Michigan Artisan; 1908-09-10

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Issue of a furniture trade magazine published in Grand Rapids, Mich. It was published twice monthly, beginning in 1880. and Twenty-Ninth Year-No.5 SEPTEMBER 10, 1905 >c---- III I ,I I --------------------_._------_._---~ Semi-Monthly NQ. 166 Sand Belt Ma.:::hine. ''It exceeds Du·r highest!expectations."-The Crown Furniture Co. "Cannot be excelled/or smoothness of work and saving oj labor." - J05. Peters Furniture Co. "Greatest labor sa~'ing device we have ever snn.'·-FiUs·Crabtree Mfif. Co. No Otber Sand Belt Accomplisbes Tbis Work It gives a finished surface superior to hand work and six times as rapidly on Rounded Mirror Frames, Moulded Dividing Rails, Moulded Edges of Tables and Dresser Tops, Ogee, Rounded or Beveled EdR'es of Washstands, Mirror Standards with Rounded or Square Edges, Rounded and Curved parts of French Legs, Spirals of Table Legs, Raised Parts of Panels, etc., etc. You are doing this class of work atl a tremendous loss annually, sanding by hand, possibly some part of lit by a com-mon sand blast, and refinishing it by hand. This work is cost-ing you hundreds of dollars per year. [Read what users of our machines are saying:" WYSONG 8 MILES CO., (].d~':.~,:•• d So•. R. R.. GreensLoro, N. C. Write for Catalog E. Thisis the famous Gillette Roller Bearing Factory Truck-the truck on which it is said, "One man can move a loa.d of 3000 pounds while with the other trucks it takes three men." This is the truck tbat is strong where otbers are weak-the truck that has an unbreakable malleable iron fork. This is the truck YOU are looking for if you wisb to invest in rather than waste money on factory trucks. The Best Truck--The Strongest Truck Gillette Roller Bearing Co. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN The Lightest Runninj. Longest Lasting Truck -------------~ j ,J I11I jr'~, > r-------------------------------.----.-, , RUNS LIfiE A "WAGON Our trucks have the large center wheels revolving on turned, taper bearing axles, just like a wagon. Eight Bearings I ~,---"-- • _..l ", No Regular Box Sizes No.1. Built of best materials, Michigan hard maple bodies and high grade castings made \0 speci~1 patterns, our trucks give best returns for your investment. There is nothing about tbem easily broken or that might get out of order. Just built in quality. Better send for catalog and prices. Grand Rapids Hand Screw Company MANO,SCA-EWS. BENOHES. OLAMPS 918 Jefferson Avenue. GRAND RAPIDS. MICHIGAN • SLIDING SHOE FOR USE ON DESK LEGS This shoe does the work of a caskr yet allows the desk legs to set close to floor. Fastened with flat head wood screw and furn-ished in three sizes. SEND FOR SAMPLES AND PRICES. No. 1493 PULL A very fine h"ndle for desks in the square effect. Something different from the regular bar pulls. GRAND RAPIDS BRASS CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MLCHWAN l • ",11 C II 1G A N ARTISAN ---------------------- Veneer Presses. different kinds and sizes. (Patented) Veneer Presses Glup Spreaders Glue Healers Trucks, Etc" Etc. These Specialties are used all Over the World Power Peed Glue Spl'eading Machine, Sinll"le. Double and Combination. (Patented) (Sizes 12 in. to 84 in wide.) Hand Feed GlueinK Maebine (Patent pendinll:.) Many stylet and sizes. Wood·Working Machinery and Supplies ~ET us KNOW YOUR WANTS 1 h _ GRAS E. FRANCIS & BRO., Main Office and Works, Rushville, Ind. No. 6 Glue HoatM. • ------_._-- ----------- T"E fURNITURE MAK(R AND ALL WOOD fiNISHERS are interested in the perfection of the art of staining, filling, and finishing wood. Wood finishing, today, has really become an art. We manufacture every kind of a stain or filler used in wood finishing_ We manufacture and sell the best and the most practical stains and fillers that are made in this or any other country. Write us about the finish you are most interested in. T"E MARIETTA PAINT AND COLOR COMP'Y I• M4RIETT4 0",0 I•, - - _ .. " I .. Y:' :1 MICHIGAN ARTISAN ARTI TIC andINEXPENSIVE / CATALOGUE COVERS LET US FIGURE ON YOUR PHOTOGRAPHING ENGRAVING and PRINTING . PROMPT DEUVERIES COMPLETE CATALOGS PERFECT WORK MICHIGAN ENGRAVING CO. at Right Prices GRAND RAPIDS. MICHIGAN ---------------------------------------- --- GHAND RAPIL:S FUBLIC LIllITAUY 29th Year-No.5. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., SEPTEMBER 10, 1908. ====c== $1.00 per Year. "Chippendalc"-The Creator of a Style. Thomas Chippendale, \vho came into hi~ 0\\'11 in the nl':dJle year~ of the eighteenth century, created a style whichfincls an echo in every modern villa. Eta a1th~:l1Kh CbiptH'IH!ale is a name to conjure 'with in the furnishing- t1'a<1e, it meaus something rnore to the cOlllloisseur. Chippendale and his sons ha,d their little workshop in St. ~{anin\ Lam:,. ~\t the dawn of the age of mahogany he readily adapted his designs suitable for workillg ill the new wood. Ivlahogany. it is tnte, was discovered by Sir \Valter H.aleigh, who broug-ht specimens home, but it did 110t come into gel1cr;tl use till after the hrst quarter of the eighteenth century. The wood used by Chippend8,le was splendid in {lualily, coming asir did from the gre<lt Ul11'otlched forests, producing at that time timber the like of which in dinlellsioll is no\.\' unprocnrable. A novel might be written of the buc-caneering exploits of British crews who coolly landed and cut timber from the Spanish IJossessions ill /\merica in spite of the protests of tile O\l"lwrs. }Jany a stiff fight occurred, and many lives were lost in shipping this stolen mahogany to Englalld, to supply the demand for furniture. The nefa,rioH',; proceedings more than once threatened to hring about a "\var between England and Spain. Chippend"tle's early work was in w::duut, and sometimes even in oak. Settees \vith his characteristic ca.briole legs C\.lld ball-and-claw feet, sometimes with heavy slat backs and later with his camel backs with typical pierced centre rail, are among his most highly prized ex'lmpl('s. Rut as 11e !: ·0- gre5>sed he employed mahog;\ny ;t5>better "-nited for his elab-orately carved ribbon pattern and other intricatc desigl1s. He was a prinee of chair-makers, and there is little won-der that his masterly adaptations have brought him fame, and ",·h;:\1 is concomitant \\'ith farne in art-a th'Jusancl meretri-cious copyist:~. Hi5> ball-and-c1aw feet he borrowed from the spaciolls chairs of old Dutc!l origin. His ribbon p;lt-tern smacks of the 1"rench 5c11001of c;nvers who tied knots with Cl1pids and pastoral crooks in the days of Louis Quinze. llis intri.cate fret".·.o. rk in cbair-back and table-to:) was illll-'0'-t· eel from China, and Chippendale caugbt the taste from the fashion set by Sir Vililliant" Chambers, the architect of Somer-set House, who built the pagoda in Kc",· G;\rdens. His Gothic style was allother attempt, and a lllisguided one, at adaptMion. But, like Josiah ""edgewood, who caught the Greek spirit ~..lH1translated it into English pottery, Chippen-dale, in his adaptations, bee:tmc original, and they were sturdy and robust in their new home of adoIltion. So much for real Chippendale, and the prices obtained for genuine examples are phenomenal. A Cf"lpJe of his dlairs have realized £1,100 at Christie's. But if all the furniture sold as genuinc Chippendale were put·togethcr it would e,hokc up S1. :"Lntin's Lane from aile end to the other, and it \vould he the first t;l11e that many (If the spec:'l1ells have found themselves in the neighborhood of Chippendale's \vork.shop. The truth is that they \vere made at the same til11e that Chippendale>, made his own examples, and 'ITere made by con-temporary ('ahilJd makers. It reminds olle of Tennys()flls pocm, entitled "The Flower," v\rhere "thit",cs from o',er the walt stole the seed by night," and, in allusion to his own style of versification. the poct goes on to say: "1Jost can raise the l1(nvers 11mv, for al1 have got the seed." It was the same story ,"vith Cllippendalc. Tn 1754 he publis1J~d his·'Director," or book of de5>igns, "calculated to improve and r~finc the present,t;lsk, and suited to the fancy anc ':ircnmstances of persons in all degrees of life." _As a matter of fact, every town of importance started a centre for making furniturc on Chippendale lines; Up and down thc country, from the confines of Yorkshir~ to the highlands of DeVOll. master cabinct makers took their cue frollI the "Director," ;ll1d produced cxceV~nt1y made furni-ture, with fine joinery and of sound worL-manship. Now-adays these are the rivals of Chippendale bimsclf in the auc-tion room, .:\nd after Chippendale's death generations of craftsmcn continued the style. So that, for purpOses of c1a.ssificatiolll it Illa,Y be said that there arc, fIrst, the rarc and genuine speci-l" nens of fttrniture actuany made by Cbil)pcndale or h;s :-0('11.'; in their workshop. And, >;econdly, there is contemporary furnitme made after his designs in various tlarts of England by good craft smell, -..vho readily seized his idea,s. Thirdly, sprcad over a long period, there is other furniture strongly influenced by this r.::ontcmporary school, and made _at any timc after Chipj)cndale's death to early ":neteenth century da~rs. And bere ends aU Chippendale furniture, or "Chip_ pendale 5>t}·le"furniture, which appeals to tue eollectof. There is. too, modem furniture in Chirpcndale style, not pretclH1ing to be other than ".·.h. at it is-modem-made furni~ ture of a parti~,ular dcsign, and, lastly, there is furniture "Inked" to give it the appearance of age. This is always an attempted copy of som(: well known pattern. It apes the grandenr and the fine sweep of curve that t.lle master drew. Ent it has been artfully, almost artistically madc, with intent to deceive, nnd it does deceive in nine cases out of ten, and cbangcs (HVnCrSat a grc~lt profit to the fr:"ldulent maker. 1n view of these [acts, and the public i~ gradually becom-ing schooled to the various frauds perpetrated upon ,it, the days of "Chippendale," in inverted comma:" including all else but furniture made by him or in his day, ;I,re drawing to a close. He has, to use the trade term, heen '·done to death." The time was once when all that was not Chippendale was held to he Sheraton. The two names were bandied about in the middle-Victorian days as representative of .1,11that the eighteenth century had left as a heritage. Like 110nsieur Jourdian, "\"ho learnt, to his amazement, that all was not poetry \'v·as prose, so the would-be purchaser was taught to believe that all that \..·as not Chippendale was Sheraton. But a good deal of lvater has passed nnder London Bridge since the Renaissance of English modern taste in furniture. During the month of Angust 40,000 idle freight cars were pulled off the sidings and put into use in the Pittsburg dis-trict. ~-------- ~-- --- MICHIGAN DRYING TIMBER IN ENGLAND. By W. J. Blackmur. To dry, or not to dry, is the perplexing problem of many a. cabinet manufacturer. Whether ~it is better to trust to chance in getting :goods out in good condition, or whether it should be a matter of scientific calcuhtioll. The ques-tion is a big one, and upon its decision depends the standing of the firm. vVhether it is best to keep catching fresh cus-tomers to take the work of the mill, or whether one should have standing orders. AU this is often decided in the question of to dry or not dry. The problem which presents itself must be solved either one way or another. Some men will be content to buy up odd lots of timber, often partially dried, and work it up to furniture, with the result that complaints, and the furniture often returns to trouble the manufacturer. Or hc may hit· upon \1. middle man, who is willing to buy at a price, anything in the shape of furniture. It may be hideous, in its design, workmanship and finish, but by skillful adver-tising and long credit that dealer will be able to palm those goods upon innocent people who will learn that some furn-iture is only made to selL Not for use. An this is happen-ing every day all your side of the world, and in England, so I need not apoiogize for introducing it. It is always best to know where we stand, Now the point is, can a man even doing cheap work dry his wood to give satisfactory results. We say decidedly yes. even if it is for the most throat-cutting middle man. The fact of making goods which will not show cracks and crevices should be sufficient inducement to the cabinet manufacturer to put down a drying plant. It is impossible in a country which produces the timber to get sufficient dried wood to satisfy the demands of a fairly sized factory. Mahogany may be imported and used, but the other woods used for building up purposes, lllust be dried to turn out work which will give satisfaction. I am tempted to give some details of English dried timbers, of how hardwood logs are sawn and stacked for years ex-posed to the smoke laden atmosphere of our metropolis, but as it would take too long, I must leave this for another dme, and give some technical details as to what I have learned in drying woods. First and foremost the point which must be considered is the class of goods to be manufactured. For instance sideboards are entirely different from overmant1es, and a bed room suite, or a cabinet, with innumerable drawers, all need different degrees of time for drying the va.rious timbers, if aJl economical standpoint has to be considered. In ordering or making a drying kiln, the only system which will give entire satisfaction in getting hardwood into the right condition for ma11ltfacturing purposes is the moist air kiln. The dry air one is a back number, and however much economy may press its claims, it should not be for-gotten that shaken boards, and a, case hardened surfaceupoll wood is a big item to pay for the saving of a few dollars at the outset of buying a drying kiln. Then the insulation of the kiln should be complete. I have known many failures because of this. By imperfect manufacture, a lowering of the temperature has taken place, and insufficient heat during the night, has lengthened the process of drying. ' The question of proper packing is a serious one, and ll1us,t be carefully donc, if the re;,;utts are not to he disapoint-ing. The haphazard placing of sticks between the boards "",ill allow them to warp to an enormous degree, In ordin-ary .seasoning, English merchants, make it a cardinal sirt to have one stick even a fraction out of the perpendicular be- ARTISAN neat~ the other. It allows the hoard to go out of the straight. So successful are they in their drying, that boards can be used without putting them over the planer, for they are as straight as left by the saw. Now in drying this is a point which should be considered, and there is ai1Dther which is also neglected in the manage-ment of drying'" kilns. That is to keep· the boards tight ;::,gaillst the sticks. Their weight is not sufficient to with-stand the unequal tension set tip by the drying proc.ess, and unless they are held tight against the sticks, they will lift as the various parts warp. This principle should be more fully recognized than it is. Tie lip a bundle of green sticks with strong string in three or four places, and those sticks wlll dry straight. Put a string arot\ntl the middle and lea,ve the ends free, and you will find that they will go as the strains bend them. They will point to all quarte:-s of the globe. The most successft.tl drying trttcks had this prin-ciple, of keeping the board perfectly fiat whcn drying, by an arrangement of screws, which fastened the boa.rds firmly against each other, and yet allowed them to shrink as they dried. I am sure that if this is carried iota effect it will re-duc. e the. work on the over hand planer, or surface as you ca.11it. In many cases it wilt save timber, for without it some woods warp so that when they are trued up, they are below the necessary size. ' A drying kiln's efficiency depends upon the amount of air which can be taken against the timber in the kiln. Ido not advise that such a gale should blow through the ki'n that it will blow the trucks out through the doors. There is moderation in all things but a moderate current 0'£ air through a drying kiln is poor economy. The fea.ture of success is to keep the air in motion, and to use a,s much as possible the air which has been through the kiln. The air as it leaves the outlet of the kiln has considerable drying pow('.rs, mote than the oHtside air, and to 'Use this, itshi;:n.lld, ·when possible, be again conducted to the fa.n. This mixed with the cold air should be again driven through the header. Fan wheels are usually made with a consant ratio between their diameter and width. Then the volume 'of air delivered depends npon the velocity of the fans. If the speed is di-minished so is the amount of air, doubling the number of rev-olutions of the volume of air. Here we run up against the fact that doubling the speed of the fan does more than doubles the power required to get that speed. The power required is as the cube of the speed. As when the speed is again doubled the power must be increased 2 x 2 x 2 equals eight. These fads tell us that a fan insufficiently driven cannot be driven at twice the speed, by the alteration of the pulleys, unless there is ample engine power. This fact should be noted as it may save needless experiment and expense. In trying to increase the speed of the fan without taking into consideration the fact that the power to drive it must he quadrupled. Tbe grea.t point to be considered in designing or making kilns, is to allow only sufficient space for the trucks and the passageway for an attendant. Lofty kilns are wasteft11, yet in many cases they are built. The ideal one is long alid narrow, perfectly insulated, with outlet in communication witb the fan and with a header and steam jet, which will keep up a uniform damp yet hot temperature, with the air in constant motion. Rushing Car Repairs. The railroads have assured the National Manufacturers' association that tlley are losing r.o ti,me in putting cars need-ing repairs into condition for service. An interesting account of the lives of factory hands, salesmen and office employes in London, England, appears on another page of the Artisan. It is from the pen of an Englishman well informed on the subject on which he writes. 1'IICHIGAK ARTISAK ~-----_._-------------_. I j I j I WOOD-WORKING MACHINERY AT BARGAIN PRICES. Having purchased the entire Elkhart. Ind" plant of the HulJtphrey Bookca.e Co., we are offering at bolU'gainpt'iee"the following A~1 woodwOTkingtoola= Band saw, 32 in. Crescent. Jointer, 8 in. hand with 4-!ided head. Rip saw table. with cOllnlershJtand saw. Saw table. 3Ox48 in. with sliding ll'1l8ge. Band saw. 36 in. Crescent. Knife grinder. 32 in. Buffalo automatic. Rounder, two-Bpindle with counlersnaft. Shapero Utlll.le-spindk. labk 37x.42 in., Band saw, 26 in. SU~e., i{on tilUD\:! table. La1ne. Whitrley back-knifewilb counter. Rod. pin and dowel ma.chine No. 2. ~n. Back-knife 'athe, Whitney. ahaft. Smith, with beads SlllIder. Young'5 new ed!l"e, iron frame Borinillnachine. 72~ 8-spindle Andrews. Lathe, Trevor automatic 4' 2" between Rod and dQwel machine No. 2, E.s~n and top. Boring machine, 3-spiodle borizontal. centera, power feed. Slave boll equalizer with two 30" saws. Borer, No. 21 bench. Slater & Maraclen. Lathe\ r 4 in. cabinetmaker's Egan. Shapero single spind. Colladay with fric. Truch. '38 miscellaneous faclofY trucb. BORnIl machine, No. 2% Clement hon· Moulder. 14 in. Hermance, 4-sided tion c. s. Tenoner. American double end. ~onlal Molder, sing. hd. Smith F.6 with 4 in. Swin~ sa.w, complete with laW and fell. TenQlJlCI,single head Cordesmlln &: Ellan Carver, 3-tpindle. with countersnaft. 4-sl'td hd. equip. with cut-off attachment. Cabinetmake.s· saw, d<luble cut_<lff. Moulder, style F-6 Smith. one side with Sander. two-spindle with ctlunrersha!t. Tenoner, self-feed bJind slat. J. A, Fay. Chair bending press. Swartz. cap sa5h he&d. Sander. 36 in. Columbia Iriple-drum. T "'noner. 6/1 double head. k. B. Smith. Chamfer cuUeI with iron frame. table 4B Mortiser and borer, double-end alllol1l~tic. Sander, 42 in. Columbia triple-drum. T enoner. hand_ked blind lIal, J A. Fay. x30 Laliwn. Morliser and borer. Colburn imp. blind Sticker, 14" Hermance with fegularequip. Tenoner, self-feed adjustabe blind6lal. Ediling !laW, 36"x I81 with saw arbor. style. Sander, 30 in three-drum Ell'an. Twisl machine. 5hawyer.1 28 in. cent .• Cut·off saw machine, de~nt double Pla\lel, 30 in. Clement sinw.e cylinder. Saw lable. 38x63 in. wood top. 10 in. Swg, Clue jointer. Myers. with couDh";rshaft· Planer and matcher. 241 single cylinder Saw table. 29x]Oin. cut_off, rip llnd 8 in Woodworl=-. Parks C<lmbined '-the. rip Jill' saw, complete wilhregularequipment. 4-roll, matches 141 }. A. Fay. saw. !lnd cuI-off IIlW, shapero etc. Jointer. Myers llille. Planer. ~nl!. cyL s.urface ZOx.QOCI 6 in. Scrult taW, imn k wood toP, COld'mr'n Jointer, 20 in. Parler hand. Con'l & D. & Egan. Correspondence solicited. Price and de&criptinn, all, application. 5 ---------- ..I C. C. WORMER MACHINERY CO., 98West Woodbridge St" Delroit, Mith. .I , --'-'" IMorton House I I fI 0t;11~)P~2;;ntldi I (European Plan) Rates $1.00 and Up. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. I! '------- The Noon Dinner Served at the Pantl.ind fot SOe is THE FINEST IN THE WORLD. J. BOYD PANTLlND, Prop. .. ,I MACl1INE. t\NIVES PER.FECT QUALITY I R.IGHT :R::~: Grooving Heada, Miter Machlnea, Universal Wood Trimmers. BorlDe: Machines. Etc. I FOX MACHINE CO. G.a.8o5d NR.apFi•d••o•'MSti.ch. ,I "--------_._-------~ r PROMPT SERVICE A&50LUTEGUAkANTEE The TIfE CREDIT BUREAU OF THE FURNITURE TRADE Grand •I Bldg. LYON Furniture Agency ROBERT P. LYON, General M.ana.ter CREDITS and COLLECTIONS Rapids Office, 412-4 J 3 Houseman GEO. E. GRAVESt Manager CLAPpERTON &: OWEN, Counsel THE STANDARD REFERENCE BOOK CAPITAL, CREDIT AND PAY RATINGS CLEARING HOUSE OF TRADE EXPERIENCE THE MOST RELIABLE CREDIT REPORTS • COLLECTIONS MADE EVERYWHERE PROMPTLY-REUABLY r The "RELIABLE" Kind. I• THE FElLWOCK AUTO & MFG. CO. EVANSVILLE, IND. .- . ;~~E~'~d'O~~?~I :~~~~tell you their glue is as good as COOPER'S, they admit Cooper's is the BEST. No one extols his product by comparing it with an inferior article. Cooper's Glue is the world's standard of excellence. With it all experiment begins, all comparu.on continues.and all test ends. Sold continuously since 1820. Its reputation, like itself.STICKS. Peter Cooper's glue is made from selected hide stock. carefully pre· pared. No bones or pig stock enler into its composition. In strength it is uniform, each barrel containing the same kind of glue that is in every other barrel of the same grade. ORIN A, WARO GRAND RAPIDS AGENT 403 Asbton Bldg, CITIZENS PHONE 9333 I• 6 ~[ r CHI G A N ART I SAN Progress in the Fitting cf Band Rips and Band Resaws. The introduction of modern band resawing has come about largely within the past ten years, and that of modern ban.:1 rip sawing within the past five years, and now these econom-ical agents for s8.,',,-ing a minimum kerf and at a maximum fate of feed a e fOU'll(l very generally in USe in the better class woodworking plants, particularly in furniture factories, plan-ing mills, car shops, etc. Up to Jifteen years ago there wefe compar;:tively ve:"y few band rcsawing machines in use on which 5;;"V3 were employed over three inches wide. Now the !iale for such narrow width saws is limited. The band wheels have been increased up to fifty-four or sixty or even seventy-two inches diamete: with face materially wider, on which ,saws ranging from five to eight inches wide are em-ployed. Indeed, there are some makes of band resaws that in all respects approximate the log band mill, both as regards general weight of the machine, diameter of the wheel and the w:dth of its face, the saws being ten or twehre inches w;dc by' fiftel~n or sixteen inch gage, and there are a dozen or more concerns in the United States and Canada busily en-gaged in the manufactu"re and sale of these resawing machines. S()nH~ of the manufactu~ers offer a considerahle variety of m:::chinc3, both as regards style of cOl1struct;on and spec:al ad<:tpt"tion for varying pu,poses and it is surprising on :10\'" slight a ke~·f SOl"ueof these saws are ftlll successfull./, and how tbin and how smooth the resawed stoc.k that results. The rate of the feed ranges up to one hundred or more feet per minute, and the variety of the stock su\'.rcc1covers about all of the possibilities in hard and soft woods, both in gTeen and kiln dried stock. The solid circ.ular and likewise the segment rf'S~IWS tor 11,al1y J)llrposes have become back nUlll-bers rega~'dless of the excellent record behind m:~ny of these machines. The above changing condition has similarly brought about a radical ch::tnge in the care of the saws ilnd lve now fInd the modern filing room equipped with a variety of saw fitting appliances hardly thought of, or at !e:l.,>t rarely found in use, fifteen years ago. The, old method of setting the teeth and tiling by hand ,,\'ith little attention to the m<:tter of leveling and tensioning the saw is no longer pracfced, excepting in the sma [[est an I the poorly equipped filing rooms. In place oi the spring sd the full swaging of each tooth, so that each tooth does its prop.ortional share of the sawing, is almost universally em-ployed and this C',xplains in pa t the increased capacity of the band sawing machines, that is tl.le adaption of th(; saw to stand a 111uch faster feed than \-vas formerly customary. The corners of the teeth are now in most filing rooms side-dresscd with a swag-e shaper or pressure side dresser, \.\'hich acts as a mould. beveling the tooth down and hack from point to afford a perfect clearance, 1cavil1g the face and, point the widest. Illstead of the file as a mean!:; for sharpening the teeth the Cll'.ery wheel is employed, llsed on an a.utomatic band saw sharpener, which !S C:lpahle, by easy adjll~t-ments, of prochlCing almost any c,onceiv;,bk gullet outline' both as regards spacing- from point to point. hook, depth and general outline of g1.111etthat it is p",:cticable to carryon a saw. These ready aJjustm(~11ts of the automatic sharp-eners make it possible for the operator to shapc the teeth with hook and outline of back and general uutline of gullet whatever "will be most serviceable for the character of the stock being sawed. Thus the tooth for sawing soft pille is different horn that suitable for cotton wood or similiar fibrous wood and likewise different f:om that usually em-ployed on hard woods, in some mills where a consider-able variety of stock is handled the filer may adopt a gullet outline fairly serviceable for all of these different woods, but in different plants it will be Jlossible to find a hundred dif-ferent gullet OLIt1inesemployed, no two of which are exactly alike. The sharp(~l1iug of the saw is accomplished <Ita speed of some thirty teeth per minute and \,,1ith little or no atten-tion all the part of the operator of the sharpener, an,l when the sa"\' comes off the sharpener the width of saw will be maintained uniformly, the spacing of the teeth will be approx i:11ately or exactly uniform and the tooth will be fitted ready to run and do the best possible wo:·k. Again the tensioning of the saw instead of being doOnewholly by hammering, as was almost uniformly the case fifteen years ago is now ac-complished by the use of saw stretcher or roller, whieh expands all parts of the saw that pass th:oough the ralrer5 prad.ic;l1Jy alike, according to the pressure that may be need-ful, and the filer who has a stretcher in use and understands its efficjency has little need to level his saws, because lumps, bends, ridges and twists are less likely to appear in the saw if fitted with the appliances above mentioned in an ordinary skilled fashion. The care of band r('saws ard indeed of fine tooth band saws, small circulars and machine knives is becoming a trade and mill and factory operators look upon the filing room as one of the most inipottant parts of the mil1. because the • WOOD FINISHING MATERIALS I FILLERS, STAINS, POLISHES, ETC. tj If in trouble with finishing materials, now is the time to let us put you right. fJI We match all sampJef submitted and. fill all orders promptly. GRAND RAPIDS WOOD FINISHING CO. 55-59 EII~ol'th Ave., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. \"anol.ls machines in the mill employed for sawing, }llaning. etc., depend for their eff!c;ency directly up'on the expertness of the filer in tutn upon the equipment provided for snch fitting. If you are the ope:ator of a wood .v..orking plant it \.-..ill be worth your while to look into this ell:! of yl)Ur business and determine whether your saws and knives ,trc: being ii.tted in the best possible fasbion. You call1wt <lffo d to have any of your machines long idle waiting on the changing of saws or knives, if such change is due to faulty fitting. All of the operators of a woodworking plant bear more or less close relation to each other and it is easily pos-sible for a waste in time due to poorly fitted saws or knives to represent an expense that cuts a good deal of :figure in the profit and loss account at the end of the year. Other phasis of this subject will be: taken up later Oil. Excess Charges on a Dresser.: The combil1cof the express companies which is offering the establishmcnt of a parcels post by the general govern-ment with all power at their command, and in the meantime, engaged in robbing the public by the levying of excessive charges for servicQs, has been summoned before the pUblic service commission of 1'\e\'.o'York to i:!.llswer a complaillt ILlde by 1\Irs.]. II. Coleburn of No. 2000 Grand Avenue, The Bronx, that the American Express Company had charged at the rate of one dollar a hundred pounds fat carrying a crated dresser from twenty-third street, New York, to her home. It was asserted in the complaint that this ch::'!,rgewas not only unreasonable but that the company for the same class of goods clJ.arged only $1.25 a hundred pounds for transpor-tation between this city' and Buffalo. :UICIIIGA [Ii ~! A Power Veneer Press I of Pra&ically Unlimited Capacity I M'lterial lowered on truck, top beam raised, leaving the pre~s ready for another set of plates. QUICK. POWERFUL. STRONG· Clamps for Every Line of Woodworking. We aN allNty8 glad to mall ill'IS"Ntled }I'f'illted 1Iwlfe,' gilling J'uU pQ.rtiCli/a'I'~. Black Bros. Machinery CO. ~_._-- MENDOTA, ILL. AnTISAN 7 --------------_._---~I:I!IIII I ._j ._-------------- The con:n.i.:;siol1 sent the complaint to the company, but T. B. Hr.r iso!1, Jr., the council for the company, asked that the complaint be dismissed on the ground that the com-mission had no jurisdiction in the matter, and had no author-ity to make any order aT finding. The re:,;ult of this reply "vas the action of the board in ordering a public hearing. YVhi]c the complaint itself in-volves only a small ;~InolHlt it is the intention 01 the board to t<lke ad,'anl;:tge of the case to determine just what powers th(' commission has over the express companics. The public service act states that tr.e c0ll111~issionshall have full author-ity over COll'.TIlOncarri::!':.;, and it is the belief of the com-mission that the cxpreocs cotTlpani(:s cou:e lInder this head. News Items. Senator \TcCulllber, of North Dakota, dedare~. tbat a determined effort will be made in congress to remove the tariff on lumber. The timberless states demand it. i\nother proof of returning activity in hus;ness is fll:'n-ished hy the Grand Rapids Blow Pipe and Dust Arrester Company which has secured :1 !lumbcr of heavy contracb for sur,plying dllst collecting apparatus for wood working shops. An cxtcllsion to the iactory of the Stickky Brothers Com-pany in Grand Rapids is under cOllstruction. It will cost $25,000. A_ catalogue will soon be issued by the \Vest Side TrOll Vv"orks, Grand Rapids, A large modern factory is in course of e:-ection at .-\nder-son, Indiana, for the Union Embossing l\Jachinc. Company. Prompt deliveries of bigh grade bird's-eye maple are madc by the l-lcnr.y S. Holden Veneer COlllpallY of Grand Rapids. T11e: Royal Y'Vhite IHaple Polishing Varnish. mnJ1ufactt1red by the Royal Varnish Company, of Toledo, Ohio. dries to recoat every other day ;[tld is ready fOI· polishing in four or five days, Barrett's Prinle Shellac Varnish manufactured by ~f. L U'lrreLt and Company, of Chicago, is a reliable, high grade pure gum varnish. /'\ new catalogue illustrating their cutters, cntter grinders, saw tables, horing hits and drills will soon be issue[l by i\Jorris \Vood & Sons, of Chicago. :Jlanager Buss of the Buss :Machine \Vorks, 1-1olland, :l.lich., reports a steady demand for \.voodworking machinery .. The company's shops are running to capacity. Veneer Trade Improving. The vellur trade .is sh()\iv-ingsigns of improvement. T:H' furniture manufacturers are beginning to get really busy again, L 2.nd this, of course, increascs their rCiluirements in the veneer line in proportion to the increase in their operations. Tbe majority of them seem to be rather poorly supplied \'Vith both lumber ,wd veneer. They do not carry a big stock of veneer excePt in quartered oak or something of tilat kind, prdering to have theil· veneer cut to special orde··, so they Jllllstincrease their buying immNliately upon increasing their operations. I t is diffi(:(tlt to estimate tlw exact condition of the stock among veneer manufacturers. As a rule, however. they make no great effort at carrying a large stock-that is, none of them except the manufacturers of fine veneer-be-cause. they argue, it must be cut to special dimensions Oil orders and. the:-efore, it is impossible to ClIt extensively ahead of orders in anticipation of the demand. So any 11lcrease in orders means an increase in the operation of their plants. They may he pretty well provided with ra\\' llwterial ill logs find blocks, but most of the plants have been running in a very limited \,,'ay all summer and naturally, will llilil \\'-ith pleasure this incrc<lse in the volume of de-mand for furniture. The manufacturers of mahogany and other finisl1ing and £ancy figured woods may have a fair amount of stock on hand, but indications are that they are not so well stocked up as they might be, and. at least, are not heavily over stocked. The importation' of mahogany log" during tile fiscal year ending June 30, 1908, amounted to only 41,678,000 feet. valued at $2.566,954, where as during the fiscal year cudillg 'with June, 1907. the toial importation was 51,899,000 feel, ""<llued at ~3.263,718. In short, there was a decided slump ill the amount of mahogany importc£j during the year as compared with the year before, a slump of more tban ten million feet in quantity. This taken into COlJ-sideration, together with the further fact that mahogany veneer has been about the best seUer of the veneer cade throughout the dull season, would indicate that !lot only is thcre no burdensome surplus in mahogany, but with the increase in operations among the furniture factories there may develop sufficient scarcity to send the prices of mahog-flny l1pwanls, unless thcre is au increase ill the volume of impo~tatiotls that will keep step with the rcnc'\ved operations amOllg- the furniture plants. \Vhat it really looks like is that the 'face veneer manufacturers are in good shape-that is, not overburdened ~...i.t.h stock-aml have a bir tlln of business heiore them this fall and winter. ;\t the same time, manufacturers of veneer cutting from native woods, who have been having an extremely dull time of it this summer, may no\v get busy, probably \vith /lot nl! they CciJ) do at first; but if the situation continues to improve they should be fairly busy before cold 'weather.- St. LOllis Lumberman. 8 MICHIGAN ARTISAN Works and General Offices at 1 to 61 Clancy St. GRAND RAPlDS. MI'::H., U. S. A. BRANCH OFFICES - OliVet Machinery ~ •• HI1dMmT ennintJ. SO Climb St., New York· Oliver Machinery Co., FirSt National Bank Building, Chicago, ro.; Oliver Machinery Co ' Paci6c Building, Seattle. Wash.; Oliver Machinery Co .201-203 [)eansgale, Manchester, En~: • Oliver Tool. "OLIVER" No. 16. Balld Saw 36lnchel. Made with or without mmot drive Metal 'abJe 36'1y; 30". Will lake I Sf! uDder the lluide-tilts 45 dellrees one way and 7 degrees \he other way. Car-ries a saw up to 1 ~11 wide. Ollbide bearinJ 10 lower wheel shalt when nol motor driven. Weighs 1800 Ibs when ready to ship. CHOICE TOOLS FOR FURNITURE MAKERS II you do nol know lhe ''Oliver'' wood working tools, you had better give us your address and have ·us teU you all aboul lhem. We make nothing but Quality lools, the first coSt of which is considerable, but which will make more profit for each doUar inveSted than any of the cheap mAchines Hood-ing the country. "Oliver" New Vanet)' Saw Table No. 11. WiD take II saw up 10 201 diameter. Arbor bell il 6" wide. Send forCatalog "S" fordalaon Hand Jointers. Saw Tables, Wood Lathes, Sanders. Tenoners, Mortisers, Trimmers, Grinders. Work Benches, Vises, Clamps. Glue Heaters,etc., etc. OLIVER MACHINERY CO. • Save Labor " Time .. Tempers " CO~ I• TILLIE GUDOUSKY'S WEDDING Wheels of Industry Halted by a W.eekly Event at the Factory. The manager of Factory B of the Ship Ahoy Tick and Tuck Company, yelled at his foreman down the !cngth of r~le long room, and that slave of twenty-three dol~ars a week and a iarge sUTplus of uncapit<:lized idiom hurrieJ to th~~ manager's desk at a gait that threatened to add a spasm or two to his stock of unclassified. woes. VVhcn the perspiring foreman brought up sharply at the manager's desk that highbrow of ticks and tucks cussed until the already overheated atmosphere for many square yards thereabout seemed smitten black anJ blue and a trifle pale around the edges. "\\Fhat are all the machines stopped for?» he shouted. Foreman Sandonovitch shook his head. IITillie Gudousky's gettin' spIked,". he said with some hesitation. HAin)t it awful, boss?" "Gctting married 1J1 exclaimed the manager. "That's it. boss, that's what it is." "\Vell, is that any reason why the factory should close down when orders are piling up on us every hour?" "It's their way. boss, an' I can't stop 'em. They ain't the kind that's to be suppressed." "\Vhere are they?" "Hangin' out the front windows. Everyone of the two hundred dames is 11Oldin'a pair of old shoes an' a bag of rice, layin' in wait to sling the whole blamed lot at the bride when she makes her exit for her matrimony debut." "Order 'them back on the job at once I" thundered the manager. "The firm's l'osing millions every minutel" "It ain't no use. They'd strike. I has tried it before. It's their custom. :l1:illions doesn't count with them." J The Ship Ahoy concern's manager was furious. "I'll settle the matter right here and now! this Tillie Gudousky a lesson she won't forget. to me, quick." , It looked as if Tillie Gudousky were to be eaten alive. "She's got her dough an' lit out," said the foreman. S11e's hidin' downstairs near the front door, afraid of the shower of r;ce an' otd shoes. ' I'll teach Send her "So that's it, is it. \VeIl, you go right back on the job. I'll rout her out. Every minute lost means a million further away from the Ship Ahoy)s exchequer." And amid the unusual silence of hushed machines and breathless clerks with their heads bent low over books· and papers, and pens suspended in midair, the manager re-buttoned his collar and made a perspiring dash for the door. Tillie) in fresh shirtwaist and black picture hat, had been cowering in the darkness of the .lower stairway, blushing with happiness and trembling with timidity. It wasn't that she was really afraid. It had been the custom for all the girls to hide, and though she was anxious to get home and make some final preparations for her wedding that evening, it would have rooked bold not to allow the girls to wait half an hour or more for her to appear. A door 'slammed overhead, and looking up, Tillie thought she discerned a glint of pale gray in the darkness of the stairway. The manager was the only one who wore pale gray. At the last turn of the stairway the pale gray suit burst into full view, coming at a tremendous rate. Tillie knew and made a break for the street. There was a wild shout from the windows and a cas-cade of rice and shoes was Buddenl'y let loose. It was the hatless manager hims~1f who got the shower, for Tillie had sped like a hare down the street, only turning when half a block away to reward the waiting ones for their patient 9 .--------------- I MICHIGAN ARTISAN ------ ._--_.---. I ABSOLUTELY NOTHING BETTER THAN OUR SWELL DRAWER FRONTS AND VENEERED ROLLS IN ANY KIND OF WOOD AND PROMPT SHIPMENTS. WALTER CLARK VENEER CO. I I~---- 535 Michigan Trust Building. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. vigil with blushes and halld waves and a bedazzling snccess-ion of smiles. Even Tim, the elevator man, had to smile at the man-ager's predicament, though he. took precious good care not to let that irate gentleman see him. Timothy \Vooclruff Dennis had married a girl from this factory himself. It was ten years before, when th'" present manager wJS a col-lege boy-Timothy allli others ~ud often \vished he might have al"'iays remained a college hoy and let the "old gent" hang 011 longer. They \yould ll;llre done the ·work; they said so-and Timothy had never forgotten the shower of rice and old shoes that had descended on the fair head of his Esther. For one reason Esther! now the mother of fOUT,had never ceased talking about it when in one of her \'leek slnce there had been one or mOl"C weddings from the factory. They never grew stale to Tim, nor to the ,...o.rld at large cith;;:or,for the whole street for more than a block was still 8stir, although Tillie 'Nas alm.ost out of ~ight. She would be standing Ul) before a rabbi answering a lot of questions and makng aIt sorts of promises before the factory had closed dmvn for the day; but this was the real wedding. All the factory girls -'were hanging out of the front win-dows, and six big windOH's stretching from side to side of the facto,y six stories high ca~l hold lots of heads. There they were, black, hrown, auburn, red all shades of blond and tow, thrust like nestling birds over the stone ledges of the windows, and everyone of them decorated 'with white love knots fashioned out of tissue paper. vVhen the bride did appear and escaped the shower, and the manager following clOSe on her heels caught it, the people OIl the sidewalks and tht;' factory girls and men hanging out of other factory winduws gave vent to their mirth and cheered lustily. Timothy \Voodruff Dennis almost had a spasm right then and there. "An' him a bachelor" he gasped between paroxysms of pure delight. The manager 'went back to his revolving ('.hair, the girls returned to their machines and the street once more took on its .vorkaday aspect after Tillie Gudousky had passed entirely out of sight. "\iVhat was Tillie's dowery?" asked one girl above the roal" of revitalized ma.chinery, as she put the finishing touches on the undergarment she was making. "T\,\io hundred dollars," was the answer from a mouth stuffed with pins. ".:'vly1An' T lost a whole hour! and I haven't saved up more'J1 a hundred dollars," wailed the questioner. Every head of every color bCllt busily over th~~mac'hines. These Russian girls knew they were not considered marr;'J.ge-able until they h,HI saved up t""..o or three hundred dollars, and their parents were anxiolls to get them married as soen as possibk A girl should have saved up a sufficient Jowry to attract the cupidity of some man bdore she had lef~ ber teens. The manager undoubtedly knew this, but tIe didn't ,seem the least bit interested in (\0"..'rie5. What he thought about was the time the firm lost every time this custom of showel-- illg the bride prevailed. Thes weddings were getting too numerous for him. "Ii there arc many more marriages like the Tillie Gud-ousky affair the Ship Ahoy Tick and Tuck Company, Lim-ited, ''''ill be wooing and wedding a bankruptcy petition, sure thing_" Foreman Sandonovitc.h heard and said soothingly: "They don't happen much oftcncr'n once a week, boss-sometimes twice."-Sun. HUmidity in the Varnish Room. Extensive plans ha.ve been instituted with a view of eUmin-ating this one important draw back to varnish room results! but despite these apparently best laid plans, humidity con-tinues to disturb the finisher to a serious extent during Aug-ust and the early part of September. rt has come to be recognized that the only factor that will render humidity harmless is heat introduced in some effective way to the varnish room. Humidity is part and parcel of those hot moist days-often called "dog-days," although not necessarily included in this unacceptable period -when the air is surcharged with moisture, and perspiration flows freely upon the slightest exercise of the individual. Various expedients are resorted to in order to counteract the action of the water saturated atmosphere, but the most prac-tical- and in reality the only effective-system consists of the introduction 01' heat in a sufficient quantity to dispel k l:Jrge part, at least, the peculiar dampness ,pervading tile varnish room. This can be accomplished by means of a brisk fire in the shop or store, or warmth forced through steam pipes, or hot air pipes, as the heating arrangements of the shop may permit. This heat, however, need not, and, in fact, should not, be long continued, for it fairly goes with-out saying that air may be made too dry for working varnish with the best results. A few minutes of good heating by whatever method is most convenient ",,-ill usually suffice to condition the air of the room, provided proper ventilation is furnished, to meet immediate requirements. vVhat is needed in the varnish room is pure, fresh air with the greater portion of the moisture extracted, and this rule holds good whether the month be August or December. Humidity to excess in the air causes the varnish to draw itself into a condition similiar to the appearancc of enamaled leather or silk. Perhaps needless to add! prevention is many times cheaper than cure in all cases of hl1midity.-Ex. 10 MiCHIGAN ARTISAN OFFICES: CINCINNATI-Pickerillil B.ul1dlog. NEW YORK--346 Broadw&.y\. BOSTON;-18Tremollit St. CHICAGO--134Van Buren St. GR.AND RAPID$--Housem.an Rid.. JAMESTOWN. N. Y.--Ch.da.koln Bldg. HIGH POINT. N. C.--Slanton.~elcb Block. The most satisfactory and up~to·dateCr~dit Service covering the FURNITURE, CARPET, COFFIN and ALLIED LINES. The most at::'oura.teand reliable Reference Book Published. OrigInators of the "Tracer and Clearing House System:" Collectit",Service Unsurpassed-Send for Book of Red Drafts. H. J. DANHOf'. Michigan Man~er. 347·348 House1D.an Sundin ... Grand Rllplds. Mioh. EVRNSVILLL Evansville, h..d.) Sept. 2.-Some of the local factone~ are running on full time, yet the average factory is funning but forty hours a week. The plants of the city have av-cr< lged forty hOUB all tile seaSOn and the owners say this is a much better record than that of the factories of many "th.'r cities. It is the general opinion of the furniture n1(;'" hert that the general business conditions of the count:-y arc much better than they were last spring and that it i,; hut a question of time until things wilt assume t:l.;:oir llrormal conditiolls. The Clnirmaker's Union, at Tell City, Ind., extended nil invitation to the Evansville Manufac::turers' Association to come to Tell City, Ind., all Labor Day to enjoy some of Tell City's noted hospitality. A. P. Fenn and Jacob Zoe-cher, two of the best fellows in Tel] City, were at the head of the commit'tce on entertainment amI this assured thc visitors a good time. The Evansville manufacturers were glad to accept the invitation. Edwnrd Ploeger, of the Bosse Furniht:'e Company, thinks Evansville has a great future as a manufactu.-ing city. He says its location and cheap fuel are bound to bring many new factories here in the future . .Fred Deikman, of the Bosse Furniture Company, has returned from Mammoth Cave, Ky., where he spent his vacation. He says he had a delightful time. The Karges and Globe factories arc running full time and employment 1;:' given a large force of men. These factories are among the largest and best equipped in this section of the country. Gus Stoltz, of the Stoltz-Schmitt factory, thinks business is improving and says tradc is hound to gct better. "Gus" 1S one of thc best men in the state. The Buehner Chair Company is grinding away, and, under the managen~el1t of Theodore Kevekordes, is en-joying a mighty good business. The factory is turning out a fine grade of work just now. Eli D. ').liller says his folding beds are being sold now in all sections of the country and in many foreign countries. Eli is a wide awake manufacturer, and never thinks of the hard times. He says people are not caring as much about the piano right now as they arc of his folding beds. Eli is a self made man and has a host of admiring friends. The new chair factory at Henderson, Ky., has started up with a force of forty men and twenty dozen chairs a Jay are turned out. The factory has a capacity of forty dozen chairs a day and it is expected the plant will be running futl time before long. The plant was recently moved to Henderson from Hillsboro, Ohio. Mr. \Veimar, the man-ager of the factory, informed the writer a few days ago that orders are coming in faster than they cah be filled; among them being one for 30,000 of one" particular style of rocker. Several" car load orders arc nearly ready for shipment. Upon the petition of ]. C. Brooke, owner at the Cin-cinnati Seating Company, at vVashingtfm. Ind., Judge H. Q. Houghton has Hamed William L. Brown of Mitchell, rnd., as receiver for the plant. The factory was remov~d ;!-om Harrison, Ohio, to vVashington three years .3.go anJ ,>:nployed in the neighborhood of 150 men. The c')l1lpan.... has enough orders to keep the plant running night and day for seven months, and UP()]l this showing Judge Houghton ordered the receiver to issue certificates to the amount of $10,000 to carry all the business. \\Tilliam P. Keeney, aged seventeen years, son of William P. Keeney, the wdl known traveling salesman, left the city a few days ago on his initial trip as a traveling salesman of furniture. He went from here to :VYobilc,Ala., and will make a tour of the southern states. The Evansville Furniture Manufacturers' Association has filed a camp taint with the Indiana Railway Commission against the Baltimore and Ohio railroad and thirty-six other companies. The Evansville Association alleges that the shipping ra;;~ un ~,)lding beds is too high and asks th,~ Rail-way Commission to take the matter up with the Inter state Commerce Commission. Tl1e furniture manufacturers, ac-cording to the complaint, are compelled to pay a ,ate 011 folding beds which is one and one-half times as great as the first class rate. They declare also that only a first class rate is charged by some roads in Illinois and some parts of the southern freight territory. This discrimination, it is daimed, makes it difficult for tbe manufacturers of this city to compete in the folding bed market with the manu-facturers in various otber parts of the country. It is as-serted that the Evansville association have placed their com-plaint before the classification committee, in ).J"ewYork, but without satisfactory results. The Advance Stove \'Vorks of this city, of which William A. "'j<och, is the efficient president, has been coing a vcry nice business all season and prospects are good for a splendid fall and winter trade. It is largely to Mr. Koch's :)mine:-:,s ability that this company has forged to the front within the I"ast year or two. 1fayor John \\7 Boehne, interested in local stove and furniture factories, has returned from the lakes of Minne-sota, where he spent his vacation. He was gone two week:; and his family accompanied him. He reports a most pleas-ant time. 1byor Boehne, who is the democratic candidate for congress in this district, will "get busy" 50011 -vith his canvass. C. \V. B, )J!CHIGAN ARTISAN 11 These saws are made from No. 1 Steel and we war-rant every blade. I We also carry a I full stock of Bev- : eled Back Scroll • Saws. any length 1 and gauge. f IIII --------_.~I lVrite us for Price List and discount 31-33 S. FRONT ST". GRAND RAPIDS ._----~ BOYNTON &. CO.II ..--------- I II MallllfaClurer~ (If Emboned and Turned Mould" ing ... Embo-. ed and Spindle Carvings, and Automatic Turning .. We alw mallu· fatl:ure II large line of Emb.o8led Omllmentl for Couch Work. SEND FOR ('ATAI.(l(;HR 419-421 W. fifteenth St., CmCACO, ILL. ~---_._----------------' ---------------~III , Wood Forming Cutters We offer exceptional value in Reversible and One-Way Cutters for Single and Double Spin-dle Shapers. Largest lists with lowest prices. Greatest variety to select from. Book free. Address ---_._-.,I ~le~~en50MnI~(.0. South Bend. Ind. Wood T umings, Turned Moulding, Dowel, and Dowel Pins. Catalogue to Manufac· turers on Application. 1\1achlne!l fur all porpo8es, and at. prices within the ..... R('h of all, Every machine bas oor guarantee agalnl!lt breakfu::e for one yellr. "Rotary Style" fur Orop Carvings, Emboued Mouldings, Panels. "Lateral /StYle" for laqe capacity heavy Carvings IUld Veep EmLossiugs. We have the Machine you want at a satisfactory pr:lce. Write for descriptive circulars, Also make dies lor all makes of Ma-chines. VNION fMBOSSINC MACIiINE CO., Indianapolis, Ind. --------_._----, rI MANUFACTURERS OF HARDWOOD LUMBER & VENEERS II SPECIALTIES: II ~'L"fPEiJQUARO.AK VENEERS MAHOGANY VENEERS I IIII~ HOFFMAN BROTHERS COMPANY 804 W. Main SI., FORT WAYNE, INDIANA I~ 12 Raising the Table. MICHIGAN ARTISAN There has been a 1ong-standing difference of opinion in the Plunkett family concerning the dining table. Mrs. Plunkett maintained that its legs were too short and ought to be lengthened at least half an inch. ''It doesn't fit our chairs, Jared, and you know it," she contended. "vVben 'we sit dOWil to this table we're too high above it. You could have pieces of wood glued on the ends o{ the legs. That would be easier than to saw off the ends of all the chair legs." "1 don't agree with your proposition at all, ConIdia," said :\1r. Plunkett. "I think the table is just righL But I'm willing to compromise the matter. You have been want-ing a hardwood floor in this dining room for a fong time, haven't you?" "Yes," "Vv~ell, we can have .that new kind of hardwood floor that i5 laid on top of the old floor. That \'v'ill raise the table, of course, just so much. How will that do?" This seemed to be a fair proposition, and without a moment's hesitation Mrs. Plunkett accepted it as a satis-factory compromise.- Ex. A Convenient Drawing Table. Among the many valuable conveniences manufactured for use in wood working shops, schaab, offices, for architects, and engraving plants by the Grand Rapids Hand Screw Com-pany, is the draughting desk illustrated here\vith. It is suhstillltially constructed and its utility recognized at a glance. The company will be pleased to supply further information in l-egard to the same. Improvements in Machinery. Alexander Dodds reports business improving. On a re-cent visit to his vi'Ood\yorking machine works a twenty-five spindl e dovetailer was shown ready to· be packed for ship-ment to Cologne, Germany. This machine has important improvements not on other machines, but may be had on future orders. A new No.4 tilting saw table was about completed for Grand Rapids Furniture Company. Mr. DOdds has a new lock mortising machine about ready to put on the market, which will make the key hole at the same time it makes the mortise. This machine can also be used as a horizontal boring machine when necessary. ].'lr_ Dodds believes in making up-to-date maehinery, and in order to do so must have up-to-date iron and steel working tools to produce; them. One of the latest of these is a new gear cutting mac'hine that cost over one thousand dollars. It i5 the best machine of its class on the market. THE Wellin~lon"olel Cor. Wabash Aye. & Jackson· Boulevard CHICAGO Remodeled at a cost of $150,000 Hot and cold running we.teY and long dillo lance 'phonell in aU roomll. 200 rOOII15. 100 with balh. Sinsleor en suite. Rates $1·00 and upwards. One of the most unique dWiolil rooms in the country. Our famousIndianCafe. NOTE~ FOR SERVICE .NO CUSINE McClintock and Bayfield PROPS. • WHEN IN DETROIT STOP AT Hotel Tuller I• New andAInoIutely Fireproof Cor. Adams Ave. and Pal'£:.St. Inthe Cenler ofthe Theatre. Shop-pint, and Business District. A Ia Carte Cafe Newellt and FineetGrili Room in the City. Oub Breakfast • 40e up Luncheon - - - 5lk Table d·hote Dinners _ 75c MUQcfEom6P. M. to 12 P. M. Eve.ry 'room has e.pyive.te bath. EUROPEAN PLAN Ratelll·$l.50 per day and up. L. W. TULLER, Prop. M.A. SHAW, Mgr . !1 / 10 SPINDLE MACHINE ALSO MADE WlTH 12, 15, 20 AND 2.') SPINDLES. DODDS'NEW DOVETAILING GEAl\. MACHINE This little machine has done more to perfect the drawer work of furniture manufacturers than anything else in the furniture trade. For fifteen years it has made periect-fitting, vermJn-proof, dove· tailed stock a possibility. This has been accomplished at reduced cost, as the machine cnts dove·taJ1s in gangs of from 9 to 24 at one operation. ALEXANDER DODDS, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Reptesented by Schuchart & Schuttll at Berlin. V"aenna, Stockbolm and SI. Pelel'6bul'lE. Replesentative by Alfred H. Sdiutle at Colollne. Brussels, Uege. Paris. Milan and B11boa. Represented in Great Britian and Irdand by the Oliver Machinery Co., F. S. TbolDPSOIl.Mar .• 201·203 DeaB8lil8te. Mandlel!l:er,England. MICHIC;A:\I ARTISAN ,..-------------------- I II II! I !II II ! ! 13 I Oran~Da~i~sDlow Pi~e I an~Dust Arrester (om~an~ Tn Il LATEST device for hOJl(Uing shavings alld dust from all wood- 7e'orl~illgmachines. O'urnineteen years experience ill this class of 'zr ..wrk has haugilt it uearer perfection than any other system on the market today_ It is 1/0 experiJncnt, but a demonstrated scieJltific fact, as '(:t'C have sCiNral hUIl-dred of these s'J.'stcms in use, alld !lot a poor Olle among thent. Our AutOl1Wtic FUYllGce Feed System .. as S1107J.min th,is cut, is the 1I10st perfect 7.t1orkhlg dc'vice of anything in this lille. Write for ollr prices for equipmellts. WE MAKE PLANS AND DO ALL DETAIL WORK WITHOUT EX-PENSE TO OUR CUSTOMERS. EXHAUST FANS AND PRES-SURE BLOWERS ALWAYS IN STOCK. Office and Fa.ctory: 208-210 Canal Street GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. Citizen. Phone 1282 Sell. Main 1804 -----~~OUR A~UTOM:ATIC FURNAOE FEED SYSTEM • 14 MICHIGAN ARTISAN I!STABLISt'1ED 1880 Puel.'IlIHIlfCl BT MICHIGAN ARTISAN CO. ON THE: lOTI-! AND 25TH OF EACH MONTH O~FICI!~106.110.112 NORTH DIVISION ST•• GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. ENTERED .0.8 MIITTER OF TI-IE SECOHD CLAU "\\Te sell from six to ten \Vidicomb dressers a week of a certain pattern, mainly because our salesmen like to sell it. It has so many good features that it mo\'es easily and satisfies the purchaser. By offering this dresser in pref-erence to others of its class. the salesrrell save much time which they spend in trying to sell other articles of household use." The manager of the furniture section of a large department store who utte~ed tile statement quoted above is an able business man of large experience, who is ever in the market for articles that will sell as readily as that certain kind of John Vv'iddicomb dresser. Have you anything of that kind in your line, :-'Ir. Manufactu-er? .,., The habit of looking at freights, not goods, has caused buyer3 to stand pat against a purchase because of ten or fifteen cents in the rate, when there was fifty cents dif-ference in the goods in favor of the more distant market Such huyers are governed by small things rather than by large ones. During the current and the coming year hventy-five sky-scrapers of enormous size \",ill be erected in the city of New York. Quite a market foj· furniture will be created ,V:WE thL'''t' buildings shall be made ready for occupancy. '.,' 't' 1Iemories ,of pa~t unpleasant experiellces cause lack of confidence in salesmen. It is wen to forget the past. Look upwards, as the sailor does when the weather threatens his life, and push onwa:·d. "t" "t" The open opposition of the bankers to the general ad-option of the Oklahoma system of guaranteeing deposits furnishes an argument to depositors for supporting the plan. Isn't, it strange how business continues to improve so shortly before the presidential election 1 Evidently the people do not fear the future, whatever the outcome may be. In salesmanship it is not commendable to give a' buyer a leader on an article he knows and then "soak" him on the sale of an article he does not know. 't' 't' Neither the people who think the worst of you nor the people who think the best of you are correct in their es-timates of you. 't' 't' One factory would serve the needs of a community as well as ten if the people did not buy more than they actually need. The iron and steel mills are fully employed ill filling orJers. and the prospects fOi a continuance of business are good. "..,l." "..,I." Xine-tenths of human t~linking is unreasonable. the most of the sane otie-tenth. l\Iake "..I." 0..1.0 , , There are not so ma.p.y differences of opinion of the methods employed to express the same. "f' "t" as there are The salesman who is copfident that trade may be gained by going after it vigo:ously is seldom disappointed. Some !:ialeSmell are born great, some achieve greatness, 2nd others put up a successful bluff. The bank will not ca~h a draft on hopc, and yet it is a good thing to havc. The salesman who tries to bnd a reason for some of the things a buyer does is up against a big job. Trade ~chool Teachers Organize. A meeting of tellchers employed in trade and training sc11001slocated in various parts of the United States was held n J\fuskegon, Mich., recently when an organization was effected with the following officers: President, Lui Dratz, Muskegon; vice presiJent, Fred Mc- Earcheron, Kearney, Neb.; secretary, T. R. Raymond Stahl. Columbus, Ohio; treasurer, \ValterHanson, St. Joseph, "~:lo. Tile executive power is vested in a board of six, of which the secretary is chairman, and Clarence Hardy, Oshkosh, \Vi!:i.; Alfred J, S. Boucher, Chippewa Falls, \hlis.; Harry Beck, Quincy, Ills.; Harold Slayton, Minneapolis, Minn.; David Scull', Burlington, Iowq; and Vilalter "Hanson, St Joseph, :Mo.' are members. The first annual meeting will be held during Christmas vacation in Muskegon. The memhership as pres-ent extends from Ohio to :VIontana and from Minnesota to Mississippi. The association is alTtlated with the Hackley Manual Training SchooL To Manufacture Furniture, Emerson Furniture Company, Brooklyn; to manufacture furniture and household goods; capital $5,000. Incorpor-ators: Samuel D. Kay. Jersey City; David Strausman, No, 81 East Fourth street, New York; Joseph Sookne, No. 2151 83d street, Brooklyn. Klien Brothers' Bamboo \\Torks, New Yo k; to mnnu~ facture furniture, especially of bamboo; capital, $5,000. In-corporators: Jake K. Klein, No. 244 West 112th st>eet; Joseph K. Klein ani Kate Klein, No. 129 West 112th ::itreet, all of ~ew York. 1\1. J. McCaffrey Company, New York: to manufacture coffins and caskets; capital, $5,000. Incorporators: George Tiernan, Charles E. Patton, John G. Hogan, 1\0. 54 \Vall street, New York. With the Girrib1e Store. Everill S. Brower, formerly with the Sligh Furniture Company, has entered the employ of Gimble Brothers, gell-eral merchants in Milwaukee. MICHIGAN AkTISAN ----_._---~._~ II I Pittsburgh Pl~b!~2n:d~nass I Plate Glass. Mirrors. Window Glass. Ornamental Figured Glass. WIRE GLASS, the Great Fire Retardant. CARRARA GLASS. a New Product Like Polished White Marble. Company For anything in Builders' Glass, or anything in Paints, Brushes, or Painters' Sundries, address any of our branch warehouses, a list of which is given below: NEW YORK-Hudson &ondVandam. 5ts. CLEVELAND-1430.1434 West Third S1. BOSTON-·tl~49 Sudbuf')" St•• 1.9 Bowker St. OMAHA -1608·10·12 Harney St. CHICAGO 442·452 W.baah Ave. ST. PAUL-459·461 Jackson St. CINCINNATI-Broadway and Court St.. ATLANTA. GA.-30-32 ..34 S. Pryor 8t. ST. LOUIS-Cor. Tenth and ~ruce 51s. SAVANNAH,GA--74S-749 Wheaton St. MINNEAI'OLIS-500_S16 S. Tbird St. KA.NSASCITy-rUth and Wy-.ndott. 8ts· DETROIT-53·59 Ll\rned St., E. B1R,M1NUHAM, ALA.-2nd Ave. and 29th St. GRA....O RAPIDS, MICH.~39.41 N. Division 8t BUFFALO, N. Y.-312·14·16 ..78 Pearl St. PITTSBURGH-Iol-I03 Wood St. BROOKLYN 635-637 Fulton St. MILWAUKRE. W1S.-492.494 Ma1"ketSt. PHILADELPHIA-Pitcairn Bldg.• Arch and 11th-Sts. ROCHESTER, N. Y.-Wllder Bldg.• Main t1fE.zchangeSta. DAV&NPORT-410-416 Scott St. BALTIMORE-31Q.12·14 W. Prat1 St. Sole distributer. of PATTON'S SUN PROOF PAINTS. ~----_._---_. Wood Bar Clamp Fixtures Per Set SOc. OVER 15,000 OF OUR STEEL RACK VISES IN USE 2;; doz. Clamp Fixtures boug-ht by one mill last year. We ship on approval to rated firms. and ,l!"uarantee our goods uncondi-liollally, lVrite for list of Sfeel B(tr Clamps, Vises, Bench Stops, etc. E.". S"ElDON So CO. 283 Madison St .• Chicago. BAPIO-AOTmG WOODWOBU&'S VISE No.:S: t ___________ .____________ I • • I ----_.----.~ p-EL- (TRADE MARK REGUSTEREDJ I I Paint and Varnish Remover I Things don't grow without nourishment. Manufacturers do not increase their I facilities unless there is a growing demand to supply. In point of sales, Ad·el-ite Paint ! and Varnish Remover is tar ahead of any similar preparation on the market and I our new, thoroughly equipped plant enables us to give better service than ever before. You will find that Ad-el-ite contains more energy to the gallon, has fewer dis- I agreeable features and brings better results than anything you can get. Eats down through any number of old coats of hard paint, varnish, wax, shellac or enamel leaving the surface in perfect condition for refinishing. Send for Free Sample. STA.E CHICAGO j ...._---------------------------~-----------' 15 16 MICHIGAN ARTISAN WOMEN SELL COFFINS. Advantages Possessed by Salesladies on the Road. Salesl'adies have come to stay. The commercial's pros· pcrity congress recently held in New York afforded a good chance for il1,quiricson this point. The replies were mouot· onously unanimous. "To stay? -VVhy,you coulden't get them out with a ton of dynamite!" There is something rueful' in 'a regular knight of the grip when he talks about his profession~l sisters. One of them told an especially harrowing tale. He ran up against his [LT5t female competitor last fall when he started out ,"lith a line of holiday goods. He was going on at a leisurely gait, taking a good line of orders from his old customers, when he struck Cleveland and disaster. The first dealer he called on met him with the blithe annOUllcement that he had come to.o late; a "sweet and aimiablc young WOmall'" had been there and hzd received the entire holiday order. "Not the entire order?" stammered the dumfounded man. "Yes; everything she wanted." Every customer the man had in Cleveland had gone over to the enemy. He hustled on to Columbus. She had been befo:·c him there. It was the same at Cincinnati and a little more of the same at Indianapolis. He finally caught up with her at Denver and proceeded to find out for himself what sort of wizard this sweet and aimiable person was. H", had to admit that she was the cleverest, mcist diplo-matic woman he haj ever met and that her success was legiti-mate. He found out afterward that it was her first trip and that when she had been out three weeks her house had to wire her to holJ on a bit, for she was sendil1g in orders faster than they coul'd fill theln. "I know a young woman who sells hats (and so do I when I can keep ahead of her)," said another salesman in re~ lating his experience; "but let me' drop in behind her and it's all day with me, fOe·when she strikes a town she carries away every order in it. "'But in this she has the advantage of me; sJ:e is Etrjk:ngly pretty for a milliner's model and tries .on every shape hat she has for sale among her samples, and sbe places them all on her pretty head in such a coquettish ano g~acefut ·way that it shows off the beauties of the hats to perfection. No""\,, I would look pretty trying on ladies' hats, wouldn't I? "These women are as a rule a strong, healthy, clear headed ~llld in every way belong to the twentieth century. S~)me of them do exactly as men do-visit the merchants personally and solicit orders. Others rent a suite of rooms in the best hotel in which to display goods, notify their customcrs and await them there. "And there is still" another class who catcr to individual custom~ and these are too very successful. Quite a number of New York women work in this manner. "There is one young woman who travels for onc of the largest houses in Cincinnati. She is of Irish parentage and has the beautiful eyes and complexion we so often see among the Irish-American girls. Her figure is simply perfedion, and all of the madenp garme"nts among- her samples are made on the wall, and when she .once dons them she shows them to the best advantage, and she seldom fails to get an order. "She told me she was a graduate of one of the' leading colleges for women in America, and has since studied every art that might be of benefit to her in her business. She has had many offers of marriage from some ,of her best customers, but she is happy and conterit to live on her salary of $4,000 a year and commissions, which often run it up to $5,000, be-sides all of her expenses. i ! "Her trade is worth $300,000 a year to her house, and this is enormous when it is considered that for only six months in the year these goods can be sold." One of the most successful is a Mount Vernoll woman. For years she solicited orders for corsets from door to door. her success was phenomenal beyond the wildest expectations of the firm she worked for, and they could not comprehend extraorJinayability. She is now a wholesale representative for this same firtn of corset manufacturers and commands a salary of $5,000 yearly. Another well known woman is one whose husband form-erly traveled for an underwear house. He died leaving her with a large family to support, and it occured to her that she might take up her husband's business. She accordingly went to the firm and asked f.or the pos-ition. They demurred at first, fearing to trust a woman to handle this kind of ~oods; but finally, through sympathy and a desire to help t9~: 'wife of one who had so long and faith-fully served them, },ney cons~n.ted to give her a trial. Her success was prom~re· and stnklllg. Each mail brought fresh evidence of it and the result is she is now a cOl1fidental member of the firm. A Philadelphia w(an-an almost monopolizes the trade of her territory itl fruit extracts, flavoring and spices. She does not spend on an av~ragemore than two weeks at home during the entire ye<4r~:p •• She is but twenty-five, and receives a salary of $3,500 a~ear and all her expenses. THE One-half MICHIGAN Our Trade now Dupllcale TRUCK on, Triplicale Orders Every Purc::haser Sallsfied There's a Reason HARD· WOOD FRAMES MALLE-ABLE IRON CASTINGS M.M.A L.OO. HOllY, MICH. One young woman sells coffin trimmings for one of the large silver manufacturers in COllneticut. Her success has been wonderful, the house often being obliged to call her in during the year owing to inability to fin her orders promptly. Another woman sells collins, and onc of her "knight" rivals says she sells so many that undertakers have to make kindling wood of them to get their stocks reduced, people don't die fast enough to keep up the demand. Her house allows her ample money for expenses and pays a liberal salary besides. Occupants of Burns' Chair Must Treat. In one of tbe rooms of a Dumfries public house is an old arm chair which is said to have been frequently used by the poet Burns. All who sit in this chail' are expected to treat everyone who is in the room at the time, and often the immortal memory of the famous Scottish national poet is drunk. Notwithstanding the efforts of the mill operators to re-duce production, the quantity of lumber cut during the year 1907 was considerably larger than in 1906. :I] ] CHI C; "\ l\ ;\], T ] S ;\ l\ 17 ~----- -----------------_. III, f!II Any Practical Mechanic appreciates the importance of simplicity in machinery. Our No.5 Table Leg Machine is far superior in simplkily of construction over any other make of machiJle, yet embodies a11 tl)l" latest improvements, special attention beitlg' called to the Cuttel'"head, lhe Variable Friction Feed and the Oaeillating Carriage. Consider the above, and then hear in mind that this machine t1lrns Tou1Jd,octagon, hexagon, square or allY other shape, all with the same (\1tterhead. Also, that onl:! man with it can do lhe work of ai:lt or eight hand turners -and we guarantee the work to be llatisfactory. DOll't you [Iced such a machi11e? Then write II ~._---- c. Mattison Machine Works 863 F;fth Street BELOIT. WISCONSIN. •i ._--~ II (tlarence lR. ~::~:fD5 MrCH.1 __ •...1 If your DESIGNS a.re right, people want the Goods. That makes PRICES right. I DOES IT lti3 Madison Avenue-Citizens Phone 1983. '--_._----_. ----_. ._------_.~ IMPROV£O, EASY 'ND El EVATO RS I QUICK RAISINC Belt, EJectric and Hand Power. f The Best Hand Power for Furnit",r, Stores I Send for Catalogue and PriceS'~- KIMBAll BROS, CO" 1067 Ninlh 51•• Council Bluffs, la, Kimball ltlevator Co.• 323Prospect St., Cleveland, 0.; 1(1811th St., Omaha, Neb.; lZOCedar St., New York City. ---------_.~ ~------------------- I The Universal Automatic I CARVING MACHINE ===~PERFORMS THE WORK OF ===~ 25 HAND CARVERS And tloes the Work Better than it can be Done by Hand -------MADE BY Union [MUOSSlnn M1Cnlnr Co. Indianapolia, Indiafta Write for Information, Pri<:es Etc • ._-----_._------- ....._--- II ! West Side 36 Inch Band Saw Machine, Gleason Palenl Sectional Feed Roll, ----------: -MANUFACTURE!) 8"'" I WEST SIDE IRON WORKS: CRAND RAPIDS, MICH" U. S. A· ; 1!. lV. Petrie, OU/'agent8 f01' Canada. t OjfiU8, ']'oronto, }lontreal and Vancowver. •1 • l·--·-------------~ I 1Loufsbabn DESIGNS AND DETAILS OF FURNITURE 154 Livingston St. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN t. . --l I 1 Citizens' Telephone 1702. 18 MICHIGAN MANUAL AND TRADE TRAINING IN RAPIDS. GRAND , Outgrowth of the Kindergarten System. P;obably llO subject of study which has been introduced into the curriculum of the Grand Rapids public schools has experienced a more rapid growth and a more wide spread popularity than manual training. It is the fore-runner and nearest approach to the much talked of trade school, which has found so much favor in the east and in the larger public school systems of the United States. Having its beginning in the kindergarten and primary grades, the wo k has spread to the grammar grades and high school within the last few years. And now a new "l\-1al1ual Traillin~:r High School" building is to be erected which will make large provisions for the classes in manual training' with modern equipment and facilities which will be unequaled by tiny city of its size in the middle west outside of oti.e de-vOtil1g an enti~e bU1hllng to this subject'. The public has taken a wide interest in the work aud last winter, when for a month the schools gave a public exhibition, ;:t Ryerson library, of practical work in manual training !111,J domestic science which had been done, there was tnUCil admiration and interest expressed on the part of the many who visited the creditable display. Wood carving is one of the principal things which boys are taught and what could be more fitting in the world's Furniture Ci.ty? But it is not alone in tables, c;lairs and fancy pieccs that the boys excell but in some taings which savor of real ca'·p-entry. This is witnessed in the work which the boys in \ .-" ,.,' , IT IS A BLOT upon the ability of every lumiture manuladurer, superintendent, foreman, and salesman to lack a cotrett knowledge of the fundamental principles 01 sketching, detailing, ornamental drawing and the period styles, and we have a course 01 instructions that works wonders as an eraser. Grand Rapids School of Designing 542-545 Houseman Building, Grand Rapids. A. KIRKPATRICK, hutruetor and De.i.per. \ ARTISAN the trmlnt school did last year in the construction of a lal1nch, full sized, equipped in every way for practical utle. Rug weaving is another occup"tioll which approach{·;.; a trade in thc thoroughness in whicil it is taught. Mrs Constance Rourke W<lS the tirst to introduce thi" ill the l()c<~lschools. At the \Viddicomb street ."dlOol, or which she is principal, she caused the children in the nrst and sec-ond grades to have miniature frames made upon which they could weave, thus learning, although in the mil1<'ture, all the impo,tant principles of weaving a~d the handFng of colors. In higher grzdcs where heavier work can be managed the children weave real rugs and mats for the home", Sewitlg is anothe.r subject which is taught. Little gi Is make their own aprons, dresses and other articles of wear-ing apparel. And they make th1ngs for "baby;" hemst:tch handkerchiefs fo~ "Mamma" el'nd "Papa,"and learn to do general practical sewing. There are kitchens in which they receive instruction ill cooking, and it is wonderful how quickly these Ettie oneS learn to make hutter, bake b cad and cook numerous other articles of food. The instruction in this branch is very -thorough and is of untold value to the·child. There are nine manual training cente s in the city loc!lted as follows: Centra! l\{anllal Training school. 117 "Barclay street, Diamond street school, Hall street school, Jefferson avenue, Madison avenue, Plainfield avenue, Sigsbee, 5t aight Street and Turner street sel: ools. The entire manual training system of the city is under tlw sl1pervlsion of L. R. Abbott. who is assisted by twenty- (~ight tcachers including the six domestics. The first fOll':' grades have folding, cutting, especially free· hand cutting, clay molding and sand table work. Miss Good-rich has charge of this work but is assisted in decorating and designing by Mrs. Helen J. Torrey. 1\1rs. To"rey has entire supervision of the drawing alJd some very gratifying results have been obtained since, by the liberality of thc board of education, the equipment for draw-ing has been greatly increased. In the fifth and sixth grades the boys have knife work and the girls have sewing. At present only ·one hour a week is given to the ·work, but the time will be lengthened to tWIl hours this coming year. The seventh and eighth grades have, for the boys carp-entry; they are taught not only to construct but to use tools correctly, to do their work aceun~tely 2nd in a, worklll<:.n-]jk~ m<:.nner. T11e gi.rls are tangllt an the arts of cookin3, and show much interest and ability in lea·ll:ng. The amount of time devoted to manual training in thes.e grades has been dclttbled ;!1lC1now tbe pupils go directly to the 111<11111<11 trai-ning ccnter ;\nd spend onc entire school scssicn a week at the work. Illfr. Abbott has immediate supervision of thc last fOUT grades which are in excellcnt condition. Every pupil in the Grand Rapids public schools be·tween the (Irst and ninth gades take a course in manual train:n:s. Tn the High school the only work in manual tratnlll::{ at present is mechanical drawing, but as sOOn as the "New Manual Training High School" is completed, and under favorable circumstances, it will be ready for USe in about two years, a thorough advanced course in manual training will be given with the academical courSe. Many and varied are the opinions for, and against, a man-ual training course being of ally practical benefit to the child. As a rule mothers and teachers notice manifestation of this benefit in the deportment of the child, the interest he dis~ plays .in his work and the exac.tness with Wh1Chhe does any task alloted him. The mother notices how neat John is becoming; in fact! ( Concluded on page 22, ) I• ------------------- - - - YIICIlICAJ\' ARTISAN SCHOOL LIBRARY GRAND JlAP1DS HIGH SCHOOl. I !I II I ! DOMESTIC SCIENCE ROOM GRAND RAPIDS HIGH SCHOOl- • I() iI I I I • MICHIGAK ARTISAN I ROYAL WHITE MAPLE POLISHING VARNISH~ 20 ROYAL White-the Emblem of Purity-our White Maple Polishing Varnish is Pure-and the WHITEST GOODS on the market. It dries to recoat every other day; can be rubbed and polished in four to five days. Ask for testing sample. I VARNISH COMPANY I TOLEDO, OHIO I • • New Belt Sander for Flat and Irregular Work. The manufacturers of this machine had made it possible to sand all irregular shaped pieces with the grain and are making the machines to do it. The indispensible features of such a ra.bOT saving machine will appeal to every manu· facturer of case goods, chairs, tables, pianos, wood mantets your sanding department amI while there arc a few molded or irregular shapes you may be working over some kind of sanding' drum, disk, spindle or ordinary belt. you will find it gOlle over by hand in ,order to get the finish necessary, and on the majority yOU will find that these shapes are being sanded by hand from start to fI11i~h. :J ow if yOU "\!ish to Number 111,\Sand Belt '!'.ladline and plumbers w.ood work. Not only will these machines sand and polish the same dass of "vo..-k, whlch the manll-facture~- s as above stated have been compelled to do by hand, but as nn advantage over the disk, drum and spindle sanding would justify these manufacturers in throwing every one of tbem out, and mally of the largest and 1110st pros~ perOU5 w,ood workng plants have already seen fit to do so. :Mal1Ymanufacturers have been using a two to three drum sand('x and even 11l,ore for years, paid likely a thousand dol-lars for each, consider same indispensible and the onty thing you can sand on same is flat surfaces. Now, since one-half or two-thirds of the pieces in the construction are irregular shapes, would not a sand belt machine, capable of sanding this class of work to a perfect finish with the grain as weB as for polishing 11at surfaces, be just as indispensible and even more profitable. The drum sander is considered in-dispensible. This is due to. the fact that manufacturers ~lavc always been accustomed to sanding or finishing irregular shaped pieces by hand and expect nothing el'se. It is no more necessary for y.ou to sand this class of work by hand than it is the flat surfaces. You may be under the im-pression that these irregular shapes are being sanded by some kind of sanding device in your factory and of course know that you cannot afford to do it by ~land when there is a machine to be had, which will do it better, and the above sand belt will. It is well worth your time to investlgate in • abandon hand sanding and get a more perfect finish than you are now getting and at less cost would advise that you communicate with the vVysong & Miles Company, of Greens-boro, N. C, who a.re making a specialty of sand belt machines for doing the class of work in question. By the use of ma-chines, which they have brought out, it is ffi(-lde possible for wood working manufacturers in almost every line to abandon sanding by hane!' They arc building abDut eight different salld belt mac1lincs adapted especially to the requirements of every wood \-vorker and they do not try to apply one ma-chine to everybody's I"cGuirements, which never has nor neveI" will be done successfully, Drop a line sta.ting what you aI"e manufacturinf: ar,d ask them to send cut <lud full particulars ni the 'mach!11e, which they recommend for your requin>- l11(;nt~. [-(. the fc1l6witig addresses o'i the lTI:wufadurers: \Vysong & Miles Company, Cedar street and Southern R. R, Greensboro, N. C Suspicious. Manufacturer-"l can ]lot put faith in that tra.veling designer. Salesman-"Why?" Manufac.turer-"He did not tell me 1 do not know how to manufacture and sell furniture:~ ~'------ I III II !I ,I I ~1I CHI G A K ART I S A K 21 ._------------_._----_._-_.~I It makes a perfect imitation of any open grain because it uses the wood itself to print from, and one operator and a boys can do more work with it than a dozen men with any other so·called machine or pads on the market. That's Why It's a Money Maker. It Imitates Perfectly. couple of THIS MACHINE MAKES THE MONEY 50 Machines Sold Las! Year -:I 50 I More I Satisfied I Manufacturers IIII II• Plain or Quartered Oa.k, Mahogany, Walnut. Elm. Ash ot' any other wood with open grain. Posselius Bros. Furniture Manufacturing Co. Fot' Prices and Full Particulars. Mention the Michigan Artisan, Write the Detroit, Mich. HELLO GIRLS TRAIN FOR JOBS. 7.000,000 Telephones in Use-13,OOO,OOOMiles ot Wires in This Country. ''Few people know lhat there are 7,000,000 telepholles now ill llse in the UniLed States," said a well-posted telcpllone ntan in speaking of the remarkable growth of the telephone in recent years, "Env know, too, that there are abollt 13,000,000 miles of telephone wlres in operation in this country, not to speak of the many miles of wires w:;cd in switchboards and other apparatlls under root. The wires reach from coast to coast and from Canada to ;"[exico, and a man ill )[cw YO;'k call talk to al\other man in Omaha .. and each can hear the other <15 distinctly as though one ',vere in the Bn:mx and the otber at the Battery. There wilt soon come a time \,\'heo )JCIV Yorkers can talk ,vith San Francisco or other cities along the Pacific Coast. "Some surprising fignres are :=;hOv..'1l in tbe cost of oper-ating this va!5t system. For instance, th~ ·value of the wire and other apparatu"l and the labor cost for installation alll-ounts to about $175,000,000, Tbcre are about 25,COO,OOO tol! connections tbroughout the Ullited Stales and more than 8,OOO,OOO,COO exchange connections. Th~~cost of mainta.ining the standard oi senrice is enormous. Last. year the various telephone companies paid about $54,0(;0,000 fOt- maintenance and reconstruction of plants. Dne SySt;;1T1. alone, the Bell, spent $36rOOO,COOlast year. "\Vhi1e the Bell syst<:m is by far the largest in this country there are several hundred ::;maller and independent telephone concerns that maintain all e:xccllent service, "The whole territory of the Bell Company and its sub-sidiaries has beell divided into dcparirnents, and over each has been placed a 111an 1,,,ho is responsible to the Directors. The lIC~' system includes the business, plant, and traffic departments, and each of these dcparl1nel1ts is sub-divided, anu every head 01 a department 01' sub-department an the way up the line is responsible to a man higher up. wbo in tDrn is responsible to the one still higher up, unt.il it gets to tbe manager of one of t.he three departments. "In rccent years the system oi obtaining operators has changed. ::.\"0 long ago a 'Jlcllo' girl was employed aft,:.r <I .<;111)(J'1icial course of instrt1ctiol1_ Puo" servic,~ was the rcsult. ~ow the telephone compallies have schools of in-struction Sor the telephone operators. Sometimes it takes weeks for a 'bello' girl to get all the detail.s of the work. and to be graduated as a reliable operator, Often there are cases "INhere girls £Ire found unsuited for the W01-k. These schools of illstructioll cost. the Citudents nothing. The in-structors arc expert who have been in the employ of the company for several years. "In these schools of instruction the prospe~tive 'hello' girl is drilled in calming' the irritable customer who wants a Humber ;1nd W<ll1tsit Quick; also the customer who makes all tbe trouble he call for the girl at the switchboard. There is a set phraseology of replies to certain queries. All these she has to leam ktter perfect "The experts say that a. girl must have imagination to become a good operator. She has to see in her mind's eye all that is taking place on the wires and to be n:<1dy for every emergency. \Vithout that the 'hello' girl will always prove a failure."-T.in1t's, Long Time Leases. The permanency of the Grand R;lpids Furniture Ex~ position is assure(L 11any manufacturers ha"l/e taken leases for ten years in the exposition buildings. 22 MICHIGAN Manual and Teade Training in Grand Ra.pids. ( COlJthllled from paRe 18 ) he now puts his tools in their chest, hangs his hat on the rack, ne\r'er leaves his umb~ella lying around. His mother begins to understand \-vhen slJC remembers that John made the tool chest and hat and umbrella racks himself and Jle loves to use the things he made and by so doing is fDrming d habit of neatness. \-Vhen he has grown to manhood and left home these things will be cherished by lllotilCr. So, mothers appreciate manual training, for their children, It is a real help to tired mothers when they can trust their d~t1ghte;'s to do some sewing 'which the mothers can-not ftnd time to do themselves. The teaciJcr notices how prompt John is getting to school. How business~likc is his bearing. How accurate he is in the performance of his school dutics and how inten.'.sted he is in his work. Manufacturers arc taking every graduate from the manual Caining .schools and pl'acing them in positions which were formerly- .occupied by workmen of long experience; thls, of course, causes some antagonistic feeling on the part of the displaced workmen. Some of our local machinist mechanics, printers, and others can see no practical benefit derive.d from a manual training course. Oue gentleman, a leader in graft, said: ;'1 do not see that any practi.cal benefit is obtained thr.ough a manual training course. In fact were r to choose the way a child should obtain his education in trade work 1 would place him in a shop as' I do not 'approve of either the trade or manual training schools. My objections to the manual training school are iirst: The teachers are not competent to instT'uct t:1e pupil, not being mechanics themselves, secondly; the schools do not have the necessary equipment and facilities for completing: the courSe properly." Mr. J. D. FJaliagan, Secretary of Typographical Union. said: "The manual trailling proposition isa rather broad Cjuestion. J t closc1'y dovetails with the old apprentice system. Technical and trade schoob cannot be intelligently treated in tIle abstract." .He furth~r said that he had a step SOil who became p:-o-ficient ill the making of tabourettes in the local manual train~ ing schools, but on leaving sellenl found that there was no demand for tabourettc makers and considers that tl1e course he completed in school was of 110 practical benefit to hi.m. Speaking of the demand fa:' all-\'oulH~ v,rorkmen in the A.LHOlCOMD &CO@ MANUFACTURER5~ODEALER5 IN HIGH GRADE BAND AND SCROLL SA~S REFAIRING-SATI5fACTION GUARANTEED ClT1ZEN5 PHONE 1239 27 N MARKET 51 GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. ARTISAN J)"illtillg husiness, with V,.h·ell he is familiar, he said: "There are few openings for them, as the workmen are classitied ac-cording to their ability and ad,1ptability." Others disagrec- with file above opinions. One gentle-mall declared that a cour:se in manual training taught his boy how to use his hands, how to calculate and use his brain to tllC best advantage. v\lhile some of the things taught moly never be put into practi('.al use, at the same time they help -botll the boy and the girl to concentrate their thoughts. to give their undivi.ded attention to the work in which they arc engaged and to make them more observant than one who has taken no such cOlt-se, as the average man sees im-p<.~ rfectly. P. of. James says: ;'His images have broad fringes:" An employer, .also a father, was very emphatic in decl<1ring that the Grand Rapids manual training syste.m was very ben-eficial, not only to the pupil, but the .factories of the city; although at present it was opposed by some employers it would triumph -in the end by bringing forward men with a better industrial education. To sum up the result of many interviews with those both for and against the extension of manual training, it is safe to say that where one is opposed t~lere are twenty who favor it and that opposition will die a natural death in the course of a few years. • (1". :D3. '!batfiel". lDe&tgner Working drawings fllrnishcd for fine and medium Furniture, Chaitll and fallcy articles in modern and dassic: iltyles. Blodifett Bldg.. Grand Rapids. Mh::lt. Gllaf'tmteed .sellers. • WRITE FOR PR.ICES AND DISCOUNT WABASH B. WALTER & CO. INDIANA Manufacturen nt T ABLE SLIDES Exclusively • • ====:SEE:==== West Michigan Machine & Tool Co., ltd. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. for "Ill" GRADE PUNC"ES and DIES • • • I ~~M[I~We can help you. Time saved and when done I leave$ are hound (by your-self) and indexed by Boors or departments. BARLOW BROS., Gnwd R~id •• Mkh. Writt! Rigkt Now. • • WHITE PRINTING CO., GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. PRlNlERS OF CATALOGUES and eve')'thing needed by buoineoa men ~lTCHIGA)! ARTISA:\ 23 r--------------------- I STANDARD SHADES ADOPTED BY THE CRAND RAPIDS FURNITURE MANUFACTURERS' ASSOCIATION (jj Uniformity and a definite standard for all popular finishes will soon be possible_ The above Association has adopted, after carefully considering many different shades of the popular finishes, a set, which will be known as nStandard,n thus enabling a chair manufac-turer to produce the same Early English as the table manufacturer. The dea)er will no longer have the matching difficulty. II We expect to have board samples ready in another month, and shall forward a set of boards and enough stain powder of each shade for experimental purposes for $1.00. This we figure ....i.ll just about cover the expense. Sets will be forwarded in rotation of orders received. Cash must come with orders. The samples. directions, and suggestiolls for the production of these certainly are worth much more, but we feel in a measure obligated to our p:ltrons. therefore the propositioll. Attend to the order now. ---------~,, WALTER K. SCHMIDT COMPANY II LGRAND RAPIDS=,=====_========MICHIGAN S4-SS CANAL STREET Veneer and Furniture. Ther-e is such close association between fUrJliture ~ll1d the face veneer that 'when the furniture tr<lde i;;; slovv the '\-'t'lleer trade is correspondingly sluggish. Flt~niturc 111;1ll-lIfactl1rtrs afe not the only people who lIse veneer hy ally means, but the fun,iture tmde docs furnish a sort ,of ther-mometer to the ups and downs of the veneer business. And this year, in addition to the furniture trade being hit hard with the depression, the building t:·ade and consequently the planing mills got their share. too, and this added tn the c1epl"E,:ssionin the veneer market. for the planing mills !la,'c come to be quite prominent in the veneer llsing trade. A queer thing about it all is that the piano manufacturers do not seern to have suffereel as much as the furniture people. aud compar;Jtivcly spe<lkillg thee has seemingly beeu ;' betler demand for mahogany veneer than for native ·WOO(!. In fact, ,vhile th<: mahogany trade ha:~ suffered somcwhat. it has realty done fairly welt, exceptionally well considcnng the slow lumber market in all other lines. The only t'hlug that has done better has heen quartcrd oak, and that \\ a;; in lumber instead of yen('Cl". It has been a little difficci1t to understand why <-luartere(( oak has /)e('11 in such g·oad demand "vhile quartered oak veneer has been rather slow. It is probably because there have been other prominent calls for quartered lumber Qutside of the furniture nnd building trades p~oper. So 011e seems to he able to ex.plain hO\\' it happened that the piano trade has kept up practically to its normal during the full period, Probably it was because it would have been ctlormonsly big had the counLy continued to prosper in the old way, and is really small in proportion t.o what it would have heen and yet large compared to the demand for furniture. l-'iano manufacturers, of COUI·se, have been running: it little COI1- servative and not buying as eTlthusiastically as thcy would if times were better, bttt for all that .it is said tJ);lt they ball I• a splendid year. T'j,e furniture trade is now showil1g sign" of recovery; the foreign trade has been pretty slow.-Ex. A Mighty Cast. John \Vaddcll. ]nesic!cnt of the vVaddell Manufactnri;:\.s Company \-\'Ot1 tbe clWlllpiollShip of the fly caste~s assoe.ia- John Waddell. tion of the Unrted Slate,s recently. He cast a salmon fly 127 feet and eight inches, defeating Perry D. Frazer, the-ho1c. ler of the medal. IvL \Vaddell is justly proud of the trophy. 24 MICHIGAC'J ARTISAN Unsound Business Conditions. "The commercial traveler has it within his power to go the limit, yielding or not to the temptation of the grafting buyer and to the demand for exceessive time allowances for payment, hoth of which arc symptoms of unsound business conditions. These can be curtailed by the salesman them-selves in many instances, and with their competitors acting in good faith along the same lines, can be eliminated en-tirely," said Henry Clews, in an address to a convention of tTaveling salesman. Continuing, Iv1r. Clews said: "1 can ~ot11ing in the immediate future," declared the banker, "but what is promising, and our business s<':tb;u;:~( last year should be considered merely as a passing cloud to he followed by national prosperity still greater than before. The time has now come to cheer up and be brave in OUr business undertakings. Hereafter, day by day, we will be able to more clearly see the Phoenix arising from the' ashes of the recent panic." Just at present many of the smaller merchants in our country are like setting hens, and will lay no golden eggs. Shoo t11em off their nests and compel them to get busy. Money is plentiful and will be for a long time to come. En-courage them to get into debt. They are overcautious now and W~H1to be prodded a little. Down in \Vall Street we have all waked up during the past few weeks, and the troubles of last,year are but a nightmare. \Vall Street has always been the barometer of trade, and I believe it foretells great activity in the commercial world during the coming months. New Yorkers who recently went to the Denver COll-vention and did some traveling in Kansas during their trip had theirey':es opened to the conditions prevailing in that section of the country. They report the farmers as almost all havi1tg <1utomobiles to go to market in, thus showing their affiueJ¥ ';condition-and why not? They have had those eYend~l eight years of bountiful crops, which they have soId at_high prices, so that the strongest backlog that this co'i!ntry)w.s today against a continuation of panicky or depres~ed cooditions is the wealth of our farmers, who rep-resentthirtrfive per cent of thc labor class of the nation. The indust;pJ'nl manufacturers of this country represellt twenty-five percent of the, rabor class, who have enjoyed equal prosperity with the farmers except during the past year. These two great interests represent sixty per cent of the labor class, almost two-thirds of the whole popUlation." The Retailer's Side. The puhlic in general believes that no merchants have right to combine to prevent price cutting. They argue that if a man can sell lower than another he is the better mer-chant. In some few cases this is true hut as a rule the price-cutter is not making money. He is not demonstrating his merchantilc ability, but is merely ruining himself and all his brother merchants. \Vhen that is the situation, mer" chandising is being injured seriously, and a momentary ad-vantage is heil1g gained for the public. It will surely change, and the public will be oblige(l to pay for it all in full measure. The retailer has a right to his fair profit, and he has a legiti-mate fight to wage in preventing methods which bid fair to do harm only. Price cutting is the ill wind that blows nO· body good.-Oregon Tradesman. Sanitary Furniture. Something entirely new in furniture for combination day coaches and sleepers for railroads and for hotels and general use will be mallt.tfacturcd by the Sanitary Furniture and Car Seat Company, which will establish a factory, giving e.m-ployment to twenty-five men in Spokane. A Sekyra is pres-ident of the company, the secretary being N. H. Douchette. Mr. Sykra said: ,ql\le have organized a stock company with a capitalization of $100,000 divideJ into 100,000 shares of $1.00 par value and non-assessable, for the. purpose of manufacturing our patented c.ombination sleeping car and day coach beds, which are especially adapted for electric railway cars. Our inventions consist of furnishing for .all ordinary day coach which can be converted into a sleeping car 011 short notice, making compartments with plenty of air and comfort which we all know the old-style sleeping car lacks, and when wanted for day use all the heavy ob-structions and stuffy parts disappear, making a fine sani-tary day coach with plenty of air. OUT inventions are a150 adapted for use in hotels, lodging houses, private homes, steamboats and every lllac,e there is use for nice, sanitary beds and the use of the same space in the day time is wanted. \\Fe have other lines in connection with the foregoing." Will Erect a Warehouse. Twenty-five thousand dollars will be expended by Cohn Br.others, of Spokane, on a three-story furniture warehouse. The structure will be of brick and stone and cover 100 by HlO feet. It will be in two sections, the first to be built this fall and completed next spring. It will contain 30,000 feet of floor space> equipped with elevators and a modern sprink-ler system with other means fo;' fire protection. The firm will do the building by day labor to push it to completion. J. Cohn, buyer for the fi.rm, has just returned from Grand Rapids, St Louis and Chicago, where he bought $50,000 worth of goods for fall delivery. H. Cohn says that the year so far has been the best in the two years the firm has been in business in Spokane, "and,"he added, "the next twelvemonths we believe will exceed anything in Spokane history as the oevelopement of the state of Washington is phenomenal. During the next two years Spokane should add 40,000 to the population. We have every reason to believe that before the close of 1910 the hopes of the 150,000 club will have been realized." ~• --_._-------------.. Mr. Manufacturer:: Do You ever CQnsider what joint 81uW&" com? The repaatDn and wooden wedges. if you use lhem and many do, are a large item of expense accolUllsj but this is tn:IaD compared to wqe accounts of workmen who wear them out with a bllIQJIlel'.and then a lafie per celll of tbe ;mnts are faiIures by tbe insecwitr of this meam. RE5UL T. it hat to be done over agaill. if poSsible. H you Qge iJldependent screw clamps the result is bettet. but slower. a1to~tbertoo slow. Let lIS IelI you of something bettet, PALMER'S CLAMPS. AU aleel and iron. No wedies, no separators, adjust!<) any width. clamp ini!lantly yet .eeurely. releases even faster. Poeitively one-third more work with Dnt!l-third kSlI help. In seven tizes up !<) 60 inches, any thiclness Up 1(12 inches. 200 factoriet in 1906. Why Mt you in 1908 ? Alth<!u2h sold by dealers everywhere let UI. $CIlQ you palticulan. 1\. E. Palmer & Sons. Owosso. MIGh. FOREIGN AGENTS: ProieclileCo.. London, EnsJand. Sehuebardl & Schutte. Berlin. Gennany; <-- - rI ' /1 ,/ t MICHIGAN ARTISAN lOG. 110.112 I norl~Division Sf. ~ ..~~ ~~ Oran~Ra~i~s lOG, 110,112 norl~Division Sf. I Orand napMs OUR BUILDING Michigan Engraving Company :: White Printing Company Michigan Artisan Company E NGR A V E RS PR INT ERS BIND E RS Erected by White Printing Company, Grand Rapids. 1907. I I PRINT E RS BIN DE RS EN GR A V E RS 26 MICHIGAN ARTISAN III I No. 20. COMMQDE BUTTON. NO.21. DFlAWER I(NOB. SCHOOLS TAKE UP VOCATIONAL WORK. Increased Industrial Training to be Prescribed for All Boys of Twelve or More. \Vitbil1 two weeks New York will begin its experiment in vocational training, regarded by educators as the most impor-tant innovation introduced in the public schools in many years. "As the armor of the Middle Ages would be wholly in-adequate to resist- the modern build, so the ancient equip-ment of the three R's is totally inadequate to equip the coming generation fOf. the place that they must take in our essentially industrial civilization," declared Commissioner Frederic R. Coudert, Chairman of the Special Committee 011 Trade Schools, in his repoft urging a trial of fhe experiment. Commissioner Coudert and his commttee. who gave nearly six months of study to the situation in New York, say that the educational institutions of the city have not adapted themselves to the new conditions forced upon the people in the last two-score years by the vast changes re-sultant from the applications of science to industry. To meet the new problems and to place industrial training within the reach of boys and girls who do not wish to enter the professions or have not the aptitude or the opportunity to do so, the board of education, following out the plan suggested by its committee, has decided upon a twofold action. Effort will be made to improve the efficiency of the pres-ent system already i1).operation in the schools by reorgan-izing the manual training from a vocational point of view, so that it may bear a direct relation to the industrial effi-ciency of pupilE/ when they leave schooL The city has" 110W a great many schools without work-shops, i.n which there are boys in the seventh and eighth years. The board 'I;\.'iltintroduce workshops in SUdl schools throughout the city as rapidly as possible, adding to the tools now in use a turning lathe, combination saw and grinder. It is expected by this means to develop higher forms .of work than now attempted and to familiarize the older pupils with simple power machinery. As not a fe"'" boys reach the age of fourteen a11d are obliged to go to work befo,·e entering the sixth year, as is often the case on the upper and lower east sides, it is plan-ned also to give them early knowledge of the use of as many tools as possible and the advantages of shopwork. Just how this can be done has not been whol1y worked out. Some members of the board of education think it would be wise to curtail the time now given to the ordinary sub-jects of the common school curriculum, while other" say this would not be done. but that the additional time for shop work may he found by opening tile shops between In Maple, Birch. Oak or Mahogany. High grade. Nicely sanded. Choice of futenings. Write for catalogue and sampLes. Henry Rowe Mfg. Co., NEWAYGO. MICH. th ~ee and five o'clock each afternoon, on Saturday morn-ings. and, if necessary, in the evenings. Those favoring the latter plan argue that this will not be injurious as the use of tools involves the exercise of a great number of muscles not usually employed by a boy, and manual train-ing has always been popular with the boys. The board purposes to open special schools for boys ill the secondary ninth and tenth school years which shalt give training for particular vocations 0_· industries. Several types of these schools are to be organized, the course in each to be two years in length, the pupils to be those who have graduated Lom the public elementary schools or have reached the age .of fourteen and arc prepared to undertake the required work. A genera.l course will be prescribed to be taken by all the pnpils up to a certain 'point, and after that, a variety of industrial courses will be offered, anyone of which may be selected by the students on entrance. The board docs not expect these vocational schools to graduate journeyrr,cn or skilled mechanics, but to give the pupils skill in the use of tools and a knowledge of those processes and principles underlying constructive work, so that the pupil" may be able to apply the knowledge thus gained to definite and concrete p:-oblems. It is also hoped to do away, to a certain extent, with the situation created by the specialization in industries whieh has rendered it 50 difficult for "t young man to learn anyone trade completely. The board will establish additional night schools, primarily in-tended for young men al eady en:raged ::tS apprcntjc~s in trarles. Two such schools <He now in operation, one in l.. ong Island City and the other i:l Brooklyn, and it is proposed that a third shalt be established this session in the Stuyvesant high school building, where there is already adequate equipment for the work. Girls are also to share in this industrial education. As there is at p esent no sewing taught in the seventh and eighth years, it is pointed out by the commissioners that much the girls have already learned about sewing is for-gotten before they graduated. The boa~d will therefore introduce sewing as a required subject in all girls' schools where there are seventh and eighth yea,' classes, and wilt open in Brooklyn a separate vocational school for girls be-tween fourteen and sixteen.-Ncw York Times. j I .1 I Reedcraft Furniture. E. E. Dryden, for many yea.rs known to the trade as a commercial designer. with a residence in G. and ~ap:ds, is engaged in the manufacture of "Reedcraft" ft<rniture in San Francisco. The name adopted suggests reed furnitur'~, although Mr. Dryden says his processes aT.' ':0vered by letters patent. :cllCHIGAN Freight Often Goes Asttay. "VVhy in blazes haven't you filled our order of August! ?'. writes the illdig1lallt customer who has bought of the Chicngo wholesale honse. "What in blazes did yOll do ,vith flur shipment of August 2, billed to SO-;:IllCl-so, Skagtnwn?" writes the wholesale house to the ng-ellt at tJ](, railroad depot f:OIn which the goods should have been sent. "'vVhat in blazes arc t,Tor(':~-()ods, Packingcase & Co. kick-ing about?" wriu's the St2tiOll agent to the claim tlcpartml'l1t of the railroad at head(jll<l. ters. After which the claim clerk of the railroad gets busy. For the lost, ~Lay('d, or stolen shipment wbich doesn't arrive costs a railroad company more \\'or;'y and bother than all the wrecked goods knocked Railey \\'est from crooked. I\t least ill case of wreek the railroad knows 'INhere to look for dalnagc."i 1n the case of the lost shipment everything is gttess\vork as to how, when, and ·where of it. How does a package of freight get lost? The ways are multitudinous, Tn general there ;>;'c threc main possibilitics. It is loaJ.ell llltO the wrong car; or t1,('. gaOl\::; have been packed in a box at second hand, leaving the old stencil mark standi.ng out plainly as lH~\"';01' the w<iybiH blow;::, out of the band of t:,e train conductor Lom the rear end of the caboo5e, is mislaid by the stati.on agent at the receiving point, or disappears goodness knows how or l,V!lCIl. ::.\attFally, the tl"llCkm;!ll \\·ho earns his bread loading freight ;~ta depot. i.~ll't fitted for m;:lIlaging either it Sunday school or a wholesale business house. He l02ds sluff Oil a trtlck. trundles it out. on the platfo:-m, and wants t.o <l11m;J it as soon as pos"ible in the ·waiting: car. But there may be twenty or lift.y C,lrs to he loaded, headed for every point of t.he compass. A long car mllnhe~, snell as 179t567, stand-ing; close to a car cumbered SG797 is likely to be confusillg to hi1ll-'-<lnd a pnckag-e or a truck load of them get into the wrong pC\v. "\'\"h;lt. in blaxes became of that "hipmellt of Angust 2?" i" started at once. Cars at these platforms may have been loaded for Jive big terminal stations on the line and at such distances apart that a travelilLg claim clerk would need to spend a \veek visiting Hlem all. So the claim clerk starts it tr:J.ce:· through means of correspondence. H.as ally ag"Cllt at any of these station:> checked one pack;lge "over," billed to John Smith & Company, Skagtowl1? Just here tIle enreless shipper, using the o1.d packing case from which the old address has not been removed, may <':-lIt,·,: into tb(' myst.ery, "No," reports the agent from .:\Tilledg·eville, far to the <;ontlw,'est. "But w<.:- ;\l-t; 'over' one package addressed to \Villianl Jones & Company, Jonesville." \\'ell, tkl.t doesn't 111can nltlch to the clai\11 ckp<l.rtment, f01" Jones & Company haven't. raised a row abDut anything of the kind. \Vhat has become of the stuff for Smith & Company: \nd tlw claim departmcnt gets busier thall evcr, [n the I1H',llltiI1le the agent at. }Iilledgeville is holding t],e Joncs & Company shilJlpellt, for the reason that it had no bill of lading ,,\ccomp:1l1ying it and he doesn't wan't to for-ward it unt.il he knows \vhether it was prepaid or for col-lection at dcstillntioll. [n mally depots on many lines of road there is an "over" 1'00111 0" corner in the building devoted to the storage of such p<lckages After a few (];-\ys the package for Jones & Company Ends its \va,Y into this "ovc:r' room,'3!:;tn(}'tl,s m.arked side up I"eady for the first ~~l.il of the traye!iug clerk, ,,1.'110 !Hay be sent (lown the line in .se:Fcll of such claims. One day, lrrlt;lted and stn 'millg, the claim ilgent comes into the depot ill search of the missing Smith & C')I11P.:ll1Y package:, The Jones & Company case is there plain enough, J ~ ARTISAN 27 but in the rest of the heaped up matter nothing is the Smith & Company'S missing cOllsignmcnt, perhaps, the claim agent kicks over the JOlles & case. And there 011 the bottom of the box as reads; found of In anger, Company it. sat he * * * * * * * * * * * * * SMITH & CO .. * * SKAGTOW:\" MlCH. * * " * * * * '" * * * * * Do you wondel' that the claim agent swears, and the claim orflce s\vears and the shipper s\vears, and the con-signee. too? But the chid fault .,vas with the shipper, who didn't destroy the old marking on the box before he packed it again. Loading a shipment into a wrong car always has been a prolific source: of trouble to t.he claim department, Yea!""s ago J. F . .:\10I"tOll, now with the Chicago Association of Sketch by Oharles De Lana, Student in the Grand Rapids School of Furniture Designing. Corml1('rce, W"S agent for the Siltltbern Railway at Col-umbia, S. c., and, suffering from this f:equent. errOl" of t \lCknWH, adoph'd a SChel\.le to \HC-vent l11.istak(',s. Incident-ally, 1lot all of t.he trouble came to the claim department, either, for it \Va" uo UllC0111tTHJll thing to discoV('T an error had 1)(.. '('11 made with certain freight that had been lO<lded 11rst into ,1 ca;' and \",hell the ('nor \<va;:; di;:;covered t:·lE~ car was already nearly full. .:\1r. Morton's scheme was to disregard the ofllcial number of e,lrs tbd stood ready for loadil1g and to number them COlbl'Cl1ti\"cly' from one up t.o seven or f.\:velve, as tfle case might demand. As each truckman received his load he was handed a slip of paper on \vhich was written the number of the car to which it should go, At right augles to the: car was post.ed a board all which from either side the temp- Ol",ll":r "imple Humber could be read by t~'c truckman. In-side the car was posted a block of printe:d t.ickets coriespoud-ing to tlle car number outside. The dnty of the truckman \\-·;)s to retain his penciled slip, unload his truck, teal' off one of the p intecl numbers inside, and return, handing both slips to the forC111'l.n superilltending the loading. Joseph Howells, 28 MICHIGAN THE LONDON WORKMAN. by W. J. Blackmur. Generally his name is Bill. Call out Bill in a London crowd, and three out- of six men will turn sharply to see who wants them. Now to really think of the London workman, you must always disassocia.te your mind from any idea that he is at all like John Bull, that he is portly, has an upright bearing, looks-every- man-in-thc-face kind of mantler, and that he carries <1, stick, or turns up his trousers. That may be the way of the aristocratic English youth who adorns New "York with his presence, but London Dill, dees not trouhle about a little mud round the bottom of his trousers. At six in the morning, tllC priJ1cipal railway termini are crowded by men who have just arrived in London from the suburbs by the workman"s trains. They hurry out of the station, all with dead set faces, very few speaking to any one else, ,",,"ithtrue English reserve, they are in units, instead of groups in making up the crowd. The carly trains arc filled principally with the artisan, mechanic and laboming c:las5, The hours of commencing work range from six, six thirty to seven for nearly all the manual and mechanical t~ades; the passengers ,...h.ich come by the chea.p '\o....orkmc!l, after seven o'clock, are composed of warehouse-men, and others engaged in clerical labor, who would indignantly refuse to be labelled by the title of workmen, although this class indignantly deny that they are "Yorkmen, but are officjals with weekly salaries, and not wages; they do not refuse to take advantage of the cheap trains which are run solely for the con\'eHi~~nce of workmcn. The <lrtiS<ln or mechanic, with his nine or ten dollars a week, looks on those officials with a half patronizing, hLif contemptuous a.ir and shakes his coins in his pocket, knowing that he does not have to provide clothing for a stockhroker, out of a salary which is equal to half that of a mechanic. Indeed in some works, this idea i;:;carried to such an extent, that the officials, those who are engaged in the cle:lcal work, are not allowed to speak beyond business affairs with the workmen. This is a source of great fun to the workman, who, in receipt of greater wages, laughs at the poses t:~.kenby the poor officials who drive their pen OVCT the paper. "Penpusher" i:.; quite a word of contempt, and w"hen a workman comes into contact with the poorly paid official it follows that the dignity of that pe~SOl1 is considerably hurt by the process. Y (in can imagine it, one man in clothes ,bearing the grill:e of toil, quick~wjtted and rude, the other ilt fed, yet well clothed, <inHering from striving to keep up a position on a small SU111, and with a sense of inferiority to the workman at the b:,.ck of his brain to Loonent him. Not only is the London ,vorkman keen to ruh his ,",,"its against the oflicial but he cares very little who comes into conflict with his 5ha. p tonguc. Ask him about the boss, and he \vill candidly tell you that the bl1siness is not run as he would .rttn it. Of course, there i~ a huge profit, the mall who is emplQying him is coining money. Hc can prove it. Yes the first fruits of the Education Acts has heen used by the workmcn to cetlculate the profLts of his employers, and yet strange to say, al:cl it seen",s aln:ost all anomaly, he wilt in-variably reckc'l up his wages with the help of a ready reckoner. \Vhen the London lad has passed the fifth standard, and he is fourteen, he is ready to take his place in the world, and if he is fortunate, will pick up some trade or craft by which he may gain his living. At the present time, the apprentice system in England is almost dead. There- are so few apprentices, that it '''ould seem as if the various craits would die out were'it not that meJ] and youths enter them in various ways. Still, although the trades arc heing recruited by untrained helpers, there are an enormous number of lads working on machines, or forming links in the process of manufacturing articlcs, who will be thrown upon the labor ARTISAN market when they have reached manhood, without even the hard muscles for manual labor to help them to get a living. Their work is boys work, and the ever growing- army of boys wilt take their place as the others reach manhood, In some cases parents will apprentice their sons, and in proportion to their income pay a large premium, In one or two instances under my own notice hays have been apprenticed to shop titting and joillcry. A sum of twenty pounds was paid, and for the first year, the lad was kept busy pushing a truck, taking goods from the workshop to their destination. Out in all weathers, and with l~ot a cent letun:ed during the first year as wages, this was not an ideal bC6'inr!lllg for a lad. The truth was, that the employ2r wanted tl-.e pren-.ium, and madc things as unpleasant as he could for the boys, till th:::y (luitted the works, <lnd he was able to take on oth~rs, and obtain another pren~il1m. vVhen the Lordoil workman has mastered his trade. a:~d he is able to comn~al1d trade union rates, he become;;; very independent. As Lor;don is some twenty miles wide from Ilford to .ActOll, from Enfield to Croydon, it follows that there are a large Dumb:':'r of men who do not go home to dinner. 1\11 over Locdo:l are coffee stalls, in some places near thc stations there are two or three. In thc winter each has a huge coke fire blazing <l\vay in a devil by the side of the stall, which is a huge box upon wheels, it cloor at the back, at:d with half the front ·opening and f0<'l11ing the coullter. The coffee and tea is kept hot over a small coke fire, amI' the brasswork on the urns is most dazzling bright. On three or four dishes arc varieties of cakes, and bread and butter, jam and marmalade. Every ",iorkll1an stops and has a cup of toffee, which is served boiling hot, and a slice of currant cake "better than mother makes," as the coffee stall man will facetiously say. The bread '<Uld butter is only bought by the very old men, who disdain cakes or pastry. None of the men walt f()r the coffee to cool, but poor it into the saucer, blow it. then sip it with great gusto. Indeed on a cold mornin~, with a west wind blowing which chills one to the bone, there are n~al~y worse beverages than cven thi5 coffee. A workman would lose a quarter or two hours, sooner than miss his coffee. Indeed the London workman has a g~eat idea of what is necessary to keep him in perfect condition. He knows wl1<tthe wants and he gets it. Those wl,o work too far from home have to go to the coffee shop for their meats. .As an institution, the London coffee shop is pcculiarly a growth of the great city from the Dickens period. Tl:e shop is generally Ol,e with the door in the cener, a few illustrated picfUTt:S, milch fly blown in the window. and with seYt~:al vegdables and joints below These are the uncooked dishes to tempt the epicures of workmen to come next day and feast off the tasty morsels. At eight in the n~ornil1g there is a rush into the coffee shop; the mcn hayc been at work since six o'clock. They are hungry, h",.ve but little time to spare, and ,vant their coffee or te"l as SOOlJ as they sit down. Then they must have their relish. y ~'S a workman would as soon think of going to;) church in Lis working clothes as to go witho'ut his relish. "Two and a bloater," "Pair and three," "Three and half," "Two and a rasher and three of tea, lllissis, and look bloominoS sharp," "Two of jam and half a soused mackerel." 'Ere Liza, bring us up my tea. Do you think I'm a stuffr:d dummy?" Liza has a retort which is cutting, and attracts the attention of the shop, Just a little explanation about the orders. Slices of bread and butter arc either named as a number or called "doorsteps." Then a number combined with a rasher, Lel!~ ,,,hat eggs are required. Three of tea means, three cents worth. Two of jam, and the relish of half a soused mac~- erel to eat with it is not at all unusual. Indeed some men will eat the most strange mixtures with the greatest pleas-ure. The coffee, kippers, bread a'nd rashers arc rapidl>" --------------------------------- MICHIGAN ARTISAN 29 r----------;;~;;_~PECIALTV --j I BIRD'S EYE MAPLE I I , (MadE and dried right, and wltile. Samples furnished on application. ) t 500,000 ft. 1-20 inch Quarter Sawed Oak carried in stock. Come in and see it. Birch aDd Poplar I crossbanding and rotary cut Oak. Birch, Maple, Basswood, Poplar and Gum Drawer Bottoms. PROMPT DELIVERY. ALL PRIME STOCK. I FIGURED WOODS. MAHOGANY. WALNUT. QTR. SAWED OAK. BIRCH. I I I HENRY . HOLDEN VENEER CO I L .::.:~~~ER ST., GRAND_R_A_P_ID__MS__I, C_H_. . s "J served out. and ill about lihecn minutes the meJ1 haY(; de-voured their breakfast, and go outside for a smoke. They would not miss the opportunity for a whiff for worlds, "iNert those huge globes presentables <to,; substitute:;, At half past eight another gang of workmen rush in, who breakfast haJi hour latcr than the others; usually these men arc those wl"lo start at seven o'clocK. The coffee shop cle:1Ts and until twelve it only receives stray cust'lll1ers, snell as carmen. At twelve the bnilding and allied tr;\(\es go to dinner. The bed which laid in the morning sun yesterday, has hCCll :::;tewed and baked, :\ncl is now one of the joints 011. The u\'crage shop n1tl5 two joint:" beet ;\i,d n,utto\\. Bed freshly conked one day, mut-ton the llext. If yOIl \\'ill tip Liza, she wi1l tell yon the day, so yon lvill be .able to avoid the reheated meat. Besides the two joints. there ~11"e,dW£lYS steak puddings. These are always ill stock. Let me whispu thM the steak is the beef or mntton which is tlcsuJd on the third clay, £lnd is v.rorked IIp into steak pudding, or "babies heads," to l1se their commOn name. Stewed steak is also a favorite dish o£ the workman. This \17i11appear 8.bout Tuesday and Fridays'. Lizu will tell you if you tempt hel-, that the amount of ste\\, is ob-tained by lHlrboiling the beef and mutton to get more stock as well as to make the meat tender. T"vo vegetables and a cut from the joint tor twelvc cents is the average price. A fel<vof the coffee shops 11<l\'C a p

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