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1. Michigan Artisan; 1909-02-10

Notes:: Issue of a furniture trade magazine published in Grand Rapids, Mich. It was published twice monthly, beginning in 1880. and Twenty-Ninth Year-No. 15 FEBRUARY 10, 1909 Semi-Monthly ~----------_._-----------,-------- I I I!I III ,I!II ·TH.ROW OUT All Disk, Drum and Spindle Sanders are money wasters. ---------------., !I There is not a piece of sanding that our PATENTED SAND BELTS Will NOT POLISH BETTER AND FASTER 400 machines already in operation. Why give your competitor an advantage over you in this department? No. 171 SAND Bl!:LT MACHINE. JanItATENTED 12th. 1897 May 17th, 1904 Novomb", 14th. 1905 Febiuary 13th, 1906 October 2nd. 1906 Will sand and polish flat surfaces. all irregular work in your sanding department. Ask for catalogue E. WYSONO« MILES CO., Cedar St. and !'ou. R. R. OREENSBORO, N. C. The Best"Truck--The Strongest Truck Tbis is the famous Gillette Roller Bearing Factory Truck-the truck on which it is said, "One man can move a load of 3000 pounds whUe with the other trucks it takes three '!:nen." This is the truck that is strong where others are weak-the truck that has an unbreakable malleabie iron fork. This is tbe truck YOU are looking,for if you wish to invest in ratber than waste 'money on factory trucks. I Gillette Roller Bearing CO. ORAND RAPIDS, MICHIOAN The Lightest Running, Longest Laating " 1 , I "ABC" Vertical Self-Oiling Engine_ are Arr,QDged for Direct CoDneetion to Any Make of Generator ''The highest quality of material, workmanabip and finish ever embodied in steam engine con-struction." "ABC" Questions on Lighting if you need a boiler to run your engine and you use Ex-haust Steam for heating and drying, how in the world can any-one sell you electric current for lighting your mill, fal:tory and yard as cheaply as you can generate your own? Can you affird to belt a generator from your line shaft or can you direct connect a dynamo to any ordinary steam engine when an "ABC" VERTICAL ENCLOSED SELF-OILING ENGINE WILL PAY FOR ITSELF IN ONE YEAR IN SAVINGS OF OIL AND FUEL? rou can affird an "ABC" ENGINE and we can prove it. Write us number of lights or kilo-watts wanted, together with steam pressure carried- for proposition. Get catalog 232 M. A. anyway. ~ II."""I".II· '1Il,I'!"'III\I, ,\1""""\1\, '111""""'11 '1,111"''''''''11" "'''''''''''1'1. . Principal Office: 1'\' , . 'F+r' DETROIT, MICH. I 'I I 1 . Works • \\1",.,1,',,, I,lll~" Illh""",llllh',."", 1",,,,,,,,'111 DETROIT, MICH. and TROY, N. Y. MANUFACTURERS MENOCISLTOSAEIDR DSERLYFKOILIUNNSG. ENGINES. "DETROIT. · ."NONS_ERPEATRUARTNING TORf'APS. HEATINGAND VENTILA1"INCAPPARA1"US. AU1"OMA1"ICRETURN'RAPS. 1New York. Chkago, Sales Offices St. Loui •• philadelphia. . Pitttburw. Atlanta. "ABC" ~-_._----_._---------------_._--.... SLIDING SHOE FOR USE ON DESK LEGS This shoe does the work of a caster yet allows the desk legs to set close to floor. Fastened with flat head wood screw and furn-ished in three sizes. SEND FOR SAMPLES AND PRICES. • • No. 1493 PULL A very fine handle for desks in the square effect. Something different from the regular bar pulls, GRAND RAPIDS BRASS CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN • --------- :'llCHIGAN ARTISAN .--._-- IIIIII III Iv ~.~. ,-, II II ::::!!~~~ No 20 GlueH•• 'e.. CHAS. E, FRANCIS COMPANY, Main Office and Works, Rushville,lnd, No.GGlueHe., ... ~----------------------------------_._---_! .... I I II ,j Veneer Presses 61ue Spreaders Glue Healers Trucks, Etc., Etc. These Specialties are used aU Over the World Power Feed Clue Spreadinlr Machine, Single, Double aDd Combination. (P.IItenled) (Size8 12 in. to 84 in wide.) THE ADOPTED Hand Feed GlueiD8 Machine (Patent pendiDll.) Many styl •• and aize .. Wood-Working Machinery and Supplies LET us KNOW YOUR WANTS ._-_._-------------------------_._-----. II II I I• !, I REGARDING SHADE OF The ALI1"ietta Fumed Oak Acid stain will produce perfectly that g-reenish brmvn tint adopted by the Furniture ~lallufactttrers' Associa-tion. It is also made to match any special ",bade desired. Stains red and white oak alike aiving a uni-form color. It raises the grain so little and penetrates so deeply that it can be sanded perfectly smooth without cutting tllroug-h the stain. \\Trite for sample panel or a sample of the staill. MARIETTA PAINT and COLOR CO. MaRIETTa. 0"'0 ~-------------------------------------- .---------- ,! IIIIII ,III III IIII FUMED OAK ~ A Perfect ~~ Stain ~ GOLDEN OAK / / Try / This NEPTUNE LIQUID WAX A superior preparation ready for use that will be found practic,al and economical where an economical wax fin-ish is desired. It is a coater and a wax combined produc-ing a finish impervious to water. writ. for Sample. \Vhethcr yon want the Grand Rapids shade of Golden Oak, or any other shade, ,ve CUI match it pedcctly jn our liamous Golden Oak Oil Stain This is a p()\verlul, penetrat-ing stain. write for Sample. .---- i WHITE PRINTING CO. I I I I GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. I I . HIGH GRADE CATALOGS COnPLETE I• I ,I ---_._----------------_._-----_._----~ .. z MICHIGAN ARTISAN [THE)3I~ WHITE~SHOPl I - ,I We Furnish Every Article of Printing I Needed by Business Men I I I i I I I ' I I : I I I I I I ! I j : ! : I II WHITE PRINTING COMPANY I,I I r THE BIG WHITE- SHopl , :;; .. Grand Rapids, Mich. 108, 1l0, and 112 North Division Street, ~--- --- GRAND RAP!:::3 29th Year-No. I5. GRAND RAPIDS. MICH .. FEBRUARY 10. 1909. =====~.~==== ==== $1.00 per Year. The Death of Competition. ::\Jr. Carnegie had such a merry time with the \-Vays and Mcans Committee that he wishes to repeat it before a Com-mittee of the 'Vholc of all Americans upon the state of t:1C Ullioll. 1\Ir. Carnegie casts his eagle eye ahead~a long way ahead-811d sees the d;:i'\Nllof a new era, in which all prices ,,,,ill be regulated by an industrial court. \Vith profound solemnity he rcmarked--- Jookin:; out of the other eye-that the most momentous change in history is now working- itself out. The change from the system of home VI/ark, each man owning his tools and his product, to the factory system, when he sells his labor instead of his product, beCatlse he \vorks with another m;:t11'stools and produces for the aCCOunt of the owner of the tools, "vas less momentolls than WJlat IVIr. Carnegie detects as no-w proceeding. This is a bigger prob-lem- and therefore a merrier jest--than even the tariff prob-lem, about which 1\fr. Carnegie succeeded in settillg the COUll try laughing, although some of the smiles were all the wrong side of the mouth. VI/ e need borrow no anxieties. Me Carnegie is going to have the tariff settled bv a com-missi01l, and after we get the nC\V tariff the trltst~ will be compelled to sdl their products at prices satisfactory to all The trusts will still exist, since "ve cannot abolish them. But we can control them. A supreme industrial' court will have to be created, and eventually will have to pass upon prices-disguise this as we may. This is even a larger question than the tariff. It is. /\lso it is the biggest question save one. There is nothing more fundamental than the Cjueston of prices. save the question of morals. Some, especially the Socialists. have thought the question of morals included the question of prices, but Mr. Carnegie Jistinguishesand settles the ques-tion of prices upon purely economic considerations, begin-uing by abolishing competition. Personally competition ",,'as good enough for him. \A/hen he was ill trade "he cut prices to keep the mills going.." but 110\'" the Steel Trust "refuses to make any concessions which will put their idle men at \vork" The Steel -Trust is practically omnipotent. hence the industrial cOllrt to arrange prices for it and its con-sumers "to their mutual satisfaction. It would be a pity to discuss seriollsly this newest devel- OpmeJlt in the new era in ·which old principles are of no ac-count. Speaking solely according to tradition it will be recalled that the era of unrestricted and uneconomic com-petitioJl v,,"hich 111'. Carnegie recalls \vith such unction satis-fied nobody hut himself. He sold cheap goods for a profit, and his wages aggregated less than his prices, as app<2ars from tile fact that he did not go broke. I-T e never saw the day when he could prodw:::e so cheaply as the trust of to-day. After the orgy of cheapness from which )"Ie Carnegie emerged triumphant the country required alrnost ;15 many years for recuperation as it is now taking months after a worse depression. and the result was the establishment of the trust. whose. trade, Mr, Carnegie says,. will' be regulated hy a COllrt of prices. )'h. Carnegie's plan is, of' course, beyond criticism. al-though el-'en he admits th.9.t,Hke the I~1ter-State Commerce Commission, his court of prices "mav make mistakes.'" He takes no individual interest in the effect of his plan. It is, therefore, ,,,,ith entire detachment that he witl take tIle few hurdles before his plan can be accepted in its entirety. \Vill his court of prices settle the prices for all sellers of iron, for instance, or only for the trust? If the prices are as low as the trust can afford it win do all the business, since there cannot be two prices in the same market. Thus the com-petitors would be starved to death. Or if the court's price is high enough for the trust's competitors to thrive the trust \"'ould be aggrandized intolerably. Suppose the court's price failed to revive trade-would th1O'court mandamus con-sumers to buy? Snppose the unions advanced wages-would the court advance prices? Or would the court fix wage$ as well as price.s? In that caSe would not the court of prices be abollt aU there is of the United States Government? \"'Y" e SuppOse, though, that }lr. Carnegie spoke rather as a prophet than as an advocate of price regu[atioll.-N. Y. Timcs. @ * @ A Shop Mark Campaign. Vi,Then a malHlfac:turer decides that the quality of his work is so high that it deserves an emblem or name by ·which consumers may distinguish it from other makes and futly resolves to enter upon a campaign of publicity, he should take into consideration the condition of the market and the strength of the dealers selling his goods. He should count upon strong opposition from the start, as the dealer holds steadily to the right to purchase goods from whom he pleases and to conceal their I1Cimes. 1\"ot infrequently dealers inform patrons that the stock they purchase is mallufactured by themselves. In discussing t:le experiences of a large manufacturing corp,oration in enforcing the po!"icy of shop marking their goods. an official of the same said: "vVe COllllted the cost carefully before we entered upon the campaign, expecting to Jose considerable trade, alld sevcral of our oldest and most valued customers closed their accounts. But having determined to attach Ollr trade mark to cvery piece we turned out, our only course "vas to pursue that policy to the end. A great deal of corres-pondence resulted, ill which we set up the claim that having expended vast sums of money in perfectitlg our line aod in prcsenting its quality to the public through the employment of the magazines, it would be unjust to ourselves to permit the lll.arketing of our goods unless our shop mark had been attached to the same. '1'"\\'0 prominent firms joined ill a demand that their orders be filled with unl11arked goods or cancelled. \,Ve promptly notified the orl11s that. while wc greatly regretted to do so, their orders should be cancelled. Vie recognized the fact that the firms would have no difficulty in obtaining goods, but not our goods." @ * @ Improvement Predicted. Secretary Linton of the National Case 1Iakers' Associa-tion reports t]wt the sales of case goods during the month of January in the United States amounted to seventy-five per cent of a normal amount, He thinks there will be an im-provement in sales with the opellillg of spring. 4 MICHIGAN •,I I ARTISAN Cut Drawer Bottoms Write us for Prices on Rotary I ! in BASSWOOD, BIRCH, POPLAR or GUM FOUR CHAIRS SOLD FOR $7,200. Top Price at the Auction of Talbot Taylor's Furniture. A suite of four chaiTs of the 'period of Louis XV., with carved and gilded frames, upholstered in Hauvais tapestry, formed the chief feature at the closing sess;on of the sale of the Talbot Taylor collection in New York. The designs of the tapestry represent scenes from La Fontaine's Fables after Oudry. The bidding started at $2,000 for the lot and rose quickly to $7,100. There was a pau,se of nearly a minute and ther! H. O. Watson said $7,200 and no one went any higher The next piece sold was a.threefold srreen of the same period iti a gilded frame of similar design, with glazed upper panels and lower panels in Bauvais tapestry in designs copier! after pastorals by BOllcher. This went to r. J. Smathers fo!" $2.450. He bought in addition to the screen two chairs of the same period similar to the Duvcen set, for which he paid $3,600, a,nd some notable specimens of Louis XIII., Louis XIV., Flemish and Italian Renassance furniture. as well as some wood carvings of an earlier date. Notable among these was a divan of the period of Louis XIV., with carved oak frame, taper legs and shaped stretch- <>rs,upholstered in old tapestry au point. for which he p~i1 $$25; a French divan of the seventeenth century, resembhng somewhat in design the old alcove bed and upholstered in t!,c verdure Flemish tapestry, which he secured after a spiriteli c-9mpetition f()r- $400, and a French four-post bedstead of the fifteenth century, with carved panels which were originally part of a judge's tribunal in a provincial court of justice, which cost him $395. Another of Mr. Smathei's purchases \yas an elmwood (Irawiilg table of the LouisXIV period, with turned and twist- ...d legs and extending leaves. It was started at $100 a.lld brought $315. He bought also the only specimen at the sale of sixteenth century Italian carved oak, a massive arm chair, with high back, ormnamellted with cheruhs' heads in relid and conventional foliage and upholstered in red Genoese cut velvet This chair, although it was specialTy praised by the a.uctioneer, hung fire ;tt first and it was with considerable difficulty that an offer of $25 was secured for it. Three or four persons discovered at this point that they wanted it badly, and it was fina.l1y knockf<'d down for $37{). He secured also one of the armchairs upholstered in old Cor. dova leather, five of which were offered. This was a IlwingeJ 3rmchair" of unique design, and had it not been for the fact that the leather on the seat was split would have brought the Hghest price of the group. It went for $1_~5.while all of the ethers brought more A. C. James paid $210 for one and $170 for another and $200 for a third. and Eastman Johnson se~ cured one which had been purchased from Duveen Brothers for $145. . A slxteenth century Flemish table of carved elmwood went to J. H. l\forgan for $400 and J. T. Tower paid $130 for a H'lemish armchair of carved oak, with caned seat and back. The only piece of Chippendale offered was a mahogany cabinet, carved in Chinese style, with canopien top and glazed front. It was divided into three compartments and stood on ('ight legs It was a combination of two designs figured by r:hippendale on plates CIX. and eXI. in his "Gentleman and Cabinetmakers" published in 1754. It was purchased by J. O. Wright, a dealer, for $1,000. J. B. Leaventritt bought a c'haise longue of the period 0" T ouis XIV., upholstered in tapestry au point. which was said to be one of the earliest existing examples, for $365, and Mrs. E. H. Frisbee secured for $800 a pair of console tables of the period of Louis XV. of carved and gilded wood with tops of Volette Breche marble. 1-1rs. Frisbee bought also several specimens of early wood carvings of saints and angels, among 'vhich were two of the seventeenth century with polychro-matic decoration, for which she paid $95 each. A. V. Dick-son bought two plaster panels of carved oak in Italian Ren-aissance design for $170, and a French panel of the fifteentr century representing the IILord's Supper," for $85. One of the best-of the Louis XVI. commodes, of which ~('vera I were offered. was bought by Worting-ton Whitehouse fo!' $165. It was the work of a provinc.iaI ...a.binetmaker, and was inlaid with apple. pear and peach woods. A Louis seize divan of carved oak with festoons around the lower .rail and loose cushions of old red cut velour went 10 P. Armour Valentine for $375. R. S. Knight paid only $170 for a commode of tulip wood nl1d marqueterie with ormolu mounts, which the auctionee" said was worth $2,000, and Worthington Whitehouse was tho:. ."'l1ccessful bidder for a Louis Seize boudoir suite of walnut ,vith carved seats and back. It cost him $180. Another commode, of the Louis Quinze period, went tn ),frs. H. S. Philips for $100, and Mrs. C. D. Dickey purchased a Louis Quinze sofa in a caned, gilded and painted frame, witb, loose cusiohn is onld hrocade, with two armchairs and three side chairs to match, in separate lots for $295. An escritoire, style Louis XV., sold for $560; a small sofa, 'with Oriental carvings and Beauvais tapestry, for $1,950; a fourfold screen for $1,950; and a threefold screen for $1,200. The total amount realized by the sale was $100,000. Miss Hamilton paid $167.50 for a Louis Seize carved wal-nut side chair upholstered in old Flemish tapestry and a Louis freize armchair with shaped walnut frame brought $130. It ,vent to L. W. Sprague.-New York Sun. MICHIGAK ARTISAN 5 ~• ------- -----------------------~I I =SEE I -- I West Michigan Machine & Tool Co., Ltd. I GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. I .I._--- f~or -"IG-"--GR-a-D-E -PU-N-C"ES and DIES J I j r------- A~~~~~~~Ai~o-1.:1~?H~~ OROOVINO SA WS I I I up to 5-16 thick. I I R,ffpafrlng.....Satisfactlon guaranteed. I Citizens' Phone 1239. I 21N.Msrke'S ... ""sDdRsplds.Mleh. I I 31-33 S. FRONT ST., GRAND RAPIDS ~------_._--- ---' .-------_._-------- ..... --------------------~ IMPROVED. EASY 'ND ELEVATORS QUICK RAISINC Belt, Electric and Hand Power, The Best Hand Power for Furniture Stores Send for Catalogue alld Price,;. KIMBALLBROS. CO., 1067 N;nlh St.. Council BlUffs, la. I r Kimball Elevator Co.• 3~ ProspectSt., Cleveland,0.; I 108 11th St., Omaha, N~b.; l-WCedar St., New York City. ...----- ---------- ...... , -'" IB. WALTER & CO. fNAD~~~~1 M,nDf"",'w 0'- T ABLE SLIDES Exclusively I _____________ --4 I WRITE FOR PRICES AND DISCOUNT ~------ If your DESIGNS are right, people want the Goods. That makes PRICES right. (tlarence lR. lbills •,I ,I , !I .--------------------.~ ! I I I I II West Si~e 36 Inch Ban~ Saw Machine, ! ,--- Gleason Patent Sectional Fee~ Roll, I ;;s~;~~U~'~TW~(~)RDKS..;Y I I CRANO RAPIDS, MICH., U. S. A. I AGE ....TS, Chicago Machinery Exchanll('; Eby. Machinery Co., 3:'·41 Main St., San hancisco, I I ea!; H. \V. Petrie, "Il-Ill foc Canlld.-o/Ji(f·s" t I T oTonlo, Montreal and Vanc<JlIver, : ~------------------------ --------~ ~f ------T-H-E-------------------------------~ : ! Wellin~toft notel I i f::k~~baB~uf:v~r~ ; I ::'n~Lf,<~;a:~, I , $i 50,000 I Hot and cold running II water and long dis-tance 'phone .. in aU I:: rOioo" rooms, I00 with I bath. Sinllie or en Illite. Rates $1.00 and upwards. One of the mosl unique dininll rooms in the country. • OUT famous Indian Cafe. I • ~OTED FO~ ~£RVICE,"0 CUI~IN~ • I McClintock and Bayfield ~ •"-________PR_O_P_S_. ---.IiI --_._-----_. ---_.-., -~ These saws are ,I made from No.1 Steel and we war- : Tant every blade. : We also carry a t full stock of Bev- : eled Back Scroll : Saws. any length I and gauge. 't ,, I Write Oil for Price LIst aod dl8COunt 6 MICHIGAN ARTISAN KNOCKERINO WANTS FACT. He for One Would Not Hurt Another Man's Credit. Mr. Kllockcrino walked \'Vit:lOUt knocking into the office of a busy acquaintance, deposited himself on the edge of the busy acquaintance's desk, lit a cigarette without asking the typewriter girl whether she liked Turk smoke and unfolded himself: Hay-a, there, old workhorse! See you're working your head off, as usuaL Bad habit. Injurious. Oilght to relax. \Vhy don't you take a little trot down to Florida? Or Cuba? Or Porto Rico? How's that? Haven't the time? That's what they ail say. That's-- Oh, say, talking about Florida, d'je know tilat Jim-- Oll, well, I guess Jim'll Slip me the money some old time, hut they teU me that Jim i~m't such a prompt slipper as he might be. Jim's all right, 1 guess, and all that. Jim thinks, I im-agine, tbat just because he's been having a bit of trouble with his wife-huh? Hadn't heard about it? \\lhy, everybody knew all about that" I thought-that he's excusable for over-looking these little matters, but~ By tlle way, talking about the domestic. gag, have you heard that Ed Giddap's wife's gone back to her folks out west somewhere? Had a wireless on that last night. Didn't knock me off the bench or anything, that new". I kind o'[jgurcd right along that sOoner or later Ed would be nailed with tlle goods. Ed, you know, had been handing it out to his wife for years that his every night downtown moochngs around were due to the fact that he belonged to a whole passel of lodges and things, but a ""vhileago, it seems, she sort of wised up and found that Ed didn't belong to any other lodge except the Tenderloin Sleep Duckers Associa-tion and the Bed Haters Society, and from hitting that trail "he got hep to all the rest of it, so that when Ed' got home to the flat from his office ,one evening last week he found little l\lrs. Helpmatie had done gone away from here, and Ed went roaring and blubbering around and telling every-body his troubles, including the janitor and 'the cop on the beat, about his troubles, and he ouly got the hoot, of course, which a fellow is bound to get when: he becomes bleaty about his family troubles and all 0' that. General opinion seems to be that Eddie got just what he's been due faT <l. long while,. She took the young 'uns along with her, and that made Ed cra7.y of course, and he's been walloping the old redeye to beat the band ever sine.e it hap-pened, and the first thing he knows he'll be holding down one of those little ""hite cots with the green rabbits doing wing dances for him on the foot board. Say, I see you've got one of those calendars of the San LUls Oblspo Gold Mining Company stuck lJp over your desk. Did you bite on that stuff too? Ha, hal \\leU, well! So you got busy- with your little nibbler and took a knaw on that bait, hey? Ho, ho! ig~piQs,f\ie~ Wen, you haven't got anything on me. T bought ahout fourteen pounds of those shares for seven cents a share, waiting for that sure thing rise to 80 e.ents within siKty days, hut I haven't got it any more-leave it to 'your little play-mate Ethelbert not to have any of it any more. I stuck around for about a month with mine and then '1 sold it to Jack Sophtsky for nine eents a share, and ever since then Jack has been staking me to the Peary glare every time he's seen me, Don't think, old horse, that I'm trying to tip you off that Jack is the dandiest little COffi.:onon the whole Isle of 1'Iall-hattan, but if you happe1f-h<1, 11aI-to have any old pttnker-ino certificates for anything from a patellt chimney clean(~r to a borax mine in :':0 1\l<1n'sLand kicking around and wallt to unload the stuff why all you've got to do-ho, bo!-i3 to pin Jack against the wall in some shadowy corner and tell him what grand p"-pcrs the.y are, and he'll-- Talking abont grand papers, I was in a little game of draw the other night, and At Noluck was in the game, and, say, you ought to've seen the cards that fellow pulted from olle end of the evening to the other, and yet he was the biggest loser of the session. 1 never saw such mitts as felt· that guy's way during that seane.e, but he always caught the fine finfulls when nobody else had a thing, and you could have heard his wailings for Mocks. One time he picked up a pat straight flush, trey to the seven ,of he:Jrts, and though there were eight of us playing nary a one had anything worth making it good enough to stick along when AI opened tlle pot, and talk about the noise the cat allimals get out of their systems when they're tossing raw meat into the e.ages! Al just stood up in his place and bellered like a bull' buffalo in a horn to horn scrap with the next in line as boss of the herd. Fellow hasn't got any right to play cards at all if he can·t make up his mind to stand the gaff when the-- Say, that girl that does your typewriting-sh-sh! lower, please-pianissimo-she's ~ind of a looker, isn't she? Sly dog, old boy-naughty, naughtyl Leave it to you not to have any valentines around you in your hours of labor. But watch out, old top, have a care, have a care! Hc.ar about Freddy Cuttupp? Vv'ell, l'reddy came real close to what Freddy said in explanation, anyhow-ttlat's what they losing his bappy home and things over that peacherino of a typewriter girl he had in his office till about two \vecks ago. Yon see, she came down to the office one morning with a fine and dandy Directoirc dress under her coat. She was going to a party or something after office hours-that's al1 say-and so she wore the s\vell' Directoire scenery to the office so's she wouldn't have to go home to change. But Freddy's wife happened to zephyr into his office along toward the noon hour. First time she'd been in Freddy's office for a month of Sundays, and of course she had to pop in when Freddy's shorthand girl looked like the Queen of Sheba .on her way to a clam chowder party. Freddy's wife took one peek at the - - ---------------------------- ~- ~ PITTSBURGH PLATE GLASS COMPANY I MICHIGAN gorgeous ,\pparitioll in the Dircctoirc ilxings and the11 she let out a series of piercing remarks that almost blew Freddy out of the ,,,-indow, and as for the dreamy eyed typewritist, why, she just picked up her doll rag:; and did <l ):Iarat:101l 'witham stopping to send a C Q n, and she l1asn't come back yet, they tell me. Freddy's wife's dope was that the typewritcst ..v..as all togged up that way so's Freddy could take her out to luncheon in style ami things. \Vell, yOll know Freddy's 'wife is the one with the bank l,'lad-she put Freddy' in business, you know. for he didn't have a change of cuffs when he mar-ried her-and Freddy bad to do the marrowbones thing th(:11 ,tnd there until fOtH dollar~.; worth of arnica didn't do his knees any g60d after he began tn t<:ke tr('atm{~nt for it, and Cver since he's been going arollntl looking' likc a 'vVi:,;consin lumberjack on the blacklist and the winter half over. Say, y'ought to see the t.Y1)c\'\Titist he':,; got in his off-ice now! If she wasn't born at least nille years bdore I':dgar Allan Pac ever saw the light of day then she was horn l;lst Tuesday week. ;\11d y.ou can hear her creilk as she walks. She's got a chart on her that looks like a Cape I-Lttera,.; storm signal, and when Freddy dictates a letter to her she's so deaf that she has to reM her head 011 the top hllttO!l of his vest to hear him" and oh. it's great, tine-ho, 1101 Serves him right fm letting his wife visit him at his office. ),1an who permits hi" \vife to visit him at his office is bOllnd to have to l1udge across with a he;\I1 of explaining; sooner or later, and- But here I am forgetting all about the thing that I just h;IPPClled to bret';.:e ill to ask yon abollt. No ..~·, I hope you'll get me right, old chap, \vben I tell yOu tlJat I never in an)' eirC1l111stances df) tlle slink thing- to find Ollt <lbo11t;\ 1l1~lJl'S husiness and his credit and all like tInt, but this is ;\ pbce where jt's a matter of dollaT.';-;lJJr! fjllitc .sCHlIe dolbr.s-and evervhody appears to have a better line on tIl(' th;no' than I've -gut, amI h stfllck HI(' that l1l;Jybc yOU were hC);~)eril1o to some of it. It's tbis \va)': Joe Opellmitt's bccll slinging il proposjtjon at me latdy that sounds good from a whole lot of angles fa;· a money thi1lg. .'lnd I've been d()jng plenty of listcning to him, at that, only-- \\7e11, you know how it is. These yarns rcach a iC))f.HV, you know, and they sort of nwke hJm fee! like ducking. no matter how good the thing looks. Xo ..". I don't kllli\V .rrnytiJing ;lhout Joe's l1.'1bit5 or any-thing of that sort, but since I've been ]islening to his hot line of guff about this good thing he wants to han:' me join along in with him why I've sort of kept my ears and eye~ open. yOU know, and there are some fellows W}IO spin it that ARTISAN 7 Joe's chid asset is that ability of his to turn loose a lot of south breeze. }let two or three people who told me in so many 'words that Joe planted the hornet on 'em when they wcnt. intu good looking things ''lith him, and these folks were there wilh the mallet for Joe bigger than piledrivers. ~ ow I bate to listen to this kind of stuff and 1 make it a practice to sort of heat it away from where such talk is go:" ing Oil, but of courSe when <'me of these fellows went ahead ,!lid unreeled it that Joe before he came to New York at all had got ilHO some kind of trouble with the authorities out in C;llcinnati over some queer paper that -he sifted around among his friends, ,."by, T clad to listen to protect myself, didn't I? I<ellow t11<.ttold me this appeared to have all of the details clown paL <!l1dhe said that Joe had had to fight like a wildcat to keep out of a suit of striped clothes on that occasion. \,Ve1] this sort of gave me some jolt, I'm free to admit, and the11 whell I heard that Joe bad gone thr.oltgh with some deal with you, why -- How's that? Joc's all to the good, and as, honest a man as e\'cr you did business with, and you'd trust him with everything you had, and all like that? \Vell, b'gec, I'm sure glad to hear that, I honest am! :\ow that yOll say t.hat I'm sorry I mentioned those little bits .of information that drifted my way, really. It docsn't make any difference now, either, that one fenow sort of binted to me that Joe, who's married and keeps a svvell establishment here, you know, has a wife and cbildren diving in poverty O\tt in Omaha right at the present time. and I dOll't believe a word of it, even if this fellow that did slip 111ethis piecc of information claims to have been acquainted with Joe twclLty years or so. Dar1l(:d peCUliar, isn't it, how these strange yarns get around about a man? They just seem to be in the air, that's all. :\:'obody e,·er repeats \~111, except in the strictest con-tidcllce, as I am now, bt1t still they noat around, and the first thing yOll know they're public property jllst as much as if they'd becn Jlublished in the newspapers. "·ell, old pal, dOll't feel bad about it because you've nearly talked 111e deaf, dumb ;111dblind, because I aSSUre you I like it, and the only reason T am ]]OW going to beat h is because --ha, ha i-you appear to've told me about all you kno\v. \Vell, s'long. @ ". @ To Manufacture Seats. The Imperial Seating Comp;jjJY, recently organized in Chicago, capitalized fat' $,)0,000, will manufacture and sell furniture of evcry kind. L.ARGEST ..JOBBERS ANO MANUFAOTURERS OF GLASS IN THE WORLD I Mirrors, Bent Glass, leaded Art Glass, Brnamental figure~ Glass, Polished and ROlgh Plate Glass, Window Glass II WIRE GLASS Plate Glass for Shelves, Desks an~ Tables Tops, Carrara Glass more beautitul than white marble. I CENERAL DISTRIBUTORS OF PATTON'S SUN PROOF PAINTS, g For anything- in Builders' Glass, or anything in Paints, Varnishes, Brushes or Painters' Sundries, address any of our branch warehouses) a list of which is given below: NEWYORK-Hudson and Vandatn Sts. ROSTON-4h49 Sudbury St.• 1_9.BoWMerSt. CHICAGO 442-4S2 Waballh Ave. CINCINNATI-Broadway and Cc»url Sis. I ST. LOUIS-Cor. Tenth a.ndSpruce Sts. I MINNEAPOLIS-SOO_SI6 S. Third St. DETROIT-53-59 Larned St., E. GRA-.lORAPIDS...MICfJ.-39-41 N. Division St. ! PITTSBURGH-J(U_I03 Wood St. MILWAUKEE, \VIS.-492-494 Market St. RBAOLCTHJEMSOTRI!E.R-3.1N. 0Y-·1-2W_1il4deWr .PBrladtgt .,SMt. ..ln tSJ E.Chan_._e_s_,_e_. . .•,1 CLEVELAND-1430-1434 West Third St. OMAHA-1I01_1107 Howard St. ST· PAUL-459·461 Jackson St. ATLANTA, GA.-30-32.34 S. Pryor' St. SAVANNAH, GA·-745_749 Wheaton St. KANSAS ClTY-P'lfth and Wyandotte Sf". BIRMINGHAM. ALA.-2nd Ave. and 29th St. BUFFALO. N. Y.-312-74_76_18 Pearl St. BROOKLYN-635-637 Fulton St. PHILADIl;.LPHIA-Pltcah·n Bldg•• Arch and 11th St•• DAV!tNPORT-4l0-416 Scott St. ~._-_._----------_._---~---------------..., j I I I I I I I ! I I : I ,I,- I -' 8 MICHIGAN ARTISAN Table Legs and Pedestals Round, Square, Octagon or any Polygonal Shape ~ Turned on the MauiooD Leg Machine al a fraction of what it costs by hand. Every piece comes out smooth. true and exadly alike in size and shape, no matler how de~cate the pattern. I] It is sold on the condition that if after it has been run in your own facttJry. you do not bnd it to be in every way as represented. we will tak.e it bat.k and pay freight charges both ways. (]I Better send for a copy of our lar%e circular and let us tell you what the machine will do for you. C. Mattison Machine Works 863 5th St., Beloit, Wis. AN ARTIST IN TIME. The Old German Clcckmaker Whose Heart is in His Calling. Only a few minutes walk from the heart of the Tenderloin lives and works the German clockmaker. He is an arti~t ~ll his attitude toward his trade and he looks like a poet fed upon centuries of German romanticism. Like his old friend. the retired German cabinetmaker, he has an expensive habit of refusing to do bad work. Alter all, perhaps it is a mistake to call him a dockmaker, He IS rather an artist in time. It is not a particular mechanism that interests him! but the broad principle of time measure-ment. In his humble and reverent way he is a disciple of th'ose celestial time ineasurers, the sun, moon a.nd punctuaL stars. They have their trifling aberrations, like the delicate watches which he joys to regulate to the fraction of a second. He knows no other rivals and is free from professional jeal- (}usy, for what terrestial mind could be jealous of the stars in their courses? Even a poet and artist in time must' have meat and an oc-casional glass of beer so this one condescends to make and mend for common mortals. Strangers seldom understanl him. If you come in with a cheap watch in hopelessly bad order he is as like as not to hand it back with the comment that he could not repair it for le~s than half its original cost. If you tell him, though, that it happens to he one of those cheap watches that are close timekeepers he is at once inter-ested. He cannot lower his price unless you happen to be reaHy poor, but he will take that six dollar watch and over haul it with the conscientious care that he gives to a two hundred and fifty dollar repeater, for who knows but this cheap and accurate timekeeper may thro'W some light upon that ever perplexing problem of time measurement? If the watch is real1y what you think it he will hand it back at the end of so many days regulated down to its fmal fraction of a second, and as he gives it the final tender caress you'll see a far-away look in his mild and still young; bra' .·.". eyes that reveals the ideal of the inner man, Those coarse th'\.\mbed folk who are always measurin[ things by material standards never know iIlhat to make of this man whose husiness has to do with one of the most elm.· ive and ethereal of human ideas. Two youngish men from out of town came in one day apparently bent upon buying a wedding present. TheY;' looked around. the dustless littk shop. heard the banjo docks in chorus on the wall, staren with blank amaze into thesphinxlike face of ~he Chinese time .. l:iece and at length priced a fine mantel (')flck in a faultless mahogany frame that would have delighted even the critical German cabinetmaker, The proprietor named his price $30 or $40, and the cus· lomers looked over the clock with care asked a few ql1estiol~S ~lnd offered $10 less than the price named. There was just the dawn of a smile in the clock maker's eycs as he repeaterl in polite, low tones the price originally ,)skc(l. The pair looked at one another, gave the clockmaker [l glance of sur-prise and went out, while he turned unperhtrbed to his wort~. You might as well try to buy postage stam.ps of Unc1-e Sam at a discount as clocks of him at less than his named price. He ,,,Quid as soon do a bad piece of lNork a:; higgle uver prices The laborer is worthy of his hire. Of course, if yon m\lst have a cheap dock he'l1 sell it to you, but with an air that makes you feel as if both you and he had sacrific.ed seH-respect. He c'ven takes the works out cf the cneapest small clocks and puts them into tasteful little cases, for the sake of those who like a pretty thing at a low price. When yOUbuy it you know just what you are getting, but somehow when you think of the pitying- c;mile with which he looked tha.t pretty little mechanical liar in the face YO~l ever after feel that there is a sort of mOl<1lobliquity in its errors. Nothing tires the clockniaker so much :1S to be asked to repair those hideous and ulltrllthflll clocks that some' person'). rive as wedding presents. It n:ay have been the Germag C'1ockmaker who invented the aphorism about the futility of looking a gift dock in the face if )'OU wish to kl:OW the time of day, One of these da.y:;hc "vill illfallibly throw some such clock at the head of the astonished Qwner.--Sun. @ * @ A Few Dont's. Don't worry-the boss does that. Don't work too hard-yo\.'\. may get tired Don!t get things accurate-you·wil1.be discovcred. Don't im?rove. your time out of workin!!. hours-you may 'get a raise. Don't be observing-·-you may get an insight as to how things are done, Don't stu'dy the whys and wherefores-you may become a boss yourself. Don't take an interest in your work-you may learn to !ike it. Don't try to be original-it may get you a better position, Don!t save money-yon may want to go into busine55 some time. Don't retire early at night-you might be able to do :l good day's work next day. Don't be neat and accurate about your work-you will be thought finicky. Don't help a fellow workman-he might return the favor some day. Don't read your trade journal-you might find out some-thing you didn't know.-Glass Worker. - - ~--------------------------------- illICH1GAf\ ART1SAN 9 ~"---------------------_._------------_._-----------------------. ,I I!IIIIIII ,, IIII The Universal Automatic I CARVINO MACHINE I = PERFORMS THE WORK OF === 25 HAND CARVERS And does the Work Belle, than it can be Done by Hand t ------- MADE BV I Union rnDO~~lnQ MA(U1nr (0. I IndlanapoU~ Indlaaa Write lor Inform.tion. PricflI: Etc. I ~.------------"-----------_--.------------------------------------------------------~ II !I ,f II II --------------------------~ II I! II ,I ,,I Collection Service Unsurpassed-Send for Book of Red Drafts. I H. J. DANHOF. MIc;:h1aan Manai:el'. I 341·348 Houseman &UUdtD', Grand ka»ld •• Mich. ._-----_."--------------------------------_._------- ....I. ~,• "----------------------._--------_._-----_ . f j The LYON ,! 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Lincoln's Otfl.ce Ohair. ___________ ..i •II II I i - - --- ------------ --- --- --- ~11CI1IGJ\N ARTISAN 11 BEDROOMS OF THE FLAT. Conditions That Might Make One City Lover Move Into the Country. If anything could mnke me want to move into the COUll-try," she said as she turned back the bedclothes of a bed she had jtlst made at 11 P. ~I. in a city fiat, "it WOllld be this end-less, eternal making up oi beds at night- "The time to make up a bcd, of course, is in the morning. Yon throw back the hedclotb(;s first to give the bed ~t good airing and then wllcn you get to it you make up the bed, and there it is finished and \vith cverythn:; trim and neat and inviting; ready to he slept ill a.nd grateful ill its iJlvitntlolJ, and yOlt call gel into it without p-rc\iminary trouble. "So in the country, where yon have rerd bedrooms hiR enough to contain real beds and in which you can make up the beds in the r~gular, usual, orderly way, following a cus-tom inbn~d in women, lwnded do~vn to them through m;l1ly Sketched by Clarence R. Hills, Grand Rapids, Mich. generations from which it is hard to depart. But now see what we have to do in our flat. "\iVe have only 011e bedroom ill ..v..hieh we have a regl\lar bcd, and that is a single bed. Vle can make it up in the mornlng in the regular proper ,"vay, and really J like to go in and look at it after it is made lllJ. Al\ tbe rest of Ql~r beds arc couchcs or lounges or bed.'; of some sort that yon have: to dismantle in the morning and make up at night. "\-Ve do ait- these beds, to he sure, but then \VC have to fold up the bedclothes and store them ill the bed or lug them off to some storing place, not to he brought out again till it's time to go to bed. 1'\ot until then can we begin the hedmaking in the flat- "Thell when it \vould he a great ealtTl pleasure to walk off into a pleasant bedroom and there find the bed ready and ..v..ating for yOll simply to jump into it you have to get up and drag out bedclothes and lug- them around from roo!\l to room and (lrag out coudles nn(\ lounges and twist and turn and dig over them to make up beds hefore you can \ic in them. "So it goes every night, night after nig-ht, endlessly; and this making up of the beds at the wrong time, with its endless dull' routine nigbtly labor grind,'; on me; T hate it. Still we stay here, and here 1 SuppOSe ..v..e shall stay, because \ve love the city and its life and light. nut if anything could make me want to move into the country it would be to escape this everlasting endless making up of the beds in the city flat at night."-Ex. ...------------------ .. II MORRIS WOOD &. SONS' I, LATEST PRODUCTION I I t I I, II ,, I! Write for prices and Catalog No, 35A. MORRIS WOOD &. SONS I 2714-2716W. Lake St. Chicago. Ill. I ~.---------------------------------------~ The result of thirty-five years of Cutter making ex-perience. Insist on having your new jointer fitted with the genuine 110rris vVood & Sons' 20th Century Solid Steel Glue Joint Cutlers, for there are no others just as g·ood. They cut the same perfect joint, when new, partly or fully worn out. They never bUrrI. Require les!::>grinding than any other make, saving time and cut-ter. No time wasted setting up as with knives, and cost 110 more than other makes. Try a pair and be con-vinced. ~- --------.. 11 . , ! ralffi6r'S rat6nt ijlUino (jlamos ! I I I IIIII TIle llbore ('lit is taken dlrN't from Jl photOgTllph, aDd l!lhowS the range of one Mbe only, our No.1, 24'iuch Clamp. "",'e make 8ix other sizes, taking in filtock up to 66 ill(~hes wid., and 2 inches tbfck. OUrs is th\'i DlOlit prn:ctical methOd Q1 clamping glued lotock in use at the pre!lent time. Hundreds of ta(-tories have adopted oor way the llllst yeal' Ilud bundl'eds more will in the futl.re. Let us show )roo. Let os send you till! names of n\'illrl)' 100 factories (only a fraction of our list) who have lU:-deredand reordered many Urnes. .PrQof posiU,,'c oUr way is the best. A post ~ard will bring U. ~atalog .included. Don't delay, but \\Tite toda~·. 4. E. P41MER &. SONS. Owosso. Mich. J<'oreign Repl"Clwmtatiyes: The Projectile C6., L6od6n, Eng-land; Shcnchul'dt &, Schutte, Berlin, Gennany; Alfred II. Sol'butte, Cologne, Paris, BrlUlseis, I.lege, Milan, Turin, Bal'oolon8, "---,aDd Bilbol!. ~ ....i• 12 MICHIGAN ARTISAN ARTISTIC andINEXPENSIVE CATALOGUE COVERS LET US FIGURE ON YOUR PHOTOGRAPHING ENGRAVING and PRINTING at Right Prices PROMPT I)ELIVERIES COMPLETE CATALOGS PERFECT MICHIGAN ENGRAVING CO. WORK GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN MICHIGAN ARTISAN j------------ 13 ----_._-_._---~ III! BARNES' ! ... HAND and FOOT POWER . I MACHINERY! II ,II !III II I I I II• --------------------------------------------~ Our New "and and Foot Power Circular Saw No.4. The strOIl.l!:eSl,most powl!rlul, and in e...e.ry way the best machine of its kind ever made, for tipping,:cross-ctttting-, boring and grooving. Cabinet Makers In these days of close competition, need the best possible eqUipment, and this they can have in Send for Our New Catalogue. w. F. & John 654 Barnes Co. RUby Street. Rockford. III. ~------------------------------_.------ I ~,----------------------------------------~ • MANUFACTURERS OF I, I I I I HARDWOOD I LUMBER &. II , I I II VENEERS III I I I SPECIALTIES : I I I ~'l.v.;"fE.gQUAR. OAK VEN EERS I II II I MAHOGANY VENEERS II I I I I I HOFFMAN II I I I BROTHERS COMPANY II I II 804 W. Main SI., FORT WAYNE, INDIANA I,I ~-------------------------~-------------~ r- 11)SPINDLlt MACHINE / ALSO MADE WITH 12, 15, 20 AND 25 SPINDLES. DODDS' NEW GEAR DOVETAILING MACHINE. -rhis little machine has done more to perfect the'! draw~r work of funliture manufacturers than anything else in tbe furniture trade. Fnr fifteen years it has made perfect-fittil1g, venlliu-pr()()f, dave.- tailed stock a possibility. This has heeu accomplished at rer!ucl;>d cost, as the wachine cutS dove-tails ill gangs of from 'd to 24- at one operation. ALEXANDER DODDS, Grand RapMs, Michigan. Repreaented by Scbucbart & Scbutte. at Berlin, VieQIla, Stockholm and St, PeteqbuUI. Repreaentaliveby Alfred H. Scbulle at Col~ne, 8(1118el.,Liege, Paris, Milan and Bilboa, Repr".ent>ed in Great Britian and lrdand by the Oliver Machinery Co., F, S. Thompson, M~T', 201-203 Dean.gate,' M!\Rchclter, England. ,,..._------------------- ------------------- ..,. I hI orton House I : ( AmericanFlan) Rates $2.50 and Upa J ! Hotel PantJind I : (EuropeanPlan) Rates $1.00 and Up. : I I I , ! I ! J. BOYD PANTLlN~: prop.l ;.._________________ --..a GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. The Noon Dinner Served. at the Panllind for 50c THE FINEST IN THE WORLD. 14 ~ll CHI G A I\' ARTISAN ~----------------------------------------------------_._------------------------------~ ! "~ .S t ~0.. • 0 ~ ~ • • ,:l -0 .9 -0 0 ~ ~ >l ~0 • 5 "8 .~ ~ 0 a ;l • • MICHIGAl\' ARTISAl\' 15 y; !:Ii I BARRETT'S PRIME SHELLAC VARNISH !:Ii l!fi !:Fi made from strictly pure Shellac Gum cut m Specially Denatured or !:Fi !:Ii Wood Alcohol. The results of 25 years' experience in the importa- tion of gums, in the use of solvents, and in the manufacture of varnish !:Ii embodied in "Barrett's Prime. " Ask for samples and prices. !:Ii !:Ii y; !:Ii 1M. L. BARRETT & CO., I !:Ii y; 219 LAKE ST .• CHICAGO THE FURNITURE TRADE OF ST. LOUIS. By George T. Parker. The year of 1!HJ8 in the furniture and kindred lines has been one of spasmodic activity, manufacturers and buyers baying conducted their operatioils with extreme caution, eliminating almost entirely any fenturcs of speculatioJl, hut aggregating a total business of approximately $:~2,700,OOO. The February trade week attracted to this market a largely increased number of buyers, but their orders were small, tb(~~;cconditions being repeated at the August trade week; the fall buying by the country trade showing f\ grati-fying increase in the number of ncw buyers, nevertheless, the Hggrcgate orders for tlJe yeHr being a considcr<lbJc Joss in comparison wit:h the year prior. The fifty city factories had periods of half-time funning, some of them having full shut-downs, ..v.hich twice w~s util-ized for improvements, as the feeling has been optimistic at all times 8S to the future. . The best figures obtainable as to the total St. Louis fac-tory output, are an aggregate of $;),;)00,000 for t]le year. The factories have kept their seventy-five hundred flands well employed, expending in wages upwards of $2,,500,000. There have been noted increases in the fac.ilities for handling furnitu're in quantities, and in mixed carlo;lds ship-ments have become common; [oedity huyers have not been slow to take advantage of a low rate of freight upon large cars to a central distributing point, paying local nltes thence to destination. At no time has the wholesale and manufac:turing furniture business been so eminently fJtted for a prompt handling of all business entrusted to them. Among the rdail 3tore3. a notabre addition wa<; made on lhoadway. by an entire ne\".. store. most tastefully fitted up, introduci1Jg eJltirely Jlew features. The furnishing of the many new residcnces. of , ...h..ich there were miks built. ;md the apartment houses, \\'as a soun~e of considerable business, new oFfJce, mUllicipal anJ school buildillgs, as well ;\s a number of beautiful churches, were completed during the year, and required furnishing. The Coliseum, a new theatre, and many moving picture auditoriums, bave been seated, requiring a large outlay for this kind of fmniture. The styles of furniture increase ill elegance and good taste. even the wants of the buyers of inexpensive pieces de11131Hling quality and good finish, in simple designs; a remarkabl"e advance has there been in the education of buyers _over years past- this refers in a general v.'ay to the large city as n.-ell as to the small to-"'I'n customer. The styles sold mostly are Colonial', Louis XIV <1nd Louis XVI, with ,Arts and Crafts still popular fol' the living room and den, tapestries, brocades and velours being the most chosen covers for upholstered pieces, with leather for the library. Mahoganv remains the supreme \"iood for fme pleces, Circassian ..~. alnut following, but quartered oak is tile 1110St poptllar and longest in use, the nC\v and rich tone finishes having increased its desirability. Each year develops an increasing number of new trade channels for furniture, especially to foreign countries. Recog-nized as a center for cabinet woods and manufacturillg coals, with transportation Jines oaering through bills of lading, many countries and localities new to the tl'ade of St. Louis have become customers. The aggregate of this business is difficult to seCUre, because of the manner of keeping the con-sular records. :vIexieo continues as the largest buyer, C1lba and the Central American Republics being also liberal pur- Ch'L~('TS. The lax c01ldition of the home trade has given the manufacturers an opportunity of pushing the sale of their products in many foreign lands, with most satisfactory results. Office furnitude lines have been given greater attention, the 51. LOllis factories producing qualities equal to any; the State House of Representatives and Senate awarding their exccll'cnt refurnishing to a St. Louis factory. The stocks carried are very extensive, and contain many new office requisites, a popular feature being those con-stntcted upon sanitary principles. 1Jost prices have been slightly lovv'er, although factory costs and materials have been upon the increase, which will have an upward tendency for 1909. There hal'e been no failures, nor have there been impor-tallt lIe\-\' enterprises launched. Of strikes there have been nOne. The St. Loui:" Perman-ent Exposition has, in its seventh year, been a great aid in attracting buyers to the makes of St. I.ollis factories shown there; othel· flll~niture eXJlositions are open January and July only. 51. Louis has all all-tht-year exposition, attracting buyers Oil their way to otller markets, and at oth<?r times as well. The St. LOllis Furniture Board of Trade. for twenty years the mouth-piece of the furniture and kindred interests, strengthened the utility of its organization by establishing an Tnfonnation Bureau, dividing the membership into classes: (1) St. Louis l\Janufacturers; (2) Representatives of \A/orks in other Cities. This yenr's effective work .of this board in removing discriminations and securing proper rating for shipments from S1. Louis, is of untold trade value, especially for the futHre. Employed capital in the furniture and kindred lines. is estOlated at $5,000,000. @) * @ i \V;llkcr & Blltler of Lebanon, Oregon, !uve soJd their furllitllrc and hardware bu~iness to S. Labbe & Son. @) * @) ; Crawford & England of Le Grand, qregon, are succeeded in the retail furniture business by C. A, England. I ,------. 16 :111 CHI G A N ART I SAN •:II I II I III , , I I I II• ~ CO., JII Spiral Groovedand Bevel Pointed DOWEL PINS Notehout the _ue in the Spifal Groove forms Thread like a SCrew. Be\'el Pointed, eas)' to drIVe. Straight so will not split the frames. PriCe. and discounts Oft application. STEPHENSON MFG. SOUTH BEND, IND• ".Lateral Style" for large capacity heavy CarvlDp add DeeP EmoolUllop. We have the Machine you want at a atlsfactof7 prkle. Write for descriptive cireulart!l. Ahlo make dle8 tor all makes of Ma-ohl .... UNIONEMBOSSINOMlCUINE CO., Indianapolis, Ind. "Rotary Style" for Drop Carvings. Embotlged Mouldings, Panels. Macbioetl for all purposes, ,and at prices within the :hlilch 0' all. Every mQ.chine haM our paraotee n.galullt breakQ&'8 tor oOl" yep,r. ----_._----~II I II Address • SAMU~l~O}~E~~!t!~~A'~S.ONS I ......_----- ---.... f-------- !II I ,~ood Forming Cutters We offer exceptional value in Reversible and One-Way C~tters for Single and Doubl~ Spin-dle Shapers. Largest lists with lowest prices. Greatest variety to select from. Book free. The "RELIABLE" Kind. THE FELLWOCK AUTO & MFG. CO. EVANSVILLE. IND. ----------'--. HEADSj GREATEST I RANGE I QUICKItST I ADJUSTMENT , LEAST TROUSoLE PERFEC"f SAFETY •I TOX SAW DADO Also MachlDe KnlveJ'o Miter SMOOTHEST GROOVES FAST£ST CUT LEAST POWER. LONGEST LIFE 1== IWeoU Itladbt teU t You all .bout It. Macblfte.o Etc. l l>B.llMA.NlI.NT ECONOMV I TOX MACHI Nf: CO 185 N. Front S_.'. + . • Grallld Rl!!I.Dlds. Mlcb r..-----~------- -- B0YNTON <5' e0. Manufadurersof Emboued and Turned Mould· in e' &. EmbO&8- 5 END YO R ed and SpiiWle Carvinp. -It. tt d Aulomali('; Tumings, CATALOGUE Wealsonw.UII-fadurea brae li~ I of EIPb.oued Orne.tnents fo.. I C~ohWork. ! 419-421 W. fifteenth St .. C"IClGO. ILL. , . - , ~~~>. ~._-''-''~r'':'~- .. ; .. ''.... -'': ...... -".~~'' /. :MICHIGAN ARTISAN ~------------------------- •/III III I III II I I III -----...------ ..... "GOING SOME" But whether going or coming, or stayi~g at home, young men with ambition and a desire to imJprove their spare moments may take our course of pra:~i.,cal Furni-ture Designing, that will be of inestimal~e value to them. Our course (which may be taken ,at home if desired) is thorough, embracing the princilples as laid down by all of the old masters and best aUfhorities on furniture designing. I I Write 115 [or full partiatlars. 17 tI The Grand Rapids School of Fumit~re Design II ARTHUR KIRKPATRICK. 1"''''''''0' and D";gnr, I 542.545 Houseman Bldg., GRAND RAPID~~MICH. I ~--------;~;:~;------ fnl meptlOm =:=:~:e11lahl' iLhncs, The q,:i: households, which have defied the misSlOrl Invasion and looked upon the colonial as pnmcvlaJly out of Idate are now calmly finding thcmselYcs on the bounduncs 1of good style again. This s,vmg of the pendulum the older generation will prob-ably accept as unemotionatly as it accefted the s·wing in the other direction, For it is merely stan1ing still. But if OUf felicitations upon their quiet vi11dicatiolJ ::are not out of place, l-THE- NEW-~~ANJ-;~PIDS 1 I MACHINERY SifORE I Here in ti,e lllU5ty attic air \Vhere gray \\'ebs quiver to and fro, I slowly climb the creaking stair I knew so well in time agO. And there bcside the papered pane \Vhcre sunlight shifts its misty rays, I find ;m old friend once again The trnndle bed of childhood days. o trundle small, T hold so dear, Half hidden is yOur nut brown wood; The soft gray dust of yesteryear Ea,>; draped yon in a velvet ho ,(!. The spiders toil \'lith steady zeal, And as they sv,;iitly rise and fall They link yoU with the spinning' \"heel That r~st5 beside the 111lJt11dy w;dl. o treasured friend of other days vVhat memories yon nOW awake; I \vatch (in dream) tile sun's last f'l.yS, And figures wierc1 the shadows make. .And once again I'm tucked away A-laughing, romping'. (luilted hc;tp. And hca,r once more through twiJi~,'bt 3Tay A dear voice singing me to sle(1). @ * @ Amusement for House Furnishers. Under the title "Old Fashions and -:.rew," the Chicago Evening Post of April 27 \velcomcs the return to that city of the manllers and customs of the early seventies, when walnut furniture, marble mantel pieces, ill looking hat racks. excelsior mattresses and ingrain carpets wcre used in old fashioned houses, with basement dining-rooms and long, na.rrow front halls. The remarks of the Post upon this subject affords aIllusement to modern home furnishers. OlJe paragrapb cou-tained in the article reads as follows: "With the old fashions gO a calmness of outlook. a serene creed and a serener disrega,rd of all troublesome modern facts. It is possible that this serenity is the attraction which is draw-ing present interest back to its physical surroundings. At any rate, there is a decided turning toward the marble man-tels, the heavy silver .. the china and any of the really beauti~ Wood .Working Machine,ry Factory Equipm~t Machine Knive~,Bits, Etc. Everything in Equipment for th~:Woodwotker. --_. ! Office and Store. 58 South Ionia St .. OppO$ite Union Depot. I McMULLEN MACHINERY CD, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ! .-..-------------------t --1 n'c would ljke to tender then"l most heartily to the old fashions alA hope, for a while at least, that they may save us from the nC'w." I ®*€l' A Change in Manag1ment. lIfr. C .c. Nevers, who recently assumed the managemcllt OJ: the Grand Rapids division of the .f!Ynn Furniture Agency, has had a large experience in credit a,n~ collection agency bus-iness and is a man of high character. i He is well acquainted with the m<lUllfactllril1g industries in /Grand Rapids and will give prompt altcnton to all h,,,;n",, c 1trnstcd to his hands. @ * @ I Veneer Factory Bu, ned. The factory of the Reed City (:i\.lich.) Veneer and Panel Company \vas destroy-ed by tire on tli~ morning of February 7. Loss $70,000; insurance, $60,000. I ;:Fred S. Torrey and H. S. Holden, of Grand Rapids. a<e ;,,,errsted in the company. II 18 MICHIGAN ESTABLISHED 1880 PU1lt.llllHI!D • .., MICHIGAN ARTISAN CO. ON THE lOTI'! ANC25TH 01" EACH MONTH OP"ICE-108,110, 112 NORTH OlVISION ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. !NT!UlED IN THE POSTOFFICE AT ~iII"'ND RAPIDS, MICH., AS SECOND O~A8& M,l,l'Tl!A. A convention of manufacturers has been called to meet at Indianapolis on February 16 for the purpose of promoting the movement to obtain from the congress of the United States an act to create a permanent non-partisan tariff commission. Jt is said the going and the coming president favor the plan. In the past a number of such bodies created by congressional action have handled the tariff question without result. COll-gress will be as slow to surrender its prerogative as a t,lrift making body as it has and ever will be to submit all amend· ment tD the constitution, under which the people of the several states might elect their senators by direct vote. If congress shall deeni it wise to postpone tariff legi~lation a number of years, the proposed commission would serve its purpose well. + + A prominent manufacturer of Grand Rapids objects to th{~ blowing of whistles twice every week day calling workmen to the shops. He declares that whistles are no more necessary for the purpose mentioned as a part of the equipment of ·1 factory than for a department store. Life would seem hard-ly worth living without the morning chorus of 500 whistles to which the populace is accustomed. To dispense with the whistles '"auld effect a saving in coal but the people would be in doubt as to whether the manufa.cturers were prosperou3 or losing money by the failure to operate their plants, Th~ sound of the whistles at 7 a. m. daily is an indication of pros-perity. + + It is claimed by those who ought to be fully informed on the subject that the manufacture of looking glass plates is not, and never has been, a profitable 'industry in the United States. The erection of additional plants for the purpOSe of expanding an unprofitable industry goes on, however, anti more millions a.re added yearly to the ill-spent millions of the pa.stevidently for the purpose 'of increasing the losses annual-ly stlstaiJ1cd by millionaires controlling the industry. Gooi money is thrown after had by millionaires, perhaps-not. + + l\hoy foremen fail to satisfy their employers not becaus~~ they do not know their trade but because of their inabilty to explain to the men under their direction the: details of the work in hand. OfteH this is due to impatience or ill-will harbored toward the workmen. Successful foremen never leave a man to whom they are imparting instruction until they are satisfied the man comprehends the end desired, + + The prospective arrival of an heir to the throne of Hol. land has created great interest in the minds of the people of that nation. The gifts that have been forwaded to the queen would fill an ordinary sized pala.ce. A suite of chi.td's. furniture in white enamel and many playthings form a part of the articles received. + + It 1S said that Elsie De\Volfe, an actress who deserted the stage to engage in household decorating, copies famous rooms or styles from the pala,ces of Europe, She has not attempt. ed to fUrllish anything original. ARTISAN The house of Mary E. \Voolley, president of Holyoke (Mass.) College has been redecorated by two American girls, who recently engaged in the business and are winning sUcceSS. + + Applica.tions for 75,000 square feet of floor space in the new f.urniture tcmple, Grand Rapids, have been received, The erection of the building during the current year is assured. + + The Michiga.n Seating Company will move their manufac-turing business from Grand Rapids to Jackson, Mich. Prison labor will be employed, + + Albert Stickley, the furniture manufacturer of Grand Rap-ids, will represent the manly beauty of Michigan at the Taft inaugural ball. @ * @ Will be Made in Grand Rapids. An official of one of the furniture manuf,Lcturing: houses of Grand Rapids visited Chicago recently, and seeking the aid of a local dealer, called upon the owners of a hotel now under construction, The architect of the structure was called in. and when the furniture maker and seller made known their desire to furnish the hotel, the architect remarked: "No good cabinet work is manufactured in the west. The best furniture for hotels is made by W. J, Sloan & Co. of New York." The manufacturer and the dealer exchanged smiles, ",,"Vould you advise giving the contract for the furniture for this house to that firm?" "Certainly,1 "Perhaps you do not know that Sloan & Co. buy the goods they handle-that the firm does not manufacture?" ~ "Indeed?" "Further, and that the firm purchases a large part of their stock from my company." The architect adroitly switched the conversation from fur_ niture to carpets, rugs and curtains, and it was generally con~ ceded that the Sloan com-pa.ny should be considercd when placing orders for such goods. Thc furniture will be made in Gral1d Rapids. @ * @ Patriotic. That Kentuckians have a very high regard for their native state is illustrated by this anecdote told by on('. of them: Once a Kentuckian died. So a l1ear relative went to the local tomhstone artist to arrange about .lt1 inscription on the deceased's tombstone. After due cog:itation the near relative said: "Carve all it: 'He's gone to a better place.' "I'll carve 'he's gone to heaven,' if you want me to," rc marked the tombstone ::irtist, "but, as for that other inscrip tion-there'sno better place than Kentucky'" @) * @ Advance Datings. in conversation with a leading manufacturer of furniture in Grand Rapids recently, he remarked: "A great many dealer" are asking for advance datings on orders, but when they are informed that the shipping of the goods will be 'at our con-venience,' they usually say, 'Oh, well, send the goods alollg as fast as possible; don't delay our shipments.' This fact in-dicates that ma.ny merchants are not overstocked with goods." @) * @) Manufactures Parlor Furniture. Elizabeth Simmet is a successful manufacturer of parlor furniture in Shnmokin, Pa. MICHIGAN ARTISAN t ---------] List of Buyers i I Do you want It 1 I I List of Buyers I Do you want It 1 I• List· of Buyers II Do you want It 1 If so send in your order with 25 cents at once. List of Buyers Michigan Artisan Co. liON. Division SI" Brand Rapids, Mich, • 19 BENCHES FOR AlL KINDS OF WOODWORKERS , I; I! Designed by Bench expert$. " i Made of the most carefull~ seasoned Michigan Hard Maple! I Built by skillful, well pail: workmen -not boys. i Recognized for years as l~aders. I, No. 101 shown in the lillustration has conveniently fitted 1rawers and cupboard for the safe [keeping of valuable tools and unfinished work. All are fitted with strong locks. A rugged, substantial b~nch which is giving splendid service and sat- . f . I IS actIon. i i Your bench needs shouldibe supplied by selecting from our I very com-plete and well illustra~ed catalog. A line from you todaYIiwill bring it tomorrow. ;, i I i GRAND RAPIDS HAND ~REW CO, 918 JEFFERSON AV 'NUE GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. I• 20 BIG MERGER OF BLOWER COMPANIES. M I CHI G A N A RT I SAN American Blower Company and Sirocco Engineering Com-pany Consolidate. Little short of consternation has reigned aJl10ng th~ maIl-ufacturers of fans and blowers and much interest evidenced by the leading architect-engineers, cOl1sp,lting engineers, heating, ventilating a~ld power plant cnginc,e'ts'- and contractors since the introduction and sale in this coilnJry of the famous "Sir-occo" blowers. The fact that the American Blower Company, the leading interest in that line of manufacture in this country, has con-solida. ted with the Sirocco Engineering Company of New York constitutes an announcement in engineering and com-mercial circles of exceptional note. "Sirocco," in the ordinary applicatiOl~ of the word, is the name of the hot and frequently scorching winds which blow over and from the. stm-baked deserts of northern Afrlca and India. Mr. S. C. Davidson, of the Sirocco Engineering COl11- pany, Belfast, Ireland, a.fter spending many years in India as a teagrower, devoted his energies to the invention of im-proved and sanitary methods of manipulating and drying of tea, having designed and introduced a drying apparatus which operated by a naturally induced draft of pure, hot air passing through the leaves. As the inventor had personally exper·· ienced the "Sirocco" winds during his life in India, the simi-larity of the hot air blast which he was employing for drying the tea with that of the "Sirocco" winds led to the adoption of the name "Sirocco." Mr. Davidson soon found that eaell new apparatus from his "vorks was being defined as a </Sir-occo" invention---:-thus the application of the term as a trade mark name for all his specialties evolved itself as a natural consequence. About 1897 Mr: Davidson il1Ycnted this radically new type of centrifuga.l fan. The </5irocco" fans were patented in England in 1898, in the United States in 1900 and in 1902 they were introduced on the American market by the Sirocco Engineering Company of New York. To the American fan manufacturers the fan was an. unwelcome competitor for ob-vious reasons. To the engineering fraternity, with their Own ideas of fan proportions based primarily on what had been for half a century the accepted standards, the "Sirocco" type of construction was confusing. From its first entry on the- British market, the history of "Sirocco" ha.s been one continu-ous advance, and in spite of the competition from all blower manufacturers in this country each pla.cing themselves on tb~ defensive, 'ISirocco" fans have won their deserved place into specifications for many important installations, and have in all points-to use. our now common expression-"made good:' Briefly, the distinguishing fe;;llllres of the "Sirocco" fan reside in its blast wheel or rUnner. This is of drlllil form with a large inlet chamber enclosed by numerous blades which are very long, but narrow, and arc curved forward. Illstead of having eight to sixteen blades, it usually has sixty-four. In-stead of these blades being about the same length and width, they are usually sixt to nine times as long as they are wide. Instead of being flat or backwardly cun'ed, they are forward-ly curved. The results of these changes are radical. For a given size of wheel at equal speed, the "Sirocco" discharges about four times the volume of air as former standard types of steel plate fans. For a given duty, the "Sirocco" turbine wheel is only about one-half the diameter of the former standard paddl02 wheel. The 4OSi1'occo"fan occupies only half the space. saves one-third the weight, and one-fifth the powa, and does its work silently, In public buildings having low ceiling basements or suh-basements, in tunnels where the space for fans must be exca vated for, in crowded boiler rooms, and particularly for marine applications .l10thing' in the same li'ne heretofore pro-duced will meet to a nicety such complicated conditions. It n1ttst eventually be admitted -·thatMr. Davidson h<1., done nearly all of the original work in blower design for the past quarter of a century. He has met with marked snccess, all(I has gained control of the blower business to a large de-gree throughout the world outsidc of this country and her possessions. By this consolidation, therefore, the American Blower strengthens greatly the position they already cnjoy in the latter field, as their engine, hcat and steam trap de· partments will receive an impetus by the increased demand for "Sirocco" blowers, due to the fact that the Sirocco En-gineering Company did not manufacture engines, heaters. steam traps, etc., so universally used in connection with fans and biowers. In acquiring and holding the broad patents covering the principle and construction of the "Sirocco" type blower; also the trademark "Sirocco," the company announce that suits now pending against infringers of Mr. Davidson's patent Sketch by Clarence R. Hills, Grand Rapida, Mich. rights will be continued, and they will prosecute with in defat-igible vigor all further attempts of imita.tion or infringements. The "Sirocco" patents have been adjudicated in the COllrts of several countries, and have everywhere been sustained. Doubtless no step has ever been taken in the history of the blower business that will approach this consolidation in im-portance to blower manufacturers, but of vastly more impor-tance to the specifying and pnrchasing public is the question How will it affect us? The joining of these engineering forces will provide a fulcrum, so to speak, by the use of which thosc interested can pry out of the mass of conflicting and confusing technicalities, unbiased and authentic data reduced to a. eoml11on working footing. Engineers C<ll1specify with absolute surety and 'without hesitancy from tables and data now available at the hands of representatives of or direct from the combined companies. Users of blowers and fan systems can purchase any ap-paratus under the "ABC" or "Sirocco" trademark with as-surance of having embodied in the construction not only the highest quality of material and workmanship and highest efficiency, but every latest patentable feature, without fear of patent litigation or lengthy discussion of constructional de-tails so often tiresome points to the layman. The magnitude of this move is only' in keeping with the rapid growth and development of the American Blower Com· pany, one of Detroit's leading industries. Imprcssions Upon visitors to their plant are striking and lasting; the varieties of type and styles of apparatus built for heating and ventila-tion, mechanical draft electric lighting, and for the brick, wood-working, iron and steel industries: are a great surprise to many. MICHIGAN ARTISAN 21 THE EMBLEM OF SUPERIORITY This is the verdict of the furniture manufacturer who KNOWS Is the best high-grade, quick-rubbing varnish ever produced. Can be re-coated every day and last coat rubbed safely in three days. Is our high-grade first or second coat varnish. Dries hard to sandpaper over night. Last coat can be rubbed in twenty-four hours. Paradox Rubbing Ti- Ki- Lac Color Works The man who KNOWS is the man who WINS VARNISH DEPARTMENT, Acme White Lead and DETROIT, MICHIGAN ! .. • . ~ __ ...1 Report on the Condition of the Pittsburg Plate Glass Com-pany. John Pitcairn, chairman of the board of (1ir('ctors, has sub '1litted his annual report to the stockholders of the Pittsburg Plate Glass Company, covering the busine<;g of the company fur the year 1908 as follows: ASSETS. December 31, 1908. Investment,.... . , ,.. .$17,057,971,59 Stocks: Plate glass, window glass and paints . . . . . . . .. ' .. $2,923.255.14 Material and working accounts. 1,766,103.13 Casb, bills and accounts recei\'abk .. 4,650,531.18 Quick assets . , ... _........ 9,339..889.45 LIABILITIES. Capital stock., .. ,$17 ,500,COO.00 Bills and accounts payable: Bills payable .. _. Sundry credits .... Tnsurance fund ... ~'inking fund, Chicago and Cleveland buildings .. C;urplns, January 1, 1908. .$5,463,525.77 Profits. 1908 1,313,275.09 .... , .. $3,090,000,00 556.793.16 3.646,79.1.16 275,828.7~ 41,749,63 Total .. . . Less dividends, 1908 . Depreciation ..... Surplus .. .$6,776.800 86 1,2.12,500.00 610,811.44 1,843,311.4; 4,933,489.42 $26,397.861 04 26,397,861.04 Our net earni'lgs of $1,313,275.09 for I90R were $906,194.41 kss than for 1907. Thi~ showing, however, is regarded <is satisfactory considering the adverse business conditions gen· erally and particular>v the very depresscd: eondition of the plate glass industry, l~rices for this produ~t havin5' been the lowest in the history of the business in thi'i country. Tha~ \ve wcre able to earn slightly more than Ollr dividends is due to a considerable extent to the following causes: The collee-tion of account.~ charg,,:d off at the dose of 1907 a.s doubtful or \vorthless; the improvement in the dem~nd and prices for \vinc1ow glass and the consequent recovery of depreciation charged thereon 1a5'. year to meet the low :market prices pre vailing- at that time; the profits on our coal mining operations; our usual commercial department e<\rnings and substantial • FOR SALE-Fully Equipped Woodwor1ling Plant Suitable for planing mill, box factory,' furniture manu-facturing or any kind of woodworking business. Splendidly located in Michigan. Better than a bonus. Investigation solicited. Addre .... L. M. M., care M:chig~, Arti.an. I~----- ~ dividends received upon our stock ill:crestsin subsidiary com panies, particularly our Courc{']le~ "3el~ium, plant, on which, notwithstanding the business <1 1,ression abroad, we have realizcd a much lar/5er proportioll;'~(: profit:than has been pos-s; ble upon our plate glass fa.ctof) :nvestm~nt in this countT\'o -Glass Vv~orker . Will Build a Factcry.! The Century Furniture Company of jGrand Rapids ar,~ ;)repa:-ing to build a factory, having o,'tgrbkn the Gay build-ing, a fjve-sto1'Y strt1cture, liow occupied.! I Their plans win be made public \",hen completed. i i @ * @ Vv'ben you hear a man exploiting eYen~s of the past just recollect that it's easier to remember than ~Pthink ! I 22 MICHIGAN ARTISAN .._..--~---_-'O'_--- . ) --i -------------------- --- --- -- MICHIGAN ARTISAN ----------------------_ .. SECOND HAND "Moore" No- 3 Double Belt Sander, "Maddox" Rubber and Polisher. "Buss" 30 Inch Cabinet Planer, Sectional Roll, "American" Combined Scroll and Band Resaw, MACHINERY FOR SALE. "Berlin" Cabinet Makers Double Cut-qlf Saw, "American" Double End Tenoning Machine, "American" No, 4~-30 In. Cabinet PIlsner,;;:~~~. "Berlin 36 Inch Triple Drum Sander "lnYincible." THE ABOVE MACHINES ARE IN FINE ORDER. I C. C. WORMER MACHINERY CO., 98 W, WDodbridge SI., Detroit~Mich. I "-------------- ' .... JACOBEAN STYLE_ By Grand Rapids School of Designing, Arthur Kirkpatrick, Instructor and Designer. There is such a varic.ty of character in the United States, made up as it is of a combination of all other nations, there neces5arily must be a variation of effects ;n the designs of furniture to meet the demand of this vari<\tion of character, ARTHUR KIR1{PATRICK There is, for instance, a class or grade of character tha.t de-mands decoration or some sIlo"v of elegance or gnwdeur that is not found in the sombre, shaded mahogatlv of the Colonial: nor straight and upright frames and uassul11ing tinish of the 1.'1odern English, Ars a,nd Crafts or .Mission; nor can this demand be satisfied by the ovenvorked LOllis XV. For this demand of a straight. upright and honest vrandellr to which T refer, the Elizabethan seems to fill every requirement, for there .is decoration and rich show in the carved columns, arches and moulding and a quiet grandeur in its dull shaded surface. The Elizabethan, Jacobean and English Renaissance are but different names for the same pel-iod style; the "Elizabethan preceding the Jacobean, but the two wer('so closely identi lled as to make them practically synonymoUs. As early <1<; Henry VIII skilled workmen from France, Italy and Flan Jers were im-ported to enrich and adorn the cathedra.ls, castles and mansions of the nobility and add grace and dig-nity to the English court. Thus, this reirhnJ.l or period af activity that we call English Renaissance :~ad a progrcssiv2 growth through the reigns of Henry VIr I, Edward VI, Mary, Elizabeth and JameEi L This ",,-as a peri,)d that produced great men in nearly e\'ery profession and walk of life_ Such hist.oric fignres as Sir \;\,Talter Raleigh, Sir Francis Drake and S.h'akespeare were products of this period .....if'~rinling Gibbons. 1648-1721, W;lS the most prominent sculptor, arver and design- ~r in England at this time. His work is of: 'ueh a high stand. :lrd that it is "till used as models by the Elh .lish draftsmen. This style when carried to perfection;i every way pro duces an effect of e!('gancc, The walls \\~,re generally pan e.led from floor to ceiling in a rectangular Pl,ttern. The ceil·· ing "\,.,asalso paneled, but in geometric pat.;.~erusthat were in keeping with the over doors and mantles. ,The furniture wa" elaborately ciLrved and is admirably snit d for beds, case work. tables and mantles. Chairs ":"ere b a solid and snb-i; tantial construction, hut give one the i~:pressi()n of a stiff "nd rigid uncomfortable seat. : : The accompanyin~ plate page shows 'the treatment of a dining hall, sllitable for a fine residence. 'or country seat, of which so many excellent examples are springing up all ove1' the country today. This room is intended to run through: :two· stories of th,: house, as .v..as the practice ill the larger; bar6nia.l halls all'] wanors of England of the pefied to whicL we refer. Tll\: rharacteristic featurc, namely, the Hlu/,ici<:w's gallery, is shown in onf sketch while the blank wall 'above the ma.ntle i" covered with a tapestry, showing a medi~val I1ttnting- scene The mantle and shelf should be marble; ~but it would look well carried out in oak. The sideboard; ;although Jacobean in chiLracter, is designed to meet the modcirn requirements of the dining 1'00111. It is not intended in our illustration to'reproduce faithfully an existing model, hut simply to show tlj.e adaptation of th1:-, period of design to the heautifying of a modern and up-to date residence. ~---------------._----. I !.ou{s; :babn ! ! I' DESIGNS AijD DETAILS OF~ITURE ... 23 24 MICHIGAN ARTISAN -------------------_.------~ ~------------------- ,II "ere are the Exact Shades Adopted by 'the I Oran~Rapi~srDmifurt Manufadurtrs'Ass'n IIII ,,I II III , III ,i Their "Golden Oak.Oil Stain" is our No. 3424. Their "Early English Stain" is our No, 3425 Oil Stain. Their "Weathered Oak.Stain" is our No. 3426 Oil Stain. Their "Fumed Oak" is our- No. 3427 New Process Fuming liquid. Their "Light Mahogany Stain" is our No. 3428 Dry Mahogany Stain soluble in water. Their" Dark Mahogany Stain" is our No. 3429 Dry Mahogany Stain soluble in water. ----------------------" II ,I I,!I I,,,t I,If I .' Send for Samples and Information. WE SUPPLY EVERYT"ING NEEDED INT"E FINIS"ING ROOM. C"ICAGO ~------------ Leads in the Manufacture cf Pianos. Chicago is the acknowledged leader j'n the production or pianos. Of the 310,CCOpianos manufactured in the United States during the. past year, 80,000 were produced by the fa~ tories of Chicago. Considering the fact that the industry iT' r:hicago began in18S4, this advance of the industry to a posi-tion of preeminence within tv.renty-four years is surprising. '\t that time there was a well defined preil1dice against the Chicago piano and the establishment of a market for the pro· duct \-vas a difficult proposition. The geo~Traphical position 'If Chicago, its unsurpassed transportation facilities and the rapid settlement of the west, were factors which assisted in ~he development of the industry along prol'itable lines .. A prime factor which enters into the .favorable considera- 1 ion of the Chicago piano is the high character of the manu factured article. Vv'ithin the past ten years this standard of oualityhas been improved until tod<!-ythe eastern manufac-turers admit the merits of the article. Three of the best known piano manufacturers are locateo in Chicago. In addition to these there are half a doz~n others who produce an eminently satisfactory article and who <ssist in s''''elling the annual output to figut es which advance' Chicago to the position of supplying one-fourth of aI1 the pianos manufactured in the United States. The advent of the player piano, or thf" instrument with . he playing mechanism in its interior, is 'largely augmenting ~he' annual prod'tlctlon 'of· pianos in Chicago. Its SUeees" has been s'o marked that competent judges assert that within the next tcn years the total output of pianos will be swellcd to at least 5GO,OOO a ye.ar. Assuming that the retail value of the 'entire output of "!1ianosin the United tates is $90,000,000 a year. the volumc of business done by the Chicago manufacturers annually will n:Jt £:111 far short of $23,000,000. The' value of musical instn1- mcnts manufactured in Chicago in 1908 .wa" $30,070,000. NEW YORK To Chicago belongs the credit of introducing to the piano trade an eighty-eight note player piano. Prior to 1902 the \J1;idest range possible in these players was sixty-five notes. As only ten per cellt of all musical compositions are written for a range of sixty-tive per cent, it will-be at once understoo •.: what an important place this eighty-eight note innovati011 immediately secured in the realm of musical art. To the lay man this fact will be better appreciated when the statement is made that ninety per cent of all music must be rearranged, transposed or otherwise mutilated to get (hem within the range of the sixty-five note player It is an absolute nece.,- sity if one desires to hear this ninety per ce11tof music inter preted as it was written to use the eighty-eight note player. The piano manufacturers of the country are graoual!\' making the eighty-eight note player a feature of their business simply because they recognize its great superiority. But the fact should not be lost sight of that the eighty-eight note Jlayer is a Chicago invention, and that it.~ inventor enjoyed n monopoly of the field at home and abro:Hl for nearly 5i0( vears. i I I S~~~e~~~~gth~t?:a~~~: c~~:e~t~ adoptedby the ManufacturersA' ssociationofGrandRapids, I Th::d::I:: ~:ilP::=::~ ::: :0:FiJI~ N~ 736. I Bad,. EDSl'Ii.h-Oil Stain N~ 55 .nd FiBer No. 36. Mahoa-ad,.-PowderN~ 9 and Fille1'No. 14. Weathe...,d Oak Oil St";'" No.·281. Fumed Oak-Acid Stain No. 45, Place your orders with us and get the correct shades. I GRAN~~~.~AV~~~~!!~~~-~CIO~.~~ -- -------------------------- MICHIGAN ARTISAN 25 THE LATEST device [or handling shavings and dwt from ail wood- 'u'orkillg machines. Our nineteen 'J.'ears experience in this class of 'If,)orl~ has brought it uearer perfection than any other system on the 1narket today. It is no c/rperinuJlt, but a denwJ1strated scien rific fact, as we have sc'veral hUJ/- dred of these systems in use, and not a poor one among them.. Our A1ttonwtic Furnace Feed Systenl, a.r shown in this cut, is the Nwst perfect '({lorking device of anything in this line. rV"ite for our prices for equipments. WE MAKE PLANS AND DO ALL DETAIL WORK WITHOUT EX-PENSE TO OUR CUSTOMERS. EXHAUST FANS SURE BLOWERS STOCK. AND PRES-ALWAYS IN ,..----_.------------------------ ;III II• II I• II II i I aran~Da~i~sDlow Pi~e ! an~Dust Arrester (om~anl I IIIII !II I IIIII• Office and Factory: 20&-210 Canal Street Gl'..AND l'..APlDS. MICH. --------_ ..... OUR AorOMATIC FURNACE FEED SYSTEM III !! I! I !!j I I II 26 MICHIGAN ARTISAN • OUR SPECIAL TV : 'IRD'S EYE MAPLE1 (Made and dried rightt and white. Samplesfurnished on apPlication.) I ,500,000 ft. 1-20 inch Quarter Sawed Oak carried in stock. Come in and see it. Birch and Poplar erossbanding and rotary cut Oak. Birch, Maple, Basswood, Poplar and Gum Drawer Bottoms. PROMPT DELIVERY. ALL PRIME STOOK. ! FIGURED WOODS. MAHOGANY. WA.LNUT. QTR. SAWED OAK. BIRCH. : I:I • j II :>H--E--NRY S23.SCRHIBNOERLSTD., GERANND RAPIVDS,EMNICHE. ER CO --C. • -.oi OUR LONDON FURNITURE LETTER. The Trend in English Modern Furniture Styles; Popular~ty of the Antique; the Queen Anne Period; Austrian Furniture; "Modern English" Styles; L'Art Nouveau and Its Dread Influences. By George Cecil. At the commenCC:111cnt of the late Queen Victoria's reign, the furniture in the living-rooms and that which was used fOr the. bedrooms-especially the latter-followed closely the lines laid down by the furniture makers of George IV and \Vi11iam IV reign. It W<IS well made and simple in effect, while that aketoh by Clarence R. HlUe, Grand Rapids, Mich. which was of a decorative nature was in llerfect taste. In the course of a few years, tradesmen pined for something more pretentious and a pa.ssion for (much dreadful) gilding set in, with the result that early Victorian furnture (in com-mOil with early Victorian art in general) has ever ·been an eye-sore to welI~broug:qt up people. In the late fifties, things took a turn for the better, and many of the bureaus which were made at that time" are· treasured today while the wardrobe and dining room tables of that date convey an ad-mirable object lesson to those Philistine fumiture makers who have done so much to lower artistic prestige in this country. In this connection it may be mentioned that the large estab-lishments are not free fr9m the taint of Philistinism. though the trend in modern English furniture styles is either to copy the antique, the Middle Ages, Or the Queen Anne or Geor-gian period. Some adopt the. "Modern English" style, while there is a small demand for Austrian furniture. Fortunate-ly for one's comfort, "the antique" models are not in general demand. The guileless designers, believing that Luct111t1s and other bon vivants knew how to make themselves com. fortable, have carefully copied. the un'comfortable couches, chair~ ant;I stoQls which. were, in use amongst. the Romans. One finds the result of their perverted imagination in certain suburban homes-the misguided mistresses of which are too easily led astray. That is to say. being incapable of think-ing for themselves, they blindly entrust themselves to the guidance of some oily young floor-walker whose business it is to sell unsaleable stock at the highest price. Fortunately for the shop~keepers,' suburban ladies ha.ve an amiable habit of di.scussing their pmchases with sympathetic friends, all of whom are fired with a jealolls desire to be known for their expensive furniture. Consequently, if the wife of the local mayor learns that the neighboring alderman's spouse has bought a set of antique stools, she loses no time in providing herself with a similar' seL So much for the "modern an-tique." The furniture makers draw upon examples of the middle ages when they are asked to design specially strong arm chairs or tables. For instance, the hall stools with which the nouveau riche likes to furnish his newly acquired (and newly built) country house, are copied from the monastic stools and benches \"hieh are associated with the reign of Henry IV. The Elizabethan shovel-board tables a]s oare reproduced to the order of these. people, and many modern dining room t:lbles .are <l1n::cst exact replicas of those around which our Georgian ancestors sat until, overpowered by innumerable bottle,S of claret, they gently sought a resting place on the floor. Popular, too, are the "Queen Anne" models. An astonisbing number of loog-glasses and wardrobes are mad,:, in this style, while many f the London equivalent for the American "smart set" ask for Queen Anne dresing tables. There also is a. growing demand for genuine antique furni-ture; it is preferred by a great mally people to modern bed-steads, tables, chairs, and so forth. It is pa.rtly owing to this craze-for it is little'less thana craze-that an enormous quantity of antique dealers have started business al over the country. Many of these people, calmly manufacture "an·- tiques," which they succeed in seHng to guileless American multi-millionaires, as well as to their English customers. Ha.v-. ing made the table or chest of drawers, they bury it in tin back garden, digging it up after it has lain in the earth for some weeks. It is then well belabored with a poker, to give it an added appearanee of age, and after it has had a few charges of smaU shot fired into it to procure the necessary worm-eaten appearance it is buried once more. After its final disinterment, it is cleaned and "sold to the high~ est bidder." It must not, however,be:supposed that every collecter is easily gulled. Mr. Alfred de Rothschild is a particularly knowing bird, while the great' Wertheimer is more than a match fpr the most astute rascal who ever "made to order" a Bible box or a coffin stool. So keen are some col-lectors of the furniture of o,ther ages, that nothing. will.. in-duce them to have a single modern piece in their.houses. Some enthusiasts even go the length of providing th'e servants' rooms. with ancient. bedsteads, washing ...s.tands,. and chests of MICHIGAN drawers. while the children of the house take their meals off a shovel-bo<1,rd table and sit up in Charles I cane seated chairs. In such e~tab1ishments tl1C fenders, fire-irons and grate are in keeping. Conseqttently, there is rlO little demand lor Sussex fire-dogs, pop-cranes and hangers, and other .!lre-place fur-nishings. The modern English style is, generally speaking a thing to avoid. It is designed by persons who, having enjoyed the supplementary edl1cation furnished by well-meaning- (but somc\vhat stupid) pbilanthropists, gi\re vent to their appalling want of taste. They have the suhlime impudence to take a ARTISAN 27 niture is the solid mahogany furniture, which is in vogue in certain circles. Popular, too, arc the inlaid mahogany bed-steads, and other bedroom furniture. Some of these are pro-vided with carved splats. The simplicity and gracefulness of the pierced rails are much in evidence ;-ili fact whether the modern bed is in oak, mahogany or any other wood, pierced rails usually are insisted upon. Greatly sought after also are the white ~namel suites of bedroom furniture, while a few people set tht::ir affections upon white enamel ..v..ith enrich-ments in reJie£and gilded cane panels at the head and foot of the bed. Such furniture is greatly in request amongst the I[ELRN GEORGE BERTHA Children of Geo. A, Wright of the Hood & Wright Co., Big Rapids, Mich. ROBERT beautifully carved Swiss chair, and to inlay it with cheap, tawdry modern enamel which is a remarkably long way after the cloisonne of which it is supposed to be a copy. Other incongruities also are theirs. They think nothing of pro-viding a simple Dutch bedstead with a. shapeless carving, white the modern Queen Anne furniture can, if carried out by an injudicious designer, be an eye-sore. The lower orders wealthy lower class who arc willing to pay an extra price for an "uld.itioI)"d.amount of gilding. At the present moment, there is a considerable sale for solid black oak dining chairs with turned legs and under framing, "..l..lile the fumed oak dining chairs upholstered in tapestry, besides those ,'vhich are provided with rush scats, find many purchasers. Sometimes they are upholstered in KORMAN DAK Chtldren of F. E. Hood of the Hood & Wright Co.. Big Rapids, Mich. ."14:!J.RION TOM amongst the disciples of L'Art Nouveau also have great faith in the allurements of velvet plush, and painted flowers. A good deal of the modern Sltting and bed room furniture, besides that which is tltiljzed for the dining room, the study, and the hall-way is of fumed oak. A great many English people are much pleased with the effect, but those whose taste is irreproachable object to it because of its painfully ne.w appearance. The sa.le of it however, 5s enormous, and if it is decorated by means of beaten copper or brass, or with quantities of gaudy enall1('.l.it appeals strongly to the Philis-tine hearts of people whose artistic education has been lleg~ lected. In agreeable contrast to the fumed oak bedroom fur-roan leather, or morOCCO. The roan tint certainly has .a very pleasing effect under certain conditions, and when these chairs wt~re first introduced they met with considerable StlC-cess. One also COlIles acrOss dining chairs of Queen Anne design, the turned under-framing of which is a specialty. In this connection, the Queen Anne style has a considerable vogue, and applies to dining room furniture of almost every description. This style is particularly effective when allied \...-ith Italian walnut. while the Chippendale designs also (l,re made in this ,"vood. One also finds Jacobean styles in dining chair:,:. file models being faithfully copied-even to the velvet and the fancy bandings. 28 MICHIGAN ARTISAN U you do not know the "Oliver" wood workilll! tool., you had helle, give us your address and have us tell you all about them. We make nothing but Quality tool., the first cost of which i. considerahle, but which will make more profit for each dollar inveSted than any of the cheap machines flood. ing the country. "Oliver" New Variety Saw Table No. 11. Will lilk.e II saw up ID zo~di.'\Mlet. ArOOt heh il 6& wide. Send for Catalog "B" for data on Hand Jointer., Saw Tables, Wood Lathes, Sander•• Tenoners. Mortisers, Trimmers, Grinders. Work Benche., Vise&,Clamps. Glue Heaters, etc., ete. OLIVER MACHINERY CO. Wl)I'!ta u.d Gent:l'al Office_ at 1 to 51 Clancy St. GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.• U. S. A. BRANCH QFFfCES - Oliver Mo.dulle(y Co.., HUI:hmlTemlinal, 50 ChllfCn 5,., New York.; Oliver Mae!.inetY Co.• Rnt National Bank Building, Chicas<!. 10; Olivet Madunery Co., ....__P.aci_fic B-uiJd-isg. Se.a.tI_1e,Wu-ll.; -Oliv-et M-adU-ner-y C_o, 101.-20_; De-anq'ate, Manchester. EOIl. Mail Order Banks. The mail order banks and trust companies are making in-roads into the deposits of country banks and unless some means are taken to check them the 103s to the country insti-tutions will. he as gr.eat as the loss the country merchants ex-- pericl1ce from the inronds of the n:ercantile catalogue hallse competitors. It is t1l1derslood th'l.t besides the banks already organized it is contemplated to form others in the l<trge cities, such as Kew York, Chicago, St. Louis, New Orleans, and San Fran-cisco, thus covering the entire country. These mail order banks offer four per cent on savings ac-counts. while banks of the west give hut three. These in-stitutions are only under the control of the state where they are located hut many dra.v their deposits from all over the country_ There is a movement on foot to secure legislation to reg-ulate them and force them to pay a state tax in every state where thE'y accept deposits_ @) * @ Name Unchanged. For many years the Grand Rapids Hand Screw Company has transa,cted a lar:ge and ever growing business in the man .. ufacture of cabinet' benches, factory trucks, furniture clamps, hand screws and kindred articles of factory equipment, sup-plying wood workers at home and abroad. A sllbsidiary company, known as the Grand Rapids Fixtures Company, has been engaged in the manufacture of show cases and stor~ fixtures successfully. Recently the name of the latter corpora_ tion 'V<lS changed by the <l,doptioll of an amendment to the company's articles of ~lssociation and is now and will here-after be known as the Wilmarth Show Case Company. of whieh Mr. O. R. "Vilmarth is the official head. The business of the Hand Screw company will be continued under the old name, Oliver Tools "OLIVER" No. 16. B.lld SIlW 36luch_. Made wilb or wifuout motor drive M e Ia I lable 36"); 30". Will tale 18" upder I h e 8uide - tills 41) ~e6 ODe way and 7 dellfee$ lhe otMr way. Cat-riesa IlIIWl)p kt 1}f1l wide. O",tside bearing 10 lower wheel shaft when IIotmmoldDven. W~B 1800lb. when ~tomip. Save Labor Time Tempers CO" ._----_._---_._----_.~ A Useful Catalogue of Carvings and Mouldings. Boynton & Co., manufacturers of embossed, plain and turned mouldings, embossed and spindle caI"vings, automatic turnings, 419-421 \Vest Fifteenth street, Chicago. have issued a. ca.talogue alld price list containing sixty-four pages alld up- ,vards of 1,000 illustrations of their products. A great range of work is embraced in the styles and all improved forms of ornament are represented. This interesting book should be Sketch by Clarence R aUle, Grand Rapids. Mich. in the hands of every manufa,cturcr of furniture -and kindred goods. Copies may be had upon application to the com pany. (§) * (§) Some men use the past from which to- draw conclusions ;md obtain guidance for the .future. Others use the past from which to gain fear of the future. p-------------------- - --,--- -1 I THE 6 FINISHES YOU WANT I !, THE GRAND RAPIDS STANDARD SHADES t 1 IIII II !II ,, II II! II The Lawre~~~L:!~t~CAom~p~an~yn ~f ----------,------- MICHIGAN WE HAVE ARTISAN MATCHED THEM GOLDEN OAK---No. 1919 Stain and No. 1702 Filler. EARLY ENGL1SH---No. 1652 Stain and No. 506 Filler. WEATHERED OAK---No. 1649 St.i•. FUMED OAK···No. 547-8 5t.i •. MAHOGANY···No. 1017-D Stain and No. 29 Filler. TOONA MAHOGANY ·.No. 1658 Stain and No. 1564 Filler. NOTE: We will send you working samples with full instructions for use. AliIi'ofinished pieces which will.show you the correc:t shades. Write for samples. -_._---------- Ready for Business. The :\lc":\lullen Macllinery Company arc settled in their ne\", maehinery store at No. 58 South Ionia street directly across from the Ull(m depot, Gnmd Rapids. This company "\vas organi:led by G. K. lvlcl\Iullen for the purpose of estab-lishing' a wood 'working machil1cry depot. They ,,,ill carry considerable stock and arc in position to fumish to advantage wood working" machinery for every pllrposc, factory equip-ment, mac1line knives and bits, ill fact everything in equip-ment for the wood worker. They will cater to 'western and northern l\Iichigan trade. 11r. G. K. :\TclVftllkn, the presi-dent and mnnager, was, l.1ntil l'ecently, nnd for over ten yeare; past, with the Fox JVfachille Company; )>1r. A. C. Hindman, the vice pn>sidellt, is a, local attorney; J\h-. B. D. Smith, the secretary and treasurer, was formerly secret,lry of tbe Steb hillS l'v[allulactllring Company of Sturgis. J\Licll. COllsiderillg the fact that Grand Rapids and surrounding territory, whith tlley will cover is a "very extensive wood working scctitl\1. <lod tha.t there js no other 'wood \vorking machinery dealer estahlished directly in thi's field, this enterprise should prove profitable. As a local institution they will undoubtedly re-ceive the hearty support of the wood workers in this terri-tory. Anyone manufacturing equipment which they desire to illtrodllce or pnsh n thi:'i territory would do well to cones pond with tile company, @ * @ Roll Top vs. Flat Top. There are those 'who daim that the roll top desk is \van- Ing. I'ersullal1y we have always liked the l'oll top with it<; convenient pigeonholes and its protecting sides against whicb you can shove an accumula.tion of papers. But a number of business offices rlre takillfT out their 11e:\r ly new roll tops and putting in flat tops. .!'~dvocatcs of thi~ move say it keeps you from letting' tile pap<~l'S <1.Ccufllu1ate. fultivates dispatch and gets the work throu"{h faster. It seems that wl1atever tends to put /-he work tbrollZh faster has the tirst ("all these clays but thr-re are certain ad- \'antages to the roll top which should not be overlooked-es pecially the place on top ,vhere you pile up the dictionarit>s awl directories and baskets and magazines and newspapers and ,.ackages and other things ,\Vbi)c the oceuIX-ints of f],;H top desks may have fewer things piled around ~hey have not as a !'"uJe succeeded in explaining to the roll top man just ,,,,here they put them.-Colliers. @ * @ A New Factory in Portland, Ore. At Portland,. Oregon, the new Hlctory of the Carman ~I anl1fa.cturing Company. said to be tb.c best of its kind on the racific coast, has gone into operatiolJ. It:; size is 100 x 100 a1Hl contai11s nine floors. Sprinklers, dlHt conveyors ;11'.-} like 1110dern appliances, metal door and Wil,dow cases alld wire glass make the plant a modern one in every re,c;pcct. ~--------.------ I TUE UERKIMER I Hotel and Cafe, Grand Rapids I 130 rooms with run Lngwater, telephone, electric light, steam heat, etc., in each room. Many with private bath. English, Mission and Colonial Cafe Service a la cart. 7 <I.. m. to 12 p, m'l 50c Table d'Hote. Dinner, 5:30 to 8 p. m., Sundays inclUded. ! Rooms up to $2.00 per day for one person. I~-----'---------------' South bound Wealthy-Scribn ..r car from Union 01" Grand Trunk st3lions. • 29 • 30 ---- ----- ----- ---- MICHIGAN Trials of the Manager. Take it from traveling salesmen and no mal1ager has rights ,,,bieh those having things to sell are bound to respect. If he shuts himself away in a private office with <t husky bouncer at the outer door he is unprofessional. If he flees in a cab when the tourist salesnw.n spies him on the street, he is a crank. If he resorts to a dub or police call when a mission-ary representing something he doesn't want gets to him by fraud, he is a grouch. The successful traveling salesman has three rigid rules which be insists on. I have forgotten the first two, but the last one is that the manager must listen to his talk whether he wishes to buy or not. That is all right, from the salesman's voint of view, but what abollt the manager? It is to be supposed that the mall-a, ger has something to do besides listen to men who are out after orders. If he is stocked to the roof with brass fastcners what is the ltse of his spending an holtr telling the brass fas-tener salesman that he doesn't want to buy? \Vhy not send back the card of the brass fastener man with the information that there is nothing doing? This would scem to be a fair way of saving the time of two·busy men, but it is not popular with the man who has to sell goods or go to the scra.p pile. Edwards was a manager himself, and felt sorry for otbe;' managers. He admired the nervc and resourcefulness of th(: salesmen who camped out by 11isbig desk, but he went home night after night leaving ..v.ork undone just because of this nerve and resourcefulness. Therefore he cautioned his own mcn against fighting their way into a private office, especially ,..·.here there was no chance to sell goods. He wanted his salesmen to do their best to get an audience with the Pres-ence in ewxy case, but he said it wasn't l'I.ecessary for them to get the door open by means of dynamite, or anything like that. One day ,..,hen Edwards had been annoyed and harrassed by salesmen he went out to give Parton his parting instruc-tions for an important trip. The boys in the office caHNl DON'T BUILD NEW KILNS Let us remodel your old one. The invest-ment will be smaIl and will yield ONE UUNDRED PER CENT in increased output, saving of waste Inm~ her, greater capacity of men and machines and s~ving of i,nsnrance. GRAND RAPIDS VENEER WORKS GR4NO R4PIOS, Mien. ARTISAN Parton the Missionary. This was becaus~ he was meek of manner and because he went forth into heathen communities where the civilization of the natives was not yet up to the standard of the Burbank Put-Ern-Together bookcase. Par· ton was a good salesman, a painstaking man and a persist-ent one. He had been known to ascend a fire escape and apptar before a buyer through an open w~ndow. It was said of him that a long, cold night on a doorstep was like a picnic if he caught the buyer c{)ming out in the morning. Owing to such endeavors in the interest of trade there had been com-plaints against Parton, and Edwards was now to give him fresh instructions. "Look here, Partoli," said Edwards, "you're getting too strenuous. I'm getting letters about you. For instance, the Inland Furniture Company man takes it to heart becaus'c' you blundered against him at the ferry a.ud tipped him into the 'water." "Well," said Parton, looking both grieved and surprised, "I can't see where he's got any kick coming. I couldn't ger to him in any other way. He had a man from County Cork ~--_._----_.---------_.~ WANTED CABINET MAKERS; at least one who can do carving, MACHINE MEN, and CUTTER. STEADY WORK. .. Write D. W. UHRICH, Atchison. Kansas. at his door and I couldn't trace him to his home. Besides-, I got him out, didn't T? Jumped in that cold river and fished him out by the hair of his hea.dl I'd like to know what a man wants? If he didn't like my ways, why did he buy of mc.? Perhaps he thinks I ought to remain at a hotel and wait for him to serid for me!" "You must be morc careful," 5aid EdwaI"ds. "Some of your methods would do credit to a Jimmy tough in a Fourth ward cattcus. vVe managers ha,ve many duties, and it natur-ally gives one a start to see a traveling salesman crawling in through the transom. Do the best you can for the house, hut let up on the managers a little. I wouldn't get any more of 'em out by turning in a fire alarm, if I were you." "Oh, you're referring to Richards now," said Parton, with a grin. "Say, but that was funny! It was business, too. Richanls ma(~e a thousand dollars by means of that deal. YOil can call me 011t by d' false alarm any day for a thousand." "In futt1rc.," C"ontil1ued Edwanls, "you'd better-bettcr-well, favor the managers a little. A man can be persistent and still be a gcntleman, can't he? You try it for one trip, anyway. The directors are getting next to some of your trade-marking expedients, and first thing yOU 'know you'll be in the disc8,rd. You must he more conervativc in your meth-ods. Sec?" Parton said that would be all right and went off on hi.:; trip with a hUllch that he wouldn't make good. He was so dowllcast on the trip that Hawkins of the Co-Opcrative Book. case Company roasted him to a Him and suggested that he get a, line of casket8 to match his face. Edwards opened his mail many mornings without finding an order from Parton Then he sent him a wire as follows: "\Ve have several trainloads subject to order. What's thl;': matter?" Parton answered that evening: "Am favoring the managers." Edwards thought that a little fresh, but he considered the situation and said nothing back. He waited some marc dayi-' {m orders from Parton and then sent another wire: "\Vhat are you at? Have you prospects?" Parton shot back: "Waiting for Dutton to hire a doorman I can lick. Don't you think the managers have been sufficiently favored?" Edwards gritted his teeth' at the impertinence of the mes- MICHIGAN ARTISAN 31 sage twd kept Oil opening orderless letters. At last he v..-ired Fartoll : "Sell goods jf you can. If you can't come in and pile lumber.'· Parton scratched his red hair ,...1.1cn he got that. ""Ko".·.,." he mused, "1 'wonder if that take~ off the qnaran-tine? If I go at 'em on the strength of that, wilt Edwards give me another talk for tliY m"/n good?" At last he sat down and wrote a card to Ed ..v..ards: "Does everything go?" The reply came back by wire, day rates, paid: "Orders or lumber: I'm just telling you ""vhat Edwards wrote to Parton, who had been out two "\veeks 'without sending in a single order. Tt is not likely that Edwards meant to recant all he had said to Parton about f~lvorjl1gmanagers. ,\Vithot1t doubt he still clung to the belief that managers have 1'!ome rights which even tourist salesmen are bound to respect, just as stated at the beginning of this veracious story, but, (hen, you see, he H'<1l1t~dordersl Look 3t HIe matter aHy way you like, man-agers and their rules ahout seeing salesmen OURht to be re-spected. Edwards kile\\' this, He \vas a manager himself. But, then, he l1ad to have orders, didnt he? \A.lhere was th~ use in keeping Parton on the road if he handcuffed him and gagged him and bound him in gallows style, with order'> about being kind to inotIensive managers? Anyway, he wrote that card, "Orders or lumber,' and left it to Parlon to translate, \iVhen P~trton received the card he filled his vest pockets with black cigars and went over to pay his tenth daily visit to the offices of the Lohman House' Furnishing Company, where, as usual, he found the manager in hlding and the as-sistant manager powerless. The company had four stores and ~old everything from art glassware at a dime a throw to kitchen ranges with thcrmomet('Ts on the meen donrs. They conld sell a carload of Burbank hookcases every thirty days if they tried, and Parton "\vanted them to try. v\Then Parton found that he couldn't coax the ;LSsistant manager into making a contract, he headed desperately into the long hallw;ly from which t1,e door of DUltOIl, the Pres-ence, opened. Assuming the air of one going home for a long-delayed blessing, he swung open the door and came fac,~ to fa.ce with the man from County Cork. "Annointm~nt," he said. briskly, makiHg for the sacred inner door. County Cork took him by the arm and \'>'alked him back toward the entrance. "Yott're 1'e t'ird lhe day." he said. "The nixt gets his neck druv up on the brieJ.;:s heyant!" .He waved bis haud like a scoop shovel at lhe alley wan «(TOSS [rom the lNil1doHiS of the room. P;J,rtolJ took Ollt ;1 black cigar ancI a $5 banknote. He wraplkd the banknote carefully around the cigar, took a match from his pocket, il1'- scrted it in a fold of the note and held the tempting thing Ollt to County Cork. "Have a smoke:''' he asked. "Do you often bump up a,gaii1st cigars that In<lke a noise like that?" County Cork took tl'c nanknotc off the cigar and shoved it into his vest oC'ket. Then 11e lit the cigar and began ]Hllllping smoke into the air. "Tt';; a broth of a bel ye arc," be said, \vith a slow wink "Be off wid ye!" "Bul,_ bnt, but-" said Parton. County Cork grinned and opened the door ill response to a timid knocking. The wife and daughter of Dutton, tlw Presence, triped daintily in and lllndc for tlle il111er door, which Parton had failed to 111110ckwith a $5 banknote and a cigar that eost a quarter. On the way across the room a white eat with a blue ribbon abotlt its neck leaped froUl the dau,!2'hter's .arms and sought the acquaintance of Parton, "\Vhy you naughty thing!" cried the child, and followed her mother into the place where the Presence hid. Countv Cork grillned again, and Parton pointed out into the alIey~ V\.'hiIe he looked Parton shoved the cat into a pocket, wound the flap of his coat ahout his hand to impede egress on the part of the ielille .and went out; went out with an unholy joy in his orderless heart. When he got to his room \\iith the cat he touched the bell and brdered a "hop" to bring a chicken crate from the basement and incarcerate the cat in the same, regardless of feline appeals, mental, vocal or physical. "If she annoys the people on the floor," be said to the bel! hop, "'come in and turn the hose 011 her. This is my aunt's cat, ran ;1 \vny from San Francisco, and I'm going to remove the stains of travel from her before my aunt gets in on a speciaL" \A.lhen the bell hop got outside he whirled his hands abont his head, buzzed like a saw cutting knots, and pointed to the traveling man's door. "T-T c's got 'em 1" he said, Then he put the dollar hill Par-ton bad given him into his pocket and went down stairs <Jod explainc(l to a bench of wondering bell hops that there was J. traveling man up in room twenty-three whose shingles were leaking-. It is a question whether Parton would not have agreed ~'\-'ith him. The <1dvertisement for a lost cat was ill the morning news-paperS, just as Parton had anticipated, and a reward of $20 was nffered for the rdurn of the beastie, Either because of the hankootc, or bcca.tlse of a racial antipathy for cats, Coun-ty Cork had evidently kept his faee closed on the subject of the larceny of puss. "Hello, Dutton," said a voice at the 'phone, about as soon as the Presence reached his private ffice; "I think I've got a c<lt of yours over at the Smith House." "Take it up to the house," snarled the Presence. "\\That do you mean by taking up my time with a cat?" "'If you want to continue tbis cat as a l"l.1ember of your fam·- iIy," said Parton, "yO!! come in person .and identify it, and 11;1\,e some 011('; take it away. It is too refined a creature to he out in the streets '.vithout a chaperone. I'll swipe it if I get a chance." "I'll send someone," snapped the Presence. Parton refused to deliver the cat to a 111t:ssengcr, and ,th~ Pers,ence. h0t under the collar, went Over after it, taking COUllty Cork Wit1l him. As soon as he looked at the beastie he pushed a $20 note toward Parton. "N ever mind that," said the missionary; I might have ae~ quired that hy going up to the house with the cat. One thing T wanted to see you about was the Rurba.nk-" "T stlspect that you stole t11<1tcat!" flashed Dutton. "If I felt quite sure, I'd-" "\Ve have chosen your house to represent us here," said Parton, '-'anc!-" "Tf I bad proof tlJ;lt this \vas a trick," began Dutton, but rarton wel1t on: "T don't think you're very grateful to me for returning the cat, 1\ow, abollt the Burbank bookcases. \,Ve'll make a rate that will curl your hair." "Yon may as 'well come over to t11e office," said Dutton. "If all traveling salesmcn had your nerve, and Daughter had a few more cats, I guc,ss r wouldn't cia nl1.H::hbut buy goods. vVhcrc did your people find you?" Parton didn't say. He looked innocent and gave COl1nty Cork another bal1knote when he was passing out with a large oreIer. \\Tben he went in again, Edwards observed that it secmed easy enough to Kd business by gentlcma,nly means when it was get O'rders or pile lumber, and Parton agreed with all he said about the rights of managers and all that. He explained he would he ~'s good to managers as the exigen. cies; of the business would WJ.ITant, but it was orders he went out after. And this is the way all salesmen look at the proposition of managers' rights.-A, B. Tozer, in· j\'!odern Methds. 32 -~--------_. MICHIGAN ARTISAN ------------. -----------1II !, !IIII!II !I II THIS MACHINE MAKES THE MONEY , I II III I I IIIII ,, I I I i Plain or Quartered Oak, Mahogany, Walnut, Elm. Ash or any other wood with open grain. Write the IPosseliuBsr~S;k~~~~!~~~M:~~f~CcO!~. D~Mi~nt.t,gI , . It makes a perfrct imitation of any open grain because it uses the wood itself to print from, and one operator and a couple of boys can do more work with it than a dozen men with any other so called machine or pads on the market. That's Why It's a MoneyMaker. It Imitates Perfectly. 50 Machines Sold last Year Useful Wood Working Tools. Morris \\Toad & SOilS 2714-2716 "VVcst Lake street, Chi~ eago, have just issued catalogue No. 25A illustrating and de-scribing wood workillg tools, drills, bits, cutters and machines. Among some of the most recent tools which the firm has brought out is the cutter grinder shown below, and fully de· 50 More Satisfied Manufacturers A Test That Failed. A prominent dealer, while sojourning in Grand Rapids in January, related an incident in connection with the sale of a line of arts and crafts furniture as follow5: "A customer f;xaminillg 3. chair, in \vhich the front legs were constructed ..:eemingly to project above the arms, expressed the opinion that the construction was fraudulent Although I have sol(~ furniture many years and claim to have some skill in detect-ing bad work by the manufacturer, the piece looked genuinc, ;:nd I expressed confldcnce in the manufadurer. 'I would like to hit that block just once with a hammer,' the cus- ---------~I , Montgomery Hardwood Lumber Co. Mallufacturersof all kinds of Crawfordaville. Indiana. NATIVE FURNITURE LUMBER E. S. STERZIK, Pre •. • tomer rcmarke.d. 'If it is an honest leg I will pay for the chair,' he continued. .My curiosity was aroused and believ- ~ngthat I could not lose in such a trial, I handed the man <:.' !ntchet. Striking the piece it smart blow, -the block on the .arm of the chair flew to pieces and proved that the ma.n was ;ight. The block had been Slink into the arm over the leg. I reported the incident to the manufacturer of the chair "...ho sent a new p.-ieceto replace the one damaged by the man scribed in ther catalogue. Anyone call sharpen cutters on "\-viththe hatchet." tbis machille without previous experience, as the machine can-not be set to grind wrong. The thumb gauge is slowly turned against the back of tooth until properly sharpened. Then a lever is pulled back and the next tooth is placed for sharpen-ing, arid so on until all six teeth are sharpened, thumb gauge remaining where set. Result is all cutters are in :lbsolutely perfect balance and condition. @ * @ Browers Engage with Woodard. John E. Brower & Sons have entered into a eontractwith tl,e Woodard Furniture Company of Owosso; Mich., to design their lines of medium and high grade bedroom furniture in the future. The first line from the crayons of the Brower:s will be ready for ex.hibition in July nex.t. MICHIGAN ARTISAN [ ROYAL WHITE MAPLE POLISHING VAINISH White-the Emblem of Purity--our r.ite Maple Polishiug Varnish is Pure-and the WHITEST GOODS ou the market. I dries to recoat every other day; can be rubbed and polished in four to five days. Ask or testing sample. VAR~' ISH. C.OMPANY TOLEDO, OHIO '------------_._--- ------~----------..... ROYAL Trials of Winter Travel. j The following letter from James B. J-To\',;ard, middle vest representative of the Grand Rapids Chair Company, urll- IShe.5 an account of the trials and hardships traveling s les-men are not infrequently subjected to: ··I-Iave just passed through a trying experience CmpiJlg from St. Paul here, haYing be('11 snow bound for three nilghts I and -t\\'O d-a-ys near a little to\VTl called Vv'jndo111, Minn. The train fall into a :-inow bank at eleven thirty l\lollday li.ght and got stllCk. lJy morning the snow was banked as hi -"h as the car window~. Assista.nce reached us Oil Tuesday noon in the form of nne rotary snnw plow, fonr eng·ines and bout twenty shove1<..'rs, They had to pull the train Ol1t on[ car at a time which cut us off ironl tlle c:\fe car and as ill luck would have it, in trying to pull that tar out, they broke the draw hend which c:'l1sec1 a rlay's delay and Wilde it nccelssary for everyone tn forage for something to e'H. T .ate i 1 the afternoon some farmer boys came to our rescue with hard boiled eggs, cold fried sallgage and nearly hot coffee. T .ast night we managed to get away, arriving here earl this tnorning." @ * @ Death of Fred W. Spraker, On the morning of February 12, Fred. Vv'. Spraker, form-ly superintendent of the Berkey & Gay T<\lrniture Com-pany's factory. and later employed as a lumber buyer f r the same comp:my, passed out of life, aged 74 years. _ 1\lr. S raker was ..v..idc1y known and highly esteemed. On the occas'on of his retirement from the superintendency of tIle Ber ey & Gay factory, four hundred of his former workmen isited • his home in a body and presented him with a gold watch as a token of esteem and aff.ecti.on. The presentation speech n'as made by John Mowatt, designer for the company @ * @ Will Manufacture Clocks. The Puritan Clock company has filed 'artc1es of incorpor-ation at Lansing with a capitalization of $3,000 paid in. The purpose is to manufacture and deal in furniture and house furnishings, operations being carried on at Jamestown, N. Y., with an oHi.ce ill the 1\1ichigan Trust buil'dnig, Grand Rapids. Those interested are E. H. Vv'il1iams, Grand Rapids; Edward J. Kuhne. Boston, and Paul B. Rosencrantz, Jamestown, \vith $1,000 each. @ * @ Alexander Dodds Reports an active trade in woodworking machinery. Among his recent shipments was a large gang dovetail machine to St. Petershurg. Russia; another to ~'1ilan, Italy, and a 1\:venty-five spindle machine to Germany. He also reports the sale of nine swing cut-off saws to one factory in North Carolina. This surely indicates a steady improve-ment in business. @ * @ The West Side Iron Works. During the year the \·Vest Side Iron ·Works, of this city have bought out several new ,,,,'aod working machines-belt sanders, saw tables, etc. They are now at work on a large machine that will take several weeks to bring out. A full description, when it is ready to be put ou the market, will be published. 33. 34 MICHIGAN I MISCELLANEOUS ADVERTISEMENTS I WANTE...,D=----- __ . _ WANTED-EXPERT OPERATOR un sand belt- machine, one qukk and capable. GCl% salary t6 a. capable man. Address "G. M. G.," care of :Michigan Artisun. 1-10-2t WANTED-A COMMISSiON MAN To sell our line of upholstered furniture in Ohio, Indiana aDd Michi-gan. Must be Al and know buyers well. Address, Buffalo Lonnl'e Company, Buffalo, N. Y. WANTED-AN EXPERIENCED FOREMAN To take entire cJm.rge of' the mRchme floor In a table factory located I.D. Cent..al Pennsylvania. Position pe:nnaneDt and open at once t01' the right man. Address, E., cure of· Michigan Artisan.---_. WANTED-POSITION BY DRAFTSMAN. Special furniture d.mftsman desirell position as draftsman or Sal68- man; thoroughly experienced and competent, change deslt'ed durin. June. Address "K, 4," care of Michigan Artisan. S-lO-tf WA101TED-SALESMEN To handle a fu'St-claS8 line of sectional bookcases. Camden Cabinet Company Camden N. Y. 9-10-3t. WANTED-TRAVELING SALESMAN To handle line of high grade bJ'ass candl&lticks on commission as side line; one ealling OD the furniture trade preferred.. Send ftIferenee8. Address "A," care of· -Michigan Arliggn. 3-1G-4t. FOR SALE FOB SALE. The Fnrniture Factory occupied by Blum & Company, Hamilton, Ohio is for sllle.-Correlilpondenee solicited byE. F. Blum, Mgr. 1-10-4t ARTISAN WANTED-POSITION AS SUPERINTENDENT OR MANAGER. At present time I am superintending large factory making special cabinet work. For private reasons desire change. Address M. M. M., care of Michigan Artisan Co..... 2-1O-2t. WANTED-POSITION BY MACHINE FOREMAN With large experience in machine and veneer room; also un-derstands millwright work. At present employed, but wishes to change ... Address W. A. J., care of Michigan Artisan. 2-IO-lt. WANTED-SALESMEN To handle first-class new line· parlor furniture, medium and high grade ... This is a first-class opportunity for enterprising men. Address Box F., care of Michigan Artisan. 2-10-3t. VIANTED-SALESMAN To sell French and German mirrors on commission. Write to Benjamin Griffen. 40 Vestry street, New York city. WANTED-COMPETENT COMMERCIAL PHOTO-GRAPHER. Must be experienced in the furniture line. Address "S" care of Michigan Artisan. 1-10-2t. WANTED. Expert Commercial· Retoucher' and Blocker. care of Michigan. Artisan. Address "S" 1-10-2t WANTED-POSITION. By an experienced superintendent in the manufacture of case work and tables. Address K. E. W. care of Michigan Artisan. INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS. Acme White Lead and Color Works 21 Adams & Elting 24 American Blower Company. . _Cover Barlow Brothers _ _. . . . . . . .. 5 Barnes, W. F. & John Company .. -.,., 13 Barrett, M. L., & Company :. _ _. . . . 15 Boynton & Company _ 16 Buss Machine Works Cover Cordesman-Rechtin Company .. . Cover Clark, Walter, Veneer Company_ _ 4 Dodds, Alexander __ 13 Edge, Frank & Company. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5 Fellwock Auto & Manufacturing Company 16 Fox Machine Company _ _. _ _.. . .. . 16 Francis, Charles E., & Brother _. 1 Furniture Commercial Agency 9 Gillette Roller Bearing Company Cover Grand Rapids Blow Pipe & Dust Arrester Company 25 Grand Rapids Brass Company , _ Cover Grand Rapids ElectrotYpe Company..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 4 Grand Rapids Hand Screw Company 19 Grand Rapids School of Designing. . .. _ 17 Grand
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