Weekly Artisan; 1910-04-30

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Issue of a furniture trade magazine published weekly in Grand Rapids, Mich, starting in 1879. and ,/ ) /' GRAND RAPI[)S J PUBLIC GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., APRIL 30, 1910 NELSON -MATTER FURNITURE CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. BED-ROOM and DINING-ROOM COMPLETE SUITES in Mahogany, Circassial1 Walnnt and Oak. If you have not one in your store, a siInple request will bring you our m.agnificent new Cataloane of 12x16 inch page groups, show-ina suites to Ulatch. With it, even the most .lDoderate sized furniture store can show the best and newest furniture satisfactorily. , Y, WEEKLY ARTISAN 1 2 WEEKLY ARTISAN ~..... . - . . . .. ..~ LUCE FURNITURE COMPANY GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Manufacturers of COMPLETE lines of MEDIUM PRICED DINING and CHAMBER FURNITURE. Catalogues to Dealers Only. ....... •••• ••• aa •••••••• aa aM • aM. __ •••••••••••••• ._. __ • ~ Luce-Redmond Chair Co.,Ltd. I BIG RAPIDS, MICH. High Grade Office Chairs Dining Chairs Odd Rockers and Chairs Desk and Dresser Chairs Slipper Rockers Colonial Parlor Suites 111 Dark and Tuna Mahogany Btrd's EYf Maple Btrch !Zut1rtfrtd Oak and CtrcasJtan Walnut Our fxhibit you will find on the fourth floor, East Section, MANUfACTURERS'BUILDING,North Ionia Street GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN Exhibit in charge of ]. C. HAMILTON, C. E. COHOES,]. EDGAR FOSTER. WEEKLY ARTISAN GRAND RAPIDS 3 30th Year-No. 44 GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., APRIL 30, 1910 Issued Weekly UNIFORM CLASSIFICATION OF FREIGHT Excerpts From an Address Delivered to the New York Traffic Club by R. N. Colyer of Chicago. :.vIem1Jersof the New York Traffic club, at their Apnl meetmg last Tuesday evening, were gIven cons1derwble lIght on the subject of classificatIOn by R. N. Colyer, chaIrman of the Umform ClassIficatIOn commIttee, who, by the way IS to dehve1 an address on the work of hIS commIttee at the dn-nual meetmg of the Natwnal Furniture Manufacturers' as-soclatlOn to be held m Chicago, May 10 and 11. Mr. Colyer hab been studymg and working out the class1ficatlOn problem for several years and is now expected to reach a solutIOn m the near future He IS consIdered an expert by raIlroad man-dgers and by well informed shIppers and all have confidence m hIS ab1hty and mtegnty. The Umform ClassIficatIon commIttee of whIch Mr. Col-yer IS chalrman was appomted Iby the raIlroad traffic man-agers at the mstance of the Interstate Commerce commission after the commlSSlOn had made It plain that If the raIlroads failed to act w1thiv a certam period the commIssion would appomt such a commIttee WIth all possllble power and author-ity. At present as for some time past three classifications have governed to a large extent the making of freight rates in this country, each representing a territonal dIViSIOn. If the com-mittee referred to is able to succeed m its task, and to the "atisfaction of all the transportatlOn interests of the country, as well as the mterstate commibsion there WIll be only one, and so adjusted m its application as to avert many annoy-ances and perplexities that now serve to worry freight traffic men. Mr. Colyer's New York address was devoted mamly to carload rates and classificatlOns In relating the facts, con-dItIons and circumstances leadmg up to the appointment of his committee, he presented some historical data of great volume for reference purposes, It was illustrative of how the present rate structure has become so complex and con-fusing as to reach in some instances a conditlOn beyond com-prehension or understanding. As to the relations between carload and less than carload rates he said in part: "'Dhere is no inhelent right ~o a rating for freight pro-portlOned to quantIty As an abstract question of nght there should be no variatlOn of the charge per unit for and given service offered by a public service corporation dependent upon quantity Otherwise our boasted equality of privdege would take flight. If there is one rate per unit dependent upon the shipment of one hundred pounds of freight, and a less rela-tIVe charge for the movement of thIrty thousand pounds, in theory the lower cost Ulllt should be followed mto train loads, as w~ll as to car loads Many traffic men failmg to see that the carload rating IS a discrimination, although JustIfied, fall into the error of supposing that the carner can base rates on quantIty beyond carloads. "However. p1act1ce and the authoritIes have recoglllzed that a carload umt may be Justified by dIfferences of expense m handlmg, but beyond the carload there has Ibeen, so far as I know, no umt of charges for a greater quantIty at a lower relative rate, nor can there be, without great danger to the carrier and public alIke. "The carload movement of freight is a tlung of growth from small beginnmgs and the normal rate may be accepted as the smaller Ulllt, the one WIthin the reach of every shipper; therefore It seems reasonable to assume that until the growt1h of busmEs3 has shown the necessity for a carload ratmg, no such rating should be made. "I would remind you that the root of the question is whether it IS to the carner's best interest to engage m retaIl-ing transportation or to hold out the carload ratmg as an m-ducement to t'he shipper to concentrate and handle freight m carload quantities. "It WIll 1Je saId, furthermore, that expense for tenmnal "erV1ce is a fixed charge and that the propOltIOn of termmal eXipense mcreases rapIdly WIth the decrease m average rate and that thIS particularly will affect the eastern hnes, but this is as true WIth respect to carload as to less carload freight. "To me it seems to Ibe not entIrely sound to figure that all the elements that enter into the cost of transportaton of less than carload slupments can be regarded as representmg a saving by movmg the freIght m carloads. For instance, a large element m the expen5e of handlmg less than carload 'ihipments 1'3 represented in the tranbfers; the carload move-ments do not dIsplace 111 any material way the movement of less than carloads to local points. Carload freight, other than heavy commodities, moves generally to the centers to which merchandise moves in through cars well loaded Further-more the less than carload rating is made pre"umptlvely to cover the expenses incident to less than carload transporta-tion. "There is no general rule as to what constitutes a genu-ine carload movement, but we may hope that when the case now before the supreme court has Ibeen determined, we shall ,........-------------------------------- 4 WEEKLY ARTISAN know more as to the carnerOl' llghts, whethel regulatlOn-, md) ...--------_-..------- ------ -- ---~-_._---~---~-.... be made wIth the d1bc11mmatmg Judgment ot succe'3"ful 111 dustry, or, by the mOl e stolId, mftex1ble methud., "hu\\ Il 11l governmental departments "Pendmg th1s adJud1catlOn by the bnjJ1eme cuun. ,.,trong1y adhe1 e to the propob1tlOn thdt the cart Id~, hd\ 111g the nght to make 1easonab1e 1 eguldtlOn" h3\ e Ilot c,-ceedl d that nght m reqUlnng a common 0\\ nel-,hlp ,Ib cC!ndJt1Un tu carload ratmg,." when such a regnlatwn IS neCC""a1) to PIO-teet the earners from loss through collusIOn gU1erdll) m"U-tuted by persons not legItImately pal tIe" to the tranbportatwn transaction Beyond ownership, the fre1~ht "hould at com ~e be subject to one "h1ppe1, one cons1gnee ancl cne h1ll 01 L\{J1l1~ reqmrements NeceSSIty rather than quant1t) "honld <1LtLl mme the estab1shment of carload 1atlng", nOl \\ hethcr ~tJ()(L are produced or can be offe1 ed fOJ tr dlhpOl ta tlOn 111 ld 1£Se aggregate quantItIes, but rather \\ hether the 111<11d\ nal \\ ho finally pay" the fte1ght 1" con'3ul11l11l;the COl111l1(J(!Jt\"0 ,tt dtl lly as to make the Item of freIght chalges theleul1 a maUl! 1)1 consIderable concern to the publIc "There seems to be no ,.,ound reason t01 111c1ulhn~ 111 thL official c1a'3S1ficatIon pray blO11 for 1111Aedcarl )M! 1at111~s ,ll t1c1es widely dISSImIlar 111nature and rat111g dnd 1t "uch artl c1es are gathered and "hipped 111carload" there ma) come a freIght rate adjustment that gl\ e" to certam "h1]lpe1" dl1 un due if not unfa1r ad\ antage 0\ er smaller c()mpeutor" "The vvestern and southe111 c1ds"Jfi.LatlO11' h" ve con"h t ent1y opposed the miscellaneous mtxej cal mo\ ement ] heIr theory seem" to be that e\(1) rat1l1g 1epre"enb \\1th111 1hclf the satIsfactory charge fm the t1 al1OlpOltat1! 11 npre"ented dne! that no occaSIOn eXISts f01 encotU3g111g the "h1ppe1 to per-form termma1 "erV1ce at the Carlle1 ., expen-,c, hellCL 1t h Iltlt the practIce to provIde ca1load ratmg" t01 the e"pre"b pm pO.:oe of encourag1l1g shIpments 111 ca1load quant1tJe" and \\ hen carload ratmgs are provIded they are '3uppo"e 1 to rep' e"ent a legItImate commercIal necessIty and a genume L31lo,il1l1l0\ t ment. "If the sugge:otlOns "et torth 111thl t01 egtJlllg mark out the glOund on WhICh the terrltolle~ Cdn get together. thln there can be 111a ulllform c1as"JflcatlOn no room tor a 1111"ed carload rule such as rule 10 of the offiCIal cla""lhcatlOl1, nOl can there be includeJ therem any p10\ hlOn 01 CdJ!ildd rdtl11g" on artIcles that a1 e not knovv n to mo\ I'.' m carlodd q nantJ tle-, In the absence of a general rule P10\ lCllng for l1l1Aed carload 1atmgs such m1xttll es ab are commcrc1allv n ec( S'3dfY \\ ould of necessIty Ibe p10vlcled fOJ spel wHy "LIkewise in the dh:-.ence of ploof of calloacl1llUlemenl of many commodItIes now provded \\llh c3l1oad 1dtll1~~, "uLb carload rat111gs would be d1'-,contmued ...·I have enclea\ored to gl\ e you '3OJl1e1decl ot the \\,1) the DO YOU WANT the PRETTIEST, BEST and MOST POPU-L- AR LEATHER FOR FURNITURE. ANY COLOR. WILL NOT CRACK. If so buy our GOAT and SHEEP SKINS Write for sample pads of colors. OAHM & KIEFER TANNING CO. TANNERIES CRAND RAPIDS, MICH. CHICACO, ILL. 204 lake Street, CHICAGO, ILL. '"- - . - \\ l"tern dnel o.,outhel n cla~,.,lficatlOn 1epresentatl\ e looks at the pro\ 1"10Jh of our t)ffiual c1asblfiLatlOn anJ I tlunk he 1S m-c1med to feel th,lt our plan of hancl11lg out ca110ad rat111gs \\ lthout 1e"peet to commerc1al neceb"'lty, and 111 the end en-abl111g the shIpper to ha\ e hIS goods moved m any carload comb111atlOll h1'> ~elllns may elect, cannot rebult otherWIse thdl1 111 dhdbter, 111the long run" Returned FrOIDArizona_ Chrleb R SlIgh, pI eS1dent of the SlIgh FurnIture com-pany, ha,., returned to Crand RapIds WIth h1b WIfe and ch1ld- 1en, aftel h,n In~ ~penl the \\mter m Arllona c.,OIllC 1etddel' ne\ el I ('nut -,0 long a:o they can forget to fiu '-,0 -.. ----- ------_. ------_._--------------------------- ------------_.._------------------------ - ...,. "THE BEST IS THE CHEAPEST" BARTON'S GARNET PAPER Sharp, Very Sharp, Sharper Than Any Other. SUPERIOR TO SAND PAPER. It costs more, BUT It Lasts Longer; Does Faster Work. Order a small lot; make tests; you WIll then know what you are gettmg. WE GUARANTEE SATISFACTION. Furniture and Chair Factories, Sash and Door MIlls, RaIlroad Companies, Car Builders and others WIll consult their own interests by using it. Also Barton's Emery Cloth, Emery Paper, and Flint Paper, furnished In rolls or reams. MANUFACTURED BY J H. H. BARTON & SON CO., 109 South Third St., Philadelphia, Pa. I~ WEEKLY ARTISAN DEATH OF JOSEPH DEIMEL. Well Known Chica~o Furniture Manufacturer Killed by a Train. ChIcago, Apltl 28 -The death of Joseph Denne!, treas-urer of the NatIOnal Furlllture company, occurred Monday lllght, and I esulted from bemg run over by a tram on the north bound Rock Island suburban tracks at Blue Island, where he was found about 7 o'clock wIth arm" dnd legs man-gled and skull fractured Mr Delmel was uncon<;cIOU'3 when found and dIed wlthm half an hour The news of hIS untlme ly takmg off proved a ternble shock, not only to hIS bereaved famtly but throughout the furlllture cIrcles of Chicago as well Mr Delmel was one of the cIty's most promment as well as active and progre"slve manufacturers, the NatIOnal Par- Joseph Deimal. lor Furlllture company havmg one of the largest plant'3 of ItS kmd m ChIcago He was S6 year'3 of age and leaves be'3ldes IllS WIfe, one son, Jerome L, aged 27 years; one daug-htel, Ama, aged 21 year", and three brothel 'i-Rudolf, presldent-manager of the NatIOnal Parlor FurnIture company, SImon and Ignat7 Deimel. The funeral was held from the re~ldence, 3141 Calumet avenue, at 1 30 Wednesday afternoon, Rev Dr Emil G HIrsch of the Sma I CongregatIOn, officlatmg The funeral was largely attended by representatIves of the furlllture trade, the actIve p,111bearers bemg ImmedIate relatives The mter-ment was m Rosehlll cemetery As manager of the sales department Mr Delmel was held m the greatest esteem and affectIOn by all the tlavelmg rep-resentatives of the NatIOnal Parlor Furlllture company and hIS pa'ismg IS deeply mourned by a large CIrcle of fnends and associates. Have a New Home. The Fredencks Furmture company of Lo~ L\nlSele'i, Cal., have moved into their bUlldmg at 420-24 South Spring street. They have sent inVItations, printed on pIcture postal cards, for the formal opening of theIr new home on Saturday evening L\pril 30. No goods will be sold dunng the reception but souvenirs will be dlstnbuted and it goes WIthout saying that the gue'its WIll be well pleased by an inspectIon of the stock and its arrangement. IL PhIladelphia, May 14th, 1908. Grand Rapids Veneer Works, Grand Rapids, Mich. Gentlemen: Your most esteemed and encouraging favor of the 11th Inst. to hand for which please accept our thanks. We felt sure that you would give us an encouraging reply as it looked good to us, and to everyone who has seen the the result of our first drying of 4.4 oak, under the Grand Rapids system. We will gIve you our record as kept by our operator during the drying of one Inch quartered oak and one inch plaIn oak in 4 days, 4 hours. The writer can say, in behalf of the Sheip Mfg. Co. that we are all well pleased WIthyour system of drYIng lumber, and If we can be of any servIce to you, we shall be too glad to send you any word or letter that you may desire, that WIll aId you In the progress of your system of drying. WIth kmdest regards to all, we remam, Yours very truly, HENRY H. SHElP MFG. CO. • 0 U :c (J 'ooi ..c.:.: r: ... ~ '"' 0 =' ~ "-fI;J U Q • ~ ci rfJ ~ =' ~ 0 " lC) fF:t c:: II lC) «S (e;j 0 :t Do ~ Z t") 'll' 0 Q '"' ... .... Q) .C.l $.t e .I.I Q ~ ~ca ... P-4 5 6 WEEKLY ARTISAN • ••••• • • • ••• - • _ ••• - - - I ••••• I NO OTHER II .. . . . . ~ SANDER No. 111 Patented Sand Belt Machine. can possibly do the variety of work that is being accomplished on our machine. Our No. 171 Sander is positively superior to all other methods on flat surfaces, irregular shapes and mouldings. Ask for Catalog HE" ~_W.Y..S.ONO « MILES CO., Cedar St. and Sou. R. R., OREENSBORO, N. C· J Buildings That Will Need Furniture. Residences-O. B. James, 5449 Pauhna street Chicago $3,800; Hugo J. Liedburg, 1107-9 Hayes avenue, Chicago, $15,- 000; M. M Silz, 5715 West End avenue, ChICago, $13,000, Hen-ry Huenning, 2233 Lawrence avenue, Chicago. $10,000, Ernest Kruse, 3532 Lowell avenue, Chicago, $5,000, Fredenck Schroe-der, 1102 Monroe street, Evanston, Ill, $1 000, \nna Schmidt, 930 Sherman avenue, Evanston, Ill, $4.600, \\- S 2\lason, 202± Ashland avenue, Evanston, $4,500; :-lary 2\1 Dartelme, 721 Sheridan road, Evanston, $7,000; W B Watk1l1s, C11l1t, Tex, $8,000; F H. Broake, 1739 K street northwest, Vvash1l1gton, D c., $40,000; Horace H Wescott, 430 Fifth street northwest, Washington, $25,000; Arthur lIcArthur, 38 Stratford street, Boston, Mass, $6,000, Mrs. Jane Richardson, 11 Ashmont street, Boston, $4,500; H E VerrtII, 1,0 Hilburn street, Boston, $5,000; J. R. Patterson, 34 Mayfield street Boston, $-l,000, Clark Dilks, St Mart1l1's Lane and Hartwell a\Cnue, PhtIadel-phia, Pa, $26,000; J. R McDevitt, Hortter and :-Itbgl 0\ e street" Philadelphia, $4,000; C. A McKeon, 23 Xorth Stenton place, Atlantic City, N. J, $-l,500; Warren T Pawson, 208 Xorth Xew Hampshire avenue, Atlantic City, $4,000, Harry A Schmidt, 2415 Newkirk avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. ,$5,000, Ella Gnffith, Roselawn additIOn, South Bend, Ind, $3,000, E J \Vendalone, 601 Corby street, South Bend, $3,000, Edward Ramler, Eighth and South E streets, Richmond Ind, $4,300, FrancIs F Diehl, 1106 Delta avenue, C1l1c1l1natl. 0, $J,OOO. Cathenne Eckert, High P01l1t avenue and V,Tardell street, C1l1c1l1natl, $4,000, F. VV. Freeman, Bates avenue <'nd Sidney streets, C1l1c1l1natl, $5,- 500; Sophia Warner, Fifth avenue and Midland street, C1l1C1l1- nati, $4,000; C. B. Post, Gaylord street and Seventh avenue Dem er, Co. $5.500, E M Curtis, Fox ,treet and Twenty-third a\Cnue, Demel'. $3,750, \¥allace F Thornberry, 3827 Prospect a\ el1lle, Kan~as City, J\Io, $5,500, R. H. Bodle, 26~1 East Twen-ty- eighth street, Kansas City, $4,500; John P. Murphy, 612 West Forty-third street, Kamas City, $4,000; G. M. Ellsworth, 3940 Garfield a\Cnue, Kansas City, $6,000; Mrs. North Storms, 188 Parrett street, Evansville, Ind, $4,000; Samuel Orr, Mount \uburn, Ind, $4,000; Dr. Clippinger, :McCutcheonville, Ind, $5,000, W. W. Barksdale, Clarksville, Tenn, $3,800; A. W. Mackey, Mount Vernon, Ind., $3,000; W. S. Hare, 105 Broad- "ay, \, heel1l1g, \V. Va., $3,500; Mrs Newman, 2817 Eoff street Wheeling, $3,000; Charles Ebeltng, Wetzel and Thirty-ninth streets, \VheeI1l1g, $4,000; Mrs. Kate Forster, 188 Boulevard Park, Sacramento, Cal., $3,600; J. R Kelly, 1712 Terry avenue, Seattle, Wash, $3,000; F. J. L1l1ley, 1144 North Kenzie avenue, Chicago, $6,000; W. O. Johnson, 3904 Greenwood avenue, Chi-cago, $30,000, \¥Illtam M. Williams, 375 Hamilton street, De-trOit, Mich, $3,500; Ben B Jacob, 102 Rowena street, Detroit, $7,500; vValter \Vallace, 369 Helen avenue, DetrOit, $4,425; George Fischer, 1150 Cass avenue, Detroit, $9,000, \Valter H. L1l1sett, 209 Longfellow street, Detroit, $4,000; Daniel Hopk1l1s, 1952 Boulevard, street, Detroit, $5,400; Wilhelmina KalsO\\, 81 Preston street, Detroit, $7,200; M\rs Mary Arzberger, 494 Bishop street, New Haven, Conn, $15,000; J. Webilly, 292 Ellen street, Milwaukee, WIS, $3,000; Ben Greenwald, Forty-fifth street and Pabst avenue, Milwaukee, $4,500; Z. Earl Belden, \Jorth Elkhart, Ind, $3,000; A. A. Kergerris, 216 West Craw-ford street, Elkhart, Ind., $3,500; S. D Reid, 253 Strong avenue, Elkhart, $4,000, E Latham, 1128 Flatbush avenue, Brooklyn, X Y, $6. )00, F G Howard, 1781 South Logan avenue, Min- SEND FOR CATALOGUE. WEEKLY ARTISAN 7 You can always get IMMEDIATE SHIPMENT 1..20" R. C. PLAIN OAK 1..8", 1..20", 1..24" and 1..28" R. C. BIRCH 1..16", 1..20", 1..24", and 1..28" POPLAR 1..20", 1..24" and 3..16" GUM Direct from our Grand Rapids Warehouses. We solicit your trade. WALTER CLARK VENEER GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. COMPANY neapohs, Mllln, $10,000, John A Ecklund, 3404 South Irvmg avenue, Millneapohs, $10,000, Barney Anderson, 1112 South Eighth street, Millneapohs, $6,000; Rev C. IE. Haupt, 4600 E. Forty-sIxth street, Millneapolis, $4,500; FranCls C. Thomas, 375'7 South Lyndale avenue, Minneapolis, $4,000; H. J. Blakeman, 3908 Portland avenue, Mmneapolis, $3.500; W. Patten Porter, 1907 Schiller street, LIttle Rock, Ark., $4,500; W. R. Kyler, 280G West ThIrteenth street, LIttle Rock, $3,000; Mrs. 1\1. M McCall, 54 West Eleventh street, Atlanta, Ga., $8,500; J. F. Hughes, 161 BeckwIth street, Atlanta, $4,000; W. T. Whise-nant, 619 Edgewood avenue, Atlanta, $3,750; J. J. Coneveaux, SummIt and Wtlder avenue, St. Paul, Mmn., $7,500, Mrs. M1n-nie Christ, 1232 East Broadway, LouisvIlle, Ky., $5,000; F. B. Fruit, 6401 Grand avenue, ChIcago, $5,500; Hans Blase, 4054 North FJfty-first street, Chicago, $3,750; Mrs. Belle M. Wal-lace, West Orange, N. J, $10,500; Mrs. S C Jenkins, 428 Kentucky street, KnoxvIlle, Tenn, $3,000; Dr H W. Trnit, 117 South Seventh street, Indiana, Pa., $3,500; Ira A. Meyers, 220 Philadelphia, street, IndIana, Pa., $3,00, P. A. Kaufer, North Twenty-fifth and Pme streets, Tacoma, Wash, $4,500; Henry Lundgren, 1516 South FIfth street, Tacoma, $3,600, John M Boyle, Rosemount Way, Tacoma, $6,000; MIchael Gar-ney, 1724 North FJfe street, Tacoma, $+,000, G W Bullard, Prospect HIll, Tacoma, $6,000. MISS Florence Buffalo, 8549 JVlo-ra Lane, St LOLus, Mo, $4,000, E W. SmIth, 272 South Los Robles avenue, Lo~ Angeles, Cal, $9,000; G Lawrence Slmp:,on, 390 South Grand avenue, Lo~ Angeles, $8,000, WIlham O. Ludovoer, 167 North Orange Grove avenue, Los Angeles, $5,- 000, M. T GIlmore, SIxth and Quince streets, San DIego, Ca1., $7,000; M D Adams, SIxth street and Ivy lane, San Diego, $4,- 000, Carohne Calhoun, 3021 Allen avenue, St Louis, Mo , $10,- 000; J. R. Riley, 1824 East Seventy-mnth street, Joplin, Mo., $4,000; Lena Bischoff, 2438 Monroe street, Joplin, $4,000; Fred Elgen, Humboldt and LlYmg5ton streets, Peona, Ill, $6,500; C. L. Glasson, 2230 South ThIrty-second street, Omaha, Nebr, $3,- 500; Louis HIll, 2012 North Twenty-fifth street, Omaha, $8,000; E J. Ferand, Ocean Park, Cal, $20,000, Mrs. H. G. Tmsley, Pomona, Ca1., $25,000. Miscellaneous Buildings-"Tim" Slagh and associates are to build a $25,000 theatre m Holland, MIch., to be completed by September 1 St Stephens (EpIscopalians of New Harmony, Ind., are buildmg a $30,000 church. Tacoma, Wash, is erecting three district school buildmgs at a total cost of $140,000. The Bankers' Trust company has taken out a permit for the erection of a thirty story butlding 94 X 97 feet, on the corner of Nassau and Wall streets, N. Y, to cost $3,000,000. The LOUIsville, Ky, school board is remodelmg several ward school buildings. The Odd Fellows of Klamath Falls, Ore, WIll butld a hall to cost $40,000, exclusive of furniture A syndicate of business men will invest $125,000 in a hotel blllldmg in Santa Momca, Cal The contract for the new court house at Bakersfield, Ca1., WIll be awarded m June; the estimated cost is $350,000. F. P Sargent of New York is organizing a company to build a first class theatre at Ocean Park, Ca1. A Big Piping Order. The Umted States Sugar and Land company IS bUlldmg an Immense beet sugar plant at Garden City, Kan., and has placed the order for smoke stacks, ventilating and pipmg for carrying away the refuse, with the Grand Rapids Blow Pipe and Dust ~rrester company. This is one of the largest beet sugar mills 111 the country and when it came to piping they wanted the best Lots of marriages merely demonstrate that misery loves company. 8 WEEKLY ARTISAN The Manistee Line. The Malllstee Manufactunng compan}, manufactul er" of chamber and dlll111g 100m furllltUle, repott hUSlllCS" ]1lCk-ing up very matenally dunng the la"t month .anJ ale ]fJfJk-ing for a cont111ued 111crease. ThIs compan} manutacturc., Made by the Malllstee :VIanufdctur111g Compan} one of the best 1111e"of medIum pllcecl tUI Ultu! e 111\1Ichlg-eln. the kind that every merchant can Ccln} \\ It h 1)1fJht 1 he style3 and constructlOn are good and notlllng 1'"' "Icklng III thc finish New Furniture Dealers. Stanley Morns IS a new fnrl11tu! e deale I at Patl h (,I ()\ (' Wis. A. P. Jeffery wIll open a new stock of fUll11ture at \Ye,tfield N. Y. The WIlliam M. Coombs Furl11ture compeln} dre nc\\ dealcl' at Sidney, Mont Noyes & Uhl have opened a ne\\ "tock of furl11tllle elt Clyde Park, Mont. LOUIS Romdene WIll add a furmture dcpartment to a gener<11 store that he purchased recently at J\lora, J\lmn Pitt Chandler of CreIghton, N D, wIll open a ne\\ fUlm ture store at Stan1e}, same state, about the tllldclle of '\ ra\ "... ...- - . .---~ Morton House ( AmericanPlan) Rates $2.50 and Up. Hotel Pan tlin d (EuropeanPlan) Rates $1.00 and Up. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. The Noon DinnerServed at the Panthndlor 50c IS THE FINEST IN THE WORLD. 1-_______________ J. BOYD..P,A.N.TLI.ND.,..Prop.--.I.. 1v ersted & 1lover~on al e el ectmg a bUlldmg m Bntte, ~ D, \\ hlch they WIll occupy clS a furmture ctore, openmg m May The firm of Hum, Slhert, SmIth & Co, rccently orga11l7ed, hay c opened a lan;e furl11tUle store, clt 162H \\fc"t NDalket street, LOUlWl11c K} The C ontmentcll 11ousehold Supply company, Cclpltclhzed at $("O(JO, \\ 111opcn a new store in ChIcago Joseph Elhson Abra- IMm and LoUl" Baim are the stockholders. Furniture Fires. I he HlOlkll1eln fUll11ture stOle 111Muskogee, Okla, was de'-t1 0\ cd h} fire 1ecently. The J ohncton } urmtul e compdny, dcalers of Toledo, 0, ,uffered a heav\ loss by fire on Apnl 20 Insurance, $49,000 fhe plant at thc Pass Furmture company of Antwerp, N \ \\ ac burned on I\pnl 22, w11h a loss of $20,000, partially msUl eel l~spamcr & Stahle, furmture and hardware dealers of Cal-ument, MU1ll. ~nfferecl a loss of $1,500 by fire recently nsur-ance $1 000 1 he Keller Office LUlmture compan}, Mam street, Buf-tello \ \ lo,t about :';20,000 by fire that started m theIr repaIr ,hop (J11 Apnl 20 Lully lllsured The recen el for the M\ trphy DeGan \Veldon cornpany of ~\ lacuse, NY, has been authorized by the court to accept $13 2+1 <1" tu11 settlement for the loss caused by fire m the compam " \\ arehome on GIfford street The fire that destroyed the old shops of the ~ ew England Chclll eompan} m i'J e\\ Haven, Conn, last week was supposed to have been stal led h} the exploslOn of the benzme tank, but in- \ estlg-atlOn pI 0\ ed that the tank had not exploded The capItal "toek 111 the (hal1 com pam I~ controlled by the Ford & John- ,-on C0111fJeln)of Ul1eago Buyers in Town. E ]) Tone, ot C;tIawbndge & ClothIel, Phtladelphla, ar-m ed 111 Grand RelplCb on Apnl 28 He WIll go north to the h"h1l1g .,tream" \\ hen the sea "on open;:, on May 1 Upon hIS retuln he \\111 tly to pIck up Jobs for a special sale in August George C Brockway of Wancl111aker's (PhiladelphIa) WIll dl nve 111 GIelnd Raplcls on J\IclY :3-neXit Tue~day. '\ 1) ::\fcQU1lken a p101111l1entnealer of Fort Dodge, a, \\ a" 111 (,I.tnd RApHI" Thursday ]lac111g 01 ders for furl1lture to bt u~ecl 111 the J1( IV Hotel Wahkonsah of that nty. He was ac-compal11ed b} R \V Johmton \'\bo IS propnetor of the EIlts hotel of \\TateI1oo, Ia. ann lessee of the Wahkonsah, of Fort Dodge The latter \\ 111be a moc1ern hostelry in every respect Tt I, a "teel and Ul11Clcte structure wIth 150 rooms :Messrs r ohn~ton ann \lc~t11lken placed orc1el s for the bedding, etc \\ lth ~chl1lt7 6c 1111 sch of Cluc ago They Were Not Even Scorched. \Veekly 1\1 than, Gl and RapIds, MIch. Gentfcmcn-We note 111the Issue of your paper of the 23d inst, under the headmg Furl1lture FIre", that you state our furniture store was burned on AprIl 14th last Now this IS entIrely a mIS-take, a~ whIle \A, e had a fire very near our store, we were not molested 111 an} \\ a\ chape or form \\T e kindly a3k that 111 your next Issue, you correct this notice Thankmg you in ac1vanc e for this favor, we remain Yours very respectfully, THE STEWART BROS & ALWARD CO, W. F. Alward, Mgr Ne\\ ark 0, Apnl 27 WEEKLY ARTISAN These Views Illustrate the Growth of the Factory of the Gunlocke Chair Co. of Wayland. N. Y. 1903. 1906. 1909 9 to WEEKLY ARTISAN WE MAKE REFRIGERATORS IN ALL SIZES AND STYLES .. Zinc Lined. Porcelain Lined. White Enamel Lined. - - - - - - - - - . .. -1 Opal-Glass Lined. You can increase your Refrigerator Sales by putting In a line of the "Alaskas." Write for our handsome catalogue and price lists. THE ALASKA REFRIGERATOR COMPANY, EXCI~S~~:~~;~M~U:;S:K:oErGON, MICH, New York Ofhce, 369 Broadway, L E. Moon, Manager . I.. CLASH ON THE RAILROAD BILL. ..... Shippers and Traffic Managers Do Not Aaree on the Merits of the Measure. Although much of the argument on the raIlroad bIll ha~ been colored by partisanshIp and mutual dIstrust, the debate has not been without results along the lInes of practical perfectIon of the measure. After the fireworks there has usually come a moment of calm for weighing amendments on theIr ments, ~ays the PhIladelphia Ledger, and several of these have been accepted by the representatIves of the admlmstratlOn In the senate, to the advantage of the bill and In the directIOn of sane and con~ena-tive railroad regulatIOn An example of thl:> sort of amend-ment is that designed to permit the representatIOn of ~hlpper~ by council in proceedings before the commerce court to te~t the rulings of the interstate commerce commiSSIOn. The original omiSSIOn of this proviSIOn was merely In lIne with the existIng practIce, It being assumed that the defen~e of the commission ought to be solely In the hands ot the ldw of-ficers of the government, WIthout the complIcatlOn~ that mIght attend the InterpositIOn of private counsel, \Vlth the danger of convertIng the proceeding at any stage Into a mere pnvate lIti-gation. The concessIOn made seem~ to be Just, affordIng a guarantee of such an adequate defense as could be best made by the parties immedIately in interest It IS InterestIng to note the results of a recent InqUIry un dertaken by a western penodlcal devoted to traffic questIOns to dscertain the feell11g of leadIng shIppers of the country and of the raIlways as to some of the amendments propo~ed to the ad-mInistratIOn bill. SpeakIng generally, It mdy be saId that the shipping Interests favor and the rallway~ oppose the change" the inference beIng that the bIll as It was ongInally chdwn rep-resented the middle path between extreme demands fOI ralh, ay regulation on the one hand and the ultra-conservatIve vIew that government regulation has already gone far enough, \Vlth lean- Ings toward the "safe" SIde Here were some of the CjuestlOn~ asked, with the character and percentage of the answers by the commerCIal and railway interests: Are you in favor of addItIOnal railway regulation at this tIme? Commercial, yes, 71 per cent RaIlway, no, 97 per cent Do you think addItIonal raIlroad legislatIOn at thl:> time would have a bad effect upon the commerCIal prospenty of the country? Commercial, no, 59 per cent Railway, yes, 97 per cent. Do you favor the establIshment of an interstate commerce court? Commercial, yes, 82 per cent. Railway, no, 53 per cent. Do you favor putting litigation affecting the commission under the control of the department of Justice? Commercial, yes, 68 per cent. Railroad, no, 52 per cent. Do you favor legalIZIng traffic agreements? Commercial, yes, 74 per cent RaIlways, yes, 97 per cent. Do you fa,or reql11nng carners to furmsh rate quotatIOn::. In writIng) CommerCIal, yes, 86 per cent. Railways, no, 82 per cent Do you favor glVl11g the commISSIOn defimte powers over the claSSIficatIOn of commoditIes? Commercial, yes, 80 per cent RaIlways, no, 88 per cent Do you favor autholizing the commission to suspend rate advances pendIng an l11quIry into their reasonableness? CommerCIal, yes, 90 per cent. RaIlway, no, 97 per cent. Do you favor glVl11g the shIpper control of routing beyond the ImtIal carner's lInes? Commercial, yes, 92 per cent. Rail-ways, no, 73 per cent Do :Iou favor glVl11g the commission supervision over the ...---------_._---_._--- -----_. --------.-.----_ -.., Grand Rapids Crescent THB WORLD'S BEST SAW BENCH BUilt with double arbors. sliding table and equipped complete with taper pin guages carefully graduated. This machine represents the height in saw bench con-struction. It is designed and built to reduce the cost of sawing stock. Write us for descriptIve information. CRESCENT MACHINE WORKS OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. . ..... WEEKLY ARTISAN 11 THE L. Mac E. VARNISHES BLUE RIBBON RUBBING and POLISHING VARNISH, QUAKER CITY COACH VARNISH-CABINET FLOWING VARNISH, WHITE MAPLE RUBBING and POLISHING VARNISHES; WHITE MAPLE GLOSS VARNISHES-WHITE REED FLOWING VARNISHES, FLAT ALL VARNISH and ALL DULL FINISH-JAPANS, Etc. DIPPING VARNISHES NOTE-Our many years of practical experience with the Furniture, Piano and kindred lines of manufacture enable us to know just the kind and quality of varmshes demanded. Also the fact that our strong corps of salesmen have an already establIshed trade with this class of customers through visiting them with fillers and stains, makes it possIble for us to sell varnishes without additional ex-pense to US, which advantage we are dIsposed to give to our customers in quality. Send us a Trial Order. THE LAWRENCE-McFADDEN COMPANY issuance of railroad secunties? Commercial, yes, 79 per cent. Railway, no, 82 per cent. These rephes on the chief pomts at issue between the railroads and the shipping mterests are not very conclUSive, but they show that the raIlroads are more united in their opposltlOn than the shippers are in their advocacy. This was to be ex-pected; but it also shoW's that upon congress rests the final de- CIsion as to what is best to be done, not for the railroads or for the shippers, but for the business interests of the country at large Marshall Field's MillioRs. From a decree Just rendered by the judge of the Cook coun-ty court in Chicago, it is learned that the estate of the late Marshall Field was appraised at $83,459,032, these figures rep-lesenting the total of fair market value estimates at the time the administratlOn of the estate began; after the payment of various debts, claims, legal fees and so forth there remained $79,262,658 on whIch the lllheritance tax was leVIed This mformatlOn IS of more than passmg mterest because in these days our American multi-mllhonatres, With compara-ttvely few exceptlOns, have derived their fortunes from the larg-er and more pretentious enterprio,es such ao, rallroadmg, mimng, manufactunng, banking and so on and m very many mstances their names are closely assoClated in the pubhc mmd with what have come to be called the "trusb"; the names of Rockefeller, Carnegie, Vanderbilt and Morgan, for mstance, instantly sug-gest wealth that has been accumulated chiefly through incor-porated enterprises of great magmtude; and it is no uncommon thmg to hear unthinkmg perSOlb speak of wealth-getting in these times as something that IS absorbed largely by the "trusts" But here was the FIeld fortune of $83,000,000 bUllt up al-most wholly in trade-"merchandizing," as It is usually referred Philadelphia to m the south and west-and most of it through old-fashioned methods, that is, the buying of goods in bulk and the selling of them in portlOns at a profit. The process IS stl11 gomg on m one way and another in every nook and corner of the country , but it may be doubted if mere "merchandizmg" has in it any longer .the posslbihttes of fortune bUlldmg that it once had; the business m every lme IS "cut up" more than formerly, "spe-cialization" is the order of the day, and competition IS becoming keener and keener every year, with goods sold "closer" and with correspond111gly smaller profits. Multt-mllhonalres are not emerging from the walks of ttade in large numbers nowadays, even ordmary, every-day mil-lionaires are not conspicuous there, and in all probability the "plutocrats" of the next generation wIll number in their ranks few who ever m their hves handled a yardstick or a sugar-scoop. p.- _._.- ••• • •.•••• - I HOFFMAN BROTHERS CO. FT. WAYNE, IND. HARDWOOD LUMBER SAWED AItD SLICED .... - IlL. .~ " 12 WEEKLY ARTISAN " ..- That does not require material to be marked off. Makes each and every mortise accurately and perfectly. Each spindle instantly adjusted by hand wheel. Automatic Spacing Gage. Patent Automatic Stroke. Patent Adjustable Chisel. No. 181 Multiple Square Chisel Mortl•• r. Ask for Catalog "i" ---W-Y-S-O--N-Q-_«._M-IL-E-S---C-O-., C-e-d-a-r--S-t.-a-n-d--S-o-u-.-R-.--R-.,-_QR._EE-N-_SB.ORO, N. C. I - -----~ CO-OPERATION IN ADVERTISING. Manufacturers and Dealers Should Work in Har-mony in Publicity Campaians. Xeno W. Putnam III the 'II ade JOUI nal Adv ertlser-;'" a advertJslllg servICe IS complete untJi It I;' ::-0 thoroughly or-galllzed that It co-operates fully wIth every department of the sellmg force The retaJi merchant who falls to see that hIs clerks fully understand every detaIl of hIs publicIty IS losmg some of the advertls1I1g f01 ce for v\ hlch he pays The same pnnciple apphes to nhe wholesale house::- \\ hlch depend upon the intelmedlate melchant to place then g-ood::- Jn1- medIately before the COIbumel Never III the commerClal 11l;,tOly at the country have there been so man) hbel al Ihers of space III the trade pdpel s ...------_._----------------- I --~_._--_.---,,,IIIII ,I ,, •II•, •II• II IIII II I I III TUE "ELI" FOLDING BEDS ~~tfrl~I~N~~~ No Stock complete wIthout the Ell Beds m Mantel and Upnght I ELI D. MILLER & CO. EVANSVILLE, INDIANA Write for cuts and prices I . _ ON SALE IN FURNITURE EXCHANCE, EVANSVILLE. .. .. as there are tOcla) The pages of every Important trade penodlcal are crowded wIth announcements, and some of them are models of copy excellence Some of the same houses, too, back np thb liberal bId for the retailer's patron-age b) an extended general advertis1I1g campaIgn; m fact, the pages of the general magazmes are quite filled with descnptlOns of gooJ" for whIch the reader IS referred to the local merchant The amount of retaJi sales that are in-fluenced or dIrectly created by general advertising would be dIfficult of e::-tJmate L'p to the pOInt of getting hIS goods before the people the ad\ ertlsmg servIce of the wholesaler IS complete Just beyond thIS pOInt It all too frequently falls down. The service may "till be gooJ, It IS not complete The advertiser IS not gettmg what he pays fOl because he is frequently too short- SIghted to keep hIS salesmen, the retatlers, in suffiCIently close touch \'vlth hl~ general advertising In other words, the general and hIS lJeutenants are conducting separate cam-paIgns and the entire forces at theIr command are weakened by lack of concentratIOn The Amencan busllless man of today IS too mdependent to enJorse the one man power that mcludes hImself as one of the nonentltle" The average retaJier beheves that he under::-tands hI" 0\\ n commumty and how to influence it bet-ter than the bIg man m some dIstant cIty and, to the credIt of our natIOnal mtelhgence, thIS belief IS pretty generally ''vell founded The retaJi merchant, then, manages his own local adYertlsmg and the bIg house that falls to bend ItS polICIes to thIS condItIOn is not only workmg at all sorts of dngle~ vvIth It;, 0\\ n selllllg forces but IS not avaJ1ing Itself of all the benefits It might obtam from its own advertising The remedy for thIS IS SImple Yot an advertl"ement should ever be sent out by a manufacturer \Vlthout a copy of It being presented to the retaJi dlstnbutors, together WIth a statement as to where and \\ htn the advertIsement WIll be used TIllS may be sent through the trade Journals or dIrect, by means of CIrculars alhl personal letters, preferably by both methods Then the retaIler know" how to tnm hIS sails to catch the full force of thIS advertlsmg breeLe He usually knows m a general way somethlllg of the character of hIS chentage, tor m this age of specialtIes nearly every store worth whJ1e IS gIven a dlstlllCt character in ItS neighborhood and natu-rally attracts that class of people to it The local papers, too, possess class distinction as well marked in their own com-munity as those which dIVIde the \readers of the Pollce Gazette from those of the Ladies' Home Journal \Vhen the successful local merchant receives word from hi", lobber or manufacturer that a stated copy has been sent WEEKLY ARTISAN out to appear In a certain Issue of The Universal Magazme. It gl\ es 111111 a chance to feature that article In hl'i own ad- \ crtl'-1I1g In the local p3lper that appeals most closely to the da"'- of people who are hkely to be mterested m The em \ eroal ~raga71ne, and to fashIOn hIS own copy mto an appeal to the same cIas" of people If the general campaIgn goe'i out through uhe more 'ien- 'ia tlOnal press or to the dIstinctly scholarly, hIS 0\\ n adver-tiSing, for tile tIme being, can be aImed respectively at the lonl de\ ote<: of sen'iatlOnah'im or Intellectuahty In "hort, the effort" of the local merchant 'ihould be concentrated upon the cla'i'i of people the wholesaler 1-; ap-peahng to, and the only 'iatl'ifact01y way to 1I1'iure tllls l'i for the whole'ialer to keep the retaJ1er posted, not only on how much general acivertl'illlg he IS dOing, but Just what copy l'i bemg sent out, when It will appear, what medlUm.s It wJ1l appear m, and what speCIal claIms of excellence are laId before the pLlbhc A complete and frequent statement of thIS sort, accom-pallled by whatever facts and argument" sustam1l1g hIS clalm'i the advertiser can 'iupply, WIll not only 1I1"ure better harmony between the genel al and the local advertl'i1l1g of a product, but WIll bl1l1g pro,lucer and retal1er mto closel touch and estabhsh a mutual confidence and IIltere'it that WIll promote the success of both Tune Up the Salesmen. I t IS a gooJ Idea for manufacturers to tune up their sale 'i-men every now and then The sales force IS hkely to get run down, no mattel how effiCIent It may be vVhen there IS an opportulllty to get the representatives together, have a faml1y meetlllg and take advantage of the opportulllty to work up some enthUSIasm about the hne Xo one I'i more responsrve to thIS sort of effort than the good .sales-man He IS so aCLu'itomed to waxnng entihuslastlc III order to land an order that he hkes It when the house 'ihows enthUSIasm A great deal depends on the Impre"SlOn a concern glve'i ItS ~alesman, who, a'i a rule, are very susceptible to Illfluence It IS not dIfficult to sIze up a firm from the characteristics JIS-played by the representatives When a firm behves thoroughly m ItS products and IS enthUSIastic about It, the feelmg is Im-parted to the men who sell on the road, and when a concern a'isumes a cold-blooded bUSIness Interest III ItS output and ItS representatives. the salesmen cannot help showing It when endeaVOring to "ecure order'i There IS nothlllg 'iO contagIOUs as the proper k1l1d of enthUSIasm and the gett1l1g together of the firm's bUSllleS'i famIly to dlscu'is thlllgS in a whole-hearted, 'iympathetlc man-ner, doe" a great deal to make the salesman beheve mOl e thoroughly In the superiOrity of the goods he IS selllllg So do a httle tun1l1g up It pays -The DecOlatlve Furnl'iher An Important Freight Rate Case. CommISSIOner Prouty of the Interstate Commerce commIs-sIOn spent the greater part of last week 111 Kansa'i CIty taking testimony III one of the most Important cases now 111 the hdnds of the commIssIon The hearing was on a petitIOn from the Southwestern Sll1ppers' A-;soclatlOn ask1l1g for the re-adJust-ment of rate, flOm theIr territory and eastern and northern pomts. The state ral1road commISSIOn of Kansas and the corporatIOn commISSIOn of Oklahoma are support1l1g the prop- OSItion, and the commerCIal bodIes of Clncmnatl, ChIcago, St Loms, St. Joseph and other places III the middle west are much Illterested A rullllg m the case IS expected early m May 350 feet long, 100 feet wide, 8 stories. MANUFACTURERS. All the buyers, both big and little, who go to market this coming July, will buy at 1411 CHICAGO'S BIG FURNITURE EXHIBITION During the January buying season just past we show a heavy increase in attendance of visiting buyers and a tremendous volume of buying. These are the facts and a lot of talk is superfluous. Send at once for floor plan showing desirable exhibit space open for July. Same old price. Address THE FOURTEEN-ELEVEN CO. 1411 Michigan Ave., Chicago, 13 14 WEEKLY ARTISAN Forest Products Laboratory Completed. An event of impOl tance to the \vood uS1l1g 1I1dustne" of the country and to engineers is the c0111pletlOn of the Forest Pro-duct<; Laboratory at Madison, WIS. June 4 has been set a~ the date for the formal open1l1g The laboratory has been e~tab- Iished to aid, through expenments and demonstratIon" the le,- sening of waste 111 the manufacture and use of wood It h a co-operative undertaking between the department of agncul-ture and the umversity of Wlscoll<;ln. The state has erected for the purpose a new bl11ld1l1g at the un1verslty and will fur-nish also the light, heat and power The department of agn-culture has supplled the eqUlpment and appal atlh an 1 \\ III maintain the force of thirty-five or forty perSOll<; reql11red to carryon the work Through thiS arrangement, the 'Lmted States has secured perhaps the lal gest dnd be~t equIpped wood testing laboratory in the world, A number of vacancies 111 eng1l1eenng pOSitIon" 111 connec-tion with the work Will be filled 111 May and J une ~monf.; the.,e are positlOns of eng1l1eer 111 wood preservatlOn, eng1l1eer III timber testing, and chemical eng1l1eenng The<;e POStlOll<;\\ III be given to men With a basis of thorough engllleel mg trd1l1111g, or two or three years' experience 111 practlCdl \'Iork The laboratory Will be prepared to make tests on the strength and other properties of wood, to im estlgdte the proces.,e" ot treating timber to prevent destructlOn by decay and other causes, to study the saving of wood refuse by dlstlllatlOn processe" to examine the fiber of various woods for paper and qther pur-poses, and to determ1l1e the lllfluence of the microscopiC struc-ture of wood on its characteristics and properties FaCIlities are at hand, in fact, for almost any kind of test on wood that practical conditions may require Lumber manufacturing and wood uS1l1g industrle, Will be keenly interested in the work on account of its practIcal bear-ing on reducing waste of wood-to them a subject of vital con-cern. Already they have proposed many expenments and Sup-plied much testing material, which IS awaiting attentlOn Many prominent men of the lumbering and wood u~1I1g industries have signified their 1I1tention to attend on the day of the opening. Several orgamzatlOns expect to hold directors' meetings or conferences at that time to consider, among other matters, plans for making wide practical use of the laboratory A short, appropriate general program Will be arranged, and there will be a systematic 1I1spection of the laboratory, With demon-stration work in progress at the time Government Rules Too Rigid. The contract for furmture for the new gO\ ernment bl11lrl-ing in Grand Rapids, 1\Ilch , has been awarded and It IS expected the furmture will be ready for dehveq by the time the buddIng P' .--- . - ._--~ BOYNTON &, CO. Manuladurers 01 Emboaaed and Turned Mould. in •• , Embo •• - ed and Spindle CarYinp, and AutomatIc Turnin .... We allO manu fadure a large hne of Emboaaed Omamenta for Couch Work. '256-'258 W. Fifteenth St., CHICAGO, ILL. .. t,------------------ ---------------.--- I II ._--- ..-------., IHE FORD & JOHNSON CO. CHICAGO This is one of our popular Hotel chairs. Our chairs are found in all the leading Hotels in the country. The line includes a very complete assort-ment of chairs, rock-ers and settees of all grades; Dining Room fUl mture, Reed and Rat tan furniture, Special Order furni-ture, etc. A complete I,ne of sam-ple. are displayed in The Ford 8 Johnson BOIldinl!. 14U-37 Wall.sh Ave., .n-c1udinl! a spec,al display of Hotel Furniture. All furmture dealers are cordtally fnvtted to visit our building. .I.- _. - ... -- .I. 1<; completed, probably about September 1. It was suggested to the government offiCials who vIsited the City, to make lists of the furllltUl e needed, that special designs were desirable for some of the rooms and departments and the mspectors endorsed the suggestlOn, but declared that the designs and styles could not be changed-that they must conform to the specifications adopted by the gO\ ernment authOrities, which are uniform for all government bU1ldmgs This accounts for the lack of har-mony and bad taste frequently noticed in the furnishing of pub-hc bU1ldmgs, but there does not seem to be any way to change the rules by \\ hlch petty officials at Washington are allowed to select the st) les of furniture to be u<;ed in government bUIldings throughout the country, unless Senator \VIlham Alden Smith, who 1<;credited With considerable influence, can induce the petty offiCials to make an exceptIOn to the rules in the Grand Rapids case. ~--------- -- - ..,- . r -----_.-------- - ..----- ...~ No.15 FOX SAWING MACHINE WRITE 44 FOR NEW CATALOG III IIt ... • FOX MACHINE CO. 185 N FRONT STftI:ET, I GRAND RAPIDS, MICH .. ....-- ....---_. ... -_ .. WEEKLY ARTISAN 15 ..... -- .... ------- --- .. _.- _u _... ~OBE VISE an~ 1 TRUCK CO. i GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Don't you want the BEST bench that was ever offered for the price, $12.00 (Subject to discount) This bench is 34 inches high, 6 feet, 3 inches long-front 15 inches; made of thoroughly kiln-dried hard maple strips glued together, 2% inches thick. The balance-I 3 inches is soft wood. Can ship on receipt of order. .. .. EVANSVILLE'S STAPLE PRODUCTS. of styles. The World furniture company confines its activities to the production of china closets, buffets and folding beds. Many patterns of kitchen cabinets and wardrobes constitute the line of the Bosse Furniture company, while the Bockstege Fur-niture company turns out several hundred patterns of dining, ltbrary and parlor tables In metal beds the Metal Furniture company is the leading producer, while the IBi D. Miller com-pany operates a commodious factory in the manufacture of fold-ing beds. Dealers may obtain catalogs of any or all the above houses. Evansville furniture sells easily in all markets of America. Hiah Grade, Medium and Low-Priced Furniture Always in Demand. Good medium and low-priced furniture IS as staple an ar-ticle 111the market as women's shoes or men's underwear. It cannot be dispensed With :YIatnmony and the element of fire, although not analogous, make the demand for 111expensivefur-mture steady and sure. Cupid confines hIS activities largely to the people 111moderate circumstances. When the young mechamc and the young school teacher wed housekeeping facihties must be provIded. The couple Will not spend several yedrs in a tour of Europe or 111the orient be-fore setthng down to enJoy domestic bliss, but Will fit up a home immedhtely With good medium and low priced furniture. Fire inflicts the greatest damage by the destruction of household furniture, upon the poor and the well-to-do. The castles of the nch are so well protected against loss by this element that It IS rare indeed that the owners suffer loss through the activity of this element. These conditions are recognized and appreciated by dealers in furniture, whose stocks consist mainly of medium and low-pnced goods, for which there is a demland every business day of the year. In the production of goods of thIS class the man-ufacturers of Evansville have attained great prominence. Up-wards of forty factories located in that city are operated al-most exclusively in making goods to meet the wants of the masses In chamber furniture the mammoth plants of the Karges and Globe furniture companies turn out a great variety Nine in Nine Days. The Grand Rapids Veneer Warks is surely proving that It pays to advertise a good thing. During the nine days ending April 23, they booked orders for nine of their improved-process dry kilns and have received several more this week. The nine received in nine days were from the following manufacturers: Harrison Manufacturing Company, Johnson City, Tenn. Knechtel Furniture Company, Hanover, Ont. Emporium Lumber Company, Buffalo, N. Y. Minneapolis Furniture Company, Minneapolis, Minn. Racine Boat Manufacturing Company, Muskegon, Mich. Wilson Lumber Company, Toronto, Ont. Himmelberger-Harrison Lbr. Co., Mjorehouse, Mo. Graef Manufacturing Co., Appleton, Wis. Knoxville Furniture Company, KnOXVIlle,Tenn. To greet misfortune With a smile is deCidedly a one-onded fiirtation. ,..---_._---------- - - -- ------- -- -----_._---_. _. --_.._--------- ------------------------., MOON DESK COMPANY DESKS OF MERIT MUSKEGON, MICH. ~---------.- .. -- .... . .. .. .. -_.. .. _. ..-------_._-------------- ..... 16 WEEKLY ARTISAN MICHIGAN ARTISAN COMPANY .U.SC"I~TION $1 eo ~EI't YEA" ANYWHEI'tE IN THE UNITEO STATES OTHEI't COUNTI'tIES $2 00 ~ER YEAI't. SINGLE CO~IE. SCENTS. PU8LICATION OFFICE, 108-112 NOP'lTH DIVISION ST, GP'lANO RA .. IOS, MICH, A S WHITE, MANAGING EOITOl't Ent~r~d as .~cond class matt~r, July 5, 1909, at th~ post offic~ at Grand Rapids, Michigan und~r th~ act of March 3, 1879 CHICAGO REPRESENTATIVE E LEVY President ::-Joyes of the I1hnols :'lanutactUler~ a~~oclat1on made a good pomt last week when, m an address to the rdll-road pre.,ldents he told them that under pI esent conclttlOm manufacturers and dealers cannot pass mcreased freIght I ate~ along to the consumers and also called their attentIOn to the fact that most of the roads are reportmg an mCI ease 111 net earnings as compared \\Ith recent } ears The ralltoad~ would not only oppre.,s tl1e manufacturers but m) Ule their own mterests by advancmg freIght rates at present :'lan) of them have advanced wages recently but the} cannot ex-pect the manufacturers to stand an asse:osment to meet the advance m raIlroad expenses, when their em pia} e:o are clam-onng for higher wages, and dealers are complal1lll1g more or less of high pnces Higher trelght lates at a time when manufacturers cannot advance pnces of their products \\ Ol1H cut out the least vestige of profit m nearly all manufactUl111~ mdustnes It would certamly c11pple many of the fur111ture manufacturers and would hamper the dealers The re~ult would be less furniture made and sold and therefore le"s business for the ratlroads If the ratlroad men al e wise the\ will let well enough alone for a whtle Manufacturers realtze fully that It IS u"ele"-'o to file ptr' posals With offiCials of the general gm ernment tal "upph 1I1f; furniture or kmdred goods for the department The man} wheels Within wheels through which govelnmental fa, OIS pass revove to the advantage of the depal tment store", The mall order firms, a consIderable number of which O\vn and operate factones on their own account, havc not as } et been permitted to look through a skyhght mto the apartments where governmental contracts are framed up The depart-ment store men, seeml1lgly are the only class of merchants who are deemed worthy of consldelatlOn by the power., that be ThiS fact is substantIated by the lettl1lg recently of large contracts for fur111ture after a wtlc1 scramble m which anI) the department stores were allo\\ ed to participate The government would fare Ibetter by deahng directly With man-ufacturer", but the government seldom docs anyth111g m the right way An offiCial of a pr0Il1111ent corporatIOn engaged 111 the manufacture of furniture, Just returned to GI and Rapids from an unsatisfactory tour of the middle eastern states, expres-sed the 0pllllOn t1hat the February sales of Jobs had senousl} affected the season's trade So long as buyer" can obtam goods at cut pnces between sea.,ons for speual sales the evIl of Oul Irregular market will contl1lue Reduced produc-tlOn and the ma111tenance of p11ces on stickers as well as ea ") "elhug "trxk \\ ould put an end to the speCial sale bu "lUC~~ :\11 \\ ell1lcke, ul hIS address to the South Carollna fur-llIture dealers, made .,ome :otatements and compansons that should be \\ ell con"ldered by dealers and manufacturers m all parh of the country HIS view of the methods that have 1)111ltup the automo1blle bUSiness to enormous proportIOns, hl'o Idea" ae; to the u~efulne"s of assocIations and hl3 compan- "on" of the fUll11tme busmess WIth the coco-cola trade, as gn en on another page, Will be found decldedy mterestl1lg C;ome deSigners never fOl ward a sketch to a manufac-tl11er ''Vlthout malkl1lg It "handle \\Ith care" V\ hy? Do they thl1lk for an l1lstant that a manufacture would COP) the "ketch and I eturn It 111arked, "I can not use this?" On account of the grow111g demand f01 skilled mecha111cs III the automobile busUlese; manufactUlers of furniture ex-penence gl eat difficulty 111"ecunng and retal1l111g competent \\ 01kmen Ihn el" f01 the bIg eastern 5tores WIll soon enter the west-eJ n mal keh 111(IUest of lob lob for speCial sales III AUgtbt ne'd \\ III thc) I eLen e the "palpltatUlg 111It," as usual) \\ Ith the approachmg sea.,on of warm weather many "ood fi111shel" are lea vmg the shops to engage 111 house Pdl1lt111~ and k111dred employment m the open aIr \ot e\ el\ pJophet m the furUlture trade IS wtlhng to bet on the outcome of bus111ess next fall \1am a woman can change 111 her chOice of a parlor ~ll1te \\ lthont bettering herself E, en the 1110"t noted deSigner may fall 111to a rut from \\ hlch he can ne\ er emerge Fourteen-Eleven's Advantage. Chicago >\pnl 28-The Fourteen Eleven company have 1~"ued an 111terest111g malhng folder. On one of the out- ~l,le cm ers the fil5ures 1411 appear 111large type and the other "Ide con tams a picture of the company's IbUlldmg InSIde IS a large half tone cut of the 1411 bmld111g and the followlllg bnet but comprehenslVe statement Chlcago''o Great Furll1ture Exhlbltion-350 feet deep, 100 feet \\ Ide :'Ialll sectIOn, eight stories ThiS Immense Furll1- turc ExhibItIOn IS bemg now and has been Widely and exten- "lVel) ad\ ertI"cd among all the furll1ture dealers and buyer., m thIS entIre country for the past seven years, hence It IS \ ISlted by more dealers and buyers annually than any Simi-lar bUlldmg any\"here Exhnblt your samples here and get the benefit of thiS Wide pubhclty We bring the buyers to ) our dOO1 The "'Ixteenth buying season opens here July 1 There IS some deSirable space to be had If you act Immedi-ately Th e EmpIre City ;'1etalltc Bed company of Jersey City, \ 1 \\ III e",hl hi t the commg July f01 the fir'ot tIme m the \vesteln mal ket [hey have engaged space on the first flam of the iur11ltme ExhibitIOn bUlldmg, 1411 \Ilchlgan avenue The company manufacturers a strong hne of brass beds The Reser Fur111ture company of Gettysburg, Pa, WIll exhIbit at the 1411 bUlldmg the commg July havmg enlarged their .,pace The} WIll show their large lme of Side boards and buffet" WEEKLY ARTISAN 17 TAXATION OF MANUFACTURERS Unfavorahle Laws Hamper Many Industries in New York State. '\ conference b} representatIves of vanous cItIes, m New York state, was held at Rochester recently to consIder a subject d I11terest to manufacturers 111 many other states-the taxatlOn of pebonal property owned by manufactunng concerns The la\\s of New York 111 the matter of taxatlOn of personal prop-erly now l111pose a consIderable burden of chsablhty upon man-ufactunng concerns By reason of more favorable condlttons of taxatlOn 111 adJOll11ng states the development of manufactur-mg 111 New York IS retarded, and where other condItIons are equal manufactunng tends to leave :0Jew York and locate else-where In vIew of all these facts the conference adopted the followmg preambles and resolutIOns: vVhereas-In addItion to the dIrect purpose of taxatIOn, whIch IS to proVIde revenue for the support of government, economIsts now ul11versally recogmze that Its mdlrect effect In checkmg or encouragmg productIOn IS powerful, Whereas-It IS self-evident that the purpose of lSovernment should be to stImulate and not to repless productIOn, Whereas-The laws of Pennsylval11a, Maryland, ~ew Jer-sey and several other states, and of the DommlOn of Canada, exempt from taxatlOn such personal property as machmery and tools, and all mvestment employed m manufdctunng, whIle the law of the state of New York reqUIres the 11nposltlOn of a tax upon such property and such tax In thIS state IS unequally Im-posed, be111gm some dIstricts waIVed and m others exacted and thIS inequaltty is due to the laXIty of the one case, and to the zeal 111the others of the local assessors; but 111all cases IS im-posed or waIVed as the whIm, or WIsdom, or 7eal of such as-sessor,; may dictate, and In all such countIes may be at any tIme Imposed to the hIghest l11mt, and in an element of uncer-tamty, a menace, and a deterrent 111fluence upon all manufactur- Ing corporatIOns contemplatmg a locatIOn or an expansIOn, and Induces the locatIOn of corporatIons In other states whose laws are more favorable in thIS respect, and has resulted in takmg many large corporate Investments m manufactunng from New York state; and Whereas-From 1890 to 1900 the capItal 111vested 111New York by manufactunng corporatIOns has 111creased only 46 1 per cent; the value of manufactunng products has mcreased 111 New York 27 1 per cent, and m Pennsylval11a 37 8 per cent , wage earners engaged 111manufacturing have lllcreased 111New York 12 9 per cent, and m Pennsylvama 28 7 pel cent, and horse power has 111creased 111::.Jew York 52 1 per cent, and 111 Pennsylval11a 884 per cent 111the same penod of tIme, therefore, Resolved-That thIS conference hereby constitutes Itself a commIttee, to be known as the Rochester Conference commIttee, to further ,;uch legIslatIOn as \'1 III relteve the manufclctunng in-dustries of thIS state from dlscnnllnatmg taxatIOn " -- - Wood S.r Clamp Fixtures Per Set SOc. PaotentMalleable Clamp Fixture. E H SHELDON & CO Chlcal{o III Gentlemen -We are pleased to state that the 25 dozen Clamp FIxtures which we bought of you a httle over a year ago are gIvmg excellent se-Vlce We are well satisfied With them and shall be pleased to remember you whenever we want anythmg addItional In thIS hne Yoms truly SIOUX CIty, Iowa CURTIS SASH & DOOR CO r---'~---'--~--------- -----------------------------1 I LEXINGTON HOTEL I I 500 Rooms. I I I Michigan Boulevard and 22nd Street. EVERY MODERN CONVENIENCE. New Cafes. New Grill Room. Offices and Rooms Redecorated. Absolutely Fire Proof. "YOU WILL LIKE THE LEXINGTON:' II I..._.--------------------_._---------------""' HORACE WIGGINS, Assistant Mar. J. E MONTROSE l . CHARLES McHUGH r Proprietors. Also operating Hotel Montrose, Cedar Rapids, la.; Rock bland House, Rock Island, 111. I -"' Resolved-That to effect d permanent orgamzatlOn, a com-l111ttee of twenty be dppoll1ted by the chaIrman from eXlst111g or-gal11zatlons or any others, WIth power to adopt ways and means to make permanent and effective the purpose of thIS conference as thIS day expressed I11 the resolutlOlls adopted Resolved-That a legIslative and executive committee con- '3lsttng of five, WIth power to add to ItS members, be appomted by the chaIrman to convene the permanent orga11lZatlOn com-mIttee, and to act m conjunction with It Resolved-That any resident of New York state, approved by the executIve commIttee, shall be ehglble to membershIp I11 the Rochester Conference committee Resolved-That the commIttee on legIslation be authorized and dIrected to further such legislatIOn as WIll place the man-ufactunng mdustries of this state m respect to taxatIOn upon as favorable a baSIs as tho'3e of Pennsylvania Seventy-five delegates were in attendance, representmg the citIes of Auburn, Albany, Buffalo, Brockport, (ElmIra, Geneva, Lockport, Mt Morns, New York, Rochester, Syracuse, Seneca Falls, Schenectady, UtIca and Yonkers. 30,000 Sheldon Steel Rack Vises Sold on approval 1lnd an nncon-dltlOnal money back guarantee SHELDON'S STEEL BAR CLAMPS. Guaranteed Indestructible. We sohelt pnvIlege of sendmg samples and our complete catalogue E. H. SHELDON C!J CO. 328 N. May St .. Chicago. ----------------- - .. 18 WEEKLY ARTISAN Grand Rapids Hand 618 North Front St. Screw Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. TRUCK TALKS Might not convince you without evidence. Bu t com pare a wagon to our truck, note the similarity of construction fea-tures-- No box bearings; nothing to easily break or get out of order; extra large center wheels, revolving on taper turned axles; wide treads; special :first-class cast-ings. Grand Rapids Trucks are :first, last and all the time the safest in construction, and positively the best. No. 15 Catalog Shows Them. Washington as a Business Town. Washington, D c., Apn1 28 -ThIs Clt} bemg the seat at government, the SOCIal cet1ter of the country and purely a I eSI-dence city, has few factories of any kind and they are not en-couraged or wanted. If one is started and any smoke comes from It, the manager wIll hear of it. He IS hedged alOund WIth all sorts of restrictions so that he soon deCIdes that he had bet-ter move. There is practically no wholesale trade of any h1l1d, that be1l1g left to BaltImore, PhIladelphIa and Richmond In the retaIl line a large bus1l1e% IS done and there are some good stores Everythmg I~ supposed to be dearer here than in most large cities on account of the affinal hfe and the Sh01t trade season which I~ about SIX to mne months \Vashington IS very dull rlunng the summer At the present time the Clt} shows off all Its beauty The hne bouleval ds, streets am] avenues, dotted hel e and there \\ ith statues and monuments, pubhc bwld1l1gs, hotels, re<,ldences fOI diplomats, senators and congressmen are scattered through the northwest sectIOn Most all the busmess IS also located m that section. Pennsylvania avenue, once noted for Its beaut}, IS not what it used to be, but will be Improved and made one of the finest boulevards in the world. All the bU1ldmg~ on the south SIde of the avenue from the capItol to FIfteenth street and from the avenue to the mall will be torn down and the space resen ed for pubhc bwldmgs and for dIplomatic mansions Then the bUo,mess WIll be anI} on one SIde of the street TIllS \\ III cost many millions but the work has already been started The mam busmess streets nov, are 1, G, Se\ enth, Xinth and Four-teenth streets, and New York avenue IS commg on fast Some of the finest furniture IS sold here as the vallOUS wealthy social hons are here; the mil11sters and ambassadors of the various countries, the senators and representatives in con-gress, as well as all theIr followers, create a market which IS qUIte chstl11ctlve and not to be found m any other Amencan cIty The \ anous balls, banquets and socIal affaIrs must be set off WIth the best of furl11ture else they would lose considerable ef-fect, Just the same as If the ladles made no effort to look charm-mg. The fUl mshmgs in the vanous public bUIldings all show nchness. though the taste and style may not always be pleas-mg The best grades of furniture predominate. Many pieces are plam 111 design. Others are embellished WIth rich carvings '\mong the bU1ld1l1gs now projected are the following: The Play House \\hich will be a club theatre with dining hall, roof ~al den, etc. The Columbia Golf club WIll erect a $50,000 club' house; the Y W C. 1\. here will build a $5,000 club house in the country at Cherrydale, Va.; Congress Hall Hotel, New Jer-sey avenue, WIll be enlarged by 50 rooms, by the manager, Silas \ Manuel, to cost $60,000; a new vaudeville theatre WIll be hUllt on l\Jll1th street near D, to cost $50,000; the CIrcle Amuse-ment company has just built a 'small theatre at 2105 Pennsyl-vama avenue The Scottish RIte Masons will bUIld a $1000- 000 cathedral on Sixteenth street but satisfactory plans ha;e n~t been obtained The plans sent m were rejected and others WIll he asked for James D. Richardson IS supreme grand com-mander and m charge of this work The chocese of St. Peter and Paul WIll erect a cathedral which \\ ill be handsome and ex-penSIve L S MIller, retail furmture dedler, was closed out of bU<,I-ness b} the receIvers m bankruptcy, Joseph Salomon and B N. Graham. Max J Neustrader, 10m Seventh street, as the Columbia Specialty company, has been closed out at auction by the trustee, David Rothschild Jackson Bros, 915 Seventh street, are remodeling their 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 flood-ing the country. "OLIVER" No. 16. Band Saw 36 Jnc:hell. Made with or WIthout motor drive Metal table 36" x 30" WiD take 18" under the aUlde-lI1ts 45 dear_ one way and 7 dearees the other way Car-ne. a laW up to 1~Il wIde. OUlude heanna to lower wheel shalt when not molol dnven W .. aha 1800 lbl when ready to llup Oliver Tools Save Labor ~4 Time .. Tempers .. Cost "Oliver" New Variety Saw Table No. 11 Will take a law up to 20' d,ameler Arbor belt '1 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. Works and General Offices at 1 to 51 Clancy St. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., U. S. A. BRANCH OFFICES-Ohver Machmerr Co .. Hudson Tetmlnal. 50 Church St, New York. Ohver Maclunery Co • Flfst Nahona Bank Bu~dma, Clucaao, III , OlIver Machmery Co , aafic Bu~dma. Seatde, Wash. Oliver MachmefY Co ,201.203 Deanlaate. Manchester. Ena building and when finished will have a much better store than before. Mayer & Co., 409 Seventh street, 'are exclusive agents for the Fulton go-cart. The retail furniture firm of Giddings & Steele, has been re-organized. against accidents, beginning May 1. The officers of the com-pany adopted the plan after a year's study of the subject. The plan will affect 25,000 employes in this country and 10,000 in the plants abroaJ The liability and compensatIOn plan is modelled after the German law. The benefits will be paId regardless of legal liability and employes will thus be saved delay and expenses of litigation. In case of death three years average wages will be paid, but not less than $1,500 or more than $4,000 Without any contrilbution from employes one-fourth wages will be paid for 30 or more days' disability Will Insure Their Employers. Managers of the InternatlOnal Harvester company, known a'l Implement trust, have decided to insure all its employes ....••......•. - _.~ No. 694, 48 in. top. No. 687, 60 in. lop. Others 54 in. top. 8 Foot Duostyles ANY FINISH CHICAGO DELIVERIES Lentz Table Co. NASHVILLE, MICHIGAJIv tt.. 19 .. .... 20 WEEKLY ARTISAN Minnesota Retail Furniture Dealers' Association OFFICERS-PreSIdent J R Taylor, Lake Benton Mrnn, VICe PresIdent, D R Thompson, Rockford, Mrnn , Tr~asurer, B A Schoeneberger, Perham, Mmn Secretary, W L. Grapp, Janesvtlle, Mlun EXECUTIVE CO\l:MITTEE-Chalrman Geo Klern, Mankato, Mrnn, 0 Stmons, Glencoe, Mmn, W. L HarrIS 1I1rnneapohs, 1I1mn ,C Dal1lelson Cannon Falls BULLETIN No. 126. fhe past two month, has tlleo the patlence ot e\ el \ ear!o,ld ,hJpper to the very hmlt 'J ever In the hlston ot rallroad1l1£; has there been ::,ncha conglomera\.Jlon of car::, and dela, eel tr affic a~ we have Just passed through Bnt we can report that we have tlnally '3ucceeeled 111gett111g all the cars that \\ ere loaded at eon-ventlOn thm 1\ ow evel yth1l1g IS eIther at the transfeI or \\ III be thel e soon In mak111g up some of the"e car", \\ e hel\ e tmllld we wele a httle short m weIght and have mc1ucled 1I1 "ame "UI phh enough to make the re(jll1red catload m1111mum Theretore we have at :!VI111nesotatransfel now, the fol1owln~ g'Jod, under the vanous fact01le, as follo\\ s FACTORY NO. 23. ~ '\ 0 10 No 1 '\0 1 }.,o ~ No r'j 1\0 4 No 4 No 4 "fo 40 No " No 1f) hIlS" lleds fIVe filler blIght 2 In po"t 40 Bl ass 1 f'cl~ t1\ e fillel satlll In po::;,t 623 Blass lwds cOlnblnat On e,tld hea\\' 621 Bra::,"!" tr:>(l., <;atln extra hC'a\\ ~OO Bra<;<; hNJS <;lX filler brIght ) In contlnuous post 800 Brass bE'ds SIX filler satIn 2 In contInuous po"t "l00 BI ass beds SIX filler combInatIOn 3 1n conbnuouo; post 800 Brass b0ds five filley satIn 2 In contInuous PObt 800 Brass beds fivE' fillt-r bnght <) In contlnuou<; posr '1; %J Bra"'<; brds blX fill f' 1 b1lgh t <) III post 3'1% Bla<::s beds SIX bUtr satIn In post ~ ~ 1") sn 2104 ,2204 11 08 1Z08 1) 53 11 ;0 11 iO 8 to 8 to FACTORY NO. 33. , '\0 10 ;'\0 10 "fo ) '{O 10 No 10 "0 No r '\[0 4 ~o 5 No 12 No ]2 No 92 1!..Xt""D<;lOl1 tables solhl oak golden (6 ft ) top 4 x-!) ) m 10g" ~ (100 t;) I!.J,Jpn<;I'Jll table", solld oah goldt 11 (R ft \ top 12"'\.4 R2 ~xtcns}{)n tables solld oal{ golden (10 ft) top 1 x4') 82> ExtpnblOll tables Tmt oak .\m qtd top (6 ft) top 4. "\..1 6'>2 Exten"lOn tables lmt oak Am qtc1 top (8 ft) t)P 1'"\.4 822 .:extenSIOn tables lInt oak ..\.m qtd top 00 ft) top 4 '"\..1 OOlA BI eakfast tables In1t oak gl )"8 tllllsh 4. )'..44 ODIn Breakfast tables Imt oak glos~ finIsh 4- 'X ~4 1 )14 ExtenSIOn tables plaIn oak polIshed 4:bx46 0) Extenblon tables Imt oak gloss finIsh (6 ft ) J 0 KItchen tablt s "I thout dl a\\ er 31x36 "'0 Kltchf'n tables V\Ith rlrd1\ er 24x'.:>6 11lu'StratlOns and de:ocnptlon'S of the"e t<ihle" dlC gl\cn In Bulletin No 56 Don't overlook this BIG BARGAIN though 1t is Illustrated in a small cut. This 5-inch Leg Dimng Extension Table can be had rn pla1l1, Rolden oak or L\mencan quartered oak These table::, are exceptlOnell value" and you 'Should not mIs'S thl'S Opp01 tUl11tv of pro-cunng one The nm 1S se- (curelv fasteneJ, and do not forget thl", has a good bolt and nut con~tructron for fa'ite111ng the leg, whIch admIts of easd) or sett1l1g up table The lea' es al e ,ery eaSIly The::,e tables can be had 111 pnce, a" fo11ol\ S also ,be had 111 Amencan qUelltered top, b} pelyln~ a lrtt1e etxra Top 42x42 mch. removrng adJu'Sted They can No 822 -SI7e 42x42 In ImItatIon oah 6 ft $495 , ft ~6 20 10ft ~i 4l No 'l:23-4?x421n Imt oak Am qtd top 6 ft $545 8 ft $6,0 10 ft .p <)') 1\0 S2-12x42 III 'olId oak ,golden 6 ft $600 , ft ~j 2'5 11) ft ~8 ,0 No \3-42x42 In solId (lal{ Am qtd lOp 6 ft '\>650 , ft ii'77,) 10 fl ~V 00 FACTORY NO. 37. 6 "-,0 237 Rockels SCl all cane seat G 0 $218 L No 141 Rocker<:: sCIoll Ven seat G 0 ~ ~S 12 No 159'", Rockers scroll Ven seat G 0 :2 40 14 :No 2471;2 Rockers "cloll Ven sf'at G Q 143 12 No 231'h Rockels scroll ven seat G 0 lH 12 No 132 'h Dlners Ven seat G 0 9<) 12 No 10 Box sedt dIners Ven seat G 0 1 ~7 Tho'ie of } ou who have receIved shIpments from thIS fac-to! \ kno'\ tIre great value of these goods and, no doubt. can clean IIp thb httle surplu':o WIthout any troulble~£1r'St come, £1r'3t sen ed 8 ;0 MINNESOTA FEDERATION. \\ e pre"ent 111 th1" department jihe call 'Sent out by the :\1rnne'i( ta rec1eIatIOn rn reference to the proposeJ conference (t legl"latl\ e commIttees Our commIttee cons1st'3 of the fo1- 10'\ mg members \\ LEarn'S, :\I1I1neapolJs, :\lmn , -:'II Anderson, At- '\atel, \1 II1n , P Chrrstlanson, Oldham. S Dak, Geo ] Illlh er, \\ mona, \1rnl1 ,T C \[ernman, Drake, K Dak, C \\ Barn" Rock\\fll, Iowa L C; Clland, Bloomrng Prame, \111111 \J\ e urge each mcmbel of jih1'i commIttee to be on hand, If pOSSIble, on that elate, May 19th If yon cannot be there 1n person, be ,ure to send, 111care of the 'iecretary, your vIews upon "ueh propo~ed legl'SlatlOn a'S you helve 111m111d This h a verY Important matter and noth111g 'Short of slckenss or e!eath ought to keep you flom thIS meetIng "\ny member of our aSSOCIatIOn who has 111m111d certaIn needs that oug'ht to be looked after. WIll help the legblat1ve commIttee a ~reat deal If he \vl11 'Scnd h1'S Idea'S to the secreta1y before thi'S meetln~ \\ e ou£;ht to have th111gS well 111hand and know ,\hat the fU!11Iture Interests \'Vant to present before the con-ference meet... Remember that leglslatlOn can make or break any 111du"tr) \s thIS IS a matter that comes home to each 111dnIdual do not th111k that you are g0111g to get that which ~ ou are en tItled to If } ou thl11k or act along the pohcy of , Let George do It ., The ,I111ne,ota FederatIon hereby calls a general con-ference of leglslatn e committee'S of all traele orgal11zations In the state, to be held 111J\Il11neapoh'i, Hotel I\Tlcollet, May 119-20. 1910 The matter of wise and careful 1egl~latlOn 1S begl11ning to recen e the attentIOn that ItS llnportance demands Bu'Si-n "e'S men e, er} where have been maLIe to realrze that it is necessary to get together 111 order to bnng about a mvre equable le~hlatlOn, because of the haphazald endeavors and I c"ult'S of leglslatl\ e efforts 111the past and because W1se and ]ucllclal leg1,latlOn IS an Important detaIl of any business Thel efore, in order to give due comideration to the vad-eith Ibllls prop0'ied anel to see when a bill 10, proposed that It I'S within the constltutlOna1 lrmits, fair and Ju~t, and to make It 'Some one', speCIal busl11ess to see that these matters are proper1} a Hendee! to ane! call1ed out, the Ml11nesota Commerclal FederatIOn ha'S been orga1117eel out of the van- Olh traJe orgal117atlOl1'i 111the 'itate It has fOI It'S obJcct the f01l0\\ 111gpurpo'Ses OBJECT. ScctlCll1 1 The purpose" fOI wh1ch th1o, as'ioClation has been e::,tabh "hed are to br111g about a united effort and de£1l11te actIOn on the part of the various retad commerCIal assocla-tlOl1, 111l\I111ne..,ota for the general betterment of condItIons pel ta1111l1gto I eta11 merchandl::,111g, and to carry out the plans of the affihated organl/atrons, by mean,; of co-operatIOn, and 1150 J ?3 10') 1 ~O WEEKLY ARTISAN to secure such legIslation as will promote the bu'>iness In-tere~ t,> of the state If you have ever been upon a legl::.latn e commIttee, you, no cloubt, realIze more than the average dealer what a hapeles", ta.,k It IS to get Ju,>t measures thru the state legl::.lature-not because the legl~lator,> do not want to Jo what I::' nght but hecau"e at each '3e~::'lOn of the le~hlatU1e, three J1mes a::. many b11ls are Introduced a::. can be properly conSIdered Consequenty, the measure'> pre::.ented m an aggreS::'lve man-ner are usually the fir::.t to be acted upon and receive the heartIest support Not only that, but we all know that the legIslators are bemg continually asked to do thl11gs that are termed ascla% leg1s1atlOn Therefore It ISonly natural for them to look upon any busmeE->s leg1slatlOn w1th Susp1ClOn That 1'> because they are not fully m touch wIth the thl11g asked and therefore vote "no" upon the '>Uppos1tlOn that they would rather k1ll a bIll than produce leg1'>latne enactments whIch may later prm e unW1'>e Thus, the maJonty ot the bIlls mtroduced Iby the small busIness mterest::. of the "tate find theIr way mto the wa"te ba"ket or are mdefinlte1y postponed-usually because they do not have the baclong and support that such measure., are entitled to lYe have found that there are vcr) fevv men many as- ,0ClatlOn who wIll gn e theIr per<;onal tlme and attentlOn to the bIll" mtroduced In other word." 'vVhat I::' everybody s busmess IS nobody's busmess " Therefore, It I::' the purpose of the MmneE->ota Commel c1al FederatlOn to assemble 111 conference all the leglslatlV e com-m1ttees of t1he vanOUE->trade orgal11ZatlOns m :\1111nesota, for the purpo"e of prepanng such meaSU1 es as are proposed 1Il the vanous ao,,,oclat10nE->,and, where pract1cal, to con::.olJdate m one, two or three bllls, 1:he needs of all the trade orgal11za-tlOns msteacl of a dozen or mOl e and then u::.e the combmed mf1uence of all the trade organ17atlOns to secure It::. pa"sage The plan<; propo::.ed are as follows The 1esults of the commg conference w111 be reported hack to each as'iOuatlOn who,.: executlve comnl1ttee wIll ap-prove or d1<;approve as the ca"e may be After tll1S has been reported back to the federatlOn, the federatlOn wIll refer It 21 to the con'iultlllg attorney to be put m shape so that when once pa::.sed, they w111 be found con<;t1tutlOnal Then, It will be the specIal bU'illle'i" of the federatIon to see 1:hat these b11ls are properly taken care of, and theIr passage secured. As you look back to the pa::.t, you wIll have notlced, If ) ou are a close obsen er 01 a student of w'hat IS transpmng m the leg1.,lat1ve halls of OU1 "tate, that a mdJont) of the b11ls acted upon were m the mterests of large corporatIOns, the labO! ers mterests and the farmers' mtere"ts Th1::', of course, 1S only natural because the mtere::.ts of the corpora-tIOns are such that It make::. It necessary for them to mam-tam actIve workers to get what they need The labor organ- 1zatlOns come m WIth theIr b111s WIth a "oll,l backmg of theIr assoc1atlOn The farmer ~ets hIS legblatlOn because of h1E-> personal acquamtance and mfluence WIth the members of hlS dl<;tnct Thl::' 1" aE->It should be Each one of these inter-ests 1S entItled to t1he V>he"t and Ibc"t leg1s1atlOn that our state can gIve It Yet they forget thdt thes~ mtere<;ts cannot pros-per and grow as they should unless the S:l\L\LL BUSINESS mterests of the "tate are pro::.pelOU" becau",e, m Its finer anal-ySIS, everythmg centers from the FARMER '\='JD SMALL BUSIXESS J\IERCBANT out of whIch come" large cor-poratlOns vvh1ch create demands for labor. Therefore, we feel that can consIstently ::.ay that the punpose of the Mmnesota FederatlOn b of very VItal mterest to the prosperity of our state and that the Ibusllless men of :UlIlne::.ota have a nght to bu11J for the future, the results of whIch are so Important that legIslatIve matters should be handled along the llnes of common sense bus1I1ess methods 1I1stead of the haphazard 'get what you can" pollcy of the past T1herefore, we urge most emphatIcally that every state dS'iOC1atlOn, be they members of the federatIOn or not, send theIr leglsla tlv e commIttee to thIS conference May 19th and 20th Let the slogan be "In ulllty there IS strength," out of whIch w111 come better busme"s condltJOns, better bus1l1ess po!Jcles an~l a bettel::.tate to live m Yours truly, H D E\ ANS, Pres Attest \\ L Grapp, Secy New Factories. V\ 11halll COUlt & Son have opened a cablllet anJ uphol E->tenng E->hopat Lake Grove, N Y. M. Land C. K Debanto, brothers, have e::.tabllshed a new cabmet shop m RIchmond, Ind A plant for manufactullng "Monell concentratl11g" tables IS to be establiE->hed 1Il Denver, Col The Gem lJpholstenng com pan) of :\lIlwauhee, \\ IS, 1'-, bmldmg a new factory on Lee and ThIrd street., The Roper Furlllture Company of :\1lshdwkee, Ind, are <,a1clto be 100k1l1g tor a locatJOn de"lrable for a furl11ture fac-tory m the south. ] ohn and J da LeIck and G :\1 R1etow have 1I1corporated the V\ e"tern Furl11tUl e company, capltallzed dt $2,500, to man-ufacture fUllllture at Sheboygan, WIS The Commercial Club of EI Reno, Okla, 1S reported to have closed a contract w1t'h C L Bryan of Cleveland, 0, for the establlshment of a furlllture factor) at EI Reno The Freeport (Ill) Ca<;ket company, capltahzeJ at $1,- 000, has been mcorporated by Jacob vVe1ss, E .M Hall oun, and l' H Hollister, to manufacture coffin" and caskets Lotus Winstian who has been in the furniture trade UI Hudson, NY, for many year<; has deCIded to retire from the retaIl business and convert his store bUIlding mto a furl11tUl e factory in which he WIll employ wbout two hundred hands l__ Started in Grand Rapids. Clark A Drochway, who 1etlrecl flOm the Illanagement of the furl1lture department of the \Vanamaker ::.tore m 1\ew York, 1ecently, to engage WIth GImbel Brother", commenced hI s caree1 m the furlllture trade 1Il Grand RapId" thIrty-five year" ago, a" a retaIl salesman WIth the Berkey & Gay Furlll-ture company He remaUled several years, when an ofter for hIS sen Ices VI as tendered by :\Iarcus Stevens, the leadmg retaIler m DetrOIt Stevens dled 111 1880, when an mvest1- gatlon of hI::. aftalrs revealed the fact that :\1r Stevens' debts far outwelg'hed h1s a"sets The stock of furnIture was closed out as qUIckly as pOSSIble when Ml Brockway went to C1I1- Clllnatl and apphed to the MItchell & Rammebberg company for employment vb :YIltchel1 consulted John .;\IO\\ at 1Il re-gard to the quahficatlOns of Mr Brochv>ay "You would find h1m at the door every mmute when not engaged w1th a customer There Isn't a lazy bone 111 hIS body He would teach that crowd of loafers and "hlrks on your floors new Ideas m ~alesman::.h1p 1f they would pay attentIOn to h1m," saiJ Mr Mowat Mr Brockway was engaged and took up hIS work w1th the same mtel est and enthUSIasm he has so strong I) manl-fested m later years as a buyer In less than one week, on account of hI" actl\ 1ty and attentIOn to busmess, he had in-curred the 11l-wlll of all <;alesmen in the store He retned from the MItchell store several years later to enter 1:he em-ploy of John \Vanamake1 111 Phtladelphia 22 WEEKLY ARTISAN UPHAM MANUFACTURING CO. MARSHFIELD, WIS. No. 2228 Toilet Table. SEND FOR OUR Dressers Chiffoniers Dressinu Tables Suites Wardrobes Sideboards Buffets Etc. Made in Oak, Bird' a-Eye Maple, MahoQaDY, etc., and All Popular Finisltes No. 2240 Toilet Table COMPLETE CATALOGUE REMINDERS OF THIRTY YEARS AGO. Paragraphs Copied From the Michilian Artisan for August. 1880. W. H Bradbury has opened a store in Richmond, Ind Julms Haas will open a furniture store III Kansa, CIty J. W. Booth IS representmg Seng & Schoen of ChIcago L. Meyer has opened a stock of furniture m Sacramento. D. Rosenberg & Bros , have opened a varnish depot m ChI-cago. E Youmans of ChIcago, has returned from a tour of Colo-rado. Carl Berkelman hat> engaged m the sale of furmture 111 Duluth. David Gibbs is sellmg the lme of F. H Conant'" Sons, on the road. The IndIana Furniture company of Connersville, employs 150 hands. The factories of St. Louis produce $2,400,000 worth of fur-niture annually. C. F. StreIt of Streit & Schmitt, Cincinnati, has recovered from a long illness. Banks & 1\futhias have pUlchased Reuben Sieger'" chaIr fac-tory at Allentown, Pa. Ralph & Son of New York, recently cut 11,000 feet of ve-neers from a single log. W. O. Taylor & Son, of Bedford, 0, are erecting a large addition to their factory. . It is estimated that the fall trade in furniture in St Louis will amount to $2,160,000. Wrampelmeier's new furniture factory in Louisville, will soon be ready for occupan::y. F. L. Furbish, manufacturer of art furniture (Grand Rap-ids) is crowded WIth orders. The Joseph Peters Furniture company i" refurnishing the Planter's House, in St Louis. Stow & HaIght (Grand Rapids) manufacture a fine line of breakfast and extenslOn tables Fredenck W. Martm of Norwich, Conn, has patented a process for ornamentmg wood. Stockwell, Byrne & Co. (Grand Rapids) al e busily engaged 111 fillmg orders for chamber suites. Slxtymen are employed by McCord & Bradfield (now Luce Furmture company) in Grand Rapids. George J. BIcknell of the Phoenix Furniture company, Grand RapIds, recently returned from the west. A. D. Cooke & Co, of Easton, Pa., will erect a saw m111 to be operated WIth theIr furmture factory. The \Vo1verine Chair and Furniture company (Grand Rap- Ids) manufactures f01ty styles of cane seat chairs. The Grand RapIds Furmture company uses two million feet of lumbel annually m the manufacture of cheap beds. H. Blessmg, of Salamanco, N. Y., lost his stock of furniture by fire yet>terday HIS experience wa" not a "blessing." John C Brand, formerly of the Lawrenceburg Furniture company, has opened a t>tock of furmture in Louisvllle, Ky. The store of the Scarritt Furniture company in St. Louis, was destroyed by fire recently. Loss, $75,000; l11surance, $57,- 000. Martin Lammert of St Louis, sold thirty-three per cent more goods m July than dUring the corresponding month of 1879. Interview WIth Edward Bolger, representing the E D. Albro company of Cmcinnati. "You can have no idea of the quantity d WEEKLY ARTISAN 23 No.9-Porch ChaIr Large SIze. Oak Seat. Green or MIssiOn FInISh. WeIght, 20 pounds No to-Porch Rocker Large sIze Oak Seat. Green or MIssIOn Fmlsh· Weight 21Y. pounds. No.l1-Porch Settee. Seat 40 mches long, 17Y. mches deep Oak Seat Green or MIssIOn timsh Weight, 32 pounds RICHMOND CHAIR COMPANY, RICHMOND, INDIANA of veneers used In Grand RapIds I am pOSItIve that not less than $50,000 IS paid out here for thIS materIal annually." The Geldowsky Furniture company of Boston, is furnishmg the annex to Young's hotel m that CIty vvlth chamber suites in walnut, maple and ash The Ohio and MISSISSIPPI Furmture company IS the name of a corporation recently orgamzed m Cmcmnati. They will man-ufacture parlor furmture. The furniture manufacturers of Baltimore are preparIng to participate in the celebratIOn m honor of the 130th anmversary of the fonndmg of the CIty W. H. Beals of the Belkey & Gay Furmture company, has WIthdrawn from the road and resumed hiS former employment m the office as correspondent. J. G Kmg, formerly deSigner for the Nelson-Matter Fur-niture company, has entered the employ of the St. LoUIS (Mo) Furmture Workers' AssociatIon The SlIgh Furmture company (Grand RapIds) has com-pleted the erectIon of an additIOn to their factory and gIve em-ployment to seventy-three hands A salesman 111the employ of W B Moses of Wash111gton, wab sent to a bank to obta111 cash fOJ a draft for $300. He I ecelved the money and disappeared The most expensIVe parlor sUites are made WIth ebonized frames decorated WIth carvmgs and good tracmgs "Lampls" and fine cashmeres are used for coverIngs. E H Foote of the Grand Rapids ChaIr company made a flying VISIt to Kansas Llty recently and sold twenty carloads of chaIrs for early delIvery to Colonel Abernathy WIlliam Waterhouse, a dealel 111furl11tUIe m Cedar Rap-ids, Iowa, was 111 the market (Grand RapIds) tlIls week and placed substantIal ordel s for furnIture and coffins The Phoemx Furniture company (Grand RapIds) have ad-ded to their lme several patterns of chamber SUItes 111 mahogany The company have taken possesion of their new bUlldmg. A. B. Carrier, who recently resigned hiS pOSitIOn as secre-taly of the Grand Rapids Chalf company, IS succeeded by E H Foote, a gentleman of long experIence 111 the furmture trade Fred H. Peavey of SIOUX City, Iowa, has obta1l1ed an im-portant contract for furnishing buildmgs on an Indian reser-vatIOn He IS an enterpris111g dealer and carries on a large bus-iness. Troubles. There is an old saw which says, "He doubles hiS troubles who borrows tomorrows." But to elIminate trouble 111 bus1l1ess IS to promote long lIfe and prosperity The average busmess man has his full share of trouble and responSibilIty and m the manufacture of furniture he seems to have more than hiS share Consequently, when anythmg goes wrong With the dry kiln he not only "doubles hiS troubles by borrowmg tomorrows," but also the next day's and the next week's and the next month's. Here is a letter which tells ho" the manager's troubles are elIm-mated: Salem, OhiO, July 29, 1909 Grand Rapids Veneer Works, Grand Rapids, Mlch GI:N 1LEMI:l'\ -Our dry kiln furmshed by your company is do- 1I1g all we can ask for. Weare not hav111g any trouble with it and our lumber is drIed perfectly. I thank you for offerIng us assistance 111 the operatIOn of kiln. Yours truly, THE AJ\TERIC\N CASE & REGISTER CO, (Signed) Geo H. Pratt, Superintendent [_ _..._-----..... - .. Grand Rapids Caster Cup Co. 2 Parkwood Ave., Grand Rapids, Mich. We are now puttIng out the best Caster Cups With cork bases ever offerea to the trade. These are fimshed m Golden Oak and White Maple m a hght timsh These goods are admIrable for pohshed floors and furn- Iture rests. Theywill not sweat or mar. PRICES. SIze 2~ mches $4.00 per hundred SIze 2~ mches 5.00 per hundred T'rv a Sample Order F. 0 B. Grand Rap&lU. .. .. 24 WEEKLY ARTISAN To Revise Express Rates. CHEAPN:ESS A CURSE IN THE SOUTH. At a meet111g of the transportatIOn commIttee of the Grand RapIds Boald of l1ade, held 111the Fmmtme Gmld rooms last MonJay. It was decIded to send a delegate to 1ep resent the board at the meet111g called by the New York ~Ier chants' aSSOCIatIon ~Iay 12 for the purpose of planmng a cam-paign £Ol a reVl:oIOn of the expres:o rate~, by an appeal to the 111tersta te commerce commISSIOn The next meet111g of the tl an ~POltatIOn commIttee \\ 111 be held May 19 111the board of trade 1oom ~ and It \\ 111be open to Shlpp111g and bill clerks and othel:O 111tele,tcd 111"hlppmg The tOPIC WIll be claSSIficatIOns, and It IS expected a membel of the offiCIal claSSIficatIon commIttee \\ J1l hl In ttIen 1.1.11ll to lead m the dIScussIon Mr. Werniche's Views on the Furniture Industry in Dixie Land. Cheapne~~ IS the bane-It IS the curse-ot the furmture 1m"me"" 111 the souvh," saId 0 H L vVermcke, of the l.lacey company, Grand RapIds, \\ho ha~ Just returned from a so- Journ of about two week" 111the Carolma" and Flonda "And that appltes to the manufactullng a", well as to the selltng end," he contlllued "Down there If a dealel gets a dresser that he can sell at $3 50, anothel WIll try to find one that h~ Lan ..,ell for $325 and he generally finds It As a result the trade runs to cheapnes" and the manufacturers have to make stuft to meet that k111d of tlade And It IS stuff ,ure enough Jt IS SImply rotten 111constructIOn and filllsh, rotten 111sty Ie and deSIgn, rotten 111 general appearance and IS made and "old by rotten method:o It IS what some of the natIve" call nIgger' turlllture but they ",ell It to whIte men The fUIllltUl e 111dtbtry and bus111e"s genel ally 111 the "outh 1~ 1ll about a normal condItIon The furmture men are not lay 111gup nches to any great extent Some of the dealers are trY111g to Improve the style and qualtty of then goods and the manufacturers are try111g to help them 111that l111e but the\ do not seem to be wble to get away from the curse of cheapnes" "'1 dId not attend the annual meet111g of the South Carohna Furmture Dealers' aSSOCIatIOn at Spartanburg 1 was at the banquet Just long enough to gl\ e them a httle talk, but (lId not attend any of the bUS111ess seSSIons I un-der~ ta11d then aSSOCIatIOn 1" 111a flounsh111g condItIOn and 1:0 t 1) mg to CIea te a demand fOl a bettel gl ade of fl1rmture than IS now sold 111the south" Returned to the Chair Company. James B Howard, who resH:;neJ the 1epI e"entatlOn ot the Grand RapId" Chall company, 111the lllIdde \\ e"t m ra lllH 1\ ast to enter the employ of the Cland RapId, 1 UlnltUlc COlll-pany, has retI1l ned to the chaIr company al1ll 111" old telll tory C S Dextel succeeJed the late T D \\ atk111~ a~ I ep resentatlve of the chal1 company 111thc ea"tcl n ..,tatc.., Lentz Tables. The Lentz Table comp,l11\ ot "ash\ IHe \IIch 1epO! h a a mce, stead) bU~111es-,all of thI0 spnng ctnd pI CdIch a much larger volume of tradc m the tall 1111~company ha" l1dd a umforml) good bU',llle',-, for man) )'CellS, a11d seldom does a ~eason close wlthout "ho\\ lllf; a -,ubstantlal mCIease 0\ el the prevIOus year The Southvvhtun \Tcneel Lll11lpan\ h h\111chng a pLl11t at Cotton Plant, Ark It's not dIfficult to oroduce the popular effects required for MISSION FINISHED PORCH FURNITURE But Porch Furniture demands more than the mere effects. It demands durability under outdoor conditions. AURORA PORCH STAINS have been perfected after much study and expenment. They meet the NEW need. They resist the weather hke first class paint, yet retam the transparent beauty of high grade stain. WEATHERED OAK, MISSION BROWNS, MOSS GREENS, DULL BLACKS, SOFT REDS, AND OTHER POPULAR EFFECTS. Write for sample panel. To faclhtate prompt attentIon, address Desk No.3. MARIETTA PAINT 8 COLOR CO., Marietta, Ohio. _II MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND NEWS EmJ! ]ohmgdard, furniture dealer of Bottmedu, N D, ha~ ';old out to Weaver & Co. Charles 0 Bulner, furmture dealer at Nook~dck, Ore, ha~ ~old out a 1\. A Campbell Henry James of Kewton Falls, 0 , has Il1ventec1 and patented a fold1l1g cnb and play-pen T. C Slipper has succeeded IE S Dodge 111 the retaIl furm-ture trade at Anacortes, Ore \\T. C Dunl11ng ~ucceeds W. P Rhode~, furmture dealer and undertaker at Men11l, 01e C F Riblet & Co, furniture and carpet dealers of Albany, N Y., are enlarg1l1g their store. Rowland & Co, furniture dealel s of Zanewllle, 0 , are add-ing a fourth story to theIr btl1ld111!S The Kl1l1e Invalid Bed Manufactunng company of Los An-gele<;, Ca1., are bmldlllg a new factOl y. The Crescent Bed company, of New Orleans, are rebuild-mg theIr plant'" hlch \\ as I ecently burned The Nortlnvood Furniture company of ChIppewa Falls, WI, , WIll add a re-sa\\ null to their plant The LIgon Furl11ture company of N ashvJ!le, Tenn , has been lllcorporated wIth capItal stock IU111tedto $23,000 WIlliam McBratney, furniture dealer of \\Teiser, Idaho, ha~ sold out to H J Sommercamp and A G Cardele The Heinz Furmture and Hal dware company of Hayden, Anz, has been incorporated. Capital stock, $50,000 L. P Best has purchased a third interest 111 the Young & :\lcCombsCo-operatlve store company of Da\ enport, Iowa Charles H Jones, furmture dedler of Demson, Tex, IS succeeded by hIS brother H !\ Jones from Pleasant Hill, ).fu The furmture ctock of Bolte Bras, of Wichita, Kan, has been sold at GO cents on the dollar to J 0 Gilbert of the ~ame CIty The Pearce FurnIture and Hdrdwal e company of Lake Linden, Mlch, al e to e<;tablish d branch store at Houghton, Mich. A. L. Gilmore & Co, furniture dealers of Amboy, Minn, have sold out to Chnstopher Scharer who will enlarge the stock The F L \\Thlte company, lmtallment dealers of I\1{adlson, Ind, ha\ e been declared bankrupt Llablhtles, $18,000; assets, $5,500. The Fleck Fnrmture company, dealel ~ of MIlwdukee, dre erectlllg a five story b11lldmg at the corner of Clinton and MItchell streets Fletcher & Gard, furmture and hard\\ are dealers of Mo-desta, Ill, have chs~olved partnership and are succeeded by Fletcher & Sons. The Bockstege Furmture compdny, manufdcturers, Evam- VIlle, Ind, have Ju<;t completed a new bUllding that w111be used for office and warehouse purposes The Gregory, Mayer & Thom company of DetrOlt, MICh, manufacturers of office furmture, havE' mcreased their capital stock from $100,000 to $350,000. The Bowman-Kinzer Undertaking company of Savannah, Mo, has been incorporated by \\T. H 1\.111zer, C R and Ella Bowman. Capital stock, $10,000 The Valley City Desk company, Grand Rapids, have re-paired all damages caused by their recent fire and are now oper-atmg the factory to It,; full capacity Summer 'vV Fifield, 'secretary of the Pawtucket (R 1.) Furniture company, with which he had been Identified smce 1892, died on April 16, aged 62 years E. B. Spencer, representing the Keil- I\nway company and the 0 K Wheelock hnes, ha~ Ju~t leturned from a tllP through Oklahoma and other southwestern states. WIlliam H Jones of the ·Wllham A Berkey Furniture company, Grand RapIds, and Mr" Jones have just returned from Southern Cahfornia where they passed the \Vmter. \\T. B Trumbo & Co, furniture and carpet dealers of Louisville, Ky, have leased the buddll1g formedy occupied by the Keisker company at a rental of $12,500 per year. The latest addition to the back-to-the-farm propaganda is a booklet "Facts For Farmers, to a Fanner, by a Farmer, for the Farmer," pubhshed by the Lackawanna RaIlway company. The Freed Furn Co, of Salt Lake City hdve the contract for furni"hing furl11ture, cctfpets an draperies for three hotels in that city-the Cumberland, the Rex and the Hotel Emanuel L. L. Clark succeeds Freel 0 PIker in the furmture and hardware busmess at Elhsonvllle. MISS Mr PIker ha<; gone to Baton Rouge, La, where he will engage in another hne of trade Abraham Schlesmger, preSident of the Standard Furniture company anel one of the most promll1ent and highly esteemed busmes'i men of Denver, Col, ched on \.pnl 21, aged 59 years Nelson S -Martmez, furmtme dealer of I\nsomia, Conn, who \\ as recently burned out has deCided to retIre from busmess He wl1 take a position With Fredenck Hauser & Co, upholsters of Hartford, Conn J Wade McGowan, who succeeds C. A. Brockway as buyer for Wanamaker's Ne'" York store, was m Grand RapIds this week, visitmg furmture manufacturers, renewing contracts, plac-ing new orders, etc. The stump turpentme plant at CadIllac, ::\1lch, which was closed down March 1, has resumed operations after bemg given a thorough overhaulmg H IS SaId to be one of the CIty',> most profitable institutions vVtlltam SmIth a wealthy wall paper manufacturer ",as klled in aNew York hotel last Tuc'iday mght by the cl0'ill1g of a foldmg bed on which he and hi,; Wife wel e sleepmg Mrs Smith barely escaped suffocatlOn The Gray Veneer and Panel company of (,hma Grove, N. C, have Just completed their panel plant for making veneered roll and saddle chaIr 'ieat,; They WIll also make three-ply straight panels in figured '" ood '> The J. W Armbuster, furmture storE' and the furmture and carpet ,>tore in St. Paul, M11111,owned by D B \VIlson & Son of ShelbyVIlle, Ind, have been purcha'>ed by Charles Wl1ey of St Paul and WIll be consoltdated Eastern traffic as'ioclations have reeluced -coast to coa'it freight rates on lumber from 80 to 75 cent,>, WIth a corre'ipondmg reductIOn to all point'i east of St Paul by making the through rates equdl to the sum of the locals VIa Chicago. Edward B Goodspeed of Worcester, Mass, who had been engaged in the furniture and organ fini~hing busines for more than half a century dIed from the effects of a paralytlc shock on Api i116, aged 72 years He \\ as employed by John \\Tanamaker, as furniture mspector, for ten yean "Nick" Spar, a pnvate detectIve, I'; awaiting trial on the charge of forgely at Jopl1l1, Mo He bought goods worth $1625 from the mack Bras Furmture company and paid the bill WIth a check for $17,50 on which the signature of H. A. Hazelbaker was found to have been forged The CommerCIal Furmture company of WhICh J R Mc Cargar of the Nelson-Matter company, Grand RapIds, I'> presi-dent have purchased a factory SIte on Supenor street, Chicago. A one-story build1l1g now on the property wlll be torn down and replaced by a three-story brick at a co"t of $21,000. The Commercial company is now occupy1l1g the old building. 26 WEEKLY ARTISAN .... - ,. ..... " F. Parthier 1I 10 •• NEW YORK BUSINESS CONDITIONS. Factories Rather Quiet. Jobbers Busy and Retail Trade of Fair Proportions. New York, April 28.- The furmture factone~ are not an} too busy now. WIth them it is between season~ and the} are having only a moderate business and wIll not shm" the usual activity until fall. The cheaper and medmm good~ al e shO\\ 1l1g the best demand. The wholesale trade is also somewhat qUlet It could be worse and it could be much better. There is not quite such a strong effort made to do business as in the fall, but there is enough to keep most of the Jobbers fairly busy There is a lot of b~tldl11g to go fon\ art! here thh } ear The figures mdlcate that it will be the bIggest \ eal e\ er kIlO\\ n The retaIl trade IS keep111g up 111 pretty faJr proportI()n~ M. L. Kesner of 414 St James bUlld111g has taken title agency for the Mechamc,,' Furmture company of Rockfol d, Ill, for PhiladelphIa, BaltImore and vYashmgton The E. R. Wagner Manufactunng company, \\ ho had an exhibit at Grand RapIds, of theIr qUlck fold111g go-cart. \\ 111 ad-vertise the same extensively in all parts of the country and es-tablish agencies in all Cltles of Importance !\ local demand will be created in all states. The plant has been t\\ Ice enlarged C F. Schaubacher, as the PremIer FurnIture company IS a new retail dealer at 166 SmIth street, Brookl) n D. R. Henderson, the eastern representative of Bodenstem & Kuemmerle, the metalhc bedstead company, and the Cun- 1034 Grand Avenue CHICAGO Manufacturer of Willow Furniture II I.--~----------------~---~----_. . ...... I SEND FOR CATALOGUE mngham Sons' Rattan company, will marry Miss Estes of Mem-phis, in June. ~Iax LIOn has taken full charge of the Monarch Furniture company, of 161 East 125th street. SChlpS & Birnste1l1, furniture dealers of 160 Graham ave-nue, Brookl) n, have moved to 180 Graham street. The New York Furniture company is in its new building at Broad\\ay and Grand street, Newburg, N Y. 0. C. Craw-ford has succeeded W. H. Brundage as manager, but he stays on the floor and Ivan Crawford assists his father. The Albany store has been dIscontinued M Davltz, late of Bridgeport, Conn., has opened a retail furniture store at 2337 Third avenue. A Kopelman, doing business as the East Side Auction Room, has opened a branch at 61 Second avenue. '[ he new Exchange building will have thirty acres of space and arrangements have been made that for the first five years the furnIture trade WIll occupy fifteen acres The Amencan Wood Transformmg Works has been in-corporated WIth a capital of $5,000, to color and stain lumber and \ eneers and fil e proof woods The company is headed by O"car SchmIdt, \Valter SchmIdt of Jersey City and H B. Thearl of New York. Heme and PhIllip Caminez, nephews of Joseph Caminez, of li8 Manhattan avenue, New York, have opened a new store as H & P Cammez, at 118 Graham avenue, Brooklyn. The Levmson Manufacturing company has built an addi-tIOn to the factor} on Onent avenue, Jersey City, and now oc-cupy a whole block New warerooms have been opened here Rockford Chair and Furniture Co. ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS Dining Room Furniture BUFFETS. CHINA CLOSETS and TABLES Library Furniture-Library Desks, Library T ables, Library Bookcases, Combination Book~ cases, Etc. Our entire line will be on exhIbition in July on the third floor of the Blodgett Building, Grand Rapids, Mich. WEEKLY ARTISAN These Specialties are used all Over the World ............ f Power Feed Glue S.. readine Machine. Sinele. Double and Combination. (atented) (Sizea 12 in. to 84 in wide.) Veneer Prenes. dIfferent kinds and aizea (ateated) Veneer Presses Glue Spreaders Glue Heaters Trucks, Etc" Etc. ~ Hand Feed Glueine Machine (aleltt pencLnl.) Many at"lea and aizea. Wood-Working Machinery and Supplies LET us KNOW YOUR WANTS Na. 20 Glue Heater. CHASe E. FRANCIS COMPANY, Main Office and Works, Rushville,lnd. No.6 GI.e H.ata •. at 110 West Twenty-seventh street, wIth a complete line of din-ing room furniture The output has been considerably in-creased. The affairs of David Shuldmer, dealer in plate glass, have been in the courts and the stock is being closed out at 321 East Sixty-fourth street. The ltabilities are over $100,000. Henry B. Pye & Co, have taken the new bUlldmg at 121st street and ThIrd avenue and have one of the largest retail stores m the Bronx section The Eclipse Manufacturing company is a new firm makmg mIssion furmture at Pulaski, N. Y. Harry S. Everly will carry the hne of the Scandia Furni-ture company in the east. A. Finkenburg has opened a new retail furnIture store in the eight-story bUlldmg at 121th street and Third avenue. M. Smerling, who was for ten years with S. Glass, as man-ager, has now opened an installment furniture business at 1706 Pitkin avenue, Brooklyn. The C. F. Rohman Sons' company, manufactunng uphol-stering furniture on Adams street, Brooklyn, make a specialty of three and five pIece parlor SUItes, medium grade of birch and mahogany, upholstered in plain damask and velours. They have 75 patterns made up and also make couches. Frank F. Aldrich, late buyer for Wanamaker's, WIll be the new upholstery buyer for GImbel's new store. A L Canfield, 97 Beekman street, has a new line of Im-penal refngerators, in 200 styles, all grades. John Barnutz has closed hIs furnIture factory on Gold street, Brooklyn. The Kmdel Bed company has moved to Norman avenue and :M}onitor street, Brooklyn, where they have a four-story factory, 90 x 100 feet in size, and are working overtIme. They make parlor beds and have duphcated thIS plant in ChIcago Shippers Need Transportation Insurance. Merchants who shIp goods to out of town buyers are dIrect-ly concerned m the questIOn of the habihty of transportatIOn companies for goods entrusted to them for carnage, especIally in the case of accident to the goods after an attempt has been made to deliver them and they have been refused. . A case of thIS kind IS reported, the shIpper be1l1g a retaIl firm in Missouri The goods were sent by express, C O. D, and were refused by the customer. The express company noti-fied the retailers, who replied, ask1l1g the return of the package. But while thIS request was on the way the depot and its con-tents (including the C. O. D. package involved) were destroyed by fire The retailers then naturally called upon the express company to make good the loss ThIs was refused, the express company maintammg that slllce at the time of the fire its re-sponsibility III the matter was that of warehouseman only it could not be held liable for the fire loss. "The retail firm now asks whether we have ever heard of any SImIlar occurrence, and If so, whether it was ever taken to the courts and what was the outcome," the writer continues "Yes, we do know of such a case and the courts have passed on it. "In 1892 a MIchigan court ruled that after the express company had tendered certain lots of C. 0 D. goods and the re-spective consignees deferred payment and acceptance it held the goods in the character of a warehouseman, and that since the fire was not due to its negligence It was not !table therefor. ''In another case it has been ruled that whenever common carriers can show that it was imposslbe for them to make de-livery, either from inabi!tty to find the consignee or from his refusal to accept the goods, or that from any other cause their obligation as carrier had ceased and the less burdensome one of warehouseman had supervened, they may further show that a loss whIch had then occurred was not attributable to their fault or negligence and thereby exonerate themselves from hability. "Moreover, III still another case it has been ruled that in a country village the same degree of security, either as to fire or burglary, cannot be reqUIred of any express company when act-ing as warehouseman, as in larger cities where greater faclhtles for warehouse exist. We mention this because It may be that in the case just brought to our notice the fire loss occurred in a small communIty, so that thIS point might be applIed thereto. "We have pOlllted out on vanous occasions that a number of merchants who have experienced trouble In their efforts to collect such claIms against transportation companies have found it to their interest to take out what might be called transporta-tIOn insurance, thereby at a nominal expense, saving themselves much worry and loss."-N. Y. Sun. The Value of a Name. When John A Colby and J. E. Wlrts dIssolved partner~hlp, in ChIcago, thirty years ago, Mr Colby, the successor of the firm, continued to use the firm name of Colby & Wirts. Desir- Ing to engage m bus1l1ess WIth C. H. Scholle, under the firm name of Wlrts & Scholle, the former brought an actIOn In chancery against Colby and obta1l1ed an injunction restraining Colby from using the original firm name Wirts estab!tshed hl~ contention that his name was of much value in trade. SOUTH CAROLINA FURNITURE DEALERS Proceedings of the Fourth Annual M...eting of Their Association···Remarkable Increase in Membership During the Past Year. Spal tanbUl g, S C, \pll1 25 -The fourth annual Lom cn-tlOn of the South Caro1ma RetaIl Furnttule Dealer, a,,~nCI-ation held here on ApIIl 13 and 1-1-,\\d" a Lomplete "UCLe"" notably 111 the l11dtter of attemldnLe cll1d the lllctl1lte"tdtl ,n ot interest m the ploceedmgs "eatl) a hundrtc! PI0l11111ent Jealers from all pdrts of the "tate were pI e'lent and all \\ el e enthusIastIcally 111tere"ted 111 the ,vork ot the a""ouatlOn Several 111vlted gue"ts made short addl e""c,, 01 read pa pers, handhng then tOplC'l m an ahle ent( rtalnll1~ 1ll,il1nel and the dl"cusslOn of freIght rate" da,,'lfiLdtll1!1" and l Lllm" was hIghly mstruct1\ e to mdn) of the dealer" \Jc1re",e, at \\ ekome were made b, Secletan John \\ ood of the Chal11- ber of Commerce and by C l' Hammond \\ ho "poke fOI the local furmtt1l e dealers PI eSldent 0 ill Heal d m hh annual I epol t. attl! e""pl e,"- lllg hIS appreclatlOn of the hone I lw"to\\ Ld on hl111 and pa,111g a tnbute to SeLretary I Itschg-I tor hh untlllng eft I )1t, dnd effl-uent 5erVlce, dnnng It', PdSt year "dId "I am "me the as"OClatlOn 1'3 dOlng a gledt \\Olh 1111 the furmture dealer, 111bnngmg thcm mto dn"el I datlll11 to Ldch other. m puttm~ the manntaLturel and I etall dLctle! 111the proper relatIOn to each other for mutJul mter,>t tor the\ al C each dependent, one upon the other "There are a great man) thln~s J \\ Ollid hke f01 the a,- 'lOClatlOn to do, but one thll1g I de"ne e'lpeualh to he done 1'3 that the mem\)el "hIp be mLred"e 1 TIll" d"'" lldt! il1 I" a pcywer alread). and the greater the 111Ll11hl!,hIp thL "':1 Lcltel the power If (yen memher \\nuld get d ne\\ I1Hlllhu I\L would have more than t\Vo-thlld~ of thc clLdltl" 111 thl "tdte. and the a'3S0Clatlon would "oon Lome tu be ICU gn1/cd ,I" d powel all en er the l l1lted Sta tc" "\Ve ask f01 notlllng e""cept thdl Ill111h I" 111'! dIld lIght. Ihut It IS necessal, to 1emand the"L thIng, "(IIllLlI1l1l" \lld WIth two-thirds of the dealer~ III thL "tdtL a" mll1lhu" \\ L WIll get thlllg-S that we ought to have yel, often \\ ahcmt de manding them. "I et each member go home and get am ne\\ lilcmher \\ e can do It It vie tn I knO\\ thl' t01 d t,lLt 1 lM\L L:ot!Ln several members thl" ) ear m) "elf "I recommend that thIS a,,"ocldt1<l1l 11IdhL,dl lld\ LhnL: IlIcn who 'lel1 goods to our members that apply fOI membel "lllp of our assoclatlon honoral y membll' ~ell them Ldrd~ tal S 1(\() I Lon~ldered them our fnends and elltlreh 111 "mpatln \\ ah u" "I recommend abo thdt ,\ e ha, e a I e~u1,l1 Lertlficate nf membershIp m the aS'lOClatlon made and "ent to e, ('I, dealel who IS a melTber of Ol1! a~,OCl,ltI011 that the\ Ina\ hang III cl conspicuous place in thur office I con"ldel It an hon01 to he a member of thl'3 assocIation "I also recommend that our member" '1\ ,Ltch thc depots closer and report to the "ecletary any '3111p1l1(nt" that dre 11- 1c~ltlmate fOl r a~~nre ) 011 he \\ III take up the matter at once and make the shlppel feel that thh a""ouatlOll has an eye tOI husmes'l anJ whIle he may not alway'l get sat1sfactor) settle-ment 1t WIll not be long before manufactl1! el S \\ ho sh Ip duect to con"umel s will begm to I ealtze that th('\ (annut ,ell both con"umer'3 and dealers" Secretaly A VV Litschgl\ leport '3ho\\ed dn mcrease ot over 300 per cent m the membershIp dllrtng the pa"t ) e.tr-from 31 to 110 He a1'l0 made some reLomme11(latJOns, among them the following' "All trayeling men 'le1ltng furlllture ext 1uSl\ eh ,hou1d be made members of thIS associatlOn, and cards of member-sh1p be furlllshed them for $300 annually "The b) -la\\ s should be amended ~epal dtmg the office~ of "ecretal \ and treasurer, dlvldlllg the work. and mcrea~mg the mtel e, t m th e assoCIatIOn. '.\11\ member of thIS aSSOCIatIOn whose due" are m ar-redh one) ear ,dfter a final notIce from the secreta1Y and tred"urer, 'lhall be dropped fom the roll and be pertTIltted to apply for rell15tatement only upon payment of back due'l "\Ianufacturers be reque'lted to adopt a umform sIze for theIr catalog" and that pnce" m h"ts be doubled and a 5ep-alate shp statmg thl" be attached to p11ce h'lt whIch can be detachecl and the dIscount noted on the pnce hst by prtvate mark" \s tre,l"urer of the a""oclatton ~1r Lischg1 pre"ented a I eport CO\ el111g the past two years showmg receIpt" durtng tl1dt penod Sl (,7437 and dl'lbur'3ements, $1,32S 35, 1eavmg ,L h,tlance ot S3-1-902 111 ca'3h on hand, and $157 If). due" uncol-lected c:; L Da\ IS of the Southern \hdll company, HIgh Pomt, \, ( eteh\ el ed dn addre-" on 'RelatIOn" Between tbe 'VJ:lanll-tdLtUI er and the Oed1('r," \i\ hlch was brtghtened WIth WIt and hU1110r dnd made a decIJed hIt He poured a broadSIde into the mall order hou,e" I saId that a dealer should study h1s Lthtomel" a" a teacher '3tudles h1s pupIls and commented on the e,I1 of pnce cuttmg "TherE WIll be a great aJvance in the price of furmture \\ Ithm the next ten) ear"," "aId J\Ir Davi'l. "The mventlOn I)t maCll111en to 1c'3"en the Cll"t of productIOn w1ll not offset the m( rea,cd cOot of labor ane! rav, matena1 There has been a l ()ll'lder'lhle etChanLe w1thm the last ten years In the pnce of all lmes of furllltUJ e WIth the exceptIOn of chaIr" Chans al C "elllllg- locla, fOl Ie"" than the) chJ ten year" ago" Mr 1),1\ J' LIlndudee! \V Ith thl" bIt of \ er"e Count that clay 10"t \\ hose 10\\, cle"cencllng sun ~ee'3 gooch 'laId at less than cost !\nd bu smess done for fun" The Second Day. ,\t the mill nmg <,e,'llOn on Thursday commUlllcatlOns \\ tl e I cdcl from the natIOnal and several '3tate retaIl furmture dealel s a "soclatlon ", from F :N Tate, preSIdent of th e North l dl alma Ca,e \\ orkers' assocI alton and other" The "Tla\elmg J\fen's Hour" was an Il1terestll1g palt of the plogram G F Jenkm'3 of \Vmston-Sa1em, N C, gave cl "llOrt talk on hI" hI" and hIS brethren's appreCIatIOn of the a""ollatlon and ItS objects He was follov"ed by S C Rmg, of KeJ ner"\ l11e, '\ C, who made some pertinent remarks The com entlOn adopted the recommendation'l of the pre "1- dLllt and secretary relatIve to ae!tmltmg travelmg men and manu-facturer' 3 to honorary membershIp, the 1S'3UanCe of certIficates ancl the u11(form Sl7e of catalog", the latter'" recommendatlOll being amended by reque"tmg manufacturers to double then price'l In the hst and to note the fact on a shp that may be detached from the book !\ l' ThOlt'3, edItor of the FlHlllture Record, Grand Rap- Id, ga, e an aclclres" on "vVhat the Trac1e Paper Can do for the Dealer," that \\ a'l hIghly apprecIated C J FIeld, secretary of the North Carohna Case \Vork-ers' assoClatlOn, spoke on "Freight Rates and C1alll1s," and answeled numerou'l ClUe'ltlons that were put to him by the membel s Thoroughly posted m these matter" Mr Fle1cl gaye mfolmatlon of much value !\ftel cOl1'llderab1e dISCUSSIOn It was decided to request WEEKLY ARTISAN the assIstance of the travellllg salesmen III an effort to Ill-crease the membershIp The "Que"tlOn Box," a new feature on the program, oc-cupIed most of the afternoon It plOved to be qUIte success-ful, the quene:" an:,wer:, and Jlscu:,slOn bnnglllg out valu-able Ideas and suggestIOns The proceedlllgs clo:,ed '''Ith the electIOn ot officer" for the en:,umg year, whIch resulted as follows New Officers. PresIdent, \V M \Yatels, of Florence First VIce PresIdent, C P Hammond, Spartanburg Second Vice PresIdent, ] M Van Metre, ColumbIa ThIrd V Ice PresIdent, S ;\1 RIce, UnIOn FOUl th VIce Pre"ldent, vV H KeIth, Tm1monsvllle FIfth VIce PresIdent, J D Rast, Anderson Secretary and Treasurer, Ed\'\ ard Reed of Rock HIll 1'1e'3ldent \\ aters has appomted the followlllg execu-tl\ e commIttee J T SlInmons, GI eenwood, H A Taylor, Columl)Ja, 5 1\1 \!VIlkes, Laurens, A \IV Llt'3chgl Jr , Charles-ton, and 0 1\1 Heard of Anderson The Banquet. The annual banquet gIven at the Spartan Inn, Thursday night was a most enJoyarble affaIr The pnnclpal speaker was 0 H L \Vermcke of the Macey company, Grand Rap- Ids, who was llltroduced a" "the best type of the modern bU3- iness man-wIth knowledge learned III the school of experi-ence- wl1:'h Ideas and abIltIy to express hImself wIth clear-ness and convIctIOn" In the course of hIS addre"s, an in-f01 mal talk, l\Ir \l\T er11lcke :,ald "There are several kInds of aSSOCIatIOns buIlt upon dlff erent theones There IS one kllld of aSSOCIatIOn that help" evelybody dnJ hurt" nobody There IS another that helps nobody and hurts everybody A..nd there IS stIll another kind, a negatIve kind, that does neIther-that doe3 nothing But there IS only one kllld, gentlemen, that IS \'\orth belong-ing to and that IS the kllld that helps everybody and hurts nobody Any as"oclatlOn that IS formed merely for the pur-pose of helpIng Itseli ,,111 hll to accompli'3h what It attempts to do There IS only one method by whIch you can succeed in as"ociatlOn work, that IS, by dOlllg somethlllg that wIll help somebody else You WIll dIscover that the only aSSOCIatIOn work that 1s W01th whIle, IS that work whIch IS Ibroader and larger than ItS own Imme,lIate Illterests and concerns and whIch makes an effort to go furthel III It'3 helpfulnes" than its own membership and class "If you have a competItor who IS not dOIng a 11\ lllg share of the bus1l1ess, nothmg WIll help yom bUSIness that will f01 ce hIm to cut pnces But If you can do somethlllg to help that competItor, something that WIll make a lIvlllg share of busllles" fOI both of you, by SO helpmg hIm you WIll have re-moved that de,tI uLtlve (ompetltlOn from you "The demand for fur11lture whIch IS at once a nece:,slty and an ornament ha'3 not been propetly stImulated rJ here can be no such thIng d:', OV er-p~oductlOn of good furmture \\ hen the consumptIOn of fur11ltUle III the Untted State:, amounts to only $1 50 per capIta, do you thmk V\ e are troubled WIth over-productIOn) K ot a bIt of It I '\ dollar and a half for each lllhabltant, whel1 the expense:, of the government al e four tImes as large as the entll e fUll11ture bIll of the U11lted States. Thlllk of It-twO \Veeks' street car fare repl esents the fUI niture bIll fOI each man Of cour:,e, some buy more and some buy less J only tell yOU that, gentlemen, to gIve you some idea of proportIOn There IS more spent for coco-cola in some sectIOns than IS spent for fur11lture, and yet we are WIlling to say that over-productIOn is demoralIzlllg to the furl11ture bu",mes:,-an aCLusatlOn which a busllless that 29 has not yet reached the financial dlgl11ty of the coco-cola Ill-dustry ought never to be charged WIth "N ow, the great questIOn IS How are we g01l1g to 111- credse the consumptIOn of furniture? By educatIOn UntIl you put mal e sentIment into furnIture you will not have much suc-cess in increas1l1g the demand for It Most indu;,tnes are bUIlt on human wants and deSIres and not on human necessItIes. Man needs very lIttle, but he wants and deSIres much If a man's wants inclme to fine horses, he WIll expend hundreds of dollars for them, even thousands, and he can tell you about a h01se from fetlock to forelock, he hnows hIS lmes and hIS breedmg, hIS an-cestry and hIS history He talks and dl eams horse and IS horse, and he WIll find plenty of hor'3e lIteratUle, that IS he 1'3hOlsey So with dogs, bIrds, pIctures, statuary, ladles' hats and almost m everyth1l1g But whe n you come dOVvnto furl11ture, you have no liter,lture You have no furl11ture sentIment. Now, If you are to take t11l'3 paltry $1 50 and 1I1crease It to $3 00, that IS the questIOn you have to face \Vlthin the last eIght or ten years the automobIle mdustry has gro\'\ n to the enormous proportIOns of $250,000,000 annual output, and why? Because the auto-maker ha'3 bUllt hIS temples all over thIS country, and has stamped them WIth hi" trade-mark by mtellIgent advertlsmg He has educated the pubhc untIl the very urch1l1s of the street can talk automobile from sparker to carbureter and from radIator to com-mutator He IS sellmg $600 machmes for $3,000 and readIly gett1l1g the money, and for no other reason than that he has aroused human sentIment III the auto "And yet fur11lture whIch has a thousand tImes more reason for sentIment than the auto ever had rema1l1s the same CJmmon-place furl11ture Whose fault b It? There IS nothmg 111 the way of sentIment whIch hU111ture cannot command You are born 111 Its presence and surrounded by It or rechl11ng upon It when you dle-four-fifths of your hfe you spend 111 ItS presence 'irtemus \Vard said he dIdn't care how damned smart a man was if he dIdn't say so much that \'\asn't so. Thdt IS the way we are about furl11ture vVe ought to know mOle about the furmture we sell \Ve know so httle about it I sometImes wonder we are not ashamed to look a good piece of furmture 111the face There never have been two pIeces of furmture that were exactly ahke Therefore, there can be no pOSSIble excuse for sellmg a smgle pIece of fUlmture for the same pnce as anothel That IS a ne\\ one on you, isn't it? "N ature has labored for centunes to ploduce the raw ma-terial from whIch furl11ture I~ fashIOned, }et nature makes no duphcates 111 wood There ale thousands of chfferent '3peCles of wood in the world, but no tv" 0 s'Juare Inche" dre ahke Thl~ IS an 1I1terestmg fact. You WIll never aga1l1 look at a pIece of furnl ture but that you WIll think of that fact Then there I~ alway~ a chfference 111 the way \\ hlch the pIeces put together There IS also a drfference 111 the texture, for some have doser and some hghtel teAture StIll another chffel enLe there IS 111 the saw1l1g The same \\ ooel may be pld1l1 sawed or quarter ~awed, but there will be a world of dIfference 111 the two No one 1I1...:h111 the '3ame bOdrd I~ hke another Nor WIll you ever find two plece~ of woocl of the same textme \lVe hdve been so famlhar \\lth ,,,ood m a way that It has bred contempt, but It I~ gett1l1g pretty ,carce now and we are gett1l1g 11101 e Ie~pcLtful toward It" Visited High Point. On Fnday, follow111g the c!o",e of the conventIOn, a party of fifty of the dealer:" acceptll1g an 1l1VltatlOn from J G Lam-beth, manager of the Iltgh POll1t FurnIture Show room:" went over to HIgh POInt ancl :,pent tv\ 0 day" a" the guc"t" of a group of manufacturer.., who hay e theil samples on exhIbI-tIon in Mr Lambeth's bUlldll1g They were well entertall1ed, with auto tnps about the cIty and enjoyed a Dutch luncheon served by the Southern Journal on the roof of Its office build-ing. 30 WEEKLY ARTISAN .. ._._, P"""j.------..-.-.--- -- . .., CO. I I, , I I ! ! I ! I I , I I I I I I I I SPECIAL ORDERS SOLICITED AND GUARANTEED SATISFACTORY . II WOOD WORKERS TOOL COMPANY, 542 Jackson Blvd., CHICAGO. SAW. KNIFE AND TOOL MANUFACTURERS •••• ._.~._._._._._~ ..... A. • •• a.. ------ - . --_ .... Pitcairn Varnish Company ~, . II I Doetsch & Heider Telephone, Llncoln 796 1534-1544 Greenwood Terrace CHICAGO Manufacturers of Parlor Furniture Frames TO Reach OUR FACTORY Take Clybcurn Avenue car to Ashland Avenue and walk three blocks North to Greenwood Terrace, then turn East lnto Green-wood Terrace Or, Clybourn Avenue car wlth transfer on South-port Avenue car, thence over Southport Avenue to Greenwood Terrace and walk West ..... .--- PERSONALITY A BUSINESS·ASSET. Frequently Marks the Difference Between ~uc.

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1910-04-30T00:00:00Z

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