough mouptain roads. One big I white oak tree tha~was bought at ~ point twen~y miles hack, and that cut 111tOtwo lel1gths, ~t took two SIX horse teams, each hauling a single cut. two days to haul out. It may be tlut the buyer will hit a bunch of trees enough for a carload of logs in one place; but if he doesn't find so many in one SDot he gets the one tree or three or four or half a dozen that he may find here or there to the railroad :::l.ndbrands them, <lnd thell goes on collcctil1g until he has got tog-ether enough to make a carload or more. This concern brinRs veneer logs to New York and it ships also to Boston. The black ,valnut logs collected are mostly shipped to..,. Germany and Spain, those sent to Spain being shipped in the bark, while those sent to Germany are hewed eight sided here before shipment. The black walnut logs are brought mainly from the South, The biggest black walnut tree that this concern ever bought was found in New Jersey, and when cut measured 7 feet in diameter at the butt-No Y. Sun. Piling to Prevent Checking. The checking of lumber can be prevented in a. measure by careful and proper piling. The illustration shows the use of wide crossing strips on the south side of piles. FOlr thick stock especially checking can be reduced very materially, as the crossing steips shade the ends of the stock from the SUT I i Cost of Selling Goods by Retail I "Twenty per cent of the gross sales is the' mmmlttfil re-tail cost of doing business," is the statement credited to Frederick Bolger, a successful merchant of Porthlnd. 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In these modern times of sharp competition economy is one of the first requisites to SUccess. It is economy to re-pl~ ce an old machine with a new one that will do twice the work of the old one and do it better. Woodworking facto-ries, as a rule, arc more expensive to build than machine shops and foundries. The furniture, piano, il;lterior wood-work, casket, mantel, or refrigerator factory must be built solid, !)e properly warmed and lighted, and fitted up with the· best machinery, and _appliances, to be able to compete machinery, hires the village blacksmith to pipe his factory, pays out more for repairs in a few years than it would have cost him to get the best in the first place, and then either fails or sells out at a great sacrifice. The output of hi~ factory is usually on a par with his equipment. Inex-perienced men are employed to run secOlld hand machines, and the result is inevitable.' On the other hand, the master mind knows that only the best is cheap, The best machinery is none too good; only the best lumber, glue, varnish, hardware, and glass will suit successfUlly with those in the same line of business. Oc-casiopally one runs across a slipshod factory, which is sure to be in charge of a slipshod man, Five minutes inspection ()f tpe trained eye of a master will reveal the short-comings and short-sightedness of the man who don't know how, OI" is either too penurious or too egotistical to see his mistakes or correct them, He usually hunts around for second hand MANUFACTURERS OF HARDWOOD LUMBER & VENEERS SPECIALTIES : ~i~~Q~U~AR. OAK VEN EERS MAHOGANY VENEERS HOFFMAN BROTHERS COMPANY 804 W. Main S\., FORT WAYNE, INDIANA him, and his factory is put in charge of the most skillful superintendent-the man who knows. This superintendent must have each machine in its proper place-so that no lumber from the cut-off saw to the cabinet room will move a stcp backward. One of the most important matters is the disposition of dust and shavings. Only the most per-fect system of piping- and furnace feeding will suit him; which insures him pure air for the men to work in, cheaper insurance, more and better work-hence economy all along the line. The Grand Rapids Blow Pipe and Dust Arrester com-pany stands at the head in fitting out factories for this most important service. More than twenty years of practical experience have taught Messrs. Chas. F. Verrell and Gideon Barstow just what is needed and how to furnish it. The illustration herewith gives a fair idea of their method of equi'pment of a factory. Here is' a partial list of plants The Grand Rapids Blow Pipe an9 Dust Arrester company has fitted Up within a comparatively short time: The Ohio ::\1atch company, at Wadsworth, O. All the machines in this plant are motor driven, by direct connected motors. The plant is esuipped with fan, piping, dust col-lector and furnace feeders of the latest and best type, and the whole plant is now working splendidly. This a very large' plant, and as perfect in every way as skill, experience and money can 'make it. The 'lv'. 1", Ste ..v..art company, Flint, Mich., manufacturers of automohile esuipments. This factory is fitted up with a complete system of piping, dU1;t arresters, fan, a.nd furnace feeding, and is working with great satisfaction. The Huebner Manufacturing company, Detroit, Mich., manufacturers of interior finish, sash, doors, ;wd all kinds of mill work. This is a large plant, and completely equipped with dust arrester, fans, piping and furnace feeding, and is one of the best equipped f<lctories in Detroit. The Michigan Steel Boat company, Detroit, has a com-plete equipment, which is working in the most satisfactory manner. The Packard Motor Car compauy, Detroit, was fitted ~lP with a complete outfit of piping, furnace feeding, dust col-lecting, etc .., and is working like a charm. The Champion Tool and Handle company, Evart, lvlich., a complete outfit, which is giving perfect satisfaction. The Pellston Planing Mill company, Pellston, 1\1ich. Pellston is the most important town between Petoskey and the Straits of Mackinaw. This is a lar-ge plant, and is per-fectly equippcd with the Grand Rapids Blov,r Pipe and Dust Arrester system. The Auto Body company, of Lansing, M:ich., and the Capital Furniture company, of the same city, have each been equipped with the system of the Grand Rapids Blow Pipe and Dust Arrester company. The Robbins Table company, Owosso, lvlich., nearly uoubled their factory last ycar, and wanting only the best equipment for the disposal of dust and shavings, naturally turned to the Grand Rapids Blm\' Pipe and Dust Arrester company for the same. Manager Joseph Robbins says it is the best job he ever saw, and he is a man who keeps his eyes open and wants only the best. The newest of the great woodworking plants of Grand Rapids is the Grand Rapids Handserew company. This com-pany spent more than one hundred thousand dollars and more than a year's time in building an,1 equipping what is generally conceded to be one of the best, if not the very best in this city, so famous for its great furniture factories and other wood working establishments. This great factory was fully equipped by the Grand Rapids Blow Pipe and Dust Arrester Company, with their complete system, and to say that it is working to the complete satisfaction of the Hand-screw Company is only to say that it is working without a flaw. The Rapid Motor Vehicle Company, Pontiac,Mich.; the Central Manufacturing Company, Holland, M"ich., plumbers' supplies; and the Daisy Manufacturing Company, Plymouth, 1'1ich., air guns and novelties, have all been equipped with the complete system of the Grand Rapids Blow Pipe and Dust Arrester Company. Alcohol Sloan Shellac and Redu'cer. An alcohol shellac (Sloan) is one of many valuable ar-ticles manufactured by the Chicago Wood Finishing com-pany for the finishing room, The company sell very large quantities of this shellac to manufacturers who formerly used pure shellac: varnish, who find it a perfect substitute for the article. Sloan shellac contains 110 fuscl oil or other substance, permitting an objectionable odod; it is purely an alcohol article. The body is a little thinner than that of the ordinary pure shellac varnish, because of the high quality of the materials llsed in its manufacture. It leaves a good hard body, and must be thinned down before using on that account, by an application of the Sloan reducer, also manu-factured by the Chicago Wood Finishing company. Sloan shellac, reduced, using one part of Sloan reducer to one to two parts of Sloan shellac, will be found to work perfectly as a dipping shellac. Pure shellac varnishes will not dip. Sloan shellac, however, runs off smoothly and gives the best possible results when employed by the dipping proecss. Corner Tables. \Vhy arc those useful triangular corner tables so seldom seen? Surely most housewives would be glad to possess onc. To what good use one can be put in a room wheJ"e space is limited, such as in the living room of an apartment. It is there within reach and yet not in the way, and can be used for many purposes; One seen by the writer was used to display many small pieces of bric-a-brac. Th~re was a lower shelf too, which was an added advantage. A five o'clock tea service would look.. well on it or it could be used for books. How often the small corner spaces are neglected for the simple reason that there is no ordinary piece of fur-niture to fill them. How quickly the feminine mind would see the utility of such an article and they would sell "like hot cakes" if some enterprising manufactul'er saw fit to fill this need, and their popularity would be from the first as-sured. The Universal Automatic CARVINO MACli/NE ===='PERFORMS THE WORKOF ==== 25 HAND CARVERS ".j And dOM the Work BeUer than it can ateDone b~ Hand MADE BY------- Union [nnOSSlna MA(Hlnr Co. IndianapoUa, Indiana Wrife for Infor.afion, Price. Elc. 29 . 30 Henry Rowe Mfg. Company Newaygo. Mich. MANUFACTURERS OF Wood workers' Benches. Factory Trucks. Turnings. Dowels. etc. .ll .ll .ll No.1 Factory Truck. Just as (fOod as they look. oua NEW CATALOG TELLS ALL AROUT THEM. No.1 Cal)inet Makers' Bench Merit Appreciated. Truthfulness is the bestpolky-that is, in case a man can't tell an egregious lie and get away with it., But this is the story-the true story, tOO, d'yuhmind-of how a notorious liar made good, all on account of his lying, And' strangely enough, it was after he was found out that he got in right. This 'liar may be known as \Vilmont, although he never went by that name hefore. One could can him by his real name, if it were not for the fact that a successful liar does not necessarily like to be advertised as -such, \tVilmont was working as a bookkeeper in a local concern manufacturing machinery on a largescale and the cashier would press $14 into his palm shortly before the whistle blew each Saturday afternoon. But \Vilmont was a hero about the off-ceo For h'e never came to work in the morning that he did:Fl't have an ex-citing tale of personal adventure or

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