Weekly Artisan; 1909-08-14

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Issue of a furniture trade magazine published weekly in Grand Rapids, Mich, starting in 1879. and Ii IIII ,I I IIlI GRAN£) RAPIDS PUBLIC LiDR1\ ;;J GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.• AUGUST 14. 1909 .--'_. _.__._._------------ I .. .. ---.. ..--- -------- --- --------.., ,, "THE BETTER MAKE WE HAVE OVER 400 PIECES IN OUR LINE BEDROOM and DINING ROOM FURNITURE SUITES TO MATCH FACTORY AND SALESROOM 37 CANAL STREET CATALOGUES TO DEALERS ON HEAVY PLATE PAPER NELSON ·MATTER FURNITURE COMPANY GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. ,,--_ ..... - II, II j '------------_._. _. _. _._---_._._._----._. ----------- _. _. . -- -- ...- -... _. A BIT OF INDUSTRIAL HISTORY Are You Running an 1860 or a 1910 Plant? UDetrOit" Return Trap PATENTt<D In 1860 cottonseed removed from the bOll by gmnmg was garbage-thrown away. By 1870 gmners managed to convmce some people that cottonseed was good fertilizer. By 1880 It was considered good cattle food and m 1890 It was bemg used as a table food. By not utllIzmg all the cottonseed m 1900 (one year) twenty-sIx mIllion dollars that someone could have had, was thrown away The city of Glasgow, Scotland, gets 9,000 horse-power every day-free-by catchmg and utll- Izmg furnace gases formerly v.asted. The steel corporatlOn will light the town of Gary, Ind , and run all street cars with energy that would otherwise be wasted and belched out of furnace stacks. If you use steam for heatmg and drymg and you allow any condensatlOn to go to waste-you are losing money. Put all your condensatlOn back mto the bOiler without pumpmg-and hotter than a pump \\ Ith hft-wlth "DETROIT" General OffIces DETROIT, MICH, Automatic- Return Steam Traps Manufactured and Guaranteed by AMERICAN BWmR COMPANY "SIROCCO" Works' DETROIT, MICH and TROY, N Y TKAD MARK .-. ---------'----~~------------'--_.---._------- SLIDING SHOE FOR USE ON DESK LEGS This shoe does the work of a caster yet allows the desk legs to set close to floor. Fastened with flat head wood screw and furnished in three sizes. SEND FOR SAMPLES AND PRICES No 1493 PULL A very fine handle for desks in the square effect. Somethmg dlfferent from the regular bar pulls. GRAND RAPIDS BRASS co. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ....I r .n..... '. .. .__ ..- po- .. • .n _ n • I THE BIG WHITE SHOP ---------- -.- -- _ _._ .. - ------ - __ . ,. We Furnish Every Article of Printing Needed by Business Men WHITE PRINTING COMPANY 108, 110, and 112 North Division Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. ,. .. . .-.--.-.-- .- ...-- . .- . .. ...... .-. .. .. .-. .- . .. ._ ..-._. . ...... . .. THE BIG WHITE SHOP • • • we ••••••••••• ••• I..... we •• a._ • _ •••••••••••• -............ w ... ----------~~---------------. -. . .., GRAND RAPIDS, PUBLIC LIBRARY .............. --_ ...------------------------ ... _--------.. ... ------------------- i firan~Da~i~sDlow Pi~e an~Dust Arrester (om~an~ OUR AUTOMATIC FURNAOE FEED SYSTEM '- ._... . ._. J THE LATEST devtce for handhnf!, shavtJIgs and dust from all wood-workmg machmes. Our nineteen years expenence in this class of work ha" brought tt nearer perfectwn than any other system on the market today. It tS no expenment, but a demonstrated sCtenttfic fact, as we have several hun-dred of these system,s in use, and not a poor one among them. Our Automatic Fumace Feed System, as shown in thtS cut, u the most perfect working device of anything in this line. Write for our prices for equipments. 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 &el1, ~h.ln 1804 iii ••••• WEEKLY ARTISAN NEW YORK'S NEW FURNITURE EXCHANGE BUILDINGS Covering the entire blocks fr9m Lexington Avenue to Depew~Place. 46th to 48th Streets Each building 200 x 275 feet in size and 12 stories high 1,300,000 Square Feet or Nearly 28 Acres Floor Space THE LARGEST AREA WHOLLY DEVOTED TO WHOLESALE SALESROOMS IN THE WORLD WILL BE READY FOR OCCUPANCYDECEMBER 1st, 1910 Applications for space should be made to CHAS. E. SPRATT, Secretary NEW YORK FURNITURE EXCHANGE 1 2 ----_.~------------------ WEEKLY ARTISAN ...-~_.--------------~--------_._-_. _.~._-------~~.. ......-..-----, SLIGH'S SELECT STYLES SELL AND SATISFY II, ! II 1 I IIIIII IIII I ~_._----_. -_ ..---------------- -----------------------~_ _~---~ Many New Features Added for the Fall Season Everything for the Bedroom I Medium and FlOe QualIty 1 Ollice and Salesroom corner Prescott and Buchanan Streets, Grand Rapids, Mlch WRITE FOR CATALOGUE SLIGH FURNITURE CO. Grand Rapids, Mich. ,-. .-..--~~--------- _---~~---~--------------_._-- •IIII 35% OFF LIST $16 ORDER A SAMPLE STACK YOU'LL NEVER REGRET IT The Humphrey Wid man Sectional Construe hon has dust proof partItIOns, Iron shelf support~ and a two Inch deeper case than others DEALERS' PROFIT 55% Lme on sale m FurDiture Ex-change. Gralld Rapids; Manufact-urers' Exhlbltloll Bulld.IIl!. ChI-cal! o and Furnunre Knhanl!e. New York, •• III• IIII• I II! I , I I I I I ~~~~·~As BARGAIN No 537. 28x42 top Quarter Sawed Oak, Cross Band Rim, Polished, PALMER 1015 to 1043 Palmer Ave., DETROIT MICH, MANUFACTURING $7.50 You can't make money faster than by buymg lhls fine hbrary Table by lhe dozen, unless you make up a carload oul of lhls and olher good lhmgs we have 10 show you. I..--~-----------_. _. ....--------------~-' HUMPHREY-WIDMAN BOOKCASE CO. I No, 10-F, Ouartered Oak. WRITE FOR CATALOCUE DETROIT, MICHIGAN .- .. -~ II co. . --"' GRAND RAPI PUBLIC LIBR1t~y 30th Year-No.7 • GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., AUGUST 14, 1909 Issued Weekly EFFECTS OF THE NEW TARIFF LAW. Grand Rapids Furniture Manufacturers do not Think it Will Cause any Material Changes in Present Prices or Conditions. "Have you consIdered the changes III the tanft rates and figured out how the new law wIll affect your bus1ness?" WIth the Idea that theu" op1111Onand concluslOns would be of 111teret>t to dealers and other manufacturers, a 1epresentatIve of the '.Veekly ArtIsan called on <;everal Grand Rap1ds furmture manufacturers dunng the past week and asked the above ques-tIon Some of them declared that they had been unable to ascerta111 Just what had been done to the tanff, and asked to be excused from dIscussing the matter untl! they have had tIme to become posted on the prOVISIons of the new law Othe1s, ,,,,hl!e admittIng they were not sure as to Ju"t how the rates have been changed, answered the query as follows Frankl111 Barnhart of the Nel"on-Matter Company-We are not much concerned about the effect of the new tanff law I buy the lumber and I don't th111k the reductlOn 111duty WIll affect pnces to any matenal extent It may tend to hold pnces down a blt, but not enough to make much d1ffe1ence with us, at least we do not expect any decl111e nght away There should be a good strong tanff duty on carv111gs and carved furmture, 111order to pl0tect Amencan work111gmen Amen-can made furmture IS good enough for anybody and those who th111k dIfferently "hould be reqLllred to pay heavy dutIes MaJ James G MacBllde of the Nelson-Matter Company- 1 have not follo\\ ed the tanff legIslatIon, but I understand that the only change that mlght affect us IS a 1a1se in the duty on glas" That, howevel, apphes only to small SIzes, and I do not th111k It W1ll affect the SIzes that we use We have not heard of any probable advance 111pnces Charles R ~ligh of the Shgh Furmtme Company-If there's anyth111g In the new tanff that"" 111affect the furlllture 111dLbtry matenally It IS the changes 111the glass schedule The duty on the smaller slzed plates has been ralsed, and of course the Imp01 tert> and the Amencan manufacturers WIll take ad, antage of that fact to boost prices, considerably, pel-haps On the larger SIzes the duty ha" been cut from 35 to 220 per cent, but that is "tIll prohib1tIve, and there are very few of the large plates Imported any V\ay, so the cut V\dl not cause any reductlOn 111pnces As a matter of fact, the hlflll-ture manufacturers are so glad the matter IS settled that they don't care much what the effect may be, but I th111kyou'll find that most of the artIcles on whIch the tax has been reduced are those of which very httle has been Imported, and that the tax IS stdl practlcally prohlbltIve Take l111seed 011, for 111stance The duty has been 20 cents per gallon; now it IS 15 cent", but that 1S h1gh enough to keep the forelgn product out, and I tlunk you'll find It that way 111nearly all of the changes that have been made I understand the tax has been reduced on varlllsh and some varmsh matenals. but not enough to amount to anyth111g, V\hlle on others It has been 111creased shghtly The reductlOn of 75 cents per thousand on lumber wlll not affect the pnces on the lumber used by furlllture manufacturers There may be some sm pnses for us when we get better acqua111ted WIth the new law, but as I understand It now there IS noth111g 111It that should matenally affect the cost of furlllture Davld E Uhl uf the Grand Raplds Fancy Furlllture Com-pany- I don't apprehend that the tallff changes wlll make much dIfference WIth our matellals The reductlOn of 75 cent" per thou<;and on lumber cannot be expected to affect pnce" of hardwoods to any matenal extent There are all kinds of pnces for lumber nowaday" '.Yhat one man pays, say $50 f01, may be bought by another fOf $49 01 $-1-7, so a 1eductlOn of 75 cents 111the tanff duty V\ 111not amount to much The lll-crease on certalll SIzes of glass may affect some of the furn1- ture manufacturers, but we use very httle gla'iS, and have paid but httle attentlOn to It Vi,T e do not make upholstered goods, and are therefore not interested in change" III the hide and leather schedules, except in a general V\ ay On the whole, I do not th111k the new law will be any WOlse than the D111gley law for the furniture industry ~ome of the schedules have been ralsed shghtly, and others have been cut, so the average on furlllture matenals will be about the same as under the old law At any rate, I am not expectmg any matenal change In pnce" at present, though they mav come later, when the experts beg111 to 111terpret and apply the new schf'dules Sybrant W essehus, preslden~ of the Grand RapIds Parlor Frame COlllpany-I don't know jll'lt what changes have been made I have not seen the new law, nor an authentIc com pan-son with the old law, but I understand they have not npped thIngs up to any great extent I thlllk the furmture men were a httle late III gettlllg mto the game They should have "e-cured an advance III the rate on can mgs-carved furniture that is imp01 ted 111the knock down-wh1ch now pays 35 per cent. It lllc1udes vanous p1eces, such as chair legs. arms may be brought 111from Canada, but the hIgher grades will not be affected I am not posted on the changes on other matenal'i that", e u"e except gla'is, but I th111k the reductions II III JU'it about equal the advances, so that It WIll not be noticed The new gla"" schedule, hOY"" e,'er, IS of more im-portance It WIll not affect the Grand RapIds manufacturers much-It may help them a httle-but as I look at It tho'ie who make the 10\Hr grades of furnIture w11l be hIt pretty hard The rate" on the larger plates hay e been lowered from 35 to 2ZY; per cent. II h11e the tax on the smaller Slze'i, 'iuch as are u"ed on cheap furnIture, whIch means the larger part of the fur111ture made and "old III tll1" country, has been 111creased dbout 2.3 per cent ,\'hen you cOn'ilder the fact that the glass I" the mo..,t e,-pen"l1 e part of some of the cheap pieces, you II 111:"ee that an 111Lfease of 2.3 per cent In the tanff means con- "'Iderable to the men who make that class of furnIture It i~ another case where the "lIttle fellow gets the worst of It," and 1 under"tand that If the furnIture men had not sent a com-mIttee dOlI n to \\ a:"h111gton to look after theIr interests, It II auld hay e surely been raIsed 50 111stead of 25 per cent 4 WEEKLY ARTISAN and backs, and comes from Italy and Holland, ,,-,here can ers work for 40 or 50 cents a day, and their lumber IS cheaper than it IS here I am told that mahogany that costs $150 or $160 per thousand here IS sold 111 Holland for 565 or <:;70 They hay e skIlled carvers over there, of course, but no better than we have here They can live cheaper, and the} \\ ark for wages on which Amencans would stan e If the tanff IS to he hIgh enough to equal the dIfference In ""age", It should be hIgh enough to shut out the ImportatIOn of can ed pIeces from Italy and Holland The ImportatlOn'i from Ital} are mo..,tl} of the LoUI" or period style:", but lately some of the Flander.., has been brought over from Holland I don't know that much of It is used here, but large quantIties are used 111ChIcago and the east The stuff usually comes green and has to be kIln dried before it IS fit to put up David H Brown, secretary and treasurer of the Century Furniture Company-It's rather early to tell Just how the neVI tanff is going to work, but I don't th1111<It II 111affect u" \ eq much. PUtt111g hIdes on the free ltst II 111not make the leather we use any cheaper, though It may keep some k111rb from g0111g higher for a \\hlle Leather has been g0111g up. and all the effect that free hIdes WIll haye '" 111 be to check the ad, ance. and we are not sure of that The other changes III the lall w111 not affect u'; matenall} Ye". \\ e use a lIttle of the Im-ported hand crav111g, becau'ie II e can buy It cheaper than lie can make It, and it mIght be to our ach antage to hay e the dut\ lowered, but as a matter of pnnClple I II auld hke to hay e ..,een It raIsed hIgh enough to shut that stuft out It h not tan to American v""ork111gmen-can er,,-to make them compete II Ith men who can work for three or four dollar.., a II eek [here should abo be a prohlbltn e tanft on EnglIsh fur111ture '1 here\ noth111g in the Idea that EnglIsh goods are bettel than can be made here The Royal oyer there (acro'i" the ..,treet) ha.., a hne that IS better than an} of the Imported goods. and \\ e mClkc some that IS just as good I know because we hay e had En~- lIsh goods here, taken them to plece'i and e, en the El1!;lhh experts had to admIt that the} could ..,ee no dIfterence 111the constructIOn If '" e are to protect "~mencan II ork111gmen the tanff on Imported furmture "hould be raIsed Tho"e II ho prefer It because they th111k It IS better, or ';Impl} becau..,e It IS Imported are generally able to pay for the ~ratlhcatlon ot then deSIres, and should be reqUIred to do "0 J Fred Mueller, PresIdent of the :\Iueller l~ ~lack Com-pany- To tell you the truth, I have not gn en the matter a thought LIke everybody else. I'm glad It'S "ettled, but It doe" not SUIt me The cuts al e all nght, but the k111fe-should haye gone deeper and farther Lumber, coal, Iron ore and "'e, eral other artIcles 'ihould be free, and the cotton and II oolen rdte" should ha\e been lowered 111">teadof hell1~ lal"ed 1 almo"t WIsh the presIdent had \ etoed the bill That II oulc! hen e put the matter up to the people at the elect 10m ne,-t year, and the result would have left no doubt as to whethel the people H ant the tanff reVIsed upward or downll ard, but nOli that the matter I" 'settled I hope It will :"ta} 'iettled for a few year" at lea"t What they have done does not amount to much rree hIde" WIll not make leather used by the upholsterers any cheaper It may keep It from g01l1g hIgher nght a\\ a}, but there I:" a great demand for leather and WIth the e,pected 111crea..,e 111 bus1l1ess the demand WIll surely grow stronger. "0 nobody need be surpnsed If pnces go hIgher soon The cut In the lumber tanff WIll not affect hardwoods, and the other change,,- some up and some down-are so shght that as a whole the} WIll not affect furmture manufacturers to an} matenal extent George G WhItworth, secretary of the Berkey & Gal' Fur-mture Company-The reductIOn 111 the tanft o~ lumb~r WIll not make much, If any, dIfference In the cost to furl11ture man-ufacturers Some of the lower grades. used for crates. etc, Exposition in South America. The tIme for fil1l1g applIcatIOns for space at the Interna-tIOnal Expo"ltlon to be held at Buenos A.yres, t\rgent1l1a, next II 111ter-It II III be <"UlTjmer 111 that latItude-has been extended to October 1.3 The Amencan ITIlI11'iter lllge,; manufacturer.., at thl'3 cot1l1try to 'iend exhIbIts, assut1ng them that It \\111 he of great benefit to them The manager" of the ex pO"It1on ha \ e announced that If manufacturer:" of the L ll1ted 'state.., apply for 1000 square metres of ,;pace theIr exhIbIt:" \\ III be groupeJ 111 an exclUSIve department To ~Iove Matresses Easily. On account of the necessanly bulky form of mattresses, It I..,a.., much of a tnal to mO\ e one of these household necessIties a" an office safe Too thIck to gra'ip by the hands, and WIth no proJect1l1g edge by "hlch It mIght be grasped, It IS a source of annoy ance, remind111g the handler of that pleasant occupa-tIOn, enjOy eel 111the adjustment of the pIpes when sett1l1g up a stm e It rema111S for an 0hlOdn to 0\ ercome the defects of the mattres" by the ",lluple addItion of small handle:" near the corner", after the manner of straps u:"ed for carry lllg bundles By grasp111g one of these handle'i the mattress can be pulled around the room or to any place deSIred WIth prac-tlcall} no effort I Grand Rapids Caster Cup Co. 2 Parkwood Ave.• Grand Rapids, Mich. We are now puttmg out the best Caster Cups WIth cork bases ever offeree to the trade. These are fimshed m Golden Oak and WhIte Maple m a I1ght fimsh These goods are admIrable for polIshed floors and furn- Iture rests Theywill not sweat or mar. PRICES. $4 00 per hundred 5.00 per hundred FOB Grand Rap,ds SIze 2U mches SIze 2~ mrhes Try a Sample Order ..... .. . ....- ..... ..... ~ -- . I WEEKLY ARTISAN 5 -------_ __ __ . --._ _ ..~-- -.., ! IF IT'S THE BEST REFRIGERATOR IT'S AN ALASKA THE "ELI" FOLDING BEDS ARf BREAD AND PROfIT WINNfRS No Stock complete without the Eh Beds IU Mantel and Upnght. ELI D. MILLER &, CO. EVANSVILLE, INDIANA Wnte for cuts and prIces. ON SALE IN FURNITURE EXCHANCE, CHICACO. Over 850,000 Alaska refrigerators sold sin c e I 878. Desirable features of an Alaska Refrigerator: Small consumption of ice. Maximumamount of cold, dry air. Absolutely sanitary pro-vision chamber. Simplicity of operation. Perfect preservation of food. We sell to dealers only. WRITE FOR CATALOG. The Alaska Refrigerator Co. Exclusive Refrigerator Manufacturers. MUSKEGON, MICH. L E. Moon, New York Manager, 35 Warren St., New York City • .---------------------_.-----------_.-._--------_._._.------~~ ~._..._._------_ ....•...._.--. Reparation Instead of Rebates. Under a rul111g announced by the Interstate State Com-merce C0l11l111SSlOnall "reparatIOn claIm.," between shIppers and carnelS must be dl,;posed of as qUIckly a pOSSIble, and the commlSSlOn wIll a3';I"t them m thIS ';0 that by September 1, nothmg wIll be left unsettled After that date the com-ml'; S10n w111not award reparatIOn clauns eIther on formal or specIal docket 111 any case where carner3 have reduced the rates SImply to meet a lower rate of a competmg 1111e The CIrcular, Just Issued, IS intere3t1ng because it expla111s how the ral1roads have managed to dodge the law prohlbitmg the payment of rebates. Accordmg to the CIrcular l,;sued the commi"slOn ap-pears to be reltably 1I1formed that It has bten the practIce both of carner,; and shIppers to secure reparatl0n3 in heu of rebates by mutual agreement It has happened repeat-edly that in case of a dIfference of rates between pOlnts of dIfferent 1111esthe offiClals of a lme in order to retam a SlllP-per, and keep the business, agree to take the difference of the rate up WIth the commhSlOn and secure reparatIOn on spe- CIal docket unttl the rates can be hned up to the ,;atJ,;factlOn of all concerned The commISSIOn belteve" that thIS I:' a ru"e employed by the raIlroads and that m many Instances no adjustment wa" contemplated and there was no mtentlOn of Vlac1l1g rates on a panty. They hold that the reparatlOn IS SImply legahzed rebatmg Takmg tIllS ground the commISSIOn has made the rul1l1g that where there IS a dIfference m rates between two pomts over dlfferent hnes shIppers mu"t undel stand that they can get the benefit of the lower rate only by sendmg theIr merchandbe over the hne publlshmg the lower rate. FreIght offiCIals say the ruhng WIll be a good thing not . ... only for the pubhc, but the ral1road::, They do not deny that the practIce" alleged have actually occurred and say that It ",as necessary to retalll customers Their regular patrons would demand the rates and the only way they would han-dle the busmess at all was to have the shIpper pay the regu-lar rate WIth the express understanding that the company was to secure a reparatlOn through the commISSIon ThIS was done 1Il many mstances and merchants have been bene-fited to the extent of hundred,; of dollars through these prac-bces • The abohtion of the reparation system will remove vol-mnes of work from the freIght claIms departments of the va-nous bnes and reduce bIlls for pnntmg, statlOnery, stenog-rapher hIre, etc This IS another reason that the roads wel-come the new order m addltlOn t~ allowmg them to retain all of ther revenues m,;tead of havmg to dIvide with the shIppers. To Dispense With Their Foundry. , The Amencan School Furmture Company are 1I1sta1l1l1g machmery 111 theIr Grand RapIds plant to cut the ends of ,;chool seats out of sheets of metal, thereby c11spens1l1g with thelr foundry. The outfit 1S very expensIve, but its operatlOn wIll be much more economIcal than the cost of castmgs an<: the mamtenance of a foundry. The stock of the Grand RapIds Furniture Company of Chicago whlch was forced mto bankruptcy recently, has been purchased by the Hartman FurnIture & Carpet Company and the store at 1667 Ml1waukee avenue w111be added to the Hart-man stnng. ---~-~~~~~~~~--- 6 WEEKLY ARTISAN MADE BY GR-\ND RAPIDS FAf'\JCY FURNITURE CO. GRAND RAPID"', MICH. WEEKLY ARTISAN 7 Good Idea FroID Texas. Under a tnne-honored custom on most raIlroads, governmg the handlmg of freIght and Its transfer from one common car-ner to another, 1£ a cal of freIght 1'-, dell\ el ed to a road and the contammg car happen.., to have a shght defect, car, freIght and all are returned to the dehvenng road to be repaIred ThIs method greatly 1etards rapId dehvery of freIght, beSIdes puttmg the roads to great mconvemence Managers of Texas 1aIlroads have a plan to prevent dela}.., due to defectIve cars The} would have the Iecelvmg lme dehver the freIght and then arrange for the repalnng of the car later In the rough outlme of ploposed rules, three proposItIOns are gIven the re-celVmg lme They can eIther run the freIght through m the defectIve car, then repaIr It m theIr own shops and forward the bIll to thQ OWl11nglme, 0r return It to the dehvenng hne for 1epan s, or transfer the goods to another car, returnm~ thl' defectIve empt}, or have It repaIred m theIr own shops The method of procedme would be optIonal The returl11ng of defectIve car" has become a great Item m tran"portatIOn matter.." and a large percentage of delay.., to freIght are occasIOned flam thIS cause These cars ale rarely ul1'3afe Usually the ..,hght defects m them m no way endanger the heIght, but undel the rules among raIlroads, they must be repaIred a..,soon as empty New Furniture Factories. J M WIlson, S A NeVIlle and others have mcorporated the Mencl!an Fur11lture Company to establIsh a factory at Me-rIdIan, Lauderdale county. MIS" CapItal "cock, all sub- "cnbed, $30,000 The Dally News of Fort Wayne, Ind, says that a man who has mvented a kItchen cab met that IS to be made en-tIrely of metal has been m that cIty for oeveral day" confer-rIng WIth representatIve utlzen" WIth a VIew of estabhshmg a factory The mam bmldmg of the plant of the GuthrIe, Okla, Desk and Furl11ture Company IS completed The Hal twell Sales Company, capltahzed at $10,000, has been mcorporated to manufacture householJ speCIaltIes at .:\ladlson, OhIO The new furmture factory for OroVIlle, Cal, heretofore mentIOned, WIll be estabh"hed by the Butte Pme and Hard-wood Company. The Frost Veneer SeatIng Company of Newport, Vt, claIm.., to have the largest veneer cuttmg and fimshmg plant m the world Made by Gunlocke ChaIr Co" Wayldnd N Y Death of W. H. Wagone.". InformatIOn was receIved in Grand Rapids on August 12 of the death of VY II \iVagoner, cau..,ed by an aCC'ldent to an automobIle m whIch he wa.., rid1l1g 111 PhIladelphIa Mr V\ ag-oner was qUIte largely 1l1tere"ted m Van Sclver & Co , general merchants of Camden, N J, and an offiClal of that corporatIOn He had been at the head of the furmture department for many years and was wldel} and favorably known For more than twenty years he had spent a part of the furmture expOSItIOn sea"ons 111 Grand RapIds. and m mak1l1g purchases was a hb-eral patron of houses makmg hIgh grade hnes He was qUIet, unobtrUSIve and a splendId judge of value" HIS mtImate frIend" m Grand RapIds were E H :roote and I B Vvatkms of the Grand RapIds ChaIr Company, Mr Corson of the Berkey & Gay Furmture Company; C VV Black of the Onel Cabmet Company HIS funeral was held on August 9 FranCIS DIckson, E F DIckson and L L. Haldmg have mCOlrporated the Dlckson- Hal'chng Furmture Company to sell turl11ture m Canon CIty, Colorado Manistee's New Catalogue. The Ma11ltltee J\lanufactunng Company shoVved the best lme m ChIcago 111 July that the} ever exhIbIted, and had a much larger busme..,,, than last 'year The hne IS much stronger m bedroom furmture than ever, and theIr new catalogue shows the lme up m a more aUI actIve way than ever It wIll be m-tere.., tmg as well as profitable for the furl11ture dealer to watch the pages of the Vveekly ArtIsan from week to week for the advertltlements and IllustratIons for thIS company Manager Elmendorf IS onto hIS Job and knows what the dealers want What to Buy and Where. The W al ter Clark Veneer Company has 200,000 feet of rotary cut veneers, 1-20 to the mch, plam, red and whIte oak m stock for ImmedIate shIpment The Henry S Holden Veneer Company has 250,000 feet of choice bIrd's-eye maple veneer m stock ready for prompt ship-ment The Holden company also has about 50,000 feet of Clr-casslan walnut on hand ready for ImmedIate shIpment 8 WEEKLY ARTISAN ,.. as •• _._ ••• ••••••• ...__ ._._._. •••••• ..: Lentz Big Six No. 694. 48 in. top. No. 687. 60 in. top. Others 54 in. top. 8 Foot Duostyles ANY FINISH CHICAGO DELIVERIES Lentz Table Co. NASHVILLE, MICHIGAN New Dealers in Furniture. The Terry FurnIture Company are ne" dealer:. at Good-mght, Texas H. F. Kneck & Son have Just opened a new furnIture store in FrederIck, Md Turner & VI 1I1klej have opened a ne\\ ~tock of furnl-ture In Kalama, vVash J. M Costello wIll open a ne" furnIture store III Kearne' Neb, on September 1 F G PalmqUl'3t & Son have e:otablIshed a new furl11ture store at Oakland, Neb J. H Morgan wIll open a general store \\ Ith a fUfll1- ture department at HarrIngton, IYash Roth & Leichtman wIll remodel a gracel y bUllclIng dnd open a new furnIture store 111 Perth Ambo). ~ J Harry Zutch and Mrs GalIn'3kl are partners 111 a ne\\ fur11lture store recently opened on East" ater street. Elmlrd N. Y Frank Hughes has deCIded to ha' e a furniture department 111 the generdl store that he IS establIsh1l1g at Cry:.tal Fall". \Vash. Tom C AdaIr, W S :\fay and R C Powers have 111- corporated the Tom C AdaIr Company to deal In fur1l1ture 111 LIttle Rock, Ark CapItal stock, $10,000 George B and Lotus Same and Rob CollIns Roy ha' e I11corporated the MetropolItan Installment Company to deal 111 furmture, WrIngers, rugs, etc, at 103 11'/ashl11gton street. Newark, K J TheIr capital stock IS fixed at $50,000 " A gentleman from Coal CIty, who owns a number of stores 111 varIOUS parts of the cauntry" l'i "aId to be nego-tiatl11g for a bUlldlllg" at Rldgefarm, Ill. In \\ hlch he pro-poses to open a general 'itore WIth a furl11ture department The Weber Furm'3h1l1g'i Good" Company, I11cOlporated by Joseph P HendrIck", ElIzabeth Hendnck-;; and Nlchola'i J. vVeber, WIth capItal stock fixed at $5,000. \\ 111 "ell furm-ture and household goods at St LoUIs, :\10 The 1\lcPhIllIp'i & Vaughey Company. capItalIzed at $8,000, has been I11corporated to establI "h a retal1 furmtm e and undertaklllg bU'3l11e"s III PeekskIll, X Y Thomas:\1 c- PhIllIps IS presIdent and J ame'i J Vau~hey 'iecretary and treasurer of thIS company \V Ith J B GrIffin a" presIdent, \ V R HartWIg as vIce presIdent and VV II Kemper as '3ecretary and treasurer, the ~---------- _- ---- ............• --------- -----------_. _ ..--_ __ ..---.-_ ~ I GrIffin FurnIture Company organl7ed to establIsh a store and deal III furl11ture 111 AlexandrIa, Va. CapItal stock, m1l1- Imum paId 111, $10,000, maxImum not to exceed $25,000. H B HaIsten has opened a new furnIture store at \Val-len, a, Ore Flagg & Willis Will Build a New Front, nagg &.- \1 IllIS, lead1l1g merchants in the house fur11lshing trades of Blockton, Mass, WIll erect a new front to theIr commodIOus four-story buIld1l1g Large show windows and an attractn e entry way of Iran and glass will be features of the nnprm ement The firm at :\IIller, Stewart & Beaton, furniture dealers, Omaha, Xebr, has been reorga11lzed, Mr MIller retInng, but there \\ III be no change 111 the name of the house. :\lembers of the Home Furl11shers AssociatIOn of Massa-chusetts met at Do~ton Ii\; ednesday, August 11, and enjoyed theIr annual outl11g at Paragon Park Made by Muskegon Valley F urmlure Co , Muskegon, Mlch, WEEKLY ARTISAN SINGLE CONE ALL STEEL SPRINGS Are very popular with the Furniture Trade. $2~ Each Net $2~ Each Net No. 46, Single Cone, $2 Each, Net. We manufacture a full line of Single and Double Cane All Wire Springs. SEND US YOUR ORDERS. SMITH &. DAVIS MFG. CO., St. Louis Public Buildings That Will Need Furniture. Pubhc bmldIngs that wIll need new furmture are re-ported as beIng constructed or remodeled In the far west as follows: W. J. Gay, Tucson, Anz, the "Grijalva Place" on the Speedway, Robert Fmme, Prescott, Ariz , road house; State Normal school at San DIego, Cal, 16 rooms; Grammar School buddIng, E"condldo, Cal, 12 room,,; German Metho-dIst Church, Orange, Cal ; Harbor City Land Company, Long Beach, Cal, ave story hotel; E. L. Potter, Los Angeles, Cal., Van Nuys Hotel, office, lobby, readlllg and dlllIng rooms to be remodeled. Car Shortage May Be Expected. Notwithstandin~ the predictions of railroad men, managers of car service as'Sociations and others that there is no prob-ability of a shortage in freight car" this fall, development'S from week to week indicate that there is not only a probabilitv, but almost a certainty that there\ will be a serious shortage in 'Some sections of the west at least A shortage is already reported from Kansas, but that is only temporary, for as yet there are plenty of idle freight cars that can be run into Kansas in a few days But", hen it comes to moving the crops in the great northwest and in Indiana. Illinois, Iowa, etc, the situa-tion will be. changed considerably The demand for freight cars from the agricultural states' will be vastly increased, and with the rapidly increasing railroad traffic in Ohio, Pennsyl-vania and New York, the east will ha, e few cars to spare 30 or 60 days hence, when the fllsh comes in the west The St Louis Lumberman 'Sizes up the situation past, present and prospective, about right when it says' "The railroads almost invariably fail to furnish a sufficient amount of shipping equipment to satisfactorily move the traffic of the busy fall season. For two or three years precedlllg our latest pamc, their inablhty to properly dIscharge their func-tions as carriers when burdened with the enormous traffic of the fall trade was more complete, and conspicuous, than ever before-and that, too, notwithstanding the very heavy addi-tions made to theIr rolling stock equipment in the two years extendlllg from the latter half of 1905 to about the middle of 1907. "How, then, can It be reasonably thoug'ht that their facil-ities will be adequate to the handling of the vastly increased volume of freight in sight for the coming fall, when it is known to all men that since about March, 1907, they have not only not placed-until quite lately-any orders worth mentioning for 10comotlVes and cars, but have allowed the crippled cars to go out of commission." Intelligent Co-operation Between Producer and Retailer. O. H L ViTernicke, president and general manager of the Macey FurnIture Company, Grand Rapids, attended the convention of the Retatl Furmture Dealers of Virglllia, at Roanok1e, on August 10 and dehvered an address on the sub-ject of "Inte1hgent Co-operation Bet", een Producer and Re-tailer." The address was well recelVed Mr IvVernicke is largely interested in the south, having invested heavl1y in timber and in turpentine groves and dis-tilleries. His record as the inventor of the sectional book-case and his success as a manufacturer is well known, prov-ing that in ability as a busllless man he ranks high. 9 One hundred thousand dollars will be invested in a hotel to be erected at Cloudburst, New Mexico. 10 WEEKLY ARTISAN SEND FOR CATALOGUE. Effect of Free Hides. Leather manufacturn" In the \ lC1111hot :-..e\\ ark, ~ J. m mterv1ew" publlshed dunng the past \\ eek, decLlre that puttmg hides on the freer l1"t mean'i the almo..,t 1mmechate employment of 2,000 add1tlonal employ e.., In the leather man-ufactones In Essex count) alone 'Cp to \\ Ith111 a 1ecent penod hides have been ma111ta111edat ,,0 high a pnce the leather men say, that they hay e had to 1un their factone'i \\ Ith 11111lted force~ The'ie ll1gh pi Ices, the) mal11ta1l1. hay e Made by Grand Rapids Fancy Furmture Co • Grand RapIds. Mlcb been the result of the mampulatlOns of the Deef 1rust It is now said that there 15 an understanding among the leader'i m the trade that they Will purchase hides m foreign markets as freely as pOSSible, and thus try to force the packer'i to re-duce pnces vVhl1e the cost of raw matenal may become lm\ e1 shortly. Newark dealers do not hold out much hope of an) great reductIOn m the p11ce of shoes to consumers for some time to come Th1" \\ as expla111ed by the fact that manufac-tm er~ had contracted long ago for their 1909 supply of both domestic and foreign hlde'i ~ ot untIl next January, when ne\\ conti ad" Me to be made wIll the benefit of free hidb be felt '\braham RothschIld of Stengel & RothschIld of Ne\',- ark, "aid that free hide" V'ia" the greatest thmg that had hap-pened In the leather tt ade m ) ear", Nearly all the men who had been laid off \\ ould be put back to work Free hides \Va" a "a\ lOr to the trade, he declared The tanff was merely a protectIOn to the trw,t, enablmg It to charge what It llked. He added . 1he trouble 1" that the foreign product 15 1l!11Ited \Ye \\ III stlll hay e to get "ome '3k1l1"here The tru'it kno\\ s that. so It has declared It Will keep Its prices up The anI) \\ a} \\ e can 0\ ercome that 1'3 to buy all we can trom Europe and bre"k d01l1e"tlc pnce'i For a great many klllds at patent enameled leathel foreign lucles only can be u'ied Thl" IS particularly true m the makmg of leather for automobile uphol'3ter). where a large hide of perfect gram and te'<ture ]'i r('lljlllred ?\mety per cent of all the patent and enameled leather made In the Umted States IS produced In :\ ewark For that reason the foreign lude IS a big fac-tor m our trade Amencan cattle are range fed Their sk1l1s are "cal red from the barbed Wlre of the ranches on the plall1-' and becau"e the) are '3ometlmes com eyed long diS-tances b) tram they are frequently horn-hooked In Eu-rope the cattle are '3tall fed and have a fine grained, perfect hide' LOlliS Strau" of the M Straus & Sons plant sald that the removal of the tal Iff would be of mestlmable benefit to the trade Peter Loehnberg of the Atlantlc Leather Company said hiS company had put on new men, and that with1l1 two weeks the Increased \\ ork1l1g force would be more than 100 per cent '\fter the- first of the year," declared Mr Loehn-berg, "there V'iIII be a matenal decrease 111the pnce of all k1l1ds of leather goods, With the pOSSible exception of shoes, though I don't know much about that part of the bus111ess." If prl\ ate cable advice" are rellable, those who fear that the death of E H Harnman would check the rapid improvement 111 busll1ess, hay e no reason to worry Such advlces state that ::\Ir Harriman's health has nnproved V'ionderfully S1l1ce he \\ ent abroad and IS now better than for several years WEEKLY ARTISAN ... .,... MOON SANITARY TYPEWRITER AND OffiCI: DESK All IN ONE 11 MOON DESK 1---:----1 COMP'Y I--l--=-------------!.---------: ....------------------~-_._._._---_.-._------------- Advice to Cuba Investors. Dudley M ShIVely, an accredIted agent of the Cuban government, who IS mvestlgating manufacturIng and trade condItions m thIS country, visIted Grand RapIds dunng the past week, and in a talk wIth a reporter stated some facts and expressed Ideas that should be of interest to all readers and especIally to those who are thinkmg of investing money m land or In any kmd of business m the Island Republic He saId; "Cuba raIses the finest pmeapples on earth and I am glad to find out that Grand Rapids buys a lot of them and I hope It WIll buy lots more. We raIse citrus fruIts of all kInds and wOluld lIke Grand RapIds to take more of it than has been commg here m the past. vVe raise tobacco, too, the best tobacco that IS raised anywhel e, and Cuban ma-hogany 15 as good as the famous mahogany of San Domin-go and we have an abundance of It. \;V e want Grand RapIds to become acquamted wIth our resource" and to buy of us, and we wIll be glad to take Grand RapIds furmture and leather goods and fly paper and carpet sweepers and other thmgs made here m exchange "Ouba is a country of splendId posslb1lttles," continued Mr Shively "Our soil IS so rIch that tobacco has been raIsed on It for 200 years wIthout the slIghtest indicatIOn of exhaustIOn Our people are intelhgent and progressive and our government is there to stay. Weare near to thIs country In more ways than geographIcally and want to do bus mess \\J Ith our fnends and neIghbor", m a way that wIll be mutually advantageous "I have not looked mto the ments of the varIOUS Cuban land improvement companIes that have been organi7ed m this country and am not prepared to say whIch of the"e arc <Yoodand "vv!llch are otherwIse; But] can say that Cuban b lands are lIke lands In MIchigan or anywhere else. There 1" good land and poor land, land that wIll raIse almost any-tlung and other lands upon whIch they cannot even raIse a dIS-turbance The Investor m Cuban lands, Just as with land m Y(lch1gan, should know what he is bUy111g WIth a good selectIon of land, whether he IS to be a fnut or a vegetable farmer, he should study the condItions that make for suc-cess IntellIgence! IS as necesary m Cuba as in M1chlg-an. The clImate must be taken mto consideration and the char-acter of the soil and the marketing conditions WIth proper llltolhgence Siuccess IS certain in Cuba. But the man who ....._---------------_._._.--._.--------~ ! MUSKEGON, MIC". hopes for success mustn't go at it haphazard The Cuban government has 1,200,000 acres of the best kmd of land to sell to settlers and It WIll not be many year3 b'e~ore the IS-land WIll be gndlroned WIth 15,000 mIles of raIlroads, some of whIch is already bmlt, some under way and some on paper, but certa111 to be bU11t 111tIme" Wants Wiscon ...in to Lead. State Senator Sanborn of vVbcons111, chairman of the JOInt legIslatIve commIttee whIch IS to investigate the feas1bihty of compubol y 111dustrial insurance, WIth author-ity to prepare a bIll to be mtroduced at the next session of legls'rature, declares that "compulsory mdustnal insurance IS the greatest questIOn before the people of the state and natlOn today." He says· "I hope that WIsconsin will be able to frame and pass a law on thIS questlOn that WIll put the state to the foremost in thIS department of progress The committee will prob-ably not begin its labors as a body before September. Most of ItS sesslOns WIll be In Milwaukee One of the first thlllgs to be determmed is whether the new plan IS to be compul-sory or not The German law IS and, whIle the employers fought ItS 111troduction, they have since found that the con-tentment It has gIven to employes has resulted in an in-crease in theIr usefulness" A woman isn't always true to her colors, even when she paints. ~_.,..-.-_.--------_.-------_ ..-- ._._----_-..-., UNION FURNITURE CO. ROCKFORD, ILL. I : ~..-._. ---------_ .._._---_.- -_._-_._-----_._------. ~ China Closets Buffets Bookcases We lead m Style, Confuucllon and Emsh. See our Catalogue. Our lme on permanent exhlbl-lIon 7th Floor, New Manufact-urers' BUlldmg, Grand Rapids. 12 WEEKLY ARTISAN MADE BY HOLLAND FURNITURE COMPANY HOLLAND, MICH. ------- ---- MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND NEWS. The Keck Company, cabinet makers, succeed the late W. Keck in New York. The Mitchell (S. Dak) Furniture Company, dealers, have just issued their annual catalogue. A modern veneer m1l1 w1l1be erected at Dubhn, Ga by the Southland Veneer and Lumber Company. The Home Furniture Company of Joliet, III are makmg extensive repairs and alterations in their buildmg. Ray Weavering, furniture dealer of Peru, Neb has sold out and w1l1 go to Colorado for the benefit of his wife's health. Blakeley & Taft have succeeded Blakeley & Lane, furniture, at Newport, Oregon. The Reese Company succeeds the SunnysIde Company, hardware and furniture, at Sunnyside, Wash The chaIr factones at Keene, N H, shut down last Satur-day for a three weeks' vacation. The Greensboro (N. C) Furniture Manufacturing Com-pany has been adjudged bankrupt J. A. Eriksen, furniture dealer of Lawrence, Kan has filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy. He schedules his habiIi-ties at $5,000 with assets estimated at $1,000. J O. AddIson, furniture dealer of Knightstown, Ind, has sold out to vV. B. Larrimer of Anderson, who wlll move the stock to his home CIty The Pallyup (Washington) Furniture Company, cap'ltal-ized to the amount of $10,000, has been incorporated by A C. Utterback, W. E Wallace and others. A. J. McKee, vice presIdent of the recently orgamzed Brad-ford & McKee Furmture Company, Nashvllle, Tenn, has re-signed and sold his interest m the company. The South Bend Mattress Company has been incorporated by WIlson C and Ella M. SmIth and Mary M Jones CapItal stock, $10,000. Antolllo Monaco of the MadIson Furniture House, Hobo-ken, N. J , is seIling out his stock, announcing that he will retire from business. The firm of Phllhpson & Schhtzberg, furmture dealers of Fox Lake, Wis, has been dIssolved J Schhtzberg will con-tinue the business. Jones & Luberger of Cedar Rapids, Ia, who had a fire recently, have resumed business wIth a new stock of furni-ture, carpets, rugs, etc. The Parker-Wllhams Furniture Company of Stillwater, Minn, has been dIssolved, Mr. Wllliams retiring and R. E Parker continuing the busmess. A. Heater has sold his interest in the new department store recently established by the Omaha (Neb.) Furniture and Carpet Company. Charles A. PIper, furniture dealer and undertaker of Cam-bndge, N. Y, has sold his business to C vV. Angell, who wlll enlarg e the stock. The NatlOnal Spnng Bed Company of New Britain, Conn, has secured a SIte on which they will erect a large modern factory Dullding The John Wagner Company, furmture dealers of Albany, N. Y, has been mcorporated by Howard and WIlham A Hendnckson and Frank E. Gnffin. Capital stock, $250,000. The D. N. Foster Furlllture Company of Fort Wayne, Ind, IS to be incorporated WIth capItal stock not less than $80,000. The Read:oboro ChaIr Company, near North Adams, :vIass., whIch IS erectmg a new factory bmldmg 76x260 feet, four stones, IS now working on large orders for chairs to be :oenL to South Afnca, South Amenca and Mexico One of the largest orders is from Ecuador. Phihp Gazan, dealing in furniture, etc , under the name of the Michigan Furniture Company m Germantown, Pa., is in financial trouble Three of his creditors have asked for the appomtment of a receiver. The Dean-Creel Furmture Company of Pueblo, Col, has rented an adjoming store, which wlll double their floor space. Half of the new room will be filled with rugs, draperies, etc, and the other half with high grade dmmg room furniture. The Drew Carner Company of ,Vaterloo, Ia, which has made carners, stanchions, troughs and tanks, has decided to add chIldren's vehIcles, go-carts and baby carnages to their lme of products. The Board of Education has placed the orders for furni-ture for the new Broadway school buildmg in Newburgh, N. Y, WIth local dealers The desks are to be furnished by Barnett & Buck, and the chairs by Van Dalfsen & Stone. A buyer for the ChIcago House Wrecking Company is re-ported to have purchased eight carloads of furniture "jobs" in one day from the Furniture Exchange bmlding in Evans-ville, Ind. Charles Lyman Carter, one of the leadmg manufacturers of Boston, dIed August 6, aged 79 years. Since 1893 he had been a partner WIth Chnstopher J. Campbell in the manu-facture of reed and rattan chaIrS Several furniture dealers and other merchants in central IIhnols have been victimized by a clever crook who poses as an honest German and works the worthless check game over the names of Otto Ranke, Louis Buhlman and other ahases. O. A. SmIth, employed by the Pollard Furniture Com-pany of Chattanooga, Tenn , IS alleged to have collected about $700 and falled to turn It in He skipped out, but was caught in Atlanta, Ga , with a part of the money m hIS possession. The Minner Mercantlle Company of Port RIchmond, Cal , dealers in furniture and undertakers' supplies and fixtures, has been mcorporated. J. F. Mmner, D E Huntsinger and their wives, WIth E. K Lind'iey of San Francisco, compose the board of dIrectors. Bollong & NIcholson of San Bernardmo, Cal, have been awarded the contract for furnishmg the new Odd Fellows' hall in that city. The furlllture IS to be of special unique de-signs, finished m dark Golden Oak, and the contractors an-nounce that it wlll be made by the M. C. Lilly Company of Columbus, Ohio. Los Angeles has an ordmance that classes dealers in sec-ondhand furlllture WIth pawn brokers, requires them to iden-tify sellers and buyers, and to close at 7 o'clock, etc. The second hand dealers are making a strenuous protest, and if not successful m securing amendment of the ordmance, they propose to appeal to the courts. Friends of Robert C. Lind, secretary of the Rockford (Ill.) Chair and Furmture Company, are urgmg him to accept the presidency of the SwedIsh-American National Bank, which is to be established in that Clty soon. Mr. Lind has not made defimte announcement of his mtentlOn, but as subscribers for stock m the new mstItutlOn are unanimously m favor of mak-ing him preSIdent, i"t is probable that he will accept. Catalogues Requested. The Artisan IS m receIpt of a letter from the HawaIian CommerClal and Sugar Company requesting manufacturers of furlllture and kmdred goods to forward catalogues to their Kahului store at Kahulm MaUl, P. H. "\Ve have a furniture department," the wnter adds, "which IS growing rapidly in Importance, and we are anxious to get mto touch with manu-facturers in the states." • --------_._._._ ..-.---_.. .._ ..... WEEKLY ARTISAN -----_.__._._._-~ 14 Remarkable Growth of a Furniture Industry. The Herzog Art Furmture Company of Sag1l1d'", .:'Iflch . commenced business March 1, 1899, wIth a capItal of $3000 employing two men and one boy '1he capnal stock \\ a-- mcreased May 1, 1900 to $8,000 The compal1\ \\ a., II1cor-porated as the Herzog Art Fur11lture COmpdl1\ On June 12 1901, wIth a capItal of $20,000 On June 1, 1902. the capl tal was Increased to $50000 The "ame "tockholders 111- corporated the Herzog Table Com pan) on \ugust 12 1903 wIth a ,capItal of $25,000, and II1crea"ed thl' capItal .Tune 1, 1904 to $50,000, consolldatll1g the Hel/o1S ;\1 t h1flutnre Company and Herzog Table Company Januar) ht 1905 and the capItal stock \\ a" Increased to $200000. and la tel increased the capItal stock In J anuar) to $300.000 \\ hen runmng wIth a £'..111 force, three hundred dlHI "e,ent)-fi,e Herzog Art Furmture Company's Factory at Sagmaw, M.ch men are employed In .:'IIay 1906, the Sagll1d\\ Table and Cabinet Company wa" Incorporated b) the "ame stockholders wIth a capItal of $60,000 c\t the present tIme but t\\O-thIrds of the factory buddIng of the Herzog \rt Furl1ltl11 e Company IS completed, but "hen entlrel) finl"hed, It \\ III have a floor space of 651,440 square teet. \\ Ith a frontage at 451 feet On l\IlChlgan a, enue and 328 feet on the .:'II C & P -;\1 R R tracks The factory bUIlding of the Sagll1a\\ Table and Cabinet Company IS located about half a mlle 111 the rear of the Art Furmture company plant, and IS a bnck bUlldll1g t\\ a stone., In heIght, wIth about 15,000 square feet floor space and \\hen runnll1g wIth a full force employes about one hundred men John L Jacbon IS presIdent of both corporations wIth John Herzog as the general manager The Art Furmture Company manufactures ladles' \\nt- ------------ .. .- --_._._.---_.~II r-pi"ONEER M,nUt ,nuKtnQ (OM PAnT DETROIT, MICH, Reed Furniture Baby Carriages Go-Carts ~ Full lMe shown only at the factory, IHE FORD & JOHNSON CO. CHICAGO This is one of our popular Hotel chairs, Our chairs are found in all the leading Hotels in the. country. The line includes a very complete assort-ment of chairs, rock-ers and settees of all grades; Dming Room furl1lture, Reed and Rat tan furniture, Special Order furni-ture, etc. A ~omplete lme of sam-ple. are displayed in The Ford 8 Johnson Bnildml/. 1433·37 Wahssh Ave •• In-cludlnl/ a speCIal dIsplay of Hotel Furniture. All fw mture dealers are cordwlly invited to visit our building. i~I -_. .- - _ ~I Il1g desks, mU"lc cabll1ets, plano benches, dIsc and cylinder record cabll1ets, plano player cabinets, cellerettes, sewll1g cabll1ts and pede"tals and at the Saginaw Table and Cabinet Company 's plant center, parlor and hbrary tables. At pres-ent both plants are runmng on full time w1th a large force and the receIpts of the orders for ImmedIate and fall shIp-ments hay e been very good Railroads Act Prematurely. Ratlroad managers 111 what 1Sknown as official classification terntory, that IS, east of 111mOls and north of the OhIO nver, hay e ordered that all m1xed cars of freight must be II1spected, and that goods 111 such cars billed to drfferent consIgnees, must be "elghed and charged on the basis of the less-than-carload rates There IS a case involving theIr nght to do this now pendmg 111 the supreme court, and why the radroad men "hould not hay e "alted for a decisIOn 111 that case before takll1g action I:" not apparent As the rule does not apply to tern tory west of IndIana, ChIcago shIppers are not affected The SItuation in the west I., not changed, managers of the road" 111 that territory havll1g deCIded to "alt untd the supreme court has passed upon the question before takll1g actIOn Grand RapIds "hlppers, how-e, er, who "Ish to mIx shIpments, WIll have to assemble the goods and bIll the car to a slI1gle consIgnee in order to secure carload rates, and even that privl1ege may be lost if the su-preme court sustams the contentions of the ral1road traffic managers The John A Dunn Company, chaIr manufacturers, of Gardner, Mass have established a \\ arehouse on LaSalle street ---------_. _._._..---_..... .••••.• _ • .J near Twenty-mnth 111 ChIcago. WEEKLY ARTISAN ~ ..••....... ....•..•.. ... ------------.------.--- ._._.. .. _ - .. _. ----1 VISIT OUR SHOW ROOMS AND SEE THE BEST LINE OF DAVENPORT BEDS IN THE MARKET We will have the nght styles at the right pnces and made to gIVe satisfaction. Don't miss commg to see the line. It wIll pay you. Parlor Furniture Show Rooms 35 to 41 N. Capital Ave. Ask for catalogues. THOS. MADDEN, SON & CO., Indianapolis,Ind. Secret Apartments in Furniture. The constructlOn of furmture with secret apartments IS bomethmg of a fad mdulged m by manufacturers, although It IS doubtful 1£ the owners of such furmture e\ er use these re-cepticles for valuables except m rare mstances vVlth the pub-lic safety vaults ever available, when the conbustIble nature of the furmture contammg secret drawers IS considered, It IS fair to presume that little of mtnnslC value IS ever consigned to the same for safe keepmg The secret drawer serves the purpose of the young lady of the house In preservmg the love messages of "Johnny" or "Billy" when the younger members of the family have been tramed not to ransack the house. One of Edgar Allen Poe's short stones, "The Purl0111ed Letter," wntten more than Sixty years ago, conta111s an account ren-dered by an official of the police force of Pans, of a search mstituted to recover an mcnm111at1l1g commumcatlOn of a lady of rank to another, that tells of the many places where valu-ables or papers of Importance might be concealed m a home In descnbmg the search of the apartments of the official who stole the letter the police officer bald. "We opened every possible drawer and I suppose you know, to a properly tra111ed police agent, such a thmg as a secret drawer IS Impossible Any man IS a dolt who permits a secret drawer to escape him In a search of this k111d The thmg IS so plam There IS a certam amount of bulk-of space-to be accounted for m every cabmet Then we have accurate rules The fiftieth part of a line could not escape us After search111g the cabinets we took the chairs The cushIOns we probed with the fine long needles you have seen me employ From the tables we removed the tops vVhy so? SometImes the top of a table or similarly arranged piece of furniture ib removed by the person wlshmg to conceal an artIcle, then the ~--------------_. --. ...----_.-~~-----_._------._--_...__----- T Couches Leather Rockers t I ... ------~ leg IS excavated, the artIcle deposited with111the cavity and the top replaced Tile bottoms and tops of bed posts are employed m the same way." "But could not the cavity be detected by soundmg?" "By no means. 1£, when the artIcle IS deposited, a suffiCient wadd111g of cotton be placed around It. Besides, in our case, we were obliged to proceed "'Ithout nOIse" "But you could not have removed-you could not have taken to pieces all artIcles of furmture m which It would have been pOSSible to make a depOSit m the manner you mention. A letter may be compressed 111tOa thm spiral roll, not differing much m shape or bulk from a large kmttmg needle, and in thiS form It might be mserted 111tOthe rung of a chair, for example You did not take to pieces all the chairs ," "Certamly not, but we did better, we exammed the rungs of every chair m the b111ld111ga,nd mdeed the jomtings of every descnptlOn of furmture, by the aid of a most powerful micro-scope Had there been any traces of recent disturbance we should not have failed to detect It instantly A smgle gram of gimlet dust, for example, would have been as obvious as an apple An} disorder m the gl111ng-any unusual gap111g in the J0111tS,would have sufficed to 111sure detectlOn" "I presume you looked to the mirrors, between the plates and the boards, and you probed the beds and the bed clothes, as well as the curta111s and carpets" "That of course, and when we had absolutely searched ever} article of furmture, we examined the house itself " Naturally the reader of the above, not familiar With the stor} , deSire'S to know where the mlssmg letter was found An unprofessional fnend of the detectIve saw it carelessly deposited upon a card rack, and while the attentIOn of the pur-lomer of the letter was drverted by a ruse, the detectIve's fnend took it, substltutmg a dummy m ItS place 16 to dodge the provisions of the Hepburn law. It is easy as "fallln,g off a log" Instead of paying a rebate direct they simply advise the shIpper to put 111a claIm for overcharges and then they make no objection to payment of hIS claim. By US111gsuch methods, by refus111g to obey the law 111spint as \\ ell 111letter, the ratlroad men are "SOW111gthe wmd." No more effecttv e pollcy can be adoptd for mak111g government 0\\ llerShlp of raIlroads look good to the people. WEEKLY ARTISAN PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY THE MICHIGAN ARTISAN COMPANY SUBSCRIPTION $1 00 PER YEAR IN AL.L COUNTRIESOF THE POSTAL UNION $1 50 PER YEAR TO OTHER COUNTRIES. SINGL.E COPIES 5 CENTS. PUBLICATION OFFICE, 108-112 NORTH DIVISION ST, GRAND RAP'oS, MICH, A S WHITE, MANAGING EOITOFl Entered as second class matter July 5, 1909 at the post office at Grand Rapids, Michigan under the act of March J 1879 Consular trade report "!\ a 3551, I:>sued by the gm f'rnmellt bureau of manufacture", has an article on "Pack111g Good" for MeXICO," WhICh, though It tells an old story, IS of interest to furmture men because It mentlOns 111stances where furmture has been badly damaged because of not beIng properly packed or crated The artIcle was vl'ntten by \Vllham \\. Canada, consul at Vela Cruz, and ~hde It tells httle that IS new, It serves to call attentlOn to the nnportance of proper pack- 111g and to the cost of crat111g, not only for export but for domestic sll1pmentS Few people apprecIate the co"t of crating furmture and the effect It has on the pnces paid b) consumer<; Tho<;e ~ho have seen the stacks of crates taken from the samples dIsplayed In the Grand Rapids market may have been Impressed WIth an Idea that crat111g 1<; eA-pensive, but the crates "tOI ed on vacant lut<; in the Clt\ would not last an ord111ary factory more than a fe\\ month" The qualtty of lumber used for crat111g IS not of the be~t but the quantity IS enormous, and at the current pnces the cost forms one of the large Items 111the expense account" of the manufacturers To properly crate a small piece of furmture, a chaIr for 111stance, It IS frequently necessary to use more lumber than was cut to make the chaIr t:'nder such condItions It IS not strange that manufacturers tbe a poor qualtty of lumber for crates and 111their efforts to econ omlze, sometimes overdo the matter and take great n"ks on hav111g their goods broken or damaged The order abohshlng mIxed car pnvdeges 111all terntorj east of Ilhnols and north of the Ohio nver, mentIOned by the Weekly ArtIsan last Saturday, will wOlk great 111Jury to Grand RapIds furmture manufacturers As ChIcago IS not 111the territory affected a car loaded WIth furniture owned and bllted by several parties, may be sent to the Pacific coast for $200 or $300 less than from thIS CIty The carload rate to the coast IS $220 per 100 pounds or $880 for a load of 40,000 pounds The less-than-car-Ioad rate is $300 per 100 pounds or $1,200 for 40,000 pounds "'Ith a dIfference of over $300 111freIght charges buyer" who WIsh to bunch theIr shIpments and thus secure the carload rate WIll surely find It to theIr advantage to buy In ChIcago rather than 111Grand Rapids Grand RapIds manufacturers should complete the orgamzatlOn of then shIppers' aSSOCIatIOn, establtsh a bureau WIth a competent manager and have hIm get bu<;y nght away After perusing the article on "ReparatIOn Instead of Re-bates," on another page of thiS edItion, readers WIll have no difficulty in understand111g how the raIlroads have managed A telegram from \Vashington states that the new tariff btll matenall) affects the unportatwn of furniture Hereaf-ter Import dutIes Will have to be paId in excess of the $100 eAemptwn unless the person bnngmg In the hou ...ehold effect6 has been abroad for two years or more Under the Dingley btll returl11ng Amencans were generously treated when im-portmg quantities of household goods, etc American fur-l11ture IS so supenor to the furm~ure made 111 the old world that It 1.0 difficult to conceIve a reason to Justify the use by Amencans of furl11ture not made 111 the United States. The exca\ atlOns at ancIent PompeiI, whIch have been carned on steachl) for several years, have recently "uncov-ered a \ Illa of hancbome constructIOn ornamented WIth fine fre-,coes and contam111g Greek and Roman statues and, also, nch and beautifully ornamented furmture." Now there's a chance for enterpns1l1g manufacturers to secure some "new" c1e<;lgns George G \\'hltworth s Idea a~ to the effect of the new tanft on the cost of the lower grades of fur111ture, will be en-dorsed b) those who remember that the Artisan, about two \ ear:> ago, pubhshed a series of cost schedules showing that m ,",ome of the lo~ grade dressers, sideboards, etc, the glass cost" almost as much as the labor or the lumber The new tanff law IS not what the majority of the people \\ ould ltke to have, but it IS certainly no worse than the old Id\\ and the fact that the matter is settled will be a great relief to the manufactunng, commerCial and industrial interests of the country Owmg to the growmg mterest m organization, the fur-mture trade WIll sOOn devote as much time to the holdmg of com entwns a3 the manufacturers of lumber use for that purpose, whIch IS nearly all the time. \\ Ith a return to normal condItions in the furniture trade specal contract<; WIth matI order houses and the general gov-ernment do not look so good as formerly to the average manufacturer Floor space 111 the fur11lture exposItion buildings in Grand RapId" \\ III command a prem1Um long before the winter "eason open.., r\ safe wager would be that pnces for all kinds of furni-tm e WIll be hIgher 111 January. Ko contracts were awarded for the erection of furni-ture eAp0'3ltlon hutldmgs during the past week. A Loan Secured By a Trust Deed. The Hartman Furniture Company of Chicago recently borrowed $65,000 on a trust deed secured by a lot and building on \Vest Monroe street. WEEKLY ARTISAN HAFNER FURNITURE COMPANY ESTABLISHED 1873. 2620 Dearborn St., CHICAGO No. 3130 COUCH-Size 30 inches wide and 75 inches long. A beautiful design, of gen-erous dimensions. Heavy hardwood frame elaborately decorated with carvmgs and mould-ings. The two Il1ch half round mouldmg that extends along the lower edge is finished cross-banded Large winged c1awfoot legs. American golden gramed quarter sa\\ed oak finish. The upholstering is plam with ruffled sides. This couch is double stuffed with stitched spring edges. The filling is of tow and cotton felt top. Heavy white canvas duck bottom. Hafner warranted steel spring constructIOn, having 28 springs in the seat and 9111the head. Shipped K. D , legs off, and weighs about 125 lbs. Couches, Box Couches, Adjustable Lounges, Davenports, Bed Davenports, Leather Chairs, and Rockers CAT ALoe UPON REQUEST. Samplesshown at Manufacturers' Furn-iture Exchange, Wabash Ave. and 14th St., Chicago. Price No. 1 Leather $25.00 17 When an Order Becomes a Contract. Disagreement as to just what converts an order mto a con-tract often leads to trouble between buyers and sellers. Many a lawsuit has been caused by a misunderstanding as to what is necessary to make an order bind111gon both buyer and seller Therefore the followmg summary of the law on the subject, as interpreted by the courts, may be of mterest to furniture manufacturers and dealers. Fast of all, it should be borne in mind that a contract is an agreement, expressed or imphed. And it follows that until the point is reached in the transactiOn where buyer and seller agree positively to one and the same th111gthere can be no con-tract of sale It is very evident that in the mere giving of an order there is nothing to meet this requirement. The con-currence of the seller is still wantmg. In other words, an Qrder of Itself IS nothing but an offer to contract. The answer to the main question must therefore be that an order becomes a contract when the mmds of the giver and receiver meet in agreement on ItS terms Circumstances may make that point of time the instant when the order is gIven, or an hour, or a day, or SiX weeks afterward. Whenever it i", thenceforth the nght" of both parties are those of parties to a contract that cannot be broken WIthout lIahilIty for damages A practically instantaneous conversion of an order into a contract is effected when the former IS given directly to the person who is to fill it, and he, by words or unmistakable act, promIse" to do It It WIll usually be the same when an order is given to a member of the firm It IS intended for and he accept3 it. Likewise, where the dealmg is WIth an agent who is author-ized to close contracts But so long as the prmcipal retains, by express stipulation of known custom, any priVIlege of con-dItioning or turning down of the order, it remians only an offer, that cannot become a contract untIl in some way formally accepted When orders are sent by mall the general rule is that they become b111dmg contracts from the tIme a properly addressed acceptance IS depOSIted m the mail or they are filled. It is absolutely necessary, generally speak111g,that If the acceptance be not brou~ht to the knowledge of the person giving the order, that it shall be mamfested in a proper way to be m the usual course of events m some reasonable time communicated to him. Nip and Tuck. Detroit, Aug. ll-Thls city has a great many furniture dealers, and there are two streets that seem to be rivals in this hne These are Michigan avenue and Gratiot avenue, which are running so close a race that It is probable that every dealer on each street, If he has not carefully looked it up, would claim the larger number. According to the Red Book for July, 1909. Michigan avenue has 33 and Gratiot avenue 31. When Weil & Co move from Woodward avenue to their new e~ght-story building that is to be bmlt for them at the corner of Michigan and Washmgton avenues, Michigan avenue will have 34-a lead of 3. WhIle Owen & Co. are having an eight-story building in course of construction, they do not move off the 5treet, but only a few squares farther east. When Geo. J. Reindel & Bro move from Woodward avenue to their new building on Griswold street, there Will be only three furni-ture stMes on the main thoroughfare below the park-A. A. Gray & Co , Keenan & J ahn and the H R. Leonard Company. Gregory, Mayer & Thom have a large office supply store be-low the Campus MartlUs, which might be mcluded in the list of Woodward avenue furniture stores, but then the street will have only four after \IV ell and Reindel have moved. ------------------ 1$ WEEKLY ARTISAN Upon the receipt of a request from any responsible dealer, cata-logues illustrating, pricing and describing the Quick Selling Lines of the Big Six Car Loading Association will be forwarded. These lines are for sale in the Evansville Furniture Exchange. THE KARGES FURNITURE CO. Manufacturers of Chamber Suites, Wardrobes, Chdfomers, Odd Dressers, ChIfforobes. THE BOSSE FURNITURE CO. Manufacturers of Kitchen Cabinets, K D. Wardrobes, Cupboards and Safes, in Imitation golden oak, plam oak and quartered oak. THE WORLD FURNITURE CO. Manufacturers of Mantel and Upright Foldmg Beds, Buffets, Hall Trees, China Closets, Combination Book and Library Cases. THE GLOBE FURNITURE CO. Manufacturers of Sideboards m plain oak, imitation quartered oak, and solid quartered oak, Chamber Suites, Odd Dressers, Beds and Chilfomers in lffiitation quartered oak, Imitation mahogany, and imitation golden oak. THE BOCKSTEGE FURNITURE CO. Manufacturers of the "Superior" Line of Parlor, Library, Dming and Dressing Tables. THE METAL FURNITURE CO. Manufacturers of "Hygiene" Guaranteed Brass and Iron Beds, Cnbs, Wire Springs and Cots The Big Six Manufacturers of Evansville possess unequalled facil-ities for shipping goods promptly. All have sidings in or adjoining their factories and cars can be dispatched direct over the great rail-road systems of the East, South and West. Made by The Karges Furmture Co ...•• - la •••• w_ •• • a ••••• __ ••• w •••••••••••• __ • w •••••• we w •• T. a •• a •••• _. WEEKLY ARTISAN 19 I~~-----_.. ...-----_. .. .. ...... _. -' - - . .. - - - -- . . . - - - - - - .- - - - - .- - _.... - - - - - - - - .... Made b; Bockstege Furniture Co Made by Globe FUllllture Co Made by Bockstege Furniture Co Made by Bosse Furmture Co. --------------------------------- ...... portatlOn aftall s 111 the past and the present is largely re- 'ipons1ble for many of the unsatisfactory cond1t1Ons that pre- 'all today. Thousands of firms purchase yearly, thousands of dollars' v, orth of transportation each, without know1l1g or apparently canng to know" hat they are paY1l1g for. It IS not so WIth other com1l10dltIes purchased by them 111 the course of a year's bus1l1ess In other chrectIons theIr purchases are governed b) e"pe1 t knowledge \" h1ch they employ If they do not posse~s \\ hen an 111d1v1dualhke Mr. K111del enters upon a campaIgn for reasonable freIght rates he receIves, as a rule, very httle support from those" ho cannot be restra1l1ed from participa- 110n 111the benefits of \\ hate' er results he may obtain. In fact, he IS extremely hable to encounter more opposItion from those who w1l1 be benefited by his efforts than from the ral1- roads themselves It is a fact that the benefits of his work may not be confined to those who have supported him, and that fact IS recoglllzed by many freIght payers who are con-tent to "lthhold theIr moral or financIal support and share the benefits 1£ any obta1l1ed or look WIse and say "I told you so'· 1£ the eftort IS defeated. ::\Ian) shIppers WIthhold their 'iupport for fear of antagon- 1zmg the rallroads and Justify thelf pOSItion by claimmg to be consen atn e, It IS possIble too conservatively conservative The earners are not to be antag01l1zed by any effort of the shippers to obta1l1 rehef from any rates, rules or practices that may be sho" n to be unreasonable or unduly discnminatIve Under the e"l:otIng 'itandards of freIght rate construct1On there may ah, a) s be a ,\ Ide dIvergence of op1111Onas to what constitutes a redsonable rate bet" een two pomts. The earners are cer-ta1l11) entitled to a reasonable 1eturn upon theIr investment, but such 1eturn IS never confined entirely to anyone particular source of revenue. Absolute faIrness and justice to the car-ne1S, 111 all matters, IS not, never was and never WIll be in-consIstent" 1th a propel conse1 vat10n of their own 1I1terests by the sh1ppers The final outcome of the K1I1dei case WIll be of interest to the freIght payers of the entire country. It is not apparent that K1I1de1 fears or has cause to fear the antagonism of the rallroads, or that same, If 111curred, may be dIsplayed to hIS loss or dIsadvantage. A shIpper who dIsparages the efforts of such a man and WIthholds hIS support because of an expressed fear of the antagolllsm of the rallroads, mIght as well assert that the management of the rallroads 1S111the hands of a horde of pIrates agamst the depredat10ns of whom he has no protec-tion by the laws of the country. PRACTICAL LESSON FOR FREIGHT PAYERS. What the Denver Expert Has Done and is Doing for the Commercial Interest of Colorado and Utah. That the freIght payers of at least one section of the coun-try are beg111n111gto SIt up and take notice IS made ev 1dent b) the filing of a bond of $500,000 by George J. K1I1del, a manu-facturer of mattresses, and a dealer in brass beds and slmllar articles in the CIty of Denver, Colorado, 111order to obta111 m the federal court a tempora1Y 111JunctIon restram1l1g the" est-e1n rallroads from mak1l1g an advance of apprm,lmately 20 per cent 111 the freIght rates from Gah eston, Texas, to Dem er and to Colorado and Utah P01l1ts in general Because of hIS proven abllity as an 111s1stent, cons1stent and persistent opponent of the rallroads m theIr attempts to ad-vance freIght rates from gulf ports 111 then endeavor to throttle a dangerous competitor of the trans-continental hne:o, the Texas Steamship Company, Mr K1I1del has finally succeeded in arousing hIS fellow merchants from theIr md1fferent atti-tude toward all matters of transportat1On, and has been en-abled to file the bond necessary to the grantmg of the tem-porary injunction. The aggressIve ab1hty of ::\lr K1I1dei has been repeated 1) demonstrated 111 connection WIth a compla1l1t that he filed \\lth the Interstate Commerce Comm1SS1On aga11lst the ,anous express compa1l1es that resulted in substantial reduct10ns In the express rates to and from Dem er, and more recently 111 connection WIth his attack upon the freIght rates from Xe\\ York, ChIcago, St Loms, Omaha and P01l1ts taking slml1ar rates to Denver. In the last ment10ned case the Interstate Commerce Com-m1S1Onheld that the adjustment of rate'i was d1scnm1l1atn e aga1l1st Denver, 111favor of Kansas City and other lYhssoun nver cross1l1gs, and that the class 1ates from ChIcago and from St. Loms to Denver we1 e e:xceSSlve and unrea'ionable and should be reduced The Comm1SS1Onfurther held that the class rates from the M1ssoun lIver to De1ner and from Denver to the Utah common P01l1ts \\ ere unreasonable and exceSSl\ e and that a readjustment should be made 111harmon) WIth the pnnc1ples announced by the Comm1ss1On In the Spokane rate case. When in New York recently Mr K11ldel learned of the m-tended advance 111 the rates to Denver from the Gulf ports and immedIately upon hIS return to Denver he began pro-ceedings in the federal court to enJ01l1 the rallroads, as the Interstate Commerce Comm1SS1On has no power to restra1l1 any advance in rates, and can only pass upon the reasonable-ness of the advanced rate after same has become effective and formal compla11lt attack1l1g same has been filed It was neces-sary that he file the bond of $500,000 Because of the "do nothing unt11 too late" pohcy of the freight payers and the general apathy that prevalled, it appeared impossIble for hIm to obtain the SUPP01t that \\ould enable hIm to file the bond, but he has once mOl e demonstrated hIS ab1ht) to '·get 1e-suIts," the bond has been filed, the freIght pay ers have become ahve to theIr own 11lteresb 111 the quest1On, the temporary 111- junction has been granted, and the rallroads must now shov\ cause why 1t should not be made permanent, and 111 the mean-time the rates cannot be advanced Such abihty as IS possessed by Mr Kmdel1s absolutely es-sential to the commerClal welfare of thIS country It IS to be regretted there are not more hke hIm If e, ery center of manufacture and jobb1l1g trade possessed such a man the ma-jonty of the problems of transportat1On that now confront the carners and the shIppers would soon be properly adjusted The apathy of the freIght payers and their 11lattent1On to trans- E. LEWING Grand RapIds, August 11, 1909. New Residences in the West. Dunng the past week Los Angeles arcllltects have an-nounced that plans are be1l1g made for reSIdences to be e1ected 111 southern Cahfor1l1a thIS fall as follo\\ s : MISS Juha Cald-well, Redlands; C B Mann, Coronado; J. D Lawrence, Cor-onado; L C Ml1es, San DIego; C McNutt, San DIego, and ::'Irs E L Cannon, Pasadena Mayor B10ckway of Florence, Anz, IS bmld11lg a large reSIdence, as IS A Bucktesehler of \V11lnemucca, Ne,' 111SSIsabelle Ross IS bmld1l1g a large apartment house in Pasadena, Cal, and P J Dolan of South Pasadena IS hav111g plans made for three fine bungalows WEEKLY ARTISAN 21 A Memorial to the Inventor of the Spring Bed. Spencer, Mas:-. , wlll erect a memonal to Tyler Howe, the inventor of the spring bed. In the early forties Tyler and his brother Elias, inventor of a sew111g machine, engaged in the manufacture of palm leaf mattresses, after having built a ma-chine for stripping and tW1sting the leaves of the palm tree into bunches lIke skeins of yarn, after wh1ch the bunches were baked, 111order that the curling effected by the twisting pro-cess might be reta111ed. Ovens were used for heating the palms The palm leaf prepared in the manner above described became qUIte a factor in the manufacture of beds, or mattresses and at one time was about the only material in this portion of the country used in the manufacture of the cheaper grade of mattresses In the year 1853, while residing in Ca1Jfornia, Tyl.er Howe comtructed the first spring bed During his voyage to Cali-forma he found the sleeping accommodatlOns on board the wool that has gone forward to meet the requirements of man-ufacturers in this country. Many buyers have been in that market ~ince the fir"t 01 August 100k111gover the stock sellers have to offer, and try-ing to induce holders to moderate their price ideas, but sellers are firmer than ever, as they are 100k111gforward to higher pnces a lIttle later on. DUring the week just closed further shipments of China wools arnved here, amounting to 801,689 pound~ Practically the entire amount ,,,,as sold to arrive, however, and has not helped matters any. The withdrawals from warehouse for the week amounted to 626,546 pounds, as aga111st 936,776 pounds warehoused and 300,317 pounds entered for consumption Further small sales of carpet wool, for better than carpet purposes, are reported, but transactions as a whole are re-stricted, owing to the prices sellers are holding out for. American Saws in Germany. An active importer of American goods in Hamburg, Ger- Made by Thos. Madden, Son & Co, IndianapolIs, Ind. steamship very uncomfortable. The bottoms of the berths were solid boards. The bed he exhibited in San Francisco waq used for his own comfort Returning to the east he com-menced the manufacture of the Howe spring beds and berth bottoms, of which many hundred thousands were sold and are still in use. Mr. Howe obtained his fir'3t patent upon h1S invention in the year 1853, afterward receiving several other letters patent for improvements made in their manufacture Demand for Carpet Wools. Adv1ces from New YOlk state that notw1thqtanclIng the enormous 111crease 111the imports of carpet wools this year, stocks held in this and other markets throughout the country are reported to be the smallest in many years. It is safe to say that very few members of the trade, both buyer and seller, are aware of the fact that for the first six months of this year the imports amount to 64,457,624 pounds, as compared with 23,437,378 pounds for the corresponding period last year. In the face of these imports, wool dealers and importers are hold-ing very firmly to what stock they have, as they are well aware of the fact that the wool could not be replaced, in many in-stances, at the prices which it is now being offered in this market The sltuation also shows the enormous amount of many, states that the sale of Amencan saws 111that country could be doubled readdy if Amencan manufacturers, instead of intrust111g their repre~entation to general export111g and 1mporting firms who handle 10,000 articles, would give it to an agent making a specialty of a few hardwa1 e lines I n spite of their h1gh pnce, American c1rcular :-.aws are bought 111fa1r quantities, their excellent qualIties overwe1gh111g all other con-sideratlOns It 1Ssuggested that the d1stnbutlOn of free sam-ples 111the German saw mllis for tnal purposes would probably 1esult in a large 111crease in the busineqs, which is now shared by two celebrated American firms only. Amencan hack-s,lw blades, although worth about one-third more than German blades, are readlly sold OW111gto their spec1al temper, and this business is equally susceptible of large increase In the band and web saw trade ~ost price remains the first consideration, and the prospects for increasing Ameri-can trade in this branch are not believed to be particularly bright. American butcher saws are used almost to the exclu-sion of all others in Hamburg, but they are not so well known in the interior and have not been pressed for sale in the thou-sands of local markets French band saws have a specially hard and even temper, and for many years have been imported into Germany on a large scale, but within the last ten years American band saws have made considerable progress 22 WEEKLY ARTISAN SUITE No. 1090 MADE BY SUGH FURNiTURE CO. GRAND RAPIDS. MICH WEEKLY ARTISAN _ ......•... _----------- -_ ..--_ .._-------_ •.....•......•. -_ .._- The season for banquets will soon be here. Get a stock of our Banquet Table Tops so as to be ready to supply the demand sure I to come. t. •• _ Our Large New Line of DINING and OFFICE TABLES are the best on the American market when prices and quality are considered. STOW « Df\VIS fUKNITUKE, GO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. City Salesroom. 4th floor. Blodgett Bldg. 23 .- -" ---- .- ----_._-----_. __._. - - - - - --------_._._-----_. -- ---------~----_._-~..__..----- _. _._--- - - - - . .. - - - - - - -~ St. Louis "Exposition." St LOUJs, 1\10, Aug 12 -Last week was the semI-annual trade week, estahlI'lhed three year'i ago by the Furniture Board of Trade, and It wa:-, much more :-uccessful than here-tofOJ e ::-;eventy factone:-, were 1epresented m the exhIbIt-, and the SIX floors of the furmture\ exhJbltIon butldmg \X, el e \\ ell filled Duyers were here from all the adJomlllg 'St4te;; dnd '3ome from moret c1Jst~ll1t pOInt:-, 1J] the we~t and south !'e"lde" the rlhplays made by the local manufacturer" there \ven-e exhlbJt-, from fac tont':'> In OhIO, IndIana, IHmol" and Kentucky and from othe!' pUlnt-, In thJ" "tate l\Iany of the buyer" expre:o..,eo :-,urpn:-,e and delIght ov er the <1haracter and extent ()If the C'xhlblts, 'iome g0111g "0 fal a:-, to declare that St LoUIS WIll soon :-,urpa:o'3 Grand RapId:-, and ChIcago 111the manufacture and dIsplay of staple arti-clels dnd mechum grade fur11ltUIe One of the mo:;t en~ thuSla'itlc was A G Barber, buyer for the Herpolshelmer C01T1,pany of L111coln, 1'\ebr , ""ho left order" for se(veral car-load" and '3ald "You hay e three hne'3 111St LOUI'i that cannot be touched any"" here I hay e been buy Ing the,',e 1111e:-, for some tllne, but thIS IS my fir."t Vl:;lt to the local market I am very much Jmpressed WIth the fur11lture products In St Lam", and partIcularly WJth the three hnes as I have stated The pnces are all nght, the quahty better, and the St LOUIS people know how to treat a \ Jsitor "The Conrades ChaIr Company makes the best 1111e., of mechum pnced chaIrs and rockers m Amenca TheIr pnces are cheaper than we can get anywhere else and the quahty JS better I have looked over all the market.-> m the country and expect to contm ue handlmg theJr goods Thf.y make chaIrs that cannot be touched elsewhere for the money "Then there IS the Landau KItchen Cabmet that I thmk J" the best on the market They make a beautJful lIne of cabmet:; and theIr pnle'i ~urpa"s all theIr competItors I don't find anothel cabmet on the market that equal:-, Jt, eIther 111 style and qualIty or pnce "I also purchase the lIbrary tables manufactured by the Aude Furmture Company They make the prettIest table for the money In the country I have been buying m ChI-cago, but expect to come to St LOtHS every year now" The VJ'3Jtors were cel tamly well entertamed dunng the we!ek Tuesday 11lght they formed a theatre party and heard "Rob111 Hood" at the Delmar Garden Wednesday eve-n111g they vJslted the Forest Park Highlands, Thursday night they enjoyed a steamboat nde on the MJSSJssippJ nver and Fnday mght they \\ ere enterta11100 at a banquet gIven by travelIng salesmen representmg the St. LoUls factories. H. S Tuttfe wa'l chaJrman of the entertamment comnllttee and he dlschaJged his dutIes to the satJsfaction of all concerned Most of the buyers remamed 111 the CJty over Sunday and some of the exhJbItors have booked more orders thIS week than they chd dunng trade week Marvel Company Comes to Grand Rapids. I The Mdrvel 1\IanufaC'tunng Company of loma, :MJch., WhICh suffered a 'ienous lo<,s by fire 111 July, oa:o decided to move to Grand RapJds after consIdering propo'iition'l made Made by Warren Table Works. Wan en. Pa by several other towns In the state The company has rented a part of the plant formerly used by toe Harnson VI[ agon Works and expects to move the mac111nery and be ready to start operatIOns in the new quarter') some tJme 111 Sep-tember The company makes a hne of chaJr", that have a good :-,tandmg 111 the market. 24 WEEKLY ARTISAN .................. ...-•..............•............... - - Richmond Tablet Arm Chair RICHMOND CHAIR CO. RICHMOND, INDIANA DOUBLE CANE LINE "SLIP SEATS" - the latest and best method of double seating. Catalogues to the Trade. No. 100 No. 51-Flat Arm Rocker. ~-- •• __ ....• _ •• _ •••••••• _ •••••••• a. __ ••• _ ••••• __ •••••• ----------._-_._-------- _._~I Wholesalers Protected Against Fraudulent Retailers_ Stanley W. Dexter, a referee of the Umted States court of New York to inveo;tigate the claIms of ),follie RosenzweIg against the assets of Benjam111 Rosenberg, a bankrupt dealer In furmture, handed down an opimon recently "hlch IS <;u-,- ta111ed by the courts wIll go far to protect reputable "hole"'dlc merchants from dl~hone~t retatler"" who stock theil ">tores on credit and then sell out to tncky auctIOneers and dl"appear Referee Dexter 111hIs op1111Onholds, 111substance, that It is not sufficIent for a man who buys out a storekeeper's entIre stock to take the latter's \\ ord that he has not credItors \, ho have a prior claim to the goods Under the anti-bulk sales law of 1907 the purchaser must make reasonable inquines as to whether or not the storekeeper has creditors, and in case of a suit must be able to convince the court that he has done so As a result of the Rosenberg bankruptcy, Rosenberg him- <,elfhas fled the state, two of his "reference~" \\ ere gn en pnson sentences, and the auctlOneers who \\orked 111collusIon \\ lth hIm have been indIcted The history of the transactlOn IS worth reading. After opening a furmture store at 1568 First a\ enue and ~tocking it with some $10,000 worth of goods on credIt from cltfferent wholesale merchants, Rosenberg dIsappeared last De-cember. When the wholesale merchants who had gIven hIm credIt made an investigation they found his store stnpped They also discovered that the other firms whIch he had gn en as references were practically all carrying on the same k111d of business, and that the only way they could reco\ er their property was to find out where the mlss111g dealer ,,,as con-ceafing the unpaid for goods Accordingly they engaged the law firm of Slegel & Slegel to try to trace the goods for them A few days later the law-yers received ~ post card from an expressman, offenng, In re-turn for money, to tell them to what warehouse and cellars he had been employed by Rosenberg secretly to carry the goods Lawyer Benjamin Siegel, Receiver Osterman and half a dozen detectives subsequently found most of the unpald for furniture in some Brooklyn cellars and stored them in an official warehouse. A few days later, much to Receiver Osterman's surpnse, he was served with an injunction restra111111ghlm from selhng the furniture and dividing the proceeds among the reputable merchants whom the missing bankrupt had vlctImized The injunction had been sworn out by a Mrs Mollie Rosenzweig, ,\ ho asserted that she had bought all the stock 111Rosenberg's '3tore before he dIsappeared She sald that through her hus-band she had pald Rosenberg $2,750 for his entire stock 111 the presence of an east slde notary public just before his diS-appearance ::\lrs RosenLweu;. howe' er, was only able to show an un- Itemi7ecl btll of "ale, and could not produce any inventory of her alleged purcha~e Recelver Osterman became convinced that )'lro; Ro<;enzwelg was really buying a dummy for the east "Ide auctIOneer firm of Hyman & Chapman Recen er O"tel man accord111gly asked the com t to app01nt a referee to 111vestigate the vahdlty of Mrs Rosenzweig's clallns In the subsequent proceed111gs before him Referee DeAter \\ a~ not satIsfied wlth the testImony of all the Rosenz- \\ eig witnesses Of Hyman & Chapman the referee says 111his op111lOn' "1 am satIsfied, from the circumstances of this case, that a fraudulent conspiracy eXIsted between the bankrupt and Ros-enz,\ elg and IIy man & Chapman, and the bankrupt removed these goods In pursuance of a scheme to hinder, delay and de.'. fraud his credltors " Hyman & Chapman have S111cebeen indlcted for conspiracy. The partners in the mercantile firm of Fuchs & Straus, who acted as Ro<;enberg's "references," and thus enabled him to stock IllS store on credlt, \\ ere also indicted and received prison <,entences In hls oplmon Referee DeAter also says' ( In regard to the stock of goods clearly Identified to have been 111the bankrupt's store on December 3, 1908, there is no questlOn as to the recelver's nght to retain them as against the petItioner. "The sale of an entire stock of goods of a retail merchant wlth111 four months of hIS adJudlcatlOn as a bankrupt puts the burden of proof upon the purcha"er, to show that he had no knowledge of the bankruptcy, and reqUlre~ hlm to use such means of knowledge as were at hand to learn whether the seller was in financial dIfficulties "The fatlure to make proper 111qUlnes Imputes to the pur-cha" er kno\\ ledge of such 111solvency, and he cannot therefore claIm to ha' e purchased the good" 111good faith." There are tnne" ,,,hen a man feels quite as curtailed as though he were a tm can tIed to the caudal appendage of a yellow dog \YEEKLY ARTISAN Indianapolis Illinois amI New York Sts. j HARDWOOD LUMBER II SA~~D} QUARTERED OAK { VENEERS i SLICED AND MAHOGANY . --'~6t ------. -. ...-------- ---- ~I 6 Blocks from Umon Depot 2 Blocks from Interurban StatIOn 250 Rooms All OutsIde, wIth Fire Escape 1elephone In Every Room. European Plan Rates 75c to $2 00 Per D 'y Dlllmg Room In ConnectIOn SpeCIal "ates to Famlhes and Permanent Guests Ladles Travehng Alone wIll FInd ThIS a Very DesIrable StoppIng Place GEO. R. BENTON Lessee and Manager ..----------_. New York Market Reports. ~ew York, Aug 13 -Except sltghtly In<.:reased actiVIty, the new tanff law has had no apparent effect on the markets mentIOned In these reports Such sltght changes as were made had been known for weeks and theIr effects , If any , were antIC1pated The Increased actIVIty is most noticeable In burlap" for whIch there has been a good demand SInce :l\Ionday and pnces have advanced sltghtly, eIght-ounce Calcutta goods now be- Ing quotd at 360 and 1O)/z ounce at 455 There are heavy stocks In thIS market and no great advance IS expected at present LInseed oIl on whIch the tanff has been reduced 25 per cent-from 20 to 15 cents per gallon-remaIns qt11et WIth pllces practically unchanged A "Ight shadIng 13 reported m some large "ales but most of the deals have been on the ....--.., BROTHERS CO. FT. WAYNE, IND. 26, extra ChIpS 14@18 cents ManIla, pale 14@18, amber and dark hard 13@15 cents The predIcted advance In prices for cordage has not matenalIzed The figure" are only a shade above those of last week-B C tWIne No 18, 16@16I4 cents pound, IndIa No" 4 and 6, 7,%@7)/z; hght 8@8Yz, fine No 18, 11)/z@12 cents The hIde market, generally "peakIng, 13 firmer than before the duty was removed, though some deal" In South Amencas have been made at figures a cent lower than the last sales under the old tanff law. Goat skInS show no matenal change :\1exlcans are In demand but the ;;;upply IS insuffiCIent to es-tablIsh pnces They are quoted at 43@43)/z cent:,,; MeXIcan frontier", 33 cents, Bueno" Ayres, 40@41 cents, Curacoa,51@ 52 cents. The leather market IS un:,ettled OWIng to the report that Made by the Hafner Furmture Co, Chicago, Ill. figures quoted last week-\Vestern raw, 60@61 cent", CIty raw a cent hIgher, SIngle boIled, 62@63, double bOIled, 63@ 64. Calcutta IS weak at 75 cents TurpentIne 1" firmer, In sympathy WIth the Savannah market The quotation" :-.tand at 53 cent:" but some small orders have been billed half a cent hIgher The trade I;;; stIll dull T 18@ cents Shellac I;;;In fair demand WIthout change In pnces N In cases IS quoted 15@15)/z; bnght orange grade", 19, fancy shades, 20@22 and DIamond I, 25@26 lre"h bleached, 16Y;@17, dned, 21@21Yz cents Varnbh gums are dull and hstle;;;s though prices are firm Kaun No 1 IS quoted at 42@48 cents; No 2, 22@ some eastern tanners show a Ch:,posltlOn to shade pnce3 In order to reduce stocks No sooner had the acqt11SItlOn of the CIncinnatI, HamIlton & Dayton by the BaltImore & OhIO been announced than ru-mors of another raIlroad deal became current On authonty "consIdered entIrely tru"tworthy" It was reported that the Chesapeake & OhIO was about to take over the HockIng Valley system whIch Includes the OhIO Central, the Kanawha & MIchIgan and several branches runnIng mto the OhIO and \71/ e"t Vlrgmia coal field" The "tory wa3 promptly denied by the C & 0 offiCIals, but promment raIlroad men still de-clare that the deal has been under consideratIOn for months and may be closed at any tIme 25 He \\111cheerfully pay a much greater amount each year In the employ ment of expert" m other dIrectIOn", and every purchase he make" In hIs hu"me<.,,, IS made wIth full knowledge of what he 1<.h,u\ mg, e;,.cept the ptllchase of freIght transportatIOn and "CI\ Ice FREIGHT PAYERS BUNCO THEMSELVES. Mr. Ewin~rs COIllIllents on the Charges Mnde by President Stickney and Mr. KetchaIll the Rate Expert of Chicago. Three Judges of the Supreme Court may he quoted a:o "ay-mg that "we are unable to determ1l1e \\hat the correct rdte of freIght may be because of the comphcated nature and the dmblguous word1l1g of the carner:o' pnnted tanff:o' -\ncl. In the employ of the ral1lOad" there are thou"and:o 01 dCI k" young, 1I1expenenced and employed upon "alane" rang1l1g flom thIrty to sIxty dollars per month, \\ ho 1I1terpret the pnnted tanff" of the carner" every day, quotmg rate" and assess1l1g charges upon shIpments tran:oported The shIpper of freIght 111 a \ 01umc that \\ an ant-, the em-ployment of a traffic managel or the mamtendnce ot a traffic department IS secured aga1l1"t any ell or 111 the charg e:o a""e:-,,,- ed upon hIS shIpments, and ha:o at hIS Imme hate ch:-,posal the 5erVlces of a tramed expel t \\ ho :oecme:o for hm1 the lowe"t pos:-'Ible combmatlOn of Iate" and clas:oJficatlon The :omall "hIpper, however, IS largely dependent upon the employe 01 the ral1road fOl hIS 1I1formatlOn, and It they en he "utfel" the consequences It IS generally under:-,tood that the carller" al e not re:opon-sible for theIr freIght rate quotatIOn, but the bm den ot I e-sponslbl1lty rests entirely upon the shIpper The tantf:o elle open to hIS mspectlOn, and It IS hl:-' duty to mterpret them hImself That he I" often unable to do :00 IS no concern ot the carner The present methods of tanff constructIOn are not conducIve to ready mterpretatlOn by any except those "ho have become famlhar wIth such matters through long tra1l1- mg and expenence, and as the rates are constanth bemg changed, tanffs bemg canceled, reIssued and amended. a traffic expert mu:-,t devote hIS entne time to that partlculdr Ime ut work m order to be up to date A man \\ hose tl111e IS mon-opohzed by the detal1s of hIS bu:-,me"" cannot hope to keep posted on transportatIOn 111dttels by gl\ mg the "ame occa "lOnal attentIOn In evel y commul11ty there are "mall .,hlpper" \\],0 dppl c- Clate the actual condItIOns, and "ho endea\ 01 to gl\ e "nch matters the attentIOn neces"al y to a betterment In thl<" man-ner a vast amount of energy IS dISSIpated 0\ el a \ a~t :-,ur1ace, and very httle accomphshed, but If the same amount ot enelgy was concentrated and dIrected through certam channel", 1111- medIate results would be obtamed It IS hardly faIr to state that the ral1roads bunco the "mall shIppers out of $100,000,000 annually, as charged by ~1J Ketcham of ChIcago, and taCItly admItted by PreSIdent StIck-ney of the ChIcago Gredt \Vestern Ral1way It \\ould be nearer correct to say that the small "hlpper5 bunco them-selves out of that amount The tanffs are at theIr dIsposal, and whde It IS true that the tanffs are more 01 less comph-cated, conSIderable progress IS bemg made to\\ ard the <"Imph-ficatlOn of same If the small shIpper find" hlm:oelt I1I1ahlc to mterpret the rallff, he should employ :-,omeone \\ ho po,,- sesses the necessary quahficatlOns It he cannot atford to employ a traffic expert for h1:o1I1dlvldual reqmre1l1ents, he can always combme WIth some other "mall shIpper who IS slm-darly handIcapped, and by JOIntly shanng the expense 1\;'0 or more small shippers may always plovlde themsel \ es \\ Ith thc 5erVlces of a man that ha" been tra111ed for that kmd of work The real trouble IS that the dverage 5mall "ll1pper IS eIther mdlfferent to hIS 111terests m thIS dIrectIOn. or ebe he IS not wlllmg to "pend the small amount per year that 1" necessary to the employment of a properly quahfied traffic repre::.entatlVe ] he fir<.,tpnnclple of freIght rate constructIOn IS to asseS5 dll that the traffic \\ 111beal That IS not unfaIr to the mer-ehant. \\ ho certamly "elb hIS goods for all that he can get The "ame conchtlOns "un 011l1dthe 1al<.,mg or lowenng of a freIght rate that "m round the changes 111 the market pnce" of an) other commodIty 1he u.,ual mdlfference of the freIght payer" to theIr freIght Iate" and 5en Ice 1<",to some extent, recogl11zed by the car-ner: o a" an as"et FI eIght rate" are often e5tabllshed WIth the IntentIOn at latel reducln£; "ame If "uffiClent prote"t IS made 1n the "hlppel" and until the late I" so "trongly attacked a" to Made by Warren Table Works, Warren, Pa, nece%ltate It" reductIOn, the carners enjoy the revenue It atford" Any merchdnt wl11 recog1117e that pnnclple at first ~Iance It 15 a duty the shippers owe themselves and the radroads to become more famlhar \'V Ith transportatIOn matters, and If they hay C not the tIme and the opportUl11ty to do so, to em-ploy the mtormatlOn and expenence they do not possess If e\ en shipper was posses"ed of traffic knowledge, expenence and tram11lg, the claim departments of the carners would not be flooded \\ Ith claims of no ment to the detnment of claIms ot mcnt, theIr tIme and attentIOn would not be con"umed by the hanclhng of unrea"onable compla11lts and requests and freight rate" and sel \ Ice \\ ould be upon a more uniforml) rea- <"onable baSIS than at present. It IS not consIstent to loudly complain of the poor ser-vIce, the Ul11 easonable freIght rates and other charges, the ~ .. ----.---------- .. ---- .. I-I II II IIt IIII I II I I THE ~- -" ------~_. WEEKLY ARTISAN 27 _ •••• __ aa __ a as T •••• __ aT •••• aT •• Many New Patterns in Dining Room and Bedroom Furniture for the Fall Season. Show Rooms at Factory, Grand Rapids lu(e rurniture (0. delayed payment of clatm" and of all the transportatlOn abuses that eAt'3t, and at the same tlme not be prepared to suggest or contnbute to, a betterment Thet e are very few of the tran'iportatlOn ptoblems or abu'ies of today that may not 1 e '301\ed or corrected by co-operatlOn between the shtppers dnd the Cdrners, and the "htppers should prepare them'ielves to contttbute to the adjustment personally or by placmg the h andlmg of thetr it affic maUet s m chat ge of properly quahfied rep1 esentaitves The larget shtppers have ahead) recogmzed the value of expert t1affic serVIce, and many small ::oh1ppersm vanous sec-ttons of the country have combmed theIr mtere'3ts and formed traffic bUleaus and shIppers' assoClatlOns that have very re-cently proved theIr value Newly formed sh1ppe1s' assoc1atlOns have a frequent tend-ency to become somewhat hystellcal and to start m to Imme-dIately 1evolutlOmze condttlOns, but before any great amount of damage IS done they usually settle down to a conSIstent, busmesshke baSIS, and then only do they get resulb The small shtppers have the same opportumty to protect themselves agamst freIght overcharges, arb1tranly dechned claIms for loss or damage or delayed adjustment of same and all other transportatlOn losses as has the large shIpper, and It IS up to them to eIther defimtely as::oert their nght or definitely abandon them E. LEWING Chicago Personals. L L Valentine of the Valentine Seaver Company will leave August 15 for the west and the PaCIfic coast, and wtll be accompanied by Mrs Valentme, who wtll VISIt her parents, residing at Oakland, Cal. Mr. Valentl11e will be gone eight ....., .., LueE LINE - ---._._-----_._ .. - ---------- .. ------- -_ .. weeks, and wtll combme pleasure wtth busmess. Whtle on the coast he will do some fishIng m Vvashmgton above Seattle The Valentine Seaver Company of ChIcago states theIr t1ade at the July season was the best m their hIstory The seasons of 1906 and 1907 were their best precedmg seasons The company 1" now busy gettl11g out thetr July orders Ed Stahl, traveltng representatlve for the Johnson Chair Company, leave:, neAt week for hIS first tnp through his ter-ntory in the south H C. Buhman of the Johnson Chair Company left last Thursday for the Pactfic coast on his first fall trip 0 E BendIX of the same company left Monday for hIS first fall trip through the mIddle statoes Grand RapIds, August 11. 1909 Furniture Losses By Fire A carload of furmture and mattresses valued at $3,500, consIgned to the Brown-Eldredge Furmture Company of Blackfoot, Idaho. was burned on a SIdetrack Just after ar-nvmg at ItS destmatlOn Unless It can be shown that the fire was due to spontaneous combustlOn, the loss falls on the ratlroad com,pany L J SlZer's fur11lture store, Belfast, NY., was almost totally destroyd by fire on August 6 FIre m thC1,Koe11lg Fur11lture company's fact,ory, St. LOUIS, Mo, caused a los:, esttmated at $40,000 to $45,000 on August 6 Three firemen were badly injured while fight-mg the flames. The loss IS well msured. The Flos shade roller factory at Ogdensburg, N. Y., was destroyed by fire on August 10. Loss $35,000. The school furniture plant of George N. Barcus & Co., Wabash, Ind., was almost destroyed by file last Monday night. The loss IS more than the l11surance which is $30,- 000. e ------------------. 28 WEEKLY ARTISAN i---.---.-..---...--..----.-.--.--.--_.~~- --.. -..-.-.._-_.....-------t GRAND RAPIDS CRESCENT THE WORLD'S BEST SAW BENCH Send for Catalog Double Revolving Arbors. A massive bearing adjacent to the saws. The door permits accessibility. Guaranteed to eliminate mistakes and inaccuracies and to reduce the cost of sawing stock to a minimum. THE CRESCENT MACHINE WORKS, Builders, 40 So. Front St., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. - ... a __ • _ ••• a.a_ ••••••••• -__ .__ a ••• a._. .. _. a •••• __ ••••••••••••••• aM La ... VvEEKLY ARTISAN No Cash Famine This Year. There's no OCCa'ilOnfor worry over the Idea that the sup-ply of money w111not be suffiClent to move the enormous crops and provide for a large 111crea:-,e111the volume of general bu:>- iness during the fall and wmter months Antlclpatmg the poss1blllty of such a contmgency and reallnng that the new tanff bIll may be "low producmg revenue dunng the commg year, the government has made provisIOns by whIch the ne-cessity of wlthdrawmg money from the banks can be aVOIded. The banks have been mformed that the treasury department wl11 finance Its neces"ltles for the commg ) ear, or 11l1tIlthe revenue from the new tanff law can be defimtel) ascertallled, by Isstl1ng certlficates of mdebtednes'i Authonty for the l'i-suance of this form of government obllgatlOn IS found in sec-tIon 40 of the new tanff law, whIch empower'i the secletary of the treasury to borrow such sum as may be necessary to meet publtc expendlture:-, not m excess of $200,000,000 upon certlficates runmng not longer than a year and beanng inter-est at not more than 3 per cent It was understood by bankers that the intentIOn to finance the necessIties of the government In thIs way onglllated pn-manly from a desIre on the part of the treasury officIals to protect the eXIstIng 2 per cent bond'i Of these 2s there are outstandlllg $730,882,000, $640.524,000 be111g held as secunty for cIrculatIOn and paYIng a CIrculatIOn tax of Y:2 per cent. The new tanff bIll gn e" the secretal y of the trea'iury authority to l'isue $290,569,000 adllltlOnal Panama bonds at a rate not to exceed 3 per cent These bonds are also avaIlable for cIrculatIOn, and unles'-o some means IS taken to equahze the lllterest yIeld upon them v.hen 'iO u..,ed WIth the present yIeld of the 2 per cent bonds theIr flotdtlOn thIS tIme, bankers say, would result In a marked depreCIatIOn of the 2 per cents It IS belteved that these short term notes, If Issued dunng or Just pnor to the crop mov111g season and If used by the banks as the ba:>ls of addltlonal cIrculatIOn, WIll relieve the money stnngency to an appreCIable extent. whIle at the same tIme the matunt) of the notes themse1ve'i may be '30 reckoned as to provIde for the retIrement at the addltlonal currency at a season of the year when mane) IS ltkely agam to become abundant That sectIOn of the tariff bIll confernng thIS power upon the secretary of the trea,ury I" an amendment of section 32 of the act of 1898, whIch authonLed the secretary of the trea"ury to borrow on short term paper up to $100,000,- 000 Thi" power was used but once, v.hen Secretary Cot tel) au bsued $15,000,000 m 3 per cent notes m the panic to be u:-,ed as the baSIS of addItIOnal cIrculatIOn The notes were with-drav. n at the earhest opportunIty Evansville Affairs. EvanSVIlle, Ind, Aug 12 -Blusmes:> WIth the Evan,,- vIlle furnIture manufacturer, h reported on the upward grade at this wnt111g Inqutrles are increa:,ing nght along RetaIl trade has 'pIcked up some, due to the settltng of the street car stnke a fev. day" ago The o,utlook for fall l'i very bright Benjamin Bos'ie of the Globe Furniture Company went to Fort \;Vayne, Ind, last week where he attended the an-nual conference of the Lutheran church J, H Rohsenberger IS on the commIttee on arrangements for the annual oUtlllg of the Evan'3VIlle Manufacturers' As-sociatlon on September 6 and he expects to have a big turn out. Eli D Ml1ler, foldIng bed manufacturer, reports busi-ness condltlOns greatly Improved over the month of July 29 He says hi'i foldmg bed "Elt," IS one of the best sellers on the western market There have been a good many vbltors at the Furniture Exchange btl1lchng dunng the past week and ll1arjufacturers have enjoyed a vel y good patronage The Exchange is bnngmg a lot of new CU'itomers and manufacturers are hIghly elated The ::\Iarstall Fnrmture Company, of Henderson, Ky, have enjoyed a very nIce bU'illleSS all summer The Advance Stove 'IVorb of EvanSVIlle, WIll mcreas/' theIr capItal stock $50,000 Stock IS now bcmg offered. J01111Schwann, of Elt D MIller & Co, has returned from a fi'3h1l1g tnp on the \Vahash flver C 'IV B A Heavy Saw Bench. Here I'; a heavy vanety saw bench espeCIally de'3lgned for all around work whether heavy or fine It IS capable of takIng the heavlest cut of any 'iaw bench btult, IS also absolutely ac-curate The machIne IS eqUIpped WIth a b"lt ttghtner which gIves the greatest possIble belt beal1l1g on the arbor pulley ThIS b about 50 per cent more than 1'3obtamed on any other saw bench ThIS machme IS heaVIer than the ord1l1ary saw bench and the constructIOn thruoui 1'3 of the finest qualtty. The complete eqUIpment consnts of 4 guages, 2 saws, wrenches and counter shaft All beaf1ngs and loose pulleys are self OIltng BUIlt by the Crescent Machme "'Works, Grand Rapids, MIch. r- - --- ------.-..------ ~ I MUSKEGON VALLEY FURNITURE COMPANY MUSKEGON MICH •••• COlomal SUlles Toll POSI Beos 000 Dressers Chll!Omers wornrolJeS lames' IOilels DreSSing IOmes MahOgany Inlain Goons WRITE FOR CAT ALoe . I . -.. ARTHUR 5 WHITE. Preudent. ALVAH BROWN. VIce President HARRY C WHITE. Sec'y Treas WEEKLY ARTISAN EVERY FURNITURE MANUFACTURER should have the Weekly Artisan List of Dealers and Buyers. It contains the names of all dealers in furniture rated from $1 ,000 up, satisfactorypay. Approximately 15,000 DEALERS are listed. The list is revised semi--annually. Costs $1.00 for the two editions. We are sending it as a premium for subscriptionsto the Weekly Artisan, the only Weekly Furniture Journal at $1.00 a year. Think of it! 52 COPIES OF THE ARTISAN AND 2 REVISED LISTS ALL FOR $1.00 Can you afford to pass up this opportunity? Send in your Dollar. You'll not regret it. WEEKLY ARTISAN GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 31 32 INDEX TO ADVERTISERS. WEEKLY ARTISAN More Orders for Cars and Rails. Dunng the week clOS111gtoday the Balttmore & OhIO raIl-way company has placed orders for 1,000 composIte gondola cars, 1,000 coke cars of 100,000 pounds capaCIty and 600 all-steel hopper cars, of lIke capaCIty, WIth the Standard Steel Car Company, Butler, Pa , 1,000 all-'3teel coke cars, 100,000 pound" capaCIty, CambrIdge Steel Company, Johnstc)\\ n Pa 45 pa'3- :oenger coaches and five comb111ed pas"enger and baggage caI", Amencan Car & Foundry Com pan} , \\ Ilm111gton, Del 10 bagg~ge cars, five cafe and parlor cars, fi\ e all-<;teel po..,tal cars, Barney & SmIth Car Company, Dayton, OhIO All of thIS eqmpment is of the highest modern <;tandard. all-steel or 'itee1-underframe, the all-steel constructIOn adopted .fl every practIcable manner In adchtlOn to the contrach U1tI-merated others for 1,000 box cars, 500 refngerator cars and 500 ventIlated cars, 60 locomotIves and two e1ectnc locomotl\ e.., wIll be placed upon the completIOn of the negotiatIOns no\\ pendmg The BaltImore & OhIO has also placed orders for ...teel steel ralls, 80 and 100 pounds '" eIgh t, as fo110\\ " :2000 t,)l]-, open-hearth steel. Ilhnols Steel Compan}, PIttsburgh. 10 :250 tons bessemer steel, Maryland Steel Company, BaltImore Between $6,000,000 and $7,000,000 are called f01 m the contracts closed and those pendmg \\ III carn the total amount beyond $10,000,000 The Pennsylvallla RaIlroad Com pan} placed an ordel at Its Altoona shops for 2,060 cars, 500 of whIch \\ 111 be coke cars and the remainder box cars The car" must be dehvered not later thdn JlIne 1. 1Sl10 whIch means that several thousand men \\ III be kept bu,,\ hom thIS tIme on Does Your Advertising Bring Results? When you buy space in your local newspa· per does it bring you good returns are the ads attractive and well displayed? Let us supply you with good, high-class business bringing copy_·-copy that will sell good _.-copy that leans with the reader, a desire to buy. Results are what count, and its results you get. We have a regular weekly cut and ad ser-vice, also a special service for individual adver-tisers. Write for samples and particulars. Let us help you to make more money. FURNITURE CITY ENGRAVING CO. 403 Murray Bldg. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. SmIth & DaVIS Mfg Company Sheboygan ChaIr Company Moon Desk Company UnIOn FurnIture Company Ploneer Manufactunng Company Ford & Johnson Company Madden, Thos" Son & Co Rafner Furniture Company Karges FurnIture Company Bosse FqrnIture Company World FurnIture Company Globe FurnIture Company Bockstege Furniture Company Metal FurnIture Company Evansv1l1e "BIg SI7" Stow & DaVISFurnIture Co. RIchmond ChaIr Company Sl1gh FurnIture Company Rumphrey-WIdman Bookcase Co. Falmer Manufactunng Company Weekly Artisan MIchIgan Engraving Company Luce FurnIture Company :Nelson-Matter FurnIture Company Blow Plpe and Dust Arrester Company, G· R. Amencan Blower Company Grand RapIds Brass Company WhIte Pnntmg Company FurnIture Exchange, :New York. Lentz Table Company Grand RapIds Caster Cup Co. A1a.ska Refngerator Co. Miller, Ell. D. & Co. Rote1 LInder Roffma.n, Bros. Co Muskegon Valley FurnIture Co. FurnIture CIty EngraVIng Co. Miscellan(.l\us Crescent D[achIne Works 9 9 10 11 14 14 15 17 18 18 18 18 18 18 18-19 23 24 2 2 2 31 30 27 Cover Cover Cover Cover Cover 1 8 4 5 5 25 25 29 32 32 28 ...------------ -~---_._._-----" Miscellaneous Advertisements. WANTED BUSINESS CHANGE. For sale, woodworking plant, suitable for cabinet or special furmture, located In Indianapolis; about 12,000 square feet floor space; eqUipped With dry kiln, railroad switch and ma-chinery ready to operate; easy terms; great bargain. CHAS. o BRITTON, Receiver, Fletcher Bank BUilding, Indianap-olis, Ind. 8-14, 21, 28; 9-4, 11, 28. WANTED. Commission man for Mlsssoun and Kansas representing five furmture factones. Splendid fixed carload hnes. Address, Ballman-Cummings Furniture Company, Fort Smith, Arkan-sas. Aug. 7, '09 WANTED COMMISSION MEN. For IndIana and Illinois to sell our Suites, Dressers, Chiffon- Iers, Stands, Beds and Wardrobes. McKIm & Cochran Fur-mture Co., MadIson, Ind. 7-3-4t WANTED-WOOD SEAT CHAIR FACTORY To locate on our property at Columbus, Mississippi; unlimit-ed supply of red and white oak; red and sap gum and beech at extremely low cost; plenty cheap labor; fine factory site; un-excelled shippmg faCIlities and low freight rates to good mar-ket. Might take some stock In well managed company. Ad-dress Interstate Lumber Company, Downing Building, Erie, Pa, II I•II•• IIII " WANTED-TRAVELING SALESMEN. To handle a line of Extension Tables, Pedestal Tables, Ward-robes and Kitchen Cupboards, on commission. State what other hnes you handle and Territory desired. Address Koemg FurnIture Co., 2620 N. 15th St., St. Louis, Mo. WANTED. A good cabinet maker; ohe who can detail and make clothing cabinets. Address B. S., care MichIgan Artisan. 6-10-2t. WANTED-POSITION AS MANAGER. A practical bUSiness man, familiar with the manufacturing of bed room furniture and who has a few thousand dollars to Invest; can assume charge of one of the best furniture plants in the South. If Interested, address "Business," Box 853, Greensboro, N. C. 6-10-4t -----_._---------------_._. - ..

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