Michigan Artisan; 1907-10-25

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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 Yea.r-No. 8 OCTOBER 25, 1907 Semi-Montbly The ROfAL is the Original Push Button Morris Chair THE"R.OYAL.' PUSI1 BUTTON MORRIS CHAIR BillJatYears of Te.rt Have EstaLliaLed Its Supr~macy ALL OTHERS ARE IMITATIONS MORRIS CHAIRS FROM I 16.25 to 130 I CAT ALOe UPON APPUCA TION. Royal CLair Co. STURGIS, MICHIGAN Chicago Sale8room: .:Ceo. D. Williams Co.• 1319 Michigan Avenue, First Floor, Chicago. Ill. The One Motion, All Steel GO-CART FOLDED FOLDS WITH ONE MOTION NO FUSS. NO FOOLING FOLDS WITH ONE MOTION All Steel; Indestructible. Perfected Beyond All Competition. Frame of Steel Tubing. Will Carry 100 Lbs. Over Rough Pavements. The Only Perfect Cart With a Large Perfect Quick Action Hood. CATALOGUE UPON APPLICATION, STURGIS STEEL OO=CART =====COMPANY===== STURGIS, MICHIGAN "Best Made Kitchen Cabinet in Ameri a99 That is what a manufacturer said of the Northern Kitche-n Cabinet, had on his floor sid.: by side, the fourteen different makes on the market. The same might be said of everything else that comes from the Northern shops. The dovetailing is durable• .The drawers fit. The wood is in perfect condition. 'The glue is of the hest. Nothing is "slapped together," every-thing can be depenrled on all the time. And we have the designs that sell-sim-ple, elegant, medium-priced. You can make up a carload from .our line more easily than from any other-and at the same time you can pick up pieces that will fill in your line wherever it is weak. Why not fi\! in those weak spots TODAY by running hastily over the several thousand different styles the North-ern shows in its catalogues? It won't take you five minutes, for everything is so well classified you can catch almost at a glance the thing you are looking for. 'JUST OU'T-A special Kitchen Cab-inet catalog. Yours for a card dropped in the mail. ~I It's worth looking at. We leave it to you to say so. Northern Furniture Company SHEBOYGAN, WISCONSIN 1 Sligh's Superior Styles Sell in All Seasons Dull Trade is Unknown by Dealers Handling the SLIGH LINES. III CORRECT STYLES, GOOD MATERIALS AND HONEST WORK- ~ 'VI;\,\SHIP, STRONG FEATURES IN THE SUGH LINES. The Ford and JohnsonCo. ~ Ro(~erof Oualiij We Sell to Furniture Dealers Only. General OfficeR; Sixteenth St. and Indiana Ave. CHICAGO Chicago Salt:lsroom 1433-37 Wabash Ave. New York BaliElsroom202 Canal St. CincinnatiSalesroom427 East Sixth St. Boston Salesroom 90 Can81St. Atlanta Salesroom 172-178 Marietta Street - -- Luce Furniture Company Godfrey Ave., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. NEW FEATURES .•" in Upper Class CIRCASSIAN WALNUT A LARGE ADDITION TO OUR LINE OF STAPLES MEDIUM and FINE FURNITURE for the CHAMBER and DINING ROOM r 1 28th Year-No.8. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., OCTOBER 25, 1907. ~~========= $1.00 per Year. Secret of Selling Goods. Study YOllr customer. You cannoL pose him in an arm-chair and Use a microscope; he's there to buy goods; but as soon as he comes in the door yOll can size hi~ up and learn how to approach him to make a peasing imprc!=ision. If the customer's fiTst impression of the salesman is not good, Me Customer is going to another man's store to make his final selection, unless he finds such a great bargain that he knows he cannot afford to pass it by. 1\ ot many salesmen have any SHch bargains. There is nothing for sale that a shrewd com-petitor Call110t almost duplicate. The buyer knows this. H a man is from the same city in which your store is lo-cated- and you can tell by his air of confidence, his clothes, and general conduct, whether he is or is not <t stranger-do n'ot greet him ,..,ith a warming smile and outstretched arms with the words: "How d'y do. neighbor; we",'c just ·what you want here." You do not know whether you have what the man wants or not. Let him look around. l\hke trifling suggestions without forcing yourself l1pon him until he unburdens him-self. Treat him as he should be treated, and you will "sell him." He knows what he wants and wants you to let him find it. Try to force something on a man who probably knows more about the article he seeks than all the salesmen jn the department, and he will go somewhere else and get it. Tn any large city he can get it elsewhere. These deductions are made from the standpoint of a buy-er who always puts himself in the place of the salesman and thinks hm.....he would approach a man coming into the store, looking not at the employes, but at the display of merchan-dise. This man wanted a chiffonier the other day and walked into a store where chiffoniers are for sale. He was going to buy one. He has not bought it yet. This is why: The man after a chiffonier would, in any kind of a crowd, in any kind of a store, by a salesman with the slightest know-ledge of human nature, be taken as a man of the city, a man who knows what he wants and where' to get it. \~Then he entered the store he merely asked to be directed to the depart-mcnt jn wh1ch chiffoniers were sold. Reaching that depart-ment the man was accosted by a 11eatly attired salesman with an officious manner. The salesman grasped both the cus-tomer's hands and exclaimed in a Mulberry Sellers voice and mantler: "Chiffoniers? "Vhy, neighbor, we've got the best in the United States. They're cheap today, too,--" Mr. Customer interrupted him with: "No; I have changed my mind. I do not want a chiffonier today." The customer thought he did not look like Hiram Green and resented being mistaken for him. His wife will be without a chiffonier until he gets time another day to buy one where they will let him find what .he wants and ask a salesman to demonstrate its ad-vantages to him. It 1s likely that the salesman who lost that sale was a new man. He probably had been told to be cordial to all visi-tors. That's a good admonition. But cordiality means dif-ferent thi11gs when applied to differellt people. No rule can be made as to the different shades of meaning. Every man wants thc same thing that every other man wants, but he thinks he wants something different. "Let the customer be pleased," has become an axiom in the business world and competition has somewhat tended to make a dead letter of the legal axiom, caveat emptor, which means. let the huyer heware. To please your customer you must stuny him. Your common sense will, at the first glance, put him into a mental classification that will tell you how to greet him. If you greet him right you have him half won, writes. \~Tarrell Vv'ue in The Workers' Magazine. Searching for a Missing Son. L. F. Nonnast, a manufacturer of furniture,. has failed to find any tracc of his son Harry, who was last heard from in San Francisco, where he took a room in a hotel the night before the city was destroyed by an earthquake. The dis-tracted father has offered a reward for information as to the whereabouts of the young man, if living. The Push Button Morris chairs manufactured by the Ram-sey- Alton Manufacturing Company of Portland, Mich., will be exhibited on the first floor of the Manufacturers' Exhibi-tion building, Chicago, in January, 1908. OUU5prCIAlIMPrRIAl wrAlnrUrD OAKOIl5lAIn is the standard all over America. Are YOU using it? MA/IIII/'-ACTIi.CD .IIL ......... CHICAGO WOOD fINISHING CO. ZS9·63 ELSTON AVE"'Z-16 SLOAN ST. C" I CAGO. 4 THE LEXIN6TON -. BmI." 22d St. CHICAGO. ILL. Refurnished and re-fitted throughout. New Management. The furniture dealers' bC!ad-quarters. Most con-veniently situated to t b e hirnlt.Urf: display houses. Inler-Slate Holel CO. OWNER lit PROPRIETOR E. K. Crlley, Pres.; T. M. Crlley, V. Pres.; L. H.'Fir!!'y. See-Trcas. The fall openings -of the great department stores brought hundreds of thousands of people to Chicago, and milloos of dollars worth of goods must have been sold in a single week. The furniture departments are among the most important in . these great trade emporiums, while the regular furniture stores had their full share of trade. That is good news for the furniture makers. Then the makers of hotel furniture may look forward to a big trade in Chicago, the coming year. If all the hotel projects are carried out the hotel capacity of Chicago will be enlarged by at least one thousand rooms within the next two years. Among the latest of these is the purchase 'of the Hotel Stratford, at Mi~higan Ave., and Jackson boulevard; the plan being to tear it down and erect in its place an eighteen story hotel and theater build-ing. It will be one of the largest and finest in the world when completed. The Northwestern Railway ·Co., has commenced con-demnation proceedings to get possession of the Johnson Chair Company and the Koeing & Gamer Furniture Com-pany's p!<:tnts, together with much other property for- the extension of their tracks for flheir projected $20,000,000 ?assenger station on West Madison street. The two com-panies mentioned above have very valuable real estate, and have been established in their present locations between 30 and 40 years, and to break up and move will cost a great many thousands of dollars. Just what the awards will be have not yet been made known. Last March S. Karpen & Bros. purchased the land and five story building at 258-260 Wabash Ave., paying $205,000 for it. On October 3 they sold it·to Harry, Frederick l\. and Walter A. Schaaf, the piano men, for $350,000, a very handsome profit 'on the investment. They 5t1\1 retain their fine property at 187-188 Michigan avenue, on whJch is a handsome seven story building containing their city offices -'1d salesrooms. S. Karpen & Bros. have in less than 20 years gained an almost worldwide reputation as manufac-turers of upholstered furniture, with a large branch house at 155~157 West 34th street, New York. Everything that is best in bedding is supplied by Schultz & Hirsch, one of the oldest mattress and feather houses in the west. They make a specialty of down and guaranteed l odorless live geese feather pillows. A copy of their handsome catalogue for 1907 will be mailed to any furniture dealer on request. If you have not this handy book of prices of th.e best of everything in the bedding line, y::tU will do well to write for a copy at once. Horn Bros. Manufacturing Company report a fine trade the best ever. This company, since they branched out into fine goods, have had rcm;ukable success. Their line of bed-room furniture, in mahogany, oak and other popular woods is so well made and finished that the demand is continually beyond the capacity of the factory to supply. There will be several changes in the furniture exhibition build~I1gs in J annary. Among them is the removal of the Lathrop Company from the first floor of 1319 to the fifth floor, front of 1411 Michigan avenue. L. R. Lathrop said they will have about 25 per cent more floor space than in their present location. Mr. Joseph 1...1. eyer said that all the space in the big Manu-facturers' Exhihition building will be filled with furniture exhibits in January, and that he will lack many thousands of square feet of floor space to supply the demand. The Sanitary Feather Company are as full of business as the base ball fans are of enthusiasm. Trade was never better. Udell Works Issues a New Catalogue. A new catalogue containing illustrat1.ons, descriptions and prices of the line manufactured by the Udell Works, of Indianapolis, has been issued. It contains many pieces suit-able for the holiday trade, and th efactory is in full ope~a~ tion on orders. Dealers needing medium priced music cabi-nets, parlor desks, bookcases and library tables of high grade construction should not delay the placing of their orders. The parlor desks number 110 patterns in oak, ma-hogany, bird's eye maple and Circassian walnut, fifty patterns of bookcases and seventy-five of music cabinets-the latter in Circassian walnut and mahogany only. The line will be exhibited in a new location on the north side of the big building Grand Rapids, with the C. S. Paine company, in January. Made by Horn Brothers Mfg. Co., Chicago, Ill. 5 CHAS. A. FISHER & CO., 1319 Michigan Ave., Chicago. WRITE FOR BOOKLET AND PROPOSITION Warehou.e.~ ST, LOUIS, MO. KANSAS dTY. MO. PEORIA, ILL LINCOLN, ILL. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. CHICAGO. ILL. Success of Born Salesmen. \Vhen the young man has cast his fortunes with a great department store, he mnst make up his nlind to be lonely among the many of his kind. To the extent that he has a fixed resolve to succeed by the slow, measured process of earning recognjtioll, he is less likely to be the "hail fellow" with scores and hundreds of his neighbors. Among the sales clerks in State street today, writes Irwin Ellis in the Chicago Tribune, a young man behind the average counter receives from $10 to $20 a week, depending some", ...hat upon the store and considerably upon the connter of which he is given charge. In stores where a man's salary depends largely upon his sales of the 'week the salesman frequently makes most money. But at such counters the store mana-gers see that active employes are placed. In house furnishings, perhaps, the greatest volume o( sales is made year after year, and the salesman who is able to graduate to that Hoor considers himself in luck. But, after all, the manager of th('. State street stOT('. will tell y01.1. that i.t is in the salesman himself whether he will succeed or not. "Vie come up against that proposition at least twice a year," sayo; a 'Nell known man in the street. "At Easter and in the holiday season we get in as help studer,ts from the University of Chicago. 1\ooe of them has had the slightest training in s;;tlesmanship. They don't mean to stay in the work. But the way some of them sell goods ought to be a lesson to many a young salesman. - "These st11Clents are '1ookitlg to tr:e pay at the end of the week. At the same time th(y regard the eAperience in the natme of a lark. They are active, wide av....:tke, polite and tJ1ey kllow hmN to mix with people. Results which many of these students show indi.cate. wh<:\t t1H~Y could dD if they cared to take up that lille of work." i\lore of these students rrig+.t be aLtr8ded to sales lines in the study of n~erchacdisc if it were kllcwn what a want (~xjsted higher IIp ill tile dcpartn:ents for tIle ambitious type of man. Two diverging fields of merchandising are open, He may "follow merchandise" or he may "folIo",' manag-ement" in the ..big hOllse. In either branch of the business he will fll1d room at the top wLen he has proved him,<;elf, for i( there is O~le settled principle in the big store it is that of trying to fill executive positions from the rank al1d file of the store in which this material hfts grav,,'n up. Years ago when one of the proprietors of a great State street store "vas in Boston for the purpose of buying up a bankrupt stock of goods his attention was attracted to a small boy in the defunct house who seemed to know more about the goods than allY one else. The boy was obliging, aetive, and full or smi1illg good nature. "Say, I rather like you, young man-do YOll want ft job?" queried the Chicago purchaser. "Yes, I do," replied the boy . ''I'll give you a place if you'll come home with me," re-turned the merchallt, and the bargain was dosed on the spot. The lad came into the receiving room· of the house. He was "bandy boy" generally, graduating to the house furnish-ings department. Later he was made bU'fcr for other de-partments, and today he is general manager for the store. This boy's bent was for tl,.e managing side of ~hc house. Fifteen years or more was this boy's term of apprenticeship, but he hasn't regretted it. \Vhcn the salesman has made his showing to the house he finds that he has eneouragement in his ambitions, whichever way they may lie. He may have come to the sales counter from office boy, or he may have come to it from wagon boy, through the shipping 1'00111. He may have been stoek clerk in the beginning ar~d crowded into a place at the sales coun-ter. If l11anagerr::ent be in his line he has a chanee at floor walker with a salary of $16 to $22 a we~k. From floor walker he may.prove,Up the line of management to a superinter;dency or he may follow merchandise and become an assistant buyer, looking up the advertising of his departments stock and mas-tcrin/;{ its details. From assistant buyer he is the logical suc-ces:, or to the buyer, :::ll1dfrom that position may become a rr:erchandise manager, putting his "O.K'.' upon all orders af-fecting his departments. As buyer for a depftrtment store the salary is dependent a good deal upon th department for which he buys. In general it i.s fixed upon one per cent of the sales of that department for the YC.:lr. Thus if the sales of his department reach $300,- COO a year the s,l.1ary, exelusive of the expenses paid by the house, >vill reach about $5,000. Perhaps there rtre other reascns than lrtck of familiarity with llnuse needs which pron~pt the fiIlil1g of the position of huyer from the house's trained material. Some time ago a buyer for a former Philadelphia hot,se applied for a posi-tion with a State street store. There was need of such a n::tll, <ll1dhe was asked what salary he expected, "!\ bout $9,000," was the reply. "Had your department been selling $900,000 worth of goods a year?" asked the State street man. Tbe would-he buyer adtllitted that the sales were short of $700,000 annually, and quite readily considered the argu-ments for his taking the position at $7,000 a year. 6 ·~MIf,HIG7JN , Alaska Refrigerators Made in Zinc, White Enamel and Opalite linings. filled and have the Best Circulation in use today. catalogues and prices. Charcoal Ask for THE ALASKA REFRIGERATOR CO. EXCLUSIVE REFRIGERATOR MANUFACTURERS MUSKEGON, MICHIGAN MUSKEGON. The Worst of the Money Stringency Has Passed. , J. H. Ford, the manager of the Al'aska Refngerator Com-pallY, spent ten days in ).Jew York, Philadelphia, Boston and Buffalo recently in making an investigation of the condi-tions of trade and tinance, and has arrived at the conclusion that "the worst is over." He conferred with bankers, loan agents, merchants and manufacturers and spent much time in making personal investigation in the big stores. He found conservatism prevailing everywhere. Stocks have been reduced heavily and buyers arc placing orders for only such goods as were needed for immediate delivery. The shrinkage in stock valucs is enormous and money is scar~e and the rate of interest on short time loans unusually high. In many 01 the department stores trade is very active in the necessities, but decidedly duH in the luxuries--diamonds, furs, and high grade household goods. The public is buying only what it needs. IV1r.Ford believes that when the vast amount of money required to move the cotton, wheat and Musket;!on VaUey Furniture Co. Musk"l!Ob. Mid> •• Odd Dressers Chiffoniers Wardrobes Ladies' Toilets Dressing Tables Mahogany Inlaid Goods Ladies' Desks Music Cahinets corn crops is released and the stock jobbers of Wall street recover from the fright that has possessed them during the past several months, money will be easy and the tide of busi-ness will rise to the height of last year. Labor is scarce and high wages prevail in all lines of industry. Hundreds of millions of dolla'rs are required in the many thousands of buildings under construction, the building of railroad termi-nals and tunnel::;, and there need be no fear of the future, vVith these facts before him, NT r. Ford is operating the great works of the Alaska Refrigerator Company in tne accUl11u·· lation of stock for shipment early in the coming year, when the refrigerator season opens. Hugo Kanitz of the Muskegon Valley Furniture; Company returned from a tour of the metropolitan distnct recently and was pleased to find an active demand for the company's goods. The month now closing was one of th€ best in the company's history for sates. Stocks were low and mer-chants needed goods for immediate delivery. 1"he company's new line will be a choice one in every respect. It will sur-pass the lines of all former years in selling qualities. The Moon Desk Company have had a very satisfactory The Sargent Mfg. Co. MUSKEGON, MICH. Bachelors' Cabinets Ladies' Desks Extra Large Chiffoniers ______ Alto MUufactuJeU and Uportef. of ------ ROLLING CHAIRS Chairsadapted to allkindsof invalidismb,otbfor bouseandstreetuse. OVER FORTY DESIGNS TO SELECT FROM year's trade and Manager Stephens has no felirs for the fu-ture. Making a reliable, up-to-date line of office desks, he has no doubt of the ability of the company's selling depart-ment to keep the factory busy. A line will be on sale in Grand Rapids in January, as usual. P. H. Lakin, a practical furniture maker and salesman of large experience has undertaken the business management of the Grand Rapids D(:sk Company. JVlr. LaKin obtained his experience by association with the Forest City Furniture Company when that corporation was largely engaged in the manufacture of office desks, and eight years with the Leopold Desk Company of Burlington, Iowa. He is in the prime of life and will prove a valuable official for the Grand Rapids Desk Company. The line will be on sale in Grand Rapids in January. The Sargent Manufacturing Company "will improve their 7 catalogue should he in the desk of every first-;-class furniture dealer. Another of the great manufacturing institutions of Stur-gis is the Sh.lrgis Steel Go-Cart Company, which located in Sturgis a year or so ago. They have built up a great busi-ness in the manufacture and sale of all steel gOo-carts. This cart, or carriage, folds with one motion into so compact a space that it scarcely seems to take up any room at all. It is all sted, the frame steel tubing and\vill carry one hundred pounds over rough pavements with ease and safety. Illustra-tions of this cart, folded and open, may be secn all the "first page of this issue and a glance is sufficient to show its merits. They issue catalogues of many styles, which the dealer can have for the asking. The Grobhiser & Crosby Company have a name for mak-ing good tables. Theirs is one of the largest lines in th~ No. 1044 Dresser. No. 44 Bed. Made By Woodard Furniture Co., Owosso, Mich. line by adding a considerable number of new pieces for the library, the hall and the chamber. Carload Shipments From Sturgis. A freight solicitor for the Lake Shore & 1-fiehigall South-ern railroad said to the writer: "I believe there are more carloads of freight shipped out of Sturgis every year than from any otller to\"""nof its size in the state." That comes fro111a man who works Michigan for the. Lake Shore road and knows as much about it as anybody. Probably seventy-five or eighty pe"r cent of those cars arc loaded with furni-ture and ki;ldred g6od.s:. Among the best known of the furniture factories of Stur-gis is the Royal Chair Company, mal11.1fact,urersof the famous Royal Push Button Jv!orris chairs. which 'have stood the test of use and competition in sales for eight years and are in larger demand today than ever. These chairs sell at whole-sale from $6.25 to $30 and are marketed everywhere. The company havc a permanent exhibit with the George D. Vv'il- Iiams Company, 1323 Michigan avenue, Chicago. Their country. Their line is shown in the Manufacturers' building, Grand Rapids, every business day in the year._ A thermometer placed at the store entrance is a valuable ad\'ertising medium if properly surrounded with reading mat-ter, during the winter months. It always interests the pe-destrian. "opklnl _lid "_"let Suo Cincinnati. 0. Uenry Schmit &. Co. 1l.U::II;U 0.. UPHOLSTERED FURNITURE Fon lODGE AND PULPIT. PARLOR LIBRARY. "OTEl AND CLUB ItOOM The "Ell" fOLDING BEDS ~~tFI'rR~'':.N~:~ No Stock complete without the Eli Beds in Mantd and Upright. ELI D MILLER & Co E.nnavllle,lndlne. • • Write for cuts and prices No.257. Prlee $18.50. Has 48 Inch Top, 5 Legs and Is Highly Polished. It's One of the "SUPERIOR" There are many more, all Peaches, Pie and Pudding. Send for Catalogue and get a taste. EV4NSVILLE IND. T"E BOCKSTEGE fURNITURE CO. Globe Side-boards Are the Best on the G10ne lor the Money GET OUR CATALOGUE ~MGe~xR~~D~'i~- when writing. Globe Furniture Company EVANSVILLE. IND. r Cupboards Kitchen Cabinets and K. D. Wardrobes. Is aU we make but we make Iota of them. Get Catalogue and Prices . . The Bosse Furniture Co EVANSVILLE. INO" Kar~es War~ro~es are Good Wardrobes GOOD Style Construction Finish PRICES RIGHT W";te f~r Catalogu~ Karges Furniture Company, EVANSVILLE, IND. • io ~MlprlG7fN Detroit, Mich., October 23.-Several of the Detroit manu-facturershave called in their salesmen from the road, having all the orders they can fill for the rest of the year. Others, while not so busy on orders, are having a satisfactory trade and making samples for exhibit in January in Grand Rapids, Chicago and New York. With scarcely an ~xception, the year 1907 will close with a sales record nearly or quite up to the largest previous year in their hisfory. This is a good sign, and points to a future full of hope and pleasant expecta-tions. As to the retail trade, the enlargement of many firms, others moving into new buildings built expressly for them, is the best answer. A city that is growing as fast as Detroit cannot fail to have prosperous retail furniture merchants. From present indications, Detroit bids fair to step into the ninth place among the great cities of the United States when the next United States census is taken. To indicate the cities it wilt pass in order to reach the ninth place is not the pur-pose of this letter. Let the reader figure that out to suit himself. At any rate, what used to be known as "slow old Dctroit," has surprises up her sleeve for some of her rivals. Anthony Seeger, secretary of the Posselius Brothers Fur-niture Manufacturing Company, says this is the biggest year in the history of tl1at company. Everything in first-class shape, with plenty of orders and only a good season ahead is predicted. They will show ncarly an entire new line of patterns in Chicago in January at their regular salesroom, 1319 1.fichigan avenuc. The Palmer Manufacturing Company is another of the prosperous, growing concerns. This company manufactures a fine line of library and parlor tables, pedestals, jardiniere stands, spring bcds and woven wire mattresses, They show in Chicago and will have a bunch of new patterns on exhibi-tionin January at 1319 Michigan avenue. The Pioneer rVlanufacturing Company are having a [me trade in reed and rattan rockers, baby carriages and go-carts. They show in Chicago with the Palmer Manufacturing Com-pany. This is one of the best years for this company in its history. The Safety Folding Bed Company, up to October 24th. has made and sold more folding beds than during all of hst Pioneer Manofavtorinll Company DETROIT. MIC". Reed Furniture Baby Carriag es Go-Carts Full line sLoWD OD second flDor, 1 3 19 M'ichiltail Ave.. Old.. cal!o~ iD }aDDary. year, and one of the best months of the year is still ahead of them. They will show at 1319 )1ichigan avenue in J annary. and have discontinued their store at 44 East Adams street. C. D. Wldman & Co. report a fine business in hall furni-ture and mirrors. They wil make their customary display in the big Waters building, Grand Rapids, in January. The Wolverine Manufacturing Company and -Cadillac Cabinet Company -have only good stories to tell. These two Companies make one of the largest displays of tables and fancy cabinet ware to be seen in any market. Their permanent exhibits are in charge of Henry Spencer Smith, at 1319 Michi-gan Ave., and A. Weston Smith, in New York J. c. \;Vidman & Co., makcrs of hall furniture, china closets. buffets, etc., are as busy as bees in a clover field. It's the Widman habit, and they can't get out of it. They Murphy Chair Co. MANUFACTURERS DETROIT, MICH. A COMPLE.TE LINE. show in Chicago and New Yo:-k permanently with the Wol-verine Manufacturing Company. The Detroit Folding Cart Company, makers of the "Ideal" folding cart, the cart that makes so many babies and their mothers happy, is, under the able management of Mr. Butler, growing every day. C. H. Haberkorn & Co., and the Detroit Cabinet Company show their lines in Grand Rapids in the Big building, in charge of S. Stcinigcl" and his corps of salesmen. Haber-korn & Co. have just received from the printers a very fine catalogue. A Rare Treasure. Securely locked in a secret apartment of his safe John Widdicomb has pJaced~ a rare little book, that came into his possession forty years ago. It is the first photo-cata-logue brought Qut in Grand Rapids, and represents the line of the firm of Widdicomb Brothers, since incorpornted as the Widdicomb Furniture Company. Tlh.e -photographs, mostly two by three inches in size, represent two round end spindle beds, a round end spindle Jounge, one cheap chamber suite. in ash, ornamented with strips of walnut, four small tables for the chamber or sitting room, and a round end spindle crib. The firm also manufactured trundle beds--;-'"an article almost unknown to the dealer in furniture of the present. The sale of these simple but useful articles were so large as to keep the modest factory of the firm fully em-ployed. Choice Bedroom Furniture. The Woodard Furniture Company of Owosso,Mich., are making some remarkably fine bedroom furniture in Circassian walnut, figured mahogany, curly birch, quartered oak and bird's~eye maple. The prices are lllOderate, and with forty-one years' expericnce (their business was established in 1866) they have learned how to make good furniture. -----------..--- FOURTEENTH SEASON THE BIG BUILDING JANUARY 2 TO FEBRUARY 1, 1908 T-R· l-R- T· E-E- N-N- I· N· E· T·E-E·N There are available now a few choice spaces. :: Immediate application is necessary to secure them MANUF ACTURERS' EXHIBITION BUILDING COMPANY:: 1319 MICHIGAN AVE., CHICAGO 11 12 I' 'V\'hat's the matter with Rockford? Nothing at aU; only the town is growing so fast that they can hardly keep track of it. Those who know Rockford by reputation as a furni-ture town only will be surprised to learn that there are at least tw~ other factories the annual value of whose output is probably equal to the two largest furniture factories in the city. And yet at the present rate of growth of the furni-ture business it will not be ten years before Rockford may pass St. Louis in its output of furniture. The latest new-comer is the Nationa'l Furniture company, with a factory that 'will probably employ at the start from . ZeG to 2jO hands. Several of the factories h.ave erected large additions this year, and the average size of the factories is larger than allY furniture town in the country, for there is not one in the bunch that would be caned small in any other town. The 1\ational, n~entioned above, will' show its first line on the fifth floor of the Furniture Exhibition building, 1319 Michigan Ave., Chicago, in January. It will consist of library and c01T.bi.n~ti.onhook cases, china closets and buffets. "Yohnny Yohrson," (everybody knows "Yohnny") will have charge. of the line. The Rockford Chair and Furniture com pliny will make the c\.1stomary display i.n tr.c Rlodge~t Block, Grand Rapids, in January, with many new patterns. This company employs two of the best Grand Rapids furniture sllesmen, and s::veraL other bright boys, who cover the whole cottrttry. The Grand Rapids men are Eugene C. Goodrich and "Billy" Maher. Rockford is in Billy's territory, and the writer met him at the Nelson 011 his last visit. He has several good customers in Rockford, and said be had a good trade while there .. The Royal ~\llantel, Frame and Fixture, the West End, the Mechanic, the Union, the Co-operative, the Rockford Cabi-net, the Skandia, the Rockford Desk, the Forest City, the Cen-tral and the Palace are. doing well. "There's a story that they can't grow pumpkins in Kansas, because the vines gTOW so fast that they wear the pumpkins out dragging them across the fields." Nothing wears out in Rockford except machinery and men, and the supply of both is kept up to the top notch of production. C. J. Lundberg of the Cn-operative Furniture company hl's bought a corner lot on Sevecth street, and is erecting \..-r.<at he says will be the finest business building in East Rockford. It will be four stories high, and cost $80,COO. He expects to have it completed in the spring and will move his offices into it. A large dry goods store is expected to OCCU}}y the nr:,t floor. S('.veral other large business buildings 3re in course of construction, while the Nelson knitting rLills are nearly doubling their factory. The Standard will have a lot qf new things to show at the ~ January exhibition in Chicago. No. there is nothing wrong the 'matter with Rockford. Sheboygan, Wis. has made many important improvements since my last visit, chief of which is the paving of Eighth street, the, principal 1m.iness thoroughfare of the town. Several irn?ortant build-ings have been put up, and the Northwestern railway has ere.cted·a modern passenger station, The city has a more prosperous look than in the past. The Sheboygan Novelty Coni-pany are turning out an ex-cellent line of bookcases, desks, buffets, china closets, etc . Trade is active with them. President Blackstock of the Phoenix Chair Company said they have had orders right along to keep their big factory running to its full capacity. The Northern Furniture Company is enjoying an immense trade, and the year is going to be a record breaker in sales. Important improvements have been made in the factory, and an entire new line of patterns will be on exhibition in Grand Rapids in January. Geo. Spratt & Co., report a large trade this year. Their line is large, containing many styles of diners, rockers, chil-dren's chairs, etc. They expect to show their line il~]anu;lry at 1411 Michigan avenue, Chicago, as usual. The Sheboygan Chair Company have a new catalogue in the engravers hands, and it will be ready for mailing early in the coming year. The American Folding Bed Co., is making some improve-ments in the factory, and having a -good trade. The furniture and chair' factories are very busy, and every-thing looks well. Good Upholstered Furniture. Fred J. Zimmer, a practical upholsterer of many years experience in some of the best Grand Rapids factories; has started in business for himself at 39 East Bridge street, Grand Rapids. He is showing some fine ':ipecimens of up-holstered furniture, and expects to have a larg~ addition to his line for January. In the meantime those. in want of -"'orrething good for holiday trade will do well to get in touch with him. He guarantees the quality of every piece he sends out. (ESTAEllIl!lHED 18151:1) BERRY BROTHERS' Rubbing and Polishing Varnishes MUST BE USED IN FURNITURE WORK'.:TO BE APPRECIATED THEY SETTLE THE VAFlNISH QUESTION WHEFIEVERTRIED WRITE FOR INFORMATION, F'INISHED WOOD SAMPLES. AND LITERATURE. New York 262 Pead St. Boston 520 Atlantic Ave. Philadelphia 2&-28 No. 4th St. Baltimol"e 29 S. Hanovu S1. BERRY BROTHERS, LIMITED VARNISH MANUFACTURERS DETROIT Chic:alrO 46.50 We St. Cioc:innati 420 MaiD St. St. Louie 112 So. 4th St. S_ Fr'aJlcisco 668 Howard St. THIS IS THE CAN AND LABEL, CANADIAN FACTORY, WALKERVILLE ONTARIO ---- ---- GEO. SPRATT & CO, SHEBOYGAN, WIS. Manufacturers of Chairs and Rockers. A complete line of Oak Diners with quarter sawed veneer hacks and seats, A large line of Elm Diners, medi.um priced. A select line of Ladles' Rockers. Bent and high urn Rocker", with solid seats, veneer TOU seats, cob-blersea[ s and up-holstered leather complete. High Chairs and Children's Rockers. rou will get ill otJ t*e gr(Jur.d Jlf>or when you hu)'from liS, No. 542 Oak, Solid Seat. Price, $11 &~;_ No. 540% Same as No. 542 on I y Ouartered Oak, Veneer Seat. $18 ~:;, No. 542 Robbins Tabl6 60. Owosso. MiChigan No. 318. AMERICAN OAK. 44J:48 IN. TOP. AMERICAN BASE. 7 IN. PILLAR. is Something DIFFERENT in Couches No. 155 WOVEN WIRE COUCH $4.00 Net We have made for some time, Couches and Davenports with woven wire tops. Our latest" essay in this line is DiffERENT. Made and shipped K, D. Easily set up. 1\ trial order will convince. SMITU &. DAVIS MfG. CO., St. Louis. 14 The second city of Indiana, thch,ome of many important manufacturing industries of prosperous jobbers in merchan-dise, of thrifty bankers, of able pratitioners of the learned. professions and of a happy, well-to-do population number-ing ninety thousand, is growing as never in the past. On every hand evidences of development command attention. The new Union depot, the new hotel Vendome many new factories and dwelling houses in every quarter and the evi-dences of thrift in the mercantile districts proclaim the fact that Evansville is covering a larger space on the map every day. It should not be inferred, however, that Evansville's growth is merely on paper. It is a real, substantial and vigorous campaign the men of intelligence and substance are prosecuting for a grea.ter city. The manufacturc of stoves is an important industry in Evansville. Several large plants produce heaters, cookers. and ranges in a great many sizes and finishes. The stoves are uniformly good when in practical use and the demand keeps the factories fully employed. Several of the manu- 'faeturers of furniture are interested financially in the Crescent Stove Works, which was organized two years ago, when a large factory was erected and a choice line of stoves was brought out and presented to the trade. The officers of the corporation are as follows: President, George Euente; vice president, H. C. Dietrich; secretary and treasurer, C. F. Diekmann. 11r. Diekmann was for a number of years in the employ of the Globe Furniture Company and is widely and favoraby known to the trade. Catalogues, mailed to dealers, illustrate and describe the line. The Bockstege Furniture Company have prepared a new catalogue illustrating, describing and pricing their large line of. parlor, dining and office tables, also two novelties-a side-board and a bookcase to be suspended on the wall. These pieces present an .attractive appearance and are capable of meeting the requirements of the average housekeeper. Bolts prepared especially for the purpose are provided for at-taching the cases to the wall. The company will commenCe the erection of an extension to their factory early in the com-ing year. It will be 60 x 140 feet in area and three stories high. The company has be~n very prosperous under the capable management of P. B. Fellwock. The Evansville :,,'letal Furniture Company, which recently passed: into the hands of a new corporation, in which Messrs. Bosse, Koch, Karges and others of the furniture industry are interested, are rapidly preparing a line of metal beds that will be found desirable by retailers of furniture. The Eli D. Miller Company are closing a. very successful year. Their line of mantel beds has been a ready seller and the Company's new factory is hardly equal to the demands upon it. The Karges Furniture Company's great factory is fully employed in filling orders for low priced, medium and fine chamber suites and wardrohes. Their catalogue, soon to be issued, will contain illustrations of 250 pieces. Suites for the chamber range in price from $15. to $150. No imitations of fine woods are made by the cornpany. Every piece is either in genuine oak or mahogany. The Evansville Metal Bed Company are mailing a new catalogue of beds to the trade. A great variety of styles and colors is provided from which selections may be made. ::\:fanager Koch recently returned from a tour of the metro-politan district and is confident that the coming year will be a good one in business. The manufacture of chairs in Evansville is pursued on an extensive scale by four wide-awake corporations of wide experience in the trade. It is said that the Smith, factory was established long before the birth of "Alice of Old Vin-cennes;' who, a local historian declared, was a contemporary of ~lary, Queen of Scots. The local historian may not have been able to prove his statement, but if it were shown to be untrue the fa.ct \-vould remain that the Smith shop is the oldest in the state of Indiana. The large~t and most pros-perous of the chair factories is the Standard, managed by 1\-1r. Reitz, a practical business man. Chairs of medium and cheap g-rades, in cane, ..v.ood and leather seats, are manufactured and sold readily in the vast trade territory served by the manu~ facturers of Evansville. Catalognes and price lists are mailed to dealers applying for the same. The Fellwock Automobile & Pal1el Compa.ny is a young, but very pr05perous industry. Veneered rolls for manufac-turers of furniture and adjllstable automobile attachments enabling the owner of a runabout to speedily change his ve-hicle to a touring car, with or without a top, the better to protect the dri,,-er from inclement ,\leather when needed, are manufactured. The company maintains a garage a.nd deals largely in automobiles. P. B. Fellwock of' the company, ap-pears in the combination illustrated above, supporting his favorite Maxwell. Benjamin Bosse of the Globe Furniture company is the president of three furniture manufacturing companies and actively engaged in their management. He is capable of handling large enterprises successfully, a fact that seems to be well understood by the stockholders of the corporations that employ his services. The new factory of the World Furniture company is a credit to the- city of Evansville and its enterprising builders. It is built in the form of a double ell.• and is perfectly lighted and ventilated. It contains 80,000 square feet of floor spa.ce J'and when in full operation will give employment to 250 men. The mill room is 56 x 300 feet in size and the cabinet, finishing and shipping departments are corresponding large. The offices are commodious and handsomely -furnished. The business .manager is Charles M. Frisse, late with the Globe Furniture company. A large line of mantel folding beds will be ready for January 1. One of the most successful furniture manufacturing cor-porations in Evansville is the Globe Furniture company. Under the personal direction of Benjamin Bosse, president, the company h,ave established a volume of trade in low and medium priced chamber furniture that would more than satisfy more pretentious houses. Good values awl. fair deal-ing have \von the cOll,pany the enviable position cnjoy<,d. A comparatively new furniture manufacturing corporation, and yet a very successful one, is the Bosse Furniture com-pany, manufacturers of knock down wardrobcs and kitchen cabinets. A very large tr;,de has been established and the worth of the goods produced is evidenced by the fact that in every succeeding month sin'.e the business \vas com-menced the sales }wve shown an increase. The month of September 1907 contained but twenty-four working days. Five days were sacred, one was a legal holiday which, with twenty-four working days made ttp the month. And yet tbe sales and shipmellts during that month were the largest in the history of the company. Mr. Ploeger, the manager is a Important Change. Less than two years ago K B. Stebbins of Lake View, finding his business outgrowing the capacity of his factory, decided to move and after careful investigation, settled in Sttlrgis, where he organized the Stebbins Manufacturing Company, bllilt a large four-story brick factory and began the manufacture of tables on a much larger scale. The business grew vcry rapidly and soon became a burden too great for him to carry alone, and he began to look around for some one to share it with him. He finally interested Mr. C. ·VVilhe1m,for seventeen years superintendent of the factory of the Grobhiser & Crosby Furniture Company of the same dty, and together they purchased the stock of the other stock-holders and reorganized under the name of the Stebbins-vVilhelm Furniture Company, Mr . .stebbins taking the office and business end and 11r. vVilhclm the factory. He is an excellent designer as well as a thorough master of the art Made by Lentz Ta.ble 00., Nashville, Mich. quick-witted, clean thinking, energetic man of excellent judg-ment, WllO has demonstrated hjs eap:tcity to fJll the important position he holds with the company. Lentz Tables. The Lentz Table Company of Nashville, Mich., have man-ufactured al~d shipped a larger number of dining extension tables this year than in any other year of th.e past. NIany im-provements, including a new 200 horse power engine, have been adde·d· to the plant this year. They carryon an average a million feet of lumber in the yards, use three dry kilns with a capacity of 75000 feet and the plant is protected by a. sprink-ler system, and the cost of production i::.down to a minimum figure. They employ over one hundred hands. The de-mand is largely for the better grade of tables, including fine pedestals in quarter-sawed oak and mahogany. Lentz tables always have full value put into them and the demand for them grows from year to year. The Push Button Mortis chairs manufactured by the Ram-sey- Alton Manufacturing Company of Portland, Mich., will be exhibited on the first floor of the Manufacturers' Exhibi-tion building, Chicago, in January. 1908. of furniture making and knows how to handle men to the best advantage. It is the intention to gradually work into high grade library and parlor tables. The line now is of med-ium and better grades, a new catalogue of which is ready for mailing. Purchased the Coates House. Travelers to Kansas City will learn with pleasure that tbe Coates estate has sold the Coates House to the Interstate Hotd Company, owners of the Lexington Hotel, Chicago, and the Lafayette Inn, at Clinton, Iowa. All the stock is owned by E. K. Criley, who is president of the company; Arthur Criley, his son, and Luther II. Firey, 5ecretary and treasurer of the company. l\'Ir. Criley lives at the Lexing-ton Hotel. Enlarge Their Plant. The Charlotte (Mich.) ManUfacturing Company, like the small boy, has outgrown its clothes. The business is too big for the fattory, and the company are just adding four buildings, to be used for office, finishing, storage and shipping, wbich will enable them to manufacture and ship with greater economy and promptness. 16 ·"~M,J9.HIG7!1'J $ GEESE Do Not Grow BETTER FEATHERS and DOWN THAN THESE PILLOWS ARE FILLED WITH. --------WRITE THE-------- SCHULTZ 8 HIRSCH COMPANY 260-262 S. DHSPLAINHS ST., CHICAGO, 10' tho 1907 Illustrated Catalogue and Price List. That will tell you aU about it. We would like to have you say thai you saw this in the Michigan Artisan. HAND CIRCULAR RlP SAW MORTlSER COMRINED MACHINE No.4 SAW (ready for cross-cutting) Complete Oulfit of HAND and FOOT POWER MACHINERY WHY THE.Y PAV THE CA81N£T M~U\ER He can save a manufacturer's profit as well as a dealer's profit. He can make more money with less capital invested. He can hold a better and more satisiactory trade with his customers. He can manufacture in as good style and finish, and at as low cost as the factories. The local cahinet maker has been forc~d into only the dealf>r's trade and profit, because of machine mannfactured goods of factorieJ;. An outfit of 8aflles Patent Foot and Hand-Power Machim-ry, rei.nstates the <:abinel maker witn ad'Yanta~equal to his c.ompetitort>. If desired. these machines will be sold on trim. The purchaser can have ample time to test them 1n hts own 6hop and on the work he wishes them to do. OescripUv, catalQt'}'/i.6and TWiceU8t fret)· W. F. Ii. JOnN BARNES CO.,654 RUDy St. Rockford, 11/. HAND TENONER No. f. WOOD LATHE FORMER OR MOUl-DER No. t SAW l;eaayfor ripping) No.7 SCROLL SAW Inset. Inset~ novelij Woo~Wor~s Grand Rapids, Mich. We make good work at reas-onable prices and prompt ship-ment. Our capacity is such that we can take care of more trade and for that reason you see this Ad. Write us for anything you want in ~ 193 Good Wood Carving New Patterns in "oohs. WRITE US FOR PRICES. GRAND RAPIDS BRASS CO., Grand Rapids, Mich. This Machine Makes the Money ===========BY SA VI NG IT ======= It makes a perfect imitation of any open grain because it uses the wood itself to print from, and one operator and a couple of boys can do mOTe work with it than a dozen men with any other sOLcalled machine or pads on the market. That~s why it's a money maker. It imitates perfectly PLAIN Or QUARTERED OAK, MAHOGANY. WALNUT, ELM. ASH or any other wood with open llt'aln. WRITE THE -------- Posselius Bros. Furniture Manufacturing Co., Detroit, Mich. ME:NTION THE: MICHIGAN ARTISAN. FOR PRICES AND FULL PARTICULARS. Inset. Inset. A PARADOX Furniture Manufacturers: You can save at least one-third of the time now required in your finishing room and still maintain or better the quality of the work done by using our Paradox Rubbing Varnish (In three shades-Pale, Light and Medium) Work can be coated every day and last coat rubbed the third day; it dries tough and hard, will not soften up or print in packing. Order a sample barrel subject to your approval and test it. We manufacture a full line of Cabinet Varnishes; they are made upon Honor and sold upon Merit. Our facilities and products are second to none. The Largest Paint and Vamish Works In The World ACME WHITE LEAD AND COLOR WORKS DETROIT MICHIGAN U. S. A. C. B. QUIGLEY, MANAGER OF SALES, VARNISH DEPARTMENT , ST41N AND fiLLER CORRECT SHADE FOR GOLDEN OAK fOR QUARTERED OAK THE L MAC E NO. 1914 GOLDEN OAK STAIN NO. 506 TRANSPARENT FILLER fOR PLAIN 04K THe: L MAC E NO. 1636 COMBINATION FILLER Produces salineshade as Golden Oak Stain and Filler. THE BARRETT-LINDEMAN CO. , in consolidation with Tnr lAWnrn(r=M(fAIDDrn (0. Philadelphia Chicago Inset. ·f'~MI9]:-IIG7J-N ? INSIST ON HAVING Morris Woo~ a Sons' SoM Steel Glue Joint (utters for there are no other'" U jUJ"t aJ" good.·· They cut a clean perfect joint always. Never bum owing to the GRADUAL CLEARANCE (made this way only by us). require little grinding, saving time and cutters. No time wasted setting up and cost no more than other makes. Try a pair and be convinced. Catalogue No. 10 and prices on application. MORRIS WOOD&. SONS Thlrt7-two,ea ..s at 31-33 S. Canal Street. CHICAGO,ILL. ralm6r'S rat6nt. 61Uino 61amos Mr. Manufacturer-Do you everconsider what joint gluing cofu! The separators and wooden wedges, if you use them and many do, are a large item of expense accounts; but this is small compared to wage ac-count5. of workmen who wear them out wilh a hammer. and then a large per cent of .the joints are failures by the insecurity of this means. RESULT, it has to be done t1ver 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 beuer. PALMER'S CLAMPS. All ~eel and iron. No wedges. no separators. adiust to any width, clamp instantly yet securely, releases even faster. Positively one-third more work. with one·third less help. In seven sizes up to 60 inches. any thicknea ue to 2 inches. 200 fadooo convineed in 1906. Why not you in 1907? Although sold by dealers everywhere let us send you patrieul.... It E. Palmer & Sons. Owosso. MiGh. FOREIGN AGENTS: Ptoiedile Co.• London, Enaland. Schuchardt & Schutte. Ber~n,Germany. "Rotary Style" tor Drop Car\,lng8, Enlbo8800 Mouldings, Panels. EMBOSSINC AND DROP CARVINC MACHINES. l'(orhines tor all pllrplllleto, and u.t prices within the reach 01 all. E,'ery machine hall (lor guarantee againllt brenk.ure tor one YfOllr. "Lateral Style" tor large ca;pa~tty heavy Carvings. and Deep Etnt-oStltnp. We have the Maebine you want at a Imtislactory price. Write tor descriptive circulars. Also make dies 10.. all makes of Ma-chineI'. UNION EMBOSSINO M~C"INE CO.• Indianapolis, Ind. Johnson's Tally Sheet ----FOR---- HARDWOOD LUMBER NOT LIKE OTHER TALLY SHEETS. C. A. JOHNSON, Marshfield, Wis. Inset. Oran~Ua~i~sDlow Pi~e an~Dust Arrester (om~anJ Tfl E LATEST de7'ice for handling shavings and d'ust front all wood- 'Zoorking tnachines. Our nineteen years experieHcein this class of ·zC)ork has brought it nearer -perfectioH than any other system on the market today. J t is NO experintent, but a demoll strated scientific fact, as 'l.ve h(7)e se'ueral hu-n-- dyed of these s')lstems i-n use, and Hot a poor one among them.. Our Automatic Furnace Feed S}lste'l'J'lJ as sho'wn in this cut, is the 1110st perfect 7JLPOrking deZlice of anything in this line. Write for our prices for equipnients. WE MAKE PLA:-JS AND DO ALL DETAIL WORK WITHOUT EX-PENSE TO OUR CUSTOMERS. EXHAUST FANS AND PRES-SURE BT.OWERS ALWAYS IN STOCK. Office and FaCl'tol"Y: 20&-210 Canal Street GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. CltlzeDe PhOD6 1282 OUR AUTOMATIC FURNACE FEED SYSTEM Inset. Our Clamp. vecelved GOLD MEDAL at World'. Fa.lr. St. Loul •• VENEER. PRESS (Patented JUM 30, ll}O3.) CHAIN CLAMP (Patented June 30, 1903.) CABINET CLAMP. Write for prices and particulars, Black Bros. Machinery CO. MENDOTA, ILL. Saw an.d KnOt fe FOItti ng Machinery and T00 IS TUhneeMB'gangn5l1aamn«ddB. e" Baldwin. Tuthill ®. Bolton Grand R.apld... Mich. Filen. Setters. Sharpeners. Grinders. Swages. stretchers, Brazing and Filing Clamps. Knile Balances, Hammering Tools. Bollon Band Saw Filer for Saws ~ inch up, Tnvestipte our Lme. New 200 pa,ge Catalo2"l1e for 1907 Free. B. T. & B. Style D. Knile Grinder. Full Automatic. Wet or dJy. Boaton New York. _________________ 'OFFlCES _ JameatowQ HiBh Point ClnClnftatl Detroit Mlnneapoll. Aaaoclate Olnee. and Bonded Attorney. Grand Rapids Chicago In all Principal clUe. Wood Forming Cutters We offer exceptional value in Reversible and One-Way Cutters for Single and Double Spin-dle Shapers. Largest lists with lowest pri~es. Greatest variety to select from.. Book free. Address SAMUEL J. SHIMER & SONS MILTON. PENNSYLVANIA, U. S. A. St. Loal. REPORTING FURNITURE, UNDERTAKERS, CARPET HARDWARE AND KINDRED TRADES. COLLEC· TIONS MADE BY AN UN'RIVALLED SYSTEM THROUGH OUR COLLECTION DEPARTMENT •.. WE PRODUCB RESULTS WHERE OTHERS FAIL, WRIT~ FOR PARTICULARS AND YOU WILLSKND us YOUR BUSiNESS. Our Complal:D.t and AdJuatment Department R.ed Dr.l .. Collect H. Jo DANHOF. Mlcblg"n M"nagero 441 .nd 348 HouselDan Bunding~Grand R.pld •• Mich. VENEERED ROLLS The "Reliable" Kind Formerly tbe Fellwock Roll & Panel Co. but the name. Why Worry with the Roll Question ----1)---.--- Leave that to US, We are prepared to solve it quicker and bEtter be-cause we have the knowledge and equip. ment. We use nothing but c:heltnut in 0 u r cores. Writef()rprices. The fe1lwock Auto. mobile & Mfg. CO EVANSVILLE, IND. Nothing changed 17 BAY VIEW FURNITURE COMPANY MANUFACTURERS OF EXTENSION TABLES No. 197 8 ft. Top 48 in. Genuine Quartered Oak. This table is handsome and IT SELLS Let us quote you our price. HOLLAND, MICH. No. 197 ANNOUNCEMENT . Mr. E. B. Stebbins, fonnerly President and General Manager of the Stebbins Manufacturing Co., Sturgis, Mich., and Mr. C. Wilhelm, Superintendent and member of the firm of Grobhiser & Crosby Fumiture Co., of that city, for the past seventeen years, have purchased the stock of the former company and changed the name to the STEBBINS-WILHELM FURNITURE CO. Mr. Wilhelm is skilled in the manufacture of high grade furniture, producing one of the best lines of tables shown in Grand Rapids the past season. He will have entire charge of the manufacturing end of the business, while Mr. Stebbins will look after the buying, officeand selling end. Our policy will be one of constant development, aiming to work gradually into a higher grade embodying all the elements of scientificconstruction, in designs fully abreast of the times. Our catalogue of Library and Parlor Tables is now ready and will be mailed to dealers on request. Very respectfully, STEBBINS- WILHELM FURNITURE CO., STURGIS, MICH. 18 EST ASLISHI!D 1B80 "UI!IL.ISHI!lO .v MICHIGAN ARTISAN CO. ON THE 10TH AND 25TH OF EACH MONTH OFFICE-:!-20 L.YON ST., GRAND R....P. IDS. MICH. ENTEFlEO "8 M",TTER OF THE SECOND CL""S Macey, _the~ns_~ big merchant of New York (be it re-mcmbere'ji- that1\.facey died many years ago, but his business "soul go'e:s" htar~hing on") operates a bank in connection with his mercantile business with customers, receiving de-posits, paying current rates of interest and permitting cus-tomers to check against the same in settling accounts for goods purchased of the house. The whole plan is revealed in the following advertisemc.llt: ******** * ******* * CHARGE ACCOUNT CONVENIENCES * * AT MACEY'S. * * * * Start a deposit account and have your pur- * * chases referred to it ior payment. It differs * * very greatly from thc usual form of a charge * * account. You have all the conveniences of * * an ordinary charge account at a credit store * * -you have every economy ]\'Iacey's strictest * * cash system affords, and, in addition, you get * * 4 per cent interest on your daily balance, * * compounded every three months. * * Deposit any sum that suits your com'en- * * ienee. Make purcbascs in the usual way, and * * have them "charged" in the usual way-to * * the money you have on deposit. Statements * * will 'be mailed you monthly. vVhile your * * deposit cannot be checked against for expen- * * ditures made outside of the store-as we do * * no banking businesE-any or all of it can be * * withdrawn at any time. * ******** * ******* When the bankers' associations of the nation and the states shall meet from time to time next year it is presumed that they will add 1-1acey, Field, Butler Brothers and other big mercantile houses to the express companies for condem-nation, for taking the bread out of the mouths of the poor bankers. *1* *1* *1* *1* The prize distribution houses are making exhibits of their products and prizes in many cities at present, and attracting quite general attention. The "prizes," especially articles of furniture, should not be prized very highly. The stuff is the poorest imaginable, and t~e regular dealer who fears the competition of the houses handling it should seek another oc-cupation. The case work is very bad in construction and finish, and the upholstered goods a libel unon an important branch of the furniture manufacturing industry. It would pay regular dealers to put in a stock of the prize stuff to use in comparison with good furniture, placing a "prize" chif-fonier beside a piece from a reputable manufacturer, or a "prize" dresser adjoining a meritorious piece from the factory of the Nelson-Matter Furniture Company, the Luce, the Sligh, Horn Brothers, or others of their class; the dealer would be enabled to point out the "difference," and put an end for all time to the desire among customers to obtain furniture by the prize distribution plan. The club and church furnish-ing plan of distributing perfumes, extracts, varnishes, soaps and kindred goods is not an expensive one to operate and as not much capital would be required, in many communities, it is available to dealers who would like to experiment ."..itb. the idea. Soap, perfumes, etc., can be purchased of the manu-facturers and given as prizes to purchasers of furniture. What dealer could not afford to give the purchaser of a bookcase for $25 soap or perfumery worth 50 cents? Think it over. *1* *1* *!* *1* The mercantile business of the late William Odell of Cin-cinnati was transferred recently to a group of employes who remained loyal for years to the interest of their benefaC'tor. Before his death :vlr. Odell directed that his business be trans-ferred to his employes without consideration. It has been very profitable in the past. *!* *1* *1* "'1* It is well to assume when making a sale, that you expect a customer to pay cash. It means a saving of time and ex-pense for you and does the customer no harm. When the customer is deserving of credit and asks for it, if consistent with your system of transacting business, grant it cheerfully, not grudingly. *1* *1* *1* *!* If your store is poorly lighted, do not be surprised if cu:=>· tomers when entering are surrounded by an air of distrust and suspicion. Goods of the highest quality will be consid-ered with much reserve and hesitancy if the light of your store fails to reveal their merits. *1* *1* IIcl* *1* The Kational Case :Makers' Association will meet in Chi-cago on November 7. Unless the order of business followed in all former conventions of the association shall be changed, prices will be advanced. *1* *1* *1* *1* The man who would run for a public office to please his wife, would attempt to purchase a stained mahogany music cabinet to match the color of a piano purchased ten years ago. *'* *1* *1* *1* Don't consider seriously the man whose scheme has "mil_ lions in it." Confine your attention to your legitimate pri-vate business if you would avoid a sting. *1* *1* *1* *1* A well groomed, spirited team attached to a delivery wagon creates a good impression and affords valuable ad-vertising for the owner. *1* *1* *!* "'1* Na act of retaliation followed the shipment of pianos val-ued at $150,000 from the United States to China during the past year. *1* *1* *1* *1* Sectional clothing cabinets are coming into general use, displacing in many instances the old style wardrobes. *1* *1* "'1* *1* Despite the much-lauded beauty of the eew $10 bills, it is remarkable how few we find used as wall ornaments. Of the undertaker's home life we know practically noth-ing. Does he preserve the official demeanor through meals and at other times when free to mingle with the family? Does he romp with. his children? Does he even have chil-dren? Would it he proper for an undertakees wife to fetch such obvious distractions into the world? What, we wonder, would be the view of our chief magistrate upon that point? And, as a matter of fact, did anyone ever hear of the son or daughter of an undertaker? That progeny is not uncommon to executioners, we know, because in the old days the busi-ness, then more profitable than it is now, was kept in the family through many generations.-Exchange. "Working" the Churches. A prominent soap boiling house located in one of the eastern states, wllich sells its products by employing the prize and dub distri.bution plan, has added the churches to its list of selling agencies. A synopsis of the phn is given in the literature distribukd by the soap baiting company as fol-lows: The Church-Aid Plan is the happy solution of a serious problem presented us by reason of Our widespread relations with the public. This problem was: What fixed policy shall the company adopt regarding "requests for donations?" Coming as they do, from sources worthy of support, these requests cannot be ignored. To discriminate in favor of some is not practicable; to grant all the unceasing flow of re~ quests indiscriminately is sheerly impossible; on the other hand it did not seem to us considerate to refuse these ap-peals without offering somcthing more substantial than sym-pathy and good wishes. In most instances the requests for donations from us are in behalf of a fair or bazaar, and the committee on "ways and means" are directing their efforts toward procuring dona-tions and contributions from friends and others interested in the welfare of their church, Sunday school, socicty or other cause, Some are appeals for relief from the cffects of fire, flood or other local calamity. Helping a man to self-help is the greatest kindness you can do him. It was with this thought that the Church-Aid Plan was adopted as our uniform answer to all such appeals, and for the purpose of helping churches and societies to help themsevcs, without having ever to call upon their members and friends for donations and extra contributions. Thousands of cl1urches and societies throughout the country have availed themselves of the plan, always with suc-cess, and large sums of money have been raised with but very little personal effort and with absolutely no extra expense to anyone. Memhers and friends co-operate to purchase their home needs of us-the manufacturers-thus saving to the church 01" society the middlemen's profits and expenses, amounting to 100 per cent. Of every dollar paid to the committee by tht members and friends of the church for products, 50 cents-one-half-goes to the committee for the church treasury because factory-to-family dealing makes it possible for the committee to buy $20 worth of products for $10. Those ordering through- the committee pay no more for these pure products than they regularly pay to retail mcrchants. \Vhenever the remittance is sent with the order, we give as a present-far-cash, an extra $1 worth of products with each $20 assortment ordered; and with every cash club order, an extra $2 'North of products may be selected as a certificate prcmium for each $10 remitted. Thus, $23 worth of products may be regularly obtained for $10.00. If desired, certificates maj, be accumulated to obtain prem~ iums of greater value., In a congregation of fifty families, ",..hen each purchases only $2 worth of products a month, the church-aid committee establishes a permanent income of over $600 a year, with-out extra expense or inconvenience to anyone. By means of our church-aid literature, which includes product lists, order slips and letters, all of which we supply free of charge, orders are readily secured without personal solititation. The lettcr on one side of (',ach product order slip helps the committce in securillg the co-operation of each, member and friend alike. If this letter is not adaptable to the needs of the committee, special ones are printed instead. When order slips are tilted out and returned to the com~ mittee, the accumulated items are combined on an order-form and sent to the company. 19 The illustrated product lists fully describe the products. The convenient order slips again explain that by our offer the committee will make l()O per cent profit on each order that they secure for our products. Th,e application blank that we send you is only an order for free literature; its use places you under no obligation whatever. This literature is not intended to advertise oUr products, but only to aid the committee in securing the co-operation of others, and in getting orders. It reduces the duties of the committee to a minimum. Hav-ing received the literature, the committee should see that every person whose co-operation is desired is well sup-plied with order slips. Explain that the products are sold at prices 110 higher than those charged by the rctailers for simi-lar products of like quality; that the products are home needs which arc daily used by everyone, that each article is of su-perlor quality; and that for every dollar's worth of products purchased 50 cents goes toward aiding a worthy cause. "VVhenthe plan i" adopted it should be given all the pub-licity possihle. A notice in the church weekly or monthly periodical often produc.es excellent results, or the pastor may read a notice like the following: "An opportunity has been presented whereby \ve can raise funds for (state here the cause in need). Since no donations are requested, no one will be put to any extra expense whatever, and it is expected that each member will lend his co-operation. Complete information wil! be given by the committee who are appointed to take charge of the matter." The committee will be greatly aided and a pleasant eve-ning can bc given the congregation if an invitation to an in-formal entertainment is extcnded, explaining that on this occasion orde:-s \t,"ill be received and refreshments served. Usually th.e aid society of a church is the committee to explain the plan and to receive orders from the mcmbers of the congregation, employing most of the mcthods we have suggested. Often, when there are ten or more members in the aid society they combine to form a club for the pur-pose of raising funds. When each of ten members orders $1 worth of products each month, an order for $10 worth of products is secured, thus creating a permanent monthly income of $5 wholly with-in the society. The church aid plan is el1thusiasticaJ1y adopted by the Christian Endeavor, Epworth League, Societies of the King's Daughters a11dvarious other young people's organizations. \Vhen an entire Sunday school adopts the church aid plan the superintendent divides the order slips among the teachers, who give them to the members of their classes. The mem-bers distribute the literature, (lnd secure orders. Sunday school scholars enjoy helping a good cause, and their industry and enthusiasm impresses everyone; their success is invar-iable. \i\Then the plan is adopted by a single class, the tea,eher acts as sccretary, while the class becomes the committee to present the order slips and secure orders. The game has been played successfully in many communi-ties to the great injury of local merchants, and the soap com_ pany publish many letters from pastors and church officials approving the plan. Offered to Buy at Forty Off. Quite a number of "snap" hunters have visited GrandoiRap-j ids recently and offered to purchase goods at forty off. The factories have but little stock on hand and the offers were respectfully but firmly declined. ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- 20 Lockless Metal Folding Beds -Manufactured by the- SAFETY FOLDING BED COMPANY (Ltd.) DETROIT, MICH. It has long pllSl\IEldthe experim~DtaJ point, and is now lX'C-ognized as perfeetioo in bed manufacturing. It has been in practical UfSein thoWiands of hoPlel'l for the palilt six ~'ea1'8and each year its popularity has incres8ed. It is flU e~tllhltshed fact that l\o(ETALBeds are the most Sanitary, Rnd tbat .Folding Met- III Beds are the llI-68t desirable for many retl8lfD8. It bas been our aim to prodoce a Folding'" Metal Bed that combines all the qualities of the ordi-nary stationary bed, and In addition have Itm folding feature simple and safe. It is as bnposstble for a "safety" bed to lllose up when oc~u-pied IIlIil it wol.J1d be for the ordilWry bed ... In tact, the more weight Is in it, the more rigid It ifil. Tht"re are no weightllo QT complicated mecbanlsm aboUt tbe "Safety"; it is simplicity Ibelt. It needs IPollly to be tried to be appreciated. A whole bed when you WftDt It. One-third of a bed when you dOD't. lVheD closed It can be moved about as easily 8S a baby caniage. The bedding Is not dlt;\turbed and wben covered bed stands back aguiost the wall, leav- Ing the floor sPlIce to.. otber u&es. The Improvements during tbe pa8t yea .. cover nearly every point In mecbanblPl, COUt;\trucUODand ma-terial. There hilS been ah801utely noth- Ing left undone that could Add to the de- 8lrability of the "Safe-ty." A point that we wish to call yOOl' at-tenUon to, aDd one which every bou8e-keeper will appreciate is this: Ther., is no troUble 1n handling the mattresfl, eovel'S, or plllQw8, _ they 11"-"at all times securely fastened to the hed. The "Safety" does not monopolize a wholl,l room when in use. It folds up to one~tbird Us size when open, occupying a space 14 x 82 incheS. With tbls bed a parlor 0" !litting room may be used as a "I.,eplng apartment without the 8lIghtest inconven- Ience or discomfort. ,"'hen It's open It looks like a bed, not the great cumber-lIome, unwieldY, un-sightlY thing of the J'flst that ulled to be caned .a foldIng bed. S tee 1, MaUeable Iron and High Car-bon. Angle are used throughout. thus as-suring a st,ronc, dur~ ahll,l bed. that will last a lifetime. Each bed, regard-less 01 design, price or slllle, bas the sume "Easy Lift" mechan- Is01, ball bearing cas-ten, tUbular spring frame with elosUe labrie, which not only insures comfort bUt extreme ease, in ()pena.tl()D. nre N:e~3~~~or weights of any kind are used on the bed. None Standard 5.01III e So of 8'pl'lng fram~ are made In the following width; 4 feet 6 thebeR., 4 feet, 3 feet 6 inches ahd 3 faet, aU 6 feet if inehel!1 lo.n.g unless other-me Ibrde~. Mat-treliltle8 of standard length aod width can be ~ on our beds. We do not reoom.meod any l»nticular style or thicknes8. Wri'OO for DESCRIPTIVE CIRCULARS AND 1'RICE LIST. 71;· rIRTI0'.fU'l ~- 1 S· The Tower Patent Fastener. The Tower patent fastener-known to the trade every-where as the "No-Kuffi-Loose," has come 'into such general use that merchants and manufacturers alike have come to regard it almost as necessary as the pulls and knobs them-selves. It is the greatest invention for holding drawer pulls and knobs that has ever been offered the public, and when one remembers that the)' cost the manufacturers absolutely no-thing at all, it is strange that a few manufacturers still hold aloof from using it. Daniel F. Tower, President of the Grand Rapids Brass Co., which company manufactures "No-Kum-Loose" fasteners,) is one of the most practical and ingenious rr;en of his time and while a multitude of good things have come into use .because of his brain and skill, none of them have surpassed in usdulness, economy and popularity, this scheme for preventing knobs and pulls from getting loose or falling off. A Model Mercantile House. "Ever stop at Kansas City?" enquired the traveled sales-man of a.nother of his class. "No; what about it?" ."1 will tell you but oue thing about it. It contains the most up-to-date furniture store in the west. You enter and are met by a great, warm-hearted, kindly man, who makes you feel that he, is really glad to see you. His shake is not like that of the average hotel clerk, whose hand is as cold and damp as a rubber overshoe. 'Would you like to look through the store? Glad to furnish an escort. Here George, show the gentleman through the store. Take plenty of time in doing so.' In time you return and the great one enquires if you are pleased. Of course you are. You have witnessed the conveniences and perfect appointments of the place and the clean, splendid stock and say so. The great one enquires, 'Have you seen Mr. Repp?' NOj but you would like to. You are led into the office of Mr. Repp and very cordially received by that gentleman. In turn, you are pre-sented to Mr. Cooper, the buyer, who dismisses his stenog-rapher for the time being and faces you with an air of be < nignity that explai'ns that all his time is your own. You a'e given the utmost consideration and when you have completed your business and retire, the great one escorts you to the door and bids you a hearty good-bye. Say, it is worth going to Kansas City to meet the men of this house, if you knew before starting that you would not take an order. Do the business? Well, r should say, Yes, yes,' as they do in New York when they speak the trtttb. When they do not one yes serves their purpose. VVish there were more houses like Duff & Repp." A noted financier of Boston would ease the money market by settling accounts by checks. He would have employers 0: labor pay their employes and more matrons pay the bills of tradesmen in that way. The plan sounds very nice, but it remains for the noted financier to point the way to the coin necessary to put in the banks for the pUrpOSe of redeeming the checkS. - _.- ._---------------- -- -- - - 21 ACTUAL VALUE iSGOU) IN OTHER FORMS No. 26J1 Actual value is more certain to be found in the interior (as well as exterior) of our UPHOLSTERED FURNITURE than in the hillsides of Cripple Creek, for there is no guesswork about it. Only the best of everything is used in our factory; which makes every piece gold in another form-i. e. ACTUAL VALUE. No.2611. Price: Leather, Regular Springs, With Harrington Springs, $23.50 25.00 The White Directory CONTAINS A CAREFULLY COMPILED LIST OF MANUFACTURERS OF' FURNITURE, PIANOS, ORGANS, INTERIOR FINISHES AND KINDRED INDUSTRIES Classified by towns and states, alphabetically arra.nged. Not" Ready. Send in your order. WHITE PRINTING COMPANY PRINTERS, ENGRAVERS. PUBLISHERS, BINDERS 2-20 LYO,. ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. The MUELLER & SLACK CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. MANUFACTURERs OF WOOD AND IRON FRAME Wire Mattresses SPRINC BEDS, COTS AND CRIBS. ALSO PARLOR AND UBRARY TABLES. Write for muatrafe'd CU:cula.r. I WE'VE GOT THE GOODS. [ UNION FURNITURE CO. ROCKFORD. ILL. China Closets Buffets Bookcases We lead in Style, Conftrudion and Finish. See our Catalogue. Our line on permanent cxhibi. tiOD 7th Floor, New Manufact-urers' Buadl[l~. Gtllnd. apids. r--------------- ---- --- --- - 22 Nineteenth Century Furniture In comparison with former centuries, the nineteenth cen-tury was some ..v.hat barren in distinctive styles. Its dawn found Sheraton furniture in high favor; and in fashionable houses this style was. very soon supplanted" by the Empire. The designs of Percier and Fontaine, in France, and the l-Heppelwhite Bed; Chairs Reminiscent of Sheraton; Nondescript Table. works of Thoma::; Hope, in Englaml, quickly f,tmiIiarized tbe buying public wlth the ],Hest adaptations of Greek and Rom-an decoration. Tb,c fashion plates of the period show that the "Empire style lasted, 'Nith modifications, far into tbe cen-turies. Its forms. on the whole, grew heavier and clumsier. 2-The Heavy Mahogany Furniture of the Early Part of the Century. and the applied ornaments in gilt and bronze were dropped, till nothing but ugliness remained. Ij,cavy mahogany beds of tomb-like proportions, massive wardrobes, big box~like washhand stands of the same wood, and solid chairs with an occasional rocker, furnished the average bedroom. This was supplemented by a big cheval glass and a dressing table which was adorned with the old eighteenth century toilet. The floor was covered with a hideous Brussels, Axminster or Kidderminster carpet, and the windows were curtained. Side by side with the Empire style a spurious Gothic was trying to make itself felt, as may be seen in the fashion platel!! of the day. This, however, was affected only by the wealth,y on account of the cost of the carved work. Down to 1860 a bedroom of the upper middle class in England and America. presented an odd mixture of styles. Many men still living remember in their childhood to h"ve slept with a brother in a trundle bed, pulled out at night from under an old curtained four-poster. The four-posted bedstead, with carved or turned posts, or "sweep top" is still to he found in many houses. The njneteenth century bedroom, before the general use of iron or brass bedsteads, contained articles of several styles, such as Heppc1wliite, Sheraton and Empire, side by side. In fact, at the present day the same thing may be seen. A glance at the accompanying illustrations will show this. 3 .A Modern Bedroom Furnished with Old-Time Mahogany Furniture. The hc::avymahogany furniture in usc ill the early part of tllC cenitll"y is we]] exnnpJifled itl the illustrations ?'-Jos.2 and 3. Even in thcse rOOnlS, hn,vever, we nolict 5impk forms of the \\lindsor chair, wbich dates back to the early yea.rs of the pJ"cceding century, and have persisted to the present day in kitchens. The \\'in050r rocker may also be seen in No.5. which contains <t good exan'plc uf the ninetecnth century toilet table. In this room aJso may be seen it couple of chairs in the Sheraton style and a Heppelwb,ite bed, shO\ving the characteristic "sv,;ecp top." Ileppc],.vhite, llOwcver, would have put his drapery (wet" the "s\oveeps" in:,;tead of under, as here arranged. Another form of r-Ieppehvhite bed appears in No.1, where the chairs are reminiscent of Sheraton al:d the table is non-descript. The heavily upholstered "wing chair," which we find in bedrooms in thousands of inventories through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, appears in No.4, which plate also contains a rush-bottom chair of t1ue form from 1700 to 1750. It must be ren~embered that steam-1,l.eated rooms were not -- -- -------- known to the community as a whole during the greater part of the nineteenth century. People, as a rule, slept in cold rooms, or in rooms heated by an open fire. The curtained bed, therefore, bad a function as well as being merely a de-corative feature of the room. At nigl1<tthe occupant fre-quently wore a nightcap and drew the curtains closely around him to shield himself from draughts. The modern taste f01" cold fresh air has, in a way, revived the need of curtained beds, and many a modern room now contains copies of old styles of furniture and upholstery. A reference to manufacturers' lists will show that iron and brass bedsteads were not advertised lor sale till about 1860. By this time the "half-tester" had generally sUPPlanted the four-poster. The "French bedstead" was also popular. The were alike in size and shape, and oveI" it two curtains fell, sometimes from a pole fixed at the side, and sometimes from a small circular canopy att.ached to the ceiling. The iron bedsteads were made in all forms, the "half-tester" being a particularly popldar one. The curtalns of flmvered chintz or bright cretonne, matching or contrastillg with the Jiglll wall payer and windo'N curtains, gave the room that bright-ness which is ahvays desirable in a sleeping apartment. 4-The "Wing Chair" of the XVIII and XIX Centuries, and the Rush-bottom Chair of 170(1-1750 are Still Prized in Modern Rooms. DaI"k tints were, a~ they should l)t, confllled to the downstairs romns. In recent years there has been a decided return to old fashions. The bedroom carpet has been banished, the Roor being polished and decorated with two or three rugs of Ori-ental pattern. The old custom of being satisfied with a rug beside the bed to step out on, another before the dressing-table, and a third before the ·washstand affords ali me neces-saI" Ycomfort, and is found lo be far more decorati ,7e than a uniform ground of sprawling patterns. Examples of this are seen ill Nos. 2.. 3 and S. From about 1860 to the last decade there W;1S a taste for "sets," con::prlSLllg a bedstead without drapery, a dressing-table wiHl. rows' of drawers at each side of the long glass, a washhand stand, seveI"al chairs and an oval table with marble top. These sets were made of walnut, cherry.. maple, etc., and cheap wood painted in light colors decorated with flowers and known as "cottage furniture" was also popular. These almost drove out the mahogany,. and indeed much of it-heavy, clumsy, unpleasing in form and devoid of carving or any omamentation to bI"ighte·n it-deserved to go. People of simple meailS frequently furnish their rooms with reproductions of particular styles they favor; thus No. 7 shows a room decorated and furnished in Louis Quill ..c.. style. Turning now to the actual contents of rooms during the 23 nineteenth century, let us look at one or two records. 1\.11. Derby, a \vealthy resident of Salem, died in 1805. His "Southeast Chamher" has a Brussels carpet on the fioor, and the open fireplace is furnished with brass andirons, bellows and steel shovel, tongs and fender. The bed is a four-poster, 5 A Late XIX Century Bedroom.; Window Rocker. Shera.ton Chairs, Hepplewhite Bed with Modern Drapery. with green cltrtains (worth $133), and there are two green chairs, cigln ma,]1Ogatl:.vchairs with silk bottoms, an easy chair, a rich looking-glass, a chest-upon-chest of drawers, a stand-table, two t1ower-pots and two crickets or stools. The ")Jorthwest Chamher" is also covered ·with a Brussels carpet; white cotton curtains hang at the windows and prob-ably drape the. Tour-post mahogany bed (worth $130). The other fllrnitme consists of mahogany ohairs, an easy chair, a dn'ssing-g!ass, a looking-glass, a mahogany commode, a washhand sland cl11dbasill, five pictures, three white china flower-pots and brass hearth htrnlturc. These Salem rooms differ very little from the bedrooms of "::V:IountVernon,''' the e·-The "French Bedstead" Had a Lon~ Popularity, "Front Room" of which contained a carpet, window curtains and open fire, a high post bedstead and curtains, dressing-table, large looking-glass, wash basin and jug, six mahogany chairs and pictures on the wall. Mr. Washington's room had a bedstead with cttI"tains, a dressing table and glass, (. writing table and a \VI"iting c.hair, an easy chair, two mahog-any chairs, a chest of drawers, clock and pictures; and, of course, an open fire, with the usual brass furnishings. It ( Continued on Page 26. ) 24 ·!'~MI9HIG7:}N "Cut Rate" Stores. We doubt if there is a store in the entire country which bas never cut prices on certain articles at certain times, and there is no merchant who would not admit that the practice is legitimate for the purpose of cleaning up old stock. A great majority have used lowered prices for the purpose of drawing trade as well and have advertised low prices on goods of a certain character solely for the drawing power such advertisements have. But that is a very different thing from advertising the store as a I'cut price" store and making that the particular drawing card day. in and day out and all the year around. There arc, possibly, two kinds of cut-rate stores. There is the man who decides to go after the cheap class of trade, to the people who are always on the lookout for bargains and who are ready to test their keenness against his. HE: is usu-ally a price juggler more than a price cutter, and while some of his goods are marked ridiculously low, he frequent.ly makes enough on others to recompense him. The second- class is composed of those individuals who have -become enraged at competitors, at others in the san:e line of business, and have decided to show them a thing or two. They will illustate to the public who is their friend! They will show their hated rivals which one can lower prices fartherest! Angered at a single cut in some staple, which they consider unjust and uncalled-for, they correct the evil by cutting on others still more. The righting of a wrong by committing more of the same is foolish to all intelligence when it is in the abstract, but"when it c0n:'es to actual prac-tice, there are hundreds of merchants who yield to the des;re for revenge, Which of the two harm trade the most? We are inclined to think that the latter do_ But the former are also factors for hurting business to some extent, from our viewpoint. The man who, actuated by motive of revenge, cuts prices be-low cost and keeps on cutting tbem, hurts himself, but :he is not content with throwing himself into bankruptcy-he seeks to drag others along with him, He mayor may not suc- (.-_eedin doing so, but he hurts all trade, even stores which handle lines qf goods differing from his entirely. The store which makes "cut rates" a sort of catch phrase for thepurposcs of business is doing it on the assumption that it is permissible and proper to assume this attitude for the sake of getting trade. There is no rush to ruin, and some-times the proprietors manage to make a little money. But the evils which attend such conduction of business are many. In the first place, the store which advertises low rates and gives the impression that all prices are lower, when they are not, is deceiving the public. Or ,"vhere it disposes of cheap-er goods at lQwer prices it is misrepresenting matters to con-sumers. But the public learns with experience, so perhaps the harm done is not very grcat. The greater evil is in per-sistently pushing the words "cut-rates" in front of the people all the time. Consumers are having their instincts for taking advantage of others aroused by this campaign of cheap goods. "Here is the chance to get your goods for less than they cost." "Here is the opportunity for getting the best of others:' "Here is where you get part of your goods for nothing." We have nO doubt some may sneer and laugh at this as far fetched, but it is true, just the same, that teaching the pub-li~ to hunt for bargains of this kind has not only wakened im-proper motives and desires in the hearts of customers, but it has lowered the standards of the trade and made business hOllor and business llOnesty and business virtue a sort of joke. Not intentionally, mind you, The man who starts to ~qvertise, in these days ha~ no such thing in mind. But that is' *he r~sult, or rather, the trenci, of such methods. The man who cuts his prices for the sake of getting even witp his fellow merchant is merely foolish and blind to what pe js doiryg. Maybe he has a right to do as he pleases, but that does not lessen his foolishness. The man who adopts the -motto of _cut prices for his own is not-raising the standard of merchandising, Even if it does no more than create a longing for cheap goods, it does not assist the trade. We have too many cheap goods now. Prices have advanced on practically every kind of wares of late, and wages have advanced commensurately. People can afford to pay more than they used to do. They should pay more, Economy that buys cheap goods because of a saving of a few cents is false economy. And the store which UllCea.'i-ingly urges the world and all to buy because it sells cheap goods is not keeping up with the times. It is not what we caU good merchandising. We think the cutting of prices at times is proper and wise. but a constant cutting of prices, a coutinned demoralization of values, is carryjng what is good in small doses to ex-tremes. A little strychinine is a heart stimulant and is so Ma.L:er of Fred J. Zimmer 39 E. Bridge St.• GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. HIGH GRADE UPHOLSTERED FURNiTURE Write/or Outs ana Prices. Every Piece Guaranteed PERFECT. used by physicians. But too much causes death. An oc-casional stimulus to business by means of judiciously low-ered prices whets the appetite for buying, but keeping it up all the time for a steady diet results in jading the public, in-juring trade as a whole and defeating its own purpose. For these reasons the phrase "cut-rate stores" is regarded by most progressive merchants as one which carries opprob-rium, and the chronic "cut-rater" is looked upon as an Ish~ maelite. And he is not held in much higher esteem by his patrons.-Oregon Tradesman. He Made the Sale. '''Beg pardon, sir," said the man in the suit of faded black, "but are you carrying all the life insurance you want?'! "Yes, sir," answered the man at the desk, ..I.. am." "Could I interest yOU in a morocco bound edition of the works of William Makepece Thackeray?" "You could not." "Do you use a germ-proof filter at y.OUf house?" "I do not." "Would you invest in a good second-hand typewriter if you could get it cheap:" "I have no use for a typewriter." "Just so. Would an offer to supply you with, first-class Ha-vana cigars at $10 a hundred appeal to you?" "Not a cent's worth." "How wauld a proposition to sell you a folding bed for $40 strike you?" «It woutdn"t come within forty miles of hitting me." "That being the case," said the caller, "would you be will-ing to buy a lO-cent box of shoe polish to get rid of me?" "Great Scott! Yes." "Thanks. Good day." MANUFACTURERS OF HARDWOOD ~~~~~~~ SPECIALTIES : §1.,,{"Pi'll QUAR. OAK VENEERS MAHOGANY VENEERS HOFFMAN BROTHERS COMPANY 804 W. Main St.. FORT WAYNE, INDIANA The New Banquet Table Top .u wellMOFFICE, DINING aDd DIRECTORS' TABLES are our Ipecialty. ----, 25 Morton House ( AmericanPlan) Rates $2.50 and Up. Hotel PantJind (EuropeanPlan) Rates $1.00 and Up. I GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. The Noon Dinner Sert'ed at the Pantlind for SOc is THE FINEST IN THE WORLD. J. BOYD PANTUND. Prop. STOW & DAVIS FURNITURE CO.• ~~ ........ Wrile tor CatalOlflle. Get.JDPles of BANQUET TABLE TOP. We~Manuracture the Largest Line of FOldinu Ghairs in the Uniteri States, suitable for Sunday Schools, Halls, Steamera and all public resorts. We also manufacture Brass Trimmed Iron Beds, Spring Beds, Cota and Cribs in a large variety. Send for Catalogue and P,.ices j" KI\Ufflrll\N IrI f G. GO. ASHLAND, OHIO Ca~inetMakers In these days of close competition~ need the best p088ible equipment, and this they can have in . . . . BARNES' Hand and Foot POWER Machinery Send for our New Catalogue. "W. F. ®. JOHN BARNES CO 6.54 ....uby Street, Rochford. Ill. Our New tland Bnd foot Power Circular Saw No.4 Tbe stroD~st, most powerful, aDd in every way the best machine of it. kind ever made. far ripping, cross-cutting, boring and grooving. 26 NINETEENTH CENTURY FURNITURE. ( <;ontinued from Page 23. ) will be noticed that these rooms of north and south are prac-tically eighteenth century style, but in conservative home'e' such bedrooms lingered for many years and still exist in many country houses owned by the descendants of the original pos- . sessors. That the Empire furniture came to this cQuntry we hav,,- abundant proof. Some of the very best examples crossed the water to furnish Joseph Bonaparte's house near Bordentown, 7--A Bedroom Furnished and Decorated in Louis Quinz8 Style. ( N. 1. The furniture that he imported to adorn "Point Breeze" was of the richest description, as the few specimens still in the country prove. Scarcely less sumptuous was the furniture owned by Madame ]umel, which came to auction in 1821] and was described in the advertisement -as "being a careful selection made in Paris by the best judges from the museum and palace of the late Emperor." This superb fur-niture was placed in the -Morris House on the Heights, pur-ch. ased by Madame Jumel in 1810_ She could well affo;-d rich furniture, .and ber life in Paris under the patronage of the Marquis de Lafayette gave her every opportunity to know what was correct. The wealthy homes of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Richmond, Charleston, etc., were constantly refurnished to suit the fashion of the day_ Fine articles were imported, and many excellent cabinetmakers and upholsterers came to this country in the early days of the re-public, as they had done during the Colonial times. The following advertisement from a New York paper, in 1803, will suffice to show that beautiful articles in the Empire style could be produced in this ·country. We read: ***** ** * ***** * Honore Lannuier, cabinetmaker, * * just arrived from France, and who * * has worked at his trade with the * * most celebrated cabinetmakers of * *' Europe, takes the liberty of in- * * forming the public that "he makes * * all sorts of furniture-beds, chairs, * * etc.-in the newest and latest * * French fashion; and that he has * * brought for that purpose gilt and * * brass frames, borders of onlaments * * and handsome safe locks, as well as * * new patterns. * ***** ** * ***** Cabinetmakers and upholsterers flocked here in great numbers from England also, and we know from the adver-tisements that the native workmen industriously kept abreast of tlh,elatest fashions. The designs of the famous Mr. Staf-ford of Bath, and Mr. Bullock of Tenterden street" were as well known in New York as they were in London. Taking a few notes from advertisements tegardingb-ed,.. room furniture, we find that Paterson & Dennis, 54 John street, have in 1810, a handsome assortment of fancy chairs, dining and bedroom chairs. The latter, unfortunately; are not described. C. Christian, 1817, cabinetmaker, 58 Fulton street, has Hfurniture of the finest quality and latest fash-ions," including Hcarved and plain bedsteads"; Paxton & Co., in 1817, sell "canted corner dressing and plain bureaus"; and Flam Williams, a cabinet maker at 167 William street, sells "pillar and claw tables, mahogany bedsteads, field and high-post bedsteads,!! in 1818. III ]812 "high post mahogany and field-top carved bedsteads" and "orange bed and window cur-tains with gilt cornices" come to auction. Other pieces of bedroom funiture advertised in the first quarter of the cen-tury are: "French dressing-bureau and toilet glass" (1823); "French pillar and column bureaus with toilets complete" (1824); "ladies' writing secretaries and dressing-bureaus" (1824); "a wardrobe with center dressing bureau" (1826); "toilets with hanging wardrobes" (1826); and "ladies' superb dressing bureaus and toilets with glasses" (1826). It will be noted that the word bureau has come into general use for a dressing-table. This originated in the fact that the dressing-table frequently contained a desk or the front of the top drawer let down and formed a desk. Sometimes the dress-ing- bureau was in the form of a chest of drawers_ The ex-amples in Nos. 2, 3 and 4 were very popular during the nine-teenth century, and exist today in the hundreds. Upon the top slab a dressing glass with drawers was usually placed. Another form, with a. swinging glass on upright posts, is also shown in No.3. This dates from about 1840 to 1860. The old-fashioned chest-upon-chest and high-case of' drawers, erroneously called "high-boy," was bamsned in the nineteenth century bedroom for the, cumbrous four-square wardrobe. This was not unfreQuently of huge proportions, and from about the middle of the century often nad looking-glass doors or panels. The redeeming features of the ward-robe were that it was usually beautiful mahogany, solid or ve- r , GRAnDluunK UTe~T~nM MOST ATTRACTIVE ROUTE JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION Tickets on sale daily until Nov. 30, 1907, at very low rates. Pas-sengers have choice of severa I routes. On season and sixty-day limits, liberal stop-over. Passengers may go one-route and return via another. Full particulars at City Ticket Office, 97 Monroe street. Phonts-Citizens, 5576j Bell, main, 576. C. A. JUSTIN, C. P. & T. A. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. -----------------------------~~-~~-- neered. It contained a convenient arrangement of drawers, shelves and pegs for clothes. These wardrobes were often used as linen presses, although they stood in tile bedroom. In his last years Sheraton fell under the influence of the Empire. He had always followed the French styles, as his first book shows; and he gradually changed the Louis XVI style for that of the Empit·c. Among his latest plates (he died in 1806) are many designs for the sofa-bed, ,d50 ca.11ed "lit de rcpos" and "lit Rnglaise." "The frames of th£.se beds," lle says, "are sometimes painted in ornaments to suit the fur-niture. But 'when the furniture is of very rich silk they arc done in white and gold and the ornaments carved. The cor-nice is cut out in leaves and g-i1t has a good effect. Th.e drap-ery under the cornice i;:,of the French kind; it -is fringed aU round and laps on to each other like unto waves." As the "sofa-bed" continued fashionable until about 18-30, a few des-criptions may be interesting. A canopy and sofa-bed in ]817 J1HS silk draperies of dark green lined with lilac and buff. These fall frQm a kind of crown and are trimmed with lace and gold fringe. "A mus-lin embroidered drapery is applied as a covering in the day-time." A small bed, designed in 1816, for a "young lady of fash-ion," has hangings of light blue silk lined with a "tender shade of brown." The curtains, which arc drawn up by silk cords and embellished ,,,ith tassels, are supported by rings and rods of brass. A design sent from Paris in 1816, and labeled "French bcd," is described as "an English bed WiOl corners posts dec-orated ~_..~- 1?arisiall fam'_y." The framework is made of rosewood, onlamentcd wit'h.carved foliage, gilt in matt and burnished ['"()ld. The drapery is of rose-colored silk, lined with azure blue, and consists of one curtain gathered up at the ring in the center of the canopy, being full enough to form the festoons and curtains both of the head and fool. The curtain is edged with fringe. "The taste for French furniture," ·writes an authodty in 1822, ((is carried to sllc.h an extent that tllose elegantly fur-nished mansions, particularly tbe sleeping-rooms, are fitted up in the French style.·" He recommends a "sofa or French bed." "The sofa is highly ornamented w'ith Grecian orna-ments in burnished and matt gold. The curtflins and inner coverlids are of white satin. The outer covering is of muslin in order to display the ornaments to advantage and bear out the richness of the canopy.· The dome is composed of alternate pink and gold J1uting, surrounded with ostrich feathers, forming a novel, light and elegant effect; the clrJp-cry is green satin with a salmon-colored lining." The influence of the Emp.ire upon mahogany furniture laste.d from 1830 to the period when factory-made artic:1es supplanted hand work.-American Homes and Gardens. It is easy to remember Hard and hard lo 6nd anything 115 easy as our Beds and Bedding. Price $5.50. Crib U. Sides 24" spindles3J4 inchesapart. All cast. ingsmalleable iron gtlax8nteed for 25 years against breakage. Finished hy 3 coab porcelain enamd. each baked OD. New 88 Page Catalogue. HARD MFG. CO. BUFFALO. N. Y. The Bennetts AI"e Busy. The Charles Bennett Furniture Company of Charlotte, Mich., is well supplied with orders. Thii company manubc-tun~ s an excellent line of medium priced dressers, chiffoniers and commodes in oak. They are having a good trade and dealers apprec.iate the g()ods and the fair treatment they in-variably receive from this company. D. E. Uhl is the Chairman. A committee of members of Daisy Lodge, B. P. O. E., of v,;hich David E. Oh1 of the Grand Rapids Fancy Furniture Company is chairman, is raising funds and preparing plans for a commodious temple the lodge will erect in the near future upon grounds purchased last year. It will be a credit to the lodge and the order. COUCH No. 2658. ,Bjze76x29lnchea. Oovered with Strictly No.1 Leather. Frame in Quartered oak. Price '26.60. Manufactured by the Mueller &; Slack Company, Grand Rapids, Mich. 27 ------------------------------- -- -- 28 ·~MJ9«HIG?J_N IT'S A \l\IOODARD THEREFORE IT'S THE BEST MEDIUM PRICED BEDROOM FURNITURE IN AMERICA No. 44 Bed; 1044 Dresser; 2044 Chiffonier; 3044 Dressing Table, make up this suitt"". Made in Clrcassian Walnut, Figured Ma-hogany, Golden Quartered Oak and Birdseye Maple. Woodard Furniture Company OWOSSO, MICHlGAN No. 20M Chiffonier. No. 3Of4 Dressin2. Table. • A Hundred-Point Man. We notice th3.t our former townsman, Ed. C. Fisher, has been elected treasurer of "the Charles A. Fisher Co., mattress manufacturers at Lincoln, Ill. He will assume the duties of general manager, relieving his brother, C. A. Fisher, who is president of the company, of the latter's duties on account of h.is impaired health. The views of The Democrat were expressed in its local columns a short time ago, when it was note dthat Mr. Fisher was disposing of his property and business interests in Peters-burg. Ed. C. Fisher, in the language of The Philistine, is a Grand Rapids Caster Cup Co. 2 Parkwood Ave., Orand Rapids, Mich. We are now putting on· the best Caster Cups with cork bases ever oHerea to the trade. These are finished in GOlden Oak and White Maple in a light finish. Tbese goods are admirable for polished floors. llnd furn-iture rests. They will not sweat 01" mar. PRICE$: 5tze2X' tncbes •.•..• '$4.00 per hundred Size 2r4inches······ 5.00 per hundred Try a Sample Ordd. F. O. B. Grand Rapid'. "Hundred-Point o,an in everything and anything he under-takes." Continui.ng, The Philistine defi.nes a hundred-point man as "one who is true to every trust; who keeps his word; who is loyal to the firm that employs him; who does not listen for insults nor look for sligh.ts; who carries a civil tongue iu his headj who is polite to strangers without being "fresh," who is considerate towards servants; who is moderate 'in his eating and drinking; who is willing to learn; who is cautions and yet courageous." We again press upon those who hold an interest i~ the prosperity and progress of our city the importance of retain-ing the citizenship of our "hustlers" of proven ability-we need everyone of them. They are the fellows who build fac-tories, railroads, towns, cities, states and nations.- Pettrs-burg, (Ill) Democrate. An Extension to the Hotel PaotJind. "Furniture men" visiting Grand Rapids in January will be pleased with the additional accommodations by the extension of the Hotel Pantlind, now under construction. The cafe will be materially enlarged and thirty-five chambers with baths and other 111vdernconveniences provided when the new structure shall be completed. The new apartments will be furnished with the best products of the factories of Grand Rapids. Some of the manufacturers ace displeased over the new rule of several of the railroad companies which eliminates the practice of tacking advertisements on box cars. The railroad managers are not opposed to giving their patrons all the free advertising possible, but object to the defacement of rolling stock and the necessity of putting the employes to the extra task of removing the placards and fasteners after the cars are unloaded. "f'~MICHIG7IN - 1 C a Manufacturers Who Are Useful Citizens. The business community of Indianapolis is intensely Joyal to that city. Possessed of unusual civic pride! many of the manufacturers, bankers, merchants and professionals never hesitate wh{',l1money, influence or labor is needed to promote the ",,"clfare of the community, The good book says "the Lord loves a cheerful giver," but the business men of Indian-apolis not only give cheerft:l1y, but liberally. Among t,he most noted of the "useful men" of Indianapolis is A. A. Barnes, one of the owners of the UdeilWorks, Thomas B. 29 HORN BROS. MFG. CO. 281 to29! W.SuperiorSt. CHICAGO. • ILL. BEDROOM FURNITURE OUR SPECIALTY -------~ -------~._---------- Goods displayed at the Manufaetul"en' Fumiture ulChange, Wabash and 14th St. and with Ha.D & Knapp. 187 Mi.c.hican Ave .• eMU.20.III. DRESSER No. 629 - GoIdt;lI Quarl:t;redOak. $18.B(); GclmUlie Mahogany. Vt;lIeeU<l $19.50: Biro:i5eYeMap\t;. $19.50; Genuine Tuna MahoPRY. $19.50. CHIFFONIER No. SO-Golden O"k, $19: Genuine MahoPlI)' Veoeered.$20; BircJ&. eyt; Maple, $20; Genuine TUDa Mah03l1.ny, $20. DRESSING TABLE No. lOS-Golden Oak. $13; Genuine ~aIloY. V~, $13.50; Bir<Jseyt;Maple, $13.50; Genuine Tuna Mah~nY. $13.50. The accumulation of money is not their sote purpose in life. Knowing how to use funds wisely, they aim to acquire it that a considerable part of- it may be expended for the benefit of the community. First Sectional Bookcases. "V. H. Rouse managed the businesSl\:.)fthe Wolverine Chair Company in Grand Rapids twenty-five ye.ars ago. It was not on account of his management that tbe company was com- Ma.de by Ba.y View Furniture Co., Holland, Mich. Laycock and F. L. Lindley of the Laycock 1lanufacturing Company, Thomas l\·faddcn and John H. Emrich. These men are noted for their loyalty to the city and their services 'in eH~ry movement to improve the physical and moral wel~ fare of the people. Probably no man in the city has given marc of his time and talents and as generously of his mcans in aid of such illstitutions as the Young 'Men and Young vVomen's Christian Associations as Mr. Barnes. He not only inspired the construction of large and beautiful homes for these associations, but Hl5 was the willing band that raised a large part of the funds needed to pay the cost of the same. His own pockets were never dosed when the test of his phil-anthropy were put to a trial. He. has given important ser-vice to the Baptist Orphan Asylum, the Baptist College at Franklin and contributed liberally to their treasures. He is a trustee of \-Vinona Institute, a Presbyterian institution, where 500 young men and women are taught useful trades annually. Such men as Mr. Barnes are public benefactors. pel1cd to go out of business. That is another story, and it might as well be told now. The control of tbe stock changed hands in the settlements after a night spent at a poker table <lnd a sporting gentleman undertook the management of the business with the usual result to tbe unqualified and tbe inexperienced. Tbe company manufactured cbairs for the trade atJd furniture to order. One morning a prominellt local attorney calk.d upon Mr. Rouse and remarked that he had a lot of valuable books in his offic.e.,and that the thought had occurred to bim'that in the event of a fire in the building in ·which his offices were lQcated the. books would be de-stroyed. He had an idea tbat if bookcases could be con-structed in sections their use would enable himself and his friends to carry away the books quickly if necessary. Draw-ings were made and approved when sectional cases capable of sustaining the large library of the attorney were manufac-tured and put into use. The attorney died recently in Pasa-dena, Cat. ~---------------------- -- -- 30 A MODERN KITCHEN CABINET. Birdie, With a Craze fori Art, Gives Furniture Designers a Few Pointers. Time came when Birdie's kitchen wasn't fit-to be seen. She admitted the fact, though there would have been a frost in the air if any of -her neighbors had ventured such a state-mcnt. The old cupboard wobbled on its short legs, and the corner closet was absolutely impossible. Now, Birdie W<lsn't in the kitchen very much, but she had an artistic eye. If there was a thing in the world that Birdie was long on, it was Art, and she spelled it with a very largt.: Made by Horn Bros. Mfg. Co., Chicago, Dl. ,i.;,t' -~ "A". She hired her servants to match the decorations arf!(\ the furniture. When browns came into vogue this fall she discharged a red-headed cook with blue eyes who had proved efficient. and employed a brown-haired beauty who sprung the meat bills about seven dollars a week and carried coffee and butter home to her invalid sister in her handbag. Art was Birdie's failing, and when she began talking of the purchase of anything new in the ·way of furniture, her husband ducked and either grew sarcastic or went to sleep in his chair. When she discovered that the kitchen was a sight John was out of town, so he didn't get tne full benefit of the discovery until later. At first Birdie didn't know ex-actly what was wanting in the kitchen. Then, one morning as she walked down Canal street in a fetching brown suit and a hat which wrinkled nine ways down from the feet of the bird perched aloft on the peak, she stopped in front of a display window and caught an 11~ spiration. The one thing lacking to make the kitchen com-plete was an Art kitchen cabinet! Of course! ,~r'h,y hadn't she thought of that before. So birdie walked on down the street and entered an es-tablishment where Sam Ball, who had married her only ·sister, served as superintendent of the sales department. Sam was a pretty good fellow, but he never would have made "- successful salesman on account of being too sare,astlc. When il~wasn't sullen he was sarcastic, but he was a good manager and kept his job because he sold more goods with less help than any other man who had ever filled the place. Birdie went to Sam's desk and sat down to talk about sister Clellie, who also was a lover of art, with a bIg "A". !\ow Sam knew all about Art 'as ex.ploited by the cult of Birdie and Clellie. and also knew what he was up against when Birdie suggested that he show her something cheap in the line of Art kitchen cabinets.' There was trouble in the air, but, like a dutiful brovhci-in~t';;w, he escorted Birdie to the department where the cheap kitchen cabinets were kept. I "Now, I don't want any of your old, plain things," began Birdie. HSomething darkish, you know. We've got a new cook with brown hair, and I want something to match." Sam. walked around behind a tall cabinet and communed with himself for a moment. "How do you like the looks of that maple?" he asked, as soon as he could.' get t1he laugh out of his face. "It is Quite light, you see.. but, then, you might fire the dark brown cook and engage a blond. I'm stuck on blondes, myself." Birdie looked up innocently, but Sam was regarding her with all the gravity of a deacon taking up a church collec-tion. She half thought he was making fun of her, but he looked so innocent that she forgave the remark. HI'm quite sure I want something in dark woods," she said. "Do yOll know, we've had that old cupboard and that oijtlandish corner, closet so long that I really think they've grown to the walls. It's got so that I just bate to show new girls into the kitchen. It looks so. If they had repair shops in the ark, I'm sure that old cupboard came out of one 01 them." "Of course they had repair shops in the ark," replied Sam, looking out of a distant window at a rriile of blue sky. "You know they had to keep the elephant's trunk in repair. No joke, Birdie! And there is a tradition somewhere that when Noah's bird came back and reported nothing doing in the real estate line he rested his tired wings on an old cupboard which faced Cincinnati, Ohio, and 'which still b~.ars the marks of his toes." ~~mItust be awfully nice to know so much," said Birdie, with much sarcasm. "If you have anything nice in ch~ap Art kitchen cabinets please show them.. My! What an awful array of things you've got there! I read in a news-paper, the other day, about a furniture man being sent to th(;; mad house. Do you think it was the man who designed those kitchen cabinets?" Sam went behind the tall cabinet and doubled up. Birdie really seemed to be improving! He had had no idea that STAR CASTER CUP CO. NORTH UNION STREET. GRAND RAPIDS, MlcH, (PAT~T AIi't'LJI:tDFOR) We bave adopted celluloid as a base for OUI"Caster Cups, making the best ~arOt! the marker. Cellu)old is a great Improvement over bases made 0 other material. When it is necessarr to move a piece supported by cups with celluloid bases it can bl:! done With ease, as the bases ate per· f!:dly smooth. Celluloid does nol sweat. and by the use of these cups tables are never marred. Tbese cups are finished in Golden Oak and White Maple. finished light. If you will t1'1f a GGmpl~ wa", of t-hN~ goode you wilt desire to hanrUe them in guantitiell'. PRICES: Size 2Minches ...•.. $5.50 per huodred. Size 2li inches ...•.. 4.50 per hundred. f. o. b. Gr:and Bapid8. TRY A SAMPLE OJWER. -- ~---------- -§t~r;.IFpIG7!N , she was bright in that way, even if she was perpetual grand of the Art Lovers' association. "Those do look rather coarse," he replied, in a moment. "You want something pretty swell, I suppose. Oh, no, you don't need to look at that line. They resemble folding beds crossed with loose-leaf ledgers. You'(l ha.ve to employ a pair of private secretaries to keep tra('.k of wbere things were put. Do you want a cabinet with the drawer linings puffed or bias? You carl have 'em either way, you know." "I think they're all awfully plain," said Birdie. "1 don 1. see a single one that's upholstered." "The upholstered ones are corning in by slow freight," replied Sam. "Of course, you'll want one to match the bro,"vl1 cook-that is, unless you decide to fire her and get a pt·etty blonde. I think John would like that." "V\Thy, I didn't know they had upholstered kitchen cabi-nets," said Birdie, ignoring the remark about John. "They must be too cute for anything. \J\There do they put the up-holstering? I don't seem to see any place on these where it would look just right." "Oh, we've put in a folding upholstered chair, so the cook can entertain the policeman while he consumes peaches at four dollars a busheL If you knew the exact complexion of this brown cook's copper, now, you might have the color made to match." "Sam Ball," said Birdie, "you're getting too familiar! don't \'ITanta kitchen cabinet to match a policeman. They're mostly red-headed, and their breath smells of beer, I'm tala. I want a cabinet constructed with some reference to the rules of Art.. V,lhy do you have those drawer fronts so awfully plain?" "We hand-paint those to suit the customer," said Sam, keeping as straight a face as ,vas possible under the circum-stances. "Some want little panels put in, with places for admonitory and cheering sentiments for the benefit of the cook painted on in oil. Last week we put 011 Olle which read, 'What is Home When the Boss Watches the Cold Meat:' I think trIat was quite clever, eh,?" "1\- ow, Sam," said Birdie, "jf you go on thls wrty r shall have to do my buying elsewhere. Don't you have cheap cabinets with pictures of the poets on the front? I don't think you appreciate the opportunity you have for inculcat-ing a love for Art among the common people. And I don't see any hand-painted ones here:' "The cooks do most of that," grinned Sam. "You take a kitchen cabinet that is plain to ugliness and put it in ,charge of a cook and in ahout two days it will look like an exposed section of the stock yards district, Chicago. You've got to have most of the fnncy work on the inside, you see, Birdie," Birdie lifted her chin and smiled superior. "Why, you just said you decorated cabinets for special customers," she said. "You're an awful fraud, Sam BalL" Sam, fairly caught, spnrred for a time. If Birdie caught on now there woule. be an end of the anti-high-art lesson he haa sought to teach. lIe couldn't brc.ak the habit if she discov-ered fraud! uOh, yes," he finally ventured, "those are for ladies who do their own work, don't you see, Birdie? What you want is one of the Anti-Cook-Destroying kind. One of the hem-stitched, hand-painted, art-embroidcred kitchen cabillcts of commerc,e wouldn't answer at all for you. It wouldn't look well with the fluid remains of a Missouri pig lighting up the whole front of the works. Of course, you can get a kitchen cabinet for four-thirty that you can hUll wrong side out alld wear to a reception, but they wouldn't last long with a brown girl in the kitchen." Birdie made for the, elevator, and Sam, not quite sure that she had the anti-art furniture lesson pat, followed on. He had for years been tortured by customers 'seeking high art in furniture at bargain rates and wanted to concert the lady. «This art furniture," he said, "is a swell thing. We're 31 going to have a new kitchen cabinet that will give the old masters cards and spades and win out, but they will be more expensive. The real oil-painted kind will bring as much as five-ninety-eight. Come up to the house tonight, and I'll tell you about the high-art wash tubs, the kind that play hymns while they wash." Birdie took the entire evening to think it over. The next day she received from Sam an alleged catalogue of high-art kitchen cabinets with copies of the old masters in the flour bin. Sam has an idea that she has learned her lesson, bm he knm:<,'svery well that there are others who have: not. At any rate, Birdie is now confining her Art endeavors to the front of the house, and Sam thinks it will be safe to call in about one mor('. week. Ringold Takes on Rockford Lines. H. J. Ringold, one of the veterallS of the furniture trade, no longer represents the Estey Manufacturing Company on the road, having retired after seventeen years' service with that company. He will in the future represent the Rock-ford Furniture Company, the Co-Operative Furniture Com-pany of Rockford and the Star Furniture Company of Zee-land in New England, New York and Pennsylvania. Ri(~mon~ (~airCO. RICHMOND, INDIANA Double Cane Line SEE OUR NEW PATTERNS CATALOGUES TO THE TRADE 32 ·~~MIP .H.. IG?fN 2 flR'T' 1.5'...7L"J 5 S .... A SLATE FULL OF BARGAINS. ---- ------------- 33 WARNING! No. 50. lrnite.t\cn Spanish Leatber Velour Plain Imitatiun Leather Embossed Imitation Leather Sp("ing Seat $5.50 5.50 5.50 5.75 6.25 WARNING! We are the owners of the patents and design patents of this line of K. D. Rock.- ers. No one has authority to mak.e these Rockers and we will prosecute all infringers and deal-ers who buy of in-fringers. Send your orders direct to us hy mail or give them to our salesmen who are covering the entire United States. Progress Toward Currency Reform. Currency reform ,advocates all over the country are mani-festing much pleasure at the noteworthy triumph won by the progressive element in the National Bankers' Association at its recent Atlantic City convention. The bankers of the country hn.ve ahvays been reprehensibly apathetic toward cur-rency rdorm. This papthy is the more to be censured for it is heyond question that if the bankers would agree on any measure and urge its enactment upon their members of con-gress they could secure its adoption. Now at last they have agreed, in the adoption of the. Atlanfc City report, and it re-mains to be seen how much steam they will get up behind the measure which will in due course be brought to the at-tention of congress. The new plan contemplates the issue of additional bank notes, not secured hy deposit of bonds, but resting Upon the capital and resources of the bank, not to exceed twenty-five pef cent of its capital Of forty per cent of its bond-secured circulation, supported by a legal reserve and subject to taxa-tion which is converted into a guarantee fund for redemption. Here is a moderate and apparently safe beginning in the direction of a credit note WhlCh all who accept the principle of banking currency can support, and which seems, in addi-tion, to present the fewest possible points of objection from hostile criticism. WARNING! No. 52. Imitation Spanish Leather Velour Plain Imitation Leather Embossed Imitation Lealher Spring Seat $6.50 6.50 6.50 6.75 7.25 Owners of property must not place too much confidence in local agents when seeking just and fair rates of insurance. Such agents receive one-third of the amotwts paid in pre-miums as their compensation and naturally it is for their interest to make the rates as high as the applicant will stand, Good results have been reported by property owners who make it a rule to I'put the 11ammer" on local underwriters. STANDARD CHAIR COMPANY, EVANSVILLE, INDIANA. After making the rounds of the factories of Evansville and finding the '\Nord "Smile" printed in large letters upon the walls of the offices, a traveling salesman remarked that the advice offered was vcry good, but the promoters of smiles were lacking. There was no booze in sight .. and none was offered. J-T ave yOll given allY thought to window designs for the bolidays? Made by Valley City Desk Co., Grand Raptcls. Mlcb. 34 The Herzog Interests. Saginaw, Mich., is famous for its salt, coal and lumber, machinery and furniture, but the greatest of these is furni-ture, sirice Herzog went to Sagina.v. The Herzog Art Fur-niture. Companyprobably turns out the largest quantity of ladies' desks, music cabinets, phonograph record cabinets and other articles of fancy furniture of any factory in the country. It is silllplyastonishing what an immense plant he has built, up in a few years. The' Saginaw Table Camp.any, of whiCh Mr. Herzog is the head, is turning out a- great line of parllJf and library tables, 'al1d hoth lines will be shown in J3:l1uary at 1319 Michigan avenue, Chicago, in'· charge ~)f\Valter Langley, also at the New York Furniture Exchange. Improvements in "Joe" Robbins' Plant One of "the ittterestiilg institutiDnsin OWt.HSSOis "Joe" Robbins' tablefaeto'ry. The company 'has built a two-story brick addition to thc,factoryrecently',put' in a lot of new machinery,. the American Blo\yerCompany's dry kilns and the dust -'c,j)llectingsystem of the Grau(l }{apids Blow Pipt and Dust Arrester 'Company, and 1£ there is anything neces-sary lacking to make ,the best kind of tables ill tne most eco-nomical manner it -is' because Joseph has not been able to find it out. Tine furniture merchants keep him hustling to supply' fheir demands, Rigley's Line and Plans for the Future. Old Santa Claus himself never looked -more contented after making all the good boys and girls happy on Christm2s morning. Mr. Rigley has -narrowed his line down to one style of bed, but when it comes to dressers, toilet tables, chif-foniers and commodes, one has to sit up and take notice, for he's got 'em all right. He does not expect to show in Grand THE BEST LINE OF OAK DRESSERS COM· MODES CHIF· FONIERS ON THE MARKET PRICES $8.7510 $13 •. . CHAS. BENNETT FURNITURE CO. CHARLOTTE, MICH. Why Not Order? Say a dozen' orQl.Ol".,Montgomery Iron DIsplay Couqh Trucks sent you onap~val 7' UDDlsiIWactofy' they can be returned at DO eKpeIl6e to you whatCVeJ", while the price as.k.ediJ but a. lri8e, com~ pated 10 the convenience tbey alford and lhe e<:onamy they. represent in lhe saviog of Boor,spate. ThirtY~two' eouehea mOUnled on the Montgomery Iron Display Couch Trucks occupy the samelWor space liIS twelve dis~ pl~~in the usual maDDer. ; Write 1m catalogue giving full descrip~ lion and price in the different finishes, to~ gether with ilhl$trations demonstralin~ the use of the Giant Short Rail Bed fastener (or Iron Beds. Manu£actured by H. J. MONTGOMERY PATENTRE Silver Cl'eek,New York, U. S. -A. DenDia Wi.rt: and Iron- Co., Calladian Manu- 'fac1Ul'eu, London, Oat, Rapids in January, but if he, does not show in July it will probably be because all the best places in the whOle town will be had by some other fellow. Ne'w Patterns for January. A very attractive line of Morris chairs, including a con-siderable number of new patterns, with the Monarch'I;:Jsh button attachtr:ent', wiII be placed on sale at 1319 Michigan avenue, Chicago, early' in January by the Ramsey-Altvll \1;:;;1- ufacturing Company. Since the opening of the fall season of trade the company's factory at Portland, Mich., has been operated on full time. A goodly number of orders remain to be filled and the daily sales are growing in volume. l\Iew Patterns in January. Th.e \¥oodard Furniture Company is making a great rep-utation for chamber goods in mahogany, Circassian walnut, quarter-sawed oak, curly birch and bird's-eye maple. Trade is fine, and they will show many new patterns in-January in Grand Rapids. New Desk Ma

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