Weekly Artisan; 1909-10-23

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Issue of a furniture trade magazine published weekly in Grand Rapids, Mich, starting in 1879. and ------------------------- / ( GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC LIBRARY GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.• OCTOBER 23. 1909 , - ---- - _------ ._.. --------------------------------~ I II ARE YOU INTERESTED IN THE WORLD~S BEST SAW BENel1 I "GRAND RAPIDS CRESCENT" Type IIIi II III III III ,I I I II III I of Grand Rapids~ Mich. II ...I Built to save time in setting up and the sawing of stock. Mistakes and inaccuracies are i:mpossible. This machine is bound to save money wherever used. Send for co:mplete catalog of infor:mation. CRESCENT MACHINE WORKS l... - -_ - . .. -_._..__._..__-_._-_._---, _._---._-~----------~ WEEKLY ARTISAN Ten Years of ExhilJition Success THIS IS THE RECORD OF THE KLINGMAN BUILDING C]f The large number of successful manufacturers who have shown their lines continuously in this building for the past five or even ten years is positive evidence that an exhibit here is not an experiment but the most satisfactory of marketing the product of a factory. I ill II I II I I I ill I II I I THE KLINGMAN FURNITURE EXHIBITION BUILDING. C]f There is still a very limited amount of desirable space open, but as the remaining space will be alloted before the end of October, applications should be sent in at once. ADDRESS ALL INQUIRIES TO The Furniture Exhif>itionBuilding Co. of Grand Rapids GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 1 2 WEEKLY ARTISAN The Chief Factors of Your Selling Success are: your goods, how and where shown, and your "ways." Look well to these and business will come to yo~. No - -- need then to murder prices or do the "knock-down-and-drag- in" act. It's the same as to Exhibition. Exhibitors come to Thirteen Nineteen --The Big Building because of its superior space, its unequalled attendance and its pleasing "atmosphere." They know these are worth the price. Trade comes to lines in 1319 because they are in 1319. Show your line here and have business brought to you. Also: the Chicago furniture market, already the world's greatest, is taking the high hurdles in record time, nor nothing, nor nobody on earth can stop her, because it is Destiny. You want this growing trade---you can't deny it---but you've got to come to Chicago in order to get it. Your live competitors are here getting it. Manufacturers' Exhibition Building Co., 3119 Michigan Avenue, Chicago. WEEKLY ARTISAN ...---- •• wa. __ • _we.' _._. w. - we .- -------..... --------., LABOR SAVING TOOLS Our Multiple Square Chisel Mortiser Makes the Strongest, most economical and most accurate case construction possible. It is entirely automatic. It clamps, mortises and releases, completing the post in less time than the material can be clamped on other machines. No. 181 MULTIPLE SQUARE CHISEL MORTISER. Our No. 171 Patented Sand Belt Machine will sand flat surfaces and irregular shapes, including mouldings, better and faster than any other process. Nearly No. 171 SAND BELT MACHINE. 1000 of our Sanders now in use by your competitors. Why give them an advantage over you in your sanding department? We also manufacture special patented Sanding and Mortising Machines that are proving extremely profitable to the chair manufacturers. Ask for CATALOG "E" Wysong & Miles Company Cedar St. and Sou. R. R., Greensboro, N. C. ~ ••• ._ ••• w ••• w_ we we a_a ••• ~ •• - ., • a.a. - we •••• -.- --_ ... 3 -. ""tcf : .... -.,! •• 1 t\ • , ,4 WEEKLY ARTISAN ~-~ --- - ~----~-_._._- --._--_. -_._._._----- _. _. ---------------- --_ ..-- ..-- ------. THE LUCE LINE Manv New Patterns in Dmmg Room and Bedroom Furniture for the Fall Season. SHOW ROOMS AT FACTORY, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 1 I I I II IIIII I II ..------------- --- ------ --------------------- -----_._----.--_.-~ I LUCE FURNITURE CO. .----_. -- - --_._------------ ---------- --'--" --.- .. --- -- -----_._------_.----- Reception Chairs and Rockers, Slippers Rockers, Colonial Parlor Suites, Desk and Dressing Chairs ...... I LUCE~RED1V19t:~MStlt\IR CO., Ltd. I MANUFACTURERS OF I HIGH GRADE OFFICE CHAIRS, DINING CHAIRS In Dark and Tuna Mahogany, Blfch, Blrd's.eye Maple, Q!!artered Oak and Clrcasslan Walnut ....-- .. . _ ..., You will find our Exhibit on the Fourth Floor. East Section, Manufacturers' Buading, North Ionia St., Grand Rapids . .'.-. -_.-..---_ ..... ....... __ a_ 4 30th Year-No. 17 GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., OCTOBER 23,1909 Issued Weekly GRANO RAPID PUBLIC LIBRARY HISTORY OF AMERICAN FURNITURE More Comments on the Exhibition of Antiques in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York. "Tany \\ lltel shave ll11plOved the opportul11ty furmshed by the exhlbltwn of old furnIture arranged m the l\fetropohtan 1\1u eum of Art, New York, m connectlOn wIth the Hudson-Ful-ton celebratlOn to gam mf01 matIon on the development of dec-oratIve art m Amencan homes. 1\ number of these wnters have l2,lven the reaclmg publIc the benefit of theIr observat1Ol1S and each seems to have seen features m the exhlbltlOn that were overlooked by the other" The followmg paragraphs, ~ome of them shghtly abndged, are taken from one of the latest articles on tne mtel estmg exlublt Three gallene., have been arranged, the first shownig ex-ample'; of the eadle~t £urmtlll e used 111 Amenca, that brought hy the Pllgnms and Puntans m theIr fil st voyages-the chests court cupboard., and ~pmdle chaIrs of the mIddle class Enghsh fa111l1yof the penod } ollowmg these are typIcal pIeces made m thIS country smce that hme, arranged m the order of the de-velopment of style Hel e WIll be seen the chests of drawer", chests \;\lth c!rdwer" and the later outcome of thIS form, typIcal 11lghboys, the early form" of de.,ks, and m fa'2t the furmture of the ~eventeenth century before the change m style which m Eng-land came WIth the ddvent of vVlllIam and Mary, and whIch Pldctlcally le~ulted m the forms of furmture of today Intel estmg as the collectlOn of furmture IS, the character- 1shc" of the Colomal pellod al e not to be overlooked. It was, as the hfe of a new and strugglmg people m a strange land must be, WIthout color or bnlhancy, and It wa" mevltable that these charactenshcs should Impress themselves on the arts and even on the craft:, of the people. It IS as If they were not only the puntamsm of theIr thoug-hts m their primlhve art but the gray mood of the New England rocks in addlhon. So what there IS of grace and beauty m the furmture now to be seen in this exhlblhon comes flom the pIeces brought from Europe, whether It was from Holland or England, and the pIeces manufactured here under the more flowery mfluences that came m WIth the tnumphs of ChIppendale, Sheraton, Hepplewhlte and the school that worked strongly under the mfluence of the French de- ~lgners, whethel of the Regency or the EmpIre That the hl~t01 y of the Amencan fur111ture is compre-henc1ed m that of Engh"h fur111ture may be reach1y understood, but what the f1ll111ture of the countnes from whIch the colomsb came was at that time also more or less under the influence of England it has remamed for Henry W Kent to dIscover 111the mtel estmg hIstory of furnIture whIch he has supphed to the catalogue Hlstones of flu mture are hlely to be un~ahsfac-tory Usually they dre all pIctures wltn no descllptlOn beyond emphaslzmg what IS pel fect1y appal ent to dnybody WIth two eyes. OtherWIse they are too general to male any lmpreS.,lOn or too techlllcal to be comprehended by any but the expert J\1r Kent ha" contnbuted to the catalogue and to the ht-erature of the subject a sClentlflc as well as an mstructlve and mterestmg survey of the hIstory of Amencan furmture He chvldes thlo hbtory mto three penod:" the first mc1udmg the years from 1G20 to lG58, the second from 1658 to 1710 and the last compnsmg the eIghteenth century In tlll" last penod, of cour"e, are the beautIful objects 111 the collectlOn, for then flounshed Thomas ChIppendale and hIS schoJl Comfol t and luxllly now became an e~.,cnhal thmg even WIth the mIddle classes, and the fur111ture not only reflects thb but It shows agam how much ,111 manners and customs had to do WIth the mouldmg and shapmg of It For mstance, the changes from the generdlly mee! pewter to the more elegant SlI-ver, from pottery to porcelain dnd glass, and from foho:, to small books, allowed greatel hghtness m the pIeces of furmtur.c that upheld these thmgs, wh1le gl eater safety was reqwred 111 the keepmg of them and better, more eftectlve d1splay place:, Dunng the eIghteenth century there were perfected or came into use all of the forms of furmture now knovvn and many that have become obsolete, hke the very elaborate dressmg table., for beaux and belle:" wntmg tables, stands connected With the ceremony of tea dnnkmg and cab111ets. The day beel gave WdY to the double chaIrs and desks, h1gh and low boys, tables and bedsteads were bwlt on the forms u.,ec1 today. Sets of furni-ture began to be made, cha1rs m Slxes, whl1e highboys and low-boys and elressmg tables were made to match them. What may be called a nev, wood, sll1ce it dId not come into general use untll 1'110-15, was found m mahogany, whose tough quahtle" and finer color brought for It mstant popularity on the part of the artisan and purchaser ahke. So Important is the part played by mahogany that th1S penod of 1tS use is often called by 1tS name It 1S adaptable m a remarkable de-gree to the new forms ,1l1d ItS very shortcomings told m theIr complete formatlOn The first penod was one of utlhty rather than luxury, as the colom~ts brought \\lth them only such small household ef-fects as thelf fra1l ShIp" would hold. The chest undoubtedly came w1th them and played a promi- knobbed legged table, \\ Ith eIght legs, connected wIth turned stJ etchers and \\ Ith two legs Jomed wIth cross stretchers that ,,\\ mg hke d gate to support the leaves Such tables, 111 Eng-land called, 'gate' In Amenca "thoueand legged," are usually oval m shape and are of all sIzes The"e wIth the "lowboy' tables the lm\ el pal t of the "hIghboy," were the forms com-mane" t 111use I url11ture desl(~nel s who have studIed the J\Ietropohtan ex- 111blt are said to have taken gl eat mterest In the furl11ture lent by R T Hames of 1I alsey, whIch show the handIwork of Duncan Ph) fe at It, be,t There are chaIrs, sofas, tables of chfferent k111ds and a bench b) thIs New York cabmet maker Ernest r Hagen, \\ ho IS an autholltv on the subject, has thIS to say 01 the charactcnstlcs ot Phyfe\ fUlnlture "Phyfe's work was of several styles, the be,t bemg done dunng the period when he cal ned out the trachtlOm of Sheraton, prior to 18'20 After tlldt date hb \\ 01 k became EmpIre m character, and after 1830 It degenerated mto the heavy and nonde~cnpt veneered style of the tUDes-the overdecorated and carved rosewood sets whIch Ph) fe hImself called the 'butcher furl11ture'" Perfect m \\ orkmanshlp, proportIOn and feelmg for lme, Ph) fe " turnlture I, \\ orthy of a place WIth furniture of It, class made 111Ens;land It has, hovvever, an unmIstakable charactet of lb 0\\ n m !te 1110ulchngs and fi111sh, showmg Its relatlOnship to the Enghsh sty leo" but show111g even more an alhance witn the Scotch adaptatIOn of these form" Phyfe's USe of the lyre \\ lth brass stnngs for backs of chaIrs, sofas and bottoms of tables the carved hon foot and central support for tables, but abm e all It, treatment of the 1111esof table tops, vergmg on the (,reck pl111uple, at entasl', arc among the sahent pomts of hIS \\ ark 6 WEEKLY ARTISAN nent part among the meagre effects of the earl) settlel s L sed m all countnes dunng the GothiC penod, both 111chm ch dnd at home, the chest m the seventeenth century \\ as still mdhpen sable, e,peclally among the mIddle classes Important, fir"t as a place for the storage of clothes and household eftecb, It often held a shelf or box for valuables or for the t,tllm\ chp \\ lllch plotected its contents from moths The chest was equally conve11lent as a seat 01 tlunk \\ Ith the more general use of chaIrs In old England It \\a, no langeI needed as a seat and was then raised on legs for convel11ence, and then begmnmg WIth one ch awer underneath added another and another untIl It gradually became a 'che"t of ella\\ Ch ThIS change had begun before the COl0111stsleft En~Ltnd C1 hc\ may have brought some of the new pieces \\ Ith them, but the\ early began to make them for them,elves The chests and chests of drawers were the storage pbce" for clothes, hangmgs, etc \Vlth I11creasmg po,se"SlOlb "pace wa" needed for the objects used at mealS-Jugs. cup, and plates -and the cupboard was the re"ult EccleSIastIcal turl11tl11e furmshed the plototype m the "credence' or 'buftet ot Em 0- pean countries Adapted to Enghsh needs for gentf) and ) eomen ahke It became what IS called a standmg buffet and a "court cupboard . The two forms dIffer m that the latter has as ItS name Imphe" cupboard", whIle the former ha, none Court cupboard, \ an somewhat m detaIls of arrangement and decoration In a typI-cal early example the cupboard of the upper part IMS spIa) ed SIdes covered by a square top supported at the front corners b\ turned columns, whlle the under pal t IS square :-'ometlme, the upper columns dl'3appear and a pendant h found m then place, but the latter IS uncommon III \menca L ncom1110n here, too, are the very elaborately carved examples found 111 England. The fully developed wntmg cabmet came mto common lhe dunng the second penod of lVIr Kent's hIstory and table" be-came a more frequent accompal11ment of domestIc hfe Tables indicate the luxunes of the tImes les" chrectly perhaps than bu-reaus, desks and chaIrs, but mdlrectly even m them may be seen the results of the growmg cultivatIon. In form they begm tv be much hghter, though stIll keepmg then folding chal acter by means of flaps. WhIle Amenca chd not follow the mother country m all her later fashIOns, she adopted for her own the turned and Joseph M. Davis Bankrupt. Joseph ::-1 DaVIS, a furl11ture salesman of Cmcmnatl, has filed a voluntar) bankruptcy petItIOn He owes $3,656 99. He was formerly m partnershIp WIth L\ A Chapman, doing busI-nes, as the Southwestern Furl11ture Sales Company m LoUIS-VIlle, Ky The debts gIven are the firm hablhtles and he re-ports no assets above legal exemptIOns, The fellow \\ ho does tlungs on the spur of the moment is apt to get stuck ._~-_._----------- -- -- --_._---~~----_.--~-~---_-._._-----_._.~~----~-------------~ I Lentz Big Six No. 694, 48 in. top. No. 687, 60 in. top. Others 54 in. top. 8 Foot Duostyles ANY FINISH CHICAGO DELIVERIES Lentz Table Co. NASHVILLE, MICHIGAN II ,, ,, ,, II ,, II ,, , II a.. - - - •• --------------~-- --~~-. ---------------------------~ WEEKLY ARTISAN Hardwood Lumber. Southern dealers and producer::. of hardwood lumber are ~epresented as cbsappolnted by the developments of the past three months It IS stated that many of them have been cal-culating on an advance of $3 or $10 per thousand In pnces and the rise has not matenabzed They charge theIr disappoint-ment mainly to VIOlatIOns of any agreement to curtaIl production whIch b saId to have been much larger than was antIcipated. MIlls in nearly all sectIOns, partIculaIly In Kentucky and Ten-nessee, are reported to have cut much more hardwood than they dId In 1908 and though there Is an apparent shortage at present there is bttle doubt that there wIll be an ample supply within a few months The car shortage IS Interfenng WIth shIpments from South-ern pOlnb, but It has affected the pine more than hardwood ShIp-ments so far The markets at all pomt:> are reported steady wIth a good demand and a tendency toward hIgher pnces for the better grades and a steadIly increasing demand for the lower grades of oak Maple and birch are reported scarce, "all bought up" In MIchIgan and WIsconSin and elm is hard to find There are numerous complainb of dullness in the demand for ash and poplar and the supply of the lower grades of chestnut is saId to be greater than the demand On the whole, however, the concbtIOns In the hardwood lumber markets are qUIte satI~factory to producers and Jobbers Return to Grand Rapids. The StIckley & Brandt ChaIr Company of Binghamton, N Y, who showed theIr line in Grand Rapids a few years ago have exhIbIted In ChIcago for the past few years They now announce that they WIll show In Grand RapIds next January havmg leased space In the Leonard bUIlcbng 7 This is one of our popular Hotel chairs. Our chairs are found in all the leading Hotels in the country. The line includes a very complete assort-ment of chairs, rock-ers and settees of all grades; Dining Room furniture, Reed and Rat tan furniture, Special Order furni-ture, etc. Ito ••• All furmture dealers are cordtally invited to visit our building. ---_._---_. _.-----------_._._. __._._,_.-._._._-------- ..... _. .... ...------------------~ ,I THE FORD & JOHNSON CO. CHICAGO A complete hne of sam-ples are displayed In The Ford 8 Johnson BUlld,nl!, 1433-37 Wabash Ave., In-c1udInI! a special display of Hotel Furniture. SLIGH'S SELECT STYLES SELL AND SATISFY Many New Features Added for the Fall Season Everything for the Bedroom •• I IlII• I II• II II II• IIII I• I I• [Memum and Fme Qualtty I WRITE FOR CATALOGUE SLIGH FURNITURE CO. Grand Rapids, Mich. Office and Salesroom corner Prescott and Buchanan Streets, Grand Rapids. Mich. ~---------------------------------------_.~----.--- ---------._.------------------- ... --------..6I .....I .-.... I• III Ii I 8 WEEKLY ARTISAN New York Markets. N ew York, Oct ?~ --After remammg quiet and steady for SIX weeks Im~eed OIl advanced .:\.cent" per gal10n last Saturda} and the new pnces have been mamtamed to thIs date i\ pe-culIar feature of the market IS that the advance m prIces has been followed by a largel} mereased demand and a rapId m-crease m the volume of trade The advance IS credIted to the dIscovery of a shOl tage m the ~upply of flax~eed rather than to mal11pUlatlOn of the market. \!\ e~tern raw I~ now quoted at 60@61 cents, cIty raw, 61@G'2, smgle bOIled. 6Z@h). double bOIled, 63@64 In each ca~e the hIgher figure~ are for le~~ than five-barrel lot~ Turpentme I~ off about a cent hel e and nearl} as much at Savannah-GO cents here and 3()0@t5G;}4 m the Southern mar-ket Shellac IS qUIet at fonner quotatIOns though a ~lIght m-crease m the demand IS reported A better demand for varni"h gums IS noted though the mal-ket IS remdrkably qUIet for thIs tl1ne of the year. GOdt skms are dull at last week\ figure~ The busme"" h small m volume owmg to la-::k of suppl} of the most desll able grade" Large I ecelpt~ dre expected dunng the com111g \\ eek from :\Iexlco and South \mencan ports and a change 111quo-tatlOm I~ antICIpated Cordage b firm 111 ~ympathy WIth the prImary markets The quotatIOns do not var} mOl e than a quarter of a cent from last \\ eek' ~ figures The burlap market ~hows more lIfe than for several weeks past Contract~ on the Calcutta market have been made for delIvery dunng the filst SIX months of 1910, at pnces a lIttle hIgher than are paId for current receIpts. but the card I dte" here-3 153for eIght-ounce and -+ 50@4 J.J fOl ten-ounce good~- ha\ e not been changed New Furniture Factories. Harry E teldman and others have 111corporated the Dlspla\ Table and AdJl1Stable hxture~ Company, capltalI7ed at $10.000 to manufacture furl11ture ~peClaltIe~ In Chlca~o The Pan~ l\Jattre~s \Ianufactunng Company ha, been 111- corporated WIth a capItal of $10,000 by A II Rodgers, If t T111111nand other~, to e~tabhsh a fdctory at Pan~. Texas The John Cobb Chall Company of Shelb} vIlle, I nd, has ... iI ~.... _______ --. _ •••••••••••• _ a .., I :l\fEA~OU INTERESTING PRICES g~'i~I{Vk.~~~ SEND SAMPLES. ORAWINGS OR CUTS FOR PRICES. CWartiatleogfuoer. II E• P• ROWE CARVING WORKS , ALMLEICGHA.N. ~---- -.-- -._.- .. . . . . .. . - .. been 111corporated \\ Ith d capItal of $6,000 by Thomas J. Cobb, Charle" L Davl' and other~ They WIll manufacture ancl ,ell fur11lture The Robert KeIth Furl11ture and Carpet Company of Kan-sas CIt}, Kan, has accepted plam for a new four-story buildmg 66xHJO feet to cost $60,000 It WIll be used as a mattress and upholster} factory. P R Han dd ha" completed plans for a two-story brick budd111g at Sandpomt, Idaho, whIch will be occupIed by Robert FI e\ WIth a furmture and woodworkmg plant uncler the name ot the Idaho :-Ianufactunng Company A Convenient Contrivance. \lVlth about eIght 111che~of wIre and a httle pIece of tIn Wm. H Rou~e. the well known furnIture ~ale~man of Grand Rapids. hd ~ 111vented a neat lIttle pnce-card holder that wIll be appre- CIated not only b} the fur11ltUl e men but by office employes and all other" \\ ho have occasIon to place cards, photos or copy and h3\ e them held 111any desired posItion. Mr Rome has ap-plIed tor a patent on hIS inventIon and I~ hav111g it nlclllllfacturecl ,11 ( t 3ml H IpHh It I~ certa1111y a convement contll' ell CC thdt \\111 plOilllJI) coniC to be con~ldered a necessIty - -.- ..... -- - - .... _. - -.-, INDIANA No. 57 Flat Arm Rocker RICHMOND CHAIR CO. Richmond Tablet Arm Chair DOUBLE CANE LINE "SLIP SEATS" - the latest and best method of double seating. Catalogues to the Trade. RICHMOND No. 100 ........ ---------_ -- ~ WEEKLY ARTISAN 9 ___________ . . a- - .. _ --- ~ t - i I,, !, I The season for banquets will soon be here. Get a stock of our Banquet Table Tops so as to be ready to supply the demand sure to come. I..--------------._~--- Our Large New Line of DINING and OFFICE TABLES are the best on the American market when prices and quality are considered. STOW & Df\VIS FUKNITUKf, GO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. City Salesroom, 4th floor, Blodgett Bldg. ----------_._---_._-----._---------~---_._._---_ ... MANUFACTURERS IN CONFERENCE. Monthly Meeting of the Interstate Furniture Association at Jamestown. N. Y. The October meeting of the Interstate Furmture Manufac-turer,,' ASSOCIatIOnwas held at Jamestown, 1'\. Y., last Satur-day- October 16-wlth all members except two represented Several members of the ~atlOnal AssoClatlOn of Furniture Manufacturers were also In attendance. mainly for the purpose of calling attentlOn to the benefits and advantages to be denved from membershIps in their orgamzatlOn. The visItors were A. F. Karges, president of the Karge" Furmture company, EvansvIlle, Ind , F. R. Upham, vice presi-dent of the Upham Manufactunng company, Marshfield, Wis , G. H Elwell, Mlnneapohs Furl11ture Company, Mmneapoli'i, Minn , George P Hummer, vVest Michigan Furniture COIT' pany, Holland, Mlch , John INlddlComb, of the John \Vlddi-comb Company, Grand Rapids, IVI1ch; Charles R Shgh, of the Shgh Furl11ture company, Grand RapIds, Mich ; John Hoult, of the Luce Furl11ture company, Grand Rapids, MICh, and J. S Linton, secretary of the natlOnal a~soClatlOn, Grand Rapid~, Mich. The A H Hellman Company of Wllhamsport, Pa, and the Hall & Lyon Jmpany of Waverly, N. Y, members of the Middle States Furl11ture ASSOCIation of the east, were also rep-resented at this meetmg and IN J Maddox of the Maddox Table Company, although not a member of the Interstate AssoclatlOn, which is compo"ed only of case work manufacturers, was mVlted to be present as preSIdent of the Jamestown Manufacturers' ASSoclatlOn. Mr J\ladcJox gave a bnef but deCldely mterest-talk. He is well known to the we~tern manufacturers who were well pleased to meet hIm m hIS home CIty. Nearly all the VbltOl s addressed the meetmg, but Messrs. Linton and Hummer were the pnnclpal speakers, and much of value to the manufacturers present was gamed from theIr re-marks The pm pose of the NatlOnal ASSOCIatIOn of Furni-ture Manufacturers IS to keep the manufacturers mformed as to the trade by the pubhcatlOn of bulletl11s, to bnng influence upon leglslatlOn and to generally work together for mutual ad-vantage, they declared. The natlOnal organization has not yet attempted to con-trol or regulate prices, but may decide to do so at the semI-an-nual meeting to be held m Chicago next month. The Inter-state ASSOCIatIOnaccepted an InvitatlOn to send two delegates to the ChIcago meetmg and named C S Homer of the Warren _ ••• a_a_ aa ._.- Table Company as one of the representatIves, the other to be named later-at the November meetmg whIch Will be held be-fore the date for the natlOnal a"soclatlOn In Chicago SIxteen of the manufacturers present agreed to attend the Chicago meet-ing or send representatIves m addItion to the delegates repre-sentmg the Interstate AssoclatlOn The Interstate AssoClation passed re~olutIOlb thankl11g the VISItors for theIr presence and assunng them hearty co-operatIOn In theIr associatIon work. From this It appears that the members of the natlOnal 01'- gamzatlOn succeeded m arous111g conSIderable interest in the work of their associatlOl1, e"peClally 111the com111g meeting at Chicago, whlCh IS expected to be of great llTIportance to all con-c\ ern-ed.--- --- ---- --- _.- ---- - - - - - - .--------~ • ",[here's Il'Athe Button" 2,5 MILLION PEOPLE Are Reading OurAdf. They're 1JUVl•n!! rncoyaJ"r"Lf'laIrS ((lmlUETTONPUSIfHINO\ l by the Thousands Sales .Doubling. TrelJling.Our Dealers fietting TheProfit Get. lOurs this 1'earBy Hanrlling The Greatest Seller YouEverDad WRITE FOR NEW CATALOC ~CbiJjrco. STURGIS MICH. .-- . 10 WEEKLY ARTISAN o Z I'il Eo< ~ The Beautiful, New Udell Catalog is ready for all Retail F umiture Dealers. It wIll help sell the line that of its kind has no superior. It contains 88 pages Illustrating 41 Library Bookcases, 88 Ladies' Desks, 48 Sheet Music Cabinets, 23 Piano Player Roll Cabinets, 14 Cylinder Record Cabinets, 11 Disc Record Cabinets, 19 Medicine Cabinets, 10 Commodes, 9 Folding Tables. ACT AT ONCE AND WRITE THE UDELL WORKS INDIANAPOLIS, IND WEEKLY ARTISAN j, •• ___________________ • • 0 _ .__ ~_______ _ --4 ~ •••••• _._ •••••• _ ••• ••• _. a • __ •• _._---- -------- •••• _ •••• -_.- ••• - - -~ Oriental Rugs Most Durable. Never have the rugs from the handlooms of the far Onent, unequalled In nch, unfachng colors and durabIlity, been mOl e wlth1l1 the means of the average household Not only are they now regarded as treasures of art, but as 1l1vestments that are consIdered economIcal in the long run The certain-ty of theIr practIcally everlast1l1g wear, and the beauty of the mellow colonngs and artIstIc conceptIOns, whIch harmonize \i\ Ith any style of 1l1terior decoratIOn, l'> ga1l11l1gfor them un-limited appreciatIOn One Oriental rug in a house is usually the means of hav1l1g the floor coverings soon replaced by more OrIentals. The antIques, of course, are rare in thIs country, and as the finer OnEJSare u,.,ually woven of all SIlk, they are consider-ed too thm for floor rugs, and are used as couch or table covers. Among the cotton rug" a few of those which are being used in the greatest number" are the Kihm, the Saruk, the Bokhara, the KhlV a, the Sll1raz and the Senna rug. In the Anglo-PersIan velvets, mntatlOns of the Onentals are supersedmg all other pattern~. 1he colors are fdlthfully repro-duced, and a WIlton m the"e de,lgm, m a <Jx12,may be bought for $53 The pnce, vary accordmg to SIze, of cour<;e A com-paratIvely new development m the vVIlton rug, called the Ama-xm, I" the plam, two toned velvet, wIth a border consl"tmg slmplv of a rtralght band of the darker shade, probably <' foot WIde, v\Ithm whIch IS another, half the WIdth, of the contrast-ing tone These come m cardinal, green, brown and a beauti-ful "hade of old blue Another novelty in the pla111er rugs has a sohd ground of ohvc green, wIth a conventIOnal border of "0 dark a green a~ to appear black, and a figure of the border re-peated 111 stripe" to cover each "eam. Jn carpets there I~ a WIde scope of price and design Body Erussel" may be had at $123 a yard or WIlton carpeting at $2 23 Very few rooms are entIrely covered WIth carpet now-adays It IS much better, partIcularly when the room to be covered is Irregularly shaped, and a border carpet b used, to have the carpet made m rug shape, If deSIred, and laid on the floor, than to attempt to fit the room, which only emphasizes its irregularity Another hmt from a professional decorator is that the tone of a room should shade down to the floor, other-wise, If the rug is lIghter than the walls, one gets an impression of top-heavmess The same decorator also insists as a rule on a stair carpet WIthout any pattern at all, If possible, as the effect of a pattern meant to be horizontal and forced to follow the ins and outs of the staIrs, is annoy mg to the eye, and lacks a certain digmty dnd generosIty of treatment that the plam carpet will supply. "The "rag style" carpets are greatly favored for bed rooms and bath rooms, as much for the pOSSlblhty of color scheme" as for theIr quamt attractIveness The keen mtere~t m handcraft of every clescnptlOn IS responSIble for a I eVlval of hand-woven rugs Many women are takmg advantage of thIS to make these rugs to order m ongmal de"lgns They are usually made of out flannel, embrOIdered m heavy woolen yarn Every man "houlel have an ann 111lIfe, but lob of u<;couldn't hIt the SIde of a barn, ~----------------------------- ....-._ .._-_ ...~ I TUE "ELI" FOLDING BEDS ARE BREAD AND PROfIT WINNERS No Stock complete Without the Eli Beds m Mantel and UpTIght. ELI D. MILLER &, CO. EVANSVILLE. INDIANA Wnte for cuts and pnces ON SALE IN FURNITURE EXCHANCE, EVANSVILLE. - ._.a_a .. a. ------ ••••••• --- ••• - ",-- - 11 I ." clerical capaCIty Soon after the dedth of IllS father, Fred VV. Kehkel JI , formed a partnerslup wIth Ius brother, Charles K. Kelskel The name of the fi11n, F \V Kel~ker & Son was re-tamed The h\ a brother" worked tog ether for success and m 1901 they transferred the busmess to Fourth avenue and vValnut street They were among the first bus mess men of Lomsvllle to recoglllze the great future for the busIness mter-ests out lourth -\venue The Idea of the new home was conceived about three year" ago, when the two brothers agreed that the busmess of the firm had grown so much at 462 Fourth avenue that larger quarters \\ ere nece~sary They opened negottatlOns wIth the Baroness \ on Zed\\ ItZ. of the Caldwell estate, and after a whIle succeeded m c10smg a deal f01 the It:asmg of the "Ite and a new bmldl11g on \ V alnut street \ V ark began on thIS structure about one yt:ar ago and prog-ressed slowly for a ttme, but It was finally con'pleted about one month ago \s \\ III be seen by the accompanYl11g 1IIustratlOn theIr new home IS a noag11lficent five-~tory bUlldmg It IS 56x160 feet amI b one of the mo"t completely eqmpped and most conveni-ently arranged store bUlldmgs m the country -\mong the admIrable eqmpments that attract specIal at-tentlOn IS the pasenger elevator It IS of the automattc con-structIOn and \\ arks so perfectly that a child can operate It It h operated b) electnc power dnd controlled by electnc buttons \\ hlch are numbered to corrccpond wIth the different floors It IS only nece,sal) to push on the button numbe1ed for the floor the passenger wIshes to v10it The machme nses to this floor and stops of ItS own accot d. It \\III not stop at any other floor on the \\ a\ up unlees a button IS pu"hed, and refuses to \\ 01 k \\ henever a door to the shdft IS left open The bUlldmg IS \\ ell hghtecl throughout. FIxed m ever) cellmg and along some of the walls are hundreds of wh1te-frosted electric globes wIth glass shades They 111ummate e\ er) part of each room and throw theIr soft ray" down upon the fine fur11lture on the hardwood fl001 s so that each depart-ment of the mtenor of the houoe ghstens hke a bed of crystal m the sunhght The mam floor IS spauous, and on assortment of fur11lture and fm11lshmg~ LOUISVILLE'S FINEST FURNITURE STORE The Magnificent HOIRe of Fred W. Keisker & Son Recently Com.pleted and Now Occupied.··A Bit of History. The Ke1ske1 Fur11lture Company of LOUlsv1lle, Ky. was or-gamzed December 1, 1878, \\hen Fred \V Ke1Sker father of the pre.,ent head of the house wIthdrew from the \Vrample-me1er- Keisker Compdny, at that tune manufacturers and retaIlers In those days the furmture busmess was m ItS infancy m LOU1S-ExterIOr Vlew of the K91sker Bmldmg, Lomsvllle, Ky. ville, but the father of the present merchant looked forward to a growing bUS111ess He opened hIS fir"t estabhshment, inde-pendent of outsiders, at HZ \Vest Mam street, 111a small bmld-mg. \:\Then the founder of the firm and father of Fred \V Keisker, Jr , dIed Apnl 16, 1900, the business was left In charge of the son, who was adl111tted to the firm mne ) ear" before, or in 1891, when the name was changed to F W Keisker & Son From 1891 to the tune of the death of ::VIr Kelsker's father, Charles K. Keisker had been 1denttfied with the company in a It is dIsplayed a fine There ale divans, -------_._._----., I " •....•..•..••. II "The King" Adapted for I.eatin!! S~I.ool Houses, Halls and FactOries. HEAVY WEIGHT LARGE SIZES No Weight 21 185 22 250 23 320 24 460 Dlam Top Height fIre Chamber Pnce 3 It 9m 16 m $13.50 4 ft Yz m 19m 14.50 4 ft 3 m· 20m 16.50 4ft 6m 22m 19.50 "THE LINES THAT SELL" SEND FOR CATALOGUE. w. D. SAGER 483·497 No. Water 5t , CHICAGO, ILL. '------- .............._~ WEEKLY ARTISAN 13 Turkish rugs, chairs of gemune walnut and mahogany inlaid with mother of pearl, parlor, bedroom and dmmg-room suits All these thlllgS are true of the floors above, for they, too, are all filled wIth fine household furmshlllgs. The mterior of the walls of the new bmldmg are a soft green, whIle the ceihngs are covered wIth "ubstantIal cream-colored enamel The appomtments m marble, dull-fimshed brass and mahogany are most attractIve to the eye. BesIdes bemg pubhc-spmted CItizens, there is a side to the natures of the ::\lessrs Kebker that deserves commendation Down in the shlppmg department of the new store there labors a man patiently every day, year m and year out. His name is George Herter. He was employed by Mr. Keisker'" father when he was a member of the Wramplemeler-Kelsker firm. He, hke the other men mentIOned, reports for duty every day on tune and does not depart untIl his day's work IS done The motto that could be adopted by the Messrs Kelsker and all theIr men IS "Do the work of each day in that day," in other words, "never put off tIll tomorrow," etc From thb It goes WIthout saymg that the Kelskers com- VIEW OF THE MAIN FLOOR IN THE KEISKER STORE, LOUISVILLE, KY, Out of regard for theIr father's memory, they made provision for all the men who were employed by their father when he es-tabhshed the busmess on Mam street, and who labored for his success from the start. At present John M Stokes is employed as a salesman Mr. Stokes accepted a posItIon WIth Mr. Keisker's father in the or-igmal store at Fourth avenue and Mam street. Fred Harig, J r, salesman and advertbmg manager, and Arthur Clarke, in charge of the affaIrs of the office, have been in the service fif-teen year~ They all stand hIgh in the estImation of their employers. mand the good wIll and respect of the people of the community in whIch they hve and do business In fact that good WIll is largely responsIble for theIr remarkable success in business and is one of their most valuable as"ets. The only idea some people have of slllcenty is to say dif,- agreeable thlllgS to theIr friends. The clmging nature is often Illustrated by the way a man hangs on to his money. , :\lost of the m111ers are absolutely honest among them-selv es You may have your '3ack of gold dust labeled and lylt1g 111 a pIle among many other~ and It IS a" safe a" It would be 111 a safety deposit vault 111 C111cmnah They are also very fnend-ly, and share their ratIOns and supphes with each other a~ long a" they la"t "To Illustrate the character of those men I will tell :Jf thh 1l1cldent There was a camp of sixteen men 111 one place, \\ hel e they had been for "ome time, when two of the men had a chfterence, \\ hlch became so sharp that they came to blow", and e\ en that chel not satisfy them, so they determ1l1ed to have a duel, and noth111g "hort of the death of one or both would square the account The others remonstrated with them, all to no purpose, ,,0 the l11ght before the duel wa" to come off each was handed a paper signed by the other fourteen stat1l1g that which ever one surVived was to be Immediately hanged. That ended the stnfe, and there was no duel. "Supphes are received not only from Seattle, Portland and San FranCISCO, but even from N ew York and the farthest camp" have to get their supphes 111 the fall for all winter and up to late 111 the spnng "1 \\ a" told of one 1I1stance when storms had carned a\\ a) (\ er) bndge and railway, and left a great many m111ers \'vlthout meat or other supphes, when what would seem to be an act of PrOVidence brought a vast herd of moose that way and they were able to supply themselves with abundance of meat for all the season 'I do not th1l1k Ala'3ka can ever become an agricultural country, except 111 the extreme southern part The summer IS too short Some vegetables may be grown there, but corn and wheat and other cereals Will not grow to matunty. StIlI I th111k there 1'3 a great future for Alaska as the mines are probably the richest m the world , Portland IS de"t111ed to be the great city of the north- \\ e'3t I \va" amazed dt the magl11tude of the bus111ess 111 man-ufactunng and merchandls111g carned on there The lumber hU"l11e"" IS one of the greatest 111 the United State::>, whde many other 1l1du"tne" are Immense "I paid a VISit to the Dornbecker furl11ture fa(:tory and sa\. there I" not a bettel equipped furl11ture factory in C111Cl11- natl 14 WEEKLY ARTISAN .-..-..-. -_.-----.-._. ----- --_.~...- ... . . -., IF IT'S THE BEST REFRIGERATOR IT'S AN ALASKA II Over 850,000 Alaska refngerators sold sin eel 1878. DeSirable features I I of an Alaska Refngerator: I II IIII I II II Small consumption of Ice. Maximum amount of cold, dry air. Absolutely sanitary pro-vision chamber. Simplicity of operation. Perfect preservation of food. We sell to dealers only WRITE FOR CATALOG. The Alaska Refrigerator Co. II L E. Moon, New York Manager, 369 Broadway, New York CIty. II ... .. Exclusive Refrigerator Manufacturers. MUSKEGON, MICH. ..-- ...- TALK ON WONDERS OF ALASKA. Chas. E. Francis of Cincinnati Tells of Its Ex· tent, Its Resources and Its Miners. Charle" E. FrancI", the well knov\ n L111C111natimanufac turer of wood work1l1g mach1l1er), and wIfe "pent se\ el a\ weeks in Alaska, vVashmgton, Oregon and Cahforl11a, return-mg home m September Mr1' rancls gave the \\ eekly Artisan nearly an hour of hiS tnne telhng of the wonders of Ala"ka and other place" 111 the far west "1\0 one can have anyth1l1g hke a correct understanchng ot Alaska Without gOing there," said he. "One th1l1g that amazes you IS the vastne"s of the tern tory It IS almost beyond comprehen "Ion Alaska stretches along the PaCific coast away up nearly to ASia, and If you draw a straight 11l1edown south flom the mo"t westerly coast to a P01l1t opposite San FranCISco you wdl find that San FranCISco 1'3Just half way from your 1111eto 1'\ew York "The flowers in Alaska have the most bnlhant colors I have ever seen I saw pansies there as large as the top of an ordmary teacup Alaska IS not only nch In fore'3t", but abo 111 coal, gold, Silver and other metal", and as nl1n1l1g IS the pnnclpal 1l1du'3try the supplY1l1g of the camps IS develop1l1g into a large busmess I saw no large town" thel e, as the mmer" are qUIck to abandon camp when other nllnes are found that promise better results -".--.-..-------~.~.--.-- _._-~-~--~-.,-- A~I~G ~~~r ~:Ja::ip:h~·n d~l:~ I~f leaves are bound (by your-self) and mdexed by /Ioors or departments. BARLOW BROS., Grand Rapid., Mich. Wnte RtghtNow I ................. _---- ~ "Portland has a vast ShlPPl11g Illdustry not only coast-wi" e to Japan, Ch1l1a and all eastern ASia San Francisco IS rapidly bmld1l1g up and one can get 111 the hotels and res-taurants everyth111g that can be fonnd 111any of the eastern utle", wll1le III Lm Angeles I fonnd It Just the opposite \\ hy It I" so, IS difficult to explain \Ve went Illto one of the best re"tanrants 111 the city and haVing hved on meat as the pnnClpal diet for some tIme, we were anxIOus to have a meal mostly of vegetables vVe asked the colored walter for several thlllgs on the bdl, which he said 'Yes sah, I thlllk we have got It,' and when he returned he said 'Weare aU out of that mistah,' and It kept on that way untIl at last he brought us "ome toa"t and coffee. "There IS not a hotel or restaurant 111 that city that wdl .:.upply you With vegetables such as you would get In the most OIdmary restaurant 111 an ea"tern city Los Angeles IS Simply hV1l1g on the resorters who come from the east" ", . --------_._._._..--.-.~ I =====-SEE:===== West Michigan Machine & Tool Co., Ltd. CRAND RAPIDS, MICH. for "IG" GRADE PUNC"ES and DIES .~I ~ ea_ w. _ •• ••••••• we - WEEKLY ARTISAN 15 - ... --- -- --- - ---------_._--_._---- - - - ... -_._-------_._-- ---------------------------., I II IIII Factory and Home Dynam1tted. At Zanesville, Ohio, last Saturday morn111g an attempt was made to de~troy the factory of the Zane"vllle Furniture company and the residence of D B Gary, with dynamite The factory and stock were damaged to the extent of several thousand dol-lars but the explosIOn ehd not start a fire Noone was 111Jured 111the Gary home but the kitchen was wrecked Just as Mrs Gary was about to enter It Mr. Gary IS pre "Ident of the CIVIC League, which organiza-tion has been actively engaged 111prosecutIOn of hquor cases before Mayor Campbell of K ew Concord Fifty-six cases have been tned and a conviction obta111ee!in each case. Improving a Good Machine. The W) "ong & Miles Company of Greensboro, N. C, who have recently placed on the market a double multiple chair post mortising mach111e, although It was a great "uccess, are now ad-e! 111gimprovements that Will 111crease the capaCIty and make the machine still more valuable to chalr manufacturers and thiS ma-chine IS now far 111the lead of any other mach111e on the mar-ket for mortising chair posts Anyone desinng further 111for-mati on 111regard to thl:->ane! other speCial furmture mak111g ma-ch111ery can secure same by ae!dress111g the Wysong & MJ1es Company, Cedar street and Southern R R, Greensboro, N. C. From Chicago to Elkha.·t. It IS announced that the Brunswick-Ba1ke-Callender com-pany Will move their Chicago factory to Elkhart, Ind. Over 200 men will be employed With the beg111n111gof operatIOns 111December It I:-> expected that fully 700 men Will work 111 the factory. Refngerators will be manufactured, in addition to bank, hotel and barber fur111ture Economy IS the alleged reason for the move. The heads of the concern figure that in a smaller city the co~t of the change would be made up in the matter of taxes. Room for expansIOn was also needed. Enjoined From Quitting His Job. The General Flreproof111g Company of Youngston, 0, has secured a temporary lllJunctlon aga111st Pete M Wege, assist-ant to the general supenntendent of the plant, who has resigned • • •• - • _ ••• •• I • _ •• - •• _ •• ---~ f'-.---------- ,I I MUSKEGON VALLEY FURNITURE COMPANY MUSKEGON MICH •..• COlOnial sUlles TOll POSI BenS oaa DreSSerS CnlllOmefS worarobes LOmeS' TOile IS Dressma Tobles MOnOaOny I InlOla GOoas I! ' I WRITE FOR CATALOG ~-------------------------------------------~ to go With another conceln The company allege" that vVege had Signed a contract to rema111 With the corporatIOn five years and to turn over to It all 111ventlOns he might develop for the manufacture of steel fur111ture and other products made by the p1a111tiff The petitIOn alleges that W cge has taken out patents in hiS own name and the company wants these as:,lgned to it. Reilly and Oestull Surrender. Eugene Reilly and F H Oestull, the agents of the Ameri-can Seatmg company who were mehctee! at Richmond, Va., for breakmg into the high school bmld111g and substltut111g sample seats, have returned to RIChmond and given ball for appearance for tnal They were found at Charlotte, N C, where they claimed to have gone on a bus111ess tnp The school authon-ties have cancelled their contract With the seat111g company and are advertlsmg for new bids on the contract MD OE OS Nfi COMPANY No. 834. No. 185. MUSKEGON, MICH. ~---------------------_...----------- ...- -------------------------------------------_ ..... wage hotly, a c[rcular went out to the custom houses to declare that "paragraph 717" should be understood to provide for the free entry of wo! ks of art "m the hberal meamng," provided the) had been produced l"ore than one hundred years before the date of theIr importatlOn. This admIts bronzes, terra cot-ta. pd11an, pottery. porcelain, altars, clocks, chandehers, tapes-tne,. and. 111general, "antlques" The antlques are commg, but the one-hundred-year stlpUlatlOn imposes an interestmg and altogether flattenng comphance WIll It provIde a safeguard agamst antlques manufactured in Kalamazoo, and beanng the trade mark J Hereafter the mere statement that the goods entered the countn cluty free should be proof of their genuine-ness Or w[ll the necessIty of estabhshing the fact of theIr ant1ql11ty keep them on the other ~lde? Manufacturerb who make the 1eproductlODS of antlque furmture a feature of theIr busmess w[ll be satlsfied WIth the rulmg of the treasury depart-ment on the subject. 16 WEEKLY ARTISAN PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY TH~ MICHIGAN ARTISAN COMPANY SUBSCRIPTION $1 00 PER YEAR ANYWHERE IN THE UNITED STATES OTHERCOUNTRIES $200 PERYEAR. SINGLE COPIES 5 CENTS. ---- ---- --- PUBLICATION OFFICE, 108-112 NORTH DIVISION ST, GRAND RAP DS, MICH. A S WHITE MANAGING EDITOR hntered as second class matter Ju1} '>, 19C9 at the post office at Grand Rapids. 11lchlgan under the act of \.larch J [879 The Weekly Artlsan ma) have been [111S111formeda~ to the ments of "FIsh's stamp ~aver~." as stated 111the letter from the L FIsh Furmtl11 e Company, which appeal s on another pa~e If so it is stlll m1smtormell t01 the company s lette1 ~1\ es no mformatlOn as to how the stamps are u,ed and lea\ b the 1eadel to a~sume that they are handled b) the same methoclc; u"eel 111 the old trad111g stamp schemes As \v111 be seen, the letter ad- 1111tsthat the Al tisan wa, lIght 111 stat111g that If all dealers were to use the stamps none would denve anv benefit or ad-vantage, but It declares that all are not allo\\ ed to use them-that when a mel chant agree' to use them h1~ competltoh are ban ed fro111 the pnv11ege In theory that plan ma, be plans- 1ble, but 111 practlce It seems It \\ ould be chfficult e\ en 111so large a cIty a~ Chicago to have 5000 merchants uSll1g the stdmp~ without encroach111g on each other's terntor) The ll~h plan may be ddIerent from the old tradll1g system but it is eV1dentl) worked on the same pnnc[ple \s stated heretofore somebmh must pay fm the stamps The F[sh company doe, not pay for them, neIther does 1t fl11msh them fO! nothll1i.S The letter sa) s they do not cost the merchants anythll1g TherefO! e the mer-chants' cu~tomers mu~t pay for them [he F[sh sv,rem is ev[- dently velY much hke other pnze-gl\ll1g plans It ma\ 111- crease a merchant's trade temporanly but If all \\ e1e to use It there would be no advantage to anybody LIke other premIUm glvmg plans It IS not founded on ,ound bus111ess principle" It may be better and may hve longer than the old systems which are now condemned by nearly all mercanttle assoClatlOns. ami are used by fe\\ reputable dealers, but It can hve no longer than It is pos"lble to make people beheve that they can get someth111g for nothmg The [mportatlOn of antlque furmture furmshed conSIder-able dISCUSSIOnby bus111ess men seekmg mterpretatton of the 111numerable problems m ta11ff taxatIOn, ansmg on account of the Payne tanff bIll Importer" had placed liberal orders m the old world for Roman chaIrs, Dutch clocks, I le[111~h oak chests, carved chaIrs, settees and tables \\ 1th spra w Img leg, from Holland, England, France and Spam, under the 1mpres,lOn that the goods would be admItted duty free as works of art. On bemg 111fO! med that such was not the offiCIal construe tion placed by the lTmted States upon the language of the btll, the purchasers have slgmfied the11 pa111ed SUl prise at the faIl-ure of the government to share theIr vIews of the case. The distinction made by the department 1S between works of art "within the "tricter meamng of that term" and "works of art WIthin the hberal meamng' \Vhen the dIscussion began to "\\ hen my l111e IS nght, and the conchtions of trade a1e nommal I can sell m Granel RapIds the output of my factory for a season, m ten day, or two weeks," remarked a promment manufactm er of tables "The bIg buyers place their orders m Grand RapIds I would rather take one bIg order m Grand Rap[ds than a dozen httle ones, such as I have booked mother fur11lture centers' The gentleman quoted has learned that there h a rhfference m the fur11lture market~ of the country and he has tlled out all market town, that have assumed that d1stmction. J "\ewton \md ha, 1etired from the Chicago Furniture J ouxnal, hav111i.Ssold h1s mterest m that publicatIOn to P D 1 ranCl~, the founder and bus mess manager of the Journal. Mr lranc1s 1S \\ ell grounded 111the pubhshmg bu"mess and his ca-paClt) IS proven b) the success he has won Mr Nind WIll travel abroall and rest h1s weary facultles To furnish trade cop, such as he ha~ \\ ntten dunng fifteen uninterrupted years should entitle Mr. Nind to a long penod of repose To secure unifonmty in colors and quahty of fi11lshes would It be necessary to employ an inspector of fimshes for a group of factones? \Vould It be necessary to Ube the fimshmg goods of one manufacturer to obtam the result desIred? The above are but two of many questlons that are causmg the manufac-turers to think deeply on the problem of umfonmty m fi11lshmg fur11lture. Is It economIcal for a manufacturer of furmture to mix the ~tams and fillers he uses m hIS finishmg department? Foreman fimshers who understand the art of fimshmg wood declare thai it IS, whl1e manufacturers of wood fimshmg goods are ever ready to prove that 1t 1Snot In such a sltuatlOn the manufac-h1rer of furmture must be both Judge and jury \ stale shO\\ w111do\\, fly-specked and dirty, repulses trade and mchcates the character of the man respom1ble for it To attract trade the owner of the store as well as the "how wmdow must be neat, clean and wholesome. The factones m course of construction for the use of manu-facturers of furniture 111G1and Rapids at present, when in me, WIll furmsh employment for 1,000 adrhtional men. The exhIbIt of furmture at the Seattle expositIOn was not worth mentionmg At least no one mentioned it. WEEKLY ARTISAN How to Rejuvenate Old Rugs. A wnter in the Brooklyn (N' Y) Cltlzen tells how to re- Juvenate old rug~ The Weekly I\rtlsan wIll suggest to those who thmk of trymg the expenment that they may save tIme hard work and aVOId "vexatIOn of ~PIrlt" by employmg an ex-pert to do the work The Cltlzen'0 contnbLltor ~ays A dmgy, frayed-out rug cel tamly b not a thmg of beauty, however hand"ome It may once have been. Fortunately It IS often possIble to bnghten up and repaIr such a rug and make it once more a respectable pIece of furmshmg. For bnghtening up the colors, get ordmary package dye, in such colors as may be needed, and two or thl ee small round camel's haIr brushes Dls~olve a portIOn of each dye m a lIttk b01ling water, to whIch add a plllch of salt and a spoonful of vinegar. Clean the rug and lay it on a table, or If large on a smooth floor. When all IS ready touch up the colors m the deSIgn wIth the hot, strong dyes, using them freely enough to permIt them to penetrate Vi ell mto the fabnc When thIs IS done layover the dampened portion~ a dry cloth and iron untIl thoroughly dry Thi~ takes the place of b01lmg and helps to set the dyes. If the rug IS frayed and ragged at the ends, tnm and ap-ply a new bmdlllg or fnnge It 1~ wonderful what a few cent~' worth of dye, a few hour~' work and a new bmding WIll do for a shabby rug. Sometimes it h better to gIve a small hght-colored rug an entire dye-bath than to try to re~tore the onglllal colors A plalll dark-red or brown rug wl1l look well m almost any sittmg or dinmg room-far better ~urely than a faded-out, dIrty-look-ing hght one Flimsy rugs may be gIven body by pastmg to the back d hmng of firm cotton-cloth Lay the rug wlong-slde up on the floor, cover well WIth thIck, raw flour paste, lay the lining care fully m place and Iron untIl the paste b thoroughly cooked and dry Patches, 1£ any are needed, should be pasted on rather than sewed A httle care wl1l gIve the rug a new lease of hfe and make It ornamental as well Wants a Good Tenant. The Weekly ArtIsan, Grand RapIds, MIch., Gentlemen.- I have a bUlldmg at 207 East Mam street, three stones hIgh, 30 :A150 feet, for rent It would be a very deSIrable bUlldmg and a good locatIOn for a furmture bu~mess It IS a httle over half block from court house and m the center of the bu"mess dlstnct and I want to ~ecure a good tenant Have Just had mstalled a steam heatmg plant on the vacu-um system, a steel cellmg, e1ectllc hghts and an electnc: elevator, and a 10-horse power motor. The entIre mtenor of the bUlld-mg has been newly pamted and frescoed, one of the best bL11lcl ings m Fort Wayne, Ind. E THUMAN Oct. 18, 1909. 222 Ea"t Wayne Street Coffin Makers Must Raise Prices. Forty or fifty manufacturers of coffin~ and caskets held a conference m CmcmnatI last week They came from all ~ec-tIons of thl~ country and Canada and dIscussed matters of mu-tual mterest. They c1emed emphatically that they mtendec1 to make an effort to control pnces, but agreed that pnces of theIr products are too low and declared that owmg to the increased co~t of matenals there must be an advance in the pnces of cof-fins and caskets They are dlssatI~fied WIth the gradmg, or lack of gradmg, of theIr lumber and appomted a committee to confer WIth lumbermen WIth a VIew of estabhshing standard grades. 17 SINGLE CONE ALL STEEL SPRINGS Are very popular with the Furniture Trade. $2~ E.ach Net $2~ E.ach Net No. 46. Single Cone. $2 Each. Net. We manufacture a full line of Single and Double Cane All Wire Springs. SEND US YOUR ORDERS. SMITH &. DAVIS MFG. CO., St. Louis 18 WEEKLY ARTISAN Complete lines of samples are displayed. It is worth the time , and expense required in making a trip to Evansville to inspect these lines. THE BOCKSTEGE FURNITURE CO. I Manufacturers of the "Superior" Line of Parlor, LIbrary, Dining and Dressing Tables. I THE METAL FURNITURE CO. II THE KARGES FURNITURE CO. Manufacturers of Chamber Suites, Wardrobes, Chiffoniers, Odd Dressers, Chlfforobes. THE BOSSE FURNITURE CO. Manufacturers of KItchen Cabinets, K D. Wardrobes, Cupboards and Safes, In ImitatIon golden oak, plaIDoak and quartered oak. THE WORLD FURNITURE CO. Manufacturers of Mantel and Upright Foldmg Beds, Buffets, Hall Trees, Chma Closets, Combination Book and Library Cases. THE GLOBE FURNITURE CO. Manufacturers of Sideboards in plain oak, imitatIOnquartered oak, and sohd quartered oak, Chamber Suites, Odd Dressers, Beds and Chlffomers in nmtalJon quartered oak, ImitalJon mahogany, and imitation golden oak. Manufacturers of "Hygiene" Guaranteed Brass and Iron Beds. CrIbs, WIre Springs and Cots. Made by The Karges FurmtUl e Co Evansville is the great mixed car loading center of the United States, made so by the Big Six Association. a..---------- . ---------- a.a. a •• _. ••• .... .. WEEKLY ARTISAN 19 , I• II ,,• II• II I,I ,III I I• I• •,, II II M", ", '0""0,0 ''',n"'",, Co. I• IIII II• I II, I• ,III I,• II II I• ,• •I Mm""' "o,~ F,,""'"'' C"",.",. •~------------------------------------------_.------_.---.------_._------------------------------- .- ~ Made by Globe Furlllture Comp Ul) Made b) Bockstege Funllture Co. 20 WEEKLY ARTISAN --- ,- --- --- - - - - ----- - - .--_._- -_._---------_._------ DELAWARE CHAIR CO. _ _ __ •••• _. a •••••• .,I IIIII I III .-------- ------ .--------------------- ---- I ~---------._._--- _. -- -- -- -------------------_._------------~ AMERICAN METHODS IN LONDON. Mr. Selfridge Tells How the English People Take to What They Consider Innovations. That "Selfndge's," the Amencan stole m London, ha~ proved a great success and that the Engltsh buy mg people ha' e accepted qmckly the mnovatlOns they found there "as stated b, H Gordon Selfndge, the propnetor, formerly a partner \\ Ith Mar~hall Field & Co, Chicago, who with .:\lrs Selfndge ane! their two daughters, arnved m New York la~t ~lonc1ay ane! \\ent to Chicago for a visit. "1 have been away one and a half years," began .:\Ir Sel-fridge, "and the store has been opened seven months 1 be-lieve that most of the Enghsh merchants looked on the new store as conSiderable of a venture, ancl the large share of them felt that It coule!n t 'iucceed Now, 1 don't belt eve there h more than 1 per cent of them that e!on't know that It h a bl~ and gr O\ung success Amencan methods have made It so ' "vVhat are some of the mnovatlOns?" wa~ asked "There are many," answered ~lr Selfndge, "ane! one of the pnnclpal ones IS the stoppmg of the tlppmg habit 1 have made a hard and fast I ule that any clerk found acceptmg a tiP Will be cUl11nanl} discharged ane! I have dls~harged several em-ployes because they have broken the rule '"It came as a surpn~e to many of the Enghsh cu~tomer~ and they readily accepted the situatIOn With a degree of plea~- ure that was VISible, They had been 111 the habit ot gl\ Il1g .. .. .... .... ...... ...... -------.., NEW MACHINERY I have on hand for Immedtate shipment the following brand new machines which I will sell at reduced pnces 4- Two-spindle Radial Boring Machines to bore from 1;£ to 18inch centers. 3- Two.splndle Radial Boring Machines to bore from I to 12Inch centers. 2-Eighteen inch Cabinet Makers' Lathes. I-Sixteen Inch Cabinet' Makers' Lathe. ---4DDRESS-- -- J. C. DeBRUYN, 130Page St., Grand Rapids,Mich. I ~---- . ---_ ---------- .._- .. -------~ DELAWARE, OHIO. LARGEST "QUALITY" LINE of DOUBLE CANE LEATHER l MISSION CHAIRS, ROCKERS and SETTEES CATALOCUE TO THE TRADE ONLY. from thnppence to a ~hdlll1g for ~t11all serVices and they ap-pleClated the savmg I made It up With the employe~ by glv-mg them the regular salary for their clas" of work With the average amount I ecelved III tips added 'Then there b another popular Idea, and that is the privI-Ic~ e ot ShOpp111g You know that 111New Yark and Pans a "oman can 'chop'-that IS, look around a store Without bUY111g If she h not at fil -t SUIted. You can't do that With the olCh-nary Engh~h storekeeper He expects that when you have come mto hiS store }au have come to purchase somethmg and you kno\\ what that somethlllg IS. He is not at all pleased If }ou go out \\ 1thout bUY111g 1"\ow the Enghsh women can shop to theIr heart-., content, and the Amencan VISitor abroad, why, she h ]lht at home 111our store , \\ hlle "e have had to adapt ourselves to the ideas of our Enghsh COU-I11S111many lllstances, for you know we are in their countl) om bmeaus of I11formatlon and accommodatIOn, wnt- 11l~ rOOl11~ \\ 1th free matenal and attendants, all have been taken up \\ Ith n,ost k111dl} They have ql1lckly seen the utIl- It}, dnd they are 'itrong draw1l1g cards With them and havens of rest and lllformatlOn for the thDu~dlld'i of Amencan fllends that have vIsited us "To our 'home folks' we have extended our ngth hand III a fm elgn land 'vVe do our utmost to serve the i\mencan" who come to our 111formatlOn bureau, for 111stance, and make them feel that they are not qt11te alone in the vastness of the great Lit} of Lonclon They ~an ask for any mformatlOn that they .,..-------- II• III I ._- .--------_._-----------------------~ WHEN IN DETROIT STOP AT Hotel Tuller New and Ab.olutely Fireproof Cor. Adams Ave. and Psrk St. In th. Cent.r 01 the Th •• tre, Shop-pmlil. and Busmess Dutnct. A la Carte Cafe Newe.t and FlDe.t Gnll Room ID the City. Club Breakla't - - - 40c up Luncheon - - - - 50c T .bl. d hote lAnnelS - 75c MUSlclrom6P M to 12 PM I Every room haa a private bath. EUROPEAN PLAN Rate.: $1.50 per day and up. L. W. TULLER. Prop. I M. A. SHAW.Mgr ~----------------- ------"--_._-------~----_..... I___________ 4I WEEKLY ARTISAN 21 WIsh and they wIll be answered. I have two bright English gIrls who are d01ng well III thIS work and have a sort of seml- Amel ican con,ulate wIthout the offiCIal dist1l1ctlOn, in order to set Amencans nght. "There are hundred~ of vlcltors who desIre to know where and when to go and what to <;ee. Then there are those who wish to purchase some thlllgS that we do not keep. We send attendant<; WIth the,e people to the places of business and neither charge fees nor receIve commissions We WIsh their friend- <;hip and treat them honestly, and they al e as much at home as they would be shopplllg on FIfth avenue III New York or on State street in Chicago "Yet there are new sItuation" developlllg every day, for It is not much of a bU;'1l1e~;,if these are not created, and we are constantly <;tnv1l1g to meet them satisfactonly to our customers I am proud to say that the Amencan store in London is a great "uccess." "And how about the Ice cream soda?" was asked. "It wa<; cabled here that the first opemng of the fountain at the store was accompamed by the looking on of a bIg crowd, who saw Ice cream sodas partaken of and gazed WIth as much amaze-ment as if at a cage of cunous WIld animals" MI Selfndge laughed and saId tho' that too had taken WIth the Engb"h ShOpplllg pubbc "They have a sweet tooth, and dunng the warm season there were hundreds each day who ate and drank f.or the first time at an Amencan soda fountalll and then went out and brought fnends III to share the pleasant and novel expenence" Another Corporation Tax Ruling. The Washington authonties have added another to the numerom rul111gs 111legard to the collectlOn of the corporatlOn income tax The latest is to the effect that "the fact that a corporation does not receIve a blank form from the commis-sioner of internal revenue on whi-:h It may make return" of net incomes for taxatlOn under the new tariff act WIll not excuse the corporatlOn from the penaltIes of faIlure to make returns within a specIfied time" It is stated that the commlSSlOner of mternal revenue ex-pects he will be able to send out the blank forms III 40 or 50 days. Before that time the regulatlOns for the enforcement of the law WIll have been promulgated. It i" expected that these regulatlOns WIll lllform the corporatlOns fully as to the requirements, and the COml11lSSlOnerwtll try to have the blanks and regulations sent to every corporatlOn III the country. The forego111g announcements are accompamed by this statement: "The treasury department doe" not expect that there WIll be much fnction 111puttmg the law into effect." No Rise in Frei2ht Rates Just Now. James McCrea, presIdent of the Pennsylvania ratlroad, ha, notified several organizatlOllS representlllg shtppers 111trunk l111e tern tory that the trunk l111es are not cOllSIdenng a general ad-vance in freIght rates or m c1aslficatlOn and that no such actlOn IS contemplated as the ,hlpp111g orgamzatlOns had assumed from a recent pamphlet Issued by C C McCa111, chaIrman of the Trunk Line Association. Most thlllgS are governed by the law of supply and de-mand, but the crop of fools isn't one of them. There are people so constituted that they seem to get a lot of fun out of never having any fun 111bfe ...--._------_- ._---_.-----------_._---------------- ------------ ---_._---_.-- .- . I MORTISER Complete Outfit of HAND 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 more money WIth less capItal Invested He can hold a better and more satlslactory trade With hIS customers. He can manufacture m as good .tyle and timsh, and at as low cost as the factOries The local cahmet maker has been forced mto ouly the dealer's trade aud profit he cause of machme manufactured goods of factones An outfit of Barnes Patent Foot aud Hand-Power Machmery, remstates the cabmet maker WIth advanta.l(es equal to hiS competItors If deSired, these machmes WIll be sold on tr.a! The purchaser can have ample tIme to test them m hI< own shop and on the work he WIshes them to do. JJescr.ptwI cata!ogu8 and pr,c8 !tst jru HAND ClRCULAR RIP SAW COMBINED MACHINE No 3 WOOD LATHE No.4 SAW (ready for cross-cuttIng) W. f. Ii.. JO"N BARNES CO.,654 Ruby St., Rockford, III. No. 4 SAW (ready for npping) IL__ 'N~_,;~~ .."~~~E~R~.":':U_L~E~. HAND TENONER No.7 SCROLL SA..W......... ... ••••••••• a._.a •• a •• 22 ~-- ,•I• •I• II II III IIII III I, I WEEKLY ARTISAN SUITE No. 748 By MUSKEGON VALLEY FURNITURE CO, MUSKEGON. MICH. ._--------------------------_.------------------------------------------------.----._------------~ a,.. •• __ a •••• --------------- •• ------.-- ••••• ------- I 5 ••• •••• _._._ ••• WEEKLY ARTISAN 23 ~_.. .._.... _. ~_~ ._~__~ ------4f VISIT OUR SHOW ROOMS AND SEE THE BEST LINE OF DAVENPORT BEDS IN THE MARKET We WIllhave the nght styles at the nght pnces and made to glVe satIsfactIOn. Don't mISScommg to see the lme, It Will pay you. Couches Parlor Leather Furniture Rockers ~ t Show Rooms 35 to 41 N. Capital Ave. Ask for catalogues. THOS. MADDEN, SON & CO., Indianapolis, Ind . .. • •• _ • __ ~ __ • _. _._._________ _. ••• •••• T r • •• • •• - - ••• -l MORE CORPORATION INCOME LAW. Commissioner oi Internal Revenue Tells What Iniormation Must Be Furnished. \fter another consultatlOn with the attorney general, the com111ISSlOner of mternal revenue has reached a concllblOn a'i to about what mformahon officers of corporatlOns WIll have to furl1lsh 111order to aVOld penaltles unposed by the corporatlon mcome tax law i\-::t111guncler the adVIce of the attorney gen-eral the commbS1On announces that a careful considerat1On of the law shows that corporations m mak111g their report:-. for the calendar year 1909 will be required to fur111"h the follow111g m-formatlOn The total paId up capItal stock or "hare capltdl outstanc1mg at the clo"e of the }Cdr, the total bonded and other indebt-edness at the close of the yeal , the grofs mcome denved from all 'OU!ce, dunng the year, all chvldends receIved wlth111 the year on stock 111other corporatlOns, the total amount of all or-dmary and necessary expenses actually paId wlthm the year ont of the earn111gs 111the mamtenance and operatlOn of the bUSI-ness, statmg separately all rent, franchIses and so forth; all lo"ses actually sustall1ed dunn~ the year and not compensated by msuran-::e or otherwIse, also amounts allowed for depreci-at10n and, in cases of ll1surance compames, the sums paId on pobcy and annUlt) contracts and the net adcht10n to the reserve fund reqUIred by law, ll1terest paId dunng the year on bonded or othel mdebtedness not exceedmg the paId up capItal stock or share capItal, all taxes paId WIthin the year After all these Items of eApenses have been footed up and their total has been subtracted it om the aggregate mcome, the remaimng amount is "net income"-and all of It except $5,000 IS subject to the tax Commentmg on the con1mIS"lon'" announcement an edltonal writer m a New York paper tel1s how corpordt1Om may dodge a consIderable pOl t10n of the tax, but It IS not probable that many of them WIll act on hIS sugge"t1On lIe sa) s "Of COUFe, the records and accounts of the COIporat1Ons up to date from Janual") 1, 1909, wIll yIeld the mformat1On for thIS appIoxllnatel) mne-1110nth)' penod, but for the remammg twelve weeks of the year It would be easIly possIble-were a company so chsposed-to readjust expense Items In su-::h a way as to keep the net income down to a comparatIvely smal1 figure or to make It vamsh entlrely In close corporations-where the ~tockholders are all salaried officers-It makes no dIfference to them how theIr 111comes from the busmess reach theIr pockets, whether m the form of salanes or dIVIdend" or both 111part; and If next Janu-ar) doce not wItne's among these concerns a very general raIs111g of salanes at the e"pense of dIVIdends, It WIll be a wonder- and such corporatIOns <ire numerous throughout the country Aga111, It would an easy matter f01 many corporations to "stave off" the payment of bIlb receIvable dunng the last two months of th1S year untIl after December 31, ,,0 a" to make sue1, revenues appear 111the 1910 accounts, borrowl11g money meantIme, If needed to meet theIr own obhgat1Ons-and these items of really 1909 revenue would thus appear 111the records as debts and help keep down the apparent net 111comefor tIllS year. " 'The law,' says the attorney general, '1;0 so plain that any corporatIOn or Ilv agents should be able to understand just what 111formatIOn the commIssioner of mternal revenue WIll require.' "And he mIght well have added 'And it is g0111gto prove to be a law unusually ea~y of evaS10n ' "It IS qmte possIble, too, that It may be declared uncon"titu-tIonal pnor to Jlme 30, 1910-the last day on which the retroac-tIve tax for 1909 can be paid 24 WEEKLY ARTISAN The Fellwock Company's New Factory. The Fellwock AutomobIle and .:\Ianufdctunng com pan) ot E,vansville, Ind, ha~ Just moved mto a new factor) \\ blch IS shown in the accompanying pIcture. together with their two up-town garages The plant, shown m the center, I~ located at the corner of Harnett and V II gmla streeb. I t I~ mdnaged b\ T 1 Fellwock and produces veneered rolls cmd dutomobIle spelldl ties. The bUlldmg at the left I~ the gal age dt 213 DIvIsIOn street, WE} ellwock, manager, where up-to-date ~elvICe IS gIven m renting, stonng and repalnng The bUlldmg at the nght IS the general office and saleSlOom at 3 Upper Fourth street, P B I"ellwock, manager Thel e the polIcies of this bus mess are dl~pemed and a full lme of deces sorie" carned m connectIOn wIth the Maxwell, Ovelland, Stod-that when a man buys anything he own" it and should have the prn IlelSe Jf selling It dt hIs own pnce. but experien,:e shows that It \\ ould be to the advcl11tage of all dealers to hdve dnd observe some km<l of a rule m regard to mdmtammg pnces That the latter Idea IS growmg was shown elt a recent meeting of the Cclhformc retaIlers who adopted re~olutlOns recommendmg "that manu fact lrer~ reqUIre from the trade, agreemenb to mamtam cl certam establIshed retaIl ~ellmg pnce upon producb, favor-mg the s cllmg of good~ on the contract plan by the manufac-turel am pledgmg co-operatIon wIth manufacturers m main-tam111g sllch pnee, declanng It the duty of every retaIl assoCIa-tIOn on the PaCIfic coast to lend ItS mfluence towards encourag- 111gthe ScIe of goods of tho~e who mamtam retaIl sellmg prices; expl essm:; elppreclatlOn to the national a~soClatlOn for havmg blOUght 1I10re forcibly to the attentIOn of mannfacturers the ne-dard- Dayton and Baker automobIles of whICh the Fellwock com-pany are southern IndIana clIstnbutors This IS an mcorporated company composed of the three Fellwock brothers It was started 111190G m a small shop \\ hlch was totally destroyed by fire "IX months after the ~tart \\ Ith a heavy loss Temporary quarters were then taken, but the bu~- iness increased by leaps and bound" so that It became necessary to go mto larger quarters, and the above factory has been ac-qUIred with faCIlItIes to double theIr busmess m veneered rolls. automobIles, tonneaus, tops, seab and shIelds Other speCIal-ties will be added from tnne to tIme Should Manufacturers Fix Prices. The idea that manufacturers should fix both wholesale and retaIl pnces and that dealers should assIst them m mamtammg the latter seems destmed to be put 111general practice 111the near future. There IS no gettl11g around the logIC of the argument cesslt) of adoptmg thIS plan, call111g upon all manufacturers to adopt the fixecl pnce system and enforce It by collecting dam-ages m t 1e courts from pnce CUtter~, and pledgmg support to all manufacturel s thus actmg, declanng that when a merchant refuse~ to abIde b) the request of manufacturers who establIsh honest pnces, he shall be declared a cutter and manufacturers requested to reqUIre wntten contracb from such merchants be-fore "ellir g them goods. The CalIformans may be conSIdered rather too radical in theIr Ideas, but theIr actIOn WIll attract attentIOn to the subject elml \\ III undoubtedly lead to dISCUSSIOnand perlIaps a snnIlar e:ApreSSlOllof vIews by other a~~oclatlOns of dealers. Tell 1marned man he doesn't look it and he will be terribly flattered SIlence Isn't always golden Sometimes It IS an admission of guilt .I. . _ .. - _... .. --- - _.. -_.._._----------_ ._• ----------_._----- "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. ~-------- .---- - _...- ... ----._-_._._._-_._. _.--_._~------~-----_.-._---------.._. -.-..-.... of T S & G B. Martm, who have decIded to discontmue their furmture department Albert VV Seegert, manager of the Cotton Felt Mattress Company of ChIcago, and 1\Irs Augusta Zuber, daughter of Charles Greve, a ChIcago cap1tahst, were qUletly marned at \Vaukegan, Ill, on Octobel 8. The hardware and furmture firm of M L Stover & Co., St Petersburg, Fla, IS about to be mcorporated, with a capItal ;,tock of $10,000 The name of the new concern WIll be the Stover-Presstman Company. The first annual meetmg of the American SpeClalty Manu-facturers' I\.ssOClat1On WIll be held m New York CIty, N ovem-ber 11 and 12 The assoClat1On now ha" fourteen aux1hary assoc1at1Ons, covenng 23 states Theodore Eggleston, who a few months ago sold hIs inter-est and retlred from the CIty FurnIture and Undertakmg Com-pany of Columbl1'3, MIs", has now purchased the mterest of Mr Plumber, a new member of the company, and WIll agam take an actIve pal t in the management of the bl1'3mess The Dubuque (Iowa) Coffin and Casket Company are look-mg for a new 10cat1On and are expected to accept mducements of-fered by SIOUX CIty, Iowa Such '" as the report from S10UX CIty last Monday, but PreSIdent Beller of the company says "there ~ nothmg m It, we WIll stay m Dubuque for the present at least" The SeIdel Furmture Manufactunng Company, 515-52G Barracks street, New Orleans, La, estabh"hed m 1885, IS gomg mto the manufacture of coffil1'3 and caskets, a supenntendent of one of the largest casket factones haVing purchased a maJonty of the company'0 stock The manufacture of furniture WIll be chscontinued MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND NEWS. The Carlyle (Ky) CredIt Company, hou"efurmshers, have made an aSSIgnment Curtm D Stump, undertaker of Reachng, Pa, WIll put m a stock of furmture E E Oylear has purchased an mterest in F E Lambert's furmture store at Genesee, Idaho T A. Freeman, manufacturer of chaIr stock, Brownw1lle, T enn , IS plannmg to enlarge hIS factory The undertakmg firm of 1\Iaus & Shannon, Prescott, Anz, has been dhsolved, Mr Shannon retlrmg The Letterborn VVoodworkmg Company of Hartford, Conn, has been mcorporated CapItal stock, $50,000 The SterchI Furmture Company of NashVIlle, Tenn, have doubled the capItal stock-from $10,000 to $20,000. George G1lle~p1e 1~ a new undertaker at Columbus, Ind He was formerly m the same busmes" at Hope, Ind The MIchIgan Oak F loonng and Intenor F1msh Company is a Pontiac, MICh , corporation ,apltah7ed at $30,000. The undertakmg firm of Sherwood & DIck, Kankakee, Ill, has been chs"olved Mr DIck contmues the bl1'3mess The G E Schloss Company of ~ ew York Clty has been m-corpor dted to deal m lumber and furmture. CapItal stock, $75,000 S B Donchian of Harford, Conn, b erectmg one of the handsomest bUlldmgs on Pearl street to be used for hIS onental rug busmess CredItors have filed a petltion m bankruptcy agamst C H Dodd & Co, mcorporated, furmture dealers and decorators, of Cleveland, Oh1O John Fmger, receIver for the firm of Vetter Bros & LeWIS, furmture dealers of LOUlWllle, Ky, WIll chspo~e of the stock and c1o~e out the busmess. The J W. Fox Excels101 Company of Grand Rapids. re-port trade excellent for the past ClX month" the largest demand be111g from the HOOSIer state The carpet 111111'0 at W estboro, l\fas~, have been sold to the Magee Carpet Company and the machme1Y is being taken out to be moved to Bloomsburg, Pa The Boyne CIty, NItch, boa 1d of trade is negotlatmg for the estabhshment of a furmture factory, offenng a good SIte WIth water and raIl transportation The M1S,,1On Furmture Company of Syracuse, NY, have decided to change the 10cat1On of theIr factory and have been negotlatlng for a site in Tonawanda, N. Y. H Crockm, furmture dealer of Norfolk, Va, has pur-chased a site adJoimng hIS pi esent quarters and will erect a three-~tory bUlld111g ()Ox300 feet, at a cost of $30,000 The DIxie School Desk Company, cap1tahzed at $25,000, ha~ been mcorporated to take over the plant, stock and bl1'3iness of the old Columbus School Desk Company at Columbus, Ga The GIbson Refngerator Company of GreenVIlle (1\11ch) are increasing the capaClty of theIr plant They have Just completed a new warehouse that WIll ~helter 20,000 refngerators. The Hanson lurmture Company of Janesville, W IS , manu-facturers of chmng and pIllar extension tables, report that m the volume of bl1'3mess the year 1909 IS the best in theIr hIstory The Hudson FurnIture Company of Austm, Texas, has been mcorporated by E A Hudson and ~evet al of hIs employes mc1udmg E 0 Garrett, J L. Garrett and Elmer Vvoolff Cap-ital stock, $80,000 The W1lhams Furmture Company of Dawson, Ga, have purchased the stock of furmture carned in the general store New Furniture Dealers. J 1\1 Cwtello ha<, opened 1m new fUlniture store at Kear-ney, Nebr W C Hay WIll estabhsh a new furmture store in Aber-deen, S D R A Melv m has engaged in the retaIl furmture trade at Parker, S D Meyers & lmsterwald are the newest furmture dealers 111 Detroit, MIch. Stephen L Woodward has opened a new furmture store at Charle101, Pa. The PaCIfic Salvage Company IS startinlS a furmture store 111TIllamook, Oregon The Vendeventer Company of Lafayette, Ind, ha~ been in-corporated WIth a capItal of $10,000 by J. L Vendeventer and others, for the purpo ,e of buy mg and sellmg furmture at wholesale or retail Frank Berman and John W Martm of Chester, Pa, and Reuben SatterthwaIte, Jr, of W1lmmgton, Del, have 111corpor-ated the Berman company, cap1tah7ed at $30,000, to deal m fur-mture, hardware and c10thmg m Phtlacle1ph1a Has a "Kick Coming." A J Kingsley, a manufacturer of chaIrs m Portland, Ore-gon, appeared before the mterstate commerce comm1o,SlOn re-cently and stated that d1stnbut1ve freIght rates by rall were so arranged that he could not do busme;,s m compet1tlOn WIth firms located m the ea"tern states to any extent east of the Dalles Only about five per cent of hIS trade comes from terntory east of Portland 1\Ir Kmgsley certamly "has a kick coming." demned Of course, when orga111zed labor permIts It-self to cympathlze wIth vIOlent methods, wIth breaches of the la\\, wIth boycotts and other methods of undue dures", it is not entItled to our sympathy But It Is not expected that such or-g< lmzatlOns shall be perfect, and that they may not at times, and m partIcular cases, show defective tendenCIes that ought to be corrected -\11 advantages of trade~ unIOn, great as they are, cannot weIgh a feather m the scale agamst the nght of any man to work for whom and at what pnce he wJ1I" Kow thIS sOlmd" the keynote of the whole mdustnal and economIC sItuatIOn "Vhat J\1r. Taft says 111thl:O ImpressIve paragraph IS the eternal truth; and I feel free to say that when the tune may come when a non-U1110n worker can feel the Im-l11U111t) of a true Amencan cItizen, when he and his WIfe and httle one" are fJ ee from the brutal 111su1tSand devlhsh perse-cutlOn: o of behgerent U1110111sm, for whIch Gompers and MItchell stand sponsors, then and not till then, WIll PreSIdent Taft be lustlfied 111asst1111lng that 1m, kmdly recommendatIOn of labor U1110ns\\111 be accepted by patnotlc Amencans 111good faIth \Vhen ilfr Taft saId that «AJI advantages of trade" unions, great as they are, cannot weIgh a feather m the scale against the nght of any man to \\ork for whom and at what pnce he WIll," and then m another sentence says, «I t1unk the employer \\ ho declmes to deal WIth orga111zed labor and to recognize It as a proper element m the :oettlement of wage controversIes is be-hmd the tunes," I am perplexed to under~tand whIch statement he mean" should be accepted as hIS real opi111on, They cannot both be accepted because anybody at all fal111har WIth the sub- Ject kno\\ s that Gompers-::\Iltchell unio111sm does not conSIder a settlement of a wage ~cale or any other matter in controversy except on a closed shop baSIS, whIch IS quite eVIdent at variance WIth l\Ir Taft's statement quoted, Not only that, but we all know that If, m case of stnke, the employer attempts to run hIS bu:omess WIth other men, dll sort~ or coercIve means are al- \\ a) s emplo) ed to enforce such adjustment as they may dIctate, and 111de111al of the very rights whl'2h l\Ir Taft has so ably de-fended Then, too, MI, Taft ha~ stated that he favors a modi-ficatIOn of the 111JunctlOn law~, 111cases of labor dIsputes, What for, S111cesuch a courc;e would SImply afford the mob element a greater opportu111t) to perform its work of slugg111g and des-truction of propel ty ) In hIS reference to thIS subject he saId, «I propo:oe 111the next sessIon of congl e~" to recommend the legIslatIon on the sub- LABOR ORGANIZED AND UNORGANIZED Comments on President Taft's Chicago Address by President Kirby of the National Manufacturers' Association and Others. John KIrby, Jr, 111A111Cl1caJZ IndustJzcS for October -I cannot understand why Mr Taft should deem It to be wlth111 the dutIes of the preSIdent of the 1T111tedStates to explOIt the cause of labor U111on" and denounce employ ere; who I efuse to recognize them Pel haps If I \\ere 111the pohtlcal bu"mes, I would understand all about It, but I am not In thl" CI1J(a~o dehverance MI Taft ndturally talked a" the repl esentatlve and spokesman of the mas,es of the Amencan commonwealth, that is to say, for all classec; except one-the soclah-t element He Isolated thIS element WIth httle com tesy 01 merq, thm placmg them 111the category of ahens He even went so far a, to de-clare that the SOClahsts have been repudIated by orga111zed labor whose label he frankly p111ned to hh jacket m the declaratIOn that labor U1110111smhas I11SposItIve and hearty approval He even endorsed stnkes, and benevolently suggested to the U1110ns the advbablhty of provldmg a fund to take care of stllkers fam-ihes 111the event of prolonged lockouts 01 stnkes -\nd \\ hlle he gently rapped Gompel c; for attempt111g to drag the U1110ns mto pohtlcs last fall, he was magna111mous to concede that that ponderous celebnty IS also opposed to Soclahsm He moreover mgemously )lbtlfied hIS contentIOn of orgalllzed labor by cIting the fact that he (Taft) was supported last) ear by both U1110n and non U1110nlabor He chd not, however, refer to the part the business men of the country played m secunng hIS electIOn On ItS face, hI" generom concessIOn to the rank and file of Ulllon labor seems fan and Just But the fact remaUb that Gompers IS still the accrechted head and chctator of orga111zed labor, whIch appear~ to Justify the mference that tll1s element IS not, at ItS best a very potent factol m our pohtlc~ -\nd \\ h) should It be, when It IS remembered that the labOl U1110nsem-brace les" than ten per cent of the labor vote 111thIS repubhc, of whom perhap~ twenty-five or thIrty per cent vote the Soclahst ticket, the balance bemg about equally chvlded between the Dem-ocratIc and Repubhcan partIes Be It noted, further, that the preSIdent 111hIS speech came nobly to the defense of the non-Ulllon worker m such ulll111stak-able language that hIs remarks should be echoed throughout the world, He said: «K othmg I have salCl or shall ~ay chould be construed mto an attitude of cntlcbm aga1l1st or unfnenc111l1ess to tho~e \\ orJ..- men who for any reason do not Jom the U1110ns TheIr fll:;ht to labor for such wages as they choo~e to accept IS saC!ed, dnd any lawless 1l1VdSlOnof that llght cannot be too severd) con- rH~te-l---LiNDEN~IHO-F- FMAN----~RO~HE~-;-c~~-I I FT. WAYNE, IND. I Indianapolis I I Illinois and New York Sts. I , 6 Blocks from UnIOn Depot HAR I WOO I LU M BE R · I I ~5~1~~~:'nf:omInterurban StatIOn, .1, All Outs,de, w,th Fue Escape J elephone In Every Room, European Plan , Rates, 75c to $2 00 Per D"y, I, Dlumg Room In ConnectlOn SpeCIal Rates to FamIlIes .' and Permanent Guests ih~~':a"J::;B~~fr~~fenewlllFItld I SAWED} QUARTERED OAK {VENEERS I Stoppmg Place, AND GEO. R. BENTON I SLICED AND MAHOGANY Lessee and Manager • I "_.a _. ..s. .....•. . -._~-- -------- .. - ------ . ..a WEEKLY ARTISAN 27 Ject of mJunctlOn wl1l'::h was pr0l111sed m the Repubhcan plat-form, and to see whether by such legIslatIon It b not possIble to aVOId even a few cases of abuses that can be cIted agam;,t the federal courts m the exerCIse of theIr Jun~dlctlOn" J'vir Taft may have 111mllld "a few cases of abuses," but dunng the argument on the so-called Pearre antl-lnJunctlOn bIll 111the last congres~, 1\1r. Roo,evelt and Samuel Gompers, al-though repeatedly urged by the Juchclary commIttee of the house to present such cases, made an Ignommous faIlure to produce any, and It would therefore appear that thIS bulwark of safety to the nghts of cItIzens of all classes should not be tampered wIth to accommodate the unholy p lrp05es of those whom It re-strams from breakmg the law In deal111g wIth the matter of mjt1llctions m labor case:;, I have yet to learn of a smgle case of a ,tnke where there was no VIOlence or coerC1On, when the employer has attempted to Made by The Udell Works, IndianapolIs, Ind. run hIS bu"mess wIth non-Ulllon men, or where the mJunctIon has worked any hardshIp on stnkers or 111terfered wIth their legal nghts, and Just why the plcket111g mob would be gIven any opportulllty whatever to destroy hfe and property before they are restramed, e,peclally smce the plamttff must gIVe bond to msure the defendant agamst peculllary loss, If such a thmg un-der such CIrcumstances IS conceIvable, IS mcomprehenslble to me, unle;,s it be that a httle "sop" along this lIne wIll help po-htlcally I do not under"tand. however, that the mJ'.:lnction legisla-t10n whIch Mr Taft ment10ns as promhed m the lZepubhcdll platform 1" mtended to change the present practIce of bsuing temporary re~tram111g orders or mJ unctIOns, WhICh are now IS- ~ued wIthout notIce dncl hearmg only when m the Judgment of the court Irreparable damage I~ llnmment In VIew of Mr T dff~ forceful and patnotlc utterance" m defen~e of the nghb of 111dependent woI1one,men It I~ safe to a",Sl1l11ethat he WIll not approve of a 1) le::;I~alt1On \\ hI::h \\ 111 111any manner Jeopal ellie the~e nghts N"aturally, I hesItate to be placed on record a" cntIcb111g the presIdent\' -peech. whIch. m the mam, muct be taken as the 111gemous delIverance of a chplomat amI state~man. Cel tain!) It mu"t be conceded that the preSIdent of the 1]lllted States can-not afford to betray allY preJuchce or preference as between CltI- 7ens or da~se~ unless such preJuchfe or preference be clearl) ~hown to be a~amst the enemle, of the repubhc The chIef fault I find wIth hI~ ChI-:ago utterance I~ thIS That in lend-mg hIS great mfluence to the encouragement and exploitation of labor UlllOlllsm he strangely omItted any comphmentary refer-ence to the ments and claIms of the employmg element upon whom the workmg people naturally depended for subSIstence On the contrary, he dIsposes of the latter element WIth the ICY cntIclsm that he ha~ no sympathy for those who oppo"e the or-gdlllzatIon of labor Had Mr Taft been personally confronted by thIS problerli, a~ have the many ldrge employers who al e, one after another, contmuonsly refusmg to recognIze labor UnIons to whose clIc-tatonal methods and msolent demands they have for years been ~ubjected, I thmk he would not have saId "I thmk the employer who declIneu to deal WIth organIzed labor and to recognIze It a, a proper element m the ~ettlement of wage controversle, IS be-hmd the times." Echtonal m Amc! [call lndustrzcs for October-PresIdent Taft declared recently that, If fate had had placed hIm among what IS commonly termed the "workmg classes" he would have Jomed a labor union ThIs IS mterestmg If true It is doubly mtere",tmg because we know that the natUlal bent of thIS states-man is toward law and order, and also that he IS not, and could not, be of that pecuhar cdhber of whlLh the average labor UnIon leader IS largely composed No one personally acquamted WIth PreSIdent Taft, or even havmg a general krowledge of hIS char-acter, could Imagme for one mmute that he would long hold a UnIon card under condItIons daIly set forth before the Amen-can people The average lawyer is adverse to vIOlence, the average statesman abhors mFbtIce. the average respectable CitI-zens prefers peace and qUIet m hIS dally hfe Our ChIef Exec-utIve IS all of these, and therefore hIS statement must be ac-cepted cum .~raIl0 sahs-chctated, not so much by the heart as by-may we ",ay pohtics? EdItonal In A11ZC1tCan Industrzcs for October-It is po~sIble that Mr Taft can have so qUIckly forgotten that other statement he made, when in the first flush of VIctory at the polls he de-clared so fervently, and we thought gratefully, "I owe my elec-tIOn pnnclpally to the loyal support of the bu",mess men?" Surely the JudICIal mmd whIch raIsed WIlham H Taft from the obscunty of an uUlmportant lawyer's office to the exalted office of ChIef MagIstrate of the UUltecl States must know that the business men of the country fall to appreCIate an approval of Il-legal acts and cnml11al v101ence Perhaps the preSIdent was Ulisquoted, perhaps he Joked-perhap", he suffers from poor ad- VIce. Busmess men WIll accept anyone of the~e explanatIOns to e~cape the dread that \VIlham H Taft IS chsloyal to honest pnnclples ---------------------~I•I III II II II ... -_ ... THE WEATHERLY INDIVIDUAL Glue Heater Send your address and and receIve descriptive CIrcular of Glue Heaters, Glue Cookers and Hot Boxes with prICes. The Weatherly Co. Grand Rapid., Mich. I ~----------------------------_ _- ..~ 28 WEEKLY ARTISAN ............ ------" New Buildings That Will Need Furniture . Resldence~-Frank Johnson, 16iZ7 [' arragut street, ChlCago, $7,000 n J ame<, Jarrell, 1256 Early ave, ChIcago, $3,550. J Callo" 5810 Wash1l1gton boulevard, ChlCago, $1,700. ~:I\1ary \ Lanca~ter 1,11 E WashIngton street, InclIanapohs, $5,00(; n P S Robert, Pal kway and ChIcago street, Indlanapohs, $3,30U n Edgar R VIncent, ::-J renn~ylval11a street, Indlanapohs, $4,000. 'f DEW ebster, Hartford and Shepard streets, Ml1waukee, $+ iOO n C 13 PallIn, 730 Stowell street, l\lllwaukee, $4,200. 'f ~ S Smedegaard, Denver, Colo, $ct,300 'f PIerce Bnes, \lounta1l1 \ Ie" and 1"enty-~econcl street, Denver, $5,000 n R. 1 Thompson Tremont avenue, Youngston, 0, $3,500 n G. \\ Spnng",terbach, 1119 Newton avenue, M1l1neapohs. $7,000 'f Geo L GIllette, Dean boulevard, ':VI1l1neapohs, $7,500 11 Glen L SaAton, 3iZOO S Emerson avenue, 1\11l1neapohs, $6,500. n Fntz Holzaptel, 1i18 ~ GIrard avenue, M1l1neapohs, $4,800 n Geo L Hart,oc:k, 37,)/ ChICago avenue, M1l1neapohs, $5,500 n R. l Hob"on, 2070 J'\elson avenue, MemphIs, Telm ,$3,000 'f Wal-ter \nclel "on. Omaha, Nebr ,2181 S ThIrty-fourth street, $2,500 'f W L Kelley, S2 .s111clalr avenue, Atlanta, Ga, $3,000 11 Ja- ... I I II IIII• I•• ..-- _. _ ..---_._.-._.-._ •..._-_._--_. -----~I $17.25 For thIS Genume Mahogany Dresser Top 46x23. MIrror 30x24. Wood knobs. Hand rubbed fimsh. CHARLES BENNETT FURNITURE CO. CHARLOTTE, MICH. ~----------------------- _-_ ---" • I• •II• II•• II •II!I III•• ! ~~~'~sA BARGAIN No. 537. 28x42 top. Quarter Sawed Oak, Cross Band Rim, Polished, $7.50 You can't make money faster than by buymg thIS fine lIbrary Table by the dozen, unless you make up a carload out of thIS and other good thmgs we have to show you. PALMER MANUFACTURING CO. 1015 to 1043 Palmer Ave., DETROIT MICH. ~-------_._- ._ ..._-----_ ..--- - _._-_._- ...~ VIew In the Rug Department of the Kelsker Store cob SeIdel, IlJS Boulevard E, DetrOIt, $10,000 n Herman Yat-zek, 1ill Lelce~ter street, DetrOIt, $12,'iOn n George \V Lynn, 1l:2() Humboldt ~treet. DetrOIt, $:1 .Jon n A.xthur Schultz, San Ant011l0, rj eAas, $:1.,)00 'f LeonalCl HI11Js, Peona, Ill, $13,000 'f J \1 Robb. Peona, Ill, $-1 2,)0 ~ E. C Roh1f~en, Peona, Ill, (bungalow) $4.)00 11E L RIchmond, Peon a, Ill, $'),500 'f J C 0 HaIre, St Joseph, Mo, $4,500 'f Clara B QUInn, J20iZ Shenandoah street, St LOUIS, 110, $9,500 n Lulu Tuffy, JS16 St Louh street, St LOUIS, Mo, $4,700 11 E Popper, 918 T'orty-elghth Place, Clucago, $12,000 n F. L SlVyer, Lake Dnve :\111\\aukee, $12,000 11 :\Irs S H Kle111, Denver, Colo., $.3,000 'f .sophIa Gaston, Denver, Colo, $3,000 ~ Mrs So-phIe \11ller, 901 Glengyle Place, ChIcago, $9,000 'f Wm. WhIte, Las La Me<,a Miraville, Cal, $7,500 11 R. Scott, Mesa, Ariz, $6,000 'f A D SmIth, POl11t Loma, Cal, $4,000. ~ A L Morey, 4465 Bartmel evenue, St Joseph, ~Io, $7,500. 11 \Vm H Frantz. 6134 :;-'lcPhercon avenue, St Joseph, :1\10, $5,500 'f T R Wheelock. 4319 GIllham road, Kansas CIty, Mo, $4,000 11 1\ A ChI1berg, 1900 Ryons avenue, Ll11coln, 1\'ebr, $4,500 n Paula Plesko, IS5 Schenectady, N. Y , $4,000 1"[ R M. Dun-naway, 269 Lake avenue, Atlanta, Ga, $4,~00 n T. L Smith, f---'~B~oa~':~;=:P:e~-~W-E~-EK-:L-~Y-~.-~-AR-.T-I.S-.AN----.-----------------------------129 I I I I I I I I I I I I I I , I I I j..----------_. ..-..... OVER 15,000 OF OUR STEEL RACKVISES IN USE Price $2.80 to $4.00 25 doz Clamp FIxtures bought by one mIll last year. We shIp on approval to rated firms, ana guarantee our goods uncondi-tIOnally. Wrote for !l8t of Steet Bar Clamps, V,ses, Bench Stops, etc E. ". S"ELDON &. CO. 283 Madison St. Chicago. ---------_._---------- - . - .- ---- ------------ - - - . - . - . - - - -- \mmton Ala. $G,500 ~ G. A. Gorham, Blrmmgham, Ala, $.'5,000 ~ lIr" A 1\1 Erwm, ::Y1acon,Ga, $4,800 ~ Wilham Dun\', cody, Macon, Ga, $8,000 ~M aJ W W Gordon, Sa-vannah. Ga. $20,000 Jame'i Connelly, 1b32 Hazel Dnve, Cleveland, 0 , $15.000 ~ A. R Hme, 10025 Somerset street, Cleveland, 0 , $1,500 ,-rFrank Gentele. J r , Broadway, LotllS-Ville, Ky, $4,400 T E McGm111'i, Duke street, St Paul Mll1n, $8,600 ,-rJames SUl1(Jns, "!'Ilarshall street, St Paul, :\lmn, $:'0,400 ,-rMr'i Anna Connor, 2403 N 45th street, Omaha, Nebr, $7,000 ~ Anna Dray V{arrack, Sacramento, Cd, $5,000 ,-rWm L. Scharf, 2157 Eighth avenue, N. Y, $7,300 ,-rl\1rs W n Sleeper, Huntmgton Park, Cal, $G,400 ,-rJohn Peter'ion, 1115 Humboldt street, Chicago, $5,000 11Jd-cob Bowman, 1120 North J efferSQn street, Peona, Ill, $.3,500 ,-r,\ J \\;ellbanks, 802 Lexmgton avenue, Syracuse, NY, $4,800. ,-rE E Huznrd, I2? Fitch street, Syracuse, $6.000 ,-rAhce 1\1 Thoma'i, 34 Columbus street, Buftalo. NY, $2.800 ~ Ma-nan ~ Horan, 361 Seventh street, Buffalo, $4,000 ,-rIsrael Golc1stem, 249 PUle street, Buffalo, $3,500 ,-rJohn Brunner, Evanston, Ill, $12,000 ,-rMichael Murphy, Evanston, Ill, $4,- 300 ,-r"Gu,," Hartmetz, EvanSVille, Inc1, $4.500 11E F Hanna, Salt Lake City, Utah, $7,000 ~J E Roehr, 930 We"t Twelfth 'itreet, Oklahoma City, $4,500. ,-r Thomas A Parry, SdJt 1 ahC (It), Ltah, $3,500 ,-r Wilham A Holstead, DetrOIt Mlch, $9,000 ,-rCharle'i Coulter, DetrOIt, $5,000 ,-r Henry Bergeman, DetrOIt. $-1,:JOO ,-rJ G Ka,ter, DetrOit, $5.600 ,-rCharles Miller, HG Ellery "treet, DetrOIt. $6,000 ,-rB M. Levy, Gray avenue. Houston, Texa'i, $4,000 ,-rJ R Darnell, Gray avenue, Houston. Texas, $-1,500 11R C Hobson, 20'/0 ~ ehon avenue, l'\1emphls, Tenn , $) ,500 11W L Adams. 1425 Laurel 'itreet, St LOllh, 1\10, $3.000 \Vl1ham Damman, Lo-gan avenue. Young'itown, OhIO, $3,(,00 ,-rSamuel Teltz. Day-ton 'itreet, I\ewark, K J. $10,500 111\1r., M M McCall, 34 \tVe'it Fourteenth street, Atlanta, Ga . $6,000 ,-rl\Ir" Ehza-beth Calder, J06 Murray dvenue, Pltbburg. Fa, $5,000 11S R Byarly, Arch and Twentieth streets, Little Rock. Al k, $3, 000 ,-rMrs. L H Curnayn, 2341 Kemper street, Cmcmndtl, OhIO, $8,000 L A Chesebro, 54 Parkwood boulevard, Schen-ectady, NY, $3,000 ,-rJoseph Vogelberger, Young'itown, OhIO, $+,500 ,-rC ~llller, 5625 Woodlawn avenue, Chl'.::ago, $15,000 Schools-Mmneapoh", Mmn. Seward School, $90,000, St. Paul, Mmn. Cleveland high school, $118,000, Los Angele", Cal , has secured a ten-acre tract for a high school, bUlldmgs to be constructed on the group plan at a cost of $243,000 Hotels-Albert FI'iher, Salt Lake City, Utah, $100,000, W S Bane and daughter, Corona, Cal, $.15,(,00 Mi"cellaneoU'i-Sheltering Arms orphan asylum, Mmnedp- 011", $30,000, Plans for the new court house at Bakel sfield, Cal, call for an expenditure of about $330,000, Contract ha" been awarded for the constructIOn of the city hall at Redlands, Cal Baptists will bUlld a church at Arte"la, N 1\1, at a co"t of $25,000 A new court house IS to bUIlt at Lebanon, Pa, a" soon a'i an agreement can be made as to the site Fourth ave-nue Baptists, LOUlsvllle, Ky, are bmldmg a church to cost $.)3,- 000 Making More Denatured Alcohol. Figure'i sent out from \Vashmgton last Monday "how thdt the productIOn of denatured alcohol 111 the Umted States 111- creased about 28 per cent dunng the year endl11g J nne JO, 1909, a'i compared With the prevloU'i wear The productIOn for tne past year aggregated 3,7n.,370 gallon~ aga1l1~t 4,356,419 gallom for the prevIOus year Even 111 fish1l1g for husbands It IS generally the big ones that get away. SEND FOR CATALOGUE. ket and should be well up m values Perhaps our buyers do not know their bu"mess, but we will say this, we are now paying much more for them and If you can place an order for 1000, landmg them m Chicago for us at $1 50, we will give you $200 for your trouble, but, even If what you say IS tl ue, don't you thmk this kitchen table a pretty good premlUm when you take mto con'-lderatlOn that we IPu~t set up, finish and dellver our pi emlt1ms to the customers' houses? \\ e aLa \\ I~h to remInd you that Flsh\ stamp savers may select dn, other al tlcle 111either of our five stores, marked $350, or may appl) a book of our stamps as $3 30 on account of any prevlOm pUl c11ase or use the LQok m an) way that $350 cash 'auld bc Ihed In our ~tOIes \\ hcn )OU d\ lOwe olle must pa, for the stamps' vou ale con cd but do the Irel chant~ hancllmg our ~tdmps pay any more or as l11uch for acIni tl~111\Sthan we must p,y the SlI:;h Furm- 30 WEEKLY ARTISAN THE NEW STYLE TRADING STAMPS. The Fish Furniture Company Takes Exceptions to What the Weekly Artisan Said About Them. Editor of the Vveekly ArtIsan, Dear Sn - -\s a sub"cnber of the Artisan, of many years' standmg, we \'Ish to thank} au for the wrIte-up Qn our FHh's Stalnps, but the man} mis-state-ments conta1l1ed in }our artIcle force upon us the conchhlOn that the wntel thereof must have either have been I11I~mfOlmed or he Jumped to concluslOns Without any authentIc 111formatlOn m regard to the sub1ect matter 111hand Before we proceed further, we Wish to assure} au that evel \ word m our advertIsement, whlLh you so k111dl} replOducec1, I~ the absolute truth, and It IS so 'L('ell establIshed that there are thousands of mel chants 111 ChIcago who '« lit (eJ Itl, 'ic It/lOltt question, our claim Fish's Stamps are not called Tradll1g Stamp, for the very gcod reason that a~lde from the fact that the) are ~I\ en out and collected 111the same way, they ha\ e 1I0th1Jl~ I1l C01l1111011 your statement to the contrary notwltlbtandll1g You ,ay, If we, au plomoters of Fish s Stamps 'iL{:re to stop now, "the 5000 mer-::hants mIght find It to then ddvantage to cont1l1ue their uee." wunch chllch h 111Vle\\ at the fact that the; e are 5000 mCi chants 111 ChIcago nOll' USIII!!; them and \ all \\ III doubtless admit that It would be conservative to estimate thClr customels at an dverage of 100 each, representing as the) do all lInes of merchanchsll1g, dr} good, clothll1g, grocery, mar-kets, teas, coffees and kindred lines. ThiS makes the approximate number of I I~h S stdmp say el ~ 111 Chicago someth1l1g hke OIlC halt 1111lium people \0 ~ll1dll mfluence \\ hen we can Ider that the gl eatel maJOlIt\ at thesc stamp 'aver~ are z('omcll and the heads of fallll!les \\ auld It not be Ill-adVised to conclude that thiS vast number of senSible econ0l111cai people who. dunng the pa,t four years that I I::>h' ,tamps have been grow1l1g 111 p'lpulanty, al e /lot stud \ l1Z~ thell best intclest by ,a\ 1I1g them) The old 1l11e stamp compames are stIli aggles..,lVeJ, H'PI e-sented 111 Chicago and that Flsh\ stamps nave thL great foIlO\\- mg speak worlel, for the dlffe} e/lce betzl cell the tlL'O We do not ..,ell to competll1g mel chants, giving to eve! \ merchant who co-opelate~ With us hiS legitimate tJ ade I adzwJ crcluswns, Improvement 0, er the aIel ctamp cOl1lpal1le" \\ a\ s but effectively answers another Item 111 the mchLtment which you make against u" m your article As to the comment which you make as to the value of the premlUms shown, a kitchen cabmet table 'Iookmg cheap and hke It should be produced at $150," we have anI) thl" to say Y0l1 are 111 Grand Rapld~ on the ground floor of the f11l11ltl11e mal- ...----------------- - _. - --'" WOODronnlno (UTnn~ A~only the edge outlines of the Cutter comes Into contact With the lumber, there ISno frIction or burn- Ing of the moulding!> when made with the Shimer Reversible or One-Way Cutters. These Cutters are carefully moulded to suit your work, and are very complete, inexpensive and time-saving tools. We supply special Cutters of any shape deSIred and of any SLi:eto SUIt your machine spIndles. Let us havt' your speCifications. For odd work not found In our catalogue send a wood sample or draWIng. SAMUEL J. SUlMER &. SONS, Milton, Penn. Manufacturers of the Shimer Cutter Heads for Flooring, Ceiling, Siding, Doors, Sash, etc ,---_._.-_._._._._.-~-------.. ....--_. - .... ~s J@'h~jrtet" ! FREE I for 1Fish S1tunpBook: If you want to make every dollar count, 1 hIS CabInet IS made from thoroughly trade where you can receive Flsh'sStamps seasoned hardwood, will not split or You must cat,and sleep and hve ThiS, uack It hdS an unvarmshed, smooth of neceSSIty, costs money In the spend close ~ratned, whIte top The leg.s and mt,\ of money. the art of where to !;pend It SIdes <lre finIshed With the very best high IS the knowted~e g,reat men show in quahty varnIsh fhIS Cahmet wIll make buddmg fortunes your kl.tchcn more attractive, and the '\ hat IS true of the great fortune bul1d~ work easier It con tams flour bIn, ca ers IS hkewisc true of those 2 OOO~OOO paclty about 50 pounds, larg,e center human beings who hve In ChIcago In drawep and bread and meat board It thIS great CIty there are o"er 5 000 stores 15 handsomely trImmed With brasshandles which handle" FISh s Stamps These and good casters Ahigh~grade kItchen merchants sell as low If not lower t1tan adornment and a household neceSSIty other merchants They deal in every 1hislSjUstoneof hundreds of things thmg you need They Me Jocated Fish's Stamps bring free to you Furnt-on the ,",orth South and West ture and housefittmgs of all kInds s1des and for ma.ny mdes around for the home In every department Ctllcai?,0 open to your selection Sa ve these stamps They are worth dollars to you. One httle book full of the stamps wdl make you the owner of the KItchen Cabmet shown above. Eden full, Book of lllsl\s stamps is wortf\. $3.5Qo MNch.nU <.,,,1SI."d. •• p.". Who A"e N.t Sapplied Call Up 1404 Colurnd On every" haseyou make askfor Fish~ .st&ltl.p~ given FREE at over 5000 stores tUI e COl11pdn) (v\ h0111\\ e see ae!verti~e~ 111 YQllI paper) when we bu) from them, 01 do you \\I"h to 'Oay that the Shgh Furmture company should ac1vertl~e and the merchants who co-operate With tIS should not? \"T e ~ell our stamp~ to the merchants with the c~ZI(J1 antec that the} Will merease hiS buslncss or they cost hU11nothm~ -can} 011 ,ay as much to )'our advertisers? Our stdmp proposltlOn IS Simply co-operatIve advertlsl11g between the mel chants ancl OUl0elves and IS as different from the regular exclUSive stamp company plan as e!ay I~ from l1Ight. That our plan IS ecoJlomlcally nght and a tremendou;, Im-provement over the ole! tl ad1l1g ,tamp, should be mal1lfest tQ any falr-m1l1clecl observant pel son ane! considering that it IS be- I11g adoptee! and coplee! practIcally the \\ hole country over, from Canada to Te"as. only makes another I11dlcatIve, forceful argu-ment Qf the Il11prO\ement our plan :.hows over the aIel-fashioned tradll1g stamps \Ve feel that an 1I1JustIce has been done us by the trend of your article and consIder It only a matter of JustIce to u" and bu"iness courtesy that you give equal publICity to our explana-tory letter Thank1l1g you aga1l1, we beg leave to remain Yours very truly, L. FISH FURNITURE CO I• I ... WEEKLY ARTISAN 31 EVANSVILLE BUSINESS BOOMING. Furniture Factories Running Ten Hours a Day and Some of Them Working Nights. Evansvl1le, Ind, Oct 21-Business is booming with the lo-cal furniture manufacturer" Practically every factory IS run-nmg on full time In speakmg of local condItions, Harry H. Schu, of the Crescent Furmture Company, saId: "Our four hundred employes are now working on a schedule of ten hour~ a day and the packers are workmg mghts. Weare placmg our products m the east, whIle heretofore the field has been restricted to the south and southwe"t A F Karges, secretary of the Karges Furniture Company, which IS a part of the BIg S1'\: Carloading AssociatIOn. saId' "In my OpInIOn busmess is twenty-five per cent better wIth the local furmture manufacturers than one year ago There IS a feelmg of confidence m the blbmess world VI e are now work-ing our plant ten hours a day and orders are coming m mcely InquirIes are mcreasmg rIght along" Gus Stolt7 of the Stoltz-SchmItt FurnIture Company, say s m hIS cplmcn trade IS better now than It has been at any t11ne dUrIng the past two years Hem y Menke of the Indiana Furn-mture Company amI Edwal d Ploeger of the Bosse" Jurmture Company also expressed theme elves as well pleased wIth the trade outlook Benjamm Do,,~e of the Globe FUlmture Company, spent ~everal days la~t week m Inchanapohs on blhmess Carl WIlson. of the Wllson Furmture Company, of LOUIS-vIlle, was here a few day" ago on busmes FI ed L StolL::. Iranager of the Crown Cl,air company 0: tIns CIty, has pnrchased the stock from the vanous stockholders and IS now "de owner of the plant Th(' Umted States Furmture Company have recently ad-ded a lme of davenports whI,::h are takmg well WIth the trade Charles Fnsse of the \Vorld Furmture Company. Edwal (1 Ploeger of the Do se FurnIture Company and Carl R RItter 1eturned from Cl11cago a few days ago whel e they went on bUS1- ness It is said that the plant of the Henderson (Ky) ChaIr com-pany whIch wa0 recently de~troyed by fire WIll be rebmlt. The reSIdence of WIlliam Ko'::h, of the Evansvl1le "Metal Bed company, lS nearly completed The home w111 cost him about $30,000 and be one of the finest In tl11S CIty. Mr Koch IS Justly proud of the fine resldence and has a llght to be w.n. C The Man of Fifty. The best of the world's work in every field of useful actlvlty has been accomph;,hed by men whose age~ vvere nearer to fifty than to thIrty-five say;, Forbes Lmdsay m Harpers Weekly The statement IS aXIOmatic Any doubt about lt WIll be dlSS1- pated by ten mmutes' flight of memory. And a" the mmd runs over many coroborative Illustrations another fact WIll be forced upon it-that the older the actor, the surer the performance The achievement of the man of fifty is the result of cold calcu-lation and mature judgment If luck enters into the matter It is an mCIdent, not an essential factor The young man, on the other hand, delIberately mcludes chance in hlS plans and freelv take" risks One m ten of him effects a brIllIant coup The other nine make a fizzle But lt is the startlIng success that holds our attention and mo1cls our opimon. The popular mmd IS mfluenced by mstances rather than by averages One man may create a reputation for the entire clas" to which he belongs. The meteonc rise of a George Perkins is widely accepted as evidence that a man lS at his best m what is really the period of immaturity. But this fallacy IS not entirely fancJful. Our pre"ent sys-tem of busine"s, bemg abnormal, produces abnormal effects Our grandfathers scrawled "Slow and Sure" in thelr copy-books until the maxim was engraven upon theIr brams. The present generatIOn finds no pomt in the story of the tortOise and the hare. The head of a large corpOi atIOn declared to me that he would rather employ a man of "peedy deCISIOns, even though he made occasIOnal ml stake;" thdn one of the "slow as chtch-vv ater but certam as death" kmd The commercial world of today is a sort of hothouse m whIch the young shoots are prematurely forced Naturally enough, they detenorate at an earher age than they should Also, in thelr eager development, they exert an upward pressure that pushe~ many a healthy plant out by the roots. The dIctum has gone forth that the man of fifty has passed the perIod of hlS greatest usefulness ThI;, Oslensm h fast be-com111g a general belIef Gl ay haIrs and wnnkles are a senous Made by World Furmture Co , EvanSVIlle, Ind. bal to employment 1he man of fifty who lo;,es hI;' place m the proce"s10n hds ;,mall chance of regammg lt, and may deem h1111sel£fortunate if he contnves to squeeze mto the rear ranks i\nd thlS applIes to all classes m the pur;,ml;, that demands edu-cation and knowledge Bu"mess men, college profes~ors, engI-neers, and even clel gymen find themselves undel the ban at fifty Strangely enough, the chance" of employment of the man of fifty are greater 111the cdllmgs where brawn lS a more nnportant qualIficatIOn than bram The man of fifty may know that hi;, faculties are keenel than ever before: that his experIence 1;' nper, hlS judgment sounder, hb constitutIOn and habits more stable, and hl;, power of steady, even applIcatIOn greater But he can't persuade the world to share hlS behef Try the Smooth Cook Stove. W. D Sager, manufacturer of stoves and ranges, 330-342 N Water street. Chlcago, has an advertisem.ent m thlS Issue of the Weekly Artisan whIch all dealers should read. The "Smooth Cook" stove lS mentIOned m .Mr Sagel 's "ad" and dealers WIll do well to send for complete catalog Furniture Fires. 32 WEEKLY ARTISAN ........-.-.--~---_._---------------._-------_. __._---~..-. I Miscellaneous Advertisements. WANTED-SALESMAN. Expecting to Increase our force of salaried salesmen we want to hear from furniture salesman, open for engagement January 1st. Must have experience In road work In medIUm and better case work, and general hne of furnIture. State reference. None but well recommended, expenenced furni-ture roadman Will be considered. Address High Grade Care Michigan Artisdn. '10'-23-tf. WANTED-SUPERINTENDENT. For Indiana factory, making sewing machme woodwork, address "Echo" or Weekly Artisan. 10-23. WANTED LINES FOR 1910. Experienced salesman With estabhshed trade between Buffalo an~ Bangor, Me., would hke to carry several hnes of medIUm pnced case goods on commiSSion. Address "EsPI" care Weekly Arttsan. 10-9 t. f. WANTED-SALESMEN. The. new. management of the Modern FurnIture Company, CmClnnatt, 0., deSIre canable salesmen to carry a new and up-to- date hne of Hall Racks in all parts of the UnIted States Oct 9-16-23-30. WANTED. A hne of medIUm priced Bedroom SUites and Sideboards for Pennsylvania outside of Philadelphia. On terntory twenty years. Address L D., care Weekly Artisan. 10-9, '09 WANTED. Capable foreman to take charge of wood-working shop. Office furniture factory near Toronto, Onto Reply stating age, expenence and reference. One who IS now a foreman or assistant foreman preferred. Apply to A. F. Smith, 97 Wel-lington St. W., Toronto, Onto 10-9 '09. WANTED. Traveling Salesman for I1lmols and Middle Western states to sell Foldmg Carnages on commissIOn. Liberal propOSItion to nght party. Address Rockford Folding Carnage Co., Rockford, Ill. Oct. 2-9-16-23. WANTED. First class spindle carvmg machme operator on heavy claw feet and heads. State wages expected. Address 3-B care Weekly Artisan Sept. 25. WANTED LINES One who is a thoroughly experienced and practtcal furm-ture man seeks to represent as salesman on commiSSIOn a good furmture and a good chair factory. Prefer central states. Have been supermtendent, draftsman, also sales-man last fifteen years. Best references given. For further mformation address "W" care of Weekly Artisan. Sept. 18-25 Oct. 2. COMPETENT BOSS FINISHER WANTED. Man who can get out production and do it right. Send references, state experience and lowest salary in first letter. Addre1§s "Mlsco," care Weekly Artisan. 9 18-25. WANTED-POSITION. In progressive furnIture factory, making case goods, beds or tables by a competent superintendent having ten years' ex-penence. Thorouglily famlhar With all branches. Address "W" No.2, care Weekly Artisan. 9 4-11-18-25 WANTED-WOOD SEAT CHAIR FACTORY To locate on our property at Columbus, Mississippi; unlimit-ed supply of red and white oak; red and sap gum and beech at extremely low cost; plenty cheap labor; fine factory site; un-excelled shipping facilities and low freight rates to good mar-ket. Might take some stock in well managed company. Ad-dress Interstate Lumber Company, Downmg Building, Erie, Pa. BARGAIN! 40 H. P. direct current motor, latest make and in first class running conditt on. Grand Rapids Blow Pipe & Dust Ar-rester Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. 8-2Itf ••• --4 , '1 he lola (Kano) Rug Compdny l{)~t about $9,000 by tIre that stal tee! III the engllle room. Fully 1l1sured I Pope, fUf1lltnre dealer of Morn~on, l\Io, was burned out completely on October 1-1 Loss $2,000, no 1l1surance, The EvanSVille (Ind) Mirror and Beve11l1g company SI, r fel eel a lo~~ of $J,OOO by fu e on October III Insured Blomgren Bro~, fwmture e!ealer~ of J\I111neaPDh~, lo~t alJout $~'l,()()O b) fire in their store on October 11 l11surecl H T Hamill furniture and hardware dealer of Malrssa III , wa~ burned out last week With a los" of about $20,000, only partially Illsured Geo A Popple, aged 17, an employe of the Waite Chair Companv at Baldwmville, MdSS , havmg been demed a raise III wages sought revenge by settmg fire to one of the company's bUlldmgs and causlllg a l{)"s of $3,000 A httle later he fired another causmg a loss of $8,000. He has confessed Mllln, Fully The "King" Stove. \ttentlOn of dealers IS called to the advertisement m this Issue of the \Veekly ArtIsan of W. D Sager, manufdcturer of sto\ es and ranges, ,l,)O-,l~2 1\ ~Water street,C1llcago .!v1r Sa::;er \\ho IS one of the be~t known manufacturer~ m the busI-nc'- s calls attention to "Thc Kmg' ctove adapted for heatmg "chool h{)tl~e~, hall", factones, etc Dealers should wnte for complete catalog INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS. Alaska Refngeratcr Company Barlow Bros Barnes, W. F. & John Company Barton, H. H. & Son Company Bennett, Charles, Furn. Company Big SIX Car Loadmg ASSOCiatIOn Bockstege FurnIture Company Bosse Furniture Company Crescent Machine Works DeBruyn, ]. C Delaware Chair Co:npany Ford & Johnson Company Furniture Exhlbuon BUlldmg Company Globe FurnIture Company Hoffman Bros. Companv Hotel Lmden Hotel Tuller Karges FurnIture Company Lentz Table Company Luce Furniture Company Luce-Redmond Chair Company Madden, Thos., Son & Co Manufacturers Exhibition BUIlding Company (ChIcago) Metal Furniture Company Michigan Engravmg Company Michigan Machme and Tool Works Miller, Ell D. & Co Miscellaneous Moon Desk Company Muskegon Valley FurnIture Company New York FurnIture Exchange Palmer Manufactunng Company Richmond Chair Company Rowe, E P. Carving Works Royal Chair Company Sager, W. D. Sheboygan Chair Company Sheldon, E H. & Co Shimer Samuel J. & Sons Shgh FurUlture Company Smith & DaVIS Manufacturmg Company Stow & Davis Furniture Company Udell Works Weatherly Company White Prlntmg Company World Furniture Company Wysong & Miles Company 14 14 21 24 28 18-19 18 18 Cover 20 20 7 1 18 26 26 20 18 6 29 4 23 2 18 Cover 14 11 32 15 15-22 Cover 28 8 89 12 29 29 30 7-10 17 9 11 27 Cover 18 3 GRAND RA'" PUBLIC LIBRAR '- -+ ---l~, These buildings form part of the MONUMENTAL GRAND CENTRAL STATI N GROUP, Lex-ington Ave. to Depew Place, 46th to 47th, 47th to 48th streets and contain 1,3 0,000 square feet. More Profit The Furniture Manufacturer is in business to make furniture and sell it n a market at a profit. Three Essentials Required to Make a Ma ket A Place to Show His Samples. A Place Where Buyers Congregate. A Consuming Population. These Mammoth Twin Structures, the New Home of th New York Furniture Ex hange are the largest buildings in the world devoted to wholesale salesrooms and afford an unexcelled opportunity for the manufacturer to display his full line. The manifold attractions of New York and its commercial supremacy draws t e buyer as the magnet draws iron. New York is the center of the greatest consuming population on earth: EI en million within three hundred miles. To Secure the Profit I Make Your Lease N~w and obtain a choice location. \ Address, Chas. E. Spratt, Secretary, NEW YORK FURNITURE EXCHANGE Lexington Avenue and 43d Street, NEW YORK.

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