Weekly Artisan; 1910-09-17

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Issue of a furniture trade magazine published weekly in Grand Rapids, Mich, starting in 1879. and /7 /~~/'fl//-;d/ d:/r/ h4"/?A/ , ~~ GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.• SEPTEMBER 17. 1910 SLIGH FURNITURE COMPANY The Largest Manufacturersof CHAMBER FURNITURE EXCLUSIVELY IN THE WORLD Catalogue to Prospective Customers. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. - --~---- -------------------------~ HARRr C. WHITE, II Treasurer. II III III , I Ii I -------------------- _. -- ..--- -_. I ARTHUR S. WHITE, i President. I ALVAH BROWN, Vice President. LET US MAKE YOUR HALF-TONES IIIiII• IIIIIIII I I II II ,III I CO. I IIII ! IIII ------------------------------------- .. .. Perfect Prod uct Large Facilities Courteous Treatment "Right" Price IIIIIIII MICHIGAN ENGRAVING III IIIII II ,t GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Samples and Estimates Upon Request. ~--------------------------. WEEKLY ARTISAN 1 YOU CAN MAil YOUR CATALOG OCTOBER 5th If you place the order with us. W"ITE PRINTING COMPANY GRAND RAPIDS, MICU. I PRINTERS FOR THE FURNITURE TRADE. I 2 WEEKLY ARTISAN ,,---,---~-- . .. ---------- --------------------------------~ LUCE FURNITURE COMPANY GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. I Manufacturers of COMPLETE lines of MEDIUM PRICED DINING and CHAMBER FURNITURE. Catalogues to Dealers Only. ~------------------------------------------------- .. ------------------------------~ luce-Redmond Chair Co.,ltd. I BIG RAPIDS, MICH. High Grade Office Chairs Dining Chairs Odd Rockers and Chairs Desk and Dresser Chairs Slipper Rockers Colonial Parlor Suites In Dark and Tuna Mahogany Btrd' J Eye Maplf Btrch !Zullrtered Oak and CtrcaJJtan Walnut Our Exhibit you will find on the fourth floor, East Section, MANUfACTURERS' BUILDING, North Ionia Street GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN Exhibit in charge of J. C. HAMILTON, C. E. COHOES,J. EDGAR FOSTER. GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC LIBRARY 30th Year-No. 64 GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., SEPTEMBER 17,1910 Issned Weekly RIGHT AND WRONG KIND OF FIRE DRILLS The Main Object Should Be to Get Everybody Out of the Building Quickly Without Confusion or Excitement. A cIgar factory m the crowded sectIOn of a bIg CIty employ s more than two thomand \VOl kers, chIefly women and gIrls The SIX story bUIldmg was put up for a warehouse years ago It IS of bnck and wood constructIOn, cut up WIth lIght board partI-tIons, and filled WIth mflammable materials. The ordmary way of gettmg out b by means of the one open wooden staIrway leadmg to the ground floor, where two doors gIve on to ctreet and alley Extr aordmary ways of get-tmg out would be through the wmdows, or up on to the roof, or down the fire escape The place IS surrounded by old three-story reSIdences, however, so that the first two ways would not help those m the upper floors. As for the fire escape, 11. lIes far to the rear, and employes hardly know where 11. IS, much less how to use It 111an emergency. The propnetor of thIS factory I~ a conSIderate employer. He pays good wages for qualIty productIOn, and holds hIS workers together by numerous lIttle cIVIlItIes of management. But, lIke a gi eat many other well-1l1eanmg people, he seldom ha" occaSIOn to th1l1k senously about fire The 1l1surance men bnng up the subject when 1hey charge hIm a stIff premIUm, and occasIOnally "ome chsaster chromcled 111the papers leads him to mve~tIg-ate whether IllS fire paIls are full and hIS fire alarm 111order But the fil e eng111es are clang1l1g around that part of town every day. HIS employes have grown accustomed to them. "And beslde~, we're very, very careful about fire," he ~a) ~ to 111mcelf "It IS only carele~s people that burn out Then there's luck m an aIel bt1l1chng-why, this one has been ~tancll11g fO!ty years t" Umformec1 firemen often come to look at thi~ clgal factory, III couples or three~, and sometImes bnng a CIVIlIan WIth them The manufacturer always gIves them permissIOn to Inspect the place, and supposes that they come on some errand connected vVlth theIr own bus111ess They do. It mIght dIsturb hIm to hear one fireman "ay to another as they are walkll1g past hIS place, "Jerry, Just stop 111thIS factory a mmute, J want to show you a rotten nsk" One afternoon a fireman brought around a stranger who after qUIte a prolonged m~pectIOn of the premIses, introduced hllllself to the manufacturer as an engineer who made a specialty of arrangmg fire dnll~. "How long would It take you to get all your people out of thI~ place in an emergency," he asked "Oh, we could clear It out m about ten mmutes, I guess," rcp:led the proplletor "That's all they need at mght, and we'd beat It If there was any reason for hurryIng." "ThI" bUIlc1mg would make an awfully qUIck fire," ventured the englneel "Don't you thmk you ought to have somebody layout a systematIc fire dnll and tram your employes?" "Flre dnll , ' exclaImed the manufacturer "\;Y hy, we've got a fire dnll of our own." "Suppose you show me ho\v your dnll works," suggested the VISItor "Well, thIS is a pretty busy day WIth us," saId the manu-facturer, "and there's no use Img111g the alarm for nothmg But I can explalll It " Vvalklllg through the dIfferent rooms, he showed how he thought the employes on each floor would take care of them-selves 1ll an emergency, pomtmg out the vanous eXIts to stair-way and fire e~cape, exhlbltmg hIS fire palls and axes But hIS "fire dnll" had the grave short.:ommg of bemg laId out only in hIS own mllld Taklllg stock of pOSSIble eXIts on each floor, he had assumed that employes would have sense enough to use them If they had to The system had never been explamed to them, nor tned ~Iost of hIS plans had been made not to get people out of a burnlllg bUIldmg qUIckly but to fight an Imaginary fire WIth palls and axes. The fire-dnll expert was tactful, and saId the manufactureI's "dnll" was good so far as it went; but 11. dIdn't go far, and could not be expected to Arranging to get two thousand people out of a fire trap m an actual emergency was a busllless in itself "\11 your employes on the two upper floors are ~upposecl to go down the fire escape," saId the expert. "They are all wo-men and gIrlS If they got out of the building in a hurry that escape would be Jammed III three minutes, and all crowding to-ward the bottom \<\Tho \V auld lower the ladder from the bot-tom of the escape to the ground ?" "\Vhy they would," was the reply. "That ladder IS SIxteen feet long, made of steel, heavy and rmty If the strongest man you've got can put it in place in five l11111utesI'll buy you a box of good CIgars," declared the engineer. .,uppDse you get a man and try it." The ]amtor, a muscular fellow, was sent on to the little plat-form at the bottom of the fire escape, a story from the ground. After ten minutes struggle he gave up The ladder was un- WEEKLY ARTISAN The L. Mac E. VARNISHES BLUE RIBBON RUBBING and POLISHING VARNISH, QUAKER CITY COACH VARNISH-CABINET FLOWING VARNISH, WHITE MAPLE RUBBING and POLISHING VARNISHES; WHITE MAPLE GLOSS VARNISHES-WHITE REED FLOWING VARNISHES, FLAT ALL VARNISH and ALL DULL FINISH-JAPANS, Etc. DIPPING VARNISHES NOTE-Our many years of practical experience with the Furniture, Piano and kindred lines of manufacture enable us to know just the kind and quality of varmshes demanded. Also the fact that our strong corps of salesmen have an already established trade with this class of customers through visiting them with fillers and stains, makes it possible for us to sell varnishes without additional ex-pense to us, which advantage we are disposed to give to our customers in quality. Send us aTrial Order. THE LAWRENCE-McFADDEN COMPANY wieldy, and to place it through the narrow opening in such close quarters called for two or three men. The manufacturer was startled, and the engineer told him this difficulty existed with every fire escape of that type, and that at many fires where such escapes ""ere used people jumped to the ground, sustaming inJunes. He told the manufacturer other things as well. For instance, the factory fire alarm was a deaf-ening gong, ngged to sound contmuously when a button \\ as pressed at any statIOn, and it could be heard all through the building. "That would have the same effect as a yell of 'Fire I m a crowded theatre," he said. "Your employes would be thrown mto a panic because they could not tell where the fire was Most of the danger in connectIOn with a fire arises from panic. Pan- ICSare caused by the element of the unknown. You need an alarm system that Will strike low signals in various parts of the bU11d-mg, indicate where the fire IS, and then stop nngll1g when It ha<; given the necessary information." "How long would it take you to get our people out?" asked the manufacturer. "If I couldn't get them out in less than two mmute~," \\ as the sigl11ficant reply, "I shouldn't consider it of much use to get them out at all." Ultimately the cigar man commissioned this expert to lay out a fire drill on sound eng111eering hnes. After a study of the factory the expert made some alteratlOl15 to provide more eXits The fire escape was given to the two upper floor's, the ladder at the bottom be111g replaced with counter weighted stairs that au-tomatically swung to the ground the moment anybody stepped on them from above. Doors were cut 111the ""all on the fourth floor to let its occupants out on to the three story bUlld111g next door by means of stairs. The first-floor people \\ere given the - - Philadelphia alley door, and that left the main staircase for the 'second and third floor workers. A suitable alarm system was installed, and then, one even111g, pnnted notices were given employes to be tak-en home, read, thought about and discussed for at least two weeks, so that the system would be thoroughly understood before any-th111g further was done. These notices contained few 111struc-tlons, bemg cl11efly an explanatIOn of the fire dflll, which was compared with that used in the pubhc schools. 'When the employes had decided that the drill was ratIOnal and necessary, and that the boss had nothing up his sleeve, the ' expert brought around a dnll-master to impart further instruc-tions. This dnll-master was simply a retired city fireman, who came in hiS ul11form, and the work of 111struction was given to him because a fireman m uniform is bound to command more re-spect than an ord111ary engineer in a business suit. Foremen 111 each department were made chiefs, and required to carry a list of their subordmates A number of men in each department were told off to man the buckets and chemical ex-tingUIshers on the stroke of the bell, while all that was reqUlred of the mam body of employes was to rise in their places when the fire bell rang, pJ1e their chairs and stools upon the workbenches where the alleys were narrow, and look to the foreman for fur-ther guidance. Then the various diviSIOns, following their chiefs in single file, were led out by carefully arranged routes that kept -------_. -- _. _._._--. . , . I•• IMPROVED. EASY AND EL EVATO RS QUICK RAISINC Belt, ElectrICand Hand Power. The Bert Hand Power for Furniture Storer Send for Catalogue and PrIces. KIMBALL BROS. CO., 1067 Ninth St•• Council Bluffs, la. Kimball EI."atol' Co.. 3~ Prospect St., Cleveland, 0.; 1081lth St., Omaha, Neb., 128Cedar St, New York CIty. . ...., WEEKLY ARTISAN 5 ....-------_._._-_._._._---_._-----------------._----------_._. __._-_._----------~ marks every table in the Stow & Davis Ime. Masterly designs. sturdy oak. and rich, glowing mahogany are fashioned by our skillfulworkmen into Our Bank and Office tables display the same care and merit in their building-the care that appeals to paying customers, whether they be home-keepers or business men. f- II II 463% See our line. Tables alld Banquet Tops. 4th floor, Blodl!ett Bldl!. everybody on the move dnd prevented the movement of one di-vision interfering With that of another. Where two hnes of em-ployes came out of opposite doors and joined on the stairs, one had instructions to hug the stair rail and the other the wall un-til they actually Jomed, when the people in both hnes lmked arms for mutual support. Guards were stationed on the stairways to give assistance and check fright, and a number of searchers were told off to look into closets and dark corner" to be sure that nobody had been left behind On reachmg the street the various divisions were led some dlstdnce from the btllldmg, and each chief went over his 11st, cdl11ng the loll to be certam that every-body was out or accounted for These measures, together With regulations for keepmg the factory cleal of rubbish-the usual cause of fires-compnsed the drill in Its essenilak \Vhen It had been put mto practical oper-atIOn, and tned once 01 tWice, the entire btllld1l1g could be cleared 111dbout ninety seconds, Without hurry or confusIOn One practice dnll each month wa:, enough to keep employes in training, and dS new employes were given a printed shp, with a few 01 al in-stluctlOns, the dnll took care of itself. Hundreds of stores and factones maintain 'Some sort of fire drill, but the expert who laid out thiS one, and who makes a spe-cialty of such work, says that very few indeed are planned on sound lines. He maintains that satisfactory results can be at-tained only by an engineer With considerable experience in mak-ing such studies and laY111g out dnlls, as conditions are never twice alike. The first task of tIllS sort that he ever undertook was in an oil-soaked factory With only a single staircase in the center of the building. In the event of fire probably not half of the em- STAR CASTER CUP COMPANY NORTH UNION STREET. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. (PATENT APPLIED FOR) We have adopted cellulOid as a base for our Caster Cups, makl ng the best cur on the market. CellulOid IS a great Improvement over bases made 0 other matenal When It ISnecessary to move a piece supported by cups With cellulOid bases It can be done With ease, as the bases are per fectly smooth CellulOid does not sweat and by the nse of these cups tables are never marred. These cups are finIshed III Golden Oak and White M..ple, finIshed light If you WIll tr1l a 8ample order of tht,e good, 1/ouW$Udutrt to handle them tn quantttie8 PRICES: Size 2U Inches $5.50 per hundred. SIze 27.(Inches .. •• 50 per hundred. fob Grand Raptd8 TRY A SAJlPLH OR.DER •.... . .... Perfection of Detail Stow & Davis Diners Stow & Davis Furniture Co., Grand Rapid., Mich ..I. ployes would have gotten out safely ilIan} were women and girls Even the notion of work111g there himself for a few weeks worned him until he hunted up the supenntendent and asked what arrangements had been made for c1ealmg the place m case of fire. "Oh, we have a regular fire dnll," said the 5upermtendent confidently. "I'd hke to see it 'work," said the engineer. The supermtendent went to the nearest fire statIOn and pres-sed the alarm button' a bell rang, and immediately some of the employes manned the fire hose, extinguIshers, buckets and axes. "There!" exclaimed the superintendent proudly "That took only a few seconds---l11 case of fire we'd be on the Job, you bet." No precautions whatever had been made for gett111g em-ployes out of the buildmg, yet that was the superintendent's un-derstanding of a fire drill, and it is the common one You sel-dom find an employer who does not 1l1sist that he has a bully fire dnll; but when you ask him to explain or show It you usually find that he has little idea of what IS meant by the term. vVhen "fire drill" is mentioned most people think of fire fight1l1g measures, which are a very different thing Long ex-perience has led this engineer to disregard fire fightmg arrange-ments except for a few of the most rudimentary devices, as he beheves that unless a fire can be checked by water buckets or chemICal extmgmshers m the first few moments it will have to be fought by profeSSIOnal firemen, and that most of the work in a crowded store, factory, hotel or public building should be di-rected to gettmg everybody out as soon as possible. One day in Philadelphia, he was asked to come and watch the operation of a fire drill in a large plant filled WIth women and girls, and to suggest llnprovements if he saw the need of any. When he arrived an alarm was turned m, and in an instant all the employes fellmto line and began to pass mto the street through the \ arioU" eXIts The arrangements, on the whole, were very good Some minor changes were suggested, and a major one. The latter covered the plant's standpipe system, by means of which fil e hose 111various parts of the bUlldmg were supphed with water under constant pressure of a hundred pounds. When the alarm rang the expert saw men, appomted for the purpose on each floor, run to these statlOns, unreel the hose and pomt the nonles at the imagmary fire "I'd abohsh that," was hiS adVice "Let me tell you why Suppose you had a gymnasium upstaIrs, and every afternoon those men were cent there to pc1l1ch the bag under the direction of a boxmg l11structor. They might become very proficient But fancy that, some afternoon, when they walked into the gym-nasium as usual, the bag were taken down and there stood John the latter dccepted on the "pot, stl ode to the nearest fire ho,c, pulled It out and turneq the cO"k Kot a drop of water came He trIed another \\Ith the same lesult, and another, untIl about ell! tne eqt1Ip1re lt he had was found tJ be out of orelel Then he c!I 'in l?1 ~d Clc'thllcn, and I~t the fir~ drIll man 11 t,lll hIS ",ctem rh", Jll! tl~lll1 f ldOly fnrl1l"he" a fan Illmtratlon of how ncce<'S,lf) IS the expert m such matter, It had a well planned fil e drIll that "'1', capJ.ble of emptYIng two hI ge eIght ctory b nldm~s of all occl1Innts m about five mm'ltes A strong file \\ all ran beb\ een the tW) structures, however, and tlle tIme was [11111ensel},hortened b} the 'Imple deVIce of ce'1dIng all the peo-p'e fro111 0 Ie bl1Ilchng Irto the other and shuttIng the fire door" for a fire O!Igmatmg m 0'1e bmlelmg could not spread qUl,:hJy to the nher a 1d the chance that fire would start m both of them at Olll e \\ a, remote Dy thIS Illeans eIther bUIldl11g could be emptIed II1 a mmute The chIef clIfficnlt} In connectIOn WIth a fire drIll IS to mam-tam It after It hao been II1stalled 1urnmg out every employe dUrIng workmg hour, once a month costs money A new man-a~ emcn t comes II1 and the drIll IS dropped The chance of fire I~ ah\ a\" rerrote m the average ml11d, hke the probablhty of dedth ,md to keep on g0111gthrough the fire drIll year after year, \\ Ithout e\ er havmg a I eal fire, is lIkly to stllke people as foohsh, but a \\ ell planned fire drIll has It, compensatlOns, for It IS an cAcellent preventatIve of fire In"pe-:tlOn 15 a part of It, a" al e I cguhtlOJ1S cOICIIng- t11e clIspoo,t! of rubbish and the cal e of 111- flammable materIals In a plant where the emplover consclen-tlOusl} protect" hIS employe, he has compen'cltlJ11 m protectIOn of hIS plOpert}, fO! the plant that ha" a good fire drIll seldom has an} fires-Toh'l M~ppelbeck 111 the 5atl'ldc\ l,-~emllf!, Post, PhIladelphIa 6 WEEKLY ARTISAN ~--------_._-------------------------------------~ ,II IIIIII lII I II ...---------_.----- - ,, I tt II I,I It IIII ,, I II , II II ______ • .4 L SullIvan 1I1stedd, reaely for a pllze fight \\ Ith them Ho\, do you thl11k they would fare? l\OW, no matter how often the) practIce with that hose upon 1111agl11ar)fires, \\ hen they get up agal11st the real thl11g they WIll go to plece- lIre h an a\\ iU: enemy-sudden and terllf)111g X 0\ Ice, IMtl11all) feal It Thu \\ III not approach close enough to find the SOUlce, bnt the} \\111 SImply play water on the smoke." In thiS engl11eer's 0p111l0n the best weclpon to put 1I1to the hands of employes I, the old-fdshIOned fire pat! contaI11I11g'l111ph water That has doused ma11) a blaze 111 ItS lI1fanc\ But pra~- tIce IS needed to do effectIve W01k even WIth a fire p'ill ;,110"t persons try to throw a full pall of water on the blaze. \\ Itb the 1e-suIt that It IS spIlled and wdsted The best method IS to emptl half the water and then dash the rest. a lIght handful, 111 such a way that It WIll spatter Widely. The general alarm gong IS \ er} \\ Ideh m"talled ,dl 0\ el thIS country, usually by \\ ell-meanmg emplO\ en and pl1bhc ot- £lCIals, who congratulate themselves upon hav111g tclken one ot the wisest precautIOns fm dealtng WIth fire PeIllclp, the be,t 11 Imtration of the wrong prinCIple upon whIch thIS torm of alarm IS based can be found 111a great metropolItan ho,pItdl \\ hel e the loud gong 10 the only alelrm prOVIded, and If rung \\ ould ,Imph serve to throw I11tOa pams of fear hundreds of p,ttlents who are helpless in theIr beds The men who go about 111elustnal plant, I11stalltng fire elnlb often h a, e amusll1g experIences F0r example. an expert \\ a, CO'11c1looKneel to m,tall an effectIve model n S}stem In a large factory 11 the city of ~ew York One Important detaIl 111 con-n~ ct all \1 Ith such work IS to allay preJuchce agamst bE'ttel meth-od, T11e superIntendent belIeve, that he already has an effect-ive system, because he arranged It hIm,elf The employes a,- sume that the boss has some deep scheme that I, gOIng to \\ork out to theIr arlva 1tag~ The co,t of cutt1l1~ ne\\ exIt~ \\ ldelllng stall'\\! ays, I11Stallll1g a proper alarm S}stem, and ,0 forth, 111a} he hIgh enough to (II plea~e the employer In thIS partlcnlar fd~- tory the fire drIll l11,l!1 found the engl11eel deCidedly hostIle He was a'1 eldf'rl) man who had had charge of th H pll11t h 1 }e,lr" and he openl) resented an InvestIgatIOn or ImprO\ ement tInt w::mlcl as he tho 19ht, cast chscredlt upon hI, own firefightll1~ eqL1lpment Several tImes during the prelll111nary ctudy there were words between hImself and the fire drIll eApert the oteam engineer Inslstll1g that no fire could ever gam enough healh\:l\ in that plant to do any damage whIle employes \,ere dt work 111 every corner of It, and the ciVIl eng1l1eer tactfulh trymg to shO\\ the old fellow that, thou~h he had made excellent prOVI,10no ac cordmg to his lights, he greatly unclel rated a verv real cladger Finally the dispute wound up by the CIVIl engmeer challeng1l1g the steam engineer to a test of 1m pet fire fight111g de\ Ice, ane! - ~-~~- - --- ---~~ ---~- • 0 U·:c (,) '01) ... ..s.:.:~... ~ "" 0 ," ...,foo (,) ~ • eo! .>- r:t:J ,.. 0 < ~ s:: ... 't') •e 't') ~ : 0 Q.) ~ (') Z ~ C) (> "" - .,.. Q,) .0. $.t e I.I.). ~ ..... .(.>. (G ~ 'WEEKLY A RTTSA N 7 Each Net SINGLE CONE ALL STEEL SPRINGS Are very popular with the Furniture Trade. No. 46, Single Cone, $2 Each, Net. We manufacture a full line of Single and Double Cone All Wire Springs. SEND US YOUR ORDERS. SMITH &, DAVIS MFG. CO., St. Louis $2~ $2~ Each Net Old Trade Items Reprinted. I 10m the MIchIgan ArtIsan for July, 1882 -The Phoel1lx J l'rl1lture company recently refurl1l~hed the Dobbms cottage at T~ong TIrcll1ch The Berkey & Gay lurmture company wJ1l furl1lsh the ne\, tate bmldmg at Houston, Texa~ Bedsteads wIth mlrrOl ~ m the head and footboarcl~ are g0- "lg out of me Moct people do not Cdre to hdve thlel looks re-rlededm the morning ~ Strahan ha~ engaged m the manufacture of parlor ft1l- 'llture m Grand RapIds At the annual meetlllg of the runuture Trade A.ssoclatlOn of Grand Rapids, 0 L Ho'A ard was elected precldent, Charles R SlIgh, VIce presIdent, F R Luce, secretary, and E C. Allen, treasUl er \ l11dn out \\ e~t b011ght a bedstead The lumber was so green that one \\ arm spnng day It was' een beanng buds and a c10rt tIme later the pIece was covered WIth branches. In the ---------------, Henry Schmit 8 Co. I HOPKINS AND HARRIET STS. ,I ClDcinnati, Ol.io I makers of ! Upholstered Furniture I II , LODGE and PULPIT, PARLOR, I LIBRARY, HOTEL and I CLUB ROOM I!~ ~------------------------ I III I I,••• , •I I• '- __ • ~ ~__l for fall hI, chIldren gdthel ed che~tnuL from the ralls and m the -prIng the heddboard was tapped and from the sap gathered maple syrup was made X elson, ~Iatter & Co have shIpped fur11lture to be placed 111 fOIty r00111S recently added to the Hoffman House in New York \t the HamIlton ,dIe m London recently a table that for-merly belonged to Mane Antomette sold for $73,000. 1\la]or 1\lacBllde of Nel,on, 1\1atter & Co, spent a part of ld~t month at hIS boyhood home, Monroe, MICh. D 'vV Towel, late WIth N ebon, 1\latter & Co, has com-n elL ed the manufacture of metal furl1lture tnmmll1gs in Grand Rapids A.mong the buyers who recently VISIted Grand Rapids are the follow111g C C Holton, Holton & HIldreth, ChIcago, Thom-a D Pattel 'on, l\farshall MQ, W N Conant, Conant Bros, Toledo, Robert KeIth, Kamas CIty, WIlham B~hl(l'A, San Fran-ll~ CO, George Sch111dler, POI tland. Ore, \1 r Barstow, Cleve-lanel, WIlham Stqcklel. Polo, III , 1Ir Wyman, \Nyman & Rand, Bmlmgton, C C Me111ll1ger. PhIladelphIa, Anthony Cowell, ProvIdence, R 1, l\fr Pernne, Ec1mund,on & Son, T'lttsbl1r~h, George W \lItchell, 1\Iemphlc • Tenn , .:vIr Mc C1llltock MIles CIty, Mont, S L Kll1g, Kll1g & Elder, Indlan-clpoh~, Henry Straus ClllclnndtI, LoUIS Hax, St Joseph; J F S1l11011S,SImon, & Shaw Gdlveston, D \V Jones, AuSt111,Tex , 11 RothschIld, RothschIlcl &. Son, '\ E lIes" He'iS & F1ll1n. Lancaster, Pa , C GottfnAc1 Gottfned & Son, Spnngfield, Mo , .\ D Seaman, MIlwa11kee, A. T Cdmpbell, MIles Clt) , Mont, 'vV C 'vVarren, NashVIlle, Tenn ,J E Walker, Hudson, M1Ch , M Ingalls, Nevada, Mo ; "Mr Turner, Fakes & Co, Ft 'vVorth, Tex • WItEICLY ARTISAN WE WERE WOOD FINISHERS BEFORE-WE WERE STAIN MAKERS That's why we KNOW a stain is a PRACTICAL WORKING STAIN before it leaves our factory. We make mighty pretty stains; not based on pretty theories, but on every day finishing room conditions. We put the materials in them that make for longer life and greater beauty. Our stains are NOT cheap, but they ARE economical. W rite for sample panel to desk No.3. MARIETTA PAINT AND COLOR CO. MARIETTA, OHIO. Detroit Store and Factory News. DetrOIt, Sept. 16-As the vacatiOn season is over, and peo-ple are commg back from the resorts, retaIl trade is pickmg up and promises to be good the rest of the season. Deb OIt ha~ grown so fast in the past five years that the number of fur11lture stores has nearly doubled, so that whlle the volume of trade I" greater some of the furnIture dealers are not increasmg then sales materially. The Humphrey-Widman Bookcase company reports a good business in the sectional bookcase lme. Geo. F. Streng, who started a furlllture store at 415 Grahot avenue a few months ago IS b1l11dmg up a fine busmess, \Ylth 111- creasing sales every month. He IS surely a hustler The Bosely Furniture company, who bought the \\' E Braher store at Michigan avenue and Thll c1 street, IS ~0I11~ out of busmess, Mr Hosely hav111g other mterests that takc up hh time It IS saId that the old house of C D \V HIJ11dn8c (0 man-ufacturers of hall and d1l11l1g 100111 furmture. at e also gomg out of busmess, havmg sold theIr factOly to an automoblle com-pany. ThIS is one of the oldest furlllture manufactunng com-pa11les m DetrOIt, and wlll be l111ssed by the fur11lture merchants as well as manufacturers. J. C. Vhclman & Co are havmg an excellent busmes~ Then exhIbIt m Grand Rapids 111 July was so effectIVe and thur sale~ so great that the factory IS kept running to ItS full capaCIty The boys on the road are doing a fine bus mess :VIr. WIdman ,a) ~ he is going to show a number of popular-pnced buftets and some higher priced ones 111 Grand Rapids 111 January The Palmer Manufacturing company are ha\ mg plenty of business. They are btuldlllg a new bnck dry kJln 21 x 88 feet, "lllCh \\ 111more than double theIr ell) mg capaCIty and a new cut-t111g loom IS also added 1\ ne\\ catalog 1:0 m the hauds of the pt 111telsand \\ III be ready fOl malllllg m October. ThIS com-pan) \\ 111ha\ e space 111 the Furmture Exchange, Grand RapIds, m J anual") and w1l1 show a larger and finer hne than ever before The Possehus Brothers Furmture Manufactunng company are ha\ mg a good trade TheIr cApellment of g0111g into dm-mg room stutes has been a wmner from the start They have al-ready booked more 01 del'S for dmmg room furmture than they expected for the whole season TheIr new catalog IS bringmg them orders nght along. It is one of the best catalogs ot din-mg room fur11lture and tables that has been issued thIS year. Some ot the 111ustlatlOns from the catalog pages of dmmg room fur11lture \\ t11be sho\\ n m the October numbers of the Weekly \1 tlsan ..- -----------_.-.~~------_.-., III II II I I• II • •••••• _ •••• a •• _ ••••••• ~ ....-... I I I~ . THE WEATHERLY INDIVIDUAL Glue Heater Send your addre.. and and receIve deSCriptIve Circular of Glue Heaters, Glue Cookers and Hot Boxes witl. prtces. The Weatherly Co. Grand Rapid., Mich. WEEKLY ARTISAN 9 FOUR NEW ....---------- - ..-..... - .....-----._._._._.__.---~ , BARONIAL OAK STAIN FLANDERS OAK STAIN S M 0 K ED 0 A K S T A I N EARLY ENGLISH OAK STAIN in acid and oil. in acid and oil. in acid and oil. in acid and oil. TRADE MARK REGISTERED PRODUCTIONS Send for finished samples, free. Ad-el-ite Fillers and Stains have long held first place in the estimation of Furniture Manufacturers and Master Painters. In addition to the reg-ular colors the above shades offer unusually beautiful and novel effects. The Ad-el-ite People CHICAGO-NEW YORK ---._._._-- . EverythIng m Pamt SpeClaltIesand Wood FIU1shingmaterials. FIllers that fl11. Stains that satisfy. -------------_._-_._._._._. ---------------------.. .. Business Methods of Undertakers. Dunals m the bIg Clty whele survlvmg relatJves have no permanent homes are conducted qUIte dd'ferently from burials m small towns and vIllage') In a sense, the dead of a great City, except In estabh'ihed famllles, are bUt ieJ by the dead Put in another way than the Scnptural phrase, the homeless dead of the great City are buned by strangers A s1I1g1e ca:oe 111 pomt 1:0 a 'iample of how the dead m the c1a'is refen ed to are 1loked after A man left IllS apartment for an opera tlOn 13efore IllS family knew of his condition an undel taker near the hospital "'Where the patlent was recel, ed was mfOlmed by somebody connected with the ho'Spltal that the operatlOn would probably be fatal. ThiS unclei taker knew before the family when the man dIed Before the falmly reached the hospital the undertaker saw the fanll1y an,l mqUlred ,'V hat the wishes of the family were for the 111terment. The faimly, hke many of a great City, had few friends They were only too glad tCJ have suggestions, even from one they had nevei heard of bEfore The bare 'Statement 111cold type seems pItiful The family clld not turn to the few fnends they had, as would ha, e been the ca"e 111a small town The undertaker steppe,] 111to take the place of relatives and fnends He was gIven carte blanche to make all arrangements He learned from fnencl'i of the family that the family had no church con-nectlOns, so that it vvas left to hIm to make arrangements for the serVice The m111Ister had never known any member of the famlly He attended because he was "engaged" by the under-taker The undertaker arranged for the carriages, hav111g learned about the number of people who would attend the service at the grave, He also learned, because this was part of his business, that the famlly had no burial plot in any cemetelY of the city. The fanllly of the dead left the place of l11terment to the undertaker A few hours before the body was placed in the coffm the famJly were informed that the grave had been pre-pared They did not even know where the cemetery was until the undertaker e'Cplal11ed to them where it was located and how long It would take to reach the place of interment. The cemetery was across a nver from New York City A.1though the c;erVlce at the house was held in the afternoon the cortege did not reach the grave untJl nearly 6 o'clock The mterment took place at dusk. The next day when the family returned to the cemetery to pay fm ther tnbute to thelr dead they were compelled to employ an attendant at the cemetery to show them the new-macle grave. They werE dissatisfied WIth the spot In one way It was theIr own faLllt They had left all to the under-taker \Vhy he had no asked where the family wished to have theIr dead laid dces not appear. Undoubtedly he re-ceIved hiS commIssion Jrom the cemetery. Such things are common 111a great City Many who live 111the CIty will not be surprised to know that they are watched, for bus111esjo reasons, every day of their lives by all sorts of agellts. But It may not be generally known that thele are men 111 t 1e CIty who "'Watch the deaJ, and bury them, as was done 111j his case, without <communicating with. the fnends of the dean as to then wishes. It is bus1l1ess That is suffi( ient. An undertaker who was asked about it reJ=lied' "It might be worse." Maybe he IS nght. 10 WEEKLY ARTISAN 'VHEN YOU WANT MONEY RAISE RATES Some Interesting Testimony Taken in the Freight Rate Investigation. Some of the testimony taken 111 the ll1VestlgatlOn {)t the plOpJSeel aJvance 11l freIght rates before the Inter~tate Com-merce C01111111';';lOnl1l X ew Y OJ k, IS decHledly ll1tere-,tlllg The Shlppers' a ssouatJons are 1 epre:,ented by able la \\ \ C1 , and thelt cms ,-C},amll1atlOns of 1:11ltoael offiClals are qUIte amuSll1g at tJme,; The mve,tlgatlOn IS plOceec!ll1g slo\\1y and ,,0 far nothmg has been developed that seems to l1l(llcate 1esults, but whale\ er may be the outcome, It v\ 111 tUlI11"h 111uch 111for111:1tlOn,as to t<lJIhoad 111ethoc]" and management, that WIll be valu,tble to manufactm er" shlppel ~ de,der-, con sumers anel the pUbhc genelally Last Tuesday two of the most Important \\ Itnes..,e-, on the raJ1lOad 'mle of the case were examll1ed-Ch'llle:, I D,d\ one of the VIce pI e"ldents of the '\ ew York Centl aI" ,tem ,lI1cl D. VV Cooke, genelal tJaffic manager 01 the Elle ,II D,ll\ under ClOSS-CXamll1atwn by the lavv) en for the ,lllppel' InsIsted that the offiClals of the '\ew YOlk Centlal had noth-mg but thelt own Judg-ement to rely on v\ hen they conclllcleel that the class freIght rates would stand a g-euel al ac!v,lI1ce, ,lI1e! declal ed that they (hel not reqtllre figure:, to back lip the11 )tle!g-ment He stated fJ anll) that the ultl1l1clte con..,umel h the one who wl11 have to beal the burden of the ll1crea sed ra tL' Mr Daly had trequent tJIts \\ lth the la \\ \ ers ,wcI a \\ Ol(h set-to wlth I~rank Lyon, coun e1 f01 the com1111"SlOn \\ hen ,f 1 Lvon was readll1g from a statement of the \e\\ '1ork Cent! al , expense account fO! the fil st ';IX 1110nth~ot 1(llO \\ Illt h had bee n hurllecllv prepal ed f01 use at the heanng but \\ hlch '\ [r Dah sa](l he hadn t seen yet \Yhen ,[r Lvon lead the figl11e, t01 FURNITURE MANUFACTURERS ATT~TION ! Send for :;;;;ies of our Own Your Own Electric Light Plant "ABC" Vertical Enclosed Self-Oiling Engines Save 25% Celebrated Nickel Steel Sword Tempered BAND SAW BLADES Warranted In every parllcular. Best propos,lIon on the market FRANK W. SWETT & SON Mfrs 01 band saw blade. and 1001. 1717 1719 W Adams St ,Chlcag& ,farch la"t, ~ho\\lng that before the 1l1crease 111wage" had taken ettell the road ~ opel atll1g expenses had 1110eased $1,570,000 over '\larch, 1909, ~II Dalv asked the lawyer to read the figures for the other five 1110nths of thl" year. Mr. Lyon dId reae! the fig- 11fe~later ~ho\\ 1l1g that the 111crea~e for the other months of thIS \ear (}\er last year \\as Jannar}, $130,000, February, $JOO,OOO; \pnl \>110,000, ~L\y $800,000, June, $1,200,000, and July $600,- COO \lr Dalv saId that he "a" away 111 March and couldn't e'Cplalll the enOrmot15 l11crease over the other months especlally "IlLe the wage l11crea"e dIdn't go !Dto effect untIl ~pnl 1 1he cro",-e"amlllatlOn of Mr Daly was begun by Francls B Jallle~ at CmCll111cttl, \\ ho represents the N atlonal Indu~tnal Ilaffic League ot St Lams He wanted to know how the rall- 10dc1, arrived at theIr deCl~lOn as to the proper advance to be made ancl ~l 1 Daly s,lId \\ e filA deClded that V\e needed money, and then we went ,lbol1t the l11attl! ot ac1Ju~tmg rate, ,a a" to plovlde that mane) [ \I,mt to "~tv that \\ e cia not pi etenc1 that the rates whIch \\>C' plopo,e to Pl1t 111toeHed \\1th the approval of the C0l11l111';SIOanl e pel tell V! dIn \\ hel e neal perfect The! e never wa" ape! fect acl- Direct-connected to any good make of dynamo. Can be run safely anywhere a steam line can be carried. No Noise. No Vibration. Economy. Efficiency "ABC" Engines require only one-half of the "ABC' Engines is the very high-the usual amount of steam. est attainable. Consume only one-fifth the usual amount Friction loss less than 4%. of oil. WIll run constantly at higher speeds The wear is so slight that adjustments than any other reciprocating engine. are required only once in six to nine months. Lubrication of "ABC" Engines is ample at any speed and is not distributed under pressure. Oil is separated from water. cooled and filtered at every circuit. Automati,; internal lubrication by a pump and gravity flow. Get Latest Bulletin. 288 M A. AMERICAN BLO'¥ER CoMPANY ---- DETROIT. I"11CH -- _ USA. Ablest Engineering Organization m the Blower Business-operating three large plants devoted exclusively to the manufacture of Fan System apparatus and the allied lines. An "ABC" Verllcal Enclosed Self~Oiling Engine. direct-con-nected to dynamo. making an ideal Outfit for Isolated Electric Light Plants. Mailedpostpaid at your request. WEEKLY ARTISAN These Specialties ~re used all Over the World Power Feed Glue Spre.din8 Maehine, Sinele. Douhle and Comhination. (Patented) (Siz •• 12 in. to 84 in wide.) -- Veneer Pre ..... different kind. and aizea. (Pate.ted) Veneer Presses Glue Spreaders Glue Heaters Trucks, Etc., Etc. ...-._--_._-------------------------_._---_._---------------., III I I f I II II II II I...--_._--_._--_.._----_._._--------_._.-._.-. ---------_._._._----------------_ .. ---------"" Hand Feed Glueine Maehine (Pal&t penclma. ) M.ny aty lea and ai"ea. Wood·Working Machinery and Supplies LET us KNOW YOUR WANTS N. 20 Glue He.ter CHAS. E. FRANCIS COMPANY, Main Office and Works, Rushville, Ind. No.6 Glue He.tor • Justment of freIght rates and there never wIll be one I am frank to say that the rates '" hlch have been raIsed are not the only rates that ought to be raIsed-or the only ones whIch \\ e hope we shall be able to raise." After Mr Daly had stated that c1assJf1catlOn of .lrtlc1es IS one means of rate making, l\fr James saId: "Now, do you want the commi%lOn to under~tand--' "I want the commISSIOn to understand Just what I say." re-plied ~Ir. Dal), "so don't put It m my mouth. "\Ve WIll put several thl11gs 111 your mouth before we get through," said Mr James ":\0 you won't," rephed l\Ir. Daly. illr. James asked If .M,'. Daly wanted to be understood as saymg that the three upper classes of freIght are confined to ll1xunes, and:M1 Daly said that a number of nece~sanes \\ ere mcluded, but that they are the higher pnced nece~salle", \\ hel e the mcrea"ed freIght rate has an mfil1ltesimal effect. "\Vhat you were speakl11g of then was the mdlVl(lual con- SUlnel Y' asked Mr. James. " I was figUl mg on whoever pav~ the frel!Sht," I eplled the \'v Itness. Mr Daly refused to state what he would con0)(ler a fall' re-turn on the property of the Lake 5hOl e, l\ (ld1lgan & S:::mthern raIlroad Mr. James suggested ;) per cent, 10 per cent, and finally -to per cent, but the wItness would not answer Mr Daly refused to answel sevel al other que..,tlOn~ \\ hlch he declared were improper. "DId yOU 111 makIng these rates take 1l1t"Jcon~lderatJon the Cclpltal stock of the N ew York Central raIlroad?" 1\[1' James a~ked ".1\ 0," saId the vice president. "DId you consider the secUlltles held by the '{ ew Y OJ k Central 111 other raIlroads?" ".t'\o, we dId not, we consIdered only the fact that we needed the money to meet our 1l1creased operat1l1g expenses." LoUIS BrandeIS, representative of the Seaboard Orgamzation, took Up the cross exammatlOn of Mr. Daly at noon Rcferr1l1~ to the vIce preSIdent's statement that the present class rates had been in effect With very shght changes for twenty years, 1\Ir. BrandeIS asked If It was not true that the abohtlOn of rebates m 1903 had mcreased the revenue from claSSIfied freight. Mr. Daly admItted that this was true. ){Ir Brandeis asked If the road dIdn't usually confer WIth the shippers before advancing the rate, and Mr. Daly said It wa~ true. but that If d.1lthe shIppers affected by the present advance had been comulted, "you and I wouldn't be here to see It go through. l\~r. BrandeIS The shippers you repl esent do not say when they are gomg to raise a price." Chfford Thorne asked what hardship would result to the 1'.Jew York Central If the present rate wasn't approved, and Mr Daly salel there would be a very matenal decrea~e 111 the op-el atll1g revenue. He thought posslbly there would be enough left to pay operatll1g expenses, but wasn't sure" ;\11' Cooke';, testlmony \\ as along the same lmes and practi-cally to the same purpose and effect, as that of Mr Daly ----------------------------------------~-----~ Dodds' Tilting Saw Table NOe 8 We take plea.ure m mtroduclng to you our new Saw Table The base IS SimIlar to what we have been U'lDa on our No 4 Saw Table, only we have made It larger on the 600r The r&lSlOg and IowennK deVice IS the same al we have on the No 4 Machine, With lever and pitman The lever IS made of steel The &rbor IS made of I ?fr~IDchsteel, runDing in 10Da nng othna boxes. and.1 for 1~mch hole In $AW. We furmsh one t 4·iach eaw on each macmne It Will carry. 16-tnch saw If cleaned Table IS made Wlth a center .hde 12 mch•• WIde WIth a movement of 21 mches It has a lockmg deVIce to hold It when you do not Wl.h to use rl, and has a detachable mItre lIuaae to be used when uSlnll the sIKhna-table. Can erNs-cul wllh table extended to 24 mches, .110 np up 10 24 Inches WIde Table has a removable throat that can be taken out when USlna dado It also has two wtre auages for reaular work. and a two Sided np guage that can be used on f'lther Side of the .aw. more espeCIally when the table" blted. allOa lilting np gauge to be used to cut bevel work when you do not WIShto lilt the table The top IS40x44 mche. Countershaft has T & L pulley. IOxl4 Inches. and Ihe dove pulley 16x5 mo.be., counter- .haft .hould run 800 Making m all about as complete a machme a. can be found and at a sealOnable pnce Wnte us and we wul be pleased to quote you prices Addr_. lII ~---------------------------_._---- ... ALEXANDER DODDS, CO., ~1-183 Canal St., Grand Rapids, Mich. 11 II I I 12 ~--------------------------------- I,, III II I II ..._---------_._----------- TO DISCOURAGE MIGRATORY HABITS WEEKLY ARTISAN Ranney Refrigerator Company's Plan to Secure Uninterrupted Service From Employes. VV Ith the approach of cold weather man} pamter" and carpenters endeavor to secUl e posItIons m the vanoth tac-tories, as varnishers and cab111etmakers ThIs a"sures them a wmter Job \Vhen bUlld111g operatIons become actIve 111the spring, many of these operatIves gIve up theIr factor} P0..,I-tIons for the more remuneratne opportumtIes In the buIlc1mg trades and the physical benefit" re<;;ult111g from fi, c or "1"'( months of "'ork 111the open aIr \\ hlle thl~ ha" dh\ a\" prm en a very satIsfactory arrangement for the" orkmen, It l1a" been the cause of great 111COnVel11enceto manufacturer" of refnger-ators especIally, as the buildmg trades open at about the tIme in the spnng when manufacturers of refrIgerators are the busiest Some three or four years ago the Ranney RefngeratOl company of Greenvl1le, MICh , evoh ed a plan for paY111g prem- Iums to theIr employ e~ for contInuous employment ThIs con- .50 1 No. Date~_~ ___ _~ __ 190__ -- -- .75 2 PREMIUM TICKET. -- I- 1.00 3 NOT. TRANSFERABLE -- -- 1.25 4 THE RANNEY REFRIGERATOR COMPANY -- I- 1.50 5 WIll pay on or before Oct 1,190 __ -- -- 1.75 6 To ~----- -- -- The amount mdicated by punch marks on margm of thiS 2.00 7 ticket, prOVided conditions stated m notice dated OCTOBER -- I- 1, 1907, and posted In factOrIes have been comphed WIth 2.25 8 --- Do not lose or mutilate thiS ticket as NO duphcates 2.50 9 Will be Issued 2.75 10 SISt-, 111 creclItll1g each employe monthly WIth a Lcrtal1l dl110unt for contmuous and u111nterrupted sen Ice The arrangcmen t" all begll1 the fir"t of October and contmue untIl the fir"t cla\ of August. Evel y employe who has rendered Ullll1terru pteJ serVIce dunllg thIS peIlOd recen es cash to the extent of $1625 The premlUm tI,ket Issued by the company IS ..,ho" 11 herewIth It WIll be notIced that the Cledlb are lUcrea~ed monthly. By the first of AprIl the emplOye has to hh CIdlt the SUlu of $675, whIch he forfeIts If he lea' es the COmpall}'S employ at that time • It w111 be notIced that the amount which w111be credIted hIm f01 the month of Apnl IS $200, fOl UNION FURNITURE CO. -1II,, III , :I It• IIt I ROCKFORD, ILL. China Closets Buffets Bookcases We lead m Style, Comlrutbon and Em.h. See our Catalogue. Our lme on permanent exhlbl-bon 3rd Floor. New Manufact-urers Bwldmg, Grand RapId •. I• II ----~--_._-----~ the month of ~Iay $225. for the month of June $250 and the month of Jul} $2 Il, "0 that the Ialgest portIon of hIS pren1ltll11 h C1edIted to h1l11 dUllng the months of \pl il to July 111- clu"ne Thl" plan lJ,l~ PIO\ en "ncces"ful WIth the Ranney com-pan} fell the pa"t thlee yeals \VI11le the amount "eems 111- slg11lficant tOI each mcln IJual employe, It amounted to con- SIderable 111a factory employmg 300 or 400 men (Even at tIns the Ranney company belIeves that It pays them The premIum system does not affect the man's general wages at all If he thmb he IS entItled to more pay, he IS at lIberty to pre~ent hIS claIms to the managel the same as he would though the premIUm S) stem \\ ere not m eAlstence The premwm seems to be ap-preCIated by many of the Ranney employes, who would con-t111ue regular serVIce throughout the entIre busmess year even If there \\ ere no prem1l1m To them it IS a form of profit <;;Innng. Freight Cars Are Busy. \" I qlOrted 111the current bullet111 of the Amellcan Ral1- \\ d\ a""UcldtlOn there wel e only 50,729 Idle freIght cars on the 1 all\\ d'" of the l111tecl States and Canada on September 1, comparee! ~,lth 73,679 on August 17 allll WIth 140,000 at the heg1l1n111g of rnly The 111creaSe 111 traffIc accompanymg the mo\ ement of the uop" to market ha" thu" blOught back mto actn e "en Ke ahout tv" o-thlrds of the freIght cars from the Idle h"t t\\ 'l month" dgO \\ hen it IS realtLed that there are \\ell a,el 2,000,000 fJel~ht CdlS 111 the L11lted States, It 15 cleal tha t the equ Ipmcn t of the I atllOaJ.., h now fallly well c111pl'oyed for the Idle lIst on \ngu-.,t 31 amounted to less than 2.0 per cent of the total eqtllpment owneJ b} the ral1roads "THE BEST IS THE CHEAPEST" BARTON'S GARNET PAPER Sharp, Very Sharp, Sharper Than Any Other. SUPERIOR TO SAND PAPER. It costs more, BUT It Lasts Longer; Does Faster Work. Order a small lot; make tests; you will then know what you are getting. WE GUARANTEE SATISFACTION. Furniture and Chair Factones, Sash and Door Mills, Railroad Companies, Car Builders and others will consult their own interests by using it. Also Barton'. Emery Cloth, Emery Paper, and Flint Paper, fumished in rolls or reams. MANUFACTURED BY H. H. BARTON & SON CO., 109 South Third St., Philadelphia, Pa. .. .•. WEEKLY ARTISAN CHOICE TOOLS FOR FURNITURE MAKERS If you do not know the "Oliver" wood workmg tools, you had better give us your address and have us tell you all about them. We make nothmg but Quality tools, lhe firSt coSt of whIch is consIderable, but which WIll make more profit for each dollar mveSted than any of the cheap machmes flood-mg the country. Oliver Tools Save Labor "OLIVER" No. 16. Band Saw 36 Inches. Made WIth or WIthout motor dnve Metal table 36"x 30" W,ll take 18" under the aUlde- bits 45 dearees one way and 7 degrees the other way Car-nes a saw up to 1 %11 WIde OutsIde beanna to lower wheel shaft when not motor doven Welaht 1800 lb. when ready to ship "Oliver" New Variety Saw Table I'Io 11 Will take a saw up to 20" diameter Arbor belt IS 6" WIde Send lor Catalog "B"lor data on Hand Jointers, Saw Tables, Wood Lathes, Sanders. Tenoners, Mortisers, Trimmers, Grinders, Work Benches, Vises, Clamps, Glue Heaters, etc., etc. OLIVER MACHINERY CO. Works and General Offices at 1 to 51 Clancy St. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., U. S. A BRANCH OFFICES-Ohver Maclunery Co .. Hudson TermInal. 50 Church St, New York. Ohver Maclunery Co. Fmlt NatIonal Bsnk BmIdIna, Clucaao, III • OlIver MachInery Co • PaCIfic BuddIng, Scstde, Wash, OlIver Maclunery Co ,201-203 Deanlgate, Manchester, Eng Wanamaker Guarantees a Square Deal. The New York CommercIal announces th,1t John \Vana-maker has taken a long step 111 advance 111 se1l111gmerchanJlse by dlrect111lS that all good" ~old on hIS floOl s shall bear a card or label ~tatmg the matenals of wll1Ch the al tIcle 1~ compo'3ed and the relative proportlOns of each constituent Gnder thIS sy"tem '\ir \1\ anamaker or hIS agent~ wl1l be enabled to look a cust'Jmer squarely ll1 the e) e and :oay "there IS nothmg but mahogany 111thIS table" The CommercIal dIscusses the plan ed1tonally as follows "A most admllclble system' A most commendable 'squa1e deal' between seller anJ buyer' K eIther can be dece1ved--- and the rule 1" to apply to everything the component parts of '" h1ch the concern cannot 1t~elf regulate When it cannot regulate them it wdl tell the facts about them, any way, no matter how many shopp1l1g l11uslOns may be d1spelled there-by 50 far. "0 good' The entIre bmmess world ought to be found forthWIth patt1l1g the vV,1namaker management on its back for thus mS1stmg on honest dealing" Government regulation of food products might be eAtend- (cl to the regulatlOn of all artJcle:o of dome!OtJc U~e There IS ,1" much need for guard111lS the publlc against fraudulent manufactUl er" of clothmg or mattI es"e" as aga111st 1mpu1 e med1cmes or doped fnnt an,! vegetables Forced to Raise Prices. Some of the raw matenals whlCh are useJ m the manu-facture of var11lsh co-,t nearly double what they dId eIghteen 111onth~ ago ThIS 1del s espeually to hn"eed 011 and turpen-t111e, and there IS apparently no 1ehef 111 sH.;ht On March 1, 1909 turpentUle wa~ quoted m balfels dt 38 c and on Septem- " TIme " Tempers .. Cost bel 1. 1910 at 75 cents On Mal ch 1. 1909, lmseed 011 was quoted m barrels at 56c and today at $1 03. In VIew of these facts the PItcaIrn V arm~h company have sent out a letter to the trade m WhICh they say. "On account of the contmued h1gh pnces of raw matellals we ale compelled to WIthdraw our sellmg pnces on all varn- 1she~ We herewIth enclose reVIsed llst pnces which wl1l be m effect on and after thIS date, the dIscount remammg the same "vVe have heSItated for some tIme before makmg thIS change m the hopes of seemg a declme m the pn~e of raw matenals, but on the contrary they contmue to advance, and m some ca~es a1e actually more than double \\ hat they were one year ago, WIth 110 lower pnce 111 SIght It is therefore ab- 'lolutel} necessary that we make th1S advance or reduce the quahty of our goods "The HIGH QUALITY of PItcaIrn VarnIshes Will be mamtained ,. "--------_._._--------------------.. 10U15 babn DESIGNS AND DETAILS OF FURNITURE IIII ---------_._----- ---_._._._._. -_ .. 154 Livmgston St. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN CItIzens' Telephone 1702. - "" Minnesota Retail Dealers' Furniture Association WEEKLY ARTISAN OFFICERS-PresIdent, J R. Taylor, Lake Benton, Mmn , VIce-PresIdent, D R Thompson, Rockford, Mmn , Treasurer, B A Schoeneberger, Perham, Mmn , Secretary, W L Grapp, JanesvIlle, Mmn EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE-Cha,rman, Geo Klem, Mankato, Mmn., 0 S,mons, Glencoe, Mmn, W. L HarTIs, Mmneapohs, Mmn , C. Damelson, Cannon Falls. BULLETIN No. 144. THE PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS AT THE MEETING IN MINNEAPOLIS LAST WEEK. AGREEMENT AND CONTRACT. I, the underslgncd, a mcmbel of the "\II"'dsOT\ RLl\If IlR"I1lRLD1\rrR~'A~~oLI\lION,herebyauthonzethe .. bUYing commIttee to shIp to mc such Items, not to exceed $ worth mane yeal, whIch in the judgment of the buying committee, are extraOl dlnary values or \\ hich are needed m closmg their ongmal contract with the various fac-tones As a member I agl ee to protect invOIce by check upon receIpt of notice. ThIS arrangement may be canceled by giving the chairman of the bu) mg committee 30 clays' notice The followmg 1I5t of Items are goods that I cannot use: To sa) that I apIJl cClate the pI esence of OUI member, hCI e today IS puttmg It Imldl), becausc If you havc been as bus) .1', I have bcen your pret>ence hel e today shows a sacnfice I sa) ,acllficc, because somc of us cannot see the hIdden aeh ant,lge~ of a meetmg hke thIS My expenence has taught me that the mo,t practIC.1l tune for the Imd-summer meeting IS dunng the state fall' Yet \\ e find that oWing to all the busmess appointments that \\ e have to make m coming hele .1ndm trYll1g to get a 1Ittle plea,ule mIxed 111 WIth It, we find our time so occupied that I am fearful \\ e do not get out of our meetmgs all that \V e should A.s your pI esence here today shows the expendIture of tunc and money, I, as presIdent, most earnestly urge) au to make the most of thIS meetll1g and to gIve the associatIOn \\ ark prefcrence today There are so many thll1gs that could be qld m the prps- Ident's adell ess that would be helpful, ) et I behe\ c that due to the free dISCUSSIOnof an infOlmal meetmg 1Ike thIS, that \\ e can get a great deal of good from It Therefore, I am leav Ing the prmclpal subjects that are so close to om heal ts for each of }au to discuss I can report that tIm, fal 111 my adnlllllstl.ltlOn the as,ou- .ltlon WOlk has been call1ed on vel y aggres~lvel) and th.1t \\ c .11c not only holdmg our members, but are steadll\ grO\\ mg 1 have becn so busy In taking care of my road \\Olk that OIe1l-nanly I would not havc kept 111 touch \\ Ith thc assouatlOn and what it is doing. As I mect our members in towns that I fl cquenth \ bIt I reahze more and more the great II1fluence of the aSSOCIatIon I want to tell you that I am ploud of the fact that \\ c havc such loyal members We all reahze the amount of opposition to OUI pohcy of co-operative buymg, yet as I viSIt the vallOUS stores I find that thIS co-operative bUYl11gIS thc vel') thl11g that IS holdl11g our asso-ciation together. As I study the vanous Items that the as~ocI-atlon brm~s up I cannot help but wonder why any furniture dealer stays outSIde of our assocIation To me thIS ar- Iangemcnt puts the small dealers on the baSIS of the carload bu) ers and not one of us can get the vanous Items we need to meet mall 01 del' competitIOn alone, instead of havll1g to go to the necesslty of gettmg them 111 car lots and having them all come at one tune, whIch requires St01age and all the other draw-b. 1ck5, thIS method of buymg gets them for the small dealers a5 they need them Not only that, but buymg m thIS way you alwa) s have new stock You have no surplus money tied up In the house and so on down into the details. It has also bcen unpressed upon my mind that the very fact that \\ e ha\ e such an aggressIVe assoCIation is worth money to e\ el y dealer 111 the state, that IS, 100kl11g at it only from a cold financIal P0111t of VIew, whIch after all, IS nothing as compared \\ Ith the result~ m good fellowshIp that these meetings bring out. \\'h) a certall1 per cent of OUI members do not look to the pal ment of their dues, who are a part of the assoCIation, is be-yond me Yet, \\ hen we look over the history of the various a,sociatlons, I find that Mmncsota should have no complaint to makc, for we al e growing faster and accomphsh mOl e than any other sU1ll1ar association. TIm should cncourage m in our ef-forb \\ e must either be going forward or backward I am 5ure that wc ale not gOll1g backward. I have been a member of the a5SoclatlOn ever sll1ce it was 0lga11lzed and oh, how much mOl e confidencc \\Ie have 111 the assoCIatIOn now than wc had then' I cspecIall) want to call your attentIOn (because pos'lbly none of )Ot! have noticed it) to the gooc! wJ11 and co-opelatlOn that IS be1l1g worked out 111 connectIOn WIth our work One of our members says that if we hac! told 111mfive year:-- ago that we would accomphsh this heart) co-operatIOn he would have declared It was impossible, or might have called It a "pipe dream' Yet. today it IS a plcasll1g fact To me thIS phase Member's Signature. I WEEKLY AR1ISAN 15 of the dssoudtlon 1", onngl11g more good to the retaIl furm tUl e dealers than anyone thmg. TherefOl e, let us not forget the slogan, "Let's Get Together," because it means so much to us all. In closl11g I want to thank you as best I can for your pres-ence here todav. I can promIse you that the officer~ WIll do all that IS In then po" er to make thIS year the banner year of the aSSOCIatIOn The officers al e only mstl nments thl n which our work I~ carned on and It IS up to you to ask fot v,hat you want and above all to give your aSSOCIatIOn the finanCIal "up-pOl 1. that It needs 111 can} mg on ItS work. I thank} au for your patIence J R TAYLOR ANNOUNCEMENT. The executn e commmlttee has made all angement \\ Ith H F. DavIs of Mankato, to 1 epresent our aSSOCIation as organi7er and he stalted out on hIS tnp September 12 We tru"t that all 1I1emOeis wlll gIve hun theIr hearty co-opel atlOn m thiS work of orgamzmg The aSSOCIatIOn ha'i felt for sometime that we ought to be m constant tonch wIth our members and we hope through thIS orgamzer to onng about much better feehng where we have several membel s 111the same town, and we also hope he Will be the factor throngh whIch our members WIll work to correct many of the eXIstmg eVIl'i that are nvw botherIng us. J\Ir DavIs is authorIzed to collect dues and aSSOCIatIOn ac-counts and rcndel any other serVice" that the aSSOCIatIOn mem-bers find necessary. We have already found that thele IS many a dealer who has ~ta} ed out of thIS a'iSOclatlOn because our proposItIOn has not been put up to hIm rIght and because of the knocks our co-op-el atlve bu} mg ha" brought out Therefore, we speak for ]\1lr. DavIs such help and adVIce that wIll enable hIm to brmg about the conchtlOns v\ e all \\ auld lIke to see so much, that of a pay- 111gand prospelous aSSOClatlOn RICHMOND TABLET CHAIRS A Sermonette on Pessimism. To the Chattanooga Tlmes-\Valkmg along ),Iarket street the other day 1 overtook the head of one of our be"t clothl11g stores "How's busmess?" saId I "Rotten," saId he, WIthout askmg me to conSIder hIs reply confidential. "Rotten?" I 1 e-peated. "Would you say that of your WIfe, your horse, ) our automobile, dog, gun, piano, or anything el'ie you have ?" Would you permIt another person to say that of your busmess? Of course you would not. Yet WIth a SOUl face and saddenmg manner, you pubhcly charactenze as rotten that whIch enables yOU to 'iupport your famIly, keep an automobIle, or have a plano dog, gun, or grocerIes. \Vhen I asked the man if he had ever thought of it in 1.1115lIght he adlmtted that he had not What a pIty such things cannot be brought to the attentIOn of the ABC classes in our schools! I have here "ntten of no uncommon OCCUIrence Thl" busl11ess-kIlhng pessimIsm IS practiced by enough people to keep all of us 111a state of fear and depression a large part of the tnne. If, when 1 met the clothing man I had been on my way to 111""tore to bu) a $30 St1lt, thll1k you this remark would have stimulated me to buy a $50 outfit? I gues" not' To wear mv old suit or get a $12 98 "hand-me-down" would have accorded better WIth my state of mind. I mIght have figured It ont thIS way If the clothing busi-ness is rotten now, how 10m; wIll It be before the chIna business WIll need to be taken out and bUlled") i\nd straIghtway all my expenses would be cut down-grace I, butcher, rl1llk man, five-cent show and all the rest would buffer becau"e the cloth111g man saId hIS business was "rotten" If there IS no other CUle fOI 1.1115thl11l:; let U'i qUlt askll1g each other "how's busl11ess" until 'iome of us can go somewhere and be tredted for foolIshness. Em\ \RD ABBOTT August 29, 1910 David W. Kendall's Estate Settled. The WIdow, as executnx of the estate of the late DaVId W. Kendall of Grand RapIds, ha'i filed hel final account. If the pro-bate cOUlt apploves the account as lendeled, the property WIll be c1btnbuted Ul accordance WIth the provI"lOns of the will. The estate wa" appraIsed at $2'~f),OOO,of whIch a lllece and a nephew of the deceaSed receIved $l,OiJO each. Half of the rema1l1l11g $218,000 went to the WIdow and the other half was dIVIded eqnal-ly between M'ir Kendall's SIster and hel husband, Irvmg A Dean The ll1hentance tdX nnposed uncler the state law-one per cent on the 'ihares of the WIdow and sIsteI and five per cent on those of the nIece, nephcw and brotheI-m-law-amounted to $4,460 "SLIP SEATS" AND THE MOST SANITARY RICHMOND CHAIR CO. No. 100 DOUBLE CANE SEAT RICHMOND, IND. No. 100 GENUINE LEATHER SEAT -~ I ~a1d 'In 01del to clenve any benefit m fuel economy the opel atOl must have a machllle that can be operated eCOn0l111- call}, one with tIght bode1". tlght steam p1pes, eylmder anel \ ah t ~ pI opulv packed. square, ah es preferred He regretted that thulhancJ~ of \ ah es now 1n use dre n)t square" If a loss of $10,080000 annually 1S susta1l1d m the operatl'JU of a slllgk I ne of raJlwa) by \\astefulne'-b 111 the rUnDll1g of locomot1ves. \\ hat d tl E:111ClH]( us 10-" mu~t esult t'l the ope rat )1s of "tat101Y dn "tea 11 plant~ not prupeJl} eqUlPlx! and handled 16 WEEKLY ARTISAN PUBLISHED I!'VIIRY SATUROAY • .,.. THB: MICHIGAN ARTISAN COMPANY SUBSCRIPTlON 51 00 I"ER YEAR ANYWHERE IN THE UNITED STATe:S OTHER COUNTRIES $2 00 PER YEAR. SINGL.E: COPIES 5 CENTS PIJBLICATION OFFICE, 10e-112 NOPITH DIVISION ST, GRAND RA," OS. MICH, A S WHITE. MANAOINQ EDITOR Entered as second class matter. July 5, 1909. at the post office at Grand R"plds. MichIgan under the act of March 3 1879 CHICAGO REPRESENTATIVE E LEVY One of the most succe"stul manufacturer" ot the pa "t generatIOn ehel not even pI etenJ to know an} th Ing dJY!l1 t the schools on lles1gn The work;, of the r 1ench I tallan dnd l:<.-ng llsh class1cs d1d not 111tere"t h1111,but he see ned to po"-es,, mtll1tlve knowledge of the styles that" ould pl~d"e the tr,l Ie He employed fro111 two to fOUl de"lgneh and ~pent but httle tUDe 111d1scussmg the detaIls wIth them To one he \\ ould say "make a sldeboard that WIll sell tor $250" 1 0 anothel he \\ould say, "make a three pIece chamhel sUIte that \\111 ,,_II fOJ $400" "\7hen the c!rawmgs of the 51Clebodlcl \\eIC com-pleted he v\ould study the ~a1l1e eagelh and thln e\.llaIll1 "thIS 1<.,not gor)l], make dnothe1' 1f It (lId not 1110 1t 111~,lp proval 1£ the deSIgn plc'l:oecl the manuL1ctl\lel he \\ oulel ",\\ "Get out the detaIls and send them to the pattell1 100111 I hc same course would be pursued \\ Ith the deqgner makll1 t.; th __ $<-00 chamber Sl1lte The lIne ne\ el lackec1 In \ al1et\ and th e deSIgners never showed a lack of mterest 1ll th e1r \\ ork [0 gam the approval of theIr emplo) er \\ as cono.ldered \\ orth the effort In an address dehvered by rred HIlI the c\e~lgner employed by the Impenal FurnIture compan} of Grand RapId" to the teachers of the specIal cla"ses and the ec1ucatlOnal com-mIttee of the Young :Men's ChnstIan a"SOC'latlOn 1t \\ ,I" stated that the succes"ful desH,;ner of fl1ll11ture mu"t po"~e",, both business and artistIc abIlIty m 01 del that hh (!e~l(~l1' may meet the reql1lrements of the manufacture1 Ot one thousand sketches that m1ght come under one pal t1culal sh Ie of mechal1lcal art, not one would meet the part1cular 1equ11 e-ment of a manufacturer The Independent comme1ual de-slgners realIze thIS fact 1110re keenly than others Dunng the months preced111g the open111g of a season commel c1al lle~l~n-ers prepare thousands of sketches whIch are submItted to small manufacturers \Vhen selectlons have been made, the detaIls are III awn an d the deSIgner plOceeds on h1s \\ a) to other fields of employment The most capable of thIS c1a"~ of artIsts earn larger incomes than are Pd1d t,) "alaned de"lt.;llLl s Mr HIll sounded the keynote of success 111 the desIg nel ~ p10 fession, when he pomted out the nece"slty for an eJucatlOn 111 bus111ess as well as in art Being- a graduate of the \1 I Instltute of Chicago and an expenenced man 111bU"lness, he expresses 111his work ideas that are of p1act1cal \ alue alld that please and gratIfy the eye UnskIllful stokmg WIth poorly cono.tructed locomotn es causes a loss of $10,000,000 annually to the LehIgh Valley rall-road, in Its tram serV1ce In discussmf,; thIS 10<;<;\\'Illlam Owens. a fuel ll1spector 111the employ of the raIlroad company, (ln~Uldl agent" ()f the l nlted ::'tdte", ar2 ftl111hhmg a gl Cdl deal 01 1l1tol11latl 111 cOnlCnlIng the market'"> d the coun-t! 1e- III \1 h1ch t11e\ al e Ie cater] dnd endedvonng to mterest the ll1<lllulde U1C " 01 the llllte 1 ~tatc~ 111 the same The \men- Cd'l lllanuJdltll1 er care" lIttle for f01 elgn trade "0 10llR as the c101,lC-,tICmal ket" take hIS output at re11luneratn e prIces ThIS I S em UIJ\vhe p0hcy to pur"ue. but the i\mellcan manufacturer h nut af aId to tdke the gamble1'" chance even when It IS unneccs,al) for hIm to do so \n e).po~ltl')n 01 manufacturers was held 111 LouiSVIlle. l\. \ • 111 ) llh 1883 Th e manufacturers of furl11turc 111 Grand [LlJ))ds filed ,111eal h applIcatlOn f(Jl space on the mal11 floor, but \\hen the a"slgnmenh were made preference ",as gIVen to the loc,d manuiactme1S of fm111ture and the Grand Rap1ds glOUP \\ a" notlfie,! that the only "pace ava1lable for the1r use \\ a" d "ec tlon ')f the gallef} ThIS was refused and the manu-taltl11 10:1"of (Jrand RapIds were oblIged to cOlltent themselves 11\ jlas~1l1Q,'a b1ace of sl/zllnr; re,ulutlOns l IJ(lcrtd],el ~ dl e tl equc nt1) asked "\\ hat 1" the most dUl dblc 1\ oc! to! a hunal casket ),. 1~"peII1l1enh CCJl1Jucted In Ihe t()Je~tn 1ml edll show that the d\ era~e lIfe of tImber IJ"erl ff)l fence ]l0-,h belcm ti10und, 1S fourteen years Osage olan£;e 1" the ll1()~t eItllable The compalatl\e hfe of othel \ dlletlC" of t1111hel. tI0111 the Ie ngest to the shortest pellOd IS ,b tollO\\" Red ceclar, locnst, white oak, northern white u~clal catalpa, black walnut, hntternut. red oak and WIlla",. \n i\mencan consul 111 A"Ia, whose name 15 WIthheld 111 the 1011Snlar reports "dl furnIsh 111formatlOn in regard to an o elel for 100 metal hcds to he placed 111a hotel \Vho w1ll turnbh the name ot the consul J i\mellcan manufacturers who <!c"lre to "figme 111 th1s order wonlcl probably obtain the lnlormatlOll needed, If the usual red tape lOutme shoule! be follo\\ ee! m the transactIon of government business, SIX or eIght months afttr the contract has been awarde,l \\ hJ1e Grand RapIds IS WIdely known as a furnIture town hut one exh1hIt of turnltul e was made at the \\' est M1chlgan ~ta te FaIr A local 1eta11 fil m exhlblte,l a larry load of house furl11shmg good", not "made 1n Grand RapIds" The reader may comment on thIS fact a" he pleases One thousand famJ1les f1om 1'1ance art jJreparmg to set-tle 111the \ 1C111Ityof ~ elV Orlean" \n 111creasec1 demand for I rench tur111tl11e WIll 111e\Itably follow 111 the course of time Conficlence IS e~tablIshee! 111 the manufacturer who put<t a trade mal k 011 h1:, goods anc1 the retadel handlmO' the same • b has somethmg on hand on vvh1Ch he can pledge quality, Dullness prC\aII" in the furnIture trade of China Sedan cha1rs are not selhng \V ell 011 account of the ad\ ent of broug-hams, dravvn h} "plene!lcl horo.es, bled In Austna WEEKLY ARTISAN Food for Thoul1ht. A boy on an occaSlOn went 111tOd hardware ~tore and a"kerl for employment There dlJ not seem to be an openltl,g and yet the manager ~eeltlg the app11cant had a bright. 1I1tcllI-gent face, wa" de~lrou'i of helpll1g hl111 ~ow, It "0 happened that there wa'i a lot of bra"s and "teel tack'i that by 'iome ml~hap, had got mIxed together llk~ p1IntCl'" pI, and wa" lay- 1I1g on the floor In a heap All of the clerk" were (head1l1~ the task of assortIng them and "0 the managel ~alrl tJ the bu} "There arc some bra"s and '3teel tack" on the H('ol U\ er the e 111 a pile, if yOU vvhh to "ort them, } 011 may do '- )' rl he hen wIthout a wr~rd l111mer11dtely took off hI" coat and 11,lt, walked to a '3ho\\ ca~e and takll1g Ollt a ll1a~l1et pI ('ceedeJ to hI" ta"l, and ltl very much "hOl tel tlllle than an} of the clerk, OJ mana-ger dreameJ of, he had th,c Job completer! 11nt bov got hI" Job at once \Vhy;l Becau"e he had bld111" and knew how t) ARTHUR KIRKPATRICK Well Known Teacber of Furmture Designmg of Grand RapIds, MlCb. u~e them This is Just what ::vIr Arthur KIrkpatrick. mana-ger of the Grand RapIds School of Furmture DeSIgn, is on the lookout for, boys wIth brains The Vvorld IS full of boys and men who are lookmg for nice, easy Jobs---jobs wIth 11ttle work or re~pomlbllIty, and good pay They never finLl them The dIamond has to be cut and polished before It can be marketed All the gold Itl the mountaltls IS worthless so long as it stays there And when It is dug out it has to go through the fire and the meltltlg pot before it can enter the great wor! 1 of commerce The Grand Rapids School of FUl niture Design IS the refining pot, where the dross is elimmated---the shop of the lapidary. where the dIamond is cut and polIshed, but it is absolutely helpless with material that ha~ no stuff in it--- brains, ambltlOll, willingne% to sacrifice pleasures and am-bition to c11mb But the boys with steel In their mu"cles, dIamonds 111 theIr eyes and that which is better than gold Itl their make-up- clean bodIes, pllre heart~, conSCIences void of offen<,e to all men, ambItIOn that will not be satisfied until the top of the mountal11 has been scaled---these boys are sure to succeed, do succeed. and are fillmg re'iponslble pO~It1ons Say, boy, whIch kll1d are yOll? Let us hear from you The Grand Rapids School of Furniture DeSIgn, 542-545 Houseman BUlldltlg, Grand RapIds, ::\11ch 17 ~-------------------------------- III II II I II I I II II ,I t II ,I , If ,• ,,,I I I,,, t,I , I I, t II ,,I : TIfE "ELI" \,,IIII ,, I III .----------------------------- ---_._-.,,I It ,i , It t II I,I II ,I I IIIfII II FOLDING BEDS AR!" BRUD AND f PROfIT WINNEfCS I I II ELI D~vA~!,~E~~~N~ co. I I• No StoLk Lomplete wlthoul the h.ll Bed., m \1alltt--J and Upng:ht V\ nte for cuts and pnces ON SALE IN FURNITURE EXCHANCE. EVANSVILLE. ~,-------------------------------------- _.,I I Palmer's Patent GluiUlr Clamps I i I III ,I ,II I,III The above cut 1S taken duect from a photograph, and shows the range of one Slze only, our No.1, 24.-inch Clamp. We make six other Slzes, takmg In stock up to 60 inches wide and 2 mches thICk. Ours 1S the most practical method of clampIng glued stock m use at the present time. Hundreds of factones have adopted our way the past year and hundreds more WIll in the future. Let us show you. Let us send you the names of nearly 100 factories (only a fractIon of our llst) who have or-dered and reordered many times. Proof pOSItiveour way 1S the best. A post card WIll brmg it, catalog inclUded. Don't delay, but wr1te today. A. E. PALMER &, SONS, Owosso, MICH. I-....-.. ....-_ ...-_. . -- -_._------_._----- .. FOREIGN REPRESE:N"l"ATIVES: The Projectile Co., London, Engoland: Schuchardt &; Schutte, Berlln, Ger-many; Alfred K. Schutte, Oolo/01e,Par1s, Brussels, LIege, MIlan, Tunn, Barcelona and BIlboa. •.. '" E Ree111'm}del. F C. V{alters, \"T. C Lane, S S Soutzen-h'l'ier and C Cr Hel bruch l1<1ve111corporated the Reemsnyder- \\ altel'i company to engage 111the undertakmg bU~111ess111Can-ton, 0 George F \V1llal d and SIdney "'-der have purchased the home fUl11l,h1l1g bU'il1less of F 1\1 Sledge of W111ston-Salem, 1\ l The ne\\ firm WIll be known as the \V1llard & Ader Funu-lm e company. \blaham Kopelman, furmtme dealer of 799 Broadway, BlOOkh n. "); Y, has settled with h1s cred1tors at fifty cent'i on the dollal He 111C01 porated his bUt.mfSS about a year ago and tatled 111J ul) The H \. Schuermann company of vVashmgton, N J, man-utacturers of plano stools, benches, etc, has been 1l1corporateeel. Capital stock, held by Harry A and Freel A. Schuermann and \\ Ilham \Vhltmore, $35,000. \\ C Gott\\ als, who recently purchased the plant of the Crleensooro ('\ C) Fur11ltm e l\Ianufactul1l1g cOl11pan}, IS pre-pal111g to put the factory mto operatlOn. He w111make a ll1le ot cab1l1ets and office fixtures. The 1l1~ta11l11entdealers of BlflTI1nghal11, Ala, have asked the Clt\ counCIl to pass an ordmance requllmg furniture movers to file repOl ts showmg the names of owners of the furmture mo\ ed and whence and where, etc. Fled R. Young, unt11 recently manager of the cha1r fact01y at X e\\ Sharon, IS one of the VICtOrIOUScandidates 111 the Ma111e elect10n last :,Ionday He wa:, elected by the democrats to rep-re" ent 1~rankl111 count) 111the state senate. The Bralc} -Grote Furn1ture company of Oakland, (aI, has I1lOV ed into handsome and commodlOus new quarters on Broad- \\ a} near T\\ elfth stl eet They celebrated the event", Ith a great hotlse-\\ a1l1l1ng \\ h1Ch was attended by thousands E ,I. Se\ erance, formerly a member of the firm of Robbms 8'1 Severance, ftu nltl11e dealel s of J\I1cldlebury, Vt, has taken the posltlOn of managel of the fUllnture depal tment of the Ver-mont 2\Iarble LOmpany's general stOle at Proctor, Vt. fhe Rhodet.-Burf01d Furniture company of Paducah, Ky, ha\ e enlan.;ed the1r Fourth street store by taking a ten-year leasc ot cl half of the (It} X atlOnal Bank butlding, thu'i securing a Broach\ c1\ entrance, and the} now have the largest furniture store In the state. Through S D Johnson, deale I , the \V & J. Sloane Furni-tUle company of San Franc1sco, have been awalded the contract tm fllll11~h111gthe Elks' temple of MarySVille, CaJ. lVlost of the fUI11ltm e IS to be made to order and fi11lshed to harmonize with the \\ aIls of the vanous rooms. \bout a hundred manufacturers and shippel s of western "e\\ England met at Spnngfield, Mass, last Fnday and passed I esolutlons protest111g aga111~t demurrage rules that are aoout to be put 111tOeffect 111that section They have a'iked the Inter- :,tate Commerce comm1SSIon to pIohlblt the enforcement of the I ules unt1l the shippers have had a hearing on their protest Trade between the United States and the Philippine Islands mcreased RJ per cent dunng the fil st year's operatlOn of the new tal Iff law, which proVides for free interchange of merchandise bet\\ een those Islands and the Umted States Imports from the 15lands doubled dllnng the penod 111questton and exports thereto mcreased about 70 per cent. Furniture does not appear in the statIstics pubh'ihed by the department of commerce and labor, but It may have been counted unclel the head of "all other ar-tIdes," that aggregate $2,364,000 MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND NEWS llank \\ adder 1Sa new undertake I at Hanl11bal, ::'IIo J \V Bowmdn, unclel t"ker of 131a} nel, l\Io , ha'i sold out to IE P l\1tchael The Acme Chal1 compcll1) ot \Vl1hamspolt, I'a, 15 g01l1~ out of business. Henry Parkm~ ha~ pUIchased the fUI111tme StOIe of \ \ 11 Hamilton & Co, Roscoe, Pa, John R Dunn has purchased the retail furmtm e bu"mc "" oi ~ J Hmgten at LaMotte, Iowa The \Vhltfield (La) rur111tm e compan}. de,tlel'- hd\ e Jll-cO! porated Capital stock, $20,000 The Palace Furmture company of Deer Creek, Okla he\', lllU eased 1ts capital stock from $1,500 to $3,000 Th.e Rh1l1elander (\VIS) Refngelator comapnv has lll-creased Its capital stock from $50,000 to $75 000 The Fleck Fur11ltul e compan), dealers of ::'IIlh\aukee al c erectmg a $25,000 store bmldlllg on Cllllton street The MIchaels Fur111ture company of Chicago ha'i clepo~ltecl $13.000 111court to complete the re-orga111zatton of the bU"l11e-~ The FaIrfield (Me) Fm111ture company shut dfl\>n It- LlV tor) for four days last week to allo\\ the employes to attend the fair Al thur ,\ Jone", of the Jones-DaVIS Furllltule company. ;\[esa, Anz, IS VISlt1l1g eastern malkets, bUY1l1gfor the late fall trade The \Y B Trumbo company home furnbher:, ot Lom"> Ille Ky, are now OCCUPY111gtheir ne'\ store at Fourth and \\ alnut 'itl eets. The name of the Dewend-Kllschn1clnn lm111tlll e compall\ dea1cr~ of 1\lolme, 11, has been changed to the De\\ end-(31Ik company Crechtol:' have filed a petttlOn 111bankruptcy ag,11l1"t :, ra "- Lyman, ftU11lture deale I of La WIence, ::'IIass LI,lbIIttle", $.),;")00, J.t.~ets, $2,JOO . O:,car WllIts I~ a new undeltake1 111Jack"on Ga lIe h,,'- been assOCiated With h15 father 111the I etall fnr111tnre bns111e~~ for several years. H C. Chl1Sttansen ha~ pIn chased an 111tele"t 111the T unctlO11 Fm111ture company of RacJlle, \V 15 , and Will take an clctlYe pal t m the management. John Cox, furmtllre deale I of Columbia sheet, Ltlca, '\ Y has opened a branch store at .'32.3Bloecker street, \\ hlLh \\ III bc known a~ Cox's Eat.t Side store limon uphobte1eIs m :t\ew YOlk cl11d VIC1l11tyhave been granted an 111Celase 111wages from $1 to $+ 50 per day The new scale took effect last Monday. The Sunthers & \Yand Undertakmg company ot St LOIll'i, J\Io, has been 111corporated Capital stock held by John \ Smithers, Thomas \Vand and Frank Holland, $25,000. \Vork on the ne,v plat1t of the vVorld- 13osse-Globe I Ul111 tllre company of EvanSVille, Ind, IS progl cssmg rapid!> \11 of the bUlld1l1gs will be roofed by the l111ddle of Oetobel On petltlOn of cred1tors James R Thomp:,on has been ap-p0111ted receiver in bankruptcy f01 J\Iorrh J Hoffman. fm111ture dealer of Newburg, N Y Liabtllties, $6.000, a:,set'i. $1,300 The change of name of the Rhodes-Burford company of Lex1l1gton, Ky , to the Roberts Fur11lture compam, \\ a'i clue to L. L. Roberts havmg purchased a contlolhng mtel est m the bns-mess WEEKLY ARTISAN 19 . ... a.a_ .. a.a ... ----a- .. _-.., 30 000 ~~:~tR~ck • Vises Sold on approval and an uncon· dItIonal money back guarantee SHELDON'S STEEL BAR CLAMPS. Guaranteed Indestructible. \\Ie soliCIt pnvllege of sendmg samples and Pl!IItent Mal1eable Clamp Fixtures. our com~ It.te catalogue E H. SHELDON & CO Chlcalto 111. Gentlemen -We are pleased to state that the ~'idozen Clamp FIxtures whIch we boutht of you a lIttle over a year ago are gIVInl?; excellent servIce We are well satlsfied WIth them and shall be pleased to remember you whenever we want anythIng addltlOnalm thiS lIne Yours truly, Sion CIty. Iowa CURTIS SASH & DOOR CO. E. H. SHELDON C!J CO. 328 N. May St •• Chicago. '----------------------------------- --_._-_._._-----_. ----_._---------------~~ on Main street, Spnngfie1d, Mass, was damaged to the extent of a few hundred dollars by fire last Saturday mght. The store is owned by E J. and F. C. Murphy and the loss is tully imurecl. Furniture Fires. Fred Peterson's furnIture store, Le Deau, S Dak, W<l~ to-tally destroyed by fil e on September 8. Insurance, $1,000 The NIcholson furnitUJ e factory at Pl10t :Vlountam, N C, was totdlly destroyed by fire on September 10 Loss not reported The Standard Fur111ture company of BaltImore, :!\Id, lost about $1,300 by fire 111 their store on Septembel 9 Fully msured FIre recently damaged the stock and store of the Newman Furniture company on Seventeenth street, San FranCISCO, Cdl, to the extent of $15,000 or $18,000 Parttally insured. Fire in the busmess section of New Haven, Conn, on Sept 14 caused a loss of over $200,000. Among the buildmgs burned was that of the Hegal Furniture company, dealers, whose los~ is esttmated at $80,000 to $100,000. New Duluth, Minn, has had SIX mystel ious fil es m four weeks, believed to have been started by a "fire-bug." Last :\10n-day the warehouse of the Thomps-on Furmtl11 e company, WIth a loss of $18,000, partially insured The store and stock of the New England Deddmg company New Furniture Dealers. \V. H. Call has opened a new furniture store at Lamar, Co!. J B I'rench has opened a new stock of furnIture at Bellfield, :t\ Dak \Vlllard IIdrpole will open a new furnit11l e store in Union CIty, Tenn. Robert H1I1man IS to open a new £111 niture store at Alexan-der, N. Dak. Edward Davls i~ a new furniture dealer and undertdker at Lal ey, Idaho The J HJ11 Furmture and Carpet company opened a new stOle v.ith a large stock 111 Rhode Island, Ill, lact Monda} :\Ir HJ11 was formerly WIth DaVIdson & Bros., fur111t11le dealers of Dc" l\10111CS,Ia UPHAM MANUFACTURING CO. MARSHFIELD, WIS. Dressers Chiffoniers Dressinu TallIes Suites Wardrolles Sidelloards Buffets Etc. Made in Oak, Bird's-Eye Maple, Mahogany, etc., and All Popular No. 2228 Todet Table. Finishes No. 2240 TOIlet Table SEND FOR OUR COMPLETE CATALOGUE - - - ---------------- -- -- I I 20 WEEKLY AR1ISAN Rockford Chair and Furniture Co. ROCKFORD. ILLINOIS Dinina Room Furniture BUFFE TS. CHINA CLOSETS and TABLES Library Furniture- LIbrary D("~ks,LIbrary Tables. LIbrary Bookcases, CombmatIon Book-case~. Etc Our entIre lme wIll be on exhibItion in January on the thIrd Roor of the Blodgett Building, Grand Rapids, Mich. lluildinf1s Tbat '''"ill Nec:>d !:<'ru'niturf". Re"ldencl,,-Do~ton, I[ac", \\ 111Ia111llamc1 120 "l)II1L~ Stl e2t, $7,000, E1I7abetb If (xl el,ll 130 Iletwpo1ltel11 a\ lllllL $5,000, \\Tdha111 \\ IICJ11to 16 11ulman "treet, :::-l-800 \ \ Tob111, 6-l- Hemba\\ :,tleet, :f'i 000, Illcbac! -\n~ello. 37 Cell ter street, $3,500, LOlme Dmto' d, 3G-l- Centel "tl eet, S-l- or) ) ~I1chael Lake 176 1,alcon c;treet, S9 000, J F 1 lallel h 1~ Colomal a\ emle, $3,000 Duffalo, \' V --John C ::--aHll, lW no, "tied S3 -l-O(I Paul Kuehn, llR \\T dldln "tJ eet 8;2,::;00 \ \ 1111111 (J ::--l\ n1 Jlll. 17& Xorth Parh street $3,::;00 Conld 1 l \\ e1l1111111111(J! Korthruj) street, $2,900, GeOlge L ~chank 133 SI,tecnth ,tllll $2,800, Sarah Staff 01 1, 460 Koons 'itJ eet $3.000, Gem Q l Plank 466 Koon:, 'itreet, $3,000 L G Ilan""ell, -l-oG \\ In,,!O\\ 'itJeet, $2,500, Ceorge \ \ oa'i -+68 Seneca "tleet, S5,-l-()() Fredence \Iedmger, 2022 Halle) "tJ en S3,-\-00 Puel Catd lano, 283 Sevent 11 street. $13,000. III" \ulSu "t Del k, 3m RIchmond "treet, $8,000 ChICago, Ill---}Il'i'i "\ Schulze, 1813 ~ ebraska a\ enue, $8,000, Harry Genn. lOS43 Long\\ )od a, enue, $::;,000, :rdwal el Brown, 6814 VlI1cennes avenue, $3,000 H E Stout, 3210 \V est SIxty-fourth 'itreet, $2700, 1 X Lberhart 3222 II e"t SIxty-fourth street, $2,700, DavId }~lchberg, 7337 \bercleen street, $2 500, Erne~t \\ ondell 1733 "\orth r orh-filst avenue, $5,000, J R Peterson, 57S8 El1/abeth :,treet, S9 000, 1\ II Walker, S430 Shendan road $10,000 Cbatles RlI1zer 8025 Escanaba avenue, $2,500, -\n111e ::\IcReno, 'i-l-'i9 \\ md"ur a\ e-nue $4500, John \1" Rels, 3 'i02 Cullom a \ enue, S5600 DetrOIt, l\1Jch ---Edmund KosnowskJ, Chene stl<cet and Forest a, enUe, $4,600 Stephen Trvbus, Chene street ancl Fore'it avenue, $4,400, James S Holden, Cu~ter street and \V oodward avenue, $7,500, Samuel Stralth, PIngree and Sec-ond street'i, $5,000, i\h In D Herscb, ll'i Bethune sil eet, $ 3,- 500, Flora B DIxon, 227 Longfdl)w ~treet, M,800, \VJ1IIam C Roger, 73-5 Phtladelpbla street. $5,500, John HopkIn, 1'i6 \Varren street, $4,500. Duluth, \lmn ---/L, 1 lIe) Cl, East lourth ~tl eet and Twenty-first avenue, $3,000, Ole J Kolstdel, I allb:U1lt "hed and ElySIan avenue, $3000, ;\11s H ::\1 Edll1, 780 Lake aYe nue, $2,500, Ec1\\ln Olson, 182-l- ~eventh street $2,500 ::\1111neapoh~, :U111n---John T Enberg, 3527 Tenth a\ enne, $3,000, E A Dl ewS, 90J Twentieth d\ enue, $7000 Lotlls Garzon, 3328 Colfax avenue, $2,800 C \1 Locke 903 Speth avenue, $5,000 Grdnc1 RapIds, Mllh ---Fe1CI \\ eHel, 618 Last Fulton street, $3,500, -\ Glholl, 486 \V Cst Bndge sil el t, S2,500, \ \ ar- 1 1 f"'''h C", -l-8 C()m;re~~ ~t1eet, :';2,'i00, Edwdrcl H 1~lrl(\\ood, I,Lk, III "l eel and \ dlle) a\ cllue, $2,500, Dr D Emmett \\ c!-h )(17 \LJlJl~ a\e1111e $3 'iOO, T II Rlclldld~, \Vealth) d\l,lUl ,111'\ Rlclldrc\ tlfldlP, $3,000 j C }ladH;an 106 SC;1001 ,,(1(et, S2 lGO \\ d1ldl1l \ 017 Cadield avenue anel \\ est Blhig:: "tllet $2 ::;OC \llanta, (Jd ---D \\ Slott, 2'i Inman ~ircet, S3 000, lloyd \\ ( Jel, 20Q I a"j Ildkel "ired, $2,'iOO.] 'I Rogel~ ']9 ]oseph- 1m "tied $2,::;00 \\ \f ::\Illlel, 1GG Jonl:, a\enue, $2500, luhn n E,lharrl~ 2?~ I l( ~lJeet $4,200 ~dlt Lake, (It) l-tah --Peury GI Ol1\\d) , 722 Durley ave-nUt $2,~OO f< L RIch, Jl . 49 :'\orth Seventh \Vest street, S2,;00 Tdmes S \ \ alkel, 344 "\ ell th }fam street, $6,000, G I '-,UI11l11er, 022 South "\ mth :rast street, $3,000, Frank E I O('"e ()H South 'I \\cltth East street, $2,500, Mary A Yea-go, 1::;'i) South Iourth East street, $3,500 T'lthburg, Pa ---George \V Johnston, 682 Gross street, $4,900 ::\Ilss Ella Ha1l1e, 113 CraIg street, $7,000, Samuel In\111. 330 Ba)nc1f.;-e a\enue, $2,900 Peona III ---G J Blandm, 263 ::-J orth Douglas street. $32'iO D Beckel, 200 Callender street, $3,000 ::'lhll1ectad.\ "\ 'I - \Ibert J LeVI, Avon and Stratford street", $1'i 000, -\ i\ Ros~, 5 Ingersoll avenue, $4,350, Ecl- \\ al d Sl Sano, 311 lront street, $2,500, Ra) mond Duntz 24 Elbu t street, $2, SOO han"a" City J\lo ---George Kuhn, 4216 Ge.ne'isee street, S'(lOO [lh\arc1 Durket, 3131 Luchrl avenue, $2,100, C \V DUl1"\\orth 3828 Palk 'itreet, $3,000, H V{ \Valker, 3421 L0cust stlcet $'i,SOO George A Hawk111s, 210 North Colo-rado stl eet $2,500. 'I homas \V Parry, 3751 Paseo street, $4,COO ::\llh,aukee, \\ IS ---Charles Dllefahl, 2417 Bro",n street $6,000, Adolph Koth, ThIrty-thIrd and Center streets. $3,- 500, LoUls T~lbow 969 Twenty-fourth street, $3,000; H F Vogt, ThIrty-first and Cedar <;treets, $9,000, Charle<; Leh-hel";-, '11111ty-elghth anJ \\ alnut streets, $5,000 Ed Bluhm, 1 \\ent\-fir~l and Lapham "ileet~, $4,000, P I-I ~IcGovern, 1.27-l- '1 \\ ent) -second street, $2,700 Phda,!elpllla, l'a ---J ohn J HU11ey 490 ::Wonastery a, e- 1 11l, $ 'i,000, J o"eph Coodman, 59 S3 DI exel road, $3,500, YIlT 11~~her BLn 1" dnd lltteenth street-., $3,000,; George \i\Tlllmg Pell" 11111lOad amI Germantown avenue, $1-1-,500, B L Car-rol1, I elQ"e\\uuel and L..,u111l1s1elc,treet, $16,200, Barry Schmltt, '-,j'..'11 "trcet an,! Olnev a,~nue $3,SOO, John Brougly, 380 (Tl!ha11l "tt eel S-l-000 Charle<; Gelke, Jr, 842 Vandyke street, SCJ000 Charles \ \ under 'i4'i Pallthorv 'St! eet, $6,000, A WEEKLY ARTISAN Jackson. Hlook, llOnt and GreenwIch "Ueet" $5,800 Cincmnab 0 ---Henry Hatel. Seton and" lllton ..,treets, $4,800, John Dlgget, Llllwood street and Grace avenue, $3- 000 Edward 11:vers MIddleton and v\ ood stl eets, $6,500 Cha'rles Schott, 2CJ5 {(norr avenue, $4,000, II \\ \\ ldme\ er 490 Cryer avenue, $4,000 Indlanapolts, Ind -Mana Dooley, ThIrty-first and ::\11' Pherson streets, $3,500, Charles Yagerlm, 1-1 endncks place and New York street, $4,200, J G KmgslJUry, 5553 Lowell street, $2,500, l\1arvm 1\1 Lam, GOS North Dela",are street, $4,500, Fl ank Chance, Th11 t)T-secol1cl and Ruckle "treets, $4,- 900 Los Angeles, Cal---::\I ::\1 BenJaml11, 180) :Manhattan place, $3,500, F H Redpath, 4200 South Flower srteet, $4- 500, H F RUdell, 249 South CalOndelet street, $2,500 RIchmond, Va ---John \V Moore, Porter street and COVy-ardm avenue, $6,600, '\ E Satchfield, 223 East Thil teenth street, $2,500 Muscatine, Iowa-i\1atthew vVeshate, $2,,500, ::'111 s G Altham, $2,500, W HUtt1g, $6,000, F \\ Swan, $),000 Oklahoma C1ty, Okla ---:\llss i\ra~~le DaIgle 913 v\ e-,t ThIrty-first sbeet, $2,:;00, Jo-,eph VlrlM, 81) \\e"t Reno a\e-nue, $4,000, S L ITaxy\ ell, 222 \Ve"t \\ ashmgton avenue, $3,000, Mrs J D F Jenllmg-" 2(1) CLtssen avenue, $6,000 St LOlu;" Mo ---l\Irs R IIarkne"", 929 J u111ata street, $3,500, J D F1dler, 5937 Waterman avenuc, $4,450, F C Doyle, 5820 Romaine place, $3,200, Petel DoIrnnascolle, 2700 Utah stJeet, $3,000, \; V/ Amos, 5744 ]\JcPhelson avenue, $5,000, J D S",eetm, 3030 Rolla place, $2,800, Khyarc1 Rut-satz, 4266 Athlone stleet, $2.700 Dallas, Tex ---Henry IIornson, FItzhugh street and Reiger avenue, $S,OOO, J R Eldlldl:;e, 297 V1ctor street, $7- 850, H Holtkamp, Sr 395 Bryan street, $2,900, Y B Dowell, 129 Re1~er avenue, $3,000 Newark,}; J --- Bernard Kel111, (,7 Claremont avenue, $2,- 800, Hulda Stuettgen, 30 Headley terrace, $4200, John 0 Neefus, Jr, 1262 Spllngfield avenue, $5,000, Hemy Tonnen be1g. 811 Stuyvesant avenue, $7,000, OscaI Schoc17ke 109 CUm1111l1gsstreet, $8,000 Tene Haute Jnd-J C ~Iernm, 1enth anti llankl111 ~trcets, $2,700 13 r Dav, F1g-hth and Du(1(C)e st1ert" 'j)3,CO:J Topeka, Kan ---~lr,,~ \1l1e Tlwl1l<!" () \cJi 1:;17 1\\1(11an-an street, $4,000 Columbu", 0 ---:\Iargaret J R( "e, 22)2 j nc1l<!nil il\ E'l1l1e, $2,900, ::\I1s JOSle lay \Iaxwel1-llueller, CJ70 ITuclle "t1let, $2,800, \\T F' ;";orton 340 \\ eSt \111th "treet 9\2,:;00 1 rancis C Fletche1, 373 East T\\elfth street, $2,GOO Columbia, S C ---S t' \lcfdl ee, 19]2 Cac!-,den "treel, $4- 000 Houston,Tex---J T Settega'it,40:? P1allle a\enue, $3,- 600. Elle, Pa --- J George G1emer, Slxth and Plum StI eets, $5,280 MIscellaneous StrucLures---The ChIcago Society of J eru-salem are bU11d1l1g a $25,000 church at 2749-39 Le Moyne avenue, ChIcago The L~l11ted E\ angellcal associatlOn are bU1ldmg a chUl ch at Camden and Thirty-seventh streets, Omaha, N ebr The PItman :!'IIethod1st Ep1scopal SOCIety are erectmg a $40,000 church at DIckInson street and Twent)- eig'hth avenue, Ph1ladelphla, Pa The Fern Rock Method1sts of Phlladelphla, are enlarg1l1g thClr church at a cost of $12,- 500 An add1tlOn 1S bemg made to Grace Fpiscopal church, 2600 Eleventh street, St LOUIS, ::'110, at a cost of $10,000 The Glenwoocl MethodIst socIety of Colt,mbus 0, are erecting a church at a cost of $25,000 The vVesleyan Methodists of Columbia, S C, are bU1ld1l1g a $15,000 church ", IIII I I IIII• I II, ItIIII fII f f II I I Here is a Rocker that's a seller. Write for the price. GEO. SPRATT 8 CO. SHEBOYGAN, WIS. :No. 592 --._------------- ----~I ..- II If I f IIII Il I ----_. -------~------ Be careful of the dealer who tells you he can furnish cutters "as good or better than MorrisWood & Sons." He is imposing upon both you and our reputation. If you would have cutters which do the most perfect work, at the least expense, that wear out on the jointer and not on the emery wheel, which save their first cost in a few weeks, in the saving of time, required to grind and adjust sectional cutters, write ua right now for further information. We have made solid steel cutters for thirty· six years. Is that worth anything to you? A trial order is our most convincing argu-ment. Write now before you forget it. MORRIS WOOD & SONS 5108 W. Lake St., CHICAGO, ILL. 21 ..., " I .. Manufacturers of 22 WEEKLY ARTISAN -•.. -_1-- -----~~---------.-_------_.-----------------_._-----. ." I Pitcairn Varnish Company 1II Reliable Varnishes of Uniform Quality Our Motto: "NOT HOW CHEAP-BUT HOW GOOD" c. B. Quigley, Manager Manufacturing Trades Dep't. .. Guuu's Office Desk Catalogue. The Gunn Furmture company are mal1mg \\ hat they de'lg-nate as their Office Desk Catalog D-IDll T1m b one of the he,t elesk catalog~ ever l~sued, both a, a -peCll11en at \\ ell dt~lglled pnl1tmg and as an eApo'ltlOn of a complete l111eof cle,k" ,neh ,1', \\ on1d L)() tUlles out of 100 satl,fy the need, at the ,1' era~e lnrm Factories: Milwaukee, Wis. j Newark, N. J. -------------------' famlhar \\ Ith the fact that the C:rnnn typewriter elesk has advan-tages not found 1tl other 11l1es The typewrltl11g maehme clisap-pear~ 111to the pede,ta1 of the desk when not 111use Dy the lll- LOJporatlOn of a tl11n table the machllle may he turned so that It mal be operclted h0111 either wle of the support. ThiS per- 1'111-, of the tull use of the top of the desk for other pnrposes. t 1re dealer or statlOncl [he 1me rangLs all the \'oay from the 1,)\\ roll banker s desks 111 finely selected anel bec.l,t1fully fig\.1leJ qual tel eel oak down to the slllgie peele~ta1 flat top 111tl1e p1a111 oak "VI11le the bulk of these goods are lllustr'ltecl m the 111gh leg 01 samtal y ~t) Ie, qmte a number of patterns 111smg1e anel donb1e peelest,ll are ,hO\\ n 111full length pede,ta1s, both m flat afl,l meel1l111111gh roll tops. In aelchtlOn to the foreg01l1g, IllnstratlOns a1e ~l\ en of the can pdl1y <, 1l11eof type wllter desk, Thc tI ade I> ot (OUhe Thl> Lon<,truLtlOn 1" shm,,"11 111 "lI1gle and double pede~tal flat tops. as \\ ell as roll tops The catalog also ,how~ a low priced, roll top typewriter desk knO\\11 a, \;"0 BO which IS 1I1tended for tvpewrlter use exc1us1vel). IllustratlOns are also sho"n of letter press stand~, bookkeeper';' <,tan(1l11~desks and catalog cab1'leb The catalog COl1'-.1Stsof 7'! pa~(, ,me! cover-each of the pages bel11g embellle,hed "Ith a headlll£; ,hO\\ 11 hel e\\ lth Every fl11111tnre dealer who deale 111 dc,b oclQ,ht to \\ rite fOl thb catalog ~------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------~ I I I I Pittsburg Plate Glass Company ! I L-ARGE&T ..JOBBERS AND MANUFACTURERS OF I I I GLASS ! ,I IN THE WORLD II I Mirrors, Bent Glass, Leaded Arl Blass, Ornamental Figured Glass, Polished and Rough Plale 6lass, Window Glass : I WIRE GLASS : 'I Plate Glass for Shelves, Desks and Table Tops, Carrara Glass more beautiful than white marble. !: CENERAL DISTRIBUTORS OF PATTON'S SUN PROOF PAINTS AND OF PITCAIRN ACED VARNISHES. I II For anything III Builders' Glass, or anything III Paints, VarnIshes, Brushes or Pamters' Sundries, address any of our branch " warehouses, a list of which is given below •I lfEW TOBE-BudsOD and VaDdamSt.. CLEVELAlfD-143G-1434 We.t 2'Jlho48t. I• I BOS2'Olf-41-49 SUdbllJlJs't., 1·9 aowkeS'S\. OMARA-l101-1107 Boward St. I:, CIUCAG0-449-459 Wab&shAve. ST. PAt1L--459-461 J&CkSODat. cmCIlflfA'rt-Bro&dw&,. and Court St.. ATLAlfTA, GA_30-32-34 a. PJIJ'orSt. S2'. LOm8-CO:r. Tenth &ndSpruce Sts. SAVAlll'lfAB.GA.-745-749 Wheaton St. I MDl'l'rEAPOLI8-500-516 a. Third St. EAlfaAS CITY-plfth and W,.aDdotte St.. :': DE2'BOlT-53-59 L&rnedst., E. Br&MDrGBAJlIA:,LA.-and Ave. aDd !19thSt. GBA:NDBAPIDS, llIlCB-39-41 •. Divi.ion St. BVPPALO, Jr. T.--379-74-76-78 Pearl St. PlTTSBl1BGB-l01-103 Wood at. BBOOELTW-Third Ave. and Dean St. llIlLWAl1EEE, WlS.--499.494 I/Iarlt.' 8'. P:lULADELPJDA-Pitcairn B14g.. Arch and 11th St•. I BOCBEa~ •• T_WU4Bl! Bld«., Xam 81ExohlUll'. Slis. DAVEJrPO:a'1"--flO-416 Scott 8t. : I BALTDll:0:aE--310-11l·14W. Pratt 81:. OELABOMACITY, OXLA., lI10-212W. Pirst St. I ~---------- .. -----------------~----------------------------------~-----------------~ WEEKLY ARTISAN r-- -----.----------.---,-----------.--. IIIII III ......... ----1 23 II III All Knobs and Pulls have the I Fasteners II III ~---~------------------------------------------ -----------.------------------------------------~ Waddell Manufacturing Grand Rapids. Michigan COlD.pany No-fium-Loose ~------------------------- ,IIIf I I !.II Ifffff ff j Ifff I I • fI II ~----------------_._-------------------------~ The largest manufacturers of Furniture Trimmings in Wood in the world. Write us for Samples and Prices. Made in Oak, Walnut, Mahogany, Birch and all Furniture Woods. 1Itt III III ttt IIIIItII I I ~, -----------------------------------------~ I I! \,t III I• HOFFMAN BROTH ERS CO. FT. WAYNE, IND. I IIIIII III J..- _ HARDWOOD LUMBER I I {VENEERS I ---------- SAWED AND SLICED } QUARTERED OAK AND MAHOGANY WE MAKE REFRIGERATORS IN ALL SIZES AND STYLES ,t III II IIIII III I t t I II '-------------------------------- --------------------- --------.----- l New Factories. George Sulter and others have 1I1corporated the Su1ter 1ur-niture company to e-,tabhsh a new factory at Dayton, O. R E Stafford of MemphIs, Tenn, \Hltes the 'Week1y Ar-tIsan statmg that he expects to start a small furnIture factory m that Clty m January vVI1ham C and Lotus C Clemmon, of Jamesto\\ nand '\1- b::rt 11 Taylor of New YOlk have 1l1corporated the Clemmom Plano company caplta!I7ecl at $,30,000, to manufacture jJlat1o~ and other muslca1mstruments in Jamestown, N. Y lVIartlnsvI11e, Ind , I~ to have a new kItchen cabmet factor) The b,llld1l1g- 1, to be one "tory, 30 x 200 feet, bnck, ane! wIll cost $'1,000 It WIll be operated by a Greencastle company that WIll move to Martmsvllle when the bU1ldm~ I, completed. The Krom Lace Cabmet company, capltahred at $10,000, \\111 estabh"h a new factory and manufactme a lace cabInet, pat-ented, at DouglasvIlle, Ga. J T. Duncan IS preqdent of the company, C F Krom \ Ice presIdent. C 0 DOI,ett manag-er and J R Duncan secretary and treasurer. Chicago Bankers Organizing. ChIcago bankers took the first step~ to\\-ard the organi-ratIOn of a natIOnal currency aSSOCiatIOn last Saturday at a l11eetmg, pn:"lded 0\ er by James n Forgan. chaIrman of the ChIcago cleanng house assoClation Twelve banks out of 15 elIgIble to membership were repre;,ented at the meet1l1g anJ a unal11mOl1S vote was recorded 111 fa \ or of forml11g the currency assoClatlOn in complIance WIth the term;, of the Aldnch- Vreeland la w as Interpreltled by SeCletary of the Tleasury J\IacVeagh Permanent orgal11za-tlOl1 \\-111 be effected at the next meet1l1g r----------- -------------------------------------------------------------1 Zinc Lined. Porcelain Lined. White Enamel Lined. Opal-Glass Lined. You can increase your Refrigerator Sales by putting In a line of the "Alaskas." Write for our handsome catalogue and price lists. THE ALASKA REFRIGERATOR COMPANY, EXCI~S~~:~~:~M~U:S;K::EoGrON, MICH. New York OffIce, 369 Broadway, L E. Moon, Manager. 24 WEEKLY ARTISAN TRUCK TALKS Might not convince you without evidence. But compare a wagon to our truck, note the similarity of construction fea-tures- No box bearings; nothing to easily break or get out of order; extra large center wheels, revolving on taper turned axles; wide treads; special first-class cast-ings. Grand Rapids Trucks are first, last and all the time the safest in construction, and positively the best. No. 15 Catalog Shows Them. Grand Rapids 618 North Front St. Grand Rapids Factory Affairs. TImme,s 1S qLllet II 1th ne~l1\ all ot the Grand Rdlw!-, tUl111- ture factones Feyv of them al e rushed to any ~l eat extent and a few complam of dullnes" :\fost of them emplOl their full com-plement of men ancl 1Ui1full tIme \\ 1th the e'..ceptlOn of the Sat-urday hdlf hohclay IdllCh 1\111he contmuerl th10U~h ~eptember at lea.,t Trdve11l1g men ~enerdlh, 1eport h~ht bU"ll1c,s \\ Ith few exceptlOn, they LOns)(ler pre,ent conc!ltlOm shghth better than those of a }tal ago Snme are confident m the bel1ef that trade w1ll nnplove a" the fall ,e~son advance., \V hl1e other, de-dare there II111be no bettell11ent unt11 after '\ m embel electlOns The cha1r manufadm eh seem mOl e p10Spe1OUo,than manufac-hIrers of other hnes, and a pecuhal feature m the sltuatlOn 10, the fact that complamh of dullness dre heard more frequently from the manufactm e1s of h1gh g1ades than flOm tho~e \\ ho make cheap or medIUm ~racles The Grand Rap1d" ~ovelty vV01ks suftered a lo~s of about $2,500 by fire 111then factory on SIxth o,treet on September !) The blaze is supposed to have started from a hot box m the ma-chine room which \Vas badly scorched The machinery was not badly damaged, but most of 1t IV111have to be overhauled Con- Siderable stock was bUlned and as about half of the men had to be laid off the company w1ll have some d1fficulty 111 filling ordero, for a few weeks. The fire spread to the office and gutted one room completely. The factory is located 111the btllldmg with the Fox Excelsior Works where insurance costs 6'/;l pel cent and the lo~s is not fully covered by pol1Cles amount111g to $2,000 Some of the carvers, partlcularly those employed by the Grand Rap1ds Carvlllg company, which is an adjunct of the Hand Screw Co., Gra.nd Rapids, Mich. , harles -\ Greenman F urlllture company, are of the opinion that t) e long talked of rev 1val m the carving business 1S about to be reahzec1 They report a marked increase 111 the demand for carv-lJ1g, "mce the close of the July sellmg season. If the demand is J lallltal11ed for another month the force of workmen w1ll have to be mereasec! for the first bme 111 several years Grand Rap1d., lumbe1 dealers and factory buyers descnbe the narch\ ooc! lumber ma1ket as qUlet at steady pnces. The supply 1~ ample f01 the current demand 111nearly all grades and van-ttles. one of the exceptlOns bemg maple which has been scarce dll ,ummer A plano "1l1 the wh1te" displayed in the w1l1dow vf a D1v1slOn street muslC house during the past week, called at- LmtlOn to the grow111g scarcity of maple lumber by showing that h,ulders of plano "bod1es·' use maple veneers, both plain and bird's eye ThiS lecalls the fact that the most expensive piano 111 the Clty-sa1d to have cost more than $3,000-lS framed 111 b1rd's eye maple It was bmlt in Paris but the VI ood was cut 111 :JItchigan. The Amenca'11 Seating company's Grand Rapids plant is re-ported as runmng w1th a Llrger force and turning out more and better goods than ever Victor M Tuth111, of Baldwin, TuthIll & Bolton, manufac-turers of saw fitting machinery, etc, who went to Europe in July, 1S expected to reach home dur111g the coming week. Factory managers are quite unanimous in declaring that fhere can be no advance in wages under present conditions. WEEKLY ARTISAN 25 Jobbers Raise- Oilcloth Rates. St Loms ]obbelsand wholesalers have entered into d "g~n-tIeman's agr eement" to raise the price of all kmds of OIlcloth 10 cents a pIece, says the Republtc of that CIty. A pIece comprises twelve yards The agreement was brought about through a rep-resentatIve of the Standard Ol1cloth compau), follow11lg the re-ceIpt of adVIce by telegl ams of the comummatlOl1 of a s1111llar agreemen t on the part of the Chicago and ~ cw York dry goods houses A meet1l1g of the local firms handlmg OIlcloths was called for last night at the Hotel Jefferson, but was not held, following the agreement of all St. Louis firms. The St Louis jobbers sell yearly between 150,000 and 160,- 000 rolls of oilcloth The bv 0 larger firms of the city alone sell 60,000 a year The nse '" III apply to the sales of practi-caIly the entIre output of the Standal d Ol1doth company this year, a total of more than 3.500,000 rolls. St Louis and ChIcago tI ade has prese.,ed a grievance against the OIlcloth monopoly for trade methods used by the big com-pany in dealing with the buyers dIrect and ehminat1l1£; the job~ bers of the cities The obtaining of the additional profits for the wholesalers is a move to reconcIle them to the manufacturing company. It is denied by the local fil1115that the 1ise vvIII be paId by the ultimate consumer According to them, it WIll be met by the retaIler. The demand for OIlcloth is increasing greatly since the introduction of sanitas, the oilcloth used in finishing bath-rooms and toilet rooms. The "gentleman's agrement" was to take effect next Mon-day, September 19, but most of the jobbers applied the new pI ices a week earlier. A Sensible Arrangement of Stock. L. Lamberts, a successful retailel in the Wealthy Heights (hstnct of Grand Rapids, owns a well planned store bmld1l1g and can ies a stock of low and medmm priced furniture. Know-mg the value of 'show windows, he plans his displa)s so as to permit an uninterrupted view of the interior from the street No screens are used as backgrounds for the wmc10ws TaIl sideboards, haIl racks and 11ke goods are placed agamst the walls, while music cabinets, fancy floor rockers, parlor tables and other smaIl articles are used in the windows. The store is well lighted and cheerful. THE WORLD'S BEST SAW BENCH Built With double arbors. shdlOg table and eqUIpped complete With taper pm guages carefully graduated. Thls machme represents the height m saw bench con-strucllon It IS deSigned and bUllt to reduce the cost of sawmg stock. Write us for descriptive Information. THE TANNEWITZ WORKS, ~~cum:~PlDS. .....--------------------_._. __._. -------------------.-.-...., A. L. HOLCOMB & CO. Manufacturers of HIGH GRADE OROOVINO SAWS DADO SAWS CItIzens' Phone 1239 27 N. Market St., Grand Rapids, Mich. ~-------------------------_... ---_._, .....• r -..-- ---- ----------_.. -----------------.., I Lentz Big Six •• No. 694. 48 in. top. II No. 687. 60 in. top. I Others 54 in. top. I I 8 Foot Duostyles I•••• ANY FINISH , I I • CHICAGO DELIVERIES •II I • Lentz Table Co. II NASHVILLE, MICHIGA!'v • -------- ------_._-_._._._._-_.---------- ..- .-- III • WEEKLY ARTISAN l -,--- 1 Most Attractive Inducements for Car Load Buyers Are Offered by the THE KARGES FURNITURE CO. Manufacturers of the "Superior" Lme of Parlor, Library, Dming and Dressmg Tables. I! I THE METAL FURNITURE co. Mooufa""''''' of "Hygi'n'" G"",oo'"d B,," ood 1m. B,d., C.b., w,« Spnn" •• d Col. I• I I I II I II• I III~----~-----~---------------------------------------------------------------------------~ Manufacturers of Chamber Suites. Wardrobes, Chiffoniers, Odd Dressers, Chifforobes. THE BOSSE FURNITURE CO. Manufacturers of KItchen Cabinets. K. D. Wardrobes, Cupboards and Safes. m ImItatIOn golden oak, plain oak and quartered oak. THE WORLD FURNITURE CO. Manufacturers of Mantel and Upright Folding Beds, Buffets, Hall Trees, Chma Closets, Combination Book and Library Cases. THE GLOBE FURNITURE CO. Manufacturers of SIdeboards in plain oak. imItation quartered oak. and solId quartered oak, Chamber Suites. Odd Dressers, Beds and ChIffomers in Imitation quartered oak, INitatlOn mahogany, and imitation golden oak. THE BOCKSTEGE FURNITURE CO. Made by The Karges Furmture Co Evansville is the great mixed car loading center of the United States, made so by the Big Six Association. WEEKLY ARTISAN 1.7 I h-- •••••• + . =:=e~~~=~~~ .. .. Vlade by World FurmtUle COmpdllj / I 28 WEEKLY ARTISAN f"· -.- ." I ,...----------. I I'"- • ._._._. _. __ ._._. -4 III I III II III ..... Chicago Notes. C. P . Van Ausdl1l, after a thl ee years' absence ft om ChlLa-go) during which he was for a time sales manager for the For-est CIty Furniture company of Rockford, IS back wIth the Peck & HIlls company on their sales force He \'vas formerly then advertising manager. Lyman Lathrop of the 1411 company, reports that a ldlg-e number of the tenants of his bul1dmg '" hose leases expll ed 111 July, have renewed them, and a number of them have Increased their space. The large Increase in the number of dealer~ \\ ho visited thIs market IS another indIcatIOn that dealer~ are I eal-izing more and more the Importance of coming to malket and viewing the goods in sample The addition to the factory of the Commercial 1U1 niture company at West Superior and VVashtenaw street~, b almost ready for occupancy, and wIll be occupIed in about three \\ eeks Mr. Stringe, who has entIrely recovered from his recent 'llckness, says they have not had to close down a day on account of theIr building operations. They have arranged to have all theIr ma-chinery operated by individual motors and \'v III 111stall qUIte a number of new machines and by the fil st of the year \\ III have greatly increased their capacity and output Will Play No Favorites. During the recent heal ing that he helel In Salt Ldke CIty, and while J. A. Munroe, general freight agent of the UnIOn Pa-cific was on the stand, Charles \ Prout), a member of the in-terstate commission made a statement to :'lr :'1un roe \\ hlch IS regarded as reflecting the probable attitude and pohc) of the commission with respect to the long and short haul clause of the law. Mr. Prouty said: "You should not make rates ",hich put one producer In the market with an advantage over hIS competitor That's been the trouble with your rates The day when freight rates are made for particular communities or pal ticular interests has passed. We must give an equal chance to all." ROLLS For Bed Caps, Case Goods, Table Legs and many other purposes; in Gum, Mahogany and Quartered Oak Veneers. The Fellwock Auto & Mfl!. CO. EVANSVILLE, INDIANA ~._ ..._----------- II I•• I II I IIII These saws are -1 made from No. 1 Steel and we war-rant every blade. We also carry a full stock of Bev-eled Back Scroll Saws, any length and gauge. Write •• for PrIce Ibt and dlscollBt I.------_._---------------------- 31-33 S. Front St., ORAND RAPIDS, MICH. ... . .. ... . ...--- _ ...- ..- ..--- .. ..-"" , ..- ..._. --... .- - _.. --" Manufadurers 01 Emboued and Turned Mould. in. ... , Embo .... ed and Spindle Carvin ... and Automatic Turoin .... We allO manu~ fadure alai'll' hne 01 Emboaaed Omamenta for Couch Work. BOYNTON &, CO. 1725-1739 Dickson Street, CHICAGO, ILL. .,. I -- .. ----------_. -, ----_._._._._. --- -.. , GRAND RAPIDS UOTELS .. i FOX SAW DADO MORTON "OUSE (AMERICAN PLAN) "OTEL PANTLIND (EUROPEAN PLAN) Rates: $2.50 a day and up. Rates: $1.00 a day and up. The Noon Dinner served at the Pantlind for 50 cents is the finest in the world. J. BOYD PANTLIND, Proprietor. SMOOTHEST GI\OOVES FASTEST CUT LEAST POWEI\ LONGEST LIFE . . . .. ....., HEADS GI\EATEST I\ANGE QUICKEST ADJUSTMENT LEAST TI\OUBLE PEI\FECT SAFETY Also Machine Knlve.r, Miter Machines. Etc. 10- • -........ • - •• ••••• 4i 185 N. Front Street, Grand I\aplds, Mlch We'll IIladly tell you all about It. PERMANENT ECONOMY FOX MACHINE. CO. WEEKLY ARTISAN Toured Europe in Their Auto. Ralph P. Tletsort of the Royal FurmtUle company, Grand Rap1ds, has returned home from a ten \\ eeks' tour of Europe. He was accompamed by Mrs T1etsort and the1r son and daughter and d1d most of the travehng m theIr automob1le. They went to England first and before crossmg to the contment Mr. T1et-sort secured membershIp 111 the AutomobIle ASSOCIatIOn of Lon-don and found the badge furl1lshed to member::- of the organi-zation saved much time and elIml11ated much delay, annoyance and l11convemence usually expenenced w1th customs inspectors and government officials 111 other countnes. Mr. Tietsort 1S ql1lte enthus1ast1c over the condition of tne roads in El1lope He suggests that 1t would be profitable for American road budders to take such a tnp as he has Just fin- 1shed. "It is my opmion that dnving 111 a car 1S the best way to see Europe," he says. "You can stop when you hke to ex-amme more closely an object or view which mterests you, and of course the greater part of such a Journey 1S taken off the beaten paths and mto roads and lanes which are remote from steam cal travel, but I am sure that the gl eat pleasure of the whole tnp, a::- we look back upon 1t, was made pOSSible by the splendid roads which are found all over England and the contI-nent Even the1r lanes and bv-ways are kept 111 good conchtlOn-better than most of our roaels." The party crossed England four t1mes 111both directIOns before gomg 111toFrance, Mr. T1etsort dnvmg the car. At Paris a couner was 11lred and the first chrectIOn sought was the LOire; then the champagne dlstllct, and then to Rhelms, where the alr-sh1ps proved the lodestone All Amencans were dehghted \\ Ith these machmes as seen under such cIrcumstances-seven 111 the air at one tune-and waxed enthUSIastIc over the big dlnglble balloons With then many passengers and heaVy eqUlprnc.lL. Then they went thmugh Germany, \\ here they watched the peas-ants at work 111 field and home, and into BelgIUm and Holland, whel e their mode of travel enabled them to come into close con-tact with the home hfe and the natlOnal Me of a people as the hurried and conventIOnal path of the average traveler cannot do. From Hol1and the car was shipped to America, while the Tletsorts went down into Italy and Swit7erland for a short trip by train. ~........••.••..• ---- .--............... ..... B. WALTER & CO. Manufacturen ot TABLE SLIDES Exclusively WABASH INDIANA ."..-.--------_W.l_lITI.t FOR PRICES AND DISCOUNT ---- --. .._. ....... _ .. ~-------------- ~ ._. __ •• r ••• .., .....-....•...•.••. REVERSIBLE AND ONE-WAY CUTTERS The Shimer Reversible Cutters for Single Spindle Shapers, Variety Moulders or Friezers, are carefully moulded opposite to the shape of the mould to be produced, in such a way as to have only the cutting edge touch the lumber. They are complete-in expensive-time saving. We also manufacture One-Way Cutters for Double Spindle Shapers. They are used in pairs, right and left, one Cutter of each shape for each spindle. In ordering special shapes not listed in our catalogue, send a wood sample or an accurately made drawing. Address SAMUEL J. SHIMER & SONS, MILTON, PENNSYLVANIA. ... -. ••••••• -.. •••••• • •• a ••• _.~ Bedford, Ohio, Aug. 3, 1910. Grand Baplds Veneer Works, Grana Bapids, Mich. Gentlemen:-About a year and a half ago we installed :live of your kilns, and smce that time have been drying all kinds 0i1 lumber, for the most part, with satisfaction, but we have not seemed to understand just how to manage drying our quartered oak seat stock so that we could finish the drying in our kilns. You kindly sent MI'. Crandall here a couple of weeks ago to make some further tests and lnstruct us on this particular kind of drymg. Mr. Crandall has put through a kiln of this stock to our entlre satisfactlon, and, wlth the very careful and pains-ta.k. lng lnstructions he has given us, we should be able to get along now and dry satisfactonly, all of the kinds of lumber we are using. In connection wlth :Mr. Crandall's work here, we wish to say that he has now been here twice to instruct us in the use of these kilns, and we are very much pleased with his work. Assurmg you that we appreciate your co-operation, we are Very truly yours, B. L. MABBLE CRAIB COMPANY, A D Pettlbone, Sec'y and Treas Another Comstock Park. The memory of the late Charles C. Comstock, one of the pioneer manufacturers of furniture 111 Grand Rapids, Will be pre-served in the minds of generations to come by the generosity of his daughters, Mrs. Huntley Russell and Mrs. LucIUS Boltwood, who have given to the city forty acres of land located on the eastern embankment of Grand river a short distance north of the plant of the Grand Rapids Chair company, an industry which he founded in 1873 and fostered unbl his death about ten years ago. Mr. Comstock commenced the manufacture of furniture as the head of Comstock, Nelson & Co., upwards of sixty years ago, and the prominence this industry has attained in the commercial world is due in a large measure to his sagacity and enterprise. Another park, which Mr. Comstock gave to the vVest Michigan State Fair association many years ago, bears his name . THERlndetpAR1.OR.. NEW~U B1:D11 Need not he moved from the wall. Always ready with bedding in place. So simple, 80 easy, a child can operate it. Has roomy wardrobe box. CHICAGO, Erie &: Sedgwick NEW YORK, Norman &: Monitor. ..... ..., If your DESIGNS are right, people want the Goods. That makes PRICES right. <!larence 1R.bills DOES IT 163MadIson Avenue-CItIzens Phone 1983. GRAND RAPIDS, UICH ... ... ..... -..... . • • I) WEEKLY ARTISAN NATIONAL UNDERTAKERS' MEETING Twenty-Ninth Annual Convention to Be Held in Detroit. Mich. 1he program f01 the twenty-nl11th annual C011\entlL n of the ~ atJOnal Funeral D11 ectors' ;lSsoClatlOn to be held 111 the \Yayn:c Pavlhol1 Detlolt, \Ileh, on September 2R 2) and 30 and October 1, 1)10, has been al ranged a" tollo\\ '0 FIRST DAY. WEDNESDAY. SEPTE;\tBUt :'!'j. Morning Session. 9 o·clo('k. (all to 01 <lCl, l'rt"lclent Ge Jl ge L Thoma" \Id,\ auke, \VI" InvocatlCJn, Rev Eel\\ald H Pence. f) f), jld." I Street. Presbytellan Chm h, Detr01t, \IICh ;\I1101c,male quartette. A.ppomtment of L0l11111lttee on Cledentral" Addres" of wele l11e [{on Phlhp I1Iutll1e\U ,LI\I) (1 the CIty of DetJOlt Respon"e, Kenyan \\ ellItl1, Pa"aclena, lalllLJrlll,l \Iuslc, melle quartdte Roll call ot State \s"ocwtlr n" Report of ExecutIVe Coml111ttee A.nnual 1l1~"sae;e, Ple"lrlent (,e Jlge L I homa" Repol t of ~ eCIctary H \1 Kdpatrlck Elm\\ ( (J 1 IllIl1 I' Commun1ca t10n S 1ecen eJ Reports of CommIttee on CI ed~n tIal-, ,IUS1C, male quartette Afternoon Ses ..ion. Boat nde Led\ 1l1~ at 7 p m fl)m the \\ a\ ne Pa\ III n, a run WIll 1J:c maclc to "Bob Lo.' a bealltltul "ummel re,ort near the mouth of Ld.he Fne, \\ here refre"hmenh \\ ill be ..,en ed and a generdl good tl111e held SECOND DAY THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 29. Morning Se ....ion. A.ppomtment c f c Jml11lttee" Conference of Stelte -\'500atlOn 1l1tere"t~ eld 1re"l' 1)\ State seci etanes and othet" Address "The Pt ofesswl1al Hook- \ \ Oim L -\ nIlg (ll n. :.\IJ1vvaukee, WI'S Addres~, John:.\1 Beffel, 1\1 D, ::\[11\\ aukee \\ h Afternoon Se@O ..ion. 2 o·clock. Reporb of stanclmg commlttt e" CommIttee on Organl/atlO11 Cummlttee on LeglslatI011 CommIttee on ConstltutI1n and 1\\ -La\\ "- CommIttee on f'eder ell Lee; l"la t10n Coml111ttte on Educatlon CommIttee on Rules of tr,111"p)' tatlOll of dead bodll' 'oll1ppeJ from l\,[exlco CommIttee on Rule" of tlan"pOltatlon of de,lel b ldlC' "hIpped mto CanaJa SpecIal Commtttee fIC 111 ~ew YOlk CIty SpecIal CommIttee on transpol tatFlll lule-., Report of repre'3entatlVe to the COl1fuenLe of c,tate anel Prov1l1clal Board" of Health Dunng the afternoon '3e"SI011 ,dl \ l"lt111g ladles aH' re-quested to partIcipate m an automoblle IlCle "tal tmg from the \Vayne Pay IlIon at 2 p 111, gomg thmue,h DetIOlt's beautI-ful boule\al ds anJ Delle Isle Evening. ExlllbltlOn of funeral funlhhllle." and "upphe" 1pen to the publIc THIRD DAY - FRIDA Y. SEPTEMBER 30. ~Iorning Se ....ion. 9 o·clock. Adchess---VlctOl C ValH.;han.:.\I n. Dean ,)1 the Depart-ment of ;\JlcdlL1n~ and Surg-ery, LT1lverslty of 2'llIChlg:W, \n 1 •\rbor, :\llch \dJress---\\ llham A.lden SmIth, Umted States Senator, (Jrand RapId", ::\llch Paper, 'A Laboratory Inve"tIgatlOn of CommercIal Em-b, tl111111gFll1lcJ,,' (from the Hygletl1C Laboratory). Presented by \s"lstant Surgeon Edward FranCIS, U11lteJ States PublIc Health and \[allne HOt>pltal SerVIce, Vv a"hlllgton, D C \e!dre",,---Re\ f'athel Stntch, Profes"or Dftr01t College, 1)( tJ Olt, ::\[Ich Aftt"rnoon Se ..sion, 2 o·clock. 1{':;lc!Ing ( f \vlltten tepolb by State delegatIOns \IbLellaneou" busmess I~vt"ni,,~. \ au lev 11Ie ane! danclllg at the Wayne Gardens .FOURTH DAY-SATURDAY. OCTOBER 1. Morning Session. 9 o·dock. Re]ln It" n f dppom tee! commIttee" RejllJrt ot 1 manee Committee Repnl t oj Trea"urer, Charles -\ MIller, Cmcmnatt, OhIO l=leLtlOn of officer" '-,electlon ot ne:».t pldce of meetlllg 1naugUJ atwn of offIcers \dJouinment 1 he \\ ay ne Hotel has been selected a" Convention head-quarter" Resel \ atlOns for rooms may be made at any tIme The Funelal DlreLtors' A,,'30ClatlOn of the CIty of Detolt ha" ar anged for a sene" of elaborate entertamment features to be gn en dUring the \\ eek of the conventIOn. They have also ,11I,mged \\ Ith the man ULIl tm ers of matenals used by our pro- II "lUll to make a mammoth exhIbIt ot funeral furtllshings and 'ou]lphe" 1he Lntlre space of the \Vayne PavI1lOl1 has been engd~ed, and thb exhlblt WIll be the largest evel held any- 1\ hell' 111 the "orId They urge upon the funeral directors (el11d the11 Lt,lJes) of the Lnlted States to be present at the I l1\entlOn \ \ e d"..Ule yOU a plea sant and profitable tIme I C,lgnee!) GEORGE L THOMAS, Pre~ MIlwaukee, \VIS \ He" t II \1 T'\.llpatlllk, C:ecretaly, [ 1111\\ ood, Ilhnoh --------~.,fI Ii II I• I I I I III ,IIII I,I IIII II I ! ..- - .-.--------------------------- ~-------------------------- I I II II) •II II I I IIII II I t I, I III II I We Manof.ctore tl.c Larl/Clt Line of Folding Chairs lfi the UDlted States, SUitable for Sun day Schools, Halls, Steam-ers and all pubiJcresorts We also manufacture Brass Trlmmed I ran Bed" Spnng Beds, Cots and Cnbs In a large vanety Send for Catalogue and Pnces to KAUffMAN MfG. CO. ASHLAND, OHIO ..... ..._ ....- ..... WEEKLY ARTISAN 31 ~------------------------------------------------------------------- No. 1711 "~ I I No. 1705-1705 WRITE FOR SAMPLES AND PRICES. II IIIIII I __________ --..4 New designs In the Louis XVI Style. GraQd l1apids GRAND RAPIDS, Brass <00. MIOH. ------------------ --_._-----------_.------ --------- ------------------ Denver 'V ants Stop-OveJ."Privileges. \\ hIle thel e IS a possJ!:Hhty of cl general dlscontmuance at an earl) elate, by all the raIlroads of the country of the ten-day stopover pn vIleg eo, on one-way tlckets, the questlOn IS "till undeCIded so far as the roads 111the Trunk L111eassocIatIon are concerned ActlOn taken by the Central Passenger, \Vestern and 1ranscont111ental Passengel assocJatlOns, makes such a rule effectIve, except west of El Paso, Tex, and Salt Lake Cll), Its apphcatlOu 111Central Passenger terntory be111g to tIckets to St Lot1l:'>v la ChIcago The pI actlce has been 111v ogue for a conSIderable tlme, and ItS abandonment now 1" saId to be on account of the op-portu11lty It affords for tlcket scalp111g Thb doe'i not apply to rounel tnp tlcket'i as It IS a'isumed that those who buy them 111tend to use them Contend111g that the 'itop-over ha'i been benefiCIal to Den- ,er and Colorado 111genel al the chamber of commerce of that CIty does not 111tend to submIt to ItS withdrawal V\lthout an effort to 111duce the roads to eIther cont1l1ue It or at least grant It f01 a penod of five days The matter IS 111 the hands of It'i transportatlOn commIttee, and one 111eth-Jd ha'i been plO-posed 111the way of a repn'ial 1\ew O'ileans and San FrancIsco are c0111pet111g f01 the h01101 anel profit of hav111g the natlOnal celebratlOn of the open1l1g of the Panama Canal 1111915 held 111theIr 1espectlve cIty It IS a'iserted that the we'itcrn and transcontmental raIl-lOads are 'iecreily favonng the Paufic Coa'it, on account of the long haul that they wIll get and whIch means greatel revenue fr 111the bUS111e'iS At present Denver 1'0 neutral on the prop-oSItIon, but If the stop-over pnvdege IS not alloV\ccllt can cast 1t'i 111f1uence for New Orlean'i Bidding for Busines ... The I X L Furmture and Carpet Installment House, Salt Lakf' CIty, Utah, of 'v hlch P '\ Soren"en IS preSIdent and manager, has sent out a C1r-:ular letter to f11l11lture manufac-ture1' i and shlpper'i, whIch says "'\re you reach1l1g out for western bUSlne'iS or "h1ppll1g goods to thIS locahty at the present tJme -;; If yOU should have occasIon tJ Use our warehouse faclhtles, or to store goods,' or 'ienel goods on consIgnment to thIS CIty, we should hke to handle such busll1ess for you We have Ju"t completed a 'iIX St01y. fireploof V\arehouse, equIpped WIth spr111kler system, eleva t01 s, scales, and all the most modern deVIces for proper hancl1111g of c011'ilgned goods and storage of all k1l1ds \tv! e have 200,000 square feet of avadable fI )or space, our own \ ans and drays togethcl WIth a force of expellenced and cal eful men \'-Iho hay e been V\lth U'i for a number of years. (\Vc ale, therefore, m a posltlOn to gIve vOU prompt and careful serVice, as well as low ratee vVe make a 'ipeClalty of dl'itllbut111g pooled cars, and shall be pleased to quote rates or £; \ ~ any 111frllmatlon you l1li~ht de';lfe legalclmg any l111eof bU'il11es'i 111 thIS ternt01y " Money in Murphy Cbairs. The Ml11phy Chalf company of DetrOIt have sent out a unlCjue foldel 111whIch they gIve dealer'i an excellent talk on two 1 ockel s of theIr latest deSIgns One 111 golden oak and the other g'llden elm The foldE:r 1S entltlecl ":\10re Money for Y ru" and It sho\\>s dealers that there IS 11101e 111 hanclImg Hi.e products of the :\1urphy ChaIr company who "make seven chalf'; a ml11ute" and "sell to fur11lture dealer'i only" 32 WEEKLY ARTISAN I' Miscellaneous I ..... Advertiselllents. I •I II• III•• ,,I ,,I ,I • POSITION WANTED. Foreman Finisher of lone; experience, at present employed, desires new posItion. Address Van. care Weekly ArtIsan.9-3tf WANTED. CommercIal salesman for IndIana and Illinois to sell Parlor and LIbrary Tables. State territory covered and lmes car-ried. Address "Map". care Weekly ArtIsan. 9-3tf WANTED. Traveline; salesman to carry a lme of R~ed Rockers and ChaIrs in IndIana and Illinois. State territory covered and hnes carried. Address "Near", care Weekly Artisan. 9-3tf POSITION WANTED. A salesman of ability furnishing best of references and at present engaged, desIres a change. Thoroughly acquainted with the trade of New England and New York stat;es and can guarantee results. Address C. A. R., Weekly Artisan. 7-23tf FOR SALE. A nice clean stock of Crockery in a live West Michigan town of 10,000 population. Would also rent store tf desired. Address "See" care Weekly Artisan. 5-28tf. • New York Markets. )Jew YOlk, Sept 10 -The plecl!ctlOn of dollal Imseed 011 has been made good Pnces advanced about three cents last Saturday and as much mOle on Tuesday of thb \\eek and dl e stll1 firm at the new figures. There IS mOle or less speculatlOn m the market but the nse has a leg1tnllate baSIS 111 the ~hortag e of the flaxseed crop. The scarcIty of seed b so great that many of the crushers are Idle Today\ quotatlOn~ al e %@;0? tor the ·Western raw, 97@08 for CIty ra\\ and double botlcd and 00@; $1.00 for smgle-botled, the higher figures on each grade apply-mg lots of less than five ban els, though smgle barrels are ~old at $1.02Y;;@$1 03 per gallon. Retailers here are chargmg $110 per gallon and reports from the mtcnor show that at many points the retaIl pnce IS $1.15@$1 20 Calcutta OIl sells at $1 wholesale and $115@$1 20 at retatl Pllce~

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