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- Issue of a furniture trade magazine published in Grand Rapids, Mich. It was published twice monthly, beginning in 1880. and Twenty-Ninth Year-No. 15 FEBRUARY 10, 1909 Semi-Monthly ~----------_._-----------,-------- I I I!I III ,I!II ·TH.ROW OUT All Disk, Drum and Spindle Sanders are money wasters. ---------------., !I There is not a piece of sanding that our PATENTED SAND BELTS Will NOT POLISH BETTER AND FASTER 400 machines already in operation. Why give your competitor an advantage over you in this department? No. 171 SAND Bl!:LT MACHINE. JanItATENTED 12th. 1897 May 17th, 1904 Novomb", 14th. 1905 Febiuary 13th, 1906 October 2nd. 1906 Will sand and polish flat surfaces. all irregular work in your sanding department. Ask for catalogue E. WYSONO« MILES CO., Cedar St. and !'ou. R. R. OREENSBORO, N. C. The Best"Truck--The Strongest Truck Tbis is the famous Gillette Roller Bearing Factory Truck-the truck on which it is said, "One man can move a load of 3000 pounds whUe with the other trucks it takes three '!:nen." This is the truck that is strong where others are weak-the truck that has an unbreakable malleabie iron fork. This is tbe truck YOU are looking,for if you wish to invest in ratber than waste 'money on factory trucks. I Gillette Roller Bearing CO. ORAND RAPIDS, MICHIOAN The Lightest Running, Longest Laating " 1 , I "ABC" Vertical Self-Oiling Engine_ are Arr,QDged for Direct CoDneetion to Any Make of Generator ''The highest quality of material, workmanabip and finish ever embodied in steam engine con-struction." "ABC" Questions on Lighting if you need a boiler to run your engine and you use Ex-haust Steam for heating and drying, how in the world can any-one sell you electric current for lighting your mill, fal:tory and yard as cheaply as you can generate your own? Can you affird to belt a generator from your line shaft or can you direct connect a dynamo to any ordinary steam engine when an "ABC" VERTICAL ENCLOSED SELF-OILING ENGINE WILL PAY FOR ITSELF IN ONE YEAR IN SAVINGS OF OIL AND FUEL? rou can affird an "ABC" ENGINE and we can prove it. Write us number of lights or kilo-watts wanted, together with steam pressure carried- for proposition. Get catalog 232 M. A. anyway. ~ II."""I".II· '1Il,I'!"'III\I, ,\1""""\1\, '111""""'11 '1,111"''''''''11" "'''''''''''1'1. . Principal Office: 1'\' , . 'F+r' DETROIT, MICH. I 'I I 1 . Works • \\1",.,1,',,, I,lll~" Illh""",llllh',."", 1",,,,,,,,'111 DETROIT, MICH. and TROY, N. Y. MANUFACTURERS MENOCISLTOSAEIDR DSERLYFKOILIUNNSG. ENGINES. "DETROIT. · ."NONS_ERPEATRUARTNING TORf'APS. HEATINGAND VENTILA1"INCAPPARA1"US. AU1"OMA1"ICRETURN'RAPS. 1New York. Chkago, Sales Offices St. Loui •• philadelphia. . Pitttburw. Atlanta. "ABC" ~-_._----_._---------------_._--.... SLIDING SHOE FOR USE ON DESK LEGS This shoe does the work of a caster yet allows the desk legs to set close to floor. Fastened with flat head wood screw and furn-ished in three sizes. SEND FOR SAMPLES AND PRICES. • • No. 1493 PULL A very fine handle for desks in the square effect. Something different from the regular bar pulls, GRAND RAPIDS BRASS CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN • --------- :'llCHIGAN ARTISAN .--._-- IIIIII III Iv ~.~. ,-, II II ::::!!~~~ No 20 GlueH•• 'e.. CHAS. E, FRANCIS COMPANY, Main Office and Works, Rushville,lnd, No.GGlueHe., ... ~----------------------------------_._---_! .... I I II ,j Veneer Presses 61ue Spreaders Glue Healers Trucks, Etc., Etc. These Specialties are used aU Over the World Power Feed Clue Spreadinlr Machine, Single, Double aDd Combination. (P.IItenled) (Size8 12 in. to 84 in wide.) THE ADOPTED Hand Feed GlueiD8 Machine (Patent pendiDll.) Many styl •• and aize .. Wood-Working Machinery and Supplies LET us KNOW YOUR WANTS ._-_._-------------------------_._-----. II II I I• !, I REGARDING SHADE OF The ALI1"ietta Fumed Oak Acid stain will produce perfectly that g-reenish brmvn tint adopted by the Furniture ~lallufactttrers' Associa-tion. It is also made to match any special ",bade desired. Stains red and white oak alike aiving a uni-form color. It raises the grain so little and penetrates so deeply that it can be sanded perfectly smooth without cutting tllroug-h the stain. \\Trite for sample panel or a sample of the staill. MARIETTA PAINT and COLOR CO. MaRIETTa. 0"'0 ~-------------------------------------- .---------- ,! IIIIII ,III III IIII FUMED OAK ~ A Perfect ~~ Stain ~ GOLDEN OAK / / Try / This NEPTUNE LIQUID WAX A superior preparation ready for use that will be found practic,al and economical where an economical wax fin-ish is desired. It is a coater and a wax combined produc-ing a finish impervious to water. writ. for Sample. \Vhethcr yon want the Grand Rapids shade of Golden Oak, or any other shade, ,ve CUI match it pedcctly jn our liamous Golden Oak Oil Stain This is a p()\verlul, penetrat-ing stain. write for Sample. .---- i WHITE PRINTING CO. I I I I GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. I I . HIGH GRADE CATALOGS COnPLETE I• I ,I ---_._----------------_._-----_._----~ .. z MICHIGAN ARTISAN [THE)3I~ WHITE~SHOPl I - ,I We Furnish Every Article of Printing I Needed by Business Men I I I i I I I ' I I : I I I I I I ! I j : ! : I II WHITE PRINTING COMPANY I,I I r THE BIG WHITE- SHopl , :;; .. Grand Rapids, Mich. 108, 1l0, and 112 North Division Street, ~--- --- GRAND RAP!:::3 29th Year-No. I5. GRAND RAPIDS. MICH .. FEBRUARY 10. 1909. =====~.~==== ==== $1.00 per Year. The Death of Competition. ::\Jr. Carnegie had such a merry time with the \-Vays and Mcans Committee that he wishes to repeat it before a Com-mittee of the 'Vholc of all Americans upon the state of t:1C Ullioll. 1\Ir. Carnegie casts his eagle eye ahead~a long way ahead-811d sees the d;:i'\Nllof a new era, in which all prices ,,,,ill be regulated by an industrial court. \Vith profound solemnity he rcmarked--- Jookin:; out of the other eye-that the most momentous change in history is now working- itself out. The change from the system of home VI/ark, each man owning his tools and his product, to the factory system, when he sells his labor instead of his product, beCatlse he \vorks with another m;:t11'stools and produces for the aCCOunt of the owner of the tools, "vas less momentolls than WJlat IVIr. Carnegie detects as no-w proceeding. This is a bigger prob-lem- and therefore a merrier jest--than even the tariff prob-lem, about which 1\fr. Carnegie succeeded in settillg the COUll try laughing, although some of the smiles were all the wrong side of the mouth. VI/ e need borrow no anxieties. Me Carnegie is going to have the tariff settled bv a com-missi01l, and after we get the nC\V tariff the trltst~ will be compelled to sdl their products at prices satisfactory to all The trusts will still exist, since "ve cannot abolish them. But we can control them. A supreme industrial' court will have to be created, and eventually will have to pass upon prices-disguise this as we may. This is even a larger question than the tariff. It is. /\lso it is the biggest question save one. There is nothing more fundamental than the Cjueston of prices. save the question of morals. Some, especially the Socialists. have thought the question of morals included the question of prices, but Mr. Carnegie Jistinguishesand settles the ques-tion of prices upon purely economic considerations, begin-uing by abolishing competition. Personally competition ",,'as good enough for him. \A/hen he was ill trade "he cut prices to keep the mills going.." but 110\'" the Steel Trust "refuses to make any concessions which will put their idle men at \vork" The Steel -Trust is practically omnipotent. hence the industrial cOllrt to arrange prices for it and its con-sumers "to their mutual satisfaction. It would be a pity to discuss seriollsly this newest devel- OpmeJlt in the new era in ·which old principles are of no ac-count. Speaking solely according to tradition it will be recalled that the era of unrestricted and uneconomic com-petitioJl v,,"hich 111'. Carnegie recalls \vith such unction satis-fied nobody hut himself. He sold cheap goods for a profit, and his wages aggregated less than his prices, as app<2ars from tile fact that he did not go broke. I-T e never saw the day when he could prodw:::e so cheaply as the trust of to-day. After the orgy of cheapness from which )"Ie Carnegie emerged triumphant the country required alrnost ;15 many years for recuperation as it is now taking months after a worse depression. and the result was the establishment of the trust. whose. trade, Mr, Carnegie says,. will' be regulated hy a COllrt of prices. )'h. Carnegie's plan is, of' course, beyond criticism. al-though el-'en he admits th.9.t,Hke the I~1ter-State Commerce Commission, his court of prices "mav make mistakes.'" He takes no individual interest in the effect of his plan. It is, therefore, ,,,,ith entire detachment that he witl take tIle few hurdles before his plan can be accepted in its entirety. \Vill his court of prices settle the prices for all sellers of iron, for instance, or only for the trust? If the prices are as low as the trust can afford it win do all the business, since there cannot be two prices in the same market. Thus the com-petitors would be starved to death. Or if the court's price is high enough for the trust's competitors to thrive the trust \"'ould be aggrandized intolerably. Suppose the court's price failed to revive trade-would th1O'court mandamus con-sumers to buy? Snppose the unions advanced wages-would the court advance prices? Or would the court fix wage$ as well as price.s? In that caSe would not the court of prices be abollt aU there is of the United States Government? \"'Y" e SuppOse, though, that }lr. Carnegie spoke rather as a prophet than as an advocate of price regu[atioll.-N. Y. Timcs. @ * @ A Shop Mark Campaign. Vi,Then a malHlfac:turer decides that the quality of his work is so high that it deserves an emblem or name by ·which consumers may distinguish it from other makes and futly resolves to enter upon a campaign of publicity, he should take into consideration the condition of the market and the strength of the dealers selling his goods. He should count upon strong opposition from the start, as the dealer holds steadily to the right to purchase goods from whom he pleases and to conceal their I1Cimes. 1\"ot infrequently dealers inform patrons that the stock they purchase is mallufactured by themselves. In discussing t:le experiences of a large manufacturing corp,oration in enforcing the po!"icy of shop marking their goods. an official of the same said: "vVe COllllted the cost carefully before we entered upon the campaign, expecting to Jose considerable trade, alld sevcral of our oldest and most valued customers closed their accounts. But having determined to attach Ollr trade mark to cvery piece we turned out, our only course "vas to pursue that policy to the end. A great deal of corres-pondence resulted, ill which we set up the claim that having expended vast sums of money in perfectitlg our line aod in prcsenting its quality to the public through the employment of the magazines, it would be unjust to ourselves to permit the lll.arketing of our goods unless our shop mark had been attached to the same. '1'"\\'0 prominent firms joined ill a demand that their orders be filled with unl11arked goods or cancelled. \,Ve promptly notified the orl11s that. while wc greatly regretted to do so, their orders should be cancelled. Vie recognized the fact that the firms would have no difficulty in obtaining goods, but not our goods." @ * @ Improvement Predicted. Secretary Linton of the National Case 1Iakers' Associa-tion reports t]wt the sales of case goods during the month of January in the United States amounted to seventy-five per cent of a normal amount, He thinks there will be an im-provement in sales with the opellillg of spring. 4 MICHIGAN •,I I ARTISAN Cut Drawer Bottoms Write us for Prices on Rotary I ! in BASSWOOD, BIRCH, POPLAR or GUM FOUR CHAIRS SOLD FOR $7,200. Top Price at the Auction of Talbot Taylor's Furniture. A suite of four chaiTs of the 'period of Louis XV., with carved and gilded frames, upholstered in Hauvais tapestry, formed the chief feature at the closing sess;on of the sale of the Talbot Taylor collection in New York. The designs of the tapestry represent scenes from La Fontaine's Fables after Oudry. The bidding started at $2,000 for the lot and rose quickly to $7,100. There was a pau,se of nearly a minute and ther! H. O. Watson said $7,200 and no one went any higher The next piece sold was a.threefold srreen of the same period iti a gilded frame of similar design, with glazed upper panels and lower panels in Bauvais tapestry in designs copier! after pastorals by BOllcher. This went to r. J. Smathers fo!" $2.450. He bought in addition to the screen two chairs of the same period similar to the Duvcen set, for which he paid $3,600, a,nd some notable specimens of Louis XIII., Louis XIV., Flemish and Italian Renassance furniture. as well as some wood carvings of an earlier date. Notable among these was a divan of the period of Louis XIV., with carved oak frame, taper legs and shaped stretch- <>rs,upholstered in old tapestry au point. for which he p~i1 $$25; a French divan of the seventeenth century, resembhng somewhat in design the old alcove bed and upholstered in t!,c verdure Flemish tapestry, which he secured after a spiriteli c-9mpetition f()r- $400, and a French four-post bedstead of the fifteenth century, with carved panels which were originally part of a judge's tribunal in a provincial court of justice, which cost him $395. Another of Mr. Smathei's purchases \yas an elmwood (Irawiilg table of the LouisXIV period, with turned and twist- ...d legs and extending leaves. It was started at $100 a.lld brought $315. He bought also the only specimen at the sale of sixteenth century Italian carved oak, a massive arm chair, with high back, ormnamellted with cheruhs' heads in relid and conventional foliage and upholstered in red Genoese cut velvet This chair, although it was specialTy praised by the a.uctioneer, hung fire ;tt first and it was with considerable difficulty that an offer of $25 was secured for it. Three or four persons discovered at this point that they wanted it badly, and it was fina.l1y knockf<'d down for $37{). He secured also one of the armchairs upholstered in old Cor. dova leather, five of which were offered. This was a IlwingeJ 3rmchair" of unique design, and had it not been for the fact that the leather on the seat was split would have brought the Hghest price of the group. It went for $1_~5.while all of the ethers brought more A. C. James paid $210 for one and $170 for another and $200 for a third. and Eastman Johnson se~ cured one which had been purchased from Duveen Brothers for $145. . A slxteenth century Flemish table of carved elmwood went to J. H. l\forgan for $400 and J. T. Tower paid $130 for a H'lemish armchair of carved oak, with caned seat and back. The only piece of Chippendale offered was a mahogany cabinet, carved in Chinese style, with canopien top and glazed front. It was divided into three compartments and stood on ('ight legs It was a combination of two designs figured by r:hippendale on plates CIX. and eXI. in his "Gentleman and Cabinetmakers" published in 1754. It was purchased by J. O. Wright, a dealer, for $1,000. J. B. Leaventritt bought a c'haise longue of the period 0" T ouis XIV., upholstered in tapestry au point. which was said to be one of the earliest existing examples, for $365, and Mrs. E. H. Frisbee secured for $800 a pair of console tables of the period of Louis XV. of carved and gilded wood with tops of Volette Breche marble. 1-1rs. Frisbee bought also several specimens of early wood carvings of saints and angels, among 'vhich were two of the seventeenth century with polychro-matic decoration, for which she paid $95 each. A. V. Dick-son bought two plaster panels of carved oak in Italian Ren-aissance design for $170, and a French panel of the fifteentr century representing the IILord's Supper," for $85. One of the best-of the Louis XVI. commodes, of which ~('vera I were offered. was bought by Worting-ton Whitehouse fo!' $165. It was the work of a provinc.iaI ...a.binetmaker, and was inlaid with apple. pear and peach woods. A Louis seize divan of carved oak with festoons around the lower .rail and loose cushions of old red cut velour went 10 P. Armour Valentine for $375. R. S. Knight paid only $170 for a commode of tulip wood nl1d marqueterie with ormolu mounts, which the auctionee" said was worth $2,000, and Worthington Whitehouse was tho:. ."'l1ccessful bidder for a Louis Seize boudoir suite of walnut ,vith carved seats and back. It cost him $180. Another commode, of the Louis Quinze period, went tn ),frs. H. S. Philips for $100, and Mrs. C. D. Dickey purchased a Louis Quinze sofa in a caned, gilded and painted frame, witb, loose cusiohn is onld hrocade, with two armchairs and three side chairs to match, in separate lots for $295. An escritoire, style Louis XV., sold for $560; a small sofa, 'with Oriental carvings and Beauvais tapestry, for $1,950; a fourfold screen for $1,950; and a threefold screen for $1,200. The total amount realized by the sale was $100,000. Miss Hamilton paid $167.50 for a Louis Seize carved wal-nut side chair upholstered in old Flemish tapestry and a Louis freize armchair with shaped walnut frame brought $130. It ,vent to L. W. Sprague.-New York Sun. MICHIGAK ARTISAN 5 ~• ------- -----------------------~I I =SEE I -- I West Michigan Machine & Tool Co., Ltd. I GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. I .I._--- f~or -"IG-"--GR-a-D-E -PU-N-C"ES and DIES J I j r------- A~~~~~~~Ai~o-1.:1~?H~~ OROOVINO SA WS I I I up to 5-16 thick. I I R,ffpafrlng.....Satisfactlon guaranteed. I Citizens' Phone 1239. I 21N.Msrke'S ... ""sDdRsplds.Mleh. I I 31-33 S. FRONT ST., GRAND RAPIDS ~------_._--- ---' .-------_._-------- ..... --------------------~ IMPROVED. EASY 'ND ELEVATORS QUICK RAISINC Belt, Electric and Hand Power, The Best Hand Power for Furniture Stores Send for Catalogue alld Price,;. KIMBALLBROS. CO., 1067 N;nlh St.. Council BlUffs, la. I r Kimball Elevator Co.• 3~ ProspectSt., Cleveland,0.; I 108 11th St., Omaha, N~b.; l-WCedar St., New York City. ...----- ---------- ...... , -'" IB. WALTER & CO. fNAD~~~~1 M,nDf"",'w 0'- T ABLE SLIDES Exclusively I _____________ --4 I WRITE FOR PRICES AND DISCOUNT ~------ If your DESIGNS are right, people want the Goods. That makes PRICES right. (tlarence lR. lbills •,I ,I , !I .--------------------.~ ! I I I I II West Si~e 36 Inch Ban~ Saw Machine, ! ,--- Gleason Patent Sectional Fee~ Roll, I ;;s~;~~U~'~TW~(~)RDKS..;Y I I CRANO RAPIDS, MICH., U. S. A. I AGE ....TS, Chicago Machinery Exchanll('; Eby. Machinery Co., 3:'·41 Main St., San hancisco, I I ea!; H. \V. Petrie, "Il-Ill foc Canlld.-o/Ji(f·s" t I T oTonlo, Montreal and Vanc<JlIver, : ~------------------------ --------~ ~f ------T-H-E-------------------------------~ : ! Wellin~toft notel I i f::k~~baB~uf:v~r~ ; I ::'n~Lf,<~;a:~, I , $i 50,000 I Hot and cold running II water and long dis-tance 'phone .. in aU I:: rOioo" rooms, I00 with I bath. Sinllie or en Illite. Rates $1.00 and upwards. One of the mosl unique dininll rooms in the country. • OUT famous Indian Cafe. I • ~OTED FO~ ~£RVICE,"0 CUI~IN~ • I McClintock and Bayfield ~ •"-________PR_O_P_S_. ---.IiI --_._-----_. ---_.-., -~ These saws are ,I made from No.1 Steel and we war- : Tant every blade. : We also carry a t full stock of Bev- : eled Back Scroll : Saws. any length I and gauge. 't ,, I Write Oil for Price LIst aod dl8COunt 6 MICHIGAN ARTISAN KNOCKERINO WANTS FACT. He for One Would Not Hurt Another Man's Credit. Mr. Kllockcrino walked \'Vit:lOUt knocking into the office of a busy acquaintance, deposited himself on the edge of the busy acquaintance's desk, lit a cigarette without asking the typewriter girl whether she liked Turk smoke and unfolded himself: Hay-a, there, old workhorse! See you're working your head off, as usuaL Bad habit. Injurious. Oilght to relax. \Vhy don't you take a little trot down to Florida? Or Cuba? Or Porto Rico? How's that? Haven't the time? That's what they ail say. That's-- Oh, say, talking about Florida, d'je know tilat Jim-- Oll, well, I guess Jim'll Slip me the money some old time, hut they teU me that Jim i~m't such a prompt slipper as he might be. Jim's all right, 1 guess, and all that. Jim thinks, I im-agine, tbat just because he's been having a bit of trouble with his wife-huh? Hadn't heard about it? \\lhy, everybody knew all about that" I thought-that he's excusable for over-looking these little matters, but~ By tlle way, talking about the domestic. gag, have you heard that Ed Giddap's wife's gone back to her folks out west somewhere? Had a wireless on that last night. Didn't knock me off the bench or anything, that new". I kind o'[jgurcd right along that sOoner or later Ed would be nailed with tlle goods. Ed, you know, had been handing it out to his wife for years that his every night downtown moochngs around were due to the fact that he belonged to a whole passel of lodges and things, but a ""vhileago, it seems, she sort of wised up and found that Ed didn't belong to any other lodge except the Tenderloin Sleep Duckers Associa-tion and the Bed Haters Society, and from hitting that trail "he got hep to all the rest of it, so that when Ed' got home to the flat from his office ,one evening last week he found little l\lrs. Helpmatie had done gone away from here, and Ed went roaring and blubbering around and telling every-body his troubles, including the janitor and 'the cop on the beat, about his troubles, and he ouly got the hoot, of course, which a fellow is bound to get when: he becomes bleaty about his family troubles and all 0' that. General opinion seems to be that Eddie got just what he's been due faT <l. long while,. She took the young 'uns along with her, and that made Ed cra7.y of course, and he's been walloping the old redeye to beat the band ever sine.e it hap-pened, and the first thing he knows he'll be holding down one of those little ""hite cots with the green rabbits doing wing dances for him on the foot board. Say, I see you've got one of those calendars of the San LUls Oblspo Gold Mining Company stuck lJp over your desk. Did you bite on that stuff too? Ha, hal \\leU, well! So you got busy- with your little nibbler and took a knaw on that bait, hey? Ho, ho! ig~piQs,f\ie~ Wen, you haven't got anything on me. T bought ahout fourteen pounds of those shares for seven cents a share, waiting for that sure thing rise to 80 e.ents within siKty days, hut I haven't got it any more-leave it to 'your little play-mate Ethelbert not to have any of it any more. I stuck around for about a month with mine and then '1 sold it to Jack Sophtsky for nine eents a share, and ever since then Jack has been staking me to the Peary glare every time he's seen me, Don't think, old horse, that I'm trying to tip you off that Jack is the dandiest little COffi.:onon the whole Isle of 1'Iall-hattan, but if you happe1f-h<1, 11aI-to have any old pttnker-ino certificates for anything from a patellt chimney clean(~r to a borax mine in :':0 1\l<1n'sLand kicking around and wallt to unload the stuff why all you've got to do-ho, bo!-i3 to pin Jack against the wall in some shadowy corner and tell him what grand p"-pcrs the.y are, and he'll-- Talking abont grand papers, I was in a little game of draw the other night, and At Noluck was in the game, and, say, you ought to've seen the cards that fellow pulted from olle end of the evening to the other, and yet he was the biggest loser of the session. 1 never saw such mitts as felt· that guy's way during that seane.e, but he always caught the fine finfulls when nobody else had a thing, and you could have heard his wailings for Mocks. One time he picked up a pat straight flush, trey to the seven ,of he:Jrts, and though there were eight of us playing nary a one had anything worth making it good enough to stick along when AI opened tlle pot, and talk about the noise the cat allimals get out of their systems when they're tossing raw meat into the e.ages! Al just stood up in his place and bellered like a bull' buffalo in a horn to horn scrap with the next in line as boss of the herd. Fellow hasn't got any right to play cards at all if he can·t make up his mind to stand the gaff when the-- Say, that girl that does your typewriting-sh-sh! lower, please-pianissimo-she's ~ind of a looker, isn't she? Sly dog, old boy-naughty, naughtyl Leave it to you not to have any valentines around you in your hours of labor. But watch out, old top, have a care, have a care! Hc.ar about Freddy Cuttupp? Vv'ell, l'reddy came real close to what Freddy said in explanation, anyhow-ttlat's what they losing his bappy home and things over that peacherino of a typewriter girl he had in his office till about two \vecks ago. Yon see, she came down to the office one morning with a fine and dandy Directoirc dress under her coat. She was going to a party or something after office hours-that's al1 say-and so she wore the s\vell' Directoire scenery to the office so's she wouldn't have to go home to change. But Freddy's wife happened to zephyr into his office along toward the noon hour. First time she'd been in Freddy's office for a month of Sundays, and of course she had to pop in when Freddy's shorthand girl looked like the Queen of Sheba .on her way to a clam chowder party. Freddy's wife took one peek at the - - ---------------------------- ~- ~ PITTSBURGH PLATE GLASS COMPANY I MICHIGAN gorgeous ,\pparitioll in the Dircctoirc ilxings and the11 she let out a series of piercing remarks that almost blew Freddy out of the ,,,-indow, and as for the dreamy eyed typewritist, why, she just picked up her doll rag:; and did <l ):Iarat:101l 'witham stopping to send a C Q n, and she l1asn't come back yet, they tell me. Freddy's wife's dope was that the typewritcst ..v..as all togged up that way so's Freddy could take her out to luncheon in style ami things. \Vell, yOll know Freddy's 'wife is the one with the bank l,'lad-she put Freddy' in business, you know. for he didn't have a change of cuffs when he mar-ried her-and Freddy bad to do the marrowbones thing th(:11 ,tnd there until fOtH dollar~.; worth of arnica didn't do his knees any g60d after he began tn t<:ke tr('atm{~nt for it, and Cver since he's been going arollntl looking' likc a 'vVi:,;consin lumberjack on the blacklist and the winter half over. Say, y'ought to see the t.Y1)c\'\Titist he':,; got in his off-ice now! If she wasn't born at least nille years bdore I':dgar Allan Pac ever saw the light of day then she was horn l;lst Tuesday week. ;\11d y.ou can hear her creilk as she walks. She's got a chart on her that looks like a Cape I-Lttera,.; storm signal, and when Freddy dictates a letter to her she's so deaf that she has to reM her head 011 the top hllttO!l of his vest to hear him" and oh. it's great, tine-ho, 1101 Serves him right fm letting his wife visit him at his office. ),1an who permits hi" \vife to visit him at his office is bOllnd to have to l1udge across with a he;\I1 of explaining; sooner or later, and- But here I am forgetting all about the thing that I just h;IPPClled to bret';.:e ill to ask yon abollt. No ..~·, I hope you'll get me right, old chap, \vben I tell yOu tlJat I never in an)' eirC1l111stances df) tlle slink thing- to find Ollt <lbo11t;\ 1l1~lJl'S husiness and his credit and all like tInt, but this is ;\ pbce where jt's a matter of dollaT.';-;lJJr! fjllitc .sCHlIe dolbr.s-and evervhody appears to have a better line on tIl(' th;no' than I've -gut, amI h stfllck HI(' that l1l;Jybc yOU were hC);~)eril1o to some of it. It's tbis \va)': Joe Opellmitt's bccll slinging il proposjtjon at me latdy that sounds good from a whole lot of angles fa;· a money thi1lg. .'lnd I've been d()jng plenty of listcning to him, at that, only-- \\7e11, you know how it is. These yarns rcach a iC))f.HV, you know, and they sort of nwke hJm fee! like ducking. no matter how good the thing looks. Xo ..". I don't kllli\V .rrnytiJing ;lhout Joe's l1.'1bit5 or any-thing of that sort, but since I've been ]islening to his hot line of guff about this good thing he wants to han:' me join along in with him why I've sort of kept my ears and eye~ open. yOU know, and there are some fellows W}IO spin it that ARTISAN 7 Joe's chid asset is that ability of his to turn loose a lot of south breeze. }let two or three people who told me in so many 'words that Joe planted the hornet on 'em when they wcnt. intu good looking things ''lith him, and these folks were there wilh the mallet for Joe bigger than piledrivers. ~ ow I bate to listen to this kind of stuff and 1 make it a practice to sort of heat it away from where such talk is go:" ing Oil, but of courSe when <'me of these fellows went ahead ,!lid unreeled it that Joe before he came to New York at all had got ilHO some kind of trouble with the authorities out in C;llcinnati over some queer paper that -he sifted around among his friends, ,."by, T clad to listen to protect myself, didn't I? I<ellow t11<.ttold me this appeared to have all of the details clown paL <!l1dhe said that Joe had had to fight like a wildcat to keep out of a suit of striped clothes on that occasion. \,Ve1] this sort of gave me some jolt, I'm free to admit, and the11 whell I heard that Joe bad gone thr.oltgh with some deal with you, why -- How's that? Joc's all to the good, and as, honest a man as e\'cr you did business with, and you'd trust him with everything you had, and all like that? \Vell, b'gec, I'm sure glad to hear that, I honest am! :\ow that yOll say t.hat I'm sorry I mentioned those little bits .of information that drifted my way, really. It docsn't make any difference now, either, that one fenow sort of binted to me that Joe, who's married and keeps a svvell establishment here, you know, has a wife and cbildren diving in poverty O\tt in Omaha right at the present time. and I dOll't believe a word of it, even if this fellow that did slip 111ethis piecc of information claims to have been acquainted with Joe twclLty years or so. Dar1l(:d peCUliar, isn't it, how these strange yarns get around about a man? They just seem to be in the air, that's all. :\:'obody e,·er repeats \~111, except in the strictest con-tidcllce, as I am now, bt1t still they noat around, and the first thing yOll know they're public property jllst as much as if they'd becn Jlublished in the newspapers. "·ell, old pal, dOll't feel bad about it because you've nearly talked 111e deaf, dumb ;111dblind, because I aSSUre you I like it, and the only reason T am ]]OW going to beat h is because --ha, ha i-you appear to've told me about all you kno\v. \Vell, s'long. @ ". @ To Manufacture Seats. The Imperial Seating Comp;jjJY, recently organized in Chicago, capitalized fat' $,)0,000, will manufacture and sell furniture of evcry kind. L.ARGEST ..JOBBERS ANO MANUFAOTURERS OF GLASS IN THE WORLD I Mirrors, Bent Glass, leaded Art Glass, Brnamental figure~ Glass, Polished and ROlgh Plate Glass, Window Glass II WIRE GLASS Plate Glass for Shelves, Desks an~ Tables Tops, Carrara Glass more beautitul than white marble. I CENERAL DISTRIBUTORS OF PATTON'S SUN PROOF PAINTS, g For anything- in Builders' Glass, or anything in Paints, Varnishes, Brushes or Painters' Sundries, address any of our branch warehouses) a list of which is given below: NEWYORK-Hudson and Vandatn Sts. ROSTON-4h49 Sudbury St.• 1_9.BoWMerSt. CHICAGO 442-4S2 Waballh Ave. CINCINNATI-Broadway and Cc»url Sis. I ST. LOUIS-Cor. Tenth a.ndSpruce Sts. I MINNEAPOLIS-SOO_SI6 S. Third St. DETROIT-53-59 Larned St., E. GRA-.lORAPIDS...MICfJ.-39-41 N. Division St. ! PITTSBURGH-J(U_I03 Wood St. MILWAUKEE, \VIS.-492-494 Market St. RBAOLCTHJEMSOTRI!E.R-3.1N. 0Y-·1-2W_1il4deWr .PBrladtgt .,SMt. ..ln tSJ E.Chan_._e_s_,_e_. . .•,1 CLEVELAND-1430-1434 West Third St. OMAHA-1I01_1107 Howard St. ST· PAUL-459·461 Jackson St. ATLANTA, GA.-30-32.34 S. Pryor' St. SAVANNAH, GA·-745_749 Wheaton St. KANSAS ClTY-P'lfth and Wyandotte Sf". BIRMINGHAM. ALA.-2nd Ave. and 29th St. BUFFALO. N. Y.-312-74_76_18 Pearl St. BROOKLYN-635-637 Fulton St. PHILADIl;.LPHIA-Pltcah·n Bldg•• Arch and 11th St•• DAV!tNPORT-4l0-416 Scott St. ~._-_._----------_._---~---------------..., j I I I I I I I ! I I : I ,I,- I -' 8 MICHIGAN ARTISAN Table Legs and Pedestals Round, Square, Octagon or any Polygonal Shape ~ Turned on the MauiooD Leg Machine al a fraction of what it costs by hand. Every piece comes out smooth. true and exadly alike in size and shape, no matler how de~cate the pattern. I] It is sold on the condition that if after it has been run in your own facttJry. you do not bnd it to be in every way as represented. we will tak.e it bat.k and pay freight charges both ways. (]I Better send for a copy of our lar%e circular and let us tell you what the machine will do for you. C. Mattison Machine Works 863 5th St., Beloit, Wis. AN ARTIST IN TIME. The Old German Clcckmaker Whose Heart is in His Calling. Only a few minutes walk from the heart of the Tenderloin lives and works the German clockmaker. He is an arti~t ~ll his attitude toward his trade and he looks like a poet fed upon centuries of German romanticism. Like his old friend. the retired German cabinetmaker, he has an expensive habit of refusing to do bad work. Alter all, perhaps it is a mistake to call him a dockmaker, He IS rather an artist in time. It is not a particular mechanism that interests him! but the broad principle of time measure-ment. In his humble and reverent way he is a disciple of th'ose celestial time ineasurers, the sun, moon a.nd punctuaL stars. They have their trifling aberrations, like the delicate watches which he joys to regulate to the fraction of a second. He knows no other rivals and is free from professional jeal- (}usy, for what terrestial mind could be jealous of the stars in their courses? Even a poet and artist in time must' have meat and an oc-casional glass of beer so this one condescends to make and mend for common mortals. Strangers seldom understanl him. If you come in with a cheap watch in hopelessly bad order he is as like as not to hand it back with the comment that he could not repair it for le~s than half its original cost. If you tell him, though, that it happens to he one of those cheap watches that are close timekeepers he is at once inter-ested. He cannot lower his price unless you happen to be reaHy poor, but he will take that six dollar watch and over haul it with the conscientious care that he gives to a two hundred and fifty dollar repeater, for who knows but this cheap and accurate timekeeper may thro'W some light upon that ever perplexing problem of time measurement? If the watch is real1y what you think it he will hand it back at the end of so many days regulated down to its fmal fraction of a second, and as he gives it the final tender caress you'll see a far-away look in his mild and still young; bra' .·.". eyes that reveals the ideal of the inner man, Those coarse th'\.\mbed folk who are always measurin[ things by material standards never know iIlhat to make of this man whose husiness has to do with one of the most elm.· ive and ethereal of human ideas. Two youngish men from out of town came in one day apparently bent upon buying a wedding present. TheY;' looked around. the dustless littk shop. heard the banjo docks in chorus on the wall, staren with blank amaze into thesphinxlike face of ~he Chinese time .. l:iece and at length priced a fine mantel (')flck in a faultless mahogany frame that would have delighted even the critical German cabinetmaker, The proprietor named his price $30 or $40, and the cus· lomers looked over the clock with care asked a few ql1estiol~S ~lnd offered $10 less than the price named. There was just the dawn of a smile in the clock maker's eycs as he repeaterl in polite, low tones the price originally ,)skc(l. The pair looked at one another, gave the clockmaker [l glance of sur-prise and went out, while he turned unperhtrbed to his wort~. You might as well try to buy postage stam.ps of Unc1-e Sam at a discount as clocks of him at less than his named price. He ,,,Quid as soon do a bad piece of lNork a:; higgle uver prices The laborer is worthy of his hire. Of course, if yon m\lst have a cheap dock he'l1 sell it to you, but with an air that makes you feel as if both you and he had sacrific.ed seH-respect. He c'ven takes the works out cf the cneapest small clocks and puts them into tasteful little cases, for the sake of those who like a pretty thing at a low price. When yOUbuy it you know just what you are getting, but somehow when you think of the pitying- c;mile with which he looked tha.t pretty little mechanical liar in the face YO~l ever after feel that there is a sort of mOl<1lobliquity in its errors. Nothing tires the clockniaker so much :1S to be asked to repair those hideous and ulltrllthflll clocks that some' person'). rive as wedding presents. It n:ay have been the Germag C'1ockmaker who invented the aphorism about the futility of looking a gift dock in the face if )'OU wish to kl:OW the time of day, One of these da.y:;hc "vill illfallibly throw some such clock at the head of the astonished Qwner.--Sun. @ * @ A Few Dont's. Don't worry-the boss does that. Don't work too hard-yo\.'\. may get tired Don!t get things accurate-you·wil1.be discovcred. Don't im?rove. your time out of workin!!. hours-you may 'get a raise. Don't be observing-·-you may get an insight as to how things are done, Don't stu'dy the whys and wherefores-you may become a boss yourself. Don't take an interest in your work-you may learn to !ike it. Don't try to be original-it may get you a better position, Don!t save money-yon may want to go into busine55 some time. Don't retire early at night-you might be able to do :l good day's work next day. Don't be neat and accurate about your work-you will be thought finicky. Don't help a fellow workman-he might return the favor some day. Don't read your trade journal-you might find out some-thing you didn't know.-Glass Worker. - - ~--------------------------------- illICH1GAf\ ART1SAN 9 ~"---------------------_._------------_._-----------------------. ,I I!IIIIIII ,, IIII The Universal Automatic I CARVINO MACHINE I = PERFORMS THE WORK OF === 25 HAND CARVERS And does the Work Belle, than it can be Done by Hand t ------- MADE BV I Union rnDO~~lnQ MA(U1nr (0. I IndlanapoU~ Indlaaa Write lor Inform.tion. PricflI: Etc. I ~.------------"-----------_--.------------------------------------------------------~ II !I ,f II II --------------------------~ II I! II ,I ,,I Collection Service Unsurpassed-Send for Book of Red Drafts. I H. J. DANHOF. MIc;:h1aan Manai:el'. I 341·348 Houseman &UUdtD', Grand ka»ld •• Mich. ._-----_."--------------------------------_._------- ....I. ~,• "----------------------._--------_._-----_ . f j The LYON ,! 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Lincoln's Otfl.ce Ohair. ___________ ..i •II II I i - - --- ------------ --- --- --- ~11CI1IGJ\N ARTISAN 11 BEDROOMS OF THE FLAT. Conditions That Might Make One City Lover Move Into the Country. If anything could mnke me want to move into the COUll-try," she said as she turned back the bedclothes of a bed she had jtlst made at 11 P. ~I. in a city fiat, "it WOllld be this end-less, eternal making up oi beds at night- "The time to make up a bcd, of course, is in the morning. Yon throw back the hedclotb(;s first to give the bed ~t good airing and then wllcn you get to it you make up the bed, and there it is finished and \vith cverythn:; trim and neat and inviting; ready to he slept ill a.nd grateful ill its iJlvitntlolJ, and yOlt call gel into it without p-rc\iminary trouble. "So in the country, where yon have rerd bedrooms hiR enough to contain real beds and in which you can make up the beds in the r~gular, usual, orderly way, following a cus-tom inbn~d in women, lwnded do~vn to them through m;l1ly Sketched by Clarence R. Hills, Grand Rapids, Mich. generations from which it is hard to depart. But now see what we have to do in our flat. "\iVe have only 011e bedroom ill ..v..hieh we have a regl\lar bcd, and that is a single bed. Vle can make it up in the mornlng in the regular proper ,"vay, and really J like to go in and look at it after it is made lllJ. Al\ tbe rest of Ql~r beds arc couchcs or lounges or bed.'; of some sort that yon have: to dismantle in the morning and make up at night. "\-Ve do ait- these beds, to he sure, but then \VC have to fold up the bedclothes and store them ill the bed or lug them off to some storing place, not to he brought out again till it's time to go to bed. 1'\ot until then can we begin the hedmaking in the flat- "Thell when it \vould he a great ealtTl pleasure to walk off into a pleasant bedroom and there find the bed ready and ..v..ating for yOll simply to jump into it you have to get up and drag out bedclothes and lug- them around from roo!\l to room and (lrag out coudles nn(\ lounges and twist and turn and dig over them to make up beds hefore you can \ic in them. "So it goes every night, night after nig-ht, endlessly; and this making up of the beds at the wrong time, with its endless dull' routine nigbtly labor grind,'; on me; T hate it. Still we stay here, and here 1 SuppOSe ..v..e shall stay, because \ve love the city and its life and light. nut if anything could make me want to move into the country it would be to escape this everlasting endless making up of the beds in the city flat at night."-Ex. ...------------------ .. II MORRIS WOOD &. SONS' I, LATEST PRODUCTION I I t I I, II ,, I! Write for prices and Catalog No, 35A. MORRIS WOOD &. SONS I 2714-2716W. Lake St. Chicago. Ill. I ~.---------------------------------------~ The result of thirty-five years of Cutter making ex-perience. Insist on having your new jointer fitted with the genuine 110rris vVood & Sons' 20th Century Solid Steel Glue Joint Cutlers, for there are no others just as g·ood. They cut the same perfect joint, when new, partly or fully worn out. They never bUrrI. Require les!::>grinding than any other make, saving time and cut-ter. No time wasted setting up as with knives, and cost 110 more than other makes. Try a pair and be con-vinced. ~- --------.. 11 . , ! ralffi6r'S rat6nt ijlUino (jlamos ! I I I IIIII TIle llbore ('lit is taken dlrN't from Jl photOgTllph, aDd l!lhowS the range of one Mbe only, our No.1, 24'iuch Clamp. "",'e make 8ix other sizes, taking in filtock up to 66 ill(~hes wid., and 2 inches tbfck. OUrs is th\'i DlOlit prn:ctical methOd Q1 clamping glued lotock in use at the pre!lent time. Hundreds of ta(-tories have adopted oor way the llllst yeal' Ilud bundl'eds more will in the futl.re. Let us show )roo. Let os send you till! names of n\'illrl)' 100 factories (only a fraction of our list) who have lU:-deredand reordered many Urnes. .PrQof posiU,,'c oUr way is the best. A post ~ard will bring U. ~atalog .included. Don't delay, but \\Tite toda~·. 4. E. P41MER &. SONS. Owosso. Mich. J<'oreign Repl"Clwmtatiyes: The Projectile C6., L6od6n, Eng-land; Shcnchul'dt &, Schutte, Berlin, Gennany; Alfred II. Sol'butte, Cologne, Paris, BrlUlseis, I.lege, Milan, Turin, Bal'oolon8, "---,aDd Bilbol!. ~ ....i• 12 MICHIGAN ARTISAN ARTISTIC andINEXPENSIVE CATALOGUE COVERS LET US FIGURE ON YOUR PHOTOGRAPHING ENGRAVING and PRINTING at Right Prices PROMPT I)ELIVERIES COMPLETE CATALOGS PERFECT MICHIGAN ENGRAVING CO. WORK GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN MICHIGAN ARTISAN j------------ 13 ----_._-_._---~ III! BARNES' ! ... HAND and FOOT POWER . I MACHINERY! II ,II !III II I I I II• --------------------------------------------~ Our New "and and Foot Power Circular Saw No.4. The strOIl.l!:eSl,most powl!rlul, and in e...e.ry way the best machine of its kind ever made, for tipping,:cross-ctttting-, boring and grooving. Cabinet Makers In these days of close competition, need the best possible eqUipment, and this they can have in Send for Our New Catalogue. w. F. & John 654 Barnes Co. RUby Street. Rockford. III. ~------------------------------_.------ I ~,----------------------------------------~ • MANUFACTURERS OF I, I I I I HARDWOOD I LUMBER &. II , I I II VENEERS III I I I SPECIALTIES : I I I ~'l.v.;"fE.gQUAR. OAK VEN EERS I II II I MAHOGANY VENEERS II I I I I I HOFFMAN II I I I BROTHERS COMPANY II I II 804 W. Main SI., FORT WAYNE, INDIANA I,I ~-------------------------~-------------~ r- 11)SPINDLlt MACHINE / ALSO MADE WITH 12, 15, 20 AND 25 SPINDLES. DODDS' NEW GEAR DOVETAILING MACHINE. -rhis little machine has done more to perfect the'! draw~r work of funliture manufacturers than anything else in tbe furniture trade. Fnr fifteen years it has made perfect-fittil1g, venlliu-pr()()f, dave.- tailed stock a possibility. This has heeu accomplished at rer!ucl;>d cost, as the wachine cutS dove-tails ill gangs of from 'd to 24- at one operation. ALEXANDER DODDS, Grand RapMs, Michigan. Repreaented by Scbucbart & Scbutte. at Berlin, VieQIla, Stockholm and St, PeteqbuUI. Repreaentaliveby Alfred H. Scbulle at Col~ne, 8(1118el.,Liege, Paris, Milan and Bilboa, Repr".ent>ed in Great Britian and lrdand by the Oliver Machinery Co., F, S. Thompson, M~T', 201-203 Dean.gate,' M!\Rchclter, England. ,,..._------------------- ------------------- ..,. I hI orton House I : ( AmericanFlan) Rates $2.50 and Upa J ! Hotel PantJind I : (EuropeanPlan) Rates $1.00 and Up. : I I I , ! I ! J. BOYD PANTLlN~: prop.l ;.._________________ --..a GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. The Noon Dinner Served. at the Panllind for 50c THE FINEST IN THE WORLD. 14 ~ll CHI G A I\' ARTISAN ~----------------------------------------------------_._------------------------------~ ! "~ .S t ~0.. • 0 ~ ~ • • ,:l -0 .9 -0 0 ~ ~ >l ~0 • 5 "8 .~ ~ 0 a ;l • • MICHIGAl\' ARTISAl\' 15 y; !:Ii I BARRETT'S PRIME SHELLAC VARNISH !:Ii l!fi !:Fi made from strictly pure Shellac Gum cut m Specially Denatured or !:Fi !:Ii Wood Alcohol. The results of 25 years' experience in the importa- tion of gums, in the use of solvents, and in the manufacture of varnish !:Ii embodied in "Barrett's Prime. " Ask for samples and prices. !:Ii !:Ii y; !:Ii 1M. L. BARRETT & CO., I !:Ii y; 219 LAKE ST .• CHICAGO THE FURNITURE TRADE OF ST. LOUIS. By George T. Parker. The year of 1!HJ8 in the furniture and kindred lines has been one of spasmodic activity, manufacturers and buyers baying conducted their operatioils with extreme caution, eliminating almost entirely any fenturcs of speculatioJl, hut aggregating a total business of approximately $:~2,700,OOO. The February trade week attracted to this market a largely increased number of buyers, but their orders were small, tb(~~;cconditions being repeated at the August trade week; the fall buying by the country trade showing f\ grati-fying increase in the number of ncw buyers, nevertheless, the Hggrcgate orders for tlJe yeHr being a considcr<lbJc Joss in comparison wit:h the year prior. The fifty city factories had periods of half-time funning, some of them having full shut-downs, ..v.hich twice w~s util-ized for improvements, as the feeling has been optimistic at all times 8S to the future. . The best figures obtainable as to the total St. Louis fac-tory output, are an aggregate of $;),;)00,000 for t]le year. The factories have kept their seventy-five hundred flands well employed, expending in wages upwards of $2,,500,000. There have been noted increases in the fac.ilities for handling furnitu're in quantities, and in mixed carlo;lds ship-ments have become common; [oedity huyers have not been slow to take advantage of a low rate of freight upon large cars to a central distributing point, paying local nltes thence to destination. At no time has the wholesale and manufac:turing furniture business been so eminently fJtted for a prompt handling of all business entrusted to them. Among the rdail 3tore3. a notabre addition wa<; made on lhoadway. by an entire ne\".. store. most tastefully fitted up, introduci1Jg eJltirely Jlew features. The furnishing of the many new residcnces. of , ...h..ich there were miks built. ;md the apartment houses, \\'as a soun~e of considerable business, new oFfJce, mUllicipal anJ school buildillgs, as well ;\s a number of beautiful churches, were completed during the year, and required furnishing. The Coliseum, a new theatre, and many moving picture auditoriums, bave been seated, requiring a large outlay for this kind of fmniture. The styles of furniture increase ill elegance and good taste. even the wants of the buyers of inexpensive pieces de11131Hling quality and good finish, in simple designs; a remarkabl"e advance has there been in the education of buyers _over years past- this refers in a general v.'ay to the large city as n.-ell as to the small to-"'I'n customer. The styles sold mostly are Colonial', Louis XIV <1nd Louis XVI, with ,Arts and Crafts still popular fol' the living room and den, tapestries, brocades and velours being the most chosen covers for upholstered pieces, with leather for the library. Mahoganv remains the supreme \"iood for fme pleces, Circassian ..~. alnut following, but quartered oak is tile 1110St poptllar and longest in use, the nC\v and rich tone finishes having increased its desirability. Each year develops an increasing number of new trade channels for furniture, especially to foreign countries. Recog-nized as a center for cabinet woods and manufacturillg coals, with transportation Jines oaering through bills of lading, many countries and localities new to the tl'ade of St. Louis have become customers. The aggregate of this business is difficult to seCUre, because of the manner of keeping the con-sular records. :vIexieo continues as the largest buyer, C1lba and the Central American Republics being also liberal pur- Ch'L~('TS. The lax c01ldition of the home trade has given the manufacturers an opportunity of pushing the sale of their products in many foreign lands, with most satisfactory results. Office furnitude lines have been given greater attention, the 51. LOllis factories producing qualities equal to any; the State House of Representatives and Senate awarding their exccll'cnt refurnishing to a St. Louis factory. The stocks carried are very extensive, and contain many new office requisites, a popular feature being those con-stntcted upon sanitary principles. 1Jost prices have been slightly lovv'er, although factory costs and materials have been upon the increase, which will have an upward tendency for 1909. There hal'e been no failures, nor have there been impor-tallt lIe\-\' enterprises launched. Of strikes there have been nOne. The St. Loui:" Perman-ent Exposition has, in its seventh year, been a great aid in attracting buyers to the makes of St. I.ollis factories shown there; othel· flll~niture eXJlositions are open January and July only. 51. Louis has all all-tht-year exposition, attracting buyers Oil their way to otller markets, and at oth<?r times as well. The St. LOllis Furniture Board of Trade. for twenty years the mouth-piece of the furniture and kindred interests, strengthened the utility of its organization by establishing an Tnfonnation Bureau, dividing the membership into classes: (1) St. Louis l\Janufacturers; (2) Representatives of \A/orks in other Cities. This yenr's effective work .of this board in removing discriminations and securing proper rating for shipments from S1. Louis, is of untold trade value, especially for the futHre. Employed capital in the furniture and kindred lines. is estOlated at $5,000,000. @) * @ i \V;llkcr & Blltler of Lebanon, Oregon, !uve soJd their furllitllrc and hardware bu~iness to S. Labbe & Son. @) * @) ; Crawford & England of Le Grand, qregon, are succeeded in the retail furniture business by C. A, England. I ,------. 16 :111 CHI G A N ART I SAN •:II I II I III , , I I I II• ~ CO., JII Spiral Groovedand Bevel Pointed DOWEL PINS Notehout the _ue in the Spifal Groove forms Thread like a SCrew. Be\'el Pointed, eas)' to drIVe. Straight so will not split the frames. PriCe. and discounts Oft application. STEPHENSON MFG. SOUTH BEND, IND• ".Lateral Style" for large capacity heavy CarvlDp add DeeP EmoolUllop. We have the Machine you want at a atlsfactof7 prkle. Write for descriptive cireulart!l. Ahlo make dle8 tor all makes of Ma-ohl .... UNIONEMBOSSINOMlCUINE CO., Indianapolis, Ind. "Rotary Style" for Drop Carvings. Embotlged Mouldings, Panels. Macbioetl for all purposes, ,and at prices within the :hlilch 0' all. Every mQ.chine haM our paraotee n.galullt breakQ&'8 tor oOl" yep,r. ----_._----~II I II Address • SAMU~l~O}~E~~!t!~~A'~S.ONS I ......_----- ---.... f-------- !II I ,~ood Forming Cutters We offer exceptional value in Reversible and One-Way C~tters for Single and Doubl~ Spin-dle Shapers. Largest lists with lowest prices. Greatest variety to select from. Book free. The "RELIABLE" Kind. THE FELLWOCK AUTO & MFG. CO. EVANSVILLE. IND. ----------'--. HEADSj GREATEST I RANGE I QUICKItST I ADJUSTMENT , LEAST TROUSoLE PERFEC"f SAFETY •I TOX SAW DADO Also MachlDe KnlveJ'o Miter SMOOTHEST GROOVES FAST£ST CUT LEAST POWER. LONGEST LIFE 1== IWeoU Itladbt teU t You all .bout It. Macblfte.o Etc. l l>B.llMA.NlI.NT ECONOMV I TOX MACHI Nf: CO 185 N. Front S_.'. + . • Grallld Rl!!I.Dlds. Mlcb r..-----~------- -- B0YNTON <5' e0. Manufadurersof Emboued and Turned Mould· in e' &. EmbO&8- 5 END YO R ed and SpiiWle Carvinp. -It. tt d Aulomali('; Tumings, CATALOGUE Wealsonw.UII-fadurea brae li~ I of EIPb.oued Orne.tnents fo.. I C~ohWork. ! 419-421 W. fifteenth St .. C"IClGO. ILL. , . - , ~~~>. ~._-''-''~r'':'~- .. ; .. ''.... -'': ...... -".~~'' /. :MICHIGAN ARTISAN ~------------------------- •/III III I III II I I III -----...------ ..... "GOING SOME" But whether going or coming, or stayi~g at home, young men with ambition and a desire to imJprove their spare moments may take our course of pra:~i.,cal Furni-ture Designing, that will be of inestimal~e value to them. Our course (which may be taken ,at home if desired) is thorough, embracing the princilples as laid down by all of the old masters and best aUfhorities on furniture designing. I I Write 115 [or full partiatlars. 17 tI The Grand Rapids School of Fumit~re Design II ARTHUR KIRKPATRICK. 1"''''''''0' and D";gnr, I 542.545 Houseman Bldg., GRAND RAPID~~MICH. I ~--------;~;:~;------ fnl meptlOm =:=:~:e11lahl' iLhncs, The q,:i: households, which have defied the misSlOrl Invasion and looked upon the colonial as pnmcvlaJly out of Idate are now calmly finding thcmselYcs on the bounduncs 1of good style again. This s,vmg of the pendulum the older generation will prob-ably accept as unemotionatly as it accefted the s·wing in the other direction, For it is merely stan1ing still. But if OUf felicitations upon their quiet vi11dicatiolJ ::are not out of place, l-THE- NEW-~~ANJ-;~PIDS 1 I MACHINERY SifORE I Here in ti,e lllU5ty attic air \Vhere gray \\'ebs quiver to and fro, I slowly climb the creaking stair I knew so well in time agO. And there bcside the papered pane \Vhcre sunlight shifts its misty rays, I find ;m old friend once again The trnndle bed of childhood days. o trundle small, T hold so dear, Half hidden is yOur nut brown wood; The soft gray dust of yesteryear Ea,>; draped yon in a velvet ho ,(!. The spiders toil \'lith steady zeal, And as they sv,;iitly rise and fall They link yoU with the spinning' \"heel That r~st5 beside the 111lJt11dy w;dl. o treasured friend of other days vVhat memories yon nOW awake; I \vatch (in dream) tile sun's last f'l.yS, And figures wierc1 the shadows make. .And once again I'm tucked away A-laughing, romping'. (luilted hc;tp. And hca,r once more through twiJi~,'bt 3Tay A dear voice singing me to sle(1). @ * @ Amusement for House Furnishers. Under the title "Old Fashions and -:.rew," the Chicago Evening Post of April 27 \velcomcs the return to that city of the manllers and customs of the early seventies, when walnut furniture, marble mantel pieces, ill looking hat racks. excelsior mattresses and ingrain carpets wcre used in old fashioned houses, with basement dining-rooms and long, na.rrow front halls. The remarks of the Post upon this subject affords aIllusement to modern home furnishers. OlJe paragrapb cou-tained in the article reads as follows: "With the old fashions gO a calmness of outlook. a serene creed and a serener disrega,rd of all troublesome modern facts. It is possible that this serenity is the attraction which is draw-ing present interest back to its physical surroundings. At any rate, there is a decided turning toward the marble man-tels, the heavy silver .. the china and any of the really beauti~ Wood .Working Machine,ry Factory Equipm~t Machine Knive~,Bits, Etc. Everything in Equipment for th~:Woodwotker. --_. ! Office and Store. 58 South Ionia St .. OppO$ite Union Depot. I McMULLEN MACHINERY CD, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ! .-..-------------------t --1 n'c would ljke to tender then"l most heartily to the old fashions alA hope, for a while at least, that they may save us from the nC'w." I ®*€l' A Change in Manag1ment. lIfr. C .c. Nevers, who recently assumed the managemcllt OJ: the Grand Rapids division of the .f!Ynn Furniture Agency, has had a large experience in credit a,n~ collection agency bus-iness and is a man of high character. i He is well acquainted with the m<lUllfactllril1g industries in /Grand Rapids and will give prompt altcnton to all h,,,;n",, c 1trnstcd to his hands. @ * @ I Veneer Factory Bu, ned. The factory of the Reed City (:i\.lich.) Veneer and Panel Company \vas destroy-ed by tire on tli~ morning of February 7. Loss $70,000; insurance, $60,000. I ;:Fred S. Torrey and H. S. Holden, of Grand Rapids. a<e ;,,,errsted in the company. II 18 MICHIGAN ESTABLISHED 1880 PU1lt.llllHI!D • .., MICHIGAN ARTISAN CO. ON THE lOTI'! ANC25TH 01" EACH MONTH OP"ICE-108,110, 112 NORTH OlVISION ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. !NT!UlED IN THE POSTOFFICE AT ~iII"'ND RAPIDS, MICH., AS SECOND O~A8& M,l,l'Tl!A. A convention of manufacturers has been called to meet at Indianapolis on February 16 for the purpose of promoting the movement to obtain from the congress of the United States an act to create a permanent non-partisan tariff commission. Jt is said the going and the coming president favor the plan. In the past a number of such bodies created by congressional action have handled the tariff question without result. COll-gress will be as slow to surrender its prerogative as a t,lrift making body as it has and ever will be to submit all amend· ment tD the constitution, under which the people of the several states might elect their senators by direct vote. If congress shall deeni it wise to postpone tariff legi~lation a number of years, the proposed commission would serve its purpose well. + + A prominent manufacturer of Grand Rapids objects to th{~ blowing of whistles twice every week day calling workmen to the shops. He declares that whistles are no more necessary for the purpose mentioned as a part of the equipment of ·1 factory than for a department store. Life would seem hard-ly worth living without the morning chorus of 500 whistles to which the populace is accustomed. To dispense with the whistles '"auld effect a saving in coal but the people would be in doubt as to whether the manufa.cturers were prosperou3 or losing money by the failure to operate their plants, Th~ sound of the whistles at 7 a. m. daily is an indication of pros-perity. + + It is claimed by those who ought to be fully informed on the subject that the manufacture of looking glass plates is not, and never has been, a profitable 'industry in the United States. The erection of additional plants for the purpOSe of expanding an unprofitable industry goes on, however, anti more millions a.re added yearly to the ill-spent millions of the pa.stevidently for the purpose 'of increasing the losses annual-ly stlstaiJ1cd by millionaires controlling the industry. Gooi money is thrown after had by millionaires, perhaps-not. + + l\hoy foremen fail to satisfy their employers not becaus~~ they do not know their trade but because of their inabilty to explain to the men under their direction the: details of the work in hand. OfteH this is due to impatience or ill-will harbored toward the workmen. Successful foremen never leave a man to whom they are imparting instruction until they are satisfied the man comprehends the end desired, + + The prospective arrival of an heir to the throne of Hol. land has created great interest in the minds of the people of that nation. The gifts that have been forwaded to the queen would fill an ordinary sized pala.ce. A suite of chi.td's. furniture in white enamel and many playthings form a part of the articles received. + + It 1S said that Elsie De\Volfe, an actress who deserted the stage to engage in household decorating, copies famous rooms or styles from the pala,ces of Europe, She has not attempt. ed to fUrllish anything original. ARTISAN The house of Mary E. \Voolley, president of Holyoke (Mass.) College has been redecorated by two American girls, who recently engaged in the business and are winning sUcceSS. + + Applica.tions for 75,000 square feet of floor space in the new f.urniture tcmple, Grand Rapids, have been received, The erection of the building during the current year is assured. + + The Michiga.n Seating Company will move their manufac-turing business from Grand Rapids to Jackson, Mich. Prison labor will be employed, + + Albert Stickley, the furniture manufacturer of Grand Rap-ids, will represent the manly beauty of Michigan at the Taft inaugural ball. @ * @ Will be Made in Grand Rapids. An official of one of the furniture manuf,Lcturing: houses of Grand Rapids visited Chicago recently, and seeking the aid of a local dealer, called upon the owners of a hotel now under construction, The architect of the structure was called in. and when the furniture maker and seller made known their desire to furnish the hotel, the architect remarked: "No good cabinet work is manufactured in the west. The best furniture for hotels is made by W. J, Sloan & Co. of New York." The manufacturer and the dealer exchanged smiles, ",,"Vould you advise giving the contract for the furniture for this house to that firm?" "Certainly,1 "Perhaps you do not know that Sloan & Co. buy the goods they handle-that the firm does not manufacture?" ~ "Indeed?" "Further, and that the firm purchases a large part of their stock from my company." The architect adroitly switched the conversation from fur_ niture to carpets, rugs and curtains, and it was generally con~ ceded that the Sloan com-pa.ny should be considercd when placing orders for such goods. Thc furniture will be made in Gral1d Rapids. @ * @ Patriotic. That Kentuckians have a very high regard for their native state is illustrated by this anecdote told by on('. of them: Once a Kentuckian died. So a l1ear relative went to the local tomhstone artist to arrange about .lt1 inscription on the deceased's tombstone. After due cog:itation the near relative said: "Carve all it: 'He's gone to a better place.' "I'll carve 'he's gone to heaven,' if you want me to," rc marked the tombstone ::irtist, "but, as for that other inscrip tion-there'sno better place than Kentucky'" @) * @ Advance Datings. in conversation with a leading manufacturer of furniture in Grand Rapids recently, he remarked: "A great many dealer" are asking for advance datings on orders, but when they are informed that the shipping of the goods will be 'at our con-venience,' they usually say, 'Oh, well, send the goods alollg as fast as possible; don't delay our shipments.' This fact in-dicates that ma.ny merchants are not overstocked with goods." @) * @) Manufactures Parlor Furniture. Elizabeth Simmet is a successful manufacturer of parlor furniture in Shnmokin, Pa. MICHIGAN ARTISAN t ---------] List of Buyers i I Do you want It 1 I I List of Buyers I Do you want It 1 I• List· of Buyers II Do you want It 1 If so send in your order with 25 cents at once. List of Buyers Michigan Artisan Co. liON. Division SI" Brand Rapids, Mich, • 19 BENCHES FOR AlL KINDS OF WOODWORKERS , I; I! Designed by Bench expert$. " i Made of the most carefull~ seasoned Michigan Hard Maple! I Built by skillful, well pail: workmen -not boys. i Recognized for years as l~aders. I, No. 101 shown in the lillustration has conveniently fitted 1rawers and cupboard for the safe [keeping of valuable tools and unfinished work. All are fitted with strong locks. A rugged, substantial b~nch which is giving splendid service and sat- . f . I IS actIon. i i Your bench needs shouldibe supplied by selecting from our I very com-plete and well illustra~ed catalog. A line from you todaYIiwill bring it tomorrow. ;, i I i GRAND RAPIDS HAND ~REW CO, 918 JEFFERSON AV 'NUE GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. I• 20 BIG MERGER OF BLOWER COMPANIES. M I CHI G A N A RT I SAN American Blower Company and Sirocco Engineering Com-pany Consolidate. Little short of consternation has reigned aJl10ng th~ maIl-ufacturers of fans and blowers and much interest evidenced by the leading architect-engineers, cOl1sp,lting engineers, heating, ventilating a~ld power plant cnginc,e'ts'- and contractors since the introduction and sale in this coilnJry of the famous "Sir-occo" blowers. The fact that the American Blower Company, the leading interest in that line of manufacture in this country, has con-solida. ted with the Sirocco Engineering Company of New York constitutes an announcement in engineering and com-mercial circles of exceptional note. "Sirocco," in the ordinary applicatiOl~ of the word, is the name of the hot and frequently scorching winds which blow over and from the. stm-baked deserts of northern Afrlca and India. Mr. S. C. Davidson, of the Sirocco Engineering COl11- pany, Belfast, Ireland, a.fter spending many years in India as a teagrower, devoted his energies to the invention of im-proved and sanitary methods of manipulating and drying of tea, having designed and introduced a drying apparatus which operated by a naturally induced draft of pure, hot air passing through the leaves. As the inventor had personally exper·· ienced the "Sirocco" winds during his life in India, the simi-larity of the hot air blast which he was employing for drying the tea with that of the "Sirocco" winds led to the adoption of the name "Sirocco." Mr. Davidson soon found that eaell new apparatus from his "vorks was being defined as a </Sir-occo" invention---:-thus the application of the term as a trade mark name for all his specialties evolved itself as a natural consequence. About 1897 Mr: Davidson il1Ycnted this radically new type of centrifuga.l fan. The </5irocco" fans were patented in England in 1898, in the United States in 1900 and in 1902 they were introduced on the American market by the Sirocco Engineering Company of New York. To the American fan manufacturers the fan was an. unwelcome competitor for ob-vious reasons. To the engineering fraternity, with their Own ideas of fan proportions based primarily on what had been for half a century the accepted standards, the "Sirocco" type of construction was confusing. From its first entry on the- British market, the history of "Sirocco" ha.s been one continu-ous advance, and in spite of the competition from all blower manufacturers in this country each pla.cing themselves on tb~ defensive, 'ISirocco" fans have won their deserved place into specifications for many important installations, and have in all points-to use. our now common expression-"made good:' Briefly, the distinguishing fe;;llllres of the "Sirocco" fan reside in its blast wheel or rUnner. This is of drlllil form with a large inlet chamber enclosed by numerous blades which are very long, but narrow, and arc curved forward. Illstead of having eight to sixteen blades, it usually has sixty-four. In-stead of these blades being about the same length and width, they are usually sixt to nine times as long as they are wide. Instead of being flat or backwardly cun'ed, they are forward-ly curved. The results of these changes are radical. For a given size of wheel at equal speed, the "Sirocco" discharges about four times the volume of air as former standard types of steel plate fans. For a given duty, the "Sirocco" turbine wheel is only about one-half the diameter of the former standard paddl02 wheel. The 4OSi1'occo"fan occupies only half the space. saves one-third the weight, and one-fifth the powa, and does its work silently, In public buildings having low ceiling basements or suh-basements, in tunnels where the space for fans must be exca vated for, in crowded boiler rooms, and particularly for marine applications .l10thing' in the same li'ne heretofore pro-duced will meet to a nicety such complicated conditions. It n1ttst eventually be admitted -·thatMr. Davidson h<1., done nearly all of the original work in blower design for the past quarter of a century. He has met with marked snccess, all(I has gained control of the blower business to a large de-gree throughout the world outsidc of this country and her possessions. By this consolidation, therefore, the American Blower strengthens greatly the position they already cnjoy in the latter field, as their engine, hcat and steam trap de· partments will receive an impetus by the increased demand for "Sirocco" blowers, due to the fact that the Sirocco En-gineering Company did not manufacture engines, heaters. steam traps, etc., so universally used in connection with fans and biowers. In acquiring and holding the broad patents covering the principle and construction of the "Sirocco" type blower; also the trademark "Sirocco," the company announce that suits now pending against infringers of Mr. Davidson's patent Sketch by Clarence R. Hills, Grand Rapida, Mich. rights will be continued, and they will prosecute with in defat-igible vigor all further attempts of imita.tion or infringements. The "Sirocco" patents have been adjudicated in the COllrts of several countries, and have everywhere been sustained. Doubtless no step has ever been taken in the history of the blower business that will approach this consolidation in im-portance to blower manufacturers, but of vastly more impor-tance to the specifying and pnrchasing public is the question How will it affect us? The joining of these engineering forces will provide a fulcrum, so to speak, by the use of which thosc interested can pry out of the mass of conflicting and confusing technicalities, unbiased and authentic data reduced to a. eoml11on working footing. Engineers C<ll1specify with absolute surety and 'without hesitancy from tables and data now available at the hands of representatives of or direct from the combined companies. Users of blowers and fan systems can purchase any ap-paratus under the "ABC" or "Sirocco" trademark with as-surance of having embodied in the construction not only the highest quality of material and workmanship and highest efficiency, but every latest patentable feature, without fear of patent litigation or lengthy discussion of constructional de-tails so often tiresome points to the layman. The magnitude of this move is only' in keeping with the rapid growth and development of the American Blower Com· pany, one of Detroit's leading industries. Imprcssions Upon visitors to their plant are striking and lasting; the varieties of type and styles of apparatus built for heating and ventila-tion, mechanical draft electric lighting, and for the brick, wood-working, iron and steel industries: are a great surprise to many. MICHIGAN ARTISAN 21 THE EMBLEM OF SUPERIORITY This is the verdict of the furniture manufacturer who KNOWS Is the best high-grade, quick-rubbing varnish ever produced. Can be re-coated every day and last coat rubbed safely in three days. Is our high-grade first or second coat varnish. Dries hard to sandpaper over night. Last coat can be rubbed in twenty-four hours. Paradox Rubbing Ti- Ki- Lac Color Works The man who KNOWS is the man who WINS VARNISH DEPARTMENT, Acme White Lead and DETROIT, MICHIGAN ! .. • . ~ __ ...1 Report on the Condition of the Pittsburg Plate Glass Com-pany. John Pitcairn, chairman of the board of (1ir('ctors, has sub '1litted his annual report to the stockholders of the Pittsburg Plate Glass Company, covering the busine<;g of the company fur the year 1908 as follows: ASSETS. December 31, 1908. Investment,.... . , ,.. .$17,057,971,59 Stocks: Plate glass, window glass and paints . . . . . . . .. ' .. $2,923.255.14 Material and working accounts. 1,766,103.13 Casb, bills and accounts recei\'abk .. 4,650,531.18 Quick assets . , ... _........ 9,339..889.45 LIABILITIES. Capital stock., .. ,$17 ,500,COO.00 Bills and accounts payable: Bills payable .. _. Sundry credits .... Tnsurance fund ... ~'inking fund, Chicago and Cleveland buildings .. C;urplns, January 1, 1908. .$5,463,525.77 Profits. 1908 1,313,275.09 .... , .. $3,090,000,00 556.793.16 3.646,79.1.16 275,828.7~ 41,749,63 Total .. . . Less dividends, 1908 . Depreciation ..... Surplus .. .$6,776.800 86 1,2.12,500.00 610,811.44 1,843,311.4; 4,933,489.42 $26,397.861 04 26,397,861.04 Our net earni'lgs of $1,313,275.09 for I90R were $906,194.41 kss than for 1907. Thi~ showing, however, is regarded <is satisfactory considering the adverse business conditions gen· erally and particular>v the very depresscd: eondition of the plate glass industry, l~rices for this produ~t havin5' been the lowest in the history of the business in thi'i country. Tha~ \ve wcre able to earn slightly more than Ollr dividends is due to a considerable extent to the following causes: The collee-tion of account.~ charg,,:d off at the dose of 1907 a.s doubtful or \vorthless; the improvement in the dem~nd and prices for \vinc1ow glass and the consequent recovery of depreciation charged thereon 1a5'. year to meet the low :market prices pre vailing- at that time; the profits on our coal mining operations; our usual commercial department e<\rnings and substantial • FOR SALE-Fully Equipped Woodwor1ling Plant Suitable for planing mill, box factory,' furniture manu-facturing or any kind of woodworking business. Splendidly located in Michigan. Better than a bonus. Investigation solicited. Addre .... L. M. M., care M:chig~, Arti.an. I~----- ~ dividends received upon our stock ill:crestsin subsidiary com panies, particularly our Courc{']le~ "3el~ium, plant, on which, notwithstanding the business <1 1,ression abroad, we have realizcd a much lar/5er proportioll;'~(: profit:than has been pos-s; ble upon our plate glass fa.ctof) :nvestm~nt in this countT\'o -Glass Vv~orker . Will Build a Factcry.! The Century Furniture Company of jGrand Rapids ar,~ ;)repa:-ing to build a factory, having o,'tgrbkn the Gay build-ing, a fjve-sto1'Y strt1cture, liow occupied.! I Their plans win be made public \",hen completed. i i @ * @ Vv'ben you hear a man exploiting eYen~s of the past just recollect that it's easier to remember than ~Pthink ! I 22 MICHIGAN ARTISAN .._..--~---_-'O'_--- . ) --i -------------------- --- --- -- MICHIGAN ARTISAN ----------------------_ .. SECOND HAND "Moore" No- 3 Double Belt Sander, "Maddox" Rubber and Polisher. "Buss" 30 Inch Cabinet Planer, Sectional Roll, "American" Combined Scroll and Band Resaw, MACHINERY FOR SALE. "Berlin" Cabinet Makers Double Cut-qlf Saw, "American" Double End Tenoning Machine, "American" No, 4~-30 In. Cabinet PIlsner,;;:~~~. "Berlin 36 Inch Triple Drum Sander "lnYincible." THE ABOVE MACHINES ARE IN FINE ORDER. I C. C. WORMER MACHINERY CO., 98 W, WDodbridge SI., Detroit~Mich. I "-------------- ' .... JACOBEAN STYLE_ By Grand Rapids School of Designing, Arthur Kirkpatrick, Instructor and Designer. There is such a varic.ty of character in the United States, made up as it is of a combination of all other nations, there neces5arily must be a variation of effects ;n the designs of furniture to meet the demand of this vari<\tion of character, ARTHUR KIR1{PATRICK There is, for instance, a class or grade of character tha.t de-mands decoration or some sIlo"v of elegance or gnwdeur that is not found in the sombre, shaded mahogatlv of the Colonial: nor straight and upright frames and uassul11ing tinish of the 1.'1odern English, Ars a,nd Crafts or .Mission; nor can this demand be satisfied by the ovenvorked LOllis XV. For this demand of a straight. upright and honest vrandellr to which T refer, the Elizabethan seems to fill every requirement, for there .is decoration and rich show in the carved columns, arches and moulding and a quiet grandeur in its dull shaded surface. The Elizabethan, Jacobean and English Renaissance are but different names for the same pel-iod style; the "Elizabethan preceding the Jacobean, but the two wer('so closely identi lled as to make them practically synonymoUs. As early <1<; Henry VIII skilled workmen from France, Italy and Flan Jers were im-ported to enrich and adorn the cathedra.ls, castles and mansions of the nobility and add grace and dig-nity to the English court. Thus, this reirhnJ.l or period af activity that we call English Renaissance :~ad a progrcssiv2 growth through the reigns of Henry VIr I, Edward VI, Mary, Elizabeth and JameEi L This ",,-as a peri,)d that produced great men in nearly e\'ery profession and walk of life_ Such hist.oric fignres as Sir \;\,Talter Raleigh, Sir Francis Drake and S.h'akespeare were products of this period .....if'~rinling Gibbons. 1648-1721, W;lS the most prominent sculptor, arver and design- ~r in England at this time. His work is of: 'ueh a high stand. :lrd that it is "till used as models by the Elh .lish draftsmen. This style when carried to perfection;i every way pro duces an effect of e!('gancc, The walls \\~,re generally pan e.led from floor to ceiling in a rectangular Pl,ttern. The ceil·· ing "\,.,asalso paneled, but in geometric pat.;.~erusthat were in keeping with the over doors and mantles. ,The furniture wa" elaborately ciLrved and is admirably snit d for beds, case work. tables and mantles. Chairs ":"ere b a solid and snb-i; tantial construction, hut give one the i~:pressi()n of a stiff "nd rigid uncomfortable seat. : : The accompanyin~ plate page shows 'the treatment of a dining hall, sllitable for a fine residence. 'or country seat, of which so many excellent examples are springing up all ove1' the country today. This room is intended to run through: :two· stories of th,: house, as .v..as the practice ill the larger; bar6nia.l halls all'] wanors of England of the pefied to whicL we refer. Tll\: rharacteristic featurc, namely, the Hlu/,ici<:w's gallery, is shown in onf sketch while the blank wall 'above the ma.ntle i" covered with a tapestry, showing a medi~val I1ttnting- scene The mantle and shelf should be marble; ~but it would look well carried out in oak. The sideboard; ;although Jacobean in chiLracter, is designed to meet the modcirn requirements of the dining 1'00111. It is not intended in our illustration to'reproduce faithfully an existing model, hut simply to show tlj.e adaptation of th1:-, period of design to the heautifying of a modern and up-to date residence. ~---------------._----. I !.ou{s; :babn ! ! I' DESIGNS AijD DETAILS OF~ITURE ... 23 24 MICHIGAN ARTISAN -------------------_.------~ ~------------------- ,II "ere are the Exact Shades Adopted by 'the I Oran~Rapi~srDmifurt Manufadurtrs'Ass'n IIII ,,I II III , III ,i Their "Golden Oak.Oil Stain" is our No. 3424. Their "Early English Stain" is our No, 3425 Oil Stain. Their "Weathered Oak.Stain" is our No. 3426 Oil Stain. Their "Fumed Oak" is our- No. 3427 New Process Fuming liquid. Their "Light Mahogany Stain" is our No. 3428 Dry Mahogany Stain soluble in water. Their" Dark Mahogany Stain" is our No. 3429 Dry Mahogany Stain soluble in water. ----------------------" II ,I I,!I I,,,t I,If I .' Send for Samples and Information. WE SUPPLY EVERYT"ING NEEDED INT"E FINIS"ING ROOM. C"ICAGO ~------------ Leads in the Manufacture cf Pianos. Chicago is the acknowledged leader j'n the production or pianos. Of the 310,CCOpianos manufactured in the United States during the. past year, 80,000 were produced by the fa~ tories of Chicago. Considering the fact that the industry iT' r:hicago began in18S4, this advance of the industry to a posi-tion of preeminence within tv.renty-four years is surprising. '\t that time there was a well defined preil1dice against the Chicago piano and the establishment of a market for the pro· duct \-vas a difficult proposition. The geo~Traphical position 'If Chicago, its unsurpassed transportation facilities and the rapid settlement of the west, were factors which assisted in ~he development of the industry along prol'itable lines .. A prime factor which enters into the .favorable considera- 1 ion of the Chicago piano is the high character of the manu factured article. Vv'ithin the past ten years this standard of oualityhas been improved until tod<!-ythe eastern manufac-turers admit the merits of the article. Three of the best known piano manufacturers are locateo in Chicago. In addition to these there are half a doz~n others who produce an eminently satisfactory article and who <ssist in s''''elling the annual output to figut es which advance' Chicago to the position of supplying one-fourth of aI1 the pianos manufactured in the United States. The advent of the player piano, or thf" instrument with . he playing mechanism in its interior, is 'largely augmenting ~he' annual prod'tlctlon 'of· pianos in Chicago. Its SUeees" has been s'o marked that competent judges assert that within the next tcn years the total output of pianos will be swellcd to at least 5GO,OOO a ye.ar. Assuming that the retail value of the 'entire output of "!1ianosin the United tates is $90,000,000 a year. the volumc of business done by the Chicago manufacturers annually will n:Jt £:111 far short of $23,000,000. The' value of musical instn1- mcnts manufactured in Chicago in 1908 .wa" $30,070,000. NEW YORK To Chicago belongs the credit of introducing to the piano trade an eighty-eight note player piano. Prior to 1902 the \J1;idest range possible in these players was sixty-five notes. As only ten per cellt of all musical compositions are written for a range of sixty-tive per cent, it will-be at once understoo •.: what an important place this eighty-eight note innovati011 immediately secured in the realm of musical art. To the lay man this fact will be better appreciated when the statement is made that ninety per cent of all music must be rearranged, transposed or otherwise mutilated to get (hem within the range of the sixty-five note player It is an absolute nece.,- sity if one desires to hear this ninety per ce11tof music inter preted as it was written to use the eighty-eight note player. The piano manufacturers of the country are graoual!\' making the eighty-eight note player a feature of their business simply because they recognize its great superiority. But the fact should not be lost sight of that the eighty-eight note Jlayer is a Chicago invention, and that it.~ inventor enjoyed n monopoly of the field at home and abro:Hl for nearly 5i0( vears. i I I S~~~e~~~~gth~t?:a~~~: c~~:e~t~ adoptedby the ManufacturersA' ssociationofGrandRapids, I Th::d::I:: ~:ilP::=::~ ::: :0:FiJI~ N~ 736. I Bad,. EDSl'Ii.h-Oil Stain N~ 55 .nd FiBer No. 36. Mahoa-ad,.-PowderN~ 9 and Fille1'No. 14. Weathe...,d Oak Oil St";'" No.·281. Fumed Oak-Acid Stain No. 45, Place your orders with us and get the correct shades. I GRAN~~~.~AV~~~~!!~~~-~CIO~.~~ -- -------------------------- MICHIGAN ARTISAN 25 THE LATEST device [or handling shavings and dwt from ail wood- 'u'orkillg machines. Our nineteen 'J.'ears experience in this class of 'If,)orl~ has brought it uearer perfection than any other system on the 1narket today. It is no c/rperinuJlt, but a denwJ1strated scien rific fact, as we have sc'veral hUJ/- dred of these systems in use, and not a poor one among them.. Our A1ttonwtic Furnace Feed Systenl, a.r shown in this cut, is the Nwst perfect '({lorking device of anything in this line. rV"ite for our prices for equipments. WE MAKE PLANS AND DO ALL DETAIL WORK WITHOUT EX-PENSE TO OUR CUSTOMERS. EXHAUST FANS SURE BLOWERS STOCK. AND PRES-ALWAYS IN ,..----_.------------------------ ;III II• II I• II II i I aran~Da~i~sDlow Pi~e ! an~Dust Arrester (om~anl I IIIII !II I IIIII• Office and Factory: 20&-210 Canal Street Gl'..AND l'..APlDS. MICH. --------_ ..... OUR AorOMATIC FURNACE FEED SYSTEM III !! I! I !!j I I II 26 MICHIGAN ARTISAN • OUR SPECIAL TV : 'IRD'S EYE MAPLE1 (Made and dried rightt and white. Samplesfurnished on apPlication.) I ,500,000 ft. 1-20 inch Quarter Sawed Oak carried in stock. Come in and see it. Birch and Poplar erossbanding and rotary cut Oak. Birch, Maple, Basswood, Poplar and Gum Drawer Bottoms. PROMPT DELIVERY. ALL PRIME STOOK. ! FIGURED WOODS. MAHOGANY. WA.LNUT. QTR. SAWED OAK. BIRCH. : I:I • j II :>H--E--NRY S23.SCRHIBNOERLSTD., GERANND RAPIVDS,EMNICHE. ER CO --C. • -.oi OUR LONDON FURNITURE LETTER. The Trend in English Modern Furniture Styles; Popular~ty of the Antique; the Queen Anne Period; Austrian Furniture; "Modern English" Styles; L'Art Nouveau and Its Dread Influences. By George Cecil. At the commenCC:111cnt of the late Queen Victoria's reign, the furniture in the living-rooms and that which was used fOr the. bedrooms-especially the latter-followed closely the lines laid down by the furniture makers of George IV and \Vi11iam IV reign. It W<IS well made and simple in effect, while that aketoh by Clarence R. HlUe, Grand Rapids, Mich. which was of a decorative nature was in llerfect taste. In the course of a few years, tradesmen pined for something more pretentious and a pa.ssion for (much dreadful) gilding set in, with the result that early Victorian furnture (in com-mOil with early Victorian art in general) has ever ·been an eye-sore to welI~broug:qt up people. In the late fifties, things took a turn for the better, and many of the bureaus which were made at that time" are· treasured today while the wardrobe and dining room tables of that date convey an ad-mirable object lesson to those Philistine fumiture makers who have done so much to lower artistic prestige in this country. In this connection it may be mentioned that the large estab-lishments are not free fr9m the taint of Philistinism. though the trend in modern English furniture styles is either to copy the antique, the Middle Ages, Or the Queen Anne or Geor-gian period. Some adopt the. "Modern English" style, while there is a small demand for Austrian furniture. Fortunate-ly for one's comfort, "the antique" models are not in general demand. The guileless designers, believing that Luct111t1s and other bon vivants knew how to make themselves com. fortable, have carefully copied. the un'comfortable couches, chair~ ant;I stoQls which. were, in use amongst. the Romans. One finds the result of their perverted imagination in certain suburban homes-the misguided mistresses of which are too easily led astray. That is to say. being incapable of think-ing for themselves, they blindly entrust themselves to the guidance of some oily young floor-walker whose business it is to sell unsaleable stock at the highest price. Fortunately for the shop~keepers,' suburban ladies ha.ve an amiable habit of di.scussing their pmchases with sympathetic friends, all of whom are fired with a jealolls desire to be known for their expensive furniture. Consequently, if the wife of the local mayor learns that the neighboring alderman's spouse has bought a set of antique stools, she loses no time in providing herself with a similar' seL So much for the "modern an-tique." The furniture makers draw upon examples of the middle ages when they are asked to design specially strong arm chairs or tables. For instance, the hall stools with which the nouveau riche likes to furnish his newly acquired (and newly built) country house, are copied from the monastic stools and benches \"hieh are associated with the reign of Henry IV. The Elizabethan shovel-board tables a]s oare reproduced to the order of these. people, and many modern dining room t:lbles .are <l1n::cst exact replicas of those around which our Georgian ancestors sat until, overpowered by innumerable bottle,S of claret, they gently sought a resting place on the floor. Popular, too, are the "Queen Anne" models. An astonisbing number of loog-glasses and wardrobes are mad,:, in this style, while many f the London equivalent for the American "smart set" ask for Queen Anne dresing tables. There also is a. growing demand for genuine antique furni-ture; it is preferred by a great mally people to modern bed-steads, tables, chairs, and so forth. It is pa.rtly owing to this craze-for it is little'less thana craze-that an enormous quantity of antique dealers have started business al over the country. Many of these people, calmly manufacture "an·- tiques," which they succeed in seHng to guileless American multi-millionaires, as well as to their English customers. Ha.v-. ing made the table or chest of drawers, they bury it in tin back garden, digging it up after it has lain in the earth for some weeks. It is then well belabored with a poker, to give it an added appearanee of age, and after it has had a few charges of smaU shot fired into it to procure the necessary worm-eaten appearance it is buried once more. After its final disinterment, it is cleaned and "sold to the high~ est bidder." It must not, however,be:supposed that every collecter is easily gulled. Mr. Alfred de Rothschild is a particularly knowing bird, while the great' Wertheimer is more than a match fpr the most astute rascal who ever "made to order" a Bible box or a coffin stool. So keen are some col-lectors of the furniture of o,ther ages, that nothing. will.. in-duce them to have a single modern piece in their.houses. Some enthusiasts even go the length of providing th'e servants' rooms. with ancient. bedsteads, washing ...s.tands,. and chests of MICHIGAN drawers. while the children of the house take their meals off a shovel-bo<1,rd table and sit up in Charles I cane seated chairs. In such e~tab1ishments tl1C fenders, fire-irons and grate are in keeping. Conseqttently, there is rlO little demand lor Sussex fire-dogs, pop-cranes and hangers, and other .!lre-place fur-nishings. The modern English style is, generally speaking a thing to avoid. It is designed by persons who, having enjoyed the supplementary edl1cation furnished by well-meaning- (but somc\vhat stupid) pbilanthropists, gi\re vent to their appalling want of taste. They have the suhlime impudence to take a ARTISAN 27 niture is the solid mahogany furniture, which is in vogue in certain circles. Popular, too, arc the inlaid mahogany bed-steads, and other bedroom furniture. Some of these are pro-vided with carved splats. The simplicity and gracefulness of the pierced rails are much in evidence ;-ili fact whether the modern bed is in oak, mahogany or any other wood, pierced rails usually are insisted upon. Greatly sought after also are the white ~namel suites of bedroom furniture, while a few people set tht::ir affections upon white enamel ..v..ith enrich-ments in reJie£and gilded cane panels at the head and foot of the bed. Such furniture is greatly in request amongst the I[ELRN GEORGE BERTHA Children of Geo. A, Wright of the Hood & Wright Co., Big Rapids, Mich. ROBERT beautifully carved Swiss chair, and to inlay it with cheap, tawdry modern enamel which is a remarkably long way after the cloisonne of which it is supposed to be a copy. Other incongruities also are theirs. They think nothing of pro-viding a simple Dutch bedstead with a. shapeless carving, white the modern Queen Anne furniture can, if carried out by an injudicious designer, be an eye-sore. The lower orders wealthy lower class who arc willing to pay an extra price for an "uld.itioI)"d.amount of gilding. At the present moment, there is a considerable sale for solid black oak dining chairs with turned legs and under framing, "..l..lile the fumed oak dining chairs upholstered in tapestry, besides those ,'vhich are provided with rush scats, find many purchasers. Sometimes they are upholstered in KORMAN DAK Chtldren of F. E. Hood of the Hood & Wright Co.. Big Rapids, Mich. ."14:!J.RION TOM amongst the disciples of L'Art Nouveau also have great faith in the allurements of velvet plush, and painted flowers. A good deal of the modern Sltting and bed room furniture, besides that which is tltiljzed for the dining room, the study, and the hall-way is of fumed oak. A great many English people are much pleased with the effect, but those whose taste is irreproachable object to it because of its painfully ne.w appearance. The sa.le of it however, 5s enormous, and if it is decorated by means of beaten copper or brass, or with quantities of gaudy enall1('.l.it appeals strongly to the Philis-tine hearts of people whose artistic education has been lleg~ lected. In agreeable contrast to the fumed oak bedroom fur-roan leather, or morOCCO. The roan tint certainly has .a very pleasing effect under certain conditions, and when these chairs wt~re first introduced they met with considerable StlC-cess. One also COlIles acrOss dining chairs of Queen Anne design, the turned under-framing of which is a specialty. In this connection, the Queen Anne style has a considerable vogue, and applies to dining room furniture of almost every description. This style is particularly effective when allied \...-ith Italian walnut. while the Chippendale designs also (l,re made in this ,"vood. One also finds Jacobean styles in dining chair:,:. file models being faithfully copied-even to the velvet and the fancy bandings. 28 MICHIGAN ARTISAN U you do not know the "Oliver" wood workilll! tool., you had helle, give us your address and have us tell you all about them. We make nothing but Quality tool., the first cost of which i. considerahle, but which will make more profit for each dollar inveSted than any of the cheap machines flood. ing the country. "Oliver" New Variety Saw Table No. 11. Will lilk.e II saw up ID zo~di.'\Mlet. ArOOt heh il 6& wide. Send for Catalog "B" for data on Hand Jointer., Saw Tables, Wood Lathes, Sander•• Tenoners. Mortisers, Trimmers, Grinders. Work Benche., Vise&,Clamps. Glue Heaters, etc., ete. OLIVER MACHINERY CO. Wl)I'!ta u.d Gent:l'al Office_ at 1 to 51 Clancy St. GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.• U. S. A. BRANCH QFFfCES - Oliver Mo.dulle(y Co.., HUI:hmlTemlinal, 50 ChllfCn 5,., New York.; Oliver Mae!.inetY Co.• Rnt National Bank Building, Chicas<!. 10; Olivet Madunery Co., ....__P.aci_fic B-uiJd-isg. Se.a.tI_1e,Wu-ll.; -Oliv-et M-adU-ner-y C_o, 101.-20_; De-anq'ate, Manchester. EOIl. Mail Order Banks. The mail order banks and trust companies are making in-roads into the deposits of country banks and unless some means are taken to check them the 103s to the country insti-tutions will. he as gr.eat as the loss the country merchants ex-- pericl1ce from the inronds of the n:ercantile catalogue hallse competitors. It is t1l1derslood th'l.t besides the banks already organized it is contemplated to form others in the l<trge cities, such as Kew York, Chicago, St. Louis, New Orleans, and San Fran-cisco, thus covering the entire country. These mail order banks offer four per cent on savings ac-counts. while banks of the west give hut three. These in-stitutions are only under the control of the state where they are located hut many dra.v their deposits from all over the country_ There is a movement on foot to secure legislation to reg-ulate them and force them to pay a state tax in every state where thE'y accept deposits_ @) * @ Name Unchanged. For many years the Grand Rapids Hand Screw Company has transa,cted a lar:ge and ever growing business in the man .. ufacture of cabinet' benches, factory trucks, furniture clamps, hand screws and kindred articles of factory equipment, sup-plying wood workers at home and abroad. A sllbsidiary company, known as the Grand Rapids Fixtures Company, has been engaged in the manufacture of show cases and stor~ fixtures successfully. Recently the name of the latter corpora_ tion 'V<lS changed by the <l,doptioll of an amendment to the company's articles of ~lssociation and is now and will here-after be known as the Wilmarth Show Case Company. of whieh Mr. O. R. "Vilmarth is the official head. The business of the Hand Screw company will be continued under the old name, Oliver Tools "OLIVER" No. 16. B.lld SIlW 36luch_. Made wilb or wifuout motor drive M e Ia I lable 36"); 30". Will tale 18" upder I h e 8uide - tills 41) ~e6 ODe way and 7 dellfee$ lhe otMr way. Cat-riesa IlIIWl)p kt 1}f1l wide. O",tside bearing 10 lower wheel shaft when IIotmmoldDven. W~B 1800lb. when ~tomip. Save Labor Time Tempers CO" ._----_._---_._----_.~ A Useful Catalogue of Carvings and Mouldings. Boynton & Co., manufacturers of embossed, plain and turned mouldings, embossed and spindle caI"vings, automatic turnings, 419-421 \Vest Fifteenth street, Chicago. have issued a. ca.talogue alld price list containing sixty-four pages alld up- ,vards of 1,000 illustrations of their products. A great range of work is embraced in the styles and all improved forms of ornament are represented. This interesting book should be Sketch by Clarence R aUle, Grand Rapids. Mich. in the hands of every manufa,cturcr of furniture -and kindred goods. Copies may be had upon application to the com pany. (§) * (§) Some men use the past from which to- draw conclusions ;md obtain guidance for the .future. Others use the past from which to gain fear of the future. p-------------------- - --,--- -1 I THE 6 FINISHES YOU WANT I !, THE GRAND RAPIDS STANDARD SHADES t 1 IIII II !II ,, II II! II The Lawre~~~L:!~t~CAom~p~an~yn ~f ----------,------- MICHIGAN WE HAVE ARTISAN MATCHED THEM GOLDEN OAK---No. 1919 Stain and No. 1702 Filler. EARLY ENGL1SH---No. 1652 Stain and No. 506 Filler. WEATHERED OAK---No. 1649 St.i•. FUMED OAK···No. 547-8 5t.i •. MAHOGANY···No. 1017-D Stain and No. 29 Filler. TOONA MAHOGANY ·.No. 1658 Stain and No. 1564 Filler. NOTE: We will send you working samples with full instructions for use. AliIi'ofinished pieces which will.show you the correc:t shades. Write for samples. -_._---------- Ready for Business. The :\lc":\lullen Macllinery Company arc settled in their ne\", maehinery store at No. 58 South Ionia street directly across from the Ull(m depot, Gnmd Rapids. This company "\vas organi:led by G. K. lvlcl\Iullen for the purpose of estab-lishing' a wood 'working machil1cry depot. They ,,,ill carry considerable stock and arc in position to fumish to advantage wood working" machinery for every pllrposc, factory equip-ment, mac1line knives and bits, ill fact everything in equip-ment for the wood worker. They will cater to 'western and northern l\Iichigan trade. 11r. G. K. :\TclVftllkn, the presi-dent and mnnager, was, l.1ntil l'ecently, nnd for over ten yeare; past, with the Fox JVfachille Company; )>1r. A. C. Hindman, the vice pn>sidellt, is a, local attorney; J\h-. B. D. Smith, the secretary and treasurer, was formerly secret,lry of tbe Steb hillS l'v[allulactllring Company of Sturgis. J\Licll. COllsiderillg the fact that Grand Rapids and surrounding territory, whith tlley will cover is a "very extensive wood working scctitl\1. <lod tha.t there js no other 'wood \vorking machinery dealer estahlished directly in thi's field, this enterprise should prove profitable. As a local institution they will undoubtedly re-ceive the hearty support of the wood workers in this terri-tory. Anyone manufacturing equipment which they desire to illtrodllce or pnsh n thi:'i territory would do well to cones pond with tile company, @ * @ Roll Top vs. Flat Top. There are those 'who daim that the roll top desk is \van- Ing. I'ersullal1y we have always liked the l'oll top with it<; convenient pigeonholes and its protecting sides against whicb you can shove an accumula.tion of papers. But a number of business offices rlre takillfT out their 11e:\r ly new roll tops and putting in flat tops. .!'~dvocatcs of thi~ move say it keeps you from letting' tile pap<~l'S <1.Ccufllu1ate. fultivates dispatch and gets the work throu"{h faster. It seems that wl1atever tends to put /-he work tbrollZh faster has the tirst ("all these clays but thr-re are certain ad- \'antages to the roll top which should not be overlooked-es pecially the place on top ,vhere you pile up the dictionarit>s awl directories and baskets and magazines and newspapers and ,.ackages and other things ,\Vbi)c the oceuIX-ints of f],;H top desks may have fewer things piled around ~hey have not as a !'"uJe succeeded in explaining to the roll top man just ,,,,here they put them.-Colliers. @ * @ A New Factory in Portland, Ore. At Portland,. Oregon, the new Hlctory of the Carman ~I anl1fa.cturing Company. said to be tb.c best of its kind on the racific coast, has gone into operatiolJ. It:; size is 100 x 100 a1Hl contai11s nine floors. Sprinklers, dlHt conveyors ;11'.-} like 1110dern appliances, metal door and Wil,dow cases alld wire glass make the plant a modern one in every re,c;pcct. ~--------.------ I TUE UERKIMER I Hotel and Cafe, Grand Rapids I 130 rooms with run Lngwater, telephone, electric light, steam heat, etc., in each room. Many with private bath. English, Mission and Colonial Cafe Service a la cart. 7 <I.. m. to 12 p, m'l 50c Table d'Hote. Dinner, 5:30 to 8 p. m., Sundays inclUded. ! Rooms up to $2.00 per day for one person. I~-----'---------------' South bound Wealthy-Scribn ..r car from Union 01" Grand Trunk st3lions. • 29 • 30 ---- ----- ----- ---- MICHIGAN Trials of the Manager. Take it from traveling salesmen and no mal1ager has rights ,,,bieh those having things to sell are bound to respect. If he shuts himself away in a private office with <t husky bouncer at the outer door he is unprofessional. If he flees in a cab when the tourist salesnw.n spies him on the street, he is a crank. If he resorts to a dub or police call when a mission-ary representing something he doesn't want gets to him by fraud, he is a grouch. The successful traveling salesman has three rigid rules which be insists on. I have forgotten the first two, but the last one is that the manager must listen to his talk whether he wishes to buy or not. That is all right, from the salesman's voint of view, but what abollt the manager? It is to be supposed that the mall-a, ger has something to do besides listen to men who are out after orders. If he is stocked to the roof with brass fastcners what is the ltse of his spending an holtr telling the brass fas-tener salesman that he doesn't want to buy? \Vhy not send back the card of the brass fastener man with the information that there is nothing doing? This would scem to be a fair way of saving the time of two·busy men, but it is not popular with the man who has to sell goods or go to the scra.p pile. Edwards was a manager himself, and felt sorry for otbe;' managers. He admired the nervc and resourcefulness of th(: salesmen who camped out by 11isbig desk, but he went home night after night leaving ..v.ork undone just because of this nerve and resourcefulness. Therefore he cautioned his own mcn against fighting their way into a private office, especially ,..·.here there was no chance to sell goods. He wanted his salesmen to do their best to get an audience with the Pres-ence in ewxy case, but he said it wasn't l'I.ecessary for them to get the door open by means of dynamite, or anything like that. One day ,..,hen Edwards had been annoyed and harrassed by salesmen he went out to give Parton his parting instruc-tions for an important trip. The boys in the office caHNl DON'T BUILD NEW KILNS Let us remodel your old one. The invest-ment will be smaIl and will yield ONE UUNDRED PER CENT in increased output, saving of waste Inm~ her, greater capacity of men and machines and s~ving of i,nsnrance. GRAND RAPIDS VENEER WORKS GR4NO R4PIOS, Mien. ARTISAN Parton the Missionary. This was becaus~ he was meek of manner and because he went forth into heathen communities where the civilization of the natives was not yet up to the standard of the Burbank Put-Ern-Together bookcase. Par· ton was a good salesman, a painstaking man and a persist-ent one. He had been known to ascend a fire escape and apptar before a buyer through an open w~ndow. It was said of him that a long, cold night on a doorstep was like a picnic if he caught the buyer c{)ming out in the morning. Owing to such endeavors in the interest of trade there had been com-plaints against Parton, and Edwards was now to give him fresh instructions. "Look here, Partoli," said Edwards, "you're getting too strenuous. I'm getting letters about you. For instance, the Inland Furniture Company man takes it to heart becaus'c' you blundered against him at the ferry a.ud tipped him into the 'water." "Well," said Parton, looking both grieved and surprised, "I can't see where he's got any kick coming. I couldn't ger to him in any other way. He had a man from County Cork ~--_._----_.---------_.~ WANTED CABINET MAKERS; at least one who can do carving, MACHINE MEN, and CUTTER. STEADY WORK. .. Write D. W. UHRICH, Atchison. Kansas. at his door and I couldn't trace him to his home. Besides-, I got him out, didn't T? Jumped in that cold river and fished him out by the hair of his hea.dl I'd like to know what a man wants? If he didn't like my ways, why did he buy of mc.? Perhaps he thinks I ought to remain at a hotel and wait for him to serid for me!" "You must be morc careful," 5aid EdwaI"ds. "Some of your methods would do credit to a Jimmy tough in a Fourth ward cattcus. vVe managers ha,ve many duties, and it natur-ally gives one a start to see a traveling salesman crawling in through the transom. Do the best you can for the house, hut let up on the managers a little. I wouldn't get any more of 'em out by turning in a fire alarm, if I were you." "Oh, you're referring to Richards now," said Parton, with a grin. "Say, but that was funny! It was business, too. Richanls ma(~e a thousand dollars by means of that deal. YOil can call me 011t by d' false alarm any day for a thousand." "In futt1rc.," C"ontil1ued Edwanls, "you'd better-bettcr-well, favor the managers a little. A man can be persistent and still be a gcntleman, can't he? You try it for one trip, anyway. The directors are getting next to some of your trade-marking expedients, and first thing yOU 'know you'll be in the disc8,rd. You must he more conervativc in your meth-ods. Sec?" Parton said that would be all right and went off on hi.:; trip with a hUllch that he wouldn't make good. He was so dowllcast on the trip that Hawkins of the Co-Opcrative Book. case Company roasted him to a Him and suggested that he get a, line of casket8 to match his face. Edwards opened his mail many mornings without finding an order from Parton Then he sent him a wire as follows: "\Ve have several trainloads subject to order. What's thl;': matter?" Parton answered that evening: "Am favoring the managers." Edwards thought that a little fresh, but he considered the situation and said nothing back. He waited some marc dayi-' {m orders from Parton and then sent another wire: "\Vhat are you at? Have you prospects?" Parton shot back: "Waiting for Dutton to hire a doorman I can lick. Don't you think the managers have been sufficiently favored?" Edwards gritted his teeth' at the impertinence of the mes- MICHIGAN ARTISAN 31 sage twd kept Oil opening orderless letters. At last he v..-ired Fartoll : "Sell goods jf you can. If you can't come in and pile lumber.'· Parton scratched his red hair ,...1.1cn he got that. ""Ko".·.,." he mused, "1 'wonder if that take~ off the qnaran-tine? If I go at 'em on the strength of that, wilt Edwards give me another talk for tliY m"/n good?" At last he sat down and wrote a card to Ed ..v..ards: "Does everything go?" The reply came back by wire, day rates, paid: "Orders or lumber: I'm just telling you ""vhat Edwards wrote to Parton, who had been out two "\veeks 'without sending in a single order. Tt is not likely that Edwards meant to recant all he had said to Parton about f~lvorjl1gmanagers. ,\Vithot1t doubt he still clung to the belief that managers have 1'!ome rights which even tourist salesmen are bound to respect, just as stated at the beginning of this veracious story, but, (hen, you see, he H'<1l1t~dordersl Look 3t HIe matter aHy way you like, man-agers and their rules ahout seeing salesmen OURht to be re-spected. Edwards kile\\' this, He \vas a manager himself. But, then, he l1ad to have orders, didnt he? \A.lhere was th~ use in keeping Parton on the road if he handcuffed him and gagged him and bound him in gallows style, with order'> about being kind to inotIensive managers? Anyway, he wrote that card, "Orders or lumber,' and left it to Parlon to translate, \iVhen P~trton received the card he filled his vest pockets with black cigars and went over to pay his tenth daily visit to the offices of the Lohman House' Furnishing Company, where, as usual, he found the manager in hlding and the as-sistant manager powerless. The company had four stores and ~old everything from art glassware at a dime a throw to kitchen ranges with thcrmomet('Ts on the meen donrs. They conld sell a carload of Burbank hookcases every thirty days if they tried, and Parton "\vanted them to try. v\Then Parton found that he couldn't coax the ;LSsistant manager into making a contract, he headed desperately into the long hallw;ly from which t1,e door of DUltOIl, the Pres-ence, opened. Assuming the air of one going home for a long-delayed blessing, he swung open the door and came fac,~ to fa.ce with the man from County Cork. "Annointm~nt," he said. briskly, makiHg for the sacred inner door. County Cork took him by the arm and \'>'alked him back toward the entrance. "Yott're 1'e t'ird lhe day." he said. "The nixt gets his neck druv up on the brieJ.;:s heyant!" .He waved bis haud like a scoop shovel at lhe alley wan «(TOSS [rom the lNil1doHiS of the room. P;J,rtolJ took Ollt ;1 black cigar ancI a $5 banknote. He wraplkd the banknote carefully around the cigar, took a match from his pocket, il1'- scrted it in a fold of the note and held the tempting thing Ollt to County Cork. "Have a smoke:''' he asked. "Do you often bump up a,gaii1st cigars that In<lke a noise like that?" County Cork took tl'c nanknotc off the cigar and shoved it into his vest oC'ket. Then 11e lit the cigar and began ]Hllllping smoke into the air. "Tt';; a broth of a bel ye arc," be said, \vith a slow wink "Be off wid ye!" "Bul,_ bnt, but-" said Parton. County Cork grinned and opened the door ill response to a timid knocking. The wife and daughter of Dutton, tlw Presence, triped daintily in and lllndc for tlle il111er door, which Parton had failed to 111110ckwith a $5 banknote and a cigar that eost a quarter. On the way across the room a white eat with a blue ribbon abotlt its neck leaped froUl the dau,!2'hter's .arms and sought the acquaintance of Parton, "\Vhy you naughty thing!" cried the child, and followed her mother into the place where the Presence hid. Countv Cork grillned again, and Parton pointed out into the alIey~ V\.'hiIe he looked Parton shoved the cat into a pocket, wound the flap of his coat ahout his hand to impede egress on the part of the ielille .and went out; went out with an unholy joy in his orderless heart. When he got to his room \\iith the cat he touched the bell and brdered a "hop" to bring a chicken crate from the basement and incarcerate the cat in the same, regardless of feline appeals, mental, vocal or physical. "If she annoys the people on the floor," be said to the bel! hop, "'come in and turn the hose 011 her. This is my aunt's cat, ran ;1 \vny from San Francisco, and I'm going to remove the stains of travel from her before my aunt gets in on a speciaL" \A.lhen the bell hop got outside he whirled his hands abont his head, buzzed like a saw cutting knots, and pointed to the traveling man's door. "T-T c's got 'em 1" he said, Then he put the dollar hill Par-ton bad given him into his pocket and went down stairs <Jod explainc(l to a bench of wondering bell hops that there was J. traveling man up in room twenty-three whose shingles were leaking-. It is a question whether Parton would not have agreed ~'\-'ith him. The <1dvertisement for a lost cat was ill the morning news-paperS, just as Parton had anticipated, and a reward of $20 was nffered for the rdurn of the beastie, Either because of the hankootc, or bcca.tlse of a racial antipathy for cats, Coun-ty Cork had evidently kept his faee closed on the subject of the larceny of puss. "Hello, Dutton," said a voice at the 'phone, about as soon as the Presence reached his private ffice; "I think I've got a c<lt of yours over at the Smith House." "Take it up to the house," snarled the Presence. "\\That do you mean by taking up my time with a cat?" "'If you want to continue tbis cat as a l"l.1ember of your fam·- iIy," said Parton, "yO!! come in person .and identify it, and 11;1\,e some 011('; take it away. It is too refined a creature to he out in the streets '.vithout a chaperone. I'll swipe it if I get a chance." "I'll send someone," snapped the Presence. Parton refused to deliver the cat to a 111t:ssengcr, and ,th~ Pers,ence. h0t under the collar, went Over after it, taking COUllty Cork Wit1l him. As soon as he looked at the beastie he pushed a $20 note toward Parton. "N ever mind that," said the missionary; I might have ae~ quired that hy going up to the house with the cat. One thing T wanted to see you about was the Rurba.nk-" "T stlspect that you stole t11<1tcat!" flashed Dutton. "If I felt quite sure, I'd-" "\Ve have chosen your house to represent us here," said Parton, '-'anc!-" "Tf I bad proof tlJ;lt this \vas a trick," began Dutton, but rarton wel1t on: "T don't think you're very grateful to me for returning the cat, 1\ow, abollt the Burbank bookcases. \,Ve'll make a rate that will curl your hair." "Yon may as 'well come over to t11e office," said Dutton. "If all traveling salesmcn had your nerve, and Daughter had a few more cats, I guc,ss r wouldn't cia nl1.H::hbut buy goods. vVhcrc did your people find you?" Parton didn't say. He looked innocent and gave COl1nty Cork another bal1knote when he was passing out with a large oreIer. \\Tben he went in again, Edwards observed that it secmed easy enough to Kd business by gentlcma,nly means when it was get O'rders or pile lumber, and Parton agreed with all he said about the rights of managers and all that. He explained he would he ~'s good to managers as the exigen. cies; of the business would WJ.ITant, but it was orders he went out after. And this is the way all salesmen look at the proposition of managers' rights.-A, B. Tozer, in· j\'!odern Methds. 32 -~--------_. MICHIGAN ARTISAN ------------. -----------1II !, !IIII!II !I II THIS MACHINE MAKES THE MONEY , I II III I I IIIII ,, I I I i Plain or Quartered Oak, Mahogany, Walnut, Elm. Ash or any other wood with open grain. Write the IPosseliuBsr~S;k~~~~!~~~M:~~f~CcO!~. D~Mi~nt.t,gI , . It makes a perfrct imitation of any open grain because it uses the wood itself to print from, and one operator and a couple of boys can do more work with it than a dozen men with any other so called machine or pads on the market. That's Why It's a MoneyMaker. It Imitates Perfectly. 50 Machines Sold last Year Useful Wood Working Tools. Morris \\Toad & SOilS 2714-2716 "VVcst Lake street, Chi~ eago, have just issued catalogue No. 25A illustrating and de-scribing wood workillg tools, drills, bits, cutters and machines. Among some of the most recent tools which the firm has brought out is the cutter grinder shown below, and fully de· 50 More Satisfied Manufacturers A Test That Failed. A prominent dealer, while sojourning in Grand Rapids in January, related an incident in connection with the sale of a line of arts and crafts furniture as follow5: "A customer f;xaminillg 3. chair, in \vhich the front legs were constructed ..:eemingly to project above the arms, expressed the opinion that the construction was fraudulent Although I have sol(~ furniture many years and claim to have some skill in detect-ing bad work by the manufacturer, the piece looked genuinc, ;:nd I expressed confldcnce in the manufadurer. 'I would like to hit that block just once with a hammer,' the cus- ---------~I , Montgomery Hardwood Lumber Co. Mallufacturersof all kinds of Crawfordaville. Indiana. NATIVE FURNITURE LUMBER E. S. STERZIK, Pre •. • tomer rcmarke.d. 'If it is an honest leg I will pay for the chair,' he continued. .My curiosity was aroused and believ- ~ngthat I could not lose in such a trial, I handed the man <:.' !ntchet. Striking the piece it smart blow, -the block on the .arm of the chair flew to pieces and proved that the ma.n was ;ight. The block had been Slink into the arm over the leg. I reported the incident to the manufacturer of the chair "...ho sent a new p.-ieceto replace the one damaged by the man scribed in ther catalogue. Anyone call sharpen cutters on "\-viththe hatchet." tbis machille without previous experience, as the machine can-not be set to grind wrong. The thumb gauge is slowly turned against the back of tooth until properly sharpened. Then a lever is pulled back and the next tooth is placed for sharpen-ing, arid so on until all six teeth are sharpened, thumb gauge remaining where set. Result is all cutters are in :lbsolutely perfect balance and condition. @ * @ Browers Engage with Woodard. John E. Brower & Sons have entered into a eontractwith tl,e Woodard Furniture Company of Owosso; Mich., to design their lines of medium and high grade bedroom furniture in the future. The first line from the crayons of the Brower:s will be ready for ex.hibition in July nex.t. MICHIGAN ARTISAN [ ROYAL WHITE MAPLE POLISHING VAINISH White-the Emblem of Purity--our r.ite Maple Polishiug Varnish is Pure-and the WHITEST GOODS ou the market. I dries to recoat every other day; can be rubbed and polished in four to five days. Ask or testing sample. VAR~' ISH. C.OMPANY TOLEDO, OHIO '------------_._--- ------~----------..... ROYAL Trials of Winter Travel. j The following letter from James B. J-To\',;ard, middle vest representative of the Grand Rapids Chair Company, urll- IShe.5 an account of the trials and hardships traveling s les-men are not infrequently subjected to: ··I-Iave just passed through a trying experience CmpiJlg from St. Paul here, haYing be('11 snow bound for three nilghts I and -t\\'O d-a-ys near a little to\VTl called Vv'jndo111, Minn. The train fall into a :-inow bank at eleven thirty l\lollday li.ght and got stllCk. lJy morning the snow was banked as hi -"h as the car window~. Assista.nce reached us Oil Tuesday noon in the form of nne rotary snnw plow, fonr eng·ines and bout twenty shove1<..'rs, They had to pull the train Ol1t on[ car at a time which cut us off ironl tlle c:\fe car and as ill luck would have it, in trying to pull that tar out, they broke the draw hend which c:'l1sec1 a rlay's delay and Wilde it nccelssary for everyone tn forage for something to e'H. T .ate i 1 the afternoon some farmer boys came to our rescue with hard boiled eggs, cold fried sallgage and nearly hot coffee. T .ast night we managed to get away, arriving here earl this tnorning." @ * @ Death of Fred W. Spraker, On the morning of February 12, Fred. Vv'. Spraker, form-ly superintendent of the Berkey & Gay T<\lrniture Com-pany's factory. and later employed as a lumber buyer f r the same comp:my, passed out of life, aged 74 years. _ 1\lr. S raker was ..v..idc1y known and highly esteemed. On the occas'on of his retirement from the superintendency of tIle Ber ey & Gay factory, four hundred of his former workmen isited • his home in a body and presented him with a gold watch as a token of esteem and aff.ecti.on. The presentation speech n'as made by John Mowatt, designer for the company @ * @ Will Manufacture Clocks. The Puritan Clock company has filed 'artc1es of incorpor-ation at Lansing with a capitalization of $3,000 paid in. The purpose is to manufacture and deal in furniture and house furnishings, operations being carried on at Jamestown, N. Y., with an oHi.ce ill the 1\1ichigan Trust buil'dnig, Grand Rapids. Those interested are E. H. Vv'il1iams, Grand Rapids; Edward J. Kuhne. Boston, and Paul B. Rosencrantz, Jamestown, \vith $1,000 each. @ * @ Alexander Dodds Reports an active trade in woodworking machinery. Among his recent shipments was a large gang dovetail machine to St. Petershurg. Russia; another to ~'1ilan, Italy, and a 1\:venty-five spindle machine to Germany. He also reports the sale of nine swing cut-off saws to one factory in North Carolina. This surely indicates a steady improve-ment in business. @ * @ The West Side Iron Works. During the year the \·Vest Side Iron ·Works, of this city have bought out several new ,,,,'aod working machines-belt sanders, saw tables, etc. They are now at work on a large machine that will take several weeks to bring out. A full description, when it is ready to be put ou the market, will be published. 33. 34 MICHIGAN I MISCELLANEOUS ADVERTISEMENTS I WANTE...,D=----- __ . _ WANTED-EXPERT OPERATOR un sand belt- machine, one qukk and capable. GCl% salary t6 a. capable man. Address "G. M. G.," care of :Michigan Artisun. 1-10-2t WANTED-A COMMISSiON MAN To sell our line of upholstered furniture in Ohio, Indiana aDd Michi-gan. Must be Al and know buyers well. Address, Buffalo Lonnl'e Company, Buffalo, N. Y. WANTED-AN EXPERIENCED FOREMAN To take entire cJm.rge of' the mRchme floor In a table factory located I.D. Cent..al Pennsylvania. Position pe:nnaneDt and open at once t01' the right man. Address, E., cure of· Michigan Artisan.---_. WANTED-POSITION BY DRAFTSMAN. Special furniture d.mftsman desirell position as draftsman or Sal68- man; thoroughly experienced and competent, change deslt'ed durin. June. Address "K, 4," care of Michigan Artisan. S-lO-tf WA101TED-SALESMEN To handle a fu'St-claS8 line of sectional bookcases. Camden Cabinet Company Camden N. Y. 9-10-3t. WANTED-TRAVELING SALESMAN To handle line of high grade bJ'ass candl<icks on commission as side line; one ealling OD the furniture trade preferred.. Send ftIferenee8. Address "A," care of· -Michigan Arliggn. 3-1G-4t. FOR SALE FOB SALE. The Fnrniture Factory occupied by Blum & Company, Hamilton, Ohio is for sllle.-Correlilpondenee solicited byE. F. Blum, Mgr. 1-10-4t ARTISAN WANTED-POSITION AS SUPERINTENDENT OR MANAGER. At present time I am superintending large factory making special cabinet work. For private reasons desire change. Address M. M. M., care of Michigan Artisan Co..... 2-1O-2t. WANTED-POSITION BY MACHINE FOREMAN With large experience in machine and veneer room; also un-derstands millwright work. At present employed, but wishes to change ... Address W. A. J., care of Michigan Artisan. 2-IO-lt. WANTED-SALESMEN To handle first-class new line· parlor furniture, medium and high grade ... This is a first-class opportunity for enterprising men. Address Box F., care of Michigan Artisan. 2-10-3t. VIANTED-SALESMAN To sell French and German mirrors on commission. Write to Benjamin Griffen. 40 Vestry street, New York city. WANTED-COMPETENT COMMERCIAL PHOTO-GRAPHER. Must be experienced in the furniture line. Address "S" care of Michigan Artisan. 1-10-2t. WANTED. Expert Commercial· Retoucher' and Blocker. care of Michigan. Artisan. Address "S" 1-10-2t WANTED-POSITION. By an experienced superintendent in the manufacture of case work and tables. Address K. E. W. care of Michigan Artisan. INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS. Acme White Lead and Color Works 21 Adams & Elting 24 American Blower Company. . _Cover Barlow Brothers _ _. . . . . . . .. 5 Barnes, W. F. & John Company .. -.,., 13 Barrett, M. L., & Company :. _ _. . . . 15 Boynton & Company _ 16 Buss Machine Works Cover Cordesman-Rechtin Company .. . Cover Clark, Walter, Veneer Company_ _ 4 Dodds, Alexander __ 13 Edge, Frank & Company. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5 Fellwock Auto & Manufacturing Company 16 Fox Machine Company _ _. _ _.. . .. . 16 Francis, Charles E., & Brother _. 1 Furniture Commercial Agency 9 Gillette Roller Bearing Company Cover Grand Rapids Blow Pipe & Dust Arrester Company 25 Grand Rapids Brass Company , _ Cover Grand Rapids ElectrotYpe Company..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 4 Grand Rapids Hand Screw Company 19 Grand Rapids School of Designing. . .. _ 17 Grand
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- 1909-02-10T00:00:00Z
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- 29:15
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- Issue of a magazine published in Grand Rapids, Mich. Created by the Peninsular Club. Published monthly. Began publication in 1934. Publication ended approximately 1960.
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- Volume 7, Number 3
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- Robert Loomis writes of his bid to become the Republican Party's candidate for mayor of Grand Rapids, as well as the results of the election. A number of his entries also concern local and national politics, the Russo-Japanese War, and the Flood of 1906 in Grand Rapids.
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- Robert Loomis records his social life, various types of meetings, and writes of the early days of the American Civil War. Additionally, he writes of joining the Home Guard and drilling.
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- In his diary, Robert Loomis records his social life and the various types of meetings he attended. He also writes of a Great Awakening in the country and briefly mentions other world events.
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- In his diary, Robert Loomis writes about local elections and national political developments. Additionally, he writes about his time on the Court House Committee, as well as the ongoing construction of the new court house.
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- Issue of a furniture trade magazine published in Grand Rapids, Mich. It was published twice monthly, beginning in 1880. and Twenty-sixth Year-No. 25 JUNE 10, 1906 Semi-Monthly WYSONG & MILES LEE AND .JACKSON STS. CREENSBORO. N. C. 100% to 200 % PROFIT PER YEAR on this Sand Belt. The investment is a small one. The few months you are getting along withollt it is losing you the entire price of it. HUNDREDS MOST~~RTo':.:iNENT FURNITURE MANUFACTURERS using this Sand Belt state that these claims fall short of the real merits of the machine. IT HAS THE DESIRED ADJUSTMENTS QUICKLY MADE Our claims are that.it will sand with _thegrain and require no retouch~ ing by hand the following: Mirror frames, round oval,- any shape; drawer rails; drawer fronts, base rails, dc., serpentine, ogee, round or swell; straight veneered or cross veneered; ogee, round, bevel or straight edges of dresser or table tops, of round) square or scrolled patterns; table tops. of round, square or -scrolled pat. terns; table rims, dresser posts; veneered rolls or columns; straight, ogee or round· ed mouldingli; raised surfaces of panels; spirals of table legs; curtain slats for roIl-top desks; spindle carvings; french table legs; plumbers' wood work; etc., etc. No. 164 Sand Belt Machine. A MESSAGE OF IMPORTANCE TO THE MANUFACTURERS ,OF AMEIHCA: Do you wish to lessen the cost of handling your pro_ ~duct by the use of light running, lOIlg lasting axles? If so -explain to your wagon builder that Gillette Roller Bearing Axles are inexpensive to buy-easy to install-simple iu con-struction and highly effective in reducing the draft"'-that they can be made a part of YOUR vehicle at OUR risk as we ship on approval to responsible persons. And ask him to write to U5-or do so yourselves. IT WILL PAY YOU. Yours for the cheapening of manufacturing costs, THE GILLETTE ROLLER BEARINGCOMP ANY Patentees and Sole Manufacturers, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. BEAUTIFUL ARDWO OORS H OD FL . To obtain the m'ost satisfactory and durabJeresults fill with Wheeler's Patent WoodFill" .ndnn's' wit •• coat of Bce;oJg'.FJOOT.PO];sh. OnTp"n"p";' ,. walk on the wood, not on the finish. THE BRIDGEPORT WOOD FINiSHING CD., New MiUord. Conn.; 70 W. Lake St •• Chicaao; 41.43 So. 3rd St., Philadelphia; 48 Cornhlll. Boston. '.; GOOD FINISHING Is the most essential part of the business of FURN-ITURE MAKING. Our WOOD FINISHING MATERIALS are not only good-they are THE BEST. You need not take our word for this---you can PROVE IT FOR YOURSELF. Write us for samples of any ot our products. We shall be glad to send them to you. The Marietta Paint al Colo..-Co. Marietta. Ohio A Few of Our '" Products That Have Been Tried and Have Become Famous for Their Practical Merits: GOLDEN OAn A PRACTICAL OIL STAIN EARLY ENGLISH OAn SPARTAN STAIN WEATHERE.D OAn OIL STAIN No. 700 FUME.D OAn AN ACID STAIN For Heavy Work Use the BENEDICT CLAMPS Grand Rapigs Hand Screw Company 130 Ionia St., Grand Rapids, Mich. Manufacturers of Hand Screws, Cabinet Makers' Benches, Factory. Trucks, etc. DOUBLE CASE SECTION CLAMP. . ,. i' ' 7IR-T I.s AJ"J" 'Rij q 7T+ • 1 The Pittsburg Plate Glass Company MJo.NlJl"ACTUaEllS AND JOBBERS 01' Plain and Beveled Mirrors, Bent Glass for China Cabinets Plate Glass for Desks, Table Tops and Shelves Our facilities for supplying furniture manufacturers will be understood when we state that we have 10 Glass factories, extending . from Pennsylvania to Missouri; and 13 Mirror plants, located as follows: Also, our 22 jobbi.ng houses carry heavy stocks in all lines oj glass, pai.nts, varnishes and brushes and are located in the cities named below: NEW YORK-Hudson and Vandam Streets. BUFFALG--S7:l-4-6-8 Pearl Street. BOSTON-4l-49 Sudbury St., 1-9 Bowker St. BROOKLYN-635 and 637 Fulton Streel. CHICAGo-442-45:l Wabash Avenue. PHILADELPHIA-Pitcairn Building, Arch (tIIll CINCINNATI~Broadway and Court Streets, Eleventh Streets. ST. LOurS-Cor. 12th and 5t Charles Streets. DAVENPORT-4Io-4J6 Scott Street. MINNEAPOLIS-SQO-SJO S. Third Street. CLEVELAND-149-SI'53 Seneca Street. DETROlT-S3-55 Lamed Street E OMAHA-I608-Io-12 Harney Street. PITTSBURGH-IOI-103 Wood Street. ST. PAUL-349:-SI Minnesota Street. MILWAUKEE., WIS.-492-494 Market Street. ATLANTA, GA'-30,32 and 34 S. Pryor Stn·('t. ROCHESTER, N. Y.-Wilder Building, Main SAVANNAH, GA·-74s-749 Wheaton Streel. !londExchange Sts. KANSAS CITY-Fifth and Wyandott Sis. BALTIMORE-221-223 W, Pratt Street. BIRMINGHAM, ALA.-2ndAve. and 29th St New York So.ton Philadelphia Suffalo Cincinnati St. Louis MtnneapoU. Atlanta. Kok.omo. Ind. f'ord City. Pa, Hi8h Point. N. C. Davenport Cryatal City. Mo. It needs no argument to show what advantages may be derived from dealing directly with us. AGENTS FOR THE COULSON PATENT CORNER POSTS AND BATS. Veneer Presses, all kinds aud sizes Veneer Presses Glue Spreaders 81ue Healers Trucks, Elc.. Etc. These Specialties are used all Over the World ::::::::==-===.:---------::::: Power Feed Glue Spreading Machine. 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It is the spirit that is daily pushitig Fay and Egan machinery onward and upward to the ideal of tomorrow, and forever raising that ideal higher and higher, so that judged by present standards, Fay and Egan machines are always at the pillnac1e of perfectioll. No matter how large or small your business may be you want to be free from the worry alld waste of inferior machinery, you want to be sure of the loyalty of your'meehanical helpers, you want to know that under the most tryillg conditions, they will always stand stanch and true, and never desert or lower your standard. Here is one of the tested and tried Fay and Egan machines. It is a modern inside molder that will do the finest and the most work continually and is especially adapted to furniture factories. Works 12 or 15 inches wide and up to 6 inches thick. Send for Circulars .on any Woodworking Machine. Catalog free. 505·525 W. front St., CinciI\.l'.O.ti.Oh.io. US.A. 26th Year-No. 24. GRAND RAPJDS, MICH., JUNE 10, 1906, $ 1.00 per Year. Handling Labor in Germany. Consul Harris, writing from Mannhei1l1, quotes ;l German manufacturer whose products go to all quarters of the globe, and whom he heard say that it ""vasnot their patenls, nor their technical force, hut their workmen which gives them a com-manding place in his trade. Although German wages are low, Mr. Harris enumerates some of the advantages which Cerman laborers enjoy, as fotlows: Many GeTman concerns own dwelling houses, and rent them to '..·.orkmen at actmd cost. Th:::y p~ovidc restaurants and meals at actual en'lt, fU':l\lsh fucl at \\.hoksale cost, g-lvc transportation ill whole or part to employes living at a dis-tance, pay pensions in certain cases, and work people's read-ing rooms, baths, hospitals, savings banks, and cooking schools for girls are maintained. The annual report of tbe imperial 'insurance department for 1905, recently submitted to the Reichstag. shows the sums paid to beneflcaries untler the compulsory insurance laws in force for the protection to wo,kmen. For accident injuries $32,415,UOO was pa.id to 1,- 034,773 persons injured or their dependents, an a·verage of practically 011e out of evry sixty of the total population of the empire. Sick and indigent pen;ons re'ceived last year $38,080,000. Annu1ties were granted to 145,412 persons, To these sums is to be added $40,460,000 paid yearly from the local sick funds (krankenkasse) throughout the empire as sick bene tit, burial charges, etc., m3king a total of about $1l1,R60,OOO annually paid as benefits under the \vorkmen's insurance laws now in force. During the same year 200 con-cerns employing labor paid in gifts to workmen ami in perm-anent funds and other provi,,,ions for their "ielfa:'c, apart from "",ages, $27,608,000. Reference is fllso m:J.de to the measures adopted by the department of mining in Prussia for miners' homes, of which 8,636 with room for 18,962 fam-ilies, have been provided wholly or in part at state ,expense. Thi.ty-b\'O bUlltl-ings, with 5,Ojl beds, have ,been provided fOl' unmarried mine employes in the same manner, and are fur-llished at low prices. It is perhaps too SOOIl to determine how these forms of state and. private 1>enevolence may fll1ally come to be viC\ved by \vorkmel1. Large mauufacturing' con-cerns, from ,,,horn much attention has bt.:en given the class of w{)rk referred .to, have not ·wholly escaped labor trouhles during tbe past year. The employe dass have in senne cases sben'n an apathy toward present advantages and future re-wards for f:J.thfu\ service, and have resorted to strikes and other means to securc higher wages or shoo tel' llOurs of labor. 1t can at all events be said that the state has with much ingenuity and skill sougbt to lessen the dist~ess due to accident, disease, 'and old age among its wage earnes, and that in all parts of the empire private enterprise has done much toward the same end. The results, worked out under conditions differing much from those in the United States, are thus far for the most part satisf;-lctoi'}'. Immigrants Unevenly Distributed. The real trouble in immigration, thinks a large manufac-turer, lies not in the fact that immigrants are not coming to our shores fast enough, but in tbat they do 110t get to the sections of the country where they are most needed. If some intelligent methods we,'e devised to hand~e our ineom-ing- gl1e~ts and steer them in thosc directions '" here there is a real demand for them, the so-called immigration ques-tion would be completely solved. \-Vhat would facilitate and prevent tbe unnecessary return of undesirable immi-grants would be the reqltt __ ement from an immigrant of a cei-tiilcate fro in the consul of each district of embarkation show-ing a clean bill of health and such other qualifications that would be fIlled ot~t, and this cl:rtificate being .presented to the officials of Ellis Island, would go Llr toward corrl'cting one of the greatest immigration evils. The national gov-enltnent, he says, v.rill have to take' up this matter sooner or later, and it alone can be trusted to handle it with thorough- He:;,;. Canadian Anthracite Coal. The discovery of anthracite coal in Canada was announced by the minister of mines in the legislature of Ontario, re-ports Consular Agent 1turphy, from S1. Catharines. 'The re-po: t is that extensive heds of anthracite exist on the Hudson Bay slope in the neighborhood of Albany River, which forms the dividing line behveen Onta:'io and the Northv.;est Ter:-i-tory. 'JI" THE CORRECT Stains and fillers. THE MOST SATISFACTORY first Coaters Varnishes 4 B0VNT0N eX C0. Mfrs. of Embosltd and Turned Mouldings. Pordt Work. Wood Orllls. and Auto. matlc. Turning. We also ll1anufac· tur~ a large line of EMBOSSED ORNA-MENTS fOr couch work. Send for Illustrations. Removed to 419·421 W. fifteenth St., C"IC400, ILL SEND FOR CAT~ALOGUE If your DESUiNS art right, people want the Good •• That make. PRICES right, (t(arence 1R. bfUs DOES IT 103 Madison Aventle--Cit'izeml Pbone 19&1. GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. MANlJFACTURBRS OF DROP CARVING AND GENERAL EMBOSSING MACHINES Die' for all klnds of Machines. At lowest prices. 7 Second SI" LAFAYETTE, IND. Wood Forming Cutters We offer exceptional value in Reversible and One- Way Cutters for Single and Double Spindle Shapers. Largest lists with lowest prices. Great-est variety to select from. Book free. Address SAMUEL J. SHIMER & SONS MILTON. PENNSYLVANIA. U. S. A. ORAnD RAPIDS WOOD f1nlSnlnO (0. ItXCLUStVE MANUFACTURBRS OF WOOD FINISHING MATERIALS That is our specialty. We confine our business to Fillers, Stains, Polish Furniture Wax alld Finishing SnppJies. We are the originators of Weathered, Antwerp and Mission Stains in Oil. Our shades are absolutely correct. We ate authority on Early English, Fumed, Cathedral Oak, and SHver Maple Stains, and w1JJ match any particu-lar shade desired. Office and Factory, 55, 57,59 Ellsworth Are., Grand Rapids, MiGh. B. WALTER & CO. Monufa,",,,,, of T ABLE SLIDES Exclusively WABASH INDIANA WRITE FOR PRICES AND DISCOUNT FaIding :Bed Fixtures Profitable fixtures to use are those which give the least trouble. They are made by Folding Bed Williams in many styles and designs, suitable for every folding bed manufactured. Furniture Cast-ings, Panel Holders, Corner Irons, etc. New ideas and inventions constantly being added to the line. F. 8. WILLIAMS 3811 Vlnce:n:neB Ave., Chloago. Manufacturer of Hardv.'STe Specialties for the Furniture Trade. Established 18'18 Sfep~eDsonnff. (0. South Bend, Ind. W ood Turnings, T umed Moulding, Dowel. and Dowel Pin•. Catalogue to Manufac4 turers on Application. .5 1Loutsbabn DESIGNS AND DETAILS OF FURNITURE 154 Livingston St. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN Citizens' Telephone 1702. JOHN OUER & SONS BALTIMORE. MD. GBblnet "ardware Bnd Tools Etc., Upholstered Goods Ha.ndiorIlell PuB on the Market for the Money Write for prices and sample I-------~---~--- ----- • fOUR TRAINS TO AND fROM CmCAGO Lv Gd. Rapids 7;10am Ar Chicago 1:15pm Lv Gd. Rapids 12:05 nn Ar ChicaIO 4:50pm Lv Gd. Rapids 4:25 pm At Chicac-o 10:55pm Lv Gd. Rapids 11:30 pm daily Ar Chicago 6:55 am PuUman Sleeper, open 9:00 pm on 11:30 pm train every day. Cafe service on all day trains. Service a la carte. PNC Marquette Parlor cars on all day trains. Ra.t. reduced to SO cent •. T"REE TRAINS DETROIT TO AND fROM Leave Grand Rapid, 7:10 am Arrive Detroit 11:55 am Leave Grand RapidS 11:15 am daily Arrive Detroit 3:25pm Leave Grand Rapids 5:~ pm Arrive Dctroit 10:05pm Mealilerved a la carte on traiJls leaving Grand Rapids at 11::15am and 5:20 pm. Pete Marquette Parlor C.rs on all trainl i seat rate, 25 «:ents. "ALL OVER MICHIGAN" H. J. GRAY, DlllTKIer PAIIIlXNCEIR.AGENT, PHOKE 1168 Gand R-.pid.,),II1•c. : THE WEATHERLY INDIVIDUAL GLUE HEATER Send your address and receive descriptive cir-cular of Glue Heaters, Glue Cookers and Hot Boxes with prices. WEATHERLY CO. GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. These sa ws are made from No. 1 Steel and we war~ rant every blade. We also carry a full stock of Beveled Back Sc(oll Saws, any length and gauge Write us (or Price List and dl.count 31-33 S. FRONT ST •• GRAND RAPIDS Correspondence Solicited JAnmown PAnn AnD vrnrrn conPAnT (IncorDorated) ManufaClurers of Veneered Panels and Table Tops Lardellt Stock of Veneers MAHOGANY. QUAR.TEREDOAK. WALNUT. BIRD'S-EYE MAPLE, CURLY SIR.CH. PLAIN OAK PLAIN BIRCH. MAPLE, CROSS RANDING The Best Workmanship and Finish Office, SO-58 Steele Street, Jamestown. N. Y Two Large Factories: Jamestown, N. V. Ashville, N. V. Get Our Prices Before Buying Elsewhere. Samples on Application Excels aU band Icrew clamps in adaptation to work, convenience of handling and quick llction Especially adapted. to Veneering Panellng and all work requiring long broad jaw. 45 Center Sl BATAVIA, N. Y. COLT'S UNIVERSAL CLAMP Catalog and Price List Furnished Batavia Clamp Co. Me-nUbn Micnigan Artliilan. 6 Death of E.dward C. Gerwig. The furniture t;ade will be shocked and grieved to hear of the death of Edward C. Gerwig, of Parkersburg.' He was ill only three weeks, but death was not unexepected. His connection with the furniture hminess dates back to thit'ty years ago, when with v\lilliam Bentley, he en:sagcd in the retail furniture business in Parkersburg. In 1880 Bentley & Gerwig purchased the Shaefer Furniture factory and h11S1- /les.", has been vcry sueccssfl1L Mr. Gerwig was Leasurer and gene,al manager and to his efforts a large part of the success of the enterprise is due. The Parkersburg Up-holstering company is another factory in which IHr. Gerwig had an interest. He was also prominent in the municipal affairs of Parkersburg, having served several terms as a member of the city counciL lIe was likewise a member of the 'Vest Virginia commission of the Lousiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis. Mr. Gerwig [eaves a wife :lnd four children, besides a number of brothers and sisters, to mourn his Joss. Hotel Ottawa to be Opened on July 1. The big summer hotel Ottawa on Lake Michigan, thirty minutes' ride from Grnnd Hapids, the resort of many furn- 7IR T 1.5'A2'1 t , ,.. The Baldwin, Tuthill & Bolton's 1906 Red Book. Balctwin, Tuthill & Bolton Jwve issued a new 168-page catalogue of saw and knife fitting machinery, the 1906 edition of their Red Book. There are 250 illustrations of machines for filing room use adapted variously to the fitting of band saws ran;:{ing from one-eighth up to eighteen inches. wide, ci~cular saws up to seventy-two inch diamtcr, gang saws any length or width, machine knives up to thirteen feeCt]ong, cutter heads. etc., a showing that is by far the most compre-hensive of the kind put out to date. The company have been in business seventeen years man-ufacturing saw and knife fitting machinery, and from the or-iginal Rhodes circular saw swage have developed a large var-iety of specialties. Their goods have found a market in the Cnited States, Canada and many foreign countries where saw milling or wood l,vorking is carried on in a crude way. Fifty thousand catalo6ues will he issued this year either in complete or sectional form and best suited for practical purposes, and anyone writing for them is voelcome to what-ever" one he wishes. The tiling room of any mill O~ factory is of the utmost im-vortance in the production of results as regards quantity and quality of the output and it is remarkable that so many op-erators or buyers are so heedless of this fact and indifferent itute buyers during the mid-summ-er market season, will be opened for the receptiqn of gu(:'sts on July 1. Manager Pantlind has had a gang of decorators ancl repairers at \vork on the main structure and annex during the past_two-months. Lost Motion. Lost motion means a ·defect in the machinery_ It is energy going to waste, and true principles of economy for-bid ..'.f.asted energy. It is not an infrequent thing to discover lost motion in business as well as machine,y. 1\:laoy a_busi-ness mall finds his business machinery going alon-g voith a . limp and a jerk, indicating that there is waste energy some-where. The engineer at the head of the concerti may he crowding all a full head of steam, but the transmission of the power is faulty and results. are not achieved. Maybt: the old machinc needs a general tightening up; wo:nout COg~need replacing with neW ones; "perhaps the belt needs tightening. The busin('.ss machine may be clogged with goods that we:e bought because they looked like a bargain; but th~y refuse to move on out through the legitimate channels of trade. It is an old saying that "goods well bought are half sold," and "well bought" does, not necessarily mean cheap bought, for, unless the quality is there, goods will fail to turn over readily, and they cannot "be reckoned good assets. about the equipment of their filing rooms in an up-to-date manner. However, the greatly increased demand for their equipment from companies in all lines of lumber manufacture or conversion, demonstrates that their ~fforts in what may be termed an educational way, have met with a ready re-sponse, and the freedom from complaints from customers reJ~ ative to equipment furnished, is a demonstration to' this company that their machines are efficient and desirable. Practical saw bIers writing to the company for the same, will be gladly furnished with a catalogue. Water Powers' in Canada . Commercial Agent Shotts reports from Sault Stc. 1Iarie growing interpt in the water powers of Canada. 1lany plants are now utilizing the power and othe:-s are being built or "planned 'which, all told, will form a very small percentage of the availahle"power. The CLllladian Pacific and the Grand Trunk railways are planning to use some of this power for running trains on branch lines and possibly in some cases on the main lines. Americans might find it profitable to develop some of these water powers, as concessions are readily grant-ed by the government of Ontario, Jnd power will be in de-mand for the large numbers of mines and other develop-ments. New Band Rip Saw. The Fay and Egan No.1 band rip saw has been te5ted and tried with the greatest satisfaction and profit by fUI"'11- itttre factories everywhere, and now that this progres'sivc concern has bn)U'lht out a new band machine modeled along the same lines as the ;.J o. 1, but greatly improved through-out, it is rcadily seen that the newcomer must be a very su-perior tool. The small illustration will give some idea of its general ap-pearance, but interested readers should send to the J. A. ray and Egan company, 505-525 Vi. Frallt st. ed, Cinc:nllati, Ohio, for descriptive circulars giving larg'e views ()f both sides of the macbine and full specll1cations. As an outline of the capacity of this saw, it may be said to lake t\venty-four inches between fence and saw and ma-terial up to bvelvc: inches thick. An adjustments are most conveTliently made so that no time is lost by the operator. A single movement of the long lever adjusts the rolls up an:! tlowrl instantly. or raises them out of the way for use as a hand-feed rip saw. The Fay and Egan patent straining de-vice permits the lightest blade,., to be run at the highest spetd without the slightest danger to saw or operator and increases the general efficiency of the machine many fold. Up-to-date shops should know exactly ",-hat this ma-chine will <10. Complete information may be ohtained from the makers. Saved Himself Humiliation. Several years ago John )'10watt, vice president of the Grand Rapids Chair company, \'\.'as employed by a manufac-turer of furniture to order, in the city of Boston. Among the furniture manufactured was a large lot of "dog's head" chairs which were held in high favor by the students attend-ing Harvard, Dartmouth and other colleges located in the eastern states. The chairs wec'e ornamented with carved dogs' heads \vhicb were artistically cut bya former partner of the Boston manufacturer. The bloeks we:--e shipped to Dedham, where the carver lived, and the expense for the freight both ·ways, shared equally by the proprietor and con-tractor, amounted to a considec'ab1e sum. One day, when business was quiet, Mr. Mowatt and the }Yr"oprietordiscussed the matter of the cost of the dogs' heads and Mr. MO\,\,att re-marked that, having plenty of time to spare, he would cut the dog's heads if the proprietor desired. Mr. 1·Iowatt ex-pressed satisfaction with the price, $2.CO per head, rnid [')1' the work and on the f()1J,)wing day, by the desire of pis e'n-player, he cut the first head. The work met the approval of the proprietor and Mr. Mowatt was directed to eut the lot for the price agreed upon-$2.00 per head. Mr. Mowatt cut 7IR T 1.5'JI2'J' '4# zfbm Trte 7 1\.voon the second day, three on the third, four on the fourth and {lye on the fifth, making the sum total earned in five days $30.00. By this time the 'proprietor was beside him-self. "You are making too much money," he remarked tCJ llr. 1Towatt. "I am eafl1ing no more per head than your friend in Dedham earned," Mr. Mowatt repr'ied. But the old Scotchman could not take a reasonable view of the matter, and when the job was completed a readjustment of the ","age question followed. Later, when MT. Mowatt came to Grand Rapids he offered a place as foreman in the factol'y' of the Grand Rap-ids Chalr company to his old employer,'then in reduced cirCtltllstanees. It was refused. "You once· worked under me," he wrote 1\'11'. 1-Iov"att. "I have a reasonable am.ount of pride, ~111dw, hlle I am poor, I could never humili-ate myself by taking a place under you." Alcohol's New Day, The unanimous vote by ·which the senate pa.ssed the bill freeing from taxation denatured alcohol not only marks an important industrial and commercial change, but· is partic-ularly welcome at this time when the "muck-rakers" and even more conservative critics of the upper house of.congress have been doing mnch to undermine confidence in the senate as a body responsive to public sentiment and demands. That the senate has, in this matter-never mind guessing at the motive-list.ened to the demands of the people rather than to the wishes of vested business interests i,., very manifest. Incidental disturbance of important industries and of local distrilmtiol1 of labor VIi ill, of course, follow t.he use of untaxed alcobol. as is necessarily to be expected. The manufactur-ers of wood alcohol, whose business rested upon the tax im-posed on grain alcohol, will probabl"y have to curtail or ahan-don production. Already the growers of the woods used in \'.'ocd-alcohol manufacture are preparing to cut no marc. It i.~pessible that a limited amOrJ.nt of the wood product may be used in denaturing the g:-ain alcohol. This process is merely such t-eating of the grain alcohol, under the personal supervision of revenue officers, as shall spoil it for use as a bc\'crage or medicine, and insure its use pU:'ely for industrial ptlrposes.-Ex, Forests Disappearing. The National Hardwood Lumber Association at its recent meeting in l\lcmphis adopted a report that presented the dire possibilities of the destruction of the forest in the short period of thirty-five years. It was estimated that there now stood in the United States in the neighborhood of 1,475,000,000,000 feet of lumber, but that 45,000.000,000 feet of lumber was being cut every year. The report recommended that something mmt be done and done immediately. Recommendations were made by the repo;·t for the prohibitiun of log exports and exemption from taxes of tree plantations. Attention was called to the desirability of state legal enactments along the last line and some constitutiQnal provision by the general government of like eITect. Mention was made of the custom prevailing in France of requiring a tree to be planted for every tree cut down. Born to the Trade. E. D. Bolger of the Hoffman Brothers company, Fort \Vayne, Ind., \vas born into the lumber and veneer trade. His father, Ed\'Vard Bolger, one of the most popular gentlemen known to the traveling fraternity ten years ago, was an offic-ial of the old E. D. Albro company, and when his son had arrived at an 2ge when he could leave school, he \~as set to work in the factory and soon learned all the details of the veneer and lumber business. He is doing excellent work' for the Hoffman Brothers company, and among the pleasures of his occupation is the meeting of old friends of his father, all of whom hold his memory as something worth keeping. 8 MICHIGAN "If i fiR..T I.s A.l\J 4? Tt'S* HAND CZRCULA.R RIP SAW, N(), 4SAW (ready for cros&<utling) MQRTISI!"JI COMBINIW MACHINE. ~:~~HA'N=D.AND FOOT POWER MACHINERY WHY THEY PAY THE CABIN£T MAKER: He can save II. manufacturer's profit all well 89 a dealer's profit. He can make more money with leas capital invested. He can hold a bettel'"and more.atisfactory trade with his £ustomers. He can manufacture in as good style and finish, and at as low COllt, as the factories. The local cabinet maker has been forced into only a dealer's trade and profit; because of blacbine manufactured goods of factories. An outfit of Barnes' Patent Foot-and Hand-Power Machinery, rein-states the cabinet maker with advantages equatlO his competitors. If desiJed, tbese machInes will b4! sold ON TRIAL. The purchaser can have ample time to test them in his own shop .and on the work he ....ishes them to do. DES(;RIPTtVE CATALOGUE ANDPRICK LIST FREB. W. F, & JOHN BARNES CO,. 654 Ruby SI.. Rockford, III. FOR.MER. Oll. MoULDER. HAND TSNONBR, No.3 WOOD LATHB. No.4 SAW (ready lor~ripplng) No.7 SCltOLL SAW. WHITE PRINTING CO. GRAND RAPIDS. MICH IMPROVED, EA.SY and QUICK RAISING B~t. Elettric and Hand Power. The Best Hand Power for Furniture Stores Bend for Catalogue aDd Prices. KIMBALL BROS. CO., 1067 NInth St. Council Bluffs, la, KhnbaJl Elevator Co. 323 Prospect St., Cleveland, 0.; IOSllth St., Omaha, Neb.; 1:;WCedar St., New York City. We. PRINT THe. M1CH10AN AftTISAN, ANO MAK~ A SF"a:CIAL.TY OF CATAL.OC;YES FC)R THE F ....RNITURE T"ADE.. ELEVATORS New YOl"k -------------'-----OFFICES-------------_-i- __ Jameatown High Point Clnclnnatl Detl"(llt MlnneapoU. Anoelate Offices and Bonded At1OPDe7. &oston Grand Rapids Chicago St. LoUI~ In aU Principal clUes The Furniture Agency REPORTING FURNITURE. UNDERTAKERS, CARPET HARDWARE AND KINDRED TRADES. COLLEC-TiONS MADE BY AN UN'RIVALLED SYSTEM THROUGH OUR COLLECTION DEPARTMENT • , . wR PItODUCE RESULTS WHERE OTHERS FAIL WRIT!!: FOR P....kTICULARS AND YOUWILL SEND us YOU k B0 SIN E SS. Our Complaltlt and Adjustment Depariment Red Drafts Collect L. J. STEVENSON. Michigan Manage.. 9 Qran~Dapi~sDlow Pipe an~Dust Arrester (ompan~ THE latest device for handling shav-ings and dust from all wood wood-working machines. OUf eighteen years experience in this class of work has brought it uearer perfection than any other system on tbe market today. It is no experiment, but a demonstrated scientific fact, as we have several hundred of these systems in use, and not a poor one among them. Our Automatic F'urnace Feed System, as shown in this cut, is the most perfect working device of anything in its liue. Write for our prices for equipments. WE MAKE PLANS AND DO ALL DET AIL WORK WITHOUT EX-PENSE TO OUR CUSTOMBRS EXHAUST FANS AND PRESSURE BLOWERS ALWAYS IN STOCK Office and Fa.ctory: 208-210 Canal Street GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. CItizens Phone 1282 Bell, M..ip 1804 OUR AUTOMATIC FURNACE FEED SYSTEM 10 Stringent Reforms Demanded. June 1, 1906. Editor Michigan Artisan :-At the present time there is much being written about the question of refo:-m, throughout the country, which effects not only the political but business organizations. The people are giving much attention to these questions, and there is a current of thought permeating the entire country demanding stringent reforms along many lines. Tn our own state of Michigan we find a menace to the men who are engaged in the manufacture of furniture. About three years ago a corporation was formed known as the Yp-silanti Reed & Rattan company, which had been located at Ypsilanti, Mich. With the connivance of men who con-trolled the political party of our state, with some outside as-sistance, they took into the fold a small firm, and secured various concessions in the way of contracts from the state, to employ convicts in the Ionia penitentiary. As far as can be learned they paid SS cents per day for each convict em-ployed and are now giving employment to about 300 convicts manufacturing rattan chairs 'and other goods of a similar character. vVhat is the result of this competition? One firm in Detroit has been driven out of business, who em-ployed eighty men. How is it possible for a manufacturcr who employs, for an example, 100 men at an average rate of wages of $2.23 per day, tv pay the same for raw material as the favorcd prison contractor? Thc prison contractor pays no taxes, while the manufacturer employing free labor pays taxes. The one pays each day $2.25 per man for J.1bor, while the other pays 5.5 cents per day, in a single month a difference in wages of $4,250 and in one year a difference of $51,000, who employs 100 men outside of the penitentiary for more than the favored contractor pays for the same number of men inside of the penitentiary. How long will it require an outside manufacturer to exhaust his capital? There has recently been established in the penitentiary at Jackson, Mich., a company known. as the Federal Table company, which came into life during the time that Mr. Vincent was warden, and relatively the same condition ex-ists. That convicts should be employed at some work is without doubt an economic question, which has been de-bated for many years from various standpoints and the con-census of opinion is that they should be employed at some work which ..should benefit either the state or the public at large. The various states have endeavored to pass laws which in some manner would protect men who are engaged eithcr in manufacturing, or are employed in the factories outside of the penitentiary, that are in competition with the contractors, WJ10 employ prison labor? There is now being agitated throughout the country the question of a direct tax: to be imposed upon all products made in the penitentiary. This tax should be from twenty-five to fifty per cellt ad valorem on all goods manufacturcd by state prison labor, and it seems that this is a feasible plan to dispose of this question, which is a menace to all manufac-turers and men that are employed in thc facto:-ies that arc in competition with prison made goods. Another __point is t? ·have all goods stamped in large letters where they" may be seen by the purchaser, with the words, HMade in Prison," and added to these words the state where-in the goods are made. This will protect in a manner not only the consumer of prison made goods, but also the man who is engaged in the various depa rtments of manufactur-ing that come in competition with prison made goods. We have laws far-reaching in their effect, to protect labor throughout the United States from the cheaper employed labor of foreign countries, and at the same time there is not adequate protection at home against prison made goods. It lias been almost impossible to secure the enactment of laws, either in Congress or through the state legislatures that produce any favorable results, which protect the outsidt> producer. It is hoped that the manufacturer and all men who are interested in the production of manufactured goods, that are in competition with prison made goods will appeal to t.heir congressmen and to the members of the state leg-islature to have laws passed which will protect them fully in their business, so that they can compete with the p:-odu:::- tion of prisons, and that all who may purchase prison made goods may know that they are supj::orting a system which would mean starvation to outside labo:' .• were they paid no more for a fair day's work than what contractors pay for the convict labor, that is performed within the watts of the penitentiary. This question is of more vital importance to men who are engaged in the manufacture of furniture than anyone commodity that is now being made in ,the state of Michigan, and should be taken up by them and a relentless battle waged until' these laws are upon the statute books and are enforced. The evil docs not end with what is produced and placed on the market by prison labor, because the goods are sold at slightly less p:-ices than commoditie.s made by. manufacturers employing outside labor, and there is a tendency to contin~ ually lower prices on what is made outside in order to lTLeet this destructive competition, and keep wages down to a lower scale, in all factorics making similar goods to those made in the penitentiaries. If the goods made in prisons were taxed and b:"anded then the purchaser would know what he is buying, and, as a rule, would give preference to what is made by free labor, even at a higher price than to buy prism1 made goods, which ought to sell at n1uc'h smaller prices than they are selling, as a rule, because contracts owned by com-panies employing convict labor pay a much greater profit, ac-conlinci to the capital employed, thari .a concern can make that employs the same number of men making similar goods with outside labn:-o Hence, under existing conditions, the people do not ltet the benefits of cheap goods made by pflson J'<lbor It goes to the men who have a "pull" with the party in powe· in the state that he may, or may not reside in, and is kept by judicious management until oftentimes outside manufac-turers are }Jushed to the wall, or cease to make the products of prisons, owing to the question of cost of labor alone, tht" average cost of labor being aJi the way from forty to fifty-five per cent on the dollar, for what is made, making a difference in favor of the prison contractor of more than two-thirds of the cost of labor entering into the article made. He has a clear field to dispose of his prison products, which no outside manufacturers can meet, and which is a positive injustice to not only the manufacturer, but to every man employed by him, and to the buying pUblic, as wen. Discrimination against capital and labor of this character is grossly wrong. and their rights are entitled to protection, and any unjust infringement on those rights should be speedily corrected. Very respectfully, F. T. PLIMPTON. Cox's Styl.e is Strong, Yet Chaste. Should "Charley" Cox of the Michigan Chair company ti"e of selling furniture and seek another occupation (a con-tingency not likely to occur) he would have no di:TIculty in nnding employment as a writer of advertise--nents. He writes the advertisement for the Michigan Chair company as a diversion. His style is chaste and the v.; ords he employs to express his ideas are happily chosen. He is a master of the King"s English, as wetI as the art of salesmanship. Death of George F. Buss. George F. Buss, formerly of the Buss Machine works, Grand Rapids, widely and favorably known by the -..vood working trades, died recently after a l~ng illness at a sani-tarium in East Grand Rapids. The funeral services, at the home of his b!"other, W. R. Buss, were under Masonic aus-pices. Deceased was generally respected and highly es-teemed. . 11 July Visitors will Find in Our Warehouses a Large and Carefully Selected Stock of VENEERS • -lD- • Quartered Oak Plain Oak Figured Birch Plain Birch Bird's Eye Maple Plain Maple , Poplar Crossbanding We Also Want to Quote You On BUILT-UP STOCK OF ALL KINDS We Will Make It Worth Your While to See Us. WALTER CL·.ARK 535 Michigan Trust Building . Bell Phone Mam 428. Citizens Phone 5933. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 12 P. D. Reddinger Carving Worhs (Formerly Oincinnati Carviuy Works of Cincinnati, 0.) CAR.VINGS and FURNITURE OR.NAMENTS of all kinds. EVANSVILLE. IND. By sending me a small order I will convince you that I am the man who can make your carvings. ONE TRIAL WILL DO THlt BUSJNESS. New Styles in Table Letls I IS it not a big advantagct not only in the selling of your product, but In the prices you command, if you are able to keep changing the style and getting out something new right along and without any extra expense in tlu Cost? OUR NO.5 TABLE LEG MACHINE will turn, not only round, but octogon, hexagon, square or any irregular shape, and all with the same cl.lttcr hl:ad. It, capacity is equal to eight or ten hand turners, and it is guaranteeq to do the work sucl;essfully. WOULD IT NOT INTEREST YOU TO KNOW MOttE ABOUT THIS MACHINE" THEN DROP US A LINE. C, Mattison Machine Works, F1FT·.:'':.T., Beloit, Wis, MACHINERY FOR TURNING WOOD. The • DAILY ARTISAN· RECORD WILL BE ISSUED AS USUAL DURING THE MID-SUMMER SELLING SEASQI'J Daily Artisan - Record 20 Lyon Street. GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. Golden Oak Oil Stains STRONGEST NOW ON T"E MARKET 1914 1916 1917 DARK BROWN BLACKER BLACKEST All of which produce a rich black brown effect, increasing· in blackness as indicated above. WILL NOT CURDLE Leaves no deposit or film on face of wood. Leaves flakes clean and white, more especially when used with our 20th Century Stain Solvent which is for use with all Oil Stains and costs very much less than turpentine. Write for samples. The Barrett Lindeman Co. IN CONSOLIDATION WITH The Lawrence Mcfadden Co. CHICAGO, III. 61-63-65-67 Ashland Ave. PHILADELPHIA, Pa. 1400 and 1402 Frankford Ave. 13 14 Changes in Uniform Lading Bill. GuaHled expressions made within the past week by rail-road men in a position to know have led the shippers and bankers of Chicago to believe that the unifo:'tn bill of lading proposed by the special committee of ra~L-()ad men of which Frank J. Firth of Phil'adelphia, is chairman, will be withdrawn and a form submitted in its stead wh:ch will prove satisfac-tory to all interests concerned. Relying on the eorrectness of their information, the committees of shippers which have the matter in charge have ('.cased their activities in opposition to the proposed bill and are quietly awaiting developments. Just what changes \\iill be made by the railroads could not be learned here recently, but it is altog2thc-- probable the "non-negotiable," feature "..ill be the most import;::nt dealt with. Th e attitude of the banks as to accepting bills of lading as the American Bankers'Association. No meeting of the committee has been held recently, it being deemed advisable to await the promised action of the railroads.-Ex. Thin Veneered Furniture Not Durable. There is very little solid furniture made or sold in Mu-nich, Bavaria, practically all being veneered, and the veneer used is of poor quality, very thin and 110tdurable. The nat-ural result of the use of this thin veneer is that after very short use it warps and cracks and the furniture becomes val-ueless for ornamental purposes. Furniture dealers demand and obtain profits which to the American merchant seem in-crc'dible. The system of quick sales and small profits does not appeal to the more conservative Bavarian who prefers to obtain a large profit all one sale, which causes him less SUGGESTS COMFORT AND GOOD CHEER. cot1ate~al has caused much concern recently to the intci·esh behind the unifo:-m bill, it having heen suggested that banks, bankers and trust compani(~s jointly and severally agree that hereafter. bills of lading or carrier's rccepts for the trans-portation of me~chat1dise, 'will not be accepted as collateral or otherwise J1('xotiated 'W17(,I1- 1. The wo,ds "not negotiable" or theil equivalent appear at any place on such papers. 2. vVhen such bills bear changed dates or other material alteration. 3. When issued on so~callcd "uniform bills of lading." 4. When jointly signed by carrier's agent and shipper, the latter party to the contract when so signed waiving his com-mon law rights. 5. When signed hy carrier's agent in any way than wjth ink or indelible pencil. President Pierson of the National·Exchange Bank of Kev.- York is chairman of the Co_~mittee on Bills of Lading of l··ouble than a small profit on many sales, which latter, of coul-se, would extend his husiness more raridly than the for-mer method. A feature which must at first, at least, be reckoned with, is the system of long credits obtaining in that part of G~rmany. It is the custom for the tradesmen there to setHI their customers bills about every six months, and many firms send out bills only at the new yea.(. This system naturally caUSes a larger proportion of bad debts, and therefore increases the cost of the goods sold, but that t he cash trading system can be inrtoduced is indisputable, a5 bas been proved by the department: stores selling for cash. Uses a Pocket Mirror. "In doing somc kinds of work one is sometimes obliged to get down on his back to put in a screw or to see that every-thing is right," writes one of our readers, "for this purpose I often use a small pocket mirror having a handle and .ioint fo: turning it to any position." 15 • M. P. Michigan Artisan Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. Gentlemen, - Your esteemed favor of the 4th is just received and carefully noted and we would ask that you give us the top half of the back outside cover. We wish to insert in your next issue on the front cover the ad. for our Sand Papering Machine and on the back cover the ad. of our Multiple Mortiser (see ad. of the Multiple Mortiser in your April lOth edition). This will give us the Sander on the front cover and the Mortlser on the back cover. We are glad to state that we find your Michigan Artisan a first class advertising medium and we expect to carry both of these spaces indefinitely and may see fit to even increase this space a little later and we can recommend your paper in the highest terms to anyone wishing to place fUrniture machinery before the practical furniture men. We appreciate, also the kind consideration you have given us in all matters 'Ie remain, 'tours trUly, Wysong & Miles Co. 16 THE FINEST ESTABLISHMENT IN THE WORLD ----- - 0 FIT SKI ND---- --- ---- --- WorM's Qrealesl (alalo~ue GRAND RAPIDS ENGRAVING CO., Grand Rapids, Mich. NO MATTER WHAT YOUR DRY KILN REQUIREMENTS WE CAN FILL THEM In some instances it is necessary to have comparatively small quantities of a number of different kinds of lumber, in varying degrees of dryness. In such cases the "ABC" APARTMENT fiILNS are successfully employed. Note the eXpE'rience of the Hale & Kilburn Manufacturing Company of Philadelphia. il¥OU recently installed for us a seven compartment 'Moist Air' kiln which has proven very satisfactory OUTre-quirements are unusually exaetinz, manufacturing, as we do, furniture and interior bank and office fittings, and interior woodwork of the highest class, and our lumber must be thoroughly dried in such condition as to be sus-ceptible to the highest finish. These conditions have been very well met by your kilos. I'Your service has been prompt and satisfactory, and we heartily recommend you and your kiln to anyone whose requirements are similar to our own." AMERICAN BLOWER COMPANY NEW YORK, CHICAGO, ATLANTA, LOND·ON .7IR T 1..5'AJ"J 1 5 e t& Dodds' Patent TaMe=le~ Dovetailer We find upon investigation that OUT Dovetailing Ma-chine patent covers t his machine nicely. Cuts Mortise in the Top Cuts Mortise in the Cleats Cuts Tenons to fit the Top Cuts T enOllS to fit the Cleats Adjustable to keep Mm. t~e and. Tenon at a Standard size The Cheapest Joint Made Win turn out 250 to 300 Small Parlor Tables in 10 Houn The Dodds Tilting Saw Table has more practical features and good polnts than any other saw table on the market. MANUE'ACTURRO AND FOR SALE: BV ALEXANDER DODDS Grand Rapids, Michigan, U. S. A. 17 WHITE PRINTING CO. Printers for the Furniture Trade. Grand Rapids, Mich. PALMER'S Patent Gluing Clamps Are the Dlost successful PlUna Clamps Made For the followIng reasons They clamp iMtantly any width of dimension stock: no adjusting damps to fit the work, they hook at once to the desired width. Released instantly-throw out the lever and take them of!. The work can be removed as fast as it can be handled. As the clamp is pLaced over the work and locks into the one below it the draw is alike on both sides, prevents all springing no matter how wide the stock may be. Impossible for them to slip; the wedge has serrated edge and cannot be rno'ved when clamp is closed, hammer all you like, Unlimited power; great stren.l!th and durability; malleable iron find steel; the knuckle joints are socket joints, not rivets. Although the best they cost you less. For further information ask for catalogue No.4. A. E. Palmer. Owosso. Mich. . NEW YDRK AND PHILADELPHIA, Via GRAND TRUNK-LEHIGH VALLEY RDUTE. Two Fast Trains Daily Except Sunday. Daily. Leave Gd Rapids 2:45 p.' m. 7:05 p. m. Ar Philadelphia 3:4() p. m. 7:25 p. m. Ar New york 4:30 p. m. 8:40 p. m. Service unsurpassed. For further information apply at City Office, Morton House Block. C. A. JUSTIN, C. P. & T. A. Fine Service MICHIGAN CENTRAL Grand Rapids .!l Detroit .!l Toledo THROUGH CAR LINE Solid train service with Broiler Parlor cars and Cafe coaches running on rapid schedule. Through sleeping car to New York on the "Wolverine," making the run in nineteen hours and fifty minutes. For full particulars see Michigan Central Agents. Or- E. W. Covert.C. P."A. Grand R.aplds. O. W~Ruggle&. G· P. A. Chicago. . 18 Aging Oak With Ammonia Fumes. Strong ammonia fumes may be used for aging oak, says the Manual Training Magazine. Place the piece to be fumed, with an evaporating dish containing concentrated ammonia, in a box and close it air tight. Leave for twelve hours and finish with a wax polish, applying first a thin coat of paraffine oil and then Tubbing with a pomade of prepared wax made as follows: Two ounces each of yel1o.w and white beeswax heated over a slow fire in a clean vessel (agate ware is good) until melted. Add fOUf ounces turpentine and stir till entire-ly cool. Keep turpentine away from the fire. This will give the oak a lustrous brown color, and nicking will not expose a different surface, as the ammonia fumes penetrate to a COll-siderable depth. A Good Rip Saw. The ,Cordesman-Rechtin company, Cincinnati, manufacture the long wood frame rip saw illustrated herewith. Like all of theit' machines, it is made on honor-a machine calculated to more than pay for itself the first year. Every wood work-ing factory must have a rip saw, and only a good machine, Wertheimer In The West. Harry Wertheimer, one of the members of the corps of salesmen for some time past with the Yeager Furniture com-pany, has accepted a position as salesman with the National Parlor Furniture 'company, to take effect June!. Mr. Wer-theimer will cover the territory from Chicago to Denver; tak~ ing the territory formerly covered by Karl' Steenberg, de-ceased. Returned From California. Willard Barnhart, pres:dent of the Nelson-Matter Furn-iture company, returned recently frOm Califo'-nia, after spend~ .ing the winter at Pasadena. Shortly before his return he was joined by Roy S. Barnhart. the treasurer of the above com-pany. A tour of the timber districts of the coast con-sumed several. VY"eeks. New Factory in Huntington, W. Va. The Penn Furniture company, of Conneautville, Pa., manu-facturers of tables, chairs and lumber, have commenced the erection of a factory in Huntington, W. Vd., which will be that does its work well; seldom or never gets Ollt of rcpair; that can be used every day in the year, is cheap. That's just what this machine is. For full particulars and prices write the Cordesman-Rechtin company, Pearl and Butler streets, Cincinnati, O. Prone to Slight the Glue Kettle. "Cabinet makers, especially those employed on contracts, are disposed to slight the glue kettle whe 11 framing tlP case ends," remarked a factory superintendent. "When gl'ue is applied liberally or in proper quantity, to mortised and tcn-oned stock it oozes out of the joints and considerable time is required to clean .the stock. When but little or no glue is used, the time that should be spent in cleaning the cnds ~s saved to the cabinet maker. Unless the joints are properly glued up the ends will soon part and then trouble ensues for the manufacturer-" D. A. KEPPERLING Commercial Photographer Phon< Sou'h, 709 1414-1416 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO operated under the direction of Charles Philadelphia, in the manufacture of tables. the secretary of the corporation. Svobody, late of R. R. Knapp is Samples Cut in His Youth. Among the treasures possessed by John IVlowatt, vice p'fes-ident of the Grand Rapids Chair compa!1YI.isa:~mal1 collec-tion of carved birds and heads of dogs, cut byliimseIf years ago when he was an apprentice in a carving shop in Toronto, Canada. He pri~cs the collection very highly. To Test Turpentine. To test the purity of turpentine drop a small quantity on a piece of white paper and exp?se to the air. No trace will be left if the turpentine is pure, but if it contains oil or other foreign substances, the paperwiJ1 be greasy. Green and Purple Intermix.ed. Manufadurer-"My indigestion is becoming chronic. At night I dream of purple covered sofas and green porch chairs." Salesman-"What do you do in the day time?" Manufacturer-"I spend most of my time reciting my dreams to my manufacturing friends, and they mix their new finishes to correspond with the colors of my dreams." WEATHERED OAK OIL STAIN Fast Color. Correct Shade. Most Penetrating Stain Made. WILL NOT WIPE UP WITH WAX OR SHELLAC. AO-EL-ITE FINISHING WAX Dries Harder Than Ordinary Wax. For Use on Weathered or Mission Finishes. SEND FOR SAMPLE PANELS AND PRICES. Ask for our "STANDARD STAINS BOOKLET," real wood panels showing twenty-one Fillers and Stains. The finest booklet ever supplied. Dept. 5. ~ CHICAGO. 'TIle Atl-el-ite People. Phone Union StaUoo for Reservations G. R. ~ I. fLYERS BETWEEN Grand Rapids and Chicago To Chicago To Grand Rapids ----- - -------------- ---- Lv. GRAND RAPIDS. Ex. Sun.. 7.10 A. M. Ar. CHICAGO ..... , . , ..... , .... , ...... 12.35 Noon Buffel Parlor Car [,v. CHICAGO , , , 8:45 A. M. Ar. GRAND RAPII)S _ " , .. 1:50 P. M. Lv. CHICAGO, ~ihCSt~::lWE~x~. Sun.. 1.15 p~M. Ar. GRAND RAPIDS _ 5.50 P. M. Burret Parlor Car Lv. CHICAGOi,~ihcBr~~~tlE~x~. Sun. . .. 5.30 P. M. Ar. GRAND RAPIDS. . . . . . .. .. . . ' , .10.25 P. M. Parlor and Dlnlne Car Lv. CHICAGO, NibC;;t~S~D~:a~ily, - .11.55 Night Ar. GRAND RAPIDS , 6.45 A. M. Electric Lighted Steeplnll Ca.r Lv. GRAND RAPIDS. Ex. Sun . ,., 1201 Noon Ar. CHICAGO _ , 4.50 P. M. Parlor and Dloln, Car Lv. GRAND RAPIDS, Daily _ 11.50 Night Ar. CHICAGO , ,. _ , 7.15 A. M. Ele~trle Lighted 51eeplns Ca.r Phone Micblgllrs Central City Ticket Office for ReeervattoDe. 119 Adams St ..t:=et 19 20 ESTABLISHED 1880 Pl,lBLlSHao BY MICHIGAN ARTISAN CO. ON THE 10TH AND 25TH OF EACH MONTH OFFICE-2-ZO ...YON ST., GRANO RAPIDS, MICH. ENURED "S MUTER OF THE SECOND CLASS Manufacturers and merchants in the southern states have asked the railways of that section to discontinue summer c'x-curSlOllS. Complaint was made that the frequent excursions run in past years out of commercial centers invited the work-men to leave the mills and stores during the hot weather, cutting down the number of men employed. The railroad officials have decided that the freight business was more important than the passenger and this summer will run only one excursion out of each commercial center. '~Mahogany is the most satisfactory wood known to the manufacturers of furniture," remarked the veteran manufac-turer. "It not only improves with age, but when it is desired to ornament the wood it can be canoed twerity-flve per cent cheaper than oak. The. finish will look as good ten years from now as when it is first applied. How is it with oak? No oak finish yet discovered remains in favor more than on2 or two years." Consul James c. McNally, of Liege, Belgium, writes that creosote injected into wood has the well-known preserving effect, but as injected under a German process, according to The Tramway, the effects are considerably enhanced. It is said that this process has succeeded in submitting the resin-ous woods to the action of creosote, heretofore considered re-fractory. An Omaha refrigerator manufacturer announces that he IS about to put on the market a fireless stove. If he would stick to his own business and give us an iceless ice-box-not like the one that is iceless because the ice is priceless and the dough-bag is doughless, but one that wculd freeze things without ice-he would be doing a much greater service just now. One of the large furniture manufacturing corporations of Grand Rapids sells annually goods valued at $650,000. Of this amount $250,000 is sold during the exposition seasons. Who questions the value of the expositions, when such results can be 'shown? The buyers coming to the eastern markets during th ~ next month from San Francisco and· vicinity will undoubted-ly bring many orders for chun::h, lodge and hotel furniture. There's a great day coming fo;- the makers of such furniture. The federal court of Iowa, in a damage suit against th~ Big Four, ruled that cars loaded in one state carrying com-modities to another are engaged in interstate commerce and cannot be attached.' This makes a common practice illegal. The state board of trade of Pennsylvania will sternly op-pose every candidate for the legislature who does not favor a passenger rate of two cents a mile. It is estimated that the coal supply of the world will be exhausted in two thousand years. Send in your orders early. What a salesman is going to do never increases the-bus-iness of his employer nor his own bank account. It is not necessary for a man to take a job traveling on the road in order to' become a successful liar, The less a man knows about making furniture the marc he want!; to tell it. Praise has spoiled more designers than criticism. A poor superintendent remains poor all his days. First Thing to do in Case of Accident. Keep cool. Summon a surgeon at once. Send a written message, describing the accident and injury, if possible, in order that the surgeon may know what instruments and rem-edies to bring. Remove thc patient to a quiet, airy place, where the tem-perature .is comfortable, but· never to an engine room, and keep bystanders at a distance. Handle the patient quietly and gently. Arrange the injured person's body in a comfortable po-sition; injuries to the head require that the head be raised higher than the level of the body; when practical, lay the patient on his back, with the limbs straightened out in their usual natural position. Unless the head be injured, have the head on the same level as the body. Looscn the collar, waist-bands and belts. If t.he patient should be faint have his head rather lower than his feet. If the arm or leg be injured, it may be slightly raised and laid on a cushion or pillow. \~'ateh carefully, if unconscious. ~If vomiting occurs, turn the patient's body on one side with the bead low, so that the matter vomited may not go into the lungs. If a wound be discovered in a part covered by the clothing," cut the clothitl3" in the seam. Only remove sufficient cloth-ing to uncover and inspect the wound. In case of burns, pour lukewarm water containing a little baking soda over the clothing before attempting to remove it. All wounds sbould be covered and dressed as quickly as possible. If a. severe bleeding sbould occur, see that this is stopped, if possible, be-fore the wound is finally dressed. Do not touch the wounds with the hands either during examination or while appl'ying dressings, unless they h_avebeen previously been made. surgi-cally clean, After dressing a wound, do no more to the pa-tient unless necessary to restore him to consciousne'ss or relieve faintness. If sufiering from shock, place him in a comfortable position and await the. arrival of the surgeOll.. Meeting of Southern Manufacturers' Association. The Southern Manufacturers' Association met in Chatta-nooga in May and considered many topics of interest to the furniture men. A banquet and automobile rides were pleas-ant diversions. The el"ection of officers resulted as follows: president, Captain A. 1. Gahagan of Chattanooga; vice. presi-dent, J. Cal Sterchi of Knoxville; secretary-treasurer, Wil-bur Jones of High Point, N. c.; board of governors, 1. Temple and Robert Morrison of Chattanooga, Rohert Morrow of Memphis, S. Papenheimer and Otto Swab of Atlanta, and J. Cal Sterchi of Knoxville. To Test MUeage Ticket Law. The Northern Central, one of the Penns.fl'vania's lines, re-fused to sell a thousand-mile ticket to Aaron R. Anders and he began a suit to recover $50 damages under the provisi~ns of _an act passed by the Maryland legislature, of which Mr, Anders was the author. The Northern Central has applied for a writ of certiorari to take the case into the circuit court. It is believed the litigation will go to the court of last resort to test the constitutionality of the law. 71R'T'I.5' A.2'l ? 7 eri 21 Otis Mfg. Co. New Orleans. Chicago. MANAGE;R Crude Oil for Power. An announcement has just been issued by a western finn describing a device whereby crude oil is enabled to furnish the source of pmver for gas engines. The mechanism and principle involves a horizontal rotating drull1 with interior spiral ribs, enclosed in an outer casing. The crude oil ell-tel's the drum at one end and by rotation and the spiral ribs, is'carried slowly and uniformly through it. ""hile the oil is passing through the drum, it is exposed to sufficient heat to generate gas, ,...h.ich is drawn off and utilized by the engine in proportion to the amount generated, and the residue is discharged. The heat is supplied by the exhaust of the en-gine, v;hich passes between the drum and the outer shell and keeps the drum at a certain t~mperature, just high enough to get all the gas out of the oil. The rotating drum stirs the oil, turns it over and over, carries it in a thin sheet up on the sides of the drum, and exposes it to the heat. By this method the gas is generated without an excessive amollnt of heat, the residue is discharged as' soon as the gas is extracted, thereby obviating the necessity of the continuous cleaning heretofore necessary, while it inSt11-eSa regular uniform sup~ ply of gas to the engine. The diffe:ence in cost between gasolene and crude oil compares as ahout 18 to 4 cents. South's Huge Riches Revealed. The rich south supercedes the penniless south. Vv'ith a population of 5,OUO,000 or 6,000,000 less than the population of the entire country in 1860, the "vealth of the fourteen south~ ern states is no\',' greater than the wealth of the entire coun-try in 1860. The average increase per year between 1900 and 1905 was more than three times the average increase per year between 1890 and 1900. The advance in ·southern wealth since the turn of the century is immcdiate.ly connected with the betterment of the cotton situation, through the systema-tization of making and handling the cotton crop. Since 1900 the output of :;l9uthern coal mines has increased from 49,000,- COO to 70,OOO,{J{JO tons a year, the oil wells from 17,000,000 to 60,000,000 barrels. Agriculture, mining, lumbering and man~ ufaeturing, based upon _these elemental il1dustries, railroad construction, internal trade, and foreign commerce added last year to the true wealth at the rate of $2,750,000 a day. MAnoaAnT Chicago Office and Dlstrib· Importers and Manufacturers of uting Yards: 225710 2267LUMBER ST. R. S. HUDDLESTON A Perfect Shellac Varnish Substitute. On another page of this issue will be found the ad of M. L. Barrett and company, in which they lay special stress on their shellac varnish substitutc-Zaco. They make some rather strong claims for this product, but, neverthel'ess, they are all hacked up with facts and figures which cannot be ques-tioned. One of the strong features of Zaco is. its quick dry-ing properties. \Vithin an hour after applying, tb~ wood is perfectly dry and can be treated in any manner desired. This is a very desirable feature especially when rush orders must be shipped on short notice. The cost of Zaco is approxi-mately that of a good shellac varnish and its use elimi-nates a large item of expense. It is now enjoying its tw'Clfth year of uninterrupted success, and from latest reports orders are coming in thick and fast which is a pretty sure indication that it is backed up by quality, The Barrett people are also extensive manufacturers and importers of furniture manufac-turers' supplies, such as gum shellac, shellac varnish, wood alcohol, wood stains, pumice stone, etc. They are an old and reliable concern, and yOll can "bank" on what they ten you and that, you will receive better sati:sfaction than you ha-d anticipated. A trial order is the best way to get ac-quainted. Cement For Belts. Cook thoroughly six OUllces of Peter Cooper's white or cream glue aud when it is well done add two ounces of powd- -ered white lead. :vIix well. Use same propo:tions for larg-er quantities. For use for any length of time in summer leave thick and thin .down with alcohol. ¥lhen thoroughly cooked turn out into something to cool. Cut off a piece as wanted. In applying, make the splice the same length the belt is wide, hammer it well together and the belt can be used in onc hour. Thick Veneers. It is said that the Hoffman Brothers company of Fort vVayne, Ind., were the first to introduce thick veneers of ma-hogany. For several years in the past they have cut twen-ty- six veneers to the inch, and when desired, stock cut twen-ty- four to the inch, will be supplied. IF YOU HAVE NEVER TRIED OUR RUBBING AND POLISHING VARNISHES OETR(lIT FACTORY CAKADIAN "ACTOI'll' YOU HAVE YET TO LEARN THE FULL POSSIBLITIES OF THIS CLASS OF GOOeS WHY NOT PUT IT TO THE TEST BY GIVING US A TRIAL ORDER? BERRY BROTHERS, LIMITED, NEW YORK .oeTON PHILADELP'HIA BALTIMORE VARNISH MANUFACTURERS CHICAGO .T. LOUie CINCINNATI eAN FRANc'eco FACTORY AND MAIN OFFICE, DETROIT CANADIAN FAC-TOlIl' WALKERVILLE. ONT. 22 ~l'1.IP]iIGJ(N 2 The Toles Rapid Acting Vises. T'he \v. C. Toles company, In.,ing Park, Chicago, Ill., manufactll ers of "Rapid Acting Vises" for wood workers and manual training benches, is one of the companies widely known in the trade. For morc than twelve years they have been engaged in the manufacture of their rapid acting vises which have been tested under every known condition without a failure.' Their manual training benches are meeting every requirement for manual training and arc being adopted as a standard for grammar school, military and trade schools, high and normal schools, colleges and universities evcry-whe:" e. One of the strongest evidences of the hold the Toles that over 6,000 of their products have gone into the manual training schools and more than 600 of the 'Toles Rapid Act-ing Vises" have been shipped to the Philippine schools of arts and trades_ The Toles company claims their vise to be "The king of rapid acting vises for wood workers," and their bench "The king of manual training benches for schools." The factory of the Toles company is located on the line of the Chicago & Northwestern raihvay at Irving Park, Chicago, Dependent Upon Imported Skilled Artisans. The matter of industrial' training is to come to the front 111 the next few years in a ,:vay that it has not come in the past in this country. 'vVe note in various states the stir being made by a spre:Hli,;g demand ior more industrial schooJs, and manufacturers arc rather more insistent even than in previous years, judging from the res.olutions adopted at their conven-tion in urging a training--up of industrial experts instead of a continu~~d importation thereof. The commission appointed by Massachusetts to look into this matter has reported that the Bay State industries arc ';lamentably" dependent on im-ported skillet! artisans. The commission, at the same time, reported that as far back as ten years ago Prussias special schools of an industrial character numbered th:-ee thousand, with an aggregate attendance of over 200,000. Massachu-setts sho111d,on a like basis, have three hundred instead of her meagre ten, and an attendance of twenty thousand. Some, of the other states are discovering equally lamentable conditions, and it look:~ as if, with all onr commercial p:·ogress and our rare development of industries employing \,,:tst capital, the in-dustrial schools will engage our attention in a much more general and practical form during the ncxt few years. No, 65 Rapid-A<::tinlMapl,.,-Faoed Vite with Bench Stop a.ad Front Jaw Ova. Manufactured by W, c. T ol,.,sCompany, Irvilli: Park, ChicalilO.III, with adequate shipping and receiving facilities. It is located but a short distance from the Mayfair Junction of the Chi-c, ago & No. thwestern, the Chicago, I\1ilw<ltlkee & St. Pad railway and the belt lines connecting with every railroad en-tering and leaving Chicago. Shellac in New York. Continued strc,ng markets arc repoj·ted, but the~c is Ild further quotable change in values. Orange Shellac- Ordinary T. N . Bright orange grades... . . Diamond T ..•••••••• , • , , • . . , ........•. ., .441i]45 ..46iDSO . 55@ .. v. s. . 55@5" n. c. Bulton Lac. A. c.'Garnet lac_. Bleached shellac, Kiln-dried 0 .. ....... 60@._ ....... 34@50 . .43@ .. ............ 40@41 .... 50@51 wet. --- ---------- Etchison Retires. ::\1. L. Etc.hison, for a number of yea~s employed as buyer for the Robert Mitchell Furniture company, will retire from the employment of that company on July 1. His successor will be Robert Mitchell, who will have the assistance of \v. B, :Richards in the conduct of the business. Mr. Richards has been in the employ of the firm twenty years, lately as cor~ respondent. It is the purpose of the manag·ement to add a foreign and domestic rug department, discontinuing their mantel business. The second floor \ovillhe devoted to the new department. Grand Rapids Furniture in Mexico. \v. R. Penney, who represents the Nelson-Matter Furniture company the ?'ilichigan Chair company, the Imperial Furn-iture company and the Grand Rapids Desk company, In Mexico, is having great success in introducing Grand Rapids goods to the trade of old ~\'fexico. He says the -Mexicans prefer heavily carved to plain goods, ..... ~MI9]-ilG7JN 2 Various Matters. Charley Retting of the Retting Furniture company, hav-ing had years of experience in the taking of special o~-ders, has a mind well stored with interesting incidents of his business career. \""ihen the cares of the clay arc thrown aside and the genial Mr. Retting finds himself the center of a group of friends, with a pLentiful suppLy of cigars and fuscs, his talks are yery entertaining. ·'A. B. and E. L. Shaw sent me to a city in Connecticut a number of years ago," he remarked upon a festive occasion a short time ago, "to meet a commit-tee having in charge th(~ selection of furniture for a masonic t~lllPIt:.'. S. C. Small of Boston, who died the other daY, was a competitor and was favored by one of the committee. The second favored my firm, while the third was non-committaL He was a colltractor and builder and in the discussion I gained an insight to his position by a question asked. Our firm mortised and tenoned the joints of our seats while Small used dowels. "\lv'hieh makes the strongest joint, the mortise or the tenon ?" the contractor enquired. "Our firm have al-ways used the mortise because it considered the strongest and the best. ,\That do you use in your buildings? -When you frame a house do you dowel or mortise the timben:; you use?" "1 use the mortise of course," he replied, and when the Yotes were taken on the question of letting the contract, he voted fOJ" our linn. His judgement may have been at fault, for by this enlightened generation the dowel is considered the st:·ongcst for use when jointipg seats for cha;rs." The life and character of a prominent salcsIll_an in the. furniture trade, l;ltdy deceased was under discussion, when one of the trio remarked: '·He was very independent. If a buyer entered his exhibit during tile exposition season from some point outside of the territory covered by the deceased he would not show his lines. "vVhy should I spend any time with you?" he asked the buyer. HI have these lines exclusively in my territory, and 1 decline to sell you. Look around? Yes, you can look through the samples if you wish, but \\,11at good would that do you?" Deceased was regarded as a suc-cessful salesman and yet I can but regard his policy when dealing with the trade as a mistake. If he had lived longer and in the course of time been transferred to other territory he might have met the buyers be had treated discourteously ill the market and found that they still resented it. Politi-ness and gentlemanly consideration, costs nothing and he who treats those whom he meets in a manly, cordial way ever p~-otits by his conduct. Our late friend might have referred .:he huyers whom he could not sell to others handling the lines or advised them to e<rrespond with the manufacture:·s di:-cet, and gaillccl the good ",,·ill of l1'len who had written him dc)\i...n. as discourteous and uncivil. ** ** ** "1 never knew a cabinet maker to amollnt to much who worked with a collar on," remarked the veteran superintend-ent. A few weeks ago a well dressed, clean shaven, active young man applied for work in our shop. His appearance and conversation created a good impression and I gave him a bench. vVhell he removed his coat and put on an apron, hut failed to take off his collar, I feared he would not do_ Ilis work was poorly done and the end of the week witnessed his departure in search of another job. Give me the collar-less cabinet maker in preference to the dude." ** ** ** The disaster at San Francisco reminded Charley Retting of the Johnstown flood and' of the mistake he made in "cut-ting out" that tOWll. "I was selling medium and high priced stuff, when the flood oc.c\1rred and reasoning that only cheap goods would be required during the time that would neces-sarily -be taken ill rebuilding the town and probably for sev-eral years following, confined my travels to points in the vicinity of Pittsburg while touring western Pennsylvania. 23 , In the course of time I entered Johnstown, however, and learned that the dealers had enjoyed a very large trade in goods of the class my firm was making. It was explained that owing to the generosity of the people throughout the wuntry in contributing sums for the relief of the sufferers, Johnstown had never had so much money before. Every sufferer was royally cared for, th03e in 'charge of the relief funds sttPplying medium and rille furniture to replace the cheap stuff that wcnt down stream." *of. ** ** The bankers of the statc of Alabama are stirred up over a decision of the supreme court of that state to the effect that when a bank takes over a draft and bill of lading and pays the drawee it becomes responsible for the safe de-livery of the goods as to quantity and quality. In other wo:-ds the bank is in the place of the shipper and the shipper is by the transfer of the invoice, draft and bill of lading, relieved of responsibility so far as the consignor is concern-ed and the hank becomes obligated to deliver the goods contracted fo;- between the original shipper and the customer. ** ** ** Do yOU kllOW that the man who invented the a.uger got his idea from an insect he had studied th:·ough a microscope? J-T e observed the work of the insect carefully and the auger be constructed later was almost an ex('ct copy of the boring machine he had studied under the microscope. The patent Our UnbreaKable products can be glued and nailed, filled or fin-ished same as wood, with oil, water or spirit stain. Xo. '39 A No. 152 B BETTER THAN WOOD Much stronger and more durable, full depth of grain. A perfoct reproduotion or band carving which absolutely defies detection. Send for SlUI'lple. Send for CATALOGUE. ORNAMENTAL PRODUCTS CO. T weUth aod Fort Sb'eet!l. Detroit, Miclqan. upon the auger which he obtained later proved of great value but history fails to record that the insect benefited from the invention. Run System Mad. ",Ve '<vill devise a system, submit designs and a report to any reputable individual or company," is the burden of many communications reaching the hands of business men every day. T t would seem that a large number of men have engaged in the labor of attempting to show men of business, no matte!' hmv great has been their success, that they really do not know the rudiments of business. "For $200.00," one systematizer writes, "we will give you the benefit of our expe;·ience and a system inexpensive to operate. In addition to submitting all of the designs, ruled in colors and engrossed exactly as they will appear when printed, and our report ex-plaining the workings of the system and describing proper methods of distributing indirect exper.ses according to each claS:-i of husiness, we also a:"sist the management in connec-tion with any matters that come to light in the course of in-stalling tIle system." System is all rigbt wben it is original and put into force by a man who has knowledge of his own business. No out-sider can gain such an intimatc knowledge of a business as the man who c:-eated it. System bids fair to run mad unless checked by common sense. 24 SKETOiES BY H. N. HALL, GRAND RAli"lDS. MICH. SKETCHES BY H. N. HAu.., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ....,.-0 __ ~~--~- ~~=- 25 26 "THE NEW WAY." An Old Way and a Bad Way. A mail order house in Detroit has discovered "a new way of making furniture to be shipped knock down." The way employed is an old way and it is not a good way_ Thc, man- Detroit Wholeaale Price $10. New Way Price $3. Whole.ale Price $15. New Way Priee $4.75. ufacturcr proposes to teach the buyer of a table, a bedstead or whatever else he may order how to set up, trim and finish the piece and save a lot of money fo:- himself. Troubles in-numerable are in store for the manufacturer should he StlC-Wholesale Pric<i!I$30. New Way Price $10. eeed in interesting the public in his scheme. The first trouble will be caused by the swelling of the wood containing the grooves in the piece illust,ated on this page, making it im-possible to erect the piece or pieces purchased. Innumerable troubles will follow the efforts of the unskill'ed in their attempts to finish the goods. More tremble will be raised, when the purchaser learns that he has paid an exorbitant Wbote.ale Price $18. Detroit Whole.ale Price: $21. New Way Price $6.25. New Wa;. Price $7. price for an inferior article. The bedstead in oak or birch illustrated on this sheet the manufacturer declares would be cheap if bought of a wholesale manufacturer for $30.CO. The Deb'oit Wholesale Priee'$20. New Way Price $7.50. fact is that a splendid full panel'ed bed, in mahogany can be purchased at wholesale for $25.00 and $17.00 will buy a very handsome spindle bed in mahogany. The: illustrations and Wholesale Price $]o. Construction. New Way Pric:e $3.25- prices shown in this number illustrate the impracticability of the scheme. The manufacturer reveals his pian as follows: Our plan is to build the parts of the furniture in such a THE "NEW WAY" OF SETTING UP AND FINISHING FURNITURE. manner that any person ('.an put them together, ship these parts packed in a crate, knocked down and unfinished with a set of instructions ior setting up and finishing. There arc no fake dowels and mortises, imitation tenons and keys glucd on the outside to give the article the appear-ance of Mission work. No veneers are used" Wholesale Price $10. New Way Price $4.50. The parts arc mostly made with lock grooves, dowel pins, mortises, tenons and keys so that they slide together, but wherever screws are needed the holes are properly bored and th~ heads sunk. :.r 0 glue is necessary c:xcept on dowel ~1'1is. Improvements in Furniture Hardware. Tn the fall season of 1900 the Hardware Supply compauy of Grand Rapids placed before furlliture matlufacturers ;j Ilew device in a fastening for doors of bookcases, cabinets and other pieces where the doors do not need locking for the sake of security. This was a simple" ptlsh button" catch to be used in connection with a finger pull. The new' fastell-- ing soon gailH'd favo· with the t ..ade <l:-.d the demand grt:"N to such prapo: lions that other hardware manufacturers SOO,) began making silililar goods, and during the past four or five years several different styles of catches of this sort have been made from time to time, but now the I-brdware Supply company has brought out the. neatest one yet made, and it is beiug placed all furniture sampks for the July sale. A good market is al:-eady assured, one of the largest factories having placed a vcry large order for its fall supply. The same com-pany has gotten out a ne\"" extension hook for wardrobes, a steel dowel and socket for extensio11 tables, and a cheap support for book case shelves. Catalogues Complete • WE Photograph Max Thiele in Chal"se Engrave Michigan Enl"ravinB" Company Print and Bind White Pwointiq Company LET US FIGURE. THE WHITE COMBINATION H. C. WHITE; Secretary Grand Rapids, Michigan Buyers of Fumiture. We have published the LIST for June, 1906. IP IP DO YOU WANT IT? IP IP WRITE us. MICHIGAN ARTISAN CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 27 28 ·f'~MICHIG.7I.N 7iR.TI S'..7I.l'J ..~. 1'lIf,. i 2 ,. S,.. Bennett &. Witte MANUFACTURERS OF LUMBER For Fu.rniture Mfrs.. Car Sullders and Carriage Trade. Plain8nd I Wh't d D d 0 'lr j Plain and Qu;uten~d I 1 e an ....e.. . au. .,Quartered RED and SAP GUM Poplar. Cottonwood. Ash. Elm and Chestnut. A Full Line of Southern Hardwoods. Export and Domestic. WRITE EITHER OFFICE. Branch: Memphis,Tenn. Main Office: Cincinnati, .0. We sell on National Hardwood Lumber Association illspection only. Richey, Halsted & Quick, CINCINNATI, OHIO OAK-Plain and Qyartered.~ POPLAR---Soft andYellow. The No-I\um-Loose TOILE.T SCREW" IS THE LATEST DEVICE TO BE FITTED WITH THE Tower Patent Fastener Toilet Screws with Ij.( to 2 inch knobs can be furnished to order only, with standard bolt 3}f inches long, and patent drive nut and washer. Remember that the Tower Patent Fasteners on these toilet screws, as well as t,he brass, glass and wooden knobs and brass pUllscost the manufacturer nothing. The sales of all goods with the Tower Patent Fasteners is rapidly increasing, and they are daily growing in popUlarity because they are the only practical devices ever put on the market. that absolutely prevent Knobs, Pulls and Toilet Screws from getting loose. The Grand Rapids Brass Company GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. QUARTER-SAWED IN~~~~OAKVENEERS CHOICE FIGURE :: EXTRA. WIDTHS When writing for prices, mention widths required and. kind of figure preferred.. HOFFMAN BR.OTHERS co. Fort Wayne Indiana Factory Locations There is in the various offices of the.Land and Industrial Department of the SouthemRailway and Mobile & Ohio Railroad late information regarding a number of first class locations for Furnituret Chair and other Woodworking Fac-tories, which will be furnished Manufacturers· upon· applica-tion. An invitation -is extended to all who use wood in their plants to write about the timber supply, good sites and mar-kets available in our territory. Address your nearest agent. M. V. RICHARDS. Land and Industrial Aaenl, WASHINGTON, D.· C. CHiS. S. CHASE. Agent, _ _622 ChemioatBuirdina~ St. Louis.- Mo_ M. A:. HAYS. -Agenl, 226 Dearborn St.• Chk:aQt. III 29 Cool Comfortable Inexpensive Goo d Service "RELIABLE" ROLLS EXCLUSIVELY Chicago and Grand Rapids FARE $2 ONE WAY " ~ $3.7S ROUND TRIP THE "RELIABLE" IS THE BEST THE FELLWOCK ROLL & PANEL CO, EVANSVILLE, IND. Leave Chicago 7:45 p. m. Leave Grand Rapids 7:55 p. m. dairy. Reserve berths at docks, foot of Michigan Ave, or City Ticket Office, 101 Adams St., Chicago; 91 Monroe St., orB! LYOllSt., Grand Rapids, w. C.TOLES .Box 25, IRVING PARK No. 20 Rapid Acting Vise FOR WOOD-WORKERS COMPANY = CHICAGO, ILLINOIS InvestiRate our Line. CATALOG Of this Vise and forty other different Styles sent to any address on application. The best Vise in the world tor Cabinet-Makers. Sawan d Kn"fl e FI"tt'109 Mach"Ineryan d T00,S TLihoeeMBaoigufga~cttu and..Bd~. t Baldwin, Tuthill ®. Bolton Grand Rapids. Mich. Filers, SeUers. Sharpeners, Grinders, Swages, Stretchers, Brazina and Filing Clamps, Knife Balances, Hammering Tools. New 200 page Catalogue for r906 Free. Bolton Band Saw Filer for Saws }'S inch up. B. T. & B. Sl~le D. Knile Grinder. Full Automatic. ,Wet or dry MICHIGAN .... W f Oppose the Introduction of New Processes. 'No kmen, ~specially of the old fogy class, stilt oppose the introduction of new processes in manufactu:·c. There is not so much opposition to the installment of improved ma-chinery as formerly, since it has been demonstrated that new machines make more work and call for a larger number of men to take care of the output than was possible in the d::tys when machinery was first introduced to slI!-,plant hand labor. The superintendent of a large furniture factory 'who owns the patent for a vcry successful process for the treatment of the various kinds of cabinet woods, was visited a few months ago by the owners of a large plant operated in the manufac-ture of pianos. Their purpos~ was to make an investigation of the new process owned by the superintendent. When they had satisfied their minds as to the practicability and value of the process, they purchased a shop right and returned to their home. Calling the heads of several departments to the office, they revealed the process ar~d explained how it should be operated, and ordered the subo:·dinates to install the same at once. The men expressed doubts as to their The party wi.thdrew, the workmen very much crestfallen <Iod the proprietors in an unsettled state of mind. An hour or two later one of the proprietors returned to inform the superintendent that his lecture had affected the men very seriously-that they had determined to make one more effort to put the process iuto use. Nothing more was heard of the firm for several months, when a letter came to the superintendent reading as follows: "Eureka! \file have conquered! Process installed. '''larking beautifully. \Ve are making the handsomest pianos in the world. Nothing is too good for us. When you have another good thing, wire usY Prosperity for Manufacturers. The manufacturing industries of the nation were unusual-ly prosperous last year, and will be still more prosperous this year. Reports from Chicago atid other western cities arc to the effect that up to the present time busine,ss is 5 to 15 per cent ahead of last ycar's large aggregate, and similiar reports come from the East. The weather enabled the spring An Attractive Interior. ability to carry out the orders of their supcrio: s and, shaking their heads dubiously, left the officl.'. A few days later the men reported their inability to install the p~ocess, greatly to the disappointment of the heads of the company, when it was resolved to pay another visit to the home of the super-intendent, the officials taking the shop men n':th them. '''hen the party arrived at the office of the superintendent the shop men wcrc imroduced and then the snperintendent asked the eldest man: "How long have yOll worked for this firm?" "Twenty~eigllt years," the man replied. "And how long have yon been wit:, the lirm :" tl:rning L, the other. "Twenty-t'11ree years." "If yOU were in my employ I would discharge yOIl without a moment"s \.varning. You and your class have bl'come fossiliz-ed. You are secmingly incapable of learning anything and have outlived your usefulncss. If the world depended upon men of your class. there would be no prOgress-no improvement. If your shop mates are of yonr dass I would fire the whole crowd and look for a crcw of workmen who were not loafing in the world for the sole purpose of delaying the work of the undertaker. The process you have been o:-dered to install is a very simple one, and you can make it work if you try to." business to begin two weeks earlier than usual. The farmers did so well last year that they buy more'liberally, and con-snmption has increased, according to the rcports from all sections. The foreign trade also show a relative increase. Imports at New York since Jan. 1 have been greater than for the corresponding time in any other year excepting 1905, when they were sli'ghtly above the figures of this year. Ex-ports also make a good showing. From All Over t~ Country. The West End Furniture and 'Carpet company of Wil-liamsport, Fa., published an advertisement several weeks ago announcing their purpose to meet the competitioll of a soap prize distribution house. The advertisement was copied in the Artisan of April 25, and attracted so much attention that the \-Vest End company, to quote their exact language have received letters from every section of the United States "signed by dealers" who had read the Artisan and desired fwther particulars. This fact indicates, in a measure, the esteem in which the Artisan is held by dealers in furniture and kindred goods. Manufacturers who desire to keep ill touch with the many thousand readers of the Artisan use its advertising paK'es. Importance of Constructing Fire-Proof Buildings. The trouble with fire-proof buildings has been the great amount of wood furniture and trimming. Recently much success has 'heen attained in the substitution of 111linft8m-mable compositions for wood in the manufacture of furniture doors, wainscoating, etc., and two of the newer hotels in New York are believed to be really fire-proof, while the owners of a third arc so sure it is fj;-eproof that they have refused to insure it. The mint and the postoffice in San Francisco are but little damaged, and several of t1le privately owned buildillgs only suffered from fire in the interior; the walls stood earthquake and fire with very moderate damage. In this fact there ties the promise of really fireproof cities in the future, but private prudence and municipal supervision should combine to secure fire-resisting construction in future buildings witfiout waiting for genc:'al devastation. Saw Grinding Machine. A new machine for sharpening the inserted teeth of high duty saws. has just been placed on tl~e market. This grindel-is particularly effective at moderate speeds. The frame is of cast iron, the arm being cast on the base in one piece, so as to insure perfect rigidity. An adjustable s:tddre moves along the arm of the tool so as to enable the f::p·inderto he used on saws of different diameters, and after being placed in the position desired, may be fastened rigidly to the arm by lock l1uts. A short slide operates in grooves along this saddle. This slide is surmounted by a disk having " raised center, on which the saw to be sharpened is placed al~d held in posib)ll by suitable bolts. Perfect ttniformityof depth and 8ngle of the cutting tools is claimed to be iusured with this tool, which is TI(HV being made in three sizes to take Sa\'\'5 t1p to thirty inches 111 diameter, from thirty to forty-eight inches <lnd irol11 forty-e:ght up to sevent/-two inches (rameter. Is Now the Parkersburg Plate Glass Company. At a speci8\ meeting of the stockholde-s of the Colonial Plate Glass comp<lny, held recently at Parkersburg, \V. V:1, it \Va., decided to complete the plallt res soon as possih1c. It was given Otlt that :\ llew comp<lny 'with a cap;tal qock of $4GO.COO or $500.000 is to be organized under the n8mc of the. Parkersburg Plate Glass company, :lnd itwiH be under this name that the c.oncern will be operated. Plate glass will be manufactured under the same manner and process pro-posed by the old company, and Colonel 1'1. R Peppers has been chosen as sl1pcrintelldcnt. Freights by -Water to Chicago. CaPtain "Rob" Irwin. as his many friends affectionately call him, real'ized the ambition of many yea··s, \\'hen the' steamers "Grand" and "Rapids" of the Grand River Trans-portation company, of which he is the president, commenced making regular daily trips between Grand Rapids. Grand Haven and Lake Michigan. The boats are s\vift and drawing but twenty-two inches of water, "vill make t'ips without in-terruption when the Vij ater in the river is :1t its l<nvcst. A g-reat deal of furniture and kindred goods will be shipped to Chicago and 1'lih".·aukee by water. No Time for Visits. The buyers in the big stores of Ncw York transact busi-ness very rapidly. They have no time for visiting. The: .. treat all salesmen courteously, but never lose- command ')f their time. In the evening they arc consideration personi-fied. It is then that "Lheydon the dress suit and the social side of their natures shine resplendent. In the \'!,-est th.-; buyers are ready for a visit every hour in the day, and their time so spent is not lost. From the traveling salesmen they gain many ideas of value when put into use in their own business. 31 Keep Oil Out of Boilers. l\1any hoiler experts insist that oil or grease inside a boiler or heatillg surface is far worse than the ordinary scale de-posited from the water, in cutting off heat from the water and ove- heating the boiler plate. Tests have been made to show this. Vlben the temperature of the water was made to rise rapidly in a clean boiler, the difference in temperature between the hailer plate and the wate;· did not increase at the same rate, showing that the heat passed through the water Ilea ly as fast. as received. "\lith a ,rery,high evaporation of steam per hour in a clean boiler there was little .danger of overheating the metal. But covering the inner surface of the metal with a thin layer of heavy mineral oil and evap-oratillg about as much steam as in the first place, 'the fire side of the boiler plate was 392° botter than the water side. The plate itself must have stood a temperature of about 6300 F., at which iron and mild steel weaken and are easily broken. Any ftav....in the plate would, oi course, add to the danger, Hence, for safety and economy, when exhaust steam is mixed \vith the feed water, use feed water heaters in which the steam is on one side of the tubes; and the water to be heated on the other, if possible. A Growing Business. The business of the Grand Rapids Blow Pipe and Du:,t Arrester cotHpany is'larger this y('ar than ever. Among the recent orders, several of which are welt under way, are for th~' new Illinois Cabinet company of Rockford, Ill.; C. P. Limbert company, Holland, l'dich.; tlce Fuller & R1ce Lumber company, Grand Rapids; C. A. Sauers, }\.1n Arbor, :vIich.; the Standard Sanitary company, mal~ubctl1rers of sanitary supplies. Det:-oit: l\-litchell B-others (maple flooring plaut) Cadillac, 1\-Ticb.:the Detroit Shipbuilding company, Detroit; and the Otto Body company (automobile bodies) Lansing, \Tich. Several otber large jobs are in sight, and prospects are h:·jght for a heavy business during the rest of the year. . They All Want Them. Alexander Dodds of this city received orders on the first day of June for three of his patent gang dovetailers, a~d one swing iOaw. The Dodds dovetailer is a first class machine, and the demand is constantly increasing for it. When lHr. Dodds first broug-ht Oftt his dovetailer, it was made with nine spindles, with an occasional o..-der for an eleven spindle machine. Now orders are for machines running from t~11to twenty-fonrspilldles, and the large machines work as perfect-ly as the small ones. No m;l11ttfacturer of case Vi'ork can af-ford to he witlJotit one. III, ALHOlCOMD &CO@ MANUFACTURERS "tlD DEALERS IN HIGH GRADE BAND AND SCROLL SA~S REFAIRI NG-SATI5FACTION GUARANTEED CIT1ZEN5 PHONE. 1239 27 N MARKE.T ST ~ GRAND RAFIDS, MICH. "- 32 "Rotary Style,. for Drop Caninas. Embossed MouldiDIlS. Panels. EI<:. fMBOSSING and DROP CIlRVlNG MIlC"llllfS Machines lot all purpo5eli\ and al pnce. within the reach of all. Every Machine ha, our lPIaranlee against breakage for ODeyear. . "Lateral Style" for ~ Capacity Heavy Carviop and Deep EmbosBiovs. We have the Machine you wanl al a satisl:actory price. Write for descriptive circulars. Alao make dies for aU makes of Machiriea. UNION EMBOSSING MACHINE CO" Indianapolis, Ind. Cyclone Blow Pipe Co. Improved Cyclone Dust Collectors, Automatic Furnace Feeders. Steel Plate Exhaust Fam, Exhaust and Blow Piping . Complete systems c!~¥Jledl manufactured, insla11ed and guaranteed. Old s~lems remodeled on modern lines on mosl economical plans. Supplementary s y s t ems added where presomt !Ws-reml are OUtvrovrn. De_ fective I y S I ems conecled and pul in proper waTkins ."""- 70 W. Jackson Street. CHICAGO. • ILL. GLOBE VI.S."E TRUCK CO. Grand RaQids, Mich. l\fakers of the BEST Quick Acting VISE Our mustrated Circular will teU you all about it. INSIST ON HAVING Morris Woo~ 3 Sons'Soli~ Stetl Glue Joint Cutlers for there are no other.,. ..ju.rt aJ" good." They cut a clean perfect joint always. Never burn owing to the GRADUAL CLEARANCE (made thi, way only by us), require little grinding, saving time and cutters. No time wasted setting up and cost no more than other makes. Try a pair and Qe convinced. Catalogue No. -10and prices on application. MORRIS WOOD ®. SONS Thirty-one year. at 31.33 S. Canal Street. CHICAGO. ILL. PER.FI!;CT QUALITY RIGHT PRICES MAClIINE. I1.NIVES PROMPT-SERVICE ABSOLUTE GUARANTEE Dado or Grooving Heads, Miter Machines. Universal 'Wood Trlmm.ers. Boring Machines. Etc. FOX MACHINE CO. Gr~~~.~i3~.'JI";'. ·J'~MlfrIG7}-N t 7lR..T I.s A.l'J J t 7e'+ 33 Our Clamps received GOLD-ME'OAL at World' .. F.fl"". St. Louis. V&N'ItER Pkl!:SS (Patented JUlle30. 1903.) CAIUNET CLAMP. Safety Fire Bucket Tank. The lIre bucket is a COllstant tempta-tion to the workman who happens to lleed <t pnil and- can"t fi1ld Oil;.' handy. Th~' 6re bucket.s to be of use when really Heeded must be in h?nd~r phlces. r f tlH:y are set around on. thc. flo.0.r they are either in the W.:ly or soon disappear. If hung up Otl nails or hooks Of placed Oll shelves, they dry out and are often fOllOd empty and ready to fall to pieces when the fire comes. All ea.,:tern concern has conceived a pC'actical solution of the fire pail problem by using" (\ galvani%ed iron tallk partly tilled with vorater in which tht' pails are kept. A lid to the tank keeps o!'t dirt and prevellts e'l<J.poratiou. Handy Beit Clamp. This simple ilnd convcnient clamp is made of one-half inch by two inch iron and is intended for belts not larger than twelve inch,'s wide aud three-eights inch thick. The <limellsiolls of the clamp call be increased in proportion for largoer belts, hOWCi'CT. The side bolts of !he clamp are o{ seven-eighths illCh stOCh:, twenty-fnur inches long- and the bolts ('Jamping the cro~spieces are of olle-half inch stock. two and one-half inche.s IOlJg 1','Lth square heads. In taking the clamp off, first slacken up on the long bolts, then 011 the small bolts and take two of them out. An Adjustable Horse for Paint Shops, ,-\ pair of adjustahle horses, like the one shown lt1stratiol1, will b(~ found convenient in many shops. in the il~ A plank should be laid across to form the staging. is cxpl"aincd by. the ~ketch. The construction ! Write £o:r prices and particular4- BLACK BROS. MACHINERY ~O. MENDOTA, ILL. !, Emptying an Oil Barrel. The illustration shows a method of emptying oil tram the lH\rrc:l that "",ill do the \-'lark in from ten to fifteen !minutes. ! I I I I Tht· apparatus illcllldes the following parts: A, pubp (all:Y nld pump \vil1 do); B, hose; C. bush on hose; D, oi~ barrel; E, large bushing·; F, three-fourths inch pipe; H, thrcf-fourths inch elbow; T, o-il tank, The oil is forced out by air. Hints Qn Glue. It requir('s more water to dissolve good glue tha 1 to dis-solve pOOr glue. The best glue will require from I ol1e~half to more than Jouble the water required for pDor glue; Good glue breaks hard and tough, with a splintered edge, I Cleanse the glue kettle often. Frozen glue is so pOl'"OUS thit it can be made up at Once. I I 1 [ the representatives of the people reaDy wa something for their constituents it would be a goo eliminate seeds and distribute free pianos, or Qed r or partor furniture. GLOBE VISE AND TRUCK C Office 321 South Divillion St., GRAND RAPIDS. MICH, I ! Manufacturers of HIGH GRADE Waad Warkers Vises AND Factory Trucks Simplicity In construc-tion enables us to .':ive quality and durability, and meet aU competi· tion. Write for Priees. No. 21,.Roller Bearings. Sante style Trucks No, 24, wlth()utRollet t to do plan to am sets Tings 34 Black Brothers' Pioneer Moulding Sander. The illustrations below represent the Pioneer )"Joulding Sander for sandj'ng crooked or straight work. The firm was awarded a gold medal by the Louisiana Purchase Exposition on account of the merits of tIlls machine. The manufactur-ers have introduced new features in the machine and claim it is superior ill construction and operation. An important feature is the revolving belt or cushioned pad. ~hich runs under the sand paper belt. It can be run norma~ty slack or tight, as the demands of the work in hand may re'uire. The pad eliminates all friction and forms a backing or ~urfacer for I the sand paper belt to run UpUIl. The manuiactuters furnish revolving cushions of various thickness, and- the 'cuts shown herewith illustrate th~ three different ways in which the ma-chine may be set up. The centeT' roners, 'OVCT 'wh-ich --the sand pap\'x belt 0, cushioned pad runs, <:.al1 be used either straight. convex or concat·e. The rubber friction drive for the sand paper belt is an importallt feature, in that it permits the operator to run the'beltat almost any degree of slackt1es~ as the various kinds Of;work handled may require. Cut No.1 carries a belt eight inches wide and is practi-cally adapted ior doing swell drawer frollts, chair anus or other work _of like nature. Cut No.2 has a belt four inches wide, and in the position in which the machine is set a great variety of work in furn-iture and kindred plants may be performed. This machine is manufactured by Black Brothers, Mendota, Ill'. Linseed Oils. The .:-.JewYnrkmarkct for linseed oil au June g was quiet. An improvement is expected, but present conditions are rather uncertain Prices remain unchanged, however, upon the ba~is of 38(Q\Nc tOT state and western, and 40't(41c IUI fa"\' city oil. City raw, ;\merican seed, 5 bhl~. or more. T.ess than 5 oble,. City, double boiled, /\mcrican . Less than 5 .bbls. \Ne~te;n raw . 40((iH J . 41 (il)42 seed, 5 bbl"s. or more 42@43 ... A3@44 ........... . .38@39 Factory Notes. The Marion (Ind.) Iron & Brass Bed company will erect seven new fire-proof buildings to be used for their manufac-turing business. A contract was signed with the Commercial Club agreeing to erect these buildings and have the plant in operation by September 1, 1906. A wire bed spring factory v;i11 also be constructed. Thc company agrees to begin operations with one hundred men and guarantees to increase the force to 250 in eighteen months. The consideration given is that the company is to have a bonus of $15,000, pay~ able twenty-five per cent on September 1, if the factory is completed and in operation, and twenty-five per cent every tlJirty days thereafter until thc entire amount is paid. Thc Heron Iron Bedstead company of Chattanooga, Tenn., will extend its foundry at a cost of $2,500. The Dargatz Parlor Frame company has bcen organized \vith $2,500 capital to manufacture furniture in Chicago. A. 'VVierzba, formerly foreman of the vVinnebago Furn-iture company, Fond du Lac, \~'is., ,,,,-illconduct a furniture factory of his own. The Spokane Show Case & Cabinet company has heel1 organized with a capital of $25,000 by the following: R. E. Fisher, J. W. Evans, C. E. Rodes, \l\'. H. Plummer and Thomas Hye. The 1Iichigan Steel Boat company of Detroit are about to engage in the manufacture of knock down furniture. The Minneapolis Desk company sustained a loss of $25,- 000 as a result of a fire in their factory. The damage will be repaired at once. The Art Metal Construction campa}' of Jamesto\\n, N. Y., has been awarded the contract for furnishing steel furniture for the new courthouse in Des Moines, la. The price paid i, $40,325. The Illinois Cabinet company of Rockford, Ill., have in-creased their capital from $25.000 to $50,000. The company's business is increased to such an extent that additions to the plant wilt have to be made. The Tomlinson Chair Alanufacturing company of High Point, N. c., have begun work on an addition to the bctory. The Tennessee Furniture ]'l'1anufaeturing company of Nashville have changed the firm name to the l'vlarfJeld Furn-iture Manufacturing company. The S. A. Cook company, Medina. N. Y., have purchased a shoe factory and will add it to the present plant. George H. KnoJ1enberg has bought a controlling interest in the Rowlett Desk lTanufacturing company, Richmond, 111d. The recent election of officers resulted ill the follow-illg: President, George H. Knollenberg; secretary and treas-mer, Walter KnolJenberg; superintendent, J ohll Lindstrom. The Proctor Furniture company of Knoxville, Tenn., have added the manufacture of offiee desks to their present line of goods. The \Vhitney Furniture Manufacturing company, Detroit, 1\lich., have filed a mortgage showing $10,000 indebtedness. the Detroit Trust company being appointed trustee. The Sheffield (Ala.) Furniture factory was burned recent-ly. The main building was saved. Losses a!4g'regate $7,000. The factory of A. C. Burt and company, Chester, Fa., has shut down, owing to financial difficulties. Indebtedness is $20,000. Fire in the Rockford (Ill.) Cabinet company l'eslllted in $1,200 Jo". Gavin Ritchie '& Sons purchased the machinery and fix-tures of the Battle Creek (.\lich.) Iron Hed company recent-ly at auction. The' Haley Furniture & Manufacturing company's plant' in Sheffield, Ala., was damaged $5,000 by fire, partially in-sured. Bristles may be stiffened by immersing them in cold alu-tn water for a short time. 35 A gill of shellac added to a gallon of asphaltum is a good hardening agent. The color of common mahogany may be improved by ap-pl'ying a solution of potassium hydrate, or lye, to the surface. To determine the required strength of the solution test on a piece of waste stock of the same kind before applying. Fill with a dark paste 1,-'lood-filler,va.rnish and polish with sheJl.ac. Coal containing a large amount of ca:bon gives the best heat, the oxygen being combined with hydrogen as water is of no value. An excess of hydrogen in gas coals, however, is an impo:tant item in the production of heat. In lacing belts the pointed ends of the laces may be ~ti:ff-elled and made easier to insert by burning them, One cubic foot of steam is produced from one cubic inch of ..v.ater evaporated under ordinary atmospheric pressure. "Tops of glued~up stock should not be planed within five days of the date when it is taken from the vises," remarked the veteran superintendent. "If such tops be planed before they have had time to seaso'n properly, every joint will show through the finish." A chair factory wiJJ be established in Owensboro, Ky., in the near future by capitalists from Lewisport, Ky. The McCray Refrigerator company of Kendallville, Ind., arc building a factory in Detroit, Mich., to employ from 600 to 1,000 men and turn out 100 refrigerators a day. The Graham & Davis Manufacturing company will manu- A. F. BURCH CO. 15-17 Park St., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. =====Jobbers of===== Upholstery Goods and Furniture Supplies Call Long Distance Citizens Phone 1123. .. Bell 1223. We solicit your inquirie •. facture tJw Davis kitchen cabinet in Windfall, Ind. The cotnpany has been organized with $7,000 capital. \ViI'liam Horrocks has bought out his partner, John Metz-ler and wilt continue the business of the Horrocks & Metzler company in Herkimer, 1\, Y. The Florida Chair company has been organized in Jack-sonville, Fla., with $25,000 capital. The New Chair company will manufacture chairs, office amI bank fixtures in New Orleans, La. Capital is $50,000. The Knoxville (Tenn.) Table & Chair CQmpany have doubl'ed their capital stock in order to increase their output. How to Recut Old Files and Rasps. Dissolve four ounces saleratus in onc quart water and boil the files in the solution for a half hour. Remove the files, wash and dry them. Then to one quart of water slowly add four ounces sl1lphuric acid. Immerse the files in this prep-aration and let stand from six to twelve hours, according to the fineness or coarseness of the files. Earthen vessels only should be used for the acid preparation. Bottle the liquid and it may be used again; but be careful in handling it, as it is poisonous. "Out" West. Charles R. Sligh, president of the Sligh pany, is making a tour of the Northwest. before the session opens. Furniture com- He will return 36 Causes for the Great Annual Fire Loss. Carefully compiled statistics show that fire annually de-stroys one hundred and fifty million dollars worth of pro-perty. Many seem to see it/'" this awful record merely an unavoidable condition with which a country as great as ours 1111.1St ne.cess<l-ri.'y be content. And this absurd and hurtful idea is entertained not alone by those irresponsible and ignor-ant, but also by those in whose eharge are vast property in-terests and .vhose very names seem to compel success. These last are those who appear to think that just so long as their investment in a manufacturing plant sbows a profit, or that the buildings they -erect and rent to tenants are money makers, it doesn.'t matter how hazardous the process of manu-facturing, or how dangerous may be the stock merchandized so long as fire insurance is obtainable. They seem blind to the fact that a premium on a fire insurance policy is a tax no less than any other tax, and that it will increase and be-come more and more burdensome as the fire waste increases. The cause of many fires has been explained by, "a rat. he gna\"'ed a match," but p-rovidcntially losses from ~uch an ori-gin are in the minority. In the majority of instances they are due in the first place to improperly guarding against loss by fire. In these days of hustle, directly against the archi-tects' advice, many buildings are erecte<l without loss of time but with a corresponding loss of intcgrity. A brick build-ing is hurried up with weak walls, unprotccted iron posts and girders, thin floors, and is topped hy a roof which w1ll at least keep out the rain. It is heated variously by gas, steam, and ;;cannon ball" stoves. It is lighted by "juice" from the trolley circuit. Electric wiring, not always in accordance with the National Electrical Code is mazed throughollt the building. Electricity furnishes power to run the elevator, and when J6illl Doe and company inhabit the structure with their machinery, it runs that too. Doe and company are away behind on orders, and are altogether too busy to bother v,:ith the gasoline can, or oily waste, or to clcan out the foot of the elevator shaft, or even to sweep the floor. If the boys tear do,vn the wires of the lighting circuit and hang them on nails so they can "stick right on the job" in the winter after-noons, why, what matter? The engineer can put the .\rires back when the rush is over. The englueer, mind you, knows all about installing electric systems, if he didn't he '''''ouldn't have a patent on a lightning rod! The inevitable result of alt this carelessness is a t1re- "cause unknown," and right in the midst of a busy season Doe and company find themselves out of business with a per-plexing fire insurance adjustment on thcir hands. The in-surance companies settle with all the, haste compati.hle, with good business usages, the actual cash value of the property destroyed or damaged, but however short the time this takes may he, or how good the settlement obtained, Doe and com-pany discover, that by reason of interrupted business. with its many kindred contillgellcies, they havc sustained a CQtlse-quential damage not at all covered by thc insurance policy. And all of which mi.ght have. been avoided by a little. prndent, careful foresight. It is quite probable that ninety-five per cent of all fires that occur, could in their incipiency, be quenched by a gallon of water, and this is a cogent reason why all inspectors are sticklers for some simple method of individual fire protection. Outside of sprinkler equipment, which is the highest degree of such 'Protection, or stand pipe alHI hose-which is w:~)';.tin point of effectiveness, chemical extinguishers and simple barrels and buckets of salt water distributed have proved their usefulness. The barrels and huckets are a 1110st handy combination for the reason that the most ignorant operative," whom, when excited, valves on extinguisher tanks might delay, would hardly fail to get a bucket of water quickly. The efficacy of barrels and buckets is universally endorsed by fire underwriters, but in the case of at least one risk in the city of Buffalo the extreme of such protection has been reachcd. The superintendent of a certain foundry was re-quested by the inspector to provide six pails for ea..:-h barrel ·which is the standard requirement. One very material fact was overlooked, however, the number of barrels, of which there are 'ilearly fifty. After the superintendent had com-plied with the inspector's recommendation he found himself nearly crowded out of the works. He has festoons of ar-tistically galvanized iron pails in every department, and has unpacked crates of tbem for which he has 110 room. \\Then the writer introduced himself as a fire insurance inspector, he waS led to the door of the shop, the superintendent waved his hand toward the buckets and swore comprehensively and me-l" odiously. But this was merely a ludicrous hlunder. If property owners will follow out the advice given by the average in-spector the annual fire loss will show a gl'atifying decrease. Be a "good houseKeeper." Keep the manufactory clean. And be sure that when the decrease in the annual fire loss spoken of above obtains, a lower rate of insurance will obtain.- Buffalo l\Janufacturer. Walter Clark, \Vhose office is 533 Michigan Trust building and warehouse on Prescott street, loaded a car of selected quarter-sawed oak veneers June 4 for the Doernbecher Furniture company, Port-land, Oregon. That is about as far west as his trade extends; but he has a nice trade in the New England states; in Canada; and all over the midd.le and western states. Mr. Clark has a very large and carefully selected stock of ",enee'·s in quarter-saw and plain oak; figured and plain birch; bini's eye and plain maple and poplar erossbandiJ1g. He is also prepared to quotc prices and fill orders for built-up stock. RichmondSafety Gate Co. RICHMOND, INDIANA q Manufadurcn Exclusively of Automatic Elevator Gates, Automatic Hatch. way Doors, Underwriters' Gravity Fire Doonl, Rich-m 0 n d Counterbalanced J r 0 n Doors, Richmond Horizontal Trolley Doors, Automatic Division Wall Doors and Shutte1'$. WRITE FOR CATALOGUE 37 THE CREDIT BUREAU OF THE FURNITURE TRADE Grand Rapids Office. 412-413 Houseman Bldg. GEO. E. GRAVES. Manager CLAPPERTON & OWEN, Counsel The LYON Furniture Agency THE STANDARD REFERENCE BOOK CAPITAL, CREDIT AND PAY RATINGS CLEARING HOUSE OF TRADE EXPERIENCE THE MOST REUABLE CREDIT REPORTS ROBERT P. LYON, General Manager CREDITS and COLLECTIONS MISCELLANEOUS ADVERTISEMENTS W,"-NTEH Cabinet ltJaker~ and gene1'al lIlachine hauch,. Address l\111skegonValley ~'t11'niturf' ('om-pany, 1I,1\l~k",.g-Gn. lI.Ii~1). 1)- Hi It. "" A:S'l'EH---T,int's. }o'o)' June, l:ti)Il, on eommissiorl. Long ex-pel'jenc"". extensivr acquaintance. Alldl'cSS Box 273 ear" of Miehig-n,n Arti>5<lIl. 4-10, 5-)'\ (i-l0. FOR 8AI.F.. Poplar. F,d .and white oak !umt:lPr, plain or quartr]'ed, also dimension stock. Cor- ~·esponde.ll.e(' s0licited. }\\.b~rt R. Kampt, ~7 Board of Trade Building Louisvill!~, Ky. 6t-2 10. \l'ANTJ!:D-Trll"eling SalNllnell To the: fUJ'niturp. trade. Pick up their ex-penses and mOl'e too, taking order", for 0'''' patent medidn<? cabinets. Salc!!m.en's out- :ilt free. VlTrite for It today. Spencel' Cab-inet Co., 456 Og-den ,\.\'('. Chicago, III 1-~-3-4-" 6-6m. l\'AN'l'J<:U-Venur jUan. ).fail to take charge of venfH'r room work-ing ten mfm. 1I'111St be f.amiliar with ve-neering case goods and beds, in mah<)gnny. bird':; eye maple, dc Must 1Ia\'e g'ood know}f\(lge or cutting and matching. .'\.d-oJ'ess 0., NIxe o{ Michigan _'\rtisan. ltj-, -1ll tt. ~""l~~ Double daily train service to New Orleans. Send for a free descriptive booklet. Connects with Southern Pacific Steamship leaving every Wednesday afternoon for Havana. Send for free illustrated folder on Cuba. Through tickets, rates, etc., of I. C. R. R. agents and those of connecting lines. A. H. HA.NSON, P"ss. TRAFFIC MClR., CHICAOO. S. O. HATCH, OENERAL. PASS. AGENT, CHICAGQ. COLLECTIONS MADE EVERYWHERE PROMPTLY-REUABLY "",,":NTEH-.U:.nHgt'l' of FUrJliturl!' nctJll1't-lllent, v.re are desirous of gdling a good II'; ..', wlt1e-awake luan to nutnflg-e our furui.ture OBpa,rtment, to tltke charge of sa]('l':, h;(')J stoek and help us out In our advel'ti~lng. The Street & Hal'per cornpan~", OklailOlila City, 0, T. ----:-c-~--- \\-','\:'Ii'l'ED-BclPlS Cabinet .\laker. Practical workman to lake e]Hlxge of cab-i. net rOflm, OIl. beu l'<lom furnHur\i', Hl.elliu-m gl'ade. Must Irarn to handle: abol!t :':5 men. Will give assistance for a reason:oLblc tlmf'. A.(ldn·ss 0., ell""'" of Miclligan Artisan 6-10-7·10 ~t. \\'A'STED-Positi41ll liS Salesman On salary with some f",dory to travel In Ohio ant)' \H,~te"'n Penm';ylv7l.n\.a. \\iiU make liheral cOJ[traet jf permit led to calTy a sjde line. A.ddress Val D. eeron, 6803 Frank,<;- town An'" Pittsburg, Fa. "l-l'agon<\[all:t>rs :\fachinery for Sale. Big 8argllil1~. McGovenl cOlllpr<'ssion tire settcr, spoke lennonf~T Dolt thread f:\ltter, tire bC1Hler, punch and Sh"'(I,I'S, all up-lo-llat.", machinery; ::10 horsep()\ver engine: 2 14-feet b(1il"rs, 42- Inch, 2~r~_inell rlue. Must be sold, ""a-tional \Vagou company, Baflkrupt; \Vm. r. l"esbitt, Trl)stPl', Big nap!([s, Mich. ii-11l, 6-10-:'t. ----~--- FOR 8iH.t<:-Ollf< 60 N. r, Engine. Atl,'tS ALlto.rnatie eut-off eng-ine in flrst-class CO/l<litlon. Karges .Wut'niture company, R,vansviH(', 1ri\1. C-IO-lt, fOR 50 CENTS We will mail the Factory Edition of the Michigan Arti-san to any address in the United States during the remain-der of the current year. Remit with order _. MIC"IGAN ARTISAN CO. Grand RapidS, Mich. "l-l'A]o,-TED-Commission Salesman To ca1'1'Y medium prked line of sidebolLl'ds, Chiffoniers and dressers in state of Ohio. 'Vhen applyinl!; state what liue,s you are now carl'~·ing. Addl''''SS "Furniture," cat·e of Michigan Artisan. 6-10-3t. l\:A;."VTRD-Expert ~'uremaD Cbnir Fjnisher. GOod wages and permanent posHion for a COlU\.lct",nt, reliable man, Address ","-urora, Chair COmpany, Aurora, Ind. 6-10-tf. WANTED-(}abinet \\'tlI'kers and Jrlaebiu0 ][unds, Also common fad.or)' handS, Steady work all yF.Rr l'Dull(l and at g-ood wages. Address 'l'he Hamilton Manufacturing company, Two Rivers, \V[s., or call at theiJ· factory at Two Rivers. 6-10, 7-10, 8-10 3t. WANTED-Cabinet )[akenl Awl mall thoroughly eompetcnt to run sticker. AddrF.ss, stating experience and salary ,van ted, The T. X, L. & Goshen Pump company, Goshen, Ind. 6-10-lt. WA)'lt,TTJ!:D-Posltion. By expel'ieneed foreman finisher nQW holding an important position. SatisfactoQ'reasons for d~si:rin~ a cl.HtngP. Adllress E. T., care of Michigan Artisan. _-,,:- _ ~IA:NC¥AC,TrRl:N(; OPPORTUNITY. i'iIew, splendIdly equipped furniture fac-tory for sale, raw material eOJlYenient, abun-dant and (:hcap. Local capital will take an interest lf desired. n. B, Chaffin company (Inc. l, Richmond, Va. 6-10-25-2t. W,\'STEI>-FlnJsber. I<~irst class man to take charge of finishing room, OlW good coat.er, one good rubber and polisher for wood manlel factory. Address i'iIo. 82 G.. Mlcl)igan Artisan. 6-1(l-lt. 'WANTED-Position A spindle C1Ll"Ver of twelv\\ YC\\,l'S \i!:lI:J}er-lence desires position as foreman in cal·V-ing department. Can furnish good r<~fer-enees. Address Cl\l.'ver, care of Michigan Artisan, 6-10-lt. --~-- "'-~-\NTEn-SI,l~an Aequa.intcd with factory trade, to hanClie our line of trucks and speeialties, on salarY 0\· l'.ommi\\15ion. Mlcy,lgan Manufacturing & LUlll,ber compaTJ~", Hotly, Mich. 6-10-tf, WAWTED--Po"ition by :E~peJ't Bookkeepel". Fiftep.n ~'ear", fact.ory accounting. High-est. references. For personal int.erview fLd.- dress "I. G,," care of Mjchlgan Artisan. 6-10-25-2t. SllM)IER COTTAGE FOR RENT • .'\..rare opportunity to rent one of the finest fully furnished summer cattages at Otta- Wa Beach, Mich.; has living room, dining room, kitchen a.nd six bed room!!-for July; also one for entire Mason. Particularly de-sIrable for a fUl'llitun~ man obllged to he ill Grand .Rapids, at the July sales, to enjoy a summer outing for himself and fam.uy. Ad-dress D., care of Michigan Artisan. 6-10-H. We Teach fURNITU~E DESIGNINli, ROD MAKING, and ~TO(K8IlLlNG By Mail.------ We find positiomfo .. CotnpetentStudenu. Orand Rapids School of Fumlturl!: Dtsignlng Houseman Building, OrandRapids.Mich. A. Kirkpatrick, !nstTU{1f1T. 38 INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS AdamI'; & Elting Co. American BloweI' Co. .lD Globe V18e &I; Tru:mk Co ... Goodrich Transportation Co. HoftmaD »rOB. CO. Holoomb, A. L., ,i; Co Hahn, Louis Hardware Supply Co. Hills. Clarence R. Illinois Centrlll R'y .. Jamed"own PRnel 8J "elH!6l' eu; . Kepperling. D. A. KlJnbaIlBros. Co. .1. Baldwin, Tuthill & Bolton. Burnes, \\'. 1'~.& Joo" Co. Barrett, M. L" &I; Co. • .88 .1S • ...•..•.• I> . .. 28 White Printing Company Engravers Printers Binders Electrotypers CATALOGS COMPLETE 2 to 20 LyonSt. GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. Ward, O. A. , .. Weatherly Co. Williams, F. B. Whfte Printing Co. Wood. Morri$ & Sons. Barrett-J ..indeman Co., The. Bata"\'la Clamp ell .... Bennett & Witte .. Berry Bros. Co.. Black Bros. Co.. Boynton Co... Burch, A. F., Co.. Buss l'lacblne 'Works .. . 21 . .. 33 • . .. 35 Lyon .Agency Marietta Paint & Color Co., l\lattison, C., Co., Machine l'\'Ol'ks. Memmer, George, &: Co. .Cover Brldgepol't "","QDd Jo'ini!lhlng Co ... Cha~e, lWberh & Co.. ChIcago MIl'l'tll' &: Art Gla88 00 .. Chieago 'Wood :Fillishlng Co. Clark, Walter CO'l'desman-lWchtin C(). Cyelllne Blow Pipe Co. Dully Artisan-Record Dodds, Alexander .. .Cover 4, ..... 11 Michigan Artisan Co. Michigan Central B'y. l\IiChigun Engraving Co .. MlBl'eJlan60us . Ornamental Products Co. Oti$ Manufacturing Co. Palmer, A. E .. Pere l\larqnette R'y .. ptt~burg Plate Glas8 CD... ROOdlng$'l', r. H., Carving ',"orks. Richey, Halsted &: Quick. Richmond Safety Gate Co. .Cover . .... 32 .12 . Duel', John, &: Sons. 5 5 2 .2. Edge, Frank, & Co•.... Jo'aJ" & Egan Co... }'ellwock Roll & Panel Go.. Fox. Maehtne Co •. . .32 Frauds ('bas. E., & Bro. Furniture COUl. Agency Co•. 1 • Shf:mer, Samuel J., && SODS. Southern Railroad Co ... Stepbenllon Man-,rl'aeturing Co. Toles, R'. C., Oompany ..... , .. llnl.on Embossing Macbine Co .. Walter, B., 61: Co.. Grand Rapids Blow Pipe &: D. A. Co.. 9 Grand Bapids n..aJls Co. . ~8 Grand Rapids Eugra-,.-ing Co. ' 16 Grand Rapids Electrotype .:co. 4 Grand :Rapid!! Hand Screw Co.. . ... Co-"'eJ' Grand Rapid$ & lndlana R'y. . .. 19 Grand Rapldhi ~kbool IIlf Furniture De-tIIignins: .37 Grand Rapidllo Wood Finilolhing Co. • ... 4 Grand Trunk R'y.. . ,17 GWette Boller Bearing Co.. . .... Covel" ·WY80ng & Miles Co. .. 32-33 ..9ft .28 .31 5 . ('..over • ' .. 37 .IS • ...... 87 .Cover .12 • .27 · .17 .27 '. _.37 . •. 23 ... 21 . ..... 17 5 1 ..12 . .. 28 ... . .. 4 · .28 4 · .29 .1-32 • .S< 5 • .S~17-S8 .. 32 . .. Covel' Cut Your Shellac Varnish Bills •In Half By using ZACO. It will do the work as well, quicker and at half the cost of shellac varnish. ZACO has been on the market for 12 years-increased sales proves its true worth. If you don't use ZACO its because you have never tried it. Send for sample and prices. Wit CAN ALSO SAVE YOU MONEY ON: I Wood Stains Dry or Liquid Wood Alcohol Pumice Stone Shellac Varnish White and Orange Gum Shellac Orange or Blea.ched SEND FOR. SA,MP LES and PR.ICES. M. L. BARRETT ®. CO. 219 Lake St••Dept.G. CHICAGO Did You Ever Figure the C~t of That La.t Blockade in Your Cabi-net Room? No Sir! Stock Does Not Accum-ulate in Our Cabinet Room. We Use a BUSS DOUBLE CUT OFF SAW and All of Our Dimension Stock is Absolutely Square at Both Ends. BUSS MACHINE WORKS, Holland, Mich. How Are YOU.Doing Your Re-Sawing--How Long Does ItRequire to MaKethe Different Adjustments. All realize the importance of a Band Re-Saw in furniture factories, but many do not give the adjustments the necessary attention-a thing that should be seriously considered. If you could secure a machine on which all the adjustments necessary to he made while the machine is in operation could be manipulated by the operator instantly and with-out leaviug his natural position wouldn't it be a profitable investment? Consider This-. On The Cordesman~Rechtin No. 3% Band Re-saw the rolls may be Instantly spread or closed, are self-cen-tering or one set can be locked stationary for sawing stock to a given thickness; feed Instantly stopped or started, and speed of same Instantly increased or de-creased: feed works instantly tilted for siding; top guide Instantly adjusted to any desired position; both guides may be Instantl'Y swung aside to give free, access to saw, as in changing blades; top wheel Instantly ad-justed to give desired lead to saw-in fact every ad-justment is Instantaneous. Machine weighs full 4200 Ibs.; carries a 4 In. blade; re-saW5up to 24 loe,," wide and 8 lo&hu thick. THE CORDESMAN-RECHTIN COMPANY Dept. A, CINCINNATI, O. No. 3J' SAND RE·SAW. tilts installation means profit:- I l A Perfect Case Construction Makes the It is Entirely Strongest, Automatic. .It Clam.ps. Most Mortises and Economical Releases, Completing and Most the Post Accurate in less time than the Case Material can be Construction Clamped:on Other Possible Machines ~ ~ No. 119 N!ulUDleSqua.I'~'Chl.el Mortl~er Wysong &. Miles Co.•CedarSt.andSo.R.R. Greensboro. N. C. A New Dowel and Socket FOR DINING ROOM TABLES ~ Both sides bored with the same double bit-only one handling of stock when boring. !!I We have also the very latest thing in Push Buttuu Catchesfor Book Case and Qabinet Doors. The best thing yet made in this line.
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- 1906-06-10T00:00:00Z
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- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Collection:
- 26:23
- Notes:
- Issue of a magazine published in Grand Rapids, Mich. Created by the Peninsular Club. Published monthly. Began publication in 1934. Publication ended approximately 1960.
- Date Created:
- 1940-11-01T00:00:00Z
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- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Collection:
- Volume 8, Number 11
- Notes:
- Robert Loomis records in his diary the decisions of the Court House Building Commision and his travels.
- Date Created:
- 1889-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Issue of a furniture trade magazine published in Grand Rapids, Mich. It was published twice monthly, beginning in 1880. and ----- ----~ GRAND RAPIDS Twenty=Eighth Yea.r-No. 6 SEPTEMBER 25. 1901 Semi-Monthly , Colonial Dining· Room Pieces FROM THE LINE OF' t "THE ....-: BETTER MAKE" I &- ~ WE HAVE OVER400PIECESIN OURLINE· Bedroom and Dining Room Furniture ----SUITES TO MATCH---- NELSON~MATTER FURNITURE COMPANY GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Factory and Salesroom. 37 Canal Streel Catalogues 10 Dealers. on Heavy Plate Paper. I A Brand New Line of Library Furniture Beautiful PiecBs·Moderate Prices Have you st"enour handsome new catalogue of Mission Library Furniture? It shows some of the prettiest designs that ever met your eye. You know that Mission Library Furniture is al1the fad just now. Every-one wants it if he can get it cheaply enough. On this page you will see some very pretty and popular pieces at very moderate prices. You will certainly want a few on your floor, even if you do not put in complete sets. No better workmanship can be had in this country than you will find up-on these very library pieces. The workmanship will Slltisfy the most exact-ing. You can sell our lower priced articles easily where you have bet'inin the habit of selling higher priced, and you wiII find a new market that you have . not yet been able to touch. Drop us a postal card today (or the Complete Spedal Catalogue of MiJSirm Lihrary Furniture just issued. NnRTHERN FURNITURE COMPANY SHEBOYGAN, WISCONSrN - - ------------- 1 Our New"_ntl and Foot Power Circular Saw No. 4 Tb~ strongest, most powerful, and in every way the best machine of its kind ever made, for ripping, cros.-cuttlng, boring and grooving. Cabinet Makers In these days of close competition, need the beat poslilib:le equipment, and this they can ha.ve in . . • • BARNES' Hand and Foot POWER Machinery Send for our New Catalogue. "W. F. at JOHN BARNES CO 654 I\..uby Street. I\..ochford. Ill. The White Directory CONTAINS A CAREFULLY COMPILED LIST OF MANUFACTURERS OF FURNITURE, PIANOS, ORGANS, INTERIOR FINISHES AND KINDRED INDUSTRIES Now Ready. Send inyour order. WHITE PRINTING COMPANY PRINTERS, ENGRAVERS, PUBLISHERS, BINDERS 2-20 LYONST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Murphy Chair Co. MANUFACTURERS DETROIT, MICH, A COMPLE.TE LINE. MANUFACTURERS OF HARDWOOD ~~~~~~~ SPECIALTIES: g1'Y'WEM&QUAR.OAK VENEERS MAHOGANY VENEERS HOFFMAN BROTHERS COMPANY BD4 W. Main SI" FORT WAYNE, INDIANA SPRATT'S CHAIRS ARE THE JOY OF THE CHILDREN. Our new CHILD'S MISSION ROCKER was a winner from the starr. Wril~for (Atal~ut ami prim. Our line is large and prices are right. We make CHAIRS fo' GROWN· UPS as well aI CHILDREN. GEORGE SPRATT & CO. Sheboygan, Wis. Say you Jaw thir ad in tbe M;chiglJn Arti-fan, Robbins Tabl6 60. Owosso, Mi6hlaan No. 3HI. AMERICAN OAK. 44x48 IN. TOP, AMERICAN BASE. 7 IN. PILLAR. Sligh's Superior Styles Sold All Through the Season Dull Trade is Unknown by Dealers Handling the SLIGH LINES. 'II THE JULY SEASON'S SALES OF SLIGH GOODS A RECORD BREAKER. lJ CORRECT STYLES, GOOD MATERIALS AND HONEST WORKMANSHIP, STRONG FEATURES fN THE SLIGH LINES, SLIGH FURNITURE COMPANY, BUCHANAN STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC LIBRARY 28th.Year-No.6. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., SEPTEMBER 25, 1907. $1.00 per Year. THE TELEPHONE IN BUSINESS. Should Never Be U~ed in Deals of Supreme Importance. "The telephone is of incalculable benefit to the bu"incss man, but it is like all other good things. It must be used ·wisely and temperately." Thus Robert Garland, president and gencral manager of the Garland Furniture Company, jobbers, addressed l1imseH to a coterie of chums. "For instance ?" This from Hadley, who, somehow. had a knack of excit-ing contention whenever opportunity offered, 'The tekphone," contil11.tcd Garland, "is all right in its place, but it has its limitations. Here's your 'fof ill stance,' Hadley. If you wanted to touch a man for ten, a man who had no special interest in you, you would hardly ask for the favor over the "w.ire? Eh? You'd be certain to be turned down. \Vbcreas, if you met him face to face and gave him a good talk, al1d hypnotized him \"ith your personality, you might succeed in separating him from his money. This is an instance whcre the 'phone -is a rank outsider, (',xcept to the touchec." "Your argument is all right," ueclared l"feyers, "only you don't go far e()ough. For instance, if yOIl wanted to secure an order fro111.an uncertain firm, or collect a bill, you wouldn't go at it by 'phone, would you? To my mind, the telephone is a nuisance in a bU1;iness office. How maIlY times have you, talking face to face with a buyer, got him dmvl1 to the order point, and had him called away to allS..,Ner the 'phone. And when lJC returned it was all off. I won't bave one of the macbines in my office." "But you might be the one called <lway from the enter-prising salesman." cut in Hall. "'Then the 'phone might !',ave you money." "Oh, we've got to have the :->crvice/' said Garland. "I've got my clerks trained so that they ne~'cr use it ex<:.ept in ca!',cs of importance. I'll fire the j"irst man I c1tch cDllect-ing, soliciting or talking privately over the 'phone. They all understand it, too. They know me." "You think you have." laughed I-ladley. "but you just sncak into your place some day <lJ1dsee wbat is going on over the wire. The telephone is a mighty handy thing, but office people have a habit of ,',..orking along the line of least resis-tance. You try it, Garland." This is why Garland stole into his place of busitles~ one day and sat dO,""n in a corner ,""here no one saw him. He wanted to prove to himself that his office employes were loyal to orders and all right generally. One of his city salesman sat at the telephone table, palm of hand on cheek bone, receiver to left ear. His whole at-titude cxpre~sed luxmiolls ease and utter lack of haste or hurry. His hair was nicely parted in the middle, his coat was free of dust or ..,,,rinkle, he talked into the transmitter in a drawling tone ,,, ...hicb \vas not at aU like brisk hllsiness con-versation. In a moment Garland realized that the fellow was soliciting orders by telephone! l'\ow, Garland is a red-headed man, Besides being red-headed, he has reddish mutton-chop whiskers thriving on his square jaws. The hair was pushed forward in front of his eats, while the mutton-chops were brushed forward. He was Quick and energetic in movement, and, as he moved ahout, he gave one the impression that somewhere in his rear there was a strong gale blowing him forward. He almost foamed at the mouth as he heard the sale!i'man soliciting orders and jokil1g-aciually joking!-over the tele-phone. "Say," said the voice at the 'phone, "if you want"another lot of those oak chairs you'd better get a move on. Ever hear the story of the somebody or other who was late ~t the wcddillg? 011, the:re's no wedding. That was just a joke. You've just ordered from the Boston man? Well, 1m sorry, but I couldn't get over there thls mOTnlng. You don't give orders by 'phone.? Quite right! Save the next one for nle." By this time Garlanu was puffing with suppressed wrath. He opcned and shut a pair of powcrful hands, following the animal instinct of a strongman in anger, and would have thrown something .at tlle salesman, only he wanted to remain unnoticed a little longer. So this was his well trained officc OUUSP[CIAlIMPtRIAl wrATnrUrD OAK Oil STAin is the standard all over America. Are YOli using it? 4 force? The salesman was losing an old customer who might have been retained in a personal interview. In fad, the man at the other end had said that no orders were given by 'phone. Garland mentally said things about the 'phone and about unruly salesmen, but kept his seat- The salesman called another number and dropped into his drawl again. Then: "HeHo! Is that Maybury & Co.? That you, Billy? _",There did you go last night? Oh, I guess you wasn't the .only one in the Bad LandE>! I reckon the sidewalk was tip-ping some! Pardon me! Thought it was Billy. Just a joke we have between us. Ko, I didn't see him last night. Called you up to ask aboLlt the chairs. We have a new lot out, and if you want-" The red-headed mall almost bumped his head against the wall. Here was another order lost! His fingers ached to get at the salesman. Personally, he never used the 'phone except ",·,rhenhe hadn't the nerve to countermand an order in person or turn down a request for financial assistance or to inform his wife that he would not be home until late. and here was'this salesman-. vVell, he WQuld soon see where he got off! The salesman called another number. said: "Hello! Dalton &. Co.? This is Garland's. Thought I'd let you know that the new chairs are out. Oh, I can drop over there Hnecessary, "!?ut-. What? You have giv-en the order to Sliver & Co.? Tl1at's too bad. See you future.~' The salesman rung off. Three good customers and not an order! Garland's hair and whiskers now stood out like a cyclone from the vicinity of Medicine Hat \"la5 urging them forward. He could stand it no looger. With a rush whi{".h knocked the salesman from his chair, he grabbed the receiver. "If I had a dozen like you," he shouted, "I'd be out on a blind siding somewhere making bark furniture. How long have you been running this salesman act by electricity? Get out!'! The salesman picked himself up and tried to say some-thing, but there was a strange contraction in his throat and his lips were too dry to form the words he sought to use. If his hair hadn't been plastered down 50 securely it would have stood on end. There was a call from the 'phone and Garland placed the receiver to his ear. The call was from the factory. "Say, that was your fault about these tables," said the voice of the superintendent. "You did say curved legs in-stead of carved legs, and I've got to make them over again. I don't know what the old man will say. You want to cut out this giving information by 'phone." Garland felt like beating the salesman over the head with the recei·,ier. In fact. he might have done so, only for an~ other can of the 'phone. "Hello! Say, you old lobster, come over here Clnd take those buffets away. r wouldn't exhibit them at a dog fight. If you can't-" Garland rang off and turned to the salesman, standing cowed and ashamed before the desk. "You're a peach," he began, and then the bell rang. Won-dering if the 'phone was always in action, he Hstened. 'IYou're a nice old skate," came over the wire. "If I catch you about my daughter again, I'H hand you a few good ones. I don't know how you got out, but you'd better go back to your old room at the Zoo." Garland looked like a man about to throw a fit. pounded the receiver on the desk and said things which were long remembered to his discredit by the office girls. He shouted: "Hald on! Who was it? This is what he Central! Get that number for me again. Oh, yeu don't think you know] How would you bke to sit on a rock and play goddess of liberty? This thinking part you seem to have is too strong for you. Oh, you'll report the 'phone, will you? All right. Now, you may go back to your dream of little Reginald." Garland turned to the salesman. "You get out," he said. "I want the space you occupy. I'm going to put this telephone in an air-tight closet, and the man who uses it will have to show the head bookkeeper be-fore he gets in. I've been beaten out of a thousand dollars' worth of orders by it, and called a lobster and a skate. 'Get out." The salesman left in a rage, and flOW the man who uses the 'phone at Garland's must simply make a date for a per-sonal interview, if necessary, and ring off. All of which goes to show that Garland was right. A telephone is a handy thing, a necessary thing, 1n an office, but it must be used sparingly and with good judgment. A business 'phone is not for lovers, or order-seekers, or col-lectors. It is just to say thing;s to people when you haven't got the moral courage to face them! At least, that seems to be an important function of the machinel ALFRED B. TOZER. Keep Cool and Watch for Opportunities. Business hysteria is bad, no matter which form it takes, whether it leads its victim to recklessly plunge on toward the foot of the rainbow, or solemnly assures him that the country is on the high road to destruction Yet this SOTtof hysteria runs in epidemic form all over the country rq,rularly. The men who retain their m(',utal equilibrium are the ones who are able to reap fortune no matter which form the hys-teria takes. Keep cool and look out for the opportunities which bob up continually. It may be referred to as SELECTION "0", withoul special" ly naming Grades and 0.lJantities. SEND US AN ORDER FOR SELECTION" 0" ~~'\\~~~.-<:\ • He 24~255 So. c.nal St.. ·r_ -:. CHICAGO. ILUNOIS like cui, K, D. .FREE Wilh an order for Ihe fonowing 50" lection of 'SANI!~~ PILLOWS we will include a SANITARY DISPLAY RACK 3 Pl"S. 6 lb. Cbeny @ 95c .3 pl'1l. i lb. Olive@$I.3.5 3 pn. 611:.. Peach (i.ij \.7S 3 prs. i lb. Pear @ 2.10 3 )m. b lb. Plum @ 2.40 This Rack will in~ crease your Pil~ low Sales 100% 5 HAND CIRCULAR RlP SAW MORTISER COMBlNED MACHINE No.4 SA\'1 (ready for cross-cutting) Complete Outfit of HAND and FOOT POWER MACHINERY - WHY THEY f'AY THE: CABINET MAKER He call savo;:a maIlufa~turer's profit as wen as a dealer's profit He call make more loOney with less capita] invested He,can hold a better and more satisiilCtl)fY trade with his customers. He can manufacture in as good style and finish. and at as low cost as th(>o factories. The local cahinet maker bas been forced illto only the dealer's trade and profit, because of machine manUfaCl\lred g-oads of fact.ories. An olltfit of Barnes Patellt Fo<.>t and HalH1-Power MachLnery, reinstates the cabiuet mak,,"r with adv:.Lntag:es equal to his competitors. If desired, these machines will be sold or~trial. Tbe purchaser can have ample time to tes! t1~em in hl« own shop !!"nd~11the; work he wishes them. to do. Descnpttv, catalogue and prtce /tst free. W. f. &. JonN BARNES CO.,654 RUby St._ Rockford, III. FORMER OR MOULDER ART IN TRADES CLUB FORMED. Employes of Furnishing Houses to Give Course of Lectures. One hundred representatives of leading dry goods, decor-ating and furnishing houses of :t'\ ew York have just formed, with tbc snpport of their firms, an Art in Trades Club, with quarters at the Vv'est Side Y. ill. C. A. The club, which is composed of the graduates of the night cout"ses 1n art in house furnishing and decorating, "will offer post-graduate courses in artistic and technical education as applied to the selling of decorative material and costuming. The club will hold fortnightly meetings, at "which the speakers will alter-nate between leading artists, designers and architects, who will disucss theories of art, and experts from the various trades .• vho will take up applied art. A larg"e number of firms have each volunteered to lend aid to the club, and alsO'the regular class in art, furnishing $1.000 worth of material for use ill practical demonstrations. The officers of the club are: President, \V. S. Coffin of Vll. & J. Sloane; vice president, George Snyder of Flint's; treasurer, Rutledge Smith of Altmal1's; secretary, Edward Hammett of J. H, Thorpe.-New York CommerciaL Did Not Get Cash Enough. Strange as it may seem, we recently noticed a cash-only store closed up, and bankruptcy proceedings have started. This is a seven-days' wonder, for we have been given to un-derstand that a cash business would lead to all material pros- HAND TENONER No. S WOOD LATHE No. 4, SAW (rea.dyfonipping) perity and give the possessor health, happiness and all good things along ,,,.·ith fortune. Yet here was one who failed ignobly. How did it happen? V'le do not know the par-ticulars, but we presume that he did not get cash enougll. That is the main drawback to a purely cash business. Vve adhere to our belief that the bulk of the business of the world will continue to be conducted along credit lines, and that the problem of credits lies in improving the system rather than abolishing it entirely. Cash stores are all right, but their ["le1dof operations is restricted and limited.-Oregon Tradesman. No, '1 SCROLL SAW Expert Legal Advice. HIt's this way," explained the client. "The fence runs between Brown's place and minc. He claims tlUI! I en-croach on his land, and I insist that he is trespassing on mine. ~ow, what would you do if you were in my place?" "If I were in your place," replied the lawye.r, "I'd go over and give Brown a cigar, take a drink with him and settle the CClltro~'-ersyin ten minutes. But, as things stand. I advise you to sue him by all means. Let no arrogant, domi-neering, insolent pirate like Brown trample on your sacred rights. Assert your manhood and courage. I need the money."-London Tid-Bits. "Honest merchandise has something else than price. It has quality, grace, strength and fashion, and, if it is wholly right, a touch of art." 6 WARNING! No. 50. Imitation Spanish Leather Velour Plain Imitation Leather Embossed Imitation Leather Spring Seat $5.50 5.50 5.50 5.75 6.25 WARNING! We are the owners of the patents and design patents of this line of K. D. Rock.- ers. No one has authority to make these Rock.ers and we will prosecute all infringers and deal-ers who buy of in-fringers. Send. your orders direct to us by mail or give them to our salesmen who are covering tbe entire United Slates, WARNING! No. 52. Imitation Sptlnisb Leather Velour Plai.n Imi.tation Leather Emb~ed Imitation Leather Spnng Seat $6.50 6.50 6.50 6.75 7.25 STANDARD CHAIR COMPANY, EVAN5VILLE. INDIANA. ago, wh"en for the 'steenth time I was hunting rooms in New YorkJ I learned of the possibilities of the commercial fur-nished apartment and since that time, whenever I have found myself in for a several months stay in New York, I've hunt-ed up a neat little furnished flat alJd lived in comfort. "The flat I now have is in a very decent building, with tel-ephone and hall service, in a very decent Harlem neighbor-hood. It contains four good light roon:.s of a respectable size and rents for $40 a month." The New York woman paused, but the woman from the West still sat wrapped in thought. At last she looked up. "Well," she remarked slowly, "it's a discovery. I shall cer-tainly made it <;I. point to interview that phenomenally intelli-gent and scrupulous agent of yours without delay, but I con-fess that I could consider the arrangement only as a mere temporary expedient. "I can't conceive how you can put up with such a way of life as a permanent, established thing. Don't you sometimes long for a real home, a place where you can have your own things about you and which you can invest with your own charactcr and individuality?" "Not 11" ejaculated the New York woman, promptly. "To me the idea if getting together the heterogeneous collec-tion of things that makes up a h~:)Usekeepingoutfit and then sitting down in the midst of it for the rest of my days, even to invest it with character and individuality, constitutes my conception of Egyptian bondage. "Long ago I made up my mind that money that could be spent to bring me the spiritual delights of music, books, pic-tures, travel and the theatre, was absolutely wasted on ma-terial joys such as Turkish rugs and old mahogany. I want to be free to move around, to go to the country for the sum-mer, or to California for the winter without having to pay double rent or without having to worry about finding a tenant who will not pour boiling water over my cut glass or use my embroidered napkins for dish towels, and to change my abiding place without l1<lvingto call in the expensive assist-ance of the moving van, if the man across the way sets up a phonograph or the woman next door invests in a parrot. "Personally, I believe that the time is coming when we shall be able to rent most of the necessary equipment with our dwellings quite as a matter of course. Vle already rent our cook stoves with our flats. "It seems to me perfectly logical to look forward to a day when we shall rent our pots and kettles with them ,too. In many of the better class of apartments a beginning has al-ready been made in tile sldeboards that have been built into the walls. Why shouldn't the dining table and chairs be added? "The humblest flats nowadays have the refrigerator and the window shades furnished. Why shouldn't the flat of the future be equipped with beds and tables and chairs and win-dow curtains?" ")'[ine wou't," said the woman from the West, nrmly. "Oh, yes it will," smiled the New York woman, "And, furthermore, when you have become reconciled to the comfort and convenience of having a ready-to-live-in home you will be setting your face with determination against a movement that will then be threatening to take away from you even your rented kitchen utensils. ffSome of these days, sure as you're born, your food will be cooked not in your own little private kitchen, but in a gigan-tic public kitchen on the top floor of your apartment build-ing and sent down to you between hot covers on a dumb waiter." "Not mine/' said the woman from the West, setting her lips firmly. "Wait and see," said the New York woman, with a smile. -Sun. SMILING AT WALL STREET. What E. H. Foote of Grand Rapids Says of Conditions on the Coast. "Oh, I had a fine trip, everything was lovely and T enjoyed it immensely," said E. H. Foote, secretary and treasurer of the Grand Rapids Chair eOmpall)', who had just returned 7 along-lots of it. The cities farther north, Portland, Seattle, Tacoma and the smaller towns are also flourishing, They are growing wonderfully, and their growth is of the permanent kind, not a temporary boom. "I did not hear anything about· tight money, a haIt or re-action in business in the Wcst. The people out there simply smile at the troubles of the Walt street speculators. They have not felt the scarcity of money that is reported in E. H. FOOTE. from a flV0 weeks' trip in the "Vest, most of the time being spent on the Pacific coast. "1 ,vent for pleasure and did not pay much attention to husiness affairs," he continued, "but I can assure you that conditions arc good in the 'lv' est, especially so in the cities on the coast. "Things have settled do·wn somewhat in San Francisco. They have labor troubles there yet-seems they always will have them-but they are doing business of all kinds right the East and they do not expect to, so they arc not worrying. \Vhy should they? A flurry in \Vall street does not mean what it did a few years ago to the rest of the country. That is ~ g'ood feature in the present situation, a11(1it promises well for the future. The \Vest has become quite independent in a financial ,vay. It will require something more serious than a decline in Wall street securities· to call a halt in the business operations and general prosperity of the 'Great West:" 8 -"'~M.19.HIG7!N $ A WONDERFUL BEDSTEAD. Inventor Worked in a .Combination of Fire-Escape and Burglar Alarm. He was long and lean, and looked like he had been starv-ing on the meagre lunch route for many moons. His clothing was all to the bad, and his face looked as if the bunch of hoboes he had been touring with had lost their only razor. He walked wth an uncertain step, doubtess caused by long practice on the ties which railroad companies persist in dis-tributing along rights of way at unequal distances. He was Grand Rapids Caster Cup Co. 2 Parkwood Avo., Grand Rapids, Mich. We are now putting on the best ("aster Cups with cork bases eve-r offered to the trade. These are finished III Goldell Oak and While Maple In a light finish. These goods are admirable for polished floors and furn-iture rests. They will not sweat or mar. PRICES: Size2U iuches...... $4.00 per hundred Size2%inches" -.• - 5.00 per hundred Try a Sample Ot'r:ler. F. O. B. Grand Rapidl. a tramp, all right, but he had the appearance of being a su-perior sort of a tramp, one given to talking much and toiling not at all. Kennett, designer at the Oakville factory, found him sit-tillg by the long table when he returned from the manager's office. The long table was well covered with sketches and plans, and the designer's first notion was that the visitor was there to absorb some of the designs, which were about ready for the market. ""Vhat do you want here," he demanded. ;;Just dropped in."- "vVe11, suppose yOti just drop out. "Ve do not receive guests here, and, besides, this is not 'visitors' day_ Get out." 'T'm a furniture man myself, sir, and 1-" "Where is your factory?" asked the designer. "I haven't got a factory-yet! I'm an inventor." The visitor paused to rub one side of a broken nose with a long and dirty forefinger. He looked like_he hadn't slept in a month, and the spot under the rope which held up the waistband of his trousers was of the ingrowing kind. He looked hungry as well as sleepy. The office cub drew a pencil sketch of a bum asleep on the sunny side of a haystack, with a drove of pigs nosing about him, and threw it over to Kcnnett. "If you are 311 inventor," the designer said, "you must have something to show me. Of c'ourse, you came up here ~o show me how to make furniture." "I've got something to show," said the tramp, with as-sumed dignity, but before I do so I want you to promise me that you won't use the idea without sharing the profits with me. I want my bit out of this." "All right," rcpficd the designer. thinking that the easiest way out of the scrape was to listen for a moment and then turn the· proposition down cold. The visitor took a roll of paper from his pocket. As he spread it out on the table the designer saw that it was dirty paper, worn almost through here and there where anxious and impatient hands had dwelt UpOllit. It v,:as covered with marks which represented a cross bctween a bedstead and a nightmare. "This," said the visitor, "is a patent bedstead. got the patent yet. I'm waiting to interest some party in the invention It costs a lot of money ents." I haven't responsible to get pat- Then the designer: "You don't call that a bedstead? What are those funny little attachments for?" "This one," replied the tramp, ;;is the burglar alarm. ~at-urally, when a burglar enters a house to burgle he approaches the bed whereon the master of the house is sleeping. I have heard that people having money to carryover to the next day place it under their pillows. I have never had exper-ience carrying money over to the next day. Well, when the burglar approaches the bed he naturally touches this front rail as he bends over to search under the pillow. Now, here's the beauty of this part of the invention. When the burglar touches the rail, this little kedewy reaches out and grabs him, and-" "Does what?" gasped the designer. "Reaches out and grabs him. Throws out these strong steel arms, represented here by red lines, and seizes him around the waist, pinning his arms to his sides. Then the sleeping man awakes and does the rest. Now, this feature of the invention is nqt the most important one, as you shall soon see, but it ought to be sufficient to make the fort:unC' of any company making those bedsteads. I'm thinking of putting in an attachment which will blow chloroform in the face of the burglar and put him to sleep if he becomes vio-lent." The designer threw -himself back in his chair and laughed. "Ah," said the tramp, ;;you may· make merry over the idea if you choose, but think, think, young man, of w'hat might be your fate should a burglar come to burgle' your house in the dead of night, and creep, creep, creep through the dark rooms and stand in silence beside your couch-and you with-out this patent, adjustable, sure-thing, quick-action burglar alarm." "I don't see how I've got along without one as long as I have," said Kennett. The visitor failed to fir:d the frost in the voice and the face Made by Palmer Mfg. Co., Detroit, Mich. of the designer. He took a stub of a pencil frottl his pocket and traced another set of lines on the rough drawing. "Here is the most important feature of my invention," he said. "When you comprehend the mighty possibilities of the thing you cannot refuse to put it on the market. Joined to the comfort of a superior bed and a money-protecting burglar alarm, we have' here a patent, neck-saving, fire-defy- ing Gre escape-all in one bedstead, the place of rest, the burglar alarm and the fire escape." The designer bacl«~d ;nvay for a moment, but the fellow looked harmless eHoug'h, so he stepped nearer to the draw-ing. "So that is a rlre escape?" "The best one ever invellted, sir." "How does it \vork?" "You see these lines? Yes. vVell, they represent coiled ,wires. This black mark is the end of tbe coil. Observe thi;; spring. You \·vind this spring with a key. For a big lTlilll you wind it just so tight, [or a thill man not so hard. See? "I presume that tbis machine w·ill wake you out of a sound sleep when the hntlse bIkes fire, carry you to the window, and Made by Woodard Furniture Co., OWOBBO, MIch. let you dowll to the gultmd without a jar. Haven't you got an attachment concealed somewhere that ,,,ill go back into a burning" house and bring oUt a lost dog or a bundle of valuable papers ?. The tramp looked da7ed for a moment. but \vent on with h1s explanation, draV\ling his pencil over the half-obliterated lines. "These wires," l~c said, ;'are coiled under the inattress. Vv'hell you awake in the night and hear the flames roaring outside your door. when you see death in the form of smoke creeping toward Y01.\, you dump the n"lathess off the bedstead, take hold of this el:d of the wire coil and hasten with it to the window You thrm,v it Ollt, place your feet on this bar. and dO"I'·nyou go." HAnd the ambulance does tbe rest?" "No, sir, you drop down like a child asleep in a swilLg. The coil Ullwinds ;lnd bnds yOLion the gTound without a bump. Think of the lives tbat l1~ight be saved by this anti-lllll"g-hr, anti-suffocation bedstead on the market. vVill it sell? "rill any sane man buy an:y other when he call get tbis one ?" Don't you think it is--er-rather complicated?" "As ,;imple as a haby's dream, sir! The wires never get crossed, the spring never balks, the action is ever perfect. Em ....much royalty will yOIl give me per dozen?" The cub designer dro;-wa picture of a man falling out of a tellth story window with a tangle of wires on top of him and threw 1t over to tl1l2boss. "V'>le have our designs out for next year," said the de-signer. "Suppose I put an attachment on here tbat will get up 7I1'<.-T I .sJU\I i 9 7 e 9 in the night and walk the floor with the pride of your heart. \Vould that make any difference?!J "I'm afraid not." "The possibilities of the tbing are incalculable," pcrsisted the visitor. "If I put in a little device for making the morn-ing cocktail, would that help any?" The designer sbook his head, and the cub drew a picture of a bedstead with the head of a bear and tbe tail of a ser-pellt. "The trouble ,vith you furniture makers is that you follow beaten trails," argued tbe tramp. "Some day some fellow with red blood in his veins will start a factory and put yOti all to the bad. Do you think you could loan me a dollar on these drawings? I want to wire a man who wants to put a half million into this thing." ';Not today." The cub drew a picture of a lean bedstead looking in at a restaurant window, and tossed it to Kennett. ''If you had a meal ticket, or something like that, 1-" Kennett threw out a quarter. "This is for the entertainment," he said. "Yes," said the inventor, "I thought so. The drawings are winners! Ta-ta-ta! They may serve again." ALFRED B. TOZER vVe imagine that the postmaster general thought he eould placate tbe retail dealers by offering them a parcels posts rneaBure with a limit set at ten pounds. If he did, he has made a mistake. Ten pounds ,viI! be enough to ruin a good many merchants and place a terrible handicap upon them in their struggle with the mail order hOllses.-Oregon Trades-man. The prices charged for carrying ten poundB, or any num-ber of pounds, for that matter, by the express companies, will ruin any business, if long contiuued. If ruin is to come, wou1d it not be just as well jf it were handed out by the gov-ernment as by the express trust? c. n. Moller's Sons of Cambridge, l\.lass., derive much publicity by driving a van through the several Cambridges, Arlington, \\iinehester and other towns of the neighborhood, upon which is placed a "box scene," to employ a theatrical term, containing a completely furnished parlor, bedroom, din-ing room or library. A large placard reads: "Save your dollars; trade at .:'oilo11er's." Prosperity will not attelld the merchant who allows too much latitude in bis book accolmts. The D. & B. Line Steamers leave Detroit weekdays at 5:00 p.m., Sundaysat4:00 p. m. (central time) andfrom Buffato daily at 5:30 p.m. (e~lsterntime) ~ reaching their destinationthe next ,,- morning. Direct connections with early trains. Lowest ratcs and superior service to New Yark, Boston, Philadelphia,Atlantic City, all poi-nts east. 1" Popular week end excursions to ~' Buffalo and Niagara Falls, leave Detroit every Saturday. RAIL TICKETS AVAILABLE ON STEAMERS All classes o'f tickera sol<! reading: via Mkhi~n Central. Wabash and G1'lInd Trullk railwa}'s between Detroit and 'Bllffalo in either direction will be accepted for transporta!lon on D. '" B. Une Steamers. Send 2c. stamp for illustrated pamph)etand Great Lakes m:lp. Address: L. G. LEWIS, G. P. A. DETROIT & BUFFALO STEAMBOAT CO., Delroll, Mich. PHILIP H. MCMlI.LAN. VICE·PRE$. A. A. SCHANTZ. GEN. MGR:, 10 THE READY-TO-LIVE_IN HOMES. Renting Furnished Flats a Business in New York-Every-thing the Nomad Needs in His Temporary Quarters. "Why don't you rent a furnished apartment?" said the well seasoned New Yorker to her. green fri,end from the West in answer to a bitter complaint in regard to the difficulty of finding living accommodations. "Chiefly because 'llObody wants t~ rent an apartmcnt for the winter," replied the other, "unless New York is different from any other city I have eyer lived in." "That's just the point; it is," said the Kew York woman. "In New York when we waut a thing we don't have to rely on the lucky chance of somebody else wanting to get rid of it. Vl,lejust step out and get what the evolved commercial-ism of the metropolis has pTovick~d for the filling of every human need. "If you want to rent a furnished apartment you don't have to go prowling around among your friends and acquaintances for a chance to sub-let. You go to the renting agencies. They have furnished apartrr,ents in all styles 'and sizes and STAR CASTER CUP CO. NORTH UNION STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, "-'leM. (PATE2'lT APPLlE:D FOR) We bave adopted cellulQld as a base for our Casler Cups, makillg the best cur on the market. Celluloid is a great improvem~lll over bases made 0 other material. When it is necessary to move a pi. ce supported by cups with celluloid bases it can be done with ease, as the bal'es are per-fectly smooth. (·elluloid dot's nol sweat. and hy the use of these cup~ tables are ne"",r marred_ These cups are finished in Gold"'l1 Oak ~nd White Maple, finished light. If you will try a sample order of thelle yooels you will desire to halldle them, in q-uantUtu. PRICES: Size2}.J: Illches $5.50per hUlIdred. Size 2U inches , .. 4.50 per hundred. f. o. b. Grand Rapids. TRY A SAMPLE ORIJER. they will rent them to you by the week, month or year at prices ranging from $30 to a couple of hundred a month. "The best part of the scheme is that you don't have to camp down in the midst of some other person's intimate be-longings or promise not to use the best silver or the linen napkins_ The apartments are furnished with essentials only and you can import your own gimcracks and geegaws and be monarch of all you survey. aYes, and pay more for the privilege than it would take to buy the whole outfit. Not I," sniffed the woman from the West. "I krlOW your Ncw York specula toe He doesn't get me into his toils." UNo, reaHy," expostulated the New York woman. "You do the furnished apartment renter an injustice. It is true that formerly the business was in the hands of a rather un-scrupulous set of people, but recently it has become respect-able. "Some of the big real estate companies are going into it and furnishing apartments for housekeeping in the better class of houses in first rate style. The furnishings are not only not cheap and flimsy, but thcy are chosen with taste and discernment. "The dining room and kitchen equipments are usually surprisingly well balanced and complete. Silver, table linen, towels, china and bedding are included, and as a rule, they are of exceIIent quality. "Furthermore, the agents, who are chiefly women, by the way, seem to have discovered the important fact that in renting a place furnished people want to be as free as possible from the idiosyncrasies of pronounced individual tastes. Most of the better class of apartment that I have seen, and I flat-ter myself that I have seen a good many, for I have just rented one for myself, are decorated with the plain carton papers, furnished with good, plain pieces of Flemish oak built in the simple obvious Jines, hung with draperies of plain denim, curtained with dainty white muslin and carpeted with rugs of inconspicuous pattern and harmonious color. "This sort of equipment gives just the neutral and non-committal background against which the bo.oks and pictures, the objects of art and other small personal belongings that even permanently homeless people usually carry about with them, can be made to show np in such a way as to give real character and individuality." "But even so," said the woman from the Wcst, "don't you think that it's an extravagant way to live. Don't you think that one would pay more for her furniture in rent than it would cost her to buy it?" "Very probably," said the pose you don't want to buy want to own anything? "There are literally hundreds of people in New York ...no don't. They are all fully alive to the comfort and con-venience and cheapness of light housekeeping over any other way of living, and yet, for one reason or another, they don't want to lay in the necessary equipment. ""Some of them are people in your position-people who have come to New -York to seek their fort'une and who arc not yet ready to bring on their goods. Others belong to the great nomadic herd of writers and artists, musicians and the-atrical people who do not want to be hampered in their movements by a lot of possessions "It is no economy {or these people to buy things, because they don't want the things. .If they buy a complete house-keeping outfit one season they are as likely as not to have to pay storage au it next. It is really cheaper in the end for these people to pay rent for their housekeeping necessaries while they want them and to be able to get rid of them eas-ily when thcy need them no longer." The woman from the 'VVcst made no response and the Kew Yorker continued: "Take my case, for instance. I have to live jn New York just So much of my time. I can't afford to stay at a hotel. I loathe boarding houses, and my digestion has rebelled ag-ainst myoid system of ea6ng my dinners at restaurants and getting my other meals over a chafing dish in my fur-nished room. "On the other hand, I don't want to lay in a domestic out-fit because I never stay in New York longer than I have to and to trail about the country dragging my pots· and pans after would make me feel like an Indian. A couple of years New York anything? woman. Suppose "But sup-yOU don't tlopklnl aRd"a"llt Sb. Cincinnati, O. "enry Schmit &. Co. UPHOLSTERED FURNITURE FOR LODGE AND PULPIT. PARLOR LIBRARY. nOTEL AND CLUB R.00M 11 The ROYAL • IS the Original Push Button Morris Chair MORRIS CHAIRS ---FROM-- $6.25 to $30.00 CATALOGUE UPON APPLICATION Royal Chair CO. STURGIS. MICH. Chicago Salesroom; ht Floor, G. D. Williams Co., 1323 Mich. Ave., CHICAGO. lti.. Two-Ct:nt Ratts and Mileage B\Joks. Traveling men have been anxious since the llew two-cent legislative fares have begun to go into effect 111so many of the states to knO\'V to what extent, if any, stich rates \vi11 influence the railroads against the continuance of the priv-ileges and conveniences afforded by the interchangeable mile-age book. In \Visconsin, where the ne.\, two-cent law be-came effective August 15, the Chicago & Northwestern and the Chicago, 1Jilwaukee & St. Paul railroads promptly COI11- plied with its provisions, hut decided to discontinue the sale of SOD-mile books, good for the use of one person or the members of his family, and also interdicted the use Ideally in states where there is a two-cent passenger law of inter-changeable 2,OOO-milebooks. The position of these roads with regard to the matter is that of the \Vestern Passenger Association, the lines members of which will now issue only system mileage books, applying to interstate travel and not good locally within states in which two cents is made the legal fare. The result is, of course, that everybody \vho journeys by \Vestern Passenger Association roads now buys a ticket in preference to investing $50 in a 2,OOO-milebook, with a final refund of $10 against the outlay. In Central Passenger Association territory, however, in-terchangeable mileage books have suffered no impairment of their value to the traveler. They are accepted, as heretofore, in satisfaction of local fares in states in which two cents has been made the legal fare. Whether, though, this order of things will be continued is a matter of doubt. St. Louis traffic officials who have been consulted on the point say it is impossible to foretell what may happell. as the new two-cent laws have. thro",vll passenger ratcs into a chaotic condition in all of the states where they have gone into effect. The carriers are disposed to accord the traveling public all the. conveniences and privileges practicable with due regard to the avoidance of burdensome complications, and from what we Bii!L( Years of Test Have BstaLlished 11:8 SlIprelila<:y. All OiLers. are lmitalors. No Others So Good. THE" ROYAL PUSI1 BUTTON MORRIS CHAIR can gather it is not unlikely that ·some of the roads which have placed restrictions Upon the use of mileage books will take the initiative in an effort to establish some form of trans-portation book that will he sellable and wilt afford its buyers some of the privileges now abolished. It would be well, however, for traveling wen's associations to bring· to bear all the influence they can command in be-half of the continuance of illterchangeable mileage books, good whenever and wherever presented. Frank N. Snell of I\lilwaukee has, very pertillelltly in this connection, called at-tention to the importance of united effort upon the part of salesmen's associations to prevent hampering restrictions be-ing placed upon interchangeable mileage. As IVlr. Snell has well said: "u a traveling man or any person who travels considerably, has .to go to the ticket window and exchange mileage strips for a ticket in the case of each and every journey he desires to make from one point to another, he would have to be more of a philanthropist than lever expect to be, to purchase in advance $40 worth of transportation at two cents per mile, giving the railroad companies the use of the mOlH'y, without getting any possible benefit or con-venience in return; tor if one must go to the ticket window in each case, he can just as readily and easily purchase his ticket in each case as to let the agent tear out mileage strips, in lieu of money, in payment for the ticket." In view of the great convenience of interchangeable mile-age to traveling men and others who move about a good'deal on the railroads, Mr. Snell adds that it is his belief the car-riers can well afford to allow the use of that form of mileage without restriction, for the reason that the use of a vast sum of money invested in mileage books-and that, too, without interest-would abundantly compcnsate them for any little bookkeeping or otha expense attached to the auditing of the mileage strips and getting the money returned from the line \vhich originally sold the book. 12 MUSKEGON, MICH. The Alaska Refrigerator Company have enlarged their manufacturing facilities largely and have entered upon the most extensive campaign for business in their history. Their's is the largest plant in the world devoted to the man-facture of refrigerators exclusively. Secretary Kanitz of the Muskegon Valley Furniture Com-pany reports a full book of orders to fill and that the factory is in full operation. C. W. Cunnigham had as much on his hands as the aver-age man would care to be responsible for in the management of the Sargeant M.anufacturing Company, but when the stock-holders of the Atlas Furniture Company found. that their craft was drifting down the sea of trade stern foremost, it was but natural that they should look about for some one to set the ship right on her course and sail it with a master hand. Although not seeking the added care and responsibil-ity, Mr. Cunningham took hold of the Atlas and has put the company on a paying basis in less than one year's time, With the Sargeant and the Atlas well in hand, Mr. Cunning~ ham has earned a period of rest. But will he take it? His friends say he will not so long as he can find work fol" his hands and head. Work is his recreation. The Moon Desk Company has been very successful with their new line of "heavies;" their line of low priced desks is also selling well. Trade in desks started slowly with all manufacturers, but Manager Stephens has no reason for com-plaint on account of the voluine of busi\leSS at present. . Keep busy'. Discontent don't strike in very deep on a busy man. When he gets discontented it simply means that he is getting more ambitious. CHARLOTTE, MICH. BEST LINE OF OAK DRESSERS COM-MODES and CHIF-FONIERS ON THE MARKET PRICES $8.75 to $13 CHAS. BENNETT FURNITURE CO. WILL SOLVE CAR SHORTAGE. Railway Association Board May Recommend Increased De~ murrage Rates. Long and continued howls of shippers the country over, because of the shortage of cars for moving the freight of the nation, is the main subject of discussion by members of the commi8ee on car service of the American Railway Associa-tion. Plans for the raising of demurrage rates that would force quick unloading of cars by shippers is believed to be FOR SALE -.c.- Stock of House Furnishing Goods. I have for sale a stock of furniture and stoves, a few rugs and. a small and chea.p as!.ortment of c::hina and crockery. The goods. are medium priced and were pur-chased for the installment contract business. The stoves are Buck's Stoves and Ranges. This stock was formerly the property of Baldwin~Standish Co.• and the business is fairly well advertised through the Upper Peninsula of Mich-igan. The total inventory of the furniture, stoves, rugs and crockery is 88,611 92 and the stock is in an excellent location. I would like to sell the stock as it stands and solicit inquiries. MARSHALL N. HUNT, Trustee, Sault Ste. Marie, MichigaD one of the matters to be recommended and plans for forcing immediate return of cars loaned to other lines by their own-ers will also be recommended. Big railroad J.I1enwill probably take a crack at the private care industry, which has become a menace to the transporta-tion world and strictures may be placed on the privileges now allowed to owners of big refrigerating and other car systems owned by semi-private syndicates. An Eight.Year Test Has Proven Its Value. When Manager Walton of the Royal Chair Company, Sturgis, Mich;, added the push button to his Morris chair, eight years ago, the skeptical doubted its utility. But time has proven its value, and not a day has passed that did not record an increase in the demand for the Royal Morris chair. A catalogue containing full information in regard to the com-pany's line is mailed to applicants for the same. Chairs are priced from $6.25 to $30.00. Heavy Sales of No-Kum·Loose Knobs. The Waddell Manufacturing Company of Grand Rapids are turning out the wood knob No-Kum-Loose drawer and door fasteners by the hundreds of thousands, also magnifI-cent specimens of architectural work for some of the finest homes in Grand Rapids and other cities. They make a spec-ialty of grills and have a fine display at the Jamestown Ex-position. A successful merchant said not long ago that his most profitable ideas for the improvement of his: place of business came to him when he laid aside his prepossession and walked past his place, putting his mind as nearly as possible in the attitude of a disinterested observer. He tried as honestly as he knew how to see his business and its surroundings and methods as others saw it, and he had the courage to face down his prejudice and make ,the changes he saw were heed-ed. This idea of looking over yourself is full of possibilities for the progressive man. "The man who takes up store keeping while looking for a cinch will find he has lost one guess." DRESSER No. 734~GoJden Qy.artered Oak. $30; Mahogany, veneered, $31; Bin:keyeMaple. $31. CHIFFONIER No. 76-Mahogany, veneered. $21.50; BirdSl:ye Maple. $2 \.50; Golden q".rte<ed O.k. $20.50. DRESSING TABLE No. 174 ~Golden Quartered Oak, $18.50; Mahogany, veneered, $19; Binbeye Maple, $19. Write for .new catalogue, -- -~---~----------------..., 13 THE QUALITY KIND IS MADE BY THE Horn Bros. Mfg. Co. 281 to 291 West Superior St., CHICAGO,111. Bedroom Furniture Our Specialty CAUGHT AT ANCHOR. Toll That One May be Called Upon to Pay for Looking in Show Windows. "One thing I am apt to forget," said Mr. Jawginson, "is that I must look out for beggars when I stop to look in a \",indow. For, you see, -in such a situation, the beggar has the advantage of you. aIf ';.,,'henaccosted, you are walking along the sidewalk, as you might say under way, Y","hy, then you are like <l ship in motion, you are under control and you are more likely to have your wits about yOll and you can sheer off or speed up and get away. But it is different when the beggar catd1es you looking in at the windo,,\', as beggars aTe very apt to do. "Then, you see, you are intent upon what you are look-ing at and so you are off your guard. You are taken. as it were, while at anchor. "Thus surprised aDd practically captured, you are not unlikely to give up something to your <::aptor. "Experience has taught l11ethat ·when I halt to look in at a window I want to keep a weather eye out for piratical craft. that come alongside very siletltly, never haiting till they come to close quarters, and so making it all hut impossible for me to escape. I keep a weather eye out, I say, as a rule, and r QRAnOTUUnn Ul. STSUM MOST ATTRACTIVE ROUTE JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION Tickets on sale daily until Nov. 30, 1907. at very low rates. Pas-sengers have choice of several routes. On season and sjxty~day limits, liberal stop-over. Passengers may go one route and return via another. Full particulars at City Ticket Office, 97 Monroe street. Phones-Citizens, 5516; Bell, main, 576. C. A. JUSTIN, C. P. & T. A. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. sometimes T can see 'em coming by their reflection in the glass, and then, as if r bad heen just about to go, I start up easily, witb my eyes still on the things in the window, but with myself gatherillg headway all the time, and sail on, and 50 elude the pursuer, who is himself perhaps this time a little surprised. "nut sometirncs 1 forget. and then I am likely to have to pay. Yesterday, for instance, I stopped to look at two no-tices pasted on an office door and I quite forgot. Then I heard a voice unmistakable, thmlgb this was a very low voice and I couldn't make out what it said, and turning I saw a woman, a smaH, slender woman in black dress and black shawl and with head to one side and hand extended-the at-titude of a beggar, tllouglJ truly she didn't look like one, "Of course, 1 gave something-not much, but something-and she said 'Thank you,' in the same low voice, and then we passed on our respective ways along these now all but de-serted street!-i. "So, you see, I had been caught off guard again; and still, after all, I Suppose it is little enough that I pay as a penalty for the pleasure of stopping to took in at the windows." Spokane Merchants Object to Trunk Lines Abolishing Rates. Furniture dealers and other merchants in Spokane are Eguratively up in arms over the action of the trunk lines cast of Chicago III abolishing" number of commodity rates. They have takCJ) up the matter with ofllcials of the Great Korthern railway, requesting them to intercede with the ';."·estern aml east~rn lines to restore through commodity tariffs from eastern points to this city. According to a tuiff effective September 1. the minimum raised from 20,000 pounds ~o 24,000 pounds for a 36}'2 foot car and 43,200 pounds for a 50 foot car, the rates being reaehed by adding the eOll1- commodity rat~ east of Chicago, but instead will he forced modi ties of the western lines for the remaining distan<::e, ,"..-hichmeans that the Spokane cOllsignee will not have the to pay straight class rates from eastern points These are much lighter th~n the cOllllllodity (-ate. The Value of Competition. "Competitjol1," remarked the manager of a large manufac-turing plant. "is merely the natural warfare of business. There can be no business advancement without competition and certain healthful striving. Competition keeps us from being satisfied with what we are doing. Every time a sales-man meets competition and overcomes it we are adding to the volume of business generally, because our competitors aTe COnlDdled to get out something better than he had offered which in turn spurs our company on to greater effort, and thus the constant advancement of our business is assured." 14 ·f'~MI9jiIG?JN of the requirements of the trade and the ability to satisfy it. The Bosse Furniture Company is well satisfied with the condition of the trade. There is ever a strong demand .for the company's kitchen cabinets and wardrobes. The Globe Furniture Company manufactures a quick-sell-ing tine of cheap and medium priced furniture for the cham-ber and the dining room. The company never lack for or-ders. "The dealer who sells any old goods in any old way, Is the very same dealer who, on some dark day, Will fmd his busine.ss does not pay, And that his trade is going, day by day, To the dealer who sells the Evansville goods .In a new and better way." FELL ~rOCK, the Furniture Poet of Evansville. Wireless Telephone Range is Short. Wireless telephoning has been making steady progress of late, although its achievements are still far behind those of wireless telegraphy. The range of practical wireless tele-phony is as yet only ten miles. One reason for this is the feebleness of the elcctric currents used in telephonic conver-sation over wires,as· compared with those that are capable of being used in telegraphing, either with or without wires. Telephonic conversation has never yet been successfully car-ried to a distance of 100 miles of submarine cable under the ocean. The limit of telephonic range over such cables has been about sixty miles. Consequently wireless telephony does not have to be carried to many times its present range in order to beat wire telephol"Jy on submarine cables. I. The conditions are, however, very different over land. Wire tele-phony is commercially practised up to distances of 1,500 miles, and is capable of being extended by sufficient expendi-ture of money on the wires, to 2,500 miles or even more. Wire-less telephony has, therefore, to be vastly extended in range in order to beat the record of wire telephony over land. While there is l10t the precipitate rush to engage in the mal1ufacture of denatured alcohol' that promised to follow the recent action of congress considerable progress has already been made and it is probable that in all parts of the country there will he factories in operation in the near future. Evansville, Ind., September 24.- The Bockstege Furni-ture Company will soon issue a catalogue illustrating .. de-scribing and pricing the new line of tables brought out by the compal1Y. Manager Fellwock is receiving mal1Y congrat-ulations on the line. The Karges F"tunitnre Company is well supplied with or-ders and the mammoth factory is in full operation in the production of furniture for the chamber and the dining room. The Evansville Metal Bed Company is enjoying a very prosperous season of trade. Manager Koch is a very busy man, the affairs of the Metal Bed and the Metal Furniture Companies demanding an his time. Mr. Koch is young, hearty and vigorous, and is capable of handling any amount of hard work. The Buehner Chair Company will erect a factory and pre-pare for greatly extending their business. The Smith and the Buehner companies are the oldest chair manufacturing houses in the- state of Indiana. The Standard Chair Company have booked many orders for rockers with leather seats and other features of their line. Their new factory is nOlle too large for their trade re-quirements. The World FUflliture, Company, recently organized by the Messrs. Karges, Bosse and their associates, have prepared a new line and will soon be prepared to fill orders. An addition to the large plant of the Bockstege Furni-ture Company has been decided upon by the officials of that company. Harry Schu has returned from his vacation trip and is giving close attention to the work of preparing a new cata-logue for the Crescent and the United States Folding Bed Companies. Eli D. Miller & Co. find a ready market for all the folding beds their capacious factory can turn Qut. Mr. Miller is an important man in his line of trade· as he has ample knowledge No. 384% DlmoinjTable. OUR OAK AND MAHOGANY Dining Extension Tables Are Be!t Made. B"" Fm~bed Val.",. All Made from Thoroughly S....,ned Stoel. No. 3&4~Dining Table Top. 48x48. Made in Qyartered Oak. Full Pobohed. Nidal C....... No. 3M. Same style as above wIth square top. LENTZ TABLE CO. '=.:. (NASHVILLE. MICH. "Wiping Out" the Parlor. A newspayer pUblished in Cleve,bnd disc-Ot1rscs, ,vith the wisdom of all (H'll, as follows all the topic quoted above: "Thc Ca,'c Dweller had Olle great advantage over the man of today. There was no parlor to his house. It was all One living rooUl, and if he bad progressed far enongll to take pleasure in life-archeology 1S s11ent on that point and thc llovelists, \\-'aterloo, London and l\forris, are likewise dl1mb-he probably entertained his callers with thrilling tales of good fightillg and better feasting. "The modern parlor, though not as extensive a social bliglH as it was a Score of years ago, is still altogether too much of a killjoy. For the past few years architects have labored to do away with it by planning houses in which space was far too precions to he tied up in such a room. They ha\'e been measurably successful, but tradition is a hard thing to upset. The parlor is one of tbe cherished traditions of our down east ancestry. "\Vhen Moses Cleveland (the founder of the city of Cleve-land) landed on \Vhisky Island, or opposite it, the first thing he did was to have a town meeting.; the next to huild a house with a locked-up parlor. Then he furnished it with a chro-matic carpet that brought blind staggers on all \vho saw it, shiny horsehair chairs, as slippery as IHayor J ohn5011'S methods, and, as culmillating horrors, he hung "The Voyage of Life" upon the wall and put a stuffed bird and a wreath of flowers in wax under glass globes on the cellter table. Then he turned the key in the door. And it has been there ever since. "Such a room should he locked. If it were shut off from the world all the time there would be uo complaint. But a sort of atavistic hospitality, an echo of those grim times when Cotton .3i1ather called on his parishioners and talked of the abominations of the scarlet woman and "vas given cider and doughnuts. in the best roon"), prompts the modern house-wife to open the door and pull tlp the curtains at certain sta-ted intervals in th(', calendar of the year. Anyone who has attended such a festivity would rather sit in a dentist's chair with a rubber dam in his mouth and several of the real ki11d in his thoughts, than go again. "Such a man, and his name is legioll, will pray that the '~ampaign of i\hs. Curtis Guild, wife of the governor of Mas-sachusetts, may be· extended to the V\-'estcrn Reserve. She has begun a crt1sade on the 1\- ew. England parlor, that veri-table chamber of horrors, alld promises to fight it out 011 that line if it takes all her husband's term of office. She rails at the horsehair, she fulminates against the "v"axen treasures, she has only words of hissipg and derision for the pictures, and she caUs Upon her hearers to tbrO"\v a"1,"'a)' the key to the door. "Better still. she begs her sisters tu tear clown the parti-tions, to throw the parlor into the 'sittin'-roOln' ancl make one big, comfortable, companionable room of them both, with light and sunshine and spaciousness to cOlllmend it. Put the piano there and the writing desk, give the sewing tnachine a place in the corner, if room cannot be found elsewhere; make the room the heart of the house in ils activities and its pleas-llTes. "Marc power to the elbow of Mrs. Guild; lllore length to her stride, that she may reach here the sooner." The cranky old bachelor and the scrumptious Mrs. Curtis Guild are not "stlch-a-much." If either were the parent of six or seven blooming daughters, he or she would find his or her household at "sixes~and-at-scvens'J when those darlings ,'"ere old enough to receive compal1Y. Suppose six or seven Sweet \Villiams '.",ere to call on the six or seven bloomers night after night and expected to hide a·way behind a sliding door, where the gas might be turned low and a hand squeez-ing contest engaged in without hindrance. \Vhat then? A part of the "bunch" might giggle and hug in the hall; others 7IR. T I oSA.l'l "4? 'l e te. 15 might perch themselves on the stairs, but none would care to invade tl;e "big comfortable, companionable" room domi-nated by "pa" and "ma" and a crowd of noisy "kids." As a matter of course, the "grumpy" olJ editor who would destroy the parlor never had the pleasure of sitting on a hair covered divan built for two, and it must be inferred as \vell that 1\1,-. Curtis Guild was an unusual sort of lover, who did most of his sparking through the telephone or in the visitors' room at the young lady's academy, where the fair one av.'aited his coming. There 'vas a misconception evi-dently of the proper plan for negotiating a 1ll.atrlmonial en-tanglement on the part of Guild, els'e he <:ll1dhis wife would defend the old fashioned parlor, rather than attempt to de-stroy it. 11,'11'5.Guild had better take herself to a nunnery. Every u111narried girl would rejo:ce over her departure for such all institution. and e\'ery llnmarried mat] would "hite his thumb" in contempt of the cranky old editor of Cleveland. The parlor will remain so long as Cupid's torch shall burn. Youth demands it and ,viII not be denied. The rapid destruction of the forests in America will event-ually make furniture of oak more valuable than mahogany furniture. Ri(~mon~ (~a;r(0. RICHMOND, INDIANA Double Cane Line SEE OUR NEW PATTERNS CATALOGUES TO THE TRADE FroID. tht:!lLine of the Ford & Johnson Company, Indiana a.nd Sixteenth Streets, Chicago, IlHnois. 17 Write for Catalogue. THE SEXTRO MFG. CO., Cincinnati, O. MAKERS OF MEDIUM and FINE Dining Tables AND Hall Furniture THE SEXTRO MFG. co. CINCINNATI, OHIO MOSTLY BY "HANDY MEN." How Grand Rapids Retail Furniture Dealers Make Repairs. "Do you m~IL.lntal11 a repaIr. department. '" T 0 tl'lIS ques-tion D. l\'L \V~;g-ner (Jf ¥/cgner Brothers, installment dealers of Grand Rapitls, replied: "Vi e have nothing that can be properly considered a repair department. \Ve have more or less repairilig to do, but not enough to necessitate fitting up a regular department. vVe have a 'handy man' who can fix scratched or marred finish and make it as good as l1e\v. Sometimes he is kept busy and at others he has little to do in tllat line, 111case of breakage we ('jtll;::r scnd the chair. table or \\'hate'ver it may be back to the factory or perhaps order a duplicate of the broken piece OT pieces and have our man put them'together. It would not pay us to \"l1n a re-pair department, even if we had it equipped lvith tools and machinery. Y('s, I think some dealers make a btlsine"s of repairing, but) doubt that it is profitable.l think one of the largest houses in Jackson, 1lich., have titted up a repair shop and arc ;lot only doing their own ,vork but arc adver-tising for gcnc;ral work in that line." 0-0-0 Re[)lyillg t~) the same (luestion, Frank B. \Vinegar of the Vlinegar Fumiture Company talked very much as did l\lr. vVegner. "vVhen furniture is damaged in shipment," he said, "we notay the factory and if it badly smashed we send it back immeliatc1y. ff it is nothing llrore than a broken leg or a spindle we may order the piece and we have a man \'.:ho can put it in. He can also fix up blemishes in the (in-ish if it is not too bad. The best way, however, is to in-spect the goop-s carefully on arrival and if they are not right in every parti;,cular, send them back." 0--·0-0 Owen R. Chaffee of the Young & Chaffee Funlitnre Com. pany said: "Vife ~lo not have what yOU would call a re-pair department, but we do our own repairing and give it special attention. We make it a rule to make and keep good, for a reasonable time, any piece of furniture that· we sell. Vv' e have a couple of 'handy men.' One of them is one of the best all-around cabinet makers in the city-he was for-merly with the Nelson-Matter Company-and when anything goes wrong "with a piece of our goods, whether in stock or after it has been sold and delivered, he gives it his immediate attention and if he is unable to make it right it is promptly replaced. He is always ready to respond to the can of our patrons to fix anything that may need attention. "Ve find that h pays to attend to repairs. By giving" them prompt attention and making every piece completely satisfactory. we turn 'kicks,' which are few and far between into good ad-vertisements." 0--0-0 "We bave a complete repair department," said Morris Heyman of the Heyman Company. "In fact, it ;s more than a repair shop-it might be called a factory. It is not equip-ped with much machinery, but we have the ,tools and appur-tenances and employ regularly a force at" cabinet makers, finishers and upholsterers. \Ve have the machine work done outside, but we make many of the frames "we use. We buy much of our furniture in the white and do the assembling, finishing and trimming ourselves. \"rith our facilities we are able to do repairing or make new pieces eom~lete "and have the ';Nork done right. \Ve have never offered to do repair-ing for others and have no desire to branch out in that line, because our fadlities are taxed to their full capacity, as they have been for several years." Late Christmas Shopping. If it had not been for that summer vacation some of us might. do our Christmas shopping early. 18 ~STABUSHED 1880 d , ~, <" " " . ~' "~ ~." ~ - / - I"UBLl:PttEtl .. .,. MICHIGAN ARTISAN CO. ON THE 10TH AND 2"TH Oil' EACH MONTH OFFICE~2-20 LYON ST., GRANO RAPIDS, MICH. ENTERED AS NATTER OF TIoIE SECOIolD Cl.A88 A retailer, who operates an upholstering and repair de-partment in one .of the cities of the east, mailed broadcast re-cently in his trade territory a postal card giving five reasons why he declared himseH to be deserving of business. The first reason read: I'Because I employ experienced workmen, use sound materials, charge moderate prices and get out work without delay." The second, third, fourth and fifth reasons were the same. The cards brought many calls for the dc-livery wagon and filled the shop with work. *1* *)* "'I'" *J* i\ liberal exchange policy i~profitable during the holiday season. A merchant doing busin-ess in a western city wrapped his bllndle~ in strong paper last holiday season UpOn which ",ras printed these words: "The contents of this package will be exchanged for other goods in John Jones' store, if desired." To large articles, such as sideboards, dressers and cabinets, cards were attached bearing the same inscription. - The- plan paid the enterprising merchant. *1* *1* *!* *1* No more attractive display can be placed in a window than a dining room suite with a dinner ready to be served. A well-roasted turkey, surrounded with vegetabes, fruits, pastry and the usual attractions of the dining room, including a plen-tiful display of flowers, is appropriate for Thanksgiving week. The food may be sent to a charitable institution after it has served its purpose in attracting trade to the store. *1* *1* *1* *1* Premium tickets are distributed to customers by a retailer of a southern city. When a certain number have been col-lected the holder is given the choice of a number of useful articles of furniture. Under this plan a $25.00 parlor suite marked up to $95.00 might be given away with every $500 purchase. ·"'1'" */* "'1* *1* The carpet departn:ellt of a large department store converted into an ice cream parlor during the months of July and August, where cream was served, drew crowds of ladies. Twenty-five per cent of the receipts were donated to charity. *\* *\* *1· *\* Showering the floor with copper coins two or three times a day during the week preceding Christmas, and allowing children, when ·accompanied by parents, to scramble for the same, has been proven profitable by a merchant of Chicago. *1* *)* *1* "'J* The manufacturers are cutting stock of spriilg lilles uf fur-niture. Dealers should kc.ep this fact in mind and· strenu-ously endea ...or to clean out the stickers now on their floors, to make .room for better things. *1* *!* *1* "-1* Have you given any thought to the subject of a novelty in the dressing of your windows for the holiday season? "'!* *!* "',. *1* One thotlsatd miniature airships were distributed to chil-dren by a merchant of Rhode Island upon which were printed a list of articles suitable for gifts during the holiday season. *1* *1'" *~**1· A catalogue of holiday goods, distributed from house to house, draws much trade in many cities. *1* *1* *1* *1* "Satisfie,:l. customers are our best ~dvertisers," remarked the head of a retail house in Omaha. ./* *1* *J'" *1* The annual business scare has passed, to return next year with the presidential election. *1* *1* *1* *1"- Cedar chests are suitable holiday presents for the fair sex. *1* "'1* *!* "'1* How's your stock for the holidays? The gaze of m~ny pedestrians may be gained, and a great amount of low-cost advertising as well, by placing a mirror in a show window, which no woman would pass \Vithout tak-ing a glance to see if her hat was on straight. In an-other window a clock might be placed, which men would consult. Taking out a watch is such a bother, and Smith likes to know how many seconds he has in which to keep his appointment with his friend Jones, or how much· time has passed since he "killed a snake" by swallowing it. While the gift house schemers are ever busy, the legIt imate merchant should keep his "think-tank" bubbling. A live merchant, having the prize distribution scheme un(jer consideration, was inspired by a "happy thought" which he caused to be printed and hung conspicuously over the ent-rance: "Do we give things away? Not on our life. We deliver goods to you for cash, but we give you full value on your purchase. Isn't this game a good one?" Unless he is running a second-hand store, no moclern shop keeper should try to do business in an ill-lighted room. Poor light breeds suspicion among the better class of cus-tomers, and drives them to stores with better lighting facili-ties. If the merchant is forced to occupy a poorly lighted storeroom, he should see to it that the plv.ce is nooded with artificial lifht. Darkness and modern business methods do not go well together. Many orders for furnishing the homes of newly, or about-to- be, wedded couples ean be gained by the employment of salesmen who are popular in society By as'~ertaining the dates of the matrirr.onial "events" of the city and the neigh-borhood, the dealer may "get next." -.Many a good salesman has helped his employer's business by t; lking anout the store to his friends outside. The feHow who never peeps abotlt the store when he is away from it, cannot be very full of his work. A man talks about the thing he is interested in. Sell the better goods. High-gKde good get the high~ grade prices. Kinety per cent of the stores can sell better goods than they ever handled, and not cater to the ex-clusive class, either. It is largely a question of educat-ing the buyer. Close buying and good selling abilities are rarely com-bined in one person. Hence many buyers fail to meet the demands of their employers. IN OLD DETROIT TOWN. Detroit continues to thrive, and every Detroiter is filled with enthusiasm over the growth of the city. It is becom-ing contagions and to see Detroit the largest city between New York and the Pacific coast, ,>,lith the single exception of Chicago, is not only the dream but the expectation of every resident of "Detroit, and nOlle will admit but that the time for this accomplishment is very far in the future., with business for every business lllan in the city, whatever his occupation may be. Of course, the furniture business is good-not onty with the manufacturer, but the retailer as well. One of the encouraging features is the optimism of the manufacturers of furniture. It is cheering and helpful. The smile on one's face is sure to bring the smile to another. Following is an extract from a letter from President Fred-erick B. Smith of the \\lolverine 11anufacturing Company re-cently mailed to his corps of salesmen: "\lVe have had a very satisfactory August business, and look forward to Sep-tember business with confidence. As a matter of interest I am enclosing clippings from One of the papers, showing the optimistic views that the press generally throughout the country are taking and they arc thoroughly justif-ted in doing so under the present conditioll,s. There is 110 reason in the world why the country should not consider itself prosperous when it is actually so, and the merc fact that there is some tcndcl1cy to tight money in districts, there is no reason why business should be impaired by it unless people create such conditions by constantly talking 'hard times.' This is well illt1st~aled by the fact that talking to a mall who is perfectly well will make him feel he is sick, and talking about business conditions will bring about hard times, if the talk is contin-ually along that lil1e. The pres!'; have taken a very sensible view of it under the actual conditions that exi:;t. You can-not talk a sick man well, but you can talk a well man sick, and I hope that we may join hands so far as tl1e representa-tives of our company are concerned, in optimistic talk. It all heips. The July, August and September trade with the Possel-ius Brothers Furniture 101anttfacturing Company v,,·as up to the best in any formcr year, and the grcat line of Victor a11(l round extension tables madc by this company continue to grow in popularity. They are good tables, as every dealer handling the111is ever ready to affirm. Here is a short story that illustrates human natnre very well: "A carpenter and his son were \',:orking on a job by the day, and after they had been employed many more day~ than thejr llboss" thought necessary .. the latter ,vellt over Full line shown on second floor. ] 3 ] 9 Midli~an Ave.. Chi-ca~ o. In January. Pioneer Mrg. Co... DETROIT. MIC". Reed furniture BabU Garrlaocs Go-Garts 19 to see about it, and finding the boy at work alone, remarked to him: "Boy, how much longer is this job going to last?" "\\leU," said the boy, "1 dunno; Dad's gone to hunt another job, and if he find:; it, we'll be through today." Manager Farrell of the Safety Folding Bed Company, in discussing the condition of trade, said: (lOur business is very satisfactory. The first six months of this year was the best in our history, and the last six months bid bir to exceed the 6rst." The lockless safety folding bed made by this company is simple, safe and sanitary. No locks or weights of allY kil1d are used on this bed, and when folded all· of the bedding is kept in place and in the best possible position to receive the advantage of every breath of air that is circulat-ing. Its construction is entirely different from any other folding bed on the market. The Palmer Manufacturing Company have comp1.eted a spring bed factory v.·hich greatly relieves the pressure on the Palmer Mfg. Co. DETROIT. MICH. MANUFACTURERS OF WOOD AND IRON FRAME Wire Mattresses SPRING BEDS. COTS AND CRIBS. ALSO PARLOR AND UBRARY TABLES. Write for Illustrated Circular. WE'VE GOT THE GOODS. L departments, and trade promptly. they are now taking care of their The table department was never the other l\fichigan so busy. The Pioneer Manuacturing Company is having an excel-lent trade in reed and rattan rockers, baby carriages and go-carts. This company make a large and superior line of these goods. C. D. liVidman & Co. report an excellent demand for hall furniture and mirror5. Of course, the Murphy Chair Company is busy. It wouldn't be the :rv.lurpby Chair Company under any other c011Clition:;. It's the biggest concern of its kind, and has to be busy. J. C. 'VVidmal1&Co. are also among the big, busy, boom-ing concerns of Detroit. One would think that they could turn out a sufficient number of hat ra~ks, china closets and huffets fo supply the ,,,hole country. Horn Brothers Of Chicago manufacture a fine line of bedroom furniture wor-thy of the attention of every dealer. Mahogany, golden oak and hinl"s-eye maple are the -woods mostly used by thi!'; com-pany and the cOllstruction a]1(l finish, as well as design leave nothil1g'"to he desired. Then He Looked For a Job. "You'd make a pretty good clerk," said the employer, sarcastically, "if you only had a little common sel1sc." "Indeed!" replied the clerk. "But did it ever occur to you that if I had a little more common sense· I wouldn't be a elerk :;;;tall?" liVhen a buyer is given the power to fix the seller's priceJ the confidence of the buyer is lost. 20 Something DiffERENT No. 155 WOVEN WIRE COUCH in Couches $4.00 Net We have made for some time, Couches aud Davenports with woven wire tops. Our latest essay in this line is DiffERENT. Made and shipped K. D. Easily set up. 1\ trial order will convince. SMITU L DAVIS MfG. CO., St. Louis. Morton House American ......Plan Rates $2.50 and Up Hotel Pantlind European ......Plan Rates $1.00 and Up GRAND RAPIDS, MICH, The Noon Dinner Served at the rantlind for 50 .. is tho fiNEST IN THE WO~lD J. BOYD PANTLIND. Prop. The New Banquet Table Top asweDill OFFICE. DINING and DIRECTORS' TABLFS are ou~ Bpei:ialty. STOW & DAVIS FURNITURE CO.• ~~"'''' Write for Cataloaue. Get llI.IIlp!eI of BANQUET TABLE TOP, WE manufacture the larg-ut line of FOLDING CHAIRS in the United States, suitable for Sunday School_, Halla, Steamers and all Public Resorts. . • . . We also manufacture Brass Trimmed Iron Beds, Spring Beds, Cot. and Crib. in a lar~e v&riet,.. . . • Selld for Cataloplt alld Prices to Kauffman Mfg. Co. ASnLAND, onlo UNION FURNITURE CO. ROCKFORD, ILL. China Closets Buffets Bookcases We lead in Style, Colllilrudion and Finish. See our Catalogue. OUI line on permanent exhibi-lion 7th Flool't New Manufact_ . urers' Building, Grand Rapids. 21 CHAS. A. FISHER & CO., 1319 Michigan Ave .• Chicago. WRITE FOR BOOKLET AND PROPOSITION W ttrehou&el: ST. LOUIS. MO. KANSAS CITY, MO. PEORIA, lLL LINCOLN, ILL. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. CHICACO, ILL. HIGHER CARPET PRICES. Advances Will be Made on Some Lines. Higher prices for th(,. coming faH and winter season are being discussed ill the carpet trade and there seems to be nO doubt hut that the mauufacturers witI narne senne Sll;l.tp ad-vances Oil the various lines which have been in heavy demand during the past serSOH. The mills are no\',' re(Jorted to he exceptionally busy on duplicate orders and to be having C011- sidcrable difficulty in living up to their contracts. At the same time they arc .nlso cngag-ed in getting together new lines for the coming' season, \"...hich will open carly ill Nov-ember. 1\1uch sati.-;factiol1 is expressed among the manu facturers nyer the fact that 'wool price.-; seem a little easier .,nd they hope t.n be <lhlc to cover their requirements for d1e cnming season Oll a Im·ver price basis. vVhether thi.-; will be so or not Temains to he seen as the concensus (If opinion in the carpet wool m;:rket seems to be thitt allY concerted buying movement will re.sult ill immetliakly sti.ff-ening- up on soft spots J]ow in evidcnce. From all quarters reports coming to hand colltinuc to speak of the enonnous rug sales tbat have been made and the fact that retailers i.re now prepa.ring for an 1l1111Sually busy fall and winter season. Buyers representing' some of the large retail establishlilellts in the country state that they arc having much difficulty in securing anything like a suffi-cient an~()unt of i\xmillister rugs \'",ith which to meet their requirements. The dem,nc] for Axministers has been stead~ ily increasing, while the output has not shown any incre:J"-" 11 is true that mOTe manufacturers are now turning ont Ax~ minister rugs an<\ carpets than was '~he case in former sea-sons, but the output h',.s not kept pacc wi.th the demand ,mcl the looms running at the present time are totally insufficient to turn out all the goods wanted. Senne. of the 1arg(~stcarpet manufacturers ill this country arc having Axrnil1stcr looms instailed and expect to have these rcc;cly to turn out goods during the coming season. Retail buyers claim that the variety of rugs HOW turned out in this market is more than sufficient to meet Lhc consumers' demand, and that if some of the mills abandon the maoufacture of rugs that are not selling and turn their attentioll to the goods that arc in demand, the situation \-vill be greatly improved. Some even go so iar as to S'. y tllat rugs have been overdone atld that the dcmand will drop off to a I'narked extent during th.e coming season. This, hovv-c\' er, is tlot helieved to be possible, as the consumer, is thor-oughly \,vell aware of the fact that rugs are not only cheaper, but more conVc11iettt than carpet>t, can be easily and more frequently c!e;necl, and altogether are better as a Hoor cover-ing tlnn carpets Smyrnas, ,Viltons and Brussels afe also selling well, while the demand for grass mattings and rugs lws shown ol remarkable increase.-N. Y. Commercial Profit Insurance. Unfortunately there has not yet been devi.~ed a plan by \vhich a tllerehant call undcnvritc his profits and make slire tllat, regarclless of t11e COlldnct (If his husiness, he can reap linallci~:l1 rewards. There is only left to him the old con-dition of risking' ll1s sneees::; on lljS O"yn best judgment 28 to \vbat merchandise will prove salable after looking \""ell to Mada by Charles Bentl~tt Furniture Co., Charlotte, Mich. the economical directioll of his husiness There is still an anchor he can cast 'to windward, hcl\.... ever, by Jlutting his capital into goodsth[,t have proven themselves not only salable but reliable. Under this policy profits will be satis-factory and they will be more certain, and in the end will prove the best profit insurance available.· 22 ·~M.J9[ilG7JN , IT'S A WOODARD Therefore It's the Best MEDIUM PRICED BEDROOM FURNITURE IN AMERICA No. 44 Bed; 1044 Dresser; 2044 Chiffonier; 3044 Dressing Tahle, make up this sui te. Made in Circasian Wal-nut, Figured Mahogany, Golden Quar-tere" Oak and Birdseye Maple. Woodard Furniture Company owosso, MICHIGAN Nashville, Mich., Has but one furniture factory. It's the biggest thing in tJle town. It is known to all the furniture world as the Lentz Table Company. Dining extcllsioIl tables are made in this factory and they are well made. The only trouble the fur-niture merchant has with the Lentz tables is to get enough of them. "J()e" Robbins 1\lakes dining ex!ension tables. He has a big factory in Owosso, ?o.lich.,and had to double his capacity this year in order to take care of his trade. Robbins tables are a:rt'J.ong the most salable tables on the market. Write to the Robbins Table Company, Owosso, for particulars in regard to their line. A Nice Way To show pillows is to use the Sanitary Feather Company's display rack You can halre one free by writing to the San~ itary Feather Company of Chicago and complying with th~ conditions in tlleir ad in this issue of the Michigan Artisan. Oak Dressers, Commodes and chiffoniers, from $8.75 to $13, are made by the Charles Bennett Furniture Company, Charlotte, Mich. It is mighty good furniture for the prices charged. A prize contest that attracts much attention is the publi~ cation of a quotation from Shakespaere in the newspapers, with the announcement that $5 will be paid to the writer of the first letter reteived giving the name of the play, and the act in which the quotation appeared The contest creates interest in the plays of the Bard of Avon, and therefore serves fl ~ood purpose and advertise'S the merchant as well. Buying Hotel Furniture. During the month of September a large amount of hotel furniture has been purchased in Grand Rapids through local retailers. Among the buyers were Colonel Parker of the Gayoso Hotel, ~Iemphis. Tenn. The Gayoso is the leading hotel of Memphis and has recently been overhauled and re-fitted. Colonel Parker was a liberal buyer. A. M. Goodhue and J eanGerard Drake bought a large bili for the Long Beach Hotel, Long Beach, Cal. Edward Norman bought furniture for the Hotel Sherman, St. Paul, :\Iinn. ilr. Benjamin of Kansas City, Mo., representing the Fred rlarvey COmpalJy. who manage the eating houses along the line of the "Santa Fe" railroad, bought for different houses under their control. In discussing the subject .of "leaders," a shrewd buyer remarked: "I purchase leaders only from bargaining man-ufacturers. I cannot place confidence in the remainder of the line offered and I often l~ck the confidence in the 'bar-gains' purchased to sell them properly, The most helpless young business man is the one' who goes along from year to year imitating his competitors, in-stead of getting busy with the game and outstripping them. It is the fellow who dares to put into motion his new ideas that gets there. A display of picture cards attracts many people to the show windows of a furniture store. The cards fill only a small part of the space; the remainder contains bargains or other attractions, No bargain is good that does not bring the customer back - - -- ------------------- Valley City Desk Company GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. One hundred and eighteen differ-ent patterns in cheap, medium and high grade Office and typewriter Desks comprise this extensive line of every day sellers. We are placing on the market an especially designed Desk that can he used for the holiday trade-suitable for students, salesmen, etc. Write for print and price of this ex-ceptionalo. ffering. Ask fir catalogue of complete line. Mailed to dealers only. No. 54. DAVENPORT BEDS Destin t~e Worl~ 35 to 41 North Capitol Ave. Th M dd S & C INDIANAPOLIS, OS. a en, on o.INDIANA ...• ---al--- Prices to Suit All We also show the larg-est line of Loose Cushion Parlor Suites evershown, also Leather Suites and Couches. Don't fail to see our line at our Show Rooms. Over 8,000 ft. of floor space. 23 NG BEDS RE BREAD AND The "ELI" fOLDI . ~ROfIT WINN<RS . bout the Eh Be d's m Mantd and Up';gh!. Nn S'o,k romplete w>t EvaD•• ute, IDdl~D: ELI D. MILLER & CO. Writelo«nt",.dpnc Price $18.50. No. 257. and is HighlyPolished. H,," In,hTop, 5Legs . ." One of the "SUPE~IOR ~=-=.=-- It's =--.:---:=:=-==-. .. - 11 Peaches, Pie and There are m~ny mor~ a e and get a taste. Pudding. Send for Ca ogu TUE BOCKSTEGE fURNITURE CO. fVANSVILLf IND, Globe Side-boards Are 1M ReSI on me Globe lor me Money GET OUR CATALOGIJE Menh.on theRMTIICSAHIN-CAN A .. when wntm~. Globe Furniture Company EVANSVlLLE. IND . Cupboards Kitchen Cabinets and. K.6. Wardrobes. [s all we mak e bul we make lots of them. Get Catalogue and Prices. The Bosse Furniture CO EV ANSVlLLE. IND.· ~ar~es War~ro~es are Good Wardrobes GOOD Style Construction Finish PRICES RIGHT Kalges FUlDilule Company, EVANSVILLE, IND .. 2fi BIRDIE'S FURNITURE. She Made a Lot of It, But the Factories Are Still Running. She was just a little streak of blue and brown. Blue eyes and blue costume-shining brown hair. The bride of a month, Hubby was always at her side, looking as if he could eat her up, shining hair, blue costume and all. They were furnishing the cutest little flat in the city, and that required a good many visits to furniture stores, for HUb- Made by Woodard Furniture co. owosso. lI41cb. by wasn't a 'Ihillionaire, nor yet the seventh son of a sev-enth son and able to wish furniture into the flat during the night. "I suppose," suggested happy I-Iubby, "that we'll have to buy a couch for, the sitting room. I don't see anything for less than $15, but we've got to have the thing, so let's pick one out today." Birdie hesitated, 011e white palm to one pink cheek. Al-though ,she had been married a whole month she hadn't for-gotten how to blush. Bcsides. blushing became hcr won-derfully! The salesman pushed the couch they were look-ing at out into the light. "This is a bargain," he said. "You'll find the frame strong, the springs good for a dozen years, and the uphol-stery durable in color and material." "U-m-m-m-m 1" said Birdie. "Do you like the shade?" asked Hubby. ""Why, I think it is perfectly lovely," said Birdie, diplo-matically. Then she turned away to inspect a gorgeous thing for the parlor. And the salesman followed them about the better part of one forenoon without cinching a single order. Furniture salesmen have trying days, just the same as other men. "Why not order that couch for the sitting room?" asked Hubby, a trifle conscience stricken over the outcome of the salesman's half day. "Not now," replied Birdie, and she backed him into a corner and transfixed him with the sweetest blue eyes in the world. "I don't think it right to pay so much for a couch," she said, "when I can make one just as good." Hubby stared incredulously into the pink face. "When you canqa what?" he demanded. "Why, make one," repeated Birdie. "It is just as easy! These furniture men ask such awful prices for their things." "But-er-yau haven't got any steam engine, dear, or any saws or glue pots, you know. I reatly can't see ho'w you are going to make a couch for the sitting room without buy-ing a Jot of things." Birdie laughed. When she laughed she showed two rows of white teeth and dimples came to her smooth cheeks. "Oh, yOU silly," she said. "Lots of women save money for their husbands by making furniture for the house. You buy a goods box for a dollar and knock it a.part, and cut the boards the right length, and nail them together, and put on some pretty cloth .. and you've got what you want for almost nothing." Hubby saw what he was up against, but he is a wise man and said nothing. So the box was bought, ~n:d that night there was pounding and sawing in the little flat, and the people living below pounded on their ceiling with mop-sticks and suggested that Hubby and Birdie go out on the highway to complete their hen house. But Hubby and Birdie turned the sarcastic re-marks away in fine scorn, and went art with their work. "l'\ow,''' said Birdie in the morning, "you send up a piece of nice blue cJoth for the cover and we'll put it on during the evening. And you might stop at the drug store and send up a bottle of arnica. Do you think this bruise on my arm wilt ever get well?" So Hubby kissed the rounded arm and said that would make it well, and went off to his work, ordering $5 worth of covering for the couch on the way. "Birdie may have the furniture makers beat to a frazzle," he thought, "but I wish she wouldn't scatter so when I'm holding nails for her to drive!" And Hubby nursed a bruised thumb tenderly. vVhen he reached the flat that evening Birdie wa.s putting the finishing touches on an ice box. It was a shoe box. trimmed in violet, with rows of brass nails around the top. "I went down to look at refrigerators," explained Birdie. "and you'd never believe the prices theY-ask for them. DO;l't FURNITURE POLISH We offer a polish guaranteed to T;>roducea BRILLIANT and PERMANENT lustre on any fimshed wood. A dealer's trade builder. Send for sample M. groSS, $3.15. Our Superior R.epair Finish never fails to remove burlap marks and mars; and, used with crystal shellac and a set of our colors. [aniline, to match any finish] will repair deep scratches and jams, and reproduce the original finish, at once. A boon to factory or store. Repair outfit complete, with colors, one $~25 quart finish, and instructions for use, U. Send for Samples. Grand Rapids Furniture Polish Co. 24 Miltoll A. ...... Grand l\aphb. Mleb. A.. tomatlc Phone 8:1:16. you think you've got a saving little woman to make so many pretty things for you?" You know what Hubby said! They had been married only a month! "After dinner," continued Birdie, wh~n hubby had made prompt response to her inquiry, "we'll tack the covel" on the couch. I couldn't get sqme of the joints to match, dear, but tbey'll be covered up, you know. Don't you think it will be a pretty couch?" "\Vhy, of c.o\.use, (h',ar!" "I've got a surprise for you," Iblushed Birdie. "You know we talked of fitting it out with a stuffed mattress? V\Tell, I found the cutest lot of springs down here at the second hand store for only four dollars, and so I bought them. Now v,,'e shall have a realty-truly, couch. Aren't you glad?" Hubhy made a mental note of $5 for the cloth, $+ for the springs, and $1 for the goods box, and admitted that he was glad. Of course he might have bought a cheap couch for $15, and then- "V'v'e must be a little careful when we fix the cover on," remarked Birdie, as they re-opened the furniture industry. "The frame is just a little wiggly. 1 guess the glue hrrsn't !'.e1 yet. Oh my~ DOl,'t h1t so nard, lovel There! Did yon hit your poor thumb again?" Hnbby threw the hammer up ag;ainst the '...a.ll, sma:;;h-ing a statuette of the value of $6; but he covered his rash act by pretending that the tool flew out of his hand. Of course he promised Birdie a nicer statuette in place of the broken one, making a mental note of $16 couch looked like a camp-meeting rostrum gone to the bad." "T think that is just [ovely," observed Birdie, putting her head to one side and gazing admiringly at the monstrosity. "And you'll think a lot of it just because we made it, won't you, dear?" Hubby nursed his bruised thumb and declared that he would think of nothing else for several days to come. "And 110\V," said Birdie. "vv"e'l1put the oil cloth in the ice box and put the meat and butter and milk away for the night. I guess the furniture men are glad that all the women don't know about making things. I'm going to put the ic(~ box upon a chair, and put a pan under it, so that if it should happen to leak there will be no damage done. Of course it 'will not leak. You ought to see how I pounded the seams together. V\'hen you go to work in the morning you might order another saw. I broke that old thing we had. T never saw anything act so. I'm going to make a cozy-corner for the hall." So they bound their 1,.vounc1swith cloths saturated 'with arnica and suspended operations for the night. During the restless hours just before davv'l1 Hubby dreamed that he was building a ten-story building with three matches and a battered case knife. He had the structure up to the roof when a pair of bedsprings from a second-hand store flew out of a red cloud and sent the building down with a eTash. Awakened by the vividness of his dream, or something ebe, ,he sprang out of bed and 1:itepped out into the sitting' room. Arrived there his first impression was that the power canal had climbed up the fire escape and distributed its waters over the floor. He turned on the gas, glared about for a moment and sank limply to the gandy surface 01 the wife-made cotteh. There follmved a creaking of deformed joints, a grinding of boards in process of separation, a tearing of cloth, and Hubby found himself on the sitting room carpet, 'which was saturated with water, and butter and milk and lots of things which had been confided to the home-made ice-box the pre- VIOUS evening. \\J'hile he was choosing words out of his limited vocabu-lary to express his sentiments coneering the situation, Birdie came out alld looked reproachfully illto his face. "You never went and got on that couch?" she said. 1IV\:'hy,you knew the glue wasn't hard. Now, you've just ruined it, and all my work gone for nothing. And I just believe you've been spilling water on this new carpet." Hubby p01nted to the ice-hox., 'which had tumbled off the ~hair and landed just inside the sitting room door. The 27 meat, the butter, and the milk 'which it had held were distrib-uted impartially over the red and green carpet. "And you've gone and tipped over the ice-box," wailed Birdie, "and it's all broken up! It must be awful to have such a temper." Then Hubby arose and pitched the couch and ice-box, and the meat and things out into the alley, and ripped up the carpet and hung it out to dry. "You're a dear little girl, Birdie," he said, coaxing her not to cry, "but what you don't know about making {urnitme would make a whole library. We've lost about $20 running opposition to the furniture factories, and that is enough. You buy a couch and a refrigerator today, and sell your tools to the first chump that comes along." And Birdie promised, but there are others! '\Then you see a woman making furniture~,vel1, buy arnica and look for an alley to dUll1P the- product in. ALFRED B. TOZER. Stebbins & Wilhelm Manufacturing Company. C. \Vilhelrn, for seventeen years last past the superinten-dent of the Grobhiser & Crosby Furniture Company of Stur- KlS, Mich., has purchased stock in the Stebbins Manufacturing Ma.de by Woodard Furniture Co., Owosso, Mich. Company of that city and undertaken the factory manage-ment of the business An amendment to the articles of as~ sociation adopted by the stockholders recently changed the name of the corporation to the Stebbins & Wilhelm Manu-facturing Company. Dey ain't no use to grumble kase de weather's dark an' b8.d, Au' dey ain't no tlSt~ to worry till yer out 0' sorts and sad; Mister Sunshine might he hidin' for a minit thro' de day- But he's bound to shine upon you-gwine to guide you on de way. You will fiud plenty of people who are willing to tell you all they know, if you wiil tell them all you know; but the great drawback to the trade will be found to be that they don't know much. 28 MICHIGAN Gave Wings to all the Hours. Be mirthful now, for nothing st; ys, OUT go()d and evil both are brief. Capricious fate leads many ways. Sometimes to joy, sometimes to grief, And is no friend to constancy. Listen, rttllv,ihose lives are bright. For the lllH'.ertain hours be \\Tinged for flight. Do not repine, since nothing stays; \-Vhat matter if it chance at last That unexpectedly our days By CTUe! sorrow are o'ercast? Upon this changeful earth of ours. The gods from p, in took half its stings \A/hen alike to all the hours They gave wings. "Stock Limit." A writer in a magazine of business has suggested a method of looking after and replenishing the stock of stationery in a large office, that might be applied to stock keeping meth~ ods in stores, particUlarly among staple goods. The first condition is to have all the reserve stock carried in one place, so that no confusion or misunderstanding can result. The next step is to separate a resonable amount of the goods from the rest and mark them plainly "stock Limit." In-stnlctions should be given that when this stock limit is reached, the sales person, or stock keeper, is to first advise the buyer, or supply man, of the fact before this stock limit is broken in upon. By using judgment in estimating the running demand for the goods, and the usual time required to secure a supply, the establishment is kept reasonably sure of always having this particular staple on.hand. This system also does away with a great deal of the record keeping that may be necessary in keeping staple supplies Up' to the house standard. Variations and modifications of the idea will make it available for very general use in mercantile estahlish-ments' as well as manufacturing plants. Uniform Classification Will Soon be Adopted. As the result of a conference in Chie<lgo of representa-tives of eastern, western and southern lines, definite. action has been taken in response to the wish of the Interstate Com-merce Commission for the adoption of a uniform classifica-tion. The work of harmonizing various interests and f()rmtilat-ing a plan that will be' satisfactory to all concerned is to be (ESTABI,.ISHED 1SSS) It is ~asy to remember Hard and hard to find anything as easy as our Beds and Bedding. Price $5.50. ICrib U. Sides 24/1 spindles 3M inches apart. AU cast-ings~ alleable iron guaranteed for 25 years against breakage. FiniJhed by 3 COilts porcelain enamel, each baked on. I ~ARDN·MFG.caco·~ , BUFFALO. N. Y. BERRY ROTHERS' Rubbing and POlishing Varnishes MUST BE USED IN FURNITtEOWORK TO BE .APPRECIATED THEY SETTLE THE VARNIS QUESTION WHEREVER TRIED WRITE F Ft INFORMATION, FINISHED WOOD S.~PLES" AND LITERATtlRE. BERRY BROTHERS, LIMITED VARNISH M NUFACTURERS DE ROIT THIS IS THE CAN AND LABEL. New York 262 Pearl 51. Boston 520 Atlantic Ave. Philadelphia 26-28 No. 4th St. Baltimore 295. HallOVe\"51. Ul1dertaktn by a standin.g. (',~.lmmittee o.f an ~qual number. of experts lorn the three diVISIOns of terntory In each of whIch there is nO\\' a separate classification. The railroad men know th t the commission is earnest '<lnd determined in re-gard to his matter and will brook no inexclt:=J,able,' temporiz-ing methbds. Some I months ago it gave notice that unless something practical was done promptly it would formulate arnd make ef-fectivea uniform classification. Present conditions govern-ing class fication are a source of dissatisfaction among ship-pers and the ai-,USC of many complaints. The new plan is in-tended tr put an end to it all. Carrel t goods speak for themselves in all languages. C~~t°Lake SI. Cincinnati 420 Maio St. St. Louil 112 So. 4th St. San Francl.co CANADIAN FACTORY, WALKERVILLE ONTARIO 668How~ 51. Be a Person, Not a Pay-Roll Number. "I want to fmd a \vay of getting acquainted with all the employes in my store," says the managTr of a large depart-ment store. "Knowing them personally, I can hav{: 1110re sympathy with them and they will h; ve more interest ill their work. ;'The reason so many girls work at $6 a week," this man affirmed, "'is that managers do !lot know the girls in their stores as human beings, but think of them ;IS parts of a p :y-roll. \Vhen the pay-roll for 1<1 week becomes too big tht: manager proceeds to cut down his force and substitute $5 girls for $6 girls and $6 clerks for those who have reached the $B mark. The results are (lisastrous, ;'YVhcn you are known to your employcs as a human be-ing," he said hlrther, "they <Irc interestccl in you and enjoy co-opcrating vvith you. If yOll show them human symp;,thy you will get the best tbere is in them, Theywi11 H;:;pon(\ to you unconsciously, They 'rvill he attentive and congenial with C'vcry patron and will make sales without any tbought of immediate returns or rewards." How to get into close contact with employes has been solved to a great degree of s().tisfaetio!l ill one of the largest mail orders houses in Chicago, writes Sam L. Low in the \\Torkers' \1agt'zine. All the new clerks <:Ire put into classes for the nrst few d;,ys of their employment, and the manager who ..v..ants to know each eInploye, conducts the.,;;e classes personally. He talks to his "pupils" upon variOL1S topics, such as "The Appeal of the Clerk to the Customer," "The Treatment of a Prospective Customer, "Genial Ckrks<.:lHl Fastidious Buyers." "The Value of Observing Human Nature" "The Customer as a Subject for Stud}"" "A Study in the \'Va11ts of a Customer," on thc location of the various depart-ments in reg-ard to the catalog-ues of the house, and on any other subject that may be of value to the particular class he is instructing. In this way he le;trns the names and faces of his young men and women ![ 11<1becomes knov>'11 to them as a hum;w being possessed of the faculties of inteJlig-cllce, sym-pathy, consideration and everything that is admirable in a man. After his "pupils" are placed in the different departments the manager visits them fr{'Qlw.ntly, but always with the at-titude of teacher and adviser rather than sulky 11agnus. wbich so many employers consider necessary to dignity and impOT-tant in gaining proper respect from employes. In the course of a few weeks this manager knows his m~n intelli-gently and wins a personal regard from his employe ",,'hich is of great value. To sho''''" appreciation and further personal interest in his employe the manager sends out the foHn-wing circular \vhen ,;;n employe makes good: "You haye been connected with Our institution for a few weeks, and T am sending this letter to you that you may have further assumnc-e tllat no matter what your work l11a}' be, by performing that \vork ,veIl, every day, your ultimatt reward is cerbm. "One accomplishes two things by doillg his best. First is the most important, earnest work is in itself eH1ednGlt\on. "Second, work well performed attracts the management to worthy people, \VheH positions of trust and responsibiJity are to he filled the management seeks those who ;:ilready have been doing their duty. "'Among the many things which aid us ill our efforts for advancement, character is of course first and foremost. Two other qualil1cations :-tand out prominently as essntials. Otle is knowledge, the other is obedience, "It is oUr hope that ('.;::eh employe who cnters our institu-tion will enter it with the idea of amounting to something worth while and of obtaining a position up to the limit of his real ability, I do not kllOW how this can better be ac-compEshn\ unless the employe is wining to make a study of the affairs that he comes in contact with. It of course is 29 nonsense for uS to promote into positiollS of trust and respon- 3ibl1ity any m,tn or v>'Oman who has been so short-sighted as to overlook the opportunities for self-education. "This letter, tlH:r'<:forc, is somewhat of a plea to you that' you add every day to your knowledge of this business, so that if the. day COt11CS whcn opportunity presents -itself for your <lrkanCerllcnt, you will not be found wallting, but will have been wise CilOugh to prep;HC yourself for better thi.1tgs. "The quickest advancement comes to him ",,'ho ;<!oes with his n,ight what his hands find to do,' \Villing obcdience to perfectly rea;;;c)]lable rule" of our establishment is evic1t;:nce of a good soldier, anrl you can depend UpOll it that when pr01110~ tiOl1S cotlle from the ranks it is the soldier \\rho hi. s shown ,vilJingl1css to obey 'rvho is given an opportlmity to c0111malH!. "\Ve hope that yon wi1.1 grow <:Iud prosper in this institu- Lion, and that your advanccment \'vill come just as you deserve it. The actual genuine worthl1H's5 you po~seS'j for recugl:i-tio11 is the best argument in the world in your favor," Snch a letter is encouraging and strengthens the relation-ship of employe to employer. Knowing that he is remem-bernl by his manager the employe does not find himself a Why Not Order? Say a dozen or more Montgomery Iron Display C.ouch Trucks sent yOLi on approval ~ If not satisfactory they can be returned at no expense to you whatever. while the price asked is but a trifle, com.. pared to the convenience they afford and the economy they repre$ent in the aavin$ of floor space. Thirty-two couche$ mounted on the Montgumery [run Display Couch T ruc.lu occupy the same floor space as twelve dis.. played in the usual manner. W rile for catalogue giving fun descrip~ tion and price in the different finishes. to.. gether with illustrations demonstrating the use of Ihe Giant Short Rail Bed Fastener for Iron Beds. Manufactured by H. J. MONTGOMERY PAT6NTEH Silver Creek. New York, U. s~A. Dennis Wire and Iron Co., Canadian MUlu. facluren, London. Ont, mere cog ill a large IHClchine; aware of the fact that his efforts are recognized by dt1C rewards he is inspired to strive for the highest gifts withill his reach. That sueh a circular is ap-pealing to the employes is proven by the replies the manager receives, One of tbe Innst characteristic of these follows: "'\'uur lett<:r about my connections wi.th your firm wached me with Illy pay envelope today, In reply 1 ,..·i.sh to thank you fot" the valuClble ill formation contained in it. "1 am glad to hear that there is a chance for promotion in your hOllse. To deserve it T will do all I can. ;;1 realize that it is 1ieccssary to know all about the house that it is possible to learn. and so T am trying hard to famil-iarize myself v,..itb the ·work of the department inwhkh 1 am workil1g and others I happell to be near to. "1 realize also th::r,t for higher work T shall have to have a better education. I therefore am studying evenings with a private tutor, who teaches me English, letter writinga11d arithmetic. "T hope that SOlne d:~y you will fmd in me one of your most trusted soldiers." This reply is from a young fellow about 18 years, who started out ;,s an "order picker" in the hOllse. Ttwas filed by the m;,nager with other data hearing on the standing of the young fellow. "Be sLlre you are right. and then go ahead;" but, in case of doubt, go ahead anyway. 30 THE LEXINGTON 1\Ii,,"- Blvd." 22d "'. CHICAGO. ILL. Refurnlsbed and re-fitted throughout. New Management. The furniture dealers' head-quartet'S. Most con-veniently situated to t b e furniture display houses. Inter-Slale Holel CO. (lWNER It f'ROPRlIt1'OR E. K. CrUey. Pres.; T. M. CrUey, V. Pres.; L. H. Flrey,Se~Treas. THEY CLAMOR FOR MAHOGANY. One Marked Fashion in Furniture This Fall. The semi-annual openings of the furniture manufacturers in New York may be viewed by dealers in furniture and their representatives only. \VIlen asked why not let a few house-keepers in, the manager said: "There is scarcely room to accommodate the buyers who attend. it. There is no room left for the general public. "The public doesn't understand the stupendous amount of work required to get one of these semi-annual openings ready Every manufacturer who wants to exhibit hires from 2,000 to 5,000 feet of floor space and then sends along his stuff, All the goods, thousands of pieces there are, have to be put in place and made ready for inspection in less than two weeks. One thing New York may pride herself on is that on the opening day her furniture show is always ready down to the last table and chair. "A few years ago we had no permanent exhibit here at all. From opening to opening ther~ was nothing doing, and six-teen years ago there were no openings. Now we have three floors in commission all the time and keep them filled with samples of the latest output of the different manufacturers, who find it pays to change the styles every few mont\hs." According to the catalogue, when Mrs. Housekeeper re-turns from the country ~I.t:dstarts for her pet store to buy some new furniture she \vill have to make her choice from something like thirty-nine new styles in dressers, nearly as many in chiffoniers, buffets showing twel1ty or more new touches, a score of new rockers and dozens of new chamber and dining suites. That she will fall an easy prey to their at-tractions is vouched for by a salesman of twenty years' ex-perience. Unlike the European housekeeper, this salesman says the American woman has no sentimental objections to changing her house furniture every few months. One reason doubt-less is the lack of heirlooms. The American woman con-tinues to spend for furniture, with the result that the manu-facturers continue to flourish. According to the salesman referred to one retail furniture concern of New York sold in fOUf weeks preceding Septem-ber 4 nearly a quarter million dollars' worth of furniture, and nearly every stick of it was of domestic make. "There is a belief," said this man, "that American made furniture is not so well made as that sent from European markets, that American workmen are less skillful than work-men on the other side. \Ve have customers who will buy nothing of domestic make. Those persons arc both right and wrong. "Take art nouveau furniture made by hand and carved by 7IR.. T I..s' .7U'J • Sf:· Lockless Metal Folding Beds -M.lLDufactured by ~ SAFETY FOLDING BED COMPAl'<t'Y (Ltd.) DETROIT, MICH. It Mil. long p_sed the experimental point, and is now l'~'e-ognized as perfection in bed manufactUring. It bas been in practical use in thousands of homes for the past $1::1 ]o'ea1'Sand ea<lh yea.r its popularity bas Increased. It hI an e'8tllbUshed fact that METAL Beds are the most SaIlitaq, and that Folding Met-al B6ds are the most desirable for many reatJous. It hatJ beeo 001' aim to produce a Folding Metal Bed that combines all the qualities of the ordi-nary si:.aUonary bed,. and io addition have the folding ftlatul'e simple and safe. It is as impossible for a "Saf~y" bed to close np when ocen-pied 38 it would be 101' the ordinary bed. .. In fact, the more weight Is in it, the lUore rigid it is. There are no weights or complicated moohanismaboot the "Safety"; It is simpIfcity it~lf. It ntfflds ortly to be tried to be appreciated. A whole bed when you want It. One-third of a bed when you don't, ll'heo closed it can 00 moved about as easily B8 a baby carrIage. The bedding is not disturbed and when eovel'ed bed stands baek agaiD.!!Itthe waJl. leav-ing the floor space for other uses. The Improvements during the past YOOr cover nearly every point iu mechanism, construetion llIld Ina-tel'!: al. There has been absolutely noth-ing left undone that could add to the de~ sirability of the "Bafe-ty." A Point tbRt we wish to call your at-tention to, and one which every house-keeper will appreciate is this: There Js no trouble in handling the mattress, covers or pillows, as they are at all times securely fastened to the bed~ The "Safeh-" doe'8 not monopolize a whole room when in use It folds UD to one-third lh, size when opeD occupying a sPae~ 14 x 82 inchetJ. Witb tbJs bed n pW'lor or sitting room may be ?sed as a sleeping apa,rtment witbout the slightest inconven-ieDCe or discomfort. ll'hen it's oPen· It JOOk8like a bed, n6t tbe great cumber-some, unwield_y, un-sightly thing of the ]'RBt tbat used to be called a folding bed. S tee I. MaUeabll;l Iron and High Car-bon Angle are used throughout. thus a.s~ 8ltring a I;trong, dur-able bed that will hult It lifetime. Each bttd, regard~ less of design, price or size, hlUl the same "EaIQ' Lift" mechan-ism, ball bearing cas~ tel'S, tubular spring frame with ela.liitie fabric. whIch not only insures comfort but extrt'lme ease in operation. No locks or weighttJ of any kind are used on the bed. None are needed. , Standard 8.1z e s of spring 11"8m.e arB made in the following width: 4 feet 6 Inches, 4. feet, 3, feet 6 Inches and IS ftlet, all 6 feet S- inches 11)ng unless other-wise ordered. Mat-tre_ of standard length and width can "b"ee used on our beds. do nut oocommend any Pftyttcolal' style or thIckness. Write for DESCRIPTn'E CIRCULARS AND PRICE LIST. I hand, and America: can't ,hold a candle to Europe, for the reason partly that skilled labor over here is so much dearer that the cost of protluction would be far greater. But only a small percentage :of the art nouveau style of furniture is bought in New York. It is more and more the custom for traveled New Yorkers to huy it is Europe, "Leather work, tpo. and mallY examples of leather chairs are made better in Europe than here, even to the big morocco down stuffed kind, Jashiollable now for library and dining rooms, vVe keep ip stock the best of the imported and of H~e domestic make 'fuel the difference in quality is quite ap-parent. "But where mactineTY is llsed it's different" In every large city in the W(ir1d machinery is used now in furniture making, and when lit comes to a question of machinery, America leads by a good dea.L Kearly every New York fur-niture house keeps some imported machine made goods in stock and when shown side by side with the American dupli-cate even I can't see'l much difference, and the wearing quali-ties of one are just as good as those of the other. "Twenty years ago I couldn't have said t'hat. The im-ported article still costs more than the domestic on acconnt of the thirty-three per cent duty. "Just now dome~tic furniture is nearly thirty per cent higher than it was tv.ro years fl.go, but the increased demand for it is simply enonlnous and quite out of proportion to the increase in popu1atibn. Persons of ordinary means are spending more for fu~niture and demanding more artistic fur-niture than they used to and they are getting it, too. "Ten years ago eyen the majority of ordinary price chif-foniers were of ye1l0w oak and nothing else. Persons of moderate n::eans bought oak dining and bed room suites of typical American pa~tcrn and Were satisfied. Today enor-mous quantities of oridinary oak furniture arc made and sold. but the person of mogerate means doesn't buy it. He wants something marc disti!lctive, more artistic. "Housekeepers nOF talk of periods and styles of woods. and the oak they select is dressed up out of all resemblance to its humbler relations! Instead of carrying in stock half a dozen styles, say in the more expensive chiffoniers and din-ing suites and two of three in the commoner lines, we now are obliged to keep just as many artistic examples in one as in the other and a fa~ larger variety of the medium than of the other. "\Vhat caused t'he' change? The customers themselves. not the manufacturers, and indirectly the periodicals and newspapers which m~ke a feature of giving advice on the subject of house funiishing. A dozen years agb these be-gan to be plentiful, ~nd, loaded with the information they gave, shoppers would Idescend on a clerk asking for furniture of a certain make and ia particular kind of wood an'd get cross 'when they couldn't fi~d them. "Time and time algain I have soothed one and another young housekeeper br suggesting: that we could order the style she described. lA.tsuch times the firm always stood by me and before l()l1g We had a good many such orders, and takillg our cue we began to keep that sort of furniture in stock. "Other dealers did Ithe same, dictating their wishes to the manufacturers, with the result that today the latter turn out, even in furniture of quite 10\..-cost, designs of almost any period and calculated ita appeal to seekers aftCT novelty. "Michigan is the gljeatest furniture tnaking state, but from almost every state COlinedesigns semi-annually which appeal to 1\ ew York buyers. i "The :Morris chair: is essentially an American product-we export many of thtilTI to other c0l111tries-but barring that one design there arc i few articles of furniture now in the market but owe somet')ling to designs in vogue centuries ago. Fortunately for the trade the New York woman is changeable 31 and the styles ill favor one year are not always in demand the next. "For example this season mahogany is more popular than it has been in thirty years, especially in dining and bed room sets and fOThalls and vestibules and living rooms. And the Colonial period leads witb tbe Georgian period second. There is little difference between them in looks. "The Cromwellian period comes third. In this the col-umns arc serpentine and brass knobs are used instead of glass. Heavy and simple, either of the.se is handsomer in mahog-any than in almost any other wood. At any rate at present we are sending out uncommonly large orders of mahogany furniture of high grade. "The Addam and the Sheraton styles are also much in de-mand now, and thesc, like the Cromwellian, are carried out very successfully in dark oak. Rut in and near New York city our customers who can afford it are clamoring for ma-hogany furniture of the Colonial or Georgian period."-New York Sun. THE CONFIDING DAGO AND THE THRIFTY LAND-LORD. Escuse me dat I don'ta mak' You we1com' here, signor You see, r 'fraid for mak' me.estak'; I gota stung bayfore. Ees notta man 'lvlerican- Oh, verra verra few- Dat com' to dces peanutta stan' An' say, "Hello!" like you. You speak so fine, you know so mooch, Ees hard for me to see \-V'at for you want be frand weeth sooch A dumha man like me. Las' week grand man like you ees com' An' maka fra11dly so. I am so proud-but, oh, so dumb- I tal heem all I know. He ees so eentrest een me An' speak so kind, so sweet, am so proud as I can be An' brag a leetla beet. tal how mooch I mak' a day An' w'at I savin', too, An' weeth my bigga maul' I say )'.1ore theengs clan w'at ees true. Now. who you s'pose ees dee.s unknown. Gooda, kinda frand to me? Ees president for bank dat own All deesa property! Today dees killda man he sent To me hees agent man. To say I gotta pay more rent For dees peanutta stan'. Baycause I mak' so beeg meestak' An' gotta stung bayfore, Escusc me eef I don'ta mak' Mooch talk weeth you, signor. T. A. DALY. The form of the couch has been preserved from ancient times. It is the chair without arms elongated. Its value depends upon the upholstery, as does that of the modern stuffed arm chair. No. 568. The Sargent Mfg. Co. MUSKEGON, MICH. Bachelors' Cabinets Ladies' Desks Extra Large Chiffoniers ___ Also Manufacturers and Exl;lOrterlof --- ROLLING CHAIRS Chairs adapted to all kinds of invalidism. both for house and street use. OVER FORTY DESIGNS TO SELECT FROM Moon nfSK (0. MUSKEGON. MICH. OFFICE DESKS NEW STYlES for FAll SEASON Muskegon Valley Furniture Co. Muskellon. Mic~•• Odd Dressers Chiffoniers Wardrobes Ladies' Toilets Dressing Tables Mahogany Inlaid Goods Ladies' Desks Music Cahinets WHITE PRINTING CO. 1 1 GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. I I HIGH GRADE CATALOGS COMPLETE _I Inset. , aran~Da~i~sDlow Pi~e an~Dust Arrester (om~anJ THE LATEST device for halldlill!!; ShmIZllgs and dust fr01n. all wood- 'zvorking InachzIlcs. Our nhlctcen ]/cars experience in this class of 7J)ork has brought it nearer perfection than a'llY other s}'steul on the lnarket today. 1t is no expcrimellt~ bIlt (l demo/l strafed scientific fact, as 7:('e!ul've sc'ucral hun-dred of these sJ/slcms in 11i':C, and not a poor one muong theFl1. Our Automatic Fttrnacc Feed S)'stcNI, as sho'i);Jn 1'n this cut) Lr the most pe-rfeet '((.Ior1dug de7)ice of Q11}lthing hI this linc. rVrite (or our prices tor equipntents. WE MAKE PLANS AI'\D DO ALL DETAIL ,VORK WITIIOUT EX-PENSE TO OUR CUSTOMERS. EXHAUST PANS AND PRES-SURE BLOWERS AHVAYS IN STOCK. Office and Fa.ctory: 20&-210 Canal Street GRAND RAPIDS, MICll. CltlzellIa Phone 1282 Belt, hbln 1804 OUR AUTOMATIC FURNACE FEED SYSTEM Inset. ~r;.I94PHIG7}N Our Clamps received GOLD MEDAL .t World'. Fair. St. Loul •• .. •.~"' •~. , • , e •,, VENEER PRESS (Patented Junc 30,1903.) CHAIN CLAMP (Patented June 30,1903.) Write for prices and particulars. Black Bros. Machinery CO. CASINET CLAMP. MENDOTA, ILL. Saw and Knife Fitting Machinery and Tools l~:,B.:r"'::'a~~~,:r.t Baldwin, Tuthill Q;). Bolton GrlUlld Rapids. Mich. Filers. Setter •• Sharpeners, Grinders. Swages, Stretchers, graling and Filing Clamps. Knile Balances, Hammering Toola. Investigate our Line. New 200 page Catalog-ue for I9fY1 Free. Bollon Band Saw Filer for Saws !4 inch up. B. T. & B. Shle D. Knl'e Grinder. Fun Automatic. Wet or dly. ------------------OFFICES----------------- 8.o.ton New York Jame.town High Point Cln(:llnnatl Det1"oU Gr.nd Rapid_ Chicago St~ Loui. Mlnneapolle Associate orfloe. and Bonded Attorne,... In all Prlraclpal clUe. REPORTING FURNITURE. UNDERTAKERS, CARPET HARDWARE AND KINDRED TRADES. COLLEC~ TIONS MADE BY AN UN'RIVALLED SYSTEM THROUGH OUR COLLECTION DEPARTMENT •.• WE PltOIJUCE RESULTS WHERE OTHHBS "AIL. WRITE FOR PARTICULARS AND YOU WILL SEND US YOUR BUSINESS. Our Complaint and Adju.stment Department Red Draft. Collect H. J. DANHOI'. Mlc:hlg..n M..nage •• 447 aDd 348 Housemara Building. Grarad Ra.plds. Mich. Why Worry with the Roll Question ----?---.--- Wood Forming Cutters VENEERED ROLLS The "Reliable" Kind Leave that to us. We are prepared to solve it quicker and ~tter be-cause we bave the knowledge and ~quip-menlo We use nothing but cheatnut in 0 u r cores. Writeforprices. We offer exceptional value in Reversible and One-Way Cutters for Single and Double Spin-dle Shapers. Largest lists with lowest prices. Greatest variety to select from. Book free. Address The. fellwock Auto. mobile
- Date Created:
- 1907-09-25T00:00:00Z
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- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
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- 28:6