Weekly Artisan; 1909-10-16

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Issue of a furniture trade magazine published weekly in Grand Rapids, Mich, starting in 1879. and GRAND RAPIDS. ~:lICH.• OCTOBER 16. 1909 -----_._------------------------------------------------~ II I III IIIII III III III I ~ I No 173-4 Sand Belt MachIDe. III IIIII•II III III I I IIII I IIII II II -4 ;------------------------------------- II III ,I ,I ,,,,•• IIII•• I,I III•• ,,•••• IIII II• ,, I III III II I• j II ,II• I I,I ,I• IIj IIII III II Patented Sanding Machines 100 PEU CENT TO 2()(}PER CENT PRO~"'ITPER ANNUM Hundreds of manufacturers are us· ing these machines, sanding WITH THE GRAIN and producing the highest polish obtainable without re· touching by hand the following: Flat surfaces, mirror frames, round, oval, any shape; drawer rails, base rails, drawer fronts, serpentine, ogee, round or swell; straight veneered or cross veneered; ogee, round, bevel or straight edges of dresser or table tops, or round, square or scrolled patterns; table rims, dresser posts; veneered rolls or columns; straight, ogee or rounded mouldings; raised surfaces of panels; spirals of table legs; curtain slats for roll top desks; spindle carvings; French table legs, etc., etc. No 171 Sand Belt Machine. No 167 Sand Belt Machme Write for CATALOG "E" WYSONG & MILES CO. \ Cedar St. and Sou. R. R., \ GREENSBORO, N. C. ! .. ••• T •••• _ No 173 Sander WEEKLY ARTISAN .... _v. • va •• r ._-----------------------.,. I I "THE BETTER MAKE" WE HAVE OVER 400 PIECES IN OUR LINE BEDROOM and DINING ROOM FURNITURE SUITES TO MATCH FACTORY AND SALESROOM 37 CANAL STREET CATALOGUES ON HEAVY PLATE PAPER TO DEALERS Nelson- Matter Furniture Co. GRAND RAPIDS, MIGH. • •••••• - • a _._ • •••••••••• a • __ ._a_ •••••• ••••• __ •• •• -._.-- ._ ••• _-~ 1 2 WEEKLY ARTISAN Many New Features Added for the Fall Season Everything for the Bedroom [ Medium and Fme QualIty] Office and Salesroom corner Prescott and Buchanan Streets, Grand Rapd" Mlch WRITE FOR CATALOGUE SLIGH FURNITURE CO. ~-----------------------------_.-----------------~-------------------------------------------------~ II LUCE~REDMOND CHAIR CO., Ltd. ! BIG RAPIDS, MICHIGAN II II I MANUFACTURERS OF HIGH GRADE OFFICE CHAIRS, DINING CHAIRS Reception Chairs and Rockers, Slippers Rockers, Colomal Parlor SUItes, Desk and Dressing ChaIrs !! I I ! ~-----------------------------------------------.-----------------------------------------_._-----~. In Dark and Tuna Mahogany, Btrch, B,rd',.eye Maple, Qyartered Oak and ClrcaSSlan Walnut You will find our Exhibit on the Fourth Floor, East Section, Manufacturers' BUlldmg,North Ioma St, Grand Rapids, WEEKLY ARTISAN ....... -..._-_ ...,. ------------_ ..----~ "When m doubt where to buy the best BIrds-eye Maple goods, Hitch Your Wagon to a Michigan Star" and get results. Would a pnce of $12.00 for this No. 601 Dresser mterest you) Do not buy unlll you know the pnce. Ask us for how much less than $12 we sell It, and In-cidentally ask for a catalog Michigan Star Furniture CO. ZEELAND, MICH. ~-------------- ....I ~-- -----_.- ._--_. - _ .. ~ II I II I No. 592. '------ . -- Here is a Rocker That's a seller. Write for the price. GEO. SPRATT ($ CO. SHEBOYGAN, WIS. I I I • ! I I II Ii I I I : I 1 1 I ~_._-- II ---------------~ IIII II I I I II I II III IIII I• f III l Give your men tools that are ac-curate to the one-thousandth part of an inch. Tools that are straight and true and hold their cutting edge. No matter how expensive and per-fect your machinery may be, if the cutting tools are not of the best, you can not turn out good work. We pnde ourselves on the fact that we have manufactured only the very best for thirty-five years Write for our complete catalog. It shows many new ideas in fine labor saving tools. ~~~~LI~!~S~!'~C~C~'i~L~ '-------------------------------- ~ ~--_.... --------------_._.~----~--~ i Palmer's Patent C1uin!!:Clamps 1 The abo'e cut is taken direct from a photograph, and shows the range of one size only, our No.1, 24-inch Clamp. We make SIX other sizes taking in stock up to 60 inches wide and 2 inches thick Ours is th.. most practical method of clamping glued stock in 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 list) who have ordered and reordered many times Proof positive our way I. the best. A post card will bring it, catalog included Don't delay, but wrIte today. A. E. PALMER & SONS, Owosso, MICH. "'- Foreign Representatives: The Projectile Co., London, Eng-laud, bcbuchardt &; Schutte, BerlID, Germany: Alfred H. Schutte, Cologne, Paris, Brussels, Liege, Milan, Turin, Barcelona, and Bilbo... '-__ .4_~ ~_. -- -- .•-~_._----- - - - • - - - - .. 3 4 WEEKLY ARTISAN ~ ••••••••••• ••• _ ••• _ a.a ••••••••• _. __ •••••• - •• - a_a _ ••••• a •• _._._ ••• -. THE LUCE LINE Many New Patterns m Dmlng Room and Bedroom FurnIture for the Fall Season. SHOW ROOMS AT FACTORY, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. III I I I 6-_. •• - - -------------- -_._- ----- -------------------------~ LUCE FURNITURE CO. Good Equipment Means Better Work Equip your shop or factory with G. R. Handscrew products; you'll note a vast difference in the quality and quantity of work turned out. All of our factory trucks, benches, clamps, vises, etc. are the best that money and skilled labor can produce. We use nothing but the very best Michigan hard Maple in the construction of all our products. It is not possible to turn out better goods than we now manufacture; years of manufacturing has taught us that it pays to use nothing but the very best material possible in the manufactur-ing of our product. WRITE FOR CATALOG SHOWING THE COMPLETE LIST OF FACTORY EQUIPMENT. GRAND RAPIDS HAND SCREW CO. 918 Jefferson Avenue Grand Rapids, Michigan GRA~JJ) RAPII:'S JrT~L_ J jl lJI~Y 30th Year-No. 16 GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., OCTOBER 16, 1909 Issued Weekly WILL LOOK AFTER FREIGHT AFFAIRS The Grand Rapids Furniture Manufacturers' Association Engages Ernest L. Ewing as Traffic Manager. The October meetmg of the Grand Rapids FurmtUJ e Man-ufacturers' AssoClatlOn held m the club rooms last Monday mght was one of the most Important ever held by the orga11lzatlOn The proceedmgs were nothmg more than orchnary except that actIOn was Liken on ,I matter that has been under consideratIOn for some time and the action IS expected to be of g I eat benefit to all membel s It was deCIded unammously to estabhsh a traffic bureau and engage d competent man to manage It, and Ernest L Ewmg was selected to fill the posItion He WIll he known a" the aSSOCiatIOn's traffic manager ]\lr Ewing has been actively engaged m railroad and traffic work for twenty years and IS espeClall) quahfied for the dutlec of the posItion The employment of properly quahfied traffic managers by lalge shippers and by aSSOCIatIOns of shIppers has become gen-eral and has the apploval of the representative of the carner, who recogn17e the fact that by co-operatIOn only may transpor-tatIOn plohlem be solved and that the employment of traffic managers IS a long step towal ds effective co-operatIOn 1\11' Ewmg IS a member of the firm of Ewmg & Alexander, traffic managers, WIth offices m the board of tJ ade buildmg, and but I ecently located m Grand Rapids The firm has been closely Identified WIth the J\1Jclllgan Shippers' A"soclation and has be-come well known to the shIppers of Grand RapIds m the few months that have elapsed smce It was estabhshed here It IS probable that Mr Alexander WIll now remove to this City and as-sume charge of the bucmess of the firm Mr EW111gWIll retam his connectIOn WIth the firm 111an adVIsor) capacity but Will gIve first attentIOn to the mterests of the Furmture ~ ssoClation In all matters pertam1llg to freight rates, claSSIfication al,c1 serVice, .iVlr Ewmg WIll rep{e,ent the assouatlOn m the endeav01 to obtam for GI and RapIds shipments the best pOSSIble facll1Lec at the mOot reasonable costs In hIS vvork, MI Ewing v.Ill Cl-undoubtecll} have the co opel atlOn of the I epresentatIVes of the rallroacL servmg thIS terntol} and It IS antICIpated that the ar-rangement WIll prove mutually satlsfact01 y and benefiCIal PreSident Goodman states that SUItable quarters will be se-cured, properly furmshed and eqmpped for the traffic bnreau, but MI. Ewmg has already entered upon the chscharge of hIS duties as representatIve of the aSSOCIation which IS composed of the fo1- 10wmg compames Berkey & Gay lnrmtnre Company, )Je1son-Matter Furm-ture Company, Grand RapIds Chair Company, Imperial Furm-ture Company. Onel Cabinet Company, Shgh Furnitnre Com-pany, Luce lunllture Company, The lVIac:ey Company, Stickley Bros Company, l\hcLIgan ChaIr Company, Grand RapIds Fur-mture Company, ,,\Telch Foldmg Bed Company, Royal Furni-ture Company, Gunn lurmtnre Company, William A. Berkey Furmture Company, Grand RapIds Fancy Furmture Company, Stow & DaVIS Fnrmture Company, Rettmg Furmture Company, C S Pame Company, Shelton-Snyder Fnrmture Company, Cen-tury Burmture Company, Cabmetmakers Company, Charles A Greenman Company, Grand RapIds Parlor Furniture Company, John D Raab Chair Company, Grand Rapid" Upholstenng Com-pany, MIchIgan Seatmg Company Buildings That Will Need Furniture. ReSidences-LUCIen Grey, Los Angeles, CaL, $8,000; Louis PfeIller, Los Angeles, $8,500, 1. S Houston, Los Angeles, $25,- 000; ]\lbs May Stanley, Los Angeles, $6,000; Otto S. Hou"ton, Los Angeles, $2,3,000, Dr A R Reed, Pomona, Cal, $12,000, A. E Evans, San DIego, Cal, $3,000, :\frs Gird, Redlands Cal, $5,500, Dr. W L Spates, Globe, Anz, $4,000. Hotels-A company IS bemg orgamzed to buIld a modern hotel at Three RIvers, Cal George Hye wIll erect a 35-room hotel at Calzona, Cal Ground has been broken for the new hotel to be erected at Long Beach, Cal A three-story hotel- 80 rooms-Is to be erected at 637-41 S Ollve street, Los Angeles, Cal, at a contract pnce of $40,945. School,,-HoltVIl1e, Ca1, lm;h school bUlldmg, $65,000, Els-more, Cal, h1gh school, $80,OCO, Hollywood, Cal, hIgh school, $110,000 Pon ona, Cal, IS advertIs111g for bIds for the con-struchon of a 111gh school bwld1l1g and a grade school building. Santa Ana, Cal , IS advertIs111g for bIds f01 the construction of a new high school bwlcl111g for wl11ch $100,000 111bonds have been voted The Los Angeles, Cal, ')~hool board is asking for bIds for the constructIOn of three \\ arc! or cllstnct school bwld111gs V1salla, Cal, has voteel to Issue $30,000 for the erectIOn of a new hIgh school bt1lld1l1g Chl11e,j.1es- The BaptIsts of Santa Barbara, Cal., wIll erect a chapel at a co"t of $7,000 The Loma L111da Samtarium Com-pany, Redlands, Cal, have "tartecl work on a chapel to cost $8,- 000 Ih three t1e,t1e, and \\ oorlen pe~~, dncl It,> fur111shings of wooden trenchel plates bo\\ I, and ~poon all of \\ ood, and simple chest~ dnd cupboard" ho\\ 111g the Ehzabethan mfluence which pre- \ aded 111the ea11) pal t of the '>eveateenth century Then 111 the piece" be10ngmg to the seconcl half of the seventeenth cen-tm \ \\ e fine1 trace, of Cont111enta1 111fluen~e arm chairs with <"'p,1111 ,h ,h2ped CIe-tme, and ~p1ayed feet. a rlem1sn "day-bed \\ Ith ele,ht sCloll feet turned out, a hIgh back and turnec1 posts and veneered Dutch chests \\ lth hedv) ball teet \Va1nut \\ ood ha LIken the place )f oak to a marl"ed degree, the walnut tl ee, that \\ eJe planted to replace the oak trees cut down for _llIp hmlcllng ha\ me, attamecl theIr growtn, cane seats emcl ch:l1r hacb al e COl11mg mio fa~hlOn and hghten the appcaran 'e of the turl11ture the che~t \\hlch fir,t was used a'> both a ,>eat and trunk 111 the SImplest box form, and then W-lS gIven drawer'> and cupboards to pr')vlde space for 11Creased posses~lon::;, I" now seen al-o 111 the form of de,ks and hlgh-bo)" \\ lth the e1e,hteenth century mahogany comes mernly to the fn nt amI adds It'> 11Ch color emcl hane1some surface to the ~eneral ette~t of elee,-ance e,amed from thb cl1V1'>11Oof the ex-hIbIt hllt Ulll1mOnel \\ ood" ~t1ll are l1~ecl, walnut for hIgh-boys, 111,lpk p1l1e and 1J1lch fOI 'Queen Anne deJks One fine old ]JILCe that h,h attl acted ll1uch attentIOn 111the exhibition on ac-cuunt ut Ih ,Ize and 1h d1g,1lfiecl s1l11phClty of eippearance IS a ,t1 etch ot p111e\\ all lymel111g 'oeventeen feet long, With cupboard, fireplace and clOOl cal vecl ancl left unpamtecl It came from a house at Co\entl) Conn, bm1t by Major Hibbard m 1785, and 1\ a~ lent b\ (,core,-e ~ Palmer In style It 1~ well Wlth!'l thc Iange ot the ole!c't InhabItant's memory c\n aged gentle- J1ldn among the I hltor to the e'(l11bItlOn \\ as heard to remark \\ Ith a CrISp tOUJ1 of 110n) "Oh, I've ~et b) them-there used to be an a~h oven and a bake oven adJOIn111g, they am't a CUrI-o'ih to me beceH\se 1\ e ~ee 1 em m place-whel e they belong \" WEEKLY ARTISAN THE MASTERS MADE MISTAKES. Some of Theh- Work Now on Exhibition in the Metropolitan Museum Is Declared Hideous. 1'\ow that the Hud~Jn-l ulton celebratlOl\ b jJlactll,l1h ended for :'\iew York, It IS pos'lble to enlOY \\lthuut na"te 01 crowd111g the vanous exlllb1tlon, that rel11d1l1open dunng thl month None \\ 111be more re\\ af<11l1g to the tI lie lover ot Arnellcan 111';tory than the '\l11encan sectIOn at the IIctlopohtan Museum The pILtUIes be10.1g1l1g to tms sectIon a1e fc\\ 111 number 111 cOl11pan:oon l'\lth tho"e of the Dutch ,ect10n and al though they 1l1c1ude admIrable c'(ample'> are nattll all) ,>ome\\ n,t echpsed by the b111hant assemb1) of Dutch pamtmg, of the firet order m the adj011mg room~ On the slde of the mdustl la1 art,. ho\\ eVCI, the -\.mellcan section 1S of extraordmdry mterf'st a.1cl value, 1l1c1ucl1l1ge,all1- p1es ot furmiure, "'11verware, and potten, fine 111 (juabt, and so ch:ocreet1y chosen as to rllwtrate the varIOU~ del elopments m forms and "t) 1e~ that took placc from the cal he,i Colomal time'> to the pellod of I ulton ... death Th~ ~peL1al lIltt oduv ttons to the cllfterent pal t~ of the catalo~ue II ntten h, Hell \ \\T Kent, Florence Lev\ dnd 1C\\\1I1 '\tke l\cllber gnc a tl'Ol-ough1Y 111 fonmng survey ot the hanc\ll1 dth a" thc\ ~ont0lll1ed gradually to the chang1l1g c:oJ1(htlOn~ of the co1011le~ and the young nation In the case of the fur111ture ;\[r Kent tlaec'> It-, logllai evo- 1utlOn from the very ~Imple hou,eholcl effect ...brought to '\mel1 ca b) the first eo10mst ... to the elabO! atc ,>tlles of the oe,-hteenth century '\mong the exh1blt~ 111 Illu ,tratlOn of thh e\ olutlOn we are shown, for example, the he,rv) dun 5 made of oak \\ lth flat carvmg and 1ectangu1ar CO.1structlOn demanded b) the chal-acter of thiS wood, the earhest form at the 'table-board" \\ 1th -------~-~------------ .. -----., II r SLIDING SHOE FOR USE ON DESK LEGS This shoe does the work of a caster yet allows the desk legs to set close to floor. Fastened wlth flat head wood screw and furnished in three Slzes. SEND FOR SAMPLES AND PRICES No. 1493 PULL A very fine handle for desks in the square effect. Somethrng dlfferent from the regular bar pulls. GRAND RAPIDS BRASS co. I GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. I •••• 11.1 _ ••••• _-- -- • ----- ---- •• -- .... WEEKLY ARTISAN 7 .... - -- . --------------------~_._.-. -_._.~--------_._._.~._.----.. - . The Beautiful, New I Udell Catalog • IS ready for all RetaIl Furmture Dealers. It I wIll help sell the lme that of Its kmd has no I supenor. It contams 88 pages Illustratmg II I 41 Library Bookcases, 88 Lad,es' Desks, 48 Sheet Music Cabmets, 23 Plano Player Roll Cabmets, 14 Cylmder Record Cabmets, 11 D,sc Record Cabmets, 19 MedIcine Cabinets, 10 Commodes, 9 Foldmg Tables. ACT A T ONCE AND WRITE THE UDELL WORKS INDIANAPOLIS, IND ...- .... It IS the mahogany, hovllever, that meets the modern ta,;tc and SOhCltS the greatest ae!nllratlOn The secone! half of the eIghteenth century comes under the mfluence of ChIppendale The ChIef c11dracte11 tICS aSCrIbed to plec:es made uncle1 thIS m-fluence are the bow-shaped chaIr bacb WIth p1elced slat, cabnole leg-s, ball-ancl-claw feet, clainrate carvmg dnd the me of maholS-any Even such a restnctecl survey of the ge 1eral style as one Made by Delaware Chair Co, Delaware, 0 may obtam from the pI e"ent collectIOn shoV\:o, however, a great 1ange of taste There dl e the elaborate carvmg:o V\Ith such detaIls as scroll", 11bbon ancl tassel, etc, and there are the ';Imple, ehgmfied effects m \\ h1ch ChIppendale s sense of JLbt proportIon ancl feehng for archItectural quahty are see 1 umm-paIred by hIS tendency toV\artl flamboyance m ornament One pIece may be as "good ChIppendale" as another, but no c1eslgner has gIven the publIc a better chance to exelCIse personal ta,te and Judgment 111 the chOICe of pattern and form than thIS un-doubted master of the cabmetmaker's art And of the fine pIeces-the most restra1l1ed and graceful of the nbbon-back chaIrs, for example-many a cntIc IS ready to echo the de-signer's own mode~t statement that they were the best whIch had ever been macle. ..." . ..- ... .. -_... Hepplewhlte and Sherato~1 follow ChIppendale, the former \\ Ith furmture characten7ecl by "delIcate fluted or straIght leg"," and "shleld-snaped chall backs," the lattel V\Ith pIeces mla1d WIth lIght waoel-:. on mahogany. and chalfC the backs of whIch have a cross raIl In both styles a h~htel and damtIer feelIng replaces Chlppenclale's clIgmfied proportlOll'i Of all these mas-ters It mu,;t be remembered that, lIke the artIsts whose pIctures hang above theIr chall s and table,; and hIgh and low boys, they had theIr verv bad moments and occaslOndlly deolgns are aSCrIbed to them whIch If authentIC: desel ve only nehcule The chunky shIeld backs m some of JIeppleV\hlte's poorer deSIgns are hlde-ou" to contemplate, and Sheraton's 'empIre" pIeces are fre-quently contemptIble, but as an able cntlC of the latter has saId, "what has a poor artIst to do when people WIll not look at hb best work, but mSlst on buymg hIS worst 0" The value of the pI esent exhIbItIon lIes chiefly In the fact that the hI toncal mterest has not been allowed to overbalance the aesthetIC mterest, and the chOIce of plec:es has been made WIth ,;tnct attentlOn to theIr al tI"tIC ment as well as to theIr representatIve values \ very 1I1terestmg group COIbists of fllfmture made by Dun-can Phyte and lent by R T Hames Halsey Phyfe, we learn from .:\Ir E } Hagen's notes, was a Scotchman who came to ~ ew York toward the end of the eightee~1th century and settlee1 m 1ulton street (111the seellOn then called PartItIOn street) in 1795, to rema1l1 WIth several change, of 1 esidenc:e untIl hIS death m 18G+ ~Cp to 1820 he carned out the traehtlOns of Sheraton m hIS work, and procluc:ed pIeces "perfect m workmanshIp, pro-portIOn dncl feehng for 1111e" The set of three mahogany chalr~ WIth lyre back and brass st11ngs to the lyre show one of the charactellstIc features of hI" \\ O1k, other features are the carved hon foot ancl the ceatral supports for tables, and, "above all, 111stleatment of the hnes of the table tops, vergmg on the Greek pnnClple of entas1s" 1\11 the example" shown are of exqUISIte workmanshIp and charmmg 111 style, WIth a certa1l1 cnspness that 111thIS as 111 other fields of art seem" to dIffer-entIate ScottIsh from EnglIsh deSIgn The hIgher educatIOn frequently demonstrates that the more we know the less \\ e belIeve Chanty covers a multItude of 5ms but It'S always our charity and other people's S111S. MADE BY HOLLAND FURNITURE CO. HOLLAND, MICH. 8 WEEKLY ARTISAN WEEKLY ARTISAN ~_ •••••• - - - - _ •••• _ ••••• __ ._._._. • ••• • ---------_. • • •• - _. •• _ •• I •••• I The season for banquets will soon be here. Get a stock of our Banquet Table Tops so as to be ready to supply the demand sure to come. Our Large New Line of DINING and OFFICE TABLES are the best on the American market when prices and quality are considered. STOW & Ot\VIS FUKNITUKG 60. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ----Cit_y Sa.le_sroom-, -4th~floo~r. B-lod-get-t _B_l.d-g.-.-- ... . ... .... .~ 9 I~_._.~_._. _. ----------_._._._._. __._._. --._._._.---- Educator Weaves Swedish Rugs. A rug weavmg 1I1dustry all his own is supported in Lock-port, Ill, by Edward Worst, '\upenntendent of the JolIet publIc schools. Not an extensive enterpnse but one of the most 111- teresting of stuebe,;, estabh"hed and supported from an 1I1depen-dent source and for an 1I1dependent purpose Many years ago when Mr Worst began hiS career as an educator, he came m touch, mdirectly, With a number of Swed-ish- Amencan women who were mterested 111 rug and carpet ~ cavmg The actIOn of the loom, the artistic blending of the strIpes of wool and cotton and the fillIng 111 of the warp ap-pealed strongly to the artistic taste of Mr Worst, and from that time until the present he has devoted hIS hours of recreatIOn to the development of the work. Of course all thmgs must have a begmmng So It was With the rug mdustry. As the years shpped by the deSire for somethmg a httle more artistIC than the plam "tIips of woven rags became stronger. The fad became a study and today some of the most artistic effects are seen as the result of Mr. Worst's efforts He interested the rag weavmg women m hIs cau"e He became theIr fnend and later their student. After becoL11ng thoroughly acquainted With 111sundertak-ing, and m order to become hImself thoroughly famIlIar with his venture, he traveled to far away Sweden where he schooled him-self accordmg to the dictatIOn of the native born weaver. He learned his lesson well. paymg attentIOn to the slIghtest of de-tails After weeks of study and actual weavmg he prOVided h1l1belf With seVeial looms and an assortment of new ldeas and "ailed for home. Upon hiS arrIval m Lockport he transferred hiS newly gamed knowledge to the women who had intere:oted him in the work and began the career of rug weav1l1g that hag brought such successful results The looms brought from Sweden were placed in a work shop at home temporarIly and later given to the Chicago Nor-mal Practice school of which Mr Worst was at one time prIn- Cipal Smce that time numeroug duplIcates of the looms brought from Sweden have been made by l\Iartl11 Alexander of this city Mr". Oscar Johnson, who reSides 111 Nl11eteenth street, Lock-port, has made the greatest number of rugs for Mr. Worst. He deSigns the patterns used to ureak the monotony of the sohd colorings and selects the tones which blend With artistiC har-mony. Mr Worst's rug weavmg enterprise has been a most suc-cessful venture Many people 1I1terested 111 arb and crafts work have had their beginmng m the artistic little work hous.e erected 111 the rear of his home m Washl11gton street, Lockport It is to the houseWife, however. that the rug" appeal, for they come as a boon to the woman VI ho enJoys makl11g pretty thmgs to beautify her home. Many of the rugs woven in Lockport have taken first awards at showl11gs in Chicago and other CIties Exploiting a New Line. ClInton, Iowa, Oct 14-The A.nderson & \V1I1ter Manufac-tUrIng company of thiS City have recently sent out at one time several thousand supplements to their '09 sprIng catalog, th~ "upplement being devoted entirely to the company's new de-partment of Colomal buffets and chma closets 111 quartered oak fimsh The company is d01l1g a splendid volume of busl11ess up to thiS time dunng the present year. -~ .. ... .. .. ..- ......... .. ..--_.--_._. ----_._._._._. ----_. _.I _.- "THE BEST IS THE CHEAPEST" I 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 smalllot; make tests;you will then know what you are getting. WE GUARANTEE SATISFACTION. Furniture and Chair Factories,Sash and Door Mills, RailroadCompanies,·ear Buildersand others will consult their own interestsby using it. Also Barton's Emery Cloth, Emery Paper, and Flint Paper, furnishedin rollsor reams. MANUFACTURED BY H. H. BARTON & SON CO., 109 South Third St., Philadelphia, Pa. .. I ~-_ _--_ __ . -- .... .. . --_._---~. ---------__._---~----.--_..~.. 10 WEEKLY ARTISAN Smte No 850 by Muskegon Valley Furmture Co , Muskegon, MICh WEEKLY ARTISAN 11 Cabinet Makers ~--- .--------------------------------------------------------- I F. & JOHN BARNES CO. I 654 Ruby Street, Rockford, illinois Our New Hand and Foot Power Circular Saw No.4. The strongest most PO\"erful, and In every way the best machme of Its kmd e\ er made, for nppmg, cross cuttmg bonng and groovmg '"----------_._------ -~--------- Minneapolis Manufacturers are Prosperous. Mlllneapohs, ::\f11ln, Oct 14-The Peek, Dahlberg & Shaw Company, manufacturers of upholste1ed fur11ltme, 11 S E l\Ialll street, IS one of the new fm11lture 11lanufactunng concerns of the Flom City The company \\ as 111sorporated with a cap- Ital stock of $50,000 III July last, and IS officered as follows' PreSident, L \. Peek, secretary, treasurer and manager, C. r Dahlberg, vice preSident, J K Sha\\ l\Ianager Dahlberg \\ as formerly m the retail fur11lture bus111e"s at Tol'la, N D, for four years PreSident Peek \\ a.., formerly III the bankmg busI-ness at W llmot, S D YIce PreSident Shaw '" as engaged m the uphol..,tenng busmess for "even years before he became a member of the new conce1n The company occupies a plant 43x85 feet, three stones and basement and are plannlll~ an ad-dition next spnng Manager Dahlberg 1eporb that the vol-ume of busllless ha" been very satbfastory smce the company was estabhshed McLeod & Smith, manufacturers of upholstered fur11lture, corner of 7th "treet and Central avenue, are bmldmg an adch-tlOn 83x90 feet four stones and basement and ltgarded as one of the best structures m the city as It IS remfore'ed concrete and stnctly fireproof The \\ ::tlls are bem~ made strong enoug-h to sustalll three more floors The front IS of pressed bnck with a large plate gla'-s front on the first floor. The new bmld-mg Will be used for rample room~ and for storage purposes and be completed O::tober 20 H C Smith "tated that their bUSI-ness this year IS runmng ahead of last year and that the volume done m 1908 was ahead of 1907 The Dmthff l\Ianufactunng Company, manufacturers of mouldlllgs and picture h dmes, artlsb matenah, artistic pictm es, art novelties and bnc-a-brac, are domg a splendid volume of bus- 111ess PreSident Bintltff says their b1lS111ess is exceptionallY In these days of close competltion, need the best pOSSible eqUlpment, and this they can have in BARNES' ------------ HAND AND POOT PO\NER MACHINERY Send for Our New Catalogue. III ------_. --------,-----------------------_.--_..-----------~ good and that they have been havmg a steady mcrease of trade each year, 111c1udlllg 1908 He states this IS largely due to the fact that the company IS addlllg new thmgs to Its lme eash year The present year they have added a new lme of draperies and of couch cove1111g~ AI~o a lme of shirt wabt boxe" Last year the company added a new lme of small fur11ltm e novelties The Whitcomb & Noble Company, manufactnrers of chairs and rockers, aleo report a steady 111crease 111the volume of their busmess smce they became estabhshed five years ago The company'" trade comE'S nlostly f1om the northwe ,t Success, after all IS largely a matter of physlOlogy. A man must have either the backbone or the cheek Some men are so mean that they would rather look for a needle m a haystack than buy one. -------------- --- f--- ---------. ---_. --.--- -~OUfS 1bab~--l DESIGNS AND DETAILS OF FURNITURE 154 Llvmgston St. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN I~---~-----_-.-_---._---- - -------------- -- -------- ..I. CItizens' Telephone 170Z. 12 WEEKLY ARTISAN produces on any oak results equal in every respect to those obtained by the old tedious and expensive actual fuming method. This especially prepared material when applied to any oak acts with the acids in the wood and produces that peculiarly beautiful, brown-ish effect known as "Fumed Oak." Nothing affects the finish, which may be thoroughly sandpapered without fear of cutting through. Send for FREE sample. We supply everything in Paint Specialties and Wood Finishing materials. CHICAGO NEW YORK r---NE-:w-----P"RO·CESS~ FUllING LIQUID ~--.....---- --- . ...------_._-_._.~--._----_.------- . - - _. - -~_.. .. - ---~---_._._-~-_--.---~ American Lumber in Holland. An Importel of lumber 111Rotterdam, Holland, fur111she~ the follow111g 111formatlOn for the benefit of Amencan exporters "Busine.,s 111Amencan lumbel I egulaJly 111creases. Amer-ican lumber Will be Imported regularly here as long as there IS any lumber available for export 111the ~C11lted States, and this for the reason that the quahtles shipped from other countnes differs from the !\.mencan 111several respects The nl1p01h depend upon the wanb of the buyers here, and at present a, well 111thiS countl y, as 111other countnes, the qtuatlOn is dull If trade Improves hel e and the general conchtlon of affan s be-comes better, thele Will no doubt be a greatel demand for Amencan lumber and logs, but the general turnover cannot be increased by any artificial means; that IS, ever If the pi Ices V\ ere lower, the amount of lumbel exported from the State, to HoI-land would not be,:ome larger, at least not If a longer pellOcl --------- _. - - - - .- .__._.-._...._..-..-.-.-. ---_ -..--_ -..- ., II No.15 FOX I SAWING MACHINE WRITE 44 FOR NEW CATALOG IIIII ... __ ._ .. _._. ~ II FOX MACHINE CO. 185 N FRONT STAEET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH .-- _-~-----_ . than one or tv\ 0 }edrs IS conSidered On the other hand, should pnce" become c011Slderably higher, the volume of trade would probably be deCl eased, as 111that case bUYers would conSider bu} 111gfrom other source'). "The only suggcstlOn to make to Amencan "hippers of hardV\ ood lumber and log~ would be to adhere stnctly to the quaht} speCified 111the contract, to Slllp the goods wlth111 the time speCIfied, and not to send out consignments Without first consult111g then agents In ordel to move goods, conslgnmenb are often resorted to by the Amencan shippers These ship-ments usuall} sho\\ a bad I esult on account of the buyers tak- 111~advantalSe of the SituatIOn, or else on account of the good., not be111g sl11table for the market, or arnv111g at a bad time, 1Tl \\hlch case qua} dues and storage expenses have to be paid. Lumber should anI} be conSigned to thiS market on the strength of the adVice of a slllppel's agent here" r IIIII BOY NT-~-N--~"c-o-~--'Il ManufaCturers of I Embossed and Turned Mould iogs, Emboss-ed and Spindle Carvings, and Automatic Turning86 We also manu-fadure a large hne of Emboaaed Ornaments for Couch Work. r#!iPt;-~-. SEND FOR 1256-1258 W. Fifteenth St., CHICAGO, ILL. I ~---------------------------------------- ...._-~ WEEKLY ARTISAN 13 r-----·--------------·-·-II•------------- ----------_._._-----_._-----_.-------------------- ------.., III I SPARTAN TURPS Spartan Turps is undeniably the best thing on the market for reducing varnishes, stains, paints, etc. It is bet-ter than turpentine, being one of the best solvents known. With Spartan Turps you will get better results, cover more surface and save money. Write for sample and be convinced. MARIETTA, OHIO. ~-- _______________________ . . --.-..t~I --- _ --- _ . Seating Salesman Indicted_ Eugene H. ReIl1y, salesman for the AmerIcan Seating com-pany of ChIcago, and F. H Osterle are the objects of pohce search 111Richmond, \! a The men are under 111chctment on a charge of housebreakmg 111 connectIOn WIth a contract for seats for the new RIchmond high school. Both men have dIS-appeared The lllchctments charge that the men took a sample chair, selected by the CIty as the seat for the new ll1gh school, from the room III whIch It was .;;tored and substItuted a chair of an inferIor grade \iVhen the cham, arrIved the deception was chscovered The CIty scheol board refused to receIve the chaIrs and an 111vestIgatIon was begun. Later the school board re-pudIated the contract Thomas F. Boyd, presIdent of the AmerIcan Seating com-pany, states that hI'3 company had nothing to do WIth the con-tract, except that It was let to them by the school board of RIch-mond, Vd "Although ReIlly h one of our salesmen, we had noth111g to do WIth the contract,' saId :\Ir Boyd. "I under- ~tood that there was a hItch 111the contract, but what It was I dId not know We made the chaIrs as ordered and they were delivered to a concern 111RIchmond. Further than that we are let out of the deal" ReIl1y has been employed by the AmerIcan Seat111g com-pany for over two years, although he IS now only 20 years of age O'3terle 1'3 an 111stal1ment dealer of RIchmond, and ReIl1y IS also a reSIdent of that CIty Testing the Anti-Free Pass Law_ The valIdIty of the antI-free pas;, sectIOn of the Hepburn raIlroad 111the ;,ettlement of a claIm for personal 111Juries 28 last Tuesday on a motIon for the advancement of the appeal of W"AT SPARTAN TURPS WILL DO Spartan Turps will reduce varnishes, stains and oils. It will prevent precipitation if used to reduce an oil stain. It can be used for thinning the finest colors, imparting new life and brilliancy without im-paring the color. It adds to the flexibility and spreading qualities of varnishes. It can be useful in a hundred ways in any finishing room. the Louisville & NashVIlle raIlroad from the Judgment of the Kentucky court of appeals, holdlllg It to be constItutional. The raIlroad 111the ;,ettlement of a claIm for personal 111Juries 28 years ago agreed to carry Erasmus J. Motley and his wIfe of Bowlmg Green, Ky, over ItS 1111bfree for the remainder of theIr lIves and insure them annual passes untIl the Hepburn act went into effect. The Motleys then brought smt to compel the per-formance on the contract and the Kentucky courts so ordered, takmg the ground that the passes to be Issued under the contract were not free passes wlth111 the meaning of the act, as they were for value receIved. Arguments wIll be heard m November. A 68-111Ch mission clock IS given to every purchaser of goods amountmg to $10 by the Royal FurnIture company of Cleveland. 'LH~ MANUFACTURERS p.~D DEALERS IN HIGH GRADE BAND AND SCROLL SA~S REfAIRI NG-5ATI5FACTION GUARANTEED CITIZENS fHONE 1239 27 N MARKET ST ~,GRAND RAFID5~MICH. 14 WEEKLY ARTISAN ------------------------_ .•_-----------------------------------_.----------~ Mahogany Circassian Walnut Quartered Oak Walnut Curly Maple Bird's Eye Maple Basswood Ash Elm Birch Maple Poplar Gum Oak I~- -----_._. -- ----.--._--~~ BUCI{EYE FURNITURE FACTORIES Notes and News From Piqua, Dayton, Delaware, Columbus and Cincinnati. Clllclllnati, Oct 1J -P1qua, OhlO, has four furmture fcl~- tones and all of them are dOlllg a fine bUSllless SpralSue Sm1th & Co, w1ll have almo't a ne\\ lllle of ch111a doseb and cllll111groom furmture on ehspla) 11 Grand RdP1d- 111Janua1 \ 1he1r d1splay, alway" good, pr01111ses to be better than e\ el Trade w1th th1s firm has been good nght along, amI 1'0 1mprO\- 111g "tead1lY J\Ir Mendelsohn 1S very opt1mbt1c and prec!Jch great th111gs for the furmture trade for several) ears The L C & W L Cron company are hav111g a fine t1ade III bed room furmture and \V1ll hay L many adc!JtlOns to -11('\\ 111Grand Rap1ds 111Januan Cron, K1lls & Co, report bU-,llles5 as eAcellent Thell wardrobes and desks are krD\\ n all over the countr) Everybody kno\\ '0 .J oe l'lesh and h1s 1111eot cl111111tldSble, made by the P1qua turlllture Compam of \\ Inch hc h p1e-1- dent "J oe" was east when the \\ eekh -\1th 111 man ccdled so he could not procure mu~h news, but Joe maybe depended on to have "ome to show III J anua1 y tl1dt \\ 111please the bm er.., One of the best des1gners 111Grand Rap1ds had JLht filll,hed three weeks' work 111the des1gn111g reom of the St0111po &- D uk hardt company of Dayton, \\ hen the Artisan man called, \\ hlLh 111sures them a great chsplay 111Chicago, at 1.319 :\11ch1gan ave-nue 111January ThJs company 1S famous for Roman chall, wh1ch have become almo"t a necess1ty 111every progressl\ e fUl-mture store. The Burkhardt FUl11lture Company hay e a ne\\ catalog 11,t from the pllnters wh1ch shows the best 1111eot patlo! dn I !J brary tables they have ever brought Dllt The cuts are fi 1C and the pnnt111g good, but not better than the tables themseh es They show at 1319 l\T 1ch1gan avenue, Ch1cago Dela\\are, OhlO, 1'0 a beaut1ful httle Clt) about ?j m1les north of Columbus and 1S noted for 1tS l\Iethodht college, \\ he1 e about 2,000 young men and mal dens are learn111lS to play tCDt and basket ball and get an educatlOn In one of the show \\ 111- dows 111a store I saw a p1cture w1th the motto, "Don't Let Your Stue!Jes Interfere \V1th Your College Work" The trouble \\ 1th the modern college 1S that 1t 1S cons1dered of more nl1portance to haze a young man till he 1S so near dead that he b cnppled for hfe than 1t 1S to budd h1111up to make a good and lheful man of hnn, and Delaware h no eAceptlOn to the rule Of course the faculty eh5clalll1 any respons1b1hty fm such barball-ties, but they are to that extent m1se1able fadures and 111case of a rehglOus schDol God w1ll hold them to account for every boy IIII I I ------------_._--------------------------------~ Foreign and Dom estic Woods. Rotary, Sliced, Sawed. \\ ho goes there w1th an honest 111tent to get an education and cames (:Jut manned and broken both 111body and sp1nt. But enough of th1s Dela\\ are has somethlllg else to be proud of, and that 1Sthe Deb\\ are Cha1r company where some of the best chan' are made Th1s 1S a large fa,:tory and many styles 111 double ccme chans and rockers bes1des dlllers and settees are 111the1r hne '1 hey have recently brought out a fine lunch cha1r, \\ 1th a b10ad arm such as 1S used 111the Bal±lll1ore lunch rooms all over the country They have deClded not to show at am eAh1b1t 111J anua1 y next Columbus, the home of a demoClatic gOvernor 111a repub- !lean stdte, 1'0 a fi,1e C1ty, thll d 111slze 111the stdte of OhlO (Bl.t don't tell thclt to a Toledo man unles;, yOU can beat Ty CDbb 111batt111g and runlllng- ) Two of the best th111gs 111Columblb dre the E, \1 Hulse Company and the Columbus Couch Com-pam It s a great heat to spend an hOUl w1th E 1\1 Hulse }------J\ 10 SPINDLE MACHINE ALSO \IADE Wl I H 12, 15 20 AND 25 SPINDLhS. DODDS' NEW DOVETAILING GEAR MACHINE ThlS lIttle machme ha.s done more to perfect the drawer work of furul ture manufa turers than anvthmg else 1U the furnIture trade For fifteen years It has made perfect fittmg ,eI mm proof dovetal1ed stock a pOSSI b111ty Thl~ has bt:en aCi...omplIshedat reduced cost as thf> machme cuts dove taIls III gangs of from 9 to .U at one operatwn It s what otheiS see about your bustne~s rather than what yOU say about It that counts In the cdsh dra\\er It ...the thrill of t-nthuslasm and the true nng of truth \OU feel and hear back of the cold type that makes you buy the thmg advertised ALEXANDER DODDS, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHICAN Represented by Schuchart & SchUll" at Berlm, Vienna, Stockholm and St Petersburg Reprt"sf'utedby Alfred H Schutte at Cologne. Brussels. LIege. Pans. Ml1anand Bllboa Represented to Great Bnban and Ireland by the OlIver Maclunery Co • F 5 Thompson, Mar. 201-203 Dean'aate, MaucheSter. Enaland WEEKLY ARTISAN r-------- ······ ----------------- . ............ ., LET US QUOTE YOU PRICES ON OUR OWN MANUFACTURE OF Circassian, Mahogany, and I I I II I,t ~...•.••..-•.•.•..•..•.......... Gum The Albro Established IB3B. W •• I ••• I •••• Oak, Poplar Veneers. Veneer Co. I I Ii1 .-'" CINCINNATI. O. . ... ... ...-_.~------_..------_._._.~.__.-.-_..._--..-_..-.... While he knows hIs own busll1ess to the last detal1 It is surpns-ing how he keeps ,,0 well posted on everybody's busmess, es-peClally that of his competitors Smce my last VISIt to thIS company he has bUllt a large addltion to the factory and has two large floors filled wlth machmery and now has set h1s pm'i for an output of $1,000,000 a year, and unless he IS killed m hIS au-tomobIle he wIll reach It EM's latest wnnkle IS a new dav-enport sofa bed, whIch he IS satisfied WIll make every other dav-enport bed WIsh It had legs hke an ostnch so it can nm away If" a good bed, one of the best, the only thll1g cheap about It bemg the pnce, and If the reader wants to know what that IS let hIm wnte for it J\Ir Hulse ha'i copynghted a name for It whIch IS "Hulsco," and that name Il1SUrb perfect gooel'i and entIre 'iatisfact1On The Columbu'i Couch Company IS makmg a fine h 1e of couches and sofas m leather and all the latest and best m plushe'i and tapestne", and 1S havmg a fine trade Cmcll1nati IS not only on the map, but very 11lLlChso. WhIle some of the other large towns Il1 the west pretend to thmk "httle old Cmcy" IS slow, when they come to show theIr hands they look pretty "punk" besIde her's. One who goes there once a year or such a matter, IS surpnsed by the Improvement" As a furmture town, CIl1Cll1natl has long had a reputat10n for mak-mg good furmture and the vanety cover.., everything Il1 the 1ll1e of household and office furniture Among th~ re-:ent changes 1" that of the Modern Furmture Company, G W Von Frange havmg succeeded Mr Tappe ll1 the management Mr Van Frange was for many years wlth J W Glanton, of Columbus, Ind, and comes to h1s new place thoroughly eqmpped for h1s task He WIll bnng out an entIre new lme of hat rack.., 111 Januarv, but WIll not show at any of the expos1t1Ons, though he may do so m July next HIs new 11l1e WIll consist of at least fifty patterns. The Sextro FurnIture Company reports a good trade and WIll have a lot of new d1l1ll1g tables to show the buyers Il1 Chi-cago next January. C. F StreIt & Co , WIll show theIr 1ll1e of upholstered furmture m the Leonard exh1b1tlOn bwldll1g, Grand RapIds, ll1 January It WIll be a good lme. The Standard Furmture Company, manufacturers of chalr", are domg a mce bus mess and wlll show as u"ual in the furmture exh1b1t1on buildmg, Grand Raplds, Il1 January The Stell1man & Meyer Company are among the leaders in dmll1g furmture m the west They always have somethmg to show m Grand RapIds, Il1 the furmture exhIbItion bwldmg that all buyers of good furmtre want to see The Stearns & Foste1 Company probably turn out more cotton felt mattresses than any other house m the countn. They have fine chsplays tWIce a year in Grand RapIds and ChI-cago, and m the latter CIty they have a large warehouse and keep a full hne not only for their ChIcago trade, wh1ch is very large, but also to fill orders from all over the northwest The Albro Veneer Company are havmg the finest trade they have ever had E. D Albro saId to the Weekly ArtIsan that they have Just receIved 120 log.., of the finest kmd of C1rcassian walnut wlllch 1S turmng out great In mahogany, both plain and crotch, they are nght up to date ThIS company IS bwld-ing up a fine busme,s m Grand RapIds among the leadll1g dealers Il1 fine furmture The U11lted State" Varmsh Company IS one of the oldest 111 CmCll1natl and has been makmg good varmsh so long that they have forgotten how to make the other kmd The Oh1O Veneer Company, Importe1 s of mahogany and foreIgn woods, have a very large stock of chOlce figured and plall1 mahogany veneer", and also a fine stock of C!rcasslan wal-nut and other fancy cabll1et woods. TheIr trade is reported excellent and growmg every day Prosperous Iowa Factories. Cedar RapIds, Iowa, Oct 14 -The A G. Eyles ChaIr com-pany, makers of the Eyles easy adjustable reclmll1g chaIrs, are planmng to bul1d a new plant, startll1g eIther thIS fall or next spnng, the volume of busmess bemg such that they are com-pelled to secure larger quarte1 s to meet their growll1g busmess, whIch was estabhshed three years ago and has doubled each year Sll1ce The new plant WIll be located on the west SIde of the nver alongsIde of the Rock Island tracks and will be 50x100 feet, three story structure absolutelY fireproof and to be com-pleted wlthm SlX months from the tnne the work of erectlon 15 begun. The Eyles Chalr company'" trade IS coming from all sect10ns of the Umted States One thousand copIes of theIr new fall catalog-a handsome productlOn-are now bemg sent out to the trade. The Amencan Manufactunng Company have Just completed a one story add1t1On of 36x62, to theIr plant, which IS to be used as a gluemg room and machme room The mam plant of the company IS 50x120 feet three stories Manager J F Leefers states that smce the estabhshment of the busmess eight y~ars ago there ha'i been a ..,teady ll1crease Il1 the volume of busmess and that thelr trade IS now comll1g from all sections D - -~---_.__._._._.-----.. . - --.. _.. -- .~ WABASH INDIANA iI~-----------_.-- --- - - - ._.- B. WALTER & CO. ~~ TABLE SLIDES Exclusively 1 ." WRITE FOR PRICES AND DISCOUNT or a low pflce for that matter, for faultl1y constructed, badly fin-l~ hed f11111lture111"hoo-doo" des1gns He wants a show for his mane, 16 WEEKLY ARTISAN ~UBL.ISHEO EVERY SATURDAY BY THE MICHIGAN ARTISAN COMPANY SUBSCRIPTION $1 eo PER YEAR ANYWHERE IN THE UNITED STATES OTHER COUNTRIES $2 00 PER YEAR. SINGLE COPIES 5 CENTS. PUBLICATION OFFICE, 108-112 NORTH DIVISION ST, GRAND RAP'DS, MICH, A. S WHITE, MANAGING EOITOR Entered as .. cond class matter Jnly 5, 1909, at the post office at Grand Raplds, Mlchlgan under the act of March 3, 1879 The tendency of pnces for matenals used 111the manufac-tunng trades 1S upward and as a matter of course pnce~ t01 products of the factones WIll be advanced The people are bnnging out the finanClal stllts from wh1ch they tumbled t\\ 0 years ago and are mountmg the ~ame confidently and fearlesslv A gentleman well tramed in busmess and noted for his actlv1h in pobtlcs expressed the opmlOn recently to the effect that mane, would be plenty and all lmes of busmess actlve untll the clo<e of the year 1911, when there w111be a tightenmg of the money mar ket and a consequent depresslOn m trade, to contmue untll after the pres1dentlal electlOn. The men who attend the finanC1al mIlls WIll continue to manage the pohtlcal affaIrs of the count1 \, in the opi11l0n of the finanCler quoted above Freight transportatlOn fac111tles and costs are important factors m the commerce of thh city and the problems of trans-portatlOn that anse reqUlre a specIal knowledge of the tl anspor-tation bus111ess that may only be acqmred through expenence and study The fur11lture manufacture1 s have made a good move by poohng theIr mterest 111the transportation mc.tter, es-tabbshing a traffic bureau and plac111g a competent man 111charge The manager of a factory w1th a capac1ty output of $300,- 000 annually, sold goods to the amount of $230,000 dunng the past twelve months and lost $10,000 on the oame The lobar cost of the goods amounted to 25 per cent The manufacture1 declares that an increase of 10 per cent 111the price of gooch is imperatlvely necessary and hopes the natlOnal assoc1atlOn \\ 111 order such an advance at Its annual mect111g to be held 111Ch1- cago a month hence. Sell111g agents should remember as a general proposition that buyers are no more friendly to one of theIr class than an-other. Their duty IS to buy advantageously for the firm, the indiVIdual or the corporatlOn they repre~ent and not to cement friendships. Are the manufacturers of Ameflca d0111g theIr duty to po,- terity and the nation 111the matter of educat111g the youth to succeed the foreman and superintendent that are naturally pass-ing away? Or will they cont111ue to employ men impo1 ted from the old world to fill vacancIes 111 their operat111g staffs) As a rule the 1etail dealer IS w1IImg to pa) a fair price for well made furniture. But he is not w1II111gto pay a fair price \ mercantIle assoc1atlOn 111 Kansas recently passed re~olu-tlons pledg111g the hearty support of the members to such manu- Llcturers who make pnces to consumers of theIr products, pro-v1ded the ~ame shall be based upon honest value cond1tlOns. C1rcass1an walnut is seldom used 111the construction of lodge and pulpIt fur11lture It IS not as sUltable for such purposes as mahogan) or oak and the cost of the material renders its use too e),.pen<1ve for the average frater11lty or sect. Dunng the commg year the manufacturing traders hope to avoid losses and earn a fair living out of the profits of their bus111ess The past two years have not been profitable as a rule. for manufacturers Detl O1t has a mov111g van ordmance reqUlflng movers of howehold goods to keep records of old and new addressf's of partles whom they serve One of the mercantlle assocIations of Toledo purposes the ImmedIate enforcement of a creellt llmit agreement adopted sev-eral months ago To know one\ competltors personally is one of the most valuable expenences a merchant or a manufacturer can gain There is trade for all that deserve it. Good prices for goorl goods increase the demand and give stability to the market The slo\\ pal reta1ler pays the most for his goods because his account 1S not des1red by the manufacturer or the jobber Detroit Factory Notes. Detro1t, Oct 1,) -The Palmer Manufactuflng company is rapidly recovenng from the effects of the fire that came so near mak111g complete clestructlOn of the1r factor) The large brick build111g wa~ not clamaged at all, and enough of the frame build-ing that was occup1ed by the P10neer Manufactuflng company was saved as to make It pOSSIble to operate a few machines The debns IS rapIdly be111g cleared away and a fine new brick bUlldm£; \\ III take ItS place, which WIll make the plant one of the finest 111Detr01t The lo..,ses by the fire were covered by in-surance and the compa11les WIll go on to hIgher th111gs In the bnck bUlld111gthere was a large sto-::k of tables whIch \\ 111enable them to fill many of theIr orders and by January first they hope to be 111better shape than ever before. The Possebus Bras Fur11lture l\Ianufactunng company re-port a rapId 1mprovement 111trade, and WIll have many new pat-terns to show 111January 111ChIcago, at 1319 Michigan avenue. The Humph1ey-\'\hdman Bookca..,e company are having a fine bus111ess and w111 1ssue a new catalog before the first of the year The) show in Grand Rap1ds, ChIcago and New York J C "WIdman & Co, ale hav111g a fine trade in hall and din-ing 100m furmturc \iVhen a man boasts that he never tells the truth, don't be-lieve him. He's an infernal lier. Tenn, has been 111the Grand Rapld~ furnIture market for the past week add111g to their stock whIch is running low under a bnsk fall trade The Furna:, Office and Bank Furmture company of Inc11- anapohs, has the contract for furmshmg quarter sawed oak desks, chaIrs, tables, etc, for the new government bmldmg at Colorado Spnngs, Colo CharIe" Hoertz & Son of thIS city have secured the con-tract for erectmg the adchtIOn to the S11gh Furmture company's plant The bmldmg IS to be 9Gx14± feet, four stories and base-ment and wIll cost about $23,000. The Gold Medal Camp Furmture company of Racine, Wis. who furmshed the camp parapherna11a for Roosevelt's Afncan expedItion, have receIVed a large order from the government for camp chaIrs, "tools, tables, etc. J. B. Marsh, a retIred fur11lture dealer of Rockford, Ill, who has reSIded m the CIty over fifty years, entered a court room for the first tune m hIS hfe, last vveek, when called as a witne,," m a case agamst some dlsorelerly boys. L. C Waterman & Son of Project Dale, l\lass, a firm that has been makmg tacks f.or uphol~terers for over fifty years has made an assIgnment to Mornll A PhIlhps The 111crease m the cost of Iron h gIven as the pnnclple cause of the failure At the annual meetmg of the E. Z Go-Cart company of Monroe, VVlS, on Oct 4, officers were elected as follows PreSI-dent, F. Kaplan, BelOIt, VIce preSIdent, D. S Klafter, Chicago, secretary, George Thorp, Monroe, treasurer, LOUIS Kohli, of Monroe. Alamando 13 Russ, a natlve of Hartford, Vt, and a reSI-dent of ChIcago S111ce18G8, dIed October 11. He was 80 years old. From the tIme of hIS advent 111ChIcago untIl 1874 he was engaged m the furmture busmes.." and follow111g that be became an undertaker F. C Hannahs has purchased the interests of hIS partners, the Jackson estate, m the firm of Hannahs & Jackson, owneF of the Kenosha (WlS) Cnb company The only change m the management \\111 be the retIrement of Frank L Jackson from the board of du ectors. T J Keveney & Co, importers of Imoleum and commiSSIOn dealer" m carpets and rug" at 907 Broadway, New York, are finanCIally embarrassed and are trymg to settle WIth theIr credI-tors WIthout court proceedmgs. TheIr 11abIhtles al e scheduled at $180,000, WIth assets estlmated at $-t8,000 They formerly had branches at Philade1plua, Pittsburg, ChIcago and Kansa" CIty, but have been gomg to the bad smce the pamc of 1907. MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND NEWS. Olson & Crawford are new undertakers in Duluth, Mmn T S 13radley has moved Ins furmture store from OXfOl d to Anmston, Ala W. H Feldman IS now sole owner of the Astoria (Ore.) Furmture company "The Fall" of BIsbee, Anz, has moved mto a new build-mg on Main street J r Davis & Son succeed Power" & Davis, furniture deal, r" of Grand JunctIOn, Iowa. Mrs Ella DIllon of Brookfield, Mass, is clOSing our ner stock of furmture and WIll quit the bllS111ess. The Hart MIrror Plate company wIll greatly enlarge their manufactunng faClhtles 111Grand RapIds. Loms chrelbels, undel taker of 946 Kinmkunic evenue, MIlwaukee, has been declared a bankrupt George Salter has taken charge of the furniture store form-erly owned by Jansky 13ros, m Depere, WIS. A petltlon m bankruptcy has been filed against the Stork 1m mture company of South Omaha, N ebr. Dora Levy has purchased the retaIl furmture business d I ~aac Goldberg, at 191 ColumbIa street, Brooklyn, N Y The Shannon Undertakmg company IS a new concern of ShelbyVIlle, Ky, that may put 111a stock of furmture later. The Baldwm Refngerator company, BurImgton, Vt, have doubled theIr capital stock-111creased from $75,000 to $150,000 The name of the G L Holmes Furniture company of Se-attle, Wa.,h, has been changed to the Century Furniture com-pany. The vVIlham l\I111er company, furniture dealers of Charles-ton, \V. Va., have sold out to Howard Marvm Jones and W. N. Jolhffe The Mendlan (1\llss) Furniture company ha" been incor-porated by WIlham 1\Ieads, J 1\1 WIlson and others. Capital stock, $50,000. The Pansh Furniture company, retaIlers of Columbus, Ohio, have Just moved into a new five-story bmld111g erected for them m l'\orth HIgh street. The Rollms Fur11lture company of Dexter, Me, have sold out to Hutchmson & Gates who wIll sell the stock on hand and close out the busmess. The French & Heald Funllture 1\Ianufactllring company OT MIlford, N H. are runnmg a part of their factory day and l11ght to fill rush orders The NatIOnal A"soclation of Funeral Directors at the con-ventIon Just closed at POI tland, Ore, named Detroit as the place for the meetmg next year The Little Rock (Ark) Board of Trade wants somebody to estabhsh a bank furmture factory m that city. Address George R. Brown, secretary The Metal Bed company of l\IIlwaukee, VVlS, are erectmg three adc11tIOns to theIr factory whIch WIll more than double the present capaCIty of the plant. The Art l\letal Company of Jamestown, N. Y, have se-cured the contract for supplymg $20,,'\00 worth of metal furl1l-ture for the new state capItol buildmg at Pierre, S D. C S J\Iam, buyer for the SchIpper & Block Furmture com-pany of Peona, Ill, has been m Grand Rapldo dunng the past week placmg order" for reple11lsh1l1g theIr stock of furl11ture A G J. Muller & Co, cabmetmaker.., of East Nmth street, New York, have been adjudged bankrupt. TheIr assets are in the hands of Walter J Hlrsch a" receIver Liabilltles, $1,178. Henry Ro"a, bUyer for Gottschalk & Co, of Chattanooga, -.....-..--._.- ..--~ House ( American Plan) Rates $2.50 and Up. Hotel Pantlind (European Plan) Rates $1.00 and Up. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. The Noon Dinner Served at the Pantlind for SOc IS THE FINEST IN THE WORLD. J. BOYD PANTLIND, Prop. ~----------------------------_ .._-------_ .._---~ ---_._--_.-_._-~ II 18 WEEKLY ARTISAN These Specialties are used all Over the World ."..-.----------_._._._------------------------ Veneer Presses, dIfferent kinds and sizes (Pstented) Veneer Presses Glue Spreaders Glue Healers Trucks, Etc" Etc. Hand Feed Clueing Machine (Patent pendma.) Many styles and sizes. Wood·Working Machinery and Supplies Power Feed Clue Spreading Machine, Smgle, Double and CombinatIon. (Patented) (Sizea 12 ID. to 84 In wIde.) LET US KNOW YOUR WANTS t~._._. _._._-----_._---------------------_._--- CHAS. E. FRANCIS COMPANY, Main Office and Works, Rushville, Indl . • • • ...A FROM THE SPORTSMAN'S PARADISE E. H. Foote Talks of Hunting, Fishing, Berries, Soil and Timber in Northern Newfoundland. "That's a "pm tsmen'" paradIse all nght, enough," saId E H Foote of the Grand Rdplds ChaIr Company, speakmg of northern K ev. fOllndlancl :\lr 1oote was a member of a Grand RapId, party of fOl11 who "pent foul week, on a tnp to the northern pen1l1~ula of the Island and returned la,t \\ eek "For canbou shootmg, hunt1l1g and fi,h1l1lS that countr) IS hard to beat,' contl.1Ued }\Ir Foote "\\ e were ver) 'oucces"ful though owmg to the late fall the v.eather wa, so \\all11 that m1- I HARDWOOD LUMBER I II~------ SAWED AND SLICED l QUARTERED OAK { VENEERS fAN 0 MAHOGANY r ii~t~U-LINDE'N 1 I Indianapolis I, Illinois and New York 8ts. I 6 Blocks from Umon Depot I 2 Blocks from Interurban Statton. t 2'\0 Rooms , All Outside, with Fire Escape I I elephone In every Room I Europe"n Plan , Rates 7'\c to $2 00 Per D ,y I Dmm,?; Room In ConnectlOn t :,peclal Kates to Famlhes I' and Permanent Guests I adles Traveling Alone wlll Fllld This a Very Desirable II Stoppmg Place GEO. R. BENTON I Lessee and Manager t ~______________ _-4 No.6 Glue Heater. ...-_... ... . gl atlOn of the a111mals had hardly started when we left Each of our part) secured a trophy-a cdnbou head We sent them to Bangor :\Ie. to be mounted and they ~hould arnve here 111 abont a month I enjoyed every m111ute of the time we spent on the 1~lal1(1,and I th1l1k the same IS true of the other member~ ot the party "That countr) IS rongh and the SOlI is very hght Mo"t of the tll11bel IS ~prnce It doe" not grow large enough for lumber but I~ used for pulp wood It grow" rapHlly and with proper management WIll yIeld a cont111Llous harvest There s ~ome bIrch and p111ebut the trees are very "mall Ther~'s no oak or other hard woods, but there h an abundance of mounta111 ash such as we use here on our lawn~ It grows natura,lly there and the trees are loaded WIth ben 1e~ v.hlch are eaten by bears It IS a land of berrIes \Vhen we were there-we ar-n\ Cd on September l:5-there were plObablY mIllIOns of hl1ckle-berne~ on the bmhe~ The l11ounta111a"h IS known a~ the dog-berry up there There IS an enormous amount of pulp wood there and as \ et comparatively httle of It has been cut, but It may soon be ut1hzecl \ aJt trac:t'o of the land have been acqmrecl by Amer- Ican a'1d European ~ynchcates and much IS held by firms and 1l1chVldual owners \bout b;) 1111le~from where we were hunt- 1l1g an Enghsh ~ynchcate has e"tabh~hed pulp Imlls and are put-t1l1g 111 large paper mIlls They eVIdently propose to make the n ost of theIr tImber by work1l1g It mto fimshed product before ~hlpment It WIll cost no more to shIp It to European ports than to send It to '\ ew YOlk or Bo~ton, and most of It WIll prob-abh go acrms the \tlantlc" No Idle Cars Now. The fortl11ghtly bullet111 of the \mencan Railway Associa-tion, I",ued October H, made It more certa111 than ever that the talk of ldle cars on the rd1lroacls of the Ll11tecl .state~ wIll "oon be a th1l1g of the pa~t In the two v. eeb ended September 29 there \v dS a further reclu:tlOn of about .33,000 111 the number of surplus cal~, reclnc111g to oS,80lJ the net number of Idle freight Cdrs 111 the ~ mted State~ and Canada At the openmg of Sep-tember there were 10G.OOO Idle cars, early 111July there were 239,000 :\t the pre,ent rate of reductIOn the next fortl11ghtly ~tatement, or at leac,t the one after that, WIll ~how a shortage 111- steacI of a surplu" of fl eIght cars At the heIght of the bU01- ne~s cIepresslOn 111 the spnng of 1908 there were m the U111ted ::-'tate, abont GOO,OOO Idle cars, 1l1c1ud1l1g 200,000 awalt111g re-paIrs WEEKLY ARTISAN AM[RICAN BWWER COMPANY "SIROCCO" ANY EFFICIENT GENERATOR direct connected to an " ABC" SELF OILING ENGINE will electric light your plant) run fans) etc.) and if you are now bu~ing current, will pay you in savIng 25% PER ANNUM TRADE MARK 'ABC" SELF OILING ENGINES are generating thousands of kilo-watts all over the world, and each engine is paying for itself every year in savings of fuel and oil. (Exhaust Steam is Available for Heating and Drying) (Wrtte for proof of abofle.) ThIS plant running In IQUITOS, PERU. WE DIRECT CONNECT TO ANY GENERATO~ WE WILL GLADLY QUOTE YOU, WITHOUT OBLIGATING YOU TO BUY GENERAL OFFICES, DETROIT, MICH. NEW YORK PHILADELPHIA PITTSBURC ATLANTA How Harriman Boomed Express Stock. While Frank H. Platt of the UnIted States Express Com-pany was testdvmg the other day that E H. Harnman had been the real buyer of the 22,028 "hares of UnIted States Express stock whIch he took over m hIS own name from the Adams and Amencan Expres" treasunes earlIer m the year, Wells- Fargo company sold 100 shares of the UnIted States stock on the Ex-change at 35G};j., whIch, mc1udIng the dIVIdend of 5 per ce lt, paId la"t ;,ummer, or an advance of 31}:i: pOInts SInce the last ~ale, made some tIme In .:vIay i\ maJonty of the Umted States E"press "hareholder" have been fightIng for about three years to get somethIng lIke the return they thmk the company IS cap-able of earnIng, and have even been wIllmg, after vam endeavors to bnng about a change m management, to have the com-pany lIqUidated When E H IIarnman wa~ opposmg the movement for a larger clIvldeml on \!\T ells- Fargo In 190G, \Vlll-lam Nelson Cromwell urged en the stockholders the value of Mr Harnman's connectIon WIth the companY, and begged for patience WIth hiS po!Jclec,. Smce then the stock has nsen from around 300 to 330};j., diVIdends have been paId at an advance of 2 per cent from the aIel rate, and earnmgs have Increased WIth lIttle fallIng off because of the panIc. The Umted State, Expre~s shares have now been transferred and are the property 0; the Harnman estate Must Enlarge Their Plants. Fanbault, MInn, Oct l± -The Peter~on Art FurnIture Company, John Peterson, propnetor, are contemplatmg the bUIldmg of a new plant next summer, the pre"ent bUIldIng to be used as a warehouse. The new plant WIll be about 70xlOO feet three ,tones, bUIlt of concrete and absolutely fireproof. The CHICACO ST. LOUIS SAN FRANCISCO SEATTLE 19 motIve power WIll be electl iCIty. The plant of the Peterson Art FurnIture Company, as well as the WatervIlle FurnIture Company, WIth whIch Mr Peterson IS also actIvely connected, are now both crowded beyond theIr pre"ent capaCIty to keep up with their orders The volume of bUSIness of the Peterson Art FurnIture Company IS up to the present tIme twenty per cent ahead of 1908 and each year S1l1cethe estab!Jshment of the bUS1- ness has Wltnessed a substantial m::lease over the precedmg one D- -------- ------- ------- - ~ -- ~-------~~._----- ---------- -_._--- f - We Manufacture tlte Largest Line of rOlDIM (nAIDS ln the United States, SUItable for Sun day Schools, H aIls, Steam-ers and all publIc resorts We also manufacture Brass Tnmmed I r 0 n Beds, Sprmg Beds, Cots and Crlbs m a large varIety Send for Catalogue and Prtces to KAUffMAN MFG. CO. ASHLAND, OHIO ~------------ -_._ ... ~ ._ .!. 20 WEEKLY -----'------------------....-----.., I III III I II IIIII III IIII ... Schultz & Hirsch Co. Manufacturers of HIGH GRADE BEDDING Feathers, Feather Pillows, Downs, Etc. Upholstered Box Springs and Curled Hair Mattresses a Specialty 1300~1308Fulton St. Corner Ehzabeth st. CHICAGO ~_._. Branch Factory, Hammond, Ind. ... ~- _._------ ----- II I II .,.. - ---- .._. - ----- ----------------_.,-_ ...I. ARTISAN An Adams & Elting Idea. Back in '49 they came out we~t m pralne schooner". Now we have the twenheth century l1l11lted. We used to use the blo,," er and "andpaper and glass to 1emove old, hard coats of pamt and '\ armsh f\ ow we have "Ad-el-lte" Clever mmds are \\ orkmg every day to Improve and lessen the work in the blg furmture factones-the Improvements whlch lllcrease the yearly dlvldends Heretofore, manufacturers m order to secure the beautiful effect of fumed oak were obhged to subject the wood to the tedlOU5 and expensIve, actual fummg process. Now we have new process fumlllg hqLUd, producmg on any oak re~ults equal m every respect to those obtallled by the old system. :\' ew p10cess fummg hql11d is manufactured exclus1vely by the A..dams & Eltmg company, whose wood fimshmg matenals probably enJoy the greatest populanty of any SImIlar goods on • ~ I By Otto Jlranek, Furmture Deslgner, Grand Raplds. Mich. the market TheIr mahogany a" well early Enghsh stams are probably more extens1vely med than anythmg else for the pur-pose The apphcahon of new process fummg hqmd to any oak acts WIth the aCIds m the wooel and pLOcluces that pecuharlY beauhful effect known as fumed oak The hqmd has no ch::- agreeable odor and IS harmless It has a tendency to stnke mto the wood but doe" not change colors m the pores, all the hIgh ltghts bemg retamed m nch, dark shades Nothmg af-fects the fimsh whIch may be thoroughly sandpapered WIthout fea1 of cuttmg through A great vanety of shade~ are producable by varymg the quant1ty of wate1, wh1ch may be u:-ed m thmnll1g. If the depth of color des1red lS not obtamed with one coat a second produces perfect results 1he hqmd 1:0 merely spread on freely w1th a ~oft brush, allowed to dry thoroughly and IS then sandpapered and shellaced after wh1ch the apphcatlOn of Ad-el-1te fimshmg wax puts the fi11lshll1g touches on a perfect Job. Each season bnngs somethll1g new and valuable from the Aclam~ & Eltll1g company Wh1Ch bears the stamp of quality that h a guarantee to the purchaser. WEEKLY ARTISAN 21 Lack of Uniformity in Golden Oak. ·What'" the tlouble wIth the golden oak finish known as the Grand Rapids standal d ? Is It dIfficult to make the finish Uni-form 111 drfferent factOrIes or are some of the manufacturer" purposely IgnOrIng the agreement to mamtaIn the uniform stan-dard? These questIOn, were put to John Mowat of the Grand Rapids ChaIr company after the 'vVeekly A.rtIsan had been In-formed that there ha:, been conSIderable complaining about the faIlure of the Grand Rapids manufacturers to maIntam uniform- Ity m regard to finiohe:, that was agreed upon a few years ago It seems there has been no trouble about mahogany, weathered oak or fumed oak but the golden oak standard has been fre-quently dbregarded. 'vVhen the matter was put up to Mr. Mowat as above stated he said "The trouble comes mostly from the dealers or from their customers Every httle whIle we get an order for something dIfferent from what you call the Grand RapId" golden oak stan-dard. Somebody wants something a httle hghter or a little darker; they send in samples and we have to make the finish to "Ult them and that causes confusion. "Of course there are dIfficultIes in keepIng the finish uni-form They can be overcome but I wIll not say it can be clone easIly You may take a board from a tree that grew on low land ancI It wIll be dark, dense and hard when dry, whIle an-other grown on hIgh, dry land may be hghter and more porous It IS dIfficult to finish the two so they WIll look exactly ahke, but it can be done WIth proper care amI watchfulness When the lumber run" all ahke thel e IS httle dIfficulty but It IS not of umform appearance m its natural state and It b sometImes very dIfficult to match the boal cIs. The dark, dense wood does not take the color "0 readIly a0 the hghter wood and sometimes it changes "hghtly after being finished "WIth the proper care and attention, however, there should be no great dIfficulty m mamtaining umformity In golden oak" Forestry at Biltmore. In point of varIety and .,cope the forest work done on the Vanderbilt estate, BIltmore, In North Carohna, IS remarkable. The forests, whIch cover 130,000 acres, are made profitable by the productIon of varIOUS kInds of material. Four mIlhon feet of lumber, 5,000 cords of tannic-acId wood and fuel, a thousand cords of tan bark, and several hundred cords of pulp wood are cut every year. At the same tIme the forest, through WIse management, h bettered and IS steadIly Increasing in value vVorkmen employed along the boundarIes of the forest do duty as fire guard'> Thus fire protectIOn IS secured at least through-out all the acceSSIble parts of the tract. In connectIOn WIth all lumbenng operations permanent log-ging roads are bUllt These mInImIZe the present cost of trans-portatIOn, and WIll greatly reduce the co.,t of marketIng future crops Thus the extenSIOn of the roads IS steadl1y addmg to the mve"tment value of the forest Moreover, they serve also as a network of fire lInes Forest plantmg IS practIced where fire WIll not threaten ItS su-::ces" The experImental work In SIlVIculture whIch is done at BIltmore IS certaIn to make nl1porta 1t addItIOns to the SCIence and practIce of forestry People who are weIghed In the balance and found wanting always complaIn that the scales are out of order. Most of us are more ready to lend our ears to scandal than to lend a hand. ------_. ----------_.~._--~._._----~ "SMOOTH COOK" NOT MADE WITH RESERVOIR FOR COAL SQUARE TOP ONLY Smooth castmgs, smooth pattern, smooth pnce and profit Just what a live dealer orders to meet live compefIllon Are you 10 lme? Fun DIckel tnmmed, DIckel oven shelf, DIckeltowel rod knobs, etc Large ash pan. flat shaking grate, a perfect baker, made m two SIzes Note dew scnptIon and pnce Pn" $8.5 .. 1 ....•i No. 816 .... ..•••. Price $7.50. No 818 ., Terms, F. O. B Chicago, 2', 10 days. 60 days. SEND FOR CATALOGUE W. D. SAG ER, 48a-497 No. Water Sl., CHICAGO. '---- .- _. ----_._.~_.._--_.. .. ..... ,.... I ...._--------_.--------_ . ... These saws are 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 ns for Price Llst and disconnt 1.....I 31-33 S. Front Sf., ORAND RAPIDS, MICH. ~, --------------_.... .. --------- ... UNION FURNITURE CO. ROCKFORD, ILL. China Closets Buffets Bookcases We lead m Style, Con~rudion and Fmlsh. See our Catalogue. Our Ime on permanent exhibI-tion 7th Floor, New Manufact-urers' BUlldmg,Grand Rapids. I1•..._. II - _-- .. _. ~ 22 WEEKLY ARTISAN -----~~~~~-------_._-----_.--.-.-_-.- ---_._---- ----_._------- -. ... ._. _.- ..., THIS IS THE MACHINE That BrinJ!s letters like the FoliowinJ!: BUSS NEW No.4 CABINET PLANER The Buss Machine Works are havIng marked success with this new design of cabmet planer. The new method of beltmg-feed gears machIne cut-together with the steel spnng sectional front feed roll and the late new sectional chipbreaker, make a cab11let planer second to none on the market today. The Buss Machine Works are old manufacturers of cab11let planers and other \\oodworking tools, and keep abreast With the times with machmes of great effiClency Woodworkel s of all k11lds will not make a mistake by writing direct or to their nearest selling representatlVe regarding any point on up-to-date cabinet planers. These are the days when the live woodworker wants to cut the expense of sanding HOLLAND, MICH. BUSS MACHINE GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Buss M c"~ne Wo"'ks. I10 lllnd, Jl1ch GS"lt.lelllenl We 1118'1.to cOJ:lpllmant you on t.he worlung of Jour new #4. l'laIUlr JUSt .1lstal1ed rot I..S This machine does he best work of any plane» We have eve" seen. ancl we are fra. tit t.o sa, 110 l!I.uch oe"O'\,"'1' than 'tie E1xpected. t.h«l. our torelllB.n SEttd he 1I1mplJ could not. get along ~lthout. It.,and Was sure It. woUlO pay the prloe or itself' wlt.hln a YfJur 1n wo!'k 'in ad on IIlachlnea followlq. Wishing JOu dese"'ved success with 1.11.18new pa tel"n. v e remalo. Yours vet' J truly. Robbins Tuble Co WORKS ~. _. _. --~--- --------_._~----------~. . - .- .----_. -_. -..--- - -----~ Merchants' and Manufacturers' Exchange. Charles E Spratt has sent out a large tolder fin lllg a lot ot lIlformatlOn about the :l\ew York IIercl1dllts' cmd IIauutac-turers' Exchange of which he ,,\as the prolPoter and IS now the general manager The folder (drneS a fi Ie PlctUi e 7xl ± lIlche~, of the Exchange buildlllgs, and a map of the same "Ize shO\\ mg their locatIOn and the pnnClpal hoteL, theatre'i, parb, squares railway tenmnal" and tran'iportatlOn 11l1e~m the city north ot Fourth street and west of Second avenue up to Central Park As to what the Exchange plam to do for the manufacturer, the folder says "Pnmanly, It purposes to bnng every buy er that come" to thiS great traders' J\Iecca-N ew York-111to hb sample loom, anel bnng him there first How) ({Fzrst· By thOlough and constant advertis1l1g of the Ex-change and Its attractIOns, which IS regarded by the manage-ment as one of ItS most Important functlOlb, ailel one to whIch great attention WIll be gIVen The Journal<; represent1l1g all -., t, IIII ---~ I Adopted by the Grand Rapids Furniture Assoclallon are produced With our: Golden Oak Oil Stain No. 1909, Filler No. 736. Early English Oil Stain No. 55, Filler No. 36. Weathered Oak Oil 5tai;, No. 1910. Mahogany Stain Powder, No.9, Filler No. 14. I Fumed Oak (W) Stain No. 46. I.. GRAND RAPIDS WOOD FINISHING 5559 Ellsworth Ave GRAND RAPIDS, MICH CO. .......... - ... -----_ ..... tl ade~ \\ III be contmuouslY used so as to, keep the Exchange and It:o mterests con'itanth before the mercantile community of both thiS counti) dnd Furope, to the end that d cont1l1UOUSancl 1l1H~ht) sti edm of buy ere, throughout every season, and from ev-er) p lrt of the WOllel, '" ill be drawn to It ( S (cond Dy ma111ta1l1111ga complete cdrel llldex of the buy-er" accustomed to vIsiting K ew York and reachmg them person-all) b\ mail regulaily With convmclng stateme~1ts of the thmgs lIlterestlllg to them at the Exchange, aucl e~peclally Just prevlOUS to the a~cu.,tomed penod of theIr VISIts to market, WIth speCIfic lish of new thmgs a\\alting theIr nrpectlOn on ItS floors , Th 11 d B) calling upon them at theIr hotel upon al nval and ronductmg them to the Exchange by an automobile servi,e w'uch 1\ 111 be mallltameel dt all tunes fOl thIS purpose, and which wdl meet an) tram at an} statlon at any tune requested by mail or \\ Ire by a vhlting buyer. ({TOluth By mdmtam1l1g a complete club and restaurant ser-vice 111 the bUlldmg where every comfort and conve'uence will be prOVided "L\.ncl all thiS Without cost to the manufacturer other than a rental little more than he would pay m an isolated salesroom \\ here he must attract each buyer by hIS own efforts ., :\s to what the Exchange Idea stands for to the buyer the folder declares "It \\III save hml the enormous labor of searchmg out the '\ nlel) "eparated Imll'i, factones and sample rooms now 'icat-tel ed throughout Kew York, and some of them in othpr rlties , It Will slmplif} hIS work, saving hIS tune and energy, en ablmg hIm to accomphch m an hour what now takes a clay, at least "It Will give the buy er (whose lines are governed by fash- IOn) an authontative forecast of the changmg styles, and en- WEEKLY ARTISAN CHOICE TOOLS FOR FURNITURE MAKERS If you do not know the "Oliver" wood working tools, you had better give us your address and have us tell you all about them. We make nothing but Quality tools, the first cost of which is considerable, but which will make more profit for each dollar invested than any of the cheap machines Hood-ing the country. Oliver Tools Save Labor "Ohver" New Variety Saw Table No. 11 W,ll take a saw up to 20" dIameter Arbor belt IS 6" WIde Send for Catalog "B" for data on Hand Jointers, Saw Tables, Wood Lathes, Sanders, Tenoners, Mortisers, Trimmers, Grinders, Work Benches, Vises, Clamps, Glue Heaters, etc., etc. OLIVER MACHINERY CO. Work. and General Office. at 1 to 51 Clancy St. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., U. S. A BRANCH OFFICES-OilYer Machinery Co., Hudson Terminal, 50 Church St, New York. Obyer Machinery Co , Fmft National Bank Budding. ChIcago. Ill, Obyer Machinery Co , PaCIfic Budding, Seattle, Wash, Obyer Maclunery Co , 201-203 Deansgate, Manchester, Eng able him to anticipate far enough ahead to save hU11from worry or loss. "It will bring to hi" attentIOn products and factone" that may be new to him and put hU11111 Immediate touch with chang- 1l1g c{)nditlO11Sin many l1l1e" that through lll11lted tll11e he might fail to see if they were shown 111 scattered sales rooms "In effect, It wIll concentrate hiS work and enable him to make compansons and selectIOns much more quickly and In-telhgently than If he had to go all dbout town, 111all k1l1d, of weather, and With tIme press1l1g upon hll11 "It wIll locate him 111 a headquarters {)f Impos111g digl11ty and marked convel11ence, 111 the heal t of K ew York, together with the comforts of a first-class club, Without cost to hll11 or his firm, surrounded by the best hotels in the wor1c1, on the (h-r. ct hnes of transit from every directIOn" The folder Will be of mterest a" well as use and convel11- ence to manufacturers and merchants who expect to VISit New York at any tU11e About 20,000 have been sent out and a card addressed to Raymond B KeatIng, secretary New York Furni-ture EAchange, Will bnng a copy to any apphcant A Sunken Garden. Wlthm recent years the manufacturers of Grand Rapids have expended money lIbel ally 111 the Impmvement of the grounds surround1l1g their plants. i\mong the factories Eltu-ated among bed, of flowers, chmbers and hedges al e those of the Wlddlcomb Furl11ture company, the Macey company, the Michigan Chair company, the Grand Rapids Chair company and the Luce Furl11ture company The factory of the Impenal Fur-niture C{)J11panyIS located on a ten acre tract, a conSiderable part of which IS not occupied as yet. Manager F. S. Foote has 44 Time "OLIVER" No. 16. Band Saw 36Inche •. Made WIth or wIthout molor dnve Metal table 36/1x 30/1 WIll take I 8/1 under the gUIde- tilts 45 degrees one way and 7 degrees the other way Car ~ nes a saw up to t %" WIde Outside beanng to lower wheel shaft when not motor driven WeIghs 1800 Ibs when ready to shiP " Tempers " Cost 23 determllled to use a part of the tract for a sunken garden The land lIes adjacent to Korth and Scnbner streets and when de-veloped Its attractIOns Will be plalllly VISible to p:lssers Sev-eral acre" of nch, low land Will be Improved dnd no expense wIll be spared necessar) to make It worthy {)f the comp:lny The proposed John \!Vlddlcomb park adJOIn" the tract on the east. i\dchtlOnal warehouses Will be erected by the Imperial com-pdny In the near future Old House Exhibits Old Bed. A grand bedstead of heavy -,olJd mahogany IS belllg shown by Scarntt-Comstock Furlllture company of St LOUIS, Mo It took first premium at the St LoUIS fair III 1860, the year that Klllg Edward VII (then Pnnce of vVale,) viSited St U:JUIS The bed was exhibited by the Scarntt furlllture house, then-as now-the leadlllg house in their lIne. i\fter the fair, It wa~ sold by Rmsell Scarntt, the founder, III 1839, of the Scarntt- Comstock company, to the father of Thomas Voorhees, of Ver-n{) n avenue, who offered the handsome old piece to show how good the qualIty {)f Scarntt furlllture was after fifty years of use. A number of the older reSident" who have looked at the bed remember It 111 the wooden bUlkllllgS of the fair, which were soon used for barracks fOI tho Umon soldiers {)f the Cnl1l war. Improvement in the West. C S Dexter of the Impenal lurmture company, Gland Rapids, returned from a tour of the PaCific coast recently ITe reports a marked l111pmvement III the furmhu e trade III the northwest 24 WEEKLY ARTISAN The L. Mac E. Fumed OaK Acid Stain fumes the wood equal to a Fumed BoxQ Larly English Stain No. 1719 and No. 506 Filler. Weathered OaK Stain No. 1725. They are the Standard Shades. SEND FOR FINISHED SAMPLES THE LAWRENCE-McFADDEN COMPANY PHILADELPHIA, PA. N ?.. ~ .------..-- ~i ~ ~;--;~~~-~~--;r=:jf HI tf~ -" " ------ ...-..-... ; " IIUI ;::,- ,< .It'!::!l .y! .. ..- h"1 ~- ..... ! " ., -~ CORPORATION INCOME TAX LAW. Experts Say It Will Be Impossible to Eniorce It in Its Present Form. J F Starrett and l' Cullen Roberb, 1espectl\ ely pi eSlClent and secretary of the Amellcan A'3S0clatlOn of Pubhc -\ccount-ants have sent out a letter to member'3 of theIr orgal11ZatlOn 111 regard to the corporatIOn 1I1come tax law wIth the hope, as they say, "that a careful study of the law and Its provblOns may be promoted, whICh may, possIbly, lead to matenal amendment at the next sessIOn of congl ess whIch opens 111 Decembel" -\fter mentlOl11ng the necessIty of pubhc accountants fanllhallzing themselves wIth ~uch a law, and the "somewhat vague phraseol-ogy and altogether unusual provIsIons of the act," the letter states that Important legIslatIOn IS usually enacted by cong \ ess only after careful conslderatlon and full chscusslOn 111 both hou"es of congress, as well as OUblde "The corporatIOn tax law," the letter goes on, ''chd not lun the gauntlet 111 tIm, nunner In a few short week:, edtel Ih fu"t appearance as an amendment to the tanff bIll It became a part of the law of the land ~ven 11 the buef tUlle dey oted L Ih cOllSlderatlOn, but httle dttentlOn seem~ to have been paId to the proVlSlOllS of the law relatIve to the method of deten11l111ng the amount upon whIch each COIporatlOn IS to be asse~~ed ., The sIgners of the letter regard It as eVident that the law passed "without suffiClent con~lderatlOn havmg bee 1 gIVen to It to 111sure d proper regard for the bus1l1ess, eConOlTI1Cand ac-count111g pllnClples 111volved" A, an example of the ambIgUIty of the act, IS cIted a sentence 111 the paragraph, 111 whIch one of the Items to be deducted ft om the gros~ 111come of a corporatIOn 111order to determ111e Its net 1I1come IS "all the ordinary and necessary expenses actually paId wlth1l1 the year out of 1I1come Mission Oak Finish8s 111 the ma111tenance and operation of its bu"il1ess and properties." (ThIs I eqUlrement," the slgnel s of the letter argue, "neces-sanly bnngs up questIOns of 111ventones whICh are very senou'3. It \\ III be Ullposslble to comply with the law as It reads" "It IS ObVIOlb:' the letter goes on, "that the peculiar pro-y1~ lOn relatIve to the baSIS of taxatIOn found 111 the corporation tax law places a great and altogether needless burden upon the COIpo ratIOns of the country "There IS, however, another effe~t which should receive the attentlOn of members of congre~s, and that is the certain loss of revenue to the government that Will result from thb fOlm of dsses~ment The dIfficultIes placed 111 the way of mak- 1I1g a correct I eturn WIll very naturally 111 all cases of doubt be resoh ed by honest corporatIOn offiClals 111theIr own favor, while unscI upulout> men \\ III find It an ea~y matter to make a return that WIll enable them to evade the payment of the tax 111 whole or 111pal t Taxes upon 1I1come~ have always proved to some extent chfficult of collectIOn, but the hIstory of the income tax 111 England plOve" conclUSIvely that so far dS corporatlOns are concerned an mcome taA can be framed and achlll11lstered m a mannel that I, ellUltable to the government and not t1nrea~on-ably bm den,ome to the corpordtlOn0 ., The letter concludes WIth an appeal to the membert> of the a,,~oC1atlOn to urge amendment of the present law upon their vanous representatlves 111the tvvo houses of congress, and to bnng- the subject to the attentIOn of cbents and busmess ac-quamtances generally Gervurtz Brothers of Portland, Oregon, are g1V111gaway fifty-four pIece semI-pOl celam d1l1ner set" to purchasers of goods valued at $33 00. WEEKLY ARTISAN 25 New York Markets. Ne\'l York. Oct 13 - Turpentme advanced to 62 cents early in the week. but IS now down to 61 and the market IS dull today Savannah quote~ turpentme firm at 57;/z cenb Furthel mcrease for the demand for 1111seedall has been noted dunng the \'leek and the market IS firmer without any change 111card pnces, whIch are based on 5G@37 cents for v,est- By Otto A. Jiranek, Furmture DeSIgner, Grand Rapids, Mich ern raw With a cent adcled "uccesslvely for CIty raw, single bOlled and double bOlled, the latter bemg h~tecl at 59@<JOcents Shellac IS movmg m only moderate volume, the transactlOn~ rarely exceechng 10bbmg proportlOllS T N 111cases IS quote" at 15@I5Y2' bnght orange grade~, I7@20, finer orange gradb, 25 doz Clamp FIxtures bought by one mIll last year. We shIp on approval to rated firms, and guarantee our goods uncondl4 honally. Wrtte for It8t of Steel Bar Clamp8, Vtse8, Bench StOP8, etc E. ". S"ELDON &. CO. 283 Madison St. Chicago. I . .. 2I@22 Diamond I. 23@26 Bleached, I7@I7;/z KIln dned, 2I@22 Demand for varl1lsh gLlm contmue" remarkably hght for thiS season of the year, melters apparently buymg their supphes from day to day and they are domg a very hght btbmess Quota-tions Kaun No 1, 40@48 cents, };"o 2, 22@25, No.3, 16@ IS cents Mal1lla pale, 14@lS; dark, hard, I2@14; amber, I3@ 13 Zanzibar, pure whIte, 'I3@~O cenb J\IeAlcan goat ShJn" are reported as active and advancmg at shlppmg pomts Here the entire market 13 weak and dull WIth the eAceptlOn of the be::.t grades of Cordova::. and South Amen-cans l\IexIcan frontIer~ are stIll quoted at 3.3 cents. Paytas, 42, Bueno::. l\yres, 42@±J, HaItIen~, H, Curacao, 52@52Y;. Cordage IS steady under a good demand Some manufac-turers are reported to have refused to accept orders for future delivery, thus IdIcatmg an expected advance m pnces Large orders for tW111ehave been placed recently 1n(lIa twme, Nos. 4Y; to G, IS quoted at 9;/z@10 cenb, lIght, 8Y;@9, fine, No 18, 11@11Y;, B C twme, No 1R, IG@16Y; cent~. The burlap market ha" taken a deCided ::.lump dunng the past week Pnces have gone rlown to ,353 for eIght-ounce and 450 @4 55 for ten-ounce goods and yet buyers refuse to take hold though It IS reported that an attempt to form a pool to force lower pnces ha::. proved a failure The Calcutta mal ket IS re-ported slo\'l and weak. The hardwood lumber markets are stIll un::.ettled, quotations, even of recogmzed grade~, varymg so WIdely as to make them valueless as a baSIS for estlmat111g condItIons A slackel1lng of demand for the better grades of oak IS reported from some p0111ts 111the ~outh and middle we~t, but generally speak111gthe demand for all grade" IS blISk WIth a tendency to an advance In pnces INDIANA No. 57 Flat Arm Rocker RICHMOND CHAIR CO. Richmond Tablet Arm Chair DOUBLE CANE LINE "SLIP SEATS" - the latest and best method of double seating. Catalogues to the Trade. RICHMOND -~~---~~-_._~--_.~---_._-~~_.-__._-.-.--_-._-.---._-.-----_. - ...- - - _. _ ....,. No. 100 26 WEEKLY ARTISAN WEEKLY ARTISAN' Each Net SINGLE CONE ALL STEEL SPRINGS Are very popular with the Furniture Trade. $2~ $2~ Each Net No. 46, Single Cone, $2 Each, Net. We manufacture a full line of Single and Double Cane All Wire Springs. SEND US YOUR ORDERS. SMITH &, DAVIS MFG. CO., St. Louis Don't Take Anything For Granted. "It don t pay to take anythmg f01 granted," remarked the ) oung travehng sale'imen "Explam the thmgne'is of the h, abjurcd the veteran "ale~- man "\Vell, It'S JU'it hke thIs," contmued the younger man "Bec,nt,>c a fellow ha'i been turned :lWdYby a buyn thIrteen tImes he should not conc-lude that It IS meless to call on that buyer the fourteenth tm1e vVhy, I know a man wIth nothmg to sell, an ddvertIsmg 'iOhCltor wIth an unattractIve proposItIOn, who called upon a mdnufacturer fourteen tImes m as many days ancl secured a c:ontI act on the occaSIOn of hIs last call" "vVhat I~ It? Proceed'" ImpatIently '>ugge'itcd the old salesman "I have a fnencl m Chlc,lgO \\ ho formerly sold at least twenty good hou"e" m that cIty Fmally he concluded that J ohn ~ Thomp'ion "had It m" for hn11, a 1d dbcontmued hI'i call 1 hen 1\11ller, of 11aI,hall, FIeld & Co, my fnend Imag- 111ed,refused to take any mtcre'it m hI'i hne and he thought he would cave <hoe leather by ,tay111g away HIs next conclu- '>IOn \va'i to the effect that Tom Smyth wa-o purcha<mg goods cheaper than he could sell them, so the fat, mercunous, Jolly baseball lovmg 'Tom' was era"ed from hIs calhng h'it ArKl so It contmued untIl my fnend ha'i Ju~t one customer m the great cIty of ChIc-ago JUA thmk of the many mllhom of dol-lars worth of furmture oold 111ChIcago every year and yet my fnend sell'i to one small buyer The trade 1~ there The fault he'> WIth the man" "vVould you mmd takmg up for Immechate con'iideratIOn your proposItIOn m regal d to 'the thmgne~" of the I'i," the stIll impatIent veteran 'ialesman remarkecl "I travel, a'i yOU know, the mIddle we'it terntory In one of the ~IIs ,oun nver towns m whIch more than twelve good dealers dwell, It ha'i been by custom to call on three There was one buyer on my tabooed li'>t of whom I entertamed fond recollectIOn", but for several year'i I had been unsuccessful m my sohCltatIOl1S and had cut hIm out I had a few hours loo'ie tIme on my hand" on the o-::ca.,IOn of my la'it sOjourn in his faIr cIty and concluded I would walk 111and poke a good cIgar mto hl~ face Jll"t to show that I bore no III WIll toward hIm" "When are you g0111g out of town ?" the buyer inqUIred af-ter sett111g fire to the smoke "Tomght" "Can't )OU walt tIll mor11lng? I'd hke to look at your hne," the buyer cont111ued ..I thought I could And yet I was under the conviction that to stay 111the town over 11lght would co~t me $300 111ca3h and a half day'" tIme 1 (hd not expect to do any bus111es'i On the follow111g mornmg 1 called epon the buyer as agreed anJ was 111troduced to a commIttee from an adJ0111lng town, repre-sent111g a pubhc 1l1-otltutIOn that wanted a lot of fur11lture, 1.1 the course of an hour or two I took an order for 11)0 cases anu some other th111g and figured the deal so fine that It left a nice profit for the dealer If I had obeyed the 111c1matIOn to cut out the buyer for that house I should have 1111sseda fine order" "And 1, a fine story," mterrupted the veteran salesman, "Of one thmg you may be certa111," the young man re-marked, "I shall never aS~U111ethat I am unable to "ell any buyer in the trade, hereafter" "The phra'ie "The House of Good Th111gs" IS employed by a leadmg merchant m Peona, 111111'0i,1contmuou"ly, 111advertIsmg his establi'ihment 27 ...---~-------------------------------... ,II IIII I 28 WEEKLY ARTISAN New Furniture Dealers. Lewh & Ldtord are new furmture dealer.., at Frankl1l1, Ga E vv Gdbert'ion IS a ne w furmture dealer at De\ d's Lake, Mmn Darn:" & Hos+ord have opened a new furmtUl e StOl e at Malden, \\ a'ih L P Parry IS erectl11g a bUllclIng In '" hlch he wdl open a new furmture store at Kootenai, vYa'ih The Rochester Store IS a new retad furmture e.,tablIsh-ment at 171 High 'itreet, Holyoke, Mas,; The Rambow Furniture Company has been 1I1corporated to e'itablI.,h a new '3tore 111 Great Fall'i, ~lont The Hoover Company wdl e'itabh"h a new furniture stOl e m Columbu'i, Ind, with E A Kimball as manager The UnIOn Furmture Com pan) d1e new dealer" 111 Port-land, Me, hay 1I1g opened a large .,tock at 186 f 11 "t 'itrcet The Sheely-v\ heeler Company, capitalI7ed at $10,000 ha., been orgamzed to e'3tahlI'ih a furmture '>to! e In Cha11e'iton ~ C The H 1\1 IIIller hlf111ture Compan}. capital 'itocK Sl; - OJO, wdl establhh a whole'3ale and retaIl fUlmture bu '3me.,,, at Erun'3wlck, Ga The Kuttner-Goldstein Company v\ III open a new 'itock of furmture and household goods In the bUllchng recently \ a-cated hy V\ ] \VIl'ion In Hanford, Cal The BradfOl cl Livery and LYndertakl11l; Com pan} . 111111ted, cap1tal1/ecl at $10,0000, wIll conduct a 11\e1), undertakmg and furmture bU'ime.,<., at BIlOXI, :\II"s The AltaVista Furniture Com pan) , capitalIzed at $10.000 wIll open a new .,tore at AltaVIsta, \ a H n ~ha\Ven I., pi e<.,- 1dent of the company, IIr'i J L Deal \ Ice pre.,ldent and] L Elson, secretary and trea'illl ere The ::\Illler Furmture Company of ~then'i, Ga, recently 1I1corporated, have erected a new bUllchng and \V III open their 'itore early m Novemher The thlfd floor of their bUllchnl:; wIll be u"ed as a publIc auchtonum The \VIlI S Cox Furmture and HaICh'vare Company capi-talIzed at $5,000 Will establI'ih a new .,tore at Chat,\\oJth Murray County, Ga \\ dl S Cox, ~ \ and] C Chahle and G B Gann are the 1nCOlporatOls J A Dcmp'iey & Son are new turmtm e dealer., at Olean t\ Y The 'iemor memher of the firm ha" been 1unmng .1 second hand ,tore for .,evel al year'i and the .,on ha., heen em-ployed 111 Crannell'" furmture .,tore III II II I I I I II II III II $17 25 For thiS Genume Mahogany Dresser. I Top 46x23. Mmor 30x24. Wood • knobs. Hand rubbed 6msh. I CHARLES BENNETT FURNITURE CO. I CHARLOTTE, MICH. ...-------------------- --- .. ..---_-..... May They "Live Long and Prosper. Edgar H ~cott, the well known representative of the Leo-pold Desk Company and other hnes of furniture, and Josephme 1 Steele \\ ere qUIetly marned 111 Grand Rapids last Tuesday. \fter the cel emon) , which was wltnes"ed by a few fnends, a \\ eddmg supper \'va., served at the Pantlmd. After returning from a short \\ edd1l1g tllP ~VIr and 1\1rs Scott Will be at home to their fI lends 111 COZyapartments at the corner of Wealthy and College avenues Some glrl'3 go to the chlropochst because they are never happy unless they have a man at their feet. 1 SEND FOR CATALOGUE. WEEKLY New Furniture Factories. A. 1\1 Baker wIll e::,tabhsh a feather mattre::,:o factory 111 Dubuque, Iowa The Aberdeen (\Vash ) Furlllture cumpany have thelf plant completed and started operatlOllS October 8 v\Ith 75 hands A company capltahzed at $50,000 with $1'2,000 paid 111,of which E L Dameron Is pre::'ldent, will estabhsh a furlllture fac-tory at Norton, Tenn L D Gotshall and others have ll1cOlporated the Ellsworth ~Ianufactunng company to make metal and wood furlllture 111 Toledo, OhIO CapItal ~tock $25,OGO The Boston Collapsible Couch company. with $25,000 capi-tal stock, wIll establish a factory 111Bo::,ton, Ma ,S A Sado'W-skI IS pre~ldent and J KI eWlez of Hyde Park :NIas::" se-::retary The new desk and furmture factory recently started at Guth- ARTISAN Furniture Fires. Oldham & \V Iggl11ton, furmtm e dealers and undertakers of Leon, Kan, vvere burned out recently Partially I11sured The Spengel Hou'oe Furmsh1l1g Company of Denver, Colo, suffered a los" of $1 SO,OOO by fire on October 4 Volell 111- "ured Thcl factory of the Mar"hfielll (\'. h) BeddlJ1g Company wa" damaged by fire to the extent of about $1,000 on October 6 Fully l11"ured The factory of the Hender"on (Ky), Chair Company wa::, totally destroyed by fire on Oc;tober 5 Los::, about $15,000 With $8,500 m"nrance The. Chaney Furtuture Company of ~IcAlester. Okla, wa'S burned out completely on Octuber 9 Lo"s, $4,500, 111- "urance, $3,000 Had the fire alarm apparatu" worked plOperly RECEPTION ROOM IN "FLANDERS" STYLE By Otto Jaranek, Grand Raplds. ne, Okla , IS already d0111ga rushll1g busmess 111 supplY111g Okla-homa "chools With "eats and de::,ks for which numerous con-tracts have been booked The Bombay Reed Manufactunng company, with $15,000 capital stock, has been 111corporated 111 Georgia to manufacture reed, rattan and Willow "are, and Import fancy articles made of the same matenab The mam office dn(l factory Will be e'otab-lished 111 Atlanta. 1he Southel n Novelty v;\!ork recently orgdl11Lcd With C,IPI-tal stock, WIll e::,tabli::,h a factory 111 Ho::,ton, ~1a'o' A Sadow- ::,toob and furlllture noveltle0 at lhg-h Pomt, N C The :otock-holders are A. S Caldwell J r , Arthur and J F ElliSon The York (Pa) Desk Company, recently ll1'2orporated, ha, purchased tlie plant of the ::\atJOnal Cement Stone company near the CIty and will remodel It for a furl11turt' factory The com-pany expects to begm operatIOns wlthm sixty day Alfred C Flotow, William C Coleman a11d Frank I Slosso11 of Chicago, have 1l1corporated the W C Coleman Refngerator Company, capitalized at $5,000, to establish a factory and man-ufacture patent refngerators ll1vented by by Mr. Coleman the fire would have been confined to the furmture store but It "pre ad to other bmldmgs and caused a total loss of $40,000 Local Trade Items. "Our tI ade for the current year 'WIII be the largest 11l the hiS-tory of our company '-James G Ma~Bncle, "eci etdry Nelson J\Iatter Furlllture company "BU:0111e::,:\S:, good and groWll1g ~tronger' -Hal f) Jonl'lll, pre~lclent of the J\Ilchlgan Chair company "Our trade I" very much Improved Order::, are lllcrea~- mg 111 number and volume. The only dullnes-, we notice l~ 111 New York"-J P HommJ11er, manager Gunn FurmtLlre com-pany "'vVe are operatmg our factory on full time With a full force"--A S Goodman, Luce FurnIture company "We have as much trade as we can handle Without delay-ing shlpments"-C S Dexte\, Impenal Furl11ture company "Rusllless IS greatly JlnjJroved "-John Waddell, preSident Waddell Manufactunng company ~o WEEKLY ARTISAN More About Eucalyptus Timber. "r have not gIven much attentIOn to eucalyptus as a lumber tree," saId Roy S. Barnhart, who had ]1Ft Ietmneel from a tnp to the far west "I have seen the boards anel It looks to me as If It might be I10ed to good advantage as an ImItatIOn of ma-hogany or perhaps as a furmture wood, but we h<tve never tned It and I don't know how It wOlks, how long It take~ to ,ea~on it or how It should be handled Even If It IS a gooel furl11ture wood I do not thll1k It ''''111 ever be used here to an} great e,,- tent becau-e the freight from Cahforl1Ia here would be d" much or more than on mahogany from LIverpool 01 London .. The etrCdlypttTS I!'l a beautIful tree and 1;., valuable to Cal- 1f~n1i>a. It IS a rapId grower I have some of the tI ec, on ~ place ont there that v.el e planted 111IbU-t-l;; year, a£;0 They are over 100 feet high and yOU c:annot span them \\ lth your arms The trees grow on an average of eIght feet ll1 heIght each year for the fir~t ten years and Vv hen they are c It down Qprouts <pnng up from the stumps awl gro\\ ta tel thdn the ongll1al tree "The Cahfor111an'i have planted thousancl~ awl thOt1oan 1, of eucalyptus trees and are makll1g mane} out of them though so far as I ob'ierveel most of the wood I, bell1g u eel d' fil e weoel Of course the wood, whIch IS hard whe 1 e1r} can be u'ied for many other purposes but there', goo I mone) 1t1 rahIm' It to burn If It proves valuable for furmtm e there \\ III j)JOb-ably be alaI ge Increa~e m the number of furl1ltm e factmlt, Il1 that ~tate." For Drapery Salesmen and Designers. "The Upholsterer. a ve,t poc:ket compendmm of (lrcipef \ styles has been complied b) John v\' Stephenscn as-oclate ech tor of "The Lpholsterer . a a style book supplementlt1g h10 vol ume, "Cutting and DrapIng," whIch eluclcIates drapery-cuttmg prinCIples ThIS ltttle booklet conta111s fifty-tv.o complete clta-pery treatments nam111g the fabncs, tnmmmgs penod sty les an I utlltty of each deSIgn Its contents recommend, It as a reach reference book for the "ale '11an or the cIeslgner \\ ho \\ ants a book whIch Will give hIm at a glance Ided~ of moder 1 drapel \ scheme'i for any penod treatment Another good feature of thIS httle volume 1" a chart Qho\\ l11g deSIrable color combmatlOns as applted to floor" walb, dra-penes, hn111gs, etc The compend1l1m Is l'. ued 111 a convement vest pocket notebook qZe and IS pnnted on dmable t111ted stock ~-._ -- . fI IIII I I with tough paper cover. The httle book IS publIshed by Chf-ford & Lawton r Ifth Aven,le clnd Twenty F.lghth :,treet, New York, and IS "olel for 50 cents The Japs Admired the Imperial. The J cipane,e trade COl11mIS~lOneh, on the oc:ca~lOn of theIr recent VISIt to (,rall'l RaplcI~, e'Cal11ll1ed WIth cntIcal e) es the ecrl1lpment and operatIon of the Impellal T' urmtm e company . fhe C0l11111I~~lOner, a~kee! 11MB} q lestlOn~ Ll lcgare! to the cut- Made by The Udell Works, Indlanapol1s, Ind. t111gand ~edSOJ11ngof timber ane! 11.,manufacture 1I1to furmture" Iemarked \rana~el 1 ::., roote "Our elly kiln;., atlt acted ap-parently more than lomn on mtel est. ane! 1I1format1On wa, sought 111 I elSarcl to lOqS of procluctlOn \Ve USe qUIte a number of mctChllle, that \\ ere bmlt e~pe 'Ially for use 111 am "hops and the lOl11m1olOner, de'lred to lealn as to whether these were PIO-tectlCl b\ paten1., 1he cleanlme" and ordel pre,entecl by tlv tacton callee! t01 th e"pl e~sJOns of acltmratlon from such of the l ommhSJOllel S dS poke Engltsh The commISSIOn b composed ot dean qmlk-\\ Itted and lJ1telh~ent bns111e"s men, well tra1l1cd 111thelJ oc~upatlOns, and thelr VISIt was enjOyed by the officers of 0111 comp<tny very much" ------ .--_._-_.__.------ ----- - - -- -------~- PITTSBURGH PLATE L.ARGEST .JOBBERS AND MANUFACTURERS OF GLASS GLASS IN THE WORLD Mirrors, Bent Glass, leaded Art 6lass, Ornamental Figured Glass, Polished and Rough Plale Glass, Window Glass WIRE GLASS Plate Glass for Shelves, Desks and Table Tops, Carrara Glass more beautifullhan while marble. CENERAL DISTRIBUTORS OF PATTON'S SUN PROOF PAINTS AND OF PITCAIRN ACED VARNISHES. g For ;tnything- in BuIlders' Glass, or anythmg in Pamts, Varm"hes, Brushes or Pamters' Sundnes, addre<s any of our branch warehouse .., a ltst of wInch is g-lVenbelow' NEW YOJUl:-Hudson and Vandam Sts. BOSTON-41-49 Sudbury St., 1-9 BoWker St. CHICAG0-442-452 Wabash Ave. CINCINNATI-Broadway and Court Sts. ST. LOUIS-Cor. Tenth and Spruce Sts. MmNEAPOLI8-S00-516 S. Thud St. DETROIT-53-59 Larned St, E. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH-39-41 If. Division St. PITTSBURGH-10l-103 Wood St. MILWAUKEE, w:rS.-492-494 Market st. ROCHESTEB,N.Y~WUder Bldg., Main &; Ezchange Sts. BALTIMORE-310-12-14 W. Pratt St. ~ •• _ •• -. • __ a •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• CLEVELAND-1430-1434 West Third St. OMAHA-llOl-l107 Howard St. ST. PAUL-459-461 Jackson St. ATLANTA, GA.-30-32-34 S Pryor St. SAVANNAH, GA -745-749 Wheaton St. KANSAS CITY-l'lfth and Wyandotte sts. BIRMINGHAM, ALA.-2nd Ave. and 29th St. BUl'l'ALO, N. Y -372-74-76-78 Pearl St. BROOKLYN-635-637 l'ulton St. PHILADELPHIA-Pitcairn Bldg., Arch and 11th DAVENPOBT-410-416 Scott St. OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA, 210-212 W. l'lrst St. Sts. -- _ a.- ........• __ . --...4 r-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------~ II IIII IIII I,II IIII WEEKLY ARTISAN Qran~DapMs Blow Pipe an~Dust Arrester (ompanJ THE LATEST device for handll1llJ, shavings and dttst from all wood-working machines. Our nineteen years experience in this class of work has brought it nearer perfection than any other system on the market today. It is 110 experiment, but a demonstrated scientific fact, as we have several hun-dred of these systems in use, and not a poor one among them. Our Automatic Funzace Feed System, as shown in this cut, is the most perfect working device of anything in this line. Write for our prices for equipments. WE MAKE PLANS AND DO ALL DETAIL WORK WITHOUT EX-PENSE TO OUR CUSTOMERS EXHAUST FANS AND PRES-SURE BLOWERS ALWAYS IN STOCK. OCfice and Factory: 208-210 Canal Street GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 31 I ~_._.-.------.--_._.-._.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------~ Citl.en. Phone 1282 Bell. Main 1804 OUR AUTOMATIC FURNACE FEED SYSTEM Carpets and Rugs Will Be Higher. Eastern reports are to the effect that business with first hand, 111 the carpet and 1 ug trade lld S been qUIet dunng the pa "t week \VIth the eAceptlOn of a few late orders coming to hdnc1, and reque:,ts f01 dehvene0 of good:, that are over-due, there IS very httle new to report Dunng the qUIet peIIOd much spec-ulatIOn 1:, beIng ll1cJulged 111 as to the advances due to be nd111ed at the opel1lng of the new lInes eady neAt month~ It IS ad-mIttecl m all quarters that advances wIll be macle. but Just what the advance, \\ III be 1:' not know n at the pI esent tIme The preehctlOns macle r dn~e from 3 to 13 per cent. and In some In-stances as hIgh as 20 per -::ent ManufactUIers WIll not state to what extent pnces V\ 111 be advanced, and nothIng WIll be knO\\ n defimtel} untIl the Ime0 dre opened 32 WEEKLY ARTISAN ........ __ -----.-.... .. .. I : Miscellaneous Advertisements. WANTED LINES FOR 1910. Experienced salesman With establIshed trade between Buffalo and Bangor, Me., would lIke to carry several lines of medmm pnced case goods on commiSSion. Address "I:sp," care Weekly Artisan. 10-9 t. f. WANTED-SALESMEN. The new management of the Modern Furmture Company, Cincinnati, 0., deSIre canable salesmen to carry a new and up-to- date hne of Hall Racks m all parts of the Umted States Oct 9-16-23-30. WANTED. A lIne of medmm pnced Bedroom Suites and Sideboards for Pennsylvania outSide of PhIladelphia. On territory twenty years. Address L D., care Weekly Artisan. 10-9, '09 WANTED. Capable foreman to take charge of wood-workmg shop. Ofhce furmture factory near Toronto, Onto Reply statmg age, experience and referer.ce. One who IS now a foreman or assistant foreman preferred. Apply to A. F. Smith, 97 Wel-lington St W., Toronto, Onto 10-9 '09. WANTED. Traveling Salesman for IlIInOlS and Middle Western states to sell Folmng Carnages on commiSSIOn. Liberal propoSltIon to nght party. Address Rockford Foldmg Carnage Co., Rockford, Ill. Oct. 2-9-16-23. WANTED. First class spmdle carVing machine operator on heavy claw feet and heads. State wages expected. Address 3-B care Weekly Artisan Sept. 25 WANTED LINES One who is a thoroughly experienced and practical furm-ture man seeks to represent as salesman on commission a good furmture and a good chair factory. Prefer central states. Have been superintendent, draftsman, also sales-man last fifteen years. Best references given. For further mformation address "WOOcare of Weekly Artisan. Sept. 18-25 Oct. 2 COMPETENT BOSS FINISHER WANTED. Man who can get out production and do it nght. Send references, state experience and lowest salary m first letter. Address "Mlsco," care Weekly Artisan. 9 18-25. FOR SALE. Up-to-date Chair Factory, cheap; a rare opportunity; 10 acres of valuable land on which plant IS erected. Full eqUIpment of machinery, 150 horse power CorlIss engine, matenal In process, plant ready for operatlOn. LeXington IS the only town in North Carolma haVing two trunk lme railroads. Ed. L. Greene, Receiver, Lexington. North Car-olina. Sept. 11-18-25 Oct. 2. WANTED-POSITION. In progressive furruture factory, making case goods. beds or tables by a competent superintendent having ten years' ex-penence. Thorougnly famlhar With all branches.. Address "Woo No.2, care Weekly Artisan. 9 4-11-18-25 WANTED. Commission man for Mlssoun and Kansas representmg five furmture factones. Splendid mixed carload lInes. Address, Ballman-Cummings Furniture Company, Fort Smith, Arkan-sas. Aug. 7, '09 WANTED-WOOD SEAT CHAIR FACTORY To locate on our property at Columbus, Mississippi; unlimit-ed supply of red and white oak; red and sap gum and beech at extremely low cost; p'lenty cheap labor; fine factory site; un-excelled shipping facIhties and low freight rates to good mar-ket. Might take some stock in well managed company. Ad-dress Interstate Lumber Company, Downing Building, Erie, Pa. WANTED. A good cabinet maker; one who can detail and make clothing cabinets. Address B. S.• care Michigan Artisan. 6-10-2t. IIIII _ ••• ._._ Sa .. BARGAIN! 40 H. P. direct current motor. latest make and running conditIOn. Grand Rapids Blow Pipe rester Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. in first class & Dust Ar- 8-21tf III IIiII I II II I III III IIIIIII IIIII III IIII IIIII III First Exhibit in Grand Rapids. 1he Otsego (:;"hch) ChaIr company have leased "pace in the Furl1lture Exchange and wIll exhIbIt theIr lme In Grand RapId~ for the fir,t tIme m January Verity in Chicago. L J \ ent}, formerly of the Yenty-CaJwell company, POI t-lanel \IICh hds taken the supenntendency of a table factory In ChICago Dead! ! ! \\ e ledrn flom a Buffalo newspclper that a mall who Jumped 1l1to the "lae;al a 11\ el above the falL wa" "fdtally kIlled and h not expe~ted to recm el On th~ whole we are 1l1chned to d~I ee \\ lth our e'teemecl contemp::Jrary -P11llae1elphld Inquil er To ~tll up tracle -\ D :;\Iathews & ~on of BlOoklyn, NY. ga\ e a\\ a) 1.000 ae!ImssIOn tIckets t:J d pop lIar entertaInment INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS. ...dams & Eltmg Company Albro Veneer Company Amarican Blower Company Barnes, W F & John Company Barton, K. K. & Son Bennett, Charles FUrlllture Company Boynton & Co Buss l'IIachme Company Dodds. Alexander Edge Frank & Co Fox Machme Company FranCIS, Chas E. Company Grand RapIds Blow Plpe and Dust Arrester Company Grand RapIds Brass Company Grand RapIds Kand Screw Company Grand RapIds Wood Fmlshmg Co Kahn, LOU1S Koffman Bros Company Kolcomb, A. L. & Co Kolden, Kenry S. Veneer Company Kotel Lmden Kotel Pantlmd Kauffman Manufacturmg Company Lawrence-McFadden Company Luce Furlllture Company Luce Redmond ChaIr Company Manetta Paint and Color Company MIchIgan Engravmg Company MIchIgan Star Furniture Company MIscellaneous Morton Kouse Nelson-Matter Furnlture Company New York FurnIture Exchange Ohver Machinery Company Palmer, A. E & Co Plttsburgh Plate Glass Company RIchmond ChaIr Company Royal ChaIr Company Sager, W. D Schultz & KIrsch Company Sheboygan ChaIr Company Sheldon, E. K. & Co SlIgh Funllture Company SmIth & DavlS Manufacturmg Coml'any Spratt George Stow & DaVIS FurnIture Company Udell Works UnlOn Furnlture Company (Rockford) Walter, B .& Co. Ward, O. A WhIte Prlntlng Company Wood, Morns & Son WYEong & Mllls Company 12 15 19 11 11 23 12 22 14 21 12 18 31 64 22 11 18 13 14 18 17 19 24 42 13 Cover 3 32 17 1 Cover 23 3 30 25 20 21 20 28 25 2-26 27 39 7 21 15 21 Cove:> 3 Cover _._-'-~--- .._ .._. ...... . - " r' ·THE·n BIG"'wHiTE SHOP I ! I ~---- •• -- •• - ••• - •••• ------~_~ • ..1 : : I I , I I We Furnish Every Article of Printing I II Needed by Business Men. III I / I I, •II II:II III I II• I I,. IIIIIIII I!IIII /II !II Ij I WHITE PRINTING COMPANY ,I 108, 110, and 112 North DivisionStreet, I Grand Rapids, Mich. I I Ir-THE--BIG'" WHiTE -SHOP--j fl I 1 &.---------------------------- . -----------------------~ --------... are the largest buildings in the world devoted to wholesale sales rooms and afford an unexcelled II opportunity for the manufacturer to display his full line. The manifold attractions of New York and its commercial supremacy draws the buyer as the magnet draws iron. New York is the center of the greatest consuming population on earth: Eleven million within three hundred miles. II These buildings form part of the MONUMENTAL GRAND CENTRAL STATION GROUP, Lex-ington Ave. to Depew Place, 46th to 47th, 47th to 48th streets and contain 1,380,000 square feet. I More Profit The Furniture Manufacturer is in business to make furniture and sell it In a market at a profit. Three Essentials Required to Make a Market A Place to Show His Samples. A Place Where Buyers Congregate. A Consuming Population. These Mammoth Twin Structures, the New Home of the New York Furniture Exchange To Secure the Profit Make Your Lease Now and obtain a choice location. Address, Chas. E. Spratt, Secretary, NEW YORK FURNITURE EXCHANGE Lexington Avenue and 43d Street, NEW YORK. Ii III'

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