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641. 1941-07; Peninsular Club

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:: 1941-07-01T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:: Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
Collection:: Volume 9, Number 7

642. Michigan Artisan; 1908-06-25

Notes:: Issue of a furniture trade magazine published in Grand Rapids, Mich. It was published twice monthly, beginning in 1880. and Twenty-Eighth Year-No. 24 JUN!: 25, 1908 Semi-Monthly PJDS Auf I[ The "ROYAL" Push B tton Chair .' 11,000,000 readers will see Royal Chair ads every month. Has 4,500 satisfieddealers. We want 6,000. Will you be one of them? Our national advertising campaign will help you to Il Royal Push Button Chairs. Write us for our proposition for your town . Royal Chair C . STURGIS. MICH. I"THE BEST" One Motion, Al Steel Go-Cart FOLDS WITH ONE MOTION NO FUSS. NO FOOLING FOLDS WITH ONE MOTION • CHICAGO SALESROOM; Geo. D. Williams Co., 1323 Michigan Ave., "rst Floor, Chicago, Ill. AU Steel; Indestructible. Perfected Beyond All Competition. Frame of Steel Tnbing. Will Carry 200 Lbs. Over Rough Pavements. The Only Perfect Cart With a Large Perfect Quick Action Hood. FOLDED CATALOGUE UPON APPLICATION. STURGIS STEEL GO-CART COMPA Mich. ... I• h --' Our New Colonial Line THE HIT OF THE SEASON! No. 1674 Our new Colonial line of Medium Grade Furniture has made an even greater hit than did our artistic dining room suites two years ago. It is the re-orders that tell the story, and they have been coming in in a most surprising way. considering the fact that this line has been before the trade barely four months. It is really filling the want that could not be furnished with extremely high grade goods. The designs are artistic in the extreme. The workmanship is the best that we, the largest manufacturers of furniture in the world, are able to turn out. This entire line, together with hundreds of our other items, will be shown at the Furniture Exposition at Grand Rapids during the month of July, beginning ] une 22, and in New York on and after July I 3· • You are cordially invited to attend this Exposition. We want you to make the personal acquaintance of our sales force. They will give you the furniture news of the country and advise you honestly and frankly just what pieces YOU will find quick-sellers. Our motto is ever the same, "Sell only quick-sellers." Or drop us a postal card for our complete catalogue, showing our Colonial Line and all our other items. Northern Furniture Company Sheboygan, Wisconsin MICHIGAN ARTISAN 1 GUNN AGENTS These were the figures April J, 1908. Our next report, July Ist will show a gain 01 over lour hundred new agencies in the United States. This remarkable showing is the result 01 the high quality 01 Gunn products and the extensive advertising we are doing lor the benefit 01 our agents. Our new creations which attract the attention 01 the consumer are shown below. No.501_M No S06·M The Popular and Salable Gunn Sanitary Desk. SELL ON SIGHT. 80 PAGE CATALOGUE SENT FREE. NEW GUNN MISSION UNITS ~~t~I:~:e"Dtfree. The Gunn Furniture Co. Grand Rapids, Michigan 2 MICHIGAN ARTISAN • Luce-Redmond Chair Co., Ltd. I BIG RAPIDS, MICHIGAN High Grade Office Chairs Dining Chain Odd Rockers and Chairs Desk and Dresser Chain: Slipper Rockers Colonial Parlor Suiles III Dark· and,- una Mahogany Bird's Eye Maple Birch Quartered Oak and Circassian Walnut We have moved-New Exhibit Location Fourth Floor, East Section, MANUFACTURERS' BUILDING, North Ionia Street, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN IN III Exbibit in charge of J. C. HAMILTON, C. E. COHOES, J. EDGA.R FOSTER. • • JlIICHIGAN ~._---- ARTISAN CHAIR CO., Richmond, Ind. DOUBLE CANE LINE See Our New Patterns 3 •II I Catalogues to the trade. ._----..I. ------., ..---_._---_. I HAND CIRCULAR RIP SAW No. <1 SAW (ready fo(cross.cutting) No.2 SCROLL SAW "'----- .. • 0 -----_._--- MORTISER COMBINED MACHINE No.3 WOOD LATHE Complete Outfit of HAND and FOOT POWER MACHINERY WHY THEY PAY THE CABINET MAKER He call save a manufacturer's profit as well as a dtaler's profit. He can make more mOlley with less capital invested. He can hold a better and more salisfactory trade with his customers. He can manufacture in as Rood style and finish, and at as low cost as the factories. The local cahinet maker has been forced into only the dealer's trade and profit, because of machine manufactured goods of factories. An outfit of Rarnes Patent Foot and Hand-Power Machinery, reinstat~s the cabiud maker with advautaF;es equal to his comp~titors. If desired, these machines will be sold on trial. The purchaser can have ample time to test them in his own shop and on the work be wishes them to do. DescrilJtiv6 catalo(J1teand p1'ice list free. W. f. &. JOUN BARNES CO.,654 Ruby St., Rockford, III. II ---·---------- • . .l FORMER OR MOULDER HAND TENONER No.4 SAW (ready for ripping) No.7 SCROLL SAW , White Printing CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN HIGH GRADE CATALOGS COMPLETE ~--- l MICHIGAN ARTISAN 55 Per Cent. INCREASE IN OUR BUSINESS FOR THE FIRST FIVE MONTHS OF 1908 OVER THE SAME PERIOD FOR 1907. OUR LINE ROCKERS ROMAN CHAIRS MISSION SUITES MORRIS CHAIRS MISSION PIECES TURKISH CHAIRS IMPERIAL RECLINING CHAIRS Prompt Shipments. There's a Reason If you are one of our cuftomers you will know. If you are not and ate "from Missouri," we would like an opportunity to show you. OUR PRICES FROM $3.00 TO $30.00 Prompt Shipments. No. 120 Our July Line consisting of one hundred twenty-five different patterns is larger and better than ever. Don't Forget to call, shake hands with our salesmen and look over our showing. It will mean increas~ business for you. CHICACO -3rd Roor Fwniture Exchange, 14th and Wabash. GRAND RAPIDS-2d floor New Auditorium. NEW YORK-l~ Roo" 155 E. 23m 51. ST. LOUIS-6th 800r Manufacturers' Furniture Exchange, 14th and Locust Sts. Full line shown in our new catolog ready for distribution July Ist. TRAVERSE CITY CHAIR CO., Traverse City, Mich. , MICHIGA:'-J ARTISAN Small Prices - - Good Values Large facilities enable us to turn out medium priced Bed Room and Dining Room FURNITURE in quantities and at prices that make our .how rooms attractive to those in search of quick • ell er. The Luce Fumiture Co. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN 5 .. 6 MICHIGAN ARTISAN i THE UDELL WORI\S is now ready with THE MOST COMPLETE LINE OF SAMPLES THEY EVER MADE. Shown in GRAND RAPIDS only July, 1908, Exhibit FUl"niture Exhibition Building FOURTH FLOOR LINES Piano Player Roll Cabinets Library Bookcases Ladies' Desks Sheet Music Cabinets Disc Record Cabinets Cylinder Record Cabinets ReprestJItntifJtI Daniel G. Williams Fronk L. Billings Get). C. Dyer Paul M. R,th Waller B. Lang Geo. F. Riley No. 355 Library Bookcase. Mahogany. Golden Quartered Oak. "Such an array Not seen every day" The Udell Works O£ficeand Factory, INDIANAPOLIS, IND., U. S. A. We want YOU to ha.ve our NEW Catalog. Send U8 your name • • , .._--_._------- • No. 911. 26x42. CHARLOTTE MAKES GOOD CHARLOTTE MFG. CO. FORTY NEW PATTERNS READY JUNE 20th GRAND RAPIDS EXHIBITION BLDG. FIRST FLOOR. NORTH TABLES CHARLOTTE, MICHIGAN • ._------------- 28th Year-No. 24. A Great Deal of Good out of Expositions. -Y:Villiam Spiegel, the manager of the General Stores com-pany, Evansville, 11](1., (lec!ares that he gains many adY~\11t-ages by attending furniture expositions. "One sees the samples of several hundred firms and gathers many fresh Porch Attractively Furnil$hed. and v;,luablc ideas to be used ill the transaction of business," remarked :\1r. Spiegel. "He is enabled to keep in totlch ''''lth all lines of goods be might "vant in his store. Going to the markets is like going to a college to get the proper train-ing for work in after life. A man is beuc!" prepared to dis-charge the duties of life than the man who has faile.l or \vho has not held the opportnnity to attend college, and taught to \,vork Ollt problems for himst:'lf when he tah~s a place in the ,vorld of business. The huyer who attends thc furniture eXJlositions is as much allead of the mall ,·vllo does not as the college man is ah(:ad of tile m;111 who has not gOne to college. TTt has a big ad V ,,1 nta;;;e over him. Be knows marc about the tr;l(k than the Dlher fellow, for the J:C;l.";O)] tl];)t he bas Jud the opportunity of sc leeting from a big assortmellt of goods" Too much importance can not be attached to the furniture expositions; the quicker the merchant realizes the 1H'neFlts to be derive,] from attending the exposiliolls the hetter it '''''ill be for him in mally H·nys. Will Enforce an Important Law. 1Ianag'ers of department 510res 81Hl other employers of labor have received warning from the lahar cornmissioner of the state of l\Iichigan that an act of the legislature passed in 1907, prohibiting' the employment of women, abo males under 18 yt:'ars of age more than ten !lours pcr (lay, will be rigidly enforced. The act docs not apply to stores Of factories in 'which less than ten persons afe employed. The department stores will not be permitted to keefJ employes $1.00 per Year. classified as ahove at 'work from twelve to Gfteen hours per day, as in the past. Baving driven the independent manufacturers 011t of busi-ness, the Harvester Trust has advanced prices 25 per cent. }Tcrchants \",ill be compelled to pay more for delivery .V8g011S in the future. A por"ell chair, resembling the 1I.f orris, :dthotlg:l it is unprovided with an adjustable back, and is much smaller, is called the Fonnosa. The arms arc hroad for holdillg a book or {or me as a writing desk. Opera chairs of steel, protected under letters patent, are manufactured quite extensively in Grand Rapids by the Steel Furniture company. vVith six furniture expositions open durillg the coming flJOllth, the 5,000 market buyers will hod ful) employment fOt" their time and money. Enameled rattan is favored considerably by owners of country homes. The colors gellcrally used are buff, blue, white or pearl. Chippendale designs were in favor until late In the eigh- Rustic Porch in the Adirondack Mountains. tcenth century. Empire styles came to Amcrica gra.dually. :\ o\"cli:ies in cane furniture, imported from Germany, arc finished in buff, rc.:l and variegated colors. 8 MICHIGAN ARTISAN 1883==1908 Michigan Chair Company henlr five lears • GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN MICHIGAN ''The Foremost Chair Factory" (;;T wenty-five yearll chair making has given us a long experience in which to obtain knowledge of trade. wanis, and it is with honorable pride we look back upon good results accomplished, and in extending thanks to our customers throughout our country we wish to assure them that the future will be equally well guarded in their intereStsas the past. "A square deal" has alway, been our motto from the beginning. The best ever will be ready for Trade inspection at out Factory Warerooms. June 24th, 1908. EAST Chas. H. Cox Robt. E. Walton Chas. F. McGJegor REPRESENTATIVE SALESMEN, SOUTH W. R. Penny WEST Chas. B. Parmenler Robt. G. Calder Michigan Chair Company Trenlr five 1ears MICHIGAN A]{TISAN Berkey & Gay Furniture Co. Grand Rapids, Michigan I Reproductions of Colonial and Period Furniture for the Bedroom, Dining Room and Library We Guarantee Our Prices Against Decline Until December 1, 1908 Our Line will be Ready for Inspection , JUNE 24th, 1908 I• 9 • 10 MICHIGAN ART IN THE BREAKFAST ROOM. Fine Specimens in the Country House of the Day. The increasing magnificence of the country house has made it necessary to add one more room to the already long list of special apartments. It is out of the question for instance, for the family to enter the format dining room for coffee on a summer morning. So the breakfast room has come to be the inevitable adjunct of the large country hOLlse. Its purpose is to the meat better, for afford a instance. room that suits the hour and than an elaborate Louis XV. Clock and Magazine Rack Combined. or an Empire apartment. From its vcry nature the breakfast room must- be a light, cheerful apartment designed to put into a good humor for meeting the questions of the day the persons who eQt there. "V\'ould it he possible for any man who took his break-fast in this room," asked a man who had been in the silvery room overlooking the Jersey hills from the highcst peak of all of them, "would it be possible for him to do anything wrong after he had started the day so beautifully?" The \vriter bas forgotten what the answer was. Maybe the question was merely rhetorical. At all events it sug-gested that the purpose of the breakfast room is well under-stood even by the lay mind. The seashore breakfast room shown here is part of a house standing back possibly half a mile from the ocean. The house is white stone, and even in its formal apartments the colors are kept as light as possible. The colors of the various rooms never shade much in tone. from this white stone, which is the keynote of the house. This room is panelled throughout in ivory colored wood and there is an ARTISAN effect of very bright and sunny yellow, although that color is to be found in reality only in the carpet-a French rug woven especially for this <lllartment-and in the brocade cushions of the white enamel chairs. All the light for this breakfast room comes through a large round arched window at one end. Pale ivory silk curtains are behind the crystal doors of the built in porcelain closets to conceal their con-tents when desired. Four consol tables to serve as side-boards are built in this room, two of them standlllg in front of the closets and the others on the opposite side of the room. These are finished in Louis XVI. carvings and the top of each is covered with a slab of marble. These tables are in ivory enamel and the reliefs are picked out in gold. The centT<'.of each is a dosed compartment with shelves, with two rounded shelves at each end of the table. The heavy central light is of bronze, while. the five pen-dants are supplied with shades in opalescent yettaw glass. Then the morning effect of summer sunlight may be re-tained if the room is used in the evenings, as it occasionally is when the approach of autumn reduces the size of the family. The darkest shade of yellow which the room offers is to be found in the yel[ow carpet. It is made up of stripes so narrow as to be almost of ivory and yellow. A masked door in one corner opens on to a stairway leading to the upper floors. The problem of the mountain breakfast room was wholly different. From the windows of this room one looks over miles of hill and' valley toward the lower ranges of the Orange Mountains. Falling froUl the terrace is a straight descent down the hillside, up which there climbs a marble edged road. So the persons using this room look over the terrace into a view that almost is wholly green. It \-vas the inspiration of the decorator to make the tone of this room green. The broad silk surtains that close out the windows are lustrous grccn brocade and they open on several other shades of the same color. The green laurc:\ bushes set in pots are more vivid than the green on the terrace outside, where the trees have attained a l,arger growth. The walls are pale gray with green and gold in the trcllises about the mirror, and in the arch that opens into the bay wit1Clow. The mantel is of gray mottled marble and the mirror's fht gray frame is finished with garlands of gold. The square panels above the doors are decorated with flowered borders in gold and green on the gray back-ground, and over the doors is a basket in relief bearing clusters of grapes. This same design is carried out in the electric lamp suspended from the ceiling in the centre of the room im-mediately over the table. It seems to be suspended by a pale gray silk ribbon and from the gilded basket overflow bunches of pale grecn grapes. Through these falls the light. ill a shade of green delightfully appropriate to the col01; scheme of the rOom. The other lights are on the walls ano.:l are in dull gold, elaborately wrought in the form of a scro~ with pale green globes. . The furniture is in dull gold, the cushions being of th~ same material that hangs in front of the bay window, whil4 the wicker backs and sides of the chairs are also gilded'. Thc table, which is carved in the same design as the furn-iture, is also entirely in dull gold, It is large enough to allow only fOUf covers to be spread there. The serving table on the side of the room is also in dull gilt and harmo-nizes with the rest of the furniture. The polished wood floor is laid out in design in two shades of brown, and the bay window is provided with ,a marble Hoor, there being no carpet on the floor at alL The use of rugs was avoide~ in the bay window in order to give it the appearance of 1 conservatory. It wlll be observed that these rooms are destitute ef furniture. The rooms in houses by Carrere & Hastings, architects of the New York Public Library, ,-"ould not be MICHIGAN r ------_._-------- I II ARTISAN 11 Do not fail to see Our New Fall Line of Medium Priced Bedroom Furniture (jJ We have added a large number of new patterns that are both beaut-iful and low priced. The greateSl line in America. Made in live woods and all the popular finishes. (jJ Shown in the same place, 3rd Roar, south half, Furniture Exhi· bition Bldg., Grand Rapids. Woodard Furniture Company owosso, MICHIGAN Catalog ready July 15th . ...---------------------------------_. improved by any pictures on the walls ])ut tbose painted hy masters of the period. This is especially true of the Louis XV. breakfast room at Xe\ypot"t, which is 511O\Vn here. The walls [Ire ill white marble, This lack of -':0101" is ato11ed for by the rich orna-mentatio11. The flat Corinthian colum\ls appear at frequent intervals. Over the windows is the elahorate:' cornice with ;l m;l.sk as its central hgllrc ;111':] its detail consisting of the IL horns of plenty. The ceiling- is supported by a cornice lillislwd wiLh <l moulding. Below the ceiling is <l deep moulding of fruits and flowers. So rich is this relief that the white ..v.alls impart no ser,se of bareness. The gold side lights are in the fonn of t11 ree candlesticks, each of which is protected hy a white and gold screCll. Thc mantel is of \vhite marble flecked with yellow and brown. It follows the genuine fonn of the mantels of the day of Louis XV. and ~ll(]s vvith ;\ shelf barely wide cllol\gh to hold the IH1S.tof the great monarch which surmounts it. • Color in full measure is supplied by the hangings and furniture. The chairs are genuine specimens of the furni-ture of the days of Louis X V. and mounted in tapestry in two shades of red. The woodwork is gold and so is the frame of the large screen opening into the pantry. The larg-c vase of Howcrs on eycry panel is in mally colors. The curtai1l.''i arc of the same two red brocades as the furniture and benc8th them fall lace curtains. The velvet rug cover-ing' tbe floor shO\vs the samt two shades of red. On the two side \"ialls arc buffets in the same white and yellow marhle of the Inantel. The Hoor is of \vhite marble striped ·with brown and that is visible beyond the. rug. The only ornament on the walls is the gold dock-SUllo The Lowell, Mich., Furniture Company. This comp811y has recently started in business with a capital stock of $20,000, all paid in, and a fl1le factory donated by the town. The officers are F. G. Seydewitz, president, VViliiam Cappell, vice-president, C. 'vV. \Visner, secretary, R. Van Dyke, treasurer. The line comprises one hundn:d pieces of mission furniwl"C-chairs, settees, ll(dl trees, tauourdtes, parlor tables, and an entire line of dining room furniture. Tbeir first line is on the market. J n January, lOOD, they expect to sbow in Grand Rapids and Chicago. Specialties in Dining Room Furniture. A line of suites anti odd pieces for the dining rOOll1 in oak and mahogany, has been placed on sale in GranJ Rapids by the Grand Rapids Furniture company, at their factory warer00111. It is said by the trade to excel in qu:}lity as regards construction and design. E. \\T. T rv.-in and \V. S. Emery are showing the goods to callers. 12 MICHIGAN ARTISAN Sligh's Select Styles Satisfy Dealers MANY NEW FEATURES ADDED FOR FALL SEASON. • EVERYTHING FOR THE BEDROOM (Medium and Fine Quality). Office and Salesroom comer Prescott and Buchanan Streets. Grand Rapids, Mich. Line now ready for inspection by dealers . • J. C Wi~man3 Co. DETROIT, MICHIGAN DINING ROOM SUITES HALL FURNITURE CHINA CLOSETS and BUFFETS in Domestic and Imported Woods CHICAGO: NEW YORK: ON SALE, 1319 Michigan Avenue. 428 Lexington Avenue. • • The ford s.. Johnson Company The line includes a very complete assortment of Chairs, Rockers and Settees of all grades. Dining Room Furniture, Mission Furniture, Fibre-Rush Furniture, Reed and Rattan Furniture, Go-Carts and Baby Carriages. No, 805 C 2 Our complete line of samples are displayed In The Ford &. JohnsOn Co. hulldlng. 1333·37 Wabash Ave., Including a special display of "olel furniture. • AU Flt'l'niture Pealers are c01dialll/ invited to visit our building, .. MlCHlGA'J ARTISAN 13 in Odd Dressers Chiffoniers Sideboards Buffets and Bachelors' Wardrobes COMPLETE LINE Shown at 1319 Michigan !~~HICA60, 6th floor. Call tlmi see a 'warm [·"I.dl. MAnISm Mra. co. M4NISTEE, MIC". No. 332 Dresser Top 24x48, Glass 22x40, 1'<0.333Dresser. Top 23x45. Glass 28x34 . • -----_.-.... 100 New Patterns •In Dining Room Furniture SEE THIS LINE! IT'S STRONGER THAN EVER! Show foorns at factory, 107 Canal Sto, two blocks north from Panllind Holel. GRAND RAPIDS, GRAND RAPIDS FURNITURE CO. MICHIGAN I _ , 14 :MICHIGAN I!$TABLISHED 1880 PU.I.ISHII:D II!IT MICHIGAN ARTISAN CO. ON THI! IOnr AND 2!1TM OF EACH MONTH OFFICE-lOB, 110.112 NORTH CIVI510N ST., GRANO RAPIC5. MICH. ENTERED 0'.8 M...TTf:R OF THE SECOMD CLASS Hlntelligent competition among a number of dealers in a. large city, selling the same article, increases its popularity, with resulting larger aggregate sales."-Ex. Intelligent com-petition is not cut price competition. The dealer whose salesmen are most active as well as confident, but not bump-tiOttS, in adhering to prices will obtain the largest share of the total business. Competition among the dealers is directed toward increasing sales and building up a healthy business at reasonable profit, instead of toward :finding out which salesman can shave profits the closest withottt throw-ing his employer into the court of bankruptcy. vVhat applause is to an actor, sales are to salesmen. \-\Then they are difficult and infrequent, suffering results. Hamlet, pelted with over-perfumed eggs, would be in a joyous mood compared with a salesman suffering from con-tact with devils painted blue. The big, strong man suffers as greatly as the small, nervous one. Absolute repose, abstinence from the bottle and long black cigars, will effect a cure in twenty-four hours. °tO °tl,lO A customer's complaint about goods is sufficient to de-stroy the peace of mind and the good intentions of the average salesman, and when this is supplemented by the cancellation of an important 'order, the receipt of bills from tailor, butcher, grocer and the landlord, his usefulness for the day is destroyed. A day or two in the country, far from the maddening marts of trade, will usually restore his mental equilibrium. °tO "to It is human nature for a de~ler to ·nurse a pers\ll1al grudge against the man who will not buy of him~ But it i~n't business, and if a dealer will but employ hi:; ff~aS0n he will acktlowleuge that the rebuffs to his efforLs are impersonal. lIe will save himself much worry an,l anlloy-ance if he disciplines his mind to cut out all unplt:aS<111t recollections. I 't' Charles Rohlfs, who makes furniture in Buffalo. was formerly. an actor. IVIany of h'is pieces (all suggest stage-craft), are as dark, gloomy and unattractive as the char-acters he played in tragedy. His wife, Anna Katherine Green, the novelist, is popular and will keep the wolf out-side the door. "t" "to The national association of retailers of furniture will convene in Chicago on July 8th for a two days' se3s;on President Foster will deliver an address, A. F. Shelcol1 will lecture on salesmanship; and Gov. Eberhardt ~Yl]] discuss better legislation. "t" "to If a dealer's business is so poorly organized that he dares not leave it for a week or ten days .for the purpose of visiting the furniture expositions, he should lose no time in making application to the court for a receiver. ARTISAN The average "self-made" salesman had a great deal of help outside of himself in his making. He would not have progressed very far if he had not availed himself of the help that came within his reach. In the furniture ,,",,'arid the market buyer is compared to the limited passenger train of a railroad. The office buyer is like the gravel train. It arrives at a station long after the limited has passed. "to "to Special sales of articles of every day use at cost seems to bring strangers to the store, who often find other things than the article offered at cost, in the stock, which they need. 0..". "..0. I I Having taken accounts of stock and figured up the losses of the past nine 1110nths the manufacturers of furniture look with hope alld confidence to the future for recoupment. Doubt and gloom closely to his work. from the desk or the assail the merchant who sticks too Life is prolonged by breaking away factory oc;.casionally. Many a salesman is level-headed until he sells the Ot1tput of his factory during a month spent at an exposition town, when he hecomes s\lvc1l-headed. °tO °t" Notwithstanding the prevalence of the idea that a presi-dential year is an off-year for business, furniture exposition enterprises continue to sprout. °t" "t" Unless there is something to kick about, many salesmen would prefer to remain on the road rather than be trans-ported to hea.ven. "t" "t" Manufactured articles are 110t the only imitations. There are many veneerings among the people. °t" "t" The loudest noise is not made by .salesmen; the best line for the money is heard farthest. °t" °tO To change the subject. "Are you a market buyer? If not, why not? "t" "to The things that do us no good to remember, memory retains. °tO "t" \Vithout constant practice, no dealer can be honest. Forty New Patterns. The Charlotte :vIallufaeturing company has added forty patterns of tables in mahogany and walnut, which are set up in their showroom in the 1.fanufacturers' Exhibition building in Grand Rapids. Somebody will "sit up and take notice." It's a bunch of warm members that will necessitate the use of electric fans night and day. Retailers of Indiana. On June 30th a convention of the retailers of IncFal1<L will be held at Indianapolis. Among the topics on the pro-gram for discussion are "Co-operation of Retail Merchants," and "How to Compete with Catalogue Houses." The manu-facturers of Indianapolis will entertain the crowd. :vr I C I-I I G A N Good Furniture at Moderate Prices. It has beell truly sOlid that it ;s an art to furnish a house properly at a moderate price. There is no >:i;der guide in buying than ;J rcli<1blc tradC111ark It js :I guar<111tcc oj quality. Furniture makers of high grade would be unwilling to place their names on an inferior piece of goods, just as silversmiths ..v..ould be mHvilling to affix "Sterling" to sp~triOllS silver. The principle is the same in both cases. Such a Shop-111;,rk as that of the Berkey & Gay [<'urnitme company of Grand Rapids, is an indication of highest work-manship. Their name carries ·weight, whether the furniture be simple or elaborate. They have but one system; the same methods, the same machinery, the same careful in- Made by the Berkey & Gay Furniture Co. spection pertains to their fllrniture~lnakitlg in all its branchcs. One piece of furniture has to be as good as anothcr so far as material ,\11(1 cOnstruction go. \Vhether a piece be plain or ornamental, it stands for good work and lZlsting vZllue. ITow is it possible, it may be asked, for tbis firm to nuke good furniture at Zlslight advance over tbe price asked for inferior work? Because they have reduced ftlrniture-making to a science. Because they have the best equipped furniture plant ill the coulltry, and because their name is a guarantee of excellence. The purchaser of Berkey & Gay furnitme can rest assure,:l th;11 he is getting the hest possible retum for his money. and before buying for his home, no matter how modest, it would be well to take this fact into consideration. Every piece of furniture that comes from the Berkey & Gay factory represents time, skilled labor, the best material, and the highe~t type of equipment. This is an age of specialization, and each department has its expert. A cus-tomcr buyillg Derkey & Gay furniture can purchase for a lifetime for it is made to last. Anything worth buying is ,vorthy of that you can afford, and take care of it. grandchildren ,,,,ill treasure yOur Berkey as heirlooms. The Berkey & Gay Furniture company makes many costly pieccs. Carving, inlay, and a great deal of halldi~ work necessarily render furniture expensive. But the pamt we would emphasize is this-that they do make simple furniture also, and at a remarkably 1m", figure considering the quality. Such furniture is a great boon to people of limited means, for it is both beautiful and economiral. -Country Lif,~. care; buy the best Then your great-and Gay furniture Rustic furniture appeals to the man who is seeking rest and recreation in the woods. ARTISAN 15 New Things Brought out at Sturgis, Mich. The Royal Chair company surprises the market ,,,,ith GHeen styles of davenport sofa beds, ,,,,ith Royal push button attachment, never before seen. The styles are very fine, and these sofas work as easily and perfectly as tbe Royal push button IVIorris chair. The Royal Chair company will also add thirty styles of Royal 1\Jorris chairs to their li11e, whieh ·will be on show in the Furniture Exhibition building, Grand Rapids, and with the Geo. D. \Villiams compauy, Chicago. The Sturgis Go-Cart company will make an extensive display of their one motion, all steel go-carts, in charge of P. 1\1. Roth and A. B. Tennant. These collapsible all steel go-cans were exhibited in Grand Rapids in January for the nrst time, and created quite a sensation, as nothing like them had ever been seen in this market, and they will doubtless create still greater interest in July. The Stebbins- \i\,.iillhdlll Furniture company will brillg OUt more than fifty patterns of directors', library, parlor, pedestal and sewing tables, in mahogany, quartered oak, birch, Circassian, walnut and birdseye maple. This is the finest line of tables this company has ever placed on the market, and will be shown on the sixth floor of north half of the Furniture Exhibition building, Grand Rapids. The Anlsbrook & Sturges Furniture company have not completed their line of higher grade ·work but will be on thc market in tl1c fall ,vjth a linc of goods that will make a hit. New Location. The Grand Rapids Fancy Furniture company have moved from the Blodgctt building to the fifth floor of the Manu-facturers' building, Grand Rapids. II]" Have you received: our New Catalogue"? If nol, write for it at once. There's money in it for YOU, q Buffets. China Closets, Dining Room Suites. Music Cabinets, Pianola Roll Cabi. nets. Phonograph Record Cabinets. Disc Cabinetl!. de Permanent .ale6rooms, 1319 Michigan Ave., Chicago, Ill. S J. LeRoy and L. 0, Fosse in charge. New York Furniture Exchange, 43d and Lexington Ave •• 6th floor. James p. Hayes in charge. MECHANICS FURNITURE CO. ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS 16 MICHIGAN ARTISAN • From the Line of the Nelson-Ma.tter Furniture 00_, Grand Ra.pids, Mich •. • MICHIGAN ARTISAN 17 .~------------------------- ----------.---------_. • Stebbins- Wilhelm Tables Office Library Parlor A Fine Buncll of New Patterns Quartered White Oak, Mahogany, Circassian Walnut,Bird's-eye.Maple See the Line Top Floor North, Furniture Exhibi. tioD Building, R. W, Alles in charge. No.388. l'op 2Bx44.Qtd. WhiteOak. Solid Mahogany. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. SALESROOMS: First Fl()or, Furniture Exhibition Building -Geo D. Williams in charge- 1323-1325 M,chigan Ave" CHICAGO, ILL. - CATALOGUE TO THE TRADE ----- _ Stebbins-Wilhelm Furniture Co., Sturgis, Mich. tt • --------------------_. ...- ----.., I UNION FURNITURE CO. II III II,• ~---------------------_._-~ I! FOldino Gndir~ II • We Manufacture the Largest Line of ROCKFORD, ILL. China Closets Buffets Bookcases in the United States, suitable for Sunday Schools, Halls, Steamers and all public resorts. We also manufal.:ture Brass Trimmed Iron Beds, Spring Beds, Cots and Cribs in a We lead in Style, Construdion large variety. and Finish. See our Catalogue. Our line on permanent exhibi_ tion 7th Floor, New Manufact. urers' Building,Grand Rapids. Send for Catalogue and Prices to KIIUFFMIIN MfG. GO. ASHLAND, OHIO I._---._-----_._--------' • ~ ~ Morton Housel (American Plan) Rates $2.50 and Up. I ~- 1 : MANUFACTURERS OF I I I HARDWOOD t~~~~~~ II SPECIALTIES: ~1"i'fE~QUARO.AK VENEERS MAHOGANY VENEERS Hotel PantJind (European Plan) Rates $1.00 and Up. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. I! HOFFMAN I I BROTHERS COMPANY I 804 W, Main St" FORT WAYNE, INDIANA I >- • The Noon Dinner Served at the Pantlind for 50c is THE FINEST IN THE WORLD. J. BOYD PANTLlND, Prop. • 18 MICHIGAN SPIEGEL A PHILANTHROPIST. Proposes that Food be furnished Children of Poor Attending Schools. M. ]. Spiegel, the chief of the big furniture establishment bearing his name, located at 182 vv~abash Avenue, Chicago, has a heart filled with human kindnes-s, and his movement in the board of education for furnishing food to poor children attending the schools, is characteristic of the man. His plan is to obtain an annual appropriation whi~h will enable the board to properly feed school children who do 110t receive the right nourishment at home. It has the approbation of almost every charitable society in the city and is now being worked out in a school by one of these organizations at it~own expense. Mr. Speigel advances the belief that if the board could afford to furnish some of the children with nourishment they do not get at home the entire educational plane of this class of pupil would be raised. A resolution setting out these ideas, presented to the board members, was referred to the school management committee for consideration. "I believe if these children were given good, substantiai food such as milk, bread and butter and wholesome meats a great deal of good could be accomplished," said Mr. Spiegel to-day. "It is among the poorer classes where low mental conditions are found. It is the lack of nourishment of the proper kind that causes this. This plan is now being prac-ticed in other large cities and I believe it should be installed here. The backward children are not only harmful to their own advancement but to the advancement of children who have to asssoeiate in the class rooms with them." The preamble and resolution offered by Mr. Spiegel follows: Whereas, In certain sections of our city the educational work in the public schools is very greatly hampered and the progress of all the pupils is seriously retarded, because of the impoverished condition, mental and physical, of some of the pupils (entitled to public school advantages), due to want, lack of nottrishment, and the absence of proper care; and Whereas, It is the opinion of those expert in the conduct of public educational systems that to alleviate such conditions is to promote the efficiency of the schools in a most far-reaching and beneficial manner; therefore, be it Resolved, It is the sense of this board that it cause to be made a thorough and exhaustive investigation into such con-ditions, together 'with the best remedies to be adopted to remove or relieve them, including what has been donc in other large public school cducational centers, and -also what legal restrictions and powers apply to this board and con-cern this subject matter. A Handsome Chamber Chair. Harry Jordan, president of the, ~'lichigan Chair Compal1y, is a chair maker by instinct and inclination. He has been engaged in thc business of making and marketing chairs so many years that their making is the easie.st proposition imag-inable. It is said that he would rather make a wood seat chair with a pocket knife than to dig ten acres of potatoes on his very productive fa.rm on Walloon lake. Some weeks ago a husiness engagement brought him to the plant of the \Vhite Printing Company. The fast running machinery used for many purposes in the printing art attracted incidental at-te, ntion, but when his eyc rested upon a Colonial wood seat chair, worked out by hand by a mechanic of 1830, other things in the factory interested him no more. He read the history of the chair and its maker at a glance.. Its impe.rfect con-struction did not conceal a beautiful idea in its design, and Mr. Jordan developed a longing for the chair that nothing ARTISAN but its possession would satisfy. The chair was seen in his carriage one morning and the roadster l-1r. Jordan drove was headed toward the factory of the Michigan Chair Company. Designer Nash joined President Jordan, Treasurer Garrett and the selling force of the company then in the city in a discussion of the qualities of the chair, and then it was placed in the room of the. designer. A new chair was brought out in whit;::hthe best features of the old were incorporated. The sample is a beautiful specimen of the, chair makers' art and when the fall season opens in the latter part of the current month it would l;>e safe to wager the company's factory against a dilapidated box car that it will be a hot seller. Mechanics of the Future. In an address, delivered at ::t meeting of the Manufactul'- ers' Association of Grand Rapids, held recently, R. W. Butt..::r-field, president of the Grand Rapids Chair Company, re-called the years when furniture was made at home, when the trade of the father was taught to the sons from generation to generation, \Vith the advent of wood working machinery the village cabinet shop of ycars gone by disappeare,d, like-wise the apprentice system. In the main the managers of the great plants of the, present learned the trade of their fathers or under the apprenticeship system. Specialization prevails in the factories and the managers of the future will be products of foreign lands unless a general movement shall be inaugurated at once having for its purpose the train-ing and preparation of young men for positions of responsi-bility and trust. Mr. Butterfield advocated the adoption of manual training and trade schools as a part of the educa-tional system of this country in order to provide the mechan-ics and managers of the factories of the future. Government Testing Shops. In several countries of Europe public testing shops, estab-lished by the government, serve a good purpose to invention, science and the arts. When the builder of a machine com-pletes his task be sends it to the testing shop, where it is put into operation under the observation of skilled mechanics. After it has been perfected in construction it is returned to the builder to be marketed. When it shall be installed in a factory the purchaser knows he can depend upon it. In like manner articles compounded of various materials (wood fin-ishing goods, for instance) are tested by the government and sales are easily made thereafter. • • STAR CASTER CUP CO. NORTH UNION STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. (PATENT APPLIED FOR) We have adopted celluloid as a base toroac CastC'TCups, makinK the best cup on the market. Celluloid is a great improvement over bases made of other material. When it is necessary to move a piece supported by cups with celluloid bases it can be done wItb ease, as the bases aTe peT· fectly smooth. Celluloid does not sweat and by the use of these cups tables are never marred. These cups are finished in Golden Oak and White Maple. finished light. If you wiU try a sample order 0/ tMse yoork 1/0'/& will desire to handle them in quantities. PRICES: Size 2U inches ....•• $5.50 per hundred. Size 27.( Inches .•.•.. 4.50 per hundred.; '. o. b. Grand Rapids. TRY A SAMPLE ORIJER. • l MICHIGAN ARTISAN •, "Valley City Desks" The present season demands exceptional values in medium and low priced desks. It is to your advantage to call on us during June and July on top lIoor, Furniture Exhi-bition Bldg. We have the largest and the strong-est line of Sanitary and Standard desks in the market. Write for new complete Fall catalogue. VALLEY CITY DESK CO. GRAND RAPIDS MICH . 19 f I • GEO. SPRATT & CO. SHEBOYGAN, WIS. Manufacturers of Chairs and Rockers, A complete line of Oak Diners with quarter sawed veneer backs and seats. A large line of Elm Diners, medium priced. A select line of Ladies' Rockers. Bent and high afm Rockers with solid seats, veneer roll seats, cob~ blerseats and up~ holstered leather complete. High Chairs and Children's Rockers. rou will gd in on tlu ground floor WhM you huy from liS, No. 542 Oak, Solid Seal. Price, $17~:;. No. 540% Sameas No.542 on I y Quarlered Dak Ve nee r Seat, $18 ~~;. No. 542 i Dining and Office TABLES Large new line ready at the opening of the Season. We gua.rantee the prices put on our goods June 24th through the Fall Season. Stow &Davis Furniture Co. GRAND RAPIDS. MtCHIGAN Fourth Floor Blod~tt Bldg. • I 20 :\1 I CHI G A N ART I SAN , Made by Stebbins-Wilhelm Furniture Co, Sturgis. Mich. ____. ~ l MICHIGi\ N AJ<TISAN 21 10D. 110. 112 "orl~Division ~1.I Orand Ka~ids I IOD./10.112 "orl~Division ~1. Qran~Ka~Ms Michigan Engraving Company :: White Printing Company Michigan Artisan Company i" ! OUR BUILDING EN G R A V ER S PR I NT E R5 B I No E R5 Erected by White Printing Company. Grand Rapids. 1907. ~------_._-----------_. PRINT E R5 B INo ER5 EN GR AV E R5 •• 22 MICHIGAN COSTLY FURNISHINGS OF AN AMERICAN PALACE. Former Senator Clark Spends Millions in New York. The French palace that Senator W. A. Clark of Montana and New York has erected at the corner of Seventy-seventh street and Fifth avenue has so far been a house of mystery. The portals have been assiduously guarded from the outside world. "Wait until it is flnished," the senator has always said when appealed to for permission to inspect it. Recently, however, the writer was permitted to spend a half day in the most costly private mansion in America. The house has been called "An old man's fad," and so it is. Every piece of ffi3:rble,.every piece of granite, every piece of wood, every piece of bronze, the work of every laborer, every art object, and every purchase and contract has had the per-sonal attention of the O\Vller. The house represents the man, carries out his ideas, reveals his tastes. When in New York Senator Clark spends days within its walls, watching its pro-gress, giving his opinions, passing upon or rejecting pieces of work or bids for work. In conception and interior the Clark house reflects the best examples of French architecture of the period of Louis XVI., and in construction and appointments it combines the comforts of home and the conveniences of the most luxurious hostelry in the world. Viewed from the street the building strikes the observer as too big, too massh.'e, for its ground space and its residential surroundings, but when one's point of view is from within, the street and the immediate neigh-borhood are forgotten. The vista that opens to the vision is over a woodland of trees and a chain of miniature lakes. Central Park lends itself admirably to the occupants of the Clark mansion and supplies a foreground not excelled by any palace in Europe. The architects must have taken this into consideration, as did Senator Clark when he conceived the idea of expressing his ambition by the erection of the finest private residence in America. It is nine stories, each story ranging from heights of nine to sevcnteen feet, from the Turkish baths beneath the ground to the laundry under the eaves. Kine stories, massed with every conceivable adjunct of convenience, comfort, lux-ury, and possession dear to the heart of man; nine stories of storied wealth and mechanical device unsurpassed in the mod-ern construction of house building. "When Senator Clark throws open this house to his friends it. will take all his time to show them through it," the writer remarked, after half a day's pilgrimage. "It will not be necessary," replied the escort. "He may touch one of a hundred buttons and call a servant to do his bidding." The masS of wires that assemble in the headquarters of the service room is so large that one can scarcely touch hands around it. Five millions of dollars is the estimated cost of the house, irrespective of its furnishings. Some of the items may be roughly set down as follows: $400,000 for bronze. work on the roof. $140,000 for plumbing. $140,000 for the heating plant. $1,000 each for Greek marble columns, of which there are scores. $2,000 for a single ornamental dcsign on a mantelpiece. $15,000 to $40,000 for the woodwork and gildings of many of the rooms. $12,000 for the entrance gates. $10,000 for a freize. $20,000 each for the furnishings of the bathrooms, of which there are fifteen. $50,000 for uncut and unmined marble of a single quarry. But cold figures give only a relative conception of the lav- ARTISAN ish structure and its appointments. The mere expenditure of money was far from the thoughts of Senator Clark when eight years ago he dreamed of the palace now a reality. His conception was of a home that would be a treasure house of his art works and a fitting expres-sion of his love of the ar-tistic and architecturally beautiful. He planned elab-orately, turned his ideas over to practical men, and scoured the world for in-terior decorations, whole rooms, ceilings, tapestries, statuary, porcelains, paint-ings and bronzes that would be a delight to his eye and a joy to his senses the rest of his life. Step through the bronze gates and enter this stupendous residence. It is well worth the trip, even though the courtly halls are not completed, nor the great galleries hung with paintings, nor the white marble statues in place in the rotunda. The. porte-cochere that over-hangs the entrance has been compared to the upper set of a pair of false teeth, and the simile is not ill chosen, though the resemblance is lost in the immensity of the sheer walls that rear themselves 100 feet from the ground to the top of the granite tower. An iron stairway leads down to the kitchen floor, the basement, and the sub-basement. To the right, set below the floor, are three 250 horsepower boilers, drawing from an eighty-ton storage vault, five to seven tons Sketch by Otto Jiranek. Sketched by OttO Jlranek, Grand Ra.pids. Mich. of coal a day, to light and heat the entire house, run its ele-vators, its eighty-ton cold storage plant, its dumb-waiters, its ventilating fans, its pumps, its laundry, and propel three sev-enty- five-kilowatt dynamos, furnishing 4,200 lights. Eight men on night and day shift is the crew of this department. The pasenger elevator is as large as you will find in a big hotel. It will carry twenty people, and is of the plunger type its shaft sinking into the ground ninety-eight feet. In the MICHIGAN dynamo room is a marble switchboard GHeen by eighteen fect in size. in this sub-cellar, facing Fifth avenue, along the entire front of the house, is a Turkish bath, steam rooms, shampoo haths, sprays, showers and dressing rooms, lined with Carrara glass, witb tiled ceilings and glass mosaic borders, and orna-mentations of artistic design. J tlst outside these spacious rooms is a filtration plant, the air from the street percolating a screen of cheese cloth filtered through iron tubes to every part of the bouse to be finally drawn off by a huge fan in the rooL Senator Clark could gIve a house party of half a hundred people, entertain them in his four completely equip-ped dining rooms, and extend to the m adequate facilities for en-joying the great swimming pool and Turkish ba tb. Tho:: great ban-quet hall is on the second hoor and completely occu-pies the w est wing- of the house. The room is fifty by thirty-five feet and s(:venteen feet hig-h. Its atmosphere is one of massive ele-gance. It is a "",700dy" room, a characterization peculiar to many of the rooms of the house. The walls are paneled with English oak and heavily carved in the style of the Henry IV. period. The ceiling is a solid mass of carving, and the: huge mantelpiece, set off by life-size figures of Diana and :Neptune in Numidian marble, is an art work in liseH. A hClze of Normandy stone, ten feet wide, encircles the room, close to the ceiling. The stone lends itself beautifully to carving, representing sc~nes it1 hunting and fishing, with an underlying net-work beneath figures of fi s h, gamecocks, birds, guns, oxen, horns, bows and ar-rows, roebucks and Sketch by Otto Jiranek. deer, deftly worked 1J110 the design so that no particular figure assumes protrusive importance. There are eleven disks of plain Sienna marble set in the frieze, which are severely beautiful in contrast. Over the door is a pand that may be ntilized as a coat of arms of the owner or perhaps of King Henry V1., frol11 whose reign the room takes its character. The breakfast room is on the third fioor, opening west-ward, and is a solid ·mass of English oak carved heavily of the Francis r. period. It is a veritable cabinet of 170 panels, no two alike in dc,sign, but all harmonizing. Directly above the breakfast room upon the third and fourth floors are pri-vate dining rooms, belonging to the complete apartment ARTISAN 23 suites that occupy the \vest wing of these floors. All of these dining rooms have individual pantries and china closets, and are connected directly \vith the serving room, off the kitchen on the ground floor by individual electrically propelled dumb-waiters, speaking tubes, telephones, and a service ele-vator. The two apartments 'were originally intended for the use of Sen.ator Clark's married sons a.nd daughters. These apartments contain every convenience and luxury known of the model, up-to-date New York apartment house. The reception rooms are octagonal and of solid mahogany heavily paneled. 'The salons are of satinwood, paneled and exquisitely carved. The entire suites are finished in wood, walts and ceilings, each room of differcnt design and charac-tcr. Opening off the main dining room on the second floor is a rotunda, which Senator Clark has called a sculpture room. This circular vestibule, which is some thirty-six feet from Hoor to vaulted ceiling, is set with eight Bresche violet col- U1l11E" unpolished. The walls are of creamy white Mary-land marble. A balcony cove, at the top, is accessible from the third floor and the organ 10ft. The statuary room is paneled in lHaryland marble and sct 'with Chippolano pedes-tals. The room opens to the south into a conservatory of solid bronze and glass, thirty feet high and twenty-t" .·.o. feet wide. Opening to the north from the statuary rotunda is the main picture gallery, ninety-five by twenty feet, two stories high. The walls are of plain Istrian marble and Norman-deal1x cornices. A western wing of this gallery is sixteen by forty feet, and is the second fioor of still another art treast1r·~ house, which will be devoted exclusively to Senator Clark's collection of Faience pottery. In the loft, at the south end of the main gallery, will be placed the largest chamber organ in the COUll try, the instrument having sixty-two speaking stops. Out from the east side of the main gallery extends a superb promenade, ninety-five feet long and twenty feet "v1de, a classic hall ornamented by twelve Chippolano columns unpolished. The ceiling of this splendid room is of carved American oak, a large space being left for a canvas which is yet to be put in place. It is said that this canvas will be the work of an American artist, 110t yet selected. Broad panels along the walls will be set with six priceless tapestries that Senator Clark bought abroad. vVhen completed this central promenade will equal the stately hall of any palace in Europe. The colonnaded hall makes a direct communicating prome-nade between the main gallery and the grand salon facing Fifth avenue. It is impossible to enter this lovely room without feeling the masterful impulse of the old world artists. The eye ir-resistibly rests upon the immense canvas of Fragonard that forms the entire ceiling-the largest canvas, it is said, in America. Cupids, blue sky, and garlands embellish the Greek figures at the sides and ends of the ceiling. The tex-hue is soft and the coloring old and rich in tone. Age is imprinted upon the work of art, and beauty of color and del-icacy of expresslon stamp the canvas a masterpiece. 'V\lhat it cost the senator to pluck this old world piece of art from some grand salon of France is merely conjectural, but if he were to divulge the price. it would startle the imagination of even this money-mad town. The ceiling lIas an appropriate setting, for the entire room is "lifted" from a French palace. It is a salon of the type of Versailles, of the Louis XVI. period. Chaste in design, the pilasters, moldings, and cor-nices are embellished in gold leaf, and the curtain brackets are exquisite molding of gold bronze. The heavy white enameled doors fairly breathe their old world art, though in state of perfect preservation. The gold bronzed furnishings are art works in themselves, conceptions of Bircard of Paris. ' The mantel alone is the product of Senator Clark's Maryland quarry, but to the uninformed has the appearance of pure Carrara marble 500 years old, so soft and satiny is its texture ( Concluded on page 26. ) EVANSVILLE LINES MANUFACTURERS' FURNITURE EXCHANGE Corner Wabash Avenue and Fourteenth Street The BOCKSTEGE New Superior Line, Evansville. No. 957%Parlor Table. The BOCKSTEGE FURNITURE CO., Evansville, Ind. The Metal Furniture Co. EVANSVILLE, IND. MANUFACTURERS OF Metal Bedsteads Fulliine of Samples on exhibition during the entire year. on first lIoor of the Manufacturers' Furniture Exchange. comer Wabash Ave. and 14th St.. Chicago. THE WORLD FURNITURE CO. (Member of Big Six Car LoadinR" Association) EVANSVILLE INDIANA Manufacturers of Folding Bed .. (Mantel and Uprillht). Buffets, Hall Trees. China CIO$et8. CombhUltion and Library BookelUes. Full line of samples on exhibition during the entire yeai', on first fIoor of the Manufacturers Furniture ExchaD1te. comer Wabash Ave. aDd 14th St., Chicago, . Globe Side' Boards and Hall Racks Are the best for the money. eel our Cata-logue. Mention the Michigan Artisan when writing. Full line of samples on exhibition during the en-tire year. on the first floor of the Manuradurers' Furniture Exchange. Cor. Wabash Ave .• and 14th St.. Chicago. Globe Fumiture Company EVANSVILLE, IND. ON SALE IN CHICAGO MANUFACTURERS' FURNITURE EXCHANGE Corner Wabash Avenue and Fourteenth Strut The Karges Furniture CO. EVANSVILLE, INDIANA Manufo1l::luien of Chamber Snites Dressers Wardrobes •n. Chiffoniers ;, PLAIN OAK QUARTERED OAK AND IMITATION QUARTERED OAK F uti line of samples Oil. exhibition during the en_ tire yea(, on first floor of the MaDwaCluren' Furni_ lure Exchanlle. ~orl1erWa-bash Ave. and. 14th St,. ChialllO· Cupboards Kitchen Cabinets and K. D. Wardrobes . Is all we make but we make lots of them. Get Catalogue and Prices. The Bosse Furniture CO. EVANSV1LLE. JND. FI~tl Une of Ball/ples 011.s;ekibUio!l ditl'in(1 flu entire year onji.J'fltjlooT of !he .J1{aJl.'uJacturers' FurnitUl'( E:J.:chan(le, COTner Wabash At}e. and 14th 8/., Cldea(lo. No Stock complete witIlOll1 the Eli Beds in Manl~l and Upright. ELI D.MILLER & Co. \EVvriatensfovrmcu.t,slnadndlnpnraices ON SALE IN FURNITURE EXCHANCE, CHICAOO. and so exquisite and chaste is its sculpture work. whole room is a drcam in creamy white and gold. The petty salon be-yond is an elliptical room of white enamel and gold of the period of Louis XV. There is still another room in the suite, styled the morning room, which has a heavily carved ceiling of American oak and will be set with four immense tap-estries. Paralleling the great corridor and di-rectly connectiong tll\~ statuary room wi.th the petty salon is the main hall, sixty feet long and ten feet wide, set with pilasters of Maryland marble and Norman-deaux vaulted ceiling. Opening into this hall is the grand stairway, which comes up from the ground floor. A sweeping staircase of Istrian marble, apparently unsup-ported, makes the ascent a leisurely climb. In this spacious stairway are blended almost every known marble from the world's quarries. The balustrade is of bronze and gold and is rich in character. The main elevator is at the side of the stairway, and it is highly probable that the stairway corridor will be hardly more than an abode. of statuary-a thing of beauty in itself. The third floor is devoted to Senator and Mrs. Clark's suite, the large library and one of the complete housekeeping apartments mentioned, besides two guest rooms. The private suite of the senator and his wife are not os-tentatious rooms, although large, light and beautiful. Sena-tor Clark's bedroom is finished in English oak with delicate-ly carved, wainscot and cornices. The walls are satin lined. Mrs. Clark's room is similarly finished, with a connecting boudoir and spacious bathroom and wardrobe closets. The ,bathrooms, both of the senator and his wife, and of all the guests, are exceptionally large, entirely tiled jn Carrara glass and the ceilings, and the showers are incased by plate glass inclosures. The library on this Hoor is a spacious room some forty feet long. An antique fireplace, taken from an old Kormandy castle, is a disti,nctive feature, as is the antique ceiling, transported from an old castle in France, It is dark and rich in design, -though severe and classical in line. It is the senator"s idea to make this one of the most at-tractive rooms in his house. The walls will be lined with bookcases and fllled with the choice volumes he has collect-ed, whic-h are at present stored in his spacious apartments in the Navarre flats. Directly above the library on the fourth floor is a room of almost equal size, which the senator has set aside for an "Oriental Room." This room is yet in an embryonic state, but in it the senator will gather his choicest specimens of Oriental art. The nursery on the next floor is a most com-plete establishment. It consists of two departments, a "night" and a "day" nursery. The rooms are spadous and will be, lighted by large windows, and contain every modern and hygenic appliance known to modern equipment. As the senator and Mrs. Clark have but two small children, the fa-cilities of these spacious rooms will not be overtaxed. There is an adjunct to the nUrsery department in the tower, where there has been set aside a room which can be used in the event of a quarantine, The rest of the fourth floor is devoted to guests! rooms, 26 Sketch by Otto Jiranek. MICHIGA.N ARTISAN The of which there are twenty-five in the house. Nearly all of these rooms have spacious baths connected and are finished in either American or English oak, heavily carved and pan-eled, There is also a ~omplete housekeeping suite, before mentioned! on the fourth floor. The fifth and sixth floors contain the rooms and aCCOl11O-datioDs for thirty-five servants. The eastern wing of the house is devoted to the men's quarters, and the western wing to the quarters of the women servants. The laundry is on the sixth floor, and is as large as many public laundries. The freight elevator makes all of these rooms accessible to the basement. But perhaps the pride of the senator is his own suite on the ground floor. This princely group of rooms includes the senator's· office, a reception rOom, and a library and a magnificent lounging room, the latter of which is a veritable old style English hall. It is ninety feet long and twenty feet wide, and is done- in the domestic Gothic style, as dis-tingUished from the ecclesiastical Gothic. The room is sev-enteen feet high, and the most notable fature in it is an im-menscfireplace in the Gothic style of French Norrnandeaux stone. The ceiling is heavily beamed, and the wainscoting is carved oak. One-half of this room is devoted to a billiard room. Opening from the lounging room is a small hall lined with mirrors, which connects it with Senator Clark's private suite. This suite is done in heavy St. Domingo mahogany, embellished with a gold bronze frieze and fixtures of the Em-pire style. It would be hard to imagine anything more impressive than the conception of design in this ground floor suite and its approaches through the corridor of solid niarble from the massive vestibule of bronze, facing the colossal vaulted stair-way at the entrance. This corridor on the first floor leads !itraight across the house to the entrance by the pOI"te-cocherc. Beyond the driving entrance is a vestibule large-' enough to accommodate several teams while their occupants are de-scending prior to their entrance to the house. There is also room in this vaulted vestibule for several automobiles, To a man with $12,000,000 a year income the construction, furnishing and maintaining of such an establishment is not such a very large item after all. As a matter of fact, Sena-tor Clark maintains at present four complete establishments-one in Los Angeles, Cal.; one in Butte, Mont.; one in \Vash-ington, D. c., and his present home in New York. Stored in these houses and in various art galleries are his 'c.ollections of paintings, porcelains and tapestries, which he has assid-uously gathered for the last ten years. In order to carry out his plans and reduce the building of this house to a businesslike proposition, Senator Clark eight years ago organized a realty company, and made his house an incorporated concern. On Long IslaIid he built a com-plete woodworking and marblecutting establishment at a cost of $150,000. This establishment has been in operation c.on-tinually for eight ycars, and it is probable that it will require two more years before the work is completed in all its de . tails. Senator Clark's expenditures have run as high as $2,- 000 a day for months at a time, and there has seldom been a week when there have been less than 200 skilled laborers at work upon the various details of the structure. In order to continue the work unhampered, Senator Clark purchased out_ right a large granite quarry in !I'faine and another in Mary-land. The vast quantities of copper used in the construc-tion of the house were taken from Senator Clark's mines in Montana and brought on to his plant ou Long Island, where it was cast. So the house itself is practically the product of American material and American workmen, an achievement that in it-self is creditable to Senator Clark, and adds materially to the public's interest in this· all-American palace-the highest expI"ession of American artisanship in the building of a pri-vate residence in New York.-Times. MICHIGA:\' AlZTISAN 27 ~SPIYS.l R.ad T...... o' Sak CAREFULLY. " . . . .. Owing t.o Ollr .mall commissiolUJ there 915-!m'91ll. -Del . will he No Conce88io~8 From Plibli8hed PENN AVi>NUE • T...m.. . CONSIGNMENT SALE of a Train Load of FURNITURE From L. F. GREEMAN FURNITURE MFG. CO., . Tf'i:-.f=---q·A);~"·.W"'.~_~~~~ '- of SEYMOUR ,IIND I Great COntij'Rmel1f Sale Begins ~ Tomorrow. AU ...Good. (It Whote.ak Factory Prices. Read euery word of tlan uniqRe annoan«'ment~ "THE PITTSBURG STYLE" 28 MICHIGAN ARTISAN Made by Woodard Furni.ture Co., Owosso, Mich. • :lIICHIG,\N ARTISAN 29 r, -------------------- -------_._-----------., I • 30 MICHIGAN FURNISHING THE BUNGALOW. The Plainest of the Plain the Rule to Follow. I<As plain as poverty!! is a simile quite out of date. As a matter of fact, persons with full pocket books are now among the most eager purchasers of house draperies, furniture :.l.nd wall coverings of the plaine,st description. Yor the moment the plainest of the plain is the fashion in the country houses more or less removed from the beaten routes of travel. Also cottages, camps and bungalows mor~ or less secluded are, tremendously in favor. So far as appearance goes a man of fortune and a book-keeper earning $2,000 or less a year are now housed alike in some, parts of the north woods and in nearer districts of )lew England. The former uses his primitive-apparently primitive-habitation for perhaps two weeks in the year; the latter sends his family up for a three, months' stop. That's one diffexence betwe_en the two cottages. Another difference is in the, cost of furnishing-the two with apparently the- same results. In one instance a force of men from a New York establishment noted for fitting out COUIttry places in suitable and picturesque fashion arrived on the scene and did up the job; did it well, too. There was no glitter, no silk-en tapestry, no gilded furnitt.tre, no pink and blue French effect in drawing room or elsewhere in this two story bungalow situated six miles from a railroad station, near a mountain lake and surrounde.d with first growth trees. The furnishings of the house matched the surroundings as perfectty as though the turf, the water of the lake, the h'aves and -bark of the trees, the mould of the wagon road had been carried to New York and matched in the shops. The latest fad, the decorator told the owner, is to furnish mountaineottages so as to give the effect of severe simplic-ity. "Rough finish, brown tones, materials of coarse fibre, woods showing the nat-ural grain and all absence of paint are considered more styl-ish than convention-al fabrics, polished \-'\loods, satin papers and the like," the decorator said-said it doubtfully, knowing his customer, when he took the job. "Go ahead," was the answer he got. He went ahead, \-vlth the results de· scribed, which were obtained at a cost of several thousand dollars. Visitors to that bungalow last summer raved about its artistic furnish-ings- when told who the decorator was. -The same effects, fortunately for the man who sends his family to the wilds for economy's sake and is in the habit of giving high priced decorators a wide berth, can be had at comparatively small expense if one knows what to buy. l\Ia-terials heavy, durable, qUlet toned may be had in the shops for half a dollar a yard which challenge in style goods costing half a dozen dollars a yard. The effect of the one is mostly stylish as the effect of the other, although the one is mostly flax, the other mostly raw silk. Here is the story of the furnishing of a bungalow set up by a young married couple handicapped by having an income which would scarcely be enough to keep the wife of the wealthy bungalow owner in hats! The bungalow, in the first place, was not built by them or for them. They lighted on it one day in taking a trip across lakes in the Adirondacks. At one time, they were told, it ARTISAN was the headquarters of the foreman of a lumber camp. By building an extension kitchen and servants' rooms the house would have enough space to accommodate half a dozen persons, they decided, and for a nominal sum the young husband got a lease of the house for three years. Early the next spring he and his wife appeared in the vidnity and pro-ceeded to make the house one 01 the most admired in a neighborhood of rich men's camps. \Vhat they did anyone can do. An astonished workman was engaged to rough plaster the walls. He was hurt when his suggestion of smoothly plas-tered white walls was waived aside. "The roughest plaster you can mix, and only a trifle light-er in tint than common mortaL" was the order. When finished the color was a cross between a brown and a gray, and the rough uneven effect was attractive. Common wood stained in a dark oak color. was used in all the rooms in crossed four inch wide strips in the ceilings to give a lat-tice effect, through which could be seen a smooth white plas-tered ceiling. There was not orie inch of wall paper in the house. Floors <lnd doors were stained in an oak color. In the rich man's bungalow much of the furniture was full of angles and had an unpolished surface. Dull finished, angular furniture predominated in the bungalow of the young cottple, much of it made on the spot. Thus in the living room there was a three and a half foot wide and six foot long settee finished with a high back and arms, which the owner knocked together with the aid of a vv:orkman, and which is a joy to the eye. It harmonizes perfectly with three or four massive, well made pieces of mis-sion furniture sent up from New York, and is more picturesque than any settee shown in the New York shops. The seat cllshions arc of dull green arras cloth, rough and stylish, which can be purchased fat $1.25 a yard. It is fifty inches wide. So judicious is the mixture of heavy well made pieces of furniture from good shops with heavy roughly made pieces made on the premises that the average visitor puts the entire. outfit down as having come from a city establishment. "\~rhcre one can go out and cut down saplings without saying 'by your leave,' the possibilities for putting together ar-tistic bits of furniture are immense," the tenant explained. "I was lucky enough to find a pretty good carpenter in this neighborhood who would and could give me a couple of hours work now and then." The underpinning of his table is made of young trees strip-ped of their bark and stained walnut color. The top is made of smooth board fitted by a carpenter and then stained. The table was built in the room and can't ever be -taken out. The dining chairs came from a city shop and arc of dull fin-ish, walnut tint. vVindow seats, small settees, odd benches and stools made on the premises are in most cases an improvement onthe best grade mission designs from the best shops. In all the sleep-ing rooms WOven wire metal cots sent from New York were chosen by the young couple instead of iron bedsteads. When these arrived they were reinforc.ed with a headboard and a-footboard made of lattice work of small branches stripped of bark and treated with a white varnish. Even after paying a carpenter to do most of the work the money saving was con- Sketch by Otto Jiranek. :YIICHIGAK siderable and the results were far and away beyond what the be-st iron bedsteads could give. Chairs and settees and divans had plenty of cushions, but there were no upholstered pieces of furniture in the house. The cushion materials, couch draperles, portieres and rugs were selected with an eye to the strictest economy compati-ble with style. Shaiki rugs with two-toned color effects in plain designs are not expensive although the suggest oriental rugs of ten times the value. These and other makes devoid of decided patterns, presenting rather mottled effects in greens or in golden browns, or dark browns, or dull reds, or any other subdued tint, ,,,,'cre chosen simply because such designs are among the latest styles for country retreats of persons of means and artistic leanings. Then as to draperies. r-,'fonk cloth-a heavy, rather rough, loosely woven material, fifty inches wide, in all sorts of fol-iage greens and browns, is among the best of the fabrics which combine hemp and wool in the weave and are popular for portieres and couch covers, and it costs only $1.50 a yard. Then there is heavy burlap in cents and browns and greens, which costs $1 and less a yard. There is 1\:Iocha canvas at 50 cents a yard and Guildhall tapestry at 75 cents, both of which are fifty inches wide and can be had in all sorts of art colors. Caracas cloth, a variety of ,,,.'hich is a soft ecru drab color, is among the best and most stylish of the 50 cent, Gfty inch wide materials for either couches or doors, and among the ""'indow amI door draperies of newest design is Maracaibo lattice in green, brown, old blue, red and other shades at $1.75 a yard. Similar to this is Castlebon lattice, fifty inches wide and costing 75 cents a yard. In the cottage referred to the l\Iaracaibo lattice was used almost entirely for sofa pillow covering, the mesh of the weave, not unlike the old fashioned sampler canvas, offering a chance to introduce coarse fancy stitches of contrasting color.-1\ ew York Sun. A QUEEN THROWN IN THE DISCARD OWNER OF DEPARTMENT STORE WEAKENS HIS HAND. Beauty a Valuable Asset in Trade. Millions of dollars are spent by merchants annually in the effort to draw people into their stores, and yet it is stated in the ne,vspapers of New York that the managers of the depart-ment stores of that city have entered into a combine to keep people out of their cstablishments. It is hardly necessary to state that a woman is the cause of the commotion, and the incident is related as follows: "Rosa Timhle, seventeen years old, 84 Lenox avenue, is so beautiful that her attractive face threatens to deprive her of a chance to earn her own living. Discharged from one of the largest department stores in New York after working only a few hours, today she sought in vain for employnpnt as a salesgirl, but the story of her disastrous beauty seemed to have blazed her way to disappointment. Furore among employes and turmoil among customers crushing to the lace counter to view the beautiful face of the girl drove the su-perintendent of the department store to discharge her because the pushing and surging of the curious crowds delayed the transaction of business. The story of the experience of this dazzling beauty reached the ears of superintendents in other department stores and with a regretful but admiring glance and tone she was bowed from each store where she sought employment." Miss Timble should not worry over her future. With ARTISAN 31 the right kind of management fame, wealth and position are within her grasp. Any live merchant of the west would en-gage her serviccs to draw people to his store. Her em-ployment would depend upon her ability to preserve the beauty nature has endowed her with. To the merchants of the west and south the attitude of the merchants of New York toward l\Iiss Timble is amazing. Such stupidity should be rewarded by the attainment of the end sought-empty stores. HAWAIIAN MAHOGANY. O. J. Barker Approves of Its Quality for the Making of Fur-niture. "The Hawaiian Mahogany Company has the goods," was the. terse remark made by O. J. Barker of the firm of narke~' Brothers of Los Angeles, the biggest furniture firm of the west, when asked what he thought of the Hawaiian wood for the furniture trade, and what prospects the company had. "The Hawaiian Mahogany Company has the goods, all right, but they want to get busy. TIH:re are furniture makers , Grand Rapids Caster Cup Co. 2 Parkwood live .•Grand RapIds, Mich. We are now putting out the best Caster Cups with cork bases ever offeree to tbe trade. These are finished in Golden Oak and White Maple ill a light finish. These goods are admirable for polished floors and furn-iture rests. They will not sweat or mar. PRICES: Size 2U incbes $4.00 per hundred Size 2ji inches······ 5.00 per hundred Try a Sample Order. F. O.B. Grand Rapid8. in Chicago and Grand Rapids waiting for that material. There are piano makers all over the Union who will want lots of it. Quarter-cut oak is bringing $92 a thousand, and the experts figure that there are only thirty years' supply in sight. Af- ]'ican mahogany brings $96, and the dealers are glad to pay that for it to get it. A Seattle firm has just made a contract with mahogany mcn in the Philippines at $96, and glad to do it. The Hawaiian company has the goods to sell, just the kind the cabinetmakers are scouring the earth after. "Now, they want to get in modern machinery and put their wood on the market. They ought to get some experts to point out where they arc ,..-asting valuable material, too. I saw material that they are going to sell by the foot that is generally sold by the pOUlld, the finest kind of wood for ve-neers. I don't want to talk too much, but you can say that that company certainly has the goods." Mr. Barker is enthusiastic in his praise of the quality of the cabinet material being taken out by the koa lumberers of Hawaii. He is an expert in ,..-oods and from what he has to say regarding his trip to Hawaii it is probable that he has closed a contract for a supply of koa. He would not con-firm this, however, referring the interviewer to the company',.; managers.-Pacific Advertiser, Honolulu. 32 :.vII CHI G A N ART I SAN 1!:Fll.t~ZRATOIt&I .8.'0 To'7:5'00 ~ohn' M Co~ A SAMPLE ADVERTISEMENT. '---- - >l 1 C II 1 G A i\ ,\ 1, TIS A N ~-----_._----------,----- -----------------------.,• NO-KUM-LOOSE FASTENER is the only device that makes it absolutely impossible for the Knob, Pull or Toilet Screw to get ioose or come off. Made in glass, brass and wood-mahogany walnut, maple, oak or birch. As they cost the manufacturer absolutely nothing at all; no manufacturer can afford to trim his furniture without using these fasteners. Manufactured under the Tower Patents only by the GRAND RAPIDS BRASS CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN ___________ -i • •I Cabinetmakers' Co. Manufacturers of tine lIDDADT an~DININO ROOM rUUnlTURf in MAHOGANY and CIRCASSIAN WALNUT Will exhibit its New Line in Mannfacturers' 'I3uildin~, Grand Rapids-first floor, sonth side. Salesmen: L. D: Berry, W. r. Welch, Roht. E. Baxter, A. T. KingJhury, A. JenningJ, M. D. Blum• • 33 34 MICHIGAN BACHELOR HOME BUILDING. Shy ~idding Gives a Clue to a Sympathetic Man and Woman. A somewhat dandified old chap-not so very old-has been a regular attendant for the last month or so at Mr. Slam's auctions of elegant furniture and household effects. His assiduous buying has puzzled the women amateurs and his shrewdness in picking up bargains has made the pro-fessionals sore. Mr. Slam soon segregated him from the crowd of triAcrs as "one 0' them that means business," and often favored him by drawing his attention to desirable lots and giving him time when he seemed to be fluttering on the brink of a bid. But Mr. Slam actually knew no more about him than any bne else knew. "I swan, ladies," said he, when a bevy of the most in-quisitive tackled him after one of the sales, " I know no more about him '11 some of yoU do about bridge whist. Yes, I've a name for him, I call him Mr. Whiskers because 0' them jug handles he wears on the rims of his mug." This delicate allusion referred to the straight up and down ridge of short, cris'p white whiskers which the pur-chaser wore, extending just the length of his cars. His moustache. was white like the "jug handles," but his hair v,..'as only iron gray, and many a woman in her twenties would have envied his clear, smooth skin, his pink and white complexion and his bright blue eye-a genial, even a merry eye at times, but keen withal In spite of the gold rimmed glasses which he hooked on his nose when he desired to consult the catalogue. Just here, perhaps, it will be as well to withdraw the word "flutter" used above to describe the pose of Mr. \~Thiskers on the. brink of a bid. It is a word that does not apply to any proper motion of his. In the first place, he was sjx feet tall; in the second, he must have been an athlete in his youth; to clinch the argu-ment, he had assumed that welt filled outline which indi-cated perfect health and feeding. Mr. \¥hiskers was a little timid at first, but his presence in a scene that gathers aU sorts and conditions of men at-tracted little attention. His first bids on a statuette, a few drawing room ornaments and a rug or two indicated notbing out of the common. They seemed quhe natural. He emerged into the limelight when some handsome dining room furniture was put up and he won out in a sharp skirmish with a dealer, a regular frequenter of the place. V\Then the things were his at about half the price the dealer would have asked for them in his store the latter leaned over and remarked con:fidentially: "You've got a bargain there, boss." 1I0h, thank you," replied Mr. \Vhiskers politely but irrelevantly. "Yes," the man went on, "you wouldn't have got off as cheap by $75 at another season. But, you see, I couldn't give up much for such things right at the opening of sum-mer when they'd lie on my hands tiJI the folks come hack in the falL" "Quite so. Very kind of yOUtal tell me. Thank you very much," Mr. \Vhlskers repeated and then turned his attention to the next lot put up. As he went on buying, a lot here and there it dawned on a woman who had taken an interest in him as a charaGteristic specimen of the old schOOl that he was engaged in furnish-ing a home. She said so to the man with her, and as they were only picking up a few rugs and ornaments themselves and had plenty of time they took to watching his operations. They were soon impressed with his sound sense and self· command. Everything he bought was good and a bargain. When things went a little high he dropped out of the bid-ding early. ARTISAN And so they saw him capture a couple of large rugs and a couple of middle sized ones, and a lot of small ones and some handsome draperies and chairs and a fancy table or two and a couple of bookcases and a very fine piano, and so on down to the day when a superb brass bedstead, as the catalogue called it, with all sorts of upholstery to match, was carried in sections through the curtains, and Mr. Slam directed attention to its excellences .. Neither of the couple was looking <\t Mr. \Vhiskers when he made his first bid, hut the man turning his way a moment later suddenly whispered into the woman's ear: "\Vhy, he's going to be married." "Konsense," snapped the woman. Then she took a glance- at him. "\"Thy, so he is," said she. A delicate pink flush had crept all Olrer the face of Mr. \Vhiskers; he was glancing right and left au[. of the corner of his eye to see if he was observed, and fidgeting uneasily 011 his camp chair so that it creaked a warning. He usually :Made by the Udell Works, India.na.polis, Ind. spoke his bids out in a clear full voice, but this time he merely motioned them with his eyeglass, and thus he nearly lost the prize, for :\'lr. Slam, expecting to hear his voice, didn't look his way at the crisis. Slam was just all the point of knocking the cot down to a fat woman in a 1:Ierry vVidow hat when his eye accidentally caught that of 3.1r. Whiskers and read the desire and the hesitation, the reason for which he mistook. "It's dirt cheap," said Slam with his best air of con-viction. "Well, ten more," rapped out Mr. \¥hiskers, sitting up very straight. "Oh, what a shame!" squawked the fat woman. ..T..hank you sir"-this from Slam, with a nod that was intended for a bow. I'Now, I ain't going to waste any more time on this piece.· Make up your minds, ge'ntlemen and ladies! Any advance on-" and the usual rigmarole. But Mr. Whiskers had frightened the crowd. The antes had been $5 and it was because he lost his head for once that he offered $10. This, however, dId the business and his was the last bid. As he looked around a trifle sheepishly after his victory the woman gave him a little nod and smile of congratu-lation. So did the man. He blushed some more, but was evidently pleased. Then he went ahead quite courageously to complete his bedroom equipment, and as one article after another was knocked down to him the nods and smiles of congratulation :'vII CHI GA N became a regular thing. At the close of the day"s session a fev·... words \-vere interchanged. It ",7as at the next sale, one day the following week, that he conGdcJ his secret to the ,,,",oman, who was the sort of woman who wins confidences easily. She was alone and he sat near her ''lith just one empty chair betvv·ccll. Tt was a vcry handsome silver backer! hand mirror, with an elaborate stand on which it rester! when not in use, a curious foreign sort of lady's toy, Ttalian perhaps, or French. It started at $150 and ran up to $250 and he bought it. It had been passed around for inspection during the bid-ding and he happened to be holding it as the contest closed. The woman, \vho hadn't bid, had refrained from interfering Made by Valley City Desk Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. with the real buyers. but she was curiou~ to see it so she leaned over and asked [eave of its new owner. He was most happy. \Vhen it went back behind the curtain to await settlement he leaned over and began to talk. "It was quite all extravagance for a man of my means," said he. "I am not wealthy--just comfortable. But couldn't let it go Then after a pause he went on: "I am going to be married soon, about the end of the month. That is why I am buying all the;;e things. You may have wondered at it. You see, I must have a home properly J1tte<1 nJl for my wife. "I am not a ..v..idower. I have never been married. I have led a bachelor life for many years-'-'~a sigh-"since my mother died. I have lived at hotels and boarding honses and abroad. So I had to begin at the beginning and buy everything." Then there was another pause. "You may wonder why I come here instead of going to the stores--tbc furniture places-and ordering everything new. I have two rea~ons. "I mentioned that I am not rich. That's one reason. 1,fy time is not occupied and I can get better value for my money. You knO\v, I hate cheap imitation stuff. "The second reason is that not being a~"'iel1, not being a very young mal1, I have thought that some of these things being a little of the old style and showing some slight sign of use will look more dignified in my home than brand new things with the varnish shiny on them. "But there will be plenty that's new and bright to please my wife. She'll see to that. I'll see that she sees to it when we're married." The woman hillted that she hadn't seen the bride elect helping to pick the furniture of her future home, and broached the theory that she lived out of town. "No," said Mr. \Vhiskers, "she's 'here, but it is not con- ARTISAN venicnt for her to corne." He said this l,vith some embarrass-melH. "But she sees everything when I have it sent to the apartment I have rented. If she disliked anything it could easily be SCl1t baek alld resold. But I am happy to say she has becn satisfied so far." "'She'd be hard to please if ~he wasn't," said the woman. "You're very kind to say so. And I believe she is. She is the daughter of one of my oldest friends-who is dead-and I feel she docs me great honor by marrying me. "I .yould not have ventured to aspire if circumstances had not seemed to make it all for the bese-Mr. Whiskers seemed to forget he waS talking to a stranger; he seemed almost as if speaking in a dream-"and I am encouraged to think she is doing her feelings no violence, for she says so and she is the soul of truth. ';Besides 1 am not really wealthy, and everything she can gain by marrying me she could have had equally with-out doing so, so great was my regard for her falher-and her mother." His voice dropped on the last word. The, next day the man and woman were together and ~1'r. \Vhiskcrs was in the row behind them. They had discussed the bride and wondered what stage of middle life she might have reached. Toward the end of the sale a sweet voice behind them said: ;'Here I am, Harry." They turned sharply in time to catch the lithe, graceful figure of a young woman-a girl not over twenty-two at the most-standing behind rvIr. \Vhiskers and resting her hand 011 his shoulder. He was on his feet in a second, welcomed her with courtly warmth, and they sat down together. She had a pale oval face, ~traight nose, reel lips and soft chestnut hair. The man thought: "Hovi' beautifully dressed she is!" The woman thought: "Evidently poor, but has excellent taste." A few minutes later at the cashier's desk outside Mr. Whiskers asked for a pen to \'v·rite a check. The girl opened her reticule and produced a fountain pen. As she did so a stenographer's note book fell out. Mr. \Vhiskers stooped and retul'11ed it to her. "Some \vol'k I must finish tonight," said she. ;;\\7hy, I hoped you could dine with me. I think it would be all right." "So I will," said she with a merry smile, but it 111USt be a little dinner and let me go home early." They stood silent waiting for 1'11'. vVhiskers's bill to be receipted, just exchanging one look. The man and woman watched them from the background. ;;Yes, indeed," said the woman. "Romance," said the man. "'Vill they be happy ever after?" Thc woman just then caught the changed. "They will," said she. asked the man. look the couple \\Jillow !l-Iorris chairs costing $15 each arc greatly enjoyed by sojourners by the sea, and in the mountains. Henry ScLmit 8 Co. HOPKINS A~D HARRIET STS. Cincinnati. OLio makers of UpLolstered Furniture fo' LODGE aod PULPIT, PARLOR, LIBRARY, HOTEL and CLUB ROOM 35 ex- , r The T.B. Laycock -Mf~.Co. 36 GET OUR p R I C E S MICHIGAC>I ARTISAN • ~ tu ,. No. 662 IRON BED. No. 778 IRON BED. We will appreciate your consideration of our line of Brass and Iron Beds, Springf't Steel Couches and Davenp~rts. Cribs, Cols, etc. There are many features differentfrom the other fellow's. That's why dealers prefer our goods, quick sellers-good profits. Write for lIIustrated Catalogue. We Make 100 Other Nos, in Sprirgs No. 222 Our reputation fo' Vernis.Martin finish is acknowledged superior 10 all others. We know how and guarantee it not to turn dark, Order a sample bed. CALL AND SEE US. Continuous Exhibition at Our Factory Salesroom. if No. 625 IRON BED. No. 1300 BRASS BED. The T. S. LaycockMfg. Co. Indianapolis, Ind., U. S. A. • .--._---- 'criCHIGA)J ARTISAN . • _- ._--------_. __.__._--., Royal Furniture Company GRAND RAPIDS. MICHIGAN m "Colonial" Style Dining Library Bedroom Suites HALL CLOCKS FACTORY SALESRooM NEW ADAPT ATIONS Ready for Inspection JUNE 24, 1908 SHOWN AT 37 !I II ~------ ---------_._-~ 38 MICHIGAN The Posselilts Brothers Furniture Manufacttuing com-pany will show forty new patterns of dining tables in ad-dition to a large number of their most popular styles, in July, on the second fioor of the Furniture Manufacturers Exhibition building, 1319 Michigan avenue, Chicago. This will make the strongest exhibit this company has ever made and the visitors, backed up by so many round tables of solid worth, will make a display you cannot afford to over~ look. The exhibit will be in charge of F. A. Kuney, H. J. Armstrong and J. O. Kemp, salesmen 'who have been representing this company for several years, The Palmer Manufacturing company witt show a fine line of music cabinets in gold, roakwood and mahogany, of about fifteen patterns, and a few new patterns will be . added to their large line of library and parlor tables and pedestals, in their showroom, second floor 1319 11iehigan ?venue, Chicago. The exhibit will be in charge of \TV. A. Newman, H. L. Doed.erlein, R. Vi. Doederlein and Ellis Pine. The Pioneer Manufacturing company will not make an exhibit at any of the furniture ex.positions in July. Busi-ness is rapidly picking up with this company, every month's business showing a handsome increase over the preceding ARTISAN one; their May business was nearly three times that of January. They havc added a line of reed couches, which sells well. These are very fine for porches. An illustration of one pattern is shown on another page of this issue. C. H. Haberkorn and company have issued a catalogue, and will not show at any furniture exposition. ]. C. Vv'jdman and company will show a full line of dining room furniture in Chicago and New York in July. 'While their liue of hall furniture will be kept up to its full size and exceHencc, the addition of complete dining suites make this one of the strongest exhibits of the year. "The Smile that Won't Come Off:' Is the smile of the furniture merchant when a cust'm~e; comes into his store and a'sks for furniture fitted with the Hknobs that won't come off," the No-Kum-Loose knobs, made by the Grand Rapids Brass company. The fact that so many attempts to produce something just as good r.l\·c been made, is 'the, highest compliment that can be paid to the manufacturers of the No-Kum-Loose knob. The Tower patent fastener is what makes the No-Kum-Loose so popular, and it is safe to say that more than two million blObs ;uve been fitted up with this device since it was patented by Daniel \v, Tower, the president of the Grand Rapids Bras~ company. These knobs are furnished in glass, brass anti wood-mahogany, walnut, birch, oak, and maple, or any domestic wood desired. The fact that knobs fitted with the Tower patent fasteners-the famous "No-Kum-Loose," do 110t cost the manufacturers a cent more than the old style knob, almost makes it a sin for the dealer not to de-mand them of the manufacturers. Nothing detracts from the beauty of a piece of furniture so much as a front marred and scratched by loose pulls and knobs. EspeCially is it deplorable l,vhen the furniture is made in figured or crotch mahogany, Circassian, walnut, birdseye and white maple, and fine Quartered oak, and since the "No-Kum-Loose" pull is to be had just for the asking, there is no longer any excuse for marred fronts by the use of knobs and pulls "that wiII come off." Murphy Chair Co. MANUFACTURERS D~TROIT, MICH. A COMPLE.TE LINE. • "I I C H TG A ?\ ART I S A K ~---------------_._--_. 39 • , Largest line to select from, and quality and _work~nanship can't b~ beat. Come and see the line and We have the (ASSORTMENT )STYLES be convinced. \ PRICES Three Piece Suites in Loose Cushions can'tbecoIl1- pared, they are the best. Leather Rocker line is very large and prices right. Couches from the cheapest to the best. 0.-.. . . THOS, MADDEN, SON & CO" Indianapolis, Ind Show Rooms, 35 to 41 N. Capital Avelllle. ROCKFORD NATIONAL FURNITURE COMPANY ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS Larger and Better Line Exhibit One Hundred Patterns of Up-to-Date Sideboards, Buffets and China Closets (In Oak only-••from $12.50 to $50) Fifth Floor, 13 19 Michigan Aven ue, CHI CAGO In charge nf YOHNNY YOHNSON, JohnnY'J got the fluff this time) Jure enough . Dawllport Bed tine is the talk of the country from coast to coast; don't fail to visit 1ff! or 'write for cuis and prteNi. • ..--._---------------------'----------~ • • 40 MICHIGAN OF INTEREST TO FURNITURE SHIPPERS PROPOSED NEW CRATING AND PACKING SCHED_ ULE FOR FURNITURE MANUFACTURERS. As Submitted to the Western Traffic Association by a Com-mittee Representing Manufacturers' Associations. There have been so many claims made against the rail-roads by shippers of furniture for damages in transit dOting the past few years that the roads constituting the vVestern Traffic Association, through Chairman Becker of the classifi-cation committee, early in April sent communications to the various furniture manufacturers' associations asking them to send delegates to a convention called to meet in Chicago on April 22. The convention selected a committee consisting of the following delegates: Charles F. Miller of the Scarritt- Comstock Furniture Company of St, Louis, Mo., chair-man; George A. Davis of the Stow & Davis Furniture Com-pany, Grand Rapids, Mich.; Louis Froelich of A. Dlctz & Co., Cincinnati, 0.; C. H. Hill of" Haywood Bros., Chicago, Ill.; H. \V. MalleIl of H. Z. Mallen & Co., Chicago, Ill.; C. B. Gregory, traffic manager for Rockford (Ill.) Shippers' Asso-ciation; Joseph Deimel, National Parlor Furniture Company, Chicago, Ill.; John Hoult of Luce Furniture Company, Grand Rapids, :.\tIich.; M. '''.'uipi, 2'lational Table Manufacturers' As-sociation committee, and P. D. Francis, secretary. The gentlemen constituting the committee, after many tests, submitted the following schedule as a minimum standard for crating and packing the different articles of furniture list-ed under each heading for open freight shipments. At a meeting of the committee with I\.'lr. Becker and his associates, held early in June in Chicago, all of the committee's recom-mendations were agreed to with the exception of the section known as Standard Crate No.2 and the section applying to chairs. Mr. Becker was of the OpiLiOll that nfty per cent of all exposed surfaces under standard crate No.2 should be cov-ered instead of one-third as recommended by the committee. The committee Gnally conceded forty per C211t. Mr. Becker refused to accept this until he could investigate further. The section referring to chairs also awaits Mr. Becker's approval. There is to be a meeting of the trafiic managers of the as-sociation in Denver early in July at which titre Mr. Becker's recommendations will doubtless he aCCEpted, to become oper-ative, possibly, the 1st of August or September. l-fakers of medium and fine furniture will not be affected by the adop-tion of the new schedule, as in the great majority of cases the makers of this class of goods, and especially the Grnnd Rapids manufacturers, pack and crate their goods in a highly satis-factory manner to railroads and far above the requirements of the schedule no",\, proposed. The manufacturers of the lower grades of furniture will likely find that the adop-tion of the new schedule will increase the cost of crating a dresser about Jiftcen cents each. The failure to crate aud pack goods as per schedule will result in their being trans-ported at the next higher classification of charges. While the schedule in its enforcement will only apply to open car shipments, it will nevertheless indirectly affect many full car shipments, for the reason that the jobbers will insist Upon goods being packed in such a way that they 111ay be re-shipped without necessitating repacking. This l.vill also ap-ply to those manufacturers who sell goods to the mail order hotlses. LESS THAN CARLOAD. STANDARD CRATE No.1. Crates to have locked corners and made of strips not Jess than three inches wide and to be §i-inch thick, if hardwood, ARTISAN and };i-inch thick if soft wood. The whole top ·of the ar-ticle, if finished and flat, to be completely covered with lum-ber not less than )4-iuch thick, if hard wood, or ~-inch thick, if soft wood. Front and ends to be at least one-third cov-ered with lumber not less than }4-inch thick, if hardwood, or %-inch thick jf soft wood. The bottom and ba'Ck ,should be covered fifteen per -cent. The above crate to be STANDARD for the following ar-ticles, if crated: Folding Beds Bureaus Car Seats Chtffonlers Commodes Desks }Jesks, LaboratoQ' Furniture Easels Han Stands, set u!I Hal! Stands, knocked down Hat Racks, set up Hat nacks. knocked dOwn Kt:tchen Cabinets 'Iypewriter CabInets Wardrobes, set up lNardrobes. knocked dOwn Vi'ashstands Bed Enils Over $20.00 Book Cases Sectional BOok Cases Book Cases and Desk Combined China Closets, set up ChIna Closets, Knocked dOwn Cabinets, Music Cabin-ets, 'Parl(lt' RevolVing Book Cases Sideboards and China Closets Combined T::tbles, Bedroom Tables, Toilet Tnbles. Side Ta bles. Parlor 'robles, Library Tabl.e\>, Extemlion, Pillar, K. D. STANDARD CRATE No.2. Crates for all glnss and toilets. At least one-third of all exposed surfaces to be covered with };i-inch lumber. The above crate to be STANDARD for the following ar-ticles: Sideboard and Bu:l'l'et Tops. Dresser, ChIffonier a.nd Commw\e ToHets. TolI8t Ta.ble Tops. CansoI Table Tops with Glass and all other Glass Tops fOr furniture N. O. S. STANDARD WRAPPING No.3. All finJshed surfaces of articles that arc wrapped shall be covered with seven-otlnce. forty-inch burlap or its equiva-lent weight, and shall be protected with padding at least one inch thick, and in addition front posts or corners shall be fully protected with pads. The above wrapping shall he STANDARD for the follow-ing ¥\-rtides: FOlding Beds Car Seats COmmodes Desks Desks, Laboratory Hall Stands, set up Halt Stands, knocked dOW1\ Tables, ParlOr Tables, LIbrary Tables, :fo.;xtensionPillar, K. D. Sofas Tete-a-Tete Bureaus Chiffoniers J<'urniture Easels Hat Racks, set UP Hat Racks. knocked down Kitchen Cabinets SIdehuard, Typewriter Cabinets Wardrobe,~, set up Wardrobes, knocked down 1,Vasnslands PACKING BEDS INVOICING $20.00 OR LESS. BED ENDS. When packed singly, pack with slats, with pads to pro-tect at bearings. When packed in pairs, no slats to be required. Pads at bearings and securely tied at the corners. BED RAILS. Face together and fasten with cleats or rail hooks. CHAIRS. The definition of the terms <lYVrapped," "Crated," and "Boxed," as noted in \;Yestern Classification No. 44 and ap-plying to chairs, rocking chairs and settees and to grass, wil-low, reed and rattan chairs and furniture, was decided upon 3S hereinafter stated, and the following method of packing adopted as STANDARD. WRAPPED. Set up chairs, rocking chairs and invalid chairs, to have at least the back posts, top slat and outside edge of seat wrapped with paper. Applying to chairs valued at $1.50 each or less. Knocked down chairs, rocking chairs and chair tops. If -----------~-------------- --- -- - - MICHIGA':\ in bundles, nested, two or morc in a bundle, the seat of the top chair and tlIe top slats to be .,vrapped with paper, Chair tops with high arms to have top slats, back posts and arms wrapped with paper. Camp and folding scat chairs to have top slats and scats \"'Tapped with paper. Settees N. O. S. set up, knocked down or folded. To have top of back, end and arms and front of scat wrapped with paper. The above mctlJOd of ""rrapping" chairs is the minirnl1ll1 method and is applicable only to the cheaper gr:-tde of chairs. High priced set up chairs or the tops of high priced knocked down chairs must have the exposed parts further protected hy excelsior pads 0/. paper pads securely tied with twine. Grass, Rattan O('\'\'llJO\\' C}lairs and HlJC)H"l'S,set IlP, Grass. ref'd or ,"Vi:low (~hai..s and Hocl{els, kno"ke'1 down. To be CiJnJPldely wl'app"d "'Hb paper. Grass, Hanan 0\' vVillow Wurnit\lre, 3rt up. OrnB):;, Heed 01' \-Villow }<'uf'nitun", sH up, Gf'ass, Reed or \Vil1ow li'unliture, knockf,d down. Top::; to be "omplel.('ly \\"l'alJped with papel". It is understood that the term "Paper" means good com-mercial wrapping paper. "Kev,/spaper shall not be used in wrapping the articks above described. CRATES. The mininllHl1 size of stock to be used in making a stand-ard chair crate shall be % x 2-inch hard \-vood; said crate to consist of not less than sixteen slats so distributed in con-struction of crate to offer best protection to contents of same. It is understood that one-inch merc1ull1table lumber, split, he accepted as one-half-inch crating stock. Ii soft wood is used, it shall be at least three-Fourths-inch thick. BOXES. /\s descrjbed in \,Vcstcrn Classification No. 44, Rule 14. Prices Guaranteed by Manufacturers of Extension Tables. The llatiollal association of manufacturers of exten,;ion tables had its allnual meeting at 1Iinneapolis during the first ..v..eek of June, The members assembled at Chicago and jour-neyed to the "Twin Cities" in drawing r(lom coaches chartered for the purpose, During their stay the members were royal-ly entertained by the Northwestern Club, an organization of manufacturers of tables affiliated with thf 'national associa-tion, The only business transncted of general importance was the passage of a resolution guaranteeing the price to re-tailers horn June 24 to December 1, and maintaining the prices now charged for goods.-There may be J. few small close out lots on h;md, but these will be disposed of bdore the op-ening of the regul<'lr season. Reports uoon the condition of trade sho\,-ved that the factories had betn o,:,erated during' the past six months forty-five bOllI'S pC'r week, causing a redUC-tion in the output of twcnty-Evc per cent. Stocks in the hands of retailers arc low and the prosp;::ct" for business dur-ing the remainder of the year were very encouraging, Op timism prevailed in the ddibcrations of the asSOCiatHHI. Con-siderable time was devoted tn t'lJtntainment. Tours to 1Iinnetonka and Lake Harriet by alltomobilc, banquets at" the Lafayette Club, a ride through tl1c city of St, Paul, and other pleasures n:ade the occasion a memorable one, F. Stuart Foote of the Imperial Furniture Company, Grand Rap-ids, tendered the thanks of the association to the Northwest-ern Club and their fricr.ds for the pleasures enjoyed, in felici-tous remarks a11(1invited the association to hold its meeting in May, 1909, at Detroit, Only three of the whole member-ship were absent. If yOll forget one~hali you hear ahout cut VricC.'i and do not believe the other lwlf yon arc on safe ground. In looking into the future mallY designers see too far. ARTISAN 41 .,..---- -., ! IT'S BE.TTE.R TO I BUY THE BEST I !,II II!III! IIf,I, Buffets, Combiuation Buffets, China Closets Rockford Chair and Furniture Company Rockford, III Combination Bookcases, Library Bookcases l_. Fu!llillC 011exhibitioll in July. 3d F/t)flT. BJ~Jgett B!()ck. Grt1nd Rapids. Mich. J 42 MICHIGAN ! ARTISAN ALASKA QUALITY Guarantees petfect insulation, circulation and the most econom-ical consumption of ice. They insure the dealer a satisfied customer every time. Zinc, White Enamel, Porcelain and Opalite Linings. ASK FOR CATALOGUES AND PRICES. The Alaska Refrigerator CO. EXCLUSIVE REFRIGERATOR MANUFACTURERS MUSKEGON, MICHIGAN Offerings by Manufacturers of Muskegon. A radical change has been made in the line of the -:I.'1us-kegol1 Valley Furniture company. Many fresh patterns in chamber suites and wardrobes, in Colonird designs, includ-ing fOUf styles of tall post beds are among the featl.l.res. Mr. Ertfest Vi.lernher will represent the company in the east, Charles G. White in the middle west and C. E. vVilbce on the Pacific coast. The line will be found on the third floor of the Manufacturers building, Grand Rapids. The Moon Desk company show their camp-lcte line of office desks (including typewriters) on the third Boor of the 11al)ufacturers building! Grand Rapids, Many Sp(~Claj features of great value are contained in this line, The Alaska Refrigerator company (the largest manu-facturers of reh1gerators in the world) have made heavy shipments of refrigerators to points in South America and Europe. The past year's dullness affected but slightly this prosperous corporation. The Grand Rapids Desk company is preparing for all active season of trade. The Bedstead Trade in Bagdad. Consul Magelssen reports: Foreign bedsteads made their appearance here some eighty years ago, when British merchants first came to enter into the commerce of these regions. At that time the beds 'rere not introduced to be sold, but we.re brought by these pioneer traders to add to their own comforts, of which Bagdad could at that time offer but few. The only bed then :known to the natives was a queer rectangular structure, which continues to be largely used. It resembles a bird cage with the top off and is very cheap, being built of the dry branches of the date palm. It has an opening on one side, into which a person seats him-self; then )::hrowin'g the feet up he turns until the Qody is properly inside. It is estimated that 20 per cent. of Bagdad's population, which is believed to be 200,000 souls, employs this style of furniture. Other bedsteads much in vogue are coarsely built of wood; they are called <ltakets" and are used by the better class; they range 111price from $1.50 to $7.00. It is interesting to report that a very large taket, some-times measuring as much as ten feet square, is found in the houses of. some of the notable families of Bagdad. Thcy are usually' heirlooms, built of expensive lumber, and in most instances elaborately carved. These old fashioned beds arc no longer manufactured. Their values range from $25 to $50. About 60 per cent. of Bagdad's population possess no beds. These poor people rest on blankets spread on the floors of their houses in the ·winter and on the roofs in the summer. i ... Twenty-Fifth Anniversary. The Michigan Chair company has completed the twenty-fifth year of its existence, during which time they have gained a firmly established footing in the estimation of furniture dealers, as manufacturers of medium and high grade work. Their line is one of the largest made in the United States, and embraces chairs for all purposes. On page 8 of this issue, Charles H. Cox, the author of much of the literature distributed by this company, utters a few felicitousre-marks in regard to the company and its business, which deserve consideration. The line is on sale at the factory warerooms on Godfrey avenue, in Grand Rapids. The sales-men in attendance arc: .Messrs. Cox, Parmenter, Calder, Penny, 'Walton and McGregor. The furniture manufacturing industry was largely rep-resented at the republican national convention in Chicago. Many favored Taft before the convention; all favor him now. IIMUSKEGON VALLEY FURNITURE COMPANY I MUSKEGON MICH•• , • 000 DreSSerS Chiffoniers Worarobes [oDies' mums Dressll1[J TOUIIlS MOl1Ouony Ini00d GOODS LODies' DllSks Music CODlnelS • Line 011 we in Manufacturer&' Buildioz. Grand Rapid&. • MICHIGAN ARTISAN 43 ._------_._-----' ._----- -------------- .. Desk No. 50=A Oak or Imitation Mahogany 52 inches long; 30 inches wide 45 inches high; weight, 240 pounds. Material-Selected. Writing Bed-5 ply, buill up. Pedestals-14 Yz incheswide. Raised panels; moulded drawer fronts. Drawers have movable partitions, deep drawer partitioned lor books, lock auto-matically and are fitted with our special device which prevents binding. Curtain - Easy ruoRing, noiseless. duSt proof. Pigeon Hole Case-Private compartment with lock;8 pigeonhole boxes. Center Drawer-With lock. Square edge, sanitary construction. Sa tin Finish - Golden oak, weathered oak, or imitation mahogany. MOON DESK CO. MUSKEGON, MICH. ~---------- ---,----~------'-' --' Rugs in Demand. The carpet and rug trade in this city is feeling much more encouraged and cheerful over the outlook than was the case a few ·weeks ago. \Vhik business with selling agents in this market is not large, nor are there many buyers here, road salesnH;n arc sending forward bettcr ordcrs every week, Made by Northern Furniture Co. Sheboygan. Wls, and report that the situation in their respect.ive territories is steadily improving. The fact that the business is being booked, and tbat statements regarding orders are not merely talk, is shown by the resumption of other mills during the P<lst ·week or so, and t.he placing of otber plants on full schedule. :\oJ anuiacturers aTe ]10t making up goods for stock, but arc tllrning out goods to meet orders only. Another indi-cat. ion that thc l11.ills are gctting more orders is the in-creased interest. that is being taken in raw material, and reports of fairly large transactions having been put through in a quiet manuer. Raw material vvould not be purchased if it werc not ·wanted, as the mills are not taking it to have the stlppJies lie idle and to tie up ready capital. From the fact that jobbers are beginning to eall for further supplies of rugs, it would seem that the goods purchased at the re,cent auction sales have not stuck on buyer's hands. Some vcry fair orders ilrc reported as having he en placed by some of the Chicago houses that \vere the. largest buyers at the auction. I• With jobbers here in this market, business shows a de-cided improvement. There is a good demand for small mats and rugs of various sorts, ranging from the cheapest grass rllat up to some of the i·Jner grades of impotted oriental goods. Larger rugs in 9x12 sizes ate also heing taken in .1xminstcr, machine printed tapestries, smyrnas and a few wilton1:i. Brussels rugs at the new low prices are also be-ginning to move more freely, while the new designs and TUgS brought out are also proving better sellers than was at 1i.rst expected. Bath mats and porch rugs for summer use are in good request. The ne ..v blue and green shades in cotton bath 111ats 811(1 rugs have taken well, and some of the mills handling these goods are now well supplied with orders for some time ahead. Porch mats of grass and jute are good in green shades in solid cotors, and also in the new J apa-nese ,-\ud Chinese designs. ),lediurn priced domestic made smyrna rugs are also being taken {or the same tlSe, and are claimed by some to wear better than the grass rugs and mats. Some good orders for hotel and off-Leepurposes are also reported to have been secured during the past \\reek for large sized rugs, at good prices. Carpets arc moving better than they were a week ago, but the yardage taken is not as large as sellers would like to see.-N. Y. Commercial. Big Rapids Furni. ture Mfg. Co. ==~-~~=-- B(G RAPIDS, MIoH, SIDEBOARDS BUFFETS HALL RACKS In Quartered Oak, Golden and Early English Finish. No. 128. Price $12. 2 off 30days f. o. 9, Big Rapid8. • 44 MICHIGAN THE GRAFT AT NETTLETON'S. Showing How a Despised College Youth Got Next to a Rot-ten Game in a Furniture PI;-nt. When blonde young Bennett Nettleton was graduated from college, his father stuck him up on a high stool in tl1o'.': back office of the Nettleton Furniture Company, and told him to keep books. Bennett didn't like it. Where was the use of getting on the college football team, and incidentally taking up a few studies, if he was to spend his life with a set of books within an inch of his head? Bennett thought this over, and coudn't find the answer. But that didn't make any difference in the viewpoint of the old man. "I've got to have some one here who can perform an op-eration on this concern," he declared. "\11." e're making money, all right, but when I go to grabbing for some of it I find that it will be next week, or next month. There'll come a time some day when we'll be up in the blue sky if something isn't done, I've put my good money into a stock of brain food for you, young man, now se~ \vhat you can do in the line of extracting a little currency out of the landscape about this milL" "What is the matter with the mill?" demanded Bennett. "1 didtlt graduate as an expert financier, but I'll give you the best I've got in my cocoa if you'll put me wise as to the diffi-culty." "That's what I want you to find out," replied the old man. "Go ahead and put the plant under a microscope." Bennett did. He wanted to knO\.v so much about every-thing that Jones, the superintendent, Scott, who bought most of the supplies, and \Vall, \'>'ho ran things at the yards, told the workmen that little Clarence had rained down. and would keep them busy with foolish interrogation points. "He's come here to show us how to make furniture," said Jones, "and we'll give him a run for his money. Hazlett, the man who was fired to make a place for him, was of the salt of the earth, and made most of the money that paid his way through college. The first thing we know the old man will be innoculatillg the whole plant with highbrows, and we've got to teach this youngster what for." Bennett didn't appear to mind the enmity of the three men or the snickers of the other employes when he went into the shops. He got a little hot under the collar when the boys began throwing sticks at him, but he said nothing. However, he was seeing a lot of vacancies in the force in a short time. The young man dug into the books, asked questions, in-vestigated supplies, and looked Over shipping bills to no pur-pose. There was something wrong, but j l1e something- was not so easy to find. If the ptant was making $10,000 a year, as the books showed, he couldn't find the currency. He found that the company was paying stiff prices for everything it ,bought, and sent out to other houses for 4uo-tations, but return mails brought the same old llgures. The young man scratched his nose and pondered. There was a leak somewhere, but he couldn't find it. "They've got to show me!" he mused. That is just 'what those in charge of the workiup' force wanted to do. They wanted to show him tnat he wasn't thp only man about. the shops with a lead pencil behin,.1 his nght ear. Bennett inventoried everything in the plant and made note of every article shipped. No use. He kept track D~ i1Je cash for a month. Not a cent got away from him. "They've got me going," he said to the old man one night. "I can figure tip how much money we are m:tking, all right, but I can't find the money." "Haye you looked out for rebates?" "Sure I have. Kothing doing there." "vVell, you keep on going. When you diagnose this C0111- ARTISAN plaint y011 go to Europe in a steam yacht with niggers to keep the brass work bright. See? When you don't, we hike across country some cloudy night and take a job in a shingle mill. Now get busy," Now, there was one spot where the young man had not looked. He had never compared the raw material purchased with the output. So much lumber, so much veneer, so much glue, so much vamish, ought to make so much furniture: All right. He studied over the reports all night, and discovered that so much material didn't make so much furniture. He went over the labor books and found..:hat the fault was not there. So much payroll did make so much furniture. He went around the. plant for a week or two with a bee about the size of a prize ox buzzing in his cupola. V\rhen sales-men came in he looked over the orders and cut them down. This created a breeze in the shops. The superintend-ent came into the officc and said that he couldn't make furni-ture without lumber and things, and the amputated things ha~ to be ordered by wire and shipped on in special cars, which made the expenSe account look like a swelling on the books. As .<1 last resort, Benllett took some of the salesmen out into the town at night and changed the skyline for their bene-fit. But they lapped up his cool bottles and talked like ur-chins fresh from some Sunday school picnic. They told him that the Nettleton company was buying its materials at lower rates than auy other firm down the line, aud ended by hinting that last month's bills hadn't been discounted. One morning Freddie, a young man who was trying to rUn a shaper without clipping off most of his fingers, came into the office with a fired slip in his haud. He looked ugly, and had evidently been mixing it with some one out in the ma-chine shop, for a dark monument was skillfully hung Over his right eye. "What's the trouble out there?" asked Bennett. "It's that Jones," replied Freddie. "Ht'. thinks he's the whole shop, and he's so crooked that he couldn't fall down a well. He gave me a bum steer about sor~e work and then fired me because I did it as he told me to. I got i~ one wol-lop, anyway." "You say he's crooked," said Bennett. "You go ahead and show me that he is, and I'll put you back on the job with more pay." "You're on," said the amiable Freddie. He'll find that he's bumped up against the Wrollg gazabo this trip. Watch me for a week orhvo." It is said that John R. V{alsh would never have failed, nor have becn indicted, if he hadn't cussed out a prominent rail-road man who called too early in: the morning, also if he I Why Not Order? Say a dozen or more Montgomery Iron Display Couch Trucks sent you on approval? If no! satisfactory they ean be returned at no expense to you whatever. while the price asked is but a triBe, com-pared to the eonvenience they afford and the economy they represent in the saving of 600r space. Thirty~two couchts mounted. on the Montgomery Iron Display Couch Trucks occupy the sante Iloor 8p&ol:. as twdve dis-played in the usual manner. . Write for catalogue giving full descrip_ tIon and price in the dilferent fini,hes, to-gether with illustrations demolll!ltrating the use of the Giant Short Rail Bed Fastener for Iron Beds. Manufactured by the H. J. Montllomery Mfl!. Co. PATENTEES Silver Creek, New York,. U. S. A. • • ~l 1C III C A;'; llildn't hopped unto an crnplo:yc who ;\fterwarus became a bank examiner and did him up. This may be all talk, but certain it is th:1t Superintendent Jones would never have got the high bump if be hadn't hung something oyer Freddie's C)N~ that "1NOllldll't \i"ash off. Ollr night "..hen Benuf'tt \va~.; just thinking of going to bed Freddie came '0 the house after him. "Come 011 down to the without asking questions. fire r00111. The gas ..v..as not turned 011, but there was a ltug'c ./lre under the boilers, and Jones, Scott and \Vall "vere sitting comfortable in easy chairs with a four-quart pail of beer within reach. They wcre having a [l11e talk ahollt factory politics, and, incidentally, burning up v(:neer! A lot of maple lumber lay ready for sacrifice as soon as the veneer was out of the way. "I've becn ~vntching thcm for a vveek." whispered Freddie. Wrhey burn up veneer, fine maple and walnut, and varnish. I don't kno"v "dlal they do \vith the glue, but tl1(',y get rid of it in some way ';All right, Freddie," replied Bennett. the briny on my yacht." The next morning ..v..hen tlie thr'ee men reached the office they were placed under arrest for the m,dicious destruction of property. Of course, they raved and t;:tlked suit" for false imprisollment, but they \vere finally compelled to rnakc con-fession and \vhat restitution they could. For years they had been receiving a twenty-lIve per cent r;-Ike-off Oil all the stuff thcy ordered, and when the factory didn't use up enough material in a legitimate way to give them all the money they needed, tbey add(",d to tlH~ir incomes by burning up stuff. They had eaten up all thc prollts of the concern. It ,'vas estimated that they had l:O~;tthe company $25,C(0 a ye.ar ior five years. ::\0 \vonder so much material \-voudn't make so much furniture! Old man Nettleton locked like he was going to stand 0,1 his head when the heard (ibout the discovery. HIt's just try luck,' 'hot howled. "There isn't a factory ill the world where three such thieves hang out, except mine! I had to get it! Of course t ,",Vell,,yot! gc to Europe, young man, and -we'll prolong the time of these three in prison with one complaint after another.'·" The graft at 1\ettleton's is probably an ~,xaggcratcd case of disloyalty and larceny, for furniture \-vorkers are notably on the sqtwre, but it is just as well that manufacturers, and employers everywbere, keep a sharp loolwut for the little rake-off a good many buyers think that they have coming to thCl11. The little per cent is not so mud1, but one never knows -what (i thief may attempt once he gets his hand into his employers' pocket. ALFKED B. TOZER. factory," he said, <,lid Dennctt went The boy led the way back to the "'lUll go across Fakes and Real Antique Furniture. The test of antique furniture, as (i dealer remarked. is not the look of it, but the difficulty of breaking it Hp. The most conscientious imitator would hardly have the patience to put furniture together so permanently as our ancestors did. Even the current high prices would hardly Sllffu.:eto pay him for his trouble. Kevertheless, since the test of breaking up cannot readily be applied, much faked old fumitnre exists iI" this coulltry and abroad. Sir Purdon Clarke, director of the 1Jctropolitan 11nseum at ~ew York, explains the matter in so far as Elizabethan oak is concerned, and be speaks here partly in his prover profes-sional character as architect. According to him gossipy Horace \Valpole, lle-arly 150 years .ago, \-YflS responsible for the first revival of Elizabethan furniture_ Horry set up imita-tion got/lic fashions at Strawberry Hill. and all England went hunting for Elizabethan furniture. As it was discovered that the village cabinet makers still knew how to build furniture .\ 1, T 1 ::3 ,\ N altCI- the fashion thcy had followed in good Quecn Bess's time, rnuth new Elizabethan furniture wa!; made during that revival to supply the deficiency in the original stock. Then came Sir \A/alter Scott. threescore years ago, and [\'al1hoe started another gothic fashion-a fashion, says Sir Purdon, which led in religion to Ritualism, in painting to Rossetti and Burne-Joncs. and in furniture to "restorations." Likewii'ie all England went hunting for Elizabethan furniture again, and the process of time l1<lving impaired the supplement-ed stock left over from the earlier revival, and the village cabinet nInkers be-ing still hand "yorkers and some of them still quite Elizabethan in their meth-ods, a deal mOl-e Eliza-bethan furniture was made then. Some years ago Sir Purdon went through England for the government upon this matter and paid domicil- Iary visits in the shires north, west and south. In any number of cases it \vas quite impossible to tell Elizabethan furniture of thc rH-st and second revival from Elizabethan furniture of Elizabeth"s own reign. Often but for the latter date marked on it you would have sworn that a given piece was of the original vintage. The supply of Elizabethan furniture seemed amply pro-vided for. But this is not the end. Unscrupulous persons bribed underlings and attendants, and got photographs of characteristic pieces. Then these unscrupulous persons set up a factory across the seas in Holland for the making of more Elizabethan furniture. They are still making it there. It is shipped to dealers in London who ply a discreet but tidy trade. They plant the stuff bit by hit in rustic rural places jn the north ;ll1d west of England. The respectable people who take lodgers in summer give house room also for the season to a piece of Elizabethan furniture made in Holland. It poses as a family piece, and is duly provided with a pedi-gTt~ edating hack one kn
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643. 1942-03; Peninsular Club

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644. 1936-04; Peninsular Club Magazine

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645. Weekly Artisan; 1910-11-26

Notes:: Issue of a furniture trade magazine published weekly in Grand Rapids, Mich, starting in 1879. and ., (~f{ANDRAPIDS PUBLIC LIBRAHY GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., NOVEMBER 26, 1910 BEAUTIFUL BIRD'S EYE MAPLE Just the Thing to Delight the Ladies at Christmas! There is nothing quite so dainty-so feminine-so charm-ing for Christmas, as a Bird's Eye Maple Dressing Table. Light, airy and cheerful, it goes to the hearts of the ladies, and it is the 0 NL Y LIGHT-COLORED FURN-ITURE THAT IS ALSO HIGHLY ARTISTIC. The NORTHERN has made Maple a leading line ever since starting in business. We are in the heart of the Maple country, where the finest Ma-ple in the world grows, and with our standard lines, using Maple as a base, we are able to pick ONLY THE CHOIC-EST PIECES for N a t u r a I Map I e finishes. Therefore, when you buy Natural Bird's Eye Maple from the NORTH-ERN, you are sure of the No. 1197 Dressing Table. creme de la creme-the finest Made in Oak, Mahogany and Bird'. in the country. Eye Maple. But you must have artistic shapes too-the airy beauty of Bird's Eye Maple is completely lost if it is not made up in beautiful designs. We also give you moderate prices. That is what will sell with you-beautiful wood, designs and workmanship, at moderate prices, coupled with PROMPT DELIVER Y (and that means everything when you get near Christmas-nobody beats us at that part of the game). No. 1152 Dresser. Made in Oak, Mahogany and Bird' .. eye Maple. Full information given in courteous letters about anything that interests you. Write us frankly, freely. NORTHERN FURNITURE COMPANY, Sheboygan, Wisconsin CHALLENGE REFRIGERATOR CO. 5 COMPLETE LINES OF REFRIGERATORS AT RIGHT PRICES SEND FuR NEW CATALOGUE AND LET US NAME YOU PRICE. GRAND HAVEN, MICH., U. S. A. SQUARE POST STEEL BEDS are very popular and should be ready sellers durmg the Holiday Trade. We manufac-ture a very complete line of Metal Beds and Cribs, all steel springs, woven wIre mattresses, Metal Couches and Daven-ports, Cots and Hospital Furniture. Order this Bed in Vernis Mar-tin Satin Brass Finish (Color 19). No extra charge. You will be ... convinced of its selling qualities. Stock Color-White. Vernis Martin to order. PILLARS and FILLING SQUARE TUBING Pillars 2 m. Top and Bottom Tubes 1Y2 10 FIllmg I 10 Head 60 10 Foot 40 In Sizes, 3 ft 6 10 and 4 ft. 6 m. Shlppmg weight 154 Ibs. Iron beds Will be shIpped 10 white unless otherWISe ordeled. Price $15 If our No. 35 Catalogue has not been received notify us. SMITH & DAVIS MFG. CO., St. Louis, Mo. Buy beds equipped with the Standard Rev. Rail. They are strong and prevent the bed from wabbling. SEND US YOUR ORDERS No. 984. BRASS CAPS. WEEKLY ARTISAN "--..-~.. ---------------~-~----------_.~.~._.--_--------_ _. . - - .. . Every Dealer Who Sells Folding Collapsible Go=Carts TAKE WARN/NO For your own protection avoid buying any folding collapsible go-carts :lOt licensed under FERRIS and LEITH PATENTS. By seeing that the tag shown here is on every folding Collapsible Go-Cart you handle you will Avoid infringement prosecutions, Handle only goods made by the most reputable makers, Handle Oo=Carts for which a demand is created by a big national advertising campaign. Licensed Go-(art PATENTED licensed and protected by and under the 748869 Jan 5, 1904 771386 __Oct 4, 1904 789310 May 9,1905 800471 Sept 26,1905 None Genuine Without This Label Other Patents Pending None Cenulne Without This Label FERRIS and LEITH PATENTS so completely cover every Vital feature of folding collapsible go-carts that it is Im-possible for any maker to manufacture them without uSing some of the features covered by these patents. The only persons or concerns licensed by us to manufac-ture collapsible go-carts are the follOWing named companies: American Metal Wheel & Auto Lloyd Manufacturing Co. Company. Sidway Mercantile Company. Children's Vehicle Corporation. Streator Metal Stamping Co. Collier-Keyworth Company. Sturgis Steel Go-Cart Co. Ficks Carriage & Reed Co. Toledo Metal Wheel Co. Fulton Manufacturing Company. H. N. Thayer Co. Gendron Wheel Company. E. R. Wagner Mfg. Co. All infnngers Will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Through our advertISIng the public will be advised that go-carts containing the most deSirable features are licensed under FERRIS and LEITH PATENTS, and cautioned to look for the Label. We Will protect both the dealer and the public, and by eliminating the unscrupulous manufacturer we msure the dealer a better profit, put the go-cart busmess on a legitimate basis, create fixed values, and educate the public to these values. LOOK FOR THE TAG. 1 839230 __Dec 25, 1906 840188 Jan I, 1907 857971 June 25, 1907 861475 July 30,1907 863972 Aug 20,1907 913345 Feb 23, 1909 914010 March 2, 1909 918250 April 13, 1909 925151 June 15, 1909 925152 June 15,1909 925741 June 22, 1909 927089_ _ July 6, 1909 PERRIS and LEITH • REDUCED REPRODUCTION OF FRONT AND BACK OF LICENSE TAGS.~~ Suite 630 Marquette Building sa _ ••••••••• CHICAGO .- . ...........•...•....• 2 WEEKLY ARTISAN • 1 I LUCE FURNITURE COMPANY I GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Manufacturers of COMPLETE lines of MEDIUM PRICED DINING and CHAMBER FURNITURE. Catalogues to Dealers Only. .. -_..& Luce-Redmond Chair Co.,Ltd. I BIG RAPIDS, MICH. High Grade Office Chairs Dining Chairs Odd Rockers and Chairs Desk and Dresser Chairs Slipper Rockers Colonial Parlor Suites In Dark and Tuna Mahogany Btrd's EYf Map!f Btrch !f?J'artfnd Oak and Ctrcasuan Walnut Our Exhibit you will find on the Fourth Floor, East Section, MANUFACTURERS'BUILDING, North Ionia Street GRANO RAPIDS, MICHIGAN Exhibit in charge of ]. C. HAMILTON, C. E. COHOES,]. EDGAR FOSTER. PuBLIC LIBRARY 31st Year-No. 22 GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., NOVEMBER 26, 1910 Issued Weekly RARE FURNITURE WOODS AT HIGH PRICES Eight Thousand Dollars Paid for a Log ... Mahogany and Old English Oak Never Out of Fashion. EIght thousand dollars seems a bIg pnce to pay for a log of wood, even though It IS a mahogany log 4 feet square and 24 feet long That doesn't make It such a whopper among logs anyway Many larger one:, have come from Afnca, where this particular speCImen grew But Afncan mahogany as a rule is less beautIful in grain and less fine 111texture than thIS pIece which set the world's dealers biddmg agamst each other. When aNew York firm secured It for ~8,000 the price wasn't consIdered eAtravagant, even though the log was then m London and had to be brought over to Stapleton, Staten Island Somehow Stapleton seems a queer place to look for exIles from the mystenous Onent But they are there all right enough; teak wood from Burma and Java, vumIlIon wood from the Andaman I c;lands, walnut from the CaucasIan moun-tains, mahogany from Africa and the West IndIes and Mexico These are only a few of the rare woods which are sawed into boards and slIced into veneers almost as thin as silk in the Stapleton mIll And the smell of the place! Spicy and sweet and aromatIc wIth now and then a sour whiff from some African cottonwood or a rank breath from a surface newly stripped of bark For a good tree, though sweet at the core, often wears an 111 smelling coat. There are fashions in woods as in everything else For several years Clrcassian walnut had been riding the crest of the wave, then the French walnut took first place in exclusive work The French V\ alnut IS a soft gray; a wonderful shade, consldenng It IS a natural one Circassian walnut is a peculiar velvety brown, rather sematIonally marked with much darker SWIrlS These two are the fashIonable woods a1 present But the two whIch 111the long run need fear no rivals are fine mahogany and good old EnglIsh oak Santo Dommgo mahogany, the fine'3t of ItS race, IS dlmost ext111ct And old EnglIsh oak grows rarer every year Even England hasn't a bIg supply of centunes old oaks, and many of those she does possess WIll probably never be cut for commercial purposes-a fine log WIth annular lInes, worth as much as any of the fancy woods and qUIte as beautiful. The EnglIsh oak is alone in the beauty of its color, is an indescribably warm "sweet" brown Our native oaks (of whlch Indlana oak is considered the best) are white, rather a dirty whIte French oak is white also; and Spanish oak-which comes from Cuba-is a muddy brown But English oak is incomparable not only m its color but also in its mark-ings and its texture, which has a peculIar flexlble softness like that of leather. Now that the supply of San Domingo mahogany is prac-tically negligIble, the best of that wood comes from Cuba, Honduras and Mexico; but no glant logs lIke the $8,000 African one. Cuban mahogany as a rule is a tall and spindling tree It grows singly here and there, jump111g up out of the lower tangle of the tropical jungle The natIves cut the trees, square the logs roughly WIth theIr axes and haul them out of the forest. And they intend to keep right on doing it too, as Mr. Williams of the Stapleton mIll found out to hIS sorrow a few years ago Being of a progressive turn of mind Mr \VIllIams thought it would be a good plan to beg111at the begin11lng of his business and get his own tImber out of the forests So the firm bought at Calcutta a lot of elephants trained to "haul teak m the sludgy, squudgy creek," as Kipling puts it. The ele-phants cost $5,000 apiece and were sent to the Andamans to get out vermilion wood The Andamanese natives had been on the job themselves up to that time. Fifty or sixty of them would put a cable around a log and in the course of time drag it out of the forest. One elephant did the same work in less tIme and asked no wages For about twenty-four hours the pachyderm force was highly successful Then an elephant was mysteriously shot Then another one and another J nside of a few days there had been $25,000 worth of mortalIty in that elephant staff Inside of a month or two every elephant was dead The natives were hauling as of yore And :'0 it was in Cuba The firm bought :,cores of cattle to get out the mahogany logs whIch they began cutting them-selves The natIves dIsplayed a dIabolIcal ingenUIty in the assassinatIOn of these cattle, kIllmg about sixty of them at once by poisoning the water which the cattle drank. Mr. Williams gave up trymg to be progressive along that particular line and the timber is now got out by natives working on small con-tracts. Probably there is more nonsense talked about mahogany than about any other wood Of course the people who in-variably ask whether a piece of fur11lture is solid mahogany and who when told that it is veneered say "Oh I" with the air of having wrested from you the shameful truth, are not so ------~---~-~-- 4 WEEKLY ARTISAN common as they once \\ ere. But the1 e are more all the tIme who talk about crotch mahogany and natural mahogany \\ Ith-out the famtest 1dea of the facts m elther case. It is a common thmg to see a \\ oman pomtmg out the crotch in a panel, when as a matter of fact 1t 1'- mere!) t\\ 0 p1eCe'i of the wood matched m a pettectl) appd1 ent de:Olgn The real crotch 1Sm the wood 1tself, formed by the JunctIon of a branch w1th the trunk. And so w1th the natural filllsh mahogany. In reahty mahogany runs a surpnsmg gamut of color, from pale ashes of roses to the deep 1ed of \ enlllhon wood, which 1Sreally a mahogany. To see the thm shces of wood as they come from the huge knife-the largest klllfe m the world 1t 1s-one would thmk they were sh1mmenng lengths of mOlre stlk They can be rolled almost hke stlk too when they are first cut, for they have been steamed III a huge vat unt11 the) a1e soft A dozen or more squared logs are put m th1S vat, the great 1ron cover fastened down and the steam turned on. Some of the logs stay there several days, others not so long. Then the slxteen foot klllfe, whose blade we1ghs 400 p6unds, shces off the thin veneers as 1f 1t were cuttmg cheese These are put on edge in racks to dry out and finally plIed hke boIts of stlk on sheh es in the warehouse. Teak wood mstead of bemg steamed IS actually boded Teak, by the way, is full of surprises to the ulllllltIated \\ ho know it only in the form of dark brown or black1sh stands, bases and furlllture NaturalIy teak 1S very hght in color, a yellowish, greenish wlllte. In furniture it became known to the Occident through the Oriental pieces which had been darkened with use through hundreds of years \Yesterners demanded dark teak therefore and it was stamed to SUlt that demand. The most conspicuous use to which teak is put is in the constructlOn of battlesh1ps. All decks are made of it. The floors of gun turrets are of two layers of heavy teak timbers, one layer at nght angles w1th the other, and covered with armor plate All the wood which is to go into the two Argentinian battlesh1ps now building in thls country is to come from the Stapleton mill and some of it will be such wood as never went into any other battleships. You see, the Argentine men are not only a gallant lot, \\ ith the accent on the first 'i) llable, but also a gallant lot, with the accent on the last 'iyllable, and they are determined that 'the ladles quarte1 s" shall be dazzhngly beautIful even if a fe\\ elght-mch guns have to be om1tted from the armament for lack of room Just what the ladles' quarters may be 1sn't qUlte clear, but they're gomg to be lovely anyway They're gomg to have satm wood and tuhp wood and amaranth and sundry other woods whlch the Argentme enthu::>lasts adm1re. Tuhp wood-not our own tuhp trees, but exotIc growths from the \Vest Ind1es-1s shced up into nbbons of pmk and wh1te lovelmess more suggestIve of a mdhner's or a candy factory than of a saw mllI And the creamy stnps of satIn wood look good enough to eat, as 1f they were salt water taft) And amaranth, wh1ch is old rose, wtll doubtless make the greatest kmd of a h1t wlth the sweethearts and W1ves of the Argentme navy. Most of the finest woods seem to come from the t1 Op1CS They are of all colors from white to black and ot all textures from hgnum v1tae to Afncan cottonwood. Llgnum \ Itae 1S the heav1est of them all. A cubic foot of 1t \\ 111welgh 80 or 85 pounds, and as water weighs only 62 pounds to the cublc foot a plece of hgnum v1tae would s111k hke stone Mahogany we1ghs from 60 to 70 pounds; a rare p1ece wtll welgh 85 and w111smk m water. Our wh1te pme, \\ Ith only 35 pounds to the CUb1Cfoot, bobs around hke cork, \\ hdc as for the Afncan cottonwood. "WelI," says the super-mtendent of the mdl, "I beheve that's a mmus quantity 111 we1ght It would almost go up m the air." For th1S reason Afncan cotton" ood 1S used somewhat m a1rsh1p constructlOn. The Phdlppmes prom1se to be a treasure house of rare \\ ood::" though httle 1SJet known of the hundreds of vanetIes that grow there vVe are gettmg some mahogany from there and there 1Sa ptle of koko logs at Stapleton, a brow111sh wood from the 1slands for Wh1Chthere 1Ssome demand. But as yet our Phtl1ppme tImber resources are practIcally untouched. The logs, whlch are 1mported 111the1r natural shape-round, w1th the bark stdl on, show an amazmg tenac1ty of Me. Huge trunks of Enghsh pollard oak whlch have been lying in the Stapleton yards for months, and 111some cases several years, wdl put out sprouts m the most hopeful manner. Some of these sprouts hay e been planted and have flounshed. There seems to be only one way of really kdlmg these logs. That is, to saw them mto boards. You can't "season" all the hfe out of them even though you leave them lymg out m the weather for years. They wlll stIll be ahve mS1de. Although French and C1rcass1an "alnut are the leaders of fashlOn Just now, our own black walnut IS slow m returnmg to pubhc favor. And yet 1t 1Sa wood w1th excellent poss1bih-tIes, good m texture and tf only decently treated by the cabmet maker, not to be scorned, as 1t has been so long. The trouble "lth black walnut was that 1t had 1ts day, when most of the des1gns were monumentally ugly. It wlll be redlscovered m a happ1er period and will come mto its own. Of course the misunderstandmg of veneers is, as above remarked, on the wane. Yet even now it comes as something of a shock to find that the beautIful panelIed waIls in our costly pubhc bUlldmgs and pnvate houses are generalIy not sohd wood an mch or so thlck, but veneered w1th thin sheets about three-slxteenths of an inch 111th1ckness. However, th1s is not anything to be deplored after all. Veneered panels 1f properly made wdl outwear a sohd one with 1tS tendency to tWISt and to crack. Of course there are stilI thinner veneers. It isn't so much the thickness of the wood that matters as the way it is put on. And, by the way, foreign made furniture rarely becomes acchmated to our steam heated houses without showing deplorable signs of the process The best American made furniture is the best furniture for America. - ------------------ WEEKLY ARTISAN Most of the Grand RapIds manufacturers report a consId-erable merease m the number of mall orders recelVed dunng the past two weeks The orders are small, however, and many of them mdlcate a tendency on the part of dealers to allow the manufacturers to carry the stock untll orders have been taken from consumers ThIs tendency has grown rapidly m the past two or three years Many dealers who formerly lald m heavy stocks for the holiday trade, and rarely sent m speclal orders for qUlck dehvery, now carry little more than samples and some of them carry very small hnes of samples. When one of thelr sample pieces or a sUlte lS sold tlhey order another and some of them do a large part of their business by merely showing cat-alogs, orders receIved recently indlcatmg that many of them ex-pect to meet the hohday trade in that way. Such at least lS the concluslOn reached by many of the manufacturers. They think that many dealers have no use for warehouses and use but httle floor space. * * * * The Thleleman Mlrror Plate company, now occupying thelr new factory bUlldmg on Godfrey avenue-down in "Peaceful Valley"-e:xpect to receIve two car loads of inported glass dur-mg the commg week They report a decided improvement in thelr busmess dunng the past tv\ a months * * * * The StIckley Bras company will have some new patterns m theIr lme of fancy chairs, etc , for the January season. They WIll have some thmgs entirely new in design and construction and promIse a more a.ttractlVe exhibit than they have ever made. * * * * John Waddell has returned from his upper-Penmsula deer hunt. Be got one deer, whIch lS one more than another of his party got. * * * * Z Clark Thwing of the Grand Rapids Veneer Works lS m N ew York on business. * * * * C. B. Beale, for thirteen years wlth the Standard Dry Kiln company and for elght years a dIrector in the NatlOnal Dry Kiln company, is now southern manager for the dry klln repartment of the Grand Raplds Veneer VVofiks. H1S headquarters are at Montgomery, Ala. * * * * The Grand Raplds Veneer Works have just closed a con-tract wlth the Greencastle Chair company, Greencastle, Tenn, formerly known as the Stone Chalr company of LenOlr, N C. * '" * * A Falkel, the old tlme rattan chair man, who qUIt business on account of pnson competltIon, lS brmgmg out a small line of oak rockers wlth seats and backs of rush fibre They are somethmg new and very attractJve and will be out in tlme for the buyers in January. Mr. Falkel is a strong advo-cate of the single tax ldea and between makmg chairs and sav-mg the country he keeps pretty busy. * * * * L E Pearson, secretary of the Rockford Furniture com-pany, Rockford, Ill, was m Grand Raplds on last Monday en-deavoring to secure space for the January exhiblt * * * * August Nylander, who sells the Rockford Frame and Fix-ture company's lme in central territory, was here last week look~ 5 -GE-T--THE C7ITRLOGUE II'YOli :Yancy Baney gvrnitilre~ &ou willeZYoy.,&iling the fine 0/ GRA:l'lD RRPIDS FAN CY FURNITURE C2 GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. $3.60 Each Quarter .awed veneer back and seat HeIght of back, 26 lDche. WIdth of seat, 20 inches. FlUuhed Golden Oak HIgh Glos •. Sb,ppedK D. Hat. WeIght, 24 pound. No. 260 rjlarw! IfallufactUrJllRca, Grand Rapjds.Nich. ing after their exhibltlOn space and making arrangements for the installation of new hghts He promIses tlhat the "Eff and Eff" lme for the coming season wlll be even more attractive than ever. * * * * The third story built on the big factory of the Luce Furni-ture company, whIch adds fully fifty per cent to the floor space, has been completed and the north half of it is now occupied. Manager Boult has been rearrangmg the offices by taking out a number of screens and partItIons, thus giving it more of a family or social appearance than when each employe was enclosed in a 'sort of cage. * * * * The Grand Rapids Refngerator company, having just com-pleted a large addItion to the factory, have now started the erec-tion of an adchtional dry kiln that will be designed espeClally for porcelam WOlk. They have had an excellent business through the late summer and fall months 1< 1- The Co-operative Furniture company and the Superior Fur-mture company, both of Rockford, 11l, wJ1l exhibit their lines in Grand Raplds in January. * * * * Furniture men who visit Grand Rapids during the sales sea-sons will be pleased to hear that the hotel accommodations are to be enlarged a little. Another story-the fourth-is to be added to the Herkimer on South Division street. * * * * Edgar H. Scott of thIS Clty has added the Hastings (Mich) Table company to the list of lines that h" handles in Pacific coast territory. 6 WEEKLY ARTISAN RICHMOND TABLET CHAIRS "SLIP SEATS" AND THE MOST SANITARY RICHMOND CHAIR CO. SHE HELPS OUT THE BACHELORS New York Young Woman Who Profits by What Men Do Not Know. "The field was a new one and a wlde one \\ hen I took up the furmshmg of bachelor apartments," says a ) oung \\ oman of New York, who has bmlt up a busmess and makes conslder-able money at It. "You see, the many new apartment houses gomg up m the upper part of the Clty, most of them hay mg but one, two or three rooms and bath, are most a\ atlable tor the bachelor who formerly llVed at a board111g house or apart-ment hotel Half of the occnpants 01 the"e "mall apartmenb are bachelors "A year ago I reahnd thlS and wondered lf 1 conld not butld up a busmess that mlght hay e somethmg to do \\ lth this mlgl atlOn to the northern part 01 the ut} 1 had a natural ar±ts±tc sense, \\hlCh I hay e smce combmed \\ lth a busmess instmct, and I alway s knew how to be economlcal "I take commlSSlOns to furmsh up other apartments, too, but my speClalty lS bachelot apartments \\ here the 0\\ ners are bu"y all day and a.., a rule don't kno\\ Ju"t \\hat ..,OIt ot furnishings and mtenor decol atlun" they \\ ant The decora tlOns, hov, ever, 111mo"t of the new apal tment bntlcltng':> are so complete that I am seldom called upon to e"ecute any at thls part except 111the selectlOn and hangmg of drapenes and cm tams. "What I do 1S slmply to look at an empty apal tment, find out about how much money m} patron \\ 1shes to "pend and then I draw up several 1deas and subm1t them "You would be surpnsed to find ho\\ eastly men are influenced m the selectlOn of furmshmgs It lS a good thmg, too, for some of the1r 1deas are certalnl) pecultar \\ hen I find a man who wants to furmsh hlS apartment m a manner not at all befittmg to the ±tmes, style or the plan of hlS rooms, I tell hlm why he's wrong and show hlm the better \\ a) "The greatest fault I have found so far lS that bachelors want to crowd thelr rooms wlth too many th111gs Only last week I had to contend wlth a man \\ ho hadmO\ ed 111from the suburbs \\ lth the fUr11ltul e of a se\ en 100m house \\ hlCh he wanted to cra\\ d 1I1toa four room apartment \Yhen I selected his furnishings I took only the plamest furmture and mo"t inconspicuous rugs, and the re"t \\ ent to the "torage hou"e No. 100 DOUBLE CANE SEAT No. 100 GENUINE LEATHER SEAT ", _. _. -~----_._-_._._._..----.-.-..-_-.-..-.., ...I 'I find lt 1S the older bachelors who as a rule have the mo..,t Cl0\\ ded apartments The rea"on for thlS 1S that they ha \ e many old assoc1a±ton" 111furl11ture and decoratlOns and ltke to have these around them and feel 1t a sacnlege to conslgn such thmgs to the auctlOn room or storehouse If they \\ c n't do the latter I adv1'-,e that the) take an apartment w1th dn e,tra loom and u..,e lt fOl stonng purposes , I hay e Ie"" trouble wlth the young bachelors Usually e\ erythmg 1S new wlth them and they wlll ltsten to arttst1c 'deas The1r 0111)trouble 1" to load up wlth too many plcture", S011\emrs ancl the ltke wInch have struck thelr eyes The patlon I most dehght 111,however, lS the bachelor \\ ho has knovv n httle or noth111g but club, boardmg house or hotel accommodatlOn" and really doe" not know what he wants 111 fmmshmg an apartment \Vlth a free hand glven by such a bachelor 1 can go ahead and make hlm a pretty home 'Sl1npltclty lS always my motto Most of the rooms of these apartments are small and do not lend themselves to much furmslung Then every \\ 1I1dow, corner, recess and ltght111g mu"t be consldel ed I would never thmk of furl11sh-mg an apartment wlth only northern exposure wlth sombre hea\} dlapenes and clark npholstered furl11ture Wlth a bnl-ltant sun e:A.posure the plan alters 'Unfortunately although ml"SlOn furmture has been done to death I am called upon to use lt to a great extent If you mnst furl11sh dn apartment qmckly mlS"lOn stuff 1Salways safe RICHMOND, IND. WEEKLY ARTISAN to select, but I know of no apartment yet fur11lshed altogethet tn mISSIOn but what ha<, at least a sugge~tion of stIffness "I have my Ideas, of course, 111furl11sh111gmy apat tments, but I have found that all men ltke a cheerful touch of red somewhere about I carry thIs out wIth pIllows and often wIth plaIn velour hang111gs I never carpet a bachelor apart-ment unless I can't help It WIth anyth111g but rugs If I can have my way I ah,ay~ ~elect plaIn mahogany furl11tUle If the bachelor IS a lover of antrques I can arrange for that If I am called upon to purchase anttques I know Just where to go to get the best barga111s But 111all cases I find that It reqmre~ but httle fur11lture to fit up the small apartment It i~ the way It IS settled and arranged that gIves It a homehke appearance "Then I ne, er forget a touch of plant hfe ~Then an apartment It> completely furmshed and my patron comes the first time to inspect It I look about for the best places to set a SUNDAY EXAMINER ...O..VCMBER 13 1910. y FREE! FREE! DId You See Our Offer 0/ LaIt Week? It WaI the Talk 0/ Att Cillcago We sold 5,000 thIrty-fIve dollar sewmg machmes at a ndlculoU<!lylow price ~.,...,.,...,...,.For every maclune sold we gamed a frIend and customer t I I I HERE IS A STILL GREATER OFFER I - - We ask you to Vlsltelther oi our two new furmlure sl,.ores II for the ne1't five days commencmg Monday and give l..l ... o an 0PPOl:tUntty to demonstrate to you that we sell better tutmture ior less money thajn any other store 1U the city I To Every Vis!!.Q! nu. beautiful etlm?l~te ma~tune la mads of the belittem.~red$teel-wtb ~~~~Ja~~,:! IUIlI The e:tI.bnet IS the /ln~t ~eekd quarter saw ~<lak ... ful\t;el.of ..ttach ll\entll Wltbuch IIllLChne Rerul&r VIlIue.I3~ Ths macllneIS gIIN"anteedto de the rtl\lKhe$ and finest kind <Jf. work tW tll~y be nqwrM. A wnttto iU&r lIlI~torl0YeaJll8l:Vllll ,1uthe&clltnac.hmo. we w1l1glVe free a $35 00 Sewmg Machme a full set of attachments guaranteed by the manufacturer for 10 years "~ This Is Why We Do Itr We want the Chicago public to know tha.t .:. there are two furniture stores located a.way from the down toWn high rent dlstnct whnr.' ~~ can save from 25% to 35% on each pttt n~l'1ase whether It be a slogle pIece of fUrniture" Q:li stove or a complete horne outfit (J Now. Reason WIth YOUrSelf,] Is It not your duty to get the most and the' biggest value for your money? 1 If we convmce you that all we have stated IS' true and you buy from us a sample order of $20 00 worth of any household artIcles and wIth y0111' I purchase If you should rece' ve one of these high 1 ;~ ~~~n~~~~~e~~~o~a ~E~3231-33 (INCOL~ AVENUE I .... r a.1",0.,. ..... .w."" w. '.~"., ~.. r~1~~~~~~~~~iiiiiiiiRII!II Newly-Weds ~~~~~~~~~,y~~t nl$hed Bat tn ow ~hlwatlkee Ave Btore It will gtve you an ldcl1 bQ1'l' t9 fi1mlsb yOUT home correctly '- --! Good Credit Accommodations GROSSMAN'S TWO NEW 1530-32 MILWAUKEE AVENUE N.... It_, nh 111I1II uilid lilt' l .. ~ .. I_I I'I.~ ThIS Offer Seems to be Better Than the "Soap Club" PropositIOn couple of large ferns They do best near the windows in the wmter sunshme, but they WIll thnve elsewhere m the room. ThIS touch of gleen WIll sometimes gIve the very thmg neces-sary to make a room complete when you dId not know before what wa" needed. "I get dlffelent prices for furnishing apartments, but $25 IS my lowest charge, and at tImes I have furnIshed two or three a week FIfty dollars IS the average price to ask and I WIll gIve a week's supervision steadtly for this. "It took qUIte a bIt of mgenmty and hustlmg around to butld up my bUSIness I became a reader of the real estate items m the papers and watched the bmldmlS r)f new apat!. ments I then found out theIr owners or managers, from whom I got the names of pOSSIble tenants, to whom I went personally or wrote offering my serVIces Then I got commissions from managers ", ho wIshed to furl11sh the bmld1l1gs. Many of those people now know me and send for me after they have recom-mended me to the bachelors rentmg of them There are just lots and lots of trIcks 111 the trade, but It IS a clean, actIve one and one 111 whIch your patrons nearly always express grati-fication when you have opened the doors and shown them their new home." ~,---------_.-------------------- ...---- .... TUE "ELI" FOLDING BEDS 4RE BREaD 4ND PROfiT WINNERS No Stock complete without the Eli Beds 10 Mantel and Uprl&,ht. ELI D. MILLER &, CO. EVANSVILLE, INDIANA Wnt. for cuts and pnces. ON SALE IN FURNITURE EXCHANCE, EVAN.VILLE. .. ---- _. __._------.•..•. -~--------------_._-------- 1 HERE IS A CHAIR THAT'S A SELLER WRITE FOR THE PRICE No 83. GEO. SPRATT & CO. SHEBOYGAN, WIS. 7 ....., .a ... I All Knobs and Pulls have the WEEKLY ARTISAN jUwAOo"n"ELLUOMANUF ACTU~I~~o ~O ... Grand Rapids, Michigan No-l1.um-Loose Fasteners The largest manufacturers of Furniture Trimmings in Wood in the world. Write us for Samples and Prices. Made in Oak, Walnut, Mahogany, Birch and all Furniture Woods . Idle Cars Now Increasing. The number of idle freight cars in this countI y and Canada has increased for the first time since July in the latest report of the American Raih\ ay Association 'Yhlle there eo .. eo - •• --. -- .. .'...--. -.-..-.--.--------------------_._-_._.--- -------------------_ .... Screens Misused in Displny Windows. Great care should be exercised in the use of screens in show windows Many pieces of furmture are injured m ap-pearance by screens placed too close to the articles Take a buffet, for instance. Place It III the center of a big \\ indow with a fancy screen against the back. The designs of the buffet and the screen do not harmonize and confusion results No matter how good the design of the buffet and the maten-al of which IS is constructed may be, there IS noth111g111com-mon between them The screen is ah\ avs hl~her than the Sideboard else there would be no reason fOI US1l1gIt and peo-ple inspecting windows often complam that they find it dlffi-cult to determine where the buffet ends and the screen begllls The combination is a poor one-injU! iolts rather than \ alu-able as an advertising feature. This evil may be remedied in a measure by placlllg the screen some distance back of the buffet. Still the interest that should be centered upon the buffet will be divided between the two pieces. When especial pains has been taken III the constructIOn and finish of the back of a piece of furmture It might he advisable to place a mIrror in the dIsplay wllldo\\ for the pur-pose of showing the back to spectators-complete Vle\\ s of the piece. A common fault of many dealers in furniture 1'- the overcrowding of display windows. A single artIcle of merit upon which the spectator may concentrate his mental faculties is of more value for advertising purposes than an overcrowded window that divides one's interest. GRAND-RAPIDS "OTELS J. BOYD PANTLIND, Proprietor. MORTON "OUSE (AMERICAN PLAN} "OTEl PANTllND (EUROPEAN PLAN) Rates: $2.50 a day and up. Rates: $1.00 a day and up. The Noon Dinner served at the Pantlind for 50 cents is the finest in the world. .. .. ...... ... ........... ..... .... . ...... ..... are still shortages 111 box cars and coal equipment, the net surplus of rolltng stock on the rallroads now amounts to 13,- 581 cars ThiS surplus is nearly double the number of idle cars reported at the time of the previous compilation, made on Oct 26, repl esentmg an increase of 87 7 per cent in exact figm es The greatest 111crease occurred in the Northwest, where there \HI e nearly 4,000 more cars idle than two weeks before, alaI ge part of the surplus being stock cars The net surplus 15 now almost exactly what it was on Octobel 12 1hen the number of surplus cars had been "teachl} decredsmg smee July 6, when it was 142,865 cars. \t thiS season of the year It IS usual for an increase in the 'Omplus to set 111, aud the increase since October 26 is al-most lclentlcal \\ lth the mCIease at the same time last year. ••••••••••••• a ......••••• ••• _~ -., .by carryingthe ONE·PIECE PORCELAIN{INED ~ONrIRD CLERNRBLE WRITE FOR CATALOGUE GRAND RAPIDS REFRIGERATOR CQ GRAND RAPIDS. j'tICH. WEEKLY ARTISAN New Installation of Old Furniture. The PennsylvanIa Museum and School of .In dustna IArt has arranged a new mstallatlOn of old furmture m Memonal Hall, FaIrmont Park, PhIladelphIa, WhICh should be of much mterest and usefulness oUblde the trammg instltutlOn as "Wellas wlthm It. Great care has been taken wIth the arrangement to make It as enhghtenmg as It IS attractlVe and to keep It free from Illusory and mIstaken tendenCles Thel e IS a sIxteenth century Spamsh room, an Enghsh oak room of the seventeenth century, an Eng-h~ h mahogany room of the eIghteenth century, an eIghteenth century Amencan Colomal room, an Amencan "EmpIre" style room of the early mneteenth century and LoUls XV and LoUls XVI rooms. :t\'ot only the furmture but the mtenor decoratlOns of the rooms bespeak the penods they represent, and the mstl-tutlOn IS fortunate m havmg been able to secure some of these much needed element:, for such an m:,tructive exhlbltlOn a:, It alms to present. The Louis XVI. room, for mstance, IS fitted wIth old whIte and gl1t panellmg and mIrrors WhIch were a gIft The walls of the Spamsh room are hung wIth old Spamsh leather, rare m thIS country, from the Netherlands, and the cel1mg IS copIed from a Spamsh house. The Amencan Colomal room IS furmshed WIth mhented furmture whIch has been loaned for the purpose. But even a partial enumeratlOn of the contents of the rooms cannot here be attempted. Of qmte as much mterest and more to be dwelt upon, however, IS the attItude of the authoritJes m organ-lZlng the exhibition. "Where it has been ImpOSSIble to fill a need sUltably WIth a genume pIece," they declare, "a VOld has been preferred to the al-ternative of exhIbIting a spunous or really mfenor object. It IS of hIghest Importance to a large manufactunng centre that the best models shall be brought wlthm easy reach of its artIsts and that they shall be taught to detect the old and accurate from maccurate imitatlOns. "Of recent years many handsome pllvate houses have been erected by architects reproducmg architectural gems of the olden tIme, which have been furmshed with httle regard for the peri-od to whIch they belonged An Italian or Hispano-::\1oonsh structure may be found furmshed with Louis XVI. furmture or American Colomal outfittings, and upon entenng a sIxteenth cen-tury English house or a French Renaissance dwelling the viSItor will be greeted WIth Chmese or IndIan teakwood carvmg and typIcal Empire fixtures. "That such anachromsms are not only shockmg to the mtel- .. .... aa ••••• __ ..... _ ••• Lentz's Big Six t hgent mmd but are mcongruous to the trained eye and calcu-lated to rob the house of its most preclOus quality, a restful homogeneIty, hardly reqUlres argument." So the museum has claSSIfied its furniture to present an or-derly sequence of object lessons to students. .A Level-Headed Secretary. At the closing session of an association convention, in a state not a thousand mdes west of the Mississippi, this ques-tion was found in the interrogation box: "For what reason dId you jam the association?" Several members arose with their reasons, and finally one long, lank member got up and said, "The only reason I joined was because the secretary kept nagging me until I had to." "I move that we elect the secretary a member for life!" shouted another member Carried unanimously. New Electric Table Lights. The tungsten filament has made pOSSIble new and artistic electnc table hghtmg effects without the necessity of running wires up under the table or dropping them from the ceiling to provide the current. Instead the new table pieces are seIf-contained, bemg provided with a single storage cell capable of supplying current for three tungsten lamps for fourteen hours. -Popular Mechanics . . .- --_ ..~ a.- ~ __ • _. ._._.____ •• • •••••••••••• ••••.•• __ • • • •• • ... .. • • •• • ..... No. 694, 48 in. top. No. 687, 60 in. top. Others 54 in. top. 8 Foot Duostyles ANY FINISH CHICAGO DELIVERIES I• Lentz Table Co. NASHVILLE, MICHIGAJ'v the HO! se Show offer w1der opportunity for the wmdow decor-ator as well as open up a larger channel for the expend1ture of money Few persons have an) 1dea of how far m advance of the season the wmdow decoratO! has to work For example, large branches of holly w1th many bnght red bernes seen hang111g consp1cuously on the wall of the wmdow dresser's \\ orkshop led to the m([Ulry as to 1tS utll1ty m the Ind1an ~ummer "eathet p1e, allmg at that ttme "Oh, that was left 0\ er horn Chll:,tmas" VI as the casual remark, followed by the nplanatlOn that the Chnstmas d1splay was completed weeks ago In fact thts pro, ed to be the case m all the b1g stores, the des1gns had been made, mechamcal accessories bUl1t and decot atlOn:o applied wa) back 111October, everythmg be111g m 1cad111ess for the final 111stallatlOn at the proper moment 1 uda) the decorator 1:0II orkmg on des1gns for L111coln's and II ash1ngton:, TIll thday setimgs ". \met1Can women, except those VI ho travel abroad, httle 1cahze," sa1d the IImdow dresser, "what aclvantage they have 0, et the1r fOt e1gn Slste1 s 111respect to extens1ve wmdow d1S-pIa) s ::'0 accu'3tomed are they to 11.that nothmg surpnses thcm, not e, en II hen a neIV recO! d has been made But let them I1S1t the shops across the water and not to be 1mpressed b) the companson 111favor of theIr own country would be 1mposs1ble "To be SUle, cond1tlOns are chang111g on the other SIde all the time, and parttcularly 1Sth1S the ca:,e m London, where the 111troductlOn of dry goods stores run on the Amencan plan has been very popular Stlll the Engltsh merchant 1S very cunsen atn e and 11.1S d1fficult for h1m to erad1cate the hab1t 01 ) ears , German) s shops are gradually becommg Amencanized, and v, hJ1e 111Ftance there IS no companson to the sort of d1S-play c\mellcan me1chants make 111the extent and cost of theIr :,ctt111gS, ncv e1thele:os the F1 ench shop V\111dows are extrava-gant 111a small \\a) and exceedmgly attJact1ve. As a rule the "hops at e small, and doubtless all the stock w111 be placed 111 the II mdow, but the ta'3te w1th wh1ch 1t is arranged 1S 111dbputable One gets many h111tS and sugge:otions which at e adaptable to our VI ork here "Not 111frequently one hears the remark made by Chicago IIomen that New York has not near the gorgeous d1splays that the \\ 111d) CIty has The two cannot be Judged by the -.,ame standards I knov'\, for I have worked there Ch1cago cate1:O through 1tS bIg mall order houses to a tremendous II estern trade, but about four tlmes a )ear 11.expects an 111flux of V1s1tors and shoppers even from the Pac1fic coast, and for these prospectn e customers 11.makes royal preparatlOn TheIr 10 WEEKLY ARTISAN MILLIONS IN SHOP WINDOWS Christmas Displays Auanged by Men Who Draw $5,000 to $15,000 Per Year. Mllltons of dollars 111merchandIse VI J11 be d1spla) ed 111 N ew York shop wmdows at Chn:, tmas ttme, and the bare cost of tnmmmg these IVmdows, wInch means the e"pense of the mechamcal end of 1t, Vl1ll1un vyell up 111tOthe humhed thou-sands ThIS 1S 111clusn e of othe1 hne" than ch) ~uod-., but 111 the department stores alone, patto111zed mote e"du-"l\ eh In women, the expense of V\111dovvdecOt atlOn II III be enOl mons In the bIg d1) goods establtshment" 01 the connt1, the post of w111dow decorator 1S a most 1mportant onc, all 1 men who hold such Jobs get sala11es thdt rdnge am v\hC1c 11 0111 $5,000 to $15,000 "The1 e 1S no standard fOl b1a111:',' II a:o the II ,n one w111dow decorator expressed 11.111speakmg of the salalle" pa1d these men, "for the man IS to be Judged b, hI" ,alue to thc house As WIth pa111te1s, the amount a cam a-., bllng" depend" to a great deg1ee on the pC1sonal e:,tllllate the PUtd1d-"U put-., upon 11." And to Amencan IVomen, accOl d111g to tIllS speuah" t 1'3 glven the cred1t of b1mgmg about the ev 01utlOn 111:,hop II 1n-doV\ s from the ttme II hen a collectlOn of household Jullk \\ a ~ shown behmd a small paned sa"h slmpl) to let the pubhc know what sort of goods the me1chant hdd to the [me.,t productlOn of the V\111dow dres"er s a1t d1spld) ed am1d :octung" that cost a fortune m themseh es One Amencall merchant recentl) d1spla v eel \\ ha t 1'0 undoubtedly the best bIt m II mdo\\ dressmg In th1-" counll \ the mecha111cal settmg for \\ 111ch dlune co-.,t h1111SlO 000 1 0 account for the sum e"pended the1 e \\ d:, ,1 "tunl11ng back g10und of 1are woods, a tnumph 01 the cdbmet make1 " a1t w1th hand can 111g 111 RenaIssance :,t) Ie, all 01 VI h1ch \\ as des1gned as a settmg for a collectton of hand:,ome 1mpo1 teel gowns selected to harmon1/e \\ 1th the backglOum1 One wmdo,'V dresser m a bIg '\ e\\ \ ark e"tabh-.,hmcnt who has thIrty-four vv111elOIl s to be 1c:,pons1 ble tOl -"a)" thd t the value of me1 chand1se to be useel 111the"e VImelo\\" at the hohday season will at the very lovvest estlmate mount up to $50,000, and m all plObab1hty 1£ c"pensn e tUlS are mcludeel w1ll be t111ee tlmes that amount From $400 to $500 a 'v mdo\\ "ill be e"pended t01 the necessary carpentry, drapenes and othe1 accessone", though 111 specIal cases thIS amount will be 111creased to S2,000 Naturally speClal occaSlOns hke Thanksgn mg, Chllstmas and toO •• ._-----------_._._. -_._---_. _. _. _.--------..-. ~ FREEDMAN CONVERTIBLE DIVAN BED A Revolution in Parlor Bed Construction. An Immediate Success. Full Size Bed in Divan Space. I.. .. . SIMPLEST IN ACTION. LEAST SPACE. STRONGEST BUILT. Supercede. all other Interchangeable Parlor Beds. SEND FOR ILLUSTRATIONS' AND PRICES. FREEDMAN BROTHERS & CO. Manufacturers of Upholstered Furniture. Factory, 717-731 Mather St., CHICAGO . • •• ••• •• _ •• 4 WEEKLY ARTISAN average wllldow dIsplays are not so smal t as those in New York, but the fOUl for whIch they make specIal preparatIOns come up III every feature to the claIms made for them by the women townfolk "New York I'i dIffelent There are no season'i 111trade and merchants mU'it keep up theIr show w111dows to the top notch of excellence III order to compete WIth theIr neIghbors and ga111 the attentIon of the woman shopper who comes to New York from the four quarters of the country every day In the y ('ar, "Show wmdows are looked upon as one of the best medIUm', of ad, ertIs111g, and a woman customer IS half won If 'ihe I'i arrested by the attractIOns of your dIsplay Kews-papero, announce to the publtc what the store IS sellmg, show wmdovv, dIsplay It. The success of a show wllldow i'i measured by the clowd whIch It attracts If no interest IS ma111fe"ted than there IS somethmg altogether wrong and It IS our duty to 5let about dlscovenng what that may be "To attract customers wllldow dIsplays must not only be frequently changed-every three days at least-but only the mo,t up to date stuff mU'it be shown ThIS IS an Import-ant fea1 ure As fast as new good" come In they are advertIsed and then dIsplayed ThIS keeps up a contmual111terest among women fOl even though they don't mean to buy at once many make a busllless of VISItIng shop wllldows to see what IS belllg worn, so that when they are ready to buy they WIll know precIsely what to get and where to get It 'Once it was saId that color was the Important thIng to attract a woman's attentIOn to a show WIndow, but that day has gone by Now It IS harmony of colOrIng The readllless WIth whIch color could be cheapened deCIded conservatIVe women aga111st It In the matter of velvets of course the qualtty gIves a character that a cheaper fabrIC would not pmse,s But generally speak111g It IS the harmony of colors, the blendmg of rare and unusual shades that IS demanded today, and thIS has 111troduced a decIdedly new note in window dIsplay It gIves more scope for the artIstIC sen"e, though a w111dow dresser must not allow hIS pIcture sense to rIm away WIth the practIcal SIde at the subject. "As to what sort of goods attracts a woman most, probably the new matenals and tnmmlllgs first, but once the season IS fully opened then the ready-to-wear goods come next 111 POlllt of mterest MIll111ery IS always popular, and art needlework always pleases the women who do hand work "In decorat111g one must first have formulated 111m111d a plan that he WIshes carned out Before that, though, I make out a dIagram whIch gIves the floor plan of the store, WIth the actual locatIOn of each w111dow to be dressed, together wIth the date of ItS change, the name of the decorator and space for any remarks that seem tImel} ThI'i IS our "chedule N e'd I gIve my Ideas to my deSIgner, who works them out 111 wa1 er color and If satIsfactory they may then be reproduced 111Ill1matUle, or we WIll work dIrectly from the deSIgn, mak111g the neceS.'lary changes as the work progresses "SImpltclty IS aImed at 111w111dow dre"s111g, and to present a good background WIth a IUll1ted selectIOn of artIcles of good value IS much more to be deSIred than a w111dow full of a gn~at varIety of goods Moreo\ er, a crowded wmdow IS bewIldenng to the observer, and, as some one saId, is ltke an overdressed woman who has bedecked herself WIth her entIre outfit of Jewels and fnppenes If the idea of the show window ltkened to the stage of a theater IS kept In mmd there IS small chance for nllstakes The aIm IS to show an artIstIc ensemble by brIngmg mto prom111ence the Important feature and keepIng the rest SubSIdIary" -N ew York Sun --_._-------- Dodds' Tilting Saw Table No.8 We take pleasure In tntroauClOg to you our new Saw Table The base is SImIlar to what we have been ustng on our No 4 Saw Table, only we have made 1t larger on the floor The raISIng and lowenna deVice IS the same as we have on the No 4 Machme, WIth lever and pItman The lever IS made of steel The arbor 18 made of 1~ lOch steel, runnmg JD 10na nng olhna: boxes. and 18 for 1 lOch hole Jnsaw WefurnlShone 14uIochsawoneachmaclune ItwdJcarrya 16-mchsawlf demed Table IS made WIth a cenler .hde 12 mches WIde WIth a movemen( 01 21 mche. It has a lockmg deVIce to hold It when you do not WIShto uae It, and has a detachable mitre guage to be used when usIng the shdmg table. Can cross-cut With table extended to 24 Inches. also np up to 24 IDches WIde Table has a removable throat lhat can be taken out when usmQ'dado It also has two mitre guages for regular work and a two Slded np guage that can be u~d on either SIde of the saw. more espeCIally when the table IS tIlted, also a tilting TIp gauge to be used to cut j bevel work when you do not WIShto hit the table The (op IS40x44 mches Countershalt has T & L pulleys lOx 14 mches, and the dnve pulley 16x5 mches, counter-shaft .hould run 800 Makmg m all aboul as complete a machme a. can be lound and at a reasonable pnce Wnte us and we wtll be pleased to quote you poce. Addrear. "a _~~~~ANDER DODDS~CO., ~~::l~~~ Grand Rapid., MiCh.•• --'---_._._._._-_._----~-~----- POLISHES Quality and Economy Two excellent reasons for using the Excelsior or World's Fair Polish on high grade furniture. We claim to sell the best and most economical polishes, and have proved it by their being the Standard polishes for 25 years of use in the furniture manufacturing trade. Get our prices aCld send for sample before placing your next order. GEO. W. LIGHT MFG. COMPANY, 2312 W. Van Buren St., CHICAGO. ..a. _ 11 ..- ..,. -.. ... students of the ul11versitles, enables young men to learn their own naturdl aptItudes and choose theIr future vocation much more m-tel lIgen tly 12 WEEKLY ARTISAN PUBLISHED e:vERY SATURDAY .Y THIl MICHIGAN ARTISAN COMPANY SUBSCRIPTION $1 00 PER YEAR ANYWHI!:RE IN THE UNITED STATES OTHER COUNTRIES $200 PER YEAR. SiNGLE COPII<S 5 CENTS. PUIIL.ICATION OFFICE, 108-112 NOI'lTH DIVISION ST. GI'lANO RA"'OS. MICH. A. 5 WHITE MANACO'NG EDITOR Entered ... second daIS matter. July 5, 1909, at the post office at Grand Rapid. Mlch,C'an under the act of March 3, 1879 CHICAGO REPRESENTATIVE e: LEVY A department store corporatIOn located 111 a pIOmment CIt} of the mIddle west, through the lllclulgence at the mUl1lupal authontJes, was permItted to construct a long and lugh ,ho\\ wllldow outsIde of the company s bUllc1mg It IS not an eel') task to decorate thIS long, hIgh w111dow effectlvely \vlth Its sohd brick wall background and the latest effort to do so v. as a db-mal failure FlVe large rugs, m vanegated colors and 'pI a\\ I mg figures were hung on the v. all and 111the center of each a cheap hall rack was placed The m1rror~ add to the conhblon of the scene and neIther rugs nor the furl1lture Impress the be-holder favorably A great lesson has been learned by decora-tors who know how to aVOId ,uch a combmatJon as the one de scribed above. Lack of knowledge of goods In stock and the lack at proper tramll1g of sales people IS accountable fOl many leakages and fallures to make sales m the retaIl bus mess i\ot 111frequently a SIngle salesman knows the stock contamed III a depal tment amI in his absence the department IS thrown mto confLl~lOlJ, \\ hen It would be better if no sales were made \Vhy should not all sale~- men be trained to learn all about all goods 111stock It not all salesmen, then a sufficient number to carryon the work of the entJre store WIthout loss or confusion? Selhng goods by retaIl IS not a pleasant or an easy emplo}- ment Confined to a narrow enVIronment, subjected to 1mpo~I-tlOn, chIcanery and msult the retaIl salesman's life IS not one dally round of pleasure. If he longs for the farm, the loggmg camp, the army or the navy, it IS but natural, for he has many reasons for wIshmg to change hIS occupatIOn. Compared WIth the life of the retaIl salesman, the traveling salesman has a large, fat and juicy snap. A "personal bUleau serVIce" where patrons can plan to meet their fnends has been establIshed by Marshall FIeld & Co, of Chicago m their retaIl store. Messages for friends and order~ for coaohmen or chauffeurs WIll be received by attendants The expense involved in mamtaining this service is conSIderable, but Marshall Field & Co. know that the appl eciatlOn of the publIc WIll be expressed through a larger patronage of the ,tore The apprenticeship system no longer suffice" for trainlllg men to conduct business on modern hnes The compleXIty of business as now conducted requires a specIal tra1l1111gas a condI-tion of success. Besides a special training, such as I, gIven to That home-made iurmture exhlbltlOn 111 New York, men-tlOned on another page, was undoubtedly quite interesting and may serve to 1I1troduce a fad that may become popular with those who can afford to follow It Home-made furnIture, however, must be expenslVe and those who cannot afford to use it will stlll ha\ e to buy the products of factones from dealers. Ilfty sales ladles employed by SIegel-Cooper & Co, of Chi-cago, gave a dramatIc enterta1l1ment recently which netted a handsome sum for the store's benefiClary fund. The play, wnt-ten by one of the employes, treated of scenes and experiences in the In e~ of the players "Wasn't It awful, Mabel?" Somethmg beSIdes a tobacco stamed chm and horns On the palms of the hands IS necessary to prove to a manufacturer that the bearer of these lllsigllla IS a complete factory 'Superihtendent. Callers may expect dIscourtesy of small, unsuccessful man-utacturers, and of bIg ones who are dymg of dry rot. "Live \\ Ires" are not generated Jl1 a cold storage plant. The man or woman who does not know that most merchants make better pnces for cash than for credit customers is not over-stocked WIth Il1ql11Sltlveness. If your busmess IS unremunerative do not ascribe the cause to poor luck Look yourself over and learn where the fault hes. \\ hen credIt shall be refused to businessmen who keep no books at account there WIll be two-thIrds less failures. Pnce wal" are never profitable It is much more difficult to restore pnces than to cut them. If the object sought for in busmess is not a worthy one it b better to abandon the search. What Will the ~(8n Think? \Vhen a man comes 111toyour store and asks for a certain artIcle, and you let hIm go out with the bald statement, "We don't keep It," what sort of an impression does he get of your ::,tore") Does he ask hImself, "Why don't they keep it?" And then, If he proceeds to answer it, do you suppose the reply wIll be espeClally favorable to you? vYIlI he V\ onder If your faIlure to have that article is due to want of enterpnse on your part? Will he wonder why yOU dId not offer to get It for him? vVIll he wonder why you dId not tell hIm your reasons for not having It in stock? Have yOU put a hook 111hIm"" ith which to again draw him to your store when he \\ ants something else? Question Box Experiment. A retaIler down 111Southern Virginia decided to stir his employes up to a more actIve personal 111terest 111 the business. To thIS end he hung a question box on one side of the book-keeper's desk, and asked hIS young men to drop into it any suggestlOns the} deSIred to make, or questions to ask, as to the conduct or the betterment of the bU::'111ess The first three day s it rema111ed empty On the fourth morning he found a slIp of paper on whIch the office boy had carefully written, '\\ hen do I get a raise?" WEEKLY ARTISAN 13 By E. Levy, Representative. ChIcago, Nov. 25 - J R McCargar of Grand RapIds, presI-dent of the CommercIal FurnIture company of thIS CIty, IS here for a few days looking over theIr new blllldmg whIch IS now about completed. Tlhey have painted new sIgns that stretch across the entIre frontage WhICh IS now three times as much as It was formerly and the whole presents an Impo::,ing appearance They expect to be in full working order by the middle of December. A new spnng bed manufacturing house has been establIshed here, under the name of the Chicago Spring Bed company. It is officered by W. M. Pugh, presIdent; W. E. King, VIce presi-dent and George E. Trow, secretary. These gentlemen have had a factory at Kansas City for a number of years, doing bUSI-ness there as the Kansas CIty Spnng Bed company, and WIll continue to operate their factory in that CIty. They have se-cured very commodlOus quarters in one of the series of blllld-lllgS m connectIOn wIth the Garvy company's plant at 4910 Bloomlllgdale avenue, and there they will manufacture a line of spnng beds among whIch are theIr special "Bull Dog" brand, which name they have registered as a trade mark Mr. KIng IS a former resident of this city having been wIth the old Ames & Frost company which was absorbed by the Simmons Manu-factunng company and Messrs. Pugh and Trow are well known bUSIness men of Kansas City The Modern Parlor Furniture company are preparing to make their exhibIt in the 1319 building a specially attractive one this season. The line is almost entirely composed of new pieces and they are maklllg greater efforts than at any prevlOus season to have their line complete and attractive. One of the features in their exhibit will be a new style of folding couch which Mr Rusnak of this company has perfected and over which all Interested and enthused. F. Bockius & Co, manufaaturers of embossed chair seats, corner ChIcago avenue and Sangamon street, Chicago, IS prepar-ing to add a line of Spanish leather and fancy embossed leather for specialtIes in the furnIture line Mr BocklUs has been very slUccessful in hIS hne of embossed chair seats and expects hIS new line to deserve and receive the patronage of furmture man-ufacturers requmng goods in that line. ----_._._.-._._. ---_.-- ------------.• -11 " - HENRY SCHMIT 8 CO. HOPKINS AND HARRIET STS. Cincinnati, Ohio makers of Upholstered Furniture for LODGE and PULPIT, PARLOR, LIBRARY, HOTEL and CLUB ROOM .. .. The Horn Bros. ManufacturIng company are now working 1ll theIr new patterns for the commg season and as soon as com-pleted they wIll be illustrated in a new catalog which will be pubhshed by the first of the year They will have a high class line of chamber furniture designed III the prevaIling modes and as they use the special methods of construction it will be strong and well set up. The Herman Koenig Furniture company, manufacturers of "furnIture for the bed room," have recently made arrangements with W. A. Von Ketel, for many years a salesman in Chicago, representmg a number of furnIture manufacturers, to manage theIr sales department. A speCIal meeting of the ChIcago Parlor Frame Manufac-turers' AssociatlOn was held recently to take actlOn on the death of Joseph Zangerle, who was among the first members of that organIzation and for several terms its preSIdent He was by rIght of senionty of age as 'evell as priority 1ll business, what may be termed the "dean" of the parlor frame manufacturing trade m this city, and the members of the aSSOCIation showed their feelIngs toward their honored associate by resolutions em-bodymg theIr admiratIon for his sterhng character, and expres-sions of sympathy for Ithe bereaved ones Three of the mem-bers acted as pallbearers. These were old comrades, one of whom was a native townsman of the deceased, and a boyhood frend. The Oberbeck Brothers are preparing for their exhIbIts at Chicago and Grand Rapids, and WIll occupy the same spaces this season as heretofore. Their sales manager, C. L Barron, re-ports a very satisfactory bUSIness the paslt season and states that 1he new line WIll be even more attractive than before. Their mlaid SUItes were especially attractive last season and they are bendIng every effort to Improve on them if possible, as well as on the rest of theIr hne of chamber furnIture in Circasslan wal-nut, red gum and mahogany . • Your Continued Success Depends on the QUALITYof Your Goods- It's after a bed or chair or table leaves your store that it counts for or against your future trade. Every Stow & Davis table you sell is a constant advertisement of your rehablhty. Our tables resist wear-quahty is bUilt m, along with the style and hand rubbed fimsh that make our designs so attractIve. Our new catalog, showmg some of the handsomest Colonial and Flanders diners ever built, is in press. You WIll Just naturally want these t0p-notchers in your own store, for your best trade. Send in your name for an early copy. STOW & DAVIS FURNITURE COMPANY, PERFECTION TABLE TOPS. DINERS. Grand Rapids, Mich. OFFICE AND BANK TABLES. 14 WEEKLY ARTISAN ..- •• '1 NEW DESIGNS I-N LOUIS XVI STYLE No. 1711 No. 1705-1705 WRITE FOR SAMPLES AND PRICES. GRAND RAPIDS BRASS COMPANY GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN .. Home Made Furniture on Exhibition. I\n exhIbItIOn at a novel chal actel and a 101 el unnel ot what alms to become <1 natIOnal mOl ement 111thIs lountt' wat:> opened 1ecentl} at 22 East TIm tv -tOUIth "tl eet '\ e\\ York "The Home Industnes A"souatlOn IS gl\lng the exll1bltlen and the ex11t1)Jt" consIst ot al tlcle" made In home" 111\anou" parts of the Ul11ted "'tate" and 110m nealh e,el' country of the OJd 1101Jel \llsS Lom"e ]\1 u~l'am, \\ ho ha" attracted attention by hel Idea" about bo, lur111tul e I" at the head of the enterpnse 111s'o Bngham ha" been a "ettlement \\ orker for se\ eral } ear" She IS assisted by another sett le-ment worker, .:\llss Helen Hunt, 111v\ hose studIO the e"hlbltlOn IS to become a permaneJ1t affaIr ::\lls" Bllgham t:>ald the Idea was a de\elopment from the box furl11ture \\ hlch she ha~ had 111practical use 111her apartment 111East EIght} -eu.;hth street fOI more than a year and \vll1ch has been' ISlted bv all k111cl" of people The anTI 111box furl11ture IS to utt1lze castoff boald" and boxes that have only found themselves useful to bm/rl the furnace fire 01 else have been carrIed a\\ ay by the Clt} ash carb Once the Idea of box furl11tUle IS aSSImIlated no house, however humble, need go unfUll11t:>hed, as the object le-..~on afforded in her own apartment prov es "Every country in the Old IVorld," saId ::\IISs 111u:;ham "is proud of its expressIOn of thnft, and as I travelled about last summer WIth this home 111c1ustnes Idea 111 \ lew I found so much that was 111terest111~ that I determ111ed to launch the Idea as soon as I could after arnv111g home "Only a httle bIt of attention to orgal11zatlOn IS Ieqmred to get together an exhIbIt as credItable to our country as were those I saw in Europe In Europe the noblhty and the crowned heads of countnes patroUlze the v, ark of the peasantly, thus encourag111g thnft and demand111g a 111gh standard of workmanship In Amenca \\ e have 110thlllg of .. thh "ort The pubhc splnt needs to be educated here in our 0\\ n land , -\h eacl} II e have gathered here such 111dustnes made in the home as the lace of GreenwIch House 111Jones place and lace from the Itahan and Insh quarters The Craft Club of '-:e\\ YOlk ha'o gl\ en an exhibit There are the Jelhes and canches and the bookb111d111g done 111hemes here 111the cIty \\ e have an exll1bltlOn, the hand weavlllg, sp111n111gand cover hcl s, from the Kentucky mounta111s, and "'"eav111g and dye111g as accomphshed In Berea College of Kentucky ViTe have exhIbIts of WOlk from Deerfield, Greenfield, Magnoha, Glou-cester 111Ma'osachusetts, and weav111g done by the b1111c1111 Cleveland and Boston There are hundreds of places yet to be heal d from, and I am confident that once a center IS e"tabhshed In '\e\\ York we shall soon have an 111dustry \\ hlch \\ III be self-support111g awl encourag111g to the workers '1\ e al e already affihated WIth fifteen foreIgn countnes, so that \\ e ha' e the success of the Idea abload to serve as a foundation for our \\ ark here and to assure us that we are maklllg no eApel1ment, hut are merely gett111g 111tO1111eWIth the home 111dustnes of other nations In \\' est I:lghty-n111th street we hay e opened an apart-ment \\ hllh I" fU1111shed as a model of what can be done WIth the V\ ood 111castoff boxe" IV e have also secured a vacant store 111that nelghbOlhood whIch IS 111use as a carpenter shop, and there we shall demonstrate what an amateur carpenter can make \'\Ith a saw, a hammer and a pocketful of natls In our permanent place of exhibition here we shall show only models of what can be done 111the home" It hard ","ark IS the secret of success 111 se11111ggoods, it is not much of a sccrct WEEKLY ARTISAN 15 ~..-.----- ----- -------------------------_._-- ------------------------- , FOUR NEW in acid and oil. in acid and oiL in acid and oil, TRADE MARK REGISTERED PRODUCTIONS BARONIAL OAK STAIN FLANDERS OAK STAIN S M 0 K ED 0 A K S T A I N EARLY ENGLISH OAK STAIN Send for finished samples, free. Ad-el-ite Fillers and Stains have long held first place in the estimation of Furniture Manufacturers and Master Painters, In addition to the reg-ular colors the above shades offer unusually beautiful and novel effects, in acid and oil. The Ad-el-ite People CHICAGO-NEW YORK • • Everythmg m Paint Specialties and Wood Fmishmg matenals. Fillers that flll. Stains that satisfy "--------------------_._----_.-------------- ---------_. ---------_-4 'W'hich i~ the Fin ..t 1<'lo01"? A change 'ieemo, to be com1l1g about III the desIgnation of the StOlleo, of our bLllldlllgs UntJ! recently It was the general rule III thl'3 country to name the floor on the level WIth the street the first floor, the firo,t story abm e the stl eet bemg known as the second floor, and 'iO on In Europe and III Canada the rule has been to descnbe the first story above the street as the first floor, desLllb1l1g that on the level "'Ith the stl eet as the ground floor In the \Vanamaker 'itores 111 New York and PhIladelphia the floors are named 111 the ad\ ertlslllg, etc , accordlllg to '" hat may be termed the European practlce In other words, VIsItors unfamlhar WIth the 'itore''i pldn who ask the elevator man for the "third" floOl 111 one of these stores al e apt to find them-o, elves cal ned to what they would call the fourth ThIs method may have been adopted 1n order to le'isen the 1dea of d1stance m the vISItor's m1l1d 111 vlew of the heIght of the new bUllchm;-s \iV e note that a propo"ed amendment to the bUlldlllg code of Ch1cago prov Ides that the fir'it story above the Stl eet l:Srade '3hall be desIgnated and known as the fir"t StOly and the 'itones abm e shall be numbered, consecutLVely, second, th1rd, and so on \iV e also find thIs practlce pm'iued by the elevator attend-ants III a number of office bmld1l1gs 111N eV\ York A lack of ul11formlty 111 such matter:o may prove costly For example, we heard recently of a case VIi here a contractor was asked to put 111 a bId for the fil1lshlllg up of the "seventh" floor III a large store HIS bId was accepted, but, much to hIS surpn'ie, he found that the floor he wa:o e'{pected to fil11sh was not the one, partly finIshed, whereon he had based hI" bId, but the one above 1t and wh1ch he would have called the e1ghth floor Thu:o through the mlSL111der'3tandlllg the contractor stood III a posItIOn to lose a consldel able S11m 4 Do You See the Feature? The FI'3h company e\ Idently I eahze there are people who, from somethlllg hke fal'ie pnde or a deSIre to appear wealthy and llldependent, Imag1l1e that It 1S an 1I1dlcatlOn of poverty to trade WIth an 1I1stallment house, that there are some, per- -D-AVENPORT SOFA BED $2.00 Cash $/.75 a Month ,=..- To b\lY thIS beautIful and serVlceable davenpot:tlS Just hke addmg another bed-f66m to your nome In the daytime It serves Its purpose as an m-tIStlC, hIgh gl'a<;te CQue!l:;at O1ght by a SImple easy mo,tlOn It IS converted mte> a hlrj(e spaclOUS dotlble" hidi: The fl ame IS made of sohli' golde,n oak, covered in genuine Royal leather, -",'Wit guaranteed steel COlI spnng construct1onr A big value 'It tlus.low P,1'1ce. GOODS DELlVtRt' IN. PLA.IN WAGONS OPEN EVENINGS OPEN EVENINGS 1981-U State St. 3036-38Lincoln Av. :JOU-19 State St. 654-656W. North Av. 1906-0~Wabash Av, Established 1858 haps many, who would hke to patr0111z;e the installment dealels, but for the dread of hav111g the neIghbors gOS'ilP about the wagon, as usually pa111ted, call111g at theIr res1dence To (atch the trade of such people the FIsh company have lllserted a s1g111ficant feature 111the1r "ad" It 1S not the whltefish nor the davenport, but the black l111e,"Goods Delivered m Plam \\ agD1l':;" 16 ENGLISH MERCANTILE METHODS WEEKLY ARTISAN Selfridge. the Great American Merchant of London. Writes on the Science of Retailing. At the request of the edItor of the Dry Goods EconomIst. H. G. Selfndge who has made a complete succe"s of the great department store that he establIshed In London about t\\ 0 \ ear-ago, has written a letter on the "ScIence of RetaII111g,' \\ hlch will be of interest to many Amencan merchants because It gIve, reliable informatIOn 111 1 egard to mercantIle methods med 111 England and other countnes as compared wIth tho,e used 111 America. The letter IS therefore republIshed DEAR SIR :-1 have your letter ask1l1g that I detaIl some of my observations in relation to the "Differences and SlITIIlantles in Methods of Doing Business in England and '\menca," and I am pleased to comply with the request. Let me say at the outset, however, that under no CIrcum-stances do I assume the position of a cntlc of EnglIsh methods Penhaps my training as a merchant has caused me to look upon certain points in merchandising differently from those \\ ho ha \ e long conducted business here in England, but I accept that theIr methods are quite likely best I stated In mv fir"t ne\\ ,paper interview in London that I had not come to London WIth the expectation of teach1l1g any merchant or shopkeeper a s111gle thing, that I did not feel qualified to do so and had no pOSSIble desire in that direction; that I had come instead to leal nand should lose no opportunity to carry out thIS 111tentlOn \nc1 during the past three or four years I have learned much I believe that no branch of human actiVIt) has 'Shm\ n greatel development during the past twenty-five years than the "SCIence of retailing" and yet every thinking merchant of today knO\\" that this same progress will continue dunng the ) ears to come The development of the individual bu,ine,s come" from one of two directions-the application of one's own ongInal Ideas. or the quite legitimate copying of other people's In either ca"e It is evident that the measure and rapidIty of development depend upon the flow of originality, and original thinkers are compara-tively few. Now the general methods and "tools" of the retaIl mer chant are much the same the world over The counter, the sho\\ case, the dressed window, the shelving, the general arrangement, are alike and have been since stores and shops began The difference lies in the quality and detaIl and the~e anse 111the ~ I II , ... UNION FURNITURE CO. ROCKFORD, ILL. China Closets Buffets Bookcases We lead in Style, ConkudJon and FlDish. See our CataloBUe. Our hne on permanent exlubi. tlOn 3rd Floor, New Manufact-urers' Bwldul\l. Grand Rapida. .. ... _....... _. dIvergent tastes, temperaments and types of the nationahties concerned Germany, for example, gIves a touch of the Teuton to her store furl11ture, and to us in Great Britain and America it looks overdone and not of the style which appeals to our taste Amer- Ica has bUllt on hnes of slmphClty and dIgnity, whIch to the European lack decoratIOn England has recently done her .,tores and shops 111a very ornate manner. France, except 111 her small shops, has paId little attention to her store furniture and WIth one or two exceptions is doing it no better than twenty ) ears ago No one can say which is best, but a jury chosen tram all natlOns could be the only accepted authority, and as no such jury WIll be chosen, the matter will remain as it IS, each one d01l1g as he chases. But more important are the methods of different nations One would almost think that progressive merchants who had ,em.e enough to realize that other people are advancing as well as themselves would quickly adopt original methods which they saw successfully introduced in other stores, and that after a httle we should see a sort of "i&;peranto system" of retailing. As a matter of fact, this does not happen to at all the extent it ,hould. Either a lack of knowing well what other methods are, a dis1l1cI1l1atlOn to acknowledge that some one else has thought . p something better than \ve, an indifference or let-.weII-enough-alone polIcy (IV hlch, by the way, is not closely allied to progres-slveness), a conservatism which seems to foster an innate dis- 1l1clination or fear to make a change-for any of these or other reasons most merchants stick to the methods of their locality and do not cOP) the Improvements of other countries. But, ROCkford Chair 8 Furniture Co. Rockford, Illinois DINING FURNITURE BUFFETS, CHINA CLOSETS and TABLES. LIBRARY FURNITURE DESKS, TABLES, COMBINATION and LIBRARY BOOKCASES. Our entire line will be on exhibition in January on the third floor of the Blodgett Buildine, Grand Rapids, Mich. WEEKLY ARTISAN 17 p ••• A. PETERSEN & co. BEST MADE AND LEADING LINE OF OFFICE DESKS IN THE COUNTRY Our attention to every detail from carefully selected and matched lumber to the finished product has given the PETERSEN DESK its leadership, FULL LINE. I... ... . .. h.... .... MANUFACTURERS OF THE RIGHT PRICES. SEND FOR CATALOGUE. 430 Armour St., CHICAGO, ILL. ..................... nevertheless, retailing as a busmess or profession has shown marvelous strides. In Broadly defimng the dIfferences between British and Amencan methods of merchandIsing one could perhaps say that conservatism almost always dominates the former, whIle a never-ending desire to change, to adopt any new idea, seems to be the poltcy of the latter. To the one, business is more ltkely to be the means to a more desired end; to the other, because the country is newer and because leIsure does not carry wIth It the same charm, busi-ness IS more the end, the fascinating game which the merchant loves to play, the most mterestmg occupation which his sur-roundmgs and condItions offer. Many-very many-Brittsh merchants acquire fortunes suf-ficIent for their needs and rettre, to live in the country, to enJoy the sports and pleasures of ltfe which England so generously offers. The American merchant rarely retires from business, and when he does he finds hImself alone and lonely; he feels "out of the game." As one wealthy friend who had retired descnbed his feelmgs to me, he felt as one who was living on an allowance. HIs income was very large, but it lacked the spice of "winning-." Why Americans Keep on Working It is generally true, I believe, that the business man of America who has acquired a reasonable fortune does not con-tinue in the acquirement of mere dollars only for the dollars' sake, but be~ause he loves the game and the dollars represent the counters won in the game. Again, the ownershIp and dIrection of a great business in America gives perhaps a comparatively greater personal prestige than in England; but, if I judge cor-rectly, the feeltng of respect toward the large man of business IS a rapIdly growmg qualtty m the public mind m Great Bntalll The mcltnatlon to retire from actIve busmess has made com-mon m England the system of mcorporatmg concerns and selltng the shares to the publtc-a most useful method If certain re-sults are deSIred, but to my way of thmking, a custom whIch too often clepnves the busmess of personaltty and of that wonderful factor III the busmcss's expansIOn and development, VIZ, the personal PItde of ItS propnetors What the usual mvestmg stockholder wants i" the greatest pOSSIble dIvIdend, and the stockholders by vote elect the execu-tIves Owmg, then, theIr pOSItIOns to owners who want dIVI-dends, It becomes their chIef aIm to make and payout these dIvIdends The Amellcan merchant (who knows ltttle of publtc owner-shIp of hIS kmd of busmess and who owns his busmess) prefers not to payout his profits to himself, but to contmue them in that which he himself knows most of-hts own business A body of men is always more inclined to conservatism than an individual; they say "Nor' more easily than they say "Yes"; they take fewer chances; make fewer experiments. The "one-man owner" risks more on his judgment; he is risking his own money, so why not? When a board of directors act they are usually acting with other people's money, and this feeling al-ways does, and will make them cautious, more so than they would be with their own money. In thIS world and time, and in the Made by Rockford Frame and FIX];UreCo , Rockford. Ill. department store busmess, the old adage of "Nothing venture, nothmg have," IS true (May I add a personal note here and say that our busllless III London IS, as are almost all others, a jomt stock company, but all the common shares and nmeteen-twentleths of the pref-erence shares are held by myself and one or two others and are not for sale to the publtc Weare therefore III a position to conserve our profits to the fullest extent.) Busmess of thIS kmd-department stores-are almost al-ways profitable in England Expenses are lower than in Ameri-ca and gross profits are Just as high Rents are perhaps the ChIef Item of savmg. The pay-roll averages nearly as high in per cent here as there. Delivery, or "despatch" expenses as they (Continued on Page 20) 18 WEEKLY ARTISAN Most Attractive Inducements for Car Load Buyers Are Offered by the THE KARGES FURNITURE CO. Manufacturers of Chamber Suites. Wardrobes. Chlffomers. Odd Dressers. Chifforobes. THE BOSSE FURNITURE CO. Manufacturers of Kitchen Cabinets. K D. Wardrobes. Cupboards and Safes, m imitation golden oak, plain oak and quartered oak. THE WORLD FURNITURE CO. Manufacturers of Mantel and Upright Folding Beds, Buffets. Hall Trees, Chma Closets, Combination Book and Library Cases. THE GLOBE FURNITURE CO. Manufacturers of Sideboards in plain oak. imitation quartered oak. and solid quartered oak, Chamber Suites, Odd Dressers, Beds and Chiffoniers in imitation quartered oak, imitation mahogany, and imitation golden oak. THE BOCKSTEGE FURNITURE CO. Manufacturers of the "Superior" Line of Parlor, Library, Dining and Dressing Tables. THE METAL FURNITURE CO. Made by The Karges Furniture Co Manufacturers of "Hygiene" Guaranteed Brass and Iron Beds, Cnbs, Wire Springs and Cots Evansville is the great mixed car loading center of the United States, made so by the Big Six Association . .•.....--------------_._----_._--------_._.----~ WEEKLY ARTISAN 19 _.:c'" ~ ~ Made by Bockstege Furniture Co. Made by Bosse Furniture Company. Made by World Furmture Company. ~ . 20 WEEKLY ARTISAN ENGLISH MERCANTILE METHODS , (Continued from Page 17) are called here, are nearly as hIgh AdvertIsIng IS usually much less, because much less is done Insurance is lower Expenses in Amenca whIch run from 18.0 to 23 per cent (on selling pnces) would here run from 15 to 20 per cent Cash discounts here are lower, being 3)4, as compared there wIth 6 per cent The number of times stock IS turned here IS lower, as a rule, because, as I thInk, the dally sales or returns are not pushed so hard and aggressively It is a strange condItIon, for example, that Pans shows one department store \\ hlch doe~ an annual return of between $40,000,000 and $45,000,000, and half a dozen will show from $15,000,000 up, whIle London, "WhIch IS t"Wlce as large, with a greater IndIvidual bUyIng capacity and WIth much better and centrahzed methods of Intermural tranSIt, shm\ s per-haps only two businesses dOIng $15,000,000 to $20,000,000 re-turn. And of these very excellent houses the departments of groceries, provisions and sImIlar hnes form the most Important divisions of the business, whIle In Paris no department store In-cludes anything of the kind. Some Brittsh Methods The BritIsh merchant is now some\vhat glv111g up the "hv-ing- in" system, of which Amenca knovvS nothIng It means that the employer supplies board and lodging as part pay But all houses still give employes luncheon and tea (the latter a small meal consisting of tea, bread and butter, cake, etc, at four to five p. m.) ( In Great Britain the Inspection of goods sold IS not prac-ticed. Salespeople wrap their own goods. In America inspec-tion is almost universal. The shopwalker of Bntain has been, and stIli is In many businesses, a greater factor in the selling than In America The old system of Importuning a customer and expectIng In every case a purchase IS also, if I judge correctly, passmg, and the methods of every country in the world except Great Bntal11, which allow a VISItor to walk around an estabhshment at WIll, to buy or not as she chooses, are now bemg more generally adopted here In America the ChIef thought of the merchant is to increase his return J If larger stocks and 111creased expenses are neces-sary for this result, then they must be accepted. He feels that the resultant larger profits WIll follow, but he knows that unless hIS return increases his profits cannot In England, as I Judge (aga111 the result of the publicly owned business), the stocks are held down to the lowest possible pomt and the expemes are studIed with great care The dIvi-dends must be ma111ta111ec1a'1cJ If added money is spent for mer-chandIse and expenses the dIVIdends for that year may not be forthcoming. The purchase ticket or transfer slip is little known 111Eng-land. Weare using it most satisfactorily in our business and " . . I HOFFMAN BROTH ERS CO. FT. WAYNE. IND. HARDWOOD LUMBER SA~~D } QUARTERED OAK { VENEERS SLICED AND MAHOGANY .. ... .. .. .. customers appreCIate its tIme and trouble-saving qualities. Some houses have a "Country Customer's Card," but the town customer pays or has goods charged to her account in each department. Of course, the transfer slip is recognized as a necessity in Amenca, as It IS also in France and Germany. A..dvertis111gIS usually the second item of expense in Ameri-ca, exceeded only by the payrOll, and possibly rent. Not so in England The money spent in the daily papers is comparatively ~mall, but much more is done in catalogs than across the ocean. :.'\fany of these catalogs are very fine and very expensive. \Employes 111England 111a general way compare very favor-ably WIth those of any country in the world. They are intelli-gent, thorough, naturally courteous and loyal. I !have been de-hghted to see the evident interest and enjoyment which our peo-ple take In the growth and progress of our business. In many of the large stores of America too often courtesy, 10) alty and interest in the business are sadly wanting. But my paper IS already too long. Let me end it by saying that human nature IS the same thing here as in America. The buymg pubhc appreciate courtesy, good service, a broad policy, values, conveniences and all thO'S,e points which go to make a model business just the same as there, but they are quicker and kInder m expressmg that appreciation. I applaud the getting together of merchants of different parts of the world and the discussions which such meetings bring about The American merchant can learn by visiting Great Bntain, as can the English merchant by visiting America, and anythmg I or my house can do at any time to assist in a more thorough acquaintance between the merchants of Europe and Amenca WIll be done. If any of our readers are specially inter-ested 111 any point of system, etc, m force here they are quite at hberty to wnte to us for detailed Information. It will give us great pleasure to reply to the best of our ability. Yours very truly, H. G. SELFRIDGE Wood Bar Clamp Fixtures, Per Set SOc. Sheldon Steel Rack Vises Patent Malleable Clamp Fixtures. E H SHELDON & CO ChIcago. Ill. Gentlemen -We are pleased to state that the 25 dozen Clamp FIxtures whIch we boueht of you a httle over a year ago are glVlnj{ excellent service We are well satisfied WIth them and shall be pleased to remember you whenever we want anything addItional In thIS line Yours truly, SIOUXCity, Iowa. CURTIS SASH & DOOR CO. 30.000 Sold on approval and an uncon-dItional money back guarantee SHELDON'S STEEL BAR CLAMPS. Guaranteed Indestructible. We sohclt pnvIlege of sendmg samples and our complete catalogue E. H. SHELDON & CO. 328 N. May St .• Chicago. • ........ . .... ~l'1~pLlJ ~ Fan and "ABC" Vertical Enclosed Self.Oiling Steam Engine, for Induced or Forced Draft Plant. Can be placed in confined spaces which would oft. times preclude the use of any other outfit. WEEKLY ARTISAN 21 require small space and have immense capacities. Some idea of the great capacity of the "Sirocco" Fan may be had from the fact that given two wheels of the same diameter, producing the same pressure, the "Sirocco" wheel would have 64% greater capacity than the old style of fan wheel at a speed 40% less. "Sirocco" Fans have a high mechani-cal efficiencywhether running at low, medium or high speeds. Latest Bulletin No. 284 MA, sent postpaid upon request. AMERICAN BLO'¥ER CoMPANY ----DETROIT.I"'!ICH ---- U S. A. ~e~ ~actories. Talcott & Burk are to establish a new factory at WIllows, Cal. F. A. Gumbertz, Ignace Rosenthal, Jacob Fischer and J. W. Stevens have mcorporated the MIdland Furniture company, capitahzed at $50,000, to estab1Jsh a new factory at Evan.ovllle, Ind. G. W. Hoban, WIlham Haase, John Peterson and H. S. Wilson have incorporated the Peterson Art Furniture company, capitalized at $20,000, and will establIsh a factory at Peterson, Minn. Walsh & Laddy of Dedham, Mass., have secured a lease of the old Latham mill property at Eastford, on the Natchaug flver, near Putnam, Conn., and will convert it into an Axmin-ster rug factory. Benjamin lfupner of the Bay State Fun}iture company, Worcester, Mass, Wlhodo busmess on the 25-cents-per-week club plan, was arrested for violating the state anti-lottery law. He FANS FOR MECHANICAL DRAFT HAV~ ~ Fan Wheel. Rigid in construction and lightest, smallest and most efficient for any duty. Ablest Enginel~ring Organization in the Blower Business, Operating Three Large Plants Devoted Exclusively to the Manufacture of Fan Apparatus and the Allied Lines. FURNITURE MANUFACTURERS ATTENTION! Send for sampl.. of our Celebrated Nickel Sleel Sword Tempered BAND SAW BLADES Warranted In every particular. Best proPosItion on the market. FRANK W. SWETT & SON Mfa. of band saw blades and tools 1717·1719 W. AdamsSt. Chlcage was tried and convicted on November 18 and paid a fine of $50 and costs. Joseph J. Yawltz, late treasurer of the Mound City Furni-ture company, St. LOUIS,Mo., has orgamzed the NatIOnal Chair company with a paId up capital of $25,000, and IS buying ma-chmery for a new plant to be located at North St. Louis. To "manufacture, buy and sell musical instruments and merchandise of every kmd, sort and nature," ]. B. Cleveland and H. A. Man11lng have incorporated the Cleveland-Manning Piano company, capltahzed at $5,000,WIth privilege of increasing to $25,000 and WIll establish a factory in Atlanta, Ga. New ~urniture Dealers. Selak & Kraft are new fur11lture dealers in Detroit, Mich. S. T. Johnson has opened a new fur11lture store at Menagha, Minn. Kemp's FurnIture store is a new establishment at River-siJde, Cal. Morgan & Whittaker are new furniture and carpet dealers in Savannah, Ga. Israel Bros. are new ftlfnlture dealers at 1060 North Sec-ond street, Philadelphia, Pa. R. L. McDonald & Co., have opened a new housefurnish-ing store at Rockmgton, N. C. J. C. Horne, I M Sanderson and Mrs. W. R. Newberry \have lncorporated the Magnolia Furmture company, capitalized at $25,000, to open a new store at Magnolia, N. C. The Union Furniture company, incorporated by William C. SmIth, Jacob c. Froehch and John A. Buck, with $10,000 capi-tal stock, are new house furnishers in Denver, Col 22 WEEKLY ARTISAN .. "THE BEST IS THE CHEAPEST" BARTON'S GARNET PAPER Sharp, Very Sharp, Sharper Than Any Other. SUPERIOR TO SAND PAPER. It costs more, BUT It Lasts Longer; Does Faster Work. Order a small lot; make tests; you will then know what you are getting. WE GUARANTEE SATISFACTION. Furniture and Chair Factories, Sash and Door Mills, Rauroad Companies, Car Builders and others will consult their own interests by using it. Also Barton's Emery Cloth, Emery Paper, and Flint Paper, furnished in rolls or reams. MANUFACTURED BY H. H. BARTON & SON CO., 109 South Third St., Philadelphia, Pa. ._-----------~I Buildings That Will :Need Furniture. \\ II Kmght .nSO East Sixty-fifth street, $4,500, R Kane. Residences-Detrclt, :\llch-Helman Llchman, Tl1cman 10838 \la'i'''e a\enue, <j;2,;00, S GRose, 12318 Ingomar ave- 'itreet and \\ ard lane, $-+,000, Frank Luzon Chene and I el n nue $2, :;00, F I aulhaber, 3427 Dal"y avenue, $2,500 street", $3,000, Frank A :\Ia"tern 408 :\Ianche;,ter -,treet, Pltbburg, Pa - '\lbert Mosblack, 448 Alton avenue, $3,000; Frank Capello, 280 Seybul n street, ~4,000, CIaI ence $4 :;00, \\ 111lamPOle, Br) ant and F dl ragut streets, $8,000 \'\ Fllcketc n, Belvidere and Gra\ es "treets, 5>3,:;00 Il1l1me Ll11Loln \eb -~lr" Mary Peters, 2817 Holdredge street, Hlttmger, 493 Hamilton street, S4000, Jucl-,on Htac!\\a\ 1C).? ';3000 Josephllle street, $2,300, A J Herber, 31:; :\la)buI} "tteet, Calgdl) Sa"k-\\l1ltam Re11, 702 Fourteenth ;,treet, $2,500, A \V Bather, 226 Plllglee "tteet, S-+-+OO,Damel \\ 82 :;00, 1hlmd.., Lnden\ood, 680 I~tfteenth street, $3,000; 13 Wolf, 339 Eucltd a\ enue, $3,000, J UllllS Peter1m, 39 Richmond Haggan, 418 T\\ elfth a\ enue, $2,800, H J Rowan, 256 street, $3,500 T\\ ent\ -th11d a\ enue, ';>3,000 Dallas, Tex -J A;,hford Hughes, E\ ergleen and::,t LOUh InchanapolIc, Ind -\\ Ilham H Van Mtller, ThIrty-second street", $2,500, Harr) L ~ea), 301 :\Ia1l1 S11 eet, 88000 C L Plral1l0, 776 Ma1l1 street, $3,730, Chatle~ Boll, 332 Reiger a\ e-nue, $3,500 Den, er, Col- John ~lapell, Oh1O and South Lmcoln "treets, $4,000, Frank \\ ~ ewton, \vashmgton and Tenth streets, $10,000, Frank J Kennedy, (eda1 and ~outh Lata\- ette stl eets, $3,000 ChIcago, Ill-Mar) E :\lcGonagle, -+2-+9 \ \ est 110m oe street, $6,600, W11ltam A 5chleng, 80-+2 Sagma\\ a\ tnue, $3,000, Charles S Armstrong, 10456 Seeley a\ enue, 88000 Martm Houseman, 10225 La Salle stteet, 82300, Tohn L\nn" 3913 West Monroe street, :];G,'250, ['rank :\farek 3DOO \\ e~t Twenty-fourth street, $:;,000, H enq '\ orman, 3329 J Lbtme street, $2,800, SHeck, 7230 Emerald a\ enue, 83,300, '\ \ an Bergen, 10654 State street, $3,000, James Peterson, 620() vVmchester avenue, '1;2,:;00, John McLachlan, 11-+52 Prame a\ e-nue, $4,500, John Peda, 3624 Dn ersey street, $3,000, \\ A B1rk, 3959 West lullerton avenue, $8,000, T J Hodg;,on, 1061 Carmen avenue, $3,800; :\Irs Emllte Neuenteldt, 3902 South Ort avenue, $8,000 Cmc1l1natJ, 0 -Robert S F1l1ch, McMillan and Clem,lew streets, $5,500, Roy S Fox, ConcOl d and Morgan streets $6,000, AntonellI Rlsselt, Kinsey and HIghland avenue~, $6,000, Henry HemlOth, 1268 \Voolper aHnue, $4,500, Kather-me Vetter, 4209 Glen\'; ay avenue, $2,500 .. Bll1ghamton, ='J Y -A C Crossley, 1 Perry street, $~,OOO, 13eavers Fa1th L Mtllard, 286 DavIs street, $5 600,):1 B :\Itllal d 40 Chestnut street, $2,800 Jacksonvtlle, Fla -R D Drysdale, \Valnut and ThIrd streets, $4,500 Boston, Mass - \v tlltam T Henderson, 26 Raven street, $3,000, Vhlltam H vVhlte, 229 South FaIn lew, ,Vest Dorches-ter, $8,000; John Monroe, 37 Malcolm street, \Vest Roxbury, $5,000; Mrs R T Stearns, 15 TIleston "treet, Dorchester, $4,500; G M Yatl, 57 Montfern avenue, Enghton, $10,000. M1l1l1leMendebohn, 200 QUll1cy street, $4,000 Cleveland, 0 -H J LeWIS, 1181 East 111th street, $5,000, "BEAVER," "GINDERELLA," "DOCKASH" STOVE HEADQUARTERS "THE LINES THAT SELL" NoteIMPERIAL BEAVER-one ofmany. Best, They Stana the rest." THIS is the IMPERIAL REAVER. It is the finest cooking range made anywhere in the world. We think so, and so will you when you see its advantages: Study the above pIcture. The glass oven door is guaranteed not to break. No heat lost when you look at your baking. This range holds Its heat longest, saves 25% in fuel, and has unusual hot water capacity. It is the best looking range bUilt-and wears as well as it looks. Send for samples and see it-but we warn you that no other kind will ever satisty you again, If you ~o! W. D. SAGER, 330-342No.Wafer Sf., CHICAGO WEEKLY ARTISAN 23 and Chfton streets, $3,000, Joseph MInturn, 2182 )J orth CapI-tol avenue, $4,000, FranC1S BIown, \VashIngton boulevard and Tvventy-e1ght street, $3,750, W Indield MIller, Langley and Roosevelt streets, $3,000, A C rrankee, 1637 Prospect street, $3,000 Toledo, 0 -John vVashneck, 320 Buffalo street, $3,600 Lotus\ 11k Ky -AddIson R SmIth, 1423 South ThIrd street, $11,250, E L Boswell, DeeI Park, $4,000; Mrs JOSle C Eblen, 1711 Edgeland street, $6,000 RIchmond, Va - \V \V Haley, 1809 Grove avenue, $5,000 Atlanta, Ga -A P Hernngton, 156 Summ1t avenue, $2,500, Paul GoldsmIth, ql q HIghland avenue, $4,500; J H \Vh1senant, 84 PIne street, $3,000, Mrs S C Stenuns, 80 Haas street, $4,300 Oakland, Cdl-E J LIo) d, 606 Ml1es avenue, $2,500, Robert Cords, Lake Shore and \Valla VIsta avenues, $3,500, J B MartIn, 190 Lawton avenue, $2,800; J G QUInn, AdelIne and ThIrteenth streets, $3,000, A \V Claassen, East Four-teenth street and 1'1111t) -slxth a\ enue, $4,000, \V H \Vebb, 840 Alcatraz avenue, $3,000 Oklahoma CIt), Okla -Mary Beckel, 2415 Hudson street, $2,500, DI 0 P .:VlcNa1r, 1815 \Vest Th1rty-e1ghth street, $3,500, G W Anthon), 1708 West Th1rty-eIghth street, $2,500; Joseph Roster, 1035 Ea:,t EIghth ;,tteet, $4,000, C E Franke, 629 \Vheeler avenue, $4,500 M111neapob, l\IInn - \\ B R1ley, 4025 vVest Lake Har-nett boulevard, $8,000, 0 D Sell, 1826 James avenue, $3,500; Jenme C \Vl1hamson, 4223 Abbott avenue, $3,000; Raymond Bndgeman, 4143 \\ entwOlth avenue, $3,000; M D Purdy, 5024 Forty-second avenue, $13,000, Theophl1e Ochu, 1118 Knox avenue, $5,000 Columbus, 0 -E K Taylor, 147 South Sandusky street, $3,000; F D l\Ianon, SlY;; Ea:,t ::,tate street, $2,500; Rosa A Kelter, 2480 F111dlay avenue, $2,500, L \V Gadd1s, Wallhalla Park place, $4,500, N \V Munshower, 159 Cleveland avenue, $7,000, W A Rogers, 363y;; South Central avenue, $3,000 Salt Lake C1ty, Utah -Anna B Petty, Gramercy Park, $4,000, Mrs C D Beers, Gramercy Park, $3,000; Ed1th E Prout, Cap1tol and Jackson avenues, $3,000 Peona, Ill-A F \Vard, 803 Seventh avenue, $2,500, F C Ste"" art, \Vest Instttute avenue, Uplands, $4,500; M. F Prose, 1040 McClure avenue, $2,800, \V P Gauss, 213 South MadIson, $4,000, Ed Kerns, Garland street and Knoxvl1le road, $3,200 Toronto, Ont - \Vl1ham Grogan, 25 Grafton avenue, $4,000, E J Crocker, Beoth aud Queen streets, $4,000; W C Mathew:" 6 Chestnut Park road, $12,000; Harry J Rea, Rox-borough street and Glen road, $4,500; James A Stewart, Dun- ~..••.• - ••••••......•••. --_.. ••• • ·1 The Good Old Reliable Work Bench THAT NEVER GETS OUT OF STYLE. For Many Years Made ExclUSIvely by c. CHRISTIANSEN, 2219 Grand Ave., CHICAGO Also manufacturer of the ChIcago Truck for woodworking factotles. Send for Catalogue. _ . ... .. THE WORLD'S BEST SAW BENCH BUllt WIth double arbors, sliding table and eqUipped complete WIth taper pm guages carefully graduated. Th:s machm e represents the heIght m saw bench con-struchon. It ISdeSIgned and bUIlt to reduce the cost of sawmg stock. Write us for descript.ve informstlOn. THE TANNEWITZ WORKS, ~~tIfIg:~PIDS, \ egan and Heath streeb, $8,000; James Turner, 125 Spnng-hur: ot avenue, $7,000; John T Colle), 814 IndIan road, $5,000 La:, Angeles, Cal-Rebecca Punter, 228 East Seventh St1eet, $3,000, Opal Arthurholt, 524 \Vest FOl t) -first place, $3,000, Ahce Clute, 619 Commonwealth a\ enue, $3,500; B L. Trout, 215 North Magnoha street, $3,300, D C Gates, 256 Le1ghton avenue, $2,500, Jen111e McComas, 3123 Ma111tou street, $5,500. Portland, Ore -Thomas Schultz, East Twelfth and Knott streets, $5,200; Thomas VIgors, Ladd avenue and Palm street, $3,000, Ida ]\;I E, erett, 688 East Forty-e1ghth street, ;1;2,300; H W C1awford, 486 Mad1son street, $3,000, \TV C Beaumont, 920 Cypress street, $4,000 Syrause, N Y --Ph111p BroVl n, HamIlton street and l\Il1ton avenue, $4,000; John C Ball, 520 Colendge avenue, $6,000; Frank Huntley, 1410 South Geddes street, $4,500, ]. R Stoup, 306 Green street, $4,000 Miscellaneous Buildings-Kelly & L1gnell are buddmg a $50,000 hotel on Supenor street, Duluth, Mmn, to be called R1benack A permIt has been Issued for the erectlOn of St Andrew's LIthual1lan Cathohc church 111Ha1tfOld, Conn, at a cost of $75,000 The Swed1sh Luthe1 an church of Hartford, Conn, are bmld1l1g a parsonage to cost $12,500 The Kmghts of Columbus of I ndIanapehs, Ind , are remodel1l1g the1r hall at a cost of $16,000 The Reorga111zed Church of Christ, Latter Day Sa1l1t", are budd1l1g a $10,000 church at 2602 North Twenty-fourth street, Omaha, Neb R R Thompson 1Sbul1d- 1l1g a $10,000 hotel on Ash, P1l1e and ThIrd streets, Portland, 01 e The l\fason l\IethodI sts of TacC'ma, vVash , are erectmg a $30,000 church "A ransackmg sale" ought to stIr up the people Henry S Stevens of Stevens & Bras, furniture dealers of Jacksonvllle. l<la, has SQld hIS 1l1terest 111the bus111ess to Ray-mond Sewell The new firm ,,111 be known as the Stevens-Se-well FurnIture company The annual meet1l1g of the ~ atlOnal AssocIation of Spril1g Bed Manufacturers WIll be held at French LICk Springs, Iud, December 7 and 8 The cost schedule wlll be one of the pnn-opal topICS of dIScussIon Credltors have filed a petltlOn in bankruptcy against Segar v\ h1t1l1g, who has been conduct111g fur11lture stores at Hamp-ton, Va, and at Cape Charles for many years He recently closed h1S Cape Charles store. Grant & HUl st, who recently purchased the busmess of the J C Johnson FurnIture company at AustIn, M111n., have pur-chased the Austm Furmtuure company's store and will merge the two m the latter's location. On account of fa11111ghealth W. E. Longley, furniture, hard\\ are, Je\\ elry and undertaking, of Noblesville, Ind., has sold h1s furmture and hardware departments to Richardson & Porter, formerly of Irvmgton, Ind. J Cohen and A DlOn, second hand furniture dealers of St011lngton, Conn, were conv1cted of having stolen furniture from summer cottages on the shore of Long IslaJ11d sound and bemg unable to pay fines and costs were sent to jail. The H & VV. B. Drew company, of Jacksonville, Fla., \\ hose office furmture department was storm wrecked recently, have secured new quarters and resumed business wt 228 West Bay State and have rece1ved several car loads of new stock or-dered by W1re \Y A Reynolds, who has a general store at Thorsby and another at J am1e~on, Chnton county, Ala, 1S financially embar-rassed. Three furmture Jobb111g firms asked t:hat he be declared bankrupt, but he hopes to effect a settlement and have the peti-tIOn w1thdrawn The Bureau of Manufacturles, Washington, publishes a lbt of busmess openmgs 111western Canada showing that furni-ture fact ones are wanted at Edmonton, Alberta and Waldron, Saskatchewan Furmture stores are wanted at IEdgerton, Al-berta and Leney, Saskatchewan. The comm1ttee of 100 app0111ted by Mayor Gaynor to con- SIder the advlsab1htv of hold111g a World's Fair in New York m 1913, has reported that there 1S no reason for such a fair at that time. The contentlOn that B13 will be the 300th anniver-sary of the foundmg of the city is denied. The Temple-Stewart ChaIr company, who were recently burned out at East Pnnceton, Mass, and recently bought the old Holman & Harns plant at Baldw111sville, same state, have ~:~oted work m the fi11lshmg department at their new locatioll and w1ll soon have the entire plant in operation. The Brunsw1ck- Balke-Collender company, largest manufac-turers Qf b1lhard tables in the world, have purchased from George VV F1scher the property at the southeast corner of Wa-bash avenue and Harnson streets, Chicago, for $400,000 and have planned Improvements to cost an additional $500,000. Attorneys for members of the defunct furniture trust, so-called, of Oregon and Wash111gton, have moved for a new trial of the case of the G1lman AuctIOn and CommIssion company of Portland, Ore, in whIch the compla111ants were awarded judg-ment for double the amount of damages actually sustained. Charles R. Brown has stanted suit against Elizabeth Mar-shall, hIS partner m the South Side Furniture company, dealers, of Columbus, 0 , askmg that the business be placed in the hands of a receIver. He charges that the store has been paY111glarge MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND NEWS H E ChristIe has purchased VV r McCoy's furmture store store at Corning, Iowa R. J. Shattuck & Co, furnIture dealers of LItchfield, :'I11ch have sold out to W K. Markham J. W. Harpster has purchased C H Kmgdon's mterest m the Mam Street Furmture store at Gnnnell, Iowa. BenJam111 Glass has purchased the fUlmture bt1S111eCSform-erly conducted by Samuel Levm at Suftern, X. J J. H. K11lckerbocker has purchased the turmture and nn-dertaking busmess of C E Comley at Fo\\ ler, Ind The Inner Brace ChaIr company of ~ugusta, 11e, have re-duced theIr calptal stock from $300,000 to $100,000 The great factory of the Challenge Refngerator company, at Grand Haven, M1ch, IS m full operatlOll on orders. Discharge in bankruptcy has been gianted Douglas T Cook, dealer m office furnIture at 2 Dutch street, X ew York The Blanchard-HamIlton Furmture company of ShelbyvIlle, Ind., are building a three-story addltlOn to theIr factory W. H. Griswold, dealer 111 furmture, "alIpaper, pIcture frames, etc., at Charles CIty, Ia , has sold out to \\'Ilham SmIth The Banner Furmture company of 11uncle, Ind have 111- creased theIr capital stock by IssUlng $25,000 In prefel red stock The Eureka Manufactunng company, furnIture makel s of Newcastle, Ind , have 111corporated theIr busmess CapItal stock $15,000. The Deamer Furniture and Carpet company of Kansas CIt}. needll1g larger quarters, has leased a five story build1l1g at 1228 Main street. William Heap & Sons, manufacturers of samtary closets at Grand Haven, Mich. are operating theIr factory to capaCIty with a book full of orders Rice & Co, furniture dealers of VIcksburg, MISS., have had a plate glass front put in the1r store whIch is now one of the finest busmess buildings in the city. Charles R. Kauffman, furniture dealer of Cleveland, 0 . ha~ purchased a site on whIch he WIll ereat a store bmldmg on \\ est Twenty-fifth street and Meyer avenue Samuel P. Garonzlk, dealer m furmture, carpets, etc, Steel-ton, Pa., has filed a voluntary petltlOn in bankruptcy, schedulmg liabilities of $2,372 and assets of $1,900 Emil Kiefer, upholsterer of Toledo, 0., has filed a voluntarv petition in bankruptcy. He schedules his hablhtles at $21,3-16 and places a value of $2,500 on hIS assets. On the petition of creditors a receiver has been appol11ted for J. c. Boyer, general dealer at North Webster, Ind. Liabil-ities are estimated at $7,500, with assets of $2,500 The Frontier Furniture company of Buffalo, NY, ha\ e oper:ed their new store on Main and Chippewa streets Over 25,000 persons were entertamed on the opemng day. David Dias has purchased the interest of the FIeld estate in the furn~ture and carpet store of L FIeld & Co., Chnton, Mass., and is now the sole proprietor of the business The Lee Bros. Furmture company, dealers, of Bridgeport Conn., are erecting a five story bUIlding at 1379 :'Ilam street It will cost $30,000 and wl1l be ready for occupancy m January The bankruptcy proceedIngs agal11st R. Elmer & Son, fur-niture dealers, of 32 Hovvard street, New York City, have been dIsmIssed, the firm havmg effected a settlement at 25 cents on the dollar. Albert B, Charles L and Robert A Day, wholesale and re-tail furniture dealers of St. LOUIS, Mo, have mcorporated under the name of the Day Bras Furmture company Capital stock, all paid in, $15,000. WEEKLY ARTISAN profits in which he has not been allowed to share and he wants an accou11lting. The officers of the St. LoUIs, Mo, Furmture Board of Trade for 1911 are: PresIdent, A. B. Cltppard; secretary, Henry M. Holtgrew; treasurer, Edward RItter. Duectors- A. Partridge, Joseph A. Stemmeyer, John F. MIchaels, C J. Kostuba, George A Mellon, J. H. Kentnor, H. A Vornbrock and J. ]. Gruender. A reporter for the Chicago Tnbune claims to have dIscov-ered that more furniture is sold at wholesale in ChIcago than in all other cilties of the country combmed. He has found 220 factories in the city with a combined output of over $25,000,000, and claims that the product of other factories, sold in Chicago, raises the total" wholesale figures to about double that amount John Fink bought a forty-dollar davenport from the James Furniture company of St. Louis, Mo, and found that It was m-fested with insects. He returned it and was given another which Ma.de by Rockford Frame a.nd Flxture Co • Rockford, III also had undesirable inhabitants Then he asked for rugs and lace curtains to the amount of his investment. The company refused to make the exchange, he sued them and was awarded judgment for $40 and costs. The Greenhut-SIegel-Cooper company of New York, the six-mtllton-dollar corporatIOn formed by mergmg the Slegel- Cooper company and the firm of Greenhut & CO, 1S officered as follows: President Joseph B Greenhut; vIce preSIdents, Jerome SIegel, WIlham H. Cooper and Henry Morgcnthau, secretary and treasurer, Benjamin J Greenhut. The chrectors are the officers and Nelson W. Greenhut, Benjamin HIllman, Frank C Cadden and E. R. Wolfner. .A New Industry at Grand Haven. The Fountain Specialty company, who recently moved from Chicago to Grand Haven, Mlch, are erectmg a large factory and will take possession of the same early in January. The company manufactures counters and special furniture for use with soda fountains. OUR 25 STAINS WORK They don't raise the grain. They re-produce exactly the finishdesired. They are the products of practical men. Modern facilities and expert knowl-edge go h:and In hand here. Above all our ~stains are practical. Put this state-ment to the test by putting our stains to the test. You'll find they ALL work ALWAYS. Write for sample panel to desk No.3. MARlETT A PAINT II&£2~~~Hl~O'1I InqUlry IS not furmshed In the letter To make matters worse such a letter may be wntten In long hand more or less dIfficult to read 'lnd may, fUl thermore, be wntten on both sIdes of the "heet HoV\ much better for all concerned If for each subject a separate sheet IS used--and If the letter be typewntten chances for errors, etc , are mlmmlzed Moreover, In the case of remIttances the use of an Item- Ized pay statement greatly faClhtates matters and saves much extra correspondence Many concerns keep a carbon copy of theIr pay statements for reference and use III case any POInt or objectIOn IS raIsed by the payee In "endIng In an order to a firm wIth whom he has had no dealIngs the retaller, unless hIS bUSIness IS of a sIze to gIve h1l11a broad reputation, WIll expedIte dehvery by accompany- Ing same \\ Ith the name of some concern wIth whIch he has had actn e busllless relatIOns, preferably a firm located III the same CIty to whIch thIS first order IS sent. If such names can-not be gIven the wholesaler ought to be Instructed to send the goods COD, If he has any doubts, until a credIt baSIS can be estabhshed Reordel s sent by mall should embrace all necessary par-ticulars and II hen sendIng 111 open orders It IS best to state the quantlt). "ILe, color, \\;Idth, and other particular:::., accord- Ing to the lIne of goods deslfed. as well as the range of pnces, and the applo\.lmate number of styles wanted Such orders "hould ahl a) s bear not ouly the sender's name, CIty, state and "ll1pment-date, but abo rout1l1g InstructIOns, and If valuable goods al e ordered to come by express the wholesaler should be told V\hethel he "hould or should not "declare" theIr value In the receIpt at the tIme of shIpment RetaJlers when placlllg an order with travel1l1g men or \\ hen purchaSIng goods on the market should always inSIst upon recen Ing a copy of the order, IncludIng terms, time of 26 WEEKLY ARTISAN HOW TO SAVE TIME AND EXPENSE Suggestions That May Be Used to Advantage by Both Retailers and Wholesalers. By the use of the sImplest precautIOn:::. I etallers may sal e both themselves and theIr wholesale fnends consIderable cor-respondence and thus aVOId numerous controverSIes on 1\ hat at the start are tnfl111g matters In a recent I:':>suewe mentIOned a number of p0111tS whIch taken Indlvlduall) by some mIght be regarded as of mInor Importance, ) et attentIOn to \\ hlch on the part of wholesalers would le"sen In no small degl ee the work of vanous functlOnanes and agenCIes 111the retall :::.tOle WhIle, however, the wholesalel frequently pelmlt'" la\.lt\ on the part of hIS emplOyes In legal d to "ueh pOInh, It 1:0 equally true that retall concerns themseh e" too otten tall to make thlllgs as easy as they mIght for the wholesaler' In many of such cases the delays thus occasIOned are apt to cause consIderable Inconvemence to the retaller hlmselt For example, the retaller wlll often mentIOn on one and the "ame letter sheet a number of matters, each of \1 hlch 1ns to be taken up by separate functlOnanes or departments of the \\ hole..,ale concern Thus one such letter may contaIn reference to a check enclosed, order ne\1 good:::., compla111 regardIng a short-age on some prevIOus shIpment, and peJ1nps deal \\Ith one or two other entirely different subjects N ow It IS obI IOUS that thIS letter \\ hen It reaches Ib dest111atlOn must go In turn to the addre:::.:::.ee:::.ea"hlel tl h1') order clerk, to hIS shIppIng clerk and perhaps to the cor-respondence clerk or to the manager, and may he on the de"'k of each of these functlOnanes, recelvlllg or a \\ altlllg attentIOn, for a couple of day s And all the more so If as IS otten the case, a clear and complete explanatIOn as to each transactIon or TURPS-NO. The Only Perfect substitute for Turpentine. Contains No Gasoline, No Benzine, No Headlight Oil. For use in reducing Varnish. For Use in CUTTING DOWN EXPENSES. TRY IT. The results speak for themselves. Barrel sent on approval. THE LAWRENCE·McFADDEN CO. PHILADELPHIA, PA. ------------ - WEEKLY ARTISAN 27 --_. - -., MACHINES-People wonder where their profits are going when the trouble usually lies in poor equip-ment. A little foresight in the begmning would have saved them dollars-a little more money in-vested at the start in "OLIVER" "QUALITY" equipment. Some manufacturers of wood working tools shght their output by putting in poor materials-employing poor workmen-simply to be able to make a httle more profit. "Ohver" tools are bUilt along machme toollmes-careful-accurate-durable- safe. Some purchasers fall to mvestigate thoroughly before placing their order. Some unscrupulous salesman tells them to purchase something-they go ahead -find out too late they are wrong-lose money, whereas a letter addressed to us would have procured our catalogs-set them thinking-saved them money. QUALITY ------- ISN'T IT TOO BAD-ISN'T THAT TOO BAD. "OLIVER" No. 61 Surfacer • "OLIVER" No. 60 Saw Bench. OURLINE-SURFACE PLANERS HAND JOINTERS SANDERS WOOD TRIMMERS CHAIN MORTISERS LATHES SAW BENCHES SWING CUT.OFF SAWS BAND SAWING MACHINES BORING MACHINES SAFETY CYUNDERS VISES, CLAMPS, ETC., ETC. ADDRESS DEPARTMENT "D" OLIVER MACHINERY CO., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., U. S. A. BRANCH OFFICES-lot National Bank Bldg , Chicago, III. No. 50 Church St., New York CIty. 1125 West Temple St., LoaAoeeles, Cal. Pacific Bide., Seattle, Wash. .. delivery, shlppmg mstructlOns, etc These COpIes the retaIler should file with hIS recelvmg clerk or whoever may have charge of such detaIls so the bIlls for the goods can be com-pared therewIth, etc. On receIpt of express packages, etc, the retaIlers should make a memorandum of the shIpper, weIght, and expressage, prepaId or collect If the package IS numbered by the whole-saler thIS number, too, should be noted Such notatIOns WIll greatly faCIlitate tracmg, If necessary, the adjustment of claims, etc. Frequently, when a package is opened, invoices, un-noticed, are thrown away WIth the wrapping paper The mV01ce should, therefore, be looked for before the wrappers are thrown aSide and the contents of the shIpment should at once be carefully gone over and checked Any shortage, dam-age or other discrepancy should at once be reported to the wholesaler and a carbon copy of the claim should be retained for reference. Employes who receive packages from express companIes should be instructed to take special pains to see that the packages are in good order, as the "shortage" may have been occasIOned en route In the case of packages receIved by ~-.------_._. _. --------------..-.~_..--..,- I...- .. .- -- ... -- ...I freight, where the quantity of merchandIse is naturally larger, stIll greater care m checking IS essential. Erroneous claims for shortage frequently result from a store's lack of proper recelV-mg faCIlities Agam, clerks in theIr eagerness to put on sale goods whIch are overdue, or otherWise badly needed, may remove them-or some of them-from the recelvmg room before the quantities have been compared with the mvolce -When goods do not arrive Wlthm a reasonable time after receIpt of mVOIce the wholesaler should at once be notified The sooner he receIves such information the easier Will it be for him to trace goods and, thus, the sooner can they be received by the retailer. If goods have to be returned the party at fault ought to be promptly informed what IS wrong And when such returns are made an inVOIce should be enclosed With the goods, or, better still, mailed separately. Before packing such Items the retaIler's employee should u:-.e due care m checkmg off the debIt memo therefor. The placing of the retailer's name on such a returned goods package will greatly facilitate settlement by the whole-saler WIthout such name and address the origin of the pack-age in question may become known to the wholesaler only after long delay and possibly much correspondence. Goods that are sent back to the manufacturer for repairs should be carefully recorded. The account of the wholesaler can be temporarily debIted With the amount (a notation "repaIr" being made in the ledger) vVhen the goods come back the wholesaler's account should be promptly credited The small amount of extra time required for attention to the foregoing detaIls '" III more than pay for Itself m the aVOIdance of letter wntmg and costly delays -Dry Goods Economist . Effect of the Long·Short Haul Law. ~ pecuIJar conclJiJon of affairs is reported from New Ollean.., m 1egalCl to the long and short haul clause in the ne\\ mter"tclte commerce law. It appears that the southern 1 aJIJoael aSSOl1atIOns have deCIded to observe the plovisions ot the la" \\ lthout even a protest wh11e the New Orleans 110Z11 d of 11 ade propose to fight It PresIdent Elhs of the boal d, \\ hen asked \\ hy busmess men of New Orleans should oppo"e a la\\ that has been endorsed by nearly all commercial 01~anlLatlOlb m the country, saId they felt that the operation ot the long and Sh01t haul clause would work dIsastrously to t1le Imsmbs mtel est of Ne\V Orleans and all seaport towns \\ hlCh had heretofore been benefited by water competition. He declal ed that he intended to take immediate steps to in-struct the freIght and tl ansportatIOn department of the organ- IntlOn to Slg111fyIt::, \\ Illmgness to act in co-operation with the lallroad- m protest1l1g agamst the sectlOn of the law. In dlscu",omg the subject, :Vlr EllIS said: "1he boa 1 el of trade (lId all It could to assist the railroads m plotestmg agamst the clause \\ hen it was enacted into the 1a\\ and ItS posltlOn is unchanged VI e are opposed to the clalbe becau"e \\ e feel that It w11l work inestimable injury t) the Jobbmg and other mterests of New Orleans. "E\Cl) "eapOIt town in the country is bound to suffer . It \\111ha, e the effect of bU1ldmg up the business of the interior to\\ ns and depllVl11g the seaport towns of the natural advan-tages m the \\ ay of rate makmg, which they have by reason of God gn en water competltlOn to regulate the tanffs and c1lftelentlals ., 28 WEEKLY ARTISAN IDEAL STAMPING AND TOOL CO. SOCKETS, DOWELS, TOP fASTENERS and GUIDES for Extension Tables. Also special stampings In steel and brass. Write for NO·KUM.OUT TABLE SOCKET. Patent applIed for. samples and prices. 465 N. Ottawa St., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. "---_.~~__.._._._._.,_._._~~----.--~- LOUIS HAHN I 154 Llvmgston St. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN "----------_. __ .-_._. _. _. ---------~ I II,...I Clllzens Telephone 1702. DESIGNS and Details of Furniture -----_.~----_._._..-_._-_.--~------..-.-.~- IMPR~~~gKE::I~I~NE~L EVATO RS II Belt, Electnc and Hand Power THF BEST HAND POWER FOR FLR-"ITLRI: S10RI:S Send for Catalogue and Pnces KIMBALL BROS. CO" 1067 Ninth St., Council BlUffs, la, Kimball Elevator Co •• 7li Commerce Bldg ,Kansqs CIty, I Mo, J Peyton Hnnlel 1ermmaI Blclg: Dqllas rexas Western Engmeenng SpecIaltIes Co 1 Den\er, Lolo .. ~-.. ....'-" How about the 0 0 Z E? If you found a hole a yard square in the side of your dry kiln, you would repair it at once. Don't you know that the heat is oozing from millions of pores in your wood, brick or concrete kilns? That the combined area of these pores makes a hole bigger than your kiln door? Seal these pores with steam proof, acid proof, fire proof EBONOID Kiln Coating and see how easy it is to keep your kiln hot. Ebonoid will also stop rusting and prevent decay. SOLE AGENTS Grand Rapids Veneer Works GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ~••••••••••••••••• __._._._._. •••••• 4 Furniture Fires. Pal ker & 1\1anett, furntlUre dealers of OroVIlle, Cal, suf-fered a lo~~ of 825,000 by fire 111theIr store recently Insured. The tactor) of the Butler Brothers Plano Manufacturing compan), C111c111natwl,as damaged to the extent of $20,000 on ~ 0, embel 17 Insurance, $13,700 The bllllcl111goccupIed by Sufall & Countryman, furniture and carpet deale!,) of Somerset, Pa, was badly damaged by fire recently ] he los~, estimated at $20,000, is partially insured. Haldman, Peck & Co's piano factory on West Forty-ninth -treet, New York, was almost totally destroyed by fire on No- "\ember 22 Loss, estimated at $200,000 to $250,000 partially 111sured. SparkS from a locomotIve set fire to the tank that supplies \\ atel tal the automatIc cpnnklers 111the Globe furniture fac-t01) of EvansvIlle, Ind, recently, but was extinguished before It had released the contents Busy Putting in Blow Pipes. The Gland Rclplds Blow Pipe and Dust Arrester com-pam ha, e clo"ecI a contract for and are now working on the complete refittmg of the bIg factory of the Bissell Carpet 5\\ eeper company They wJ11 install a 100 inch fan, the leugest that 1s made They are also putting in a big dust all e,tel f01 the J\hchlgan Alkali company of \Vyandotte, and plpJ11£;the the plant of the Great Lakes Veneer company at J\1ul11-.mg,\IICh. Irwin Elected Chairlllan. The new chal ter commIssion of Grand Rapids elected Rohert \\ In, m of the Royal Furniture company chairman The commISSIon has a membership of fifteen able professional and blb111essmen and ItS duty is the drafting of a new charIer for the CIty. The abohshment of ward divisions is favored by many CItizens. ------------------------------- - - WEEKLY ARTISAN 29 Play the Same Game. How does the mall ordel house get business? Dy adyel tlsing By mallmg mynads of Clrculars, folders, card", letter" and cata-logs There ale but few people 111your commu111ty who do not regularly recelVe pnnted advertlsmg from that sourse. Furll1- ture earned by mall order houses IS generally mfenor to that earned by dealers. Your people, hke all others, want good thl11g", and they ~ant to be told about good th111gS TheIr m111ds are always 111a receptive mood when It comes to read111g about any-th111g that WIll make theIr homes more attractive The mall or-der house knows thIS. PossIbly you know It But the mall or-der man does not stop there. He takes advantage of hIS knowl-edge, and IS everlastl11gly tell111g your peopre, through pnnted salesmen, of the th111gs he has to sell lt stands to reason that you, nght on the ground, have the first advantage; provld111g your lme IS well selected and up to date In design and fill1"h, and you are able to sell It at low, yet pl0fitable pnces. To get people to recogll1ze your store as the one to patron-ize will require a lIttle effort, but by follow111g the mall order man's example, you can keep hIS furll1ture sales in your town down to a mi111mum. The Northern Furniture company IS thoroughly alIve in as-sisting its dealers to meet this mall order competitIOn. For years It has worked to produce a qualIty of furll1ture superior to what IS generally sold by the mall order house, yet at pI Ices that enable every dealer to compete. WIth a well selected sto!=k of the Northern lIne, the dealer has every opportunIty to crowd out the mall order houses in hIS territory. To get started on thIS, get up a senes of short, personal let-ters, and mall them to your regular customers, and to those wlho should be your customers. But send them at stated intervals-every t\'.o or three \\Ceks Get up a neat, httle folder gIving a more detaIled descnptlOn of the good'S, WIth an IllustratIOn or two, send thIS folder with the first letter. WIth the thllJ letter send another folder. Keep at it. lt has been proved, times WIthout number, that such a meth-od has practIcally elIminated mall order competition. And better yet, It has increased dealers' sales at an astonishing rate. Remember this, the mail order man WIll sell hIS goods to an} one who WIll pay his pnce. He'll sell goods 111your town, if you don't. It is up to you -Northern Furmture. p •••••••••••••• _.- •• -._ •••• 1015 to 1043 Palmer Avenue, DETROIT, MIC". No. 550 Price $8.75 Palmer Manufadurin~ ======(om~anJ====== .....-................ . .......•. THE, TZ":ndelpARlOR.. NEW ....U BEDn Need not be moved from the wall. Always ready with beddmg in place. So SImple, so easy, a child can operate It. Has roomy wardrobe box. CHICAGO, Erie & Sedgwick NEW YORK, Norman & Monitor. 'Vestern Railroads Lose in Court. A dIspatch from San FrancIsco, Cal, ddted last Tuesday, states that on that day CIrcUlt COUlt Judges GIlbert, Ross and Morrow of the Cahfor111a Dlstnct, rendered a deCISIOn WhICh put to rout the contentIOns of the Southern PaCIfic RaIlroad and twenty other hnes operatll1g west of the 1\IIssoun nver. The raIlroads sought to 1estrall1 the Intel state Commerce com111ISSlon fro111 enforcmg and pubhsh111g rates whIch It lowered on all of tJhe raIlroads lUvolved from the Atlantic seaboard to Nevada and Anzona pOInts. The rates fixed by the commerce board last June were to become effective on December 1and were to be pub-lIshed by the vanous raIlroads no later than November 23. Judge GIlbert upheld In every ll1stance the findings of the com-merce board. The case wIll be appealed to the Supreme Court of the Ull1ted States to awaIt the outcome of other sI1111larcases now pendll1g. Old Machinery Goes to Louisville. The Voss Mantel company of LOUIsville, Ky., has pur-chased a part of the machl11ery that was used in the C. D. \Vldman Furmtme company's factory 111DetroIt, Mich. The Vo<;s company are said to have pald about $25,000 for the mach111ery whIch they WIll use 111alaI ge addItion to theIr fac-tory that they have just completed. The C. D. Widman pbnt \\ as recently converted 111to an automobile factory. Will Resume in January. The Falcon Manufactunng company, whose factory at Big Rapids, MICh., was destroyed by fire several months ago, are erecting a new factory and expect to resume the manufacture of kItchen cabmets in January next. ----.. • •••••• __ ••••••• •••••••••••• a • 30 WEEKLY ARTISAN YOU CAN MAIL YOUR CATALOG DECEMBER 20th If you place the order with us by December 1st W"ITE PRINTING COMPANY GRAND RAPIDS, MICU. . I PRINTERS FOR THE FURNITURE TRADE. I ----- WEEKLY ARTISAN 31 Cincinnati~s Continuation School. At the fourth annual convention of the National Society for the PromotIOn of Industnal EducatlOn, held III Boston last week, Supenntendent F. B Dyer, of the Clllclllnat[ schools, after alludlllg to the vanous methods employed In Clllclllnatl to prepare chtldren to enter llldustnal1Jfe, devoted the greater part of hIs address to a descnptlOn of the ContlnuatlOn School that was estabhshed there III 1909 He saId "Th[s school IS not a trades school but [S desIgned for the llltellectual Improve-ment of those boy s who are already apprentrces It catche:-, the boy III the shop and bnngs hun to the school The attempt was made to get apprentrces to attend the l11ght schools but WIth httle success The apprentice IS a daytIme prOpO,,[tlOn He has not the phySIcal endurance to work all day and go to school at night. The penod of apprentlce:-,lllp [S a cntlcal one, as the boy at this age needs gUIdance and nght Ideals kept steadily before him He needs to have an intellectual lllterest created III his work III order that he may be aml)ltlous to become, lllstead of a mere hand, the master of an honorable craft The board of educatIOn provIdes the school and the teachers; the manufacturers release the boys one-half day a week and pay them, If they attend the school, theIr regular wages; if they do not attend, they are docked About 250 machine shop apprentlces are enrolled The school runs 48 weeks a year, 8 haUlS a day The teachers are allowed two half days to VISIt the boys in theu shops, consult WIth the fOlemen and gather matenals for theil school work The boys are graded accordmg to theIr llltellectual abIhty-the Immature coming the first part of the week and the mature the last part "The course of study conSIsts of an hour of blue pnnt [eadlllg and free hand drawll1g, an hour of shop SCIence, an hour of apphed mathematics and a general hour for cultUl al purposes, includlllg cIvics, llldtbtnal geography and hIstory, readlllg, etc The method IS dIstinctly practlcal and obJectrve Whtle the mathematics IS arranged so that tOpICS follow a proper sequence, the mathematrcal prlllClple,., are applIed dIrectly to the machInes III use 111the shops, and all non-essentIals are elIm111ated The school
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646. Michigan Artisan; 1907-02-25

Notes:: Issue of a furniture trade magazine published in Grand Rapids, Mich. It was published twice monthly, beginning in 1880. and /r (, Twenty_seventh Yea.r-No. 16 FEBRUARY 25, 1907 Semi-Monthly L, it; IT:'! .";,. ~(f :.\; High Grade Office Chairs and Rockers i ., 1907 CATALOGUE 18 now being mailed on request. "f!....uality will he rememhered long after price Ita; heen forgotten. " THE B. L. MARBLE CHAIR CO., Bedford, Ohio , MAKING GOOD "Making good" is a hobby with us---making good LEATHER FURNITURE for one thing.---the bes'. "Reliance'· Natural Grain Leather is the handsomest and moSt dependable brand of M. B. Furniture Lea'h« manufactured, but we ask no more for "Reliance" Leather work than many charge for inferior grades. If something cheaper is wanted. buy our "Oakdale" No. 1 Natural Grain stock---we are quoting this at special low figure5~ The "Oakdale" quality is fully equal to the average market best. Some manufacturers of Leather Furniture use Grain Leather for the wearing surface and "Split" or "Deep Buff" for bands; backs and trimmings. We condemn this practice . ---we use no "Split" Leather--no "Deep Buff"---nothing but Natural Grain stock. BIG CATALOG SENT TO DEALERS UPON APPUCATION. JAMESTOWN LOUNGE COMPANY JAMESTOWN, NEW YORK The Line That Caught Them All I GREATER THAN EVER I POSSELIliS' PERfECT PATTERNS DID THE BUSINESS. NEW CATALOGUF. IN PRESS. Posselius Bros. Furniture Mfg. Co., Detroit, Mich. The Safe Side is the Right Side THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE REFRIGERATOR TRADE IS FILLED BY THE BELDING-HALL MANUFACTURING co. MANUFACTURERS OF REFRIGERATORS THAT CONTAIN ALL THE GOOD POINTS -IN-REFRIGERA TORS THREE GREAT FACTORIES CAPACITY,80,000 Per Annum WRITE FOR OUR CATALOGUES INVESTIGATE OUR QUARTER SAWED CASES saUD· QUARTERED OAK The Belding - Hall Manufacturing Co. BELDING, MICHIGAN BRANCH OFFICES---213 Canal Street, NEW YORK; 196 Monroe Street, CHICAGO. 1 -----------------------_ ..._---- 2 Beautiful Bedroom Suites In our new catalogue we are showing a number of beautiful bedroom suites. With our enormous variety of styles and designs, (for example, one dresser case is provided with seven different styles of mirror, and each is made up in four different finishes, making a total of 28 different designs to choose from), it is very easy to make up bedroom suites to please any and every customer that might come into your store. Our new catalogue is now ready showing hundreds and even thousands of hand-some and new designs. We have more white and birdseye maple than any other manufacturer in the United States. No one else can give you the splendid grading of price that we offer, from the lowest to the highest. Elegant simplicity is the popular rage in furniture this year. We have always been leaders in high grade simplicity, and now we are enjoying a total business far in excess of that done by anyone of our competitors. You had better gel fm",har wilh our new linejusl as quick as possible There is money in ilforyou. Send for our NEW CATALOGUE. Northern Furniture Company SHEBOYGAN, WISCONSIN 2 7th Year-No. 16. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., FEBRUARY 25, 1907. LONDON FURNITURE MAKERS Talk With Two ons of Harris Lebus Who Are an an Amer-ican Pleasure Trip. Louis H. and Herman A. Lebus who, with their father Harris Lebus OVVll and manage the largest furniture factory in the world, located in London, Eng., are making a tour of the United States and Canada. They came over during the first 'week in February and were in Grand Rapids, lvIich. for a few days during the past week. They will visit Chicago, Mil-waukee, 51. Panl, 1'1inneapolis and vVinnipcg and then go west to the coast and return east through the southern states. This is not their first visit to America and they do not expect it to be their last. They aTe sharp, keen obser-vers, aTe not at all backward in the matter of asking ques-tions and declare that their travels in this 'country have pro-ved beneficial in a business way; hence they are not in a hurry hut propose to take the time necessary to see anything that is \vorth seeing as Herman 1\. Lebus put it. "V\'e are here for pleasure rather than for husiness;'"' said Louis H. Lebus, '·'Of course we find pleasure in looking through your factories, observing your methods and inspect-ing the products, but we do not expect to give much atten-tion to business. \Ne did not gct over in time to visit the furniture expositions, but we expect to see some of the best displays in the factories. 1,Ve hal,."e nothing like a regular sales season on our sille. It is all the year with us, though we ship more in some months than in others. V/ e have no organizations of manufacturers-no combinations as you have here-and witbout uoitc.d action an exposition would not be successful. \Ve do not need an exposition to introduce new styles-designs are not changed so often as they are here. "Business has been quite good with us for several years. The people of England are quite prosperous and business of all kinds is good an<l steady. "Yes, we have a large factory. Americans who have visited us say that it is the largest in the world. It is surely larger than any other furniture factory in Europe and if there is anything larger on this side you ought to know about it. '''vVe have about 2,500hallds and 'we make all kinds and styles of furniture from the cheapest to the most expensive and from little chairs to roll top d.esks, parlor and chamber suites. Our methods are quite different from yours in both construction and finish. 'ATe use the best machinery that 'we cari find and I think we have some machines that are hetter than anything T have seen on this side. "There has been no material change in the cost of labor or material with us in the past year and we have made no advance in our prices recently:" "vVe are going all over the country," said Herman A. Lebus. "That may mean a long trip, but if we keep up with your people here it will soon be over. Your people here move quickly-always rushing. '{OUr business men are $1.00 per Year. quick. They could not do things in their way in England but it seems to be easy here. Everyone seems to have what you call a 'cinch' on l1is business here while on our side it is a struggle for everybody." The Lebus brothers are accompanied by a friend, Edgar D. Rosewall, who is not interested in the furniture business, but as it is his flrst trip to America, is much interested in the great country and its people. Radical Regulation of Corporations. The· legislature of North Carolina has under consider-tion a most drastic measure for the control of corporations. It forbids corporations to pay more than six per cent. div-idends, giving the state the right to sue for and turn· into the treasury all earnings over this percentage, and of all the sur-p'lus retained by corporations. A corporation commission is to fix the salaries of the officers of public serdce corpor-ations, and no dividends or interest is permitted to be paid except from net earnings. The two-cent passenger rate rule is not tb be confined to states cast of the Mississippi river. A bill fixing the two-cent rate on all main lines in 1.fissouri has passed both houses of the legislature and the governor has signed it. Judging from Ohio's experience 1l,'1issouriroads may now expect an increase in passenger earnings. THE CORRECT Stains and fillers. THE MOST SATISFACTORY first Coaters and Varnishes CHICAGOAwooIiCi=iNIStIlNu CD. 259·63 ELSTON AVE"'2·16 SLOAN ST, CH I CAe D. 4 Short Credits .Favored in Scotland. Reporting on, the matter of mercantile credits, Rufus Fleming, American Consul at Edinburgh, Scotland, says: "Each year extends and confirms the thirty-day credit rule in the domestic trade of British industries and wholesale houses. Manufactureres and exporters on the continent of Europe doing business here arc also conforming to the gen-era" lly accepted system. It .is nbt so much a restriction of credit as an acquiescence in the common wish of dealers them-selves. On the part of most dealers longer credit is neither required nor favored. In fact there are few established firms that do not pay cash for wares and merchandise on thirty-day bills or accounts if they thereby get the benefit of even a fraction of one per cent discount. Some leading firms buying large quantities of goods abroad deal through their own agents, the discount for cash paying the agents' commissions. "Speaking of this part of Scotland only-although con-ditions are probably much the same in all sections-I find that prominent business men take the view that the object of trade credits is fully served (except in special cases) when fat children was one of the fine and beautiful traits in his character, says St. Nicholas. He was never known to be unkind to a child. He often inconvenienced himself that he might oblige children and ·give them pleasure. Many of Longfellow's most popular poems are founded on real events, real places and real things. His "village blacksmith" was a real man in Cambridge, and the "spreading chestnut tree" under which his smithy stood was a very fine and old one that Longfellow loved, ,for he was a great lover of trees. \~rhen the street in C:;lmbridge in which the "spreading chestnut tree" stood was about, to be widened by the city, Longfellow protested ,to the utmost against its being cut down. His protest, however, did not keep it from being felled, much to the regret of Longfellow. Then some good friends of his had a "happy thought." It occu,rred to them that it would be a pleasant thing if the children would have a chair made of some of the wood of the old chestnut tree and make a present of it to Mr. Longfellow on his ap-proaching seventy-second birthday. The children of Cam-bridge fell in very heartily with the idea and nearly 1000 of them gave ten cents each,to pay for having the chair made, A Talty Modern Interior. the period covers the delivery of the goods. A longer term offers a temptation to the purchaser to pay interest on the money value of the goods, thereby reducing his profits. The advantages of short credits-the lowest prices and also the best opportunities for the future-are lost in proportion as length of credit may create a sense of obligation for a favor. The average Scottish business man esteems above everything else his independence in business matters, and therefore dis-likes above everything else the fetters of favors received. He wishes to discharge any obligations with the least pos-sible delay, to feel free to deal with whom he chooses, and to secure the best bargains obtainable. What specially com-mends the short-credit system to the trading community as a whole is that it simplifies business and reduces to the min-imum the friction in the machinery of trade." Longfellow's Arm Chair. The one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Long-fellow, which occurs on the 27th of this month, will remind many men and women of a de"lightful event in the poet's life -an event in which these men and women had a part when they were children in Cambridge. The great poet's love and it is a very handsome chair indeed. It was designed by the poet's nephew. The wood was ebonized 50 that it was a dead black. The presenting of the chair was what the children always enjoy, a "surprise present." Mr. Long-fellow did not know anything about it until he found the gift in his study on the morning of the 27th of February, in the year 1879, and as that was twenty-eight years ago, the boys and girls who gave their dimes for the chair are now men and women. Railroad Receiver Starts Important Suits. Judge Harmon of Cincinnati, as receiver for the Pere Marquette and the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton railroads has started proceedings in the federal courts that may go, far to solve the car shortage problem, by determining the extent to which a railroad may use or detain cars belonging to other roads. He has brought, suit against several lines that he alleges have been iHegatly using a number of the cars of the two roads in his charge. Either an accounting of profit derived from using the cars or damages for loss of business due to their detention will be asked. 5 NEW IDEA IN FURNITURE DISPLAY FORT SMITH ARKANSAS Overcomes Long Experienced Difficulty in DISPLAY of FURNITURE. A $4,000 to $7,000 Stockcan be dis~ played in a room 25x 100 feet so that Every Piece of Sample Stock will be in plain view, not obstructed . from view by other pieces. Plan also provides for considerable Storage room in same building. Stock Presents a Most Attractive Appearance from any part of Store. For full de~ scription and Storage arrangement, with photograph, send $1.00 to W. A. WILLIS FURNITURE AND CARPET CO. 6 FURNITURE FRAUDS. Tricks in Trade Practiced by Sharpers Who Trap the Unwary Bargain Hunter. One day there came into the warerooms of a furniture manufacturing establishment in an Eastern city a man who asked to see parlor-suite frames, and, having been shown them, selected a cheap set and inquired the price of it made up in showy, inexpensive covering and stuffed with hay. The surprised salesman never had received such an order before, but, there being no good reason Why he should not fill it if the customer so desired, he named a price, which, after S0mc haggling, was accepted and the bargain closed. The suite was duly finished and sent C. O. D. to a vacam house in a good quarter of the city, where it was received by the buyer in person and paid for. It was not till several weeks later, and by accident then, that the furniture firm dis-covered just what the purchaser was up to. It seemed that he was in t~e habit of hiring fm a few days unoccupied houses in respectable localities, stocking them hurriedly with trashy but outwardly attractive furnishings, and. then advertising a forced sale of them at an enormous sacrifice on the repre- "Did you get your money?" asked the suspicious husband, when the glowing recital was finished. "N 0, not yet-except a dollar for that old broken table that stood in the corner of the sitting-room; he took that with him and said he would call for the other things later and pay then." Ah, I se,e," commented the suddenly-enlightened man of the house; "very much later it will be, I think you'll find." His surmise was correct. The broken table was a gen-uine antique and, with a little repairing, could probably be sold for twenty dollars or more; the other articles were al-most absolutely valuel'ess except as firewood; and it is need-less to add that the wily dealer, having secured the only ....ein that trusting dame's collection, entirely omitted to cdrI for the trash he had pretended to buy at such generous prices. Would Waste No Space. Operating and traffic officials of the western railroads are of the opinion that the climax of unreasonableness has been reached when strenuous objection is made by shippers MADE BY CENTURY FURNITURE CO.. GRAND RAPlDS, MICH. sematiOl1 that L1leowner either died ur had been ohliged to leave town suddenly, or that for some other irnperatinc rea-son the contents of the bouse must he disposed of at once quite regardless of cost. It is hardly nccessary to say that the buyer "was the victim of the "sacrifice." Another easy game, played some time ago on the too-credulous housewives in a certain surburban community, though not financially serious in its consequences, was rather humiliating to the victims. The example more immediately under notice is this: One evening, when the man of the house returned from his daily grind in the city, he was greet-ed by his wife with a radiant face and the glad announcement that she had sold all "that old furniture that had been cum-bering up the attic for years-and at perfectly splendid prices, too:' It appeared that an itinerant dealer had called at the door and asked if they had any old furniture they would like to sell. As there happened to be in the house considerable lumber of that description she had invited him in and had sold it to him. With astonishing readiness he had bought two bedsteads at five dollars each, and a dozen cane-seated chairs at two "dollars. to their in~i';ling that all shippers, in order to be entitled to carload rate,;, ,;hould be obliged to Jil! the cars furnished for their use to normal holding capacity. Tn times like th(:sc, when there is a car scnrcity from -:\lainc to Oregon ;[lld from Texas to I\.finnesota, anJ the whole country is suffering from 1::tck of facilities to movc their business, the railroad men declnre it is preposterous that they should be expected, much less required, to a11O\vany of their space to be ruthlessly wasted for the benetlt of a small proportion of the shipping public and at the expense of the great ma-jority of shippers. The officials declare that to allow shippers carload rates when cars are only partially filled, even 'when the maximum weight is put in, would be a direct violation of the spirit of the Hepburn act, which is opposed to discrimination of any kind. If the claims of the few small shippers alluded to were to be conceded, they say, it would be a gross discrim-imttion against the great body of shippers. In justice to all concerned it is declared necessary that cars should be filled to normal holding capacity, and shippers who cannot thus load them are in no sense entitled to car rates. THE GREATEST LINE of the GREATEST MANUFACTURERS OF _. CHAMBER FURNITURE Every Dealer Wants It Because Everybody Buys It. SLIGH FURNITURE COMPANY, Grand Rapids, Mich. Manufacturers of BEDROOM FURNITURE EXCLUSIVELY. New Spring Line ready. We operate the largest factory in the world producing chamber furniture. The Ford & Johnson Company "EVERYTHING IN CHAIRS" When in Chicago do not fail to see our immense display at our salesrooms, 1435-37 Wabash Ave. Many new patterns. IOGel Solid Mahogany. ==== SEE OUR ==== Complete Dining Room Suites--Oak and Solid Mahogany. Chairs and Roekers--All Kinds. Mission Furniture~~AllFinishes. Children's Go-Carls and Carriages. Reed and Rattan Rockers. Fibre Rush and Malaeea--The Ideal Furniture. ===GENERAL OFFICES === Sixteenth St. and Indiana Ave., Chicago. . SALESROOMS~~ CHICAGO BOSTON, MASS. ATLANTA. GA. 1433-3S-H Waba~h Ave. 90 Canal 51. Marietta and Bartow Sb. NEW YORK 202 Canal St. CINCINNATI. O. FRANKFORT, KY. 47 E. Sixlh St. l06C7 Solid Mahoa-Bay. 8 ESTABLISHED 1880 ~i'?~ , ~ ~ I I \ \ J " I , :if"'"' ,\ ~"§v~ ~~~'-~~ pua"ISHEO BY MICHIGAN ARTISAN CO. ON THE 10TH AND 25TH OF e:ACH MONTH O~P'ICe:-2-20 LYON ST•• GRAND RAPIOS, MICH. ENTERED AS MATHR OF THE SECOMD CLASS The mail order problem seems to be solving itself. Mer-chants are finding ways to meet competition with the cat-alogue houses and the people are discovering that it does not pay to send their money away from home. Many merchants have suffered more or less from the competition with the mail order houses but their experience has been beneficial It has sparred them to greater efforts, to the adoption of better methods, caused them to wake up and improve their opportunities and advantages, until most of them have lost all fear of mail order competition and very few are really losing trade in that direction. As now seen the mail order scare appears to have been a clear case of borrowing trouble on the part of country and small town merchants. It was very much like the department store scare of twenty or twenty~five years ago when, it will be remembered, many merchants imagined that their business would. be ruined un-less they could find means to stop or control the growth of the department institutions. The department stores, how-ever, continued to increase and multiply until now every town of any considerable. importance has one or more and their existence is hardly considered a menace by the straight deal-ers. The mail order problem will soon be considered as of no more importance than the department stores and it is prob-able that the danger to retail merchants from the proposed parcels post will prove to be largely imaginary. Experience has shown that the wide awake retail merchants-men who understand their business, are energetic, enterprising and up-to-date in their methodS-have little to fear from legiti-mate competition of any sort. Dishonest, unfair or illegit-imate competition may bother them at times but it can not Jive long enough to cause permanent injury to merchants who deserve the confidence and patronage of the peop'le. An examination of the 1800 page catalogue of a great mail order house revealed the fact that only a comparatively small number of pages were used in offering furniture for sale. The "..stuff" illustrated and described was low grade work-low in design as well as in price. Anyone acquainted with the goods made in Grand Rapids, Rockford, Chicago or other manufacturing centers of importance would declare at a glance that the stuff illustrated was of faulty construc-tion and not in any respect like the product of the factories in the cities n.amed. The Grand Rapids, the Rockford and the Chicago "expression" was lacking. Regular single line dealers should not fear such competition. By handling a better class of goods they can rise far above the level of the mail order houses and in a short time forget that the mail order houses handle furniture at alL Charles Stedman Hanks, of Brookline, who has been making a study of the nation's corporations in Washington for the last year and a half, estimates that twenty~five per cent of the business wealth of the country is !lOW under corporate control. Mr. Hanks also agrees with the statement recently put forth by another economist, that seven-eighths of the country's wealth, seven hundred billions, is owned by less than one per cent. of the population. The alarming rIFt.T I >5' ..7U'l t 2"· significance of this condition df affairs is not so much in the present ratio as it is in the fact that the proportion of wealth owned by the -few is rapidly increasing. Twenty years ago it was estimated that ten per cent of the population con-trolled only three-quarters of the wealth of the country. Some retail furniture dealers are disposed to grumble because the hardware men are handling kitchen cabinets, which until recently have been sold only in the furniture stores. The kitchen cabinet business seems to have been overdone. It is probable that the action of the hardware men is due largely to importunities from the manufacturers of kitchen cabinets who have found difficulty in disposing of their output. The furniture dealers have little caus.e for complaint, however. The hardware men are only getting even for loss of refrigerator trade. A few years ago refrig-erators were sold almost exclusively in hardware stores. Now it is ~stimated that the furniture dealers sell at least twenty-five per cent of the refrigerators and they still hold a consid· erable share of the kitchen cabinet trade. Can it be that marble is chea?er for table and dresser tops than lumber? One of the large corporations engaged in the business of making furniture in Grand Rapids, is using considerable Tennessee marble for the purpose stated. Twenty-five years ago no fine or medium priced work cou'ld be marketed without tops of marble. While the brown and pink slabs from the mountains of Tennessee were be<].utiful to the eye they were cold to the touch and lost favor in the estimation of the public. Why the slabs should be again in demand can not be accounted for unless their cost is less than figured lumber. What's the matter with Chicago people anyway? They have had their automobile show and their horse show re-cently with other attractions intended to induce people to visit the city but the merchants do not seem to be satisfied with the winter's business. They have now arranged a "bargain week," beginning March 10. If that does not prove successfu1 they should borrow a street carnival company from some of the country towns. Operators of furniture factories in the flood districts ha ve fully recovered from the damage done by the winter freshet in Grand Rapids, and abandoning the basements and in several instances the attached buildings of plants, have placed their property beyond the power of the river to do further injury. The machinery of one entire floor in a large I factor}' was taken out of a basement permanently. Some of the fire insurance managers are borrowing trouble over the operations of the pure food law. They fear that it will make some factories useless or unprofitable and thus increase their tendency to burn easily. Well, "it's an ill wind," etc. What injures the fire insurance men should ben-efit the "lifers." If theories are correct the pure food law will lengthen the lives of many men. The new clerk may make himself unpleasant at times by comparing your stock with that of his former elnp!oyer. This is not an unmixed evil. Perhaps the other fellow has a good line of goods, and possibly his arrangement may be superior in some particulars to your own. You can ~tal1d for the comparison if you can learn anything. lErch properly stained makes a good imitation of Cir-cassi~ l.llwalnut. Few can discover the deception. In view of tqe rapidly increasing demand for goods manufactured of Circasaian walnut, there was created an opening for the stain' maker of which he was quick to take advantage. BUCHANAN CABINET CO. :BUCHANAN, MICHICAN NO. 132 KITCHEN CABINET. Say you saw this Ad in the Michigan A'rtisun. Send for our New Catalogue of SIDE· BOARDS KITCHEN CABI-NETS HOUSE DESKS THE LI N E 0 F MONEY MAKERS -,.,- the Merchants 9 PATENTED JULY 29, 1902. The Best FASTENER for Five Legged Tables Write for Prices and .Information. -10- Invincible Table Fastener Co., Shelbyville. Indiana. The Luce Furniture Co. INVITES ATTENTION TO ITS LARGE LINE OF Bed Room and Dining Room Furniture. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Salesroom at Factory Only. 10 ~MI9«HIG~N $ VARIOUS MATTERS. E. M. Hulse, president of the E. M. Hulse Company, although still young in appearance and just over the line dividing youth and age, has had a long and varied exper-ience in the furniture business. He has passed through trials that sap the energy of most men, and came out, like the individual sung about in the comic opera, years ago-he "bobbed up serenely" in every instance. No man in the trade has tested the value of the trade papers as a means for drawing business morc thoroughly than he, and his decision is that the trade mediums are useful and valuable. Certain journals he esteems morc highly than others, asa matter of course. A few years ago he engaged space in all the trade papers, taking a page in each, and offering one dollar for every coupon which formed a part of the advertisement, returned to his office. The main attraction was a very g"ood Turkish rocker, in leather, for $25.00. It was illustrated, described and guaranteed as to value. In printing the ad-vertisement an error occurred in the price of the rocker in one of the trade papers employed by Mr. Hulse. His feel-ings upen reading the offending publication in which the $25.00 rocker was offered for $15.00, can he more easily im-agined than described, and when the stenographer was called into Mr. Hulse's office the very atmosphere was filled with resentment. In brief, yet pointed language Mr. Hulse in-formed the publisher that he would fiU every order for rockers sold through the medium of the journal for $15,00 and would look to the publisher to make good the difference. Many orders were taken on account of the advertisement in the other trade papers, but not one ever reached his office for a rocker for $15.00. Mr. Hulse was dumbfounded, and when lie recalls the incident he is inclined to go into a dumb-founding mood. "Every man has a hobby," remarked an eminent min-ister of the gospel. When asked to name the particular hobby under wf:lich he labored, he replied, "A single-jointed stove pipe hat." The minister in question was seldom seen without a shining head piece. D. W. Kendall's hobby is painting; he has an "annex" to his particular affectation, however; it is playing the fiddle. F6rmerly it was a bull dog. William Widdicomb likes to. make speeches before assemblages of business men. He acquired this hobby in the commOn council many years ago. His remarks are never dull or without interest. A good horse delights John Mowatt. He is never without a fine roadster. E. H. Foote seems to give most of his time and thoughts outside of ·his business to the Michigan Soldiers' Home-a hobby he is proud of. A plantation on the' island of Cuba, is the source of pride for John D. Case, while John Shanahan delights in sailing a naptha launch. David E. Uhl is too busy to give much time to a hobby, but a good horse pleases him as much as anything. W. H. Gay, Ralph Tietsort, "Rob" Irwin, Mi- ·ner S. Keele, W. A. Gunn and John R. Shelton dote on automobiling while A. W. Hompe would rather sail a fast single sticker than sign a check for a million. His business associates, Messrs. Irwin and Tietsort would leave their automobiles standing in the road if Mr. Hampe should bear down upon them under the power of a stiff breeze. The manufacturers at Jamestown, N. Y., are fully sup-plied with hobbies. Charles W. Herrick, of the Maddox TOLbleCompany finds rest and recreation (the term is used advisedly) in the study of finance. Probahly no man outside of Wall street, in the greac Empire state, has stowed away in his brain as much ir.tormation as he regarding stock cor-porationsand securitit:s. He reads prominent newspapers devoted to finance, the letters of Henry Clews, Holden and other monetary authorities. He is an official of a prosper-ous bank and a director in several corporations, but having entered a banking house when a boy his mind naturally 7fRe T I.s ..7I.2'I =e clings to the influences of his earlier employment. A beau-tiful summer home on Lake Chautauqua and the new home he bas under construction in Jamestown call for the full em-ployment of his mental and physical energies. A story is told of a farmer who aroused his son at four a. m., and direct-ed him to feed the horses, milk fourteen cows, split a cord of wood, sho.vel the snow out of the paths, build the' fires, feed the chickens and the hogs, and while resting before breakfast, to peel the potatoes, grind the coffee and bring water from tbe well. Like the farmer's son Mr. Herrick is the busiest "rester" in Chautauqua COUIlty~ "Tom" Crane knows the history of every actor worth mentioning since the days of Shakspeare; Frank O. Ander-son is a skilled navigator; L. C. Stewart smilingly acknowl-edges that his week old daughter is a good enough "hobby," wbile Mr. Corne"ll of the Jamestown Lounge Company fairly "gloats" over beautiful painting. W. J. Maddox, of the Maddox Table .Company has a hobby which he employs in promoting the business of his company. His "mad ox" is known to everyone in the trade. A few months ago be con-ceived the idea that a large white ox in action could be made useful, but was unable to find any among his large force of carvers, who were able to execute the animal in wood. Finally his brother, J. W. Maddox, undertook tbe task and turned' out a very good specimen of an ox in pine. It attracted much attention at the late exposition at Grand Rapids. Mr. MaddOX decided to have the specimen .repro-duced in a smaller size in plaster and called in an artist from sunny Italy to make a mold. Many attempts resulted in failure, the curling tail of the imitation animal breaking off, repeatedly. Finally, Mr. Maddox suggested that wire be used to support the tail, when the efforts of the artist were successful, and a considerable number of casts were made. The artistic spirit of tbe Italian conceive·J tbe idea that an ox could not be enraged without an object to excite his resentment, so he brought to Mr. Maddox various casts to supply the deficiency. A girl in a red skirt was suggested and rejected. An ugly looking Turk followed -and finally a crocodile was presented but all were rejected by th~ exacting Mr. Maddox. The artist is still busy with bis brain and hands, and promises to exbaust the animal kingdom in an effort to please his employer. RemOTe. Shipping Mark." Marst Scratcbest Staina. Clean8t Fills in and PoUsbes. 11 ALL PROSPEROUS. Notes and News From a Few of Michigan's Furniture Factories. The Lentz Table Company of Nashville, 1tIich., had a great business in 1906-the largest in the history of the com-pany. During the last year they made many improvements and cnlargernents, and in addition to largely increasing their sales they have steadily kept in view the making of higher grade goods, and eliminating as far as possible the cheaper lines. This has been a wise move, for while the averag"c price is higher the quality of the goods more than makes up for the difference in price, and every dealer realizes that when he puts a Lentz dining extension table on his floor he is prepared to show his customer an article that he can guarantee to be without a superior in its grade. Lentz ta-bles always sell well; the value is there-materials, style, workmanship and finish. Good stuff. Sturgis. The Sturgis furniture factories, five in number, are all busy and prosperous. Sturgis is rapidly becoming one of the most important manufacturing cities in Southern Mich-igan, and prospects are bright for several more factories locating here this year. The Royal Chair Company has recently fitted up a new set of offices and made other important improvements. The past year was the most successful in the history of the company, and Mr. \Valton, the manager, is pushing business with such energy and skill that every month sees a steady gain. The Royal and Regal Morris chairs have become fa-mous all over the land, and the merchant who does not handle them is missing one of the best selling lines in the market. The Stebbins Manufacturing Company although the latest addition to the furniture industries of Sturgis, is one of the most prosperous, and thc growth of the business is something extraordinary. The line of parlor and library tables made by this company js onc of the best on the market. The \Vallick Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of refrigerators and kitchen cabinets, are enjoying a fine trade. Business seems to grow with this house every month in the year. Alusbrook & Sturges, the oldest furniture manufacturing company in Sturgis, is pursuing the even tenor of its way, SHELBYVILLE DESK CO. MANUFACTURERS OF OFFICE DESKS Mahogany. and Imitation Qyartered Oak. Plain Oak in Three Grades. SPECIAL FEATURES A SQUARE DEAL Write for lotnt Catalogue. SHELBYVILLE, IND. manufacturing an excellent line of medium priced chamber furniture, sideboards and buffets. The Grobhiscr & Crosby Furniture Company, is one of the largest in the manufacture of dining extension, parlor, library and office tables. Buchanan. Once in a while a fire proves to be a blessing in dis-guise. This seems to have been the ease with the Buchanan Cabinc1 Company. Last year fire completely destroyed the main factory, and now in its place they have a fine brick building with more than twice the capacity of the old onc. Ke.v engine house and dry kilns, a side track to the shipping house door, the boiler room, dry kilns and lumber yards, a new 150 horse power Corliss engine, new machinery through-out and a larger business than ever before. The plant pre-sents an air of prosperity calculated to make one congratu-late Albert Richards the manager, and all the stockholders. The line is made up of sideboards, kitchen cabinets, house desks, book cases and sewing tables. Its a good medium priced line and trade is fine. Hastings. Hastings is the county seat of Barry county, one of the most prosperous agricultural counties in Michigan. It is a thriving little city, with numerous manufacturing concerns, among them four furniture factories, the Tyden Car Seat Company and the Hastings \Vool Boot Company. The fur-niture companies are the Hastings Cabinet Company, man-ufacturers of kitchen cabinets; the Hastings Table Company, dining extension tables.; the Grand Rapids Bookcase Com-pany, bookcases, china closets, buffets and serving tables; and the Barber Bros. Chair Company, manufacturers of high grade dining chairs, rockers, etc, The Table Company, the Bookcase Company and the Chair Company have gone into a combination scheme for making dining room sets to rnatch, one furnishing the tables, another the chairs and serving tables. This makes a very nice arrangement, as it enab1es the merchant to purchase complete dining room sets to match in style, wood and finish, and ship in the same car in car lots or open freight, as desired. Hastings furniture has a name for excellance that is as wide as the continent. The Hastings Cabinet Company made a fine. display at the January exhibit in Grand Rapids, and is enjoying a fine business. Their white maple kitchcn cabinets are among the very best made. A new catalogue is ready for mailing. 12 ·§>~MI9,.HIG7}N Evansville, Ind., Feb. l8.-The manufacturers here have voted to discontinue the practice of giving the long time fall datings to customers on all orders for immediate ship-ment. This move has been agitated by certain influential members of the Evansvilte Furniture Manufacturers' Asso-ciation for some time past, owing to the way that some of the retailers have taken advantage of and abused the priv~ iIege, and recently an agreement was circulated and signed by practically all of the factories abolishing the practice. The trade in Texas has been particularly culpable and un-scrupulous in this matter, some of the dealers there going so far as to hold back the manufacturer's money for a whole year, turning it over once and twi.ce i.n the meantime, and with the small margin of profit that is left to the manufac-turer now, he can't afford to a(low anything of that kind or he will find his balance on the wrong side of the ledger at the end of the year. Consequent1y all the Evansville plants have notified their salesmen that in future no datings must be allowed on goods ordered for immediate shipment. \\lhere the purchaser leaves the shipping date to the dis-cretion of the factory, and they choose to ship the goods early to get thcm out of their warehouses, then the dating is given same as formerly. All the factories here that were closed down during January either for invoicing or to make some much-needed repairs have resumed operations again. All the plants have plenty of orders and everything looks bright for a cracking good year. The Fellwock Automobile & Manufacturing Company is now the name of what was formerly the Feltwock Roll & Panel Company. P. B. Fellwock of the Bockstege Fur-niture Company and his brother who has been running the roll and panel works since he was put in charge of the Bock-stege plant, have bought out all the other stockholders and have changed the name as above. The new concern will manufacture rolls exclusively and is the biggest exclusive r01'l manufacturing plant in the country. A. F. Karges of the Karges Furniture Company who is the guiding hand of the Karges-Globe-Bockstege inter-ests, is one of the most prominent men in the furniture business in Evansville. Like most men who have risen several rounds higher on life's ladder than most of his fellows, ~Jr. Karges is averse to talking for publication. When approach-ed by your correspondent, he at first said that the only thing he cared to say was that his plant had recently issued a handsome new catalogue.. Asked if he thought that bus-iness the coming year would equal that of the year just closed, Mr. Karges said: "I see no reason why business during the· first six months of 1907 should not be fully as big as that of last year. Further than that I would not like to make a prediction, for conditions in the business world are altogether too uncertain for any man to set himself as a prophet, and furthermore, the state of affairs in Texas has a large bearing on the trade of most of Evansville's fac-tories, and until the cotton crop is gathered no man can tell what Texas will do. However, money seems to be plen-tiful throughout the south and west, crops are good and are bringing good prices, and unless something untoward should occur, I believe we will enjoy another year of undiminished prosperity." "Ben" Bosse, of the Globe Furniture Company has re-turned from a visit to \Vashington, D. C. Mrs. Bosse was with him, and they had a most enjoyable visit. The Globe Company have prepared an entirely new line for this year, and their new catalogue, just off the press, shows some de-signs that certainly ought to catch the dealers' eyes and their orders. They build sideboards, buffets, chamber suites, odd dressers, chiffoniers, cupboards, kitchen safes, etc., that are unexcelled. Evansville now has a triumvirate of salesmen on its floor-the third-at the exposition building at Fourteenth and Locust streets, St. Louis. Proctor Shelby has joined Vining and Wilson, and the three ought to send in many a good order for the coming year. The United States Furniture Company find -that they can't turrt out ladies' desks, library tables and mantel and upright folding beds fast enough in their present quarters. They are building a three-story addition to their plant at a cost of about $4,000 and when it is completed they will use it for finishing and warerooms and will devote the floor space in the main building which was formerly occupied by these departments to the installation of several new ma-chines. Old Rebate Claims Are Dead. The interstate commerce commission has announced that it will not authorize the payment by railroads of rebates and claims for overcharges previous to January 1, 1907, the date on which the anti-rebate law became effective. This was in response of an appeal from Mr. King, traffic manager of the Alton, and -Mr. Boyd, traffic manager of the Chicago board, who explained that a large number of claims originating before the date named the railroads hesitated to pay without' specific authority from the commission. CANADIAN FACTORY. WALKERVILl.E ONTARiO CHICAGO, CINCINNATI, ST. LOUIS, SAN FRANCIScO. BERRY BROTHERS' Rubbing and Polishing Varnishes MUST BE USED IN FURNITURE WORK TO BE APPRECIATED THEY SETTLE THE VARNISH QUESTION WHEREVER TRIED WRITE TODAY FOR INFORMATION AND PRICES. FINISHED SAMPLES ON REQUEST. BERRY BROTHERS, LIMITED VARNISH MANUFACTURERS DETROIT NEW YORK, BOSTON, PHILADELPHIA, BALTIMORE:. Our Oak and Mahogany DINING EXTENSION TABLES Are Best Made, Best Finished Values. All Made from Thoroughly Seasoned Stock. No. 506 Dining Table Top 44X44. Made in ~arter-ed Oak. Full Polished. Castered. LENTZ TABLE CO. NASHVILLE, - - MICHIGAN No. 506 Dlnlng Table. All Kinch of BASKET WARE MADE TO ORDER Please Send for Catalogue and Prices FOR WILLOW and RATTAN WARE I manufacture the Fineat Clothes- Hamper or Bedroom Basket IN THE AMERICAN MARKET F. PARTHIER, Manufacturer of Willowand Railan Ware, No. 209 GRAND AVE., CHICAGO, ILLS. "This Tlade Mark Guaranlees I~e besl." No. 526. No. 525. 13 14 FREIGHT RATES FINELY FIGURED. Loss of a Mill per Ton per Mile Would Bankrupt Many Railroads. Addressing the Railway Employes' Transportation Club of Chicago, recently, A. B. Stickney, president of the Chicago Great \Vestern Railway, a man noted for his conservative views, declared that a reduction of freight rates of one mill a ton a mile would wipe out all the dividends earned by the greatest and most prosperous railroads in the country. After quoting figures showing the average rate of interest on bonds and dividends on stocks paid by the leading rail~ ways, Mr. Stickney showed that in 1892, the year of greatest depression, the average rate of interest was 4.23 pcr cent. and the average dividends 1.93 per cent. 1n 1905, the most pras-considerable length the Question of statements to mercantile agencies, and in the course of his decision said: "It has never been decided whether under any circum-stances a false statement contained in a report to a commer-cial agency can be made the ground of successful objection to discharge. The conditions advanced in re Dresser & Co. are entitled to great weight, and in my opinion show that the usual commercial agency report obtained by an agency in order that it may gi\re the merchant a "rating," and for gen-eral distribution among its customers, cannot be made the basis of successful action by an objecting creditor. ';If, ho\vever, such a report as is here shown be obtained from a merchant by a comme;cial agency at the request, dis~ c10sed or undisclosed, of one or more of the agency's cus-tomers it seems to be incredible that the merchant furnish-ing su~h report call be supposed to have given it for any V1EW OF A WELL-DESIGNED INTERIOR. perous year, the average interest rate \vas 3.6:') per cent and the average dividend rate 3.02 per cent. "There is no other business in the country," he said, which is done on so gmall a margin of profit as 3.02 per cellt dividends. No other invested capital gets so small returns as the capital invested in railroads, and the tonnage carried is so large that a reduction of the insignificant amount of half a cent a hundredweight on a lOO-mite haul would deprive the stockholders of railways of all dividends. - "Such a decrease of one mill per ton mile would have substantially the same effect upon all the great lines, and put into bankruptcy most of the minor lines in the competitive territory extending from the Atlanti.c to the Missouri river and from the Gu1f to the Great Lakes." An Important Bankruptcy Decision. A decision that will surely have an important influence in the administration of the federal bankruptcy :law was re-cently handed down in the United States District Court of New York. In the ease in Question a discharge from bank-ruptcy was denied by the judge on the contention of the cred-itors that the bankrupt made a false statement in writing to a mercantile agency on the strength of which these creditors sold him goods, and also that the debtor made a false state-ment in writing to another creditor. The judge discussed at other pUf]lOse than of cn1igbtening those persons \'vho hab-itually deal \vith him on cre,lit as to his true financial con-dition. "It cannot be that a merchant may in bankruptcy avoid the consequences of making false statements by always ma-king them to a commercial ag-ency, even though such agency specially request him to tel! the truth for special purpose." For several years there has been no material decrease in the cost of anything used in making furniture, except alcohol. Years ago grain a1coho'l, used for cutting shellac, etc., cost $2.40 per gallon. Then wood alcohol was intro:" duced and sold at $1.25, gradually decreasing to 90 and finally to 75 cents. Kow, as a result of the law removing the tax on alcohol not used as a beverage, manufacturers get the denatured article at H5 cents per gallon, and it is predicted that if regulations can be made that will allow the farmers to make the stuff the .price will go down to 25 cents. Of course alcohol forms a very small proportion of the material that goes into a piece of furniture, but the reduction in its COSt will help to offset the advanced cost of other materials and, alcohol at 25 cents per gallon new uses will be found for it that may be of great benefit to the country-it may soon cut a great figure in the cost of heat-ing and lighting. 1 Furniture Dealers need have no more fear. \Vith the use of CHne's Caster Cup one table may be placed on top of another without injury. Made in two sizes in the following fi nishes: Oak, Mahogany and Rosewood. Special prepared feet bottom, preventing sweat marks, scratching, etc. Price: 2)( in. per 100, $3.50, 3% in. per 100. $4.50 Wealso manllfacture the most reliable Card Holder on the market. :: Write for our new 40 pale Catalo_ue. L. Cline Mfg. Co.. 123'W.b~h-Av;;. Chicago WE manufacture the larg-est line of FOLDING CHAIRS in the United States, suitable for Sunday Schools, Halls, Steamers and a.ll Public Resorts. . . . . We also manufacture Brass Trimmed Iron Beds, Spring Beds, Cots and Cribs in a larKe variety. . . . Send for Cllta!o&ue and Price. to Kauffman Mfg. CO. "SOLAND. OOID Morton House American ......Plan Rates $2.50 and Up Hotel Pantlind European ......Plan Rates $1.00 a.nd Up GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. The Noon Dinner Served at the Pantlind for 50c is the FINEST IN THE WORLD J. BOYD PANTLIND. Prop. The New Banquet Table Top III well uOFFICE. DINING and DIRECTORS' TABLES are OU1' specialty. STOW & DAVIS FURNITURE CO.• ~:e'''''' Write for Catalogue, Get samplelof BANQUET TABLE TOP. five Complete Lines of Refrigerators RIG"T PRICES at apalite Lined Enameled Lined Charcoal Filled and Zinc Lined Zinc Lined with Removable Ice Tank Gal ranized Iron Lined Stationary Ice Tank Send fOI" nt:w CATALOGUE and let us name you price Challenge Refrigerator Co. GRAND HAVEN, MICH., U. S. A. 15 16 MERCHANTS WIN FIRST ROUND. Dakota Judge Denies Montgomery Ward & Co's Applica-tion for a Preliminary Injunction. Retail merchants throughout the country have reason to be pleased with the result of the first decision in the case brought by Montgomery vVard & Co. against the Retail Merchants' Association of South Dakota. The matter is of much importance to others than the South Dakota retailers because there is no doubt that if l\'lontgomery ¥lard & Co. could win this case they would start similar proceedings against many other state organizations and also against city and national associations. It is true that the decision of Judge Carland of the Fed-eral court at Sioux Falls, is only preliminary-it simply de-nies the motion for a preliminary injunction-but it is be-lieved to foreshadow the court's views on the merits of the main question, because it contains this declaration: "Where the only object of a suit in equity is a permanent injunction, a temporary injunction will not issue where the court is of the opinion that there is no probability that the complainant will succeed on the merits." Those words surely mean that "Judge Carland is of the opinion that the complainants are not likely to succeed when the case is brought up for final hearing on its merits in ApriL As some of the readers of the Artisan may not-have seen the letters issued by the South Dakota Retail Merchants' Associatioll on which the complaint of Montgomery Ward & Co. is based, that part of Judge Carland's decision in which the letters appear is given here: l'The South Dakota Retail Merchants' Association is a voluntary association organized for the purpose of correct-ing trade abuses, to develop the mercantile profession and to co-operate with other organizations having like objects. The retail dealers held their annual meeting at Mitchell, Jan~ uary 2?, 1906, and soon after said meeting there was with the· consent and knowledge of its principal officers issue-d and sent to a great number of wholesalers and jobbers throughout the United States who were not members of said association the following circular letter:" F. A. Grimm, President. L. S. Tyler, Secretary. THE SOUTH DAKOTA RETAIL MERCHANTS' AND HARDWARE DEALERS' ASSOCIATION. Sioux Falls, S. D., March 1, 1906. The South Dakota Retail ~1erchants in convention as-sembled at Mitchell, S. D., January 23, 24, 25, 1906, expressed strong sentiments and were unanimous on the subject: Re-lating to the selling of merchandise by the jobber and man-ufacturer to the catalogue or mail order houses. That it was unfair treatment on the part of the wholesaler toward the retailer. The retail merchant of South Dakota feels that the cause of the catalogue house has been advanced by the wholesa"ler, inasmuch as the stock of the mail order house is carried by the _wholesaler. The retail merchants have suf-fered. in consequence of this arrangement. Wilt you not act with the. retail merchants? Do you at the present time encourage and help the catalogue house business? \i\Till you not refuse ,to sell -to the mail order house, and will you confine your trade to the legitimate retail dealer? Any suggestion for co-operation' for our mutual inter-ests of both the who"lesaler and retailer we would as a body of merchants be glad to receive aild consider. This letter is endorsed by the_board of directors as above named and sent out under their instructions. Yours truly, L. S. TYLER, Secretary. 71R T I.s .7I.Z'T e 7 e I<That on July 14, 1906, there was issued and sent to the members of said voluntary association a letter in words and figures as follows:" F. A. Grimm, President. L. S. Tyler, Secretary. THE SOUTH DAKOTA RETAIL MERCHANTS' AND HARDWARE DEALERS' ASSOCIATION. Sioux Falls, S. D., July 14, 1906. Dear Sir:-The attached list comprises those, jobbers that refused to answer in any way the letter that was sent out by the Retail Merchants' & Hardware Dealers' Association at your request in March, asking them if they would act with the retail trade and not with the cata!oguehouses. In these houses refusing to answer our "letters and ignor-ing the merchants, through their association, the secretary cannot come to any other conclusion than that they prefer the business of the catalogue houses as against retailers of this state. It would seem that, in the course of business, a jobber that depended on the retail trade for his support might have courtesy enough to reply to a fair question even though he might not be in accord with it and preferred to trade with the catalogue houses. Hang this over your desk for reference. Yours truly, L S. TYLER, Secretary. "It also fairly appears from the evidence that the retail dealers have agreed among themselves that they will not pur-chase merchandise from who'lesalers and jobbers who sell to catalogue or mail order houses. It does not appear, however, that said retail dealers intend to do anything in connection with the matter in controversy different than they have done already." Further quotations from judge Carland's opinion read as follows: "For damage arising from the commission of lawful acts the law affords no remedy. The facts in evidence on this hearing show that the retail dealers have agreed among themselves that they will not purchase merchandise from wholesalers and jobbers who seU to catalogue and mail order houses. That they have corresponded with jobbers and wholesalers stating that the retail dealers were opposed to said wholesalers and jobbers selling to catalogue or mail order houses and have requested the former not to sell to the latter. Are these acts of the retail dealers unlawful? Do they show unfair trade c,ompetition? Is persuasion un-lawful when considered with reference to the facts of this case, or, in other words, is persuasion unfair competition? Upon the answer to these questions depends complainant's right to a temporary injunction. I'That the retail dealers have a lawful right to agree among themselves that they will not purchase merchandise from wholesalers and jobbers who sell to catalogue or mail order houses cannot be denied, and it necessarily follows that they have the right to inform each other as to what whole-salers and jobbers do sell to catalogue or mail order houses. The question in this case is, what may they do in ~ddition to influence the wholesalers and jobbers not to seIt to catalogue houses? I'lt must be conceded that complainant has the right to transact and carryon its business free from intimidation Or coercion. That this is a property right, and that a com-bination to interfere with this right otherwise than in fair competition must show justification. "The American cases, however, when carefully consid-ered, show that the great weight of authority in the United States is in favor of the proposition that it is not unfair com-petition, intimidation or coercion for a combination to inter-fere with this right by persuasion or any peaceable means. "It thus appears that the retail dealers have done nothing nor threaten to do anything which is actionable." Inset Ranney Refrigerators and Kitchen Cabinets are shown during the WINTER FURNITURE EXPOSITIONS -at - CHICAGO ManufactureR' Exhibition Buildinll, 1319 MichigaD Ave., Fim Floor. NEW YORK Furniture Exchange, 43d and Lexinatoo. A full line of samplesat each ex~ position and com-petent salesmen in charge. THE BEST MEDIUM and HIGH PRICED REFRIGERA-TORS on the Market. SEE THE SEVEN LINES LAPLAND CHIEF, OAK, THe Lined. CHARTER OAK. ENAMELED. ASH. Whi'e Ennmel on Galvanized hon. LAPLAND. OAK. Galvanized Iron Lined. MONITOR, ASH. Galvanized Iron Lined. CHARTER OAK, ASH, Galvanized Iron Lined. Ail with metal Ice Racks, Adju&able Shelves.Self ClosingDoors, Removable Ice Chambers, and other improvements MASCOT, HARDWOOD. Galvanized Iron Lined. RADIUM, HARDWOOD, Galvanized Iron Lined. Ranney Refrigerator Company, aHnOdMFEACOTOFFRIICEESS. GreenVaIlle, Mic[n. CATALOGUES FURNISHED ON APPLICATION TO THE HOME OFFICE. Inset GRAND RAPIDS UPHOLSTERING CO. Davenports, Odd Chairs, Library Furniture, Sofa Beds, Overstuffed Leather Goods. Get our PICTURES and PRICES-then the GOODS-and you'll put MONEYin your 'bank. GRAND RAPIDS UPHOLSTERING CO.,Grand Rapids, Mich. Say y~u saw thir in the MICHIGAN ARTISAN. JOHNSON CHAIR COMPANY CHICAGO, ILLINOIS We manufacture as complete a line of OFFICE, DINING, LIBRARY and BEDROOM CHAIRS AS ANYONE IN 'THIS COUN'TR r G.atalogue to the :rrade. EXHIBIT: Furniture Exhibition Building, 1411 Michigan Avenue. GOOD RAILROAD POLICY. President Finley of the Southern Outlines Duties of Freight and Passenger Agents. \V. \V. Finley who succeeds the late Samuel Spencer as president of the Southern Railway, while addressing a meeting of 150 freight and passenger agents in Atlanta, recently, expressed ideas that may seem new to many patrons of railroads who have had more or less aggra vating exper~ ience in dealing with agents. President Finley urged em-ployes to build up erfLcient transportation facilities, and de-clared that the railroad, as an institution, must he fair to the people. He said: "Your duties arc two-fold. 'lOll mve duties to the railway company by which you are employed and you owe duties to the public.' These double duties do not in any way result in conflict or divided allegiance, for he serves the railway best who serves the public best. The policies of the railway are formulated and mapped out by the general officers, but 17 officer, but the: damage done to the reputation of the road cannot be remedied. Questions that seem to you to be trivial may be considered of importance by the person ask-ing them, and they should be answered with patience and courtesy." Reductions in Western Freigpt Rates. Several reductions in freight rates in favor of Denver have been made by the western classificition committee. The rate on unmanufactured tobacco from the Mississippi river to Denver in carload lots is reduced from $1.45 to 02 cents a hundred pounds. Lawn swings from Chicago in carload lOb from $1.25 to 77 cents. Talcum powder man-ufactured in Colorado is given a rate of 80 cents a hundred pounds instead of $1.2;',i,when shipped to points on the Mis-souri river. Electrolytic carbons arc reduced from third class to fifth class, and the class rates to Utah common points, from $1.85 to $1.54. The SOllthern Pacific is preparing to make a flat reductio"n of fifteen per cent to points in 1\ew Mexico and MADE BY LENTZ TABLE CO., NASHVILLE, MICHIGAN. the application of these policies to spccific transactions must he entrusted in the main to mcn in the field. It fo!loovs, then, that you have, in a substantial sense, the reputation of the Southern Railway Company for fair and just dealing in your hands. "\Vhethcr the company shall be popular or unpopular depends in a very large measure upon your attitude toward the public, and upon your treatment of those doing business ,,,·ith the road. It is of supreme importance, therefore, that yOU, who daily come into intimate contact with the public shou"!d bear in mind constantly that it is the unvarying pol-icy of the company to be just and fair to all alike, to the small shipper and the occasional travelc:r as \vell as to the larg-est shipper and the regular traveler; that you should be perfectly frank in all business dealings: that you should always be considerate and patient, and that you should do all in your power to make the services of the road satis-factory for whom they are performed. "\Vhile everything possible should be done. for the ac-commodation of those doing business with the road. care should be exercised not to promise the impossible in the, way of facilities or service. \Vhen failure to fulfLll such a prOm-ise follows, the man 'who made it may he able to shift re-sponsibility to the operating or some other department or Arizona. A reduction of from 1:'j to 18 cents to all stations on the Oregon Short Line in Utah, Idaho, Montana and eastern Oregon will be made shortly. The Rock Island has made a horizontal reduction of twenty per cent to western Kansas. The Burlington has made a reduction of twelve to twenty per cent as far east as 1TcCook, Neb., and as far west as Billings, 1'10. The rate on pig tin from New York to Denver has been reduced from $1.11 to 93 cents a hundred. The changes noted above went into effect on February 15. It is expected that other roads will announce similar reductions to take effect March 1. Chili Wants "Little Brown Men." ,Vhile many Americans vie"", the deluge of Japs with alarm, little Chili down in South America is inviting them with open arms and promises of extraordinary liberality. She offers forty acres of rich land to the J ap settler, twenty more to each son over eighteen years of age, a yoke of oxen, a set of farm implements and $15.00 a month in hard cash for the fir,';t twelve months of residence. Such a proposition seems attractive enough to nearly depopulate the Japan~se island. 18 OWQSSOFactory Notes. Business in Owosso is good. The furniture factories are busy and everything points to a great year in this city. The Woodard Furniture Company had an excellent trade in Grand Rapids in January. Their new line of Circassian walnut and mahogany chamber furniture was much ad-mired, and the whole line, including the above woods, birch, Made by Woodard Furniture Co., Owono, Mich. birdseye maple and quarter sawed oak sold well. Trade keeps right up, and if anything, grows better all the time. They have just contracted with the Grand Rapids Veneer \\larks to put up their dry kilns with their new system, and will be in better shape than ever before to take care of their orders. The Robbins, Table Company is having a fine business. Sales so far this year are ahead of last year, and that was t'.le best in the history of the company. The American Blowcr Company has just fitted up this plant with two moist air kilns with a capacity of 75,000 feet, which is double Cut which they had before the fire which destroyed their form~r kilns a few weeks ago.· The Estey Manufacturing Company will soon erect an addition to their factory containing about 4,000 square feet of floor space. They are elljoying a fine trade, and in July will bring out some finer goods than they had to show ill January. A Cane Chair. "The stranger, who had long white hair, good features, singularly bold and well defined for an old man, and dark, bright, penetrating eyes, looked round with a smile and sa-luted the carrier's wife by gravely inclining his head. "His garb was very Quaint and odd-a long, long way be-hind the time. Its hue was brown all over. In his hand he held a great brown club or walking stick, and striking this upon the floor, it fell asunder and became a chair. in which he sat down quite composedly."-Charles Dickens, in "Crick-et on the Hearth." RIGHT MAN IN THE RIGHT PLACE. Louis Kanitz, president of the Muskegon Valley Fur-niture Company, who has served four years as a member of the board of managers of the Michigan Soldiers' Home, lo-cated at Grand Rapids, has been re-appointed for another term by Governor \\Tarner. The re-appointment of Mr. Kanitz is heartily approved by all who know of what he has done for the So1diers' Home. He is greatly interested in the institution, in fact, has made it something like. a hobby. It is conceded that he has given it more time and attention than any other man ever connected with its management. During the past four years it has been nothing unusual for }Ir. Kanitz to spend days and even weeks looking after the interests of the Home and he has done it without financial recompense. New Furniture Dealers. Central Furniture Company, Paterson, N. J. Donald Furniture Company, Newark, N. ]. Geo. E. Tole & Co., Lancaster, Pa. r>.1ackley, IVlah,an & Co., Pittsburg, Pa. Bariteau & Girouard, :::lashua, N. H. F. R. & Robert \Vadsworth, Pittsburg, Pa. The Julius Campbell Company, Traverse City, l\Iich. Samuel Adkr, Hattiesburg, Miss. H. R. Fox, Bay City, Mich. O. L. McKee, Joplin, Mo. A. \10.1. Bills, vVaterloo, la. Petti Bros., Germantown, Neb. Peoplcs' Hardware & Furniture Co., V\linfield, La. Spande Furniture Company, Logan, Utah. Hillstrom & Bennett, Vancouver, vVash. "V. P. Sherman, Eureka, Mont. No. 244 Music Cabinet. --Manufacturersof-- BOOKCASES, LADIES' DESKS, COMBINATION CASES, MUSIC CABINETS, and CHINA CLOSETS. New Catalogue ready for mailing. Mr. Dealer: If you want your ordeI filled promptly and want goods that you can make good profi.ts on du.ring the commg spnng sea-son, mail your orders to us. We solicit trial orders. Sheboygan Novelty Company SHEBOYGAN, WISCONSIN, U. S. A. ~MIEfHIG7}-N Changes in Firms, Transfers, Etc. Poe & \-Vhitson, Gowen, }10., sold to J. P. Holbert. Charles \Vrenu, StOCktOl1, Mo., succeeded by \Vrenn & Young. A. \f>y'. Beswick, \VinfielJ, Kan., sold to L. C. Long-side. J. \V. Parks, Jr., succeeds Dixon & Parks, Hillsboro, Tex. J. A. Dahlgrectl, Enid, Okla., sold to Alva Goff. O. VI/. Strong's Sons, Albuquerque, X. 1'1'1.s,ucceeded by F. H. Strong. "Vestfal! & 1Jitchcll, \i\/eldon, la., sold to C. E. Bodley. YVeichel & Tatul11, Plymouth, Neb., sold to Clement Haake. Franklin (.Keb.) Furniture & }fllSic Company, succeeded by P. L. Sturtevant. J. P. Gilbert & Co., Falls City, Ore., sold to ]. C. Talbot. J. C. l\lcAdams & Co., Kaw, Okla., sold to B. E. John-son & Co. e. B. \Vebb, Eddy, Tex., succeeded by Beard & \"ebb. 19 Benton & Co., Fordyce, Ark., succeeded by the Thomas Furniture Company. O. L. Harris, Mercer, Mo., sold to Moore & Mollestoll. J esse Child Mercantile Co., Richmond, Mo., succeeded by A. B. Conrow. Zimmerman, Clyde & CO.,Dodge City, Kan., sold to Doolittle & Traynor. The manufacturers of Rockford do not cater to the mait order houses nor have they encouraged the efforts made by certain promoters to establish a factory in that city to man-ufacture lovv.grademail order furniture. Representations that have been published in the news and trade papers that the manufacturers of that city were catering to the trade of the mail order houses were erroneous, based upon false infor-mation, and the Artisan cheerfully publishes this fact be-cause an injustice has been inflicted upon a manufacturing community that should not have been subjected to it. PART OF BEDROOM SUITE No. 1431. Made by the Nelson-Matter Furniture COO. Graud Rapids, Mich. 20 MUST OPPOSE PARCELS POST. What It Would Mean to the Retailers and: to Small Towns. One of the features of the national convention of retail merchants, held in Dallas, Tex., recently, was an address on "The Parcels Post; Its Rc'lation to the Retail Trade," by George E. Green, editor of the Retail Merchants' J ourmil of Peoria, Ill., in the course of which he said: "If there is anyone question before the public today in which the retailer is directly interested, it is the Parcels Post agitation, which has been before congress during the past several sessions. The advocates in favor of a Parcels Post measure for this country afc· very active and are ex-erting a powerful influence in its favor. The principal agency for advocating the passage of parcels post enactment for this country is what is knmvn as 'The Postal Progress League.' The question would n~turally arise-what inter-ests compose the Posta'] Progress League, and the question is very easily answered in the statement, that the Postal Progress League represents the large catalogue mail order houses of our country. Literature is sent out by the Postal Progress League, making the statement that 'The only things that stand between the eighty millions of people of the United States and the Parcels Post enactment, arc the ex-press eompanies and the small shop keepers.' In the eyes of the Postal Progress League, these two intere.sts seem to he insignificant and should'be brushed aside. "I cannot stand here before you with any apology III favor of express companies, but I do stand here hefore you as a staunch advocate for the preservation to this country of an avocation in which over one-half million people, men of intelligence, men following an avocation for a livelihood and the passage of a parcels post enactmcnt would mean, if not complete ruination,: at least ,;'I. ,serious crippling of qt.e business avocation of this so [arge·'{clas5,of represen'tative husiness men of our co~n;try, and th'c'T'~'1t're,ac~ording'to a conservative estimate, from statistics which I gather one mil-llon retail dealers i.n thc United States. The twelvi:'. principal lines, such as dry goods, grocers, clothing, boots and shoes, drugs, jewelry, millinery, mens' furnishing goods, stationery and books, harness and carriages and furniture, make up in excess of 350,000. There are about. 175,000 genenl stores, carrying either several or combining all lines. On the other hand, the catalogue and mail order houses are comparatively few. \Vhile they as an individual business represent a larger investment than the average dealer, the aggregate capital of over one-half million of retailers, far exceeds the aggregate capital of the mail or~ler houses, viewed in a comparative sense, and in justice and equity to all business interests of the country I would consider a Parcels Post enactment as in favor of a very small proportioq of merchants as against the many, and would greatly question the wisdom of congress in pass-ing any legislative act in favor of the few against a great ma-jority. "The principal tendency of and the desire for enactment of parcels post is to serve directly from the producer to the consumer, which means the practical elimination of all mid-dle men. The thought of receiving goods from first hands, theoretically sounds quite agreeable and has an alluring fas-cination for the purchaser. But connected therewith are many things which not only the retailer, but the public in general, should carefully consider. The tendency under the operation of a parcels post enactment would be for a concen-tration and consolidation of business interests into a few large trade centers, to the detriment of the smaller towns and vi11ages throughout our country. The future of the retailer depends upon the growth and prosperity of the smaller towns and villages, and therein the residents of the rural districts are also vitally interested. * * '" * * "It is true, that the tendency of rural residents, is to trade away from home. We; need not, however, confine our attention entirely to the residents of Tural districts, but we find that this tendency is growing even in our smaller cities and towns, and as a matter of special regret, it has come under my observation and experience, that merchants them-selves have this tendency to a large extent, This tendency has been created, it has been nurtured, and encouraged by catalogue mail order houses. *' *' '4' '4' "" "The relation of Parcels Post to the retailer is alarming. It is one that deals with the perpetuation of retailing as an avocation and in the thought of how catalogue mail order buying was created, there lies a great study for the retailer. The press of our country is a great power. The press is a great molder of sentiment and any question handled by the press, although there be two sides to the question, if viewed only from the one side, sentiment is inevitably created in that direction and so I find an unusually large number of pub-lications that arc being utilized in favor of this proposed measure and against the direct interest of the vast army of retailers in our land. In dealing with any question it is not only the purpose of holding to view the great dangers and particularly in dealing with the topic under consideration Made by Century Furniture Company, Grand Rapid.. Mich. there call be no question as to the relation of the retail mer-chant to parcels post; every indication demonstrates that Parcels Post is antagonistic to the retailer and the retailer must exert himself if he will preserve unto himself and future generations the privilege to deal in commodities in a small way. I would therefore give these few thoughts for your consideration: "First of all, I would say that since Parcels Post is being agitated by a few large interests for their particular advan-tage and since they arc seeking legislative enactment to enhance their particular business interests to the detriment of the retailer or small shop keepers of the country, the small shop keepers must unite in a determined and vigorous protest against its passage. One thing is certain, that even though we concede that cata\oguemail order houses are not with us to stay, -..vecannot and never should concede that they are a greater power or influence than the retailers of this country and that the retailer can and must prevent any legislation at the hand of our federal government which means rUination to his business. * * * * * "The relation of the retai'! dealer to Parcels Post must at all times be an unequivocal opposition and he must see that the same does not become a law." MAlL ORDERS TO KiI(~en (a~inets of· Oualil~ Sell at sight, and make a greater profit than other lines of kitchen cab-inets. Send for catalogue. Th. BBST of QUALITY f" least money. We have dcmbled our CllDacity aod will be better able to take caEe of oUE trade than before. We solicit your patronage. C. F. SCHMOE & CO. SHELBYVILLE, IND. 21 ARE THE JOY OF THE CHILDREN. SPRATT'S CHAIRS Our new CHILD'S MISSION ROCKER was a winner from the start. Write f~r Catalogueand prius. Our line is large and prkes are right. We make CHAIRS fo' GROWN-UPS as well as CflILDREN". GEORGE SPRATT & CO. Sheboygan, Wis. Say you law this ad in the Michigan Arti-san. SAFETY and COMFORT Are Best Secured by Using Lockless Metal Folding Beds Made by the SAFETY FOLDING BED CO., Ltd. " \ £ ~, II DETROIT, MICHIGAN Full Line of Samples shown at the Furniture Exhibition Building, 1411 Michigan Ave., Chicago. Second Floor, Front Middle Section. 22 OUR NEW 1901 LINE OF ALASKA REFRIGERATORS with side ice chamber is made in twenty-one styles, zinc lined, white enamel and porcelain lined. Our cataloguewill interestyou. IFritefir it. THE ALASKA REFRIGERATOR CO. Exclusive Refrigerator Manufacturers. MUSKEGON, MICHIGAN. EFFECTIVE ARGUMENTS. Mail Order Catalogue Patrons Thoroughly Convinced by Odious Comparisons. A retailer in a small. town located near a 'large mail order center, has a good method for keeping the home trade from ordering from the mail order houses. He was driven to this idea by circumstances and has followed out the plan long enough to see that it has been a big help to him, and one thing in favor of any kind of advertising which holds trade at home is the fact that once you thoroughly convert a customer, be is not likely to again relapse into the mail order habit. His neighborhood several years ago had quite a mail-order craze, and its effect was pretty bad on the local dealers. This particular dealer, however, was not satisfied that it was paying anyone but the mail-order house. A good friend came in one day and told about a neighbor who had pur-chased some article through a catalogue, and that it was very unsatisfactory. Our dealer at once saw his 'opportu-nity, and sent word to the man to bring it into the store and he would allow him the full price paid for it on a better grade which he'had in stock. Upon arrival of the mail-order house article, he explained to the owner that he wanted to buy it just to show the difference between a good article and an imitation, and asked to be allowed to tell where he got it. This privilege was readily granted., and the man purchased the kind of an article he had expected to get from the mail-order house when he ordered, and went home well pleased that he had made a good turn of a bad bargain. The dealer made a couple of good big cards, one for the mail-ordcr article, giving the price it sold for, and calling attention to the differcnce in quality between it and the gen-uine, which was displayed beside it, bearing a card, giving its price, and the strong points of superiority. This at-tracted the attention of all customers, and a little talk with each one who mentioned it caused them to go away with a better idea of the real value of mail-order purchases, all the bargain-counter features of their offers having been explained away. He always told them honestly that if they wanted to spend less money than good goods cast they could get cheaper qualities at the mail-order houses at cheaper prices, but that the quality was always cheaper, and he could not afford to handle it, because he was selling goods to his neighbors and felt that he had to give good value. After his regular trade had seen the two articles side by each, where they could be handled and closely inspected, he put them in his show window, where they could be seen by everyone who passed by. The result of this display was so very apparent that he decided to carryon the campaign for a considerable length of time, and took in several other unsatisfactofy articles from neighbors, giving them the same kind of publicity. The next visit he made to the city he went around to the 1l1ail-order houses, took their catalogue and selected a number of things in his line which looked to be particularly cheap and asked to see the goods themselves. He was allowed to in-spect them, and found them exactly as expected, in nearly every instance. They showed ,they were not of the value of Grand Rapids Caster Cup Co. 2 Parkwood Il.ve., Grand RapIds, Millh. We are now putting on the best Caster Cups with cork bases ever offered to the trade. These are finished in Golden Oak and White Maple in a light finish. These goods are admirable for polished floors and furn-ure rests. They will not sweat or mar. PRICES: Size'2X incbes ...... $4.00 per hundred SizeZ%, inches······ 5.00 per hundred Try a Sample Order. F. O.B. Grand Rapids. goods imitated) so he made several purchases, and while at the wholesale houses bought some of the goods imitated, where there was not already plenty of them in stock, When he got home, he cut the picture and description of onc of these articles out of the catalogue and put it on the article, then put the priee and. description on the imitated artic1e, and a big card calling to the difference in quality was put in the window with them. But one mail-order article wa's used in each dis-play, and attention was always called to the difference in value, on a big window card. Californians Are Greedy. A correspondent of the Artisan, writing from Oakland, Cal., under date of February 16, 1907, says: "Dealers make 150 per cent. on mixed carloads of goods shipped from Grand Rapids and· Chicago. Several· are not satisfied with the profit they are earning, and talk of establishing factories, in the expectancy of obtaining goods cheaper. It's the old story, but few are wise enough to be satisfied with a' good thing." 23 A Beautiful Daven-port by Day and a Comfortable 4 ft., 6 in. Bed at Night. fl No double somersaults--~works smooth and easily from the front. C] Finished in our Old Ivory it is the swellest thing on the market. g Mattresses upholstered in Bagdad aT Corduroy Velours or T apeftry, and filled with twenty pounds Sanitary Felt; Center of Curled African Fibre. g A soft elattic Bed, it makes a deep cozy Davenport. q Try a sample on approval. We take the risk. HARD MFG. CO. 117 - 133 Tonawanda St., Bnffalo, N. Y. Charge Railroads With Conspiracy. J obhers and merchants in the larger cities on the ?vlis-sauri river have filed a complaint with the interstate com-mission charging that the Chicago & Northwestern, Burling-ton and Rock Island entered into an unlawful conspiracy to prevent them from securing reasonable freight rates from the eastern seaboard. The complaint alleges that these railroads conspired together to stop the St. Paul and the Great V\iestern from putting in rates which would have given to the Missouri job-bers relief. It is declared the roads named threatened to boycott the 51. Paul and the Great \Vestern, to treat them as unfriendly connections, to refuse to route business ave,r their lines and to do everything in their power to destroy their business, provided they made the readjustment of the Missouri river rates which they were then contemplating. But for these iJ1ega1 acts, it is stated, the Missouri river merchants would have securcd a reduction on freight rates in 1906 ",,-hich would have permitted them to compete with other jobbing districts including Chicago. They therefore petition the commission to order these rates put in by all the railroads. It is claimed by the petitioners that, when compared with the rates from the seaboard to 51. Paul and Minneapolis, the The only CASTER CUP that will not Mar or Sweat A NewCaster Cup, it furniture Protector iIIndill Rest We guarantee perfect salls-fadion. We know we have the only perfect ca"ter cup ever made. This cup is in two sizes, as follows: 2U Inch and 3 ineh. ana we use the cork bottom. You know tbe rest. Small size, $3.60 per 100 Large siz.e, 4.50 per 100 F O. B. Grand Rapids. Try it ana be convineed. Our Concave Bottom Card Block does not touch the sur-face, but upon the rim, permit. ting a dre;ulation of air under the block, thereby preventing moisture or marks of any k.ind. This is the only card block ofits klnd onthe market. Price $3.00 per 100 Srand Rapids Casler CUPCo" 2 .,,'wood A.e.• Srand Rapids, Mich. Also can be had of LUSSKY, WHITE &. COOLIDGE, 111-113La(i(eSr., Chfcaoa rates to the cities on the l\:fissouri river are discriminatingly high. This view of the case was taken by the St. Paul and the Great \\'estern, and, it is alleged, but for the terrorizing methods said to have been used, a correction in the rates would have been made. The Chicago Commercial Associa-tion also opposed the changes, claiming Chicago would suffer. The five ciass rates from the seaboard to St. Paul are $1.15, $0.99, $0.76, $0.53 and $0.46, and to the Missouri river points $1.47, $1.20, $0.\13, $0.68 and $0.57. The petitioners ask for the following rates from )Jew York and the seaboard: $1.10, $O.95?"i, $0.727"2, $O.5n-;;; and $0.44. The distances from the East to the twin cities and to the Missouri river points are said to be substantially the samc. The railroad defense for this disparity in rates is water competition, which lowers the twin cities tariffs, A hearing and action on the complaint is expected at a meeting of the commission to be held in Chicago early in rdarch: The deadliest problem is not a hard one to solve, but the practice of the solution is more difficult. Every mer-chant has it ·within his power to restrict credits. How he may do so wisely is a different thing. Therein experience and discussion assjst greatly. The White Directory =====OF MANUFACTUORFE==R=S== FURNITURE, PIANOS, ORGANS, IN-TERIOR FINISHES and Kindred Indus-tries is now ready. Price Send in your order. l5.00 Who Ite P"r1nting CO. PPRUI8NUTSEHRESRs,ENGBRIANVDEERRSS: 2.20 LYON ST .. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. GLOBE SIDEBOARDS ;--------- ARE THE -----------, BEST ON THE GLOBE FOR THE MONEY GET OUR CATALOGUE. Men/i," the .MICHIGAN ARTISAN when writi"g. Globe Furniture No.257. Price $18.50. Has 48 Inch Top,S Legs and is Highly Polished. It's One of the "SUPERIOR" -- ..~== There are many more, all Peaches Pie and Pudding. Send for Catalogue and get a taste. THE BOCKSTEGE fURNITURE CO. EV4NSVILLE IND. Company EVANSVILLE, INDIANA. Kar~es. War~ro~es are Good Wardrobes GOOD Style Construction Finish PRICES RIGHT Write for Calalugue Karges Furniture Company, EVANSVILLE, IND. MAKE MONEY MR. DEALER BY SELLING THE D055f KITCHEN CABINETS CUPBOARDS SAFES and WARDROBES Best Goods Lowest Prices The "ELI" f No Stock 00 OLDING BEDS ARE E tnplete without the Eli Bed . PROFrl~I~N~RND LI 0• MILLE R S In Mantel and Up,;.ht 5 &, CO. ~,;~:rsoaInnd~dpiariiDc~eas ~~. BOSSE FURNITURE CO., e or new catalope. et today, It will pay Evansville, Ind. yEoVuAtoNSVILLE DESK CO. Manufacturers of tl send us an order. Writ f DESKS on the mrt.r~e BEST VALUE OP 26 HORN BROS. MFG. CO. 281 to 291 W. Superior St.. CHICAGO. ILL. MANUFACTURERS OF Chamber Suites, Odd Dressers, Chiffoniers l4D1ES' DRESSING TABLES to match Made ill Golden Oak, Genuine Maholf<l:DYVeneered, Birdseye Maple, White Enamel Highly Pohshed or Dull Finish. We also make a line of PRINCess DRESSfRSfrom $13.00 up, In Quarter-Sawed Oak. Mahogany and Birdseye Maple. Veneered If you. have not nc~ved OUTSpring Supplement, ask lor it. SAMPLES SHOWN BY PECK &: HILLS 1319 Michi~D Avenue, and HALL &: KNAPP, 187 Michigan Avenue, Chicago. MOON DESK CO., Muskegon, Mich. OFFICE DESKS SEE OUR NEW TYPEWRITER CABINET No. 924. Muskegon Valley Furniture Co. Muskegon Mich ••. Odd Dressers Chiffoniers Wardrobes Ladies' Toilets Dressing Tables Mabogany Inlaid Goods Ladies' Desks Music Cabinet. LimJ on 8ale in New Man1tfac-iturero' Bftild-ing, ()RAND RAPIDS. Tlte Sargent Mfg. Co. MUSKEGON, MICH. ;. Bachelors' Cabinets Ladies' Desks Extra Large Chiffoniers --- __ Aloo Manufacturers and Exporten: of _ ROLLING CHAIRS Chairs adapted to' all kinds of invalidism, both for house and street use. OVER FORTY DESIGNS TO SELECT FROM 27 REX [::~~]MATTRESS CHAS. A. FISHER & CO., 1319 Michigan Ave., Chicago. WRITE FOR BOOKLET AND PROPOSITION WarehOUlelll: ST. LOUIS, MO. KANSAS CITY. MO. MINNEAPOUS, MINN. PEORIA, ILL. LINCOLN, ILL. CHICAGO, ILL. STILL ON THE GRILL. Grand Jury Investigation of the Alleged School Seat Trust Not Yet Finished. The investigation of the so-called "School Furniture Trust" which began before the grand jury in Chicago on February 4, has not been completed. So far no indictments have been returned, but F. A. Holbrook the managing director of the American Seating Company has been ar-rested on comp"laint of District Attorney Sims. It is ex-pected, however, that several indictments will be secured, including officia'ls of the American School Furniture Com-pany. A. H. Andrews & Co., Sherwood & Co" The Super-ior Manufacturing Company, E. H. Stafford & Co. and others. The evidence is said to have tended to show that while several apparently distinct concerns were engaged in the manufacture and sale of school and church furniture, they were really combined under a "gentleman's agreement." \Vhen the investigation began it was supposed the American Seating Compa.ny had aC<luired title to all the other con-cerns in the combine, but the evidence is said to have shO\-vn that such is not the fact. It appears to have been organized merely to manage sales for the others and it did not have complete contro! of the sales. The government relies for an indictme.nt .Rot only on the showing made regarding school furniture, but that of thea-tres and churches as well. Among the theatre owners especiaHy there has been much complaint, for here the persons dealt with were private individuals, who are usually more canny in such things than a public hody spending public funds. The man who is credited with stirring up the govern-ment along this line of action, is Eugene Carpenter, a lawyer in Grand Rapids, Mich., who was formerly connected with the Haney School Furniture Company of that city. President Boyd, of the American Seating Company is reported as denying the existence of a "gentlemen's agree-ment." I-Ie states that the American Seating Company ..v.as formerly known as the American School Furniture Com-pany, which was organized in 1899 with a capital of $10,- 000,000. They did business under that title until April of last year, when a new company, known as the American Seadng Company was organized and purchased the assets of the oM concern. The charter calls for nine directors. There are two vacancies at present and Mr. Boyd names the seven, now acting as follows: O. M. Stafford, Cleveland; F. Billmeyer, New York; S. H. Carr, Dayton; W. P. Orr, Piqua, 0.; ]. P. Drouilard, New York; Edward Case, In-dianapolis; and T. M. Boyd, Chicago. )..lr. Boyd was asked why it was thought best to re-organize the American School Furniture Company into the American Seating Company. He hesitated about replying, but final1y admitted it was a "financial" reason which he did not care to discufiS. More than ordinary secrecy has been maintained as to the identity of witnesses. It is known that many of them live in Racine, Grand Rapids and Buffalo, but these for the most part are employes of the American Seating Company. Chicago men in the employ of the same company have also been subpoenaed, as have the employes of the A. H. An-drews & Co. and the Sherwood Company. It has been reported that the investigation has shown that the American Seating Company contro']5 the product of the furniture plant in the Indiana penitentiary, but the report has not been confirmed. One of the men who is we'll informed as to the affairs of the American School Furniture Company says it is true that the reorganization was necessary for "financial reasons" as stated by President Boyd. It appears that immediately after the organization of the old company-the American School Furniture Company-bonds were issued, or author-ized, to the extent of $1,500,000. The bonds did not sell readily to the public but most of them were taken by the stockholders. Then it was found that the bond issue had impaired the company's credit and in order to restore it, the reorganization was effected, the bondholders exchanging their bonds for stock in the new company. It has been surmised that the alleged "trust" was held together by a plan invented by a Rochester lawyer, named Oviatt-the Oviatt plan-by which each member of the com-bine executes an immediate note for a certain amount, the dates to be filled in and the notes thus made negotiable, due and payable, in case of failure to stand by the agree-ment, but gentlemen who are supposed to know ,-ieclare that no such notes have been given and that there is no written agreement-that the old company simply bought the plants, paying for the most part in stock and bonds and that the new company has simply taken charge and contin-ued the business-that the only object of the reorganization was to call in the bonds and thus strengthen the company's credit. Edith-T do so admire a man who says the right thing at the right time. Harold-So do I-especially when I'm thirsty. 28 .:f'~ J:'vl.IF,HIG7J-N , TRAGICAL TALES OF SIGNS. Hard Luck and Business Reverses Cause a Demand for Window Cards. Did you ever notice anything in the advertising columns of a newspaper that told a tale in brief as plainly as if it filled a column of the reading matter in another section of the newspaper? Some people read between the lines roman-ces and tragedies of the signs as readily. A city sign-painter has recently chatted entertainingly about the suggestiveness of his work. Ever since r first learned my trade, he said, I have been a reader of signs as well as a maker of them. Between the lines of many a sign I read a story-a talc of triumph or a tragedy of ddeat. Again, I have acquired the habit of industry, and ,by industry I thrive, pay rent, meet bilts, keep square with my fellowman and am in tbe shop when wanted. I painted a window card for a prominent merchant years ago. It read, "Boy ':Vanted."It was a ,remarkable boy who got the job. As I lettered it, I imagined who the boy would be and how he wou"ld turn out. I kept my eye on the boy who took the job, the merchant's daughter for a wife, and a place in the finn. That was a romance, and a fact. In my time I have painted many a "Boy \\'anted." Vv'ell, some of them did not turn out so well as my first hero, more than one was not wanted long and went to the bad. It was only the other day that a man along in years dropped in on me. He purchased a "Furnisbed Room" card and T could not hide the expression of surprise on my face. He explained that he had lost a fortune since retiring from bU'siness. He told me that the only thing that was saved from the wreck was the family home which, as good luck would have it, was in the name of his wife. As he paid for the placard he said sarcastically: "My wife has furnished rooms to rent in the house and I have a vacancy in the upper story." I have in my shop now a "Piano Lessons" sign that is a dirge of buried hopes. The job was done to order for as nice a woman as ever trod the -earth, the flower of a family of high degree. No end to their wealth, so everybody thought. Father died, left an immense fortune in trust. Trustee, a scoundrel, beggared the estate and skipped. When the exposure took place, girl was about to marry a nab. He had a frozen heart on account of the changed financial con-ditions, and the wedding, already announced, was postponed. The Lord didn't postpone the measley chap. The races and the bucket shop got him, and if he lives long enough he will be peddling shoestrings Saturday nights and panhandling the rest of the week. The brave little woman is now giving piano lessons to support herself and mother. Everything they had went and they are the poorest of the poor. Another sign reads: "Receiver's Sale. Entire Stock to be closed Out." There -if, a story goes with that. A man in trade crawled all the way up the ladder by patient degrees, winning every inch and every dollar by hard work, square dealing, and clean methods. Then at the height, Mr. man got dizzy from a swelled head and thought that he knew it all, made some blunders that jarred him, but taught him no lesson. Then he got gay, became extravagant, then reck-less; instead of hauling in sail, he sprl.::ad more canvas, threw discretion to the winds, and his craft turned turtle. Mr. :vIan is in a sanitarium, his affairs in the hands of the re-ceiver, and his wife was in yesterday and ordered a window card. "Board by'the Day or \\'eek." I sell "Girl \Vanted" signs to the restaurant folks. The last one that T disposed of produced unexpected results. A wicked wag stole it out of the window and fastened it to the coat tail of a bachelor friend and he paraded the whole length of the street with the announcement in view, and as he passed down the street a pretty young woman ran after and halted him and removed the sign with many apo'logies and blushes. That strange meeting led to an acquaintance and a wedding. Bennett Company's Booklet. The Charles Bennett Furniture Company, Charlotte, Mich., have just issued a neat little pocket booklet on buffets, chinas and sideboards. This is a forerunner of their regular catalogue which will be ready to mail about March 1. The Made by Ch... Sennett Furniture Co., Charlotte, Mieh. above cut and the one in their advertisement on another page of this paper, will give a slight idea of the beauty of design in this new line. These are money makers for merchants because they are excellent values, well made and finished, and cheap. Great Demand! ·for New Freight Cars. Orders for steel cars amounting to $150,000,000 are now in the hands of the steel car building companies of the Pitts-burg and other districts for construction this year and in. quiries are coming for cars that already give indications of orders amounting to from' $20,000,000 to $30,000,000 more. This is startling in the face of so much talk that the railroads have been compelled to curtail their buying because of failure to secure funds. Despite ~the enormous aggregate of cars now in the hands of the steel car builders the railroads would be willing to buy many thousands more if they could be assured deliv-ery within the next twelve months. Practically every steel car building company in the country is booked ahead for more than one year, and plans are on foot for extensions that will "largely increase capacity. The need for cars was never more urgent than at present, but the buying has been limited only by the capacity of the builders. Recently the Standard Steel Car Company which has 6,000 men at work at its Butler plant, began the con-struction of a $3;000,000 steel car works at Hammond, Ind. to care for the orders which are threatening to overflow it. This new plant 'will be almost a duplicate of the Butler works, and it is expected to be in operation in August. Al-ready the railroads of the \-Vest have placed orders for cars to be constructed there during this year. This plant wilt relieve the Butler works and allow orders for eastern roads to be handled more quickly at Pittsburg. Good Sellers Sample Always. Order Try No. 46, Single Cone. .2.00 Net. GENUINE TEMPERED ALL STEEL WIRE MATTRESSES MANUFACTURED BY SMITH ®. DAVIS MFG. CO.•St. Louis. Mo. Callinet Makers In these days of close competition, need the best p08liible equipment, and this they can have in • • • • BARNES' Hand and Foot POWER Machinery Our New "and and Foot Power Circular Saw No.4 The strollgest, most powerful, and in every way the best machine of it!l kind ever made, for rippiJlg, cross-cutting, boring and grooving. Send for our New Catalogue. "W. F. ®. JOHN BARNES co. 654 :Ruby Street. :Rochford. Ill. 29 30 WILL AWAKEN LONDONERS Marshall Field's Former Manager to Give Them a Depart-ment Store on American Lines. London is experiencing a new invasion by the American ideas and has been told to wake up by Harry Gordon Sel-fridge, former manager of Marshall Field & Co's retail store in Chicago. Mr. Selfridge has been in London for the past year looking over the situation and has come to the conclu-sion that the London shoppers need an up~to-date depart-ment store. An article in the London Daily Telegraph con-cerning the enterprise quotes Mr. Selfridge as follows: "Shopping in London presents a problem that will be interesting to solve. I confess it fascinates me. I had prac-tically retired after the Marshall Field store had been set going on a successful basis; but the business holds me still. The direction of a large number of men and women toward one honorable end of legitimate success, in which all har-moniously co-operate, seems to me an ambition that is worth while. "If a big store in London is rU,n on lines that are elastic and adaptable; if it starts without any old world prejudices and methods except the essential virtues of hard work and honesty; if it deliberately trics to please the women, first, last and all the time; if it is never afraid of a new devel~ opment merely becausc it is a ch<:wge; if it rca'lizes that a woman's shopping can be made more pleasurable to her than ever was the case before-then I venture to think a real ,vant will have been supplied." The invasion seems to have bccn complete for th('. Lon-don Press sounds a warning note to the London merchants . when it says: "For years the English producer and ,;endor has had the best article on the market in many trades. But he 'win never take the trouble to change his methods of sale, or to alter his pattern to suit any of his customers. If they don't like what he offers them they can go to-well, as a matter of fact, they have gone to Germany; not for the best article, which England still possesses, but for the article they want, which England will not sell them. ::'-lotcontent with losing the markets of the world, England's merchants are now to see the actual trade of London itself challenged before their very eyes. "The writing has long been upon the waH, and few who ran have read. Those few have profited accordingly. But the majority, who will lose their trade because they will not change their old habits, will suffer; and it will serve them rig~t. But his words were uttered to ears already sealed in stertorous slumber. Now it is the sleeper's pockets that wi!! suffer, 'and the appeal may prove more intelligible. The c~mpetition is close at home; the gage of battle is thrown down on his front door step." The motto of the Se"lfridge & Vv'aring store, as it will be known will be "integrity of business principles, the highest quality of merchandise and accuracy in all our statements. \Ve shall stock only the best. The purchaser remembers "enry Schmit &. Co. "opkln. _Ad"_rrlet St:t. Cincinn_U. 0, K..U::.llS or UPHOLSTERED FURNITURE LODG~ AND PULPIT, PARLOR LIBRARY, HOTEL AND CLUB ROOM the quality of goods long after he forgets their prices According to the architect's drawings the plans for the new store provide for a magnificent building. 250 by 200 feet fronting on three streets. The date of the opening has not yet been announced. An Endless Belt Window, It remained for an ingenious and enterprising Cleveland merchant, says a contemporary, to discover a way of mul-tiplying his available window display space by four-a seem-ing impossibility. This is how he did it: The window floor was arranged 50 that it re.volved like all endless chain over two clrums at either elld; the window Chas. Bennett furniture CO. CHARLOTTE, MICHIGAN Buffets, China Closets, Side- Boards No. 615 Buffet. Write tor Pocket Edillon of the BEST SELLINGLINE you ever handled. Say the Michigan Artisan told you SQ. floor extending back into the store the depth of the window and being s.eparated by a black velvet cloth. The different aluminum articles-some two hundred in number-were wired to the moving window floor, and thus produced such a unique and striking effect as to challenge the attention of a large number of pedestrians. Before this device \',,·as installed, but fifty pieces could be shown, and that in the old time stationary stile. This enterprising merchant has i<blazed a new trail" in the window display line which merchants in many other lines of business. may find it to their advantage to employ. The device was home-made, simple in design, inexpensive, and driven by a small electric motor concealed below the floor. Every man stamps his own value upon the coin of his character in his own mint, and he cannot expect to pass it for more, and should not be disappointed if people do not take it for more than its face value. 31 Woodard furniture Co. of Mahogany, Circassian Walnut, BIRD'S-EYE MAPLE, Quarter Sawed Oak, BEDROOM fURN ITU RE is the sensation in the Furniture Market today. rt's the kind the best. merchants everywhere are buying. If you are not onto this, get next quick. If you say you saw this in the Michigan Artisan \\'e will let you into a get rich scheme that beats anything you e\"er saw. OWOSSO, MICHIGAN OUR 1907 LINE The New "PERFECT·· FOLDING CHAIR PATKNTEP OCT. 20, 1903. Comfortable Simple Durable Neat The Acme of Perfection in the line 01 Folding Chairs. PERFRCT CaMP"cTNESS wh«n folded. Hard maple. natural finish. WRITE FOR PRICES. No. &1 15M PEABODY SCHOOL FURNITURE CO. North Manchester, Indiana UNION FURNITURE CO. ROCKFORD, iLL. Buffets Bookcases China Closets We lead in Sty~, CQnt.lructron and Finish. See OUI CatalOille. Qur line an pern1aDelltexhibitim. 7th Floor. New M.tRllfacturer.! BuildiDe. Grand Rapid" NALLS', the Polish thai Is Making Evansville Famous. Nan's Red Star Polish dries instantly and never soften:;; or gums. No dis-agreeablt! or offensive ooor. Never set-tles or evaporates. A trial order always makes a permanent customer. Brings out the finish and gives new Ufll!:10 furniture, This PoUsb is free from add. Can be used by any child. Guaranteed to give satisfaction. Sold in 1, 2, 5 and 10 gallon cans and in barrels, also put up III 2, 3and 6 oz. bottles retailing for 100. 15c a.nd 25c. allowing a liberal profit to the retailer. Write for prices and state quantity wanted, Aperfect Polish and Cleanerfor Furniture. Office and B..r Ffx-tures. Pianos. Organs. Bicycles. Iron beds. Carrh,iea and Automobiles. We re.r~l' you to the Crescent Furl1,iture (fo" The E'IJQnsvitle Oe8k (fo" The Eli D. j!filler Folding Bed 00., and the Oity National Bank of Evansville. AMERICANPHARMACALCO., 'os UP". "ROT ST., Evansville, Ind. EXCEPTIONAL FACTORY OPPORTUNITY Do yOll wish to find all opening for a CHAIR FACTORY or would like to remove to some more favorable 10caHon? If so, it would repay rOll to at once request information about a fille location itl tbegreat timber section of Southeast Missouri along the • Liberal indll~ments are offered to secure a bona fide proposition em-ploying !Lotless than forty men. Good di.;tTibuting facilities for finished product. Correspondence is invited regarding this and other excellent opportunities for furniture, mattress, iron bed and other factories along our line~. Send forindustriat d68cripliN3 matter about the Rock Istand- If'riseo. M. SCHULTER, Industrial CommissiOlll}t. RDCk Island.Frisco Lines, 1144Friscf) Bldg" ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI. THIS PUSH BUTTON distinguishesthe "ROYAL" Morris Chairs from the other kind MORRIS CHAIRS ·--FROM-~- $6.00 to $30.00 CATALOGUE UPON APPUCATION Royal Chair Co. STURGIS. MICH. Six Years of Test Have Good Traits in Employers. The ideal employer is, no doubt, the one who gets the most efficient work from his employes with the maximum of contentment on their part. Under cover of anonymity, says a writer in \Vorld's "'lark, I can tell several stories of employers, and describe certain of the qualities that make men popular or unpopular with their employes. One was a grocer in a small western city for whom I kept books. His sales people liked him because in rush hours be worked behind the counter with them, and on the occasion when he asked overtime work, he was always on hand and did more than anyone of them. But my own lik-ing for him was based 011 two incidents which happened soon after I went to work for him. I was told that every morn-ing I was expected to sweep out the office where I worked. I disliked this small piece of drudgery because it seemed menial and I~pproached the l<boss" on the second day and said: "Me G-, am I supposed to sweep out the offiee every morning?" He responded with a simple "yes." There was no emphasis on the word, either of command or irritation, or other emotion, but it was as final as a judgment of the Supreme Court, Some. months later I had an offer of a position with a higher salary. I needed the extra money, so I went to Mr. G-- again, and said: ".:lir. G--, I like to work here and I don't wish to leave, but Blank & Co. have just offered me $60 a month-" "I'll give you that," he interrupted, in the same dispas-sionate tone as before. I stayed. I liked two qualities of the man-this instant decisiveness and the impression he always produced that he would stand by his decisions. It made us who worked for him feel that we knew just what he could be expected to do when he said a thing. THE."ROYAL PUSHBUTTON MORRIS CHAIR EstaLhsLed Suprem.lcy Another employer had a quality which won me in spite of his rather acrid disposition. \Vhenever he set me a task he took great pains to make clear just what he wanted done- ;Ind how-and when he wanted it. He would patiently. an-swer any numbeT of ,questions that would make these things clear. Then I heard no more of the task until it was done. H it were done properly, he merely said, "thank YOu." If it were wrong, or not on time, I got a scorching "call-down."' His theory was a fair one-that when he had given a man every chance. to learn what was wanted he had a right to ex-pect the results. But I appreciated especially the fact that between the time the task was set and its conclusion, I heard nothing about it from him. Other men for whom I had worked had nagged me almost to distraction. Reasons Are Necessary. A. salesman, early in his career,learns to judge his buyers, and to adapt his arguments and methods of approach to each individual case. You cannot address a different ad-vertisement to each individual, but you can get at the kind of people you are selling to and show up the points about your goods that will get them to buy. Give reasons why. That is essential, 110 matter whom you are addressing, but the specific reasons why must be adapted to your particular audience. Don't FoUow the Ban<t Wagon. Don't be a band-wagon man. He never amounts to anything. Nobody respects him. He is not even respected by himself. The world admires a plucky fighter even if he goes down in defeat. Friends know that he can be depended on, enemies know that he is to be counted on, and such a one himself feels more like a man because of it. Stand for something. Don't be a nonentity, for that is what a band-wagon man is.-Chanute (Kan.) Tribune. THE LEXINGTON Michigan Blvd. & 22d 51. CHICAGO, ILL. Refurnished and re-fitted throughout. New Management. The furniture dealers' head-quarters. Most con-venienlly situated to the furniture display houses. Inter·State Hotel CO. OWNER & PROPRIETOR E. K. eriley. Pres.; T. M. CrHey, V. Pres.; L. H. Firey. Sec- Tte3.S.. Chicago, Feb. 23.-,\1though the exposition season is a thing of the past there is enough activity in the retail mar-ket to employ the millc1s of tile buyers and sel1ers. The man-ufacturers are now reaping the benefits of their talks to the buyers at the ShO"'\'5 and the orders seem to be coming in pretty rapidly. In fact, there is no let-up to the volume of business. Salesmen in the city and on the road report good business and every body seems to be satisfied. The only difficulty experienced is with the manufacturer who either cannot get material enough to fill his orders or is unable to get cars to move his goods. The exhibition buildings have again fallen into the be-tween- season state, and with the cxccpt~on of a few buyers (mostly in the city) the attendance is very limited. Plenty of goods, hmvcver, remain on the floors and even now the furniture buyer should have little difficulty in selecting his goods. The Banta Furniture Company, which has had a won-derful growth under the management of llarvey F. Banta, has begun an expansion of its plant at Goshell, Ind. Here- Why Not Order? Say a dozen or more Montgomery Iron Display Couch Trucks sent you on approval ~ If nol satisfactory lhey can be returned at no expellse to you whalever, while the price asked is bUI a tri8e, com~ pared to the convenience Ihey afford and the economy they represent in the saving of floor space. ThiIty-two couches mounted on the Montgomery Iron Display Couch T fUcks occupy the same floor space as twelve dis~ played in the usual manner. Write for catalogue giving full descrip~ bon and price in the different finishes, to~ gether with illustrations demonstrating the use of the Giani Short Rail Bed Fastener for Jron Beds. Manufactured by H. J. MONTGOMERY PATENT"-R Silver Creek, New York, U. S. A. Dennis Wire and Iron Co., Canadian Manu~ facturers. London, Onto 711'<-T I oS' J'I~ 27ft 7 $ .a 33 9 tofore, the company has made library and extension tables -which have proved satisfactory-and now, with the erec-tion of a new building and the installment of new machinery for the purpose, a complete line of dining room furniture \-viII be manufactured in connection with its present line. \Jr. Banta assumed charge of the old factory five years ago and by his energy and ability has tripled the output. The Chicago Furniture ::'vIanufacturer's Association held its anntlal meeting Feb. 12 in the banquet hall of the Chicago Athletic Association. A large number of the members were present and occasion was taken to cc'lcbrate the birthday of the Great Em,ancipator. The Fourteenth Street Furniture Market was unex-pectedly turned in to an auto show the first of the month. The Ford 1Iotor Company's sales rooms on Michigan avenue were gutted by fire and manager l\lcCready generously ten-dered the company ample space on the first floor of the build-ing. A new furniture concern known as the ,Manufacturer's Sample Furniture Company will be opened in Chicago the middle of ~larch. The controlling parties in the venture are Sigmund Kline and Louis \\l eil, the latter former manager of the Sample Furni'ture Company of this city. The company wilt occupy five floors at 346-8 \Vabash avenue, which will give them a display space of some 30,000 feet. Both men arc \vell and favorably known to the trade and the enterprise will undoubtedly he successful. J. C. Hills, of the Peck & Hills Furniture Company, left la,st week for a trip to Cuba. He was accompanied by his wit, and th. Ruiz, manager of the foreign department. Mr. .-Jills will combine business with pleasure and expects to remain in the tropics for the next two months. Four new companies for the manufacture of furniture in Chicago have formed during the month. They are: The Empire Furniture & l\Ianufacturing Co., with a capital of $10,000. P. L. ::VlcArdle, F. P. Brodculis and A. ]. Schmidt are the incorporators. TlIc People's Portrait and Frame Company with a capital of $3,000. J. E. Dittus, H. II. Costello, 1. R. Lewis, incor-porators. 11ahogany Koveity Company, capital $10,000. To man-ufacture picture frames. Incorporators, R. J. Cook, D. B. Graham, and Vv'alter Frahicus. International Mirror Company, capital $5,000. S. C. Car-roll, E. E. V/augh and Nina Johnson, incorporators. Secretary McCready, of the new }lanufacturer's Furniture Exchange, realizing the difficulty dealers have in remembering the names of the various Chicago exhibition buildings, has decided to re-christen the name of the new exchange. It will hereafter be known as the Fourteenth Street Furniture :'darket and will continue to be the home of Chicago-made furniture. A new name has been added to the selling force of the Columbia Feather Company. ZoIa C. Green, manager of the company, has succeeded in enlisting the services of James A. Dean, former manager of Mandel Brother's metal bed and bedding department. !vfr. Dean is well known in the retail trade in Chicago and is a valuable addition to Mr. Green's growing business. A. H. Revell and family have been visiting in Washington, D. C and Palm Beach, Fla" the past month. The Derby Desk Company, 311 \J\.!abash avenue, sustained a loss of $30,000 by fire February 13. The blaze started in the basement which is used as a storeroom by the Derby company. Before the firemen could arrive the fire had spread to the first and second floors and was making danger-ous bead way. Two hours of fighting, ho",1ever, extinguished the blaze. Several other companies suffered an aggregate loss of $30,000, among them being the Chickering-Chase J 34 B'rothers Piano Co., and the Henry Holtzmann & Sons Com-pany. F. T. Plimptoh has added the line of the Spencer & Barnes to his list. The Hawks line was dropped from the Plimpton exhibit in January, when no showing was made by that company. Chas. Kindel, of the Kindel Manufacturing Company, St. Louis, was in Chicago Feb. 18 to confer with John A. Arton, the Chicago representative. Mr. Kindel reports good bus-iness in the St. Louis territory and a satisfactory season in New York. He was on his way to Toronto to look after the Canada branch of the company. Mt ~rommersberger, vice-president of Charles Emmer-ich & Co., is in New York attending to the company's bus-iness at the exposition. Condemnation proceedings have been instituted by 'the Northwestern -Railroad Company against the- factory sites nothing to do but make a settlement and vacate. How soon that will be I cannot say; it will probably be some time, though. VVe have done nothing in the matter of a site for our factory. Several locations have been offered but none has been accepted. There are so many companies affected by the ruling of the council that it will be months before we are obliged to come to a settlement." The police authorities of Chicago are still searching for W, R. Wieboldt, a furniture dealer at 1302 Belmont avenue, who, after setting fire to his store, disappeared, Every effort to locate the missing man has proven futile. On the day of the fire it was fQund that blankets satur-ated with coal oil had been hung from the ceiling of the store, which caused the p01ice to look further into the causes of the blaze. Insurance policies to the amount of over $30,000 were found, aU of which had been taken out a month or two previous to the fire. Between twenty-five and thirty com- DAVENPORT MANUFACTURED BY GRAND RAPIDS UPHOLSTERING CO., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. of the Johnson Chair Company, the L. F. Kounast Table Comrany and the Koenig & Gamer Furniture Company. This is the result of an ordinance recently pas5ed by the city council giving the 1':J orthwestern the privilege of widen-ing tqe right of way amll II).aking various other improvements in the Halsted street di~~trict. The plans of the railroad company contemplate the des-truction of a number of manufacturing pla.nts but the three companies named are the 'only ones connected with the fur-niture trade to suffer. The Johnson plant will be cut in half, the line of demarca.tion, so to speak, starting in at the south-east corner of the site at Halsted and Erie streets and con-tinuing through t,o the northwest corner on Green street. This will leave a part of the factory untouched but the ware~ rooms and office will be included in the path. The northeast corner of the Nonnast factory, on Green street opposite the Johnson plant, will be cut off, and almost the entire site of the Koenig & Gamer factory will be taken in by the proposed improvements. It is possible that the Nonnast plant will be able to stand the loss of the corner and yet retain its present location, The: other companies, however, will be obliged to remove completely.' In regard to the suit and bis plans for the future, :\/Ir. Ne1s Johnson of the Johnson Chair Company said: "We have been served with a notice that proceedings have been started but there has been nothing done so far, We will have panics were repre5ented in the policies nearly all of which wcre for $1,000. Other papers found in a satchel in the v'lie-bolelt apartment were worth $20,000. \Vieboldt's daughter disappeared at about the same time and left a note saying that both she and her father had ended their troubles in the: lake. The suicide story, however, has since been discreJited as reports from both parties have been received by friends in this city, It is now supposed that Wieboldt is hiding in St. Louk Upon the request of the American Trust and Savings Bank, receiver in the affair, an order was entered by the court permitting the receiver to sell at 'private sale the two stores owned by \Vieboldt. Mr. Flesh Changes Base. l- Vl. Flesh, the popular salesman of eron-Kills & Co., has become general sales manager for the L. C. & W. L. Cron Company of Piqua, 0., who are about to discontinue their export trade and devote their energies to satisfying the American demands for dressers and chiffoniers. ,Mr. Flesh is thoroughly competent, both horn his long exper-ience as a furniture salesman and on account of his exten-sive acquaintances with buyers in all parts of the country, to ,guarantee the sales of this company's output. Mr. :Flesh is very enthusiastic over the new patterns. He says that they are bound to make good. 35 ROBBINS TABLE COMPANY OWOSSO, MICHIGAN No. 318. American Oak. 44x48 in. Top. American Base. 7 in. Pillar. Rockford Chair and Furniture Co., Rockford, III. OUR SPRING LINE -01- Dunels. Doo~mes. Oina (IosetS. li~rarJ Cases, On sale at our ware-rooms, BLODGETT BLOCK, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., dur-ing January, 1907. 36 ·:f'~MI9]iIG7JN Detroit, Feb. 25.-The Palmer Manufacturing Company wiH soon he in full possession of their new three-story brick addition. One floor is already filled with parlor and library tables and pedestals. A large part of the first floor will be occupied with offices, which will be handsomely fitted up. The second floor will be used as a sample room, where sam-ples of their full line will be kept for the inspection of buyers. /\. new old gold finish has recently been added to the large line of finishes previously shown, and already it bids fair to rival in popularity their famous Rookwood finish. Tbey re-port their January sales in Chicago as the best for January they have ever had in that market. The Pioneer }1anufacturing Company have recently fitted up a neat set of offices on the second floor of tb'eir fac-tory, directly over the old offices; hut they are much larger, lighter and more convenient in every way. They report trade as very satisfactory, their sales in January in Chicago ·being nearly equal to their last July sales, and much greater than any January in that market. Their line of reed and rattan rockers, children's carriages and go-carts 'is large and grows in popularity every season. The Posselil1s Brothers Furniture }\{anufaeturing Com-pany report a good volume of orders on their books, and the big factory is being operated to its full capacity. Their dis-play at 1319 ~1jchigan avenue, Chicago, in january, was the largest they ever made, and their sales were corresponJ~ ingly heavy. The Safety Folding Bcd Company is another of the busy ones, and under the skillful guidance of manager Farrel is growing steadily from year to year. J. C. \Vidman & Co., made such a big display of china closets, buffets and ha1l furniture in Chicago and Kew York in January that they "caught the crowd" and are full of bus~ iness. The vVolverine Manufacturing Company and Cadillac Cabinet Company report business active. The Detroit Folding Bed Company is one of the suc-cessful ones in the way of providir.g vehicles for the babies. Some of their goods are illustrated in this issue. Look up the pictures, get their prices and prepare to gladden the hearts of the young mammas and the future presidents, dce-presidents, senators, representatives and other great men and great women who are coming to take our places in the conduct of affairs in this great and glorious nation of Uncle Sam's. The "'1'/. E. Barker furniture 'store at 178 \¥oodward avenue has been vacated, and the goods that were not sold in the recent clearing sale were moved to the Michigan ave-nue store, corner of Third street. The big Michigan avenue store is filled with goods, as the peop1e are discovering, and a good, steady business is carried on. Owing to the putting in of the foundation of the huge eighteen story office building at Griswold and Congress streets, the foundations of the ~1offat building, (in '",hich Geo. J. Reindel & Co's office furniture store was located) re-quired to be strengthened, which rendered it necessary to vacate the premises. Temporary quarters are now occupied on Farmer street, but the fine six-story building now being erected for them wilt give th(',m in a few weeks, one of the [Lnest furniture stores in the city or state. Geo. Reindel is one. of the busy merchants of Detroit. \\Then he removes froin "Voodward avenue there will be but four furniture stores on that street, viz: \iVeit & Co. and A. A. Gray & Co. on the east side and Keenan & Jalm [lnd H. R. Leonard & I Co. on the west side. There arc nearly a score of furniture stores on 1\1ichigan avenue and about as many more on Gra-tiot. ~lost 'of them carryon an installment business, and some of them have an immense trade. \i\lith the opening of navigation, ""'hich is less than eight weeks away, will commence the usua1 rush of spring and sum-mer visitors. Official reports show that the steamboat pas-senger business of Detroit far exceeds that of any port on the lakes with the possible exception of Chicago. This al- 'ways makes busincss brisk for Detroit merchants. Some of the enthusiastic Detroit boomers arc now pre-dicting that this wilt be the sixth city in population when the. United States census of 1910 is completed. The city is certainly making marvelous strides in growth of population and business, but it is quite possible that these boomers are not com1ting on what other cities are doing. But that's the way to make things grow. Had there been no enthusiasts Pioneer Mf,g. Co ... DETROIT, MICH. Reed furniture Babu Carriages Go-Carts Full IiDe shown on secoDd floor. ] 3; ] 9 Mlcbi1!an Ave.. Chi-cago. iD January. «OOKWOOD and a general line of ff\NGY Tf\BLES Write for Cuts and Prices PALMER Manufacturing Co. 1015 to 1035 Palmer Ave. DETROTT, MICH. Full line shown on second floor, 1319 Michigan Ave., Chicago, in January. :a Chicago it would be far from the second city in the United States and the fourth or fifth in the world. The writer, who is far from being an old man, was in Chicago when it was not not more thaI). half as large as Detroit is at present, so there is every reason for the residents of Detroit to look forward to a city of one million souls in less than twenty years. Andrew Dutton, the Boston jobber in upholstery goods, will open a branch in Detroit, from which he will fill orders from ~1ichigan and the northwest. Murphy Chair Co. MANUFACTURERS DETROIT, MICH. ' A COMPLE
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647. Weekly Artisan; 1910-05-21

Notes:: Issue of a furniture trade magazine published weekly in Grand Rapids, Mich, starting in 1879. and I f 7 \ " 7,"" -..., \ _ U..t \1-~;. '\ -..../ r :"",-" J.. .t -'"........., GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.• MAY 21. 1910 NELSON-MATTER FURNITURE co. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. BED-ROOM and DINING-ROOM COMPLETE SIJITES in Mahogany, Circassian ,"T alnnt and Oak. If you Lave Dot one in your .tore. a simple request will brinli you our :matnifleen" new Cataloaue of 12x16 inch valle 'roup., show-inll •• ite. to Ulatch. With it, even the most Dloderat. sized furniture _iore can show the best and newest furniture satisfactorily. 1----- I WEEKLY ARTISAN 1 2 WEEKLY ARTISAN ~p--- -_._---------_._--------------. ----------- ." LUCE FURNITURE COMPANY GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Manufacturers of COMPLETE lines of MEDIUM PRICED DINING I and CHAMBER FURNITURE. Catalogues to Dealers Only. ~- -- ---- . ----~._-- -------- - --------------------------..& Luce-Redmond Chair Co., Ltd. I BIG RAPIDS, MICH. High Grade Office Chairs Dining Chairs Odd Rockers and Chairs Desk and Dresser Chairs Slipper Rockers Colonial Parlor Suites 111 Dark alld Tuna Mahogany BIrd' J EYf Maplf BIrth !Zuarttrtd Oak alld Clr(aJJlall Walnut Our Exhibit you will find on the fourth floor, East Section, MANUfACTURERS'BUILDING,North Ionia Street GRAND RAPIDS, MICmGAN Exhibit in charge of J. C. HAMILTON, C. E. COHOES, J. EDGAR FOSTER. 30th Year-No. 47 GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.• MAY 21.1910 Issued Week1)o' GOING AFTER THE EXPRESS COMPANIES Movement Started by the New York Merchants· Association Supported by Many Other Mercantile Organizations. On May lIon the invitation of The Merchants' associ-ation of New Yark, representatives of the followmg promi-nent commerCIal orgamzatlOns attended a conference m the association's rooms, to consIder the expeldiency of a Jomt pe-tItion to the Interstate CommeJ:1ce commISSIOn for an mvesti-gatlOn of express rates and practices, to the end that faIr and Just rates and practices may prevaIl' Merchants' and Manufacturels' associatIOn, Baltimorel; C~amber of Commerce, Boston, Cha:nlber of Qommerce, Cleveland, Bloard of Trade, Grand Rapids, Mlch ; Merchants' association, Indlanapohs; Board of Trade, Manche"ter, N H ; Board of Trade, Newark, N. J.; Bu"iness Men's Association, New Haven; Chamber of Commerce, New Haven; Board of Trade, New Otleans; The MeJ:1chants' assocIatIOn of New York; Board of Trade, Portland, Me.; Board of Trade, Pater-son, N. J ; Chamber of Commerce, Philadelphia, Merchants' and Manufacturers' assocIation, Pllliadelphla; Eastern MIl-lmery assocIation; Chambm of Commerce, PIttsburg, Board of Trade, ProViidence, R I; Chamber of Commelce, RIch-mond, Va , Chamber of Commerce, Rochester, New York; Chamber of Commerce, Syracu~e, New YOlk, Syracuse Traf-fIC Bureau, Chamber of Commer,e, Watertown, N. Y ; Board of Trade Worcester, Mass.; Busmess Men's assocIatIOn Pawtucket, R. I ; Chamlber of Commerce, Spokane, Wash., Board of Trade, Bridgeport, Conn. In addItion to the orgamzatlons actually Iepresented by delegattJs the followlllg bodIes, by letter, favored the pro-po" ed investigatIon by the Interstate Commerce commISSIOn: Chicago Association of Commerce, Chamber of Com-merce, Dayton, 0 ; Iowa State Manufacturers' associatIOn, Des Moines, Iowa; Merchants' and Manufacturers' assocI-atIOn, MIlwaukee, Wis. ; Commercial Club, Mlllneapolts, Mllln ; Chamber of Commerce, El Paso Texas; Board of Trade, IndIanapolis; Chamber of Commerce, South Bend, Ind; Board of Trade, Savannah, Ga.; Commercial Club, LouisvIlle, Ky.; Board of Trade, Spningfie1d, Mass, Chamber of Commerce, San Francisco, Cal ; Merchants' association, San Francisco Cal ; Chamber of Commerce, Baltimore, Md. The Conference, whIch was in sessIOn all day, adopted the followlllg preambles and resolutions: WHEREAS, The rates charged by the express com-panies appear to be excessIve as compared with the service performed; and WHEREAS, The practices of these companies with ref-erence to collectIOn and dehvery and to regulations of vari-ous kmds appear to be unjustly dlscrimmatlve and other-wIse in VIolatIOn of the Interstate Commerce Law; and 'WHEREAS, An analysIs of the reports made by the pnnclpal express companies domg business in the United States to the Interstate Commerce commISSIon, and on file in the office of the latter, mdlcates that the net earnings of the companies are from more than 40 to about 125 per cent per annum on the value of the property in use for the public service; and 'WHEREAS, The Supreme Court of the Umted States, m ItS deCISIOn in the KnOXVIlle water case", has declared as a standard for the measurement of the Just earntngs of pubhc service corporatIOns that those earnlllgs shall bear due pro-portion to the fair value of the property actually employed for the servIce of the pubjlc, and WHEREAS, If the earnlllgs indicated by these reports, on full investIgation be practically substantiated, it is evi-dent that such charges are excessive and extortionate and should be reduced, therefore, be it RESOLVED, By this Conference, representing many of the prlllcipal busllless orgalllzatlOns throughout the United States, that a petttlOn be prepared on behalf of these com-merCIal orgamzatlOns and such others as may, subsequently join, to be presented to the Interstate Commerce commission, praYlllg that body to exercise the authonty vested in It by law, by conducting, forthWIth, an exhausttve investigation into the whole question of the rates and practices of the express companies, to the end that fair and equil'able rates and practices may be established. To carry out the program deCIded on by the conference, a permanent executive commIttee was created, wIth power to employ counsel, to prepare and present the petition to the Interstate Commerce commission, and wIth full discre-tion to determine the breadth and scope of the petition. The delegates present at the conference, by unanimous actIOn not only pledged their respective organizations to join in the petition to the Interstate Commerce commiSSIOn, but to assist in every possible way in the preparation of supple~ mentary information and argument The executive committee WIll submit the form of petition to the leadlllg chambers of commerce, boards of trade and merchants' associatIOns throughout the country, to secure WEEKLY ARTISAN then conCllrrence m the actIOn and thell co-opel ation as petitIOners The executive commlttee vv111 !11let l1e"t vveek. ,lHCI whIch the necessary :oteps to c,u n mto dtect thl de ~l1l ~ I j the cOl1fel ence WIll be taken at the e,l1!Jlc,t pO~~lb1L d Ite \Vlth the 1111 ltatlOn to the COI11I11cLl1al OliSanuatlolh 1epl e "ented at the confe1encc, the \[elchdnh' a,,~oerat1(In t1 In, nlltted a "RepOlt on lxp1es" CapItal. laIDln~~ and ]\lte,. vvltll tahlllatee! statement" "hO\v 111e;the lone!Jtlll11 ut the 1 Illl pnnopal expl CS" compall1e" alld u)ml11ent111~ thu (on ,h 1,,1 lows GentlCll11cn In accordance \\ Hh ) our 1I1structlOI1:o I have made an anal} "lS of the a,,,etc, 111C0!11cand e"pell,e~ "I 1 JUI pnnllpal expresc, cOl11pal1lec, ot the elunent, th,lt 111 I~l IIp the sen Ice' ed lell 1 bv them d11d ot the 1J,1,1~ upun \\ hll'l the 1ates cha1gcd Me made The C0111p1111C"dl"c'l""ed bel !IV drc l;I1:.;<:h en:.;a~cd 111 add1tlOn to the exple,,, bu"me,,,, m 1I1ve~t!11ent and bank111c; bu:ome"" The pUlpl c,e of the alldh "1~ \\ hlLh 11 JlIu\\ ~ h t shoy\ vvhat pOl bon of the a,,~ch ~lheduled I~ t, be 1c~ I led as m vestm ent or hdnk111g LapHal Wha t pm tlUn 1~ to ]JC I e-garded as exprec,s capItal, and the pClcentd!.?;C uj P1OI1t cle-nveel bv expl e"" operdl1on" upon thL L'lpltal ae tnallv and properly emplo} eel m e"pl ess opel atlon The follo\\ 1l1~ ,oheelules dl e ..,U1111lla11e". compIled!1 om 1e ports made b} the :oeveldl e"ple,~ COI11P,{l1lL~tel the Inler state Commerce C0111111h::,lun,fOI the h"cal veal lndlnc; 1Ulll 30, 1909 1he scheelule of as"et" "hO\v" 'W\ eral la1(;e Item~ \\ hleh ObvlOlhl} represent ul,j!ltal not emplo\ ed 111 L"p1l '" opel a110n These C0111p11<;e' ~tl ck" and Ill)Ild~ 0\\ l1ed (hhe 1 Permanent In\ estment<;" (RLal J "tate not u~ed 111 Up( I atlOn." and "\101 tga~es ., In Table III the a~gl egate ot these Item:o ha~ been Ie-ducted flom tl,e aggregate net a<;"eh remalllm~ aHel p<lV ment of all current llah1!It1es The amount 1e111dmlll!.?;h th" amollnt of capItal osten~lbh tl"ed 111 C"PIC~~ upelaiJun, 11 cOimpn'oec, the Items <;chululed a, ' Real I ~Llte and n1111dll1~' u"ed m OpelatlOn," "EqUIpment.' "La~h and em I ent \~ seh," ":\1 a tellab and SupplJe",' I n"l11anCl l'H'J111Ullh I IH Cld1111S," "GooJ-\\ 111and Lontlact<' and \celJunh III ~u~- pense" Of the 1teJ11~1I1cluelerl under the head -\~<;eh ()~te1hl],j\ used 111 L'<p1e"s Operatllln' ~e\ e1al dre open tll "e11UU' ob JeetlOn, as follo\\ <; It 1S questlOnahle vyhether the'e Item" s111>ul,1not be regarded as mve',iment eapltdl ane! not a~ opel atlllg cdpltal The ownel "Ihlp of the"e holdmgc, h not e""f'niJdl t,) e"pH" operatIOn", n01 h there any 1e,hon v\ hv "ueh n, In-f"~Ll1tlal --------~ 4~ __ ~_. __ ~_ ...--., Pitcairn Varnish Company I Reliable Varnishes of Unifor~ Quality Our Motto: "NOT HOW CHEAP-BUT HOW GOOD" to ••• C. B. Quigley, Manager Manufacturing Trades Dep't. a.. [ DO 'YOU WANT'" II the PRETTIEST, BEST and MOST POPU-LAR LEATHER FOR FURNITURE. I - J ANY COLOR. WILL NOT CRACK. I III IIItt II If so buy our GOAT and SHEEP SKINS Write for sample pads of colors. DAHM & KIEFER TANNING CO. TANNERIES CRAND RAPIDS, MICH. CHICACO, ILL. 204 lake Street, .... CHICAGO. ILL. ••••••••• ••• A ------- - ----- - h JI 11l1~' "huuld J (cell e net 1etm n" denved flam express lh,ll~l" 110m tIllee to 11101eth,w ten ttmes the ordlllary re- 1. 11l n" ir 0111I e,d L~LIt e 111l e ,tm en t <; 1n e ]leI cellt net after pdy ment of aLl expenses is the Olcl111dl\ 1al( ot letl1ln frol11 leal estate investments The fi", II celp1t,11 111\ e"tecl ]i} e"1'1e,s compames 111 real estate ~!J()llld !wt be l llltlht'd \\ lth the actIve capItal required in l)]llldtHJll, and ~11lJuld not (Itaw f"-.cessrve returns from in-tl, l1l d l hell ~c~ 101 cX]lre~~ sen Ice l{u':,11 d111g-the vallle of the leal estate used III operatlOn a.., mvest1l1ent capItal and not as operatmg capItal, a net five pC! C(:.11t1t tll111 shoul(l be alloweJ tJhereun, WhICh amount ,h Iltld be chaH!,lll ,1~c11J1st ()pelatll1~ eo"t Adoptlllg th1S \ Ie \\ thl ,l11l0unt oj the Item "Real 1, "tate and Bl1lldmg" used III ()pelallllll ha~ 111 ['able rrr been deducted from the osten- -----~_._.-._-~- Manufacturers of Factories: Milwaukee, Wis.; Newark, N. J. -" WEEKLY ARTISAN ~---- .. . ..------------- ------'---.---.~.-----.---.-.--.--~.--.---.--~.~.--------.-----"5 -----~ ACCURACY, DURABILITY, ECONOMY Three most important requisites in case construction. We absolutely guarantee our method of construction to be stronger and less expensive than all others. Let us tell you about it. No. 181 Multiple Square Chisel Mortlser. .... ..WYSONG & MILES CO., Cedar St. and Sou. R. R., aREBNSBORO, N. C. Ask. for Catalog "J" . .. --.. . .. . ------- ---_._-----.--------...._---_..._._._-----_._._._------_ .... SIble active expre'3S capItal anJ treated a~ part of the mvest-ment fund, I athel than as part of the operatnng fund Unhke a mercantlle 01 manufactunng busme'3s the ex-press busme"s doe" not reqUIre, nor e\ en adnllt, a large amount of ready ca..,h for Ib operatIOn", masmuch a" It .Joes not reqlure the pUl cha;"e of lar!:;e stocks of matellal or mer-chandIse, or the gmntl11g 0: large hnes of CIedIt The '3el- Vllces are as a rule paId mad, ance and "uch ad, ance cash receipt" at all tlme'3 sqpply an ample fund from whIch to pay cun ent expense" The cash balances held by the several expre'3s com-pa11les June 30, 1(0), after deductmg the amount of all cur-rent halbllltie'3, was a, follO\vs Adams IExpress Co . $1,410,889.49 Ame1l1can Express Co 716,00449 U S Express Co ,Yells-I< argo Express Co 2,4-1-3,90200 A "tudy of "taLments of pI e\ IOUS years "how'3 that the free cash bdlance" al eat occasIOnal mten ab con, el ted mto mVLstments and that they are not to any con"lderable degree m the nature of wor~ing capItal necessanly reqUIred for carry-mg on the busmess, but are rather accrued profits awaIting m-vestments m stocks, bonds and other securities 11hl'3should be borne m mmd m consldenng the amount of the actual capItal reqt11recl for express operatIOn, the amount of the return upon suah capital, and the fallness of the rates which Ylel.J such returm One company mclucles m ItS as;"ets $816,66600 for "Good- V{lll dnd Contracts" TIll;" probably replesents a payment to anothel expl ess company fOl the nght to operate ov er hnes prevIOusly controlled by the latter If '30, the cash paid is not capItal nece'3"ary fOl operatIOn, equipment, or other legItImate expre;"s purposes, but b merely capltahLatlOn of ant1clpated profits and should be excluded from the h"t of asset" actually used in express operatIOn, as It properly belongs m the mvcst-ment account If the foregOIng conclUSIons are accepted, It appear'3 that the greater part of the as'3ets of the express compa11les, m-clud111g most of the free cash balances, are de' oted to the 111- ve'3tment business and not to the express busmess, and that the amount of the capItal actually and necessanly employed 111the latter is but httle more than the value of the eqlupment, plus a very moderate amount of wOlkmg capItal Express service 15 compo"ed of three elements, namely, Terminal sen Ice, an.J cal e m tranSIt, performed by eA-pre"" compal1les, and TranslPortatlOn, performed by I allroad" The relation whIch the ter'1l1l11al sen Ice bears to the whole servIce was in 1899 ;"tated a;" follows WIth the exphClt applOval of the PreSIdent of the '\.dams Express Company "The chIef servIce whl1ch the express com pan} performs IS the temmnal service-a service entIrely away from the lall-ways and stations; the collectIOn, care and dehvery of pack-ages constItutes tlhe sCIence of the express busl11ess " The special report of the United States census (1907) on "Express Bus111es" 111the UnIted States" state;" the baSIS of c1iv1.s,ionof charges between the raIlroads and express com-panies as follows: "The usual contract made by an express company WIth a ralJlway company provide" that the rall" ay company shall fur111sh the necessary car", heat and hght the111, haul them ovrr ItS 11l1es, together vvirt:hthe employeee; of the express com-pany necessary to care for the traffic en route At statIOns the rallway company permIts It", employees to act as em-ployees of the express company also, WIth certam restnc- "THE BEST IS THE CHEAPEST" BARTON'S GARNET PAPER Sharp, Very Sharp, Sharper Than Any Other. SUPERIOR TO SAND PAPER. It costs more, BUT It Lasts Longer; Does Faster Work. Order a small lot; make tests; you will then know what you are getting. WE GUARANTEE SATISFACTION. Furniture and Chair Factories, Sash and Door Mills, Railroad Companies, Car Builders and others will consult their own interests by using it. Also Barton's Emery Cloth, Emery Paper, and Flint Paper, furnished in rolls or reams. MANUFACTURED BY H. H. BARTON & SON CO., 109 South Third St., Philadelphia, Pa. ---_...-._._._---_.._---------_._--_._------_._----------_ ....~. cS WEEKLY ARTISAN ..._•• _.. . . •• .. ••• _. •• _.I. . _ - Veneer Pre ..... dIfferent kin1. and lizel (ate.ted) Veneer Presses Glue Spreaders Glue Heaters Trucks, Etc" Etc. These Specialties are used all Over the World Power Feed Glue Spreadine Maehine. Single. Double and CombInation. (atented) (Sozea 12 In. to 1I4 In wide.) tions, and permIts the use of statIOn faCIlities by the express company The express company on Its part assumes all the n'ik for damage to express matter and all liabIlity for mJury to Its employees, and agrees to pay the railway company a fixed per cent of its gross earnmgs, wIth a gualanteed m1111mU111 amount It was formerly the custom to make the contracts upon a tonnage basIs, but the gross ear111ng~ plan IS no\\ m general use. After deductmg the amounts paId carner~ f01 express pnvileges, the remamder IS a\ a1lable for pay menb of all ex:penses of operation, interest, taxes, dn 1dencl'i, etc" For transportation the raIlroads in 1909 recelveJ slightl) more than 477 per cent of the aggregate charges collected upon all express parcels passing 0\ er the respectn e lmes The remaining 52-3 per cent represents the charge for the terminal serv1ce~that IS, that portion of the sen Ice \\ hlch IS dIrectly performed by the extpress companies It is self-evident that the cost of transportation bv raIl increases in proportIOn to distance, and that the element of dIstance does not enter into the cost of term mal ,;en Ice It is equally eVIdent, therefore, that \\ hlle the charge for trans-portation should mcrease wl'th the d1'itance, the char~e for terminal serVIce should rem am unchanged, 1rrc,;pectn e of dIstance by rail, inasmuch as the termmal sen Ice performed is the same. whether the rail transportatIOn IS long or ,;h01 t It IS nevertheless the practice of the express CDmpanle-- to increase in proportion to dIstance the charges exacted for Hand Feed Glneine Machine (alellt pend.na.l Many Itylel and lizel. Wood-Working Machinery and Supplies LET US KNOW YOUR WANTS Ne 20 Glue Heater CHAS. E. FRANCIS COMPANY, Main Office and Works, Rushville, Ind. - ---' '" . _.0 .. _ ... ... .. . . ... .. No.6 Glue Heater. purely termmal servIces, whereby a much higher charge is 1mpo"ed at one pomt than IS imtposed at al1lother for an Iden-tic 11 --en Ice \s noted abO\ e, the transIJOrtatIon service, which is \\ 11('1/\ performeJ by raIlroads, IS paId for by an agreed per-centage of the total express recclpt,; ThIS basis of compen-qtIOn does not nece~sanly bear any defilllte relation to the co"t of rendenng the tran'ipor tatIon sen Ice and is in some degree arbItrary An offiCial analYSIS of express rates with a \ 1C\\ to 1 eadJ ue tment should therefore cover the present charge~ paId by the express compallles to the railroads for transportatIOn, \\ Ith a VIew to determmmg whether those charges are Ju,;t and reasonaJble Furniture Fires. John P Carlson's furniture snore at Bruce, S Dak, was damaged by fire to the extent of about $1,500 on May 12 Insured John \Yard. fur111ture dealer, was the principal loser in a fire that destro) ed three bUll dings at Colfax, Ill, on May 1; HI'; lo~,; e--tlmateJ at $4,500 IS well covered by 1l1surance. The four story bnck burldl11g occupIed by Koch & Henke turlllture dealers on Loram street, Cleveland, 0, was burned on ::\Iay 13 Koch & Henke's stock was almost completely de~troyed The total loss wa'i about $350,000 well oovered in 1l1'iurance ..... -------------------- -_.-.--.---.----------------------t MOON DESK COMPANY DESKS OF MERIT ....-----_. - ..- .- - - ..-- .,. - . ------ ------------_. -- _. ---_.. .. MUSKEGON, MICH. .. WEEKLY ARTISAN 7 ~ a.a ••• _. __ ._. __ •• •__ .~_~._. ._._.~._._. ._. __• __ ._.~._._. __• __._._._._. ••••• - ••••••••••• __ ._- •• ~ I WALTER CLARK VENEER GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. COMPANY YOll cannot find better Quarter Sawed Oak Veneer than we could furnish you right now. Write us. SUMMER HOUSE DECORATIONS. ~----.-..- .... - -- _. _. _. _._._._._.~._ _._---_.----- .----------------_. - -_ ..- _ - - .. .- ... More Hints and Suggestions as to Materials9 Color Schemes9 Etc. Many things should be thought out before redecoratmg a room As spring is the time when thoughts turn to lighter styles after having been surrounded by heavier effects all winter, the force of contrast appeals to the average woman. Yet there are cautlOns to be borne in mind when a woman is planning color schemEs to freshen up country or city rooms For instance If the ceilings are high don't use a striped paper; if the room is light use a restful color, and If dark reverse it and the effect will always be good. Many women nowadays hke a color scheme of different tints on a floor giving a shading of tones Although thi'3 may be harmonious it often becomes tIresome, for it seems as though you could never get away from it, and after a while you take an inteme dislike to anything approaching that particular color. A much prettier way is to have differ-em colors, one blending into the other by force of contrast, gradually shading off to a lighter tint at the end of a floor, thu<.,gIving the perspective or shadowy feehng of dIstance. For bedrooms use only soft neutral tones on the walls. \Vhatever color you prefer for contrast can be in the frieze above. For e~ample, take a white m01re paper with a cut out frieze of hlacs. The hangings can be of white net with a full valance on which can be sewed a band of hlac material, WIth the outsIde edges shaped to your fancy and finished with a lace braid The net bedspread can be made to makh WIth a full gathered flounce and monogram m the centre of the same hlac material and similarly treated A plain hlac rug completes the scheme. ~-_.--_.-._._.-- _--------------- I .- ....__ ._~ We are Special Tool Manufacturers for the Wood Working Trade.. Our SOLID STEEL MOULDING CUHERS are the Best in the World SPECIAL ORDERS SOLICITED AND GUARANTEED SATISFACTORY WOOD WORKERS TOOL COMPANY, 542 Jackson Blvd., CHICAGO. SAW, KNIFE AND TOOL MANUFACTURERS I~ ad _._.a ._. __ •• a •••••• aa ••• ~ If you prefer white alone for bedrooms cut out friezes of dIfferent flowers can be used which will relieve the monot-ony The hangmgs can be of simply endless variety, some WIth the cut out cretonne idea, which many persons like, others of certonne alone Then again in summer homes silk-oline looks cool and doe" not keep out the air. A hall is always an important factor in the decorative scheme of a house and should be well considered. not only for its own sake, to give it a spacious look if it is small, but also for the color effect on the rooms which open out of it, for a wrong note here will spall the whole. It sometimes hap-pens that the entrance hall of a small house in the country has a window or two with an ugly outlook which it is de-sirable to hide If stained glass IS out of the question on account of the expense the glass can be covered with one of the matenals which give the effect of stained glass, cost little and come in pretty designs. A very pretty hall in a remodelled country farmhouse had on the walls a landscalpe paper showing an old mill with water running from the wheel It was a quaint conceit and was the right thing in the right place, as the hall was light and the tones were soft and subdued as though mellowed by time. As for woodwork, white enamel is always good and looks cool if chIldren are romping aibout. Forest green is very good in summer dining room with a high wainscot and colored cotton tapestry frieze :vbove it, provided it is a light room; otherwise it would look sombre. Dark Flemish or English oak trim is inadvisable except in good sized rooms, as it looks heavy in small spaces. For furniture white enamel is servicealble, and is prettier still when cane is inserted in panels. This is intended principally for bedrooms and reception rooms, but it looks well too in a "ummer dining room with the color note, say, of rose. On the walls, the chair seats and sideboard the same tone can be used 111 some design, and it may appear in either flowers or border on the china. With a plain rose rug and white trim and the glitter of glass and silver and the white n3Jpery such a dining room would be especially good for the seashore on dark daJls. For bedrooms in the country the large white enamel washstands are good Have the china match the room in color. The waste paper baskets and laundry bags hung in closets should also have the prevaihng color note in them. The note paper on the desks or writing tables should be stamped with the name given to the house-it gives a cer-tain style to the place-and a guest book is always pleasant to keep -New York Sun. 8 WEEKLY ARTISAN LUMBER WILL NOT BE CHEAPER. Mr. Nichols Talks of Conditions as lIe I<'ouud Them iu the South. "I can not ~ee any I ea~oll tm c"pect111g d c1ed111t 111 thle the pnces of halc1\\oc'dlumbel at j1lc--ent 1101 111 the lntnre, sald F I :--lchol'3 uf the :--Ichol-- C'\c Lu" Ll11nbu CClIlIpdm, Grand Rapld'3, la~t 1\ eune'3Ja\ . I have Ju~t letl11ned 11um a southern tllp.· hc contmuec1 ",mc1 I (!Jd not hncl dm l?,lldt supply of haldwood lumbel at am JlC11nt \Io"t ot the 111111~ are bus) and thl" ~ea'3on's cnt \\111 be lan:;e bnt lW! Llll;e enongh to cause a Jechne m pllce~ on all\ \alllt\ Thtlc I" a pcssl1b11lty of an 0\ er ~uppl.\ 01 qnartel-"a \\ ul oak a t pIC" ent, but It WIll all be needed It IS good quff to hold and the pnces w11l SUIely be ma111tall1ed "The most acb\ e "\anet1e~ 01 har.h\ ood at pI C"c n t ,1Il maple and bIrch Both are mo\ ln~ 11\eh and the c1Clll,lIHI for maple, espeCIally, IS remalkabh --rrong. a" It h,l" bccn smce the first of the year In orclel to renu\ .,ome ot clUl contracts for maple that \\ e had last \ ear. \\ e \\ ere oblIl?,ul tl) add $6 per thousand to last \ ear'", pnce" and "nce then 'lbont $2 more has been addeJ BIrch ha" al"o ach anccd m ])[1(( ,1Ild the demand, locally at least, IS e"-ceedll1:{h "tlC)I1g" "In the south gum 1'3the most act1\ e \ dnlt\ at l)fC"C 11\ The demand IS good and pnee'" hd\ c been ach anelll a hunt $3 per thou"anJ, smce the first of the \ eal. an(l I l]lIllk the \ WIll go higher The pnce of oak, 01 cour"e. depend" Idl!.;ch on the demand from the fl1ll11ture makel" I hat c1elll,llLCldt pn:"ent IS not qUIte so urgent a" It \\ a" d In\ mOllth" a~) but lt 1'3 stIll good and unless the faetune" al e tu hc ,hut daVIn entlre1) thele IS no plOlbabl1tt.\ that pllee~ \\111 he 10\\ er TImber has become too '3cal ce to 11bt ltv am l" 1)(C tatlOn of ]o\', er pnces for harch\ ood lumber dt )1I e--U11 iiI lt1 the future "Our busmes" has been gooJ "0 fdl thl-- \ ear It It l,)11 tmues as It ha" been '30 far the \ o]ume \\ III be mCllC than doU'ble that of an} other year m our e,,"penence \ \ e dl e rUl1l1mg our m11ls 0\ ertlme no\\ as \\ e hay e been lur ~ol11e time" Canadian View of Reciprocity. \Vallace Kesbltt, former JustIce of the "'upreme COutt 01 Canada. saId some \ ery frank th1l1g~ ahemt the pos--lhl1Jt, ut a recIprocIty treaty between the lTllIted ~tate-- and CanacLI dt a d1l1ner of the Econonllc Club at the Hutcl \ '-to!, \ ell 1irk the othel llIght ~mong the~e \\ a-- hi" _tatel11cnt tlHt a, I ,n:.: as the chIef executl\ e of thIS countJ.\ I" unable to conti 01 certam peclal 1I1tele'-h 111 the "enate, nelthel Canada nOl thc 1:"l11ted States need expect closel tl ade rela tlon -- th f(lU~ h d lo\\enng of the tanff \\ all '3 HI'" '3peech follo\\ cd OIlC ])\ Henry M \i\lllItney, formel pre--Ident of the Bu--tOll Chamhel of Commerce, 111 Whllh noth1l1g hut the mo--t glol\ mg pI ""- peets for mutual plo;,penty \'\ere pIctured on the ('ont1l1£;e'll \ of a reCIproCIty treaty be1l1g made "There were one or two thIng'" 111 }Ir \ \ llltne\ " ~l'lll h that were new to me as a Canadian," '3ald 1u"'tlce "e,,1 Itt "If hIS hypotheSIS of a leClproClt) treah hem£; d :::;ualal1t\ "t the peace of the world can be prm en I hope that hc 'IIIII travel the breadth of Canada and lepeat the "peech thdt he made this evenmg I confe'3" that the C,lIlacltan" 111 ~,l1el al feel that thIS country has been a httk rough 111 Ih tleaill1l lit of their government !\s a government, \\e Cdnadlan" C 1'-- ltke you; as a people, we love you "One great weakness m your constltutlOn, and I "peak WIth fnendly frankness, IS that Jour execut1\ e makes a l)3.r-gam and then somebody m the senate kIcks It 0\ er Afl er ledllll11~ ,dl the other fellem 1'3\\ 11hng to do the senate throvv s dUI\ n the a~lee11lCnt and nuke" a ne\\ proposal on what It ha'3 leal neel 1]1I" n1dke~ u" very tll1l1d m our dealmg'3 WIth \ ou \ treat \ of I euproClt) between u" \v 111never be made d" lOllQ, ,I" \ mil e"ecu t1\ e 1" PO\verle '" to control certam ~pcL1a] ll1tLlC"r-. ut the upper house of your Congle,,:'>" 1 he "']JLdkcr then "aId that PIe"'ldent 'I dft'S recent utter-an" e ,lt Hulfa]o 1 tgal c1mg the cont1l1ental Interests of thl'1 l U,111 tl \ dnd Canada "mtJ oduced a contUtental dortrme 111 tJ d.le equal ut 11l1pUltance to the }Ionroe Joctnne" "Duostyle" Litigation. 01\ nel" of the Duo;,tyle patent claIm that many manu-tacturel'" and dealCl s are 1I1frmg1l1g on then nghts and hay e ,tal tecl COllIt plOceec11I1g-, to ;,top such mfnngements as w11l be "eell ])\ the 10110\\1I1l.?\,\ hlCh IS a copy of a letter sent out to all ll1anUl,lctul er" of e>::ten'3lon tables Gentlemen \s there are still a number of manufac-tUt el" \\ ho "ee hi to make the "Duostyle" constructlOn of t,t!lle" \\ lthout a hcen,e the' eby lIlfnn~1I1g upon the Klem Made by the Manistee Manufacturmg Co , ManIstee, MICh. pdtent dated \1'111 ICJ, 1898, \\e have been qUIetly secunng l\ Ide !lle 101 thL Pdq nme month-- As a re;,ult, action was L!llllmC1leed \plll 11 ag,lln,t J Blumherg, \Vaukegan, III J for "e1l1l1g tl) the pnhltl. tables manufactured by H C NIemann &- Co. Chlc,lgo mtJ m~mg upon abo\ e named patent The ,ltl/Jlne \" trll the dcfenddnt appeared 111 court on May 4 and fllvl delll1l11 el. 1\111ch goc~ to '3110\'\ that a stubborn fight IS on hand l! l \ lemdnn & Co . have not only been mak1l1g Dno--t\ le< but hay e been persl'3tent 111 advertJsmg tJhe fact that they furl11"h them 1'le,l..,e note. that tlllS ~tllt doe" not pertam to locks, a" \he l-dell1 p,ltcnt I" a e()n~tJuctlOn patent "wheleb} the top hO'll cl'" al e l1Cll1llttecl to 1110\e 111 hwendcnt,ly of the legs" al- ") 1\11u c:1)\ the ()lJter le:{'3 al e permItted to move mdelpen-clln, h ot the Ctntel le~ and the top boards Il1dependently of ,(11\ III the legs 111 other woreL, constl uctlOn perl111tt1l1g the 1Il "CIt ton 01 one or 11101 e fillel s hefore dlvlC1111gthe pedestal III lc~ '" J hb ~ult 1\111be \lgC)IOusly pu~hecl as well as an} others \\ e ma \ start In the near futl11 e \Ve arc oblIged to see that om nght;, arc full} protected ao pl0vlded by law Yours very truly, IV I'3COn'3111FurnIture Company. WEEKLY ARTISAN 9 F. Manufacturer or Willow Furniture SEND FOR CATALOGUE REMINDERS OF THIRTY YEARS AGO. ~,-----------_._------------------------ ----_ .. -- -_ .._-~ Paraliraphs Copied From the Michilian Artisan for Narch, 1881. D Wilfson is about to erect a furniture factory in Baltimore. James Knox is traveling for Bossom & Cuff of Boston, thIS year. J. W. DavIs has purchased the Wrampelmeier factory in LOUlsvl!le. M. Ohmer has retlred from the firm of Ohmer & Son, of Dayton, O. The Louisville (Ky) Furmture comp3.ny closed out thelf retaIl business. L D. Leonard IS representing the Sligh Furmture company m the eastern states. E. Hemenway of Boston, V\ 111engage m the manufacture of ebonized furniture. Manufacturers of furniture m Cmcinnati complain of the ~carClty of freight cars. Charles ShlVenck, a dealer m Omaha, made his first vIsit to Grand RapIds t1115month. Oldenburg & Baltes of Ml!waukee, employ 150 men in the manufacture of parlor frames. Keck, Wmte1halter & Co, is the name of a new firm en-gagmg m the retaIl furniture busines" in Detroit. F E Warren of Cheyenne, 'vVy, bought a heavy bIll of goods of Donnelly & Barnes, III ChIcago recently. , Clark Brother" & Co, of Phl1adelph1a, V\ 111 furmsh the Kaatersk1ll, a new hotel m the Catskl1l mountams. George R Somes of F. M. Holmes & Co., Boston, was m ChIcago recently from whence he Journeyed to St. Loms Bbonized pallor and chamber furmture i:o not very popu-lar. Its sale IS mainly m the form of cabinets and novelties H. D. Moore, travelmg salesman for the Berkey & Gay Furmture company, has returned from a tnp through the mId-dle west. Charles Streit, of Streit & Schmitt, Cincinnati, is the in-ventor of a sofa bed and has received letter::. patent protectmg the same C. Kmll formerly an employe of the Phoemx Furniture company, has opened a stock of furmture in Rock !:oland He IS the lllventor of a foldmg ohaIr and WIll manufacture the same The stock of the late Marcus Stevens. in DetrOlt, has been disposed of, C R Mabley purchaslllg the same Mjr. Brock-way, the old manager of the Stevens store, will be wIth Mr Mabley. By a fire on Jefferson street m Chicago recently, the follow-mg firms sustained losses. H. S Carter & Co, $7,000; L. F. Nonnast, $2,000, Johnson & Kramer, $2.000; John B Gavin, $3,000, Max Tonk, $8,000, Austm & Boynton, $3,000; Otto N ettleman, $3,000. These losses were partly msured. George W Perkms of Pueblo, MIlton S Pnce of Syracuse, G W Avery of Peona, Mr. Burnll of St. LoUls, Jacob Lucas, Mamstee, D M.. Bohn, Petersboro, Ill, A. C Rosenraad, Zee-land, C J Stanford, Atwater, 0 and W P DIlworth, Ft Scott, Kansas, were among the buyers arriving 111Grand RapIds early thIS month. ChIcago correspondence A rumor that there was a Brusque and Rick-e-ty firm making parlor furmture III this city has been venfied. This IS the firm that perpetrated an outrage on art and the finer sens1blbtles of the people by introducing the horse shoe (an emblem of superstItion, suggestive of dust and filth) as as ornament for parlor frames. ThIS firm can never hope to gam a foothold in the trade untl! It makes better stock, whJ1e R1ck-e-ty has yet to learn that it IS more profitable to be a gentleman than a bully and a loafer. The agents of nme glue manufactunng firms were m Grand RapIds recently to attend a glue test. They indulged in a good deal of "Joshmg" dunng theIr stay. "In the Sag111aw valley," one remarked "they make log chains of my glue, be-cause It IS stronger than Iron" "11y glue was used in con-structmg the bndge across the nver at St. LOUlS," another modestly declared. "Do you remember the expenence of the Mormon farmer?" the agent from Boston inqUlred, "No, what was It?" mqUlred the bndge glue man. "The Mormon farmer claImed that he drove a herd of cattle mto Salt Lake and they came out corned beef. HIS claim IS as well grounded as yours about your bndge glue." The successful man in the glue test entered at thIS moment, when the agents proceeded to use hUll as a pigskm m a game of football. and during the scrimmage the offiClal report of the test was destroyed ." .......... wa. • .... e •• ~ Doetsch & Heider Co. Telephone, Lincoln 796 1534·1544 Greenwood Terrace CHICAGO Manufacturers of Parlor Furniture Frames TO Reach OUR FACTORY Take Clybourn Avenue car to Ashland Avenue and walk three blocks North to Greenwood Terrace, then turn East into Green-wood Terrace. Or, Clybourn Avenue car WIthtransfer on South-port Avenue car, thence over Southport Avenue to Greenwood Terrace and walk West. a,.. __ • ------ •• - •• - _ •• - .. MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND NEWS Robert Blast wIll open an undertaking establIshment at Shelly, Iowa Mark Dexter of Kenoml, X eb, has seoured a patent on a tiltalble chair C D A Fesler & Son, have succeeded vv V Fe\\, furni-ture dealer of Lone Tree, Ia R. R. Hill succeeds R J Morton m the furlllture and hardware business at Greensrboro, X C The Frostrburg (l\Id) Furlllture company ha\ e mo\ ed into new quarters at 84 East ::\Ia1l1 street The TaJilor Furlllture and Hardvvare company of Tifton, Ga, are bUlld1l1g a large addition to their store The Rockford (Ill) Desk company are planlllng an ad-dition which will double the capacity of their plant J S De VVItt & Co , furlllture dealers of X on'v alk, 0 , \'vIII double the size of theIr \\ arehouse on "Yest ::\Iam street The Anderson Patent ExtenSIOn Table company of Camden, N J, have mcorporated with capItal stock fixed at $100,000 Stevv art Brothers of Columbus ha\ e been enlarg1l1g near-ly all departments of theIr store which 1:0 no\\ the large"t m Central OhIO The Oppel-Spencer company, furnIture dealers, of Dav-enport, la, have changed theIr name to the Spencer Furni-ture company. A C Hulett, doing busmes as the Hulett "L'nJertakmg company is a new undertaker and dealer m coffins, ca::,keb, etc, at Hattiesburg, J\1Lss The gilt room m the Holland house, in X ew York, IS an ex-act reproduction of the famous gIlt room famou::, In the hb-tory of Holland house, London J\I L BIggar has been appomted rece1\ er for the X e\\ Ohio FurnIture company of Columbus, whIch has been m financial dIstress for some tIme The business of John Biddle, Undertaker, ChIcago, ha", been 1l1corporated by E M vVood, H .\ Brolllllet ancl F 0 Mure10ck CapItal stock, $2,500 The Jacoby FurnIture ~1anufactunng company of York, Pa, have installeJ new mach1l1ery and enlarged the capaclt) of their plant nearly fifty per cent FE, S P and Clara H Templeton, are the mcorpor-ators of tlhe S P Templeton company, funeral Jlrector" ot Bloomington, Ind CapItal stock, $10,000 Frank Miller, furnIture clealer, ot 1\ est Pomt, X eb, h erect1l1g a two-story bnck bUlld1l1g \vhlch \\ III gIve hIm the largest and most COIn elllent store m the town The Norfolk (Va) Furniture Manufactunng corporatIOn have plurchasecl the bul1d1l1g formerly u"ed by the X aval Y M C A and are remodelmg It for a furlllture store Martin P Johnson, for several years money order clerk in the postoffice at Rockford, Ill, has reSIgned to take an important p03ltlOn Vvlth the National Furlllture company New England chair manufacturers compla1l1 of dIfficult) in ~eepmg workmen, many of whom are mclmed to qUIt the chaIr factones and find employment m the textl1e mills George Schmulbach, propnetor of the Red Star Supply company, retail furniture, of MemphIs, Tenn, has filed a voluntary petItIOn m bankruptcy. LiabilitIes $8,955, a::,sets, $6,012. VV E Haworth has purchased an interest m the under-takmg busmess of H C SmIth of WhItewater, IY IS The business IS now conducted under the firm name of SmIth & Haworth. IV VV Heisler has sold his cabinet and upholstering shop m Tacoma, IV ash , to H. G Clark and A Jorgenson, ::\Ir Hebler WIll engage in tihe same business in some other part of the state The buildmg occupied by the late H. J Nelson, veteran furnIture dealer of BurlIngton, Vt, has been sold to a cloth-mg com pan) The Nelson stock will be :sold out and the bt1:omess dIscontmued II 11ham A French & Co, furniture dealers of Minne-apobs, ::\1111n, have moved into their new store on First ave-nue, south, and EIglhtlh streets. They now have one of the best eqUlppeJ stores in the city Ambrose E) on has tradeJ his furnIture store at Stewart, ::\lmn , to F E Russe for store property at Gascogne, Mmn ::\lr Russe \\ 111 take possession of the furniture store on June 1 and \\ III enlarge the stock. The \\<111of ::\Irs Rosa Fleck of MIlwaukee, whose deat1h \\ a" noted la::,t \\ eek reqUIres her four sons to continue WIth then Sister, a::, partner" m the R Fleck Furniture company or lo::,e theIr share m the estate which is valued at $65,000. II ;\ Flatow, formerly WIth the ~ew York Furniture Exchange and Henry Seigel & Co , has taken a positIOn WIth the Clark-Bo\\< chtch company of New Haven, Conn., who no\\ ha\ e one of the finest furlllture stores m New England. 1he ::\IcGee FurnIture company of Fall RIver, Mass, hay e made an a.,slgnment wIlth lIabIlItIes aggregatmg $11,000; assets $2,000 They have offered tJhelr credItors 25 cents on the dollar 111cash or 33 1-3 cents m notes running six, nine and t\\ eh e months Ed", ard T Lennartz and L H Burger, propnetors of the . X ortln\ estern Furlllture company," who worked the popular s\\ mdlIng game in DetrOIt. were arrested and taken back to DetrOIt for tnal on the 'Charge of obtaining money under fabe pretenses \rthur and Albert Shannon and WIllIam Kouns have pl1l chased tlhe stock of Hlte Brothers & Co, furniture deal-er", Fourth and RlOh streets, Columibus, 0, and will con-t1l1ue the Dusmess under the partnershIp name of the Out-fit FUll11ture and Rug company. The Central LTpholstering 'Company of She1boygan, Wis, \\ hlch \\ as organized about three montlhs ago, has purchased a bact of land 80 by 150 feet on the Lyman flats, and WIll erect a substantIal factory bUlIJing to care for theIr busmess \\ hlch has grown rapIdly from the start Ralph S SmIth & Son, furnIture dealers of New London, Conn, hay e sold out to their competItor Thomas F Foran, \\ ho \\ III cont1l1ue the busmess, separate and apart from his Bank street store, under the name of the Foran Furniture company The Smith store was estalbhshed 46 years ago D VY Cress, pr1l1C1pal of sohools wt Clearwater, Neb, \\ ants to engage m t1he furniture busmess m a town ot 1,500 populatlOn w1hIch does not boast a furl11ture store. He has \\ ntten to the Grand RapIds boards of trade asking for the address of manufacturers who sell their products on the con-signment plan Buyers in Grand Rapids. D ?II Kahn of the SImpson-Crawford company, New York, J Baum of the Swgel, Cooper company, Chicago, and R. G. Alexander of the Henry Siegel company, Boston, were among the furl1lture buyer::, who visited Grand Rapids during the past week. WEEKLY ARTISAN THE L. Mac E. VARNISHES BLUE RIBBON RUBBING and POLISHING VARNISH, QUAKER CITY COACH VARNISH-CABINET FLOWING V~RNISH, WHITE MAPLE RUBBING and POLISHING VARNISHES; WHITE MAPLE GLOSS VARNISHES-WHITE REED FLOWING VARNISHES, FLAT ALL VARNISH and ALL DULL FINISH-JAPANS, Etc. DIPPING VARNISHES NOTE-Our many years of practical experience with the Furniture, Plano and kindred lines of manufacture enable us to know Just the kind and quahty of varnishes demanded. Also the fact that our strong corps of salesmen have an already estabhshed trade with this class of customers through visiting them with fillers and stains, makes it possible for us to sell varnishes wIthout additional ex-pense to us, which advantage we are disposed to give to our customers in quahty. Send us a Trial Order. THE LAWRENCE-McFADDEN COMPANY - Philadelphia lished by the Salina Rug Manufacturing company, capitalized at $10,000, with Fred Hederstedt & Co, and other business men of the town as stockholders. Fred Hedersted who will New Factories. J. Westveld &Co., have established a factory, to make mission furniture, porch and door ~creens, at Holland, J\llch Hans Meyer of Manitowoc, \V IS, will engage in the wood-working business and manufacture bar fixtures at Two Rivers, Wis. The Winchester Lumber Manufactunng company are purchasing maohlllery for a new furniture factory which they will estabhsh at \iVinchester, Ky The Belhngham Bay Lumber company are bUIlding a large addition to their plant at Bellmgham, \Nash, and are considering the advisaJbIllty of usmg a part of it as a furni-ture factory. J L HUgglllS, Mrs N eha Evans, J T Ragan and L A Whipple, have organized the Automatic Rockmg Chair com-pany, capltahzed at $5,000 and wIll estalbhsh a factory at HawkinsvJ1le, Fla. The Ring Furmture company, KernersvIlle, N C, has been organized with $50,000 capital by \V S LmvIlle, S G Ring and others The company wIll erect a plant for the manufiacture of kitchen cablllets, safes, etc WIlham Baim, Joseph Wemlberg and Samuel Rubin, have incorporated the Rollup Mattress company, capitahzed at $10,000 to estalbhsh a factory and manufacture and deal in mattresses, mattress matenal and machinery, in Chicago Fort Brothers, MorristOlwn, Tenn, proprietors of the J. P. Fort Lumber company, of the same city, wIll erect a fac-tory for the manufacture of chairs The proposed buildlllg will be 40x150 feet, two stones high, and to be equipped With modern machmery throug'hout Salma, Kan, is to have.a rug factory It will be estab- Made by MamsteelMfg. Co.• Mamstee, Mich be the general manager has gone east to purchase machinery and expects to have the factory ready to begin operations by the first of July. 11 12 WEEKLY ARTISAN Exposition in British India. An agrIcultural and industrIal expositlOn IS to be held at Allahabad, BrItIsh IndIa, opening In December ne\:t Eng-lish manufacturers wIll be \, ell 1epl esentecI. the Gelman government has appoll1ted ItS commetcial attache at the con-sulate- general in Calcutta as Impel tal speCIal cOmmt~SlOnet for the exposition, and It has been resolved to et ect therem a separate German dIvision so as to more leadl1y plomote Ger-man trade interests As many merchants ft om China and other Asiatic countries are expected to VISIt thIS expOSttIon It Rockford Chair and Furniture Co. ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS Dining Room Furniture BUFFETS, CHINA CLOSETS and TABLES Library Furniture-Library Desks, Library Tables, Library Bookcases, Combination Book-cases, Etc. Our entire line will be on exhibition in July on the thIrd floor of the Blodgett Building, Grand Rapids, Mich. \\ 111afrol d a 1 al e OppOl tumty to e\:pand trade It is hoped that ~\mellcan manufactm ers \\ 111be as well represented as Germany and England Contracts for Army Furniture. The Gland Ledge (:\Ilch) ChaIr oOimpany has been award-ed the gm ernment contraot for makmg dmmg room, arm and lIbrary chairs for army officers' quarters, WhICh will amount to about $25,000, and the Stebbms & WIlhelm com-pany of SturglS, :\l1ch, wl11 makel about $10,000 worth of lIbt ary desks fat the same purpose The contracts were a \\ Jrdec1 at \\ d"hmgton last Saturday. ._---. Built with double arbors, sliding table and equipped complete with taper pin guages carefully graduated. This machine represents the height in saw bench con-struction. It is designed and built to reduce the cost of sawing stock. WrIte us for descriptive information. CRESCENT MACHINE WORKS OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Business is Only ··So-So" in New York. New York, :;Vlay 19-' The furmture trade h onh tall, the usual penod of dullne% IS on Ib There l~ 110 "nap OI \ 1m m the trade. All ltnes of tl ade feel the same com!Jtlon" and all parts of the country are more or le~s m the same bcnt Unq-ness cannot always be strong and \\ e have to take the l{ood with the bad The present conc!JtlOns al e not nnu"uaJ m tdct occur every year RetaIlers seem to be pt ett\ \\ ell stocked up and there IS no heavy buymg apparently :\IanuLtcturer, dl e workmg In a faIrly steady manner, \\ holesaJers are hay mg onh moderate orders and are takmg th1l1gs eas) Such ale the comments made by manufacturers and dealel ~ on the plt',cnt busmess condItIons The firm of F. illohr & Co, \\holesalel' and retallel~ 01 ...------------.-------.----------------- furmture at SIxth avenue and Thlrt) -fom th ~treet ha\ e come G d R ·d C to a settlement WIth thm credltors, ha\Il1g 111ddea 23 pet cent ran apl s reseent payment, and the Cambndge Tradmg comp'lI1) has as~umed THB WORLD'S BEST SAW BENCH all assets and habllttles and \\ III LOntIl1Ue the bus1l1e," Stahle Bros are handJmg 111 the ten Iton edst ot Pltt,b111 £; the hne of the ne\\ly org-amzed Cortland C abl let compam whIch makes odd chma closets, three-pIece (!JnLlg re Jl11 "l1lte, of oak and mahogany The Amencan Lookmg Glas:o company 1Ms been II1COl p )1- - ated, to make mlrror~, etc, wlth a capItal of S 10 UOO plomotecl by Edward Van Pelt Dongla"", Saml1el G1a"er and I rLclCIlck T DaVIes. The Mowltz Cabmet company has been 111 '01 pOl atecl \\ lth a capItal of $10.000, to deal m furmtl1l e by \lbert \10\\ ItL WIllIam H Pritchal d and JulItb Roevel The L. McGIllts Furl1lture COl11pan) ha" been IIlcOlj)or.{1tel to manufacture and cleal m homeholcl fllr11lture, \\ lth d. C,tpltd] of $12,000, by AJl11111a11 McGllll", James A \J1cGIlhs and Charles:--' McGIlhs 1hey wdl do busme,,'i 111Og-dembuIg 1\ Y. ...>- ----_._~--------_.-------.-..-..-..' -----~~---------_ .... WEEKLY ARTISAN Emeraency Income Tax. The New York legislature, havmg refused to adopt the income tax amtlndmant, is now consIdermg the advI~abIlIiy of ask1l1g congress to submIt a substItute to the lelShlatures of the vanous states, \\~lth the Idea that It would ~urely pI e-vent the adoptlOn of the amenJment whIch is now awaitmg aCLlon by the statcls The substItute whIch I~ called the emergency mcome tax amendment reads as follows' "Resolved, That the senators and representatIves in con-gress of the state of Now York are hereby requested to urge the congress to submIt to the several states an amendment to the federal constitution empowenng the federal gOVdfl1ment to lay and collect an mcome tax in emergencIes wIthout ap-portionment among the states and wIthout reference to any census or enumeratlOn in substantIally the following terms: "ArtIcle 16. The congress shall have power to declare that an emergclncy yXIStS reqUlnng addItIonal revenue to meet expendItures penmItteJ by thIS constItutlOn, and, in con-nection wIth such declaratlOn, may lay and collect taxes on incomes; except income consIsting of interest on bonds or othclr evidences of indebteJness issued by the U mted States Embossed Mouldmg Mada by Waddell Mfg Co.• Grand RapIds, MlCh. or by any of the seve! al states or by any mumcipal govern-ment maintained under the authonty of one of the Umted States, Wlithout apportionment among the several states and vvIthout regard to any cCi!1SUSor enumeration, but every act establIshmg such a tax shall set forth the purposes for which the revenue aris1l1g there under shall be avaIlable, such taxes shall be umform throughout the United States and no act authonzod by these artIcles shall remam in fOJ1ce f01 a longer period than three years" Faith in Business Conditions. The managers of the Rock Island RaIlroad system '">urely have faIth m bus mess condlltlOn" and eApelct them to glOW better m the near future They have Just placeJ on file in the various states through whIch theIr lInes run an equip-ment agreemCint wIth the Bankers' Trust company of New York, under whIch they WIll get 3,975 freight cars, 50 PaCIfic type locomotIves, 84 consolidated locomotives an,d tenders, five dmeIs, 25 caboose", four McKeen gasolIne motor oars, 20 steCil compartment passenger coaches, four steel postal cars, six combmatlOn baggage and passe)nger cars, six steel combmatlOn mall and baggage cars and 20 steel passenger smokers, at a total cost of about $8,000,000. K early all of the eqUIpment is to be delIvered before Jan 1 next. The Rock Island IS to pay in cash $970.253 and the rest of the pa} ments are to be made semI-annually m sums of . $225,000, amountmg to $6,750,000 For the future payments eqUIpment bonds are to be issued. 13 Bristol,Ct. ,Aug.16,1907. G. R. Veneer Works, Grand Rapids, Mich. Gentlemen: In reply to your letter of Aug. 14th, we beg to call your attention to the fac~ that our superintendent wrote you a per-sonal letter a few days ago cov-erIng the matter of the dry kiln. By reference thereto, you will see just what success we have had, WhICh up to the present time has been unqualified and we are absolutely satisfied with its performance. Yours very truly, THE E. INGRAHAM CO. Wm. S. Ingraham, Treas. 0• () . :c (,) '00; ..S.:.:r:... ~ lot 0 =' ~ ..... r.r () Q c..! . • II tL) ~ 0 =' <.. '0 f» ~ II '0 ca -e. II ~ II. 0 Q) ('I) Z • 0 0 lot - 0 0 .... .. $.t e I-f) 0 ~ --. - ca ~ 14 WEEKLY ARTISAN Grand Rapids Hand 618 North Front St. Screw Co., Orand Rapids, Mich. TRUCK TALKS Might not convince you without evidence. But compare a wagon to our truck, note the similarity of construction fea-tures-- No box bearings; nothing to easily break or get out of order; extra large center wheels, revolving on taper turned axles; wide treads; special first-class cast-ings. Grand Rapids Trucks are first, last and all the time the safest in construction, and positively the best. No. 15 Catalog Shows Them. AUTO TRADE PRESENT AND FUTURE. Enormous Growth Due to Novelty. Newness and Extensive Advertisina. Hugh Chalmers of the Chalmers ::\f otor Car compan) de-livered an addre"s recently, in the DetrOIt College E"ten"lOn course, 111which he said "The automobIle bus111ess has been bUilt up "0 rapldh and particularly 111DetroIt, that the people of DetrOIt gener-ally do not reahze what the automobl1e 111dustrv means "It is estimated that there are 150 automobIle compal11es in the United St<lltes. There are thlrty-fi\ e compal11es 111 MIchigan, with a total capaClty of 140,000 cars annuall) Twenty-five companies are in Detroit, "Ith a total annual capaClty of 85,000 cars and a total capltahzatlOn of $30,000,000 "There are 39,000 people employed b) automobl1e manu-facturers 111Detroit, and 19,000 employed by accessor) manu-facturers, mak111g a total of 58,000 altogether engaged 111 automdbl1e work 111 Detroit ThIS means that more than 200,000 people in DetrOIt are dependent upon the automobile ibusmess Nearly $1,000,000 weekI) IS paId out 111\\ ages here 111 Detroit by automobIle and accessory manufacturers "Nearly $10,000,000 b mvested m automobile factones 111DetrOIt The total value of DetrOIt-made cars tll1'- \ eat w111 be about $200,000,000 DetrOlt manufactures ahout 00 per cent of the natIOnal output of automdblles The auto-mobile industry is now the mo"t stupendous of all manu-factured products "Detroit produces any kind of a car that an) one can want, from a $500 runabout to an $8,000 limousme DetrOit has more cars per thousand populatIOn than any other Clty in the world except Los Angeles "People naturally ask, How long \\111 the automobl1e bus111ess cont111ue, and Isn't It hkely to be overdone? Now, I am not a prophet, and cannot tell Just what is gomg to happen, but I beheye that the automobile is not sulbject to any other companeson, because the automobl1e IS the first l111plOvement 111111dlvldual transportatIOn m centunes. The automobl1e ha" replaced the only tll1ng 111 our civihzation that has been the same thlOughout centunes, and that is the hor"e, so that I thInk the automobile WIll he with us as long as the horse has been \\ lth us. But whether or not the pubhc can take the output of some 200 automohl1e companies is another question "1 helle\ e that the automobl1e business WIll be the We are now puttmg out the best Caster Cups WIth cork bases ever offerea to the trade. These are fimshed m Golden Oak and WhIte Maple m a IIght fimsh These goods are admirable for pohshed floors and furn- Iture rests Theywill not sweat or mar. PRICES. SIze 2)( Inches •.. $4.00 per hundred SIze 2)( In~hes .. 5 00 per hundred 7'ry a Sampl. Ordor FOB Grand Rapid', ..... ... ..... • • • • • • • • • • • •• I • __ • • • • • ••• •••••••••• WEEKLY ARTISAN 15 NO OTHER . ....................................•.. _--_.~ SANDER No. 171 Patented Sand Belt Machine. WYSONO « MILES CO., Cedar St. and Sou. R. R., OREENSBORO, N. C. ..I makes it possible to dispense with hand sanding. Our No. 171 Sander produces a finish on flat surfaces, irregular shapes and mouldings that would be spoiled by hand retouching. Ask for Catalog liE" ,. -.. ... ..... ..... ..., .....•... , .. a_a ... ,_. .-.. leading industry of Detroit for more years yet than any of us will live, and I am not so fearful of reaction in the present situation, because the1 e are so many companies that are building good cars located here Of course, many people figure that where money has been made, it still can be made, and the danger ahead of us is that too many people wIll get to thmking that way. Personally, I would not take much stock in any new company that was Just starting, because I belteve the competition in the future is going to be keener by far than it has been in the past, and competItIOn, of course means the elimination of those who are unalble to withstand it. "The automobile business requires more capital in the conduct of it than most people realize, and, while the profits to successful automdbilq manufacturers haNe been quite large in some instances, yet it must be remembered that the risks have been great in the automobile business, and where large sums have been made it must also be remembered that large sums have been lost. "The automobile is the best advertised product in the world, largely for six reasons. "(1) It is a new business. New things advertise them-selves Millions buy newspapers daily, looking for news Everyone remembers the first automobile The first auto-mobile made in this country was made by George B Selden, whose name has become famous as a result thereof, because of the vast amount of expensive litigation that has taken place over what is known as the so-called Selden patent Automobile manufacturers who produce over 85 per cent of the automdbiles used in this country recognize the validity of the Selden patent. Judge Hough, of the southern dis-trict of the United States circuit court, of New York, sus-tained the validity of the Selden patent, and since that time a great many of the going concern" who fought the patent theretofore have come into what 1S known as the licensed association. Selden was the first man to build a self-pro-pelled vehicle, and naturally secured a very broad patent for his invention, and scarcely any other patent has been liti-gated over so much, and so much money spent over it, and so much time given to its careful thought and study as the Selden patent. "(2) There is a mystery about the automobile It i" a wonderful piece of mechanism-the most wonderful yet in-vented. It is still a curiosity in many sections "(3) AutomdbiLing is a sport Automobile racing ap-peals to spol1ting instinct American people are sport-loving people "( 4) Automobiles appeal to all classes of people-those who cannot own one as well as those who can. Everyone hopes to own an automobile some day. "(5) The automobtle helps solve a universal problem-ttansportation. A question everyone 1S interested in. Auto-mobiles solve the problem of mdiV'idual transportatlOn. Multi-plies the time of the business man. "(6) The adverttsing wh1ch the manufacturers do them-selves; that is, through the national weekly and monthly magazines, the newspapers, b1Uboards and other advertising mediums Th1s is only one reason in SlX, and is not more im-portant than some others in explainmg why automobiles are the best advertised products Trade Between the United States and Panama_ Trade between the United States and the Repubhc of Pana-ma will exceed $22,000,000 in the fiscal year which ends next month, and for the seven years since the Republic of Panama came into existence w1ll approximate $100,000,000 About nine-tenths of th1s total, speaking m very round terms, is merchan-d1se exported from the United States to Panama and about one-tenth merchand1se 1mported mto this country from that Republic. Even these figures do not show the grand total of merchandise sent from the United States to Panama during this period, since such portion of the supplies for the Panama canal and those en-gaged in 1ts construction as were sent from time to time upon government vessels are not mc1uded in the figures, by which this statement of trade with Panama is reported Just what proportion of the merchand1se sent to Panama has been for use in the construction of the canal cannot be definitely determined, though the BntIsh minister at Panama recently esttmated that about one-fifth of the total imports of the Republic were for the commissaries of the canal zone, approximately two-fifths for canal supplies, and the remaining two-fifths for general use New Furniture Dealers. S. H Cull will open a new furniture store at St. Cloud, Fla. The H. F A. Lange company has opened a new furniture store at 371-3 Main street, Worcester, Mass. R. E. Lowery has opened his new furniture store in Tus-caloosa, Ala., in the building formerly occupied by the old City Furniture company. Andrew Peterson, who recently sold his furniture store at Ros5eau, Mmn, will open a new furniture and carpet store at Pelican Falls, same state. F. H Brockway and H S. Stedman of Minneapolis, are erectmg a blulding at P~llbrook, M\Jnt, in which they will open a furniture store on July 1. Tanner & Kent-B. B. Tanner and T. V. Kent-popular grocers of Wrightsville, Ga, have decided to go into the retail furniture busines::,. They will open a new stock in July. 16 WEEKLY ARTISAN "'UWL.laHIEO EVERT SATURDAY WY THE MICHIGAN ARTISAN COMPANY --------------------- - ---- .U.SCAI~TION $1•• 0 ~EA YEAR ANYWHEREIN THE UNITED STATES OTHEACDUNTAIES $2 00 ~ER YEAR. SINGLE CO~IE. 5 CENTS. PU.LICATION O ......ICE. 101-112 NO,.TH DIVISION ST. G,.AND RAI"IDS. MICH. A S WHITE. MANAGINQ EDITOA Entered as lecond class matter, July 5. 1909, at the post office at Grand RapIds, MIchIgan under the act of March 3, 1879 CHICAGO REPRESENTATIVEE LEVY. Ever since Austraha gave us the ballot system that 1S nO\\ used in all the states and C1tles, that country ha" been generally cons1dered as a sort of 11110delfor ad\ anced leg1slat1On The laws of the Austrahan states relatlve to the ~ettlement of labor d1sputes have frequently been commended and approved, e"peCl-ally by so-called labor leaders, \\ ho haye declared them lIberal, progressive, fair and just, but there may be a change m such sentiment soon New South \Vales has recently enacted a la\\ that would not be pleasmg to :\..mencan labor l1111On" It em powers any pohce officer aboye the rank of sergeant \\ hen he has any reasonable ground to behe\ e that an) bmldmg or place is being used for a meetmg for mStlgatmg or a1dmg m the con-tinuance of a stnke, or lockout, to enter such bmldmg b) break-ing open doors, etc, and se1ze any documenh \\ l11ch he may reasonably suspect relate to such lockout, etc :\..meetmg of two or more persons assembled for the foregomg purposes. etc , 1S declared unlawful Any per~on takmg part m such meetmg, who has reason to belIeve that the probable consequences of "uch strike or lockout w1II be to depnve the publIc eIther \\ holh or to a great extent, of the supply of a neCeSbar) com1110dlt\, shall be lIable to Impnsonment for 1'.\ elve months The- purpose of the law is evidently to protect the thIrd party-the publIc-from loss, injury and mconvemence dunng labor troubles a matter 111 which Americans surely need enlIghtenment Perhaps the) may learn from the expenence of New South \Vales The consular repm t;, ~hO\\ that Canada h g-ettll1g the be<;t of the Enghsh emIgrant;, thl~ year Ch er 30000 ha\ e left England for the Amencan dommlon thb ~pnng and the num ber is clXpectell to reach 50,000 befm e tll e end of the summer, while the number commg from England to the U11Ited States WIll not C1xceed 10,000 Among those ~omg to Canada are many ..,kllled workmen and not a fe\\ \\ lith con-siderable capItal Germany, hO\\ e\ er, contmue.., to send most of her emIgrants to the U11Ited States Dunng the past Y'ear about 260,000 left that country 'Ia Bremen and Hamburg, more than 70 per cent commg to thIS country and most of the others g;mng to Argentma anll Branl Tho great bulk of the German emlg1 ants are cdmmon laborer" and fc\\ of them have any capItal Years ago (the exact number 1S1mmatenal) the publl"her of the M1ch1gan Artl"an recog11lzmg the need of a furnIture Journal to promote the mterest of the fUl11lture trade of Cmomnatt, despatched "Q D" one of It;, staff (Holbrook) to that city w1th the ondorsements and backmg nece~"ary to sta1 t the FurnitUl e ,IV orker. Holbrook gave it a good start and then turned 1t oyer to the present owners N ow its degenerate ellttor u"e'i 1tS columns to pubhsh fal'iehoods about the .\rtt'ian The supporters of the \Vorker livmg in Cmcmnat1 'ihould not bCIcharged w1th ingratttude on account of the Jealou<;y and unfa1rness of the man who now raJutles around m the seat, formerly filled by Holbrook, Brown and :\Iondschm. The Art1"an has never neglected the shghtCist opportu-nIb to expres'" 1tS v10lent antipathy for anythmg and e1very-thmg connectecl w1th or emanatmg from the C1ty of Cinci-natl -Fur11lture \IV orker The author of the above is a malicious liar. He knows the above charge against the Artisan is untrue, but a lie sel ves his purposes as well as the truth. He hes at all times-awake or asleep By re-electmg A F. Karges of Evansville to the office of pre'ildent, the National Furmture Manufacturers' assooi-ation recogmzed the fa1thful servvce of a tried and true offic1al and reta111ed the cont111uance of a 'iervant who would "<l.cnfice porsonal 111terest to promote the welfare of the trade. E\ ans\ l11e \Vas strongly represented at the meeting of the Kat10nal Furmture assoc1ation in Ch1cago. With Benja- 111111Bosse, Harry Schu, "Ed" Ploeger, A. F Karges and other:, of the1r class present, Evansville exercised a salutary 111fluence 111the deliberat10ns of the assoClation. '\ resolut1On has been introduced in Congress calling for the appointment of a comm1ttee to investigate the express oompames "Yhen the committee shall bel app0111ted and the spade~ are put into the companies' affiairs, let every business ma'l prepare to hold h1s nose It i" whbpered by delegates who attended the meel1ing of the 1\atlOnal Furmture Manufacturers' association at Chi~ cago, that the CO'it of manufacturing goods is still an un- --01'.ed problem Thelre are a considerable number of gues-ser:, still 111the busmess The 1110st effectlve rt:lgulatIon of the business of trans-portmg small packages would follow the passage of the parcels post bill, now pIgeonholed in the rooms of the house COml11lttee on postal affairs, at Washington. To 11\e do\'. n the regrets of not having engaged in the furniture manufBctunng business 1S beooming morel diffi-cult for the people of the world Property owners expect that Gary, Ind, will become a great cIty All 1t needs to attam and retain greatness is ten or twelve furmture factories RetaIler.., of Grand Rapids will partIcIpate largely 111the fes1Jlvltles of h0111e coming week in August next Ltfe 1S not e2Gactly "one grand, ,",weet song," for travel-mg salesmen 111the furniture trade. One 1110nth hence the furmture eXpO'iirt:1On season will be m b10ss0111 SpeCla1 sales 111porch and lawn furmture \\111 be in order soon WEEKLY ARTISAN 17 ...--~-----_~ . . • • • • •• ·1 I GLOBE VISE and TRUCK CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Don't you want the BEST bench that was ever offered for the price, $12.00 (Subject to discount) This bench is 34 inches high, 6 feet, 3 inches long-front 15 inches; made of thoroughly kiln-dried hard maple strips glued together, 2% inches thick. The balance-13 inches is soft wood. Can ship on receipt of order. ~-----------_._._._-----_._-------_._--_._._---.-------~ .._ .._._--- .._---------_ ..-- .... ..- .. ."'I Orientals Originated the Cabinet. The rage for cablllets 111 France onginated during the reign of Henry III, althoough the Onentals were the first to make them. However, It was the Itahan artIsts who chiefly excelled in the con-structlOn and still more, In the decoratIOn of cabinets, wIth the result that from the end of the sIxteenth century the demand for those exported from the peninsula became immense. The ItalIan manufacturers used for them costly exotic woods, whIch they used wIth colored marquetene, Ivory, shells and mother of pearl, ennched WIth je~ elry, glvlllg a new impulse to artIsans and craftsmen The use of bronze In the ornamen-tatlOn of French furmture, of whlCh ,,0 many examples eXIst, was WIthout doubt "uggested by the delightful comblllatiom of gold and sdver designed by cabInet makers beyond the Alps. The use of tortoise shell plaques, In which the Boulles excelled, w.as also eVIdently suggested by the mosaics which Florentine artists began 111 the Imddle of the sixteenth century, to work into theIr cabmets and table tops. At the beglll11lng of the century an incomprehemlble and melancholy whIm led northern craftsmen to use ebony, original-ly a mere accessory of marquetene, as a material for the whole of the cabmets made by them, WIthout anythlllg to relIeve It, and it was to study thIS kind of work that Henry IV sent a corps of carefully selected workmen to Holland, assigning them quar-ters in the Louvre, on their return and dubbing them "menuisiers en ebene,'; whIch I'; the ongin of the name "ebenists," given to makers of furniture. A great many Itahan cabinets have been pre"erved in France, one of whl':.:h in the Cluny museum, may be mentlOl1ed as a typical example It is of very complicated structure, so overladen with all manner of ornamentation that it is really less hke a work of art than a masterpIece of tncks of vanous trades. From It the French got the Idea of using bronze, inlaying with gold and silver in iron. A Valuable Little Book. The Amencan Blower company of DetrOlt, will have ready for distributlOn at the Foundrymen's convention, at Detroit, June 6 to 10, a handsome book, the title of which will be em-bossed upon the cover as follows: "Blower Equipment for the Modern Foundry." The work embodies a treatise on foundry heating and ven-tilation by F. R. StilI. A section is devoted to driving of cu-pola blowers by dIrect connected electric motors Several ap-plications of exhaust fans and ventilating apparatus are illus-trated. An interesting comparison of the generating of electric cur-rent by isolated electric light and power plants, with the pur-chase of current statIOns, is worked out, giving Just the infor-mation the average manufacturer needs to consider. The book wiII be mal1ed gratis to 1l1telested parties. The fatiher of tW1l1Scan't be blamed 1£ he has a deuce of a tIme over them SEND FOR CATALOGUE. 18 WEEKLY ARTISAN WE MAKE REFRIGERATORS IN ALL SIZES AND STYLES -.... --.-.--.-.--.-. -.-. -------------- -------_._._._---_. __._-_._--_._--------_._._._.---- Zinc Lined. Porcelain Lined. White Enamel Lined. Opal-Glass Lined. You can increase your Refrigerator Sales by putting 10 a line of the "Alaskas," Write for our handsome catalogue and price lists. THE ALASKA REFRIGERATOR COMPANY, EXCI:~~8u~~;~~M:~US:~KoErGON, MICH. New York Ofhce, 369 Broadway, L E Moon, Manager .._-- EASTERN WOOL MARKETS. Prices for New Clip Will Be Lower Than a Year Alio. New York, May 19 -Importers of carpet \\ ools \\ ho ex-pected to see the demand for raw matenal qUIcken thIs week have been dlsappolllted It IS e\ Ident that the miii<: have been so busy wIth the fall openlllgs that \ ery lIttle tIme could be gn en to the \\ 001 market The bustle attenchng the onening of a new season, howey er, \\ 111<:ttbslde \ en <:hortly anJ It is reasonable to suppose that ra\\ matenal \\ 111reLen e a greater degree of attention Carpet wool buyers hay e been out of the market for so long a tIme that dealers hay e been consIderably perple"xed regarding the matter Some tnne ago It \\ a" concluded that all of the mills have had a larger store of \\ 001 than mo"t market factors would concede \\ as the fact As the factone" were well under order, and WIth rare exceptIons con<:umln~ enormous amounts of \\ 001, the ..,ource of supph \\ as rather puzzhng, even if the manufacturers har! a surplth III eAces_ of normal III hand DUring the past \" eek <:tathtlclan" In the trade began to compIle the figures \\ hlch sho\\ the \\ Ith-drawals from bonded warehouse from week to week and the results arrived at went far 111solving thIS \"001 nddle The WIthdrawals slllce the first of last December, hay e not onh been steady, but they have been on a pretty large <:cale Dur-ing the twenty-two weeks that hay e passed S111ceDecember 1, 1909, the average weekly WIthdrawals of Chllla" alone amounted to 450 bales, each conta111111g about 500 pouncls of wool It can be seen readIly by these figures that near" 5,000,000 pounds of Chllla wool has gone 111tOconsumptIOn. while the market remained practically dormant In adci!tlon there was a huge volume of Class III \"001 of othel descnp-tions wlthdra\\ n also \iVhile the cost of Chllla wool appears very high to some buyers, it is interesting to note that OW111gto an advance III the rate of exchange the cost of these wools on thIS market is about 7 per cent lower than the pnces buyers would be compelled to pay on the primary market It may be stated, however, that no large quantities of Chll1a \\ 001 are at pres-ent procurable on the prodUCing centers The arnval of addItional ;,ample'3 of ne\\ clip \\ 001 from the territOries is being awaIted by the leadlllg handlers, and it is expected that WIth larger consIgnments than those ob-tainable last season the local market w11l be more of a factor III these wools than It was during the recent past That the basis of value WIll be more reasonaJble IS a foregone con-clusion, as the co"t of Imtial shIpments sho\\ s a declllle of about 20 per cent compared WIth the figures named at the _._ .... - .._ ..... --- ._ ...I beginning of the last season The latest advices from Texas '3tate that sheanng IS gOlllg on in all sections of the State, but \\ 001 gro\\ ers are not quotlllg pnces to dealers or mills as yet Classification Committee in Grand Rapids. The railroad freight claso,ification commIttee, consIsting of R '\ Call} er, chaIrman, E H Dulaney, R C Fyfe, G H Kelland, F II ::\leadows, R. N Powe, F W SmIth, J N Stead\\ ell anJ Elmer H ·Wood, visited Grand Rapids this \\eek and put III two days investigating WIth a vIew of fram- Ing claSSIficatIOn rnles that may be used III all section'3 of the countn II hlle III the city the gentlemen were the guests of the local FurnIture ::\lanufacturers' aSSOCIation On Thursday the commIttee dl\ Ided Illto gronps each accompamed by a local freIght man and an escort of furmture manufacturers selected by Presdent AddIson S Goodman, viSIted and ins,pected local furl1lture factOries. givlllg packlllg and shipping methods .,peClal attentIOn In the evening the committee was enter-tamed at an mformal dlllner Iby the transportation commIttee of the hoard of trade, E K Prichett, chairman. The work on Fmday was in the same line as on Thurs-day, considerable time was given to consultation with local raIlroad agents In the evening the furniture manufacturers' aSSOCiatIOn enterta1l1ed the committee wit ha d1l1ner served in the GUIld rooms ChaIrman Collyel and other members of the committee express themselves as confident that their "Work will result III the adoption of Ulllform classification rules ,by the western and <:outhern as"oclatlOns and hope to be alble to induce the ea<:tern and PaCIfic coast associatIOns to adopt them \t the dllll1er Thursday night, Mr Collyer repeated the hI" tOr) of cla s'3ificatlOns, '3ubstantially as given in his New York and ChIcago addresses, whIch have he en pubhshed III the II'eekly Artisan He also (hscussed the Importance of proper packlllg, and complimented Grand RapIds furl1lture "hlppers on high standard maintallled here "The freight los"es and damage in this country," he said, "IS e;,timated at $20,000,000 a year and thl" with the fire loss represents a tremendous draw upon the national resources and should be regarded as one item in the higher CO'3tof living Before the question of ratll1g can be considered, the conditIOns precedent to the receIpt of freIght mllSt be determllled and thIS is what the committee is now trying- to arrive at. "An adjustment of classification would not be immedi-ately accompanied [by a readjustment of tariff scales to a common basis per ton mile in all parts of the country, al-though that might come in time, ,but it would make the con-dItIon" of shIpment the same in all sections, and make it pos- WEEKLY ARTISAN It's not dIfficultto produce the popular effects required for MISSION FINISHED PORCH FURNITURE But Porch Furniture demands more than the mere effects. It demands durability under outdoor conditions. AURORA PORCH STAINS have been perfected after much study and experiment. They meet the NEW need. They resist the weather lIke first class paint, yet retain the transparentbeauty of high grade stain. WEATHERED OAK, MISSION BROWNS, MOSS GREENS, DULL BLACKS, SOFT REDS, AND OTHER POPULAR EFFECTS. Write for sample panel. To facilitateprompt attention,address Desk No.3. MARIETTA PAINT 8 COLOR CO., Marietta, Ohio. sible to properly e~press the relation which each article should bear to the whole classification scheme throughout the country It is no part of the present work to put ratmg .on the classification, yet a near wpproach to this is m hav1l1g to decide what articles shall Ibe recognized as entitled to carload rating, as this determines minimum carload weight The furniture shippers of Grand RapIds are much inter-e'ited in the plan for minmum carload weight of larger size than standard. I am famtliar with the competItIve forces that you face in putting your goods into western markets and m the growing burden of decreasmg supplies of raw ma-terial. The same condItion faces the New England manu-facturers. The solutIon is an increasingly high stand-ard of output as compared with competitIve manu-facturers. I take It you will be satIsfied to adjust your shipping condItIOns to whatever rule may 1:le adopted provided your competitors are made to work under the same rule" A general dIscussion of shIpping problems followed Mr Collyer's address, dunng which the fact was brought out that glass front furlllture traveled more safely if crated than If boxed, handler bse1l1g more careful when they see the glass and also 1:lecause the crates are easIer to handle. ThIS seemed to be news fOI Mr Colyer, but several of those who jomed in the dIscussion confirmed It A Crisp Criticism. EdItor Weekly Artisan Dear SIr In a recent ISSue of your paper, the resolutIOns of the executIve committee of the National RetaIl Furniture Dealers' association adopted m Chicago, was published. The points covered m the resolutions are well taken, and doubtless - I! I represent the Ideas of the entire retail trade, but, how effec-tive are the Ideas of the retail trade with some of the factone'i when a test occurs? How generally do the factories adhere to their avowed purpose when an opportulllty occurs to get a good sized order mdirectly? How would the trade look at an instance of an order being accepted for a small hotel from a dry goods firm who have not a single article of furniture on sale The dry goods firm in question have made an announcement that later in the year they would add a furlllture department to their store, but at present time, when an order was sent factory, the buildmg for furniture department was m actual use as an office buildmg The hotel order was a side issue How does this instance impress trade, represented by the dealers' associations? A patron desired to match out a sectional bokcase by adding three sections As natural m these days, the lady wrote the factory for pnce, and at same time placed her order WIth local firm, but in the course of three days called to say that she had received a reply from a factory offenng to deliver the parts at one-third off the manu-facturers' ltst, plus $100 for freight? How largely do the factories protect the dealer described in the resolution that reads. "The associatIOn recognizes no one as a legitimate and bonafide furniture dealer except such as carry at all tImes a full stock of furniture, commensurate with the localtty in which they are doing business" We all know high class factories that advertIse largely who never send out good'i dIrect. But the exceptions, how about them? If these inCIdents occur in one place doubtless they do in others A Retatler \iVho Reads The Artisan. Colorado Springs, May 17, 1910. 19 THE PENDING FEDERAL RAILROAD BILL Some of the Important Fe'atures That Are Now Expected to Be Approved by Congress. That Congrcs:o will pa"s the pending Iaill odd hill I" no\\ genenally conceded That 1t \\ III dlfter \\ 1del) m mam part1- culars from the bill drawn and apprm ed b) Prc"ldent Taft 1S equally apparent The bill ha:o been amendeJ so radically and so frequently that 1t has been difficult to keep posted on the charges, but the followmg synopsh \\ 111em er the mo~t ,important of them Both hou"e and "enate ha\ e taken ~Tcat hberties w1th the ongmal measure, making changes \Hth-out regard to the PreSident's recommendatIOns, and as the) are yet at variance, more amendments are hkely to be made before the bill becomes a law The merger clause, wh1ch \\ as m effect an attack on the Sherman law, has been elimmateJ, as was abo the sectIOn rUl1horizing traffic agreements among the ra1lroads. Sec-tions 13, 14 and 15, providmg a plan for the regulation of the capitalization of railroad corporatIOns, ma) also be dropped from the senate bill, but the house has adhered to them, and has, besides, incorporated mto 1b bill a number ot equallY Jrastic and far-reachmg assertIOns of gOYern mental author-ity One of these makes 1t obhgator) on the ra1hoacb to quote rates correctly to sh1ppers; another gives the Interstate Commerce (ommblOn power to m1tJate 111\e<;tJgatlOn on 1h own complaints; a third prOVides for a Slxt) -da\ su<;pen~lOn of t ates pend111g an investigatIOn b\ the comml s"lOn mto their reasonableness, and a fourth extends the scope of the act, with very doubtlful con"tJtutlOnal \\ arrant, to tele~raDh and telephone compallles domg an mterstate bU:'lmes" The "long and short haul clause" lS another feature of the proposed leg1slatlOn \",hleh, 1f mcorporated therelll a" something more than a "Jokel," \\111 mark anotht:r departure from the admm1stratlOn's program '3till another, and of greater 1mportance, 1S the clause prov1c!lng for the ph) ~Ical valuation of ratlraods-wh1ch the mter:otate comm1:O"lon might today undertake 1f 1t had the funJ", a<; It ha<; thc pm\ er ~or any of a numlber of other matter" appeanng m the origmal measure or grafted on 1t as amendment, Not only 1S the \\ hole "cherne of rate" \ Itall) m\ oh ed in 1he issue presented by the long and short haul quc:'ltliJn, hut the pl"'lpellty of sechon:o and commulllties and the mo\ ement:'l of trade dl e ahke conce~neJ On the theory that the\ mlbt meet \\ ater cOlmpetltlOn to advantge wherever it eX1sts, or has e:X1sted and 1Shkely to eX1st agam, the ra1lroads ha\ r b111lt up a sy:otem of late" under wh1ch intenor points are flagrantl) 0\ ercharged m order to recoup losses resultmg from e'Ctraordmar) la\" rates to coast pomts and places along the larger rl\ ers Fre1ght tanffs are replete wttth instances m \\ hlch an even much htgher rate is charged for the short haul than for the long haul over the same route For in-stance, as has been explameJ by senator Smoat of Utah, the rate on \\ ood from Sdlt Lake C1ty to Boston is $2.13 per hun-dred \\ e1ght, hut 1f the shtpment of wool origmating at Salt Lake mO\ ed 'louthwest to Los Angeles, Cal, a sea coast center, and trans pOlted thence to Boston through Salt Lake, the fre1ght charlSe 1S only $192 per hundred weight. In other \\ ords the t ailroads carry the wool sh1pment destmed to l~o:oton to Los Angeles and hack to Salt Lake C1ty for 21 cenb less than nothmg, as compared with the Salt Lake-to- Bo"ton charge Slmllarly the transcontinental rates to Seattle, Tacoma and other ~ orthwest PaClfic c1ties are cons1derably less than those to such an 1l1lportant intermediate pomt as Spokane. Thh "ort of Jugghng enables the Seattle Jobber to Sh1p his good, mto Spokane m competJtlOn WJth the jobber at that pomt catellng to local trade, as the sum of the through rate to Seattle and the local to Spokane 1Sless than the direct rate from the east to tJhe latter Prett) much the same rate SituatIOn obtains with re-spect to the terntory of the l'ower l\IbSlsslpp1 river To dnve the boats off the stream the ra11 carriers adjusted their tar- 1ff<;to a \ er} low level for all long hauls On first class fre1ght a ulllform rate of 40 cents from Memphis to every rl\ CI pomt south was prov1ded, the schedule applymg nTI-partlall) to Helena, Greenvtlle, Natches, Vlcksburg, Baton Range nd ~e\\ Orleans The re"ult was, wnth rates on other cla"~e" of fre1ght slmilarl) reduced, the boats had to abandon the long hauls and ha\ e practtcally disappearcd from the No 9-Porch Chair Large size. Oak Seat Green or MISSIOnFinish. Weight, 20 pounds No to-Porch Rocker Large size Oak Seat Green or MISSIOn FIUlsh Weight 2tYz pound. No. l1-Porch Settee. Seat 40 Inches long, 17% Inches deep Oak Seat. Green or MISSIOnfimsh Weight, 32 pounds. RICHMOND CHAIR COMPANY, RICHMOND, INDIANA WEEKLY ARTISAN 21 CHOICE TOOLS FOR FURNITURE MAKERS If you do not know the "Oliver" wood working tools, you had better give us your address and have us tell you all about them. We make nothing but Quality tools, the first cost of which is considerable, but which will make more profit for each dollar invested than any of the cheap machines flood-ing the country. "Oliver" New Variety Saw Table No. 11 Will take a saw up to 20' mameter Arbor belt" 6' WIde Sendfor Catalog "B" fordataon Hand Jointers, Saw Tables, Wood Lathes, Sanders, Tenoners, Mortisers, Trimmers, Grinders, Work Benches, Vises, Clamps, Glue Heaters, etc., etc. OLIVER MACHINERY CO. Works and General Offices at 1 to 51 Clancy St. GRAND RAPIDS. MICH., U. S. A. BRANCH OFFICES-Oliver Machinery Co., Hudson Terminal, 50 Church St. New York, Ohvcr MachInery Co , Fm!! Natronal Bank Budding, Chicago, III , Oher Machinery Co , aClflCBUllmng, Scatde, Wash, Ohver Mac/unery Co ,20)·203 Dean.gale, Manchester, Ena lower lIver, the few remainmg steamer'S being engaged ex-clUSIvely m local serVIce Senator Bnstow of Kansas, in dIscussing these facts from the hIstory of raJ1road and steamboat competItIon 111 the south, l11troduced several l11terest111g IllustratIOns on hIS No. 1730-1730 Pull. Made by Grand RapIds Brass Co, Grand Rapids, MICh. own account One of thebe reldted to cotton shipments flam MemphIS to New Orlean, The dIstance between these two CItIes IS 396 mJ1e:", and the rate on cotton over that distance is 20 cents per hundred weIght On the other hand, the rate from Jackson, MIss, to New Orleans, a distance of 183 mJ1es over the same raIlroad, IS 33 cents per hundred weIght, or 13 cents hIgher than the ]\1<::mphi'S-New Orleans tanff schedule All shlprpers, except those dJrectly benefitted, agree that such VIcious absurdItIes 111rate-making should be inhi1bited, Oliver Tools Save Labor U TIme " Tempers « CO$l "OLIVER" No. 16. Band Saw 36 Inches. Made w,1b or WIlboul motor drIve Metal table 36"x 30". Will take I8" under the smde- lilts 45 degrees one way and 7 clegree$ Ibe other way Car-nes a saw up to 1,%11 Wide. OUlllde beanng to lower wheel shaft when not motor doyen Welwh. 1800 lb. when ready 10 shIp at <:11hazards, in the new raIlroad legIslation in congress. It IS not pOSSIble, to be sure, to adopt a mIleage baSIS for rate makmg, nor yet a zone basIS, but thIS thmg of overchargmg Spokane for the benefit of Seattle, and of laying a heavy rate burden on BIrmingham, Ala, to compel15ate for unreasonably low ra tes made to V teks burg or New Orleans-in other words, of makmg the 111tenor cities pay for the unprofitable handlmg of the bUSIness of sea ports or certam nver points-should be brought to an abrnpt and defimte end. A clause prohlbltmg the charging of a le'SS rate for the long than for the short haul over the same road should not only be 111cor-porated m and made an enforceable feature of federal law, but, m addItIon, the Interstate Commerce commISSIon should be gIven the authonty to oven ule a rate vvlhICh 111 itself IS unprofitalbl1e, or I~ even unreasaiJ:>ly low 111 the matter of earn-mg power Five Hundred Houses at Carey. Plans have been submitted to BUIlding Commissioner VV. H Kltver of Gary, Ind, by offiCIals of the Amencan I3ndge company, for the constructIon of 200 houses for its employes, to cost from $1,500 to $3,500. Plans are also being prepal ed for the American Sheet & Tm Plate company for the constructlOn of 300 dwellll1gs, rang111g from $2,500 to $5,- 500 Both compa11les are Sub<'lcllary plants of the U11ltec1 States Steel corporatlOn, and are now erecting large plants near the sites of the IndIana Steel company. The plant of the Amencan Sheet & 1'm Plate company vv ill be one of the larg-est of Its kmd m tJhe world. Rtehes take unto them'Selves wings A filer in the stock market often proves It. 22 WEEKLY ARTISAN Minnesota Retail Dealers' Furniture Association OFFICERS-PreSIdent J R. Taylor, Lake Benton, Mlnn , Vice· President, D. R Thompson, Rockford, Mlnn , Treasurer, B A Schoeneberger, Perham, MInn 1 Secretary, W L. Grapp, Janesvdle, Minn EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE-Chairman, Geo Klein, Mankato, Minn., 0 Simons, Glencoe, Mlnn; W. L Harns, Mmneapolls, Mtnn , C. DanIelson, Cannon Fans. BULLETIN No. 140. Housefurnishing Store Advertising. The advertIsmg manager of the Rhodes-Burford Furni-ture company, St. Loms, dehvered the fo11o\\mg address to the company's employes recently, and It b \\ orth perusal by salesmen as well as dealers m furnIture' "N ewspaper pubhClty IS but a part of the great ach ertIs-ing force of thIs store-those wmdo\\ dlspla\ s, our dell' er} serVIce, our office force, our collectIOn department, the con-dItion of our store, our sales force-are the parts that make up the whole great force, advertI"mg, upon \\ hlch depends the ultimate success of thIS great store "Upon the part of each, then, there must be a perfect harmonIOus workmg WIth the other-the closest co-operatIOn If our newspaper pubhcity, our \\ Indo\\ dIsplay s, bnng peo-tour of inspectIOn She asks to be shown a ladies' writing de"k Salesman shows her the line Never stops to ask her 'o'ohat filllSh she prefers, nor to ascertain albout what priced pIece she deSIred to purchase, but pIcks up the first tag, says, "Quartered oak, $77S"-the ne'<:t, "the same finish, $97S," and so on down the hne Salesmen, that isn't selling voods, that Isn't backll1g up your store's publiCIty-that's just simply calling pnces IVhat this store wants-what it must have-are \\ holesouled, heart-in-their-work, painstaking, attentIve salesmen \\ e have no room for order takers " \mong "alesmen personal appearance counts for a whole lot IV e aren't all able to affO!d $60 taIlor made suits and patent leather shoe", but we can all wear clean linen, keep what clothes \\ e do possess neat and clean, our hands and Are you partll~lly responSIble for the addItion to thIS week's cartoon by not using the a68oClatlOn helps WhIChthe aSSOCIationbrmg6110 you to meet this competlOn WhIChIndIVId-ually. you could not? Think It over and watch this picture grow next week. pIe mto our store, both have done their duty, they have created the deSIre, and that IS all that we can expect ut them "We shall endeavor to Impress upon the mll1cb ot the people of St Loms a dIfferent store, a better "tore, a thoro-ughly dependable store, a store where theIr satbfactlOn 'o'oIII be glVen first attentlOn \Ve can accompll"h thIS onh through a better antI dIfferent SOlt of pubhClty But bear m mmd that this pubhcIty, no matter how much better, how dIfferent In every way, IS but a small factor of the greater force upon \\ hiCh thIS store depends for ultImate succes" "Can you conceIve of anything mOle dIsastrous to thIS store's welfare than a splendId publICIty campaIgn, not backed up? Here's a woman, for instance, who has read our open-ing announcement She comes to the store filled \\ Ith e,,- pectancy ThIS IS a new store to her The ad'o ertI~ement she has Just read speaks m glowmg terms of ne\', goods-splendId assortments of them-an unexcelled sen Ice \Vhen she reaches the store, behold-the store's wllldows, poorly arranged goods dusy and dIrty Instead of addmg to her expectancy It has retarded It and now she wonders "On the other hand, had those wllldows been artlstlcalh trimmed, as attractive as store wllldows can po",,1bly he made -what an Impetus her already created expectancv would have received Take it for granted they are such She enters the store, a salesman approaches her-and they start on a tingel naIls clean I tell you, salesmen, the part you play ha~ a 111Ight} Important beanng upon the success of thIS store, and \ our o\\n future success as well How well are \ ou gOlllg to play your part? E'oen thOlough salesman knows hIS goods He mU3t kno\\ them to be able to present them to his customers as they should be presented It's thorough knowledge that enables you to make "ales And upon every branch of the store's produclllg force devolves the same task, and to that end all :ohould pull WIth every pos"lble effort-the customer's entire satisfactIOn A sharp reply over the te1ephone-de-hvelles promIsed and not fulfilled-impudent collectors-a d1scourteous carpet layer or delIvery man-may result in a lo"t cu"tomer . I :oav to "au, III all faIrness, If you can't put forth your "\ ery be"t eft art, If your heart isn't III your work-Ill the name ot falfne"s to the management, to whom the success of this "tore means so much-hand your reSIgnation to the manager no\\ and let h1l11fill your place with someone who will do for Rhodes-Burford what he would expect them to do for h1m 'ol,ere he the employer and they the employed. "The sort of publlClty that w1ll be given this store if pro-perly and Illtelhgentlv backed up WIll mean unquallfied suc-ce"" for thIS great store, and this store's success means your success" Minnesota Retail Furniture Dealers' Association. BULLETIN No. 141. One of our members abked 'Why don't we 0\ erdraw our ad,ertlsmg UnIts the same "'S some of the catalog houses do?" Our reply IS that we feel that If we cannot get busllless on the ment of the goo ds as they really are, we are not entItled to It Therefore, we would rather have our advertlsmg umts a lIttle underdrawn than overdrawn Yo u use these advertlsmg units to brmg the customer to your store When he comes and sees that the real artICle IS even mOl e pleasmg than the de se rJptlOn led hIm to beheve the sale IS made a great deal eaSier We have to meet our customers personally and we would a great deal rath er have hIs full confidence than to coax hIm mto our store wIth overdrawn pICtures and then have hIm find that the article does not look as well as he was led to believe it would If you wIsh to bUIld up a permanent bUSllless, you must conduct your busllless along truthful lines We feel that we can follow thIS po!Jcy 1ll preparmg our advertlslllg umts and Wlll out A High Grade Kitchen Cabinet. A Special Value in a Kitchen CabiJ1et. F3G No o - 0 1 T hIs h and y, dur a bile kItchen cab In et I s made of har d wood 1ll golden oa k or natural fimsh The top IS 26 x 42 lllches and It has a large flour blll a drawer whICh can be used for cut-lery and a kneadmg board ThIS cablllet IS made by one of the most modern and best eqUIpped factorIes It IS very well constructed and only the best matenal IS used It IS an e"ceptlOnally good value for the pnce F 3 6 N 0 o 07 T hIs s e 1 - VI C e-a b I e hlg h grade kltch - en ca... bIn et I~ made of hard wood m the natural or golden oak fimsh It has a 26x46 mch top two large bms whIch can be used for flour, sugar or meal two good sIzed drawers whIch can be used for cutlery and a kneadmg board ThIS cablllet IS hIgh grade 1ll every respect and WIll be a ,alu-able addItIon to any kItchen It IS very convemently arranged and cannot fall to gIVe satisfactIOn WIth type, 40c WIthout type, 25c PrICe of kItchen cab met to our mem-bels $2.47. WIth type 40c WIthout type 25c PrICe of kitchen cab met to OUI mem-bers, $3.33. A Durable Kitchen Cabinet. F 3 6 N 0 0-0 3 .r hIS n eat kltcr, - e n cabI-net IS made o f 11 ar d wood m natural or golden oak fimsh The top IS 26 x 46 lllches and It has a large flour bm, tw 0 good sIzed drawers whIch can be used for cut lery a spacIOus cupboard and a kneadmg board The constructIOn IS of the best and only first class matenal IS used ThIS cabInet IS very convenIently arranged and can not fail to gIVe satisfactIOn It WIll add a neat finIshing touch to any kItchen I ___ ~ __ I WIth type 40c Without type, 25c Price of kItchen cabmet to our mem-bel s, $3.66. A Handsome Kitchen Cabinet. F36 No 1 - 9 1 ThIs well co n-struct e d kitchen ca b Inet I s made of hard wood In the nat-ural or golden oak fin- Ish The top IS 26 '{42 mch-e s an d the base has a large flour bin, a good sIzed drawer and a kneadmg board The top has a very neat and convenIent arrangement of two medIUm large cupboards and four drawers ThIS cabmet makes a very pleasmg re-ceptacle for the varIOus kl tchen utenSIls and cannot fall to appeal to every housekeeper A Neat Kitchen Cabinet. F36 No o - 0 2 T hIs hand-s 0 m e kItchen cabInet IS made of ha rd wood m the nat-ural or golden oak fimsh The top IS 27 x 44 lllches and It has an e"tra large flour bm, a spauous cupboard for pans, etc, a lalge drawer and a kneadmg board It IS made by e'{- penenced cabmet makers and only the best matenal I~ used The ar-rangement of thIS cablllet IS some thmg that those havmg small kItchens WIll apPI ecmte .:A Popular Kitchen Cabinet. Vllth type, 40c WIthout type, 25c Price of kItchen cabmet to our mem-bers, $4.38. Price of base, $247 Pnce of top $1 90 WIth type 40c WIthout type 25c Price of kItchen cabmet to OUr mem-bers, $5.46. F36 No 5 - 9 3 T hIs neatly arrang-ed kl t-c hen cabmet IS made of hard woo d In the natural or gold en oak finIsh The top IS 26x4b mches and It has a large flour bm two good sIzed drawers, a roomy cupboard for pans, etc , and ,l kneadmg board The top has a very pleasmg arrangement of se, en drawers the one m the center bemg shghtly larger than the otherb Just what you need for your kItchen WIth type, 40c WIthout type, 25c Price of kItchen cabmet to our mem-ber~, $5.56 Price of base $3 66 Pnce of top, $1 90 I A Very Popular Kitchen Cabinet F36 No 4 - 9 7 T hIs h I g h grade kltche n cabme t IS made of hard wood m the nat-ural or gol d en oak fin Ish The top IS 26 x 46 mches and the bas e hab two large bms WhICh can be used for flour meal or sugar two good sIzed drawers and two kneadlllg boards The top has a very neat and convement arrangement of three medIUm sIzed drawers and three small ones ThIS cabmet WIll make a most pleaslllg addItIOn to your kItchen --------- A Very Substa';tial Kitchen Cabinet. I F36 No 'i - 5 3 ThIS at-tractIve kl t chen ca blnet IS made of ha rd wood In natural 01 gold-en oa k fm I sh The top I ~ 2 6 x 46 mch-es an d the base has a 1 a 1" g e flour bIn, a spaCl-ouschlna close t tor pans etc two good sIzed drawers and a kneadlllg board The top has a roomy chma closet fitted WIth glass doon and a shelf extendmg the en tire WIdth of the cablllet You WIll find one of these cabmets a great convemence m your kItchen A Roomy Kitchen Cabinet. F36 No 2 - 4 1 't' hIs pleasm g In tchen cabInet IS made of har d wood In the natu-ral or gol-den oak fIn 1 s h .rhe top IS 26x42 Inches and the base has a large flour bm a go 0 d s I zed drawer and a kneadlllg board The top has a roomy chma closet fitted WIth glass doors Thel e IS a shelf extendmg the full WIdth of the cabmet ThIS handsome cabmet WIll be an Orna ment to ~our kItchen WIth type, 40c WIthout type 25c PrIce of kItchen cabmet to our bel'S, $5.80. PrIce of base, Price of top $3 33 mem $2 47 WltlJ type, 40c WIthout tvoe 25c Price of thIS cabmet to our members $5.80. Price of base, $333 PrICe of top $247 WIth type 40c ,;Vlthout type 25c Price oj' kItchen cabmet to our bel'S $6.99. Price of base Price of top, $3 33 ' SEND ALL ORDERS TO THE SECRETARY, JANESVILLE, MINN. mem- $3 66 24 WEEKLY ARTISAN . ---.- .-..--~ SIGNIFICANT LUMBER STATISTICS An Average Increase of Fifty Per Cent in Prices in the Past Ten Years. The followmg statistics and statements compIled and sent out by COm1TI1SSlOner\VU1p1 of the N atlOna1 IIa1 d\\ ooel Lumber dssoclatlOn WIll have great slgmficance and meamng to all \\ ho a1e m any way mteresteel m the furn1ture trdele Dr 1I1du.,tl\ Total lumbel productlOn ~mce It! -;0, l.~()O bllhon teet The cut was as follo\\s m the penod, mentlOned 1830- 5 bl1110n feet 1860- 8 bl1110n feet 1870-13 b11l1Onfeet 1908-33 1K'30-18 bl111011 1890-'H b1lllOn 1900-33 bl1llOn bl1llOn feet feet feet feet Total cut m 8 ) ears, 1900 to 1908, j'29 bIllIon teet Yellow pme leads all \\ 1th a cut of 100 b11110nfeet Wh1te pme sceond wIth a cut of 49 b11lIon feet Oak 15 fourth wIth a cut of 31 bl1llOn feet M11l Value m 1900 190'3 Increa"e Produced Yellow Poplar $Ue OJ $'23')0 800', HciC'C less Ash 15 8-k 2331 C1r;; 16 .~ Ie" Oak 1'3 78 21 5,) 31ll, 3, 6l{; Ie"., Yellow pme 846 1266 -±9'7r 16 7c more Wh1te pme 1269 1811 ci ')c,~ ,-;C()c~~le,,~ Chestnut 1337 1627 '2F~ III F( Ie,s LouiSIana ranks first m ) ellm\ pme cut Texa::, ,econd Total oak cut m 1900 was 4cl38 m1llIon teet In 190t!, d tnfle over three-fifths as much Kentucky ranks first m oak cut, \\ est \ Irgl11la second The general mcrea,e m the pnce level for the past 10 \ ear5 IS 50 per cent. The maxImum output of wh1te pme, oak, ) ellm\ poplar d,h and elm 1S Said to have been passed Grand Trunk Orders Auto Cars. The Grand Trunk and Grand Trunk PaCIfic ra1h\ a\ CO 111- pames have placed order5 WIth the vVestern Steel Car anel I oun-dry company of ChIcago, for 2,000 steel-frame box cars of (JO - 000 pound" capacIty each, or about the Oldmary "lze bo,- Lar, These steel frame cal s cost about $1,000 each, so that thh one order represents more than $2 000,000 ] he Importance ot the automobl1e trade to the ra1lwa) ~ 1S shO\\ n 111the t,lCt that the Grand Trunk has ordered JOO spe~ldl automobIle Cdrs 1 he"e are lal ge box cars, WIth specIally deSIgned doO! s at the ends, whIch WIll allow a large tounng car to be run m or our \\ Ithout d1ffiLuity The Grand Trunk touches DetrOIt, I lmt, Lan,mg and other CItIes 111 the we~t whlLh have large automobtlc tdC-tOlles, and the cars have been found nCCeS~dr) to handle thl" trade. ThIs system has also been consldenng the purchase of a number of steel frame box cars of 100,000 pounds capaclt) each, for the wheat handlIng trade A t1am of iW st1ch car" could carry 1,OeO tons-3,3,000 bushels-of wheat each tnp, WIth a mmlmum of handl111g However, It hac bee 1 deuded not to ordel the5e cars at present Slam·tand to the Point. Grand Rapld~ Veneer Works, Grand Rap1ds, :\IICh, Gentlemen-Your favor of the 27th mst. dt hand In repl) would say that our kIlns are work111g finely Yours respectfully, Henry H Shelp l\!~fg Co -R. C PIckett PhIladelphIa, July 10, 1909 ( American Plan) Rates $2.50 and Up. Hotel Pantlind (European Plan) Rates $1.00 and Up_ GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. The Noon Dmner Served at the Pantlmd for 50c is THE FINEST IN THE WORLD. J. BOYD PANTLIND, Prop. I J..------_._------ .•.• _._._ w._ ._ .... ~ SEND FOR Manufaduren of Embo.. ed and Turned Mould. inas, Embo.... cd and Spindle Carvinp. and Automatic Turnin ••. We 0110manu-ladule a Iarac hnc of Embo ... d Ornament. for Couch Work. 1256-1258 W. Fifteenth St., CHICAGO, ILL. ---_ .. _. _._-----_._-----._-_._--------_._--_ .. -- ~ r· Ii• I IIIII I FOX MACH IN E CO. G~~N~ ~':.";,;,;:·~f~HI ..-----~-_.---------- -- -"_. - .- . - - '" No.15 FOX SAWING MACHINE WRITE 44 FOR NEW CATALOG ~----_-. --~--__._.-_._---------_._-_._._.-------. HOFFMAN BROTH ERS CO. FT. WAYNE, IND. I HARDWOOD LUMBER I I SA~~D} QUARTERED OAK { VENEERS SLICED AND MAHOGANY I'----_._._--_ .. ----_.. .. -._ ...... _. - . ------------------~- - ~ ~ WEEKLY ARTISAN TABLE MAKERS IN CONVENTION They Oppose Senator Smith's Amendment to the Railroad Bill. The meeting of the NatIOnal Ao,,,oclatlOn of Table Mak-ers, at IndIanapolIs on Wednesday was marked by large at-tendance and better reports of the condItion of busmess than had been expected The assocIation IS now much stronger than a year ago The membership includes 66 per cent of the table manufacturers of the country and over 80 per cent of the product. The proceedings which were mamly of mter-est only to the members were I emarkably harmonIOus N ear-ly all who participated m the dlscusslOns expressed OptI-mIstic sentiments as to present condltlOns and the outlook for the near future The convention went on record as opposmg the amend-ment to the pendmg raIlroad bIll offered by Senator Smith of MIchIgan, intended to lllcrease the power and authOrIty of the attorney-general in cases of shIppers agamst raIlroads before the interstate commerce commission, by WIring the followmg protest to Senator BeverIdge' "The manufacturers of extension dining tables in con-ventIOn here assembleJ from all parts of the Umted State", and representmg practically 84 per cent of the t3Jble product of the United States, would respectfully enter vigorous pro-test against the Smith railroad bill now under conslderatlOn by congress "We respectfully urge the defeat of saId amendment, and that It gIve the shIpper due plivIlege before the mterstate commerce commlSSlOn, where cases and complamts may be adjudged finally" To Oppose Higher Freight Rates. Chicago, May 18 ~A nation wide campaign to force the raIlroads to reduce freight rates or to hold them at theIr present level was launched in ChIcago yesterday. Perma-nent organization to carry out the campaIgn was effected by 400 manufacturers and representatives of com~erclal clubs in a conference, which started in the Gold room, Congress Hotel A steady campaign of publicity against the raIlroads, bringmg politIcal influence to bear to cut off "favors" which they now receive and fosterIng of water traffic were the three remedies repeatedly advanced to force the raIlroads to time The sItuation IS made particularly acute by the increa:oe whIch is to go mto effect on certam classlficatlOn on June 1 next and a general advance whIch IS antiCIpated in all parts of the country before autumn Practlcall yevery bIg shIpper in ChIcago v. as represented at the conference Organizations m many smaller cIties and particularly trades mterested only in the tariffs affectlllg theIr lineo" were represented by secretarIes or chaIrmen and many large shIppers m other cities were personally repre-sented The conference was brought about by the I1l1l101s Manu-facturers assoclatlOn and the ChIcago AssoclatlOn of com-merce The permanent officen, as o,elected by a nominatmg commIttee and elected by acclamation, are : John E \iV Ilder, president, vice president of vVIlder & Co, ChIcago, R E Spencer, vice president, Peter" Shoe Co, St LOLli", E E \V IllIamson, secretary, commissioner of the Recel\ ers' and ShIppers' aSSOCIation of Clllclllnati The nomlllatmg committee recommended that a trea-surer and a name for the permanent body be selected later ResolutIOns and other commIttees also were deferred. The nom1l1atmg committee consisted of P. M. Hanson, chairman 25 of the Mi"si:osippi Manufacturing aSSOCIation, St Louis; W B Moore, o,ecretary chamber of commerce, Dayton, Ohio; E J. McVann, manager traffic department, Commercial Club, Omaha, W. B Trickett, executive manager of Mmnesota Traffic as"oclatlOn, MmneapolIs, and J E Huntley, commls-si01ler of the UtIca traffic bureau, Utica, N Y Talks Encouragingly. New York, May 19-Concernmg the rals1l1g of freight rates 111 the terntory of the Trunk Lme and Central FreIght associations, George D DIxon, freight traffic manager of the PennsylvanIa, confirm1l1g rumors of such intention, is quoted as saying: "RaIlroads are readJustmg their freight rates all the tllne There WIll not be any such extraord1l1ary advances as has been presistently forcasted and there is nothing unusual or anythmg to get eXCIted about in a contemplated increa<;e. "At the present time the carriers are m need of money and are compelled to raise certain rates because of the 111- creasmg cost of lalbor and the general advance 111 the cost of various materials. "In some cases the freight rates WIll be lowered, while in others they WIll be advanced Then again, there are some that will not be changed" It is understood that by work1l1g mght and day, the checking m new rates on commodltleb has been completed sooner than at one time seemed possIble, by the roads m the Trunk Line AssoCIation, and the rate clerks al e now WIth lIke remitting labor, domg the bame WIth the various cla<;ses, after whIch the schedules ""ill be passed upon by the traffic executives Correspond1l1g progre"s has been made by the Central FreIght AssociatlOn lInes, except as to dre"sed beef and like high class freIght concermng whIch dIfferences of opmlOn as to what the rates o,hould be have served to cause delay. It is possIble, however, that the roads 111 both associ-ations WIll be ready to file their new tarIffs by July 1 Some further officIal announcement may be made in a few days Might Better Cut Dividends. "The repol t of the commIttee on interstate commerce submitted to the N atlOnal AssociatlOn of Manufacturers at the annual meet1l1g in New York, stated that for the year ended June 30, 1909, dIvIdends of about 8 per cent were earned by 66 per cent of the raIlroad stocks of the Umted States-"a considerably larger net income than the average realIzed flOm most investments" So It is argued by the commIttee that if to all the burdens now re'it1l1g upon the manufacturers of the country must be added the proposed 20 per cent increase in freIght rates, they WIll find It a very senous tax The commlttee'o, Intimation IS that most of the raIlroads mIght better cut down their dIvIdend disburse-ments than advance freight rates, and In this connectlOn the commIttee bald "Under the present c011301IdatlOn of ownership m Wall street, the officers of the road<; arc powerless, whIle those 111 complete control of the sltuatlOn, seem interested only in gettIng larger dIvIdends \Ve have heard a ratlroad superIn-tendent complaIn that hIS lIfe was anythmg but a happy one. Laborers wanted more wage,,; he had not been allowed to spend the amount needed to improve hIS road, there were consequently more accIdents and more complaints from ship-pers, whose bItter oppOSItion to advancing freIght rates was overpowered by the mappeasable demand of the Wall street owners for more dIvidends" MANUFACTURERS' NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Synopsis of the Fourteenth Annual Convention Held in New York City---Important Topics Considered and Discussed. New York, May 20 -The fourteenth annual conventIOn of the 1'\ational aSSocIatIOn of :Vrannufacturer~ ,,11l'::h opened at the \\J aldorf-I\~tna on :'Ionday "as the most lan;-eh attenclul and in every way the mo~t successful meet1l1g e\ er held by the or-ganizatIOn The conventIOn opened 111 the shadow of the death of the assoClatlOn's former presIdent, James \Y Yan Clea\ e, and it adopted a resolutIOn express1l1lS the as~oclatlOns admIra-tion of M,r Van Cleave, and ItS sense of loss 111 Ius death The first sessIon was devoted ma1l11y to reports, addresses and discussions on fire preventIOn, 1I1terstdte commerce and Im-l111gratlOn, the latter tOpIC being apparently of most 1I1terest to the assemblage. On the subject of fire preventIon there" as an address b} Charles L. Case, who spoke from the standp01l1t of 11lsurance underwriters HIS address folio" ed a report of the a ~soclatlOn' ~ committee on fire prevention. "It IS ~ufficient to sa} that as one effective means of fire pre\ ention, the natIonal board has assisted at an expense of $80,000 111 send1l1g 38. 1I1cendlanes to the penItentIanes of cllffelent states," sald :'Ir Ca~e '\\ e believe we are rendenng the publIc a valuable serVIce, not \\ holly on the 'pro bono publIco' order but because by reduc11lg the fire loss we 1I1surance companies can make more money for our stock-holders, who require good dlVldends to leave their money in our risky business. "Our loss is stIli several times hIgher per person than that of any other country \Ve desire to deal fairh "ith the publIc, to do all we can to safeguard property and thereIn, 1l1cldentall}. against this awful, ever present, enormous, but largely prevent-able fire penl, and we thank you for the present opportunitv of co-operating with you." The committee on imnllgratlOn. speak111g of the country as a whole, reported among other o]J3en atlOns the~e "In the past our economIc strength has been largel} due to our pre-eminence as producers and manufacturers of food-stuffs. While we should be jmtly proud of our 111crea,,111g exports of manufactures, we cannot afford to lose our p0'iltlOn as CXiporters of the products of the SOlI :'luch has been 'iald and written about the 1l1crease in the cost of food In the eastern and the southern states as \\ ell a'i 111the II est, there IS much untilled ground In the face of thIS conditIOn we are met by the fact that only a very small proportIOn of even falm laborers who come I11to this country engage here 111 agnculture I\lthough producel s 111 bhelr own lands, they become consumers here without doing theIr part in produc- I11g toward our store of food" The commIttee also turning ItS attention to the contract labor la\\ sa} '3 that both through its prOVIsions and its abuses It has become "one of the most powerful weapons of the labor unions for the oppression of the manufacturers," and the commIttee adds' "The chief abuses of the law are the uses made of it by labor unions in stnke cases, both in inconveniencing the em-ployer and 111 intImidating the employes by threats of depor-tation epon tnal before the board of special inquiry the alIen IS presumed guilty until he has proved himself innocent He IS first subjected to an examinatIOn by the board and com pelled to acquIt himself before his accusers are compelled to sl'bstantIate their accusatIOns It will readIly be seen what an opportUnIty such a practice gives to those who invoke it \\ Ith malIcIOUS motIves" The report declares that in no case is the law invoked by the labor unIOn officials from a desire to see it enforced, but 111 ever} case from ulterior motives of self interest The commIttee recommends that no restrictions be placed on im-mllSra tlOn except those necessary to keep out the morally, mentalh or ph} slcall} unfit and tho'ie whose racial origin makes them 1I1capable of assl1uilatlOn 111 the !body polItIc; that It shall be lawful to Import skIlled labor when the per-son Import111g cannot obta1l1 laborers of the like kind in thIS country \\ ho WIll work for him at the rate of wages prevail- 1I1g generally 111 thIS country for such labor; and that war-rants of arrest and deportatIOn of aliens who have landed be Issued only. by a UnIted States commIssioner or United States Judge on such warrant compla111ts as now are necessary 111 cnml11al cases Let Them Come. Ormsby ::\IcHarg in an address on "DIstributIOn of Im-migrants a NecessIty," said: "There IS consldera1ble popular fear of the result ,..----------~-------_.-- - _. - ...- _ ..- - - . . - ---- --------------._---~~---.-.-----If--1m- .. ----., L-ARGEST .JOBBERS AND MANUFACTURERS OF GLASS Pittsburg Plate Glass COl1lpany IN THE WORLD Mirrors, Bent Glass, leaded Art Glass, Ornamental Figured Glass, Polished and Rough Plale Glass, Window Glass WIRE GLASS Plate Glass for Shelves, Desks and Table Tops, Carrara Glass more beautifullhan white marble. CENERAL DISTRIBUTORS OF PATTON'S SUN PROOF PAINTS AND OF PITCAIRN ACED VARNISHES. q For anythmg m BUilders' Glass, or anythmg in Pamts, Varmshes, Brushes or Pamters' Sundnes, address any of our branch warehouses, a hst of whICh is gIven below NEW YORR-lludson and Vandam st •. BOSTON-41-49 Sudbury st., 1-9 .owker st. CEICAG0-442-452 Wabash Ave. cn'Ircn'lrNATI-Broadwa;yand Court Sts. ST. LOUIS-Cor. 'l'enth and Spruce St•. MINNEAPOLI8-500-516 S. 'l'hird St. DE'l'BOX'l'-53-59 Larned St., E. GBAND BAPlDS, MICE-39-41 N. Division St. PI'l''l'SBl1BGH-IOI-I03 Wood St. MILWAl1XEE, ~S.-492-494 Market St. BOCHES'l'EB,N.T.-WUder Bldg., MaID41EZChanll'ests. BAL'l'IllI[ORE-310-12-14 W. Pratt St. CLEVELAND-1430-1434 West 'l'h1l'dst. OlllAKA-llOl-1107 Howard St. S'l'. PAl1L-459-461 Jackson St. A'l'LAN'l'A,GA.-30-32-34 S. PryOI' St. SAVANNAH. GA.-745-749 Wheaton St. XANSAS OI'l'T-Pifth and wyandotte Sts. BIB.llIINGKAlII.ALA.-2nd Ave. and 29th st. Bl1PPALO. N. T.--372-74-76-78 Pearl St. BBOOXLTlII'-'l'hird Ave. and Dean st. PJD:LADELPJDA-Pitca.1m Bldg., Arch and 11th DAVElIPOB'l'-410-416 Scott St. OXLAHOlllACX'1'Y. OXLA., 210-212W. rust St. '" •••• aM ••• -------a.--------_.._._.---~..--. .-...-. --.-..--_.--------------------'"~ WEEKLY ARTISAN Wood Sa.r Clamp Fixtures Per Set 50c. Patent Malleable Clamp Fixture. E H SHELDON & CO , ChIcag-o Ill. Gentlemen -We are pleased to state that the 25 dozen Clamp Flxtnres wh.ch we bou2ht of ) ou a little over a year ago are glVltlg' excellent serVIce We are wel1 sallsfied w.th them and shall be pleased to remember you wheuever we want anythmg add.llonalm th.s hne YOUIS trulv, SJOux CIty. Iowa CURTIS SASH & DOOR CO Sheldon Steel Rack Vises 27 Sold on approval and an uncon-dltlonal money back guarantee SHELDON'S STEEL BAR CLAMPS. Guaranteed Indestructible. We sohelt pnv.lege of sendmg samples and our complete catalogue E. H. SHELDON CJ CO. 328 N. May St., Chicago. ~-----_._----_._----_.--. .... . -- .. .- -_.. . .... _. .. .. - - - --_. ..- ,. - ..- .- migratIOn remams unchecked The present naturahzation laws are strict enough It now remams with the states to Impose stricter suffrage laws The citizenshIp of the country gu:trded m this manner would make it safe to let in every sane, healthy, moral man and woman in the civilized world without fear and Without danger. Tlhe congestions of im-migrants in the Cities where they are consumers is one of the fir~t causes of hIgh pnces "Gentlemen, your orgamzation should sU1lport a plan for increasing the supply of raw materials produced in the country, and at tihe same time reduce the competition for 13lbor in your manufactones. Accordmg to the statistics of the natural mcrease in our population the time wJII never come when our unculltivated lands WIll be all settled. Im-migrant'> are our only source of bupply for this punpose. Spend the pnce of a battleshIp a year m placing our Immigrants around, and we reap a natIOnal profit of untold millIOns. This IS a popular busmess argument to be considered in this connection "We want the matenals of our citizenship to be as pure as the gold m our standard dollar. We must not, however, Ideallze and ask for somethmg better than ourselves When the problem of congestIOn is solved the countly is bound to face an era of marvelous growth" The followmg recommendatIOns made by the commIttee were approved and adopted' 1 That no restnctions be placed on immIgration other than those whIch arc necessary to keep out the morally, mentally or physically unfit, and those whose racial origin makes them mcapable o{ assimJIation in our body politic 2 That special prOVISIOn should be made to dIrect and urge ImmIgrants who have been engaged m agncultural pur- Sluts toward farmmg communities, and that agricultural com-mUnities be inVlteJ to maintam duly accredIted agents at, and provide transportation from, the various ports of entry 3. That immigration offiCials, and all others havmg to do WIth the enfoJ1cement of the laws, be selected with speCial reference to theIr JudICIal and sociological attamments 4 That the present law be amended so as to prOVIde as follows: (a) That it shall be lawful to import skilled labor when the person Importing cannot obtam laborers of hke kind In this country who wJlI work fOI hIm at the rate of wages pre-vaJ1ing generally in tl11s country for such lalbor (ib) That the sflcre;tary of commerce and labor be authorized and dIrected upon the application of any employer, and upon hiS showmg the facts set forth under (a) above, to grant to such person the permIssion to import such labor, such permISSIOn to be conclusive upon hIS right so to do" and upon the right of the ahens to land (c) That warrants for the arrest and deportation of aliens who have landed be issued only by a United States commissioner or United States Judge, and then only upon such .... ... sworn complaints as are now necessary in criminal cases. (d) That upon the arrest of any allen upon such war-rant, that he be brought before a United States commissioner or judge and there permitted to give ball as in criminal cases, such bail to be fixed by the commiSSIOner or judge (e) That such allen be tned as soon as pOSSible before the United States commissioner or judge, and that in case of a trial before a commissioner the right of appeal be given to him to the United States dIstrict court as in case of Chinese, and that such trial, eXlcept with respect to a Jury, be con-ducted in all reSipects as cnmmal trials (f) That the decision of any United States judge be subject to review on behalf of the alien by any of the higher United States courts as in criminal cases. TueSday's Proceedings. On TuesJay the convention considered uniform state laws, banking and currency, the merchant marine, the matter of making export business profita'ble and listened to a talk on facts and tendencies in legislatIOn; all this in the morinng, .....-..... - .. .. .. .. ... ... .. .. .. - _.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..------~ II THE FORD & JOHNSON CO. CHICAGO All furmture dealers are cordially invited to visit our building. This is one of our popular Hotel chairs. Our chairs are found in aU the leading Hotels in the country. The line includes a very complete assort-ment of chairs, rock-ers and settees of all grades; Dining Room furniture, Reed and Rat tan furniture, Special Order furni-ture, etc. A complete line of sam-ple. are displayed in The Ford 8 Johnson BUlldinl!, 1433-31 Wa&.. h Ave., in-cludinl! a special display of Hotel Furniture. I ~ ...... .._.... _._--------_-._-----.-.-_ .-.-.--_-.-.-..-_-._-.-.._.~I. 28 WEEKLY ARTISAN besides 1Istening to the reports of the officer" of the a:,,,ocI-ation In the afternoon they dl-;cus",ed patent'3, fore"-t;; and waterways, and more partlculaJ1y, the lanse que~tl\1n of 111- dustnal Illdemnity Illsurance, on \\"hlch It~ COlllllllttee made an exhaustve report, be'3ldes "ll1ch tll1 ee ~peaker~ dealt \\ Ith phases of the general tOpIC, one \\ Ith the pre\ entlon ot 111- dustrial accldent-;, one \\ Ith co-operatIOn and compelhdtlCln, and the other wIth economy 111compen,atlllg tal I11du-,tnal accIdents All busllless of the com en tlOn \\ a ~ halted at -l- 0 cIe 'ck 111 the afternoon, the hour at \\hlch the hod.' of Jame~ \\ \-an Cleave was buneJ at hIS we"tern home, and the com entwn was turned into a memorial meetlllg The :"ervlces began WIth the S111g1l11g of "Alblde \\ Ith ~1e," aftel \\ hlch there \\ a;; a prayer and a bllef memonal addre," 1)\ the Re\ el end ..:.; Edward Young of the Bedford :\[emondl Church of nlookhn who saId that :\11 Van Clea\ e ha,l not (hed and "hould not dIe so long as people 11\ ed to \\lhom he had done a k111(lne;;~ and so long as the pnnclple-; eXIsted to \\ hICh he had 1:;1\en his life The sen Ices \\ ere held III the ~ ;;tor (JdUel \ ot the Waldorf, vvhere the ",e'3"lOn-; of the com entlOn al c h cl,l After the servIces the bu"ines:" of the a ~~Ol1atlOn II a, rc sumed New Party Needed, Pre"ident Klfby, 111 his repol t "ugge-;tcd the (JI ga111- zatlOn of a new polItical party \\1hen he "aIel "The l'3sues that brought Illto eXI"ience thc l~epublIcan party have practIcally passed a\\a.' and ne\\ COn(htl(ln~ con-front us, condItIOns \\hlch unlIke tho~e that thleatenul the disruption of the '\mencan Ul11on, threaten thc Je~tl uc tlon of the very pnnclple-; upon \\ hlch the \melllcln tdthel ~ founded thIS government and \\ hlch, rhroul:;h the ddeci~ In our polItical sY'3tem and the deSIre for polItIcal POl\ I, both RepUibhcan and DemocratIc polItIcIan, ~eem to \ Ie 1\ Ith edch other in theIr willlllgness to sacnfIce III the 1I1terest of 'polItI-cal ex.pediency' "But what has become of the "pInt of patriot1~11l 1\ 111eh prompted the formation of the Repubhcan pal t.' In l8~6) Does It sleep the slum1ber of the deaJ) I cannot behe\ e "0 Then has not the day da\\ ned for the formatIOn of a ne\\ polItIcal party that shall give \Olce to the ~ame "entlJJ1ent;; that created the part) of Fremont and Ll11coln, a put \ \\ 111ch shall sen e the same hIgh purpo"e and be P(1\\ el ful enough to hold the natIOn III balance agalll"-t the demagogue~ ()f e"\.- isting partIes? "As evidence IllJlcatlllg the dllft of contempOrdf\ 1cl:;h lation the baleful influence of cla-;..,-con:"clOu'3 labor-ul11ol11'3m, look for example to the supposedly cons en atl\ e qate of Massachusetts authori71ng 'peaceful pICketlllg' \ \ ho can Imagine 'peaceful plcketlllg?'" Mr. KIrby called PreSIdent Taft'", COIporatlOn taA la" a sop, a sop thrown to the people to placate a grouch \ con-stituency, who "by a common la\\ of human nature mu~t have eIther a Sa v lOur or a Barabba, for occa "lOnal "au Ihce He said also: "We aibominate any legIslatIOn that contem pIa te~ noth-ing higher than palItIcal expedlenc.' \\ e helIc\ em the !)J(),C-cutlOn of all illegally managed tI ust", whether conducted 111 the interest of rich monopolIe" 01 m the 111terest of trade;; unIOnism" l\Ir KIrby got great applause when he :"ald that \\ e haJ too many men who \\ ould rather fall back and com plam about unequal distnibutlOn of wealth than make an hone-;t effort to earn that whIch they so badly needed He declared that one of the needs of the hour wa:, men \\ Ith com Ictlon" and the courage to declare them \\ e had too many Jobbers, he "aId, addmg that wabbler:" lIke demagogues, were a men-ace to "oclety "They held," :"ald he, "to make up a crooked and perverse nation" J ame;; ~ Emer), general COUlbe! for the NatIonal Coun-ul tor Indu-;tnal Defen'3e, 111 talk1l1g of "Legl'3latIve Facts and TenJenCles," saId that in the la:"t year there had been plopo"ed 111 tll1" country one law for every 7,000 of popu-la tlOn \\ hCI ed" 111 England there had been reported only one tor e\ er.' 177,000 populatIOn Of the 1\loon bIll 111 the house of lepre'entatl\ e;;, he saId that It \\as an 1I1sldlOU:, attempt to 'a\ that the Issue of an InJ1.l11ction should be upon term:" to be prescnbed 111 advance by the legIslature instead of by a ju,!iclal deCISIOn The commIttee on banking and currency made various recommendatIon" for the passage of laws enabl1l1g an "as- ,et currenc.' " and after saymg that the central banks and a
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648. Michigan Artisan; 1905-12-10

Notes:: Issue of a furniture trade magazine published in Grand Rapids, Mich. It was published twice monthly, beginning in 1880. and r r I l SPARTAN PASTE FILLER Made in Marietta. A High Grade Article in Every Respect. possessing qualities that put it easily ahead of other fillers from the fineness and character of the ingredients that make up its composition. We produce this in all of the leading shades. including our FAMOUS GOLDEN OAK IMITATION QUARTERED OAK "tRY OUR SPECIAL FILLERS AND STAMPING INKS We are producing the goods of this nature that bring results to perfection. Sample our Fillers No. 800 and No.810 and our Inks Nos. 5. 6 and 11. In OIL STAINS. remember, we lead! Our Golden Oak and Mahogany Stains stand without a rival. Write us for samples and full informatiun. The Marietta Paint and Color Co. MARIETTA. OHIO. THE HAND SCRE.W WITH THE SAW·CUT THRF:AD THE BEST THAT MONEY CAN BUY OUR Hand Screws, Cabinet Makers' Clamps, etc.; is the result of fifteenyears experiencein this class of work. Our Spindles with the Saw-Cut Threads will wear fully 50 per cent longer than the ordinary spindle with the Lathe-Cut Thread. We use only the very. best second growth hickory in aU our spindles and the jaws are the best Michigan maple, sanded and oiled. We make all the standard sizes and can furnishthem promptly. Give us a trial. We make a complete line of Cabinet Makers' and Manual Training Benches, Factory Trucks, ete" Write for catalog. Grand Rapids Hand Screw Company 130 South Ionia St.. Grand Rapids. Mich. , 7I R'T' I >5' JI.l"l ? fa? T ,. • These Specialties are used all Over the World 1 VM1eer Presses, aU kinds and sizes Veneer Presses Glue Spreaders Glue Heaters Trucks, Efc.. Etc. Hand Feed Glueinl{ Machine, (Plltent pendinl?;.) Eight Styles and Sizes. Woud·Working Machinery and Supplies Power Feed Glue Spreading Machine. (Patent applitd for). Single, douhle and combination LET US KNOW YOUR WANTS 419-421 E. Eighth St. C"AS. E. FRANCIS &.. BRO.B CINCINNATI. O. No.6 Glue Heater The Pittsburg Plate Glass Company MANUFACTURKRS AND JOBBERS oIl" 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 tbat we have 10 Glass fa.ctories, from Pennsylvania to IHissouri; and 13 Mirror plants, located as foHows: . NeW"York Roslon f' hlladelphia Buffalo Cincinnati St. Louis Minneapolis Atlanta. Kokomo, Ind. Ford City. Pa. High Point, N. C. Davenport Crystal City, Mo. It needs no argument to show what advantages may be derivt'd from deating directly with liS. extending Also. our 22 jobbing houses carry heav~ stocks in all lines of glass. paints. varnishes and brushes: and are located in the cIties named below: NEW YORK-Hudson and Vandam Streets. BUFFALQ-;;7z-4-6-8 Pearl Street. BOSTON-41-49 Sudbury St., 1-9Bowker St. BROOKLYN-635 and 6?'7FuLton Street. CHICAGO-442-4SZ Wabash Avenue. PHILADELPHIA-Pitcairn Building, Arch and CINCINN ATI- -Broadway and Court Streets. Eleventh Streets. ST. LOUIS-CoT. 12th and 5t Charle9 Streets. DAVENPORT~4IO-416 Scott Street. MINKEAPOLlS-SQO-510 S. Third Street CLEVELAND-149"51-5.3 Seneca Street. DETROIT -53-55 Lamed Street E OMAHA-1608-lo-12 Harney Street. PITTSBURGH-wl-lo?, \'Vood Street. ST. PAUL-349-51 Minnesota Street. MILWAUKEE, WIS.-492-494 Market Street. ATLANTA, GA'-30, 32 and 34 S. Pryor Street. ROCHESTER, N. Y,-Wilder Building, Main SAVANNAH, GA -745-749 Wheaton Street. and Exchange Sts. KANSAS CITY-Fifth and Wyandott Sts. BALTTMORE-221-223 W, Pratt Street. BIRMINGHAM. ALA.-2nd Ave. alld 29th St. I AGENTS FOR THE COULSON PATENT CORNER POSTS AND BATS. The Universal Automatic CARV/NQ MACHINE -,--,---= 'PERFORMS THE WORK OF ==== 25 HAND CARVERS And does the Worli: Better than it can be Dcne b~ Hand ======~-MADE BY Indianapolis, Indiana Write for Information, Prices Etc. 26th Year-No. 10 GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.• DECEMBER 10. 1905. $1.00 per Year. Furnishings of the State Apartments at Windsor Castle. \Vindsor, the residence of the kings' and queen",' of Ellg- Lind {or generations, is one of tll{~ most picturesquely situated as well as 011e of the handsomely furnished palaces of Europe. The castle stands 011 a terrace high above the Thames river and from the top of the tower a fine view of the "Long \Valk" (three miles long) the manllsoJc\1tn 0'£ Frogmore, and in the distance the house where \Villiam Penn was born arc enjoyed. The country is very green and woo4ed, the Thames winds in and out for miles. Across the river from the castle is Elan, the fa"molls school for boys. The public are allO\'Vcd to walk through the state apart-ments conducted by a g"uic1e. The rooms secn include the Throne room, banqueting hall, reception room, vVaterloo, H.nhens. Van Dyck. and others The Throne r,)(Jlll bas a blue carpet, the woodwork or handsomely carved oak, the walls are covered with blue bro cade. Portraits of fonner kings' and queens' adorn the \,valls. The Throne chair rests on a rose velvet carpet and a canopy of the same is abov.e. The chair itself formerly belonged to the king of Candee and is of silver gilt, a design of thistles covers it. The top of the back is encrllsted with diaUlOtHls aud sapphires with sapphire knobs at the comers, upholstery of old rose brocade. The reception rooms are all very elaborately fl1rnisheJ, one decorated with much gilt in I.ouis XV style, the furniture of the same period. A Louis XIV tortoise shell cabinet is in another room, the walls and Llpholstery of rose brocade. Rc·se must have been Queen Victoria's favorite color as her apart-mel1ts are furnished exclusively in that tint. The vVaterl-:HI room has portraits of \Vel1ington and other famous o ..o..lJle such as the first duke of 1Iarlboro and Pope Pius VII. The latter is one of Van Dyke's best paintings. The panelled walJs of this room are much carved and gilded. At each e:'H! is a gallery for musicians. The state theatricals are always held here. There are Gobe[in tapestries in many of the rooms. The Rubens' room ha.~ portraits e.xeJusively by him. The carpet was a present from the Shah of Persia. The banqueting hall is two hundred feet long, thirty-fom feet high and thirty-t\vO feet wide. Suspended from the ceiling· are twenty-six flags belonging to the original knights of the garter. Portraits of monarchs from James I down to the' present, adorn the walls. The long table seats two hundred and fifty people. Louis XIV tanks stand along the walls. thl~ furniture is covered with rose brocade. One sees the Frellch mattas I-Toni soit qui mal y pense and MOil Dieu et Mon Droit conspicoously displayed. The entrance hall has a grand stone staircase and armor of many Jifferent centuries and cOl1ntries. After being hurried through :so many rooms, one experiences a feeling of regret at leaving so soon and a wish to study the grand apartments at on(','sliesure. Grand Rapids Will Supply All Grades of G~ods Wanted. The manufacturers of Grand Rapids haVe promised to st!pply everything needed by the buyers. If the withdravva) of the lines of several manufacturillg corporations, making cheap furn iture, from the expositions should create a scarcity of cheap ftITnittITc, the manufacturers of (l·rand Rapids will sup-ply the need .. Ticket Scalpers VictoriouS". Under a judicial ruling ill Texas all raiJway passenger as" sociatiolls are declared illegal ttl1"-tS and l1'ot enLitled to pro-tection from ticket scalpers. The ,so;alpers exper~enced a thrill of joy in their winning a vital' p'oint in the complaint they had lodge.<l against these associations when the latter sought to drive them out of busine5s. No Bad Debts Show What? There is one rinn in London which has not mad.: a single bad debt in the \vhole course of its fifty years existence. Just what this demonstrates is l1nCertaill. \Ves~"e'rn New York had a merchant a few years ago who made a similar hnast, but incidentally was knO\,Vllas the 111etdlest and hardest of his COmll11ttlity. \Visconsin mantlfacturers are preparing to fight against prison-made goods. They wish to have a law compelling the labelliug of all "goodti made ill prisons, as they claim competi.tion w~fh such goo(ls~s Hl\nous . .The House of Cor-rection in Mihv<Lukee is ~)nc of the strdilgest competitors. It is useless to fight convi.;;t labor. Dealers outside the state CUllerase marks and mauufacfurers will help them to do it. THE CORRECT Stains and fillers. THE MOST SATISFACTORY first Coaters and Varnishes MANUFA<TURCD UNLY -,,-y-- ~ CHICAGO WOOD FINISHING CD. Z59-63 ELSTONAVE."'Z-16 SLOAN ST. CH I CACO. l 4 We carry a line of RebuiltWood- Working Machinery for Pattern Shops. Furniture Factories. Sash and Door Manufacturers, Car= penters, Planing Mills, Etc.· Jl .II When in the market let us send you our list of machines and we are ~ure that we can interest you ill prices and quality or machines oHered EDWARDS MACHINE CO. 34·38 W. Washinoton St. CHICAGO. ILL. PALMER CLUEINC CLAMPS Patented, April 11, r893; May 16, 1&)q; March 22, 1'lo4. Improved damps have now become an absolute necessity. \Ve believe OUfS meets aU reguirements, and why? F1RST- They have unlimited strength and power; damp Jn~ . scantly, yet securely, instantly released and the work re-moved as fast as it can be handled. SECoND-They will adjust themselves to any width or thiclt-ness (not to exceed the limir of size clamp used) and can be used to put a truck load under pressure while still on the truck. THIRD-Very durable~ being all malleable iron and 5teel~ and not easily broken or got out of order under any con-dition~ no matter by whom or how used. Catalogueexplains all-write f()r it. A. E. PALMER NORVELL, MICH. Jackson County INSIST ON HAVING Morris Woo~ a Sons' Soli~ Stetl Glue Joint (utters for there are no other.,. .. jUoI"taJl good .. They cut a clean perlect joint always. Never burn owing to the GRADUAL CLEARANCE (made this 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 be convinced. Catalogue No. 10 and prices on appJication. MORRIS WOOD ®. SONS Thirty_one years at 31·33 s. Canal Street_ CHICAGO. ILL Spindle Carving and Hand Carving, For Furniture, Caskets and Fixtures. 411work guaranteed to be first Class. Send us your Samples or Sketches for prices and Samples. Knoxville Carving and Moulding Company, Knoxville, 'Tenn. NO! IT is not a new STAIN or a new FILLER or a new SURFACER, Only a New Departure We have realized the necessity for a long time, of getting nearer to our good friends in the WEST and NORTHWEST. Not nearer in spirit or confidence, for we feel that we are very close to our patrons in that way already, but nearer in actual mileage. We have just opened a new factory for the manufacture of our line of WOOD fINIS"ING SUPPLIES at Nos. 61-63-65 and 67 North Ashland Avenue C"ICAGO, ILLINOIS It is fully equipped with all modern machinery, and the plant more complete in every way than the home factory. We will there manufacture and carry in stock, a full line of our Antique and Golden Oak fillers Japan Coaters Surfacers (Mineral Base) Water and Oil Stains Enamels, Lacquers, and in fact everything that our good friends in the Central West and North West may call for, and if you want a special shade, we can only reiterate what we have claimed with confidance in the past WE CAN MATC" ANYT"ING We want to tell you about our No. 390 and No 397 NEW PENETRATING GOLDEN OAK OIL STAINS, USED IN CONNECTION WITH OUR NO. 611 and NO. 512 fiLLERS. We will gladly furnish samples, and also send copy of our little book "Lindemanthe filler Maker" DON'T FORGET WHERE TO SEND T"E BARRETT-LINDEMAN COMPANY I'''''IN OffiCE and FACTORY, Nos. 1400-02-04 fRANKfORD AVE. PUiUDELPHIA, PA. c"neAGO fACTORY, Nos. 61-63-65-67 NORT" AS"LAND AVE. CHICAGO, ILL. 6 igf\?piQs.f\ic~ Burlap Prices Lower. Cables from Calcutta received Saturday, report that the price of burlaps in that market for December shipment has declined in value as a result of speculators offering goods for resale. The mills, however, have hetd very firmly to their prices, and refuse to make concession of any sort. III addition to this, jute has again advanced and is now within five shillings a ton of the highest prices reached this year. III the Dundee market burlaps are reported as firmer, if any-thing, and supplies very short. In the market here the de-mand for cloth has been more active, wi: h many requests coming forward for carload lots, which cannot be filled. Sev-eral carloads were disposed of late last week at 5.10 to 5.I5C for 8-oz. and 6./5 to 6.25c for IO~-OZ. The shortage of goods jn thi5 market continues in spite of the arrival of two 1:ihips carrying Durlaps, within the past week, and many importers are totally unable to fill orders which they now have on hand. These orders include weights ranging frm 7 to 1O-0z. The demand for heavyweights is just starting; the season is opening up very well, and an un-usually heavy demand is expected during the next ten to twelve weeks. Estimates by conservative consumers arc to the effect that lightweights will be in larger demands than during the next three months indicate a large demand, with a during he next three months indicate a large demand, with a very short supply. Fire which hroke ont on the steamship Neuenfe1s, lying at her pier in Brooklyn, has not helped to ease the situation allY. The cargo consists of jute anrI bmlaps, and late Oil Saturday the full extent of the damage done had not been learned. The bllflaps Wl1ich comprise part of the cargo arc hadly need-ed to help out snpplies in this market, and owners of the goods are wondering to what extent they Inve been damag-ed. In additi Ii to this the jute which forms a large part of the cargo 's also badly needed by manufacturer!;; lt1 this country to filliorders that are now delayed. Death 01 S. J. Burlord. S. ]. Burford, secretary of the Rhbde5~Burford company of Louisville, died Nov. 21st, at French Lick Springs, th~ cause of death being pneumonia, following all attack of rheu-matism. He was forty-one years old. He conducted a fur-niture store in ;Cairo, 111., for several years, but moved to Louisville where he established a large furniture store with several branches. From that beginning he added other stores until now there are a chain of forty-three scattered in cities around the country. Mr. Burford 'was very popular. The funeral services in charge of the Masons was largely attended. The' furniture trade will also feel his loss, and extend their sY1:npathy to his bereaved family. To Abandon the Expositions. The decision of forty table manufacturers belonging to the association 0f table makers, not to exhibit in any market for two years, will not affect Grand Rapids as not more than one or two have exer exhibited here. A number have ex-hibited in Chicago but it is not likely to affect that- market very much. Sprinklers Failed to Save Property. A total loss 011 the sprinklererl saw mill is reported from the Converse Basin, Fresno County, Ca1., where the Sanger Lumber mill was destroyed. The mill was equipped with 460 Grinnell heads, supplied by two tanks of 20,000 and 25,000 gallons capacity. The insurance amounted to $53,850. THE IRON OF QUALITY No. 10 Tilt and No. 30 Adjustment. Sizes13J4 in.-15~ in.-16~ in.-·17~in.-19 in. WfSTfRn"AllUDlf I O~HIRon"to. co. MilwaUkee, Wisconsin. ~4'- THE DAILY ARTISAN ~RECORD for the mid-winter season of 1905-06 will be issued from the office of the FURNITURE RECORD Some Preferred Space Is Still Available for exhibitors who desire to secure the eye and ear of the buyers who go to the markets. Write for rate sheet. ADDRESS DAILY ARTISAN-RECORD Grand Rapids. Mich. That's our TRADE MARK, and it means that every pull or knob fastened with the will NO-KUM-LOOSE, and it Costs You Nothing Tower Patent fastener BEWARE of Loose Pulleys that wear out like this one. Get the NELSON and in' cidentally get rid of bushing, babbitt-ing and the expense and delay ac-companying these. WILMARTH & MORMAN COMPANY 153 CANAL ST. GRAND'RAPIDS, MICH. FOR FULL PARTICULARS WRITE THE No-Kum-Loose GRAND 'RAPIDS BRASS COMPANY GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 8 Saw and Knl'fe FI't'tlng Mach'lMeryan d T00 IS TUhoeeBMigg.nesut faan"d",dBe.st Baldwin, Tuthill ®. Bolton Grand Rapids. Mich. Filers. Setters. Sharpeners, Grinders, Swages, Stretchers. Brazina and Filing Clamps. Knile Balances. Hammering Tools. Investigate our Line. New 200 pag-e Cataloj{Ue for' 1905 Free. Bollon Band Saw Filer for Saws h inch up, B. T. & B. Style D, Knife Grinder. Full Automatic. Wet or dr)". -~-'---OFFICES'--------- ~ _ Bostl[)D New York Jamestown High Point Cincinnati Detroit Grand Rapids Chicago 51. Louis Mlnneapoll& Associate Offices and;iBonded AttoMlleys in all Principal Ules The Furniture Agency REPORTING FURNITURE, UNDERTAKERS, CARPET HARDWARE AND KINDRED TRADES. COLLEC_ TIONS MADE BY AN UN,RIVALLED SYSTEM THROU(;H OUR COLLECTION DRDARTMENT' • WE PRODUCE RESULTS WHEIlE OTHEKS lfAIl. WRITH FOR PARTICULARS AND 1o'OUWILL $ENO US Y OU R B 11SIN ESS. Our Complaint and AdJustDlen1 Department Red Drafts Collect -""'=~L, J. STEVENSON. Mif,higan Manager BE UP-TO-DATE, Get one of the New Electric Spindle Carvers and keep abreast of the times. You cannot afford to let the "other fellow" have the WOTkyou should be doing. The Electric Caner will keep the rrade you have and get more for you. Our carving Cutters are of the best. West Mi{~i~anMa{~ineand ToolCo.. ltd. GRAND R.APIDS, MICR. BUll~UP PANELS AND VENEERS FOR FURNITURE, MANUFACTURERS We can furnish you 2, 3 or 5 ply Panels in Quartered Oak, Mahogany, Plain Oak Ash, Elm, Birch, Maple or Basswood, and guarantee same in every respei:t. We Use high' grade Glue in our work and our Ven~ers are thoroughly dry and our Machinery up-to-date. Our 2 and 3 ply Drawer Bottoms and Glass Backs are the finest on the market. \Ve can also furnish you with Rotary Cut Maple, Birch and Elm Veneers in 1.30, 1-20. 1·16 and 1·8 inches thick:. All of our Veneers are dried in the new Coe Roller Dryer, and lay flat and are free from crinkle. If you wish to buy Panels and Veneers that are RIGHT AND THAT WILL STAY RIGHT, give us a chance to figure with you and submit samples and prices. We do not cla.im to be'lower in price, but we do claim our pa.nels are cheaper in the long run, a.....they A .A A THE GORHAM BROS. CO. Do YOU see the point"" Submit your wants and let us make you happy. MT. PLEASIlNT, Mle". TABLE LEGS turned with this machine cost less than any you ever made. .. ReliaMe" Rolls .. Relia~l( Panels THE FELLWOCK ROLL AND PANEL COMPANY Mfrs. of "ReUable" Built lip Veneered Rolls and Plural Ply Panels for all purposes. Correspondence solicited, EVANS\'ILLE, IND. Sle~~en50n Mf~.co. South Bend, Ind. Wood Turnings, T umed Moulding. Dowels and Dowel Pins. With it one man will do the work of six to ten skilled Hand Turners. The quality of work can't be beat, and we would like to have you judge of it for yourself, by sending you a sample of W}13t we guarantee it to do. The main features of the machine lie in the patent Cutter Head. the Vari-able Friction Feed, and the OscUIa-tingCarriage. A full description of this machine will interest yOll. May we send it? C. Mattison Machine WorKs 863 Fifth Street BELOIT, WISCONSIN Catalogue to Manufac-turers on AppliC"ation. THE "PORTE R" 1his cut rep-resents 0 u r 12. 16 a np 20 in. Jointer --MANUFACTURED Ey--------- ------- c. O. & A. D. PORTER, 182 North Front Street, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 10 This bedroom was occupied by Qyeen Victoria of Emdand on the' occasion (If her visit to the Grand T rianol) in 1840. The upholstery and draperj"3 are of rose satin brocade. The Bedroom of Francois I, Musee de auny, Pari,. ""~MIF,HIG7fN Two Per Cent-Ten Days. This phrase, so commonly used ill the export trade, fre-quently becomes most bewildering to mally manufacturers as a result of their dealings with export commission mer-chants. The term is usually intclldco to convey the mealling that the customer is expecled to pay his bill ten days from its date, deducting the two per cent cash discount. This also is the meanillg of the term among the commis-sion honscs, but unfortunately for the reputation of all the commission houses many of them are extremely lax in their attention to the ten-day part of the deal, but equally zea]o'.ls in observing tile two-per-cent feature. In other \vords. cer-tain of the commission houses regard it as their privilege to fxtend the ten days indefinitely l1p to thirty days, but still consider themselves entitled to the two per cent. They justify this attitude on various grounds, none of which would be wholly acceptable to a first-class credit man. JVlanufacturers who have dealings with exporters who take advantage of this cash discount allowance are amply justified in insisting upon their rights, and declining to allo\',' the di"count unless the payment is made strictly at the ap-pointed time. It is another matter if some other interpre-tation is given to the ten-day clause, but ten days from date of invoice is what is commonly understood ill the absence of any sJlecially arranged interpretation. A Cincinnati Patent Attorney in Greensboro. The \\tysong & IVIiles company of Greensboro, N. c., in-vented a sand helt machine some mOl1ths ago and employed C. H. I\·liles, a prOlninent patent attorney of Cincinnati, 0., to visit Greensboro and prepare the drawings and necessary papers for taking out patents on the machine, since which time the machine has become the most useful and popular one ever introduced. It has come to the ears of the \Vysong & ),Jiles company that attempts have been made by others Grand Rapids, Mich. 15he White Directory (POCKET EDITION) of makers of Furniture, Pianos, Fixtures, Show Cases, Interior Wood Work, Cabinet Makers, Upholsterers, Bedding, and Planing Mills, con-sisting of approximately 6000 individuals, firms and corporations (revised to May 25, 1905), is ready for delivery, and will be sent to any ad-dress, postage paid, upon receipt of Price$5.00 Address orders and inquiries to MICtllGAN AI\.TISAN CO. 11 to use their invention, and they at once 110tified their patent attorney at Cincinnati of the facts and he is collecting the necessary data to promptly prosecute infringments on the rights of the \Vysong & Miles company. Walnut Timber Trade Not Dead. It seems that it is by no means true that walnut has dis-appeared from the list of staple commodities in the lmnber trade. As a matter of fact, ",,'alnut is ont of the rarest species of American woods and ill recent years many tirms making a specialty of ·walnut have been obliged to go out of business because of the small quantities of the commodity obtainable. That it has Hot entirely disappeared from thc market, hmv-ever, is evident from the announcement that there has re-cently gone from a Virginian saw mill to Furope an im-mense shipment of walnut log~ of superior quality. Had Joyful Hour. On November 21, the manufacturers and retailers of Philadelphia enjoed a banpuet at the Bellevue-Stratford hotel in that city, and took preliminary steps to form an as-sociation. There were two hundred present and after a fine mcnu thc matter of organization was discussed by a number of represcntatives of different firms. The benefits to -be derived by both the manufacturers and dealers would be mallY, and better social relations established, prodtlCing more harmon}' in trade. These restl1ts v..·.ill be obtained no doubt, throllgh the organization in the near future. Space in City Apartments Valuable. Dining room and other furniture is designed to occupy· the least possible space in the city apartments. This is due, no doubt, to the requircments of flat dwellers to whom every inch of space is of value and usc. China closets are made just large enough to fit in a earner. For bedroom are chif-foniers 24 inches long, barely largc enough for a man's shirt. /\. large size bureau takes 11]) llearly the whole space in a bedroom which is only large clloug-h for a hed and chair. Flat dwellers must learn to dispense with bureatls and often use a hanging mirror and shelf. 'fhe Niagara Bedstead company, of BLlffalo, N. Y., has pur-cbased the stock, plant. and husiness of the Empire Metallic t'.edstead company, cOlltinning the amnufacture of the former line of brass and iron beds, adding thereto from time to time such styles as demanded by trade requirements. Joseph Haberhasch and C. R. Funk have organized the Hab-erbasch- Funk Furniturc company, in Hamilton, Ohio, and will engage in the retail btlsiness. Mr. Haberbasch was formerly with A. J. Conroy & Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. aran~ Da~i~sDlow Pi~e an~Dust Arrester (om~anJ THE latest device for handling shav-ings and dust from all wood wood-working machines. Our eighteen years experience in this class of work has brought it nearer perfection than any other system on the 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 Furnace Feed System, as shown in this cut, is the most perfect working device of anything in its line. Write for our prices for equipments. WE MAKE PLANS AND DO ALL DET AIL WORK WITHOUT EX-PENSE TO OUR CUSTOMERS EXHAUST FANS AND PRESSURE BLOWERS ALWAYS IN STOCK Office and Factory: 208-210 Canal Street GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. Citizens Phone 1282 Bell, M ..h:l 1804 OUR AUTOMATIC FURNACE FEED SYSTEM 13 WABASH B. WALTER & CO. INDIANA M'nnf"lm,nof TABLE SLIDES Exclusively '''.!RITE FOR PRICES AND DISCOUNT If your DESIGNS art right, people want the Goods. That makes PRICES right. (tlarence lR. bills DOES IT 163 Mad ison Avenue -Citizens Phone 1983. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. berman Scbaubel, Ilrar"ra' SlttrlKs aid llttalli ALLE~TOWN,.PA. 'l1Iammoth 1Jrop-Caruer~ 9/0. .:J This machine weiJ':"hf; about one ton. Has a tran:JinJl:tahle. is reversed and started from a counter shaft, wnich is indud-ed with machine. Hollow steel mandrel 3% inchl:'S in diameter. We furnish burn-eT for inside or outside heat· ing, for either gas or gaso- Hne. Size of machine, 4 ft. 9 in. high, 3 H.lD in. long, 3 ft. wide. vVe guarantee this m~cbine. LPrice, $225; without trav-eliug: table, $200. Mammoth !\I o. 4, sam e as machine No.3. driveh wilh long:itude shaft only; pulleys at riRht a 1Ig:· Ie;;; need s no ('ounter shalt. Price $;::00; with· out travel· inK table. $170. Send fOT full de-scription and list of other drop carvers we build. Blue Print Designs Free to the Trade. 'l.Ollts babn Engraving, Printing Binding CATALOGUES A SPECIALTY DES1GNS AND DETAILS OF FURNITURE -- --- -- ------ 154 Livingston St. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN W. P. WILLIAMS, Manufadurers' Ag~nt. --- -----------1 91 Campau St. , Grand Rapids, Micbillan BaRRY BROS. (Ltd.) Varnishes and Shellac. JACQURS KAHN. French Mirror Plates. CORBIN CABtNET LOCK CO., Locks. AM GLUU:Co.'s Union Garnet and Flint Sandpaper. B. CANNON & Co., (Limited), Irish Glue. S,H.t'!. CABOT, House Stains ar? ",uilding Quilt. WHITE PRINTING co. ]NO. P. DENNING ---- -- Michigan Central 208 S. FIRST ST, TERRE HAUTE, IND. LEAVE Nov. 27, 1904 ARRfVE 6:55 am Detroit Express.. 10:45 pm *n:OO u'n New York Special. .* lAU pm 5:30 pm New York Express.. 9:55 am 1>1hlO pm Night Express .... * 6:30 am *Daily. All olher trains daily except Sunday. Detroit sleeper on night train. New York sleeper and fine cafe coach on noon train. Partor car on morning train. II O. W. RUG(;l.ES, G. P. & T. A., Chicago. The Niagara falls ~oute II i GRAND RAPIDS DOWEL WORKS C. B. CLARK, Proprietor. Manulacturers of Cut and !l'olnted Dowel Pins and Dowel Rods -~I ~~>-~ 91 Sixth StreEt, GRAND RAPlDS. MICH. IMPROVED, EASY and ELEVATORS QUICK RAISlNG Belt, Electric: and Hand Power. The Best Hand Power for Furniture Stores Send for Catalogue and Prices. KIMBAll BROS, CO., 1087 N;nlh St.. Council Bluffs, la. Kimball Elevator Co.• 32.3 Prospect St., Cleveland. 0.; l{l81lth St., Omaha, Neb.; 120 Cedar St., New York city. Cili~etls Phone 558U. 2 to 20 Lyon St., GRAND RAP(DS, MICH. Varnishes. Shel. lacs and Sandpap~r carried in Stock B0YNT0N eX C0. Mfrs. of Embossed and Turnltd Moulding" Porch Work. Wood Orilles. and Auto· matic Turnings Vie also manufac-ture a large Iiue of EMBOSSED ORNA· MENTS [or couch work, Send for illustrations. SEND FOR CATALOG-UE Removed to 419·421 W f"ifteenth 8t 14 Advanced Prices on Furniture. Prices on furniture have advanced ten per ccnt. in most lines. The chair manufacturers are considering the propo-sition of advancing prices. LTpholstcred furniture has not advanced. The latter business is of a some.vllat different type from the others. Many of the mal111f8.cturers make simply the frames and the dealers \\'110do their own upholster-ing are enabled to make their prices correspond ""itlt the cost of the raw material and withont announcing <111y general advance. The cost of leather and the big demand for hides should naturally call for an advance in certain classes of up-holstered goods. It is quite likely that this increased cost in the production will be cared for in the quiet manner out-lined. The advance in all these articles of furniture is absolutely legitimate and just. The prices of ra,,, material, the various veneers and the cabinet 'Noods have been moving upward stea-dily for some time past and labor has also become a heavier item in the expense list with the manufacturers. Deal-ers as a rule are registering no objection to the increased cost to them, according to men \vho come closely in touch with the retail trade in all portions of the country. The con-sumer \vill be the one who will foot the bill, and a,,- he is \\.5\.\- ally tractable even when not entirely reasonabk, the added Senes, Spanish, Egyptian and statuary. ,On the next story, after going lip interminable stairs, one finds the royal apartments. The furnishings do not as a whole, impres8 one as much as those at \Vindsor. The rooms aIten,ate in colors varying from red to rose, yellow, blue and gleen in succession, brocade hangings are modern and gaudy. The noors arc marble. The paintings are such fine trea~lIres a~ I~otticelli's l\ladonlla of the Rose and some of Carlo lJolci's heautiful work. Florentine frames are very grand anJ encas~ mirrors which g-iYe four reAeetions when placed opposite. The Throne room is in red, all the hangings and upholstery matching. The Throne itself is an ordinary 100ldng red-draped affair with no jewels of any description to enrich it. In some of the rooms arc degant tortoise shell cabinets in-laid with ivory. lupus lazuli and columns of alabaster-a very rich effect indeed. Tables arc inlaid with marbles vt~different kinds. The Quecn's rooms cotltain the most interesting·furl11sh-ings. The bedroom is in pale blue, the bed has silk hangings and spread. .:\ green malachite secretary furnishes the only touch of varying color in this room. The dressing rOom adjoining is oval shaped with Japanese satin "'mbroideTed hangings in yellow. A beautiful silver mirror was on the Inahog,my dressing table, but the best thing was a cheval These rare pieces sUllgestcomforatnd inspire admiration. price to the articles which he desires for the furnishiug of his home will be forthcoming as readily uuder the new condi-tions as undcr the old. The increased cost of thc raw material is something well known to the trade, and as to the item of increased labor cost a man who recently had the opportunity of inspect-ing a pay roll of a plant making medium priced sideboards and buffets. This factory, which has an output of buffcts, says it showed heavy increase. This factory has an output of $250,- 000 annually and the increased co~t of its labor this year was $25,000 on this output, just the ten per eenL advance deLerlll-ined upon. What is true of this establishment is l111douhled-ly' true of others and demonstrates the manufact11t·ers have been most reasonable iil their action. Furnishings of the Pitti Palace of Florence. The Pitti palace is the residence of the Ki:lg and Queen of Italy, which they occupy whenever stnprillg in F!,_)ren,_e. It is not as fine as \~'indsor, England, that, 1 s1tpp();;e should not be expected. The huilding is of stone and is on a hillside overlooking the city. The Roboli gardens behind it riSe in terraces to a great height, from which at the top of an obser-vatory, a fine view of Florence may be had. III the buiLJing itself the first story rooms open to the public, arc devo(eo to a display of gold plate, many rare kinds of china, inclUding • l . g-lass three feet wide of Inahog:any with gilttrJ1umings with sconces holding C<l11dlesou each side at twodifterent heights, the lowesl all a level with the hem of a lady's gown, make it very convenient for view'ing the train. The King's room is in yellow- satin, the bed gilded. The family dining room table has a beautiful silk em-broidered table cover, formerly owned by the Medicis. The dt'.sig;n is 01 birds and -flowers in colnrs on a black ground. The chandeliers are magnificianl rock crystal and Florentllle gilt. Another part of the palace is used for an art gallery, such magnificiant paintings as the well known Madonna of the Chair by Raphael, C1copatra with the Asp and the artistic dancing· gronp of Apollo and the Muses being among those Hated. Mr. Barnhart Expects a Lively Season. Roy S. Barnhart of the Nelson-Matter Furniture com-pany, allticipates as good, if not a better season of January buyillg, than 11s11a1.The advallCC: in prices will make no dif-ference in the attendance or purchases of buyers. Southern buyers may decide not to come hut that would have no effect locally. Tn spite or rumors about one exhibition a year, the January season continues to be well patronized and attended. Space in the Klingman huilding is reported to be all occupied . Quality and Finish. An instructive illnslratiol1 was givcl1} by the trade in machetes in a district in Central America, of the value of high qua.!ity combined with a fair !iuish in goods used by the \vorking people. German machetes of good shape, niekcl-plated and pol-islled nlltil they glittered like new silver, \vere pushed upon iljc trade. At the same time a dealer, who knew their super-ior worth, imported a lot of S\vedish machetes of temper so lIne that one could and did actually take a shaving of the Ger-lHan implement, as a knife 'A'ould take a shaving of( the sharp COrner of a board; but these tools of tine temper were rough. To save on duties, blade and horn handles had been sent separated. to be riveted together by the dealer, who had no time nor inclination for the job; or by the user, who had neither skill nor tools for that task. And the horn handles themselves .\'ere not polished smooth. Nlachetes of American make outsold the others more than a hundred to one, although the Yankee toob were tar behind the German in glitter, because the American wer·~ superior in quality of steel, and therefore in p'ractical vailic. They outsold the Swedish, despite the fact that these ·were of better steel and temper, because the Ne\v England irnple~ ments had halJdle.s securely fixed in 'place, and so shaped aud polished that they would rasp no skin from the hands of users; and the finish of the whole was fairly attractive. Better in Quality. American mallufacturers have never bad time to lcarn the art of making flimsy, cheap alld almost worthless thLngs, such as arc sent it! <-glantities to the people ol little-developed countries by SOlue European COllcerns, because 111 A..merlc;l manufacturers have heen making things for people who 1<1leW the wisdom and economy of buying thing::; Ul goon ijllalily. and were able to pay for and have ahNays lllslsteCl that they should get quality for their cash. Some Europeans have, on the contrary, seemc(l to ;;tnv\.: to excel in the art of making goods of fair appearance and u! little or no real worth. T t is to be hoped that this art \vil! never become. common in America, if for no other reason, than because there is ample cause for thinl<tng that so long as American goods shall bc of superior quallty, OUf tra,k \vith other cOlllHries will continue rising 111 relative pOSItion as well as in actual value. In many parts of Latin America, 1ll China and japan, as elsewhere, O\1r trade has been growing more rap](Jly ,han has that of other nations, and this because Ameflcal1 .,oods are better in quality for the price than arc those at others. It certainly call not he beeaus(~ American salesmen Have snr-passed those of Europe. Odd Things in Bedrooms. Americans travelling in Europe have occasion to notice many odd things in bedrooms. For instance. there are always a great llllmber of pieces of furniture containing many drawers, even the wardrobes sometimes have three drawers. In Paris wardrobes instead of hooks or stretchers for cloth-ing, one finds a number of shelves. The chiffoniers with shallow drawers are a great convenience for holding small articles of wearing apparel and ""hen one is in a hurry arc so easy to find. Deep dra·wers arc Rood to lose things ill. \Vhen called on to pack articles for travelling' use, it is rather a funny sight to see a la"y rllmmaging in dra\vers tucked away in chiffoniers, lablc,:" wardrobes and so forth, to try and collect them and pack them. Nothing makes a woman feel more cosy, comfortable and at home, than to be ahle to unpack several stlit cases and a trunk and scatter things around in drawers all ovef the room. but when it comes time to IIl1L1them all Ollt again, "that\; another story." 15 Peace on "Both Sides:' A traveling salesman died suddenly in Pittsburg, Pa., and some of his friends telegraphed to the undertaker an order to make a large \vreath. Investigation showed that the telegram ordered a wreath bearing these words: "Rest in peace" on both sides of th~ ribbon: if there should be rOom: "\Ve shall meet in heaven." The undertaker was out of town and his new assistant handled the job. It was a startling f10fal piece which tttrned up at the funeral. The ribbon was extra wide and it bore the inscription: "Rest in peace on both sides and if there is room we shall meet in heaven." Death of a Worthy Young Man. The death ofF. P. Tawse, jr., in Chicago recently, came ;:tS a great shock to the fl1rniture trade. He was well known and populat· with all and he was a representative of the Furni-tnre \Vorker of Cincinnati. He was the son of Frank P. Tawse of Grand Rapids. His illness was the result of ser-vices in the Spanish-American war, and his death came after two months' sufferillg from cancer. His lvife and two small children survive him. "It would cost our company $25,000 a year to exhibit our Jines at the expositions in Chicago or New York," remarked the secretary of a large manufacturing establishment in Globe Vise and Truck Company OFFICE 321 R. DIVISION ST. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH· Mallufacturers of The Best Factory Trucks SimpJidty in conSlruc-tion enables us to give -qualityaud durability, and m{:et all competi-tion. Writefor Prices. No. 21. Roller Bearings. Same style Trucks No. 24, without Roller Bearihgs Grand Rapids. "Our samples '~over $10,000 square feet of floor space and the expese in addition to rent, wonld reach the Sl1m stated. We have carefully investigated this matter and shall continue to exhibit our lines in our factory ware-rooms. 1f the time should ever come when it should seem ucces5ary to pInce onr line on sale in New York or Chicago alld incnr thereby the expense we have estimated. we wonld go out of the furniture manufacturing business and use our plant for some other purpose. The low back dressing chair for ladies was first sug-g(' sled hy the daughter of a noted chair maker of Michigan. The daughter was about to wed, and the indulgent father in making a list of articles which he deemed necessary for the home of the future bride, included a dressing chair. The daughter requested that the chair be constructed with a IO\.\, back, that hex hair might be combed more easily than would he possihle while using a chair with a high back. The sug-gestion ""vasof practical valne and the (ather has since made il1Ld sold thousands of low hack dressing chairs to the trade. 16 HAND CIRCULAR RIP SAW. No.4 SAW (ready forcross-<:ulting) .7IR T I k5' 7I.l'\T ? 7 r· MORTISER COMRINKD MACHINE. No.3 WOOl> LATHE, ~:~~'::' HAND AND FOOT POWER MACHINERY WHY THEY PAY THE CABINET MAKER: He can save a manufacturer's profit as well as a uealer's profit. He can make more money with. less capital invested. He can hold a better and moresatisfactorv trade wilh his customers. He can manufacture in as good style and -finish, and at as low cost, as the factories. The local cabinet maker bas been forced into only a dealer's trade and profit, because of machine manufactured goods of factories. An ::mtfit of Barnes' Patent Foot and Hand-Power Machinery, rein-states the cabinet maker with advantages equal to his competitors. If desioed, these machines will be sold ON TRIAL. The purchaser can have ample time to test them in his own shop and on the work he wishes them to do. DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE: AND PRICE L(ST FRgK. W, F. & JOHN BARNES CO., 654 Ruby SI., Rockford, III. FOR1"n-~R OR MOULDRI{. HAND TENONKR. Do~~s' Pattnl TaMt=lt~ DoYtlailer w~find upon investigation that our Dovetailin~ Ma-chine patent covers t his machine nicely. Cuts Mortise in the Top Cuts Mortise in the Cleats Cuts Tenons to 6t the Top Cuts Tenons to 6.t the Cleats djustabte to keep Mrn:_ tise and Tenon at a Standard size The Cheapest Joint Made Will turn oul 250 to 300 Small Parlor Tables in 10 Hour$ Tlle Dodds Till iliK Saw Table has more practical features and good points than any other saw table 011 the markf't. MA:-UE'ACTURRD Al\:]} FOR SALE BY ALEXANDER DODDSGrand Rapids Michigan, U. S. A, No.4 SAW (ready tor ripping) No.7 SCROLL SAW. JUST AN AVERAGE "CUT" MADE Just as we make hundreds of furniture "cuts"f or man- • ufacturers in all parts of the United States and Canada Write for Prien MICHIGAN ENGRAVING CO., Grand Rapids, Mich. GOOD PRINTING AT RIGHT PRICES Has built up our business until we are now operating one of the largest and best equipped printing offices in the state. LE'T us FIGURE WHITE PRINTING CaMP ANY GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Nine-Tenths of Our Business Comes From Customers Whose Business IS In Other Cities WHY? BECAUSE our 200 employees work under better condition, sunlight, blue sky, pure, fresh air. BECAUSE these conditions-onr equipment-mean better engraving, typography, presswork, and binding. Our customers don't pay light bills and high rent for us-we have neither. Type, ink, paper-isn't printing. There's something more. Your little job printer might satisfy you in running five thousand hand circulars. Would you want him to print a three~color sixty-page catalog? We can handle your catalog from the designing and engraving to the printing and binding. We can't blame your engraver for delayed cuts if we do it ourselves. That means you get delivery ON TIME. Write us for samples and figures. ~raUll 1Raptllntunrautug <nn. THE CARGILL PRESS GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN 18 Rare Old Furniture in the Home of Sir Walter Scott. The home of Sir \\ralter Scott at Abbotsford, Scotland, is rich in hi~torical associations.1 t is owned and occupied by Sir \Valter's great grand neice the Honorable 1I1r5. 1\f8.x\\'c11- Scott. who has preserved all its treasures and furnishings as they were in the poet's time. There is a large collection of armour which was gathered from variOl1S p,lrts of Fl1l"OpC. ing" cOlilltry and no doubt received inspiration from its beauties. Bllt to rctl1r11 to the furnishings of the house. which is sl1rrOllnclcrl by beautiful gardens. The entrance hall is very imposing \vith its trophies of war hanging on the walls. The panelling ;" of richly-carved oak from the ancient Kirk at Dunfermline. The carved stone fireplace is a model of the ":\bbott's Stall"" in the cloister at Melrose. A Louis Libr",ry in Sir Waller Scott's home ",t Abbots· ford. His SOD'S portrait is over the mantel. The bust af Sir Waller by Chantrey is al the end af the room. Sir Walter Scott's Study in his home at Abbotsford, Scotland. The furniture of Course is of special interest, each 1'00111 con-tains valuable pieces. Sir \Valter spent eleven years superintcnding and de-signing the building of his home and borrowed {t'cely from Melrose Abbey, a few miles away, the design of the curly kale being much used. The home itself is picturesquely sit-uated in a valley, 011 the hanks of the Tweed river. The Eildon l1iJJS rise behind the house to a comma.nding height. At the summit Sir \Vatter used to sit and view the surrol1nn- XIV clock said to have belonged to Marie Antoinette adorns the malltclpiccc, also models of the skulls of Robert the Brucc and other". At the left of the fireplace stands the "Mistletoe Chest." Tn this, according to legend, a bride hid on her wedding nig-ht. The carving is of the mistletoe design. The floor is paved with black and white marble from the Hebrides. Round the cornice are blazoned the arms of the Border CJal1S. The Arms of Sir "Valter's ancestors occupy the shields running down the centre of the roof. The drawing-room, which overlooks the river contains many interesting objects. The walls are hung with hand-painted Chinese paper given to Sir Walter by his cousin, Hugh Scott, of Raeburn. The portrait of Sir V\falter adorns the wall above the fireplace. There are other portraits of members of the family, also of Nell Gwynne, Oliver Crom-well, :r,.'laryQueen of Scotts, and others. A to'l"toise shell cabinet said to have belonged to the great Marquis of ),'Iont-rose is a very v(tlllable possession. 19 boxwood chairs are said to have come ~rom the Borghese Palace in Rome. They were presented to Sir Walter by Mr. Constable. A glass covered table in the bay window con-tains many valuable treasures, such as .:\I"apoleon's blotting book, a gold snuff-box presented to Sir Walter by George IV and mally minatures and other things. The stnoy lS a small room lined with books, a gallery en-circles it half way up. From this gallery a door leads into Sir vValtcr's bed room. The study contains a writing desk Drawing-room at Abbob-ford. Sir Walter Scott', portrait by Sir Henry Raeburn hang, above the fireplace. Hall at Abbotsford. Curly kale design on fire_ place is copjed from Melrose Abbey. On a cabinet is a bust of Shakespeare copied from the monument at Stratford~on-Avon. The library \",hich contains 20,000 volumes, is forty feet long by fifteen broad. The richly carved ceiling is copied chiefly from the roof of Rosslyn Chapel. The bust of Sir vValter by Chantrey occupies a niche at the end of the rOom. The portrait of the eldest son of the poet is seen over the mantel. The writing table is of carved ebony. Two carved made from pieces of wood belong-ing to the ships of the Spanish Armada. The Wallace chair, made of wood taken from the house of Royrohstoll, the sccne of Wallace's he-trayal. A horse hair chair which belonged to :Mr. Lock-hart, the author's son-in-law, is here, too. A snlall turret room opening from the study "vas called by Sir Walter "Speak~a-bit:' an allusion to its convenience as a place for tete-a-tete. 20 ESTABLISHED 1880 PUBLISHED BY MICHIGAN ARTISAN CO. ON THE IOn. AND 25TH OF EACH MONTH OF"FICE-2·20 LYON ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ENTERED AS MATTER or THE eECO~D elMS State Factory Inspector ]. E. Vallier denies that childre1l are employed illegally ill \~Tisconsjn ft1rl1itme factories and paper mills. In a recent trip throngh the northern part of the state :\'lr. Vallier said that he found but one case Representatives of eight leading cbair 1l1all11taC1nrillg concerns met in Detroit the last ·week ill November to COI1- sider the matter of advancing pnces. An advance of tell per cent. on chairs and tables is contemplated bllL not decid-ed definitely. Another advance in prices should he made in Jalltwry. The conditions of the trade and the conntry \varrant if. The people are rich and growing" richer. They are willing to pay a fair price for goods. Tn the past prices have been unfair-to the manufacturer. Perseverance counts iTl husiness. The ability to stick to one thing until S\1ccessful i" the main necc,:;sity. ITcliry Rogers, said to be the force behind Stardanl Oil. compares success to a postage stamp-a very good comparison, illdeed, judging by his own expericllcc. At this season of the year sCllesmell are looking' for new jobs, and employers for new salesmen. lI1any shifts are re-ported and in January the Clir of the exposition buildings will be filled with statements as to the causes of the many changes. Thc tea kettle will try to nHke as much noise as a storm at sea. In the past four years there hCls been a large increase in the !lumber of manufactllring ent('l'prises ill the South; the amount of money invested is $TI6,7RS.ooo. .L\lany factories are of small size bul in time will grO\v and rlevC'lo]l by means of the increase in their own earnings. This is a promis-ing field for investment. Among the most pros-perOllS of these enterprises is the manufacture of furniture. Space has been taken in all the exposition l)11ildings of Grand Rapids for the January season, and the same is true of the buildings in Chicago and l'\e\v York. ]\1aIlY OCCllpants have signed leases for periods runnning from three to live years, and it is presumefl it is the illtelltion of the leasol's to use the same. The abolition of the expo"itiolls will not he: accomplished in the near future, if ever. "\¥hen we take an inventory wc ;clways estimate the value of manufactured goods below the cost of proollction," remarked a tllanllfach,rer of forty years o[ experiencc, re-cently. The reason is plain. 1£ the goods \\'(~re priced at their actual cost and hy a slump in tllc markt:'L we ShOll1d be compelled to sell the same for less than inventry prices, we would lose monc}". If the goods \vere priced below cost the probabilities are that ·we WOllld save lo~ses. At 3.11Y rate, we consider anI' plan the best. It is a safe plan. Vintofl and company of Detroit. are the successf1l1 bid-ders for the order for the new special furniture of the city hall of that city. The appropriation is (or $40,000, There is considerable dissatisfaction over the order; felt in the trade lIninlls. a" their contention is that Vinton and company are builders, llot fU[11it11rcmanufacturers, and the work will be j'lhh'(] outside o[ Detroit, and so Detroit mechanics and C011- C('l'IlS will gel I:Ulhjng. "Vinton atld company were the lowest hidders, arc a responsible iirnl, and I do not see how the cOlllnliUee and the council can rei11se to give them the con- Irati, llnder the law," said Chairman Br07;O of the committee. The manufacture of cheap and medium priced case goods is growing ill volu111eat Rockford. Two factories just commencing business will hring ant lines of sideboard, buffets and music cab-inets, to be added to the many lines of bookcases, china closets and kindred goods mallt1£aetll,.,~d in that city. A quarter of a cCl1tmy ago the factories, with a single exception, of that city manufactured luw and medium priced chamber suites and cylin- (leI' bookcases in walnut. Parlor furniture was produced by the Excelsior Furniture cOlupauy. the exception noted above. When the c01111linalionhookcasc made its appearance it was quickly ,Hlopted lly the manufacturers of Rockford, who have made and sold them by tlle hundreds of thousands. Charley Cox, of the ~lichigan Chair company, was in a rcminiscellt mood when he recalled a strike of upholsterer5 in :-Jew York ,t few years :lgo. IVlr. Cox was a-;sociated with the house of :\ledicns at. the time, and when the ,~trikers walked out, the head of the 11OtlSe,Henry VV. f\.fedidts, re-cent]:)' deceased, \'1'110 was a practical t,pho15tet:er, took charge of the shop. I\lr. lvfcdicl.1s had learned the uphblsterers' trade while in the employ of Lord & Taylor many years ago. "Vith the deparlure of the strikers ·Mr. Mediclls became ver~t mt1ch interested in his work and v.:hile he bent springs into place, stnffed seats and hacks and attached coverings, he whistled Clnd sang merrily. He declined to leave his work for ally purpose and when the strike ended with a victory for the em players. he declare(l that he had never spent his time more pleasantly. ;\ change of work is the most pleas-allt and satisfactory form of recreation. l\hl1ufactnrers of fmnitme and kindred goods have been raided and plundered ttlthlessly by a coterie of schemers, backed IIp in several instances by the retail associations of the several states, with \vorthless advertising publications. Souvenirs, directories and other issues of novaltte except to the publisbers Jnvc heel] forced upon the attention of the manufacturers, and in many instances means employed to (Jln:.,in ad\'ertisillg contracts that would do credit to the inge-lluity alld the effrontny of a highway man ·0£ the Claude D\1val and "Sixteen-String Jack" type. The manufacturers have ever at. their command high grade influential journals through \vhich to express their views, putposes and desires to lhe trade. There is no reason \vhy they should be bled by schemers. Tbe manufacturers of Grand Rapids have promised the trade that everything needed would be supplied if the market shmtld be weakened by lhe \vithdrawal of certain out-of-town lincs. No\" is the time to fulfill this promise. Mirrors Used at Windows and Doon; in Europe. J\Tirrors of small size hung outside the windows and so placed as to give a good view of the pedestrians on the streets are a very common sight in some foreign countries, notably Belgium and Holland. Of course when one desires (0 see the front dOOI' of the house and especially when strangers or callel's make their appearance, the little mir-ror is put to a vcry good use. Americans might do well to copy this idea. No doubt the women of the country would be delighted \"ith the handy little aids which enable one to see and not to be seen. Dealers in mirrors, no d0ubt. \vould approve the plan. EVANSVILLL The P. I-I. Reddinger Carving ·YVorks, formerly the Cin-cinnati Carving \\.'orks, is one of the latest industries added to the big list found in Evansville. This. cotnpany started four months ago, awl is managed by P. H. Reddinger, who was originally from Grand Rapids, Mich. The Reddinger Carv-ing \Vorks is one of the biggest plants of its kind to be fonnd allywhere, and js 60 x 100 in size, and equipped ,'vitlt ccment floors. Trade is pouring in from all sections of the United States. The plant includes tbirty carving machines, ten spindle sanders, 1J'"e band 5a".'5, three rounders, planer, rip saw, jointer, s\ving salV, turning lathe, and ~{ll1jng'outlit. The Evansville Vencer company have just completed a large two story addition, 5" x 110, to be used as a \varehotlse and dry hOllse combined, and have p1.trclns,(?,d addition a] grotllld on thevVest Side of their present l()cation-~the size of the ground pm"chased beillg 245 x 270 feet; this gives the Evansville Veneer company a tot;t[ of 550 feet front on the Belt railroad, and a depth of 270 feet. The location is one of the finest on the Delt linC'. The compally is now adding a rotary maehinC', and is now receiving- about eight car loads of logs per day, in orcin lo he prepared for their winter supply. "\lanager C. \V. Talg-c, reports the business of the company as being very good. GERMAN TRADE-MARKS. Foreign Goods Bearing a Trade-Mark Protected Theye Liable to Seizure. The Imperia! German cOllrt has decided that foreign goods bearing a trade-mark protected in Gennall)'", no matter how long the foreign firm may have Llsed that mark, are liable to seizure on importation iuto Germany. All American house shipped to T-lamburg, on the order of a German buyer, a consignlnent of lubricating oil in barrels bearing their old trade-mark; bllt as this particular mark happened to have been protected in Germany by a German Grm hvo ycars prior to tIte importation, the oil was seized by the Hamburg Custom House officials--·of course, at the instance of the German ''1,'ho had registered the mark. The !\mericans' allS\Vcr was alL action for wrongful seizure, and a claim for damages. In the Strafkalllmer the seizure was upheld, and the Imperial court, to which the A11lericans appealed, took the same view oithe case. Section J 7 of the German trade-marks act, of I\.Iay 12, 1894, gives a German t:ourt pO\'V"er to uphold sllch a sei7ure ill the interest of German traders <lgainst foreiguers. It is thus open to ally unscrupulous German firm to reg-ister in Germany the trade-mark of a reputable foreig-n house, work it at home for all it is worth, and also get the goods of the foreigl1 house seized should they be imported into Gcrmany.-Ex. Wives as Partners-Importance of Signatures to Orders. At a meeting of the Credit lIens' Association, of Grand Rapids, held recenlly, a statement was made by an attorney present that is of interest to every manufactufer and jobber concerning the taking of orders. Under the statutes of many states no order UpOll the purchaser of goods valued at a sum greater than $50,00 is binding upon the purchaser. unless his 'written signature to the ordcr has been obtained. Goods may be fdllscd after shipll1e~lt, or returned at the -wilt of the lHlrc,I\(\ser. As prohahly cight-tenths of tl1('. goods sold hy jobbers and manufacturers ;"lfC shipped llpon l1nsigned orders, the risk involved becollles apparent. 21 A paper was fead describing- tbe relations of man and wife when engaged as partners in business. Under the com-mOll bw a man and his wife are one; the wife is absorbed in the composite individual. A wife haviTlg property in her own right before marriag·e may legally manage the same, hut she could not he. held responslble for any partnership contract eTlt('red into by herself and husband, as man and wife. The members of the association were advised to be on their guard against husband and wife partnerships. As a general propo-sition it is not wise to deal with such a combination. Will Move to Canada. The "\VolverLne Reed company, employing eighty hands, will abandon theil' plant in Detroit and move to Canada, announcing as their reaSOll, inability to compete with the prisoll made goods turned out, mainly in the state of Michi-gan The policy of selling the labor of convicts to manu-factl: rcrs by the state has ever proven disastrous to manu- Carved by Hand in Florence. Italy. factllrers emp[o:ying free labor, and the course of the Wolver-ine Reed company in abandoning the important business they have built up in the United States to engage in an effort to establish trade in a foreign state is not surprising. Information Not Forthcoming. Some time ago Commissioner Folk called ~Tpon the mutuai cOlupanies doing business in Tennessee for a list of their Tennessee policy-holders, with the address of each. So far no responses have been received, and the questions involved in the matter are now being considered by the attorney-general of the state. Sprinklers Saved a Store. The efficacy of an automatic sprinkler waS shown recently III a large dry good;.; store in Roston. One of the heads sprung a leak, and the water dripped on the motor. This caused a ShOft circuit, which set the automatic sprinkler sys-tem at \vork. which extinguished the fire. D. A. KEPPERLING Commercial Photgrapher Phone South, 709 1414-1416 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO 22 Are You Next? A young man's cnaracter and hahits of hie arc either a help or a detriment to his advancement in business. His employers consider morals. ubi!;ty and persona) appearauce to be of the first importance. Oftentimes a young mall in a subordinate position may sneldenly be promnted to a much better position and sabry. In every e;1.seit is betatlse Excels all hand screw clamps in ad.aptation to work, convenience of handling llnd quick action F:spedafly adapted to Veneering Paneling aud all work requiring long hroad jaw. COLT'S UNIVERSAL CLAMP Catalog alld Price List Furnished Batavia Clamp Co. 45 Center St. BATAVIA, N. Y. Mention Michigan Artisan of his possessing the q\lalilicatiollS lllClltiolled ahove. In thi,.; connection the follo'.ving story may be mentioned: \Ve were coming over the road Hot long ago in :::L special One of our officers (we will call 1JillJ :loLl'. \-V.) said to a party of liS as we sat in the ohservalory I"oom of his car: "Now, gentlemen, 1 \-"F<'llyltour opinion nil a matter th<1t concerns my departmcnt. The next stop will he X. \V(' will remain there abol1t a half-hout". \Vatch me as we all get out on the platform and cast yonI' eyes over a young man whom I will greet and shake hands "with. He will hand me an envelope, and when \ve return to the car gl\'t' me your individual opinions of him." Everything passed off as ~{r.\;V. had planned. \-Ve were introduced to a number of persons at the station. Chhers were known to us; !'iOIl1C of them good and faithful fel-lows, Fortunately, all of us met and shoook hands with the young man who had been outlined to llS hy l'vIr. VI. We were anxious to know \vhy ollr 0PI111011 was desirert \A/hen the special pulled Ollt we all g-athcrer! again in the big observation room of the car. ""Vhat do yOll think of him?" asked !lh. \V. The answers came thick and fast. "I noticed he was cleanly shaven." "His 5110('8 \vert': nicely polished." "His linen V:...as fresh and clean." "He had a bright eye." "His clothes were modest, alld no grease "vVhen he shook hands he took hold meant it." "He was very courteous." "He was not forward." "He looked like a boy of characler." "He didn't have a cig-arette in his month or a tobacco cud." "He looked like a gentleman." After all had passed their coml11ents and jndgmellt, r-o.T\rv. . remarked: "That settles it. J am sure T made a wise choice. The boy doesn't even dream of the good Jilek in store fOl' spots on them." as thongh h(' him. But utltside of yO\1l' decisions or opinions I have made il1(j\1iries as to his habits, and linel that he is the support of a widuwed mother. He is never Seen hanging around sa-lO(' lb ur billiard rooills. J-T e is home with his mother eve-ll! ugs. Sunday morning he is at church with her, He has a good ("1C'an record." "\:Ve arc ahol1t to make an important appointment, and while this yO\1ng man is filling a position where the salary is small. \1'<: are going to promote him to the place I have mentioned, at a great deal larger salary than he now re- ("elves. OUT desire W<lS to select. a young man from timber of Oln' own road and your good opinions to-day have set-tled the matter." The challg'e has been made since this was written and r am glad to be informer! by i\h. W. that the young man h8S been eminently satisfactory, says the writer in the Erie Railroad Employes' ]'vlagazine, This is a short story, !Hlt there is lots of meat in it; Is your record clean? Business Men Should Dress Well. External appearance is lhe only way in which one man C[lll judge al10tber in bllsilless, and when a mall'S appearance is Hot pleasing' the judgment will be against him. As one progresses through the lower ranks and gets nearer to the place whudrolll ~t\ccess; tllay be easily reached, the effect O! p('l"sonal appearance grows in value, A clerk or other 1111i10r employe may do well withont paying any particular attentioJl to his appearance. so long as he does his work salisfactorily. nut when he rises to a position near the top of the ladder, he will find that it is a question of appear-ing well or giving" IIp his chances for a future. Look into the general ()ffice of any large enterprise. The men who arc employed therein. from tJ]e office boy to the general tllanagcr. :ne all well dressed in appearance, They are clean, their clothes arc neat. it 110t expensive, and the en-tire cHen of their appearance is pleasing. How much of thvij- success they owe to this bct it is hard to say. Cer-tainly the)' owe <.t greal deal. No employer selects for ])I"{111l0tiOall man ';vhose appearance will not be a credit to hi~, busine,.:,s. A man may be a good salesman, b\1t if he Our UnbreaKable proaucts can be glued and nailed, filled or fin-ished same as wood, with oil, water or spirit stain. f\o. 139 A No. 152 B BETTER THAN WOOD Much stronger and more durable, full depth of grain. A perfect rep,.oduetion of hand carving which absolutely defies detection. Send for Sample. Send for CATALOGUE. ORNAMENTAL PRODUCTS CO. TweHth aM Fort Street.<;· Detroit. MidriiaD. dre:-;scs jjkc :-t POOl one he 'wilJ hardly be given a chance to show that he is able to fill any position above t.his, A care-le~ s man may manage to act successfully as the manager of a bl1sinl'Ss where his duties take him in contact only with his immcdiate oth('e force, bUl v.·hen a promotion to some hi.>rher place i,.; 10 be made he will find that some one else, possibly a little less able than he, possibly of a lower rank, whose appearance suggests that he is of a bright progressive disposition, is chosen. The Chicago doctor who discovered that the automobile IS a ctlTe for dyspesia should make it clear whether he meant for the man in the machine or the man run over. ~Mlf ..HIG7fN 23 INCH POPLAR for DRAWER BOTTOMS JOSEPH ROSS & COMPANY 223 SDulh SecDnd SI., Philadelphia, Pal MILLS: CHESAIS, S. c.; THOMASVILLE, N. C. CUT TO DIMENSION KILN DRIED 10 YEARS' EXPERIENCE Large Demand For Hardwood Lumber. The raising of the quarantine ill Tennessee, 1\Jississippi and Arkansas, where tile regulations were 1110re stringent tha1l elsewhere, has ~cn('d greatly to stimulate the demand [or hardwood lumb(·r and at the saille time to faciliatc the movement thereof, according to lV[emphis, advices. The de-llland is now better for southern hardwoods 111<111for eighteen months, but the domestic call is large Cll01:g-h to take every~ thing available at constantly advancing 1n[«'.",. Thlycrs. aTC nn hand in large 111ll11bcrs from a11 (WeT the NOrih find East and arc scol~ring- the coen',ry millillg sections throl1ghout the Ivlemphis bard wood territory in tl1eir seaTch ror dry 111l11ber. Conditions l1nder which production ha:-; he en carried on, hOl;vcvcr, have heen ql1ite lllllavorable, ,11le! for this reason offerings are very light ;t11e! all lumber is iirmly held Price.-; afC higher now than they have been for a nl1111bcr of lTlOllLh" ,\11<1 the move1l1('nt is jn:st ao; large as the limited dry stncks and the congestec! conditio11s of railway traffic will adlnit. The {()reign demand is -rat hey slow a~, h.as hec~l the eai;,(' ior a nllmber of nlOllths and yet holders, iuc!tHling both mallufadtlrers and v,rhoIesalcrs, are so strollg" in the convic-tion that prices ,,,ill go still bigher that tlley an, not pl1shing anything for sale. The trade ·will go into the willter with the smallest amount of timber in hand for years and like-v,' ise ,vith the lightest stock they have possessed fOf a num-her of scaSOlls. The demand for plain oak in all grades and lengths is very aei-ive. The supply is inadequate and prices are as stiff GLASS BACKS BACK PANELS as call ,vell be imagined. There is likewise a large call for ash and cypress in all grades and dimensions and holdings arc not large. Cotto1lwood is scarce, firm and ad'lancing in response to the improved demand. Th-i~, -is 111QSt prononnced ill the higher grades including boxboards, but the lower grades including box material, are ml1ch firmer than hereto-lore. There is a good demand for high-grade popl.ar and considerable quantities of rcd gum are being sold, mostly in thill stick. The lower grades of gllm are rather unsatisfact-ory, the demand for these being only moderate. The same state1l1cnt, too, is partially true of hnv-gradc poplar, thol1gh the demand for this is relatively better than that for gum. Will Pass Through Forests. ;\,rexico\; forests equal those of the entirc United States 1ll extent, arc rnllch more varied ane! include, ill large quanti-ties. the coveted mahogany and rosewood. "\vhich the United States is obliged io import. Owing to the fact that hOllses, hridj2;cs, dc" were constructed of stOllC and that the Grst railrm.cls built i.nMeKico chosc for thei.r ront,,',s "tock and agriClJ1tl1ral districts, the forests were left almost t111l01lChed. Howevcr. there are now projected and l1lH1cr construction in that republic HlOre than 4,000 miles of railway lines, the most of \lI,7hich will pass tbrough extensive forests, as well as rich mincntl and agricnlturallands. Life insurance is just philanthropy, says one of the pres-i-dellts. \;Vc1J. we're glad it isn't the itch'. Tt would be so irritating. Our Clamps received GOLD MEDAL World's Fair, St. Louis PILlNG CLAMP CHAIN CLAMP Patented June 30,1903, BLACK BROS. MACHINERY CO. MENDOTA, ILL. VENEER PRltSS Patented JUlie 30, 1903 24 A Statement by the ]. A. Fay & Egan Company to the Trade. J. A. Fay & Egan Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, statenlent to the trade: It may not be 0\11 of jl]ace to anllounce to the trade that many makers of machinery, most of them ,vitb old fashioned traps, are trying to impress their salesman to say their machines are about as gOO(] as Fay & Egan machines. Don't be deceived by this class of people. There is 110 machinery made in the United SUI.1.es or even in the world. equal to our latest design. \Ve have been workillg whiie others have been blo-wing. A Money Saving Machine. Every wood working plant handling long stock should h-ave a double cut-off sa..\.'. By its use lumber can be eco-nomically handled and a great saving effected in the matH'r of time. These machines are so well made and card1l1i:r adjusted by the Buss .Machine \Vorks of Holland, l\lich., that pleasure as well as profit is derived from their opcra- Will Build a Factory at Buchanan. The Btlchanan, IVlich., Cabinet company, havingre-ecived a liberal bonus from the municipality, will erect a fact-ory in that village to replace the one recently destroyed by lire. J t v"ill be ready for occupancy early in the coming year. l\ot many years ago Buchanan was an important furniture rnanllfactllring" cenler, with six factories, e~ploying 1,000 me11. \Vith the disappearance of the timber of southwestern :\Iichigan, anu the appearance of the bonus distributor, the to\vn lost its industries. The Buchanan Cabinet company. the sale survivor, bas prospcrcd under the management of A, A. Richards. A New Enterprise in New Albany. The Roberts & Conner company, manufacturers of yellecrs and lumber, is the name of one of the latest con-cerns to be included in the best of industries in New Albany, Incl, The plant of the company ocupies an acre and a half of 11001' space, and started operation December 1st. The tion. They arc constructed of the best material obtainahle and so well finished as to prove an attraction in a \vood working shop. Built under the expcricilted an (I caref\11 eye of W. R. Buss, these u").<lchines IlC\'cr fail to satisfy the purchaser_ A full delailed deSC1-iption together with price and terms may be obtained by addre:-ising the Buss J)..'Iachinc V'o.T arks, Holland, IvliC'.h. Loose Leaf Catalogues. The use of loose leai cataJog1les has heen auopted by a considerable number of manufacturers. Their cost is 1111.1ch greater in the first instance: than the oid style book, bUl ill the end much cheaper. John Lewis, the secretary of the Ranney Refrigerator, Greenville, l\lich., in discussing the sub-ject of the cost and use of the loose leaf book said: "The coverings should be of leather, substantially made in the expectancy that the book will outlast the ledger, the jOllrnal or other book, subjected to cr)J1.stanl use in the office, As the tine is changed from time to time new leaves afe mailed t'o the holders of the catalog-Ilc~, to be substituted for those illustrating a.nd describing goods \vhic11 it has been determined to discontinue." The R;l1l11ey Refrigerator com- . pany's catalogues cost more than $1.00 each. plant is a full fledged and 1110stcomplete one with an output of frOtH 6fty to seventy-five thousand feet per day. Forty-five hands are employed, and the plant will cut rotary sliced and savved stock. The company is offiqred as follows: Presi-dent, John Roberls; Vive-President, John N. Roberts, Sec-retary and Treasurer, ]. \V. Conner. Hood & Wright, Big Rapids, Mich. l\hllttfacture veneers and thin lumber of high grade. They make a specialty of fine quarter-sawed oak and birJ's eye: maple. They have had l11.anyyears experience, and their trade cxtends over a very large section of country. Just at the prcsent time it is very difficult for manufacturers to get orders for quarter-sawed oak filled promptly, and it would he 10 the advantage of all such to correspond with Hood & \Vright. "Bob" Lind Honored. Robert C. Lind, secretary and treasurer of the Rockford Chait' & Iollfniture company, has been chosen a director of the Third National Bank of that city. Mr. Lind holds a number of prominent offices. being president of the Union Furniture company and Royal 1VT antcl & Furniture company. Trade Notes. Geo. S. Clark & company, will manufacture chair stock in Bennington, Vt. The Nall- \\rheelcr Furniture company of Evansville, Ind., have organized ·with capital of $10,000. The De Long Furnitl1l'e company at Reading, Pa., will have a new mill, modern in every respect. New machines are ill process of installation. The Tennessee Furniturc Manufacturing company. of Knoxville, has been incorporated with a capital stock of $50,- 000 to manufacture bedroom furniture exclusively. The \Vestcrn Chair IVlauufacturers Association, at their monthly meeting in }lilwallkee, decided 110t to advance prices on chairs. No action .was taken against prison made goods. Zion City is soon to have a large fllTniture factory which will be O\vned and operated by a number of wealthy men in the town. The site will be near the northern limits of the city. The Decatur, Ill., Furniture c0111pany's factory canght nre from flying emhers from arlOther building and the loss be- 25 \Vo!f Levy, onc of the oldest pioneers of Chicago, died recently. I-Te established the \Volf Levy Furniture company which he COll(lucted for thirty years, retiring ten years ago. 1.fr. Levy introduced the credit system into the fmniture busi-ness in Chicago. The Andrews Office Fllrniture company, of Chicago, are about to move to Toledo, 0., and will occupy the Peter plain-ing mill, which tllCy have purchased. The three large build-ings cover a square, will be remodeled extensively. Four ht111dred skilled mechanics will be employed. The plant of the Orient :'danufacturing company at Char-lottee, N. C. has been sold at auction to the Calvine Manu-facturing company for $250,000. The sale \'Vasthe result of a suit against the company ·which called for a receiver. The sale was made by the Superior Court. \V. S. and VV. L. Alexander, of Charlottee, N. C, have pllrchased from George \V. Vanderbilt timbered land from his famous forest preserve, the consideration was $2,000,000. It will take twenty years to t('.\ll.Ovc the. timber. A fllrnture factory and tannic acid plant will be established. J. D. Froman and T. ),'1. Lenham, Vevay, Ind., have in-vented a bed which can be combined with a bookcase, settee, wardrobe, dresser, and various other kinds of furniture. The principal objects are to provide for folding a bed in such a manner that it will occupy much smaller space than has been th(: case heretofore, and especially to reduce the vertical space occupied by the bed in folded position. :rvluuufacturers of wagon and furniture wood stock, met in Chicago on 1\" ovember 21, and formed a temporary organiz-ation ;'The output of oak and hickory within the last year ha.~ been curtailed throughout the country," said James E. Gatewood of St. Louis. As these are the principal woods used in /ntr factories we must hnd some way to increase the product. Another meeting will be held in January. The Knoxville, 'Tenn" Furniture company have won their suit against the Knoxville \Vater company. The Knoxville Furniture COITlpany sought to enjoin the "VVater company 11'0111 making an excessive meter rate charge at its factory on a sprinkler system which the furniture company was in-stalling to afford the factory bettcr protection against fire. The flltniture company filed an injunction bill in the chancery court against the water company, and has won the fight in an important suit. MarieJ Antoinette's Chamber, Palace (If Petit Trianlan. The L'ph(l!5lery and Hanl;:ings ate of Blue and Cold Brocade. fore the flames were extinguished amounted to over $20,000.- 00, insured. The storehouse used by the Bnwswick-Ba1ke-Collender company in Kansas City, Mo., was destroyed by rlre NOV 29. The loss is $25,000, mostly caused by water. Inslltance covers the loss. The Alhernathy Furniture company lost $(0,000 as the result of a fire \vhich destroyed furniture stored in the old Dold packing house in Kansas City, Mo. The J. H. Vanden Boom Furniture company also suffered loss. A manufacturing firm in Greenwood, l\'fiss., have com-plained to one of the sOLlthern railways about the high freight rate from that city to Atlanta and !H)\'v" the railway makes the announcement that an investigation will be made. Charles B. Ford, a manufacturer of kitchen cabinets in Kalamazoo. ),lich'J has formed a stock company '\vith an anth-orized capital stock of $30,000 partly paid in. The name of the company will be the Ka1ama:Loo Manufacturing company. The Spencer Cabinet company, of Chicago, report [me re- SllltS from their advertisement in the special 19,000 edition of the Artisan isslled September 20. A number of orders re-sulted and applications for catalogues continue to corne up to da e. 26 Peter Cooper's Glue If you have any trouble with your glue, has it uccurred to you to use Peter Cooper'.? When other manufactur-ers or agents tell you that their glue i~as good as COOPER'S, they admit Cooper's is the BEST. No one extols his product by comparing it with 3'1 inferior article. Cooper's Glue is the world's standud of ex:- cellence. With it all experiment begins, aU comparisons continue, and aU tests end. Sold continltously since J820. Its reputation, like il~eJf, STICKS- Peter Cooper', glue is made from selected hide stock, care-fully prepared. No bones or pig stock enter into its composition. fn strength it is uniform, each barrel containing the same kind of glue that s in every other barrel of the same grade. ORIN A. WARD, Grand Rapid. Agent 523 Pythtan Tempi., Citizens Phone 3333 CyClone Blow Pipe Co. ~-~----- Improved Cyclone Dust Collectors, Automatic Fwnace Feeders, Steel Plate Exhaust Fans, Exhaust and Blow Piping Complete: syste:rnsdesigned, manufactured, installed and guatanteed. Old SY3tems TePlodeled on mcdern lines on mosl economical plans. Sdf.p]emenlary s y s t ems ~em~ar:h'::I1:;,~~t B';~ fective s y s t ems corrected and put in pr()per workinll order. STAffORD fURNITURE 12and 14 S.ClinlonSt. CHICAGO, ~ ILL. ENGRAVING Our half tones are deeD sharp. clear; gMn,t them long wear and ease of make-ready. Every plate i~precisely type-bigh, mourHed 011 a perfectly squared. seasolled block trullmed to pica standard. All are proved and tooled until the: best possible printing quality is develof>ed. Specimens mailed on request. STAFFORD ENGRAVING CO. "The House oj ideas" INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA MACHINE ffNIVES PER.FECT QUALITY R.IGHT PRICES PROMPT SEI\.VICE ABSOLUTE GUARANTEE Dado or' Grooving Heads, Miter Machines. Universal Wood Trh1l11lers. &orlng Machines. Etc. FOX MACHINE CO 185 N. F•• n' St. • Grand Rapids. Mich. IOO~6ONINVESTMENT Doesll't sound reasonable in connec-tion with a piece of machinery, but the annual saving in cost of operating our TYPE A Engines over others of similar rating, figures out that way. Isn't your curiousity sufficiently arous-ed to prompt you to ask for circular No. 18S-F explaining this? All facts---N 0 fancy theories. American Blower Co. DETROIT, MIOH. NEW YORK, CHICAGO, ATLANTA, LONDON ·~r;..Iff'HIG7f-N He Executed the Contract. "It LS futile for the (lId-time dealers. to protest against the business methods pursued by the scheme houses," re-marked a prominent manufacturer. "The soap boilers. the ftavoflng extract disti1Ie-r:;, the medicine makers and other distributors of pri7-cs have the coin and will never lack for goods' needed for prizes." And then he took from a drav,"er contracts for $110,000 worth of goods, one of -which he signed, sealed and mailed to a great soap manl1factllf-ing, prize distribution company widely known and gener-ollsly denounced by regular dealers. A New Automatic Gage Lathe. This is olle of Fay & Eg-an gag-c lathes for chair stock, bal~ l1sters, spindles, etc., and guaranteed seccl1ld to HOlle. Tts wide usage proves it. It is their latest development in this type of machinery, and is thoroughly up to date in features and improvements. Circulars more fully describing it call be had by sending a Jlostal to the makers. \Ale will just glance over a few points: It is called a No. 35 automatic gage lathe. and made \n sizes to turn 30, 42 and 48 inches long, and up to 3 inches in diameter. Great speed combined with fi~le accnracy in tl1rlling Ollt the work can be attained. The few adjt,.,.tmellts are qU1ckly rnade, the carriage lUOVCS with e:.\sC 27 sense oj visitors. rather than affront them with signs moni-torial. The sign vvc.nt: up immediately after an officious call-er1eft the shop in search of a surgeon gifted in the use of the closing needle. One of the saws in the factory is a deli-catc little buzzer. designed only for cutting grooves and protllde;; barely a quarter of all inch above the table on whieh it operates, It is noiseless and in manners unassum-ing. i\l hoth respc,c.ts differing (rOI11 the, obtrusive VtSltor. This individual, 8iter meddling abo\1t the shop and buzzing the busy \vorkmcn till "veary, finally approached this par-ticular table. turned his back and plac.ing his hands on th~' edge, J"8ised himself to a sitting as the loafer in the country store helps himself to a seat on the cOllnter next to the cheese and herring-. He was scarcely seated than he ut· tered an exclamation and sprang to the floor. He had been in.iured--n01 dang-erollsly, but uncomfortably. He had not seen the saw, but the saw was there and moving at high speed in its modest W8)'. The seat of education is n"t a1ways in the brain, An Addition Under Construction. In order to adequately care for their continttally increa~- ing business the American Blower company of Detroit are erecting- a three-story addition to their plant. This particlI-lar addit10n is re1Hlere(1 lH~cessary by the g~owing popnb,it~· Fay & Egan No. 35 Goige Lathe, and without looseness, and its operation is at at! times under instant control for suiting" it to different lengths of stock turned. The back-knife gate slides in heavy ways planed perfectly true, and is connterbalanced. It is fitted with ~ special knife shaped to conform to finished work, and plaeed in an inclined vertical position. It works automatically on the back of the piece being turned. so that as the tool carriage moves forward the knife is fed gradl1ally dO'wn and immediately follows after the ronghing CllttcrS, giving a very smooth shear cnt. A spec.ial adjt1st1l1ent sets the kn-ife in or out to compensate for wear on its edge. Further par-ticulars and terms can be had by v..riting the makers, -who advertise in every issue of this paper, J. A. Fay & Egan Co., 505 to 525 "lv' est Front street, Cincinnati. They send fl"ee of charge their catalogne of wood-working machinery, or books on band saws, sanders, and universal wood-work-ers. Concerning the Seat of Knowledge. "Beware of the buzz-saw" is a warning sign conSpiC\1011S 1y posted in a Saginaw shop. The 1113nagement bad felt until recently that something shonld he left to the common of their type "A" enelosed, vertical, self-oiling engine which was placed upon the market SOlne 1\"0 or three years since, meeting witb immediate favor. The building will be of ;;tecl and hrick construction. Thetlrst floor will he m,ed for erectillg and testing engines, a very complete new out-fit beillg pnt in for the latter purpose. The power from engines llllder test will he ahsorbed by generators and air C01l1pressors. All electric. crane will form part of the equipmcut ill this department. The second floor wilt be IIs(:d for ~t()ring engine parts and painting the completed engines, and the third f100r wil he utilized for storage pur-poses entirely. Singcr & Donnell, formerly dealers in furniture in '¥iehi-ta, Kas .. after a long rctirement will ag;ainenter into the business. They have, for a number of years, been conducting a warehouse business, but found such a quantity of furniture \dt on their hands by people leaving the city and selling samc, that they decided to reopel1 a retail furniture business to which thcy cxpect to devote all their energies in future. ing- is sold. but 11Chas a Iew choice spaces in the annex at his disposal. 28 Fumed Oak, How to Make it. There are more than a hundred difTerent shades of Fumed oak, from the partially fumed, down to the rankest concep-tion of a stained '; Fumed oak," .HanuIacturer.s are spend-ing more time and taking more care to get the right finish or color today than they did a few years ago. They have founel that there is a possibjJjty of elegance in a _I\dission finisb 25 ·well as in a varnish or gloss iinish. To many the mentioning of a fuming box-or anytbing that required the use of a fuming hox-was met lvitll a 1to.<:L 1£ Fumed oak had to be made: it ,..-as duplicated with a slain _ "vVe can't afford to put in a {uming box." Tn some: it meant the building of somcUlillg- like a valdt, to o1hers the j)nldllC-tion of but one shade and because there was bllt 011(' sbade and that not much in demand, fuming \vas not cOl1siriered. Those that did have a fuming 1;0>:: found that the jHOCCSS produced a color base upon w-hicb a litlle sta;ning produced many different shades. These people have produced some beautiful effects, making some decided hits But notwithstanding the opposition found, Fumed oak has been increasing and next season ;t prom;ses to rival E<i.rly Engl;sh in popularity. The only regret is that up to this '\vriting manufacturers have not adopted any particular shade. becaUSe: of so many different processes employed to secure a coloT. The writer is of the opinion that if local makers of £urn1tl1rc would adopt one shade, they would do a good deal to strengthen this market The problem seems to be what method is best to produce Fumed oak. We say, by ftmling process. This brings us face to face with the fmTliug box propositioll, wbich, if the following suggestions are employed, is com para! ively easy. Construct a frame of 2 x 2-inch stuff. UStwlly lOx T6, and R feet high, faslen to floor 1;vithhingec';. Then cow~r with ordi-nard unbleached sheeting, care being taken to lap 011 floor, so as to avoid draft. After the sheeting- is all placed coat \vith silicate of soda (liquid glass), giving' it 2 or 3 coats and care-fnlly coating all joints. A coat or two of paint on top \vill doubly assure a gas proof box. The door is preferably built wedge shape so that when it is closed it is air tight. The little opening is a "testing box," or a controller, being- so ar-ranged that when th~ fumes are 011 a piece of board can be subjected to the fumes and watched through the glass duoe Suppose one \vishes to remove this. Drop the rear door and open the front. Examine the control piece and re- TJlacc without loss of fumes or disturbing the process. The ammonia tank is a common ,) gallon galvanized iron oj! CBlJ to tlle faucet of which is fastened a rubber tube, which c3.rries the ammonia water to the first pan, These pans arc ~-inch deep. \Vben the first pan is' full it runs over into Hnmber two and so on till the whole series is filled, then the Hol-.·.' of ammonia is redtleed to dropping which allows a greater escape of the fumes, To free die box of 1he fumes there are two methods. One is to connect the box \vith a blower, sucking the fumes out, or to put in an ordinary stove pipe leading it to a window. These, hmvever, must be fitted with a tight shut-off to pre-vent escape of the gas during the process. Another, but not so well understood or known process, is to obtain the gas from anhydrous ammonia, This is liqui-tieu amlIlonia gas and is furnished by the Michigan Ammonia \Vorks in irO!l cylinders. -.==-= There seems to be very little difference in the cost of the gas, whether derived from the water or from cylinders, with the preference greatly in favor of the water by those who have fuming outfits. Particulars regarding the use of the anhydrous ammonia will be cheerfully ft.frnished by the writer, A third method-but not recommended-is the employing i)f carbonate of ammonia. This, however, by actual expet'i-l11ent, is more costly than either of the above. T11edescribed process takes from 24 to 48 hours to pr?dtlce the deepest possible shade of Fumed oak, and it has been found that the shade thus produced has not been deep ello11g"hto take "dth the general buying public, and that is why f'umed oak (real f'umed oak) has not taken as well as that ",:hich ",;as fumed and then darkened with a stain. The writer has therefore had a series of laboratory ex-periments conducted with the results of a chemical com-j) ot1l1ri-which was cal1eri ;;Fnmine"-and by the use of which any 3.mOl1ntof brown shades can be produced in from 2 to 4 hours. Many arc still skeptical. The whole fuming process is nevI" to them, they look upon it as an expensive venture. Hut here \VI: have it, a fuming box for $15.00 to $25.00; the process cnt down to one~tellth of the time with these results: Any shade of brown. greyish or reddish, A warer proof color, A spirit proof color, An oil proof color, A color that can't wear off. One process, One handling, A color in the wood not on top, A color that beautiGe:, with age, A color that has style, e1<'~'lnce. and will rival the popularity of golden oak. \Vhen T say \vater proof, spirit proof and oil proof, I mean that your salesllull has the greatest talking point about finish that ever \vent with a sale of furniture. A brokcn botde of gasotine witt remove a '\'lax li\\\sh-bnt not the color. Simply wax it and yOll can't see the spot. A glass of wille is spilt, it \iI.'ill C11tthe wax and the shellac. Simply put on a little shellac and wax. Y (HI can't find the spot. Remove the entire finish and water can't touch the color,-Fuminc made the color and the fuming proccss pro-duced a chcmical chang;e in the wood which is inel(:strllct-ible. The shade produced is absolutely in y011r control. Fumine is il1Yisib1e in water. Usually one part Fmnine to lOllr of water, the stronger the mixture the darker color and the strenglh of the solution employed makes the color. Not the length of Fuming, that'" why yOl' can fill Y0\l'f fuming box at night and take out the work the next mornillg, or yon can !cave it in over Sunday. YOll can run a batch every two to four hours according to your streng; h of gas, and it will go so far and 110 farther. The strength of yOl.::r Fumine solu-tion makes the color. It means further that yOll can match any fumed oak Oll the marKet. Snj)j)ose yon have three shades to make, you filld by employing ymtr test box that one requires a one to four solution, one a aile to eight and a thin! a one to ten solution of Fumine. Yon coat the work with the different indicated strength. put the whole lot in the box and ;1\111 them Ollt. Each one has the required depth of colol". Can any maker of furniture deny that this process is not the most np-to-date, scientific, way of producing the no"v popular shades of Fumed oak. Does any process enable the production of many shades? Ts there a'1y coloring process so silllple and yet so durable? 1t is applicable to all kinds of lHrnitnre and -..vorks on oak, ai'h. chestnnt and maple. The expel1SC docs not e([ual any other finishing process and as soon as it becomes generally understood \vill find immediate favor. Jl'lany manufacturers have already adopted the above describcd method, and as Fumed oak promises tn he the coming style, the al:ove will be of vahle to the mannfa,:,t'cwer. ~o far every line that we h~l"veheard of will show the new brcn ...n. shade of Fumed oak. WALTER K SCHMIDT. His Salary Raised After Losing $I5,OOO. \Vhcn in a reminiscellt mood E. H. Foote, the treaS\.lrer of the Granu Rapids Chair company, is a bighiy entert<tining gentlemen He has been engaged in the industry over forty years, rising from the shops to the manager's office. For more than twenty-five years he has been in the sen'ice of the Grand Rapids Chair company and much of their prrr.;perity is duc to his energy. intelligence and good judgme!1"!". "J lost $15,000 for thc company in the year 1880. 1t \Va" my first year in the officc of secretary. lVly losses werc con-siderable Jess than my precleceS5or's and for tbat reason the board of directors voted an increase of 111Y salary at th c end of the year. Commoll chairs were the only produce of the 29 factory and the output was sold largely to jobbers. In the year ISSO I sold 45 car loads to Col. Abernathy without a profit and increasing the total sales $8.1,000. In that year the price lists were prepared by a committee of the \Vestern Chair '[\'Iakers' association, and in marketing the Olltput of our company I was confined to the association prices. Our directors were SOon satisfied that no money could he made III the business of making common chairs and we abandoned it, i:iLlbstituting a line of furniture." NO' Cancellations. !vlanufactllTers of furtlitme derived great benefit from the action of the National Case 11akers associatloll in adopting a resolution calling for an advance of ten per cent. in prices at the convention held in Chicago, early in November. At that se,lSOl1 of the year dealers have quite generally pursued the long established custom of cancelling orders not Jilled by the manufacturers. The effect of this custom was the leaving of a Jot of goods in the hands of th('. rnanldactnrers to be disposed of as jobs. There 'were no cancellations this year. A politician once complained that the colored dele-gates to a natoinal convention would not stay sold after they had sold their votes. In the ft1fniturc trade it is differ-ent. The goods stay sold. New Shuttle Block Company. The \.Vorth-Sherwood Shuttle Block company of Greens-boro, N. C. recently made application to the secrct~ry of state for a charter. H. B. \Vorth, ':\'1. S. Sherwood and 0. C. VVYSOllg are the incorporators. The CO'l1pany will get o~1t shuttle blod~s for the Sherwood Bobhn t'b.mlfadnril\g cmn-pany and other concerns manufacturing sh111tles and bobbins for cotton mil1s. The authorized capital is $'2~.ooo. b\1t the company wili begin business as soon as $.1,000 is paid into the treasury. The main offices will be located ill Greensboro. Early English A perfect stain which pro-duces the correct shade-and directions for manipula-tion to produce correct finish Get our circulars and book-let that puts you next to the very best ways for producing Sold only in powder form; does not fade--penetrates tl~e wood. FUMED OAn WALTER K. SCHMIDT COMPANY 84-86 CANAL STREET GRI\ND RI\PIDS, MICI1IG4N 30 INSURANCE POLICY LIMITATIONS. All Ambiguities in Policy Must Be Settled in Favor of Insured. A lecture upon "The St'HlcJard Fire TnsuraJlce Policy" was delivered by Morris Plltnam Slevens, professor of law of lire inslIrance at the New York University, before lhe Insurance Society of New York recently. Mr. Stevens called attention to the use of the word, "while" as contained in the clausc of the polic.y, which pro-vides that the insured property shall be C!lyerec! "whiJ(' lo-cated and contained as described herein, and llot eL,,;('\yhcre," and stated that any change of locatioll of the insured prop-crty without the consent of the company would relic.;:e the company from its liability 111 case ()\ i'.1.1bt'ctj\1cnt l()s~. \Vhether the (kscriptioll in a policy covers or fairly de,;eri\)c;; the property intended to be insured is a matter flC fetel whieh in the evcllt of an action is for the .illry to delt:rmilll', and the terms of the policy are to be rea:c.onahly C()ll:-:.Lnlcd \\"ith referellce to the whole subject maHer. Insurance contracts differ from urdinaty cUllt1'acls in (111(: !:itriking particular. If the contract is ambiguous a,; to loca-tion, description, or ally othet- matter, it \\'i11 ht: cOll:c.lrtled liberally ill favor of the insured and strictly a~:raill;;t the com-pany. If its terms are stlsecpl'ih1e of two cOllslructinll:-; with c(jcal certainty, that COllslrltction which is the lllllrc h.\·()r-able to the insured will always he adopted. Parol testimony is admissible to explain a bt<'llt ,11lJbigll ity in regard to the merchandise iutended by thc partie:c. to be embraced within the policy, anll so the cUl1yersatinlls of the insured with the agent. correspondence, etc" would he re-ceived in evidence for the p\1rpose of explaining the meanillg of the terms of the policy as to desniptioll, etc,: {nr example: \Vhere the in.sured property wa"" described <IS " lJ.1yand graill in barn," and there were two barns. it \\"as helel that parol evidence was admissible to show which h'1.rl1 was 111eant, 111 which the hay and grain V1'Cl-C to he insured. Wherever there appeClr illCOllsistel1cies 1)('( W('el1 \\TI1\<,,'11 and printed clauses of the policy, the printed iOr1n 11l1lSt yield to the more careful and deliberate written langu;lge of the parties in describing the subject of the insttrC(1. If a policy is effected O!1 the materials used in a btlsiness, it includes and authorizes the l1se of S\1ch material,", as an' cllsto11lary, and which arc in ordinary use therein, though the llse of th(' same be prohibited by other portions of the pr;ntcd policy. and though other materials, 1I0t prohihitcd, might haye been substituted therefor. Thc term "stock ill tradc" in a :-ipecitied hl1:-iille:-i:-i when tlsed as a matter of descriplion in a policy of illSl1rallCe ill 7I R....'T'1 t-..5' .A..N $ 7i 71t • . eludes, besid<'.'-i materials, everything necessary for carrying "n that bl1silles:c., and if the policy is issued upon the stock of gll()ds in a :-;pecified business, the underwriter is presumed ill kfl';"\' \dla( goods are llsually kept by those engaged in tInt l111siness. \Vhile parol evidence IS adrnissible to explain and to effectltate a polity of insl1rance,i where there i~ any amhig11iLy or indefinitness, yet if the contract of insurance rel:1tes to Ol1e definite and distinct subject it cannot be turned illlo a contract ror the insurance of another and different sub-jcct and parn[ evide!1re will not be received to chauge, to \-ary the written contracl. [11~urallce on stock "malll1tactllred or in process of manu-lact11rc" C()\'ers raw or unmanufactured stock. Insurance 01. a stock uf gl)Or!S, which is being constantly solid and replen-i: c.hed CUycrs new IHlrchases as they arc made, provided they become part oi the general stock. The <1e.~criptjoll sometimes covers the property of the illsl~red. ""hi:c. o\vn or held by him in trust, Of on commission, "1' slJ1d alld delivered but l10t removed." Here are used special \\,()td,~ coYering property ill the possession of tht: insured. whether the oy\,l1el" thereof Of not. "Ile1dil1 trust" means simply goods in the custody of the insured. Tht. phrase j~ not 1Tsed ill its stria legal meaning. Upon the sl1bjecl ot the mcasure of damage, Mr. Steven~ :-itatcd [hat in case oC loss or damage by fire, the company's liability is limited to the actual cash value of the propery at Lhe time sllch loss OL- dal11ag-e occurs. The market or eash \'alue at the time of the fire rules, and the cost price is re-levant only as bearing thereon. The difference between the actHal (ash valne of the property just before the fire, and its value after the lire is tbe measure of indemnity where the pruperty has been injured and not destroyed. If during the pendency of the risk there has been more than one loss ItlHler the puliey, recovery in the aggregate is limited to the face of the policy, and so payment of a partial loss operates to reduce the am0l11lt of insurance by the sum paid. A '"yalllerl policy" is olle where the' face of the policy i"ixes the amount to be paid in case of total 10ss_ The meas-me of clam age in the case of the destruction of leasehold pruperty: wl)jch has been insured, may be determined in two Ivay,",: [,'irst:. (--;y asking the question, how much would be .Q'j,·cn in llloney for the nnexperienced lease when the fire O(ClllTed? Second: By ca.lculating the difference between Wh;lt the illsured \V0111d pay to his landlord, and what he would receive from the sl1b-tenants during- the balance of the tenn uf the lease. It is probable that a compromise be-t \\'eC11 these extreme methuds would arrive at a more c(jl\itablc determinatiun of the a11l0Llnt to be paid by the in-surance comp:'\Jly in case of loss upon leasehold property. IF YOU HAVE NEVER TRIED OUR RUBBING POLISHING VARNISHES " DETROIT FACTORY YOU HAVE AND CANADIAN FACTORY YET TO LEARN THE WHY NOT PUT IT TO F"ULL POSSIBILITIES OF" THIS CLASS THE TEST BY GIVING US A TRIAL ORDER7 OF" GOODS NEW YORK BALTIMORE BERRY BROTHERS, LIMITED, VARNISH MANUFACTURERS PHILADEL.PHIA CHICAGO ST. LOUIS CiNCiNNATI 8AN FRANCisCO FACTORY AND MAIN OFFICE, DETROIT CANADIAN 'ACTOII". WALKERVILLE. ONT. IT GOES TO RUSSIA. Dovetailing Machine from Alexander Dodds. Grand Rapids machinery continues to invade the Ettro-pean factories and not only this, bl\t is {(mnd to be so effect-nal that duplicate orders are steadily received by the makers of such products. Alexander Doddg is experiencing a con-stantly growing business from the foreign field and 1as1 Saturday shipped a second dovetailing machine to a Il1fLll-tUfe iactory in St. Petersbnrg. This Inachinc is a fOlIrtcell-inch device and ,;",ill do the work of some forty men. Previ-ous to the introduction of these machines all the dovetailing was done by hand. This is not the only foreign order which has recentl:y been received by 1\-11'.Dodds, for he i!-i now engaged ill makillR two twenty-four i11Ch machines of the same tYPf as the St. Petersburg shipment for factories in Cologne and 'Berlin. The former goes to C. & L. Bornheim, who iostalled one of these machines a year vf so ago, an([ 'who ha ve fount! its working mllch to their liking. How Bed Rooms Are Furnished in Europe. The beds used in Continental Ellrope are mostly single. They are built up high \'"ith several mattresses, a bolster or two and crowning all two large square pillows, the cases of which arc elaborately scal10ped and embroidered. Some times m01lOgrams arc emhroidered on them, too. The small feather beds to put over one's feet are very commonly used. They are oftentimes covered with lace over red cases. \-Vhen tv.,o beds arc placed side by side, the sheets and other coverings are large enough to co\'er the two, going across both beels. The beds themselves are often iron ,""lth head and foot boards of sheets of that material and heill~ painted black seem rather funereal. Tn Eng-land the old fashioned canopy top beds are used, the bell cord suspended over the sleeper's head. The furniture is very heavy and of old mahogany or oak. The dresslng table is always placed in fro11t of a window. The v,7ardrobes are devoid of hooks, clumsy stretchers taking their place. In Italy, an observer ,viI[ notice when '''alking through streets where poor people live, that no matter how much filth and dirt is about, the beds are al",'ays clean. The aile room in which a family lives overlooks the street and is used to cat. sleep, cook and live in. T11 Paris the Napoleon bed in wood is found, the mat-tresses are (lpt to be lumpy and han!. 1\'lar1le top tables abound here. hut dressing tables seem to be unheard of. Our rocking chairs. too, arc almost unknown in Europe. Taken altogether our American bed rooms are the morc comforta bIe and better furnished than European. Morris Rockers. \Villi:tl11 J\Jorris. the originator of the I"Iorris chair, ·would look with disfavor upon the ::\lorris rocker, recently intro-duced to the trade. l'vtnrris was an EnglislHnan, and rock-ers of any description are seldonl used in Ellgland. The Englishmen are 1lot so high stt"lltlg, so llervous and so re,~t-less as the American. In a chair they seek solidity ann steadiness. A rocker, or "an American chair," to employ the: Englishman's desig-oation, does not look comfortrrble. there-f(, re their sale is limited to sucb people as make a business of entertaining citizens of the United States. The !\lorri.~ rocker is an ill-looking, ill-shapened thing. The l\Iorris idea is not adaptable to rockers and should not be so ern jJ!oyed. The C;oulds do not intend to relax their grip UpOll the business 111('11 of St. Louis. They ahsolute1y refuse to abolish the arbitrary charges 1n addition to the regular rates on flll freight and passenger traffic passing over the two railroad bridges into S1. Louis. Their attitude will tend to strengthen the growing demand for public ownership of public utilities, 31 and the day is not distallt when the aid of congress and the legislaturers of Missouri and Illinois' will he invoked to break the monopoly. The Goulds are tryillg to choke the good old French town to death, but, in the language of the English cockney, "they will 1I0t be let." Higher Prices for Belting. The Leather Belling .1Valnufaeturers have advanced prices 10 per cent.. the reason gi ven for so doing was the ad- \'a11ce in the cost of hides and leather. The ,i\.ssociation met in New York at the Fifth A·venue Jlotel rceently. There \vcre sixty firms represented and melilbers of five new firms wcrc elected to membership. Improvement by the Retting Furniture Company. The Retting Fmniture Company of Grand Rapids, are making important improvements in thcir plant by the erection of an addition to their power house and the installation of an addi-tional boiler. C. B. Rctting says the company's business this wear is sixty per cent. larger than last year, which was a very prosperous one. Heavy Export Shipments. The Grand Rapids Carved .\lol1dillg company are having a i1ne export husiness. l'v1anag-cr S. L. King reports ship-ments of beavy rnoo1dings for int(~riors were made this \veek to Loudon, Liverpool al1d Glasgo,,\'. also to Johannesburg, So. Africa. The latter comprised tell boxes. WOOD CARVINGS If you don't buy them right this season it will not be our fault. WRITE FOR ESTIMATES Our work and prices will both surprise and please you ORDERS FILLED PROMPTLY JOHN DUER & SONS Cabinet "ard"'BI"e Bnd Tools Etc., Uphof!otered Goods Handsomellt pun on lhe Markel for the MoMY Writ",-{u-r pricefland Sample BALTIMORE. MD. Corr<::.spondence Solicited No. 1573 32 The Weatherly Individual Glue Heater Send your address and receive descriptive cir-cular of Glue Heaters, Glu~ Cookers and Hot Boxes with prices ... Weatherly s.. Pulte Grand Rapids. Mich. These saws are made from No. 1 Steel and ,ve war-rant every blade. V"le also carry a full stock of Beveled Back Scroll Saws, any length and gauge. Write us for Pde e List and dIscount 31-33 S. FRONT ST .• GRAND FlAPIDS MANUFACTURERS OF DROP CARVING AND EMBOSSING GENERAL MACHINES Dies for all kinds of Machines. At lowest prices. 7 Second SI., LAfAYETTE, IND. fOUR TRIlINS C" I CA GO TO AND fROM Lv Gd. Rapids 7:10am At Chicago 1:15pm Lv Gd. Rapids lZ:05 nn Ar Chicago 4:5{J pm Lv Gd. Rapids 4:lSpm Ar Chicago 10:55pm Lv Gd. Rapids 11:3()pm daily Ar Chitago 6:55 am Pullman Sleeper, open 9:00 pm on 11:30pm train ever~' day. Cafe service all all day trains. Service a la carte. Pere Marquette Parlor cars on all day trains. Rate reduced to 50 cents. •T "REE TRIlINS DE T R 0 I T TO 4ND FROM Leave Grand Rapids 7:10 am Arrive Detroit 11:.55 am Leave Grand Rapids n:Z.5 am daily Arrive Detroit 3:25 pm Leave Grand Rapids 5::ID pm Arrive Detroit 10:05 pm Meals served a la carte on trains leaving Grand Rapids at 11:2S am and 5:20 pm, Pere Marquette Parlor Cars all all trains; seat rate. 25 cents. "ALL OVER MICHIGAN" H. J. GRAY. DISTRICTPASSKNGRR AGENT, PHONE 1 t 68 Grand Rapids, Mich, QUARTER-SAWED INDIANA WHITE OAK VENEERS CHOICE FIGURE; :: E;XTR<I. WIDTHS When writing for prices, mention widths required and kind of figure preferred. HOFFMAN BR.OTHERS co. Fort Wayne Indiana Wood Forming Cutters \Ve offer exceptional value in Reversible and One- \iVay Cutlers 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. --------- QRAnID RAPI DS WOOD finIS "In fi co. EXCLUSIVE MANU!'ACTURERS 01' •. WOOD FINISHING MATERIALS That is our specialty. IWe confine our business to Fillets, Stains, Polish Furniture \'I.'ax alld Finishing Supplies. We are the orig:lnalors of ¥leathered. Antwerp and Mission Stains in Oil. Our shades are absolutely correct. We are authority on Early English, Fumed, Cathedral Oak, and Silver Maple Stains, and will match any particu-lar shade desired. Office and Factory, 55, 57, 59 Ellsworth Ave.,Grand Rapids, Mich. Buy your GROOVED and POINTED~DOWELS and DOWEL RODS of A. FALKEL, 31'd and Dewey Sts •• Gt-lIu),dRapids. Mich • NEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA, Via GRANO TRUNK-LEHIGH VALLEY ROUTE. Three fast trains leave Grand Rapids 9:30 a. m. daily, except Sunday. arrive New York 10:30 a. m., Philadelphia, 10:30 a. m. Leave Grand Rapids 2:45 p. m. daily except Sunday, arrive New York 4:30 p. m., Philadelphia 3:40 p. m Leave Grand Rapids 5:30 p. m. daily except Sunday, arrive New York 8:4fI p. tn. I Phiiadelphia, 7:25 p. ID. Sleeping car Detroit to New York on 9:30 a. ID. train; sleep-ing cars Durand and Detroit to New York on 2:45 and 5:30 p. m. trains. C. A, JUSTIN. C. P. & T. A. To Dissolve St. Louis Terminal Company. United States Attorney D. P. Dyer of St. Louis has filed a bill in equity in the federal circuit court to break the so-called "terminal monopoly," The action is directed against the Tenni-nal Railroad Association of S1. Louis and its directors, the sub-ordinate corporations of the association and the fourteen rail-roads owning terminal stock. The comt is asked to dissolve the combination existing between the defendant concerns, to enjoin them from voting stock in one another's meetings and to take such other action as is necessary to the complete abolition of the unlawful conspiracy alleged to exist between the railroads and several terminal companies, The defendants are required to ans\ver the petition on the first Monday in January. A temporary restraining order is asked pending thc final decision of the court on the petition for a permanent injunction, Timber is Scarce and Expensive in Michigan. The manager of a large wood-working plant, employing three hundred hands, located in the western part of lvlichigan, in 33 ceivable, and pay all its liabilities. The Cordes man Machine company has gone out of existence. Peter Best, jr., a chair manufacturer, of Lewisport, Ky .. IS looking for a new location for his factory as the present quarters are outgrown. Owensboro, will probably be the city selected by him. The factory employs one hundred and fifty hands and manufactures double bottom' cane-seated chairs, Rockers and straight back chairs will be made, The Rockford, Ill., I\lantel company will, on January I, become a part of the Rockford Cabinet company, the business with that of the Haddod! Piano company will be controlled and operated from one office. Secretary Hult, of the Rockford 1'lantel company, will take up another line of business in the furniture field. "It is not advisable to take all the moisture out of glued up stock before the fin\sh is applied," remarked an experienc-ed factory superintendent. \Vithont a reasonable amount of Napoleo,,'s Bed Cbamber (Little Grand Trianon Ver5ailb), France. discussing the scarcity of timber, said: "Vv'c consume vast quanti-ties of native timber but it is becoming so scarce and so expensive that the end of our career in business seems to be uncomfortably nigh. If we could obtain timber for moderate prices \ve might continue, but under the exsisting conditions our fires will be put out for all timc a year or two hence." A listener to the remark suggested that cheap timber in abutludance could bc found in Canada and that if reciprocal trade relations could be established between the Dominion and the United Slates many wood-working industries in the state of Michigan might be preserved. Average Accident Claims. The Massachusetts Insurance department has recently pre-pared data, from which it appears that the average accident claim ranges from $30 to $35 and the average policy settle-ment under suit from $500 to $600, The Corde"man Machine company, of Cincinnati, 'will hereafter be known as the Cordcsman-Rechtin company, the business to bc lmder the same management. The pur-pose of this change is to increase the capital and expand the business. The new company will carry Ollt contracts made ·with the old company, collect all its aCcolints and bills re-water the glue crumbles and loses strength, when it is worth-less, IIIII ALHOLCOM~&CO. MANUFACTURERS ..r.1l> DEALERS IN HIGH GRADE BAND AND SCROLL SA~S REFAIRI NG-5ATI5FACTION GUARANTEED CIT1ZE:NS FHONE 1239 27 N MARKET ST ~,GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. 34 7'l R'T' I IS' JI.l'I • 2S* BUSS MACHINE WORKS G:~' HOLLAND, MICH. Manufacturers of Latest rro-proved WOOD WOR K I NO MACIUNERY. Special features it! Planers. Vertical Sanders and Glue Joint.ers· Write for Descriptive Circu-lars and I1lustrations_ BETTER TIMBER. Lengthening the Life of Wood by Special Treatment. Reference has already been made to the new process for pre-serving timber under exploitation by the Powell \Vood Process Syndicate of London. The process 1S extremely simple, and .adds very little to the cost of the timber, it may be explained that it is one which rapidly seasons newly cut timber, and unlike other systems, improves, toughens, and strengthens the wood, enhancing" the appearance, and resisting the attacks of dry rot, which in temperate cOtlntries is the equivalent of termite. This is accomplished by boiling the timber in a saccharine solution, which extracts the air and coagu-lates the albumen in thc sap. In cooling, the air spaces ate filled with saccharine matter, which in large measure is analagous to the fiber of the timber. The timber is dried in faidy high tem-peratures, and becomes a homogeneous vegetable substance, which does not expand, warp, contract, or !';plitlike ordillary timber. A revolution in the export timuer trade to trupical countries is likely to ensue. In tropical countries where termites ahount, soft woods will· now replace the more expensive hardwoods. The cost of building permanent raihvays, bridges, piers, etc., will be greatly reduced, and the anxieties attending the inroads of the white ant will be eliminated. Contract With Soap Company Unprofitable. A large fumture manufacturing company recently completed the filling of a contract with the Larkin Soap company, extending over a series of years, and declined to consider a proposition to renew the same. "We furnished 12,000 bookcases to the soap company," remarked the manager of the furniture manufacturing company, but did not realize a dollar of profit. The advances in the cost of material and the higher wages paid to workmen swept away the small margin of profit we had calculated upon when we signed the contract." "A friend of mine," remarked a well-known traveling sales-man, "has just entered into a contract to deliver the entire output of his factory, located in V\Testern New York, to the Larkin com-pany. He makes but two patterns-a bookcase and a desk. They are made as cheaply as possible. because the soap company gives the stuff away as prizes to purchasers of soap. The factory's output is valued at $150,000 per annum and as the contract has sevcral yeats to rUI1, the success of the ,manufacturer depends entirely upon the cost of producing the goods. , It is a self-evident fact that the prize distribution houses call not handle well-made furniture. Cheapness is the only considera-tion with SllChtradesmen. Sawmill Machinery'in Demand. kIanufacturers of sawmill machinery, and other equipment, used by sawmill interests in the Mississippi valley, say their sales have been larger this season than ever known and that there is still a good demand for everything in this line, according to :'vTemphisadvices. This is due to the formation of a number of new companies in Arkansas, Mississippi, West Tennessee and Louisiana, growing out of the rapid advance in the price o{ all kinds of lumber and especially of Southern. hardwnnof> and yellow rine. Roth are now at the highest level for the year and for a lltlmber of seasons, and in both pine and hardwoods there is a marked scarcity of offerings of dry stock. There is a rapid influx of lumber interests from other sections to (he ttrritory in 1l1iCS,ioll, and 8S their macbinery has been used lur a long while in the old locations, they are buying new equipment. Alcohol and Turpentine From Sawdust. Patents have been taken out by a Tennessee inventor for the production of turpentlne from sawdust and chopped t1p slabs at the rate of two gallons per ton of sawdust. Methyl alcohol is likewise obtainahle by the process covered by the above patents. It is estimated that a mill cutting 60,000 feet of lumber per day can thus make $52 net profit per day out of what is now waste. The cost of the machinery necessary for a mill of the above ca~ pacity is estimated at $<),000.. Boynton & Company's New Line of Manufacture. Boynton and company of Chicago, manufacturers of plain, emhossed and turned mouldings, have recently added the manu-facture of pressed carvings. They have new machinery installed especially for the purpose and are in position to turn out goods to compete with those already on the market. High Grade Factory WE MAKE A COMPLETE LINE OF IT. Equipment GET OUR NEW CATALOG AND PRICES. OUR REGULAR BENCH We make Benches with Iron Vises. We Catalog Twelve Styles of Work Benches. GRAND RAPIDS HAND SCREW COMPANY 130 South Ionia Street, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. G. R. ~ I. fLYERS BETWEEN Grand Rapids and Chicago To Chicago To Grand Rapids Lv. GRAND RAPlDS, Ex. Sun 7.10 A. M. Ar. CHKAGO , 12.35 Noon 8"fl •• Parlor Car Lv. CHICAGO 8:45 A. M. Ar. GRAND RAPlDS .•................. 1:50 P. M. Lv. CHICAGO. fJih(~t~~1E~x~.I~S~un 1.15 P..M. Ar. GRAND RAPlDS .......•.....•.... 5.50 P. M. Buffe' Parlor Car Lv. CHICAGO. 1~illl~StR~:E~;x7.~S~un ... , .. 5.30 P. M. Ar. GRAND RAPlDS .....•............. 10.25 P. M. Parlor and Dlnlb.g Car Lv. CHICAGO, ~ibC~t~~:::D-ta1i:l~y ..... , .. 11.55 Night Ar. GRAND RAPIDS ......•............ 6.45 A. M. Electric Lighted SleeplDg Car Lv. GRAND RAPIDS, Ex. Sun ..... , 12.01 Noon Ar. CHICAGO , ...•. , 4.50 P. M. Parlor and Dlnlna Ca.. Lv. GRAND RAPIDS, Daily , 11.50 Night • Ar. CHICAGO 7.15 A. M. Electric Lighted Sleeping Car Phone Unton Station for Reservations Phone M'chl!i&'DCentral CItJ' Ticket Office for Reaenatlons, 119 Adams Street 36 7I1'<-'T' I.s Jl.l'l 'st 2 %$ +' TtiE CREDIT RUREAU OF TtiE FURNITURE TRADE The LYON Furniture Agency , ROBERT P. LYON, General Manager CREDITS and 'COLLECTIONS Grand Rapids Office, 412-413 Houseman Bldg. GEO. E. GRAVES, Manager CLAPPERTON & OWEN, CouttseJ. THE STANDARD REFERENCE BOOK CAPITAL, CREDIT AND PAY RATINGS CLEARING HOUSE OF TRADE EXPERIENCE THE MOST REUABLE CREDIT REPORTS A Whole Day for Business Men in NewYorh Half a day Isaved going and coming by taking the new Michigan Central "WOLVERINE" Leaves Grand Rapids, 11:10 a. m, daily; Detroit 3;40 p. ro.; arrives at New York, 8:00. a. m. Returning, THROUGH GRAND RAP-IDS SLEEPER leaves New York, 4:30 p. m., arrives Grand Rapids 1:00 p, m. Elega.nt up-to-date equipment. Take a trip on the Wolverine. COLLECTIONS MADE EVERYWHERE PROMPTLY - REUABLY fURNITURE PLANT fOR SAlE 300 H. P. plant, Built only 3~ years ago. Electric transmission of power. Complete arc and inca.ndescent lamp lighong system. Splen· did fin:-hose system; 50,000 gallon tank. Underwriter". fire pump. steam heatl (;omplete telephone system. Band saw mill, pond with log haul, latest filing-room outfit, blacksmith shop, foundry, machine shop, bending room wirth dry-kiln, barns, sheds, dwellings, supeiintendent's resi-dence (cost ~b.,5ool, commissary, store house, separate office building, side tracks with sted railroad from mill to yard, equipped with push cars. About 50 acres of land. Plant located on a river in the heart of the Oak and Hickory district of East Tennessee. Everything is new and up to date. Hundreds of machines in pllrfec:t order. Thi~ plant has cost over $100,000 and is in perfect running order. Eleven \'aluable woodworking patents go with the plant. Cheap labor, cheap materiaL . This is a grand opportunity for the right party. Contracts on hand for all next year's output. $30,000 will buy it. The locat banks will carry $I5,oOO of this as long as desired. For detailed information, address E. B. WEBSTER, Bristol, Tenn. WHITE PRINTINC CO. GRANO RAPIDS. MICH We PRINT THe M,CH,CAN ARTIS,oN. "NO MAKE A sPECIALTY oF" CATA ...OOUE:lI FOR THE FURNlrUR£; TRADE See US now for ORA WER BOTTOMS Basswood, Yellow Poplar, Birch, Cottonwood and Gum "THE EARLY BIRD CATCHES THE WORM" 535 Michigan Trust Building Citizens Phone 5933 WALTER CLARK G RAN D RAP IDS, M I CHI G A N 37 Otis Mfg. Co. Chicago Office and Dislrib· Im~orters and Manofacturers of uUng Yards: MAnOQAnT 2257102267 LUMBERST. --- New Orleans. Chicago. R. S. HUDDLESTON MANAGER DON'T READTmS unless you are a MANUFACTURER, MILL-MAN Of BUSINESS MAN, in which (ase you would do well to carefully consider the following facts. The St. Louis &. San francisco R. R. better known as the has built, or added to its system, over 1900 (nineteen hundred) miles of new railroad during the past five years and all tTJversing newly settld sections of the $nothwe;;t. NOW is the time to locate your taclOry or mllI in this most prosperous section. It will repay you to wtite TUDA Y for full particulars regarding inducements offered, abundant raw materials, excellent markers, etc. lliu,tral~J hDOUU "OpPQT:uni,;c,." sent/ret. M. SCItUL TEll., Industria. Commissioner. Fri~co Bldg. St, Loals, Mo. Green. Gold and Brown" Daylight Special" -elegant fast day train. "Diamond Spectal"-fast night train-unsurA paned fur convenience and comfort. Butlet.library ens, complete dIning cars, parlor cars. dra-..ing- room and bUffet sl~plDg cars, reclining chair cars. Through tickets, rates, etc., of I. C. R. R. agents and those of connecting Jines. A. H. HA.NSON, (;.r.H'1. PMllO.'R Aa'T, , CHICAGO. fOR SAl[··W",TE OAK We have the following dry Ohio White Oak, widths of the finef.t and standard lengths. Good figured Quartered Oak 10 cars I iach Firsts and Seconds alld No. t Common. 3 caTS of IJ{ inch Fil'"Sts and Sec.,nds aud No.1 Common. 3 cars 1% inch Firsts and. Seconds alia No.1 (' ommon. 3 cars 2 inch, all Firsts and Seconds (very flne). ~-car 2J4:illch. all Firslsand seconds (very fine). 2 cars 3 inch, 'all Firsts al'ld' ;econds (very fine). Plain Oak 4 cars 1 inch Firsts and Second~. 5 cars 1 inch No.1 Common. 2 cars 1M' inch Firsts and seconds. 2 cars 1% inch Firsts a"d Seconds. 2 cars 2 inch Firsts and seconds. 4 cars 3 inch Firsts and Seconds. 2 cars 4 inch Firsts and 5ecollds. Also big stock dry Yellow Poplar and Mahogany. Call ship mixed carS. Write us. C"ARlES f. S"IElS &. CO. Cincinnati. Ohio MISCELLANEOUS ADVER TISEMENTS WAJ.III''l'.E:U-Xoines to Sell HALF TONE CUTS By experIenced salesman; first-class lines on commission, for January, 1906, Address Box 278, care of Michigan Arti-san. 9-10-1I-12-m SI'l'U ATION WANTED-By Sz.perienced E'orem.a.n Finisher. Now holding an important position. Satisfactory reasons for desiring a change. Address "Finisher," care Mich-igan Artisan. 5-10tfm Factory Wanted. Lakeview, Michigan, offers factory build-ings, power, dry kilns, elevator, shafting, etc. HS inducement. for some labor em-ploying industry. Now operated as fur-niture factOl'Y employing 50 men. Va-cant Dec. 1st. Machinery can be bought. Address Scott Swarthout, Village Clerk, Lakeview, Mich. 12-10 it WANTED, An ASj!,jstant Foreman for Table FactoI)", one who understands the manufacture of tables and a bustIer for machine room. One who is willing to stan for reasonable compensation. A good pos-ition to the right mall. Address, Tables No, 24, care of Michigan Artisan. WANTED-Position as Salesman. Experienced finisher of all grades of furniture desires position 11:< traveling rep-resentative for manufacturer of wood fin-ishing material. JDxtensive acquaintance among foreman finifihen.; in 1l.Iichigan fac-tories. Addre~:,) Royal No. ,;:1, ca.re of Michigan Artisan. 12-1Q WANTEO-Salesmen. Good, live, commission salesmen, to handle best line Metal Reds and Spring-s, in Ohio, Indiana, Tennessee, Aiahama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana., Nebras-k,,, \\0\11 D-akota. A(ldl'l'"sS No. 32, c;,\re of M
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649. Michigan Artisan; 1905-12-25

Notes:: Issue of a furniture trade magazine published in Grand Rapids, Mich. It was published twice monthly, beginning in 1880. and -----~--- - -----'-'---.-,--. • /'?/C -'T._ ENe;.. CO. P!lE~S OF WHITE PRINTING CO., GRAND RAP!DS. r New England Furniture Co. F 01 Dining Suites in various styles---Alilhe popular finishes---Buffets pleasing designs, dependable goods, medium prices,---Sideboards, either plain or carved. You cannot alford 10 pass us--at least without an inspection. IIIi Sectlonal &0011. C.sos Built up of units, but as .solid a.s a stone wall GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN Factory Salesroom Canal St., near Bridge St. ---------, TO THf fURNITURf BUYfRS Of AMfRICA When you arrive in Grand Rapids early in January we will show you the best selling line of Medium Priced Bedroom Furniture EVER PRODUCED We will show you the most attractive styles, the greatest variety of Foreign and Domestic Fancy Cabinet Woods strength and utility combined in construction. The Latest Fancies in Finishes. SLIGH FURNITURE COMPANY GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Makers of Everything for the Bedroom "In the Spring the young man's fancy Lightly turns to thoughts if love." Ours is the· Best Selling Line for the Springtime Matrimonhd Season· _. _ ~ ---l 3 No. 670 is only one of the many ,tyle, 01 children. metal cribs we make. Write for newcatalog illustrating com-plete line. No, 670 Size, 36 x 60 inches. Head. 40 ind ..es high. Foot, 40 inches high. Pillars. Jii inch. Filling, ~ and J( inch, Top Rod, ;Vs inch. Pencil Weave Woven Wire Bottom. Sliding Drop side Rails 24 inches from top of side rail to Fabric Prompt Shipments Your Orders Solicited No. 258 Medium Double Weave Fabric Heavy Rope Edge. Fabric corded with three sections of our ribbon wire web. insuring longer wear and better satisfaction for heavy weights than any other weave. Maple frame. Made in all sizes for wood and iron beds. The T. B. Laycoch Mfg. Co. INDIANAPOLIS, IND. J l Michigan Chair Company GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN MICHIGAN'S FOREMOST CHAIR FACTORY 0D·R.greeting, courteous and hearty, to our friends in the trade. And the most extensive line of real good things in chairs, etc., we have yet offered, is what the visiting buyers will find at our tactory any time after January zd, 1906. REPRESENTATIVE SALESMEN. EAST:-CHAS. H COX; ROBT. E. WALTON; CHAS. F. MCGREGOR. WEST:_CHA5. B. PARMENTER; ROBT. G. CALDER;W. F. LOVELL. SOUTH:-W. R. PENNY. I I -~ Owing to the exceedingly large business which it has been our favor to enjoy during the past year, it will be impossible for us to get out a line of samples for the January·· exhibitions in Grand Rapids and Chicago. Our regular salesmen will visit the trade the latter part of January with photographs of our new line, and we can assure you of better values than ever. Thanking you for your liberal patronage in the past, and hoping for a continuance of Yours very truly, same, we remam, ihfnllaub ]JiuruUurt (!In. Makers of Bedroom Fumiture in all prevailing woods. The Luce Furniture Co. Asks the Attention or Furniture Dealers WE MANUFACTURE Bed Room and Dining Room Furniture in Mahogany, Oak, Birch and Maple l DISPLAY AT FACTORY ONLY GODFREY AVENUE GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. COLONIAL TABLES No. 2109 Price $30 Top, 50x32 Solid Mahogany. Cross balld Veneered. Dull or Polished. Our Colonial patterns have won a big reputation for faithful adherence to original designs. They have like reputation for superiority of workman-ship and attractiveness of price. Wolverine worth has made Wolverine growth, and keeps our business still growing. Our line is the product of the best factory organization possible. It will be fully displayed in New York and Chicago in January, and we ask your careful consideration of our exhibit. Up-to-the-hour Styles. Chicago: 1319MiChigan Ave., Seventh floor. In charge of J. W. Smith and H. S. Smith New York: 428 lexington Ave, fifth floor. In Charge of A. Weston Smith A postal card will bring you fully illustrated catalogue WOLVERINE MANUFACTURING COMPANY DETROIT, - - MICHIGAN I j THE BUILDERS OF ====The ===== Northern Line are showingDISTINCT ADVANTAGES in making Design, Finish and Construction the Important Factors No. 90. BED. F..Ill Size. 74 in. high. Polished Quartered Golden Oak, MahogaDY. Birdseye Maple. GIVING IT PHYSICAL as well as ARTISTIC STRENGTH The Line as it will be shown in January will be WELL BALANCED as to GRADE and PRICE and will STIMVLA TE DEMAND in the broadest sense 01 the term. NORTHERN FURNITURE COMPANY SHEBOYGAN, WISCONSIN Manul.ctu,,,,, of BED ROOM, DINING ROOM .oJ KITCHEN FURNITURE GRAND RAPIDS, Smnd Flo,r Big Building; W. 1/. Waechter;N. P. Nm,n; A. F. Schafer. NEW YORK: Third FloorFurnitureExchange;H. R. MnJ. No. 2090. DRESSER Top 24x44. Plate 24:130.. Fun Swell Polished Quar. tered Golden Oak. Mahogany And Birdseye Maple. - -~- - - -- ------- Valley City Desk Company GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN We will be pleased to have you inspect our line of OFFICE FURNITURE on exhibitiou in our new permanent space, Sixth Floor North Exhibition Building. IOFFICE DESKS I Designers and manufacturers of Cheap, Medium, and Choice Office, Typewriter, and Standing Desks Directors and Office Tables Write at once for new Spring Catalog. Mailed to dealers ouly TOP FLOOR NORTH BIG BLDG. SPRING LINE READY -JANUARY FlRST·- No effort has been spared to create a Line for the coming season which will prove of paramount interest to Furniture buyers everywhere. EXHIBIT AT GRAND RAPIDS ONLY THIRD FLOOR KLINGMAN BUILDING THREE HUNDRED EXCLUSIVE PATTERNS OF ADJUSTABLE SOfAS: A range of designs which will command the instant attention of all who see these goods. COUCUES: All kinds.·all grades ••including our special "KlNGSPRlNG" construction. BOX COUCUES: Greatest variety and widest range of styles ever shown. Fitted with clio max top lift, cedar linings, solid dust proof bottoms. DAVENPORTS: A superb line, cheap, medium and good, exemplifying some entirely new conceptions. "SIMPLICITY" SOfA BEDS: All the new models for 1906 ... Fifty patterns. The most perfect working, quickest selling. best satisfying Davenport Bed yet produced. A very complete"assortment of coverings including all worthy new fabrics and pat-terns and "RELIANCE" natural grain genuine leather. SELLING AGENTS fOR Youngsville Manufacturing Company, Ltd. Medium grade. Q,jartered Oak Suits, Sideboards and odd Dressers WARREN TABLE WORKS: Dressers, Chilfoniers, Toilet Tables and Commodes in Q,jartered Oak, Figured Mahogany and Bird's-Eye Maple. Dealers who do not visit the market, will be shown our lines as nsual. in ample season for placing their orders for spring requirements. JAMESTOWN LOUNGE COMPANY JAMESTOWN. NEW YORK -~. ------ --- ~~-- -~-~--------- Stop, Look and Listen! When Entering the Exhibit Building at 1319 Michigan Avenne, Chicago. There is Danger for the Dealer Who Fails to See the 1906 Line of No. ::H8. SIDEBOARD. Permanent Exhibit on the 6th Floor at the Furniture Exhibition Building, J 3I 9 Michigan Ave., Chicago. IN CHARGE OF EXHIBIT Chas. Elmendorf, F. A. Moore, Y B. Wadsworth, F. H. Kemnitz Sideboards Buffets Chiffoniers L __ and Odd Dressers made by The Manistee Mfg. Co. Manistee. Mich. No. 134. CHIFFONIER. Our Line is Longer and Stronger Than Ever Our ~artered Oak Finish on Solid Oak is the Best No. 320. DRESSER. 12 Shelbyville Desh Company MANUFACTURERS OF Office Furniture A PERFECT DAVENPORT OF ELEGANT APPEARANCE NOT NECESSARY TO MOVE FROM WALL THE BACK SIMPLY ROLLS FORWARD THE KINDEL SOMERSAUL TIC DAVENPORT BED THE GREATEST Household Invenlion 01 the Age THIS is the NEW DAVEN-PORT that is creating all the furor, and the only one which is FREE FROM FAULTS. Must be st>en to be appreciated. When your customer sees this h Ind.ome piece of furniture and tries with what ease it can instantly be cOllvt'rted in'o a full sized bed, with bedding in place ready £"r use, and reit:> the lu:'i\u-oUS douhle \:One springs, with the restlul, felted cushions, held in place by our :nvis-ible clasp, and, in addition to all these advantages, learns that it costs no more than the ordinary or anti-quart d Davenport, they will con-sider no other, as it is very appar~nl to anyone that "No Other is Just as Good" EXHIBITED Sec. 20. 6th Floor, 1319 Michigan Ave CHICAGO, ILL. C, J. KINDEL BEDDING COMPANY Eighth and Hickory Sts. ST LOUIS MAHOGANY AND IMtTATION QUARTERED OAK. PLAIN OAK In Three Gradea' A Full Line. Up-to-Date. Exhibited 1319 't(I EIGHTH P'LOO&. Michigan Avenue CtIlCAGO 't(I Write for Latut Cata!ogltt. Shelbyville, Ind. N.OT NECESSAIolY TO REMOVE BEDDING SIMPLE; CANNOT GET OUT OF ORDER CUSHION AUTOMATICALLY TURNS INSIDE OUT MAKING A PERFECT BED FURNITURE DEALERS, as a rule, are looking for a better class of case goods; PLUNDER will not sell when times are good. The intelligent consumer wants something that he can refer to with pride. The illustrationson this page show three articles selected from our many pieces that are sellers, and for style and workmanship will certainly please. Do not hesitate, but place your orders. CA7ALOG 'TO DEALERS ONLY, O.V APPLICATION. Goods will be Gn exhibition at Our line is also shown at W. R. SCHICK'S 270 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO 125 E. 42nd St., New York City By M, F. M. Randall Salellmen, E. H. Griffin and M. A. Harmon THE SPENCER & BARNES COMPANY BENTON HARBOR, MICHIGAN F. T. Plimpton &. Co. E.ighth Floor. 1~19 The Sati$facto1"YLines. Michigan Ave .• Chicago. Good Goods From Goshen "awks furniture Co., Goshen, Ind. Bedroom F umiture, Qyarlered Oak, Early Englisb. Weathered Oak, Bird's-eye Maple, Tuna Mahogany, Mahogany Banta furniture Co., Goshen, Ind. Fine Extention Tables, Library Tables Goshen Novelty and Brush Go., Goshen, Ind. Plate Racks, Book and Magazine Racks, T abourelles, Mission Lamps, Screens and Light Fumiture Milwaukee Art Specialty Co. Framed Pictures, especially adapted for furniture stores. Above Lines on Eightb Floor with well known Corps of SaJesmen in Attendance F. T. PLIMPTON ®.. COMPANY The Following Lines w111be Shown on Sixth Floor. 1319 Michigan Ave. The Billow-Lupfer Co., Columbus, Ohio Felt Mattresses, Fine Box Springs, Pillows, Feathers. (Qyality Guaranteed) Western furniture Co., Indianapolis, Ind. Chamber Suils. Oak, Bird's-eye Maple, and Mah"1lany Princess Dressers, T oilel Tables American Go-Cart Go , Detroit, Mich. Go-Carls, Children's Carriages. An elegant new line. Campbell, Smith &. Ritchie, Lebanon, Ind. Kitchen Cabinets, New Finishes, Cupboards. "umphrey Bookcase Co., Detroit, Mich. Sectional Bookcases, Office Filing Devices. Be sure and see their new K. D. Sectional Bookcases. The Sa.tf..taowl"'J' Line... Opea. Du~ln& the E.nUre Year. 6th and 8th Floors. 1319 Michigan Ave ••Chicago New Plant! New Location! After January 1st, '06, we will be located in our New Plant at STURGIS, MICHIGAN Our Aim is to Better Serve Our Customers We have selected the hest location in the country---Three Railroads---Best of Shipping facil-ities. We will gradually increase our line of library and Parlor Tables, Tabourettes, etc., with more than double our former lIoor space, and the latest improved equipment. We solicit your orders, feeling confident you will be pleased with our service. Catalogue to dealers only. Wishing You the Compliments of the Season, We are R.espectfully STE.BBINS MANUY ACTURING CO. STURGIS, MICHIGAN (Formerly LaKe View. Mich.) 8th Floor 1411 Mich. Ave. Office and Factory 533-539 Sedgwick St. Chicago No Furniture stock is complete without a line of our "Pretty Parlor Pieces." We originated and are the introducers of Loose Cushion Work; a feature which has proven so popular for several seasons. The individuality of our designs and the excellence of our finish is characteristic of our g-oods. VALENTINE-SEAVER COMPANY L Dressers and Chiffoniers TO MATCH In QUARTERED OAK, MAHOGANY, BIRDSE.YE. MAPLE and CURLY BIRCH SEND FOR CATALOGUE Grand Rapids Faney Fumiture Co. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN ______ lNEWLINES OF------ MUSIC CABINETS, WRITING TABLES, BOOKCASES, LADIES' DESKS In Mahogany, Oak, Imitation Mahogany and Maple No order to small or to large to receive prompt attention. Catalogue to dealers only OPEN FOR BUSINESS JANUARY 1st, 1906 SHOWN IN BLODGETT BUILDING GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN ~-- -- BE KEY & GAY FURNITURE COMPANY GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. WHOLESALE MANUFACTURERS OF Chamber Furniture Dining Room Furniture Library Furniture OF FINE AND MEDIUM QUALITY LINE READY FOR INSPECTION BY THE , TRADE JANUARY 1, 1906 Ranney Refrigerators - - - -AND- - - - Kitchen Cabinets ARE SHOWN DURING THE WINTER FURNITURE EXPOSITIONS AT CHICAGO New Exposition Building, 1411Michigan Ave. , NEW YORK furniture Exchange, 43d and lexington A FULL LINE OF SAMPLES AT EACH EXPOSITION AND COMPETENT SALESMEN IN CHARGE. The Best Medium and High Priced Refrigerators on the Market. See the 7 LINES LAPLAND CHIEF, OAK, Tile Lined. CHARTER OAK, ENAMELED, ASH, White .Enamel on Galvani:t.ed Iron. LAPLANDy OAK, Galvanized Iron Lined. MONITOR, ASH, Galvanized hon Lined. CHARTER OAK, ASH, Galvanized Iron Lined. Ali with metal lee Racks, Adjusrable Shelves, Selt Clos-ing Doors, Removab:e Ice Chambers, amI. other improvements. MASCOT, HARD\VQOD, Galvanized lron Lined. RA.DIL™. HARD\VOOD, Galnu- [rOll Lined. Ranney Refrigerator Company HOME OFFICES ANI) FACTORIES, GREENViLLE, MICHIGAN Catalogues furnished on Application to the Home Office Grand Rapids Chair Company =======GRAND RAPIDMSI,CH,======= INCORPORATED 1872------ ---------------IRE-INCORPORATED 1902 New Line will be Ready lor Inspection JANUARY 1st, 1906 SHOWN IN GRAND RAPIDS ONLY IN MAHOGANY AND OAK MANUFACTURERS OF Buffets and Sideboards Tables and Bookcases Racks and Chests Desks and Music Cabinets Hall Seats and Glasses Wine Cabinet3, Etc. IN MAHOGANY AND OAK 18 ·f'~MlprIG7fN 7I"R..-T I >5' A.l"l tAi l' :- 7"· The Rex (Inner Tufted) Mattress. (PATENTED. TRADE MARK REGISTERED.) \,()\\ [IF\;10"\s'nZATEll 1,,-- g;].!(" r)' 01\']" REX 11",]1(" \];ntrl" ',) 'C; I'\"U au! :n>" cu:;:"iClll It ;.::::s on t'fU\\ ir:g J, 11 ,-1 cr-, ~~t'!);' ':l:r l'l:.<.IIl( 1'. ;iir' ILl:; ell "rf't'd-- 0 ITR BEST rR.-\DF \\ :i' 'ur Ilc<srllH)':'c;_~' ',The klllg at T'J :-11:,' L:~,:I',,:! JhO,:' In:, :,,..;,,l::nJ:d \'1a:~rc,s. YV,-' 'l;rI11\', :':':,,' :,eaull:ll, il:I.(' ~() :'<1;<:: bGuk]c, rc.' ,";, (im""S dllt! 1',e11-« ~)!~·lliS. (~et ()lJf tU"lTIS, Don': \\;)-:. A CHARLES J FISH£R c CO, 1302 Michigan A,,·e., CHICAGO, ILL. PEORiA. II,I-. sr. 1,OUl.\ /UO. l,P.iGOLA', IU. l1J,\'I\·EAl'OT.f~\'. lIJli\'N. The Safe Side is the Right Side THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE REFRIGERATOR TRADE IS FILLED BY THE BELDING-HALL MANUF ACTURING co. MANUFACTURERS OF REFRIGERATORS THAT CONTAIN ALL THE GOOD POINTS --IN-- REFRIGERA'TORS Three Great Factories Capacity, 80,000 per annum Write for Our Catalogues Investigate Our Quarter Sawed Cases SOLID QUARTRRED OAK The Belding-Hall Manufacturing CO. BELDING, MICHIGAN BRANCH OFFIO::S- 213 Canal Street,N~ York. 1% Monroe St.• Chicago. New Line Ready to Serve Jan. 1st SHOW ROOM CHICAGO 1319 Michigan Avenue 1st Floor SHOW ROOM NEW YORK N. Y. Furniture Exchange 4th Floor ROCKfORD. ILL. Remember We Mahe the Goods That open Lihe New Money in a Banh Make Our Exhibition your Headquarters Hang Your Hat and Coat on our Hook of Friendship Pl'rlor Cabinets Music Cabinets Dining Cabinets Hall Seats Hat Racks Hall Trees Shaving Stands Cheval Mirrors Ladles Dressing Table Ladles Dressing Chair With Patent Adjustable Fixture", Ladles Writing Desk Grill Cabinets Lamp Stands Framed Mirrors Make Our Exhibit Your lteadquarters Invite Your Friends to Come with You Rochford Frame and Fixture Company I\.och.ford. Illinois - - ---- --------------- 21 ~THROpeo. :f S-Wholesalers of Furniture. CHICAGO First Floor. 1319 Mich. Ave. GET NEXT TO OUR 1906 PROPOSITION---for we propose to sell you medium grade furniture at positively the lowest prices on the market,--give you the newest designs,--largest variety,--best made and finished furniture and do it better, ea~ier and quicker than you have ever had it done hefore,--we have the goods and can deliver them. Here is a list of our factories. WAIT FURNITURE CO, Polished Qgar'ered Oak Sideboards and Buffets. MODERN FURl CO. Polished Qgar'ered Oak Hall Racks THE STATESVILLE Combination SuUs. Dresser-s. Cornrnode •• Sideboard$;. ChlflQoiers. a.nd Chairs Sta.tesville Furniture Co. Imperial Furniture Mfg. Co, Alba Chair Co. Loaded together In onlf:lCar. RANDOLPH FURNITURE WORKS Polished Dressers and Chiffoniers in Mahogany, Toona. Bird's-eye Maple and Curly Birch, CRANDALL·LONG FURl. CO. Dining Tables. MARVELL FURN CO. SELLERS & SONS CO. Polished Qgartered Oak Dressers and ChiJfoniers Kitchen Cabinets THE LEXINGTON Combination Thoma.sville Chair Combination. Wood Seats. Cane Seats. Cobbler Seats. Double Cane Sea.ts and Sox Seatso Suits. Dressers. Commad-es. SJdeboaJ"ds. CbJffoniers. Dixie Furniture Co. Elk Furniture Co.. Loaded togeth.r tn one ca,. Queen Chair Co. Ca.tes Chair Co. Thompson Chair Co. Standard Chair Co. L.oaded together in one car A surprise Package for the January buyer. Crowell FUl'niture Co's. 8uile (one bed with six Dressers) sold In car lots onlYto one dealer In a town. Fil'st comer gets It. These Lines and Combinations of Lines are shown only by us in the GREAT CHICAGO MARt\ET 1319 Mich. Ave, Stoch Carried in Chicago for Immediate Shipment. 22 HORN BROS. MFG. CO. 281 to 291 W. Superior St .• CHICAGO, ILL. MANCFACTCRERS OF Chamber Suites, Odd Dressers, Chiffoniers LADIES' DRESSING TABLES to match M""d~ in <;olden Oak, Genui.ne Mahogany Veneered, Birdseye Mli.pte., y.,'hite Ellanlel Highly Polished or Dun Finish. We also make a line of PRINCESS DRESSERSfrom $13.00 UP. in Quarter-Sawed Oak, Mahogany and Birdseye Maple, Veneer..ed If you have not received Ol.1f Spring Supplement, ask for it. SAMPLES SHOWN BY PECK & HILLS 1319 Michigan Avenue, and HALL &- KNAPP, 187 Michigan Avellue, Chicago. Our New Hand and foot Power Circular Saw No 4 The strongest, most powerful, and in every way the best machine of its killd ever made, for rippitlg, cross·cutting, boring and grooving. SOME OF OUR NEW DRESSERS -Ma.de In Quarter-Sawed Oak. Oval or Square Glas. CABINET MAnERS In these days tit close competition, need the best possible equipment, and this they can have in . . . BARNES' Hand and Foot Power Machinery Send for our New Catalogue. "W. F. ®.. JOHN BARNES CO. 654 Ruby Street. RocKford. Ill. RICtfMOND Chair Co. RICHMOND, [NO. The Standard line of Double Cane CHAIRS and ROCKERS Write for Cafa!ogu{'. Mentioll MICHIGAN ARTISAN WOODARD FURNITURE CO. Owosso, Mich. For the remainder of the sea&ODwe are prepared to fiB orden promptly. If you want iOod good5 quick. mail U5 your orde~. Catalogue for lhe asking. 7'lR T I 15' 7Il'\J . 7" • 23 i§ Oliver Bros. LOCKPORT. N. Y• !BEDS Chicago Salesrooms moved to Funti~ ture Exhibition Building, 1411 Michi-gan Avenue. New York Salesroom, 125 E. 42d Street. F. M. RANDALL IF VOUDON'T VISIT THE MARKETS OUR CATALOGUE WILL INTE.RESr YOU. Company ..u Hlib Gr.deIBr .. s .Dd Iron u .. Morton House American ......Plan Rates $2.50 and Up Hotel Pantlind European ......Plan Rates $1.00 and Up The Noon Dinner Served at the FanUind for 500 is the fiNEST IN THE WORLD J. BOYD PANTLlND, Prop. No. 2S F CABINET Plain oak front, ash ends. Height 'i8 inches. Base 48 126. Zinc drain pan l!lx16. SO Ib flour bin. ~ 5 I b meal bill. One large drawer. Big- Clipboard space Four spice cans. Top 12 inches deep. 3 small drawers, Two tilt-ing llugar bins. LarAc cupboard space with g 1ass door.Onesmall cupboard space. Finish, golden oak. Two COOts of glos<:\'aTnish or wax liuisll. Brsss trimminj!;s Price, $12' Extra for ziDe lop $1.25 No. 16 H CABINET Plain Oak frollt; ash ends. Height 72 inches; base 42x 26. Drop leaf 18x 14. 501b flonr bin. Big cupboard space; linen dmwer 32xl7 by 10 inches deep; 3 small draw-ers, 2 cupboards spaces and one shelf below cupboard. Finish same as No. 25 p. Price with drop leaf·. .... . $7.75 Price without d,op leaf ... ·····.$7.25 Mail alt orllers to C. F. SCHMOE, Shelbyville, Ind. TERMS: 2 per cent off 10 days; 30 days net; F. O. B. Shelbyville, Ind. OUR MOTTO; First class goods. First class finish and prompt shipment. Let me ship YOU one 01 each Kitchen Cabinet and be convinced what they are. 24 "The Standard Line of America" Will be found at the front as usual in China Closets, But-fets and Book Cases. Exhibit 1n charge ot Johnny Johnson, 1n the usual place, First Floor Manufacturers' Exhibition Building, 1319 Mich. Ave .• Chicago ROCKFORD 5TANDARD FURNITURE CO. ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS The Leonard Cleanable Refrigerator lined With Genuine Porcelain Enamel MADE in our own special factory, constructed for this particular purpose. Our enamel is fired on sheet steel, and we produce a quality of Lining You Cannot Scratch or Corrode. You Cannot Break our Genuine Porcelain ~namel. Use a hammer on it and then compare the result with tile or opal glass treated in the same manner. It will lasl forever, always retaining- the same hard, smooth surface, sweet and clean. Sliding adjustable shelves. of same material. System Gf Refrigera-tion absolutely perfect. Insulation unequaled, there being eight separate and dis-tinct walls of insulation. Air-tight locks. Porcelaln·lined water cooler. Case oi Oak, quarter sawed panels. Hand polish~dJ golden finish, nickel trim-mings. Send for catalogue. Send for free samples of our \\'onderful lining. Om salable Porcelain Lined Refrigerators, on whkh there is a profit to the dea1er of from $10.00 to $25.00, occupy no more space than a cheap article with a profit from 25 cents to $5.00. Grand Rapids Refrigerator Company Show Room at factory, 17 to 27 Ottawa St., Next to Blodgett Block GRANO RAPIDS, MIC". - - -- ------------------------ DRESSERS Princess Dressers Misses' Dressers CHIFFONIERS Liberty Furniture Company Jamestown, N. Y. NEW LINE SHOWN IN JANUARY AT GRAND RAPIDS, ONLY Masonic Temple, First Floor, South Half IN CHARCE Glenn K. Brown Ed. J. Gamble W. J. PeSlr GOLDEN CURLY BIRCH GOLDEN OAK MAHOGANY VENEER BIRDSEYE MAPLE THE IDEAL LINE of METAL BEDSTEADS, CRIBS and SPRING BEDS i. 'old in EVERY STATE IN THE UNION, EVERY PROVINCE IN CANADA There are reasons for it: QUALITY and PRICE 1£ thousands oi other dealers (and there must be some good buyers among them) regardless of their distance from us, find it to their advantage to buy the THE IDEAL LINE, why not YOU? Our extensive magazine advertising, backed up by the best quality, has made THE IDEAL LINE an EMPHATIC SUCCESS for every dealer who handles it. TRY IT. FOSTER BROS. MFG. CO. UTICA, N. Y., ST. LOUIS, MO. ON EXHIBITION IN JANUARV AT CHICAGO Mfl'"s. Exhib. Bldg. 2d floor NEW YORK FURN. EXCHANGE 3d floor 26 All the kids are in love with Spratt's Chair GEO. SPRATT & co. SHEBOYGAN, WIS. CHAIRS AND ROCKERS FOR EVERYBODY Send ior Cata.logue No. SS-Child's High Chair with Unl!.er Saletv Guard. NEW YORK AND PHILADElPHIA, Via GRAND TRUNK-LEHIGH VAllEY ROUTE. Three fast trains leave Grand Rapids 9:30 a. m. daily, except Sunday, arrive New York 10:30a. m., Philadelphia, 10:30 a. m. Leave Grand Rapids 2:45 p. m. daily except Sunday, arrive New York 4.:30p, m., Philadelphia 3:40 p. m Leave Grand Rapids 5:30 p. m. daily except Sunday, arrive New York 8:40 p. m., Philadelpbia, 7:25 p. m. Sleeping car Detroit to Ne\v York on 9:30 a. m. train; sleep-ing cars Durand and Detroit to New York on 2:45 and 5:30 p. m. trains. C. A. JUSTIN. C. P. & T. A. Factory Locations There is in the various offices of the Land and Industrial Department of the Southern Railway and Mobile & Ohio Railroad late information regarding a number of 6rst class locations for Furniture, Chair and other vVoodworking 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 Aoent. WASHINGTON. D. C. CHAS. S. CHASE, Agent, 622 Chemical Building, 51. Louis, Mo. M. A. HAYS. Jlgent, 225 Oearborn St, Chicaoo, W. The A. C.NORQUIST CO. JAMESTOWN, N. Y. MANUFACTURERS OF DRESSERS AND CHIFFONIERS hi PliJ1>1and !f!..!!arttred Oak, Mahogany and Birdu)'( Mople. PERMANENT EXHIBITS --------AT------~ Chicago and New York 1- ~ - -- -- -- ------------- G. R. ~ I. fLYERS BE:TW£EN Grand Rapids and Chicago To Chicago To Grand Rapid5 -~~------ ------~----------- Lv. GRAND RAPIDS, Ex. Sun., ,. 7.10 A. M. Lv. CHICAGO, NihCst:::tW~~Ex. Sun 1.15 P. M. Ar. CHICAGO , 12.35 Noon Ar. GRAND RAPIDS , .. " , .. , '. 5.50 P. M. Suflet ParlorCar Buffet Parlor Car Lv. GRAND RAPIDS, Ex. Sun ~12.00 Noon Ar. CHICAGO . ~ 4.50 P. M. Parlor and Dining Car Lv. CHICAGO, ~ihcst':~g:-tEl~x. Sun 5.30 P. M. Ar. GRAND RAPIDS 10.25 P. M. Parlor and Dlnln" Car Lv. GRAND RAPIDS, Daily 11.50 Night Ar.CHICAGO ; 7.15A.M. £.Ieotrlc Lighted Sleeping Cat' Lv. CHICAGO, NihC:it~~~::-~D1a::ily ..... , .. 11.55 Night Ar. GRAND RAPIDS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6.45 A. M. El~tt"c Lighted Slee1:lin& CIU' Phone Union Station for Reservations Phone Mloblga.n Central CU,..Tlck"t Office for Re&ervations. 119 Ad'lllD\sStreet This is one of our Famous Non-Dividing Pillar Tables THESE ARE 'THE ONLY TABLES 'THAT ARE PERFECT IN CONSTR UCTION ANr DEALER THAT HAS NOT TRiED ONE OF THESE SHOULD NOT FAlL TO ORDER ONE No. 340 $19.50 Choate-Hollister Furniture Co. JANESVILLE, WIS. Robbins Table Co. I OWOSSO, MICHIGAN No. 286 Improved Extension Table Leaves stored in top Center column does not divide CATALOG AND PRICES TO DEALERS ON REQUEST TO FURNITURE BUYERS January 1st, 1906, the A. M. Tucker Furniture Company, Brookville, Ind., will exhibit an entire new line of goods at The Wholesale Furniture Exhibition Building, 1323 Michigan Ave. Chi-cago, Ill. Our new line is far the BEST we have ever called your attention to. The line consists of Suites, Chiffoniers Princess Dressers, Toilet Tables, Napoleon Beds and Colonial Dressers in quartered oak, mahogany and Circassian wal-nut. Bottom Drawers of all Dressers and Chif-foniers are red cedar lined making them moth proof. Construction and finish second to none. A. M. TUCKER FURNITURE COMPANY BROOKVILLE, IND. SALESMEN:- Geo. D. Williams CQ., A. M. Tucket, Jno. N. Bishop, T- F. Shaffer of Canton, Ohio, O. L. Hall, Metropolitan District and New England States, NEW CHAIR SEAT CLAMP This damp is adapted for every kind of seat. It is also made in a larger size for other work as Mitre Ffames, etc. Manufactured under the BENEDICT PATENTS GRAND RAPIDS HAND SCREW CO. 130 South Ionia 51.,GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Upham Manufacturing THE LINE OF QUALITY ========= Co. Possessing for 1906 the greatest array of entirelynew designsand new features ever produced. The great demand for our "Upham" Fumiture has inspired us to outdo all previous efforts. Chamber Suits Wardrobes Chiffoniers Sideboards Buffets Dressers FROM 1319 MtCH1GAN AVENUE, TWO DOORS SOUTH ========SALESROOM MOVEDI======== The Wholesale Furniture Exhibition Building Entrance 1323-1325 Michigan Ave .. Chicago L. E. HOTCHKESS. Manager Salesman You are Cordially Invited Feathers. Pillows. Hair Mattresses. Felt Mattresses. »ox Spring. Patent Open Roll Bolsters at out" Sa.mple ROOUl. 1319 Michigan Avenue 4th Floor In Cha-ge of Zola. C. Green M.NEUBERGER. C.S· REYNOLDS. A.N,LEE ~ !J Columbia feather Company C"IC4GO, ILLINOIS TO INSPECT OUR LINE Of ---------------------- --- --- -- 30 • fOUR TRI\INS TO 411B FR()U CHICAGO Lv Gel Rapids 7 10am At Chica~o 1:15pm L", Gd Rapids 1.2 05 nn Ar Ch.icago 4:5Q Plll Lv Gd. Rapids 4:25 pm Ar Chicago 10:55pm Lv Gel. Rapids ll:JO pm daily Ar Chicago 6:55 am Pullman Sleeper, opel1 9:00 pm on 11:30 pm train every day. Cafe service on all day trains. Service II la caTle. PelC:Marquette Parlor cars on all da~' trains. Rale reduced to 50 cents. T"REE TRAINS DE T R 0 I T TO 4ND fROM Leave Grand Rapids 7:10 am Arrive Detroit 11:55am Leave Grand Rapids It:l5 am dally ArrLve Detroit 3:250ill Leave Grand Rapids 5:20 pm Arrh'e Detroit 10:05 pm Meals served a la carte on trains leaving Grand Rapids at 1l:25 am and 5:2<1 pm. Pere Marquette: Parlor Cars on all trains; seat rate, 25 cents. "ALL OVER MICHIGAN" H. 1. GRAY, DISTRICT PASSKNGHll. AGHNT, PHONE 11 6 B Grand Rapids, Micb. ROCKFORD UNION FURNITURE CO. ROCKFORD, lLL. Buffets, Bookcases, China Closets \'\Te lead in Style, Construction and Finish. SHR OUR CATALOGCE. l~eBotanical De(Oralinf (0. It would pay you if you are In neW 01 an.v PRESERVED PALMS, TREES AND ARTIFICIAL FLOWERS To write 10 U5 lor our new colored CATALOGUE The Botanical Decorating Co. 271 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO, ILL. The Acme of Perfection in the Tine of Folding Chairs, PERf'ECT COMPACTNESS whlttl folded. lIard maple, naturaL finish. \VRITIt Fall:. P"RICfo;S. 15he PEABODY SCHOOL FURNITURE CO. North Manchester. Indiana The New "PERFECT" FOLDING CHAIR PATliNTRD OCT. 20, [(!'J3 Comfortable Simple Durable Neat No. 51 Smith & N... 328 All Iron $3.75 net Davis Mfg. Co. MAKERS OF ST. METAL WITH REVERSIBLE LOUIS BEDS Pillars, 11·16 inches. Filling, 3~8 and 5-16 inCh. Head, 56 inches. Foot, 40 inches. Sizes: 3 feet 6 inches and,," feet 6 inches. \Veight, 67 Ibs, STANDARD RAILS Standard Reversible Rail Patented July 15, 19D,z. No, 71WiO:I. SOLID RIGID REVERSIBLE This rail is reversible in the true sense of the word---ean be used either side up and enables the dealer to ma.ke one set of rails answer instead of having two stocks, one of regular, tbe other inverted. BEDSTHAT DO NOT WIGGLE : Indiana. THE ONLY CASTER CUP THAT Will NOT MAR OR SWEAT A New Cll$tet CUD. a Furl\it'.lre Prot&Clf)t and a Rest We J::uarantee perfe<:t satis-faction. We know we have the only perfect ca,ter cup ever made. This cup is in two sizes, as follows: 2'7I inch and 3 inch, and we Use 'the cork bottom, You know the rest Small size, $3.60 per 100 Large size. 4.50 Iler tOO Try it ;lnd be convinced. F O. B. Grand Rapids. OUf Concave Bottom Card Block does not touch the SIIT_ face, but upon the rim. permit. ting a circulation i){ air u.nder the hlock, thereby preventing- moisture or marks of any kind. This is the only card block of its kind 011 the market. Price S'3.00 per 100 Grand Rapids Caster CUPCo" • ",kwo" 'vo.. Grand Rapids, Mi&h. Also can be had at LUSSKY. WHITE & COOI.IDG£. 111-113 Lake St.. Chicago QUARTER-SAWED INDIANA WHITE OAK VENEERS CHOICE FIGURE " EXTR~ WIDTHS When writing for prices, mention widths required and kind of figure preferred. HO·FFMAN BROTHERS CO. Fort Wayne The Club Table That Satisfies Everybody SIMPLE, STRONG EASILY FOLDED Size 32 in. tong; 27 In. wldel 27 In. high Covered with Leather or,Felt COOK'S PATENT FOLDING ATTACHMENT i~or;:;~~~sle~,~if~~c~~~;~ of the tabJel as shown In the illustration. OUftahle"t are made of hardwood, and covered with green felt and leather. The cross·piece of cleat on end of table keep!>.Ihe top from warping, and is so arranged that a person can sit close to the table without cramping the knees. The felt used on this table is of extra thickness and made special, and is much better than padded tables where cotton batting is used and inferior quality of felt. Very useful and convenient, for card parties, children's games, ladies' fancy work, or tea table. BELDING~HALL MANUFACTURING CO. BELDING. MICHIGAN WAREHOUSES-I% Monroe Street, Chicago. 213 Canal Street. New Ymk POOL CARS FOR PACIFICCOAST OVERLAND FREIGHT TRANSFER COMPANY. SAN fRANC1SCO, CAUFORN1A. make a specialty of distributingpool cars of all kinds and PARTICULARL Y. furniture, carpets, linoleum and interior finish. References. Bradstreet's or Dun's and any bank in San Francisco. and the trade. Cadoader in Chicago Carloaderin Grand Rapid, J. M. Welling. 633 So. JeffersonStreet Gelock Transfer Company, 108 So. Ionia Stree!. TEAMING FORWARDING STORAGE CENTURY FURNITURE CO. FACTORY AND SALES-ROOM 153-159 CANAL SL GRAND RAPIDS. MICH DESIGNERS AND MAKERS OF FINE PARLOR AN 0 LI BRARY FU RN ITU RE LARGE LINE OF NEW PATTERNS FOR NEXT SEASON. INCLUDING A NEW LINE OF ODD CHAIRS AND ROCKERS AND RECEPTION CHAIRS EXCLUSIVE AND PURE IN DESIGN W1L~ EXHIBIT FROM 400 TO 600 PATTERNS IN JANUARY INC"'EASED FACILITIES LARGER LINE REPRESENTATIVES L D. BERRY} EAST G.O.PACKER L. H. LALEY } FROM PITTSBURG A. T. KINGSBURY WEST 26th Year-No. 12: GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., DECEMBER 25, 1905. $J ,00 per Year, Free Music in Department Stores. The custom of pro\'iding free music in department stores is becoming quite general, especially in the large cities. Oftentimes, too, an orchestra is regularly employed and gives continuous concerts, moving from time to time to dif-ferent parts of a store .and visiting every department in the the course of one day. The sheet music department ahvays has a crowd of interested listeners, anxious to bear the veTy latest compo5itions. The proprietOTs of department stores have fOl1od it to be a paying 'investment, as mllsic attracts many more Ctlstomers and many more purchases result in all departments. The employes, too, are mnch benentted. the effect of music being to cheer them and awaken a livelier interest in the husiness of selling- goods and increased de-sire to please customers. Ofte,ntimes c"stamers spend hours in a store where music is free and with some it is a regular habit. At holiday seasons the crO'lNds arc often so great as to interfere with business and then it becomes necessary to dispense temporarily with the music. ~{anagers in a few of the store." express themselves as follows: "The department stores are only taking advantage of the ptlbtic's wishes, its appetite lor free music. Person;tlly I have reason to think this form of advertising pays." "Primarily we do not illfnish free music to help bring in more business, bnt to keep the business we already have funning with as little friction as possible." "The desire of every retail merchant in these days of close competition is to make his store attractlve and furnishing good music is the way to do it. It is that end we have in view here rather than a certain specdied increase in our sales." Wall Street the Only Cause for Anxiety. John A. Covode (banker" manllfactmcr and Olercllant) of the Berkey & Gay Furniture company, ke~ps in close touch with the business conditions of the country and looks hope-fully for another prOSper01..1Syear in all branches of trade. "The farmers are very prosperous as the result of several continuous years of bumper crops." he remarked. vVorkmcll are fully employed and tradesmen ~ould. not ask for a more satisfactory condition in their business. There is too much speculation in \Vall Street, however. The interest rate is too high and stocks of questionable value have been b1..ll1ed beyond reason. I hope for a return of reason and common sense to the street. bllt if the speculating fever 1"ll11S as strong as it has in the past the financial stmctl1re, in which every business man is interested. may topple over and when the bricks begin to fall many ..vill be hurt." Made in Grand Rapids. \-Vhat is there in a name, any\vay? \-Vhy should people have such a good opil1ioll of Grand Rapidsfmniture? \Vhy ,-10 the small dealers '\ovhowant to make an impression on the passer-by ahvays put a eard "Grand Rapids Furniture" in their ·windows? ''-''hy not "Chicago Fl.trniture," or ")few York Furniture?" There is quite as good furniture made in one place as in another, is there not? The reason is that average of all the furniture made in Grand Rapids is the highest average of qllality of any fmnitttre made in America. These various catch words of quality do not get abroad in the land without a reason. You may be sure that if the average quality of Grand Rapids Furniture was low tb~ dealer would not brag of handling the Grand Rapids make. "Elgin butteT," says the grocer, proudly; "A \Val-tham watch," says the jeweler; "Virginia ham," says the mar-ket mall; and "Grand Rapids furniture," says the furniture dealer. Such quality-names are not created in a day nor by a few years of advertising. The best the advertisement can do is to call attention to a merit already existent. 1£ the merit is merely imaginary, all the puffing in the. world win not serve to make the nalIle a permanent guarantee of quality. There is something back of this general belief in the goodness of Grand Rapids furniture and it is the furniture itself. Grand Rapids does not make all the good furniture. Wf; may say that the very fll1est furniture of all is not made in Grand Rapins" hut dollar for dollar, and piece for piece Grand Rapids quality holds its own and more. Its manufacturers make, and always have made, just as good furniture as the people care to hny. There is a broad spirit of local pride amC)11g Grand Rapids manufacturers. They want Grand Rap-ids to be known as a maker of good hnniture.-Furnisher. THE CORRECT Stains and Fillers. THE MOST SATISFACTORY first Coaters and Varnishes MAJ¥UFAcrUN£D IINLY H Y CHICAGO WOOD FINISHING CO. 259-63 ELSTDNAVE.mZ-16 SLOAN ST. CHICACO. 34 AMERICAN FURNITURE. Good Opportunity for Sales in France. Consul Goldschmidt report;; that there 15 an excellent opportunity at Nalltes and other pJ<l.ces in France ior the sate of cerlain kinds of .\mcrican hO\1se and oiflCO:; Lmnitnrc. The consul descrihes the kind of [muiture made aud sold in France. and is confident that if \mcriC:lll mallulactl1rers "..ould make a persistent effort fllflliturc of the chsses described by him \,,'"ould rind a gl)()d market COllSU} Gold-schmidt \cHites: Nearly all kinds of furniture are manufactnred at :Jantes, aU being of good quality and C'xcellent \Yorkrnanship. yet there arc two reasons why, in my opinion. certain kinds oi American fmniture might be sold here: Fir'st, the high cOst of everything in that line; second, the lack of comfort to be derived in the use of fllrnittlre made here The ('o,;t of furniture is high, because nearly en:rythiJlg- is ll£lJldmitrlc. Labor in connection with its manufacture is slow, bec,\l\';C everything; is done hy hanc1-sa\.\'ing, plalling, can·il1g, etc.- Manufacturtd hy Spencer & BaTnes Company, Benton Harbor, M:ch. and conseqHently cOrllpar:Hive1y small ~\l1l(J',11lt:o are t',1rued out. Another re"SOll i., tllC high prices of the "'ooc\'; entering into the manufacture. The French cahilletrnaker is ,11l anist in hi::; lillc. :lll(l \vill produce beat1tifll1l~y \vrought work. Hown-"r, he h hampered by tr;liJitiol1 or delllalHl, which require' certain styles. Consupelltly he ",ill reprnduce, year alter 'year. tlle same styles whicb his forefather,; han- made 1'01' celltnric,;. I_Ollis XV. [.ouis XVT, Empire, Renai,;sauce, (lenr)' 1[, and a fe\l: others are the c;tyles in gcncr;l! dernarHI. The French lllal'IIJanllrer hac; new']' .:'ducated his. [ll\r-chasers into the Jill(' nt '\~o;']]f(ln'" ill Llrllitllre. ,)11(1 the demand (onsell1,cntly i" gCI'('r,Jlly Ie\r tlle "hence c1as~,ic styles. [<or some few ye'~l'_';::' past ill\lo\·ations hayc he.:,n nncle, and entail) style" communly called "Art l'{ou\'eau" 11:I\'c bec)) mndc and placcrl on sale. Some of these are bcau-liflll. others arc monstrosities, and althoug-h for a few yeafs there has been considerable ;idling- of this "An NOL1yeal1" there is again a tendency to retnrn to the old styles. One I,f the reaSOl1S for this is the lack of corniort in the lIse oi such fucniturc. Taking these facts l11to consideratioll, 1 think au e"cellent market can be worked up here for certain kinds of :-\merican furniture. This, however, would re(ll1ire intelligent dforts 011 the part of our manufacturers or exporters, as it would he neces_"ary to s!IO\\' the ad\'alHage.~ which American furniture offers. Salesmen 'Noulc1 have to be employed who would explain its merits to the trade, and displays of it \vould ha ItC 1O be made in sho.\' room.,:; in the larger centers. The cheaper grades of oak and ash fnrlliture of all kinds \vould probably be sold to a certain clas:'i of customcrs--bcdrool11 sets, chairs, armchairs, rockers, hall trees, ett. Tn dining-room furni-t'tlre nearly everything to be found here -is heavy, massive, and generally lacks rhe neatness and elegance of American dining-room fnrniwre, \vhile the prices are considerably higher. Tn dining-room fnr1litnre there ought to he a chance for !1S also. \Vh'lt I consider as particularly lacking here arc the comfortable armchairs and rocking-chairs found in nearly eyery Amcrican home, al1d ior these there is a good market bere, if all intelligent effort be made to introduce them. One nlay fl1ld a few hent-\,vood rockers of either Austrian or German m;lke in the local storcs, but they are far horn being-comfortable. Office furniture of American lll<"1ke is already sold ]-JC\"(' t(o a certain extent, but much more of this could be sold if it was to be fnull(l generally in the local furnit\lre "tore". (It'.i- :-;idc of Paris very little office fllrniture is found on sale . •--\ 1\ efforl \vas made by the \\Tiler to procure a f~w pieces of rattail furniture, sncb as arc comlllonly sold in the Uuite(] Strltes. b11t lint a single piece could be fouud in any of the S-HH('S. There are a fc\v cll<:ap chairs of rattan or \""il1O\v to he t<)ltlld u[ Pl1ropc<1n max-e, hut they arc of tile most COll1- m,m y;niety The dealers here hayc not the slig-lttest idea of the c011'.fort and elegance of some of nul' rattan fnTnitur(', "llid there being non;;: to be found in the stores there is no sale ~llld y".'ry little c1e~nalld for it. There is all exceptionally' good market [1('re ior sl1l:h furniture for use at the sUll1rner resi-llel'<:: es. dJateanx, and sea.side resorts. 1:\early everyone here, excepling the working classes, have some country or ~ca~idc residclJCe 'whcr(' sl1ch furniture would be appreciatc(l, ~,ild if placed on cxhibition larg-e qnamities could be sold in :,;allteS as well as in otber P;Hts of France. T spoke of this to a local dealer a few months ago and be seemed yery 11111C11 interested. TTe asked me for the IlallleS of ,;omc :\merical1 manufacturers in this line, whic:.h r g-ave him. He \-yrote three letters to different concerns. On],- one took the trotlblc to reply, amI the nature of the reply was s11ch that ntlsincss relations seemed in.1Vossible. :\lal1Y of the French merCh<111ts wOl'.lcl ask nothing \nore than a hir oppottllnity to try American furniture, anrl if properly 1:roachc:.rl 011 this sl'.biect an lnterestil1g business could be worked up. The followij;g arc :t fn\" of the leading furniture concerns in ::'\ante:o: Bot1\'et, :.;elle, ruc Affre: Rreauc1, A., rue Lahy-cttt.' 1; Drocbard, Placc Bretague 24: Brocharcl, Andre, Place Frctag\1c 20: Chahas, Cll., Canefoll!" Cas:;crie: Charpentier, L, Place Dr:;tangc: Deere freres. }-lallte Cqnde rue; [·'en-e. FranC(li~. POllte dc l'Arcbe s(;che 2; Frehel, A1pholJ:oe, P1"l'l' Bretag11c 6; Granacha\1d, Alfred, rile Pare 17; Gra-vodlc, Franc;:::, rue d'll Calvaire 34; Gl1illemartel, Tue IV[er-cnf'! lr 2; llenri-T,eg1as, 11asse Grande rlle 7: Josso, rue :'vler- ("(I\'\1r 3; Lac(j\lemcllt A,rnnllc1, n,e '!\'lerc()cnr; I,anoe, ,:\., rl\e [,',ni]ean 8: Leglas, ).'[aurice Frau~oi.'i, R'.lC de RriDrd 9; ;\Iarx, r"e l~l1 Calyaire 18: Parcllt, Place Bretagne 22; Roux heres, r:1l; clll Ca1yaire 20; Thomas, Charles, rue de Feltre :j: Vcr-hn'ggt'. I'll(' Boileau 9: \Volkowitz, rlle Boileau 12 DEPARTMENT STORES. To Be Inaugerated in Many Cities of Mexican Republic. The success of the department store having been fully demonstrated in the United States, is beginning to be felt in other countries where the experiment is being tried. At least one tremendously successful caravanserie has been reported from one of the leading capitals of South America, and now, at least, there is a possibility that l\Jexico may have, not one but a series of department stores throughout the entire repub.lic. In each city large and important enough to "varrant such outlay, a modern department store, such as may be found in the majority of American cities today, would, it is believed, pay on the im:cstment from its inception, because of the very novelty of the scheme to say nothing of the convenience, utility and advantages in prices, made possible to an by the concentrating of such varied comlllodities under one roof. Only systematic, well organized and broad-gallge enter-prises of this kind are ·worth "\vhi1ein Mexico today. From the prevailing style of smajl shops in vogue in that cOlllltry as in Europe, ior many years past, the "ticllda" or Mexican store, particularly in the capital city, has evolved into mag- 35 WELL PLACED MIRRORS. Are of Splendid Effect in Room Decoration if Properly Located. A we.11-pl:l.cedminor has the effect of a pool of water in a garden; it makes reflections, and a pleasant spot upon which the eyes may rest. In a dark corner a mirror is nearly equal to a window-provided it reflects a bright portion of the room, says Pictorial Reviev·l. Tn olden times the distinction between a mirror and a looking-glass was clearly defined. The glass was purely personal, and had no place oLltside of the bed chamber. The mirror belonged to the parlor or the dining room, and was chosen to accord with the woodwork of the room. The most beautiful of these articles was the mantel mirror, which is now reproduced in many modern homes, but in few houses does it hav<:. the old-time character. In the old days a pair of candlesticks and two tall India vases were frequently the only ornaments on the mantlepiece. 'Vhat housewife today has the courage to place only fOt'r things on her mantle-piece? In new hOllses the built-in m"antel-mirror is seldom used. \'Then it is empJoyerl, it is sunk in a plain band of wood like Thomas Madden, Son & Co., Indianapolis. nifice11t proportions, and beautiful goods artistically displayed, prevail ever:n·vhere, while the ;;settling" for these wares formes a harmony which the rather aesthetic ),1exic.an desires, and once intrOduced, will in futmc demand wherever he pur-chases_ Not only in the larger capitals wOllld American depart-ment stores be successful, but in the smaller and more remote towns, as well. There is hardly a section or district of the republic that is now free from American invasion, and while the American asstiredly can be counted on for his patronage from tbe first, there is no doubt that, even in far remo\'ed districts, ,vere the experiment tried, the Mexican customer would prove quite as insistent upon pllrchasing American goods, as long as quality, price and selection of articles are adapted to the needs aDd general financial condition of the people. Arrest of Robbers of Peoria Firms Effected. The Day Furniture & Carpet C01l1pan:yand the John Gate-ly company of Peoria, TlL have heen defrauded out of la,ge ~mms of mone)" hy a gang of robbers, who 8.1soextended their operations to the cOLlntry round about Peroria. A large quantity of fnrnitnre was bought from the above mentioned firms and shipped to Missouri nnder a false name. The goods have beell located and the arrest of three men who are Chestel- and \Vain Crow and A. D. Sh<-lpely has been effected Luce Furniture Company, Grand Rapids. the trim of the room. The few articles used should be chosen with care. A clock of plain design, if it is going, is a sensible thing to have. If it does not keep titp.e it is the most useless thing in the house, and should not be placed where it is a constant delusion. Place it on the mantlepiece and so near the glass that the back is not reAected. A pair of candlesticks and a pottery bowl of flowers;~something for matches., if there 1S a nre-place, or if the sticks hold candles-and nothing more is needed. The bowl ma~/ cost 50 cents or $IO.OO, the candlesticks may be of brass or of silver, inherited from a great grandmother, but the rule holds good. \Vith such an arrangement you cannot go astray. If the mantlepiece has no mirror do not add one. Decide what yon wish the mirror to reAect, and hang it a.ccordingly. The room may be deficient in sunshine; place the mirror where it will catch the reflected light. Or the room may have a charming vIew from one window; duplicate the view in the mirror. Last Year the Best. The Retting Furnitme Company have closed the and most sllcce~sft1l year's business in their history. show rooms will he opened January lirst, and the for the coming season will be larger and finer than seasons. :rviany new features will be shown, largest Their di?play in past 36 COOKING BOXES AS KITCHEN FURNITURE. Housekeeping Schools to Take Them Up. The Frankfurter Zeitt111g reports that, in COllnC~'1 ion with the twenty-fifth annual meeting of the German Cninu for Assisting the Poor, the \Vomen's lInion of Haden pT()\'ided for an exhibition of cooking boxes. Tn recent yC<l1":-: mudl attentiOll has been given by mallufacturers to thi.~ lJt'\\" and llseful article of kitchen fmuiturc. Instead of bcil1~ made en-tirely of wood, cork and hard paper are now also heing used. :\'loreover, felt and fcathers are laking the place of "wood wool" for upholstering the boxes, and the ('()ver:-:- of the enameled pots arc made more air-tight than fonncrly )Jll-rnerotls manufacturers have produced mOTe or 'Ies., re;nark-able "self-cookers," and inventors arc still <It work. On the occasion mentioned above a Karlsn!he lady exhibited an unusually large box, equaling <l range ill its completeness and containing pots of c\'cry imagillaLle size and variety. Furthermore, thc Baden \\':ornel1'~ Union (Frauen-Verein) has published a cookbook explaining fully the use of the box and giving" a large number of tempting receipts. Of course the food is thoroughly heated by means of fire before the pots are transferred to the cooking box, ·where they continue to siml11er for hours. The lHocess is particularly good for those kin(ls of foods \vhich require 510\,,,' development, such as .soups, boiled meats. legumes. vegetables of the cabbage family, rice and some sons of ptlddings. From the catalogue of the Nelson·Matter Furniture Complllly, r.rar;d Ra,pids. The value of the cooking hox to the poor is scH-cyi(1t'nt, and a skillful workman can ycry ea;;;ily adapt fill' Ill(' p'.~rpo~e any good box, lining: it with "wood wool," or any g:OO([ tlUlI conductor of heaL and carefully fitting in Ol"(lir,;<~'Y poto;. ln Norway the cooking box is a.lready \'cry c:\:tcllsively used, but in Germany it has been fOllnd much more difficlllt to interest working women in this ne\\' iriel1d. r.or many years the Grnlld Duchess of 'Raden has heen doing her utmost to induce people of nJJ classes to exprrinH'I",t with a \'cr:r simple sort of cooking box, and on her jOllrncys she \1sual1y takes one with her for the pllrp,)s(' of practically demonstrating its llsdnlness by distril)11'il'f~ warm food Tn spitc, however, of this propaganda. ",hidl is heing made throughout the cOl'ntry hy Jlhilan(hr()fli~t~, the rbult ,al111ot yet be said to be Yl'ry encouraging, for whate\'er is ne,\' and simple is sttre to be opposcd by prejudice. l\lost women, especially tbose who arc nnedllcated, do not comprehend the natural law of bad heat couductors, regarding it as lInllatural and incredible that the ~ame feathers and thick woolen materials \\'hich imprison the heat of onr bodies in 'Yinter and rhus keep us warm arc likewise capable of preventing the escape of heat stored up in food by previous exposure to fire. No one is more cOllservative than a cook. Accordingly, in order to ob\·iute prejuclice by familariz-ing the rising- generation with the advantages to be gained in this way, many German women's cillbs arc no\v providing cooking boxes for use in their housekeeping schools. New Ideas in Home Decorations. Tn Hoor coverings the gllady Horal design \vith Cupid decoration, thc immense floral medallion effects, which at one time appeared in sotTle of the hllest WC<lves, have given place to more stlbdlled and morc artistic colorings and designs, Turkish patterns, if one wants something striking and fnll of color, arC' favored. \vhile in many of the other floor coverings the softer, lighter tones prevail in decidedly con-ventional design. Popular taste is beginning to recognize the beanty of soft and harmonious coloring-s as distinguished from the showy effects \\'hich erstwhile held almost l111dis- 1Jllted s""ay, It is rehrkabJc to note tbe improvement in taste which has resulted from the widespread '\1iscLlssions as to art in the home." Onc d()(:s not mean to assert that all such discussions have been fruitflll in the right \'\'ay. CnfOrlUll<ltely an Immense amount of misinformation has been disseminated the the bev.rildered readers have been led into many wild vag-aries in the line of interior decoratioll hy the deluding ;;will-o'-the-wisp" guides, One wTiter fcelillgly and earnestly states in her talk to yOt1Ilg house-keepers that ';the careful lnistress of a house will see that the mattress on her hed is turned once a week." Picture it, think of it, the state of a mattress turned and aired once a week The home decorative fad was exploited some years ago h:y a series of ridiculous instructions as to the manner in which ,harming- lamps made of old pieces of st()\'e pipe and ~et with h'\veled effects might be cvolved by following the instructions laid own in articles descriptive of home work. One was told how to fashion an exquisite lounge from alrl barrels covered \vith brocade and fitted with mahog"any feet. Tt is always necessary to 11se ju([gmcnt and discrimination in these matters. It is not surprising that many fail to see l11e nice distinction between the fashions which are just the right things in the right place and the modes which border Oil the eccentric. Art does cot mean an y·thing and every-thillg novel and bizarre. In the matter of bouse furnishings the artistic colorings are decidedly in evidence. The amount ()f violet, dull b111e and soft green. the i:~determinate shades \\·hidl blend and shift and chang-e with the changing- light, ,He eVl'rywhere on display. The patterns arc curious; one thinks instinctively of pre-Raphaelities, of Dame Gabriel Rc,sctti's "nlesse(l Damosd" and of all the quaint and cttriOU5 medieval effects of -Rower and leaf and arahesque. Carpets, draperies, w,dl papers and upholstcry Roods all show the ait Illny('ment in these extreme and l,eal1tiful colorings, bnt as yet the majority are not qnite ready to accept these decided illn()Tation~ 011 the old styles.--Cilicago Chronicle. Box Car Merchants. In the nonlnvestern sLues hox car merchants do a thri\·ing husiness. The merchant makes his appearance in a community nlld take!" orders for various kinds of goods sufficient tn fill a car, which he purchases of the jobbing hOl1ses. Later he cleliv('t"s the goods and makes a hnnd-some profit. ha\-·ill'·~· 1'0 taxes, store rent :ll1d other expt'llS(:S incidental to the ITlercCLlltile l)llsiness to pay. ·~MI9fIIG7}N ESTABLISHED 1880 PUBLISHED BY MICHIGAN ARTISAN CO. ON THE 10TH AND 25TH OF EACH MONTH OFFICE-2;-20 LYON ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ENTERED AS MATTER 0 .. THE SECOND CL.o.SS Good feHovy'ship is often a cloak for hypocrisy. Until they accomplish it, the big stick. Seeing an imitation teaches the market buyers how to appreciate a really good thing. The designer who spare no pains in the preparation of a line is considered a genius. 1tan wants but little when the mercury in the thennomc-ter of a furniture exposition to\,,711bUs below zero. By the excuses he does not have to make, the successful salesman is known. The man ""ho saves a part of his earnings lives ·without worry. Government is considering the advisability of issuing 98 cent bargain dollar bills. to encourage shopping by mail. That hired feeling is felt by the gates-men who have re-newed contracts with their employers for the coming year. Designers do a lot of boasting, but salesmen fill the order books. Until he retires from the road, the old salesman neyer knows hovi' hard life can he. A position is "accepted" when a man has succeeded in his efforts to fmd a job. These things a salesman should keep: A clean, civil tongue, an llntaillted breath. and a good appearance. To sell well dealers must buy \vel1. To buy well dealers must go to the furniture expositions. The market buyer is like the early bird that catches the worm. He has the pick of the best things offered. The only difference between a manufacturer and a travel-ling salesman is that the latter may get rich and the former die in an almshouse. It is surmised that the wonderful :vIr. Bmbank. of Cali-fornia, may cross varie.ties of ,"vood, and prodlKe a new species of timber that "vill not warp or check. History records the fact that George \Vashington never told a lie, but it should be remembered that George was a warrior and a statesman, and never a traveling salesman. Sa1esmen shol1ld remember there are moments when the buyer wishes to be alone. There may be moments, too, when he needs a loan. 37 Buyers of house furnishillg goods wil find the expositions as complete as ever in the past. Trading stamps are still used but not to the great extent they have been. "Vv c sell it ror less," is the motto 01: Stewart Brothers, of Columbus, Ohio. Would not "·we sell it for a profit," serve lheir purposes equally as well? The Sargent ),I[anufacturing company have prepared a very showy line of parlor desks, hall stands, chiffoniers, ward-robes and b8chelors' cabinets for the spring season of trade. Samples will be found on sale in Grand Rapids. Several enterprising manufacturers of Chicago, purpose sharing the expense of sending a man to Japan to teach the natives how to use furniture, in the expectancy that a market may be created for bedsteads, chairs, cellarettes, and other things "the J aps do not use. Traveling salesmen will spend the coming month at the expositions, Utying up" the best things in the lines they rep-resent ·with the market buyers. vVhen they go "on the road" in Fehruary they ''''ill, as usual, offer the stay-at-home buy-ers the odds and euds that may be left. The prediction published in these columns several weeks ago that the movement inaguaraled by the manufacturers of cheap furnitttre to withdraw from the exposition towns would fail, has been fUlftlled. One of the leaders in the movement was first to adandon it. "T'was ever thus," etc. \Vhell the buyers come to Grand Rapids in January they ,viII learn that retailing in the exposition buildings is no longer carried on. "Phil." Klingman has moved his retail stock fr0111 the big building to the annex which will be devoted to the retailing of furniture hereafter. Former tenants of the annex have t8.ken spaces in the big building. The Shepard block and the Pythian Temple will be used for wholesale purposes hereafter, while the Blodgett will be as it has ever been, used for wholesale purposes. Yon Sternberg's Historical Furniture. \Vhen he retLlTned to \Vashington recently Ambassador Van Sternberg brought a complete suite of drawing-room fnrnitllre that had adorned the rooms occupied by Napoleon in Leipsic. These treasures were bequeathed to the am-bassador by a relative whose grandfather had owned the place where the Corsican elected to abide. The furniture is ancient Flemish and in the tapestry are woven mythological designs. The frames bear a gold design. A desk at which Napoleon wrote vigorous messages is part of the legacy. A Paying Occupation. She was proudly telling her friends down on the East Side of her husband's fine new job and how much he was making. "And \'v·hat is he doing?" curiously asked one of the group. "He's boring wormholes ill antique furniture over here in Fourth avenue and he's got all he cando," was the re-sponse. Bachelors' Hall. The floors above the Mead Furniture cnmpany's store, in Rockford, 111.,will be furnished by Mr. Mead and used for a "bachelors' hall." There will be twenty suites of rooms, all elaborately fLtrnished, to harmonize with the woodwork, in weathered and :rvlission fl1rnitme. Mr. Mead has made a new depart me which other furniture men would do well to follow. 38 Competition In Trade. Pra.ctical Suggestions for the Retailer. Competition is primarily a searcher (jllt of 1'esonTees, and shows a man-if he studies the inside as \,vell as the Olltside of his business-how strong he is, which is another way of saying, how well he has his market in hall(1. Competition may be general, affectillg an entire business; Of special. affecting only a branch of a business. Genera! cOlllpetition applies to what is called a single produce bllsiness such as iron or beer, while a mixed product business is exemplified From the line of the Luce Furnitule Company, Grand Rapids. by dry goods, where the values of raw materials and of flllish goods may be widely variable. Competition has its origin and development in the s011nd-est of /)l1."ines:; principles; a larger market is \1'onh paying for. \',then you sacrillce a portiol! of your pront margin ill order to secure a certain customer, or a certain territory, all(l make the sacrifice 'with your eyes opcn, you are playing· a l;twflll Manufactured hy Posselius Brothers MlI.llufacturing: Compa11Y, Delloit. game. Rut to make it a sOllnd game, the pllrchasing' pov,:er thus securcd mllst be permalH'nt "lld m~ht pay a \\'flrking profit at the timc. For the 111an who hands on'r all of his profit Ior the market, i;;, walking il1to a hlind ,dley. no rnatrcr how grand and glorious his total sale,; may be. :\Ioney may win by mere bellk. Imt sl:ch yictori(·,; are few in 11u111ber alHl of short duration The cl1t-thro'lt CCllnpet;tnr the reckless. hlind-staggered, t~l1edllc,ted man. who dcorgallizes tt'l',e \·:t1ues by pt>ihing his false \veight;; into the public price lists, is nuking far rnOre trouble for himself than for others, pro- Yided that the "others" have brains--and patience. The problems of competitioll divide naturally into anti-thetical phases. \\"hcn and ho\',: to exert it; "\\'hen and how t'.1 meet it. Tn a single product bnsiness, competition ""cts its own date and pace with merciless, clarity. "\-\ie mllst sell goods Or shut down the plant." It is better to trim the marglll clown to the quick and keep going, than to shut down. and let fixed charges show an actual loss. A mixed product business is different. Competition is rarely exerted or felt all along the line. One class of g'oods may ~he cansing competition. a second meeting it, \'lhi}C the remainder stands level. and supplies the sinews of war. \Vhen there is a particular class of purchasers, or a terri-tor: r of large purchasing power, wJ]ich is desirable, a reduc-tion of prices may be good policy, afLer the salesmen and the advertising rnen have failed Again, if fixed charges run hig·h. it is better. as already mentioned, to rUIl at 10\-';' profits or none tban to shtlt down and feel a loss. Competition may be lore ed, and to some degree met, by Manufactured by Century Furniture Cornp~ll1Y,Grano Rapids. the rai:-.ing of (juality, instead of through the actual cl1tting of prices. The results of tbis policy, hC)l,.vever disappoillting at rirsL will ce sound in the conclusion, T heard a manufac-turer of valves say': "\Ve never attempt to meet competition: wc force competitio!l to meet us-if we can." Of C01JfS(' the cheap goods salesman call say tbe same. lint T am not praising the selltence :;(1 much as the position. It's hard to attack a man who is beyond the range of your guns. \~/hen you have ·won the vantage ground of high quality, spare no expense to maintain it. The money cannot be better invested, and any neglect of your standard is both an active and poten-tial. loss. Scaling of prices is common property, hut quality is a business asset whose value sho111d never he jugg"ied with: it is better to abandon it altogether. Competition may be expected withotlt making a change in quality or price, simply by extending the salesmen's lines of attack or by advertising. In these cases retaliation of some sort may be reasonably expected. Reore putting forward any competitive forces it lS important to he informed of the methods and resources of the enemy. \Ve should study not only our necessities but his opportunities. Careful reading of the trade journals and scanning the market prices, will reveal the conditions that are general and to some degree local. For other information-- the traveling salesmen, the purchasing agent <lnd the adver-tising sections of trade publications. l\leeting competition demands again accurate and com-prehensive information of your o\vn business health and that of your opponents. The -first question, and by long odds the most important is-shall the competition be met? For I wish to emphasize the point that to accept eve~y competi-tive gauntlet that may he thrOvYrI into the Tace, 1S business hysteria, \\/hen your friend the enemy, puts a ntW pTice OD the market which thrcatel1S to affect your sales, try to fmu 39 who knows what be is doing, and deliberately sacrifices his prol-i.ts on one tine of goods, that he may find a larger market for a remaindcr. He reduces his policy to a formula, Class A of his business, nets 10 per cent. and forms one-sixth of his sales. He forfeits the 10 per cent. and sells Class A at cost, with the intention of expanding his general sales until the total is, say, one-third greater than before. The results more than offset the loss on the si"th, and at any rate his name and trademark cover a larger area, This sort of competition may have good or serious results. As a per-manent policy it may be held as bad, but as a sharp aggres-sive dash it has sOme reason behind it. \Vben competitive retaliation has demoralized the market the remedy is usually foul1din a "pooL" The pool is an agreement between manufacturers, or jobbers, or both, to maintain specified minimum prices. A pool is designated to regulate competition within rational lines, and to put the cut-throat ma111J£acturer at a disadvantage. These aims are good ones and the effect of a pool is generally good. It is true that these agreements have their abuses like any other form of organization, but too much form is generally a better evil than entiw. '3bse,n~e.of form, A form of competition that is irritating is the -cutting of prices by a member of the pool: treachery to the agreement. At present there seems to be no good remedy. Enormous fines are written in the contract-one seldom hears of their being imposed. The writer ,vould suggest that the penalties Atllle Hatheway's Bed, Stratford"oll.Avon, England. out whether thc new figure represellts a true vall:e to him. If it does, you must meet it. or shift your position, 01· lose ground. I[ the nc,,\, price is all a false basis, you may both lose, but his loss is the worse; let him lose it. There is a maxim in the game of these, which is perti-nent: "A weak attack may be ignored, but a really strong one cannot be." \Vhcn price cutting comes from the ignorant mClnufac-turer, who is frightened by variations in sales volumes, and has no records of his losses-ignore his c0111petition. He is like the yellow dog that barks fro111behind a fcnce; annoying of course, but he must simply be endured. There is itl\'ar-iahly a ·weak spot in the ',,",cakman's attack, which is revealed to a little scrutiny. Some of the business he secures yOU can probably afford to lose. Very different from this. is the strong attack of a man be changed to temporary abstinence from all sales of the article or substance which was sold at the unfair price. Evi-dence would be no easier to secure, but the experience of a single conviction would he far more impressive than a fine. A pool, to be effective, must concentrate enough capital to give attacking power. A manufacturer who prefers to remain outside the circle of formal agreement will often abide by the pool prices merely to avoid the appearance of direct antagonism. 1\ sudden change in prices may be due to radical changes in 111al1ufacturing methods, as when a lead-ing manufacturer discovers a new source of power, a cheaper raw material, invents a new machine, or the like, This is the strongest form of attack if such a term be applicable, for it is final, and action of some sort is impera-tive. You must meet the new conditions of manufacture, if you intelHI to meet the price. Should the change in eqllip- 40 ment demanc] 11lorc capital lhan YOll can c\J'l,rol. a])alHlcl11 the fjeld. for in tryin,Q" to hold YOllr market on a kniie edge oi profit, yOll are playillg it lost g-;lmc. One of the nllest Lest" or judgment i" to ];:IH1\\- \\"heu yOLl are beaten before it )J ap]I(, 1).";'. Lool, at the U:O.--j ;J1Jd jJJ(!em-nities you save. The injunction that wcwlc\ seem to ('on'r the lllost gr'-H1l1d Manufactured by Valentine-Sea\'er (:ompanr, Chicago, Ill. is-do not compete for mere vOln1l1C of sales, Profih, of ('.Ollrse, depend 11P011 volume as \yell :Lei rate. and the an10111lL af goods sold can n<;\"er he oFcr!ookcd, but when the rilte of profit declines as the salcs iucrcase. 8 little study is needed along tbe lines of penile investment of capitaL It's ,j poor boat that is all engine and no rudder III order to truly COlllpete in a mixed business, a man "hOllkl knO\y the rate of protit on each class of goods. The perccntage of gain on tbe year';; business 5gntcd ill bulk ic; 110 indication of the real resources or defects. \\Then we kn(i\\' which lines of manufactures or of sale:" arc strong. :111:1 which :Ire weak, we :11'1.' ill a po,:;ition to organize for hetter results. Dellnite information rllllst precede defillite policy. COlllpetition that in"i,-' !In:'s tll<:' violation of any broad busi- "('ss principle must ultimately prove to he UllSOllllCLhowever im·iting the immediate returns may seem. And this rule works both \VdyS. A.l1 attack all prices that lIaS 110t business principle. no clear policy. hehind it, shonld be ignored entirely if \\·ea],;. allc1 :l\"oided as cheaply as possible, if strong. It may draw bluod, llllt La meet it as an equal would be 11carsighted. Udell \VOIb. Indianapolis, Ind. And one last \Yord. \Vhcn you really knovv your resources of price and qllality, and have the market conditions in band, don't let the bl1yer-larg"e or small-bull doze you into a non-llw5table margin by telling you what other sellers ean do. The question for you to decide is your own limit. If other men can sell the same quality at a lower price than is reason-able to yOll, the field is theirs, and your wisest course is to abandon it. Tlvice in his career, ha:-; tbe writer been placed so as to see the cards of the pmchasing agent, and has studied at close range the 'workings of the game. He has seen sellers cleverly mi"lcd regarding the "oiher man's" prices; he has seell the order given to the highest bidder; he has often seell single bidders frightened by mere bluff into reducing a reasonable price. He has also seen \",hat he lW"i,'Cr failed to admire-men who klle~ ....exactly where they stood, and who, when urged to retreat past the proGt line, refused lo be driven from their intrenchments. Lost the sale ( ,"Veil, not al" .·.a.ys, but tllat isn't the point. \\'hich is hettel', to lose the sale, or to gain Ihe saic, and then lose? A car loaded with furniture for the new Federal building in Salt Lake City has been lost in transit from Chicago. There arc no bills of lading and that adds to the difficulty. If the \\' abash system of tracking freight cars by telegraph were universally adopted, it \vould be round of great benefit both for the shippers of goods a11(1the railroa(l:; also. EVANSVILLE Evansville, Ind" Dec. 25th, 1905. EvansvilJe, the hustling, bustling furntbJre city of the South, true to its reptltation, is veritably a beehive of in-dustry these days. Reports from all manufacturers go to show that every plant is <:Toweledto the hrlm with business, and that there will be no cessation at least before the opening of the New Year, 1906. \Vith a ne\'l/ line of goods for the n~xt year, and the big ft1sh which is on to get their goods, it is doubtful if this city has ever had a more active period in the history of the fLuniture business. A meeting of the Hardwood l1a1nlfact\.\i.'"ers'Association of the United States, was held in this city, Dec. 6th, at 1:3° p. m. Headquarters were established at the St. George Ho-tel, and from 50 to 75 memh(',rs of the association. \vere in attendance. Among all of the fllrniture factories of Evansville, there is none which has a greater demand made upon itf, output at tbis writing", tbal1 the Karges r"urniture com-pany. The Karges line is one of the most popular in the Manufactured by Thomas Madden, Son & Co. Indianapolis. furniture field to-day, and the. plant tS having its capacity taxed to hustle out the goods. The Globe Furniture company will make a notable addi-tion to their big line of sideboards, buffets, chamher suites and odd beds, dming the coming year. The ne\-", depart-ment will be a strong line of hall trees. The Globe is hav-ing a big trade from all sections-the Soutll being espec~al1y noticeable in the demand. The Bockstege Furniture company manufacturers of the "Superior" line of extension, parlor and Ehrary tables, is an-other one of the notable examples among the factories of this city, which is having a big rush of orders. All sections of the country are equally urgent in their demands for the Bockstege goods, although rVlanager Jourdan states that the South woke up a little late on aceOllnt of the yellow fever epidemic. The Bochtege company \.",ill also make a note- 41 worthy addition to their line, the new department being a line of dressing tables in quartered oak. The Evansville 1.fetal Bed company are ahead of last year in the volume of business done, says Treasurer Wm. A. Koch, and plans are being- made by him to not only add a new departrnent immediately of cribs, but also a number of new departments are to be added in the nea.T future. The line of the Evansville J\.fetal Bed company will be strengthen-ed throughout, maki.ng the goods of a higher class than ever before. The plant of this company is one of the larg-est and most substantial of its kind, being 400 x lOa, con-crete floors find steel trusses having been put in in the erection of this excellent plant. The Rosse Furnitnre company, one of the sturdy and younger industrial plants of Evansville, is setting a pace in the fnrnitme business that would do high credit to a veteran. Trade is pouring in for the Bosse from all over the East, thevVest and the South. This company is managed by Ed- \"iard Ploeger, Secretary and Treasurer, and a very sub-stantial line of wRrdrobes. safes, and kitchen cabinets is being ltlannfactltred. The famous line of Eli folding beds, manufactured by Eli D. 1\'Tiller& company, are having a big demand in all sec-tions of the United States. "Business is very good," said IVlanag-er ::vriller. An exhibit of the Eli folding beds will be shown the coming January season in Chicago, at the Century Furniture Company. Grand Rapids. l\hnufacturers' Exhibition Building, 13I9 rvIichigan Avenue, on the 6th floor, and l\dr. Miller will, himself, take personal chaI"ge of tlle dispby. This means that this line with all of its strong qualities and features. will be set forth in most advantageous terms, and that a goodly number of orders will be the reslllt. The Evansville Furniture company is another one of the big plants here that is taxed to the utmost to get out the goods for the tnde which is coming with a rush from the East and the \Vest, as "well as the South. Vice President Gus. A, Nonweiler, says the company are putting out a new department in chiffoniers made in oak Sixteen patterns 42 \"\'111 he ShOWll. The company \\-i!1 11a\-e all ('"hibit d\l1"il1!2: the January scaS'-'l1 at 1,119 ~\IiclJigal1 :\n:1111(:, .\hllL:fac-wTers · Exhibition Huilding. l\tanager R. A. Reitz, of The Standard Chair company. reports his company afC having good trade at the prc;;cllt time, the demand heitl;?: geucral ior tbe Standard goods. The \leta1 FurnitllTc company, capital stock $25,000 is one of the latest fnrniturc industries organized in this city, and work i5 nO\V being rllshed Ol) a big f::lctory that is being pllt up on the Belt Line. The size of the bunTy is 11".1 be 100 x 2iO; 60 feet being two stories ill height. ;lIHI the balance, onc story. The plant is to be completed by the :"i;'st of February, 'Oh, and a medium grade oi metal beds, chairs, center stands and cb.ycnports, ..v..ill he mal1l1factllred. Tt is intended to ..y.ork this line l1p into the better grades. eventu-ally. The erectioE of this plant hegan the middle of 1<1"t October. The ()ft-~cers of the company arc "s follows: Presi(lent, ja('oh Cadden; Vice Presidel1t, \Villiam Frank; Secretary-Treasurer ~t1l(1 General ?-Janager. Joseph LLnthol-ome; Sl1perintenclent, John Ym11lg. The Specialty Furniture cllrnpany report trade very g'()I)(L and ail exhibit of their line will be shown at St. J .Iluii'i ill Jall118ry, ScheJosky & company, m<lnl1Tactnrers of extensi011, kitchen and restaurant tab1cs, "''''!lo werc dela)'ecl for al;n;.'l a mOllth ill wood, cane alld co1ibJer .~eats. ?danager E. K, Smith al-so states they are having heavy runs on their fancy and six dollar rockers. T!le Indiana Fllrniture company, manufacturers of cllamber snite:', \'.-ar(lrobes, exb:::nsion tables, canopy suites, kitchen ;.;aies. etc., are ha\-ing: an excellent tradc---principally in the r::outll- -Hates Prcsident A/cuke. The company gets out a I1nv line (Ii winners in J\'Iarcb. ThE: Evansville Rook Cace & Table company expected to bave their new ~dditi0n completed hy January 1st. Thcsize (If the addition is nfty by ninety and the old plant the same, ;.;,) that the entire plant will he one hundred by oue hundred eight)·. Supl. H. ~\r.Hall says the line will be comprised of alj(lllt eight suites oi dining roOI11 fmniture in golden oak al1d wcathered oak. and early English, silver gray a.nd imita-tion rnahogan:y; also aboLlt twenty patterns of dining tables in all the popular nni:shes. The Eyansville Desk company are planning· the erection of all audition to their plant next spring. :\Janager \V. M. Ellci'i states the size of the ne\\, addition ..v..ill be 50 x 112, tbe same size as that of the present plant. The company is having a large g-eneral trade, the bulk of the !lusincs,s coming from th~ East and South. The :Fellwock Roll & Panel company, ma11l1factllrers of '"Rei; ;1;~~"n,~iIL:P \relleered RolL,;; and Plural Ply Panels fot' Drawing Room Eatoll Hail (re~idellce Duke of \V~stmifjster,l Cht's!er, England on acconnt (If their $-1-,000 lire ('arly in Octubcr last. art now working alnn~ ag,lin qllite ::;ll100Lh~y. tbe patrl\lb fit of Schelosky & CIJl11p.'111Y. ;"Irc showing an admir;"lhl<.: de-gree of patience in allowing- ,helli t(l gCl lIeH thei1- g·'P,r!c' llcot- \ovithstaudillg- this delay. \1r. Anhnr Kid~p;nrick, head ()f the Grand Rapids School of Furniture Dc"ig·nillg:. 3-1-2-.::;--1-3HnLlscmall hlclI:k, (~ratld Rapids, i\Jjch .. 1-isitcclEI'<ln,q"ille XO\ 27th and 28th. :lnd as a resnlt, a nnl1lber ot the furniture \\-u1"kers (l{FV<llls\"ille enrolled themselves as pl\pils of thii'i sclloul "\11'. Kirk-patrick states that the metlwds of the Crewel R;1pids sc]lool of teaching furniture dC'signillg" by mail. arc wholl:y hy plates. explanalor:y in themselves, althollgh illSlructinlls afe scnt with crl:dt plate, making the course ;1 most complete and practical onc The lessons start witb the I-cry simplest kind or a piece of furniture th8t cOl',ld he j)nt on paper. and carries t1\!~ stlldellt ill a practical K:t}· tl1r<il1gh tilt' CUllJplctc course. giying- him more difliclllt drawings as 11(: a(lI·a11c('s. The E. L. Smith Cbair com0:1ny ,lrc ha ....ing an e:\.lr;\ilHli-nary demand inJfJ1 the triH:C (111 their 1i!1~' (if cl1ild\ rh'!ir...; all puq)():"c,:; ll::ln~ orders enough ahead at this writing to J,;cep them busy 111ltil Fehru<1.ry r, says Secrctrl:ry-TreaSllrer P. n Fe:l work. The Hohenstein & Hartllletz l'urnitl1re company, m;tnL1- iacturers 01 parlor tables ancl music cabinets is one of the busiest of thc yOl1l1ger industrial furniture plants of Evans-ville .. \lr Hohenstein, \\"11f'11 "ee11 said his factory is crowd-ed 1.)(,)'011<1 its limit '\vith onlers ahead enough at the timc (If tllis \'.·Titing to keep things bumming until after January 1St. The present capacity is inadequate to meet the growing denVl11ds of lhe company's tr(l(lc. :\lanag-er H_ J. Lit.chtenfeld of the Buehner Chair cornj)any say" his factnry is h,n";ng all the husiness it can look after. The huli(lay trade he reports as nnnsllally large. The lllontbs of October and :Non~ml>er have brought an excellc:nt trade to the 1-:\'an5vi11e l1rnshVVorks, states -.\1a11- ager T-]c:drnal1. Besides a large local t.rade, this company is deyclopillg- (rHlsiderablc husincss in the South. Secrdary-Treasl'rc:r JohnA. Seilz of the Evansville Fold-ing }',ul cnrJJp?Il)', ~:pellt two weeks on a deer hunting trip in Mississippi the latter part of l\7ovember. Conrad l-l aase is on{~of the oldest manufactmers of couch-es, lounges and mattresses in this section of the United States, and is having a hig s11ce of the trade in his par-ticular department of the furniture field. \Villiam p, Keeney, manufacturers agent\ returned recently to Evansville from an extended trip through the south. "I returned on the 25th and 'wound up my year, and so will stay at home until 1 go to the exposition in Grand Rapids and Chicago in J al1uary. The fall season has been exceptionally good, notwithstandi11g the yellow fever in the south, which, of course, did a lot of damage to trade. The trade since July 1st with me has been fine; about as good as. I ever had. The business was dull in New Orleans up to November 1st you mig-ht say, owing to qtl<uantines wh1('h did ten times more damage to the trade than the yellcn\' fever itself. But everybody has been busy there slnce thell. All PosseliUl> Brothers Mll.ll\\facturil1g Com])ally, Detroit. Juring the fever the real estate in that city was rapidly advancing and no city I know of has been 50 prosperous in that line of business. Fortunately, some furniture men were in that line of business and made 10rtunes." "The high price of cotton has been a blessing to the soutb, as the producer derived more benefit this year tha11 ever before from his crop. The crop in A..rkansas and north and east Texas and nortb Louisiana is very short--the worst in years, so that a whole lot will suffer same. I look for cotton to go still higher. I consider the prospect for next season good, and hope we may find it so. The 8dvance III prices is coming at the right time to begin the year with. Co~operative Englishmen. Nothing ever devised has been of such enormous benefit to the workillg people of England as co-operation in mer-chandising, according to Charles Edward Rnssel1. In cert,dn ways and tip to a certain limit it has transformed life. Often it has made jnst the d1fference behveen hope and despair. ~loreoYer. it has been of incalculable social as \vell as in-du;; trial significance. The store has heen evcry\'\;here a meet-ing place where the melnbers came together, discussed ways of improvement, learned something worth \vhile, and felt for the first time the democratotc inspiration. The great im-pulse of a cornman canse and a high aim has been a boon to minds and morals. It has inculcated thrift, it has tended to break clown a little the iron barriers of caste, it has pro-duced better homes, gre8ter comfort, amI h(lj}-pier lives. Trouble Over a Factory at St. johns. The circuit court judge bas stopped the payment by the city to the S1. Johns, OHich.) Table c<nnpany, for the real estate and buildings of the company which the city agreed to buy. The company has closed and partially dismantled its factory and moved to Cadillac. The townspeople had in-vested ~25,ooo in the bnsiness in 1892 and never received any-thing ill return. The plant has been offered for sale or rent by the city. 43 Yeager's Line of Novelties. The Yeager Fl1rniture company of Allentown, Pa., will be in the markets in ]anl1ary with a new and varied line of upholstered novelties. They have retained only the best of their old patterns and added a great many new, such as Sheraton, Hepplewhite, Ch-ippendale and Colonial styles. There is also a strong edition to the medium priced goods in Mission style and a new feature is the line of upholstered rockers in oak, imitation and solid mahogany. Every pattern is of different design alld prices range from medium to the better grade. The line will he hereafter permanently shown in New York City at their warerooms Nos. 333 to 341 Fotlrth avenue, second floor, corner 25th street, with Charles E. Zerfass in charge. J n Chicago the exhibit will be on the seventh 1~oor Manufacturers' Exhibition building. These two exhibits together wilt comprise twelve hundred and fifty patterns. The following salesmen will represent the company during the next year: E. P. Seipel, H. '\"ertheimer Jr .. and Chas. E. Zerfass in the east. ]. Swart Lee in the middle west, and George ¥l. Corley ill the south and coast. Messrs. Wertheimer and Seipel will be in Chicago until the 15th of January, after which their entire time will be devoted to the New York vvarerooms. \V. H. Yeager and J, E. Teall will be at Chicago, }Jr. Teall remail1ing throughout the entire period of the exposition and Mr. Yeager dividing hjs time between New York and Chicago. Berry Will Sell the Century and B. L. Marble Lines. L. D. Berry for twenty-three years Eastern representative of the _.VI ichigan Chair company \vill hereafter be the Eastern representative for the B. L. Marble Chair company. He will cover the l\Jetropolitan district and the principle towns of ).J'"ewEngland and south from New York as far as Wi".sh-ington. 1-Ir. Derry is also representative for the Century FurnIture company of GratHl Rapids in Eastern territory. August DiTks has pmchased the furniture. stock of r Ostermann & Son in Arlington, Minn. The name will be the Arl-ington Ftlrniture company. A new furniture store is that of M. Poet & Sons, located in Altoona, Fa. The se11ior member of the firm, Michael Poct, has been a cabinet maker for thirty years. ADVERTISING HINTS FOR RETAIL BUSINESS MEN. William D. Mcjunkin Shows the Wisdom and Profit of Keeping Oneself in the Public Eye, Have yOu a ~olllp('tit()r? Advertise. Have you no COlll-petitor? Advertise. There is not a particle of difference, so hr as the neces-sity for advertising is concerned, between the merchant \vho is alone in his little town and the merchant who has one or more rivals. You may say: "f'ill the only merchant here. The folks all kno'\'\' mc. ThcY'1d;~ Ilowhere eJ"c to go." That last point is a fallacy-you n18Y or may 110t know it. If there is not a larger town near b.y \dlCre tho:'}' may he lured by the ag-grcssi\'e advertising- of some storekccper, therc is always your ri\"al--th(' big store of the large cit. How are you going to even things up with the big st.ores, their ternpting offers ant! low prices? Greatest Mercantilec Establishment In the World ,....,.---~,,"M--:,:w~nr~!"~ S.-,f\]ple Advertisement of Mail Order house. Only by pulling yourself together, getting OlJt of the 01d futs-and advertising. Advertising is selling goods-more good~. dun't lorj:!;ct that. Advertising will send those lazy stocks on the move. Advertise ·vigorowily, and :you'l! soon fint! that you must renew your stocks oftener and better. You are not there to snpply a demand merely, you are there to cr('ate a demand. You have 01lly to make the folks around ahoLit \\'3.nt a thing badly enough, and you \vill sell it to them, nen::r fear. "nut 1. have ;.\(I\·('rtised," you say, "and it doesn't do a bit of good--might as well have kept the 1l10ney'" Nonsense, there was never a hit (If real advertising that did not do good. But miJl(l yon, it must be rcal advertising. Probably you took a tlycr or twO in your local paper v..·.ith a doleful announcement that "John Jones carries a cornplcte line of dry goods, groceries, hardware, etc., etc." Heavens. man! the folks all know that already, and they \yondcr \\'hy 011 earth you spend good mOney telling them so. Kind of friendly deal with the editor, they suppose, and let it gu at that. Thri.t is not advertising-you may as well get rid of that notioll first as last. \dvertising is snrnetbilJg more liyc than t.hat. lust imagine yomsclf saying solemnl:y to [vIrs, Schneider. when she dnJjJs into your store: "::'Ifrs. Schneider, T carry a com-plete line of dr:y goods, groceries, bardv.'are, etc., etc." Can't you see .\[r5, Schneider smilin[4"? You 1l1,ly take jt for gr<1nted that ouly a live man can adn'rtise, and tllat every live man can advertise s(\ccess[ully. TIut you I1111St be on the outlook for opportunities for real advntising-, for the mcans of stirril1g Ull the neighbor-hood with hargains. You'll he astonished at the increased appetite for merch-andise ..v.hich the women will develop \,..h. en :yotl g:et into the way of making them v...a.nt tbing;:;. And the only way to make them want tbing:s is to show them a real good thing desperatel:y cheap. If yon' ...e. a lot or goods on your shelves that threaten to !'etlle do\vn there for life, get llP a bargain sale. ::'Ifake the .1rJnOllllccment of the sale in your local paper, or sC'nd it Ollt on hand bills, jf that way seems better to )fOll. Some <!(h-crtising men migbt advise yOIl to lJ]ay up the OnYour Heating Stove or Range Out on We,;t Washington !;treet i" the Store out or the High Rent D\stnct, where pftce and quaJily predominalt'. Von'! take our wore lor thl", bUI before making any purchase make It a poin' to take ~ trig ullough the Hlgh .Rent stare" fir", Make note" and carel III ob5en,JJhdIL". <trI'Q. 'hen comt to Ul>. You know we wa"uld not takt this stand i( '" e were not posnivdy ';:<t:rtain0,1 our 25 pet cenl. saved price. IS THIS CONVINCING? IT IS. IF YOU TRY. Another Sample. sak as a special purchase which yot! can afford to sell them at a ridiculously low price, etc. Don't do it. Be on the square with the folks and :rotl'll reap the bendit of it by and by. Of course, ,you don't neeu to say that the goods are 1l10111ding'on yom shelves or anything like that. You don't need to enlarge on your desire to get rid of them. JUSt get down to the root of the matter-here's a lot of ginghams that have first-rate '-lualities which yOll invite the goocl ladie:; of the neighborhood to enjoy at 2 cent~, less a :yard than they ever botlght them in their lives. YO\1'l1 lose by it? >J"onsel1sc, yOLl can't lose if yOll sell the ginghams quickly and win the good ,,,ill and confJdence of the ]:J.die:; by giving them ar'l astonishing bargain. That good \vill, that cnniidencc, is as g"ood as silver dollars in yot;[ bl1sinc::;.'"i. nc on the lookollt for goods to advertise. Take the interests of your customers as your OWl1. Don't be afraid that if yOll sell them g-oads cheap there won't he demand enollgh for the goods in which there is more profit for you, The farmers can afford to buy a-plenty and of the best. \Vhat ,you have to do is to keep your eyes peeled ior the 1hings that t.hey'll like if they're only hronght. hefore th\:':n. \-Vhat you have to do is to make them want them, and that is what advertising is for. But you may say: "1 don't know how to advertise in that way." \iVell, any man \\'ho has the intelligence to nm a store ha1:' the intelligence to write advertising of the right kind. Stick by the goods-never mind the grammar. Get the goodness of the goods 1nto your ad. and the lowness of price, and leave out all kinds of flourishes. And if you're not sati!-ified with your effort the editor will help yon out, or the schoolmaster or schoolma'am-only don't let them put down pretty phrases for you instead of business. You'll soon le~1T11the trick yourself if yOll watch how the big stores in the city advertise. Of course yOll can leave out the "frillings" and stick to plain facts. You'U notice that when these arc disconnted the ad_ just comes to this: "Here is an article which you want, an article which you'll be happier to possess, and it's ridiculously cheap. Under ordinary circumstances you would do vv-ithout this particular article, But at this price you can't do with-out it." Human nature is the same in the country as it is in the town. Stripping off certain conve'1tionalities, you reach the heart oi the woman who drives to YOLlr store with her eggs and butter for exchange jm;t in the same way that the 45 broidered frames in the drawing-rooms ~crve at once as ornaments and as protection against chill air drafts, which have a way of cH'.eping through space across the desirable places for the reading chair. Embroidered screens are not dear. When sprays of autumn-tinted Jap maples, and hanging branches of purple wistaria, or glimpses of landscape decorate a screen much depends on the workmanship, and if the material is silk, satin or cotton the price varies all thc way from $5 to $500. The black Jap and Chinese screens of black c.otton, with gold thread embroidery, in which storks and lotus play an important part, are dnrable and pretty, ranging from $4 ior a four-foot-high three-leaved screen to $5 for a five-foot one, and advancing by degrees. The bamboo frames are light and the convenient articles may be carried into the bedroom to shield a sleeper, or the screen may conceal a washstand or disturb a sleeper, or the screen may conceal a washstand or catch-all corner or a rest couch. The shops are selling good screens of weathered oak or dull green or crown frames, with some applied decoration, fQr $5 each. Other screens are covered with tapestry woven after the Gobelin pattern~ and faded colorings, or perhaps in brighter, happier tones in \Vattean colors and wreaths of roses and flowers. Nelson-Matter Furniture Company, Grand Rapids. city merchant reaches the woman who is driven to his store in -an antomobile. Bargains---that's the keynote of store advertising. Give the folks bargains; and give them real ones. Advertising will then pay YOl!o SCREENS ARE IN STYLE. Ware From Old Japan May Have Aided in Finding Sphere of U sefvlness. Screens are on the tiptop of fashion. T t may be a wave from old Jap~lll has bronght them to their proper sphere of usefulness. The 11igh-grade department stores arc showing processions of screens from the pretty boudoir shield to the emin(1)tly practical burlap!:> and artistically embroidered Japanese. \.Vhen Ollce a screen is taken into the it is difficult afterward to paTt \vith it. household intimacy The high art em- Silkoline and dainty rosebud dimities are prettiest for bedroom screel1s. "Vhen the shirred material loses freshness it may be washed and put in Illac.e again. A screen on which the covering is gay with roses is a decided ornament to a room and adds so much to the atmosphere of daintiness. Lawns and swisses and cnrtain fabrics in white wash materials with lln-ings of bhle and pink or violet cambrics are really more serviceable than they look. Advances in Prices Announced. Dealers are receiving notices from manufacturers tInt prices will be advanced Jan. I, from 10 to 20 per cent when new price list catalogues will be issued. "Flowered" Oak. The Eval1sville (Ind.) Furniture company will exhibit thei" famol1s "Flovl-'ered \Vhite Oak Goods," in the Manufacturer!s Exhihition Building, Chicago, during the mouth of Jannary. 46 Ten Years a Manufacturer. David E. Uhl. the proprietor of tlle Grand H.apids F2lIlCY Furniture Company, at the close of teu year.s' after his initia-tion into the bllsiness. illld" himself ill pos,;cssion of a large modern, well equipped ractory. and a large iinnl}' csrahli,:;llcd bl1siness. ::\1r. Uhl was a lJ(Jvice in the furniture trade ill lhe year- 1895, and rightly commencing in a small ,vay he mastcrct! the details of malll1factnre, ouyillg and selling, and the :~l1CCl.'SS achieved is due to his intelligence, his energy and his appli-cation to business. His Ene cOI1"i~ts of parlor desks, book-cases, writing tahles and music cabil1cts, and is shown ill the Rlodgett building, Grand Rapids. Will Show in the Pythian Temple. The Cahillet }fakers Company. of Gnuld Rapids. J):Jn: leased a large part of the second tloor, (somh hall) of t1lf" Pythian Temple. Grand Rapids, and will "hmr wore than twice as man:y pieces of fancy furniture as in Jnl)' last. Tho.: line is a fine one, eonsisling- as it docs, of p;.trlor and Iibrar:>" tables, music cabinets. book cases, sideboards. bllffets, china closets, serving tables and dining extenSIOn tables. Tbis cornpany uses choicest sclected woods. and ranks high in the maHer of design. \YOrbIlanship and finish. The doon or their show room wilt te opened ]alltwry 1. The stock of fnl'nilLire of the Koepp-:\Iueller f'nrllilure company in )'filwal\kce W;IS damaged to the exknt of $3.000 by a fire December T;.th. The 10ss is covered by insurance. Quaintness. \\'as attractivel.y interllli"l'i[ with hoth simple and formal effect;; ill the stately little parlor which an Englishwoman ftlrl1i.~hed l'or her drawing r00111. Her furniture was covered \\itll a pale pink and grei..'l1 brocade, and the rOO[11 paneled ill :t g-n'ell watered or moire paper bordered 0111 \"ith a nar-ru\\, Ilowcr bordering. The rug was one of the \"/iltons which came \vlthol\t pattern or border and which are so \\,O\·CI1 that they reqllirc only to be bonght in the required Icllglhs. having already tbe \vidths to make them adaptahle to any room, This also was selected ill a sort green which hlellcled \vitb the ftlrniture. The curtains were of the simple kind which fitted \vith the English habit of tlsing the dra\' .. -ing room windows as reading places and sl111ggcries Spencer & Barnes Company, Benton Harbor. for lhe doing of prelty afternoon needlework. They wcre of creamy Uluslin ,vitlt ribbon knot designs, the bowknots being woven in the green color. and \,,7cre simply made up with frills not unlike our idea of a bedroom curtain. The wbile marble mantel W8" disposed of by covering the &helf in pink moirc of the same shade as lhat in the brocade, the ends of the scarf bting pointed and allowed to hang down about half \Va:r and heing finished with a narrow pink fringe. The grate was kept open and in the perfect ready-to-light order known as being "laid.·" and even when fireless it drcw d bright tOllell to itself, A Gloomy Shade. Tntting stamps are of lnallY colors, but lhey have the saine general effect. They ma:y be yellow, purple or helio-trope. but they end by giving the merchant a particularl:y )1;loorny shade of bll1c.-Fx. The \VallbloolU Fl\rnitl1re company of St. Paul have been sued for $7,000 daJl1<1gc.~by George Smith, who was in-jured by a fall down the elevator shaft. 47 THROUGH determined efforts ro icrce prices downward, we are proving our fiddlty to tbe common people. With . unparalleled offenn~ lilte these I.ere mentiono:d, backed by the most li~I'treciil plan In existence, It is no wonder ~ are getting the borne furnishing business of Sprin~eJd. Every pun:hase' here now means a saving that you cannot lutord (rJ o.o::rlook. Weare Making Homes for Detroit's Salaried Men and therefore a great benefit to all mankind ThQusands of beautihil, comfortable and well furni~ll~r1l10rljeS exist in this cit.)'> s01ely because of tIle modern installment credit system which \Vei\ & Co. ha'-e extended to the people at large. If t~e wage earners were obliged to pay (fish wl1<1tkillrl of 3ample !/Pe/ail .lfdveTtisemen/s 48 The Bedroom of F ranceis I, Mu."" de Cluny. Paris. This bOOroom WM occupied by Qyeen Victoria 01England on the occasion of her visit to lile Grand Trianon in 1840. The llpholstery and draperiee life of rose "alin brocade. ALL WOODS ATLAS FURNITURE COMPANY JAMESTOWN, N. Y. DRESSERS .CHIFFONIERS Grand Rapids Exposition BLODGETT BUILDING, FOURTH FLOOR H, L. CHAMBERLAIN =~~====== EMIL JOHNSON 50 THE ROYAL MANTLE AND THE ROYAL MANTEL There's a Difference The royal mantle falls to the lot ot but few; but The Royal Mantel is broad enough to carry the benefits of its splendid productions to a multitude. Evidence? See the line Fourth Floor MANUFACTURERS' EXHIBITION BUILDING 1319 Michigan Avenue In January CtUNA CLOSETS BUFFETS COMBINATION AND LIBRARY CASES LADIES' DESKS P. G. Lundquist in charge Royal Mantel and Furniture Roch.ford, Illinois Company BISSELL:S BRANCHES: 15 Warren St" NEW YOlt,K LONDON I S Pearl St., TORONTO PARIS Is the unl~' carpet sweeper on the market sold at fixed retail prices, and the value of tru5 policy to the dealer in making his profits both good and secure, is well understood b)' the trade generally. One large retailer said to a certain manufacturer recently: "If YO\l will agree to maintain a fixed aelling price, I will buy a carload, but I will not put a ten cent piece in yom goods if later 1 may have to sell them without profit, to meet competition. " Here is a strong endorsement of om price maintenance policy, and is predse:y what we have advocated for over twenty years. A fixed retail price is all that guar-antees to the dealer profit in the sale ofa commudity. Please remember the Bissell is the ONLY sweeper sold under a carefully devised and rigidly enforctd price mainte-nance policy Bissell Sweepers are sold at the following fixed retail Prices . "Gr ..nd Rapids" iJapan).... •, .. (Nickle] .. "Gold Medal" "Supet'ior" "Prize" "Welcome" "Boudotr" .. "Premier"· . "lde ..1". "American Queen" "EUte" "Parlor Queen". ··Superb . "Gt'and" ::Clu~:' , Hall .. .$250 300 300 300 300 300 3 SO . 300 325 350 375 400 500 4 SO 600 750 In the extreme western and southern states our fixed retail prices are fifty cents higher than those given above. Write for our special Christmas offer, the most liberal we have ever made, Bissell Carpet Sweeper Co. Grand Rapids, Mich. (Largest sweeper makers in the world. Established 1876.) We Show in Our Own Building the Year Round McAnsh, Dwyer & Co. Weare Showing a Bunch of DRESSERS, SIDEBOARDS, and TABLES LOOKS GOOD ENOUGH FoR A KING AND PRICE ISN'T HIGH. That Need no Argument to Sell. 1300 and 1302 Michigan Ave" Chicago A CATALOGUE OF YOURS FOR THE ASKING The Estey Standard line Large and complete and can't be beat Drop a postal card to ESTEY MANUFACTURING CO. owosso, MICH. "Rotary Style" for Dr<ltl Caninlls, Embossed MouldinjJ, Parte/s, Etc. Our Oak and Mahogany DINING EXTENSION TABLES Are Best Made, Best Finished, Best Vall!e!l. All Made from Thoroughl~' Seasoned Stock No. 435 Dining Table Top 54.%54, Made in Quartered Oak and Mahogany. Full Pol-ished. Nickel Casters LENTZ TABLE CO. NASHVILLE. MICHIGAN EmbOssino and DrOD Garvino MaGhln6S Machines for a II purposes, and at prices wi I h i n the reach of all. EveryMachine has our guar-antee against breakage for one year UNION EMBOSSING MACHINE CO, INDIANAPOLIS, IND. "Lateral Style" for Larue Capacify Heavr CarvinG's and Deell Embossings We have the Machine you want at a satisfactory price v.,rrite for descriptive drculars. THE FAMOUS VICTOR ALWAYS AT THE TOP c.~ .. Our Full Line on Exhibition on Second Floor of the Furniture Manufacturers' Exhibition Building, 1319 Michigan Avenue. Chicago. In Charge of F. A. KUNEY, ], O. KEMP, and H. ]. ARMSTRONG, The Posselius Bros. Furniture Mfg. Company DETROIT. MICHIGAN THE NEW SOUTHERN Corner Michigan Boulevard and 13th Street Chicago Headquarters for Furniture Men Rates, $1.00 to $2.50 per day ANEW high-cla", fire proof European plan hotel at moderate price,. Remodeled and newly fur- 1&31llnished throughout at a co,t of $100,000.00 Best accomodation in Chicago for the money. Two hundred room" 100 with private bath; re,taurant and cafe in connection. Fumiture buyer' should engage rooms m advance for the exhibition 'easons. Address ALEX DRY-BURGH, President and Manager. Almost Directly Opposite The Big Furniture Exhibition Buildings A FEW OF.OUR MANY DO NOT FAIL TO SEE THIS POPULAR LINE OF GOODS AT THE January Show in GRAND RAPIDS ONLY FUf"niture Exhibition Building Ottawa and Pearl Streets 2nd Floor, South Half to the Front F. E. STEVENS IN CHARGE DESIGNS Office Chairs. Bedroom Chairs and Rockers in Oak. Mahogany and Maple LUCE-REDMOND CHAIR CO., Big Rapids, Mich. Fancy Rockers. Desk and Dretiser Chairs. Parlor Suites and Dining Chairs in Oak. Mahogany and Maple Notice We have changed our location. During the Jan-uary show in Grand Rapids you will find us in ne rurniturefx~iMion6uil~in~ OTTAWA and PEARL STS. Second Floor. south h.lf to the front. Do not fail to look us up, as we will be there with a Complete Line, including many new designs. KARGES WARDROBES ARE GOOD WARDROBES Prices right WRITE FOR CATALOGUE nAnOf~ fURnlTURf ( O. EVANSVILLE INDIANA cLaisE SIDEBOARPS Are Ihe BEST ON THE GLOBE for the money In wnting mention Michigan Artisan ,r GET OUR CATALOG. Mention Michigan Artisan when writing Furniture Company E~anihille. Indiana BOCKSTEGE FURNITURE CO. EVANSVILLE, IND. NO. 10. DRESSINGl TABLE. TOP 2Ox40. FRENCH PLATE 22x2S, SELECT QUARTERED OAK, RUBBED AND POLISHED. Makers 01 the "SUPERIOR" Extension, Parlor and Library Tables NEW CATALOGUE JUST ISSUED-GET ONE 1858 1905 E. Q. SMIT" C"AIR ===COMPANY=== MANUFACTURERS OF WOOD, DOUBLE CANE, CANE, COBBLER TUfTED LEAT"ER AND VENEER SEAT C"AIRS AND ROCKERS No.145 Reception Rocker Veneered Rolled Seat Quartered Oak Finisbed Golden Office and Warerooms, Cor, Third and Division Sts. Factory and Supply Mill, Foot of Oak St. ------IEVAN5VILLE,IND.------ MAKE MONEY MR· DEALER BY SELLING THE Dossr KITCHEN CABINETS CUPBOARDS SAfES and WARDROBES Best Goods lowest Prices BOSSE FURNITURE CO., Evansville, Ind. The "ELI" fOLDING BEDS PARROEfITBREWAINDNE"DRS No Stock complete without the Eli. Beds in Mani.d and Upright ELI 0 MILLER & Co E..... lII•• I.dl ••• • • V.'rite for Cllts and prkes hansYille FurnRure CO., Evansville. Ind. Manuradurers of the "Celebrated flowered White Oak Goods." BEDROOM SUITES CHIFFONIERS ~ ODD DRESSERS~ "d WASH sTANDS "The line with the Finish" Something Entirely New Goods shown in January ex-hibit at Chica-go. Ill., at Ka. 1319 Michigan Ave., 2n floor ann also at our factory sa I es-rooll1 <It Evans-ville, Ind. New Catalogue ,just issued. lrI The Sargent Manufacturing Co., MUSnEGON. Mich. Bachelors' Cabinets, Ladles Desks. Extra Large Chiffoniers. Ja.rdiniere Stands. Hall Rackli. Book Cases and Magazine Stands. Also Manufacturers and exporters of Rolling Chairs. chairs adapted to all kinds of invalidism, both for home and street use. L" S I \ Furniture Exhibition Bldg., Grand Rapids, Mich. me on .. e al (1319 Michigan Ave .•Chicago, Ill. 5 Complete Lines of Refrigerators at RIGHT PRICES Opalite Lined Enameled Lined Charcoal Filled and Zinc Lined Zinc Lined with Removable Ice Tank Galvanized Iron Lined Slationary Ice Tank Send for new CATALOGUE and let us name you pl"lce Challenge Refrigerator Co. GRAND HAVEN, MICH., U. S. A. Thos. Madden, Son & Co. INDIANAPOLIS. INDIANA UPHOLSTERED FURNITURE Be,t In America Parlor Suites Our New Line of Davenport Beds are the very best that can be made Styles and Prices to suit everybody In Two, Three and Five Pieces made in Stationary and Loose Cushions One of our Big Sellers Our new line ready about January 10th and will be shown only at our Show Rooms 35 to 39 North Capital Ave., Indianapolis,Ind. Write for Catalogue. Koenig So Gamer Furniture Co. MANUFACTURERS OF VICTORIA, COMBINA nON, UPRIG"T and MANTfL folding Beds Odd Dressers, Princess Dressers, Napoleon Beds in Quartered Oak, Mahogany and Bird's Eye Maple. Our full line shown on 3d floor, 1319 Michigan Ave. Office and Warehuuse 266 to 272 N: Green St., Chicago, III. Factory No. 22 to 48 Pratt Street THE FORD & JOHNSON CO. CHAIR MAKERS Wish to announce to the trade that in addition to the complete line of Chairs to be shown by them in January, there will be a line of medium and fine grade Dining Room Suites. To this line we wish to call particnlar attention, as we believe it has the (;haracter, merit, style, good taste, and individuality desired by the trade. The Chair Line, always strong, has many new and pleasing additions, especially in Dining, Bed Room,Reception, and Rocking Chairs. In Fiber Rush and Malacca there will be a number of very desirable new ideas, which will merit your inspection. Look for our next announcement in this space and see some of these trade winners. Genera] Office INDIANA AVENUE and SIXTEENTH STREET CHICAGO, ILL. Salesrooms: BOSTON. MASS. NEW YORK, N. Y. CHICAGO, ILL. FRANKFORT, KY. ATLANTA. GA. CINCINNATI. O. , . . "'~·r,".IJ1>.''''''''''''''''' ------Tm: ------ YEAGER fURNITURE CO. ALLENTOWN, PA. Upholstered Parlor furniture and Novelties A Large New Line of Upholstered Rockers and Wood Seats "We Make Our Own Frame/' EXHIBITS NEW YORK Manufacturers' Exbihition Bldg. I Jl9 Michigan Ave. 7th Floor 333 to 14T Fourth Ave" Corner 25th St. 2-d Floor A Great Line of Bedroom Furniture MADE IN THE EAST SOLID CONSTRUCTION. MODERN DESIGNS. UNEQUALLED FINISH. BURT BROS. Leading Manufacturer, in the E"t of 2000 S Ninth St Philadelphia Pa CHAMBER FURNITURE . 0' l • WRITE FOR CATALOGUE Refrigerators YUKon EGonomiG AND GhilKoot ZINC LINED AND WHITE ENAMELED There are excellent reasons why you ,:1 I should buy the above. The catalog tells you what they are. Send for one. The Michigan Barrel Co. 670 CANAL IT. GRAND ~APIDS. Mlcn. Cabinet Makers CO. MAKERS OF FINE FURNITURE Grand Rapids, Mich. EXHIBIT PYTHIAN TEMPLE No. 134. Remarkable Growth Due to QUALITY and VALUES " New Go-Carts and Children9s Carriages FOR THE SEASON OF 1906 Our new catalog will be ready about Jan-uary 1st. and will contain the finest line of Go-Carts and Children's Carriages it has ever been our pleasure to present to tbe trade. See our line at the Cbicago ex-hibition, 131 Michigan Ave. Write for catalog A. American Go-Cart Co. DETROIT, MICH. WHITE PRINTING CO. Printers for the Furniture Trade. Grand Rapids, Mich. Rockford Chair and Furniture Company Rockford, Illinois. Our Only Exhibit In the Blodgett Block Grand Rapids We will show during January, I906, a large numb~r!!f ne'iV and natty conceits in that "A Little Better 'Than Seems Nec-essary" Furniture. In the mean-time let us have your ordersfor your holiday needs. We have much that is admirably adapted to this purpose, and can make prompt shipments. Exhibits Chicago. 14.1 Michigan Avenue. (Fourth Floor) New York. Furniture Exchange. Fifth Floor. No. 33 Ma.kers of Library Suites. Library :Book C.~esl Music: Cabinet., Ladies' Parlor Desks. Medicine Cabinets THE UDELL WORKS INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA A MO(O)N-EY MAKING LINE Moon Desk Co. Muske.gon, Mieh. Buy Our Desks and Prosper On Sate Ground Floor Pythian Temple GRAND RAPIDS D. L. McLeod in charge. No. 814 Has raised panels all around and be-tween pedestals, wide pedestal drawers\ center drawer with flat keyed lock; double writing bed, heavy pilasters and roll top arms, drawers varnished inside, have mov-able partitions, deep drawer partitioned for books. Overhanging or bracket front, golden oak finished. rubbed and ·polished. Desk is supplied with 13 aU wood pigeon hole boxes, 4 letter file drawers with index, one card index drawer with follow block attachment, private compartment with flat keyed lock. This desk is also supplied with space for books at each end of the pigeon hole case. No. 2tO A No. 281 A WE manufacture the larg-est line of FOLDING CHAIRS in the United States, suitable 101"Bunday Schools, Halls, Steamers and 1.11Pu hUc Resorts. . . . . We also manufacture Brass Trimmed Iron Beds, Spring Beds, Cots and Cribs in a larg-e variety. . . . Send "fo-rCatalogue and Prices to Kauffman Mfg. CO. AS"LAIID. 0"10 NEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA, Via GRAND TRUNK-LEHIGH VALLEY ROUTE. Two Fast Trains Daily ExcePt Sunday. Daily. Leave Cd Rapids 2:45 p. m. 7 :05 p. m. Ar Philadelphia 3:40 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. 64 7IRrr I0'A~ • .-\-1 X;;; 3t .. • NINTH SEASON "The Chicago Exhibition" (THE BIG BUILDING) 1319Michigan Avenue, Chicago New Lines in ReadinessJanuary first, 1906 PARTIAL LIST OF"EXHIBITORS Atlme Chair Co., Reading, Mich. AmericRIl Go-cart Co., Detroit, l\1ich. Alnerlcan :a.retalware Co., Chicago, Ill. Atha Chair Co" State"ville, 1'. C. Banderob-CbllBe Co., Oshkm.h, "'is. Banta Ftirniture Co., Goshen, Inti. Bay View Ful.'niture Co., HGlland, l\11('h. Baxter, ItobcJ:'t E., ChimlJ::"tJ, Ill. Billow-Lupfer Co., ColumhuI', Ohio. Bissell Carpet Sweeper Co., Graull Rapids, :nnch. Blanchard-Hamilton Fnru. Co., Sbdbyvl1le, Ind. Buckeye Chah- Co., RaveDna, Ohio. Bockhardt :turnltnre Co., Dayton, Ohio. Cadillac Cabinet Co., Detroit, l\licb. Campbell. C. II. Furn, Co., Shelbyville, Ind. Campbell, Smith & Ritchie, Lebanon, Ind. Capital Rattan Co., Indianapolis, Ind. Cass, B. T., &; Co., Chicago, Ill. Cates CbaJr Co., Thomasvlllc, :S. C. Central Furnitul'c Co, Rockford, Ill. Central Mfg. Co., Chimlgo, ilL Chicago 'Wire Chair Co., Chicago, Ill. Cole, E. B., &; Co., Chicago, III. Conrey &; Birley Table Co., Shelbyville, Ind. Conrey &; Davis ~1fg. Coo, Shelbyville, Ind. Corunna. Furniture Co., Corunna, Mich. Coye Furnitu ..e Co., Stevens Point, "'is. Ca-amer Furniture Coo, Thomasville, :So C. Crandall-Long ]:·'urnitlll'e Co., Hanove .., PII.. Crons-KllIs & Co" Piqua,Ohio. Cush:man, H. T., l\llfg. Co., N. Bcnnington, "~to navis, HOl'wich It Steinman, Chicago, Ill. DIxie FtlrPiture Co., I..exington, N. C. Earl MetaJ. Hed Co., Pana, Ill. Eckhoft' Furniturc Cu., St. I>Olli!l,1'1[0. Elk J<urniture Co., I.exin"ton, N. C. Emmerich, Chll,!!., it Co., Chicago, Ill. Emptre Furniture Co., Jameliitown, N. Y. Empire Mouh:Ung '\,-orks, Chicago, Ill. Emrieh Furniture Coo, lodianapoli!l, Ind. Enterprise Bcd Co., Chicago, ILl. Evansville J<'urniture Co., EVlI.nliivilIe,Ind. ]'-all Creek l\'lfg. Coo. Mooresville, Ind. FeJlilke Bros., Chicago, Ill. Ferguson Bro!l. JUg. Co., Hoboken, :So J. jI'oster Bros. Mfg Co., Utica, :N, Y. Fremont Furniturc Cu., jI"remont, Ohio. Garvey (The) Co" ChicllgO, Ill. Gendron Wheel Co., Toledo, Ohio. Globe Chair Co., HHI!lboro, Ohio_ Go!lhen No\'clty &:Bl'\1>lhCo" Goshen, Ind. Grand Rapids Cabinet Co., Gd. Rapids, Mich. Grand Rapidlj Refrigerator Co., Grand Rap-ids, Mich. Green, Sol., Chicago, Ill. Greenpolnt l\:Jetallie Bcd Co., Brooklyn, N. Y. Gllnll Furniture Co., (;rand Rapids, J.ll,~h. Hatncr "Furniture Co., Chicll.~o, Ill. Haggard it )Iar('U880n (:0., Chicago, Ill. Uansen, Loui8, ('hieago, Ill. Hawe!! }'urnit.ure Co" (;oshen, Ind. lIero~- & '!\Iarrennt'r, Chicll.J.:"o, Ill. Herzog Art Furniture Co., Saginaw, 1'Ilich. HerzoK Table Co., Saginaw, :anch. lIirllhhel"J.:",::-.f. II., &:Soo, Baltimore, ]old, I10dell Furniture Co., Shelh.,.-ville, Ind. Hollatz Bros, Chicago, JlI. Homan, Andrew, Co., Ne,l' York, N. Y. Horn B..-os. l\Ifg. Co., ehicago, Ill. Hllbba,rd it Eldredge Co.. Rochester, N. Y. Hnls ..,.. 1\:_ ". Co., Columbll!l, Ohio. Humphrey Book Case Co., Detroit, Mich. Imperial Furniture Co., Stat>es,"iUe, N. C. Indillnuoolill Chair & Furn. Co., Indianapolis, Ind. Johnson, ,-\.. J. it Sons Furn. Co., Chicago, Ill. Kelly, J, A. &: Bro., Clinton, Iowa. Kelnnlh; Furniture Co" Green Bay, 'Vis. Ke-no!lha. Crib Cu., Kenollha, "'is. Kimball &: Chappell, Chicago, Ill. Kincaid l·urn. Co., Statesville, Y. C. Kindel, C. J., Beddlng Co., St. Louis, Mo. Koenig .& Gamel' Furn_ Co., Chicago, Ill. Lamb, Oeo. L., Nappanee, Ind. Lunday, JOEl.I" St, Louis, ~Io. l,anday Steel RaoJ:"e Co., st. Louis, 1\010. Lllnglliow-Fowler Co., nO(~hel'lter, S. Y. I.athl'op Co., Chicago, III. Leroi .Furniture Co., St. Louis, ~Io. 3.Ianist.ee l\'Ifg. Co., .lfuuistee, ~fic1l. ~[an,-el Furnitnl'C Co., Jamestown, N. Y. lUayhcw lIUg. Co., Milwaukee, '''Is, .UcHougall, G. P. & Sons, Indlanapolilii, Ind. ).Ic:s"own Mfg. Co., Columbia City, Ind. ).IechaniC!l Furniture Co., Rockford, Ill. "Icier & Pohlmann Furn. Co., St. Louis, :\10. )llller, Ell D., Co., Evansville, Jud. _UlIne, lV. S., Co., Cleveland, Tenn. MinnC-lIp-QJl/jFurn. CQ., M1nnMpolls, l'fwu. ="Iodern :Furniture Co., Cinclrmatl, Ohio. .'\lontgomery .lUrnlture Co., ),Ioutgomery, Pa. l\'lontgomer}." Table Co., .:\Iontgomery, Pa. Morgun .:\[fg_ Coo, ,Jamf'stown, :Y. Y. l\'[yrtle Furnit'llre Co., High Point, lS". C. Naperville J,,(Junge Co., :Saperville, III. )Iiemalln&: ... einhardtTableCo .• Chieago.lIl. Oberbcf'k Bros. ")lfg. Co., Grand Rapids, Wh. OJbJ'Jeh & Golbeck Co., Chicago, 111. Onken, Oscar, Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. Palmer, A. E., Mfg. Cn., Adrian, ::u.i(~b. Palmer ")ltg. Co., Detroit, ~nch. Paul JUg. Co., Fort 'Va)'06, Ind. I'eck &: Hills ~urn, Co., Chicago, Ill. Penn Chair Co., Philll,delpbia, Pa_ Perkins (Hr) Sanitary kefrlgerator Co., battle Creek, l\Uch. Plimpton, F. T., it Co., Chicago, Ill. PosseJlus Br0Ol.Furn. Co., Detroit, Mich. Queen Chair Co., Thom:f\lilville, N. C. RfUldolph Furn. WorkOl, Randolph, N. Y. Rockford E'ranle &: .F"b:ture Co., Rockford, III. Rockford Standard Furn. Co., Rockford, IlL R()Ot :Furniture Co., Shelbyville, Ind. Royal Mautel and Forn. Coo, Rockford, Ill. Sa.rgent MfK. Co" Muskegon, Mich. Schadt & Mathewson, Detroit, Mich. Schulh &:Hirsch Co., Chicago, Ill. Sellers .& Sons Co., Elwood, Ind. Sextro, Mfg_ Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. Sheannan Bros. Co., Jameliitown, N. Y. Shelbyville "'-ardrobe Co., Shelbyvllle, Ind. Shreve Chair Co" Union City, Pa. Sikes Consolidatt"d Ch~lr Co., Buffalo, N•. 1.'". Skandia :FurnIture Co., Rockford, Ill. Spiegel Furn. Co., Shelbyville, Ind. Standard Chair Co" Thomasville, N. C. Standard Chair Co., Union City, Pa.. Standard Metal Furn.. Co., Detroit, Miell. Statesville .f'urn. Co., StatesviJItl, N. C. Stickley It Brandt Chair Co., Blngha.mpton, N. Y. Stille it Uuhlme1er Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. StompOl-Burkhardt Co., Dayton, Ohio. Streit, C. F., Mfg. Co" Cincinnati, Ohio. Syracuse Screen Iii, Grine Co., Manchester, Ind. Thayer, H, N. Co., Erie, Pa. Thompson Chair Co., Tholll8s-,.'ille, N. C. Tidioute }i·urn. Mfr;. 00., Tidioute, Fa. 'ridioute Rocker Co., Tidioute, .l'a. Tlpp (The) Furn. Co., Tippecanoe City, O• Toledo Metal \Vheel Works, Toledo, Ohio. 'lurk, Jos. Furn. Co" Kankakee, Ill. Union City Chll.ir Co., {Jnion City, Pa. Wait J<"urniture Co., Port!lmouth, Ohio. lVarfleld Iii, \\lil!lon, Rus;h-,.·ille, Ind. lVa!lhington l\Ug. Co., n'ashington C. R,. O. 'Vest .I!lnd Furn. Co., Rockford, III. Widman, J. C_, &: Co., Detroit. Mich . 'Vif,momun Chair Co., Port Washington, wi&. Wisconsin Furn. it Mfg. Co., Neillsville, Wi8. "'-oll it Kraemcr Furn. Co., St_ LOuis, Mo. \Voh"erlne l\1fg. Co., Detroit, Mich_ Yeager (The) .furoitul"e Co., Allentown, PR. Zeeland Furnitul'e Co., Zeeland, Mich. Manufacturers' Exhibition Building Co. CHICAGO .~. I The High Reputation of the Alaska Refrigerator IS JUSTIFIED BY ITS MERITS ONLY Economy, simplicity and durability are combined to make a PERFECT REFRIGERATOR. When in the market let us hear from you and we will be pleased to matt catalogue and quote prices. The ALASKA REFRIGERATOR CO. New York Office, 3S Warren St. EXCLUSIVE REFRIGERATOR MANUFACTURERS MUSKEGON, MICHIGAN MUSKEGON LETTER. The manufacturers of Muskegon will make a great exhi-bition ()f furniture at Grand Rapids in January. All lines have been strengthened and a better showing of Ollr leading industry \",ill be made than in the past. The lofuskegon Valley Fl1fnitllre company have added to their strong line of chamber furniture many beautiful patterns of ladies' writing desks, music cabinets and bed-room tables ;n solid mahogany and marquetry inlay. The Ivloon Desk company have completely changed their patterns and will sho\,,' a line of office desks complete in detai1. Kew features ill typewriter desks vvill be among the strong attractiollS of the line. The Graud Rapids Desk company will occupy their old qnarters in the Fllrnitl1fC Exhibition building, with "Ed" eald"well in charge. The Alaska Refrig'erator company are operating their grcat fac~()ry to its full capacity, haying booked many heavy contracts for goods. The company divided a handsome dividend recclltly. Ballowski & :V[assey opened a house furnishing store De-cember 18th ill l\e,vnygo, IvIich. Muskegon Valley Furniture CO. MUSKEGON, MICH, ---- Odd Dressers Chiffoniers Wardrobes Ladies' Toilets Dressing Tables Mahogany Inlaid Goods Will Not Believe It. "Selling belo-w cost" is a poor thing to do. It is also a poor adve.rtisernent for more reasons than one. First, a tua-jority of those who read it will not believe it. It does not look reasonable. Then, it mtlst be remembered that the purchaser is not so much interested in what something costs yOll as what it will cost him. He is not anxious to know huw and why and when yOll bonght it, but, if he wants it, he is very much interested in the selling price. It means less to him than it does to yon to know the difference be-tween its huying and selling price.-()regon Tradesman. No-Kum-Loose, J s the name of the trade mark adaptcd by the Grand Rapids Brass company for the TI)'wer Patent Fastener. Knobs and pulls put onto furniture with these little Tower Patent Fasteners will "No-Kum-Loose," ul1less the furniture is entirely destroyed. That means a saving of much trouble; a saving of drawer fronts from being scra.tched or marred; a saving of much valuable time and expense in correspond-ence; saves many a purchase from being returned to the stDre; and -in athlitinn to all these advantages they C03t the manufacturer absolutely nothing, and the dealer can well afford to demand them of the manufacturer. They cost no one a cent aside from the Grand Rapids Brass company~ who simply furnish them gratis to increase the sale of their goods, "No-KlI1l1-Loos.e" is a success. Demand the Tower Patent Fa.o;tencrs from every salesman ",;Ita shows you photos of case goods, and positively refuse to buy unless they are furtlished. Rattan Furnishings in Europe. Rattan furniture in Europe is very comfortable and has lines of color illtcrwoven in the cane seats and backs of chairs which make thcm very attractive to the eye. Red, blues and greells arc l1scd sparingly and make the furniture appear to lrluch better advantage. One finds halls, dining-rooms and even dral,,,ing-rool11s furnished wholly or in part with this artistic and graceful fllrniture, This statemerH ap-plies to hotels, l,vhether private houses are similarly fur-nished the writer can not say. .. 66 Pioneer Mfg. Co .. DETROIT. MieN Rem1Furniture Babu Garriages Go-Gartll Our goods will be shown with Palmer Mfg. Co. on the second Aoar of the Furniture Manufacturers' Exhibi~ tLon Building, 13 19 Michigan Ave., CHICAGO, - ILL. To the fact that ten millions 11[ dollars have- heen expended in Detroit during the past year in the erectiol1 of buildings, the retailers of furniture attribllte much of the great prosperity they enjoy. The growth of pupu]<t tion has been so rapid during the paq (\'1'0 years 'llld tile demand for fl,rniture has been so great that the retailers have bad to Pllt {or"th great efforts to fill the same. For several :ycars it seem-ed as if there were too mally furniture stores (upwards of fifty) in Detroit, but the res111ts of the past years proved there was room {or all. There was hut one failure', and that an important one. Creditors lost nothing, and the only com-ment excited by the failure l,vas that the bankr\1pt had lasted so long. A large part of the furllituce sold in Detroit is of the better grades, although tbe great laboring population of the city requires milch cheap work. President 1\-1. J. 1'1urphy, of the Murphy Chair comp<111y. is of the opinion that the next census will show the popl11atioll of the city to have in-creased to 400,000. Secretary Seeger, of the Posselins Brotbers Fllrn;tl1re Manufacturing company. reportcil trade as Ullllsu<t1ly active ROOK WOOD and a genera] line of fRNGY TRBLES Write for Cuts and Prices PALMER Manufacturing Co. 1015 to 1035 Palmer Ave. DETROIT, MICH. Will exhibir during January on second floor, Soulh FUfnitur~ E"hi-mlion Bldg., 1319 Michigan Ave., Chicago. Ill. for this season of the year. "\"!Ile have received but a very few cancellations," remarked Mr. Seeger. "Many of our customers have written us to ship when we can, if we can not ::;hip now. \Ve shall exhibit practically a new line of one htlndred patterns of tables in the Manufacturers' Ex~ hibitioll bllilding, Chicago, during the month of January. It will contain, in addition to our specialty, the Victor, many st'lllc1ard patterns. In finishes we notice a growing interest ill fumed oak, but there is a steady demand for weathered. Gulden oak ,vill. it seems, ever retain its popularity. Solicitors {or business hnd a chjlly reception awaiting their presence if they do not hold certificates in the Detroit Board of (ol111nerce. No time or attention is given to so-licitors or salesmen l,\'ho have not paid the price of
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650. Michigan Artisan; 1905-10-10

Notes:: Issue of a furniture trade magazine published in Grand Rapids, Mich. It was published twice monthly, beginning in 1880. and ~. GRAND RAPIDS., PUB Twenty-sixth Year-No.1 OCTOBER 10. 1905 ~eml.Monthly PEN-SOL. The New Thinner for all kinds of Oil-Stains as well as Fillers and Stains is THE MOST PENETRATING REDUCER on the market. It may be mixed in all pro-portions with oils, fillers and stains because it IS ABSOLUTELY NEUTRAL to all ingredients used in them. It permits of much greater reduction than turpentine and benzine ~ AND INTENSIFIES THE COLOR 100% No danger of curdling, flows betlEr than other reducers and sells at a low price. SEND FOR FREE SAMPLE, THE SECRET OF SUPERIORITY Of the frame of the Gillette Roller Beaing Dry Kiln Truck s disclosed by the cut. The girth or header at the end fastens the angle steel sides together. It is made of mallable iron-extends the endre width of the angle steel sides-is solid across the top- grooved to receive the angles. TruckforEndwisePiling It is riveted at six points on the top and sides. These girths-+-in a 6 foot truck make the frame rigid-strong-Iasting. Examine the nrf>t channel steel tfock you see. The· sides separated by cast or malleable iron spreaders-frame held together by bolts---:.not rivets-running through the center of the channel-not fastened at top and bottom as in the Gillette truck. . Raise a channel iron truck-so built-3 feet from the floor. Drop it oI$the end of one of the channel sides-not on both-and see that side driven back, tbrowing the wheels out of line\.. Subject -a Gillette truck to the same treatment--or to any other test. Its superiority will then be as plain to yo\ as it is to us. The Gillette Roller Bearing Angle Steel Dry Kiln Truck is right in construction-right in price. Particulars for the asking. T"E GILLETTE ROLLER BEARING CO. Paten lees and Sole Manufacturers YANKEE VARNISH R EMOV E R ~uperior toatt other an;ic1es of the kind. Takes off notooly varn· Ish but shellac, fillers and stain. Work may 'be refinisbed imme_ diately witbout injury if our directions are followed. THE BRIDGEPORT WOOD FINISHING CO.-New Millorlf, Conn. 55 Fulton St., New York. 19 W. Lake St., Chicago. 231 Dock St.. Philadelphia. SPARTAN PASTE FILLER I .Ai High I Made in Marietta. Grade Article in Every Respect. possessing qualities that put it easily ahead of other fillers from the fineness and character of the ingredients that make up its composition. We produce this in all of the leading shades, including our fAMOUS GOLDEN OAK IMITATION QUARTERED OAK ~ TRY OUR SPECIAL FILLERS AND STAMPING INKS We are producing-the goods of this uature that bring- results to perfection. Sample our Fillers o. 800 and No. 810 and our Inks Nos. 5. 6 and 11. In OIL STAINS. remember, we lead! Our Golden Oak and Mahogany Stains stand without a rival. Write us for samples and fun information. The Marietta Paint and Color Co. I MARIETTA, OHIO. For they pay for themselves m a few Months OUf Clamps Cost You Nothing We now own the BENEDICT PATENTS May we write you about them ?• GRAND RAPIDS "AND SCREW COMPANY 130 South Ionia Street, Grand Ra'pid5,~ich. These Specialties are used all Over the World 1 V~[\('.er Presses, all k.ind!! and sizes Veneer Presses Glue Spreaders Glue Healers Trucks, Elc.. Etc. Hand 'Feed Glllein~ Machine. (Patent pending,) Eight Styles and Sizes. Wood· Working Machinery -,~-=---===-"';L-..-..--_--" . and Supplies Power~F'eediGllle :-;preading Machine. (Patent applied for). Single, double and comb11lation LET US KNOW YOUR WANTS 419-421 E. Eighth St. CHAS. E. fRANCIS &.. BRO.D CINCINN4T1. o. No.6 Glue Yeater The Pittsburg Plate Glass Company MANUE'"ACTURKRS AND JOBBERS OJ" Plain and Beveled Mirrors, Bent Glass for China Cabinets Plate Glass for Desks. Table Tops and Shelves It needs no argument to show what advantages may be derived from dealing directly with us. 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: New York Boston Philadelphia. Burfalo Cincinnati St. Louis Minneapolis Atlanta. Kokomo, Ind. Ford City, Pa. High Point, N. C. Davenport Crystal City, Mo. Also. our 22 jobbino houses carry heavy stocks in all lines of alass, l)alnls. varnish.es and brush.es; and are located in the cities named below: NEW YORK-Hudson and Vandam Streets. BUFFALO-372-4-6-8 Pearl Street, BOSTON-4I-49 Sudbury St., 1-9 Bowker St. BROOKLYN-635 and 637Fulton Street. CHICAGO-442-452 Wabash Avenue. PHILADELPHIA-Pitcairn Building, Arch and CINCINN ATI-Broadway and Court Streets. Eleventh Streets. ST. LOUIS-Cor. I2th and St Charles Streets. DAVENPORT -4Io-416 Scott Street. MINNEAPOLlS-,500-SIO S. Third Street. CLEVELAND-I49-S1-53 Seneca Street. DETROIT -53-55 Larned Street E OMAHA-1.£08.1o-n Harney Street. P[TTSBURGH-IOI-l03 Wood Street, ST_ PAUL-349-S1 Minnesota Street. MILWAUKEE, WIS.-492-494 Market Street. ATLANTA, GA'-30, 32and 34 S. Pryor Street. ROCHESTER, N. Y.-Wilder Builditlg, Main SAVANNAH, GA -745-749 Wheaton Street. and Exchange St5, KANSAS CITY-Fifth alld Wyandott St5. BALTIMORE-22I-223 W. Pratt Street. BIRMINGHAM, ALA.-2J\d Ave. and 29th St. AGENTS FOR THE COULSON PATENT CORNER POSTS AND BATS. The Universal Automatic CARVINO MACHINE ~------c:-:= PERFORMS THE WORK OF 25 HAND CARVERS And does the Work Better than it can be Done by Hand ======MADE BY====== Indianapolis. Indiana Write f<ir(nhlorJ\\ation.PriCl!$Etc. 2 Machinery for MichiJran Artisans or Any Other Artisans . No. 98 Patent Gang Dovetailer 9 12 or 15 SJ)indles Cut ShOWSI5 Crucible stepl spindles I1riven by cut g-earing-. Self·uililil/ aojllstable Spindle steJl~. ecct!ntric Dovetail Cl1tt",rs, nlf'Challi~m above the table ailjustllbl· for f'itlJer ,'lain or swell frollis without hnvillg to dlsmanUe machine. Top raises to admit of i'llslly sharpen illg spindles. No.4 Patent Triple Drum. Eight Roll Sander 80x81ndles Send for s~llder book BUILDERS OF Wood Working Machinery FOR ALl. PURPOSES WRITE: FOR FULL DESCRIPTIVE: CIRCULARS AND CATALOGUE No. 133 Inside Molder-four sides Ras 4.71nch 1116108(('ell rolls to work 4 sides Hi Illenee wide and II Inches thick. four 81(\(->s(\lottf'(1 cylinders. wHh 11MInch journals, ffllll.'H> Inch knives n1leach. Side sptnrl!ps 1~ bleh diam~t",r, wbere peade Me al'plipo, lHted with a pail' of 6 Incb heaus and a pall" of 'I jllch knh'es Oileach. AS A RIP I:;AW AS.A RK-SAW No. 146 New Combined Band RiD and Re·saw------Three Patents Rlps rnateriaillp tu ~~tllch()~ wide lJptwepn saw all,1 fence. takes 18 inches under the gUide; re~aw!\ mllterial18 lllches wille. 8lllchesthlck. Just what ~'ou lleed If you rip and )"eRawand have all Illsuffieiellt amonnt to require sevarate tools. Send postal for new lJlllldsaw llOOk. NI). 156 SinDle CyJder in Cabinet Smoother Capadty Ii to 7 Inches thir'k. 24 10 42 Indlf's wide. feed roll, Solid or lusedlollS AU" IQUtG I<'EATUHJ:I: 011 tlllsmllchille te ~I~lcfha~~~;;;"l~;\~:)t;1I~~ll~.a~a~p~~i;;,l~~s~etmglcbll~l e~1l~it~~iri~~ 505-525 W. FRONT ST. J. A. FAY & EGAN CO. CINCINNATI, OHIO GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC LIBRARY 26th Year~No. 8. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., OCTOBER 10-15. 1905. -~ ~~--- '-- ---~~=== ._-- The Late Morris Wood. .:VTorris \Vood, of the firm of Morris \Voon & Somi, manufac-tUT(: rs of wood \vorkillR machinery rind tools in Chicago, died recently in that city, after an illness of three years. He was sixty-eight years of age, and is survived by his wife, yIargaret, and SOllS, George, Jay, \Varren, am.' Robert l. and his daughter, :\Jrs. Nel1ie"kichardsoll. For more than thirty .years l\.Ir. Wood was known to the m81lutadllrcrs of furniture in the United States and by his ability as fl mechanic ;:md his strict integrity as a bllsiness man won the friendship 31ld confidence of a large llllm· her Ivilh whom he had established bUi'incss relations. Many machines and tools cOllsiclcrcd indispemabk by wood workers were originated hy 1\Jr. \Vood. lIe was 011e of the 6rst to en-gage in the manufacture of carving machines, also a combina ti011 boring bit and counter sink, for which he was granted tet-ters patent. Bis death is not ouly a serious loss to his family and friends, but to the wood workers of America. The bllSi- 1WSSwill be continued by George and Robert]' Wood, who have long been associated ,vith their father in the firm. Profit-Sharing at Fall River Rejected. Fall River mill operatives had under consideration a proposition fro111the manllfactllrers that cOlll"cyed a promise of future prolit to the workers and a satisfactory solution of the more or less disturbed eoudition existing alllong the employes. The opera-tives asked for an increase of wages equivalent to fourteen per cent. They were offered a n\··c per cent advance and a hcnefit in fl system of profit-sharing arranged on a sliding scale that is to be governed by the .conJiton of the market and the Ol1tput of the mills. Under certain conditions the profit to the men would be much greater than the fOllrteen per cent wage increase de-manded by then!. The plan proIJosed was a new one. There were many prec~ $ J .00 per Year. thing like it has been tried prudently and with earnestness 'the showing has beeu such as to gladden those who have partlc:i?3.ted . The \vorkers have been the beneficiaries, while employer;:; have also henefited by having that greater need of good work \vhich any sound craftsman brings to his labors when he feels within himself that the more he does and the better he does it the greater will be his wage on pay days. And yet th~ men rejected it. It would seem that the conditions existing at Fall River and ;l.Inollg the cotton mills everywhere were especially fitting for a furtber test of this industria! experiment and for the establish-ment of a mutual b(lllci of symllathy and expectation between c1ll[)loycr and em[)loyc that cannot be broken by every chance hreath of trade dissatisfaction. The average employe 1s a dunderhead. ""as the effort of the manttfactmers worth while? Tl1(' property of the Two Rivers. (\Vis.) l\llanufactming company was sold recently for $25,000. Bdore the sale the pro-perty had been appraised at $[55,000. It is doubtful if the ref-eree will confirm the sale, as under the bankruptcy law, the pro-perty mllst bring at least sevellty-nve per cent of its appraised vall1e. A new appraise.ll1ent seems to he in order. The Buchanan (Mich.) :-itroyed by 6re recently. was ftllly insured. Cabinet company's factory was de- The loss amounts to $.}O.ooo which THE CORRECT Stains and fillers. THE MOST SATISFACTORY first Coaters and Varnishes JlfA/lfUI'"ACTURED DH.i.ya....- CHICAGO WOOD FINISHING CO. ZS!I·&3 ELSTON AVE.... Z·16 SLOAN SI. CHI CAGO. 6 Sketches by Arthur Kirkpatrick. Grand Rapids, Mich. Qran~Da~i~s:,Dlowr'Pi~e an~Dust Arrester (om~anJ THE latest device for handling- sbav-ings and dust from all wood wood-working machines. Our eighteen yrars experience in this class of work has brought it nearer perfection than any other system on the 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. OUf Automatic Furnace Feed System, as shown in this cut, is the most perfect working device of anything in its line. Write for our prices for equipments. WE MAKE PLANS AND DO ALL DETAIL WORK WITHOUT EX-PENSE TO OUR CUSTOMERS EXHAUST FANS AND PRESSURE BLOWERS ALWAYS IN STOCK Office and Factory: 20&-210 Canal Street GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. Citizens Phone 1282 Bell, M ..ltl 1804 OUR AUTOMATIC FURNACE FEED SYSTEM 6 7I 1'<-'T' I >5' JI.l'l ? ;'" $ f; * MODERN ENGLISH. in illuminated manuscripts. The manuscripts seldom or never show us cupboards or settles with pointed arches. And when we come to examine the few pieces of real mediae-val furniture which Mr. :Macql1oid has figured, neither do we find the pointed arch in them. In most of the fifteenth-century specimens here ;tlus-trated the well-knowll napkin pattern i!> used, a pattern very characteristic of English work of a Perpendicular THE OAK AGE IN ENGLAND. The, fine volume \vhich Mr. Percy )'1acquoid, R. 1., has compifcd relates ()]lly to what he calls the age of oak. Subse~llent volumes will deal with waluut, mahogany, and the cbmposite prodllctions of the half century between J 770 and 1820. The age of oak again, d-iviues itself into Gothic, Elizabcthan, and Jacobean. The scope of the present volume is summarized in two sentences on page \'ii. of; the introdllction: "All very early English fl1rnitllre that Has come down to liS is of oak. Deal and chestnnt were rare, valuable wood~ ill those days; what was made of he\ich and elm has penshed, and walnut was not grown for its! wood in England till about 1500." The! Gothic style ill furnitme occt,rs but seldom. \Vhel1 it cloes, ~hiefly in the form of chests, cupboards, and buffets, it is ~s unlike as possible to what was invented during the so-calted Gothic revival of the last century to represent it. \iV;l1C11 the lH:W Palace of Parliament ....a.s.. ready for its fl1Tnitmc Pugin alld others undertook to produce chairs and tables sllch as ought to have he en used before the Renaissallce. They lacked one quality; they Vo,'credesigned I OAK BEDSTEAD MADE IN 1560. . I. I I d . 1ll all lmaglllary style; t 1ey 'were evo ve from the lllller consciollsness of the 'eminent architects concerned. The fesult ""·as disappointing, and we do not see that in restored castles and houses of the most undoubtedly ;Jointed architec-ture the new furniture found much favour. In the C0m-mittee rooms of the Houses of Lords and C0111mons there are cxamples, hut they do not answer to the few ancient SpeCln1Cns that still exist or to those which are represented I Pcop"t, of the D'ke of D"m"hi". I type. l\1r. .Macquoid calls it linen fold, ami gives bxat)1ples in chests, cupboards, buffets, and the oak wainsJoting of rooms. The most imJ)()1·tant example is knownl as "Sir John \Vynne's "P.n:ffct," preserved at Gwydyr Castle, where it was made in 1535. "The ConstrL1~tion is Gothic, being surmounted by a canopy or dais, the base of which has at one time heen cut and reduced." It is remarkable for its heraldic decoratiOllS. The eagles of Owen Gwynedd are represented with the rose and the lions of Ellgland, and the red dragon of Cadwaladar, all grouped with a back-ground of linen fold. A double hutch, the property of ?vlr. 1'lajcndie, and one belonging to Mr. 1Iorg'an Vv'illiams aTe carved with more distinctive Gothic tracery but have the linen fold besides. A cupboard with very interestillg his-torical associations is the prop.erty of l'vIr. Barry; it must have been made for Ann Pickering, probably on her mar-riage with the ill-fated Francis \Veston, the son of Sir Richard vVeston, who built the well-known Sutton Place, near Guildford. Francis \\Teston was put to death, with other victims of the jealollsy of Henry VIII.. in 1536. It is curio LIS, among so many examples of these heavy oaken coffers, not to find chairs. The few seats preserved were in each case part of a series of stalls fixed to a wall, like the fine seat preserved at S1. Mary's at Coventry, which dates froni 1460. Another which ),1r. Macquoid figures, is he thinks. Flemish. Two chairs of what he calls the X shape are in \Vinchestcr and York cathedrals, and date from the Tudor period. Mr. lVfac(juoid does not mcntion the Glas-tonbury chair, whieh is so often imitated by the Western chair-makers. Perhaps he does Bot consider it a genuine example. \Vith the introduction of chairs as ordinary domestic furniture Gothic dies ant. "Although the number of chairs used, even in important bedrooms, at tbis time," namely, the reign of James 1., says Mr. Masquoid. "still remained limited. the growth of comfort is shown by an increase ill those made for the parlours and witb-drawing-rooms He elsewhere tells that the word chair is de- ri"'ed from an old French 'word chayre, chcrre, or cayre. The X shape is convcnient and looks \vell, but for a man with a heavy coat of mail something stronger was nece,,- ;:;ary, and in jlluminated m;Hluscripts or tapestry we see the box-like form, \vith panelled armsanc\ back, and evi-dently alrnost, if not quite immovable. r'jfteenth cen-tury chairs always l1ad arms to support the hea \'y sleeves then ..\.'.Or11. The chair ill" ark is "the earlicst knc)\·vn example of an English llpl101stered chair." Queen ~Jary TlIdor,. in the 'Nell-knowll portrait in the library of the Society of Antiquaries at Burlingron Honse, sits in a chair of this kind, The \va1I1nt. chair belonging to Sir George Donaldson (Fjg. 50) is ,l good example of tile', type. Bed-room stools, \vhich answered the pLHpose of small tables 8 as ".veil as seats, were probably the only portable seats, and "..-ere no doubt in coml11on lts!¥ The bed is ot oak, and of about the date 1560, that is, vel'}' early in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, whose arms are carved at the head. The roof or ceiling of the bed is very massive, weighing nearly a quarter of a tOll. The autllOr has much to say about tables. The modern mahogany dining-table, with its adjustment of leaves to suit the size of the dinner party, was not invented in a day. It js interesting to observe that the highly inconvenient foot-rail-which, no doubt, was calculated to steady rickety legs-\-\'as among the last of the primitive features to be improved away. A large table which is the property of the Duke of Devonshire (Fig. In), though it looks so ancient, is dated at the end of the seventeenth century-in J6')7, in fact-- -so tllat it may almost be described as "Queen Anne." Sharpening Machine Knives. An Important Process LiUle Understood. The common method is to use an emery grinder, using water to prevent heating the edge and drawing the temper. Gre<lt care should be llsed in grinding with :m emery wheel. )'b.lly knives are injured and often destroyed by its use. The danger tomes from tht friction of the whee{ heating the edge, and this may result il) cracking the knife and gen-erally leaving it. soh, but occasionally leaving it in the con-dition called "case hardened." An examination of the knife will r·c,,'c.1.1 the effect. as a blue color lS left upon a polished smface. \\Then the knife is craeked the crack usually nms parallel to the edge and gelleraJ[y takes ;"(('lllTe lip to the edge. lis distance to tbe edge j5 detenn-illed hy the point of contact Oil the opposite sidc of the emcry ",·heel. The crack is tlsnally from 1i to 'i-inch from the edge. There are some knives whose temper can be drawn enough to SeriO\lsly injure thern, if not ruin them, and yet no color \Vill be shown. Very hard knives, like, plane bits, st.roke jointer knives, shaves, etc., are examples of this. Knivf';;; can be g-rollnd upon an emery wheel and not be injured, but they 'will not submit to c:are1css treatment. Use a soft, coarse wheel and be SURE it does not GLAZE. Have the knife move steadily and reasonably rapid over the wheel and do not attempt to grind it too rAST, keeping a stream of \vater upon the \lointof contact bctweei1 the knife and wheel. (Continued all page 31.) The 1Nansau OVis.) }'urniture and Undertaking Com-pany \vas organized recently by \\T. M. Lawrence and others. Capit.al stock $25,000. 8 The Fundarnental Principles of Cost Accounting. The part of a cost system which a business manager is mainly interested in is the cost sheet, and all cost sheets can be divided into 1wo general classes; the one in which the arti-c1t Or unit of cost is one of a large number of identical units and is called a"combined unit, and the other that in which the article or unit of cost ha.:; a separate existence and is termed a distinct unit. The method employed in compiling tbe cost sheets in the t\vo classes vary widely, although the principles on \'v"hichthey are based are the same. In the case of the combined ullit examples of which class of manufactures are, coal and ore mines, tiquid and fluid pro-ducts, and large quautities of small articles each exactly alike, it is the usual practice to first record on the cost sheet the tota;~ quantity produced during a specified period of time such as ai day, a week, or a month, and secondly to ascertain and record on the cost sheet the entire cost of the same. This ac-cpt1tHing serves to ascertain the first quantities produced, and second the entire cost of material and labor used and ex~ pended in order to produce the same. 1n the case of the distinct unit examples of which class of manufacturing are special orders, contracts, steam engines and :special machines, it is usual to ascertain the total cost on the rost sheet, upon the completion of the work, although it is necJssary that the cost sheet be in a form to readily show the management the cost to date, at any time such information may be required ;I'he cost sheet for a plant manufacturing combined units show>; the total production during a specified period, the total costlof the same, and the cost per unit calculated from the en-tire broduction and the total cost. The cost sheet may be ar-rang; ed if desired to show" the cost of each process or in each department if there are morc than one; in general form the cost sheets for all kinds of combined units are much alike. The cost sheet for a plant manufacturing distinct units shows the total cost for labor amI material for one specifIc article or unit of cost. It may hc arranged to show the cost in e1ch department or the cost of the various parts of the article. ]n the case of the plant manufacturing combined units there is one cost sheet each month for the entire plant; in the cas~ 'of a plant manufacturing distinct units there will be a cost Isheet started for each article when commenced, and a cost :completed for each article when completed~ therefore there may be a large number of cost sheets started and com-pleted each month. All business operations are transfers either of rights or materlal from and to persons or places. The science of double entry accouilts is concerned with the recording of these trans-fers and the compilation and statement of the results of the business operations. A double or so-called journal entry is the record of a transfer made, and is also an adjustment of the at-counts to the new conditions existing after the transfer has b~cn made .. the transaction is recorded in such a manner that t)le party from whom or place from which the goods arc transferred receives credit for the amount transferred and the party or place receiving the goods is charged with the same. There are two distinct parts in all systems of accOltntS. The first being the blank forms upon which are first recorded the tratlsactions or transfers, these may be bound books or loose sheets of paper contained in a binder or held together in thel form of pads and are variously known as day books, cash books, journals, sales books, purchase journals, etc., when used in the trading department of a business; they are known as material consumption sheets, time records, pay rolls, production re(':oras, etc, when used in the manufacturing department of a business; the second part in all systems of accounts are the "ledgers;" these are bound books, or loose sheds of paper held together in a binder and are for the pur~ pose of summarizing the different kinds of transfers and transactions recorded on the forms and books previously mentioned, into "ledger" accounts, each separate ledger ac-count containing amounts of a like nature, they are varioudy known as general ledgers, purchase ledgers, etc., when used in the trading department of a bl!siness; they are known as manufacturing ledgers, unfinished product ledgers, etc., when used in the manufacturing department of a business. Intermediate books or forms are often used when the original -record of a transaction and its entry in a ledger ac-count, but such are only used for the purpose of saving time in writing up and space in the ledger. While it is not the intention in this article to enter fully into the principles of the science of accounts, it is neces-sary, however, to discuss such principles a,s apply to the re-cording of the transactions -and transfers taking place in a manufactury or plant engaged in the manufacture of a product, together with the instruments consisting of loose sheets and bound books upon which the transactions are recorded. There are at the present time two methods in vogue of as-certaining the cost of a manufactmed article. One of these which is commonly called the memorandum method or system i:'>to ascertain, upon tl1e completion of the final process, either by actual measurement of weighing, or by estimating~ the quantity of material consumed and contained in the article the labor is sometimes accurately ascertained and sometimes esti-mated, a percentage is then added for expense and wear and tear and the result is taken as the cost of the article and upon which the selling price is based. The ledger accounts usuatly kept in connection with the memorandum system are a manu-facturing account to which' the factory pay roils and all ma-terial purchased are charged; separate factory expense ac-counts are sometimes kept, and sometimes expenses are all charged to manufacturing account. When the memorandum method lS used the books do not show from month to month the stocks of raw material on hand~ the cost of the unfinished product nor the cost of th-e finished product shipped or in stocks; the results of the operation of the plant are never known until an inventory is taken, which, while" being accu-rate as far as the raw material is concerned, is never accurate in regard to the tll1finished product or the finished product. It is an easy matter for the manager or superintendent of a plant using the memorandum method to show a fictitious profit or loss by the simple process of inflating or decreasing the inventory, and even when an honest effort is made to take a correct inventory a serious error may exist without being detected. For some years there has been in use an exact and scien-tific system of keeping factory cost accounts and which uses the double entry method for balancing and verifying the ac-counts kept, it is very accurate and while perhaps from day to day it requires a somewhat larger clerical force than the mem-orandum, yet the information derived is so much greater, so mltch' more readily available, and so much more exact than anything which the old memorandum method affords, that~ with the competition existing to-day, no factory of any size can afford to use the old inaccurate memorandum method. This second method is called for want of a better name~ the modern method or system, and indeed none other will be nt'.eded for very long as within the course of a few years it will be th-e only method in use. While there are many classes of manufacturing in which the combined unit pre:va1ls, and in which the modern method repays many times over the slight additional expense incurrer.:: for clerical help over and above that required by the old or memorandttID method, i.t 'is particlllarly in those plants where th-ere are numerous distinct units of cost and numerous processes or departments that the main economics are af-fected. The chief points of difference between the old and the new method are, that the operations of the plant under the old method are only shown 1n the financ'ial books in one gen-eral result at the end of the year, and th'ere is no control through the tinancial books of the operations of the plant, a seriolls leakage in material or labor cannot betraced or discov~ ered by the accounts and often times may exist for years ·without being kno"\vn; in the new or modern method the transfers and transactions inside the factory between the dif-ferent persons or departments are retorded on the same prin-ciple that the transactions between the trading department and the outside world are recorded in the trading books, aU material received in the plant must be strictly accounted for through the stock consllmption records and any leakage is located -..vhen the records are compared with the actual inven-tory of material on hand when the same is taken, the total amount of labor shown on the pay rolls must agree with the total laLor charged against the various units of cost as shown (J11 the various cost sheets, and the tlltire operation and finan-cial standing of the factory is shown each month when the usual monthly balance is taken from the general books; 50 ad-dition to this exact control of the operation,; of the history there is )'et another featuTe of the modern method extremely valuable to the fInancial manager, this consists in showing each month the exact cost of the goods sold making it possi-ble to draw up with very little labor each month a correct profit and loss account show-ing the correct profit or Joss. JOHN PROUD. AN UGLY LOOKING PIECE FINISHED. BEAUTIFULLY A Plea for Beauty in Things of Daily Use. Everett Shinn, artist, mnral decorator and illustrator, anounces himself as a disciple of \Vatteau, Fragonard and noucher- As such he is reviving the art of "intimate decoration;' as he calls the work 'which can turn an awk-ward bit of furnitme into a thing of beauty. His initial production in this direction is a piano which he transformed for Clyde Fitch and which occupies the place of honor in the l.ouis XIV. room of the dramatist's house. In the Cluny Museum in Paris aTe examples of what can be done in the way of decorating musical instruments. There Mr. Shinn spent months studying their decorations and ahsorbing the secrets of their colors and their glazes, and determining a certain path for himself from the con-ventional art of today. He has 110t cut himself adrift, by any means, from the traditions of canvas, of big gilded frame, of sh'adow box and all the other conservative means of Iming immoral-ity. He pays them their due of work and respect but he contends that the view of the painter is too contracted and that a piano is as good a medium to exhibit his ta.lent as a bit of machine made paper which will crumble to bits in flfty years or less or a canvas that has none of the ele-ments of duration canvas of other days had. He is not content merely to copy in the \vay that word is ordinarily understood, but has gone back to the seven-teenth century and adopted the brush louch and other technicalties of the period. He declares that no imitative scheme worthy of the name can be accomplished in any otl1erway and that for a modern painter to use modern methods to produee seventeenth century effects is a confes-sion that he does not 11nderstand the fundamental require-ments of the undertaking. In regard to the details of the work, 1lr. Shinn said to a Sun reporter: "When Mr. Fitch turned the piano o\'er to me it was the ordinary drawing room article, with a substantial case and good tone, but not different from thousands of others scattered all over the country hypnotizing the eye with their uncouthness so that al sense of value ·is lost, as by the very force of awkward strength a giant will attract the eye where the grace of a beautiful woman might be overlooked. 9 "First of alj came the filling of the pores of the wood so that the background would be absolutely dense as the toughest substance known. Then by slow degrees, as it was ready for it. came the gilding and lacquering, a com-bination of processes reslllting in a wonderful amber tint, with the very translucent brilliancy of amber itself against which and through which shone the vivid tints of the de-sign- the blues, greens and reds. "\Vhen you spc2k the words Louis XIV. you have vis~ ions (Jf ribbons and laces, of garlands, of theatrical fetes un-der spreading trees with tapestries stretched from branch to branch, of beribboned walking sticks and powdered wigs, of frivolity in life and its counterpart in art. I believe I have caght that evanescent charm-at least I have made the effort:' There is no part of the piano that "1h. Shinn's facile brush has not touched. Semi-wreaths caught by fluttering ribbons cover the ends, and across the front, while your fingers idJy str'1)' from key to key yOLl can examine at leisure the urn with its profusion of floral offerings, the ba.skets of blooms, the drooping sash of tiny blossoms. On the lid a VV'atteau-like group dance in the open, while a mass of clO:ie twined roses outlines their graceful postures and steps. After the painting was completed a special glaze was prepared which produces at once the look of age which time \.,.'ould require 300 years to give. The piano as finished is in its proper environment, The room is a p.erfect Louis XTV. apartment. th. Shinn is now '\vorking on the designs for another piano for AIrs. \ViJl1am Tevis of San Francisco. He is hav-ing the piano made under his supervision, and is debating het"vcen the relative merits of teak, mahogany and rose-wood. The piano will be a conc((rt grand and he is to have free rein. One design for the decoration of the piano over which he ''''i.\xes especially enthusiastic is about to be done on a white background in red, the painting simulating the red chalk dra.wings which Mr. Shinn uses a great deal in his illustrating work and which was a medium particularly liked by the old painters. If this design is carried out it wil display a set of medallion portraits en wreathed with roses and the lid wj}J show some ballroom scene or theatric~ 801 representation. The piano is to be placed in a period room ""here every detail lS to be carried out under Me Shinn's supervision. "The modern ar~ist," says Mr. Shinn, "has put aside that wonderful red ~halk which is used just as it comes from the cartb and has the most wonderful possibilities of color. Sometimes it is almost black, and then you get the most delicate pink; always it comes nearer the flesh tint than any other medium. "It was the discovery of tJlOse old painters, and it would. seem as if nature had intended it for the artist's uSe. The black penciJ is the substitute for the artist who has adopted different technique and wants to go further and use different mediums as well. "1n France this chalk can be bought for almost noth-ing, a box containing 300 pencils for 5 cents, what you would pay for one black pencil here or for its manufactured sub-stitute. I have asked mallY artists why t.hey did not use it, and have received fat answer only the wOl"d of tradition, just as they paint canvases instead of other articles and add to the overstock when they might make life more beautiful and glorify the crude workma.nship of daily use. "They never stop to consider that Michael Angelo painted the walls of a chapel and that Benvenuto Cellini could spend his precio11s moments ornamenting a door-knob, which is today the wonder and distraction of thou-sands of admirers." 10 Painters are llot the only ones who cavil at this in-timate decoratioll" scheme. ,:vlusicialls view it with senti-ments varying from acute displeasure to good natured tolerance. The painter langhingly describes the agollles of one of his sensitive friends, who became almost hysterical at the idEa of his 0\\'11 special pianoforte being touched hy vandal bands, and its ugly exterior, which is abOLit as prepossessing as a coffin, made into a work of art. "Primarily," says Mr. Shinn, "the piano is a piece of furniture. t:1 is not something that can be shut up, pushed into the wall or kept Ollt of sight. Consequently it should be treated so and if possible should be made to conform to the canons of good taste. "I can understand better the feelings of a violinist who might not care to see the limited surface of his instrument to~;ched, but when he is through with that he puts it in its case and it is taken away, and it does not when in repose offend the ('ye. Even ,,vith the violill 1 kno,,,, no reason why its ucouth case should not be made beautiful, so that to see it is a delight and its removal not a necessity. "I see, in fact, no reason why the public should not be aroused to the thought that the intinate theil1gs of their daily lise, articles \vhich they touch and pOSseSs and grow to love with that attraction of sentimellt which comes by asso£iation, should not. be made valuable by the work and name of the artist. The old painters did not despise the snnffbox. the fan, the casket. even the doorknob or the salver. Are we better artists? Have we a truer conception than they? I don~t think so." Uncle "Dan" Jumps Over the Broomstick. "The marriageof _:drs. Ella neall and Mr. Daniel G. \'Villiams took place this morning at 9 o'clock at the home of the bride on _Bellefontaine, street. Only the relati.ves were present fo;." the ceremony, which was performed by the Hev. Thomas J. Villers of the First Baptist church. The attendallts were Dr. A. ]. Lewis, of Day tOil, 0., a brother of the bride, who gave her away, and little Mlss Helen eOOnA,a granddaughter of l\.tr. \Vil1iams, \.".ho was the tlower maid, land carried the bridal bouquet of \larechal Nei.l roses. A ha.rpist played the wedding music and during the break-fast that immediately followed the ceremony. The wedding gown ;was of gray crepe de chine trimmed with silk and lace appliqne in delicate pastel tones. i\mong the guests were Mr. and l\i[rs. David Stmgeon, of Franklin; Mrs. Rettie Seeger, of Kansas City and ).Jiss Cora \Vest, of Day tOil, O. The rooms were decorated wit.h palms, carnations and rOses Mr. and l\frs. vVilliams left at noon for the North to spend three weeks and they will be at home at 2:217 Bellefontaine strret after November Ist."--Indianapolis News, Oct. 2. Mr. Williams has many friends in the furniture trade, who will wish him and his wife health and prosperity in their n,ewly found joy. Marked Increase in the Use of Machinery. Th~ extent to which machining of lumber is done. 110W as compared with twenty-five years ago is a marked one and make;; a considerable difference,'"said John Horn, of Horn Brothers Manufacturing comp"<:tny,Chicago. "But in order to tell just how much is the difference in dollars and cents would requirel.some study. The thing we have to, contend with is the ran in ihe manufacturing business who don't know anything about it. Such men on acconl1t of lack of knowledge sell their goods at any price, 110 matter whether there is a pro1it or !lOt. You find shoemakers, tailors and bankers in the business and it ,s their foolish moves that we have to contend with." The National Cash Register Company ha.s declared for the open shop and closed cash register. A Useful Combination Saw Table. One of the best machines made by the Edwards l\'1achine Company of 3"1 to .16 "'V. \Vashington St., Chicago, is theii· NO.5 Comhination Saw Table. This machine is adapted for use as J. rip, crosscut, grooving or dado machine and is a tool for furniture factories, planing mills, pattern makers and anyone needing a good working saw. It is extremely simple in design, convenient in operation, and suitable for those desirig a reliable piece of apparatus at a low cast. The frame is constructed to secure the greatest streqgth, be-ing cast in one solid piece. The countershaftis attached di-rectly to the frame and the belt shifter is also attached to the frame convenient to the operator. The machine is con-sequently quite compact and requires a minimum amount of Hor space. The saw arbor is grooved to prevent end mo-tion and tlie pulley is between the bearings which are cast extra long and liIled v,'ith the very best grade of Babbitt metal. The Saw Arbor is of a fine grade steel and is n~ inches in bearings, tnrned down to I inch where the saw goes on. 'the Arbor and slot will accommodate a T4 inch saw. the table is all iron, cast in one piece and heavily ribbed and is 3g inches long and 30 inches ,,,,ide planned perfectly trne. and is adjustable up and down. The table is construct-ed with an opening around the saw into which a wooden, de-tC" ochabtethroat piece is accurately fitted, which, when taken out, gives ample room for changing saws or using dado or grooving head. The table is provided ,,,,ith two parallelled ways or slots for the reception of the cross cut gauges, oue DB either side of the sa,,\,. Tllese ways are carefully and ac-curately planned in the table. The cllt.-off gauges can be set at any angle for angle or mitre sawing. The ripping gauge moves easily back and forward across the table. Tight and ioose pulleys on countershaft are R inches i!",-di-ameter and 4 illch face. The driving pulley is 16 inches in diameter and 4 il1ch fac_e \Veight 700 pounds. Coullter-shaft sped Sso revolutions per minute. The saw is not furnished with the machine. Pensol, a new Thinner,. The Adams & Elting company, of Chicago, have per-fected a thjnner of great penetrating power, which can be ilsed for all kinds. of oil stains, as well as ll11ers and varnishes, to be ~old at a reasonable price. The reducer is abso-lutely neutral to all ingredient.s used in fillers, oil stains and varnishes. 1t's penetrating alld flo\ving properties are far su-perior to those of tE:rpentil1(,or benzine, rendering it a much more valuable article to users of stains and wood fillers. This reducer being absolutely neutral, may be mixed in all propor-tions with oils, fiUers and stains ,,,,ithout the least danger of curdling where it is employed. As a reducer of filler and stains it wilt intensify the color 100 per cent. as a result of its g-reat penetrating power, consequently material will stand much more reducing with PEN-SOL than with reducers COI11- 1110nlyused, such as benzine or tcrpentine. Samples will be sent by Adams & Elting company to those interested. Comfort For Workers Pays Well. A little wisdom and welfare being deemed good things for workers, a building has been reared by aNew York company with library, reading room and assembly hall. The library will contain 1,000 volumes on technical snbjects, interesting and instructive. The auditorium will be open to the various departments of the company for entertainments and lectures. Of the latter a number ""iIl be given by experts eminent in the various fields and on snbjecf.s in which the men are most interested. Alexander Dodds, reported a big demand for his d_ovetailers, swing saws and saw tables during August and September, the trade coming principally from the sout.hern states, with North Carolina in the lead. MACHINE fiNIVES PERFECT QUALITY RIGHT PRICES PROMPT SER.VICE ABSOLUTE GUARANTEE Dado or Grooving Heads, Miter Machines, Universal Wood Trimmers. Boring Machines. Etc. FOX MACHINE CO 185 N. F'onl St. • Grand Rapids, Mich. THE POLISH THAT IS MAKING N ALL'S EVANSVILLE FAMOUS Nll.ll's Hell St.-.l' T'nllslL dries lus\;'mtlV lmd never softens or ~\ll1ls. No disagn;ea(lle 01' offensive odor l' eVl'l' sctrJe.5 or eVfLj10rates, A trial order always makes It permanel)t eusto- Iller. HrtnJ{s out lite finish amI g-lve~ new 11f(' to the fllfllitlll'P. This 11011.,h h free from acl<l Can he llseu hI' an" child. 1311:lrallteed 10 gin perfect satl~factloi1. Sold in 1,2,5 and 10 ~allon cans and in barrels, also put up in 2, 3 and 6 oz. bottles retailing for 100, ISo and 250. allOWing a lib~rall-'rofit to the retailer. \\trite for pTices and state quantity wnnted. "'e r('t~r )"ou to t.h~ CreSC('llt ~'u['lllt(Jre<'(J, The J<;vansville l}e~!> Co., The leU II. Miller ~'oidill>:" Kf'd Co., and Ti\(~ tity Nntlollal Han!>, ofEv:tusvitle. M~NI]FACTCR"D BV THI~ A Perfect Pol1sh and Cleaner _ .. for. _ Furniture. Office and :Bar Fixtures Pianos. Organs Bicycles. Iron Beds Cal't'lages and AUlomobiles AMERICAN PHARMACAL CO, 205 Uliller First St., EVANSVilLE, IND, STAFFORD ENGRAVING CO, "The Honse of ldeat{' INDIANAPOLIS, INDII\NA STI\.ffORO fURNITURE ENGRAVING Our half tones are deep sharp, clear; gh1jng them long wear and ease of make-ready. Every plate [5 predsel~- type-- hIgh, mounted Oil a perfectly squared, SeasOl1ed block. tTimmed to pica standard. All are proved and tooled until the nest possible prill/jng quality is developed. Specimens mailed Oil request. t'Jtt~IS:l~~!~~~m~o. , '., I Wood Turnings. T umed Moulding, Dowels and Dowel Pins, Catalogue to Manufac-turers on AppLication. 1000 0 ONINVESTMENT Doesn't sound reasonable In connec-tion with a piece of machinery, but the annual saving in cost of opera.t,ing our TYPE A Engines over others of similar rating, figures out that way. Isn't your curiousity sufficiently arous-ed to prompt you to ask for circular No. 18S-F explaining this? All facts---N 0 fancy theories American Blower Co. DETROIT, MICH. NEW YORK, CHICAGO, ATLANTA, LONDON It ,-------_._-- ------ ------------------ We were PloneeFS 10 Produc;ln& 'it.. Su.ccessfu1.a.nd Pl'actical R.ub.. bing and Polishing Machine .nd a PERFECT Sander MAD DO X MAC H I NEe 0 M PAN Y. JAMESTOWN, NEW YORK As Ii "ander, It will do :1.11that any other DIll.Chille will do all'I mallJ" things that uo othl"r machine can do. HundredS ofmaclllne~ In constallt \lse wor:klnll: upon wood, varnish, brass. copper. slate, marble, ivory: many factor1es using frolll6 to 14each for Slluding, rut>blll~ and polieh1tlg. !fABLE LEGS turned with this machine cost less than any you ever made. With it one man will do the work of six to ten skilled Hand Turners. The quality of work can't be beat, and we would like to have you judge of it for yourself, by sending you a ~ple of what we guarantee it to do. The main features of ~hemachine lie in the patent Cutter Head. the Vari-ab'e firictlon Feed. and the OscillAting Carriage. A full description of this machine will interest you. May we send it? c. Mattison Machine Works 863 Fifth. Street BELOIT. WISCONSIN Goodlander-Robertson lumber Company MEMP",S, TENN. ORDERS WANTED fOR 500,000 Ft. Jl in. to·3 in. Common and Better Plain Red Oak. 500,000 ft, of 1 in. to 4 in. Log Rnn Plain White Oak. Delivery in the Next Four Months. Lumber to be shipped when sixty da.vson Stick.. Would also be pleased to have your inqUiries for any other stock. GOODLANDER-ROBERTSON LUMBER CO. MEMPn'S, Tt;NN. - - -------------~------ WALTERCLARKhasnot only the samplesbut theSTOCKITSELFof MAHOGANY VENEER in HISWAREHOUSaEn,da lot of it. Beautifullfyiguredandpricesright. WALTER CLARK 535 Michigan Trust Building Citizens Phone 5933 GRAN D RAP IDS, MI CHI GA N THE "PO R T E R" This cut rep-resents 0 u r 12, 16 and 20 in. Jointer --MANUFACTURED BY--------- C. O. & A. D. PORTER, 182North Front Street, GRANDRAPIDS,MICH. Long-Knight Lumber Co. ===========SPECIALTY:=========== QUARTERED RED AND WHITE OAK INDIANAPOLIS-------------------INDIANA 14 W. A. Bat"ker Discusses the Business of Furnishing Hotels. Mr. vV. A. Barker of the Pacific Purchasing Company, Los Angeles, CaL, was re.cently 111 Grand Rapids, aCl.:')111.- pallied by Mr. A. C. Hilicke, of the same city, to purchase the fnmiture for a new hotel. Mr. Barker states that business conditions on the PaciJic coast are of the best with shong 'indications of a heavy fall ,tmde. He is an enthusiastic admirer and SHllporter of his home city and speaks in glowing terms of its present and future prosp-erity. I believe people in the East," said Mr. Bar- "have little idea of the size and resourceS of Los Angeles. It is much larger than the average Easterner imagines. The city :has a population of 250,000 and this year the tourist crop is expected to reach 50,000 or more. These people, with the rest,! have to be taken care of and their ever-increasing !lUm-ber contributE's ill 110 small manner to the healthy b\1sine~" growth of the city. III addition, Los Angeles is the distrib-uting' center of the big orange, lemon, and English \"iaI1l11t crops, as well as the center of the \'ahlable and extensive Califprnia mining operations." Son..e two or three year:;:,ago, at a! meeting of the Retail Dealers association, it was de-cided not to allow the retail customer to buy at the 'factories direct. Mr. Barker, who -was on the floor of the convention at th~ tilue, saw at once the inhlry that would result in rnal1y cases! to the retailer's business and secured a modification of this decision that would al1o"\\1 the customer to visit the facto~ies when accompanied by his dealer. "One of my objects in securing this ruling," said ?\'1r. Bar-ker," was to put -in a ,vedge that ,','ould ultimately shut out the mail-order houses from this important part of the re-tail furniture man's business, which they were rapidly encroach-lllg upon. The mail-ordef houses, carrying a more extensive line of samp-les, g1ve the customer wider scope in his selec-tion "than he can oftentimes god from his local deate,r. This is especially desirable in the case of furnishing new hotels where: a large order of a particular class of furniture is being sought. The mail-order houses were rapidly securing the big hotel trade, and in time would gobble up the little ones, but b~ shutting them 01.1tof the former we protect the latter. "Pethaps the effect of the mail-order business in this respedt is not so keenly felt in Michigan and other miridle west a:nd eastern states, for in the W{'.5t the sittlation is some-what ~[ifferent. The average western dealer carries such a class ~nd style of futlliture only as is calculated to meet the demands of his average trade. The hotel man, in the case in question, usually is looking for sOlUcthing a little different from the styles ordinarily carried in stock. Tn the east the dealer could send to the factory and supply the exacting tastes of his customer "\vithi11a day or two, but in the west he woi.lld be obliged to wait a week or ten days. In the meantime the mail-order house, with its local Of nearest agency, has got in its fine work and the dealer has lost a good ctlstomer, "Now, I have noticed recently considerable af?;itation in a certain class of trade jonrnals, which seems to be designed to prejodice the hotel peopk against buying at factories ac- COtlqla,nied by their retail dealer. The tcxtS of these articles seem to imply that some sort of graft enters into such tran-sactions injuriol\s to the hotel man's interests. Now, as a matter of fact. there is 110 fotlndation for any such reports, for anythillg b\.lt a straight, legitimate, open transaction h> tween the three parties interested~the customer, dealer and manufacturer---woulc1 soon come to light and seriously in-jure the dealer's business. "Now, to sum IIp thc whole matter, any such ideas of shady dcaling or "graft'" could be effectually put at rest if the re-tailers would 111lal1ilT1otlslyagree upon a fixed r<lte of per-centage. For instance, tell per cent of an order not ex-c. eeding $1,000 and five per cent. of an order above that amount. 10 most lilstances suc.h an agreement is entered into between the retailer and the Cl1stomer before the deal is consummated, and the retailer in addition has his expenses paid to ac-company the cllstomer to the factory in the capacity of ad-viser only, giving the customer the henefit of his experience similar to the manner in which an architeCt would act towaT'l his Cl1stomer in a big bniJding deal. The retailer is not there to inAucnce his Cl1stomer. hut to advise him. Furthermore. there is littk. Opportlll11ty for a dealer to deceive his cnsto-mer, if he wanted to, for in the majority of faCloties the price of the differellt pieces IS marked in plain fig-ures which all may read." . Heavy Sales of Glue Joint Cutters. }Iorris \Vooo & SOl1S,11-33 South Canal street, Chicago, re-port having all the orders they can fill on their .solid ~teel Glue Joint Cutters. This old and widely knowll firm is crowded with the demand for their cutters, the trade on these goods coming from all sections of the united States. These cutters cut a perfect joint and ncvcr burn owing to the gradual clearance. They require Ihtle grindjng, saving time and cutters. No time is wasted ill setting them 11[> and their cos.t is no more than Cl1tters of other makes. Prospective pl1rchasers should send for catalogue No. 10, and prices will be fUrJlished on application, The Scng company, 39 to 51 Dayton street, Chicago, are lJl1ild-ing an adrlition to their vlant, the ground having heen bnken e.arly last month. The Hew btlilding will he 75 x 130 feet in size and will contain three stories and a basement. It will be completed witll the close of the year. it will adjoin the present plant and when finished the entire factory will he 150x 130 feet in dimen-sions, and afford a total Boor space of 80,000 sqtlare feet. In si7.C and capacity the n('"" addition is a duplicate of the present factory and wjtb reinforced concrete construction will be ahso-lutely Greproof. IF YOU HAVE NEVER TR lED OUR RUBBING AND POLISHING DIOTROIT FACTORY VARNISHES C"'!ijl,O\P,!'t "",CTOf\Y YOU HAVE YET TO LEARN THE F"ULL POSSIBILITIES OF" THIS CLASS OF" GOODS WHY NOT PUT IT TO THE TEST BY GIVING US A TRIAL ORDER? BOSTON 8ALTIMORE BERRY BROTHERS, LIMITED, VARNISH MANUFACTURERS NEW YORK PHILADELPHIA ST. LOUIS CINCiNNATI SAN FflANCI8CO FACTORY AND MAIN OFFICE, DETROiT CAN.,PIAN FACTORY WALKE.RVILLE, ONT Spindle Carving and Hand Carving, For Furniture, Caskets and Fixtures. 411work. guaranteed to be first Class. Send us your Samples or Sk.etches for prices and Samples. Knoxville Carving and Moulding Company, Knoxville, 'Tenn. BE UP-TO-DATE. Get one of the New Electric Spindle Carvers and keep abreast of the times. You cannot afford to let the "other fellow" have the work you should be doing. The Electric Carver will keep the trade you have and get more for you. Our Carving Cutters are of the best. Westni(~i~anna(~inean~Tool(O.•lM. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. G. R. ~ I. fLYERS BETWEEN Grand Rapids and Chica,go =-==- To Chicago To Grand Rapids -------- --'- -- -_ .. _-------------- .... 7.10 A. ~f. Lv. CHICAGO, NthCSt~~Ii:tEt~x~. Sun . ... . 12.35 Noon Ar. GRAND RAPIDS . Buffet Parlor Car 1.15 p. M. 5.50 P. M. Lv. GRAND RAPIDS. Ex. Sun. Ar. CHICAGO ...........•. Buffet Parlor Car Lv. GRAND RAPIDS. Ex. Sun. . .. 12.00 Noon Ar. CHICAGO ... " .. . . . . . . . ... 4.50 P. M. Parlor and Dining. Car Lv. CHICAGO, fJibC8t~~~~,E7~x.~ Sun 5.15 P. M. Ar. GRAND RAPIDS 10.25 P. M. Parlor and Dhllng Car Lv. GRAND RAPIDS. Daily 12.35 Night Ar. CHICAGO..... .. .... ., 7.15 A. M. Electric Lighted Sleeping Ca.r Lv. CHICAGO, NthGSt~~~~Dtla~i~ly ._ .. , 11.55 Night Ar. GRAND RAPIDS 7.00 A. M. Electric Lighted Sleeping Car Phone Union Station fot' Reservations Phone MJchilia.n Central City Ticket Office for Reservations. 119 Adams Street 16 Feeding a Planer Req~ires Skill. That to plane an ordinary piece of lumber requires a little more than ordinary knowledge is demonstrated in the fol-lowing interview with a well-known foreman in a prominet Grand Rapids factory: "An intelligent expla~ation of the manner in which lumber is fed into a planer, and the establishment of any fixed rules that may govern the process, is practically an impossibility. The method by which the work is done depends upon both the wood and the kind of planer USI?,d.In the first place we find that we can secure the best results by setting the planer knives nearer the head. This, though necessitating slower feeding, favors the wood and prevents waste and tear, or 'eating it up,' as it is called in the shop. In many pieces of wood the grain does not run uniformly straight throughout. In such a case the piece could not be successfully fed into the machine end to end, as the knives would be apt to raise with the ;grain and an uneven piece of work would result. "In general the lumber is 'sheered' or fed into the machine at almost a right angle. This gives the best results in most cases. However, you can readily see that only a general ex-plarption of the work can be given. \-Vith the wood and the maclhine, the experience of the man behind both plays an im-port; ant rart. An experienced planer can tell at a glance, The De!;cipk!; Bed. ill the Armory, \VofCesler, Ellgland. fromlthe tendency of the grain, just how the piece should be handled. It is the wrong idea, however, to believe that the same principle holds good with each distinct variety of wood. It most assuredly does not. No more definite instruction is possible in any particular variety than I have already given you an outline of. For instance, I have seen the grain in the same cutting of mahogany run in two or more directions. This might possibly mean that the different pieces from the same board would have to be handled in as many different ways·i' I Money in Waste Hardwood. All the world's woodcutters might be millionaires if they knew how to gather up the twelve baskets of industrial crumbs as does a distilling plant in a Michigan town. This establishment has a capacity of ninety cord-s of hardwood a day, the wood consumed being slabs, tree tops and other hardwood offal from logging and lumbering operations. From one cord of this material there is made ten gallons of wood Suggested for a Hall, alcohol, gSY; per cent being pure; 200 pounds of a::etate of, lime, quicklime being added fo·r this purpose, and fifty bushels of charcoal. Every product of the wood, except the charcoal. passes off in the form of gas and is reduced by distillation. Some irreducible gas and a little tar product are used a"s fuel. Nothing is lost. The alcohol is worth sixty cents a gallon. The acetate of lime is worth two cents a pound, and the char-coal is worth ten ccnts a bushel. The value of the lime llsed is worth not over one-fourth of the value of the acetate. Thc value of the final product of the cord of refuse wood is, there-fore, not ·far from $q. The process is not expensive. The r lalIt, running at full capacity, will turn out a product daily worth $1,200 from material that has but little commercial value in its crude form. The Portland (Mich.) Observer condemns the employ-ment of convict labor by the Tr~de Table company. formerly of Portland, in the following: "It is a shame that such a class of men as are employed in the table factory should have to lose their positions through such a system; for, besides being out of work, those who are taxpayers must indirectly, yes, directly, help to pay to keep in a state institution those who are th-ieves, forgers, murderers, etc." Alderman George P. Tilma, an experienced carver, for-merly employed by the Luce Furniture company, and others, have purchased machinery and established the Furniture City Carving company, occupying space in the factory of the Lindner Interior Finish company, on Godfrey avenue, Grand Rapids. Old men continue to carry the burdens of business that should be assumed by younger men. But old men would die without employment. Activity and re-sponsibiIity in the busi-ness world protects their existence. If the retailers desire prosperity in the furniture trade all they need do is to pay the prices asked for goods by the man-ufacturers without question. 17 INSIST ON HAVING MorrisWood3 ~ons' ~olid ~teel OIoeJoint (utlers for there are no otherJ" U ju.rt a.r good." They cut a dean perfect joint always. Never burn owing to the GRADUAL CLEARANCE (made this way only by us), require little grinding, saving time and cutters. No time wasted setting up and co!'>tno more than other makes. Try a pair and be convinced. Catalogue No. 10 and prices on application. MORRIS WOOD ®. SONS Thfrty_one yeal'S at 31-33 S. Canal Stree'. CHICAGO. ILL. (;yclone Blow Pipe Co. Improved Cyclone Dust Collectors, Automatic F IJ[nace F eeden. Sleel Plate Exhaust F am, Exhaust and Blow Piping Complete 8Y!l~m, designed, manuEactured, installed and Iluaranteed. Old ~YStem~ remodeled on modern line!; on mo~t economical p(am Su{?plemcntary "y s t em, added where preoont .ys" kms are ollt{lrown. De-f~ tiv", S Y s t em" conecled. and .put LOproper workinll order. 12 and 14S.CiintonSt. CHICAGO, • ILL. Peter Cooper's Glue If you have any trouble with your glue, has it occurred to you to use Peter Cooper'.? When other m<l.llu(a.::tuT-ers or agents tell you that their glue ii as good as COOPER'S, they admit Cooper's is the REST. No one extols his product by comparing it with at) inferior article. Cooper's Glue is the world's standard of ex-cellence. With it all experiment kgins, all comparisons continue, and all tests end. Sold continuously since 1820, Its reputation, like inelf, STiCKS. Peter Cooper's glue is made from selected hide stock, care-fully prepared. No bones or pig stock enter iIlto its composition. In strength it is uniform, each barrel containing the same kind of glue that is in every other barrel of the same grade. ORIN A. WARD, Grand Rapids Agent 523 Pythian Temple CHlzens Phone 3333 18 Dodds' Patent Ta~le..le~DoYeiailer I We fiuq. upon illvestigation that our Dovetailing Ma-chine patent covers t his machine nicely. Cuts Mortise in the Top Cuts Mortise in the Cleats Cuts Tenons to nt the Top Cuts Tenons to fit the Cleab Adjustable to keep Mor~ tise and Tenon at a Standard size The Cheapest Joint Made Will turn out 250 10 300 Sm3H Parlot Tables in 10 Houts The Dodds TillinK S:l.w Table has more practical features and good poillts than any Other saw table Oil the mark~t. ALEXANDER DODDS Grand Rapids Michi~an, U. S. A. I HAND CIRCULAR RIP SAW. MORTISER COMBINED MACHINE. ~~r.IH::A'ND AND FOOT POWER MACHINERY WHY THEY PAY THE: CABINET MAKER; He can save a manufacturer's profit as well as a dealer's profit, He can make mOTemoney with less capital invested. He can hold a better and mQre sat!sfactory trade with his customers. He can manufacture in as good style aod finish, and at as low cost, as the factorif"S". The land cabinet maker bas been forced into only a dealer's trade and profit, becau'Se of machine manufactured goods of factories. An :lUt!it of Banles' Patent floot and Hand·Power Machinery. rein-lltate'S the cabinet maker with advantages equal to his competitors. If desi1ed, these machines will be sold ON TRIAl. The ~urChal'leT can have ample time to test them in his own sho~ and on the work be wishes them to do. DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE AND PRICK LIST FRKK. :"lo. 4 SAW (ready for cross-cutting) W. F. & JOHN BARNES CO., 654 RUbySt., Rockford, III. No.3 WOODLATllK. FOR MER OR MOULD8R. HAND TIl:NONBR. No.4 SAW (ready fOf ripping No.7 SCROLL SAW. Our Clamps received GOLD MEDAl World's fair, St. louis 19 PILING CLAMF BLACK BROS. MACHINERY CO. MENDOTA, ILL. CHAIN CLAMP Patented June 30, 1%3. SAVE OIL BELTS. BABBIT, TIME. MONEY AND TEMPER hy using the NELSON loose pulley. Observe that the pulley does not run on the shaft, but on a s!et:ve that is fastened to the shaft j!;iving:more than three times the hearing surface. No speed too high, no belt too tight to effect this pulley. The sleeve is entirely encased making pulley dust proof and no oil wasted. Recommended where every other known method failed. 153 CANAlST. GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. WILMARTH & MORMAN CO. Palmer Q]uing Clamps Patented April n, 18g3. May r6, 1899; March 22, 1904. Improve<:! damps have now become an absolute necessity, We b(']ieve (lurs meets all require-ments, and why. FIRST- Thev have unlimited strellRth ami power; damp instantly, yet securely; instantly reles:sed and {he work removed as fast as it can be handled SECOND-They will adjll~t themselves to any width or thickn~ss (not to exceed the limit oEsize c1<1mpused l and (an be used to put a truck load under pres!;ure while still on the truck. TflJRn---Very durable, being- all malleable irotl and steel, and not easily broken or got out oE order under any condition, 1\0 matter by whom or how used. Catalogue explains an-write for it. A.E.PALMER NORVELL, MICH. Jackson County VENEER PRESS Patented June 30, 1903 ..Relia~le" Rolls ..Relia~le" Panels THE FEllWOCK ROll AND PANEL COMPANY Mfn;. of "Reliable" Built up 'Veneered Roll oS and Plural Ply Panels for all purposes. Correspondence solidted. EI· ....:.S..·..·JI.I.E, I.'n. WHITE PRINTING CO. GRANO RAPIDS, MtCH We PRINT' 'l'He MICHrCAN AFlTlSAN, AND MAI<E: A SPE:CIAL.TY 0" CATAL.OCUE:9. 1'"0," THE: FURNITURE: TRACE:. You can clean it qUickly and thor-oughlywithout leaving theengille room No plallttaking its boile-rfeedwatel from a river. lake or pOlld can afford to be without this valve GIVE!S SIl.TLSFACnON WlJEREVKR USED SI';NO FOR CIRCULARS A~D PRICK LIST l. &. D. fOOT VALVE CO. 352 S. front Street GRANDRAPIDS,MIC". A Cheap and Simple device that will .save you lots "f trouble and mQr pre\lent an ex-pensive shLtt-down. An Automatic Self-Cleaning foot Valve .. 20 The Furniture of Yesterday and To-Day. FQl"t\1nee. Spent fo1' flare Antiques. Vi,lithout going back to the days of Solomon or without dwelling in ecstasy upon the iron bed' of Og, King of Bashan; or corning to the classic days of Cicero, whose table of citnjs wood cost him £9,ooo-calcu!ated with scientific exaetittide on rates of exchange and purchasing values-there are sufficient modern examples of splendid furniture to overturn an ordinary man's conception of the lares and penates. 1'ladame Sarah Bernhardt has a hed in her pos-session :for which she is said to have paid .£1,000. It is con-structed of old oak and elaborately carved. The tapestry hangin~s aTC vahH~d at an additiohal £500. Mr. Jan 'Van Beers, ~hc Belgian painter, has ooe of the finest grand pianos jn the world. It is of tbe most- supcrb construction thro\.lghont and has panels painted by the artlst himself. It is stated to be worth £5,000. Tbe most costly and most celebrated clock in the world is the one formerly in the possessipn of LOllis XVI., 110W in the hands of the Roth- ! schild faLIY. It is held to he tbe work of that unfortunate monarch] who was an amateur clock maker. It changed hands fo~ no less a S\.1ffi than '£30,500. 11. stands 18 ft. high, anda phi of silver hells chimes the hours. One of the most valuable carpels in the world was sold at Seville only three years ago. It is a magnificent Persian carpet 20 ft. square, is 600 years old, and is exquisitely embroidered -witb gold and silver thread. This rare piece was formerly in the possessiop of a princess in the East, and i~ valued at over £2,000. A- royal bathroom costing over £120,000 is in daily use by the Sulton of Turkey. The bath itself is of silver, and the bathroom floor is richly paved and ornamented with rubi'es and sapphires dear to the Oriental eye. , SCIENTIFIC COLLECTING. \Vhen Horace \Valpole strayed into collecting be brought the spirit of the dilettante into his hobby; it never became a passion, for in those days of leisured ease the man of fashion cultivated a pretty taste in trifles, be they Bow handles for canes or Battersea enameled snuff boxes. In early nineteenth century days Major Byng Hall, in his capacity 4s Queen's messenger, sconred Europe iu stormy times and incidentally h-lloted bargains as other men trac.k down big game. Still the spirit lacked exactitude. It was, after all, a mere hobby. The major, it is true, was probably the first t() see the monetary side of collecting, and he dearly loved, as he confesses in his Bric-a-Brac Hunter, to outwit some continental dealer. Nowadays collectors are scientific in their precision. They specialize, they tabulate lists of prices, they systematise in search of bargains in 'as thorough a manner as the steam trawl~r scours his allotted field for a catch. Icry EttIe escapes the collector of to-day. The .7'IR.T I >S' ..7I2\J if 1 Tes· auction-room prices are as well known to him as the latest betting 1S to othc-r seekers after fortune. His library is an armory of formidable volumes on his subject. Tn short, he is a business man who with the least possible taste for art for its own sake has realised that there is money in it. ELABORATION IN CARVING. Up till quite recent days, when the stamped copper panel took its place, the ordinary man grew accustomed to see mere scratchings as with a carpenter's brad awl upon his washstand or his wardrobe panels. \Vhat tbe intention of tbe so-called decorator was is best known to himself. Whether the individuals who perpetrated these monstrosities ever saw wood-carvings we do not know; probably they were trade symbols of the dark ages now happily passing away, resembling that stage scenery labelled, "Here' is a water-fall," or "This is a bridge." It is tnle that black oak side-boards had a crude carving of a lion's mask as though at one time the carver had once seen a wood-carving, but all else was mere Egyptian hieroglY1-1hics. Tn former days after the Renaissance swept across Europe the wood-carver triumphed ovcr the designer. In the magnificent specimen of wood-carving we reprodnce of the time of Louis XI IT. the design of the table is subservient to tbe elaborations of the wood-carver; in other words. it is at the opposite -pole 1.0 the feehIe s{'.ratchings of the nin~teenth-cel1t\1ry 'prentice h?nd. CARVED PAKELlNG. The ideal of the collector is to discover specimens of dated furniture, of chairs with coats of arms, such as the celebrated cbairs of the Earl of Stafford at the Victoria and Albert l\Iusel11TI. These are his ideals and bear the same re-lation to his hohby as do signed proofs to the print collector. As time goes on and as the !lumher of collectors gro"vs apace it becomes more difficult to light upon treasures which bave escaped the'reg\.llar arl1)y of searchers. Stw.h a fine pjec.e of English panelling as we reproduce is only to be found in the possession of private families or hidden away in some manor house and guarded with no less vigilance than the family plate. This coat of arms is from the panelling of an old hotlse at Exeter, and dates from tlte year 1600 when the Earl of Essex plotted to seize Qtleen Elizabetb.-London Atlas. Having obtained a good government contract it is hut ll?tllral that the Ohio Valley F\.lrniture company should favor the plan for the ah,mdonment of the January exposition. c. O. and A. D. Porter, of Grand R<lpids, report a big volume of trade at the present time, the demand being especially marked itom California. A. H. Sherwood, manager of the Grand Rapids Panel c0mpany, has been spending six weeks in Canada, calling 011 the trade. --------------------------- Industries Demanding American Machinery. A New Pield for Enterprising MaDuraeturers. Consul Smith of Victoria reports upon tbe great lumber-ing interests of British Columbia. The facts furnished sug-gest a field_ tor Am<,:rican forest and sa"\vmill ruachinery. He ..v.rites: Next to the extenc:ive mineral lands, of this province, the most important of British Columbia's natural resources is beT immens(' timber reserve. which, although curtailed somewhat by the great forest liTes that have rag-ed in the interior during hot and dry SUHuners, is still vast in extent. An oil-icial estimate plaC(~s the acreage of timber in British Columbia at the preSeJ1t time at 182,750,000 acres. As the great timber belts of the continent are being gradually taken lip, the attention of lumbermen ha~ of late been dra"v'n particularly toward this province, and especially during- the past two yeal'S, y\.:hen vast tracts have been ac-quired by Americau syndicates, ,,,,,hich are rapidly becoming the largest holder~ of timber lands in Vancouver hland and also 011 the mainland of British Cohunbia. A valuable circular in regard to the timber el1t of the province bas just been issllec1 by the department of lan{ls and ''v'orb, "",hieh gl"VCS the following results: To 1871, 250,000,000 feet; from 1871 to 188S, 595,ono,ooo feet; from J888 to /9<14, inclusive, 2,.569,262 feet, or, in Ibe aggregate, 3..~ 414,7.39,262 feet, besides that ClIt from private and Dominion Government lands. Tbe htmber Cllt of 1904 in this province, according to the report of the department ()f lands and ""arks. aggre~ gated ;)25,271,568 feet, cut off 703.433 acres under lease from Junior Drawer Clamp, Manufactured Grand ~apLds, Mich., Hand Screw Co. the provincial gnvcrnmcnt; and in addition to this there was Cllt on Dominion lands 22,760,222 feet, making a total of 348,031,790 feet. The cargo shipments from British ColulTlbia to foreign ports were in 1903 as follows: Luruber, 52,263,105; lath, 1,676,270. In 19°4 the shipments fell off in consequence of strong American competitioo and were as follows: Lumber, 38,220,148: Jaib, T .306,569. This falling }.)ff in the shipments of lumber is claimed, as stated, to be dne to American competition, and ~trenuous efforts have been made to indllcc the Dominion Government to put .:t duty of $2.00 per 1,000 all rough lumber imported from the United States, but so far \vithout success, and no hopes are now 21 en/(~rtained by the ll1mber dealers that such import duty will he exacted. The provincial government's revellue from timber for tbe year ended June 30, 1905, was $150,000 more than es-timated, exceeding $400,000; this notwithstanding nearly "J;f ~'I f I Designed by ARTHUR KIRKPATRlCK, Gtand Rapids, Mich. Design by BARNEY 21 1-1<1 ~YN a student in the G£!. RapidsSchooJ of Furniture Design three-fifths of the revenue accrued from l.icenses to cut Limber upon lands owned by the c.rown. Recently the pro~ vinc.ial government hets heco111.e more drastic in its regula-tions, and has issued a ~tringenl order prohibiting the ex-port of Jogs Cllt by band loggers from crOWl1 lands in the province. The penalty impo!'>ed by the order is that all logs attempted to be exported under suc.b conditions are to be seized. There are now ahollt 400 hand loggers alol1g the coast, men who take out lice11!ieS at $10 each, and who have carried on work on sidehills near the ""ater, so that their logs may be marketed without the use of expensive logging outflts. Heretofore one man has had as many licenses ;;\s he wished. Jll this way well-to-do loggers ]]ave carried all an ex:tensive business. One lumberman in Van~ COllver bad no lcss than 60 licenses, from which he made exports to the L"nited States. This order has created a great deal of opposition, and lumbermen are proposing to take it to the courts. It is estirnaled that the total capital invested in lumber-ing is $4,250,000 represel1ted by mj[Js, Jogging plants, log-gmg railways, tugcoats, etc., exclusive of the value of !a.llds pnrchased and leased as timber limits, which would total near $J ,500,000 addilional. There are 100 sawmills in the province, big and small, with an annual cut running between ;)00,000,000 and 350,000,000 feet. The acreage of timber under lease is about 2,000 square miles, and the total area of forest and woodland is estimated by the DOll1in~ ion statistician at 285,554 square miles, or 182,754-,560 acres, but mueh of it is co\Cel-ed with small trees on]y fit for fuel and local lumber, which would not be considered as "timber" by t he logger~.--Ex. o. 1\'l. Pryor, of Pensacola, Fla., purposes engaging in the business of manufacturing furniture in Nashville, Tenn_ 22 EST ABLJSHED 1880 PUBLISHED BY MICHIGAN ARTISAN CO. ON THE 10TH AND 25TH OF' EACH MONTH OFFICE-2'20 LYON ST.. GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. Owing to the strike of our compositors the publication of this i,ssue is much delayed and we are forced to mail it in quite Ian imperfect form. When we had a large amount of conttjact work and special publications In progress of completion the compositors left their frames, with but twenty-fouf hours' notice because of our refusal to sign an agreement to establish an eight hour work day in the plant on January 1. We are slowly recruiting and educat-ing a new force. In the meantime we beg our friends to bear -*nth us in patience. The ~o;st ca, sho,taRe fo' yea,; ;s repacted. Happ;ly, the manufacturers of furniture and kindred goods have shipped the greater part of their orders, lJUt there is quite an active demand for holiday goods, many of which will he shi.pped by cxpre~~. What the 1 conditions will be after Jannary 1 cannot be surmised, although it would seem that the large number of cars now under construction should relieve the shortage. During the past summer two steam boats have been construct-ed to ply on Cran{] river between Grand Rapids and Grand Haven, on Lake Michigan. As the ownership of the boats lies largely in the hands of the manufacturers of furniture, shipments by water to Chicago, Milwaukee and Western points will be on an extensh'e scale next year. The \Voodworkers Union of Milwaukee is soliciting funds from other organizations to support the strikers in their efforts to unionize the woodworking shops of that city. \Vith the strikes in the prlntjng, mattress and other trades prevailing, or~ ganized lal)or has a heavy load to bear. Working men seem incapable 6f learning anything, except through personal exper-iences. The experiences of others count for nothing. Or~ gani:7.ed labor is unwittingly learning a great lesson. It is this: The business men of the United States are determined to run their business in the future in their own way clOd for their own interests. The credit managers at Michigan have determined to ask the legislature next year to pass a bill to provide for the recording of chattel mortgages with the clerks of the counties of the state, This is a wise and just proposition and no difficulty should be experienced in obtaining the relief desired. L'nder the existing law the filiJiIg and recording of chattel mortgages is a farce. A bit of history will not be lacking at this time. Upwards of twen-ty years ago a gmup of farmers living in the northern part of Kent county, in their trips to and from Grand Rapids, with loads of hay, wh~at, hogs and otller llroducts or dry goods, groceries, clothing, fatm machinery and farm necessities, as the Case might be, noticed the gradual development of the furniture manufactur-lng business of the city, and one day, while attending a town caucus, they resolved to organize a company and engage in the manufacture of furniture at Sparta, Mich. A factory was erected, a sllperintendent engaged (not for his experience and ability, but 011 account of the very moderate wages for which he agreed to ",,-ark) and the manufacture of furniture (if the stuff produced might be called, by straining the truth, such) with in-expe;; enced \hclP and geeen lumbe; begun. From the aay when the first board was Cllt the company reaped only losses, and when the end of the financial rope had been reached the managers sought to prolong the worthless life of the corporation by the practice of tricks that served their purpose for a while. A com-plaisant township clerk (a stockholder in the company) concealed the many chattel mortgages that were placed in his hands to se-cure creditors and in the book of record the filing \vas so I::o'n-cealed that creditors wOLlld not discover the same. The com-pany placed large orders for mirror plates, varnishes, lumber, hardware and other materials estimated ill value at $30,000 and when the inevitable crash came the unsecured creditors lost all The l1istory of the Sparta Furuiture company should afford all the argument necessary io secure the passage of the bill 8riefly Mentioned. Plans for the new factory for the Brunswick- Balke Bil-liard Table company, to be erected in Muskegon, have been completed. The main buildings will be 65 x 325 and 65 x 219 feet re.specti\'ely, three stories high. The power house will be 50 x 100 feet in size. Three hundred men will be employed as soon as the factory is ready for operation. Tillman Brothers of LaCrosse, 'Vis., arc filling al1 order for 5,000 chairs placed by the. Unite.d States government, to be used in furnishing the hachelors' quarters near Colon on the Isthmus of Panama. The contract price is $I.QO per chair. William S. Winegar, trustee in bankruptcy for the defunct l :olt~ehold I'urtltture c,ompally of Grand Rapids, has brought suit against a !lumber of stockholders to compel the payment of delinquencies in stock subscribed for in the corporation. Frank S. Rase of IVlilwallkee, \-Vis., has been granted a pat-ent upon an lnventlon to prevent children from kicking off bed clothes. Mr. Rase should pursue his investigations further for meallS to prevent children from falling out of bed. The Southern Piano and Furniture company was organized recently with $10,000 capital, l)y C. T. Johnson and ot11ers of Meridian, Miss. The Brooks Boat Manufacturing company, doing business in Bay City, Mich., will add the manufacture of furniture to he shipped knocked down. The Skeely Furniture company of :lvkKeesport, Pa., hav(' increased their stock from $30,000 to $50,000. The White-Day Furniture company succeeds the White- Jones Trading company in Dallas, Texas. The capital stock has been increased from $5,000 to $10,000. The Mancha Shmv Case company of Detroit have increased their capital stock from $50,000 to $75,000, \V. M. Ward and others ha\'E: incorporated the Art Furniture company of Jamestown, "K. Y., with $20,000 capital prellaratory to enga.ging in the manufacture of arts and crafts furniutre. The Quisisana Furniture company, organized recently in La-porte, Ind., is manufacturing arts and crafts furniture. \Vork has been commenced 011 a nnv factory building for the Clarksville, (Tenn.) Furniture company. The Star Furniture company of Lincoln, Neb., recently 111~ corpora.ted, have $5,000 capital stock. The Western Cablnet aml Fixture company have: com-menced the operation of a new factory in Kansas City, Mo. For-ty men are employed. The compa.ny will manufacture bank and office furniture. The Rowell & Fetch company have opened a stock of furni-ture in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The Columbus (Ga.) Show Case company suffered a loss of $5,000, caused by the destruction of their dry kilns by fire. A cigarette thrown in a bed of shavings in the boiler house ca.us~ ed the conflagration. Waldheim & Company of Milwa.ukee, Wis" have taken posses-sion of the Bell Furniture company's stock in Racine, and com~ menced business in that city. Lynch and Ginga\ ha\'e oflened a stock of fmnlt\1TC i.n Wy;m-dotte, Mich. NO! IT is not a new STAIN or a new FILLER or a new SURFACER, Only a New Departure We have realized the necessity for a long time, of getting nearer to our good friends in the WEST and·NORTHWEST. Not nearer in spirit or confidence, for we feel that we are very close to our patrons in that way already, but nearer in actual mileage. We have just opened a new factory for the manufacture of our line of WOOD fiNISHING SUPPLIES at Nos. 61-63-65 and 67 North Ashland Avenue &"1&460, ILLINOIS It is fully equipped with all modern machinery, and the plant more complete in every way than the home factory. We will there manufacture and carry in stock, a full line of our Surfacers (Mineral Base) Water and Oil Stains Enamels, lacquers, Antique and GoldenOak fillers Japan Coaters and in fact everything that our good friends in the Central West and North West may call for, and if you want a special shade, we can only reiterate what we have claimed with confidance in the past WE CAN MATe" ANYT"ING We want to tell you about our No. 390 and No 397 NEW PENETRATING GOLDEN OAK OIL STAINS, USED IN CONNECTION WITH OUR NO. 611 and NO. 512 fiLLERS. We will gladly furnish samples, and also send copy of our little book "Lindeman the filler Maker" DON'T FORGET WHERE TO SE!'ID T"E BARRETT-LINDEMAN COMPANY M41N OFfiCE and fACTORY. Nos. 1400-02-04 fRANKfORD AVE. PHilADElP"IA, PA. CmC4GO fACTORY, Nos. 61-63-65-67 NORT" AS"lAND AVE. CHICAGO,ILL. 24 Weight and Worth. In our boyhood days the questio11 was sometimes asked, which weighs the most, a pound of lead or a pound of fcrtth-ers?" and without hesitation the answer wOllld be "A pound of ]iead, of course," The reader win be apt to ask, ;'\V]lat has that to do with wood\,.'orking machiller)'?" Simply this, that it indicates the ahsence of thought, ml1ch less careful c011sid-eration. That is the trouble with too many business IllC.11 to-day. In their 3nxietty to do a large business they too often bny a piece of machinery that i.s too light and poorly made to do perfect work, because it is cheap, or else if a manufacturer of machinery one is apt to demand very light casting-s from the foundry to save expenses, and enable him to piae\': his ma-chines on the market at a lower price ill order to increase the number of sale,,:; r n either case it is <l. delusion and a snare, breeding trouble instead of satisfaction. One of the tuost nec-essary and valuable machines in the furniture factory is the sha.per. This mach-inc is sllllject to as severe a strain as almtDst any machine in the factory, and to stand up under it, mus't have a good solid irame. That is the fOllndation, and l1nle~;;it is heavy and stroug it matters but little how ,v('-\Ithe machine is built, it will soon get out of order. The new NO.4 streets, Cincinnati. This company was established in 1864, and for nearly a half century has been supplying American and foreign furniture factories and other woodworking estab-lishnlC'nts with machinery of the very best make. It is but natnra1 that they should have a reputation for reliability that is an asset of inestimable value. Filling Orders. Tlle Knoxville (Tenn.) Carving and Moulding Com~ pany recently established by C. Evan Johnson and others, started their factory recently with a good !lumber of orders. Although the facilities of the company for manufacture are luge the volume of orders received already taxes the same. In passing criticism, don't be too harsh on the life 10- sura nee oJ11cers. Be regardful of the fact that they could have llrawn much larger salaries if they wished. It was there. Frank Laughlin, of Evansville, Ind., that was importcdhy Thomas Jefferson T-T e has refused $2,000 for it. owns a bedstead 111 colonial days. dOLlblespindle shaper, ""ith patent double counter shaft and improved self-oiling bearings, manufactured hy the Cordes-roan Machine company, of Cincinnati, has a frame larger and heaviet than any other make. The base is 33x34 inches: the top 40*-60inches, and the machine ,,,'eighs 2,200 pounds. The table is made of iron, in one piece, and the spindles are 24 inches apart, with r8 inches in front and 18 inches fTOm the spindles to the ends of the table. thus giving a large space for the workman to operate 011. Either spindle can be dropped at will entirely below the table and they will run a long time at 800 revolutions per minnte witlwut oiling. A treaJle in front starts or stops the machine. For full particlllars and pnce .'.Lddressthe Cordesman Machine Co., Pearl and Butler Skinner, Grobbiser and Kanitz Men of Nerve. lnveJt $150,000 in Furnitflre Exposition Builaing. Cha.rley Skinner, \\r. C. Grobhiser, Louis Kanlt7., Henry Schuerman and their associates e\'idently have faith in the perpetuity of tl1e Grand Rapids Furniture Exposition. Upon their recent purchase of \'aluable ground on North Ionia street, Grand Rapids. they have commenced the erection of a handsome, modern exposition building, to be ready for occupancy in July next. That they have faith in the future of Grand Rapids as 'well as in the perpetuity of the furniture exposition is proven by their investment of $150,- 000 for the purpose mentioned. New Patent Sanding Machine. The Cl1\. here represented is of a sanding machine espe-cially designed for makers of furniture, desks, etc. Ttwas patented 1Jarch 20th, 1/)00, alld has embodied in its make-up many l1;:W points to insure good work to those having this dass of sandil.lg to do. Limited space perm.lts of on1)· somE" of the most important features being considered. The machine is invaluable ..".'.here a perfectly smooth snrface is desir-ed either for v<LrnrshilljJ or painting. r t is massive and substan-tial, and saves the \vol·k of several machines for doing this character of work. The three steel polishing cylinders UpOI1 which the paper is placed have a vibntory motiol1 to prevent the formation of lines. and arc equipped with a device for quickly applying the sand paper, the third .cylinder giving the final and SInooth finish. The feed is very powerful. and con-sists of eight ked rolls, four above and four bel()\v, driven by a train of heavy expansion gearing. and "will open to receive material eight inches thick The machine is made to v..·ork materia! f'·om 30 to 80 inches wide and has a brush (lttach-ment which cleans the stock aftcr it In,, pl.ssedthrough. The prcssure rolls are so arranged that the ;tdjHstments can he made easily, quickly and accurately, ane! the feed started and stopped instantly. The makers of this rmpnwed sander, ]. A. 'Fay & Fg-an Co .. Nos. 505 to 525 \-V. l"rOl1t St .. Cincinnati, Obio, will be glad to he<lr from those interested, to \vho1l1 they \'\'ill submit prices, information and c.ts showing the ma~ chilH' ill detail. and a!"o testimonial letters. They "will also send free tIleir new illustrated catalogne, showing their ma-chinery, and book on sanding machines. Otis Introduced Tabasco Mahogany. Some fifteen years ago the Otis \lfg. Co., 2257-2267 Lumber St,. Chicago, {Irst called utterttion to the mcrits of 1'a-bu:-; co mahogany, a \vooe! at t1le time almost unknown to tb(' consumers in the United States, while no\-\, there is hardly a consumer who does 110t blO\V Tobasco and use it as a standard iu judging other varieties. During ~11t]les{' years the Otis iVlall-ufactnril1g · company has handled Tabasco exclusively and tht;ir ontpltt this year, with the small amount of Cuban, is all Tabasco wood. There are dozens of mahoganies being sold on the market at the present time, but there is only one Ta-as co. Tht, only wood dlat ever equalled it was the old San Domingo, hut as this ""'aod is now receiv'ed irt sHch small qnantities, it is 110 longer a factor in the market, and Tabasco heads the list. The Otis Manufacturing company handle 1'a-hasco only, and being importers direct, can quote close prices on the hest wood that groV_iS. Adams & Raymond have commenc<.~d the erection of ~ veneer mill in Lonsdale, Tenn. 71R T I k5' JI..l'l rm·g- At··, 7#. 25 The Imperial Makes Improvements. The Tmperial Fnrniture company \vill begin a.t once the erection of a new frame building to be one hundred four by fifty feet ill dimensions and to be used for stotage of high gp.de lrl1110er and otber materials. The structure will be lo-cated north of the company's factory and will be completed by December IS- Other notable improvements by the Impe-rial Furniture company js the putting in of a new twO hundred horse power boiler, to be installed November I, and several new machinE'S which ,..·.ill increase the capacity of the Imperial plant. The above improvements are the outgrowth of the in-creasing demands made by the trade ttpon the Imperial goods. The company are al"o nearly ready to issue a new catalogue which will show the oftLce and library end of the Imperial line. Crowded With Orders. All departments of the American Blower company's shnps at Detroit are cro\\rded to their utmost capacity, Re-cent orders from the wood-working field include a fifth dry kiln for the \V. F. Stewart company, Flint, 1vIich, and kilns for the English \Ianufacturing company, ~JerriJl, \-Vis., L. B. i\lorrison, Halvillc, Tex., and the Buffalo, (N. Y.) Lounge compallY· The La",'rencebmg (Tenn.) Furniture Company will move their manufacturing business to Clarksville, in the same sin te. WOOD CAR.VINGS If you don't buy them rig-ht this season it will not be our fault. WRITE FOR ESTIMATES Our work and prices will both surprise and please you ORDERS FILLED PROMpTLY JOHN DUER & SONS BALTIMORE, MD. Cabinet "ar(lware an1l Tools, Etc. Upholstered ()oods Handsomest PuB OD the Market for lhe Money Correspondence Solided. Write for Prices ana Sample No 1573 At-Grand Rapids T"E NATIONAL fURNITURE MARKET A LIMITED AMOUNT OF SPACE ~=FOR RENT~= IN THE BIG EXPOSITION BUILDING Desirable space, formerly occupied as retail quarters, can be had if applica-tion is made promptly. Now is the time to arrange for an exhibit at the com-ing January Exposition. Don't put it off--but write today. Original Exhibition Building, Pearl, Lyon and Occawa Streets Frontage Lyon 8t 255 ft. Ottawa St. 24+ .ft. Pearl St .67 ft. One hundred and fifty strong lines now tenant this building-not second raters but the leading lines of the country. The past season it has been dem-onstrated more forcibly than ever th~t Grand Rapids is the market where you get RESULTS. You can get some Eastern trade in New York, some Western trade in Chi-cago- but you can get both with one exhibit at Grand Rapids-you can get the best trade from every section of the country by showing here, and the expense of space and other incidental expense is less here than at the other so called markets. Write today (in order to get most desirable location) for detailed information as to rate, etc. Furniture Exhibition Building. CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. 27 Hardware Supply Company, For 13 Years We have been studying the needs of the Fumiture Manufacturers in the hardware line and have learned a thing or two. One line of our endeavor has been to find A Thoroughly Good T oilet Fastener which would displace the oid~fashioned, clumsy wood deat used for attaching the toilets to bureaus, dressing tables. etc. etc. and have found th.t the TILLOTSON TOILET FASTENER, which has now been used six ye.rs, is the ONLY ONE WHICH HAS STOOD THE TEST OF TIME.; hence we have secured the patent and now own the exclusive right to make the goods. We have made improvements in the construction of the fasteners, and now offer them to Furniture Manufacturers as the very best thing ever made for the purpose. Their use greatly improves the appearance of a piece of furniture and Saves the Retailer much Time and Money WE ALSO MANCFACTURE The Largest Line of Door Catches of any Concern on Earth. Beside' lots of other good things, aUof which we show in our c.t.logue, which may be had for the asking. Grand Rapids, Mich, U. S. A, Nut used on under side of Case Top. How I Struck the Manager. The desirable position that every boy, who has his O\vn way in the world to make is early ill search of goes frequently to the odd candidate ill some odd way or for some odd reason. In:::t case in mind. not a. month old, with Rrooklvn as the IOCLlS, it wel~t right over the beads of every youthfu\- eandidate for the position and was offered to an unsuspecting lad who had not the remotest idea of applying for it. He was a small boy of fomtecn; he had given days of his va-cation to earn some money that he needed in temporary messenger work in a branch ofGec of a large corporation; and when he re-ceived his pay be found an unwarranted deduction from his earn-ings, against which he had duly protested, exacting a promise of proper adjustment. Hc was indignant at the ensuing delay, but he was not a boy to give way to indignation in a way to imperil the collection of an amollnt of hl$ claim. Neither- had he any mind. to go again personally to the main office wit11 its besieging crowd of !Joys applying- for positions. So, with his mind bent on going straight to the mark in the fewest possible words, he penned a letter to the Brooklyn mana-ger. He wrote the letter, as he had uudertakcn the work, with-out the advice of anyOlle. It was couched in English that would have done credit to any business man of the city, and it was writen ill the vertical hand that reads as readily as print. He mailed it and awaited a reply with misgivings as to its tenor. He hadn't long to wait. Promptly camc the following· and astound-ing reply from the manager ,himself: "If the attached letter was "iritten hy you and it is a sample of your usual handwriting, T have a place ill this office for you as clerk, helping me in light office work, where there is a fine chance for promotion. Yours truly, * * *" Trade News. The late Henry Dinwoodly, of Salt Lake City, {eft an es-latc valued at $206,000, which \vill he distributed among a large number of heirs. The Columbia Bcd company, organized recently by the state of New Jersey, will manufactl1re bedsteads at Newark The California Fmniture company have opened their doors in Los Angeles, occupying a building erected especially ior their use. It has a frontage of seventy feet all Broadway and is six stories high. The proprietors, H. Voight, A. A. Ecbtrom and B. ]. VOlght, arE' widely known in the furniture trade. The Diplock-lvlorrill Furniture company, organized in Au-gusta, Me., recently to deal in furniture, is capitaliz.ed for $10,- 000, of which amount $2,000 is paid in. The Pickering Furniture company of Concord, N. H., suf-fered a heavy loss by fire in their store recently. The King Furniture company of \V"arren, ()., have increased their capital stock from $30,000 to $60,000. The Joseph Peters Furniture company of St. LOllis, Mo., were damaged recently to the amount of $2,.000 by fire, which originated in the varnish room. The Phoenix Furniture company is said to be the largest importer of mahogany logs in Grand Rapids. During the current ye8r it has received six large shipments from Africa. The Hoover Furniture company, organized recently 111 Hartford City, Ind., is capita1i;:ed for $15,000. Dele-her Brothe.TS, dealers of furniture in Jacksollville, Fla., have purchased a tract of ground on \Vest Bay street, and will erect a large building to be used in their business. Creditors of the Two Rivers (\Vis.) \lanufacturing com-pally are considering an offer to settle for twenty-one cents on the dollar. 28 Care of Machine Knives. Get the best knives, A good kn-ife will do more and bet-ter work and require much less care than a poor one. The men who have charge and care of knives generally have tenacious ideas about the temper suitable for their work, and as a rule, their ideas should be conformed to, unless decid-edly wrong. Knives that cut across the grain, sHch as stroke jointer, tennoning and dado, should be so hard that a file cal1 make no impression upon them. Many prefer to have sticker knives and moulding knives the same unless there are such corners that an emery wheel will not con-veniently reach. But the hard kllife will do most and best by BARNEY ZIERLRVN, a student in the Grand Rapids :<=:choolof Furniture Design, wor,k, bnt it 'is mOle difficult to sharpen. The same is true of lathe knives. All planer knives should be of such temper that they can be sharpened with a file, hardwood requiring a knif;e that a file will just toui.'_h, while pine requires a knife thatl will file easily. The temper suitable for elm and ash is ail trifte harder than for pine, that for hasswood another deg,ee harder, that for oak still harder, while kiln-dried mapfe and beach requires hardest temper of all. It will PlailtlY be seen that for one set of knives to work on all kind of "vQod a medium temper is the best that can he pro-cure. The g-rade of files lIsed has much to do with what a w(~rkman calls a filing temper. A knife that one workman will fall too hard to file, another will call too soft for 11se. Some prefer to Use the file more and grind less, while others pref1r to grind more and use the file less. Remarkable Furnishings of a Palace in the Netherlands. The Misses \Vhlte, of the Artisan, now touring Europe, have written a Humber of very interesting letters relating their experiences and describing their observations to the· local neWSpapers. In a letter dated the Hague, Sept. r6, Miss Lucy \Vhite describes the furniture of a palace as follows; "V\! e ]visited the palace or house in the woods where the reigni~lg queen spent her childhood. It is saUle distance out, but a~ the wads were good and the grand old beech trees ,vith \mossy green trunks in the woods so beautiful we greatlr enjoyed the carriage ride. The palace contains two rooms of more than common interest. The first-the Chinese---has rice paper on the walls while the upholstered iCfllitttre of ehony is covered with silk embroidery. Three handsome tables are inlaid with mother-of-pearl, in designs of grafes, leaves, Howers, birds, huttert1ies houses trees and human figures. The pearl is protected by lacquer. Ebony cabin tswere decoratcd with gold and supported Cloissone vases. The walls of the Japanese room are covered with hand embroidered silk. The furniture was of uniform de-sign and in the siting room there is an elaborately carved chair in teakwood, from Bombay, India. Orange Hall was constructed by Queen Sophia and contains a series of paint~ ings depicting events in the life of King Frederick \Vilhelm, The dining roOm is a cool combination of white and blue-a blue carpet, white chairs, with blue coverings, and a blue covering over the white (able. The De;ft table ware in-terested us very much. The Hotcl Du Vieux Deelen (old shooting house) where we are "topping was erected seveal centuries back. The furniture of our suite is much gilded and ornamented with festoons and heads. An adjoining suite the furniture is of white and gold, the waHs are covered with red upholstery and the carpet is of the same color. Natural flowers add mllch to the effect," A Hamess for a Dragon .. In the search for a weapon to use against the trusts, a most efficient one seems to have been found in alcohol; not as a stimulant, however, but as an active agent to accomplish real work. The present high tax. on alcohol prohibits its llse for mechanical purpOses, but it may be rendered impossible as a heverage without impairing its usefulness as a heat, light and power producer, and it is proposed that, thus ''tlena-turizcd," it be freed from taxation. It haS: been demonstrated that alcohol, if untaxed, would be bette and cheaper for heat-ing and lighting than gasoline and kerosene, while it is I1sable, probably with economy, as a fuel for internal com-bustion engines similar in type to the gasoline engines now in such common use. One of the largest factors in the trusti- Jication of industries is the fact that power is much more, per unit, in large installations than in small ones, and the grow-ing efficiency of the internal combustion engine, simple, direct and efficient for small powers as well as large; capable of being lIsed as economically for short and inte.rmittent runs as for long ones, has done much to encourage small indus-tries and to sustain a certain amount of competition in manu-factures. The average man, having accumulated a little more than enough to satisfy his immediate needs, hesitates to invest in a large company in the management of which he can have little voice and much prefers to operate a small industry by himself when he can see a fair chance of adequate returns then,Jroffi. The gasoline engine has made possible many small industries whieh could not have eXisted without it, but the tremendous increase in the consumption of gaso-line for this as well as for innumerable other p.urpo:ses, to-gether with the fact that its production and price arc arbi-trarily controlled, seriotlsly limits its field. A suitable and cheap fuel to take the place of, or to compete with, gasolin'e is much to be desired and would vastly extend the field of usefulness of this class at engines. \Nhile the present stage of development will hardly warant one in say-ing that alcohol will immediately and directly supply this fuel, it is certain that, if placed on the market as a competitor of gasoline it would have a decided t~ndency to lower the price of that commodity, and it is not- unreasonable to assume that the methods of its use for power purposes will be greatly improved within a short time. Added to its value as a weapon against (he trusts is the fact that it is capable of being made from a large variety of farm products, grain, vegetables and fruits, and is capable of being advantageously made in small installations and in any locality, so that its extensive consumption would open up all industry of an extent almost beyond conception; one no more capable of "combination" than farming itself. The question as to what we will do when our ,coal is ex-hausted would beat least partially answered,and one of man's worst enemies W-ot~!dbe made one of his most effident servants. \V. D. GRAVES. BUILT-UP PANELS AND VEN EERS FOR FURNlTURE MANUFACTURERS We do not cla.im to be lower In price. but we do claim our pa.nels are cheaper in the long run, 8J" they J1. .A A \Ve can fumish you 2, 3 or 5 ply Panels in QuartHed Oak, Mahogany, Plain Oak Ash, Elm, Birch, Maple or Basswood, and guarantee same in every respect. \Ve use high' grade Glue in our work and our Veneers are thoroug"bly dry and our Machinery up-to-date. Our 2 and 3 ply Drawer Bottoms and Glass Backs are the finest on the market. \Ve can also furnish you with Rotd.ry Cut Maple, Birch and Elm Veneers in 1.30, 1-20, 1-16 and 1-8 inches thick. All of our Veneers are dried in the new Cae Roller Dryer, and lay flat and are free from crinkle. If you wish to buy Panels and Veneers that are RIGHT AND THAT 'WILL STAY RIGHT, give us a chance to figure with you and submit samples and prices. THE GORHAM BROS. CO. Do you see the point IJiJ!I'" lifT. PLfASANT.Mien. Submit Y(lUrwants and let us make you bappy_ Saw and Knife Fitting Machinery and Tools n"'/J'!"'~}:;;~'~d:t Baldwin. Tuthill ®. Bolton Grand Rapids. Mich. Filers. Setters. Sharpeners. Grinders, Swa'les. Stretchers, 8/'azil1Q and Filing Clamps, Knile Balances, Hammering T(I(JIs. lnvtest1gate om Line. Neo,..· ,mo pal!:c CatalQRUe for r905 Free. Bolton Band Saw Filer for Saws ~ inch Ull. 'B. T. & B. Style D, Knile Grinder. Fun Automatk. "',et or nr~. ~----------·---OFFICES-~--------------- Boston New York. Jamestown High Point Cincinnatl Detroit Grand Rapids Chic:agG St. Louis Mlnneapoli. Associate Offices and Bonded Attorneys in all Principal Ities The Furniture Agency REPORTING FURNITCRE, UNDERTAKERS, CARPET HARUWAf.!E AND KINDRED TRADES. COLLEC· T1QNS MADE BY AN UNRIVALLED SYSTEM THROUGH OUR COLLECTION DEPARTMENT. wE I'Ronuel'; RESULTS WHERf: OTHERS FAlL WJUTli «OR PART!CULARS AND ~'OV Wll-1. SEND US YOUR. BUSIN ESS. Our CoJ:nplaint and AdJusbnent Department Red Drafts Collect #== L. J. STEVENSON, Michigan Manager We carry a line of Rebuilt Wood- Working Machinery for Pattern Shops. Furniture Factories. Sash and Door Manufacturers. Car-penters. Planing Mills.Etc. AI AI "Vhen in the market let us send \"Qll our list of mA.{"binesand 'W'e are f'ure th9t we can interest you ill prices aIld quality of machines offered EDWARDS MACHINE CO. 34·36 W, Wasbinllton St. CHICAGO. ILL. 29 30 CW.M[MM[~ ~ ~~. MANUFACTURERS OF DROP CARVING AND EMBOSSING GENERAL MACHINES Dies for all kinds of Machines, At lowest prices. I 17 Second SI., LAFAYETTE, IND. I.fO~f.l~~Cl":!Ie I\GO Lv Gd RapIds 7 lOam Ar Chicaj(o 1:15pm Lv Go Rapids 12:05 nIl AT Chicago 4:50 pm Lv Gd. RapIds 4:2,5pm daily Ar Chica.&0 10:55 pm Lv Gel Rapids 11.30 pm daily Ar Chicago 655 am Pll1hr.an Sl~epef, open 9J)O pm all 11:30 pm train every day, Cafe service on all day trains. Sf'Tvke a Is carte. ~1';1 eM arquette Parlor cars on all day trains. Rate r~uced to 50 cents. THREE TRAINS DETROIT To AND fROM' Leave Grand Rapids 7:10 Ilm Arrive Detroit 11:55 am Leave l~rand Rapids 11:1.5am daily Anive Detroit 3:25pm Leave Grand Rapids 5:20 pm Arrive Detroit 10:05 pm Meals served a 1a carte on trains leaving Grand Rapids at 11:25am and 5:lu pm. Pete Marquette Parlor ellrS Qn all trains i seat rate, 25 cents. "ALL OVER MICHIGAN" H. J. GRAY, DIStRICT PA.SSIl:NGI:I:RAGKNT, PHON£ 1168 Gra.ndRapids.Mich ~Weatherly Individual Glue Neater Send your addren and receive descriptive cir-cular of Glue Heaters, Glue Cookers and Hot Boxes with prices ... Weatherly &. Pulte Grand Rap'ds, Mich. These saws are made from No. 1 Steel and we war-rant every blade. We also carry a full stock of Beveled Back Seron Saws, any length and gauge. Write us for' Prloe Lht and dfacounc 31-33 S. FRONT ST•• GRAND RAPIDS QUAR TER.SAWED INDIANA W"ITE OAK VENEERS CHOICE FIGURE :: EXTRA. WIDTHS When writing for prices, mention widths required and kind of figure preferred. HOFFMAN BROTtlERS co. Fort Wayne : Indiana 9l/ammotA lJ)rop- CaTV(lTJ 910. .J Thb machIne weIJZhs abollt ql\e k.m, Hal> a traveUn/t lable. (s reversed and stArted from a C()llnter 911aft, which is In-cluded wIth macninp. Kollow !'!teel lI'utndrel a% Inches In diameter. \Ve fUrnjsh burner fnr InsIde or 6utside heating, for either ~l:LSor gasoline. Size of mach ille • ., It. (I in. ~\§~\\:leJ;J~r~r~lt~~f~ mllchl"e. Prlce. *225; witbont trav_ E'lIPlf( table, $200. Marum otb No.4, same .as machille No. 3. driven wItil lo[)gitnde sbaft only; pul-leys Ilt right all g 1 e a: needs 110 counter shaft. Price $200; wJth- (IUt trll\'el_ Wfo. t~~~'\i tOr full c- ~crJptJ{\1:l and lfi;tUf other drop ~.al"Vf'.r\o 'If e I!ulld, Blue Print Designs Free tD the Trail e JNO. P. DENNING ---- 200 S. FIRST ST. TER RE HAUTE, IND Wood Forming Cutters \Ve offer exceptional value ill Reversible and One- Way Cutters for Single and Double Spindle Shapers. Largest lists with lowest prices. Great-est variety to select from Book fre-e. Address SAMUEL J. SHIMER & SONS MILTON. PENNSYLVANIA. U. S. A. ----~---------------.I A (Concluded from pageS.) 1f a glaze forms on the wheel it is next to impossible to grind a knife ,'vithout inj uriIlg it. If the knife has a wire edge have it rC111oveo and the edge nicely smooth(~d with a 1111(' whetstone. The length (If til(; bcvel of the klliie is imporlant. 1]lldel- no circumstances sbould the bevel be allowed to rub all the work as it will dr::tw the temper in a few seconds. But if the bevel is too long it weakens the cutting edge, and care and jUdgment must be llsed to gct lhis just right. Ii work-mell \:\'ill us.e a shorter bevel and slnrpc\1 more often their kniV('s will do work that knives wilh a long hevel canlln( do ~'1mlY good knives have been pronounced worthless simply becal1se they have attempted to l1se the111 with too long-bevels. Never allow the fac(' of the knives to become rusty, <l'> thc rllst cats Ol1t a hole in the lnetal and when the edge Our Unhreak. .. hIe products can be glued and nailed, filled or fin-ished same as wood, with oil, water or spitit stain. No. J39 A No. r52 13 BETTER THAN WOOD Much stronger and more durable, full depth of grain, A ferfect I"eproduction of hand cal"ving which absolutely defies detection. Send for Sample. ORNAMENTAL PRODUCTS CO. Detroit. Midligan. reaches this it will leave its 111ark in the work. Grinding for diff('n~nt kind!:' of wood awl for different pur-pOses dCmalld'i good judgment. Perhaps the majority of men grinct the same bevel for all kinds of wood. A thinly ground knife will tear up the grain and tear out knots and splil1ters. C1C8r white pine will stand a pretty good bcvel. hLlt ""hen you get down to box stock tlle bevet should be Globe Vise and Truck Company OFFICE 321 S. DrvrSJON ST. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH MalJufadllrers of The Best Factory Trucks Simplkity ill l:oll~lr\lC-tion enables us to dye (j"alilv and durability, and meet all competi-tioll. n'l'ilefot l'riC(8. No. 21. Roller Bearings. Same st)·le Trul:ks No. J4, without RoUer Beatings considerably shorter if yOll would savc knots and shakes from making a bad showillg. Ore call often take ri.r!vanLage of conditions in 1"l\.llning the \~i)arseT"kinds of stock by .va-iting until the knives get a short bevel from sharpening with a file. sometimes llsing a h<:'vel from tl1C front will help Oll1. In 31 hot. kiln-dried southern pine, sharpening from the front of the knife often gives splendid results. A little good judg-ment will many times save work and make a very llice finish, hut one has to he morc carefnl a11d sharpen oftener. The 45 Center St. BATAVIA. N. Y. Excels all hand &,-rew damps in adaptation to work, conve"ience of I-HttldHnR amI quick action Espedally adapted '0 Veneering Paneling and all work requiring long hroad jaw. THE UNIVER,SAL CUMP CataLogand Price List Furnished Batavia Clamp Co. Mention Michigan Artisan, short he vel kllife takes 1110re power and must be sh.arpened oftener. but pays by saving stock ill many instances. There -is 110t a sateT or better chipbreaker made than a knife grollnd from the front side. One sometimes sees pl;l11ers v..·.ith the knives fairly set back into the head. There is an elemcnt of danger in this. Sttch as cannot possibly exist with a knife ground with a hevel front. \Vith a front bevel t here is no 110ssibility of shavings being (orc{,'.d ,,-,nde:r the knife and breaking it off. Most planer operators have seen a set of knives stripped by getting shavings under a knife. \Vhcl1 one goes there is no hope for the others. "Vhen pony and buzz planers are concerned, it is well to grind a front bev<:,l and set the knife Ollt a little to save the wear on the lip l1nder tbe knife. Comi'lg to hardwoods. tllcre is some difference of OpiJlion. One mall makes almost a sqnare edge in order to fInish harchvood stock to suit him. Another turns his knives over to work a lot of maple stock for finish and flooring, using in all cases solid side-cntter bits for tongueillg and grooving. Slow fced and constant care to keep his tools sharp and clean gi've him spJ<:'ndid results; or, to use his own expres-sion, he "polishes it." Every man. in order to do good work. must grind his knives for the work he is doing. SOllth AfrIca i.s hy far th.e hest of all the British colonial markets for furniturc, over $r,ooo,ooo worth having been imported from England during the past year. A considerable quan-tity was also imported ham the United St<ltes. The lack of native ll1aterial VI·illprevent the manufacture of furl1it~lre in that conntry, except on a limited scale, Frank C. Klode, president of tllC C. S. Tiischer Furniture company of I\Jilw<1ukee, was indicted recently upon a chargc of perjury. in cOllnci.tioll with testimony given to a jury. A nC\.y furniture factory .. iust completed in Decatur, Ala .. ,,,,,ill mannfactt1H. center tables, bedsteads and kitchen safes. Robert Uyas is the president of the corporation. The manufacture of adjustable rocking chairs is a new in-dustr) at Harrisburg, Ark., undertaken by D. M. Curtis. 32 ~MlprIG7f-N .1 Various Matters. ~le movement inaugurated by the manufacturers of cheap furniture tor the purpose of abolishing the semi-annual expdsitions of furniture is at a standstill. In the picturesque Jangllage of the trade, "there is nothing doing." The leaders havJ not sold the leases they hold l1pon fioor space in the expdsition huildings, and it is doubtful if the same could be purchased for a reasonable price. The dealers appreciate the importance of the expositions to themselves, and their llum:bers are steadily gro.ving. :Nlanuhctcucrs -..vho cannot qnaliify for the successful sale of their prodtlcts at the expo- 5itiQ'115 will have to be content with the unsatisfactory trade of t~hescheme honses. '.' "," That was a very sensible stroke of business entered into by \ harley Davis, Harry \.Vhitcomb and Charley Birely, of She~byville, a few ye8xs ago. These gentlemen hold the stock of t~le Conrey & Birely Table company. Each had his life in-sur~ d for $100,000, the premiums for which are paid hy the con~pany. Upon the death of either one of the party his hei~s will receive $100.0CO. while the interest of the deceased "vill pass to the surviving stockholders. \Vhen two shall havie passed away the entire property of the company will pas~ to the hands of the one remaining stockholder-a tOIl-tinilc feature. The company distributes their profits anllually, and the plan deserves the comrrendation of sensible men. It provides for a "square dea1." The fut:.lre welfare of three h1ilies is assnred. *** *",* :\1ahogany lumber is imperviol1s to the effects of hC'lt an@ moistttre, and for that T(~asonit is perfectly adapted for use in the lllanufacwre of kitchen furniture. More attention is paid to the furnishing of kitchens by women of domestic tastes, and the manufacturer of well designed. substantially constructed and sensibly planned kitchen cabinets, tables. chairs, wall cabinets, racks, ironing boards, dryers, and like eC1tiPment for the kitchen seldom has reason for comPlain-. in of dullness in trade. A collection of drawers, shelves. ell boards and a kneading board thrown together at the least exrense possible without regard to design, convenience ill ar angcment, in a slip-shod way, will not satisfy the demands of women for kitchel1 cabinets when they can get something heftter. A commOn '''''ood seat chair costing fifty cents is tl1iwillingly accepted when one dollar wo,)ld be cheerfully p~id for a more comfortable one, The fifty cellt chair is atl best a rickety piece, unsuited for the many purposes for ,vhich it must be nsed. 'Vall racks and cabinets for the ki~chen should he made in attractive form, for thousands of wr'ves and mothers spend many hours in the kitchen and it is just as necessary that they be provided with pleasant sdrroundings as when they array themselves in fine attire td grace and enjoy' the drawing room and the library. 'Vo-rden buy nine-tenths of all the household furniture sold in t~e United States .and if they buy cheap and poor stuff for tl1e kitchen the reason for their so doing lies in the fact that t~ere is but little "good stuff" offered for their choice. ,I '* '* * '* . , I The lines for the initial season of the coming year arc 4ell advanced, and the prospects for a large attendance of ~~lyers at the expositions have impelled the manuhcturers t~) bring out large and strong Jines. Naturally much atten-tlon has been paid to work suitable for the summer season, the furnishing of cottages having become a specialty with many dealers. Exposition huildings in all the exposition towns will be filled with strong lines as usual. *"* *.* George Clingman, of the Tobey Furniture co:npauy. spent the last ten days of October in Grand R1pids, picking lIP goods for the holiday trade. It is generally CO'lceded rat Tohey's is the great furniture store of Chicago, and the prediction is often heard uttered that the house of Tobey wi.ll soon become as well and favorably known in New York, through its branch store, established recently in that city, a's it is in the west. Tobey handles only the best lines of medium and fine work. *#* *** A gentleman who keeps in close touch with the mer-c< 1t1tileinterests of Chicago, predicts that when Marshall Field shall have completed the extension now under con-struction to his great retail store he will give more space to his furniture department. At present it is merely a side issue, not worthy of the reputation of the great merchant. No one realized this fact sooner than .Marshall Field, and as that gentleman is determined to lead in every enterprise in which he engages, the house of Tobey may be compelled to look to its laurels as well as its trade in the near fl1tme. Work With a Purpose. Long ago some ,>,rise man evolved a maxim-"Shoe-maker stick to yom 1ast1" The wisdom of it is more ap-parent in these stre1l11OtlSdays than ever before. It is de-fined to signify that he who changes much accomplishes but little. A young man who believes in himself, who is confident that he has powers, that "'there is something in him," should first of .all select the field in which he expects to carve out his fortune. He may not be able to determine upon this at once. Experimenting may be necessary, but too much time should not be spent in experiments. Then having de· termined what his life work is to be h~ should knuckle down to it with a will and a stern determination to stick to it tltltil he has succeeded. The life without a strong purpose is a life wasted. Moving about from one place to another aimlessly and re-constructing plans after having spent months in construct-ing other plans is a mere waste of energy. The mind is the thing that leads. Unless it has shaped the model for all the rest of the faculties-unleSs the mind has picked out the thing to be done and determined that it shall be done-tife is a mere gamble; mayhe "luck" will hand you a few good things; maybe it will not--the chances all are that it will not. Having decided to strive in a certain field of enterprise, learn all there is to know about it-all that your menhl faculties can grasp: do all that your hands can do. Resolve at the start-off to be no second or third rater, no "piker;" resolve that yOU wiH ce the best in the craft, whatever it is. Don't envy those above yOll or those that have suc-ceeded, but study t.hem calmly and sce how they have done it; then do likewise. But the main point is to never relax your grip, once having settled the question of what to do. Stick to it, do it well. Be honest with yourself; pause and seriously consider once in a while if you are doingyollf best, then tighten your belt a notch and do more earnestly. There is never an earnest worker in any subordinate position whose efforts are lost. Industry, integrity, earnest-ness and application bring their rewards. They may not have been noticed yesterday, may not today, but tomorrow they will be, and then come tbe ,joy and exultation of pro-motion and the renewed enthusiasm that inspires to better results. However, there never was a man working with a seriolls, earnest purpose who did not find ample reward in the consciollsness that he had done the thing well. The failures in life are those who linger and waver, vacillate, let go and take hold again; the successes never let go. but push on with a pertinacity that must conquer. They win. Any-one can who does that. A. E. :Martin, of Indianapolis, is preparing to erect a fac-tory to be lIsed in the manufacture of furniture at Chippewa Falls, \Vis. - ------------- 9th SEASON "The Chicago Exhibition" (THE BIG BUILDING) 1319 Michigan Avenue,· Chicago New lines in Readiness Jan. 1st, 1906 About· four Hundred Thousand.(400.000) SQ. ft. floor space for the strongest exhibit of Case Goods.Chairs. fancy furniture, Metal Beds, Baby Garriages, Refrigerators. etc.• ever congregated in a building. Of the four Hundred Thousand (400.000) sq. ft. of floor space. there is for rent at this date. Oct. 26th. 1905. less than Ten Thousand (10.000) sq. ft. Necessary to hustle to becomea part of the World's Most Popular furniture Show for the year 1906. Manuufacturers' Exhibition Building Co. C"ICAGO ~- ~-----------~ 34 E.XCUSES Are often a<:cepted as a matter of courtesy. but seldom willingly, and never when they are needless. Annoyances and troubles that might easily be avoided should never be thrust upon others with a begging-to-be-excused by the guilty party. In conversing with a very wealthy gentleman from Kansas City, the conversation turned to furniture, as he had recently built a magnificent 28-~oom house. He aired his troubles by saying he had not been able to find furniture in which the drawer puIls or knobs did not Jrequently get loose or come off) marring the furniture. The writer said to him, HYour troubles and annoyances along this line are needless. You have only to insist that the furniture merchant you patronize shall dt':mand of the manufacturers that they fit up the furniture you buy of them with the TOWER PATENT FASTENERS (made only hy the Grand Rapids Brass Company, Grand Rapids, Mich.,) and as they Cost the Manufacturer Nothing and the dealer nothing, there is no reasonable excuse for his not furnishing you with i furniture wherein the trimmings will not be as firm as the furniture itself, without a i possibility of their ever getting loose." A copy of the Michigan Artisan was given I him, containing the above illustration of the Tower Patent Fastener. He was .very muCh pleased, and said he would, on returning to his home, call on the merchant, show him the illustration, and demand to know why ,his buyer had not purchased goods from factories using the Tower Patent Fastener instead of the other· kinds, and causing him so much annoyance and trouble. These little fasteners do the business; cost nothing to anyone except the Grand Rapids Bras~ Co., who charge nothing for them, but'iiimply "use them for bait," as it were, to increase the sale of their goods. ' Our line of Furniture Trimmings is the favorite with all up-to-date furniture manufacturers. Why? Because you cannot be up-tO-date without them. The Grand Rapids Brass Company ========Grand :Rapids.Mich.======= HOL.L.AND, BUSS MACHINE WORKS MICHIGAN ~:I~~I'lo;,:~;:W::3o' od Working Machinery ~~~1:~~,P,"laners, Vertical Sanders and Glue Jointers Write for Descriptive Oirculars and Illustrations When You Think about publishing a new Catalogue THINK OF us. We make the best Engravings~ we do the best Printing~ we bind Substantially. ,wHITE PRINTING COMPANY. 2 to 20 Lyon Street, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. I ~i The Standard SubstituteSHELLAC isStill SLOAN SHELLAC TRADE MARK It has maintained its lead for years. and more largely used than ever •IS now Same old price-$l.oo per gallon in barrels, $1.05 in half barrels, and $1.10 in five or ten gallon packages. No additional charge for packages. Usual freight allowance. Made in translucent shade, which is used in place of white and orange. Sample free and correspondence solicited. ------ SOLE MAKERS ------ Chicago Wood Finishing Company ELSTON AVE. and SLOAN STS., CHICAGO, ILL. ,~,---- 36 Promote Deserving Employees. Once upon a time there was a highly efficient and thoTO\.lghly satisfactory janitor. (This a true stOry, though if starts like a fairly tale.) He was so good a: janitor that I e wa~ on friendly terms with everyone of the te-nants il\1 the fifty-four-fiat bui1dillg where he was employed, and db ring five year"s of service 110 one had ever complained of him. 'D\lTing thi:; time the landlord had managed the property himself, collected his OW11 reots al](l signed new leases, but the time came when he
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